1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1924th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 924th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1920s decade.

Contents

Events[edit]

January[edit]

1924 Winter Olympics

Main article: January 1924

· January 10 – The British submarine L-24 sinks in the English Channel; 43 lives are lost.

· January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.

· January 21

· The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.^[1]

· Following the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin immediately begins to purge his rivals to clear the way for his leadership.

· January 22 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

· January 23 – The Soviet Union officially declares that Lenin died January 21.

· January 25 – The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, in the French Alps.

· January 26 – Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad; it reverts to Saint Petersburg in 1991.

· January 27 – Lenin is buried in Lenin's Mausoleum, in Moscow's Red Square.

February[edit]

Main article: February 1924

· February 1 – The United Kingdom recognizes the Soviet Union.

· February 5 – GMT: A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time, from the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

· February 8 – Capital punishment: The first state execution using gas, in the United States, takes place in Nevada.

· February 12 – Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City, at Aeolian Hall.

· February 14 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), based in the U.S. state of New York, is renamed International Business Machines (IBM).

· February 16-26 – Dock strikes break out in various U.S. harbors.

· February 22

· Treaty of Rome: The Kingdom of Italy annexes the Free State of Fiume, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes absorbs Sušak.

· Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.

March[edit]

Main article: March 1924

· March 3

· The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of President Kemal Atatürk.

· The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.

· March 6 – İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (2nd government).

· March 8 – The Castle Gate Mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah, United States.

· March 25 – The Second Hellenic Republic is proclaimed in Greece.

· March 29 – In France, the Third Ministry of Raymond Poincaré begins.

April[edit]

Main article: April 1924

· April 1

· Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in jail, for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch (he serves only 8 months).

· The first revenue flight for Belgium's Sabena Airlines takes place.

· April 6 – Fascists win the elections in Italy with a ⅔ majority.

· April 13

· A referendum in Greece favors the formation of the Second Hellenic Republic.

· The A.E.K. is founded in Greece.

· April 16 – American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) is founded in Los Angeles.

· April 23 – The British Empire Exhibition opens; it is the largest colonial exhibition, with 58 countries of the empire dramatically represented.

· April 26 – Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his "death ray" in London, but fails to convince the British War Office.

· April 27 – A group of Alawites kill several nuns in Syria; French troops march against them.

· April 28 – An explosion in a mine at the Wheeling Steel Corporation in Benwood, West Virginia kills 119 men.

May[edit]

Main article: May 1924

· May 3 – The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska.

· May 4 – The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies are held in Paris, France.

· May 8 – Lithuania signs the Klaipėda Convention with the nations of the Conference of Ambassadors, taking the Klaipėda Region from East Prussia, and making it into an autonomous region.

· May 10 – In the United States, J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

· May 11 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz.

· May 21 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks, in a thrill killing.

· May 24 – The Immigration Act of 1924 is signed into law in the United States, including the Asian Exclusion Act.

June[edit]

Main article: June 1924

· June 1 – Harry Grindell Matthews returns from Paris to London; he tries to use a Pathé film to demonstrate that his death ray works.

· June 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.

· June 5 – Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean, which goes to his father in Sweden.

· June 8 – George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 P.M. The two mountaineers are never seen alive again.

· June 10 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

· June 12 – Rondout Heist: Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois; the robbery is later found to have been an inside job.

· June 13 – In Hungary, a most devastating tornado called "Wildkansas" strikes, leaving a 500-1500m wide and 70 km long path of destruction, lands at Bia, and after 3 hours it ends near Vác, destroys a village called Páty completely, and leaves many people homeless, kills 9 people, and 50 people got wounded. This was one of the strongest tornadoes ever not only in Hungary but in Europe also. It was estimated to be an F4.

· June 16 – Whampoa Military Academy is founded in China.

· June 23 – American airman Russell Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit.

· June 28 – A tornado touches down in Lorain, Ohio and kills 78 people.

· June 30 – J.B.M. Hertzog becomes the third Prime Minister of South Africa.

July[edit]

Main article: July 1924

· July 9 – John W. Davis of West Virginia is nominated by the Democrats to oppose Calvin Coolidge in the presidential election.

· July 12 – The American military occupation of the Dominican Republic comes to an end. The constitutional government headed by General Horacio Vázquez, elected in the elections held in March, is established.

