Today in History for Year 1956

Months in Year 1956: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 555

Jan 1st - KHAS TV channel 5 in Hastings, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
Jan 1st - KOSA TV channel 7 in Odessa, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
Jan 1st - Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) declares independence from Egypt & UK
Jan 1st - WREC (now WREG) TV channel 3 in Memphis, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
Jan 1st - A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people.
Jan 2nd - Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections
Jan 3rd - A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
Jan 6th - KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
Jan 6th - Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
Jan 7th - Vinoo Mankad scores 231 v NZ, 413 opening stand with Roy
Jan 8th - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken
Jan 8th - Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 & stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)
Jan 8th - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
Jan 9th - Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers
Jan 9th - Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan
Jan 10th - Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"
Jan 14th - Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad
Jan 14th - Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"
Jan 15th - Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley Jan 15th - D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia
Jan 15th - KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
Jan 15th - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30
Jan 16th - Egyptian pres Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine
Jan 18th - German DR forms own army (National People's Army)
Jan 19th - Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field
Jan 20th - Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville
Jan 21st - "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden NYC after 849 perfs
Jan 21st - William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker
Jan 22nd - 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles
Jan 22nd - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
Jan 22nd - Canadian Football Council forms
Jan 24th - 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record)
Jan 25th - 96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record)
Jan 26th - 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Singer Buddy Holly Jan 26th - Buddy Holly's 1st formal recording session
Jan 26th - Hank Greenberg & Joe Cronin are elected to Hall of Fame
Jan 26th - Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR
Jan 27th - NFL's NY Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium
Jan 28th - Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)
Jan 29th - F Durrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame," premieres in Zurich
Jan 30th - Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
Jan 30th - KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
Jan 30th - KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
Jan 30th - Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed
Jan 31st - French government of Mollet forms
Jan 31st - Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil
Jan 31st - Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France.
Feb 1st - Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
Feb 1st - WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Feb 2nd - Coasters sign with Atlantic Records
Feb 3rd - Autherine J Lucy admitted to U of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot
Feb 3rd - Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events
Feb 4th - AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training
Feb 5th - 7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Feb 5th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
Feb 5th - NY Mayor Robert Wagner & Bkln Boro Pres Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build
Feb 6th - Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing
Feb 6th - French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers
Feb 6th - U of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)
Feb 7th - Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to U of Alabama, is expelled
Feb 8th - Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die
Feb 9th - -5°F (15°C) in Sicily
Feb 9th - KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
Feb 9th - R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria
Feb 10th - "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
Feb 12th - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open
Feb 13th - KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
Feb 14th - 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
Feb 14th - Indonesia withdraws from Neth Indonesian Union
Feb 14th - Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
Feb 15th - Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland
Feb 15th - Pirates & KC A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white
Feb 16th - Britain abolishes death penalty
Feb 17th - Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB
Feb 17th - Ice Pairs Championship at Garmisch won by Schwarz & Oppelt of AUT
Feb 17th - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by Carol Heiss USA
Feb 17th - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by H A Jenkins USA
Feb 19th - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
Feb 20th - WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
Feb 22nd - 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
Feb 22nd - Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
Feb 23rd - 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev Feb 23rd - Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
Feb 25th - Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
Feb 26th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
Feb 26th - Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
Feb 27th - Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"
Feb 27th - Female suffrage in Egypt
Feb 28th - 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott Mass
Feb 28th - Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
Feb 29th - Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan
Feb 29th - Pres Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term
Mar 1st - The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
Mar 2nd - Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France
Mar 3rd - Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2)
Mar 3rd - Indonesian government of Harahap resigns
Mar 3rd - Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
Mar 3rd - Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY
Mar 5th - "King Kong," 1st televised
Mar 5th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 714

Jan 1st - Anatoli Borisovich Polonsky, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
Jan 1st - Sergei Vasiliyevich Avdeyev, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-15, SK:TM-28)
Jan 1st - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (d. 2000)
Jan 1st - Kôji Yakusho, Japanese actor
Jan 2nd - Lynda Barry, American cartoonist
Jan 3rd - Mel Gibson, Peekskill NY, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon)
Jan 3rd - Willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver
Jan 4th - Ann Magnuson, Charleston WV, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger)
Jan 4th - Barney Sumner, rock guitarist/vocalist (New Order-Blue Monday)
Jan 4th - Bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist (Joy Division)
Jan 4th - Nels Cline, American guitarist and composer
Jan 5th - Chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef
Jan 7th - Robin Walton, Boise ID, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland Classic-15th)
Jan 7th - Rosalyn Bryant, Chic Ill, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1976)
Jan 9th - David Smith, cricketer (England lefty batsman in 2 Tests v WI 1986)
Jan 9th - Kimberly Beck Hilton, Glendale California, actress (Kim-Peyton Place)
Jan 9th - Imelda Staunton, British actress
Jan 9th - Mike Walczewski, American Public Address Announcer at Madison Square Garden
Jan 10th - Shawn Colvin, American singer
Jan 10th - Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer
Jan 11th - Kuniaki Kobayashi, wrestler (WAR/NJPW)
Jan 11th - Robert Earl Keen, American singer
Jan 13th - Janet Hubert-Whitten, actress (Vivian Banks-Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
Jan 13th - Jay McInerney, writer (Bright Lights, Big City)
Jan 13th - Malcolm Foster, rock bassist (Pretenders-Mystery Achievement)
Jan 14th - Étienne Daho, French singer and songwriter
Jan 14th - Ben Heppner, Canadian singer
Jan 15th - Paul Parker, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1981)
Jan 15th - Vera Sosulya, USSR, toboggan (Olympic-gold-1980)
Jan 15th - Mayawati, Indian politician
Jan 16th - Wayne Daniel, cricketer (WI fast bowler 1976-84)
Jan 16th - Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress
Jan 16th - Martin Jol, Dutch football manager
Jan 16th - Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (d. 2007)
Jan 17th - David Caruso, actor (NYPD Blue, Michael Hayes)
Jan 17th - Mitch Vogel, Alhambra California, actor (Jamie-Bonanza)
Jan 17th - Paul Young, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Every Time You Go Away)
Jan 18th - Mark Collie, Waynesboro Tn, country singer (Another Old Soldier)
Jan 19th - Carman Licciardello, American Christian singer
Jan 20th - Bill Maher, comedian (Politically Incorrect)
Jan 20th - John McNally, Naha Okinawa, US rapid fire pistol (Oly-84, 88, 92, 96)
Jan 20th - John Phillips Naber, Evanston Ill, swimmer (Olympic-4 gold/silver-76)
Jan 20th - Maria Larsson, Swedish politician
Jan 21st - Bob Brill, NYC, drummer (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away)
Jan 22nd - Becky Pearson, LPGA golfer
Jan 22nd - Steve Riley, American drummer
Jan 22nd - John Wesley Shipp, American actor
Jan 24th - Hanne Krogh, Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks)
Jan 24th - Lounès Matoub, a famous Berber Kabyle singer (d. 1998)
Jan 25th - Andy Cox, rock guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
Jan 26th - Lisa Boray, [Schulte Nordholt], Dutch singer (Lovers Until the End)
Jan 26th - Simon Howard, English large landowner (Castle Howard)
Jan 27th - Mimi Rogers, Coral Gables Fla, actress (Paper Dolls, The Rousters)
Jan 27th - Fred Quillan, Portland Oregon, WLAF offensive coach (Frankfurt Galaxy)
Jan 28th - Peter Schilling, Stuttgart Germany, rocker
Jan 30th - Jeremy Gittins, English actor
Jan 30th - Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
Jan 31st - Johnny Rotten, [John Lydon], rocker (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen)
Jan 31st - Lloyd Cole, rocker
Jan 31st - Trevor A Manuel, South African UDF/ANC-leader
Feb 1st - Brahmanandam, Indian film actor
Feb 1st - Exene Cervenka, American musician
