J. R. R. Tolkien3rd January, British, South African
Writer
J. Paul Getty15th December, British, American
Businessman
Haile Selassie23rd July, Ethiopian
Former Emperor of Ethiopia
Francisco Franco4th December, Spanish
Former Caudillo of Spain
Josip Broz Tito7th May, Yugoslav
Manfred von Richthofen2nd May, French, Polish
Fighter Pilot
Mary Pickford8th April, Canadian, American
Actress, Producer, Screenwriter
Margaret Rutherford11th May, British
Actress
Carl Panzram28th June, American
Serial Killer
Walter Benjamin15th July, German
Bessie Coleman26th January, American
Aviator
Martin Niemöller14th January, German
Theologian
Sepp Dietrich28th May, German
Military Officer
Reinhold Niebuhr21st June, American
Theologian
Arthur Seyss-Inquart22nd July, Austrian, Czech
War Criminal
Robert H. Jackson13th February, American
Attorney
Alexander Alekhine31st October, Portuguese, Russian
French chess player
Louis de Broglie15th August, French
Physicist
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy8th September, Pakistani
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Theodor Eicke17th October, German
Military Officer
Edna St. Vincent Millay22nd February, American
Poetess and Playwright
Manuel Roxas1st January, Filipino
Former President of the Philippines
Rebecca West21st December, British
British author
Ruth Chatterton24th December, American
Actress
Arthur Compton10th September, American
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics
V. Gordon Childe14th April, Australian
Archaeologist and Philologist
George Paget Thomson3rd May, British
Physicist
Germaine Tailleferre19th April, French
Composer
Gregory La Cava10th March, American
Film Director
Edward Victor Appleton6th September, British
Physicist
Herman Potočnik22nd December, Croatian
Engineer
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Pearl Buck26th June, American
American writer
David Dubinsky22nd February, American
Political leader
J.B.S. Haldane5th November, British
Geneticist
William P. Murphy6th February, American
Physician
Karl Herzfeld24th February, Austrian
Physicist
Ahmad Javad5th May, Azerbaijani
Poet
Jack L Warner2nd August, Canadian, American
Film Executive
Ivo Andric9th October, Yugoslav
Novelist
Oliver Hardy18th January, American
American comic
Basil Rathbone13th June, British, South African
Actor
Corrie ten Boom15th April
Writer, Autobiographer
Vita Sackville-West9th March, British
Writer
Jack L. Warner2nd August, Canadian, American
Film executive
Pearl S. Buck26th June, American
American writer
Gummo Marx23rd October, American
Actor, Comedian, Inventor
James Forrestal15th February, American
Officer, Banker, Investment banker
Wendell Willkie18th February, American
Lawyer
Hal Roach14th January, American
Film producer, Actor, Film director, Screenwriter
Mabel Normand9th November, American
Actress
Henry Darger12th April, American
Writer
Eddie Cantor31st January, American
comedian
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet13th April, British
Military officer
Gregor Strasser31st May, German
Politician, Pharmacist
Ferdinand Schörner12th June, German
General
Herbert W. Armstrong31st July, American
Djuna Barnes12th June, American
Artist
Engelbert Dollfuss4th October, Austrian
Politician, Diplomat, Lawyer
Walter Hagen21st December, American
Golfer
Robert Ritter von Greim22nd June, German
Aviator, Military personnel
J. B. S. Haldane5th November, Indian, British
Biologist, Geneticist, University teacher
Alfred A. Knopf12th September, American
New York City, New York, United States
Erhard Milch30th March, German
Politician, Military personnel
Peggy Wood9th February, American
Actress
Zita of Bourbon-Parma9th May, Italian
Mississippi John Hurt8th March, American
Singer
Ernst Lubitsch29th January, German, American
Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Film producer,
Robert Watson-Watt13th April, British, Scottish
Developer
S. R. Ranganathan12th August, Indian
Mathematician
Trafford Leigh-Mallory11th July, British
Officer
Harry Dexter White29th October, American
Economist
Richard Neutra8th April, Austrian, American
Architect
Mátyás Rákosi9th March, Hungarian
Politician
E. H. Carr28th June, British
Historian, Journalist, Diplomat, Writer, Political
Nickolas Muray15th February, American
Photographer, Fencer
Agnes von Kurowsky5th January, American
Nurse
Marcel Dassault22nd January, French
Politician, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Aerospace
Erté23rd November, French, Russian
Artist
Juan Belmonte14th April, Spanish
Bullfighter
Andy Clyde25th March, British
Stage actor, Film actor
Keith Park15th June, British
Aviator, Military personnel
Marina Tsvetaeva28th May, Russian, Russian
Poet, Writer
Darius Milhaud4th September, French
Classical composer, Conductor, Autobiographer,
Mirabehn22nd November, Indian, British
Political Activist
Bolesław Bierut18th April, Russian
Political leader
Tazio Nuvolari16th November, Italian
Racing Driver
Oswald Pohl30th June, German
Politician, Torturer
Alice Brady2nd November, American
Actress
Archibald MacLeish7th May, American
Librarian, Poet, Playwright, Writer, University
Andrew Loomis15th June, American
Illustrator
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani30th November, Iraqi
Politician
Władysław Anders11th August, Polish
Officer, Politician
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji14th August, British
Pianist, Composer, Music critic, Writer
Sumner Welles14th October, American
Diplomat, Non-fiction writer