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1955 (MCMLV) was
a common year starting
on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1955th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 955th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of
the 20th century,
and the 6th year of the 1950s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1955 January 7: Marian Anderson at the Met ·
January 2 – José Antonio
Remón Cantera, president of Panama, is assassinated at a race track
in Panama City. ·
January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes
president of Panama. ·
January 7 – Marian Anderson is the first African-American singer to perform at
the Metropolitan Opera in
New York City. ·
January 17 – USS Nautilus,
the first nuclear-powered submarine,
puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. ·
January 18–January 20 – Battle of
Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's
Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). ·
January 22 – In the United
States, The Pentagon announces
a plan to develop intercontinental
ballistic missiles(ICBMs) armed with nuclear weapons. ·
January 23 – Sutton
Coldfield rail crash kills 17 near Birmingham, England. ·
January 25 – Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the
war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. ·
January 28 – United States
Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to
use force to protect Formosafrom the People's
Republic of China. February[edit] Main article: February 1955 ·
February 4 – "Baghdad Pact": Military treaty signed
between Iraq and Turkey. ·
February 9 – Apartheid in South Africa: 60,000 non-white residents of
the Sophiatown suburb of
Johannesburg are forcibly evicted. ·
February 10 – The United States
Seventh Fleet helps the Republic of China evacuate Chinese Nationalist army
and residents from the Tachen Islands to Taiwan. ·
February 12 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends
the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam. ·
February 14 – WFLA-TV signs on the air in Tampa/St. Petersburg,
Florida. ·
February 16 – Nearly 100 die in a fire
at a home for the elderly in Yokohama, Japan. ·
February 19 – Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization,(SEATO) established at a meeting in Bangkok. ·
February 22 – In Chicago's Democratic
primary, Mayor Martin H. Kennelly loses
to the head of the Cook County Democratic Party, Richard J. Daley, 364,839 to 264,77. March[edit] Main article: March 1955 ·
March – A young Jim Henson builds the first version
of Kermit the Frog. ·
March 2 ·
Claudette Colvin, a fifteen-year-old African-American girl, refuses to give
up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama,
to a white woman after the driver demands it. She is carried off the bus
backwards while being kicked and handcuffed and harassed on the way to the
police station. She becomes a plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle (1956) which rules
bus segregation to be unconstitutional. ·
Serious
floods in Australia. ·
March 5 ·
WBBJ-TV signs on the air in the Jackson, Tennessee,
with WDXI as its initial call-letters, to expanded American commercial
television in mostly-rural areas. ·
Elvis Presley makes his television
debut on "Louisiana Hayride" carried by KSLA-TV Shreveport
(although audio recordings exists, there is no known video footage of this
appearance). ·
March 7 – The Broadway musical version
of Peter Pan,
which had opened in 1954 starring Mary Martin, is presented on television for
the first time by NBC-TV with its original cast, as an
installment of Producers' Showcase.
It is also the first time that a stage musical is presented in its entirety
on TV almost exactly as it was performed on stage. This program gains the
largest viewership of a TV special up to this time, and it becomes one of the
first great TV family musical classics. ·
March 17 – Richard Riot in Montreal: 6,000 people protest the suspension of French Canadian ice hockey star Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens by
the National Hockey
League following a violent incident during a match. ·
March 19 – KXTV signs
on the air in Sacramento,
California. ·
March 20 – The movie adaptation
of Evan Hunter's novel Blackboard Jungle premieres
in the United States, featuring the famous single "Rock Around the
Clock" by Bill Haley
& His Comets. Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the
song. April[edit] Main article: April 1955 ·
April 1 – EOKA A
starts a terrorist campaign against British rule in the Crown colony of Cyprus. ·
April 5 ·
Winston Churchill resigns
as Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom due to ill-health at the age
of 80. ·
Richard J. Daley defeats Robert Merrian
to become Mayor of Chicago by a vote of 708,222 to 581,555. ·
April 6 – Anthony Eden becomes Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom. ·
April 10 – In the NBA,
the Syracuse Nationals defeat
the Fort Wayne Pistons 92-91
in game seven to win the title. ·
April 11 ·
The Taiwanese Kuomintang put a time-bomb on the
airplane Kashmir Princess,
killing 16 but failing to assassinate the People's Republic of China
leader, Zhou Enlai. ·
Taekwondo, a famous form of Korean martial arts,
officially recognized as naming[clarification
needed] in
South Korea.[citation needed] ·
April 12 – The Salk polio vaccine,
having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full
approval by the Food and
Drug Administration. ·
April 14 – The Detroit Red Wings win
the Stanley Cup for
the 7th time in franchise history, but will not win again until 1997. ·
April 15 ·
Middle East Treaty Organization (METO).[citation needed] ·
Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's in Des Plaines,
Illinois. ·
April 16 – Burma-Japanese peace treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954,
comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries
that has not existed for a long time. ·
April 17 – Imre Nagy, the communist Premier of Hungary,
is ousted for being too moderate. ·
April 18–April 24 – Asian-African
Conference held in Bandung, Indonesia. May[edit] Main article: May 1955 ·
May 5 – West Germany becomes a
sovereign country recognized by important Western foreign countries, such as
France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. ·
May 6 – Western European
Union charter effective. ·
May 7 – Newcastle United win
the Football
League First Division title for the fourth time. As of 2018
they are yet to win it since. ·
