J. R. R. Tolkien3rd January, British, South African
Writer
Francisco Franco4th December, Spanish
Former Caudillo of Spain
Haile Selassie23rd July, Ethiopian
Former Emperor of Ethiopia
J. Paul Getty15th December, British, American
Businessman
Josip Broz Tito7th May, Yugoslav
Manfred von Richthofen2nd May, French, Polish
Fighter Pilot
Alexander Alekhine31st October, Portuguese, Russian
French chess player
Mary Pickford8th April, Canadian, American
Actress, Producer, Screenwriter
Carl Panzram28th June, American
Serial Killer
Margaret Rutherford11th May, British
Actress
Walter Benjamin15th July, German
Jack L Warner2nd August, Canadian, American
Film Executive
Pearl Buck26th June, American
American writer
Reinhold Niebuhr21st June, American
Theologian
Sepp Dietrich28th May, German
Military Officer
V. Gordon Childe14th April, Australian
Archaeologist and Philologist
Martin Niemöller14th January, German
Theologian
Arthur Seyss-Inquart22nd July, Austrian, Czech
War Criminal
Manuel Roxas1st January, Filipino
Former President of the Philippines
Bessie Coleman26th January, American
Aviator
Louis de Broglie15th August, French
Physicist
Theodor Eicke17th October, German
Military Officer
Edna St. Vincent Millay22nd February, American
Poetess and Playwright
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy8th September, Pakistani
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
J.B.S. Haldane5th November, British
Geneticist
Ivo Andric9th October, Yugoslav
Novelist
Rebecca West21st December, British
British author
George Paget Thomson3rd May, British
Physicist
Ruth Chatterton24th December, American
Actress
Arthur Compton10th September, American
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics
Germaine Tailleferre19th April, French
Composer
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Herman Potočnik22nd December, Croatian
Engineer
Gregory La Cava10th March, American
Film Director
Edward Victor Appleton6th September, British
Physicist
David Dubinsky22nd February, American
Political leader
Ahmad Javad5th May, Azerbaijani
Poet
Karl Herzfeld24th February, Austrian
Physicist
William P. Murphy6th February, American
Physician
Robert H. Jackson13th February, American
Attorney
Oliver Hardy18th January, American
American comic
Basil Rathbone13th June, British, South African
Actor
William Horatio Powell29th July, American
Actor
Corrie ten Boom15th April
Writer, Autobiographer
Peggy Wood9th February, American
Actress
James Forrestal15th February, American
Officer, Banker, Investment banker
Jack L. Warner2nd August, Canadian, American
Film executive
Wendell Willkie18th February, American
Lawyer
Pearl S. Buck26th June, American
American writer
Vita Sackville-West9th March, British
Writer
Gummo Marx23rd October, American
Actor, Comedian, Inventor
Josef Dietrich28th May, German
Viktoria Luise of Prussia13th September, German
Princess
Alan Hale10th February, American
Actor
Dean O'Banion8th July, American
Mobster
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke1st March, Japanese
Writer
Ryunosuke Akutagawa1st March, Japanese
Writer
Henry Darger12th April, American
Writer
Hal Roach14th January, American
Film producer, Actor, Film director, Screenwriter
Eddie Cantor31st January, American
comedian
Robert Staughton Lynd26th September, American
Sociologist
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet13th April, British
Military officer
Gregor Strasser31st May, German
Politician, Pharmacist
Ferdinand Schörner12th June, German
General
Mabel Normand9th November, American
Actress
Herbert W. Armstrong31st July, American
Engelbert Dollfuss4th October, Austrian
Politician, Diplomat, Lawyer
Robert Watson-Watt13th April, British, Scottish
Developer
Zita of Bourbon-Parma9th May, Italian
Ernst Lubitsch29th January, German, American
Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Film producer,
J. B. S. Haldane5th November, Indian, British
Biologist, Geneticist, University teacher
Robert Ritter von Greim22nd June, German
Aviator, Military personnel
George Skakel16th July, American
Businessperson
Erhard Milch30th March, German
Politician, Military personnel
Walter Hagen21st December, American
Golfer
Amānullāh Khān1st June, Afghan
Sovereign
Mississippi John Hurt8th March, American
Singer
E. H. Carr28th June, British
Historian, Journalist, Diplomat, Writer, Political
Harry Dexter White29th October, American
Economist
Djuna Barnes12th June, American
Artist
Mátyás Rákosi9th March, Hungarian
Politician
Joe Yule30th April, British
Putita
Trafford Leigh-Mallory11th July, British
Officer
Richard Neutra8th April, Austrian, American
Architect
Oswald Pohl30th June, German
Politician, Torturer
Erté23rd November, French, Russian
Artist
Marina Tsvetaeva28th May, Russian, Russian
Poet, Writer
Darius Milhaud4th September, French
Classical composer, Conductor, Autobiographer,
Mirabehn22nd November, Indian, British
Political Activist
Andy Clyde25th March, British
Stage actor, Film actor
David Garnett9th March, British
Writer
Keith Park15th June, British
Aviator, Military personnel
Bruno Schulz12th July, Austrian, Polish
Writer, Painter, Literary critic
S. R. Ranganathan12th August, Indian
Mathematician
Agnes von Kurowsky5th January, American
Nurse