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1920 (MCMXX) was
a leap year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and
a leap year
starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1920th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
920th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 20th year of the 20th century,
and the 1st year of the 1920s decade. As of
the start of 1920, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] January 16: Beginning of Prohibition
in the United States ·
January – First Red Scare: 4,025 suspected communists
and anarchists are arrested and held without trial in the United States,
following raids in several cities. ·
Babe Ruth is traded by the Red Sox for $125,000, the largest sum
ever paid for a player at that time. ·
Bolsheviks
increase troops from 4 divisions to 20, along the Polish border. ·
The
forces of Russian White Admiral Alexander Kolchak surrender
in Krasnoyarsk;
the Great Siberian
Ice Marchensues. ·
The New York State
Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen. ·
January 9 – Thousands of onlookers
watch as George Polley ("The
Human Fly") climbs the Woolworth Building in
New York City; he reaches the 30th floor before being arrested. ·
January 10 – The League of
Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16, the organization holds its first
council meeting, in Paris. ·
January 10 – The Treaty of Versailles takes
effect, officially ending World War I. ·
January 11 – The Azerbaijan
Democratic Republic is recognised de facto by European powers in Versailles.[1] ·
January 13 – The New York Times ridicules American
rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard. ·
Prohibition
in the United States begins, with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming
into effect. ·
The Allies of World War
I demand that the Netherlands extradite German Kaiser Wilhelm II,
who fled there in 1918. ·
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated,
is founded on the campus of Howard University in
Washington, D.C. ·
The United States Senate votes
against joining the League of Nations. ·
The American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded. ·
January 22 – The Australian Country Party is
officially formed, led by Nelson Pollard. ·
January 23 – The Netherlands refuses to
extradite the German Kaiser. ·
January 28 – El Tercio de
Extranjeros (the "Regiment of Foreigners"), later
the Spanish Legion,
is established by decree of King Alfonso XIII of
Spain. ·
January 30 – The oldest surviving pro
wrestling match on film takes place, with Joe Stecher defeating Earl Caddock. February[edit] ·
February 1 – The South African Air
Force (SAAF) is established, the second autonomous Air Force
in the world, after the Royal Air Force (RAF).[2] ·
Estonian War
of Independence: The Tartu
Peace Treaty is signed, ending the war and recognizing the
independence of both the Republic of Estonia and
the Russian
Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. ·
Sayyid
Muhammad, Khan of Khiva, abdicates. ·
February 7 – Admiral Kolchak and Viktor Pepelyayev are executed by
firing squad near Irkutsk. ·
February 9 – The Svalbard Treaty, signed by members of the
League of Nations in Paris, recognises the sovereignty of Norway over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard (at this time called
Spitzbergen), while giving the other signatories economic rights in the
islands. ·
February 10 – General Józef Haller first performs Poland's
Wedding to the Sea, a symbolic celebration of the restitution
of Polish access to the Baltic Sea. ·
February 12–24 – Conference of
London: Leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Italy meet to
discuss the partitioning
of the Ottoman Empire. ·
February 13 – Switzerland rejoins
the League of Nations. ·
February 14 – The League of Women
Voters is founded in Chicago. ·
February 17 – A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide
in Berlin, and is taken to a mental hospital, where she claims she is Grand
Duchess Anastasia of Russia. ·
February 19 – The United States Senate refuses
to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. ·
February 20 – 1920 Gori earthquake:
An earthquake hits Gori in
the Democratic
Republic of Georgia, killing 114. ·
February 21 – The island province
of Marinduque in the Philippines archipelago is founded. ·
February 22 – In Emeryville, California,
the first dog racing track
to employ an imitation rabbit opens. ·
February 24 – Adolf Hitler presents his National
Socialist Program in Munich to the German Workers'
Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), which renames itself
as the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische
Deutsche Arbeiterpartei). March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Hungarian Admiral and statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the Regent of Hungary. ·
The United
States Railroad Administration returns control of American
railroads to its constituent railroad companies. ·
March 7 – The Syrian National Congress
proclaims Syria independent,
with Faisal I of Iraq as
king. ·
March 10 ·
The
world's first peaceful establishment of a social democratic government takes
place in Sweden, as Hjalmar Branting takes over as Prime Minister,
when Nils Edén leaves
office. ·
The Baylor Business
Men's Club changes its name, to the Baylor
University Chamber of Commerce. ·
March 13–17 – Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz's Kapp Putsch (an attempted coup in Germany) briefly ousts
the Weimar Republic government
from Berlin, but fails due to public resistance and a general strike. ·
March 15 – The Ruhr Red Army, a communist army 60,000 men
strong, is formed in Germany. ·
March 15–16 – Constantinople
is occupied by British Empire forces, acting for
the Allied Powers against
the Turkish
National Movement. Retrospectively, the Grand
National Assembly of Turkey regards this as the dissolution
of the Ottoman regime in Istanbul.[3] ·
March 18 – Greece begins
using the Gregorian calendar. ·
March 19 – The United States
Congress refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. ·
March 23 – Admiral Miklós Horthy declares that Hungary is
a monarchy, without anyone on the throne. ·
March 25 – Irish War of
Independence: British recruits to the Royal Irish
Constabulary begin to arrive in Ireland. They become known
from their improvised uniforms as the "Black and Tans".[4] ·
March 26 – The German government asks
France for permission to use its own troops against the rebellious Ruhr Red Army, in the French-occupied area. ·
March 28 – The 1920
Palm Sunday tornado outbreak hits the Great Lakes region and Deep South, of the United States. ·
March 29 – Sir
William Robertson is promoted to Field
Marshal, the first man to rise from private (enlisted 1877)
to the highest rank in the British Army.[5] April[edit] ·
April 2 – The German army marches to
the Ruhr, to fight the Ruhr Red Army. ·
April 4 – 1920 Palestine riots:
Violence erupts between Arab and Jewish residents in Jerusalem; 9 are killed, 216 injured. ·
April 6 – The short-lived Far Eastern Republic is
declared, in eastern Siberia. ·
April 11 – Mexican Revolution: Álvaro Obregón flees
from Mexico City (during a trial intended to ruin his reputation) to Guerrero, where he joins Fortunato Maycotte. ·
April 19–26 – San Remo conference:
Representatives of Italy, France, the United Kingdom and Japan meet to
determine the League of
Nations mandates for administration of territories, following
the partitioning
of the Ottoman Empire. ·
April 19 – Germany and Bolshevist
Russia agree to the exchange of prisoners of war. ·
April 20 ·
Mexican Revolution: Álvaro Obregón announces
(in Chilpancingo) that
he intends to fight against the rule of Venustiano Carranza. ·
The 1920 Summer Olympics open
in Antwerp, Belgium. The Olympic symbols of five interlocking
rings and the associated flag are first displayed at the games. ·
April 23 – The Grand
National Assembly of Turkey is founded by Mustafa Kemal
Atatürk, in Ankara. It denounces the
government of Sultan Mehmed VI, and
announces a temporary constitution. ·
April 24 – Polish–Soviet War: Polish and
anti-Soviet Ukrainian troops
attack the Red Army, in Soviet
Ukraine. ·
April 26 – The Khorezm
People's Soviet Republic is officially created by Bolshevist
Russia, as the successor to the Khanate of Khiva. ·
April 28 – The Azerbaijan
Soviet Socialist Republic is officially created. May[edit] ·
May 2 – The first game of Negro
National League baseball is played, in Indianapolis, Indiana. ·
