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1942 (MCMXLII) was
a common year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1942nd year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 942nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 42nd year of
the 20th century,
and the 3rd year of the 1940s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] Below, events of World War II have the "WWII"
prefix. Map of Europe at the height of German
control in 1942, Britain remaining the only country in Western Europe held by
Allied forces January[edit] ·
January 1 – WWII: ·
The Declaration
by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the
United States, the Soviet Union and 22 other nations, in which they agree
"not to make any separate peace with the Axis powers". ·
United
States and Philippines troops
fight the Battle of Bataan against
Japanese forces. ·
January 2 – WWII: ·
Japanese
warplanes bomb Manila, Philippines. ·
Activation
of the United States Eighth Air Force in Savannah, Georgia. ·
January 7 – WWII: ·
Operation Typhoon,
the German attempt to take Moscow, ends in failure. ·
The
siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins. ·
January 11 – WWII: ·
Dutch East
Indies campaign: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades
the Dutch East Indies. ·
Malayan Campaign: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Federated Malay
States. ·
Heinkel test pilot Helmut Schenk
becomes the first person to escape from a stricken aircraft with an ejection seat. ·
Henry Ford patents a plastic
automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car. ·
January 14 – Sikorsky R-4 first flies, in the United
States; it will become the first mass-produced helicopter. ·
January 14–15 – WWII: Operation Drumbeat – German
submarine U-123 under the command of Reinhard Hardegensinks
a Norwegian tanker within sight of Long Island before entering New York Harbor and sinking a British
tanker off Sandy Hook as
she leaves heading south along the East
Coast of the United States. ·
January 16 – American film
actress Carole Lombard and
her mother are among all 22 aboard TWA Flight 3 killed when the Douglas DC-3 plane crashes into Potosi Mountain near Las Vegas while she is returning from a
tour to promote the sale of war bonds. ·
January 19 – WWII: ·
Japanese
forces invade Burma. ·
Establishment
of Commands of the United States Eighth Air Force: VIII Bomber Command
initially at Langley Fieldin
Virginia and VIII Fighter Command at Selfridge
Field in Michigan. ·
January 20 – The Holocaust: Nazis at the Wannsee Conference in
Berlin decide that the "Final Solution (Endlösung) to
the Jewish problem" is relocation, and later extermination. ·
January 21 – WWII: Erwin Rommel launches his new offensive
in Cyrenaica. ·
January 23 – WWII: The Battle of Rabaul begins. ·
January 25 – WWII: Thailand declares war on the United
States and United Kingdom. ·
January 26 – WWII: The first American
forces arrive in Europe, landing in Northern Ireland. ·
January 31 – WWII: Malayan Campaign: The last organized Allied
forces leave British Malaya,
ending the 54-day campaign, and the Johor–Singapore
Causeway is severed. February[edit] ·
February
– C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape
Letters first published in book format in England. ·
February 1 – WWII: The Command staff of
the Eighth Air Force reaches
England. ·
February 1 – Mao Zedong makes a speech on
"Reform in Learning, the Party and Literature", starting the Yan'an
Rectification Movement in the Communist Party
of China. ·
February 3 – WWII: Rommel suspends his
offensive in Cyrenaica. ·
February 7 – United
States Maritime Commission fleet operations transferred to
the War Shipping
Administration(lasting until September 1, 1946). ·
António Óscar
Carmona is elected president of Portugal. ·
WWII:
Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss
American military strategy in the war. ·
Daylight saving time goes
into effect in the United States. ·
February 9 – The ocean liner SS Normandie catches fire
while being converted into the troopship USS Lafayette (AP-53)
for WWII at pier 88 in New York City: she capsizes early the following
morning. ·
February 11 – Operation Cerberus:
A flotilla of Kriegsmarine ships
dash from Brest through
the English Channel to
northern ports; the British fail to sink any of them. ·
February 15 – WWII: Singapore surrenders
to Japanese forces. ·
February 18 – WWII: More than 200
American sailors die in Newfoundland when
the USS Truxtun runs
aground near Chambers Cove and the USS Pollux runs
aground at Lawn Point. ·
February 19 – WWII: ·
Japanese warplanes bomb
Darwin, Australia. ·
A
returning Japanese fighter plane crashes on Melville
Island (Australia) and its pilot, Hajime Toyoshima, becomes the first Japanese
captured on Australian soil when indigenous
resident Matthias Ulungura takes
him prisoner. ·
United
States President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 allowing
the United States military to define areas as exclusionary zones. These zones
affect the Japanese on
the West Coast, and Germans and Italians primarily
on the East Coast. ·
February 19–23 – WWII: Battle of
Sittang Bridge – British forces retreat to the Sittaung River. ·
February 20 – WWII: Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's last
U.S. Navy flying ace of
the war. ·
February 22 – WWII: General George Marshall transmits a direct
order to General MacArthur in President Roosevelt's
name, ordering MacArthur himself to turn over command of the Philippines to a subordinate and report
to Australia to assume command of the large American force being built up
there. The orders are worded to allow MacArthur to choose the exact moment of
his departure; for various reasons, he will not
leave until March 11. ·
February 23 – WWII: The Japanese submarine I-17 fires
17 high-explosive shells toward an oil refinery near Santa Barbara,
California, causing little damage. ·
Struma disaster: MV Struma, carrying Jewish
refugees from Axis-allied Romania to British-administered Palestine, is
torpedoed and sunk by the Soviet submarine Shch-213,
killing about 791 men, women and children, with only one survivor. ·
Propaganda: The Voice of America begins broadcasting. ·
February 25 – "Battle of Los
Angeles": Over 1,400 AA shells are fired at an unidentified,
slow-moving object (probably a meteorological balloon) in the skies over Los
Angeles. The appearance of the object triggers an immediate wartime blackout
over most of Southern California,
with thousands of air raid wardens being deployed throughout the city. At
least 5 deaths are related to the incident. Despite the several-hour barrage
no planes are downed. ·
The
worst coal dust explosion to date, in
Honkeiko, China, claims 1,549 lives. ·
The 14th Academy Awards ceremony
is held in Los Angeles; How Green
Was My Valley wins Best
Picture. ·
February 27 – WWII: Battle of the Java
Sea: An allied (ABDA) task force of 14
vessels under Dutch command,
trying to stem a Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies,
is defeated by a 19-vessel Japanese task force in the Java Sea; 2.300 sailors die, including the
commander, admiral Karel Doorman;
Japanese attain naval hegemony in East-Asia. March[edit] ·
March
– Construction begins on the Badger Army
Ammunition Plant, the largest in the United States during WWII. ·
March 6 – Yugoslav Partisans operating
in Nazi-occupied Serbia assassinate
Đorđe Kosmajac in Belgrade. ·
March 9 – WWII: Executive order 9082 (February 28,
1942) comes into effect reorganizing the United States Army into three major
commands: Army Ground Forces, Army Air
Forces, and Services of Supply,
later redesignated Army Service Forces,
with Henry H. Arnold as
Commanding General of the United
States Army Air Forces. ·
March 11 – WWII: Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines –
U.S. General Douglas MacArthur,
his family and key members of his staff are evacuated by PT boat, under cover of evening darkness,
from Corregidor in
the Philippines. Command
of U.S. forces in the Philippines passes to Major
General Jonathan M. Wainwright. ·
March 15 – WWII: The Dünamünde Action takes
place. 1,900 central European Jews are shot dead north east of Riga,
1,840 are killed on the 26th. ·
March 16 – WWII: New Zealand and
Australia declare war on Thailand. ·
March 17 – The Holocaust: Operation Reinhard –
The Nazi German Bełżec
extermination camp opens in occupied
Poland about 1 km south of the railroad station at Bełżec in
the Lublin district of the General Government.
At least 434,508 people are killed here up to December 1942. ·
March 18 – Franklin D.
Roosevelt, President of the United States, signs Executive Order 9102,
creating the War Relocation
Authority (WRA), which becomes responsible for the internment
of Americans of Japanese and, to a lesser extent, German and Italian descent,
many of them legal citizens. ·
March 20 – WWII: After being forced to
flee the Philippines, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur announces
(in Terowie, South
Australia), "I came through and I shall return."[1] ·
March 22 – WWII: Second Battle of
Sirte in the Mediterranean Sea –
Escorting warships of a British convoy to Malta ward off a much more
powerful Regia Marina(Italian
Navy) squadron north of the Gulf of Sirte. ·
March 23 – WWII: The Germans burn down
the Ukrainian village of Yelino (Koriukivka Raion), killing 296 civilians.[2] ·
March 24 – The evacuation of Polish
nationals from the Soviet Union begins. It is conducted in two phases: until
5 April; and between 10 and 30 August 1942, by sea from Krasnovodsk to
Pahlavi (Anzali), and (to a lesser extent) overland from Ashkabad to Mashhad.
In all, 115,000 people are evacuated, 37,000 of them civilians, 18,000
children (7% of the number of Polish citizens originally exiled to the Soviet
Union).[3] ·
March 28 – WWII: ·
St Nazaire Raid (Operation Chariot) –
British Commandos raid Saint-Nazaire on the coast of Western
France to put its dockyard facilities out of action. ·
Bombing
of Lübeck in World War II: St. Mary's
Church, Lübeck is destroyed by an allied bombing raid. ·
March 31 – WWII: Battle of
Christmas Island – Japanese troops occupy Christmas Island without resistance
following a mutiny by British Indian Army troops
against their British officers. April[edit] ·
April ·
The Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Sobibór opens
in occupied
Poland on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór.
Between April 1942 and October 1943, at least 160,000 people are killed here. ·
77 Uzbek prisoners of war held at Amersfoort
concentration camp in the occupied Netherlands are shot by
Nazi German guards, 24 of their compatriots having previously died there as a
result of forced starvation.[4] ·
Spring
– The Holocaust:
the Nazi German extermination camp Treblinka II opens in occupied
Poland near the village of Treblinka.
