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1961 (MCMLXI) was
a common year starting
on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1961st year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 961st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of
the 20th century,
and the 2nd year of the 1960s decade.
As MAD Magazine pointed
out on its cover for the March 1961 issue, this was the
first "upside-up" year — i.e., one in which the numerals that form
the year look the same as when the numerals are rotated upside down, a strobogrammatic
number — since 1881.[1] The
next such year will be 6009.[2] Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1961 ·
United
States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces
that the United States has
severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba. Cuba–United
States relations are restored in 2015. ·
At
the National Reactor Testing Station near Idaho Falls, atomic reactor SL-1 explodes,
killing three military technicians. ·
Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air
disaster): Douglas DC-3C
OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes
near Kvevlax(Koivulahti) on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland killing all 25
on board, due to pilot error: an
investigation finds that the captain and first
officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep and had taken
excessive alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster
to occur in the country. ·
Italian
sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches
into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team
that forged the Etruscan
terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. ·
Ather
the 1960 military
coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government
of Turkey (25th government). ·
January 7 – Following a four-day
conference in Casablanca, five
African chiefs of state announce plans for a NATO-type
African organization to ensure common defense. The Charter of Casablanca
involves the Casablanca Group: Morocco, the United Arab Republic, Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. ·
January 8 – In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's
policies on independence for Algeria. ·
January 9 – British authorities
announce they have uncovered a large Soviet spy ring, the Portland Spy Ring,
in London. ·
President Dwight Eisenhower gives
his final State of the
Union Address to Congress. In a Farewell Address the same
day, he warns of the increasing power of a "military–industrial
complex." ·
Patrice Lumumba of Republic of Congo is
assassinated.
Jan. 20: John F. Kennedyinaugurated as the 35th
President of the United States ·
January 20 – John F. Kennedy is sworn in as
the 35th President of the United States. ·
January 24 – A B-52 Stratofortress,
with two nuclear bombs, crashes near Goldsboro,
North Carolina. ·
In
Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live
presidential news conference.
In it, he announces that the Soviet Union has freed the two
surviving crewmen of a USAF RB-47 reconnaissance plane shot down by
Soviet flyers over the Barents Sea July 1, 1960 (see
RB-47H shot down). ·
One
Hundred and One Dalmatians is released in cinemas. ·
Acting
to halt 'leftist excesses', a junta composed
of two army officers and four civilians takes over El Salvador, ousting another junta that had
ruled for three months. ·
January 26 – President John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician,
the first woman to hold this appointment. ·
January 28 – Supercar,
the first family sci-fi TV series filmed in Supermarionation debuts on ATV. ·
January 30 – President John F. Kennedy delivers his
first State of the
Union Address. ·
January 31 – Ham the Chimp, a 37-pound (17-kg) male, is
rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2,
in a test of the Project Mercury spacecraft,
designed to carry United States astronauts into space. February[edit] Main article: February 1961 ·
February 1 – The United States tests
its first Minuteman I intercontinental
ballistic missile.[3] ·
February 3 – China buys grain from
Canada for $60 million. ·
February 4 – The Portuguese
Colonial War begins in Angola. ·
February 5 – February 9 – In Congo,
President Joseph Kasa-Vubu names Joseph Iléo as the new Prime Minister. ·
February 9 – The Beatles perform for the first time
at The Cavern Club. ·
February 12 – The USSR launches Venera 1 towards Venus. ·
February 13 – The Congo government
announces that villagers have killed Patrice Lumumba. ·
February 14 – Discovery
of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized in Berkeley, California. ·
President Kennedy warns the Soviet Union to avoid interfering with
the United Nations pacification
of the Congo.[4] ·
A Sabena Boeing 707 crashes near Brussels, Belgium, killing 73, including the
entire United States figure skatingteam and several coaches. ·
A
total solar eclipse occurs
in the southern part of Europe. ·
February 25 – The last public trams in Sydney, Australia, cease operation,
bringing to an end the Southern Hemisphere's largest tramway network. ·
February 26 – Hassan II is
pronounced King of Morocco. March[edit] Main article: March 1961 ·
March–April
– Drilling for Project Mohole is
undertaken off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico. ·
March 1 – United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps. ·
March 3 – Hassan II is
crowned King of Morocco. ·
March 8 ·
Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in
8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record. ·
The
first U.S. Polaris submarines arrive at Holy Loch. ·
March 13 ·
Black
and white Ł5 notes cease to
be legal tender in
the UK. ·
A dam bursts in Kiev, USSR,
killing 145. ·
United
States delegate to the United
Nations Security Council Adlai Stevenson votes against
Portuguese policies in Africa. ·
United
States President John F. Kennedy proposes
a long-term "Alliance for
Progress" between the United States and Latin America.[5] ·
Cyprus joins the Commonwealth of
Nations, becoming the first small country in the Commonwealth.[6] ·
Monash University in
Melbourne, Australia, takes in its first students. ·
A
second B-52 crashes near Yuba City, California after
cabin pressure is lost and the fuel runs out. Two nuclear weapons are found unexploded. ·
March 15 ·
South
Africa announces it will withdraw from the Commonwealth of
Nations upon becoming a republic (31 May). The nation rejoins
the organization in 1994. ·
The Union of
Peoples of Angola, led by Holden Roberto, attacks strategic locations
in the north of Angola. These events
result in the beginning of the colonial war with Portugal. ·
March 18 ·
A ceasefire takes effect in the Algerian War
of Independence. ·
Nous
les amoureux by Jean-Claude
Pascal (music by Jacques Datin, text by Maurice Vidalin) wins the Eurovision
Song Contest 1961 for Luxembourg. ·
March 29 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States
Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote in presidential elections. ·
March 30 – The Single
Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York. April[edit] Main article: April 1961
April 12: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin through outer space. ·
April 5 – The New Guinea Council of Western Papua is
installed. ·
April 8 – The British passenger
ship Dara blows up and sinks off Dubai;
238 passengers and crew are killed. ·
April 11 – The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. ·
April 12 ·
Vostok 1: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in
space, orbiting the Earth once. ·
Albert Kalonji takes the title Emperor
Albert I Kalonji of South Kasai. ·
April 13 – In Portugal, a coup attempt
against António de
Oliveira Salazar fails. ·
April 17 ·
The Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba begins;
it fails by April 19. ·
The 33rd Academy Awards ceremony
is held. ·
April 18 – Portugal sends to Angola its first military
reinforcement. ·
April 20 – Fidel Castro announces that the Bay of Pigs Invasion has
been defeated. ·
April 22 – Algiers putsch: Four French generals who
oppose de Gaulle's
policies in Algeria fail in
a coup attempt. ·
April 23 – Judy Garland performs in a legendary
comeback concert at Carnegie Hall in
New York City. ·
April 24 – The Swedish ship Vasa is removed from the water
after being sunk 333 years earlier. ·
April 27 ·
President Kennedy urges newspapers to consider
national interest in times of struggle against "a monolithic and
ruthless conspiracy" in an address before the American Newspaper
Publishers Association.[7] ·
Sierra Leone becomes independent from
the United Kingdom. May[edit] Main article: May 1961 ·
May 4 – U.S. Freedom Riders begin interstate bus
rides to test the new U.S. Supreme Court integration decision. ·
May 5 – Mercury program: Alan Shepard becomes the first American
in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3. ·
May 6 – Tottenham Hotspur
F.C. becomes the first team in the 20th century to win
the English league
and cup double. As of 2018 this is the last time Tottenham have won the
English League. ·
May 8 – Briton George Blake is sentenced to 42 years
imprisonment for spying. ·
May 9 – In a speech on "Television
and the Public Interest" to the National
Association of Broadcasters, FCC chairman Newton N. Minow describes commercial
television programming as a "vast wasteland". ·
May 14 – Civil rights
movement: a Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed
near Anniston, Alabama and
the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob of Ku Klux Klan members. ·
May 15 – J. Heinrich Matthaei alone
performs the Poly-U-Experiment and is the first person to recognize and
understand the genetic code.
This is the birthdate of modern genetics.[8] ·
May 16 – Park Chung-hee takes over in a military
coup in South Korea. ·
May 19 – Venera 1 becomes the first man-made
object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (however, the probe had lost
contact with Earth a month earlier and does not send back any data). ·
May 21 – Civil rights
movement: Alabama Governor John Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore
order after race riots break
out. ·
May 22 – An earthquake rocks
New South Wales. ·
May 24 – Civil rights
movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for
"disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus. ·
May 25 – Apollo program: President Kennedy announces before a
special joint session of Congress his goal to put a man on the Moon before
the end of the decade. ·
May 27 – Tunku Abdul Rahman,
Prime Minister of Malaya,
holds a press conference in Singapore, announcing his idea to form the
Federation of Malaysia, comprising
Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo (Sabah). ·
May 28 – Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten
Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This
is later considered the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty
International. ·
May 30 – Rafael Leónidas
Trujillo, totalitarian despot of the Dominican Republic since 1930,
is killed in an ambush, putting an end to the second longest-running
dictatorship in Latin American history. ·
May 31 ·
In
France, rebel generals Maurice Challe and Andre Zelelr are
sentenced to 15 years in prison. ·
South
Africa becomes a republic, and officially leaves the Commonwealth of
Nations. ·
President John F. Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle meet
in Paris. ·
Benfica beats Barcelona 3-2 at Wankdorf Stadium, Bern and
wins the 1960–61 European Cup (football). June[edit] Main article: June 1961 ·
June 1 – Ethiopia experiences its most
devastating earthquake of the 20th century, with a magnitude of 6.7. The town
of Majete is destroyed, 45% of the houses
in Karakore collapse, 17 kilometers
(11 mi) of the main road north of Karakore are damaged by landslides and
fissures, and 5,000 inhabitants in the area are left homeless. ·
June 4 – Vienna summit: John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev meet
during two days in Vienna. They discuss
nuclear tests, disarmament and
Germany. ·
June 16 – Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev requests asylum in
France while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet. ·
June 17 ·
A
Paris-to-Strasbourg train derails near Vitry-le-François;
24 are killed, 109 injured. ·
The New Democratic Party of
Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative
Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour
Congress. ·
June 19 – The British protectorate ends in Kuwait and it becomes an emirate. ·
June 22 – Moise Tshombe is released for lack of
evidence of connection to the murder of Patrice Lumumba. ·
June 23 – The Antarctic Treaty comes into effect. ·
June 25 – Iraqi president Abd al-Karim Qasim announces
he is going to annex Kuwait (such an
annexation of Kuwait would occur in 1990). ·
June 27 – Kuwait requests British help;
the United Kingdom sends in troops. July[edit] Main article: July 1961 ·
July 4 – The Soviet submarine K-19 suffers
a reactor leak in the North Atlantic. ·
July 5 – The first Israeli
rocket, Shavit 2, is
launched.[9][10] ·
July 8 – A mine explosion in Czechoslovakia leaves 108 dead. ·
July 12 – A Czechoslovakian Ilyushin Il-18 crashes while attempting
to land at Casablanca, Morocco,
killing all 72 persons on board. ·
July 17 – Baseball legend Ty Cobb dies at the age of 74 at Emory
University Hospital. ·
July 21 – Mercury program: Virgil I. Grissom, piloting the Mercury-Redstone 4 spacecraft Liberty Bell 7, becomes the second
American to go into space (sub-orbital). After splashdown, the hatch
prematurely opens, and the spacecraft sinks. (It is recovered in 1999.) ·
July 25 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives a widely watched
TV speech on the Berlin crisis, warning "we will not be driven out of
Berlin." Kennedy urges Americans to build fallout shelters, setting off
a four-month debate on civil defense. ·
July 31 ·
At Fenway Park in Boston, the first Major
League Baseball All-Star Game tie occurs, when the game is
stopped in the 9th inning due to rain (the only tie until 2002). ·
Ireland submits the first application
from a non-founding country to join the European
Economic Community. August[edit] Main article: August 1961 ·
August
– The United States founds the Alliance for
Progress. ·
August 1 – The Six Flags Over Texas theme
park officially opens to the public. ·
August 4 – Barack Obama is born. The
44th President
of the United States. ·
August 6 – Vostok 2: Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second human
to orbit the Earth, and the first to be in outer space for more than one day. ·
August 7 – Vostok 2 lands
in the Soviet Union. ·
August 10 – The United Kingdom applies
for membership in the European
Economic Community. ·
August 13 – Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting
movement between East Berlin and West Berlin and forming a clear
boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. On August 22 Ida Siekmann jumps from a window in her
tenement building trying to flee to the West, becoming the first
of at least 138 people to die at the Wall. ·
August 21 – Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison
in Kenya. ·
August 25 – Joăo Goulart replaces Jânio Quadros as President of Brazil.
He is ousted in 1964. September[edit] Main article: September 1961 ·
The Eritrean War
of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the
Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate. ·
The
first meeting is held of the Non-Aligned Movement.
The Soviet Union resumes nuclear testing, escalating fears over the ongoing
Berlin crisis. ·
September 7 – Tom and Jerry make a return with their
first episode since 1958, Switchin' Kitten.
The new creator, Gene Deitch, makes
12 more Tom and Jerry episodes until 1962. ·
September 10 – During the F1 Italian Grand
Prix on the circuit of
Monza, German Wolfgang von Trips,
driving a Ferrari, crashes into a stand, killing 14
spectators and himself. ·
September 12 – The African and
Malagasy Union is founded. ·
The
new military government of Turkey sentences 15
members of the previous government to death. ·
The Focolare Movement opens
its first North American center in New York. ·
Military
rulers in Turkey hang former prime minister Adnan Menderes, together with the former
Minister of Foreign Affairs Fatin Rüştü
Zorlu and former Minister of Finance Hasan Polatkan. ·
The
world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena,
opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ·
September 18 – United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies
in an
air crash en route to Katanga, Congo. ·
September 21 – In France, the OAS slips
an anti-de Gaulle message
into TV programming. ·
The
old Deutsche Opernhaus in
the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is returned to its newly
rebuilt house as the Deutsche Oper Berlin. ·
In
the U.S., the Walt
Disney anthology television series, renamed Walt Disney's
Wonderful World of Color, moves from ABC to NBC after seven years on the
air, and begins telecasting its programs in color for the first time. Years
later, after Disney's death, the still-on-the-air program will be
renamed The Wonderful World of Disney. ·
September 28 – A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic,
the union between Egypt and Syria. ·
September 30 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
is formed to replace the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC). October[edit] Main article: October 1961 ·
October 1 – Baseball player Roger Maris of the New York Yankees
hits his 61st home run in the last game of the season, against the Boston Red Sox, setting a new record for the
longer baseball season. The record for the shorter season is still held by
Babe Ruth. ·
October 10 – A volcanic eruption
on Tristan da Cunha causes
the whole population to be evacuated to Britain, where they will remain until
1963. ·
October 12 – The death penalty is abolished in New
Zealand. ·
October 17 – Paris massacre of
1961: French police in Paris attack about 30,000 protesting a
curfew applied solely to Algerians. The official
death toll is 3, but human rights groups claim 240 dead. ·
October 18 – West Side Story is
released as a film in the United States. ·
October 19 – The Arab League takes over protecting Kuwait; the last British troops leave. ·
October 25 – The first edition of Private Eye, the British satirical
magazine, is published. ·
October 26 – Cemal Gürsel becomes the fourth
president of Turkey. (His former title is head of state and government; he is
elected as president by constitutional referendum.) ·
An armistice begins in Katanga, Congo. ·
Mongolia and Mauritania join the United Nations. ·
Confrontation
at Checkpoint Charlie:
A standoff between Soviet and American
tanks in Berlin, Germany heightens Cold War tensions. ·
Fahrettin Özdilek becomes
the acting prime minister of Turkey. ·
DZBB-TV Channel 7, the Philippines' third TV
station, is launched. ·
Devrim, the first ever car designed
and produced in Turkey, is released. The
project has been completed in only 130 days almost from scratch, a period
including decision on the project, research, design, development and
production of four vehicles. ·
Nuclear weapons
testing: The Soviet Union detonates a 58-megaton
yield hydrogen bomb known
as Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya. It remains the largest ever
man-made explosion. ·
The Note Crisis: The Soviet Union issues a
diplomatic note to Finland proposing military co-operation. ·
Hurricane Hattie devastates Belize City, Belize killing over 270. After the
hurricane, the capital moves to the inland city of Belmopan. ·
Joseph Stalin's body is removed from
the Lenin Mausoleum. November[edit] Main article: November 1961 ·
The Hungry generation Movement
is launched in Calcutta, India. ·
The
Interstate Commerce Commission's federal order banning segregation at all
interstate public facilities officially comes into effect. ·
The
Madame Alexander Doll Club is founded by Margaret Doris Winson of Sweet
Springs, MO. ·
November 2 – Kean opens at Broadway Theater in
New York City for 92 performances. ·
November 3 – The United Nations General
Assembly unanimously elects U Thant to the position of acting Secretary-General. ·
November 6 – The U.S. government issues
a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith. ·
Imperial
Airlines Flight 201/8 crashes while attempting to land
at Richmond, Virginia,
killing 77 persons on board. ·
KVN,
Russia's longest running TV show, airs for the first time on Soviet television. ·
November 9 – Neil Armstrong records a world record
speed of 4,093 mph (6,587 km/h) in an X-15. ·
November 10 – Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is first published. ·
Congolese
soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots. ·
Stalingrad
is renamed Volgograd. ·
November 17 – Michael Rockefeller,
son of New York Governor and
later Vice
President Nelson Rockefeller,
disappears in the jungles of New Guinea. ·
November 18 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military
advisors to South Vietnam. ·
The
funeral of longtime House Speaker Sam Rayburn is held in Washington, D.C.
Two former Presidents (Truman, Eisenhower)
and one future one (Lyndon B. Johnson)
join President Kennedy in
paying their respects. ·
İsmet
İnönü of CHP forms
the new government of Turkey (26th
government, first coalition in Turkey, partner AP). ·
November 21 – The "La Ronde"
opens in Honolulu, the
first revolving restaurant in
the United States ·
November 24 – The World Food Programme (WFP)
is formed as a temporary United Nations program. ·
November 30 – The Soviet Union vetoes Kuwait's application for United Nations membership. December[edit] Main article: December 1961 ·
December 1 – Netherlands New
Guinea raises the new Morning Star flag and changes its name
to West Papua. ·
December 2 – Cold War: In a nationally broadcast
speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro announces he is a Marxist–Leninist,
and that Cuba will adopt socialism. ·
December 5 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives support to
the Volta Dam project
in Ghana. ·
Tanganyika gains independence as
a Commonwealth realm,
with Julius Nyerere as
its first Prime Minister, with Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Tanganyika,
and represented locally by the Governor-General
of Tanganyika. ·
Australian
federal election, 1961: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is
re-elected with a one-seat majority, narrowly defeating the Labor Party led
by Arthur Calwell.
One of the closest election results in Australian history, such a result
would not be replicated again until
2016. Notably, former Prime
Minister Earle Page lost
his seat, although he died a few days later never knowing the result. ·
December 10 – The Soviet Union severs diplomatic
relations with Albania. ·
The
American involvement in the Vietnam War officially begins, as the
first American helicopters arrive in Saigon along with 400 U.S. personnel. ·
Adolf Eichmann is pronounced guilty
of crimes against humanity by a panel of three Israeli judges, and sentenced to death. ·
December 14 – Walt Disney's first live-action Technicolor
musical, Babes in
Toyland, a remake of the famous Victor Herbert operetta, is
released, but flops at the box office. ·
December 15 – An Israeli war crimes
tribunal sentences Adolf Eichmann to
death for his part in The Holocaust. ·
December 17 – A circus tent fire in Niterói, Brazil kills 323.[11] ·
December 18 – India opens hostilities
in its
annexation of Portuguese India, the colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu. ·
The Portuguese
surrender Goa to India after 400 years of Portuguese rule. ·
Indonesian president Sukarno announces that he will
take West Irian by
force if necessary. ·
December 21 – In Congo,
Katangan prime minister Moise Tshombe recognizes the Congolese
constitution. ·
December 23 – Luxembourg's national holiday, the Grand
Duke's Official Birthday, is set on June 23 by Grand Ducal decree. ·
December 30 – Congolese troops
capture Albert Kalonji of South Kasai (who soon escapes). ·
December 31 – Ireland's first national
television station, Telefís Éireann (later RTÉ),
begins broadcasting. Date unknown[edit] ·
"Barbie" gets a boyfriend when the
"Ken" doll is introduced in the United
States. ·
Sheila Burnford's The Incredible
Journey, a story of three pets travelling through the Canadian
wilderness, is published in the United Kingdom. Births[edit] January[edit]
·
Sergei Babayan, American classical pianist ·
Sam Backo, Australian rugby league
footballer ·
Gabrielle Carteris,
American actress and trade union leader ·
Neil Dudgeon, English actor ·
Todd Haynes, American film director ·
Mokhzani Mahathir,
Malaysian businessman ·
January 5 – Iris DeMent, American singer-songwriter ·
Ian Mercer, English actor ·
Supriya Pathak, Indian actress ·
January 8 – Calvin Smith, American athlete ·
Al Jean, American television writer ·
Candi Milo, American voice actress and
singer ·
January 10 – Mark Venturini, American actor (d. 1996) ·
Jasper Fforde, British fantasy novelist ·
Karl
Habsburg-Lothringen, Austrian politician and noble ·
January 12 – Sean Blowers, English actor ·
Wayne Coyne, American musician and frontman
of the band The Flaming Lips ·
Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
American actress, producer and comedian ·
January 14 – Mike Tramp, Danish rock singer (White Lion) ·
January 16 – Peter Tanfield, British concert violinist ·
January 17 – Maia Chiburdanidze,
Georgian chess player ·
Peter Beardsley, English footballer ·
Mark Messier, Canadian hockey player ·
Bob Peterson,
American animator and voice actor ·
January 19 – William Ragsdale, American actor ·
Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter,
musician, and artist ·
P. Kalimuthu, Malaysian gangster (d. 1993) ·
Shigeru Nakahara, Japanese voice actor ·
January 24 – Guido Buchwald, German football player ·
Sharyl Attkisson, American author and former
television journalist and investigative correspondent ·
Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player ·
Li Cunxin, Artistic Director for Queensland Ballet ·
January 28 – Arnaldur Indriđason,
Icelandic writer ·
January 27 – Gillian Gilbert, British keyboard player ·
January 29 – Petra Thümer, German swimmer ·
January 30 – Dexter Scott King,
son of Martin Luther
King, Jr. ·
January 31 – Lloyd Cole, British singer and songwriter February[edit]
·
February 1 – Volker Fried, German field hockey player ·
February 2 – Michael
Kay, American sportscaster ·
February 3 – Jim Balsillie, Canadian CEO and philanthropist ·
February 6 – Yuko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress ·
February 8 – Vince Neil, American singer ·
John Kruk, American baseball player and
commentator ·
Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor ·
February 10 – George
Stephanopoulos, American political consultant and commentator ·
February 11 – Mary Docter, American speed skater ·
February 13 – Henry Rollins, American musician and
activist ·
February 14 – Maria do Carmo
Silveira, Prime Minister of Săo Tomé and Príncipe ·
February 15 – Cheam Channy, Cambodian politician (d. 2018) ·
Meir Kessler, Israeli rabbi ·
Andrey Korotayev, Russian anthropologist,
economic historian, and sociologist ·
February 18 – Hironobu Kageyama,
Japanese singer ·
Phil Powers,
American alpinist ·
Dwayne McDuffie, American writer of comics
and television (d. 2011) ·
February 21 – Geoff Moore, American Christian musician ·
February 22 – Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist ·
February 25 – Davey Allison, American race car driver
(d. 1993) ·
February 27 – James Worthy, American basketball player and
analyst ·
Mark Latham, Australian politician ·
Richard Waugh,
Canadian voice actor March[edit]
·
March 3 ·
Mary Page Keller, American actress ·
John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize-winning
American biographer ·
March 4 ·
Ray Mancini, American boxer ·
Steven Weber,
American actor ·
Roger Wessels, South African golfer ·
March 5 – Charles Poliquin, Canadian strength coach ·
March 6 – John Blake American
football coach ·
March 9 ·
Mike
Leach, American college football coach ·
Rick Steiner, American professional wrestler ·
March 10 ·
Mike Bullard,
American hockey player ·
Laurel Clark, American astronaut (d. 2003) ·
Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast ·
March 11 – Elias Koteas, Canadian film and television
actor ·
March 14 ·
Kim Boyce, American Christian musician ·
Gary Dell'Abate, American radio producer ·
Marc Koska, English businessman and inventor ·
March 16 ·
Brett Kenny, Australian rugby league player ·
Michiru Ōshima,
Japanese composer ·
March 17 ·
Umayya Abu-Hanna, Palestine-born Finnish
writer and politician ·
Alexander Bard, Swedish musician (Army of Lovers) ·
Sam Bowie, American basketball player ·
Dana Reeve, American actress, singer and
activist (d. 2006) ·
Casey Siemaszko, American actor ·
March 21 ·
Kassie DePaiva, American actress ·
Lothar Matthäus,
German footballer ·
March 23 ·
Ali Hewson, Irish activist and businesswoman ·
Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television
newscaster ·
March 24 ·
Mitsuru Ogata, Japanese voice actor ·
Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist, current
Greek Finance Minister ·
March 25 – Reggie Fils-Aimé,
American businessman ·
March 27 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z) ·
March 28 – Byron Scott, American basketball player and
coach ·
March 29 ·
Amy Sedaris, American actress, comedian and
writer ·
Gerardo Teissonniere,
Puerto Rican pianist April[edit]
·
April 1 ·
Susan Boyle, Scottish singer ·
Kujira, Japanese voice actress ·
April 2 – Christopher Meloni,
American actor ·
April 3 ·
Eddie Murphy, African-American actor and
comedian ·
Edward Highmore, English actor ·
April 5 – Lisa Zane, American actress ·
April 6 – Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer
(d. 2000) ·