· July 19 – The Napalpí massacre occurs in Argentina.

· July 20 – The Soviet sports newspaper Sovetsky Sport is founded.

August[edit]

Main article: August 1924

· August 1 – Koshien Stadium, as well known for sports venues in Japan, open in Nishinomiya, suburb of Osaka. ^{[2][citation needed]}

· August 16 – The Dawes Plan is accepted.

· August 18 – France begins to withdraw its troops from Germany.

· August 28 – August Uprising: Georgia rises against rule by the Soviet Union in an abortive rebellion, in which several thousands die.

September[edit]

Main article: September 1924

· September 9

· The Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.

· The 8-hour work day is introduced in Belgium.

· September 9–September 11 – The Kohat riots break out in India.

· September 28 – U.S. Army pilots John Harding and Erik Nelson complete the first aerial circumnavigation. It has taken them 175 days and 74 stops before their return to Seattle.

October[edit]

Main article: October 1924

· October 2 – The Geneva Protocol is adopted by the League of Nations Assembly as a means to strengthen the League, but later fails to be ratified.

· October 10

· Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral (Compulsory Voting) Act 1924.

· The Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago.

· October 12– October 15 – Zeppelin LZ-126 makes a transatlantic delivery flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey.

· October 15 – The first Surrealist Manifesto is published, in which André Breton defines the movement as "pure psychic automatism".

· October 18 – Sweden's Prime Minister Ernst Trygger and his cabinet, is replaced by Hjalmar Branting and his third and last government.

· October 19 – Abdul Aziz declares himself protector of holy places in Mecca.

· October 22 – The Toastmasters Club is founded.

· October 24

· The British Foreign Office publishes the Zinoviev letter.

· Dixie Dean scores a hat-trick for Tranmere Rovers to become the youngest ever player to score three goals for The Superwhites.

· October 25 – British authorities in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next 2½ years.

· October 27 – The Uzbek SSR joins the Soviet Union.

November[edit]

Main article: November 1924

· November 4

· Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.

· U.S. presidential election, 1924: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

· November 19 – In Los Angeles, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies, reportedly of a heart attack, in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst).

· November 21 – Ali Fethi Okyar forms new government in Turkey. (3rd government)

· November 26 – The Mongolian People's Republic is founded.

· November 27

· 129 communists, including several members of the Riigikogu, are convicted during the Trial of the 149 in Estonia.

· In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

December[edit]

Main article: December 1924

· December 1

· A Soviet-backed communist coup attempt fails in Estonia.

· George Gershwin's Lady Be Good and Fascinating Rhythm (book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin) premiere in New York, NY.

· December 19

· German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.

· The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

· December 20 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison, after serving nine months for his crucial role in the Beer Hall Putsch, from 1923.

· December 24

· An air crash at Croydon Air Field in London kills 8.

· Albania becomes a republic.

· A flash fire at a Christmas celebration in a one-room schoolhouse in Babbs, Oklahoma kills 36 people, mostly small children.

· December 30 – Astronomer Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe.

Date unknown[edit]

· The Taung Child is discovered.

· Spring – Francophone explorer, spiritualist and former operatic soprano Alexandra David-Néel, disguised as a male pilgrim, makes a 2-month stay in the forbidden city of Lhasa, Tibet.^[3]

· International Union of Official Organizations for Tourist Propaganda.

· The powerful opiate hydromorphone is developed in Germany.

· Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging at Stirling, Alberta Canada.

· Alice Vanderbilt Morris, a wealthy heiress, founds the International Auxiliary Language Association in New York

· HRH Edward, Prince of Wales makes a state visit to Japan aboard HMS Renown.

· U.S. bootleggers begin to use Thompson submachine guns.

· The Earth inductor compass is invented in New York City.

· In the United States, both the Renegade Period and the Apache Wars end, bringing the American Indian Wars to a close, after 302 years.

· The National Hockey League expands to the United States for the first time, adding the Boston Bruins.

