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1926 (MCMXXVI) was
a common year starting
on Friday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1926th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of
the 20th century,
and the 7th year of the 1920s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1926 ·
The Rhine River floods; 50,000 are forced
to evacuate their homes in Cologne.[1] ·
Ireland's
first regular radio service, 2RN (later Radio
Éireann), begins broadcasting. ·
January 3 – Theodoros
Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. ·
January 6 – Airline Deutsche Luft Hansa is
founded in Berlin. ·
Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is
crowned King of Hejaz. ·
Crown Prince
Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last
monarch of Vietnam. ·
January 12 – Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program Sam 'n' Henry, in which the two white
performers portray two black characters from Harlem looking to strike it rich in the
big city (it was a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later
program, Amos 'n' Andy). ·
January 16 – A BBC comic
radio play broadcast by Ronald Knox, about a workers' revolution,
causes a panic in London.[2] ·
January 21 – The Belgian Parliament
accepts the Locarno Treaties. ·
January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a
mechanical television system for members of the Royal Institution,
and a reporter from The Times, at
his London laboratory. ·
January 29 – Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown opens
at the Greenwich Theatre. ·
January 31 – British and Belgian troops
leave Cologne. February[edit] Main article: February 1926 ·
February 1 – Land on Broadway and Wall Street in New York City is sold at
a record $7 per sq inch; it is only affordable for four more years. ·
February 8 – Seán O'Casey's The Plough and
the Stars opens at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. ·
February 12 – The Irish minister for
Justice, Kevin O'Higgins,
appoints the Committee on
Evil Literature. ·
February 20 – The Berlin
International Green Week debuts in Germany. ·
February 25 – Francisco Franco becomes General of
Spain. March[edit] Main article: March 1926 March 16: Goddardwith
rocket in 1926. ·
March 6 – The Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is
destroyed by fire. ·
March 6 – The first commercial air
route to South Africa is
established by Alan Cobham. ·
March 14 The El Virilla
train accident occurred in Costa Rica killing 248 and
injuring 93. ·
March 16 – Robert Goddard launches
the first liquid-fuel rocket,
at Auburn,
Massachusetts. ·
March 23 – Éamon de Valera organises Fianna Fáil in Ireland. April[edit] Main article: April 1926 ·
April 4 – Greek dictator Theodoros
Pangalos wins the presidential
election, with 93.3% of the vote; turnout is light, as the result
is considered a foregone conclusion.[3] ·
April 7 – An assassination attempt
against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails. ·
April 12 – By a vote of 45–41,
the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and
seats Daniel F. Steck,
after Brookhart had already served for over one year.[why?][citation needed] ·
April 17 – Zhang Zuolin's army captures Beijing.[4] ·
April 21 – Princess Elizabeth Alexandra
Mary of York, later Elizabeth II of
the United Kingdom, is born in Mayfair, London. ·
April 24 – Treaty of Berlin:
Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality, in the event of an
attack on the other by a third party, for the next five years. ·
April 25 – Rezā Khan is crowned Shah of Iran, under the name
"Pahlevi". ·
April 30 – African-American pilot Bessie Coleman is killed, after falling
500 feet (150 m) from an airplane. May[edit] Main article: May 1926 ·
May 3 – Coal miners are locked out in
Britain. ·
May 4 – The United
Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of the
coal strike. ·
May 9 ·
Martial law is declared in Britain,
because of the general strike. ·
The
French navy bombards Damascus, because of
the Druze riots. ·
Explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett claim to be the first to
fly over the North Pole in
the Josephine Fordmonoplane, taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway and returning 15 hours
and 44 minutes later. Both men are immediately hailed as national heroes,
though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, believing that
the plane was unlikely to have covered the entire distance and back in that
short an amount of time.[5] An
entry in Byrd's diary, discovered in 1996,
suggested that the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North
Pole, due to an oil leak.[6] ·
May 10 ·
Talks
between the government and strikers begin in the U.K. ·
Planes
piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam,
students at the Air Corps
Tactical School, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia
(Hickam parachutes to safety). ·
May 12 ·
Roald Amundsen and his crew fly over
the North Pole, in the airship Norge. ·
UK General Strike
1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends (the strike began
on May 3). ·
May 12–14 – May Coup: Józef Piłsudski takes
over in Poland. ·
May 18 – Evangelist Aimee Semple
McPherson disappears, while visiting a Venice, California beach. ·
May 20 – The United States
Congress passes the Air Commerce Act, licensing pilots and
planes. ·
May 23 – The first Lebanese constitution is established. ·
May 26 – The Rif War ends, when Rif rebels surrender in Morocco. ·
May 28 – The 1926 coup d'état,
commanded by Manuel Gomes da
Costa in Portugal, installs the Ditadura Nacional (National
Dictatorship), followed by António de
Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo. June[edit] Main article: June 1926 ·
June 4 – Ignacy Mościcki becomes president of Poland. ·
June 7 – Liberal politician Carl Gustaf Ekman succeeds Rickard Sandler, as Prime Minister of Sweden. ·
June 19 – DeFord Bailey is the first
African-American to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. ·
June 29 – Arthur Meighen briefly returns to
office as Prime Minister
of Canada, during the King-Byng Affair. July[edit] Main article: July 1926 ·
July 1 – The Mammoth Cave
National Park is authorized by the United States
Congress. ·
July 1 – The Kuomintang begins a military unification
campaign in northern China. ·
July 3 – A Caudron C.61 aircraft, operated
by Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne,
crashes in Czechoslovakia. ·
July 9 – In Portugal, General Óscar Carmona takes power in a military
coup. ·
July 10 – A bolt of lightning
strikes Picatinny Arsenal in
New Jersey; the resulting fire causes several million pounds of explosives to
blow up in the next 2-3 days. ·
July 15 – BEST buses
make their début in Bombay. ·
July 23 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound
system, for recording sound onto film. ·
July 26 – The National Bar
Association incorporates in the United States. August[edit] Main article: August 1926 ·
August 1 – In Mexico, the entry into
force of anticlerical measures stipulated in the Constitution of 1917 causes
the Cristero War. ·
August 5 – In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres, with the
movie Don Juan,
starring John Barrymore. ·
August 6 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman
to swim the English Channel,
from France to England. ·
The
British miners' union begins negotiations with the government. ·
A
weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to
the Weather Bureau office
in Washington, D.C. ·
August 22 – In Greece, Georgios Kondylis ousts Theodoros
Pangalos. ·
August 23 – The sudden death of popular
film actor and sex symbol Rudolph Valentino,
at the age of only 31, causes mass grief and hysteria around the world. ·
August 25 – Pavlos Kountouriotis announces
that dictatorship has
ended in Greece, and he is now the president. September[edit] Main article: September 1926 ·
September 1 – Lebanon under the French
Mandate gets its first constitution, thereby becoming a
republic. Charles Debbas is
elected president. ·
September 8 – The German Weimar Republic joins the League of Nations. ·
Aloha Tower is officially dedicated
at Honolulu Harbor,
in the Territory of Hawai'i. ·
In
Rome, Italy, Gino Lucetti throws
a bomb at Benito Mussolini's car, but Mussolini is unhurt. ·
September 14 – The Locarno Treaties of 1925 are
ratified in Geneva, and come into effect. ·
September 16 – Philip Dunning and
George Abbott's play Broadway premieres in New York City. ·
September 18 – Great Miami
Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, leaving over 100 dead and causing
several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion
today). ·
September 19 – Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) Stadium, well
known among sports venues in Italy, officially opens in Milan.[citation needed] ·
September 20 – The North Side Gang attempts to
assassinate Al Capone, spraying
his headquarters in Cicero, Illinois with over a thousand
rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight, as Capone is eating there.