Between July 23, 1942, and October 1943, around 850,000 people are killed
here,[5] more than 800,000 of whom are Jews.[6] ·
April 3 – WWII: Japanese forces begin
the last phase of the Battle of Bataan, an all-out assault on the
United States and Filipino troops
on the Bataan Peninsula. ·
April 5 – WWII: Easter Sunday Raid –
Aircraft of the Japanese Navy attack Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are
sunk southwest of the island. ·
April 9 – WWII: ·
The
Bataan Peninsula falls and the Bataan Death March begins. ·
The
Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); the
Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes (95) and Royal Australian
Navydestroyer HMAS Vampire are
sunk off the country's East Coast. ·
April 12 – Disney's Bambi was released in theaters everywhere. ·
April 13 – The United States Federal
Communications Commission's minimum programming time required of
TV stations is cut from 15 hours to 4 hours a week during the war. ·
April 14 ·
WWII:
The submarine HMS Upholder is
sunk. ·
WWII:
The German
submarine U-85 is sunk by USS Roper. ·
April 15 – WWII: Award
of the George Cross to Malta: King George VI awards the George Cross to the island of Malta to mark the Siege of
Malta, saying, "To honour her brave people I award the George
Cross to the Island Fortress of Malta, to bear witness to a heroism and a
devotion that will long be famous in history" (from January 1 to July
24, there is only one 24-hour period during which no bombs fall on this tiny
island). ·
April 17 – WWII: Henri Giraud the French commander
captured in 1940, escapes from Königstein Fortress. ·
April 18 – WWII: Tokyo, Japan, is
attacked by the Doolittle Raid,
a small force of B-25 Mitchell bomber
aircraft commanded by then-Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle. ·
April 23 ·
WWII: Exeter becomes the first historic
English city bombed as part of the Baedeker Blitz in retaliation for the
British bombing
of Lübeck. ·
Exeter-born William Temple enthroned
as Archbishop of
Canterbury. ·
April 25 – The Princess Elizabeth registers for
war service in the U.K. ·
April 26 – WWII: The Reichstag meets
for the last time, dissolving itself and proclaiming Adolf Hitler the "Supreme Judge of
the German People", granting him the power of life and death over every
German citizen. ·
April 27 ·
WWII:
A national
plebiscite is held in Canada on the issue of conscription. ·
The
Jewish Star of David is
required wearing for all Jews in the Netherlands and Belgium; Jews in other
Nazi-controlled countries have already been wearing it. ·
April 29 – WWII: An explosion at a
chemical factory in Tessenderlo, Belgium
leaves 200 dead and 1,000 injured. May[edit] ·
May
– Operation Pluto:
The plan to construct oil pipelines under the English Channel between England and
France is tested in the River Medway. ·
May 3–4 – WWII: Invasion of
Tulagi by Japanese forces in the British Solomon
Islands of the South Pacific as part of Operation Mo. ·
May 5 – WWII: Operation Ironclad:
British forces invade the French colony of Madagascar. ·
May 7 – WWII: On Corregidor, the last American and Filipino forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese
under command of 2LT Robert L. Obourn (92nd
Coast Artillery Regiment, G Battery) from Fort Mills, as directed by LTG Jonathan
M. Wainwright, the overall commander.[7][8] ·
May 8 – WWII: ·
The Battle of
the Kerch Peninsula: The German 11th Army begins
Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet Armies (44th,
47th, and 51st) defending the Kerch Peninsula, in the eastern part of
the Crimea.[9] ·
The Battle of the
Coral Sea (first battle in naval history where 2 enemy fleets
fight without seeing each other's fleets) ends in an Allied victory. ·
The Battle of
the Kerch Peninsula: German and Romanian forces launches
Unternehmen Trappenjagd (Operation Busted Hunt) aiming at defeating the
Soviet Crimean Front defending
the Kerch Peninsula.
The battle ends in Axis victory. Part of the Eastern
Front. ·
May 8/9 – WWII: At night, gunners of the
Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands mutiny.
The mutiny is crushed and three executed (the only British Commonwealth
soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War). ·
May 12 – WWII: ·
Second Battle of
Kharkov: In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive
to capture the city of Kharkov from the
German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed. ·
The Japanese
minelayer Okinoshima is sunk by the American
submarine USS S-42. ·
May 14 – Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait is performed for
the first time by the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra. ·
May 15 – WWII: In the United States, a
bill creating the Women's Auxiliary Army
Corps (WAAC) is signed into law. ·
May 20 – The first African-American
seamen are taken into the United States Navy. ·
May 21 – WWII: Mexico declares war
against Nazi Germany after
the sinking of the Mexican tanker Faja de Oro by German
submarine U-160 off Key West. ·
May 26 – WWII: ·
Battle of Bir Hakeim:
The Free French and British troops slow the German advance in North Africa. ·
Anglo-Soviet
Treaty of 1942 to help establish military and political
alliance between the USSR and the British Empire is signed in London by
foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and
by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. ·
May 27 – WWII: Operation Anthropoid:
Czech paratroopers attempt to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. ·
May 29 – Spelling
reform: ·
The
Thai spelling reform of 1942 was initiated by the government of Prime
Minister Field Marshal Plaek
Phibunsongkhram. The prime minister's office announced a
simplification of the Thai alphabet on 29 May 1942. The announcement was
published in the Royal Gazette on 1 June 1942. The reform was cancelled by
the government of Khuang Aphaiwong on 2 August 1944. ·
May 30–31 – WWII: Bombing
of Cologne – British RAF Bomber Command's
"Operation Millennium", its first 1,000 bomber raid, with
associated fires make 13,000 families homeless and kills around 475 people,
mostly civilians; 3,330 non-residential buildings are totally destroyed. ·
May 31–June 1 – WWII: Attack on Sydney
Harbour: Japanese midget submarines infiltrate Sydney
Harbour in Australia in an attempt to attack Allied warships. June[edit] June 4: The Japanese aircraft carrier, Hiryū under
attack by US aircraft at the Battle of Midway ·
June 1 ·
WWII:
Mexico declares war on Germany, Italy and Japan. ·
The Grand Coulee Dam is finished on the Columbia River. ·
June 4 – WWII: Reinhard Heydrich succumbs
to wounds sustained on May 27 from
Czechoslovakian paratroopers acting in Operation Anthropoid. ·
June 5 – The United States declares war
on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania. ·
June 4–June 7 – WWII: The Battle of Midway: The Japanese naval advance
in the Pacific is halted. ·
June 7 – WWII: Japanese forces invade
the Aleutian Islands (the
first invasion of American soil in 128 years). ·
June 8 – WWII: Attack on Sydney
Harbour: The Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle are
shelled by Japanese submarines. The eastern suburbs of both cities are
damaged and the east coast is blacked out. ·
June 9 – WWII: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing
of Reinhard Heydrich. ·
June 10 – WWII: The Gestapo massacres
173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia in retaliation for the
killing of Reinhard Heydrich. ·
June 12 – The Holocaust: On her 13th birthday, Anne Frank makes the first entry in her
new diary. ·
June 13 – WWII: The United States opens
its Office of War
Information, a propaganda center. ·
June 18 – WWII: The SS surrounds the
church where Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík,
the assassins of Reinhard Heydrich,
are hiding. Kubiš is fatally wounded in the ensuing shootout and Gabčík
commits suicide to avoid capture. ·
June 23 – The experimental early type
of a nuclear reactor L-IV led to an
accident, becoming the first nuclear accident in history and
consisting of steam explosion and reactor fire in Leipzig. ·
June 28 – WWII: The Germans
launch Case Blue, Army
Group South's drive to Stalingrad and the Baku Oil fields. ·
June 29 – WWII: The German Eleventh
Army under Erich von Manstein takes Sevastopol, although fighting rages
until July 9. July[edit] ·
July
– The Holocaust:
Inmates of Westerbork
transit camp in the occupied Netherlands begin to be shipped to
Nazi extermination camps.
From now until 1944 around 107,000, mostly Jewish, from here will be killed. ·
July 1–July 27 – WWII: The First Battle
of El Alamein: British forces prevent a second advance by Axis
forces into Egypt. ·
July 3 – WWII: Guadalcanal, occupied only by aborigines,
falls to the Japanese Naval construction force deployed to construct an air
field on the island. ·
July 4 – WWII in the European
Theater of Operations: ·
Twenty-four
ships are sunk by German bombers and submarines after Convoy PQ 17 to the Soviet Union is
scattered in the Arctic Ocean to evade the German
battleship Tirpitz. ·
The
United States Eighth Air Force inauspiciously
flies its first mission in Europe using borrowed British planes and bombs
targets in the Netherlands, such as De Kooy airfield attached to Den Helder naval base. Three of six
aircraft return;[10] For this mission, Captain Charles C. Kegelman is the
first member of the Force to be awarded the U.S. Distinguished
Flying Cross.[11] ·
July 6 – The Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an
attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse. ·
July 8 – Turkish prime minister Refik Saydam dies while working in
office. For one day he is succeeded by Ahmet Fikri Tüzer. ·
July 9 – Şükrü
Saracoğlu forms the new (13th) government in Turkey. ·
July 13 – WWII: U-boats sink 3 more merchant ships in
the Gulf of St. Lawrence. ·
July 14 – WWII: Germany introduces
the Ostvolk Medal for
Soviet personnel in the Wehrmacht. ·
July 16 ·
The Holocaust: By order of the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up
13,000–20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome. ·
Georges Bégué and
others escape from the Mauzac prison
camp. ·
July 18 – WWII: The Germans test fly
the Messerschmitt Me 262 (using
only its jet engines) for
the first time. ·
July 19 – WWII: Battle of the
Atlantic: German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United
States Atlantic coast positions, in response to an effective American convoy
system. ·
July 21 – WWII: The Japanese establish
a beachhead on the north coast of New Guinea in the Buna-Gona area; a
small Australian force begins a rearguard action on the Kokoda Track
campaign. ·
July 22 – The Holocaust: The systematic deportation of
Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins. ·
July 23 – The Holocaust: The gas chambers at Treblinka
extermination camp begin operation, killing 6,500 Jews newly
arrived from the Warsaw Ghetto. ·
July 29 – The Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union institutes the Order of Suvorov, the Order of Kutuzov, and reinstates the Order of
Alexander Nevsky. ·
July 30 – WWII: ·
WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer
Emergency Service), the United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve), is
signed into law. ·
SS Robert
E. Lee sunk in the Gulf of Mexico by U-166 which
is itself sunk by the escorting patrol craft. ·
July 31 – The Oxford
Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam) is founded in England. August[edit] ·
August 4-WWII: Operation Letica: A failed assassination on
Serbian fascist Minister of Finance Dušan Letica by a group Yugoslav Resistance fighters ·
August 7 – WWII: Guadalcanal Campaign begins
– The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps begin
the first American offensive of the war with an amphibiouslanding
on the island of Guadalcanal in
the Solomon Islands. ·
August 8 ·
WWII:
Allied North Atlantic convoy SC 94 loses ten ships as the
first to be heavily attacked by U-boats resuming mid-Atlantic wolf pack attacks
through the climactic winter of 1942/43.[12] ·
WWII:
In Washington, D.C., six German saboteurs are executed for their role
in a failed mission of Operation Pastorius.