May 3 – A Bolshevik coup fails,
in the Democratic
Republic of Georgia. ·
May 7 ·
Polish–Soviet War: Polish troops
occupy Kiev. The government of the Ukrainian
People's Republic returns to the city. ·
Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza leaves
Mexico City in a large train. ·
Treaty of Moscow
(1920): Soviet
Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic
Republic of Georgia, only to invade the country six months later. ·
May 15 – Russian Revolution:
Russian White soldier Maria Bochkareva is executed in Soviet
Russia. ·
May 16 ·
Canonization
of Joan of Arc: Over 30,000 people attend the ceremony in Rome,
including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc's family. Pope Benedict XV presides over the
rite, for which the interior of St. Peter's Basilica in
Rome is richly decorated. ·
A referendum in Switzerland favors
joining the League of Nations. ·
May 17 ·
French
and Belgian troops leave the cities they have occupied in Germany. ·
The
first flight of Dutch air company KLM,
from Amsterdam to London, takes place. ·
May 19 – Mexican Revolution: Álvaro Obregón's
troops enter Mexico City. ·
May 20 – Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza arrives
in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo; troops of Rodolfo Herrero attack him at night,
and shoot him. ·
May 24 – Venustiano Carranza is
buried in Mexico City; all of his mourning allies are arrested. Adolfo de la Huerta is
elected provisional president. ·
May 26 – Ganja revolt: Anti-Soviet opposition in the Azerbaijan SSR launches an abortive
revolt in Ganja. ·
May 27 – Tomáš Garrigue
Masaryk becomes president of Czechoslovakia. ·
May 29 – Floods at Louth,
Lincolnshire in England kill 23. June[edit] ·
June 4 – Treaty of Trianon:
Peace is restored between the Allied Powers and Hungary,
which loses 72% of its territory. ·
June 5 – Bolshevik cavalry break
through Polish and Ukrainian lines south of Kiev, precipitating eventual
withdrawal. ·
June 12 – Polish–Soviet War:
The Red Army retakes Kiev. ·
June 13 ·
Essad Pasha Toptani,
nominal ruler of Albania,
is assassinated by Avni Rustemi in
Paris. ·
The United
States Post Office Department rules that children may not be
sent via parcel post.[6] ·
June 15 ·
A
new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives
northern Schleswig to
Denmark. ·
The Estonian
Constituent Assembly adopts the first
constitution of Estonia, which will come into effect
on December 21 the
same year. ·
June 22 – Greek
Summer Offensive: Greece attacks Turkish troops. July[edit] ·
July 1 – Germany declares its neutrality in the
war between Poland and Soviet
Russia. ·
July 2 – Polish–Soviet War:
The Red Army continues its offensive
into Poland. ·
July 7 – Arthur Meighen becomes Canada's
ninth prime minister. ·
July 11 – The East Prussian
plebiscite is held. ·
July 12 – Soviet–Lithuanian
Peace Treaty: The Russian
Soviet Federative Socialist Republic recognizes
independent Lithuania. ·
July 13 – The London County
Council bars foreigners from council jobs.[citation needed] ·
July 19–August 7 – The Second
Congress of the Communist International takes place
in Saint Petersburg and
Moscow; the notorious Twenty-one
Conditions are adopted. ·
July 20 – The United Kingdom cedes its
brief control of the key Black Sea port of Batum, to the Democratic
Republic of Georgia. ·
July 21 – The Interallied
Mission to Poland takes place. ·
July 22 – Polish–Soviet War: Poland sues
for peace with Bolshevist
Russia (which refuses). ·
July 24 – Battle of Maysalun:
The French defeat
the Syrian army,
whose leader Yusuf al-'Azma is
killed. French troops occupy Damascus, and depose Faisal I of Syria as king.[7] ·
July 26 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes over Sabina and
contacts de la Huerta to offer his conditional surrender. He signs his
surrender on July 28. ·
July 29 – The United
States Bureau of Reclamation begins construction of the Link River Dam, as part of the Klamath
Reclamation Project. ·
July 30–August 8 – The 1st World Scout
Jamboree is held at Olympia, London.[8] ·
July 31 ·
Irish-born
Australian Catholic Bishop Daniel Mannix is detained onboard ship
off Queenstown, and prevented from landing in
Ireland, or from speaking in the main Irish Catholic communities elsewhere in
the United Kingdom.[9] ·
France
prohibits the sale or prescription of contraceptives. ·
Representatives
of British revolutionary
socialist groups meet at the Cannon Street Hotel in London, and agree to form the Communist
Party of Great Britain. August[edit] ·
August 3 – Irish War of
Independence: Catholics riot in Belfast, in protest at the continuing British Army presence. ·
August 10 – Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres with
the Allied Powers,
confirming arrangements for the partitioning
of the Ottoman Empire. ·
August 11 – Bolshevik
Russia recognizes independent Latvia. ·
August 13–25 – Polish–Soviet War – Battle of Warsaw:
The Red Army is defeated. ·
August 13 – Irish War of
Independence: The Restoration
of Order in Ireland Act (passed by the Parliament
of the United Kingdom) receives Royal Assent, providing for Irish Republican
Army activists to be tried by court-martial, rather than by jury in
criminal courts.[4] ·
August 19–25 – Second Silesian
Uprising: The Poles in Upper Silesia rise up against the
Germans. ·
August 20 – The first commercial radio
station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit. It is owned by the Detroit
News, the first U.S. radio station owned by a newspaper. ·
August 26 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is
passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage. ·
August 28–September 2 – Bukhara
operation: The Russian Red Army and Young Bukharians overthrow the Emirate of Bukhara,
leading to the establishment of the Bukharan
People's Soviet Republic. September[edit] ·
September 5 – Presidential elections
begin in Mexico. ·
September 8 – Gabriele D'Annunzio proclaims
the Italian
Regency of Carnaro, in the city of Fiume. ·
September 12 – The position of Patriarch
of the Serbs is re-established as the authority over
the Serbian Orthodox
Church, almost 156 years to the day after it was abolished by
the Ottoman Empire in 1766.[10] ·
September 16 – Wall Street bombing:
A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City,
killing 38 and injuring 400. ·
September 16 – The Latvian
Agrarian Reform Law of 1920 is adopted by the Constitutional
Assembly of Latvia. ·
September 17 – The National
Football League is established, as the American Professional
Football Association. ·
September 20 – The first soldier
joins El Tercio de Extranjeros, (the "Regiment of Foreigners",
later the Spanish Legion).
Under the command of José Millán Astrayand Francisco Franco, its first duties are
against Rif rebels,
in the Spanish
protectorate in Morocco. ·
September 21 – The Communist
Party of Uruguay is founded. ·
September 22 – The London Metropolitan Police forms
the Flying Squad, a
motorised mobile detective patrol unit. ·
September 27 – Polish–Soviet War: Bolshevist
Russia sues for peace with Poland. ·
The
first domestic radio sets come to stores in the United States; a Westinghouse radio
costs $10. ·
Adolf Hitler makes his first public
appearance in Austria, with speeches in Vienna, Innsbruck, and Salzburg. October[edit] ·
October 3 – The Prix de l'Arc
de Triomphe horse race first runs in Paris. ·
October 9 – Polish–Lithuanian
War: Polish troops take Vilnius. ·
October 10 – Carinthian
Plebiscite: A large part of Carinthia Province votes
to become part of Austria, rather than Yugoslavia. ·
October 14 – A peace treaty between the
Soviet and the Finnish governments is concluded at Tartu. ·
October 16 – Polish–Soviet War:
After the Polish army captures Tarnopol, Dubno, Minsk, and Dryssa, the ceasefire is enforced. ·
October 18 – Thousands of unemployed
demonstrate in London; 50 are injured. ·
October 26 – Álvaro Obregón is
announced the elected president of Mexico. ·
October 27 – ·
The League of Nations moves
its headquarters to Geneva, Switzerland. ·
Baron Louis De Geer the
Younger becomes the new Prime Minister of Sweden. ·
October 30 – The Communist
Party of Australia is founded in Sydney. November[edit] ·
United
States presidential election, 1920: Republican U. S. Senator Warren G. Harding defeats Democratic Governor
of Ohio James M. Cox and Socialist Eugene V. Debs, in the first national U.S.
election in which women have the right to vote. ·
In
the United States, KDKA AM of Pittsburgh (owned by Westinghouse)
starts broadcasting as a commercial radio station.
