Deaths Date 1933 | History by KabAstro

Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

Jan 5 30th US President (Republican: 1923-29), dies of coronary thrombosis at 60

Jan 6 Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist, dies at 84
Jan 7 Herbert "Bert" Hinkler, Australian aviator who made first solo flight from England to Australia (1928), dies in a plane crash at 40
Jan 9 Daphne Akhurst Cozens, Australian tennis player (Australasian C'ship singles 1925, 26, 28, 29, 30), dies of ectopic pregnancy at 29
Jan 12 Václav Suk, Czech-born Russian composer and violinist, dies at 71
Jan 17 John Hodges, Australian cricket fast bowler (2 Tests [first 2 played], 6 wickets; Victoria), dies at 77
Jan 17 Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer known for his glasswork (Tiffany & Co), dies at 84
Jan 21 George Moore, Irish novelist and painter (Esther Waters), dies at 80
Jan 25 William Faulkes, British organist, transcriber and composer, dies at 59
Jan 26 Alva Belmont, American socialite and women's suffrage activist (co-founder and President of the National Woman's Party), dies at 80
Jan 29 Sara Teasdale, American lyric poet (Pulitzer Prize 1918 "Love Songs"), commits suicide at 48
Jan 31 John Galsworthy, English author (Forsyte Saga, 1932 Nobel Prize for Literature), dies at 65
Feb 4 Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846)
Feb 7 Albert Apponyi, Hungarian politician (Minister of Religion and Education of Hungary), dies at 86
Feb 12 Henri Duparc, French composer, dies at 85
Feb 16 Archie Jackson, Australian cricket batsman (8 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 164; NSWCA), dies from tuberculosis at 23
Feb 17 Henri Viotta, Dutch conductor and composer (Handbook of Music), dies at 84

James J. Corbett (1866-1933)

Feb 18 American boxer (world heavyweight champion 1892-97), dies of liver cancer at 66

Feb 19 Arnold Mendelssohn, German composer, dies at 77
Feb 21 Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician who identified the plague in Bombay, dies at 76
Feb 24 Spottiswoode Aitken, Scottish actor (The Birth of a Nation, The Avenging Conscience), dies at 65
Feb 26 Antoni Nicolau, Spanish composer and conductor, dies at 74
Feb 26 Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1853)
Mar 1 Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet, dies at 32

Thomas J. Walsh (1859-1933)

Mar 2 United States Senator (Montana), dies of a heart attack at 73

Mar 4 Willie Walker, American jazz singer and guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36
Mar 6 Anton Cermak, American politician (44th Mayor of Chicago, 1931-33), dies 23 days after being shot in by an assassin targeting Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami, Florida at 59
Mar 14 Balto, Siberian husky dog who led the sled team delivering diphtheria antitoxin from to Nenana, Alaska to Nome, Alaska in 1925, dies at 14
Mar 16 Alfred Haar, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
Mar 17 Ferdinand Von Alten, German-Russian actor (Champagne), dies at 48
Mar 18 Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italian navy officer, explorer and mountaineer (Ruwenzori Range, Uganda; Mount Saint Alias, Yukon), dies at 60
Mar 20 Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara, electrocuted for assassination attempt on FDR
Mar 25 Eric Jan Hanussen [Hermann Steinschneider], Austrian astrologist, clairvoyant, illusionist, and speaking tutor to Hitler, murdered at 43
Mar 26 Eddie Lang [Salvatore Massaro], American jazz guitarist known as the "father of jazz guitar", dies of tonsil surgery complications at 30
Mar 27 Lionel Palairet, British cricket batsman (2 Tests; Somerset CCC, Oxford Uni CC), dies at 62
Mar 29 Alexander Schmuller, Russian-Dutch violinist and conductor, dies at 52
Apr 1 Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, 22nd Governor of New South Wales (1908-13) and Viceroy of British India (1916-21), dies at 64
Apr 2 Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Indian cricket batsman (15 Tests, 989 runs @ 44.95, 2 x 100s) and politician (Maharaja of Nawanagar), dies at 60
Apr 5 Earl Derr Biggers, American author ("Charlie Chan" detective series), dies of a heart attack at 48
Apr 6 Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American author, public speaker and wife of George Armstrong Custer, dies at 90
Apr 9 Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German composer, dies at 55

Henry Royce (1863-1933)

Apr 22 English industrialist and automobile founder (Rolls-Royce), dies at 70

Apr 23 Blair Fairchild, American composer and diplomat, dies at 55

Tim Keefe (1857-1933)

Apr 23 American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Triple Crown 1888; MLB record 0.86 ERA, single season 1880; NY Giants), dies at 76

Apr 24 Felix Adler, German-American educator of political and social ethics, dies at 81
Apr 28 Robin Irvine, British actor (Easy Virtue, When Boys Leave Home), dies of pleurisy at 31
Apr 29 Constantine P. Cavafy, Egyptian Greek poet, journalist and civil servant, dies at 70
Apr 30 Luis Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza
May 9 John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (Olympic gold 1,000m, 4,000m, water polo 1900), dies at 61
May 13 Paul Ernst, German writer, dies at 67
May 15 Ernest Torrence, Scottish actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies from complications following surgery for gall stones at 54
May 21 John Henry Mackay, Scottish German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69
May 25 James E. Kelly, American sculptor "Sculptor of American History", dies at 77
May 26 Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)

Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933)

May 26 American country singer and singing brakeman, dies of a pulmonary hemorrhage at 35

May 27 Jean de Merode, Belgian lieutenant colonel, Grand Marshal of the Court of Belgium, and Prince de Merode, dies at 65
Jun 2 Frank Jarvis, American athlete (Olympic gold 100m 1900), dies at 54
Jun 3 William Muldoon, American wrestler and owner of NY health institute "The Olympia", dies at 88
Jun 14 Albert Ross Parsons, American composer, dies at 85
Jun 20 Clara Zetkin, German feminist, Socialist, and Communist leader, dies at 75
Jun 22 Henry Birkin, British auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans class 8.0 1929; class 3.0 1931), dies from malaria at 36
Jun 24 Sissieretta Joyner Jones, American singer ("Black Patti"), dies at about 64
Jun 29 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (The Bell Boy, Moonshine, Keystone comedies), dies from a heart attack at 46

Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852-1933)

Jul 3 President of Argentina (1916-22, 1928-30), dies at 80

Jul 6 Robert Kajanus, Finnish conductor and composer, dies at 76
Jul 7 John M. Acket, Dutch literary (New Friends), dies at 70

Anthony Hope (1863-1933)

Jul 8 British novelist and playwright (The Prisoner of Zenda), dies of cancer at 70

Jul 12 Willem H. Drucker, Dutch lawyer, dies at 45
Jul 15 Freddie Keppard, American jazz cornetist (Original Creole Orchestra), dies of tuberculosis at 44
Jul 15 Irving Babbitt, American writer (Democracy & Leadership), dies at 67
Jul 16 John Reeves Ellerman, British accountant, businessman, and shipping magnate, dies at 71
Jul 23 Max Schillings, German composer and conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65
Jul 24 Max von Schillings, German composer and conductor (Der Pfeifertag), dies at 65
Jul 26 Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (I'll Overcome Someday), and Methodist minister, dies at 82
Jul 27 James E. Talmage, English religious leader (LDS Church apostle), dies at 70
Jul 29 Gerhard Schjelderup, Norwegian opera composer and musicologist, dies at 73
Aug 2 Arthur Collins, American baritone vocalist, known as 'King of the Ragtime Singers' (Peerless Quartet), and comedian, dies at 69
Aug 13 Paul Hillemacher, French classical pianist, and composer, dies at 80
Aug 23 Adolf Loos, Austrian post-modern architect (building of houses) and critic (Ornaments and Crime), dies of a stroke at 62 [1]
Aug 28 Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
Aug 29 Frank Cavanagh, American football player and coach, dies at 57
Aug 29 Frank Cavanaugh, American College Football HOF coach (Uni of Cincinnati, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Boston College, Fordham), dies at 57
Aug 29 Georgy Eduardovich Konyus, Russian composer, and music theorist, dies at 70

Edward Grey (1862-1933)

Sep 7 British Liberal statesman and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1905-16), dies at 71

