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1959 (MCMLIX) was
a common year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1959th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of
the 20th century,
and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] January 3: American statehood for Alaska January 8: Fidel Castro arrives in Havana January 25: Boeing 707 begins service Main article: January 1959 ·
Cultivars of plants named after this
date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin. ·
Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. ·
CBS Radio discontinues four soap
operas: Backstage Wife, Our
Gal Sunday, The Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake. ·
The Soviet Union successfully launches
the Luna 1 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome. ·
The
island of Addu in
the Maldives declares independence. ·
Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S.
state. ·
In Cuba,
rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter
the city of Havana. ·
In Léopoldville, at least 49 people are killed
during clashes between
the police and participants of a meeting of the Abako Party. ·
Fidel Castro arrives in Havana. ·
The International
Maritime Organization is inaugurated. ·
January 7 – The United States
recognizes the new Cuban government
of Fidel Castro. ·
January 8 – Charles de Gaulle is
inaugurated as the first president of the French Fifth
Republic. ·
January 10 – The Soviet government recognizes the new
Castro government. ·
January 11 – The Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques is
founded in Monaco. ·
The Caves of Nerja are discovered in Spain. ·
Motown Records is founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. ·
January 13 – Cuban communists execute
71 supporters of Fulgencio Batista. ·
January 15 – The Soviet Union conducts its first census after World War II. ·
January 21 – The European
Court of Human Rights is established. ·
January 22 – Knox Mine Disaster:
Water breaches the River Slope Mine in Port
Griffith, Pennsylvania near Pittston,
Pennsylvania; 12 miners are killed. ·
The Boeing 707 airliner begins service. ·
Pope John XXIII announces that
the Second Vatican
Council will be convened in Rome. ·
January 29 – Walt Disney releases his 16th animated
film, Sleeping
Beauty in Beverly Hills.
It is Disney's first animated film to be shown in 70mm and modern 6-track stereophonic
sound.[1] Also
on the program is Disney's new live-action short subject Grand Canyon,
which uses the music of Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite. Grand
Canyonwins an Oscar for Best Documentary Short. ·
January 30 – Danish passenger/cargo
ship MS Hans Hedtoft,
returning to Copenhagen after
its maiden voyage to Greenland, strikes an
iceberg and sinks off the Greenland coast with the loss of all 95 on board.[2] February[edit] Main article: February 1959 February 17: Technical drawing of Vanguard 2 ·
February 1 – A referendum
in Switzerland turns down female suffrage. ·
February 2 – Nine ski hikers
mysteriously perish in the northern Ural Mountains in the Dyatlov Pass
incident and are all found dead a few weeks later. ·
A
chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper with pilot Roger Peterson goes
down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all four on board.
The tragedy is later termed "The Day the Music
Died", popularized in Don McLean's 1971 song
"American Pie". ·
American
Airlines Flight 320, a Lockheed L-188 Electra from
Chicago crashes into the East River on approach to New York
City's LaGuardia Airport, killing 65 of the 73 people on board. ·
February 6 – At Cape Canaveral,
Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan
intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished. ·
February 9 – Yugoslavia and Spain set trade relations (not
diplomatic ones). ·
February 13 – TAT-2, AT&T's
second transatlantic
telephone cable goes into operation. ·
Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba. ·
A blizzard causes a massive power outage
in Newfoundland. ·
February 17 – Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite,
is launched to measure cloud cover for the United States Navy. ·
Jesús Sosa Blanco,
a colonel in the Cuban army of Fulgencio Batista,
is executed in Cuba after being convicted of
committing 108 murders for Batista. ·
Women
in Nepal vote
for the first time. ·
February 19 – The United Kingdom
decides to grant independence to Cyprus. ·
February 20 – The Canadian Government cancels
the Avro Canada
CF-105 Arrow interceptor aircraft project. ·
February 22 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500 at Daytona
International Speedway. March[edit] Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, traditional residence of the Dalai Lamauntil March 1959. (2006 photo) March 2: Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. March 8: The Marx Brothers retire March 31: Busch Gardens opens in Florida Main article: March 1959 ·
March 1 ·
The USS Tuscaloosa, USS New
Orleans, USS Tennessee and USS West
Virginia are stricken from the Naval Vessel
Register. ·
Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus from exile. ·
March 2 – Recording sessions for the
album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis take place at Columbia's 30th
Street Studio in New York City. ·
March 3 – Pioneer 4 becomes first American object
to escape dominance by Earth's gravity. ·
March 8 – The Marx Brothers make their last
television appearance, in The
Incredible Jewel Robbery, part of General Electric
Theatre ·
March 9 – Mattel's Barbie doll debuts in the United
States. ·
March 10 – The Tibetan uprising erupts
in Lhasa when
Chinese officials attempt to arrest the Dalai Lama. ·
March 11 ·
Een
beetje by Teddy
Scholten (music by Dick Schallies, text by Willy van Hemert) wins the Eurovision
Song Contest for the Netherlands. ·
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry opens
on Broadway. ·
March 17 – ·
Tenzin
Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama escapes Tibet, arrives in India. ·
March 18 – American President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs
a bill to
grant statehood to Hawaii. ·
March 19 – Two other islands join Addu in the United Suvadive
Republic (abolished September 1963),
in the Maldives Islands. ·
March 26 – Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane holds initial record
sessions for album Giant Steps with Cedar Walton and Lex Humphries. ·
March 28 – The Kashag, the government of Tibet, is abolished by an order signed by
Chinese premier Zhou Enlai.
The Dalai Lama is replaced in China by a
puppet ruler, the Panchen Lama. ·
March 31 ·
USA: Busch Gardens opens in Tampa, Florida. ·
India: The Dalai Lama is granted asylum. April[edit] Main article: April 1959 ·
April 6 – The 31st Academy Awards ceremony
is held. ·
April 8 – The Inter-American
Development Bank (IADB) is established. ·
April 9 – NASA announces
its selection of seven military pilots to become the first
U.S. astronauts (later known as the Mercury Seven). ·
April 10 – Crown Prince Akihito of Japan marries Shōda Michiko, the first commoner to
marry into the Imperial House of
Japan. ·
April 22 – Recording sessions for the
influential jazz album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis take place at Columbia's
30th Street Studio in New York City. ·
April 25 – The Saint Lawrence
Seaway linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean
officially opens to shipping. ·
April 27 – National
People's Congress elects Liu Shaoqi as Chairman
of the People's Republic of China, as a successor of Mao Zedong. May[edit] May 28: Miss Baker awaits launch. Main article: May 1959 ·
May ·
The
first Ten Tors event is held in Dartmoor. ·
Import tariffs are lifted in the United
Kingdom. ·
May 2 – 1959 FA Cup Final:
Nottingham Forest defeats Luton Town 2–1. ·
May 4 – Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane begins two days of
principal recording sessions for jazz album Giant Steps. ·
May 16 – The Triton Fountain is
inaugurated in Valletta, Malta. ·
May 18 – The National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire is
launched in Conakry, Guinea. ·
May 21 – Gypsy: A Musical
Fable, starring Ethel Merman in her last new musical,
opens on Broadway and
runs for 702 performances ·
May 24 – British Empire Day is
renamed Commonwealth Day. ·
May 28 USA Florida, Cape
Canaveral: Jupiter AM-18 launches
two monkeys, Miss Able and Miss Baker, into space along with living
microorganisms and plant seeds. Successful recovery makes them the first
living beings to return safely to Earth after space flight. June[edit] Main article: June 1959 ·
June 3 ·
Singapore becomes a self-governing
crown colony of Britain with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister. ·
Real Madrid beats Stade Reims 2–0 at Neckarstadion, Stuttgart and wins the 1958–59 European Cup (football). ·
June 5 – A new government of the State of Singapore is sworn in by Sir
William Goode. Two former ministers are re-elected to the Legislative
Assembly. ·
June 8 – The USS Barbero and United
States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail. ·
June 9 – The USS George
Washington is launched as the first submarine to
carry ballistic missiles. ·
June 14 ·
Disneyland
Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the
Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California. ·
A
3-front invasion of the Dominican Republic by
exile forces backed by Fidel Castro and Venezuela attempt to overthrow Rafael Trujillo. ·
June 18 – The film The Nun's Story,
based on the best-selling novel, is released. Audrey Hepburn stars as the title
character; she later says that this is her favorite film role. The film is
a box-office hit, and is nominated for
several Oscars. ·
June 23 ·
Seán Lemass becomes the third Taoiseach of Ireland. ·
Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine
years in a British prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a
scientific career. ·
June 25 – A KH-1 Corona,
believed to be the first operational reconnaissance satellite, is launched as
science mission "Discoverer 4"
from Vandenberg Air
Force Base aboard a Thor-Agena rocket. ·
June 26 ·
Elizabeth II (Queen of Canada) and United States
President Dwight Eisenhower open
the Saint Lawrence
Seaway. ·
Darby
O'Gill and the Little People, a film based on H. T.
Kavanagh's short stories, is
released in the U.S. by the Walt Disney
Company two days after a world premiere in Ireland. ·
June 30 – Twenty-one students are
killed and more than a hundred injured when an American North American F-100 Super Sabre jet
crashes into Miamori Elementary School on the island of Okinawa. The pilot ejected before the plane
struck the school.[3] July[edit] July 17: Site of Australopithecus boisei discovery
in Tanzania. July 24: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and
USA Vice President Richard Nixon engage
in the Kitchen Debate Main article: July 1959 ·
July 1 – Australia's longest running
children's TV series, Mr. Squiggle, first airs on ABC Television. ·
July 2 – Prince Albert of
Belgium marries Italian Donna Paola Ruffo di
Calabria. ·
July 4 – With the admission of Alaska
as the 49th U.S. state earlier
in the year, the 49-star flag of the
United States debuts in Philadelphia. ·
July 7 – At 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. The rare event (which will next
occur on October 1, 2044) is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the
structure of Venus' atmosphere. ·
July 9 – Wing Commander Michael Beetham flying a Royal Air Force Vickers Valiant sets a record of 11
hours 27 minutes for a non-stop London-Cape Town flight.[4] ·
July 14 – Groups of Kurdish and communist militias rebel in Kirkuk, Iraq against the central
government.[5] ·
July 15 – A strike occurs
against the United States' steel industry. ·
July 17 – The first skull of Australopithecus is discovered
by Louis Leakey and
his wife Mary in
the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania. ·
July 22 – A Kumamoto University medical
research group studying Minamata disease concludes that it is
caused by mercury. ·
July 24 ·
At
the opening of the American
National Exhibition in Moscow, United
States Vice President Richard Nixon and USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev engage
in the "Kitchen Debate". ·
In Long Beach, United States, Akiko Kojima of Japan will crown Miss Universe 1959. ·
July 25 – The SR.N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours, on the 50th
anniversary of Louis Blériot's
first crossing by heavier-than-air craft. August[edit] August 7: Launch of Explorer 6 August 26: Interior of the Mini Main article: August 1959 ·
August 4 – Martial law is declared in Laos. ·
August 7 ·
Explorer program: The United States
launches Explorer 6 from
the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. ·
United
States: The Roseburg, Oregon blast kills
14 and causes $12 million worth of damage. ·
August 8 – A flood in Taiwan kills 2,000. ·
August 14 – Explorer 6 sends the first picture
of Earth from orbit. ·
August 15 – Cyprus gains independence. ·
The 1959 Hebgen
Lake earthquake in southwest Montana kills 28. ·
Columbia Records releases Miles Davis album Kind of Blue. ·
August 19 – The Central
Treaty Organization (CENTO) is established. ·
August 21 – Hawaii is admitted as the 50th U.S. state. ·
August 24 – Cyprus joins the United Nations. ·
August 26 – The original Mini designed
by Sir Alec Issigonis is
launched. ·
August 31 – Beijing Workers’ Stadium,
known well for sports venues in China, officially opened.[6][7] September[edit] September 26: Typhoon Vera storm path Main article: September 1959 ·
September 12 – "Bonanza" premieres, first regularly
scheduled TV program presented in color. ·
September 14 – Luna 2 becomes the first man-made
object to crash on the Moon. ·
September 15 – September 28 – USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev and
his wife tour the United States, at the invitation of U.S. President Dwight David
Eisenhower. ·
September 16 – The Xerox 914, the first plain paper copier, is
introduced to the public. ·
The
first Navy Navigation Satellite System Transit 1A is
launched but fails to reach orbit. ·
The hypersonic North American X-15 research
vehicle, piloted by Scott Crossfield, makes its first powered
flight at Edwards Air Force
Base, California. ·
September 23 – The MS Princess of Tasmania,
(Australia's first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry), makes its maiden voyage
across the Bass Strait. ·
September 25 – Ceylon's prime minister S. W. R. D.
