LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
James Truslow Adams	Author	18-Oct-1878	18-May-1949	The Epic of America
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora	Government	6-Jul-1877	18-Feb-1949	1st President of the Second Spanish Republic
Hervey Allen	Poet	8-Dec-1889	28-Dec-1949	Ballads of the Border
Mary Antin	Author	1881	15-May-1949	The Promised Land
Hassan al-Banna	Activist	14-Oct-1906	12-Feb-1949	Founder of The Muslim Brotherhood
Philip Barry	Playwright	18-Jun-1896	3-Dec-1949	The Philadelphia Story
Wallace Beery	Actor	1-Apr-1885	15-Apr-1949	Grand Hotel
Friedrich Bergius	Chemist	11-Oct-1884	30-Mar-1949	Hydrogenation of coal
Clifford K. Berryman	Cartoonist	2-Apr-1869	11-Dec-1949	Political cartoonist
Leonard Bloomfield	Linguist	1-Apr-1887	18-Apr-1949	Structural linguistics of Tagalog
Roman Bohnen	Actor	24-Nov-1894	24-Feb-1949	Of Mice and Men
Felix Bressart	Actor	2-Mar-1892	17-Mar-1949	To Be or Not to Be
Buddy Clark	Singer	26-Jul-1912	1-Oct-1949	How Are Things in Glocca Mora
John Robert Clynes	Politician	27-Mar-1869	23-Oct-1949	UK Home Secretary, 1929-31
Harry Davenport	Actor	19-Jan-1866	9-Aug-1949	Gone with the Wind
Richard Dix	Actor	18-Jul-1893	20-Sep-1949	Cimarron
James Ensor	Painter	13-Apr-1860	19-Nov-1949	Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889
Victor Fleming	Film Director	23-Feb-1883	6-Jan-1949	Gone With the Wind
James V. Forrestal	Government	15-Feb-1892	22-May-1949	US Secretary of Defense, 1947-49
A. P. Giannini	Business	6-May-1870	3-Jun-1949	Founder of Bank of America
Nathuram Vinayak Godse	Assassin	19-May-1910	15-Nov-1949	Assassinated Gandhi
John Oliver La Gorce	Explorer	1880	1949	Antarctica explorer, National Geographic editor
Thomas P. Gore	Politician	10-Dec-1870	16-Mar-1949	Blind US Senator from Oklahoma
G. I. Gurdjieff	Philosopher	1877	29-Oct-1949	Esoteric philosopher, The Fourth Way
Will Hay	Actor	6-Dec-1888	18-Apr-1949	Ask a Policeman
Julius P. Heil	Politician	24-Jul-1876	30-Nov-1949	Governor of Wisconsin, 1939-43
Helen Hokinson	Cartoonist	29-Jun-1893	1-Nov-1949	Cartoonist for The New Yorker
Bunk Johnson	Jazz Musician	27-Dec-1889	7-Jul-1949	New Orleans jazz trumpeter
August Krogh	Scientist	15-Nov-1874	13-Sep-1949	Discovered how capillaries regulate oxygen
Leadbelly	Guitarist	29-Jan-1885	6-Dec-1949	Goodnight Irene
Fritz Leiber	Actor	31-Jan-1882	14-Oct-1949	Shakespearean actor
Maurice Maeterlinck	Playwright	29-Aug-1862	6-May-1949	Pelléas et Mélisande
Elton Mayo	Psychologist	26-Dec-1880	7-Sep-1949	Student of Industrial Civilization
Margaret Mitchell	Novelist	8-Nov-1900	16-Aug-1949	Gone With the Wind
Frank Morgan	Actor	1-Jun-1890	18-Sep-1949	The Wizard of Oz
Frank Murphy	Judge	13-Apr-1890	19-Jul-1949	US Supreme Court Justice, 1940-49
José Clemente Orozco	Painter	23-Nov-1883	7-Sep-1949	20th c. Mexican muralist
Maria Ouspenskaya	Actor	29-Jul-1876	3-Dec-1949	Waterloo Bridge
Charles Ponzi	Criminal	3-Mar-1882	18-Jun-1949	Get-rich-quick schemes
Craig Reynolds	Actor	15-Jul-1907	22-Oct-1949	The Fatal Hour
Robert L. Ripley	Curator	25-Dec-1890	27-May-1949	Believe It or Not!
Bill Robinson	Dancer	25-May-1878	25-Nov-1949	Bojangles
Wiley Rutledge	Judge	20-Jul-1894	10-Sep-1949	US Supreme Court Justice, 1943-49
Edward Stettinius, Jr.	Government	22-Oct-1900	31-Oct-1949	US Secretary of State, 1944-45
Richard Strauss	Composer	11-Jun-1864	8-Sep-1949	Also sprach Zarathustra
Slim Summerville	Actor	10-Jul-1892	6-Jan-1949	The Front Page
Sigrid Undset	Author	20-May-1882	10-Jun-1949	Kristin Lavransdåtter
Ray Lyman Wilbur	Educator	13-Apr-1875	26-Jun-1949	President of Stanford University, 1916-43
Sam Wood	Film Director	10-Jul-1883	22-Sep-1949	Goodbye, Mr. Chips

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