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1957 (MCMLVII) was
a common year starting
on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of
the 20th century,
and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
The Saarland joins West Germany. ·
An Irish
Republican Army attack on the Brookeborough police barracks in Northern Ireland leads to the deaths
of Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon. ·
Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini suffers the stroke that leads to his death a little
over two weeks later in the United States. ·
January 2 – The San Francisco and Los
Angeles stock exchanges merge
to form the Pacific Coast Stock
Exchange. ·
January 3 – Hamilton Watch
Company introduces the first electric watch. ·
January 4 – After 69 years the last
issue of Collier's Weekly magazine
is published in the United States. ·
January 5 – Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for
having handled the ball in Test cricket. ·
January 6 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for
the 3rd and final time. He is shown only from the waist up, even during the
gospel segment, singing "Peace In The
Valley". Ed Sullivan describes
Elvis thus: "This is a real decent, fine boy. We've never had a
pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you.
You're thoroughly all right." ·
January 9 – British Prime
Minister Anthony Eden resigns. ·
January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom. ·
January 11 – The African Convention is
founded in Dakar. ·
January 13 – Wham-O Company produces the
first Frisbee. ·
Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving
seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. ·
American
screen actor Humphrey Bogart dies
aged 57 in California after a long battle with cancer. ·
January 15 – Release, in Japan, of the
film Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth. ·
January 16 – The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool as a jazz club. ·
Dwight D. Eisenhower is privately
sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. ·
Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956). ·
The
New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky,
is arrested in Waterbury,
Connecticut, and charged with planting more than 30 bombs. ·
January 21 – President Dwight D.
Eisenhower is publicly sworn in. ·
January 23 – Ku Klux Klan members force truck
driver Willie Edwards to
jump off a bridge into the Alabama River; he drowns as a result. ·
January 26 – The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern
Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. ·
January 31 – Three students on a junior
high school playground in Pacoima, California,
are among the 8 persons killed following a mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89
Scorpion fighter jet,in the skies above the San Fernando Valley section
of Los Angeles, U.S. February[edit] ·
February 2 – President Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of
the Guddu Barrage across
the Indus River near Sukkur. ·
France
prohibits U.N. involvement in Algeria. ·
The
first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus,
logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the
fictional Nautilus described
in Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It is decommissioned on March 3, 1980. ·
A
coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop coal mine in Bishop, Virginia, kills 37 men. ·
February 6 – The Soviet Union announces that Swedish
envoy Raoul Wallenberg had
died in a Soviet prison "possibly of a heart attack" on July 17, 1947. ·
February 10 – The Confederation
of African Football is founded at a meeting in Khartoum. ·
February 15 – Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister
of the Soviet Union. ·
The
"Toddlers' Truce",
a controversial television closedown between 6:00 p.m. and
7:00 p.m., is abolished in the United Kingdom. ·
Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal opens at cinema
in Sweden. ·
February 17 – A fire at a home for the
elderly in Warrenton, Missouri,
kills 72 people. ·
Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the
British colonial government. ·
The
last person to be executed in New Zealand, Walter James Bolton,
is hanged at Mount Eden Prison for
poisoning his wife. ·
February 23 – The founding congress of
the Senegalese Popular
Bloc opens in Dakar. ·
February 25 – The Boy In The
Box is discovered along a sidewalk in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. The murder victim is described as Caucasian in appearance and 4
to 6 years old; the case is never solved. ·
February
28 – Gaston, a
French comic strip, is introduced. March[edit] Flag of Ghana, the first country in colonial
Africa to gain independence ·
March 1 ·
U Nu becomes Prime Minister of Burma. ·
Arturo Lezama becomes President of the
National Council of Government of Uruguay. ·
Sud Aviation forms from a merger
between SNCASE (Société Nationale de Constructions
Aéronautiques du Sud Est) and SNCASO (Société Nationale de
Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest). ·
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is
published in the United States. ·
March 3 – Net als toen sung by Corry Brokken (music by Guus Jansen,
lyrics by Willy van Hemert)
wins the Eurovision
Song Contest 1957 (held at Frankfurt) for the Netherlands. ·
March 4 – Standard &
Poor's first publishes the S&P 500 Index in the United States. ·
March 6 ·
United
Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent
nation of Ghana. ·
Zodi Ikhia founds the Nigerien
Democratic Front (FDN) in Niger. ·
March 7 – The United States
Congress approves the Eisenhower Doctrine on
assistance to threatened foreign regimes. ·
March 8 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal. ·
March 10 – Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed,
inundating Celilo Falls and
ancient Indian fisheries along the Columbia River in Oregon. ·
March 13 ·
The
United States Federal
Bureau of Investigation arrests labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery. ·
The
Anglo-Jordanian Treaty of 1948 expires. ·
March 14 – President Sukarno declares martial law in Indonesia. ·
March 17 – 1957 Cebu
Douglas C-47 crash: Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others are
killed in a plane crash. ·
March 20 – The French news
magazine L'Express reveals
that the French army tortures Algerian prisoners. ·
March 25 ·
The Treaty of Rome (Patto di Roma)
establishes the European
Economic Community (EEC; predecessor of the European Union) between Italy, France, West
Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ·
Copies
of Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems (first
published November 1, 1956) printed in England
are seized by United
States Customs Service officials in San Francisco on the grounds of obscenity.[1] On October 3, in People
v. Ferlinghetti, a subsequent prosecution of publisher Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, the work is ruled not to be obscene.[2] ·
March 26 – Elvis Presley buys Graceland on 3734 Bellevue Boulevard (Highway 51 South) for $US100,000. He
and his family move from the house on 1034 Audubon Drive. ·
March 27 – The 29th Academy Awards ceremony
is held in Hollywood. Around
the World in 80 Days wins Best
Picture. ·
March 31 – Rodgers and
Hammerstein's Cinderella,
the team's only musical written especially for television, is telecast live
and in color by CBS in the United States, starring Julie Andrews in the title role. The
production is seen by millions, but this 1957 version is not to be telecast
again for more than 40 years, when a kinescope of it is shown. April[edit] E. M. S.
Namboodiripad, head of the first democratically elected communist
government in the world ·
April
– IBM sells the first compiler for
the Fortran scientific programming language. ·
April 1 – The first new conscripts join the Bundeswehr. ·
April 5 – The Communist Party
of India wins the elections in Kerala, making E. M. S.
