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1923 (MCMXXIII) was
a common year starting
on Monday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1923rd year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 923rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 23rd year of
the 20th century,
and the 4th year of the 1920s decade. As of
the start of 1923, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which was relegated that February to use only by churches
after Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1923 ·
January 1 – The Grouping: All major
British railway companies are grouped into four larger companies, under terms
of the Railways Act 1921. ·
January 1–7 – Rosewood massacre:
In a violent, racially motivated attack, at least 8 people are killed, and
the town of Rosewood, Florida is
abandoned and destroyed. ·
January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt,
to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel
Territory). ·
January 11 – Despite strong British
protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr
area, to force Germany to make reparations payments. ·
January 17 – Juan de la Cierva invents
the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an
unpowered rotor. ·
January 18 – Elon College's campus in North Carolina is destroyed by a fire. February[edit] Main article: February 1923 ·
February 8 – Norman Albert calls the first live
broadcast of an ice hockey game, the third period of an Ontario Hockey
League Intermediate playoff game, on Toronto radio station CFCA.[1][2] ·
February 9 – Billy Hughes, having resigned as Prime
Minister of Australia, after the Country Party refuses
to govern in coalition with him as the leader of the Nationalist
Party, is succeeded by Stanley Bruce. A Liberal–National Coalitionwill
persist in the politics of
Australia for at least 95 years. ·
The American Law
Institute is incorporated in the United States. ·
Albert Einstein visits Barcelona, Spain, at the invitation of
scientist Esteban Terradas
i Illa. March[edit] Main article: March 1923 ·
March 1 ·
The USS Connecticut is
decommissioned. ·
Eskom, the largest electricity producer in
Africa, is established in South Africa. ·
Greece
adopts the Gregorian calendar. ·
March 3 – Cover date of the first issue of Time Magazine. Retired U.S. Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannonappears
on the first cover. ·
March 6 – The Egyptian Feminist
Union (Arabic:
الاتحاد
النسائي
المصري), the first nationwide feminist movement in Egypt, is founded at the home of
activist Huda Sha'arawi.[3][4][5] ·
March 9 – Vladimir Lenin suffers his third
stroke, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak; consequently he
retires from his position as Chairman of the Soviet government. ·
March 14 – Pete Parker calls the play-by-play of
the first ice hockey game ever broadcast on the radio in its entirety,
between the Regina Capitals and the Edmonton
Eskimos of the Western
Canada Hockey League.[6] ·
March 28 – Regia Aeronautica,
the air force of Fascist Italy, is founded. April[edit] Main article: April 1923 ·
April 4 – Warner Bros. Film Studio is formally
incorporated in the United States, as Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. ·
April 6 ·
Louis Armstrong makes his first
recording, "Chimes Blues", with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. ·
The
first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed, in Victoria Institution, Federated Malay
States. ·
April 12 – The Kandersteg
International Scout Centre comes into existence in
Switzerland. ·
April 18 ·
Yankee Stadium opens
its doors, as the home park of the New York Yankees baseball team, in The Bronx. ·
Russian professional sports society
club, Dynamo Moscow,
is founded.[7] ·
April 19 ·
Hjalmar
Branting leaves office as Prime Minister
of Sweden, after the Swedish Riksdag has rejected a government
proposal regarding unemployment benefits. Right-wing academic and
jurist Ernst Trygger succeeds
him. ·
The Egyptian
Constitution of 1923 is adopted, introducing a parliamentary system of
democracy in the country.[8] ·
April 23 – The Gdynia seaport is inaugurated, on
the Polish Corridor. ·
April 26 – Prince Albert, Duke of York
(later George VI, King of
the United Kingdom) marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen
Elizabeth The Queen Mother) in Westminster Abbey. ·
April 28 – The original Wembley Stadium opens
its doors for the first time to the British public, staging the FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United. May[edit] Main article: May 1923 ·
May 1 – Rahula College is established in Ceylon, with the name of
"Parakramabhahu Vidyalaya". ·
May 8 – The Liseberg amusement park opens in Gothenburg, Sweden. ·
May 9 ·
Southeastern Michigan receives a record 15
centimetres (5.9 in) of snow, after temperatures plummeted from 17 to 1
degrees between 1 and 6 pm on the previous day.[9] ·
The
premiere of Bertolt Brecht's
play In the Jungle (Im
Dickicht), at the Residenztheater in Munich, is interrupted by Nazi demonstrators. ·
May 20 – British Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law resigns, due to ill
health. ·
May 23 ·
Stanley Baldwin is appointed British
Prime Minister. ·
Belgium's Sabena Airlines is created. ·
May 24 – The Irish Civil War ends. ·
May 26 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans motor
race is held, and is won by André Lagache and René Léonard. ·
May 27 – The Ku Klux Klan in
the United States defies a law requiring publication of its members. June[edit] Main article: June 1923 June 9: Aleksandar Stamboliyski ·
June 9 – A military
coup in Bulgaria ousts
prime minister Aleksandar
Stamboliyski (he is killed June 14). ·
June 12 – William Walton's Façade is
performed for the first time, in London. ·
June 13 – President Li Yuanhong of China abandons
his residence, because a warlord has commanded forces to surround the mansion
and cut off its water and electric supplies, in order to force him to abandon
his post. ·
June 16 – The storming of Ayan, Siberia concludes the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War. ·
June 18 – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homeless. ·
June 25 – FC Rapid
București is formed, on the initiative of the Grivița railroad workers (first
named CFR București). July[edit] Main article: July 1923 ·
July 10 – Large hailstones kill 23
in Rostov, Soviet Union. ·
July 13 ·
The Hollywood Sign is inaugurated in California (originally reading Hollywoodland). ·
American
explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers
the first dinosaur eggs near Flaming Cliffs, Mongolia. ·
July 20 – Pancho Villa is assassinated at Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua. ·
July 24 – The Treaty of
Lausanne (1923), settling the boundaries of the modern Republic of Turkey,
is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and
other countries that fought in the First World War, bringing an end to
the Ottoman Empire after
624 years. ·
Undated – Hyperinflation in Germany has seen
the number of marks needed to purchase a single American dollar reach 353,000
– more than 200 times the amount needed at the start of the year. August[edit] Main article: August 1923 August 2: Calvin Coolidge is 30th President
of the United States. ·
August 2 – President Warren G. Harding dies
of a heart attack, and is succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge, who becomes the 30th
President of the United States. ·
August 3 – President Calvin Coolidge
is sworn
in. ·
The
first major seagoing ship arrives at Gdynia, the newly constructed Polish seaport. ·
Gustav Stresemann is
named Chancellor
of Germany, and founds a coalition government for
the Weimar Republic,