Births[edit]

Births

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

January[edit]

· January 1

· Francisco Macías Nguema, 1st President of Equatorial Guinea (d. 1979)

· Charlie Munger, American businessman and philanthropist

· Pino Rucher, Italian guitarist (d. 1996)

· Lennart Magnusson, Swedish fencer (d. 2011)

· January 4

· Walter Ris, American freestyle swimmer (d. 1989)

· Charles Thone, American politician (d. 2018)

· January 5

· Gerry Plamondon, Canadian ice hockey player

· Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi royal, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Crown Prince (d. 2011)

· Hamzah Abu Samah, Malaysian politician and athlete (d. 2012)

· January 6

· Ali Shariatmadari, Iranian academic and educationist (d. 2017)

· Kim Dae-jung, 15th President of South Korea, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2009)

· Earl Scruggs, American musician (d. 2012)

· January 7

· Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor (d. 2017)

· Anne Vernon, French actress

· January 8

· Geeta Mukherjee, Indian politician (d. 2000)

· James Clinkscales Hill, American jurist (d. 2017)

· Ron Moody, English actor (d. 2015)

· January 9 – Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi, Iranian Shi'ite Muslim marja (d. 2011)

· January 10

· Pierre Plateau, French Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)

· Earl Bakken, American engineer and businessman, inventor of the modern Artificial pacemaker (d. 2018)

· Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (d. 2007)

· January 11

· Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

· Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)

· Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)

· January 12

· Chris Chase (also known as Irene Kane), American model, film actress, writer and journalist (d. 2013)

· Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (d. 1998)

· January 13 – Roland Petit, French choreographer/dancer (d. 2011)

· January 14 – Carole Cook, American actress and singer

· January 16 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)

· January 19 – Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)

· January 21 – Benny Hill, English comedian and singer (d. 1992)

· January 22 – Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood, Labour Party activist and politician

· January 23

· Frank Lautenberg, American businessman and politician (d. 2013)

· Suriani Abdullah, Malaysian politician (d. 2013)

· January 25

· Husein Mehmedov, Bulgarian-Turkish Olympic wrestler (d. 2014)

· Speedy West, American musician (d. 2003)

· January 26

· Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)

· Armand Gatti, French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and World War II resistance fighter (d. 2017)

· Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2014)

· January 27 – Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963)

· January 28 – Betty Tucker, American female baseball player (d. 2012)

· January 29 – Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)

· January 30

· Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)

· Dorothy Malone, American actress (d. 2018)

February[edit]

Lee Marvin

Robert Mugabe

Noboru Takeshita

· February 2 – Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-born U.S. musician/producer (d. 2007)

· February 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, German Head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (d. 2010)

· February 4 – Dorothy Harrell, American female professional baseball player (d. 2011)

· February 7 – Catherine Small Long, American politician

· February 8

· Charles Coste, French Olympic cyclist

· Khamtai Siphandon, 4th President and 12th Prime Minister of Laos

· February 9 – George Guest, Welsh choral conductor (d. 2002)

· February 14

· Gabe Pressman, American journalist (d. 2017)

· Juan Ponce Enrile, Filipino politician, President of the Senate of the Philippines since 2008.

· February 15 – Toni Arden, American singer (d. 2012)

· February 17

· Raimon Carrasco, Spanish businessman and 34th President of FC Barcelona

· Margaret Truman, American novelist and only child of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman (d. 2008)

· February 19 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)

· February 20

· Donald M. Fraser, American politician

· Gerson Goldhaber, American particle physicist and astrophysicist (d. 2010)

· Gloria Vanderbilt, American heiress and entrepreneur

· Moshe Wertman, Israeli politician (d. 2011)

· February 21

· Robert Mugabe, 1st Prime Minister of Zimbabwe

· Silvano Piovanelli, Italian prelate (d. 2016)

· William Hathaway, American politician and lawyer (d. 2013)

· February 23 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist and 1979 Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

· February 24 – Teresa Bracco, Italian Roman Catholic religious sister, martyr and blessed (d. 1944)

· February 26

· Freda Betti, French opera singer (d. 1979)

· Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician (d. 2000)

· February 28

· Bettye Ackerman, American actress (d. 2006)

· Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer

· February 29

· Carlos Humberto Romero, Salvadorian politician, 37th President of El Salvador (d. 2017)

· Al Rosen, American baseball player (d. 2015)

March[edit]

· March 1 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993)

· March 2

· William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon, English politician (d. 2018)

· Co Westerik, Dutch visual artist (d. 2018)

· March 3

· Lys Assia, Swiss singer, first winner of Eurovision Song Contest (1956) (d. 2018)

· Tomiichi Murayama, former Prime Minister of Japan

· Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian military officer (d. 1966)

· Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (d. 1948)

· John Woodnutt, British actor (d. 2006)

· March 4 – Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to U.S. President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)

· March 6 – Ed Mierkowicz, American baseball player (d. 2017)

· March 7 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese novelist (d. 1993)

· March 8

· Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)

· Abderrahmane Youssoufi, 12th Prime Minister of Morocco

· March 9

· Hanna Mina, Syrian writer (d. 2018)

· Peter Scholl-Latour, German professor, journalist and author (d. 2014)

· March 10 – Jin Yong, Hong Kong writer (d. 2018)

· March 11 – Jozef Tomko, Slovakian cardinal

· March 13 – Pierre Arpaillange, French author, senior judge and Government Minister (d. 2017)

· March 15 – Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)

· March 17 – Edith Savage-Jennings, American civil rights activist (d. 2017)

· March 18 – Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Mozambique cardinal

· March 20 – Philip Abbott, American actor (d. 1998)

· March 22

· Al Neuharth, American businessman and journalist (d. 2013)

· Ivan Minatti, Slovenian poet, translator, and editor (d. 2012)

· Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian test pilot (d. 1960)

· Lionel Wilson, American voice actor (d. 2003)

· March 24 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)

· March 25

· Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (d. 2011)

· Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress

· József Zakariás, Hungarian footballer (d. 1971)

· March 26 – K. B. Asante, Ghanaian diplomat, writer and politician (d. 2018)

· March 27

· Sarah Vaughan, American jazz singer (d. 1990)

· Herbert Zangs, German artist (d. 2003)

· March 28

· Freddie Bartholomew, English actor (d. 1992)

· Birte Christoffersen, Danish Olympic diver

· March 30 – Alan Davidson, British author (d. 2003)

· March 31 – Kathleen O'Malley, American actress

April[edit]

· April 1 – Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey (d. 2018)

· April 2 – Delwin Jones, American politician (d. 2018)

· April 3

· Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)

· Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (d. 2005)

· Jacky June, Belgian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader (d. 2012)

· Josephine Pullein-Thompson, British author (d. 2014)

· April 4

· Gil Hodges, American baseball player (d. 1972)

· Noreen Nash, American actress

· April 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (d. 1999)

· April 7 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (d. 2009)

· April 9 – Milburn G. Apt, American test pilot (d. 1956)

· April 11

· Enrique Morea, Argentine tennis player (d. 2017)

· Libuše Havelková, Czech actress (d. 2017)

· April 12 – Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)

· April 13

· Jack Chick, American fundamentalist Christian illustrator and publisher (d. 2016)

· Stanley Donen, American film director and choreographer

· April 14

· Philip Stone, English actor (d. 2003)

· Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, English philosopher and writer

· April 15

· Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist (d. 2016)

· Rikki Fulton, Scottish comedian and actor (d. 2004)

· April 16

· Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (d. 1994)

· Rudy Pompilli, American musician (d. 1976)

· April 17 – Kenneth Norman Jones, Australian public servant

· April 18

· Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American blues musician (d. 2005)

· Henry Hyde, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois (d. 2007)

· April 20

· Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (d. 2008)

· Miroslav Komárek, Czech historical linguist (d. 2013)

· Leslie Phillips, English actor

· Guy Rocher, Canadian sociologist and academic

· April 21 – Peter O'Donnell, American businessman

· April 23

· Chuck Harmon, American baseball player and scout

· Ruth Leuwerik, German film actress (d. 2016)

· Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (d. 2007)

· April 24

· Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician (d. 2009)

· Vicente Sota, Chilean politician (d. 2017)

· Nahuel Moreno, Argentine Trotskyist leader (d. 1987)

· April 25 – Peter Abeles, Australian transportation magnate (d. 1999)

· April 28

· Kenneth Kaunda, former President of Zambia

· Alakbar Taghiyev, Azerbaijani composer and author (d. 1981)

· Emily W. Sunstein, American campaigner, political activist and biographer (d. 2007)

· April 29

· Al Balding, Canadian golfer (d. 2006)

· Shintaro Abe, Japanese politician (d. 1991)

· Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballerina and actress

May[edit]

Gamal Abdel-Rahim

Dawda Jawara

Charles Aznavour

· May 1

· Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist and academic

· Art Fleming, American television host and presenter (d. 1995)

