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4 Deaths

4.1 January-May

January 3 - Joy Adamson, conservationist and author of Born Free (killed by a servant in northern Kenya).
January 8 - John Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC computer
January 10 - George Meany, labor leader
January 18 - Sir Cecil Beaton, fashion designer
January 29 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillian
January 30 - Professor Longhair, King of New Orleans music
February 7 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
February 13 - David Janssen, actor
February 19 - Bon Scott, lead singer for AC/DC
March 5 - Jay Silverheels, actor
March 16 - Tamara de Lempicka, Art Deco painter
March 29 - Mantovani , musician
March 31 - Jesse Owens, American athlete
April 4 - Red Sovine , country music entertainer
April 12 - Clark McConachy, snooker and billiards player
April 29 - Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (b. 1899)
May 4 - Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia (born 1892)
May 18 - Ian Curtis, band member of Joy Division
May 28 - Rolf Nevanlinna, mathematician (born 1895)

4.2 June-November

June 7 - Henry Miller, writer
June 13 - Walter Rodney, historian, political figure
June 21 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter
June 23 - Clyfford Still, painter
July 7 - Dore Schary, stage/motion picture personality
July 17 - Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
July 24 - Peter Sellers, actor
August 7 - Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix
August 10 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan
August 14 - Dorothy Stratten, Playboy playmate (murdered)
August 24 - Yootha Joyce, British actress
September 25 - John Bonham, drummer of Led Zeppelin
October 25 - Victor Galindez, boxing light heavyweight world champion, in car race accident.
November 7 - Steve McQueen, actor
November 4 - Elsie MacGill, aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes"
November 20 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia
November 22 - Mae West, actress

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