where hyperinflation means that more than 4,600,000 marks are now needed to
buy a single American dollar. ·
August 18 – The first British
Track & Field championships for women are held in London. ·
August 21 – Mexican Association
football Club Necaxa is
founded by engineer William H. Frasser. ·
August 30 – Hurricane season begins,
with a tropical storm northeast of the Turks and Caicos
Islands. ·
August 31 – The Italian navy occupies Corfu, in retaliation for the
murder of an Italian officer. The League of Nations protests,
and the occupation ends on September 30. September[edit] Main article: September 1923 ·
September 1 – The Great
Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,807 people
(but according to a Japanese construction research center report in 2008,
105,000 are confirmed dead). ·
September 4 – The United States Navy's
first home-built rigid airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) makes
her first flight at Naval
Air Station Lakehurst (New Jersey); she contains most of the
world's extracted reserves of helium at this time.[10] ·
September 7 – At the International
Police Conference in Vienna, the International Criminal Police Commission
(ICPC), better known as Interpol, is set up. ·
September 8 – Honda Point disaster:
Nine United States Navy destroyers run
aground off the California coast. ·
September 9 – Turkish head of
state Mustafa Kemal
Atatürk founds the Republican
People's Party (CHP). ·
September 10 – The Irish Free State joins the League of Nations. ·
September 13 – Military coup in
Spain: Miguel Primo de
Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship. Trade unions are prohibited for 10
years. ·
September 17 – 1923 Berkeley Fire:
A major fire in Berkeley, California,
erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely
built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of
California. ·
September 18–26 – Newspaper printers strike in New
York City. ·
September 24 – Atlantic
hurricane season: The second major hurricane strikes north
of Hispaniola. ·
September 26 – In Bavaria, Gustav Ritter von
Kahr takes dictatorial powers. ·
September 29 – The first American Track & Field championships for
women are held in New Jersey. ·
September 29 – The British Mandate for Palestine (1922)
comes into effect, officially creating the protectorates of Palestine,
as a homeland
for the Jewish peopleunder British administration, and Transjordan as
a separate emirate, under Abdullah I.[11] The French
Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon also takes effect. ·
September 30 – Küstrin Putsch:
Outside Berlin, Major Ernst von Buchrucker, the leader of the Black Reichswehr, attempts a putsch by
seizing several forts. October[edit] Main article: October 1923 ·
October 1 – The Johor–Singapore
Causeway opens to public traffic. ·
October 2 – Küstrin Putsch:
After two days of siege, Major Buchrucker and his men surrender. ·
October 6 – The Occupation
of Constantinople ends, when the great powers of World War I
withdraw. ·
Ankara replaces Istanbul (Constantinople), as the
capital of Turkey. ·
The
first recorded example, of a storm
crossing from the Eastern Pacific into the Atlantic, occurs
in Oaxaca. ·
October 14 – The fourth tropical storm
of the year forms just north of Panama. ·
October 15 – The fifth tropical storm
of the year forms north of the Leeward Islands. ·
A
sixth tropical storm develops in the Gulf of Mexico; a rare occurrence, it
consists of four active tropical storms simultaneously. ·
Roy and Walt Disney found The Walt Disney
Company. ·
October 23 – Hamburg Uprising: In Germany, the Communists
attempt a "putsch" in Hamburg, which results in
street battles in that city for the next two days, when it ends
unsuccessfully. ·
October 27 – In Germany, General Hans von Seeckt orders the Reichswehr to
dissolve the Social Democratic-Communist government of Saxony, which is
refusing to accept the authority of the Reich government. ·
October 28 – In Qajar Dynasty Persia, Reza Khan becomes Ahmad Shah Qajar's prime minister. ·
October 29 – Turkey becomes a republic, following the dissolution of
the Ottoman Empire; Kemal Atatürk is elected as first
president. ·
October 30 – İsmet
İnönü is appointed as the first prime minister of
Turkey. November[edit] Main article: November 1923 ·
The
Finnish flag carrier airline Finnair is started, as Aero oy. ·
The 1923
Victorian Police strike begins in Australia, with half of
the Victoria Police force
standing down over the use of labor spies. Rioting and looting take place
in Melbourne city centre.[12] ·
November 8 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to
overthrow the Bavarian government; police and troops crush the attempt the
next day. ·
November 11 – Adolf Hitler is arrested for his
leading role in the Beer Hall Putsch, two days after the Putsch
was crushed by the government; 20 people die as a result of the associated
violence. ·
November 12 – Her Highness Princess
Maud of Fife marries Captain Charles Alexander Carnegie, in
Wellington Barracks, London. ·
November 15 – Hyperinflation
in the Weimar Republic: Hyperinflation in Germany reaches its
height. One United States dollar is worth 4,200,000,000,000 Papiermark[13] (4.2 trillion on the short scale). Gustav Stresemann abolishes
the old currency and replaces it with the Rentenmark, at an exchange rate of one
Rentenmark to 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion on the short scale) Papiermark
(effective November 20). ·
November 23 – Gustav Stresemann's
coalition government collapses in Germany. December[edit] Main article: December 1923 ·
December 1 – In Italy, the Gleno Dam on the Gleno River, in the
Valle di Scalve in the northern province of Bergamo bursts, killing at least
356 people. ·
December 6 – United
Kingdom general election, 1923: The governing Conservatives under Stanley Baldwin are reduced to a
minority status, with the Labour partygaining
second party status. ·
December 10 – Sigma Alpha Kappa (the
first social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the United States) is founded
as a fraternal organization, until the ban on social fraternities is lifted. ·
December 20 – BEGGARS Fraternity (the
second social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the United States) is founded
by nine men, who have secured permission to do so from the Pope. ·
December 21 – The Nepal–Britain
Treaty is the first to define the international status
of Nepal, as an independent sovereign country. ·
December 27 – The crown prince of Japan
survives an assassination attempt in Tokyo. ·
December 29 – Vladimir K. Zworykin files
his first patent (in the United States) for
"television systems". Date unknown[edit] ·
Struggling
for a foothold in southern China, Sun Yat-sen decides to ally his
Nationalist Kuomintang party
with the Comintern, and
the Communist Party
of China. ·
The Moderation
League of New York becomes part of the movement for the repeal
of Prohibition in the United States. ·
Pharmaceutical
company Novo Nordisk is
founded in Denmark. ·
Marcel Duchamp's artwork The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (La
mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même or The Large
Glass) is completed in the United States. ·
Rainbow trout is introduced into the
upper Firehole River,
in Yellowstone
National Park, United States. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Domenico Tripodo, Italian criminal (d. 1976) ·
Valentina Cortese,
Italian actress ·
Vulo Radev, Bulgarian film director
(d. 2001) ·
Wahiduddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi academic
(d. 2018) ·
Roméo Sabourin,
Canadian World War II spy (d. 1944) ·
January 2 – Abdel Aziz
Mohamed Hegazy, 38th Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2014) ·
Hank Stram, American football coach,
