Deaths Date 1971 | History by KabAstro

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Jan 13 Robert Still, English composer, dies at 60
Jan 14 Ethel Glenn Hier, American composer, dies at 82
Jan 15 John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of a heart attack at 50
Jan 16 Kermit Maynard, American cowboy actor (Valley of Terror, Saturday Roundup), dies at 73
Jan 16 Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (three times winner of Tour de France), dies at 81
Jan 18 Catherine Calvert, American actress (Fires of Faith), dies of stroke at 80
Jan 19 Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
Jan 20 Antonio Bacci, Italian cardinal, dies at 85
Jan 20 Broncho Billy Anderson [Maxwell Aronson], American silent and sound screen actor, the 1st cowboy in a movie (The Great Train Robbery; A Lucky Dog), and studio executive, dies at 90 [1]
Jan 21 Richard B Russell, (Sen-D-Ga), dies at 73
Jan 23 Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1871)
Jan 24 Bill W. [William Wilson], American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)

Jacobo Árbenz (1913-1971)

Jan 27 President of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA, dies at 57

Jan 28 Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
Jan 31 Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian and linguist, dies at 79
Feb 1 Jim Christy, South African cricket batsman (10 Tests; top score 103 1932; Transvaal, Queensland), dies at 66
Feb 3 Jay C. Flippen, American actor (Jet Pilot, The Killing, Thunder Bay), dies at 71
Feb 5 Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian party leader and Prime Minister (1952-53), dies at 78
Feb 7 Morgan Lee "Dock" Boggs, American folk and blues singer and banjo player, dies on his 73rd birthday
Feb 11 Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria
Feb 12 George Shelton, American actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86

James Cash Penney (1875-1971)

Feb 12 American department store founder (J C Penney), dies at 95

Feb 15 Marian Koval, Soviet Russian composer, dies at 63
Feb 17 Teddy Hart, American actor (After the Thin Man, 3 Men on a Horse), dies at 73
Feb 20 Alexander Tsfasman, Soviet Russian jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, dies at 64
Feb 21 Adolph Weiss, American bassoonist and composer, dies at 79
Feb 21 Robert Manry, American copy editor of the Cleveland newspaper editor who sailed the Atlantic (Tinkerbelle), dies of a heart attack at 52
Feb 22 Barry Macollum, actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 81
Feb 22 Matt McHugh, American actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast, Innocent Affair), dies at 77
Feb 22 Rudolf Mauersberger, German choral conductor and composer (Dresdner Requiem), dies at 82
Feb 23 King Lockwood, dies of stroke at 73
Feb 25 Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel 1926), dies at 86
Feb 26 Edward van der Merwe, South African cricket wicket-keeper (2 Tests in 30's), dies at 67
Feb 26 Fernandel [Fernand Contandin], French actor (The Little World of Don Camillo), dies of lung cancer at 67
Feb 26 Josef Berg, Czech composer, and librettist dies at 43
Feb 26 Tullio Carminati, Austrian actor (War and Peace; Roman Holiday), dies at 76
Mar 2 Charles W Engelhard, US silver multi-millionaire, dies at 54
Mar 5 Winnie Lightner [Winifred Reeves], American vaudeville stage and screen actress, and singer (Gold Diggers of Broadway; Gold Dust Gertie; Sit Tight), dies at 71
Mar 6 Raymond Herreman, Belgian poet, journalist and writer (Jericho's Rose), dies at 74
Mar 6 Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor, dies at 49
Mar 7 Harold McNair, British-Jamaican calypso and jazz saxophonist and flautist, dies of lung cancer at 39
Mar 7 Stevie Smith [Florence Margaret Smith], English poet and novelist ("A Good Time Was Had By All"; "Not Waving but Drowning") whose life was turned into the play and film "Stevie", dies of a brain tumour at 68
Mar 8 Harold Lloyd, American silent and sound film actor, comedian, and director (Why Worry?; The Freshman; Safety Last!; The Sin of Harold Diddlebock), dies of cancer at 77
Mar 9 Jean-Pierre Guézec, French composer (Colorful Architectures), dies of a heart attack at 36
Mar 10 Mabel Wheeler Daniels, American composer (Deep Forest, The Desolate City), dies at 92
Mar 11 Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (created electronic television, video camera tube), dies of pneumonia at 64
Mar 11 Whitney Young Jr, American leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49
Mar 12 David Burns, American actor (The Music Man; Hello Dolly!), dies of a heart attack at 68
Mar 12 Roy Glenn, American radio and screen character actor (Rocky Jordan; The Jack Benny Show; Amos 'n' Andy; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies of a heart attack at 56
Mar 13 Piero Coppola, Italian conductor, artistic director (La Voix de son Maître (The Gramophone Company - France), 1923-34). pianist, and composer, dies at 82
Mar 13 Rockwell Kent, American artist, painter and illustrator (Canterbury Tales), dies at 88
Mar 15 Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
Mar 16 (Phyllis) "Bebe" Daniels, American silent film, radio, and screen actress (Silver Dollar; My Past), dies at 70
Mar 16 Chuck Fleetwood-Smith, Australian cricket wrist-spin bowler (10 Tests), dies from cancer at 62