(Two others are cooperative and receive sentences of life imprisonment
instead, being freed a few years after the end of the war.) ·
August 9 ·
Indian
leader Mohandas Gandhi is
arrested in Bombay by British forces. ·
Start, led by the goalkeeper Nikolai
Trusevich, play football against the
German Luftwaffe team Flakelf in Nazi-occupied Kiev. Against all
odds, they win 5–3. Eight of them are later arrested and tortured, and at
least four are killed. ·
Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 with
the city still under siege. ·
August 13 – Quit India resolution is passed by
the Bombay session of the All India
Congress Committee (AICC), which leads to the start of a historical civil
disobedience movement across India. ·
August 15 – WWII: The American
tanker Ohio reaches Malta as part of the
convoy of Operation Pedestal. ·
Polish-Jewish teacher Janusz Korczak follows a group of
Jewish children into the Treblinka
extermination camp. ·
U.S.
Navy blimp L-8 (Flight
101) comes ashore near San Francisco, eventually coming down in Daly City (the
crew is missing). ·
August 17 – WWII: First raid by heavy
bombers of U.S. Eighth Air Force based
in England against occupied France. ·
August 19 – WWII: Dieppe Raid: Allied forces raid Dieppe, France. ·
August 20 – Plutonium is isolated for the first
time at the Metallurgical
Laboratory of the University of
Chicago. ·
August 21 – WWII: Battle of the Tenaru:
Allies defeat Japanese land forces on Guadalcanal. ·
August 22 – WWII: Brazil declares war on
Germany and Italy. ·
August 23 – WWII: Battle of Stalingrad begins: German troops reach the suburbs
of Stalingrad. ·
WWII: Charge of the Savoia Cavalleria at Isbuscenskij:
An Italian cavalry regiment
attacks Soviet forces with drawn sabres at Isbuscenskij in Russia, one
of the last major cavalry charges. ·
WWII:
Allied North Atlantic convoy ON 122 is attacked by U-boats which sink four ships.[13] ·
WWII:
2-day Battle of
the Eastern Solomons opens: Bombers from carrier USS Saratoga sink Japanese
aircraft carrier Ryūjō near Santa Isabel Island,
helping to lead to an Allied victory. ·
Walt Disney's live-action/animated
film Saludos Amigos has
its world premiere in Rio de Janeiro. ·
WWII: Battle of Milne Bay opens
when Japanese marines land
at Milne Bay. ·
Prince
George, Duke of Kent, brother to King George VI and King Edward VIII, dies in a flying accident
over Morven in
Scotland at the age of 39. ·
August 27–28 – Sarny Massacre: Nazi troops and the Ukrainian
Auxiliary Police systematically execute more than 14,000
people, mostly Jews, in and around Sarnyin German-occupied
Poland. ·
August 28 – Polish writer Zofia Kossak-Szczucka as
head of underground organization Front for
the Rebirth of Poland publish in Warsaw her Protest! against mass murder of Jews in
German occupied Poland. ·
August 30 – Luxembourg is formally annexed to the
German Reich. ·
August 30–September 5 – WWII: Battle of Alam el
Halfa – British forces in the Western Desert resist German
attack. ·
August 31 – 1942
Luxembourgish general strike is launched to protest against
forced conscription in Luxembourg. September[edit] ·
September 2 – The island of Les Casquets in the Channel Islands is
raided by the forerunner of the British SAS,
the SSRF, led by
Major Gus March-Phillipps;
this is one of the first raids by Anders Lassen VC. In the raid the
entire garrison of 7 is abducted and returned to England as prisoners and the
radio and lighthouse wrecked.[14][15] ·
September 3 – The Holocaust: A German attempt to liquidate
the Jewish Łachwa Ghetto in occupied
Poland leads to an uprising, probably the first ghetto uprisingof the war. ·
WWII: Battle of Milne Bay:
Japanese forces suffer their first defeat on land. ·
The
Holocaust: The Jews of Wolbrom in occupied
Poland are rounded up by the Germans and their Ukrainian collaborators. What
was once a flourishing community suddenly ceases to exist.[16] ·
September 9 – WWII: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary devices at Mount Emily, near Brookings, Oregon,
in the first of two "Lookout Air Raids",
the first bombing of the continental United States. ·
WWII:
North Atlantic convoy ON 127 is
attacked by U-boats, sinking six ships.[17] ·
Women's
Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) begins operation in the
United States. ·
September 12 – The RMS Laconia, carrying civilians,
Allied soldiers and Italian Prisoners of War, is torpedoed off the coast of
West Africa and sinks, killing 1,649 people. ·
September 15 – Women's
Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) established in the United
States. ·
September 24 – WWII: Andrée Borrel and Lise de Baissac become the first
female SOE agents
to be parachuted into occupied France. ·
September 26 – The Holocaust: Nazi official August Frank issues the August Frank
memorandum setting out how the belongings of
"evacuated" (i.e. murdered) Jews are to be disposed of. ·
September 27 – WWII: Both commerce raiding German
auxiliary cruiser Stier and American Liberty ship SS Stephen
Hopkins sink following a gun battle in the South
Atlantic. Hilfskreuzer Stier is the only
commerce raider to be sunk by a defensively
equipped merchant ship.[18] ·
September 29 – WWII: At Babi Yar a ravine in Kiev,
33,771 Jews are killed during a two-day massacre. October[edit] ·
British
cruiser HMS Curacoa collides
with liner RMS Queen Mary (carrying
troops from the United States) off the coast of Donegal and sinks; 338 drown. ·
WWII:
Japanese troopship Lisbon Maru sinks
following a torpedo attack the previous day by submarine USS Grouper off the coast
of China; 829 are killed, mostly British Prisoners of War who (unknown to the
attacker) were being held on board. ·
October 3 – The first A-4 rocket is successfully launched
from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. The rocket flies 147
kilometres wide and reaches a height of 84.5 kilometres, becoming the first
man-made object to reach space. ·
WWII: Third
Battle of the Matanikau on Guadalcanal: American forces defeat the
Japanese. ·
The Statute
of Westminster Adoption Act passed by the Parliament of
Australia formalizes Australian autonomy from the United
Kingdom. ·
October 11 – WWII: Battle of Cape
Esperance: On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships
intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the
island. ·
October 13 – WWII: North Atlantic convoy SC 104 is attacked by U-boats sinking seven ships.[19] ·
The Holocaust: The International
Committee of the Red Cross, meeting in special session at the
Hotel Métropole, Geneva, Switzerland,
declines to issue an international appeal condemning the holding of civilians
in Nazi
concentration camps.[20] ·
WWII:
A U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou off Newfoundland,
killing 137. ·
A hurricane and flood in Bengal kill 40,000.[specify] ·
The
Mouse of Tomorrow featuring the debut of Mighty Mouse is released. ·
October 18 – WWII: Hitler issues Commando Order which stipulates that
all Allied commandos encountered
by German forces should be executed immediately without trial, even in proper
uniforms, in response to the Dieppe Raid and Operation Basalt conducted by the
Allies. After the war, the Nuremberg trials found this order a
direct violation of the laws and customs
of war. ·
October 21 – A Royal New
Zealand Air Force torpedo bomber sinks the German MS Palatia with
a loss of 946 lives. ·
October 23 – Award-winning composer and
songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks
for the Memory") is among 12 people killed in a mid-air collision
between an American Airlines DC-3 and a U.S. Army bomber near Palm Springs,
California. ·
October 23–26 – WWII: Battle for
Henderson Field: Japanese forces fail to recapture Henderson
Field airfield in Guadalcanal from the Americans. ·
October 23–November 4 – WWII: Second Battle
of El Alamein: British troops go on the offensive against the Axis
forces. ·
October 26 – WWII: Battle
of the Santa Cruz Islands: Two Japanese aircraft carriers are
heavily damaged and one U.S. Navy carrier is sunk. ·
Film
actor Errol Flynn is
accused of statutory rape by two teenage girls. ·
The Alaska Highway is completed. ·
October 29 – The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom,
leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register
outrage over Nazi Germany's
persecution of Jews. ·
October 30 – WWII: ·
U-boats sink eleven ships attacking
diversionary convoy SL 125,
but move out of the path of approaching troopships carrying Allied Operation Torch invasion forces.[21] ·
British
sailors board U-559 as
it sinks in the Mediterranean and retrieve its Enigma machine and codebooks. November[edit] ·
November 1 – WWII: North Atlantic convoy SC 107 is heavily attacked
by U-boats sinking fifteen ships.[22] ·
November 2 – A USAAF squadron, including B-24 Liberators, intercepts many Luftwaffe patrols off the coast
of Oran, Algeria. ·
November 3 – WWII: Second Battle
of El Alamein: German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during
the night. ·
November 8 – WWII: ·
Operation Torch: United States and United
Kingdom forces land in French North Africa. ·
French
Resistance Coup in Algiers: 400 French
civil resisters neutralize the Vichyist XIXth Army Corps and the Vichyist
generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.) thus allowing the immediate success of
Operation Torch in Algiers, and ultimately the whole of French North Africa. ·
November 9 – WWII: U.S.
serviceman Edward Leonski is
hanged at Melbourne's Pentridge Prison for the "Brown-Out" murders
of three women in May. ·
November 10 – WWII: In violation of
a 1940 armistice, Germany invades Vichy France, following French Admiral François Darlan's
agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa. ·
November 12 – WWII: Guadalcanal Campaign:
A naval battle near Guadalcanal starts
between Japanese and American forces. ·
November 13 – WWII: ·
Guadalcanal Campaign:
Aviators from the USS Enterprise sink
the Japanese battleship Hiei. ·
British
forces capture Tobruk. ·
November 15 – WWII: ·
The Naval Battle
of Guadalcanal ends: Although the United States Navy suffers
heavy losses, it retains control of Guadalcanal. ·
A BOAC scheduled
passenger flight, a DC-3 with registration
G-AGBB, (formerly KLM PH-ALI, Ibis), en route
between Lisbon and Bristol, is attacked over the Bay of Biscay by German fighters.