The first broadcast is the results of the presidential
election. ·
Meiji Shrine, one of many landmark spots
in Tokyo, is officially built in Japan.[11] ·
November 11 – The Unknown Warrior is
buried in Westminster Abbey. ·
November 12 – Italy and the Kingdom of
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo. ·
November 13 – The White Army's last units and civilian
refugees are evacuated from the Crimea on board 126 ships, the remnants of the Russian Imperial Navy,
to Turkey, Tunisia and the Kingdom
of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, accompanied by wide-scale civilian
massacres. The total number of evacuees amounts to approximately 150,000
people, of which 20% are civilians. ·
November 14 – The Edmonton
Symphony Orchestra holds its first concert. ·
November 15 – In Geneva, the first assembly of the League of Nations is
held. ·
November 16 – Queensland and Northern
Territory Aviation Services (Qantas) is founded
by Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness. ·
November 17 – The council of the League of Nations accepts
the constitution for
the Free City of Danzig. ·
November 20 – Prince Arthur
of Connaught is appointed the 3rd Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. ·
November 21 – Irish War of
Independence: Bloody Sunday:
The Irish Republican
Army, on the instructions of Michael
Collins, shoot dead the "Cairo gang", 14 British
undercover agents in Dublin, most in their
homes. Later that day in retaliation, the Auxiliary Division of
the Royal Irish
Constabulary open fire on a crowd at a Gaelic
Athletic Association Football match in Croke Park, killing 13 spectators and 1
player, and wounding 60.[4][12] Three men are shot this night in Dublin Castle"while trying to
escape". ·
November 28 – Irish War of
Independence – Kilmichael Ambush:
The flying column of the 3rd Cork Brigade of the Irish Republican
Army, led by Tom Barry,
ambushes two lorries carrying men of the Auxiliary Division of
the Royal Irish
Constabulary at Kilmichael,
County Cork, killing 17 (with 3 of its men also dying), which
leads to official reprisals.[4] December[edit] ·
December 1 – The Mexican Revolution ends
with a new regime coming to power, which couples with the end of the Old West. ·
December 3 – Following more than a
month of the Turkish–Armenian War,
the Turkish-dictated Treaty of
Alexandropol is concluded. ·
December 5 – A referendum in Greece is
favorable to the reinstatement of the monarchy. ·
December 10 – Irish War of
Independence: Martial law is declared in
Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary.[4] ·
December 11 – The Burning of Cork in
Ireland: British forces set fire to some 5 acres (20,000 m2) of the centre of Cork, including the City Hall, in reprisal
attacks, after a British auxiliary is killed in a guerilla ambush. ·
December 15–22 – The Brussels Conference
establishes a timetable for German war reparations, intended to extend for over
42 years. ·
Finland
joins the League of Nations. ·
An
8.6 Richter scale Haiyuan
earthquake causes a landslide in Gansu Province, China, killing 180,000. ·
December 17 – South Africa is granted
a League of Nations
Class C mandate over South West Africa. ·
December 22 – The 8th Congress of Soviets
of the Russian SFSR adopts the GOELRO plan, the major plan of the
economical development of the country. ·
The
United Kingdom and France ratify the border between French-held Syria and British-held Palestine. ·
The Government
of Ireland Act 1920, passed by the Parliament
of the United Kingdom, receives Royal Assent from George V, providing for the partition of Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern
Ireland, with separate parliaments, granting a measure of home rule.[4][12] ·
December 25 – The Rosicrucian
Fellowship's spiritual healing temple The Ecclesia is
dedicated at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside,
California. Date unknown[edit] ·
Hydrocodone, a narcotic analgesic closely
related to codeine, is first synthesized in Germany, by Carl Mannich and Helene Löwenheim. ·
Approximate
date – The HIV pandemic almost
certainly originates in Léopoldville, modern-day Kinshasa, the capital of the Belgian Congo.[13] Births[edit] January[edit] ·
José Antonio
Bottiroli, Argentinean composer, poet (d. 1990) ·
Virgilio Savona, Italian singer, songwriter
(d. 2009) ·
Heinz Zemanek, Austrian computer pioneer
(d. 2014) ·
Elisabeth Andersen,
Dutch actress (d. 2018) ·
Isaac Asimov, American author (d. 1992) ·
George Herbig, American astronomer (d. 2013) ·
Anne-Sofie Østvedt,
Norwegian resistance leader (d. 2009) ·
Renato Carosone, Italian musician, singer
(d. 2001) ·
Abbas
Ali, Indian freedom fighter, politician (d. 2014) ·
January 5 – Arturo
Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995) ·
John Maynard Smith,
English biologist (d. 2004) ·
Early Wynn, American baseball player
(d. 1999) ·
January 7 – Vincent Gardenia, American actor (d. 1992) ·
Abbey Simon, American classical pianist ·
Gordon Kahl, American tax protester,
cop-killer (d. 1983) ·
Clive Dunn, British actor (d. 2012) ·
Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar, philanthropist
(d. 1998) ·
Raymond Cauchetier,
French photographer ·
Roberto M.
