Alan Ladd	American Actor	January 29
Lord Beaverbrook	Canadian Businessman	June 9
Leo Szilard	American Scientist	May 30
John T. Flynn	American Critic
John B. S. Haldane	British Scientist	December 1
Jawaharlal Nehru	Indian Leader	May 27
Jane Heap	American Publisher
Ian Fleming	British Author	August 12
Hesketh Pearson	English Actor	April 9
Nancy Astor	British Politician	May 2
Norbert Wiener	American Mathematician	March 18
Victor Francis Hess	American Physicist	December 17
T. H. White	Indian Writer	January 17
Stuart Davis	American Artist	June 24
Sean O'Casey	Irish Playwright	September 18
Roscoe Pound	American Lawyer	June 30
Robert N. Lee	American Writer	September 18
Richard McKenna	American Writer
Palmiro Togliatti	Italian Politician	August 21
Herbert Hoover	American President	October 20
Harpo Marx	American Comedian	September 28
Cedric Hardwicke	English Actor	August 6
Carl Van Vechten	American Writer	December 21
Brendan Behan	Irish Dramatist	March 20
Ben Hecht	American Writer	April 18
August Sander	German Photographer	April 20
Anna Julia Cooper	American Educator	February 27
Andrew Goodman	American Activist	June 21
Alexander Meiklejohn	English Philosopher	December 17
Clarence Budington Kelland	American Writer
Clive Bell	English Critic	September 18
Gracie Allen	American Comedian	August 27
Grace Metalious	American Novelist	February 25
Flannery O'Connor	American Author	August 3
Eric Dolphy	American Musician	June 29
Edith Sitwell	British Poet	December 9
Eddie Cantor	American Comedian	October 10
Douglas MacArthur	American Soldier	April 5
Cole Porter	American Composer	October 15
William Maxwell Aitken	Canadian Businessman	June 9