Although damaged, it escapes and lands in England. Other attacks follow on
the same aircraft and scheduled route: April 19and June 1, 1943 (fatal). ·
British
forces capture Derna, Libya. ·
November 18 – WWII: North
Atlantic convoy ON 144 is
attacked by U-boats sinking five ships.[23] ·
November 19 – WWII: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counter-attacks
at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle
in the USSR's favor. ·
November 20 – WWII: British forces
capture Benghazi. ·
November 21 – The completion of
the Alaska Highway (also
known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the "highway" is not usable by general
vehicles until 1943). ·
November 22 – WWII: Battle of Stalingrad:
The situation for the German attackers of Stalingrad seems desperate during
the Soviet counter-attack Operation Uranus, and General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German Sixth Army is
surrounded. ·
November 23 – WWII ·
A U-boat sinks the SS Ben Lomond off
the coast of Brazil. One crewman, Chinese second steward Poon Lim, is separated from the others and
spends 130 days adrift until he is rescued on April 3, 1943. ·
Legislation
approves the United States
Coast Guard Women's Reserve to help fill jobs and free men to
serve during the war effort. They are known as the SPARS ("Semper Paratus, Always
Ready!") ·
November 25–26 – WWII: Operation Harling:
A British Special
Operations Executive team, together with Greek Resistance fighters, blows up
the Gorgopotamosviaduct
in the first major sabotage act in occupied continental Europe. ·
November 26 – The movie Casablanca premières
at the Hollywood Theater in New York City. ·
November 27 – WWII: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles
its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands. ·
Cocoanut Grove fire:
A fire in the Cocoanut Grove night club in Boston, Massachusetts, kills 491. ·
The
large-scale German "pacification" of the Zamojszczyzna region of
Poland begins. ·
November 29 – The Blue Star Line cargo liner MV Dunedin Star runs
aground on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia. Crew and passengers survive
following a 26-day overland trek to Windhoek.[24] ·
November 30 – WWII: Battle of
Tassafaronga – In a nighttime naval battle as part of the Guadalcanal Campaign,
ships of the Imperial Japanese
Navy defeat those of the United States Navy. December[edit] ·
December 1 – Gasoline rationing begins in the United
States. ·
December 2 – Manhattan Project:
Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of
Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first
self-sustaining nuclear chain
reaction (a coded message, "The Italian navigator has
landed in the new world" is then sent to U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt). ·
The Holocaust: In Warsaw, two women, Zofia Kossak and Wanda Filipowicz, risk
their lives by setting up the Council for the Assistance of the Jews. ·
WWII:
USAAF bombers make their first raid on Italy. ·
December 7 – WWII: ·
British
commandos conduct Operation Frankton,
a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour. ·
The battleship USS New
Jersey (BB-62) is launched at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. ·
December 8 – A fire at Seacliff Lunatic
Asylum in New Zealand kills 39 patients. ·
December 10 – The Holocaust: The Polish
government-in-exile sends copies of The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied
Poland, including Raczyński's
Note, the first official report on The Holocaust, to 26
governments who signed the Declaration
by United Nations. ·
December 12 – WWII: German troops
began Operation Winter
Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during
the Battle of Stalingrad. ·
December 15 – WWII: Guadalcanal Campaign – Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the
Sea Horse: United States and allied forces begin to attack
Japanese positions near the Matanikau River. ·
December 17 – The Allies issue
the Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations (as
the answer to Raczyński's
Note), the first time they publicly acknowledge the Holocaust. ·
An
avalanche in Aliquippa,
Pennsylvania, kills 26, including Vulcan Crucible Steel
heir-apparent Samuel A. Stafford Sr., when two 100 ton boulders fall on a bus
filled with wartime steel workers on their way home. ·
An
airplane carrying prominent Ustashe general Jure Francetić crashes.
Francetić dies as result of the injuries on December 27. ·
December 24 – French Admiral Darlan,
the former Vichy leader
who has switched over to the Allies following the Torch landings, is assassinated
in Algiers. ·
December 27 – The Union of
Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded. ·
December 28 – North Atlantic Convoy ON 154 is heavily attacked
by U-boats sinking thirteen ships.[25] Date unknown[edit] ·
DDT is
first used as a pesticide. ·
1942 FIFA World Cup competition in Association football,
which Nazi Germany sought
to host, is not held, due to World War II. Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
Country Joe McDonald,
American musician ·
Gennadi Sarafanov,
Russian cosmonaut (d. 2005) ·
Dennis Hastert, American politician, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ·
Hugh Shelton, American military leader,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ·
Donna Axum, American beauty pageant winner
and model (d. 2018) ·
László Sólyom, President of Hungary ·
John Thaw, English actor (d. 2002) ·
Bolaji Akinyemi, Nigerian professor of
political science ·
Dame Marcela Contreras,
Chilean-British immunologist and educator ·
Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist ·
Charlie Rose, American television anchor and
talk show host ·
January 7 – Vasily Alekseyev, Soviet weightlifter ·
Stephen Hawking, British physicist (d. 2018) ·
Junichiro Koizumi,
56th Prime Minister of
Japan ·
Richard Beggs, American sound designer ·
January 12 – Ramiro de León
Carpio, 31st President of
Guatemala (d. 2002) ·
January 14 – Yogesh Kumar
Sabharwal, Chief Justice of
India ·
January 16 – René Angélil,
Canadian singer and manager (d. 2016) ·
Muhammad Ali, American boxer (d. 2016) ·
Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist ·
Antonio Fraguas
de Pablo, Spanish graphic humorist (d. 2018) ·
Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist ·
January 19 – Michael Crawford, English actor, singer and
entertainer ·
January 22 – Amine Gemayel, 12th President of Lebanon ·
January 23 – Salim Ahmed Salim,
4th Prime Minister of Tanzania ·
Carl Eller, American football player ·
Eusébio, Mozambican Portuguese footballer
(d. 2014) ·
January 26 – Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress (d. 2001) ·
Tasuku Honjo, Japanese immunologist, Nobel
Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine ·
John Witherspoon,
American actor and comedian ·
Hans Jürgen Bäumler,
German figure skater, actor, pop singer and television host ·
Erkki Pohjanheimo,
Finnish TV-producer and director ·
January 30 – Marty Balin, American singer, songwriter,
and musician (d. 2018) ·
Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress ·
Derek Jarman, English director and writer
(d. 1994) February[edit] ·
Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress
(d. 1996) ·
Terry Jones, Welsh actor and writer ·
February 2 – Graham Nash, English rock musician ·
February 5 – Roger Staubach, American football player ·
February 6 – Ahmad-Jabir
Ahmadov Ismail oghlu, Azeri professor and academic ·
February 8 – Gordon Morritt, English footballer (d. 2018) ·
February 9 – Carole King, American singer and composer ·
February 10 – Howard Mudd, American offensive lineman
& offensive line coach ·
Otis Clay, American R&B and soul singer
(d. 2016) ·
Leon Haywood, American funk and soul singer,
songwriter and record producer (d. 2016) ·
Ehud Barak, Prime Minister
of Israel ·
Lionel Grigson, British jazz pianist,
composer, writer, educator (d. 1994) ·
Carol Lynley, American actress ·
Donald E. Williams,
American astronaut (d. 2016) ·
Peter Tork, American musician, performer ·
February 14 – Michael Bloomberg,
American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City ·
February 15 – Sherry Jackson, American actress ·
February 19 – Paul Krause, American football player ·
Phil Esposito, Canadian hockey player ·
Mitch McConnell, United States
Senator (R-KY) ·
February 21 – Margarethe von
Trotta, German actress, film director, and writer ·
February 24 – Joe Lieberman, American politician,
longtime Connecticut Senator (1989–2013),
and 2000 Democratic
nominee for Vice President under Al Gore ·
February 25 – Karen Grassle, American actress ·
February 27 – Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Brian Jones, English musician (d. 1969) ·
Dino Zoff, Italian footballer and manager March[edit] ·
March 2 ·
John Irving, American author ·
Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2013) ·
March 5 – Felipe González, Prime Minister of
Spain ·
March 7 ·
Tammy Faye Bakker,
American evangelist, singer and television personality (d. 2007) ·
Michael Eisner, American film studio
executive ·
Wiphot Phetchsuphan,
Thai singer-songwriter ·
March 9 ·
Pedro Bandeira, Brazilian children's author ·
John Cale, Welsh composer and musician ·
Bert Campaneris, Cuban-American baseball player ·
March 12 ·
Ratko Mladić, former Bosnian Serb
military leader ·
Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player ·
March 13 ·
Dave Cutler, American software engineer ·
Scatman John, American musician (d. 1999) ·
George Negus, Australian author, journalist,
and television presenter ·
March 15 – The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler ·
March 16 – James Soong, Taiwan politician ·
March 17 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (d. 1994) ·
March 18 – Ibrahim Coomassie,
Nigerian police officer (d. 2018) ·
March 20 – Earl Bramblett, American mass murderer (d. 2003) ·
March 21 – Willie Brown,
American football player and coach (d. 2018) ·
March 23 ·
Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and
political figure ·
Michael Haneke, Austrian director and
screenwriter ·
March 25 ·
Aretha Franklin, American singer (d. 2018) ·
Richard O'Brien, English-New Zealand actor ·
March 26 ·
Erica Jong, American author ·
Ronald Bass, American screenwriter and film
producer ·
March 27 ·
John E. Sulston, British chemist; recipient
of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2018) ·
Michael York, English actor ·
March 28 ·
Neil Kinnock, British Labour leader ·
Mike Newell,
British film director ·
Conrad Schumann, East German border guard
(d. 1998) ·
Jerry Sloan, American basketball coach ·
Daniel Dennett, American philosopher ·
March 29 ·
Scott Wilson,
American actor (d. 2018) ·
Kenichi Ogata,
Japanese voice actor ·
March 30 – Ruben Kun, Nauruan politician and former
President of Nauru April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Chris Buttars, American politician (d. 2018) ·
Samuel R. Delany, American science fiction
author ·
April 2 ·
Leon Russell, American singer, songwriter,
pianist and guitarist (d. 2016) ·
Roshan Seth, British actor ·
Yury Yarov, Russian politician and a former
deputy prime minister ·
April 3 ·
Marsha Mason, American actress ·
Wayne Newton, American entertainer and
singer ·
Billy Joe Royal, American singer (d. 2015) ·
April 5 – Peter Greenaway, Welsh filmmaker ·
April 6 – Barry Levinson, American film producer and
director ·
April 8 ·
Reidar Goa, Norwegian football player
(d. 2018) ·
Roger Chapman, British rock singer ·
Douglas Trumbull, American film director
and special effects artist ·
April 9 – James Cowan,
Australian novelist ·
April 10 ·
Hayedeh, Iranian singer (d. 1990) ·
Nick Auf der Maur,
Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1998) ·
April 12 ·
Jacob Zuma, President of
South Africa ·
Carlos Alberto
Reutemann, Argentine racing driver and politician ·
April 14 ·
Zola Skweyiya, South African politician
(d. 2018) ·
Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete (d. 2003) ·
Valentin Lebedev, Russian cosmonaut ·
April 15 ·
Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006) ·
Julie Sommars, American retired actress ·
April 17 ·
Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician ·
Buster Williams, American jazz bassist ·
April 19 – Frank Elstner, German television presenter ·
April 20 – Arto Paasilinna, Finnish author ·
April 21 – Geoffrey
Palmer, 33rd Prime
Minister of New Zealand ·
April 22 – Rudolf Jaenisch, German-American biologist ·
April 23 ·
Sandra Dee, American actress (d. 2005) ·
Christian Frémont,
French politician (d. 2014) ·
April 24 ·
Juan Heredia Moreno,
Spanish footballer (d. 2018) ·
Barbra Streisand, American singer, actress,
composer, and film director ·
April 25 ·
Katsuji Adachi, Japanese professional
wrestler (d. 2010) ·
Jon Kyl, American politician; United States
Senator ·
April 26 ·
Claudine Auger, French actress ·
Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat ·
Bobby Rydell, American singer ·
April 27 ·
Ruth Glick, American writer ·
Jim Keltner, American drummer ·
April 30 – Sallehuddin of Kedah,
Sultan of Kedah May[edit] ·
May 2 – Jacques Rogge, 8th President of the International Olympic Committee ·
May 3 – Věra
Čáslavská, Czech gymnast (d. 2016) ·
May 5 – Tammy Wynette, American country singer
(d. 1998) ·
May 8 ·
Peter Corris, Australian academic,
historian, journalist and a novelist (d. 2018) ·
Terry Neill, Northern Irish footballer and
football manager ·
May 9 – John Ashcroft, United
States Attorney General ·
May 10 – Youssouf Sambo Bâ,
Burkinabé politician ·
May 12 ·
Fan Yew Teng, Malaysian politician and human
rights activist (d. 2010) ·
Ian Dury, British musician (d. 2000) ·
May 15 ·
Barnabas
Sibusiso Dlamini, 2-Time Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 2018) ·
Lois Johnson, American country music singer
(d. 2014) ·
Jusuf Kalla, 10th and 12th Vice
President of Indonesia ·
May 17 – Taj Mahal,
American singer and guitarist ·
May 22 ·
Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress ·
Rich Garcia, American Major League
Baseball umpire ·
May 23 – Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher ·
May 24 ·
Ichirō Ozawa, Japanese politician ·
Fraser Stoddart, Scottish-born scientist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry ·
May 28 – Stanley B. Prusiner,
American scientist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
May 31 – Jahar Dasgupta, Indian painter June[edit] ·
June 2 ·
June 2 Eduard Malofeyev, Russian football coach and
former international player ·
June 2 Alba Zaluar, Brazilian anthropologist
specializing in urban anthropology ·
June 3 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999) ·
June 5 – Teodoro
Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President
of Equatorial Guinea and Chairperson
of the African Union ·
June 6 – Klaus Bednarz, German journalist and writer
(d. 2015) ·
June 8 – Jacques Dubochet, Swiss biophysicist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry ·
June 10 ·
Gordon Burns, British journalist and TV
presenter ·
Preston Manning, Canadian politician ·
June 11 – Jeannette
Vivian Corbiere Lavell, Canadian-Anishinaabe activist ·
June 12 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, recipient
of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
June 14 ·
Abdulsalami Abubakar, President of Nigeria ·
Roberto
García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge ·
June 16 – John Rostill, English bassist, musician and
composer (d. 1973) ·
June 17 – Mohamed El Baradei,
Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ·
June 18 ·
Roger Ebert, American film critic and
television personality (d. 2013) ·
Thabo Mbeki, South African politician and
12th President of
South Africa ·
Paul McCartney, English musician and
composer ·
Nick Tate, Australian actor ·
Hans Vonk,
Dutch conductor (d. 2004) ·
June 20 – Brian Wilson, American
singer-composer-producer ·
June 21 ·
Ditlef Eckhoff, Norwegian Jazz musician ·
T. D. Little, American politician\ ·
Marjorie Margolies,
American politician ·
Nicholas Santora, American criminal ·
June 22 ·
Eumir Deodato, Brazilian pianist, composer,
arranger and producer ·
Chaudhry Amir
Hussain, Pakistani politician ·
George Banks, American spree killer ·
Melquíades Morales,
Mexican lawyer and politician ·
Laila Freivalds, Swedish politician ·
June 23 ·
Maria Fletcher, Miss America 1962 ·
Sardar
Muhammad Jaffar Khan Leghari, Pakistani politician ·
Edward Laboran, Papua New Guinean high
jumper ·
James Marcus,
English actor ·
June 24 ·
Michele Lee, American actress and singer ·
Eduardo Frei
Ruiz-Tagle, Chilean politician and 33rd President of Chile ·
Ezio Della Savia, Italian swimmer ·
June 25 ·
Willis Reed, American basketball player,
coach and general manager ·
Richard Stephen
Ritchie, U.S. military officer ·
Michel Tremblay, French-Canadian novelist
and playwright ·
Gaby Charroux, French politician ·
June 26 ·
James J. Dillon, American professional
wrestling manager ·
Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer, politician ·
Conrad C.
Lautenbacher, U.S Vice Admiral ·
June 27 – Bruce Johnston, American singer and
songwriter ·
June 28 ·
Rupert Sheldrake, British biochemist ·
Frank Zane, American professional
bodybuilder and author ·
June 29 – Charlotte Bingham,
English novelist ·
June 30 ·
Hans Jørgen Boye,
Danish rower ·
Jean-Baptiste
Ouédraogo, 4th President of Burkina Faso ·
Friedrich von Thun,
Austrian actor July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Geneviève Bujold,
Canadian actress ·
Andraé Crouch, American gospel singer
(d. 2015) ·
Wim T. Schippers, Dutch artist, comedian,
television director, and voice actor ·
Timothy Yang, Taiwanese diplomat and
politician ·
July 2 ·
Vicente Fox, Mexican businessman, politician
and 55th President of Mexico ·
Mukhtar Shakhanov,
Kazakh writer and lawmaker ·
Ahmet Türk, Kurdish nationalist ·
July 3 ·
Mitsuhiro Kitta, Japanese professional
golfer ·
Willie Porter,
American basketball player ·
Eddy Mitchell, French singer and actor ·
July 4 ·
Floyd Little, American football player ·
Arne Hegerfors, Swedish sports journalist
and television presenter ·
Minnie Minoprio, English actress, singer and
showgirl ·
July 5 ·
Motoaki Inukai, Japanese football player ·
Louise Shaffer, American actress, script
writer, and author ·
Hannes Löhr, German footballer (d. 2016) ·
July 6 ·
Raymond Depardon, French photographer,
photojournalist and documentary filmmaker ·
Ian Leslie, Australian television journalist
and communicator ·
Armaghan Subhani, Pakistani politician ·
Wang Zhizhen, Chinese researcher ·
Ian Leslie, Australian television journalist
and corporate communicator ·
July 7 ·
Carmen Duncan, Australian actress ·
Abdul Hamid
II, Pakistani field hockey player ·
Thomas D. Pollard,
American educator, cell biologist and biophysicist ·
July 9 – Richard Roundtree,
American actor ·
July 10 ·
Mirjana
Marković, Serbian politician ·
Lopo do Nascimento,
1st Prime Minister of Angola ·
Franz-Josef Hönig,
German football player ·
Pyotr Klimuk, Russian cosmonaut ·
Sixto Rodriguez, American singer-songwriter ·
Fong Seow Jit, Malaysian swimmer ·
Orri Vigfússon,
Icelandic entrepreneur and environmentalist (d. 2017) ·
July 11 ·
Tomasz Stańko, Polish trumpeter,
composer and improviser ·
Jean Jourden, French cyclist ·
Vitorino, Portuguese singer-songwriter ·
July 13 ·
Elliot Ngok, Hong Kong actor ·
Harrison Ford, American film actor ·
Egbert Hirschfelder,
German rower ·
Roger McGuinn, American musician (The Byrds) ·
July 14 ·
Ezza Agha Malak, Lebanese-French novelist,
poet, critic and essayist ·
Javier Solana, Spanish politician and
diplomat ·
July 15 ·
Mil Máscaras, Mexican professional wrestler ·
Henk Nieuwkamp, Dutch cyclist ·
July 16 – Margaret Court, Australian tennis player ·
July 17 – Zoot Money, English vocalist, keyboardist
and bandleader ·
