Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
Jan 4 Austrian physicist and Nobel Laureate (wave mechanics), dies at 73
- Jan 6 Regina Ullmann, Swiss poet and writer, dies at 76
- Jan 7 Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74
- Jan 8 Lynwood Thomas "Schoolboy" Rowe, American baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 50
- Jan 9 Emily Greene Balch, American sociologist, feminist and pacifist (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Nobel Peace Prize 1946), dies at 94
- Jan 10 Dashiell Hammett, American detective writer (Thin Man, Maltese Falcon), dies at 66
- Jan 11 Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)
- Jan 13 Blanche Ring, American singer ("In The Good Old Summer Time"), and stage and screen actress, dies at 89
- Jan 14 Ernest Thesiger, English actor (Brass Monkey, Ghoul), dies at 81
- Jan 14 Henry Geehl, English composer, dies at 79
- Jan 15 Francesco Maria Saraceni, Italian composer, dies at 49
- Jan 16 Janos Viski, Hungarian composer, dies at 54
- Jan 21 John Joseph Becker, American composer and conductor, dies a day before his 75th birthday
Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961)
Jan 24 American athlete, inventor, and businessman (invented the Erector Set), dies at 76
- Jan 24 Willem van Eysinga, Dutch jurist and diplomat (Paris Peace Conference), dies at 82
- Jan 26 Morris Nichols, cricketer (41 wkts in 14 Tests for Eng 1930-39), dies
- Jan 30 Maud Wagner, first known American tattoo artist and circus performer, dies at about 83
- Feb 2 Adolf Vogl, composer, dies at 87
- Feb 3 Anna May Wong [Wong Liu-tsong], Chinese-American actress, 1st Asian-American movie star (Shanghai Express; Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), and 1st Asian-American on US currency (American Women series quarter, 2022), dies of a heart attack at 56
- Feb 3 Viscount Dunrossil, Gov-Gen of Australia (1959-61), dies at 67
- Feb 4 Piet[er] L. Kramer, Influential Dutch architect (Amsterdam School), dies at 79
- Feb 5 Anthony Gustav de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73
- Feb 6 Archibald T Davison, American musicologist and composer, dies at 77
- Feb 8 William Duncan, Scottish actor (Hopalong Rides Again, Thunder Trail), dies at 81
- Feb 9 Grigory Levenfish, Russian International chess grandmaster, dies at 70
- Feb 9 Oscar Egg, Swiss track and road bicycle racer (3 x world hour record), dies at 70
- Feb 11 Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor and director (Pygmalion), dies at 82
- Feb 11 Kate Carew [Mary Williams], American caricaturist, dies at 91
Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961)
Feb 11 Congolese revolutionary, 1st prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, assassinated by the Belgian government at 34
- Feb 14 Wallis Clark, British-American stage and screen actor (Penny Serenade; Great Guy; Postal Inspector; Easy Money), dies at 78
- Feb 15 Dudley Richards, American figure skater (U.S. Pairs champion, 1961), dies in a plane crash at 29
- Feb 15 Jack Whiting, American actor and singer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 59
- Feb 15 Laurence Owen, American figure skater (U.S. and North American champion), dies in a plane crash at 16
- Feb 15 Maribel Vinson, American figure skater (9 time US National Champion) and coach, dies in a plane crash at 49
- Feb 15 Maribel Yerxa Owen, American figure skater (U.S. Pairs champion, 1961), dies in a plane crash at 20
- Feb 16 Dazzy Vance, American Baseball HOF pitcher (7 x NL strike-out leader; World Series 1934 St Louis Cardinals; NL MVP & Triple Crown 1924 Brooklyn Robins), dies at 69
- Feb 17 Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley], American stage and silent film actress (Blood & Sand; Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde), dies of a heart attack at 66
- Feb 20 Otto Huiswoud, Suriname-born political activist and editor-in-chief (Negro Worker), dies at 67
- Feb 20 Percy Grainger, Australian-American concert pianist and composer (Hill Songs; Country Gardens), dies at 78
- Feb 21 Blaise Cendrars [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet, dies at 73
- Feb 21 Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor (developments in refrigeration), dies of lung cancer at 67
- Feb 22 George de Cuevas, Chilean-born ballet impresario and choreographer (Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas), dies at 75 or 76
- Feb 22 Nick LaRocca, American jazz coronetist and composer (Tiger Rag), dies at 71
- Feb 23 Wilf Ferguson, West Indian cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies at 43
- Feb 26 Karl Albiker, German sculptor (Problem of the Plastic), dies at 83
- Feb 26 Mohammed V, ibn Yusuf, sultan/King of Morocco, dies at 51
- Feb 27 Platt Adams, American field athlete (Olympic gold standing high jump 1912), dies at 75
- Feb 28 Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer and music publisher, dies at 64
- Mar 3 Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born left-handed pianist, dies at 72
- Mar 6 George Formby, British singer and comedian, dies at 56
- Mar 6 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright and director (Tivoli), dies at 59
- Mar 7 Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian abstract painter, dies at 42
- Mar 7 Max Hymans, French WW II resistance fighter and Head of Air France, dies at 60
- Mar 8 Thomas Beecham, English conductor (co-founded and led London Philharmonic, 1932-39; Royal Philharmonic, 1946-60), dies of heart failure at 81
- Mar 9 Wilbur Sweatman, American ragtime and dixieland jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader, dies at 79
- Mar 10 Esperanza Baur, Mexican film actress, and John Wayne's second wife, dies of a heart attack at 40
- Mar 12 Belinda Lee, English actress (Joseph & his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25
- Mar 14 Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (openings theorist), dies at 78
- Mar 16 Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (b. 1903)
- Mar 17 Susanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101
- Mar 19 Edric Cundell, British composer (Serbia; The Tragedy of Deirdre) conductor, and educator (Guildhall School of Music, 1938-56), dies at 68
- Mar 23 A.C. "Jack" Russell, English cricket batsman (10 Tests, 5 x 100s; Essex CCC), dies at 73
- Mar 23 James Edward Murray, (Sen-D-Montana) (1935-61), dies
- Mar 23 Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies in an accident during training at 24
- Mar 27 Jack Kane, British-Canadian arrranger, composer, and orchestra leader (Steve & Eydie; Andy Williams Show), dies at 37
- Mar 30 Philibert Melotte, British astronomer (discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae), dies at 81
- Mar 31 Seerp Anema, Dutch poet and writer (Modern Art & Degenerating), dies at 85
- Apr 2 August Defresne, Dutch playwright and director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67
- Apr 2 Wallingford Riegger, American cellist, composer (New Dance; Cooper Square), and educator, dies from head injuries in a dog walking accident at 75
- Apr 4 Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (b. 1873)
- Apr 6 Jules Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (syphillis, Nobel 1919), dies at 90
- Apr 7 Jesús Guridi, Spanish composer, dies at 74
- Apr 7 Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 62
- Apr 7 Yusef Greiss, Egyptian composer, dies at 61
- Apr 9 Zog I [Ahmed Zogu], King of Albania (1928-39), dies at 65
- Apr 10 Irene Warfield, American silent screen actress (Satan Sanderson), dies at about 65 [exact birthdate unconfirmed]
- Apr 11 Francis de Bourguignon, Belgian composer, dies at 70
- Apr 12 Nils-Eric Fougstedt, Finnish composer (Angoscia, Trittico sinfonico), dies at 50
- Apr 12 Philippine "Pine" Belder [Mary de Klerk], actress, dies at 93
- Apr 13 John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist, dies at 26
- Apr 21 James Melton, American pop (1920-30's) and operatic tenor (Metropolitan Opera, 1942-50), dies at 57
- Apr 22 Maria Radulphus [Adrian Hermus], Curacao school inspector, dies at 91
- Apr 24 (Joseph) Rosario Bourdon, French Canadian-American cellist, violinist, conductor, arranger and musical director (Victor Talking Machine Company, 1905-31; Symphonique de Montréal, 1935-44), dies at 76
- Apr 24 Lee Moran, American actor (Circus Clown), dies of heart ailment at 72 (b. 1888)
- Apr 25 Hans F Blunck, writer, dies
- Apr 27 Roy Del Ruth, American director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67
- Apr 29 (Irving Milford) "Miff" Mole, American jazz trombonist, and composer (Red Nichols and His Five Pennies - "Slippin' Around"; Sophie Tucker), dies at 63
- Apr 29 Cisco Houston, American folk singer (b. 1918)
- May 2 J C White, English cricket spin bowler (15 Tests, 49 wickets; 10-76 Somerset v Worcestershire 1921), dies at 70
- May 3 Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher (work on existentialism and phenomenology), dies of a heart attack at 53
- May 4 Anita Stewart, American silent film actress (South of Hell Mountain), producer, and mystery novelist,, dies of a heart attack at 66
- May 6 Lucian Blaga, Romanian philosopher and poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65
Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
May 13 American 2 time Academy award-winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60
- May 16 George A. Malcolm, American jurist (17th Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court) and educator, dies at 79
- May 17 Frans van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81
- May 17 Henri Gagnon, Canadian organist (Notre-Dame Basilica (Quebec), 1915-1961), composer (Rondel de Thibaut de Champagne), and music educator, dies at 74
