- Jan 1 Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890)
- Jan 6 Edgar Maass, German/American author (Verdun), dies at 67
- Jan 8 Arnoldus JC Krafft, theologist (Atlas of Netherlands Antilles), dies at 71
- Jan 8 Julius Raab, Austrian Chancellor (1953-61), dies at 72
- Jan 9 Halide Edib Adevar/Salih, Turkish feminist (Handan), dies at about 80
- Jan 10 A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day & Night), dies at 46
- Jan 17 Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57
T. H. White
Jan 17 T. H. White, English author of the King Arthur novels, dies of heart failure at 57
T. H. White
- 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
Emilio Aguinaldo
- 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 HW Filarski, painter/lithographer (Bergen School), dies at 78
- Feb 29 Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/paleontologist, dies at 74
- Mar 6 King Paul I, 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 (cybernetics), dies at 69
Brendan Behan
Mar 20 Brendan Behan, Irish author and poet (Borstal Boy, The Hostage), dies at 41
Brendan Behan
Douglas MacArthur
Apr 5 Douglas MacArthur, US general (Pacific theater-WW II), dies at 84
Douglas MacArthur
Rachel Carson
Apr 14 Rachel Carson, American biologist/author (Silent Spring), dies at 56
Rachel Carson
- 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
Jawaharlal Nehru
- 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
- Sep 28 Nacio Herb Brown, dies
- 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
Herbert Hoover
- 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