broadcaster (d. 2005) ·
Renato Guatelli,
Italian partisan (d. 1944) ·
Ricardo C. Puno, Filipino lawyer and
politician (d. 2018) ·
Wilfred Waters, English Olympic cyclist ·
Sam Phillips, American record producer
(d. 2003) ·
Nat Neujean, Belgian sculptor (d. 2018) ·
Norman Kirk, 29th Prime Minister of New
Zealand (d. 1974) ·
Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999) ·
Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic
(d. 2003) ·
Jean Lucienbonnet,
French racing driver (d. 1962) ·
Larry Storch, American actor (F Troop) ·
Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985) ·
Wright King, American actor (d. 2018) ·
Paavo Lonkila, Finnish Olympic cross-country
skier (d. 2017) ·
Ernst Nolte, German historian (d. 2016) ·
January 12 – Ira Hayes, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo
Jima (d. 1955) ·
January 15 – Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician,
4th President
of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the "father of
Taiwan's democracy" ·
Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004) ·
Walther Wever,
German fighter ace (d. 1945) ·
Antonio Riboldi, Italian Roman Catholic
prelate (d. 2017) ·
January 18 – Jan Ruff O'Herne,
Dutch-Australian human rights activist ·
January 19 – Jean Stapleton, American actress (All In
the Family) (d. 2013) ·
Slim Whitman, American country western
musician (d. 2013) ·
Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (d. 2015) ·
January 22 – Diana Douglas, British-born American
actress, mother of actor/producer Michael Douglas (d. 2015) ·
Cot Deal, American major league baseball
player, coach (d. 2013) ·
Stephanie Kwolek, Polish-born American
inventor of "Kevlar fibers"
(d. 2014) ·
Horace Ashenfelter,
American athlete (d. 2018) ·
Silvano Campeggi, Italian film poster
designer (d. 2018) ·
Dirk Bernard
Joseph Schouten, Dutch economist (d. 2018) ·
Arvid Carlsson, Swedish scientist, recipient
of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2018) ·
January 26 – Anne Jeffreys, American actress, singer
(d. 2017) ·
January 28 – Erling Lorentzen, Norwegian shipowner and
industrialist ·
Khir Johari, Malaysian politician (d. 2006) ·
Jack Burke Jr, American golfer ·
Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981) ·
January 31 – Norman Mailer, American writer, journalist
(d. 2007) February[edit] ·
Stig Mårtensson,
Swedish racing cyclist (d. 2010) ·
Gena Turgel, Polish author, Holocaust
survivor and educator (d. 2018) ·
James Dickey, American poet, author (Deliverance)
(d. 1997) ·
Red Schoendienst, American baseball player
(d. 2018) ·
Liz Smith,
American gossip columnist (d. 2017) ·
Clem Windsor, Australian rugby union player,
surgeon (d. 2007) ·
February 3 – Edith Barney, American female professional
baseball player (d. 2010) ·
Conrad Bain, Canadian-born actor (d. 2013) ·
Belisario Betancur,
Colombian politician, 26th President of
Colombia (d. 2018) ·
Fatmawati, 1st First Lady of Indonesia
(d. 1980) ·
Claude King, American country music singer
and songwriter (d. 2013) ·
February 6 – George Pouliot, Canadian fencer ·
February 7 – George
Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, first grandchild of King George V
(d. 2011) ·
February 8 – Urpo Korhonen, Finnish Olympic cross-country
skier (d. 2009) ·
February 9 – Brendan Behan, Irish author (d. 1964) ·
Allie Sherman, American professional
football coach (d. 2015) ·
Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (d. 2010) ·
February 11 – Pamela
Sharples, Baroness Sharples, English politician ·
February 12 – Franco Zeffirelli,
Italian film, opera director ·
Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist
(d. 2003) ·
Chuck Yeager, American test pilot, NASA official ·
February 16 – Samuel Willenberg,
Polish-born Israeli sculptor, painter and last surviving member of the Treblinka extermination
camp revolt (d. 2016) ·
February 17 – Jun Fukuda, Japanese film director (d. 2000) ·
February 18 – Allan Melvin, American actor (d. 2008) ·
Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician,
1st Prime Minister
of Guyana and 2nd President of Guyana (d. 1985) ·
Robert Lucy, Swiss gymnast (d. 2009) ·
Victor Atiyeh, American politician (d. 2014) ·
Wilbur R. Ingalls,
Jr., American architect (d. 1997) ·
William
Winter, American politician ·
February 22 – Norman
Smith, English singer, record producer (d. 2008) ·
Mary Francis Shura,
American writer (d. 1991) ·
Ioannis Grivas, Greek judge, politician and
176th Prime Minister
of Greece (d. 2016) ·
John van Hengel, American "Father of
Food Banking" (d. 2005) ·
February 24 – David Soyer, American cellist (d. 2010) ·
February 25 – Harry Leslie Smith,
English writer and political commentator (d. 2018) ·
February 27 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophone
player, actor (d. 1990) ·
Jean Carson, American actress (d. 2005) ·
Charles Durning, American actor (d. 2012) March[edit] ·
March 2 ·
Orrin Keepnews, American record producer
(d. 2015) ·
Robert H. Michel, American Republican Party
politician (d. 2017) ·
March 3 – Doc Watson, American folk guitarist,
songwriter (d. 2012) ·
March 4 ·
Piero D'Inzeo, Italian Olympic show jumping
rider (d. 2014) ·
Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer,
broadcaster (d. 2012) ·
March 6 ·
Ed McMahon, American television personality
(d. 2009) ·
Wes Montgomery, African-American jazz
musician (d. 1968) ·
March 7 ·
Mahlon Clark, American musician (d. 2007) ·
Thomas Keating, American monk (d. 2018) ·
March 8 – Louk Hulsman, Dutch criminologist (d. 2009) ·
March 9 ·
James L. Buckley, American politician, United States
Senator (1971–77) ·
Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry (d. 2016) ·
March 10 – Val Logsdon Fitch,
American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2015) ·
March 11 ·
Paul Muller,
Swiss actor ·
Agatha Barbara, Maltese politician (d. 2002) ·
March 12 ·
Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed-skater
(d. 2013) ·
Wally Schirra, American astronaut (d. 2007) ·
Mae Young, American wrestler (d. 2014) ·
March 14 ·
Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971) ·
Joe M. Jackson, American Medal of Honour recipient ·
Celeste Rodrigues,
Portuguese singer (d. 2018) ·
March 15 ·
Willy Semmelrogge,
German actor (d. 1984) ·
Lou Richards, Australian footballer
(d. 2017) ·
March 21 ·
Rezső Nyers, Hungarian politician
(d. 2018) ·
Olive Nicol,
Baroness Nicol, British politician, life peer (d. 2018) ·
Louis-Edmond Hamelin,
Canadian geographer, author and academic ·
Merle Keagle, American female professional
baseball player (d. 1960) ·
Shri
Mataji Nirmala Srivastava,
Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga (d. 2011) ·
March 22 – Marcel Marceau, world-renowned French mime (d. 2007) ·
March 24 ·
Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986) ·
Michael Legat, English writer (d. 2011) ·
March 25 ·
Stefano Vetrano, Italian politician
(d. 2018) ·
Bonnie Guitar, American singer, songwriter
and guitarist ·
Lewis Elton, German-English physicist and
researcher (d. 2018) ·
Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003) ·
March 26 ·
Baba Hari Dass, Indian yoga master, silent
monk, and commentator (d. 2018) ·
Romolo Catasta, Italian Olympic rower
(d. 1985) ·
Bob Elliott,
American comedian (d. 2016) ·
March 27 ·
Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet (d. 2012) ·
Ulla Sallert, Swedish actress, singer
(d. 2018) ·
March 28 ·
Thad Jones, American jazz musician (d. 1986) ·
Ine Schäffer, Austrian athlete ·
René Vuaillat, French engineer, inventor ·
March 29 – Geoff Duke, British motorcycle racer
(d. 2015) ·
March 30 ·
Milton Acorn, Canadian writer (d. 1986) ·
Fernand Schammel,
Luxembourgish footballer (d. 1961) ·
March 31 – Shoshana Damari, Yemenite-Israeli singer
(d. 2006) April[edit] ·
