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In the year 1935
265 Notable deaths
Milman Parry
American academic.
Born June 20th, 1902 in Oakland.
Died December 3rd, 1935 at 33 years old in Los Angeles (accidental death).
Bennie Moten
American musician.
Born November 13th, 1894 in Kansas City. [ref]
Died April 2nd, 1935 at 40 years old in Kansas City. [ref]
George Ramsay
Secretary-manager of aston villa football club (1855-1935).
Born March 1st, 1855 in Glasgow.
Died October 7th, 1935 at 80 years old in Llandrindod Wells.
John James Rickard Macleod
Nobel prize-winning scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin.
Born September 6th, 1876 in Clunie.
Died March 16th, 1935 at 58 years old in Aberdeen.
Barbados Joe Walcott
British boxer (1873-1935).
Born March 13th, 1873 in British Guiana.
Died October 1st, 1935 at 62 years old in Massillon (traffic collision).
John Rahm
Amateur golfer.
Born January 8th, 1854 in Richmond.
Died July 28th, 1935 at 81 years old in Omaha.
Leroy Carr
American blues singer, songwriter and pianist.
Born March 27th, 1905 in Nashville. [ref]
Died April 29th, 1935 at 30 years old in Indianapolis (nephritis). [ref]
Iyasu V
Emperor of ethiopia (1895-1935).
Born February 4th, 1895 in Dessie.
Died November 25th, 1935 at 40 years old in Addis Ababa.
Paul Bourget
French writer.
Born September 2nd, 1852 in Amiens. [ref]
Died December 25th, 1935 at 83 years old in Paris. [ref]
Valerian Kuybyshev
Soviet politician (1888-1935).
Died January 25th, 1935 at 46 years old in Moscow (myocardial infarction).
Deaths 71 to 80 of 265
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