May 9 – West Germany joins the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). ·
May 11 – Japanese
National Railways' ferry Shiun Maru sinks after collision with sister
ship Uko Maru in thick fog off Takamatsu, Shikoku,
in the Seto Inland Sea of
Japan; 166 passengers (many children) and two crew are killed. This event is
influential in plans to construct the Akashi
Kaikyō Bridge (built 1986-98). ·
May 12 – New York's Third Avenue
Elevated runs its last train between Chathem Square in
Manhattan and East 149th Street in the Bronx, thus ending elevated train
service in Manhattan. ·
May 14 – Eight Communist Bloc
countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty
in Warsaw, Poland, that is called the Warsaw Pact. It will be dissolved in 1991. ·
May 15 – Austrian State
Treaty, which restores Austria's national sovereignty, is
concluded between the four occupying powers following World War II (the
United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France) and Austria,
setting it up as a neutral country. ·
May 25 – Joe Brown and George Band are the first to attain the
summit of Kangchenjunga in
the Himalayas, as part of a British team led
by Charles Evans. June[edit] Main article: June 1955 ·
June 7 – The television quiz program The $64,000 Question premieres
on CBS-TV in the United States, with Hal March as the host. ·
June 11 – Le Mans disaster:
Eighty-three people are killed and at least 100 are injured after two race
cars collide in the 1955 24 Hours of
Le Mans. ·
June 13 – Mir mine, the first diamond mine in the Soviet Union, is discovered. ·
June 16 – Lady and the Tramp,
the Walt Disney company's
15th animated film, premieres in Chicago. ·
June 26 – Freedom Charter of the anti-apartheid South African Congress Alliance adopted
at a Congress of
the People in Kliptown. July[edit] Main article: July 1955 Hillevi Rombin, Miss Universe 1955 ·
July 7 – The New
Zealand Special Air Service is formed. ·
July 13 – Ruth Ellis is hanged for murder in London, becoming
the last woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom. ·
July 17 ·
The American
Broadcasting Company broadcasts a sneak preview of Disneyland in Anaheim, California. ·
Disneyland opens to the public in Anaheim, California. ·
July 18 ·
The
first nuclear-generated electrical power is sold commercially, partially
powering the town of Arco, Idaho. ·
Illinois
Governor William Stratton signs
the Loyalty
Oath Act, passed by the state legislature, which mandates all
public employees take a loyalty oath to Illinois and the United States, or
lose their jobs. ·
The
first Geneva Summit meeting between the United States, the Soviet Union, the
United Kingdom, and France begins. It ends on July 23. ·
July 22 – In Long Beach, U.S.A., Hillevi Rombin of Sweden was crowned Miss Universe. ·
July 27 – El Al Flight 402 from Vienna, Austria to Tel Aviv via Istanbul is shot down over Bulgaria. All 58 passengers and crewmen
aboard the Lockheed
Constellation are killed. ·
July 28 – The first Interlingua Congress in Tours, France, leading to foundation of
the Union
Mundial pro Interlingua. August[edit] Main article: August 1955 ·
August 1 – the Lockheed U-2 makes its first flight ·
The First Sudanese
Civil War begins. ·
First
meeting of the Organization
of Central American States (Organización de Estados
Centroamericanos, ODECA), in Antigua Guatemala. ·
August 19 – Hurricane Diane hits the northeastern
United States, killing over 200 people, and causing over $1.0 billion in
damage. ·
August 20 – Hundreds of people are
killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria. ·
August 22 – Eleven schoolchildren are
killed when their school bus is hit by a freight train in Spring City,
Tennessee. ·
August 25 – The last Soviet Army forces leave Austria. ·
August 26 – Release in India of Satyajit Ray's film Pather Panchali. ·
August 27 – First edition of the Guinness Book of
Records is published, in London. September[edit] Main article: September 1955 September 18: Britain annexes Rockall ·
September 2 – Under the guidance of
Dr. Humphry Osmond, Christopher Mayhew ingests
400 mg of mescaline hydrochloride and
allows himself to be filmed as part of a Panorama special
for BBC TV in the U.K. that is never broadcast. ·
September 6 – Istanbul pogrom: Istanbul's Greek minority is the target of a
government-sponsored pogrom. ·
September 10 – The long-running
program Gunsmoke debuts
on the CBS-TV network. ·
September 14 – Pope Pius XII elevates
many of the Apostolic vicariates in
Africa to Metropolitan
Archdioceses ·
September 15 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in Paris
by Olympia Press. ·
September 16 - The military coup to
unseat President Juan Perón of
Argentina is launched at midnight. ·
September 16 - A Soviet Navy Zulu-class
submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile. ·
September 18 – The United Kingdom
formally annexes the uninhabited island of Rockall. ·
September 19–21 – The President of
Argentina, Juan Perón, is ousted in a military coup. ·
September 19 – Hurricane Hilda kills
about 200 people in Mexico. ·
September 22 – Independent Commercial
Television (ITV) begins
broadcasting in the United Kingdom. ·
September 24 – Dwight D. Eisenhower,
President of the United States suffers a coronary thrombosis while
on vacation in Denver, Colorado.
Vice President Nixon serves
as Acting President while Eisenhower recovers. ·
September 30 – Actor James Dean is killed when his
automobile collides with another car at a highway junction near Cholame, California. October[edit] Main article: October 1955 ·
October 2 – Alfred
Hitchcock Presents debuts on the CBS TV
network in the United States. ·
October 3 – The Mickey Mouse
Club debuts on the ABC-TV network
in the United States. ·
October 4 – The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is released from prison
in Seoul, South Korea. ·
October 5 – Disneyland
Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California. ·
October 11 – 70-mm film for projection
is introduced with the theatrical release of Rodgers and Hammerstein's
musical film, Oklahoma!. ·
October 14 – Organization
of Central American States secretariat inaugurated. ·
October 20 – Disc jockey Bill Randle of WERE (Cleveland) is the key presenter of a concert
at Brooklyn High
School (Ohio), featuring Pat Boone and Bill Haley
& His Comets and opening with Elvis Presley, Elvis's first filmed
performance, for a documentary on Randle titled The Pied
Piper of Cleveland. ·
After
the last Allied troops
have left Austria and following the provisions of
