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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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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