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1951 (MCMLI) was
a common year starting
on Monday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1951st year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 951st year of the 2nd millennium, the 51st year of
the 20th century,
and the 2nd year of the 1950s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – First week as No. 1 single
on Billboard and Cashbox charts in the United States of Patti Page hit song "Tennessee Waltz". ·
January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of
Seoul: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (they had
lost Seoul in the Second Battle of
Seoul in September 1950). ·
January 9 – The Government of the
United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika
groundnut schemefor the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory with
the writing off of Ł36.5M debt.[1] ·
January 15 – In a court in West
Germany, Ilse Koch, The
"Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald
concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. ·
January 20 – Avalanches in the Alps kill
240 and bury 45,000 for a time in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. ·
January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume
of her novel Journey Through
the Night (Reis door de nacht) set during World
War II. ·
January 27 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a 1-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat, northwest of Las Vegas. ·
January 31 – The United States' last
narrow gauge passenger train the "San Juan Express" ends service. February[edit] ·
February
– Convention
People's Party wins national elections in Gold Coast
(British colony). ·
February 1 – The United
Nations General Assembly declares that China is an aggressor
in the Korean War in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 498. ·
February 4–8 – Surgeons remove an ovarian cyst from Gertrude Levandowski
in a 96-hour long operation in Chicago. She loses almost half of her weight
and emerges weighing 140 kg.[2] ·
February 6 – Woodbridge Train
Wreck:A Pennsylvania
Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge
Township, New Jersey, killing 85 people and injuring over 500, in
one of the worst rail disasters in American history. ·
February 12 – Muhammad Reza Shah marries Soraya
Esfandiary-Bakhtiari. ·
February 15 – Start of the 1951
New Zealand waterfront dispute, which lasts for 151 days. ·
February 19 – Jean Lee becomes the last
woman hanged in Australia, when Lee and her 2 pimps are
hanged for the murder and torture of a 73-year-old bookmaker. ·
February 25 – First Pan American Games open
in Buenos Aires. ·
February 27 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States
Constitution, limiting Presidents to
two terms, is ratified. March[edit]
March 29: The Rosenbergs
sentenced to death.
March 31: Remington Rand delivers the
first UNIVAC Icomputer. ·
March 2 – The first NBA All-Star Game of
basketball is played in the Boston Garden. ·
March
3 or 5 – Jackie Brenston "and
His Delta Cats" (actually Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm) record "Rocket 88" at Sam Phillips' Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee,
a candidate for the first rock
and roll record (released in April). It is covered on June 14
by Bill Haley
and His Saddlemen. ·
March 6 – The trial of Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg for conspiracy to commit espionage begins in
the United States. ·
March 9 – United Artists releases
sci-fi film The Man from Planet
X in the United States. ·
March 12 – Hank Ketcham's
best-selling comic strip Dennis
the Menace appears in newspapers across the United States for
the first time. ·
March 14 ·
Korean War: For the second time, United
Nations troops recapture Seoul during Operation Ripper. ·
West
Germany joins UNESCO. ·
March 29 ·
Second Red Scare: Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to
commit espionage. On April 5 they are sentenced to receive
the death penalty. ·
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I opens on Broadway and runs for three years. It
is the first of their musicals specifically written for an actress (Gertrude Lawrence).
Lawrence is stricken with cancer during the
run of the show and dies halfway through its run a year later. The show makes
a star of Yul Brynner. ·
The 23rd Academy Awards ceremony
is held; All About Eve wins
the Best
Picture award and five others. ·
March 31 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States
Census Bureau. April[edit] ·
April 5–13 – The most complete recording
of George Gershwin's
opera Porgy and
Bess up to ·
April 11 ·
U.S.
President Harry S. Truman relieves
General Douglas MacArthur of
his Far Eastern commands. ·
After
its removal from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1950,
the Stone of Scone resurfaces
on the altar of Arbroath Abbey. ·
April 18 – The Treaty of Paris
(1951) is adopted, establishing the European
Coal and Steel Community. ·
April 21 – The National
Olympic Committee of the Soviet Union is formed. The USSR first
participates in the Olympic Games at Helsinki, Finland, in 1952. ·
April 24 – In Yokohama, Japan, a fire on a train kills more than 100. ·
April 28 – Australian
federal election, 1951: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is
re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the Labor Party led
by former Prime
Minister Ben Chifley.
Chifley died a little over a month after the election; he would be replaced by his deputy H.V. Evatt. ·
April 29 – RKO releases
the Howard Hawks sci-fi
film, The Thing
(From Another World). May[edit] ·
May 1 – The opera house of Geneva, Switzerland is almost destroyed in a
fire. ·
May 3 ·
King George VI opens London's Royal Festival Hall as
a patron. ·
The Festival of Britain opens. ·
The U.S.
Senate Committee on Armed Services and U.S.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begins its closed door
hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President
Harry S Truman. ·
May 9 – Operation Greenhouse:
The first thermonuclear weapon
is tested on Enewetok Atoll in
the Marshall Islands,
by the United States. ·
May 14 – The first volunteer-run
passenger trains run on Talyllyn Railway, Wales. ·
May 15 – A military coup occurs in Bolivia. ·
May 21 – The 9th Street Art
Exhibition, otherwise known as the Ninth Street Show, a gathering
of a number of notable artists, marks the stepping-out of the post war New
York avant-garde,
collectively known as the New York School. ·
May 23 – The Tibetan government signs
the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation
of Tibet with the People's Republic of China. ·
May 25 – The first atomic bomb
"boosted" by the inclusion of thermonuclear materials, is tested in
the "Item" test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands by the
United States. ·
May 28 – The Goon Show is first broadcast
on BBC Home Service in
the U.K.; the first series was entitled "Crazy People". June[edit] ·
June 4 – Foley Square trial concludes
review in U.S. Supreme Court as Dennis v. United
States, with a ruling against the defendants (overturned by Yates v. United
States in 1957) ·
June 14 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S.