April 7 – Thurl Bailey, American basketball player ·
April 11 – Vincent Gallo, American actor ·
April 12 – Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician ·
April 14 ·
Robert Carlyle, Scottish film and television
actor ·
Neil Dougherty, American basketball coach
(d. 2011) ·
April 17 ·
Frank J. Christensen,
American labor leader ·
Boomer Esiason, American football player and
color commentator ·
Daphna Kastner, Canadian actress ·
April 18 – Jane Leeves, English actress ·
April 20 ·
Konstantin
Lavronenko, Russian actor ·
Don Mattingly, American baseball player ·
April 21 – Cathy Cavadini, American voice actress ·
April 23 ·
Dirk Bach, German actor and comedian
(d. 2012) ·
George Lopez, American actor and comedian ·
April 26 – Anthony Cumia, American radio personality ·
April 27 – Moana Pozzi, Italian porn actress (d. 1994) ·
April 28 – Futoshi Matsunaga,
Japanese serial killer ·
April 29 – Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese voice actor ·
April 30 – Isiah Thomas, African-American basketball
player, coach, and team owner May[edit]
·
May 1 – Marilyn Milian, American judge ·
May 2 – Steve James,
English snooker player ·
May 3 ·
Joe Murray,
American animator ·
David Vitter, U.S. Senator (R-LA) ·
May 4 ·
Jay Aston, British singer (Bucks Fizz) ·
Mary Elizabeth
McDonough, American actress, producer, director and author ·
May 5 ·
Hiroshi Hase, Japanese professional wrestler ·
Sarah
Zivale, American actress ·
May 6 ·
George Clooney, American actor ·
Wally Wingert, American actor and voice
actor ·
May 7 – Robert Spano, American conductor and pianist ·
May 8 ·
Bill de Blasio, 109th Mayor of New York City ·
Janet McTeer, British actress ·
Akira Taue, Japanese professional wrestler ·
May 9 ·
Rene Capo, American judoka (d. 2009) ·
John Corbett, American actor and country
music singer ·
May 10 – Danny Carey, American drummer (Tool, Pigmy Love Circus) ·
May 11 ·
Paul Begala, American political commentator ·
Lar Park Lincoln, American actress ·
May 12 – Billy Duffy, British guitarist (The Cult) ·
May 13 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player
and actor ·
May 14 ·
Urban Priol, German Kabarett artist and
comedian ·
Tim Roth, English actor ·
May 16 ·
Kevin McDonald, Canadian comedian and actor ·
Charles Wright,
American professional wrestler ·
May 17 – Enya,
Irish musician ·
May 18 – Jim Bowden, American baseball executive ·
May 20 – Clive Allen, British footballer ·
May 22 ·
Mike Breen, American sports announcer ·
Ann Cusack, American actress ·
May 23 – Karen Duffy, American actress ·
May 27 – Peri Gilpin, American actress ·
May 28 – Roland Gift, British singer and musician (Fine Young Cannibals) ·
May 29 – Melissa Etheridge,
American musician ·
May 30 ·
Ralph Carter, American actor ·
Harry Enfield, English comedian, actor,
writer and director ·
May 31 ·
Ray Cote, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Justin Madden, Australian footballer and
politician ·
Lea Thompson, American actress June[edit]
·
June 1 ·
Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player ·
Dilipkumar Viraji
Thakor, Indian politician ·
June 2 – Dez Cadena, American musician ·
June 3 ·
Lawrence Lessig, American academic and
political activist ·
Ed Wynne,
English musician (Ozric Tentacles) ·
June 4 ·
El DeBarge, American urban singer; was
member of American urban group DeBarge ·
Sam Harris, American actor and pop musician ·
June 5 ·
Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress
(d. 1999) ·
Anthony Burger, American musician and singer
(d. 2006) ·
Rosie Kane, Member of Scottish Parliament ·
June 6 – Tom Araya, Chilean-born rock musician (Slayer) ·
June 8 – Katy Garbi, Greek singer ·
June 9 ·
Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor,
producer, and author ·
Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter,
producer, and playwright ·
June 10 ·
Kim and Kelley Deal, American musicians ·
Maxi Priest, born Max Elliott, British
reggae singer ·
June 14 – Boy George, born George O'Dowd, British
singer-songwriter and music producer ·
June 15 – Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer ·
June 17 – Kōichi Yamadera,
Japanese voice actor ·
June 18 ·
Andrés Galarraga,
Venezuelan baseball player ·
Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter ·
June 19 – Bidhya Devi Bhandari,
2nd President of Nepal ·
June 20 – Karin Kania, German speed skater ·
June 21 – Joko Widodo, 7th President of
Indonesia ·
June 23 ·
Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist ·
David Leavitt, American novelist ·
June 24 ·
Lisa Bevill, American Christian musician ·
Iain Glen, Scottish actor ·
Curt Smith, British singer and keyboardist ·
June 25 ·
Mike Breen, American broadcaster ·
Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor,
writer and director. Former singer in Seona Dancing ·
June 26 – Greg LeMond, American cyclist ·
June 27 – Meera Syal, British-Indian comedian and
actress ·
June 28 ·
Jeff Malone, American basketball player ·
Eliezer Melamed, Israeli rabbi ·
June 29 ·
Greg Hetson, American rock guitarist ·
Sharon Lawrence, American actress, singer,
and dancer July[edit]
·
July 1 ·
Diana, Princess
of Wales, British Princess and first wife of Charles, Prince
of Wales (d. 1997) ·
Vito Bratta, American rock guitarist ·
Ivan Kaye, English actor ·
Jefferson King, British former bodybuilder
and wrestler ·
Carl Lewis, American athlete ·
Fredy Schmidtke, German track cyclist
(d. 2017) ·
Michelle Wright, Canadian country music
artist ·
July 2 ·
Jimmy McNichol, American child actor ·
Samy Naceri, French actor ·
July 3 ·
Mosi Alli, Tanzanian sprinter ·
Suzanne Dando, English Olympic gymnast ·
Joe Moreira, Brazilian jiu-jitsu
practitioner and a former mixed martial artist ·
July 4 ·
Charles Hector, Malaysian Human Rights
advocate and activist ·
Andrew Zimmern, American television
personality (Bizarre Foods) ·
July 5 – Patrizia Scianca, Italian voice actress ·
July 6 – Richard Mofe-Damijo,
Nigerian actor ·
July 7 – Eric Jerome Dickey,
American writer ·
July 8 – Toby Keith, American country music singer ·
July 9 – Raymond Cruz, American actor ·
July 10 ·
Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor ·
Lee Heung-sil, South Korean footballer ·
Liyel Imoke, Nigerian politician ·
Killion Munyama, Zambian-Polish economist,
academic lecturer and politician ·
July 11 ·
Joăo Donizeti
Silvestre, Brazilian businessman, historian, biologist and
politician ·
Ron Luce, American writer ·
Ophir Pines-Paz, Israeli politician ·
Sylvester Tung
Kiem San, Indonesian bishop ·
July 12 – Mark McGann, English actor, director, writer
and musician ·
July 14 – Jackie Earle Haley,
American actor ·
July 15 – Forest Whitaker, American actor and film
director ·
July 16 – J. Alan Brogan,
Irish programmer ·
July 17 ·
António Costa, Portuguese politician, 119th Prime
Minister (2015–present) ·
Jonathan Potts, Canadian actor ·
July 19 ·
Noriyuki Abe, Japanese anime director ·
Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast ·
Benoît Mariage,
Belgian film director ·
July 21 ·
Kenji Haga, Japanese entertainment talent,
actor and businessperson ·
Mokgweetsi Masisi,
5th President of
Botswana ·
July 22 ·
Irina Rozanova, Russian actress ·
Masumi Hayashi,
Japanese serial killer ·
Keith Sweat, American singer ·
July 23 ·
Milind Gunaji, Indian actor, model,
television show host ·
Woody Harrelson, American actor and comedian ·
David Kaufman,
American actor and voice actor ·
