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1943 (MCMXLIII) was
a common year starting
on Friday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1943rd year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 943rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of
the 20th century,
and the 4th year of the 1940s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] Below, events of World War II have the "WWII"
prefix. January[edit] Main article: January 1943 ·
January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union
announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650
captured. ·
WWII:
Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy
Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. ·
Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of
California, is succeeded by Earl Warren. ·
January 11 – The United States and
United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with
the Republic of
China. ·
January 11 – Italian-American
anarchist Carlo Tresca is
assassinated in New York City. ·
January 13 – 36 people are executed and
200 arrested in anti-Nazi protests in Sofia. ·
January 14 – 24 – WWII: Casablanca
Conference: Franklin D.
Roosevelt, President of the United States; Winston Churchill,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud of the Free French forces meet
secretly at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, to plan the Allied European
strategy for the next stage of the war. ·
WWII: Guadalcanal Campaign – Operation Ke: Japanese forces begin to withdraw
from Guadalcanal in
the Solomon Islands. ·
The
world's largest office building, The Pentagon, headquarters of the United
States Department of War, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia. ·
January 16 – Iraq declares
war on the Axis powers. ·
WWII: Soviet officials announce that
the Red Army has broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad as
part of Operation Iskra,
opening a narrow land corridor to the city. Georgy Zhukov is promoted to Marshal of
the Soviet Union. ·
The
first Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising begins. ·
January 21: WWII: Pan Am Flight 1104: Pan Am Martin M-130 flying boat crashes about 7 mi
(11 km) southwest of Ukiah, California.
Among the 10 passengers and nine crew aboard is Admiral Robert H. English (then COMSUBPAC). ·
WWII: Battle of Buna–Gona ends
with American and Australian forces securing control of the territory of Papua. ·
The Holocaust: Over 4,000 Jews are detained
in Nazi-occupied Marseille as part
of "Action Tiger" before being transported to extermination camps in
Poland. ·
WWII:
British forces capture Tripoli from
the Italians. ·
Duke Ellington plays at New York
City's Carnegie Hall for
the first time. ·
American
critic and commentator Alexander Woollcott suffers
an eventually fatal heart attack during a regular broadcast of the CBS Radio round-table program People's
Platform. ·
January 27 – WWII: 50 bombers mount the
first all American air raid against
Germany: Wilhelmshaven is
the target. ·
Nazi
German police arrest alleged necrophiliac and serial killer Bruno Lüdke. ·
United
States Marine Corps Women's Reserve (MCWR) created. ·
January 29 – 30 – WWII: Battle of
Rennell Island – The Imperial Japanese
Navy resists the United States Navy's attempt to interrupt
the withdrawal of Japanese
forces from Guadalcanal in the last major naval battle of the Guadalcanal Campaign. ·
January 29 – 31 – WWII: Battle of Wau – Australian forces with
United States support resist a Japanese advance in the New Guinea campaign. February[edit] Main article: February 1943 ·
February 2 – WWII: In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes
to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army. ·
February 3 – WWII: The Four Chaplains of the U.S. Army are
among those drowned when their ship, Dorchester, is struck by a German torpedo in the North Atlantic. ·
February 5 – Lt. General Frank M. Andrews is selected to command
the U.S. armies in Europe, while General Dwight D. Eisenhower is
assigned command in North Africa. Andrews will serve only three months before
dying in an airplane crash. ·
February 6 – WWII: RCN corvette HMCS Louisburg is
bombed and sunk off Oran, Algeria by Italian aircraft. ·
February 7 – WWII: ·
North
Atlantic convoy SC 118 is
attacked by U-boats, sinking eight ships.[1] ·
In
the United States, it is announced that shoe rationing will go
into effect in two days. ·
February 9 – WWII: ·
Guadalcanal Campaign in
the Solomon Islands ends
with United States forces in command of Guadalcanal, the evacuation of Japanese
forces in Operation Kehaving
been completed two days earlier. ·
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by
the Ukrainian
Insurgent Army begin with the Parośla I
massacre within the Reichskommissariat
Ukraine. ·
February 10 – March 3 – Mohandas Gandhi (under arrest by forces
of the British Raj in Pune as
a member of the Quit India Movement)
keeps a hunger strike to protest at his imprisonment. ·
February 14 – WWII: Rostov-on-Don in Russia is liberated. ·
February 14–17 – WWII: Battle of Sidi Bou
Zid: In the Tunisia Campaign, German Panzer divisions commanded by Hans-Jürgen von
Arnim are victorious over the United States Army. ·
February 16 – WWII: The Soviet Union reconquers Kharkov, but is later driven out in
the Third Battle of
Kharkov. ·
In
a Sportpalast speech in Berlin, German
Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels declares a "total war" against the Allies, tacitly
admitting that Nazi Germanyfaces
serious dangers. ·
The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose German
Resistance movement. ·
February 19–24 – WWII: Battle of
Kasserine Pass: German General Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and other Axis forces launch an offensive
against Allied defenses
in Tunisia; it is the United States' first
major battle defeat of the war. On February 22 an Anglo-American force halts
the German advance near Thala, forcing the Germans to retreat, US
bombers harass the retreating Panzers. ·
American movie studio executives agree to allow
the Office of War
Information to censor movies. ·
The Parícutin volcano begins to appear in a cornfield
in Mexico.[2][3][4] ·
February 21 – WWII: North
Atlantic convoy ON 166 is
attacked by U-boats sinking eleven ships.[5] ·
February 22 – ·
WWII:
RCN corvette HMCS Weyburn sank
east of Gibraltar after
being mined. ·
Members
of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany. ·
February 23–24 – Cavan Orphanage Fire:
35 girls and a cook from St Joseph's Orphanage, an industrial
school at Cavan, Ireland, are killed
in a fire in their dormitories. A subsequent inquiry absolves the Poor Clares of blame. ·
February 27 – Smith Mine disaster:
an explosion at Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana,
United States kills 74 coal miners. ·
February 28 – Operation Gunnerside:
6 Norwegians led by Joachim Rønneberg successfully
attack the heavy water plant
at Vemork. March[edit] Main article: March 1943
A low level attack on a Japanese ship during
the Battle of the
Bismarck Sea
Jewish prisoners being deported from
the Kraków Ghetto ·
March
– Publication in New York of exiled French aviator Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry's self-illustrated children's novella The Little Prince,
the all-time best-selling
book originated in French. ·
March–December
– History of
computing hardware: Construction of British prototype Mark I Colossus computer,
the world's first totally electronic programmable computing
device, to assist in cryptanalysis of German signals
at Bletchley Park.[6] ·
March 1 – Heinz Guderian becomes the
Inspector-General of the Armoured Troops for the German Army. ·
March 1 –2 – WWII: Koriukivka massacre –
Mass murder of 6,700 inhabitants of Koriukivka in the Ukraine by a German SSunit. ·
March 2 – WWII: Battle of the
Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink
Japanese convoy ships, then strafe survivors in the water.[7] ·
March 3 – 173 people are killed in a
crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green,
London. ·
March 4 – The 15th Academy Awards ceremony
is held in Los Angeles. Mrs. Miniver wins the Best
Picture award. ·
March 4–6 – WWII: Battle of
Fardykambos – Greek partisans and armed civilians force the
surrender of an Italian army battalion. ·
March 5 – The Gloster Meteor, the first Allied jet fighter,
makes its first flight, in England. ·
March 9 – 10 – WWII: North Atlantic convoy SC 121 is attacked by U-boats sinking seven ships.[8] ·
March 9 – Şükrü
Saracoğlu forms the new government of Turkey (14th
government; Şükrü Saracoğlu had served twice as a prime minister). ·
March 10 – Banco Bradesco is founded in Marília, São Paulo, Brazil. ·
March 12 – WWII: Italian
occupation of Greece: The Italian occupying forces abandon the
town of Karditsa to the partisans. On the same
day, an Italian motorized column razes the village of Tsaritsani, burning 360 of its 600 houses
and shooting 40 civilians. ·
March 13 – The Holocaust: Nazi German forces liquidate the Jews
of the Kraków Ghetto in Occupied
Poland. ·
March 14 – WWII: British
submarine HMS Thunderbolt is
sunk off Sicily by an Italian corvette, the second time this vessel has
been lost with all hands.[9][10] ·
March 15 – WWII: ·
The Italian
submarine Leonardo da Vinci sinks the Canadian Pacific liner RMS Empress
of Canada off Sierra Leone. Nearly half of the 392
fatalities are Italian prisoners of war. ·
German
forces recapture Kharkov after four
days of house-to-house fighting against Soviet troops, ending the
month-long Third Battle of
Kharkov. ·
March 16 – 19 – WWII: 22 ships from Convoys HX 229/SC
122 and one U-boat are sunk in the largest North Atlantic
U-boat "wolfpack"
attack of the war. ·
March 17 (Saint Patrick's Day)
– Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland,
makes the speech "The
Ireland That We Dreamed Of", commonly called the "comely
maidens" speech, in Dublin Castle. ·
March 22 – WWII: Khatyn massacre – The entire population
of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by the German
occupation forces. ·
March 23 – The drugs Vicodin and Lortab are first produced in Germany. ·
March 26 – WWII: Battle
of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands, the battle begins
when United States Navy forces
intercept Japanese troops attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. ·
March 27 – WWII: British Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Dasher (D37) is
destroyed by an accidental explosion in the Firth of Clyde, killing 379 of the crew of
528. ·
March 28 – In Italy a ship full of
weapons and ammunition explodes in the port of Naples, killing 600. ·
March 31 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opens on Broadway, heralds a new era in
"integrated" stage musicals, becomes an instantaneous stage
classic, and goes on to be Broadway's longest-running musical up to that time
(1948). April[edit] Main article: April 1943 ·
April 3 – Shipwrecked steward Poon Lim is rescued by Brazilian
fishermen after being adrift for 130 days. ·
April 13 – WWII: Radio Berlin announces
the discovery by Wehrmacht of mass
graves of Poles killed by Soviets in the Katyn massacre. ·
April 19 ·
Albert Hofmann self-administers the
psychedelic drug LSD (which he first synthesized
in 1938) for the first time in history, and
records the details of his experience.[11] Main article: History
of lysergic acid diethylamide ·
The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising begins when Nazi troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up remaining
Jews. ·
April 21 – WWII: ·
Worst
bombing of Aberdeen, Scotland,
killing 125 people.[12] ·
The
first Tiger I is captured in North Africa by
British Forces ·
April 25 – Easter occurs on the latest possible
date (last time 1886; next time 2038)
in the Western Christian
Church. ·
April 26 – The Easter Riots in Uppsala, Sweden. ·
April 27 – The U.S. Federal Writers'
Project ceases operation. May[edit] Main article: May 1943
This photograph, from the Stroop Report, shows captured fighters in
the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising.
The Möhne Dam breached following Operation Chastise,
carried out by the "Dambusters" of
the RAF. ·
May 6 – WWII: Six U-boats are sunk
after sinking 12 ships from Convoy ONS 5 in the last major North
Atlantic U-boat "wolfpack"
attack of the war. ·
May 9 – 12 – Japanese troops carry out
the Changjiao massacre in
Changjiao, Hunan, China. ·
May 11 – WWII: American troops
invade Attu in
the Aleutian Islands,
in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces. ·
May 12 – The Trident Conference begins
in Washington, D.C., with Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill taking
part. ·
May 13 – WWII: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in
North Africa surrender to Allied forces. ·
May 14 ·
The Australian Hospital Ship Centaur is
sunk off the coast of Queensland by Japanese
submarine I-177, killing 268 of the 332 medical
personnel and civilian crew aboard. ·
358th
Bombardment Squadron, 303d Bombardment
Group B-17F Hell's
Angels is the first USAAF bomber to complete 25 missions. ·
May 15 – The Comintern is dissolved in Moscow. ·
May 16 – 17 – WWII: Operation Chastise (the
'Dambuster Raid') takes place: No. 617 Squadron RAF use bouncing bombsto breach German dams in
the Ruhr Valley. ·
May 16 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising ends. ·
May 17 – WWII: ·
The United States Army contracts
with the University of
Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the computer ENIAC. ·
The Memphis Belle's crew
becomes the first aircrew in the 8th Air Force to complete its
25-mission tour of duty. The aircraft and crew are the first to return to the
U.S. intact for a War Bond drive. ·
May 19 – Winston Churchill addresses
a joint
session of the United States Congress. ·
May 23 – WWII: The battleship USS New
Jersey (BB-62) is commissioned at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. ·
May 29 – Norman Rockwell's illustration of Rosie the Riveter first
appears on the cover of The Saturday
Evening Post. ·
May 30 – The Holocaust: Dr. Josef Mengele begins his position as a
medical officer in the Auschwitz-Birkenau
concentration camp. June[edit] Main article: June 1943 ·
June
(late) – The Holocaust:
The last trainload of Jewish prisoners is moved from Bełżec
extermination camp in Occupied
Poland (for gassing at Sobibór)
and for the remainder of the year the Nazis make efforts to obliterate the
site.[13][14] ·
June 1 – BOAC Flight 777, a DC-3 with
registration G-AGBB (formerly KLM PH-ALI, Ibis),
on a scheduled passenger flight, is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by eight German Junkers Ju 88s; all 17 persons aboard
perish, including the actor Leslie Howard.
There is speculation that the downing is an attempt to kill the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill,
as the Germans may have had wrong information he was aboard. ·
June 3 – The Zoot Suit Riots erupt between military
personnel and Mexican American youths in East Los Angeles.[15] ·
June 4 – A military coup d'état in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo. ·
June 8 – WWII: Japanese
battleship Mutsu is destroyed by an accidental
magazine explosion in Hashirajima anchorage ·
June 8–9 – WWII: Battle of Porta between the Royal Italian Army and
the Greek
People's Liberation Army. ·
June 20 – 23 – The Detroit race
riot of 1943 in the United States kills 34 people – 25
African Americans, nine whites – wounds hundreds more and damages and destroys
property worth millions.[16] ·
June 21 – WWII: British saboteurs blow
up the strategically significant railway viaduct at Asopos in Greece. ·
June 22 – WWII: The U.S.
Army 45th Infantry Division lands in North Africa, prior to
training at Arzew, French Morocco. ·
June 30 – United States Civilian
Conservation Corps abolished. July[edit]
The U.S. Liberty ship SS Robert Rowan explodes
during the Allied invasion
of Sicily, July 11, 1943.
The bombing of
Hamburg during 1943.
Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish military and
political leader of the Polish government in exile during World War 2 Main article: July 1943 ·
July 1 – United States Women's Army Corps (WAC)
converted to full status. ·
July 4 – 1943 Gibraltar
B-24 crash: The aircraft carrying General Władysław
Sikorski, Prime Minister of the Polish
government-in-exile, crashes, killing him and fifteen others,
leading to a lasting controversy over the circumstances. ·
July 5 – WWII: ·
Battle of Kursk – The largest tank
battle in history begins. ·
A
fleet sets sail for the Allied invasion
of Sicily. ·
Conclusion
of the National Bands
Agreement in Greece. ·
July 6 – WWII: Americans and Japanese
fight the Battle of Kula Gulf off Kolombangara. ·
July 10 ·
(0245
GMT (4:45 am local time)) – WWII: Allied invasion
of Sicily: The Allied invasion
of Axis-controlled
Europe begins with landings on the island of Sicily off mainland Italy by the Seventh United
States Army and the British
Eighth Armyincluding the 1st
Canadian Infantry Division. ·
The Jedwabne pogrom takes place; at least
340 Polish Jews are marched to a local barn locked inside and subsequently
burned to death. ·
July 11 – WWII: ·
United States Army forces
make an assault on Piano Lupo, just outside Gela, Sicily. ·
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by
the Ukrainian
Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat
Ukraine (Volhynia) peak. ·
July 12 – WWII: Main engagement of
the Battle of
Prokhorovka – The Wehrmacht and the Red Army fight to a draw in one of the
largest tank battles in military history. ·
July 19 – WWII: Rome is bombed by
the Allies for
the first time in the war. ·
July 24 – WWII: Operation Gomorrha begins:
British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night; the American planes
bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of
explosives will have killed more than 42,000 people and destroyed 280,000
buildings.
Mussolini ·
July 25 – Benito Mussolini, the Fascist Prime Minister of
Italy since 1922, is arrested after the Grand Council of
Fascismwithdraws its support. "Il Duce" is replaced by
General Pietro Badoglio. August[edit]
B-24d's fly over Ploieşti during Operation Tidal Wave.
Mackenzie
King, Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at
the 1943 Quebec
Conference. Main article: August 1943 ·
August 1 – Operation Tidal Wave:
177 B-24 Liberator bombers
from the U.S. Army Air Force bomb
oil refineries at Ploiești, Romania. ·
August 2 – WWII: John F. Kennedy's PT boat PT-109 is
run down by Japanese destroyer destroyer Amagiri. ·
August 4 – WWII: The aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11) is
launched at Newport News,
Virginia. ·
August 5 – WWII: ·
United
States Women
Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) formed, consolidating
the Women's
Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron(WAFS) and Women
Airforce Service Pilots (WFTD). ·
John F. Kennedy and crew are found
by Solomon Islands coastwatchers Biuku Gasa
and Eroni Kumana with their dugout canoe. ·
August 6 – WWII: Battle of Vella Gulf:
Americans defeat a Japanese convoy off Kolombangara, as the U.S. Army drives
the Japanese out of Munda airfield on New Georgia. ·
August 14 – WWII: Rome is declared
an open city by the Italian government,
with Italy offering to demilitarize the capital in return for an Allied
agreement not to bomb the city further.[17] ·
August 14 – The Quadrant
Conference begins in Quebec City; Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King meets with Winston Churchill and Franklin D.
Roosevelt. ·
August 17 – WWII: ·
The Seventh U.S.
Army under General George S. Patton meets the Eighth
British Army under Field
Marshal B. L. Montgomery in Messina, Sicily, completing the Allied invasion
of Sicily. ·
Operation Hydra:
The British Royal Air Force sets
out to bomb the Peenemünde
Army Research Center to disrupt the German V-weapons programme. ·
August 21 – Australian
federal election, 1943: John Curtin's Labor Government defeats
the Country/UAP Coalition led
by former Prime
Minister Arthur Fadden.
Labor achieves its greatest ever electoral result - including winning every
seat except one outside of the eastern states. Notably, this election marked
the first time that a woman has been elected to both the Senate and
the House
of Representatives. Fadden would step down from the Opposition
leadership, handing over to Robert Menzies, who would go on to dissolve
the UAP and form the Liberal Party shortly
after. ·
August 23 – WWII: The Battle of Kursk ends with a strategic
defeat for the German forces. ·
August 24 – WWII: – Heinrich Himmler is named Reichminister
of the Interior in Germany . ·
August 26 – WWII: Louis, Lord Mountbatten named Supreme
Allied Commander for Southeast Asia. ·
August 28 – WWII: King Boris III of
Bulgaria dies under suspicious circumstances; his 6-year-old
son, Simeon II,
ascends to the throne. ·
August 29 – WWII: Occupation of
Denmark – Germany dissolves the Danish government after it
refuses to deal with a wave of strikes and disturbances to the satisfaction
of the German authorities. September[edit] Main article: September 1943 ·
September 3 – WWII: Allied invasion
of Italy – ·
Armistice of
Cassibile: The Kingdom of Italy surrenders to
the Allies in
a document signed on Sicily but not made
public at this time. ·
Operation Baytown:
Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces under General Sir Bernard Montgomery, for the first time in
the war. ·
September 5 – WWII: The 503rd Parachute
Regiment under American General Douglas MacArthur lands
and occupies Nadzab, just east of the port city of Lae in
northeastern Papua New Guinea. ·
September 7 – Gulf Hotel fire: A fire at the Gulf Hotel
in Houston, Texas kills
55. ·
WWII:
United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly
announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies. ·
WWII: Frascati air raid:
The USAAF bombs the German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone. ·
The
first classes commence at Grace University in Omaha, Nebraska. ·
September 9 – Bertolt Brecht's play Life of Galileo (German: Leben des Galilei) receives its first theatrical production
at the Schauspielhaus
Zürich. ·
September 12 – WWII: Gran Sasso raid – German paratroopers
rescue Mussolini from imprisonment, in Unternehmen Eiche ("Operation
Oak"). ·
September 16 – WWII: The Salerno Mutiny occurs when soldiers of
the British Army's X Corps refuse
postings to new units. ·
September 17 – WWII:
Villefranche-de-Rouergue Mutiny – A group of pro-Partisan soldiers
led by Ferid Džanić and
others within the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st
Croatian) training in Occupied France rise against Nazi German troops in the Division; the
revolt is rapidly suppressed. ·
September 21–26 – WWII: Massacre
of the Acqui Division – German soldiers of the 1st
Mountain Division (Wehrmacht) kill over 5,100 Italian
military interneesresisting disarmament on the Greek island
of Cephalonia. ·
September 22–October 2 – WWII: Landing at
Scarlet Beach on the Huon Peninsula of New Guinea by Allied forces, the first
time Australian troops have made an opposed amphibious landing since
the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915. ·
September 23 – WWII: The Italian Social
Republic ("Republic of Salò") is founded in
northern Italy as a puppet state of Nazi Germany. ·
September 27 – WWII: Four days of Naples begins:
a popular uprising drives German occupying forces from the city. October[edit] Main article: October 1943 ·
October 1 – WWII: United States forces
enter liberated Naples. ·
October 3 – WWII: Nazi Wehrmacht forces commit the Lyngiades massacre in
northwest Greece as an arbitrary reprisal. ·
October 6 – WWII: Americans and
Japanese fight the naval
Battle of Vella Lavella. ·
October 7 – WWII: The Naples
post-office bombing kills 100. ·
WWII: Double Tenth
incident (Japanese
occupation of Singapore): The Japanese military police, the Kempeitai, arrest and torture more than 50
civilians and civilian internees on false suspicion of their involvement in a
raid on Singapore Harbour
during Operation Jaywick. ·
The Order
of Bogdan Khmelnitsky is instituted in the Soviet Union. ·
October 13 – WWII: The new government
of Italy sides with the Allies and
declares war on Germany. ·
WWII:
During the Second Raid on
Schweinfurt, the United States Eighth Air Force suffers so many losses
that it loses air supremacy over
Germany for several months. ·
The Holocaust: Uprising in Sobibór
extermination camp; about half the inmates escape. Three days
later, the camp is closed. ·
José P. Laurel takes
the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second
Philippine Republic). ·
October 16 – The Holocaust: Raid of the
Ghetto of Rome – Over a thousand Jews are rounded up in Rome
by the Gestapo; only 16 will survive their
deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp. The public silence of Pope Pius XII on the raid becomes a
matter of historical controversy. ·
October 17 – WWII: ·
The
last commerce raider, German
auxiliary cruiser Michel, is sunk off Japan by United
States submarine Tarpon.[18] ·
Completion
of the Burma Railway between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (modern-day Myanmar) (415 km (258 mi)) by
the Empire of Japan to
support its forces in the Burma campaign using the forced labour of Asian civilians
and Allied Prisoners of war. ·
October 18 – Chiang Kai-shek takes the oath of
office as Chairman
of the National Government of China. ·
October 19 – WWII: Allied aircraft sink
the German-controlled cargo ship MS Sinfra in the
Mediterranean, killing over 2,000 people, mostly Italian
military internees. ·
October 21 – Lucie Aubrac and others in her French Resistance cell
liberate Raymond Aubrac from Gestapo imprisonment. ·
October 22 – WWII: The British Royal Air Force delivers a highly
destructive airstrike on the German industrial and population center of Kassel; at least 10,000 are killed and
150,000 are made homeless. See Bombing
of Kassel in World War II. ·
October 24 – WWII: British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Eclipse (H08) is
sunk by a mine in the Aegean Sea with
the loss of 119 of the ship's company and 134 troops.[19] ·
October 28 – Alleged date of the Philadelphia
Experiment, in which the destroyer escort USS Eldridge (DE-173) was
supposed to be rendered invisible to human observers for a brief period. ·
WWII:
Signing of Moscow Declarations:
the Declaration
of the Four Nations on general security, by the United
States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union and Republic of China; and the
Declarations on Italy, Austria and Atrocities by the first three governments. ·
The Merrie Melodies animated cartoon Falling Hare, one of the only shorts with Bugs Bunny getting out-smarted, is
released in the United States. November[edit] Main article: November 1943
Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at
the Cairo Conference,
25 November 1943.
The first Lebanese flag hand drawn and signed by
the deputies of the Lebanese parliament, November 11, 1943. The French Mandate ends
and Lebanon gains independence in November
1943.
Joseph Stalin, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill on
the verandah of the Soviet Embassy in Tehran during the Tehran Conference ·
November 1 – WWII: Operation Goodtime: United States Marines land
on Bougainville Island in
the Solomon Islands. ·
November 2 – WWII: ·
In
the early morning hours, American and Japanese ships fight the
inconclusive Battle of
Empress Augusta Bay off Bougainville Island. ·
WWII:
British troops in Italy reach the Garigliano River. ·
November 3 – Holocaust: As part
of Operation Harvest
Festival, the largest single day massacre of Jews in the entire
war took place when over 43,000 Jews were shot-gunned to death by the SS. ·
November 5 WWII: First Bombing of the
Vatican: Four bombs are dropped on the neutral Vatican City; the aircraft responsible is
never certainly identified. ·
November 9 – Agreement for foundation of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration signed
by 44 countries in the White House, Washington, D.C. ·
November 10 – Execution of the Lübeck martyrs,
four men of religion, for supposedly treasonable views. ·
November 14 – Leonard Bernstein,
substituting at the last minute for ailing principal conductor Bruno Walter, directs the New York
Philharmonic in its regular Sunday afternoon broadcast
concert over CBS Radio. The event receives
front-page coverage in The New York Times the
following day. ·
November 15 – Porajmos: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" be
put "on the same level as Jews and placed in Nazi
concentration camps." ·
WWII:
After flying from Britain, 160 American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility
and heavy water factory
in German-controlled Vemork, Norway. ·
WWII:
A Japanese submarine sinks
the surfaced U.S. submarine USS Corvina near Chuuk Lagoon (Truk). ·
November 18 – WWII: Battle of
Berlin – The British Royal Air Force opens its bombing
campaign against Berlin with 440 planes causing only light damage and killing
131. The RAF loses 9 aircraft and 53 aviators. ·
November 19 – The Holocaust: Inmates of Janowska
concentration camp near Lwów (at this time in German-occupied
Poland), stage a failed uprising, after which the SS liquidates
the camp, resulting in at least 6,000 deaths. ·
November 20 – WWII: Battle of Tarawa: United States
Marines land on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands(Kiribati from 1979)
and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns. ·
November 22 –26 – WWII: Cairo Conference ("Sextant")
– President
of the United States Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Chairman
of the National Government of China Chiang Kai-shekmeet at Cairo in Egypt to discuss ways to
defeat Japan in the Pacific War. ·
November 22 – Lebanon gains independence on ending of
the French
Mandate. ·
November 23 – The Deutsches Opernhaus on
Bismarckstraße in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg is destroyed in an air
raid (It is reopened in 1961 as the Deutsche Oper Berlin). ·
November 25 – WWII: Americans and
Japanese fight the naval Battle of Cape
St. George between Buka and New Ireland. ·
November 26 – WWII: British troopship HMT Rohna is sunk off the
north African coast by a Luftwaffe Henschel Hs 293radio controlled glide bomb killing 1015.[20][21] ·
November 28 – WWII: Tehran Conference:
U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet
in Tehran to discuss war strategy.
On November 30, they
establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe
codenamed Operation Overlord. ·
November 29 – The second session
of AVNOJ, the Anti-Fascist Council of National
Liberation of Yugoslavia, is held
in Jajce, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, to determine the post-war ordering of the country. December[edit] Main article: December 1943 ·
December 2 – WWII: Bari chemical warfare disaster:
A surprise Luftwaffe air raid on Bari in Italy sinks
28 Allied ships
in the harbor, including the American Liberty ship SS John Harvey, releasing its
secret cargo of mustard gas bombs,
inflating the number of casualties.[22] ·
In
reprisal for an act of sabotage, the SS and Gestapo execute 100 Warsaw Tramway workers.[23] ·
Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic
"Orchestrated Hell" broadcast over CBS Radio,
describing a Royal Air Force nighttime
bombing raid on Berlin. ·
WWII:
In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Tito proclaims a provisional democratic
Yugoslav government-in-exile. ·
The Great Depression officially ends in the
United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to WWII-related
employment, U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt closes the Works
Progress Administration. ·
WWII: Bolivia declares war on Romania and Hungary. ·
December 7 – Chiara Lubich starts the
humanitarian Focolare Movement in Trento, Italy. ·
December 13 – WWII: Massacre of Kalavryta:
The occupying 117th
Jäger Division (Wehrmacht) machine-gun all adult males
from Kalavryta in Greece, subsequently
burning the town. ·
December 15 – WWII: American and
Australian forces began the Battle of Arawe as a diversion before a
larger landing at Cape Gloucester on New Britain in Papua New Guinea. ·
December 20 – A military coup is staged in Bolivia. ·
December 24 – WWII: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme
Allied Commander Europe. He establishes Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in
London. ·
December 30 – Subhas Chandra Bose sets
up a pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair, India. Date unknown[edit] ·
History
of the cooperative movement: Father José María
Arizmendiarrieta sets up a polytechnic school at Mondragón in the Spanish Basque
Country (predecessor of the University of
Mondragón) which inspires creation of the Mondragon
Corporation. ·
Arana Hall, a residential college of
the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, is founded. ·
Jacques-Yves
Cousteau co-invents, with Émile Gagnan, the first commercially
successful open circuit type of scuba diving equipment, the Aqua-lung.[24] ·
Publication
of Martin Noth's
groundbreaking work of Old Testament scholarship Überlieferungsgeschichtliche
Studien: Die sammelnden und bearbeitenden Geschichtswerke im Alten Testament.[25] Births[edit]
January[edit]
Princess
Margriet of the Netherlands
·
Stanley Kamel, American actor (d. 2008) ·
Don Novello (aka "Father Guido
Sarducci"), American comedian ·
January 2 – Barış
Manço, Turkish singer and television personality (d. 1999) ·
January 4 – Doris Kearns Goodwin,
American writer ·
January 6 – Terry Venables, English football manager ·
January 7 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese atomic bomb sickness victim (d. 1955) ·
January 8 – Jimmy Elledge, American country musician
(d. 2012) ·
Freddie Starr, British comedian and singer ·
Scott Walker,
American singer and composer ·
January 10 – Jim Croce, American surburbia musician
(d. 1973) ·
January 11 – Jim Hightower, American radio host and
author ·
January 13 – Richard Moll, American television actor ·
Ralph M. Steinman,
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist; Nobel laureate (d. 2011) ·
Holland Taylor, American actress ·
José Luis
Rodríguez, Venezuelan singer ·
Kirin Kiki, Japanese actress (d. 2018) ·
Dame Margaret Beckett, British politician ·
January 16 - Peter T. Snowe, American politician and
businessman (d. 1973) ·
January 17 – René Préval, 2nd Prime Minister of
Haiti and 38th and 40th President of Haiti (d. 2017) ·
January 18 – Kay Granger, American politician ·
Janis Joplin, American rock singer (d. 1970) ·
Princess
Margriet of the Netherlands ·
Haruo Yasuda, Japanese gollfer ·
January 20 – Mel Hague, English singer and author ·
Tamás Cseh, Hungarian composer, singer and
actor (d. 2009) ·
Marília Pêra,
Brazilian actress (d. 2015) ·
Janice Raymond, American second-wave
feminist activist ·
Sharon Tate, American actress and model
murdered by the "Manson Family" (d. 1969) ·
Dagmar Berghoff, German radio and television
presenter ·
Roy Black,
German singer (d. 1991) ·
Tobe Hooper, American film director
(d. 2017) ·
January 26 – César Gutiérrez,
Venezuelan Major League
Baseball player (d. 2005) ·
January 28 – John Beck,
American actor ·
Tony Blackburn, British radio disc jockey ·
Rudy Regalado,
Venezuelan musician (d. 2010) February[edit]
·
February 2 – Erkan Geniş, Turkish artist ·
Blythe Danner, American actress ·
Dennis Edwards, American soul and R&B
singer (d. 2018) ·
February 4 – Alberto João Jardim,
Portuguese politician ·
Nolan Bushnell, American video game pioneer ·
Michael Mann,
American film director, writer, and producer ·
Craig Morton, American football player ·
February 7 – Gareth Hunt, English actor (d. 2007) ·
February 8 – Creed Bratton, American actor and musician ·
Joe Pesci, American actor ·
Joseph E. Stiglitz,
American economist, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
February 11 – Mohammad
Rafiquzzaman, Bangladeshi lyricist ·
February 12 – Wacław
Kisielewski, Polish pianist (d. 1986) ·
February 14 – Maceo Parker, American musician (James Brown, P-Funk) ·
February 15 – Elke Heidenreich, German author, TV
presenter and journalist ·
February 18 – Graeme Garden, Scottish writer, comedian,
and actor ·
Homer Hickam, American author and
retired NASA engineer ·
Tim Hunt, British biochemist, recipient of
the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist
(d. 2008) ·
Antonio Inoki, Japanese professional
wrestler ·
Mike Leigh, British film director ·
February 21 – David Geffen, American record executive and
film producer ·
February 22 – Horst Köhler, President of the
Federal Republic of Germany ·
February 23 – Fred Biletnikoff, American football player
and coach ·
February 24 – Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer ·
February 25 – George Harrison, English singer and
guitarist (The Beatles)
(d. 2001) ·
Bill Duke, American actor and director ·
Darcus Howe, Trinidadian-born British civil
rights activist (d. 2017) ·
Bob Hite – American, singer and
musician (Canned Heat)
(d. 1981) ·
February 27 – Morten Lauridsen, American composer ·
February 28 – Donnie Iris, American rock singer and
guitarist (The Jaggerz, Wild Cherry, Donnie Iris and the Cruisers) March[edit]
·
March 1 ·
Gil Amelio, American entrepreneur ·
Richard H. Price, American physicist ·
March 2 ·
Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (d. 2005) ·
Tony Meehan, British drummer (The Shadows) (d. 2005) ·
Peter Straub, American author ·
March 3 – Trond Mohn, Norwegian billionaire ·
March 4 ·
Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter
(d. 2012) ·
Zoltán Jeney, Hungarian composer ·
March 5 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer and
songwriter (d. 1998) ·
March 8 – Lynn Redgrave, English actress (d. 2010) ·
March 9 ·
Bobby Fischer, American chess player
(d. 2008) ·
Charles Gibson, American television
journalist ·
March 12 – Ratko Mladic, Serbia military leader ·
March 13 – André Téchiné,
French film director ·
March 14 ·
Anita Morris, American actress, singer and
dancer (d. 1994) ·
Leroy
"Sugarfoot" Bonner, American guitarist (Ohio Players) (d. 2013) ·
March 15 ·
David Cronenberg, Canadian film director ·
Sly Stone, American singer ·
March 16 ·
Helen
Armstrong, American violinist (d. 2006) ·
Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005) ·
March 18 – Kevin Dobson, American actor ·
March 19 ·
Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Mario Monti, 54th Prime Minister of
Italy ·
March 20 ·
Gerard Malanga, American poet and
photographer ·
Douglas Tompkins, American conservationist
and businessman (d. 2015) ·
March 21 ·
Luigi Agnolin, Italian football referee
(d. 2018) ·
István Gyulai, Hungarian sports official
(d. 2006) ·
Vivian Stanshall, British comedy writer,
artist, broadcaster and musician (d. 1995) ·
March 22 ·
George Benson, American guitarist and
singer-songwriter ·
Keith Relf, British rock musician (d. 1976) ·
March 24 – Kate Webb, New Zealand-born Australian war
correspondent (d. 2007) ·
March 25 – Paul Michael Glaser,
American actor ·
March 26 – Bob Woodward, American journalist ·
March 28 ·
Dharmasena Pathiraja,
Sri Lankan film director and screenwriter (d. 2018) ·
Jean-Claude Boulard,
French politician (d. 2018) ·
March 29 ·
Eric Idle, British comedy actor, writer and
composer ·
John Major, British politician, 70th Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom ·
Vangelis, Greek musician and composer ·
March 31 ·
Motiur Rahman Nizami,
Bangladeshi politician and convicted war criminal (d. 2016) ·
Christopher Walken,
American actor April[edit]
·
April 2 – Caterina Bueno, Italian singer (d. 2007) ·
April 3 – Hikaru Saeki, Japanese admiral, the first
female star officer of
the Japan
Self-Defense Forces ·
April 5 ·
Jean-Louis Tauran,
French cardinal (d. 2018) ·
Max Gail, American actor ·
April 8 – Miller Farr, American football player ·
April 10 ·
Andrzej
Badeński, Polish athlete (d. 2008) ·
Margaret Pemberton,
English writer ·
April 11 – Harley Race, American professional wrestler ·
April 16 – Petro Tyschtschenko,
German businessman ·
April 17 – Bobby Curtola, Canadian singer (d. 2016) ·
April 19 – Claus Theo Gärtner,
German actor ·
April 20 – John Eliot Gardiner,
English conductor ·
April 21 – Napsiah Omar, Malaysian educator and
politician (d. 2018) ·
April 22 ·
Gabriel López
Zapiain, Mexican footballer (d. 2018) ·
Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate ·
April 23 ·
Dominik Duka, Czech Roman Catholic bishop
and theologian ·
Fighting Harada, Japanese boxer ·
Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter ·
Hervé Villechaize,
French-born actor (d. 1993) ·
April 24 – Richard Sterban, American singer (The Oak Ridge Boys) ·
April 25 ·
Alan Feduccia, American paleornithologist ·
James G. Mitchell,
Canadian computer scientist ·
April 28 – John O. Creighton,
American astronaut ·
April 29 – Sir Ian Kershaw, English historian ·
April 30 ·
Frederick Chiluba,
Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (d. 2011) ·
Paul
Jennings, Australian writer ·
Bobby Vee, American singer (d. 2016) May[edit]
·
May 1 – Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan politician (d. 2004) ·
May 5 – Michael Palin, English comedian and
television presenter ·
May 6 – Grange Calveley, British writer and artist ·
May 7 – Orlando
Ramírez, Chilean footballer (d. 2018) ·
May 8 – Danny Whitten, American musician (d. 1972) ·
May 10 – Richard Darman, American federal government
official and businessman (d. 2008) ·
May 13 – Kurt Trampedach, Danish artist (d. 2013) ·
May 14 ·
Jack Bruce, British musician and songwriter
(d. 2014) ·
Ólafur Ragnar
Grímsson, President of Iceland ·
May 17 ·
Mark W. Olson, American economist and
politician (d. 2018) ·
Tuanku Syed
Sirajuddin, King of Malaysia ·
May 22 – Betty
Williams, Northern Irish political activist, co-recipient of
the Nobel Peace Prize ·
May 25 – Jessi Colter, American singer and composer ·
May 26 – Erica Terpstra, Dutch swimmer, politician
and president of the Dutch Olympic Committee ·
May 27 ·
Bruce Weitz, American actor ·
Cilla Black, English singer and entertainer
(d. 2015) ·
May 29 – Ion Ciubuc, Moldovan politician (d. 2018) ·
May 30 – James Chaney, American civil rights worker
(d. 1964) ·
May 31 ·
Sharon Gless, American actress ·
Joe Namath, American football player June[edit]
·
June 1 ·
Kuki Gallmann, Kenyan writer and poet ·
Richard Goode, American pianist ·
Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer
(d. 2004) ·
June 2 – Ilayaraaja, Indian composer ·
June 3 – John Burgess,
Australian game show host and actor ·
June 4 – Joyce Meyer, Christian author and speaker ·
June 6 – Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2005) ·
June 7 ·
Chan Hung-lit, Hong Kong actor (d. 2009) ·
Nikki Giovanni, American poet ·
June 8 – Colin Baker, British actor ·
June 11 – Henry Hill, American Gangster ·
June 13 – Malcolm McDowell, British actor ·
June 14 – Jim Sensenbrenner,
American politician ·
June 15 ·
Johnny Hallyday, French pop singer and actor
(d. 2017) ·
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Prime Minister
of Denmark ·
June 16 – Joan Van Ark, American actress ·
June 17 ·
Newt Gingrich, American politician ·
Barry Manilow, American pop musician ·
June 18 – Barry Evans,
English actor (d. 1997) ·
June 21 – Marika Green, French-Swedish actress ·
June 22 ·
Klaus Maria
Brandauer, Austrian actor ·
J. Michael
Kosterlitz, Scottish-born condensed matter physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
June 23 ·
Princess
Maria Isabella of Savoy-Genoa ·
Patrick Bokanowski,
French filmmaker ·
James Levine, American conductor ·
Vint Cerf, American internet pioneer ·
June 26 ·
John Beasley,
American actor ·
Warren Farrell, American educator, activist
and author on gender issues ·
June 27 – Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player ·
June 28 ·
Jens Birkemose, Danish painter ·
Klaus von Klitzing,
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
June 29 ·
Maureen O'Brien, British actress ·
Leopold Grausam, Austrian footballer ·
Frank Zweerts, Dutch field hockey player ·
June 30 ·
Cees Kurpershoek, Dutch sailor ·
Daniel Kablan Duncan,
Ivorian politician ·
Florence Ballard, American singer and
founder of The Supremes (d. 1976) ·
Dieter Kottysch, West German Olympic boxer
(d. 2017) July[edit]
·
July 1 ·
Freddie Lewis, American basketball player ·
Hassan Mohamed
Ali Wariiri, Somali judge ·
Jeff Wayne, American musician ·
July 2 ·
Kenny Cameron, Scottish footballer ·
Lauri Peters, American actress, dancer,
singer, drama teacher, and author ·
July 3 ·
Judith Durham, Australian singer ·
Kurtwood Smith, American actor ·
July 4 ·
Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German
trombonist ·
Geraldo Rivera, American reporter and talk
show host ·
July 5 ·
István Gáli, Hungarian boxer ·
Curt Blefary, American baseball player
(d. 2001) ·
Robbie Robertson, Canadian musician (The Band) ·
July 6 ·
Kim Kye-gwan, North Korean diplomat ·
Tamara Sinyavskaya,
Russian mezzo-soprano ·
Rosemary Forsyth, Canadian-American actress
and model ·
Muhammad Iqbal
Gujjar, Pakistani politician ·
July 7 ·
Jürgen Geschke,
German track cyclist ·
M. Karathu, Malaysian football player and
manager ·
Robert East,
Welsh theatre and TV actor ·
Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007) ·
Miguel Vila Luna, Dominican architect and
painter (d. 2005) ·
July 8 ·
Guido Marzulli, Italian painter ·
Carmine Preziosi, Italian road bicycle racer ·
July 9 ·
Suzanne Rogers, American actress ·
Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (d. 1970) ·
July 10 ·
Arthur Ashe, American tennis player
(d. 1993) ·
Inonge
Mbikusita-Lewanika, Zambian politician ·
July 11 ·
Edna Madzongwe, Zimbabwean politician ·
Tom Holland,
American screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker ·
July 12 ·
Christine McVie, British musician ·
Walter Murch, American film editor and sound
designer ·
July 14 ·
George Thomas Coker,
United States Navy commander ·
Harold Wheeler,
American orchestrator, composer, conductor, arranger, record producer, and
music director ·
David Burden, British Army officer ·
July 15 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
British astrophysicist ·
July 16 ·
Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (d. 1990) ·
Jimmy
Johnson, American football coach and television analyst ·
Lim Zoong-sun, North Korean football player ·
July 17 ·
Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israeli diplomat, politician
and historian ·
Alfredo Mantica, Italian politician ·
July 18 – Jerry Chambers, American basketball player ·
July 19 ·
David Griffin,
British actor ·
Han Sai Por, Singaporean sculptor ·
July 20 ·
Christopher Murney,
American actor and vocal artist ·
Wendy Richard, British actress (d. 2009) ·
July 21 ·
Edward Herrmann, American actor (d. 2014) ·
Henry McCullough, Northern Irish musician (Paul McCartney
& Wings) (d. 2016) ·
Bob Shrum, political consultant ·
July 22 ·
Barka Sy, Senegalese sprinter ·
Nils Utsi, Norwegian actor, stage director
and film director ·
July 23 ·
Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze
advocate (d. 2007) ·
Bob Hilton, American game show announcer and
host ·
Tony Joe White, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 2018) ·
Larry Manetti, American actor ·
July 25 – Erika Steinbach, German politician ·
July 26 – Mick Jagger, English rock singer ·
July 27 – Mary Love, American soul and gospel singer
(d. 2013) ·
July 28 – Richard Wright,
British musician (d. 2008) ·
July 29 – Bob Brunning, British musician (d. 2011) ·
July 30 – Giovanni Goria, Prime Minister of Italy
(d. 1994) August[edit]
·
August 2 – Max Wright, American actor ·
August 3 – Clarence Wijewardena,
Sri Lankan musician (d. 1996) ·
August 4 – Barbara
Saß-Viehweger, German politician, lawyer and civil law notary ·
August 4 – Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper ·
August 5 – Nelson Briles, American baseball player
(d. 2005) ·
August 6 – Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (d. 1991) ·
August 8 – Luc Rosenzweig, French journalist (d. 2018) ·
August 9 – Ken Norton, American boxer and actor
(d. 2013) ·
August 10 – Frédéric Kyburz,
Swiss judoka (d. 2018) ·
Abigail Folger, American heiress and murder
victim (d. 1969) ·
Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and
leader, 10th President of
Pakistan ·
August 13 – Roberto Micheletti, President of
Honduras ·
Robert De Niro, American actor ·
Yukio Kasaya, Japanese ski jumper ·
August 18 – Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer ·
August 19 – Edwin Hawkins, American gospel musician,
pianist (d. 2018) ·
August 20 – Sylvester McCoy, British actor ·
August 22 – Nahas Angula, Prime Minister
of Namibia ·
Bobby Diamond, American actor ·
Pino Presti, Italian bassist, arranger,
composer, conductor, record producer ·
August 27 – Tuesday Weld, American actress ·
Surayud Chulanont,
Thai politician, 24th Prime Minister
of Thailand ·
Lou Piniella, American baseball player and
manager ·
Jihad Al-Atrash, Lebanese actor and voice
actor ·
August 29 – Arthur B. McDonald,
Canadian astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Tal Brody, American-born Israeli basketball
player ·
R. Crumb, American artist and illustrator ·
Altovise Davis, American entertainer
(d. 2009) ·
Jean-Claude Killy,
French skier ·
August 31 – Leonid Ivashov, Russian general September[edit]
·
September 5 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and
former DSWD Secretary (d. 2007) ·
Harris Hines, American judge (d. 2018) ·
Richard J. Roberts,
English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
Roger Waters, English musician (Pink Floyd) ·
September 7 – Lena Valaitis, Lithuanian-German Schlager
singer ·
September 9 – Art LaFleur, American actor ·
Daniel Truhitte, American actor ·
Neale Donald Walsch,
American author of the popular books Conversations with
God ·
Jaime Thorne Leon,
Peruvian politician (d. 2018) ·
Gilbert Proesch, Italian-born artist (Gilbert and George) ·
Raymond Villeneuve,
Canadian terrorist ·
September 13 – Mildred D. Taylor,
American writer ·
September 14 – Irwin Goodman, Finnish singer (d. 1991) ·
September 16 – Oskar Lafontaine, German politician ·
September 19 – Joe Morgan, American Hall of Fame baseball
player ·
Charles D.
Lancaster Jr., American attorney and politician (d. 2018) ·
Toni Basil, American musician and video
artist ·
Ernie Ackerley, British footballer (d. 2017) ·
Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer and
songwriter ·
September 28 – J. T. Walsh, American actor (d. 1998) ·
September 29 – Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ·
Johann Deisenhofer,
German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Ian Ogilvy, British-American actor October[edit]
·
October 1 – Jean-Jacques Annaud,
French film director ·
Franklin Rosemont,
American poet (d. 2009) ·
Henri Szeps, Australian actor ·
October 6 – Michael Durrell, American actor ·
October 7 – Oliver North, American military officer,
military historian, political commentator, author and television host ·
Chevy Chase, American comedian and actor ·
R. L. Stine, American novelist ·
October 11 – John Nettles, English actor and writer ·
Lois Hamilton, American model, actress and
artist (d. 1999) ·
Mohammad Khatami, 5th President of Iran ·
October 15 – Penny Marshall, American actress, director
and producer ·
October 16 – Paul Rose,
Canadian terrorist ·
Birthe Rønn Hornbech,
Danish politician ·
Christine
Charbonneau, Canadian francophone singer and songwriter (d. 2014) ·
October 20 – Noreen Corcoran, American child actress and
director (d. 2016) ·
October 22 – Catherine Deneuve,
French actress ·
October 24 – Theodor Stolojan, 54th Prime Minister of
Romania ·
October 27 – Carmen Argenziano,
American actor ·
October 28 – Cornelia Froboess,
German actress ·
October 29 – Don Simpson, American film producer,
screenwriter, and actor (d. 1996) ·
October 31 – Paul Frampton, English physicist November[edit]
·
November 1 – Jacques Attali, French economist ·
November 3 – Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician
(d. 2011) ·
Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian chutney musician (d. 2000) ·
Chuck Scarborough,
American news anchor ·
Friedman Paul
Erhardt, German-American pioneering television chef (d. 2007) ·
Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor
(d. 2017) ·
Stephen Greenblatt,
American literary critic ·
Nasirdin Isanov, 1st Prime Minister of
Kyrgyzstan (d. 1991) ·
Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician ·
Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
November 8 – Martin Peters, British footballer ·
November 11 – Doug Frost,
Australian swimming coach ·
November 12 – Wallace Shawn, American actor ·
Roberto Boninsegna,
Italian footballer ·
Jay Sigel, American golfer ·
Peter Norton, American software engineer and
businessman ·
Rafael
Leonardo Callejas, President of
Honduras ·
November 17 – Lauren Hutton, American actress and model ·
November 19 – Aurelio Monteagudo,
Cuban Major League
Baseball player (d. 1990) ·
Mie Hama, Japanese actress ·
Marek Tomaszewski,
Polish pianist ·
November 21 – Larry Mahan, American rodeo cowboy ·
Peter Adair, American filmmaker (d. 1996) ·
Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Billie Jean King, American tennis player ·
William Kotzwinkle,
American novelist and screenwriter ·
Fouad Siniora, 32nd Prime Minister of
Lebanon ·
November 23 – Denis Sassou Nguesso, President
of the Republic of the Congo ·
Dave Bing, American mayor and longtime NBA player ·
Kuniwo Nakamura, 6th President of Palau ·
November 25 – Dante Caputo, Argentine diplomat and
politician (d. 2018) ·
November 26 – Marilynne Robinson,
American writer ·
November 28 – Randy Newman, American musician ·
November 30 – Terrence Malick, American film director December[edit]
·
Wayne Allard, U.S Senator from Colorado ·
William
Wegman, American photographer ·
Eva Joly, Norwegian-born French magistrate ·
Nicolae
Văcăroiu, 55th Prime Minister of Romania ·
José
Carbajal, Uruguayan singer, composer and guitarist (d. 2010) ·
Larry Martin, American paleontologist
(d. 2013) ·
Jim Morrison, American rock musician
(d. 1971) ·
Bodo Tümmler, German Olympic middle-distance
runner ·
December 11 – John Kerry, American politician,
longtime Massachusetts Senator (1985–2013), 2004 Democratic
nominee for president, and U.S. Secretary of State ·
Gianni Russo, American actor ·
Grover Washington,
Jr., American saxophonist (d. 1999) ·
December 13 – Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player ·
December 13 – David W. Huff, American rock singer and
guitarist of David and the Giants ·
December 15 – Lucien den Arend, Dutch sculptor ·
Ron Geesin, British musician and songwriter
(Pink Floyd) ·
Rick Nolan, American politician ·
December 18 – Keith Richards, English rock guitarist and
songwriter ·
Sam Kelly, English actor (d. 2014) ·
Ross M. Lence, American political scientist
(d. 2006) ·
Jimmy Mackay, Australian football player
(d. 1998) ·
December 20 – Jacqueline Pearce,
English screen actress (d. 2018) ·
December 21 – Jack Nance, American actor (d. 1996) ·
December 22 – Paul Wolfowitz, American political scientist ·
Elizabeth Hartman,
American actress (d. 1987) ·
Harry Shearer, American actor, comedian and
screenwriter ·
Tarja Halonen, 11th President of Finland ·
James A.
Johnson, American business leader and philanthropist ·
December 25 – Hanna Schygulla, German actress ·
December 27 – Sam Hinds, 3-Time Prime Minister of Guyana ·
Keith Floyd, British chef (d. 2009) ·
Craig MacIntosh, American illustrator ·
Richard Whiteley, English television
presenter (d. 2005) ·
John Denver, American musician (d. 1997) ·
Sir Ben Kingsley, British actor Date unknown[edit] ·
Tang Da Wu, Singaporean artist ·
James Goldstein, LA businessman and NBA basketball
aficionado ·
Maktoum bin
Rashid Al Maktoum, 2-Time Prime Minister of the United Arab
Emirates (d. 2006) ·
Alfredo Rostgaard,
Cuban visual artist (d. 2004) Deaths[edit] January[edit]
·
Qazim Koculi, Albanian politician,
acting Prime Minister
of Albania (b. 1887) ·
Wilhelm Lorenz, German general (b. 1894) ·
January 3 – Bid McPhee, American baseball player
and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1859) ·
Emperor Hàm Nghi of Vietnam (b. 1872) ·
Jerzy
Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-born Polish athlete and resistance member
(b. 1911) ·
Kate Price,
Irish-born American actress (b. 1872) ·
January 5 – George
Washington Carver, American botanist (b. c.1864) ·
January 7 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born American
electrical engineer and inventor (b. 1856) ·
January 8 – Richard Hillary, British Battle of Britain Spitfire,
pilot, author (b. 1919) ·
January 10 – Lewis Hall, American soldier (b. 1895) ·
January 11 – Agustín Pedro Justo,
Argentinian military officer, diplomat and politician, 23rd President of
Argentina (b. 1876) ·
January 12 – Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer (Neuengamme
concentration camp; b. 1902) ·
Else Ury, German writer and children's book
author (b. 1877) ·
Henner Henkel, German tennis champion
(b. 1915) ·
Xavier Martinez, Mexican-born American
painter (b. 1869) ·
January 15 – Eric Knight, American author (b. 1897) ·
January 17 – Taj al-Din al-Hasani,
Syrian politician, 6th Prime Minister of
Syria and 6th President of Syria (b. 1885) ·
January 19 – William
Pettigrew, British Christian missionary (b. 1869) ·
Giacomo Benvenuti,
Italian composer (b. 1885) ·
Baron Max Wladimir von Beck,
former Ministers-President of Austria (b. 1854) ·
Konstantinos Davakis,
Greek army officer (b. 1897) ·
Robert Henry English,
American admiral (b. 1888) ·
January 22 – Gyula Peidl, 23rd Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1873) ·
January 23 – Alexander Woollcott,
American critic (b. 1887) ·
January 26 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian and Soviet botanist
and geneticist (b. 1887) ·
Henriette Caillaux,
murderer, French socialite and wife of former French prime minister (b. 1874) ·
Vladimir Kokovtsov,
4th Chairman of the
Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire (b. 1853) February[edit]
Blessed Maria Josefa
Karolina Brader ·
February 1 – Foy Draper, American Olympic athlete (killed
in action) (b. 1911) ·
February 2 – Alfred Cavendish, British general (b. 1859) ·
Frank Calder, the 1st NHL President (b. 1877) ·
Senjūrō
Hayashi, Japanese army commander, politician and 22nd Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1876) ·
Sim Gokkes, Dutch composer (in Auschwitz
concentration camp) (b. 1897) ·
W. S. Van Dyke, American director (b. 1889) ·
Eustace Fiennes, British soldier and
politician (b. 1864) ·
Dmitry Kardovsky, Soviet painter and
illustrator (b. 1866) ·
Sverre Granlund, Norwegian general (b. 1918) ·
James T. Powers,
American actor (b. 1862) ·
February 11 – Bess Houdini, American wife of Harry Houdini (b. 1876) ·
February 14 – David Hilbert, German mathematician
(b. 1862) ·
February 15 – Charles Bennett,
American actor (b. 1889) ·
February 16 – Paul Ranous Greever,
American politician (b. 1891) ·
February 19 – Jan
Piekałkiewicz, Polish economist, statistician and politician
(b. 1892) ·
Ernest
Guglielminetti, Swiss physician (b. 1862) ·
Donald Haines, American actor (b. 1919) ·
Tamara Drasin, Russian-born American singer
and actress (b. 1905) ·
Christoph Probst, German White Rose
resistance member (executed) (b. 1919) ·
Ben Robertson,
American novelist, journalist, and war correspondent (b. 1903) ·
Hans Scholl, German White Rose resistance
member (executed) (b. 1918) ·
Sophie Scholl, German White Rose resistance
member (executed) (b. 1921) ·
February 23 – Edward Heaton-Ellis,
British army officer (b. 1868) ·
February 23 - Baron,
Karl von Möller, German Writer and Politician (b. 1886) ·
February 26 – Theodor Eicke, German Nazi official (killed
in action) (b. 1892) ·
February 27 – Maria Josefa
Karolina Brader, Swiss Roman Catholic religious professed and
blessed (b. 1860) March[edit]
Blessed Maria Restituta
Kafka ·
March 2 – Gisela Januszewska,
Austrian physician (b. 1867) ·
March 3 – Rafael López Nussa,
Puerto Rican physician (b. 1885) ·
March 6 – Jimmy Collins, American baseball player
and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1870) ·
March 8 ·
Alma del Banco, German painter (b. 1862) ·
Tjipto
Mangoenkoesoemo, Indonesian independence leader (b. 1886) ·
March 9 – Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor
(b. 1878) ·
March 10 – Tully Marshall, American actor (b. 1864) ·
March 12 ·
Czesława Kwoka,
Polish Roman Catholic religious
sister and blessed (b. 1928) ·
Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor
(b. 1869) ·
March 13 – Jaap Nunes Vaz, Dutch journalist, writer and
editor (b. 1906) ·
March 14 – Mervyn
Herbert, Viscount Clive, British peer and army officer (b. 1904) ·
March 19 – Frank Nitti, Italian-born American gangster
(suicide) (b. 1886) ·
March 20 ·
Lizika Jančar, Yugoslav national hero
(b. 1919) ·
Heinrich Zimmer, German Indologist and
historian (b. 1890) ·
March 22 -- Hans Woellke, German Olympic athlete
(b. 1911) ·
March 27 – George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, British
politician, 5th Governor-General
of New Zealand (b. 1882) ·
March 28 ·
Ben Davies,
British tenor (b. 1858) ·
Lorenzo Gasparri, Italian admiral (b. 1894) ·
Edward Heron-Allen,
British polymath, lawyer, scientist and scholar (b. 1871) ·
Robert W. Paul, British film director
(b. 1869) ·
Sergei Rachmaninoff,
Soviet composer (b. 1873) ·
March 30 – Maria Restituta
Kafka, German Roman Catholic religious sister and
blessed (b. 1894) ·
March 31 – Pavel Milyukov, Russian politician, founder
and leader of the Constitutional
Democratic Party (b. 1859) April[edit]
·
April 1 – Vahida
Maglajlić, Yugoslav partisan and national hero (killed in
combat) (b. 1907) ·
April 3 – Conrad Veidt, German actor (b. 1893) ·
April 5 – William
George Howard Gritten, British barrister, writer and conservative
politician (b. 1870) ·
April 7 ·
Auguste Audollent,
French historian and archaeologist (b. 1864) ·
Alexandre Millerand,
French politician, 41st Prime Minister
of France and 11th President of France (b. 1859) ·
April 8 ·
Harry Baur, French actor (b. 1880) ·
Itamar Ben-Avi, Israeli activist (b. 1882) ·
Tomás Garrido
Canabal, Mexican political and revolutionary (b. 1891) ·
Otto and Elise
Hampel, members of the German resistance to Nazism (executed)
(b. 1897 & 1903) ·
Richard Sears,
American tennis champion (b. 1861) ·
April 9 – Philip Slier, Dutch Jewish typesetter
(in Sobibór
extermination camp) (b. 1923) ·
April 11 – Kim Myeong-sik, Korean independence activist
(b. 1890) ·
April 13 – Oskar Schlemmer, German painter, sculptor,
designer and choreographer (b. 1888) ·
April 16 – Carlos Arniches, Spanish playwright
(b. 1866) ·
April 18 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884) ·
April 21 – Rihard Jakopič,
Yugoslav painter (b. 1869) ·
April 24 ·
Kenneth Whiting, United States Navy officer
and submarine and naval aviation pioneer (b. 1881) ·
Kurt von
Hammerstein-Equord, German general (b. 1878) ·
April 30 – Beatrice Webb, British sociologist,
economist, historian and social reformer (b. 1858) May[edit]
Blessed Grzegorz
Bolesław Frąckowiak
·
May 1 – Johan Oscar Smith,
Norwegian Christian leader, founder of Brunstad
Christian Church (b. 1871) ·
May 3 – Frank Maxwell
Andrews, American general (plane crash) (b. 1884) ·
May 4 ·
Cesira Ferrani, Italian soprano (b. 1863) ·
Saverio Marotta, Italian naval officer
(b. 1911) ·
May 5 ·
Grzegorz
Bolesław Frąckowiak, Polish Roman Catholic priest, martyr and
blessed (b. 1911) ·
Gordon
Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart, British politician and judge
(b. 1870) ·
May 7 – Fethi Okyar, Turkish diplomat and
politician, 2nd Prime Minister
of Turkey (b. 1880) ·
May 8 – Miroslav Šalom
Freiberger, Yugoslav rabbi, writer and spiritual leader (b. 1903) ·
May 14 ·
George,
Crown Prince of Saxony (b. 1893) ·
Henri La Fontaine,
Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) ·
May 15 – Horst Hannig, German Luftwaffe fighter ace
army officer (b. 1921) ·
May 17 ·
Johanna
Elberskirchen, German feminist (b. 1864) ·
Montagu Love, British actor (b. 1877) ·
May 19 – Kristjan Raud, Soviet painter and drawer
(b. 1865) ·
May 20 – John Stone Stone, American physicist and
inventor (b. 1869) ·
May 22 – Helen Taft, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1861) ·
May 24 – Johannes Orasmaa, Soviet army general
(b. 1890) ·
May 25 – Rida Pasha al-Rikabi,
1st Prime Minister of
Syria and 2-time Prime Minister
of Jordan (b. 1864) ·
May 26 – Edsel Ford, American businessman, president
of Ford Motor Company (b. 1893) ·
May 27 – Gordon Coates, 21st Prime Minister of New
Zealand (b. 1878) ·
May 29 – Yasuyo Yamasaki, Imperial Japanese Army
officer (killed in action) (b. 1891) ·
May 31 ·
Prince Georg of
Bavaria (b. 1880) ·
Helmut Kapp, German Gestapo official June[edit]
·
June 1 ·
István Bárczy,
Hungarian politician (b. 1866) ·
Leslie Howard,
British actor (b. 1893) ·
June 2 – Nile Kinnick, American athlete and Heisman Trophy winner (b. 1918) ·
June 3 – Osgood Hanbury, British pilot (b. 1917) ·
June 4 ·
Francesco Pianzola,
Italian Roman Catholic priest
and blessed (b. 1881) ·
Kermit Roosevelt, American explorer and
author (b. 1889) ·
June 10 – Sultan Abdelaziz of Morocco (b. 1878) ·
June 11 – Heisuke Abe, Japanese general (b. 1886) ·
June 12 – Hans Junkermann,
German actor (b. 1872) ·
June 26 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and
physician (b. 1868) ·
June 28 – Pietro Porcelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1872) ·
June 30 – Kristian
Kristiansen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1865) July[edit]
Blessed Marianna Biernacka ·
July 4 ·
Cevat Abbas Gürer,
Turkish army officer (b. 1887) ·
Gordon Sidney
Harrington, Canadian politician (b. 1883) ·
Zofia
Leśniowska, Polish army officer (b. 1912) ·
Władysław
Sikorski, Polish politician (b. 1881) ·
Charles
Stevenson, American actor (b. 1887) ·
July 5 ·
Leonardo Ferrulli,
Italian pilot (b. 1918) ·
Kazimierz
Junosza-Stępowski, Polish actor (b. 1880) ·
July 6 ·
Teruo Akiyama, Japanese admiral (killed in
action) (b. 1891) ·
Ignacia
Nazaria March Mesa, Spanish Roman Catholic religious sister and
blessed (b. 1889) ·
July 8 ·
Jean Moulin, French resistance fighter
(b. 1899) ·
Sir Harry Oakes, American-born British gold mine
owner (murdered) (b. 1874) ·
July 11 – Eugen Lovinescu, Romanian critic, academic
and novelist (b. 1881) ·
July 12 ·
Shunji Isaki, Japanese admiral (b. 1892) ·
Cecilia Loftus, British actress (b. 1876) ·
July 13 ·
Lorenzo Barcelata,
Mexican composer (b. 1898) ·
Marianna Biernacka,
Polish Roman Catholic religious
sister, martyr and blessed (b. 1888) ·