Levingston, Argentinian general, politician and 36th President of
Argentina (d. 2015) ·
January 11 – Jarbas Passarinho,
Brazilian military officer, politician (d. 2016) ·
January 12 – Bill Reid, Canadian artist (d. 1998) ·
January 13 – Jahangir Amuzegar,
Iranian economist, academic and politician (d. 2018) ·
January 14 – Vahe Danielyan, Soviet soldier and
concentration camp survivor ·
Joseph Mendenhall,
American ambassador ·
John O'Connor,
American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000) ·
Al Morgan, American novelist, television
producer (d. 2011) ·
Elliott Reid, American actor (d. 2013) ·
Walter
Frederick Morrison, American entrepreneur, inventor (d. 2010) ·
Buddy O'Grady, American basketball player,
coach (d. 1992) ·
Javier Pérez de
Cuéllar, Peruvian Secretary-General
of the United Nations, 135th Prime Minister of
Peru ·
Federico Fellini, Italian film director,
screenwriter (d. 1993) ·
Theodore H. Geballe,
American physicist ·
DeForest Kelley, American actor (Star Trek) (d. 1999) ·
Fabian Ver, Filipino general (d. 1998) ·
January 21 – Errol Barrow, 1st Prime Minister of Barbados
(d. 1987) ·
January 22 – Alf Ramsey, English footballer, manager
(d. 1999) ·
January 23 – Gottfried Böhm,
German architect ·
Manuel Yan, Filipino general (d. 2008) ·
Jerry Maren, American actor (d. 2018) ·
January 25 – Alicia Montoya, Mexican actress (d. 2002) ·
January 26 – Heinz Kessler, German politician, military
officer (d. 2017) ·
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa,
Japanese fighter ace (d. 1944) ·
Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002) ·
January 29 – Balantrapu
Rajanikanta Rao, Indian writer (d. 2018) ·
Michael
Anderson, English film director (d. 2018) ·
Delbert Mann, American television, film
director (d. 2007) ·
January 31 – James Yimm Lee, American martial arts
pioneer, teacher, author, and publisher (d. 1972) February[edit] Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington ·
John Russell,
American Olympic equestrian ·
Heikki Suolahti, Finnish composer (d. 1936) ·
Russell Arms, American actor and singer
(d. 2012) ·
Henry Heimlich, American physician, medical
researcher (d. 2016) ·
February 4 – Giriraj Kishore, Indian activist, politician
(d. 2014) ·
February 5 – Frank Muir, British actor, comedy writer and
raconteur (d. 1998) ·
Oscar Brand, Canadian-born American folk
singer, songwriter and author (d. 2016) ·
An Wang, Chinese-born computer pioneer
(d. 1990) ·
Bengt Ekerot, Swedish actor, director
(d. 1971) ·
Tony Murray,
French-English billionaire and businessman ·
Farouk I, King of Egypt (d. 1965) ·
Billy Halop, American actor (d. 1976) ·
George Mandel, American author ·
William Roscoe Estep,
American Baptist historian (d. 2000) ·
Heleno de Freitas,
Brazilian footballer (d. 1959) ·
Bill Pitman, American musician ·
Yoshiko Yamaguchi,
Chinese-Japanese actress, singer (d. 2014) ·
Seneka Bibile, Sri Lankan pharmacologist
(d. 1977) ·
Annæus Schjødt, Jr.,
Norwegian barrister (d. 2014) ·
February 16 – Anna Mae Hays, American general (d. 2018) ·
Ivo Caprino, Norwegian film director
(d. 2001) ·
Annie Castor, American disability,
communication disorder activist ·
Bill Cullen, American game show host
(d. 1990) ·
Eddie Slovik, U.S. Army private (executed)
(d. 1945) ·
February 20 – Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (d. 1948) ·
February 22 – Burt L. Talcott, American politician
(d. 2016) ·
February 23 – Paul Gérin-Lajoie,
Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2018) ·
February 25 – Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist, founder
of the Unification Church (d. 2012) ·
Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004) ·
Lucjan Wolanowski,
Polish journalist, writer, and traveler (d. 2006) ·
Jadwiga
Piłsudska, Polish pilot (d. 2014) ·
Zaim Topčić, Yugoslav, Bosnian
writer (d. 1990) ·
Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991) ·
Michele Morgan, French actress (d. 2016) March[edit] ·
March 3 ·
James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (Star Trek) (d. 2005) ·
Ronald Searle, British cartoonist (d. 2011) ·
March 4 ·
George W. Landau, American ambassador ·
Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993) ·
Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002) ·
March 5 ·
Rachel Gurney, British actress (d. 2001) ·
Del Latta, American politician (d. 2016) ·
March 6 – Lewis Gilbert, British film director,
producer and screenwriter (d. 2018) ·
March 8 – Ingemar Hedberg, Swedish canoeist ·
March 9 – Franjo Mihalić,
Croatian-Serbian athlete (d. 2015) ·
March 10 ·
Robert Cardenas, American Air Force general ·
Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur,
founder of Peet's Coffee
& Tea (d. 2007) ·
Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and
musician (d. 1959) ·
March 11 ·
Nicolaas Bloembergen,
Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2017) ·
March 14 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001) ·
March 15 ·
Lawrence Sanders, American novelist
(d. 1998) ·
E. Donnall Thomas,
American physician, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2012) ·
March 17 – Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman, founder, 2-time President & 2nd Prime Minister
of Bangladesh (d. 1975) ·
March 16 – Leo McKern, Australian actor (d. 2002) ·
March 19 ·
Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian poet, artist
(d. 2002) ·
Paul Hagen, Danish actor (d. 2003) ·
Laurent Noël, Canadian Roman Catholic bishop ·
March 20 ·
Pamela Harriman, English-born American
diplomat, socialite (d. 1997) ·
Edwin Hunt,
English waterman ·
Vickie Panos, Greek-Canadian female
professional baseball player (d. unknown) ·
Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (d. 1942) ·
Rosemary Timperley,
British author (d. 1988) ·
March 22 ·
Werner Klemperer, German actor (Hogan's Heroes) (d. 2000) ·
Josip Manolić, Prime Minister
of Croatia ·
Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (d. 1981) ·
Albert H. Pearson,
American farmer, politician (d. 1963) ·
Fanny Waterman, English pianist, educator ·
March 23 ·
Tetsuharu Kawakami,
Japanese baseball player, coach (d. 2013) ·
Neal Edward Smith,
American pilot, lawyer and politician ·
March 24 – Corbin Harney, elder and spiritual leader of
the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (d. 2007) ·
March 25 – Patrick Troughton,
British actor (d. 1987) ·
March 27 ·
Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995) ·
William Moncrief, American businessman ·
March 29 ·
Marion Mann, American physician and
pathologist ·
Gottfried
Weilenmann, Swiss racing cyclist (d. 2018) ·
March 31 ·
Deborah
Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 2014) ·
Marga Minco, Dutch journalist, writer ·
Unknown
– Walter Smith,
English land surveyor April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997) ·
Yosh Uchida, American businessman,
entrepreneur and educator ·
April 2 – Jack Webb, American actor, director, and
producer (d. 1982) ·
April 3 – Ehsan Yarshater, Iranian scholar (d. 2018) ·
April 4 – Éric Rohmer, French film director (d. 2010) ·
April 5 ·
Barend Biesheuvel,
Dutch politician, Prime
Minister of the Netherlands from 1971 until 1973 (d. 2001) ·
Arthur Hailey, American writer (d. 2004) ·
April 6 – Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss American biochemist, recipient of
the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
April 7 – Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player (d. 2012) ·
April 8 – Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (d. 1994) ·
April 11 ·
Emilio Colombo, 40th Prime Minister of Italy
(d. 2013) ·
Peter O'Donnell, British author, comic strip
writer (d. 2010) ·
April 12 ·
Anita Ellis,
Canadian-American singer, actress (d. pre-2008) ·
Buck Young, American actor (d. 2000) ·
April 13 ·
Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982) ·
Marthe Cohn, French author and Holocaust
survivor ·
Liam Cosgrave, sixth Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2017) ·
Jack