July 18 – Adolf Ogi, member of the Swiss Federal
Council ·
July 19 – Frederick Kantor, American physicist ·
July 20 – Salvatore Lo Piccolo,
Italian mafioso ·
July 21 ·
Alfred Gomolka, German politician ·
Véronique Vendell,
French actress ·
July 22 – Toyohiro Akiyama, Japanese TV journalist and
astronaut ·
July 23 – Myra Hindley, English multiple murderer
(d. 2002) ·
July 24 – Chris Sarandon, American actor ·
July 26 – Hannelore Elsner, German actress ·
July 27 – Dennis Ralston, American tennis player ·
July 28 – Henry Wessel Jr., American photographer and
educator (d. 2018) August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Jerry Garcia, American musician (d. 1995) ·
Giancarlo Giannini,
Italian actor ·
August 2 – Isabel Allende, Chilean writer ·
August 4 – David Lange, 32nd Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005) ·
August 6 – Evelyn Hamann, German actress (d. 2007) ·
August 7 ·
Jane Fortune, American author, journalist,
and philanthropist (d. 2018) ·
Tobin Bell, American film and television
actor ·
Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio
host ·
August 13 – Arthur K. Cebrowski,
American admiral (d. 2005) ·
August 15 – Friede Springer, German publisher ·
August 19 – Fred Thompson, American politician and actor
(d. 2015) ·
August 20 – Isaac Hayes, American singer and actor
(d. 2008) ·
August 23 – Susana Vieira, Brazilian actress ·
August 24 – Hans Peter Korff, German actor ·
August 26 – Chow Kwai Lam, Malaysian football player and
manager (d. 2018) ·
August 27 – Daryl Dragon, American musician ·
August 28 – José Eduardo dos
Santos, 2nd President of Angola ·
August 29 – Sterling Morrison,
American musician (d. 1995) ·
August 31 – Isao Aoki, Japanese golfer September[edit] ·
September 1 – Aliyu Doma, Nigerian politician (d. 2018) ·
Michael Hui, Hong Kong film comedian ·
Al Jardine, American musician ·
Björn Haugan, Norwegian operatic lyric tenor (d. 2009) ·
Werner Herzog, German filmmaker ·
September 6 – Mel McDaniel, American country music
singer-songwriter (d. 2011) ·
September 7 – Alan Haskvitz, American educator ·
September 8 – Želimir Žilnik,
Serbian film director ·
September 13 – Hissène Habré,
7th President of Chad ·
Arturo Macapagal, Filipino shooter (d. 2015) ·
Bernard MacLaverty,
Irish writer ·
Robert Lau Hoi Chew,
Malaysian politician (d. 2010) ·
Emmerson Mnangagwa,
3rd President of
Zimbabwe ·
Wen Jiabao, Premier
of the People's Republic of China ·
September 16 – Tadamasa Goto, Japanese yakuza boss ·
Des Lynam, British television host,
presenter ·
Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (d. 2012) ·
Gabriella Ferri, Italian singer ·
Wolfgang Schäuble,
German politician ·
September 19 – Freda Payne, American singer and actress ·
September 20 – Rose Francine
Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician (d. 2015) ·
Wu Ma, Chinese film actor, director,
producer and writer ·
Marlena Shaw, American jazz singer ·
David Stern, American commissioner of the
National Basketball Association ·
September 24 – Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish
singer ·
September 28 – Tim Maia, Brazilian musician, songwriter and
businessman (d. 1998) ·
Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999) ·
Ian McShane, English actor ·
Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist ·
September 30 – Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Günter Wallraff,
German investigative journalist ·
October 2 – Asha Parekh, Indian actress ·
Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003) ·
Roberto Perfumo, Argentine footballer and
sports commentator (d. 2016) ·
Britt Ekland, Swedish actress ·
Fred Travalena, American comedian and
impressionist (d. 2009) ·
Ronald Baecker, American computer scientist ·
Joy Behar, American comedian and television
personality ·
October 8 – Stanley Bates, British actor and
screenwriter ·
Janis Hansen,
American singer and author (d. 2017) ·
Radu Vasile, Prime Minister of Romania
(d. 2013) ·
October 11 – Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor ·
October 12 – Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress and singer
(d. 2017) ·
Rutanya Alda, Latvian-American actress ·
Jerry Jones, American football team owner ·
October 14 – Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer,
and civil servant (d. 1986) ·
October 19 – Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney ·
Arto Paasilinna, Finnish writer (d. 2018) ·
Christiane
Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
October 21 – Judith Sheindlin, American retired judge
turned television personality (Judge Judy) ·
Bobby Fuller, American rock singer,
songwriter, and guitarist (d. 1966) ·
Annette Funicello,
American actress and singer (d. 2013) ·
October 23 – Michael Crichton, American author (d. 2008) ·
October 24 – Frank Delaney, Irish-born novelist,
journalist and broadcaster (d. 2017) ·
Bob Hoskins, British actor (d. 2014) ·
Eili Sild, Estonian actress ·
October 29 – Bob Ross, American painter and television
presenter (d. 1995) ·
George Brizan, 8th Prime Minister of Grenada
(d. 2012) ·
David Ogden Stiers,
American actor and voice-over artist (d. 2018) November[edit] ·
Larry Flynt, American publisher (Hustler) ·
Ralph Klein, Canadian politician (d. 2013) ·
Marcia Wallace, American actress and
comedian (d. 2013) ·
Michael Zaslow, American actor (d. 1998) ·
Shere Hite, American-born German sexologist ·
Stefanie Powers, American actress ·
November 5 – Pierangelo Bertoli,
Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2002) ·
November 6 – Jean Shrimpton, English model and actress ·
November 7 – Tom Peters, American writer ·
Angel Cordero, Jr.,
Puerto Rican jockey ·
Fernando Sorrentino,
Argentine writer ·
Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss federal councillor ·
November 15 – Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-born pianist and
conductor ·
November 16 – Joanna Pettet, British-born Canadian actress ·
Derek Clayton, Australian long-distance
runner ·
Bob Gaudio, American musician ·
Kang Kek Iew, Cambodian politician and
criminal ·
István Rosztóczy,
Hungarian microbiologist (d. 1993) ·
Martin Scorsese, American film director ·
Linda Evans, American actress ·
Susan Sullivan, American actress ·
November 20 – Joe Biden, American politician, 47th Vice
President of the United States and longtime US Senator (D-De.) ·
Francis K. Butagira,
Ugandan ambassador ·
Dick Stockton, American sports announcer ·
November 24 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and singer ·
November 25 – Rosa von Praunheim,
German film director, author and painter ·
Manolo Blahnik, Spanish shoe designer ·
Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970) ·
November 28 – Paul Warfield, American football player ·
Michael Craze, British actor (d. 1998) ·
Philippe
Huttenlocher, Swiss baritone ·
November 30 – André Brahic, French astrophysicist
(d. 2016) December[edit] ·
December 2 – Francisque Ravony,
7th Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2003) ·
December 3 – Alice Schwarzer, German feminist, founder
and publisher of the German feminist journal EMMA ·
Al Hunt, American columnist ·
Gemma Jones, British actress ·
Chelsea Brown, American actress (d. 2017) ·
Peter Handke, Austrian novelist ·
Harry Chapin, American Singer-Songwriter
(d. 1981) ·
Reginald Lewis, American Businessman
(d. 1993) ·
Peter Tomarken, American game-show host
(d. 2006) ·
December 9 – Dick Butkus, American football player ·
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian army general and
15th President of Nigeria ·
Paul Butterfield, American musician
(d. 1987) ·
December 19 – Milan Milutinovic, President of Serbia ·
December 20 – Bob Hayes, American athlete (d. 2002) ·
Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China,
6th President
of the People's Republic of China ·
Carla Thomas, American singer ·
Charmian Carr, American actress (d. 2016) ·
Thomas Menino, 53rd Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2014) ·
December 29 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor (d. 2012) ·
Betty Aberlin, American actress ·
Allan Gotthelf, American philosopher
(d. 2013) ·
Michael Nesmith, American singer-songwriter,
performer ·
Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian Date unknown[edit] ·
Muammar Gaddafi, leader of Libya (d. 2011) ·
Taher al-Masri, Prime Minister of Jordan Deaths[edit] January[edit] Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ·
January 2 – Ivande Kaija, Soviet writer and feminist
(b. 1876) ·
January 3 – Charles Mann
Hamilton, American politician (b. 1874) ·
Sydney Fairbrother,
British actress (b. 1872) ·
Mel Sheppard, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1883) ·
Otis Skinner, American actor (b. 1858) ·
Emma Calvé, French soprano (b. 1858) ·
Henri de
Baillet-Latour, 3rd President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1876) ·
January 8 – Chaudhry Afzal Haq,
Indian writer and humanitarian (b. 1891) ·
Heber Doust Curtis,
American astronomer (b. 1872) ·
Jan Graliński, Polish general (b. 1895) ·
Vladimir Ignatowski,
Soviet physicist (b. 1875) ·
Emil Szramek, Polish Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint
(b. 1887) ·
Albert
Jean Baptiste Marie Vayssière, French biologist and scientist
(b. 1854) ·
January 14 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob,
Colombian poet and writer (b. 1883) ·
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn,
2nd youngest son of Queen Victoria (b. 1850) ·
Sir
Jeremiah Colman, 1st Baronet, British industrialist (b. 1859) ·
Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908) ·
January 18 – James P. Parker, United States Navy
commodore (b. 1855) ·
Christiaan
Cornelissen, Dutch writer, economic and trade unionist (b. 1864) ·
Isidoro Diéguez
Dueñas, Spanish bricklayer (b. 1909) ·
Jesús Larrañaga,
Spanish communist leader (b. 1901) ·
Walter Sickert, British Impressionist
painter (b. 1860) ·
