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1925 (MCMXXV) was
a common year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1925th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 925th year of the 2nd millennium, the 25th year of
the 20th century,
and the 6th year of the 1920s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1925 ·
January 1 – Kristiania, the capital of
Norway, reverts to its original name of Oslo. ·
January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech
in the Italian Chamber of
Deputies.[1] Historians
now trace this speech to the beginning of Mussolini's dictatorship.[2] ·
January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes
the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Twelve days
later, Ma Ferguson becomes
first female governor of Texas. ·
January 25 – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is
replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler. ·
January 27–February 1 – The 1925 serum run to
Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska, to combat an epidemic. February[edit] Main article: February 1925 ·
February 15 – The Alice Comedy Alice Solves the
Puzzle is released by Disney
Brothers Cartoon Studio, introducing Bootleg Pete (an early prototype
for Pegleg Pete) for the first time. ·
February 21 – The cover date of the very first issue
of The New Yorker.[3] ·
February 25 – Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric
masters to be commercially released. ·
February 28 – The 1925
Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North
America. March[edit] Main article: March 1925 ·
March 4 ·
İsmet
İnönü is appointed prime minister in Turkey (Turkey's 4th and İnönü's
3rd government). ·
Calvin Coolidge is sworn
in for a full term as President of the United States, in the
first inauguration to be broadcast on radio.[4] ·
March 6 – Pionerskaya Pravda,
one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union. ·
March 9–May 1 – Pink's War: The British Royal Air Force bombards mountain
strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen
in South Waziristan. ·
March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original
name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State
Teacher's College in Conway, Arkansas (now the University
of Central Arkansas). ·
March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado,
the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring
2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro,
Illinois; West Frankfort,
Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri;
and Griffin, Indiana. ·
March 21 – Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching
of evolution in the state's public
schools. ·
March 31 ·
The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius. ·
Radio
station WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana begins
broadcasting. April[edit] Main article: April 1925 ·
April–October
– The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et
Industriels Modernes is held in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style. ·
April 1 ·
Frank
Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leaves Washington, D.C. to
begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states. ·
The Patent
and Trademark Office is transferred to the Department of
Commerce. ·
April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. ·
April 15 – Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer convicted of
the murder of 24 boys and young men, is beheaded in Germany. St Nedelya Church after assault ·
April 16 – The Communist assault on St
Nedelya Church claims roughly 150 lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. ·
April 19 – Colo-colo, a well-known football club
of Chile, is founded in Macul, suburb of Santiago.[5] ·
April 20 – Iranian forces of Rezā Shāh occupies Ahvaz and arrests Sheikh Khaz'al. ·
April 28 – Presenting the Stanley Baldwin government's
budget, Chancellor of
the Exchequer Winston Churchillannounces
Britain's return to the gold standard.[6] May[edit] Main article: May 1925 ·
May 1 ·
In
the Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi
Arabia, the al-Baqi' mausoleums
are destroyed by King Ibn Saud. ·
Barcelona S.C. founded in Ecuador. ·
The All-China
Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union organisation, is founded
in Guangzhou, Republic of
China. ·
May 5 ·
Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee,
biology teacher John T. Scopes is
arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. ·
The General Election Law is
passed in Japan. ·
May 8 – African American Tom Lee
rescues 32 people from the sinking steamboat M.E. Norman on the Mississippi River. ·
May 25 ·
Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for
teaching Darwin's theory
of evolution. ·
The National
Forensic League is founded. ·
May 29 – British explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to
his wife before he disappears in the Amazon. June[edit] Main article: June 1925 ·
June 1 – Percy and
Florence Arrowsmith are married. ·
June 6 – The Chrysler Corporation is
founded by Walter Percy
Chrysler. ·
June 13 – Charles Francis
Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of
pictures and sound, using 48 lines and a mechanical system in "the first
public demonstration of radiovision". ·
June 14 ·
The Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki in Greece is founded. ·
The
Turkish football club Göztepe is
founded. ·
June 29 – The 6.8 Mw Santa
Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California
with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent), destroying much of
downtown Santa Barbara,
California and leaving 13 people dead. July[edit] Main article: July 1925 ·
July 9 – In Dublin, Ireland, Oonagh Keogh becomes the
first female member of a stock exchange in the world. ·
July 10 ·
Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee,
the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science
teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. ·
Meher Baba begins his 44-year silence. ·
July 18 – Adolf Hitler publishes Volume 1 of his
personal manifesto Mein Kampf. ·
July 21 ·
Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man
to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at
a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).[7] ·
Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee,
high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of
teaching evolution in
class and fined $100. ·
July 25 – The Telegraph
Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. August[edit] Main article: August 1925 ·
August 1 – The New Cape Central Railway
between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African
Railways.[8] ·
August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal
organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a
parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington DC.[9] ·
August 14 – The original Hetch
Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse
is completed and goes on line. ·
August 25 – The French completes their
evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany.[10] September[edit] Main article: September 1925 ·
September 3 – The U.S. Navy
dirigible Shenandoah breaks
up in a squall line near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14 crewmen. ·
September 27 – Feast of the Cross according
to the Old Calendar; A
celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek police
pursues a group of Greek Old
Calendarists. The phenomenon lasts for half an hour.[11] October[edit] Main article: October 1925 ·
October
– The major money forgery and fraud of Alves dos Reis is exposed in Portugal. ·
October 1 – Mount Rushmore National Memorial is
dedicated in South Dakota. Locarno Treaties with Gustav Stresemann, Austen Chamberlain and Aristide Briand ·
October 2 – In London ·
John Logie Baird successfully transmits
the first television pictures with a greyscale image.[12] ·
The
city's first enclosed double-decker buses are
introduced. ·
October 5–16 – The Locarno Treaties are negotiated. ·
October 8 – Cubana de Aviación is
founded. November[edit] Main article: November 1925 ·
November 5 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU,
the secret police of
the Soviet Union. ·
November 9 – Formal foundation date of
the Schutzstaffel (SS)
as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in Germany. ·
Australian
federal election, 1925: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is
re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Labor Partyled
by Matthew Charlton. ·
The
first Surrealist art
exhibition opens in Paris.[13] ·
November 24 – The silent film El Húsar de la
Muerte is released in Santiago, Chile. ·
November 26 – Prajadhipok (Rama VII) is crowned
as King of Siam. ·
November 28 – The weekly country music-variety radio program Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast
on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee,
as the "WSM Barn Dance". December[edit] Main article: December 1925 ·
December 1 – The Locarno Treaties are signed in London. ·
December 11 – Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ
the King, is promulgated.[14] ·
Reza Shah becomes shah of Persia. ·
Alpha Phi Omega, a National service
fraternity, is founded at Lafayette College. ·
Colombo Radio launches in Ceylon; the
station subsequently becomes known as Radio Ceylon. ·
December 25 – IG Farben is formed by the merger of
six chemical companies in Germany. Paris Rue de Montmartre in 1925 Date unknown[edit] ·
Spring
– Leica I 35 mm film still camera is introduced. ·
The
Australian state of Queensland introduces a 44-hour working week. ·
The Brisbane City
Council, (Brisbane, Australia), is created from the amalgamation
of 20 smaller cities, towns and shires. ·
New
York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.[15][unreliable
source?] ·
The Thompson
submachine gun is sold for $175 in the 1925 Sears, Roebuck
and Company mail order catalog. ·
The National
Football League adds 5 teams: the New York Giants, Detroit Panthers, Providence Steam
Roller, a new Canton Bulldogs team and the Pottsville Maroons. ·
Lion Feuchtwanger's
novel Jud Süß is
published.[16] ·
The Shueisha Publishing Company is founded
in Tokyo. ·
Wheel gymnastics is invented in Germany. Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and
ambassador (d. 2005) ·
Charlie Capps, American politician (d. 2009) ·
Ahmad Koroh, Malaysian politician (d. 1978) ·
Sarah Nyendwoha
Ntiro, Ugandan educator and activist (d. 2018) ·
Larry Harmon, American entertainer and
television producer (d. 2008) ·
Eraño de Guzman Manalo, 2nd Executive
Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church
of Christ) (d. 2009) ·
Henry Gleitman, Professor Emeritus of
Psychology (d. 2015) ·
Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country
skier (d. 2003) ·
Enrico Perucconi, Italian athlete ·
January 5 – Marcello Costalunga,
Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2010) ·
John DeLorean, American car maker (d. 2005) ·
Joseph-André Motte,
French furniture designer (d. 2013) ·
Gerald Durrell, British naturalist,
zookeeper, author, and television presenter (d. 1995) ·
Harry Stradling Jr.,
American cinematographer (d. 2017) ·
Helmuth Hübener,
German youth political activist against the Hitler regime (d. 1942) ·
Tharon Musser, American designer (d. 2009) ·
January 9 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989) ·
January 10 – Elizabeth
Virginia Hallanan, American judge (d. 2004) ·
January 11 – Betty Bumpers, American childhood
immunizations activist (d. 2018) ·
Georgi Kaloyanchev,
Bulgarian actor (d. 2012) ·
Rosemary Murphy, American actress (d. 2014) ·
Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer
(d. 2000) ·
Elwyn Welch, New Zealand farmer, ornithologist,
conservationist and Open Brethren missionary (d. 1961) ·
January 14 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970) ·
January 15 – August Englas, Estonian wrestler (d. 2017) ·
Harold "Alfalfa" Switzer, American
child actor (d. 1967) ·
Jesse J. Taylor, United States Navy naval
aviator (d. 1965) ·
Shafik Wazzan, 27th Prime Minister
of Lebanon (d. 1999) ·
Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d. 1996) ·
Edgar Ray Killen, American Ku Klux Klan
leader and convicted murderer (d. 2018) ·
January 18 – Art Paul, American graphic designer
(d. 2018) ·
January 20 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet
and politician ·
January 21 – Charles Aidman, American actor (d. 1993) ·
Bobby Young, American professional baseball
player (d. 1985) ·
John Davies Evans,
English archaeologist and academic (d. 2011) ·
January 24 – Maria Tallchief, American ballerina
(d. 2013) ·
Barbara Carroll, American jazz pianist
(d. 2017) ·
Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995) ·
Joan Leslie, American actress (d. 2015) ·
Paul Newman, American actor, film director,
entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2008) ·
January 27 – Sufi Abu Taleb, President of Egypt (d. 2008) ·
Dub Garrett, American football guard
(d. 1976) ·
Robert W. McCollum,
American epidemiologist, (d. 2010) ·
January 30 – Douglas Engelbart,
American inventor (d. 2013) ·
Bernardino
Rivera Álvarez, Bolivian bishop (d. 2010) ·
Micheline Lannoy, Belgian figure skater February[edit] ·
Lucille Eichengreen,
German writer and Holocaust survivor ·
Bobby Laing, Scottish professional
footballer (d. 1985) ·
Mary Nesbitt,
American female professional baseball player (d. 2013) ·
Assid Corban, New Zealand politician
(d. 2018) ·
February 2 – Elaine Stritch, American actress (d. 2014) ·
Shelley Berman, American comedian and actor
(d. 2017) ·
John Fiedler, American actor (d. 2005) ·
Leon Schlumpf, Swiss Federal Councillor
(d. 2012) ·
Arne Åhman, Swedish athlete ·
Jutta Hipp, German born American jazz
pianist and composer (d. 2003) ·
February 7 – Hans Schmidt,
Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2012) ·
February 8 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and film
director (d. 2001) ·
February 9 – Billy
Williamson, American musician (d. 1996) ·
February 10 – Pierre Mondy, French film and theatre actor
and director (d. 2012) ·
Virginia E. Johnson,
American sexologist (d. 2013) ·
Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (d. 2013) ·
Kim Stanley, American actress (d. 2001) ·
February 12 – Ted Innes, Australian politician (d. 2010) ·
Jerome Waldie, American politician (d. 2009) ·
John
Burton, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2010) ·
February 16 – Romolo Bizzotto, Italian professional
football player and coach (d. 2017) ·
Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor
(d. 2003) ·
Hal Holbrook, American actor ·
Abdelsalam al-Majali,
60th and 63rd Prime Minister
of Jordan ·
Ghafar Baba, Malaysian politician (d. 2006) ·
George Kennedy, American actor (d. 2016) ·
Robert Altman, American film director
(d. 2006) ·
Pat Lanigan, Australian public servant
(d. 1992) ·
Sam Peckinpah, American film director
(d. 1984) ·
Štefan Vrablec,
Slovak Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017) ·
Aleksei Paramonov,
Soviet football player and manager (d. 2018) ·
February 22 – Gerald Stern, American poet, essayist and
educator ·
Eric Prabhakar, Indian sprinter (d. 2011) ·
Patricia Broderick,
American playwright and painter (d. 2003) ·
February 24 – Bud Day, United States Air Force colonel
(d. 2013) ·
Maddy English, American female baseball
player (d. 2004) ·
Lisa Kirk, American actress and singer
(d. 1990) ·
Eduardo Risso,
Uruguayan Olympic rower ·
Shehu Shagari, President of Nigeria
(1979-83) ·
Miroslava,
Czechoslovakian-Mexican actress (d. 1955) ·
Arthur S. Abramson,
American linguist (d. 2017) ·
Lefty Kreh, American sports photojournalist,
author and sport fisherman (d. 2018) ·
Dave Pell, American jazz musician (d. 2017) ·
Everton Weekes, West Indian cricketer ·
Samuel Dash, American Watergate
Congressional counsel (d. 2004) ·
Ed Quirk, American football fullback
(d. 1962) ·
February 28 – Louis Nirenberg, Canadian-American
mathematician March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Keith Harvey Miller,
American politician ·
Alexandre do
Nascimento, Angolan prelate ·
March 4 ·
Inezita Barroso, Brazilian sertanejo singer,
guitarist, actress, TV presenter, librarian, folklorist and teacher (d. 2015) ·
Alan R. Battersby,
English organic chemist (d. 2018) ·
Paul Mauriat, French musician (Love is Blue)
(d. 2006) ·
March 6 – Clyde Biggers, American football coach
(d. 1976) ·
March 7 ·
Josef Ertl, German politician (d. 2000) ·
Rene Gagnon, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo
Jima (d. 1979) ·
March 8 ·
Dennis Lotis, South African-born English
singer and actor ·
Marta Lynch, Argentinian writer (d. 1985) ·
John Harland Bryant,
American physician (d. 2017) ·
March 9 ·
G. William Miller,
American politician (d. 2018) ·
Alejandro Orfila, Argentine diplomat ·
March 11 – İlhan Selçuk,
Turkish lawyer, journalist, author, novelist and editor (d. 2010) ·
March 12 ·
Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
G. William
Whitehurst, American politician ·
March 13 ·
Samir Gharbo, Egyptian water polo player
(d. 2018) ·
John Tate, American mathematician ·
March 14 ·
Joseph A. Unanue, American chief executive
(d. 2013) ·
John Jacobs,
English golfer (d. 2017) ·
March 15 – Art Murakowski, American football player
(d. 1985) ·
March 16 ·
Mary Hinkson, African-American dancer and
choreographer (d. 2014) ·
Luis E. Miramontes,
Mexican chemist (d. 2004) ·
March 17 – Gabriele Ferzetti,
Italian actor (d. 2015) ·
March 18 – Alessandro
Alessandroni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2017) ·
March 19 – Brent Scowcroft, American general and
diplomat ·
March 20 – Romana Acosta
Bañuelos, American public servant (d. 2018) ·
March 21 – Peter Brook, English theatre director ·
March 22 – Gerard Hoffnung, German-born English
humorist (d. 1959) ·
March 23 ·
Robie Lester, American Grammy-nominated
voice artist and singer (d. 2005) ·
David
Watkin, British cinematographer (d. 2008) ·
March 25 ·
Flannery O'Connor,
American writer (d. 1964) ·
Kishori Sinha, Indian politician (d. 2016) ·
Anthony Quinton, British political and moral
philosopher (d. 2010) ·
March 26 ·
Pierre Boulez, French composer (d. 2016) ·
Ted
Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton, English politician ·
March 27 ·
Henry Plumb,
Baron Plumb, English farmer and politician ·
Ian
Robinson, Australian politician (d. 2017) ·
March 28 ·
Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress
(d. 2010) ·
Raja Perempuan
Budriah, Malaysian royal consort (d. 2008) ·
March 29 – David Tsimakuridze,
Georgian freestyle wrestler (d. 2006) ·
March 31 – John Wesley Hanes
III, American civil servant (d. 2018) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Piero Livi, Italian director and
screenwriter (d. 2015) ·
April 2 – Hans Rosenthal, German radio editor,
director, one of the most popular German radio and TV hosts of the 1970s and
1980s (d. 1987) ·
April 3 ·
Tony Benn, British politician (d. 2014) ·
Jan Merlin, American actor, screenwriter and
author ·
April 4 – Serge Dassault, French businessman and
politician (d. 2018) ·
April 5 – Donald Burgett, American writer and World
War II veteran (d. 2017) ·
April 6 – Paul Ritter, Australian architect, town
planner, sociologist, artist and author (d. 2010) ·
April 7 – Chaturanan Mishra,
Indian politician (d. 2011) ·
April 11 ·
Erik Söderlund,
Swedish race walker (d. 2009) ·
Gordy Giovanelli, American Olympic rower ·
April 12 – Evelyn Berezin, American computer scientist
and engineer ·
April 13 – Michael Halliday, English-Australian
linguist (d. 2018) ·
April 14 ·
Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist
(d. 1974) ·
Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician
(d. 2010) ·
Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002) ·
April 15 ·
Beryl Te Wiata, New Zealand actor, author,
and scriptwriter (d. 2017) ·
Milton J. Rosenberg,
American psychology professor (d. 2018) ·
April 17 ·
René Moawad, 13th President of Lebanon
(d. 1989) ·
Charles Yanofsky, American geneticist
(d. 2018) ·
Mallory Horne, American politician (d. 2009) ·
April 18 – Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014) ·
April 19 ·
Chuck Klausing, American football player and
coach (d. 2018) ·
Hugh O'Brian, American soldier and actor
(d. 2016) ·
John Kraaijkamp Sr.,
Dutch actor and comedian (d. 2011) ·
April 20 ·
Ernie Stautner, German-born American
football player (d. 2006) ·
Elena Verdugo, American actress (d. 2017) ·
Bob Will, American Olympic rower ·
April 21 ·
Anthony Mason,
Australian soldier and judge ·
Sibghatullah
Mojaddedi, Former acting President of
Afghanistan ·
Solomon Perel, Israeli motivational speaker ·
John Swinton
of Kimmerghame, English general and politician (d. 2018) ·
April 22 – George Cole,
English actor (d. 2015) ·
April 24 ·
Faye Dancer, American baseball player
(d. 2002) ·
Eugen Weber, Romanian-born historian
(d. 2007) ·
April 25 ·
Tony
Christopher, Baron Christopher, English businessman ·
Janete Clair, Brazilian television, radio
play, and novel writer (d. 1983) ·
Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003) ·
Louis O'Neill,
Canadian politician (d. 2018) ·
April 26 ·
Vladimir Boltyansky,
Russian mathematician, educator and author ·
Michele Ferrero, Italian businessman
(d. 2015) ·
Jørgen Ingmann,
Danish musician (d. 2015) ·
April 27 – Akio Kimura [ja], Japanese professor of Russian studies
(d. 2017) ·
April 28 – John Thorn,
American headmaster, author and educational consultant ·
April 29 ·
John Compton, Saint Lucian lawyer and
politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2007) ·
Iwao Takamoto, Japanese-American animator
(d. 2007) ·
April 30 – Johnny Horton, American country music and rockabilly singer (d. 1960) May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Scott Carpenter, American astronaut
(d. 2013) ·
Anna May Hutchison,
American professional baseball player (d. 1998) ·
May 2 ·
Maria Barroso, Portuguese politician and
actress (d. 2015) ·
Inga Gill, Swedish actress (d. 2000) ·
John Neville,
English actor (d. 2011) ·
Lou Rowan, Australian Test cricket match
umpire (d. 2017) ·
May 3 ·
Ngiratkel Etpison,
5th President of Palau (d. 1997) ·
Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions
(d. 2007) ·
May 4 ·
Syed
Ahmad Syed Mahmud Shahabuddin, Malaysian politician (d. 2008) ·
Jenő Buzánszky,
Hungarian footballer (d. 2015) ·
Maurice R. Greenberg,
American businessman ·
May 5 ·
Charles Chaplin Jr.,
American actor (d. 1968) ·
Vladimir
Vavilov, Russian guitarist, lutenist and composer (d. 1973) ·
May 7 – Jorge Loredo, Brazilian actor and comedian
(d. 2015) ·
May 8 – Ali Hassan Mwinyi,
2nd President of
Tanzania ·
May 9 – Vladimir Tadej, Croatian production
designer, screenwriter and film director (d. 2017) ·
May 10 ·
Pete Babando, American ice hockey player ·
Ilie Verdeț, 51st Prime Minister of
Romania (d. 2001) ·
May 11 – Edward Zemprelli, American politician
(d. 2017) ·
May 12 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player
(d. 2015) ·
May 14 ·
Sophie Kurys, American professional baseball
player (d. 2013) ·
Patrice Munsel, American actress, singer,
and operatic soprano (d. 2016) ·
Oona O'Neill, American actress (d. 1991) ·
Marvin Traub, American businessman and
writer (d. 2012) ·
May 15 – Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist (d. 2015) ·
May 16 ·
James F. Holland, American physician
(d. 2018) ·
Nancy Roman, American astronomer ·
Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer
(d. 2013) ·
Bobbejaan Schoepen,
Belgian singer-songwriter and entrepreneur (d. 2010) ·
Ola Vincent, Nigerian economist and banker
(d. 2012) ·
May 17 ·
Herb Henson, American country music
(d. 1963) ·
Veselin
Đuranović, Yugoslav politician (d. 1997) ·
May 18 – Gérard Corboud,
Swiss entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist (d. 2017) ·
May 19 ·
Malcolm X, African-American civil rights
activist (d. 1965) ·
Brian Moll, Australian character actor,
director and producer (d. 2010) ·
Pol Pot, Cambodian Stalinist dictator and
leader of the Khmer Rouge (d. 1998) ·
May 20 – Gregory Yong, Archbishop of Singapore
(d. 2008) ·
May 22 ·
Julio Garrett Ayllón,
Vice President of Bolivia (d. 2018) ·
James King,
American tenor (d. 2005) ·
Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor
(d. 1991) ·
May 23 – Joshua Lederberg, American molecular
biologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008) ·
May 24 ·
Alfred Parsons, Australian diplomat
(d. 2010) ·
Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and film
director (d. 1994) ·
May 25 ·
Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003) ·
José María Gatica,
Argentine boxer (d. 1963) ·
Claude Pinoteau, French film director and
scriptwriter (d. 2012) ·
Rudolf Scheurer, Swiss football referee
(d. 2015) ·
May 26 ·
Alec McCowen, English actor (d. 2017) ·
Carmen Montejo, Cuban-born Mexican actress
(d. 2013) ·
May 27 – Frank Dempsey, American football player
(d. 2013) ·
May 28 ·
Bülent Ecevit, 3-time Prime Minister of
Turkey (d. 2006) ·
Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau, German lyric baritone and conductor (d. 2012) ·
Lucien Nedzi, American politician ·
Pavel Štěpán,
Czech pianist (d. 1998) ·
May 29 – Thomas Collier
Platt Jr., American judge (d. 2017) ·
May 30 – John Marks,
English physician and author ·
May 31 ·
Julian Beck, American actor, director, poet,
and painter (d. 1985) ·
Frei Otto, German architect (d. 2015) ·
Donn A. Starry, American army officer
(d. 2011) June[edit] ·
June 1 – Dilia Díaz Cisneros,
Venezuelan teacher (d. 2017) ·
June 2 ·
Julius Blank, semiconductor pioneer
(d. 2011) ·
Buddy Elias, Swiss actor and president of
the Anne Frank Fonds (d. 2015) ·
June 3 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010) ·
June 4 – Antonio Puchades, Spanish footballer
(d. 2013) ·
June 5 ·
Warren Frost, American actor (d. 2017) ·
Bill Hayes,
American actor and singer ·
June 6 – Hideji Ōtaki, Japanese actor (d. 2012) ·
June 7 ·
John
Biddle, American yachting cinematographer and lecturer (d. 2008) ·
Ernestina
Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (d. 2017) ·
Robert Smithdas, American deaf-blind
teacher, advocate and author (d. 2014) ·
June 8 ·
Barbara Bush, First
Lady of the United States (d. 2018) ·
Claude Estier, French politician and
journalist (d. 2016) ·
June 9 ·
Don Ritchie, Australian official (d. 2012) ·
Herman Sarkowsky, German-American
businessman and executive (d. 2014) ·
Robert H. Traurig,
American lawyer and businessman (d. 2018) ·
June 10 ·
Fortunato Abat, Filipino army general and
politician (d. 2018) ·
Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist,
jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist (d. 2017) ·
June 11 – William Styron, American writer (d. 2006) ·
June 12 – Richard Paul Conaboy,
American judge (d. 2018) ·
June 13 – Dušan Trbojević,
Serbian pianist, composer, musical writer and university professor (d. 2011) ·
June 14 ·
Hideyuki Fujisawa,
Japanese professional Go player (d. 2009) ·
Jean-Louis Rosier,
French racecar driver (d. 2011) ·
Pierre Salinger, White House Press Secretary
(d. 2004) ·
June 15 ·
Richard Baker,
English broadcast journalist and author (d. 2018) ·
Vasily Golubev,
Soviet, Russian painter (d. 1985) ·
Attilâ İlhan,
Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer (d. 2005) ·
June 16 ·
Lewis Morley, American Photographer
(d. 2013) ·
Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist (d. 2017) ·
June 17 ·
Luce d'Eramo, Italian writer and literary
critic (d. 2001) ·
Mervyn Finlay, Australian former member of
the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Queen's Counsel (d. 2014) ·
Wendell Erickson, American politician
(d. 2018) ·
June 20 ·
András Kovács,
Hungarian filmmaker (d. 2017) ·
Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and
actor (d. 1971) ·
June 21 ·
Larisa Avdeyeva, Russian mezzo-soprano
(d. 2013) ·
Jean-Gabriel Castel,
French-Canadian law professor ·
Stanley Moss, American poet, publisher, and
art dealer ·
Giovanni Spadolini,
Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1994) ·
Maureen Stapleton,
American actress (d. 2006) ·
June 22 ·
Nat Boxer, American sound engineer (d. 2009) ·
Frank Hindle, English footballer player ·
Ben Jarvis, American politician ·
June 23 ·
Art Modell, American businessman (d. 2012) ·
Oliver Smithies, British-American geneticist
(d. 2017) ·
June 24 – Ogden R. Reid, United States Representative
from New York ·
June 25 ·
John Briley, American writer ·
Virginia Patton, American actress ·
Charles
Ceccaldi-Raynaud, French lawyer and politician ·
June Lockhart, American actress ·
William Stoddart, Scottish physician and
author ·
Robert Venturi, American architect (d. 2018) ·
P. Viswambharan, Indian politician,
socialist, trade unionist and journalist (d. 2016) ·
June 26 ·
Jean Frydman, French resistant and
businessman ·
Richard X. Slattery,
American actor (d. 1997) ·
June 27 – Wayne Terwilliger,
American second baseman, coach, and manager in Major League Baseball ·
June 28 – Ray Boyle, American actor ·
June 29 ·
Mervyn Alexander, English Roman Catholic
prelate (d. 2010) ·
Francis S. Currey,
American Medal of Honour recipient ·
John Fujioka, American actor of Japanese
descent ·
Shirley Brannock
Jones, American judge ·
Giorgio Napolitano,
Italian politician and 11th President of Italy ·
Arthur Storch, American actor and stage
director (d. 2013) ·
Cara Williams, American actress ·
June 30 ·
Ebrahim Amini, Iranian politician ·
Philippe Jaccottet,
Swiss poet and translator ·
Ros Mey, Cambodian-born American Buddhist
monk and survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime (d. 2010) ·
Fred Schaus, American basketball player,
head coach and athletic director (d. 2010) July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Aubyn Curtiss, American politician (d. 2017) ·
Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011) ·
Art McNally, American football referee ·
July 2 ·
Marvin Rainwater, American country and
rockabilly singer and songwriter (d. 2013) ·
Medgar Evers, African-American civil rights
activist (d. 1963) ·
Patrice Lumumba, Congolese independence
leader (d. 1961) ·
July 3 ·
Roger Chesneau, French steeplechaser ·
Keiji Hase, Japanese swimmer ·
Terry Moriarty, Australian rules footballer
(d. 2011) ·
Danny Nardico, American professional boxer
(d. 2010) ·
July 4 ·
John Imbrie, American paleoceanographer
(d. 2016) ·
Max Pievsky, American politician ·
Dorothy Head Knode,
American tennis player ·
Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet, writer,
translator, journalist and former politician (d. 2018) ·
July 5 ·
Jean Raspail, French author, traveler and
explorer ·
Fernando de Szyszlo,
Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker, and teacher (d. 2017) ·
Unto Wiitala, Finnish ice hockey player ·
July 6 ·
Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress and
author (d. 2002) ·
Merv Griffin, American game show host and
producer, talk show host, singer (d. 2007) ·
Bill Haley, American musician (d. 1981) ·
Gazi Yaşargil, Turkish scientist and
neurosurgeon ·
July 7 ·
Marc Breslow, American television director
(d. 2015) ·
Fernand Decanali, French cyclist (d. 2017) ·
Erich Hartstein, German journalist and
contributing editor ·
Jud Kinberg, American producer and
screenwriter (d. 2016) ·
July 8 ·
Lies Bonnier, Dutch swimmer ·
Nicholas Brathwaite,
Prime minister of Grenada (d. 2016) ·
Arthur Imperatore
Sr., Italian-American businessman from New Jersey ·
Bill Mackrides, American football
quarterback ·
Dominique Nohain, French actor, dramatist
and director (d. 2017) ·
July 9 ·
Tom Luken, American politician (d. 2018) ·
Mary de Rachewiltz,
American poet and translator ·
Borislav
Stanković, Serbian former basketball player and coach ·
Marion Gay Wofford,
American politician ·
July 10 ·
Ernest Bertrand
Boland, American Roman Catholic bishop ·
Jerome Kohlberg Jr.,
American businessman (d. 2015) ·
Mahathir Mohamad,
Malaysian politician; Prime Minister of Malaysia ·
July 11 ·
Mattiwilda Dobbs, African-American
coloratura soprano (d. 2015) ·
Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor
(d. 2017) ·
Peter Kyros, American politician (d. 2012) ·
Fernando Matthei, Chilean Air Force General
(d. 2017) ·
July 12 ·
Don Campbell,
Canadian ice hockey (d. 2012) ·
William Benner
Enright, American judge ·
Rosie Harris, English author ·
July 13 ·
Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and writer ·
Suzanne Zimmerman,
American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist ·
July 14 ·
Francisco
Álvarez Martínez, Roman Catholic prelate ·
Elmo Bovio, Argentine professional football
player ·
Bruce L. Douglas, American politician ·
Sheila Guyse, African-American singer,
actress, and recording artist (d. 2013) ·
Carlos
Velázquez, Argentine modern pentathlete ·
July 15 ·
Evan Hultman, American politician ·
D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary
filmmaker ·
Gaston Rousseau, French racing cyclist ·
Badal Sarkar, Indian dramatist and theatre
director (d. 2011) ·
July 16 – Rosita Quintana, Argentine actress ·
July 17 ·
Anita
Lasker-Wallfisch, German cellist and Holocaust survivor ·
Mohammad Hasan Sharq,
Afghan politician ·
Ted Vogel, American marathon runner ·
July 18 ·
Hubert Doggart, English sports
administrator, cricketer and schoolmaster (d. 2018) ·
Allan Elsom, New Zealand rugby union player
(d. 2010) ·
Raymond Jones,
Australian architect ·
Windy McCall, relief pitcher in Major League
Baseball (d. 2015) ·
Shirley Strickland,
Australian Olympic athlete (d. 2004) ·
Friedrich Zimmermann,
German politician (d. 2012) ·
July 19 ·
Otto Arosemena, 32nd President of Ecuador
(d. 1984) ·
Henri Beaujean, French politician ·
John Dossetor, Canadian physician and
bioethicist ·
Jean-Pierre Faye, French philosopher, poet,
and writer ·
Jack Petchey, British businessman ·
Michael Pfeiffer, German former professional
football player (d. 2018) ·
Sue Thompson, American pop and country music
singer ·
July 20 ·
Jacques Delors, French politician ·
Frantz Fanon, French-Algerian psychiatrist
and philosopher (d. 1961) ·
Stan Hovdebo, New Democratic Party member of
the Canadian House of Commons (d. 2018) ·
Eric Watson,
New Zealand former cricketer (d. 2017) ·
July 21 ·
Hans Meyer,
South African actor ·
Johnny Peirson, Canadian ice hockey player ·
July 22 ·
Irving Sandler, American art critic, art
historian, and educator (d. 2018) ·
Joseph Sargent, American film director
(d. 2014) ·
July 23 ·
Tajuddin Ahmad, 1st Prime Minister of
Bangladesh (d. 1975) ·
Gloria DeHaven, American actress (d. 2016) ·
Quett Masire, 2nd President of
Botswana (d. 2017) ·
Govind Talwalkar, Indian journalist
(d. 2017) ·
July 24 – Stephen Porter,
American stage director (d. 2013) ·
July 25 ·
Benny Benjamin, American musician, known as
the main drummer used by Motown for studio
recordings (d. 1969) ·
Jutta Zilliacus, Finnish journalist and
politician ·
Ana González
de Recabarren, Chilean human rights activist (d. 2018) ·
July 26 ·
Robert Hirsch,
French actor (d. 2017) ·
Ana María Matute,
Spanish writer (d. 2014) ·
Neil O'Reilly, Australian rules footballer
(d. 1985) ·
July 28 ·
Baruch S. Blumberg,
American scientist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011) ·
Ali Bozer, Turkish politician ·
July 29 ·
Shivram
Dattatreya Phadnis, Indian cartoonist ·
Ted Lindsay, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Carmen Stănescu,
Romanian actress (d. 2018) ·
Mikis Theodorakis,
Greek composer ·
Matthew
White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, British nobleman (d. 2012) ·
July 30 ·
Stan Stennett, Welsh comedian, actor and
jazz musician (d. 2013) ·
Alexander Trocchi,
Scottish writer (d. 1984) ·
July 31 ·
Harry Malmberg, American second baseman and
coach (d. 1976) ·
Carmel Quinn, Irish-American singer and
performer August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Cor Edskes, Dutch organ builder and restorer
(d. 2015) ·
Pam Gems, English playwright (d. 2011) ·
Roy Mackal, American biologist (d. 2013) ·
August 2 ·
Jorge Rafael Videla,
42nd President of Argentina (d. 2013) ·
Alan Whicker, British television presenter
(d. 2013) ·
August 3 ·
Dom Um Romão, Brazilian jazz drummer
(d. 2005) ·
Guy Degrenne, French businessman (d. 2006) ·
August 4 – Betty Trezza, Italian-American female
professional baseball player (d. 2007) ·
August 6 ·
Eddie Baily, England international
footballer (d. 2010) ·
Barbara Bates, American actress and singer
(d. 1969) ·
Lilyan Chauvin, French-American actress
(d. 2008) ·
Olavi Rokka, American gardener and
horticulturist (d. 2011) ·
August 7 – M. S. Swaminathan,
Indian scientist ·
August 8 ·
Alija
Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003) ·
Frank Lauterbur, American football player
and coach (d. 2013) ·
Aziz Sattar, Malaysian actor, comedian,
singer and director (d. 2014) ·
August 9 ·
David A. Huffman, American computer
scientist (d. 1999) ·
Valentín Pimstein,
Chilean-Mexican producer of telenovelas (d. 2017) ·
Olavi Rokka, Finnish modern pentathlete
(d. 2011) ·
Ginny Tyler, American voice actress
(d. 2012) ·
August 10 – Stanislav Brebera,
Czech chemist (d. 2012) ·
August 11 – Arlene Dahl, American actress ·
Thor Vilhjálmsson,
Icelandic writer (d. 2011) ·
Guillermo Cano Isaza,
Colombian journalist (d. 1986) ·
Dean Sensanbaugher,
American football halfback and defensive back (d. 2005) ·
Norris McWhirter (d. 2004)
and his twin brother, ·
Ross McWhirter (d. 1975),
Scottish co-founders of the Guinness Book of Records ·
Lois Jurgens, American convicted murderer
(d. 2013) ·
Leopold Barschandt,
Austrian footballer (d. 2000) ·
Guillermo Cano Isaza,
Colombian journalist (d. 1986) ·
George Wetherill, Director Emeritus,
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (d. 2006) ·
Dale Bumpers, American politician (d. 2016) ·
José Alfredo
Martínez de Hoz, Argentine executive and policy maker (d. 2013) ·
Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect based in
Christchurch (d. 2012) ·
Benny Bailey, American bebop and hard-bop
jazz trumpeter (d. 2005) ·
August 14 – Russell Baker, American writer ·
Mike Connors, American actor (d. 2017) ·
Ruth Lessing, American female professional
baseball player (d. 2000) ·
Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist
(d. 2007) ·
Bill Pinkney, American performer and singer
(d. 2007) ·
Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-born French pianist
(d. 2015) ·
Idriss ibn
al-Hassan al-Alami, Moroccan poet and translator (d. 2007) ·
Mal Waldron, American jazz pianist,
composer, and arranger (d. 2002) ·
William G. Hundley,
American criminal defense attorney (d. 2006) ·
Kirke Mechem, American composer ·
August 18 – Pegeen Vail
Guggenheim, Swiss-American painter (d. 1967) ·
August 19 – Madhav Dalvi, Indian cricketer (d. 2012) ·
August 20 – Henning Larsen, Danish architect (d. 2013) ·
August 21 – Toma Caragiu, Romanian theatre, television
and film actor (d. 1977) ·
Honor Blackman, English actress ·
Terry Donahue,
Canadian female professional baseball player ·
Thea Astley, Australian writer (d. 2004) ·
Hilmar Hoffmann, German film and culture
academic (d. 2018) ·
Hasan Tiro, Indonesian politician (d. 2010) ·
Jack Hirshleifer, American economist
(d. 2005) ·
Etelka Keserű, Hungarian economist and
politician (d. 2018) ·
Andrea
Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and
Vatican diplomat (d. 2017) ·
Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (d. 2011) ·
Jaswant Singh Neki,
Indian academic and poet (d. 2015) ·
Antônio
Agostinho Marochi, Brazilian bishop (d. 2018) ·
Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and
dancer (d. 2003) ·
José Parra Martínez,
Spanish footballer (d. 2016) ·
Philip Purser, English author and television
critic ·
Dick Cusack, American actor, filmmaker and
humorist (d. 2003) ·
Demetrio Basilio Lakas
Bahas, former President of Panama (d. 1999) ·
Chris
Anderson, Scottish footballer, educator and football administrator
(d. 1986) ·
Laurent de Brunhoff,
French writer and illustrator ·
Maurice Pialat, French actor and director
(d. 2003) ·
Katyna Ranieri, Italian actress and singer
(d. 2018) ·
Ted Schwinden, American politician ·
Pete Vonachen, American restaurateur and
baseball team owner (d. 2013) September[edit] ·
Michael J. Cleary,
Irish Roman Catholic bishop ·
Arvonne Fraser, American women's rights
activist (d. 2018) ·
September 2 – Ike Franklin Andrews,
American politician (d. 2010) ·
Shoista Mullojonova, Tajik-born Shashmakom singer (d. 2010) ·
Maureen Haughey, Irish political figure (d. 2017) ·
September 5 – Patrick Leo McCartie,
English Roman Catholic bishop ·
September 6 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer and
director ·
September 7 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (d. 1985) ·
Jacqueline Ceballos,
American feminist ·
Bat-Sheva Dagan, Polish-Israeli author,
educator and Holocaust survivor ·
Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor
(d. 1980) ·
Dick Lucas,
English minister and cleric ·
Boris Alexandrovich
Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1996) ·
September 11 – Armando Monteiro
Filho, Brazilian businessman, engineer and politician (d. 2018) ·
Stan Lopata, American professional baseball
player (d. 2013) ·
Dick Moore,
American child actor (d. 2015) ·
Marshall Flaum, American television
director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2010) ·
Mel Tormé, American musician (d. 1999) ·
September 14 – Winston Cenac, 3rd Prime Minister of Saint
Lucia (d. 2004) ·
John
Eden, Baron Eden of Winton, English politician ·
Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009) ·
Peggy Webber, American actress ·
Martha Firestone
Ford, American businesswoman ·
Eugene Garfield, American linguist and
businessman (d. 2017) ·
Charles Haughey, sixth Taoiseach (head of government of
the Republic of Ireland)
(d. 2006) ·
B.B. King, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2015) ·
Morgan Woodward, American actor ·
Pete Murray, English radio and television
presenter ·
Franklin Sousley, U.S. Marine flag raiser on
Iwo Jima (d. 1945) ·
September 20 – Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Siam
(d. 1946) ·
Angelo Acerbi, Italian Roman Catholic bishop ·
Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar and
Chinese historian (d. 2006) ·
September 24 – Autar Singh Paintal,
Indian medical scientist (d. 2004) ·
Edwin N. Lightfoot,
American chemical engineer (d. 2017) ·
Paul B. MacCready,
Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007) ·
Silvana Pampanini,
Italian actress (d. 2016) ·
September 26 – Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter
and racing driver (d. 1982) ·
September 27 – Robert G. Edwards,
British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (d. 2013) ·
Cromwell Everson, South African composer
(d. 1991) ·
Carolyn Morris, American female professional
baseball player (d. 1996) ·
September 29 – John Tower, American politician (d. 1991) ·
Joseph Hitti, Lebanese Roman Catholic bishop ·
Arkady Ostashev, Russian scientist and cosmonaut (d. 1998) October[edit] ·
Christine
Pullein-Thompson, British author (d. 2005) ·
Diana
Pullein-Thompson, British author (d. 2015) ·
Yang Hyong-sop, North Korean politician ·
Paul Goldsmith, American NASCAR driver ·
José A. Martínez
Suárez, Argentine film director and screenwriter ·
Gore Vidal, American author (d. 2012) ·
George Wein, American pianist and producer ·
October 4 – Fyodor Terentyev, Soviet Olympic
cross-country skier (d. 1963) ·
Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997) ·
Antoine Gizenga, Prime Minister of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo ·
Herbert Kretzmer, South African-English
journalist and songwriter ·
Murray Riley, Australian Olympic rower ·
October 6 – Hiroshi H. Miyamura,
American Medal of Honour recipient ·
October 7 – Mildred Earp, American female professional
baseball player ·
Álvaro Magaña,
38th President of El Salvador (d. 2001) ·
Eleanor Anne Young,
American religious sister, research scientist, and educator (d. 2007) ·
October 9 – Isyaku Rabiu, Nigerian businessman (d. 2018) ·
Anne Pippin Burnett,
American classics scholar (d. 2017) ·
Thomas F. Stroock,
American politician (d. 2009) ·
October 11 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013) ·
Lenny Bruce, American comic (d. 1966) ·
Carlos Robles Piquer,
Spanish diplomat and politician (d. 2018) ·
Margaret Thatcher, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 (d. 2013) ·
October 14 – Phillip V. Tobias,
South African palaeoanthropologist (d. 2012) ·
October 15 – Bob Rowland Smith,
Australian politician (d. 2012) ·
Daniel J. Evans, American politician ·
Angela Lansbury, English-born U.S. actress ·
Ramiz Alia, 13th President of Albania
(d. 2011) ·
N. D. Tiwari, Indian politician (d. 2018) ·
Bernard Hepton, English actor and director
(d. 2018) ·
Emilio Eduardo
Massera, Argentine Naval military officer (d. 2010) ·
Art Buchwald, American humorist and
columnist (d. 2007) ·
Hiromu Nonaka, Japanese politician (d. 2018) ·
Gene Wood, American game show announcer
(d. 2004) ·
Surjit Singh Barnala,
Indian politician (d. 2017) ·
Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer (d. 2003) ·
Virginia Zeani, Romanian soprano ·
Edith Kawelohea
McKinzie, Hawaiian genealogist, author and hula expert (d. 2014) ·
Robert Rauschenberg,
American painter and graphic artist (d. 2008) ·
Johnny Carson, American comedian and
television host (d. 2005) ·
José Freire Falcão,
Brazilian cardinal ·
Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003) ·
Al Feldstein, American artist and comic book
creator (d. 2014) ·
Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician
(d. 2013) ·
Cora Etter, American politician ·
Aliya Moldagulova,
Soviet soldier and sniper (d. 1944) ·
John J. Snyder, American Roman Catholic bishop ·
Warren Christopher,
American diplomat (d. 2011) ·
Paul Fox,
English television executive ·
Jiro Ono, Japanese chef ·
Monica Sims, English radio executive
(d. 2018) ·
Dominick Dunne, American writer (d. 2009) ·
Sir
William Gladstone, 7th Baronet, British aristocrat and Chief Scout
(d. 2018) ·
Robert Hardy, English actor (d. 2017) ·
Klaus Roth, German-born British
mathematician (d. 2015) ·
Ngaire Lane, New Zealand swimmer ·
John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2004) ·
Robert Rheault, American army officer
(d. 2013) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Arturo Lona Reyes,
Mexican Roman Catholic bishop ·
November 2 – Leif Hermansen, Danish rower ·
Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer
(d. 2018) ·
Doris Roberts, American actress (d. 2016) ·
Michel Bouquet, French actor ·
Fred B. Rooney, American politician ·
November 7 – Angelo Thomas Acerra,
American Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1990) ·
November 8 – Asunción Balaguer,
Spanish actress ·
November 9 – Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (d. 2016) ·
November 10 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor, better known
for his role in Cleopatra (d. 1984) ·
Nigel Cecil, British naval officer (d. 2017) ·
John Guillermin, British director (d. 2015) ·
June Whitfield, English actress ·
Jonathan Winters, American actor and
comedian (d. 2013) ·
November 12 – Heinz Schubert,
German actor (d. 1999) ·
Roy Medvedev, Russian writer ·
Zhores Medvedev, Russian agronomist,
biologist and historian (d. 2018) ·
Jean Faut, American baseball player ·
Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985) ·
November 18 – Gene Mauch, baseball manager (d. 2005) ·
November 19 – Zygmunt Bauman, Polish military officer,
sociologist and philosopher (d. 2017) ·
Kaye Ballard, American actress, comedian,
and singer ·
Lise Bourdin, French actress ·
Robert F. Kennedy,
American politician and Attorney
General of the United States (d. 1968) ·
Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian
ballerina (d. 2015) ·
Carla Balenda, American actress ·
Gunther Schuller, American musician
(d. 2015) ·
Miki Muster, Slovenian artist (d. 2018) ·
Gene Brito, American football Defensive end
(d. 1965) ·
José Napoleón Duarte,
Salvadoran politician, 39th President of El
Salvador (d. 1990) ·
Johnny Mandel, American composer and
conductor ·
William F.
Buckley, Jr., American journalist, author, and commentator
(d. 2008) ·
André Lévy,
French sinologist (d. 2017) ·
Simon van der Meer,
Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2011) ·
Gregorio Conrado
Álvarez, Uruguayan general and former dictator (d. 2016) ·
Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003) ·
Claude Lanzmann, French filmmaker (d. 2018) ·
John Maddox, Welsh science writer (d. 2009) ·
Marshall Thompson,
American actor (d. 1992) ·
Ernie Wise, English comedian (d. 1999) ·
Grace Berg Schaible,
American lawyer and politician (d. 2017) ·
Herb Wallerstein, American director and
producer (d. 1985) ·
November 29 – "Sunshine"
Sonny Payne, American radio presenter (d. 2018) ·
Maryon Pittman Allen,
American politician and journalist (d. 2018) ·
Donald
Collins, American politician (d. 2018) ·
Bill Gates Sr., American attorney,
philanthropist and author ·
Hayashiya Sanpei I,
Japanese comedian (d. 1980) ·
Gordon Parry,
Baron Parry, Welsh politician (d. 2004) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998) ·
December 2 – Julie
Harris, American actress (d. 2013) ·
December 3 – Erik Mørk, Danish actor (d. 1993) ·
Albert Bandura, Canadian-American
psychologist and academic ·
Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer
(d. 2009) ·
Sauro Tomà, Italian footballer (d. 2018) ·
Henri Oreiller, French Olympic alpine skier
(d. 1962) ·
Anastasio Somoza
Debayle, President of Nicaragua (d. 1980) ·
Oliver Bernard, English poet and translator
(d. 2013) ·
Shigeko Higashikuni,
Japanese princess (d. 1961) ·
December 7 – Hermano da Silva
Ramos, French-Brazilian Formula One driver ·
Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer,
musician, and actor (d. 1990) ·
Arnaldo Forlani, 43rd Prime Minister of
Italy ·
Hank Thompson,
American player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (d. 1969) ·
Aaron Feuerstein, American businessman and
philanthropist ·
John R. Gorman, American Roman Catholic bishop ·
Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
Anne V. Coates, British film editor
(d. 2018) ·
Vladimir Shainsky,
Soviet and Russian composer (d. 2017) ·
John Ehle, American writer (d. 2018) ·
Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, and
dancer ·
Trần
Thiện Khiêm, Vietnamise politician ·
Hiroshi Motoyama, Japanese scientist
(d. 2015) ·
Kasey Rogers, American actress (d. 2006) ·
Rabah Bitat, Algerian politician,
interim President of Algeria (d. 2000) ·
Tankred Dorst, German playwright (d. 2017) ·
Robert B. Sherman,
American songwriter (d. 2012) ·
December 20 – Béla Goldoványi,
Hungarian athlete (d. 1972) ·
John Harlan,
American game show announcer (d. 2017) ·
Dorothy Kamenshek,
American professional baseball player (d. 2010) ·
December 22 – Ekaterina
Mikhailova-Demina, Hero of the
Soviet Union recipient ·
Pierre Bérégovoy,
French politician, 111th Prime Minister
of France (d. 1993) ·
Harry Guardino, American actor (d. 1995) ·
Duncan Hallas, prominent member of the
Trotskyist movement in Great Britain (d. 2002) ·
December 24 – Prosper Grech, Maltese cardinal ·
Ned Garver, American professional baseball
pitcher (d. 2017) ·
Dorothy Mueller, American professional
baseball player (d. 1985) ·
December 26 – Jimmy Roselli, American singer (d. 2011) ·
Wilson Frost, American politician (d. 2018) ·
Michel Piccoli, French actor, singer,
director, and producer ·
Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and
writer (d. 2002) ·
Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005) ·
Keshav Dutt, Indian field hockey player ·
Pete Dye, American golf course architect ·
Luis Alberto Monge,
Costa Rican politician (d. 2016) ·
Shirley Herz, American Broadway theatre
(d. 2013) ·
Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor (d. 2002) ·
Frank Meisler, Israeli architect and
sculptor (d. 2018) ·
December 31 – Richard
Gordon, British producer (d. 2011) Date unknown[edit] ·
Ahmad Lozi, Prime Minister of Jordan
(d. 2014) ·
Godrej Sidhwa, Pakistani theologist
(d. 2011) ·
Shafik Wazzan, 27th Prime Minister of
Lebanon (d. 1999) Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 4 – Nellie Cashman, Irish-born prospector
(b. 1845) ·
January 6 – Rafaela Porras
Ayllón, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed and
saint (b. 1850) ·
January 8 – George Bellows, American artist (b. 1882) ·
Camille Decoppet, Swiss Federal Councilor
(b. 1852) ·
Harry Furniss, British cartoonist,
illustrator and pioneer animator (b. 1854) ·
January 16 – Aleksey Kuropatkin,
Russian general and Imperial Russian Minister of War (b. 1848) ·
Charles Lanrezac, French general (b. 1852) ·
J. M. E. McTaggart,
English philosopher (b. 1866) ·
January 22 – Fanny Bullock
Workman, American geographer, writer and mountain climber
(b. 1859)[17] ·
January 25 – Alexander Kaulbars,
Russian general and explorer (b. 1844) ·
Caspar F. Goodrich,
American admiral (b. 1847) ·
Sir James Mackenzie,
Scottish cardiologist (b. 1853) ·
January 31 – George Washington
Cable, American writer (b. 1844) February[edit] ·
February 2 – Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater (b. 1873) ·
February 3 – Oliver Heaviside, British mathematician
(b. 1850) ·
February 4 – Robert Koldewey, German architect and
archaeologist (b. 1855) ·
February 10 – Aristide Bruant, French singer and nightclub
owner (b. 1851) ·
February 11 – H. E. Beunke, Dutch writer (b. 1851) ·
February 17 – Ignacio Andrade, Venezuela military and
politician, 23rd President of
Venezuela (b. 1839) ·
February 18 – James Lane Allen, American writer (b. 1849) ·
February 21 – Fernando De Lucia,
Italian tenor (b. 1860) ·
February 23 – Samuel Berger,
American Olympic boxer (b. 1884) ·
February 24 – Hjalmar Branting, 19th Prime Minister
of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860) ·
February 25 – Louis Feuillade, French silent film director
(b. 1873) ·
February 28 – Friedrich Ebert, 1st President
of Germany (Weimar Republic) (b. 1871) March[edit] ·
March 2 – Luigj Gurakuqi, Albanian writer and
politician (b. 1879) ·
March 4 ·
Moritz Moszkowski,
Polish composer (b. 1854) ·
James Ward,
British philosopher and psychologist (b. 1843) ·
John Montgomery Ward,
American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1860) ·
March 7 – Georgy
Evgenyevich Lvov, Prime Minister
of Russia (b. 1861) ·
March 8 ·
Manuel Míguez
González, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1831) ·
Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (b. 1866) ·
March 10 – Myer Prinstein, American track athlete
(b. 1878) ·
March 12 ·
Gergely Luthár,
Hungarian Slovene writer (b. 1841) ·
Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1866) ·
March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, American silent film actress (b. 1910) ·
March 14 – Walter Camp, American football coach
(b. 1859) ·
March 19 – Nariman Narimanov,
Azerbaijani politician (b. 1870) ·
March 20 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston,
Viceroy of India (b. 1859) ·
March 28 – Henry
Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, British general (b. 1864) ·
March 30 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher
(b. 1861) April[edit] ·
April 6 – Alexandra Kitchin,
British model for Lewis Carroll (b. 1864) ·
April 7 – Patriarch
Tikhon of Moscow, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church
(b. 1865) ·
April 13 – Elwood Haynes, American inventor (b. 1857) ·
April 14 – John Singer Sargent,
American artist (b. 1856) ·
April 15 ·
August Endell, German architect (b. 1871) ·
Fritz Haarmann, German serial killer
(executed) (b. 1879) ·
April 16 – Gunther
Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg (b. 1852) ·
April 19 – John Walter Smith,
American politician (b. 1845) ·
April 22 – André Caplet, French composer and conductor
(b. 1878) May[edit] ·
May 2 ·
Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b. 1848) ·
Antun Branko
Šimić, Croatian poet (b. 1898) ·
May 3 – Clement Ader, French Army Captain and
aviation pioneer (b. 1841) ·
May 4 – Giovanni
Battista Grassi, Italian physician and zoologist (b. 1854) ·
May 7 ·
William
Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, British industrialist,
philanthropist and politician (b. 1851) ·
Doveton Sturdee, British admiral (b. 1859) ·
May 10 ·
Alexandru
Marghiloman, 25th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1854) ·
William Massey, 19th Prime Minister of New
Zealand (b. 1856) ·
May 12 ·
Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874) ·
Charles Mangin, French general (b. 1866) ·
May 13 – Alfred
Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, British politician and colonial
adminstrator (b. 1854) ·
May 14 – H. Rider Haggard, British writer (b. 1856) ·
May 15 – Nelson A. Miles, American general (b. 1839) ·
May 20 ·
Elias M. Ammons, Governor of Colorado
(b. 1860) ·
Joseph
Howard, 1st Prime Minister of
Malta (b. 1862) ·
May 21 – Hidesaburō Ueno,
Japanese agricultural scientist and guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871) ·
May 22 – John
French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British World War I field marshal
(b. 1852) ·
May 31 – John Palm, Curaçao born composer (b. 1885) June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Lucien Guitry, French actor (b. 1860) ·
Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice
President of the United States (b. 1854) ·
June 2 – James
Ellsworth, American mine owner and banker (b. 1849) ·
June 3 – Camille Flammarion,
French astronomer (b. 1842) ·
June 9 – Antony
MacDonnell, 1st Baron MacDonnell, Irish civil servant (b. 1844) ·
June 16 – Emmett Hardy, American jazz cornetist
(b. 1903) ·
June 17 – Adolf Pilar von
Pilchau, Baltic German politician, regent of the United Baltic
Duchy and baron (b. 1851) ·
June 18 – Robert M. La
Follette Sr., American politician (b. 1855) ·
June 20 – Josef Breuer, Austrian neurologist (b. 1842) ·
June 22 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849) ·
June 29 – Christian Michelsen,
Norwegian politician and 1st Prime Minister
of Norway (b. 1857) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866) ·
July 2 – Nikolai Golitsyn, last Prime Minister of the
Russian Empire (executed) (b. 1850) ·
July 4 – Pier Giorgio
Frassati, Italian Roman Catholic social activist and
blessed (b. 1901) ·
July 7 – Clarence Hudson
White American photographer (b. 1871) ·
July 14 – Pancho Villa,
Filipino world boxing champion (b. 1901) ·
July 17 – Lovis Corinth, German painter (b. 1858) ·
July 19 ·
Francisco
Jose Fernandes Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician (b. 1867) ·
John Indermaur, British lawyer (b. 1851) ·
July 26 ·
Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver
(b. 1888) ·
William Jennings
Bryan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860) ·
Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and
philosopher (b. 1848) ·
July 30 – William Wynn
Westcott, British Freemason (b. 1848) August[edit] ·
August 5 – Jennie Lee,
American actress (b. 1848) ·
August 6 – Gregorio
Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (b. 1853) ·
August 12 – Severo Fernández,
29th President of Bolivia (b. 1849) ·
August 15 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian landscape painter
(b. 1878) ·
August 17 – Ioan Slavici, Romanian writer (b. 1848) ·
August 25 – Franz Conrad
von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852) September[edit] ·
September 7 – René Viviani, 81st Prime Minister
of France (b. 1863) ·
September 16 – Alexander
Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian mathematician (b. 1888) ·
September 17 – Carl Eytel, German-American artist working
in Palm Springs,
California (b. 1862) ·
September 29 – Léon Bourgeois,
French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851) October[edit] ·
October 5 – Anna Schäffer, German Roman Catholic mystic, stigmatist and
saint (b. 1882) ·
October 7 – Christy Mathewson,
American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1880) ·
October 10 – James Buchanan Duke,
American tobacco and electric power industrialist (b. 1856) ·
October 14 – Eugen Sandow, German-born bodybuilder,
physical culturist (b. 1867) ·
October 20 – Jonah of Hankou, Russian Orthodox priest and saint
(b. 1888) ·
George
Anderson, Danish criminal (b. 1880) ·
Mikhail Frunze, Russian Bolshevik leader
(b. 1885) ·
Max Linder, French silent film actor
(b. 1883) ·
José Ingenieros,
Argentine physician, sociologist and philosopher (b. 1877) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Lester Cuneo, American actor (b. 1888) ·
November 3 – Lucile McVey, American actress, part of
comedy team with her late husband Sidney Drew (b. 1890) ·
November 5 – Sidney Reilly, Russian spy (executed) (b. c.1873) ·
November 6 – Khải
Định, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1885) ·
Queen Alexandra,
consort of Edward
VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1844) ·
Clara Morris, Victorian stage actress
(b. 1846) ·
November 21 – Robert Wrenn, American tennis player
(b. 1873) ·
November 24 – Margaret Sinclair,
British nun and venerable (b. 1900) ·
November 25 – King Vajiravudh of Siam (b. 1880) December[edit] ·
Wilhelmina Drucker,
Dutch politician and writer (b. 1847) ·
Władysław
Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1867) ·
December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, American actress (b. 1888) ·
December 9 – Pablo Iglesias,
co-founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (b. 1850) ·
December 13 – Antonio Maura, Spanish conservative
politician, 5-time Prime Minister of
Spain (b. 1853) ·
December 15 – Battling Siki, Senegalese boxer (b. 1897) ·
December 19 – José Ignacio Quintón,
Puerto Rican composer and pianist (b. 1881) ·
Lottie Lyell, Australian female pioneer film
director and producer (b. 1890) ·
Jules Méline, French statesman, 50th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1838) ·
Alice, Princess Dowager of Monaco, consort
of Albert I of Monaco (b. 1858) ·
Mary Thurman, American actress (b. 1895) ·
December 25 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877) ·
Raymond P. Rodgers,
American admiral (b. 1849) ·
Sergei
Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet (b. 1895) ·
December 29 – Félix Vallotton,
Swiss painter (b. 1865) ·
December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards,
Canadian film director (b. 1867) Date unknown[edit] ·
Emma Curtis Hopkins,
American spiritual writer (b. 1849) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz ·
Chemistry – Richard Adolf
Zsigmondy ·
Physiology
or Medicine – not awarded ·
Literature – George Bernard Shaw ·
Peace – Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes References[edit] 1.
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