Zoltan Kodaly	Hungarian Composer	March 6
Konrad Adenauer	German Statesman	April 19
John Masefield	English Poet	May 12
John Coltrane	American Musician	April 17
Joe Orton	English Playwright	August 9
Joe Meek	British Businessman	February 3
Jean Toomer	American Author	March 30
Jayne Mansfield	American Actress	June 29
Jane Darwell	American Actress	August 13
Jack Ruby	American Criminal	January 3
J. Robert Oppenheimer	American Physicist	February 18
Ilya Ehrenburg	Ukrainian Writer	August 31
Hugo Gernsback	American Inventor	August 19
Langston Hughes	American Poet	May 22
Nelson Eddy	American Musician	March 6
Norman Angell	British Writer	October 7
Woody Guthrie	American Musician	October 3
Vivien Leigh	English Actress	July 8
Vincent Massey	Canadian Politician	December 30
Tom Conway	English Actor	April 22
Spencer Tracy	American Actor	June 10
Siegfried Sassoon	English Poet	September 1
Shigeru Yoshida	Japanese Politician	October 20
Roger Babson	American Educator	March 5
Rene Magritte	Belgian Artist	August 15
Paul Whiteman	American Celebrity	December 29
Paul Muni	American Actor	August 25
Patrick Kavanagh	Irish Poet	November 30
Henry R. Luce	American Editor	February 28
Henry J. Kaiser	American Businessman	August 24
Carl Sandburg	American Poet	July 22
Bruce Barton	American Author	July 5
Brian Epstein	British Businessman	August 27
Billy Strayhorn	American Composer	May 31
Bert Lahr	American Actor	December 4
Basil Rathbone	English Actor	July 21
Barney Ross	American Athlete	January 17
Arthur Ransome	British Author	June 3
Andre Maurois	French Writer	October 9
Alice B. Toklas	American Editor	March 7
Alexander Wiley	American Politician	May 26
Ad Reinhardt	American Artist	August 30
Carson McCullers	American Novelist	September 29
Charles A. Lockwood	American Soldier	June 7
Che Guevara	Argentinian Revolutionary	October 9
Harold Edward Holt	Australian Politician	December 17
Gordon W. Allport	American Psychologist	October 9
George Lincoln Rockwell	American Activist	August 25
Francis Cardinal Spellman	American Clergyman	December 2
F. L. Lucas	English Critic
Ethel Percy Andrus	American Activist	July 13
Esther Forbes	American Author	August 12
Elmer Rice	American Playwright	May 8
Edward Hopper	American Artist	May 15
Clementine Paddleford	American Journalist	November 13
Clement Attlee	English Leader	October 8
Clement Atlee	British Statesman	October 8
A. J. Muste	American Activist	February 11