Bandaranaike is assassinated. ·
Typhoon Vera hits central Honshū, Japan, as a 160 mph
Category 5 storm, killing an estimated 5,098, injuring another 38,921, and
leaving 1,533,000 homeless. Most of the victims and damage are centered in
the Nagoya area. ·
First
large unit action of the Vietnam War takes place, when two
companies of the ARVN 23d
Division are ambushed by a well-organized Viet Cong force of several hundred,
identified as the "2d Liberation Battalion". ·
September 30 – Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev meets Mao Zedong in Beijing. October[edit] October 21: Atrium of the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Main article: October 1959 ·
October 1 – The 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China is
celebrated with pomp across the country. ·
October 2 – Rod Serling's classic anthology series The
Twilight Zone premieres on CBS. ·
October 7 – The U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 sends back the first ever
photos of the far side of the Moon. ·
October 12 – At the national APRA Congress
in Peru, a group of leftist radicals is
expelled from the party; they later form APRA Rebelde. ·
October 13 – The United States
launches Explorer 7. ·
October 16 – Founding of the Boston Patriots, AFL American football club. ·
October 21 – In New York City,
the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright)
opens to the public. ·
October 29 – First appearance of Astérix the Gaul.[8] ·
October 31 – Riots break out in
the Belgian Congo. November[edit] Main article: November 1959 November 18: Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur ·
November 1 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is
beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of
violence known as the wind of destruction. ·
November 2 – At a ceremony near Toddington,
British Minister
of Transport Ernest Marples opens the first section
of the M1 Motorway,
between Watford and Crick,
along with two spur motorways,
the M45 and M10.
Three decades of large scale motorway construction follow, leading to the
rapid expansion of the UK motorway
network. ·
November 12 – The Warner Bros. religious epic The Miracle,
very loosely based on the 1911 stage pantomime Das Mirakel,
is released. It is a critical and financial bomb. ·
November 15 – The Clutter family
of Holcomb, Kansas is
brutally murdered, inspiring Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. ·
November 18 – MGM releases
widescreen Technicolor version
of Ben-Hur,
starring Charlton Heston.
Film goes on to win record number of Academy Awards. Last MGM film to win Best
Picture Oscar; Doctor Zhivagonominated
in 1965. ·
November 20 – The Declaration
of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations. December[edit] December 1: Twelve nations sign the Antarctic Treaty. Main article: December 1959 ·
December 1 – Cold War – Antarctic Treaty:
12 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a landmark treaty that
sets aside Antarctica as a
scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent (the first arms controlagreement established during the
Cold War). ·
December 2 – Malpasset Dam in southern France
collapses and water flows over the town of Fréjus, killing 412. ·
December 8 – The Mona, a
lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland, capsizes during a rescue
attempt, with the loss of 8 lives. ·
December 11 – Charles Robberts
Swart is appointed the 11th Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. ·
December 14 – Makarios III is selected the
first president of Cyprus. ·
December 28 – After having been shot
two years earlier, Ante Pavelić dies from his wounds
in a Spanish hospital. Date unknown[edit] Illustration of two Caspian tigers. ·
The Daytona
International Speedway completes construction. ·
Nylon
tights, popularly called pantyhose or sheer tights, first sold
on the open market as 'Panti-Legs' by Glen Raven Knitting Mills. ·
The Workers World Party is
founded by Sam Marcy. ·
The
first known human with HIV dies in the Congo.[9] ·
The
current (as of 2006) design of the Japanese 10 yen coin is put into circulation. ·
The Caspian tiger becomes extinct in Iran. ·
The Henney Kilowatt goes on sale in the
United States, becoming the first mass-produced electric car in almost three decades. ·
Erving Goffman publishes his seminal
study in sociology, The
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. ·
The
iconic 1959 Cadillac is introduced,
with tailfin wars
peaking that had begun in 1948. ·
Chevy
El Camino is introduced. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Azali Assoumani, President of the
Comoros ·
January 2 – Joe Bevilacqua, American producer, director,
writer, actor ·
Vanity, Canadian singer and actress
(d. 2016) ·
January 5 – Clancy Brown, American actor ·
Andrew Johnson, English artist (d. 2016) ·
Adnan Abu Hassan, Malaysian composer and
musician (d. 2016) ·
January 7 – Karl Kesel, American comics writer ·
Rigoberta Menchú,
Guatemalan recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ·
Mark Martin, American NASCAR driver ·
January 10 – Larry McReynolds, American Fox Sports commentator ·
January 12 – Per Gessle, Swedish singer-songwriter and
guitarist (Roxette) ·
January 16 – Sade, Nigerian-born singer ·
Susanna Hoffs, American rock vocalist ·
Rand Miller, American video game designer ·
Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer ·
José Uribe, Dominican Major League
Baseball player (d. 2006) ·
Alex McLeish, Nottingham Forest player ·
Paulo Miklos, Brazilian singer and actor ·
January 22 – Linda Blair, American actress ·
January 24 – Vic Reeves, English comedian ·
January 27 – Keith Olbermann, American news anchor and
sportscaster ·
January 29 – Mike Foligno, Canadian ice hockey player ·
January 30 – Jody Watley, African-American singer ·
Kelly Lynch, American model and actress ·
Kelly Moore, American race car driver February[edit] ·
Jari Tervo, Finnish author ·
Hella von Sinnen, German TV-entertainer ·
February 3 – UliUli Fifita, Tongan professional Wrestler
aka(Haku/Meng) ·
Pamelyn Ferdin, American former child
actress; animal rights activist ·
Raquel Morell, Mexican actress ·
Lawrence Taylor, American football player ·
