Sep 1 Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83 Sep 1 Dennis Brain, British classical horn player (Serenade), killed in a car wreck at 38 Sep 2 William Alexander Craigie, Scottish lexicographer (Skotlands Rimur), dies at 90 Sep 11 Petar Stojanovic, Serbian composer, dies at 80 Qi Baishi Sep 16 Qi Baishi, Chinese painter famous for whimsical and playful watercolor paintings, dies at 93 Painter Qi Baishi Sep 17 John W "John" Eisenloeffel, goldsmith, dies at 81 Sep 19 Reginald Aldworth Daly, Canadian-American Geologist who independently developed the theory of magmatic stopping, dies at 86 Jean Sibelius Sep 20 Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (Valse Triste; Finlandia), dies at 91 Composer Jean Sibelius Sep 21 Haakon VII, King of Norway (1905-57), dies at 85 Sep 22 Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral during World War II, dies at 72 Sep 28 Albert Ascoli, Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies Sep 28 Luis Cluzeau-Mortet, Uruguayan composer, dies at 67 1956 Famous Deaths by Year 1958
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