Capone escapes harm.[7][8] ·
September 21 – French war ace René Fonck and three others attempt to
fly the Atlantic, in pursuit of the Orteig Prize. Before the newsreel cameras at
Roosevelt Field New York, the modified Sikorsky S-35 crashes on take-off and
bursts into flames. Fonck survives, but two of his men are killed. ·
September 23 – Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey, and becomes heavyweight boxing
champion of the world. ·
The League of Nations Slavery
Convention abolishes all types of slavery. ·
William Lyon
Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister
of Canada, after winning the Canadian
federal election. ·
The
Detroit Cougars, a professional ice hockey club (National Hockey
League) and predecessor to the Detroit Red Wings,
is founded.[9] October[edit] Main article: October 1926 ·
October 2 – Józef Piłsudski becomes
prime minister of Poland. ·
October 12 – British miners agree to
end their strike. ·
October 14 – A. A. Milne's children's book Winnie-the-Pooh is
published in London, featuring the eponymous bear. ·
October 19 – The 1926 Imperial
Conference opens in London. ·
October 20 – A hurricane kills 650 in Cuba. ·
Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union. ·
A
decree in Italy bans women from holding public office. ·
The Fazal Mosque, the first purpose-built in
London and the first Ahmadiyya mosque in Britain, is completed. ·
October 31 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis, that has developed after
his appendix ruptured. November[edit] Main article: November 1926 ·
November 8 – The APOEL FC is founded in Cyprus. ·
November 10 – In San Francisco, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla
Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boarding houselandlady named Mrs. William
Edmonds. ·
November 11 – The United
States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established. ·
The NBC Radio
Network opens, with 24 stations (formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA). ·
The Balfour
Declaration is approved by the 1926 Imperial
Conference, making the Commonwealth dominions
equal and independent. ·
The
village of Rocquebillier, in the French Riviera, is almost destroyed in a
massive hailstorm. ·
Sri Aurobindo retires, leaving The Mother to run the Sri Aurobindo
Ashram in Puducherry, India. ·
November 25 – The death penalty is re-established in
Italy. ·
November 26 – All Italian Communist deputies are
arrested. ·
November 27 – The restoration of Colonial
Williamsburg begins in Williamsburg,
Virginia. December[edit] Main article: December 1926 December 25: Emperor Hirohito ·
December 2 – British prime
minister Stanley Baldwin ends
the martial law that
had been declared, due to the general strike. ·
December 3 – Agatha Christie disappears from her
home in Surrey; on December 14 she
is found at a Harrogate hotel. ·
December 7 – The Council for the
Preservation of Rural England (CPRE) is founded (now the Campaign
to Protect Rural England). ·
December 17 – 1926
Lithuanian coup d'état: A democratically elected government is
overthrown in Lithuania; Antanas Smetonaassumes power. ·
December 18 – Turkey converts to the Gregorian calendar,
making the next day January 1 1927. ·
December 23 – Nicaraguan
President Adolfo Díaz requests
U.S. military assistance in the ongoing civil war.
American peacekeeping troops immediately set up neutral zones in Puerto Cabezas and at the mouth of
the Rio Grande, to protect American and foreign
lives and property.[10][11] ·
December 26 – In the history of Japan, the Shōwa period begins from this day,
due to the death of Emperor Taishō on
the day before. His son Hirohito will
reign as Emperor of Japan until 1989.
Showa 1 in the Japanese calendar was just six days long, prior to January 1
Showa 2 (1927).[citation needed] Date unknown[edit] ·
Dr Muthulakshmi Reddi becomes
the first woman appointed to a legislature in India, the Madras
Legislative Council. ·
Stephen H.
Langdon begins excavations in Jemdet Nasr, finding proto-cuneiform clay
tablets (3100–2900 BCE). ·
Phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust) is
first synthesized. ·
Widows'
pensions are introduced in New South Wales, Australia. ·
The
short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded. ·
Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist,
designs and marks rodeo's first high-cut rodeo chaps at Stirling, Alberta,
Canada. ·
The International
African Institute is founded in London. ·
Raymond Pearl publishes his landmark
book, Alcohol and Longevity. ·
American
microbiologist Selman Waksman publishes Enzymes. ·
The Pike School of Andover,
Massachusetts is founded. ·
Industrial
output surpasses the level of 1913 in
the USSR.[clarification
needed][citation needed] ·
Al Capone is at the apex of his power. ·
Vishwanath
Kashinath Rajwade published his book on Institution of Marriage in India. Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
José Manuel
Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal ·
Blanca Rodríguez,
First Lady of Venezuela ·
Claudio Villa, Italian singer (d. 1987) ·
Rolf Fjeldvær, Norwegian politician
(d. 2017) ·
John Stroppa, Canadian football player
(d. 2017) ·
Harold Bradley, American country music
session guitarist ·
Bandar
bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi royal (d. 2016) ·
Mohamed Yaacob, Malaysian lawyer, judge
(d. 2009) ·
Murray Dowey, Canadian ice hockey goaltender ·
Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian illustrator ·
George Martin, English producer of The Beatles (d. 2016) ·
January 4 – Betty Kennedy, Canadian broadcaster,
journalist, author, and Senator (d. 2017) ·
Robin
Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, British peer, banker (d. 2013) ·
William De Witt
Snodgrass, American poet (d. 2009) ·
January 6 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor,
bodybuilder (d. 2006) ·
January 7 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician
(d. 2018) ·
Chester Feldman, American television game
show producer (d. 1997) ·
Evelyn Lear, American soprano (d. 2012) ·
Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer ·
Soupy Sales, American comedian (d. 2009) ·
January 10 – Júlio Pomar, Portuguese painter (d. 2018) ·
Lev Dyomin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998) ·
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin,
42nd Prime Minister of
Egypt (d. 1984) ·
Giusto Pio, Italian musician, songwriter
(d. 2017) ·
Grant Tinker, American television executive
(d. 2016) ·
Shumon Miura, Japanese novelist (d. 2017) ·
Ray Price,
American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2013) ·
January 13 – Michael Bond, English fiction writer,
creator of Paddington Bear (d. 2017) ·
January 14 – Tom Tryon, American actor, novelist
(d. 1991) ·
January 15 – Maria Schell, Austrian actress (d. 2005) ·
January 16 – Walter Maslow, American actor ·
Antonio Domingo
Bussi, Argentine Army general, former Governor of Tucuman
(d. 2011) ·
Newton N. Minow, American attorney ·
Moira Shearer, Scottish actress, dancer
(d. 2006) ·
January 18 – Hannie van Leeuwen,
Dutch politician (d. 2018) ·
January 19 – Fritz Weaver, American actor (d. 2016) ·
Patricia Neal, American actress (The Day
The Earth Stood Still) (d. 2010) ·
John Michael
Sherlock, Canadian Roman Catholic bishop ·
David Tudor, American pianist, composer
(d. 1996) ·
January 21 – Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000) ·
January 23 – Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (d. 2012) ·
January 26 – Franco
Evangelisti, Italian composer (d. 1980) ·
Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003) ·
Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004) ·
January 28 – Amin al-Hafez,
22nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2009) ·
Amelita Ramos, former First Lady of the
Philippines ·
Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1996) ·