· Grégoire Kayibanda, 2nd President of Rwanda (d. 1976)

· Gamal Abdel-Rahim, Egyptian classical music composer, educator, and pianist (d. 1988)

· May 2

· Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (d. 2004)

· Ladislava Bakanic, American gymnast

· Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor, folk singer and musician (d. 2015)

· Hugh Cortazzi, English soldier, historian and diplomat (d. 2018)

· May 3 – Isadore Singer, American mathematician

· May 8 – Gerda Weissmann Klein, Polish-American writer and human rights activist

· May 10

· Zahrad, Western Armenian poet (d. 2007)

· Maria Mauban, French actress (d. 2014)

· May 11 – Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics

· May 12

· Tony Hancock, English comedian (d. 1968)

· Claribel Alegría, Nicaraguan poet (d. 2018)

· May 13

· Bruno A. Boley, Italian-born American engineer (d. 2017)

· Giovanni Sartori, Italian political scientist (d. 2017)

· May 14 – Coco Schumann, German jazz musician (d. 2018)

· May 15 – Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (d. 1971)

· May 16

· Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the Gambia

· Abul Fateh, Bangladeshi diplomat, statesman and Sufi (d. 2010)

· Frank Mankiewicz, American journalist, presidential campaign press secretary (d. 2014)

· May 17 – Francis Tombs, Baron Tombs, English industrialist and politician

· May 18

· Jack Barlow, American country music singer (d. 2011)

· Priscilla Pointer, American actress

· Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster

· May 19 – Sandy Wilson, British composer (d. 2014)

· May 21 – Hector Fautario, Argentine Air Force general (d. 2017)

· May 22 – Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer, actor, and songwriter (d. 2018)

· May 24

· Vincent Cronin, British historical writer, biographer (d. 2011)

· Victor Griffin, Irish Anglican clergyman, theologian (d. 2017)

· Philip Pearlstein, American soldier, painter

· May 25 – Edmond Haan, French footballer (d. 2018)

· May 27

· Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. 2009)

· Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan politician (d. 2014)

· May 29

· Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (d. 1999)

· Lavonne "Pepper" Paire Davis, American female baseball player (d. 2013)

· May 31 – Patricia Roberts Harris, American administrator (d. 1985)

June[edit]

George H. W. Bush

Yatsuko Tan'ami

· June 1 – Dr. William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (d. 2006)

· June 2 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author & social activist (d. 2007)

· June 3

· Ken Armstrong, English association football player (d. 1984)

· Teresa Celli, American actress

· Herk Harvey, American film director (d. 1996)

· Jimmy Rogers, American musician (d. 1997)

· Torsten Wiesel, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

· Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (d. 1991)

· Karunanidhi, Indian Politician, Tamil Nadu Former Chief Minister, fondly called Kalaignar (d. 2018)

· Bernard Glasser, American film producer, director (d. 2014)

· June 4

· Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)

· Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician (d. 1999)

· June 6

· Robert Abernathy, American science fiction author (d. 1990)

· W. Marvin Watson, American presidential advisor, Postmaster General (d. 2017)

· June 7 – Aarne Honkavaara, Finnish ice hockey player, coach (d. 2016)

· June 8

· Dagfinn Vårvik, Norwegian politician (d. 2018)

· Sheldon Allman, American-Canadian actor, singer, and songwriter (d. 2002)

· David Pines, American physicist (d. 2018)

· June 10

· Colin Cameron Davies, Spanish-born Kenyan prelate (d. 2017)

· Friedrich L. Bauer, German computer scientist (d. 2015)

· June 11 – Adib Boroumand, Iranian poet, politician, and lawyer (d. 2017)

· June 12 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (d. 2018)

· June 13 – Bronisław Baczko, Polish philosopher, historian of ideas (d. 2016)

· June 14 – James W. Black, British doctor (d. 2010)

· June 15

· Hédi Fried, Swedish author, psychologist

· Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)

· June 16

· Sonia Darrin, American actress

· Ernie Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2011)

· June 17 – Charlotte Armstrong, American female baseball player (d. 2008)

· June 18

· Efren Reyes Sr., Filipino actor, director (d. 1968)

· George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)

· June 19

· Cornelius Jakobs, Estonian Russian Orthodox hierarch (d. 2018)

· Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano (d. 2010)

· June 20

· Chet Atkins, American country guitar player, producer (d. 2001)

· Rainer Barzel, German politician (d. 2006)

· June 21

· Chong Hon Nyan, Malaysian politician

· Marga López, Argentine-born Mexican actress (d. 2005)

· Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor (d. 2018)

· Alojz Rebula, Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, and translator

· Ricardo Infante, Argentine football player, manager (d. 2008)

· Wally Fawkes, English-born Canadian jazz clarinetist

· June 22

· David W. Torrance, Scottish writer

· John C. Whitcomb, American theologian

· June 23

· Frank Bolle, American comic strip artist, comic book artist and illustrator

· Bayezid Osman, 44th Head of the Turkish House of Osman (d. 2017)

· June Brooks, American businesswoman (d. 2010)

· Ranasinghe Premadasa, 3rd President, 8th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1993)

· June 24

· Kurt Furgler, 3-time President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2008)

· David Rubinger, Israeli photographer (d. 2017)

· Eric Neal, Australian businessman, public officer

· Leonard Everett Fisher, American artist known best for children's books

· Yoshito Takamine, American politician (d. 2015)

· June 25

· Yatsuko Tan'ami, Japanese actress

· Jacques Monory, French painter, filmmaker (d. 2018)

· William J. Castagna, American lawyer and judge

· Luis Suárez Fernández, Spanish historian

· Milton Shadur, Senior United States District Court Judge (d. 2018)

· Dimitar Isakov, Bulgarian football player

· Sidney Lumet, American film director (d. 2011)

· June 26

· James W. McCord Jr., former CIA officer

· Grace Onyango, Kenyan politician

· Richard Bull (actor), American actor (d. 2014)

· Ramon T. Jimenez, Filipino attorney (d. 2013)

· June 27

· Epitácio Cafeteira, Brazilian politician

· John Chandler, British sports shooter

· Charles Norman Shay, American Penobscot tribal elder, writer, and decorated veteran of both World War II and the Korean War

· Maud Linder, French journalist, film historian and documentary film director (d. 2017)

· Paul Conrad, American cartoonist (d. 2010)

· Bob Appleyard, English cricketer (d. 2015)

· June 28 – Roy Austen-Smith, Royal Air Force officer who served as Commander of British Forces Cyprus

· June 29

· Philip H. Hoff, American politician (d. 2018)

· Ezra Laderman, American composer (d. 2015)

· Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)

· June 30

· Max Trepp, Swiss sprinter

· Mattis Mathiesen, Norwegian photographer, film director (d. 2010)

· Maino Neri, Italian footballer, manager (d. 1995)

July[edit]

Eva Marie Saint

Don Knotts

· July 1

· Ralph Parr, American double-flying ace (d. 2012)

· Wang Huo, Chinese novelist, screenwriter

· Curtis W. Harris, American minister, civil rights activist, and Virginia politician (d. 2017)

· Georges Rivière, French actor

· Richard Longaker, American political scientist

· Jan Azam, Pakistani sports shooter

· Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer, manager (d. 2013)

· July 2

· Charley Winner, American football player

· Francis Wyndham, English author, literary editor and journalist (d. 2017)

· July 3

· Amalia Aguilar, Cuban-born Mexican film actress, dancer

· Arjun Naidu, Indian first-class cricketer (d. 2000)

· Gwen Moffat, British climber, writer

· Michael Barrington, British actor (d. 1988)

· S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (d. 2016)

· July 4

· Eva Marie Saint, American actress

· Delia Fiallo, Cuban author, screenwriter

· Roy Gibson, British Director General of ESRO

· July 5

· Edward Cassidy, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal, priest

· Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian, museum curator (d. 2001)

· Osman Lins, Brazilian novelist (d. 1978)

· János Starker, Hungarian cellist (d. 2013)

· July 6

· Draga Ahačič, Slovene actress, film director, translator and journalist

· Ernest Graves Jr., United States Army officer

· Mahim Bora, Indian writer, educationist (d. 2016)

· Robert Michael White, American military aircraft test pilot, fighter pilot, electrical engineer, and major general in the United States Air Force (d. 2010)

· July 7

· Karim Olowu, Nigerian sprinter, long jumper

· Graham Dunscombe, Australian rules footballer

· Amir Murtono, Indonesian general during Suharto's New Order regime

· Lennart Samuelsson, Swedish association football player (d. 2012)

