1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1921st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 921st year of the 2nd millennium, the 21st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1921, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Contents

· 1Events

· 2Births

· 3Deaths

· 4Nobel Prizes

· 5References

· 6Sources

Events[edit]

January[edit]

· January 1 – In American football, the University of California, Berkeley defeats Ohio State 28–0 in the Rose Bowl.

· January 2

· The football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as Palestra Italia in Brazil.

· The first religious radio broadcast is heard over station KDKA AM in Pittsburgh.

· Spanish liner Santa Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia; 244 die.

· The De Young Museum opens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

· January 20 – British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.

· January 21

· The Italian Communist Party is founded in Livorno.

· The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.

· Women's suffrage is attained in Sweden.

· The full-length silent comedy-drama film The Kid, written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin (in his Tramp character), with Jackie Coogan, is released in the United States.

· January 25 – The Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci is righted in Taranto Harbour.

February[edit]

· February 12 – Red Army invasion of Georgia: The Democratic Republic of Georgia is invaded by forces of Bolshevist Russia.

· February 20 – The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia is founded.

· February 21 – 1921 Persian coup d'état: Rezā Khan and Zia'eddin Tabatabaee stage a coup d'état in Iran.

· February 23 – The moderately conservative public official Oscar von Sydow takes over the Swedish premiership, from Baron Louis De Geer the Younger.

· February 25 – Red Army invasion of Georgia: The Red Army enters the Georgian capital Tbilisi, and installs a Moscow-directed communist government.

· February 27 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is formed in Vienna.

· February 28 – The Kronstadt rebellion is initiated by sailors of the Soviet Navy's Baltic Fleet.

March[edit]

March 4: Warren G. Harding is 29th President of the United States.

· March – The Group Settlement Scheme in Western Australia begins.

· March 1

· The city of Kiryū, located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, is founded.

· The Australia national cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, becomes the first to complete a whitewash in The Ashes, something that will not be repeated for 86 years.

· March 4 – Warren G. Harding is sworn in, as the 29th President of the United States.

· March 5 – Irish War of Independence: Clonbanin Ambush: The Irish Republican Army kills Brigadier GeneralCumming.

· March 6 – The Portuguese Communist Party is founded.

· March 8

· Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato e Iradier is assassinated, while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.

· Allied forces occupy Düsseldorf, Ruhrort and Duisburg.

· March 12 – The İstiklâl Marşı (Independence March), the Turkish national anthem, is officially adopted.

· March 13 – Occupation of Mongolia: The Russian White Army captures Mongolia from China; Roman von Ungern-Sternberg declares himself ruler.

· March 14 – Armenian Soghomon Tehlirian assassinates Mehmed Talaat, former Interior Minister of Turkey, in Charlottenburg, Berlin.

· March 16 – Six Irish Republican Army men of the Forgotten Ten are hanged in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.

· March 17

· The Red Army crushes the Kronstadt rebellion, and a number of sailors flee to Finland.

· Dr. Marie Stopes opens the first birth control clinic in London, England.

· The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.

· March 18 – The second Peace of Riga ends the Polish–Soviet War. A permanent border is established between the Polish and Soviet states.

· March 20 – Upper Silesia votes for re-annexation to Germany.

· March 21

· The New Economic Policy starts in Soviet Russia.

· Irish War of Independence – Headford Ambush: The Irish Republican Army kills at least 9 British Army troops.

· March 24 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad (the first international women's sports event) begins in Monte Carlo.

· March 31 – Abkhazia becomes a republic Abkhazian SSR.

April[edit]

· April – The United States Figure Skating Association is formed.

· April 11 – The Emirate of Transjordan is created, with Abdullah I as emir.

· April 14 – In Britain, labour unions for mining, railway and transportation workers call for a strike; the government threatens to call in the army.

· April 20 – Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is first produced on Broadway, in English.

· April 27 – The Allied reparations commission announces that Germany has to pay 132 billion gold marks ($33 trillion), in annual installments of 2.5 billion.

May[edit]

· May 1–May 7 – Jaffa riots: Riots at Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine result in 47 Jewish and 48 Arab deaths.

· May 2–July 5 – Third Silesian Uprising: Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans.

· May 3 – The province of Northern Ireland is created within the United Kingdom.

· May 5 – Only 13 spectators attend the football match between Leicester City and Stockport County, the lowest attendance in The Football League's history.

· May 6 – The German-Russian Provisional Agreement is signed; Germany recognises the Soviet regime in Russia.

· May 14–May 15 – A major geomagnetic storm occurs.

· May 14–May 17 – Violent anti-European riots occur in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt.

· May 16 – The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia is founded.

· May 19 – The Emergency Quota Act is passed by the United States Congress, establishing national quotas on immigration.

· May 23 – The Leipzig War Crimes Trials begin in Germany (they will end on July 16).

· May 24 – The first general election, for the new Parliament of Northern Ireland, is held.

· May 26 – A general strike begins in Norway.

· May 31 – The Tulsa race riot begins in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is 39, but later investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.

June[edit]

· June 21 – The International Hydrographic Bureau (IHB) is established as an agency of the League of Nations; it continues in this form until April 19, 1946.

· June 27 – The first signings of Treaty 11, an agreement between George V, King of Canada, and various Canadian First Nations, are conducted at Fort Providence.

· June 28 – The Constitutional Assembly of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes passes the Vidovdan Constitution, despite a boycott of the vote by the communists, and Croat and Slovene parties.

· June 30 – The death penalty is abolished in Sweden.

July[edit]

· July 1

· The Communist Party of China (CPC) is founded.

· A coal strike ends in England.

· July 2 – U.S. President Warren Harding signs a joint congressional resolution, declaring an end to America's state of war with Germany, Austria and Hungary.^[1]

· July 4 – A new conservative government is formed in Italy, by Ivanoe Bonomi.

· July 11

· The Irish War of Independence (aka the Anglo-Irish War) comes to a halt, after a truce is signed between the belligerents.

· The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army, and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.

· July 14 – A Massachusetts jury finds Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti guilty of first degree murder, following a widely publicized trial.

· July 17 – The Republic of Mirdita is proclaimed near the Albanian-Serbian border, with Yugoslav support.

