Celebrity Deaths 1920-1939

Paying tribute to the famous people we've lost from 1920-1939 – in memoriam

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Hint	Year	Answer
North Pole expedition leader	1920	Robert Peary
The inventor of the telephone	1922	Alexander Graham Bell
Leader of The Endurance expedition to Antarctica	1922	Ernest Shackleton
Legendary Mexican bandit	1923	Pancho Villa
Author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis	1924	Franz Kafka
Founder of Bolshevism and the force behind the Russian revolution	1924	Vladimir Lenin
The U.S. president during World War I	1924	Woodrow Wilson
The world's greatest escape artist	1926	Harry Houdini
Impressionist painter of water lilies	1926	Claude Monet
Free-spirited modern dancer of the early 1900s	1927	Isadora Duncan
Norwegian explorer who reached the South Pole first	1928	Roald Amundsen
Doc Holliday's friend at the O.K. Corral	1929	Wyatt Earp
The creator of Sherlock Holmes	1930	Arthur Conan Doyle
The man who invented the light bulb	1931	Thomas Edison
Discoverer of radium and polonium	1934	Marie Curie
Depression-era crime duo Bonnie and Clyde	1934	Clyde Barrow
Depression-era crime duo Bonnie and Clyde	1934	Bonnie Parker
German general in WWI and later President of Germany	1934	Paul von Hindenburg
Serbian physicist and physical chemist based in the USA	1935	Mihajlo Pupin
Russian writer known for his socialist realism	1936	Maxim Gorky
King of the UK and Emperor of India, from 1910 until his death	1936	George V
Spanish dramatist and poet who wrote Poet in New York	1936	Federico Garcia Lorca
Composer of Rhapsody in Blue	1937	George Gershwin
The New Zealand physicist who split the atom	1937	Ernest Rutherford
Business magnate considered the wealthiest American of all time	1937	John D. Rockefeller
The father of modern Turkey	1938	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
The pioneering female pilot who disappeared in the South Pacific	1939	Amelia Earhart
The discoverer of King Tut's tomb	1939	Howard Carter
The founder of psychoanalysis	1939	Sigmund Freud
Inventor of the game of basketball	1939	James Naismith

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