Walter Lang	American Director	August 10
Nubar Gulbenkian	Armenian Poet
Morarji Desai	Indian Politician	February 29
Marjorie Joyner	American Businessman	October 24
Lillian Gish	American Entertainer	October 14
Leonard Alfred George Strong	English Writer
Leon Theremin	Russian Inventor	August 15
Klement Gottwald	Czechoslovakian Politician	November 23
Kenji Miyazawa	Japanese Poet	August 27
Kate Seredy	Hungarian Writer	November 10
John Dos Passos	American Novelist	January 14
Jimmy Doolittle	American Aviator	December 14
Oswald Mosley	British Politician	November 16
R. C. Sherriff	English Writer	June 6
Vivien Kellems	American Activist	June 7
Virgil Thomson	American Composer	November 25
Trygve Lie	Norwegian Politician	July 16
Tristan Tzara	French Artist	April 16
Tina Modotti	Italian Photographer	August 16
Sam Ervin	American Politician	September 27
Ruth Gordon	American Actress	October 30
Roman Jakobson	Russian Scientist	October 11
Rogers Hornsby	American Athlete	April 27
Roger Sessions	American Composer	December 28
Robert E. Sherwood	American Playwright	April 4
Jean Piaget	Swiss Psychologist	August 9
Ira Gershwin	American Musician	December 6
Howard Hawks	American Director	May 30
Dodie Smith	English Dramatist	May 3
Dimitri Mitropoulos	Greek Composer	March 1
Dawn Powell	American Writer	November 28
David Ben-Gurion	Israeli Statesman	October 16
Charlotte Whitton	Canadian Politician	March 8
Carl Zuckmayer	German Playwright	December 27
Buenaventura Durruti	Spanish Revolutionary	July 14
Betty Smith	American Novelist	December 15
Arthur Calwell	Australian Politician	August 28
Antonin Artaud	French Dramatist	September 4
Andre Breton	French Poet	February 18
Dziga Vertov	Russian Director	January 2
E. Y. Harburg	American Musician	April 8
Howard Dietz	American Musician	September 8
Henri de Lubac	French Clergyman	February 20
Harry Banks	English Soldier	March 16
George Burns	American Comedian	January 20
Frank Lane	American Businessman	February 1
F. Scott Fitzgerald	American Author	September 24
Everett Dirksen	American Politician	January 4
Eugenio Montale	Italian Poet	October 12
Ethel Waters	American Musician	October 31
Eric Johnston	American Businessman	December 21
Edmund Blunden	English Poet	November 1
Alister Hardy	British Scientist	February 10