‘RIP 1946’ – Dec. 16, 2016 Party Quiz

Fill in the names of the following who died in 1946:

 

. . . . . . .  _ . . . . . . . .     German dramatist and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1912

. . . . . . . . .  _ . . . . . . .  Russian-born world chess champion for two periods

. . . . . . . . . .  _ . . . .      Manager of the Homestead Grays, elected to the Hall of Fame in 2006

. . . . . . . . . .  _ . . . .       Founder of the American Theater Wing, who gave her name to awards

. . . . . . .  _ . . . . . .         New York-born composer of ‘Tea For Two’

. . . .  . . . . .  _ . . . .        Scottish engineer who demonstrated the first working television

. . . . .  _ . . . . . . . .         American sportswriter, one of those who broke the Black Sox Scandal

. . . . .  _ . . . . .               American author who celebrated Broadway

. . . . .  _ . . . . . . . . .       Pulitzer Prize-winning author who attended Princeton University

. . . . .  _ . . . . . .             New Dealer, and one of FDR’s closest advisers

. . . . . . .  . . . . . .  _ . . . .  (d. December 16, 1946) Architect of Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park

. . .   _ . . . . . . . .            Fascist leader of Romania in World War II

. . . . . . . .  _ . . .             Record-breaking football coach at the University of Michigan

. . . . . . . .   _. . . . .         American actress who starred in her husband’s Peg o’ My Heart

. . . . . .  _ . . . . . . .         American automobile racer, the first to drive a car at 60 mph

. . . . . . . .  _ . . . . . . . .   Japanese military governor of the Philippines in WWII

. . .   _’. . . . . .               American soldier of fortune who wrote Roving and Fighting

. . . . .  _ . . . .                 President of Guatemala from 1931 to 1944

 

The dots indicated actual number of characters in the persons’ names. The first letters of the surnames (the underscores) spell out a song title, the lyricist of which died on December 30, 1946.

The lyricist’s name?    ……..…………………………………