Feb 1st - Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Feb 3rd - Nathan Lane, Jersey NJ, actor (One of the Boys, Frankie & Johnnie)
Feb 3rd - Pamela Cossey, England, model/sister of transsexual Tula
Feb 3rd - John Jefferson, American football player
Feb 3rd - Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth)
Feb 5th - Hector Rebaque, Mexican racing driver
Feb 5th - Betty Ong, flight attendant that died on September 11, 2001, on American Airlines Flight 11
Feb 6th - Jon Walmsley, Lancashire England, actor (Jason-Waltons)
Feb 6th - Linda Grovenor, Baltimore MD, actress (Die Laughing, Wheels of Fire)
Feb 7th - Emo Philips, American comedian
Feb 7th - Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss) (d. 2007)
Feb 8th - Dave Meros, American bassist (Spock's Beard)
Feb 9th - Philip Jackson Ford Jr, NC, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
Feb 11th - Kathleen Beller, Queens NY, actress (Ft Apache the Bronx, Touched)
Feb 11th - H.R., American singer
Feb 11th - Didier Lockwood, French violinist
Feb 12th - Ad P Melkert, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (1994- )
Feb 13th - Liam Brady, British soccer player
Feb 13th - Peter Hook, English rock bassist (New Order-Round & Round, Run)
Feb 13th - Richard Eden, actor (Brick-Santa Barbara, Solar Crisis, Robocop)
Feb 13th - Yiannis Kouros, Greek-Australian runner
Feb 13th - Princess Alia bint Al Hussein, Jordanian Royal Family member
Feb 14th - Dave Dravecky, pitcher (SF Giants), had arm amputated
Feb 14th - Howard Edward Davis Jr, Glen Cove NY, lw boxer (Olympic-silver-1976)
Feb 14th - Ken Wahl, Chicago IL, actor (Wanderers)
Feb 15th - Desmond Haynes, cricket (WI opener-greatest batsman in 1-day history)
Feb 15th - Hilda Beatriz "Hildita" Guevara, Cuba, daughter of "Che" Guevara
Feb 15th - Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (d. 1992)
Feb 17th - Richard Karn, American actor
Feb 18th - Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (d. 1997)
Feb 19th - Dave Wakeling, rock singer/guitarist
Feb 19th - George David Low, Cleveland Ohio, astronaut (STS 32, STS 43)
Feb 19th - Peter Holsapple, rocker (Continental Drifters)
Feb 19th - Steve Randell, Tasmanian cricket Test umpire (international panel)
Feb 19th - Roderick MacKinnon, American biologist, Nobel laureate
Feb 20th - Charles Cummins, Clintwood Va, 3rd of 5 siblings born on 2/20
Feb 20th - Charlie Adler, American voice actor
Feb 21st - Woody Brown, Dayton Ohio, actor (Cliff-Facts of Life)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 11 of 10

Apr 18th - Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)
Apr 19th - US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III (in Church)
Jun 6th - Three-time Olympic Champion figure skater Sonja Henie (44) weds Norwegian shipping magnate and art patron Niels Onstad (47)
Jun 16th - British Poet and Poet Laureate Ted Hughes marries American writer and poet (The Bell Jar) Sylvia Plath at St George the Martyr Holborn, London.
Jun 29th - Actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (30) weds for 3rd time playwright Arthur Miller (40) at White Plains Court House in White Plains, New York
Jun 29th - Actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (30) weds for 3rd time playwright Arthur Miller (40) at White Plains Court House in White Plains, New York
Aug 5th - Actress-singer Shirley Jones (22) weds film and stage actor Jack Cassidy (29)
Aug 12th - Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Rand
Aug 27th - Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt (32) weds "12 Angry Men" director Sidney Lumet (32)
Sep 14th - British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (26) marries 1st wife actress Vivien Merchant (27)
Oct 6th - South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 189

Jan 3rd - Alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov, Russian/US composer, dies at 91
Jan 3rd - Joseph Wirth, 5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
Jan 4th - Alexandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, composer, dies at 91
Jan 5th - Jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge), dies at 84
Jan 5th - Mistinguett, French singer (b. 1875)
Jan 8th - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
Jan 10th - Henricus P Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Beeldende Kunst), dies at 84
Jan 10th - Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum), dies at 64
Jan 12th - John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70
Jan 12th - Norman Kerry, actor (Air Eagles, Phantom of Opera), dies at 61
Jan 14th - Siegfried F Nadel, Aust/Brit anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52
Jan 21st - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)
Jan 22nd - P A M Speet, Dutch broadcast CEO (KRO), dies
Jan 23rd - Alexander Korda, English movie producer (Henry VIII), dies at 62
Jan 27th - Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor, dies
Jan 29th - H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, US essayist/critic (Smart Set), dies at 75
Jan 30th - Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at 88
Jan 30th - Jane Seymour, actress (Young Mr Bobbin), dies at 56
Jan 31st - A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)
Feb 2nd - Charley Grapewin, actor (Ellery Queen), dies at 86
Feb 2nd - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
Feb 3rd - Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)
Feb 3rd - Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (b. 1916)
