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1956 (MCMLVI) was
a leap year starting on
Sunday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1956th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 956th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of
the 20th century,
and the 7th year of the 1950s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1956 ·
The Anglo-Egyptian
Condominium ends in Sudan. ·
A
crowd crush and stampede during a New Year's event results in 124 deaths and
77 injuries at the Yahiko Shrinein Niigata Prefecture, Japan.[1] ·
A
fire damages the top floors of the Eiffel Tower. ·
By
popular demand, Peter Pan,
starring Mary Martin, is
restaged live by Producers' Showcase on NBC-TV. ·
Columbia
Records first releases Glenn Gould's solo piano recording of
Bach's Goldberg Variations. ·
January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical
Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by
the Huaorani people of Ecuador shortly after making contact
with them. ·
January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows
to reconquer Palestine. ·
January 25–26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala after Soviet troops vacate its military base.
Civilians can return February 4. ·
January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open
in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February[edit] Main article: February 1956 ·
February 11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface
in the Soviet Union after
being missing for 5 years. ·
February 14–26 – 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. ·
February 16 – Only a little more than
four months after the release of the 70 mm version of Oklahoma!,
the film version of Rodgers and
Hammerstein's Carousel, starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, is released in CinemaScope 55. MacRae and Jones had
previously starred in Oklahoma! Carousel, intended
for showing in 55 mm, ends up being shown only in 35 mm. ·
February 22 – Elvis Presley enters the United States
music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel". ·
February 23 – Norma Jean Mortenson legally
changes her name to Marilyn Monroe. ·
February 24 – Doris Day records her most famous song,
"Que
Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)"; it is from Alfred Hitchcock's The
Man Who Knew Too Much, in which Day co-stars with James Stewart. ·
February 25 – Nikita Khrushchev attacks
the veneration of Josef Stalin in
a speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences". March[edit] ·
March 1 – The International
Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the radiotelephony
spelling alphabet for the International
Civil Aviation Organization. ·
March 2 – Morocco declares its independence from
France. ·
March 9 ·
The
British deport Archbishop Makarios from Cyprus to the Seychelles. ·
Soviet Armed Forces suppresses mass
demonstrations in the Georgian
Soviet Socialist Republic, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy. ·
March 10 – The Fairey Delta 2 broke the World Air
Speed Record, raising it to 1,132 mph (1,822 km/h) or Mach 1.73, an
increase of some 300 mph (480 km/h) over the previous record, and
thus becoming the first aircraft to exceed 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h)
in level flight. ·
March 11 – After having opened in
London the previous year, Laurence Olivier's film, Richard III,
adapted from Shakespeare's
play, has its U.S. premiere in theatres and on NBC Television
on the same day. On TV it is not shown in prime time, but as an
afternoon matinée, in a
slightly cut version. It is one of the first such experiments of its kind.
Olivier is later nominated for an Oscar for his performance. ·
March 12 ·
96 U.S. Congressmen sign the Southern Manifesto,
a protest against the 1954 Supreme
Court ruling (Brown v.
Board of Education) that desegregated public education. ·
The Dow Jones
Industrial Average closes above 500 for the first time rising 2.40 points, or
0.48%, to 500.24. ·
March 13 – Elvis Presley releases his first gold
album titled Elvis Presley. ·
March 15 – The Broadway musical My Fair Lady opens in New York
City. ·
March 19 – At age 48, Dutch boxer Bep van Klaveren contests his last
match in Rotterdam. ·
March 20 – Tunisia gains independence from France. ·
March 21 – The 28th Academy Awards ceremony
is held. ·
March 23 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic, and a national holiday is observed in the
country including the former East Pakistan state. April[edit] A reel of 2-inch quadruplex videotape compared
with a modern-day miniDV videocassette. ·
April 2 – The first episode of As the World Turns is
broadcast on the CBS television network in the United
States. ·
April 7 – Spain relinquishes its
protectorate in Morocco. ·
April 9 – Habib Bourguiba is elected President of the National Constituent Assembly of
the Kingdom of Tunisia;
on April 15 he becomes Prime
Minister.[2] ·
April 14 – Videotape is first demonstrated at the
1956 NARTB (now NAB)
convention in Chicago by Ampex. It is the
demonstration of the first practical and commercially successful videotape format known as 2" Quadruplex. ·
April 17 – Queen Elizabeth II inaugurates the
4.9 km² Chew Valley Lake in Somerset, England, as a reservoir for
the Bristolarea. ·
April 18 – Maria
Desylla-Kapodistria is elected mayor of Corfu and becomes the first female
mayor in Greece. ·
April 19 ·
British diver Lionel Crabb (working for MI6)
dives into Portsmouth harbour
to investigate a visiting Soviet cruiser and vanishes. ·
American
actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier
III, Prince of Monaco. ·
April 21 – Former U.S. First
Daughter Margaret Truman marries Clifton Daniel. ·
April 27 – Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano retires without losing a
professional boxing match. May[edit] ·
May 2 ·
The United Methodist
Church in America decides at its General Conference to grant
women full ordained clergy status. It also calls for an end
to racial segregation in
the denomination. ·
Violet Gibson, who attempted to
assassinate Mussolini in
1926, dies in a mental hospital after a lifetime of imprisonment. ·
May 8 ·
Austria
and Israel form diplomatic relations.Confirmation
needed ·
The
constitutional union between Indonesia and the Netherlands is
dissolved. ·
John Osborne's Look Back in Anger opens
at the Royal Court Theatre,
London, changing the scope of theatrical and other forms of drama in the UK:
the theatre's press release describes the dramatist as among the angry young men of the time. ·
May 9 – Manaslu, eighth highest mountain in the
world, is first ascended. ·
May 18 – Lhotse (main), the fourth highest
mountain, is first ascended. ·
May 22 – The NBC Peacock debuts on television ·
May 23 – French minister Pierre Mendès France resigns
due to his government's policy on Algeria. ·
May 24 – The first Eurovision Song
Contest is broadcast from Lugano, Switzerland. The winning song is the
host country's Refrain by Lys Assia (music by Géo Voumard, lyrics
by Émile Gardaz). ·
May 25 – India announces the
institution of diplomatic relations with Spain (still under Franco's rule) June[edit] ·
June 1 – Vyacheslav Molotov resigns
as foreign minister of the Soviet Union; he later becomes ambassador in Mongolia. ·
June 3 – British Rail renames 'Third Class'
passenger facilities 'Second Class' ·
June 4 – Montgomery bus
boycott: the related civil suit[clarification
needed] was
heard in federal district court: the U.S. Supreme Court, in Browder v. Gayle (1956), ruled
Alabama's racial segregation laws for buses unconstitutional. ·
June 5 – Elvis Presley performs "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle
Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip
movements. ·
June 6 – In Singapore, chief minister David
Marshall resigns after the breakdown of talks about internal
self-government in London. ·
June 8 – General Electric/Telechron introduces model
7H241 "The Snooz Alarm", first snooze alarm clock ever.[3] ·
June 10 – 1956 Summer Olympics: Equestrian events
open in Stockholm, Sweden (all other events are held in
November in Melbourne, Australia). ·
June 13 ·
The
International Criminal Police Organization adopts Interpol as its official name. ·
Real Madrid beats Stade Reims 4-3 at Parc des Princes, Paris and wins the 1955–56 European Cup (football). ·
June 14 – The Flag of
the United States Army is formally dedicated.[4] ·