· Sam Cathcart, American football halfback, defensive back (d. 2015)

· July 8 – Charles C. Droz, American politician

· July 9 – Domenico Pace, Italian fencer

· July 10

· Ip Chun, Chinese martial artist specialising in Wing Chun

· Gloria Stroock, American actress

· July 11

· F. James Rutherford, American science professor

· Ilie Tudor, Romanian fencer

· Ragnar Rommetveit, Norwegian psychologist (d. 2017)

· Oscar Wyatt, American businessman, self-made millionaire

· René Jeandel, French cross-country and Nordic combined skier

· Brett Somers, Canadian actress (d. 2007)

· Al Federoff, American professional baseball infielder, manager (d. 2011)

· Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)

· July 12

· Faidon Matthaiou, Greek basketball coach, player (d. 2011)

· Shirley Neil Pettis, U.S. Representative from California, wife of her predecessor, Jerry Pettis (d. 2016)

· July 13

· Maria Koterbska, Polish singer

· Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor (d. 2014)

· Johnny Gilbert, American game show announcer

· Piero Trapanelli, Italian football player, coach

· Alejandro Roces, Filipino author, essayist and dramatist (d. 2011)

· July 14

· Marianne Anderberg, Swedish actress (d. 2017)

· Val Avery, American character actor (d. 2010)

· Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician (d. 2013)

· David Evans, retired senior commander of the Royal Air Force

· July 15

· David Cox, British statistician

· Marianne Bernadotte, Swedish actress

· Makhmud Esambayev, Russian actor (d. 2000)

· Hugh Stretton, Australian historian (d. 2015)

· Peter Armitage, English statistician specialising in medical statistics

· July 16

· Claude Abravanel, Swiss pianist, classical music composer (d. 2012)

· Mariam Jack-Denton, Gambian lawyer, politician

· James L. Greenfield, American administrator

· Bess Myerson, American politician, model and television actress (d. 2014)

· Mohamed Selim Zaki, Egyptian equestrian

· July 17 – Li Li-Hua, Chinese Hong-Kong actress (d. 2017)

· July 18

· Tullio Altamura, Italian film actor

· Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (d. 2011)

· July 19

· Pat Hingle, American actor (d. 2009)

· Frank Ivancie, American businessman, politician

· Bob Johnston, Australian economist

· Arthur Rankin Jr., American film director, producer and co-founder of Rankin/Bass Productions (d. 2014)

· Sergio Sorrentino, Italian sailor (d. 2017)

· July 20

· Lola Albright, American singer, actress (d. 2017)

· Vivean Gray, Australian television, film actress (d. 2016)

· Tatyana Lioznova, Soviet film director (d. 2011)

· Robert D. Maurer, American industrial physicist

· Elias Sarkis, 11th President of Lebanon (d. 1985)

· July 21

· Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistan Army four-star general

· Don Knotts, American comedic actor (d. 2006)

· Morando Morandini, Italian film critic, author, journalist and actor (d. 2015)

· July 22 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)

· July 23 – Avern Cohn, American judge

· July 24

· Edward Digby, 12th Baron Digby, British peer, Army officer (d. 2018)

· Paul Meier, American statistician (d. 2011)

· Aris Poulianos, Greek anthropologist and archaeologist

· July 25 – Leonardo Villar, Brazilian actor

· July 28 – Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (d. 2006)

· July 29

· Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)

· Lillian Faralla, American female professional baseball player

· Robert Horton, American actor, singer (d. 2016)

· July 30 – William H. Gass, American novelist (d. 2017)

August[edit]

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

· August 1

· King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015)

· Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)

· Frank Havens, French Olympic canoeist (d. 2018)

· Michael Stewart, American playwright, stage librettist (d. 1987)

· Frank Worrell, West Indies cricketer (d. 1967)

· August 2

· James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987)

· Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)

· August 3

· Leon Uris, American writer (d. 2003)

· Max Oldmeadow, Australian politician (d. 2013)

· August 4 – Antonio Maccanico, Italian constitutional specialist, social liberal politician (d. 2013)

· August 5 – Ben Jones, 7th Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 2005)

· August 6

· Ella Jenkins, American folk singer of children's music

· Erich Schriever, Swiss Olympic rower

· August 7

· Kenneth Kendall, British newsreader, presenter (d. 2012)

