Famous Deaths for Year 1967

Months in Year 1967: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 328

Jan 1st - Maurice Leyland, cricketer (41 Tests for England, 2764 runs), dies
Jan 1st - Moon Mullican, rocker, dies at 58
Jan 3rd - Jack Ruby, assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at 55
Jan 3rd - Mary Garden, opera star, dies at 92
Jan 4th - Donald Campbell, boat racer, dies trying to break 300 mph on water
Jan 6th - Arnhem "Tata" Joseph Weiss, "the Zigeunerbaron," buried
Jan 6th - Johnny Keane, baseball player/mgr (Cards, NY Yanks), dies at 55
Jan 7th - Carl Schuricht, composer, dies at 86
Jan 7th - Sid Emery, cricket leg-spinner (NSW & Aus, 5 wkt in 1912 series), dies
Jan 7th - David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
Jan 8th - Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (See You Tommorrow), dies at 39
Jan 10th - Emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66
Jan 10th - Vilem Petrzelka, composer, dies at 77
Jan 14th - Renato Lunelli, composer, dies at 71
Jan 15th - Albert Szirmai, composer, dies at 86
Jan 15th - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
Jan 16th - Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Sage of Kai-Roi), dies at 72
Jan 16th - Robert J Van De Graaff, US nuclear physicist, dies at 65
Jan 17th - Evelyn Nesbit, actress (Redemption), dies at 82
Murderer Jack Ruby (Jan 3rd) Jan 18th - Albert Conti, actor (Eagle, Jazz Heaven, Topaz), dies at 79
Jan 18th - Barney Ross, welterweight Boxing Champ (1934), dies at 57
Jan 18th - Harry Antrim, actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies of heart attack at 83
Jan 18th - Reese "Goose" Tatum, basketballer (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 45
Jan 18th - Simon FHJ Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, vicar/theologist, dies at 84
Jan 19th - Grace Cunard, actress (Untamed, Ressurection), dies at 73
Jan 21st - Ann Sheridan, actress (Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies of cancer at 51
Jan 22nd - Jobyna Ralston, actress (Wings, Girl Shy, Freshman), dies at 66
Jan 22nd - Robert Henriques, English writer (b. 1905)
Jan 24th - Howard Charles Shaiffer, entertainer, dies at 49
Jan 26th - Albert Remy, actor (Blows), dies at 55
Jan 26th - Kenneth Thomson, actor (White Gold), dies of emphysema at 68
Jan 27th - Alphonse Juin, French marshal, dies at 78
Jan 27th - Edward Higgins White II, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4), dies at 36
Jan 27th - Roger B Chaffee, astronaut, dies at 31 in Apollo I fire
Jan 27th - Virgil I (Gus) Grissom, astronaut, dies at 40 in Apollo I fire
Jan 28th - Stanley Coen, cricket (2 Tests for S Af, hs 41 not out, avg 50), dies
Jan 29th - Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer, dies at 62
Jan 30th - Lee Morgan, actor (Dungeons of Harrow, Last Rebel), dies
Jan 31st - Chief Thundercloud, actor (Ambush, Colt 45, Typhoon), dies at 100
Jan 31st - Otto Dibelius, German theologian/bishop, dies at 86
Jan 31st - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
Feb 1st - Ernie Bromley, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1933-34), dies
Feb 3rd - Joe Meek, rocker (Tornados)/producer (Telstar), commits suicide
Feb 3rd - Winifred Kingston, silent screen actress (David Garrick), dies at 72
Feb 4th - Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)
Feb 5th - Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Jokaste against God), dies at 87
Feb 5th - Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)
Feb 6th - Martine Carol, French actress (Nana), dies of heart attack at 46
Feb 7th - Henry Morgenthau, US minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies at 74
Feb 14th - James Schneider, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 85
Feb 14th - Sig Ruman, actor (Schultz-Life With Luigi), dies at 82
Feb 15th - Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor/director (It, Careers), dies at 79
Feb 15th - William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador in USSR, dies at 76
Feb 16th - Smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55
Feb 18th - Manuel Palau Boix, composer, dies at 74
Feb 18th - Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies at 62
Feb 18th - Dragiša Cvetković, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister (b. 1893)
Feb 19th - Wilmer King, 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies
Feb 21st - Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
Feb 22nd - Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies at 53
Feb 22nd - Joe Forte, actor (Horwitz-Life With Luigi), dies at 70
Feb 24th - Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60
Feb 25th - John Griggs, actor (Joey Bishop Show), dies at 57
Feb 26th - Harry McNaughton, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 70
Feb 28th - Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
Mar 2nd - Gordon Harker, actor (Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81
Mar 2nd - José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873)
Mar 3rd - Georges Lonque, composer, dies at 66
Mar 4th - Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905)
Mar 4th - Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
Mar 5th - Mischa Auer, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 61 of a heart attack
Mar 5th - Mohammed H Mossadeq, premier of Persia (1951-53), dies
Mar 5th - Georges Vanier, Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
Mar 6th - Nelson Eddy, US baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 65
Mar 6th - Oscar Shaw, actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at 76
Mar 6th - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
Mar 7th - Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
Mar 8th - John F Bothwell, actor (Freckles-Our Gang), dies at 46
Mar 10th - Yiorgos Batis, Greek composer and musician (b. 1885)
Mar 11th - Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85
Mar 13th - Frank Worrell, West indian cricketer, dies
Mar 16th - James Friskin, composer, dies at 80
Mar 17th - Frank Wisbar, director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67
Mar 17th - Richard Reeves, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel), dies at 54
Mar 18th - Jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42
Mar 20th - A J F Moody, 1st US Army General to die in Vietnam
Mar 23rd - Duncan Macrae, actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped), dies at 61
Mar 24th - Marc Lavry, composer, dies at 63
Mar 25th - Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c.1913)
Mar 27th - Gerardus H de Vet, the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49
Mar 27th - Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)
Mar 30th - Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
Mar 31st - Don Alvarado, actor (Morning Glory, Big Steal), dies at 62
Mar 31st - Hieronim Feicht, composer, dies at 72
Apr 4th - Mischa Elman, Ukraine/US violinist, dies at 76
Apr 4th - Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1898)
Apr 4th - Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
Apr 5th - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890)
Apr 7th - Anne Morrison Chapin, dies in West Hollywood
Apr 11th - Donald Sangster, Jamaican prime-minister (b. 1911)
Apr 13th - Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44
Apr 15th - Antonio de Curtis Toto, comedian, dies of heart attack at 69
Apr 17th - Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
Apr 18th - Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (Apr 19th) Apr 19th - Konrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91
Apr 21st - Andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77
Apr 22nd - Tom Conway, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show), dies at 62
Apr 24th - Frank Overton, actor (12 O'Clock High), dies at 48
Apr 24th - Vladimir M Komarov, cosmonaut (Voshkod I), dies in Soyuz 1 at 40
Apr 29th - Anthony Mann, US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60
Apr 29th - J.B. Lenoir, American Blues Musician (b. 1929)
May 4th - Bengt Axel von Torne, composer, dies at 75
May 6th - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
May 7th - Judith Evelyn, dies of cancer at 54
May 7th - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver (b. 1935)
May 8th - Barbara Payton, actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde), dies at 39
May 8th - Elmer Rice, NY playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74
May 8th - Laverne Andrews, singer (Andrews Sisters), dies at 51
May 9th - Elmar Berkovich, Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies
May 9th - Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer, dies at 35
May 10th - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver, (b. 1935)
May 12th - Julius Kalas, composer, dies at 64
May 12th - John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878)
May 13th - Frank McGrath, actor (Wagon Train), dies at 64
May 15th - Edward Hopper, US painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84
May 15th - Jaromir Fiala, composer, dies at 74
May 17th - John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 65
May 17th - Nigel Martin Balchin, novelist, dies
May 18th - Andy Clyde, Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick, dies at 75
May 18th - Richard Ainley, actor (I Dood It, Above Suspicion), dies at 56
May 22nd - James Langston Hughes, American poet laureate, dies at 65
May 23rd - Philip Coolidge, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler), dies at 58
May 23rd - Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30
May 26th - Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician, dies at 60
May 26th - George E Stone, actor (5 Star Final, Front Page), dies at 64
May 27th - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
May 29th - Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer, dies at 69
May 30th - Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77
May 31st - Billy Strayhorn, American composer, pianist and arranger (b. 1915)
Jun 2nd - Zamah Cunningham, actress (Menosha the Magnificent), dies at 74
Jun 2nd - Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
Jun 3rd - Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies
Jun 3rd - Arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II), dies at 76
Jun 3rd - Gertrude "Mickey" MacFadden, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 67
Jun 5th - Edna Park Edwards, entertainer, dies at 72
Jun 6th - Edward G Givens Jr, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47
Short Story Writer Dorothy Parker (Jun 7th) Jun 7th - Dorothy Parker, US writer (Enough Rope), dies at 73
Jun 7th - Pauline Brooks, actress (Make a Million), dies of cancer at 54
Jun 7th - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
Jun 8th - Elliot Griffis, composer, dies at 74