· July 18 – The first BCG vaccination against tuberculosis is given.

· July 21 – Rif War – Battle of Annual: Spanish troops are dealt a crushing defeat, at the hands of Abd el-Krim.

· July 22 – The Anglo-Irish truce, agreed 10 days earlier, is officially declared in London.

· July 23 – The Communist Party of China (CPC) launches the first founding National Congress.

· July 26 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding receives Princess Fatima of Afghanistan, and Stanley Clifford Weyman.

· July 27 – Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.

· July 29 – Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi Party.

August[edit]

· August – The United States formally ends World War I.

· August 5 – The first radio baseball game is broadcast; Harold Arlin announces the Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field, over Westinghouse KDKA, in Pittsburgh.

· August 11 – The temperature reaches 39 degrees Celsius in Breslau; the heat wave continues elsewhere in Europe as well.

· August 23 – King Faisal I of Iraq is crowned in Baghdad.

· August 24 – R38-class airship ZR-2 explodes on her fourth test flight near Kingston upon Hull, England, killing 44 of the 49 Anglo-American crew on board.^[2]

· August 25 – Franklin Roosevelt, 39, is diagnosed with poliomyelitis, following a two-week illness characterized by paralysis and fevers; he becomes permanently disabled after this illness.

· August 26

· Rising prices cause major riots in Munich.

· The assassination of German politician Matthias Erzberger causes the government to declare martial law.

September[edit]

· September 1 – Poplar Strike in London: Nine members of the Poplar borough council are arrested.

· September 7 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant is held.

· September 8 – Margaret Gorman, 16, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dub her the first Miss America.

· September 12 – The Lotta Svärd women's paramilitary auxiliary is founded in Finland.

· September 13 – White Castle hamburger restaurant opens in Wichita, Kansas, the foundation of the world's first fast food chain.

· September 21 – The Oppau explosion occurs at BASF's nitrate factory in Oppau, Germany; 500–600 are killed.

October[edit]

Main article: October 1921

· October 5 – The World Series game is first broadcast on the radio, by Newark, New Jersey station WJZ, Pittsburgh station KDKA, and a group of other commercial and amateur stations throughout the eastern United States.

· October 8 – The first Sweetest Day is staged in Cleveland, Ohio.

· October 10 – Teaching at the University of Szeged begins, in the Kingdom of Hungary.

· October 13

· The Treaty of Kars is signed between the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the Soviet Socialist Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, establishing the boundaries between Turkey and the states of the south Caucasus.

· Swedish Social Democratic party leader Hjalmar Branting becomes yet again Prime Minister, after strong general election gains for his party.

· October 19 – 'Bloody Night' (Noite Sangrenta): A massacre in Lisbon claims the lives of Portuguese Prime-Minister António Granjo and other politicians.

· October 21

· A peace conference between Ireland and the United Kingdom begins in London.

· George Melford's wildly successful silent film The Sheik, which will propel its leading actor Rudolph Valentino to international stardom, premieres in Los Angeles.

· October 24 – The Spanish Army defeats rifkabyl rebels in Morocco.

· October 29 – In the United States:

· Construction of the Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Project in Oregon, is completed.

· Centre College's American football team, led by quarterback Bo McMillin, defeats Harvard University 6–0, to break Harvard's five-year winning streak. For decades afterward, this is called "football's upset of the century."

November[edit]

Main article: November 1921

· November 4 – After a speech by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus in Munich (Germany), members of the Sturmabteilung ("brownshirts") physically assault his opposition.

· November 4 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

· November 9

· The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista or PNF) is founded in Italy.

· Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, for his work with the photoelectric effect.

· Riots in Reykjavík injure most of the small police force.^{[clarification needed]}

· November 11 – During an Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated by Warren G. Harding, President of the United States.

· November 14 – The Spanish Communist Party is founded.

· November 23 – The Sheppard–Towner Act is signed by President Harding, providing federal funding for maternity and child care.

· Undated – Hyperinflation is rampant in Germany, where 263 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar, more than 20 times greater than the 12 marks needed in April 1919.^[3]

December[edit]

Main article: December 1921

December 29: William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the 10th Prime Minister of Canada

· December 1 – Rising prices cause riots in Vienna.

· December 6

· The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State, an independent nation incorporating 26 of Ireland's 32 counties, is signed in London.

· Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to be elected to the Canadian Parliament.

· December 13 – In the Four-Power Treaty on Insular Possessions, Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, and France agree to recognize the status quo in the Pacific.

· December 23 – Visva-Bharati College is founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan, Bengal Presidency, British India.

· December 29 – William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.

Date unknown[edit]

· Russian famine: Roughly 5,000,000 people die.

· Jewish immigration to Palestine grows rapidly, after the United States drastically limits immigration from Eastern Europe.

· Regular radio broadcasting services begin in Italy.

· Edward Harper, the "father of broadcasting" in Ceylon, arrives in Colombo to take up his post as Chief Engineer of the Ceylon Telegraph Department.

· The vibraphone in its original form is invented in the United States.

· E. W. Scripps and William Emerson Ritter found Science Service, later renamed Society for Science and the Public, in the United States, with the goal of keeping the public informed of scientific developments.

· The Sauerländer Heimatbund is founded in Meschede, Germany.

· The German Weimar Republic makes its first payment of reparations.^{[clarification needed]}

Births[edit]

Births

January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January[edit]

John Russell

Marija Gimbutas

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Donna Reed

Carol Channing

· January 1

· César Baldaccini, French sculptor (d. 1998)

· Cliff Bourland, American athlete (d. 2018)

· Doris Tetzlaff, American female professional baseball player (d. 1998)

· Pete Turnham, American politician

· Helen Yate, English swimmer

· January 3

· Bob Dawson, Australian rules footballer

· Jean-Louis Koszul, French mathematician (d. 2018)

· John Russell, American actor (d. 1991)

· Cecil Souders, American football player

· Claude Vigée, French poet

· Bill Gold, American graphic designer (d. 2018)

· January 4

· Leo Sarkisian, American musicologist, broadcaster (d. 2018)

· Pedro Richter Prada, 115th Prime Minister of Peru (d. 2017)

· January 5

· Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)

· Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

· January 6 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (d. 1998)

· January 9

· Fraser Barron, New Zealand bomber pilot during WWII (d. 1944)

· Ágnes Keleti, Hungarian artistic gymnast

· Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster, playwright (d. 2006)

· January 10 – Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)

· January 11

· Gory Guerrero, American wrestler, father of Eddie Guerrero (d. 1990)

· Judith Leiber, Hungarian-American fashion designer, businesswoman (d. 2018)

· Juanita M. Kreps, American government official and businesswoman (d. 2010)

· January 14 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)

· January 16

· Henry Sayler, American politician

· George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, British politician, journalist (d. 2008)

· January 17

· Herb Ellis, American actor

· Asghar Khan, Pakistani politician, military officer (d. 2018)

· Epaminondas Stassinopoulos, Greek astrophysicist

· Dan Tolkowsky, Israeli Air Force commander

· January 18 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American Nobel physicist (d. 2015)

· January 19

· Denys Roberts, British colonial official, judge (d. 2013)

· Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)

· January 21

· Jaswant Singh Marwah, Indian journalist and author

· William Pulgram, Austrian-American architect

· Howard Unruh, American spree killer (d. 2009)

· January 23

· Hermann Baumann, Swiss Olympic freestyle wrestler

· Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian archaeologist (d.1994)

· January 24 – Beatrice Mintz, American biologist

· January 26

· Elisabeth Kirkby, English-Australian actress, writer and politician

· Akio Morita, Japanese businessman, co-founder of Sony (d. 1999)

· January 27

· Raymond E. Peet, American admiral

· Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)

· January 29

· A. Hunter Dupree, American historian

· Mustafa Ben Halim, Fromer Prime Minister of Libya

· January 31

· Carol Channing, American actress

· Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, 2nd President of Bangladesh (d. 1987)

· Mario Lanza, American tenor, actor (d. 1959)

· Anthony Lazzaro, American academic

February[edit]

Betty Friedan

Lana Turner

Abe Vigoda

Betty Hutton

· February 1

· Peter Sallis, English actor (Last of the Summer Wine; Wallace and Gromit) (d. 2017)

· Patricia Robins, British writer, WAAF officer (d. 2016)

· February 3 – John Millett, Australian poet

· February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)

· February 5

· Zbigniew Czajkowski, Polish fencer

· John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)

· Sir Ken Adam, German-born British production designer (d. 2016)

· February 7

· Jesse Freitas Sr., American football player

· Guy Natusch, New Zealand architect

· February 8

· Hans Albert, German philosopher

· Nexhmije Hoxha, widow of Albanian communist leader Enver Hoxha

· Betsy Jochum, American female baseball player

· Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)

· February 11 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (d. 2006)

· February 12

· Don Bollweg, American baseball player (d. 1996)

· Betty Jaynes, American actress, singer

· February 14

· Hugh Downs, American game show host, journalist

· John Henry Waddell, American artist

· February 15

· Jefferson J. DeBlanc, World War II United States Marine Corps fighter ace (d. 2007)

· Martha Farkas Glaser, Hungarian-American civil rights activist, manager of jazz musician Erroll Garner (d. 2014)

· February 16

· Hua Guofeng, former Chairman of the Communist Party of China, Premier of China (d. 2008)

· Vera-Ellen, American actress, dancer (d. 1981)

· February 17

· Muriel Coben, Canadian professional baseball, curling player (d. 1979)

· Herbert Köfer, German actor

· February 18

· Ken Casanega, American football player

· Brian Faulkner, 6th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1977)

· February 20 – "Nature Boy" Rogers, American professional wrestler (d. 1992)

· February 21 – Leroy J. Manor, American Air Force general

· February 22

· Jean-Bédel Bokassa, 2nd President of the Central African Republic (1966-1976), Emperor of Central Africa (1976-1979) (d. 1996)

· Wayne C. Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)

· Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)

· Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)

· February 24

· Dick Van Orden, American admiral

· Abe Vigoda, American actor (d. 2016)

· February 25 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970)

· February 26

· Jacob W. Gruber, American anthropologist, archaeologist, historian and educator

· Betty Hutton, American actress (d. 2007)

· Louis Roney, American opera singer (d. 2017)

· February 27

· Michael Fox, American actor (d. 1996)

· Eka Tjipta Widjaja, Chinese-Indonesian billionaire and businessman

· February 28

· Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)

· J. F. C. Harrison, British historian, author (d. 2018)

March[edit]

Gordon MacRae

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia

Dirk Bogarde

· March 1

· Jack Clayton, British film director (d. 1995)

· Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1983)

· Richard Wilbur, American poet (d. 2017)

· March 2

· Cornelius Edward Gallagher, American politician (d. 2018)

· Robert Simpson, English composer (d. 1997)

· March 3

· Diana Barrymore, American actress (d. 1960)

· George E. Felton, English computer scientist

· Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004)

· March 4

· Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist and educator (d. 2017)

· Joan Greenwood, British actress (d. 1987)

· Robert F. Ruth, American politician

· March 5

· Berkley Bedell, American politician

· Elmer Valo, Czechoslovakia-born Major League Baseball player (d. 1998)

· March 7 – Syed Nasir Ismail, Malaysian politician (d. 1982)

· March 8 – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (Gilligan's Island) (d. 1990)

· March 10 – Cec Linder, Polish-born Canadian actor (d. 1992)

· March 11

· Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)

· William Harbison, English Royal Air Force pilot

· Astor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger (d. 1992)

· March 12

· Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (d. 2003)

· Gordon MacRae, American singer, actor (d. 1986)

· March 13

· Al Jaffee, American cartoonist (MAD Magazine)

· Cyril Poole, English cricketer (d. 1996)

· March 16

· Jens Bjerre, Danish author, filmmaker and explorer

· King Faud of Saudi Arabia (d. 2005)

· Donald M. Kendall, American businessman

· March 14 – Lis Hartel, Danish equestrian athlete (d. 2009)

· March 17 – Meir Amit, Israeli politician, general (d. 2009)

· March 19 – Tommy Cooper, Welsh prop comedian, magician (d. 1984)

· March 20

· Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegalese educator

· Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1970)

· March 21

· Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)

· Xu Zuyao, Chinese expert in materials science (d. 2017)