Lambert, American actor (d. 2002) ·
April 14 ·
Stanley Stutz, American basketball player
(d. 1975) ·
Ivor Forbes Guest,
English lawyer, historian and author (d. 2018) ·
Antônio Afonso
de Miranda, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop ·
April 15 ·
Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-born psychiatrist,
writer (d. 2012) ·
Richard von
Weizsäcker, German politician, President of Germany (1984–1994)
(d. 2015) ·
April 16 – Prince
George Valdemar of Denmark (d. 1986) ·
April 19 ·
Gene Leis, American jazz guitarist, educator
(d. 1993) ·
Ragnar Ulstein, Norwegian journalist and
writer ·
April 20 – John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States ·
April 21 – Edmund Adamkiewicz,
German footballer (d. 1991) ·
April 22 – Valeri Petrov, Bulgarian poet (d. 2014) ·
April 23 – Eric Yarrow, English businessman (d. 2018) ·
April 25 – Robert Q. Lewis, American radio and
television personality (d. 1991) ·
April 27 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956) ·
April 29 – Harold Shapero, American composer (d. 2013) ·
April 30 – Diet Eman, Dutch author and resistance
worker May[edit] ·
May 2 ·
Jean-Marie Auberson,
Swiss conductor (d. 2004) ·
Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-born writer,
ecological activist (d. 2000) ·
Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (d. 1990) ·
May 5 – Jon Naar, British-American author,
photographer (d. 2017) ·
May 6 – Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of
Fiji and President of Fiji (d. 2004) ·
May 7 – Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (d. 1985) ·
May 8 – Touko Laaksonen, Finnish artist (pseudonym
Tom of Finland) (d. 1991) ·
May 8 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer
(d. 1996) ·
May 9 ·
Richard Adams, English novelist (d. 2016) ·
Mitsuko Mori, Japanese actress (d. 2012) ·
Michael Dauncey, British Army brigadier
(d. 2017) ·
May 11 ·
Denver Pyle, American actor (d. 1997) ·
Gene Hermanski, American baseball player
(d. 2010) ·
May 12 ·
John Tyler Bonner,
American biologist ·
Gerald Stapleton, South African Battle of Britain fighter
pilot (d. 2010) ·
May 13 – Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007) ·
May 15 ·
Nasrallah Boutros
Sfeir, Lebanese cardinal ·
Louis Siminovitch,
Canadian molecular biologist ·
May 17 – Lydia Wideman, Finnish Olympic cross-country
skier ·
May 18 ·
Pope John Paul II (d. 2005) ·
Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 2012) ·
May 19 – Tina Strobos, Dutch psychiatrist known for
rescuing Jews during World War II (d. 2012) ·
May 20 ·
John Cruickshank, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient ·
Domenico Leccisi, Italian politician
(d. 2008) ·
May 22 – Helen Andelin, American author (d. 2009) ·
May 23 – Helen O'Connell, American singer (d. 1993) ·
May 25 – Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992) ·
May 26 ·
John Dall, American actor (d. 1971) ·
Ted Knap, American journalist ·
Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002) ·
May 28 ·
Gene Levitt, American television writer,
producer, and director (d. 1999) ·
Jim Russell,
English racing driver ·
Jackie Smith, Welsh boxer ·
May 29 ·
John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born
economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2000) ·
Clifton James, American actor (d. 2017) ·
May 30 ·
Godfrey Binaisa, President of Uganda (d. 2010) ·
James F. Leonard, American diplomat ·
Frederick M. Nicholas,
American lawyer ·
Franklin Schaffner,
American film, television director (d. 1989) ·
Shōtarō
Yasuoka, Japanese writer (d. 2013) June[edit] ·
June 1 – Amos Yarkoni, Israeli soldier (d. 1991) ·
June 2 ·
Marcel Reich-Ranicki,
German literary critic, member of the literary Gruppe 47 (d. 2013) ·
Tex Schramm, American football executive
(d. 2003) ·
Johnny Speight, British television
scriptwriter (d. 1998) ·
June 4 – Lynda Adams, Canadian diver ·
June 6 – Jan Rubeš, Czech-Canadian bass opera singer,
actor (d. 2009) ·
June 10 – Ruth Graham, American evangelist, wife of
Billy Graham (d. 2007) ·
June 11 – King Mahendra of Nepal (d. 1972) ·
June 12 ·
Dave Berg,
American cartoonist (d. 2002) ·
Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003) ·
June 13 ·
Rex Everhart, American actor (d. 2000) ·
Rolf Huisgen, German chemist and academic ·
June 15 – Alberto Sordi, Italian actor (d. 2003) ·
June 16 ·
Eva Estrada-Kalaw,
Filipino politician (d. 2017) ·
José López Portillo,
51st President of Mexico (d. 2004) ·
June 17 ·
Patrick
Duffy, English economist and president of the NATO Assembly ·
Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician
(d. 1981) ·
Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (d. 2015) ·
François Jacob,
French biologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2013) ·
Peter Le Cheminant,
Guernesiase air force commander (d. 2018) ·
John
Waddy, English author and army officer ·
June 18 ·
Utta Danella, German writer (d. 2015) ·
Lode Van Den Bergh,
Belgian author and academic ·
June 19 ·
Thomas
Jefferson, American musician ·
Eliana Navarro, Chilean poet (d. 2006) ·
June 20 ·
Danny Cedrone, American guitarist,
bandleader (d. 1954) ·
Amos Tutuola, Nigerian writer (d. 1997) ·
June 21 – Hans Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater
(d. 2017) ·
June 22 ·
Lester Wunderman, American executive ·
Jack Karwales, American football player
(d. 2004) ·
Walt Masterson, American right-handed
baseball pitcher (d. 2008) ·
Paul Frees, American voice actor (d. 1986) ·
Jovito Salonga, Filipino statesman (d. 2016) ·
June 23 – Saleh Ajeery, Kuwaiti astronomer ·
June 25 ·
Théo Klein, French lawyer ·
Jeanne Tomasini, Corsican writer ·
Lassie Lou Ahern, American actress (d. 2018) ·
Ozan Marsh, American pianist (d. 1992) ·
June 26 – Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian Major League
Baseball pitcher (d. 2014) ·
June 27 – Fernando Riera, Chilean football player,
manager (d. 2010) ·
June 28 – Clarissa Eden, wife of British Prime
Minister Anthony Eden ·
June 29 ·
Armin Hofmann, Swiss graphic designer ·
Elói,
Portuguese footballer ·
Ray Harryhausen, American animator (d. 2013) ·
June 30 ·
Eleanor Ross Taylor,
American poet (d. 2011) ·
Zeno Colò, Italian Olympic alpine skier
(d. 1993) July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Joseph G. Williams,
American musician ·
George I. Fujimoto,
American chemist of Japanese descent ·
Aziz Sedky, Egyptian politician, engineer
(d. 2008) ·
Lucidio Sentimenti,
Italian footballer (d. 2014) ·
July 3 – Sergio Mendizabal,
Spanish actor ·
July 4 ·
Paul Bannai, American politician ·
Anthony Barber, British Conservative
politician (d. 2005) ·
Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator,
real estate investor (d. 2007) ·
July 5 ·
Mary Louise Hancock,
American politician (d. 2017) ·
Rosemarie Springer,
German equestrian ·
July 7 ·
Sandy Tatum, American golfer (d. 2017) ·
William
Thaddeus Coleman Jr., American attorney, politician (d. 2017) ·
Henry Williams Hise,
U.S General (d. 2010) ·
July 8 ·
Eileen Bennett, British actress ·
Tom Currigan, 39th Mayor of Denver (d. 2014) ·
July 10 ·
Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2006) ·
J. T. White, American college football
assistant coach (d. 2005) ·
Milo Anstadt, Dutch-Jewish writer,
journalist (d. 2011) ·
July 11 ·
Yul Brynner, Russian-born American actor
(d. 1985) ·
Zecharia Sitchin, Soviet-born American
author (d. 2010) ·
July 12 ·
Roy Drinkard, American businessman ·
Randolph Quirk, British linguist, life peer
(d. 2017) ·
Bob Fillion, Canadian professional ice
hockey player (d. 2015) ·
Keith Andes, American actor (d. 2005) ·
July 13 ·
Anna Halprin, American dancer ·
Don Ralke, American music arranger (d. 2000) ·
Bill Towers,
English footballer (d. 2000) ·
July 14 ·
Tom Neil, English Royal Air Force pilot (d. 2018) ·
Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter
(d. 2006) ·
July 15 ·
Theresa Kobuszewski,
American professional baseball player, World War II veteran (d. 2005) ·
Prince
Michael Andreevich of Russia (d. 2008) ·
July 16 ·
Ulysses S.
