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1954 (MCMLIV) was
a common year starting
on Friday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1954th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of
the 20th century,
and the 5th year of the 1950s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1954 ·
January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. ·
January 7 – Georgetown-IBM
experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system,
is held in New York at the head office of IBM. ·
January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet
plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue and crashes in the
Mediterranean near Elba. All 35 people on
board are killed. ·
January 12 – Avalanches in
Austria kill more than 200. ·
January 14 – Marilyn Monroe marries baseball player Joe DiMaggio at San Francisco
City Hall. ·
January
14 – The Hudson Motor Car
Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator
Corporation forming the American
Motors Corporation. ·
January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. ·
January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas,
one of the leading members of the League
of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. ·
January 20 – The US-based National Negro
Network is established with forty-six member radio stations. ·
January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus,
is launched in Groton, Connecticut,
by First
Lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower. ·
January 25 – The foreign ministers of
the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin
Conference. January 14: Marilyn weds DiMaggio. February[edit] Main article: February 1954 ·
February 3 – Elizabeth II becomes the first reigning
monarch to visit Australia. ·
February 10 – After authorizing $385
million over the $400 million already budgeted for military aid to
Vietnam, President
of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower warns
against his country's intervention in Vietnam. ·
February 19 – 1954 transfer of
Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer
the Crimean Oblast from
the Russian SFSR to
the Ukrainian SSR. ·
February 23 – The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, United States. ·
February 23 – The Patent for the
original Oscar Mayer hotdog
car (AKA Wienermobile) was published ·
February 25 – Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes
premier of Egypt. March[edit] Main article: March 1954 ·
March 1 ·
U.S.
officials announce that a hydrogen bomb test
(Castle Bravo) has been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. ·
U.S. Capitol shooting incident: Four Puerto
Rican nationalists open fire in the United
States House of Representatives chamber and wound five; they
are apprehended by security guards. ·
March 9 – American journalists Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly produce a
30-minute See It Nowdocumentary, entitled A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy. ·
March 12 – Finland and Germany
officially end their state of war. ·
March 13 – French troops begin the
battle against the Viet Minh in Dien Bien Phu. ·
March 19 – Joey Giardello knocks
out Willie Tory at Madison
Square Garden, in the first televised boxing prize fight to be shown in colour. ·
March 23 – In Vietnam, the Viet Minh capture the main airstrip
of Dien Bien Phu. The remaining French Army
units there are partially isolated. ·
March 25 ·
The 26th Academy Awards ceremony
is held. ·
The Soviet Union recognises
the sovereignty of East Germany. Soviet troops remain in the
country. ·
March 27 – The Castle Romeo nuclear test explosion is
executed. ·
March 28 ·
Puerto
Rico's first television station, WKAQ-TV, commences broadcasting. ·
Trial
of A. L. Zissu and
12 other Zionist leaders ends with harsh sentences in Communist Romania. ·
March 29 – A C-47 transport with
French nurse Geneviève de Galard on board is wrecked on the runway
at Dien Bien Phu. ·
March 30 – The first operational subway line in Canada opens in Toronto. April[edit] Main article: April 1954 ·
April
– Bill Haley
& His Comets record "Rock Around the
Clock", thus starting the rock and roll craze. ·
April 1 ·
The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorize
the founding of the United
States Air Force Academy in Colorado. ·
South Point
School (India) is founded and becomes the largest school in
the world by 1992. ·
April 3 – Vladimir
Petrov defects from
the Soviet Union and
asks for political asylum in
Australia. ·
April 4 – The legendary symphony conductor Arturo Toscanini experiences a lapse of
memory during a concert. At this concert's end, his retirement is announced,
and Toscanini never conducts in public again. ·
April 7 – Dwight D. Eisenhower gives
his "domino theory"
speech during a news conference. ·
April 8 – A Royal Canadian Air Force
Canadair Harvard collides
with a Trans-Canada Air
Lines Canadair North Star over
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people. ·
April 11 ·
This
day is denoted as the most boring day in the 20th century by True Knowledge, an answer engine developed
by William Tunstall-Pedoe. No significant
newsworthy events, births, or deaths are known to have happened on this day.[1] ·
In
a general election in Belgium the
dominant Christian Social Party won 95 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of
Representatives and 49 of the 106 seats in the Senate. The government led
by Jean Van Houtte lost their majority in parliament.
The two other main parties, the Socialist and Liberal Party, subsequently
formed a rare "purple" government with Achille Van Acker as
Prime Minister. ·
April 14 ·
Aneurin Bevan resigns from the British Labour Party's "Shadow Cabinet". ·
A
Soviet spy ring in Australia is unveiled. ·
April 16 – Vice President Richard Nixon announces that the United
States may be “putting our own boys in Indochina regardless of Allied
support”.[citation needed] ·
April 22 – Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings
investigating the United States Army for
being "soft" on Communism. ·
April 26 ·
An international
conference on Korea and Indo-China opens in Geneva. ·
Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is released in Japan. ·
April 28 – U.S. Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles accuses
Communist China of sending combat troops to Indo-China to train the Viet Minhguerrillas.[citation needed] May[edit] Main article: May 1954 ·
May 1 – The Unification Church is
founded in South Korea. ·
May 4 – General Alfredo Stroessner deposes Federico Chávez in
a coup d'état in Paraguay; from August 15 he will hold the office
of President until 1989. ·
May 6 – Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four minute mile,
in Oxford, England. ·
May 7 – Vietnam War (run-up): The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends
in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13). ·
May 8 – The Asian
Football Confederation (AFC) is formed in Manila, Philippines. ·
May 11 – U.S. Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles declares that Indochina is important but not essential to the
security of Southeast Asia, thus ending any prospect of American intervention
on the side of France. ·
May 14 ·
The Boeing 707 is released after about two
years of development. ·
The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural
Property in the Event of Armed Conflict was adopted in The Hague, Netherlands. ·
May 15 – The Latin Union (Unión Latina) is
created by the Convention of Madrid. Its member countries use the
five Romance languages:
Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. It will suspend
operations in 2012. ·
May 17 ·
Brown v.
