Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Konrad Adenauer |
Politician |
5-Jan-1876 |
19-Apr-1967 |
Chancellor of West Germany, 1949-61 |
Red Allen |
Jazz Musician |
7-Jan-1908 |
17-Apr-1967 |
Jazz trumpeter |
Gordon W. Allport |
Psychologist |
11-Nov-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
Personality: A Psychological Interpretation |
LaVerne Andrews |
Singer |
6-Jul-1911 |
8-May-1967 |
The Andrews Sisters |
Norman Angell |
Economist |
26-Dec-1872 |
7-Oct-1967 |
The Great Illusion |
Harry Antrim |
Actor |
27-Aug-1884 |
18-Jan-1967 |
Vaudevillian, Hollywood character actor |
Clement Attlee |
Head of State |
3-Jan-1883 |
8-Oct-1967 |
UK Prime Minister, 1945-51 |
Mischa Auer |
Actor |
17-Nov-1905 |
5-Mar-1967 |
My Man Godfrey |
Roger Babson |
Economist |
6-Jul-1875 |
5-Mar-1967 |
Founder of Babson College |
Burt Baskin |
Business |
17-Dec-1913 |
24-Dec-1967 |
Co-Founder of Baskin-Robbins |
L. L. Bean |
Business |
13-Nov-1872 |
5-Feb-1967 |
Founder of L. L. Bean, Inc. |
Charles Bickford |
Actor |
1-Jan-1891 |
9-Nov-1967 |
The Song of Bernadette |
Randy Brooks |
Musician |
28-Mar-1917 |
21-Mar-1967 |
Big band leader/trumpet player, Tenderly |
Stanley Bruce |
Head of State |
15-Apr-1883 |
25-Aug-1967 |
Prime Minister of Australia, 1923-29 |
William C. Bullitt |
Diplomat |
25-Jan-1891 |
15-Feb-1967 |
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1933-36 |
Smiley Burnette |
Singer/Songwriter |
18-Mar-1911 |
16-Feb-1967 |
Frog Millhouse |
Martine Carol |
Actor |
16-May-1920 |
6-Feb-1967 |
Lola Montès |
Guy Chamberlin |
Football |
16-Jan-1894 |
4-Apr-1967 |
The Champ |
Grenville Clark |
Attorney |
5-Nov-1882 |
13-Jan-1967 |
World Peace Through World Law |
Andy Clyde |
Actor |
25-Mar-1892 |
18-May-1967 |
Cully Wilson on Lassie |
John Cockcroft |
Physicist |
27-May-1897 |
18-Sep-1967 |
Split the atom |
John Coltrane |
Jazz Musician |
23-Sep-1926 |
17-Jul-1967 |
Jazz tenor saxophonist |
Albert Conti |
Actor |
29-Jan-1887 |
18-Jan-1967 |
American character actor |
Tom Conway |
Actor |
15-Sep-1904 |
22-Apr-1967 |
I Walked with a Zombie |
Jane Darwell |
Actor |
15-Oct-1879 |
13-Aug-1967 |
The bird woman in Mary Poppins |
Reginald Denny |
Actor |
20-Nov-1891 |
16-Jun-1967 |
English actor and RC airplane popularizer |
Françoise Dorléac |
Actor |
21-Mar-1942 |
26-Jun-1967 |
Cul-de-sac |
James Dunn |
Actor |
2-Nov-1901 |
1-Sep-1967 |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Julien Duvivier |
Film Director |
3-Oct-1896 |
30-Oct-1967 |
Pépé le Moko |
Eddie Eagan |
Boxing |
26-Apr-1897 |
14-Jun-1967 |
Won Summer and Winter Olympic Gold |
Nelson Eddy |
Singer |
29-Jun-1901 |
6-Mar-1967 |
Phantom of the Opera |
Mischa Elman |
Violinist |
20-Jan-1891 |
5-Apr-1967 |
Ukrainian-American violin prodigy |
Leo Elthon |
Politician |
9-Jun-1898 |
16-Apr-1967 |
Governor of Iowa, 1954-55 |
Brian Epstein |
Business |
19-Sep-1934 |
27-Aug-1967 |
Manager of The Beatles |
Stuart Erwin |
Actor |
14-Feb-1903 |
21-Dec-1967 |
The Stu Erwin Show |
Bernard Fall |
Journalist |
19-Nov-1926 |
21-Feb-1967 |
Scholar of the Vietnam conflict |
Geraldine Farrar |
Singer |
28-Feb-1882 |
11-Mar-1967 |
Soprano, New York Metropolitan Opera |
Martin Flavin |
Novelist |
2-Nov-1883 |
27-Dec-1967 |
Journey in the Dark |
Jimmie Foxx |
Baseball |
22-Oct-1907 |
21-Jul-1967 |
Seven-time All Star, 534 home runs |
Waldo Frank |
Author |
25-Aug-1889 |
9-Jan-1967 |
American cultural critic and social historian |
Howard Freeman |
Actor |
9-Dec-1899 |
11-Dec-1967 |
Theatre and character actor |
Mary Garden |
Singer |
20-Feb-1874 |
3-Jan-1967 |
Operatic soprano |
John Nance Garner |
Politician |
22-Nov-1868 |
7-Nov-1967 |
US Vice President, 1933-41 |
Gwilym Lloyd George |
Politician |
4-Dec-1894 |
14-Feb-1967 |
UK Home Secretary, 1954-57 |
Hugo Gernsback |
Author |
16-Aug-1884 |
19-Aug-1967 |
Founded Amazing Stories in 1926 |
Victor Gollancz |
Publisher |
9-Apr-1893 |
8-Feb-1967 |
Founder of Victor Gollancz, Ltd. |
Oskar Maria Graf |
Author |
22-Jul-1894 |
28-Jun-1967 |
Wir sind Gefangene |
Gus Grissom |
Astronaut |
3-Apr-1926 |
27-Jan-1967 |
Second American in space |
Che Guevara |
Activist |
14-Jun-1928 |
9-Oct-1967 |
Revolutionary icon |
Woody Guthrie |
Singer/Songwriter |
14-Jul-1912 |
3-Oct-1967 |
Folk legend |
Ejnar Hertzsprung |
Astronomer |
8-Oct-1873 |
21-Oct-1967 |
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram |
Jaroslav Heyrovsky |
Chemist |
20-Dec-1890 |
27-Mar-1967 |
Polarography |
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
The Kinetics of Chemical Change |
Harold Holt |
Head of State |
5-Aug-1908 |
17-Dec-1967 |
Prime Minister of Australia, 1966-67 |
Edward Hopper |
Painter |
22-Jul-1882 |
15-May-1967 |
American realist painter, Nighthawks |
Langston Hughes |
Poet |
1-Feb-1902 |
22-May-1967 |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
Laura Ingalls |
Aviator |
14-Dec-1893 |
10-Jan-1967 |
Aviatrix and Nazi sympathizer |
Henry J. Kaiser |
Business |
9-May-1882 |
24-Aug-1967 |
Industrialist and shipbuilder |
George Kelly |
Psychologist |
28-Apr-1905 |
6-Mar-1967 |
Personal Construct Theory of personality |
Margaret Kennedy |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1896 |
31-Jul-1967 |
The Constant Nymph |
Bernard Kilgore |
Publisher |
9-Nov-1908 |
14-Nov-1967 |
President of Dow Jones, 1945-66 |
Willard M. Kiplinger |
Journalist |
8-Jan-1891 |
6-Aug-1967 |
Kiplinger Washington Editors |
Fred C. Koch |
Business |
23-Sep-1900 |
Nov-1967 |
Founder, Koch Industries |
Zoltán Kodály |
Composer |
16-Dec-1882 |
6-Mar-1967 |
Psalmus Hungaricus |
Vladimir Komarov |
Astronaut |
16-Mar-1927 |
24-Apr-1967 |
Pilot of Soyuz 1 plunged to his death |
Alfried Krupp |
Business |
13-Aug-1907 |
30-Jul-1967 |
Nazi munitions maker, convicted war criminal |
Richard Kuhn |
Chemist |
3-Dec-1900 |
1-Aug-1967 |
Carotenoids, and vitamins B2 and B6 |
Bert Lahr |
Actor |
13-Aug-1895 |
4-Dec-1967 |
Lion in The Wizard of Oz |
William Preston Lane, Jr. |
Politician |
12-May-1892 |
7-Feb-1967 |
Governor of Maryland, 1947-51 |
