Today in History for Year 1957

Months in Year 1957: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 567

Jan 1st - Benjamin Britten's ballet "Prince & the Pauper," premieres in London
Jan 1st - France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep
Jan 1st - International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958 (18-mo year)
Jan 1st - George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Jan 1st - An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA's Operation Harvest.
Jan 3rd - 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa
Jan 4th - "Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS)
Jan 4th - Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000
Jan 5th - Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to NY Giants
Jan 5th - Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East
Jan 6th - Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
Jan 6th - Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia
Jan 9th - British premier Anthony Eden resigns
Jan 9th - Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
Jan 9th - Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
Jan 9th - Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR
Jan 9th - Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR
Jan 10th - Anthony Eden resigns & Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britain
Jan 10th - Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Det Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley Jan 11th - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
Jan 11th - Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber.
Jan 12th - Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded
Jan 13th - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate
Jan 13th - Mickey Wright wins Sea Island Golf Open
Jan 13th - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 19-10
Jan 13th - Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee
Jan 15th - Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field
Jan 16th - 3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round world flights
Jan 16th - Cavern Club opens on Matthews Street in Liverpool, England, home of The Beatles' 1st appearance
Jan 17th - 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
Jan 18th - 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min
Jan 19th - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
Jan 20th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
Jan 20th - Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election
Jan 20th - Morton Gould's "Declaration," premieres in Washington, DC
Jan 21st - KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
Jan 22nd - Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula
Jan 22nd - Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
Jan 25th - FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR
Jan 26th - Bernanos & Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites," premieres
Jan 26th - Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms
Jan 26th - India annexes Kashmir
Jan 26th - Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as Pres of Milwaukee Braves
Jan 27th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
Jan 28th - "Tonight! America After Dark" premieres, with Jack Lescoulie & Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC (between Steve Allen & Jack Paar)
Jan 29th - Graham Greene's "Potting Shed," premieres in NYC
Jan 30th - US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
Jan 31st - Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding)
Jan 31st - Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished
Jan 31st - Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
Feb 1st - 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
Feb 1st - Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam
Feb 1st - Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
Feb 2nd - "Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 73 performances
Feb 2nd - UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
Feb 3rd - Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
Feb 4th - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
Feb 5th - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert
Feb 8th - SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
Feb 10th - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
Feb 10th - Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms
Feb 11th - KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
Feb 11th - NHL Players Association forms (NYC), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president
Feb 12th - Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed
Feb 13th - Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
Feb 14th - Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
Feb 15th - Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
Feb 16th - The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television closedown between 6.00pm and 7.00pm was abolished in the United Kingdom.
Feb 17th - Fire in Warreton Mo, kills 72
Feb 17th - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
Feb 17th - Suez Canal reopens
Feb 17th - A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.
Feb 18th - Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan rebel leader is executed by the British colonial government.
Feb 20th - Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 v England, 13 wkts for match
Feb 21st - Dodgers (Fort Worth) & Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
Feb 22nd - Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
Feb 22nd - Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
Feb 23rd - "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances
Feb 23rd - The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar.
Singer Buddy Holly Feb 25th - Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"
Feb 25th - Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
Feb 27th - Mao's speech "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People"
Feb 27th - Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X": "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files)
Feb 28th - Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory
Mar 1st - "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 perfs
Mar 1st - KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
Mar 1st - Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor
Mar 3rd - Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"
Mar 3rd - Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Markham & Jones (GRB)
Mar 3rd - Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul (CAN)
Mar 3rd - Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colo Springs won by David Jenkins (USA)
Mar 3rd - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
Mar 3rd - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss (US)
Mar 4th - The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
Mar 5th - Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland
Mar 5th - Sgt Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin)
Mar 6th - Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK
Mar 8th - 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston
Mar 8th - Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships
Mar 8th - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 765

Jan 1st - Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress
Jan 1st - Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer, professor and politician
Jan 2nd - Joanna Pacula, Tomszowaubelski Poland, actress (Gorky Park, Kiss)
Jan 3rd - Frank Dicopoulos, Akron OH, actor (Frank Cooper-Guiding Light)
Jan 3rd - Bojan Križај, Slovenian skier
Jan 4th - Patty Loveless, [Ramey], Pikeville Ky, singer (Blue Side of Town)
Jan 5th - Vincent Calloway, Kentucky, trumpet player (Midnight Star-No Parking)
Jan 5th - Kevin Hastings, Australian rugby league footballer
Jan 6th - C Michael Foale, Louth England, astronaut (STS 45, 56, 63, 84/86)
Jan 6th - Nancy Lopez Knight, Torrance California, pro golfer (1981 Dinah Shore)
Jan 7th - Katie Couric, [Katherine], Arlington VA, TV news host (Today)
Jan 7th - Kristen Meadows, actress (Santa Barbara)
Jan 7th - Nicholson Baker, American novelist
Jan 7th - Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
Jan 7th - Reena Roy, Indian actress
Jan 8th - Nacho Duato, Spanish classical dancer and choreographer
Jan 9th - Phil Lewis, lead singer of L.A. Guns
Jan 10th - Robert Thompson, Houston TX, Nike golfer (1990 Boise Open-2nd)
Jan 10th - Greg Walden, U.S. Congressman from Oregon
Jan 11th - Darryl Dawkins, NBA center (Philadelphia 76ers, NJ Nets)
Jan 11th - Bryan Robson, English footballer and manager
Jan 12th - John Lasseter, American animation director
Jan 13th - Christina Seufert, Sacraento California, diver (Olympic-bronze-1984)
Jan 13th - Don Snow, rocker (Squeeze)
Jan 13th - Mark Francis O'Meara, Goldsboro NC, PGA golfer (1984 Greater Milw)
Jan 13th - Lorrie Moore, American writer
Jan 14th - Suzanne Danielle, English actress
Jan 14th - Anchee Min, Chinese writer
Jan 15th - Mario Van Peebles, Mexico, actor (Posse, South Bronx Heroes)
Jan 15th - Patrick Dixon, English entrepreneur
Jan 17th - Donna Stone, NJ, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
Jan 17th - Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian and radio personality
Jan 17th - Ann Nocenti, American comic book writer
Jan 17th - Michel Vaarten, Belgian cyclist
Jan 18th - Tom Bailey, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor)
Jan 19th - Mickael Virtue, rock keyboardist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
Jan 19th - Ottis "O J" Anderson, NFL running back (NY Giants)
Jan 19th - Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
Jan 20th - Leonard C Clements, Cherry Point NC, PGA golfer (1994 Bob Hope-2nd)
Jan 21st - Geena [Virginia] Davis, Wareham Mass, actress (Beetlejuice, Fly)
Jan 21st - Jacob Green, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawk)
Jan 21st - Shaukat Dukanwala, cricketer (Baroda off-spinner, UAE World Cup 1996)
Jan 22nd - Mike Bossy, NHL forward (NY Islanders), 1st 50 goals in 50 game
Jan 22nd - Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist
Jan 22nd - Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993)
Jan 23rd - Caroline Louise Marguerite Grimaldi, Monte Carlo Monaco, princess
Jan 23rd - Lou Schuler, American fitness journalist
Jan 24th - Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
Jan 25th - Edmund Theodore Sylvers, rocker (Sylvers)
Jan 25th - Jeff Gossett, NFL punter (Oakland Raiders)
Jan 25th - Jenifer Lewis, actress (Girl 6, Meteor Man, Sister Act)
