Yasunari Kawabata	Japanese Novelist	April 16
Maurice Chevalier	French Actor	January 1
Mark Van Doren	American Poet	December 10
Marianne Moore	American Poet	February 5
Mahalia Jackson	American Musician	January 27
M. C. Escher	Dutch Artist	March 27
Louis Leakey	British Scientist	October 1
Lester B. Pearson	Canadian Politician	December 27
Kwame Nkrumah	Ghanaian Statesman	April 27
King Edward VIII	English Royalty	May 28
Jules Romains	French Author	August 14
John Grierson	British Director	February 19
John Berryman	American Poet	January 7
Miriam Hopkins	American Actress	October 9
Natalie Clifford Barney	American Author	February 2
Walter Winchell	American Journalist	February 20
Walter Lang	American Director	February 7
Tom Stewart	American Politician	October 10
Ted Shawn	American Dancer
Saul Alinsky	American Activist	June 12
Rose Schneiderman	Polish Activist	August 11
Roberto Clemente	Puerto Rican Athlete	December 31
Richard Courant	German Mathematician	January 27
Prescott Bush	American Politician	October 8
Paul Goodman	American Writer	August 2
Oscar Levant	American Composer	August 14
Nubar Gulbenkian	Armenian Poet
Jimmy Rushing	American Musician	June 8
James F. Byrnes	American Politician	April 9
Ezra Pound	American Poet	November 1
Ernst Fischer	Austrian Writer	July 31
Edward VIII	English Royalty	May 28
Edmund Wilson	American Critic	June 12
Don Byas	American Musician	August 24
Dino Buzzati	Italian Novelist	January 28
Dan Blocker	American Actor	May 13
Daisy Ashford	English Writer	January 15
Charles E. Wilson	American Businessman	January 3
C. Day Lewis	English Poet	May 22
Betty Smith	American Novelist	January 17
Athenagoras I	Greek Clergyman	July 7
Frank Knight	American Economist	April 15
Frank Tashlin	American Artist	May 5
Jackie Robinson	American Athlete	October 24
J. Edgar Hoover	American Public Servant	May 2
Igor Sikorsky	American Aviator	October 26
Hodding Carter	American Journalist	April 4
Henri Coanda	Romanian Inventor	November 25
Harry S. Truman	American President	December 26
Harlow Shapley	American Scientist	October 20
Gil Hodges	American Athlete	April 2
George Sanders	American Actor	April 25
Geoffrey Fisher	Clergyman	September 15
Gabriel Heatter	American Journalist	March 30
Franz Halder	German Soldier	April 2
Abraham Joshua Heschel	Polish Educator	December 23