Board of Education (347 US 483 1954): The U.S.
Supreme Court rules unanimously that segregated schools are
unconstitutional. ·
The Royal Commission on the Petrov Affair in Australia begins its
inquiry. ·
Adnan Menderes of the Democratic
Party forms the new (21st) government of Turkey. ·
May 20 – Chiang Kai-shek is reelected as
the president
of the Republic of China by the National
Assembly. ·
May 22 – The common Nordic Labour Market act is signed. ·
May 26 – A fire on board the U.S. Navy
aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Narragansett Bay, Massachusetts, kills 103 sailors. ·
May 29 ·
Australian
federal election, 1954: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is
re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the Labor Party led
by H.V. Evatt. The election came shortly after
the Petrov Affair,
which arguably helped the Government survived what was initially predicted to
be a defeat. ·
Creation
and first meeting of the Bilderberg Group. ·
Diane Leather becomes the first woman
to run a sub-five minute mile, in Birmingham, England.[2] June[edit] Main article: June 1954 ·
June 6 – The grand opening of the sculpture
of Yuriy Dolgorukiy took
place in Moscow. This statue is one of the main
monuments of Moscow. ·
June 7 – Early computer scientist Alan Turing commits suicide. ·
June 9 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army,
lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy, during hearings on
whether Communism has
infiltrated the Army, saying, "Have you, at long last, no decency?"[3] ·
June 11 Jimmy Raven Wolf ·
June 14 – The words "under
God" are added to the United States Pledge
of Allegiance. ·
June 15 – The UEFA (Union
of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland. ·
June 17 – A CIA-engineered
military coup occurs in Guatemala. ·
June 18 – Pierre Mendès France becomes prime minister of
France. ·
June 22 ·
Sarah Mae Flemming is expelled from a bus in South
Carolina for sitting in a white-only section. ·
Parker–Hulme murder case: 16-year old Pauline Parker and her friend
15-year-old Juliet Hulme bludgeon
Parker's mother to death using a brick at Victoria Parkin
New Zealand. ·
June 27 ·
Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz steps down in a CIA-sponsored military coup,
triggering a bloody civil war that continues for more than 35 years. ·
The
world's first atomic power station opens
at Obninsk, near
Moscow. July[edit] Main article: July 1954 ·
July 1 ·
The Common Nordic Labor
Market Act comes into effect. ·
The
United States officially begins using the international unit of the nautical
mile, equal to 6,076.11549 ft. or 1,852 meters. ·
July 4 ·
Food rationing
in Great Britain ends with the lifting of restrictions on
sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in World War II and nearly a decade after
the war's end. ·
“Miracle
of Bern”: West
Germany beats Hungary 3–2 to
win the 1954 FIFA World Cup. ·
July 10 – Peter Thomson becomes
the first Australian to win the British Open Golf
Championship. ·
July 15 ·
The
maiden flight of the Boeing 367-80 (or Dash 80), prototype
of the Boeing 707 series. ·
Juan Fangio,
the Argentine driver for German Grand Prix team Mercedes-Benz, makes a new fastest lap of
the Silverstone Circuit with
an average speed of 100.35 mph, the previous record being
100.16 mph. ·
July 19 – Release of Elvis Presley's first single, "That's All Right",
by Sun Records (recorded July 5 in Memphis, Tennessee). ·
July 21 – First Indochina War:
The Geneva
Conference sends French forces to the south, and Vietnamese
forces to the north, of a ceasefire line, and calls for elections to decide
the government for all of Vietnam by July
1956. Failure to abide by the terms of the agreement leads to the
establishment de facto of regimes of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, and the Vietnam War. ·
July 31 – Italian mountaineers Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni become the first successfully
to reach the summit of the Himalayan peak K2. August[edit] Main article: August 1954 ·
August 1 – The First Indochina War ends
with the Vietnam People's
Army in North Vietnam, the Vietnamese
National Army in South Vietnam, the Kingdom of
Cambodia in Cambodia, and the Kingdom of Laos in Laos,
emerging victorious against the French Army. ·
August 6 – Emilie Dionne, one of
the Dionne quintuplets,
dies of asphyxiation following an epileptic seizure.
She is the first of the five to perish, and three of them live into the 21st
century. ·
August 16 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine
is published in the United States. ·
August 23 – A United States Air
Force Lockheed C-130
Hercules flew its first flight at Burbank, California manufactured
by Lockheed Martin ·
August 24 – Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas commits suicide after
being accused of involvement in a conspiracy to murder his chief political
opponent, Carlos Lacerda. September[edit] Main article: September 1954 ·
September 3 – The last 'new' episode
of The Lone Ranger radio
program is broadcast, after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years. Reruns
of old episodes continue to be transmitted. ·
September 6 – The SEATO treaty is signed in Manila, Philippines. ·
September 8 – The Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established in Bangkok, Thailand. ·
September 9 – The 6.7 Mw Chlef earthquake shakes
northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of XI (Extreme). The shock destroyed Orléansville,
left 1,243–1,409 dead, and 5,000 injured. ·
September 11 – The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on
television for the first time. ·
The Soviet Union carries out the Totskoye nuclear exercise. ·
English
composer Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera version of The Turn of
the Screw receives its world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy. ·
September 15 – Black
Wednesday in air travel: severe delays to flights due to bad
weather along the East
Coast of the United States. ·
September 17 – William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies is
published in London. ·
September 25 – Footscray Football
Club win their first Australian
Football League Grand Final. ·
September 26 – The Japanese ferry Tōya Maru sinks
during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait. More than 1,100 people are
killed. Seven other ships are wrecked and
at least nine others seriously damaged. ·
September 30 – The USS Nautilus (SSN-571),
the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world, is commissioned
into the U.S. Navy. October[edit] Main article: October 1954 ·
Pre-Vietnam War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam. ·
Hurricane Hazel crosses over Haiti, killing 1,000. ·
October 15 – Hurricane Hazel makes U.S. landfall; it
is the only recorded Category 4
hurricane to strike as far north as North Carolina. ·
Texas Instruments announces
the development of the first commercial transistor radio. The Regency TR-1 goes on sale the following
month. ·
The comic strip Hi and Lois, by Mort Walker and Dik Browne, is launched. ·
October 20 – A dock workers' strike expands in England. ·
West
Germany joins NATO. ·
Paris
Agreement sets up the Western European
Union to implement the Treaty of Brussels (1948)
providing for mutual self-defence and other
collaboration between Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom. ·
October 25 – Landslides caused by heavy rains
hit Salerno, Italy, killing about 300. ·
October 26 – Muslim Brotherhood member
Mahmoud Abdul Latif tries to kill Gamal Abdel Nasser. ·
October 31 – Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian
National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French
rule. November[edit] Main article: November 1954 ·
November 1 – The FLN attacks
representative and public buildings of the French colonial power. ·
The
dock workers' strike in the UK comes to an end. ·
The
radio program Hancock's Half Hour,
a pioneer in situation comedy,
is first broadcast on BBC Radio. A
television version would follow in 1956. ·
November 3 – The first Godzilla film
premieres in Tokyo. ·
November 5 – Japan and Burma sign a peace treaty in Rangoon, to end their long-extinct state of
war. ·
November 10 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates
the USMC War Memorial (Iwo
Jima memorial) at the Arlington National Cemetery. ·
November 12 – The main immigration
port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes permanently. ·
November 13 – Great Britain defeats
France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of
around 30,000 spectators ·
November 14 – Egyptian president Muhammad Naguib is deposed, and Gamal Abdel Nasser replaces
him. ·
November 22 – The U.S.
