Deaths Date 1971 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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Frank Rosenblatt (1928-1971)

Jul 11 American psychologist and computer scientist (Perceptron), dies in a boating accident at 43

Jul 11 John W. Campbell, American sci-fi writer (Space Beyond), dies at 61
Jul 11 Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (Le Mans, 1968), killed in crash during sports car race at Norisring in Nuremberg, West Germany at 31
Jul 15 Guy Wilkerson, American actor (Dead or Alive, West of Texas, Shootin' Iron), dies of cancer at 71
Jul 16 H T Tsiang, dies at 65
Jul 17 Cliff Edwards "Ukulele Ike", American singer (54th Street Revue; "When You Wish Upon a Star"), dies at 76
Jul 17 Gerald Nye, American politician and Republican US Senator from North Dakota (1925-1945), dies after mistakenly being prescribed penicillin to which he was allergic at 78
Jul 23 Van Heflin [Emmett Evan Heflin Jr], American stage, screen, and radio actor (Johnny Eager; Shane; Madame Bovary; 3:10 to Yuma), dies of a heart attack at 62
Jul 24 Alan Rawsthorne, British classical and film score composer (Elegy for Guitar; The Cruel Sea), dies at 66
Jul 25 Leroy Robertson, American pianist, composer ("Oratorio from the Book of Mormon"; "Trilogy for Orchestra"), and educator (Brigham Young, 1925-48; University of Utah, 1948-62), dies at 74
Jul 26 Diane Arbus [Nemerov], American photographer (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar), commits suicide at 48 [1]
Jul 27 Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor, composer, and musicologist, dies at 83
Jul 27 Jacques Lusseyran, French author and resistance leader who was blind from age 7, dies in a car accident at 46
Jul 28 Charles E. Pont, American artist, dies at 73
Jul 28 Myril Hoag, American baseball player, dies at 63
Jul 30 Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
Aug 1 John McDermott, American golfer (US Open, 1911-12), dies of heart failure at 79 [1]
Aug 2 Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher (Obscene: The history of an indignation), dies at 77
Aug 5 Josef Stanislav, Czech composer, and pedagogue, dies at 74
Aug 7 (Henry) "Homer" Haynes, American country music comedian and guitarist (Homer & Jethro - "The Battle of Kookamonga"), dies of a heart attack at 51
Aug 13 King Curtis [Ousley], American Grammy Award-winning R&B, rock, jazz, and session saxophonist bandleader ("Memphis Soul Stew"; Aretha Franklin; John Lennon), murdered during an argument with a vagrant outside of his NYC home at 37

W. O. Bentley (1888-1971)

Aug 13 English engineer and motoring pioneer who founded Bentley Motors Limited, dies at 82 [1]

Paul Lukas (1895-1971)