February 5 – Jennifer Granholm,
Canadian-American politician, 47th Governor of Michigan (2003–2011) ·
Pat Bullard, Canadian game show host,
comedian and writer ·
Ken
Nelson, English record producer ·
February 7 – Vladimír Havlík,
Czech action artist ·
February 8 – Mauricio Macri, President of
Argentina ·
February 9 – Joachim Kunz, East German Olympic
weightlifter ·
February 10 – Dennis Gentry, American football player ·
February 14 – Renée Fleming, American soprano ·
February 16 – John McEnroe, American tennis player ·
February 18 – Jayne Atkinson, English-born American film,
theatre and television actress ·
February 20 – Scott Brayton, American race car driver
(d. 1996) ·
February 21 – Werner Schünemann,
Brazilian actor and film director ·
February 22 – Kyle MacLachlan, American actor ·
February 23 – Ian Liddell-Grainger,
British politician ·
February 25 – Renee M. Borges, Indian ecologist ·
February 26 – Rolando Blackman, Panamanian basketball player March[edit] ·
March 1 – Nick Griffin, British politician ·
March 4 ·
Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter ·
Irina Strakhova, Russian race walker ·
March 5 ·
Mike Byster, American mathematician, mental calculator and math educator ·
Vazgen Sargsyan, 8th Prime Minister of
Armenia (d. 1999) ·
March 6 ·
Tom Arnold,
American actor and comedian ·
Jaime
Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, Spanish Filipino businessman ·
Lars Larson, American conservative talk show
host ·
March 7 – Donna Murphy, American actress and singer ·
March 8 ·
Lester Holt, American television journalist
and news anchor ·
Aidan Quinn, Irish-American actor ·
March 9 ·
Giovanni di Lorenzo,
German-Italian journalist and talk show host ·
Takaaki Kajita, Japanese nuclear physicist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Physics ·
March 10 – Mike Wallace,
American race car driver ·
March 11 ·
Nina Hartley, American pornographic actress
and director ·
Margus Oopkaup, Estonian actor ·
Dejan
Stojanović, Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist and
businessman ·
Steven
B. Black, born in Orlando, Florida ·
March 13 ·
Kathy Hilton, American actress and
philanthropist ·
Bruce Byron, English actor ·
March 15 ·
Harold Baines, American baseball player ·
Fabio Lanzoni, Italian fashion model and
actor ·
March 16 ·
Flavor Flav, American rapper ·
Gary Basaraba, Canadian-American actor ·
Jens Stoltenberg, 27th Prime Minister
of Norway ·
March 17 ·
Danny Ainge, American basketball player,
coach and baseball player ·
Ken Lo, Hong Kong actor and member of
the Jackie Chan Stunt
Team ·
March 18 ·
Luc Besson, French film producer, writer and
director ·
Irene Cara, American singer ·
March 20 ·
Steve Borden, American wrestler ·
Richard Drummie, English guitarist and
composer (Go West) ·
Steve McFadden, British actor ·
March 21 – Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer ·
March 22 – Matthew Modine, American actor ·
March 23 ·
Kazue Ikura, Japanese voice actress ·
Catherine Keener, American actress ·
March 27 – Jun'ichi Sugawara,
Japanese voice actor ·
March 28 – Laura Chinchilla, 49th President of
Costa Rica ·
March 29 – Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer ·
March 30 – Andrew Bailey, Executive Director Banking and Chief Cashier at the Bank of England ·
March 31 – Markus Hediger, Swiss writer and translator April[edit] ·
April 2 – Badou Zaki, Moroccan football player and
manager ·
April 3 – David Hyde Pierce,
American actor ·
April 4 – Phil Morris,
American actor ·
April 10 ·
Joy Viado, Filipino comedian and actress
(d. 2016) ·
Brian Setzer, American rock guitarist and
singer ·
April 11 – Ana María Polo,
Cuban-born judge and television personality ·
April 14 – Steve Byrnes, American motorsports
broadcaster (d. 2015) ·
April 15 ·
Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director ·
Ray Neufeld, Canadian ice hockey player ·
John Onoje, Sierra Leonean-born Moldovan
activist ·
Emma Thompson, English actress ·
Thomas F. Wilson, American actor ·
April 16 ·
David Feiss, American animator ·
Alison Ramsay, Scottish field hockey player ·
April 17 – Sean Bean, British actor ·
April 19 – Patricia Charbonneau,
American actress ·
April 20 – Clint Howard, American actor and producer ·
April 21 – Robert Smith,
lead vocalist and guitarist of the British rock group The Cure ·
April 22 ·
Terry Francona, American baseball player and
manager ·
Ryan Stiles, American comedian ·
April 23 – Dan Frischman, American actor ·
April 24 – Paula Yates, British television presenter
(d. 2000) ·
April 25 – Tony Phillips, American baseball player
(d. 2016) ·
April 27 – Sheena Easton, Scottish singer ·
April 30 – Stephen Harper, 22nd Prime Minister
of Canada May[edit] ·
May 2 – Alan Best,
Canadian animation director and producer ·
May 3 ·
Uma Bharti, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh ·
Ben Elton, British comedian and writer ·
May 5 ·
Peter Molyneux, British game programmer ·
Steve Stevens, American guitarist ·
Brian Williams, American news anchor ·
Gary Dubin, American actor and voice actor
(d. 2016) ·
May 9 – János Áder, President of Hungary ·
May 10 – Victoria Rowell, American actress ·
May 12 – Ving Rhames, American actor ·
May 14 – Patrick Bruel, French singer ·
May 15 – Andrew Eldritch, British singer/songwriter ·
May 17 ·
Marcelo Loffreda, Argentine rugby player and
coach ·
Jim Nantz, American sports announcer ·
May 19 ·
Nicole Brown Simpson,
American ex-wife of O. J. Simpson and
murder victim (d. 1994) ·
Jim Ward,
American voice actor ·
May 20 ·
Bronson Pinchot, American actor ·
Israel
Kamakawiwoʻole, Hawaiian singer (d. 1997) ·
May 21 ·
Brian Lenihan,
Irish politician (d. 2011) ·
Loretta Lynch, United
States Attorney General ·
May 22 ·
David Blatt, Israeli-American professional
basketball player and coach ·
Morrissey, British singer ·
May 23 – Bob Mortimer, English comedian ·
May 24 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish-born hockey player
(d. 1985) ·
May 25 – Julian Clary, English comedian, actor and
author ·
May 26 – Kevin Gage,
American actor ·
May 27 ·
Katherine Lanpher,
American journalist ·
Donna Strickland, Canadian physicist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics ·
May 28 – Steve Strange, Welsh singer (Visage) (d. 2015) ·
May 29 ·
Gretchen,
Brazilian singer, reality television personality, actress and businesswoman ·
Rupert Everett, British actor ·
May 31 – Andrea de Cesaris,
Italian race car driver (d. 2014) June[edit] ·
June 6 – Paul Germain, American television
screenwriter and producer ·
June 7 – Mike Pence, 50th Governor of Indiana, 48th Vice
President of the United States ·
June 8 – Bernard White,
Sri Lankan-born American actor, screenwriter and film director ·
June 9 – Miles O'Brien,
American television news anchor, pilot ·
June 10 ·
Carlo Ancelotti, Italian football player and
manager ·
Phillip J. Roth, American film producer,
director and screenwriter ·
Eliot Spitzer, American politician and
former governor of
New York ·
June 11 ·
Hugh Laurie, British actor, comedian, and
musician ·
Magnum T.A., American professional wrestler ·
June 12 – John Linnell, American singer-songwriter,
half of alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants ·
June 13 – Klaus Iohannis, President of Romania ·
June 14 – Marcus Miller, American bassist ·
June 15 – Eileen Davidson, American actress and author ·
June 16 – The Ultimate Warrior,
American professional wrestler (d. 2014) ·
June 17 ·
Ulrike Richter, German swimmer ·
Kazuki Yao, Japanese voice actor ·
June 18 ·
Sione
Laumanuʻuli Luani, Tongan politician (d. 2010) ·
Joe Ansolabehere, American television
screenwriter and producer ·
June 19 – Christian Wulff, Federal
President of Germany ·
June 21 ·
Guerrinha, Brazilian basketball coach and
basketball player ·
Demetrio Román
Isidoro, Mexican architect and politician ·
Marcella Detroit, American soprano vocalist,
guitarist, and songwriter ·
Louis Febre, Mexican composer ·
June 22 ·
Wayne Federman, American comedian, actor,
and author ·
Ed Viesturs, American mountaineer ·
June 23 ·
Marc Larose, Seychellois sprinter ·
MGaramondla Valentini,
Italian actress ·
Steve Joughin, Manx road racing cyclist ·
June 24 – Andy McCluskey, English musician and
songwriter (OMD) ·
June 26 ·
Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and comedian ·
Stef Burns, American guitarist ·
Suresh Gopi, Indian actor ·
June 27 ·
Khadja Nin, Burundian singer and musician ·
Pétur Pétursson,
Icelandic footballer ·
Jeff
Miller, American politician ·
June 28 – John Shelley,
British illustrator ·
June 29 – Gina Alajar, Filipino film and television
actress and television director ·
June 30 – Vincent D'Onofrio,
American actor July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Mohamed Lemine
Ould Guig, Mauritanian academic and political figure ·
Dale Midkiff, American actor ·
Giovanni D'Aleo, Italian long-distance
runner ·
July 2 – Indi Nadarajah, Malaysian actor and comedian ·
July 3 – Julie Burchill, British journalist ·
July 4 ·
Victoria Abril, Spanish actress and singer ·
Joe Pannunzio, American football executive
and player and coach ·
July 5 ·
María
Concepción Navarrete, Mexican politician ·
Marc Cohn, American singer-songwriter ·
Akari Hibino, Japanese voice actress ·
Pablo Helman, Argentine special effects
artist ·
July 6 ·
Richard Dacoury, French basketball player ·
John Keeble, English pop and rock drummer ·
Michael
Hosking, Singapore-British educated entrepreneur ·
July 7 ·
Billy Campbell, American actor ·
Barbara Krause, German swimmer ·
Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987) ·
July 8 ·
Pauline Quirke, British actress ·
Lori Hallier, Canadian actress ·
Robert Knepper, American actor ·
Jean-Philippe
Écoffey, Swiss actor ·
Mikhail Zingarevich,
Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist ·
July 9 ·
Jim Kerr, Scottish rock singer (Simple Minds) ·
Kevin Nash, American professional wrestler ·
July 10 – Anjani, American singer-songwriter and
pianist ·
July 11 ·
Richie Sambora, American musician ·
Suzanne Vega, American singer ·
July 12 ·
King Tupou VI of Tonga ·
Charlie Murphy, American actor and comedian
(d. 2017) ·
July 13 – Fuziah Salleh, Malaysian politician ·
July 14 ·
M. Manogaran, Malaysian politician ·
Paul Haba, Guinean sprinter ·
Susana Martinez, American politician,
Governor of New Mexico ·
July 15 ·
Vincent Lindon, French actor and filmmaker ·
Patrick Timsit, French comedian, writer and
film director ·
July 16 ·
Bob Joles, American voice actor and musician ·
Gary Anderson,
American football player ·
Matthew Bronfman, American businessman,
entrepreneur and philanthropist ·
July 17 – Margaret Becker, American Christian singer ·
July 18 – Mel Purcell, American tennis player ·
July 19 – Juan J. Campanella,
Argentinian filmmaker ·
July 20 – Giovanna Amati, Italian race car driver ·
July 22 – Nigel Findley, American game designer
(d. 1995) ·
July 25 ·
Anatoly Onoprienko,
Ukrainian serial killer (d. 2013) ·
Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and
manager (d. 2014) ·
July 26 ·
Rick Bragg, American journalist ·
Kevin Spacey, American actor ·
Richard
Pearce, British voice artist ·
July 27 – Hugh Green,
American football player ·
July 29 ·
Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor ·
Ruud Janssen, Dutch artist ·
July 31 – Kim Newman, English fiction writer,
journalist, and film critic August[edit] ·
August 1 – Joe Elliott, lead singer of Def Leppard ·
August 3 ·
John C. McGinley, American actor ·
Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, recipient
of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry ·
August 4 – Robbin Crosby, American rock guitarist (Ratt)
(d. 2002) ·
August 5 – Pete Burns, English singer (Dead or Alive)
(d. 2016) ·
August 6 – Rajendra Singh, Indian water
conservationist, Magsaysay Award (2001) ·
August 7 – Koenraad Elst Belgian Indologist ·
August 10 – Rosanna Arquette, American actress ·
Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian singer (d. 2014) ·
Yoshiaki Murakami,
Japanese investor ·
August 13 – Danny Bonaduce, American actor and disc
jockey ·
Marcia Gay Harden,
American actress ·
Magic Johnson, American basketball player ·
August 15 – Scott Altman, American astronaut ·
Chika Sakamoto, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
Jonathan Franzen, American author ·
David Koresh, American spiritualist, leader
of the Branch Davidian religious
cult (d. 1993) ·
Brad Wellman, American baseball player ·
August 18 – Dorothy Bush Koch,
American author and philanthropist ·
August 19 – Anthony Sowell, convicted serial killer and
rapist ·
August 21 – Jim McMahon, American football player ·
August 25 – Sönke Wortmann,
German film director ·
August 26 – Stan Van Gundy, American basketball coach ·
Juan Fernando Cobo,
Colombian artist ·
Jürgen Becker, German cabaret artist and
actor ·
August 28 – Arthur Holden, Canadian actor and writer ·
Rebecca De Mornay,
American actress ·
Stephen Wolfram, British scientist ·
August 30 – Mark
Jackson, Australian
rules footballer and actor ·
August 31 – Tony DeFranco, Canadian singer September[edit] ·
September 1 – Kenny Mayne, American sportscaster ·
September 2 – Guy Laliberté, Canadian Cirque du Soleil founder ·
Kevin Harrington,
Australian actor ·
Armin Kogler, Austrian ski jumper ·
Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer, singer, and
actor ·
Saeko Shimazu, Japanese voice actress ·
September 10 – Michael Earl,
American puppeteer (d. 2015) ·
September 11 – John Hawkes,
American actor ·
Patricia Head
Minaldi, American judge (d. 2018) ·
Sigmar Gabriel, German politician ·
Kathy Johnson, American artistic gymnast ·
Alfonso Freeman, American actor ·
Chris Hansen, journalist ·
Mary Crosby, American actress ·
Morten Harket, Norwegian rock singer (A-ha) ·
Haviland Morris, American actress ·
September 15 – Mike Reiss, American television comedy
writer ·
September 16 – Peter Keleghan, Canadian actor ·
September 17 – Charles Lawson, Irish actor ·
Sérgio Britto, Brazilian singer and
keyboardist ·
Kirk Fogg, American actor, game show host
and singer ·
Ryne Sandberg, American baseball player ·
September 21 – Dave Coulier, American actor and comedian ·
Elizabeth Peña,
American actress (d. 2014) ·
David Koresh, American spiritualist, leader
of the Branch Davidian religious
cult (d. 1993) ·
Jason Alexander, American actor and comedian ·
September 24 – Steve Whitmire, American puppeteer ·
Dantes Tsitsi, Nauruan politician ·
Steve Hytner, American actor ·
Laura Bruce, American artist ·
September 29 – Benjamin Sehene, Rwandan writer ·
September 30 – Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach October[edit] ·
Brian P. Cleary, American humorist, author,
poet ·
Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese singer ·
Fred Couples, American golfer ·
Greg Proops, American comedian ·
Jack Wagner,
American actor ·
October 4 – Chris Lowe, British musician ·
October 5 – David Shannon, American writer and
illustrator ·
Simon Cowell, English music producer and
television talent show judge ·
Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician ·
Nick Bakay, American actor, producer, and
screenwriter ·
Brad Byers, American entertainer ·
Gavin Friday, Irish singer-songwriter,
actor, and producer (Virgin Prunes) ·
Erik Gundersen, Danish motorcycle racer ·
Mike Morgan,
American baseball player and coach ·
Carlos I. Noriega,
Peruvian-American colonel and astronaut ·
October 9 – Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician (d. 2015) ·
Kirsty MacColl, British singer and
songwriter (d. 2000) ·
Julia Sweeney, American actress and comedian ·
October 13 – Marie Osmond, American singer ·
Emeril Lagasse, American chef and restaurant
owner ·
Sarah, Duchess of
York, British Princess and former wife of Prince
Andrew, Duke of York ·
Richard Roeper, American film critic ·
Francisco Flores
Pérez, President of El Salvador (d. 2016) ·
Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian ·
October 18 – Mauricio Funes, 44th President of El
Salvador ·
October 20 - Hotman Paris Hutapea,
Indonesian lawyer ·
October 21 – Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor ·
October 22 – Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (d. 2005) ·
Nancy Grace, American television host ·
"Weird
Al" Yankovic, American singer and parodist ·
Sam Raimi, American producer, writer and
director ·
Chrissy Amphlett, Australian rock singer
(d. 2013) ·
Collette Sunderman,
American voice director ·
October 26 – Evo Morales, President of Bolivia ·
October 27 – Rick Carlisle, American basketball coach ·
October 29 – John Magufuli, 5th President of
Tanzania ·
October 31 – Neal Stephenson, American writer November[edit] ·
November 1 – John Odey, Nigerian politician (d. 2018) ·
November 2 – Saïd Aouita, Moroccan athlete ·
November 3 – Timothy Patrick
Murphy, American actor (d. 1988) ·
November 5 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer and
photographer ·
November 6 – Nobuo Tobita, Japanese voice actor ·
November 7 – Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach ·
November 8 – Selçuk Yula, Turkish football player and top
scorer ·
November 9 – Tony Slattery, British comedian and actor ·
Linda Cohn, American sports reporter ·
Mackenzie Phillips,
American actress ·
Mike
McCarthy, American football coach ·
Parithi Ilamvazhuthi,
Indian politician (d. 2018) ·
Christian
Schwarzenegger, Swiss legal scientist and professor ·
Deta Hedman, Jamaican-born English darts
player ·
Paul McGann, British actor ·
November 16 – RaeAnn Kelsch, American politician (d. 2018) ·
November 17 – William R. Moses, American actor ·
Jimmy
Quinn, Northern Irish footballer and football manager ·
Karla Faye Tucker,
American convicted murderer (d. 1998) ·
Robert Barron,
American bishop, author, and theologian ·
Jo Bonner, American U.S. Representative for
Alabama's 1st congressional district ·
Allison Janney, American actress ·
November 20 – Sean Young, American actress ·
November 23 – Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982) ·
November 24 – Akio Ōtsuka, Japanese voice actor and
actor ·
November 25 – Charles Kennedy, British politician
(d. 2015) ·
November 27 – Viktoria Mullova, Russian violinist ·
November 28 – Judd Nelson, American actor ·
Rahm Emanuel, American politician ·
Platon Lebedev, Russian executive ·
George Faber,
British television producer ·
Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and
journalist December[edit] ·
Billy Childish, English painter, writer and
musician ·
Wally Lewis, Australian sport identity ·
December 2 – Hans Kristian
Amundsen, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician (d. 2018) ·
December 4 – Christa