Vivien Leigh |
Actor |
5-Nov-1913 |
8-Jul-1967 |
Gone With The Wind |
Henry R. Luce |
Business |
3-Apr-1898 |
28-Feb-1967 |
Founded Time Magazine |
Albert Lutuli |
Activist |
c. 1898 |
21-Jul-1967 |
ANC president, Nobel Prize recipient |
Walter Macken |
Novelist |
3-May-1915 |
22-Apr-1967 |
Rain on the Wind |
Duncan Macrae |
Actor |
20-Aug-1905 |
23-Mar-1967 |
The Little Kidnappers |
René Magritte |
Painter |
21-Nov-1898 |
15-Aug-1967 |
Ceci n'est pas une pipe |
Anthony Mann |
Film Director |
30-Jun-1906 |
29-Apr-1967 |
El Cid |
Jayne Mansfield |
Actor |
19-Apr-1933 |
29-Jun-1967 |
The Girl Can't Help It |
Edward Martin |
Politician |
18-Sep-1879 |
19-Mar-1967 |
Governor and Senator from Pennsylvania |
José Martínez Ruiz |
Author |
8-Jun-1873 |
4-Mar-1967 |
Generation of '98 |
John Masefield |
Poet |
1-Jun-1878 |
12-May-1967 |
Poet Laureate of England, 1930-67 |
Vincent Massey |
Government |
20-Feb-1887 |
30-Dec-1967 |
Governor-General of Canada, 1952-59 |
André Maurois |
Author |
26-Jul-1885 |
9-Oct-1967 |
French biographer |
David Maxwell Fyfe |
Politician |
29-May-1900 |
27-Jan-1967 |
UK Home Secretary, 1951-54 |
Carson McCullers |
Author |
19-Feb-1917 |
29-Sep-1967 |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
Frank McGrath |
Actor |
2-Feb-1903 |
13-May-1967 |
Charlie Wooster on Wagon Train |
Stephen McKenna |
Novelist |
27-Feb-1888 |
26-Sep-1967 |
The Education of Eric Lane |
Joe Meek |
Music Producer |
5-Apr-1929 |
3-Feb-1967 |
Innovative record producer |
Antonio Moreno |
Actor |
26-Sep-1887 |
15-Feb-1967 |
Spanish-American character actor |
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. |
Government |
11-May-1891 |
6-Feb-1967 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1934-45 |
Stanley Morison |
Typographer |
6-May-1889 |
11-Oct-1967 |
Times New Roman |
Mohammed Mossadegh |
Head of State |
19-May-1882 |
5-Mar-1967 |
Prime Minister of Iran, 1951-53 |
Hermann J. Muller |
Scientist |
21-Dec-1890 |
5-Apr-1967 |
Genetic effects of radiation |
Paul Muni |
Actor |
22-Sep-1895 |
25-Aug-1967 |
The Life of Louis Pasteur |
Fred C. Newmeyer |
Film Director |
9-Aug-1888 |
24-Apr-1967 |
Safety Last! |
Robert Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1904 |
18-Feb-1967 |
Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project |
Joe Orton |
Playwright |
1-Jan-1933 |
9-Aug-1967 |
Prick Up Your Ears |
Radhabinod Pal |
Judge |
27-Jan-1886 |
10-Jan-1967 |
Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal |
Dorothy Parker |
Author |
22-Aug-1893 |
7-Jun-1967 |
Constant Reader known for acerbic quips |
Barbara Payton |
Actor |
16-Nov-1927 |
8-May-1967 |
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye |
Nat Pendleton |
Actor |
9-Aug-1895 |
12-Oct-1967 |
At the Circus |
Gregory Pincus |
Scientist |
9-Apr-1903 |
22-Aug-1967 |
Inventor of oral contraceptives |
Reginald Punnett |
Biologist |
20-Jun-1875 |
3-Jan-1967 |
Early geneticist |
Claude Rains |
Actor |
10-Nov-1889 |
30-May-1967 |
The Invisible Man |
Jobyna Ralston |
Actor |
