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1947 (MCMXLVII) was
a common year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of
the 20th century,
and the 8th year of the 1940s decade. January 1: Nigeria gains autonomy. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
January–February
– Winter
of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: Worst snowfall in the country in
the 20th century, with extensive disruption of travel.[1] Given
the low ratio of private vehicle ownership at the time this is mainly
remembered in terms of the effects on the railway networks.[2] ·
British
coal mines are nationalised. ·
Nigeria gains limited autonomy before
gaining independence in 1960. ·
The Canadian
Citizenship Act comes into effect. ·
January 3 – Proceedings of the United States
Congress are televised for the first time. ·
January 10 – The United Nations takes control of the
free city of Trieste. ·
January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an
aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally
murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The case remains unsolved to this
day. ·
January 16 – Vincent Auriol is inaugurated as
president of France. ·
January 19 – A shipwreck near Athens, Greece kills 392. ·
January 24 – Dimitrios Maximos founds
a monarchist government in Athens. ·
January 25 – A Philippine plane crashes
in Hong Kong, with $5 million worth of gold and money. ·
January 25 – Famous American
gangster Al Capone dies
following cardiac arrest at his home in Florida. ·
January 26 – A KLM Douglas C-47
Skytrain aircraft crashes soon after taking off from Kastrup Airport,
Copenhagen, killing all on board, including Prince
Gustaf Adolf, second in line to the Swedish throne, and the
American singer Grace Moore. ·
January 30 – February 8 – A heavy blizzard in Canada buries towns
from Winnipeg to Calgary. ·
January 31 – The Communists take power in Poland. February[edit] ·
The
lowest air temperature in North America (−63 degrees Celsius) is
recorded in Snag in
the Yukon Territory. ·
Percival
Prattis becomes the first African-American news correspondent
allowed in the United
States House of Representatives and Senate press
galleries. ·
Bolesław Bierut becomes
the President of Poland. ·
The
Government of the United Kingdom announces the £25 million Tanganyika
groundnut scheme for cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory.[3] ·
February 7 – South Pacific
Commission (SPC) founded. ·
February 8 – Karlslust dance
hall fire in Berlin, Germany, kills over 80 people. ·
February 10 – In Paris, France, peace
treaties are signed between the World War II Allies and Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Finland. Italy cedes most
of Istria to the Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later Croatia). ·
A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union. ·
Christian Dior introduces The "New
Look" in women's fashion, in Paris. ·
In Burma, the Panglong Agreement is
reached between the Burmese government under
its leader, General Aung San, and
the Shan, Kachin, and Chin ethnic peoples at the Panglong
Conference. U Aung Zan Wai, Pe Khin, Major Aung, Sir Maung Gyi, Dr. Sein
Mya Maung and Myoma U Than Kywe are
among the negotiators. ·
February 17 – Cold War: The Voice of America begins to transmit
radio broadcasts into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. ·
An
explosion at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Company in Los Angeles, leaves 17 dead, 100 buildings
damaged, and a 22-foot-deep (6.7 m) crater in the ground. ·
U.S.
Army Ordnance Corps Hermes program V-2 rocket Blossom I launched
into space carrying plant material and fruitflies,
the first animals to enter space. ·
February 21 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first
"instant camera", his Polaroid Land Camera,
to a meeting of the Optical
Society of America. ·
February 22 – Tom and Jerry cartoon Cat Fishin', is released. ·
February 23 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
is founded. ·
The
German state of Prussia is
officially abolished by the Allied Control
Council.[4] ·
The
worst-ever train crash in Japan kills 184 people. ·
John
C. Hennessy, Jr., brings the first Volkswagen Beetle to
the United States. He purchased the 1946 automobile from the U.S. Army Post
Exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, while serving in the U.S. Army. The Beetle
was shipped from Bremerhaven, arriving in New York this day.[5] ·
The
United States grants France a military base in Casablanca. ·
In Taiwan, civil disorder is
put down with large loss of civilian lives. March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
The International
Monetary Fund begins to operate. ·
Wernher von Braun marries
his first cousin, the 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp. ·
March 4 – Treaty of Dunkirk (coming
into effect 8 September) signed between the United Kingdom and France
providing for mutual assistance in the event of attack. ·
March 9 – Carrie Chapman Catt dies
in New Rochelle. ·
March 12 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help
stem the spread of Communism. ·
March 14 – Thames flood and
other widespread flooding as the exceptionally harsh British
winter of 1946–1947 ends in a thaw.[6][7] ·
March 15 – Hindus and Muslims clash
in Punjab. ·
March 19 – The 19th Academy Awards ceremony
is held. The movie The Best
Years of Our Lives wins the Academy
Award for Best Picture, along with several other Academy Awards. ·
March 25 – A coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois,
kills 111 miners. ·
March 28 – A World War II
Japanese booby trap explodes
on Corregidor island, killing 28 people. ·
March 29 – A rebellion against French
rule erupts in Madagascar. ·
March 31 – The leaders of the Kurdish
People's Republic of Mahabad,
the second Kurdish state in the history of Iran,
are hanged at the Chuwarchira Square in Mahabad after that country had been
overrun by the Iranian army. April[edit] ·
April
– Previous discovery of the 'Dead Sea Scrolls' in the Qumran Caves (above the northwest shore
of the Dead Sea) by Bedouin shepherds, becomes known.[8] ·
April 1 ·
Jackie Robinson, the first African American in Major League
Baseball since the 1880s, signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. ·
King George II of Greece is
succeeded by his brother Paul. ·
1947
Royal New Zealand Navy mutinies begin. ·
April 4 – International
Civil Aviation Organization begins operations. ·
April 7 ·
Arab Ba'ath Party established by merger in
Damascus. ·
Edaville Railroad is
opened in Massachusetts as the first railway theme park. ·
The
largest recorded sunspot group
appears on the solar surface.[9] ·
April 9 ·
Multiple
tornadoes strike Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas killing 181 and injuring 970. ·
The Journey of
Reconciliation begins, organized by the Congress of
Racial Equality. ·
April 15 – Jackie Robinson becomes the
first African American to play Major League Baseball since the 1880s. ·
April 16 ·
Texas City disaster:
The ammonium nitrate cargo
of French-registered Liberty ship SS Grandcamp explodes
in Texas City, Texas,
killing at least 581, including all but one member of the city fire
department, injuring at least 5,000 and destroying 20 city blocks. Of the
dead, remains of 113 are never found and 63 are unidentifiable. ·
American
financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch describes the post–World
War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a
"Cold War". ·
April 18 ·
The
British Royal Navy detonates
6,800 tons of explosives in an attempt to demolish the fortified island of Heligoland, Germany, thus creating one of
the largest man-made non-nuclear explosions in
history. ·
Mrs. Ples is discovered in the Sterkfontein area in Transvaal,
South Africa. ·
April 20 – King Frederik IX of
Denmark succeeds his father King Christian X, on the throne of Kingdom of Denmark. ·
April 26 – Academy-Award-winning Tom and Jerry cartoon, The Cat Concerto, is released to theatres. May[edit] ·
May 1 – Portella
della Ginestra massacre: The Salvatore Giuliano gang
of Sicilian separatists opens fire on a Labour Day parade at Portella della
Ginestra, Sicily, killing 11 people and wounding 27. ·
May 2 – The movie Miracle on 34th
Street, a Christmastime classic, is first shown in theaters. ·
May 3 – The new post-war Japanese
constitution goes into effect. ·
May 11 – The Ferrari 125 S, the first car to bear
the Ferrari name, debuts. ·
May 12 – The animated cartoon
film Rabbit Transit,
directed by Friz Freleng, is
released. ·
May 22 ·
The Cold War begins: In an effort to fight
the spread of Communism,
President Harry S. Truman signs
an Act of Congress that implements the Truman Doctrine. This Act grants $400
million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece. The Cold War ended in 1991. ·
David Lean's film Great
Expectations, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, opens in the United States.