· Vasily Stalin, Soviet general (d. 1962)

· Abdul Salam Arif, President of Iraq (d. 1966)

· March 22 – Jean Bruce, French writer (d. 1963)

· March 24

· Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer (d. 2018)

· Vasily Smyslov, Soviet chess player (d. 2010)

· March 25

· Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)

· Alexandra of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)

· March 27 – Hélène Berr, French writer (d. 1945)

· March 28 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)

· March 29 – Hugh Neill, British businessman (d. 2017)

· March 30

· Tony Honoré, English lawyer and jurist

· Clemens Kalischer, American photojournalist, art photographer (d. 2018)

April[edit]

Yitzhak Navon

Thomas Schelling

· April 1

· Beau Jack, American boxer (d. 2000)

· Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American musician and songwriter (d. 2014)

· April 3

· Robert Karvelas, American actor (d. 1991)

· Darío Moreno, Turkish singer (d. 1968)

· Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004)

· April 6 – Wilbur Thompson, American Olympic champion shot putter (d. 2013)

· April 8

· Franco Corelli, Italian opera singer (d. 2003)

· Phyllis Latour, English-French Legion of Honour recipient

· April 9

· Roger Bocquet, Swiss footballer (d. 1994)

· Frankie Thomas, American actor (d. 2006)

· William G. Callow, American judge (d. 2018)

· Yitzhak Navon, Israeli politician (d. 2015)

· April 10

· Chuck Connors, American basketball and baseball player turned actor (d. 1992)

· Sheb Wooley, American actor, singer (d. 2003)

· April 11 – Maura McNiel, American feminist

· April 13

· Dona Ivone Lara, Brazilian singer, composer (d. 2018)

· Leo Mogus, American basketball player (d. 1971)

· Louis Witten, American theoretical physicist

· April 14 – Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)

· April 15 – Georgy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1995)

· April 16 – Peter Ustinov, English actor, director (d. 2004)

· April 17 – Sergio Sollima, Italian director (d. 2015)

· April 19

· Robert Maxwell, American songwriter and harpist (d. 2012)

· Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal, theologian (d. 2015)

· April 20

· Peter Baker, British soldier, author, publisher and politician (d. 1966)

· Kenneth O. Chilstrom, American Air Force officer

· April 22 – Vivian Dandridge, African-American actress (d. 1991)

· April 23

· Judy Agnew, Second Lady of the United States (d. 2012)

· Janet Blair, American actress (d. 2007)

· Warren Spahn, American baseball player (d. 2003)

· April 25 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)

· April 26

· Nelson Dalzell, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 1989)

· Jimmy Giuffre, American jazz musician (d. 2008)

· April 27

· Abdelmalek Benhabyles, Algerian politician

· John Stott, British Anglican cleric, Christian author (d. 2011)

· Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, German television host, entertainer (d. 1998)

· April 29

· Bert Lundin, Swedish union leader (d. 2018)

· Pavel Vranský, Czech brigadier general and RAF radio operator (d. 2018)

· April 30

· Dottie Green, American professional baseball player (d. 1992)

· Tove Maës, Danish actress (d. 2010)

May[edit]

Satyajit Ray

Sugar Ray Robinson

Andrei Sakharov

· May 2

· B. B. Lal, Indian archaeologist

· Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (d. 1992)

· May 3 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)

· May 4 – Harry Daghlian, American physicist (d. 1945)

· May 5

· Jim Conacher, Canadian ice hockey player

· Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)

· May 6 – Erich Fried, Austrian author (d. 1988)

· May 9

· Sophie Scholl, German student, anti-Nazi resistance fighter (executed) (d. 1943)

· Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)

· May 11 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016)

· May 12

· Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)

· Ruth de Souza, Brazilian actress

· Farley Mowat, Canadian writer, naturalist (d. 2014)

· Cor van der Hoeven, Dutch footballer (d. 2017)

· May 14 – Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)

· May 15 – Baron Vaea, Prime Minister of Tonga (d. 2009)

· May 16 – Harry Carey, Jr., American actor (d. 2012)

· May 17 – Dennis Brain, English musician (d. 1957)

· May 18 – Sir Michael A. Epstein, British medical researcher

· May 19 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)

· May 20

· Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (d. 1998)

· Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)

· May 21

· Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist, human rights activist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (which he declined) (d. 1989)

· Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian philosopher, author of the socio-economic Progressive Utilization Theory (d. 1990)

· May 23

· James Blish, American science fiction author (d. 1975)

· Laurin L. Henry, American researcher

· Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician, radio personality (d. 2008)

· Georgy Natanson, Russian director, screenwriter and playwright (d. 2017)

· May 25

· Hal David, American songwriter, lyricist (d. 2012)

· Kitty Kallen, American singer (d. 2016)

· James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (d. 2000)

· Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

· May 26

· Inge Borkh, German soprano (some sources say she was born 1917) (d. 2018)

· Stan Mortensen, English footballer (d. 1991)

· Anatoly Chernyaev, Russian historian, writer (d. 2017)

· May 27

· Harry G. Haskell Jr., American politician

· Cyril Tamplin, Welsh cricketer

· May 28

· Tom Uren, Australian soldier, politician (d. 2015)

· Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)

· May 29

· Norman Hetherington, Australian puppeteer, artist (d. 2010)

· May 30

· Branko Mamula, Yugoslav politician

· Jamie Uys, South African actor, film director (d. 1996)

June[edit]

Alexis Smith

Suharto

Prince Philip

Jane Russell

· June 1 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (d. 1985)

· June 3

· Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete (d. 2016)

· John Shelton Wilder, American politician, former Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (d. 2010)

· June 6 – Mikheil Tumanishvili, Georgian theater director, teacher (d. 1996)

· June 7

· Myrtle Edwards, Australian cricketer, softball player (d. 2010)

· Bernard Lown, American medical innovator, Nobel Peace Prize recipient

· Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2012)

· June 8

· Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress (d. 1993)

· Suharto, President of Indonesia (d. 2008)

· June 9 – Margaret Danhauser, American female professional baseball player (d. 1987)

· June 10

· Oskar Gröning, German SS officer, war criminal (d. 2018)

· Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Elizabeth II

· Sergio Arellano Stark, Chilean military officer (d. 2016)

· June 12

· Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)

· Johan Witteveen, Dutch politician, economist and 5th Managing Director of the IMF

· Luis García Berlanga, Spanish film director and screenwriter (d. 2010)

· June 13 – Nancy Warren, American female professional baseball player (d. 2001)

· June 15 – Erroll Garner, African-American jazz musician (d. 1977)

· June 17 – Aydın Boysan, Turkish architect (d. 2018)

· June 19

· Doris Sands Johnson, Bahamian teacher, suffragette, and politician (d. 1983)

· Louis Jourdan, French actor (d. 2015)

· June 21

· Fernando Hoyos, Colombian sports shooter

· Thomas Morrow Reavley, American judge

· Gebhard Büchel, Liechtenstein decathlete

· Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)

· June 22

· José Agdamag, Filipino sports shooter (d. 2011)

· Ralph K. Hofer, American fighter pilot (d. 1942)

· June 23

· Marius Mora, French cross-country skier

· Paul Findley, American politician

· Colin Pinch, Australian cricketer (d. 2006)

· June 24 – Gerhard Sommer, German soldier

· June 25

· Yves Forest, Canadian politician, lawyer

· Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)

· June 26

· Robert Everett, American computer scientist (d. 2018)

· Violette Szabo, French World War II heroine (d. 1945)

· June 27

· Muriel Pavlow, English actress

· Princess Vimolchatra of Thailand (d. 2009)

· June 28 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)

· June 29

· Jean Kent, English actress (d. 2013)

· Bob Kennedy, American football player (d. 2010)

· Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (d. 2009)

· June 30

· Washington SyCip, Filipino accountant (d. 2017)

· Oswaldo López Arellano, 42nd and 44th President of Honduras (d. 2010)

· Jules Amez-Droz, Swiss fencer (d. 2012)

· Unknown – Dennis Wilson, English poet

July[edit]

Nancy Reagan

Sixto Durán Ballén

John Glenn

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Richard Egan

· July 1

· Arthur Johnson, Canadian sprint canoeist

· Teddy Long, Australian rules footballer (d. 2008)

· Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (d. 1980)

· July 2 – William Proctor Wilson, American businessman, philanthropist (d. 2010)

· July 3

· Flor María Chalbaud, former First Lady of Venezuela

· Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, American-born Hasidic rebbe (d. 2009)

· July 4

· Madelon Mason, American model and pin-up girl (d. 2011)

· Galen L. Stone, American diplomat (d. 2018)

· Gérard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

· Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist, conductor (d. 2003)

· July 5

· Nanos Valaoritis, Greek writer

· Vito Ortelli, Italian racing cyclist (d. 2017)

· Al Kozar, American second baseman (d. 2007)

· July 6

· Billy and Bobby Mauch, American actors (d. 2006) and (d. 2007)

· Ed Erban, American professional basketball player (d. 2008)

· Nancy Reagan, American actress, First Lady of the United States (d. 2016)

· Josefina García de Noia, Argentine activist (d. 2015)

· Allan MacEachen, Canadian politician (d. 2017)

· July 7

· Johnny Van Cuyk, American relief pitcher (d. 2010)

· Dragomir Felba, Serbian actor (d. 2006)

· Joe Wade, English footballer, manager (d. 2005)

· July 8

· Frank Prihoda, Australian alpine skier

· Edgar Morin, French philosopher, sociologist

· Don Ray, American basketball player (d. 1998)

· John Money, New Zealand psychologist, sexologist and author (d. 2005)

· July 9 – David C. Jones, U.S General (d. 2013)

· July 10

· John K. Singlaub, U.S Army Major General

· Harvey Ball, American designer (d. 2001)

· Eunice Kennedy Shriver, daughter of American politician Joseph P. Kennedy (d. 2009)

· July 11

· Claude Bonin-Pissarro, French painter, graphic designer

· Petter Hugsted, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (d. 2000)

· Ilse Werner, German actress (d. 2005)

· July 12 – Brother Blue, African-American educator, storyteller, actor, musician and street performer (d. 2009)

· July 13 – Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (d. 2005)

· July 14

· Leon Garfield, English writer (d. 1996)

· Armand Gaudreault, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)

· Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)

· Sixto Durán Ballén, President of Ecuador (d. 2016)

· July 15

· Jean Heywood, British actress

· Patricia Wright, American actress

· Barrie Dexter, Australian senior diplomat (d. 2018)

· Carl Richardson, American football coach

· Jordan Cekov, Macedonian journalist

· Madge Meredith, American actress (d. 2017)

· Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)

· July 16

· Nilo Floody, Chilean modern pentathlete (d. 2013)

· Bernard W. Rogers, United States Army general (d. 2008)

· Boscoe Holder, Trinidadian artist (d. 2007)

· July 17

· Richard Jeranian, Armenian painter, draftsman and lithographer

· Acquanetta, American actress (d. 2004)

· Pío Corcuera, Argentine football striker (d. 2011)

· Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944)

· František Zvarík, Slovakian actor (d. 2008)

· July 18

· Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist

· John Glenn, American astronaut, U.S. Senator (d. 2016)

· Heinz Bennent, German actor (d. 2011)

· Gerry Mays, Scottish football player, manager (d. 2006)

· Richard Leacock, British-born documentary filmmaker, pioneer of Cinéma Vérité (d. 2011)

· July 19

· Elizabeth Spencer, American writer

· Bertil Antonsson, Swedish heavyweight wrestler (d. 2006)

· Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011)

· Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, British barrister, United Nations representative from the United Kingdom (d. 2009)

· July 21

· Carminha Brandão [pt], Brazilian actress (d. 2011)

· Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, Zulu sangoma, author

· July 22

· Jim Rivera, American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder (d. 2017)

· Tandy Little, American politician (d. 2015)

· Al LaMacchia, American professional baseball player, scout (d. 2010)

· William Roth, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)

· July 24 – Billy Taylor, American jazz musician (d. 2010)

· July 25 – Marv Rackley, American baseball player (d. 2018)

· July 28 – Melba Hernández, Cuban politician, diplomat (d. 2014)

· July 29

· Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987)

· Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, German-British pharmacologist (d. 2018)

