William Plomer
Mark Rothko	American Artist	September 25
Marguerite Yourcenar	American Novelist	June 7
Malcolm Muggeridge	British Journalist	March 24
Louis Leakey	British Scientist	August 7
Lou Gehrig	American Athlete	June 19
Konrad Lorenz	Austrian Scientist	November 7
John von Neumann	American Mathematician	December 28
John Dillinger	American Criminal	June 22
Joe Valachi	American Criminal	September 22
Jeanette MacDonald	American Actress	June 18
Jan Tinbergen	Dutch Economist	April 12
James Gould Cozzens	American Novelist	August 19
James Beard	American Author	May 5
Ilka Chase	American Actress	April 8
Harold Grange	American Athlete	June 13
Haldan Keffer Hartline	American Scientist	December 22
Marvin Bower	American Businessman	August 1
Mike Mansfield	American Politician	March 16
Waverley Lewis Root	American Journalist	April 15
Walker Evans	American Photographer	November 3
Vincente Minnelli	American Director	February 28
Vernon Duke	Russian Composer	October 10
Todd Duncan	American Actor	February 12
Theodor Adorno	German Philosopher	September 11
Tallulah Bankhead	American Actress	January 31
Steven Runciman	British Historian	July 7
Sally Stanford	American Celebrity	May 5
Roy Acuff	American Musician	September 15
Red Grange	American Athlete	June 13
Raymond Radiguet	French Author	June 18
Raymond Queneau	French Poet	February 21
Paul Waner	American Athlete	April 16
Paul Horgan	American Author	August 1
Nathanael West	American Writer	October 17
Habib Bourguiba	Statesman	August 3
Georges Simenon	Belgian Writer	February 13
Cecil Frank Powell	British Physicist	December 5
Carl Rakosi	German Poet	November 6
Carl Hubbell	American Athlete	June 22
Bruno Bettelheim	Italian Writer	August 28
Bob Hope	American Comedian	May 29
Bix Beiderbecke	American Musician	March 10
Bing Crosby	American Musician	May 3
Benjamin Spock	American Scientist	May 2
Barbara Hepworth	English Artist	May 20
Arthur Godfrey	American Entertainer	August 31
Anais Nin	American Author	February 21
Alonzo Church	American Mathematician	June 14
Alfred Leslie Rowse	British Historian	December 4
Alec Douglas-Home	British Politician	July 2
Alan Paton	South African Novelist	January 11
Al Hirschfeld	American Cartoonist	June 21
Chill Wills	American Actor	July 18
Clare Boothe Luce	American Dramatist	April 10
George Orwell	British Author	June 25
Galeazzo Ciano	Italian Politician	March 18
Frank O'Connor	Irish Author	September 17
Fairfax Cone	American Businessman	February 21
Evelyn Waugh	English Author	October 28
Ernst Kaltenbrunner	German Soldier	October 4
Ella Maillart	Swiss Writer	February 20
Ella Baker	American Activist	December 13
Eliot Ness	American Public Servant	April 19
Edgar Bergen	American Actor	February 16
Earl Hines	American Musician	December 28
Cyril Connolly	English Journalist	September 10
Curly Howard	American Actor	October 22
Countee Cullen	American Poet	March 30
Cool Papa Bell	American Athlete	May 17
Claudette Colbert	French Actress	September 13
Aaron Siskind	American Photographer