Namboodiripad its first chief minister. ·
April 9 – Egypt reopens the Suez Canal to all shipping. ·
April 12 – The United Kingdom announces
that Singapore will gain self-rule on
January 1, 1958. ·
April 15 ·
The Distant Early
Warning Line is handed over by contractors to the U.S. and
Canadian military. ·
White Rock secedes
from Surrey, British
Columbia, following a referendum. ·
April 17 – Suspected English serial killer Dr. John Bodkin Adams is
found not guilty of murder at the Old Bailey. ·
April 24 – First broadcast of BBC Television astronomy series The Sky at Night in the United
Kingdom, presented by Patrick Moore. This will run with the same
presenter until his death in December 2012. ·
April 24–25 – 1957 Fethiye
earthquakes on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. May[edit] ·
May 2 ·
Vincent Gigante fails to
assassinate mafioso Frank Costello in Manhattan. ·
"Die Stem van
Suid-Afrika", written by Cornelis
Jacobus Langenhoven, becomes the South African national anthem,
replacing "God Save the Queen",
which is retained as a royal anthem. ·
May 3 – Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley agrees to move the team
from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles. ·
May 15. ·
Operation Grapple:
At Malden Island in
the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, which fails to detonate
properly. ·
Stanley Matthews plays his final
international game, ending an English record international
career of almost 23 years. ·
May 16 – Paul-Henri Spaak becomes the new Secretary
General of NATO. ·
May 22 – A 42,000-pound hydrogen bomb
accidentally falls from a bomber near Albuquerque.[3] ·
May 24 – Anti-American riots erupt in Taipei, Taiwan.[4] ·
May 30 – Real Madrid beats Fiorentina 2-0 at Santiago
Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid to win the 1956–57 European Cup (football). June[edit] ·
June 1 – Three-year-old thoroughbred Gallant Man wins the Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park. ·
June 9 – Broad Peak, on the China-Pakistan border, is
first ascended. ·
June 15 – Oklahoma celebrates its semi-centennial
statehood. A brand new 1957 Plymouth Belvedere is
buried in a time capsule (to be opened 50 years later on June 15, 2007). ·
June 15 – Gallant Man wins the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in record time. ·
June 20 – Toru Takemitsu's Requiem for Strings is
first performed, by the Tokyo Symphony
Orchestra.[5] ·
June 21 – John Diefenbaker becomes the 13th Prime Minister
of Canada. ·
June 25 – The United Church of
Christ is formed in Cleveland, Ohio, by the merger of the Congregational
Christian Churches and the Evangelical
and Reformed Church. ·
June 27 – Hurricane Audrey demolishes Cameron, Louisiana,
U.S., killing 400 people. July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
The International
Geophysical Year begins. ·
The University of
Waterloo is founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. ·
Hugh Everett III publishes the first
scientifically founded many-worlds
interpretation of quantum
mechanics. ·
Production
of the Citroën Traction
Avant automobile, begun in 1934,
ceases. ·
July 6 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney first meet as teenagers
at a garden fete at St.
Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool, England, at which
Lennon's skifflegroup, The Quarrymen, is playing, 3 years before
forming The Beatles. ·
July 9 – Elvis Presley's Loving You opens
in theaters. ·
July 11 – His Highness Prince
Karim Aga Khan IV becomes
the 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims at age 20. His
grandfather Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III appoints Prince Karim in
his will. ·
July 14 – Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of
Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in
the Arab world. ·
July 16 – United States Marine Major John Glenn flies an F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23
minutes and 8 seconds, setting a new transcontinental speed record. ·
July 25 – Tunisia becomes a republic, with Habib Bourguiba its first president. ·
July 28 ·
The 6th
World Festival of Youth and Students, a high point of the Khrushchev Thaw, kicks off in Moscow. ·
Heavy
rains and mudslides at Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992. ·
A
strong earthquake shakes Mexico City and Mexican port city Acapulco. ·
July 29 – The International
Atomic Energy Agency is established. August[edit] ·
August 4 – Juan Manuel Fangio,
driving for Maserati,
wins the Formula One German Grand Prix,
clinching (with 4 wins this season) his record 5th world
drivers championship, including his 4th consecutive championship
(also a record); these 2 records endure for nearly half a century. ·
August 5 – American Bandstand,
a local dance show produced by WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, joins the ABC
Television Network. ·
August 21 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces
a 2-year suspension of nuclear testing. ·
August 28 – United States Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC) sets the record
for the longest filibuster with
his 24-hour, 18-minute speech railing against a civil rights bill. ·
August 31 – The Federation of Malaya gains
independence from the United Kingdom, subsequently celebrated as Malaysia's National Day. Abdul
Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, Yang di-Pertuan
Besar of Negeri Sembilan becomes the first Yang di-Pertuan
Agong of Malaya.
The country's new Constitution came
into force on August 27. The Alliance Party and
its successor are the ruling coalition until 2018. September[edit] ·
September 1 – 175 die in Jamaica's worst railway disaster. ·
September 1 – Birth of Gloria Estefan;[6] ·
September 3 – The Wolfenden report on homosexuality is
published in the United Kingdom. ·
Civil rights
movement: Little Rock Crisis –
Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas calls out the National
Guard of the United States to prevent African-American
students from enrolling in Little
Rock Central High School. ·
The Ford Motor Company introduces
the Edsel on what the company proclaims as
"E Day". ·
September 5 – The first edition
of Jack Kerouac's
novel On the Road goes
on sale in the United States. ·
September 7 – NBC introduces
an animated version of its famous "living color" peacock logo. ·
The Civil Rights Act
of 1957 is enacted, establishing the United
States Commission on Civil Rights. ·
Catholic
Memorial School opens its doors for the first time in Boston, Massachusetts. ·
September 14 – Have Gun – Will
Travel premieres on CBS. ·
Olav V becomes King of Norway on the
death of his father Haakon VII. ·
The
sailing ship Pamir sinks
off the Azores in a hurricane. ·
Perry Mason premiers on CBS. ·
September 23 – The Academy Award-winning movie The Three Faces of
Eve is released. ·
U.S.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends
federal troops to Arkansas to
provide safe passage into Little
Rock Central High School for the "Little Rock Nine". ·
Camp Nou, home-stadium of FC Barcelona, officially opened in Barcelona, Spain.[7] ·
September 26 – Leonard Bernstein's
musical West Side Story makes
its first appearance on Broadway and runs for 732 performances. ·