July 24 – Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance
Army ·
July 25 ·
Katherine Kelly Lang,
American Actress ·
Hugo Teufel III, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security ·
July 26 ·
Gary Cherone, American rock singer and songwriter ·
David Heyman, English film producer and
founder of Heyday Films ·
Keiko Matsui, Japanese pianist and composer ·
July 28 – Aleksandr Kurlovich,
Soviet-Belarusian Olympic weightlifter (d. 2018) ·
July 30 – Laurence Fishburne,
American actor and film director August[edit]
·
August 3 ·
Molly Hagan, American actress ·
Nick Harvey, English politician ·
August 4 ·
Robin Carnahan, Secretary
of State of Missouri ·
Barack Obama, 44th President
of the United States ·
Lauren Tom, American actress and voice
artist ·
August 5 ·
Mercedes Aráoz,
1st Vice President of
Peru ·
Janet McTeer, English actress ·
August 7 ·
Brian Conley, English actor, comedian,
singer, and presenter ·
Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast ·
Maggie Wheeler, American actress ·
August 8 ·
The Edge, Irish rock guitarist (U2) ·
Bruce
Matthews, American football player ·
Rikki Rockett, American rock drummer (Poison) ·
August 9 – John Key, 38th Prime
Minister of New Zealand ·
August 10 – Beatrice Alda, American actress and
filmmaker ·
August 11 – Jukka Tapanimäki,
Finnish game programmer (d. 2000) ·
August 12 – Lawrence,
English musician ·
Elpidia Carrillo, Mexican-American actress ·
Urara Takano, Japanese voice actress ·
Huw Edwards, BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist
and presenter ·
Bob Woodruff, American television journalist
and activist ·
August 20 – Tony Longo, American actor (d. 2015) ·
August 21 – Stephen Hillenburg,
American marine biologist, cartoonist, and animator (d. 2018) ·
August 22 – Roland Orzabal, British musician and
songwriter ·
August 24 – Jared Harris, English actor ·
August 25 – Billy Ray Cyrus, American actor and singer ·
August 27 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer and film
director ·
August 28 – Jennifer Coolidge,
American actress and comedian ·
August 30 – Brian Mitchell,
South African boxer ·
August 31 – Saleem, Malaysian singer (d. 2018) September[edit]
·
Bam Bam Bigelow, American professional
wrestler (d. 2007) ·
Boney James, American saxophonist,
songwriter and record producer ·
Carlos Valderrama,
Colombian footballer ·
Anthony Wong
Chau-sang, Hong Kong actor ·
September 3 – Andy Griffiths,
Australian author ·
September 4 – Felix Wong, Hong Kong actor ·
September 5 – Karim Abdul Razak,
Ghanaian footballer ·
Akira Kuroiwa, Japanese speed skater ·
Bruce W. Smith, American animator, director
and producer ·
Paul Waaktaar-Savoy,
Norwegian rock musician and songwriter (A-ha) ·
September 7 – Kevin Kennedy,
British actor ·
E. G. Daily, American actress, voice artist,
and singer ·
Virginia Madsen, American actress ·
September 12 – Mylčne Farmer, Canadian singer and
songwriter ·
September 13 – Dave Mustaine, American metal singer,
guitarist ·
September 14 – Martina Gedeck, German actress ·
Dan Marino, American football player ·
Lidia Yusupova, Chechen human-rights lawyer ·
September 16 – Jen Tolley,
American-Canadian actress, voice actress and singer ·
September 18 – James Gandolfini, American actor (d. 2013) ·
Lisa Bloom, American lawyer ·
Caroline Flint, British politician ·
Bonnie Hunt, American actress, comedian,
writer, director and television producer ·
Catherine Oxenberg,
American actress ·
September 23 – William C. McCool,
U.S. Army Commander and astronaut (d. 2003) ·
September 24 – Michael Tavera, American composer ·
Heather Locklear, American actress ·
Steve Scott,
British journalist and presenter ·
Wes Hopkins, American football player
(d. 2018) ·
Edward M. Kennedy
Jr., son of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy ·
September 27 – Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer ·
Yordanka Donkova, Bulgarian athlete ·
Wayne Westner A South African Golfer
who won twice on the European Tour (d. 2017) ·
September 29 – Julia Gillard, 27th Prime
Minister of Australia ·
Crystal Bernard, American actress and singer ·
Eric Stoltz, American actor and director ·
Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress October[edit]
·
Gary Ablett, Australian rules footballer ·
Rico Constantino, American professional
wrestler ·
October 3 – Ludger Stühlmeyer,
German cantor, composer and musicologist ·
Philippe Russo, French singer ·
Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer and
songwriter ·
October 5 – Matthew Kauffman, American journalist
and George Polk Award winner ·
October 6 – Mark Shasha, American artist, author,
illustrator ·
October 10 – Jodi Benson, American actress and singer ·
Amr Diab, Egyptian singer ·
Steve Young, American football player ·
Rachel De Thame, English gardener and
television presenter ·
Doc Rivers, American basketball player and
coach ·
Jim Burns, British science-fiction
illustrator ·
D. B. Sweeney, American actor ·
Randy Vasquez, American actor ·
Kim Wayans, American actress ·
Wynton Marsalis, African-American trumpeter
and composer ·
Rick Moody, American writer ·
Gladstone Small, Barbadian-English cricketer ·
Les Stroud, Canadian survival expert,
filmmaker, and musician ·
Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress ·
October 22 – Robert Torti, American actor ·
October 24 – Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist ·
Ward Burton, American NASCAR driver ·
Pat Sharp, British radio DJ and host ·
Chad Smith, American musician ·
October 26 – Dylan McDermott, American actor ·
October 29 – Randy
Jackson, African-American musician ·
Alonzo Babers, American runner ·
Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director ·
Larry Mullen, Jr.,
Irish rock drummer (U2) November[edit]
·
November 1 – Anne Donovan, American basketball player and
coach (d. 2018) ·
November 2 – k.d. lang, Canadian singer and songwriter ·
Daron Hagen, American composer ·
Dominic Heale, British journalist and
newsreader ·
Ralph Macchio, American actor ·
Jeff Probst, American television personality ·
Jerry Sadowitz, American-born British
stand-up comic and card magician ·
Nigel Worthington,
Northern Irish footballer and football manager ·
November 5 – Alan G. Poindexter,
American astronaut (d. 2012) ·
Jill Dando, British journalist and
television presenter (d. 1999) ·
Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist ·
November 12 – Nadia Comăneci,
Romanian gymnast ·
Jurga
Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (d. 2007) ·
D. B. Sweeney, American actor ·
November 16 – Corinne Hermčs,
French singer, Eurovision Song
Contest 1983 winner ·
Jan Kuehnemund, American guitarist (Vixen) (d. 2013) ·
Steven Moffat, Scottish screenwriter ·
Anthony Warlow, Australian singer ·
November 19 – Meg Ryan, American actress and film director ·
November 20 – Dave Watson, English footballer ·
November 21 – Maria Kawamura, Japanese voice actress ·
MGaramond Hemingway, American actress ·
Randal L. Schwartz,
American computer programmer ·
November 24 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist ·
November 28 – Alfonso Cuarón,
Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer ·
November 29 – Kim Delaney, American actress December[edit]
·
December 3 – Marcelo Fromer, Brazilian guitarist ·
Roy L. Dennis, disabled American boy
(d. 1978) ·
Frank Reich, American football player ·
December 5 – Laura Flanders, British born American
