Deaths Date 1951 | History by KabAstro

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867-1951)

Jan 28 Finnish general and 6th President of Finland (1944-46), dies at 83

Jan 29 James Bridie [Osborne Henry Mavor], Scottish dramatist, dies at 63

Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951)

Jan 30 German automotive engineer (Volkswagen Beetle; Mercedes-Benz SS) and founder of the Porsche car company, dies at 75

August Horch (1868-1951)

Feb 3 German engineer and automobile pioneer who founded Audi, dies at 82

Feb 9 Eddy Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (Eddy Duchin Orchestra), dies of acute myelogenous leukemia at 41
Feb 10 Joseph Bovet, Swiss composer and conductor (Fribourg folk music), dies at 71
Feb 12 Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (one of the earliest proponents of the creation of the state of Pakistan and recognized as the creator of the name “Pakistan” for a separate Muslim, homeland in South Asia and is known as the founder of the Pakistan National Movement), dies at 53
Feb 13 Lloyd C. Douglas, American novelist (The Big Fisherman), dies at 73
Feb 16 Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State), dies at 65
Feb 16 Hisatada Otaka, Japanese conductor (Japan Symphony Orchestra, 1942-51), and composer, dies at 39
Feb 17 Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan, Armenian composer, dies at 94
Feb 18 Pieter Hopmans, Dutch Bishop of Breda (Eucharistic Crusade), dies at 85

André Gide (1869-1951)

Feb 19 French writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947), dies of pneumonia at 81

Feb 20 Howard Brockway, American composer, dies at 80
Feb 21 Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Potasch & Perlemoer, Boefje), dies at 63
Feb 25 "Smokey" Joe Williams, American Baseball HOF pitcher (NgL, Mexico, Caribbean 1905-32; no-hitter 1919 NY Lincoln Giants), dies at 64
Feb 27 Henry Louis Smith, American physicist who made the first X-ray photograph, dies at 91
Feb 28 Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Russian playwright and journalist, dies at 50
Mar 6 Ivor Novello [David Ivor Davies], Welsh composer, writer and actor (Keep the Home Fires Burning, The Truth Game), dies at 58
Mar 6 Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman, dies at 70
Mar 7 Haj Ali Razmara, 33rd Prime Minister of Iran (1950-51), assassinated at 49
Mar 8 Honeymoon Killers, dies in electric chair
Mar 8 John Winter Thompson, composer, dies at 83
Mar 10 Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician and diplomat, Prime minister of Japan (1945-46), dies at 78
Mar 11 Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66
Mar 13 Alfred Hugenberg, German right-wing politician, businessman, and media magnate, dies at 85
Mar 13 James I Wedgwood, British theosophist and bishop (Liberal Catholic Church), dies at 67
Mar 15 John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)
Mar 20 Kathleen Lockhart Manning, American composer, dies at 60
Mar 22 Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1895-1945; New York Philharmonic, 1922-30), dies at 79

Eddie Collins (1887-1951)

Mar 25 American Baseball Hall of Fame infielder (World Series 1910, 11, 13, 17, 29, 30; AL MVP 1914; 4 x AL stolen base leader; Philadelphia A's, Chicago White Sox), dies of heart problems at 63

Mar 25 Sidney “Big Sid” Catlett, American jazz drummer (Louis Armstrong), dies of a heart attack at 41
Mar 26 James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico, dies at 86
Mar 29 Jerome Travers, American golfer (US Open 1915), dies at 63
Mar 31 Ralph Forbes [Taylor], British screen and stage actor (Romeo and Juliet; Piccadilly Jim; Daniel Boone), dies at 46
Apr 1 Clement D'Hooghe, Belgian composer, dies at 51
Apr 2 Simon Barere, Russian pianist, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 54 while performing Grieg's Piano Concerto at Carnegie Hall
Apr 3 Johannes Kielstra, Dutch economist, governor of Suriname (1933-44), and diplomat, dies at 72
Apr 4 Al Christie, Canadian film director and producer, dies at 69
Apr 4 George Albert Smith, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies at 81
Apr 5 Edward Rigby, British actor (Star Look Down, Young & Innocent), dies at 72
Apr 6 Halfdan Cleve, Norwegian composer, dies at 71
Apr 9 Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies at 48
Apr 9 Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology, dies at 89
Apr 12 Harold Vincent Milligan, American musician and composer, dies at 62
Apr 18 António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal & 11th President of Portugal, dies at 81
Apr 20 Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
Apr 22 Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist, dies at 81
Apr 22 Stanley Ridges, British-born actor (possessed, Sgt York, Mr Ace), dies at 59
Apr 23 Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States, banker and 1925 Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 85
Apr 25 Jerzy Fitelberg, Polish composer, dies at 47
Apr 26 Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist, dies at 82
Apr 26 John Alden Carpenter, American composer (Sea Drift), dies at 75
Apr 27 Philip Hands, South African cricket batsman (7 Tests, 2 x 50, HS 83; Western Province), dies at 61
Apr 29 Jules Verstraete [Julien Gustave de Graef], Flemish actor (rubber, The Three Wishes), dies at 67