June 15 – Eindhoven
University of Technology is founded in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. ·
June 18 – The last foreign troops
leave Egypt. ·
June 21 – Playwright Arthur Miller
appears before the House
Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D.C. ·
June 23 – Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes
the 2nd president of Egypt, a post he holds
until his death in 1970. ·
June 28 ·
Poznań
1956 protests: Labour riots in Poznań, Poland, are crushed with heavy
loss of life. Soviet troops
fire at a crowd protesting high prices, killing 53 people. ·
The
film version of Rodgers and
Hammerstein's The King and I, starring Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner, is released only a few months
after the film version of R&H's Carousel. It becomes the most
financially successful film version of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical up
to this time, and the only one to win an acting Oscar (Yul Brynner wins Best
Actor for his performance as the King of Siam). It is also one of two Rodgers
and Hammerstein films to be nominated for Best Picture (which it does not
win). ·
June 29 ·
Actress Marilyn Monroe marries playwright Arthur Miller in White Plains, New
York. ·
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs
the Federal
Aid Highway Act of 1956, creating the Interstate
Highway System in the United States. ·
June 30 – 1956
Grand Canyon mid-air collision: A TWA Lockheed
Constellation and United Airlines Douglas DC-7 collide in mid-air over
the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing all 128 people aboard both
aircraft in the deadliest civil aviation disaster to date; the accident
leads to sweeping changes in the regulation of cross-country flight and air traffic control over
the United States. July[edit] ·
July 2 – A lab experiment involving
scrap thorium at Sylvania Electric Products
in Bayside, New York,
results in an explosion. ·
July 4 – The Lockheed U-2 its first flight over
the Soviet Union. ·
July 8 – The mountain Gasherbrum II, on the border of Pakistan and China, is first ascended
by an Austrian expedition. ·
July 9 – The 7.7 Mw Amorgos
earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group in the Agean Sea with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and the
subsequent tsunami leave fifty-three people dead. ·
July 10 – The British House of Lords defeats the abolition of
the death penalty. ·
July 13 – John
McCarthy (Dartmouth), Marvin Minsky (MIT), Claude Shannon (Bell Labs) and Nathaniel
Rochester (IBM) assemble the first coordinated research
meeting on the topic of artificial
intelligence, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New
Hampshire, in the United States. ·
July 16 – With the closing of its
"Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announces
all subsequent circuses will be "arena shows" due to changing
economics. ·
July 24 – At New York City's Copacabana nightclub, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy
show together (their act started on July 25, 1946). ·
July 25 – The Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sinks after
colliding with the Swedish ship SS Stockholm in heavy fog
72 kilometers (45 mi) south of Nantucketisland, killing 51. ·
July 26 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes
the Suez Canal sparking international
condemnation. ·
July 30 – A joint resolution of Congress is
signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
authorizing "In God we trust"
as the U.S. national motto. ·
July 31 ·
Cricket: Jim Laker sets an extraordinary record
at Old Trafford in
the fourth Test between
England and Australia, taking 19 wickets in a first class match (the previous
best was 17). ·
Luzhniki Stadium, well known sports venue
of Russia (former part of the Soviet Union), officially opens in Moscow.[5] August[edit] ·
August 6 – After going bankrupt in
1955, the American broadcaster DuMont
Television Network airs its final broadcast, an episode of
its sports series Boxing
from St. Nicholas Arena. ·
August 8 – 262 miners (chiefly Italian
nationals) die in a fire at the Bois du Cazier coal mine in Marcinelle, Belgium. ·
August 9 – The exhibition This Is Tomorrow opens at Whitechapel Art
Gallery in London. ·
August 12 – Around 5,000 members of
the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church hold
a mass outside Cluj-Napoca
Piarists' Church to demonstrate that their church, proscribed
by the government in 1948, has not ceased to exist as the regime claims. ·
August 17 – West Germany bans the Communist
Party of Germany. September[edit] ·
September 9 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for
the first time. ·
The hard disk drive is invented by an IBM team
led by Reynold B. Johnson. ·
The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed. ·
September 16 – Television
broadcasting commences
in Australia. ·
September 21 – Nicaraguan
dictator Anastasio Somoza
García is assassinated. ·
September 25 – The submarine transatlantic
telephone cable opens. ·
September 27 – The Bell X-2 becomes the first manned
aircraft to reach Mach 3. October[edit] ·
October 5 – Cecil B. DeMille's epic film The Ten
Commandments, starring Charlton Heston as Moses, is released in the United States. It
will be in the top ten of the worldwide list of
highest-grossing films of all time adjusted for inflation.[6] ·
October 8 – Baseball pitcher Don Larsen of the New York Yankees throws the only perfect game in World Series history in Game 5 of
the 1956 World Series against
the Brooklyn Dodgers. Yogi Berra catches the game. Dale Mitchell is
the final out. The New York Yankees win the series. Larsen
is named series MVP. ·
Finland
joins UNESCO. ·
The
prototype Lockheed L-1649
Starliner, the final Lockheed
Constellation model, makes its first flight. ·
Indira
Kala Sangeet University, Khairagarh is inaugurated by Indira Gandhi. ·
Dalit Buddhist
movement: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Indian Dalit leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 followers. ·
October 15 – The British Royal Air Force retires its last Avro Lancaster bomber. ·
The
world's first industrial-scale commercial nuclear power plant is
opened at Calder Hall in England.[7] ·
The Game
of the Century (chess): 13-year-old Bobby Fischer beats grandmaster Donald Byrne in the Rosenwald Memorial
Tournament in New York City. ·
October 22 – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom, France,
and Israel secretly meet in and make plans
to invade Egypt. ·
October 23 – Hungarian
Revolution breaks out against the pro-Soviet government,
originating as a student demonstration in Budapest. Hungary attempts to leave
the Warsaw Pact. ·
October 26 – Red Army troops invade Hungary. ·
Suez Crisis: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and pushes Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. ·
Tangier Protocol: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco. ·
The Huntley-Brinkley
Report debuts on NBC-TV
in the United States. ·
Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France
begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of
the Suez Canal. ·
A United States Navy team
becomes the third group to reach the South Pole (arriving by air) and
commences construction of the first permanent Amundsen–Scott
South Pole Station. November[edit] ·
The States
Reorganisation Act of India reforms the boundaries and names
of Indian states. Three new states, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, are formed. ·
City Lights
Bookstore in San Francisco publishes Howl and
Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, a key work of the Beat Generation. ·
The
film Oklahoma! (1955),
previously released to select cities in Todd-AO, now receives a U.S. national
release in CinemaScope, since
not all theatres are yet equipped for Todd-AO. To accomplish this, the film
had to be actually shot twice, rather than printing one version in two
different film processes as was later done. ·
Khan Yunis massacre (Suez Crisis) – Israeli soldiers shoot dead
hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in Khan Yunis Camp. ·
MGM's
film The Wizard
of Oz is the first major Hollywood film running more than
ninety minutes to be televised uncut in one evening. ·
November 4 – 1956
Hungarian Revolution: More Soviet troops invade Hungary to crush a
revolt that started on October 23.
Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave
the country. ·
November 6 – United
States presidential election, 1956: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat challenger Adlai E. Stevenson in
a rematch of their contest 4 years earlier. ·
November 7 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts
a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to withdraw their troops from
Arab lands immediately. ·
November 12 – Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United
Nations. ·
November 13 – Browder v. Gayle: The United States
Supreme Court declares illegal the state and municipal laws
requiring segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama,
thus ending the Montgomery Bus
Boycott. ·
November 14 – Fighting ends in Hungary.Confirmation
needed ·
November 15 – Middle
East Technical University is founded in Ankara, Turkey. ·
November 18 – At a reception at the
Polish embassy in Moscow Nikita Khrushchev utters
his famous phrase "We will bury you". ·
November 20 – In Yugoslavia, former prime minister Milovan Đilas is arrested after he
criticizes Josip Broz Tito. ·
November 22 – The 1956 Summer Olympics begin
in Melbourne, Australia. ·
November 23 – The Suez Crisis causes petrol rationing in Britain.[8] ·
November 25 – Fidel Castro and Che Guevara depart from Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico, en route to Santiago de Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with 82 men. ·
November 28 – Roger Vadim's drama film And God
Created Woman, released in France as Et Dieu ...
créa la femme, propels Brigitte Bardot into the public
spotlight as a "sex kitten". ·
November 30 – Floyd Patterson wins the world
heavyweight boxing championship that is vacant after the retirement of Rocky Marciano. December[edit] ·
Fidel Castro and his followers land
in Cuba in the boat Granma. ·
A pipe bomb planted by George Metesky explodes at the
Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, injuring 6
people. ·
December 3 – 1956 Bush
Terminal explosion in Brooklyn ·
December 4 – The Million Dollar
Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time
in history. ·
December 5 – Rose Heilbron becomes Britain's first
female judge. ·
December 9 – Trans-Canada
Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star,
crashes into a Mount Slesse,
near Chilliwack, British Columbia. All 62 people aboard,
including five CFL players,
are killed. ·
December 12 – Japan becomes a member of
the United Nations. ·
December 18 – To Tell the Truth debuts
on CBS-TV. ·
December 19 – John Bodkin Adams is
arrested for the murder of 2 patients in Eastbourne, Great Britain. ·
December 23 – British and French troops
leave the Suez Canal region. ·
December 31 – Bob Barker makes his TV debut as host
of the game show Truth or
Consequences. Date unknown[edit] ·
Asian flu pandemic originates
in China. ·
Minamata disease is discovered. ·
The Alpine Club of
Canada, Toronto section, is founded. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur
(d. 2000) ·
Kōji Yakusho, Japanese actor ·
Christine Lagarde,
French lawyer and politician ·
Andrew Lesnie, Australian cinematographer
(d. 2015) ·
Mel Gibson, American-born Australian/Irish
actor and director ·
Tomiko Suzuki, Japanese voice actress
(d. 2003) ·
Bernard Sumner, British musician ·
Celso Blues Boy, Brazilian singer and
guitarist (d. 2012) ·
Chen Kenichi, Japan-born Chinese chef ·
Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, German politician ·
David Caruso, American actor ·
Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor ·
Johnny Owen, Welsh professional boxer
(d. 1980) ·
Kimberly Beck, American actress ·
Imelda Staunton, English actress ·
Nikolai Noskov, Soviet and Russian rock
singer and songwriter ·
January 14 – Ronan Bennett, Northern Irish writer ·
January 15 – Vitaly Kaloyev, Russian convicted murderer,
former architect and former deputy minister of construction of North
Ossetia-Alania ·
January 16 – Martin Jol, Dutch football manager ·
January 17 – Paul Young, English musician ·
Tom Bailey,
English musician ·
Jim Mothersbaugh, American rock drummer ·
January 19 – Adriana Acosta, Argentine militant and field
hockey player ·
January 20 – Bill Maher, American actor, comedian, and
political analyst ·
Robby Benson, American actor, voice actor,
director, singer, and educator ·
Geena Davis, American actress ·
January 24 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber Kabyle singer
(d. 1998) ·
January 25 – Bronwyn Pike, Australian politician ·
January 26 – Pat Musick, American voice actress ·
Susanne Blakeslee,
American actress ·
Mimi Rogers, American actress ·
January 28 – Peter Schilling, German singer ·
Jan Jakub Kolski, Polish film director ·
Irlene Mandrell, American musician, actress ·
John Lydon, British punk musician and TV
personality ·
Trevor Manuel, South African politician February[edit] ·
February 1 – Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
Philip Franks, English actor and director ·
Alireza Soleimani,
Iranian heavyweight freestyle wrestler (d. 2014) ·
Nathan Lane, American actor ·
Lee Ranaldo, American musician ·
February 6 – Jon Walmsley, British actor ·
John Posey,
American actor and writer ·
Heather Jones, Australian writer ·
February 10 – Enele Sopoaga, 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu ·
Didier Lockwood, French jazz violinist
(d. 2018) ·
Catherine Hickland,
American actress ·
Peter Hook, British bass player ·
Yiannis Kouros, Greek-Australian ultra
marathoner ·
Jay Nixon, 55th Governor of Missouri ·
Paul Stojanovich, American television
producer ·
February 14 – Tom Burlinson, Australian actor ·
February 15 – Desmond Haynes, West Indian cricketer ·
February 18 – Thomas Gradin, Swedish hockey player ·
Kathleen Beller, American actress ·
Roderick MacKinnon,
American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry ·
Dave Wakeling, English musician ·
February 20 – François Bréda,
Romanian essayist, poet, literary critic, literary historian, translator and
theatrologist (d. 2018) ·
February 23 – Reinhold Beckmann,
German television presenter ·
Judith Butler, American philosopher ·
Paula Zahn, American television journalist ·
Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (d. 1995) ·
Michel Friedman, German lawyer, politician and
talk show host ·
Michel Houellebecq,
French author ·
Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese musician ·
February 28 – Liem Swie King, Indonesian badminton player ·
Mike Compton,
American mandolinist ·
Tommy Remengesau, 2-Time President of Palau ·
Bob Speller, Canadian politician ·
Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer
(d. 2002) March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Tim Daly, American actor and producer ·
Dalia
Grybauskaitė, President of
Lithuania ·
March 2 – Eduardo Rodríguez, President of Bolivia ·
March 3 – Frank Giroud, French comics writer (d. 2018) ·
March 5 ·
Teena Marie, American singer (d. 2010) ·
Marco Paolini, Italian stage actor,
dramaturge and author ·
March 7 – Bryan Cranston, American actor ·
March 9 – Kadyrzhan Batyrov,
Kyrgyz businessman and politician (d. 2018) ·
March 11 – Rob Paulsen, American voice actor ·
March 12 – Steve Harris,
British musician, composer (Iron Maiden) ·
March 13 – Dana Delany, American actress ·
March 16 ·
Boaz Arad, Israeli visual artist (d. 2018) ·
Vladimír Godár,
Slovak composer ·
March 18 – Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish alpine skier ·
March 19 – Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and
politician ·
March 20 ·
Minken Fosheim, Norwegian actress and author
(d. 2018) ·
Catherine Ashton, British politician ·
Naoto Takenaka, Japanese actor, comedian,
singer and director ·
March 21 ·
José Manuel Barroso,
Prime Minister of Portugal ·
Ingrid Kristiansen,
Norwegian runner ·
Win Lyovarin, Thai author ·
March 24 – Steve Ballmer, American businessman, former
CEO of Microsoft (2000–2014), and current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers ·
March 25 – Matthew Garber, English child actor
(d. 1977) ·
March 28 ·
Susan Ershler, American mountaineer ·
Evelin Jahl, German athlete ·
March 29 – Evie, American Christian musician ·
March 30 – Shahla Sherkat, Iranian feminist journalist April[edit] ·
April 3 ·
Ray Combs, American game show host and
comedian (d. 1996) ·
Miguel Bosé, Panamanian-born musician and
actor ·
Boris Miljković,
Serbian TV & theatre director and video artist ·
April 4 ·
Kerry Chikarovski,
Australian politician ·
David E. Kelley, American writer and
television producer ·
April 5 – Diamond Dallas Page,
former American professional wrestler ·
April 6 ·
Sebastian Spreng, American-Argentinean
visual artist ·
Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer ·
April 9 – Edmund Chong Ket Wah,
Malaysian politician (d. 2010) ·
April 12 ·
Andy García, Cuban-American actor ·
Herbert Grönemeyer,
German musician and actor ·
Yasuo Tanaka,
Japanese politician, novelist ·
April 13 – Possum Bourne, New Zealand rally car driver
(d. 2003) ·
April 14 – Barbara Bonney, American soprano ·
April 16 ·
David M. Brown, American astronaut (d. 2003) ·
Lise-Marie Morerod,
Swiss skier ·
April 18 ·
John James,
American actor ·
Melody Thomas Scott,
American actress ·
Eric Roberts, American actor ·
April 19 – Sue Barker, British tennis player and
television presenter ·
April 21 – Phillip Longman, American demographer ·
April 22 – Jukka-Pekka Saraste,
Finnish conductor ·
April 26 – Koo Stark, British actress ·
April 27 – Bryan Harvey,
American musician (d. 2006) ·
April 28 – Hanka Paldum, Bosnian singer ·
April 30 – Lars von Trier, Danish film director May[edit] ·
May 1 – Alexander
Ivanov, Russian-born American chess grandmaster ·
May 4 ·
David Guterson, American writer ·
Ulrike Meyfarth, German high jumper ·
May 5 – Lisa Eilbacher, American actress ·
May 6 – Vladimir Lisin, Russian business oligarch ·
May 7 ·
S. Scott Bullock, American actor and voice
actor ·
Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime
Minister of the Netherlands (2002–2010) ·
Jean Lapierre, Canadian politician and
television host ·
May 9 ·
Frank Andersson, Swedish amateur and
professional wrestler (d. 2018) ·
Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress ·
May 10 ·
Vladislav Listyev,
Russian journalist (d. 1995) ·
Paige O'Hara, American actress, voice
actress, singer, and painter ·
Bikenibeu Paeniu, 2-Time Prime Minister of
Tuvalu ·
May 12 – Jānis
Bojārs, Latvian shot putter (d. 2018) ·
May 13 ·
Kenneth Eriksson, Swedish rally driver ·
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,
Indian guru ·
Mirek Topolánek,
7th Prime
Minister of the Czech Republic ·
Kirk Thornton, American voice actor ·
May 15 – Dan Patrick, American sports commentator ·
May 17 ·
Sugar Ray Leonard,
American boxer ·
Bob Saget, American actor and television
host ·
May 20 ·
Ingvar Ambjørnsen,
Norwegian author ·
Dean Butler,
American actor and producer ·
May 23 ·
Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician ·
Buck Showalter, American baseball player and
manager ·
Butch Francisco, Philippine Talk Show and
Former host of Startalk ·
May 24 – Michael Jackson,
Irish Anglican bishop ·
May 26 – Lisa Niemi, American actress and dancer,
widow of Patrick Swayze ·
May 27 – Giuseppe Tornatore,
Italian film director ·
May 28 ·
Jerry Douglas, American dobro player ·
John
O'Donoghue, former Irish Fianna Fáil politician ·
Sayuri Yamauchi, Japanese voice actress
(d. 2012) ·
Pamela Eells
O'Connell, American television producer and writer ·
May 29 – La Toya Jackson, African-American singer ·
May 31 – Yoshiko Sakakibara,
Japanese voice actress June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Chintaman Vanaga, Indian politician
(d. 2018) ·
Peter Tomka, Judge, International Court of
Justice ·
June 3 – George Burley, Scottish football manager ·
June 4 – Keith David, American actor and voice actor ·
June 5 – Kenny G, American saxophonist ·
June 6 ·
Yuri Shundrov, Russian-Ukrainian ice hockey
goaltender (d. 2018) ·
Christopher
Adamson, British actor ·
Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player ·
June 7 ·
Paul Sherwen, English racing cyclist and
broadcaster (d. 2018) ·
Antonio M. Reid, American record executive ·
June 8 – Udo Bullmann, German politician ·
June 9 – Patricia Cornwell,
American novelist ·
June 10 – Borwin, Duke
of Mecklenburg, German head of the House of Mecklenburg ·
June 11 ·
Joe Montana, American football player ·
Arthur Porter,
Canadian physician (d. 2015) ·
June 13 – Yurik Vardanyan, Soviet weightlifter
(d. 2018) ·
June 14 – King Diamond, Danish heavy metal musician ·
June 15 – Robin Curtis, American actress ·
June 17 ·
Kelly Curtis, American actor ·
Andrew Bicknell, English actor ·
June 20 – Cho Chikun, Korean professional Go player ·
June 21 – Thomas James O'Leary,
American actor ·
June 22 ·
Abdulbaset Sieda, Kurdish-Syrian academic and
politician ·
François
Hadji-Lazaro, French actor and musician ·
June 23 ·
Randy Jackson, American musician and talent
judge ·
Mai Yamani, Saudi Arabian independent
scholar, author and anthropologist ·
June 24 – Turid Leirvoll, Norwegian-Danish politician ·
June 25 ·
Madeleine Petrovic,
Austrian politician ·
Isabel de Navarre,
German figure skating coach ·
Boris Trajkovski, President
of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004) ·
Chloe Webb, American actress and singer ·
June 26 ·
Catherine
Samba-Panza, former President of the Central African Republic ·
Chris Isaak, American musician ·
Davide Ferrario, Italian film director,
screenwriter and author ·
June 27 ·
Sultan bin
Salman Al Saud, Royal Saudi Air Force pilot ·
Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player ·
June 28 – Noel Mugavin, Australian
rules football player ·
June 29 ·
Nick Fry, British motorsport ·
Honorato Hernández,
Spanish long-distance runner ·
Richard Summerbell,
Canadian mycologist, author and songwriter ·
June 30 ·
Sun Chanthol, Cambodian politician ·
Jessi Lintl, Austrian politician ·
David Alan Grier, American actor and
comedian ·
Piero Aiello, Italian politician July[edit] ·
July 1 – Alan Ruck, American actor ·
July 2 ·
Cynthia Kadohata, Japanese-American
children's writer ·
Jerry Hall, American model and actress ·
July 3 – Dorota Pomykała,
Polish actress ·
July 4 – Bárbara Bruno,
Brazilian actress, director and producer ·
July 5 ·
Sapawi Ahmad, Malaysian politician ·
Louis Herthum, American actor and producer ·
Sheila Walsh,
Scottish Christian artist and talk-show hostess ·
Horacio Cartes, President of
Paraguay ·
July 7 ·
Ryuho Okawa, Japanese religious leader ·
Janet Cruz, American politician ·
Giam Swiegers, South African-Australian
business executive ·
July 9 – Tom Hanks, American actor and director ·
July 10 – K. Rajagopal, Malaysian football manager and
national player ·
July 11 ·
Amitav Ghosh, Indian-American fiction writer ·
Sela Ward, American actress ·
July 12 – Mel Harris, American actress ·
July 13 ·
Günther Jauch, German television host ·
Koffi Olomide, Congolese soukous singer,
dancer, producer and composer ·
July 14 ·
Vladimir Kulich, Czechoslovakian actor ·
Dragan Despot, Croatian actor ·
July 15 ·
Ian Curtis, English rock musician (Joy Division) (d. 1980) ·
Barry Melrose, Canadian hockey player,
coach, and commentator ·
Marky Ramone, American musician ·
Toshihiko Seko, Japanese long-distance
runner ·
July 16 ·
Pratibha Singh, Indian politician ·
Jerry Doyle, American talk show host and
actor (d. 2016) ·
Tony Kushner, American playwright ·
July 17 – Robert Romanus, American actor and musician ·
July 18 – Sheila Aldridge, American singer ·
July 19 ·
Peter Barton,
American actor ·
Yoshiaki Yatsu, Japanese professional
wrestler ·
July 24 ·
Charlie Crist, American politician ·
Pat Finn, American game show host and
producer ·
Carmen Nebel, German television presenter ·
July 25 – Frances Arnold, American biochemist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry ·
July 26 ·
Andy Goldsworthy, British sculptor and
photographer ·
Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater,
Olympic gold medalist ·
July 30 – Delta Burke, American actress ·
July 31 ·
Michael Biehn, American actor ·
Deval Patrick, American politician, first
African-American Governor of Massachusetts August[edit] ·
August 2 – Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler
(d. 2018) ·
August 4 – Gerry Cooney, American boxer ·
August 5 ·
Ferdi Bolland,
Dutch musician, songwriter and music producer (Bolland &
Bolland) ·
Maureen McCormick,
American actress ·
August 6 – Stepfanie Kramer, American actress ·
August 7 ·
Ernie Johnson, Jr.,
American sportscaster ·
Christiana Figueres,
Costa Rican diplomat and environmentalist ·
August 8 – Chris Foreman, English rock guitarist ·
Fred Ottman, American professional wrestler ·
Charlie Peacock, American Christian
producer, singer-songwriter ·
August 12 – Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor ·
Jackée Harry, American actress and
television personality ·
Rusty Wallace, American NASCAR race car driver ·
August 17 – Dave
Jones, English football manager ·
August 19 – Adam Arkin, American actor ·
Joan Allen, American actress ·
Jan Henry T. Olsen,
Norwegian politician (d. 2018) ·
August 21 – Kim Cattrall, English-born Canadian actress ·
Sid Michaels
Kavulich, American politician and sportscaster (d. 2018) ·
Paul Molitor, American baseball player ·
Andreas Floer, German mathematician
(d. 1991) ·
Cris Morena, Argentine actress and
television producer ·
John Culberson, American politician ·
Kevin Dunn, American actor ·
August 25 – Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally car driver
(d. 1986) ·
August 26 – Mark Mangino, American football coach ·
August 29 – Mark Morris,
American choreographer ·
Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television
performer ·
Tsai Ing-wen, President
of the Republic of China September[edit] ·
September 1 – Bernie Wagenblast,
American editor and broadcaster ·
Nandamuri
Harikrishna, Indian actor and politician (d. 2018) ·
Angelo Fusco, Provisional Irish Republican
Army member ·
September 3 – Pat McGeown, Provisional Irish Republican
Army member (d. 1996) ·
September 11 – Phillip D. Bissett,
American politician ·
Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor (d. 2003) ·
Ricky Rudd, American race car driver ·
Walter Woon, law professor and former Nominated
Member of Parliament and Attorney-General
of Singapore ·
September 13 – Ilie Balaci, Romanian football player
(d. 2018) ·
Kostas Karamanlis,
Greek politician ·
Ray Wilkins, English footballer and coach
(d. 2018) ·
September 15 – George Howard,
American jazz saxophone musician (d. 1998) ·
Sergei Beloglazov,
Russian free-style wrestler ·
David
Copperfield, American illusionist ·
Ross Greenberg, American journalist and
antivirus pioneer (d. 2017) ·
Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor,
painter, and publisher ·
Almazbek Atambayev,
3-Time Prime
Minister of Kyrgyzstan and 4th President of
Kyrgyzstan ·
September 18 – Tim McInnerny, English actor ·
Gary Cole, American actor ·
Debbi Morgan, African-American actress ·
September 21 – Jack Givens, American basketball player ·
Mait Riisman, Estonian water polo player
(d. 2018) ·
Peter David, comic book writer and novelist ·
Paolo Rossi, Italian soccer player ·
September 24 – Gregory Peter Panos, American futurist,
writer, inventor ·
September 25 – Jamie Hyneman, American television co-host ·
September 26 – Linda Hamilton, American actress ·
September 29 – Sebastian Coe, Baron Coe, British athlete;
co-ordinator of the London 2012 Olympic
Games ·
September 30 – Gordon Elliott, British-Australian
television personality and talk show host October[edit] ·
Tara Buckman, American actress ·
Andrus Ansip, Estonian politician,
10th Prime Minister
of Estonia ·
Theresa May, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom ·
October 2 – Charlie Adler, American voice actor and
director ·
October 3 – Ralph Morgenstern,
German actor ·
October 4 – Christoph Waltz, German-Austrian actor ·
October 8 – Stephanie Zimbalist,
American actress ·
October 10 – Amanda Burton, Irish actress ·
October 11 – Nicanor Duarte, 47th President of
Paraguay ·
October 12 – Trần
Đại Quang, President of Vietnam (d. 2018) ·
October 16 – Rudra Mohammad
Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet (d. 1992) ·
Mae Jemison, African American astronaut ·
Stephen Palumbi, American academic and
author ·
Craig Bartlett, American animator and voice
actor ·
Martina Navratilova,
Czech-American tennis player ·
October 19 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 2003) ·
Sonja Ball, Canadian voice actress ·
Danny Boyle, English film director ·
October 21 – Carrie Fisher, American actress and novelist
(d. 2016) ·
October 22 – Marvin Bush, American businessman ·
October 23 – Dwight Yoakam, American country singer,
musician and actor ·
October 26 – Rita Wilson, American actress and producer ·
October 28 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
6th President of Iran November[edit] ·
November 5 – Rob Fisher,
British keyboardist and songwriter (Climie Fisher) (d. 1999) ·
Mikhail Alperin, Soviet-Norwegian jazz
pianist (d. 2018) ·
Judy Tenuta, American comedian ·
November 8 – Richard Curtis, English film director,
producer and screenwriter ·
Sinbad,
American stand-up, comedian and actor ·
Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur,
political activist, and writer ·
November 11 – Talat Aziz, ghazal singer ·
Avi Cohen, Israeli football player (d. 2010) ·
Peter R. de Vries,
crime reporter ·
November 17 – Kelly Ward, American actor ·
Noel Brotherston, Irish footballer (d. 1995) ·
Warren Moon, American football player ·
Jan Maxwell, American actress (d. 2018) ·
Bo Derek, American actress and model ·
Olli Dittrich, German actor, comedian,
television personality and musician ·
November 21 – Terri Welles, American actress and adult
model ·
November 22 – Richard Kind, American actor ·
Shane Gould, Australian swimmer ·
Nikolay Sidorov, Soviet athlete ·
Jimmy
Hibbert, British comedian and script writer and script editor ·
November 24 – Jouni Kaipainen, Finnish composer ·
November 26 – Dale Jarrett, American race car driver ·
Nazrin Shah of Perak,
35th Sultan of Perak ·
William Fichtner, American actor ·
Kristine Arnold, American singer (Sweethearts of
the Rodeo) ·
Lucy Gutteridge, English actress ·
Eric Laakso, American football player ·
Leo Laporte, American author and television
host December[edit] ·
Klaus Allofs, German football player ·
Krystian Zimerman,
Polish pianist ·
Peter Buck, American guitarist ·
Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (d. 1982) ·
Larry Bird, American basketball player ·
Iveta Radičová, Prime Minister
of Slovakia ·
Jean-Pierre Thiollet,
French writer ·
Baruch Goldstein, American-Israeli physician
and mass murderer (d. 1994) ·
December 10 – Rod Blagojevich, American politician and
convicted felon, Governor of Illinois (2003–2009) ·
December 11 – Lani Brockman, American playwright ·
Ana Alicia, Mexican actress ·
Johan van der Velde,
Dutch cyclist ·
December 13 – Majida El Roumi, Lebanese singer ·
December 14 – Béla Réthy, German sports journalist ·
December 16 – Duncan Faure, South African musician ·
December 18 – Ron White, American comedian ·
Masami Akita, Japanese noise musician (also known as Merzbow) ·
Jimmy Cauty, British musician (The KLF, The Timelords) ·
December 21 – Anna Erlandsson, Swedish filmmaker and
animator ·
Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver
(d. 2001) ·
Dave Murray,
British musician (Iron Maiden) ·
Anil Kapoor, Indian actor ·
Shim Hwa-jin, South Korean academic ·
Michael Jones (aka
