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1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on
Sunday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1928th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 928th year of the 2nd millennium, the 28th year of
the 20th century,
and the 9th year of the 1920s decade. A 1928 Ford Model A Contents ·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1928 ·
January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports
the results of Griffith's
experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.[1][2] ·
Estonia changes its currency from
the mark to
the kroon. ·
Abolition of domestic slavery in the British Protectorate
of Sierra Leone comes
into effect.[3] ·
Eastern
Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, crosses
the border to Iran to defect from the Soviet Union. ·
January 6–7 – The River Thames floods in
London; 14 drown. On January 7, the moat at
the Tower of London(drained
in 1843 and planted with grass) is completely refilled by the river. ·
January 12 – Convicted American
murderer Ruth Snyder is
executed at Sing Sing. ·
January 17 – The OGPU arrests Leon Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a
status of passive resistance. ·
January 26 – The volcanic island Anak Krakatau appears.[4][5] ·
January 31 – Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata. February[edit] Main article: February 1928 ·
February 8 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts
a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York.[6] ·
February 11–19 – The 1928 Winter Olympics are
held in St. Moritz,
Switzerland, the first as a separate event. Sonja Henie of Norway wins her
first gold medal, in
women's figure skating. ·
February 12 – Heavy hail kills
11 in Britain. ·
February 20 – The Japanese
general election produces a hung parliament. ·
February 25 – Charles
Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C., becomes the first
holder of a television license from the Federal Radio
Commission. March[edit] Main article: March 1928 ·
March 12 – In California, the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles
fails, killing 600. ·
March 15 ·
March 15 incident:
The Japanese government cracks down on socialists and communists. ·
Chinese warlord Shi Yousan sets
fire to the Shaolin Monastery in Henan, destroying some of its ancient
structures and artifacts.[7] ·
March 21 – Charles Lindbergh is
presented with the Medal of Honor for
his first transatlantic flight. ·
March 26 – The China Academy of Art is
founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art). April[edit] Main article: April 1928 ·
April 10 – Pineapple Primary:
The United States Republican
Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by violence,
bombings and assassination attempts (two politicians are killed, Octavius C. Granady and Giuseppe Esposito). ·
April 12 – A bomb attack against
Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini in Milan kills 17
bystanders. ·
April 13 – The West Plains,
Missouri Dance Hall explosion occurs.[8] ·
April 12–14 – The first ever east–west transatlantic flight by
aeroplane takes place from Dublin, Ireland, to Greenly Island,
Canada, using the German Junkers W 33 Bremen. ·
April 14 – Two earthquakes in Chirpan and Plovdiv, Bulgaria destroy more than 21,000 buildings,
and kill almost 130 people. ·
April 19 – The last section ("wise
– wyze") of the original Oxford English
Dictionary is completed and published.[9] ·
April 22 – An Ms 6.0 earthquake affects southern
Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 20
dead, and destroying 3,000 homes in Corinth; a non-destructive tsunami is also
observed. ·
April 28 – 28 inches of snow fall
in southern-central Pennsylvania.[10] May[edit] Main article: May 1928 ·
May 3 – Jinan incident: An armed conflict between
the Imperial Japanese
Army (allied with Northern Chinese warlords against the Kuomintang's southern army) occurs in Jinan, China. ·
May 7 – Passage of the Representation of the People Act in the
United Kingdom lowers the voting age for women from 30 to 21, giving them
equal suffrage with men from July 2.[11] ·
May 10 – The first regular schedule of
television programming begins in Schenectady,
New York, by General Electric's
television station W2XB (the station is
popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio station WGY). ·
May 15 ·
The Royal
Flying Doctor Service of Australia commences operations. ·
The animated short Plane Crazy is released by Disney Studios in
Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse (in a non-distributed
film). ·
May 23 – A bomb attack against the
Italian consulate in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, kills 22 and injures 43. ·
May 24 – The airship Italia crashes at
the North Pole; one of the occupants is Italian
general Umberto Nobile.
A rescue expedition leaves for the Pole on May 30. ·
May 30 – Rookie driver Louis Meyer wins his first Indianapolis 500 (he will win that race
again, in 1933 and 1936). South African flag ·
May 31 – South Africa adopts a new
national flag, based upon the Van Riebeeck flag or Prinsevlag (originally the Dutch flag), to replace
the Red Ensign. June[edit] Main article: June 1928 ·
June 3 – American serial killer Albert Fish kidnaps and kills
10-year-old Grace Budd. ·
June 4 – Huanggutun incident: Zhang Zuolin, a
warlord, is killed by Japanese agents in China. ·
June 8 – By seizing Beijing and
renaming it Běipíng, the National
Revolutionary Army puts an end to the 'Fengtian warlords' Beiyang government there. ·
June 9 ·
Australian aviator Charles Kingsford
Smith and his crew complete the first flight across the Pacific Ocean, from the mainland United
States to Australia, in the Fokker F.VII aircraft Southern Cross.
Having left Oakland, California on May 31, they reach Brisbane via Honolulu and Fiji. ·
Ellis Park Stadium,
a well-known sport venue of South Africa, officially opens in Johannesburg.[12] ·
June 11 – A medical doctors' strike
begins in Vienna. ·
June 14 – Students take over the
medical wing of Rosario University in Argentina. ·
June 17–18 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman
to make a successful transatlantic flight,
as a passenger in a Fokker F.VIIb/3m
piloted by Wilmer Stultz,
from Newfoundland to
Wales. ·
June 20 – Puniša Račić kills three
opposition representatives in the Yugoslavian Parliament, and injures
three others, in a gun attack. ·
June 24 – A Swedish aeroplane
rescues part of the Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile.
The Soviet icebreaker Krasin saves the rest July 12. ·
June 28 ·
The keel of the first 1,000 ft (300
m)-long ocean liner, Oceanic,
for the British White Star Line,
is laid by Harland and Wolff in Belfast; construction is delayed, and
cancelled on 23 July 1929. ·
The International
Railway (New York–Ontario) switches to one-man crews, for
its trolleys in Canada. ·
June 29 – At the 1928
Democratic National Convention in Houston, Governor of New York Al Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political
party for President of the United States. July[edit] Main article: July 1928 ·
July 2 – Charles
Jenkins Laboratories' W3XK station
begins broadcasting on 6.42 MHz, using 48 lines. ·
July 3 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates
the world's first colour television transmission in
Glasgow.[13] ·
July 7 – The first machine-sliced and
machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe,
Missouri, using Otto Frederick Rohwedder's
technology. ·
July 12 – Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza dies in a solo plane
crash in the New Jersey Pine
Barrens, while returning from a goodwill flight to New York City. ·
July 17 – José de León Toral assassinates Álvaro Obregón,
president of Mexico. ·
July 25 – The United States recalls its
troops from China. ·
July 27 ·
English cricketer Tich Freeman becomes
the only bowler ever
to take 200 first-class wickets,
before the end of July. ·
Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of
Loneliness, with its theme of lesbian love, is published in London. ·
July 28 – August 12 – The 1928 Summer Olympics are
held in Amsterdam, opening
with the lighting of the Olympic flame. Women's athletics and gymnastics debut at these games,
and discus thrower Halina Konopacka of
Poland becomes the first female Olympic gold medal winner for a track or
field event. Coca-Cola enters
Europe as sponsor of the games. August[edit] Main article: August 1928 ·
August 2 – Italy and Ethiopia sign the Italo-Ethiopian
Treaty. ·
August 16 – Serial killer Carl Panzram is
arrested in Washington, D.C., for burglary. According to his confession,
"In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed
thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and, last
but not least, I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human
beings. For all these things I am not in the least bit sorry." ·
August 22 – Al Smith accepts the Democratic presidential
nomination, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio
and television. ·
August 25 – Ahmet Zogu
proclaims himself King Zog of Albania;
he is crowned September 1. ·
August 26 – In Scotland, May Donoghue
finds the remains of a snail in her ginger beer, leading to the landmark negligence case Donoghue v Stevenson.[14] ·
August 27 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact is
signed in Paris, the first treaty to outlaw aggressive war. ·
August 29 – C.D. Motagua is
founded as an association football club
in Honduras. ·
August 31 – The Threepenny Opera (German: Die Dreigroschenoper), by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, opens at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin. September[edit] Main article: September 1928 ·
Ahmet Zogu,
President of the Albanian Republic,
declares the country to be a constitutional monarchy, the Albanian
Kingdom, with himself as King Zog I. ·
Richard E. Byrd leaves New York for the
Arctic. ·
Philo Farnsworth demonstrates to the
press in San Francisco the
world's first working all-electronic
television system, employing electronic scanning in both the
pickup and display devices.[15][16] ·
Scotsman, Alexander Fleming,
at St Mary's
Hospital, London, accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic Penicillin.[17] ·
September 11 – The Queen's
Messenger is the first melodrama broadcast by Ernst F. W.
