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December 31st
172 Notable deaths
Theodor Reik
Austrian-american psychoanalyst.
Born May 12th, 1888 in Vienna. [ref]
Died December 31st, 1969 at 81 years old in New York City.
Bill Tytla
American animator.
Born October 25th, 1904 in Yonkers. [ref]
Died December 31st, 1968 at 64 years old in East Lyme. [ref]
Gertrude Michael
American actress (1911-1964).
Born June 1st, 1911 in Talladega. [ref]
Died December 31st, 1964 at 53 years old in Beverly Hills. [ref]
Felice Schragenheim
Lesbian journalist, resistance member, holocaust victim (1922-1944).
Born March 9th, 1922 in Berlin.
Died December 31st, 1944 at 22 years old in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
Mathematician.
Born December 29th, 1856 in Zwolle. [ref]
Died December 31st, 1894 at 38 years old in Toulouse (influenza). [ref]
Ernesto De Curtis
Italian composer.
Born October 4th, 1875 in Naples. [ref]
Died December 31st, 1937 at 62 years old in Naples. [ref]
Tom Johnson
American composer (1939–2024).
Born November 18th, 1939 in Greeley.
Died December 31st, 2024 at 85 years old in Paris. [ref]
Elihu Katz
American and israeli sociologist.
Born May 21st, 1926 in New York City.
Died December 31st, 2021 at 95 years old in Jerusalem. [ref]
Óscar Domínguez
Was a spanish surrealist painter (1906-1957).
Born January 3rd, 1906 in San Cristóbal de La Laguna. [ref]
Died December 31st, 1957 at 51 years old in Paris. [ref]
J. Gordon Edwards
Canadian film and stage director, producer, stage actor and writer.
Born June 24th, 1867 in Montreal.
Died December 31st, 1925 at 58 years old in New York City (pneumonia). [ref]
Deaths 81 to 90 of 172
Even trees do not die without a groan. Henry David Thoreau