journalist ·
December 7 – Dawn Sears, American country
singer-songwriter (d. 2014) ·
December 8 – Ann Coulter, American author, conservative
commentator and attorney ·
December 9 – David Anthony
Higgins, American actor ·
December 10 – Nia Peeples, American actress ·
Daniel O'Donnell,
Irish singer ·
Sarah Sutton, British actress ·
December 13 – Karen Witter, American actress and model ·
December 15 – Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist and
politician ·
Shane Black, American film director ·
Bill Hicks, American comedian (d. 1994) ·
Sam Robards, American actor ·
Eric Allin Cornell,
American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Matthew Waterhouse,
British actor ·
Reggie White, American football player
(d. 2004) ·
December 20 – Mohammad Fouad, Arab singer and actor ·
December 21 – Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor ·
December 22 – Kassim Majaliwa, 10th Prime Minister of
Tanzania ·
December 23 – Ezzat el Kamhawi, Egyptian novelist ·
Ilham Aliyev, 7th Prime
Minister of Azerbaijan and 4th President of
Azerbaijan ·
Wade Williams, American actor ·
Íngrid Betancourt,
Colombian senator ·
David
Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2010) ·
December 26 – John Lynch,
Northern Irish actor ·
December 27 – Guido Westerwelle,
German politician (d. 2016) ·
December 29 – Jim Reid, Scottish musician ·
Douglas Coupland, Canadian author ·
Bill English, 39th Prime
Minister of New Zealand ·
Sean Hannity, American radio/television host
and conservative commentator ·
Ben Johnson,
Canadian athlete ·
December 31 – Jeremy Heywood, British Civil Servant
(d. 2018) Date unknown[edit] ·
Judie Bamber, American artist ·
Jaime Crespo, Mexican-American artist ·
James Rolfe,
Canadian composer ·
Acharya S, American writer and proponent of
the Christ myth theory (d. 2015) ·
Lefred Thouron, French cartoonist Deaths[edit] January[edit]
·
January 3 – Auvergne Doherty, Australian businesswoman
(b. 1896) ·
January 4 – Erwin Schrödinger,
Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1887) ·
January 8 – František Flos,
Czech novelist (b. 1864) ·
January 9 – Emily Greene Balch,
American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1867) ·
January 10 – Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894) ·
Nino Marchesini, Italian actor (b. 1895) ·
Blanche Ring, American singer and actress
(b. 1871) ·
January 14 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888) ·
January 17 – Patrice Lumumba, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925) ·
January 18 – Thomas Anthony
Dooley III, physician (b. 1927) ·
Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887) ·
John J. Becker, American composer and
pianist (b. 1886) ·
January 24 – Alfred Carlton
Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884) ·
January 26 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900) ·
January 29 – Jesse Wallace, American naval officer,
29th Governor of
American Samoa (b. 1899) ·
January 30 – Dorothy Thompson, American journalist
(b. 1893) February[edit]
·
February 2 – Anna May Wong, Chinese-American actress
(b. 1905) ·
February 3 – Viscount
Dunrossil, Australian Governor-General (b. 1893) ·
February 6 – Lawrence
Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, British politician (b. 1876) ·
February 7 – William Duncan,
American actor (b. 1879) ·
February 9 – Carlos Luz, Brazilian politician, 19th President of Brazil (b. 1894) ·
February 12 – Richmond K. Turner,
American admiral (b. 1885) ·
February 13 – Arthur Ripley, American film director
(b. 1897) ·
February 15 – Laurence Owen, American figure skater
(b. 1944) ·
February 16 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891) ·
February 17 – Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1897) ·
February 20 – Percy Grainger, Australian composer
(b. 1882) ·
George de Cuevas, Chilean-American ballet
impresario and choreographer (b. 1885) ·
Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician
(b. 1889) ·
Karl Albiker, German sculptor (b. 1878) ·
King Mohammed V of
Morocco (b. 1909) ·
February 28 – Aaron S. "Tip" Merrill, American
admiral (b. 1890) March[edit]
·
March 3 – Paul Wittgenstein,
Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887) ·
March 6 – George Formby, British singer, comedian
& actor (b. 1904) ·
March 8 ·
Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879) ·
Gala Galaction, Romanian writer (b. 1879) ·
March 12 ·
Victor d'Arcy, British Olympic athlete
(b. 1887) ·
Belinda Lee, English actress (b. 1935) ·
March 17 – Susanna M. Salter,
first woman mayor in the United States (b. 1860) ·
March 22 – Nikolai Massalitinov,
Soviet-born Bulgarian actor (b. 1880) ·
March 23 – Valentin Bondarenko,
Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937) ·
March 25 – Arthur Drewry, English administrator,
5th President of FIFA (b. 1891) ·
March 26 – Carlos Duarte Costa,
Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop
and saint, founder of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (b. 1888) April[edit]
Ahmet Zog/Zog I, Skanderberg III
Padma
Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana
·
April 2 – Wallingford Riegger,
American music composer (b. 1885) ·
April 6 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and
microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870) ·
April 7 ·
Vanessa Bell, English artist and interior
designer (b. 1879) ·
Jesús Guridi, Spanish Basque composer
(b. 1886) ·
April 9 – Ahmet Zog/Zog I, Skanderberg III, Albanian political
leader, 11th Prime Minister
of Albania, 7th President of Albania and King of Albania (b. 1895) ·
April 11 – Padma
Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 16th Prime Minister of
Nepal (b. 1882) ·
April 12 ·
Mbarek Bekkay, 1st Prime Minister
of Morocco (b. 1907) ·
Aziz Ezzat Pasha, Egyptian politician
(b. 1869) ·
April 21 – James Melton, American tenor (b. 1904) ·
April 24 – Lee Moran, American actor (b. 1888) ·
April 25 ·
Robert Garrett, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1875) ·
George Melford, American actor (b. 1877) ·
April 27 ·
Roy Del Ruth, American film director
(b. 1893) ·
Minoru Sasaki, Japanese general (b. 1893) ·
April 30 ·
Dickie Dale, English motorcycle road racer
(b. 1927) ·
Jessie Redmon Fauset,
American editor, writer and educator (b. 1882) May[edit]
·
May 3 ·
Lajos Dinnyés, 41st Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1901) ·
Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher (b. 1908) ·
May 6 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet and philosopher
(b. 1895) ·
May 13 – Gary Cooper, American actor, better known
for his role in High Noon (b. 1901) ·
May 14 – Albert Sévigny,
Canadian politician (b. 1881) ·
May 16 – George A. Malcolm,
American jurist & educator (b. 1881) ·
May 22 – Joan Davis, American actress (b. 1912) ·
May 30 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician and
soldier, 2-time President
of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891) ·
May 31 – Walter Little,
Canadian politician (b. 1877) June[edit]
·
June 2 – George S. Kaufman,
American playwright (b. 1889) ·
June 6 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875) ·
June 9 – Camille Guérin,
French bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872) ·
June 14 – Eddie Polo, Austrian-American actor
(b. 1875) ·
June 15 – Peyami Safa, Turkish journalist and writer
(b. 1899) ·
