William Griffith Wilson	American Celebrity	January 24
Ogden Nash	American Poet	May 19
Norman Cota	American Soldier	October 4
Nikita Khrushchev	Russian Statesman	September 11
Nan Fairbrother	English Writer
Margaret Bourke-White	American Photographer	August 27
M. Esther Harding	British Psychoanalyst
Louis Armstrong	American Musician	July 6
Lin Biao	Chinese Politician	September 13
Leo Burnett	American Businessman	June 7
John W. Campbell	American Writer	July 11
Paul Twitchell	American Celebrity	September 17
Philip Wylie	American Writer	October 25
Ralph Bunche	American Diplomat	December 9
Whitney M. Young	American Activist	March 11
Van Heflin	American Actor	July 23
Thomas Dewey	American Politician	March 16
Theodor Svedberg	Swedish Scientist	February 25
Stevie Smith	British Poet	March 7
Shunryu Suzuki	Japanese Leader	December 4
Shane Leslie	Irish Diplomat	August 14
Rockwell Kent	American Artist
Richard L. Evans	American Clergyman	November 1
Reinhold Niebuhr	American Theologian	June 1
John Desmond Bernal	Irish Scientist	September 15
John Boyd Orr	Scottish Politician	June 25
David Sarnoff	American Inventor	December 12
Cyril Falls	English Historian
Coco Chanel	French Designer	January 10
Clayton Rawson	American Writer
Bobby Jones	American Athlete	December 18
Bill Stern	American Actor	November 19
Bennett Cerf	American Journalist	August 27
Audie Murphy	American Soldier	May 28
Arne Jacobsen	Danish Architect	March 24
Alan Patrick Herbert	British Novelist	November 11
Dean Acheson	American Statesman	October 12
Diana Lynn	American Actress	December 18
Diane Arbus	American Photographer	July 26
Joe Valachi	American Criminal	April 3
Jim Morrison	American Musician	July 3
James Cash Penney	American Businessman	February 12
Igor Stravinsky	Russian Composer	April 6
Hugo Black	American Judge	September 25
Harold Lloyd	American Actor	March 8
Giorgos Seferis	Greek Poet	September 20
George Jackson	American Activist	August 21
Gene Vincent	American Musician	October 12
Francois Duvalier	Haitian Statesman	April 21
A. P. Herbert	English Statesman	November 11