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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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




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