21-Nov-1899 |
22-Jan-1967 |
Wings |
Amanda Randolph |
Actor |
2-Sep-1896 |
24-Aug-1967 |
The Amos 'n' Andy Show |
Basil Rathbone |
Actor |
13-Jun-1892 |
21-Jul-1967 |
Played original Sherlock Holmes |
Otis Redding |
Singer/Songwriter |
9-Sep-1941 |
10-Dec-1967 |
Dock of the Bay |
Ad Reinhardt |
Painter |
24-Dec-1913 |
30-Aug-1967 |
Abstract expressionist |
Elmer Rice |
Playwright |
28-Sep-1892 |
8-May-1967 |
Street Scene |
Eurith D. Rivers |
Politician |
5-Dec-1895 |
11-Jun-1967 |
Governor of Georgia, 1937-41 |
George Rockwell |
Activist |
9-Mar-1918 |
25-Aug-1967 |
Founded American Nazi Party |
João Guimarães Rosa |
Author |
27-Jun-1908 |
19-Nov-1967 |
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands |
Jack Ruby |
Assassin |
25-Mar-1911 |
3-Jan-1967 |
Killed Lee Harvey Oswald |
Sig Ruman |
Actor |
11-Oct-1884 |
14-Feb-1967 |
Stalag 17 |
Victor de Sabata |
Conductor |
10-Apr-1892 |
11-Dec-1967 |
Music Director at La Scala, 1930-53 |
Carl Sandburg |
Author |
6-Jan-1878 |
22-Jul-1967 |
Illinois poet, Lincoln biographer |
Malcolm Sargent |
Conductor |
29-Apr-1895 |
3-Oct-1967 |
Conductor, BBC Symphony, 1950-57 |
Siegfried Sassoon |
Poet |
8-Sep-1886 |
1-Sep-1967 |
War Poems |
Béla Schick |
Doctor |
16-Jul-1877 |
6-Dec-1967 |
Schick test for diphtheria |
Ann Sheridan |
Actor |
21-Feb-1915 |
21-Jan-1967 |
Torrid Zone |
Muggsy Spanier |
Jazz Musician |
9-Nov-1906 |
12-Feb-1967 |
Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band |
Francis Cardinal Spellman |
Religion |
4-May-1889 |
2-Dec-1967 |
Archbishop of New York, 1939-67 |
Harry Steenbock |
Biologist |
16-Aug-1886 |
25-Dec-1967 |
Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D |
Billy Strayhorn |
Composer |
29-Nov-1915 |
31-May-1967 |
Take the A Train |
June Thorburn |
Actor |
8-Jun-1931 |
4-Nov-1967 |
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver |
Alice B. Toklas |
Relative |
30-Apr-1877 |
7-Mar-1967 |
Gertrude Stein's lover |
Jean Toomer |
Author |
26-Dec-1894 |
30-Mar-1967 |
Cane |
Totò |
Actor |
15-Feb-1898 |
15-Apr-1967 |
The Hawks and the Sparrows |
Spencer Tracy |
Actor |
5-Apr-1900 |
10-Jun-1967 |
Two consecutive Best Actor Oscars |
William Tracy |
Actor |
1-Sep-1917 |
18-Jun-1967 |
Terry and the Pirates |
Charles Trowbridge |
Actor |
10-Jan-1882 |
30-Oct-1967 |
The Great Lie |
John W. Tyson |
Business |
26-Jul-1905 |
15-Jan-1967 |
Founder of Tyson Foods |
A. Devitt Vanech |
Attorney |
26-Mar-1906 |
10-Sep-1967 |
Deputy US Attorney General, 1951-52 |
Anton Walbrook |
Actor |
19-Nov-1896 |
9-Aug-1967 |
The Red Shoes |
Ed White |
Astronaut |
14-Nov-1930 |
27-Jan-1967 |
First American to walk in space |
Paul Whiteman |
Musician |
28-Mar-1890 |
29-Dec-1967 |
The King of Jazz |
Claude R. Wickard |
Government |
28-Feb-1893 |
29-Apr-1967 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1940-45 |
Harry H. Woodring |
Politician |
31-May-1890 |
9-Sep-1967 |
US Secretary of War, 1936-40 |
Shigeru Yoshida |
Head of State |
22-Sep-1878 |
20-Oct-1967 |
Prime Minister of Japan, 1948-54 |