Famous People Who Died in 1964

• Carson, Rachel

  The author of Silent Spring

• Checkers

  The dog who was the subject of Richard Nixon's famous "Checkers speech"

• Dolphy, Eric

  The way-out reed man who recorded Out to Lunch

• Fleming, Ian

  The creator of James Bond 007

• Hecht, Ben

  The prolific Hollywood screenwriter who did The Front Page

• Hoover, Herbert

  President of the United States, 1929-1933

• Ladd, Alan

  Star of the 1953 western Shane

• Lorre, Peter

  The squirrely star of M and The Maltese Falcon

• MacArthur, Douglas

  The American general who said "I shall return"

• O'Connor, Flannery

  Southern author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

• Porter, Cole

  The Broadway master who wrote "Night and Day"

• Sitwell, Edith

  The eccentric poet who wrote 1941's "Still Falls the Rain"

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