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1922 (MCMXXII) was
a common year starting
on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1922nd year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
922nd year of the 2nd millennium,
the 22nd year of the 20th century,
and the 3rd year of the 1920s decade. As of
the start of 1922, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1922 January 11: Use of insulin for diabetes. ·
January – The year begins with
the British Empire at
its largest extent, covering a quarter of the world and ruling over one in
four people on Earth. ·
January 7 – Dáil
Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by
64–57 votes.[1] ·
January 8 – The Social
Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded. ·
January 9 – Julieta founds the Chilean
Communist Party. ·
January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of
Dáil Éireann. ·
January 11 – The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made,
by Frederick Banting in
Toronto. ·
January 12 – The British government
releases the remaining Irish prisoners captured in the War of
Independence. ·
January 13 – The flu epidemic
has claimed 804 victims in Britain. ·
January 15 – Michael
Collins becomes Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government. ·
January 24 – Christian K. Nelson
patents the Eskimo Pie. ·
January 26 – Italian forces
occupy Misrata, Libya; the reconquest of Libya begins. ·
January 28 – Knickerbocker Storm:
Snowfall from the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C., causes
the roof of the Knickerbocker
Theatre to collapse, killing 98. ·
January 29 – The union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved. February[edit] Main article: February 1922 February 1: William Desmond
Taylormurdered. February 2: Publication of Ulysses. ·
February – Ring Magazine is
first published. ·
February 1 – Irish American film director William Desmond
Taylor is found murdered at his home in Los Angeles; the case
is never solved. ·
February 2 – Ulysses, by James Joyce, is published in Paris on his
40th birthday by Sylvia Beach. ·
February 5 – DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue
of Reader's Digest. ·
Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti)
succeeds Pope Benedict XV,
to become the 259th pope. ·
The Five Power Naval
Disarmament Treaty is signed between the United States,
United Kingdom, Japan, Franceand Italy. Japan returns some of its control
over the Shandong Peninsula to
China. ·
President
of the United States Warren G. Harding introduces
the first radio in the White House. ·
In
the Russian
Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Cheka becomes the Gosudarstvennoye
Politicheskoye Upravlenie (GPU), a section of the NKVD. ·
Finnish
Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated
by Ernst Tandefelt. ·
Baragoola, the last of the Binngarra class Manly ferries,
is launched at Balmain, New
South Wales. ·
February 15 – The inaugural session of
the Permanent
Court of International Justice (PCIJ) is held. ·
February 25 – French serial
killer Henri Désiré Landru is beheaded by the guillotine. ·
February 26 – Leser v. Garnett: The Supreme
Court of the United States rebuffs a challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,
which gave women the right to vote. ·
February 28 – The Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence by
the United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt, and grants the country nominal independence, reserving control of military
and diplomatic matters.[2][3][4] March[edit] Main article: March 1922 ·
March 2 ·
An
ice mass breaks the Oder Dam in Breslau. ·
The British
Civil Aviation Authority is established. ·
March 4 – The movie Nosferatu is released. ·
March 10 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition. ·
March 10–14 – The Rand Rebellion, a strike by white South
African mine workers, begins on 28 December 1921,
and becomes open rebellion against the state. ·
March 13 – Edward, Prince of Wales, inaugurates
the Prince
of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India, marking a capitulation of
the Governor General and Secretary of
State for India, to growing pressure for Indianization of the
officer cadre of the Indian Army. ·
March 15 – Egypt having gained self-government
from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt. ·
March 18 – In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six
years in prison for sedition (he
serves only two). ·
March 20 – The USS Langley is
commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. ·
March 22 – Radio station WLW in Cincinnati begins broadcasting.[5] ·
March 23 – Queensland, Australia
abolishes the Legislative Council (Upper House). ·
March 26 – The German
Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland. ·
March 31 – The Hinterkaifeck Murders occur in Germany,
on a late evening. April[edit] Main article: April 1922 ·
April 1 – South African Railways takes
control of all railway operations in South West Africa.[6][7] ·
April 3 – Joseph Stalin is appointed General
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. ·
April 7 ·
Teapot Dome scandal:
The United
States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming. ·
The
first midair collision occurs, between a Daimler Airway de Havilland DH.18 and
a Grands Express
Aériens Farman Goliath over Poix-de-Picardie, Amiens, France. ·
April 10 – Genoa Conference: The representatives of 34
countries convene to speak in Genoa, Italy about monetary economics, in the
wake of World War I. ·
April 12 – The United Kingdom's Prince of Wales arrives in Yokohama
aboard HMS Renown and
rides by train to Tokyo, starting a one-month visit to Japan.[8][9] ·
April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices
to women. ·
April 16 – The Treaty of
Rapallo marks a rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevik Russia. ·
April 22 – The Lambda Chapter of
the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
Incorporated (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is
chartered. ·
April 24 – The first portion of
the Imperial Wireless
Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy network
created to link the British Empire, is opened, from England to
Egypt. May[edit] Main article: May 1922 ·
May 3 – Viktor Kingissepp,
leader of the underground Estonian
Communist Party, is executed in Estonia. ·
May 5 – In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium. ·
May 8 – In Moscow, eight priests, two laymen, and one
woman are sentenced to death for opposition to the Soviet government's
confiscation of church property. ·
May 11 – Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii. ·
May 18 – Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Erik Satie and Clive Bell dine together in Paris, at
the Majestic hotel, their only joint meeting.[10] ·
May 19 – The All-Russian Young Pioneer Organisation is
established. ·
