Famous people died in January - page 4

Pavel Cherenkov

Pavel Cherenkov

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov was a Soviet physicist who was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize in Physics’ in 1958

RussianJuly 28, 1904126 views

George Cukor

George Cukor was an American film director known for films like ‘The Philadelphia Story’ and ‘Gaslight.’ This biography of George Cukor provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.

AmericanJuly 7, 1899120 views

Margaret Sullavan

Margaret Brooke Sullavan was an American film and stage actress during the first half of the twentieth century

AmericanMay 16, 1909243 views

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Isidor Isaac Rabi was a Poland-born American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944

AmericanJuly 29, 1898129 views

Kenichi Fukui

Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese theoretical chemist

JapaneseOctober 4, 1918227 views

Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck was an American film and television star

AmericanJune 16, 1907117 views

Carole Lombard

Carole Lombard was an American film actress known for her energetic and often unusual roles in screwball comedies of the 1930s

AmericanOctober 6, 1908141 views

Grace Moore

Grace Moore was an American opera singer who starred both in the Metropolitan Opera stage, Broadway and films

Heinrich Harrer

Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer who was a part of the team that made the first ascent of the formidable north wall of the Eiger.

AustrianJuly 6, 1912524 views

Peter Finch

Peter Finch was an English-born Australian actor, who became the first person to win an Academy Award posthumously

AustralianSeptember 28, 19161,150 views