Supreme Court decides the landmark case Berman v. Parker (348 U.S. 26),
upholding the federal slum clearance and urban renewal
programs. ·
November 23 – The Dow Jones
Industrial Average rises 3.27 points, or 0.86 percent,
closing at an all-time high of 382.74. More significantly, this is the first
time the Dow has surpassed its peak level reached just before the Wall Street
Crash of 1929. ·
November 30 – In Sylacauga, Alabama,
a four-kilogram piece of the Hodges Meteorite crashes
through the roof of a house and badly bruises a napping woman, in the first
documented case of an object from outer space hitting a person. December[edit] Main article: December 1954 ·
December 1 – The first Hyatt Hotel, The Hyatt House Los Angeles,
opens on the grounds of Los
Angeles International Airport. It is the first hotel in the world
built on an airport property. ·
Red Scare: The United States Senate votes
67–22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for
"conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and
disrepute." ·
The
Taiwan-United States Mutual Defense Treaty is signed.[4] ·
December 4 – The first Burger King opens in Miami, Florida. ·
December 15 – The Netherlands Antilles is
created out of the Dutch Caribbean nations. It is later dissolved
between 1986 and 2010. ·
December 23 – J. Hartwell Harrison,
and Joseph Murray perform
the world's first successful kidney transplant in Boston, Massachusetts. ·
December 24 – Laos gains
full independence from France. Date titles[edit] ·
New Zealand engineer Sir William
Hamilton develops the first pump-jet engine (the "Hamilton
Jet") capable of propelling a jetboat.[5] ·
The
first electric drip brew coffeemaker is patented in Germany and
named the Wigomat after its inventor Gottlob Widmann.[6] ·
The Boy Scouts of
America desegregates on the basis of race. ·
Gerbils
(Meriones unguiculatus) are brought to the
United States by Dr. Victor Schwentker. ·
The
case of Lothar Malskat,
who had admitted that he had painted the supposedly antique frescoes in Marienkirche himself,
goes to trial. ·
The TV dinner is introduced by the American
entrepreneur Gerry Thomas. ·
New York City Ballet founding
balletmaster George Balanchine's
production of The Nutcracker is
staged for the first time in New York City, and it became a tradition there,
still being performed annually as of 2010. ·
South
Korea opens the Gimpo International Airport. ·
In South Vietnam the Viet Minh is reorganised
into the Viet Cong. ·
After
the death of Joseph Stalin,
the Soviet Union starts
releasing political prisoners and deportees from its Gulag prison camps. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Thomas Aisu,
Ugandan physician and educator (d. 2018) ·
January 2 – Henry Bonilla, American politician ·
January 3 – Ross the Boss, American heavy metal/punk
guitarist ·
Tina Knowles, Fashion designer; mother of
R&B singers Beyoncé and Solange Knowles ·
Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott,
English professional poker player ·
January 5 – Alex English, American basketball player ·
January 6 – Anthony Minghella,
British film and theatre director (d. 2008) ·
Jodi Long, American actress ·
José María Vitier, Cuban music
composer and pianist ·
January 8 – Julieta Castellanos,
Honduran sociologist ·
January 12 – Howard Stern, American radio host ·
January 13 – Trevor Rabin, South African–American
musician ·
Tom Cheney,
American cartoonist ·
Masanobu Fuchi,
Japanese professional wrestler ·
January 15 – Jose Dalisay, Jr., Filipino writer ·
January 17 – Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr., American socialite and environmental activist ·
Ted DiBiase,
American professional wrestler ·
Katey Sagal, American
actress and singer ·
Katharina Thalbach, German actress ·
January 21 – Thomas de Maizière,
German politician ·
Paul O'Brien,
British chemist (d. 2018) ·
Peter Pilz,
Austrian politician ·
Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and
songwriter ·
Greg Guidry, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2003) ·
Edward Ka-Spel,
British/Dutch singer-songwriter (The Legendary
Pink Dots) ·
Peter Lampe, German theologian and historian ·
Bruno Metsu,
French football coach (d. 2013) ·
Kaneto Shiozawa,
Japanese voice actor (d. 2000) ·
Willy Telavi, 11th Prime Minister of Tuvalu ·
Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese cartoonist ·
Terry Kinney, American actor ·
Oprah Winfrey, American actress, talk show
hostess, producer, and publisher February[edit] ·
February 1 – Bill Mumy,
American actor and musician ·
February 2 – Christie Brinkley,
American model ·
February 4 – Andrei Karlov,
Russian diplomat (d. 2016) ·
February 7 – Dieter Bohlen, German music producer and
singer-songwriter (Modern Talking, Blue System) ·
Chris Gardner, American entrepreneur ·
Gina Rinehart, Australian mining tycoon. ·
Kevin Warwick, English cybernetic scientist ·
February 11 – Noriyuki Asakura,
Japanese composer ·
Philip Zimmermann,
American cryptographer ·
Joseph Jordania,
Georgian-Australian musicologist and academic ·
Tzimis Panousis, Greek
comedian, singer, and author ·
February 13 – Donnie Moore, American baseball player
(d. 1989) ·
February 15 – Matt Groening, American cartoonist ·
February 16 – Iain Banks, Scottish author (d. 2013) ·
Rene Russo, American actress and fashion
model ·
Yuji Takada,
Japanese free-style wrestler ·
Brian Houston,
Australian-New Zealand pastor and author, founder of Hillsong Church ·
John Travolta, American actor ·
Jalaluddin Hassan, Malaysian actor ·
Messaouda Boubaker,
Tunisian writer ·
Sócrates,
Brazilian footballer (d. 2011) ·
Anthony Head, English actor and musician ·
Patty Hearst, American heiress and
kidnapping victim ·
February 23 – Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine ·