May 29 – British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley is
jailed for seven years for fraud. ·
May 30 – In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated. June[edit] Main article: June 1922 February 28: Egypt independent. ·
June 1 ·
The Royal Ulster
Constabulary is officially founded. ·
Bolshevik forces defeat Basmachi troops, under Enver Pasha. ·
June 11 – Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North,
the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, premičres in the U.S. ·
June 14 – President
of the United States Warren G. Harding makes
his first speech on the radio. ·
June 22 – Irish
Republican Army agents assassinate British Army field
marshal Sir Henry
Wilson in London; the assassins are sentenced to death
on July 18. ·
June 24 – Weimar Republic foreign minister Walther Rathenau is assassinated; the
murderers are captured on July 17. ·
June 26 – Louis Honoré Charles Antoine
Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco. ·
June 28 – The Irish Civil War and Battle of Dublin begin when the
Irish National Army,
using artillery loaned by the British, begins
to bombard the anti-Treaty
Irish Republican Army forces occupying the Four Courts in Dublin. Fighting in Dublin lasts until July 5. July[edit] Main article: July 1922 May 30: Lincoln Memorialdedicated. ·
July 11 – The Hollywood Bowl opens. ·
July 17 – The final signings of Treaty 11, an agreement between George V, King of Canada, and various
Canadian First Nations,
are conducted at Fort Liard. ·
July 20 – The German protectorate
of Togoland is divided into the League of
Nations mandates of French Togoland and British Togoland. ·
July 27 – The Cherkess
(Adyghe) Autonomous Oblast is established within the Russian SFSR. ·
July – Hyperinflation in Germany means that
563 marks are
now needed to buy a single American dollar – almost double the 263 needed
eight months before, dwarfing the mere 12 needed in April 1919,
and even the 47 needed in December of that year. August[edit] Main article: August 1922 ·
August 2 – A typhoon hits Shantou, China, killing more than 5,000
people. ·
August 22 – Irish Civil War: General Michael
Collins is assassinated in West Cork. ·
Morocco revolts
against the Spanish. ·
A
Turkish large-scale attack opens against Greek forces in Afyon; Turkish
victory is achieved on August 27. ·
August 28 – Japan agrees to withdraw its troops
from Siberia. ·
August – Hyperinflation in Germany sees
the value of the Papiermark against the dollar rise to 1,000. September[edit] Main article: September 1922 ·
September 3 – The Autodromo
Nazionale Monza, the world's third purpose-built motorsport race track, is officially opened at Monza in the Lombardy Region of Italy.[citation needed] ·
September 9 – Turkish forces pursuing
withdrawing Greek troops enter İzmir, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish
War (1919–22). ·
The
Sun News-Pictorial, a predecessor of
the Melbourne, Australia, Herald Sun, is founded. ·
The Mandate of Palestine is
approved by the Council of the League of Nations. ·
September 13 – The Gdynia Seaport Construction Act is
passed by the Polish Parliament. ·
September 13–15 – The Great Fire of Smyrna destroys
most of İzmir. Responsibility is disputed.[11] ·
September 17 – Dutch cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champion
sprinter. ·
September 18 – The Kingdom of Hungary joins
the League of Nations. ·
September 29 – Drums in the Night (Trommeln
in der Nacht) becomes the first play by Bertolt Brecht to be staged, at
the Munich Kammerspiele. October[edit] Main article: October 1922 Benito Mussolini and FascistBlackshirts during the March on Rome. ·
October 1 – G. I. Gurdjieff opens his Institute for
the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France. ·
October 3 – Rebecca L. Felton becomes
the first female U.S. senator, when Georgia's governor gives her a temporary
appointment, pending an election to replace Senator Thomas Watson, who had
died suddenly. ·
October 15 – T. S. Eliot establishes The Criterion magazine,
containing the first publication of his poem The Waste Land. This first appears in
the United States later this month in The Dial (dated November 1), and is
first published complete with notes in book form, by Boni and Liveright in
New York in December. ·
October 18 – The British
Broadcasting Company is formed.[2] ·
October 25 – The Third Dáil enacts the Constitution
of the Irish Free State. ·
October 26 – Hogarth Press publishes the Virginia Woolf novel Jacob's Room. ·
October 27 – Southern Rhodesians reject
union with South Africa in a referendum. ·
In
Italy, the March on Rome brings
the National Fascist
Party and Benito Mussolini to power. Italy begins a dark period of
dictatorship that lasts until the end of the Second World War, but at the same time
becomes the predominant power in the Mediterranean. ·
The Red Army occupies Vladivostok. ·
Rose Bowl Stadium officially
opened in Pasadena, California [12][13] ·
October 31 – Benito Mussolini, 39, becomes the youngest
ever Prime Minister of
Italy. ·
October ·
3,000
German marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar – triple the
figure three months ago. ·
The Russian Civil War ends,
with the colonies remaining part of Russia. November[edit] Main article: November 1922 ·
The Ottoman Empire is abolished after 600
years, and its last sultan, Mehmed VI, abdicates. ·
A broadcasting
license fee of ten shillings is introduced in the United
Kingdom. ·
November 4 – In Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the
entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb, in the Valley of the Kings.[1] ·
November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ)
Sorority, Incorporated is founded by seven educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated
national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929,
when a charter is granted to the Alpha Chapter at Butler University in
Indianapolis. ·
November 14 – The British Broadcasting
Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom,
broadcasting from station 2LO in London. ·
November 15 – In the United
Kingdom general election forced by the Conservatives'
withdrawal from the coalition government, the Conservative Party wins an
overall majority. (The 1922 Committee, popularly believed to take
its name from this occasion, is not founded until the following year.) ·
November 17 – Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI leaves for exile in Italy. ·
November 19– Abdülmecid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire, is elected Caliph. ·
November 21 – Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes
the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States
Senator. ·
November 24 – Popular author and
anti-Treaty Republican Erskine
Childers is executed by firing squad in Dublin, after
conviction by an Irish Free State military
court for the unlawful possession of a gun, a weapon presented to him
by Michael
Collins in 1920 as a gift.[14] Howard Carterin King Tutankhamen's tomb ·
