Famous Deaths for Year 1954

Months in Year 1954: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 162

Jan 1st - Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (b. 1890)
Jan 5th - Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (b. 1891)
Jan 10th - Fred Raymond, composer, dies at 53
Jan 11th - Edgar Tytgat, Flemish painter/etcher/drawer, dies at 77
Jan 11th - Emmy Arbous, Dutch actress/cabaret performer (Boefje), dies at 56
Jan 11th - Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (Brave Soldier), dies at 83
Jan 13th - Roland Diggle, composer, dies at 69
Jan 16th - Michail M Prishvin, Russian writer, dies
Jan 18th - Sydney Greenstreet, actor (Conflict, Maltese Falcon), dies at 74
Jan 19th - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (b. 1885)
Jan 20th - Fred Root, cricketer (Engld pace bowler in 3 Tests v Aus 1926), dies
Jan 20th - Warren Bardsley, cricketer (41 Tests for Australia, 2469 runs), dies
Jan 21st - Billy Jenkins, dies at 69
Jan 26th - Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor, dies at 80
Jan 27th - Paul-Marie Masson, composer, dies at 71
Jan 31st - Edwin H Armstrong, US radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63
Jan 31st - Florence Bates, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama), dies at 65
Feb 1st - Julius P Hoste, Belgium minister/newspaper publisher, dies at 69
Feb 2nd - Theodor Rogalski, composer, dies at 52
Feb 4th - Vaclav Vackar, composer, dies at 72
Feb 5th - Vittorio Gnecchi, composer, dies at 77
Feb 7th - Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, composer, dies at 54
Feb 8th - Mabel Paige, actress (Lucky Jordan), dies at 73
Feb 11th - Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (b. 1877)
Feb 12th - Dziga Vertov, [Kaufman], Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58
Feb 17th - Evert Gorter, children artist (Kindergeneeskunde), dies at 72
Feb 26th - William R Inge, English theologist/philosopher, dies at 93
Mar 4th - Georg Gohler, composer, dies at 79
Mar 4th - Noel Gay, [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer, dies at 55
Mar 5th - Julian Lowell Coolidge, mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80
Mar 6th - Jan Kalf, Dutch literature/art historian, dies at 80
Mar 6th - Louis Zimmermann, violinist, dies at 80
Mar 7th - Otto Diels, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
Mar 8th - Percy Twentyman-Jones, cricketer (pair in only Test for S Afr), dies
Mar 9th - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (b. 1912)
Mar 9th - V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)
Mar 14th - Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer, dies at 72
Mar 15th - Arthur Fickenscher, composer, dies at 82
Mar 17th - Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor, dies at 88
Mar 18th - Walter Mead, cricketer (one Test for England 1899), dies
Mar 19th - Walter Braunfels, composer, dies at 71
Mar 21st - Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer, dies at 84
Mar 28th - Francis B Young, Brit physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69
Apr 5th - Claude Delvincourt, composer, dies at 66
Apr 9th - Philip Greeley Clapp, composer, dies at 65
Apr 10th - Auguste Lumière, French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81
Apr 10th - Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst), dies at 79
Apr 10th - Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1888)
Apr 12th - Pim [Willem JH] Mulier, Dutch journalist/sports-organizer, dies at 89
Apr 13th - Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
Apr 15th - Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer, dies at 54
Apr 17th - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist (b. 1900)
Apr 25th - Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies
Apr 28th - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)
Apr 29th - Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82
May 1st - Tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50
May 2nd - Pauline de Cock-Manifarges, singer, dies at 82
May 10th - George Hirst, cricketer (36,323 1st-class runs, 2739 wickets), dies
May 14th - Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)
May 15th - William March, American writer (b. 1893)
May 16th - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61
May 16th - Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38
May 19th - Aart A van Schelven, church historian (Willem of Orange), dies at 73
May 19th - Charles Edward Ives, US composer (Unanswered Question), dies at 79
May 21st - Janos Hammerschlag, composer, dies at 68
May 23rd - H R Bromley-Davenport, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England), dies
May 25th - Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
May 26th - Franz Pfemfert, writer, dies at 74
May 26th - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)
May 27th - Herzmanovsky-Orlando, writer, dies
May 28th - Achille Longo, composer, dies at 54
May 30th - Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67
Jun 1st - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (b. 1869)
Jun 4th - Harold Hoffman, (Gov-NJ), dies at 58
Jun 7th - Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41
Jun 10th - Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87