Thomas E. Dewey (1902-1971)

Mar 16 Governor of NY and Republican presidential candidate (1944, 1948), dies of a heart attack at 68

Mar 17 Ernst Bachmeister, German writer, dies at 96
Mar 18 George Wood, England cricket wicket-keeper (3 Tests, 6 dismissals; Cambridge University CC, Kent CCC), dies at 77
Mar 19 Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82
Mar 19 Mary Dorna [Mary Jeanette Tenkink-Stoppelman], Dutch author, dies at 79
Mar 21 Nan Wynn [Masha Vatz], American radio and big-band singer (Rudy Vallée; Teddy Wilson), actress (Pardon My Sarong), and singing voice for Rita Hayworth, dies of cancer at 55 [1]
Mar 22 Martin Bodmer, Swiss Bibliophile and scholar (Bodmer Papyri), dies at 71
Mar 23 Armin Loos, German-born American composer, dies at 67
Mar 23 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer and poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72
Mar 28 Felix Wolfes, German-American conductor, educator (New England Conservatory, 1948-68), and composer, dies at 78
Mar 29 Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician, tortured to death at 84
Mar 30 Selmer Jackson, American actor (The Grapes of Wrath, Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 82
Mar 31 Alfred Desenclos, French composer, mostly of liturgical works (Messe de Requiem), and teacher, dies at 59
Mar 31 Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer, Dutch actress (Child Crying), dies at 31
Apr 1 Baby Face Willette [Roosevelt Willet], American hard bop and soul-jazz Hammond organ player, dies of bronchial pneumonia at 37
Apr 1 Kathleen Lonsdale, Irish-born British pacifist and crystallographer (one of 1st two women elected to Royal Society), dies of cancer at 68
Apr 2 Willy Lages, German chief of Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam (deported 70,000 Dutch Jews to death camps), dies at 70
Apr 3 Joseph Valachi, American gangster, dies at 66
Apr 3 Manfred Bonnington Lee [Ellery Queen], American detective writer, dies at 65
Apr 5 Earl "Jock" Caruthers American jazz saxophonist (Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra, 1932-47), dies at 60

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Apr 6 Russian composer (Le Sacre du Printemps - The Rite of Spring; The Firebird), dies of pneumonia at 88

Apr 7 Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, (Olympic gold 1928, 32), dies at 74
Apr 7 Charles Pahud de Mortanges, Dutch equestrian (Olympic gold individual 3 day event 1928, 32; team 3 day event 1924, 28), dies at 74
Apr 9 Will Harridge, American Baseball HOF executive (President American League 1931-59), dies at 87
Apr 12 Ed Lafitte, American baseball pitcher (no-hitter 1914 Brooklyn Tip-Tops), dies at 85
Apr 12 Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (Dizzy Gillespie; Miles Davis), dies of epileptic seizure at 39
Apr 13 Juhan Smuul, Estonian author, dies at 49
Apr 13 Michel Brière, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, 1969-70 (Pittsburgh Penquins), dies from injuries sustained in a car crash, after 11 months in a coma, at 21
Apr 14 Armand Spitz, developer of small educational planetarium, dies
Apr 15 Dan Reeves, American NFL team owner (Cleveland, LA Rams), dies at 58
Apr 17 Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician, dies at 67
Apr 17 Roberto Lupi, Italian composer, dies at 62
Apr 18 Masao Ohki, Japanese composer (Idea of the Night; Hiroshima Symphony), dies of cancer at 69
Apr 19 Russ Hodges, American sportscaster (NY Mets, SF Giants; Wednesday Night Fights), dies at 60
Apr 20 Cecil Parker, British actor (The Lady Vanishes, Indiscreet, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73
Apr 21 Edmund Lowe, American actor (Black Sheep, Good Sam, Dillinger, Hot Pepper), dies at 81