Washington, American college football player, coach (d. 2018) ·
Phillip Pine, American actor (d. 2006) ·
Larry Jansen, American right-handed pitcher,
coach (d. 2009) ·
Henry Williams Hise,
United States Marine Corps Brigadier General (d. 2010) ·
July 17 ·
Juan Antonio
Samaranch, Spanish International Olympic Committee president
(d. 2010) ·
Gordon Gould, American physicist (d. 2005) ·
June Vincent, American actress (d. 2008) ·
July 18 – Dolph Sweet, American actor (d. 1985) ·
July 19 ·
Émile Idée, French professional road bicycle
racer ·
Robert Mann, American violinist (d. 2018) ·
Frank Maznicki, American football player
(d. 2013) ·
George Dawkes, English cricketer (d. 2006) ·
July 20 ·
Jasper Blackall, British sailor ·
James B. Owens, American engineer, former
executive ·
Byron Krieger, American foil, sabre and épée
fencer (d. 2015) ·
July 21 ·
Jean Daniel, Algerian-born French-Jewish
journalist, author ·
Gunnar
Thoresen, Norwegian footballer (d. 2017) ·
Constant Nieuwenhuys,
Dutch painter (d. 2005) ·
Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist
(d. 2001) ·
July 24 – Bella Abzug, American feminist politician
(d. 1998) ·
July 25 ·
Rosalind Franklin,
British crystallographer (d. 1958) ·
David P. Buckson, American lawyer,
politician (d. 2017) ·
July 27 – Howard Hibbett, American translator ·
July 28 – Lea Padovani, Italian film actress (d. 1991) ·
July 30 – Lady Brigid Guinness of
the United Kingdom (d. 1995) ·
July 31 – Ndabaningi Sithole,
Zimbabwean politician (d. 2000) August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Ken Bald, American comic book artist ·
Sammy Lee,
Korean-American diver (d. 2016) ·
Thomas McGuire, American World War II
fighter ace (d. 1945) ·
Jack Briggs,
American actor (d. 1998) ·
August 2 – Hugh Hickling, English lawyer, colonial
civil servant, law academic and author (d. 2007) ·
August 3 ·
Norman Dewis, English test driver and
development engineer ·
P. D. James, English mystery novelist
(d. 2014) ·
August 4 ·
John Figueroa, Jamaican poet (d. 1999) ·
Warren Plunkett, American football player ·
Helen Thomas, American author, news service
reporter, member of the White House press
corps and columnist (d. 2013) ·
August 5 ·
Bill Grayden, Australian politician ·
Mickey Shaughnessy,
Irish-American character actor, comedian (d. 1985) ·
August 6 ·
Selma Diamond, Canadian-American comedic
actress (d. 1985) ·
Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988) ·
August 7 ·
Glauco Della Porta,
Italian politician, economist (d. 1976) ·
Françoise Adret,
French ballet dancer, choreographer (d. 2018) ·
Mario Astorri, Italian football player,
coach (d. 1989) ·
August 8 ·
Leo Chiosso, Italian poet (d. 2006) ·
Jimmy Witherspoon,
American singer (d. 1997) ·
August 9 – Milton G. Henschel,
American member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, 5th President
of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (d. 2003) ·
Ann Harnett, American female baseball player
(d. 2006) ·
Red Holzman, American basketball coach
(d. 1998) ·
August 11 – Florence
Bjelke-Petersen, Australian politician, writer (d. 2017) ·
August 12 – Aidan Maloney, Canadian politician,
executive (d. 2018) ·
August 13 – Neville Brand, American actor, highly
decorated World War II combat soldier (d. 1992) ·
August 15 – Prince
Konstantin of Bavaria (d. 1969) ·
August 16 – Charles Bukowski, American writer (d. 1994) ·
August 17 – Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress
(d. 2015) ·
Bob Kennedy, American baseball player,
manager (d. 2005) ·
David Lacy-Scott, English cricketer ·
Mervyn Lee, Australian politician ·
Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006) ·
August 20 – Boris Braun, Croatian university professor
and Holocaust survivor ·
August 21 – Christopher Robin
Milne, English author, bookseller (d. 1996) ·
August 22 – Ray Bradbury, American science fiction
writer (d. 2012) ·
August 23 – Jim Leavelle, American detective ·
August 24 – Herbert Haft, American owner of Dart Drugs
Chain (d. 2004) ·
Emil Cadkin, American film composer ·
Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (d. 2006) ·
Prem Tinsulanonda,
16th Prime Minister of Thailand ·
Richard E. Bellman,
American mathematician (d. 1984) ·
August 27 – Baptiste Manzini, American football player
(d. 2008) ·
August 28 – Jaime de Almeida, Brazilian football player,
manager (d. 1973) ·
Charlie Parker, African-American
saxophonist, composer (d. 1955) ·
Herb Simpson, American baseball player
(d. 2015) ·
August 30 – Ali Sabri, Egyptian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of
Egypt (d. 1991) September[edit] ·
Richard Farnsworth,
American actor, stuntman (d. 2000) ·
Rayson Huang, Hong Kong chemist (d. 2015) ·
September 3 – Les Medley, English footballer (d. 2001) ·
September 4 – Catherine
Bennett, Canadian female professional baseball player ·
September 6 – Lawrence LeShan, American psychologist,
educator and author ·
September 9 – Joan Neiman, Canadian senator ·
Robert F. Inger, American herpetologist ·
Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer
(d. 2001) ·
Darussalam,
Indonesian actor (d. 1993) ·
Lore Lorentz, German cabaret artist, standup
comedian (d. 1994) ·
September 13 – Alan Sagner, American public servant,
political fundraiser (d. 2018) ·
Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (d. 2009) ·
Cascarita [a.k.a. Orlando Guerra],
Cuban music singer (d. 1975) ·
Don
Johnson, American football player ·
Fuad Stephens, Malaysian politician
(d. 1976) ·
Lawrence Klein, American economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2013) ·
September 15 – Dave Garcia, American baseball coach,
manager (d. 2018) ·
September 17 – Marjorie Holt, American politician (d. 2018) ·
September 18 – Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006) ·
September 19 – Roger Angell, American journalist and author ·
Kenneth McAlpine, English racing driver ·
Kim Yong-ju, North Korean politician,
younger brother of Kim Il-Sung ·
Nathaniel
Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele, English peer and businessman ·
William H. Riker, American political
scientist (d. 1993) ·
Alexander Arutiunian,
Armenian composer (d. 2012) ·
Mickey Rooney, American actor, dancer and
entertainer (d. 2014) ·
Dick Bong, American fighter ace (d. 1945) ·
Harber H. Hall, American politician ·
Ovadia Yosef, Israeli Chief Rabbi (d. 2013) ·
September 27 – William Conrad, American actor, film director,
and producer (d. 1994) ·
September 29 – Peter D. Mitchell,
English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1992) ·
September 30 – Milton P. Rice, American politician
(d. 2018) ·
Unknown
– Wu Ningkun, Chinese academic October[edit] ·
Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor
(d. 2001) ·
Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000) ·
October 2 – Tun Tin, 6th Prime Minister of
Burma ·
Charles
Burrell, American musician ·
Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005) ·
Vincent DeRosa, American musician ·
Ralph Turlington, American politician ·
October 8 – Frank Herbert, American author (d. 1986) ·
Jens Bjørneboe,
Norwegian author (d. 1976) ·
Yusef Lateef, American jazz musician,
composer (d. 2013) ·
Michael
Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead, English politician ·
Jason Wingreen, American actor (d. 2015) ·
Gail Halvorsen, retired American Air Force