· July 30 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (d. 2005)

· July 31 – Mel Hirsch, American basketball player (d. 1968)

August[edit]

Esther Williams

Alex Haley

Gene Roddenberry

· August 1 – George Büchi, American chemist (d. 1998)

· August 3

· Richard Adler, American Broadway composer (d. 2012)

· Edward Tipper, American World War II veteran (d. 2017)

· August 4

· Charles H. Coolidge, American Medal of Honour recipient

· Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)

· August 8 – Esther Williams, American swimmer, actress (d. 2013)

· August 9

· Ernest Angley, American televangelist, author and station owner

· J. James Exon, Governor of Nebraska, U.S. Senator (d. 2005)

· Patricia Marmont, American actress, daughter of Percy Marmont

· Catherine Pym, Australian fencer (d. 2018)

· August 10

· Yuki Shimoda, American actor (d. 1981)

· Jack Archer, English athlete (d. 1997)

· Ion Negoițescu, Romanian literary historian, critic, poet, novelist and memoirist (d. 1993)

· Jack B. Weinstein, American federal judge

· August 11

· Henry Graff, American historian

· Alex Haley, American author (d. 1992)

· Tom Kilburn, British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (d. 1971)

· August 13

· Barney Liddell, American musician (d. 2003)

· Jimmy McCracklin, American pianist, singer-songwriter (d. 2012)

· August 14

· Julia Hartwig, Polish author (d. 2017)

· Sidney Rittenberg, American journalist, consultant and author

· August 15

· K. Kailasanatha Kurukkal, Sri Lankan researcher, writer and professor (d. 2000)

· Vittorio Caprioli, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1989)

· August 18

· Frédéric Jacques Temple, French poet and writer

· Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian (d. 2015)

· August 19 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (Star Trek) (d. 1991)

· August 21

· Babbis Friis-Baastad, Norwegian children's writer (d. 1970)

· Lawrence Lindemer, American politician

· John Osteen, American televangelist (d. 1999)

· Victor Szebehely, Hungarian-American astronomer (d. 1997)

· August 22 – Lee Loy Seng, Malaysian businessman (d. 1993)

· August 23

· Franco Ossola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)

· Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)

· August 24 – George W. Blair, American politician

· August 25

· Henry Abraham, American academic

· Monty Hall, Canadian-born American game show host (d. 2017)

· Brian Moore, Northern Irish-born Canadian writer (d. 1999)

· August 26

· Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician, Israel Prize recipient (d. 1994)

· Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist, executive editor of The Washington Post (d. 2014)

· August 27

· Leo Penn, American actor and director (d. 1998)

· Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)

· August 28

· John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979)

· Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)

· Lidia Gueiler Tejada, President of Bolivia (d. 2011)

· August 31 – Raymond Williams, Welsh academic, novelist and critic (d. 1988)

September[edit]

Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo

Virgilio Barco Vargas

Kamal Hassan Aly

Robert Muldoon

Deborah Kerr

· September 2

· Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo, 34th President of El Salvador (d. 1973)

· Josephine Lenard, American professional baseball player (d. 2007)

· September 3

· Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist, conductor (d. 1971)

· Harry Landers, American actor (d. 2017)

· September 5 – Queen Consort Farida of Egypt (d. 1988)

· September 6

· John Bickersteth, British Anglican prelate (d. 2018)

· Andrée Geulen-Herscovici, member of the Comité de Défense des Juifs

· September 7

· Antonio Gelabert, Spanish road bicycle racer (d. 1956)

· Linus Nirmal Gomes, Indian Roman Catholic bishop

· September 8

· Mosie Lister, American singer (d. 2015)

· Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001)

· September 11

· George Joseph, American businessman

· Francis Quinn, American Roman Catholic bishop

· September 12

· Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction writer (d. 2006)

· Frank McGee, American television personality (d. 1974)

· September 13

· Gunnar Eriksson, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 1982)

· Cyrille Adoula, Congolese trade unionist and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Zaire (d. 1978)

· Odore Joseph Gendron, American Roman Catholic, bishop

· Sergey Nepobedimy, Soviet rocket weaponry designer (d. 2014)

· September 14

· A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and businessman

· Dario Vittori, Argentine actor (d. 2001)

· September 15

· Joseph Iléo, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1994)

· Norma MacMillan, Canadian voice actress (d. 2001)

· Clive Rose, English diplomat

· Nils Rydström, Swedish fencer (d. 2018)

· September 16 – Mohamed Talbi, Tunisian historian (d. 2017)

· September 17

· Virgilio Barco Vargas, 27th President of Colombia (d. 1997)

· Roger H. Zion, American politician

· September 18 – Kamal Hassan Aly, Egyptian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 1993)

· September 19

· Conway Berners-Lee, English mathematician and computer scientist

· Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, philosopher (d. 1997)

· Morton Mandel, American businessman

· September 20 – Leon Comber, English author

· September 22 – Robert I. Price, American admiral

· September 24

· Jim McKay, American sportscaster (d. 2008)

· Charlene Pryer, American professional baseball player (d. 1999)

· September 25 – Robert Muldoon, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)

· September 27

· Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian film director (d. 2014)

· John Malcolm Patterson, American politician

· Bernard Waber, American children's author (d. 2013)

· September 29

· James Cross, Irish-English diplomat

· Grigory Svirsky, Russian-Canadian writer

· September 30

· Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)

· Jorge Loring Miró, Spanish Jesuit priest, public speaker and author (d. 2013)

· Pedro Knight, Cuban musician, manager (d. 2007)

October[edit]

James Whitmore

Francisco Morales-Bermúdez

Michael I

· October 1 – James Whitmore, American actor (d. 2009)

· October 2

· Edmund Crispin, British writer, composer (d. 1978)

· Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)

· October 3

· Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer (d. 1996)

· John H. Cushman, American military officer (d. 2017)

· October 4 – Francisco Morales-Bermúdez, President of Peru

· October 5 – Bill Willis, American football player (d. 2007)

· October 6

· Joseph Lowery, African-American minister, activist

· Alex Wizbicki, American football player (d. 2018)

· October 7

· Richard L. Duchossois, American businessman

· Tommy Farrell, American supporting actor, comedian (d. 2004)