January 31 – Chuck Willis, American singer, songwriter
(d. 1958) (some sources give his year of birth
as 1928) February[edit] ·
February 1 – Nancy Gates, American actress ·
Valéry Giscard
d'Estaing, President of France ·
Lia Laats, Estonian actress (d. 2004) ·
Miguel Obando y
Bravo, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic prelate (archbishop of Managua,
cardinal) (d. 2018) ·
February 3 – Hans-Jochen Vogel,
German politician ·
February 4 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer
(d. 2014) ·
Konstantin
Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009) ·
Bill Hoest, American cartoonist (d. 1988) ·
Estanislao
Esteban Karlic, Argentine cardinal ·
Keiko Tsushima, Japanese actress (d. 2012) ·
February 8 – Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968) ·
February 9 – Garret FitzGerald,
Irish lawyer, politician, and 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2011) ·
Danny Blanchflower,
Northern Irish footballer, football manager (d. 1993) ·
Mimi Sheraton, American food critic ·
Paul Bocuse, French chef (d. 2018) ·
Alexander
Gibson, British conductor, founder of the Scottish Opera (d. 1995) ·
Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor
(d. 2010) ·
Joe Garagiola Sr.,
American baseball player (d. 2016) ·
Charles Van Doren,
American professor, subject of film Quiz Show ·
February 13 – Bill Mercer, American sportscaster ·
February 14 – Al Brodax, American film, television
producer (d. 2016) ·
Margot Frank, German sister of Anne Frank (d. 1945) ·
John Schlesinger, British film director
(d. 2003) ·
Peter T. Flawn, American geologist, educator
(d. 2017) ·
John Meyendorff, French-born American
Orthodox scholar, protopresbiter and educator (d. 1992) ·
February 18 – Jeanne Wilson, American swimmer (d. 2018) ·
February 19 – Pierre Guénin, French journalist, gay rights
activist (d. 2017) ·
Whitney Blake, American actress (d. 2002) ·
Richard Matheson, American author (d. 2013) ·
Bob Richards, American track and field
athlete ·
Gillian Lynne, English ballerina, dancer,
choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director (d. 2018) ·
Maria
de la Purisima Salvat Romero, Spanish nun, saint (d. 1998) ·
February 22 – Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988) ·
Lawrence Holofcener,
American-British sculptor, poet, lyricist, playwright, novelist, actor and
director (d. 2017) ·
Luigi De
Magistris, Italian cardinal ·
Claire Shulman, American politician ·
Knut Kleve, Norwegian philologist (d. 2017) ·
Dave Sands, Australian boxer (d. 1952) ·
Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler
(d. 2015) ·
Henry Molaison, American memory disorder
patient (d. 2008) ·
Doris Belack, American actress (d. 2011) ·
February 27 – David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2013) ·
February 28 – Svetlana Alliluyeva,
Russian author (d. 2011) March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Pete Rozelle, American National Football
League commissioner (d. 1996) ·
Robert Clary, French-American actor, author
and lecturer (Hogan's Heroes) ·
March 2 – Murray Rothbard, American economist
(d. 1995) ·
March 3 ·
Craig Dixon, American athlete ·
James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995) ·
March 4 ·
DeVan Dallas, American politician (d. 2016) ·
Prince
Michel of Bourbon-Parma, French royal, businessman (d. 2018) ·
Richard DeVos, American billionaire,
co-founder of Amway (d. 2018) ·
James J. Eagan, former Mayor of Florissant,
Missouri (d. 2000) ·
Fran Warren, American popular singer
(d. 2013) ·
March 5 ·
Joan Shawlee, American actress (d. 1987) ·
Norman Macfarlane, Baron Macfarlane of Bearsden,
Scottish industrialist and politician ·
March 6 ·
Alan Greenspan, American economist, Federal
Reserve Chairman ·
Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
(d. 2016) ·
March 7 – Chemmanam Chacko, Indian poet (d. 2018) ·
March 8 ·
Sultan Salahuddin of
Selangor (d. 2001) ·
Dick Teed, American Major League Baseball
player (d. 2014) ·
March 9 – Joe Franklin, American radio, television
personality (d. 2015) ·
March 10 – Seto
Wan'ya [ja], Japanese writer, novelist (d. 1993) ·
March 11 ·
Derek Benfield, English playwright, actor
(d. 2009) ·
Thomas Starzl, American physician (d. 2017) ·
March 12 – George Ariyoshi, American politician, lawyer ·
March 13 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of
Honduras (d. 2003) ·
March 14 – Carlos Heitor Cony,
Brazilian journalist, writer (d. 2018) ·
March 15 – Norm Van Brocklin,
American football player (d. 1983) ·
March 16 ·
Edwar al-Kharrat, Egyptian novelist, writer
and critic (d. 2015) ·
Charles Goodell, American politician
(d. 1987) ·
Jerry Lewis, American comedian, humanitarian
and philanthropist (d. 2017) ·
March 17 ·
Jaynne Bittner, American female baseball
player (d. 2017) ·
Siegfried Lenz, German writer (d. 2014) ·
March 18 ·
Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010) ·
Ángel Peralta Pineda,
Spanish rejoneador, actor (d. 2018) ·
Tan Chin Nam, Malaysian businessman and
racehorse owner (d. 2018) ·
March 21 ·
Carlos Almenar Otero,
Venezuelan singer, songwriter (d. 2018) ·
Beatriz Aguirre, Mexican film, television
actress ·
Heikki Hasu, Finnish Olympic cross-country
skier ·
March 23 – Berta Loran, Brazilian-Polish actress ·
March 24 ·
Dario Fo, Italian author, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2016) ·
Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (d. 2017) ·
Tony Streather, English army officer ·
Ventsislav Yankov,
Bulgarian pianist ·
March 25 ·
László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003) ·
Gene Shalit, American film critic,
television personality ·
March 26 – Aldo Tarlao, Italian Olympic rower (d. 2018) ·
March 27 – Harry Connick Sr.,
American attorney ·
March 28 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba,
Spanish aristocrat (d. 2014) ·
March 30 ·
Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman
(d. 2018) ·
Peter
Marshall, American singer, television host (Hollywood Squares) ·
Sydney
Chaplin, American actor (d. 2009) ·
March 31 – John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005) April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Charles Bressler, American tenor (d. 1996) ·
Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish author
(d. 2011) ·
April 2 ·
Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver
(d. 2014) ·
Omar Graffigna, Argentine Air Force officer ·
Robert
Holmes, British scriptwriter (d. 1986) ·
April 3 ·
Valentin Falin, Soviet diplomat, politician
(d. 2018) ·
Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967) ·
R. W. Schambach, American televangelist,
speaker and author (d. 2012) ·
April 5 ·
Roger Corman, American filmmaker, producer,
actor and businessman ·
Ri Kun-mo, North Korean politician ·
April 6 ·
Jeanne Martin Cissé,
Guinean teacher, nationalist politician (d. 2017) ·
Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor, actor
(d. 1990) ·
Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000) ·
Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician
(d. 2014) ·
April 9 ·
Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor (Playboy)
(d. 2017) ·
Harris Wofford, American politician ·
April 10 – Gustav Metzger, German-born stateless
auto-destructive artist (d. 2017) ·
April 11 ·
David Manker Abshire,
United States Army officer (d. 2014) ·
Gervase de Peyer, English clarinetist,
conductor (d. 2017) ·
April 12 ·
Khozh-Akhmed
Bersanov, Chechen ethnographer (d. 2018) ·
Jane Withers, American actress ·
April 13 ·
Neil Betts, Australian rugby union player
(d. 2017) ·
John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough,
British peer (d. 2014) ·
Egon Wolff, Chilean playwright, author
(d. 2016) ·
April 14 ·
Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, producer,
director, and teacher (d. 1996) ·
Gloria Jean, American actress and singer
(d. 2018) ·
George Robledo, Chilean soccer player
(d. 1989) ·
Leopoldo
Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish politician (d. 2008) ·
April 15 – Walter Dee
Huddleston, American politician (d. 2018) ·
April 17 – Gerry McNeil, Canadian hockey player
(d. 2004) ·
April 19 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician, first
female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. 1997) ·
April 21 ·
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ·
Wayne E. Meyer, American Rear-Admiral
(d. 2009) ·
Arthur Rowley, English footballer (d. 2002) ·
Alexander Lyudskanov,
Bulgarian translator, semiotician and mathematician (d. 1976) ·
April 22 ·
Ted Hibberd, Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 2017) ·
Charlotte Rae, American actress, singer
(d. 2018) ·
James Stirling,
Scottish architect (d. 1992) ·
April 24 ·
Lady Elizabeth
Cavendish, British aristocrat and courtier (d. 2018) ·
Thorbjörn Fälldin,
2-time Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 2016) ·
April 25 ·
Patricia Castell, Argentine actress
(d. 2013) ·
Gertrude
Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008) ·
April 26 ·
David Coleman, British television sports
broadcaster (d. 2013) ·
Michael Mathias
Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003) ·
April 27 ·
Alvin Baldus, American Democratic politician
(d. 2017) ·
Tim LaHaye, American evangelist, speaker and
author (d. 2016) ·
Vladimír Černý,
Czechoslovakian modern pentathlete (d. 2016) ·
April 28 ·
James Bama, American artist, illustrator ·
Greg Gates, American Olympic rower ·
Harper Lee, American novelist (d. 2016) ·
April 29 ·
Paul Baran, American internet pioneer
(d. 2011) ·
Leonard Fenton, English actor, director ·
April 30 ·
Edmund Cooper, British author, poet
(d. 1982) ·
Alda
Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, Santomean poet (d. 2010) ·
Cloris Leachman, American actress May[edit] ·
May 1 – Peter Lax, Hungarian-American mathematician,
academic ·
May 3 – Matt Baldwin, Canadian curler ·
May 4 – David
Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon, English politician ·
May 5 ·
Ann B. Davis, American actress (d. 2014) ·
Bing Russell, American actor (d. 2003) ·
Maurice Taylor,
Scottish Roman Catholic bishop ·
May 8 ·
Sir David Attenborough,
British broadcaster, naturalist and producer ·
David Hurst, German actor ·
Don Rickles, American comedian, actor
(d. 2017) ·
May 10 ·
Hugo Banzer, 62nd and 75th President of
Bolivia (d. 2002) ·
Tichi Wilkerson
Kassel, American film personality, publisher of The Hollywood
Reporter (d. 2004) ·
Pasquale Panìco,
Italian politician (d. 2018) ·
May 12 – Earl Dewitt Hutto,
American politician ·
May 13 – Joy Coghill, Canadian actress, director, and
writer (d. 2017) ·
May 14 – Eric Morecambe, English comedian, author
(d. 1984) ·
May 15 ·
Anthony Shaffer,
English novelist, playwright (d. 2001) ·
Sir Peter Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2016) ·
May 17 ·
Prince Dimitri
Romanov, Russian prince, banker, philanthropist and author
(d. 2016) ·
David
Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, Scottish soldier, politician ·
Franz Sondheimer, German-born British
chemist (d. 1981) ·
Dietmar Schönherr,
Austrian film actor (d. 2014) ·
May 18 ·
Dirch Passer, Danish actor (d. 1980) ·
Douglas Henry, American politician (d. 2017) ·
Niranjan Bhagat, Indian poet (d. 2018) ·
May 19 ·
Mark Andrews,
American politician ·
Edward Parkes, English engineer, academic ·
May 21 – Robert Creeley, American poet (d. 2005) ·
May 23 ·
Aileen Hernandez, African-American union
organizer, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist (d. 2017) ·
Desmond Carrington,
British actor, broadcaster (d. 2017) ·
May 25 ·
Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994) ·
Bill Sharman, American basketball player,
coach (d. 2013) ·
May 26 – Miles Davis, African-,American musician
(d. 1991) ·
May 27 ·
Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of
Tanzania (d. 2009) ·
Kees Rijvers, Dutch football player and
manager ·
May 28 – Colin Hutton, English rugby union, rugby
league player (d. 2017) ·
May 29 ·
Halaevalu
Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe, Queen Consort of Tonga (d. 2017) ·
Abdoulaye Wade, 3rd President of Senegal ·
Katie Boyle, Italian-British actress,
television personality, and game-show panelist (d. 2018) ·
May 30 ·
Tony Terran, American trumpet player,
session musician (d. 2017) ·
Johnny Gimble, American country musician,
fiddler (d. 2015) ·
Tsuneo Watanabe, Japanese businessman June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Andy Griffith, American actor, comedian,
singer (d. 2012) ·
Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962) ·
June 3 ·
Flora
MacDonald, Canadian politician and humanitarian (d. 2015) ·
Roscoe Bartlett, Republican member
of the United
States House of Representatives ·
Roxcy Bolton, American feminist and civil
and women's rights activist (d. 2017) ·
Allen Ginsberg, American poet (Howl)
(d. 1997) ·
June 4 ·
Robert Earl Hughes,
American who was the heaviest human being recorded in the history of the
world during his lifetime (d. 1958) ·
Ain Kaalep, Estonian poet, playwright and
critic ·
June 5 ·
Emile Capgras, Martinican politician
(d. 2014) ·
Paul Soros, Hungarian-born American
mechanical engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013) ·
Peter Peterson,
American banker and businessman, American Secretary of Commerce (d. 2018) ·
June 6 ·
Sholom Rivkin, American rabbi (d. 2011) ·
Antônio
Ribeiro de Oliveira, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017) ·
June 7 ·
Jean-Noël Tremblay,
Canadian lawyer and politician ·
Dick Williams,
American singer and actor (d. 2018) ·
June 9 ·
Georgia Holt, American singer and actress ·
Happy Rockefeller,
American socialite (d. 2015) ·
June 10 ·
June Haver, American actress and singer
(d. 2005) ·
Lionel Jeffries, British film director and
actor (d. 2010) ·
Henri
Minczeles [fr], French journalist (d. 2017) ·
June 11 ·
Carlisle Floyd, American composer and
educator ·
Frank Plicka, Czech-born photographer
(d. 2010) ·
June 12 ·
Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine goalkeeper ·
Gaspare di Mercurio,
Italian doctor and author (d. 2001) ·
June 13 ·
Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian
(d. 1982) ·
June Krauser, American swimmer (d. 2014) ·
June 14 – Don Newcombe, American baseball player ·
June 15 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006) ·
June 16 ·
Efraín Ríos Montt,
Guatemalan career military officer and politician (d. 2018) ·
William F. Roemer,
Jr., United States FBI agent
(d. 1996) ·
Taketoshi Naito, Japanese actor (d. 2012) ·
June 18 ·
Avshalom Haviv, (d. 1947) ·
Allan Sandage, American astronomer (d. 2010) ·
June 19 ·
Erna Schneider
Hoover, American mathematician and inventor ·
Arno Mayer, American historian and writer ·
June 21 ·
Fred Cone,
former professional American football fullback ·
Yvette Lévy, French Survivor and a Holocaust
witness ·
Washington Malianga,
Zimbabwean politician (d. 2014) ·
Johanna Quandt, German business woman
(d. 2015) ·
June 22 ·
George Englund, American film editor,
director, producer and actor (d. 2017) ·
Elyakim Haetzni, Israeli lawyer ·
Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish filmmaker (d. 2015) ·
Rachid Solh, 2-Time Prime Minister of
Lebanon (d. 2014) ·
Ray Szmanda, American radio and television
announcer (d. 2018) ·
June 23 ·
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi,
Japanese freestyle swimmer (d. 2011) ·
Magda Herzberger, Romanian author, poet and
composer, survivor of the Holocaust ·
Annette Mbaye
d'Erneville, Senegalese writer ·
Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor ·
June 24 ·
Muslim Arogundade,
Nigerian sprinter ·
Blackie Gejeian, American race car driver,
race car builder, and hot rod enthusiast (d. 2016) ·
Barbara Scofield, American tennis player ·
June 25 ·
Ján Eugen Kočiš,
Czech bishop ·
Dame Margaret Anstee, British diplomat (d. 2016) ·
Ingeborg Bachmann,
Austrian writer (d. 1973) ·
Gordon
Robertson, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Stig Sollander, Swedish alpine skier ·
June 26 ·
Mahendra Bhatnagar,
Indian poet ·
Fernando
Mönckeberg Barros, Chilean surgeon ·
Luis Molné, Andorran alpine skier ·
André Monnier, French ski jumper ·
Fritz Zwazl, Austrian swimmer ·
June 27 ·
Giambattista Bonis,
Italian professional football player ·
Len Ceglarski, American hockey player
(d. 2017) ·
Geza de Kaplany, Hungarian-born physician ·
Don Raleigh, American ice hockey player
(d. 2012) ·
Bruce Tozer, Australian former cricketer ·
Galina
Vecherkovskaya, Russian rower ·
June 28 ·
Satoru Abe, American sculptor and painter ·
Elisabeta Abrudeanu,
Romanian artistic gymnast ·
George Booth,
American cartoonist ·
Mel Brooks, American actor, comedian, and
screenwriter ·
June 29 ·
Roger Stuart Bacon,
American politician ·
Denys Graham, Welsh actor ·
Bobby Morgan,
American professional baseball player ·
June 30 ·
Peter
Alexander, Austrian actor and singer (d. 2011) ·
Paul Berg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Božena Moserová,
Czech alpine skier ·
Reg Newton, English professional football
goalkeeper July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Juan Jaime Cesio,
Argentine brigadier general (d. 2017) ·
Fernando J. Corbató,
American computer scientist ·
Robert Fogel, American economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2013) ·
Carl Hahn, German automotive executive,
chairman of Volkswagen ·
Hans Werner Henze,
German composer (d. 2012) ·
Stan Obst, Australian rules footballer
(d. 2005) ·
July 2 ·
Liu Dajun, Chinese agricultural scientist,
educator and an academician (d. 2016) ·
Alfons Oehy, Swiss swimmer ·
Carlo Rolandi, Italian sailor ·
July 3 ·
Rae Allen, American actress, director, and
singer ·
María Lorenza
Barreneche, former First Lady of Argentina (d. 2016) ·
Laurence Street, Australian jurist and
former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (d. 2018) ·
July 4 ·
Alfredo Di Stéfano,
Argentine-born footballer (d. 2014) ·
Amos Elon, Israeli writer (d. 2009) ·
Lopön Tenzin Namdak,
Tibetan religious leader ·
Mary Stuart,
American soap actress (d. 2002) ·
July 5 ·
Roy Hawes, American first baseman in Major
League Baseball (d. 2017) ·
Viola Harris, American actress (d. 2017) ·
Mario Picone. American pitcher (d. 2013) ·
Anthony
John Richard Purssell, English brewing executive, businessman and
former athlete ·
July 6 – Serge Roullet, French film director and
screenwriter ·
July 7 ·
Yvonne Ciannella, American coloratura
soprano in opera and concert ·
Armand Lemieux, Canadian professional hockey
player (d. 2015) ·
Thorkild Simonsen,
Danish politician ·
Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician; 31st Prime
Minister of Cambodia ·
Mel Clark, American Major League Baseball
outfielder (d. 2014) ·
Bobby McIlvenny, Northern Irish footballer
(d. 2016) ·
July 8 ·
David Malet
Armstrong, Australian philosopher (d. 2014) ·
John Dingell, American politician ·
Elisabeth
Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004) ·
July 9 ·
Jens Juul Eriksen,
Danish cyclist ·
Mathilde Krim, founding chairman of amfAR,
the American Foundation for AIDS Research (d. 2018) ·
Ben Roy Mottelson,
American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Peter Mullins, Australian decathlete
(d. 2012) ·
July 10 ·
Carleton Carpenter,
American actor and dancer ·
Donald Geary, American ice hockey player
(d. 2015) ·
Fred Gwynne, American actor and author
(d. 1993) ·
Harry Macpherson, American pitcher (d. 2017) ·
Tony Settember, American racing driver
(d. 2014) ·
Aldo Tortorella, Italian journalist, former
politician and partisan ·
July 11 ·
Frederick Buechner,
American author and theologian ·
Joe Houston, American saxophonist (d. 2015) ·
July 12 ·
Abe Addams, American soccer player (d. 2017) ·
Cec Thompson, English rugby league
footballer (d. 2011) ·
Siti Hasmah
Mohamad Ali, spouse of Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir
Mohamad ·
July 13 ·
Cheng Chi-sen, Taiwanese sports shooter ·
T. Loren
Christianson, American politician ·
Thomas Clark,
American politician ·
July 14 ·
Jean Cottard, French fencer ·
Wallace Jones, American professional
basketball player (d. 2014) ·
Harry Dean Stanton,
American film and television actor (d. 2017) ·
July 15 ·
Sir John
Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplomat ·
Leopoldo Galtieri,
Argentine dictator (d. 2003) ·
Raymond Gosling, English physicist (d. 2015) ·
July 16 ·
Emile Degelin, Belgian film director and
novelist (d. 2017) ·
Paul M. Ellwood Jr.,
prominent figure in American health care ·
Michael Otedola, Nigerian politician
(d. 2014) ·
Irwin Rose, American biologist, recipient of
the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry (d. 2015) ·
Stef Wertheimer, German-born Israeli
industrialist, investor, philanthropist and former politician ·
July 17 ·
Édouard Carpentier,
Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2010) ·
William Pierson, American television, motion
picture and stage actor (d. 2004) ·
Charles Zwick, American civil servant
(d. 2018) ·
July 18 ·
Nita Bieber, American actress ·
François Fassone,
French footballer ·
Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish film director and
screenwriter ·
Bernard Pons, French politician and medical
doctor ·
Robert Sloman, English writer (d. 2005) ·
July 19 ·
Terry
Cavanagh, Canadian politician (d. 2017) ·
Helen Gallagher, American actress, dancer,
and singer ·
Robert E. Lavender,
American Justice ·
July 20 ·
Charles David Ganao,
Congolose politician (d. 2012) ·
Russ Gorman, Australian politician (d. 2017) ·
Odd Kallerud, Norwegian politician ·
July 21 ·
Otto Beyeler, Swiss cross country skier ·
Norman Jewison, Canadian film director ·
July 22 – Bryan Forbes, English film director
(d. 2013) ·
July 24 – Hans Günter Winkler,
German show jumping rider (d. 2018) ·
July 25 ·
Whitey Lockman, American player, coach,
manager (d. 2009) ·
Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (d. 2018) ·
Ray Solomonoff, American inventor (d. 2009) ·
July 26 ·
James Best, American actor and acting coach
(d. 2015) ·
Moacir Santos, Brazilian composer,
multi-instrumentalist and music educator (d. 2006) ·
July 27 – Doris Satterfield,
American professional baseball player (d. 1993) ·
July 28 – Walt Brown, American presidential candidate ·
July 29 – Franco Sensi, Italian businessman (d. 2008) ·
July 30 – Sir Patrick
Russell, British jurist (High Court of England and Wales)
(d. 2002) ·
July 31 ·
Bernard Nathanson,
American medical doctor and activist (d. 2011) ·
Hilary Putnam, American philosopher,
mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2016) August[edit] ·
August 1 – Hannah Hauxwell, English TV personality
(d. 2018) ·
August 2 ·
Sy Mah, Canadian marathoner (d. 1988) ·
George Habash, Palestinian Christian
politician (d. 2008) ·
W. Carter Merbreier,
American television host (Captain Noah) (d. 2016) ·
Igor Spassky, Russian scientist, engineer
and entrepreneur ·
Hang Thun Hak, Cambodian radical politician,
academic and playwright (d. 1975) ·
August 3 ·
Rona Anderson, Scottish stage, film, and
television actress (d. 2013) ·
Loris Campana, Italian road and track
cyclist (d. 2015) ·
Tony Bennett, American singer ·
Shun-ichi Iwasaki,
Japanese engineer ·
August 5 – Clifford Husbands,
6th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 2017) ·
August 6 ·
Janet Asimov, American writer and
psychiatrist ·
János Rózsás,
Hungarian writer (d. 2012) ·
Frank Finlay, English stage, film and
television actor (d. 2016) ·
Elisabeth Beresford,
British author (d. 2010) ·
Luis Bordón, English author (d. 1986) ·
Norman Wexler, American screenwriter
(d. 1999) ·
August 7 – Stan Freberg, American author, recording
artist and comedian (d. 2015) ·
August 8 ·
Silvio Amadio, Italian film director and
