Witold Gombrowicz	Polish Novelist	July 24
Rocky Marciano	American Athlete	August 31
Otto Dix	German Artist	July 25
Norman Lindsay	Australian Artist	November 21
Morihei Ueshiba	Japanese Athlete	April 26
Max Eastman	American Author	March 25
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe	American Architect	August 17
Levi Eshkol	Israeli Statesman	February 26
Leonard Woolf	British Author	August 14
Leonard Chess	Polish Businessman	October 16
Karl Jaspers	German Psychologist	February 26
Sharon Tate	American Actress	August 9
Sonja Henie	Norwegian Athlete	October 12
Stephen Potter	British Author
Willy Ley	German Writer	June 24
Wilhelm Backhaus	German Musician	July 5
Westbrook Pegler	American Journalist	June 24
Walter Hagen	American Athlete	October 6
Walter Gropius	German Architect	July 5
Vernon Duke	Russian Composer	January 16
Theodor Reik	American Psychologist	December 31
Theodor Adorno	German Philosopher	August 6
Thelma Ritter	American Actress	February 4
Stijn Streuvels	Belgian Writer	August 15
Judy Garland	American Actress	June 22
Joseph P. Kennedy	American Diplomat	November 18
Everett Dirksen	American Politician	September 7
Dwight D. Eisenhower	American President	March 28
Coleman Hawkins	American Musician	May 19
Charles Edison	American Businessman	July 31
Cecil Frank Powell	British Physicist	August 9
Brian Jones	British Musician	July 2
Boris Karloff	English Actor	February 2
Benjamin Shahn	Lithuanian Artist	March 14
Ben Shahn	Lithuanian Artist	March 14
Allen Dulles	American Public Servant	January 29
Frank King	American Cartoonist	June 24
Frank Loesser	American Musician	July 26
Franz von Papen	German Politician	May 2
John Mason Brown	American Critic
John L. Lewis	American Leader	June 11
John Bracken	Canadian Politician	March 18
Jeffrey Hunter	American Actor	May 27
Jack Kerouac	American Novelist	October 21
Ivy Compton-Burnett	English Novelist	August 27
Iskander Mirza	Pakistani Statesman	November 13
Ho Chi Minh	Vietnamese Revolutionary
Harry Emerson Fosdick	American Clergyman	October 5
Fred Hampton	American Activist	December 4
Adolfo Lopez Mateos	Mexican Statesman	September 22