Census Bureau.[3] ·
June 15–July 1– In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, thousands of acres of
forests are destroyed in fires. July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Colombo Plan operations commence. ·
Judy Garland opens the first of 14
concerts in Dublin, Ireland at the Theatre Royal. ·
July 5 – William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain announce the invention
of the junction transistor. ·
July 10 ·
Korean
War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong. ·
A
formal peace agreement between Canada and Germany is signed. ·
July 13 ·
The Great Flood of 1951 reaches
its highest point in northeast Kansas, culminating in the greatest flood
damage to date in the Midwestern
United States. ·
MGM's Technicolor film version of Show Boat, starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner and Howard Keel, premieres at Radio City Music
Hall in New York City. The musical brings overnight fame to
bass-baritone William Warfield (who
sings Ol' Man River in
the film). ·
July 14 – In Joplin, Missouri, the George
Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United
States National Monument to honor an African American. ·
July 16 – King Leopold III of
Belgium abdicates in favour of his son Baudouin. ·
July 17 – Baudouin takes the oath as
king of Belgium. ·
July 20 – King Abdullah I of Jordan is
assassinated by a Palestinian while
attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. He is succeeded by his son, King Talal. ·
July 26 – Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in
Wonderland, premieres in London, United Kingdom. ·
July 30 – David Lean's film of Oliver Twist is
finally shown in the United States, after 10 minutes of supposedly anti-Semitic references and closeups
of Alec Guinness as Fagin are cut. It will not be shown
uncut in the U.S. until 1970. August[edit] ·
August 11 – René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of
France. ·
August 12 – J. D. Salinger's coming-of-age story The Catcher in the
Rye is first published in the United States. ·
August 31 – The first Volkswagen Type 1 rolls
off the production line in Uitenhage, South Africa. September[edit] ·
September 1 – The United States,
Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS Treaty. ·
September 2 – The Sri Lanka Freedom
Party is founded by S. W. R. D.
Bandaranaike. ·
September 3 – The American soap opera Search for Tomorrow debuts
on CBS. ·
Treaty of San
Francisco: In San Francisco, 48 representatives out of 51
attending sign a peace treaty with
Japan formally ending the Pacific War; the delegations of the Soviet Union, Poland and Czechoslovakia do not sign the treaty
instead favoring separate treaties. ·
Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, which
allows United States
Armed Forces being stationed in Japan after the occupation of Japan,
is signed by Japan and the United States. ·
September 9 – Chinese communist forces
move into Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. ·
September 10 – The United Kingdom
begins an economic boycott of Iran. ·
September 18 – Elia Kazan's adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play A
Streetcar Named Desire premieres, becoming a critical and
box-office smash. ·
September 20 – NATO accepts
Greece and Turkey as members. ·
September 24 – MGM releases
the musical Show Boat. ·
September 26–28 – A blue sun is seen over Europe:
the effect is due to ash coming from the Canadian forest fires 4 months
previously. ·
September 28 – 20th Century Fox
releases the Robert Wise science
fiction film The Day the
Earth Stood Still in the United States. ·
September 30 – Charlotte Whitton becomes
mayor of Ottawa and Canada's first woman mayor
of a major city. October[edit] ·
October 3 – "Shot
Heard 'Round the World (baseball)": One of the greatest
moments in Major League Baseball history occurs when the New York Giants'
Bobby Thomson hits a game-winning home run in the bottom of the 9th inning
off of Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League
pennant after being down 14 games. ·
October 3–8 – Korean War: First Battle
of Maryang-san – United Nations (primarily Australian) forces
drive back the Chinese. ·
MGM's
Technicolor musical film, An American
in Paris, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron and directed by
Vincente Minnelli, premieres in New York. It will go on to win 6 Academy Awards, including Best
Picture. ·
Shoppers
World, one of the first shopping malls in the United States, opens
in Framingham,
Massachusetts. ·
October 6 – Malayan Emergency: Communist insurgents kill British
commander Sir Henry Gurney. ·
October 14 – Organization
of Central American States (Organización de Estados
Centroamericanos, ODECA) formed. ·
Norethisterone, the progestin used in the combined
oral contraceptive pill, is synthesized by Luis E. Miramontes in
Mexico. ·
I Love Lucy makes its television debut on CBS in
the United States. ·
Judy Garland begins a series of
concerts in New York's Palace
Theatre. ·
Prime
Minister Liaquat Ali Khan of
Pakistan is assassinated. ·
East China
Normal University is founded in Shanghai, China. ·
October 17 – CBS's
Eye logo premieres on American television. ·
October 19 – The state of war between
the United States and Germany is
officially ended. ·
October 20 – The Johnny Bright
incident occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma. ·
October 21 – A storm in southern Italy
kills over 100. ·
October 24 – U.S. President Harry
Truman declares an official end to war with Germany. ·
October 26 – Winston Churchill is
re-elected Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (a month before his 77th
birthday) in a general
election which sees the defeat of Clement Attlee's Labour government
after six years in power.[4] ·
October 27 – Farouk of Egypt declares himself king
of Sudan, with no support. ·
October 29 – The town of Carnation,
Washington, USA changes its name back to Carnation, after
being named Tolt since May 1928. ·
October 31 – The film Scrooge,
starring Alastair Sim,
opens in England. November[edit] ·
November 1 – The first military
exercises for nuclear war,
with infantry troops included, are held in the Nevada desert. ·
November 2 – 6,000 British troops flown
into Egypt to quell unrest in the Suez Canal zone.[5] ·
November 10 – Direct dial coast-to-coast
telephone service begins in the United States. ·
Juan Perón is re-elected president
of Argentina. ·
Monogram
Pictures releases sci-fi film Flight to Mars in
the United States. ·
November 12 – The National Ballet
of Canada performs for the first time in Eaton Auditorium, Toronto. ·
November 20 – The Po River floods in northern Italy. ·
November 22 – Paramount Pictures releases George Pal science fiction film When
Worlds Collide in the United States. ·
November 24 – The Broadway play Gigi opens,
starring Audrey Hepburn as
the lead character. ·
November 28 – The U.K. film Scrooge,
starring Alastair Sim,
premieres in the United States under the title of Charles Dickens's original novel, A Christmas Carol. ·
November 29 – LEO runs the worlds first commercial
computer program, Bakery Valuations, for J. Lyons and Co.'s tea shops in the U.K. December[edit] ·
c.
December – The Institute of War and Peace Studies is
established by Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University in
New York (of which he is President)
with William T. R. Fox as
first director.[6] ·
December 3 – The Lebanese University is
founded in Lebanon. ·
December 5 – Provisional
Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe. ·
December 6 – A state of emergency is
declared in Egypt due to increasing riots. ·
December 13 – A water storage tank
collapses in Tucumcari, New
Mexico, resulting in 4 deaths and 200 buildings destroyed. ·
December 16 – Salar Jung Museum is
opened to the public by Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru. ·
December 17 – "We Charge Genocide",
a petition describing genocide against African Americans, is delivered to the
United Nations. ·
Experimental
Breeder Reactor I (EBR-1), the world's first
(experimental) nuclear power plant,
opens in Idaho. ·
A
chartered Curtiss C-46
Commando crash-lands in Cobourg, Ontario Canada; all on board survive. ·
The World
Meteorological Organization becomes a specialized agency of
the United Nations. ·
December 22 – The Selangor Labour
Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya. ·
December 23 – John Huston's drama film The African
Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn,
premieres in Hollywood. ·
Libya becomes independent from
Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya. ·
Gian Carlo Menotti's
45-minute opera, Amahl and
the Night Visitors, premieres live on NBC in
the United States, becoming the first opera written especially for
television. ·
December 31 – The Marshall Plan expires after
distributing more than $13.3 billion US in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.[7] Unknown dates[edit] ·
A
fourth and final forest fire starts
in the Tillamook Burn,
Oregon; but unlike earlier fires this one burns only 32,700 acres
(132 km2), and within an area already affected by
the earlier fires. ·
A research
team publishes the Interlingua–English Dictionary. ·
IBM (United
Kingdom) is formed. ·
In Munich, Germany, a collection of mementos
and personal papers belonging to Adolf Hitler are turned over to Bayerische
Landesbank for authentication and eventual sale. Among the
documents are his appointment as Chancellor signed by
President Paul von Hindenburg,
his Austrian passport, as well
as an assortment of swastika insignia
pins and medals. An initial offer of $200,000.00 is made for the collection.[8] ·
An
18-year-old sailor is fined for kissing in public in Stockholm, Sweden. The lawcourt calls his actions
"obnoxious behavior repulsive to the public morals."[8] ·
The
United States becomes malaria-free (excluding
territories and possessions)[9][10] Births[edit] January[edit]
·
January 1 – Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet ·
Waldir Peres, Brazilian footballer ·
Jan Fischer,
8th Prime
Minister of the Czech Republic ·
January 5 – Steve
Arnold, English footballer ·
January 6 – Kim Wilson, American singer and harmonica
player ·
Kenny Anthony, Lucian politician,
2-time Prime
Minister of Saint Lucia ·
John McTiernan, American director, producer
and writer ·
January 9 – Andy Qunta, English singer-songwriter,
composer, and musician ·
Chris Bell,
American guitarist, singer and songwriter (d. 1978) ·
Kirstie Alley, American actress ·
Rush Limbaugh, American conservative radio
personality ·
January 15 – Biff Byford, English rock singer (Saxon) ·
January 20 – Ian Hill, English rock bassist (Judas Priest) ·
January 22 – Ondrej Nepela, Czechoslovak figure skater
(b. 1989) ·
January 25 – Steve Prefontaine,
American runner (d. 1975) ·
January 30 – Phil Collins, British rock musician,
producer and was lead singer of Genesis ·
Dave Benton, Aruban-born American
singer, Eurovision Song
Contest 2001 winner ·
Harry Wayne Casey,
American musician, songwriter and producer ·
Phil Manzanera, British rock musician February[edit]
·
February 1 – Albert Salvadó,
Andorran writer ·
Blaise Compaoré,
3rd President of
Burkina Faso (1987-2014) ·
Felipe Muńoz, Mexican swimmer ·
Eugenijus Riabovas,
Lithuanian football manager ·
February 5 – Ryūsei Nakao, Japanese actor, singer
and voice actor ·
February 13 – David Naughton, American actor ·
February 14 – Kevin Keegan, English footballer and
football manager ·
Melissa Manchester,
American pop singer ·
Jane Seymour,
English actress ·
Mike Flanagan,
American baseball pitcher ·
William Katt, American film and television
actor ·
February 19 – Muhammad
Tahir-ul-Qadri, Pakistani Islamic Sufi scholar and leader ·
Edward Albert, American actor (d. 2006) ·
Gordon Brown, former Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom ·
February 22 – Ellen Greene, American actress ·
February 23 – Patricia Richardson,
American actress ·
February 24 – Debra Jo Rupp, American actress ·
February 25 – Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter ·
February 27 – Steve Harley, British rock musician March[edit]
·
March 1 ·
Sergei Kourdakov, KGB agent ·
Mike Read, British television presenter and
radio disc jockey ·
March 3 – Heizō Takenaka,
Japanese economist ·
March 4 ·
Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician ·
Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and
football manager ·
Mike Quarry, American light-heavyweight
boxer (d. 2006) ·
Chris Rea, British singer and musician ·
Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993) ·
Linda Yamamoto, Japanese pop star ·
March 6 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004) ·
March 8 ·
Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina ·
Dianne Walker, American tap dancer ·
March 12 – Susan Musgrave, Canadian poet and children's
writer ·
March 13 – Charo, Spanish-American singer and
entertainer ·
March 14 – Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder
of Ben & Jerry's ice
cream ·
March 17 – Kurt Russell, American actor ·
March 18 ·
Ben Cohen,
American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream ·
B. E. Taylor, American singer (d. 2016) ·
March 19 – Fred Berry, American actor (d. 2003) ·
March 24 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer ·
March 26 – Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
March 30 – Wolfgang Niedecken,
German singer April[edit]
·
April 5 ·
Joe Bowen, Canadian hockey broadcaster ·
Dean Kamen, American inventor and
entrepreneur ·
Frank Moulaert, Flemish scholar ·
Guy Vanderhaeghe, Canadian author ·
