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1952 (MCMLII) was
a leap year starting on
Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1952nd year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 952nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of
the 20th century,
and the 3rd year of the 1950s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
January 8 – West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders. ·
January 12 – The University of
Tennessee admits its first black student. ·
January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting
British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. February[edit] ·
February 2 – A tropical storm forms just north
of Cuba moving northeast. The storm makes
landfall in southern Floridathe next day. It
is the earliest reported landfall from a tropical storm. ·
George VI (King of the United Kingdom
and the Dominions: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon)
dies aged 56 after a long illness. He is succeeded by his daughter The
Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh as Queen Elizabeth II, who is on a visit to Kenya. ·
In
the United States, a mechanical heart is used for the first
time in a human patient. ·
February 7 – Elizabeth II is
proclaimed Queen of
the United Kingdom at St James's Palace,
London, England. ·
February 14 – February 25 – The Winter Olympics held
in Oslo, Norway. ·
February 15 – The funeral of George VI takes place at St
George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. ·
February 18 – Greece and Turkey join
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. ·
The SS Pendleton, a T2 tanker, breaks in half during a nor'easter off the east coast near
Massachusetts. Bernard Webber and
a crew of four volunteer to rescue all 32 men aboard. ·
Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in
organized baseball, by being
authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International
League. ·
Winston Churchill scraps
UK compulsory national identity cards. ·
February 21 – In Dhaka, East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) police open fire on a procession
of students, killing 4 people and starting a country-wide protest which leads
to the recognition of Bengali as one of the national
languages of Pakistan. The day is later declared "International
Mother Language Day" by UNESCO. ·
February 25 – The Parícutin active volcano in Michoacán, west central Mexico, ceases its
discontinuous eruption after spewing forth a gigaton of lava and
burying San Juan
Parangaricutiro. ·
United
Kingdom Prime
Minister Winston Churchill announces
that the United Kingdom has an atomic bomb. ·
Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first
Canada-born Governor
General of Canada. March[edit] ·
March 7 – NME goes
on sale for the first time in the United Kingdom. ·
March 10 – General Fulgencio Batista re-takes
power in Cuba in a coup. ·
March 15 – 16 – 73 inches (1,870 mm) of
rain falls in Cilaos, Réunion, the most rainfall in one day up to
that time. ·
March 20 – The United States Senate ratifies
a peace treaty with
Japan. ·
March 21 ·
The
last two executions in
the Netherlands take place. ·
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is elected Prime Minister
of the Gold Coast. ·
Tornadoes ravage the lower Mississippi River
Valley, leaving 208 dead, through March 22. ·
March 22 – Wernher von Braun publishes
the first in his series of articles titled Man Will
Conquer Space Soon!, including ideas for manned flights
to Mars and the Moon. ·
March 27 ·
Konrad Adenauer survives an
assassination attempt. ·
Legislative
Assembly election held in Coorg. ·
March 29 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces that he will
not seek reelection. April[edit] ·
April 4 ·
In
the Hague Tribunal, Israel demands reparations worth $3 billion from
Germany. ·
West Ice accidents:
During a severe storm in the West Ice, east of Greenland, 78 seal hunters on 5
Norwegian seal hunting vessels
vanish without a trace. ·
April 7 – The American Research
Bureau reports that the I Love Lucy episode, "The
Marriage License" was the first TV show in history to be seen in around
10,000,000 homes the evening the episode aired. ·
April 8 – Youngstown
Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer: The U.S. Supreme Court limits
the power of the President to seize private business, after President Harry S. Truman nationalizes all steel
mills in the United States, just before the 1952 steel strike begins. ·
April 9 – Hugo Ballivián's
government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, which starts a
period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and
the nationalization of
tin mines. ·
April 11 – Battle of Nanri
Island: The Republic of China seizes
the island from the People's Republic of China. ·
April 15 – The United States B-52 Stratofortress flies
for the first time. ·
April 18 ·
Bolivia National Revolution: A
universal vote enables indigenous peoples and women to vote, nationalizes
mines and enacts agrarian reform. ·
West Germany
and Japan form diplomatic relations. ·
April 26 – The United States Navy
aircraft carrier Wasp collides
with the destroyer Hobson while
on exercises in the Atlantic Ocean, killing 175 men. ·
April 28 – The Treaty of San
Francisco goes into effect, formally ending the war between Japan and the Allies,
and simultaneously ending the occupation of
the four main Japanese islands by the Supreme
Commander for the Allied Powers. ·
April 29 – Lever House officially opens at
390 Park Avenue in
New York City, heralding a new age of commercial architecture in the United
States. Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore,
Owings & Merrill, it is the first International
Style skyscraper. May[edit] ·
May 1 – East Germany threatens to form its own
army. ·
May 2 – The first passenger jet flight
route opens between London and Johannesburg. ·
May 3 – U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P.
Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole. ·
May 6 – Farouk of Egypt has himself announced
as a descendant of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. ·
May 13 – Pandit Nehru forms his first government
in India. ·
May 15 – Diplomatic
relations are established between Israel and Japan at the
level of legations. ·
May 18 – Ann Davison becomes the first woman to
single-handedly sail the Atlantic Ocean. June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
The Roman Catholic Church bans the books
of André Gide. ·
Navigation
opens on the Volga–Don Canal,
connecting the Caspian Sea basin
with that of the Black Sea. ·
June 13 – "Catalina affair": Soviet MiG-15 fighter
planes shoot down a Swedish military Douglas C-47
Skytrain carrying out signals intelligence gathering
operations over the Baltic Sea, killing
all 8 crew; three days later they shoot down a Catalina flying
boat searching for possible survivors. ·
June 14 ·
The keel is
laid for the U.S. nuclear submarine USS Nautilus. ·
Myxomatosis is introduced to Europe on
the French estate of Dr. Paul-Félix
Armand-Delille. ·
June 15 – Anne Frank's The Diary of a
Young Girl is published in English-language translation. ·
June 19 – The Special
Forces (United States Army) are created. ·
June 21 – The Philippine School of
Commerce, through a government act, is converted to the Philippine College of
Commerce (later the Polytechnic
University of the Philippines). ·
June 26 – The Pan-Malayan Labour
Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour
parties. ·
June 27 – Decree 900 in Guatemala orders
redistribution of uncultivated land. ·
June 29 – Finnish contestant Armi Kuusela wins the title of Miss Universe. July[edit] France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands form the European
Coal and Steel community, the foundation organization which would
become the European Union. ·
July 3 – The ocean liner SS United States makes her
maiden crossing of the Atlantic. ·
July 13 – East Germany announces the formation of
its National People's
Army. ·
July 19 – August 3 – The 1952 Summer Olympics are
held in Helsinki, Finland. ·
July 21 – The 7.3 Mw Kern County
earthquake strikes California's southern Central
Valley with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring
hundreds. ·
July 23 ·
The European
Coal and Steel Community is established. ·
General Mohammed Naguib leads The Free
Officers (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser –
the real power behind the coup) in the overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt. ·
July 25 – Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing
commonwealth of the United States. August[edit] ·
August 5 – The Treaty of Taipei between Japan and
the Republic of China goes
into effect, to officially end the Second
Sino-Japanese War. ·
August 11 – The Jordanian Parliament forces King Talal of Jordan to abdicate due to
mental illness; he is succeeded by his son King Hussein. ·
August 12 – The Night of the
Murdered Poets; the execution of 13 Soviet Jewish poets. ·
August 13 – Japan joins the IMF. ·
August 14 – West Germany joins
the IMF and
the World Bank. ·
August 16 – Lynmouth, North Devon, England is devastated by floods; 34
die. ·
August 22 – The most damaging shock of
the 1952 Kern
County earthquake sequence strikes with a moment magnitude of
5.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). This event
damaged several hundred buildings in Bakersfield,
California, with total additional losses of $10 million, with two
associated deaths and some injuries. ·
August 23 – Kitty Wells is first woman to score
number 1 hit with the song "It wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk
Angels". ·
August 26 – A British passenger jet
makes a return crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the same day. ·
August 27 – Reparation negotiations between West
Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg: Germany will pay 3 billion Deutsche Marks. ·
August 29 – Composer John Cage's 4′33″, during which the
performer does not play, premieres in Woodstock, New York. ·
August 30 – The last Finnish war reparations are sent to the Soviet Union. ·
August 31 – The Grenzlandring racetrack closes in Wegberg, Germany. September[edit] ·
September 2 – Dr. C. Walton Lillehei and
Dr. F. John Lewis perform the first open-heart surgery at the University of
Minnesota. ·
September 6 – Television debuts in Canada as
the CBC in Montreal, Quebec airs. ·
September 8 – CBC Toronto debuts. ·
September 10 – The European
Parliamentary Assembly (from March 1962, European Parliament)
opens. ·
September 15 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia. ·
September 18 – The Soviet Union vetoes Japan's application
for membership in the United Nations. ·
September 19 – The United States
bars Charlie Chaplin from
re-entering the country after a trip to England ·
September 30 – The Revised Standard
Version of the Bible is published. October[edit] ·
October 3 – The first British nuclear
weapon is detonated in Australia making the United Kingdom
the third nuclear weapons
state. ·
Negotiations for a ceasefire in Korea are postponed. ·
Harrow
and Wealdstone rail crash in England kills 112 people. ·
October 12 – The Gamma Sigma Sigma National
Service Sorority is founded in New York City at Panhellenic
Tower. ·
October 14 – The United Nations begins work in the
new United
Nations building in New York City, designed by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer. ·
October 16 – Limelight opens
in London; writer/actor/director/producer Charlie Chaplin arrives by ocean liner;
in transit his re-entry permit to the United States is revoked by J. Edgar Hoover. ·
October 17 – Indonesian troops led by General Nasution surround
the presidential palace, seeking the dismissal of the People's
Representative Council; Sukarnoavoids confrontation. ·
Alain Bombard begins to sail from
the Canary Islands to Barbados in 65 days; he reaches
them December 23. ·
John Bamford, aged 15, rescues victims of a
house fire and becomes the youngest person to be awarded the George Cross. ·
October 20 – Martial law is declared in Kenya due to the Mau Mau uprising. November[edit] ·
November 1 – Nuclear testing and Operation Ivy: The United States
successfully detonates the
first hydrogen bomb,
codenamed "Mike", at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific
Ocean, with a yield of
10.4 megatons. The explosion of the first hydrogen bomb. ·
The
9.0 Mw Severo-Kurilsk
earthquake hits the Kamchatka Peninsula of
the Soviet Union with
a maximum Mercalli
intensity of XI (Extreme). A tsunami took the lives of
more than 2,300 people. ·
United
States presidential election, 1952: Republican General Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democratic Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson (correctly
predicted by the UNIVAC computer). ·
The
U.S. National
Security Agency is founded. ·
The Pace-Finletter
MOU 1952: A Memorandum of
understanding is signed between "...Air Force Secretary
Finletter and Army Secretary Pace that established a fixed wing weight limit
[for the Army] of five thousand pounds empty, but weight restrictions on
helicopters were eliminated..."[1] ·
November 18 – Jomo Kenyatta is arrested in Kenya for an alleged connection to
the Mau Mau Uprising. ·
The
first official passenger flight over the North Pole is made from Los Angeles
to Copenhagen. ·
The
first successful sex reassignment surgery was performed in Copenhagen, making George Jorgensen Jr.
become Christine Jorgensen. ·
November 25 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the
Ambassadors Theatre in London; as of 2015, it continues next door at the St.
Martin's Theatre, and remains the longest continuously running production of
a play in history. ·
November 29 – Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills
a political campaign promise,
by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict. December[edit] ·
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines takes
office as President of Mexico. ·
The New York Daily News carries
a front-page story announcing that Christine Jorgensen,
a transsexual woman
in Denmark, has become the recipient of the first successful sexual
reassignment operation. ·
December 4 – the Great Smog of London:
A a severe air-pollution event. ·
December 14 – The first successful
surgical separation of Siamese twins is conducted in Mount
Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. ·
December 20 – The crash of a U.S. Air
Force C-124 Globemaster at Moses Lake, WA kills 86 servicemen. ·
December 25 – One West German soldier
is killed in a shooting incident in West Berlin. ·
December 26 – Joseph Ivor Linton,
the first Israeli Minister Plenipotentiary in
Japan, presents his credentials to the Emperor of Japan. Date unknown[edit] ·
Nearly
58,000 cases of polio are
reported in the U.S.; 3,145 die and 21,269 are left with mild to
disabling paralysis.[2] ·
The Nordic Council agrees to the
unrestricted transport of people, goods and services throughout the Nordic Countries. ·
The National
Prohibition Foundation is incorporated in Indiana. ·
Säynätsalo Town Hall in
Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto, is
completed. ·
The
influential multistorey residential building, Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, France, designed by Le Corbusier, is completed. ·
The American Embassy
School of New Delhi is founded. ·
Swedish paratrooper training
school Fallskärmsjägarna (FJS)
is established. ·
13-year-old[3] Jimmy Boyd's record of I Saw
Mommy Kissing Santa Claus is released, selling 3 million
records ·
Capitol
Wrestling Corporation, the professional wrestling promotion that would later
evolve into the modern day WWE is founded by Jess McMahon and Toots Mondt ·
During
the Mau Mau Uprising,
the poisonous latex of the African milk bush was
used to kill cattle in an
incident of Biological warfare.[4] Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Hamad bin
Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar ·
Jury Zacharanka, Belarusian politician ·
Makoto Nakajima, Japanese bureaucrat,
Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office ·
Ng Man-tat, Hong Kong actor ·
Elvira Saadi, Soviet gymnast ·
January 3 – Jim Ross, American wrestling announcer ·
January 7 – Sammo Hung, Hong Kong martial arts
superstar, producer and director ·
January 9 – Marek Belka, 11th Prime Minister
of Poland ·
Charles
Faulkner, American life coach, motivational speaker, trader and
author ·
Walter Mosley, American author ·
Maureen Dowd, American journalist ·
Călin
Popescu-Tăriceanu, 60th Prime Minister of Romania ·
January 15 – Boris Blank,
Swiss musician ·
January 15 – Skay Beilinson, Argentinian guitar player ·
January 16 – H.R.H. Prince Ahmed Fuad
Farouk (Fuad II), the
last King of Egypt & Sudan, Nubia, Kordofan and Darfur ·
January 17 – Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician,
composer, producer, and actor (Yellow Magic
Orchestra) ·
Beau Weaver, American male voice actor ·
Bruce Jay Nelson, American computer
scientist (d. 1999) ·
Michel Plante, Canadian ice hockey left
winger ·
Nadiuska, German television actress ·
January 20 – Dave Fennoy, American voice actor ·
Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental
activist ·
Louis Menand, American writer and critic ·
January 22 – Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007) ·
January 24 – Raymond Domenech, French football player
and manager ·
Sara Mandiano, French singer and songwriter ·
Peter Tatchell, Australian-born British
human rights activist ·
Francine,
Princess of Montenegro, (d. 2008) ·
Asma Jahangir, Pakistani human rights
activist and lawyer (d. 2018) ·
January 28 – Tomokazu Miura, Japanese actor ·
January 29 – Klaus-Peter Hanisch,
German footballer (d. 2009) ·
January 30 – Valery Khalilov, Russian military band
conductor (d. 2016) ·
Jan Hofer, German journalist, broadcast news
analyst and television presenter ·
Yvette Rosser, American author February[edit] ·
February 1 – Stan Kasten, American baseball executive,
President of the Washington Nationals ·
February 2 – Park Geun-hye, President of South Korea ·
Abdalá Bucaram,
38th President of Ecuador ·
Jenny Shipley, 36th Prime
Minister of New Zealand ·
Wyngard Tracy, Filipino talent manager
(d. 2010) ·
Tony Liu, Chinese actor ·
Daisuke Gōri, Japanese voice actor
(d. 2010) ·
Nora Miao, Hong Kong actress ·
February 10 – Lee Hsien Loong, 3rd Prime
Minister of Singapore ·
February 12 – Simon MacCorkindale,
English actor (d. 2010) ·
February 14 – Nancy Keenan, American president of NARAL ·
Nikolai Sorokin, Soviet and Russian actor,
theatre director (d. 2013) ·
Tomislav
Nikolić, 4th President of Serbia (since
2012) ·
February 17 – Garry Chalk, British voice actor ·
Gary Seear, New Zealand rugby union player
(d. 2018) ·
Amy Tan, American novelist ·
February 20 – João Calvão da Silva,
Portuguese politician (d. 2018) ·
Vitaly Churkin, Russian diplomat (d. 2017) ·
Elisha Obed, Bahamian boxer (d. 2018) ·
William Frist, U.S. Senator and heart
surgeon ·
Saufatu Sopoanga, 8th Prime Minister of
Tuvalu ·
February 24 – Maxine Chernoff, American poet, novelist and
editor ·
February 25 – Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer
(d. 2000) ·
Gary the Retard,
American member of The Wack Pack (The Howard Stern
Show) ·
Sharon
Dahlonega Raiford Bush, American television's first female
African-American primetime weather anchor March[edit] ·
March 1 – Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer
and manager ·
March 2 – Laraine Newman, American comedian (Saturday
Night Live) ·
March 4 ·
Scott Hicks, Australian film director ·
Ronn Moss, American actor ·
Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer ·
March 7 – Viv Richards, West Indian cricketer ·
March 10 – Morgan Tsvangirai,
Zimbabwean politician (d. 2018) ·
March 11 – Douglas Adams, English author (The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (d. 2001) ·
March 13 ·
Ágnes Rapai, Hungarian writer ·
Wolfgang Rihm, German composer ·
March 15 – Howard Devoto, British singer ·
March 16 – Philippe Kahn, French-American businessman
and inventor ·
March 17 – Perla, Paraguayan-Brazilian singer ·
March 19 – Harvey Weinstein, American film producer ·
March 22 – Bob Costas, American sports announcer ·
March 23 ·
Villano III, Mexican professional wrestler
(d. 2018) ·
Rex Tillerson, United
States Secretary of State ·
Kim Stanley Robinson,
American author ·
March 25 ·
Jung Chang, Chinese-born author and
historian ·
Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician and
politician ·
March 27 – Maria Schneider,
French actress (d. 2011) ·
March 28 – Keith Ashfield, Canadian politician
(d. 2018) ·
March 29 – Teofilo Stevenson,
Cuban boxer (d. 2012) ·
March 30 – Peter Knights, Australian footballer and
coach ·
March 31 ·
Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian
(d. 1998) ·
Vanessa del Rio, American actress April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Poh Ah Tiam, Malaysian politician,
businessman and community leader (d. 2007) ·
Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher ·
Annette O'Toole, American actress ·
April 2 – Lennart Fagerlund,
Swedish cyclist ·
April 4 ·
Rosemarie Ackermann,
German athlete ·
Gary Moore, Northern Irish musician
(d. 2011) ·
Karen Magnussen, Canadian figure skater ·
April 5 – Mitch Pileggi, American actor ·
April 6 – Marilu Henner, American actress and author ·
April 7 – Nichita Danilov, Romanian writer ·
April 10 – Steven Seagal, American actor ·
April 11 ·
Peter Windsor, British sports reporter ·
Qamar Zaman, Pakistani squash player ·
April 12 – Ralph Wiley, American sports journalist
(d. 2004) ·
April 14 – Mickey O'Sullivan,
Irish sportsman ·
April 15 ·
Glenn Shadix, American actor and voice actor
(d. 2010) ·
Sam McMurray, American actor ·
April 16 ·
Billy West, American voice actor ·
Chaz Jankel, English singer and
multi-instrumentalist ·
April 17 ·
Joe Alaskey, American voice actor (d. 2016) ·
Željko
Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (d. 2000) ·
April 19 – Alexis Arguello,
Nicaraguan boxer and politician (d. 2009) ·
April 20 – Eric Pickles, British politician ·
April 21 – Cheryl Gillan, British politician ·
April 22 – Marilyn Chambers, American porn actress
(d. 2009) ·
April 24 – Jean-Paul Gaultier,
French Haute couture and Prêt-à-Porter fashion designer ·
April 25 ·
Lane Caudell, American actor ·
Ketil Bjørnstad,
Norwegian pianist ·
April 26 – Spice
Williams-Crosby, American actress and stunt performer ·
April 27 – George Gervin, American basketball player ·
April 28 ·
Gerald Barry,
Irish composer ·
Mary McDonnell, American actress May[edit] ·
May 1 – Michael
Thornton, British Member of Parliament for Eastleigh ·
May 2 ·
Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator
and broadcaster ·
Isla St Clair, Scottish singer ·
May 3 ·
Leonid Khachiyan, Russian-born mathematician ·
Allan Wells, Scottish athlete ·
May 4 – Michael Barrymore,
British comedian and TV presenter ·
May 6 ·
Gregg Henry, American actor and musician ·
Michael O'Hare, American actor (d. 2012) ·
May 8 – Ronnie Dapo, American child actor ·
May 10 ·
Roland Kaiser, German singer ·
Manuel Mora Morales,
Spanish director and writer ·
May 11 ·
Shohreh Aghdashloo,
Iranian actress ·
Frances Fisher, British-born American
actress ·
Mike Lupica, American sports journalist ·
Renaud, French composer ·
May 12 – Christopher Gaze, British voice actor ·
May 13 – John Kasich, Governor of Ohio ·
May 14 ·
Robert Zemeckis, American film director ·
David Byrne, Scottish singer-songwriter (Talking Heads) ·
May 15 – Chazz Palminteri, American actor ·
May 18 ·
Diane Duane, American writer ·
Ryūzaburō
Ōtomo, Japanese voice actor ·
George Strait, American country musician ·
May 19 – Bert van Marwijk, Dutch football manager ·
May 20 – Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer ·
May 21 – Mr. T, African-American actor (The A-Team) ·
May 23 – Anne-Marie David, French singer, Eurovision Song
Contest 1973 winner ·
May 24 – Sybil Danning, Austrian actress ·
May 26 – David Meece, American Christian musician ·
May 28 – Victoria Cunningham,
American actress and Playboy Playmate June[edit] ·
June 4 ·
Scott Wesley Brown,
American Christian musician ·
Bronisław
Komorowski, President of Poland ·
June 7 ·
Hubert Auriol, French racing driver ·
Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor ·
Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer, Nobel Prize
winner ·
June 9 – Yukihiro Takahashi,
Japanese musician and singer (Yellow Magic
Orchestra) ·
June 14 – Pat Summitt, American basketball coach
(d. 2016) ·
June 16 ·
George Papandreou,
Greek politician ·
Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer and
songwriter ·
June 17 ·
Sergio Marchionne,
Italian-Canadian executive (d. 2018) ·
Sarbjit Singh Chadha,
Indian enka singer ·
Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player,
coach and executive ·
June 18 ·
Idriss Déby Itno, President of Chad ·
Carol Kane, American actress ·
Miriam Flynn, American actress and voice
actress ·
Isabella Rossellini,
Italian model and actress ·
June 20 ·
John Goodman, American actor ·
Kōichi Mashimo,
Japanese anime director ·
Vikram Seth, Indian novelist ·
June 21 ·
Dave Downs, American professional baseball
player ·
Jeremy Coney, New Zealand cricket captain ·
Marcella Detroit, American singer (Shakespears Sister) ·
Kazi Zulkader
Siddiqui, Pakistani businessman, academician ·
June 22 ·
Phil Nicholls, English professional
footballer ·
Franco Cucinotta, Italian professional
footballer ·
Graham Greene,
Canadian (First Nations) actor ·
Alastair Stewart, British newsreader ·
Santokh Singh, Malaysian footballer ·
June 23 ·
Marv Kellum, American football player ·
Peter Whiteside, British modern pentathlete ·
June 24 ·
Ladislas Lozano, French-Spanish football
coach and retired player ·
Stephen Pusey, British-born artist ·
June 25 ·
Péter Erdő, Hungarian cardinal ·
Tim Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter ·
June 26 ·
Michele McDonald, American nurse, model and
beauty pageant titleholder ·
Simon Mann, British Army officer and
mercenary ·
William Arthur
Pailes, American astronaut ·
June 27 – Douglas Unger, American novelist ·
June 28 – Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete (d. 2013) ·
June 29 – Joe Johnson,
English snooker player ·
June 30 ·
Stein Olav Hestad,
Norwegian footballer ·
Patrick Pinney, American actor and voice
actor ·
David Garrison, American actor July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
David Arkenstone, American composer and
performer ·
Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor and comedian (Saturday
Night Live) ·
Robert Baer, American author ·
Dale Hayes, South African professional
golfer ·
Leon
"Ndugu" Chancler, American drummer (d. 2018) ·
July 2 ·
Linda M. Godwin, American scientist ·
Ahmed Ouyahia, Algerian politician ·
Marco Piccinini, Monegasque sport
personality, businessman, and politician ·
July 3 ·
Laura Branigan, American singer and actress
(d. 2004) ·
Lu Colombo, Italian singer ·
Andy Fraser, English musician (d. 2015) ·
Rohinton Mistry, Indian writer ·
July 4 ·
Álvaro Uribe, President of
Colombia ·
John Waite, English singer and musician ·
July 5 – Hillbilly Jim, American professional
wrestler and radio host ·
July 6 ·
Grant Goodeve, American male voice actor ·
Adi Shamir, Modern cryptographer ·
Ani Yudhoyono, 6th First Lady of
Indonesia, wife of Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono ·
Kim Chul-soo,
South Korean footballer ·
Jennifer Savidge, American actress ·
July 7 ·
Li Hongzhi, Chinese-American founder and
spiritual leader of Falun Gong ·
Alain Cortes, French modern pentathlete ·
Cheryl Gould, American journalist ·
Li Hongzhi, Chinese spiritual leader ·
July 8 ·
Marianne Williamson,
American spiritual teacher, author and lecturer ·
Ahmed Nazif, Prime Minister of
Egypt ·
Knud Arne Jürgensen,
Danish music, theater and ballet historian ·
July 9 – John Tesh, American composer, musician, and
television host (Entertainment Tonight) ·
July 10 ·
Yōko Asagami, Japanese voice actress ·
Anam Ramanarayana
Reddy, Indian politician ·
July 11 – Stephen Lang, American actor ·
July 12 ·
Voja Antonić, Serbian inventor and writer ·
Philip Taylor Kramer,
American rock musician (d. 1995) ·
Liz Mitchell, Jamaican-born singer of Boney M. ·
July 14 ·
Bob Casale, American keyboardist (Devo)
(d. 2014) ·
Franklin Graham, American evangelist and son
of Billy Graham ·
Yutaka Mizutani, Japanese actor and singer ·
Stan Shaw, American actor ·
July 15 ·
Marky Ramone, American musician ·
Terry O'Quinn, American actor ·
Yuriko Koike, Japanese politician (Governor of Tokyo) ·
July 16 – Stewart Copeland, American rock musician (The
Police) ·
July 17 ·
David Hasselhoff, American actor ·
Billy Sprague, American Christian musician ·
Nicolette Larson, American pop singer
(d. 1997) ·
July 18 – Albert Camille Vital,
Malagasy Army officer, politician and civil engineer ·
July 19 – Allen Collins, American rock musician (Lynyrd
Skynyrd) (d. 1990) ·
July 20 – Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress ·
July 21 – Ahmad Husni
Hanadzlah, Malaysian Minister of Finance ·
July 24 ·
Kamrul Hasan Bhuiyan,
Bangladeshi military officer and writer (d. 2018) ·
Gus Van Sant, American film director ·
July 25 – Eduardo Souto de
Moura, Portuguese Architect ·
July 27 – Hannu-Pekka Hänninen,
Finnish sports commentator ·
July 28 – Vajiralongkorn, King of Thailand (Rama X) ·
July 31 ·
Chris Ahrens,
American ice hockey player ·
João Barreiros,
Portuguese author ·
Michael Wolff,
American jazz pianist August[edit] ·
August 1 – Zoran
Đinđić, Serbian politician (d. 2003) ·
August 2 – Arthur
"Art" James, American former MLB baseball
outfielder ·
August 3 – Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer ·
August 4 – Moya Brennan, Irish singer ·
August 5 ·
Hun Sen, Prime Minister
of Cambodia ·
Louis Walsh, Irish music producer and
reality TV show judge ·
August 6 – Wojciech Fortuna, Polish ski jumper ·
August 7 ·
Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer (d. 1995) ·
Alexei Sayle, English comedian ·
August 8 ·
Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author ·
Robin Quivers, African-American radio
personality (The Howard Stern Show) ·
August 9 – Vicki Morgan, American model (d. 1983) ·
August 10 – Daniel Hugh Kelly,
American actor ·
August 11 – Bob Mothersbaugh, American composer and
guitarist (Devo) ·
August 12 – Daniel Biles, American associate justice of
the Kansas Supreme Court ·
August 13 – Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2002) ·
Gary Gibbs – American football coach ·
August 16 – Reginald VelJohnson,
American actor ·
August 17 – Guillermo Vilas, Argentine tennis player ·
Patrick Swayze, American actor and dancer
(d. 2009) ·
Pete Richens, British screenwriter (d. 2018) ·
August 19 – Jonathan Frakes, American actor (Star
Trek: The Next Generation) ·
Joe Strummer, British rock musician (The Clash) (d. 2002) ·
Jiří Paroubek,
6th Prime
Minister of the Czech Republic ·
August 23 – Steven Allan Brown, American punk rock
musician (Tuxedomoon) ·
August 24 – Linton Kwesi Johnson,
Jamaican-born musician and poet ·
Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Michael Jeter, American actor of film,
stage, and television (d. 2003) ·
Paul Reubens, American actor, writer and
comedian (Pee-Wee Herman) ·
Roger Stone, American lobbyist ·
August 28 – Rita Dove, American poet (1987 Pulitzer Prize, United States
Poet Laureate 1993–95) ·
August 28 – Wendelin Wiedeking,
German businessman ·
Lee Hyla, American composer ·
Hilary Farr, British-Canadian actress and
designer September[edit] ·
September 2 – Jimmy Connors, American tennis player ·
September 6 – Lucky Enam, Bangladeshi television and
theater actress ·
September 8 – Patrick Prosser, Scottish computer scientist ·
September 9 – Angela Cartwright,
British-American child actress, photographer and painter ·
September 10 – Paulo Betti, Brazilian actor ·
Sergey Karaganov, Russian political
scientist ·
Neil Peart, Canadian rock drummer (Rush) ·
Karen Muir, South African swimmer (d. 2013) ·
Fatos Nano, Albanian prime minister ·
Mickey Rourke, American film actor, former
boxer ·
September 17 – Harold Solomon, American tennis player ·
September 18 – Nile Rodgers, American musician and
guitarist ·
September 19 – George Warrington,
president of Amtrak (1998–2002);
executive director of NJ Transit (2002–07)
(d. 2007) ·
September 20 – Manuel Zelaya, President of
Honduras ·
September 21 – Anneliese Michel, German Roman Catholic
believed possessed by demons (d. 1976) ·
September 22 – Bob Goodlatte, U.S. Congressman from
Virginia ·
Jim Morrison,
American baseball player ·
Peter Schrank, political cartoonist ·
Joseph Patrick
Kennedy II, politician ·
Mark Sandman, American rock musician and
artist (d. 1999) ·
Jimmy Garvin, American professional wrestler ·
Christopher Reeve,
American actor and activist (d. 2004) ·
September 26 – Predrag Miletić,
Serbian actor ·
Didier
Dubois, French mathematician ·
Katie Fforde, British writer ·
September 28 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress (d. 2012) ·
September 29 – Max Sandlin, American politician ·
September 30 – Jack Wild, English actor (H.R.
Pufnstuf) (d. 2006) October[edit] ·
October 2 – Robin Riker, American actress and author ·
Clive Barker, British author ·
Harold Faltermeyer,
German musician ·
Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan ·
Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan ·
Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor ·
October 6 – Matthew Sweeney, Irish poet (d. 2018) ·
Mary Badham, American actress ·
Vladimir Putin, 2-Time President of Russia ·
Ludmilla Tourischeva,
Soviet gymnast ·
October 9 – Sharon Osbourne, English actress, TV host
and author ·
October 12 – Advent Bangun, Indonesian karateka and actor
(d. 2018) ·
Beverly Johnson, African-American model,
actress and businesswoman ·
John Lone, Hong Kong actor ·
Harry Anderson, American actor, comedian,
and magician (d. 2018) ·
Kaija Saariaho, Finnish composer ·
Nikolai Andrianov,
Soviet gymnast (d. 2011) ·
Rick Aviles, American actor (d. 1995) ·
October 16 – Ron Taylor,
American actor (d. 2002) ·
Andy
Johnson, American football player (d. 2018) ·
Chuck Lorre, American sitcom creator ·
October 19 – Verónica Castro,
Mexican actress and entertainer ·
October 20 – Eliane Giardini, Brazilian actress ·
October 22 – Jeff Goldblum, American actor ·
Mark Gray,
American country singer and songwriter (d. 2016) ·
David Weber, American science-fiction and
fantasy author ·
October 26 – Andrew Motion, English poet ·
Roberto Benigni, Italian actor,
screenwriter, and film director ·
Francis Fukuyama, American political
scientist ·
Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer ·
October 28 – Annie Potts, American actress November[edit] ·
David Ho,
Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher ·
Michael Shea,
American child actor ·
Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedian ·
Jim Cummings, American voice actor ·
November 4 – Jeff Lorber, American keyboardist, composer,
and record producer ·
Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian football player and
manager ·
Brian Muehl, American puppeteer ·
Bill Walton, American basketball player and
commentator ·
November 6 – Michael Cunningham,
American writer ·
November 7 – David Petraeus, American general ·
Jan Raas, Dutch professional cyclist ·
Alfre Woodard, African-American actress ·
November 13 – Art Malik, Pakistani-born British actor ·
Bill Farmer, American voice actor and
comedian ·
Maggie Roswell, American actress ·
November 15 – Randy Savage, American professional wrestler
(d. 2011) ·
Roger Bisby, English journalist ·
Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese game designer ·
Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player ·
Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa ·
November 18 – John Parr, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
November 24 – Ilja Richter, German actor, voice actor,
television presenter, singer and author ·
November 27 – Buddy Rose, American professional wrestler
(d. 2009) ·
November 28 – S. Epatha Merkerson,
African-American actress ·
Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and
artist ·
Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer December[edit] ·
December 2 – Peter Kingsbery, American singer-songwriter
(Cock Robin) ·
Bruno Jonas, German Kabarett artist and
actor ·
Wan Azizah Wan
Ismail, Malaysian politician ·
Chuck Baker, American Major League Baseball
player ·
Nicolas Bréhal,
French novelist and literary critic ·
Charles
Bronson, English criminal (has been referred to as the "most
violent prisoner in Britain") ·
Edward Etzel, American Olympic Champion ·
Joe Harris,
American football linebacker ·
Christian Kulik, Polish football player ·
Craig Newmark, American businessman, founded
Craigslist ·
Shio Satō, Japanese manga artist ·
Jeff Schneider, American Major League
Baseball pitcher ·
David L. Spector, American cell and
molecular biologist ·
December 8 – Richard Walsh,
English actor ·
December 9 – Michael Dorn, African-American actor (Star
Trek: The Next Generation) ·
Harbance Singh (Herb) Dhaliwal, Canadian
politician ·
Sarah Douglas
(actress), English actress ·
Karl Howman, English actor ·
Junkyard Dog, American pro wrestler
(d. 1998) ·
Julie Taymor, American film, theater, and
opera director and costume designer ·
Hwang Woo-suk, South Korean biomedical scientist ·
Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer and coach ·
December 16 – Joel Garner, West Indian cricketer ·
Jenny Agutter, English actress ·
Faisal Al-Fayez, Prime Minister of Jordan ·
Youssouf Ouédraogo,
6th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (d. 2017) ·
Isa Bakar, Malaysian football player
(d. 2010) ·
Jon Glover, British actor ·
Riki Sorsa, Finnish singer (d. 2016) ·
Jay Hill, Canadian politician ·
David Knopfler, British musician ·
Arun Jaitley, Indian politician ·
Hemant Shesh, Indian Hindi Writer ·
December 29 – Külliki Saldre,
Estonian actress ·
December 30 – June Anderson, American soprano Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Henri Albert
Hartmann, French surgeon (b. 1860) ·
January 2 – Gustave Francq, Canadian typographer and
trade unionist (b. 1871) ·
January 4 – Constant Permeke, Belgian painter (b. 1886) ·
January 5 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary
(b. 1869) ·
January 6 – Sofoklis Dousmanis,
Greek naval officer (b. 1868) ·
January 8 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer (b. 1866) ·
January 9 – Andrea Cassulo, Italian Roman Catholic priest and missionary
(b. 1869) ·
Stanisław
Stempowski, Polish politician (b. 1870) ·
Jean de Lattre
de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (b. 1889) ·
January 14 – Almas Ildyrym, Soviet poet (b. 1907) ·
January 16 – Paolo Grilli, Italian sculptor and painter
(b. 1857) ·
January 18 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (The
Three Stooges) (b. 1903) ·
January 19 – Archduke
Maximilian Eugen of Austria (b. 1895) ·
January 22 – Andrés Luna de
San Pedro, Filipino architect (b. 1887) ·
January 24 – Duke York, American actor (b. 1908) ·
Sveinn Björnsson,
1st President of Iceland (b. 1881) ·
François Gagnepain,
French botanist (b. 1866) ·
Polly Moran, American actress (b. 1883) ·
Zubeida Begum, Indian actress (b. 1926) ·
André Cheron,
American actor (b. 1880) ·
January 27 – Fannie Ward, American actress (b. 1872) ·
Thomas Hicks,
American runner (b. 1876) ·
Nicolae
Constantin Batzaria, Ottoman statesman, Romanian writer (b. 1874) February[edit] King George VI ·
João Guilherme
Fischer, Brazilian diplomat and scientist (b. 1876) ·
Charles de Rochefort,
French actor (b. 1879) ·
Patriarch Callistratus of
Georgia (b. 1866) ·
February 3 – Harold L. Ickes, United States Secretary of
the Interior (b. 1874) ·
February 4 – Federico
Henríquez y Carvajal, Dominican writer (b. 1848) ·
February 6 – King George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895) ·
Sebastião da Gama,
Portuguese poet (b. 1924) ·
Philip G. Epstein,
American screenwriter (b. 1909) ·
Pete Henry, American football player (Canton Bulldogs) and a member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1897) ·
February 9 – Arthur Hayes-Sadler,
British admiral (b. 1865) ·
February 11 – Matija Murko, Yugoslav scholar (b. 1861) ·
Molly Malone,
American actress (b. 1888) ·
John Sheehan,
American actor (b. 1885) ·
February 15 – Enzo de Muro Lomanto,
Italian tenor (b. 1902) ·
February 17 – Edvige Carboni, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman, mystic and
venerable (b. 1880) ·
February 18 – Enrique Jardiel
Poncela, Spanish playwright and novelist (b. 1901) ·
Lawrence Grant, British actor (b. 1870) ·
Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1859) ·
February 20 – Carlos Julio
Arosemena Tola, 28th President of Ecuador (b. 1888) ·
February 21 – Francis Xavier Ford,
American Roman Catholic bishop,
missionary, servant of God and reverend (b. 1892) ·
February 24 – Tadeusz Vetulani, Polish agriculturalist
(b. 1897) ·
Theodoros
Pangalos, Greek general and politician, President
of Greece (b. 1878) ·
Josef Thorak, Austrian-born German sculptor
(b. 1889) ·
Jackie, the
second lion used by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as
their logo ·
February 27 – Helena Concannon, Irish historian, writer,
scholar and politician (b. 1878) ·
February 29 – Quo Tai-chi, Chinese diplomat (b. 1888) March[edit] King Jigme Wangchuck ·
March 1 ·
Masao Kume, Japanese playwright, novelist
and poet (b. 1891) ·
Gregory La Cava, American film director
(b. 1892) ·
March 3 – Antonieta de Barros,
Brazilian journalist and politician (b. 1901) ·
March 5 – Charles Scott
Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1857) ·
March 7 – Paramahansa
Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893) ·
March 9 – Alexandra Kollontai,
Russian revolutionary (b. 1872) ·
March 12 ·
Hugh Herbert, American actor and comedian
(b. 1887) ·
Duke
Siegfried August in Bavaria (b. 1876) ·
March 13 – Võ Thị Sáu,
Vietnamese schoolgirl (b. 1933) ·
March 18 – Isaak Mazepa, Soviet politician (b. 1884) ·
March 19 – Robert Guérin, French administrator,
1st President of FIFA (b. 1876) ·
March 21 – Andries Jan Pieters,
Dutch criminal (b. 1916) ·
March 22 ·
Uncle Dave Macon, American musician
(b. 1870) ·
Don Stephen
Senanayake, 1st Prime
Minister of Ceylon (b. 1884) ·
March 26 – J.P. McGowan, Australian actor and director
(b. 1880) ·
March 28 – Sir Fraser Russell, Governor of Southern
Rhodesia (b. 1876) ·
March 30 – Sir Jigme Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1905) ·
March 31 ·
Walter Schellenberg,
German Nazi intelligence official (b. 1910) ·
Roland West, American film director
(b. 1885) ·
Wallace H. White,
Jr., U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1877) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian novelist and
dramatist (b. 1878) ·
April 2 ·
Antonio Cortis, Spanish tenor (b. 1891) ·
Julio Enrique Moreno,
acting President of Ecuador (b. 1879) ·
April 3 – Miina Sillanpää,
Finnish politician (b. 1866) ·
April 5 ·
Charles Collett, British chief mechanical
engineer (Great Western
Railway) (b. 1871) ·
Sir John Tilley,
British diplomat (b. 1869) ·
April 8 – Tadeusz Estreicher,
Polish cryogenics pioneer (b. 1871) ·
April 10 – Frederic Austin, British teacher and
composer (b. 1872) ·
April 15 ·
Bruno Barilli, Italian actor and composer
(b. 1880) ·
Viktor Chernov, Russian revolutionary,
leader of the Russian
Socialist Revolutionary Party (b. 1873) ·
April 21 ·
Leslie Banks, British actor (b. 1890) ·
Sir Stafford Cripps, British Labour politician,
former Chancellor of
the Exchequer (b. 1889) ·
April 23 ·
Nikolai
Alekseev, Soviet-born Greek Orthodox priest
and saint (b. 1869) ·
Julius Freed, American inventor and banker
(b. 1887) ·
April 27 – Guido Castelnuovo,
Italian mathematician (b. 1865) ·
April 29 – Manuel Portela
Valladares, Spanish political figure (b. 1868) ·
April 30 – Shigenori Kuroda, Japanese general (b. 1887) May[edit] ·
May 2 ·
Lagertha Broch, Norwegian illustrator
(b. 1864) ·
Matrona Nikonova, Soviet Orthodox nun
and saint (b. 1881) ·
May 3 – Juan Carlos
Blanco Acevedo, Uruguayan politician (b. 1879) ·
May 5 – Alberto Savinio, Italian writer (b. 1891) ·
May 6 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870) ·
May 7 – Juan Bautista Pérez,
Venezuelan lawyer, magistrate and politician, 43rd President of
Venezuela (b. 1869) ·
May 8 – William Fox,
Austro-Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1879) ·
May 9 – Canada Lee, American actor (b. 1907) ·
May 10 ·
Clark L. Hull, American psychologist
(b. 1884) ·
Gino Boccasile, Italian illustrator
(b. 1901) ·
May 11 – Giovanni Tebaldini,
Italian composer (b. 1864) ·
May 15 ·
Albert Bassermann,
German actor (b. 1867) ·
Tadeusz Breyer, Polish sculptor (b. 1874) ·
Italo Montemezzi, Italian composer (b. 1875) ·
May 16 – Antonio Correa Cotto,
Puerto Rican outlaw (b. 1926) ·
May 18 – Masakazu Nakai, Japanese aesthetician
(b. 1900) ·
May 19 ·
Luigi Fabris, Italian sculptor (b. 1883) ·
Bangalore
Nagarathnamma, Indian singer (b. 1878) ·
May 21 – John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913) ·
May 22 – Peter Ermakov, Russian Bolshevik leader (b. 1884) ·
May 23 – Georg Schumann,
German composer (b. 1866) ·
May 29 – Mykhailo
Omelianovych-Pavlenko, Soviet army officer (b. 1878) June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
John Dewey, American philosopher (b. 1859) ·
Malcolm St.
Clair, American filmmaker (b. 1897) ·
June 2 – Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1880) ·
June 6 – Thomas
Walsh, American Roman Catholic archbishop and reverend
(b. 1873) ·
June 8 – Sergey Merkurov, Soviet sculptor (b. 1881) ·
June 9 ·
Félix Pérez Cardozo,
Paraguayan musician (b. 1908) ·
Luigi Puccianti, Italian physicist (b. 1875) ·
June 10 ·
Hilda Hongell, Finnish architect (b. 1867) ·
Frances Theodora
Parsons, American naturalist (b. 1861) ·
June 12 – Genovevo de la O, Mexican revolutionary
leader (b. 1876) ·
June 13 – Emma Eames, American soprano (b. 1865) ·
June 14 – Felix Calonder, Swiss politician, 36th President
of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1863) ·
June 15 – Zofia
Kirkor-Kiedroniowa, Polish activist (b. 1872) ·
June 17 ·
Krystyna Skarbek (aka Christine
Granville), Polish-born British SOE operative during World War II (b. 1908) ·
Jack
Parsons, American rocket engineer (b. 1914) ·
June 18 – Heinrich Schlusnus,
German baritone (b. 1888) ·
June 24 – George Pearce, Australian politician
(b. 1870) ·
June 26 – Theodor Becker,
German actor (b. 1880) ·
June 27 – Elmo Lincoln, American actor (b. 1889) ·
June 30 – Eugenio de Liguoro,
Italian actor and director (b. 1899) July[edit] Reverend and Servant of God Guillermo
Tritschler y Córdova ·
July 2 – Ciro Grassi, Italian composer (b. 1868) ·
July 4 – Walter Long,
American actor (b. 1879) ·
July 5 – Alison Skipworth, British actress (b. 1863) ·
July 10 – Rued Langgaard, Danish composer and organist
(b. 1893) ·
July 20 – Isabelle LaMal, American actress (b. 1886) ·
July 21 ·
Catherine Chisholm,
British physician (b. 1878) ·
Pedro Lascuráin,
Mexican diplomat, 34th President of Mexico (b. 1856) ·
July 22 ·
Harry Carter,
American actor (b. 1879) ·
Antonio María
Valencia, Colombian composer (b. 1902) ·
July 24 – Henry Hallett, British actor (b. 1888) ·
July 26 ·
Edward Ellis,
American actor (b. 1870) ·
Eva Perón, Argentine political leader, and
First Lady to and partner in power of President Juan Perón (b. 1919) ·
July 29 – Guillermo
Tritschler y Córdova, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, reverend and
servant of God (b. 1878) ·
July 31 ·
Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (b. 1880) ·
Takashi Hishikari,
Japanese general (b. 1871) August[edit] Saint Euphrasia
Eluvathingal ·
August 1 – Andrew Higgins, American boatbuilder and
industrialist. (b. 1886) ·
August 2 ·
Charles K. French,
American actor, film director, and screenwriter (b. 1860) ·
J. Farrell MacDonald,
American actor and director (b. 1875) ·
August 5 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist
(b. 1917) ·
August 6 – Francis Pegahmagabow,
Canadian military officer (b. 1889) ·
Riccardo Martin, American tenor (b. 1874) ·
Dave Sands, Australian boxer (b. 1926) ·
August 12 – Peretz Markish, Soviet-born Israeli poet
(b. 1895) ·
August 15 – Armida Barelli, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman and venerable (b. 1882) ·
Alberto Hurtado, Chilean Jesuit priest and saint (b. 1901) ·
Ralph Byrd, American actor (b. 1909) ·
August 22 – Hiranuma Kiichirō,
Japanese politician, 24th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1867) ·
August 23 – Henri Coutière,
French zoologist (b. 1869) ·
August 26 – Giovanni Cazzani, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop and servant
of God (b. 1867) ·
Euphrasia
Eluvathingal, Indian Carmelite nun and saint (b. 1877) ·
Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer, son-in-law of
Ferdinand Porsche (b. 1894) ·
August 30 – Arky Vaughan, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1912) ·
August 31 – Henri Bourassa, Canadian political leader
and publisher (b. 1868) September[edit] ·
Wilhelmus
Zakaria Johannes, Indonesian doctor (b. 1895) ·
Józef Wegrzyn, Polish actor (b. 1884) ·
September 5 – Fernando Luis García,
American mariner (killed in action) (b. 1929) ·
José Vicente de
Freitas, Portuguese military officer and politician, 97th Prime Minister
of Portugal (b. 1869) ·
Gertrude Lawrence,
English actress (b. 1898) ·
September 7 – Maria Shkapskaya, Soviet poet (b. 1891) ·
Lizinka Dyrssen, Swedish activist (b. 1866) ·
Jonas H. Ingram, American admiral (b. 1886) ·
September 13 – Hermann Hummel, German chemist and
politician (b. 1876) ·
September 16 – Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian playwright (b. 1883) ·
September 18 – Maria Matos, Portuguese actress (b. 1890) ·
September 22 – Kaarlo Juho
Ståhlberg, Finnish jurist and academic, 1st President of Finland (b. 1865) ·
September 23 – Ray Mala, American actor (b. 1906) ·
September 24 – Eiichi Sugimoto, Japanese economist
(b. 1901) ·
September 26 – George Santayana, Spanish writer (b. 1863) ·
September 30 – Viscount
Waldorf Astor, American businessman and politician (b. 1879) October[edit] ·
October 3 – Zavel Kwartin, Soviet-born Israeli composer
(b. 1874) ·
October 4 – Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist
(b. 1885) ·
October 8 – Arturo Rawson, Argentine military officer
and politician, 26th President of
Argentina (b. 1885) ·
October 11 – Jack Conway,
American film producer and director (b. 1887) ·
October 17 – Julia
Dean, American stage and screen actress (b. 1878) ·
Edward S. Curtis, American photographer,
ethnologist, and film director (b. 1868) ·
Huang Jiguang, Chinese soldier (b. 1931) ·
Ernst Streeruwitz,
Austrian, businessman and politician, 6th Chancellor of
Austria (b. 1874) ·
October 20 – Basil Radford, British actor (b. 1897) ·
October 21 – Leonardo Ruiz Pineda,
Venezuela lawyer and politician (b. 1916) ·
October 22 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist,
and eugenicist (b. 1874) ·
October 23 – Susan Peters, American actress (b. 1921) ·
October 24 – Frederick Jacobi, American composer
(b. 1891) ·
October 25 – Sergei Bortkiewicz,
Soviet Romantic composer
and pianist (b. 1877) ·
October 26 – Hattie McDaniel, American actress (b. 1895) ·
October 27 – Ludwig Fahrenkrog,
German writer, playwright and artist (b. 1867) ·
October 28 – Billy Hughes, Australian politician,
7th Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1862) ·
October 29 – Henri Rouvière,
French professor (b. 1876) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Dixie Lee, American singer (b. 1911) ·
Mehmet Esat Bülkat,
Ottoman general (b. 1862) ·
Henry Edwards,
British actor (b. 1882) ·
November 3 – Louis Verneuil, French playwright and
screenwriter (b. 1893) ·
November 6 – Charles
de Chambrun, French diplomat and writer (b. 1875) ·
Harold Innis, Canadian communications
scholar (b. 1894) ·
Hugh Prosser, American actor (b. 1900) ·
November 9 – Chaim Weizmann, Jewish biochemist, Zionist
leader and Israeli statesman, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874) ·
November 10 – John Roche,
American actor (b. 1893) ·
Eugene Bossilkov, Bulgarian Roman Catholic priest, bishop, martyr
and blessed (b. 1900) ·
Josaphat Chichkov,
Bulgarian Orthodox priest,
martyr and blessed (b. 1884) ·
Kamen Vitchev, Bulgarian Orthodox and Assumptionist priest, martyr and
blessed (b. 1893) ·
Vasyl Krychevsky, Soviet painter (b. 1873) ·
Vincent Scotto, French composer (b. 1874) ·
November 18 – Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895) ·
November 20 – Benedetto Croce, Italian critic,
philosopher, and politician (b. 1866) ·
Henriette Roland
Holst, Dutch poet and socialist (b. 1869) ·
William D. Upshaw, American
temperance movement leader (b. 1866) ·
November 25 – Antonio Guarnieri,
Italian conductor (b. 1880) ·
Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer, geographer and
geopolitician (b. 1865) ·
Carlo Lazzarini, Australian politician
(b. 1880) ·
November 27 – Zhou Xuechang, Chinese politician (b. 1898) ·
November 28 – Elena of Montenegro,
Queen of Italy, consort of Victor Emmanuel
III (b. 1869) ·
Vladimir Ipatieff,
Soviet chemist (b. 1867) ·
Vida Milholland, American activist (b. 1888) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Vittorio
Emanuele Orlando, Italian statesman, 23rd Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1860) ·
December 2 – Miguel Osório de
Almeida, Brazilian physician and scientist (b. 1890) ·
December 3 – Vladimír Clementis,
Czechoslovak minister, politician, publicist, literary critic and author
(b. 1902) ·
Giuseppe Antonio
Borgese, Italian writer and journalist (b. 1882) ·
Karen Horney, German psychoanalyst (b. 1885) ·
Andrey
Aleksandrovich Gershun, Soviet physicist (b. 1903) ·
Louis Lapicque, French neuroscientist
(b. 1866) ·
Dumitru Popovici, Romanian historian
(b. 1902) ·
December 8 – Charles Lightoller,
British merchant marine officer, second officer of RMS Titanic (b. 1874) ·
Erika Aittamaa, Swedish artisan (b. 1866) ·
Billy Cook,
American criminal (b. 1928) ·
Bedrich Hrozný,
Czech orientalist and linguist (b. 1879) ·
Teixeira de Pascoaes,
Portuguese poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Literature (b. 1877) ·
Fartein Valen, Norwegian composer (b. 1887) ·
Goscombe John, British sculptor (b. 1860) ·
Emmanuel
Boleslaus Ledvina, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop and
reverend (b. 1868) ·
December 16 – Leonid Yachenin, Soviet politician (b. 1897) ·
Garimella
Satyanarayana, Indian poet (b. 1893) ·
Ernst Stromer, German paleontologist
(b. 1871) ·
December 19 – Pehr G. Holmes, American politician
(b. 1881) ·
Bernardino Molinari,
Italian conductor (b. 1880) ·
Herman Sörgel, German architect (b. 1885) ·
December 26 – Lyn Harding, British actor (b. 1867) ·
December 27 – Henri Winkelman, Dutch general (b. 1876) ·
Carlo Agostini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and reverend
(b. 1871) ·
Alexandrine
of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Queen consort of Christian X of
Denmark (b. 1879) ·
Fletcher Henderson,
American musician (b. 1897) ·
Luke McNamee, American admiral and Governor of Guam (b. 1871) ·
Gabriel Skagestad,
Norwegian theologian, Roman Catholic priest, bishop and
reverend (b. 1879) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell ·
Chemistry – Archer John
Porter Martin, Richard
Laurence Millington Synge ·
Medicine – Selman Abraham Waksman ·
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