Willis Goldbeck	American Dramatist	September 17
Michael Wilding	English Actor	July 8
Merle Oberon	American Actress	November 23
Mary Pickford	Canadian Actress	May 29
Lord Mountbatten	British Soldier	August 27
Leverett Saltonstall	American Politician	June 17
Joyce Grenfell	English Actress	November 30
John Wayne	American Actor	June 11
John G. Diefenbaker	Canadian Statesman	August 16
Joan Blondell	American Actress	December 25
Mika Waltari	Finnish Author	August 26
Nadia Boulanger	French Musician	October 22
Nelson Rockefeller	American Vice President	January 26
Walter Legge	British Businessman	March 22
Talcott Parsons	American Sociologist	May 8
Stan Kenton	American Musician	August 25
Sid Vicious	English Musician	February 2
Sally Rand	American Actress	August 31
S. J. Perelman	American Writer	October 17
Richard Rodgers	American Composer	December 30
Philippe Halsman	Latvian Photographer	June 25
Norman Hartnell	British Designer	June 8
Jerome Cavanagh	American Politician	November 27
Jean Stafford	American Writer	March 26
Eleanor Robson Belmont	English Actress	October 24
Donald Creighton	Canadian Historian	December 19
Dennis Gabor	Hungarian Scientist	February 9
Darryl F. Zanuck	American Director	December 22
Cornelia Otis Skinner	American Actress	July 9
Conrad Hilton	American Businessman	January 3
Charles Mingus	American Musician	January 5
Allen Tate	American Poet	February 9
Al Capp	American Cartoonist	November 5
Elizabeth Bishop	American Poet	October 6
Emmett Kelly	American Entertainer	March 28
Fulton J. Sheen	American Clergyman	December 9
Jean Rhys	English Novelist	May 14
Jean Renoir	French Director	February 12
Jean Monnet	French Politician	March 16
James T. Farrell	American Novelist	August 22
James J. Gibson	American Psychologist	December 11
J. B. Morton	English Writer	May 10
Immanuel Velikovsky	Belarusian Historian	November 17
Herbert Marcuse	German Philosopher	July 29
George Seaton	American Playwright	July 28
A. Philip Randolph	American Activist	May 16