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January 13 - Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S Vice President and Senator
January 13 - Joe McCarthy, baseball manager
January 14 - Kurt Gödel, US mathematician
January 14 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete
January 23 - Jack Oakie , actor
January 23 - Terry Kath, musician (" Chicago (band)")
February 4 - Bergen Evans , television host
February 11 - James B Conant, headmaster of Harvard University.
February 27 - Vadim Salmanov, composer
March 18 - Leigh Brackett, science fiction author
March 19 - Gaston Julia, mathematician ( Julia Sets)
March 21 - Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, fifth President of Ireland
March 31 - Charles Best, medical scientist
May 1 - Aram Khachaturian, composer
May 9 - Aldo Moro, former Prime Minister of Italy
May 14 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia
May 22 - Joe Colombo, gangster - he had been in coma since the assassination attempt
July 30 - Umberto Nobile, Italian aviator
August 2 - Carlos Chávez, composer
August 6 - Pope Paul VI; heart attack
August 21 - Charles Eames, American architect and designer
August 22 - Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan statesman
August 26 - Charles Boyer, actor
September 7 - Keith Moon, drummer of The Who; drug overdose.
September 9 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder
September 11 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident; assassinated with a poisoned umbrella. Dies 4 days later.
September 15 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft engineer
September 19 - Carl Bridgewater, 13 year old newspaper boy shot dead in burglary.
September 28 - Pope John Paul I
October 10 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete
October 22 - Anastas Mikojan , Soviet politician
November 6 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)
November 15 - Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist
December 8 - Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of Israel
December 10 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (b. 1924)
December 27 - Houari Boumédiènne, president of Algeria.
? - Walter C. Alvarez

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