November 26 – Howard Carter and Lord
Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, in over 3,000 years. December[edit] Main article: December 1922 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is
created. (Coat of
arms until 1936). ·
December 5 – The British Parliament
enacts the Irish Free State Constitution Act, by which it legally sanctions
the new Constitution
of the Irish Free State. ·
December 6 – The Irish Free State officially comes into
existence.[1] George V becomes
the Free
State's monarch. Tim Healy is
appointed first Governor-General
of the Irish Free State, and W. T. Cosgrave becomes President of the Executive Council. ·
December 9 – Gabriel Narutowicz is
elected the first president of Poland. ·
December 11 – The trial of Edith
Thompson and Frederick Bywaters ends at the Old Bailey in London, for the murder of
Thompson's husband; both are found guilty and sentenced to death. ·
December 16 – Gabriel Narutowicz,
sworn on December 11 as
first president of the Second Polish
Republic, is assassinated by a right-wing sympathizer in Warsaw. ·
December 20 – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on stage in Paris,
with settings by Pablo Picasso,
music by Arthur Honegger and
costumes by Gabrielle Chanel.[15] ·
December 27 – Japanese
aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the
first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be commissioned. ·
December 30 – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and
the Transcaucasian Republic (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) come
together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, dissolved in 1991. ·
December – The year ends with
hyperinflation showing no sign of slowing down in Germany, with 7,000 marks
now needed to buy a single American dollar.[16] Date unknown[edit] ·
Wracked
by rapid inflation and political assassinations, and motivated by hostility
and arrogance as well, the Weimar Republic announces its inability
to pay more, and proposes a moratorium on reparations for 3 years. ·
Kurd
Istigdul Djemijetin, the Kurdish
Independence Committee, is founded. ·
The Inter-Parliamentary
Union is established. ·
Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist,
designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. ·
Vegemite is invented by Australian entrepreneur Fred Walker. ·
The Molly Pitcher Club is
formed to promote the repeal
of Prohibition in the United States. ·
Thompson
Webb founds the Webb School of
California for boys in Claremont. ·
The Barbary lion becomes extinct in the
wild, with the last killed in Morocco,
in the area of the Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests.[17] ·
The Amur tiger becomes extinct in South Korea.[18] ·
The
California grizzly bear becomes
extinct. ·
Bronisław
Malinowski's influential ethnological text, Argonauts
of the Western Pacific, is published. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Ernest Hollings, Democratic U.S. Senator
from South Carolina ·
January 2 – Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgarian poet and
politician (d. 2003) ·
January 3 – John R. Schmidhauser,
American politician (d. 2018) ·
January 4 – Karl-Erik
Nilsson, Swedish wrestler (d. 2017) ·
January 5 – Helen Smith,
American female baseball player ·
Alvin Dark, American baseball player,
manager (d. 2014) ·
Fatafehi
Tuʻipelehake, 10th Premier of Tonga (d. 1999) ·
Jean-Pierre Rampal,
French flutist (d. 2000) ·
January 8 – Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986) ·
Har Gobind Khorana,
Indian biochemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011) ·
Ahmed Sékou Touré,
Guinean politician, President of Guinea (1958-1984) (d. 1984) ·
January 10 – Terence Kilmartin,
Irish journalist, translator (d. 1991) ·
January 12 – Tadeusz
Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist
(d. 1994) ·
January 13 – Albert Lamorisse, French film director
(d. 1970) ·
January 16 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008) ·
Miodrag Jovanović, Serbian footballer (d. 2009) ·
Luis Echeverría,
President of Mexico (1970-1976) ·
Nicholas Katzenbach,
United States Attorney General (d. 2012) ·
Bell M. Shimada, American fisheries
scientist (d. 1958) ·
Betty White, American actress, television
personality and animal welfare activist ·
January 19 – Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996) ·
January 20 – Ray Anthony, American trumpet player,
composer, bandleader and actor ·
Lincoln Alexander,
Canadian politician (d. 2012) ·
Sam Mele, American baseball player, manager
(d. 2017) ·
Telly Savalas, American actor, singer
(d. 1994) ·
Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008) ·
January 22, ·
Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician
(d. 2004) ·
Annabelle Lee, American female professional
baseball player (d. 2008) ·
Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and
critic (d. 1987) ·
Bill Waterhouse, Australian bookmaker,
businessman and barrister ·
January 24 – Charles Socarides,
American psychiatrist (d. 2005) ·
Bob Thomas,
American Hollywood biographer, reporter (d. 2014) ·
Ellen Vogel, Dutch film, television actress
(d. 2015) ·
January 28 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1993) ·
January 29 – Gerda Steinhoff, German Nazi war criminal
(d. 1946) ·
January 30 – Dick Martin,
American comedian (d. 2008) ·
January 31 – Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996) February[edit] ·
February 1 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004) ·
Robert Chef d'Hôtel,
French athlete ·
Juan Marichal,
Spanish-Canarian historian, literary critic and essayist (d. 2010) ·
Stoyanka Mutafova,
Bulgarian actress ·
James L. Usry, American politician,
first African-American mayor of Atlantic City,
New Jersey (d. 2002) ·
February 4 – William Edward
Phipps, American actor, producer (d. 2018) ·
Joan Lee, British-American hat model, voice
actress and wife of Stan Lee (d. 2017) ·
György Szepesi,
Hungarian radio personality, journalist and sports executive (d. 2018) ·
Jocelyn Burdick, American politician ·
Patrick Macnee, British actor (d. 2015) ·
Denis Norden, British television, radio
scriptwriter and personality (d. 2018) ·
Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
(d. 2015) ·
February 7 – Hattie Jacques, English actress (d. 1980) ·
Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess player and
author ·
Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996) ·
Kathryn Grayson, American actress (d. 2010) ·
Jim Laker, British cricketer (d. 1986) ·
Harold Hughes, 36th Governor of Iowa
(d. 1996) ·
Árpád Göncz, President of Hungary (d. 2015) ·
February 12 – Hussein Onn, third Prime Minister
of Malaysia (d. 1990) ·
Hal Moore, American Lieutenant
general, non-fiction writer (d. 2017) ·
Gordon Tullock, American economist (d. 2014) ·
John Bayard Anderson,
American Congressman, presidential candidate (d. 2017) ·
Poul Thomsen, Danish actor (d. 1988) ·
February 16 – Frédéric Rossif,