the Austrian
Independence Treaty, the country declares its permanent neutrality. ·
Ngô Đěnh Diệm proclaims Vietnam to be a republic with himself
as its President (following the State
of Vietnam referendum on October 23) and forms the Army of
the Republic of Vietnam. ·
October 27 – Film Rebel Without a
Cause, starring James Dean, is released in the United
States. ·
October 29 – Soviet battleship Novorossiysk explodes
at moorings in Sevastopol Bay,
killing 608, the Soviet Union's
worst naval disaster. November[edit] Main article: November 1955 October 26: Austria free ·
The Vietnam War begins between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and Republic of Vietnam;
the north is allied with the Viet Cong. ·
A
time bomb explodes in the cargo hold of United
Airlines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B, over Longmont, Colorado,
killing all 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board. ·
November 3 – The Rimutaka Tunnel opens on the New
Zealand Railways, at 5.46 mi (8.79 km) the longest in
the Southern Hemisphere at
this time. ·
November 5 – Racial segregation is
outlawed on trains and buses in interstate commerce in
the United States. ·
November 19 – C. Northcote
Parkinson first propounds 'Parkinson's law', in The Economist. ·
November 20 – Bo Diddley makes his television debut
on Ed Sullivan's Toast
Of The Town show for the CBS-TV network. ·
November 23 – The Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean are
transferred from British to Australian control. ·
November 26 – The British Governor
of Cyprus declares a state of emergency on
the island. December[edit] Main article: December 1955 ·
December 1 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to obey bus driver
James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white
passenger and is arrested, leading to the Montgomery Bus
Boycott. December 14: Tappan Zee
Bridgeopens ·
December 4 – The International Federation of Blood Donor Organizations was
founded in Luxembourg. ·
The American
Federation of Labor and the Congress
of Industrial Organizations merge to become the AFL–CIO. ·
The Montgomery
Improvement Association is formed in Montgomery, Alabama,
by Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., and other Black ministers to coordinate a Black
people's boycott of all city buses. ·
December 9 – Adnan Menderes of DP forms
the new government of Turkey (22nd
government) ·
December 10 – Australian
federal election, 1955: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is
re-elected with a substantially increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led
by H.V. Evatt. This election came in the
immediate aftermath of the devastating split in
the Labor Party, which led to the formation of the Democratic
Labor Party. The DLP would preference against Labor and keep the
Coalition in office until 1972. ·
The Tappan Zee
Bridge over the Hudson River in New York State opens to traffic. ·
Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sri Lanka join the United Nations simultaneously, after
several years of moratorium on admitting new members that began during
the Korean War. ·
December 20 – Cardiff is declared by the British
Government as the capital of Wales. ·
December 22 – American
cytogeneticist Joe Hin Tjio discovers
the correct number of human chromosomes, forty-six. ·
December 31 – General Motors becomes the first
American corporation to make a profit of over one billion dollars in one
year. Date unknown[edit] ·
The Strömsund Bridge in Sweden is completed, being the first
significant cable-stayed bridge of
the modern era.[1] World population[edit] ·
World population: 2,755,823,000 ·
Africa:
246,746,000 ·
Asia:
1,541,947,000 ·
Europe:
575,184,000 ·
South
America: 190,797,000 ·
North
America: 186,884,000 ·
Oceania:
14,265,000 Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
Mario Andreacchio,
Australian film director ·
Mary Beard,
English classicist ·
Precious,
Canadian professional wrestling valet ·
Al Tantay, Filipino actor and director ·
Mulatu Teshome, Ethiopian politician and
8th President of
Ethiopia ·
January 2 – Vivien Savage, French singer ·
Mamata Banerjee, Indian politician, Chief
Minister of West Bengal ·
Adriana Ocampo, Colombian planetary geologist ·
January 6 – Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor ·
January 9 – J. K. Simmons, American actor ·
January 10 – Michael Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions, UFO, Michael Schenker
Group) ·
Ran Ito, Japanese actress ·
Paul
Kelly, Australian musician ·
Jay McInerney, American writer ·
January 14 – Kim Renders, Canadian writer, director,
actor and designer (d. 2018) ·
Andreas Gursky, German photographer ·
Mayumi Tanaka, Japanese voice actress ·
Steve Earle, American musician ·
Mami Koyama, Japanese voice actress ·
Kevin Costner, American actor, producer and
director ·
Frankie Knuckles, American disk jockey and
record producer (d. 2014) ·
January 19 – Sir Simon Rattle, English orchestral conductor ·
Joe Doherty, Provisional
Irish Republican Army member ·
Hiromi Ōta, Japanese singer ·
January 21 – Jeff Koons, American artist ·
Neil Bush, American businessman and investor ·
Keiko Takahashi, Japanese actress ·
January 23 – Ruth Haring, American chess player (d. 2018) ·
January 25 – Petra Gerster, German television presenter
and newscaster ·
Björn Andrésen,
Swedish actor ·
Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-born American rock
musician (Van Halen) ·
John Roberts, Chief
Justice of the United States ·
Alexander
Stuart, British-born author ·
Vinod Khosla, Indian-born American venture capitalist ·
Nicolas Sarkozy, 23rd President of France ·
George Tokoro, Japanese TV personality and
singer-songwriter ·
Eddie Jordan,
American basketball player and head coach ·
Femi Pedro, Deputy Governor of Lagos State,
Nigeria February[edit] ·
February 1 – Hans Werner Olm, German television and film
comedian ·
February 2 – Leszek Engelking, Polish poet, writer and
translator ·
February 3 – Kirsty Wark, Scottish television presenter ·
Michael Pollan, American journalist ·
Irinej
Dobrijević, American-born Serbian Bishop of Australia and New
Zealand ·
February 7 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor (d. 2017) ·
Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler
(d. 2018) ·
John Grisham, American novelist ·
Xu Bing, Chinese artist ·
Charles Shaughnessy,
English actor ·
Jim J. Bullock, American actor and comedian ·
Chris Adams,
English wrestler and judoka (d. 2001) ·
Pablo Borges Delgado,
Cuban artist ·
Greg Norman, Australian golfer ·
February 12 – Ai Satō, Japanese voice actress ·
February 13 – Akiko Yano, Japanese singer-songwriter ·
Janice Dickinson, American model,
photographer, author and talent agent ·
Christopher McDonald,
American actor ·
February 17 – Mo Yan, Chinese writer ·
February 19 – Jeff Daniels, American actor ·
February 21 – Kelsey Grammer, American actor and comedian ·
February 22 – David
Axelrod, American political analyst ·
Howard Jones,
English pop keyboardist and singer-songwriter ·
Flip Saunders, American basketball coach
(d. 2015) ·
Steve Jobs, American businessman and founder
of Apple Inc. (d. 2011) ·
Alain Prost, French four-time Formula 1 world champion ·
February 28 – Gilbert Gottfried,
American actor and comedian March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Sir Timothy Laurence, English admiral and second
husband of Anne, Princess Royal ·
Denis Mukwege, Congolese gynecologist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate ·
March 2 ·
Shoko Asahara, Japanese cult leader (Aum Shinrikyo) (d. 2018) ·
Jay Osmond, American pop singer ·
March 3 – Kent Derricott, Canadian TV personality in
Japan ·
March 4 – Dominique Pinon, French actor ·
March 5 ·
Julien Dray, French politician ·
Penn Jillette, American magician and
comedian (Penn & Teller) ·
March 6 ·
Wendy Boglioli, American swimmer ·
Jay Ilagan, Filipino actor (d. 1992) ·
Cyprien Ntaryamira,
Burundian politician, 5th President of Burundi (d. 1994) ·
Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (d. 2015) ·
March 7 ·
Michael Jan Friedman,
American novelist and comic book writer ·
Tommy Kramer, American football player ·
March 8 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 1981) ·
March 9 ·
Ornella Muti, Italian actress ·
Franco Uncini, Italian motorcycle racer ·
March 10 ·
Yousra, Egyptian actress and singer ·
Marianne Rosenberg,
German singer ·
March 11 – Nina Hagen, German pop singer ·
March 13 ·
Bruno Conti, Italian football player ·
Glenne Headly, American actress of film,
stage and television (d. 2017) ·
March 15 ·
Robert Kabbas, Egyptian-born Australian
weightlifter ·
Dee Snider, American rock singer (Twisted Sister) ·
March 16 ·
Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director ·
Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer ·
March 17 – Gary Sinise, American actor, producer and
director ·
March 18 ·
Carlos
Enrique Trinidad Gómez, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate
(d. 2018) ·
Guillermo Dávila,
Venezuelan actor and singer ·
Dwayne Murphy, American baseball player ·
March 19 ·
Pino Daniele, Italian music artist (d. 2015) ·
Bruce Willis, American actor ·
Simon Yam, Hong Kong actor ·
March 20 ·
Eric Schiller, American chess player and
author (d. 2018) ·
Mariya Takeuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter ·
March 21 ·
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian congressman and
politician ·
Philippe Troussier,
French football coach ·
March 22 ·
Lena Olin, Swedish actress ·
Pete Sessions, American politician ·
Valdis Zatlers, 7th President of Latvia ·
March 23 – Moses Malone, American basketball player
(d. 2015) ·
March 24 ·
Celâl Şengör,
Turkish geologist ·
Kim Johnston Ulrich,
American actress ·
March 26 – Danny Arndt, Canadian ice hockey player ·
March 27 – Mariano Rajoy, Prime Minister of
Spain ·
March 28 ·
John Alderdice, Irish politician ·
Reba McEntire, American country singer and
actress ·
March 29 ·
Earl Campbell, American football player ·
Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor ·
Christopher Lawford,
American author, actor and activist (d. 2018) ·
Marina Sirtis, English actress ·
March 30 – Marilou Diaz-Abaya,
Filipina film director (d. 2012) ·
March 31 – Angus Young, lead guitarist of Australian
rock group AC/DC April[edit] Princess Sirindhorn Henri,
Grand Duke of Luxembourg ·
April 2 – Sirindhorn, Princess Royal of Thailand ·
April 3 ·
Michael Burleigh, British historian ·
Mick Mars, American rock guitarist (Mötley Crüe) ·
April 5 ·
Janice Long, English radio disc jockey ·
Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist ·
April 6 – Michael Rooker, American actor ·
April 7 ·
Bruno Zaremba, French footballer (d. 2018) ·
Grace Hightower, American philanthropist,
actress and singer ·
Gregg Jarrett, American lawyer turned
journalist ·
Akira Nishino,
Japanese soccer player and manager ·
Werner Stocker,
German actor (d. 1993) ·
April 8 ·
Kane Hodder, American actor ·
Barbara Kingsolver,
American fiction writer ·
April 9 – Kate Heyhoe, American food writer ·
April 11 – Kevin Brady, American politician ·
April 13 ·
Steve Camp, American Christian musician ·
Hideki Saijo, Japanese singer and actor
(d. 2018) ·
April 15 – Dodi Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997) ·
April 16 ·
Henri,
Grand Duke of Luxembourg ·
DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American DJ ·
April 17 ·
Rob Bolland,
Dutch musician, songwriter and music producer (Bolland &
Bolland) ·
Pete Shelley, English singer-songwriter,
musician (Buzzcocks) (d. 2018) ·
Dave VanDam, American voice actor and
impressionist (d. 2018) ·
April 18 – Bobby Castillo, American baseball player
(d. 2014) ·
April 21 ·
Ebiet G. Ade, Indonesian singer and
songwriter ·
Toninho Cerezo, Brazilian footballer and
coach ·
April 23 ·
Judy Davis, Australian actress ·
Ludovikus
Simanullang, Indonesian Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2018) ·
Fumi Hirano, Japanese voice actress and
essayist ·
Tony Miles, English chess player (d. 2001) ·
April 24 ·
Margaret Moran, British politician and
criminal ·
John de Mol, Dutch media tycoon ·
April 25 ·
John Nunn, English chess player and mathematician ·
Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor ·
April 26 – Chen Daoming, Chinese actor ·
April 27 ·
James Risen, American Pulitzer Prize-winning
investigative reporter and author ·
Eric Schmidt, American software engineer and
businessman, CEO of Google (2001-2011) ·
April 28 – Eddie Jobson, English musician ·
April 29 ·
Richard Epcar, American voice actor ·
Kate Mulgrew, American actress ·
Yūko Tanaka, Japanese actress ·
April 30 – Zlatko
Topčić, Bosnian writer and screenwriter May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Ray Buttigieg, Maltese composer and poet ·
Nick Feldman, English musician (Wang Chung) ·
May 2 ·
Willie Miller, Scottish footballer ·
Donatella Versace,
Italian designer ·
Dave Winer, American software pioneer ·
May 3 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer (d. 2004) ·
May 4 ·
Avram Grant, Israeli football manager ·