Critics call it the finest film ever made from a Charles Dickens novel. ·
May 29 – An airliner of the Flugfelag Íslands crashes into a
mountainside, killing 25 people. ·
May 30 – Eastern Air
Lines Flight 605: A Douglas C-54
Skymaster crashes near Bainbridge,
Maryland, killing all 53 aboard (49 passengers, 4 crew) in the
worst commercial aviation disaster to that date. June[edit] ·
June
– The Doomsday Clock of
the Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists is introduced. ·
June 5 – U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for American
reconstruction and relief aid to Europe in a speech at Harvard University. ·
June 7 – The Soviet Army founds
the Association football club FC Steaua
București, which will become the most successful Romanian football team,
as A.S.A. București.[10] ·
June 10 – SAAB in Sweden produces its first
automobile. ·
June 11 – 15 – First Llangollen
International Musical Eisteddfod is held in Wales.[11] ·
June 15 – The Portuguese government
orders 11 military officers and 19 university professors who are accused of
revolutionary activity to resign. ·
June 21 ·
Seaman
Harold Dahl claims to have seen six unidentified
flying objects (UFOs) near Maury Island in Puget Sound, Washington.
On the next morning, Dahl reports the first modern so-called "Men in Black" encounter. ·
The Canadian Parliament votes
unanimously to pass several laws regarding displaced foreign refugees. ·
June 23 – The United States Senate follows
the House
of Representatives in overriding President Harry S. Truman's veto of
the Taft–Hartley Act. ·
June 24 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely
reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. ·
June 25 – The Diary of a
Young Girl by Anne Frank is published for the first
time as Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 14 juni 1942 – 1 augustus 1944 ("The
Annex: Diary Notes from 14 June 1942 – 1 August 1944") in Amsterdam, two years after the writer's
death in Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp. July[edit] ·
July 1 – The United States begins the National
Malaria Eradication Program, successfully eradicating malaria
in 1951. ·
July 6 – The first prototype AK-47s are
built, soon becoming the most produced assault rifle in history. ·
July 8 – A supposedly downed extraterrestrial
spacecraft is reportedly found in the Roswell UFO incident,
near Roswell, New Mexico. ·
July 9 – In the UK, King George VI announces the engagement of
his daughter Princess Elizabeth to Lt.
Philip Mountbatten. ·
July 11 – The Exodus leaves France for Palestine,
with 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivor
refugees on board. ·
July 17 ·
The
Indian passenger ship SS Ramdas is
capsized by a cyclone at Mumbai, India, with 625
people killed. ·
This
is the alleged date when Raoul Wallenberg dies in a Soviet prison. It is not announced
until February 6, 1957.
There will be reported sightings of him until 1987. ·
July 18 ·
Following
wide media and UNSCOP coverage,
the Exodus is
captured by British troops and refused entry into Palestine at the port
of Haifa. ·
President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential
Succession Act into law, which places the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senatenext in
the line of succession after the Vice
President. ·
July 19 – Burmese nationalist Aung San and six members of his newly
formed cabinet are assassinated during a cabinet meeting. ·
July 26 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National
Security Act of 1947 into law, creating the Central
Intelligence Agency, the Department of
Defense, the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and the National
Security Council. ·
July 27 – 28 – English endurance swimmer Tom Blower becomes the first person to
swim the North
Channel, from Donaghadee in Northern Ireland to Portpatrick in Scotland. ·
July 29 – After being shut down on
November 9, 1946, for a refurbishment, ENIAC is turned back on again, and
remains in continuous operation until October 2, 1955. August[edit] Flag of Pakistan, the country that gained
independence on August 14, 1947 Flag of India, the country that gained independence
on August 15, 1947 ·
August 2 – A British South American
Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires,
Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998. ·
August 5 – The Netherlands ends Operation Product,
the first of its major politionele acties (military
"police actions") in Indonesia. ·
August 7 ·
Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 4,300
mile, voyage across the Eastern Pacific Ocean, demonstrating that prehistoric
peoples could have traveled to the Central Pacific islands from South
America. ·
The Bombay
Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay
Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). ·
The
Muslim majority regions formed by the Partition of India gain
independence from the British Empire as the Dominion of Pakistan.
While the transition is officially at midnight on this day, Pakistan
celebrates its independence on August 14, compared with India on the 15th,
because the Pakistan Standard
Time is 30 minutes behind the standard time of India. ·
Muhammad Ali Jinnah becomes
the first Governor-General
of Pakistan. Liaquat Ali Khan takes office as the
first Prime Minister
of Pakistan ·
The
greater Indian subcontinent with a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims,
Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Jews and others formed by the Partition of India gain
independence from the British Empire as the Dominion of India. ·
Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as the
first Prime Minister of
India, taking his oath from Louis Mountbatten, Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Governor-General
of India (but no longer Viceroy). ·
August 16 – In Greece, General Markos Vafiadis takes over the
government. ·
August 23 – The Prime Minister
of Greece, Dimitrios Maximos,
resigns. ·
August 27 – The French government
lowers the daily bread ration to
200 grams, causing riots in Verdun and Le Mans. ·
August 30 – A fire at a movie theater
in Rueil, a suburb
of Paris, France kills 87 people. ·
August 31 – In Hungary, communists fail to gain a majority in
parliamentary elections (despite widespread fraud) and turn to direct action
as part of the country's transition to
Communism (1944–1949). September[edit] The Central
Intelligence Agency(CIA), officially born September 18, 1947 ·
September 9 – A moth lodged in a relay is found to be the cause of a
malfunction in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical
computer, logged as "First actual case of bug being found."[12][13] ·
September 13 – Indian Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru suggests
the exchange of four million Hindus and Muslims between India and Pakistan. ·
September 15 – 16 – Typhoon Kathleen strikes the Bōsō
Peninsula and the entire Kantō region in Japan. Heavy rains
cause the Arakawa and Tone Rivers to overflow and embankment
collapse. The resulting floods and debris flow kill between 1,077 and
1,930 people, injuring 1,547[14] and leaving 853 missing.[15] ·
September 17 – 21 – The 1947 Fort
Lauderdale hurricane in southeastern Florida, and also in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana causes widespread damage and
kills 51 people. ·
National
Security Act of 1947 becomes effective on this day creating
the United States Air
Force, National
Security Counciland the Central
Intelligence Agency. ·
War
Department becomes the Department of the
Army, a branch of the new Department
of Defense. ·
September 22 – Information Bureau of
the Communist and Workers' Parties (Communist
Information Bureau, "Cominform") is founded. ·
September 30 – Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations. October[edit] ·
October
– First recorded use of the word computer in its modern sense,
referring to an electronic digital machine.[16] ·
October 1 – the North American
F-86 Sabre makes its first flight ·
October 5 – President Harry S. Truman delivers the first
televised White House address speaking on the world food crises. ·
October 14 – The United States Air
Force test pilot,
Captain Chuck Yeager,