- May 18 Henry O'Neill, American actor (Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble), dies
- May 19 Joe Howard, American vaudeville, Broadway, and television singer (Gay Nineties Revue), and songwriter ("Hello Ma Baby"), dies at 91
- May 20 Josef "Pips" Priller, German fighter ace (b. 1915)
- May 20 Nannie Helen Burroughs, American educator and civil rights activist (founded National Training School for Women and Girls), dies at 82
- May 22 Joan Davis, American actress (I Married Joan), dies of a heart attack at 53
- May 29 Uuno Klami, Finnish composer (Psalmus; Kalevala Suite), dies of a heart attack while sailing at 60
- May 30 Rafael Trujillo [Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina], Dominican politician, soldier and dictator of the Dominican Republic (1930-61), assassinated at 69
- May 31 Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
- Jun 2 George S. Kaufman, American playwright (This is Show Business), dies at 72
- Jun 2 Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor and director (Dutch Comedy), dies at 70
- Jun 4 William Astbury, English physicist and chemist (pioneer in molecular biology), dies at 63
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
Jun 6 Swiss Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology), dies at 85
- Jun 7 Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies
- Jun 9 Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
- Jun 11 Daniel Hoan, American politician (longest Socialist administration in the US as Mayor of Milwaukee 1916-40), dies at 80
- Jun 12 Clinton Golden, American labor leader (founder of the United Steelworkers of America), dies at 72
- Jun 13 Ben A. Jones, American horse trainer (US Champion trainer by earnings 1941, 43, 44, 52; Kentucky Derby x 6 including Citation, Whirlaway), dies at 78
- Jun 15 Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
- Jun 15 Tommy Scott, West Indian cricketer (WI leg-spinner in 8 Tests), dies at 68
- Jun 16 Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
- Jun 17 Jeff Chandler [Ira Grossel], American actor (Broken Arrow), dies as a result of medical malpractice at 42
- Jun 18 Eddie Gaedel, American baseball pinch-hitter (shortest player in MLB history 3' 7"; St. Louis Browns), dies after mugging at 36
- Jun 22 Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies
- Jun 22 Queen Maria of Yugoslavia [Maria of Romania], Queen consort of Yugoslavia (1922-34), dies at 61
- Jun 23 Franz de Backer, Flemish writer (Rubens' Daughter), dies at 70
- Jun 25 John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Canadian aviator, dies at 74
- Jun 25 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson, US politician, 1st US elected women governor, Governor of Texas (1925-27, 1933-35), dies at 86
- Jun 26 Kenneth F. Fearing, American poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58
- Jun 27 Harry Hooton, Australian poet, dies of cancer at 52
- Jun 27 Muchtar Auezov, Kazakh writer and playwright (Enilik-Kebek), dies at 63
- Jun 27 Paul Guilfoyle, American actor and director (White Heat, Cyrano de Bergerac), dies of a heart attack at 58
- Jun 30 Lee de Forest, American inventor (Electron Tube), dies at 87
- Jul 1 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (Die Nacht), dies at 67
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Jul 2 American author (The Old Man and the Sea, Nobel Prize for Literature - 1954), dies from suicide at 61
- Jul 4 William Franklin "Frank" Smith, American actor (Cowboy & Bandit, Scarlet Car, Frontier Days), dies of lung cancer at 83
- Jul 6 Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter and illustrator, dies at 93
- Jul 6 Enrique Larreta [E Rodriguez Maza], Argentine diplomat and writer, dies at 86
- Jul 6 Scott LaFaro, American jazz bassist (Bill Evans Trio), dies in a car accident at 25
- Jul 8 Julián Bautista, Spanish orchestral and film score composer, and conductor, dies at 60
- Jul 9 Alan Marshal, Australian actor (Lydia, Irene, Exile Express), dies from a heart attack at 52
- Jul 11 Erskine Butterfield, American swing and boogie-woogie jazz pianist, singer, and composer, dies at 48
- Jul 12 Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (b. 1879)
- Jul 15 John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
- Jul 16 [Louise] Sophie M E de Vries, actress (English Prof), dies at 88
Ty Cobb (1886-1961)
Jul 17 American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (AL MVP 1911; Triple Crown 1909; 12 × AL batting champion; Detroit Tigers) and manager (Detroit Tigers 1921-26), dies of cancer at 74
- Jul 18 Kit Guard, Danish actor (El Diablo Rides, Kid Courageous), dies of cancer at 67
- Jul 23 Esther Dale, American actress (Curly Top; The Egg and I; Ma and Pa Kettle films), dies after surgery at 75
- Jul 27 Theodore Chanler, American composer, dies at 59
- Jul 31 Jesse Harper, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Notre Dame 57–17–7), dies at 77