Kashif), musician, singer-songwriter (B.T. Express) (d. 2016) ·
David Sedaris, American essayist ·
Nigel Kennedy, English violinist ·
Jimmy Nicholl, Canadian-born footballer ·
December 29 – Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian ·
Patricia Kalember,
American actress ·
Sheryl Lee Ralph, African American actress ·
December 31 – Hussein Ahmed Salah,
Djiboutian marathon player Date unknown[edit] ·
Gilma Jiménez, Colombian politician
(d. 2013) ·
Nancy Lynn, American aerobatic pilot
(d. 2006) ·
Shelagh Rogers, Canadian radio host ·
Miladin Šobić, Montenegrin singer ·
Susan Solomon, American atmospheric chemist Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
Alexander
Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864) ·
Joseph Wirth, former Chancellor
of Germany (b. 1876) ·
January 5 – Mistinguett, French singer and actress
(b. 1875) ·
January 9 – Marion Leonard, American actress (b. 1881) ·
January 10 – Karl Ludwig Schmidt,
German theologian (b. 1891) ·
January 12 – Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894) ·
January 13 – Lyonel Charles Feininger, German painter
(b. 1871) ·
January 14 – Sheila Kaye-Smith,
English writer (b. 1887) ·
January 18 – Konstantin Päts,
1st President of Estonia (b. 1874) ·
January 21 – Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883) ·
January 23 – Sir Alexander Korda, Hungarian-born film
director (b. 1893) ·
January 27 – Erich Kleiber, German conductor (b. 1890) ·
January 29 – H. L. Mencken, American writer (b. 1880) ·
January 31 – A. A. Milne, English author (Winnie The
Pooh) (b. 1882) February[edit] ·
Bob Burns,
American comedian (b. 1890) ·
Charley Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869) ·
February 3 – Robert Yerkes, American psychologist and
ethologist (b. 1876) ·
February 8 – Connie Mack, American baseball executive and
manager (Philadelphia
Athletics) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1862) ·
February 10 – Hugh
Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, British marshal of the Royal
Air Force (b. 1873) ·
February 18 – Gustave Charpentier,
French composer (b. 1860) ·
Heinrich Barkhausen,
German physicist (b. 1881) ·
James Cousins, Irish writer (b. 1873) ·
February 26 – Elsie Janis, American singer and actress
(b. 1889) ·
February 29 – Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of
the Philippines (b. 1890) March[edit] ·
March 12 – Bolesław Bierut,
Polish Communist politician and statesman, former Prime Minister and Presdident of
Poland (b. 1892) ·
March 14 – David Browning, American Olympic diver
(b. 1931) ·
March 17 ·
Fred Allen, American comedian (b. 1894) ·
Irène Joliot-Curie,
French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry (b. 1897) ·
March 18 – Louis Bromfield, American writer (b. 1896) ·
March 20 ·
Fanny Durack, Australian swimmer (b. 1889) ·
Wilhelm Miklas, 3rd President of Austria (b. 1889) ·
March 21 – Edwin Thanhouser, American actor,
businessman, and film producer, founder of the Thanhouser Company (b. 1865) ·
March 22 – Eduardo Lonardi, Argentine military officer,
(de facto) 30th President of
Argentina (b. 1896) ·
March 25 ·
Lou Moore, American racing driver and team
owner (b. 1904) ·
Robert Newton, English film actor (b. 1905) ·
March 28 – Thomas de Hartmann,
Russian composer (b. 1885) ·
March 30 – Edmund Clerihew
Bentley, English inventor (b. 1875) ·
March 31 – Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver
(b. 1884) April[edit] ·
April 6 – Pío Valenzuela,
Filipino physician and one of the leaders of the Katipunan (b. 1869) ·
April 13 – Emil Nolde, German-Danish painter (b. 1867) ·
April 15 – Kathleen Howard, Canadian-born American actress
and opera singer (b. 1884) ·
April 19 – Ernst Robert Curtius,
Alsatian philologist (b. 1886) ·
April 21 ·
Samuel Gottesman, American pulp-paper
merchant (b. 1885) ·
Charles MacArthur,
American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1895) ·
April 24 – Henry Stephenson, British character actor
(b. 1871) ·
April 26 – Edward Arnold,
American actor (b. 1890) ·
June 28 – Friedrich
Schmidt-Ott, German lawyer, scientific organizer, and science
policymaker (b. 1860) ·
April 29 ·
Harold Bride, English-born junior radio
officer on RMS Titanic (b. 1890) ·
Wilhelm Ritter
von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876) ·
April 30 – Alben W. Barkley, 35th Vice
President of the United States (b. 1877) May[edit] ·
May 3 ·
Rodney Collin, British writer (b. 1909) ·
Peter
Watson, English art collector and benefactor (b. 1908) ·
May 12 – Louis Calhern, American actor (b. 1895) ·
May 15 – Austin Osman Spare,
English artist and occultist (b. 1886) ·
May 18 – Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895) ·
May 20 ·
Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist and
caricaturist (b. 1872) ·
Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian Olympic swimmer
(b. 1881) ·
May 23 – Gustav Suits, Estonian poet (b. 1883) ·
May 24 – Guy Kibbee, American actor (b. 1882) ·
May 26 – Al Simmons, American baseball player (Philadelphia
Athletics) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1902) ·
May 29 – Frank Beaurepaire,
Australian Olympic swimmer (b. 1891) ·
May 31 – Diedrich
Hermann Westermann, German linguist (b. 1875) June[edit] ·
June 2 ·
Richard S. Edwards,
American admiral (b. 1885) ·
Jean Hersholt, Danish actor (b. 1886) ·
June 4 – Katherine MacDonald,
American silent film actress (b. 1891) ·
June 6 ·
Hiram Bingham,
American explorer, discoverer of Machu Picchu (b. 1875) ·
Margaret Wycherly,
English stage and film actress (b. 1881) ·
June 11 ·
Frank Brangwyn, Anglo-Welsh artist (b. 1867) ·
Ralph Morgan, American actor (b. 1883) ·
June 17 ·
Paul Rostock, German official, surgeon, and
university professor (b. 1892) ·
Artur Văitoianu,
27th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1864) ·
June 22 – Walter de la Mare,
English poet, short story writer, and novelist (b. 1873) ·