French film, television director (d. 1991) ·
Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner
(d. 2007) ·
Tommy Edwards, American singer, songwriter
(d. 1969) ·
Helen Gurley Brown,
American editor, publisher (d. 2012) ·
Eric Gairy, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada
(d. 1997) ·
Connie Wisniewski,
American female professional baseball player (d. 1995) ·
February 19 – Margherita Marchione,
American Roman Catholic sister, writer, teacher and apologeticist ·
Esperanza Magaz, Cuban-born Venezuelan
actress (d. 2013) ·
Mohd Hamdan Abdullah,
Malaysian politician (d. 1977) ·
Richard
Hamilton, British painter (d. 2011) ·
Steven Hill, American actor (d. 2016) ·
William Baumol, American economist (d. 2017) ·
Bill Johnston,
Australian cricketer (d. 2007) ·
Margaret Leighton,
British actress (d. 1976) ·
Karl Aage Prćst,
Danish football player (d. 2011) March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Michael Flanders, English actor, songwriter
(d. 1975) ·
William Gaines, American magazine publisher
(MAD) (d. 1992) ·
Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister
of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995) ·
March 2 – Hilarion Capucci, Syrian Catholic bishop
(d. 2017) ·
March 3 – Nándor Hidegkuti,
Hungarian footballer (d. 2002) ·
March 4 ·
Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer,
film director (d. 2005) ·
Martha O'Driscoll,
American film actress (d. 1998) ·
Dina Pathak, Gujarati theatre,
film actress (d. 2002) ·
March 5 – Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italian film director (d. 1975) ·
March 6 – Wanda Klaff, German Nazi war criminal
(d. 1946) ·
March 8 ·
Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor
(d. 2014) ·
Cyd Charisse, American actress, dancer
(d. 2008) ·
Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor, film
director (d. 2003) ·
Mizuki Shigeru, Japanese author (d. 2015) ·
March 9 ·
Bill Bainbridge, retired English footballer ·
Herb Douglas, American athlete ·
Flemming
Valdemar, Count of Rosenborg (d. 2002) ·
March 11 – Abdul Razak Hussein,
second Prime Minister
of Malaysia (d. 1976) ·
March 12 ·
Jack Kerouac, American author (d. 1969) ·
Lane Kirkland, American union leader
(d. 1999) ·
March 13 – Jim Wiggins,
English actor (d. 1999) ·
March 14 ·
Arch Johnson, American actor (d. 1997) ·
China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress, director
and producer (d. 2014) ·
March 15 – Karl-Otto Apel, German philosopher (d. 2017) ·
March 16 – Harding Lemay, American television
scriptwriter, playwright (d. 2018) ·
March 17 – Patrick Suppes, American philosopher
(d. 2014) ·
March 18 ·
Egon Bahr, German politician (d. 2015) ·
Karl Kordesch, Austrian-American inventor
(d. 2011) ·
March 19 – Hiroo Onoda, Japanese officer, WWII holdout
(d. 2014) ·
March 20 ·
Arnold Burgen, English physicist,
pharmacologist, academic and administrator ·
Carl Reiner, American film director,
producer, actor, and comedian ·
March 21 – Russ Meyer, American film director, producer
(d. 2004) ·
March 22 – Ghazali Shafie, Malaysian politician
(d. 2010) ·
March 23 ·
Marty Allen, American actor, comedian
(d. 2018) ·
Robert Simons, English cricketer, cricket
administrator (d. 2011) ·
March 26 – William Milliken, American politician ·
March 27 ·
Josephine Kabick, American professional
baseball player (AAGPBL) (d. 1978) ·
Stefan Wul, French writer (d. 2003) ·
March 28 ·
Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1990) ·
Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001) ·
B. Neminathan, Sri Lankan politician ·
Prince
Heinrich of Bavaria (d. 1958) ·
March 29 – March Fong Eu, American politician (d. 2017) ·
March 31 ·
Richard Kiley, American actor, singer
(d. 1999) ·
Art Shay, American photographer, writer
(d. 2018) April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
William Manchester,
American writer (d. 2004) ·
Saad el-Shazly, Egyptian military commander
(d. 2011) ·
April 3 ·
Doris Day, American singer, actress ·
Maurice Riel, Canadian senator (d. 2007) ·
April 4 ·
Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004) ·
Irwin Belk, American businessman, politician
(d. 2018) ·
April 5 ·
Tom Finney, English footballer (d. 2014) ·
Gale Storm, American singer, actress
(d. 2009) ·
April 6 – Nancy Mackay, Canadian athlete ·
April 7 ·
Margia Dean, American actress ·
Mongo Santamaría,
Cuban jazz musician (d. 2003) ·
April 9 – Johnny Thomson, American racecar driver
(d. 1960) ·
April 11 – Margo Woode, American actress ·
April 13 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of
Tanzania (d. 1999) ·
April 14 – Ali Akbar Khan, Indian musician (d. 2009) ·
April 15 – Michael Ansara, Syrian-born American actor
(d. 2013) ·
April 16 ·
Kingsley Amis, English novelist (d. 1995) ·
Leo Tindemans, 43rd Prime Minister
of Belgium (d. 2014) ·
April 18 – Barbara Hale, American actress (d. 2017) ·
April 19 ·
Luigi Barbarito, Italian prelate (d. 2017) ·
Erich Hartmann, German World War II fighter
pilot, highest-scoring ace in world history (d. 1993) ·
Rose Marie McCoy, African-American
songwriter (d. 2015) ·
April 21 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish writer (d. 1987) ·
April 22 – Charles Mingus, African-American musician
(d. 1979) ·
April 23 – Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter,
actress and occultist (d. 1995) ·
April 24 ·
Susanna Agnelli, Italian politician
(d. 2009) ·
Antun Bogetić, Croatian Catholic
prelate (d. 2017) ·
April 26 ·
Keith
McKenzie, Australian rules footballer, coach (d. 2018) ·
Margaret Scott,
South African-American ballerina, choreographer ·
April 27 ·
Martin Gray,
Polish writer (d. 2016) ·
Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012) ·
April 28 – William Broomfield,
American politician ·
April 29 – Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician
(d. 2016) May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Alastair Gillespie,
Canadian scholar, politician (d. 2018) ·
Vitaly Popkov, Russian fighter ace (d. 2010) ·
May 2 – Roscoe Lee Browne,
African-American actor (d. 2007) ·
May 4 – Eugenie Clark, American marine biologist
(d. 2015) ·
May 6 – Anna Elizabeth Botha,
first wife of South
African State President P. W. Botha (d. 1997) ·
May 7 ·
Darren McGavin, American actor (d. 2006) ·
Joe
O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (d. 2007) ·
May 8 – Yusof Rawa, Malaysian politician (d. 2000) ·
May 10 – Nancy Walker, American actress, singer and
director (d. 1992) ·
May 11 – Ameurfina
Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme
Court jurist ·
May 12 ·
Paul Milstein, American real estate
developer (d. 2010) ·
Wilburn K. Ross, American WWII veteran
(d. 2017) ·
Murray Gershenz, American character actor,
entrepreneur (d. 2013) ·
May 13 ·
Otl Aicher, German graphic artist (d. 1991) ·
Michael Ainsworth,
British cricketer (d. 1978) ·
Bea Arthur, American actress, comedian
(d. 2009) ·
May 14 – Franjo Tuđman, first President of Croatia (d. 1999) ·
May 15 ·
Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer, Buddhist
nun ·
Selma Engel-Wijnberg,
Dutch Holocaust survivor (d. 2018) ·
May 18 ·
Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body
psychotherapist (d. 2005) ·
Bill Macy, American actor (Maude) ·
Kai Winding, Danish-born musician (d. 1983) ·
May 19 ·
Joe Gilmore, Irish barman (Savoy Hotel's
American Bar) (d. 2015) ·
Arthur Gorrie, Australian hobby shop
proprietor (d. 1992) ·
May 21 – James Lopez Watson,
American judge (d. 2001) ·
May 22 – Quinn Martin, American television producer
(d. 1987) ·
May 25 – Enrico Berlinguer,
Italian politician (d. 1984) ·
May 27 ·
Otto Carius, German tank commander (d. 2015) ·
Sir Christopher Lee, English actor, singer
(d. 2015) ·
May 28 ·
Lou Duva, American boxing trainer (d. 2017) ·
Tuomas Gerdt, Finnish soldier, last living
Knight of the Mannerheim Cross ·
Pompeyo Márquez,
Venezuelan politician (d. 2017) ·
May 29 ·
Eleanor Coerr, American writer (d. 2010) ·
Reginald Rodrigues,
Indian field hockey player ·
Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (d. 2001) ·
May 30 – Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003) ·
May 31 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992) June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Joan Copeland, American actress ·
Povel Ramel, Swedish musician (d. 2007) ·
Bibi Ferreira, Brazilian actress ·
June 2 – Charlie Sifford, American golfer (d. 2015) ·
June 3 – Alain Resnais, French film director
(d. 2014) ·
June 5 – Sheila Sim, English actress (d. 2016) ·
June 10 ·
Robert Alan Aurthur,
American screenwriter (d. 1978) ·
Judy Garland, American singer, actress
(d. 1969) ·
June 12 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist
(d. 2013) ·
June 13 – Edward Shames, American army officer ·
June 14 – Kevin Roche, Irish-American architect ·
June 16 – Wayne Mixson, American politician ·
June 18 – Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004) ·
June 19 ·
Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2009) ·
Marilyn P. Johnson,
American educator, diplomat ·
June 21 ·
Jacques Tournier,
French writer, translator ·
Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkinabé historian,
politician and writer (d. 2006) ·
June 22 ·
Mona Lisa,
Filipino actress ·
Armando Tre Re, Italian football (soccer)
player ·
William L. Stearman,
American government official, aviator and author ·
Osvaldo Fattori, Italian football (soccer)
player (d. 2017) ·
June 23 ·
James Cumes, Australian author, economist,
public servant and diplomat ·
Wu Yingyin, Chinese singer (d. 2009) ·
Morris R. Jeppson,
American lieutenant, physicist (d. 2010) ·
Francis Thorne, American composer (d. 2017) ·
June 24 ·
Richard Timberlake,
American economist ·
Abou Rejaile Bechara,
Lebanese wrestler ·
Jack Carter,
American comedian (d. 2015) ·
Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer, lyricist
(d. 1988) ·
June 25 ·
Alex Garbowski, American professional
baseball player (d. 2008) ·
Sita bint Fahd Al
Damir, Saudi princess (d. 2012) ·
June 26 ·
Enzo Apicella, London-based artist,
cartoonist, designer, and restaurateur ·
Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013) ·
June 27 ·
Milton Clark, Australian rules footballer
(d. 2018) ·
George Walker,
African-American composer (d. 2018) ·
June 28 ·
Hans Frauenfelder,
Swiss-born American physicist, biophysicist ·
John Nicholson Black,
English educator ·
June 29 ·
Ernie Kelaart, Sri Lankan cricketer ·
John William
Vessey Jr., American military officer (d. 2016) ·
Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991) ·
June 30 – Al Besselink, American professional golfer July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Mordechai Bibi, Israeli politician ·
Derek Riley, Canadian rower (d. 2018) ·
Warren Winkelstein,
American epidemiologist (d. 2012) ·
July 2 ·
Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer ·
Paula Valenska, Czech actress ·
Howard Wesley
Johnson, U.S. educator (d. 2009) ·
July 3 ·
Theo Brokmann Jr.,
Dutch football player ·
Valerio Puccianti,
French athlete ·
Howie Schultz, American baseball, basketball
player (d. 2009) ·
Guillaume
Cornelis van Beverloo (Corneille), Dutch painter
(d. 2010) ·
Viggo Rivad, Danish photographer (d. 2016) ·
July 4 ·
R. James Harvey, American politician, jurist ·
Charles Csuri, American artist ·
Noble Frankland, British historian ·
Damon Keith, American judge ·
July 5 ·
Zeynep Korkmaz, Turkish scholar,
dialectologist ·
Doris Margaret
Anderson, Canadian nutritionist, former senator ·
Hélio Bicudo, Brazilian jurist, politician ·
July 6 ·
William Schallert,
American actor (d. 2016) ·
Toni Seven, American cover girl, actress
(d. 1991) ·
July 7 ·
Reidar Torp, Norwegian military officer
(d. 2017) ·
P. Gopinathan Nair,
Indian social worker ·
James D. Hughes, American Air Force lieutenant
general ·
Francis Jeanson, French philosopher
(d. 2009) ·
July 8 – Eugenio Martínez (alias Musculito),
Cuban-born American real estate agent, former anti-Castro activist and
Watergate burglar ·
July 9 – Angelines Fernández,
Spanish-born Mexican actress (d. 1994) ·
July 10 ·
Jack Arthurs, American politician ·
Petar Nikolov, Bulgarian cross country skier ·
Petar Kovachev, Bulgarian cross country
skier ·
Fred Furniss, English footballer (d. 2017) ·
Herb McKenley, Jamaican Olympic athlete
(d. 2007) ·
Jake LaMotta, American boxer (d. 2017) ·
July 11 ·
Annette Warren, American actress ·
John J. Maurer, American politician, airline
pilot ·
Jerald terHorst, American journalist, former
White House press secretary (d. 2010) ·
July 12 – Mark Hatfield, American politician, educator
(d. 2011) ·
July 13 ·
Fran Hopper, American comic book artist
(d. 2017) ·
Helmy Afify Abd
El-Bar, Egyptian military commander ·
Fred Fiedler, American psychologist
(d. 2017) ·
Leslie Brooks, American actress, dancer
(d. 2011) ·
Louis R. Harlan, American academic historian
(d. 2010) ·
Anker Jřrgensen,
Danish politician (d. 2016) ·
Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 2006) ·
July 14 ·
Bernie Agrons, American politician (d. 2015) ·
Elfriede Rinkel, German SS officer ·
Gerald Myrden, American businessman
(d. 2016) ·
Bill Millin, English personal piper
(d. 2010) ·
Julio Cozzi, Argentine football goalkeeper
(d. 2011) ·
Käbi Laretei, Estonian and Swedish concert
pianist (d. 2014) ·
Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (d. 2007) ·
July 15 ·
Henri Bangou, French politician ·
Ghulam Nabi Firaq,
Kashmiri poet, writer and educationist (d. 2016) ·
B. Rajam Iyer, Carnatic singer from South
India (d. 2009) ·
Rajan Kadiragamar,
Sri Lankan admiral ·
Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2018) ·
Khagapati Pradhani,
Indian politician (d. 2010) ·
Jean-Pierre Richard,
French writer, literary critic ·
July 16 ·
Anatoli Levitin, Soviet, Russian painter,
art educator ·
Samuel Conti, American politician ·
July 17 ·
Jane Cronin Scanlon,
American mathematician (d. 2018) ·
Tetsurō Tamba, Japanese actor (d. 2006) ·
July 18 ·
Harry Kermode, Canadian basketball player
(d. 2009) ·
Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science
(d. 1996) ·
Ray Lambert, Welsh footballer (d. 2009) ·
Hedy Stenuf, Austrian figure skater
(d. 2010) ·
July 19 ·
Rachel Robinson, American actress ·
George McGovern, American politician,
historian and author (d. 2012) ·
Stig Sundqvist, Swedish professional
footballer (d. 2011) ·
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman,
King of Malaysia (d. 2008) ·
July 20 ·
Ruth Bidgood, Welsh poet, local historian ·
Alan Stephenson Boyd,
American attorney, 1st United
States Secretary of Transportation ·
Wolfgang Klausewitz,
German zoologist, ichthyologist, marine biologist and biohistorian ·
July 21 ·
Christian Alers,
French actor ·
Demeter Bitenc, Slovenian film actor
(d. 2018) ·
Luz Pozo Garza, Spanish poet ·
Juana Ginzo, Spanish actress ·
Kay Starr, American jazz and pop singer
(d. 2016) ·
Mollie Sugden, British actress (d. 2009) ·
July 22 ·
Julia Farron, English ballerina ·
Jacqueline Cartier,
French actress, writer and journalist (d. 2017) ·
July 26 ·
Gilberto Agustoni,
Swiss prelate (d. 2017) ·
Anna Berger,
American actress (d. 2014) ·
Blake Edwards, American director (d. 2010) ·
Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000) ·
Hoyt Wilhelm, American Major League Baseball
pitcher (d. 2002) ·
July 27 – Norman Lear, American television writer,
producer ·
July 29 – Mac
Wilson, Australian rules footballer (d. 1996) ·
July 31 ·
Hank Bauer, American right fielder, manager
(d. 2007) ·
Mario Boyé, Argentine footballer (d. 1992) ·
Bill Kaysing, American writer (d. 2005) August[edit] ·
August 1 – Paul Fitzgerald,
Australian painter (d. 2017) ·
August 2 ·
Betsy Bloomingdale,
American socialite and philanthropist (d. 2018) ·
Paul Laxalt, American politician (d. 2018) ·
Tupua Leupena, Tuvaluan politician (d. 1996) ·
August 3 ·
Robert Sumner, American evangelist, author
(d. 2016) ·
Su Bai, Chinese archaeologist (d. 2018) ·
August 4 ·
Janez Stanovnik, Slovenian economist,
politician ·
Charles Winick, American anthropologist,
sociologist and author (d. 2015) ·
August 5 – Sandy Kenyon, American actor (d. 2010) ·
August 6 – James Wong,
Malaysian politician (d. 2011) ·
August 8 ·
Rory Calhoun, American television, film
actor (d. 1999) ·
Alberto Granado, Cuban writer, scientist
(d. 2011) ·
August 9 – Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985) ·
August 11 – Sara Luzita, Spanish actress and dancer ·
Wu Nansheng, Chinese politician (d. 2018) ·
Miloš Jakeš, Czech politician ·
August 14 – Leslie Marr, English racing driver ·
August 15 – Lukas Foss, German-born composer (d. 2009) ·
August 17 – Khaled Mohieddin, Egyptian military officer,
politician (d. 2018) ·
August 21 – Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter, founder of the Mel
Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum (d. 1998) ·
August 22 – Micheline Presle, French actress ·
Tônia Carrero, Brazilian actress (d. 2018) ·
Inge Deutschkron, German-Israeli journalist
and author ·
George Kell, American baseball player
(d. 2009) ·
René Lévesque,
23rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1987) ·
Howard Zinn, American social activist,
historian (d. 2010) ·
August 25 – Ivry Gitlis, Israeli violinist ·
August 27 – Sōsuke Uno, Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 1998) ·
August 31 – André Baudry, French magazine editor
(d. 2018) September[edit] ·
Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born American
actress, dancer (d. 2007) ·
Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director
(d. 2000) ·
September 2 – Arthur Ashkin, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate ·
Steffan Danielsen,
Faroese painter (d. 1976) ·
Salli Terri, Canadian mezzo-soprano
(d. 1996) ·
Paulo Autran, Brazilian actor (d. 2007) ·
David Croft,
British writer, producer and actor (d. 2011) ·
Necdet Calp, Turkish civil servant,
politician (d. 1998) ·
Sid Caesar, American actor, comedian
(d. 2014) ·
Lyndon LaRouche, American self-styled
economist, political activist and conspiracy theorist ·
Bernard Bailyn, American historian and
author ·
Hans Georg Dehmelt,
German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2017) ·
Manolis Glezos, Greek Resistance fighter ·
Warwick Kerr, Brazilian geneticist (d. 2018) ·
September 11 – Charles Evers, American politician and civil
rights activist ·
September 12 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet (d. 2004) ·
September 13 – Tony Sumpter, American football player
(d. 2017) ·
Jackie Cooper, American actor, director
(d. 2011) ·
Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian (d. 2001) ·
Phyllis Koehn, American female professional
baseball player (d. 2007) ·
Mary Soames,
Baroness Soames of England (d. 2014) ·
Guy Hamilton, French-English director,
screenwriter (d. 2016) ·
Janis Paige, American actress ·
Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola
(d. 1979) ·
Vance Bourjaily, American writer, novelist,
playwright, journalist, and essayist (d. 2010) ·
Thomas Finlay,
Irish judge, politician and barrister (d. 2017) ·
Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakian athlete
(d. 2000) ·
Dana Zátopková,
Czech Olympic javelin thrower ·
September 21 – Lee Hui-ho, First Lady of South Korea ·
September 22 – Rosa Nell Speer, American southern gospel
singer (d. 2017) ·
Meche Barba, American-Mexican film actress
and dancer (d. 2000) ·
Bert I. Gordon, American film director ·
Floyd Levin, American-born musicologist
(d. 2007) ·
Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992) ·
Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal ·
September 28 – Jules Sedney, Prime Minister
of Suriname ·
Noémi Ban, Hungarian-American lecturer,
public speaker and Holocaust survivor ·
Karl-Heinz Köpcke,
German television presenter, news speaker (d. 1991) ·
Lizabeth Scott, American actress (d. 2015) October[edit] ·
Burke Marshall, American lawyer, politician
(d. 2003) ·
Chen-Ning Yang, Chinese-born
physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
October 4 – Gianna Beretta Molla,
Italian Roman Catholic pediatrician,
saint (d. 1962) ·
October 5 – José Froilán
González, Argentine race car driver (d. 2013) ·
October 6 – George R. Price, American population
geneticist (d. 1975) ·
October 7 – Martha Stewart,
American actress ·
October 8 – Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean businessman ·
October 9 – Fyvush Finkel, American comedian (d. 2016) ·
October 10 – Edna Child, English diver ·
October 11 – Wolfgang Zuckermann,
German-American harpsichord maker and sustainability activist (d. 2018) ·
October 14 – Yumeji Tsukioka, Japanese actress (d. 2017) ·
Agustina Bessa-Luís,
Portuguese author ·
Luigi Giussani, Italian Catholic priest
(d. 2005) ·
Jack Anderson,
American journalist (d. 2005) ·
Ibrahim Ismail,
Malaysian soldier (d. 2010) ·
October 20 – John Anderson,
American actor (d. 1992) ·
October 21 – Liliane Bettencourt,
French businesswoman, philanthropist (d. 2017) ·
October 22 – John Chafee, American politician (d. 1999) ·
Jean