- Aug 2 Giovanni Battista Angioletti, Italian author (Il giorno del giudizio), dies at 64
- Aug 5 Eva JC Beck, Dutch actress (Elckerlyc, Resurrection), dies at 63
- Aug 5 Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand (National: 1949-57), dies at 67
- Aug 6 Jozef-Ernest van Roey, Belgian cardinal (opposed Nazism as Archbishop of Mechelen), dies at 87
- Aug 7 Frank Buchman, American theologist (Moral Re-Armament), dies at 83
- Aug 8 Charlie Gemora, actor (who portrayed King Kong), dies at 58
- Aug 8 Franc N D Buchman, US theology (Moral Rearms), dies at 83
- Aug 8 Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (b. 1894)
- Aug 9 Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. Army general (WWII) and head of CIA (1950-52), dies at 75
- Aug 11 Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer actor and director (b. 1910)
- Aug 13 Adeline De Walt Reynolds, American actress (Son of Dracula), dies at 78
- Aug 14 Clarke Ashton Smith, American sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68
- Aug 14 Guido Alberto Fano, Italian composer and pianist, dies at 86
- Aug 14 Henri-Edouard-Prosper Breuil, priest/archaeologist, dies
- Aug 15 (Granville) "Stick" McGhee, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter ("Drinkin' Wine. Spo-Dee-O-Dee"), dies of lung cancer at 43
- Aug 15 Willie Macfarlane, Scottish golfer (US Open 1925), dies at 72
- Aug 16 Maulvi Abdul Haq, Pakistani scholar and father of Modern Urdu, dies at 91
- Aug 17 Carlos Salzedo, French-American piano prodigy, harpist, composer, educator (Curtis Institue; Juilliard), and new music advocate (co-founder of International Composers' Guild), dies at 76
- Aug 18 Learned Hand, American Chief Judge of US Court of Appeals, dies at 89
- Aug 18 Leonhard Frank, writer, dies at 78
- Aug 20 Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist (Nobel 1946 - physics of high pressure), dies at 79
- Aug 20 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canadian-American Arctic explorer and ethnologist, dies at 82
- Aug 23 Beals Wright, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1905; doubles 1904-06), dies at 81
- Aug 27 Gail Russell, American actress (The Uninvited, Moonrise, Unseen), dies from complications of alcohol abuse at 36 [1]
- Aug 28 Tom Connolly, American Baseball HOF umpire (AL-record 8 x World Series), dies at 90
- Aug 30 Charles Coburn, American actor (Around the World in 80 Days, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 84
- Sep 1 Eero Saarinen, Finnish-American architect (Dulles Airport), dies at 51
- Sep 1 William Z. Foster, American labor organizer and US Communist Party president (1945-57), dies at 80
- Sep 2 Greet Koeman, Dutch opera soprano, dies at 54
- Sep 3 Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
- Sep 5 Ernest Bock, cricketer (Test for South Africa, 1935), dies
- Sep 7 Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1940-45), dies at 76
- Sep 10 Leo Carrillo, American actor (American Empire, Cisco Kid), dies at 80
- Sep 10 Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver, dies at 33
- Sep 12 Carl Hermann, German physicist, dies at 63
- Sep 16 A P F Chapman, cricketer (26 Tests for England), dies
- Sep 16 Percy Chapman, English cricket batsman (26 Tests, captain 1926-31, 1 x 100; Kent CCC), dies after a fall at 61
- Sep 16 Yme Schuitmaker, Dutch potato farmer and dramatist, dies at 84
- Sep 17 Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey (1950-60), dies at 62
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961)
Sep 18 Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), dies in a plane crash in Africa at 56
- Sep 19 Helen Kimble, fictional wife of Dr Richard Kimble (The Fugitive)
- Sep 19 Maurice Delage, French pianist, and composer (Ragamalika; Seven Haikais), dies at 81 [date of passing may be 21 Sept]
- Sep 19 Pieter Tesch, Dutch mine engineer and geologist (Pedestal of Netherlands), dies at 82
- Sep 21 Earle Dickson, American inventor (Band-Aid), dies at 68
- Sep 21 Maurice Delage, French composer, dies at 81
- Sep 22 Marion Davies [Douras], American silent and sound film actress, producer (Little Old New York; Not So Dumb; Five and Ten), and mistress of William Randolph Hearst, dies of cancer at 64
- Sep 23 Billy House, American actor (Imitation of Life; Bedlam; The Egg and I), dies at 71
- Sep 23 Elmer Diktonius, Finnish poet, composer, and musicologist (Janne Kubrik; Stenkol), dies at 65
- Sep 24 Sumner Welles, American diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy), dies at 68
- Sep 25 Frank Fay, American vaudeville comedian and actor (God's Gift to Women), dies at 69
- Sep 26 Charles Erwin Wilson, American engineer (President and CEO of General Motors) and politician (United States Secretary of Defense 1953-57), dies at 71
- Sep 26 Eily Malyon, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch), dies at 81
- Sep 26 Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67