flies a Bell X-1 rocket plane faster than
the speed of sound,
the first time it has been accomplished ·
October 20 – A war begins in Kashmir, along the border between India and
Pakistan, leading to the Indo-Pakistani
War of 1947 in the following year. Also, Pakistan established
diplomatic relations with the United States of America. ·
October 24 – The first Azad Kashmir Government is established
within Pakistan, headed by Sardar
Muhammad Ibrahim Khan as its first President supported by the
government of Pakistan. ·
October 30 – The General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of
the World Trade
Organization (WTO), is established. November[edit] ·
November 2 – In Long Beach,
California, the designer and airplane pilot Howard Hughes carries out the one and
only flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules,
the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever
built and flown. This flight only lasted eight minutes. ·
November 6 – The program Meet the Press makes its television
debut on the NBC-TV network in the United States. ·
November 9 – Junagadh is invaded by the Indian army. ·
November 10 – The arrest of four steel
workers in Marseille begins
a French communist riot
that also spreads to Paris. ·
November 13 – The Soviet Union
completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles. ·
International
Telecommunication Union becomes a specialized agency of
the United Nations. ·
Universal Postal
Union (UPU) becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations (effective 1 July 1948). ·
In Brussels, 15,000 people demonstrate against
the relatively short prison sentences of Belgian Nazi criminals. ·
Great
Britain began withdrawing its troops from Palestine. ·
The Screen Actors Guild implements
an anti-Communist loyalty oath. ·
American
scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser
Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a
key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century. ·
November 18 – The Ballantyne's Department
Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41 people. ·
The
Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II), the daughter of George VI, marries The Duke
of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey in
London, United Kingdom. ·
Paul Ramadier resigns as the Prime Minister
of France. He is succeeded by Robert Schuman, who calls 80,000 army
reservists to quell rioting miners in France. ·
November 21 – The United Nations
Conference on Trade and Employment begins in Havana, Cuba. This conference ends in 1948,
when its members finish the Havana Charter. ·
November 24 – McCarthyism: The United
States House of Representatives votes 346–17 to approve
citations of Contempt of Congress against the "Hollywood Ten" after the screenwriters
and directors refuse to co-operate with the House
Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations
of communist influences in the movie
business. The ten men are blacklisted by
the Hollywood movie
studios on the following day.[17] ·
The New Zealand
Parliament ratifies the Statute of
Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative
control by the Parliament
of the United Kingdom. ·
The
new Pakistan Army and Pashtun mercenaries overrun Mirpur in Kashmir, resulting in the death of 20,000
Hindus and Sikhs.[18] ·
November 27 – In Paris, France, police
occupy the editorial offices of the communist newspapers. ·
November 29 – The United
Nations General Assembly votes to partition
Palestine between Arab and Jewish regions, which results in
the creation of the State of Israel. December[edit] ·
French communist strikers derail the Paris-Tourcoing
express train because of false rumors that it was transporting soldiers. 21
people are killed. ·
The Tennessee Williams play A
Streetcar Named Desire, starring Marlon Brando in his first great role,
opens at the Ethel Barrymore
Theatre on Broadway. Jessica Tandy also stars as Blanche Du
Bois.[19] ·
December 4 – The French Interior Minister, Jules S. Moch, takes emergency measures
against his country's rioters after six days of violent arguments in
the National
Assembly. ·
Arturo Toscanini conducts a concert
performance of the first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello for a broadcast on NBC Radio
in the United States. The second half of the opera is broadcast a week later.[20] ·
Women
are admitted to full membership of the University of
Cambridge in England[21] following a vote in September.[22] ·
December 9 – French labor unions call off the general
strike and re-commence negotiations with the French government. ·
December 12 – The Iranian Royal
Army takes back power in the Azerbaijan province. ·
December 14 – Santiago
Bernabeu Stadium is officially inaugurated in Madrid and hosts its first match.[23] ·
December 21 – 400,000 slaughtered
during mass migration of Hindus and Muslims into the new states India and
Pakistan. ·
The Italian
Constituent Assembly votes to accept the new Constitution of
Italy. ·
The
first practical electronic transistor is demonstrated by Bardeen,
Brattain and Shockley of the United States. ·
Mikoyan-Gurevich
MiG-15 (NATO reporting name Fagot) makes its first flight ·
King Michael I of Romania abdicates. Date unknown[edit] ·
The House
Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigations
into communism in Hollywood. ·
Mikhail Kalashnikov's
prototype AK-47s enter testing. The assault rifle would be adopted by the
Soviet Army in 1949. ·
Raytheon produces the first
commercial microwave oven ·
Women's suffrage is
granted in Argentina. Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
F. R. David, Tunisian-born French singer ·
Leon Patillo, American Christian musician ·
Vladimir Titov, Russian cosmonaut ·
Frances Yip, Hong Kong singer ·
January 2 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist ·
January 4 – Chris Cutler, English percussionist ·
January 5 – Mercury Morris, American football player ·
January 6 – Sandy Denny, British singer (d. 1978) ·
William Bonin, American serial killer
(d. 1996) ·
David Bowie, English singer-songwriter
(d. 2016) ·
Samuel Schmid, Swiss Federal Councilor ·
Terry Sylvester, English singer and musician ·
Laurie Walters, American actress ·
Roilo Golez, Filipino politician (d. 2018) ·
Nic Jones, English folk singer ·
Ronnie Landfield, American artist ·
January 10 – Peer Steinbrück,
German politician ·
January 11 – Mart Smeets, Dutch sports journalist ·
January 14 – Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player
(d. 2003) ·
Andrea Martin, American actress ·
Michael Schanze, German television presenter ·
Apasra Hongsakula,
Thai model, Miss Universe 1965 ·
Laura Schlessinger,
American radio and TV talk show host ·
Takeshi Kitano, Japanese film director and
actor ·
Sachio Kinugasa, Japanese baseball player
(d. 2018) ·
January 19 – Paula Deen, American Food Channel television
personality ·
January 21 – Jill Eikenberry, American actress ·
January 22 – Senichi Hoshino, Japanese baseball pitcher
and coach (d. 2018) ·
Thomas R. Carper, U.S. Senator from Delaware ·
Joel Douglas, American film producer ·
Megawati
Sukarnoputri, 5th President of
Indonesia ·
Michio Kaku, American theoretical physicist ·
Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer ·
Warren Zevon, American rock musician
(d. 2003) ·
Marjorie Scardino,
American-born business executive ·
Tostão (Eduardo Gonçalves de Andrade),
Brazilian football player ·
Björn Afzelius,
Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hoola Bandoola Band)
(d. 1999) ·
Vyron Polydoras, Greek politician ·
Cal Schenkel, American illustrator ·
Philip Sugden,
English historian (d. 2014) ·
Perfecto Yasay Jr.,
Philippine politician, DFA Secretary ·
Linda B. Buck, American biologist, recipient
of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
Ernie Lively, American actor ·
January 30 – Steve Marriott, British rock musician (d. 1991) ·
Jonathan Banks, American actor ·
Nolan Ryan, American baseball player February[edit] Princess
Christina of the Netherlands ·
February 1 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist
(d. 1983) ·
February 2 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009) ·
Paul Auster, American novelist ·
Melanie Safka, American rock singer ·
Halina
Aszkiełowicz-Wojno, Polish volleyball player (d. 2018) ·
Dennis C. Blair, American admiral and Director
of National Intelligence ·
Dan Quayle, 44th Vice
President of the United States ·
Regina Duarte, Brazilian actress ·
Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver
and broadcaster ·
February 7 – Wayne Allwine, American voice actor
(d. 2009) ·
Louise Arbour, Canadian jurist ·
Nicholas Owen,
English newsreader (ITN) ·
Yukio Hatoyama, 60th Prime Minister of
Japan ·
Roy Moore, American politician ·
Derek Shulman, Lead Singer of Gentle Giant ·
February 13 – Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball coach ·
John Adams,
American composer ·
Wenche Myhre, Norwegian actress and singer ·
Ádám Nádasdy,
Hungarian linguist and poet ·
Rusty Hamer, American actor (d. 1990) ·
February 16 – Veríssimo
Correia Seabra, Bissau-Guinean military commander (d. 2004) ·
Princess
Christina of the Netherlands ·
Dennis DeYoung, American rock musician (Styx) ·
February 19 – Gustavo
Rodríguez, Venezuelan actor (d. 2014) ·
Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006) ·
Peter Strauss, American actor ·
Renata Sorrah,.Brazilian actress ·
Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist
and priest (d. 2006) ·
Rupert Holmes, British-born American
singer-songwriter ·
Edward James Olmos,
American actor, better known for his role in Stand and Deliver ·
Lee Evans,
American Olympic athlete ·
Doug Yule, American rock singer and musician
(The Velvet
Underground) ·
February 26 – Sandie Shaw, British singer ·
February 27 – Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist ·
February 28 – Stephanie Beacham,
English actress March[edit] ·
March 1 – Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and television
host (d. 2016) ·
March 2 – Yuri Bogatyryov, Soviet actor (d. 1989) ·
March 4 ·
David Franzoni, American screenwriter ·
Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician ·
Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor (d. 2015) ·
March 6 ·
Kiki Dee, English pop singer ·
Dick Fosbury, American athlete ·
Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author ·
Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian,
producer, director, activist ·
March 7 – Walter Röhrl, German race car driver ·
March 8 ·
Carole Bayer Sager,
American singer-songwriter ·
Michael S. Hart, American author and inventor
(d. 2011) ·
March 10 ·
Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister
of Canada ·
Tom Scholz, American musician, songwriter
and inventor ·
March 11 ·
David
Ferguson, American music producer and activist ·
Geoff Hunt, Australian squash player ·
March 12 ·
Kalervo Palsa, a Finnish artist ·
Mitt Romney, American businessman,
politician, Governor of
Massachusetts and 2012 presidential
candidate ·
March 13 – Beat Richner, Swiss pediatrician and cellist
(d. 2018) ·
March 14 ·
Pam Ayres, British poet ·
Peter Skellern, English singer-songwriter
(d. 2017) ·
March 15 – Ry Cooder, American guitarist ·
March 16 ·
Baek Yoon-sik, South Korean actor ·
Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist ·
March 17 – Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born composer and
producer ·
March 18 – Tamara
Griesser Pečar, Slovenian historian ·
March 19 – Glenn Close, American actress ·
March 20 ·
John Boswell, American historian (d. 1994) ·
Chip Zien, American actor ·
March 21 – Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of Yemen (d. 2017) ·
March 22 ·
James Patterson, American author ·
Florence Warner, Voice of Adult Abigail the
Woman in Once Upon a Forest ·
March 24 ·
Louise Lanctôt,
Canadian terrorist and writer ·
Alan Sugar, Baron Sugar, English
entrepreneur ·
March 25 – Elton John, British rock musician ·
March 26 – Subhash Kak, Indian-American author ·
March 27 – Walt Mossberg, American newspaper columnist ·
March 31 – César Gaviria, Colombian economist and
politician, 28th President of
Colombia April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Alain Connes, French mathematician ·
Ingrid Steeger, German actress and comedian ·
April 2 ·
Paquita la del
Barrio, Mexican singer and actress ·
Emmylou Harris, American singer-songwriter ·
Camille Paglia, American literary critic ·
April 4 – Eliseo Soriano, Philippine preacher ·
April 5 – Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo, 14th President of
the Philippines and daughter of former president Diosdado Macapagal ·
April 6 – John Ratzenberger,
American actor ·
April 8 ·
Tom DeLay, American politician ·
Robert Kiyosaki, American investor,
businessman, self-help author ·
April 9 – Ken Lewis,
Former CEO, president, and chairman of Bank of America ·
April 11 ·
Meshach Taylor, American actor (d. 2014) ·
Lucian Truscott IV,
American writer and journalist ·
April 12 ·
Tom Clancy, American author (d. 2013) ·
David Letterman, American talk show host ·
April 13 – Mike Chapman, Australian-born songwriter,
record producer ·
April 15 ·
Lois Chiles, American actress ·
Roy Raymond,
American entrepreneur and founder of Victoria's Secret (d. 1993) ·
April 16 ·
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,
American pro basketball player ·
Frank Hamblen, American basketball coach
(d. 2017) ·
Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter
(d. 2011) ·
April 18 ·
Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997) ·
Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor and director ·
James Woods, American actor ·
April 19 – Murray Perahia, American pianist ·
April 20 ·
Daud Ibrahim, Malaysian cyclist (d. 2010) ·
Hector,
Finnish rock musician ·
April 21 – Iggy Pop, American rock musician ·
April 25 – Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer and coach
(d. 2016) ·
April 27 – Pete Ham, Welsh singer, songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1975) ·
April 28 – Ken St. Andre, American game designer and
author ·
April 29 ·
Olavo de Carvalho,
Brazilian journalist, essayist and professor of philosophy ·
Tommy James, American rock singer and
producer ·
April 30 – Leslie Grantham, English actor (d. 2018) May[edit] ·
May 1 – Jacob Bekenstein, Mexico-born
Israeli-American theoretical physicist (d. 2015) ·
May 3 ·
Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000) ·
Richard Jenkins, American actor ·
May 4 – Theda Skocpol, American sociologist ·
May 5 – Malam Bacai Sanhá,
Guinea-Bissau politician (d. 2012) ·
May 6 ·
Ljubomir
Vračarević, Serbian martial artist (d. 2013) ·
Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher ·
May 8 ·
H. Robert Horvitz,
American biologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
Jamie Donnelly, American film and stage
actress ·
May 9 – Andy Sutcliffe, British racing driver
(d. 2015) ·
May 11 – Walter Selke, German physicist ·
May 12 – Michael Ignatieff,
Canadian politician, philosopher and historian ·
May 13 – Stephen R. Donaldson,
American novelist ·
May 14 ·
José Gonzalo
Rodríguez Gacha, Colombian drug lord (d. 1989) ·
Tamara Dobson, African-American actress and
fashion model (d. 2006) ·
May 16 – Buddy Roberts, American professional
wrestler (d. 2012) ·
May 18 – John Bruton, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland ·
May 19 – Paul Brady, Northern Irish singer-songwriter ·
May 21 – Lolit Solis, Talent Manager and Former host
of Startalk and CelebriTV ·
May 23 – Ken Westerfield, Disc sports (Frisbee)
pioneer, athlete, showman, promoter ·
May 24 – Maude Barlow, Canadian author, activist and
National Chairperson of The Council of
Canadians ·
May 26 – Glenn Turner, New Zealand cricket captain ·
May 27 ·
Branko Oblak, Slovenian football player and
coach ·
Peter DeFazio, American politician ·
May 28 – Pedro Giachino, Argentine Navy officer
(d. 1982) ·
May 29 – Stan Zemanek, Australian radio broadcaster
(d. 2007) June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor ·
Ronnie Wood, English rock musician (The Faces, The Rolling Stones) ·
June 2 – Jarnail Singh
Bhindranwale, Punjabi saint, Sikh theologian, military leader
(d. 1984) ·
June 3 – Dave Alexander,
American musician (d. 1975) ·
June 4 – Viktor Klima, Chancellor of
Austria ·
June 5 ·
Laurie Anderson, American experimental
performance artist, composer and musician ·
Tom Evans,
English musician and songwriter (d. 1983) ·
Jojon, Indonesian comedian and actor (d.
2014) ·
June 6 ·
David Blunkett, British politician ·
Robert Englund, American actor (A
Nightmare on Elm Street) ·
Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer ·
June 7 – Thurman Munson, American baseball catcher
(d. 1979) ·
June 8 – Eric F. Wieschaus,
American biologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
June 9 ·
Françoise Demulder,
French war photographer (d. 2008) ·
Robert Indermaur, Swiss painter and sculptor ·
June 14 – Barry Melton, American rock musician (Country Joe and
the Fish) ·
June 15 – John Hoagland, American war photographer
(d. 1984) ·
June 16 – -minu, Swiss columnist and writer ·
June 19 ·
Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer ·
Salman Rushdie, Indian-born British author (The
Satanic Verses) ·
June 20 – Candy Clark, American actress ·
June 21 ·
Meredith Baxter, American actress ·
Rachel Adato, Israeli gynaecologist, lawyer
and politician ·
Junko Akimoto, Japanese kayōkyoku
singer ·
Joey Molland, English composer and rock
guitarist ·
Jim Benzelock, American professional ice
hockey right winger ·
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian activist, recipient of
the Nobel Peace Prize ·
Michael Gross,
American actor ·
Duane Thomas, American football running back ·
Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher and
author ·
June 22 ·
Bobby Douglass, American football
quarterback ·
Natalya Varley, Soviet and Russian film and
theater actress ·
Murray Webb, New Zealand caricature artist
and Test cricketer ·
David Jones,
Northern Irish European Tour golfer ·
Octavia E. Butler,
American author (d. 2006) ·
David Lander, American actor ·
Trevor Blades, English cricketer ·
Pete Maravich, American basketball player
(d. 1988) ·
Jerry John Rawlings,
2-time President of Ghana ·
June 23 ·
Zvi Rosen, Israeli international footballer ·
Bryan Brown, Australian actor ·
Thor Hansen, professional poker player ·
Ed Werenich, Canadian curler ·
June 24 ·
Clarissa Dickson
Wright, English chef and television personality (d. 2014) ·
Dean Johnson, Minnesota politician ·
Helena
Vondráčková, Czech singer ·
Peter Weller, American actor and director ·
Walter Willison, American stage actor ·
June 25 ·
Jimmie Walker, American actor ·
Robert Percy, Australian rules footballer ·
John Powell,
American track and field athlete ·
June 26 ·
Lene Brøndum, Danish actress ·
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar,
Afghan politician ·
Peggy Cabral, Dominican journalist,
television host, politician and diplomat ·
Edd Hargett, American football quarterback ·
Huh Young-man, South Korean manhwa artist ·
Werner Voigt, German footballer and coach ·
June 27 ·
Hans Ooft, Dutch football player and manager ·
Abdel Djaadaoui, Algerian footballer ·
June 28 – Mark Helprin, American writer ·
June 29 – David Chiang, Hong Kong actor ·
Richard Lewis,
American comedian and actor (Robin Hood: Men
in Tights, Curb Your Enthusiasm) ·
June 30 – Jean-Yves Le Drian,
French minister July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Arantxa
Urretabizkaia, Basque writer, screenwriter and actress ·
Sharad Yadav, Indian politician ·
Marc Benno, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
July 2 – Larry David, American actor, writer,
producer and director ·
July 3 ·
Dave Barry, American writer ·
Betty Buckley, American actress and singer ·
Jana Švandová,
Czech actress ·
Mike Burton,
American swimmer ·
Delfo Zorzi, Italian neo-fascist ·
Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch football player ·
July 4 ·
Carla Panerai, Italian sprinter ·
Eva Goës, Swedish politician ·
Francisco
Fernández de Cevallos, Mexican politician ·
July 5 ·
Joe Brown,
TV Judge ·
Toos Beumer, Dutch swimmer ·
Dan Hewitt Owens, American actor ·
July 6 ·
Larnelle Harris, American Christian musician ·
Shelley Hack, American model, actress,
producer, and political and media advisor ·
July 7 ·
King Gyanendra of Nepal ·
Carl Mauck, American football player ·
Richard Beckinsale,
English actor (d. 1979) ·
Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat ·
David Hodo, American singer ·
Randy Goodrum, American songwriter, pianist,
and producer ·
July 8 – Bobby Sowell, American pianist and composer ·
July 9 ·
Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician (Yellow Magic
Orchestra) ·
Mitch Mitchell, English rock drummer
(d. 2008) ·
O. J. Simpson, American football player,
actor ·
July 10 ·
Arlo Guthrie, American folk singer ·
Allen Fong, Hong Kong film director ·
Michel Étiévent,
French journalist, historian and writer ·
July 11 – Riad Ismat, Syrian writer, critic and
theatre director ·
July 12 ·
Lenka Termerová,
Czech actress ·
Loren Coleman, American cryptozoologist and
author ·
Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby union player ·
July 14 ·
John Blackman, Australian radio and
television presenter ·
Navin Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius ·
July 15 ·
Bertus Borgers, Dutch saxophone player ·
July 16 ·
Valnice Milhomens,
Brazilian pastor, apostle, author, and televangelist ·
Don Burke, Australian television presenter,
television producer, author, and horticulturalist ·
Roelf Meyer, South African politician and
businessman ·
July 17 – Camilla,
Duchess of Cornwall, British Princess and second wife of Charles, Prince
of Wales ·
July 18 – Steven W. Mahoney,
Canadian politician ·
July 19 ·
Bernie Leadon, American musician and
songwriter ·
Brian May, English rock guitarist (Queen) ·
July 20 ·
Gerd Binnig, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Carlos Santana, Mexican-born rock guitarist ·
July 21 – Co Adriaanse, Dutch football manager ·
July 22 ·
Erica Gavin, American film actress ·
Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian,
director and novelist ·
Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and
musician ·
July 23 – Spencer Christian,
American television personality ·
July 24 – Peter Serkin, American pianist ·
July 27 ·
Bob Klein, American football player ·
Kazuyoshi
Miura, Japanese businessman (d. 2008) ·
July 30 ·
William Atherton, American actor ·
Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder and
38th Governor of
California ·
July 31 ·
Richard Griffiths,
English actor (d. 2013) ·
Joe Wilson,
American politician August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet ·
Leoluca Orlando, Italian politician ·
August 3 – Colleen Corby, American fashion model ·
August 4 – Hubert Ingraham, Bahamian politician ·
August 5 – Graham Lovett, English footballer (d. 2018) ·
August 7 – Franciscus Henri, Dutch-born Australian
children's entertainer, composer and artist ·
August 8 ·
Terangi Adam, Nauruan politician ·
George Costigan, British actor and
screenwriter ·
Ken Dryden, Canadian NHL Goaltender, Author,
Politician ·
August 9 – John Varley,
American science-fiction author ·
Ian Anderson, British rock musician ·
Drupi, Italian singer ·
Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian politician ·
August 11 – Diether Krebs, German actor, cabaret artist
and comedian. (d. 2000) ·
August 12 – William Hartston, British chess player ·
August 13 – John Stocker,
Canadian voice actor ·
Maddy Prior, English folk singer ·
Danielle Steel, American romance novelist ·
August 15 – Raakhee, Indian actress ·
August 16 – Marc Messier, Canadian actor ·
August 17 – Mohamed
Abdelaziz, Sahrawi politician ·
Terry Hoeppner, American football coach
(d. 2007) ·
Gerard Schwarz, American conductor ·
Gerald McRaney, American television and
movie actor ·
August 20 – José Wilker, Brazilian actor (d. 2014) ·
Cindy Williams, American actress ·
Peter Irniq, Commissioner of Nunavut ·
August 23 – Willy Russell, British playwright ·
August 24 – Roger De Vlaeminck,
Belgian cyclist ·
August 26 – Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer
(d. 2007) ·
Harry Reems, American pornographic actor
(d. 2013) ·
Barbara Bach, American actress ·
Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (d. 2004) ·
Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress ·
Alice Playten, American actress (d. 2011) ·
James Hunt, British 1976 Formula 1 world champion (d. 1993) ·
Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and
autism expert ·
Jah Lloyd, Jamaican reggae singer, deejay
and producer (d. 1999) ·
August 30 – Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat ·
Ramón
Castellano de Torres, Spanish painter ·
Somchai Wongsawat,
26th Prime Minister
of Thailand September[edit] ·
September 1 – Al Green,
American politician ·
September 3 – Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister
of Norway ·
Danny Florencio, Filipino basketball player
(d. 2018) ·
Kiyoshi Takayama, Japanese yakuza boss ·
Jane Curtin, American actress and comedian ·
Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach ·
Jacob Rubinovitz, Israeli scientist ·
Keone Young, American actor ·
Amos Biwott, Kenyan Olympic athlete ·
Benjamin Orr, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2000) ·
September 9 – Freddy Weller, American singer-songwriter ·
September 13 – Ajib Ahmad, Malaysian politician (d. 2011) ·
Sam Neill, British-born New Zealand actor ·
Jerzy Popieluszko,
Polish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (d. 1984) ·
September 16 – Russ Abbot, British comedian and actor ·
September 17 – Dame Tessa Jowell, British politician (d. 2018) ·
Steve Bartlett, American businessman,
lobbyist and politician (U.S. congressman from Texas's 3rd congressional
district; mayor of Dallas, Texas; member of the Dallas City Council) ·
Tanith Lee, British author (d. 2015) ·
Don Felder, American musician and songwriter ·
Rupert Hine, English musician, songwriter,
and record producer ·
Stephen King, American writer and novelist,
specializing in the horror genre ·
Vanusa, Brazilian singer ·
Jo Beverley, Anglo-Canadian writer (d. 2016) ·
Norma McCorvey, American abortion plaintiff
(Roe v. Wade) (d. 2017) ·
September 23 – Mary Kay Place, American actress ·
Cheryl Tiegs, American model and actress ·
Cecil Womack, American singer-songwriter (Womack & Womack) (d. 2013) ·
September 26 – Lynn Anderson, American country-music singer
(d. 2015) ·
Dick Advocaat, a Dutch football manager ·
Meat Loaf, American rock singer, actor ·
Marcelo Guinle, Argentine politician
(d. 2017) ·
Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001; 2009–present) ·
Marc Bolan, English rock musician (d. 1977) ·
Rula Lenska, English actress October[edit] ·
Aaron Ciechanover,
an Israeli biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry ·
Stephen Collins, American actor ·
Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (d. 2006) ·
October 2 – Ward Churchill, American author and activist ·
Alain Mucchielli, French physician ·
Fred DeLuca, American entrepreneur and
co-founder of Subway (d. 2015) ·
October 4 – Ann Widdecombe, British politician ·
October 5 – Brian Johnson, English rock singer (AC/DC) ·
October 6 – Gail Farrell, American singer ·
October 7 – Pip Williams, British record producer ·
October 8 – Stephen Shore, American photographer ·
October 9 – France Gall, French singer (d. 2018) ·
October 10 – Larry Lamb, British actor ·
October 12 – George Lam, Hong Kong singer and actor ·
October 13 – Sammy Hagar, Lead singer of American rock
group Van Halen ·
October 14 – Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian-Russian
professional wrestler (d. 2018) ·
Nicholas Day,
British actor ·
Bob Weir, American rock guitarist ·
Gene Green, American politician ·
Michael McKean, American actor and comedian ·
James H. Fallon, American neuroscientist ·
Job Cohen, Dutch politician ·
Giorgio Cavazzano,
Italian comics artist and illustrator ·
Gunnar Staalesen, Norwegian author ·
October 22 – Ed Welch, English TV-music composer ·
October 24 – Kevin Kline, American actor ·
October 25 – Glenn Tipton, English rock guitarist ·
Hillary Clinton, American politician, First
Lady, US Senator (D-Ny.) and Secretary
of State ·
Ene Järvis, Estonian actress ·
Trevor Joyce, Irish poet ·
October 29 – Richard Dreyfuss, American actor ·
October 30 – Timothy B. Schmit,
American musician ·
Carmen Alborch, Spanish feminist, writer and
politician (d. 2018) ·
Herman Van Rompuy,
Belgian politician and 66th Prime Minister
of Belgium November[edit] ·
Taizo Ichinose, Japanese war photographer
(d. 1973) ·
Bob Weston,
British musician (d. 2012) ·
Dave Pegg, British Folk Musician, Bass
Player with Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull ·
November 5 – Rubén Juárez,
Argentine bandoneonist and singer-songwriter of tango (d. 2010) ·
Jim Rosenthal, English ITV sport presenter ·
E. Lee Spence, German-born American
pioneer underwater
archaeologist and treasure hunter ·
Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional
baseball player ·
Usha Uthup, Indian singer ·
Sondhi Limthongkul,
Thai journalist, writer and founder of Manager Daily ·
Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979) ·
Cassandra B. Whyte,
American educator and higher education administrator ·
Lewis Yocum, American orthopedic surgeon
(d. 2013) ·
November 9 – Phil Driscoll, American Christian musician
and trumpet player ·
Glen Buxton, American rock guitarist
(d. 1997) ·
Greg Lake, English musician and producer (King Crimson, Emerson, Lake
& Palmer) (d. 2016) ·
November 12 – Carlos Ezquerra, Spanish comics artist
(d. 2018) ·
November 13 – Joe Mantegna, American actor ·
November 14 – P. J. O'Rourke, American journalist and
satirist ·
November 15 – Steven G. Kellman,
American author and critic ·
Will Vinton, American animator and filmmaker
(d. 2018) ·
Inky Mark, Canadian politician ·
Bob Boone, American baseball player and
manager ·
Anfinn Kallsberg, Faroese Prime Minister ·
Lamar S. Smith, American politician ·
Ira David Wood III,
American actor ·
Joe Walsh, American rock singer-songwriter,
guitarist ·
Nurlan Balgimbayev,
Kazakh politician (d. 2015) ·
Alcione, Brazilian singer ·
Nickolas Grace, British actor ·
Chua Ek Kay, Singaporean painter (d. 2008) ·
November 24 – Dwight Schultz, American actor (The
A-Team) ·
November 25 – John Larroquette, American actor ·
November 29 – Mirza Khazar, Azerbaijani author ·
Sergio Badilla
Castillo, Chilean poet ·
Stuart Baird, English film editor, producer
and director ·
Jude Ciccolella, American actor ·
Véronique Le
Flaguais, Canadian actress ·
David Mamet, American playwright ·
Moses Nagamootoo, 8th Prime Minister of
Guyana December[edit] ·
December 1 – Bob Fulton, English-born Australian rugby
league player ·
December 2 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer ·
December 6 – RR Soares,
Brazilian televangelist, missionary, author, singer, businessman and composer ·
Oliver
Dragojević, Croatian singer (d. 2018) ·
Johnny Bench, American baseball player ·
Wendy Padbury, British actress ·
Gregg Allman, American singer and songwriter
(d. 2017) ·
Gérard Blanc, French singer ·
Thomas R. Cech, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
December 9 – Tom Daschle, U.S. Senator ·
December 10 – Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player ·
December 12 – Will Alsop, English architect ·
Christopher Parkening,
American guitarist ·
Dilma Rousseff, 36th President of Brazil ·
Ben Cross, English actor ·
Vincent
Matthews, American athlete ·
December 18 – Leonid Yuzefovich,
Russian crime fiction writer ·
December 21 – Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist (d. 2014) ·
Mitsuo Tsukahara, Japanese gymnast ·
Porfirio Lobo, 54th President of
Honduras ·
December 26 – Carlton Fisk, American baseball player ·
December 27 – Bob Conti, American musician ·
December 28 – Aurelio Rodríguez,
Mexican Major League
Baseball player (d. 2000) ·
Ted Danson, American actor (Cheers) ·
Cozy Powell, English drummer (d. 1998) ·
December 30 – Jeff Lynne, British musician ·
Rita Lee, Brazilian rock singer and composer ·
Burton Cummings, Canadian rock musician ·
Tim Matheson, American actor, film director
and producer Date Unknown[edit] ·
Marouf al-Bakhit, twice Prime Minister of
Jordan ·
Jean-François
Batellier, French political cartoonist ·
Stephen LaBerge, American lucid dream researcher Deaths[edit] January[edit] Blessed Hryhoriy Khomyshyn Blessed Maria Giovanna Fasce Prince
Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten ·
January 3 – Al Herpin, French-born American insomniac,
"The Man Who Never Slept" (b. 1862) ·
Herman Bing, German actor (b. 1889) ·
Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist
(b. 1893) ·
January 10 – Arthur E. Andersen,
American accountant (b. 1885) ·
Zdenko
Blažeković, Yugoslavian politician (b. 1915) ·
Júlio Afrânio
Peixoto, Brazilian physician, writer, politician and historian
(b. 1876) ·
Sixto María
Durán Cárdenas, Ecuadorian pianist, composer and lawyer (b. 1875) ·
Ignazio Lupo, Italian-born American gangster
(b. 1877) ·
January 14 – Bill
Hewitt, American football player (Chicago Bears) and a member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1909) ·
January 15 – Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia),
famous murder victim ·
January 17 – Hryhoriy Khomyshyn,
Ukrainian Roman Catholic bishop,
martyr and blessed (b. 1867) ·
January 18 – Maria Giovanna Fasce,
Italian Roman Catholic religious
professed, Augustinian nun
and blessed (b. 1881) ·
January 19 – Manuel
Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1874) ·
Josh Gibson, African-American baseball
player and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1911) ·
Andrew Volstead, American politician
(b. 1860) ·
January 22 – Vivienne
Haigh-Wood Eliot, British writer (b. 1888) ·
Pierre Bonnard, French painter (b. 1867) ·
Roy Geiger, American general (b. 1885) ·
January 24 – August Meyszner, Austrian-born SS officer,
executed (b. 1886) ·
January 25 – Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899) ·
Grace Moore, American opera singer and
actress (b. 1898) ·
Prince
Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (b. 1906) ·
January 27 – Vassily Balabanov,
Soviet administrator and Provincial Governor of Imperial Russia (b. 1873) ·
January 28 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-born French
composer (b. 1874) ·
January 30 – Frederick Blackman,
British plant physiologist (b.1866) February[edit] ·
February 3 – Petar Zivkovic, Yugoslavian politician,
11th Prime
Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1879) ·
February 4 – Luigi Russolo, Italian painter and composer
(b. 1885) ·
O. Max Gardner, Governor of North Carolina
(b. 1882) ·
Luigi Russolo, Italian Futurist painter and composer (b. 1885) ·
February 11 – Martin Klein,
Estonian wrestler (b.1884) ·
Kurt Lewin, German-born American
psychologist (b. 1890) ·
Sidney Toler, American actor (b. 1874) ·
February 14 – Celestina Boninsegna,
Italian soprano (b. 1877) ·
February 15 – Mustafa Abdel-Razek,
Egyptian Islamic philosopher (b. 1885) ·
Pedro de Répide
Gallegos, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1853) ·
Bertha Schwarz, German soprano (b. 1855) ·
Valentina Dmitryeva,
Soviet writer, teacher and doctor (b. 1859) ·
Joachim
Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (b. 1901) ·
February 20 – Henry Herbert,
British actor (b. 1879) ·
February 23 – Hakim Habibur Rahman,
Indian physician, writer, journalist and politician (b. 1881) ·
February 24 – Morinosuke Chiwaki,
Japanese dentist (b. 1870) ·
Antonino D'Agata,
Italian politician (b. 1882) ·
Ben Webster,
British-born American actor (b. 1864) ·
February 27 – Heinrich Häberlin,
Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1868) March[edit] ·
March 2 – Whately Carington,
British parapsychologist (b. 1892) ·
March 5 – Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883) ·
March 9 ·
Carrie Chapman Catt,
American suffrage leader (b. 1859) ·
Jhaverchand Meghani,
Indian poet and writer (b. 1897) ·
March 10 – Harukichi Hyakutake,
Japanese general (b. 1888) ·
March 11 ·
Victor Lustig, Austrian-born con artist
(b. 1890) ·
Wilhelm Heye, German general (b. 1869) ·
March 12 – Walter Samuel
Goodland, Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1862) ·
March 15 ·
Arthur Machen, British-born author (b. 1863) ·
Jean-Richard Bloch,
French critic, novelist and playwright (b. 1884) ·
March 18 – William C. Durant,
American automobile pioneer (b. 1861) ·
March 19 – Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b. 1896) ·
March 20 – Victor Goldschmidt,
Swiss geochemist (b. 1888) ·
March 21 – Homer Lusk Collyer, American
hermit brother (Collyer brothers)
(b. 1881) ·
March 23 ·
Archduchess
Louise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870) ·
Ferdinand Zecca, French actor, producer,
director and screenwriter (b. 1864) ·
March 25 – Chen Cheng-po, Taiwanese painter (b. 1895) ·
March 28 ·
Johnny Evers, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1881) ·
Karol
Świerczewski, Polish military leader (b. 1897) ·
March 29 – Manuel de
Adalid y Gamero, Honduranian composer (b. 1872) April[edit] King George II of Greece Henry Ford and Saint Savvas the New
of Kalymnosdied on April 7, 1947 ·
April 1 – King George II of Greece (b. 1890) ·
April 5 – Petro Trad, Lebanese lawyer and politician,
14th Prime Minister
of Lebanon and 5th President of Lebanon (b. 1876) ·
April 7 ·
Henry Ford, American industrialist and
automobile manufacturer (b. 1863) ·
Savvas the New
of Kalymnos, Greek Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1862) ·
April 8 – Langley Collyer, American
hermit brother (b. 1885) ·
April 9 – William Foden, American composer (b. 1860) ·
April 10 ·
John Ince,
American actor (b. 1878) ·
Charles Bally, Swiss linguist (b. 1865) ·
April 12 – Duke Robert of
Württemberg (b. 1873) ·
April 14 – Salvador Toscano, Mexican director, producer
and filmmaker (b. 1872) ·
April 15 – Georg Friederici, German ethnologist
(b. 1866) ·
April 16 ·
Guido Donegani, Italian engineer,
businessman and politician (b. 1877) ·
Rudolf Höss, German commandant of Auschwitz
concentration camp (executed) (b. 1900) ·
April 18 – Jozef Tiso, Slovakian politician and Roman Catholic priest, 1st Prime Minister
of Slovakia and President of
Slovakia (b. 1887) ·
April 20 – King Christian X of
Denmark (b. 1870) ·
April 21 – Heitor da Silva
Costa, Brazilian engineer, designer and constructor (b. 1873) ·
April 23 – Gyula Károlyi, Hungarian politician,
29th Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1871) ·
April 24 – Willa Siebert Cather,
American novelist (b. 1873) ·
April 25 ·
José María Reina
Andrade, acting President of
Guatemala (b. 1860) ·
Ana
Cumpănaș, Austro-Hungarian prostitute (b. 1889) ·
April 26 – Francesco
Paolo Finocchiaro, Italian painter (b. 1868) ·
April 29 – Gheorghie
Ciuhandu, Romanian Orthodox priest, theologian, historian and
advocate (b. 1875) ·
April 30 – Francesc Cambó,
Andorran politician (b. 1876) May[edit] ·
May 8 – Harry Gordon
Selfridge, American department store magnate (b. 1858) ·
May 13 – Sukanta Bhattacharya,
Bengali poet (b. 1926) ·
May 14 – John R. Sinnock, eighth Chief Engraver of
the United States Mint (b. 1888) ·
May 15 – Miguel Abadía Méndez,
Colombian politician, 12th President of
Colombia (b. 1867) ·
May 16 ·
Frederick
Gowland Hopkins, British biochemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1861) ·
Michael Joseph
Curley, American Roman Catholic bishop and reverend
(b. 1879) ·
May 17 ·
George
Forbes, 22nd Prime
Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869) ·
Seabiscuit, Thoroughbred Racehorse (b. 1933) ·
May 18 – Lucile Gleason, American actress (b. 1888) ·
May 20 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1862) ·
May 24 – C. F. Ramuz,
Swiss writer (b. 1878) ·
May 28 – August Eigruber, Nazi war criminal
(executed) (b. 1907) ·
May 30 – Georg Ludwig von
Trapp, Austrian sailor, patriarch of the Von Trapp Family of The Sound of Music fame
(b. 1880) ·
May 31 – Adrienne Ames, American actress (b. 1907) June[edit] ·
June 6 ·
S. H. Dudley,
American urban singer (b. 1864) ·
Władysław
Raczkiewicz, Polish politician, lawyer and diplomat, 5th President of Poland (b. 1885) ·
José Marques da
Silva, Portuguese architect (b. 1869) ·
June 9 ·
Augusto Giacometti,
Italian painter (b. 1877) ·
J. Warren Kerrigan,
American actor (b. 1879) ·
June 11 – Richard Hönigswald,
Hungarian-born American philosopher (b. 1875) ·
June 14 – Albert Marquet, French painter (b. 1875) ·
June 17 – Maxwell Perkins, American literary editor
(b. 1884) ·
June 18 ·
Alfred Allen,
American actor (b. 1866) ·
Richard Cooper,
British actor (b. 1893) ·
Shigematsu Sakaibara,
Japanese rear admiral and convicted war criminal (executed) (b. 1898) ·
June 19 – Kōsō Abe, Japanese admiral and
convicted war criminal (executed) (b. 1892) ·
June 20 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (b. 1906) ·
June 22 – Jim Tully, vagabond, pugilist, noted American
writer (b. 1891) ·
June 24 – Bartolome
Pagano, Italian actor (b. 1878) ·
June 26 – Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister
of Canada (b. 1870) ·
June 28 – Franciszek
Mączyński, Polish architect (b. 1874) July[edit] Patriarch Yousef VI
Emmanuel II Thomas ·
July 7 – José Luis Tamayo,
20th President of Ecuador (b. 1858) ·
July 12 – Jimmie Lunceford, American jazz musician
(b. 1902) ·
July 15 ·
Brandon Hurst, American stage and screen
veteran (b. 1866) ·
Walter Donaldson, American songwriter
(b. 1893) ·
July 17 – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat and
humanitarian (presumed dead on this date) (b. 1912) ·
July 18 – Fumio Hayashi,
Japanese physician (b. 1900) ·
July 19 – Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated)
(b. 1915) ·
July 21 – Patriarch Yousef VI
Emmanuel II Thomas (b. 1852) ·
July 23 ·
Alice Fischer,
American actress (b. 1869) ·
Ángel Roffo, Argentine doctor (b. 1882) ·
July 26 – Archbishop
Leontios of Cyprus (b. 1896) ·
July 27 – Ivan Regen, Slovenian biologist (b. 1868) ·
July 29 ·
Leo Stein, American art collector and critic
(b. 1872) ·
George Bausewine, American baseball player
and umpire (b. 1869) ·
July 30 ·
Joseph Cook, 6th Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1860) ·
Fedir Krychevsky, Ukrainian painter
(b. 1879) August[edit] Blessed Claudio Granzotto ·
August
– Teresa Magbanua,
Filipino general (b. 1868) ·
August 3 ·
José Pardo y Barreda,
Peruvian politician, 51st Prime Minister of
Peru and 2-time President of Peru (b. 1864) ·
Vic Willis, American baseball player (Boston Braves)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1876) ·
August 8 – Anton Ivanovich
Denikin, Russian military leader (b. 1872) ·
August 9 – Carlo Romanelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1872) ·
August 10 – Antonio Sciortino,
Maltese sculptor (b. 1879) ·
August 15 – Claudio Granzotto,
Italian Roman Catholic religious
professed and blessed (b. 1900) ·
August 17 – Prince Eugen,
Duke of Närke (b. 1865) ·
August 20 – Franz Cumont, Belgian archaeologist and
historian (b. 1868) ·
August 23 – Hasmik, Soviet actress (b. 1878) ·
Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (gored) (b. 1917) ·
Kōtarō
Nakamura, General of the Imperial Japanese Army (b. 1881) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Frederick
Russell Burnham, American Scout, father of the international
Scouting movement (b. 1861) ·
September 8 – Victor Horta, Belgian Art Nouveau architect
(b. 1861) ·
September 9 – Ananda Coomaraswamy,
American philosopher (b. 1877) ·
September 10 – Hatazō Adachi, Japanese general
(suicide) (b. 1890) ·
September 11 – Alice Keppel, mistress of Edward VII
(b. 1868) ·
Fiorello H. La
Guardia, Mayor of New York (b. 1882) ·
Jantina Tammes, Dutch plant biologist
(b. 1871) ·
Harry Carey,
American film actor (b. 1878) ·
Vasily Glagolev, Soviet general (b. 1896) ·
September 26 – Hugh Lofting, British-born writer (b. 1886) ·
September 27 – Luigi Barlassina, Patriarch of Jerusalem
(b. 1872) October[edit] ·
Olive Borden, American actress (b. 1906) ·
Gregorio
Martinez Sierra, Spanish writer, poet, dramatist and director
(b. 1881) ·
October 2 – P. D. Ouspensky, Soviet mathematician
(b. 1878) ·
October 3 – Ernest L. Riebau, American politician (1895) ·
October 4 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1858) ·
October 6 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887) ·
October 10 – Jo Mora, Uruguayan-born American cartoonist
(b. 1876) ·
Sir Ian
Hamilton, British general (b. 1853) ·
James Farley,
American actor (b. 1882) ·
October 13 – Sidney
Webb, British economist and social reformer (b. 1859) ·
October 17 – John Halliday,
American actor (b. 1880) ·
Harry C. Bradley,
American actor (b. 1869) ·
Massimo Terzano, Italian cinematographer
(b. 1892) ·
October 23 – Carl Shelton, American gangster (b. 1888) ·
October 24 – Dudley Digges,
Irish actor (b. 1879) ·
October 27 – María Teresalina
Sánchez, Spanish Franciscan religious sister, missionary
and martyr (b. 1918) ·
October 28 – Earl Snell, Governor of Oregon (plane crash)
(b. 1895) ·
October 29 – Frances Cleveland, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1864) November[edit] Blessed Josaphat Kotsylovsky ·
November 1 – Man o' War, champion thoroughbred racehorse
(b. 1917) ·
November 3 – Nelson McDowell, American actor (b. 1870) ·
November 7 – Sándor Garbai, Prime Minister of Hungary
(b. 1879) ·
Mariano Benlliure,
Spanish sculptor (b. 1862) ·
Constantin
Sănătescu, Romanian general and statesman, 44th Prime Minister
of Romania (b. 1885) ·
November 15 – Eduard Ritter
von Schleich, German fighter ace and air force general (b. 1888) ·
November 16 – Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and
politician (b. 1877) ·
November 17 – Josaphat Kotsylovsky,
Ukrainian Roman Catholic,
bishop, martyr and blessed (b. 1876) ·
November 20 – Georg Kolbe, German sculptor (b. 1877) ·
November 25 – Léon-Paul Fargue,
French writer (b. 1876) ·
W. E. Lawrence, American actor (b. 1896) ·
Philippe
Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (b. 1902) ·
November 29 – Ernie Adams,
American actor (b. 1885) ·
November 30 – Ernst Lubitsch, German film director
(b. 1892) December[edit] King Victor
Emmanuel III of Italy ·
Aleister Crowley, British occultist
(b. 1875) ·
G. H. Hardy, British mathematician (b. 1877) ·
December 2 – Franz Xaver Schwarz German Nazi politician
(executed) (b. 1875) ·
December 3 – Heinrich Hetsch, German physician and
microbiologist (b. 1873) ·
Margaret
Butler, New Zealand sculptor (b. 1883) ·
Walter Walker,
American actor (b. 1864) ·
Tristan Bernard, French writer and lawyer
(b. 1866) ·
Nicholas Murray
Butler, American president of Columbia University, recipient of
the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862) ·
December 9 – John Kelly,
American actor (b. 1901) ·
December 10 – Pierre Petit
de Julleville, French Roman Catholic priest, bishop and
eminence (b. 1876) ·
Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (b. 1874) ·
Juan
Bautista Vargas Arreola, Mexican general during Mexican Revolution (b. 1890) ·
Stanley Baldwin, British Conservative
politician, 3-time Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867) ·
Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864) ·
December 15 – Arthur Machen, British writer (b. 1863) ·
J. N. Brønsted,
Danish chemist (b. 1879) ·
Christos Tsigiridis,
Greek engineer (b. 1877) ·
Benigno Aquino Sr.,
Filipino politician (b. 1894) ·
Luigi Chiarelli, Italian playwright
(b. 1880) ·
December 25 – Gaspar G. Bacon, Lieutenant Governor of
Massachusetts (b. 1886) ·
December 27 – Johannes Winkler, German rocket pioneer
(b. 1897) ·
December 28 – King Victor
Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869) ·
December 29 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter and forger
(b. 1889) ·
December 30 – Alfred North
Whitehead, British mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Ayoub Tabet, 6th Prime Minister of Lebanon
(b. 1884) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Edward Victor
Appleton ·
Chemistry – Sir
Robert Robinson ·
Medicine – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay ·
Literature – André Gide ·
Peace –
The Friends Service
Council (UK) and The American
Friends Service Committee (USA), on behalf of the Religious
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Personal testimony of the winter of 1947 ·
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