Barker, Baroness Trumpington, English politician (d. 2018) ·
Coleen Gray, American actress (d. 2015) ·
October 24 – George
Miller, American politician who served as mayor of Tucson, Arizona
(d. 2014) ·
Juli Lynne Charlot,
American actress, singer ·
Madelyn Dunham, American maternal
grandmother of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (d. 2008) ·
Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor, singer
(d. 1998) ·
Ruby Dee, American actress, poet, activist,
journalist and second wife of Ossie Davis (d. 2014) ·
Michel Galabru, French actor (d. 2016) ·
Ralph Kiner, American Baseball Hall of
Famer (d. 2014) ·
Del Rice, American professional baseball
player, coach and manager (d. 1983) ·
Gershon Kingsley, German-American composer ·
Butch van Breda
Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007) ·
Barbara Bel Geddes,
American actress, children's book author (d. 2005) ·
András Hegedüs,
45th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1999) ·
Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia (d. 2012) November[edit] Nicholas Magallanes in The
Nutcracker(1954). ·
November 1 – Ezio Barbieri, Italian criminal (d. 2018) ·
November 2 – Stan Perron, Australian businessman
(d. 2018) ·
November 3 – Townsend Cromwell,
American oceanographer (d. 1958) ·
November 4 – Eddie Basinski, American baseball player ·
Sydney Kentridge, South African lawyer ·
Yitzchok Scheiner,
American-born rabbi ·
November 6 – Vivian Kellogg, American professional
baseball player (d. 2013) ·
November 8 – Chris Barnard,
South African cardiac surgeon, heart transplant pioneer (d. 2001) ·
Dorothy Dandridge,
African-American actress (d. 1965) ·
Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006) ·
Abdullahi Issa, Somalian politician,
1st Prime Minister
of Somalia (d. 1988) ·
Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007) ·
November 12 – Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002) ·
November 13 – Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d. 1984) ·
Boutros
Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian Secretary-General
of the United Nations (d. 2016) ·
Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973) ·
November 15 – David Sidney
Feingold, American biochemist ·
Royal Dano, American actor (d. 1994) ·
Patricia Barry, American actress (d. 2016) ·
Hoŕng Minh Chính,
Vietnamese politician, dissident (d. 2008) ·
Sidney Mintz, American anthropologist
(d. 2015) ·
José Saramago, Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2010) ·
November 17 – Stanley Cohen,
American physician, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
November 18 – Luis Somoza Debayle,
26th President of Nicaragua (d. 1967) ·
November 19 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist, epigrapher
(d. 1999) ·
November 22 – Francesco Rosi, Italian film director
(d. 2015) ·
Donald Tennant, American advertising agency
executive (d. 2001) ·
Vő Văn
Kiệt, Vietnamese politician, statesman (d. 2008) ·
November 24 – Song Sin-do, Korean former comfort woman
(d. 2017) ·
November 25 – Shelagh Fraser, British actress (d. 2000) ·
November 26 – Charles M. Schulz,
American cartoonist (d. 2000) ·
Nicholas Magallanes,
Mexican-American principal dancer, charter member of the New York City Ballet (d. 1977) ·
Jacqueline White, American actress ·
November 29 – Michael Howard,
English historian, author and academic December[edit] ·
December 1 – William James
Lanyon Smith, New Zealand naval officer ·
Charles Diggs, American politician (d. 1998) ·
Leo Gordon, American actor (d. 2000) ·
Densey Clyne, Australian naturalist,
photographer and writer ·
Gérard Philipe,
French actor (d. 1959) ·
William
Davidson, American sports owner (d. 2009) ·
Don Robertson,
American songwriter and pianist (d. 2015) ·
December 6 – Benjamin A. Gilman,
American politician (d. 2016) ·
Lucian Freud, German born painter (d. 2011) ·
Jean Porter, American actress (d. 2018) ·
Gerhard Löwenthal,
German journalist (d. 2002) ·
Sol Yaged, American jazz clarinetist ·
December 9 – Redd Foxx, African-American comedian, actor
(d. 1991) ·
December 10 – Lucía Hiriart, former First Lady of Chile ·
Frank Blaichman, Polish author ·
Dilip Kumar, Indian actor ·
Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress,
television personality (d. 2008) ·
Noah Hutchings, American president of
Southwest Radio Ministries (d. 2015) ·
Christian Dotremont,
Belgian painter, writer (d. 1979) ·
Edythe Perlick, American female baseball
player (d. 2003) ·
Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2001) ·
Antonio Larreta, Uruguayan theatre actor,
critic and writer (d. 2015) ·
December 17 – Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban
planner (d. 2005) ·
Ivor Broadis, English footballer ·
Jack
Brooks, American politician (d. 2012) ·
Charita Bauer, American actress, soap opera
star (d. 1985) ·
Beverly Pepper, American sculptor, painter ·
Tony Vaccaro, American photographer ·
Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor, politician
(d. 1989) ·
Paul Winchell, American actor (d. 2005) ·
December 23 – Micheline Ostermeyer,
French athlete and musician (d. 2001) ·
Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990) ·
Willem Drees Jr., Dutch politician (d. 1998) ·
Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-American filmmaker
and poet ·
Neal Watlington, American Major League
Baseball player ·
Steve Wochy, Canadian ice hockey player ·
December 26 – Chuck Cecil,
American radio broadcaster ·
Miller Anderson,
American diver (d. 1965) ·
Derek Piggott, English aviator and flight
instructor ·
Lionel Bowen, Australian politician
(d. 2012) ·
Ivan Desny, Swiss actor (d. 2002) ·
Stan Lee, American comics creator (d. 2018) ·
Ramapada Chowdhury,
Indian novelist and writer (d. 2018) ·
December 29 – William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998) ·
Boes Boestami, Indonesian actor (d. 1970) ·
Magín Díaz, Colombian musician, composer
(d. 2017) ·
Jane Langton, American author, illustrator Date Unknown[edit] ·
Maphevu Dlamini, 2nd Prime Minister of
Swaziland (d. 1979) Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – István Kühár, Prekmurje Slovene writer,
politician (b. 1887) ·
January 5 – Ernest Shackleton,
Irish explorer (b. 1874) ·
Ōkuma Shigenobu,
2-time Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1838) ·
Frank Tudor, Australian politician (b. 1866) ·
January 15 – John Kirk,
British explorer (b. 1832) ·
Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854) ·
Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, pacifist
and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
(b. 1837) ·
James
Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Irish-born politician, diplomat and
historian (b. 1838) ·
William
Christie, British astronomer (b. 1845) ·
January 23 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor
(b. 1855) ·
Nellie Bly, American undercover journalist
(b. 1864) ·
Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (b. 1840) ·
January 31 – Heinrich