September 29 – The Kyshtym disaster occurs at the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant
in Russia. October[edit] ·
Which? magazine is first published by The Consumers'
Association in the United Kingdom. ·
The Africanized bee is accidentally
released in Brazil. ·
October 2 – David Lean's film The Bridge
on the River Kwai opens in the U.K. ·
Space Age – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. ·
The Avro Canada
CF-105 Arrow delta wing interceptor aircraft is
unveiled. ·
The
sitcom Leave It to Beaver premieres
on CBS in the United States. ·
October 9 – Neil H. McElroy is sworn in as United
States Secretary of Defense. ·
U.S.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes
to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli
Gbedemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware, restaurant. ·
Windscale fire: Fire at the Windscale nuclear reactor on the north-west coast
of England releases radioactive material into the surrounding environment,
including iodine-131. ·
Ayn Rand's fourth, last and longest
novel, Atlas Shrugged,
is published in the United States. ·
The Jodrell Bank radio telescope opens in Cheshire, England. ·
The orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket (carrying Sputnik I) is first successfully calculated
on an IBM 704 computer at the MIT Computation
Center as part of Operation Moonwatch, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ·
October 16 – Antônio Vilas Boas,
a Brazilian farmer, claims to have been abducted by extraterrestrials;
the first famous alien abduction case. ·
Two
trains collide in Turkey; 95 die. ·
The
U.S. military sustains its first combat fatality in Vietnam, Army Capt. Hank Cramer of the 1st Special
Forces Group. ·
October 23 – Morocco begins its invasion of Ifni. ·
October 25 – Mafia boss Albert Anastasia is assassinated in a
barber shop, at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City. ·
October 27 – Celâl Bayar is re-elected president of Turkey. ·
October 31 – Toyota begins exporting vehicles to the
United States, beginning with the Toyota Crown and the Toyota Land Cruiser. November[edit] ·
The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between
anchorages at this time, opens in the United States to connect Michigan's two peninsulas. ·
The
first (westbound) tube of the Hampton Roads
Bridge–Tunnel linking Norfolk and Hampton, Virginia opens
at a cost of $44 million. ·
November 3 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, with the first animal to orbit the Earth (a dog
named Laika) on board; there is no technology
available to return it to Earth. ·
November 7 – Cold War: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American
missiles and fallout shelters. ·
November 8 – Film Jailhouse Rock opens
across the U.S. to reach #3, and Elvis Presley continues to gain more
notoriety. ·
Gordon Gould invents the laser. ·
Flooding
in the Po Valley of
Italy leads to flooding also in Venice. ·
November 14 – Apalachin Meeting: American Mafia leaders meet in Apalachin, New York at
the house of Joseph Barbara;
the meeting is broken up by a curious patrolman. ·
1957
Aquila Airways Solent crash: A flying boat crash on the Isle of Wight leaves 45 dead. ·
Yugoslavia announces the end of an
economic boycott of Francoist Spain (although it does not
reinstitute diplomatic relations). ·
Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim,
Bernice Worden of Plainfield,
Wisconsin, U.S. ·
U.S.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower has
a stroke. ·
Adnan Menderes of the Democrat
Party forms the new government of Turkey (23rd government, last
government formed by DP and Menderes). ·
November 30 – Indonesian president Sukarno survives a grenade attack at the Cikini School
in Jakarta, but six children are killed. December[edit] ·
December 1 – In Indonesia, Sukarno announces the nationalization of 246 Dutch businesses. ·
December 4 – The Lewisham rail crash in
London leaves 92 dead. ·
December 5 – All 326,000 Dutch
nationals are expelled from Indonesia. ·
December 6 – The first U.S. attempt to
launch a satellite fails
when the Vanguard rocket blows
up on the launch pad. ·
December 10 – Canadian diplomat Lester B. Pearson receives
the Nobel Peace Prize for
his peacekeeping efforts in the United Nations. ·
December 18 – The Bridge
on the River Kwai is released in the U.S. It goes on to
win the Academy Award for Best
Picture. Additional Oscars go to Alec Guinness(Best Actor) and David Lean
(Best Director), among others. This is Lean's first Oscar for directing. ·
December 19 – Meredith Willson's classic musical The Music Man, starring Robert Preston,
debuts on Broadway. ·
December 20 – The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first
time. ·
December 22 – The CBS afternoon
anthology series The Seven Lively
Arts presents Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker on U.S. television
for the first time, although heavily abridged. Date unknown[edit] ·
Mao Zedong admits that 800,000 "class enemies"
have been summarily liquidated in China between 1949 and 1954. ·
Expected
date for Operation Dropshot,
an all-out U.S. war with the Soviet Union, triggered by a Soviet takeover of
Western Europe, the Near East and parts of Eastern Asia which does not
materialize, as prepared for by the United
States Department of Defense in 1949. ·
Gruppe SPUR, an artistic collaboration, is
founded in Germany. ·
The
so-called 'mound of Midas', the Great Tumulus near Gordium, is excavated. ·
Three
new neo-grotesque sans-serif typefaces are released: Folio (designed by Konrad Bauer and
Walter Baum), Neue Haas Grotesk (designed
by Max Miedinger)
and Univers (designed by Adrian Frutiger); all will be influential in
the International
Typographic Style of graphic design. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Isabel Ordaz, Spanish actress ·
Ewa Kasprzyk,
Polish actress ·
Karen Pence, Second
Lady of the United States ·
January 3 – Bojan Križaj, Slovenian alpine skier ·
January 4 – Charles
Allen, British television magnate ·
January 5 – Maartin Allcock, English
multi-instrumentalist and record producer (d. 2018) ·
January 6 – Nancy Lopez, American golfer ·
Nicholson Baker, American novelist ·
Katie Couric, American television host ·
Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey
goaltender ·
Julian Solís, Puerto Rican boxer ·
David Lang,
American composer ·
Dwight Clark, American football player
(d. 2018) ·
January 9 – Bibie, Ghanaian singer ·
Bryan Robson, English footballer ·
Claude Criquielion,
Belgian bike racer (d. 2015) ·
January 12 – John Lasseter, American director, writer and
animator ·
Lorrie Moore, American writer ·
Daniel Scioli, Argentine politician and
sportsman ·
Anchee Min, Chinese writer ·
Wu Chengzhen, Chinese Buddhist abbess ·
Mario Van Peebles,
African-American actor and director ·
Patrick Dixon, British business guru and
author ·
January 16 – Ricardo Darín, Argentinian actor ·
January 17 – Steve Harvey, American comedian, television
host, radio personality, actor and author ·
January 21 – Greg Ryan, American soccer coach ·
Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player ·
Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993) ·
Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician ·
January 23 – Princess
Caroline of Monaco ·
January 24 – Adrian Edmondson, British comedian ·
January 26 – Road Warrior Hawk,
American professional wrestler (d. 2003) ·
Frank Miller,
American comic book writer ·
Janick Gers, British heavy metal guitarist ·
January 29 – Grażyna Miller,
Polish poet ·
January 30 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999) February[edit] ·
February 2 – Phil Barney, French singer ·
February 4 – Elaine Carbines, Member of the Australian Labor
Party ·
February 5 – Jackie Woodburne, Australian actress ·
Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedian ·
Robert Townsend,
American actor, comedian, director, and writer ·
February 8 – Cindy Wilson, American rock singer (The B-52's) ·
February 9 – Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and
manager ·
February 11 – Mitchell Symons, British writer ·
February 14 – Soile Isokoski, Finnish lyric soprano ·
Shahriar Mandanipour,
Iranian writer ·
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah,
American criminal (d. 2008) ·
February 16 – LeVar Burton, American actor ·
February 17 – Loreena McKennitt,
Canadian singer, composer, harpist ·
Vanna White, American game show presenter ·
Marita Koch, German athlete ·
Falco, Austrian rock musician (d. 1998) ·
Ray Winstone, British actor ·
February 20 – Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach ·
February 23 – Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (d. 2009) ·
Adrian Smith, British heavy metal guitarist ·
Viktor Markin, Russian athlete ·
Timothy Spall, English actor ·
Rob de Castella, Australian long-distance
runner ·
Danny Antonucci, Canadian creator of
the Cartoon Network show Ed, Edd n Eddy ·
Ainsley Harriott, British celebrity chef ·
Ian
Smith, New Zealand cricketer ·
John Turturro, American actor, writer and
director March[edit] ·
March 3 – Eric Walters, Canadian author ·
March 4 ·
Jim Dwyer,
American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner ·
Rick Mast, American NASCAR driver ·
March 5 – Mark E. Smith, British singer (d. 2018) ·
March 6 – Eddie Deezen, American actor, voice actor
and comedian ·
March 8 ·
Clive Burr, British heavy metal drummer
(d. 2013) ·
Mitsuko Horie, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
March 9 – Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician ·
March 10 ·
Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born founder of al-Qaeda (d. 2011) ·
Hans-Peter Friedrich,
German politician ·
March 12 – Marlon Jackson, American singer ·
March 13 – David Peaston, American singer ·
March 15 ·
Joaquim de Almeida,
Portuguese actor ·
Park Overall, American film and television
actress ·
March 18 – György Pazdera,
Hungarian rock bassist (Pokolgép) ·
March 20 ·
Vanessa Bell
Calloway, American actress ·
John Grogan,
American journalist and non-fiction writer ·
Spike Lee, American film director and actor ·
Theresa Russell, American actress ·
March 23 ·
Edna Molewa, South African politician
(d. 2018) ·
Teresa Ganzel, American comedian and actress ·
Lucio Gutiérrez,
41st President of Ecuador ·
Robbie James, Welsh footballer ·
Amanda Plummer, American actress ·
March 24 – Jack Edwards,
American play-by-play announcer ·
March 26 – Leeza Gibbons, American television
personality ·
March 27 – Stephen Dillane, English actor ·
March 28 – Paul Eiding, American actor and voice actor ·
March 29 – Christopher Lambert,
French actor ·
March 30 ·
Paul Reiser, American comedian and actor ·
Ian Shelton, Canadian astronomer who
discovered SN 1987A ·
March 31 ·
Alan Duncan, British politician ·
Marc McClure, American actor ·
Terry Klassen, Canadian voice actor and
voice director April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
J. Karjalainen, Finnish rock musician ·
Denise Nickerson, American child actress ·
April 2 – Giuliana De Sio, Italian actress ·
April 4 – Aki Kaurismäki,
Finnish film director ·
April 5 – Ivan Corea, Sri Lankan autism campaigner ·
April 7 – Simon Climie, English singer-songwriter (Climie Fisher) ·
April 8 – Henry Cluney, Irish musician ·
April 9 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (d. 2011) ·
April 10 – Ülle Kaljuste, Estonian actress ·
April 11 ·
Michael Card, American Christian musician ·
Ian Stuart,
singer for white power skinhead band Skrewdriver (d. 1993) ·
Jim Lauderdale, bluegrass musician ·
April 12 ·
Adam Parfrey, American journalist and editor
(d. 2018) ·
Suzzanne Douglas, American actress ·
April 14 – Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor
and composer ·
April 17 – Susan Roman, Canadian voice actress ·
April 18 – Genie,
American feral child ·
April 21 ·
Jesse Orosco, American baseball player ·
Herbert Wetterauer,
German artist and author ·
Faustin-Archange
Touadéra, 8th President
of the Central African Republic ·
April 22 – Donald Tusk, Prime Minister
of Poland ·
April 23 ·
Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian
(d. 2014) ·
Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer ·
April 25 ·
Eric Bristow, English darts player (d. 2018) ·
Roch Marc
Christian Kaboré, 7th Prime Minister and 8th President of Burkina
Faso ·
April 27 – Michel Barrette, Canadian actor and stand-up
comedian ·
April 28 – Dinorah de
Jesús Rodriguez, Cuban-born experimental filmmaker ·
April 29 ·
Daniel Day-Lewis, English-born actor ·
Timothy Treadwell,
American environmentalist and filmmaker (d. 2003) May[edit] ·
May 2 – Michael Coyle,
American composer ·
May 3 ·
Jo Brand, English comedian ·
William Clay Ford
Jr., American automobile executive ·
May 4 – Iona Morris, American actress ·
May 5 – Richard E. Grant, English actor ·
May 6 – Mbah Surip, Indonesian singer (d. 2009) ·
May 10 – Sid Vicious (John Beverly), English
punk rock bassist (Sex Pistols)
(d. 1979) ·
May 11 – Peter North,
Canadian adult actor ·
May 13 – Carrie Lam, Hong Kong civil servant ·
May 14 – Daniela Dessì, Italian operatic soprano
(d. 2016) ·
May 15 – Juan José Ibarretxe,
Basque Lehendakari (Prime Minister) ·
May 16 – Joan Benoit, American Olympic gold
medal-winning marathon runner ·
May 17 – Gösta Sundqvist,
Finnish rock singer and songwriter (Leevi and the Leavings)
(d. 2003) ·
May 18 ·
Michael Cretu, Romanian–German new-age
musician (Enigma) ·
Frank Plasberg, German journalist and television
presenter ·
May 20 ·
Yoshihiko Noda, 62nd Prime Minister of
Japan ·
Stewart Nozette, American astronomer ·
May 21 ·
Rebecca Jones, Mexican actress ·
Judge Reinhold, American actor ·
Renée Soutendijk,
Dutch actress ·
Tony Hayward, British businessman ·
May 22 ·
Albert Boonstra, Dutch swimmer ·
Shinji Morisue, Japanese gymnast ·
Gary Sweet, Australian actor ·
May 23 – Jimmy McShane (aka Baltimora), Northern
Irish dancer (d. 1995) ·
May 24 – Walter Moers, German comic artist and writer ·
May 24 – John G. Rowland, American Republican politician, Governor of Connecticut and
felon ·
May 26 ·
Pontso Sekatle, Lesotho academic and
politician ·
Dan Roodt, South African author and
politician ·
May 27 – Siouxsie Sioux, born Susan Ballion, English
post-punk singer (Siouxsie and
the Banshees) ·
May 28 – Kirk Gibson, American baseball player ·
May 29 ·
Bobby Hamilton, American stock car racing
driver (d. 2007) ·
Jeb Hensarling, American politician; U.S.
Representative (R-TX) ·
Ted Levine, American screen actor June[edit] ·
June 1 – Dorota
Kędzierzawska, Polish film director ·
June 3 – Horst-Ulrich Hänel,
German field hockey player ·
June 5 – Kim Tai-chung, Korean martial artist and
former actor and Bruce Lee double
(d. 2011) ·
June 6 – Jessica Diamond, American artist ·
June 7 ·
Otávio Frias Filho,
Brazilian journalist (d. 2018) ·
Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer and
songwriter ·
June 8 – Scott Adams, American cartoonist (Dilbert) ·
June 10 – Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect ·
June 12 ·
Timothy Busfield, American actor ·
Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer ·
Ciro Pessoa, Brazilian musician (Titãs, Cabine C), journalist, screenwriter and poet ·
Benedict Campbell,
Canadian actor and voice actor ·
June 14 ·
Debbie Arnold, British actress and voice
artiste ·
Maxwell Fraiser, African-British rapper
for Faithless, DJ ·
June 15 – Seppo Pääkkönen,
Finnish actor ·
June 19 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003) ·
June 21 ·
Michael Bowen,
American actor ·
Luis Antonio Tagle,
Filipino cardinal, Archbishop of Manila ·
June 23 – Frances McDormand,
American actress ·
June 25 – William Goh, Archbishop of Singapore ·
June 27 – Erik Hamrén, Swedish football player ·
June 28 ·
Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Georgi Parvanov, President of
Bulgaria ·
June 29 – Gurbanguly
Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen politician, 2nd President of
Turkmenistan ·
June 30 – Silvio Orlando, Italian actor July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Erdeniin Bat-Üül,
Mongolian politician ·
Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player ·
July 2 – Bret Hart, Canadian professional wrestler ·
July 3 – Ken Ober, American actor and game show host
(d. 2009) ·
July 4 ·
Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand ·
Jenny Seagrove, English actress ·
M. Nasir, Singaporean-Malaysian poet,
singer-songwriter, composer, producer, actor and film director ·
Dmitry Nazarov, Soviet-Russian actor ·
July 5 – Doug Wilson,
Canadian ice hockey ·
July 6 – Chong Eng, Malaysian politician ·
July 7 – Mohd Puad Zarkashi,
Malaysian politician ·
July 9 ·
Paul Merton, English writer, actor,
comedian, radio and television presenter ·
Marc Almond, English singer ·
Kelly McGillis, American actress ·
July 10 – Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war activist ·
July 11 – Peter Murphy,
English singer and musician ·
July 12 ·
Götz Alsmann, German television presenter,
musician and singer ·
Pino Quartullo, Italian actor, director,
screenwriter and playwright ·
Rick Husband, American astronaut (d. 2003) ·
July 13 ·
Lília Cabral, Brazilian actress ·
Cameron Crowe, American writer and film
director ·
July 15 – Kate Kellaway, English journalist and
literary critic ·
July 16 – Faye Grant, American actress ·
July 17 ·
Fern Britton, British television presenter ·
Shinobu Otake, Japanese actress ·
July 18 – Nick Faldo, British golfer ·
July 21 ·
Jon Lovitz, American actor and comedian ·
Stefan Löfven, 33rd Prime Minister of Sweden ·
July 23 – Theo van
Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004) ·
July 24 – Shavkat Mirziyoyev,
Uzbek politician, 3rd Prime
Minister of Uzbekistan and 2nd President of
Uzbekistan ·
July 26 ·
Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor ·
Nana Visitor, American actress ·
July 27 ·
Hansi Müller, German footballer ·
Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler
(d. 2013) ·
July 29 – Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast ·
July 31 – Shan Goshorn, Cherokee artist August[edit] ·
August 1 – Taylor Negron, American actor (d. 2015) ·
August 2 ·
Lo' Lo' Mohd Ghazali,
Malaysian politician (d. 2011) ·
Mojo Nixon, American singer, lyricist and
actor ·
Butch Vig, American record producer and
drummer (Garbage) ·
August 4 ·
Rupert Farley, British actor and voice actor ·
John Wark, Scottish footballer ·
August 5 – Clayton Rohner, American actor ·
August 6 – Jim McGreevey, 52nd Governor of New
Jersey ·
August 7 – Alexander Dityatin,
Soviet gymnast ·
August 9 – Melanie Griffith, American actress ·
August 10 – Juli Básti, Hungarian actress ·
August 11 – Richie Ramone, American rock drummer (Ramones) ·
Peter Costello, Australian politician ·
Tony Moran,
American actor and producer ·
August 15 – Željko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor ·
Tim Farriss, Australian rock guitarist (INXS) ·
Laura Innes, American actress and director ·
Phil Murphy, American politician ·
August 17 – Robin Cousins, British figure skater ·
Carole Bouquet, French actress ·
Denis Leary, American comedian and actor ·
Harald Schmidt, German actor, writer,
columnist, comedian and television entertainer ·
August 19 – Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-born poet ·
August 20 – Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player ·
August 22 – Steve Davis, British snooker player ·
August 24 – Stephen Fry, British comedian, author and
actor ·
August 25 – Simon McBurney, British actor, writer and
theatre director ·
Dr. Alban, Nigerian-born Swedish singer ·
Uzo,
Nigerian-American film producer and director ·
August 27 – Bernhard Langer, German golfer ·
Ivo Josipović, President of Croatia ·
Rick Rossovich, American actor ·
Daniel Stern,
American actor ·
Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist, philosopher ·
Grzegorz Ciechowski,
Polish musician (d. 2001) ·
Shirō Sagisu, Japanese composer ·
August 30 – Manu Tuiasosopo, American football player ·
Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go's) ·
Glenn Tilbrook, English frontman (Squeeze) ·
Ingrid Washinawatok,
Native American activist (d. 1999) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-born American singer ·
September 6 – José Sócrates,
117th Prime Minister
of Portugal ·
Ewa Kasprzyk,
Polish athlete ·
John McInerney, British-German
singer-songwriter (Bad Boys Blue) ·
Ricardo Montaner, Argentine-born Venezuelan
singer ·
Heather Thomas, American actress and
activist ·
Preben Elkjær Larsen,
Danish footballer ·
Jeh Johnson, American politician, 4th Secretary
of Homeland Security. ·
Jan Egeland, Norwegian politician, diplomat
and humanitarian ·
Rachel Ward, English-born actress ·
Hans Zimmer, German composer ·
Vinny Appice, American drummer ·
Cesare Bocci, Italian actor ·
Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer ·
September 15 – Brad Bird, American animator and director ·
September 16 – David McCreery, Irish footballer ·
September 19 – Chris Roupas, Greek-American basketball
player ·
September 20 – Sabine Christiansen,
German journalist and television presenter ·
Ethan Coen, American film director,
producer, screenwriter and editor ·
Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime
Minister of Australia ·
September 22 – Nick Cave, Australian musician, songwriter,
author, screenwriter and actor ·
Michael Madsen, American actor ·
September 26 – Luigi De Canio, Italian footballer and
football manager ·
September 27 – Peter Sellars, American theatre director ·
September 28 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet,
Uruguayan composer and musician ·
September 29 – Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian ·
September 30 – Fran Drescher, American actress October[edit] ·
October 3 – Tim Westwood, English DJ and presenter ·
Bill Fagerbakke, American actor and voice
actor ·
Aleksandr
Tkachyov, Soviet gymnast ·
October 5 – Bernie Mac, American stand-up comedian and
actor (d. 2008) ·
Michael W. Smith, American Christian
musician ·
Jayne Torvill, British ice dancer ·
October 8 – Ewan Stewart, Scottish actor ·
October 10 – Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese manga artist ·
Dawn French, British comedian ·
Eric Keenleyside, Canadian actor ·
Paul Bown, English actor ·
October 12 – Clémentine Célarié,
French actress ·
October 14 – Kenny Neal, American guitarist ·
October 15 – Stacy Peralta, American director and
skateboarder ·
October 20 – Manuel Huerga, Spanish film director and
screenwriter ·
October 21 – Wolfgang Ketterle,
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
October 22 – Daniel Melingo, Argentine musician ·
Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda ·
Martin Luther King
III, American human rights advocate and community activist, son
of Martin Luther King
Jr. and Coretta Scott King ·
October 24 – John Kassir, American actor and comedian ·
October 25 – Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress (Bart Simpson from 'The Simpsons') ·
Bob Golic, American football player ·
Julie Dawn Cole, English actress ·
October 27 – Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film director ·
October 28 – Stephen Morris,
British drummer ·
October 29 – Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor (Homer Simpson from 'The Simpsons') ·
Kevin Pollak, American actor ·
Richard Jeni, American comedian (d. 2007) ·
Brian Stokes
Mitchell, American actor and singer ·
Robert Pollard, American musician ·
Shirley Phelps-Roper,
American political and religious activist November[edit] ·
November 1 – Jeffery
Proctor, Swedish actor and martial artist ·
November 3 – Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor and martial
artist ·
November 4 – Tony Abbott, 28th Prime Minister
of Australia ·
November 5 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (d. 1984) ·
Ciro Gomes, Brazilian lawyer and politician ·
Cam Clarke, American voice actor and singer ·
Klaus Kleinfeld, German business executive ·
Lori Singer, American actress and musician ·
November 7 – Christopher
Knight, American actor ·
November 10 – George Lowe, American voice actor and
comedian ·
November 12 – Cécilia Attias,
wife of French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy ·
November 13 – Roger Ingram, American jazz musician,
author, educator, trumpet designer ·
November 14 – Gregg Burge, American tap dancer and
choreographer (d. 1998) ·
November 15 – Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist ·
November 17 – Debbie Thrower, English TV news presenter ·
November 18 – Olivia Heussler, Swiss photojournalist ·
Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000) ·
Tom Virtue, American actor ·
John Eriksen, Danish footballer (d. 2002) ·
Goodluck Jonathan,
14th President of Nigeria ·
November 22 – Don Newman,
American basketball coach and player (d. 2018) ·
November 24 – Denise Crosby, American actress ·
Matthias Reim, German singer-songwriter ·
Kevin Kamenetz, American politician
(d. 2018) ·
Kenny Acheson, Irish race car driver ·
Caroline Kennedy, American author, attorney
and daughter of 35th President John F. Kennedy ·
Edda Heiðrún Backman,
Icelandic actress, singer, director and artist (d. 2016) ·
November 30 – Colin Mochrie, Scottish-born Canadian
comedian December[edit] ·
December 1 – Deep Roy, Anglo-Indian actor, stuntman,
puppeteer, and comedian ·
December 3 – Maxim Korobov, Russian businessman &
politician ·
December 4 – Eric S. Raymond, American open source
software advocate ·
Adrian Borland, English musician and
producer (The Sound)
(d. 1999) ·
Thomas Brinkman, American politician ·
Andrew Cuomo, 56th Governor of New York ·
Peter O'Mara, Australian jazz guitarist and
composer ·
Donny Osmond, American pop singer ·
José Luis Gil, Spanish actor and voice actor ·
Michael Clarke
Duncan, American actor (d. 2012) ·
Paul Hardcastle, English musician ·
Sheila E., American percussionist, singer,
author, and actress ·
Steve Buscemi, American actor ·
Chō, Japanese voice actor and actor ·
Laura Molina,
American artist, musician and actress ·
Masako Natsume, Japanese model and actress
(d. 1985) ·
Doug Parker,
Canadian voice actor and voice director ·
December 19 – Kevin McHale,
American basketball player ·
Billy Bragg, British singer ·
Joyce Hyser, American actress ·
Anna Vissi, Greek singer ·
Tom Henke, American baseball player ·
Ray Romano, American actor and comedian ·
December 24 – Hamid Karzai, President of
Afghanistan ·
December 25 – Shane MacGowan, Irish singer and songwriter
(The Pogues) ·
Matt Lauer, American newscaster ·
Joanna Pacuła, Polish actress Unknown date[edit] ·
Emily Alemika, Nigerian Professor of Law Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 2 – Wilson Brown Jr.,
American admiral (b. 1882) ·
January 4 – Theodor
Körner, Austrian statesman, 5th President of Austria (b. 1873) ·
January 10 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1889) ·
January 13 – A. E. Coppard, English writer (b. 1878) ·
January 11 – Jack Gilbert Graham,
American mass murderer (executed) (b. 1932) ·
January 14 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899) ·
Alexander
Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (b. 1874) ·
Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor
(b. 1867 ·
January 20 – James Brendan
Connolly, American Olympic athlete (b. 1868) ·
January 21 – Guido Notari, Italian actor (b. 1893) ·
January 25 – Jan Herman van Heek,
Dutch industrialist, textile manufacturer, patron of the arts, art collector
and nature conservationist (b. 1873) ·
Helene Costello, American actress (b. 1906) ·
William Eythe, American actor (b. 1918) ·
José Linhares, Brazilian lawyer, 15th President of Brazil (b. 1886) ·
Enoch J. Rector, American cinema technician,
inventor, and film director (b. 1863) ·
January 29 – Władysław Mazurkiewicz, Polish
serial killer (b. 1911) February[edit] ·
February 1 – Friedrich Paulus, German field marshal
(b. 1890) ·
February 4 – Miguel Covarrubias,
Mexican painter (b. 1904) ·
Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1891) ·
John von Neumann, Hungarian-born
mathematician (b. 1903) ·
John Axon, English railwayman and hero, in
rail accident (b. 1900) ·
Miklós Horthy, Austro-Hungarian admiral and
regent of the Kingdom of Hungary (b. 1868) ·
February 10 – Laura Ingalls Wilder,
American author (b. 1867) ·
February 16 – Josef Hofmann, Polish-born pianist and
composer (b. 1876) ·
Walter James Bolton, uxoricide, last person to be executed in New
Zealand (b. 1888) ·
Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader, executed
(b. 1920) ·
Henry Norris Russell,
American astronomer (b. 1877) ·
February 19 – Märta Torén, Swedish actress (b. 1926) ·
February 20 – Sadri Maksudi Arsal,
Turkish politician and academic (b. 1878) ·
February 23 – Marika Ninou, Greek singer (b. 1918) ·
Bugs Moran, American gangster (b. 1893) ·
B. P. Schulberg, American film producer
(b. 1892) March[edit] ·
March 5 – William Cameron
Menzies, American film production designer (b. 1896) ·
March 6 – Alexander Godley, British general (b. 1867) ·
March 7 – Wyndham Lewis, English painter (b. 1882) ·
March 8 – János Esterházy,
Hungarian politician in Czechoslovakia (b. 1901) ·
March 11 – Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888) ·
March 12 – Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877) ·
March 14 – Eugenio Castellotti,
Italian racing driver (car crash) (b. 1930) ·
March 16 – Constantin
Brâncuși, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876) ·
March 17 – Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of
the Philippines (killed in plane crash) (b. 1907) ·
March 26 ·
Édouard Herriot,
French politician, 66th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1872) ·
Max Ophüls, German film director and writer
(b. 1902) ·
March 28 – Gheorghe
Tătărescu, Romanian politician, 36th Prime Minister
of Romania (b. 1886) ·
March 29 ·
Laura Bowman, American actress, singer
(b. 1881) ·
Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888) ·
María Josefa
Segovia Morón, Spanish Roman Catholic laywoman and venerable
(b. 1891) ·
March 31 – Gene Lockhart, Canadian actor (b. 1891) April[edit] Saint Elizabeth Hesselblad ·
April 3 – Ned Sparks, Canadian character actor
(b. 1883) ·
April 4 – E. Herbert Norman,
Canadian diplomat (b. 1909) ·
April 5 – Alagappa Chettiar,
Indian philanthropist (b. 1909) ·
April 6 – Pierina Morosini, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman, martyr and
blessed (b. 1931) ·
April 8 ·
Dorothy Sebastian,
American actress (b. 1903) ·
Pedro Segura y Sáenz,
Spanish Roman Catholic bishop,
archbishop and eminence (b. 1880) ·
April 15 – Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer
(b. 1917) ·
April 16 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-born American
gangster (b. 1882) ·
April 21 – Boris Kozo-Polyansky,
Soviet botanist and evolutionary biologist (b. 1890) ·
April 23 – Roy Campbell,
South African poet (b. 1901) ·
April 24 – Elizabeth Hesselblad,
Swedish nurse and Roman Catholic saint
(b. 1870) ·
April 25 – Abdullah bin
Jassim Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1880) ·
April 26 – Elinor Fair, American actress (b. 1903) May[edit] Metropolitan Stefan I of Bulgaria ·
May 1 – Grant Mitchell,
American actor (b. 1874) ·
May 2 – Joseph McCarthy, American Senator (b. 1908) ·
May 4 – Katie
Johnson, British actress (b. 1878) ·
May 7 ·
Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (b. 1877) ·
Zenón Noriega Agüero,
Peruvian general, interim President of Peru (b. 1900) ·
May 9 ·
Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892) ·
Heinrich Campendonk,
German-Dutch painter and graphic designer (b. 1889) ·
May 12 ·
Stefan I of Bulgaria,
Bulgarian Orthodox prelate
and metropolitan (b. 1878) ·
Erich von Stroheim,
Austrian actor and director (b. 1885) ·
May 13 ·
Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli
mathematician (b. 1886) ·
Prince Makonnen (b. 1923) ·
Robert
"Fuzzy" Theobald, American admiral (b. 1884) ·
May 14 – Marie Vassilieff, Soviet artist (b. 1884) ·
May 16 ·
John Brown,
British actor (b. 1904) ·
Eliot Ness, American policeman (b. 1903) ·
May 17 – Francesco Balilla
Pratella, Italian composer (b. 1880) ·
May 20 – Gilbert Murray, Australian-British classical
scholar and intellectual (b. 1866) ·
May 29 – James Whale, English film director (b. 1889) ·
May 31 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878) June[edit] Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem
I Barsoum ·
June 1 ·
Feliksas
Baltušis-Žemaitis, Lithuanian military leader (b. 1897) ·
Luisa Casati, Italian patron of the arts
(b. 1881) ·
Russell Hicks, American actor (b. 1895) ·
June 4 – Mary Hay,
American actress and dancer (b. 1901) ·
June 6 – Kulyash Baiseitova,
Soviet composer (b. 1912) ·
June 12 ·
Robert Alton, American dancer and
choreographer (b. 1906) ·
Mario Urteaga
Alvarado, Peruvian painter (b. 1875) ·
Jimmy Dorsey, American jazz musician
(b. 1904) ·
June 13 – Irving Baxter, American athlete (b. 1876) ·
June 14 – María
Beatriz del Rosario Arroyo, Filipino Roman Catholic nun and servant of God
(b. 1884) ·
June 15 – Princess Norina
Matchabelli, Italian perfumier (b. 1880) ·
June 17 ·
Dorothy Richardson,
English feminist writer (b. 1873) ·
Augusto Samuel Boyd,
20th President of Panama (b. 1879) ·
June 18 – Henry H. Goddard, American psychologist and
eugenicist (b. 1866) ·
June 21 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) ·
June 23 – Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem
I Barsoum (b. 1887) ·
June 24 – Frantisek Kupka, Czech painter and graphic
artist (b. 1871) ·
June 26 – Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878) ·
June 27 ·
Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924) ·
Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (b. 1909) July[edit] ·
July 3 ·
Richard Mohaupt, German composer and
Kapellmeister (b. 1904) ·
Judy Tyler, American actress (b. 1932) ·
July 4 – Maria Crocifissa
Curcio, Italian Roman Catholic and Carmelite nun (b. 1877) ·
July 8 – Grace Coolidge, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1879) ·
July 10 – Sholem Asch, Polish-Jewish novelist,
dramatist and essayist (b. 1880) ·
July 11 – Aga Khan III, 48th Nizari Imam (b. 1877) ·
July 15 ·
George Cleveland, Canadian actor (b. 1885) ·
James M. Cox, Democratic candidate
for President
of the United States in the election
of 1920 (b. 1870) ·
Vasily Maklakov, Russian liberal politician
and parliamentary orator (b. 1869) ·
July 23 – Giuseppe
Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (b. 1896) ·
July 24 ·
Metodija
Andonov-Čento, Macedonian statesman (b. 1902) ·
Frank Fenton,
American actor (b. 1906) ·
Sacha Guitry, Russian-born playwright, actor
and director (b. 1885) ·
July 26 – Carlos Castillo
Armas, Guatemalan military officer and politician, 28th President of
Guatemala (assassinated) (b. 1914) ·
July 28 ·
Edith Abbott, American social worker,
educator and author (b. 1876) ·
Isaac Heinemann, German-born Israeli scholar
and professor of classical literature (b. 1876) August[edit] ·
August 3 – Devdas Gandhi, youngest son of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1900) ·
August 4 – Washington Luís,
13th President of Brazil (b. 1869) ·
August 5 – Heinrich Otto Wieland,
German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1877) ·
August 7 – Oliver Hardy, American actor (b. 1892) ·
August 16 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1881) ·
August 19 – David Bomberg, Vorticist painter (b. 1890) ·
August 20 – Julio Lozano Díaz,
President of Honduras (b. 1885) ·
August 21 – Mait Metsanurk, Estonian writer (b. 1879) ·
August 30 – Harold Gatty, Australian aviator (b. 1903) September[edit] King Haakon VII of Norway ·
September 1 – Dennis Brain, English French horn player
(b. 1921) (car crash) ·
September 2 – Bobby Myers,
American NASCAR driver (b. 1927) ·
September 9 – Muhammad al-Muqri,
grand vizier of Morocco (b. 1844) ·
September 12 – José Lins do Rego,
Brazilian novelist (b. 1901) ·
September 15 – Lee Hill, American actor (b. 1894) ·
September 16 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864) ·
September 20 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865) ·
Jimmy Callahan,
American actor (b. 1891) ·
Norma Giménez, Argentine actress (b. 1930) ·
Margaret Ashmore
Sudduth, American educator, editor, temperance advocate (b. 1859) ·
King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872) ·
September 22 – Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885) ·
September 25 – Archduke
Joseph Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1895) ·
September 28 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet,
Uruguayan composer and musician (b. 1888) ·
Prince
George Bagration (b. 1884) ·
Jane Carr,
British actress (b. 1909) October[edit] ·
October 3 – Lőrinc Szabó,
Hungarian poet (b. 1900) ·
October 9 – Hassiba Ben Bouali,
Algerian militant (b. 1938) ·
October 19 – Vere Gordon Childe,
Australian archaeologist (b. 1892) ·
October 20 – Jack Buchanan, British actor (b. 1891) ·
October 23 – Frederick Burton,
American actor (b. 1871) ·
Christian Dior, French fashion designer
(b. 1905) ·
Jacobus Hendrik
Pierneef, South African artist (b. 1886) ·
Albert Anastasia, American gangster
(b. 1902) ·
Edward
Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author (b. 1878) ·
October 26 – Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896) ·
October 27 – Giovanni
Battista Caproni, Italian aeronautical, civil and electrical
engineer, aircraft designer and industrialist (b. 1886) ·
October 29 – Louis B. Mayer, American film studio mogul,
former head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
(b. 1885) ·
October 30 – José Patricio
Guggiari, Paraguayan politician, 32nd President of
Paraguay (b. 1884) November[edit] Prince
George of Greece and Denmark ·
November 2 – Ted Meredith, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1891) ·
Charles Brabin, American director and
screenwriter (b. 1882) ·
Laika, Soviet space dog ·
Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychoanalyst
(b. 1897) ·
Shoghi Effendi, Bahá'í leader (b. 1897) ·
William
Haywood, British architect (b. 1876) ·
Grigore Preoteasa,
Romanian activist (b. 1915) ·
November 7 – Hasui Kawase, Japanese painter and
printmaker (b. 1883) ·
November 11 – Masao
Maruyama, Japanese general (b. 1889) ·
November 13 – Antonín Zápotocký,
6th President and 15th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884) ·
November 15 – Andrzej Bursa, Polish poet (b. 1932) ·
November 17 – Cora Witherspoon, American actress (b. 1890) ·
November 18 – Rudolf Diels, German Nazi civil servant
and Gestapo chief (b. 1900) ·
November 24 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886) ·
Prince
George of Greece and Denmark (b. 1869) ·
Raymond Griffith, American actor (b. 1895) ·
William V. Pratt, American admiral (b. 1869) ·
Billy Bevan, Australian actor (b. 1887) ·
Petros Voulgaris, Prime Minister of Greece
(b. 1884) ·
November 29 – Erich Wolfgang
Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897) ·
November 30 – Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890) December[edit] ·
December 2 – Harrison
Ford, American silent film actor (b. 1884) ·
December 4 – John Lavarack, Australian general, Governor of
Queensland (b. 1885) ·
December 8 – Reginald Sheffield,
English actor (b. 1901) ·
December 10 – Maurice McLoughlin,
American tennis champion (b. 1890) ·
James
Stevenson-Hamilton, first warden of South Africa's Kruger National Park (b.
1867) ·
Napoleon Zervas, Greek WW II Resistance
leader (b. 1891) ·
December 11 – Musidora, French actress (b. 1889) ·
December 15 – Alfonso Bedoya, Mexican actor (b. 1904) ·
December 17 – Dorothy L. Sayers,
British crime writer, poet, playwright and essayist (b. 1893) ·
December 21 – Eric Coates, English composer (b. 1886) ·
December 24 – Norma Talmadge, American actress (b. 1893) ·
Alfred Walton Hinds,
17th Naval Governor of
Guam (b. 1874) ·
Charles Pathé, French film pioneer (b. 1863) ·
Stanley Vestal, American writer, poet and
historian (b. 1877) ·
December 26 – Angelo Motta, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1890) ·
December 28 – Hilda Vaughn, American actress (b. 1898) ·
December 31 – Óscar Domínguez,
Spanish painter (b. 1906) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Chen-Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee ·
Chemistry – Lord Alexander R. Todd ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Daniel Bovet ·
Peace – Lester Bowles
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