Famous People Who Died in 1949

Victor Fleming

Jan 6 Victor Fleming, American film director (The Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65

Jan 9 Amilcare Zanella, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 75
Jan 9 Tom Longboat, Canadian athlete (Boston Marathon 1907 record time 2:24:24), dies at 61
Jan 10 Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)
Jan 14 Joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist and composer (Rima), dies at 66
Jan 15 Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron, diplomat and senator, dies at 63
Jan 18 Charles Ponzi [Carlo], Italian con-man (Ponzi scheme in the US), dies at 66
Jan 20 Joseph Cuypers, architect Dutch (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87
Jan 22 William Thomas Walsh, American author (Isabella of Spain), dies at 57
Jan 22 Henry Slocum, American tennis player (US Nationals 1888-89), dies at 86
Jan 25 Emil Axman, Czech composer, dies at 61
Jan 25 Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesman　(b. 1861)
Jan 27 Boris Asafiev, composer, dies at 64
Jan 28 Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist, Swedish organist and composer, dies at 62
Jan 31 Henri de Vries [Hendricus Van Walterop], Dutch actor (Cleopatra, White Cargo), dies at 84

Feb 1 Herbert Stothart, American composer, dies at 63
Feb 5 Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer, dies at 50
Feb 8 Franco Leoni, Italian composer, dies at 81
Feb 8 Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, Russian composer, dies at 54
Feb 9 Poul Schierbeck, Danish organist and composer, dies at 60
Feb 12 Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, dies at 42
Feb 14 Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
Feb 18 Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, 1st Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic and President of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71
Feb 19 Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83
Feb 21 Tan Malaka, Indonesian philosopher and founder (Indonesian Communist), executed at 49
Feb 21 Ernest Walker, British composer, dies at 78
Feb 22 Russell W. Porter, American artist and explorer (Alaska), dies at 77
Feb 28 Stanley Marchant, English composer, dies at 65
Mar 2 Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter and poet, dies at 70
Mar 7 Francis Dodd, English artist (official war artist WWI), commits suicide at 74
Mar 7 Bradbury Robinson Jr., American football pioneer who threw first legal forward pass in the history of American football in 1906, dies from complications following routine surgery at 65
Mar 10 James Rector, American athlete (b. 1884)
Mar 11 Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76
Mar 12 Maria "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress abd wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95
Mar 13 Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)

Mar 14 John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)
Mar 17 Felix Bressart, German actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads), dies from Leukemia at 57
Mar 17 Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (b. 1882)
Mar 24 [Johann Baptist] Hanns Albin Rauter, German SS and Police leader in the occupied Netherlands, executed by firing squad at 54
Mar 25 Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54
Mar 28 Grigoras Dinicu, Romanian violin virtuoso and composer, dies at 59
Mar 29 Helen Homans, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1906), dies at 72
Mar 30 Dattaram Hindlekar, Indian cricket wicketkeeper (4 Tests), dies at 40
Mar 30 Friedrich Bergius, German chemist (benzine from brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64
Apr 3 Basil Harwood, English composer, dies at 89
Apr 6 Stanley Christopherson, cricketer (1884, MCC President during WWII), dies
Apr 6 Seymour Hicks, British actor and theatrical impresario (Scrooge), dies at 78
Apr 13 C. V. France, British actor (The Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail), dies at 80
Apr 14 Joseph A Cushman, US paleontologist, dies at 68

Wallace Beery

Apr 15 Wallace Beery, American circus performer (Ringling Brothers Circus) & actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8), dies from a heart attack at 64

Apr 18 Leonard Bloomfield, American linguist, dies at 62
Apr 18 Will Hay [William Thomson Hay], British comedian, actor and amateur astronomer, dies from a stroke at 60
Apr 19 Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
Apr 19 Stephen Samuel Wise, American Rabbi and President of Zionist Org of America, dies at 75
Apr 25 Jankel Adler, Polish painter and printmaker, dies at 53
Apr 28 Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines, assassinated at 61
May 6 Arthur Ochse, South African cricketer (10 wickets in 3 Tests for South Africa 1927-29), dies at 49

Maurice Maeterlinck

May 6 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86

May 6 Kunihiko Hashimoto, Japanese composer, violinist, conductor, and musical educator, dies of gastric cancer at 44
May 9 Louis II [Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi], Prince of Monaco, dies at 78

May 16 William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies
May 18 James Truslow Adams, American historian (Pulitzer 1921), dies at 70
May 20 Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)
May 21 Klaus Mann, German-American author (Mephisto), dies at 42
May 22 Hans Pfitzner, German composer (Palestrina), dies at 80
May 22 Klaus H T Mann, German/American writer (Turning Point), dies
May 24 Alexey Shchusev, Russian-Soviet architect, dies at 75
May 25 Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WWII), dies at 47
May 27 Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY
Jun 2 Dynam-Victor Fumet, French composer, dies at 82

Amadeo Giannini

Jun 3 Amadeo Giannini, American banker and entrepreneur (founded Bank of America), dies at 79