Reinhardt, Austrian composer (b. 1865) February[edit] ·
Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese field marshal,
3rd Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1838) ·
William Desmond
Taylor, Irish-born film director (b. 1872) ·
Christiaan de Wet,
Boer general, rebel leader, and politician (b. 1854) ·
John Butler Yeats,
Northern Irish artist (b. 1839) ·
February 4 – Henry Jones,
British explorer (b. 1852) ·
February 8 – Kabayama Sukenori,
Japanese samurai, general and statesman (b. 1837) ·
February 14 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish Minister of
Interior (b. 1880) ·
February 23 – John Joseph Jolly
Kyle, Argentine chemist (b. 1838). ·
February 25 – Henri Désiré Landru,
French serial killer (executed) (b. 1869) March[edit] ·
March 1 – Rafael Moreno
Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892) ·
March 4 – Bert Williams, American entertainer
(b. 1874) ·
March 10 – Harry Kellar, American magician (b. 1849) ·
March 19 – Max von Hausen, German general (b. 1846) ·
March 24 – Walter Parr, British preacher (b. 1871) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Emperor Charles I of Austria (b. 1887) ·
April 2 – Hermann Rorschach,
Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1884) ·
April 8 – Erich von Falkenhayn,
German general (b. 1861) ·
April 9 ·
Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist
(b. 1866) ·
Patrick Manson, Scottish physician (b. 1844) ·
April 14 – Cap Anson, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1852) ·
April 28 – Paul Deschanel, President of France
(b. 1855) May[edit] ·
May 3 – Viktor Kingissepp,
Estonian Communist politician (b. 1888) ·
May 7 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857) ·
May 12 – John Martin Poyer, United States Navy Commander,
12th Governor of
American Samoa (b. 1861) ·
May 15 – Leslie Ward, English portrait artist, caricaturist
(b. 1851) ·
May 16 – Rudolf Montecuccoli,
Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. 1843) ·
May 18 – Charles
Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845) ·
May 19 – Son Byong-hi, Korean activist (b. 1861) ·
May 21 – Michael Mayr, Austrian politician, 2nd Chancellor of
Austria (b. 1864) ·
May 26 – Ernest Solvay, Belgian chemist,
philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1838) June[edit] Prince Albert I of
Monaco ·
June 4 – William Halse
Rivers Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864) ·
June 6 ·
Lillian Russell, American singer, actress
(b. 1861) ·
Richard A. Ballinger,
American politician (b. 1858) ·
June 18 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851) ·
June 20 – Vittorio Monti, Italian composer (b. 1868) ·
June 22 ·
Take Ionescu, 29th Prime Minister of Romania
(b. 1858) ·
Sir Henry
Wilson, 1st Baronet, British field marshal and politician
(b. 1864) ·
June 24 – Walter Rathenau, German statesman, Weimar Republic foreign minister
(assassinated) (b. 1867) ·
June 26 – Prince Albert I of
Monaco (b. 1848) ·
June 27 – Prince
Higashifushimi Yorihito of Japan (b. 1867) ·
June 28 – Velimir Khlebnikov,
Russian poet, playwright (b. 1885) July[edit] ·
July 4 – Lothar von
Richthofen, German World War I flying ace (b. 1894) ·
July 7 – Ioannis Svoronos, Greek numismatist
(b. 1863) ·
July 10 – Muhammad V an-Nasir,
Bey of Tunis (b. 1855) ·
July 20 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician
(b. 1856) ·
July 22 – Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854) ·
July 25 – Paul Maistre, French general (b. 1858) ·
July 28 – Édouard Harlé,
French engineer, prehistorian (b. 1850) August[edit] ·
August 2 ·
Alexander Graham
Bell, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1847) ·
Harry Boland, Irish republican (b. 1887) ·
August 3 – Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist,
politician (b. 1851) ·
August 4 ·
Nikolai Nebogatov,
Russian admiral (b. 1849) ·
Enver Pasha, Ottoman military leader,
Turkish revolutionary (b. 1881) ·
August 5 – Tommy McCarthy, American baseball
player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1863) ·
August 12 – Arthur Griffith, Irish republican, President of
Dáil Éireann (b. 1872) ·
August 13 – Saint
Benjamin of Petrograd (b. 1873) ·
August 14 – Alfred
Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, British newspaper magnate
(b. 1865) ·
August 19 – Felip Pedrell, Spanish composer (b. 1841) ·
Michael
Collins, Irish republican, revolutionary, and Chairman of the
Provisional Government (assassinated) (b. 1890) ·
Thomas Brock, British sculptor (b. 1847) ·
August 29 – Georges Sorel, French philosopher, theorist
of revolutionary syndicalism (b. 1847) September[edit] Saint Chrysostomos of
Smyrna ·
September 1 – Princess
Helena, Duchess of Albany (d. 1861) ·
September 4 – James
Young, Scottish footballer (motorcycle accident) (b. 1882)[19] ·
September 5 – Sarah Winchester, American builder of the
Winchester Mystery House (b. 1837) ·
September 7 – William Stewart
Halsted, American surgeon (b. 1852) ·
Saint Chrysostomos of
Smyrna (b. 1867) ·
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,
British poet (b. 1840) ·
September 25 – Carlo Caneva, Italian general (b. 1845) ·
Sir Charles Wade, Australian
politician, Premier of New
South Wales (b. 1863) ·
Thomas E. Watson, American politician,
senator (b. 1856) October[edit] ·
October 7 – Marie Lloyd, British singer (b. 1870) ·
October 11 – Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1867) ·
October 25 – Oscar Hertwig, German zoologist (b. 1849) ·
October 30 – Géza Gárdonyi,
Hungarian author (b. 1863) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Lima Barreto, Brazilian writer (b. 1881) ·
November 7 – Sam Thompson, American baseball
player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1860) ·
November 14 – Godfrey Chevalier,
American naval aviation pioneer (b. 1889) ·
November 15 – Dimitrios Gounaris,
94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1867) ·
November 18 – Marcel Proust, French author (b. 1871) ·
November 23 – Eduard Seler, Prussian scholar,
Mesoamericanist (b. 1849) ·
November 24 – Erskine
Childers, Irish novelist, nationalist (executed) (b. 1870) ·
November 27 – Demetrio Castillo
Duany, Cuban revolutionary, soldier, and politician (b. 1856) ·
November 30 – René Cresté, French actor, director
(b. 1881) December[edit] ·
December 12 – John Wanamaker, American businessman
(b. 1838) ·
December 13 – Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister
of Iceland (b. 1861) ·
December 14 – Henry Pierrepoint,
British executioner (b. 1878) ·
December 16 – Gabriel Narutowicz,
Polish professor and politician, 1st President of Poland (assassinated)
(b. 1865) ·
December 17 – David Lindsay,
Australian explorer (b. 1856) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Niels Henrik David Bohr ·
Chemistry – Francis William
Aston ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Archibald Vivian
Hill, Otto Fritz Meyerhof ·
Literature – Jacinto Benavente ·
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