François Duvalier (1907-1971)

Apr 21 Dictator and President of Haiti (1957-71), dies of heart disease and diabetes at 64

Apr 23 William V. S. Tubman, Liberian politician (President of Liberia 1944-71), dies at 76
Apr 24 Lennie Hayton, American pianist, composer, conductor and arranger (Paul Whiteman; Bing Crosby; MGM), dies at of heart attack at 63
Apr 25 Max Drischner, German organist, harpsichordist, kantor, and composer, dies at 80
Apr 30 Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll), dies at 70
May 1 Edith Day, American actress (A Romance of the Air), dies at 75
May 1 Glenda Farrell, American actress (Golddiggers of 1935: Grand Slam; Exposed), dies of lung cancer at 66
May 4 Donald Dexter Van Slyke, American chemist (Micromanometric analysis), dies at 88
May 4 Joseph Csaky, Hungarian-French sculptor (Cubism), dies at 83
May 4 Louis de Bree [Louis Davids], actor (De man zonder hart, The Cross-Patch, Bluejackets), dies at 87
May 4 Seamus Elliott, Irish road bicycle racer (first English speaker to win stages in all the Grand Tours), dies at 36
May 5 Alice Tissot, French actress (Italian Straw Hat), dies of cancer at 81
May 5 Harry Moorman, Dutch vice-admiral (KVP), dies at 71
May 5 Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia
May 5 Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)
May 6 Helene Weigel, Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at 70
May 7 Willem Banning, Dutch theologist and sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83
May 10 Mihail Jora, Romanian composer, dies at 79
May 10 Shukichi Mitsukuri, Japanese composer (10 Haikai de Basho), dies at 75
May 11 Alan Mara Bateman, Canadian geologist (Yale professor), dies at 82
May 12 Heinie Manush, American Baseball HOF left fielder (MLB All-Star 1934 Washington Sens; AL batting champion 1926 Detroit Tigers), dies from throat cancer at 69
May 12 Johnny Taylor, Australian cricket batsman (20 Tests; 1 x 100, 8 x 50) and rugby union fly-half (2 caps), dies at 75
May 12 Tor Johnson [Tore Johansson], Swedish wrestler and actor (Bride of the Monster), dies at 67
May 13 Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Russian composer, dies 67
May 15 Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur (Duncan Toys Company), dies at 78
May 15 Goose Goslin, American Baseball HOF left fielder (World Series 1924 Washington Sens, 1935 Detroit Tigers; AL batting champion 1928; MLB All Star 1936), dies at 70
May 15 Sir Tyrone Guthrie, British actor, producer, writer and director, dies at 70
May 16 Barney Stanley, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame forward (Stanley Cup 1915, Vancouver Millionaires; coach Chicago Black Hawks 1927-28), dies at 77
May 19 Bernard Wagenaar, Dutch-American composer (3 Songs for Chinese), dies at 76

Ogden Nash (1902-1971)

May 19 American humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Masquerade Party), dies at 68 [1]

May 20 Martín Dihigo, Cuban Baseball HOF two-way player (2 × Negro League All-Star New York Cubans; 4 × Cuban League MVP), dies at 65
May 20 Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904)
May 21 Dennis King, English actor (Devil's Brother), dies of heart ailment at 73
May 22 Frank Ottersen, Norwegian jazz violinist and saxophonist (Ding, Dong, Dang), dies at 50
May 25 Charles P. Cabell, American military and intelligence officer (US Air Force general; Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1953–1962), dies of a heart attack at 67
May 25 Jo Etha Collier, young African American woman killed by 3 whites in Drew, Mississippi
May 25 Mark Brunswick, American composer, dies at 69
May 25 Terence De Marney, British actor (Lorna Doone, Doctor Who, The Immortal Gentleman), dies after accidentally falling under a subway at 63
May 26 John Longden, British actor (Man From Interpol), dies at 70
May 27 Chips Rafferty [John William Pilbean Goffage], Australian actor (Wake in Fright, Desert Rats), dies from a heart attack at 62
May 27 Jack Doscher, American baseball pitcher (1st son of a major leaguer to play MLB), dies at 90
May 28 Audie Murphy, American soldier who was among the most decorated in WW II with 33 medals and actor (To Hell and Back, Whispering Smiths), killed in a plane crash at 46
May 28 Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor and director (Théâtre National Populaire), dies at 59
May 29 Max Trapp, German composer, dies at 83
May 30 Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer, dies at 85
May 30 Rodd Redwing, American actor (Buffalo Bill In Tomahawk Territory; Son Of Geronimo), and stunt coach, dies of a heart attack at 66
May 31 Bert Ironmonger, Australian cricket spin bowler (14 Tests; 74 wickets @ 17.97; Queensland, Victoria), dies at 89
May 31 Massimo Campigli, Italian painter and illustrator, dies at 75