Robert Ellis Orrall,
American singer ·
May 6 – Tom Bergeron, American television host ·
May 7 – Mayra Alejandra, Venezuelan actress
(d. 2014) ·
May 8 – Meles Zenawi, 10th Prime Minister
of Ethiopia and 3rd President of
Ethiopia (d. 2012) ·
May 9 – Anne Sofie von Otter,
Swedish mezzo-soprano ·
May 10 ·
Chris Berman, American sports broadcaster ·
Mark David Chapman,
American murderer of musician John Lennon ·
Rick Steves, American author and television
personality; host of Rick Steves' Europe ·
May 13 – Andy Pask, English bass player and composer
(Landscape) ·
May 14 ·
Big Van Vader, American professional
wrestler and football player (d. 2018) ·
Dave Hoover, American comic book artist and
animator (d. 2011) ·
Robert Tapert, American television producer ·
May 15 ·
Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian politician
(assassinated 2013) ·
Lee Horsley, American film, television and
theater actor ·
Hege Skjeie, Norwegian political scientist
and feminist (d. 2018) ·
May 16 ·
Olga Korbut, Soviet gymnast ·
Olli Kortekangas, Finnish composer ·
Jack Morris, American baseball player ·
Hazel O'Connor, British rock musician ·
Richard
Phillips, American merchant mariner and captain of the MV
Maersk Alabama ·
Debra Winger, American actress ·
May 17 – Bill Paxton, American actor (d. 2017) ·
May 18 – Chow Yun-fat, Hong Kong actor ·
May 19 ·
Mark Staff Brandl,
American and Swiss artist and art historian ·
James Gosling, Canadian software engineer ·
Th. Emil Homerin, American theologian ·
May 20 ·
Diego Abatantuono,
Italian actor ·
Steve George,
American keyboardist and singer ·
Zbigniew Preisner,
Polish film composer ·
May 22 ·
Chalmers
"Spanky" Alford, American jazz guitarist (d. 2008) ·
Iva Davies, Australian singer, songwriter,
composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer; lead singer of Icehouse ·
Dale Winton, English radio DJ and television
presenter (d. 2018) ·
May 24 ·
Rosanne Cash, American entertainer ·
Rumiko Ukai, Japanese voice actress ·
May 25 ·
Suguru Egawa, Japanese baseball player ·
Connie Sellecca, American actress ·
May 26 ·
Doris Dörrie, German actress and screenplay
writer ·
Masaharu Morimoto,
Japanese chef ·
May 27 – Richard Schiff, American actor and comedian ·
May 29 ·
Mike Porcaro, American bass guitarist
(d. 2015) ·
John Hinckley Jr.,
attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan ·
May 30 ·
Nakamura
Kanzaburō XVIII, Japanese Kabuki actor ·
Paresh Rawal , Indian actor ·
Colm Tóibín, Irish novelist ·
May 31 ·
Tommy Emmanuel, Australian guitarist ·
Susie Essman, American actress ·
Lynne Truss, English writer June[edit] ·
June 1 – Chiyonofuji Mitsugu,
Japanese sumo wrestler (58th Yokozuna grand champion) (d. 2016) ·
June 2 – Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian ·
June 5 – Fernando Borrego
Linares, Cuban singer and songwriter (aka Polo Montańez) ·
June 6 ·
Sandra Bernhard, American comedian, actress,
author and singer ·
Chris Nyman, American baseball player ·
Sam Simon, American filmmaker (d. 2015) ·
June 7 ·
Jo Gilbert, English film producer and
casting director (d. 2018) ·
Bob Beatty, American football coach ·
Tim Richmond, American race car driver
(d. 1989) ·
June 8 ·
Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist
and inventor ·
Griffin Dunne, American actor and director ·
June 10 ·
Floyd Bannister, American baseball player ·
Andrew Stevens, American actor, producer and
director ·
June 11 – Yuriy Sedykh, Ukrainian hammer thrower ·
June 14 ·
Kim Lankford, American actress,
businesswoman and horse wrangler ·
Paul O'Grady (also known as "Lily
Savage"), English talk show host and comedian ·
June 15 ·
Polly Draper, American actress,
screenwriter, playwright, producer and director ·
David A. Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1984) ·
June 16 – Laurie Metcalf, American actress ·
June 18 – Sandy Allen, American, world's tallest woman
(d. 2008) ·
June 20 – Tor Nřrretranders,
Danish author ·
June 21 ·
Peter Turnley, American photojournalist ·
David C. Turnley, American photographer ·
Aloysius Amwano, Nauruan politician ·
Tim Bray, Canadian computer programmer ·
Jean-Pierre Mader,
French singer-songwriter ·
Leigh McCloskey, American actor ·
Michel Platini, French retired football
player and President of UEFA ·
June 22 ·
David C. Turnley, American photographer ·
Peter Turnley, American photojournalist ·
Jaana Saarinen, Finnish actress ·
Gregory Snegoff, American voice actor,
writer and director ·
Choi Kyoung-hwan, South Korean
politician; Prime
Minister of South Korea ·
June 23 ·
Jean Tigana, Malian-French international
footballer ·
Glenn Danzig, American rock singer (The Misfits, Samhain, Danzig) ·
Alan J. Gow, Australian-born British
motorsport executive ·
Maggie Philbin, English radio and television
presenter ·
June 24 ·
Gurumayi
Chidvilasananda, Indian head of Siddha Yoga ·
Sherry Miller, Canadian actress ·
Betsy Randle, American actress ·
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki,
Japanese economist and professor ·
June 25 ·
Mike McShane, American actor, comedian and
voice actor ·
Michael Sabatino, American actor ·
Víctor Manuel
Vucetich, Mexican footballer and manager ·
June 26 ·
Gedde Watanabe, American-Japanese actor and
comedian ·
Yoko Gushiken, Japanese boxer ·
Mervyn Day, English footballer ·
June 27 ·
Isabelle Adjani, French actress ·
Brad Diller, American cartoonist ·
Doug Ose, American politician ·
June 28 – Shirley Cheriton, British actress ·
June 29 ·
Tom Skladany, American football player ·
Peter Fischer-Mřller,
Danish prelate ·
Catherine T. Hunt,
American chemist ·
June 30 ·
Amelia Kyambadde, Ugandan politician ·
Renate Vogel, East German swimmer July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Sanma Akashiya, Japanese comedian and actor ·
Nikolai Demidenko,
Russian classical pianist ·
Li Keqiang, Premier
of the People's Republic of China ·
Lisa Scottoline, American novelist ·
Christian Estrosi,
French sportsman and politician ·
July 2 ·
Stephen Walt, American political scientist ·
Sylvie Le Noach, French swimmer ·
Randy Burchell, Canadian professional ice
hockey goaltender ·
Chau Giang, Vietnamese-born American
professional poker player ·
Proceso Alcala, Filipino politician ·
July 3 ·
John Cramer,
American game show announcer ·
Matt Keough, American baseball player ·
Bruce Altman, American actor ·
July 4 – Víctor Reymundo
Nájera, Mexican politician ·
July 5 ·
Mia Couto, Mozambican writer ·
Muhammad
Aslam Khan Raisani, Pakistani politician ·
Sebastian Barry, Irish playwright, novelist
and poet ·
Henry Lee Summer, American singer ·
Shannon Bell, Canadian performance
philosopher ·
July 7 ·
Rolf Saxon, American actor ·
Ludo Vika, Dominican actress ·
Paul Bahoken, Cameroonian footballer ·
July 8 ·
Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress ·
Vladislava
Milosavljević, Serbian actress ·
July 9 ·
Lindsey Graham, American politician,
lawyer, U.S. Army soldier, U.S. Senator (R-Sc.) and unsuccessful 2016 presidential
candidate ·
Fred Norris, American radio personality ·
Jimmy Smits, American actor ·
July 10 ·
Dan Newhouse, American politician ·
Andrea Bruce, Jamaican athlete ·
Vinnie Curto, American professional boxer ·
Ray Goff, American football player and coach ·
July 11 ·
Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean politician and
neurosurgeon ·
Sřren Sćtter-Lassen,
Danish actor ·
July 12 ·
Nina Gunke, Swedish actress ·
Tadashi Miyazawa, Japanese voice actor ·
July 13 – Yoshitaka Tamba, Japanese actor ·
July 14 – Ramon Jimenez Jr.,
Filipino attorney ·
July 15 ·
Didier Etumba, Congolese Army General ·
Željko Burić,
Croatian politician and doctor ·
Pooran Prakash, Indian politician ·
July 16 ·
Saw Swee Leong, Malaysian badminton player ·
Ritva Elomaa, Finnish professional female
bodybuilding champion, pop singer and politician ·
Patrick Bernasconi,
French business executive ·
Janet Huckabee, American politician ·
July 17 ·
Fei Yu-ching, Taiwanese singer-songwriter ·
Sylvie Léonard,
French-Canadian actress ·
Alvin Slaughter, American gospel
singer-songwriter and worship leader ·
Janina
Buzūnaitė-Žukaitienė, Lithuanian painter, poet,
creator of accessories and metal sculptures ·
July 18 ·
Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and
sculptor ·
György Matolcsy,
Hungarian politician and economist ·
Sergey Zimov, Russian geophysicist and
creator of Pleistocene Park ·
July 19 – Karen Cheryl, French singer, actress, radio
and television presenter ·
July 21 ·
Adrienne King, American actress ·
Dannel Malloy, American politician ·
Howie Epstein, American musician and
producer (d. 2003) ·
Béla Tarr, Hungarian film director ·
July 22 ·
Gbenga Bareehu
Ashafa, Nigerian politician ·
Willem Dafoe, American actor ·
July 25 – Iman, Somalian model ·
July 26 ·
Michele Pillar, American Christian musician ·
Asif Ali Zardari, 11th President of Pakistan ·
July 27 – Allan Border, Australian cricketer ·
July 31 – Jakie Quartz, French singer August[edit] ·
August 2 ·
John Battaglia, American convicted murderer
(d. 2018) ·
Caleb Carr, American writer ·
August 3 ·
Corey Burton, American voice actor ·
Roger Gifford, Lord Mayor of London 2013 ·
August 4 ·
Gerrie Coetzee, South African boxer,
1983-1984 WBA heavyweight
champion. ·
Billy Bob Thornton,
American actor, director and screenwriter ·
August 6 ·
Gordon J. Brand, English golfer ·
Ron Davis,
American baseball player ·
August 7 ·
Wayne Knight, American actor and comedian ·
Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer ·
August 8 – Diddú (Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir),
Icelandic soprano and songwriter ·
August 9 – Doug Williams,
American football quarterback ·
August 10 – Mel Tiangco, Filipina television anchor,
journalist and humanitarian ·
Heintje Simons, Dutch singer and actor ·
Gish Jen, American fiction writer ·
August 13 – Daryl, American magician (d. 2017) ·
August 14 – Gillian Taylforth,
English television actress ·
August 17 – Richard Hilton, American businessman ·
Peter Gallagher, American actor ·
Terry Harper,
American baseball player ·
Apisai Ielemia, 10th Prime Minister of
Tuvalu ·
August 20 – Agnes Chan, Hong Kong-born TV personality in
Japan ·
Chiranjeevi, Indian actor ·
Gordon Liu, Chinese actor ·
August 23 – David Learner, British actor, Stephen
M.Papuzek ·
August 24 – Mike Huckabee, American politician, Governor
and 2008 Presidential candidate ·
August 25 – John McGeoch, Scottish musician (d. 2004) ·
Laura Fygi, Dutch singer ·
Diana Scarwid, American actress ·
Sergey Khlebnikov,
Soviet speed skater (d. 1999) ·
Mayumi Muroyama, Japanese manga artist ·
Helge Schneider, comedian, jazz musician and
multi-instrumentalist, author, film and theatre director ·
August 31 – Edwin Moses, American athlete September[edit] ·
Billy Blanks, American martial artist;
inventor of the Tae Bo exercise
program ·
Bruce Foxton, English musician ·
Robert
Duncan, American astrophysicist ·
Claus Kleber, German television journalist ·
Natalya Petrusyova,
Soviet speed skater ·
Michelle Yim, Hong Kong actress ·
David Broza, Israeli singer-songwriter and
activist ·
Hiroshi Izawa, Japanese actor ·
September 6 – Raymond Benson, American author ·
September 7 – Efim Zelmanov, Russian mathematician ·
Ivan Smirnov,
Russian composer and guitar player (d. 2018) ·
John Kricfalusi, Canadian cartoonist ·
September 12 – Peter Scolari, American actor and comedian ·
Željka
Antunović, Croatian politician ·
Brendan O'Carroll,
Irish actor and comedian ·
Bruce Reitherman, American filmmaker and
voice actor ·
Renzo Rosso, Italian clothing designer ·
Janet Ellis, British children's TV presenter ·
Robin Yount, American baseball player ·
Marina Lima, Brazilian singer and songwriter ·
Charles Martinet, American voice-actor ·
September 18 – Bob Papenbrook, American actor and voice
actor (d. 2006) ·
September 19 – Richard Burmer, American composer, sound
designer and musician (d. 2006) ·
September 21 – Richard Hieb, American astronaut ·
September 24 – Shinbo Nomura, Japanese manga artist ·
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge,
German football player ·
Zucchero Fornaciari,
Italian singer-songwriter ·
September 28 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician ·
Janet Arceo, Mexican actress, TV presenter,
announcer, director and businesswoman (Dońa Eduviges in El Chavo del
Ocho) ·
Andy Bechtolsheim,
German electrical engineer and Co-founder of Sun Microsystems. October[edit] ·
October 1 – P. B. Abdul Razak,
Indian politician (d. 2018) ·
October 2 – Philip Oakey, English synth-pop
singer-songwriter (The Human League) ·
October 3 – Tommy Wiseau, American film director and
actor, known for the 2003 "dark comedy" The Room ·
Bart D. Ehrman, American religious studies
scholar and writer, specialist in textual criticism ·
Jean-Jacques Lafon,
French singer-songwriter ·
Caroline Loeb, French singer and actress ·
Clinton Bennett, British scholar of
religions, specialist in the study of Islam ·
Yo-Yo Ma, French-born Chinese American
cellist ·
Bill Elliott, American racing driver ·
Darrell Hammond, Comedian (Saturday Night Live) ·
October 13 – Sergei Shepelev, Russian ice hockey player ·
James B.
