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In the year 1967
499 Notable deaths
Che Guevara
Argentine marxist revolutionary (1928–1967).
Born June 14th, 1928 in Rosario. [ref]
Died October 9th, 1967 at 39 years old in La Higuera (extra-judicial killing, ballistic trauma). [ref]
Jayne Mansfield
American actress, singer, model (1933-1967).
Born April 19th, 1933 in Bryn Mawr. [ref]
Died June 29th, 1967 at 34 years old in Slidell (traffic collision, railway accident). [ref]
Jack Ruby
American nightclub operator who killed american presidential assassin lee harvey oswald.
Born April 25th, 1911 in Chicago.
Died January 3rd, 1967 at 55 years old in Parkland Memorial Hospital (lung cancer).
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb".
Born April 22nd, 1904 in New York City. [ref]
Died February 18th, 1967 at 62 years old in Princeton (lung cancer). [ref]
Vivien Leigh
British actress (1913-1967).
Born November 5th, 1913 in Darjeeling.
Died July 8th, 1967 at 53 years old in Eaton Square (tuberculosis). [ref]
Otis Redding
American singer, songwriter and record producer (1941-1967).
Born September 9th, 1941 in Dawson. [ref]
Died December 10th, 1967 at 26 years old in Madison (aviation accident). [ref]
Puyi
Last emperor of qing dynasty and manchukuo (1906–1967).
Born February 7th, 1906 in Prince Chun Mansion.
Died October 17th, 1967 at 61 years old in Peking Union Medical College Hospital (kidney cancer).
Spencer Tracy
American actor (1900-1967).
Born April 5th, 1900 in Milwaukee. [ref]
Died June 10th, 1967 at 67 years old in Los Angeles (myocardial infarction). [ref]
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist (1926–1967).
Born September 23rd, 1926 in Hamlet. [ref]
Died July 17th, 1967 at 40 years old in Huntington, New York City (liver failure, liver cancer). [ref]
Langston Hughes
American writer and social activist (1901–1967).
Born February 1st, 1902 in Joplin. [ref]
Died May 22nd, 1967 at 65 years old in New York City (prostate cancer). [ref]
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Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs