Death year 1943 celebrities

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Death year 1943

Cecilia Loftus Facts

Cecilia was given a convent education at St Mary`s School, Raikes Parade, Blackpool, England which moved in 1890 to the premises at Layton Hill Convent, Blackpool which it still occupies although now, after various name changes, splits and mergers, i

Hendrik Seyffardt Facts

Hendrik Alexander Seyffardt (1 November 1872 – 6 February 1943) was a Dutch general, who during World War II collaborated with Nazi Germany during the occupation of Netherlands, most notably as a figurehead of the Dutch Legion, a unit of the Waffen

Pete Gordon Facts

Winnaretta Singer Facts

Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac (8 January 1865 – 26 November 1943) was a musical patron and heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune. Born in America, she lived most of her adult life in France.

Betty Nansen Facts

Betty Nansen (née Betty Anna Maria Müller) (19 March 1873 – 15 March 1943) was a Danish actress and theatre director of the theater that carries her name, the Betty Nansen Theatre.

Gustav von Seyffertitz Facts

Gustav von Seyffertitz (4 August 1862 – 25 December 1943) was a German film actor and director. He settled in the United States. He was born in Haimhausen, Bavaria and died in Los Angeles, California, aged 81.

Christoph Probst Facts

Christoph Hermann Probst (born 6 November 1918, Murnau am Staffelsee – 22 February 1943, Munich) was a German student of medicine and a member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group.

Beatrix Potter Facts

Helen Beatrix Potter (British English /ˈbiː.ətrɪks/, North American English /ˈbiː.trɪks/, 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children’s books featur

Jeanne Olsen Facts

Dilly Knox Facts

Alfred Dillwyn “Dilly” Knox, CMG (23 July 1884 – 27 February 1943) was a British classics scholar and papyrologist at King’s College, Cambridge and a codebreaker. As a member of the World War I Room 40 codebreaking unit, he helped decrypt the Zimme

Robert Sherard Facts

Robert Harborough Sherard (3 December 1861 – 30 January 1943) was an English writer and journalist. He was a friend, and the first biographer, of Oscar Wilde, as well as being Wilde’s most prolific biographer in the first half of the twentieth cent

David Knights Whittome Facts

David Knights-Whittome (born David Knights Whittome, 1876) was a British portrait photographer, whose clients included royalty.