Sep 8 Faysal I, Arab statesman, King of Iraq (1921-33) and Syria (1920), dies of a heart attack at 48
Sep 16 George Gore, American baseball player, dies at 79
Sep 17 Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul, dies at 55
Sep 20 Annie Besant, English social reformer and supporter of Indian independence, dies at 85
Sep 21 Eduard van Oort, Dutch ornithologist (Ornithology of Netherlands), dies at 56
Sep 24 Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)
Sep 24 Mike Donlin, American baseball player (NY Giants), dies at 55
Sep 25 Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian-Dutch theoretical physicist (phase transition, Ehrenfest theorem), dies at 53
Sep 25 Ring Lardner, American sports writer (Chicago Examiner, Chicago Tribune; "Pullman Pastimes"-The Sporting News; "You Know Me"; the Boston American), dies from a heart attack at 48
Sep 29 Margaret Talmadge, American actress, dies at 72
Oct 3 Young Stribling, American boxer (vs Max Schmeling, Ring Magazine fight of the year 1931), dies in a motorcycle accident at 28
Oct 5 Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich, Russian WWI general, dies at 71
Oct 5 Nikolaj N Joedenitsj, Russian general/contra revolutionary, dies at 71
Oct 5 Renee Adoree, actress (Big Parade), dies at 35
Oct 5 William Veeck, Sr, American sportswriter and baseball executive (Chicago Cubs president, 1919-33), dies at 57 [1]
Oct 6 Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer, dies at 62
Oct 11 Josef Hofmiller, writer, dies
Oct 25 Lillian Hall-Davies actress (Farmer's Wife, Ring), dies at 36
Oct 27 Julius Klengel, German cellist and composer, dies at 74
Oct 27 Meir Shapira, rabbi/organizer (Daf Yomi), dies
Oct 29 Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin), dies at 70
Oct 29 Paul Painlevé, French Prime Minister (1917, 1925), dies at 69
Oct 30 Guillermo M. Tomás, Cuban composer, dies at 65

Émile Roux (1853-1933)

Nov 3 French physician, bacteriologist, immunologist who developed the 1st diphtheria vaccine and co-founded the Pasteur Institute, dies at 79

Nov 4 John Jay Chapman, American poet, and writer (Learning & Other Essays), dies at 71
Nov 5 (Mary Louise) "Texas" Guinan, American vaudeville singer, silent film actress, and speakeasy (saloon) proprietor, dies of amoebic dysentery at 49
Nov 8 Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (1929-33), assassinated at 50 by Abdul Khaliq during a graduation ceremony at a high school in Kabul
Nov 12 James T. Kelley, Irish silent film actor (Charlie films - The Rink; The Immigrant; A Dog's Life), dies at 79
Nov 15 Affie Jarvis, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (11 Tests, 18 dismissals; South Australia), dies at 73
Nov 19 Enrique José Varona, Cuban author, dies at 84
Nov 26 Edward Julius Biedermann, American organist and composer, dies at 84

Arthur Currie (1875-1933)

Nov 30 Canadian army officer (1st Canadian commander of Canadian Corps, WWI), dies from pneumonia complications at 57

Dec 2 Josef Gruber, Austrian organist and composer, dies at 78
Dec 3 Richard Henry Warren, American organist and composer, dies at 74
Dec 4 Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65
Dec 8 Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Japanese admiral and politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1913-1914, 1923-1924), dies at 81
Dec 9 Morice Bird, cricketer (scored 280 runs in 10 Tests for England), dies
Dec 11 Emile Wauters, Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster), dies at 87
Dec 12 Theodore Moses Tobani, German composer, dies at 78
Dec 17 Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81
Dec 17 Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama, dies at 57
Dec 19 George Jackson Churchward, British engineer who was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway (1902-22), struck and killed by a Paddington to Fishguard express train at 76
Dec 21 Knud J. V. Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54
Dec 21 Tod Sloan, American thoroughbred jockey (1,000 Guineas 1899 [Sibola], Ascot Gold Cup 1900 [Merman]; created monkey crouch riding style), dies from cirrhosis at 59
Dec 25 Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman (b. 1859)
Dec 26 Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary, author and literary critic, dies at 58
Dec 29 Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered