William Stephenson	Canadian Soldier	January 31
Mary McCarthy	American Author	October 25
Malcolm Cowley	American Critic	March 27
Lucille Ball	American Comedian	April 26
Leonardo Sciascia	Italian Writer	November 20
Lefty Gomez	American Athlete	February 17
Lee Van Cleef	American Actor	December 16
Laurence Olivier	English Actor	July 11
Konrad Lorenz	Austrian Scientist	February 27
Konosuke Matsushita	Japanese Businessman	November 27
Judy Johnson	American Athlete	June 15
John J. McCloy	American Lawyer	March 11
John Cassavetes	American Actor	February 3
Jim Backus	American Actor	July 3
Janos Kadar	Hungarian Statesman	July 6
Mel Blanc	American Actor	July 10
Michael Harrington	American Writer	July 31
Nigel Dennis	British Writer	July 19
Walter Martin	American Clergyman	June 26
Vladimir Horowitz	American Musician	November 5
Virgil Thomson	American Composer	September 30
Sugar Ray Robinson	American Athlete	April 12
Sidney Hook	American Philosopher	July 12
Sergio Leone	Italian Director	April 30
Samuel Beckett	Irish Playwright	December 22
Salvador Dali	Spanish Artist	January 23
Robert Penn Warren	American Novelist	September 15
Robert Mapplethorpe	American Photographer	March 9
Richard Armour	American Poet
R. D. Laing	Scottish Psychologist	August 23
Peter Scott	English Artist	August 29
Norris Cotton	American Politician	February 24
James Kirkwood	American Playwright	April 22
Irving Berlin	American Musician	September 22
Daphne du Maurier	English Novelist	April 19
Claude Pepper	American Politician	May 30
C. L. R. James	Trinidadian Journalist	May 19
Billy Martin	American Businessman	December 25
Bill Terry	American Athlete	January 9
Bette Davis	American Actress	October 6
Beatrice Lillie	Canadian Actress	January 20
Barbara Tuchman	American Historian	February 6
Ayatollah Khomeini	Iranian Statesman	June 3
Anthony Quayle	English Actor	October 20
Andrei Sakharov	Russian Physicist	December 14
Andrei A. Gromyko	Russian Politician	July 2
Alvin Ailey	American Dancer	December 1
Abbie Hoffman	American Activist	April 12
Diana Vreeland	American Editor	August 22
Dolores Ibarruri	Spanish Politician	December 9
Doug Harvey	Canadian Athlete	December 26
I. F. Stone	American Journalist	July 17
Huey Newton	American Activist	August 22
Howard Simons	American Editor	June 13
Hirohito	Japanese Leader	January 7
Hermann Oberth	German Scientist	December 28
Graham Chapman	British Comedian	October 4
Gilda Radner	American Actress	May 20
Georges Simenon	Belgian Writer	September 4
Frank Adams	British Mathematician	January 7
Ferdinand Marcos	Filipino Statesman	September 28
Emperor Hirohito	Japanese Royalty	January 7
Edward Abbey	American Author	March 14
Edmund Leach	British Scientist	January 6
Earl Nightingale	American Entertainer	March 25
A. Bartlett Giamatti	American Educator	September 1