June 23 – Reinhold Glière,
Russian composer (b. 1875) ·
June 25 – Ernest King, American Fleet Admiral
(b. 1878) ·
June 26 – Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter
(b. 1930) ·
June 28 – Claud
Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster, British civil servant (b. 1869) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Tawfik Abu Al-Huda,
4-Time Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1894) ·
July 7 – Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886) ·
July 8 – Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist, poet,
novelist (b. 1881) ·
July 10 – Joe Giard, American baseball player
(b. 1898) ·
July 11 – John T. Raulston, Scopes Monkey Trial judge
(b. 1868) ·
July 20 – James Alexander
Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1868) ·
July 24 – Géza Zemplén,
Hungarian chemist (b. 1883) August[edit] ·
August 2 – Albert Woolson, last surviving Union veteran
of the American Civil War (b. 1847) ·
August 9 – Archie Cameron, Australian politician
(b. 1895) ·
Jackson Pollock, American painter (b. 1912) ·
Mincho Neychev, former Chairman of the
Presidium of the National Assembly (head of state) of Bulgaria (b. 1887) ·
Bertolt Brecht, German playwright (b. 1898) ·
Konstantin von
Neurath, Nazi German diplomat and foreign minister (b. 1873) ·
Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born film actor (Dracula)
(b. 1882) ·
Lynde D. McCormick,
American admiral (b. 1895) ·
August 19 – Bernard Griffin, English Cardinal,
Catholic Archbishop of
Westminster (b. 1899) ·
August 23 – Peaches Browning, American actress (b. 1910) ·
August 24 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director
(b. 1898) ·
August 25 – Alfred Kinsey, American sex researcher
(b. 1894) September[edit] ·
Lee Jung-seob, Korean oil painter (b. 1872) ·
Felix Borowski, British-American composer
and teacher (b. 1872) ·
Billy Bishop, Canadian World War I flying
ace (b. 1894) ·
Lucien Febvre, French historian (b. 1878) ·
September 20 – Flora Eldershaw, Australian novelist,
critic, and historian (b. 1897) ·
September 22 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1877) ·
Milburn G. Apt, American test pilot
(b. 1924) ·
Babe Zaharias, American golfer (b. 1911) ·
September 29 – Anastasio Somoza
García, President of
Nicaragua (assassinated) (b. 1896) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Albert Von Tilzer,
American songwriter (b. 1878) ·
October 2 – George Bancroft,
American actor (b. 1882) ·
October 9 – Marie Doro, American stage & silent film
actress (b. 1882) ·
October 12 – Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872) ·
October 14 – Don Jules Richard, French mathematician
(b. 1862) ·
October 16 – Don Jules Rimet, French football administrator,
3rd president of FIFA (b. 1873) ·
October 17 – Anne Crawford, British actress (b. 1920) ·
October 19 – Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894) ·
October 22 – Hannah Mitchell, English socialist and
suffragette (b. 1872) ·
October 25 – Risto Ryti, 23rd Prime Minister
of Finland and 5th President of Finland (b. 1889) ·
October 26 – Walter Gieseking, French conductor (b. 1895) ·
October 27 – Charles S. Johnson,
American sociologist (b. 1893) ·
October 30 – Pío Baroja, Spanish novelist (b. 1872) November[edit] ·
Pietro Badoglio, Italian general and
28th Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1871) ·
Tommy Johnson,
American musician (b. 1896) ·
November 2 – Leo Baeck, German rabbi, scholar and
theologian (b. 1873) ·
November 3 – Jean Metzinger, French painter, theorist and
critic (b. 1883) ·
November 5 – Art Tatum, American jazz pianist (b. 1909) ·
November 6 – Paul Kelly,
American stage and film actor (b. 1899) ·
Harry F. Sinclair,
American entrepreneur (b. 1876) ·
Victor Young, American composer (b. 1900) ·
November 12 – Juan Negrín, 67th Prime Minister of Spain
(b. 1892) ·
November 19 – Francis L. Sullivan,
English actor (b. 1903) ·
November 22 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born ballet
dancer, choreographer and actor (b. 1882) ·
November 24 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920) ·
November 26 – Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist and
bandleader (b. 1905) ·
November 27 – Hugo Ballin, American artist, film
production designer, and director (b. 1879) December[edit] ·
December 2 – Dell Henderson, Canadian actor (b. 1883) ·
December 3 – Alexander Rodchenko,
Russian artist (b. 1891) ·
December 6 – Dr B. R. Ambedkar, A founding father of modern
India, the architect of its constitution and Indian dalit leader (b. 1891) ·
December 7 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (b. 1887) ·
December 9 – Charles Joughin, British baker, Tiranic
survivor (b. 1878)) ·
December 10 – David Shimoni, Israeli poet and writer
(b. 1891) ·
December 12 – Ewald André Dupont,
German film director (b. 1891) ·
December 14 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi,
twice Prime Minister
of Finland and 7th President of Finland (b. 1870) ·
René Couzinet, French aeronautics engineer
and aircraft manufacturer (suicide) (b. 1904) ·
Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (b. 1890) ·
December 17 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (b. 1903) ·
December 21 – Lewis Terman, American psychologist
(b. 1877) ·
December 23 – Josep Puig i
Cadafalch, Spanish architect (b. 1867) ·
December 26 – Holmes Herbert, English actor (b. 1882) ·
December 30 – Ruth Draper, American actress (b. 1884) Date unknown[edit] ·
Lotte Herrlich, female photographer of
German naturism[clarification
needed] Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser
Brattain ·
Chemistry –
Sir Cyril Norman
Hinshelwood, Nikolay Semyonov ·
Physiology
or Medicine – André Frédéric
Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W.
Richards ·
Literature – Juan Ramón Jiménez ·
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