1948: Babe Ruth
1949: Charles Ponzi, swindler
1950: George Orwell
1951: Fanny Brice, the original Funny Girl
1952: King George VI
1953 - Hank Williams, country music singer.
1954: Enrico Fermi
1955: Emmett Till
1956: A.A. Milne, author of Winnie The Pooh
1957: Laura Ingalls Wilder
1958: Wolfgang Pauli
1959: John Foster Dulles, U.S Secretary of State
1960: Emily Post
1961: Ernest Hemingway
1962: Vita Sackville-West
1963: Patsy Cline
1963: Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis
Died on the same day (November 22) but were overshadowed by the death of some politician whose name escapes me at the moment.
ETA: Ninja’d??? Drat…make that…
1964: Glenn “Fireball” Roberts, NASCAR race driver who died in a horrible fiery race crash.
I already did 1963, but seems we have a double.
1964: Rudy Lewis, singer of the Drifters, songs such as “Up On The Roof” and “On Broadway”.
1965: Frederick Fleet, lookout aboard RMS Titanic
Looks like I got ninja’d from above AND below :dubious: so to set things back on track, here’s a two-fer:
1966: Buster Keaton
1967: Woody Guthrie