· October 8 – Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist (d. 2010)

· October 10 – James Clavell, British novelist (d. 1994)

· October 11 – Shaw McCutcheon, American cartoonist (d. 2016)

· October 12 – Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scottish rugby player and journalist

· October 13

· Enrico Cocozza, Scottish filmmaker (d. 2009)

· Yves Montand, French singer, actor (d. 1991)

· October 14

· Zizinho, Brazilian football player (d. 2002)

· José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean historian (d. 2009)

· Jeffrey G. Smith, American general

· October 16 – Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and author (d. 2003)

· October 17 – Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001)

· October 18

· Jerry Cooke, American photographer (d. 2005)

· Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator from North Carolina (d. 2008)

· October 19

· John William Ditter, Jr., American federal judge

· George Nader, American actor (d. 2002)

· Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1995)

· October 21

· Pedro Marcos Ribeiro da Costa, Angolan bishop (d. 2010)

· Malcolm Arnold, British music composer (d. 2006)

· Mohammad Mohammadullah, 3rd President of Bangladesh (d. 1999)

· Zorawar Chand Bakhshi, Indian Army General (d. 2018)

· Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer (d. 2015)

· October 22 – Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter (d. 1981)

· October 23

· Archie Lamb, English diplomat, writer and businessman

· André Turcat, French aviator, first pilot of Concorde (d. 2016)

· October 24 – Sena Jurinac, Bosnian operatic soprano (d. 2011)

· October 25 – King Michael I of Romania (d. 2017)

· October 26 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American writer, daughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (d. 1986)

· October 27

· Eugene Chelyshev, Russian indologist and academician

· Warren Allen Smith, American gay rights activist, writer and humanities humanist (d. 2017)

· October 31 – Wendell Nedderman, American engineering educator

November[edit]

Charles Bronson

Princess Fawzia

Brian Keith

Jackie Stallone

· November 2 – Wanda Półtawska, Polish physician and author

· November 3 – Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)

· November 4 – Hugh Cunningham, English army officer

· November 5 – Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)

· November 6 – James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)

· November 7 – János Horváth, Hungarian politician

· November 8

· Walter Mirisch, American film producer

· Gene Saks, American actor, film director (d. 2015)

· Peter Spoden, German night fighter ace

· November 10 – Owen Bush, American actor (d. 2001)

· November 11

· Molly Dodd, American actress (d. 1981)

· Ron Greenwood, English football manager (d. 2006)

· November 12 – Gerson Leiber, American painter, lithographer and sculptor (d. 2018)

· November 13 – Joonas Kokkonen, Finnish composer (d. 1996)

· November 14 – Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997)

· November 15

· Jimmy Fitzmorris, American politician and businessman

· Alexander Jefferson, American Air Force officer

· November 17 – Albert Bertelsen, Danish artist

· November 19 – Michel Bonnevie, French Olympic basketball player (d. 2018)

· November 20 – Dan Frazer, American actor (d. 2011)

· November 21 – Billie Mae Richards, Canadian actress, singer (d. 2010)

· November 22

· Rodney Dangerfield, American actor, comedian (d. 2004)

· Max Ward, Canadian aviator

· November 23 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer, actor (d. 1960)

· November 24

· John Lindsay, American lawyer, politician and Mayor of New York City (d. 2000)

· John P. Yates, American politician (d. 2017)

· November 25 – Johnny Johnson, English Royal Air Force officer

· November 26 – Françoise Gilot, French painter, critic and author

· November 27 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1992)

· November 29 – Jackie Stallone, American astrologer, mother of Sylvester Stallone

· November 30 – Herman Ferdinandus Maria Münninghoff, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)

December[edit]

Roy Campanella

Steve Allen

· December 2 – Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)

· December 3

· Phyllis Curtin, American soprano (d. 2016)

· Madiha Yousri, Egyptian actress (d. 2018)

· December 4

· Deanna Durbin, Canadian singer (d. 2013)

· Sanford K. Moats, American Air Force general

· December 5

· Alvy Moore, American actor (d. 1997)

· Peter Hansen, American actor (d. 2017)

· December 6 – Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003)

· December 7 – Eric Blackwood, Canadian-English aviator

· December 8 – Abdul Qadir al-Badri, Prime Minister of Libya (d. 2003)

· December 10

· James Foort, Canadian inventor and artist

· John P. Fullam, American judge (d. 2018)

· December 11

· Liz Smith, British actress (d. 2016)

· Yang Side, Chinese general (d. 2018)

· Seymour Topping, American writer and professor

· December 12

· Ira Neimark, American businessman and author

· John Papworth, English clergyman, writer and activist

· December 14

· Roy Campanella, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers), member of the MLB Hall of Fame (d. 1993)

· Mike McCormack, American politician

· Simon Towneley, English politician

· Charley Trippi, American football player

· December 15

· Carl Corley, American author and illustrator

· Alan Freed, American disc jockey, known for introducing rock and roll to mainstream radio (d. 1965)

· December 17 – Anne Golon, French writer (d. 2017)

· December 18

· Yuri Nikulin, Soviet/Russian actor, clown (d. 1997)

· Renato Baldini, Italian actor (d. 1995)

· December 19 – Blaže Koneski, Macedonian poet, linguist (d. 1993)

· December 20

· Ali Kandil, Egyptian football referee

· Gayraud Wilmore, American historian, theologian and educator

· December 21 – Luigi Creatore, American songwriter, record producer (d. 2015)

· December 22 – Maurice Girardot, French Olympic basketball player

· December 23 – Marge Callaghan, Canadian female professional baseball player

· December 24 – Allan Edwards, Australian cricketer

· December 26

· Steve Allen, American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d. 2000)

· John Severin, American comics artist (d. 2012)

· December 28

· E. S. Campbell, American marine and author

· Philippe de Gaulle, French admiral and senator

· December 30 – Rashid Karami, 8-time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1987)

· December 31 – Maurice Yaméogo, President of Upper Volta (d. 1993)

Date Unknown[edit]

· Jameson Mbilini Dlamini, 7th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 2008)

· Abdullahi Issa, 1st Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 1988)

Deaths[edit]

January–June[edit]

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

King Nicholas I of Montenegro

Eduardo Dato

Emile Combes

· January 1 – Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, 5th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)