Jun 13th - Nikolai Obouhov, composer, dies at 62
Jun 21st - Gideon Sundback, American inventor, perfected the zipper (b. 1880)
Jun 22nd - Don Hollenbeck, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 49
Jun 25th - Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Civil Code), dies at 74
Jun 27th - Francis L Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 83
Jun 28th - Red deer, in Milwaukee Zoo, oldest known deer, dies at 26
Jul 3rd - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
Jul 6th - Dirk Verbeek, actor/director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70
Jul 10th - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)
Jul 13th - Irving Pichel, dies at 63
Jul 13th - M C Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter/wife of Diego Rivera, dies at 47
Jul 14th - Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, dies at 87
Jul 14th - Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)
Jul 17th - Dirk B Nanninga, painter, dies at 85
American Gangster George Machine Gun Kelly (Jul 18th) Jul 18th - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster, dies at 59
Jul 19th - Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer, dies at 81
Jul 20th - Blair Moody, (Sen-Mich), dies at 52
Jul 24th - Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
Jul 26th - Hans Lodeizen, [Johan Frederik], poet (Travel to Congo), dies at 26
Jul 29th - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
Jul 31st - Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
Aug 1st - Charles-A Cingria, writer, dies
Aug 2nd - Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42
Aug 3rd - Colette, [Sidonie-Gabrielle], French novelist (Vagabonde), dies at 81
Aug 6th - Theo[by] Van Reijn, sculptor/drawer/lithograph, dies at 70 [or 8/10]
Aug 8th - Gino Tagliapietra, composer, dies at 67
Aug 11th - Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (b. 1886)
Aug 13th - Hermann W S Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer, dies at 71
Aug 17th - Billy Murray, singer (Denver Nightengale), dies at 77
Novelist and Performer Colette (Aug 3rd) Aug 19th - Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73
Aug 24th - Getulio D Vargas, pres/dictator Brazil: 1930-45, 51-54, suicide at 71
Sep 3rd - Eugene Pallette, actor (It's a Date, My Man Godfrey), dies at 65
Sep 5th - Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
Sep 7th - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
Sep 9th - Alfred Gradstein, composer, dies at 49
Sep 10th - Peter Anders, German opera singer, dies
Sep 11th - Licinio Refice, composer, dies at 69
Sep 19th - Tibor Harsanyi, composer, dies at 56
Sep 21st - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
Sep 24th - Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)
Sep 25th - Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Spanish essayist/philosopher, dies at 71
Sep 26th - Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)
Sep 28th - Bert Lytell, actor (Henry-One Man's Family), dies at 69
Sep 28th - Morten Korch, dies
Sep 30th - Percie Charlton, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1890), dies
Oct 3rd - Herbert Prior, actor (Pollyanna), dies at 87
Oct 5th - Flor Alpaerts, Flem composer (Tyl Uilenspiegel/Pallieter), dies at 78
Oct 6th - Hakon Borresen, composer, dies at 78
Oct 12th - George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)
Oct 20th - Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40), dies at 51
Oct 22nd - Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot, dies at 54
Oct 22nd - Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899)
Oct 23rd - Henri Zagwijn, composer, dies at 76
Oct 26th - Floris HL Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp, dies
Oct 27th - Franco Alfano, Ital (opera)composer (Puccini's Turandot), dies at 78
Oct 27th - Frank Druce, cricketer (252 runs in 5 Tests for England), dies
Impressionist Painter Henri Matisse (Nov 3rd) Nov 3rd - Henri E B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84
Nov 4th - Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31
Nov 10th - Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed
Nov 11th - John Rosamund Johnson, composer, dies at 81
Nov 13th - Fay Baker, actress (Sorority Girl), dies at 60
Nov 15th - Lionel Barrymore, [Blythe], actor (Dr Kildare, Key Largo), dies at 76
Nov 19th - Walter Bartley Wilson, founding member of Cardiff City F.C. (b. 1870)
Nov 21st - Karol Rathaus, composer, dies at 59
Nov 21st - Prof Werner Elert, German Lutheran theologist, dies at 69
Nov 22nd - Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian UN ambassador, dies at 70
Nov 22nd - Moroni Olsen, actor (Possessed), dies at 65
Nov 22nd - Roderick McMahon, Professional Wrestling/Boxing Booker (b. 1882)
Nov 26th - Bill Doak, former Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1891)
Nov 28th - Enrico Fermi, Italian/US physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53
Nov 29th - Enrico Fermi, Italian/US nuclear physicist, dies
Nov 29th - George Edward Robey, English comic/actor (Henry IV), dies at 85
Nov 29th - Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
Nov 30th - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)