February 24 – Sid Meier, Canadian programmer and game
designer, notable for the Civilization series ·
February 25 – Gerardo Pelusso,
Uruguayan football manager ·
February 26 – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 12th President of Turkey March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Peter Spellos,
American actor and voice actor ·
Catherine Bach, American actress ·
Ron Howard, American actor, director,
producer (The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days) ·
March 2 ·
Ed Johnstone, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Gara Takashima, Japanese voice actress ·
March 4 ·
François Fillon, Prime Minister
of France ·
Catherine O'Hara,
Canadian actress (SCTV) ·
Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer ·
Willie Thorne, English snooker player ·
March 5 – João Lourenço, President of Angola ·
March 6 – Harald Schumacher,
German football goalkeeper ·
March 8 ·
Marie-Theres Nadig, Swiss
alpine skier ·
David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer ·
March 9 ·
Bobby Sands, Irish republican hunger striker
(d. 1981) ·
Kevin Wade, American screenwriter and
television producer ·
March 11 – Nicolae Manea,
Romanian football player and manager (d. 2014) ·
March 13 – The Baroness
Amos, British politician ·
March 15 ·
Massimo Bubola,
Italian singer-songwriter ·
Craig Wasson, American actor ·
March 16 ·
S.A. Griffin, American actor and poet ·
Nancy Wilson,
American rock musician ·
Jimmy Nail, English singer-songwriter,
actor, film producer, and television writer ·
March 17 – Lesley-Anne Down, British actress ·
March 18 – James F. Reilly, American astronaut ·
March 19 – Indu Shahani,
Indian educator and Sheriff of Mumbai ·
March 20 – Louis Sachar, American author ·
March 23 ·
Geno Auriemma, American basketball coach ·
Hideyuki Hori, Japanese voice actor ·
March 24 ·
Robert Carradine, American actor ·
Donna Pescow,
American actress and director ·
March 26 ·
Wendy Fulton, American actress ·
Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese voice actor ·
Clive Palmer, Australian mining tycoon ·
March 29 – Karen Ann Quinlan,
American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Dieter Müller, German soccer player ·
April 2 – Susumu Hirasawa, Japanese musician ·
April 5 – Guy Bertrand,
Canadian linguist and radio/television personality ·
April 6 ·
Judi Bowker, English actress ·
Michael Simms
(publisher), American poet and publisher; founded Autumn House Press ·
April 7 ·
Jackie Chan, Hong Kong-born actor and
martial artist ·
Tony Dorsett, American football player ·
April 8 – Gary Carter, American baseball player
(d. 2012) ·
April 9 ·
Steve Holt,
Canadian musician ·
Dennis Quaid, American actor ·
April 10 ·
Anacani,
Mexican-born American singer ·
Angelika Hellmann,
East German artistic gymnast ·
April 14 – Bruce Sterling, American science fiction
writer ·
April 16 – Ellen Barkin,
American actress ·
April 17 ·
Norio Imamura, Japanese voice actor ·
Roddy Piper, Canadian wrestler (d. 2015) ·
April 22 – Jōji Nakata,
Japanese voice actor ·
April 23 ·
Peter Nyombi,
Ugandan lawyer and politician (d. 2018) ·
Michael Moore, American filmmaker/political
activist ·
April 25 ·
Sudirman Arshad, Malaysian singer and
songwriter (d. 1992) ·
Randy Cross, American football player and
broadcaster ·
April 27 – Herman Edwards, American football head coach ·
April 28 ·
Michael Daugherty,
American composer ·
Vic Sotto, Filipino actor and host ·
April 29 ·
Jake Burton
Carpenter, American founder of Burton Snowboards ·
Kazuko Kurosawa, Japanese costume designer ·
Jerry Seinfeld, American actor, comedian and
producer May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Archie Norman,
British politician and businessman ·
Ray Parker, Jr., American musician and
composer ·
Maatia Toafa, 2-Time
Prime Minister of Tuvalu ·
Garry Who, Australian actor and comedian ·
Alan Poul,
American film and television producer and director ·
May 2 – Elliot Goldenthal,
American composer ·
May 5 – David Azulai,
Israeli politician (d. 2018) ·
May 6 – Angela Hernández Nuñez, Dominican writer ·
May 7 ·
Philippe Geluck,
Belgian cartoonist ·
Amy Heckerling, American film director ·
May 8 ·
Pam Arciero, Sesame Street puppeteer ·
John Michael Talbot,
American Christian musician ·
Gary Wilmot, British entertainer ·
David Keith, American actor and director ·
May 13 – Johnny Logan,
Australian-born Irish singer and composer, Eurovision Song
Contest 1980, 1987 winner dubbed as "Mister
Eurovision" ·
May 14 – María Dolores Katarain ("Yoyes"),
Spanish Basque separatist leader (d. 1986) ·
May 19 ·
Hōchū
Ōtsuka, Japanese voice actor ·
Phil Rudd, Australian rock drummer (AC/DC) ·
May 20 – David Paterson, American politician,
Governor of New York ·
May 22 – Shuji Nakamura, Japanese electronics
engineer ·
May 25 ·
Tantely Andrianarivo,
11th Prime Minister of Madagascar ·
Sudirman Arshad, Malaysian singer and
songwriter (d. 1992) ·
May 26 – Danny Rolling, American murderer (d. 2006) ·
May 27 ·
Pauline Hanson, Australian politician ·
Lawrence M. Krauss,
American theoretical physicist and science writer ·
May 28 ·
Townsend Coleman, American voice actor ·
Andy Hamilton, British comedian, director
and screenwriter ·
John Tory, Canadian politician June[edit] ·
June 2 – Chiyoko Kawashima, Retired Japanese voice
actress ·
June 4 – Kazuhiro Yamaji,
Japanese actor and voice actor ·
June 5 – Nancy Stafford, American actress and
Christian author ·
June 6 – Harvey Fierstein, American actor ·
June 9 ·
John Hagelin,
American physicist and U.S. Presidential candidate ·
Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of
Canada ·
June 10 – Kurt Walker,
American ice hockey player (d. 2018) ·
June 14 – Will Patton, American actor ·
June 15 ·
Jim Belushi, American actor (Saturday Night Live) ·
Bob McDonnell, American politician ·