Luz Long, German long jump athlete (b. 1913) ·
July 14 – Mariya Borovichenko,
Soviet medical officer (b. 1925) ·
July 19 ·
Martin Faust,
American actor (b. 1886) ·
Giuseppe Terragni,
Italian architect (b. 1904) ·
July 20 – Maria Gay, Spanish opera singer (b. 1879) ·
July 21 ·
José Jurado de la
Parra, Spanish journalist, poet and playwright (b. 1856) ·
Charley Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900) ·
Louis Vauxcelles, French art critic
(b. 1870) ·
Theodor von Guérard,
German jurist and politician (b. 1863) ·
July 26 – Luis Barros Borgoño,
Chilean politician (b. 1858) ·
July 28 – Charles Granval, French actor (b. 1882) ·
July 29 – William Ewart Hart,
Australian aviator and dentist (b. 1885) ·
July 31 ·
Zdzisław
Lubomirski, Polish aristocrat, landowner, lawyer, politician and
activist (b. 1865) ·
Rodger Wilton Young,
soldier of the United States Army,
remembered in the song "The Ballad of
Rodger Young" (b. 1918) August[edit]
Blessed Franz Jägerstätter
·
August 1 – Martyrs of
Nowogródek, Polish nuns, martyrs and blessed (b. Polish nationality) ·
August 5 ·
Iosif Apanasenko, Soviet commander (b. 1890) ·
Eva-Maria Buch, German resistance leader
(b. 1921) ·
August 9 ·
Franz Jägerstätter,
Austrian conscientious objector, martyr and blessed (b. 1907) ·
Chaim Soutine, Soviet painter (b. 1893) ·
August 12 – Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857) ·
August 14 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player
and MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1871) ·
August 18 – Hans Jeschonnek, German general (suicide)
(b. 1899) ·
August 21 – Henrik Pontoppidan,
Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1857) ·
August 22 – Virgilio Dávila,
Puerto Rican poet, educator, businessman and politician (b. 1869) ·
Ettore Muti, Italian Fascist politician
(b. 1902) ·
Simone Weil, French philosopher (b. 1909) ·
August 26 – Ted Ray, British golfer (b. 1877) ·
August 27 – William de
Burgh, British philosopher (b. 1866) ·
August 28 – King Boris III of
Bulgaria (b. 1894) ·
August 29 – Baba Nand Singh ji,
Sikhism religious leader (b. 1870) ·
August 31 – Gustav Bachmann, German naval officer and
admiral (b. 1860) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief
(b. 1880) ·
September 2 – Marsden Hartley, American Modernist artist
(b. 1877) ·
September 6 – Reginald McKenna, British Chancellor of
the Exchequer 1915–1916 (b. 1863) ·
Géza Grünwald,
Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910) ·
Karlrobert Kreiten,
German pianist (executed) (b. 1916) ·
September 8 – Julius
Fučík, Czech resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1903) ·
Carlo Bergamini,
Italian admiral (killed in action) (b. 1888) ·
Salvatore John
Cavallaro, American navy officer (b. 1920) ·
Federico Martinengo,
Italian pilot (b. 1899) ·
David Bacon,
American actor (b. 1914) ·
Ugo Cavallero, General of the Italian Army
(suicide) (b. 1880) ·
September 17 – Mieczysław
Witold Gutkowski, Polish lawyer (b. 1893) ·
September 19 – Germaine Cernay, French mezzo-soprano
(b. 1900) ·
Elinor Glyn, British writer and critic
(b. 1864) ·
Ernst Trygger, 19th Prime Minister of Sweden
(b. 1857) ·
September 28 – Sam Ruben, American chemist (b. 1913) ·
September 29 – Mariano Goybet, French army general
(b. 1861) ·
September 30 – Adolf Paul, Swedish novelist and playwright
(b. 1863) October[edit]
·
Carlos Blanco
Galindo, 38th President of Bolivia (b. 1882) ·
Muhamed
Hadžiefendić, Yugoslav army officer (b. 1898) ·
October 4 – Irena
Iłłakowicz, Polish general (b. 1906) ·
October 5 – Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902) ·
October 6 – Ignaz
Trebitsch-Lincoln, Hungarian adventurer (b. 1879) ·
October 7 – Prince
Christopher of Hesse (b. 1901) ·
October 8 – Wilhelm Hegeler, German novelist (b. 1870) ·
October 9 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1865) ·
October 12 – Max Wertheimer, Austro-Hungarian
psychologist (b. 1880) ·
Rudolf Beckmann, German SS officer (Sobibór
uprising) (b. 1910) ·
Siegfried Graetschus,
German SS officer (Sobibór uprising) (b. 1916) ·
Johann Niemann, German SS officer (Sobibór
uprising) (b. 1913) ·
October 15 – William
Penhallow Henderson, American painter, architect and furniture
designer (b. 1877) ·
October 18 – Margaret Bartholomew,
American army officer (b. 1903) ·
October 19 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864) ·
October 21 – Dudley Pound, British admiral (b. 1877) ·
October 22 – William Reginald
Hall, British admiral (b. 1870) ·
André Antoine, French actor (b. 1858) ·
Ben Bernie, American jazz violinist
(b. 1891) ·
Antonio Legnani, Italian admiral (b. 1888) ·
Franceska Mann, Polish dancer (b. 1917) ·
October 24 – Hector de
Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and lawyer (b. 1912) ·
October 30 – Max Reinhardt, Austrian director (b. 1873) November[edit]
Grand
Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia
Metropolitan Gurie Grosu ·
Samad Abdullayev, Soviet army officer
(b. 1920) ·
Frank Campeau, American actor (b. 1864) ·
Idhomene Kosturi, Albanian politician and
acting Prime Minister
of Albania (b. 1873) ·
November 7 – Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899) ·
November 9 – Grand
Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia (b. 1877) ·
November 10 – Blessed Lubeck martyrs, German Roman Catholic priests: ·
Johannes Prassek (b. 1911) ·
Eduard Müller (b. 1911) ·
Hermann Lange (b. 1912) ·
Karl Friedrich
Stellbrink (b. 1894) ·
November 13 – Maurice Denis, French painter (b. 1870) ·
November 14 – Gurie Grosu, Romanian Orthodox priest
and metropolitan (b. 1877) ·
November 19 – Baruch Lopes
Leão de Laguna, Dutch painter (b. 1864) ·
Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895) ·
Keiji Shibazaki, Japanese admiral (killed in
action) (b. 1894) ·
Maria Forescu, Austro-Hungarian-born opera
singer and actress (b. 1875) ·
Charles Ray,
American actor (b. 1891) ·
France Balantič,
Yugoslav poet (b. 1921) ·
Doris "Dorie" Miller, American
sailor, Pearl Harbor survivor (killed in action) (b. 1919) ·
Henry M. Mullinnix,
American admiral (killed in action) (b. 1892) ·
November 25 – Renato Cialente, Italian actor (b. 1897) ·
Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1909) ·
Kiyoto Kagawa, Japanese admiral (killed in
action) (b. 1895) ·
Edward "Butch" O'Hare, American
fighter pilot (killed in action) (b. 1914) ·
November 28 – Aleksander Hellat,
Soviet politician (b. 1881) ·
November 29 – Zsolt Harsányi,
Hungarian author, dramatist, translator and writer (b. 1887) December[edit]
·
Antonio de Viti
de Marco, Italian economist (b. 1858) ·
Prince Damrong Rajanubhab,
Thai prince and historian (b. 1862) ·
December 2 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet, novelist,
journalist and activist (b. 1902) ·
December 6 – G. O. Smith, English sportsman (b. 1872) ·
December 7 – Hamilton Lamb, Australian politician and
soldier (b. 1900) ·
December 8 – Donald
Mackintosh, British clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop and reverend
(b. 1876) ·
George Cooper,
American actor (b. 1892) ·
Georges Dufrénoy,
French post-impressionist painter (b. 1870) ·
December 10 – Charles Belcher,
American actor (b. 1872) ·
December 13 – Erich Garske, German political activist
(b. 1907) ·
December 14 – John Harvey Kellogg,
American doctor (b. 1852) ·
December 15 – Fats Waller, American jazz pianist (b. 1904) ·
December 18 – Hector Gray, British Royal Air Force officer
(b. 1911) ·
December 20 – Edward L. Beach Sr.,
American naval officer and author (b. 1867) ·
December 22 – Beatrix Potter, British children's author
and illustrator (b. 1866) ·
December 25 – William Irving,
German-born American film actor (b. 1893) ·
December 26 – Erich Bey, German admiral (b. 1898) ·
Rupert Julian, New Zealand actor and
director (b. 1879) ·
Creelman MacArthur,
Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1874) ·
December 30 – Hobart Bosworth, American film actor,
director, writer, and producer (b. 1867) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Physics – Otto Stern ·
Chemistry – George de Hevesy ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Carl Peter Henrik
Dam, Edward Adelbert
Doisy ·
Literature –
not awarded ·
Peace –
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