Famous people died in July - page 4

Patrick Blackett was an English physicist who received the Noble Prize in Physics in 1948

Robert Burns Woodward was a Nobel Prize winning American chemist known for his work on complex natural products

Marie Dressler was a talented Canadian American actress of the late 1800s and the early 1900s

Lynn Fontanne was an American actress born in Britain who spent most of her acting career in the United States

Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist and educator who was jointly awarded the ‘Nobel Prize in Chemistry’ in 1973

Walter Matthau was an American actor who was well-known his performances in theatre, feature films and television

Marguerite Vogt was a German-born American cancer biologist and virologist best known for her research on polio and cancer.

Carl Ortwin Sauer was one of the most prominent geographers in America during the twentieth century

Élisée Reclus was a famous French geographer, anarchist and writer

Archer John Porter Martin was a British chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952