The Year of Death Game

Thread Games
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1939: Douglas Fairbanks, actor

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1940: Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (assassinated)

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1941 : Virginia Woolf

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1942: John Barrymore

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1943: Nikola Tesla, engineer and inventor

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1944: Glenn Miller (Missing in Action, presumably died)

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1945: Alan Turing, father of computer science.

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1946: H.G. Wells

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1947: Bugsy Siegal, mobster

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1948: Mahatma Gandhi

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1949: Margaret Mitchell

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1950: George Orwell

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1951: Shoeless Joe Jackson

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1952: Curly Howard of The Three Stooges

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1953: Edwin Hubble

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1954: Alan Turing (not 1945, as earlier reported)

1945: Adolf Hitler

1955 is on the clock.

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1955: James Dean

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1956: Bela Lugosi

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1957: Diego Rivera, painter. Humphrey Bogart, actor. Joseph McCarthy, U.S representative

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1958: Julia Lennon; John Lennon’s mother