Alexanderson at W2XAD (Schenectady, New
York); WMAK (Kenmore)
begins broadcasting in Buffalo, New York. ·
September 12 – The Okeechobee
hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing 1,200 people. ·
September 15 – Tich Freeman sets
an all-time record, for the number of wickets taken in an English cricket season. ·
September 16 – The Okeechobee
hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida. ·
September 25 – Paul and Joseph
Galvin incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation
(later known as Motorola and Freescale). ·
September 28 – Scotsman, Sir Alexander Fleming notices
a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later
becomes known as penicillin. October[edit] Main article: October 1928 ·
October 1 – Joseph Stalin launches the first five-year plan (1928–1932);
the average nonfarm wage falls by 50% in the Soviet Union). ·
Josemaría Escrivá founds Opus Dei. ·
Arvid Lindman returns
as Prime Minister of
Sweden, with his right-wing rival Ernst Trygger as Foreign
Minister of Sweden. ·
October 7 – Haile Selassie is crowned king (not yet
emperor) of Abyssinia. ·
October 8 – Chiang Kai-shek is named as Generalissimo (Chairman of the National
Military Council) of the Nationalist Government of
the Republic of China. ·
October 12 – An iron lung respirator
is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. ·
October 19 – William Edward
Hickman is executed at San Quentin
State Prison, for the 1927 murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker. ·
October 20- Lilian Slowik
was born. ·
October 22 – The Phi Sigma Alpha Fraternity is founded
at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. ·
October 26 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM)
is formally established, with the adoption of the "Statutes of the International Red
Cross"* ·
Glenn Miller and Helen Burger marry
in New York City. ·
The Second Youth Congress is held
in Batavia, Dutch East Indies by
young Indonesian nationalists, resulting in
the Youth Pledge.[18] The Indonesian
national anthem, "Indonesia Raya",
is introduced at the congress.[19] November[edit] Main article: November 1928 ·
November 1 – Turkey passes a law switching the
country from the Arabic to
the Latin-based modern Turkish alphabet. ·
November 4 – Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most
notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game in a Manhattan hotel. ·
November 6 – United
States presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin,
over Democratic New
York Governor Al Smith. ·
The enthronement ceremony of Emperor of Japan Hirohito is held, two years after he
actually took the imperial throne on December 26, 1926,
following the death of Emperor Taishō. ·
The MGM lion roars for
the first time, at the beginning of the film White
Shadows in the South Seas. ·
November 12 – The SS Vestris develops
a severe starboard list, is abandoned and sinks approximately 200 miles
off Hampton Roads,
Virginia; estimated deaths range from 110-127. ·
Australian
federal election, 1928: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is
re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the Labor Partyled by James Scullin. ·
Boston Garden opens in Boston,
Massachusetts. ·
November 18 – Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the third Mickey Mouse
cartoon released, but the first sound film and the first such film to
be generally distributed. ·
November 22 – The one-movement ballet Boléro (music
by Maurice Ravel,
choreography by Bronislava Nijinska) premières at the Paris Opéra, to a commission by Ida Rubinstein. December[edit] Main article: December 1928 ·
December 3 – In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sent to greet Alberto
Santos-Dumont crashes near Cap Arcona, killing
all on board. ·
December 6 – The government of Colombia
sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers,
resulting in an unknown number of deaths. ·
December 21 – The United States
Congress approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later
renamed Hoover Dam. Date unknown[edit] ·
The Ford River Rouge
Complex at Dearborn, Michigan,
an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the
world's largest integrated factory. ·
Eliot Ness begins to lead the prohibition unit in Chicago. ·
The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered. ·
Margaret Mead's influential cultural
anthropology text, Coming of Age in
Samoa, is published in the U.S. ·
The Episcopal Church in the United States of America ratifies
a new revision of the Book of Common
Prayer. ·
W2XBS, RCA's
first television station, is established in New York City. Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
Abdul Sattar Edhi,
Pakistani philanthropist (d. 2016) ·
Gerhard Weinberg, German-American
diplomatic, military historian ·
Avie Bennett, Canadian businessman,
philanthropist (d. 2017) ·
Howard Caine, American character actor
(d. 1993) ·
Alberto Zedda,
Italian conductor, musicologist (d. 2017) ·
Robert Goralski,
American journalist (d. 1988) ·
Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese religious leader, 3rd President of Soka Gakkai ·
Ellen Kaarma,
Estonian actress (d. 1973) ·
Vaughn Beals,
American businessman (d. 2018) ·
Prince Karl of Leiningen, (d. 1990) ·
Kate Molale, South
African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1980) ·
Dan Rostenkowski, American politician
from Illinois (d. 2010) ·
Michael
Barratt, English television presenter and announcer ·
Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, Malaysian politician (d. 2015) ·
Jan Kmenta,
Czech-American economist (d. 2016) ·
January 4 – Maurice Rigobert Marie-Sainte, Martinique Roman
Catholic clergyman (d. 2017) ·
Denise Bryer,
English voice actress ·
Girish Chandra
Saxena, Indian politician (d. 2017) ·
Qian Qichen,
Chinese diplomat, politician (d. 2017) ·
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President of
Pakistan and Prime Minister
of Pakistan (d. 1979) ·
Walter Mondale, Democratic U.S.
Senator, 42nd Vice
President of the United States and Presidential candidate ·
İsmet Sezgin,
Turkish politician (d. 2016) ·
George H. Ross, American businessman ·
Carlos Manga, Brazilian film director
(d. 2015) ·
William Peter Blatty, American writer (The Exorcist) (d. 2017) ·
Emilio Pericoli,
Italian singer (d. 2013) ·
Benny Woit,
Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2016) ·
Bab Christensen, Norwegian actress (d. 2017) ·
Slade Gorton, American Republican politician ·
January 9 – Domenico Modugno,
Italian singer, songwriter, actor and politician (d. 1994) ·
January 10 – Philip Levine,
American poet (d. 2015) ·
Mitchell Ryan, American actor ·
David L. Wolper,
American television producer (d. 2010) ·
January 13 – Bengt Gustavsson,
Swedish footballer, manager (d. 2017) ·
Lauch Faircloth, American politician ·
Ali Akbar Moinfar, Iranian politician (d. 2018) ·
James G. March, American sociologist
(d. 2018) ·
Joanne Linville, American actress ·
William Henry
Draper III, American venture capitalist ·
William Kennedy,
American author ·
Sidney Kimmel, American philanthropist, film
producer (Sidney Kimmel
Entertainment) ·
Pilar Lorengar,
Spanish soprano (d. 1996) ·
Amelia Vargas, Cuban actress, dancer ·
Ken Archer, Australian cricketer ·
Roman Frister,
Polish writer (d. 2015) ·
Jean Barraqué,
French composer (d. 1973) ·
Vidal Sassoon, English hairdresser (d. 2012) ·
January 18 – Terence
Higgins, Baron Higgins, English athlete, politician ·
January 19 – Mauro Panaggio,
American basketball coach (d. 2018) ·
January 20 – Malang, Filipino artist (d. 2017) ·
Abraham S. Fischler, American academic (d. 2017) ·
Gene Sharp, American political theorist of
nonviolent action (d. 2018) ·
Reynaldo Bignone,
45th President of
Argentina (d. 2018) ·
Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian
(d. 2004) ·
Birch Bayh, American Democratic politician ·
Chico Carrasquel,
Venezuelan Major League
Baseball player (d. 2005) ·
Jeanne Moreau, French actress (d. 2017) ·
Desmond Morris, English anthropologist and
writer ·
Michel Serrault,
French actor (d. 2007) ·
Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer (d. 2006) ·
Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian politician, 2nd President of Georgia (d. 2014) ·
Jérôme Choquette, Canadian lawyer, politician
(d. 2017) ·
January 26 – Roger Vadim, French film director (d. 2000) ·
January 27 – Hans Modrow, East
German Premier ·
January 28 – Jorge Zorreguieta, Argentine businessman, politician
(d. 2017) ·
January 28 – Peter Byrne,
English actor, director (d. 2018) ·
Mitch Leigh, American musical theatrrical composer, producer (d. 2014) ·
Harold Prince, American stage producer,
director ·
Miltinho,
Brazilian singer (d. 2014) ·
Newman Darby, American inventor (d. 2016) February[edit] ·
Sam Edwards,
Welsh physicist (d. 2015) ·
Tom Lantos, American politician (d. 2008) ·
Stuart Whitman, American film, television
actor ·
Ciriaco De Mita,
Italian politician ·
Felix Pirani, British theoretical physicist
(d. 2015) ·
February 3 – Frankie Vaughan, British singer (d. 1999) ·
Kim Yong-nam,
North Korean politician ·
Vincent Wong,
British actor (d. 2015) ·
February 5 – Andrew Greeley, American Catholic priest,
fiction novelist (d. 2013) ·
February 8 – Gene Lees, Canadian biographer, lyricist
(d. 2010) ·
George
Brady, Czech-Canadian businessman and Holocaust survivor ·
Frank Frazetta,
American illustrator (d. 2010) ·
Rinus Michels, Dutch
association football player, coach (d. 2005) ·
Roger Mudd, American journalist ·
Alma Adamkienė, Lithuanian-American
philologist, philanthropist and First Lady of Lithuania ·
Sissel Sellæg, Norwegian
actress (d. 2014) ·
February 13 – Refik Erduran,
Turkish playwright, columnist and writer (d. 2017) ·
Sergey Kapitsa, Russian physicist,
demographer (d. 2012) ·
Norman Bridwell, American cartoonist
(d. 2014) ·
February 15 – Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban militant (d. 2018) ·
February 16 – Porfi Jiménez,
Dominican-Venezuelan musician (d. 2010) ·
February 17 – Tom Jones,
American lyricist ·
February 18 – John Ostrom, American paleontologist
(d. 2005) ·
February 19 – Onuora Nzekwu,
Nigerian writer (d. 2017) ·
Jean Kennedy Smith,
American diplomat ·
Friedrich Wetter, German Catholic cardinal ·
February 21 – Cecil Sandford, English motorcycle racer ·
Sir Bruce Forsyth, English entertainer (d. 2017) ·
Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, Indian scientist, writer, and
administrator (d. 2017) ·
David
Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer (d. 2017) ·
Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver
(d. 1973) ·
Vasily Lazarev, Russian
cosmonaut (d. 1990) ·
February 24 – Naqsh Lyallpuri,
Indian ghazal (d. 2017) ·
February 25 – Paul Elvstrøm,
Danish yachtsman (d. 2016) ·
Fats Domino, African-American musician
(d. 2017) ·
Anatoly Filipchenko, Russian cosmonaut ·
Garamond Sharon, 11th Prime Minister
of Israel (d. 2014) ·
February 27 – Cláudio Correia e
Castro [pt], Brazilian actor
(d. 2005) ·
Joss Ackland,
British actor ·
Michael Henshall, English bishop (d. 2017) March[edit] ·
March 1 – Jacques Rivette,
French filmmaker (d. 2016) ·
March 3 ·
Diane Foster, Canadian athlete ·
Gudrun Pausewang,
German young fiction writer ·
March 4 ·
Samuel Adler,
American composer ·
Alan Sillitoe, English writer (d. 2010) ·
March 6 ·
Delbert Daisey, American waterfowl wood
carver, decoy maker (d. 2017) ·
Zoe Ducós,
Argentine actress (d. 2002) ·
Dan Towler,
American football player (d. 2001) ·
March 7 ·
William Blankenship,
American operatic tenor (d. 2017) ·
Arthur Dion Hanna,
Bahamian politician ·
Edgar Elbakyan,
Armenian actor (d. 1988) ·
March 8 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990) ·
March 9 ·
Robert Adeyinka
Adebayo, Nigerian politician, military officer (d. 2017) ·
Keely Smith, American singer (d. 2017) ·
March 10 ·
Sara Montiel, Spanish singer, actress
(d. 2013) ·
Kiyoshi Atsumi,
Japanese actor (d. 1996) ·
James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998) ·
March 11 – Sandy Mactaggart, Scottish-Canadian educator
and philanthropist (d. 2017) ·
March 12 ·
Edward Albee, American dramatist (d. 2016) ·
Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007) ·
March 13 – Douglas Rain, Canadian actor and narrator
(d. 2018) ·
March 14 ·
Frank Borman, American astronaut ·
Félix Rodríguez
de la Fuente, Spanish naturalist, broadcaster (d. 1980) ·
Earl Smith,
American baseball center fielder (d. 2014) ·
March 16 ·
Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian
actor (d. 2014) ·
Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2010) ·
Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano ·
Victor Maddern,
English actor (d. 1993) ·
March 17 – Eunice Gayson,
English actress (d. 2018) ·
March 18 ·
Lennart Carleson,
Swedish mathematician ·
Julia Mullock,
American-Korean royal (d. 2017) ·
Fidel Valdez Ramos, 12th President of
the Philippines ·
José María Setién, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate
(d. 2018) ·
Mirka Mora, French-Australian artist, cultural
figure (d. 2018) ·
March 19 ·
John Hall Buchanan
Jr., American politician (d. 2018) ·
Arthur Cook,
American sport shooter ·
Dequinha,
Brazilian footballer (d. 1997) ·
Sutanto Djuhar,
Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneur (d. 2018) ·
Hans Küng, Swiss
Roman Catholic theologian ·
Marceline Loridan-Ivens, French writer, film director
and Holocaust survivor (d. 2018) ·
Patrick McGoohan,
American-born British-based actor of Irish descent (d. 2009) ·
Clive van Ryneveld, South African cricketer (d. 2018) ·
March 20 ·
Frank Deem, American businessman and politician
(d. 2018) ·
Fred Rogers, American children's television
host (d. 2003) ·
March 21 – Surya Bahadur Thapa,
24th Prime Minister of
Nepal (d. 2015) ·
March 23 ·
Alf Morris, British politician (d. 2012) ·
Raymond Wilson,
English physicist (d. 2018) ·
March 24 ·
Ivar Aronsson,
Swedish rower (d. 2017) ·
Byron Janis, American pianist ·
Mel Rosen, American track and field coach
(d. 2018) ·
March 25 ·
Aubrey Dunn Sr., American politician
(d. 2012) ·
Jim Lovell, American astronaut ·
Hans
Steinbrenner, German sculptor (d. 2008) ·
March 28 ·
Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Polish-born American National Security Advisor (d. 2017) ·
Alexander Grothendieck, German-born mathematician
(d. 2014) ·
March 29 – Vincent Gigante, American Mafia gangster (d. 2005) ·
March 30 ·
Lilia Prado, Mexican actress, dancer
(d. 2006) ·
Robert Badinter,
French lawyer, politician ·
March 31 ·
Lefty Frizzell, American country music
performer (d. 1975) ·
Gordie Howe, Canadian hockey player (d. 2016) ·
Paul Carlson, American physician, medical
missionary (d. 1964) April[edit] ·
April 1 – George Grizzard, American actor (d. 2007) ·
April 2 ·
Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991) ·
Piet Römer, Dutch
actor (d. 2012) ·
April 3 ·
Don Gibson, American country music
singer-songwriter (d. 2003) ·
Jennifer Paterson,
English chef, actress, and television personality (d. 1999) ·
April 4 ·
Estelle Harris, American actress ·
Maya Angelou, African-American poet,
novelist (d. 2014) ·
Iakovos Garmatis,
Greek-born American Orthodox hierarch (d. 2017) ·
April 6 ·
Joi Lansing, American actress (d. 1972) ·
James D. Watson, American geneticist;
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
April 7 ·
James Garner, American actor, producer
(d. 2014) ·
Alan J. Pakula,
American producer, director (d. 1998) ·
James White,
Irish writer (d. 1999) ·
Valeria Sabel,
Italian actress (d. 2009) ·
April 8 ·
Eric Porter, English actor (d. 1995) ·
Algimantas Nasvytis,
Lithuanian architect (d. 2018) ·
April 9 ·
Floyd Spence, American politician (d. 2001) ·
Tom Lehrer, American songwriter, satirist ·
April 10 ·
Kenneth Earl
Hurlburt, Canadian politician (d. 2016) ·
Ashok Mitra, Indian economist, politician
(d. 2018) ·
April 11 – Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy ·
April 12 ·
Hardy Krüger,
German actor ·
Jean-François Paillard, French conductor (d. 2013) ·
April 14 – Egil Monn-Iversen,
Norwegian composer, pianist (d. 2017) ·
April 15 – Vida Alves, Brazilian actress (d. 2017) ·
April 17 ·
Cynthia Ozick,
American writer ·
Victor Lownes,
American businessman (d. 2017) ·
April 18 ·
Karl Josef Becker,
German cardinal (d. 2015) ·
Mikio Sato, Japanese mathematician ·
April 19 ·
Richard Garwin,
American physicist ·
Alexis Korner, British musician (d. 1984) ·
Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak, King of Malaysia
(d. 2014) ·
April 20 – Robert Byrne,
American chess player (d. 2013) ·
April 23 ·
Shirley Temple, American actress and
diplomat (d. 2014) ·
Olga Harmony, Mexican playwright (d. 2018) ·
April 24 – Tommy Docherty, Scottish footballer, manager ·
April 25 ·
Jack Fitzmaurice, English professional
snooker player (d. 2005) ·
Cy Twombly, American artist (d. 2011) ·
April 27 ·
Brigitte Auber, French actress ·
Fred Weintraub, American film, television
producer (d. 2017) ·
April 28 – Yves Klein, French artist (d. 1962) May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Sonny James, American country singer
(d. 2016) ·
Sisavath Keobounphanh,
13th Prime Minister of Laos ·
Delfim Netto, Brazilian
economist, former Minister of Finance, Agriculture, and Planning of Brazil,
professor and congressman ·
Marcelo Pinto Carvalheira, Roman Catholic archbishop
(d. 2017) ·
Desmond Titterington, British race car driver
(d. 2002) ·
May 2 ·
Georges-Arthur
Goldschmidt, French writer, German translator ·
Hans Trass,
Estonian ecologist, botanist (d. 2017) ·
May 3 ·
Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003) ·
Jacques-Louis Lions,
French mathematician (d. 2001) ·
May 4 ·
Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter
(d. 2006) ·
Elemér Hankiss,
Hungarian sociologist, philosopher (d. 2015) ·
Hosni Mubarak, 4th President of Egypt ·
Betsy Rawls, American golfer ·
Wolfgang von Trips,
German racing driver (d. 1961) ·
Joseph Tydings,
American lawyer and politician (d. 2018) ·
May 5 ·
Richard Schaal,
American actor (d. 2014) ·
Marshall Grant, American musician (d. 2011) ·
May 7 – John Ingle, American actor (d. 2012) ·
May 8 ·
Gregory Scarpa, American mobster (d. 1994) ·
Theodore Sorenson,
American lawyer, speechwriter (d. 2010) ·
May 9 ·
Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (d. 1995) ·
Barbara Ann Scott,
Canadian figure skater (d. 2012) ·
Jean Smith,
American professional baseball player (d. 2011) ·
May 10 ·
Mel Lewis, American jazz drummer, band
leader (d. 1990) ·
Lothar Schmid, German chess player (d. 2013) ·
Arnold Rüütel, President of Estonia ·
May 11 ·
Dulce Figueiredo,
First Lady of Brazil (d. 2011) ·
Arthur Foulkes, Former Governor-General
of the Bahamas ·
May 12 ·
Burt Bacharach, American composer ·
Manuel Lujan Jr., American politician ·
May 13 ·
Enrique Bolaños,
former President of Nicaragua ·
Édouard Molinaro,
French film director, screenwriter (d. 2013) ·
Eugène Van Roosbroeck, Belgian racing cyclist (d. 2018) ·
Jim Shoulders, American rodeo cowboy
(d. 2007) ·
May 14 – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian amateur heavyweight boxer
(d. 2012) ·
May 16 – Billy Martin, American baseball player,
manager (d. 1989) ·
May 18 – Pernell Roberts, American actor (d. 2010) ·
May 19 ·
Klara Berkovich,
Soviet-American violinist ·
Dolph Schayes, American
basketball player (d. 2015) ·
May 22 – T. Boone Pickens, American businessman ·
May 23 ·
Jeannie Carson, English actress, comedian ·
Rosemary Clooney, American singer, actress
(d. 2002) ·
May 24 ·
Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer,
cutter (d. 2015) ·
William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright
and short story writer (d. 2016) ·
Jacobo Zabludovsky,
Mexican journalist (d. 2015) ·
Leonard B. Sand, American judge (d. 2016) ·
May 25 – Mary Wells Lawrence,
American advertising executive ·
May 26 – Jack Kevorkian, American right-to-die
advocate (d. 2011) ·
May 29 – George A. Sinner, American politician
(d. 2018) ·
May 30 – Agnès Varda,
Belgian-born French director, producer and screenwriter June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Georgi Dobrovolski, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1971) ·
Bob Monkhouse, English comedian, game show
host (d. 2003) ·
June 3 ·
Donald Judd, American artist (d. 1994) ·
John Richard Reid,
New Zealand cricketer ·
June 4 – Ruth Westheimer, German-American sex
therapist, film and television personality, and author ·
June 5 – Tony Richardson, English film, theater
director (d. 1991) ·
June 6 ·
George Deukmejian,
American Republican politician (d. 2018) ·
Ed Fury, American actor, bodybuilder and
model ·
Elio Sgreccia,
Italian cardinal ·
June 7 ·
Bernard F. Burke, American astronomer
(d. 2018) ·
James Ivory, American director, screenwriter
and producer ·
June 9 – Dawn Hampton, American cabaret, jazz singer,
saxophonist, dancer and songwriter (d. 2016) ·
June 10 – Maurice Sendak, American children's author,
illustrator (d. 2012) ·
June 11 – Queen Fabiola of
Belgium, Spanish Queen Consort of King Baudouin of
Belgium (d. 2014) ·
June 12 ·
Vic Damone,
American singer (d. 2018) ·
Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician, diplomat ·
Richard M. Sherman,
American songwriter ·
June 13 ·
Giacomo Biffi,
Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 2015) ·
John Forbes Nash Jr.,
American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Economics (d. 2015) ·
June 14 – Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la
Serna (aka Che Guevara),
Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary (d. 1967) ·
June 16 – Annie Cordy, Belgian actress and singer ·
June 17 – Juan María Bordaberry, Uruguayan dictator (d. 2011) ·
June 18 – Michael Blakemore,
Australian actor, director ·
June 19 ·
Tommy DeVito,
American musician, former guitarist of The Four Seasons ·
Jacques Dupont,
French Olympic cyclist ·
Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000) ·
June 20 ·
William Berger,
Austrian-born American actor (d. 1993) ·
Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician
(d. 1964) ·
Martin Landau, American actor (d. 2017) ·
Jean-Marie Le Pen,
French intelligence officer, far-right politician ·
June 21 ·
Charles D.
Baker, American businessman, former U.S. government official ·
Margit Bara, Hungarian actress (d. 2016) ·
Avraham Bendori,
Israeli footballer ·
Wolfgang Haken, German mathematician ·
Fiorella Mari, Brazilian-Italian actress ·
Al Mengert, American
former professional golfer ·
June 22 ·
Alfred M. Gray, Jr.,
American general ·
Kiyohara
Kiyoshi [ja], Japanese journalist ·
Ralph Waite, American actor, political
activist (The Waltons)
(d. 2014) ·
June 23 ·
Aída Judith León, First Lady of
Ecuador ·
Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician ·
Leon Fleischer, American concert pianist ·
Ray Hyman, American Professor Emeritus of
Psychology ·
Pete Ladygo,
American football player (d. 2014) ·
June 24 ·
Wolfgang Altenburg,
German general ·
Lester Grinspoon, American Associate
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School ·
Lawrence A. Skantze, United States Air Force general ·
Ivan Štraus,
Bosnian architect ·
June 25 ·
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov,
Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2017) ·
Michel Brault, Canadian cinematographer,
cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer (d. 2013) ·
Robert Dean Hunter,
American politician ·
Edwin Mills,
American economist ·
John A. Wickham Jr.,
United States Army military officer ·
June 26 ·
Samuel Belzberg, Canadian businessman,
philanthropist (d. 2018) ·
Danford B. Greene, American actor (d. 2015) ·
Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor ·
Bill Sheffield, 5th Governor of Alaska ·
June 27 ·
Edward B. Cottingham,
American politician ·
Lin Ho-ming,
Taiwanese former sports shooter ·
Antoinette Spaak, Belgian politician ·
June 28 ·
Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat, politician ·
Harold Evans, British newspaper editor ·
Patrick Hemingway,
second son of American author Ernest Hemingway ·
June 29 ·
Bill Bagley, American politician ·
Alfredo Biondi, Italian policitian,
lawyer ·
Hans Cavalli-Björkman, Swedish lawyer ·
James Lincoln
Collier, American journalist, professional musician and author ·
Uri Gallin,
Israeli Olympic discus thrower ·
Jean-Louis Pesch,
French writer ·
Nick Testa, American professional baseball
catcher, coach ·
Gene Verble,
American shortstop (d. 2017) ·
June 30 ·
Tony Conyers, British journalist (d. 2011) ·
Nathaniel Tarn, American poet, essayist,
anthropologist and translator July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Karim Allawi Homaidi, Iraqi football player ·
Jim Hankinson, English footballer (d. 2016) ·
Robert Wemyss,
Australian football (soccer) player ·
Andreas Aarflot,
Norwegian theologian, bishop emeritus in the Church of Norway ·
Birgitta Ulfsson,
Finnish actress (d. 2017) ·
Gunnar Möller,
German television, film actor (d. 2017) ·
Ram Naresh Yadav, Indian politician
(d. 2016) ·
July 2 ·
Iven Carl
Kincheloe Jr., American Korean War fighter ace, test pilot
(d. 1958) ·
Tatyana Piletskaya, Soviet, Russian film, stage
actress ·
Line Renaud, French actress ·
July 3 ·
Evelyn Anthony, British female writer
(d. 2018) ·
Georges-Jean Arnaud,
French author ·
Pierrette Bloch, Swiss painter, textile artist
(d. 2017) ·
Roger Horchow, American broadway
producer ·
Raymond Setlakwe,
Canadian entrepreneur, lawyer, and politician ·
July 4 ·
Eugenia Viteri,
Ecuadorian novelist, anthologist and teacher ·
Giampiero Boniperti,
Italian football player ·
Constantin Enache,
Romanian cross country skier (d. 2017) ·
Teofisto Guingona, Jr., 13th Vice President of the
Philippines ·
Patrick Tilley, British science fiction
author ·
July 5 ·
Lorraine Fisher, American professional
baseball player (d. 2007) ·
Juris Hartmanis,
Latvian-born American computer scientist, computational theorist ·
Ernie Kell, American politician (d. 2017) ·
Pierre Mauroy,
Prime Minister of France (d. 2013) ·
Bruce Nickells,
American harness racing driver, trainer ·
July 6 ·
Antony Hignell,
English cricketer, javelin thrower (d. 2015) ·
Richard R. Larson,
American politician ·
Bernard Malgrange, French mathematician ·
Wally Osterkorn,
American professional basketball player (d. 2012) ·
Néstor de Villa, Filipino actor (d. 2004) ·
July 7 ·
Tom Chambers,
Canadian politician ·
Patricia Hitchcock,
English actress ·
Charles James
McDonnell, American Catholic bishop ·
Henry Sommerville,
Australian fencer ·
Paul Wyss, Swiss politician ·
July 8 ·
Pat Adams, American painter, printmaker ·
Gordon Hill,
English football player ·
Balakh Sher Mazari,
Pakistani politician, former Prime Minister ·
Ángel Tulio Zof,
Argentine footballer, coach (d. 2014) ·
July 9 ·
Federico Bahamontes, Spanish road bicycle racer ·
Vince Edwards, American actor (Ben Casey) (d. 1996) ·
Nikos Milas, Greek
basketball player, basketball coach ·
Juan Rodríguez,
Uruguayan rower ·
July 10 ·
John Glenn,
American Major League Baseball outfielder ·
Herb
Johnson, American football player ·
Jack Nel, South African cricketer (d. 2018) ·
July 11 ·
Dor Bahadur Bista,
Nepalese anthropologist, social scientist and activist (dis. 1995) ·
Jane Gardam,
English writer ·
Carmelita González,
Mexican actress (d. 2010) ·
Greville Janner, British politician, barrister, and
writer (d. 2015) ·
July 12 ·
Muhammad Naqi
Mallick, Pakistani cyclist ·
Elias James Corey,
American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Hayden White, American historian (d. 2018) ·
Paul Ronty,
Canadian ice hockey centre ·
S. R. Janakiraman, Indian Carnatic vocalist,
musicologist ·
Alastair Burnet, British journalist,
broadcaster (d. 2012) ·
July 13 ·
Bob Crane, American actor (Hogan's Heroes) (d. 1978) ·
Edgar
Espinoza, Venezuelan former sports shooter ·
Daryl Spencer, American professional
baseball player (d. 2017) ·
Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (d. 1999) ·
July 14 ·
Bedabrata Barua, Indian
politician ·
Pal Benko, French chess grandmaster, author,
and composer of endgame studies and chess problems ·
Ion Ioniță, Romanian cyclist ·
Haydn Morris, British and Irish Lions
international rugby union wing three-quarter ·
Nancy Olson, American actress ·
William Rees-Mogg, English journalist, public servant
(d. 2012) ·
July 15 ·
Viramachaneni Vimla Devi,
Indian parliamentarian ·
Hans Andersson-Tvilling, Swedish ice hockey player ·
Stig Andersson-Tvilling,
Swedish ice hockey player (d. 1989) ·
A. Dean Jeffs,
American politician (d. 2018) ·
Nicholas Rescher,
German-American philosopher ·
Tom Troupe, American actor, writer ·
Aleksandr Zasukhin, Soviet boxer ·
July 16 ·
Eliane Lage [pt], Brazilian-French
actress ·
Bella Davidovich, Soviet-born
Jewish-American pianist ·
Anita Brookner,
English novelist, art historian (d. 2016) ·
Concha Valdés
Miranda, Cuban songwriter (d. 2017) ·
Jim Rathmann,
American race car driver (d. 2011) ·
July 17 ·
Robert Nixon,
Canadian politician ·
Chris
Giles, Irish footballer ·
David Leach,
senior officer of the Royal Australian
Navy ·
Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (d. 2011) ·
July 18 ·
Baddiewinkle, (b.
Helen Ruth Elam Van Winkle), American internet personality ·
Manuel Guerra,
Spanish swimmer ·
Stig Grybe, Swedish
actor, comedian, writer and film director (d. 2017) ·
Simon Vinkenoog,
Dutch poet, writer (d. 2009) ·
Billy Harrell, American reserve infielder in
Major League Baseball (d. 2014) ·
July 19 ·
Choi Yun-chil,
South Korean long-distance runner ·
Samuel John Hazo,
American author ·
Lal Chand,
Indian long-distance runner ·
July 20 ·
Belaid Abdessalam,
Algerian politician ·
Peter Ind, British jazz double-bassist,
record producer ·
Jan Meyers, American politician ·
Sheldon Solow, American real estate mogul ·
Pavel Kohout,
Czech-Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet ·
July 21 ·
Josefina Echánove, Mexican actress, model and
journalist ·
Anne Harris,
Canadian sculptor ·
Jervis Percy, British modern pentathlete ·
Hirofumi Uzawa,
Japanese economist (d. 2014) ·
July 22 ·
Orson Bean, American film, television, and
stage actor ·
Robert Bergland,
American politician (d. 2018) ·
Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005) ·
Freda Dowie,
English actress ·
Hugh Edighoffer,
Canadian politician ·
Nick
Galifianakis, American politician ·
Jimmy Hill, English football professional,
personality (d. 2015) ·
Stu Locklin,
American Major League Baseball outfielder (d. 2016) ·
July 23 ·
Leon Fleisher, American pianist, conductor ·
Denis Mahony, Irish Gaelic footballer
(d. 2017) ·
Vera Rubin, American astronomer (d. 2016) ·
Alan Rafkin,
American television actor, director and producer (d. 2001) ·
July 24 ·
Jardel Filho, Brazilian actor (d. 1983) ·
Keshubhai Patel, Indian politician ·
July 25 ·
Dolphy, Filipino actor, comedian (d. 2012) ·
Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988) ·
July 26 ·
Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician, 8th President of Italy (d. 2010) ·
Elliott Erwitt,
French-American photographer, director ·
Joe Jackson,
African-American manager, father of Michael Jackson (d. 2018) ·
Stanley Kubrick, American film director (2001: A Space
Odyssey) (d. 1999) ·
Sally
Oppenheim-Barnes, English politician ·
Bernice Rubens, British novelist (d. 2004) ·
July 27 – Joseph Kittinger,
American colonel, U.S. Air Force pilot ·
July 28 – Ann Sloat,
Canadian politician (d. 2017) ·
July 29 ·
T. H. P. Chentharasseri, Indian historian (d. 2018) ·
Philippe Bär, Dutch
Roman Catholic bishop ·
Li Ka-shing,
Asia's & Hong Kong's richest person, major philanthropist ·
July 30 ·
Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player
(d. 2007) ·
Paul Bisciglia,
French film actor (d. 2010) ·
July 31 – Gilles Carle, Canadian film director,
screenwriter (d. 2009) August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
M. R. Khan, Bangladeshi pediatrician (d. 2016) ·
James R. Dixon, American professor (d. 2015) ·
Shen Daren, Chinese politician (d. 2017) ·
Jack Shea,
American film, television director (d. 2013) ·
August 2 – Yoko Tani,
French-born Japanese actress, nightclub entertainer (d. 1999) ·
August 3 ·
Janet Abu-Lughod,
American sociologist (d. 2013) ·
Henning Moritzen,
Danish actor (d. 2012) ·
Cécile Aubry,
French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director (d. 2010) ·
August 4 ·
Udham Singh,
Indian Hockey team player, winner of three gold and one silver medals
(d. 2000) ·
Flóra Kádár, Hungarian
actress (d. 2002) ·
Gerard Damiano, American adult film director
(d. 2008) ·
August 5 ·
Albrecht Dold,
German mathematician (d. 2011) ·
Chung Won-shik,
South Korean politician, educator, soldier, and author ·
Dinesh Chandra Joarder, Indian politician (d. 2018) ·
Bogdan Maglich,
American physicist (d. 2017) ·
August 6 ·
Jean-Christophe Averty, French television, radio director
(d. 2017) ·
Mary Grant,
Ghanaian politician (d. 2016) ·
Michel Clouscard,
French Marxist philosopher, sociologist (d. 2009) ·
Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987) ·
Jean Carrière,
French writer (d. 2005) ·
August 7 ·
Helen Vita, Swiss chanson singer, actress,
and comedian (d. 2001) ·
James Randi, Canadian-American retired stage
magician, scientific skeptic ·
Anthony Lejeune, English writer, editor, and
broadcaster (d. 2018) ·
August 8 ·
Lubor Bárta, Czech
composer (d. 1972) ·
Simón Díaz, Venezuelan folk composer, singer
(d. 2014) ·
Jane Stoll, American professional baseball
player (d. 2000) ·
August 9 ·
Dolores Wilson, American coloratura soprano
(d. 2010) ·
Milan Bjegojević, Yugoslav basketball player,
coach (d. 2003) ·
Bob Cousy, American basketball player ·
Martin Greenfield,
American tailor and Holocaust survivor ·
Gerd Ruge, German
journalist, author and filmmaker ·
Camilla Wicks, American violinist ·
Peter Barry, Irish Fine Gael politician,
businessman (d. 2016) ·
Don Bustany,
American radio, television broadcaster (d. 2018) ·
Jimmy Dean, American country musician,
entrepreneur (d. 2010) ·
Eddie Fisher,
American singer (d. 2010) ·
August 11 – Beniamino Andreatta, Italian economist, politician
(d. 2007) ·
Bob Buhl, American baseball player (d. 2001) ·
Micki Marlo, American model and singer
(d. 2016) ·
Beni Virtzberg,
Israeli forester, Holocaust survivor and writer (d. 1968) ·
August 13 – Pedro Pedrossian,
Brazilian politician (d. 2017) ·
Jacques Rouffio,
French film director, screenwriter (d. 2016) ·
Gunnar
Andersson, Swedish football player (d. 1969) ·
Joëlle Bernard, French film, television actress
(d. 1977) ·
Lina Wertmüller,
Italian film director and screenwriter ·
Manfredo do Carmo,
Brazilian mathematician (d. 2018) ·
Carl Joachim Classen,
German classical scholar (d. 2013) ·
Muhammad Haji
Ibrahim Egal, 2-time Prime Minister of
Somalia (d. 2002) ·
Abdul Halim
Jaffer Khan, Indian sitar player (d. 2017) ·
Nicolas Roeg,
English film director (d. 2018) ·
Simone Silva, Egyptian-born French film
actress (d. 1957) ·
Ara Güler, Armenian-Turkish
photojournalist (d. 2018) ·
Shōji Yasui, Japanese
actor (d. 2014) ·
George Ahlgren,
American rower who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics (d. 1951) ·
Eydie Gormé, American
singer (d. 2013) ·
Ann Blyth, American actress, singer ·
August 17 – Willem Duys, Dutch
radio and television presenter, tennis player and music producer (d. 2011) ·
Marge Schott, American baseball team owner
(d. 2004) ·
John Liu Shi-gong,
Chinese Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2017) ·
Alan R. Katritzky, British-born American chemist
(d. 2014) ·
August 19 – Queen Ratna of Nepal ·
August 20 – Frank Rosolino, American jazz trombonist
(d. 1978) ·
Wu Chuanyu,
Indonesian-born Chinese swimmer who competed in the Olympic Games in 1948 and
1952 (d. 1954) ·
Chris Brasher, British track and field
athlete, sports journalist and co-founder of the London Marathon (d. 2003) ·
Art Farmer, American jazz trumpeter,
flugelhorn player (d. 1999) ·
Gillian Sheen, English Olympic fencer ·
Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007) ·
Roberto Aizenberg,
Argentine painter, sculptor (d. 1996) ·
August 23 – Marian Seldes, American actress (d. 2014) ·
August 24 – Levko Lukyanenko,
Ukrainian politician (d. 2018) ·
Kayo Dottley,
American football player (d. 2018) ·
Karl Korte, American composer ·
Herbert Kroemer, German-born
physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech
zoologist (d. 2006) ·
Saliu Adetunji,
Nigerian monarch of Ibadan ·
Péter Boross, Hungarian
politician ·
Piet Bleeker, Dutch long-distance runner
(d. 2018) ·
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African leader of
the Inkatha Freedom
Party ·
Francesco Saverio Salerno, Italian Roman Catholic
prelate (d. 2017) ·
August 28 – Ed Salem, American football quarterback,
defensive back (d. 2001) ·
August 29 – Herbert Meier, Swiss author, translator
(d. 2018) ·
Shirley Huffman, American politician
(d. 2018) ·
Johnny Mann, American composer, arranger,
and singer (d. 2014) ·
A. W. Pryor, Australian physicist (d. 2014) ·
James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002) ·
Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Roman Catholic
prelate (d. 2005) September[edit] ·
Muhammad Dandamayev, Russian Babylonia historian
(d. 2017) ·
Horace Silver, American jazz pianist,
composer, and arranger (d. 2014) ·
Pilar Pallete,
Peruvian actress ·
Gaston Thorn, Luxembourg Prime Minister (d. 2007) ·
A. M. Azahari,
Brunei politician (d. 2002) ·
José
Santiago, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2018) ·
Dick York, American actor (Bewitched) (d. 1992) ·
Damayanti Joshi, Indian classical dancer
of Kathak (d. 2004) ·
Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz musician (d. 2005) ·
Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect ·
Robert M. Pirsig,
American philosopher, author (d. 2017) ·
Yevgeny Svetlanov,
Russian conductor, composer (d. 2002) ·
Mirosława Litmanowicz, Polish chess player (d. 2017) ·
Sid Watkins, English neurosurgeon (d. 2012) ·
September 7 – Donald Henderson, American epidemiologist
(d. 2016) ·
September 9 – Sol LeWitt,
American artist (d. 2007) ·
Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant, politician ·
Selma Lopes, Brazilian actress, dubbing
vocalist ·
Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher,
humanitarian ·
Earl Holliman, American actor ·
William X. Kienzle,
American author (d. 2001) ·
Robert Irwin,
American painter ·
M. V. Rajasekharan, Indian member of Rajya Sabha ·
Violeta Vidaurre,
Chilean actress ·
Robert Indiana, American contemporary artist
(d. 2018) ·
Tzannis Tzannetakis,
Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2010) ·
Dick Clark,
American politician ·
Park Honan, American academic, author
(d. 2014) ·
Cannonball Adderley,
American saxophonist (d. 1975) ·
Henry Silva, American actor ·
September 16 – Hironoshin Furuhashi, Japanese swimmer
(d. 2009) ·
September 17 – Roddy McDowall, British actor (d. 1998) ·
September 18 – Sigrid Kahle,
Swedish journalist, writer (d. 2013) ·
September 19 – Adam West, American actor (Batman) (d. 2017) ·
Donald Hall, American poet, United States
Poet Laureate (d. 2018) ·
Jacqueline Desmarais,
Canadian billionaire philanthropist (d. 2018) ·
Jack
Edwards, American politician ·
Shiro Hashizume,
Japanese Olympic swimmer ·
Ruth Richard, American female professional
baseball player (d. 2018) ·
Kirsten Rolffes,
Danish actress (d. 2000) ·
September 21 – Con Devitt, Scottish-born New Zealand trade
unionist (d. 2014) ·
Elizabeth Evans, prominent Newfoundland
resident ·
Justin Marie Bomboko, Congolese civil servant (d. 2014) ·
James
Lawson, African-American civil rights activist, minister ·
Richard Stone,
American politician ·
Bernie Custis, American and Canadian
football player (d. 2017) ·
Santiago Vernazza, Argentine footballer (d. 2017) ·
September 25 – Victor Gold,
American journalist, press secretary (d. 2017) ·
Robert D. Ray, American lawyer, politician
(d. 2018) ·
Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor ·
September 27 – Garry Watson, American child actor ·
Koko Taylor, African-American singer
(d. 2009) ·
Dick Gernert,
American professional baseball player (d. 2017) ·
Elie Wiesel, Rumanian-born Holocaust survivor, writer, lecturer,
and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
(d. 2016) ·
Mirta Díaz-Balart,
Fidel Castro's first wife October[edit] ·
Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born South
African actor (d. 1973) ·
Sivaji Ganesan, Indian stage, film actor
(d. 2001) ·
George Peppard,
American film, television actor (d. 1994) ·
George
"Spanky" McFarland, American
child actor (d. 1993) ·
Zora Tavčar,
Slovenian writer and translator ·
Edward L. Moyers, American railroad
executive (d. 2006) ·
Shridath Ramphal, Guyanese
academic and politician ·
Kåre Willoch,
Norwegian politician, 23rd Prime Minister
of Norway ·
Erik Bruhn, Danish danseur, choreographer,
artistic director, actor, and author (d. 1986) ·
Ray Barry,
American-Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2018) ·
Torben Ulrich, Danish tennis player ·
Muriel Bevis, American female professional
baseball player (d. 2002) ·
Ali Kafi,
Pakistani politician (d. 2013) ·
José Messias,
Brazilian musician, composer, and writer (d. 2015) ·
Sohrab Sepehri,
Persian poet, painter (d. 1980) ·
Abraham Woods, American civil rights leader
(d. 2008) ·
M. Russell Ballard,
American businessman and religious leader ·
Neil Harvey, Australian cricketer ·
Bill Maynard, English comic actor (d. 2018) ·
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (d. 2016) ·
Clare Drake, Canadian ice hockey coach
(d. 2018) ·
October 10 – Sheila F. Walsh,
English novelist (d. 2009) ·
October 11 – Geoffrey
Tordoff, Baron Tordoff, English businessman, politician ·
October 12 – Dilbagh Singh Athwal, Indian geneticist,
agriculturist (d. 2017) ·
Arnfinn Bergmann, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper
(d. 2011) ·
Gary Graffman,
American concert pianist ·
María Cristina
Arango Vega, First Lady of
Colombia (d. 2017) ·
Paul Giambarba,
American graphic designer ·
October 16 – Eileen Ryan, American actress ·
Lerone Bennett Jr., African-American scholar,
author (d. 2018) ·
Jimmy Breslin, American journalist, author
(d. 2017) ·
Michael
Palmer, senior British Army officer (d. 2017) ·
Alejandro Végh Villegas, Uruguayan political figure
(d. 2017) ·
Ernest Simoni, Albanian Catholic cardinal ·
Dick Taverne,
English politician ·
October 19 – Borisav Jović,
13th President
of the Presidency of Yugoslavia ·
October 20 – Li Peng, former Premier
of the People's Republic of China ·
Vern Mikkelsen, American professional
basketball player (d. 2013) ·
Whitey Ford, American baseball player ·
Yu Guangzhong,
Taiwanese poet (d. 2017) ·
Ed Nelson, American actor (d. 2014) ·
October 22 – Nelson Pereira
dos Santos, Brazilian film director (d. 2018) ·
Marthe Mercadier, French
actress ·
Zhu Rongji, former
Premier of the People's Republic of China ·
October 24 – Mohammad Beheshti,
Chief Justice of Iran (d. 1981) ·
Jeanne Cooper, American actress (d. 2013) ·
Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006) ·
Paulo Mendes da
Rocha, Brazilian architect ·
Marion Ross, American actress ·
October 26 – Erich Kukk,
Estonian phycologist, conservationist (d. 2017) ·
Maria Fernanda,
Brazilian actress ·
Datta Gaekwad, Indian cricketer ·
Thomas Perrin, Australian cricketer ·
Shulamit Aloni, Israeli
politician (d. 2014) ·
Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer and poet ·
Bill
Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, English politician ·
Ion Mihai Pacepa,
Romanian general ·
October 30 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999) ·
October 31 – Roy Romer, American politician November[edit] ·
November 2 – Paul Johnson,
English journalist, historian and author ·
Osamu Tezuka,
Japanese manga artist (d. 1989) ·
George Yardley, American basketball player
(d. 2004) ·
Nick Holonyak,
American electrical engineer, inventor ·
Mihai Chițac,
Romanian general (d. 2010) ·
George Stanich,
American athlete ·
November 7 – Herbert Flam, American tennis player
(d. 1980) ·
November 8 – Ursula Haverbeck,
German historian ·
Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974) ·
Werner Veigel,
German journalist, news presenter (d. 1995) ·
November 10 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer ·
Ernestine Anderson,
American jazz and blues singer (d. 2016) ·
Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (d. 2012) ·
November 12 – Bobby Baker, American political adviser to
Lyndon B. Johnson (d. 2017) ·
Kathleen Hughes, American actress ·
Bernabé Martí, Spanish operatic tenor ·
Vitaliy Masol, 3rd Prime Minister
of Ukraine (d. 2018) ·
November 15 – C. W. McCall, American country singer,
politician ·
Patricia Giles, Australian activist
(d. 2017) ·
Clu Gulager, American
actor, director ·
Betty Kaunda, former first lady of Zambia
(d. 2012) ·
Arman, French artist (d. 2005) ·
Rance Howard, American actor (d. 2017) ·
Amata Kabua, 1st
President of the Marshall Islands (d. 1996) ·
Colin
McDonald, Australian cricketer ·
Anna Meyer, American female professional
baseball player ·
Inge Bandekow,
wife of German industrialist Harald Quandt (d. 1978) ·
Otar Gordeli, Georgian
composer (d. 1994) ·
Sheila Jordan, American singer and pianist ·
Lloyd R. Leavitt Jr.,
American air force lieutenant general (d. 2016) ·
Norman Baker,
American explorer (d. 2017) ·
Salvador Laurel, Filipino lawyer and
politician (d. 2004) ·
Ina van Faassen,
Dutch actress, comedian (d. 2011) ·
Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and
politician (d. 2012) ·
Aleksey Batalov,
Russian actor (d. 2017) ·
Dale M. Cochran, American politician
(d. 2018) ·
Pedro Ferrándiz,
Spanish basketball coach ·
Pete Rademacher, American boxer ·
November 21 – Augustin Bubník, Czech ice hockey player, coach and
politician (d. 2017) ·
Timothy
Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (d. 2008) ·
Pat Smythe, British showjumper, author
(d. 1996) ·
November 23 – Guy Molinari, American politician (d. 2018) ·
Toaripi Lauti, 1st Prime
Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2014) ·
Arthur Melvin Okun,
American economist (d. 1980) ·
Piet Steenbergen,
Dutch footballer (d. 2010) ·
Bano Qudsia, Pakistani
writer (d. 2017) ·
Floyd Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 2017) ·
Paul Simon,
U.S. Senator from Illinois (d. 2003) ·
Tahir Salahov,
Azerbaijani painter and educator ·
Takako Doi, Japanese politician (d. 2014) ·
Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach ·
Steele Hall, Australian politician ·
Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Dutch Superior General of
the Society of Jesus (d. 2016) ·
Karin Söder,
Swedish politician (d. 2015) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Sarge Ferris, American professional poker
player (d. 1989) ·
Guy Bourdin, French
fashion photographer (d. 1991) ·
Edwin Kessler, American atmospheric
scientist (d. 2017) ·
Karin Bang, Norwegian writer (d. 2017) ·
Michel Adama-Tamboux, Central African politician,
diplomat (d. 2018) ·
Lajos Somodi Sr.,
Hungarian fencer (d. 2012) ·
Hebe de Bonafini,
Argentine activist ·
December 6 – Stanley
Clinton-Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis, English politician, solicitor ·
Zdeněk Mahler, Czech writer, musicologist,
pedagogue and screenwriter (d. 2018) ·
Noam Chomsky, American linguist ·
André Milhoux,
Belgian racing driver ·
Dick Van Patten, American actor (d. 2015) ·
December 10 – Barbara Nichols, American actress (d. 1976) ·
Peter Firmin, English artist, puppet maker
(d. 2018) ·
Paul Bircher, English rower ·
Lionel Blair, British actor, choreographer,
dancer, headmaster and TV presenter ·
Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (d. 1998) ·
December 13 – Nati Mistral,
Spanish actress (d. 2017) ·
Ida Haendel,
Polish-British violinist ·
Friedensreich
Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000) ·
Jerry Wallace, American singer (d. 2008) ·
Philip K. Dick, American science fiction
author (d. 1982) ·
Friedrich
Wilhelm Schnitzler, german landowner,
politician (CDU), manager and business man. (d. 2011) ·
Bruce Ames, American biochemist ·
George Lindsey, American actor (d. 2012) ·
Francis
George Adeodatus Micallef, Maltese Roman
Catholic prelate (d. 2018) ·
December 19 – Guy Razanamasy,
2-time Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2011) ·
December 20 – Donald Adams, British actor and opera singer
(d. 1996) ·
December 21 – Colleen Townsend, American actress and
author ·
Piero Angela, Italian writer, journalist and
television presenter ·
Luisa Massimo, Italian pediatrician
(d. 2016) ·
Billy Cook,
American spree killer (d. 1952) ·
Roger Jepsen, American politician ·
December 24 – Nancy Tuckerman, American secretary
(d. 2018) ·
Irish McCalla, American actress, model
(d. 2002) ·
Dick Miller, American actor ·
John Njenga,
Kenyan Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018) ·
December 26 – Martin Cooper,
American "Father of the mobile phone" ·
Bill Gradison,
American politician ·
George W. Stocking
Jr., German-born American scholar (d. 2013) ·
Bernard Cribbins,
English actor, comedian and singer ·
Piers Dixon, British Conservative Party
politician (d. 2017) ·
June Preston, American actress ·
Bo Diddley, African-American musician
(d. 2008) ·
Christian Millau, French food critic, author
(d. 2017) ·
Veijo Meri, Finnish writer (d. 2015) ·
Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016) ·
Tatyana Shmyga,
Soviet-Russian operetta/musical theatre performer (d. 2011) Date unknown[edit] ·
Norman Carlberg, American sculptor ·
George Parrish, retired American NASCAR Cup Series driver ·
Dov Yaffe,
Lithuanian-born Israeli rabbi Deaths[edit] January–March[edit] Bernhard
III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen ·
January 1 – Loie Fuller, American dancer (b. 1862) ·
Dorothy Donnelly, American actress,
songwriter (b. 1880) ·
Emily Stevens,
American actress (b. 1882) ·
January 6 – Alvin Kraenzlein,
American athlete (b. 1876) ·
January 11 – Thomas Hardy, British writer (b. 1840) ·
January 12 – Ruth Snyder, American murderer (executed)
(b. 1895) ·
January 16 – Bernhard
III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1851) ·
John de Robeck,
British admiral (b. 1862) ·
Nikolai Astrup,
Norwegian painter (b. 1880) ·
January 25 – Charles Gorman,
American actor (b. 1865) ·
January 28 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish novelist, screenwriter
(b. 1867) ·
January 29 – Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861) ·
January 30 – Johannes Fibiger, Danish scientist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867) ·
February 1 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball
player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1869) ·
February 4 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1853) ·
February 7 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter (b. 1874) ·
February 8 – Theodor Curtius,
German chemist (b. 1857) ·
February 12 – Manfred
von Clary-Aldringen, Austro-Hungarian
nobleman, statesman and former Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1852) ·
February 15 – H. H. Asquith, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852) ·
February 16 – Eddie Foy, American vaudevillian (b. 1856) ·
February 25 – Toribio Romo
González, Mexican Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint
(b. 1900) ·
February 26 – Juan Vázquez de Mella, Spanish scholar, politician (b. 1861) ·
February 27 – Karl Max, Prince
Lichnowsky, German diplomat, noble
(b. 1860) ·
February 28 – Armando Diaz, Italian general, Marshal of
Italy (b. 1861) ·
March 7 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851) ·
March 10 – Mateo Elias
Nieves Castillo, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and blessed
(b. 1882) ·
March 19 – Nora Bayes, American singer, actress
(b. 1880) ·
March 21 – Edward Walter
Maunder, British astronomer (b. 1851) ·
March 31 – Medardo Rosso,
Italian sculptor (b. 1858) April–June[edit] ·
April 2 – Theodore
William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1868) ·
April 5 – Roy Kilner,
English cricketer (b. 1890) ·
April 13 – Gonzalo Córdova, 21st President of Ecuador (b. 1863) ·
April 19 – Dorus Rijkers,
famous Dutch sailor, savior of over 500 men, women and children (b. 1847) ·
April 22 ·
Warner B. Bayley, United States Navy rear
admiral (b. 1845) ·
Frank Currier, American actor (b. 1857) ·
April 25 ·
Floyd Bennett, American aviator (b. 1890) ·
Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel,
Russian general, anti-Bolshevik leader (b. 1878) ·
April 27 – Alessandro Guidoni, Italian air force general (b. 1880) ·
May 8 – Clara Williams, American actress (b. 1888) ·
May 10 – Ivan Merz, Yugoslav Roman Catholic blessed (b. 1896) ·
May 18 – Big Bill Haywood, American labor leader
(b. 1869) ·
May 19 ·
Max Scheler, German philosopher (b. 1874) ·
Henry F. Gilbert, American composer
(b. 1868) ·
May 22 – Francisco López
Merino, Argentine poet (b. 1904) ·
June 3 – Alexander
Hamilton, American priest and blessed (b. 1847) ·
June 4 – Zhang Zuolin,
Chinese warlord (b. 1873) ·
June 5 – Sir Liege Hulett,
South African politician, sugar magnate
(b. 1838) ·
June 12 – Salvador Díaz Mirón, Mexican poet (b. 1853) ·
June 13 – Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st
Marquess of Lincolnshire, British politician and colonial governor
(b. 1843) ·
June 14 – Emmeline Pankhurst,
British women's suffrage campaigner (b. 1858) ·
June 16 – Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles
County Schools (b. 1867) ·
June 18 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer
(b. 1872) ·
June 22 ·
A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851) ·
George Siegmann,
American actor (b. 1882) ·
June 24 – Holbrook Blinn, American actor (b. 1872) ·
June 28 – Leo Ditrichstein,
Austrian-born actor, playwright (b. 1865) July–September[edit] ·
July 1 – Frankie Yale, American gangster (b. 1893) ·
July 17 ·
Álvaro Obregón,
Mexican military officer, 39th President of Mexico (assassinated)
(b. 1880) ·
Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1842) ·
July 21 ·
Mihail Savov, Bulgarian
general (b. 1857) ·
Dame Ellen Terry, British actress (b. 1847) ·
July 22 – William M. Folger,
American admiral (b. 1844) ·
July 30 – John Christopher
Cutler, 2nd Governor of Utah (suicide) (b. 1905) ·
August 8 ·
Frederick
II, Grand Duke of Baden (b. 1857) ·
Stjepan Radić,
Croatian politician (assassinated) (b. 1871) ·
August 12 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer
(b. 1854) ·
August 16 – Carlo Del Prete,
Italian aviator (b. 1897) ·
Richard
Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, British politician, lawyer (b. 1856) ·
Stephanos Skouloudis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1838) ·
August 27 – Émile Fayolle,
French general (b. 1852) ·
Hugh Evan-Thomas, British admiral (b. 1862) ·
Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1864) ·
September 9 – Urban Shocker, American baseball player
(b. 1890) ·
September 13 – Italo Svevo,
Italian writer, businessman (b. 1861) ·
September 29 – John Devoy, Irish
rebel leader, exile (b. 1842) October–December[edit] Heinrich
XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line ·
October 1 – Cecilia Eusepi,
Italian religious leader and blessed (b. 1910) ·
October 8 – Larry Semon,
American film actor (b. 1889) ·
October 13 – Dagmar
of Denmark, later Maria Fyodorovna, wife
of Tsar Alexander
III and Empress Consort of Russia (b. 1847) ·
October 22 – Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1862) ·
October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies,
American artist (b. 1863) ·
October 30 – Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State
(b. 1864) ·
October 31 – John William Wood,
Sr., North Carolinian politician, founder of Benson, North
Carolina (b. 1855) ·
November 5 – Vlasios Tsirogiannis, Greek general
(b. 1872) ·
November 6 – Arnold Rothstein, Jewish-American
businessman, gangster (b. 1882) ·
November 10 – Alexander Trepov,
former Prime Minister of the Russian Empire (b. 1862) ·
November 12 – Oskar Victorovich Stark, Russian admiral, explorer
(b. 1846) ·
November 13 – Enrico Cecchetti,
Italian ballet dancer (b. 1850) ·
November 17 – Lala Lajpat Rai (The Lion of Punjab), Indian
independence movement leader (b. 1865) ·
November 18 – Mauritz Stiller, Finnish screenwriter,
director (b. 1883) ·
November 21 – Heinrich
XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (b. 1858) ·
November 26 – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (b. 1863) ·
November 27 – Frank Hedges Butler,
British wine merchant, founding member of the Aero Club of
Great Britain (b. 1855) ·
November 27 – Marco Rafael Lima Lopez, Mexican general, last president
of the Caulensian governorate (b. 1841) ·
Arthur Gore,
British tennis player (b. 1868) ·
José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888) ·
December 2 – Hallam
Tennyson, 2nd Governor-General of Australia (b. 1852) ·
December 10 – Charles Rennie
Mackintosh, British architect (b. 1868) ·
December 11 – Lewis Latimer, American inventor (b. 1848) ·
December 12 – Patriarch Gregory IV of
Antioch (b. 1859) ·
Theodore Roberts, American actor (b. 1861) ·
Pierre Ruffey,
French general (b. 1851) ·
December 16 – Elinor Wylie, American poet, novelist
(b. 1885) ·
December 17 – Eglantyne Jebb,
British human rights activist, co-founder of Save the Children (b. 1876) ·
December 21 – Luigi Cadorna, Italian general (b. 1850) ·
December 25 – Fred Thomson, American actor (b. 1890) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Owen Willans Richardson ·
Chemistry – Adolf Otto
Reinhold Windaus ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Charles Jules
Henri Nicolle ·
Peace –
not awarded In fiction[edit] ·
This year is the setting of the video game Blood (1997)
retroactively dated in the game's sequel Blood II: The Chosen (1998) ·
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