Racho Petrov, 12th Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (b. 1861) ·
Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1870) ·
Nazareno Strampelli,
Italian agronomist and plant breeder (b. 1866) ·
January 26 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician
(suicide) (b. 1868) ·
January 27 or January 28 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Prime Minister of Estonia
(b. 1888) ·
January 29 – Viktor Esbensen, Norwegian mariner (b. 1881) February[edit] ·
Ado Birk, 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia
(b. 1883) ·
Leonetto Cappiello,
Italian poster designer and painter (b. 1875) ·
February 7 – Dorando Pietri, Italian Olympic athlete
(b. 1885) ·
February 8 – Fritz Todt, Nazi German engineer (b. 1891) ·
February 9 – Lauri Kristian
Relander, 2nd President of Finland (b. 1883) ·
Jamnalal Bajaj, Indian industrialist and
philanthropist (b. 1889) ·
Ugo Pasquale Mifsud,
3rd Prime Minister of
Malta (b. 1889) ·
February 12 – Grant Wood, American painter (b. 1891) ·
Otakar Batlička,
Czechoslovakian adventurer and journalist (b. 1895) ·
Epitácio Pessoa,
Brazil jurist and politician, 11th President of Brazil (b. 1865) ·
February 14 – Mirosław
Ferić, Polish pilot of the No. 303 Squadron in Northolt
(b. 1915) ·
Giovanni Bartolena,
Italian painter (b. 1886) ·
Ettore
Arrigoni degli Oddi, Italian ornithologist (b. 1867) ·
February 19 – Frank Abbandando, American gangster
(b. 1910) ·
February 20 – Hamad
ibn Isa Al Khalifa, Ruler of Bahrain (b. 1872) ·
February 22 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b. 1881) ·
Robert
William Chapman, Australian engineer and mathematician (b. 1866) ·
Joseph Emile Harley,
American army officer and politician (b. 1880) ·
February 28 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889) March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
George S. Rentz, United States Navy Chaplain
and Navy Cross winner (b. 1882) ·
Cornelius
Vanderbilt III, American military officer, inventor, and engineer
(b. 1873) ·
March 2 ·
Gustave Anjou, Swedish genealogist (b. 1863) ·
Sergei
Solovyov, Soviet Orthodox priest and blessed (b. 1885) ·
March 3 – Prince
Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Italian nobleman and military officer,
Viceroy of Italian East Africa (b. 1898) ·
March 4 – Gheorghe Adamescu,
Romanian historian and bibliographer (b. 1869) ·
March 7 – Pierre Semard, French Communist leader
(b. 1887) ·
March 8 – José Raúl Capablanca,
Cuban chess player (b. 1888) ·
March 10 – Frederick Behre, American artist (b. 1863) ·
March 11 ·
José Camprubí,
Spanish publisher (b. 1879) ·
Raoul Dandurand, Canadian politician
(b. 1861) ·
March 12 ·
Robert Bosch, German industrialist, engineer
and inventor (b. 1861) ·
William Henry Bragg,
British physicist, chemist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1862) ·
Enric Morera i Viura,
Andorran composer (b. 1865) ·
March 14 ·
René Bull, British illustrator and
photographer (b. 1872) ·
Friedrich Karl
Georg Fedde, German botanist (b. 1873) ·
March 15 – Vasile Demetrius, Austro-Hungarian-born
Romanian writer, poet and translator (b. 1878) ·
March 17 – Nada Dimić, Yugoslav Communist leader
(b. 1923) ·
March 20 – Vasily Kalafati, Soviet composer (b. 1869) ·
March 21 – J. S. Woodsworth, Canadian politician
(b. 1874) ·
March 23 ·
Ludwig von Höhnel,
Austrian naval officer and explorer (b. 1857) ·
Marcelo
Torcuato de Alvear, 20th President of
Argentina (b. 1868) ·
March 26 – Gustav Hinrichs, German-born American
conductor and composer (b. 1850) ·
March 27 ·
Jannion Steele
Elliott, British ornithologist and naturalist (b. 1871) ·
John W. Wilcox, Jr.,
American admiral (lost overboard) (b. 1882) ·
Julio González,
Spanish sculptor and painter (b. 1876) ·
March 28 – Miguel Hernández,
Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1910) April[edit] ·
April 2 – Édouard Estaunié,
French novelist (b. 1862) ·
April 4 ·
James Bede, American politician (b. 1856) ·
Jan Daszewski, Polish fighter pilot
(b. 1916) ·
April 6 – Isidro Michel López,
Mexican military officer, leader of the Mexican Revolution (b. 1870) ·
April 7 – Anandshankar Dhruv,
Indian scholar, writer, educationist and editor (b. 1869) ·
April 11 – Frederick Hobbs,
New Zealand-born singer and actor (b. 1874) ·
April 12 – Arnold
Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle, British soldier and politician
(b. 1858) ·
April 13 ·
Julia Danzas, Soviet Roman Catholic religious leader and
blessed (b. 1879) ·
James
Fergusson, British admiral (b. 1881) ·
April 15 ·
Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (b. 1880) ·
Joshua Pim, Irish tennis player (b. 1869) ·
April 16 – Princess
Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, granddaughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1878) ·
April 17 ·
Renward Brandstetter,
Swiss philologist and linguist (b. 1860) ·
Adolph Daniel
Edward Elmer, American botanist (b. 1870) ·
Jean Baptiste Perrin,
French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1870) ·
April 18 ·
Grażyna
Chrostowska, Polish poet and activist (b. 1921) ·
Gertrude
Vanderbilt Whitney, American heiress, socialite and sculptor
(b. 1875) ·
April 23 – Olga Benário Prestes,
German-born Brazilian militant (b. 1908) ·
April 24 ·
Camille du Gast, French pioneer (b. 1868) ·
Deenanath Mangeshkar,
Indian singer and composer (b. 1900) ·
Lucy Maud Montgomery,
Canadian writer (b. 1874) ·
April 25 – Zygmunt Kisielewski,
Polish writer (b. 1882) ·
April 27 – Arthur L. Bristol,
American admiral (b. 1886) May[edit] ·
May 3 – Thorvald Stauning,
9th Prime Minister
of Denmark (b. 1873) ·
May 4 – Józef Czempiel,
Polish Roman Catholic priest,
martyr and blessed (b. 1883) ·
May 7 ·
José Abad Santos,
Filipino chief justice of the Supreme
Court (b. 1886) ·
Felix Weingartner,
Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863) ·
May 9 – Graham McNamee, American radio announcer
(b. 1888) ·
May 10 – Joe Weber,
American vaudevillian (b. 1867) ·
May 11 – Sakutarō
Hagiwara, Japanese poet and writer (b. 1886) ·
May 12 – Hannu Hannuksela, Finnish general (b. 1893) ·
May 14 – Frank Churchill, American composer (b. 1901) ·
May 16 ·
Kaneko Kentarō,
Japanese diplomat and statesman (b. 1853) ·
Bronisław
Malinowski, Polish anthropologist (b. 1884) ·
Maria
Michał Kowalski, Polish priest and blessed (b. 1871) ·
May 19 – A. E. Waite, British occultist (b. 1857) ·
May 20 ·
John D. Craddock, American politician
(b. 1881) ·
Charles E. Dietrich,
American politician (b. 1889) ·
May 22 ·
Stjepan
Filipović, Yugoslav national hero (b. 1916) ·
Tateo Katō, Japanese fighter ace
(b. 1903) ·
May 24 – Ivan Horbachevsky,
Austrian chemist and politician (b. 1854) ·
May 25 – Emanuel Feuermann,
Austrian cellist (b. 1902) ·
May 27 – Chen Duxiu, General Secretary of the
Communist Party of China (b. 1879) ·
May 29 ·
John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882) ·
Akiko Yosano, Japanese author and poet
(b. 1878) ·
May 30 – Félix Cadras, French lace designer and
militant (b. 1906) June[edit] ·
June 4 ·
William Abercrombie,
American naval officer and aviator, killed in action at the Battle of Midway (b. 1914) ·
Eusebio Ayala, 29th President of
Paraguay (1921–23, 1932–36) (b. 1875) ·
Edgar R. Bassett, American naval officer,
killed in action at the Battle of Midway (b. 1914) ·
Harold John Ellison,
American naval officer, killed in action at the Battle of Midway (b. 1917) ·
Lofton R. Henderson,
United States Marine Corps aviator and commanding officer of Marine Scout
Bomber Squadron 241 (VMSB-241); killed in action at the Battle of Midway (b. 1903) ·
Reinhard Heydrich,
headed the Nazi Reich Main Security Office and was Reich governor of Bohemia
and Moravia (b. 1904) ·
John C. Waldron, United States Navy aviator
and commander of Torpedo Squadron 8,
killed in action at the Battle of Midway (b. 1900) ·
Tamon Yamaguchi, Japanese admiral, killed in
action at the Battle of Midway (b. 1892) ·
June 5 – Virginia Lee Corbin,
American actress (b. 1910) ·
June 7 – Alan Blumlein, British electronics engineer
(b. 1903) ·
June 11 ·
Charles Berthézenne,
French politician (b. 1871) ·
Michael Kitzelmann,
German army officer (b. 1916) ·
June 14 – Fyodor Braun, Soviet-born German scholar
(b. 1862) ·
June 18 – David Hawthorne,
British actor (b. 1888) ·
June 19 ·
Ahmad II of Tunis,
Ruler of Tunisia (b. 1862) ·
Frank Irons, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1886) ·
June 21 – Pope John XIX
of Alexandria (b. 1855) ·
June 22 – Branko Kadia, Jordan Misja and Perlat Rexhepi, Albanian
student activists ·
June 23 – William Couper,
American sculptor (b. 1853) ·
June 25 ·
Arthur
Anderson, Australian architect (b. 1868) ·
Zénon Bernard, Luxembourgish communist
politician (b. 1893) ·
June 26 ·
John Gary Evans, American politician
(b. 1863) ·
Stanisław
Skarżyński, Polish army officer (b. 1899) ·
Gene Stack, 1st American major league
baseball player to be drafted during World War II as well as the first to
die in service (b. 1920) ·
June 30 ·
Billy Bennett,
American actor (b. 1887) ·
William Henry
Jackson, American photographer (b. 1843) July[edit] Saint Pauline
of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus ·
July 1 ·
Peadar
Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish-language writer (b. 1857) ·
Bolesław
Wieniawa-Długoszowski, Polish general, diplomat and
politician, Interim President of Poland (b. 1881) ·
July 2 ·
Rudi Čajavec, Yugoslav poet (b. 1911) ·
Joseph Domachowski,
American politician (b. 1872) ·
July 4 – Józef Kowalski,
Polish Roman Catholic priest
and blessed (b. 1911) ·
July 8 ·
Louis Franchet
d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856) ·
Refik Saydam, 4th Prime Minister
of Turkey (b. 1881) ·
July 9 ·
Kelly Harrell, American surburbia musician
(b. 1889) ·
Pauline
of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, Brazilian Roman Catholic religious sister and
saint (b. 1865) ·
July 12 – Mary Hayden, Irish historian and activist
(b. 1862) ·
July 13 – Joaquín Sánchez