screenwriter (d. 1995) ·
Arturo García Bustos,
Mexican painter (d. 2017) ·
Jimmy Brown,
American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer (d. 2006) ·
Angelo Bonfietti, Brazilian basketball
player (d. 2004) ·
August 9 ·
Willie Finlay, Scottish professional
football player and coach (d. 2014) ·
Frank M. Robinson,
American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d. 2014) ·
Michel Breitman, French writer and
translator (d. 2009) ·
Arthur Maxwell House,
Canadian neurologist (d. 2013) ·
Marie-Claire Alain,
French organist (d. 2013) ·
Ron Bontemps, American basketball player
(d. 2017) ·
Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English
chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2018) ·
John Derek, American actor and film director
(d. 1998) ·
Osamu Ishiguro, Japanese tennis player
(d. 2016) ·
Hiroshi Koizumi, Japanese actor (d. 2015) ·
Wallace Markfield,
American writer (d. 2002) ·
René Vignal, French footballer (d. 2016) ·
Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and
politician (d. 2016) ·
Roy Heath, Guyanese writer (d. 2008) ·
Valentina Levko, Russian opera and chamber
singer (d. 2018) ·
Norris Bowden, Canadian figure skater
(d. 1991) ·
Dennis Eagan, British field hockey player (d. 2012) ·
Martin Broszat, German historian (d. 1989) ·
Agostino
Cacciavillan, Italian cardinal ·
Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer
and pianist (d. 2017) ·
René Goscinny, French comic book writer
(d. 1977) ·
Sukanta Bhattacharya,
Bengali poet and playwright (d. 1947) ·
Julius Katchen, American concert pianist
(d. 1969) ·
Sami Michael, Iraqi-Israeli author ·
Konstantinos
Stephanopoulos, former President of Greece (d. 2016) ·
Roger Agache, French archaeologist (d. 2011) ·
Jack Britto, Pakistani Olympic field hockey
player (d. 2013) ·
Eivind Hjelmtveit,
Norwegian cultural administrator (d. 2017) ·
Christopher Polge,
English biologist (d. 2006) ·
Yu Min,
Chinese nuclear physicist ·
Maurice Lusien, French swimmer (d. 2017) ·
Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 1992) ·
Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President
of the People's Republic of China ·
Orlando Bosch, Cuban terrorist (d. 2011) ·
Franca Marzi, Italian film actress (d. 1989) ·
Luis Bordón, Paraguayan musician and
composer (d. 2006) ·
George
Daniels, British horologist (d. 2011) ·
Martin Halliday, British physician (d. 2008) ·
Hocine Aït Ahmed,
Algerian politician (d. 2015) ·
Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian
football player and coach (d. 2014) ·
August 21 – Marian Jaworski, Polish cardinal ·
Lois Hall, American actress (d. 2006) ·
Jacqueline
Grennan Wexler, American Roman Catholic nun and university
president (d. 2012) ·
Vasco Cabral, Guinea-Bissauan writer and
politician (d. 2005) ·
Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist
(d. 2006) ·
August 26 – Robert Vickrey, American artist and author
(d. 2011) ·
August 27 – Albert H. Owens Jr.,
American oncologist (d. 2017) ·
Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and
academic ·
Don Doll, American football player and coach
(d. 2010) ·
Ramakrishna Hegde,
Indian politician (d. 2004) ·
Betty Lynn, American actress ·
August 30 – Robert Pierre
Sarrabère, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2017) September[edit] ·
Stanley Cavell, American philosopher
(d. 2018) ·
Abdur Rahman Biswas,
11th President of Bangladesh (d. 2017) ·
Armando Cossutta, Italian communist
politician (d. 2015) ·
Ibrahim Nasir Rannabanderyi Kilegefan, Maldivian president (d. 2008) ·
Joseph P. Kolter, American politician ·
Uttam Kumar, Bengali actor (d. 1980) ·
Alison Lurie, American author and academic ·
Irene Papas, Greek actress ·
Elias Hrawi, 14th President of Lebanon
(d. 2006) ·
Robert J.
Lagomarsino, American politician ·
September 5 – Mishaal bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince (d. 2017) ·
Claus van
Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of
the Netherlands (d. 2002) ·
Maurice Cowling, British historian (d. 2005) ·
Maurice Prather, American photographer
(d. 2001) ·
Ronnie Gilbert, American folk singer and
songwriter (d. 2015) ·
Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997) ·
Ivone Ramos, Cape Verdean writer (d. 2018) ·
September 8 – Sergio Pininfarina,
Italian automobile designer (d. 2012) ·
September 9 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi,
Egyptian Islamic theologian ·
September 11 – Gerrit Viljoen, South African government
minister (d. 2009) ·
September 13 – Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player
and manager ·
Dick Dale,
American singer and musician (d. 2014) ·
Carmen
Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noble (d. 2017) ·
John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist
(d. 2015) ·
September 15 – Jean-Pierre Serre,
French mathematician ·
John Knowles, American author (d. 2001) ·
Robert H. Schuller,
American televangelist, motivational speaker and author (d. 2015) ·
Bill Black, American rock and roll musician and bandleader
(d. 1965) ·
Andrea Kékesy, Hungarian figure skater ·
September 18 – Bob Toski, American golfer ·
Masatoshi Koshiba,
Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
James Lipton, American television personality
and writer ·
Duke Snider, American baseball player
(d. 2011) ·
Carla Calò, Italian actress ·
Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2013) ·
Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress
(d. 2000) ·
September 22 – Bill Smith,
American clarinet player and composer ·
Aage Birch, Danish competitive sailor and
Olympic medalist (d. 2017) ·
John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist
(d. 1967) ·
Heng Freylinger, Luxembourgian wrestler
(d. 2017) ·
September 24 – Aubrey Burl, British archaeologist ·
Carlos Chasseing, Argentine politician
(d. 2018) ·
Charles J. Colgan,
American politician and businessman (d. 2017) ·
John Ericson, German-American actor ·
Sonia Gechtoff, American painter (d. 2018) ·
Tulsi Giri, former Prime Minister of Nepal ·
Julie London, American actress and singer
(d. 2000) ·
Jerry Clower, American country comedian
(d. 1998) ·
Ozzie Van Brabant,
Canadian baseball player (d. 2018) ·
September 29 – Philip Ruppe, American politician ·
Dave Hunt,
American apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author (d. 2013) ·
Frank O'Neill,
Australian swimmer October[edit] ·
October 1 – Max Morath, American musician ·
Jan Morris, born James Morris, British
travel writer ·
John Ross,
Austrian-born American chemist (d. 2017) ·
Phar Lap, New Zealand-foaled racehorse
(d. 1932) ·
Senaida Wirth, American female professional
baseball player (d. 1967) ·
Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat and military
official (d. 2018) ·
Czesław
Ryll-Nardzewski, Polish mathematician (d. 2015) ·
October 8 – Carmencita Lara, Peruvian singer (d. 2018) ·
October 9 – Ruth Ellis, British murderess (d. 1955) ·
October 10 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997) ·
Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician (d. 2017) ·
Zohurul Hoque, Indian Islamic scholar
(d. 2017) ·
Earle Hyman, American film and television
actor (d. 2017) ·
Shin Sang-ok, South Korean film producer and
director (d. 2006) ·
Jesse L. Brown, first African-American
aviator in the United States Navy (d. 1950) ·
Kazuo Nakamura, Japanese-Canadian painter,
part of the Painters Eleven (d. 2002) ·
Michel Foucault, French philosopher
(d. 1984) ·
Jeffrey Hayden, American television director
and producer (d. 2016) ·
Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000) ·
Karl Richter,
German conductor (d. 1981) ·
October 16 – Charles Dolan, American billionaire ·
Julie Adams, American actress ·
Beverly Garland, American actress and
businesswoman (d. 2008) ·
Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2017) ·
Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991) ·