April 2 ·
Alice Haylett, American professional
baseball player (d. 2004) ·
G. Spencer-Brown, British mathematician
(d. 2016) ·
Gloria Henry, American actress ·
Johnny Paton, Scottish football player,
coach and manager (d. 2015) ·
April 4 ·
Maximiano Tuazon
Cruz, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2013) ·
Gene Reynolds, American actor ·
Peter Vaughan, English actor (d. 2016) ·
April 5 – Nguyễn
Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (d. 2001) ·
April 8 ·
George Fisher,
American political cartoonist (d. 2003) ·
Edward Mulhare, Irish-born American actor
(d. 1997) ·
April 10 – John
Watkins, South African cricketer ·
April 12 – Ann Miller, American actress and dancer
(d. 2004) ·
April 13 – Don Adams, American actor, comedian (Get
Smart) (d. 2005) ·
April 14 ·
Lydia Clarke, American actress, photographer
(d. 2018) ·
Roberto De Vicenzo,
Argentine professional golfer, winner of the 1967 Open
Championship (d. 2017) ·
April 15 – Douglas Wass, British civil servant
(d. 2017) ·
April 17 – Étienne Bally, French sprinter (d. 2018) ·
April 19 – Stuart H. Walker, American Olympic
yachtsmanAmerican Olympic yachtsman and writer (d. 2018) ·
April 20 ·
Mother Angelica, American nun, founder of
the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) (d. 2016) ·
Irene Lieblich, Polish-born painter
(d. 2008) ·
April 22 ·
Geoffrey
Hattersley-Smith, English/Canadian geologist and glaciologist (d. 2012) ·
Bettie Page, American model (d. 2008) ·
Paula Fox, American writer (d. 2017) ·
Aaron Spelling, American television
producer, writer (d. 2006) ·
April 23 – Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas (d. 2010) ·
April 24 – Bülent Ulusu, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey
(d. 2015) ·
April 25 ·
Francis Graham-Smith,
English astronomer, academic ·
Albert King, American musician (d. 1992) ·
Grant Munro,
Canadian animator, filmmaker and actor (d. 2017) ·
April 30 ·
Al Lewis, American actor (The Munsters)
(d. 2006) ·
Francis Tucker, South African rally driver
(d. 2008) May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Frank Brian, American basketball player
(d. 2017) ·
Fernando Cabrita, Portuguese football
forward, manager (d. 2014) ·
Joseph Heller, American novelist (Catch-22)
(d. 1999) ·
Billy Steel, Scottish footballer (d. 1982) ·
May 2 – Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland (d. 2008) ·
May 3 ·
Francesco Paolo
Bonifacio, Italian politician and jurist (d. 1989) ·
Ralph Hall, American politician ·
Alexander Harvey II,
American judge (d. 2017) ·
May 4 ·
Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer, musician, conductor,
poet and author (d. 1986) ·
Eric Sykes, English actor (d. 2012) ·
May 5 ·
Konrad Repgen, German historian (d. 2017) ·
Edit
Perényi-Weckinger, Hungarian gymnast ·
Richard Wollheim, English philosopher
(d. 2003) ·
Sergey Akhromeyev,
Soviet marshall, former Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces
(d. 1991) ·
May 6 ·
Josep Seguer, Spanish football defender,
manager (d. 2014) ·
Elizabeth Sellars,
Scottish actress ·
May 7 ·
Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985) ·
Jim Lowe, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2016) ·
J. Mack Robinson, American businessman
(d. 2014) ·
May 8 – Yusof Rawa, Malaysian politician (d. 2000) ·
May 10 – Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of
Azerbaijan (1993–2003) (d. 2003) ·
May 11 – Louise Arnold,
American baseball player (d. 2010) ·
May 13 – Ruth Adler Schnee,
German-American textile, interior designer ·
May 14 ·
Willis Blair, Canadian politician (d. 2014) ·
Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi Foreign Minister ·
Mrinal Sen, Indian filmmaker ·
May 15 ·
Doris Dowling, American actress (d. 2004) ·
John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003) ·
Gholamreza Pahlavi,
Persian prince (d. 2017) ·
May 16 – Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2000) ·
May 17 ·
Anthony Eyton, English painter, educator ·
Peter Mennin, American composer, teacher and
administrator (d. 1983) ·
David Wasawo, Kenyan zoologist,
conservationist, and university administrator (d. 2014) ·
May 18 – Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister
of Jamaica (d. 2004) ·
May 20 – Israel Gutman, Israeli historian (d. 2013) ·
May 21 ·
Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003) ·
Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (d. 2002) ·
Ara Parseghian, American football coach
(d. 2017) ·
Evelyn Ward, American actress (d. 2012) ·
May 22 – Aline Griffith, Dowager Countess of Romanones,
Spanish-American cipher clerk, aristocrat, socialite and writer (d. 2017) ·
May 23 – Kalidas Shrestha, Nepalese artist (d. 2016) ·
May 24 ·
Knut Ahnlund, Swedish literary historian,
writer (d. 2012) ·
Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker, actor and
screenwriter (d. 2017) ·
May 25 – Bernard Koura, French painter (d. 2018) ·
May 26 ·
James Arness, American actor (Gunsmoke)
(d. 2011) ·
Roy Dotrice, English actor (d. 2017) ·
Horst Tappert, German television actor
(d. 2008) ·
May 27 ·
Henry Kissinger, German-born United
States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ·
Sumner Redstone, American businessman ·
Alfonso Wong, Hong Kong cartoonist (d. 2017) ·
May 28 ·
György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006) ·
N. T. Rama Rao, Indian (Telugu) film actor,
politician (d. 1996) ·
T. M. Thiagarajan,
Carnatic musicologist from Tamil Nadu in Southern India (d. 2007) ·
May 29 – Eugene Wright, American jazz bassist ·
May 30 – Jimmy Lydon, American actor, producer ·
May 31 ·
Robert O. Becker, American orthopedic
surgeon (d. 2008) ·
Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (d. 2015) ·
Rainier
III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005) June[edit] ·
June 2 ·
Ted Leehane, Australian rules footballer
(d. 2014) ·
Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician,
economist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016) ·
June 3 – Peter Thorne,
British Royal Air Force pilot (d. 2014) ·
June 4 ·
Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer
(d. 2007) ·
Yuriko, Princess
Mikasa, Japanese princess ·
June 5 – Peggy Stewart,
American actress ·
June 6 ·
V. C. Andrews, American novelist (d. 1996) ·
Jeff Dwire, American small businessman
(d. 1974) ·
June 7 ·
Jean Baratte, French international
footballer, striker and manager (d. 1986) ·
Giorgio Belladonna,
Italian bridge player, one of the greatest of all time (d. 1995) ·
June 8 – Tang Hsiang Chien,
Hong Kong industrialist (d. 2018) ·
June 9 ·
Gerald Götting,
German politician (d. 2015) ·
I. H. Latif, Indian military officer
(d. 2018) ·
June 10 ·
Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media
entrepreneur (d. 1991) ·
Madeleine Lebeau, French actress (d. 2016) ·
June 11 – Bernard F. Grabowski,
American politician ·
June 12 ·
Herta Elviste, Estonian actress (d. 2015) ·
Juan Arza, Spanish football forward, manager
(d. 2011) ·
June 13 – Lloyd Conover, American scientist (d. 2017) ·
June 14 ·
Jack Hayward, English businessman (d. 2014) ·
Judith Kerr, English writer, illustrator ·
Donald
Smith, English cricketer ·
June 15 ·
Herbert Chitepo, Zimbabwe African National
Union leader (d. 1975) ·
Johnny Most, American basketball radio
announcer (d. 1993) ·
Ninian Stephen, 20th Governor-General of
Australia (d. 2017) ·
June 17 ·
Arnold S. Relman, American internist
(d. 2014) ·
Enrique Angelelli,
Argentine bishop (d. 1976) ·
W. M. Gorman, Irish economist, academic
(d. 2003) ·
William G. Adams, 9th mayor of St. John's,
member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly (d. 2005) ·
Anthony Bevilacqua,
American Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2012) ·
Jan Veselý,
Czech cyclist (d. 2003) ·
