Celebrity Deaths 1950-1959

Paying tribute to the stars we've lost from 1950-1959 – in memoriam

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Hint	Year	Answer
The author of Nineteen eighty-four	1950	George Orwell
Irish novelist and the author of Pygmalion	1950	George Bernard Shaw
Marshal of France at the end of World War I	1951	Philippe Pétain
The king of Great Britain during WWII	1952	George VI
Argentina's famous First Lady, known as Evita	1952	Eva Peron
The dictatorial leader of the USSR from 1928 to 1953	1953	Joseph Stalin
Italian businessman and fashion designer	1953	Guccio Gucci
The astronomer the space telescope is named after	1953	Edwin Hubble
Mexico's most famous 20th-century woman artist	1954	Frida Kahlo
The famous British pioneer of computers and artificial intelligence	1954	Alan Turing
French artist and leader of the Fauve movement	1954	Henri Matisse
Creator of the theory of relativity	1955	Albert Einstein
Movie icon and star of Rebel Without a Cause	1955	James Dean
The bacteriologist who discovered penicillin	1955	Alexander Fleming
German novelist and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate	1955	Thomas Mann
One of the greatest musicians in Romanian history	1955	George Enescu
The abstract painter who splattered his canvasses	1956	Jackson Pollock
Creator of Winnie the Pooh	1956	A.A. Milne
Hungarian actor best-known for Dracula on Broadway and on the screen	1956	Bela Lugosi
Leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956	1956	Imre Nagy
French fashion designer and the founder of famous fashion house	1957	Christian Dior
Rick Blaine in Casablanca	1957	Humphrey Bogart
The G-Man who nabbed Al Capone	1957	Eliot Ness
Mexican painter whose large frescoes helped establish the mural movement	1957	Diego Rivera
Head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death in 1958	1958	Pope Pius XII
The popular jazz singer known as "Lady Day"	1959	Billie Holiday
The swashbuckling star of Captain Blood and Robin Hood	1959	Errol Flynn
The legendary film director who did The Ten Commandments	1959	Cecil B. De Mille
Superman on the 1950s TV series	1959	George Reeves
World War II-era U.S. General and Secretary of State	1959	George C. Marshall

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