Luding-Rothenburger, German speed skater ·
December 5 – Yoshitomo Nara, Japanese artist ·
December 6 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese president of Nintendo
(d. 2015) ·
Mario Cantone, American comedian, writer,
and actor ·
Karl Shuker, British zoologist, crypto-zoologist,
and author ·
December 13 – Johnny Whitaker, American actor ·
December 14 – Evan Ziporyn, American composer ·
Alison LaPlaca, American actress ·
Steve Mattsson, American writer ·
December 17 – Gregg Araki, American director ·
December 19 – Waise Lee, Hong Kong actor ·
December 20 – Stephen Chan Chi Wan,
general manager of TVB ·
December 21 – Florence
Griffith Joyner, American athlete (d. 1998) ·
December 22 – Bernd Schuster, German footballer and
manager ·
December 24 – Keith Deller, English darts player ·
December 25 – Michael P. Anderson,
American astronaut (d. 2003) ·
December 27 – Gerina Dunwich, American author ·
December 28 – Ana Torroja, Spanish singer ·
December 29 – Marco Antonio Solís,
Mexican singer ·
December 30 – Tracey Ullman, British-American comedian and
actress ·
Val Kilmer, American actor ·
Baron Waqa, Nauruan politician and composer,
14th President of Nauru Date unknown[edit] ·
Greg Cox,
American novelist ·
Tom Grummett, Canadian comics artist ·
Jacki Randall, American artist Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 2 – William D. Francis,
Australian botanist (b. 1889) ·
January 3 – Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, novelist and
translator (b. 1887) ·
January 6 – José Enrique
Pedreira, Puerto Rican composer (b. 1904) ·
January 8 – Zhang Xi,
Chinese politician (b. 1912) ·
January 9 – Giuseppe Bottai, Italian Fascist journalist
and politician (b. 1895) ·
Eivind Berggrav, Norwegian Lutheran bishop and reverend (b. 1884) ·
G. D. H. Cole, English political theorist,
economist and historian (b. 1889) ·
January 16 – Eduardo
Braun-Menéndez, Argentine physiologist (b. 1903) ·
January 19 – Jennie Ross Cobb, American photographer
(b. 1881) ·
January 20 – Roger Gray,
American actor (b. 1881) ·
Cecil B. DeMille, American film director
(b. 1881) ·
Frances Gertrude
McGill, pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist (b. 1882) ·
Carl Switzer, American actor (b. 1927) ·
January 22 – Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver
(b. 1929) ·
January 25 – William Flannery, American director
(b. 1898) ·
Margaret
Elizabeth Egan, American librarian (b. 1905) ·
MacGillivray Milne, United States Navy Captain and the 27th Governor of
American Samoa (b. 1882) ·
January 28 – Walter Beall, American baseball player
(b. 1899) February[edit] ·
February 1 – Frank Shannon, American actor (b. 1874) ·
February 3 – Killed in the
crash of a private plane: ·
The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), American
rock singer (b. 1930) ·
Buddy Holly, American rock singer (b. 1936) ·
Ritchie Valens, American rock singer
(b. 1941) ·
Vincent Astor, American philanthropist
(b. 1891) ·
Francesco De
Robertis, Italian screenwriter, editor and director (b. 1902) ·
February 4 – Una O'Connor,
Irish actress (b. 1880) ·
Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1874) ·
Daniel François
Malan, South African politician, 4th Prime Minister
of South Africa (b. 1874) ·
February 11 – Marshall
Teague, American race car driver (b. 1921) ·
February 12 – George Antheil, American composer (b. 1900) ·
February 14 – Baby Dodds, American jazz musician (b. 1898) ·
Ralph Eastwood, British army officer
(b. 1890) ·
Owen Willans
Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1879) ·
February 17 – Luigi Emanueli, Italian engineer (b. 1883) ·
February 18 – Gago Coutinho, Portuguese aviation pioneer
(b. 1869) ·
Gregório Bondar,
Russian-Brazilian agronomist (b. 1881) ·
Laurence Housman, English playwright and
writer (b. 1865) ·
February 22 – Helen Parrish, American actress (b. 1924) ·
Pierre Frieden, Luxembourgish politician and
writer, 18th Prime
Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1892) ·
Luis Palés Matos,
Puerto Rican poet (b. 1898) ·
February 25 – Klawdziy
Duzh-Dushewski, Soviet architect, diplomat and journalist
(b. 1891) ·
Princess
Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, eldest grandchild of King Edward VII (b. 1891) ·
Selig Suskin, Russian-born Israeli
agronomist and early Zionist (b. 1873) ·
Maxwell Anderson, American screenwriter
(b. 1888) ·
Beatrix Farrand, American gardener and
architect (b. 1872) March[edit] ·
March 1 – Mack Gordon, American composer and lyricist
(b. 1904) ·
March 2 ·
Zalman Ben-Ya'akov,
Israel politician (b. 1897) ·
Eric Blore, English actor (b. 1887) ·
March 3 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian
(b. 1906) ·
March 4 ·
Adolphe
Danziger De Castro, Israeli scholar (b. 1859) ·
Maxie Long, American athlete (b. 1878) ·
March 6 ·
Guido Brignone, Italian actor (b. 1886) ·
Fred Stone, American actor (b. 1873) ·
March 7 – Ichirō Hatoyama,
Japanese politician, 36th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1883) ·
March 15 ·
Shalva Dadiani, Soviet novelist (b. 1874) ·
Lester Young, American jazz saxophonist
(b. 1909) ·
March 17 – Galaktion Tabidze,
Georgian poet (b. 1891) ·
March 19 – Umberto Barbaro, Italian critic (b. 1902) ·
March 21 – Edwin Balmer, American science fiction and
mystery writer (b. 1883) ·
March 23 – Dominick Trcka, Czechoslovak Roman Catholic priest and blessed
(b. 1886) ·
March 24 – Abd al-Rahman
al-Mahdi, Sudanese political figure and religious leader, Imam of
the Ansar and
1st Prime Minister of
Sudan (b. 1885) ·
March 25 – Billy Mayerl, British pianist and composer
(b. 1902) ·
March 26 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist
(b. 1888) ·
March 27 – Grant Withers, American actor (b. 1905) ·
March 28 – Lyubov Golanchikova,
Soviet pilot (b. 1889) ·
March 29 – Barthélemy Boganda,
1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1910) ·
March 30 – Reginald R. Belknap,
United States Navy rear admiral (b. 1871) April[edit] ·
April 2 – Nicholas Charnetsky,
Soviet Orthodox priest,
bishop, martyr and blessed (b. 1884) ·
April 6 – Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli professor and
scholar of Islamic art (b. 1895) ·
April 8 ·
Mario de Bernardi,
Italian aviator (b. 1893) ·
