1967 deaths

Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.

German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.

British actress

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 (1883–1967)

Belgian surrealist (1898–1967)

American actor (1900–1967)

American writer and social activist (1901–1967)

American writer and editor (1878–1967)

Puyi (; 7 February 190617 October 1967) was the last emperor of China, reigning as the eleventh monarch of the Qing dynasty from 1908 to 1912, and a brief return in 1917, when he was forced to abdicate. Later, he sided with Imperial Japan and was made ruler of Manchukuo—Japanese-occupied Manchuria—in hopes of regaining power as China's emperor. After over 10 years of imprisonment for war crimes following the end of World War II, Puyi worked for four years as a gardener in Beijing, China.

British physicist (1897–1967)

French author (1885–1967)

American jazz saxophonist (1926–1967)

American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)

Mohammad Mosaddegh was an Iranian politician, author and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis. He was elected to the Iranian parliament in 1923 and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis, until his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (MI6) and the United States (CIA), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr. As prime minister, he implemented policies that came to be known as Mosaddeghism.

American actress and Playboy Playmate (1933–1967)

Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)

Czech chemist (1890-1967)

Vice President of the United States from 1933 to 1941

South African politician (1898–1967)

Austrian-German biochemist (1900-1967)

American singer-songwriter (1912–1967)

Jewish-Polish biochemist

English physical chemist (1897-1967)

British politician (1872-1967)

Soviet cosmonaut (1927–1967)

American biologist (1890–1967)

Iranian poet (1935-1967)

American realist painter and printmaker (1882-1967)

Soviet military commander

Austrian-born American stage and film actor (1895-1967)

American singer and songwriter (1941–1967)

American writer (1917–1967)

American astronaut (1926–1967)

Prime minister of Japan (1878–1967)

American psychologist (1897–1967)

American nightclub operator who killed American presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald

Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882–1967)

American astronaut (1930-1967)

Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (1908-1967)

Danish astronomer and chemist

British personal manager and impresario (1934–1967)

Brazilian military leader and politician; former President of Brazil (1900-1967)

American actress (1879-1967)

Chilean musician and folklorist

French writer (1902–1967)

English actor (1892–1967)

Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name Totò (), or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed il principe della risata ("the prince of laughter"), was an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter, dramatist, poet, singer and lyricist. He is commonly referred to as one of the most popular Italian performers of all time. While best known for his funny and sometimes cynical comic characters in theatre and then many successful comedy films made from the 1940s to the 1960s, he also w

British actor (1889–1967)

United States Navy commander, NASA astronaut (1935–1967)

Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer and stateswoman (1893–1967)

English war poet and writer (1886-1967)

Uruguayan footballer (1898-1967)

American inventor, writer, editor and publisher (1884–1967)

Margarete Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position in Nazi Germany, she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at the war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald".

Prime Minister (1959–61) and President (1961–67) of Gabon

French actress (1942–1967)

Australian politician, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (1883-1967)

French sculptor and painter of Russian origin (1888–1967)

German-American psychologist and phenomenologist (1887-1967)