Aguayo-Martel, Mexican-born physician, surgeon, scientist and
inventor ·
Kulbir Bhaura, Indian-born British field
hockey player ·
Tanya Roberts, American actress ·
Emily Yoffe, American journalist and advice
columnist ·
October 17 – Tyrone Mitchell, American murderer (d. 1984) ·
Hiromi Go, Japanese singer ·
Timmy Mallett, English television presenter ·
Lonnie Shelton, American basketball player
(d. 2018) ·
LaSalle Ishii, Japanese television
personality ·
Tony Hanson, American basketball player
(d. 2018) ·
Thomas Newman, American composer ·
Yasukazu Hamada, Japanese politician ·
Rich Mullins, American Christian musician
(d. 1997) ·
Karen Austin, American actress ·
Katherine Knight, Australian mariticide ·
October 25 – Glynis Barber, South African-born British
actress ·
Bill Gates, American businessman and
co-founder of Microsoft ·
Indra Nooyi, Indian business executive ·
Kevin DuBrow, American rock singer (d. 2007) ·
Roger O'Donnell, English rock keyboardist ·
Etsuko Shihomi, Japanese actress ·
October 30 – Jeremy Black,
British historian ·
October 31 – Eduardo V. Manalo,
3rd Executive Minister (Tagapamahalang Pangkalahatan) of the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church
of Christ) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Joe Arroyo, Colombian salsa and tropical
music singer (d. 2011) ·
November 2 – Chris Burnett, American saxophone player,
composer, veteran of US military jazz bands and band leader ·
Howard Michaels, American businessman
(d. 2018) ·
Teresa De Sio, Italian singer-songwriter ·
Phil Simms, American football player ·
Yukihiko Tsutsumi,
Japanese film director ·
Rita Bhaduri, Indian actress (d. 2018) ·
Moulana
Ghousavi Shah, Sufi teacher and author, Secretary General of The
Conference of World Religions ·
Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister
of Finland ·
Pedro Brieger, Argentine journalist and
sociologist. ·
Kris Jenner, American television personality ·
Karan Thapar, Indian journalist, political
analyst and commentator ·
November 6 – Maria Shriver, American television
journalist, host; First Lady of California ·
Paul Romer, American economist, Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate ·
Detlef Ultsch, German judo athlete ·
November 9 – Karen Dotrice, Guernsey-born child actress ·
November 10 – Roland Emmerich, German film director ·
November 11 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan ·
November 13 – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress and
comedian ·
November 14 – Koichi Nakano, Japanese bicycle racer ·
November 17 – Peter Cox,
English singer-songwriter (Go West) ·
November 19 – Dianne de Leeuw, Dutch figure skater ·
November 20 – Ray Ozzie, American computer programmer ·
Kyle Gann, American composer and music
critic ·
Cedric Maxwell, American basketball player ·
November 22 – George Alagiah, Ceylonese-born British
newsreader, journalist and television news presenter ·
Steven Brust, American author ·
Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and
composer ·
Peter Douglas, American television and film
producer ·
Mary Landrieu, American politician, U.S.
Senator from Louisiana ·
Sir Ian Botham, English cricketer ·
Najib Mikati, Lebanese politician,
2-Time Prime Minister
of Lebanon ·
November 25 – Bruno Tonioli, film, music video and theater
choreographer ·
November 26 – Tracy Hickman, American author ·
November 27 – Bill Nye, American science presenter and
public television host ·
November 28 – Alessandro Altobelli,
Italian football player ·
November 29 – Howie Mandel, Canadian actor and game show
host ·
Michael Beschloss,
American historian ·
Kevin Conroy, American voice actor ·
Billy Idol, born William Broad, British rock
musician December[edit] ·
Melody Anderson, Canadian actress and social
worker ·
Steven Culp, American actor ·
December 4 – Maurizio Bianchi, Italian musician ·
December 7 – Priscilla Barnes, American actress ·
Ian Greig, South African-born English
cricketer ·
Martin Semmelrogge,
German actor ·
December 9 – Asashio Tarō IV,
Japanese sumo wrestler ·
December 12 – Gianna
Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek politician and businesswoman ·
Chiharu Matsuyama,
Japanese singer-songwriter ·
Rob Levin, American founder of the freenode IRC network
(d. 2006) ·
December 17 – Brad Davis,
American basketball player ·
December 21 – Jane Kaczmarek, American actress ·
Keith Comstock, American baseball player ·
Carol Ann Duffy, Scottish poet ·
Mizuho Fukushima, Japanese politician ·
Clarence Gilyard, American actor and college
professor ·
December 27 – Barbara Olson, American television
commentator (d. 2001) ·
December 28 – Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic and
human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
(d. 2017) ·
December 31 – Jim Tracy,
American baseball player Date unknown[edit] ·
Mark Marderosian, American cartoonist ·
Alan Myers,
American new wave rock drummer (Devo) (d. 2013) Deaths[edit]
January[edit] ·
January 1 – Shanti Swaroop
Bhatnagar, Indian scientist (b. 1894) ·
January 2 – José Antonio
Remón Cantera, 19th President of Panama (assassinated)
(b. 1908) ·
January 6 – Yevgeny Tarle, Soviet historian (b. 1874) ·
January 11 – Rodolfo Graziani, Italian general (b. 1882) ·
Johannes Baader, German artist (b. 1875) ·
Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900) ·
January 18 – August Duesenberg,
German-born American automobile manufacturer (b. 1879) ·
January 20 – Robert P. T. Coffin,
American poet (b. 1892) ·
January 21 – Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880) ·
January 24 – Ira Hayes, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo
Jima (b. 1923) ·
January 29 – Hans Hedtoft, 14th Prime Minister
of Denmark (b. 1903) ·
January 31 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient
of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865) February[edit] ·
February 6 – Constantin
Argetoianu, 41st Prime Minister
of Romania (b. 1871) ·
February 11 – Ona Munson, American actress (b. 1903) ·
Thomas J. Moore, Irish-American film actor
(b. 1883) ·
S. Z. Sakall, Hungarian actor (b. 1883) ·
February 20 – Oswald Avery, American physician and medical
researcher (b. 1877) ·
February 23 – Paul Claudel, French poet, dramatist, and
diplomat (b. 1868) ·
February 27 – Trixie Friganza, American actress (b. 1870) March[edit] ·
March 3 – Katharine Drexel, American Roman Catholic saint (b. 1858) ·
March 8 – William C. deMille,
American screenwriter and director (b. 1878) ·
March 9 – Matthew Henson, American explorer (b. 1866) ·
March 11 – Sir Alexander Fleming,
Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1881)[2] ·
March 12 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist
(b. 1920) ·
March 16 – Nicolas de Staël,
Russian painter (b. 1914) ·
March 19 – Mihály Károlyi,
1st President of Hungary and
20th Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1875) ·
March 22 – Maurice Schutz, French actor (b. 1866) ·
March 23 – Arthur Bernardes, 12th President of Brazil (b. 1875) ·
March 24 – John W. Davis, American politician,
diplomat, and lawyer (b. 1873) ·
March 30 – Ylla,
Hungarian photographer (b. 1911) (jeep accident) April[edit] ·
April 7 – Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885) ·
April 10 – Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit priest, philosopher, paleontologist
and geologist (b. 1881) ·
