Famous Deaths for Year 1949

Months in Year 1949: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 129 of 129

Jan 1st - Malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63
Jan 9th - Amilcare Zanella, composer, dies at 75
Jan 10th - Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)
Jan 14th - Joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (Rima), dies at 66
Jan 15th - Black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie)
Jan 15th - Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63
Jan 20th - Josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87
Jan 22nd - William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
Jan 25th - Emil Axman, composer, dies at 61
Jan 25th - Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesman　(b. 1861)
Jan 26th - Victor Fleming, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65
Jan 27th - Boris Asafiev, composer, dies at 64
Jan 28th - Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist, composer, dies at 62
Jan 31st - Henri de Vries, [Hendricus Walterop], actor (Cleopatra), dies at 84
Feb 1st - Herbert Stothart, composer, dies at 63
Feb 5th - Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer, dies at 50
Feb 8th - Franco Leoni, composer, dies at 81
Feb 8th - Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, composer, dies at 54
Feb 9th - Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60
Director Victor Fleming (Jan 26th) Feb 12th - Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
Feb 14th - Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
Feb 18th - Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71
Feb 19th - Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83
Feb 21st - Ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78
Feb 22nd - Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies
Feb 28th - Stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65
Mar 7th - Francis Dodd, English artist (b. 1874)
Mar 10th - James Rector, American athlete (b. 1884)
Mar 11th - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76
Mar 12th - Maria "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95
Mar 13th - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
Mar 14th - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)
Mar 17th - Felix Bressart, actor (Escape, Ninotchka, Iceland), dies at 54
Mar 17th - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (b. 1882)
Mar 25th - Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54
Mar 28th - Grigoras Dinicu, composer, dies at 59
Mar 30th - Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
Mar 30th - Friedrich C R Bergius, chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64
Apr 3rd - Basil Harwood, composer, dies at 89
Apr 6th - Stanley Christopherson, cricketer (1884, MCC Pres during WWII), dies
Apr 13th - C V France, dies at 80
Apr 14th - Joseph A Cushman, US paleontologist, dies at 68
Apr 15th - Wallace Beery, US actor (The Champ), dies at 64
Apr 16th - Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54
Apr 18th - Leonard Bloomfield, linguist/philosopher, dies
Apr 18th - Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
Apr 19th - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
Apr 28th - Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888)
May 6th - A L Ochse, cricketer (10 wickets in 3 Tests for S Afr 1927-29), dies
Author and Nobel Laureate Maurice Maeterlinck (May 6th) May 6th - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86
May 9th - Louis II, Prince of Monaco, dies
May 11th - Adrianus PHA de Kleyn, throat/nose/otologist (ear doctor), dies at 65
May 16th - William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies
May 18th - James T Adams, US historian (Pulitzer 1921)
May 20th - Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)
May 21st - Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42
May 22nd - Hans Erich Pfitzner, Russian/German composer, dies at 80
May 22nd - Klaus H T Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies
May 24th - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (b. 1873)
May 25th - Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WW II), dies at 47
May 27th - Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY
Jun 2nd - Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer, dies at 82
Jun 2nd - Ernest Ford, composer, dies at 91
Jun 3rd - Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America dies at 79
Jun 10th - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
Jun 11th - Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed
Jun 11th - Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71
Jun 19th - Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
Jun 25th - Buck Freeman, baseball player (b. 1871)
Jun 26th - Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
Jun 29th - Walter Giffen, cricketer (brother of George, 3 Tests), dies
Jul 1st - Louis Davids, [Simon David], cabaret artist, dies at 65
Jul 2nd - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49), dies at 67
Jul 7th - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
Jul 8th - Antun Sa'ada, Syrian rightwing politician, executed in Lebanon
Jul 8th - Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli, composer, dies at 66
Jul 9th - Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer, dies at 75
Jul 12th - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
Jul 14th - Frank Hearne, cricketer (2 Tests for England, 4 Tests for S Afr), dies
Jul 16th - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
Jul 18th - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
Aug 9th - Harry Davenport, actor (Cowboy & Lady, Enchanted Forest), dies at 83
Aug 11th - Karl Weigl, composer, dies at 68
Aug 14th - Husni al-Barazi, premier of Syria, shot to death
Aug 14th - Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death
Author Margaret Mitchell (Aug 16th) Aug 16th - Margaret Mitchell, US writer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 48
Aug 17th - Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (b. 1891)
Aug 18th - Paul J Mares, US jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49
Aug 21st - Gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75
Aug 26th - Nico van Suchtelen, publisher, dies at 70
Aug 27th - Arthur Chesney, actor (Lodger, Chelsea Life), dies at 67
Aug 30th - Arthur Fielder, England cricket fast bowler (6 Tests 1903-08), dies
Aug 31st - Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (actinium), dies
Aug 31st - Paul Hoffer, composer, dies at 53
Sep 7th - José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
Sep 8th - Richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85
Sep 11th - Henri Rabaud, French composer/conductor (L'ete), dies at 75
Sep 13th - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, dies at 75
Sep 18th - Frank Morgan, actor (Wizard of Oz), dies at 59
Sep 19th - Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
Zoophysiologist and Nobel Laureate August Krogh (Sep 13th) Sep 19th - George Shiels, Irish dramatist (b. 1886)
Sep 20th - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer, dies at 45
Sep 20th - Richard Dix, actor (Tombstone, Ghost Ship, 13th Hour), dies at 56
Sep 22nd - Sam Wood, US communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66
Sep 24th - Pierre Breville, composer, dies at 88
Oct 4th - Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, dies at 75
Oct 6th - Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70
Oct 9th - Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, composer, dies at 70
Oct 16th - Hale Ascher VanderCook, composer, dies at 85
Oct 24th - Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer, dies at 70
Oct 27th - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
Oct 27th - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
Oct 29th - G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872)
Oct 31st - Edward R Stettinius, US foreign minister (1944-45)/diplomat, dies
Nov 1st - Leslie Gay, cricket wicket-keeper/goalkeeper (England in 1890's), dies
Nov 2nd - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
Nov 3rd - Solomon R Guggenheim, US art collector, dies at 88
Nov 8th - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (b. 1874)
Nov 12th - Hendrik A de Fish, [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological, dies at 64
Nov 19th - James Ensor, Flemish painter/etcher (Oestereetster), dies at 89
Nov 23rd - Gustav Radbruch, German Min of Justice, dies
Nov 25th - Luther "Bill" Robinson, "Bojangles" famed tap dancer, dies at 71
Dec 3rd - Elin Pelin, writer, dies
Dec 3rd - Maria Ouspenskaya, actress (Spookies), dies at 62
Blues Musician Lead Belly (Dec 6th) Dec 6th - Lead Belly, [Huddie William Ledbetter], blues singer, dies at 64
Dec 16th - Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgarian communist vice-premier, executed
Dec 17th - David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72
Dec 28th - Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39
Dec 28th - W Hervey Allen, US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60