Yasunari Kawabata	Japanese Novelist	June 14
Jimmie Davis	American Politician	September 11
Jean Moulin	French Activist	June 20
Jean de Brunhoff	French Writer	December 9
James Wong Howe	Chinese Director	August 28
James S. McDonnell	American Businessman	April 9
James Cagney	American Actor	July 17
Iskander Mirza	Pakistani Statesman	November 13
Irving Thalberg	American Producer	May 30
Indra Devi	Latvian Celebrity	May 12
Humphrey Bogart	American Actor	December 25
Hoagy Carmichael	American Composer	November 22
Helge Ingstad	Norwegian Explorer	December 30
John Barbirolli	British Musician	December 2
Jorge Luis Borges	Argentinian Poet	August 24
Judy Johnson	American Athlete	October 26
William A. Drake	American Writer	December 9
Weegee	American Photographer	June 12
Vladimir Nabokov	American Novelist	April 22
Tom C. Clark	American Politician	September 23
Thomas A. Dorsey	American Musician	July 1
Robert M. Hutchins	American Educator	January 17
P. L. Travers	Australian Writer	August 9
Noel Coward	English Playwright	December 16
Maxwell Maltz	American Scientist	March 10
Marcel Achard	French Playwright	July 5
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson	American Sculptor	September 23
Leo Strauss	German Philosopher	September 20
Hart Crane	American Poet	July 21
Gustav Heinemann	German Politician	July 23
Goodman Ace	American Writer	January 15
Duke Ellington	American Musician	April 29
Cyrus Rowlett Smith	American Businessman	September 9
Charles Laughton	English Actor	July 1
Carlos P. Romulo	Filipino Politician	January 14
C. S. Forester	English Novelist	July 27
Bruce Catton	American Historian	October 9
Billy Rose	American Entertainer	September 6
Arthur Bryant	British Historian	February 18
Andrei Platonov	Russian Writer	September 1
Allen Tate	American Poet	November 19
Alfred Hitchcock	English Director	August 13
Albert Claude	Belgian Scientist	August 24
E. B. White	American Writer	July 11
Elizabeth Bowen	Irish Novelist	June 7
Eric Linklater	British Writer	March 8
Gloria Swanson	American Actress	March 17
Georges Bidault	French Politician	October 5
George Cukor	American Producer	July 7
Friedrich August von Hayek	Austrian Economist	May 8
Fred Astaire	American Actor	May 10
Frank Scott	Canadian Poet	August 1
Ezra Taft Benson	American Leader	August 4
Evan Esar	American Writer
Eugene Ormandy	American Musician	November 18
Ernst Fischer	Austrian Writer	July 3
Ernest Hemingway	American Novelist	July 21
Erich Kastner	German Author	February 23
Al Capone	American Criminal	January 17