April 11 – Clifton Sprague, American admiral (b. 1896) ·
April 13 – Peyton C. March, United States Army General
(b. 1864) ·
April 18 – Albert Einstein, German-born
physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1879) ·
April 25 – Constance Collier,
stage and screen actress; acting coach (b. 1878) May[edit] ·
May 2 – Alexander
Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, 10th Governor-General
of Australia (b. 1872) ·
May 4 ·
Louis Charles
Breguet, French aircraft designer and builder and early aviation
pioneer (b. 1880) ·
George Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881) ·
May 10 ·
Tommy Burns,
American boxer (b. 1881) ·
John Radecki, Australian stained-glass
artist (b. 1865) ·
May 11 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874) ·
May 14 ·
Charles Pelot
Summerall, American general (b. 1867) ·
Anwar Wagdi, Egyptian actor and filmmaker
(b. 1904) ·
May 16 – James Agee, American writer (b. 1909) ·
May 17 – Owen Roberts, American Supreme Court Justice
(b. 1875) ·
May 18 – Mary McLeod Bethune,
American educator (b. 1875) ·
May 19 – Concha Espina, Spanish writer (b. 1869) ·
May 22 – Richard
"Skeets" Gallagher, American actor (b. 1891) ·
May 26 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race-car driver
(accident) (b. 1918) ·
May 30 – Bill Vukovich, American race-car driver
(accident) (b. 1918) June[edit] ·
June 5 ·
Pattillo Higgins, American oil pioneer and
businessman (b. 1863) ·
Herbert Stanley, Governor of Northern
Rhodesia, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia (b. 1872) ·
June 11 – Walter Hampden, American actor (b. 1879) ·
June 17 – Carlyle Blackwell,
American actor (b. 1884) ·
June 19 – Adrienne Monnier, French poet (b. 1892) ·
June 26 – Engelbert Zaschka,
German helicopter pioneer (b. 1895) ·
June 29 – Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881) July[edit] ·
July 3 – Beatrice Chase, English writer (b. 1874) ·
July 4 – Sir William
Glasgow, Australian army officer, politician and diplomat
(b. 1876) ·
July 9 – Adolfo de la Huerta,
38th President of Mexico (b. 1881) ·
July 13 ·
Ruth Ellis, British-born murderer, last
woman to be executed in the United Kingdom (b. 1926) ·
Stanley Price, American film and television
actor (b. 1892) ·
July 20 – Calouste Gulbenkian,
Armenian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1869) ·
July 23 – Cordell Hull, United
States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1871) ·
July 31 – Robert Francis,
American actor (b. 1930) August[edit] ·
August 1 – William
Hamilton, American Olympic athlete (b. 1883) ·
August 2 ·
Rupprecht,
Crown Prince of Bavaria, Bavarian military leader and last
Bavarian crown prince (b. 1869) ·
Wallace Stevens, American poet (b. 1879) ·
August 5 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-born Brazilian
singer and actress (b. 1909) ·
August 8 – Grace Hartman,
American actress (b. 1907) ·
Thomas Mann, German novelist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1875) ·
James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1887) ·
August 13 – Florence Easton, English-born operatic
soprano (b. 1882) ·
August 17 – Fernand Léger, French painter and sculptor
(b. 1881) ·
August 27 – Augusto Turati, Italian fascist politician
(b. 1888) ·
August 28 – Emmett Till, American murder victim
(b. 1941) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Philip Loeb, American actor (b. 1891) ·
September 20 – Robert Riskin, American screenwriter
(b. 1897) ·
September 23 – Martha Norelius, American Olympic swimmer
(b. 1908) ·
September 24 – Ib Schřnberg, Danish actor (b. 1902) ·
September 25 – José Tamborini,
Argentine physician and politician (b. 1886) ·
Michael Chekhov, Russian actor, theatre
director, and writer (b. 1891) ·
James Dean, American actor (accident)
(b. 1931) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Charles Christie, American film studio owner
(b. 1880) ·
October 4 – Alexander Papagos,
Greek Field Marshal (b. 1883) ·
October 7 – Rodolphe Seeldrayers,
German journalist and administrator, 4th President of FIFA (b. 1876) ·
October 8 – Iry LeJeune, Cajun musician (b. 1928) ·
Theodor Innitzer, Cardinal Archbishop of
Vienna (b. 1875) ·
Alice Joyce, American actress (b. 1890) ·
Manuel Ávila Camacho,
45th President of Mexico (b. 1897) ·
Alexandrina
Maria da Costa, Portuguese Roman Catholic mystic, victim soul and
blessed (b. 1904) ·
October 17 – Dimitrios Maximos,
Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1873) ·
October 18 – José Ortega y Gasset,
Spanish philosopher (b. 1883) ·
October 19 – John Hodiak, American actor (b. 1914) ·
October 27 – Juan de Dios
Martínez, 23rd President of Ecuador (b. 1875) ·
October 31 – William Woodward,
Jr., American banker and horse breeder, shot to death by his wife
(b. 1920) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Dale Carnegie, American writer and lecturer
(b. 1888) ·
November 4 – Cy Young, American baseball player (Cleveland Spiders)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1867) ·
November 5 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1882) ·
November 7 – Tom Powers, American actor (b. 1890) ·
November 11 – Jerry Ross,
American lyricist and composer (b. 1926) ·
November 12 – Alfréd Hajós,
Hungarian swimmer and architect (b. 1878) ·
November 13 – Moshe Pessach, chief rabbi of Volos
(b. 1869) ·
November 14 – Robert E. Sherwood,
American playwright (b. 1896) ·
November 15 – Lloyd Bacon, American actor and director
(b. 1889) ·
November 17 – Helmuth Weidling, German general (b. 1891) ·
November 22 – Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges)
(b. 1895) ·
November 27 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer
(b. 1892) ·
November 30 – Alta Bates, nurse anesthetist and founder of
Alta Bates Hospital (b. 1879) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Chief Thundercloud,
American character actor (b. 1899) ·
December 5 – Jirō Minami, Japanese general and Governor-General
of Korea (1936-1942) (b. 1874) ·
George Platt Lynes,
American photographer (b. 1907) ·
Honus Wagner, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1874) ·
December 8 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician,
theoretical physicist and philosopher (b. 1885) ·
December 13 – António Egas Moniz,
Portuguese neurologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874) ·
December 15 – Otto Braun, German politician, former
Minister President of the Free State of
Prussia (b. 1872) ·
December 21 – Garegin Nzhdeh, Armenian statesman (b. 1886) ·
December 22 – Otto Eppers, American cartoonist (b. 1893) ·
Elizabeth
Harrison, daughter of President Benjamin Harrison and Mary Dimmick
Harrison (b. 1897) ·
Thomas J. Preston,
Jr., professor of Archeology at Princeton University;
second husband of Frances Cleveland,
widow of President Grover Cleveland (b. 1862) ·
December 27 – Alfred
Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (b. 1881) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Willis Eugene Lamb and Polykarp Kusch ·
Chemistry – Vincent du Vigneaud ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Axel Hugo
Theodor Theorell ·
Literature – Halldór Kiljan Laxness ·
Peace –
not awarded References[edit] 1.
^ "Strömsund Bridge (1955)". Structurae.
Retrieved 2010-10-02. 2.
^ "BBC - History - Alexander Fleming". bbc.co.uk.
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