Wolfgang Staudte	German Director	October 9
Philip Johnson	American Architect	July 8
Otto Preminger	Austrian Director	December 5
Oscar Levant	American Composer	December 27
Nelson Goodman	American Philosopher	August 7
Max Delbruck	German Scientist	September 4
Mary Astor	American Actress	May 3
Marston Bates	American Scientist	July 23
Margaret Bourke-White	American Photographer	June 14
Marcel Carne	French Director	August 18
Louise Brooks	American Actress	November 14
Lou Costello	American Comedian	March 6
Lincoln Kirstein	American Dancer	May 4
Leonid I. Brezhnev	Russian Statesman	December 19
Leo Durocher	American Athlete	July 27
Kathleen Kenyon	English Scientist	January 5
Josephine Baker	French Dancer	June 3
John Huston	American Director	August 5
Philippe Halsman	Latvian Photographer	May 2
Richard Armour	American Poet
Richard L. Evans	American Clergyman	March 23
Willy Ley	German Writer	October 2
William Joyce	American Author	April 24
William J. Brennan, Jr.	American Judge	April 25
William J. Brennan	American Judge	April 25
William Empson	English Poet	September 27
Wendell Johnson	American Psychologist	April 16
Walter Legge	British Businessman	June 1
Victor Vasarely	Hungarian Artist	April 9
Thomas S. Gates, Jr.	American Public Servant	April 10
T. H. White	Indian Writer	May 29
Stanley Smith Stevens	American Psychologist	November 4
Soichiro Honda	Japanese Businesman	November 17
Satchel Paige	American Athlete	July 7
Samuel Beckett	Irish Playwright	April 13
S. I. Hayakawa	American Politician	July 18
Roberto Rossellini	Italian Director	May 8
Robert E. Howard	American Writer	January 22
John Coolidge	American Celebrity	September 6
John Betjeman	English Poet	August 28
Clyde Tombaugh	American Scientist	February 4
Clifford Odets	American Playwright	July 18
Clayton Rawson	American Writer
Clark M. Clifford	American Public Servant	December 25
Charles Revson	Canadian Businessman	October 11
Bruce Bennett	American Actor	May 19
Bob Considine	Journalist	November 4
Billy Wilder	American Director	June 22
Bede Griffiths	British Clergyman	December 17
Aristotle Onassis	Greek Businessman	January 15
Antal Dorati	Hungarian Composer	April 9
Anne Morrow Lindbergh	American Writer	June 22
Andre Weil	French Mathematician	May 6
Alfred Whitney Griswold	American Educator	October 27
Alec Issigonis	Turkish Designer	November 18
Albert Hofmann	Swiss Scientist	January 11
Adolf Eichmann	German Criminal	March 19
Curtis LeMay	American Soldier	November 15
Dale Messick	American Artist	April 11
Diana Vreeland	American Editor	July 29
Joe Cronin	American Athlete	October 12
Joan Blondell	American Actress	August 30
Jacqueline Cochran	American Aviator	May 11
Henny Youngman	American Comedian	March 16
Harry von Zell	American Actor	July 11
Harold Rosenberg	American Writer	February 2
Hans Bethe	American Scientist	July 2
Hannah Arendt	German Historian	October 14
Grace Hopper	American Scientist	December 9
Gilbert Highet	Scottish Writer	June 22
Gerald Vann	British Theologian	August 24
George Wald	American Scientist	November 18
George Sanders	American Actor	July 3
Gale Gordon	American Actor	February 2
Dino Buzzati	Italian Novelist	October 16
Dimitri Shostakovich	Russian Composer	September 25
Dietrich Bonhoeffer	German Theologian	February 4
A. J. P. Taylor	British Historian	March 25