pilot ·
Noah Keen, American actor ·
Laraine Day, American actress (d. 2007) ·
Donald
Russell, English author ·
October 15 – Mario Puzo, American author (d. 1999) ·
Claire Barry, American singer (The Barry Sisters)
(d. 2014) ·
Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966) ·
Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (d. 2010) ·
October 19 – Pandurang
Shastri Athavale, Indian founder of the Swadhyay Movement
(d. 2003) ·
Janet Jagan, 6th President of Guyana
(d. 2009) ·
Siddhartha Shankar
Ray, Indian politician, Chief
Minister of West Bengal (d. 2010) ·
October 21 – Ruth Terry, American singer, actress
(d. 2016) ·
October 22 – Timothy Leary, American psychologist,
author, and proponent of LSD (d. 1996) ·
October 23 – Vern Stephens, American baseball player
(d. 1968) ·
October 25 – J. Denis
Summers-Smith, English ornithologist and mechanical engineer ·
Sarah Lee Lippincott,
American astronomer ·
Robert D. Maxwell,
American Medal of Honour recipient ·
Nanette Fabray, American actress, dancer and
singer (d. 2018) ·
K. R. Narayanan, President of India (d. 2005) ·
October 29 – Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born
immunologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011) ·
Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan revolutionary leader
(d. 1957) ·
Dick Francis, British jockey-turned-novelist
(d. 2010) ·
Joseph Gelineau, French composer (d. 2008) ·
Fritz Walter, German footballer (d. 2002) November[edit] ·
November 2 – Kim Chol-man, North Korean politician and
military official (d. 2018) ·
November 4 – Val Heim, American Major League Baseball
player ·
John H. Land, American politician, mayor of
Apopka, Florida (d. 2014) ·
Douglass North, American economist (d. 2015) ·
Sitara Devi, Indian dancer (d. 2014) ·
Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998) ·
Wally Westlake, American Major League
Baseball player ·
November 10 – Ted Luscombe, English bishop ·
Paul Robert Ignatius,
American government official ·
Walter Krupinski, German World War II
fighter ace, postwar general (d. 2000) ·
November 12 – Josip Boljkovac, Croatian politician
(d. 2014) ·
Jack Elam, American actor (d. 2003) ·
Georg Olden,
African-American graphic designer (d. 1975) ·
November 14 – Mary Greyeyes, first First Nations woman to join the Canadian Armed
Forces (d. 2011) ·
Colin Collindridge,
English footballer ·
Wayne Thiebaud, American painter ·
November 16 – Eric P. Hamp, American linguist ·
November 17 – George Dunning, Canadian-born cartoon
director, animator (d. 1979) ·
November 18 – Mustafa Khalil, 40th Prime Minister of Egypt
(d. 2008) ·
November 19 – Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991) ·
Ralph Meeker, American actor (d. 1988) ·
Stan Musial, American baseball player
(d. 2013) ·
November 22 – Anne Crawford, British actress (d. 1956) ·
November 23 – Paik Sun-yup, South Korean military officer ·
November 24 – Jorge Mistral, Spanish-Mexican actor
(d. 1972) ·
Ricardo Montalbán,
Mexican actor (d. 2009) ·
Putra of Perlis, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia (d. 2000) ·
Noel Neill, American actress (d. 2016) ·
November 27 – Buster Merryfield,
British actor (d. 1999) ·
November 28 – Patrick Campbell
Rodger, Scottish Anglican bishop (d. 2002) ·
Bob Wolff, American sportscaster (d. 2017) ·
Yegor Ligachyov, Soviet politician ·
November 30 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Peter
Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate
(d. 2014) ·
December 5 – Poldine Carlo, American author (d. 2018) ·
Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist,
composer (d. 2012) ·
George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2002) ·
December 8 – Ivar Martinsen, Norwegian speed skater
(d. 2018) ·
December 9 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi,
49th Prime Minister of
Italy, 10th President of Italy (d. 2016) ·
December 10 – Stanko Todorov, Bulgarian communist
politician (d. 1996) ·
Jorge Dória, Brazilian actor and humorist
(d. 2013) ·
Margot Duhalde, Chilean pilot (d. 2018) ·
Sally Mansfield, American actress (d. 2001) ·
Kaysone Phomvihane,
2nd President, 11th Prime Minister of Laos (d. 1992) ·
George P. Shultz, American economist,
politician, and 60th United
States Secretary of State ·
Frank T. Cary, American executive,
businessman (d. 2006) ·
Clark Terry, American musician, composer
(d. 2015) ·
Bernice Falk Haydu,
American aviator ·
Peter Lloyd,
Australian aviator ·
Eddie Johnson,
American Major League Baseball player ·
December 16 – John Hale Stutesman,
American politician ·
December 17 – Ewa Paradies, German Nazi war criminal
(d. 1946) ·
December 18 – Gianni Di Venanzo,
Italian cinematographer (d. 1966) ·
David Susskind, American producer, talk show
host (d. 1987) ·
Little Jimmy Dickens,
American country music singer, songwriter (d. 2015) ·
Harold Lang, American dancer, actor
(d. 1985) ·
Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina ·
Iris Cummings, American Olympic swimmer and
aviator ·
J. Roderick
MacArthur, American businessman, philanthropist (d. 1984) ·
Adele Goldstine, American mathematician
(d. 1964) ·
December 23 – Tim Elkington, English Royal Air Force pilot ·
Yevgeniya Rudneva,
Soviet World War II heroine (d. 1944) ·
Edy Reinalter, Swiss alpine skier (d. 1962) ·
December 28 – Princess
Antoinette, Baroness of Massy (d. 2011) ·
Josefa Iloilo, 3rd President of Fiji
(d. 2011) ·
Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-American actress
(d. 1995) ·
December 30 – Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998) ·
December 31 – Rex Allen, American actor, singer,
songwriter (d. 1999) Possible[edit] ·
Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (born
between October 4, 1919, and January 2, 1920, inclusive;[14] d. 1992) Date unknown[edit] ·
Anne Triola, American actress and singer ·
Daniel Mellet, Swiss football referee ·
Cezmi Kartay, Turkish civil servant,
politician (d. 2008) ·
Izaak Grynfeld, Polish-Israeli chess player ·
İlhan
Arsel, Turkish academic, writer, researcher, and senator (d. 2010) Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 2 – Paul Adam,
French writer (b. 1862) ·
January 3 – Zygmunt Janiszewski,
Polish mathematician (b. 1888) ·
January 4 – Benito Pérez Galdós,
Spanish novelist (b. 1843) ·
Heinrich Lammasch,
Austrian statesman, last minister-president of Austria (as part of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire) in 1918 (b. 1853) ·
Walter Cunliffe, English banker (b. 1856) ·
January 6 – Hieronymus Georg
Zeuthen, Danish mathematician (b. 1839) ·
January 7 – Edmund Barton, 1st Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1849) ·
January 14 – John Francis Dodge,
American automobile manufacturer (b. 1864) ·
January 18 – Giovanni Capurro, Italian poet (b. 1859) ·
January 22 – Georg Lurich, Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler,
strongman (b. 1876) ·
William Percy French,
Irish songwriter, entertainer (b. 1854) ·
Amedeo Modigliani,
Italian painter, sculptor (tuberculosis) (b. 1884) ·
January 25 – Jeanne Hébuterne,
French artist, model, and common-law wife of Amedeo Modigliani (suicide)
(b. 1898) February[edit] ·
February 2 – Field E. Kindley, American World War I
aviator (b. 1896) ·
February 3 – Frank Brown,
Governor of Maryland (b. 1846) ·
February 6 – Augustus F.