June 18 – Szymon Szurmiej, Polish-Jewish actor,
director, and general manager (d. 2014) ·
June 19 – Andrés
Rodríguez, 47th President of
Paraguay (d. 1997) ·
June 20 – Bjørn Watt-Boolsen,
Danish actor (d. 1998) ·
June 21 – Johann Eyfells, Icelandic Master of Fine
Arts ·
June 22 ·
John Oldham,
American college player, athletic director and basketball coach ·
Barbara Perry,
American actress, singer and dancer ·
Felo Ramírez, Cuban-American
Spanish-language radio voice of the Miami Marlins (d. 2017) ·
June 23 ·
Silkirtis Nichols,
Native American Indian actor ·
André Antunes, Portuguese sports shooter ·
Doris Johnson, American politician ·
Makhmut Gareev, Russian general ·
Jerry Rullo, American professional
basketball player (d. 2016) ·
Mario Milita, Italian actor and voice actor
(d. 2017) ·
Ranasinghe Premadasa,
Sri Lanka statesman, 3rd President of Sri
Lanka (d. 1993) ·
John E. Sarno, American medical writer
(d. 2017) ·
June 24 ·
Yves Bonnefoy, French poet, art historian
(d. 2016) ·
Cesare Romiti, Italian economist ·
T-Model Ford, African-American blues
musician (d. 2013) ·
June 25 ·
Stan Clements, English footballer ·
Vatroslav Mimica, Croatian film director,
screenwriter ·
Jamshid Amouzegar,
43rd Prime Minister of Iran (d. 2016) ·
Doug Everingham, Australian politician,
minister (d. 2017) ·
Sam Francis, American painter (d. 1994) ·
June 26 ·
Ed Bearss, American World War II veteran ·
Musa'id bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince (d. 2013) ·
June 27 ·
Beth Chatto, British plantswoman, garden
designer and author (d. 2018) ·
Mitchell Flint, American lawyer, veteran
aviator (d. 2017) ·
Gus Zernial, American baseball player,
sports commentator (d. 2011) ·
June 28 ·
Giff Roux, American basketball player
(d. 2011) ·
Gaye Stewart, Canadian ice hockey forward
(d. 2010) ·
Daniil Khrabrovitsky,
Soviet film director (d. 1980) ·
June 29 ·
Alfred Goodwin, senior judge on the United
States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ·
Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer,
educator ·
Olav Thon, Norwegian real estate magnate ·
June 30 ·
Andy Jack, English footballer ·
Ivo Orlandi, Venezuelan sports shooter ·
Gad Beck, Israeli-German educator, author,
activist and Holocaust survivor (d. 2012) July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Scotty Bowers, American Marine, author ·
Herman Chernoff, American applied
mathematician, statistician and physicist ·
July 2 ·
Constantin
Dăscălescu, 52nd Prime Minister of Romania (d. 2003) ·
Wisława
Szymborska, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2012) ·
July 3 ·
Hugo Machado,
Uruguayan cyclist ·
Felipe Zetter, Mexican football defender
(d. 2013) ·
July 4 ·
Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor
(d. 2013) ·
George Mostow, American mathematician,
renowned for his contributions to Lie theory (d. 2017) ·
July 5 ·
Mitsuye Yamada, Japanese-American activist,
feminist, essayist, poet, story writer, editor, and former English professor ·
Hermann Gummel, German semiconductor
industry pioneer ·
July 6 – Wojciech Jaruzelski,
Polish Communist politician, 8th Prime Minister
of Poland and President
of Poland (d. 2014) ·
July 7 ·
Chandrashekhar, Indian film actor ·
Whitney North
Seymour, Jr., American administrator ·
Leonardo Ferrel, Bolivian football player
(d. unknown) ·
Kitty White, American jazz singer (d. 2009) ·
July 8 ·
Harrison Dillard, American athlete ·
Jeanine Collard,
French singer (d. 2016) ·
Ivor Germain, Barbadian professional
light/welterweight boxer ·
Eric Hill,
English cricketer (d. 2010) ·
July 9 – Jill Knight, British politician ·
July 10 ·
Mátyás Tímár,
Hungarian politician, economist ·
Rudolf Kehrer, Soviet, Russian classical
pianist (d. 2013) ·
John
Bradley, U.S. Navy flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1994) ·
July 11 ·
Roy Neighbors, American politician (d. 2017) ·
Richard Pipes, Polish-American academic who
specialized in Russian history (d. 2018) ·
Olavo Rodrigues
Barbosa, Brazilian football player (d. 2010) ·
Gilbert Morand, French non-commissioned
officer, skier (d. 2008) ·
July 12 ·
Eve Branson, British philanthropist, child
welfare advocate, and mother of Richard Branson ·
James E. Gunn,
American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist ·
Francisco
Castro, Puerto Rican long jumper, triple jumper ·
Freddie Fields, American theatrical agent,
film producer (d. 2007) ·
July 13 ·
Erich Lessing, Austrian photographer
(d. 2018) ·
Shmuel Laviv-Lubin,
Israeli sports shooter ·
Alexandre Astruc, French film critic,
director (d. 2016) ·
Norma Zimmer, American singer (d. 2011) ·
July 14 ·
María Martín,
Spanish actress ·
Dale Robertson, American actor (d. 2013) ·
July 15 – Francisco de Andrade,
Portuguese competitive sailor, Olympic medalist ·
July 16 ·
Mari Evans, African-American poet (d. 2017) ·
Len Okrie, American catcher (d. 2018) ·
Chris Argyris, American business theorist
(d. 2013) ·
Giuseppe Madini, Italian professional
football player ·
July 18 ·
Michael Medwin, English actor ·
Maria Pacôme, French actress, playwright ·
Jerome H. Lemelson,
American inventor (d. 1997) ·
July 19 – José Moës [fr], Belgian footballer (d. 2016) ·
July 20 ·
James Bree,
British actor (d. 2008) ·
Stanisław
Albinowski, Polish economist, journalist (d. 2005) ·
Elisabeth Becker, German Nazi war criminal
(d. 1946) ·
July 21 ·
Rudolph A. Marcus,
Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Walter Brenner, American professor ·
July 22 ·
Anthony Enahoro, Nigerian politician
(d. 2010) ·
Bob Dole, American Republican politician,
Presidential candidate ·
The Fabulous Moolah,
American professional wrestler (d. 2007) ·
Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976) ·
July 23 ·
Witto Aloma, Cuban Major League
Baseball player (d. 1997) ·
Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist
(d. 2018) ·
July 24 – Albert Vanhoye, French cardinal ·
July 25 – Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008) ·
July 28 ·
H. S. S. Lawrence,
Indian educator (d. 2009) ·
Ian McDonald,
Australian cricketer ·
July 29 ·
Jim Marshall,
British founder of Marshall
Amplification (d. 2012) ·
Edgar Cortright, American scientist,
engineer (d. 2014) ·
July 31 ·
Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist noted for
inventing Kevlar (d. 2014) ·
Jean-Jacques Moreau,
French mathematician, mechanician (d. 2014) ·
William Joseph
Nealon Jr., American judge (d. 2018) August[edit] Pope
Shenouda III of Alexandria ·
August 1 – Val Bettin, American actor ·
August 2 – Shimon Peres, 8th Prime Minister
of Israel, 9th President of Israel,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2016) ·
August 3 ·
Jean Hagen, American actress (d. 1977) ·
Anne Klein, American fashion designer
(d. 1974) ·
Pope
Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic
Orthodox Church of Alexandria (d. 2012) ·
August 4 ·
Cornelia
Groefsema Kennedy, American judge (d. 2014) ·
Santiago Riveros,
Argentine general ·
August 5 ·
Sir Michael Kerry, QC, British civil servant, Procurator General and
Treasury Solicitor (d. 2012) ·
Devan Nair, third President of
Singapore (d. 2005) ·
August 6 ·
Paul Hellyer, Canadian engineer, politician ·
Moira Lister, Anglo-South African film,
stage and television actress (d. 2007) ·
Jack Parnell, English producer, bandleader
and musician (d. 2010) ·
August 8 ·
Eve Miller, American actress (d. 1973) ·
Latifa al-Zayyat, Egyptian activist, writer
(d. 1996) ·
David H. Rodgers, American politician
(d. 2017) ·
Rhonda Fleming, American actress ·
Iosif Fabian, Romanian football striker,
coach (d. 2008) ·
Fred Ridgway, English cricketer (d. 2015) ·
August 14 – Kuldip Nayar, Indian journalist, human
rights activist and politician (d. 2018) ·
August 15 – Rose Marie, American actress (d. 2017) ·
August 16 – Millôr Fernandes,
Brazilian cartoonist, playwright (d. 2012) ·
August 17 – Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan artist ·
Dill Jones, Welsh jazz stride pianist
(d. 1984) ·
Esmeralda Agoglia,
Argentinian ballerina (d. 2014) ·
August 20 – Jim Reeves, American country singer
(d. 1964) ·
August 21 – Larry Grayson, English comedian, game show
host (d. 1995) ·
August 22 – Carolina Slim, American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist
(d. 1953) ·
Henry F. Warner, American soldier, Medal of
Honor recipient (d. 1944) ·
Siti Hartinah, 2nd First Lady of
Indonesia, wife of Suharto (d. 1996) ·
August 24 – Arthur Jensen, American educational
psychologist (d. 2012) ·
August 25 – Luis Abanto Morales,
Peruvian singer, composer (d. 2017) ·
August 26 – Wolfgang Sawallisch,
German conductor, pianist (d. 2013) ·
Inge Egger, Austrian actress (d. 1976) ·
Hun Neang, father of Cambodian Prime
Minister Hun Sen (d. 2013) ·
August 28 – Andrea Veggio, Italian Roman Catholic bishop ·
Sir Richard Attenborough,
English actor, film director (d. 2014) ·
Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley,
chairman of the BBC (d. 2006) ·
Joseph Lawson Howze,
American Roman Catholic bishop ·
Giacomo Rondinella,
Italian singer, actor (d. 2015) ·
Vic Seixas, American tennis player September[edit] ·
Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969) ·
Kenneth
Thomson, Canadian businessman, art collector (d. 2006) ·
September 2 – Ramón Valdés,
Mexican actor, Don Ramón in El Chavo del Ocho (d. 2018) ·
Glen Bell, American entrepreneur, founder
of Taco Bell (d. 2010) ·
Mort Walker, American cartoonist, creator
of Beetle Bailey (d. 2018) ·
Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi,
Pakistani banker, writer and humorist (d. 2018) ·
Ram Kishore Shukla,
Indian politician (d. 2003) ·
Mirko Ellis, Swiss-Italian actor (d. 2014) ·
Eloy Tato Losada, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop ·
King Peter II of
Yugoslavia (d. 1970) ·
Madeleine Dring, British composer, actress
(d. 1977) ·
Peter Lawford, English actor (d. 1984) ·
September 8 – Joy Laville, English-Mexican sculptor,
potter and painter (d. 2018) ·
Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011) ·
Daniel Carleton
Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008) ·
September 10 – Uri Avnery, Israeli writer (d. 2018) ·
September 11 – Vasilije Mokranjac,
Serbian composer (d. 1984) ·
September 12 – Joe Shulman, American jazz bassist (d. 1957) ·
September 13 – Zoya
Kosmodemyanskaya, Soviet partisan (d. 1941) ·
September 16 – Lee Kuan Yew, Prime
Minister of Singapore (d. 2015) ·
September 17 – Hank Williams, American country musician
(d. 1953) ·
Al Quie, American politician ·
Queen Anne of
Romania, born Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, French-born queen
consort (d. 2016) ·
September 20 – Geraldine
Clinton Little, Northern Ireland-born poet (d. 1997) ·
Luba Skořepová,
Czech actress (d. 2016) ·
Linwood Holton, American politician ·
September 22 – Dannie Abse, Welsh poet (d. 2014) ·
September 23 – Basil
Feldman, Baron Feldman, English politician ·
Li Yuan-tsu, Taiwanese politician (d. 2017) ·
Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player
(d. 1950) ·
Dev Anand, Indian actor, film producer,
writer and director (d. 2011) ·
Aleksandr Alov, Soviet film director,
screenwriter (d. 1983) ·
James Hennessy, English businessman and
diplomat ·
September 27 – James Condon, Australian actor (d. 2014) ·
September 28 – Giuseppe Casale, Italian Roman Catholic bishop ·
September 30 – Donald Swann, Welsh composer (d. 1994) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Babe McCarthy, American professional and
collegiate basketball coach (d. 1975) ·
Eugenio Cruz Vargas,
Chilean poet, painter (d. 2014) ·
Absalón
Castellanos Domínguez, Mexican politician (d. 2017) ·
Shih Chun-jen, Taiwanese neurosurgeon
(d. 2017) ·
Hershel W. Williams,
American Medal of Honour recipient ·
Edward Oliver
LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004) ·
Stanisław
Skrowaczewski, Polish-born orchestral conductor (d. 2017) ·
Charlton Heston, American actor (The Ten
Commandments) (d. 2008) ·
Charles Lazarus, American businessman,
founder of Toys "R"
Us (d. 2018) ·
Albert Guðmundsson,
Icelandic football player, politician (d. 1994) ·
Glynis Johns, South African-born Welsh
actress ·
Ricardo Lavié, Argentine actor (d. 2010) ·
Robert Kuok, Malaysian-Chinese business
magnate, investor ·
Emmett Hulcy Tidd,
American military officer (d. 2018) ·
Yasar Kemal, Turkish writer (d. 2015) ·
October 7 – Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp
guard, war criminal (executed 1945) ·
October 9 – Haim Gouri, Israeli poet (d. 2018) ·
James "Jabby" Jabara, American
aviator, first American jet fighter ace (d. 1966) ·
Nicholas Parsons, English television and
radio presenter ·
Murray Walker, British motor racing
commentator ·
Asri Muda, Malaysian politician (d. 1992) ·
Les Pearce, Welsh rugby league player, coach
(d. 2018) ·
Faas Wilkes, Dutch football (soccer) player
(d. 2006) ·
October 15 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (d. 1985) ·
October 16 – Linda Darnell, American actress (d. 1965) ·
Henryk Gulbinowicz,
Polish cardinal ·
Charles McClendon,
American Hall of Fame college football coach (d. 2001) ·
October 19 – Beatrix Hamburg, American psychiatrist
(d. 2018) ·
October 20 – Otfried Preußler,
German children's books author (d. 2013) ·
Ned Rorem, American composer and author ·
Frank Sutton, American actor (d. 1974) ·
Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster
(d. 2000) ·
Denise Levertov, British-born American poet
(d. 1997) ·
J. Esmonde Barry, Canadian healthcare
activist, political commentator (d. 2007) ·
Achille Silvestrini,
Italian cardinal ·
October 27 – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist
(d. 1997) ·
Carl Djerassi, American chemist (d. 2015) ·
Gerda van der
Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete (d. 2015) ·
Vincent
Cyril Richard Arthur Charles Crabbe, Ghanaian judge (d. 2018) November[edit] ·
Victoria de los
Ángeles, Catalan soprano (d. 2005) ·
Gordon R. Dickson,
Canadian author (d. 2001) ·
James Ramsden,
English politician ·
November 2 – Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball player,
coach (d. 2011) ·
November 3 – Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich,
Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1990) ·
John Herbers, American journalist, author,
editor, World War II veteran, and Pulitzer Prize finalist (d. 2017) ·
Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and
politician ·
Rudolf Augstein, German journalist, founder
and part-owner of German magazine Der Spiegel (d. 2002) ·
Kay Lionikas, Greek-American female
professional baseball player (d. 1978) ·
Yisrael
Friedman, Romanian-born Israeli rabbi (d. 2017) ·
Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2005) ·
November 9 – Elizabeth Hawley, American journalist
(d. 2018) ·
P. K. van der Byl,
Rhodesian politician (d. 1999) ·
William P. Murphy
Jr., American medical doctor and inventor ·
November 12 – Vicco von Bülow,
German actor (d. 2011) ·
November 13 – Linda Christian, Mexican film actress
(d. 2011) ·
Cleyde Yáconis,
Brazilian actress (d. 2013) ·
Misael Pastrana
Borrero, 23rd President of Colombia (d. 1997) ·
Michael Lapage, English rower (d. 2018) ·
Fred Richmond, American politician ·
November 17 – Aristides Maria Pereira, President of Cape
Verde (d. 2011) ·
November 18 – Alan Shepard, first American astronaut,
fifth person to walk on the moon (d. 1998) ·
November 20 – Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2014) ·
Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
(d. 2016) ·
Tu An, Chinese poet, translator (d. 2017) ·
Billy Haughton, American harness driver,
trainer (d. 1986) ·
Julien J.
LeBourgeois, American vice admiral (d. 2012) ·
Gloria Whelan, American poet, short story
writer, and novelist ·
Keiju Kobayashi, Japanese actor (d. 2010) ·
November 24 – Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician,
former Acting President of Venezuela (d. 2017) ·
November 25 – Mauno Koivisto, 2-Time Prime Minister
of Finland and 9th President of Finland (d. 2017) ·
November 26 – Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986) ·
Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981) ·
James Karen, American actor (d. 2018) December[edit] ·
Dick Shawn, American actor (d. 1987) ·
William F. House, American otologist,
inventor of the Cochlear implant (d. 2012) ·
Stansfield Turner,
American admiral, Director of Central Intelligence (d. 2018) ·
December 2 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977) ·
Dede Allen, American film editor (Bonnie
and Clyde) (d. 2010) ·
Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav football player
(d. 2010) ·
Moyra Fraser, British actress (d. 2009) ·
Abe Pollin, American sports owner (d. 2009) ·
December 4 – Vincent Ball, Australian actor ·
Eleanor Dapkus, American female professional
baseball player (d. 2011) ·
Johnny Pate, American jazz musician ·
Philip Slier, Dutch Jewish typesetter
(d. 1943) ·
Emile Hemmen, Luxembourg poet and writer ·
Maury Laws, American composer ·
December 7 – Ted Knight, American actor (d. 1986) ·
Dewey Martin,
American actor (d. 2018) ·
Rudolph Pariser, American physicist and
polymer chemist ·
December 10 – Harold Gould, American character actor
(d. 2010) ·
Betsy Blair, American film actress (d. 2009) ·
Denis Brian, Welsh journalist and author ·
Farhang Mehr, Iranian-born American
Zoroastrian scholar, writer (d. 2018) ·
Bob Barker, American game show host (The
Price Is Right) ·
Ken Kavanagh, Australian motorcycle racer ·
Alfonso Osorio, Spanish politician (d. 2018) ·
Philip Warren
Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Larry Doby, African-American baseball player
(d. 2003) ·
Antoni Tàpies, Catalan painter (d. 2012) ·
Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (d. 2006) ·
Sully Boyar, American actor (d. 2001) ·
Aishah Ghani, Malaysian politician (d. 2013) ·
Freeman Dyson, English-born physicist ·
December 16 – Jo-Carroll Dennison,
American actress, former Miss America ·
December 17 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian
(d. 2006) ·
Edwin Bramall, retired British Army officer ·
Émile Knecht, Swiss Olympic rower ·
December 19 – Gordon Jackson,
Scottish actor (d. 1990) ·
December 20 – Ambalavaner
Sivanandan, Sri Lankan novelist (d. 2018) ·
December 21 – Wataru Misaka, American baseball player ·
December 22 – Peregrine Worsthorne,
English journalist, writer and broadcaster ·
TL Osborn, American televangelist, singer
and author (d. 2013) ·
José Serra Gil,
Spanish racing cyclist (d. 2002) ·
James Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral, vice
presidential candidate (d. 2005) ·
Earl P. Yates, American admiral ·
George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004) ·
Simon Perchik, American poet ·
Luis Álamos, Chilean football manager
(d. 1983) ·
Sonya Olschanezky,
World War II heroine (d. 1944) ·
Satyananda Saraswati,
Indian founder of Satyananda Yoga and Bihar Yoga (d. 2009) ·
René Girard, French-American historian
(d. 2015) ·
Billy Watson, American child actor ·
Jack Zunz, South African-English engineer ·
Richard A. Teague,
American industrial designer (d. 1991) ·
Richard Artschwager,
American painter, illustrator and sculptor (d. 2013) ·
December 27 – Lucas Mangope, President of Bophuthatswana
Bantustan (d. 2018) ·
December 28 – Louis Lansana
Beavogui, Guinean politician (d. 1984) ·
Dina Merrill, American actress, heiress,
socialite, and philanthropist (d. 2017) ·
Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian,
anthropologist, physicist, and politician (d. 1986) Unknown[edit] ·
Henry Orenstein, Polish-American toymaker,
poker player and entrepreneur Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 1 – Willie Keeler, American baseball
player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1872) ·
Thomas Bavister, British-born Australian
(b. 1850) ·
Girolamo Caruso, Italian agronomist, teacher
(b. 1842) ·
January 3 – Jaroslav Hašek,
Czech writer (b. 1883) ·
January 8 – Shimamura Hayao, Japanese admiral (b. 1858) ·
Katherine Mansfield,
British novelist (b. 1888) ·
Edith
Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, British couple hanged for murder
(Thompson b. 1893, Bywaters b. 1902) ·
January 11 – King Constantine I of
Greece (b. 1868) ·
January 12 – Herbert Silberer, Austrian psychoanalyst
(b. 1882) ·
January 13 – Alexandre Ribot, French statesman, Prime Minister
of France (b. 1842) ·
January 16 – Abdul Kerim Pasha,
Ottoman general (b. 1872) ·
January 18 – Wallace Reid, American actor (b. 1891) ·
January 19 – Amalia Eriksson, Swedish businesswoman
(b. 1824) ·
January 23 – Max Nordau, Hungarian author, philosopher
and Zionist leader (b. 1849) ·
January 27 – Carolina Santocanale,
Italian Roman Catholic nun
and blessed (b. 1852) ·
January 30 – Columba Marmion, Irish Benedictine and Roman Catholic monk and blessed
(b. 1858) ·
January 31 – Eligiusz
Niewiadomski, Polish artist, political activist and assassin
(executed) (b. 1869) ·
Ernst Troeltsch, German theologian (b. 1865) ·
Luigi Variara, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed
(b. 1875) ·
February 3 – Count Kuroki Tamemoto, Japanese general (b. 1844) ·
Prince Fushimi
Sadanaru of Japan (b. 1858) ·
Giuseppe
Antonio Ermenegildo Prisco, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1833) ·
February 5 – Count Erich
Kielmansegg, former Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1847) ·
Edward Emerson
Barnard, American astronomer (b. 1857) ·
Gerdt von Bassewitz,
Prussian general, playwright and actor (b. 1878) ·
February 10 – Wilhelm Röntgen,
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1845) ·
February 14 – Bartolomeo Bacilieri,
Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
(b. 1842) ·
February 19 – Gerónimo Giménez,
Spanish conductor, composer (b. 1854) ·
February 21 – Prince
Miguel, Duke of Viseu (b. 1878) ·
Théophile Delcassé,
French statesman (b. 1852) ·
Princess
Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1853) ·
February 24 – Edward W. Morley, American physicist,
chemist (b. 1838) ·
February 26 – Walter B. Barrows,
American naturalist (b. 1855) ·
March 1 – Rui Barbosa, Brazilian polymath, diplomat, writer,
jurist and politician (b. 1849) ·
March 3 – Melancthon J. Briggs,
American lawyer, politician (b. 1846) ·
March 6 – Joseph McDermott,
American actor (b. 1878) ·
March 8 ·
Pascual Álvarez,
Filipino general (b. 1861) ·
Johannes
Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1837) ·
March 11 – Júlia da Silva
Bruhns, Brazilian merchant (b. 1851) ·
March 15 – Goat Anderson, American baseball player
(b. 1880) ·
March 16 – George Bean, English cricketer (b. 1864) ·
March 20 – Józef Bilczewski,
Polish Roman Catholic prelate,
saint (b. 1860) ·
March 25 – Inokuchi Ariya, Japanese technologist,
professor (b. 1856) ·
March 26 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844) ·
March 27 – Sir James Dewar, British chemist (b. 1842) ·
March 28 – Michel-Joseph
Maunoury, French general (b. 1847) ·
March 31 – Konstantin Budkevich,
Soviet Roman Catholic priest
and servant of God (executed) (b. 1867) ·
