Yuri Gagarin	Russian Astronaut	March 27
Peter Arno	American Cartoonist	February 22
Otto Hahn	German Scientist	July 28
Norman Thomas	American Activist	December 19
Neal Cassady	American Writer	February 4
Mervyn Peake	British Writer	November 17
Martin Luther King, Jr.	American Leader	April 4
Margaret Young	American Musician
Marcel Duchamp	French Artist	October 2
Konstantin Stanislavisky	Russian Actor
Randolph Churchill	British Journalist	June 6
Robert Kennedy	American Politician	June 6
Rose Wilder Lane	American Journalist	October 30
Weegee	American Photographer	December 26
Upton Sinclair	American Author	November 25
Trygve Lie	Norwegian Politician	December 30
Tony Hancock	British Comedian	June 24
Tommy Armour	Scottish Athlete	September 12
Thomas Merton	American Author	December 10
Tallulah Bankhead	American Actress	December 12
Salvatore Quasimodo	Italian Author
Ruth St. Denis	American Dancer	July 21
Kenneth Scott Latourette	American Historian	December 26
Karl Barth	Swiss Theologian	December 10
Joseph Lewis	American Writer
Douglas Horton	American Clergyman	August 21
Dorothy Gish	American Actress	June 4
Donald Wolfit	English Actor	February 17
Dan Duryea	American Actor	June 7
Crane Brinton	American Historian
Charles Munch	French Musician	November 6
Bob Bartlett	American Politician	December 11
Austin Farrer	English Theologian
Arthur Hays Sulzberger	American Publisher	December 11
Duke Kahanamoku	American Athlete	January 22
Edna Ferber	American Novelist	April 16
Fannie Hurst	American Writer	February 23
John Steinbeck	American Author	December 20
Jack Adams	Canadian Athlete	May 1
Howard Lindsay	American Producer	February 11
Herbert Read	English Poet
Henry Beston	American Writer	April 15
Helen Keller	American Author	June 1
Harold Nicolson	British Diplomat	May 1
Giovanni Guareschi	Italian Journalist	July 22
Francis Biddle	American Lawyer	November 4
Antonio Porchia	Italian Poet	November 9