June 16 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904) ·
June 17 ·
Jeff Chandler,
American actor (b. 1918) ·
Thomas Darden, American Rear admiral,
37th Governor of
American Samoa (b. 1900) ·
June 18 – Eddie Gaedel, American with dwarfism
(b. 1925) ·
June 23 – Nikolai Malko, Soviet conductor (b. 1883) ·
June 24 ·
William J. Connors,
American politician (b. 1891) ·
George
Washington Vanderbilt III, American philanthropist (b. 1914) ·
June 25 – John A D
McCurdy, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia & pilot (b. 1886) ·
June 27 – Paul
Guilfoyle, American actor (b. 1902) ·
June 30 – Lee de Forest, American inventor (b. 1873) July[edit]
·
July 1 ·
Nasuhi al-Bukhari,
Syrian soldier and politician, 12th Prime Minister of
Syria (b. 1881) ·
Louis-Ferdinand
Céline, French writer (b. 1894) ·
July 2 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(suicide) (b. 1899) ·
July 4 – Franklyn Farnum, American actor (b. 1878) ·
July 6 ·
Konstantinos
Logothetopoulos, Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1878) ·
Woodall Rodgers, American politician,
43rd Mayor of Dallas (b. 1890) ·
July 9 – Whittaker Chambers,
American spy and witness in Hiss case[12][13][14] (b. 1901) ·
July 17 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1886) ·
July 23 ·
Esther Dale, American actress (b. 1885) ·
Valentine Davies, American screenwriter
(b. 1905) ·
Princess Teru (b. 1925) ·
July 28 – Harry Gribbon, American actor of silent
films (b. 1885) August[edit]
·
August 1 – Domingo Pérez
Cáceres, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint
(b. 1892) ·
August 4 ·
Zoltán Tildy, 39th Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1889) ·
Maurice Tourneur, French film director
(b. 1873) ·
August 5 – Sidney Holland, New Zealand politician,
25th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (b. 1893) ·
August 8 – Mei Lanfang, Beijing opera star (b. 1894) ·
August 9 – Walter Bedell Smith,
American general and diplomat (b. 1895) ·
August 11 – William
Jackson, American gangster (b. 1920) ·
Henri Breuil, French priest, archaeologist,
anthropologist and ethnologist (b. 1877) ·
Clark Ashton Smith,
American writer and sculptor (b. 1893) ·
August 20 – Percy Williams
Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1882) ·
Gotthard Sachsenberg,
German World War I naval aviator and fighter ace (b. 1891) ·
Beals Wright, American tennis player
(b. 1879) ·
Howard P. Robertson,
American physicist (b. 1903) ·
Gail Russell, American actress (b. 1924) ·
August 30 – Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877) September[edit]
·
September 1 – Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1910) ·
Richard Mason,
British explorer (b. 1934) ·
Fay-Cooper Cole, American anthropologist
(b. 1881) ·
September 4 – Isidore Fattal, Syrian Orthodox bishop
(b. 1886) ·
September 10 – Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880) ·
September 11 – George
Irving, American actor (b. 1874) ·
September 16 – Hasan Fehmi,
Turkish politician (b. 1879) ·
Miguel Gómez Bao,
Spanish-born Argentine actor (b. 1894) ·
Adnan Menderes, Turkish statesman, 9th Prime Minister
of Turkey (executed) (b. 1899) ·
September 18 – Dag Hammarskjöld,
Swedish diplomat, politician and author, 2nd Secretary
General of the United Nations, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905) ·
September 21 – Georgia Ann Robinson,
community worker and first African American woman
to be appointed a Los Angeles police officer (b. 1879) ·
September 22 – Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897) ·
Elmer Diktonius, Finnish poet and composer
(b. 1896) ·
John Elderdge,
American actor (b. 1904) ·
September 24 – Sumner Welles, American diplomat (b. 1892) ·
September 25 – Frank Fay,
American actor (b. 1897) ·
Robert L.
Eichelberger, American general (b. 1886) ·
Juanita Hansen, American actress (b. 1895) October[edit]
·
October 1 – Donald Cook,
American actor (b. 1901) ·
October 2 – Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist
(b. 1881) ·
Metropolitan Benjamin,
Soviet Orthodox missionary
and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in
North America (b. 1880) ·
Max Weber,
Polish-American artist (b. 1881) ·
Lucy Tayiah Eads, Kaw tribal chief (b. 1888) ·
Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887) ·
Maya Deren, Russian-born filmmaker (b. 1917) ·
Zoltán Korda, Hungarian screenwriter and
director (b. 1895) ·
Dun Karm Psaila, Maltese writer (b. 1871) ·
Paul Ramadier, French politician, 63rd Prime Minister
of France (b. 1888) ·
Harriet Shaw Weaver,
English political activist (b. 1876) ·
Şemsettin
Günaltay, Turkish historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister
of Turkey (b. 1883) ·
Sergio Osmeńa, Filipino politician,
4th President of
the Philippines (b. 1878) ·
October 21 – Karl Korsch, German Marxist theoretician
(b. 1886) ·
Joseph Schenck, Russian-born film studio
executive (b. 1878) ·
Aloys Van de Vyvere,
25th Prime Minister
of Belgium (b. 1871) ·
October 30 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and
politician, 2nd President of Italy (b. 1874) November[edit]
·
November 1 – Mordecai Ham, American evangelist (b. 1877) ·
James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894) ·
Salman bin
Hamad Al Khalifa I, 12th Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894) ·
November 3 – Thomas
Flynn, British Roman Catholic prelate and reverend
(b. 1880) ·
November 9 – Ferdinand Bie, Norwegian Olympic athlete
(b. 1888) ·
Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883) ·
Johanna Westerdijk,
Dutch plant pathologist (b. 1883) ·
November 16 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1882) ·
November 22 – Anselmo Alliegro
y Milá, Cuban politician, 3rd Prime Minister of
Cuba, leader of World War II (b. 1899) ·
November 24 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress, novelist,
and aviator (b. 1892) ·
November 25 – Adelina de Lara, British composer (b. 1872) ·
Anna Gould, American heiress and socialite;
daughter of financier Jay Gould (b. 1875) ·
Ehrenfried Pfeiffer,
German scientist (b. 1899) December[edit]
·
December 2 – Herbert Pitman, British sailor, third
officer of the RMS Titanic (b. 1877) ·
December 6 – Frantz Fanon, Caribbean philosopher (b. 1925) ·
December 13 – Anna Mary Robertson Moses
aka Grandma Moses,
painter (b. 1860) ·
December 15 – Gioacchino Failla,
Italian-born American physicist (b. 1891) ·
Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904) ·
Earle Page, Australian politician,
11th Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1880) ·
December 23 – Kurt "Panzermeyer" Meyer,
German Generalmajor der Waffen-SS and war criminal (b. 1910) ·
December 25 – Otto Loewi, German-born pharmacologist, recipient
of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873) ·
December 28 – Edith Wilson, First
Lady of the United States from 1915-1921 (b. 1872) ·
Anton Flettner, German aviation engineer and
inventor (b. 1885) ·
Sibyl Morrison, first female barrister in
New South Wales, Australia (b. 1895) Date unknown[edit] ·
Taha al-Hashimi, 13th Prime Minister of
Iraq (b. 1888) ·
Wyncie King, American illustrator (b. 1884) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Physics – Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Georg von Békésy ·
Literature – Ivo Andrić ·
Peace – Dag Hammarskjöld (posthumously) See also[edit] References |
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