· Cecil Abbott, Commissioner of the New South Wales Police in Australia (d. 2014)

· August 9 – Marta Becket, American dancer (d. 2017)

· August 10

· Martha Hyer, American actress (d. 2014)

· Nancy Buckingham, British romance novelist

· August 12

· Derek Shackleton, English cricketer (d. 2007)

· Idris Shah II of Perak, 33rd Sultan of Perak (d. 1984)

· Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)

· August 13

· Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, Brazilian cardinal

· Josette Arène, French swimmer

· Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (d. 2016)

· Pierre Lardinois, Belgian politician (d. 1987)

· August 14

· Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor (d. 2013)

· Georges Prêtre, French orchestral, opera conductor (d. 2017)

· August 15

· Werner Abrolat, German actor (d. 1997)

· Robert Bolt, English writer (d. 1995)

· Phyllis Schlafly, American activist (d. 2016)

· Jo Benkow, Norwegian politician, writer (d. 2013)

· August 16

· Ralf Bendix, German Schlager singer, music producer, composer and songwriter (d. 2014)

· Fess Parker, American television actor, businessman (wine maker, resort operator) (d. 2010)

· Tankmar Horn, Finnish diplomat, business executive (d. 2018)

· Inez Voyce, American female baseball player

· Benny Bartlett, American child actor, musician (d. 1999)

· August 17

· Evan S. Connell, Jr., American novelist, poet, and short story writer (d. 2013)

· Charles Simmons, American author (d. 2017)

· Jean-Paul Alata, French political prisoner in Camp Boiro, Guinea(January 1971-July 1975) (d. 1978)

· August 18 – Frank Logue, 25th mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2010)

· August 19 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist (d. 2011)

· August 20 – Frank Joseph Guarini, American politician

· August 21 – Dalia Wood, Canadian politician (d. 2013)

· August 22 – Orlando Ramón Agosti, Argentine general (d. 1997)

· August 23

· Elaine Sturtevant, American artist (d. 2014)

· Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

· Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress (d. 2018)

· August 24

· Ahmadou Ahidjo, President of Cameroon (d. 1989)

· Alyn Ainsworth, British musician, singer and conductor (d. 1990)

· Jimmy Gardner, British actor (d. 2010)

· August 25 – Sergio Bergonzelli, Italian director, screenwriter, producer and actor (d. 2002)

· August 26

· John Peake, English field hockey player

· Barbara Staff, American political activist

· August 28

· Berislav Klobučar, Croatian opera conductor (d. 2014)

· Peggy Ryan, American dancer (d. 2004)

· August 29

· María Dolores Pradera, Spanish singer, actress (d. 2018)

· Clyde Scott, American athlete (d. 2018)

· Dinah Washington, American singer, pianist (d. 1963)

· August 31

· Buddy Hackett, American actor, comedian (d. 2003)

· Thomas J. Hudner Jr., American naval aviator (d. 2017)

September[edit]

Akkineni Nageswara Rao

Marcello Mastroianni

Truman Capote

· September 1 – Diana Decker, American-English actress and singer

· September 2

· Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya

· Sidney Phillips, American physician, WW2 Marine documentary consultant (d. 2015)

· Knud Leif Thomsen, Danish film director, screenwriter (d. 2003)

· September 3 – Mary Grace Canfield, American actress (d. 2014)

· September 4

· Joan Aiken, English writer (d. 2004)

· Anita Snellman, Finnish painter (d. 2006)

· September 5

· Roy Andrew Miller, American linguist (d. 2014)

· Paul Dietzel, American college football coach (d. 2013)

· September 6

· John Melcher, American politician (d. 2018)

· Dale E. Wolf, American businessman, politician

· September 7 – Daniel Inouye, American politician, senior United States Senator from Hawaii, President pro tempore of the United States Senate (d. 2012)

· September 8

· Hazel Brooks, American actress (d. 2002)

· Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005)

· September 9

· Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)

· Sylvia Miles, American actress

· Russell M. Nelson, 17th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

· Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)

· September 11

· Daniel Akaka, American soldier, engineer and politician (d. 2018)

· Tom Landry, American football player, coach (d. 2000)

· Rudolf Vrba, Slovak-Jewish Holocaust survivor, escapee from Auschwitz (d. 2006)