Today in History for Year 1936

Months in Year 1936: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 329

Jan 1st - 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune
Jan 2nd - 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis, Mo
Jan 2nd - Bradman scores 357 for SA v Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours
Jan 4th - Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade
Jan 4th - Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 v South Africa
Jan 6th - Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario)
Jan 7th - Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
Jan 9th - Noel Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London
Jan 9th - Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
Jan 11th - Charles Anderson enters Kentucky House of Representatives
Jan 14th - L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America
Jan 15th - 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
Jan 15th - Horace Stoneham elected president of NY Giants
Jan 15th - Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates
Jan 16th - 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Fla
Jan 16th - Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president
Jan 16th - Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular
Jan 20th - Edward VIII succeeds British king George V
Jan 22nd - French Laval government falls
King of Great Britain Edward VIII Jan 23rd - Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms
Jan 24th - Benny Goodman & orchestra record "Stompin' at the Savoy" on Victor Records
Jan 24th - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
Jan 28th - Pravda criticizes Sjostakovitsj' "Lady Macbeth" opera
Jan 29th - 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson
Jan 30th - New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname
Jan 30th - Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415 They pick "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season
Jan 31st - "Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit
Feb 4th - 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
Feb 5th - National Wildlife Federation forms
Feb 6th - 4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Feb 6th - Pravda criticizes Shostakovitch' ballet "Clear Brook"
Feb 7th - A flag is authorized for Vice President
Feb 7th - Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer
Feb 8th - 1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger
Baseball Great Babe Ruth Feb 8th - 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minn
Feb 8th - 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers
Feb 8th - Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
Feb 11th - Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in SF Bay
Feb 14th - National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
Feb 14th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
Feb 14th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
Feb 15th - -60°F (-51°C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record)
Feb 15th - Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
Feb 15th - Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold
Feb 16th - 4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Feb 16th - Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins elections
Feb 17th - "Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts
Feb 17th - -58°F (-50°C), McIntosh, South Dakota (state record)
Feb 17th - SN Behrmann's "End of Summer," premieres in NYC
Feb 17th - The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics.
Feb 18th - NHL record 32 points scored, NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24)
Feb 19th - Manuel Azaña becomes Spanish premier
Feb 22nd - Construction on Ypenburg Neth airport begins
Feb 23rd - 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY
Feb 26th - Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
Feb 26th - Military coup in Japan
Feb 27th - Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 m free style (1:04.6)
Feb 29th - FDR signs 2nd neutrality act
Mar 1st - The Hoover Dam is completed.
Mar 1st - A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
Mar 2nd - Bradman scores 369 in 253 mins, SA v Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes
Mar 3rd - Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v South Africa
Mar 4th - 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
Mar 5th - Spitfire makes its 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)
Mar 6th - Belgium ends Locarno-pact
Mar 7th - Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
Mar 8th - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Mar 9th - Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
Mar 11th - British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.
Mar 14th - Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue
Mar 23rd - Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome
Mar 24th - Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0
Mar 25th - 200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground
Mar 25th - Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s)
Mar 26th - 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
Mar 26th - 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech
Mar 26th - Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
Mar 27th - WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
Mar 29th - 10,000 watch the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
Mar 29th - Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
Apr 1st - Orissa constituted a province of British India
Apr 3rd - Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of 1st round
Apr 3rd - Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds
Apr 5th - Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die
Apr 6th - 3rd Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 285
Apr 6th - ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam
Apr 6th - Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
Apr 10th - 200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena
Apr 11th - Rodgers & Hart's musical "On Your Toes," premieres in NYC
Apr 11th - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
Apr 13th - Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece
Apr 18th - Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from SF to Honolulu
Apr 19th - Anti-Jewish riots break out in Palestine
Apr 19th - First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
Apr 20th - 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:33:40.8
Apr 20th - Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine
Apr 23rd - Carl Hubbell's 1st start of season is his 17th straight win
Apr 26th - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony
Apr 29th - 1st pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5
May 1st - Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 669

Jan 1st - Eve Queler, NYC, conductor
Jan 1st - Willye B White, US jumper (Olympics-silver-1956)
Jan 1st - James Sinegal, American businessman
Jan 2nd - Roger Miller, Fort Worth Tx, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me)
Jan 3rd - Betty Rollin, actress (Crossing Delancey)/author (Last Wish)
Jan 3rd - David Vine, British(?) sport commentator
Jan 3rd - Jos Kunst, composer
Jan 5th - Florence King, American humorist
Jan 6th - Julio Maria Sanguinetti Cairolo, president of Uruguay (1985-90, 95- )
Jan 6th - Rubén Amaro, Sr., Mexican baseball player
Jan 6th - Darlene Hard, U.S. tennis player
Jan 7th - Eldee Young, US bassist (Young Holt Unlimited-Hang on Sloopy)
Jan 7th - Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer
Jan 8th - Ferdinand Hartzenberg, South African minister of Education (1979-82)
Jan 8th - Zdeněk Mácal, Czech conductor
Jan 8th - Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-born British scientist
Jan 9th - Peter Fletcher, music teacher
Jan 9th - Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
Jan 10th - Burnum Burnum, Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, author and dreamer (d. 1997)
Country Singer Roger Miller (Jan 2nd) Jan 10th - Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)
Jan 10th - Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
Jan 10th - Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer
Jan 11th - Linda Lawson, Ann Arbor Mich, actress (Don't Call Me Charlie)
Jan 11th - Meindert Leerling, Dutch TV director/MP (RPF)
Jan 13th - Ami Maayani, composer
Jan 13th - Edward R Madigan, (Rep-R-IL, 1973- )
Jan 13th - Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone
Jan 14th - Clarence Carter, US singer (Thread the Needle)
Jan 14th - John Paul Cain, Sweetwater TX, PGA golfer (1989 Greater Grand Rapids)
Jan 14th - Ludmila Pinayeva, USSR, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1964, 1968, 1972)
Jan 14th - Reiner Klimke, German FR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1984)
Jan 16th - Michael White, theater/film producer (From Russia With Love)
Jan 17th - Jerry Fogel, Rochester NY, actor (Jerry-Mothers-in-Law, White Shadow)
Jan 19th - Elliott Schwartz, composer
Jan 20th - Eldred G Maduro, minister (Netherland Antilles)
Jan 21st - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)
Jan 22nd - Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate
Jan 22nd - Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
Jan 23rd - Jerry Kramer, Green Bay Packer, author (Instant Replay)
Jan 24th - Daniel Goode, composer
Jan 24th - Doug Kershaw, La, plays electric fiddle
Jan 24th - Jack Scott, Canada, rocker (My True Love)
Jan 25th - Dan Schaefer, (Rep-R-CO, 1983- )
Jan 25th - Diana Hyland, Cleve Hgts Ohio, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough)
Jan 26th - Noel Harrison, London, singer/actor (Mark-Girl from UNCLE)
Jan 26th - Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
Jan 27th - Ismail Kadare, Albanian author/poet (Dimri i Madh)
Jan 27th - Troy Donahue, NYC, actor (Surfside Six, Cockfighter, Hawaiian Eye)
Physicist and Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting (Jan 27th) Jan 27th - Samuel Ting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, American physicist, Nobel Laureate
Jan 28th - Alan Alda, [Alphonso D'Abruzzo], NYC, actor (Hawkeye Pierce-M*A*S*H)
Jan 28th - Bill Jordan, British trade unionist
Jan 28th - Enid Castle, principal (Cheltenham Ladies' College)
Jan 28th - Jack Scott, vocalist (My True Love)
Jan 28th - Robert Suderburg, composer
Jan 29th - Malcolm Binns, concert pianist
Jan 29th - James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
Jan 30th - F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
Jan 30th - Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
Jan 31st - Marvin Junior, singer (Dells-Oh What a Night)
Feb 1st - G H Blake, Principal (Collingwood College, Durham U)
Feb 1st - Azie Taylor Morton, 35th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003)
Feb 2nd - Duane Jones, American actor
Feb 3rd - Bobby Simpson, cricketer (great Australian batsman/capt/coach/slip)
Feb 3rd - Robert Simpson, Australian cricket player/manager
Feb 4th - Daan van Golden, Dutch sculptor
Feb 4th - Gary Conway, Boston Mass, actor (Burke's Law, Land of the Giants)
Feb 4th - David Brenner, American comedian
Feb 6th - Otis Williams, rocker (Charms)
Feb 6th - J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman
Feb 8th - Cletis Boyer, 3rd baseman (NY Yankees)
Feb 8th - Larry Verne, singer (Custer)
Feb 8th - Manohar Hardikar, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India v WI 1958-59)
Feb 9th - Clive Swift, Liverpool, actor (Frenzy, Passage to India)
Feb 9th - Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country singer, (d. 2013)
Feb 10th - Olwyn Bowey, painter
Feb 10th - Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator
Feb 11th - Burt Reynolds, Mich, actor (Evening Shade, Strip Tease, Cannonball)
Feb 12th - Arnost Parsch, composer
Feb 12th - Fang Lizhi, Beijing China, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident (Tiananmen Square, 1989), (d. 2012)
Feb 12th - Joe Don Baker, Groesback Tx, actor (Eischied, Walking Tall, Fletch)
Feb 12th - Paul Shenar, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Carrington-Roots)
Feb 13th - John Harris, British(?) cricket player
Feb 13th - Leamon King, Tulare California, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1956)
Feb 14th - Andrew Pine, Jennings Fla, actor (V, WEB, Wide Country)
Feb 14th - Fanne Foxe, [Annabella Battistella], Argentina, (Wilbur Mills affair)
Feb 14th - Andrew Prine, American actor
Feb 15th - Andrew Miller, British principal (Stirling U)
Feb 16th - Jill Kinmont, American skier
Feb 17th - Barry Jarman, cricketer (Australian wicket-keeper in 60's)
Feb 17th - Jim Brown, Ga, NFL full back (Cleveland Browns)/actor (Dirty Dozen)
Feb 17th - Peter Walker, cricket all-rounder (Glamorgan did little for Eng 1960)
Feb 18th - Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist
Feb 18th - Ronald William Eastman, cinematogrpaher
Feb 18th - Jean Auel, American writer
Feb 19th - Bob Engemann, singer
Feb 19th - Ione Mylonas Shear, archeologist
Feb 20th - Larry Hovis, Wapito Wash, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes)
Feb 20th - Marj Dusay, [Mahoney], Russell Ks, actress (Kate-Bret Maverick)
Feb 20th - Roy Beggs, British MP
Feb 21st - Barbara Jordan, Houston, Tx, (Rep-D-Tx, 1972-78)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

Jun 9th - Novelist and journalist George Orwell (33) weds Eileen Maud O'Shaugnessy (30) at St. Mary's Church
Jun 14th - Singer and cowboy actor Roy Rogers (24) weds Arlene Wilkins in Roswell, New Mexico
Sep 12th - "first Irish movie star" actress Maureen O'Sullivan (25) weds film director John Farrow (32)
Sep 28th - "Marx Brothers" comedian Harpo Marx (47) weds "Million Dollar Legs" actress Susan Fleming (28)
Dec 11th - King Edward VIII marries Mrs Wallis Simpson; abdicates throne, Duke of York becomes King George VI
Dec 28th - British best-selling romantic author Barbara Cartland (35) marries 2nd husband Hugh McCorquodale

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 134

Jan 2nd - Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia (b. 1862)
Jan 6th - Charles A Stoneham, pres (NY Giants), dies
Jan 7th - Howard Francis, cricketer (2 Tests S Af v Eng 1898-99, 39 runs), dies
Jan 7th - Guy d'Hardelot, French composer, best known for Because (b. 1858)
Jan 9th - John Gilbert, actor (Love, Downstairs), dies at 40
Jan 10th - Charles Wright, cricketer (3 Tests England v South Africa 1895-96), dies
Jan 15th - Henry Forster, cricket (Hants & Oxford U, Gov-Gen of Australia), dies
Jan 16th - Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
Jan 17th - Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
Jan 18th - Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70
Jan 20th - George V, King of Britain (1910-36), dies at 70
Jan 20th - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
Jan 22nd - Louis Glass, composer, dies at 71
Jan 23rd - Dame Clara Butt, alto singer (Country of Hope & Glory), dies at 62
Feb 1st - Georgios Kondylis, general of the Greek army and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
Feb 3rd - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885)
Feb 4th - Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
Feb 9th - Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57
Feb 16th - Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted
Poet Rudyard Kipling (Jan 18th) Feb 17th - Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theozentrische), dies at 74
