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1924 (MCMXXIV) was
a leap year starting on
Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1924th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 924th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of
the 20th century,
and the 5th year of the 1920s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1924 ·
January 10 – The British
submarine L-24 sinks in
the English Channel;
43 lives are lost. ·
January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots a man he
erroneously thinks is Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner
of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. ·
The
Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High
Commissioner for Southern Africa.[1] ·
Following
the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin immediately begins to
purge his rivals to clear the way for his leadership. ·
January 22 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the
first Labour Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom. ·
January 23 – The Soviet Union officially declares
that Lenin died January 21. ·
January 25 – The 1924 Winter Olympics open
in Chamonix, in the French Alps. ·
January 26 – Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad; it reverts to Saint Petersburg
in 1991. ·
January 27 – Lenin is buried in Lenin's Mausoleum,
in Moscow's Red Square. February[edit] Main article: February 1924 ·
February 1 – The United Kingdom recognizes the Soviet Union. ·
February 5 – GMT:
A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time, from the Royal
Greenwich Observatory. ·
February 8 – Capital punishment:
The first state execution using gas,
in the United States, takes place in Nevada. ·
February 12 – Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New
York City, at Aeolian Hall. ·
February 14 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording
Company (CTR), based in the U.S. state of New York, is
renamed International Business Machines (IBM). ·
February 16-26 – Dock strikes break out in various
U.S. harbors. ·
Treaty of Rome:
The Kingdom of Italy annexes
the Free State of Fiume,
and the Kingdom
of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes absorbs Sušak. ·
Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President
of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from
the White House. March[edit] Main article: March 1924 ·
March 3 ·
The
407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is
deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of President Kemal Atatürk. ·
The Free State of Fiume is
annexed by the Kingdom of Italy. ·
March 6 – İsmet
İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (2nd government). ·
March 8 – The Castle Gate
Mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah,
United States. ·
March 25 – The Second Hellenic
Republic is proclaimed in Greece. ·
March 29 – In France, the Third
Ministry of Raymond Poincaré begins. April[edit] Main article: April 1924 ·
April 1 ·
Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in
jail, for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch (he serves only 8
months). ·
The
first revenue flight for Belgium's Sabena Airlines takes place. ·
April 6 – Fascists win the
elections in Italy with a ⅔ majority. ·
April 13 ·
A referendum in
Greece favors the formation of the Second Hellenic
Republic. ·
The A.E.K. is
founded in Greece. ·
April 16 – American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
is founded in Los Angeles. ·
April 23 – The British Empire
Exhibition opens; it is the largest colonial exhibition,
with 58 countries of the empire dramatically represented. ·
April 26 – Harry Grindell
Matthews demonstrates his "death ray" in London, but fails to
convince the British War Office. ·
April 27 – A group of Alawites kill several nuns in Syria; French troops march against them. ·
April 28 – An explosion in a mine at
the Wheeling Steel Corporation in Benwood, West
Virginia kills 119 men. May[edit] Main article: May 1924 ·
May 3 – The Aleph Zadik Aleph,
the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska. ·
May 4 – The 1924 Summer Olympics opening
ceremonies are held in Paris, France. ·
May 8 – Lithuania signs the Klaipėda
Convention with the nations of the Conference of
Ambassadors, taking the Klaipėda Region from East Prussia, and making it into an
autonomous region. ·
May 10 – In the United States, J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of
the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. ·
May 11 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by the
merging companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz. ·
May 21 – University of
Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder
14-year-old Bobby Franks, in
a thrill killing. ·
May 24 – The Immigration Act
of 1924 is signed into law in the United States, including
the Asian Exclusion Act. June[edit] Main article: June 1924 ·
June 1 – Harry Grindell
Matthews returns from Paris to London; he tries to use
a Pathé film to demonstrate that
his death ray works. ·
June 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship
Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native
Americans born within the territorial limits of the United
States. ·
June 5 – Ernst Alexanderson sends
the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean, which goes to his father
in Sweden. ·
June 8 – George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are
last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 P.M. The
two mountaineers are
never seen alive again. ·
June 10 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian
socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in
Rome. ·
June 12 – Rondout Heist: Six men of
the Egan's Rats gang
rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois;
the robbery is later found to have been an inside job. ·
June 13 – In Hungary, a most
devastating tornado called "Wildkansas" strikes, leaving a
500-1500m wide and 70 km long path of destruction, lands at Bia, and
after 3 hours it ends near Vác, destroys a village called Páty completely,
and leaves many people homeless, kills 9 people, and 50 people got wounded.
This was one of the strongest tornadoes ever not only in Hungary but in
Europe also. It was estimated to be an F4. ·
June 16 – Whampoa Military
Academy is founded in China. ·
June 23 – American airman Russell Maughan flies from New York to
San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a
Curtiss pursuit. ·
June 28 – A tornado touches down
in Lorain, Ohio and
kills 78 people. ·
June 30 – J.B.M. Hertzog becomes
the third Prime
Minister of South Africa. July[edit] Main article: July 1924 ·
July 9 – John W. Davis of West Virginia is nominated by the Democrats to
oppose Calvin Coolidge in
the presidential election. ·
July
12 – The American military occupation of the Dominican Republic comes
to an end. The constitutional government headed by General Horacio Vázquez,
elected in the elections held in March, is established. ·
July 19 – The Napalpí massacre occurs
in Argentina. ·
July 20 – The Soviet sports newspaper Sovetsky Sport is founded. August[edit] Main article: August 1924 ·
August 1 – Koshien Stadium, as well known for sports
venues in Japan, open in Nishinomiya, suburb of Osaka. [2][citation needed] ·
August 16 – The Dawes Plan is accepted. ·
August 18 – France begins to withdraw
its troops from Germany. ·
August 28 – August Uprising: Georgia rises
against rule by the Soviet Union in
an abortive rebellion, in which several thousands die. September[edit] Main article: September 1924 ·
The Hanapepe massacre occurs
on Kauai, Hawaii. ·
The 8-hour work day is introduced in
Belgium. ·
September 9–September 11 – The Kohat riots break out in India. ·
September 28 – U.S. Army pilots John
Harding and Erik Nelson complete the first
aerial circumnavigation. It has taken them 175 days and 74 stops
before their return to Seattle. October[edit] Main article: October 1924 ·
October 2 – The Geneva Protocol is
adopted by the League of Nations Assembly
as a means to strengthen the League, but later fails to be ratified. ·
Voting
in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private
member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator
Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral
(Compulsory Voting) Act 1924. ·
The Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity
is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola
University, Chicago. ·
October 12– October 15 – Zeppelin LZ-126 makes
a transatlantic delivery
flight from Friedrichshafen,
Germany, to Lakehurst, New
Jersey. ·
October 15 – The first Surrealist Manifesto is
published, in which André Breton defines the movement as
"pure psychic automatism". ·
October 18 – Sweden's Prime
Minister Ernst Trygger and
his cabinet, is replaced by Hjalmar Branting and his third and last
government. ·
October 19 – Abdul Aziz declares himself protector
of holy places in Mecca. ·
October 22 – The Toastmasters Club
is founded. ·
The
British Foreign Office publishes the Zinoviev letter. ·
Dixie Dean scores a hat-trick for Tranmere Rovers to
become the youngest ever player to score three goals for The Superwhites. ·
October 25 – British authorities in
India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and
jail him for the next 2½ years. ·
October 27 – The Uzbek SSR joins the Soviet Union. November[edit] Main article: November 1924 ·
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman
governor in the United States. ·
U.S.
presidential election, 1924: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Robert M. La
Follette, Sr. ·
November 19 – In Los Angeles, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the
Western") dies, reportedly of a heart attack,
in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing
tycoon William Randolph
Hearst). ·
November 21 – Ali Fethi Okyar forms new government
in Turkey. (3rd government) ·
November 26 – The Mongolian
People's Republic is founded. ·
129
communists, including several members of the Riigikogu, are convicted during the Trial of the 149 in Estonia. ·
In
New York City the first Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. December[edit] Main article: December 1924 ·
A
Soviet-backed communist coup
attempt fails in Estonia. ·
George Gershwin's Lady Be Good and Fascinating Rhythm (book
by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin) premiere in New York, NY. ·
German
serial killer Fritz Haarmann is
sentenced to death for a series of murders. ·
The
last Rolls-Royce
Silver Ghost is sold in London, England. ·
December 20 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg
Prison, after serving nine months for his crucial role in the Beer Hall Putsch, from 1923. ·
An air crash at Croydon Air Field in London kills 8. ·
A flash fire at
a Christmas celebration in a one-room schoolhouse in Babbs, Oklahoma kills 36 people, mostly
small children. ·
December 30 – Astronomer Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such
galaxies in the universe. Date unknown[edit] ·
The Taung Child is discovered. ·
Spring
– Francophone explorer, spiritualist and former operatic soprano Alexandra David-Néel,
disguised as a male pilgrim, makes a 2-month stay in the forbidden city
of Lhasa,
Tibet.[3] ·
International
Union of Official Organizations for Tourist Propaganda. ·
The
powerful opiate hydromorphone is
developed in Germany. ·
Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist,
designs and makes rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging at Stirling, Alberta Canada. ·
Alice Vanderbilt
Morris, a wealthy heiress, founds the International
Auxiliary Language Association in New York ·
HRH Edward, Prince of Wales makes a state
visit to Japan aboard HMS Renown. ·
U.S.
bootleggers begin to use Thompson
submachine guns. ·
The Earth inductor
compass is invented in New York City. ·
In
the United States, both the Renegade
Period and the Apache Wars end, bringing the American Indian Wars to
a close, after 302 years. ·
The National Hockey
League expands to the United States for the first time,
adding the Boston Bruins. Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
Francisco Macías
Nguema, 1st President of Equatorial Guinea (d. 1979) ·
Charlie Munger, American businessman and
philanthropist ·
Pino Rucher, Italian guitarist (d. 1996) ·
Lennart Magnusson,
Swedish fencer (d. 2011) ·
Walter Ris, American freestyle swimmer
(d. 1989) ·
Charles Thone, American politician (d. 2018) ·
Gerry Plamondon, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Sultan bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi royal, Minister of Defense and Aviation
and Crown Prince (d. 2011) ·
Hamzah Abu Samah, Malaysian politician and
athlete (d. 2012) ·
Ali Shariatmadari,
Iranian academic and educationist (d. 2017) ·
Kim Dae-jung, 15th President of
South Korea, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2009) ·
Earl Scruggs, American musician (d. 2012) ·
Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor (d. 2017) ·
Anne Vernon, French actress ·
Geeta Mukherjee, Indian politician (d. 2000) ·
James Clinkscales
Hill, American jurist (d. 2017) ·
Ron Moody, English actor (d. 2015) ·
January 9 – Mohsen
Koochebaghi Tabrizi, Iranian Shi'ite Muslim marja (d. 2011) ·
Pierre Plateau, French Roman Catholic
prelate (d. 2018) ·
Earl Bakken, American engineer and
businessman, inventor of the modern Artificial pacemaker (d. 2018) ·
Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer,
and composer (d. 2007) ·
Roger Guillemin, French
neuroendocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994) ·
Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970) ·
Chris Chase (also known as Irene Kane), American model, film actress,
writer and journalist (d. 2013) ·
Olivier Gendebien,
Belgian race car driver (d. 1998) ·
January 13 – Roland Petit, French choreographer/dancer
(d. 2011) ·
January 14 – Carole Cook, American actress and singer ·
January 16 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002) ·
January 19 – Jean-François Revel,
French author (d. 2006) ·
January 21 – Benny Hill, English comedian and singer
(d. 1992) ·
January 22 – Betty
Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood, Labour Party activist
and politician ·
Frank Lautenberg, American businessman and
politician (d. 2013) ·
Suriani Abdullah, Malaysian politician
(d. 2013) ·
Husein Mehmedov, Bulgarian-Turkish Olympic
wrestler (d. 2014) ·
Speedy West, American musician (d. 2003) ·
Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and
politician (d. 1998) ·
Armand Gatti, French playwright, poet,
journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and World War II resistance fighter
(d. 2017) ·
Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress
(d. 2014) ·
January 27 – Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963) ·
January 28 – Betty Tucker, American female baseball
player (d. 2012) ·
January 29 – Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990) ·
Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007) ·
Dorothy Malone, American actress (d. 2018) February[edit] ·
February 2 – Elfi von Dassanowsky,
Austrian-born U.S. musician/producer (d. 2007) ·
February 3 – Friedrich
Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, German Head of the House of
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (d. 2010) ·
February 4 – Dorothy Harrell, American female
professional baseball player (d. 2011) ·
February 7 – Catherine Small Long,
American politician ·
Charles Coste, French Olympic cyclist ·
Khamtai Siphandon,
4th President and 12th Prime Minister of Laos ·
February 9 – George Guest, Welsh choral conductor
(d. 2002) ·
Gabe Pressman, American journalist (d. 2017) ·
Juan Ponce Enrile,
Filipino politician, President
of the Senate of the Philippines since 2008. ·
February 15 – Toni Arden, American singer (d. 2012) ·
Raimon Carrasco, Spanish businessman and
34th President of FC
Barcelona ·
Margaret Truman, American novelist and only
child of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman (d. 2008) ·
February 19 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987) ·
Donald M. Fraser, American politician ·
Gerson Goldhaber, American particle
physicist and astrophysicist (d. 2010) ·
Gloria Vanderbilt,
American heiress and entrepreneur ·
Moshe Wertman, Israeli politician (d. 2011) ·
Robert Mugabe, 1st Prime Minister
of Zimbabwe ·
Silvano Piovanelli,
Italian prelate (d. 2016) ·
William Hathaway, American politician and
lawyer (d. 2013) ·
February 23 – Allan McLeod Cormack,
South African physicist and 1979 Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) ·
February 24 – Teresa Bracco, Italian Roman Catholic religious sister, martyr
and blessed (d. 1944) ·
Freda Betti, French opera singer (d. 1979) ·
Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician
(d. 2000) ·
Bettye Ackerman, American actress (d. 2006) ·
Christopher C.
Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer ·
Carlos Humberto
Romero, Salvadorian politician, 37th President of El
Salvador (d. 2017) ·
Al Rosen, American baseball player (d. 2015) March[edit] ·
March 1 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993) ·
March 2 ·
William
Howie, Baron Howie of Troon, English politician (d. 2018) ·
Co Westerik, Dutch visual artist (d. 2018) ·
March 3 ·
Lys Assia, Swiss singer, first winner
of Eurovision Song
Contest (1956) (d. 2018) ·
Tomiichi Murayama,
former Prime Minister of
Japan ·
Johnson
Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian military officer (d. 1966) ·
Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (d. 1948) ·
John Woodnutt, British actor (d. 2006) ·
March 4 – Kenneth O'Donnell,
aide to U.S. President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977) ·
March 6 – Ed Mierkowicz, American baseball player
(d. 2017) ·
March 7 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese novelist
(d. 1993) ·
March 8 ·
Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) ·
Abderrahmane
Youssoufi, 12th Prime Minister of Morocco ·
March 9 ·
Hanna Mina, Syrian writer (d. 2018) ·
Peter Scholl-Latour,
German professor, journalist and author (d. 2014) ·
March 10 – Jin Yong, Hong Kong writer (d. 2018) ·
March 11 – Jozef Tomko, Slovakian cardinal ·
March 13 – Pierre Arpaillange,
French author, senior judge and Government Minister (d. 2017) ·
March 15 – Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997) ·
March 17 – Edith
Savage-Jennings, American civil rights activist (d. 2017) ·
March 18 – Alexandre
José Maria dos Santos, Mozambique cardinal ·
March 20 – Philip Abbott, American actor (d. 1998) ·
March 22 ·
Al Neuharth, American businessman and
journalist (d. 2013) ·
Ivan Minatti, Slovenian poet, translator,
and editor (d. 2012) ·
Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian test pilot
(d. 1960) ·
Lionel Wilson,
American voice actor (d. 2003) ·
March 24 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998) ·
March 25 ·
Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet
(d. 2011) ·
Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress ·
József Zakariás,
Hungarian footballer (d. 1971) ·
March 26 – K. B. Asante, Ghanaian diplomat, writer and
politician (d. 2018) ·
March 27 ·
Sarah Vaughan, American jazz singer
(d. 1990) ·
Herbert Zangs, German artist (d. 2003) ·
March 28 ·
Freddie Bartholomew,
English actor (d. 1992) ·
Birte Christoffersen,
Danish Olympic diver ·
March 30 – Alan Davidson,
British author (d. 2003) ·
March 31 – Kathleen O'Malley,
American actress April[edit] ·
April 1 – Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey
(d. 2018) ·
April 2 – Delwin Jones, American politician (d. 2018) ·
April 3 ·
Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004) ·
Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author
(d. 2005) ·
Jacky June, Belgian jazz saxophonist,
clarinetist, and bandleader (d. 2012) ·
Josephine
Pullein-Thompson, British author (d. 2014) ·
April 4 ·
Gil Hodges, American baseball player
(d. 1972) ·
Noreen Nash, American actress ·
April 6 – Jimmy Roberts,
American singer (d. 1999) ·
April 7 – Johannes Mario
Simmel, Austrian writer (d. 2009) ·
April 9 – Milburn G. Apt, American test pilot
(d. 1956) ·
April 11 ·
Enrique Morea, Argentine tennis player
(d. 2017) ·
Libuše Havelková,
Czech actress (d. 2017) ·
April 12 – Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime
Minister (d. 2007) ·
April 13 ·
Jack Chick, American fundamentalist
Christian illustrator and publisher (d. 2016) ·
Stanley Donen, American film director and
choreographer ·
April 14 ·
Philip Stone, English actor (d. 2003) ·
Mary
Warnock, Baroness Warnock, English philosopher and writer ·
April 15 ·
Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and
violinist (d. 2016) ·
Rikki Fulton, Scottish comedian and actor
(d. 2004) ·
April 16 ·
Henry Mancini, American composer and
arranger (d. 1994) ·
Rudy Pompilli, American musician (d. 1976) ·
April 17 – Kenneth Norman Jones,
Australian public servant ·
April 18 ·
Clarence
"Gatemouth" Brown, American blues musician (d. 2005) ·
Henry Hyde, Member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Illinois (d. 2007) ·
April 20 ·
Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress
(d. 2008) ·
Miroslav Komárek,
Czech historical linguist (d. 2013) ·
Leslie Phillips, English actor ·
Guy Rocher, Canadian sociologist and
academic ·
April 21 – Peter O'Donnell,
American businessman ·
April 23 ·
Chuck Harmon, American baseball player and
scout ·
Ruth Leuwerik, German film actress (d. 2016) ·
Bobby Rosengarden,
American jazz drummer (d. 2007) ·
April 24 ·
Clement Freud, British writer, radio
personality, and politician (d. 2009) ·
Vicente Sota, Chilean politician (d. 2017) ·
Nahuel Moreno, Argentine Trotskyist leader
(d. 1987) ·
April 25 – Peter Abeles, Australian transportation
magnate (d. 1999) ·
April 28 ·
Kenneth Kaunda, former President of Zambia ·
Alakbar Taghiyev, Azerbaijani composer and
author (d. 1981) ·
Emily W. Sunstein,
American campaigner, political activist and biographer (d. 2007) ·
April 29 ·
Al Balding, Canadian golfer (d. 2006) ·
Shintaro Abe, Japanese politician (d. 1991) ·
Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballerina and actress May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Evelyn Boyd
Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist and academic ·
Art Fleming, American television host and
presenter (d. 1995) ·
Grégoire Kayibanda,
2nd President of Rwanda (d. 1976) ·
Gamal Abdel-Rahim,
Egyptian classical music composer, educator, and pianist (d. 1988) ·
May 2 ·
Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (d. 2004) ·
Ladislava Bakanic,
American gymnast ·
Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor,
folk singer and musician (d. 2015) ·
Hugh Cortazzi, English soldier, historian
and diplomat (d. 2018) ·
May 3 – Isadore Singer, American mathematician ·
May 8 – Gerda Weissmann
Klein, Polish-American writer and human rights activist ·
May 10 ·
Zahrad, Western Armenian poet (d. 2007) ·
Maria Mauban, French actress (d. 2014) ·
May 11 – Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Physics ·
May 12 ·
Tony Hancock, English comedian (d. 1968) ·
Claribel Alegría,
Nicaraguan poet (d. 2018) ·
May 13 ·
Bruno A. Boley, Italian-born American
engineer (d. 2017) ·
Giovanni Sartori, Italian political
scientist (d. 2017) ·
May 14 – Coco Schumann, German jazz musician
(d. 2018) ·
May 15 – Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist
(d. 1971) ·
May 16 ·
Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the
Gambia ·
Abul Fateh, Bangladeshi diplomat, statesman
and Sufi (d. 2010) ·
Frank Mankiewicz, American journalist,
presidential campaign press secretary (d. 2014) ·
May 17 – Francis Tombs,
Baron Tombs, English industrialist and politician ·
May 18 ·
Jack Barlow, American country music singer
(d. 2011) ·
Priscilla Pointer,
American actress ·
Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster ·
May 19 – Sandy Wilson, British composer (d. 2014) ·
May 21 – Hector Fautario, Argentine Air Force general
(d. 2017) ·
May 22 – Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer,
actor, and songwriter (d. 2018) ·
May 24 ·
Vincent Cronin, British historical writer,
biographer (d. 2011) ·
Victor Griffin, Irish Anglican clergyman,
theologian (d. 2017) ·
Philip Pearlstein,
American soldier, painter ·
May 25 – Edmond Haan, French footballer (d. 2018) ·
May 27 ·
Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of
Tanzania (d. 2009) ·
Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan politician
(d. 2014) ·
May 29 ·
Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (d. 1999) ·
Lavonne "Pepper" Paire Davis,
American female baseball player (d. 2013) ·
May 31 – Patricia Roberts
Harris, American administrator (d. 1985) June[edit] ·
June 1 – Dr. William Sloane
Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006) ·
June 2 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author
& social activist (d. 2007) ·
June 3 ·
Ken
Armstrong, English association football player (d. 1984) ·
Teresa Celli, American actress ·
Herk Harvey, American film director
(d. 1996) ·
Jimmy Rogers, American musician (d. 1997) ·
Torsten Wiesel, Swedish scientist, recipient
of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress
(d. 1991) ·
Karunanidhi, Indian Politician, Tamil Nadu
Former Chief Minister, fondly called Kalaignar (d. 2018) ·
Bernard Glasser, American film producer,
director (d. 2014) ·
June 4 ·
Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006) ·
Tofilau Eti Alesana,
Samoan politician (d. 1999) ·
June 6 ·
Robert Abernathy, American science fiction
author (d. 1990) ·
W. Marvin Watson, American presidential
advisor, Postmaster General (d. 2017) ·
June 7 – Aarne Honkavaara, Finnish ice hockey player,
coach (d. 2016) ·
June 8 ·
Dagfinn Vårvik,
Norwegian politician (d. 2018) ·
Sheldon Allman, American-Canadian actor,
singer, and songwriter (d. 2002) ·
David Pines, American physicist (d. 2018) ·
June 10 ·
Colin Cameron Davies,
Spanish-born Kenyan prelate (d. 2017) ·
Friedrich L. Bauer,
German computer scientist (d. 2015) ·
June 11 – Adib Boroumand, Iranian poet, politician,
and lawyer (d. 2017) ·
June 12 – George H. W. Bush,
41st President
of the United States (d. 2018) ·
June 13 – Bronisław
Baczko, Polish philosopher, historian of ideas (d. 2016) ·
June 14 – James W. Black, British doctor (d. 2010) ·
June 15 ·
Hédi Fried, Swedish author, psychologist ·
Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005) ·
June 16 ·
Sonia Darrin, American actress ·
Ernie Johnson,
American baseball player (d. 2011) ·
June 17 – Charlotte
Armstrong, American female baseball player (d. 2008) ·
June 18 ·
Efren Reyes Sr., Filipino actor, director
(d. 1968) ·
George Mikan, American basketball player
(d. 2005) ·
June 19 ·
Cornelius Jakobs, Estonian Russian Orthodox
hierarch (d. 2018) ·
Anneliese
Rothenberger, German operatic soprano (d. 2010) ·
June 20 ·
Chet Atkins, American country guitar player,
producer (d. 2001) ·
Rainer Barzel, German politician (d. 2006) ·
June 21 ·
Chong Hon Nyan, Malaysian politician ·
Marga López, Argentine-born Mexican actress
(d. 2005) ·
Ezzatolah Entezami,
Iranian actor (d. 2018) ·
Alojz Rebula, Slovene writer, playwright,
essayist, and translator ·
Ricardo Infante, Argentine football player,
manager (d. 2008) ·
Wally Fawkes, English-born Canadian jazz
clarinetist ·
June 22 ·
David W. Torrance,
Scottish writer ·
John C. Whitcomb, American theologian ·
June 23 ·
Frank Bolle, American comic strip artist,
comic book artist and illustrator ·
Bayezid Osman, 44th Head of the Turkish
House of Osman (d. 2017) ·
June Brooks, American businesswoman
(d. 2010) ·
Ranasinghe Premadasa,
3rd President, 8th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1993) ·
June 24 ·
Kurt Furgler, 3-time President of the Swiss
Confederation (d. 2008) ·
David Rubinger, Israeli photographer
(d. 2017) ·
Eric Neal, Australian businessman, public
officer ·
Leonard Everett
Fisher, American artist known best for children's books ·
Yoshito Takamine, American politician
(d. 2015) ·
June 25 ·
Yatsuko Tan'ami, Japanese actress ·
Jacques Monory, French painter, filmmaker
(d. 2018) ·
William J. Castagna,
American lawyer and judge ·
Luis Suárez Fernández,
Spanish historian ·
Milton Shadur, Senior United States District
Court Judge (d. 2018) ·
Dimitar Isakov, Bulgarian football player ·
Sidney Lumet, American film director
(d. 2011) ·
June 26 ·
James W. McCord Jr.,
former CIA officer ·
Grace Onyango, Kenyan politician ·
Richard Bull (actor),
American actor (d. 2014) ·
Ramon T. Jimenez, Filipino attorney
(d. 2013) ·
June 27 ·
Epitácio Cafeteira,
Brazilian politician ·
John
Chandler, British sports shooter ·
Charles Norman Shay,
American Penobscot tribal elder, writer, and decorated veteran of both World
War II and the Korean War ·
Maud Linder, French journalist, film
historian and documentary film director (d. 2017) ·
Paul Conrad, American cartoonist (d. 2010) ·
Bob Appleyard, English cricketer (d. 2015) ·
June 28 – Roy Austen-Smith, Royal Air Force officer
who served as Commander of British Forces Cyprus ·
June 29 ·
Philip H. Hoff, American politician
(d. 2018) ·
Ezra Laderman, American composer (d. 2015) ·
Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006) ·
June 30 ·
Max Trepp, Swiss sprinter ·
Mattis Mathiesen, Norwegian photographer,
film director (d. 2010) ·
Maino Neri, Italian footballer, manager
(d. 1995) July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Ralph Parr, American double-flying ace
(d. 2012) ·
Wang Huo, Chinese novelist, screenwriter ·
Curtis W. Harris, American minister, civil
rights activist, and Virginia politician (d. 2017) ·
Georges Rivière,
French actor ·
Richard Longaker, American political
scientist ·
Jan Azam, Pakistani sports shooter ·
Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer,
manager (d. 2013) ·
July 2 ·
Charley Winner, American football player ·
Francis Wyndham,
English author, literary editor and journalist (d. 2017) ·
July 3 ·
Amalia Aguilar, Cuban-born Mexican film
actress, dancer ·
Arjun Naidu, Indian first-class cricketer
(d. 2000) ·
Gwen Moffat, British climber, writer ·
Michael Barrington,
British actor (d. 1988) ·
S. R. Nathan, 6th President of
Singapore (d. 2016) ·
July 4 ·
Eva Marie Saint, American actress ·
Delia Fiallo, Cuban author, screenwriter ·
Roy Gibson, British Director General
of ESRO ·
July 5 ·
Edward Cassidy, Australian Roman Catholic
cardinal, priest ·
Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian, museum
curator (d. 2001) ·
Osman Lins, Brazilian novelist (d. 1978) ·
János Starker, Hungarian cellist (d. 2013) ·
July 6 ·
Draga
Ahačič, Slovene actress, film director, translator and
journalist ·
Ernest Graves Jr.,
United States Army officer ·
Mahim Bora, Indian writer, educationist
(d. 2016) ·
Robert Michael White,
American military aircraft test pilot, fighter pilot, electrical engineer,
and major general in the United States Air Force (d. 2010) ·
July 7 ·
Karim Olowu, Nigerian sprinter, long jumper ·
Graham Dunscombe, Australian rules
footballer ·
Amir Murtono, Indonesian general during
Suharto's New Order regime ·
Lennart Samuelsson,
Swedish association football player (d. 2012) ·
Sam Cathcart, American football halfback,
defensive back (d. 2015) ·
July 8 – Charles C. Droz, American politician ·
July 9 – Domenico Pace, Italian fencer ·
July 10 ·
Ip Chun, Chinese martial artist specialising
in Wing Chun ·
Gloria Stroock, American actress ·
July 11 ·
F. James Rutherford,
American science professor ·
Ilie Tudor, Romanian fencer ·
Ragnar Rommetveit,
Norwegian psychologist (d. 2017) ·
Oscar Wyatt, American businessman, self-made
millionaire ·
René Jeandel, French cross-country and
Nordic combined skier ·
Brett Somers, Canadian actress (d. 2007) ·
Al Federoff, American professional baseball
infielder, manager (d. 2011) ·
Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer
(d. 1971) ·
July 12 ·
Faidon Matthaiou, Greek basketball coach,
player (d. 2011) ·
Shirley Neil Pettis,
U.S. Representative from California, wife of her predecessor, Jerry Pettis
(d. 2016) ·
July 13 ·
Maria Koterbska, Polish singer ·
Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor (d. 2014) ·
Johnny Gilbert, American game show announcer ·
Piero Trapanelli, Italian football player,
coach ·
Alejandro Roces, Filipino author, essayist
and dramatist (d. 2011) ·
July 14 ·
Marianne Anderberg,
Swedish actress (d. 2017) ·
Val Avery, American character actor
(d. 2010) ·
Warren Giese, American football player,
coach, and politician (d. 2013) ·
David Evans,
retired senior commander of the Royal Air Force ·
July 15 ·
David Cox,
British statistician ·
Marianne Bernadotte,
Swedish actress ·
Makhmud Esambayev,
Russian actor (d. 2000) ·
Hugh Stretton, Australian historian
(d. 2015) ·
Peter Armitage, English statistician
specialising in medical statistics ·
July 16 ·
Claude Abravanel, Swiss pianist, classical
music composer (d. 2012) ·
Mariam Jack-Denton,
Gambian lawyer, politician ·
James L. Greenfield,
American administrator ·
Bess Myerson, American politician, model and
television actress (d. 2014) ·
Mohamed Selim Zaki,
Egyptian equestrian ·
July 17 – Li Li-Hua, Chinese Hong-Kong actress
(d. 2017) ·
July 18 ·
Tullio Altamura, Italian film actor ·
Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (d. 2011) ·
July 19 ·
Pat Hingle, American actor (d. 2009) ·
Frank Ivancie, American businessman,
politician ·
Bob Johnston,
Australian economist ·
Arthur Rankin Jr.,
American film director, producer and co-founder of Rankin/Bass
Productions (d. 2014) ·
Sergio Sorrentino,
Italian sailor (d. 2017) ·
July 20 ·
Lola Albright, American singer, actress
(d. 2017) ·
Vivean Gray, Australian television, film
actress (d. 2016) ·
Tatyana Lioznova, Soviet film director
(d. 2011) ·
Robert D. Maurer, American industrial
physicist ·
Elias Sarkis, 11th President of Lebanon
(d. 1985) ·
July 21 ·
Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistan Army four-star
general ·
Don Knotts, American comedic actor (d. 2006) ·
Morando Morandini,
Italian film critic, author, journalist and actor (d. 2015) ·
July 22 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011) ·
July 23 – Avern Cohn, American judge ·
July 24 ·
Edward
Digby, 12th Baron Digby, British peer, Army officer (d. 2018) ·
Paul Meier,
American statistician (d. 2011) ·
Aris Poulianos, Greek anthropologist and
archaeologist ·
July 25 – Leonardo Villar, Brazilian actor ·
July 28 – Anne Braden, American civil rights activist
(d. 2006) ·
July 29 ·
Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005) ·
Lillian Faralla, American female
professional baseball player ·
Robert Horton,
American actor, singer (d. 2016) ·
July 30 – William H. Gass, American novelist (d. 2017) August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
King Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia (d. 2015) ·
Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born
physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2010) ·
Frank Havens,
French Olympic canoeist (d. 2018) ·
Michael
Stewart, American playwright, stage librettist (d. 1987) ·
Frank Worrell, West Indies cricketer
(d. 1967) ·
August 2 ·
James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987) ·
Carroll O'Connor,
American actor (d. 2001) ·
August 3 ·
Leon Uris, American writer (d. 2003) ·
Max Oldmeadow, Australian politician
(d. 2013) ·
August 4 – Antonio Maccanico,
Italian constitutional specialist, social liberal politician (d. 2013) ·
August 5 – Ben Jones,
7th Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 2005) ·
August 6 ·
Ella Jenkins, American folk singer of
children's music ·
Erich Schriever, Swiss Olympic rower ·
August 7 ·
Kenneth Kendall, British newsreader,
presenter (d. 2012) ·
Cecil Abbott, Commissioner of the New South
Wales Police in Australia (d. 2014) ·
August 9 – Marta Becket, American dancer (d. 2017) ·
Martha Hyer, American actress (d. 2014) ·
Nancy Buckingham, British romance novelist ·
Derek Shackleton, English cricketer
(d. 2007) ·
Idris Shah II of
Perak, 33rd Sultan of Perak (d. 1984) ·
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq,
leader of Pakistan (d. 1988) ·
Serafim
Fernandes de Araújo, Brazilian cardinal ·
Josette Arène, French swimmer ·
Prince
Alexander of Yugoslavia (d. 2016) ·
Pierre Lardinois, Belgian politician
(d. 1987) ·
Holger Juul Hansen,
Danish actor (d. 2013) ·
Georges Prêtre,
French orchestral, opera conductor (d. 2017) ·
Werner Abrolat, German actor (d. 1997) ·
Robert Bolt, English writer (d. 1995) ·
Phyllis Schlafly, American activist
(d. 2016) ·
Jo Benkow, Norwegian politician, writer
(d. 2013) ·
Ralf Bendix, German Schlager singer, music
producer, composer and songwriter (d. 2014) ·
Fess Parker, American television actor,
businessman (wine maker, resort operator) (d. 2010) ·
Tankmar Horn, Finnish diplomat, business
executive (d. 2018) ·
Inez Voyce, American female baseball player ·
Benny Bartlett, American child actor,
musician (d. 1999) ·
Evan S. Connell, Jr.,
American novelist, poet, and short story writer (d. 2013) ·
Charles Simmons,
American author (d. 2017) ·
Jean-Paul Alata, French political prisoner
in Camp Boiro, Guinea(January 1971-July 1975) (d. 1978) ·
August 18 – Frank Logue, 25th mayor of New Haven,
Connecticut (d. 2010) ·
August 19 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist (d. 2011) ·
August 20 – Frank Joseph Guarini,
American politician ·
August 21 – Dalia Wood, Canadian politician (d. 2013) ·
August 22 – Orlando Ramón Agosti,
Argentine general (d. 1997) ·
Elaine Sturtevant,
American artist (d. 2014) ·
Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress (d. 2018) ·
Ahmadou Ahidjo, President of
Cameroon (d. 1989) ·
Alyn Ainsworth, British musician, singer and
conductor (d. 1990) ·
Jimmy Gardner,
British actor (d. 2010) ·
August 25 – Sergio Bergonzelli,
Italian director, screenwriter, producer and actor (d. 2002) ·
John Peake, English field hockey player ·
Barbara Staff, American political activist ·
Berislav
Klobučar, Croatian opera conductor (d. 2014) ·
Peggy Ryan, American dancer (d. 2004) ·
María Dolores
Pradera, Spanish singer, actress (d. 2018) ·
Clyde Scott, American athlete (d. 2018) ·
Dinah Washington, American singer, pianist
(d. 1963) ·
Buddy Hackett, American actor, comedian
(d. 2003) ·
Thomas J. Hudner Jr.,
American naval aviator (d. 2017) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Diana Decker, American-English actress and
singer ·
Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya ·
Sidney Phillips, American physician, WW2
Marine documentary consultant (d. 2015) ·
Knud Leif Thomsen,
Danish film director, screenwriter (d. 2003) ·
September 3 – Mary Grace Canfield,
American actress (d. 2014) ·
Joan Aiken, English writer (d. 2004) ·
Anita Snellman, Finnish painter (d. 2006) ·
Roy Andrew Miller,
American linguist (d. 2014) ·
Paul Dietzel, American college football
coach (d. 2013) ·
John Melcher, American politician (d. 2018) ·
Dale E. Wolf, American businessman,
politician ·
September 7 – Daniel Inouye, American politician, senior
United States Senator from Hawaii, President pro tempore of the United States
Senate (d. 2012) ·
Hazel Brooks, American actress (d. 2002) ·
Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005) ·
Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001) ·
Sylvia Miles, American actress ·
Russell M. Nelson,
17th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ·
Rik Van Steenbergen,
Belgian cyclist (d. 2003) ·
Daniel Akaka, American soldier, engineer and
politician (d. 2018) ·
Tom Landry, American football player, coach
(d. 2000) ·
Rudolf Vrba, Slovak-Jewish Holocaust
survivor, escapee from Auschwitz (d. 2006) ·
September 12 – Howard C. Nielson,
American politician ·
Scott Brady, American actor (d. 1985) ·
Maurice Jarre, French composer (d. 2009) ·
Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat,
author (d. 1994) ·
Jerry Coleman, American Major League
Baseball player, owner (d. 2014) ·
György Lázár,
50th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2014) ·
Bobby Short, American entertainer (d. 2005) ·
September 16 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (d. 2014) ·
Eloísa Mafalda,
Brazilian actress (d. 2018) ·
Alma W. Byrd, American politician (d. 2017) ·
Don Harron, Canadian entertainer (d. 2015) ·
Suchitra Mitra, Indian singer, composer
(d. 2011) ·
Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1957) ·
Helen Grayco, American singer, actress ·
Akkineni Nageswara
Rao, Indian actor and producer (d. 2014) ·
Bernard Gauthier, French racing cyclist ·
Charles Keeping, English illustrator
(d. 1988) ·
J. William
Middendorf, American soldier and politician ·
Gerald Schoenfeld,
American chairman (d. 2008) ·
Rosamunde Pilcher,
English novelist ·
September 23 – Heinrich Schultz, Estonian cultural
functionary (d. 2012) ·
Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast ·
Marcello Mastroianni,
Italian actor (d. 1996) ·
September 27 – Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist and
academic ·
September 28 – Merwin Coad, American politician ·
Georgiana Young, American actress (d. 2007) ·
Hilda Rebello, Brazilian actress ·
Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984) October[edit] ·
Lawrence R. Yetka,
American judge (d. 2017) ·
Jimmy Carter, 39th President
of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ·
William Rehnquist,
16th Chief
Justice of the United States (d. 2005) ·
Roger Williams,
American pianist (d. 2011) ·
October 2 – Ruby Stephens, American female baseball
player (d. 1996) ·
October 3 – Harvey Kurtzman, American editor, cartoonist
and creator of Mad (d. 1993) ·
October 4 – Samuel Lamb, Chinese Christian pastor
(d. 2013) ·
October 5 – Bill Dana, American comedian, actor,
screenwriter (d. 2017) ·
October 6 – Margaret Fulton, Australian food writer ·
October 7 – Joyce Reynolds,
American actress ·
John Nelder, British statistician (d. 2010) ·
Othman Wok, Singaporean politician (d. 2017) ·
October 9 – Alfonso Oiterong, 2nd President of Palau
(d. 1994) ·
Buddy MacMaster, American artist (d. 2014) ·
Balbir Singh Sr., Indian field hockey player ·
Ed Wood, American B-movie producer (d. 1978) ·
October 11 – Mal Whitfield, American Olympic athlete
(d. 2015) ·
Erich Gruenberg, Austrian-British violinist ·
Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician (d. 2011) ·
Terry Gibbs, American vibraphone player and
bandleader ·
Moturu Udayam, Indian women's activist
(d. 2002) ·
Robert Webber, American actor (d. 1989) ·
Ramón Castro Ruz,
Cuban revolutionary (d. 2016) ·
Marguerite Andersen,
German-Canadian author and educator ·
Warren Miller,
American ski and snowboarding filmmaker (d. 2018) ·
Lee Iacocca, American industrialist ·
Mark Lenard, American actor (d. 1996) ·
October 16 – Prince Makonnen, member of the Ethiopian
royal family (d. 1957) ·
October 17 – Fredd Wayne, American actor (d. 2018) ·
October 18 – Arthur J. Jackson,
American military officer (d. 2017) ·
October 19 – Lubomír Štrougal,
Czech politician ·
October 21 – Joyce Randolph, American actress ·
October 22 – Lily Weiding, Danish actress ·
Christine Glanville,
English puppeteer (d. 1999) ·
Aji Muhammad
Salehuddin II, Indonesian royal (d. 2018) ·
Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000) ·
Weston E. Vivian, American politician ·
October 27 – Bonnie Lou, American singer (d. 2015) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Süleyman Demirel,
former President of Turkey (d. 2015) ·
Violetta Elvin, Russian ballerina ·
Erzsébet
Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast ·
November 4 – Guillermo
Rodriguez, 31st President of Ecuador ·
November 5 – Alice Colonieu, French artist (d. 2000) ·
Harlon Block, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo
Jima (d. 1945) ·
Jeanette Schmid, famous German whistler
(d. 2005) ·
November 7 – Anđelko Habazin,
Yugoslav philosopher (d. 1978) ·
Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 2017) ·
Dmitry Yazov, Marshal of
the Soviet Union ·
November 9 – Robert Frank, Swiss photographer ·
Tsai Wan-lin, Taiwanese businessman
(d. 2004) ·
Klaus Baess, Danish Olympic sailor ·
Russell Johnson, American actor (d. 2014) ·
Sunder Lal Patwa, Indian politician
(d. 2016) ·
Evelyn Wawryshyn, Canadian professional
baseball player ·
Leonard D. Wexler,
American judge (d. 2018) ·
Motoo Kimura, Japanese population geneticist
(d. 1994) ·
Edward F. Welch, Jr.,
American admiral (d. 2008) ·
Jesús Kumate
Rodríguez, Mexican physician, politician (d. 2018) ·
November 15 – Rosa Helena
Álvarez Yepes, First Lady of Colombia (d. 1998) ·
Erika Mahringer, Austrian alpine skier
(d. 2018) ·
Mel Patton, American athlete (d. 2014) ·
William Russell,
British actor ·
J. D. Sumner, American gospel singer
(d. 1998) ·
Benoît Mandelbrot,
Polish-born mathematician (d. 2010) ·
Mark Miller,
American actor ·
Víctor Hipólito
Martínez, Argentine lawyer, politician (d. 2017) ·
Joseph Campanella,
American actor (d. 2018) ·
Christopher Tolkien,
English author and academic ·
November 22 – Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987) ·
November 23 – Anita Linda, Filipino actress ·
Lorne Munroe, Canadian-American cellist and
educator ·
Joanne Winter, American female professional
baseball pitcher, LPGA player (d. 1996) ·
James M. Burns,
American attorney and judge (d. 2001) ·
Paul Desmond, American jazz alto
saxophonist, composer (d. 1977) ·
Takaaki Yoshimoto,
Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher (d. 2012) ·
November 26 – Bhekimpi Dlamini, 4th Prime Minister of
Swaziland (d. 1999) ·
Calvin J. Spann, African-American Tuskegee
Airman, fighter pilot (d. 2015) ·
Dennis Brutus, South African poet,
anti-apartheid activist (d. 2009) ·
Allan Sherman, American comedy writer,
television producer, and song parodist (d. 1973) ·
Shirley Chisholm, American politician
(d. 2005) ·
Otto Kaiser,
German biblical scholar (d. 2017) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Masao Horiba, Japanese businessman (d. 2015) ·
December 2 – Alexander Haig, American politician, U.S.
Secretary of State (d. 2010) ·
December 3 – Francisco Sionil
José, Filipino novelist, Philippine
National Artist for Literature ·
December 4 – John C. Portman Jr.,
American architect (d. 2017) ·
December 6 – Wally Cox, American television, motion picture actor (d. 1973) ·
John Love,
Zimbabwean racing driver (d. 2005) ·
Bent Fabric, Danish pianist, composer ·
Mário Soares, 105th Prime Minister
of Portugal, 17th President of
Portugal (d. 2017) ·
December 9 – Frank Sturgis, one of the five Watergate
burglars whose capture led to the end of the Presidency of Richard Nixon
(d. 1993) ·
December 10 – Michael Manley, 4th Prime Minister of
Jamaica (d. 1997) ·
December 11 – Heinz Schenk, German television moderator,
actor (d. 2014) ·
December 12 – Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City (1978-1989)
(d. 2013) ·
Krishna Prasad
Bhattarai, 29th Prime Minister of
Nepal (d. 2011) ·
Robert Coogan, American actor (d. 1978) ·
Maria Riva, American actress ·
December 15 – Esther Béjarano,
German member of Women's
Orchestra of Auschwitz ·
December 16 – Nissim Ezekiel, Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright,
editor and art critic (d. 2004) ·
Béla Zsitnik, Hungarian Olympic rower ·
Margaret Wigiser, American female
professional baseball player ·
December 18 – Alberto Ablondi, Italian bishop (d. 2010) ·
Michel Tournier, French writer (d. 2016) ·
Cicely Tyson, African-American actress ·
December 23 – Bob Kurland, American basketball player
(d. 2013) ·
Abdirizak Haji
Hussein, Somali diplomat, politician and 4th Prime Minister
of Somalia (d. 2014) ·
Roy Miller,
West Indian cricketer ·
Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer (d. 1980) ·
Moktar Ould Daddah,
1st President of
Mauritania (d. 2003) ·
Rod Serling, American television
screenwriter (The Twilight Zone) (d. 1975) ·
Atal Bihari Vajpayee,
10th Prime Minister of
India (d. 2018) ·
Abba Siddick, Chadian politician (d. 2017) ·
Fatimah Hashim, Malaysian politician
(d. 2010) ·
December 26 – Frank Broyles, American college football
coach, athletic director (d. 2017) ·
December 27 – Frank
North, American football coach (d. 2017) ·
December 28 – Girma Wolde-Giorgis,
Ethiopian politician ·
December 30 – Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American engineer
(d. 2013) ·
Taylor Mead, American actor (d. 2013) ·
Robert Ravenstahl,
American politician (d. 2015) ·
Frank J. Kelley, 50th Michigan
Attorney General ·
J. Donald Monan, American academic
administrator (d. 2017) Date unknown[edit] ·
Michel Bacos, French captain of Air France Flight 139 ·
Dorothy Bohm, English photographer ·
Tim Dinsdale, British aeronautical
engineer, Loch Ness Monster seeker
(d. 1987) ·
Harley D. Nygren, American admiral, engineer
and first Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Commissioned Officer Corps Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 2 – Sabine Baring-Gould,
British composer and novelist (b. 1834) ·
January 4 – John Peters,
American 19th century baseball player (b. 1850) ·
Albert Abrams, American doctor (b. 1863) ·
Georg Hermann
Quincke, German physicist (b. 1834) ·
January 14 – Luther Emmett Holt,
American pediatrician (b. 1855) ·
January 16 – Licerio Gerónimo,
Filipino military leader (b. 1855) ·
January 21 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary,
first Premier of
the Soviet Union (b. 1870) ·
Auguste-Louis-Alberic,
prince d'Arenberg (b. 1837) ·
Marie-Adélaïde,
Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894) ·
January 28 – Teófilo Braga, Portuguese writer (b. 1843) ·
January 30 – Prince
Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier (b. 1884) February[edit] ·
February 3 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President
of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
(b. 1856) ·
John William
Kendrick, American railroad executive (b. 1853) ·
Wilhelm
Schmidt, German pioneer of superheated steam for use in
locomotives (b. 1858) ·
Henry Bacon, American architect (b. 1866) ·
Augustin Boué
de Lapeyrère, French admiral (b. 1852) March[edit] ·
March 9 ·
Panagiotis Danglis,
Greek military leader, politician (b. 1853) ·
Daniel Ridgway
Knight, American artist (b. 1839) ·
March 11 ·
Duke
Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg (b. 1868) ·
Ivan Evstratiev
Geshov, 18th Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (b. 1849) ·
March 15 – Wollert
Konow, Norwegian politician, 4th Prime Minister
of Norway (b. 1845) ·
March 22 ·
Robert Nivelle, French World War I general
(b. 1856) ·
Louis Delluc, French film director (b. 1890) ·
William Macewen, British surgeon (b. 1848) ·
March 24 – Prince
Kachō Hirotada of Japan (b. 1902) ·
March 29 – Charles
Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, resident in United Kingdom
(b. 1852) ·
March 31 – Nilo Peçanha, Brazilian politician and
7th President of Brazil (b. 1867) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Frank Capone, American gangster, brother
of Al Capone (b. 1895) ·
April 10 ·
Rafael Yglesias
Castro, Costa Rican politician, 16th President of
Costa Rica (b. 1861) ·
Hugo Stinnes, German industrialist,
politician (b. 1870) ·
April 14 – Louis Sullivan, American architect (b. 1856) ·
April 19 – Paul Boyton, Irish-American extreme water
sports pioneer (b. 1848) ·
April 21 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858) ·
April 24 – G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist,
educator (b. 1846) May[edit] ·
May 4 – E. Nesbit, British author (b. 1858) ·
May 5 – Kate Claxton, American actress (b. 1848) ·
May 6 – Carel
Steven Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet (b. 1877) ·
May 10 – George Kennan,
American explorer (b. 1845) ·
May 15 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant,
French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1852) ·
May 26 – Victor Herbert, Irish dramatist (b. 1859) ·
May 31 – Charles Stockton, American admiral (b. 1845) June[edit] ·
June 3 – Franz Kafka, Austrian author (The Trial)
(b. 1883) ·
June 9 ·
Andrew Irvine,
British mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. 1902) ·
George Mallory, British mountain climber
(lost on Mount Everest) (b. 1886) ·
June 10 – Giacomo Matteotti,
Italian socialist politician (assassinated) (b. 1885) ·
June 11 – Théodore Dubois,
French composer, teacher (b. 1837) ·
June 11 – Jacob Israël de Haan,
Dutch-Jewish literary writer, journalist (b. 1881) July[edit] ·
July 14 ·
Isabella Ford, British socialist, feminist,
trade unionist and writer (b. 1855) ·
Isabella Stewart
Gardner, American art collector, philanthropist (b. 1840) ·
July 23 – Frank Frost Abbott,
American classical scholar (b. 1860) ·
July 27 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist, composer
(b. 1866) August[edit] ·
August 3 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-born author (b. 1857) ·
August 5 – Teodor Teodorov, 19th Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (b. 1859) ·
August 7 – Bruce Grit,
African-American historian, ex-slave (b. 1856) ·
August 8 – Ernestine von
Kirchsberg, Austrian painter (b. 1857) ·
August 15 – Francis
Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, British Private Secretary to
King Edward VII.
(b. 1837) ·
Paul Natorp, German philosopher (b. 154) ·
Pavel Urysohn,
Russian mathematician (b. 1898) ·
August 18 – Antoine de Mitry, French general (b. 1857) ·
August 23 – Heinrich Berté,
Austrian operetta composer (b. 1858) ·
August 25 – Mariano Álvarez,
Filipino general (b. 1818) ·
August 31 – Todor Aleksandrov,
Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1881) September[edit] Sultan Muhammad Jamalul
Alam II ·
September 1 – Samuel Baldwin
Marks Young, American general, first Chief
of Staff of the United States Army (b. 1840) ·
September 6 – Archduchess
Marie Valerie of Austria (b. 1868) ·
September 11 – Muhammad Jamalul
Alam II, Sultan of Brunei (b. 1889) ·
September 15 – Frank Chance, American baseball
player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1877) ·
September 18 – F. H. Bradley, English philosopher (b. 1846) ·
September 25 – Lotta Crabtree, American stage actress
(b. 1847) October[edit] ·
October 12 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1844) ·
Giovanni Ancillotto,
Italian World War I flying ace (b. 1896) ·
Sir Percy Scott, British admiral (b. 1853) ·
Frances Hodgson
Burnett, Anglo-American writer (b. 1849) ·
John Marden, Australian headmaster, pioneer
of women's education (b. 1855) November[edit] ·
November 3 – Mario di Carpegna,
Italian general, politician ·
November 4 – Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845) ·
November 9 – Henry Cabot Lodge,
American politician (b. 1850) ·
Sir Archibald Geikie, British geologist
(b. 1835) ·
Dean O'Banion, American gangster (b. 1892) ·
November 19 – Thomas Ince, American film producer
(b. 1882) ·
November 20 – Ebenezer Cobb Morley,
English sportsman and the father of the Football
Association and modern football (b. 1831) ·
November 21 – Florence Kling
Harding, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1860) ·
Peter Milne,
British missionary to the New Hebrides (b. 1834) ·
Fernando
Tamagnini de Abreu e Silva, Portuguese general (b. 1856) ·
November 29 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (b. 1858) December[edit] ·
December 2 – Kazimieras Būga,
Lithuanian linguist (b. 1879) ·
December 4 – Cipriano Castro, Venezuelan military
officer, politician and 38th President of
Venezuela (b. 1858) ·
December 6 – Gene Stratton-Porter,
American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863) ·
December 13 – Samuel Gompers, American labor leader
(b. 1850) ·
December 15 – Prince
Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1853) ·
December 20 – Ricardo Bellver, Spanish sculptor (b. 1845) ·
December 27 – Agda Meyerson, Swedish nurse, healthcare
profession activist (b. 1866) ·
December 29 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1845) ·
December 31 – Sir Samuel William
Knaggs, British civil servant (b. 1856) Date unknown[edit] ·
Konstantinos Koumoundouros,
Greek army officer, politician (b. 1846) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Chemistry –
(not awarded) ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Willem Einthoven ·
Literature – Władysław
Stanisław Reymont ·
Peace –
(not awarded) References[edit] 1.
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Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961 (Accessed
on 14 April 2017) 2.
^ "Magazine survey picks Japan's 10 best places to
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