Deaths in History in 1964

T. H. White

Jan 17 T. H. White, English novelist (England Have My Bones) and author of the King Arthur novels, dies of heart failure at 57

Jan 24 Stuart Davis, American modernist painter, dies at 71
Jan 30 Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80
Feb 3 Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (b. 1880)
Feb 4 Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica), dies at 71
Feb 6 Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51), dies at 69

Emilio Aguinaldo

Feb 6 Emilio Aguinaldo, 1st President of the Philippines (1899-1901), dies of coronary thrombosis at 94

Feb 7 Hermann A J Kees, German egyptologist, dies at 77
Feb 8 Tom Terriss, English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru), dies at 91
Feb 10 Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)

Feb 13 Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist, one of the main organizers of Nazi Germany's T-4 Euthanasia Program, dies at 61
Feb 15 Robert L. Thornton, American businessman and politician (b. 1880)
Feb 18 Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Quebec inventor and industrialist (b. 1907)
Feb 24 Alexander Archipenko, Ukr sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76
Feb 25 Alexander Archipenko, sculptor, dies
Feb 25 Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)
Feb 27 Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
Feb 28 Dirk Filarski, Dutch painter and lithographer (Bergen School), dies at 78se
Feb 29 Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/paleontologist, dies at 74
Mar 6 King Paul I, King of Greece (1947-64), dies at 62
Mar 7 Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analyst, dies at 73
Mar 9 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general and politician, dies at 93
Mar 13 Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; almost 40 witnesses but no rescuers
Mar 18 Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (discovered cybernetics), dies at 69

Brendan Behan

Mar 20 Brendan Behan, Irish author and poet (Borstal Boy, The Hostage), dies at 41

Mar 23 Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet choreographer (Gayaneh), dies at 66
Mar 26 Hedwig Kohn, Prussian-born Jewish physics pioneer, dies at 77
Mar 30 Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen [Nellie Walker], African-American Harlem Renaissance novelist (Quicksand, Passing), dies at 72
Apr 2 Josef Klaus, Chancellor of Austria (1966-70), dies at 90

Douglas MacArthur

Apr 5 Douglas MacArthur, US general (Pacific theater-WW II), dies at 84

Rachel Carson

Apr 14 Rachel Carson, American biologist/author (Silent Spring), dies at 56

Apr 14 Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (b. 1876)
Apr 18 Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
Apr 24 Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895)
Apr 26 Edwin John Pratt, Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81

Apr 26 Pieter van der Lijn, Dutch geologist (Boulder Book), dies at 93
Apr 27 Georg Britting, writer, dies at 73
Apr 28 Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888)
Apr 29 Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77
May 2 Nancy N Witcher Astor, US/Eng feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies
May 3 Diana Wynyard, dies at 58
May 10 Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)
May 15 Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist, dies at 61
May 15 Vladko Maček, Kingdom of Yugoslavia deputy prime minister (b. 1879)
May 17 Otto V. Kuusinen, Finnish politician (founder of the Finnish Communist Party), dies at 82
May 21 James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)

Jawaharlal Nehru

May 27 Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (1947-64) and important leader of the Indian independence movement, dies of an assumed heart attack at 74

May 30 Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66
Jun 3 Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
Jun 4 Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (b. 1887)
Jun 9 [William Maxwell] Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian British newspaper owner (Leatherhead), dies at 85
Jun 21 Andrew Goodman, US civil rights activist, murdered at 20
Jun 21 James Chaney, US civil rights activist, murdered at 21
Jun 21 Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist, murdered at 21
Jun 22 Havank, [HF van der Kallen], detective writer (Shade), dies at 60
Jun 25 Gerrit T Rietveld, Dutch architect (Sonsbeekpaviljoen), dies at 76
Jun 26 Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian hockey executive, dies at 74
Jul 11 Maurice Thorez, sec-general French communist party, dies at 64
Jul 20 Anna Vyrubova, Russian lady-in-waiting, the best friend and confidante of Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna, dies at 80
Jul 23 Jan de Vries, Dutch scholar of Germanic linguistics and Germanic mythology, dies at 74
Jul 24 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies
Aug 3 Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39
Aug 5 Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (My Mother Gets Married), dies at 73
Aug 13 Peter Anthony Allen is the last person executed (for murder) in England and United Kingdom at Walton Prison, Liverpool
Aug 21 Palmiro Togliatti, Italian politician and founder of the Communist Party of Italy, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 71

Sep 2 Francisco Craveiro Lopes, 12th President of Portugal (1951-58), dies at 70
Sep 2 Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist, dies at 64
Sep 2 Alvin York, American World War I soldier who led a famed attack on a German machine gun nest (Medal of Honor), dies at 76
Sep 3 Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893)
Sep 4 W Bergengruen, writer, dies at 71
Sep 16 Leo Weismantel, German writer (Das Totenliebespar), dies at 76
Sep 18 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (The Plough and the Stars), dies at 84
Sep 18 Clive Bell, English art critic, dies at 83
Sep 18 J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist, dies at 75
Sep 21 Jim Koethe, Dallas Times Herald reporter, killed by karate chop
Oct 6 Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), dies at 85
Oct 7 Eugen Varga, Hungarian-Russian economist and politician, dies at 84
Oct 8 Charles Hodge, NYU professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69
Oct 10 Konrad Bayer, writer, dies
Oct 12 J Howard Frazer, USTA pres, dies in office
Oct 19 Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (Henry Handel Richardson: A Study), dies at 79

Herbert Hoover

Oct 20 Herbert Hoover, 31st President of US (1929-33), dies in NY at 90

Oct 20 Miles WL Killearn of Killearn, baron/diplomat (Egypt), dies at 84
Oct 22 Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan and President of Pakistan Muslim League, dies at 70
Oct 26 Agnes Miegel, writer, dies
Oct 27 Willi Bredel, German writer, dies at 63
Oct 28 Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66
Oct 31 Theodore C Freeman, astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash
Nov 5 Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (b. 1893)
Nov 6 Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born Swedish biochemist who investigated the fermentation of sugar and enzymes (Nobel 1929), dies at 91
Nov 11 H[enry] Beam Piper, American sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60
Nov 24 John Fabricius, playwright, dies at 55
Nov 28 Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans), dies at 93
Nov 29 Anne de Vries, Dutch teacher/author (Bartje), dies at 60
Dec 1 J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892)
Dec 3 Ernst Ginsberg, writer, dies
Dec 6 Consuelo Vanderbilt (b. 1877)
Dec 9 Edith Sitwell, English poet and author (Wheels), dies at 77
Dec 17 Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
Dec 21 Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (b. 1880)
Dec 29 Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats), dies at 63
Dec 30 Andrés Soriano, Spanish Filipino industrialist (San Miguel Brewery, Philippine Airlines), dies of pancreatic cancer at 66
Dec 31 Ólafur Thors, Icelandic Prime Minister (5 times between 1942-63), dies at 72

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