1936: Ivan Pavlov (classical conditioning, Nobel, 1904)
1937: Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909)
1938: “Typhoid” Mary Mallon.
1939: Sigmund Freud
1940: F. Scott Fitzgerald
1941: Lord Robert Baden-Powell
1942: 184 residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia
A reprisal massacre for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
1943: Alexander Woollcott, during a live radio broadcast.
1944: Florence Foster Jenkins, American socialite and amateur opera singer.
1945: George Patton
Survived two world wars and then killed in a minor car accident.
Oct. 16, 1946, the death sentences handed out at the Nuremberg Trials were carried out. Hermann Goering poisoned himself in his cell the day before. Hanged on the 16th were 10 others. There was a 12th man convicted in absentia, who was not hanged, and was, in fact, already dead.
1947: Al Capone, of neurosyphilis at 48
1948: D. W. Griffith, American filmmaking pioneer.
1949: Richard Strauss, German composer (“Also sprach Zarathustra”)
1950: George Orwell
1951: Maria Montez, actress (Arabian Nights and the cult classic Cobra Woman)
1952: Eva Perón (but don’t cry for her)
1953: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
1954: Collette, novelist
1955: Emmett Till, kidnapped and lynched at 14, in Money, Mississippi