The Year of Death Game

1928: Arnold Rothstein, organized crime

1929: J. J. Riordan, one of the few financial titans who actually committed suicide in the wake of the Great Crash.

1930: Arthur Conan Doyle

1931: Peter Kurten- German serial killer known as the “Vampire of Dusseldorf”

1932: Charles Lindbergh, Jr.

1933: Giuseppe Zangara, attempted assassin of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt

1934: Winsor McCay

Well, who else would I name?

1395 - Arizona Donnie “Ma” Barker, American gangster.

1936: Albert Fish, American serial killer

1937: J. Bruce Ismay

He pointedly did not die in 1912.

1938: Clarence Darrow

A great Ohio lawyer, just like my dad, and even born on the same day (although quite a few years apart).

1939 - Amelia Earhart, aviator. Disappeared in 1937, declared dead in 1939.

1940: Neville Chamberlain

1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, astronomer

1942: Carole Lombard

1943: Sophie Scholl

A White Rose resistance member and very heroic young German woman: Sophie Scholl - Wikipedia

1944: Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., first-born son of Joseph P. Kennedy and older brother of JFK.

1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt

1946: Booth Tarkington

1947 - Willa Cather, novelist