de Toca, Spanish conservative politician and Prime Minister of
Spain (b. 1852) ·
July 14 – Sébastien Faure,
French anarchist and activist (b. 1858) ·
July 15 ·
Wenceslao Vinzons,
Filipino politician and resistance leader (bayoneted to death) (b. 1910) ·
Roberto María Ortiz,
24th President of
Argentina (b. 1886) ·
July 16 – Sir Alfred Flux,
British economist and statistician (b. 1867) ·
July 17 – Tinus de Jongh, South African painter
(b. 1885) ·
July 18 ·
George Beeby, Australian politician, judge
and author (b. 1869) ·
George Sutherland,
British-born American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1862) ·
July 23 ·
Arístides
Chavier Arévalo, Puerto Rican composer and pianist (b. 1867) ·
Adam Czerniaków,
Polish engineer and senator (suicide) (b. 1880) ·
July 24 – Edwin Cooper,
British architect (b. 1874) ·
July 25 – Tom Reynolds,
British actor (b. 1866) ·
July 26 ·
Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (b. 1900) ·
Titus Brandsma, Dutch Discalced Carmelite friar, Roman Catholic priest and blessed
(b. 1881) ·
July 28 – Flinders Petrie, British Egyptologist
(b. 1853) ·
July 29 – Louis Borno, Haitian lawyer and politician,
28th President of Haiti (b. 1865) ·
July 30 ·
Jimmy Blanton, American bassist (b. 1918) ·
Leopold Mandić,
Yugoslav Capuchin friar and Roman Catholic priest and saint
(b. 1866) ·
July 31 ·
Jožka Jabůrková,
Czechoslovakan journalist, writer and translator (b. 1896) ·
Sir Francis
Younghusband, British explorer and army officer (b.1863) August[edit] Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ·
August 3 ·
Franciszka
Arnsztajnowa, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1865) ·
James Cruze, American actor and director
(b. 1884) ·
Guglielmo Ferrero,
Italian historian, journalist and novelist (b. 1871) ·
Gustav Indrebø,
Norwegian philologist (b. 1889) ·
Richard Willstätter,
German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1872) ·
August 7 ·
Louis J. Carpellotti,
American marine (b. 1918) ·
Charles E. Ford, American film director and
producer (b. 1899) ·
Janusz Korczak, Polish educator, author and
pediatrician (b. 1878) ·
August 8 – Leopold Janikowski,
Polish explorer and ethnographer (b. 1855) ·
August 9 – Terea Benedicta of the Cross, German
philosopher, Roman Catholic nun,
martyr and saint (assassinated) (b. 1891) ·
August 10 – Kazimierz Dembowski,
Polish Roman Catholic clergyman
and martyr (b. 1912) ·
Pasquale Amato, Italian baritone (b. 1878) ·
Mykola Burachek, Soviet painter (b. 1871) ·
Phillips Holmes, American actor (b. 1907) ·
Jorge Cuesta, Mexican chemist, writer and
editor (b. 1903) ·
Elina
González Acha de Correa Morales, Argentinian educator, scientist
and activist (b. 1861) ·
August 15 – Mahadev Desai, Indian independence activist
and writer (b. 1892) ·
August 16 – André Heuzé, French director, screenwriter
and playwright (b. 1880) ·
Agathe Lasch, German philologist (b. 1879) ·
Henry DeWitt
Hamilton, American general (b. 1863) ·
August 21 – Kiyonao Ichiki, Japanese army officer
(killed in action) (b. 1892) ·
August 22 – Michel Fokine, Soviet choreographer and
dancer (b. 1880) ·
Jorge Colaço, Portuguese painter (b. 1868) ·
Franciszek Dachtera,
Polish Roman Catholic priest,
martyr and blessed (b. 1910) ·
Doyle Clayton Barnes,
American naval aviator (b. 1912) ·
Edward
Kaźmierski, Polish Roman Catholic priest, martyr and
blessed (b. 1919) ·
Prince
George, Duke of Kent, 4th eldest son of George V (b. 1902) ·
Józef Lewartowski,
Polish politician and revolutionary (b. 1895) ·
August 26 – Irena Bernášková,
Czechoslovakian journalist and resistance member (b. 1904) ·
August 28 – Archduke
Joseph Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1872) ·
Charles Urban, American film producer
(b. 1867) ·
Fabio Fiallo, Dominican writer, poet and
politician (b. 1866) ·
Dominik
Jędrzejewski, Polish Roman Catholic priest, martyr and
blessed (b. 1886) ·
August 30 – Martin Kirschner, German surgeon (b. 1869) September[edit] Blessed Adam Bargielski Blessed Bronisław
Kostkowski ·
September 1 – Clotilde Apponyi, Hungarian women's rights
activist and diplomat (b. 1867) ·
September 3 – Rubén Ruiz Ibárruri,
Spanish communist leader (b. 1920) ·
September 4 – Herbert A.
Calcaterra, American navy sailor (b. 1920) ·
September 5 – François de
Labouchère, French pilot (b. 1917) ·
September 7 – Cecilia Beaux, American portraitist
(b. 1855) ·
September 8 – Adam Bargielski, Polish Roman Catholic priest, martyr and
blessed (b. 1903) ·
Sister Fausta Labrador, Filipino Roman Catholic nun and Servant of God
(b. 1858) ·
Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist
and eugenicist (b. 1855) ·
September 20 – Kanaklata Barua, Indian freedom fighter
(b. 1924) ·
Fernando
Díaz de Mendoza y Guerrero, Spanish actor (b. 1897) ·
Bronisław
Kostkowski, Polish Roman Catholic priest, martyr and
blessed (b. 1915) ·
September 29 – Matangini Hazra, Indian revolutionary (shot)
(b. 1870) ·
Hans-Joachim
Marseille, German World War II fighter ace (b. 1919) ·
Leonīds Breikšs,
Soviet poet, journalist and patriot (b. 1908) October[edit] Blessed Maria Antonina
Kratochwil ·
October 1 – Ants Piip, 7th Prime Minister and
1st State Elder of
Estonia (b. 1884) ·
October 2 – Alois Eliáš, Czech general and politician
(b. 1890) ·
Ludwik
Ćwikliński, Prussian philologist and professor (b. 1853) ·
Olaf Huseby, Norwegian-born American
publisher (b. 1856) ·
October 5 – Giuseppe Cassioli,
Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1865) ·
Siegmund Glücksmann,
German politician (b. 1884) ·
Lorenzo Aguirre, Spanish painter (b. 1884) ·
Wacław
Wąsowicz, Polish painter (b. 1891) ·
October 7 – Maria Antonina
Kratochwil, Polish Roman Catholic nun, martyr and blessed
(b. 1881) ·
October 9 – William T. Hanna, American marine (b. 1920) ·
October 12 – Aritomo Gotō, Japanese admiral (killed
in action) (b. 1888) ·
October 15 – Dame Marie Tempest, British actress (b. 1864) ·
October 18 – Federico Ferrari
Orsi, Italian army officer (b. 1886) ·
October 19 – Paul Nikolaus
Cossmann, German journalist (b. 1869) ·
October 20 – May Robson, Australian actress (b. 1858) ·
October 22 – Staf De Clercq, Belgian collaborator and
nationalist (b. 1884) ·
October 23 – Ralph Rainger, American composer and
songwriter (b. 1901) ·
Dimitri Amilakhvari,
French military officer (b. 1906) ·
St John Hutchinson,
British barrister and politician (b. 1884) ·
James C. Morton, American actor (b. 1884) ·
October 28 – Alexander von Dassel,
German magistrate (b. 1854) ·
October 31 – Emilio Caldara, Italian politician (b. 1868) November[edit] Prince
Heinrich XXXIII Reuss of Köstritz ·
November 1 – Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908) ·
November 2 – Elihu Grant, American scholar and writer
(b. 1873) ·
Eric Abrahamsson, Swedish actor (b. 1890) ·
Amédé Ardoin,
American musician (b. 1898) ·
November 4 – Andrew F. Cook, Jr.,
American army officer (b. 1920) ·
November 5 – George M. Cohan, American songwriter and
entertainer (b. 1878) ·
November 9 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883) ·
Hector Abbas, Dutch actor (b. 1884) ·
Merton
Beckwith-Smith, British army officer (b. 1890) ·
November 12 – Laura Hope Crews, American actress (b. 1879) ·
Daniel J. Callaghan,
American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1890) ·
Norman
Scott, American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1889) ·
November 15 – Prince
Heinrich XXXIII Reuss of Köstritz (b. 1879) ·
November 16 – Joseph Schmidt, Polish tenor (b. 1904) ·
Ilya Fondaminsky, Soviet author (b. 1880) ·
Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter
(shot) (b. 1892) ·
November 21 – Count Leopold
Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863) ·
Tomitarō Horii,
Japanese general (b. 1890) ·
Hernando Siles Reyes,
Bolivian politician, 31st President of Bolivia (b. 1882) ·
Guido Masiero, Italian World War I flying
ace and aviation pioneer (b. 1895) ·
Francesco Agello, Italian aviator (b. 1902) ·
Mihail Dragomirescu,
Romanian aesthetician, theorist and critic (b. 1868) ·
Clarence Lee Evans,
American naval officer, killed in battle at the Battle of
Guadalcanal (b. 1923) ·
Mohammad Ali
Foroughi, Iranian diplomat, politician, teacher and writer, 3-time Prime Minister of
Iran (b. 1877) ·
Sigtryggur Jonasson,
Canadian politician (b. 1852) ·
November 27 – Hermann Harms, German botanist (b. 1870) ·
November 28 – Marceli Nowotko, Polish activist (b. 1893) ·
November 29 – William Stamps
Farish II, American pioneer (b. 1881) ·
November 30 – Buck Jones, American actor (b. 1891) December[edit] ·
December 3 – Wilhelm Junk, Czechoslovakian natural
historian, bibliographer and entomologist (b. 1866) ·
December 5 – Richard Tucker,
American actor (b. 1884) ·
Karl Herxheimer, German dermatologist
(b. 1861) ·
Amos Rusie, American baseball player
and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1871) ·
December 7 – Orland Steen Loomis,
Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1893) ·
Prince
Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (b. 1883) ·
Albert Kahn,
American architect (b. 1869) ·
December 9 – Séraphine Louis,
French painter (b. 1864) ·
Robert Danneberg, Austrian politician
(b. 1882) ·
Helen Westley, American actress (b. 1875) ·
Hakeem
Fateh Mohammad Sehwani, Indian scholar, poet, literary, journalist
and politician (b. 1882) ·
Wlodimir Ledóchowski,
Polish Jesuit priest and servant of God
(b. 1866) ·
December 19 – Carl Gustav
Fleischer, Norwegian general (b. 1883) ·
December 21 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858) ·
December 22 – Robert Kosch, Prussian general (b. 1856) ·
December 23 – Konstantin Balmont,
Soviet poet and translator (b. 1867) ·
December 24 – François Darlan,
French admiral and politician, 81st Prime Minister
of France (assassinated) (b. 1881) ·
December 27 – William G. Morgan,
American inventor of volleyball (b. 1870) ·
December 30 – Nevile Henderson, British diplomat (b. 1882) Date Unknown[edit] ·
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