Feb 4th - Leendert A Donker, Dutch soc dem party-minister of Justice, dies at 56
Feb 4th - Peder Gram, composer, dies at 74
Feb 5th - Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player, dies at 74
Baseball Legend Connie Mack (Feb 8th) Feb 8th - Connie Mack, baseball manager (Phila A's, 1901-50), dies at 93
Feb 18th - Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), dies at 95
Feb 21st - Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78
Feb 26th - Herman Courtens, Belgian baron/painter, dies at 72
Feb 27th - Frank Dailey, orchestra leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54
Feb 27th - Gunther Ramin, German organist/composer/choir conductor, dies at 57
Feb 28th - Emile Buisson, French murderer executed (b. 1902)
Feb 29th - Elpidio Quirino, president of Philippines (1949-53), dies at 65
Mar 2nd - Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (b. 1888)
Mar 3rd - Willem H Keesom, Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at 79
Mar 5th - Erich Itor Kahn, composer, dies at 50
Mar 11th - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83
Mar 16th - Joseph John Richards, composer, dies at 77
Mar 17th - Fred Allen, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show), dies at 61
Mar 17th - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate, dies at 58
Physicist/Chemist Irene Joliot-Curie (Mar 17th) Mar 18th - Friedrich Panzer, German germanist (Hilde-Gudrun), dies at 85
Mar 18th - Louis Bromfield, writer, dies at 59
Mar 22nd - George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71
Mar 25th - George Luther Foote, composer, dies at 70
Mar 25th - Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50
Mar 26th - Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70
Mar 27th - Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
Mar 29th - Infante Alfonso of Spain (b. 1941)
Mar 31st - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (b. 1884)
Apr 2nd - Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgium ambassador to Tokyo, dies at 82
Apr 2nd - Chester Clute, actor (Niagara Falls), dies at 65
Apr 2nd - Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter, dies at 59
Apr 3rd - T Kostov, Bulgarian vice-premier, executed
Apr 10th - Bozidar Sirola, composer, dies at 66
Apr 10th - Clarence Beaumont, 1st batter in 1st World Series, dies at 75
Apr 10th - Jozef Szulc, composer, dies at 81
Apr 15th - Emile Nolde [Hansen], German painter (Grablegung Christi), dies at 88
Apr 19th - Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70
Apr 19th - Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II), dies at 47
Apr 19th - Leon N H Jungschlaeger, head milt intelligence Neth-Indies, dies at 52
Apr 20th - Jaap Vranken, organist/composer (Stabat mater), dies
Apr 20th - Lieven Duvosel, Flemish music composer (Levensschets), dies at 78
Apr 21st - Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895)
Apr 24th - Albrecht G Alt, German theologist (Small Schriften), dies at 72
Apr 24th - Henry Stephenson, actor (Conquest, Mr Lucky), dies at 85
Apr 26th - Edward Arnold, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66
Apr 29th - Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer, dies at 75
Apr 30th - Alben W Barkley, (VP-D-1949-53), dies at 78
May 5th - Charles R Gallas, lexicographer (French Dictionary), dies at 88
May 11th - Walter S Adams, US astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79
May 12th - Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 87
May 12th - Louis Calhern, dies at 61
May 12th - Vladimir Ambros, composer, dies at 65
May 13th - Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russ author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54
May 15th - Austin Osman Spare, English magician (b. 1886)
May 16th - H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese's (b. 1876)
May 18th - Maurice Tate, cricketer (39 Tests for England, 155 wickets), dies
May 20th - Andre Eugene Maurice Charlot, actor (Summer Storm), dies
May 20th - Max Beerbohm, caricturist/writer (Yet Again), dies
May 24th - Guy Kibbee, actor (Capt Blood, Babes in Arms), dies at 74
May 26th - Al Simmons, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334, dies at 54
May 29th - Albert H Edelkoort, theologist (Christusverwachting), dies at 65
May 29th - Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (Gewandhausorkest), dies at 73
Jun 2nd - Jean Hersholt, actress (Emma, Grand Hotel, Greed), dies at 69
Jun 4th - Max Kowalski, composer, dies at 73
Jun 4th - Katherine MacDonald, American actress (b. 1881)
Jun 6th - Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 74
Jun 7th - Julien Benda, Fren philosopher/writer (La trahison des clercs), dies
Jun 8th - Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
Jun 11th - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Poesie grigio-verdi), dies at 61
Jun 11th - Ralph Morgan, actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), dies at 73
Jun 17th - Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
Jun 17th - Bob Sweikert, American racing driver (b. 1926)
Jun 19th - Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney, German poet/writer, dies at 82
Jun 19th - Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (IBM) (b. 1874)
Jun 23rd - Reyngol'd Moritsevich Glier, composer, dies at 81
Jun 23rd - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
Jun 25th - Ernest J King, US fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations, dies at 77
Jun 26th - Clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25