June 16 – Sergey Kuryokhin,
Russian pianist, composer, improvisor, performance artist and actor (d. 1996) ·
June 19 ·
Ted Coombs, American artist ·
Kathleen Turner, American actress ·
June 20 ·
Michael
Anthony, American rock bassist (Van Halen) ·
Karlheinz Brandenburg, German electrical engineer and
mathematician ·
Ilan Ramon, Israeli Air Force fighter
pilot and Israel's first astronaut (d. 2003) ·
June 21 ·
Mark Kimmitt, U.S general ·
Chip Ingram, Christian pastor, author, and
orator ·
Jim Tooey,
American actor ·
Anne Kirkbride, British actress (Coronation Street)
(d. 2015) ·
June 22 ·
Chris Lemmon, American actor and author ·
Freddie Prinze,
American actor and comedian (d. 1977) ·
June 23 ·
James Plaskitt,
British politician ·
Francisco Javier Cuadra, Chilean lawyer, academic, and
politician ·
June 24 – Chang San-cheng,
Taiwanese politician ·
June 25 ·
Luiz Carlos
Vasconcelos, Brazilian actor ·
Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States ·
Igor Lisovsky,
Soviet pair skater ·
Abderrazak Kilani, Tunisian
politician and lawyer ·
June 26 – Steve Barton, American actorTunisian
politician and lawyer (d. 2001) ·
June 27 ·
Ron Kirk, Mayor of Dallas, Texas ·
Anita Zagaria,
Italian actress ·
June 28 ·
Daniel Dantas, Brazilian actor ·
Ava Barber, American country singer (The Lawrence Welk
Show) ·
Alice Krige, South African actress and
producer ·
June 29 ·
Jai Jagadish, Indian film actor, director
and producer ·
Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player and
coach ·
June 30 ·
Serzh Sargsyan, President of Armenia ·
Stephen Ouimette,
Canadian actor and director ·
Mohammad A. Quayum, Bangladeshi academic, writer, editor,
critic and translator ·
Wayne Swan, Australian politician ·
Pierre Charles, Prime Minister
of Dominica (d. 2004) July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Sharif Hassan
Sheikh Aden, Somali politician ·
Pedro Guastavino,
Argentine politician ·
Lawrence Gonzi,
Maltese politician and lawyer ·
July 2 ·
Ludmila Aslanian,
Armenian chess player ·
Peter Randall-Page,
British artist ·
Wendy Schaal,
American actress ·
July 3 – Pennie Lane Trumbull,
American socialite, philanthropist, businesswoman, and entrepreneur ·
July 4 – Anne Lambton, British actress ·
July 5 ·
Don Stark, American actor ·
John Wright,
New Zealand cricket captain ·
July 6 – Willie Randolph, American baseball player,
coach, manager ·
July 7 ·
Robert M. Price, American theologian and
writer, Cthulhu Mythos scholar
and editor ·
Simon Anderson, Australian competitive
surfer, surfboard shaper, and writer ·
Ursula Stephens, Australian politician ·
July 8 ·
David Aaronovitch, English journalist, television
presenter and author ·
Matthew Marsh,
English actor ·
July 9 – Kevin O'Leary, Canadian businessman,
television personality, and political candidate ·
July 10 ·
Andre Dawson, American baseball player ·
Michele Serra, Italian writer, journalist
and satirist ·
Neil Tennant, British singer-songwriter,
musician and journalist (Pet Shop Boys) ·
Yō Yoshimura, Japanese voice actor (d. 1991) ·
July 11 – Alejandro Camacho,
Mexican actor and producer ·
July 12 ·
Eric Adams,
American singer ·
Lisa Pelikan,
American actress ·
Paulo Saldiva,
Brazilian professor, physician, pathologist and medical researcher ·
July 13 – Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer ·
July 14 – David Cooperrider, Czech ice dancer ·
July 15 ·
Tarak Dhiab, Tunisian
footballer ·
Mario Kempes,
Argentine footballer ·
Jeff Jarvis, American journalist, professor,
public speaker and television critic ·
July 16 ·
Nicholas Frankau,
English actor ·
Jeanette Mott Oxford,
American politician ·
July 17 ·
Angela Merkel, 8th Chancellor of Germany ·
Richard Bekins,
American actor ·
Edward Natapei,
Vanuatu politician and Prime Minister
of Vanuatu (d. 2015) ·
Eduardo Romero, Argentine golfer ·
J. Michael Straczynski, American author ·
July 18 – Franziska Troegner, German actress ·
July 19 – Verica Kalanović, Serbian politician ·
July 20 ·
Lo Ta-yu,
Taiwanese singer and songwriter ·
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc,
Vietnamese politician; Prime Minister
of Vietnam ·
Wilson Casey, American syndicated columnist
and entertainer ·
July 21 – Otto Jespersen,
Norwegian comedian, actor and television personality ·
July 22 – Pierre Lebeau,
Canadian actor ·
July 24 ·
Michael H. O'Brien,
American politician (d. 2018) ·
Jorge Jesus, Portuguese football player and
coach ·
July 25 – Walter Payton, African-American football
player (d. 1999) ·
July 26 ·
Vitas Gerulaitis,
American tennis player (d. 1994) ·
Leonardo Daniel, Mexican actor and director ·
July 27 ·
Philippe Alliot,
French race car driver ·
Lynne Frederick, British actress (d. 1994) ·
July 28 – Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (d. 2013) ·
July 29 – Mark Gersmehl, American
Christian musician August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Philip Trenary,
American businessman (d. 2018) ·
Michael Badnarik,
American software engineer and presidential candidate ·
James Gleick,
American nonfiction author of several award-winning books. ·
Junpei Morita, Japanese actor and voice actor ·
August 2 – David Tang, Hong Kong-British entrepreneur
and philanthropist (d. 2017) ·
August 4 ·
Dorottya Udvaros,
Hungarian actress ·
François Valéry,
French singer-songwriter and composer ·
Uwe Wittwer, Swiss
artist ·
August 9 – Pete Thomas,
British drummer for the Elvis Costello band ·
August 11 – Joe Jackson,
British jazz musician (Steppin' Out) ·
François Hollande, President of France 2012–17 ·
Sam J. Jones, American actor ·
Pat Metheny, American jazz guitarist ·
Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass guitar player (d. 2001) ·
Tõnu Kilgas, Estonian
singer and actor ·
Mark Fidrych,
American baseball player (d. 2009) ·
Stanley A.
McChrystal, U.S. Army general ·
August 16 – James Cameron, Canadian-born film director ·
Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Russian-Irish writer ·
Andrés Pastrana
Arango, President of
Colombia ·
Tawn Mastrey, American
disc jockey and music video producer (d. 2007) ·
Al Roker, American television personality
and host ·
Richarda Schmeisser, East
German artistic gymnast ·
Steve Smith,
American drummer ·
Ivan Stang,
American author and publisher ·
August 22 – Jay Patterson, American actor ·
Ian Bartholomew, English actor ·
Charles Busch, American director, writer and
actor ·
Halimah Yacob, 8th
President of Singapore ·
Joe Ochman,
American actor and voice actor ·
Philippe Cataldo,
French singer ·
Bruno Manser,
Swiss environmental activist (d. 2005) ·
Elvis Costello, English singer-songwriter ·
August 29 – István Cserháti, Hungarian keyboardist
(d. 2005) ·
August 30 – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus ·
Robert Kocharyan, President of Armenia ·
Caroline Cossey,
British model September[edit] ·
September 1 – Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Vance DeGeneres, American actor ·
Andrej Babiš,
Czech entrepreuner and politician, 12th Prime
Minister of the Czech Republic ·
Gai Waterhouse, Australian racehorse trainer ·
September 6 – Carly Fiorina, American businesswoman, CEO
of HP (1999-2005)
and Senator Ted Cruz's running
mate in the 2016
presidential election ·
Francisco Guterres,
4th President of East Timor ·
Michael Emerson, American actor ·
September 9 – ·
Mohsen Rezaee,
Iranian politician ·
September 10 – Mark W. Everson, American businessman; 46th
Commissioner of the Internal Revenue
Service (2003–07) ·
September 13 – Steve Kilbey,
Australian musician ·
September 15 – Nava Semel,
Israeli author and playwright (d. 2017) ·
Wayne Krenchicki,
American baseball player (d. 2018) ·
Joël-François Durand,
French composer ·
September 18 – Dennis Johnson, American basketball player
(d. 2007) ·
Shinzō Abe, current Prime Minister of
Japan ·
Thomas S. Ray, American ecologist ·
Phil
"Philthy Animal" Taylor,
English drummer (Motörhead and Waysted) ·
September 23 – Cherie Blair, wife of British Prime
Minister Tony Blair ·
September 24 – Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla (d. 1983) ·
September 26 – Kevin Kennedy,
American baseball manager and television host ·
September 28 – Steve Largent, American football player and
congressman ·
September 29 – Cindy Morgan, American actress ·
September 30 – Barry Williams,
American actor October[edit] ·
October 1 – Martin Strel,
Slovenian swimmer ·
Eddie DeGarmo, American Christian
keyboardist and producer ·
Dennis Eckersley, American baseball player ·
Al Sharpton, African-American political
activist ·
Stevie Ray Vaughan,
American musician (d. 1990) ·
Gurudas Kamat, Indian
politician (d. 2018) ·
Wayne Watson, American Christian musician ·
October 6 – Howard Hoffman, American voice actor ·
October 7 – Robert A. Schuller,
American televangelist and the son of Robert H. Schuller ·
Scott Bakula,
American actor (Quantum Leap, Star Trek:
Enterprise) ·
John O'Hurley, American
actor and game show host ·
Mohamed Mounir, Egyptian singer and actor ·
David Lee Roth, American rock singer ·
October 12 – Linval Thompson, Jamaican singer and
producer ·
October 13 – Mordechai Vanunu, a former Israeli nuclear
technician who revealed secrets of its nuclear weapons program ·
October 14 – Mohamad Sabu, Malaysian politician ·
Peter Bakowski,
Australian poet ·
Michael Garner, English actor ·
October 18 – Yūji Mitsuya,
Japanese voice actor ·
Ronnie Leitch, Sri Lankan singer and actor
(d. 2018) ·
Ken Stott, Scottish actor ·
October 22 – Ellen Gerstell,
American voice actress ·
October 23 – Ang Lee, Taiwanese film director ·
Doug Davidson, American actor ·
Mike Rounds, South Dakota politician ·
Malcolm Turnbull, 28th Prime
Minister of Australia ·
Carlos
Agostinho do Rosário, Mozambican
politician ·
Victor Ciorbea,
56th Prime Minister of Romania ·
Kathleen Cody,
American actress ·
Mario Testino,
Peruvian photographer November[edit] ·
November 2 – Angela Webber, Australian author, television
writer, producer and comedian (d. 2007) ·
Adam Ant, British rock singer and musician ·
Brigitte Lin, Taiwanese actress ·
Kathy Kinney, American actress and comedian ·
November 5 – Mike Gabriel, American animator and film
producer ·
November 6 – Karin Fossum,
Norwegian crime fiction writer ·
Robin Beck, American singer ·
Kamal Haasan,
Indian actor ·
Jon Taffer,
American bar consultant, television host and author ·
Michael D. Brown, first Undersecretary of
Emergency Preparedness and Response, a division of the United States'
Department of Homeland Security ·
Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born British
author, Nobel Prize laureate ·
November 12 – Rhonda Shear, American television hostess,
actress and comedian ·
November 13 – Chris Noth,
American actor ·
Yanni, Greek musician ·
Willie Hernández,
Puerto Rican Major League
Baseball player ·
Bernard Hinault,
French road bicycle racer ·
Condoleezza Rice, United
States Secretary of State ·
Stephen W. Burns, American actor (d. 1990) ·
Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland ·
November 16 – Bruce Edwards,
American golf caddy (d. 2004) ·
Kathleen Quinlan, American actress ·
Bin Shimada, Japanese voice actor ·
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President of Egypt ·
November 22 – Paolo Gentiloni, Prime Minister of
Italy ·
Elizabeth Savalla, Brazilian actress ·
Bruce Hornsby, American rock singer ·
Roz Chast,
American cartoonist ·
Dan Kwong, American
performance artist and playwright ·
Patricia McPherson,
American actress ·
Kimmy Robertson, American actress ·
November 28 – Marty Grabstein,
American actor and voice actor ·
November 29 – Joel Coen, American film director, producer,
screenwriter and editor December[edit] ·
December 1 – Bob Goen, American
television personality and game show host ·
Dan Butler, American actor ·
Stone Phillips, American television
journalist ·
December 3 – Grace Andreacchi,
American author ·
December 4 – Tony Todd, American actor and producer ·
December 6 – Beat Furrer,
Swiss-born Austrian composer and conductor ·
December 7 – Mark Hofmann, American forger and murderer ·
December 10 – Jack Hues, English singer and musician (Wang Chung) ·
Sylvester Clarke, West Indian cricketer
(d. 1999) ·
Jermaine Jackson, African-American singer ·
Prachanda, Nepalese Communist leader ·
December 13 – John Anderson,
American country music singer-songwriter ·
Ib Andersen, Danish dancer ·
Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver
(d. 1993) ·
December 15 – Mark Warner, American politician ·
Ray Liotta, American actor ·
Uli Jon Roth, German rock guitarist (Scorpions) ·
Binali Yildirim, Prime Minister
of Turkey ·
Sandra Cisneros, American writer ·
December 21 – Chris Evert, American tennis player ·
December 24 – José María Figueres,
Costa Rican politician, President 1994–1998 ·
Roman Baskin, Estonian actor and director of
stage and screen (d. 2018) ·
Annie Lennox, British rock musician and was
lead singer of Eurythmics ·
Susan Butcher, American dog-sled racer
(d. 2006) ·
Ozzie Smith, HOF baseball shortstop ·
Lanny Poffo,
American professional wrestler ·
Denzel Washington,
African-American actor ·
Wang Huanyu,
Chinese astrophysicist (d. 2018) ·
Albrecht Böttcher, German mathematician ·
Roger Voudouris,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003) ·
December 31 – Alex Salmond, Scottish politician Date unknown[edit] ·
Walter
"Junie" Morrison, American musician and record producer
(Ohio Players) (d. 2017) Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (Boston Braves)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891) ·
Lillian Rich, English actress (b. 1900) ·
January 8 – Eduard Wiiralt,
Estonian artist (b. 1898) ·
January 11 – Oscar Straus,
Austrian composer (b. 1870) ·
William H. P. Blandy,
American admiral (b. 1890) ·
Elmer H. Geran,
American politician (b. 1875) ·
January 18 – Sydney Greenstreet,
English actor (b. 1879) ·
January 20 – Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890) ·
John Murray Anderson,
Canadian theater director and producer (b. 1886) ·
Dorothy Price, Irish physician (b. 1890) ·
Edwin Armstrong,
American electrical engineer (b. 1890) ·
Florence Bates, American actress (b. 1888) February[edit] ·
February 6 – Maxwell Bodenheim,
American poet and novelist (murdered) (b. 1892) ·
February 8 – Laurence Trimble, American actor (b. 1885) ·
February 9 – Mabel Paige, American actress (b. 1880) ·
February 11 – Thomas Pierrepoint,
British executioner (b. 1870) ·
February 12 – Dziga Vertov,
Russian filmmaker (b. 1896) ·
February 19 – Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, 24th Prime Minister
of Sweden (b. 1883) ·
February 21 – William K. Howard,
American film director (b. 1899) March[edit] ·
March 7 ·
Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1876) ·
Will H. Hays, Namesake for the Hays Code (b. 1879) ·
March 9 – Vagn Walfrid Ekman,
Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874) ·
March 13 – Cesar Klein, German painter (b. 1876) ·
March 24 – Thành Thái,
former Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1879) ·
March 26 – Louis Silvers, American film composer
(b. 1889) ·
March 30 ·
Horatio Dresser, American writer (b. 1866) ·
Fritz London, German physicist (b. 1900) April[edit] ·
April 2 – Hoyt Vandenberg, U.S. Air Force
general (b. 1899) ·
April 8 – Fritzi Scheff,
actress & singer (b. 1879) ·
April 10 – Auguste Lumière,
French film pioneer (b. 1862) ·
April 12 – Luis Cabrera Lobato,
Mexican lawyer, politician and writer (b. 1876) ·
April 13 – Angus L. Macdonald, Nova Scotia Premier (b. 1890) ·
April 17 – Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian
communist activist and sociologist (b. 1900) ·
April 28 – Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient
of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879) ·
April 29 ·
Kathleen Clarice
Groom, British writer (b. 1872) ·
Joe May, Austrian-born director (b. 1880) May[edit] ·
May 1 – Tom Tyler, American actor (b. 1903) ·
May 3 – Józef Garbień, Polish footballer and physician
(b. 1896) ·
May 5 – Henri Laurens, French sculptor and
illustrator (b. 1885) ·
May 6 – B. C. Forbes, Scottish-born publisher (b. 1880) ·
May 14 – Heinz Guderian,
German World War II general
(b. 1888) ·
May 15 – William March, American writer and soldier
(b. 1893) ·
May 19 – Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874) ·
May 22 – Chief Bender, Native-American baseball
player (Philadelphia
Athletics) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1884) ·
May 25 – Robert Capa,
Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913) ·
May 26 – Omer Nishani,
former Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Assembly and head of State
of Albania (b. 1887) June[edit] ·
June 7 – Alan Turing, British mathematician,
cryptanalyst, and pioneer computer scientist (b. 1912) ·
June 9 – Alain LeRoy Locke,
American writer, philosopher and educator (b. 1885) ·
June 22 – Don Hollenbeck, American newscaster
(b. 1905) ·
June 24 – Thomas
Denman, 3rd Baron Denman, 5th Governor-General
of Australia (b. 1874) ·
June 27 – Alfredo Versoza,
Filipino Roman Catholic bishop and Servant of God (b. 1877) ·
June 30 – Andrass Samuelsen, 1st Prime Minister of
Faroe Islands (b. 1873) July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Thea von Harbou,
German actress (b. 1888) ·
Tomás Monje,
48th President of Bolivia (b. 1884) ·
July 3 – Reginald Marsh,
American painter (b. 1898) ·
July 6 ·
Gabriel Pascal, Hungarian-born film producer
and director (b. 1894) ·
Cornelia Sorabji,
Indian-born lawyer (b. 1866) ·
July 11 – Henry Valentine
Knaggs, English physician and author (b. 1859) ·
July 13 ·
Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907) ·
Irving Pichel,
American actor and director (b. 1891) ·
Grantland Rice, American sportswriter
(b. 1880) ·
July 14 ·
Jacinto Benavente, Spanish dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1866) ·
Jackie Saunders, American silent screen
actress (b. 1892) ·
July 16 – Herms Niel, German
composer (b. 1888) ·
July 17 – Machine Gun Kelly,
American gangster (b. 1895) ·
July 19 – Hannes Meyer, Swiss architect (b. 1889) ·
July 28 – Sōjin Kamiyama or "Sojin", Japanese film star during the American
silent film era (b. 1884) ·
July 29 – Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879) August[edit] ·
August 3 ·
Bess Streeter
Aldrich, American writer (b. 1881) ·
Colette, French novelist (b. 1873) ·
August 14 – Hugo Eckener,
President of the Zeppelin Dirigible Company (b. 1868) ·
August 19 – Alcide De Gasperi, Italian statesman and
Christian Democracy politician, 30th Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1881) ·
August 24 – Getúlio Vargas, 14th and 17th President of Brazil (suicide)
(b. 1882) ·
August 31 – Elsa Barker, American writer (b. 1869) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Bert Acosta, American aviator (b. 1895) ·
September 2 – Franz Leopold Neumann,
German- political activist and Marxist theorist (b. 1900) ·
September 3 – Eugene Pallette,
American actor (b. 1889) ·
September 5 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860) ·
September 6 – Edward C. Kalbfus, American admiral (b. 1877) ·
Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885) ·
Glenn Scobey Warner,
American college football coach (b. 1871) ·
September 8 – André Derain, French artist, painter and
sculptor (b. 1880) ·
September 21 – Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese pearl farm pioneer
(b. 1858) ·
September 24 – Edward Pilgrim, British homeowner (suicide)
(b. 1904) ·
September 25 – Eugenio d'Ors,
Spanish writer (b. 1881) ·
September 27 – Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (b. 1881) ·
September 28 – Bert Lytell, American
actor (b. 1885) October[edit] ·
October 1 – René Le Senne,
French philosopher and psychologist (b. 1882) ·
October 9 – Robert H. Jackson,
United States Supreme Court associate justice and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg
Trials (b. 1892) ·
October 12 – George Welch,
American aviator (b. 1918) ·
October 19 – Hugh Duffy, American baseball player (Boston Braves)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1866) ·
October 22 – Jibanananda Das,
Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in Bengali (b. 1899) ·
October 30 – Wilbur Shaw, American racing driver
(b. 1902) November[edit] ·
November 3 – Henri Matisse, French painter (b. 1869) ·
November 10 – Édouard Le Roy,
French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1870) ·
November 13 – Paul Ludwig
Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (b. 1881) ·
November 15 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878) ·
November 16 – Albert Francis
Blakeslee, American botanist (b. 1874) ·
November 17 – Yitzhak Lamdan,
Russian-born Israeli poet and columnist (b. 1899) ·
November 20 – Clyde Cessna, American aviator and aircraft
designer and manufacturer, founder of the Cessna Aircraft Corporation (b. 1879) ·
Roderick McMahon, American professional
boxing and wrestling promoter; founder of Capitol Wrestling Corporation (b. 1882) ·
Moroni Olsen, American actor (b. 1889) ·
Andrey Vyshinsky,
Russian jurist and diplomat, former Soviet
Foreign Minister (b. 1883) ·
November 28 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1901) ·
November 29 – Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892) ·
November 30 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Fred Rose,
American songwriter (b. 1898) ·
Claude Cahun,
French photographer and writer (b. 1894) ·
Gladys George, American actress (b. 1904) ·
December 20 – James Hilton,
English novelist (b. 1900) ·
December 23 – René Iché, French
sculptor (b. 1897) ·
December 27 – Adolph Otto Niedner, American cartridge designer (b. 1863) ·
Archduke Eugen
of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863) ·
Günther Quandt, German industrialist who founded an
industrial empire that today includes BMW and Altana (b. 1881) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Max Born, Walther Bothe ·
Medicine – John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick
Chapman Robbins ·
Literature – Ernest Hemingway ·
Peace –
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