Feb 19th - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
Feb 20th - John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67
Feb 20th - Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
Feb 22nd - Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74
Feb 27th - Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86
Feb 27th - Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
Feb 28th - Pedro Munoz Seca, La Caraba/La oca, dies at 55
Feb 28th - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)
Mar 4th - Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer, dies at 64
Mar 6th - Josef Stransky, composer, dies at 63
Mar 6th - Rubin Goldmark, composer, dies at 63
Mar 16th - Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (b. 1864)
Mar 18th - Egon Friedell, Austrian journalist (Kleine Portratgalerie), dies at 58
Mar 18th - Eleftherios Venizelos, Former Prime minister of Greece
Mar 19th - John Larkin IV, actor/writer (Charlie Chan in Panama), dies at 63
Mar 20th - Durant Clifford Parkin, cricketer (Tests for S Afr 1891-92), dies
Mar 21st - Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, composer (Chopiniana), dies at 70
Mar 30th - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (b. 1895)
Apr 1st - Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer, dies at 61
Apr 2nd - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
Apr 3rd - Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed
Apr 8th - Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
Apr 9th - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
Apr 11th - Mitya Stillman, composer, dies at 44
Apr 13th - Demertzis, Greek premier, dies
Apr 13th - Milton Brown, American swing bandleader (b. 1903)
Apr 17th - Charles J M Ruys de Beerenbrouck, Dutch PM (1918-23, 29-33), dies
Apr 18th - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56
Apr 18th - Seaborn M Denson, composer, dies at 82
Apr 23rd - Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (b. 1889)
Apr 24th - Alphons Diepenbrock, composer, dies at 73
Apr 24th - Bernard van Dieren, composer, dies at 51
Apr 26th - Tammany Young, American actor (b.1886)
Apr 27th - Frederik A Stoett, linguist (Dutch Proverbs), dies at 72
Apr 27th - Karl Pearson, mathematician, dies
Apr 28th - Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36), dies
Apr 29th - Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76
Apr 30th - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859)
May 6th - Hans Jelmoli, composer, dies at 59
May 8th - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies
May 14th - Edmond HH Allenby, English fieldmarshal in Egypt, dies at 74
May 14th - Samuel Pl'h Naber, spy/librarian, dies at 71
May 17th - Panagis Tsaldaris, twice Greek prime minister (b. 1868)
May 18th - Alick Maclean, composer, dies at 63
May 25th - Jan Levoslav Bella, composer, dies at 92
Jun 7th - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
Jun 11th - Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906)
Jun 12th - Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies
Jun 12th - Karl Kraus, writer, dies at 62
Jun 14th - Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies
Jun 16th - Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies
Jun 17th - Kenneth Loach, TV director (Singing the Blues in Red), dies
Playwright & Author Maxim Gorky (Jun 18th) Jun 18th - Maxim Gorky, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68
Jun 19th - John Sharpe, cricketer (1-eyed fast bowler for England 1891-92), dies
Jun 22nd - Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher (b. 1882)
Jun 24th - Nandor Zsolt, composer, dies at 49
Jul 2nd - Harry Northrup, actor (Who's Knocking at My Door), dies at 60
Jul 11th - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
Jul 13th - Izydor Lotto, composer, dies at 91
Jul 13th - Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance, murdered at 43
Jul 20th - Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer, dies at 75
Jul 20th - Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies
Jul 24th - James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52
Jul 30th - Adolf Philipp, composer, dies at 72
Aug 4th - Henry Schoenfeld, composer, dies at 78
Aug 11th - Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885)
Aug 14th - Rainey Bethea, hanged, last US public execution
Aug 15th - Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64
Aug 15th - Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer, dies at 76
Aug 17th - Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery & Foules), dies at 36
Aug 19th - Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38
Aug 22nd - Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue), dies at 99
Aug 25th - Grogorij J Zinovjev, Russian revolutionary, dies
Sep 3rd - Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impressario (b. 1876 or 1877)
Sep 5th - Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
Sep 12th - Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70
Sep 14th - Ossip Gabrilovich, composer, dies at 58
Sep 15th - Bela Anton Szabados, composer, dies at 69
Sep 16th - Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM), dies
Sep 16th - Karl Buresch, Austrian politician, dies