Famous People Who Died in 1967
Publish date: 2024-09-16
1967 CalendarDeaths 1 - 200 of 359
- Jan 1 (Aubrey) "Moon" Mullican, American hillbilly pianist, songwriter, and singer ("Seven Nights To Rock"), dies of a heart attack at 58
- Jan 1 Maurice Leyland, English cricket batsman (41 Tests, 2764 runs @ 46.06; Yorkshire 1920-46, 1,000+ runs in 17 consecutive seasons), dies at 66
Jan 3 American nightclub owner who murdered assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies of pulmonary embolism at 55
- Jan 3 Mary Garden, opera star, dies at 92
- Jan 4 Donald Campbell, English boat and land racer (world land speed & water speed records 1964; only person to complete in same year), dies in record attempt at 45
- Jan 6 Johnny Keane, American baseball manager (World Series 1964 St. Louis Cardinals; NY Yankees), dies of a heart attack at 55
- Jan 7 Carl Schuricht, German conductor and composer, dies at 86
- Jan 7 David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
- Jan 7 Sid Emery, cricket leg-spinner (NSW & Aus, 5 wkt in 1912 series), dies
- Jan 8 Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-born scholar of Iranian languages, dies of pulmonary edema at 58
- Jan 8 Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (Ashes and Diamonds), dies at 39
- Jan 10 Emerson Treacy, American actor (California Straight Ahead, Prowler), dies after surgery at 66
- Jan 10 Vilém Petrželka, Czech composer, dies at 77
- Jan 12 Holland Smith, American US Marine Corps general, considered the "father" of modern U.S. amphibious warfare, dies at 84
- Jan 14 Renato Lunelli, Italian organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 71
- Jan 15 Albert Szirmai, Hungarian operetta composer, dies at 86
- Jan 15 David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist and poet, part of Russian Futurist movement dies at 84
- Jan 16 Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Sage of Kai-Roi), dies at 72
- Jan 16 Robert J. Van De Graaff, American engineer and physicist (Mobility of Gaseous Ions), dies at 65
- Jan 17 Barney Ross, American welterweight Boxing Champ (1934), dies at 57
- Jan 17 Evelyn Nesbit, actress (Redemption), dies at 82
- Jan 18 Albert Conti, Austrian actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion), dies at 79
- Jan 18 Harry Antrim, American actor (Miracle on 34th St, Devil's Doorway), dies of a heart attack at 82
- Jan 18 Reese "Goose" Tatum, basketballer (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 45
- Jan 18 Simon FHJ Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, vicar/theologist, dies at 84
- Jan 19 Grace Cunard, American silent screen actress (Untamed, Resurrection), dies at 73
- Jan 21 Ann Sheridan, American actress (They Drive by Night, Dodge City, Another World), dies of cancer at 51
- Jan 22 Jobyna Ralston, actress (Wings, Girl Shy, Freshman), dies at 66
- Jan 22 Robert Henriques, English writer (100 Hours to Suez), dies at 61
- Jan 23 Holcombe Ward, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1904; President USLTA 1937-47), dies at 88
- Jan 26 Albert Rémy, French actor (Grand Prix, The 400 Blows, The Train), dies at 51
- Jan 26 Kenneth Thomson, American character actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant), dies of emphysema at 68
- Jan 27 (Virgil) "Gus" Grissom, American USAF test pilot and NASA astronaut (Mercury-Redstone 4: Gemini 3: Apollo 1), dies of asphyxiation in fire aboard Apollo 1 during pre-launch tests at 40
- Jan 27 Alphonse Juin, French general and Marshal, dies at 78
- Jan 27 Ed White, American USAF officer and test pilot, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, and 1st American to walk in space (Gemini 4; Apollo 1), dies of asphyxiation in fire aboard Apollo 1 during pre-launch tests at 36
- Jan 27 Roger B. Chaffee, American NASA astronaut, dies of asphyxiation in fire aboard Apollo 1 during pre-launch test at 31
- Jan 28 Shunter Coen, South African cricket batsman (2 Tests, HS 41no, @ 50.50; Orange Free State), dies at 64
- Jan 29 Włodzimierz Poźniak, Polish composer, dies at 62
- Jan 30 (Raymond) Lee Morgan, American actor (Dungeons of Harrow; The Last of the Fast Guns), dies of heart disease at 64
- Jan 31 Eddie Tolan, American sprinter the "Midnight Express" (1932 Olympics), dies at 58
- Jan 31 Otto Dibelius, German theologian and bishop (Confessional Church), dies at 86
- Feb 1 Ernie Bromley, Australian cricket batsman (2 Tests; first Western Australian to play Test cricket for Australia), dies at 54
- Feb 3 Joe Meek, English record producer and influential sound engineer (Telstar), commits suicide at 37
- Feb 3 Winifred Kingston, British silent screen actress (The Squaw Man, Davy Crockett), dies at 72
- Feb 4 Albert Orsborn, English 6th General of The Salvation Army, dies at 80
- Feb 5 Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Jokaste against God), dies at 87
- Feb 5 Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)
- Feb 6 Hans Jacob Nielsen, Danish boxer (Olympic gold lightweight 1924), dies at 67
- Feb 6 Martine Carol [Maryse Mopurer], French actress (Lola Montèsm, Trente et quarante), dies of a heart attack at 46
- Feb 7 Henry Morgenthau Jr., US Secretary of Treasury (1934-45) who helped design the New Deal and Lend Lease programs, dies at 74
- Feb 11 Edmond Hall, American jazz clarinetist (Red Allen; Teddy Wilson), bandleader (Café Society Band), and composer (Profoundly Blue), dies at 65
- Feb 12 (Francis) "Muggsy" Spanier, American swing jazz and Dixieland revival cornetist and trumpeter, dies at 65
- Feb 13 Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian pre-eminent poet and film director, dies in a car crash at 32
- Feb 14 James Schneider, American silent film director (A Foolish Romance) and actor (Keystone Kops shorts), dies at 85
- Feb 14 Sig Ruman [Siegfried Albon Rumann], German-American actor (Schultz-Life With Luigi), dies at 82
- Feb 15 Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor and director (It, Careers), dies at 79
- Feb 15 J. Frank Duryea, American inventor (Duryea Motor Wagon Company, first auto built in the US), dies at 97
- Feb 15 William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador in USSR, dies at 76
- Feb 16 (Lester) "Smiley" Burnette [Burnett], American country music performer, singer-songwriter ("Ridin' Down the Canyon (To Watch the Sun Go Down)"), and actor (Petticoat Junction - "Charlie"), dies of leukemia at 55
- Feb 18 Manuel Palau Boix, Spanish composer (Conservatory of Valencia), dies at 74
Feb 18 American theoretical physicist known as the father of the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project), dies of throat cancer at 62
- Feb 19 Wilmer King, 1st causality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies
- Feb 21 Charles Beaumont, American writer (Twilight Zone), dies at 38
- Feb 22 Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies at 53
- Feb 24 Franz Waxman [Wachsmann], German-American film score composer (Rebecca; Sunset Boulevard; A Place In The Sun), dies of cancer at 60
- Feb 25 John Griggs, American actor (The Joey Bishop Show; Fearless Fosdick), dies at 58
- Feb 25 Walter "Fats" Pichon American jazz pianist, singer, and big bandleader, dies at 60
- Feb 28 Henry Luce, American magazine publisher (Time, Fortune, Life), dies at 68
- Mar 2 Gordon Harker, British actor (Facts of Love, Champagne, Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81
- Mar 2 José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873)
- Mar 3 Georges Lonque, Belgian composer, dies at 66
- Mar 4 Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (harmonic analysis), and professor, dies at 82
- Mar 4 Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer, dies at 61
- Mar 4 Wilbur "Bullet" Rogan, American Baseball HOF pitcher, outfielder, manager (Kansas City Monarchs NgL, 1920-38), dies at 73
- Mar 5 Georges Vanier, French Canadian soldier and 19th Governor General of Canada, dies at 78
- Mar 5 Mischa Auer [Ounskowsky], Russian actor (My Man Godfrey), dies from a heart attack at 61