Jan 25th - Martha Elizabeth Thomsen, Moses Lake Wash, playmate (May, 1980)
Jan 25th - Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish politician
Jan 25th - Andrew P. Harris, American politician
Jan 26th - Ashok Malhotra, cricketer (Indian batsman in 7 Tests 1982-84)
Jan 26th - Shivlal Yadav, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 102 Test wickets 1979-87)
Jan 27th - Frank Miller, US, comicbook writer (Batman-The Dark Knight Returns)
Jan 28th - Harley Jane Kozak, actress (Arachnophobia, Necessary Roughness)
Jan 28th - Nick Price, Durban South Africa, PGA golfer (1991 Byron Nelson Classic)
Jan 28th - Frank Skinner English comedian
Jan 29th - Irlene Mandrell, Corpus Christi Tx, country singer (Mandrell Sisters)
Jan 29th - Jac Bico, Dutch guitarist/singer (Tambourine)
Jan 29th - Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist
Jan 30th - William Payne Stewart, Springfield MO, PGA golfer (1983 Walt Disney)
Jan 31st - Brett "the Hitman" Hart, Alberta Canada, WWF champion
Jan 31st - Shirley F Babashoff, California, swimmer (Olympics-6 silver/2 gold-72, 76)
Feb 1st - Donna Adamek, Duarte California, bowler (BWAA Woman of Year 1978-81)
Feb 2nd - Laurie Mann, current DPS curator/geek
Feb 2nd - Sandra Joyce Cagle Milwukee WI, playmate (Feb, 1980)
Feb 3rd - Michele Greene, Las Vegas Nevada, actress (Abby Perkins-LA Law)
Feb 4th - Don Davis, American composer
Feb 4th - Evan Wolfson, American attorney and activist
Feb 5th - Craig Wilson, Beeville TX, US water polo goalie (Olym-silver-84, 88)
Feb 6th - Jerry Marotta, rocker (Orleans-Love Takes Time)
Feb 6th - Kathy Najimy, actress (Sister Act, Veronica's Closet)
Feb 6th - Robert Townsend, Chicago, comedian/actor (Hollywood Shuffle, Ratboy)
Feb 6th - Simon Phillips. Drummer of Toto (band)
Feb 7th - Carney Lansford, baseball player
Feb 7th - Damaso Garcia, baseball player
Feb 7th - Richard Cook, British jazz writer (d. 2007)
Feb 9th - Gordon Strachan, soccer player
Feb 9th - Mohammed Valli Moosa, South African leader (UDF)
Feb 10th - Debbie Brinkley, Tasmania, golfer (1990 T25 Victorian Open)
Feb 10th - Pranab Roy, cricketer (son of Pankaj, Indian batsman 1982)
Feb 13th - Doris King, Nashville Tenn, vocalist (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
Feb 13th - Thelston Payne, cricket wicket-keeper (WI 1986)
Feb 13th - Denise Austin, American fitness expert
Feb 14th - Soile Isokoski, Finnish soprano
Feb 14th - Alan Hunter, one of the original MTV VJs
Feb 15th - Bienvenida Buck, Velencia Spain, lover of Brit Peter Harding
Feb 15th - Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant, aristocrat
Feb 15th - Jake E Lee, rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
Feb 15th - Jimmy Spencer, American race car driver
Feb 15th - Steve Farhood, American boxing historian and analyst
Feb 16th - LeVar Burton, Landstuhl Germany, (Roots, Star Trek Next Generation)
Feb 17th - Loreena McKennitt, Canadian musician
Feb 18th - Marita Koch, German DR, 400m sprinter (Oly-gold-1980)
Feb 18th - Vanna White, [Rosich], N Myrtle Beach SC, TV host (Wheel of Fortune)
Feb 19th - Dave "Smoke" Stewart, Oakland California, pitcher (Oakland Athletic)
Feb 19th - Falco, [John Hoelcel], rock vocalist (Rock Me Amadeus)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 7 of 7