Goodridge, Canadian merchant, politician (b. 1839) ·
February 8 – Richard Dehmel, German poet, writer
(b. 1863) ·
February 7 – Alexander Kolchak,
Russian naval commander (b. 1874) ·
February 11 – Gaby Deslys, French dancer, actress &
spy (b. 1881) ·
Aleksander Aberg, Estonian professional
wrestler, strongman (b. 1881) ·
Joseph Burton Sumner,
American founder of Sumner, Mississippi (b. 1837) ·
Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer
(b. 1856) ·
Jacinta Marto, beatified, witnessed
apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1917 at Fátima, Portugal (b. 1910) ·
February 27 – William Sherman
Jennings, Governor of Florida (b. 1863) March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator from Alabama
(b. 1842) ·
William A. Stone, Governor of Pennsylvania
(b. 1846) ·
Joseph Trumpeldor,
Russian Zionist (b. 1880) ·
March 3 – Theodor Philipsen,
Danish painter (b. 1840) ·
March 4 – Roswell P. Bishop,
U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1843) ·
March 7 – Jaan Poska, Estonian barrister, politician
(b. 1866) ·
March 11 – Julio Garavito
Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865) ·
March 15 – Rudolf Berthold, German World War I fighter
ace (b. 1891) ·
March 21 – Evelina Haverfield British
suffragette (b. 1867) ·
March 26 ·
William Chester
Minor, American surgeon (b. 1834) ·
Mary Augusta Ward,
Tasmanian novelist (b. 1851) ·
March 31 ·
Paul Bachmann, German mathematician
(b. 1837) ·
Lothar von Trotha,
German military commander (b. 1848) ·
Edwin Warfield, Governor of Maryland
(b. 1848) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Walter
Simon, German philanthropist (b. 1857) ·
April 8 ·
John Brashear, American astronomer (b. 1840) ·
Charles
Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b. 1884) ·
April 10 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematical historian
(b. 1829) ·
April 12 – Walter Edwards,
American film director (b. 1870) ·
April 21 – Maria L. Sanford, American educator
(b. 1836) ·
April 26 – Srinivasa Ramanujan,
Indian mathematician (b. 1887) May[edit] ·
May 1 – Princess
Margaret of Connaught, Crown Princess of Sweden (b. 1882) ·
May 8 – Johan Reinhold
Sahlberg, Finnish entomologist ·
May 10 – John Wesley Hyatt,
American inventor (b. 1837) ·
May 11 ·
James Colosimo, Italian-born American
gangster (b. 1878) ·
William Dean Howells,
American writer (b. 1837) ·
May 15 ·
Owen Morgan Edwards,
Welsh writer, educator (b. 1858) ·
Maria Bochkareva, Russian White soldier
(b. 1889) ·
May 16 ·
Joselito,
Spanish bullfighter (b. 1895) ·
Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice
President of the United States (b. 1824) ·
May 21 ·
Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico (b. 1859) ·
Eleanor H. Porter,
American novelist (b. 1868) ·
May 23 – Svetozar
Boroević, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1856) ·
May 28 – Hardwicke Rawnsley,
English clergyman, poet, writer of hymns and conservationist (b. 1851) ·
May 30 – George Ernest
Morrison, Australian adventurer (b. 1862) June[edit] ·
June 5 ·
Rhoda Broughton, Welsh writer (b. 1840) ·
Julia A. Moore, American poet (b. 1847) ·
June 6 – James Dunsmuir, Canadian politician
(b. 1851) ·
June 13 – Essad Pasha, Prime Minister
of Albania (b. 1863) ·
June 14 ·
Gabrielle Réjane,
French actress (b. 1856) ·
Max Weber, German political economist
(b. 1864) ·
June 18 ·
Jewett W. Adams, Governor of Nevada
(b. 1835) ·
John Macoun, Irish-born naturalist (b. 1831) ·
June 20 ·
Marie-Adolphe Carnot,
French chemist, mining engineer, and politician (b. 1839) ·
John Grigg,
New Zealand astronomer (b. 1838) ·
June 27 – Adolphe-Basile
Routhier, Canadian judge, author and lyricist (b. 1839) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Delfim Moreira, former President of Brazil (b. 1868) ·
July 2 – William Louis
Marshall, American general, engineer (b. 1846) ·
July 3 – William Crawford
Gorgas, American Army surgeon (b. 1854) ·
July 5 – Max Klinger, German painter, sculptor
(b. 1857) ·
July 10 – John
Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841) ·
July 11 – Empress Eugénie of
France (b. 1826) ·
July 14 – Albert Keller, German painter (b. 1844) ·
July 17 ·
Sir Edmund
Elton, 8th Baronet (b. 1846) ·
Charles E. Courtney,
American rower, rowing coach (b. 1849) ·
July 22 – William Kissam
Vanderbilt, American heir (b. 1849) August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Frank Hanly, Governor of Indiana (b. 1863) ·
Bal Gangadhar Tilak,
Indian nationalist (b. 1856) ·
August 2 – Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot, film
actor (b. 1891) ·
August 9 – Sir Samuel Griffith, Australian politician
and judge (b. 1845) ·
James O'Neill,
American actor (b. 1847) ·
Ádám Politzer,
Austrian otologist (b. 1835) ·
August 12 – Hermann Struve, Russian-born astronomer
(b. 1854) ·
Henry Daglish, Premier of
Western Australia (b. 1866) ·
Sir Norman Lockyer,
English astronomer (b. 1836) ·
August 17 – Ray Chapman, American baseball player
(b. 1891) ·
August 22 – Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (b. 1860) ·
August 26 – James
Wilson, Scottish-born American politician (b. 1835) ·
August 31 – Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist,
psychologist (b. 1832) September[edit] ·
September 7 – Simon-Napoléon
Parent, Premier of Quebec (b. 1855) ·
September 10 – Olive Thomas, American actress (b. 1894) ·
September 18 – Robert Beaven, Canadian politician (b. 1836) ·
September 24 – Peter Carl Fabergé,
Russian jeweler (b. 1846) ·
September 25 – Jacob Schiff, German-born banker,
philanthropist (b. 1847) ·
September 30 – William Wilfred
Sullivan, Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist (b. 1843) October[edit] ·
Winthrop M. Crane,
Governor of Massachusetts and Senator (b. 1853) ·
Max Bruch, German composer (b. 1838) ·
October 5 – William Heinemann,
English publisher (b. 1863) ·
October 7 – Yves Delage, French zoologist (b. 1854) ·
October 10 – Hudson Stuck, English mountaineer (b. 1865) ·
Reginald Farrer, English botanist (b. 1880) ·
John Reed,
American journalist (b. 1887) ·
October 24 – Grand
Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1853) ·
October 25 – Alexander of Greece,
Greek king (b. 1893) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Kevin Barry, Irish republican (hanged)
(b. 1902) ·
Louise Imogen Guiney,
American poet, essayist (b. 1861) ·
James Daly,
Irish mutineer (firing squad) ·
November 3 – Warren Terhune, United States Navy Commander,
and the 13th Governor of
American Samoa (b. 1869) ·
November 4 – Ludwig Struve, Russian astronomer (b. 1858) ·
November 9 – Alberto Blest Gana,
Chilean novelist, diplomat (b. 1830) ·
November 13 – Luc-Olivier Merson,
French painter, illustrator (b. 1846) ·
November 21 – Michael
Hogan, Irish activist shot during a Gaelic football match by the British
Army, who also killed 14 Irish supporters (b. 1896) ·
November 22 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884) ·
November 23 – George Callaghan, British admiral (b. 1852) ·
Madeline
McDowell Breckinridge, American leader of the women's suffrage
movement, one of Kentucky's leading progressive reformers (b. 1872) ·
Gaston Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car
driver, manufacturer (b. 1892) ·
November 27 – Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher
(b. 1853) ·
November 30 – Eugene W. Chafin, American politician
(b. 1852) December[edit] ·
December 11 – Olive Schreiner, South African writer
(b. 1855) ·
December 12 – Edward Gawler Prior,
Canadian mining engineer, politician (b. 1854) ·
December 14 – George Gipp, American football player
(b. 1895) Date unknown[edit] ·
Manuel
de la Cámara y Libermoore, Spanish admiral (b. 1835) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Charles Édouard
Guillaume ·
Medicine – Schack
August Steenberg Krogh ·
Peace – Léon Victor Auguste
Bourgeois See also[edit] ·
1982 ·
1983 ·
1984 ·
1985 References[edit] 1.
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been later than that. It might, however, have been earlier. Allowing for the
uncertainties of the times, of the lack of records, of the Jewish and Julian calendars, it might have been as
early as October 4, 1919. There is, however, no way of finding out. My
parents were always uncertain and it really doesn't matter. I celebrate
January 2, 1920, so let it be. Primary sources and
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New International Year Book 1920 (1921), Comprehensive coverage of
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