Jun 10 Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
Jun 10 John T. McCutcheon, American cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931), dies at 79
Jun 11 Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed
Jun 11 Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71
Jun 19 Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian-Pakistani Prominent Muslim philosopher, dies at 64
Jun 25 Buck Freeman, American baseball outfielder (World Series 1903; HR leader 1899, 1903; AL RBI leader 1902, 03; Boston Americans), dies at 77
Jun 26 Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (1939-48), dies at 72
Jun 29 Walter Giffen, cricketer (brother of George, 3 Tests), dies
Jul 1 Louis Davids [Simon David], cabaret artist, dies at 65
Jul 2 Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49), dies at 67
Jul 7 Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
Jul 8 Antun Sa'ada, Syrian rightwing politician, executed in Lebanon
Jul 8 Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli, Italian composer, dies at 66
Jul 9 Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer, dies at 75
Jul 12 Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
Jul 14 Frank Hearne, cricketer (2 Tests for England, 4 Tests for South Africa), dies
Jul 16 Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian philosopher, playwright and poet, dies at 83
Jul 18 Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer, dies at 78
Jul 19 Frank Murphy, American politician and 56th United States Attorney General, dies at 59

Aug 9 Harry Davenport, American actor and director (Her Unborn Child, My Sin), dies at 83
Aug 9 Edward Thorndike, American psychologist (father of modern educational psychology), dies at 74
Aug 11 Karl Weigl, Austrian-American pianist, composer, and educator, dies of bone marrow cancer at 68
Aug 14 Husni al-Barazi, premier of Syria, shot to death
Aug 14 Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death

Margaret Mitchell

Aug 16 Margaret Mitchell, American author (Gone With the Wind), dies at 48

Aug 17 Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist (48th Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court) and politician, dies at 57
Aug 18 Paul J Mares, US jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49
Aug 21 Gerhard von Keussler, German composer, dies at 75
Aug 26 Nico van Suchtelen, Dutch writer and publisher, dies at 70
Aug 27 Arthur Chesney, actor (Lodger, Chelsea Life), dies at 67
Aug 30 Arthur Fielder, English cricket fast bowler (6 Tests 1903-08), dies at 72
Aug 31 Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (actinium), dies
Aug 31 Paul Hoffer, German composer, dies at 53
Sep 1 Bobby Walthour Sr., American cyclist (motor-pacing World Championships gold 1904-05; Madison Square Garden 6-Day Race 1901, 03), dies at 71
Sep 7 José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)

Richard Strauss

Sep 8 Richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote), dies at 85

Sep 11 Henri Rabaud, French composer/conductor (L'ete), dies at 75
Sep 12 Harry Burleigh, African American composer (Springarn Medal), dies at 82

August Krogh

Sep 13 August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, dies at 75

Sep 18 Frank Morgan, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), dies at 59
Sep 19 Will Cuppy, American humorist (The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody), dies at 65
Sep 19 George Shiels, Irish dramatist (b. 1886)
Sep 20 Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer, dies at 45
Sep 20 Richard Dix, American actor (10 Commandments, Cimarron, The Ghost Ship), dies from a heart attack at 56
Sep 22 Sam Wood, American communist fighter and director (For Whom the Bell Tolls), dies at 66
Sep 24 Pierre de Bréville, French composer, author and professor (Une histoire du théâtre lyrique en France), dies at 88
Oct 1 Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post, dies at 77
Oct 2 Frank Schulte, American baseball outfielder (NL MVP 1911; Chicago Cubs), dies at 67
Oct 4 Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, mostly of operettas (Bruder Straubinger; The Golden Mistress), dies from injuries from falling off of a stage at 75

Oct 6 Robert Lynd, Irish writer and critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70
Oct 9 Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, composer, dies at 70
Oct 16 Hale A. VanderCook, American composer, dies at 85
Oct 24 Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer, dies at 70
Oct 27 Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
Oct 27 Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
Oct 29 G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
Oct 31 Edward Stettinius Jr. 48th US Secretary of State (1944-45) and diplomat, dies at 49
Nov 1 Leslie Gay, English cricket wicket-keeper and soccer goalkeeper (1 Test; 3 caps), dies at 78
Nov 2 Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (rep-NY 1918-21), dies at 77
Nov 3 Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and art collector (Guggenheim Museum New York), dies at 88
Nov 8 Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest and writer (Maria Magdalena -1928), dies at 75
Nov 12 Hendrik A de Fish [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological, dies at 64
Nov 14 Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat, dies at 72
Nov 19 James Ensor, Flemish painter and etcher (Oestereetster), dies at 89
Nov 23 Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer and jurist, dies at 71

Bill Robinson

Nov 25 Bill Robinson "Bojangles" American famed tap dancer (The Little Colonel, Stormy Weather), dies at 71

Nov 27 Tom Walls, British actor and producer (A Cuckoo in the Nest, Undercover), dies at 66
Dec 3 Elin Pelin, Bulgarian writer (The Gerak Family; Earth), dies at 72
Dec 3 Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian actress (Spookies), dies at 62

Lead Belly

Dec 6 Lead Belly [Huddie William Ledbetter], American blues 12 string guitarist (Rock Island Line), dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 64

Dec 10 Duncan Stewart, 2nd British Governor of Sarawak (1949), dies at 45 after being fatally stabbed in the streets of Sibu by pro-Indonesian Malay student Rosli Dhoby
Dec 16 Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgarian communist vice-premier, executed
Dec 16 Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (Ben Hur), dies at 76
Dec 17 David Stanley Smith, American composer (Merrymount), dies at 72
Dec 28 Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (Olympic gold 1,500m 1936), dies in rail accident at 39
Dec 28 Hervey Allen, American writer and poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60

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