· January 18 – Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor (b. 1847)

· January 27 – Justiniano Borgoño, 37th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1836)

· January 29 – H. G. Haugan, Norwegian-born American railroad, banking executive (b. 1840)

· February 2

· Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Italian Catholic cardinal and blessed (b. 1850)

· Antonio Jacobsen, American maritime artist (b. 1850)

· February 7 – John J. Gardner, American politician (b. 1845)

· February 8

· George Formby Snr, English entertainer (b. 1876)

· Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842)

· February 22 – Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1863)

· February 26 – Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)

· February 27 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)

· March 1

· King Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)

· King Nikola I Petrovic-Njegos (b. 1841)

· March 3 – Auguste Mercier, French general, politician (b. 1833)

· March 8 – Eduardo Dato, Spanish politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1856) (assassinated)

· March 15 – Talaat Pasha, Ottoman Turkish ruler, initiator of the Armenian Genocide (b. 1874) (assassinated)

· March 29 – John Burroughs, American naturalist, essayist (b. 1837)

· April 1 – Sir Edmund Poë, British admiral (b. 1849)

· April 11 – Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, last German Empress, wife of Wilhelm II, German Emperor (b. 1858)

· April 17 – Manwel Dimech, Maltese philosopher, social reformer (b. 1860)

· April 21 – Tom O'Brien, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1860)

· April 27 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)

· May 5 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer, pacifist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)

· May 9 – William Henry Chamberlin, American philosopher (b. 1870)

· May 12 – Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spanish writer (b. 1851)

· May 19

· Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1845)

· Michael Llewelyn Davies, one of the 'Lost Boys' for the Peter Pan book (b. 1900)

· May 25

· Émile Combes, French statesman, 69th Prime Minister of France (b. 1835)

· Sir Arthur Wilson, British admiral of the fleet (b. 1842)

· June 5 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)

· June 11 – Patriarch Leonid of Georgia (b. 1860)

· June 18 – Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Uruguayan writer (b. 1851)

· June 26 – Alfred Percy Sinnett, British writer (b. 1840)

· June 28 – Gyorche Petrov, Macedonian, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1865) (assassinated)

· June 29

· Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill (b. 1854)

· Otto Seeck, German classical historian (b. 1850)

July–December[edit]

Enrico Caruso

Engelbert Humperdinck

John Boyd Dunlop

Hara Takashi

Camille Saint-Saens

· July 1 – Maurice Bailloud, French general (b. 1847)

· July 3 – Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)

· July 13 – Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger-French physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)

· July 26 – Howard Vernon, Australian actor (b. 1848)

· August 2 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)

· August 7 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (b. 1880)

· August 8 – Juhani Aho, Finnish author, journalist (b. 1861)

· August 16 – Peter I of Serbia, King of Yugoslavia (b. 1844)

· August 19 – Georges Darien, French writer (b. 1862)

· August 26 – Sándor Wekerle, 3-time Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848)

· August 31 – Karl von Bülow, German field marshal (b. 1846)

· September 2 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)

· September 7 – Alfred William Rich, English watercolour painter (b. 1856)

· September 9

· William Campbell, British missionary in Taiwan (b. 1841)

· Virginia Rappe, American model, actress (b. 1895)

· September 10 – John Tengo Jabavu, editor of South Africa's first newspaper in Xhosa (b. 1859)

· September 11

· Prince Louis of Battenberg, British naval officer, German prince (b. 1854)

· Subramania Bharati, Tamil poet (b. 1882)

· September 17 – Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, German diplomat (b. 1847)

· September 27 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)

· October 2 – King William II of Wurttemberg (b. 1848)

· October 12 – Philander C. Knox, American politician (b. 1853)

· October 15 – Haydar Khan Amo-oghli, Iranian revolutionary (b. 1860)

· October 17 – Yaa Asantewaa, Asante warrior queen (b. c. 1840)

· October 18 – Ludwig III of Bavaria, last king of Bavaria (b. 1845)

· October 21 – William Wallace Wotherspoon, American general (b. 1850)

· October 23 – John Boyd Dunlop, British-born Irish inventor, veterinary surgeon (b. 1840)

· October 25 – Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (b. 1853)

· October 31 – William Egan, American gangster (b. 1884)

· November 4 – Hara Takashi, Japanese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1856) (assassinated)

· November 8 – Charles, 6th Prince of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, German nobleman (b. 1834)

· November 12 – Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter (b. 1858)

· November 14 – Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, daughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1846)

· November 20 – Christina Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1843)

· November 26

· Charles Whittlesey, United States Army officer, commander of the "Lost Battalion" in World War I (suicide) (b. 1884)

· Émile Cartailhac, French prehistorian (b. 1845)

· November 27 – Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1854)

· November 28 – `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian religious leader (b. 1844)

· November 29 – George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen, Canadian businessman (b. 1829)

· November 30 – Madeleine Brès, French medical (b. 1842)

· December 10 – George Ashlin, Irish architect (b. 1837)

· December 12 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (b. 1868)

· December 16 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)

· December 20

· Dmitri Parsky, Russian general (b. 1866)

· Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist (b. 1852)

· December 31 – Boies Penrose, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (b. 1860)

Date Unknown[edit]

· Kate Tyrrell, Irish sailor and shipping company owner, captain of the Denbighshire Lass (b. 1863)

Nobel Prizes[edit]

· Physics – Albert Einstein

· Chemistry – Frederick Soddy

· Medicine – (not awarded)

· Literature – Anatole France

· Peace – Karl Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lous Lange

References[edit]

1. ^ Staff (3 July 1921). "Harding Ends War; Signs Peace Decree at Senator's Home. Thirty Persons Witness Momentous Act in Frelinghuysen Living Room at Raritan". The New York Times.

2. ^ Driggs, Laurence La Tourette (September 7, 1921). "The Fall of the Airship". The Outlook. New York. 129: 14–15. Retrieved 2009-07-30.

3. ^ "Weimar Germany 1919-1933". Historyhome.co.uk. 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2013-03-19.

Sources[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 1921 (category)

· New International Year Book: 1921 (1922) online edition

· 1921 Aviation Comes North- NWT Historical Timeline- A Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre Online Exhibit