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In the year 1933

273 Notable deaths

Knud Rasmussen

Danish explorer and anthropologist.

Born June 7th, 1879 in Ilulissat.

Died December 21st, 1933 at 54 years old in Copenhagen. [ref]

August Natterer

German painter who suffered from schizophrenia.

Born August 3rd, 1868 in Ravensburg.

Died October 7th, 1933 at 65 years old in Rottweil.

Margaret MacDonald

British artist (1865-1933).

Born November 5th, 1864 in Tipton. [ref]

Died January 7th, 1933 at 68 years old in London. [ref]

Nikolai Yudenich

Russian general (1862-1933).

Born July 30th, 1862 in Moscow.

Died October 5th, 1933 at 71 years old in Cannes (tuberculosis).

Anatoly Lunacharsky

Russian marxist revolutionary (1875-1933).

Born November 23rd, 1875 in Poltava. [ref]

Died December 26th, 1933 at 58 years old in Menton (heart failure). [ref]

Sándor Ferenczi

Hungarian psychoanalyst.

Born July 7th, 1873 in Miskolc. [ref]

Died May 22nd, 1933 at 59 years old in Budapest. [ref]

Stefan George

German poet, editor, and translator.

Born July 12th, 1868 in Büdesheim. [ref]

Died December 4th, 1933 at 65 years old in Minusio. [ref]

Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi

Italian explorer.

Born January 29th, 1873 in Madrid. [ref]

Died March 18th, 1933 at 60 years old in Jowhar. [ref]

Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford

Governor of new south wales; governor of queensland; viceroy of india (1868–1933).

Born August 12th, 1868 in London.

Died April 1st, 1933 at 64 years old in Oxford.

Renée Adorée

French actress (1898-1933).

Born September 30th, 1898 in Hamburg.

Died October 5th, 1933 at 35 years old in Los Angeles (tuberculosis).

Deaths 31 to 40 of 273

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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir