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1953 (MCMLIII) was
a common year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1953rd year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 953rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of
the 20th century,
and the 4th year of the 1950s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the
United States ·
January 5 – Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot has
its first public stage premičre in French as En
attendant Godot at the Théâtre de Babylone
in Paris. ·
January 6 – The Asian
Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. ·
January 7 – United States
President Harry S. Truman announces
the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. ·
January 9 – In Montréal, Marguerite Pitre is the thirteenth, and last, woman
hanged in Canada ·
January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. ·
January 13 – "Doctors' plot": The state
newspaper Pravda publishes
an article alleging that many of the most prestigious physicians in the Soviet Union, mostly Jews, are part of a
major plot to poison the country's senior political and military leaders. ·
Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President
of Yugoslavia. ·
The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss
the UFO phenomenon. ·
January 15 – Georg Dertinger,
foreign minister of East Germany, is
arrested for spying. ·
January 19 – 71.1% of all television
sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give
birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tuned into Dwight
Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. ·
January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn
in as the 34th President of the United States. ·
January 22 – The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway. ·
Mau Mau Uprising:
Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father,
mother, and six-year-old son). ·
Walter Ulbricht announces that
agriculture will be collectivized in East Germany. ·
January 28 – Derek Bentley is executed for murder
at Wandsworth Prison in
London. ·
January 31–February 1 – The North Sea flood
of 1953 kills 1,836 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially Zeeland), 307 in the United Kingdom[1][2] and
several hundred at sea, including 133 on the ferry MV Princess Victoriain
the Irish Sea. February[edit] Main article: February 1953 ·
February 1 – The surge of the North Sea flood continues
from the previous day. ·
February 3 – Batepá massacre: Hundreds of native creoles known
as forros are massacred in Săo Tomé by
the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners. ·
February 5 – Walt Disney's feature
film Peter Pan premieres. ·
President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses
a clemency appeal for Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg. ·
The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic
relations with Israel after a bomb
explosion at the Soviet embassy in reaction to the 'Doctors' plot'. ·
February 12 – The Nordic Council is inaugurated. ·
February 13 – Transsexual Christine Jorgensen returns
to New York after successful sex reassignment
surgery in Denmark. ·
February 16 – The Pakistan
Academy of Sciences is established in Pakistan. ·
February 19 – Georgia approves
the first literature censorship board in the United States. ·
February 25 – Release, in France,
of Jacques Tati's
film Les Vacances de M. Hulot,
introducing the gauche character of Monsieur Hulot. ·
James Watson and Francis Crick of the University of
Cambridge announce their discovery of the structure of
the DNA molecule. ·
Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia sign the Balkan Pact. March[edit] Main article: March 1953 ·
March 1 ·
Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke after an all-night dinner
with Soviet Union interior
minister Lavrentiy Beria and
future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin, and Nikita Khrushchev.
The stroke paralyzes the right side of his body and renders him unconscious
until his death on March 5.[3] ·
Bernard
Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg is made deputy constable and
lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle. ·
March 6 – Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier and
First Secretary of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union. ·
March 8 – The Thieves World, which had been transformed
into the Russian mafia,
are freed from prisons by the Malenkov regime which ends the Bitch Wars. ·
March 13 – The United
Nations Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld from Sweden as United
Nations Secretary General. ·
March 14 – Nikita Khrushchev is
selected First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. ·
March 17 – The first nuclear test of Operation
Upshot–Knothole is conducted in Nevada, with 1,620 spectators at 3.4 km
(2.1 mi). ·
March 18 – The Yenice–Gönen earthquake affected
western Turkey with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent), causing at least 1,070 deaths and $3.57
million in damage. ·
March 19 – The 25th Academy Awards ceremony
is held (the first one broadcast on television). ·
March 25–26 – Lari
Massacre in Kenya: Mau Mau rebels
kill up to 150 Kikuyu natives. ·
March 26 – Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine. ·
March 29 – A fire at the Littlefield
Nursing Home in Largo, Florida,
kills 33 persons, including singer-songwriter Arthur Fields. April[edit] Main article: April 1953 ·
April 7 – Dag Hammarskjöld is
elected United
Nations Secretary-General. ·
April 8 – Jomo Kenyatta is
sentenced to seven years in prison for the alleged organization of the Mau Mau Uprising. ·
April 10 – The Melbourne Knights is
founded as Croatia SC in Melbourne. ·
April 13 ·
Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale,
in the United Kingdom. ·
The
German football team SG Dynamo Dresden is founded. ·
April 16 ·
President
Eisenhower delivers his "Chance for Peace" speech to the National
Association of Newspaper Editors.[4] ·
A
four-story building in Chicago belonging to the Habar
Corporation catches fire, killing 35 employees. ·
April 17 – Mickey Mantle hits a 565-foot (172 m)
home run at Griffith Stadium in
Washington, D.C. Mantle's home run is believed to be the longest home run in
baseball history by many historians. ·
April 20 – Frank Sinatra and the arranger Nelson Riddle began their first
recording sessions together at Capitol Records, which would result in some
of the defining recordings of Sinatra's career. ·
April 25 – Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for
Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid", their description of the double helix structure of DNA.[5] May[edit] ·
May 2 – Hussein is
crowned King of Jordan. ·
May 5 – Aldous Huxley first tries the psychedelic hallucinogen, mescaline, inspiring his book The Doors of
Perception. ·
May 9 ·
France
agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia with King Norodom Sihanouk. ·
Australian
Senate election, 1953: The Liberal/Country Coalition Government led
by Prime
Minister Robert Menzies held their Senate majority,
despite gains made by Labor Party led
by H.V. Evatt. This was the first occasion
where a Senate election was held without an accompanying House
Of Representatives election. ·
May 10 – The town of Chemnitz in East Germany becomes Karl Marx
Stadt. ·
May 11 – The Waco tornado
outbreak: A F5 tornado hits in the downtown section
of Waco, Texas,
killing 114. ·
May 15 – The Standards
And Recommended Practices (SARPS) for Aeronautical
Information Service (AIS) were adopted by the ICAO Council.
These SARPS are in Annex 15 to
the Chicago Convention and 15 May is
celebrated by the AIS community as “World AIS Day”. ·
May 18 – At Rogers Dry Lake, Californian Jackie Cochran becomes
the first woman to exceed Mach 1, in a North American
F-86 Sabre at 652.337 mph (566.865 kn; 1,049.835 km/h). ·
May 25 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts
its only nuclear artillery test: Upshot-Knothole
Grable. ·
May 29 – Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal become the first men to reach
the summit of Mount Everest. June[edit] June 19: Execution of Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg. Main article: June 1953 ·
June 1 – Uprising in
Plzeň: Currency reform causes riots in Czechoslovakia. ·
June 2 – Coronation
of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey. ·
June 7 – Italian
general election: the Christian
Democracy party wins a plurality in both legislative houses. ·
June 7-9 – Flint–Worcester
tornado outbreak sequence: A single storm-system spawns 46 tornadoes of various sizes, in ten
states from Colorado to Massachusetts, over three days, killing 246. ·
June 8 ·
On
second day of Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence, a tornado kills 115
in Flint, Michigan;
it will be the last to claim more than 100 lives until the 2011 Joplin tornado. ·
Austria
and the Soviet Union open diplomatic relations. ·
June 9 ·
On
third day of Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence, a tornado spawned
from the same storm system as the Flint tornado the day before hits in Worcester,
Massachusetts, killing 94. ·
CIA Technical
Services Staff head Sidney Gottlieb approves of the use
of LSD in a MKUltra subproject. ·
June 13 – Hungarian Prime
Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy. ·
June 16 – The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia open diplomatic relations. ·
June 17 – Workers'
Uprising in East Germany: The Soviet Union orders a division of
troops into East Berlin to
quell a rebellion. ·
June 18 ·
Egypt declares itself a republic. ·
Tachikawa air disaster: A United States Air
Force Douglas
C-124 Globemaster II crashes just after takeoff from Tachikawa Airfield near Tokyo, Japan,
killing all 129 people on board in the worst air crash in history up to this
time, and the first with a confirmed death toll exceeding 100. ·
June 19 ·
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing Prison in
New York, for conspiracy to commit espionage. ·
Baton Rouge bus
boycott begins. ·
June 30 ·
The
first Chevrolet Corvette is
built at Flint, Michigan. ·
First roll-on/roll-off ferry crossing of
the English Channel, Dover–Boulogne.[6] July[edit] Main article: July 1953 ·
July 3 – First ascent of Nanga Parbat in the Pakistan Himalayas, the world's ninth highest
mountain, is made by Austrian climber Hermann Buhl alone. ·
July 4 – Strikes and riots hit coal mining regions in Poland. ·
July 5 – The European
Economic Community (EEC) holds its first assembly in Strasbourg, France.[dubious – discuss] ·
July 9 – The US Treasury formally
renames the Bureau of Internal Revenue; the new name (which had previously
been used informally) is the Internal Revenue
Service. ·
July 10 – The Soviet official
newspaper Pravda announces
that Lavrentiy Beria has
been deposed as head of the NKVD. ·
July 17 – The greatest recorded loss of
United States midshipmen in a
single event results from an aircraft crash near NAS Whiting Field.[7] ·
July 23 – Howard Hawks's musical film Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes, starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, is released by 20th Century Fox. ·
July 26 ·
Fidel Castro and his brother lead a
disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, preliminary to the Cuban Revolution. ·
The Short Creek raid is carried out on a
polygynous Mormon sect in Arizona. ·
July 27 – The Korean War ends with the Korean
Armistice Agreement: United Nations
Command (Korea) (United States), People's Republic of
China, North Koreasign an armistice agreement at Panmunjom and the north remains communist while the south remains capitalist. August[edit] Main article: August 1953 ·
August 5 – Operation Big Switch: Prisoners of war are repatriated after
the Korean War. ·
August 8 ·
Soviet
prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces
that the Soviet Union has
a hydrogen bomb. ·
London
Agreement on German External Debts concluded, cancelling 50%
of repayable war debt by the Federal Republic of Germany to its
creditors. ·
The 1953 Ionian
earthquake of magnitude 7.2 totally devastates Cephalonia and most of the other Ionian Islands in Greece's worst
natural disaster in centuries. ·
Soviet atomic
bomb project: "Joe 4" – The first
Soviet thermonuclear weapon is
detonated at Semipalatinsk
Test Site, Kazakh SSR. ·
August 13 – Four million workers go on
strike in France to protest against austerity measures. ·
August 17 – The first planning session
of Narcotics Anonymous is
held in Southern California (see October 5). ·
August 18 – The second of the Kinsey Reports, Sexual
Behavior in the Human Female, is published in the United
States. ·
August 19 – Cold War: The CIA helps
to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran,
and retain Shah Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi on the throne (see Operation Ajax). ·
The
French government ousts King Mohammed V of
Morocco and exiles him to Corsica. ·
The
United States returns to West Germany 382 ships it had captured during World
War II. ·
August 25 – The general strike ends in France. September[edit] Main article: September 1953 ·
September 4 – The discovery of REM sleep is first published by
researchers Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman. ·
September 5 – The United Nations rejects the Soviet Union's suggestion to accept
the People's
Republic of China as a member. ·
September 7 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes
head of the Soviet Central
Committee. ·
September 12 – U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald
Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee
Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. ·
September 23 – The Pact of Madrid was signed by Francoist Spain and the United States of
America, ending a period of virtual isolation for Spain. ·
September 25 – The first German prisoners of war return from the Soviet Union to West Germany. ·
September 26 – Rationing of cane sugar ends in the UK. October[edit] Main article: October 1953 ·
October
– The UNIVAC 1103 is
the first commercial computer to use random-access memory.[citation needed] ·
Earl Warren is appointed Chief
Justice of the United States by U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower. ·
The
first meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is
held (the first planning session was held August 17). ·
October 6 – UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund,
is made a permanent specialized agency of the United Nations. ·
West
German federal election, 1953: Konrad Adenauer is re-elected as German
chancellor. ·
The British Guiana constitution is
suspended. ·
Roland (Monty)
Burton wins the 1953
London to Christchurch air race in under 23 hours flying
time. ·
The Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the
Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C. ·
October 12 – The play The Caine
Mutiny Court-Martial opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York. ·
October 22 – Laos becomes independent from France. ·
October 23 – Alto
Broadcasting System in the Philippines makes the first television
broadcast in southeast Asia through DZAQ-TV. Alto Broadcasting System is the
predecessor of what will later become ABS-CBN Corporation. ·
October 30 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally
approves the top secret document of the United
States National Security Council NSC 162/2, which states that the United
States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must
be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat. November[edit] Main article: November 1953 ·
November 5 – David Ben-Gurion resigns as prime minister of Israel. ·
November 9 – Cambodia becomes
independent from France. ·
The Laotian Civil War begins
between the Kingdom of Laos and
the Pathet Lao, all the while resuming the First Indochina War against
the French Army in
a Two-front war. ·
Saudi
King Abdul Aziz al-Saud died. ·
The Douglas D-558-2
Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, becomes the first manned
aircraft to reach Mach 2. ·
Authorities
at the Natural
History Museum, London announce that the skull of Piltdown Man (allegedly an early human discovered in 1912)
is a hoax.[8][9] ·
Puerto Williams is founded in Chile as
the southernmost settlement of the world. ·
November 25 – England
loses 6–3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever
loss to a continental team at home. ·
November 29 – French paratroopers take Điện Bięn Phủ. ·
November 30 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king)
of Buganda, is deposed and exiled to London
by Sir
Andrew Benjamin Cohen, Governor of Uganda. December[edit] Main article: December 1953 ·
December
– Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue
of Playboy magazine in the United
States, featuring a centerfold nude
photograph of Marilyn Monroe;
it sells 54,175 copies at $.50 each. ·
December 2 – The United Kingdom
and Iran reform diplomatic relations. ·
December 6 – With the NBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini performs what he
claims is his favorite Beethovensymphony, Eroica,
for the last time. The live performance is broadcast nationwide on radio, and
later released on records and CD. ·
December 7 – A visit to Iran by
American Vice President Richard Nixon sparks several days of riots, as an reaction to the August 19 overthrow of the government
of Mohammed Mossadegh by the US-backed Shah. Three students are shot dead by
police in Tehran. This event becomes an annual commemoration. ·
December 8 – U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers
his Atoms for Peace address
to the United
Nations General Assembly in New York City. ·
December 10 – Albert Schweitzer is
given the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize. ·
December 17 – The U.S. Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) approves color television (using the NTSC standard). ·
December 23 – The Soviet Union announces officially
that Lavrentiy Beria has
been executed. ·
December 24 – Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge collapses
at Tangiwai, New
Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River; 151 are killed. ·
December 25 – The Amami Islands are returned to Japan
after 8 years of United States military occupation. ·
December 30 – Ramon Magsaysay is the 7th President of
the Philippines. Date unknown[edit] ·
The
Japanese 10 yen coin is
issued with serrated edges for a 5-year period, beginning in 1953. All 10 yen coins since have had smooth edges. ·
Heavy
massive rain, landslides, and flooding in western and southwestern Japan kill
an estimated 2,566, and injure 9,433, mainly at Kizugawa, Wakayama, Kumamoto, and Kitakyushu (June–August). Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Afonso Dhlakama,
Mozambican politician (d. 2018) ·
Gary Johnson, American businessman and
politician, 29th Governor of New Mexico ·
January 2 – Vincent Racaniello, American virologist ·
January 4 – George Tenet, former American Central
Intelligence Agency director ·
Pamela Sue Martin,
American actress ·
Mike Rann,
Australian politician ·
January 6 – Malcolm Young, Australian musician (d. 2017) ·
January 8 – Bruce Sutter, American baseball player ·
Pat Benatar, American rock singer ·
Bobby Rahal, American race car driver ·
January 13 – John Wake, English cricketer ·
Kent Hovind,
American creation science evangelist ·
Randy
White, American football player ·
January 16 – Robert Jay Mathews,
American neo-Nazi and founder of the terrorist group The
Order (d. 1984) ·
Desi Arnaz Jr., American actor, musician ·
Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and
politician ·
Paul Allen, American entrepreneur and
co-founder of Microsoft (d. 2018) ·
Glenn Kaiser, American Christian blues-rock,
heavy metal and R&B singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
Myung-whun Chung,
South Korean conductor and pianist ·
Jim Jarmusch, American director ·
January 23 – Robin Zander, American singer and guitarist
(Cheap Trick) ·
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister
of Denmark and Secretary
General of NATO ·
Lucinda Williams, American singer-songwriter ·
January 28 – Colin
Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive ·
Nate Barnett, American basketball player ·
Peter Baumann, German keyboard player and
songwriter (Tangerine Dream) ·
Paulin Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Caesar Cervin,
American soccer player ·
Dennis Delaney, American actor and
playwright ·
Paul Fusco, American puppeteer and voice
actor ·
Steve March-Tormé, American singer-songwriter ·
Kalevi Marjamaa, Finnish
boxer ·
Lynne McGranger,
Australian actress ·
Ronnie Moore, English footballer and manager ·
Juan Paredes, Mexican boxer ·
Pierre Jacob, Canadian politician (d. 2018) ·
Louie Pérez, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
Fred Riebeling,
Australian politician ·
Grażyna Szmacińska, Polish chess player ·
Dwight Takamine, American politician ·
Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995) ·
Yorie Terauchi, Japanese actress ·
Charlie Wilson,
American singer-songwriter; producer (The Gap Band) ·
Hwang Woo-suk,
South Korean veterinarian and academic ·
Richard Younger-Ross,
English politician ·
January 31 – Sergei Ivanov, first deputy prime minister of Russia and
former minister of defense of
Russia February[edit] Cristina
Fernández de Kirchner ·
February 2 – Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter ·
February 4 – Kitarō, Japanese New Age
musician ·
February 5 – Valerie Carter, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2017) ·
February 7 – Dan Quisenberry,
American baseball player (d. 1998) ·
February 8 – Mary Steenburgen, American actress ·
Ciarán Hinds, Irish actor ·
Rick Wagoner, American automotive executive ·
February 10 – June Jones, American quarterback and current
NCAA Football head coach at Southern Methodist University ·
February 11 – Jeb Bush, American politician ·
February 12 – Nabil Shaban, British disabled actor ·
February 14 – Sergey Mironov, Russian statesman and
Speaker of the Federation Council ·
Cristina
Fernández de Kirchner, 50th President of
Argentina ·
Massimo Troisi,
Italian actor and film director (d. 1994) ·
February 20 – Riccardo Chailly,
Italian orchestral conductor ·
February 21 – William Petersen, American actor ·
February 22 – Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer,
writer, actor (d. 2008) ·
José María Aznar, Prime Minister of
Spain ·
Martin Kippenberger, German artist ·
February 26 – Michael Bolton, American surburbia
singer ·
Ian Khama,
4th President of
Botswana ·
Yolande Moreau, Belgian
actress/writer/director ·
Paul Krugman, American economist ·
Ricky Steamboat, American professional
wrestler ·
Osmo Vänskä, Finnish
orchestral conductor March[edit] ·
March 1 – Richard Bruton, Irish politician and
economist ·
March 2 – Russell Feingold, U. S. Senator ·
March 3 ·
Arthur Antunes
Coimbra, Brazilian footballer and manager ·
Robyn Hitchcock, British singer-songwriter ·
Agustí Villaronga,
Spanish filmmaker ·
March 4 ·
Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist ·
Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter
(d. 2018) ·
Kay Lenz, American actress ·
March 5 – Tokyo Sexwale,
South African businessman, politician, anti-apartheid activist, and former
political prisoner ·
March 6 ·
Jan Kjćrstad,
Norwegian author ·
Jacklyn Zeman, American actress ·
March 10 – Debbie Brill, Canadian high jumper ·
March 11 ·
László Bölöni,
Romanian footballer ·
Bernie LaBarge,
Canadian guitarist/vocalist ·
March 12 ·
Carl Hiaasen, American author ·
Ron Jeremy, American pornographic actor ·
Madhav Kumar Nepal,
Nepalese politician ·
March 14 – Johan Ullman, Swedish medical doctor,
physicist and inventor ·
March 15 – Kumba Iala,
Guinea-Bissauan politician and 3rd President of
Guinea-Bissau (d. 2014) ·
March 16 ·
Bryan Duncan, American Christian musician ·
Isabelle Huppert, French actress ·
Richard Stallman, American free software
proponent ·
March 17 – Filemon Lagman,
Filipino revolutionary (d. 2001) ·
March 18 – Takashi Yoshimatsu, Japanese composer ·
March 19 – Lenín Moreno,
Ecuadorian politician and 44th President of Ecuador ·
March 20 – Sándor Csányi, Hungarian business executive
and banker ·
March 23 – Chaka Khan, American soul singer ·
March 24 ·
Louie Anderson, American comedian ·
Mathias Richling,
German comedian ·
March 26 ·
Lincoln Chafee, American politician ·
Elaine Chao, American politician; wife of
Senator Mitch McConnell ·
March 28 – Melchior Ndadaye,
4th President of Burundi (d. 1993) April[edit] ·
April 2 – Jim Allister, Irish politician ·
April 3 ·
Sandra Boynton, American author, songwriter,
and illustrator ·
Russ Francis, American Football player ·
April 4 – Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician ·
April 6 – Andy Hertzfeld,
American computer programmer ·
April 9 – John
Howard, English singer-songwriter ·
April 10 – Heiner Lauterbach,
German actor ·
April 11 ·
Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister
of Belgium ·
Andrew Wiles, British-born mathematician ·
April 14 – Eric Tsang, Hong Kong actor ·
April 16 ·
Geoffrey Oryema,
Ugandan musician (d. 2018) ·
Peter Garrett, Australian musician and
politician ·
J. Neil Schulman, American writer and
activist ·
April 17 – Linda Martin, Irish singer and television
presenter, Eurovision Song
Contest 1992 winner ·
April 18 – Rick Moranis,
Canadian actor ·
April 19 – Ruby Wax, American-born British-based
performer ·
April 20 – Sebastian Faulks, British novelist ·
April 22 – Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer ·
April 24 ·
Eric Bogosian,
American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist ·
Tim Woodward, English actor ·
April 25 – Ron Clements, American animation director
and producer ·
April 28 ·
Roberto Bolańo, Chilean author (d. 2003) ·
Kim Gordon, American rock musician ·
April 29 ·
Nikolai Budarin,
Russian cosmonaut ·
Bill Drummond, South African-born British
musician (The KLF, The Timelords) ·
April 30 – Merrill Osmond, American pop singer May[edit] ·
May 2 – Valery Gergiev, Russian/Ossetian conductor ·
May 3 – Ibrahim Zakzaky, Shia-Islam cleric. ·
May 4 – Salman Hashimikov, Soviet heavyweight wrestler ·
May 5 – Dieter Zetsche, German auto executive ·
May 6 ·
Tony Blair, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom ·
Graeme Souness,
Scottish footballer and manager ·
Lynn Whitfield, American actress ·
May 7 – Ian McKay, British soldier, (VC recipient) (d. 1982) ·
May 8 ·
Billy Burnette, American musician ·
Alex Van Halen, Dutch-born American rock
musician ·
May 11 – David Gest, American entertainer, producer
and television personality (d. 2016) ·
May 14 ·
Michael Hebranko,
American exemplar of morbid/mortal obesity (d. 2013) ·
Norodom Sihamoni,
King of Cambodia ·
May 15 ·
George Brett, American Major League Baseball
player ·
Mike Oldfield, English composer ·
May 16 ·
Pierce Brosnan,
Irish actor ·
Richard Page,
American musician ·
May 19 – Victoria Wood, English comic performer
(d. 2016) ·
May 20 – Robert Doyle, Australian politician ·
May 23 – Agathe Uwilingiyimana, 4th Prime Minister of Rwanda
(d. 1994) ·
May 24 – Alfred Molina, English actor ·
May 26 – Michael Portillo, English politician ·
May 29 ·
Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (d. 2008) ·
Danny Elfman,
American composer ·
May 30 – Colm Meaney,
Irish actor ·
May 31 – Kathie Sullivan, American singer June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
David Berkowitz, American serial killer ·
Diana Canova, American actress and adjunct
professor ·
June 2 – Keith Allen,
British actor ·
June 3 – Erland Van Lidth De Jeude,
Dutch-born wrestler, opera singer and actor (d. 1987) ·
June 4 ·
Paul De Meo,
American screenwriter and producer (d. 2018) ·
Susumu Ojima,
Japanese entrepreneur ·
June 5 – Kathleen
Kennedy, American film producer ·
June 7 ·
Johnny Clegg, South African Zulu musician ·
Dougie Donnelly, Scottish television broadcaster ·
June 8 – Ivo Sanader,
8th Prime Minister
of Croatia ·
June 10 – John Edwards, American politician ·
June 11 ·
Peter Bergman, American actor ·
Barbara Minty, American model ·
June 12 – Michael Donovan, Canadian voice actor ·
June 13 ·
Tim Allen, American actor and comedian ·
Atso Almila, Finnish
conductor and composer ·
June 15 ·
Antonia Rados,
Austrian television journalist ·
Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President
of the People's Republic of China ·
June 19 – Lesley Nicol,
English actress ·
June 20 – Ulrich Mühe,
German actor (d. 2007) ·
June 21 – Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister
of Pakistan (d. 2007) ·
June 22 ·
Wim Eijk, Dutch
archbishop ·
Cyndi Lauper, American singer ·
June 23 ·
Armen Sarkissian, 4th President of Armenia ·
Steven Scarborough,
American gay pornographic film director ·
Pake McEntire, American country music artist ·
June 24 ·
Vanessa Campbell, American actor and singer ·
Ivo Lill, Estonian
artist ·
June 26 ·
James Wong,
Malaysian footballer ·
Kristján L. Möller, Icelandic
politician ·
Wee Choo Keong,
Malaysian politician ·
Neil Record, British businessman, author and
economist ·
June 27 ·
Hartmut Flöckner, German swimmer ·
Efraín Morales Sánchez, Mexican politician ·
Kem Sokha,
Cambodian politician and activist ·
June 29 ·
Don Dokken, American rock singer and
musician ·
Colin Hay, Scottish-born Australian
singer/songwriter ·
Lonnie Nielsen, American professional golfer ·
Ivan Malakhov, Russian politician ·
June 30 – Joan Lin, Taiwanese actress July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
David Gulpilil,
Australian traditional dancer and actor ·
Sangay Ngedup, former
Prime Minister of Bhutan ·
Mohammad Tofiq Rahim, Iraqi Kurdish politician ·
Mike Haynes,
American football player ·
Alan Sunderland, English footballer ·
Pat Donovan, American football offensive
lineman ·
Lawrence Gonzi,
11th Prime Minister of
Malta ·
Nasir Ali Mamun, Bengali portrait
photographer ·
Jadranka Kosor, Croatian
politician ·
July 2 – Nacer Sandjak,
Algerian football manager and former player ·
July 3 ·
Lotta Sollander,
Swedish alpine skier ·
Les Strong, English association footballer ·
July 4 ·
Wong Siu-yee, Hong
Kong politician ·
Santiago Formoso,
Spanish-American soccer defender ·
July 6 ·
Nanci Griffith, American folk singer-songwriter ·
Marcela Váchová, Czech artistic gymnast ·
July 7 – Eleri Rees,
Welsh judge ·
July 9 ·
François Diederich, Luxembourgish chemist ·
Peter Land, New Zealand actor and singer ·
July 10 ·
Rik Emmett, singer\songwriter and lead
guitarist of the Canadian rock band Triumph ·
Édouard Guillaud, French Naval Officer and Admiral ·
July 11 ·
Angélica Aragón, Mexican actress ·
Mindy Sterling, American actress ·
Wu Shu-chen,
Taiwanese politician ·
Piyasvasti Amranand, Thailand's
Energy Minister ·
July 13 – Gil Birmingham, Native American actor ·
July 14 ·
Bebe Buell, American model and singer ·
Katsuya Okada, Japanese politician ·
July 15 ·
Sultanah Haminah,
Malaysian royal consort ·
Mohamad Shahrum Osman, Malaysian politician ·
Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, President of Haiti ·
Raisul Islam Asad,
Bangladeshi actor ·
Mila Pivnicki,
wife of Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney ·
July 16 – Ahmad Fuad Ismail, Malaysian politician; 9th mayor
of Kuala Lumpur ·
July 17 – Nuria Bages,
Mexican actress ·
July 19 ·
Paula Saldanha, Brazilian journalist,
presenter, writer, illustrator and environmentalist ·
Pasquale Valentini, Sammarinese politician ·
Shōichi Nakagawa, Japanese politician (d. 2009) ·
July 21 ·
Jeff Fatt,
Australian musician, purple member of The Wiggles from 1991-2012 ·
Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress ·
July 23 – Najib Abdul Razak, 6th Prime Minister
of Malaysia ·
July 24 ·
Tadashi Kawamata,
Japanese contemporary artist ·
Claire McCaskill, U.S. Senator ·
July 25 – Tim Gunn, American fashion expert ·
July 27 – Yahoo Serious, Australian filmmaker ·
July 29 ·
Ken Burns, American documentary filmmaker ·
Geddy Lee, Canadian rock musician (Rush) ·
July 31 ·
Tōru Furuya, Japanese
voice actor ·
James Read, American actor August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Robert Cray, American musician ·
Steven Krasner, American sportswriter ·
August 2 – Butch Patrick, American child actor and
musician ·
August 4 – Antonio Tajani,
Italian politician, President
of the European Parliament ·
August 5 ·
Rick Mahler, American baseball player
(d. 2005) ·
David J. Sugarbaker, American physician (d. 2018) ·
August 8 – Nigel Mansell, English 1992 Formula 1 world champion ·
August 9 – Jean Tirole,
French Nobel
Prize-winning economist ·
August 10 – Richard Cansino,
American voice actor ·
August 11 – Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler ·
Carlos Mesa, President of Bolivia ·
Teddi Siddall, American actress (d. 2018) ·
Cliff
Johnson, American game designer ·
James Horner, American film composer
(d. 2015) ·
Wolfgang Hohlbein, German writer of science fiction,
fantasy and horror fiction ·
Martin Manley, American sports writer
and statistician (d. 2013) ·
Carol Thatcher, English television
personality ·
Sir Mark Thatcher, English businessman ·
August 16 – Kathie Lee Gifford,
American singer and actress ·
August 17 – Herta Müller,
German Nobel Prize-winning
writer ·
August 18 – Louie Gohmert, American politician ·
August 19 – Benoît Régent,
French actor (d. 1994) ·
Peter Horton, American actor and director ·
Mike
Jackson, former member of the Texas Senate ·
August 21 – Géza Szőcs,
Hungarian poet and politician ·
August 24 – Ron Holloway, American tenor saxophonist ·
Edward Lowassa,
8th Prime Minister of Tanzania ·
Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer ·
August 27 – Alex Lifeson,
Canadian rock musician (Rush) ·
August 29 – James Quesada, Nicaraguan-born
anthropologist ·
Robin Harris, American comedian and actor
(d. 1990) ·
Robert Parish, American basketball player ·
August 31 – György Károly, Hungarian author (d. 2018) September[edit] ·
September 2 – John Zorn, American musician ·
Lawrence
Hilton-Jacobs, American actor ·
Fatih Terim, Turkish
footballer and manager ·
September 6 – Anne Lockhart,
American actress ·
September 7 – Mammootty, Indian actor ·
September 8 – Stu Ungar, American poker player (d. 1998) ·
September 10 – Amy Irving, American actress ·
Lesley Visser, American sportscaster and
journalist ·
Tommy Shaw, American guitarist and singer ·
Nan Goldin, American photographer ·
Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer,
artist, and photographer (d. 2004) ·
September 13 – Ann Dusenberry,
American film actress ·
September 14 – Harold Covington, American political
activist (d. 2018) ·
September 18 – Betsy Boze,
American dean and CEO, Kent State
University at Stark ·
September 19 – Probal Dasgupta,
Indian linguist and Esperantist ·
September 20 – Steve Tom, American actor ·
September 21 – Andrew Heermans, American
musician, recording engineer, music producer ·
Ségolčne Royal, French politician ·
David Wohl,
American television and film actor ·
September 23 – Alexey Maslov,
commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground
Forces ·
September 27 – Greg Ham, Australian rock musician (Men at Work) ·
Denis Potvin, Canadian Hall of Fame hockey
player ·
Randy West, American radio personality and
game show announcer ·
September 30 – Deborah Allen, American singer October[edit] ·
Grete Waitz,
Norwegian athlete (d. 2011) ·
Klaus Wowereit,
German politician ·
October 2 – Brandon Wilson, American author and explorer ·
October 4 – Kerry Sherman, American actress ·
October 7 – Tico Torres, American Drummer (Bon Jovi) ·
October 9 – Tony Shalhoub,
American actor ·
Les Dennis, British comedian and television
presenter ·
Serge Lepeltier,
French politician ·
Greg Evigan,
American actor ·
Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer,
actress, writer ·
Tito Jackson, African-American singer and
guitarist (The Jackson 5) ·
Larry Miller,
American actor and comedian ·
October 16 – Martha Smith, American model and actress ·
October 20 – Bill Nunn, American actor (d. 2016) ·
Keith Green, American-born Christian piano
player (d. 1982) ·
Peter Mandelson, British politician and
member of the Labour Party ·
Hugh Wolff, American orchestral conductor ·
October 22 – Loyiso Nongxa,
South African mathematician ·
Christoph Daum,
German football manager and former footballer ·
Steven Hatfill,
American physician, virologist and bio-weapons expert ·
David
Wright, British composer and producer, co-founder of AD Music ·
October 26 – Keith Strickland, American musician (The B-52's) ·
Paul Alcock,
English football referee (d. 2018) ·
Peter Firth, British actor ·
Robert Picardo, American actor ·
October 29 – Lorelei King, American Actress a.k.a. Tabs
Wildcat ·
October 31 – Michael J. Anderson,
American actor November[edit] ·
Susan Tse, Hong
Kong actress and opera singer ·
Bruce Poliquin, American politician ·
Koji Horaguchi,
Japanese rugby union player (d. 1999) ·
Dennis Miller, American comedian and radio
host ·
Carlos Gutierrez, American politician ·
Van Stephenson, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2001) ·
November 5 – Florentino V. Floro, Filipino dwarf judge ·
November 7 – Ottfried Fischer,
German actor and Kabarett artist ·
November 8 – John Musker,
American animation director ·
Andy Partridge, British musician and frontman of the band XTC ·
Harley Venton,
American actor ·
Andrés Manuel
López Obrador, Mexican politician ·
Waswo X. Waswo,
American photographer ·
Diana Weston, English actress ·
Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer
(d. 1991) ·
November 14 – Dominique de
Villepin, Prime Minister
of France ·
November 15 – Alexander O'Neal,
American singer ·
November 16 – Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, writer,
actor and television presenter ·
Alan Moore, English writer and magician ·
Kevin Nealon, American actor and comedian ·
Kath Soucie,
American actress and most active in voice overs ·
Robert Beltran, American actor ·
Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994) ·
November 23 – Francis Cabrel,
French singer ·
Glenn Withrow, American actress ·
Tod Machover,
American composer ·
November 25 – Graham Eadie, Australian rugby player ·
Steve Bannon, American political figure ·
Richard Stone,
American composer (d. 2001) ·
Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian rock musician ·
Curtis Armstrong, American actor ·
November 28 – Pamela Hayden, American voice actress ·
Alex Grey, American artist ·
Vlado Kreslin,
Slovenian singer ·
Christine Pascal, French actress, director
and screenwriter (d. 1996) ·
Rosemary West, British serial killer December[edit] ·
December 2 – Joel Fuhrman, American certified family
physician ·
Tom Hulce,
American actor and theater producer ·
Gary Ward,
American baseball player ·
Kim Basinger, American actress and fashion
model ·
Norman G.
Finkelstein, American political scientist ·
Sam Kinison,
American comedian (d. 1992) ·
December 9 – John Malkovich, American actor and film
director ·
December 11 – Thampi Kannanthanam, Indian film director,
screenwriter, producer and actor (d. 2018) ·
Ben Bernanke, American economist and
former Federal Reserve
System chairman ·
Bob Gainey, Canadian hockey player ·
Pat Torpey,
American drummer (Mr. Big)
(d. 2018) ·
December 14 – Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician,
4th Greek
Minister for National Defence ·
Ikue Mori, Japanese drummer, composer, and
graphic designer ·
Bill Pullman, American actor ·
Kevin Beattie, English footballer (d. 2018) ·
Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov,
Chechen bard ·
December 21 – András Schiff,
Hungarian concert pianist and conductor ·
David Leisner, American guitarist and
composer ·
BernNadette Stanis, American
actress ·
December 24 – John Breck,
Scottish actor (d. 1984) ·
Leonel Fernández, President
of the Dominican Republic ·
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Estonian politician, 4th President of Estonia ·
December 28 – Tatsumi Fujinami, Japanese professional
wrestler ·
Thomas Bach, 9th President of the International Olympic Committee ·
Stanley Williams, American gang member
(d. 2005) ·
Dana Key, American Christian musician,
guitarist and preacher (DeGarmo and Key) (d. 2010) ·
Meredith Vieira, American journalist and
game show host ·
December 31 – James Remar,
American actor Date unknown[edit] ·
Sheila Andrews, American surburbian
musician (d. 1984) ·
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall,
6th President of Mauritania (d. 2017) ·
Jacques Gounon,
French CEO, the Chairman of Eurotunnel ·
Peter Lord, British film producer and
director ·
Jing Jing Luo,
Chinese composer ·
Phil Ortiz, American animator Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
Maksim Purkayev,
Soviet general (b. 1894) ·
Hank Williams, American musician (b. 1923) ·
January 2 – Guccio Gucci,
founder of Gucci (b. 1881) ·
Arthur Hoyt, American actor (b. 1874) ·
Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, Japanese prince (b. 1902) ·
January 7 – Osa Johnson, American adventurer and
documentary filmmaker (b. 1894) ·
January 8 – Charles Edward
Merriam, American political scientist (b. 1874) ·
January 9 – Marguerite Pitre (aka Madame le Corbeau), Canadian murderer (b. 1909) ·
January 13 – Sir Edward Marsh,
English polymath and civil servant (b. 1872) ·
January 16 – Israel Goldstine,
New Zealand lawyer and politician (b. 1898) ·
January 21 – Mary Mannering, early 20th century English
stage actress (b. 1876) ·
January 28 – James Scullin, 9th Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1876) ·
January 29 – Sir Reginald Wingate, British army general
and colonial administrator (b. 1861) ·
January 30 – Lionel Belmore, English actor (b. 1867) February[edit] ·
February 1 – William Sydney
Marchant, British colonial official (b. 1894) ·
February 2 – Alan Curtis,
American actor (b. 1909) ·
February 5 – Iuliu Maniu,
32nd Prime Minister
of Romania (b. 1873) ·
February 9 – Cecil Hepworth, English director (b. 1874) ·
February 12 – Hal Colebatch, Australian politician
(b. 1872) ·
Nobutake Kondō,
Japanese admiral (b. 1886) ·
Richard Rushall, British businessman
(b. 1864) ·
February 20 – Francesco Saverio Nitti, Italian economist and political
figure, 24th Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1868) ·
February 21 – Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen,
Bavarian general (b. 1862) ·
February 23 – Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell,
British colonial administrator (b. 1874) ·
February 24 – Gerd von Rundstedt,
German field marshal (b. 1875) ·
February 25 – Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856) ·
February 27 – Paul Hurst,
American actor (b. 1888) March[edit] ·
March 2 – James Lightbody,
American middle distance runner (b. 1882) ·
March 3 – James J. Jeffries,
American boxing champion (b. 1875) ·
March 5 ·
Herman J. Mankiewicz,
American writer and producer (b. 1897) ·
Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891) ·
Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (b. 1878) ·
March 7 – Edward Sedgwick, American director (b. 1892) ·
March 13 – Johan Laidoner,
Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army (b. 1884) ·
March 14 – Klement Gottwald,
5th President of
Czechoslovakia (b. 1896) ·
March 15 – Carl Stockdale, American actor (b. 1874) ·
March 20 – Graciliano Ramos,
Brazilian writer (b. 1892) ·
March 21 – Toni Wolff, Swiss psychoanalyst (b. 1888) ·
March 23 ·
Raoul Dufy, French painter (b. 1875) ·
Oskar Luts,
Estonian writer and playwright (b. 1887) ·
March 24 ·
Queen Mary, consort of George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867) ·
Paul Couturier, French priest (b. 1881) ·
March 28 – Jim Thorpe, Native-American athlete and a
member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1887) ·
March 31 – Ivan Lebedeff,
Russian actor (b. 1895) April[edit] King Carol II of Romania ·
April 2 ·
Jean Epstein, French film director (b. 1897) ·
Hugo Sperrle,
German field marshal (b. 1885) ·
April 4 – King Carol II of Romania (b. 1893) ·
April 9 ·
Eddie Cochems,
American father of the forward pass in football (b. 1877) ·
Hans Reichenbach, German philosopher
(b. 1891) ·
Stanisław
Wojciechowski, 2nd President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1869) ·
April 11 ·
Boris Kidrič,
1st Prime Minister of Slovenia (b. 1912) ·
Kid Nichols, American baseball player (Boston Braves)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1869) ·
April 20 – Erich Weinert, German writer, Communist, and member of the KPD (b. 1890) ·
April 27 – Maud Gonne, English-born Irish republican
revolutionary, memoirist; former wife of John MacBride (b. 1866) ·
April 29 – Kiki de Montparnasse, French artists' model
(b. 1901) May[edit] ·
May 1 – Everett Shinn, American painter (b. 1876) ·
May 8 – Anna Rüling,
German journalist, "the first known lesbian activist" (b. 1880) ·
May 16 ·
Nicolae Rădescu, Romanian military officer and
statesman, 45th Prime Minister
of Romania (b. 1874) ·
Django Reinhardt, Belgian jazz musician
(b. 1910) ·
May 19 – Dámaso Berenguer, Spanish soldier and
politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1873) ·
May 21 – Ernst Zermelo,
German logician and mathematician (b. 1871) ·
May 27 – Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (Cleveland Spiders)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1868) ·
May 29 – Man Mountain Dean,
American professional wrestler (b. 1891) ·
May 30 – Dooley Wilson, American actor (b. 1886) ·