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Apr 29 Austria English philosopher (Philosophical Investigations), dies at 62

May 5 Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54

Leo Diegel (1899-1951)

May 5 American golfer (PGA C'ship 1928-29), dies of throat and lung cancer at 52

May 6 Élie Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1869)
May 6 Henri Carton de Wiart, Belgian count and politician (Prime Minister of Belgium 1920-21), dies at 82

Warner Baxter (1889-1951)

May 7 American actor (In Old Arizona; Cisco Kid), dies at 62

May 9 Marie Ault [Mary Cragg], English actress (The Lodger), dies at 80
May 12 Oscar DePriest, American politician (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 80
May 13 Marianne Philips, Dutch author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65
May 17 Karl Heinrich David, composer, dies at 66
May 20 Jan Ingenhoven, Dutch composer and conductor, dies at 74
May 25 Paula von Preradović, Croatian-Austrian poet and writer, dies at 63
May 26 Lincoln Ellsworth, Arctic explorer, dies at 71
May 27 Thomas Blamey, Australian general (WWI, WWII), dies at 67
May 29 Dimitrios Levidis, Greek composer, dies at 66

Fanny Brice (1891-1951)

May 29 American singing comedian (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 59

May 29 Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Czech organist and composer, dies at 91
May 29 Robert Kahn, German composer, dies at 85
May 30 Hermann Broch, Austrian novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment), dies at 64
Jun 1 Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer and historian, dies at 85
Jun 2 Alain [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher and writer, dies at 83
Jun 2 John Erskine, American poet and writer (Private Life of Helen of Troy), dies at 71
Jun 4 Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American conductor (Boston Symphony, 1924-49), dies at 76
Jun 6 Lionel Hallam, English cricket batsman and captain (9 Tests, 4 x 50; Hampshire CCC) and politician (Member House of Lords, Lord Temporal 1928–51), dies at 61
Jun 6 Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
Jun 7 Nazi war criminals Paul Blobel, Werner Braune, Erich Naumann, Otto Ohlendorf, Oswald Pohl, George Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt, hanged at Landsberg Prison in Germany
Jun 7 Oswald Pohl, German head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps, executed by hanging for his war crimes at 58
Jun 8 Eugène Fiset, French Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
Jun 11 Gamzat Tsadasa, Avar-Russian poet, dies at 63
Jun 13 Ben Chifley, Australian politician and the 16th Prime Minister of Australia (Labor: 1945-49), dies of a heart attack at 65
Jun 14 Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73
Jun 17 Carl Vogler, Swiss composer, dies at 77
Jun 17 Vin Coutie, Australian rules footballer, dies at 69
Jun 19 Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
Jun 21 Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer, dies at 83
Jun 23 Armin Knab, German composer (Wunderhorn), dies at 70
Jul 2 Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German Nazi surgeon, dies at 75
Jul 6 Josef Hüttel, Czech composer, dies at 57
Jul 9 Egbert Van Alstyne, American popular music songwriter and ragtime pianist ("In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"; "For Your Boy and My Boy"), dies after a stroke at 73 [1]
Jul 9 Harry Heilmann, American Baseball HOF outfielder (4 × AL batting champion, Detroit Tigers) and broadcaster (WXYZ), dies from lung cancer at 56
Jul 9 Jorgen Bentzon, Danish composer, dies at 54

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Jul 13 Austrian-American composer (Verklärte Nacht - Transfigured Night; 2nd Quartet), and painter associated with the expressionist movement, dies at 76

Jul 14 Sammy Jones, Australian cricket batsman (12 Tests; NSW, Queensland, Auckland), dies at 89
Jul 15 Mary White Ovington, American journalist, suffragist, and co-founder of the NAACP, dies at 86
Jul 18 Herbert Jones, British thoroughbred jockey (British Triple Crown [Diamond Jubilee] 1900; 8 x British Classic Race wins), dies by suicide at 70
Jul 19 Max Ettinger, Jewish-German composer (Jiddische Requiem), dies at 77
Jul 20 Abdullah Ibn Hussein, Jordan's King (1946-51), killed in Jerusalem
Jul 20 Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death
Jul 20 Wilhelm, the last Crown Prince of the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, dies at 69

Philippe Pétain (1856-1951)

Jul 23 French marshal and Chief of the French State (1940-44), dies at 95

Jul 23 Robert Flaherty, American filmmaker and the father of documentary film (Nanook of North), dies at 67
Jul 31 J. Van Oudshoorn [Jan Koos Feylbrief], Dutch writer (Maze of Sentences), dies at 74
Aug 3 Neville Tufnell, English cricket wicket-keeper (Test for England 1910), dies at 64
Aug 11 Ebbe Hamerik, Danish opera composer (Stepan; Marie Grubbe), drowns in a sailing accident at 52

William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)

Aug 14 American newspaper publisher (San Francisco Examiner, Seattle P-I), dies at 88

Aug 15 Artur Schnabel, Austrian pianist (Reflections on Music), dies at 69
Aug 16 Du Yuesheng, Chinese mob boss, dies at 62
Aug 16 Louis Jouvet, French actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise), dies from a heart attack at 63
Aug 21 (Leonard) Constant Lambert, British composer (The Rio Grande; Horoscope; Summer's Last Will and Testament), and music director (Vic-Wells/Royal Ballet, 1931-47), dies of pneumonia and complications of diabetes and alcoholism at 45
Aug 22 J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (Toronto Maple Leafs), dies at 66
Aug 28 Robert Walker, American actor and writer (Strangers on a Train, Bataan, Madame Curie), dies from an adverse reaction to prescription drugs at 32
Sep 1 Wols [Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze], German cartoonist and painter, dies at 38
Sep 3 Robert Hernried, Austrian born American composer and conductor, dies at 67
Sep 6 James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat, dies at 84
Sep 6 Joe Falcaro, American bowler (National Match Game champion 1929-33), dies at 55
Sep 7 John French Sloan, American painter and etcher, dies at 80
Sep 7 María Montez [Vidal], Dominican actress known as The Queen of Technicolor (Cobra Woman, Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 39
Sep 8 Jürgen Stroop, SS General during World War II and commander of Nazi forces during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, executed by hanging for crimes against humanity at 56
Sep 9 Cecil Gray, Scottish composer and music critic, dies at 56
Sep 9 Gibson Gowland, British actor (Greed, Blind Husbands, The Phantom of the Opera), dies at 74
Sep 10 Giuseppe Mulè, Italian composer, dies at 66
Sep 14 Fritz Busch, German conductor, dies at 61
Sep 15 Jacinto Guerrero, Spanish musician and composer, dies at 56
Sep 16 Bill Klem, American Baseball HOF umpire (record 18 x World Series), dies at of a heart attack at 77
Sep 17 Gelett Burgess, American humorist and author (The Purple Cow), dies at 85
Sep 17 Jimmy Yancey, American boogie-woogie jazz and blues pianist, dies somewhere between age 50 and 57 - (birth year documentation uncertain)
Sep 24 Georges Rency, Belgian poet and literature, dies at 75
Sep 26 Hans Cloos, German geologist and pioneer in the study of granite tectonics (the deformation of crystalline rocks), dies at 65
Sep 29 Bradley Barker, American silent actor and film director, dies at 68
Sep 29 Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach and administrator (first coach US men's national team), dies at 86
Oct 4 Henrietta Lacks [Loretta Pleasant], African-American tobacco farmer whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, extensively used in medical research since the 1950s (1st immortalised cell line), dies of cervical cancer at 31
Oct 4 Willie Moretti, American gangster (b. 1894)
Oct 6 Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated
Oct 6 Otto Meyerhof, German psychologist and biochemist (Nobel 1922), dies at 67

Will Keith Kellogg (1860-1951)

Oct 6 American cereal manufacturer (Kellogg's cereal brand), dies at 91

Oct 7 Anton Philips, Co-Founder of Royal Philips Electronics N.V., dies at 77
Oct 12 Leon Errol, Australian actor (Ziegfeld Follies, What a Blonde!), dies at 70
Oct 12 Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congolese religious leader and founder of Kimbanguism, dies in captivity at 62
Oct 13 Willie Quaife, English cricket batsman (7 Tests, 1 x 50; Sussex CCC, Warwickshire CCC), dies at 79
Oct 16 Liaquat Ali Khan, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (1947-51), assassinated by Said Akbar at 56
Oct 23 Charlie Creath, American jazz trumpeter, saxophonist, accordionist, and bandleader, dies at 60
Oct 25 Amélie of Orléans, Queen of Portugal, wife of Carlos I, dies at 86
Oct 29 Jean De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, assassinated by a Viet-Minh agent (b. 1907)
Oct 29 Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86
Nov 5 Agrippina J Vaganova, Russian ballet dancer and pedagogue (Fundamentals of the Classical Dance), dies at 72
Nov 5 Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann, Czech organist and composer, dies at 67
Nov 5 Reggie Walker, South African athlete (Olympic gold 100m 1908), dies at 62
Nov 9 Resurrección Maria de Azkue, Spanish Basque priest, poet, and composer, drowns at87
Nov 9 Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American operetta composer (Blossom Time), dies at 64
Nov 13 Hugo Leichtentritt, German Jewish composer and musicologist, dies at 77
Nov 13 Nikolai Karlovich Metner, composer, dies at 71
Nov 13 Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer (Skazi), dies at 71
Nov 18 Johan van Maarseveen, Dutch Minister of Justice and Internal minister, dies at 57
Nov 18 Václav Kálik, Czech composer, dies at 60
Nov 18 Will Vodery, African-American theater and film arranger, orchestrator (Showboat; Ziegfeld's Follies; Blackbirds), and composer (From Dixie to Broadway), dies at 66
Nov 19 Pete Hill, American Baseball HOF outfielder (NgL lifetime batting average: .326) and manager (Detroit Stars, Baltimore Black Sox), dies at 69
Nov 20 Thomas Quinlan, English opera impresario, dies at 70
Nov 25 Raden Mas Noto Soeroto, Javanese poet (Wayang Songs), dies at 63
Dec 1 Felix Petyrek, Austrian composer, dies at 59
Dec 2 Manuel Ugarte, Argentine diplomat, politician, newspaper owner, and author, dies at 79
Dec 4 Pedro Salinas, Spanish writer (Generation of 1927), dies at 61
Dec 5 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball outfielder, 1908-20 (Chicago White Sox, and two other teams; 1919 World Series "Black Sox" Scandal), dies from a heart attack at 64
Dec 5 Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (b. 1871)
Dec 6 Harold Ross, American magazine editor and co-founded The New Yorker, dies at 59
Dec 6 J Edward Bromberg, Hungarian actor (The Mark of Zorro, Under 2 Flags), dies from a heart attack at 47
Dec 8 Bobby Lowe, American baseball second baseman (first player to hit 4 HRs in one MLB game, 1894 Boston Beaneaters), dies at 86
Dec 10 Algernon Blackwood, English novelist (The Willows), dies at 82

Mildred Bailey (1907-1951)

Dec 12 American jazz singer known as "The Queen of Swing" ("Rockin' Chair"; "Please Be Kind"; "Darn That Dream"), dies of heart failure at 44

Dec 13 Selim Palmgren, Finnish concert pianist, composer (Hakkapeliittojen marssi), conductor, and pedagogue, dies at 73
Dec 14 Coretté Alefred [Hardy], American-Russian-Soviet jazz, spiritual and pop lyrical and dramatic soprano, dancer, and actress, dies at 70
Dec 15 Eric Drummond, British 1st Secretary-General of the League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75
Dec 15 María Grever, Mexican-American composer ("What A Difference A Day Makes" / "Cuando vuelva a tu lado"), dies at 66
Dec 16 Dorothy Dix [Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer], American journalist and columnist, dies at 81
Dec 19 Barton Yarborough, American radio and screen actor (One Man's Family; Dragnet), dies of a heart attack at 51
Dec 22 Powell Weaver, American composer, dies at 61
Dec 23 Alfrēds Kalniņš, Latvian organist, composer (Baņuta), conductor, and pedagogue, dies at 72
Dec 23 Benito Lynch, Irish-Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at 66
Dec 25 Harry T Moore, American educator, civil rights activist and Florida NAACP official, assassinated by a bombing of his home at 46
Dec 31 H. Guy Bedwell, American thoroughbred trainer (North American champion in wins x 7; earnings 1918-19; first Triple Crown winner, Sir Barton), dies at 76
Dec 31 Maxim Litvinov [Meir Genoch Moiseyevich Wallach] Russian statesman, revolutionary and diplomat (People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.1930-39, Soviet Ambassador to the US 1940-43), dies at 75
Dec 31 Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher and physicist, dies at 76