April 1 – Prince
Naruhisa Kitashirakawa of Japan (b. 1887) ·
April 4 – John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834) ·
April 5 – George
Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, British financier of Egyptian
excavations (b. 1866) ·
April 16 – Isidore Jacques
Eggermont, Belgian diplomat (b. 1844) ·
April 17 – Madre Teresa Nuzzo,
Maltese Roman Catholic nun
and blessed (b. 1851) ·
April 22 – Frank Baldwin, American general (b. 1842) ·
April 23 ·
Mary Cynthia
Dickerson, American herpetologist (b. 1866) ·
Princess
Louise of Prussia (b. 1838) ·
April 24 – William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1876) ·
May 2 – Alfred Harding,
American Episcopal bishop
(b. 1852) ·
May 5 – Rosario de Acuña,
Spanish author (b. 1850) ·
May 9 – Constantin Cristescu,
Romanian general (b. 1866) ·
May 10 – Charles de Freycinet,
French statesman, Prime Minister
of France (b. 1828) ·
May 17 ·
Manuel
Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar, Spanish nobleman, politician,
and Prime Minister of
Spain (b. 1856) ·
Thomas Scott Baldwin,
American balloonist, general (b. 1854) ·
Duke
Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg (b. 1852) ·
May 21 ·
Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist (b. 1861) ·
Charles Kent,
British actor (b. 1852) ·
May 23 – Nicola Barbato, Italian doctor, socialist
and politician (b. 1856) ·
May 29 – Albert Deullin, French flying ace of World
War I (b. 1890) ·
June 4 ·
Alexander Milne
Calder, Scottish-born American sculptor (b. 1846) ·
Filippo Smaldone, Italian Roman Catholic priest, saint (b. 1848) ·
June 5 – Carl von Horn,
German general (b. 1847) ·
June 9 ·
Takeo Arishima, Japanese novelist, writer
and essayist (b. 1878) ·
Princess
Helena of the United Kingdom, third daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1846) ·
June 10 – Pierre Loti, French writer, naval officer
(b. 1850) ·
June 12 – Kate Bishop,
English actress (b. 1848) ·
June 14 ·
Isabelle Bogelot, French philanthropist
(b. 1838) ·
Aleksandar
Stamboliyski, 20th Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (assassinated) (b. 1879) ·
June 17 – Alexis-Xyste Bernard,
Canadian Catholic bishop
(b. 1847) ·
June 18 – Hristo Smirnenski,
Bulgarian poet (b. 1898) ·
June 20 – Princess
Marie of Battenberg (b. 1852) ·
June 23 – Keiichi Aichi, Japanese physicist (b. 1880) ·
June 24 – Edith Södergran,
Finnish author (b. 1892) July–December[edit] Saint Antonio
Francisco Xavier Alvares ·
July 2 – James Ryan,
Irish-born American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1848) ·
July 10 – Albert Chevalier, British music hall
comedian (b. 1861) ·
July 12 – Ernst Otto Beckmann,
German pharmacist, chemist (b. 1853) ·
July 15 – Janey Sevilla
Callander, British producer (b. 1846) ·
July 19 – Auguste
Bouché-Leclercq, French historian (b. 1842) ·
July 20 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary
(assassinated) (b. 1878) ·
July 23 ·
Charles Dupuy, French statesman, Prime Minister
of France (b. 1851) ·
Theodor Rosetti, 16th Prime Minister of
Romania (b. 1837) ·
July 30 – Charles
Hawtrey, British actor (b. 1858) ·
August 1 – Pierre Brizon, French teacher, deputy and
pacifist (b. 1878) ·
August 2 – Warren G. Harding,
American politician, 29th President
of the United States (b. 1865) ·
August 9 – Victor II,
Duke of Ratibor (b. 1847) ·
August 10 – Joaquín Sorolla,
Spanish painter (b. 1863) ·
Ernest Francis
Bashford, British oncologist (b. 1873) ·
Henry C. Mustin, American naval aviation
pioneer (b. 1874) ·
August 24 – Katō
Tomosaburō, Imperial Japanese Navy officer, 12th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1861) ·
August 27 – Edward Hill,
American painter (b. 1843) ·
August 29 – Princess
Anastasia of Greece and Denmark (b. 1878) ·
September 6 – Pedro José Escalón,
Salvadorian military officer, 21st President of El
Salvador (b. 1847) ·
September 9 – Hermes
Rodrigues da Fonseca, Brazilian soldier and politician, 8th President of Brazil (b. 1855) ·
September 14 – Nemesio Canales, Puerto Rican essayist,
novelist, playwright, journalist, activist and politician (b. 1878) ·
September 17 – Stefanos Dragoumis, Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1842) ·
September 19 – Sophus Andersen, Danish composer (b. 1859) ·
Antonio
Francisco Xavier Alvares, Indian Orthodox priest
and saint (b. 1836) ·
Carl L. Boeckmann,
Norwegian-born American artist (b. 1867) ·
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, British
politician, editor (b. 1838) ·
September 25 – Elbazduko Britayev,
Russian playwright, author (b. 1881) ·
September 26 – Luigi Tezza, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed
(b. 1841) ·
October 9 – Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand
Vizier of the Ottoman Empire ·
Herman Gottfried
Breijer, Dutch-born South African naturalist, museologist
(b. 1864) ·
Andrés Avelino
Cáceres, Peruvian general, 3-time President of Peru (b. 1836) ·
October 12 – Diego Manuel
Chamorro, 14th President of
Nicaragua (b. 1861) ·
Hannah Johnston
Bailey, American temperance advocate, suffragist (b. 1839) ·
Félix Fourdrain,
French organist, composer (b. 1880) ·
Theodor Reuss, German occultist (b. 1855) ·
Stojan Protić, Yugoslav statesman and
writer, 1st Prime
Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1857) ·
October 30 – Bonar Law, British politician, 52nd Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858) ·
November 9 (among those killed in Munich Beer Hall Putsch): ·
Oskar Körner, German businessman (b. 1875) ·
Karl Laforce, German student (b. 1904) ·
Ludwig Maximilian Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, German
diplomat, revolutionary (b. 1884) ·
November 10 – Ricciotto Canudo, Italian theoretician
(b. 1877) ·
November 14 – Ernest
Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (b. 1845) ·
November 15 – Mohammad Yaqub Khan,
Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1849) ·
November 21 – Lars Emil Bruun, Danish grocer, numismatist
(b. 1852) ·
November 30 – Martha Mansfield, American actress (b. 1899) ·
December 2 – Tomás Bretón, Spanish
composer (b. 1850) ·
December 4 – Maurice Barres, French novelist, journalist
and politician (b. 1862) ·
December 8 – John William
Brodie-Innes, British member of Golden Dawn (b. 1848) ·
December 9 – Meggie Albanesi, British actress (b. 1899) ·
December 12 – Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903) ·
December 13 – Théophile Steinlen,
Swiss painter (b. 1859) ·
December 14 – Giuseppe Gallignani,
Italian composer, conductor and teacher (b. 1851) ·
December 22 – Georg Luger, German firearms designer
(b. 1849) ·
December 25 – William Ludwig,
Irish opera singer (b. 1847) ·
December 26 – Rafael Valentín
Errázuriz, Chilean politician, diplomat (b. 1861) ·
Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, architect (Eiffel Tower) (b. 1832) ·
Lluís Domènech
i Montaner, Spanish architect (b. 1850) ·
December 28 – Frank Hayes,
American actor (b. 1871) Date unknown[edit] ·
Edmund William
Berridge, British medical doctor (b. 1843) ·
Dorila Antommarchi,
Colombian poet (b. 1850s) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Robert Andrews
Millikan ·
Chemistry – Fritz Pregl ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Frederick Grant Banting, John James
Rickard Macleod ·
Literature – William Butler Yeats References[edit]
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