Famous People Who Died in 1967

• Coltrane, John

  Innovative sax player and composer

• Epstein, Brian

  The first manager of The Beatles

• Evanti, Lillian

  The first African-American woman to sing opera professionally

• Guevara, Che

  Latin American Marxist revolutionary

• Guthrie, Woody

  The guy who wrote "This Land Is Your Land"

• Hopper, Edward

  The painter of that lonely diner scene, Nighthawks

• Hughes, Langston

  Author of The Weary Blues (1926)

• Kaiser, Henry J.

  The shipbuilder who founded Kaiser-Permanente

• Leigh, Vivien

  Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind

• Mansfield, Jayne

  The Hollywood bombshell killed in a 1967 car crash

• McCullers, Carson

  Author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

• Oppenheimer, J. Robert

  The physicist who directed the Manhattan Project

• Parker, Dorothy

  The oft-quoted female wit of the Algonquin Round Table

• Redding, Otis

  Soul singer who did "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"

• Ruby, Jack

  Assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald

• Sandburg, Carl

  Author of the poem Chicago

• Strayhorn, Billy

  Composer of "Take the 'A' Train"

• Tracy, Spencer

  Crusty Hollywood legend who was in Boys Town

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