Aug 15 Hungarian actor (Kim, Berlin Express), dies of heart failure at 76

Aug 15 Thomas Wayne, American rockabilly singer ("Tragedy"), dies in a car accident at 31
Aug 16 Elsie Baker, actress (Ghosts of Hanley House), dies at 78
Aug 16 Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (20th Century Fox), dies at 78
Aug 17 Horace McMahon, American actor (Detective Story, Martin Kane Private Eye), dies from a heart ailment at 65
Aug 17 Wilhelm List, German field marshal during WWII, convicted of war crimes, dies at 91
Aug 19 Mary Browne, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1912-14), dies at 80
Aug 19 Walther Victor, German writer, dies at 76
Aug 20 Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951)
Aug 21 George Jackson, American criminal, author, and Black Guerrilla Family gang founder, shot to death during attempted San Quentin, California prison escape at 29
Aug 23 Gisela Hernández [Gonzalo], Cuban composer (Diálogo), and music educator, dies at 58
Aug 23 Oliver McGowan, American actor (Banning, Stagecoach), dies at 64
Aug 23 The original Shamu, Sea World orca
Aug 24 Carl Blegen, American archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos), dies at 84
Aug 25 Ted Lewis [Theodore Leopold Friedman], American entertainer, bandleader and musician (Is Everybody Happy?), dies of lung failure at 81
Aug 26 Francesco Santoliquido, Italian composer, dies at 88
Aug 27 Bennett Cerf, American publisher (Random House) and panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73
Aug 27 Jim Turnesa, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1952; Ryder Cup 1953), dies of lung cancer at 58
Aug 27 Lillian "Lil" Hardin Armstrong, American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader, dies at 73
Aug 27 Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer, 1st female LIFE staff photographer, dies at 67
Aug 28 Nathan Leopold, US kidnapper and murderer of Bobby Franks (1924), dies at 66
Sep 3 David Street [Patrick Devlin], American actor and singer (Moonrise; I Surrender Dear; Broadway Open House), dies of cancer at 53
Sep 3 Percy Holmes, English cricket batsman (7 Tests, 4 x 50; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 84
Sep 3 Veronica Turleigh, Irish actress (Promoter), dies at 68
Sep 5 Ed Gordon Jr, American athlete (Olympic gold long jump 1932), dies at 63
Sep 5 George Trafton, American NFL center (Chicago Bears), dies at 74
Sep 7 Spring Byington, American actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride), dies at 84
Sep 10 Bella Darvi [Bajla Węgier], Polish actress (The Egyptian, Hell and High Water, Racers), commits suicide at 42
Sep 10 Pier Angeli [Anna Maria Pierangeli], Italian actress (Sodom & Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge), dies of barbiturate overdose at 39

Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

Sep 11 First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64), dies of a heart attack at 77