April 6 ·
Bert Blyleven, Dutch Major League
Baseball player ·
Rita Raave, Estonian actress ·
April 7 – Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter ·
April 8 ·
Geir Haarde, Prime Minister
of Iceland (2006–2009) ·
Joan Sebastian, Mexican singer-songwriter
(d. 2015) ·
April 10 – David Helvarg, American journalist and
activist ·
April 11 – Doris Angleton, American socialite and
murder victim (d. 1997) ·
April 12 – Tom Noonan, American actor ·
April 13 ·
Peabo Bryson, American singer ·
Peter Davison, British actor ·
Max Weinberg, American drummer ·
John Furey, American actor ·
April 14 ·
Julian Lloyd Webber,
English cellist ·
Greg Winter, English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
April 15 – Trixi Schuba, Austrian figure skater ·
April 16 ·
Celso Daniel, Brazilian politician (d. 2002) ·
Mordechai Ben David,
American singer ·
Ioan Mihai
Cochinescu, Romanian writer ·
Björgvin Halldórsson,
Icelandic singer ·
Pierre
Toutain-Dorbec, French photographer ·
April 17 ·
Horst Hrubesch, German football player ·
Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born actress (Romeo
and Juliet) ·
April 19 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime
Minister of the Faroe Islands ·
April 20 ·
Louise Jameson, British actress ·
Luther Vandross, American R&B/soul
musician (d. 2005) ·
April 21 ·
Tony Danza, American actor and comedian ·
Vladimír Špidla,
4th Prime
Minister of the Czech Republic ·
April 23 – Allison Krause, Kent State University
shooting victim (d. 1970). ·
April 24 ·
Enda Kenny 13th Taoiseach of Ireland ·
April 27 ·
Ace Frehley, original guitarist of Kiss ·
Freundel Stuart, 7th Prime Minister of
Barbados ·
April 29 ·
Kwesi Amissah-Arthur,
Ghanaian economist, academic and politician (d. 2018) ·
Dale Earnhardt, American race-car driver (d. 2001) May[edit]
·
May 3 ·
Christopher Cross,
American singer-songwriter ·
Stewart F. Lane, American Broadway producer,
director, playwright and actor ·
May 4 – Jackie Jackson, American singer ·
May 6 ·
Antonio Saldías,
Chilean historian ·
Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (d. 1990) ·
May 9 ·
Christopher Dewdney,
Canadian poet ·
Joy Harjo, Native American poet ·
May 13 ·
Sharon Sayles Belton,
Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota ·
Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional
wrestler (d. 2000) ·
May 15 ·
Yoshifumi Hibako, Japanese general ·
Jonathan Richman, American musician ·
Frank Wilczek, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
May 16 – Unshō Ishizuka,
Japanese voice actor (d. 2018) ·
May 18 – Ben Feringa, Dutch organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
May 19 ·
Joey Ramone, American rock musician (Ramones) (d. 2001) ·
Dick Slater, American professional wrestler
(d. 2018) ·
May 21 ·
Al Franken, American comedian turned
politician (United States
Senator, D-MN) ·
May 23 ·
Jill E. Barad, American businessperson ·
Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player ·
Antonis Samaras, Greek economist and
politician, 185th Prime Minister
of Greece ·
May 25 – Jamaluddin Jarjis,
Malaysian politician (d. 2015) ·
May 26 ·
Madeleine
Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician ·
Sally Ride, American astronaut (d. 2012) ·
May 30 ·
Stephen Tobolowsky,
American actor ·
Fernando Lugo, President of
Paraguay June[edit]
·
June 2 – Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player ·
June 3 – Jill Biden, Second
Lady of the United States ·
June 5 – Suze Orman, American financial advisor,
writer and television personality ·
June 8 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer ·
June 9 – James Newton Howard,
American musician and composer ·
June 12 ·
Brad Delp, American rock vocalist (Boston) (d. 2007) ·
Andranik Margaryan,
14th Prime Minister
of Armenia (d. 2007) ·
June 13 ·
Stellan Skarsgĺrd,
Swedish actor ·
Richard Thomas,
American actor ·
June 14 – Paul Boateng, British politician ·
June 15 ·
Jane Amsterdam, American magazine editor ·
Álvaro Colom, 35th President of Guatemala ·
June 16 ·
Charlie Dominici, American musician ·
Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer ·
June 18 ·
Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess grandmaster
(d. 2014) ·
Steve Miner, American director of film and
television, film producer ·
June 20 ·
Tress MacNeille, American voice actress ·
Paul Muldoon, Irish poet ·
June 21 ·
Nils Lofgren, American musician ·
Marcus Mojigoh, Malaysian politician ·
June 23 – Michčle Mouton,
French rally driver ·
June 24 ·
Mohd Sidek Hassan,
12th Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia ·
David Rodigan, British radio DJ/actor ·
June 27 ·
Julia Duffy, American actress ·
Ulf Andersson, Swedish chess player ·
Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland ·
Madan Bhandari, Nepalese politician
(d. 1993) ·
June 28 ·
Daniel Ruiz, Spanish footballer ·
Lloyd Maines, American musician and record
producer ·
Lalla Ward, British actress ·
June 29 ·
Keno Don Rosa, American comic book author ·
Zvi Eliezer Alonie,
Israeli rabbi ·
Craig Sager, American sports commentator
(d. 2016) ·
June 30 – Stanley Clarke, American bassist July[edit]
·
July 1 ·
Anne Feeney, American folk singer ·
Sabah Abdul-Jalil,
Iraqi football player and coach ·
Daryl Anderson, American actor ·
Terrence Mann, American actor and dancer ·
Abdul Karim Jassim,
Iraqi football player and coach ·
Abdoulkader
Kamil Mohamed, Djiboutian politician ·
Thomas Boni Yayi, 7th President of Benin ·
July 2 ·
Guido Magherini, Italian football player and
coach ·
Wiesław
Gawlikowski, Polish sport shooter ·
Keith Marshall,
American baseball player ·
Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian actress (d. 1997) ·
Sylvia Rivera, American transgender activist
(d. 2002) ·
July 3 ·
Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer ·
Lodewijk Jacobs, Dutch sprint canoer ·
Bob Rigby, U.S. soccer goalkeeper ·
July 4 ·
Beverly Boys, Canadian diver ·
S. S. Ahluwalia, Indian politician ·
July 5 ·
Goose Gossage, American baseball player ·
Yehoshua Gal, Israeli football player ·
Gilbert Van Binst,
Belgian football player ·
July 6 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor ·
July 7 ·
Roz Ryan, American actress and voice actress ·
Menachem Ben-Sasson,
Israeli politician ·
July 8 – Anjelica Huston, American actress ·
July 9 ·
Jeje Odongo, Ugandan military officer and
politician ·
Chris Cooper, American actor ·
July 10 ·
Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and
songwriter ·
Phyllis Smith, American actress ·
July 12 – Cheryl Ladd, American actress and singer ·
July 14 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003) ·
July 15 ·
Folorunso Alakija,
Nigerian businesswoman ·
Rick Kehoe, Canadian professional ice hockey
player and coach ·
July 16 ·
Che Rosli, Malaysian politician ·
Jean-Luc Mongrain,
Canadian news anchor and journalist ·
July 17 – Lucie Arnaz, American actress ·
July 18 ·
Eva Wittke, German swimmer ·
Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician ·
July 21 – Robin Williams, American actor and comedian
(d. 2014) ·
July 22 ·
Tisa Farrow, American actress ·
William Nyallau
Badak, Malaysian politician ·
July 23 ·
Edie McClurg, American actress ·
Michael McConnohie,
American actor ·
July 24 ·
Fiona Reid, English-born Canadian actress ·
Lynda Carter, American actress and singer ·
Chris
Smith, British politician ·
July 25 – Yury Kovalchuk, Russian oligarch ·
July 26 – Sabine
Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, German politician ·
July 28 ·
Doug Collins,
American basketball player, coach and analyst ·
Garrett Hongo, American poet ·
Santiago Calatrava,
Spanish architect and engineer ·
July 31 ·
Evonne Goolagong
Cawley, Australian tennis player ·
Vjekoslav Šutej,
Croatian orchestra conductor August[edit]
·
August 2 – Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and
musician (10cc, Wax) (d. 2011) ·
August 3 ·
Jay North, American actor ·
Marcel Dionne, Canadian hockey player ·
August 6 ·
Catherine Hicks, American actress ·
Daryl Somers, Australian television
personality ·
August 8 ·
Louis van Gaal, Dutch football player and
manager ·
Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director ·
Randy Shilts, American journalist and author
(d. 1994) ·
August 10 – Juan Manuel Santos, President of
Colombia and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ·
August 11 – Katsumi Chō, Japanese voice actor ·
August 12 – Willie Horton, American criminal ·
August 13 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer, songwriter
and multi-instrumentalist (d. 2007) ·
August 14 – Carl Lumbly, American actor ·
August 15 – Jim Allen,
West Indian cricketer ·
August 16 – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua,
13th President of Nigeria (d. 2010) ·
August 17 – Richard Hunt,
American puppeteer (d. 1992) ·
August 19 – John Deacon, English rock bassist ·
August 20 – Greg Bear, American author ·
Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and
computer scientist ·
Chesley V. Morton,
American politician and securities arbitrator ·
Glenn Hughes, British rock musician ·
August 22 – Chandra Prakash
Mainali, Nepalese politician ·
Mark Hudson,
American musician ·
Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya
(d. 2004) ·
Queen Noor of Jordan,
born Lisa Najeeb Halaby, American-born queen consort ·
Jimi Jamison, American musician (d. 2014) ·
August 24 – Orson Scott Card, American writer ·
August 25 – Rob Halford, English rock singer ·
August 26 – Edward Witten, American mathematician and
Fields medalist ·
August 27 – Mack Brown, American college football coach ·
Barbara Hambly, American novelist and
screenwriter ·
Wayne Osmond, American pop singer ·
Behgjet Pacolli, 3rd President of Kosovo. ·
Dana Rosemary
Scallon, Irish singer, Eurovision
Song Contest 1970 winner and Member
of the European Parliament (MEP) September[edit]
·
September 1 – David Bairstow, English cricketer (d. 1998) ·
Jim DeMint, American politician, United States
Senator (R-SC) ·
Mark Harmon, American actor ·
September 4 – Judith Ivey, American actress ·
September 5 – Michael Keaton, American actor and film
director ·
Chrissie Hynde, American rock singer ·
Bert Jones, American football player ·
Mammootty, Indian Actor and Producer ·
September 9 – Alexander Downer, Australian politician,
diplomat ·
September 11 – Mr. Butch, American homeless person and
Boston icon (d. 2007) ·
Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach of Ireland ·
Joe Pantoliano, American actor ·
Jean Smart, American actress, better known
for her role in Designing Women ·
Salva Kiir Mayardit,
1st President of South Sudan ·
Duncan Haldane, English-born
condensed-matter physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Physics ·
Volodymyr Melnykov, Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter and composer ·
Pete Carroll, American football coach ·
Jared Taylor, American author and journalist ·
Fred Seibert, American producer and Frederator Studios founder ·
September 17 – Cassandra Peterson,
American actress, better known for her role in Elvira,
Mistress of the Dark ·
Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (d. 2002) ·
Darryl Stingley, American football player
for the NFL New England Patriots (d. 2007) ·
Jim Diamond,
Scottish singer-songwriter (PhD) (d. 2015) ·
September 20 – Guy Lafleur, Canadian hockey player ·
September 21 – Aslan Maskhadov, President of Chechnya
(d. 2005) ·
David Coverdale, English singer and musician ·
Wolfgang Petry, German singer ·
September 24 – Alfonso Portillo, President of
Guatemala ·
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spanish filmmaker ·
Mark Hamill, American actor, better known
for his role in Star Wars ·
September 26 – Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician ·
September 27 – Paul Craig,
English professor of law ·
September 28 – Jim Diamond,
Scottish singer-songwriter (d. 2015) ·
Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile ·
Andrés Caicedo,
Colombian writer (d. 1977) ·
Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler ·
Mike Enriquez, Filipino radio and television
newscaster ·
September 30 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician and
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine October[edit]
·
October 2 – Sting, British singer, rock musician,
philanthropist ·
Bernard Cooper, American writer ·
Keb' Mo', American musician ·
Kathryn D. Sullivan,
American astronaut ·
Dave Winfield, baseball player ·
October 4 – Bakhytzhan
Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet ·
October 5 – Bob Geldof, Irish musician (The Boomtown Rats) ·
October 6 – Manfred Winkelhock,
German race car driver ·
Jakaya Kikwete, 4th President of Tanzania ·
John Mellencamp, American musician and
songwriter ·
October 10 – Epeli Ganilau, Fijian soldier and statesman ·
Jean-Jacques Goldman,
French singer and songwriter ·
Jon Miller, American sports announcer ·
Hani Al-Mulki, Prime Minister of Jordan ·
Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess grandmaster ·
October 17 - Prabowo Subianto, Indonesian Businessman,
politician, and former Lieutenant General of
the Indonesian
National Armed Forces ·
Pam Dawber, American actress ·
Mike
Antonovich, American ice hockey player and executive ·
Terry McMillan, American author ·
October 20 – Claudio Ranieri, Italian football manager
and former player. ·
October 22 – William David
Sanders, American victim of the Columbine
High School massacre (d. 1999) ·
October 23 – Charly García, Argentine musician and
songwriter ·
October 25 – Richard Lloyd,
American rock guitarist ·
Willie P. Bennett,
Canadian songwriter and singer (d. 2008) ·
Bootsy Collins, American musician,
singer-songwriter ·
October 27 – Éric Morena, French singer ·
October 30 – Harry Hamlin, American actor November[edit]
·
November 2 – Thomas Mallon, American author and critic ·
November 3 – Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist (New
York Daily News) ·
November 4 – Traian Băsescu, President of Romania ·
November 6 – Nigel Havers, English actor ·
November 8 – Alfredo Astiz, Argentine commander ·
November 9 – Lou Ferrigno, American actor and bodybuilder ·
November 10 – Danilo Medina, Dominican politician
53rd President
of the Dominican Republic ·
November 11 – Marc Summers, American television host ·
November 12 – Marcelo Rezende, Brazilian journalist and
television presenter (d. 2017) ·
November 14 – Jacob ter Veldhuis,
Dutch composer ·
Alamgir Hashmi, English poet ·
Beverly D'Angelo,
American actress ·
Sulaiman Taha, Malaysian politician
(d. 2010) ·
Miguel Sandoval, American actor ·
Paula Vogel, American playwright ·
Butch Davis, NFL and NCAA Football Head
Coach ·
Stephen Root, American actor and voice actor ·
Dean Paul Martin, American actor (b. 1987) ·
November 18 – Justin Raimondo, American author ·
Lord Falconer
of Thoroton, British politician ·
Zeenat Aman, Bolywood Actress ·
November 20 – Rodger Bumpass, American voice actor best
known for his role as Squidward Tentacles on SpongeBob Squarepants ·
November 21 – Thomas Roth,
German news anchor presenter and television presenter ·
November 24 – Chet Edwards, American politician ·
November 26 – Cicciolina, Hungarian-Italian actress and
politician ·
November 27 – Teri DeSario, American singer-songwriter ·
Kathryn Bigelow, American film director ·
Roger Troutman, American funk musician
(d. 1999) ·
November 30 – Christian Bernard,
French-born mystic December[edit]
·
Sherry Aldridge,
American singer ·
Obba Babatundé,
American actor ·
Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (d. 1987) ·
Treat Williams, American actor ·
December 2 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher ·
Natalis Chan, Hong Kong actor and producer ·
Riki Choshu, Korean-Japanese professional
wrestler ·
Chang Fei, Taiwanese TV personality ·
Patricia Wettig, American actress ·
December 6 – Tomson Highway, Canadian writer ·
Bill Bryson, American-born British author ·
Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer and songwriter ·
December 10 – Doug Allder, English footballer ·
December 11 – Peter T. Daniels, American scholar ·
December 12 – Wau Holland, German hacker (d. 2001) ·
Mike Krüger, German comedian and singer ·
Jan Timman, Dutch chess player ·
December 17 – Ken Hitchcock, Canadian hockey coach ·
December 19 – Karl F. Lopker, American business executive
(d. 2018) ·
December 20 – Peter May,
Scottish novelist and television dramatist ·
December 27 – Ernesto Zedillo, 54th President of Mexico ·
December 29 – Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (d. 2007) ·
December 31 – Tom Hamilton,
American musician Date unknown[edit] ·
John Kindness, Irish artist ·
Mike
Jackson, British systems scientist and consultant Deaths[edit] January[edit]
Reverend Franziskus Hennemann
·
January 2 – Richard Hart,
American actor (b. 1915) ·
January 3 – Georgios Drossinis,
Greek author, poet, scholar and editor (b. 1859) ·
Yasunosuke Gonda, Japanese sociologist and
theorist (b. 1887) ·
Ken Le Breton, Australian speedway rider
(b. 1925) ·
January 6 – Maila Talvio, Finnish writer, nominated for
the Nobel Prize in
Literature (b. 1871) ·
René Guénon, French metaphysician (b. 1886) ·
Lucien Cuénot, French biologist (b. 1866) ·
January 10 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1885) ·
Jacques de
Baroncelli, French director and screenwriter (b. 1881) ·
Albert Guay, Canadian murderer (executed)
(b. 1917) ·
Prince
Maximilian of Saxony (b. 1870) ·
Florence Kahn,
American actress (b. 1878) ·
Francesco
Marchetti Selvaggiani, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence
(b. 1871) ·
Dorothea Bate, British palaeontologist, a
pioneer of archaeozoology (b. 1878) ·
January 16 – Tsunejirō Ishii,
Japanese admiral (b. 1887) ·
January 17 – Franziskus Hennemann,
South African Titular bishop and
reverend (b. 1882) ·
Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary to India
(b. 1867) ·
Jack Holt,
American actor (b. 1888) ·
January 21 – Yuriko Miyamoto, Japanese novelist (b. 1899) ·
January 27 – Carl Gustaf
Emil Mannerheim, Finnish military leader and statesman, 6th President of Finland (b. 1867) ·
Dominic
Salvatore Gentile, American pilot (b. 1920) ·
Petar Dujam Munzani,
Italian Roman Catholic archbishop
and reverend (b. 1890) ·
January 29 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer
(b. 1880) ·
January 30 – Ferdinand Porsche,
German auto engineer (b. 1875) February[edit]
·
February 1 – Blas Taracena
Aguirre, Spanish archaeologist (b. 1895) ·
Choudhry Rahmat Ali,
one of the founding fathers of Pakistan (b. 1895) ·
Zaifeng, Prince Chun (b. 1883) ·
Fritz Thyssen, German businessman and
industrialist (b. 1873) ·
Zygmunt Szendzielarz,
Polish commander (b. 1910) ·
February 9 – Eddy Duchin, American pianist and bandleader
(b. 1909) ·
February 13 – Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877) ·
February 14 – Andrés Barbero,
Paraguayan scientist and botanist (b. 1877) ·
February 16 – Tommy Gagliano, American mobster (b. 1883) ·
Lyman Gilmore, American aviation pioneer
(b. 1874) ·
Miloš Slovák,
Czech painter (b. 1885) ·
February 19 – André Gide, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1869) ·
February 22 – Alfred Lindley, American Olympic rower -
Men's eights (b. 1904) ·
Henry W. Armstrong,
American boxer and songwriter (b. 1879) ·
Giannina Russ, Italian soprano (b. 1873) March[edit]
Blessed Zoltán Meszlényi
·
March 1 – Maria Dickin, British social reformer
(b. 1870) ·
March 2 ·
Cassiano Conzatti,
Italian botanist, explorer and pteridologist (b. 1862) ·
Al Taylor,
American actor (b. 1887) ·
March 4 ·
Anna Berentine
Anthoni, Norwegian trade unionist and politician (b. 1884) ·
Zoltán Meszlényi,
Hungarian Roman Catholic priest,
bishop, martyr and blessed (b. 1892) ·
March 6 ·
Ivor Novello, British actor, musician and
composer (b. 1893) ·
Volodymyr
Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman, political activist, writer,
playwright and artist, 1st Prime Minister
of Ukraine (b. 1880) ·
March 7 – Prince Rangsit Prayurasakdi (b. 1885) ·
March 8 – Charles Coleman,
American actor (b. 1885) ·
March 10 – Kijūrō
Shidehara, Japanese diplomat, 31st Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1872) ·
March 11 – János Zsupánek, Prekmurje Slovene poet
and writer (b. 1861) ·
March 12 – Alfred Hugenberg, German businessman and politician
(b. 1865) ·
March 14 – Val Lewton, American producer and
screenwriter (b. 1904) ·
March 16 – Janusz
Jędrzejewicz, Polish politician and educator, 24th Prime Minister
of Poland (b. 1885) ·
March 17 – Archduke
Karl Albrecht of Austria (b. 1888) ·
March 19 – Dmytro Doroshenko,
Soviet political figure (b. 1882) ·
March 20 – Alfredo Baquerizo,
19th President of Ecuador (b. 1859) ·
March 21 – Willem Mengelberg,
Dutch conductor (b. 1871) ·
March 24 – José Enrique Varela,
Spanish military officer (b. 1871) ·
March 25 ·
Eddie Collins, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1887) ·
Oscar Micheaux, American filmmaker (b. 1884) ·
March 31 – Ralph Forbes, American actor (b. 1896) April[edit]
·
April 2 – Mikhail Vladimirsky,
Soviet politician (b. 1874) ·
April 3 – Henrik Visnapuu, Soviet poet and dramatist
(b. 1890) ·
April 4 ·
Al Christie, Canadian film director and
producer (b. 1881) ·
George Albert Smith,
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870) ·
April 5 – Cường
Để, Vietnamese revolutionary leader (b. 1882) ·
April 6 – Robert Broom, British paleontologist
(b. 1866) ·
April 11 ·
Peter Enzenauer, Canadian politician
(b. 1878) ·
Joe King, American actor (b. 1883) ·
April 14 – Ernest Bevin, British labour leader,
politician and statesman (b. 1881) ·
April 18 – Óscar Carmona, 96th Prime Minister
of Portugal and 11th President of
Portugal (b. 1869) ·
April 19 – Frank Hopkins, American professional
horseman, soldier (b. 1865) ·
April 20 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician and
statesman, 25th Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1873) ·
April 21 – Lambertus
Johannes Toxopeus, Dutch lepidopterist (b. 1894) ·
April 22 – Horace Donisthorpe,
British myrmecologist (b. 1870) ·
April 23 – Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice
President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865) ·
April 25 – Shyam, Hindi actor (b. 1920) ·
April 29 – Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian philosopher (b. 1889) May[edit]
·
May 1 – Clement Sheptytsky,
Soviet Orthodox priest,
martyr and blessed (b. 1869) ·
May 2 ·
Alphonse de
Châteaubriant, French writer (b. 1877) ·
Mansour bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi politician (b. 1921) ·
May 3 – Homero Manzi, Argentine Tango lyricist and
author (b. 1907) ·
May 5 ·
Eddie Dunn,
American actor (b. 1896) ·
Andronicus Rudenko,
Greek Orthodox priest and
blessed (b. 1874) ·
May 6 – Henri Carton de
Wiart, 23rd Prime Minister
of Belgium (b. 1869) ·
May 7 – Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889) ·
May 8 – Pat Hartigan,
American actor and director (b. 1881) ·
May 10 – Nikola Mushanov, 23rd Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (b. 1872) ·
May 16 – François Hussenot,
French engineer (b. 1912) ·
May 17 ·
William
Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, British field marshal (b. 1865) ·
Mary Emelia Moore,
New Zealand Presbyterian missionary in China (b. 1869) ·
Empress Teimei of Japan, Empress
consort of Emperor Taishō (b. 1884) ·
May 18 – Gaspar Agüero
Barreras, Cuban composer, pianist and composer (b. 1873) ·
May 23 – Antonio Gandusio, Italian actor (b. 1875) ·
May 24 – Thomas N. Heffron,
American silent film director (b. 1872) ·
May 25 ·
Franz Klebusch, German actor (b. 1887) ·
Paula von
Preradović, Austrian poet and writer (b. 1887) ·
May 27 – Sir Thomas Blamey, Australian field marshal
(b. 1884) ·
May 29 ·
Fanny Brice, American entertainer (b. 1891) ·
Antonio Mosca, Italian painter (b. 1870) ·
May 30 – Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886) June[edit]
Blessed Maria Pia Mastena ·
June 1 ·
José Alejandrino,
Filipino general (b. 1870) ·
Rafael Altamira
y Crevea, Spanish historian and jurist (b. 1866) ·
Ludvig Oskar, Estonian painter (b. 1874) ·
June 4 – Serge Koussevitzky,
Soviet conductor (b. 1874) ·
June 7 ·
Paul Blobel, German SS officer (executed)
(b. 1894) ·
Werner Braune, German SS officer (executed)
(b. 1909) ·
Erich Naumann, German SS officer (executed)
(b. 1905) ·
Otto Ohlendorf, German SS officer (executed)
(b. 1907) ·
Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (executed)
(b. 1892) ·
June 9 – Mayo Methot, American actress (b. 1904) ·
June 11 – Takuma Nishimura, Japanese general
(executed) (b. 1899) ·
June 13 – Ben Chifley, Australian politician,
16th Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1885) ·
June 16 – Pyotr Pavlenko, Soviet writer and
screenwriter (b. 1899) ·
June 21 – Charles Dillon
Perrine, American astronomer, discovered two moons of Jupiter (Himalia and Elara) (b. 1867) ·
June 25 – Ferdinand Budicki,
Croatian pioneer (b. 1871) ·
June 27 – David Warfield, American stage actor
(b. 1866) ·
June 28 – Maria Pia Mastena,
Italian Roman Catholic religious
sister and blessed (b. 1881) ·
June 29 – Juan Rivero Torres,
Bolivian engineer and statesman (b. 1897) July[edit]
·
July 1 – Tadeusz Borowski, Polish writer and
journalist (b. 1922) ·
July 2 – Ferdinand Sauerbruch,
German surgeon (b. 1875) ·
July 9 – Harry Heilmann, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1894) ·
July 13 – Arnold Schoenberg,
Austrian composer (b. 1874) ·
July 15 – Florentino Collantes,
Filipino poet (b. 1896) ·
July 17 ·
Charles Desplanques,
French anarchist and journalist (b. 1877) ·
Riad Al Solh, 2-Time Prime Minister of
Lebanon (b. 1894) ·
July 18 ·
Ludovico di
Caporiacco, Italian arachnologist (b. 1901) ·
Antti Juutilainen,
Finnish farmer and politician (b. 1882) ·
July 20 ·
King Abdullah I of Jordan (assassinated)
(b. 1882) ·
Elías Ahúja y Andría,
Spanish philanthropist, politician, businessman and academic (b. 1863) ·
Crown Prince
Wilhelm of Prussia (b. 1882) ·
July 23 ·
Robert J. Flaherty,
American filmmaker (b. 1884) ·
Philippe Pétain,
French World War I marshal, leader of Vichy France, 78th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1856) ·
July 25 – Henrik Ramsay, Finnish politician and
economist (b. 1886) ·
July 26 ·
Juozas Gabrys, Lithuanian politician and
diplomat (b. 1880) ·
Maximilian
Ritter von Pohl, German army and air force officer (b. 1893) ·
July 31 – Cho Ki-chon, Korean poet (b. 1913) August[edit]
·
August 3 – Bee Ho Gray, American Wild West star, silent
film actor and vaudeville performer (b. 1885) ·
August 6 – Anthony Brancato, American criminal
(b. 1914) ·
August 14 – William Randolph
Hearst, American newspaper publisher (b. 1863) ·
August 15 – Artur Schnabel, Austrian-born Jewish
classical pianist (b. 1882) ·
August 16 – Louis Jouvet, French actor and director
(b. 1887) ·
August 19 – Władysław
Wróblewski, Polish politician, scientist, diplomat and lawyer,
provisional Prime Minister
of Poland (b. 1875) ·
August 21 – Constant Lambert, British composer (b. 1905) ·
August 23 – María Cadilla, Puerto Rican writer, educator
and activist (b. 1884) ·
Henri Rivičre,
French painter (b. 1864) ·
Antonio
Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven, Cuban lawyer (b. 1865) ·
August 26 – Bill Barilko, Canadian hockey player
(b. 1927) ·
August 28 – Robert
Walker, American actor (b. 1918) ·
August 31 – Paul Demel, Czech actor (b. 1903) September[edit]
·
Louis Lavelle, French philosopher (b. 1883) ·
Wols,
German painter and photographer (b. 1913) ·
September 2 – Antoine Bibesco, Romanian aristocrat,
lawyer, diplomat and writer (b. 1878) ·
Ernestina
Lecuona y Casado, Cuban pianist, musician, educator and composer
(b. 1882) ·
Enrico Valtorta, Italian Roman Catholic bishop of Hong Kong and reverend (b. 1883) ·
September 5 – Mário Eloy, Portuguese painter (b. 1900) ·
Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b. 1912) ·
John French Sloan,
American artist (b. 1871) ·
Anton
Golopenția, Romanian sociologist (b. 1909) ·
Gibson Gowland, British actor (b. 1877) ·
September 10 – Giuseppe Mulč, Italian composer and
conductor (b. 1885) ·
September 15 – ·
Jacinto Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1895) ·
Fred Seibert, owner of Nickelodeon and Frederator Studios,
is born. ·
František Nušl,
Czechoslovak astronomer and mathematician (b. 1867) ·
Jimmy Yancey, American pianist and composer
(b. 1898) ·
Márton Rátkai,
Hungarian actor (b. 1881) ·
Tomonaga
Sanjūrō, Japanese philosopher (b. 1871) ·
September 26 – Ioan Dimăncescu,
Romania army officer (b. 1898) ·
September 27 – Augusto de
Vasconcelos, Portuguese surgeon, politician and diplomat,
57th Prime Minister
of Portugal (b. 1867) ·
September 29 – Thomas Cahill,
American soccer coach (b. 1864) October[edit]
·
October 4 – Henrietta Lacks, American originator of
the HeLa cell line (b. 1920) ·
October 6 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof,
German-born physician and biochemist (b. 1884) ·
October 12 – Leon Errol, Australian-born actor and
comedian (b. 1881) ·
October 14 – Herman Charles
Bosman, South African writer and journalist (b. 1905) ·
October 16 – Liaquat Ali Khan, 1st Prime Minister
of Pakistan (assassinated) (b. 1895) ·
October 17 – József Farkas,
Hungarian nobleman, jurist and politician (b. 1857) ·
October 23 – Fernando Poe Sr., Filipino actor (b. 1916) ·
Al Baker,
American magician (b. 1874) ·
Prince
Carl, Duke of Västergötland (b. 1861) ·
Clarence
Stewart Williams, American admiral (b. 1863) ·
October 26 – Óscar Pérez Solís,
Spanish artillery officer, engineer, jurist and politician (b. 1882) ·
October 28 – Mady Christians, Austrian actress (b. 1892) ·
October 30 – Gustav Smedal, Norwegian jurist (b. 1888) November[edit] ·
Aleksei Badayev, Soviet functionary
(b. 1883) ·
Richard
Wallace, American film director (b. 1894) ·
November 4 – Khelifa Belkacem, Algerian chaabi singer
(b. 1907) ·
Agrippina Vaganova,
Soviet ballerina (b. 1879) ·
Reggie Walker, South African Olympic athlete
(b. 1889) ·
Luigi Beltrame
Quattrocchi, Italian Roman Catholic layman and blessed (b. 1880) ·
Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer
(b. 1887) ·
November 13 – Nikolai Medtner, Soviet pianist and composer
(b. 1880) ·
November 14 – Ludovico
Chigi Albani della Rovere (b. 1866) ·
November 15 – Robert Elliott,
American actor (b. 1879) ·
Thomas
Quinlan, British opera singer (b. 1881) ·
Lou Skuce, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1886) ·
November 23 – Enrichetta Alfieri,
Italian Roman Catholic religious
professed and blessed (b. 1891) ·
István Friedrich,
24th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1883) ·
Harry B. Liversedge,
American general (b. 1894) ·
November 27 – Timrava, Slovak novelist (b. 1867) ·
November 29 – Pramathesh Barua, Indian actor, director and
screenwriter (b. 1903) December[edit]
Blessed Anton Durcovici ·
December 1 – Felix Petyrek, Austrian composer (b. 1892) ·
December 4 – Pedro Salinas, Spanish poet, ·
December 5 – Shoeless Joe Jackson,
American baseball player (Chicago White Sox)
(b. 1889) ·
J. Edward Bromberg,
Hungarian-born character actor (b. 1903) ·
André Gobert, French tennis player (b. 1890) ·
Harold Ross, American editor (b.1892) ·
December 10 – Algernon Blackwood,
British writer (b. 1869) ·
December 11 – Selim Palmgren, Finnish composer, pianist
and conductor (b. 1878) ·
December 12 – Bill Patton,
American actor (b. 1894) ·
December 19 – Barton Yarborough,
American actor (b. 1900) ·
December 20 – Anton Durcovici, Austro-Humgarian born
Romanian Roman Catholic bishop
and blessed (b. 1888) ·
December 23 – Enrique Santos
Discépolo, Argentine tango and milonga musician and composer
(b. 1901) ·
December 24 – Raffaele Rossetti,
Italian engineer and military naval officer (b. 1881) ·
December 31 – Maxim Litvinov, Russian revolutionary and
Soviet diplomat (b. 1876) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Physics – John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton ·
Chemistry – Edwin McMillan and Glenn T. Seaborg ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Max Theiler ·
Peace – Léon Jouhaux References[edit]
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