Pauline Pirok, American female professional
baseball player ·
October 19 – Marjorie Tallchief,
American ballerina ·
October 20 – Vsevolod Murakhovsky,
Ukrainian-Russian politician (d. 2017) ·
Waldir Pires, Brazilian politician (d. 2018) ·
Bob Rosburg, American golfer (d. 2009) ·
October 22 – Chan Sui-kau, Hong Kong industrialist and
philanthropist (d. 2018) ·
María Concepción
César, Argentine actress, singer and vedette (d. 2018) ·
Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and
composer ·
Biff McGuire, American actor ·
Walter Mengden, American attorney and
politician (d. 2018) ·
Galina Vishnevskaya,
Russian soprano (d. 2012) ·
October 28 – Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of
Baseball (d. 2007) ·
Necmettin Erbakan,
25th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2011) ·
Jon Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor
(d. 2015) ·
October 30 – Lois Wyse, American advertising executive,
author and columnist (d. 2007) November[edit] ·
James Marson, French politician (d. 2017) ·
Betsy Palmer, American actress (d. 2015) ·
November 2 – Myer Skoog, American basketball player ·
November 3 – Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politician,
3rd President of
Lithuania ·
November 4 – Carmen A. Orechio,
American politician (d. 2018) ·
John Berger, English art critic, novelist
and painter (d. 2017) ·
Kim Jong-gil, South Korean poet (d. 2017) ·
November 6 – Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian
(d. 2012) ·
November 7 – Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano
(d. 2010) ·
Sonja Bata, Swiss businesswoman and
philanthropist (d. 2018) ·
Darleane C. Hoffman,
American nuclear chemist ·
Jack Mendelsohn, American writer-artist
(d. 2017) ·
November 9 – Stu Griffing, American Olympic rower ·
November 11 – Maria Teresa de
Filippis, Italian automobile racing driver (d. 2016) ·
November 13 – Harry Hughes, American politician ·
November 15 – Helmut Fischer, German actor (d. 1997) ·
Amy Applegren, American professional baseball
player (d. 2011) ·
Ton de Leeuw, Dutch composer (d. 1996) ·
November 17 – Christopher
Weeramantry, Sri Lankan lawyer (d. 2017) ·
November 19 – Jeane Kirkpatrick,
American ambassador (d. 2006) ·
Choi Eun-hee, South Korean actress (d. 2018) ·
John
Gardner, English spy novelist (d. 2007) ·
Judith Magre, French actress ·
Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader
(d. 2011) ·
R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005) ·
Vann Molyvann, Cambodian architect (d. 2017) ·
November 24 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Ivano Fontana, Italian boxer ·
Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969) ·
Terry Kilburn, English-American actor ·
Poul Anderson, American science fiction
author (d. 2001) ·
Peter van Pels, German-Dutch love interest
of Anne Frank (d. 1945) ·
Rabi Ray, Indian politician (d. 2017) ·
David
Alexander, British Royal Marines general (d. 2017) ·
Umberto Veronesi, Italian oncologist and
politician (d. 2016) ·
November 29 – Beji Caid Essebsi,
Tunisian politician ·
Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003) ·
Teresa Gisbert
Carbonell, Bolivian architect and art historian (d. 2018) ·
Andrew Schally, Polish-born American
endocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine December[edit] ·
Allyn Ann McLerie,
Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2018) ·
Kitty Hart-Moxon, Polish-English nurse and
Holocaust survivor ·
Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007) ·
December 5 – Adetowun Ogunsheye,
Nigerian academic and educator ·
Charley Marouani, Tunisian impresario and celebrity
agent (d. 2017) ·
William John
McNaughton, American bishop ·
Raif Dizdarević,
Bosnian politician ·
Henry Way Kendall,
American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1999) ·
Leon Kossoff, English painter and
illustrator ·
Guitar Slim, American New Orleans blues guitarist
(d. 1959) ·
Giorgos Ioannou, Greek artist (d. 2017) ·
December 11 – Diego Natale Bona,
Italian Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2017) ·
December 13 – George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete ·
Nikos Koundouros, Greek film director
(d. 2017) ·
Emmanuel Wamala, Ugandan cardinal ·
James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988) ·
A. N. R. Robinson,
3rd President and 3rd Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014) ·
Allan V. Cox, American geologist (d. 1987) ·
Bill Keightley, American equipment manager for
the University of
Kentucky men's basketball team from 1962 to 2008
(d. 2008) ·
Geoffrey Howe, British politician (d. 2015) ·
Otto Graf Lambsdorff,
German politician (d. 2009) ·
David Levine, U.S. caricaturist (d. 2009) ·
Elisabeth Elliot, American Christian author
and speaker (d. 2015) ·
Freddie Hart, American country musician and
songwriter (d. 2018) ·
Joe Paterno, American football coach
and philanthropist (d. 2012) ·
Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer
(d. 2015) ·
Roberta Leigh, British writer, artist and
television producer (d. 2014) ·
Robert Bly, American poet ·
Jorge Medina Estévez,
Chilean cardinal ·
Metakse, Armenian poet, writer, translator
and public activist (d. 2014) ·
December 24 – Ronald Draper, South African cricketer ·
Eugene Gendlin, Austrian-born American
philosopher (d. 2017) ·
Arnold Parsons, English wrestler ·
December 26 – Gina Pellón, Cuban painter (d. 2014) ·
December 31 – Billy Snedden, Australian politician
(d. 1987) Unknown[edit] ·
Stuart Canin, American violinist and
conductor ·
Magda Herzberger, Romanian author, poet and
composer ·
Jerry Thorpe, American director and producer Deaths[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 4 – Margherita of Savoy,
Queen consort of Italy (b. 1851) ·
January 6 – John Bowers,
British Anglican bishop (b. 1854) ·
January 12 – Austin Chapman, Australian politician
(b. 1864) ·
Giambattista De
Curtis, Italian painter (b. 1860) ·
Louis Majorelle, French furniture designer
(b. 1859) ·
Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer
(b. 1883) ·
Marie C. Brehm, American suffragette ·
Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient
of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843) ·
January 23 – Désiré-Joseph
Mercier, Belgian Catholic cardinal and philosopher (b. 1851) ·
Bucura Dumbravă,
Hungarian-born Romanian novelist, promoter, hiker and Theosophist (b. 1868) ·
John Flannagan,
American Roman Catholic priest
(b. 1860) ·
Joseph Sarsfield
Glass, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1874) ·
Katō Takaaki, Japanese politician,
24th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1860) ·
Ernest Troubridge,
British admiral (b. 1862) ·
January 30 – Barbara La Marr, American film actress
(b. 1896) ·
February 1 – Theodosius of Skopje,
Bulgaria Orthodox religious
leader and saint (b. 1846) ·
February 5 – Gustav Eberlein, German sculptor, painter
and writer (b. 1847) ·
February 6 – Carrie Clark Ward,
American stage and film character actress (b. 1862) ·
February 8 – William Bateson, British geneticist
(b. 1861) ·
February 10 – Aqif Pasha Elbasani,
Albanian political figure (b. 1860) ·
February 12 – Art Smith,
American pilot (b. 1890) ·
February 13 – Francis Ysidro
Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist
(b. 1845) ·
February 17 – Jan Cieplak, Polish Roman Catholic priest, bishop and
servant of God (b. 1857) ·
February 21 – Heike Kamerlingh
Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1853) ·
John Jacob Bausch,
German-born American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (b. 1830) ·
Eddie Plank, American baseball player
and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1875) ·
March 3 – Eugenia Mantelli, Italian opera singer
(b. 1860) ·
March 4 – Patriarch Macarius II (b. 1835) ·
March 11 ·
Maibelle Heikes
Justice, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1871) ·
Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki (b. 1865) ·
March 12 – E. W. Scripps, American newspaper publisher
(b. 1854) ·
March 16 – Sergeant Stubby, World War I American hero war dog
(b. 1916) ·
March 17 – Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (b. 1853) ·
March 19 – Friedrich Brodersen,
German opera singer (b. 1873) ·
March 20 ·
Krishna Govinda
Gupta, Indian statesman, member of Indian Civil Service (b. 1851) ·
Louise of Sweden, Queen consort of Denmark
(b. 1851) ·
March 24 – Sizzo,
Prince of Schwarzburg (b. 1860) ·
March 26 – Constantin
Fehrenbach, German politician and 13th Chancellor
of Germany (b. 1852) ·
March 28 – Prince
Philippe, Duke of Orleans (b. 1869) ·
March 29 – Charles Williamson
Crook, British teacher, trade unionist and politician (b. 1862) April–June[edit] Emperor Sunjong Sultan Mehmed VI ·
April 1 – Jacob Pavlovich
Adler, Russian actor (b. 1855) ·
April 7 – Giovanni Amendola,
Italian journalist and politician (b. 1882) ·
April 9 – Henry Miller,
British-born American stage actor and producer (b. 1859) ·
April 10 – Ōshima
Yoshimasa, Japanese general (b. 1850) ·
April 17 – Antonio
Adolfo Pérez y Aguilar, Salvadorian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1839) ·
April 19 – Alexander
Alexandrovich Chuprov, Soviet statisician (b. 1874) ·
April 20 – Billy Quirk, American actor (b. 1873) ·
April 22 – Federico Gana, Chilean writer and diplomat
(b. 1867) ·
April 24 – Sunjong, last Emperor of Korea (b. 1874) ·
April 25 – Ellen Key, Swedish feminist writer (b. 1849) ·
April 26 – Jeffreys Lewis, English-born stage actress
(b. 1852) ·
April 28 – Kawamura Kageaki, Japanese field marshal
(b. 1850) ·
April 30 – Bessie Coleman, American pilot (b. 1892) ·
May 3 – Victor, Prince
Napoleon (b. 1849) ·
May 7 – Lillian Lawrence, American actress (b. 1868) ·
May 9 – J. M. Dent, British publisher (b. 1849) ·
May 10 ·
Alton B. Parker, American judge and
political candidate (b. 1852) ·
Giacinto Menotti
Serrati, Italian politician (b. 1874) ·
May 16 – Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861) ·
May 18 – Count
Nikolaus Szécsen von Temerin (b. 1857) ·
May 22 – Tomás Arejola, Filipino lawyer, legislator,
diplomat and writer (b. 1865) ·
May 26 ·
Frank Nelson Cole,
American mathematician (b. 1861) ·
Symon Petliura, Ukrainian independence
fighter (b. 1879) ·
May 27 – Michele Comella, Italian painter (b. 1856) ·
June 8 – Emily Hobhouse, British welfare campaigner
(b. 1860) ·
June 9 – Sanford B. Dole, President of Hawaii and
1st Territorial
Governor of Hawaii (b. 1844) ·
June 10 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (b. 1852) ·
June 13 – Nikolay Chkheidze,
Soviet politician (b. 1864) ·
June 14 – Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1844) ·
June 18 – Olga
Constantinovna of Russia (b. 1851) ·
June 23 – Jón Magnússon,
Icelandic politician, 1st Prime Minister
of Iceland (b. 1857) July–September[edit] King Ugyen Wangchuck ·
July 1 – Carlo Luigi
Spegazzini, Italian-born Argentine botanist and mycologist
(b. 1858) ·
July 2 ·
Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857) ·
Kristján Jónsson Minister
of Iceland (b. 1852) ·
July 9 – Mother Mary Alphonsa,
American Roman Catholic religious
sister, social worker, foundress and venerable (b. 1851) ·
July 12 ·
Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist,
writer, spy and administrator; known as the "Uncrowned Queen of
Iraq" (b. 1868) ·
John W. Weeks, American politician in the
Republican Party (b. 1860) ·
July 14 – Roshanara, Anglo-Indian dancer (b. 1894) ·
July 17 – Bernard Coyne,
Irish Roman Catholic clergyman
(b. 1854) ·
July 18 – Tiburcio Arnáiz
Muñoz, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and venerable
(b. 1865) ·
July 22 ·
Willard Louis, American actor (b. 1882) ·
Friedrich von Wieser,
Austrian economist (b. 1851) ·
July 23 ·
Charles Avery, American actor, director and
screenwriter (b. 1873) ·
Fumiko Kaneko, Japanese anarchist and
nihilist (b. 1903) ·
July 26 ·
Ella Adayevskaya, Soviet composer (b. 1846) ·
Philippe
Sudré Dartiguenave, Haitian political figure, 25th President of Haiti (b. 1863) ·
Robert Todd Lincoln,
American statesman and businessman, son of 16th President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1843) ·
July 31 – Bronislav
Grombchevsky, Soviet army and explorer (b. 1855) ·
August 1 – Israel Zangwill, British novelist and
playwright (b. 1864) ·
August 6 – Constantin Climescu,
Romanian mathematician and politician (b. 1844) ·
August 14 – John H. Moffitt, American politician
(b. 1843) ·
August 21 – Ugyen Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1861) ·
Charles W. Eliot, President
of Harvard University (b. 1834) ·
Joe Moore,
American actor (b. 1894) ·
August 23 – Rudolph Valentino,
Italian actor (b. 1895) ·
August 27 – John
Rodgers, American naval officer and naval aviation pioneer
(b. 1881) ·
August 30 – Eddie Lyons, American actor (b. 1886) ·
September
– Rashid Tali’a,
1st Prime Minister of Transjordan (b. 1877) ·
Alexander Boyter, American stonemason
(b. 1848) ·
Rudolf Christoph
Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1846) ·
September 21 – Léon Charles
Thévenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857) ·
September 25 – Herbert Booth, English Salvationist, third
son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862) ·
September 26 – José María Orellana,
Guatemalan political and military leader, 14th President of
Guatemala (b. 1872) October–December[edit] ·
October 7 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist
(b. 1856) ·
Vaso Abashidze, Georgian actor (b. 1854) ·
Josias von Heeringen,
German general (b. 1850) ·
Hymie Weiss, American gangster (b. 1898) ·
October 12 – Paul Puhallo von
Brlog, Croatian general (b. 1856) ·
October 16 – Princess
Frederica of Hanover (b. 1848) ·
Victor Babeș, Romanian bacteriologist
(b. 1854) ·
Ludvig Karsten, German painter (b. 1876) ·
October 20 – Eugene V. Debs, American labor and political
leader (b. 1855) ·
October 24 – Salomon Ehrmann, Jewish-born Austrian
dermatologist and histologist (b. 1854) ·
Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born escapologist
(b. 1874) ·
Charles Vance Millar,
Canadian businessman (b. 1853) ·
November 3 – Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter and
entertainer (b. 1860) ·
November 6 – Carl Swartz, Swedish politician, 14th Prime Minister
of Sweden (b. 1858) ·
November 7 – Tom Forman,
American actor and director (b. 1893) ·
November 10 – Lyubov Dostoyevskaya,
Russian writer (b. 1869) ·
November 19 – Thomas Cusack,
American entrepreneur, pioneer and politician (b. 1858) ·
December 2 – Gérard Cooreman,
Belgian politician, 21st Prime Minister
of Belgium (b. 1852) ·
December 3 – Siegfried Jacobsohn,
German writer and critic (b. 1881) ·
December 4 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861) ·
December 5 – Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840) ·
December 10 – Nikola Pašić,
Serbian and Yugoslav statesman, 33rd Prime Minister
of Serbia and 4th Prime
Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1855) ·
December 16 – William Larned, American tennis champion
(b. 1872) ·
December 17 – Lars Magnus Ericsson,
Swedish inventor and founder of Ericsson (b. 1846) ·
December 20 – Narcisa Freixas, Spanish painter and
sculptor (b. 1859) ·
December 22 – Mina Arndt, New Zealand painter (b. 1885) ·
December 24 – Johan Castberg, Norwegian Radical politician
(b. 1862) ·
December 25 – Emperor Taishō, Emperor of Japan, one of the leaders
of World War I (b. 1879) ·
December 27 – Amalia Riégo, Swedish opera singer (b. 1850) ·
December 28 – Robert Felkin, British-born medical
missionary, explorer, anthropologist and occultist (b. 1853) ·
December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke,
Austrian poet (b. 1875) ·
December 30 – Felice
Napoleone Canevaro, Italian admiral (b. 1838) Nobel Prizes[edit] |
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