Mar 5 Prime Minister of Iran (1951-53) who was overthrown in a coup d'état aided by the CIA and the British SIS, dies at 84
- Mar 6 Nelson Eddy, American baritone (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 65
- Mar 6 Oscar Shaw, actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at 76
- Mar 6 Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist, (Psalmus Hungaricus; Hary Janos), dies at 84
- Mar 7 Alice B. Toklas, American-Parisian avant-garde and companion to Gertrude Stein, dies at 89
- Mar 8 Herman "Ivory" Chittison, American jazz pianist (Harlem Rhythm Makers), dies at 58
- Mar 10 Yiorgos Batis, Greek composer and rebetiko musician, dies at about 82
- Mar 11 Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85
- Mar 11 Joseph Forte, British-American actor (Reefer Madness; Life With Luigi), dies at of a heart attack at 75
- Mar 13 Sir Frank Worrell, West Indian cricket batsman and captain (51 Tests @ 49.48; 9 x 100s), dies from leukemia at 42
- Mar 14 Paul Faucher, French author and pioneering children's publisher (Père Castor), dies at 68
- Mar 16 James Friskin, composer, dies at 80
- Mar 17 Frank Wisbar, German director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67
- Mar 17 Richard Reeves, American character actor (The Adventures of Superman; Date With an Angel), dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 54
- Mar 18 Jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42
- Mar 19 Alfred Judson Force Moody, US Army Brigadier General, WWII veteran dies of a heart attack at 49; 1st US Army General to die in Vietnam
- Mar 23 Duncan Macrae, Scottish actor (Casino Royale, The Little Kidnappers), dies at 61
- Mar 24 Marc Lavry [Levin], Latvian-Israeli composer (Emek; Independence Symphony; Song of Songs], and conductor, dies at 63 [1]
- Mar 25 Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c.1913)
- Mar 27 David L. Snell, American pianist and composer for films (MGM Studio), dies at 69
- Mar 27 Gerardus H de Vet, the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49
- Mar 27 Jim Thompson, American designer (Thai silk industry), disappears while walking in Malaysia's Cameron Highlands at 61
- Mar 30 Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
- Mar 31 Don Alvarado [Jose Page], American actor (Captain Thunder, Morning Glory, Big Steal), dies from cancer at 66
- Mar 31 Hieronim Feicht, composer, dies at 72
- Apr 4 Al Lewis, American lyricist, songwriter and music publisher (Blueberry Hill, You Gotta Be a Football Hero), dies at 65
- Apr 4 Guy Chamberlin, American College/Pro Football HOF end (Uni of Nebraska; 5×NFL C'ship; First-team All-Pro 1920), dies at 73
- Apr 4 Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan soccer forward (51 caps;Nacional, FC Barcelona, FC Inter Milan, Palermo FC), dies at 68
- Apr 4 Mischa Elman, Ukraine-American violinist, dies at 76
- Apr 5 Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890)
- Apr 7 Anne Morrison Chapin, American playwright, actress, (The Wild Westcotts), and screenwriter (The Sailor Takes A Wife), dies at 75
- Apr 11 Donald Sangster, Jamaican prime-minister (b. 1911)
- Apr 13 Luis Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44
- Apr 15 Totò [Antonio De Curtis], Italian actor (Motorizzate; Noi Duri) commonly referred to as the most popular Italian comedian of all time, dies from a heart attack at 69
- Apr 16 Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist who helped identify the Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome, dies at 86
- Apr 17 Giorgio Cesana, Italian coxswain (Olympic gold 1906), dies at 75
- Apr 17 Henry "Red" Allen, American jazz trumpeter, dies of pancreatic cancer at 59
- Apr 18 Karl Miller, German soccer defender (12 caps; Dresdner SC), dies at 53
Apr 19 Chancellor of West Germany (CDU: 1949-63), dies at 91
- Apr 21 André-Louis Danjon, French astronomer (invented Danjon astrolabe), dies at 77
- Apr 22 Tom Conway [Sanders], British radio and screen actor (The Falcon's Brother; I Cheated The Law; The Betty Hutton Show), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 62
- Apr 24 Frank Overton, American actor (Fail Safe; 12 O'Clock High (TV series, not film)), dies of a heart attack at 49
- Apr 24 Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (Voshkod I, Soyuz 1) and the 1st human to die in a space flight, dies in Soyuz 1 at 40
- Apr 28 Oscar Comras, American drummer, bandleader, and namesake of Comras Mall in Bronx Park, dies at 51
- Apr 29 Anthony Mann, American film actor and director (El Cid, Winchester '73, The Glenn Miller Story), dies from a heart attack at 60
- Apr 29 J. B. Lenoir, African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the 1950s, dies from injuries sustained in a car crash at 38
- May 2 Ernst Friedrich, German pacifist and anarchist (War Against War!), dies at 73
- May 4 Bengt Axel von Torne, Finnish composer, dies at 75
- May 6 Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
- May 7 Judith Evelyn [Evelyn Morris], American actress (13th Letter, Tingler, Rear Window), dies of cancer at 54
- May 8 Barbara Payton [Redfield], American actress known for her tumultuous private life (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde), dies of heart and liver failure due to drug addiction at 39
- May 8 LaVerne Andrews, American pop and swing jazz singer (The Andrews Sisters - "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"; "Rum and Coca-Cola"), dies of cancer at 55
- May 9 Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian-Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies at 69
- May 9 Philippa Schuyler, African-American child classical piano prodigy, composer, and journalist, dies in a helicopter crash in Vietnam at 35
- May 10 Lorenzo Bandini, Italian auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1963; 24 Hours of Daytona 1967), dies after a race accident in Monaco F1 GP at 31
- May 12 John Masefield, British writer and poet (Salt-Water Ballads), Poet Laureate (1930-67), dies at 88
- May 12 Julius Kalas, Czech composer, dies at 64
- May 13 Frank McGrath, American actor (The Reluctant Astronaut, Wagon Train), dies from a heart attack at 64
- May 15 Edward Hopper, American painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84
- May 15 Jaromír Fiala, Czech composer, dies at 74
- May 17 John Wesley Work III, African-American composer, musicologist and scholar of African-American folklore and music, dies at 65
- May 18 Andy Clyde, Scottish actor (The Real McCoys, Lassie), dies from natural causes at 75
- May 18 Richard Ainley, British actor (I Dood It, As You Like It, Above Suspicion), dies from barbiturate poisoning at 56
- May 19 Elmo Hope, American bebop jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, dies of heart failure at 43
- May 22 Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician, dies at 93
May 22 American poet (Weary Blues), playwright (Mulatto), and librettist (Troubled Island), dies at 65
- May 23 Carl-Henrik Norin Swedish jazz saxophonist, and composer ("Mississippi Mood"), dies at 47
- May 23 Philip Coolidge, American actor (North by Northwest, North by Northwest, I Want to Live, Tingler), dies of lung cancer at 58
- May 23 Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30
- May 26 Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician, dies at 60
- May 26 George E Stone, Polish actor (Viva Villa, Last Mile, 5 Star Final, Front Page), dies at 64
- May 27 Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
- May 29 Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, Mexican composer, dies at 69
- May 30 Claude Rains, British actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca), dies at 77
- May 31 Billy Strayhorn, American pianist and composer ("Take The 'A' Train"), dies of esophageal cancer at 51
- Jun 2 Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
- Jun 2 Zamah Cunningham, actress (Menosha the Magnificent), dies at 74
- Jun 3 Arthur Ransome, British journalist, critic, and children's book author (Swallows and Amazons), dies at 83