May 31 – Vladimir Tatlin,
Soviet painter and architect (b. 1885) June[edit] ·
June 1 – Alex James,
Scottish football (soccer) player (b. 1901) ·
June 5 ·
William Farnum, American actor (b. 1876) ·
Bill Tilden, American tennis champion
(b. 1893) ·
Roland Young, English actor (b. 1887) ·
June 9 – Godfrey Tearle,
American actor (b. 1884) ·
June 15 – Henry Scattergood,
American cricketer (b. 1877) ·
June 18 – René Fonck, French
aviator, top Allied World War I Flying
Ace (b. 1894) ·
June 19 ·
Harold Cazneaux,
Australian photographer (b. 1878) ·
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg, American communist spies (b. 1918 and 1915,
respectively) (executed on same day) ·
Norman Ross, American Olympic swimmer
(b. 1896) ·
June 22 – Bill Lange,
American sports coach. (b. 1897) ·
June 23 – Albert Gleizes,
French artist and theoretician (b. 1881) ·
June 30 – Elsa Beskow,
Swedish author and illustrator of children's books (b. 1874) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Totius, Afrikaans poet. (b. 1877) ·
July 9 – Annie Kenney, British working-class
suffragette (b. 1879) ·
July 11 – Oliver Campbell, American tennis player
(b. 1871) ·
July 12 – Herbert Rawlinson,
English actor (b. 1885) ·
July 16 – Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer
and historian (b. 1870) ·
July 17 – Maude Adams, American actress (b. 1872) ·
July 20 – Dumarsais Estimé, 30th President of Haiti (b. 1900) ·
July 26 – Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician, former Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1883) ·
July 29 – Richard William Pearse, New Zealand airplane
pioneer (b. 1877) ·
July 31 – Robert A. Taft, American politician, United
States Senate Majority Leader (b. 1889) August[edit] ·
August 1 – Jānis Mendriks, Soviet Roman Catholic
priest (b. 1907) [importance?] ·
August 7 – Abner Powell, Major League
Baseball player (b. 1860) ·
August 11 – Tazio Nuvolari,
Italian racing driver (b. 1892) ·
August 15 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875) ·
August 22 – Jim Tabor, American baseball player
(b. 1916) ·
August 25 – Jessie Aspinall, Australian doctor, first
female junior medical resident at the Royal Prince
Alfred Hospital (b. 1880) ·
Gaetano Merola, Italian conductor (b. 1881) ·
Maurice Nicoll, British psychiatrist
(b. 1884) September[edit] ·
September 2 – General Jonathan
Wainwright, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883) ·
September 5 – Francis Ford,
American actor and director (b. 1881) ·
September 7 – Nobuyuki Abe, Japanese politician and
military leader, former Prime Minister (b. 1875) ·
September 8 – Fred M. Vinson, Chief
Justice of the United States (b. 1890) ·
Hugo Schmeisser,
German weapons designer (b. 1884) ·
Lewis Stone, American actor (b. 1879) ·
September 13 – Mary Brewster
Hazelton, American painter (b. 1868) ·
September 15 – Erich Mendelsohn, German architect (b. 1887) ·
September 17 – Wenxiu, consort of China's last
emperor Puyi (b. 1909) ·
September 24 – Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba,
Spanish aristocrat (born 1878) ·
September 26 – Xu Beihong,
Chinese painter (b. 1895) ·
September 27 – Hans Fritzsche,
senior Nazi official, one of only three acquitted at the Nuremberg trials (b. 1900) ·
September 28 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889) ·
Robert Mawdesley,
British actor (b. 1900) ·
Lewis Fry Richardson,
English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist
(b. 1881) October[edit] ·
October 3 – Arnold Bax,
English composer (b. 1887) ·
October 6 – Porter Hall, American actor (b. 1888) ·
Nigel Bruce, British character actor
(b. 1895) ·
Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto
(b. 1912) ·
October 11 – Pauline Robinson
Bush, younger sister of President George W. Bush (b. 1949) ·
October 12 – Hjalmar Hammarskjöld,
Swedish politician, 13th Prime Minister
of Sweden, leaders of World War I (b. 1862) ·
October 13 – Millard Mitchell, American actor (b. 1903) ·
October 14 – Arthur Wimperis,
English illustrator and playwright (b. 1874) ·
October 20 – Robert Brooke-Popham,
British air chief marshal (b. 1878) ·
October 25 – Holger
Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867) ·
October 27 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873) November[edit] ·
November 5 – Harry A. Marmer,
Ukrainian-born American mathematician and oceanographer (b. 1885) ·
Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1870) ·
John van Melle,
Dutch-born author (b. 1883) ·
Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and
activist (b. 1859) ·
King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1876) ·
Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author
(b. 1914) ·
November 18 – Ruth Crawford Seeger,
American composer (b. 1901) ·
November 21 – Larry Shields, American musician (b. 1893) ·
November 22 – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi,
Indian/Pakistani historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (b. 1884) ·
November 27 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1888) ·
November 28 – Rudolf Bauer,
German-born painter (b. 1889) ·
Ernest Barnes, English mathematician,
scientist and theologist (b. 1874) ·
Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (b. 1875) ·
Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator
and animator (b. 1895) ·
November 30 – Francis Picabia,
French painter and poet (b. 1879) December[edit] ·
December 5 – Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor
(b. 1911) ·
December 10 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali,
Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (b. 1872) ·
December 14 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American writer (b. 1896) ·
December 19 – Robert Andrews
Millikan, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1868) ·
December 21 – Nicholas H. Heck, American geophysicist,
oceanographer, and surveyor (b. 1882) ·
December 23 – Lavrentiy Beria, Minister
of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union (executed) (b. 1899) ·
William Haselden, English cartoonist (b.
1872) ·
Lee Shubert, Polish-born theater owner and
operator (b. 1871) ·
Şükrü Saracoğlu,
9th Prime Minister
of Turkey (b. 1887) ·
Julian Tuwim,
Polish poet (b. 1894) ·
December 31 – Albert Plesman,
Dutch aviation pioneer (b. 1889) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Frits (Frederik) Zernike ·
Chemistry – Hermann Staudinger ·
Medicine – Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann ·
Literature – Sir Winston Leonard
Spencer Churchill ·
Peace – George Catlett
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