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)

Jun 1 American theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man), dies at 78

Jun 2 Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye), dies at 66
Jun 3 Heinz Hopf, German mathematician, dies at 76
Jun 4 Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher and literary critic, dies at 86
Jun 6 Arnold Elston, American composer, and educator, dies at 63
Jun 9 Harold Lloyd Jr, American actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), cabaret singer, and son of famous silent film actor Harold Lloyd, Sr., dies of a complications from a stroke at 40
Jun 10 Michael Rennie, British actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61
Jun 10 Virginia True Boardman, American actress of the silent era (A Blind Bargain; The Lady Lies), dies of a heart attack at 82
Jun 14 Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines (1957-61), dies at 74
Jun 15 Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
Jun 16 Garfield Wood, American inventor, motorboat builder and racer (world water speed record x 5; first to travel over 100 mph on water), dies at 90
Jun 16 John Reith, Scottish broadcast executive (General Manager of the BBC), dies at 81
Jun 17 C Christopher Morris, cricketer (brilliant batsman for Philadelphia), dies
Jun 18 Paul Karrer, Swiss organic chemist (Nobel 1937), dies at 82
Jun 18 Thomas Gomez, American actor (Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout), dies after a car accident at 65
Jun 23 George Blagoi, entertainer, dies
Jun 23 Walter Schulthess, Swiss composer, dies at 76
Jun 24 John Dunning, cricketer (4 Tests for NZ 1933-37), dies
Jun 25 Charles Vildrac, French author, poet and playwright (La Brouille, Michel Auclair, Notes sur la technique poétique), dies at 88
Jun 25 John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician (Nobel Peace Prize 1949 - Father of the Food and Agriculture Organization), dies at 90 [1]
Jun 26 Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer, dies at 91
Jun 26 Inia Te Wiata, opera singer, dies
Jun 26 Juan Manen, composer, dies at 88
Jun 28 Franz Stangl, Austrian commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
Jun 28 Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity), dies at 78
Jun 28 Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at 48
Jun 29 Néstor Mesta Cháyres, Mexican lyric tenor, dies of a heart attack ay 63
Jun 30 Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies in outer space aboard Soyuz 11 at 43
Jun 30 Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
Jun 30 Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies in outer space aboard Soyuz 11 at 38
Jun 30 Vladislav Volkov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), dies in outer space aboard Soyuz 11 at 35
Jul 1 (William) Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1915 - crystalline structure analysis), dies at 81 [1]
Jul 1 Learie Constantine, West Indian cricket all-rounder, lawyer and politician (UK's first black peer), dies of a heart attack at 69 [1]
Jul 2 Edward Ballantine, American composer and music professor, dies at 84

Jim Morrison (1943-1971)

Jul 3 American singer-songwriter (The Doors) and poet, dies of heart failure allegedly caused be an accidental heroin overdose at 27

Jul 3 Renie Riano, British-American vaudeville and screen actress (Jiggs and Maggie films; The Family Jewels), dies after long illness at 71
Jul 4 August Derleth, American writer (Judge Peck Mysteries) and editor, dies of a heart attack at 62
Jul 4 Don McPherson, American R&B singer (The Main Ingredient - "Everybody Plays the Fool"), dies of leukemia at 29
Jul 4 Joe Cox, South African cricket fast medium bowler (3 Tests; Natal), dies at 85
Jul 4 Maurice Bowra, British classics scholar (Greek experience), dies at 73
Jul 4 Thomas C. Hart, U.S. admiral and commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94
Jul 6 Horst Lange, German writer (The Long Lament), dies at 66