- Jun 3 Arthur Tedder, British air marshal (deputy commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force during Normandy landings WWII), dies at 76
- Jun 3 Gertrude "Mickey" MacFadden, American entertainer, dies of a heart attack at 67
- Jun 5 Edna Park Edwards, American stage and vaudeville actress, dies at 72
- Jun 6 Edward G Givens Jr, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47
- Jun 7 Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (decidability of various algebraic groups), dies at 57
Jun 7 American poet (Enough Rope), short story writer and satirist (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), dies at 73
- Jun 7 Pauline Brooks, actress (Make a Million), dies of cancer at 54
- Jun 8 Elliot Griffis, American composer, dies at 74
- Jun 9 Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, Polish composer, dies at 64
- Jun 10 Frank Butler, American actor and screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76
Jun 10 American actor (Woman of the Year, Father of the Bride), dies at 67
- Jun 12 Bombardier Billy Wells [William Thomas Wells], English heavyweight boxer (Lionsdale Belt, 1911), dies at 79
Jun 14 American boxer (Olympic gold - light heavyweight, 1920) and bobsledder (Olympic gold - 4-man team,1932), dies of a heart attack at 69
- Jun 16 Reginald Denny, English actor (Rebecca, Cat Ballou, Batman), dies at 75
- Jun 18 Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver, killed in crash at Caserta, Italy at 23
- Jun 18 Giacomo Russo, Italian racing driver, killed in crash at Caserta, Italy at 29
- Jun 18 William Tracy, American character actor (To the Shores of Tripoli; The Shop Around the Corner), dies at 49 [some sources state July 18, grave marked June]
- Jun 22 Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer, dies at 79
- Jun 24 Emile van Dievoet, Flemish lawyer, dies at 81
- Jun 26 Errol Hunte, Trinidadian cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests v England 1930), dies at 55
- Jun 26 Françoise Dorléac, French actress, sister of Catherine Deneuve dies in a car accident at 25
- Jun 29 Oskar Maria Graf, German-American writer (Wir sind Gefangene (We Are Prisoners)), dies at 72
Jun 29 Italian boxer (World Heavyweight Champion 1933-34), dies of alcohol-related liver disease at 60
- Jul 2 Boerneef [pen name for Izak Wilhelmus van der Merwe], South African writer (Tweetalige Woordeboek), dies at 70
Jul 8 Mother of Pakistan, sister and close adviser of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, dies officially of a heart failure at 73 but rumors of foul play by the military junta persist
- Jul 9 Douglas MacLean, silent film comedian turned producer, dies at 77
- Jul 11 Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer, politician and judge, dies at 50
- Jul 13 Cornelis A. Eman, Aruban politician (chairman State of Aruba Peoples Party), dies at 51
- Jul 13 Tom Simpson, English road cyclist (World C'ship gold road race 1965; Olympic bronze 1956), dies of combination of alcohol & mixed amphetamines during Tour de France at 29
- Jul 14 Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
- Jul 17 Cyril Ring, American actor (I Wake Up Screaming, The Barber Shop), dies at 74
- Jul 17 Gertrude McCoy, American silent screen actress (Blue Bird), dies at 77
- Jul 18 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazilian military leader and 26th President of Brazil (1964-67), dies at 66
- Jul 21 Albert J Luthuli, South African teacher, anti-apartheid activist, politician (ANC president) and Nobel laureate, dies when struck by a freight train at about 69 [birth date uncertain]
Jul 21 American Baseball HOF first baseman (9 x MLB All Star; World Series 1929, 30; AL MVP 1932, 33, 38; Triple Crown 1933; Philadelphia A's, Boston RS), dies after choking on food at 59
- Jul 21 Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80
- Jul 22 Carl Sandburg, poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), dies at 89
- Jul 24 Little Billy Rhodes, American actor (The Terror of Tiny Town)dies of stroke at 72
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