Sep 11 Percy Helton, American actor (Jail Busters, Harbor of Missing Men), dies at 77
Sep 13 Lin Biao, Chinese Communist Marshal during the Civil War and party leader, dies in a plane crash at 63, possibly while fleeing from a botched coup against Mao
Sep 13 Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Silent Waters), dies at 72
Sep 13 Paul Blackburn, American poet, and editor (Black Mountain Review), dies of esophageal cancer at 44 [1]
Sep 14 Bill Copson, cricketer (England pace bowler before & after WW2), dies
Sep 16 Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher and director, dies at 77
Sep 20 Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat (Nobel Prize for Literature 1963), dies at 71
Sep 20 James Westerfield, American actor (Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny), dies from a heart attack at 59
Sep 20 William F. Albright, American old testament scholar and archaeologist, dies at 80
Sep 21 Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947), dies at 84
Sep 22 Joseph Ford McGuinn, American director and actor (Dick Tracy's G-Men), dies of a heart attack at 67
Sep 22 Yvonne St Clair, American dancer, dies at 57
Sep 23 Billy Gilbert, American actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), dies at 77
Sep 23 James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist, dies at 83
Sep 25 Hugo L. Black, American lawyer, jurist and politician (Sen-D-Alabama 1927-37, 78th Supreme Court justice 1937-71), dies at 85
Sep 25 T. C. Jones, American female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50
Oct 2 Bola de Nieve [Ignacio Jacinto Villa Fernández], Cuban singer, pianist and songwriter, dies at 60
Oct 3 Leah Baird, American actress and screenwriter (Jungle Bride), dies of anemia at 88
Oct 3 Seán Ó Riada [John Reidy], Irish composer (Mise Éire), traditional music revivalist, and bandleader (Ceoltóirí Chualann), dies at 40
Oct 4 Edit Angold, German actress (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel), dies at 76
Oct 8 Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Dutch composer, dies at 79
Oct 10 Christopher Dark [Alfred Francis DeLeo], American character actor, (World Without End; The Time Tunnel), dies of a heart attack at 51
Oct 10 John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
Oct 11 Chester Conklin, American actor (Every Day's a Holiday, Greed), dies at 85
Oct 11 Chesty Puller, US Marine Corps lieutenant general and the most decorated Marine in history, dies at 73
Oct 12 Dean Acheson, American statesman and U.S. Secretary of State (1949-53), dies at 78
Oct 12 Gene Vincent [Vincent Eugene Craddock], American rock guitarist and vocalist ("Be-Bop-A-Lula"), dies of bleeding ulcers at 36
Oct 13 Stafford Smythe, Canadian NHL executive (President Toronto Maple Leafs 1961–69, 1970-71), dies from an acute stomach ulcer at 50
Oct 14 Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (algebraic topology), dies at 61
Oct 15 Sylvester Magee, last living American slave and oldest person who ever lived, dies at 130
Oct 19 Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrialist, dies at 89
Oct 19 Betty Bronson, actress (Naked Kiss), dies after brief illness at 64
Oct 21 Raymond Hatton, American actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer), dies of a heart attack at 84
Oct 21 Shiga Naoya, Japanese novelist (Road Through Dark Night), dies at 88
Oct 24 Carl Ruggles, American composer (Evocations), dies at 95
Oct 24 Chuck Hughes, Detroit Lion collapses during game and later, dies
Oct 24 Fernand Quinet, Belgian composer, cellist and conductor (La Guerre), dies at 73
Oct 25 Albert van Dalsum, Dutch actor and director (Wilton's Zoo; Little Rascal), dies at 82
Oct 26 Robert Gordon, American silent film actor (Hearts and Spangles; King of the Pack), dies at 76
Oct 26 Vincent Coleman, American actor (For the Freedom of Ireland, Salome), dies at 71
Oct 28 Yves de La Casiniere, French composer, dies at 74
Oct 29 Duane Allman, American rock guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band), dies in a motorcycle accident at 24
Oct 30 Osvald Chlubna, Czech organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 78
Oct 31 Gerhard von Rad, German old testament expert (Deuteronomium), dies at 70
Nov 1 Gertrud von Le Fort, German writer (The Eternal Woman), dies at 95
Nov 2 Martha Vickers [MacVicker], American actress (Alimony; The Man I Love; Ruthless), dies of esophageal cancer at 46
Nov 3 Étienne Gailly, Belgian long distance runner (famous Olympic bronze finish 1948), dies at 48
Nov 5 Sam Jones, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1955, 59; no-hitter 1955; Chicago Cubs), dies of neck cancer at 45
Nov 9 Maude Fealy, American actor and drama coach (The Ten Commandments), dies at 88
Nov 10 Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62
Nov 11 A. P. Herbert, English journalist and writer (Punch, Helen), dies at 81
Nov 11 Sylvia Brett, Lady Brooke and Ranee of Sarawak, dies at 86
Nov 14 William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (b. 1934)
Nov 15 Rudolf Abel, Soviet spy (b. 1903)
Nov 16 Charlie Dell, American actor and comedian (Pickle in the Middle), dies at 90
Nov 16 Edie Sedgwick, American actress (Andy Warhol) and socialite, dies of alcohol and barbiturate intoxication at 28
Nov 17 Gladys Cooper, actress (Margaret-The Rogues), dies at 83
Nov 18 (Herman) "Junior" Parker, American blues and soul singer and musician (Mystery Train), dies during brain tumor surgery at 39
Nov 19 Bill Stern, American sportscaster (first televised college football game), dies of a heart attack at 64
Nov 22 (Edward Elzear) "Zez" Confrey, American jazz pianist and composer ("Kitten on the Keys"; "Dizzy Fingers."), dies from complications of Parkinson's disease at 76
Nov 22 Walter Sande, American actor (To Have and Have Not), dies of a heart attack at 65
Nov 23 Lisle Nagel, Australian cricket fast bowler (1 Test, 2 wickets; Victoria CA), dies at 66
Nov 25 Hank Mann, American actor (City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road), dies at 84
Nov 26 Joe Adonis, US crime-syndicate boss in NY & NJ, dies at 68
Nov 27 Jekabs Medinš, Latvian composer, dies at 86
Nov 27 Joe Guyon, American NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc), dies at 79
Nov 27 Korneel Goossens, Flemish literary figure and art historian, dies at 70
Nov 28 Alexander "Papa" Lightfoot, American blues singer and harmonica player, dies of respiratory failure at 47
Nov 28 Grantley Herbert Adams, Premier of Barbados (1953-58) and Prime Minister of the West Indies Federation (1958-62), dies at 73
Nov 28 Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo
Nov 29 Heinz Tiessen, German composer, dies at 84
Dec 1 Arthur B. Spingarn, American lawyer and civil rights activist (NAACP chairman, 1940-65), dies at 93
Dec 4 Shunryu Suzuki, Zen monk and teacher, (founder of San Francisco Zen Center, populised Zen Buddhism in the US) dies at 67
Dec 5 Hugh Wakefield, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Blithe Spirit), dies at 83
Dec 6 Hugo Godron, Dutch composer, dies at 71
Dec 6 Jan Altink, Dutch Expressionist painter (co-founder of Plooeg), dies at 86
Dec 7 Milton Rosmer, British director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90

