The Year of Death Game

[Little_Nemo]

1956: Jackson Pollock

[panache45]

1957: Oliver Hardy

[Elendil_s_Heir]

1958: W.C. Handy

[buddha_david]

1959: Lou Costello, half of the duo Abbott & Costello.

[panache45]

1960: Clark Gable

[RivkahChaya]

1961: James Thurber

[blue_infinity]

1962: Lucky Luciano, mobster

[RivkahChaya]

1963: Sylvia Plath

[panache45]

1964: Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; almost 40 witnesses but no rescuers (details are disputed)

[RivkahChaya]

1965: Malcolm X.

[Little_Nemo]

1966: Lenny Bruce

[buddha_david]

1967: John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@panache45

1964: Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; almost 40 witnesses but no rescuers (details are disputed)

Indeed they are: The Witness (2015) - IMDb

In play:

1968: Robert F. Kennedy

[panache45]

1969: Judy Garland

[RivkahChaya]

1970: Vera Brittain

[buddha_david]

1971: James Cash “J.C.” Penney, Jr. – founder of the department store chain that bears his name.

[Little_Nemo]

1972: The former King Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor

[RivkahChaya]

1973: Jeannette Rankin, 1st women to crack the glass ceiling of congress.

[buddha_david]

1974: “Mama Cass” Elliot, American vocalist and lover of ham sandwiches.

[panache45]

1975: Pete Ham, rock musician, member of the “27 Club”