Feb 2nd - Liz Taylor's 3rd marriage (Mike Todd)
Jul 28th - "Wuthering Heights" actress Merle Oberon (46) weds Italian industrialist Bruno Pagliai
Sep 15th - Country music legend Patsy Cline (25) weds linotype operator Charles Dick (23) in Winchester, England
Sep 17th - Italian actress Sophia Loren (22) weds Carlo Ponti
Dec 12th - Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham
Dec 28th - "Rebel Without A Cause" actress Natalie Wood (19) weds actor Robert Wagner (27) at Scottsdale United Methodist Church in Scottsdale, Arizona
Dec 29th - "Steve and Eydie" singer duo Steve Lawrence (22) weds Eydie Gorme (29) at the home of Beldon Katleman in Las Vegas

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

Jan 31st - Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 189

Jan 1st - Ruth Draper, US elocutionist, dies at 67 or 72
Jan 1st - Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid.
Jan 4th - Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian pres (1951-57), dies at 84
Jan 7th - Al White, choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies
Jan 9th - Mary Carr Moore, composer, dies at 83
Jan 10th - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67
Jan 11th - Sir Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law (b. 1867)
Jan 14th - Humphrey Bogart, actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies at 57
Jan 16th - Alexander Cambridge, gov-gen (S Afr 1923-31/Canada 1940-5), dies at 82
Jan 16th - Arturo Toscanini, Italian US conductor (NBC), dies in NYC at 89
Jan 19th - József Dudás, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912)
Jan 20th - James Connolly, 1st Oly winner (1896) since Barasdates (369 CE), dies
Jan 21st - Arthur L Bowley, English statistician/economist, dies at 87
Jan 23rd - Willie Edwards, US black, murdered by KKK at 25
Jan 24th - Daniel Taylor, cricketer (bro of Herbie, 2 Tests for S Af 1914), dies
Jan 25th - Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
Jan 25th - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry (b. 1873)
Jan 28th - Fred Stein, TV panelist (Live Begins at 80), dies at 88
Jan 30th - Grigore Gafencu, Romanian min of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 65
Feb 1st - Friedrich von Paulus, German field marshall (Stalingrad), dies at 66
Feb 2nd - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
Feb 4th - Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66
Feb 4th - Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator, dies
Feb 5th - Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
Feb 7th - Rudolph Reti, composer, dies at 71
Feb 8th - John Von Neumann, astronomer, dies at 53
Feb 9th - Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hung admiral/regent (1920-44), dies at 88
Feb 10th - Laura Ingalls Wilder, US author (Little House on Praries), dies at 90
Feb 12th - Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82
Feb 12th - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (b. 1872)
Feb 16th - Leslie Hore-Belisha, [Lord Halifax], Brit min of Transport, dies at 63
Feb 18th - Henry N Russell, co-author (temperature-luminosity graph), dies
Feb 18th - Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
Feb 19th - Maurice Garin, French cyclist (b. 1871)
Feb 22nd - Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72
Feb 23rd - Marika Ninou, Greek singer (b. 1918)
Feb 25th - Kurt von Wolfurt, composer, dies at 76
Feb 25th - Mark Aldanov, [Mark A Landau], Russian/French chemist, dies at 70
Mar 2nd - Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70
Mar 7th - Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
Mar 8th - Othmar Schoeck, composer, dies at 70
Mar 11th - Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68
Mar 12th - Harry Dean, cricketer (England left-arm bowler in 3 Tests, 1912), dies
Mar 12th - Josephine Hull, actress (Harvey), dies at 71
Mar 13th - Lena Ashwell, Engl actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway), dies at 84
Mar 14th - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
Mar 15th - Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1886)
Mar 16th - Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian MP (communist), dies at 67
Mar 16th - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
Mar 23rd - L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77
Mar 25th - Fud Livingston, composer, dies at 50
Mar 25th - Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902)
Mar 26th - Édouard Herriot, French politician (b. 1872)
Mar 29th - Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68
Mar 31st - Gene Lockhart, NYC actor (Going My Way), dies at 65
Apr 1st - Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies
Apr 4th - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909)
Apr 8th - Frank Chester, cricketer (distinguished 1-armed Engl Test ump), dies
Apr 15th - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
Apr 19th - Charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76
Apr 19th - Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch SDAP minister (1939-45), dies at 79
Apr 22nd - Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54
Apr 23rd - William Orlamond, actor (Flesh & Devil, Words & Music), dies at 89
Apr 24th - Andries CD de Graeff, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1926-31), dies at 84
Apr 26th - Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868)
Apr 27th - Mario A Gianini, creator (maraschino cherry), dies
Apr 28th - Heinz "Pritzl" Bär, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
Apr 29th - Otallo Morales, composer, dies at 82
Apr 30th - Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven), dies at 80
May 1st - Grant Mitchell, actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82
May 2nd - Joseph McCarthy, commie hunting senator (R-Wisc), dies at 47
May 2nd - Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, composer, dies at 53
May 5th - Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer, dies at 74
May 8th - Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter, dies at 75
May 9th - Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, NY Met Opera), dies
May 9th - Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glasier, dies at 67
May 12th - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71
May 12th - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
May 14th - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
May 16th - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
May 17th - Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer, dies at 54
May 21st - Edwin St Hill, cricketer (two Tests for West Indies 1930-31), dies
May 21st - Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer (b. 1889)
May 29th - George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75
May 30th - Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies
May 31st - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
Jun 7th - Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies
Jun 9th - Robert Oboussier, composer, dies at 56
Jun 12th - James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53
Jun 17th - D Richardson, writer, dies at 84
Jun 21st - Don McBride, actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Flicka), dies at 68
Jun 21st - Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer, dies at 85
Jun 23rd - Louis Fornberg, writer, dies at 48
Jun 26th - Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
Jun 27th - Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Ultramarine), dies at 48
Jun 28th - Ede Poldini, composer, dies at 88
Jul 3rd - Richard Mohaupt, German composer (Bucolica), dies at 52
Jul 3rd - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
Jul 4th - Judy Tyler, actress (Princess-Howdy Doody), dies at 24 in car crash
Jul 5th - Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor