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1937 (MCMXXXVII) was
a common year starting
on Friday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1937th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 937th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of
the 20th century,
and the 8th year of the 1930s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 6Links Events[edit] January[edit]
January 19: Howard Hughes sets record.
January 20: Franklin D.
Rooseveltis sworn in as US President for his second term. ·
January
– February – The Ohio River flood
of 1937 takes place, leaving 1 million people homeless and
385 people dead. ·
January 1 – Anastasio Somoza
García becomes President of
Nicaragua. ·
January 11 – The first issue of Look magazine
goes on sale in the United States. ·
January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second
Battle of the Corunna Road (begun 13 December 1936) concludes
with both sides withdrawing. ·
January 19 – Howard Hughes establishes a record by
flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25
seconds. ·
January 20 – Second
inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D.
Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the
United States. This is the first time Inauguration Day in the United States
is on this date, on which it continues to occur; the change is due to the
ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. ·
January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet
Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union seventeen leading Communists go on trial, accused of
participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its
leaders. ·
January 26 – Michigan celebrates its centennial anniversary as a U.S. state. ·
January 31 – The Soviet Union executes
31 people for alleged Trotskyism. February[edit] ·
February
– Hergé's Tintin adventure The Broken Ear (L'Oreille cassée)
concludes serialization in the Belgian weekly newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtičme and
soon afterwards is published as a book in black and white. ·
February 5 – U.S President Franklin D.
Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme
Court of the United States. ·
February 6 – John Steinbeck's novella of the Great Depression Of Mice and Men is published in the
United States. ·
February 8 – Spanish Civil War:
Falangist troops take Málaga. ·
February 8 – February 27 – Spanish Civil War – Battle of Jarama: Nationalist and government
troops fight to a stalemate. ·
February 11 – A sit-down strike ends
when General Motors recognizes
the United
Automobile Workers union. ·
February 16 – Wallace H. Carothers receives
a patent for nylon. ·
Airliner
VH-UHH (Stinson) goes down over Lamington
National Park, bound for Sydney, killing five people. ·
Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the
Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill
viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with
a number of grenades. The Italian security guard fire into the crowd of
Ethiopian onlookers. Authorities exact further reprisals, which include
indiscriminately slaughtering native Ethiopians over the next three days,
detaining thousands of Ethiopians at Danan and slaughtering almost 300 monks
at Debre Libanos monastery. ·
The
flag of the Netherlands is officially adopted. ·
February 20 – Roberto Ortiz is
elected president of Argentina. ·
February 21 – The League of Nations Non-Intervention
Committee prohibits foreign nationals from fighting in
the Spanish Civil War. March[edit] ·
March ·
The
first issue of Detective Comics is published in
the United States. It goes on to become the longest continually
published comic book in
American history; it is still published as of 2017. ·
Napoleon Hill's self-help book Think and Grow Rich is
first published in the United States. ·
March 10 (dated March 14 (Passion Sunday)) – The encyclical Mit brennender Sorge ("With
burning concern") of Pope Pius XI is published in Germany in
the German language. Largely the work of Cardinals von Faulhaber and Pacelli, it condemns breaches of the 1933 Reichskonkordat agreement signed
between the Nazi government and the Catholic Church, and criticises Nazism's views on race and other matters
incompatible with Catholicism. ·
March 17 – The Atherton Report (private
investigator Edwin Atherton's
report detailing vice and police corruption in San Francisco) is released. ·
March 18 – New London
School explosion: In the worst school disaster in American history
in terms of lives lost, the New London School in New London, Texas,
suffers a catastrophic natural gas explosion, killing in
excess of 295 students and teachers. Mother Frances
Hospital opens in Tyler, Texas, a day ahead of schedule in
response to the explosion. ·
March 19 – The encyclical Divini Redemptoris of Pope Pius XI, critical of communism, is published. ·
March 21 ·
Ponce massacre: A police squad, acting under
orders from Governor of
Puerto Rico Blanton Winship, opens fire on demonstrators
protesting at the arrest of Puerto
Rican Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos,
killing 17 people and injuring over 200. ·
The
first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile,
makes its initial flight.[citation needed] ·
March 26 ·
In Crystal City, Texas, spinach growers erect a statue of
the cartoon character Popeye. ·
William H. Hastie becomes
the first African American appointed
to a federal judgeship in the United States. April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Aden becomes a British crown colony. ·
Bombing of Jaén in
Spain by the Condor Legion of
the Nazi German Luftwaffe. ·
April 9 – The Kamikaze arrives
at Croydon Airport in
London; it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe. ·
April 12 ·
Frank Whittle ground-tests the world's
first jet engine designed
to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England. ·
NLRB
v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.: The Supreme
Court of the United States rules that the National
Labor Relations Act is constitutional. ·
April 17 – The animated short Porky's Duck Hunt,
directed by Tex Avery for
the Looney Tunes series,
featuring the debut of Daffy Duck, is
released in the United States. ·
April 20 – A fire in an elementary
school in Kilingi-Nőmme, Estonia, kills seventeen students and
injures fifty. ·
April 26 – Spanish Civil War: Bombing of Guernica in
Spain by the Condor Legion of
the Nazi German Luftwaffe in support of the Francoists. Three-quarters of the town is
destroyed and hundreds killed.[1] May[edit]
May 6: The Hindenburg disasteroccurs.
May 27: The Golden Gate Bridgeopens. ·
May ·
The Dáil Éireann passes
the Executive Authority (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937, which abolishes
the office of Governor-General of the Irish Free State, retrospectively dated
to December 1936. ·
17
million unemployed in the USA. ·
May 1 – A general strike occurs in Paris, France. ·
May 6 – Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the
German airship Hindenburg bursts
into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New
Jersey. Of the 36 passengers and 61 crew on board, 13 passengers
and 22 crew die, as well as one member of the ground crew. ·
May 7 – Spanish Civil War:
The German Condor Legion Fighter Group,
equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes,
arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces. ·
May 8 – Wydad
Athletic Club (WAC;(Arabic: نادي
الوداد
الرياضي; Berber: Wydad Dar
al-Beida; commonly: Wydad al ouma is established
in Casablanca, Morocco; it will be best known
for its Casablanca Association football team. ·
May 12 – The coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth takes
place at Westminster Abbey,
London. ·
May 21 ·
A Soviet station becomes the first
scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. ·
As
one of the reprisals for the attempted assassination of Italian viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, a detachment of Italian
troops massacres the entire community of Debre Libanos, killing 297 monks and 23
laymen. ·
May 27 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens
to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
The next day, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt pushes a button in Washington, D.C., signaling the
start of vehicle traffic over the bridge. ·
May 28 ·
Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom following the retirement
of Stanley Baldwin. ·
May 30 ·
Spanish Civil War:
Spanish ship Ciudad de Barcelona is torpedoed. ·
The Chicago Police
Department shoot and kill ten unarmed demonstrators in
Chicago in what is known as the Memorial
Day massacre. June[edit] ·
June
– Picasso completes
his painting Guernica. ·
June–July
– The Dáil Éireann debates
and passes the draft new Constitution of
Ireland, which is then submitted for public approval by plebiscite. ·
June 3 – Wallis Simpson marries The Duke of
Windsor (the former Edward VIII) in
France. ·
June 8 ·
The
first total solar eclipse to
exceed seven minutes of totality in over 800 years is visible in the Pacific
and Peru. ·
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana premieres
in Frankfurt, Germany. ·
June 14 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and
only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday. ·
June 21 – The coalition government of Léon Blum resigns in France. July[edit]
July 2: Amelia Earhart disappears from New Guinea.
July 9: The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are
destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire. ·
July 1 ·
The Gestapo arrests pastor Martin Niemöller in
Germany. ·
In
a referendum the people of the Irish Free State accept the new
Constitution by 685,105 votes to 527,945. ·
First
alleged sighting of the White River Monster. ·
July 2 ·
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear after taking off
from New Guinea during
Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world. ·
A
guard takes his place at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Washington, D.C.; continuous guard has been
maintained there ever since. ·
July 4 – The Lost Colony historical
drama is first performed at an outdoor theater in the location where it is
set, Roanoke Island, North Carolina. ·
July 5 ·
The
canned precooked meat product Spam is introduced by the Hormel company in the United States ·
The
highest recorded temperature in Canada, at Yellow Grass,
Saskatchewan, is 45 °C (113 °F). ·
July 7 ·
Sino-Japanese
War: Battle of Lugou Bridge (aka Marco Polo
Bridge Incident): Japanese forces invade China (often seen as the
beginning of World War II in Asia). ·
Peel Commission proposes partition of
the British Mandate of
Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states.[2][3] ·
July 9 – The silent film archives
of Fox Film Corporation are
destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire. ·
July 11 – American popular
composer George Gershwin dies
in Los Angeles of a brain tumor, age 38. ·
July 20 – The Geibeltbad Pirna is opened in Dresden, Germany. ·
July 21 – Éamon de Valera is
elected President of the Executive Council (prime
minister) of the Irish Free State by
the Dáil(parliament). ·
July 22 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes
down President Franklin D.
Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme
Court of the United States. ·
July 24 – Alabama drops rape charges
against the so-called Scottsboro Boys. ·
July 25–31 – Sino-Japanese
War: Battle of
Beiping–Tianjin, a series of actions fought around Beiping and Tianjin, resulting in Japanese victory. ·
July 28 – The Irish
Republican Army attempts the assassination by bomb of George VI in Belfast. ·
July 29 – Tungchow Mutiny: units of the East Hopei Army mutiny and kill Japanese
troops and civilians in Tōngzhōu. ·
July 31 – NKVD operative
order 00447 "Об
операции по
репрессированию
бывших
кулаков,
уголовников
и других
антисоветских
элементов"
("The operation for repression of former kulaks, criminals and other
anti-Soviet elements") is approved by the Politburo of the Soviet Union, initially as a 4-month plan
for 75,950 people to be executed and an additional 193,000 to be sent to
the Gulag. August[edit] ·
August 2 – The Marihuana Tax
Act[4] in
the United States is a significant bill on the path that will lead to the
criminalization of cannabis. It was introduced to U.S. Congress by
Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Harry Anslinger. ·
August 5 – The Soviet Union commences one of the
largest campaigns of the Great Purge, to "eliminate anti-Soviet
elements." Within the following year, at least 724,000 people are killed[citation needed] on order of the troikas, directed by Joseph Stalin. This is an offensive that
targets social classes (such as the kulaks), ethnic or racial backgrounds which
are seen as non-Russian[citation needed] and Stalin's personal opponents from
the Communist Party and
their sympathizers. ·
August 6 – Spanish Civil War:
Falangist artillery bombards Madrid. ·
August 8 – Japan occupies Beijing. ·
August 9 – The Polish
Operation of the NKVD (1937–38) is signed by Nikolai Yezhov as a continuation of
the Great Purge. ·
August 13 – Second
Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai opens. ·
August 26 – Second
Sino-Japanese War: Japanese aircraft attack the car carrying the
ambassador of Great Britain during a raid on Shanghai. September[edit]
September 17: Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore. ·
September 2 – The Great Hong
Kong Typhoon kills an estimated 11,000 persons. ·
September 5 – Spanish Civil War:
The city of Llanes falls to the Falangists. ·
September 7 – CBS broadcasts
a two-and-a-half hour memorial concert nationwide on radio in memory of
George Gershwin, live from the Hollywood Bowl. Many celebrities appear,
including Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Otto Klemperer, Lily Pons and members of the original
cast of Porgy and Bess.
The concert is recorded and released complete years later in what is
excellent sound for its time, on CD.
The Los Angeles
Philharmonic is the featured orchestra. ·
September 10 – Nine nations meet in
the Nyon Conference,
led by the United Kingdom and France, to address international piracy in the Mediterranean. ·
September 17 – Abraham Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore. ·
September 19 – Swiss professional ice hockey club HC Ambrě-Piotta founded. ·
September 21 – George Allen &
Unwin, Ltd. of London publishes the first edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. ·
September 25 – Second
Sino-Japanese War: Battle of
Pingxingguan: The Communist Chinese National
Revolutionary Army defeats the Japanese. ·
September 27 – The last Bali tiger dies.[5] October[edit] ·
The Marihuana Tax
Act becomes law in the United States. ·
U.S. Supreme Court associate
justice Hugo Black, in a
nationwide radio broadcast, refutes allegations of past involvement in
the Ku Klux Klan. ·
October 2–8 – Parsley Massacre: Under the orders of
President Rafael Trujillo,
Dominican troops kill thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. ·
October 3 – Second
Sino-Japanese War: Japanese troops advance toward Nanking, capital of the Republic of
China. ·
October 5 – Roosevelt gives
his famous Quarantine Speech in
Chicago. ·
October 9 – Jimmie Angel lands his plane on top of
Devil's Mountain; however, the plane gets damaged and he has to trek through
the rainforest for help. ·
October 13 – Germany, in a note
to Brussels, guarantees the inviolability and
integrity of Belgium so long as the latter abstains from military action against
Germany. ·
October 15 – Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not is
first published, in the United States. ·
October 18–October 21 – Spanish Civil War:
The whole Spanish northern seaboard falls into the Falangists' hands; Republican forces
in Gijón, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves
prior to retreating before the advancing Falangists. ·
October 23 – Australian
federal election, 1937: Joseph Lyons' UAP/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a
slightly increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led
by John Curtin. ·
October 25 – Celâl Bayar forms the new (ninth)
government of Turkey. November[edit] ·
November 3 – Maurice J. Tobin resoundingly defeats
former governor and mayor James Michael Curley in
Boston's mayoral election. ·
World War II: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and
states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people
(recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum). ·
November 6 – Italy joins the Anti-Comintern Pact. ·
November 9 – Second
Sino-Japanese War: Japanese troops take Shanghai. ·
November 10 – Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas announces
the Estado Novo ("New
State"), thence becoming dictator of Brazil until 1945. ·
November 11 – The Kogushi sulfur mine
collapse, in western Gunma, Japan, kills at
least 245 people. December[edit]
December 21: Walt Disney's Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs is released, the world's first
full-length animated feature film, the first Disney film, and the first film
to feature a Disney Princess.
The top image shows the Seven Dwarfssinging "Heigh-Ho" while walking on a log. The second top image shows Walt Disney introducing the Seven
Dwarfs in the trailer and the bottom images are the trailers. ·
December 1 – Second
Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Nanking begins. ·
December 4 – The Dandy comic is first published in Scotland;
it continued until 2012 as a physical publication, then until 2013 online. ·
December 11 – Italy withdraws from
the League of Nations. ·
USS Panay incident:
Japanese bombers sink the American gunboat USS Panay. ·
Mae West makes a risqué guest
appearance on NBC's Chase and Sanborn
Hour, which eventually results in her being banned from radio. ·
December 13 – Second
Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Nanking ends
with the Japanese occupying the city. In the Nanking Massacre which follows,
Japanese soldiers kill over 300,000 Chinese in 3 months. A few days
previously, the Nationalist
government of China has moved its capital to the southwestern
city Chungking (Chongqing). ·
December 16 – The original production
of the musical Me and My Girl opens
at the Victoria Palace
Theatre in London's West End. A later revival will win an award. ·
December 21 – Walt Disney's Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first
feature-length animated film,
premieres at the Carthay Circle
Theatre in Los Angeles. ·
December 22 – The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New
York City. ·
December 25 – At the age of 70,
legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony
Orchestra on radio for the first time, beginning his
successful 17-year tenure with that orchestra. This first concert consists of
music by Vivaldi (at a time when he is seldom
played), Mozart, and Brahms. Millions tune in to listen,
including U.S. President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. ·
December 29 – The new Constitution of
Ireland (Bunreacht na hÉireann) comes into force.
The Irish Free State becomes
"Ireland",
and Éamon de Valera becomes
the first Taoiseach (prime
minister) of the new state. A Presidential
Commission(made up the Chief Justice, the Speaker of Dáil Éireann,
and the President of the High Court) assumes the powers of the new
presidency, pending the popular election of the first President of Ireland in
June 1938. The new constitution prohibits divorce. Date unknown[edit] ·
Switzerland
begins construction of its Border Line defences. ·
The Vibora Luviminda trades union's sugar
plantation strike on Maui island, Hawaii. ·
Italian
psychiatrist Amarro Fiamberti is
the first to document a transorbital approach to the brain, which becomes the
basis for the controversial medical procedure of transorbital
lobotomy. ·
Soviet industry produces about four
times as much as it had in 1928. ·
The
Allen Organ Company, the builder of Church Organs, home Organs and Theatre
Organs is founded in Macungie, Pennsylvania. Births[edit]
January[edit]
·
January 1 – Anne Aubrey, British actress ·
Grace Bumbry, American opera singer ·
Dyan Cannon, American actress, film director
and screenwriter ·
Lorene Mann, American country music
singer-songwriter (d. 2013) ·
Paolo Conte, Italian singer, pianist and
composer ·
Underwood Dudley, American mathematician ·
January 8 – Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer ·
George Reisman, American economist ·
Ati George Sokomanu, President of Vanuatu ·
Ken Higgs, English cricketer (d. 2016) ·
Leo Kadanoff, American physicist (d. 2015) ·
Tom
"Mongo$e" McEwen, American drag racer (d. 2018) ·
January 15 – Margaret O'Brien,
American child actress ·
January 16 – Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015) ·
Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast (d. 2009) ·
John Hume, Northern Irish politician; Nobel Peace Prize laureate ·
January 19 – Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter ·
January 21 – Prince Max,
Duke in Bavaria, heir to the Bavarian Royal House ·
Sauryavong Savang,
Laotian prince (d. 2018) ·
Joseph Wambaugh, American author ·
January 25 – Ange-Félix Patassé,
5th President
of Central African Republic (d. 2011) ·
January 27 – John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989) ·
January 29 – Bobby Scott,
American musician, producer and songwriter (d. 1990) ·
Vanessa Redgrave, British actress ·
Boris Spassky, Russian chess grandmaster ·
Philip Glass, American composer ·
Suzanne Pleshette,
American actress (d. 2008) February[edit]
·
Don Everly, American rock and roll musician ·
Garrett Morris, American comedian and actor ·
Remak Ramsay, American actor ·
Tom Smothers, American musician and comedian ·
Eric Arturo Delvalle,
Panamanian lawyer (d. 2015) ·
February 3 – Billy Meier, Swiss Prophet ·
February 4 – Magnar Solberg, Norwegian biathlete ·
February 5 – Gaston Roelants, Belgian Olympic athlete ·
Manfred Krug, German actor and singer
(d. 2016) ·
Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist
(d. 2016) ·
Francis William
Lawvere, American mathematician ·
Robert
"Bilbo" Walker Jr., American blues guitarist ·
February 10 – Anne Anderson,
Scottish physiologist (d. 1983) ·
Mauro Staccioli, Italian sculptor (d. 2018) ·
Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer ·
February 12 – Charles Dumas, American athlete (d. 2004) ·
February 13 – Rupiah Banda, 4th President of Zambia ·
February 14 – Magic Sam, American musician (d. 1969) ·
February 17 – Mary Ann Mobley, American actress; Miss
America 1959 (d. 2014) ·
Robert Huber, German chemist; Nobel Prize laureate ·
George Leonardos, Greek journalist and
author ·
Roger Penske, American race car driver ·
Nancy Wilson,
American singer ·
Ron Clarke, Australian runner (d. 2015) ·
King Harald V of Norway ·
Sir Tom Courtenay, English actor ·
Bob Schieffer, American television
journalist ·
February 27 – Barbara Babcock, American character actress March[edit]
·
March 2 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria ·
March 3 – Bobby Driscoll, American actor, primarily
known as a child actor and voice actor (d. 1968) ·
March 4 ·
Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer ·
Leslie H. Gelb, American foreign policy
expert, President of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993 ·
Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003) ·
Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist
(d. 1996) ·
March 5 – Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria ·
March 6 – Valentina Tereshkova,
Russian cosmonaut, first woman in space ·
March 8 ·
Richard Farińa,
American folk music singer
and novelist (d. 1966) ·
Juvénal Habyarimana,
3rd President of Rwanda (d. 1994) ·
March 9 ·
Bernard Landry, Canadian politician
(d. 2018) ·
Harry Neale, Canadian ice hockey coach and
broadcaster ·
March 14 – Benny Paret, Cuban welterweight boxer
(d. 1962) ·
March 15 – Valentin Rasputin,
Russian writer (d. 2015) ·
March 16 – Brian Browne, Canadian jazz pianist and
composer (d. 2018) ·
March 17 – Frank Calabrese, Sr.,
American gangster in the Chicago Outfit (d. 2012) ·
March 18 – Aleksei Zasukhin, Soviet boxer (d. 1996) ·
March 20 – Jerry Reed, American country musician
(d. 2008) ·
March 22 – Armin Hary, German athlete ·
March 23 ·
Craig Breedlove, American race car driver ·
Tony Burton, American actor and comedian
(d. 2016) ·
March 24 – Lloyd Erskine
Sandiford, 4th Prime Minister of Barbados ·
March 27 – Thomas Aquinas Daly,
American painter ·
March 30 – Warren Beatty, American actor and director April[edit]
·
April 4 – Obed Dlamini, 6th Prime Minister of
Swaziland (d. 2017) ·
April 5 ·
Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of
State ·
Maryanne Trump Barry,
American attorney ·
April 6 ·
Merle Haggard, American country musician
(d. 2016) ·
Billy Dee Williams,
American actor ·
April 9 – Valerie Singleton,
English television presenter ·
April 10 – Bella Akhmadulina,
Russian poet (d. 2010) ·
April 12 – Gene Lenz, American competition swimmer
(d. 2005) ·
April 15 – Robert W. Gore, American inventor ·
April 16 – George "The Animal" Steele,
American professional wrestler (d. 2017) ·
April 17 ·
Don Buchla, American electronic-instrument
designer (d. 2016) ·
Ferdinand Piëch,
Austrian engineer and business magnate ·
April 18 ·
Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech
origin (d. 2009) ·
Teddy Taylor, British politician (d. 2017) ·
April 19 ·
Antonio Carluccio,
Italian-born restaurateur (d. 2017) ·
Elinor Donahue, American actress ·
Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor and politician,
13th President of
the Philippines ·
April 20 – George Takei, Japanese American actor,
director and author ·
April 22 – Jack Nicholson, American film actor and
director ·
April 24 – Joe
Henderson, American rhythm and blues and gospel music singer (d. 1964) ·
April 26 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise,
French race car driver (d. 2015) ·
April 27 ·
Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992) ·
Robin Eames, Anglican prelate; Northern
Irish clergyman and peace activist ·
April 28 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006) ·
April 29 – Jill Paton Walsh, English novelist May[edit]
·
May 1 – Una Stubbs, British actress ·
May 2 ·
Gisela Elsner, German writer (d. 1992) ·
Lorenzo Music, American voice actor
(d. 2001) ·
May 3 – Hans Cieslarczyk, German football player ·
May 4 ·
Ron Carter, American jazz musician ·
David Waisman, Peruvian politician, First Vice President of
Peru ·
May 5 – Trần
Đức Lương, President of Vietnam ·
May 6 – Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, American
boxer (d. 2014) ·
May 8 ·
Shin Seong-il, South Korean actor (d. 2018) ·
Carlos Gaviria Díaz,
Colombian justice and politician ·
Thomas Pynchon, American writer ·
May 9 - Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect ·
May 11 - Ildikó
Újlaky-Rejtő, Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil
fencer ·
May 12 – George Carlin, American comedian (d. 2008) ·
May 13 ·
Trevor Baylis, English inventor (d. 2018) ·
Roch Carrier, Canadian writer ·
Roger Zelazny, American writer (d. 1995) ·
May 15 ·
Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of
State ·
Trini Lopez, American musician ·
May 16 – Yvonne Craig, American actress (d. 2015) ·
May 17 – Hazel R. O'Leary, U.S. Secretary
of Energy ·
May 18 ·
Brooks Robinson, American baseball player ·
Jacques Santer, Luxembourg politician, President
of the European Council ·
May 21 ·
Sofiko Chiaureli, Georgian actress (d. 2008) ·
John Fairfax, British ocean rower (d. 2012) ·
Mengistu Haile
Mariam, President of
Ethiopia ·
May 22 – Facundo Cabral, Argentine singer (d. 2011) ·
May 24 – Roger Peterson,
pilot who flew the plane on The Day the Music
Died (d. 1959) ·
May 30 – Deanna Lund, American actress (d. 2018) June[edit]
·
June 1 ·
Morgan Freeman, American actor ·
Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress ·
Colleen McCullough,
Australian author (d. 2015) ·
Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer (d. 2017) ·
June 2 – Sally Kellerman, American actress and singer ·
June 3 ·
Phyllis Baker, American professional
baseball player (d. 2006) ·
Crawford
Hallock Greenewalt, Jr., American archaeologist (d. 2012) ·
Solomon P. Ortiz, U.S. congressman from
Texas ·
June 4 ·
Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor (d. 2014) ·
Gorilla Monsoon, American professional
wrestler and announcer (d. 1999) ·
June 7 ·
Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor ·
Roberto Blanco, German singer ·
June 8 ·
Toni Harper, American child singer ·
Bruce McCandless II,
American astronaut (d. 2017) ·
June 9 – Harald Rosenthal, German biologist ·
June 10 – Luciana Paluzzi, Italian actress ·
June 11 ·
Robin Warren, Australian pathologist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
Reginaldo Faria, Brazilian actor and film
director ·
June 15 ·
Herbert Feuerstein,
German cabarettist and entertainer ·
Waylon Jennings, American country singer
(d. 2002) ·
Alan Thornett, British Trotskyist activist ·
June 16 ·
Charmian May, British actress (d. 2002) ·
Simeon
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 48th Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (2001-2005). ·
June 17 – Clodovil Hernandes,
Brazilian fashion designer, television presenter and politician (d. 2009) ·
June 18 ·
Wray Carlton, American football player ·
Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut ·
June 19 – André Glucksmann,
French philosopher and author (d. 2015) ·
June 21 ·
Barbara Carlson, American politician ·
Gerald Clarke,
American author ·
John Edrich, English cricketer ·
Jon Huntsman Sr., American businessman and
philanthropist (d. 2018) ·
June 23 – Martti Ahtisaari, 10th President of Finland ·
June 25 ·
Nawaf
Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Crown Prince of Kuwait ·
Eddie Floyd, American soul-R&B singer
and songwriter ·
Keizō Obuchi, 54th Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 2000) ·
June 26 ·
Donald J. Albanese,
American politician ·
Sombat Metanee, Thai actor and film director ·
Len Worley, English footballer ·
Robert Coleman
Richardson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2013) ·
June 27 ·
Jules Accorsi, French football player and
manager ·
Joseph P. Allen, American astronaut ·
Alona Frankel, Polish-born Israeli writer
and illustrator ·
Abraham Karem, American aerospace engineer ·
June 28 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire and
writer (d. 1995) ·
June 29 – Yair Nossovsky, Israeli footballer ·
June 30 ·
Ron Husmann, American actor ·
Walton McLeod, American politician July[edit]
·
July 1 ·
Claus-Wilhelm
Canaris, German jurist ·
Ali Chekr, Lebanese fencer ·
Lydia Makhubu, Swazi chemist ·
July 2 ·
Polly Holliday, American actress ·
Dennis Keeney, American scientist in soil
science and water chemistry ·
Dee Palmer, born David Palmer, English
composer, arranger and progressive rock keyboardist ·
Richard Petty, American stock car racer,
seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion ·
July 3 – Brian Garvey,
English footballer ·
July 4 ·
Queen Sonja of
Norway, Queen consort of Norway ·
Wolf von Lojewski,
German television journalist ·
Richard Rhodes, American historian,
journalist and author ·
Ray Pillow, American country music singer ·
July 5 – Jo de Roo, Dutch road racing cyclist ·
July 6 ·
Vladimir Ashkenazy,
Russian pianist ·
Ned Beatty, American actor ·
Ernesto Figueiredo,
Portuguese footballer ·
Michael Sata, Zambian president (d. 2014) ·
July 7 ·
Valery Anisimov, Soviet wrestler ·
Carroll Hubbard, American politician ·
Lars-Erik
Larsson, Swedish rowing coxswain ·
Jocelyn Newman, Australian politician ·
Carol Nugent, American actress ·
Nanami Shiono, Japanese author and novelist ·
Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong administrator ·
July 9 ·
David Hockney, English-born artist ·
Josef Vacenovský,
Czech football forward ·
July 12 ·
Bill Cosby, American actor, comedian, and
convicted sex offender ·
Fritz Kehl, Swiss football defender ·
Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister
of France ·
František Valošek,
Czech football player ·
July 13 – Ghillean Prance, British botanist and
ecologist ·
July 14 ·
Duncan MacKay,
Scottish footballer ·
Yoshirō Mori, 55th Prime Minister of
Japan ·
July 16 ·
Jeremy Spenser, British actor ·
Richard Bryan, American attorney and
politician ·
Kurt Mrkwicka, Austrian diver ·
Ada Rogovtseva, Ukrainian actress ·
July 17 ·
Alan Hopper, English professional footballer ·
Jaberi Bidandi Ssali,
Ugandan politician and businessman ·
July 18 ·
Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Peter
Smith, Scottish footballer ·
Hunter S. Thompson,
American author and journalist (d. 2005) ·
July 19 – George Hamilton IV,
American country music singer (d. 2014) ·
July 20 ·
Ilie Datcu, Romanian football goalkeeper and
coach ·
Dick Hafer,
American Christian cartoonist (d. 2003) ·
Ken Ogata, Japanese actor (d. 2008) ·
July 21 – Neville Bannister,
English footballer ·
July 27 ·
Anna Dawson, British actress ·
Don Galloway, American actor (d. 2009) ·
July 29 ·
Ryutaro Hashimoto,
53rd Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 2006) ·
Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel
Prize laureate August[edit]
·
August 2 – Coenraad Bron, Dutch computer scientist
(d. 2006) ·
August 4 ·
Paul Abels, American United Methodist minister (d. 1992) ·
David Bedford, American musician (d. 2011) ·
David Holliday, American actor (d. 1999) ·
August 5 – Herb Brooks, American hockey coach (d. 2003) ·
August 6 ·
Charlie Haden, American jazz bassist
(d. 2014) ·
Barbara Windsor, English actress ·
August 8 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor and director ·
Hasri Ainun Habibie,
Indonesian physician (d. 2010) ·
Dieter Kemper, German cyclist (d. 2018) ·
August 14 – Alberta Nelson, American actress (d. 2006) ·
August 15 – Bounnhang Vorachith,
14th Prime Minister and 6th President of Laos ·
David
Anderson, Canadian politician ·
Ian Deans, Canadian politician (d. 2016) ·
Jean Alingué Bawoyeu, Chadian politician
and former Prime Minister ·
Willie Rushton, English comedian and
cartoonist (d. 1996) ·
Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian and TV
personality (d. 2018) ·
Jean-Louis Petit, French composer, conductor
and organist ·
Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer (d. 2018) ·
Donald Dewar, First Minister
of Scotland (d. 2000) ·
Robert Stone,
American novelist ·
Chuck Traynor, American pornographer
(d. 2002) ·
Gustavo Noboa, President of Ecuador ·
Francesco Musso, Italian Olympic boxer ·
Ary Toledo, Brazilian humorist, singer,
lyricist and actor ·
Don Bowman,
American comedian, country music singer, songwriter, and radio host (d. 2013) ·
Kenji Utsumi, Japanese voice actor and actor
(d. 2013) ·
Gennady Yanayev, former Soviet leader
(d. 2010) ·
August 27 – Alice Coltrane, American jazz harpist,
organist, pianist and composer (d. 2007) ·
August 29 – James Florio, Governor of New Jersey ·
August 30 – Bruce McLaren, Founder of McLaren Racing
(d. 1970) ·
August 31 – Bobby Parker,
American rock musician (d. 2013) September[edit]
·
September 2 – Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006) ·
Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer ·
Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor and director
(d. 2006) ·
A. George Pradel, American police officer
and politician (d. 2018) ·
William Devane, American actor ·
Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada
(Keith Gordon Ham), American-born Hare Krishna guru (d. 2011) ·
Jo Anne Worley, American actress and
comedian ·
Cüneyt Arkın,
Turkish film actor ·
John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008) ·
September 8 – Joe Carolan, Irish footballer (d. 2018) ·
September 9 – Alí Rodríguez Araque,
Venezuelan politician, lawyer and diplomat (d. 2018) ·
Jared Diamond, American geographer,
anthropologist, and author (Guns, Germs, and
Steel) ·
Tommy Overstreet, American country singer
(d. 2015) ·
September 11 – Paola Ruffo di
Calabria, Italian-born Queen of the Belgians ·
Don Bluth, American director, producer ·
Meeli Sööt, Estonian actress ·
Jean-Claude Decaux,
French advertising executive (d. 2016) ·
King Curtis Iaukea,
American professional wrestler (d. 2010) ·
Robert Lucas, Jr.,
American economist, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
Giuseppe Puglisi, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed
(d. 1993) ·
Fernando de la Rúa, President of
Argentina ·
September 16 – Keith Bosley, British broadcaster, poet and
translator (d. 2018) ·
Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican baseball player ·
Ilarion
Ionescu-Galați, Romanian conductor ·
September 19 – Abner Haynes, American football player ·
September 26 – Jerry Weintraub, American film producer and
talent agent (d. 2015) ·
Rod Roddy, American television announcer
(d. 2003) ·
Bob Schul, American Olympic athlete October[edit]
·
October 2 – Johnnie Cochran, American attorney (d. 2005) ·
Jackie Collins, English author (d. 2015) ·
Franz Vranitzky, former Chancellor of
Austria ·
October 5 – Barry Switzer, American football coach ·
Colin Guest, Australian cricketer (d. 2018) ·
Édouard-Jean Empain,
French-Belgian industrialist (d. 2018) ·
October 11 – Bobby Charlton, English footballer ·
October 15 – Linda Lavin, American actress (Alice) ·
October 17 – Paxton Whitehead, English actor ·
October 19 – Teresa Ciepły, Polish Olympic athlete
(d. 2006) ·
October 20 – Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player ·
October 21 – Irán Eory, Iranian-Mexican actress and model
(d. 2002) ·
October 23 – Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned
guerrilla leader (d. 1971) ·
John Goetz, American professional baseball
player (d. 2008) ·
M. Rosaria Piomelli,
born Agrisano, Italian-born American architect ·
October 28 – Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player
and coach ·
October 30 – Ashaari Mohammad, Malaysian spiritual leader
(d. 2010) ·
October 31 – Tom Paxton, American folk singer-songwriter November[edit]
·
"Whisperin'"
Bill Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter and game
show host ·
Witta Pohl, German actress (d. 2011) ·
Earl Carroll,
American lead vocalist for The Cadillacs (d. 2012) ·
Bob Spoo, American football coach (d. 2018) ·
Michael
Wilson, Canadian politician and diplomat ·
Loretta Swit, American actress ·
Chan Sek Keong, third Chief Justice
of Singapore ·
Harris Yulin, American actor ·
November 6 – Joe Warfield, American actor ·
November 8 – Paul Foot,
British journalist (d. 2004) ·
November 10 – Zdeněk Zikán,
Czech football player (d. 2013) ·
November 11 – Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and
diplomat ·
November 15 – Little Willie John,
American rock and roll and rhythm and blues singer (d. 1968) ·
Peter Cook, English comedian and writer
(d. 1995) ·
Manuel Félix López,
Ecuadorian politician (d. 2004) ·
Ruth Laredo, American pianist (d. 2005) ·
Eero Mäntyranta,
Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2013) ·
Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress
(d. 2010) ·
Marlo Thomas, American actress, producer and
social activist ·
November 26 – Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1994) ·
November 30 – Ridley Scott, British film director and
producer December[edit]
·
Bruce Brown, American documentary film
director (d. 2017) ·
Vaira
Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia ·
December 3 – Bobby Allison, American race car driver ·
December 6 – Ramon Torrents, Spanish artist ·
December 7 – Kenneth Colley, British actor ·
Michael Bowen,
American artist (d. 2009) ·
James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010) ·
Arne Nćss, Jr.,
Norwegian mountaineer and businessman (d. 2004) ·
December 9 – Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998) ·
December 11 – Jim Harrison, American writer (d. 2016) ·
Connie Francis, American singer and actress ·
Flukey Stokes, American mobster (d. 1986) ·
Kerry Packer, Australian businessman
(d. 2005) ·
Sergio Jiménez,
Mexican actor (d. 2007) ·
December 18 – Maulana Sami-ul-Haq,
Pakistani cleric and politician (d. 2018) ·
Jimmy
Collins, Scottish footballer (d. 2018) ·
Jane Fonda, American actress and social
activist ·
December 22 – Pierluigi Chicca, Italian fencer (d. 2017) ·
December 26 – John Horton Conway,
English-born mathematician ·
December 27 – Tom Tall, American singer (d. 2013) ·
December 28 – Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist ·
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of
the Maldives (1978–2008) ·
Dieter Thomas Heck,
German television presenter, singer and actor ·
Barbara Steele, British actress ·
Raquel Olmedo, Cuban-Mexican actress and
singer ·
Gordon Banks, English footballer ·
John Hartford, American musician and
composer (d. 2001) ·
Jim
Marshall, American football player ·
Noel Paul Stookey,
American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary) ·
Zaldy Zshornack, Filipino actor (d. 2002) ·
Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, recipient
of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry ·
Anthony Hopkins, British actor Date unknown[edit] ·
Cathie Jung, owner of the smallest waist on
a living person (measuring just 15 in.). Deaths[edit] January[edit]
Saint André Bessette ·
Bhaktisiddhanta
Sarasvati, Indian spiritual teacher (b. 1874) ·
John Gresham Machen,
American Presbyterian theologian
(b. 1881) ·
January 2 – Ross Alexander, American actor (b. 1907) ·
January 4 – Paul Behncke, German admiral (b. 1869) ·
Alberto de Oliveira,
Brazilian poet (b. 1857) ·
Ernst Löfström,
Finnish general, leaders of World War I (b. 1865) ·
André Bessette,
Canadian religious leader and saint (b. 1845) ·
Albert Gleaves, American admiral (b. 1858) ·
January 12 – Martin Johnson,
American adventurer and documentary filmmaker (plane crash) (b. 1884) ·
Pietro Biginelli, Italian chemist (b. 1860) ·
Georges Hilaire
Bousquet, French scholar (b. 1845) ·
January 16 – Pyotr Bark, Soviet statesman (b. 1869) ·
January 17 – Richard Boleslavsky,
Polish film director (b. 1889) ·
January 18 – Jaime Hilario Barbal,
Spanish Roman Catholic religious
professed and saint (executed) (b. 1889) ·
Yasin al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician and
4th Prime Minister of
Iraq (b. 1884) ·
Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1896) ·
January 23 – Orso Mario Corbino,
Italian physicist and politician (b. 1876) February[edit]
Saint Peter of Jesus
Maldonado
·
February 1 – Asano Nagakoto, Japanese diplomat and
politician (b. 1842) ·
February 2 – Reinhold Hanisch, Austrian politician and
worker (b. 1884) ·
Lou Andreas-Salomé,
Russian-born writer (b. 1861) ·
José Nicoletti Filho,
Italian revolutionary hero (b. 1871) ·
February 7 – Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1845) ·
Walter Burley
Griffin, American architect and town planner (b. 1876) ·
Vasily Gurko, Russian general (b. 1864) ·
Maria Luisa Josefa,
Mexican Roman Catholic nun
and venerable (b. 1866) ·
Peter of Jesus
Maldonado, Mexican priest, martyr and saint (b. 1892) ·
February 13 – Francisco
Bergamín y García, Spanish lawyer, economist and politician
(b. 1855) ·
February 14 – Vicente Vilar David,
Spanish Roman Catholic priest,
saint and martyr (killed in battle) (b. 1889) ·
February 17 – George Hassell,
English actor (b. 1881) ·
February 22 – James P. Buchanan,
American politician (b. 1867) ·
Vladimir
Ippolitovich Lipsky, Soviet scientist and botanist (b. 1863) ·
Beyene Merid, Ethiopian military commander
(b. 1897) ·
Guy Standing, British actor (b. 1873) ·
Douglas Carnegie, British politician
(b. 1870) ·
Charles Donnelly,
Irish poet (killed in battle) (b. 1915) March[edit]
Blessed Concepcion
Cabrera de Armida
·
March 6 – John Ellis Martineau,
American politician (b. 1873) ·
March 7 – Concepcion
Cabrera de Armida, Mexican Roman Catholic mystic and blessed
(b. 1862) ·
March 8 ·
Yuriy Kotsiubynsky,
Soviet politician and activist (b. 1896) ·
Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1902) ·
March 9 – Paul Elmer More, American critic and
essayist (b. 1864) ·
March 11 – Joseph S. Cullinan,
American oil industrialist, founder of Texaco (b. 1860) ·
March 12 ·
Julius Geppert, German philosopher (b. 1856) ·
Jenő Hubay, Hungarian composer and
violinist (b. 1858) ·
Charles-Marie Widor,
French organist and composer (b. 1840) ·
March 15 – H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890) ·
March 16 – Edith Clark, French aviator and parachutist
(b. 1904) ·
March 17 – Austen Chamberlain,
British statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863) ·
March 18 ·
Mélanie Bonis, French composer (b. 1858) ·
Felix Graf von
Bothmer, German general (killed in action) (b. 1852) ·
Julio Sanchez Gardel,
Argentine dramatist (b. 1870) ·
March 20 ·
Arthur Bernčde,
French writer, poet and playwright (b. 1870) ·
Harry Vardon, English golf professional
(b. 1870) ·
March 22 ·
Thorvald Aagaard, Danish composer (b. 1877) ·
Alfred Dyke Acland,
British military officer (b. 1858) ·
Vladimir
Maksimov, Soviet actor (b. 1880) ·
Mary
Russell, Duchess of Bedford, British aviator and ornithologist
(plane crash) (b. 1865) ·
March 25 – John
Drinkwater, British poet and dramatist (b. 1882) ·
March 27 – Victor
Gustav Bloede, Swedish chemist (b. 1849) ·
March 28 – Josef Klička, Czechoslovak organist,
violinist and composer (b. 1855) ·
March 29 ·
Fyodor Keneman, Soviet pianist and composer
(b. 1873) ·
Karol Szymanowski,
Polish composer (b. 1882) ·
Kim You-jeong, Korean novelist (b. 1908) ·
March 31 – Ahmed Izzet Pasha,
Turkish general (b. 1864) April[edit]
Sultan Abd al-Hafid of
Morocco
·
April 2 – Nathan Birnbaum, Austrian writer and
journalist (b. 1864) ·
April 4 ·
Sultan Abd al-Hafid of
Morocco (b. 1875) ·
Maria Teresa Casini,
Italian Roman Catholic nun
and blessed (b. 1864) ·
April 5 – Jose Benlliure y Gil,
Spanish painter (b. 1858) ·
April 6 – Gyula Juh%C3%A1sz,
Hungarian poet (b. 1883) ·
April 7 – Helen Burgess, American actress (b. 1916) ·
April 8 – Billy Bassett, English association
footballer (b. 1869) ·
April 10 ·
Ralph Ince, American film director (b. 1887) ·
Shridhar
Venkatesh Ketkar, Indian sociologist and historian (b. 1884) ·
April 14 – Ned Hanlon,
American baseball manager and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1857) ·
April 16 – Jay Johnson Morrow,
American military engineer and politician, 3rd Governor
of the Panama Canal Zone (b. 1870) ·
April 19 ·
William Martin
Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856) ·
William Morton
Wheeler, American entomologist (b. 1865) ·
April 20 ·
Gaston Chérau, French journalist (b. 1872) ·
Josef Mařatka, Czech sculptor (b. 1874) ·
April 21 – Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet (b. 1913) ·
April 22 – Arthur Edmund Carewe,
Armenian-American actor (b. 1884) ·
April 23 – Caroline Harris, American actress (b. 1867) ·
April 24 – Lucy Beaumont, British actress (b. 1873) ·
April 25 – Michał
Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857) ·
April 27 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer
and politician (b. 1891) ·
April 29 ·
Wallace Carothers,
American chemist, inventor of nylon (b. 1896) ·
William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853) May[edit]
·
May 1 ·
Snitz Edwards, Hungarian actor (b. 1868) ·
Herbert Hughes,
Irish composer (b. 1882) ·
May 2 – Takuji Iwasaki, Japanese meteorologist
(b. 1869) ·
May 4 – Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910) ·
May 5 ·
Camillo Berneri, Italian philosopher and
anarchist (b. 1897) ·
C.K.G. Billings, American horseman (b. 1861) ·
May 7 – Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain of
the Hindenburg (b. 1886) ·
May 9 ·
Harry Barton,
American architect (b. 1876) ·
Maurice Conner, Canadian politician
(b. 1868) ·
May 10 – James Blindell, British politician (b. 1884) ·
May 11 – Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer, professor
and politician, 3-time Prime Minister
of Portugal (b. 1871) ·
May 15 – Percy Lee Gassaway,
American politician (b. 1885) ·
May 23 – John D. Rockefeller,
American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1839) ·
May 24 ·
Luis F. Álvarez,
Spanish physician (b. 1853) ·
Francis Bird,
Australian architect (b. 1845) ·
May 25 – Henry Ossawa Tanner,
American artist (b. 1859) ·
May 26 – Bertha May Crawford,
Canadian opera singer (b. 1886) ·
May 28 – Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist
(b. 1870) ·
May 29 – Lizardo García,
17th President of Ecuador (b. 1844) June[edit]
·
June 2 – Louis Vierne, French composer (b. 1870) ·
June 3 ·
Hugo Hammarskjöld,
Swedish public servant and politician (b. 1845) ·
Emilio Mola, Spanish Nationalist commander
(plane crash) (b. 1887) ·
June 4 ·
Fernand Cabrol, French theologian (b. 1855) ·
Keke Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin, Leader of the
Soviet Union (b. 1858) ·
June 7 – Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911) ·
June 10 ·
Jane Foss Barff, American activist (b. 1863) ·
Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 8th Prime Minister
of Canada (b. 1854) ·
Malcolm Williams,
American actor (b. 1870) ·
June 12 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky,
Soviet Army officer and Red Army commander-in-chief (executed) (b. 1893) ·
June 16 – Alexander Chervyakov, Leader of the
Soviet Union (b. 1892) ·
June 18 ·
Pierre Bodard, French painter (b. 1881) ·
Gaston Doumergue, 60th Prime Minister
of France and 13th President of France (b. 1863) ·
June 19 – J. M. Barrie, British novelist and dramatist
(b. 1860) ·
June 20 – Andreu Nin Pérez,
Spanish politician (b. 1892) ·
June 25 ·
Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900) ·
Marta Cunningham, American opera singer
(b. 1869) ·
June 26 – Minoru Murata, Japanese actor, director and
screenwriter (b. 1894) ·
June 27 – Sandro Akhmeteli, Soviet director (b. 1866) July[edit]
Reverend Nazzareno Formosa
·
July 1 ·
Ilya Garkavyi, Soviet general (b. 1888) ·
Matvei Vasilenko, Soviet komkor (b. 1888) ·
July 2 – Amelia Earhart, American aviator (missing on
this date) (b. 1897) ·
July 3 – Boris Gorbachyov, Soviet general (b. 1892) ·
July 6 ·
Bohdan Ihor Antonych,
Soviet poet (b. 1909) ·
Ernesto Badini, Italian opera singer
(b. 1876) ·
July 7 – Ĺke Hammarskjöld,
Swedish diplomat and lawyer (b. 1893) ·
July 9 – Oliver Law, American labor organizer and
Army officer (killed in Spanish Civil War) (b. 1899) ·
July 11 ·
George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898) ·
Rodrigues Ottolengui,
American writer (b. 1861) ·
July 13 ·
Mykhailo Boychuk, Soviet painter (b. 1882) ·
Victor Laloux, French architect (b. 1850) ·
July 14 ·
Julius Meier, American businessman and
politician (b. 1874) ·
Joseph Taylor
Robinson, American politician (b. 1872) ·
July 15 – Walter Gay, American painter (b. 1856) ·
July 16 – Vladimir Kirillov,
Soviet poet (b. 1889) ·
July 17 ·
Annie Furuhjelm, Finnish feminish activist
and politician (b. 1859) ·
Percy Gardner, British archaeologist
(b. 1846) ·
July 18 ·
Julian Bell, British poet (killed in Spanish
Civil War) (b. 1908) ·
Grigol Giorgadze, Soviet historian, jurist
and politician (b. 1879) ·
July 20 – Guglielmo Marconi,
Italian-born inventor (b. 1874) ·
July 22 ·
Nazzareno Formosa,
American Roman Catholic priest
and reverend (b. 1901) ·
Paolo Iashvili, Soviet poet (b. 1894) ·
July 23 – Varnava,
Serbian Patriarch (b. 1880) ·
July 31 – Noë Bloch, Soviet producer (b. 1875) August[edit]
Saint Alexander Hotovitzky
·
August 5 – Jean Louis Conneau,
French aviator (b. 1880) ·
August 6 ·
Adeodato Barreto, Portuguese poet (b. 1905) ·
F. C. S. Schiller,
German-British philosopher (b. 1864) ·
August 8 – Martin Rázus, Czechoslovakian poet, writer
and politician (b. 1888) ·
August 9 – Na Woon-gyu, Korean actor, director and
screenwriter (b. 1902) ·
August 11 – Edith Wharton, American writer (b. 1862) ·
August 13 – Sigizmund Levanevsky,
Soviet aircraft pilot (b. 1902) ·
Alexander Hotovitzky,
Russian Orthodox priest,
missionary and saint (b. 1872) ·
Asaichi Isobe, Japanese army officer
(b. 1905) ·
Ivan Kataev, Russian novelist and writer
(b. 1902) ·
Owen Burns, American entrepreneur (b. 1869) ·
Gelegdorjiin Demid,
Russian political military figure (b. 1900) ·
August 24 – Gervase Beckett, British politician
(b. 1866) ·
August 26 – Christos
Christovasilis, Greek journalist and author (b. 1861) ·
August 27 – Andrew W. Mellon, American banker and U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1855) ·
Gaetano Bisleti, Italian cardinal (b. 1856) ·
Tomás António
Garcia Rosado, Portuguese general (b. 1854) September[edit]
·
Virendranath
Chattopadhyaya, Indian revolutionary hero (b. 1880) ·
Pierre de Coubertin,
2nd President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1863) ·
September 3 – François Guiguet,
French painter (b. 1860) ·
Daniel Alexander
Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1870) ·
Juan Campisteguy, Uruguayan lawyer, soldier
and 25th President of Uruguay (b. 1859) ·
September 5 – David Hendricks
Bergey, American bacteriologist (b. 1860) ·
September 6 – Harry Charles
Purvis Bell, British civil servant and commissioner (b. 1851) ·
September 8 – Frank Alexander,
American actor (b. 1879) ·
Moritz Geiger, German philosopher (b. 1880) ·
Géza Horváth,
Hungarian doctor and entomologist (b. 1847) ·
September 11 – Nazmi Ziya Güran,
Turkish painter (b. 1881) ·
September 13 – Ellis Parker Butler,
American humorist (b. 1869) ·
September 14 – Tomáš Garrigue
Masaryk, Czechoslovakian politician, sociologist and philosopher,
1st President of
Czechoslovakia (b. 1850) ·
Anders Bundgaard, Danish sculptor (b. 1864) ·
Clifford Heatherley,
British actor (b. 1888) ·
Maksymilian Horwitz,
Polish movement (b. 1877) ·
Lev Karakhan, Soviet revolutionary hero and
diplomat (b. 1889) ·
September 21 – Osgood Perkins, American actor (b. 1892) ·
September 22 – Ruth Roland, American actress (b. 1892) ·
Bessie Smith, American blues singer
(b. 1894) ·
Edward Filene, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1860) ·
September 29 – Ray Ewry, American Olympic athlete (b. 1873) October[edit]
Metropolitan Peter of Krutitsy
·
October 1 – Prince Kuni Taka (b. 1875) ·
Baden Baden-Powell,
American aviator pioneer (b. 1860) ·
Richard Hertwig, German zoologist (b. 1850) ·
October 6 – Angelo Musco,
Italian actor (b. 1872) ·
August de Boeck, Flemish composer (b. 1865) ·
Ernest
Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, German prince (b. 1868 ·
October 10 – Peter of Krutitsy,
Soviet Orthodox priest,
martyr and metropolitan (b. 1862) ·
October 13 – Kazimierz Nowak, Polish traveller (b. 1897) ·
October 14 – Salvatore Micalizzi,
Italian Roman Catholic priest
and venerable (b. 1856) ·
October 15 – James
Marcus, American actor (b. 1867) ·
October 16 – Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899) ·
J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman
(b. 1862) ·
Antônio Parreiras,
Brazilian painter and illustrator (b. 1860) ·
Pedro Chutro, Argentine physician (b. 1880) ·
Ernest Rutherford,
New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry (b. 1871) ·
October 23 – Nikolai Klyuev, Russian poet (b. 1884) ·
October 26 – Józef
Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867) ·
Joseph-Félix Bouchor,
French painter (b. 1853) ·
Abdul Karim Khan, Indian classical singer
(b. 1872) ·
October 29 – Kazimierz Cichowski,
Polish-born Soviet politician (b. 1887) ·
Mendel Khatayevich,
Soviet politician (b. 1893) ·
Ivan Zhukov, Soviet politician (b. 1889) November[edit]
Metropolitan
Joseph (Petrovykh)
Saint Aleksandr Glagolev
·
November 1 – Ivar Bauck, Norwegian general (b. 1863) ·
November 2 – Félix Gaffiot, French philologist (b. 1870) ·
William
Bennett, British politician (b. 1873) ·
Alfred Walter
Campbell, Australian neurologist (b. 1868) ·
Gustav Gartner, Austrian pathologist
(b. 1855) ·
Emil Hassler, Swiss physician and botanist
(b. 1864) ·
November 5 – Naoe Kinoshita, Japanese Christian socialist
(b. 1869) ·
November 6 – Johnston
Forbes-Robertson, British stage actor (b. 1853) ·
November 8 – Francis de Croisset,
Belgian-born French playwright (b. 1877) ·
November 9 – Ramsay MacDonald, British statesman,
2-time Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866) ·
November 10 – Nikolai Batalov, Soviet actor (b. 1899) ·
November 11 – Uryū Sotokichi,
Japanese admiral (b. 1857) ·
November 13 – Mrs. Leslie Carter (Caroline
Louise Dudley), American actress (b. 1862) ·
Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1933) ·
Némčse Garneau,
Canadian politician (b. 1847) ·
November 17 – Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer and coach
(b. 1860) ·
November 20 – Metropolitan
Joseph (Petrovykh) (b. 1872) ·
Miklós Kovács,
Hungarian-born Yugoslav poet (b. 1857) ·
Jagadish Chandra
Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858) ·
George Albert
Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858) ·
Aleksandr Glagolev,
Russian Orthodox priest,
religious philosopher and saint (b. 1872) ·
Alessandro Padoa, Italian mathematician
(b. 1868) ·
Raymond Stanton
Patton, American admiral and engineer, second Director of
the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey (b. 1882) ·
November 26 – Peljidiin Genden, Mongolian political
figure, 9th Prime Minister
of Mongolia and 2nd President of
Mongolia (b. 1892) ·
Vsevolod Balitsky, Leader of the
Soviet Union (b. 1892) ·
Eero Haapalainen, Finnish Communist leader
and activist (b. 1880) ·
Felix Hamrin, 22nd Prime Minister
of Sweden (b. 1875) ·
Vasyl Lypkivsky, Soviet Orthodox priest and metropolitan
(b. 1864) ·
Wilhelm Weinberg, German physician (b. 1862) ·
November 28 – Magnús Guđmundsson,
Icelandic politician, 3rd Prime Minister
of Iceland (b. 1879) December[edit]
·
December 2 – Josep Comas i Solŕ,
Andorran astronomer (b. 1868) ·
Attila József, Hungarian poet (b. 1905) ·
Prosper Poullet, Belgian politician,
26th Prime Minister of
Belgium (b. 1868) ·
Yue Yiqin, Chinese flying ace (b. 1914) ·
December 4 – Ralph Lewis,
American actor (b. 1872) ·
December 8 – Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist
(b. 1856) ·
Lilias Armstrong, British phonetician
(b. 1882) ·
Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1869) ·
December 10 – Robert Bolder, British actor (b. 1859) ·
December 12 – Alfred Abel, German actor (b. 1879) ·
December 14 – Fabián de la Rosa,
Filipino painter (b. 1869) ·
December 16 – Giorgi Mazniashvili,
Soviet general (b. 1870) ·
December 17 – Dimitrie
Călugăreanu, Romanian physician, naturalist and
physiology (b. 1868) ·
December 18 – Robert Worth Bingham,
American politician (b. 1871) ·
December 20 – Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865) ·
Meliton
Balanchivadze, Soviet composer (b. 1862) ·
Ted Healy, American actor (b. 1896) ·
Frank B. Kellogg, United
States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1856) ·
December 23 – Osman Nuri
Hadžić, Yugoslav writer (b. 1869) ·
December 25 – Newton D. Baker, United
States Secretary of War (b. 1871) ·
Herbert Bullmore, Scottish Rugby Union
international, grandfather of Kerry Packer (b. 1874) ·
Maurice Ravel, French composer (Bolero)
(b. 1875) ·
Frederik Beichmann,
Norwegian jurist (b. 1859) ·
Don Marquis, American poet (b. 1878) ·
December 30 – Hans Niels Andersen,
Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852) ·
December 31 – Dezső Czigány,
Hungarian painter (b. 1883) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Physics – Clinton Joseph
Davisson, George Paget Thomson ·
Chemistry – Walter Haworth, Paul Karrer ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Albert von
Szent-Györgyi Nagyrapolt ·
Literature – Roger Martin du Gard ·
Peace – Robert
Cecil References[edit] 1.
^ Journalist George Steer's report to The Times (London) connects Germany
with the attack. 2.
^ League of Nations Mandates – Palestine: Report of the
Palestine Royal Commission. July 1937. Retrieved 2012-03-08. 3.
^ Schechtman, Joseph B. (1949). Population Transfers in Asia. New York:
Hallsby Press. Retrieved 2012-03-08. 4.
^ Pub. 238, 75th Congress, 50 Stat. 551. Subsequently,
commonly referred to using the modern spelling as the Marijuana Tax Act of
1937. 5.
^ Loadstar. "The
Balinese Tiger". Links[edit] ·
The 1930s Timeline: 1937 – from
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