Ralph Bunche (1904-1971)

Dec 9 American diplomat, UN delegate and 1st person of color to win the Nobel Peace Prize (1950), dies at 67

Dec 9 Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor, dies at 97
Dec 10 Jo [Jozef Maria Laurens Theo] Cals, Prime Minister of Netherlands (1965-66) and Minister of Education, Arts and Sciences, dies at 57
Dec 11 Maurice "Mac" McDonald, American fast-food pioneer (b. 1902)
Dec 12 David Sarnoff, American radio and television pioneer (RCA, NBC), dies at 80
Dec 12 Frank Wolff, actor (Erotic Illusion, Last Gun), commits suicide at 43
Dec 12 Jack Barnhill, Northern Ireland senator, assassinated
Dec 12 John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Dog of Pavlov), dies at 47
Dec 13 Max Mell, Austria artillery officer and literary (Donauweibchen), dies at 88
Dec 14 Dick Tiger, Nigerian professional boxer, dies at 42
Dec 15 Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886)
Dec 18 Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Russian poet and editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61

Bobby Jones (1902-1971)

Dec 18 American golfer, course designer (13 major titles, Grand Slam 1930), dies of syringomyelia at 69

Dec 18 Diana Lynn [Dolores Eartha Loehr], American actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies of a stroke at 45
Dec 20 Roy O. Disney, American businessman and co-founder of the Walt Disney Company with brother Walt, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 78
Dec 22 Fred Guy, American jazz banjo player and guitarist (Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra; Duke Ellington's Washingtonians), dies at 74
Dec 22 Godfried Bomans, Dutch humorist, TV personality and writer (Eric), dies at 58
Dec 22 Renee Evans, entertainer, dies of a heart attack at 63
Dec 23 Carlo Jachino, Italian composer, dies at 84
Dec 24 Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (b. 1924)
Dec 25 Byron Arnold, American composer, dies at 70
Dec 26 Robert Lowery [Hank], American stage and screen actor (Batman and Robin (1949); Circus Boy - "Big Tim"; The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond), dies of heart failure at 58
Dec 28 Max Steiner, Austrian composer (Gone With The Wind), dies at 83
Dec 29 John Marshall Harlan II, American lawyer, jurist and 91st Supreme Court Justice (1955-71), dies of spinal cancer at 72
Dec 29 Stuart Holmes, American actor (Life's Shop Window, Prisoner of Zenda), dies of stomach ailment at 87
Dec 30 Dorothy Comingore [Linda Winters], American actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at 58
Dec 30 Jan Mul, Dutch composer, dies at 60
Dec 30 Melba Rae, American actress (Search for Tomorrow) (b. 1922)
Dec 31 Marin Sais, American actress (b. 1890)
Dec 31 Pete Duel [Deuel], American stage and screen actor (Gidget; Love on a Rooftop; Alias Smith and Jones), commits suicide at 31
Dec 31 Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (b. 1919)