Marios Makrionitis,
Greek Jesuit prelate and reverend (b. 1913) ·
April 9 – Frank Lloyd Wright,
American architect (b. 1867) ·
April 12 – James Gleason, American actor, playwright,
and screenwriter (b. 1882) ·
April 13 – Dagmar Hansen, Danish singer (b. 1871) ·
April 15 – Leonard Beyers, South African army general
(b. 1894) ·
April 16 – Ramón Armando
Rodríguez, Venezuelan writer (b. 1895) ·
April 17 – Cecil Cunningham, American actress (b. 1888) ·
April 18 – Irving Cummings, American actor (b. 1888) ·
April 25 – Count
Michael Mikhailovich of Torby (b. 1898) ·
April 28 ·
Alabert Fogarasi, Hungarian philosopher and
politician (b. 1891) ·
María Guggiari
Echeverría, Paraguayan Roman Catholic religious professed and
venerable (b. 1925) ·
April 29 – Sir Kenneth
Anderson, British general (b. 1891) May[edit] ·
May 3 – Troy Sanders,
American film score composer (b. 1901) ·
May 4 – William S. Pye, American admiral (b. 1880) ·
May 5 ·
Georges
Grente, French Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence
(b. 1872) ·
Carlos Saavedra
Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878) ·
May 6 – Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881) ·
May 8 ·
Renato Caccioppoli,
Italian mathematician (b. 1904) ·
Hector Choquette, Canadian politician
(b. 1884) ·
May 11 – Marcella Albani, Italian actress (b. 1899) ·
May 14 – Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897) ·
May 15 ·
Joe Cook, American actor (b. 1890) ·
Jeanne de Flandreysy,
French author (b. 1874) ·
May 16 – Elisha Scott, Irish footballer (b. 1894) ·
May 17 ·
George
Albert Smith, English film pioneer (b. 1864) ·
Judite Teixeira, Portuguese writer (b. 1880) ·
May 18 ·
Apsley
Cherry-Garrard, Antarctic explorer (b. 1886) ·
Enrique Guaita, Argentinian footballer
(b. 1910) ·
May 20 – Alfred Schütz, Austrian sociologist
(b. 1899) ·
May 22 – Henri Marchand,
French actor (b. 1898) ·
May 24 – John Foster Dulles, United
States Secretary of State (b. 1888) ·
May 29 – Ed Walsh, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1881) ·
May 30 ·
Hesperia,
Italian actress (b. 1885) ·
Raúl Scalabrini
Ortiz, Argentinian journalist (b. 1898) ·
May 31 – Ede Zathureczky, Hungarian violinist
(b. 1903) June[edit] ·
June 3 – Kinahan Cornwallis,
British diplomat (b. 1883) ·
June 4 – Charles Vidor, American director (b. 1900) ·
June 8 – Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor (b. 1869) ·
June 9 ·
Sonnie Hale, English actor and director
(b. 1902) ·
Adolf Otto
Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1876) ·
June 12 – Clyde E. Elliott, American director,
producer and writer (b. 1885) ·
June 14 – Jerónimo Méndez,
Chilean politician, former acting President of the Republic (b. 1887) ·
June 15 – Kazimierz Bein, Polish ophthalmologist
(b. 1872) ·
June 16 – George Reeves, American television actor
(b. 1914) ·
June 18 ·
Ethel Barrymore, American stage and screen
actress (b. 1879) ·
Vincenzo Cardarelli,
Italian poet (b. 1887) ·
June 20 – Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician,
34th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1887) ·
June 22 ·
Félix Guignot, French physician (b. 1882) ·
Bruce Harlan, American Olympic diver
(b. 1926) ·
June 23 ·
Cesare Maria De
Vecchi, Italian soldier (b. 1884) ·
Maria
Gorczyńska, Polish actress (b. 1899) ·
Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and
musician (b. 1920) ·
June 25 ·
Farajallah el-Helou,
Lebanese militant (b. 1906) ·
Charles Starkweather,
American spree killer (b. 1938) ·
June 27 ·
Elias, Duke of Parma (b. 1880) ·
Giovanni Pastrone,
Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1883) ·
June 30 – José Vasconcelos,
Mexican politician, writer and philosopher (b. 1882) July[edit] ·
July 2 – Sergei Chetverikov,
Russian biologist (b. 1880) ·
July 3 ·
Pedro Pablo Caro, Chilean lawyer (b. 1875) ·
Johan Bojer, Norwegian novelist and
dramatist (b. 1872) ·
July 4 – José María Jarabo,
Spanish spree killer (b. 1923) ·
July 6 – George Grosz, German artist (b. 1893) ·
July 7 ·
Ernest Newman, British music critic
(b. 1868) ·
Hermenegildo
Anglada, Spanish painter (b. 1871) ·
July 9 – Ferenc Talányi,
Yugoslav writer, partisan and painter (b. 1883) ·
July 10 – Marcel
Nguyễn Tân Văn, Vietnamese Redemptorist brother (b. 1928) ·
July 11 – Charlie Parker,
English cricketer (b. 1882) ·
July 14 – Grock, Swiss clown (b. 1880) ·
July 15 ·
Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880) ·
Agostino Gemelli, Italian Franciscan friar and reverend (b. 1878) ·
July 17 – Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915) ·
July 20 – William D. Leahy, American admiral (b. 1875) ·
July 25 ·
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog,
Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland, and later of Israel (b. 1888) ·
Naim Moghabghab, Lebanese political leader
(b. 1911) ·
King Mutara III of Rwanda (b. 1912) ·
July 26 ·
Joseph Ayo Babalola,
Nigerian Roman Catholic apostle
(b. 1904) ·
Manuel Altolaguirre,
Spanish poet (b. 1905) ·
July 27 – Aleksandar Tsankov,
21st Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (b. 1879) ·
July 30 ·
Heinie Conklin, American actor (b. 1886) ·
Gottfried Frölich,
German general, recipient of the Knight's
Cross of the Iron Cross (b. 1894) ·
María
Natividad Venegas de la Torre, Mexican Roman Catholic nun and saint (b. 1868) August[edit] ·
August 2 – Mary Teresa Norton,
American politician (b. 1875) ·
August 3 ·
Herb Byrne, Australian rules footballer
(b. 1887) ·
Fernando Carpi, Italian tenor (b. 1876) ·
August 4 – Ioan Bălan, Romanian Orthodox prelate
(b. 1880) ·
August 5 – Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881) ·
August 6 – Preston Sturges, American film director and
writer (b. 1898) ·
August 8 ·
Luigi Sturzo, Italian Roman Catholic priest and politician
(b. 1871) ·
Henry
St. George Tucker, American Episcopal bishop
and reverend (b. 1874) ·
Luis Araquistáin,
Spanish politician and writer (b. 1886) ·
August 9 – Emil František
Burian, Czechoslovak poet (b. 1904) ·
August 15 – Blind Willie McTell,
American Piedmont blues singer and guitarist (b. 1901) ·
Benny Fields, American singer (b. 1894) ·
William Halsey, Jr.,
American admiral (b. 1882) ·
Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist
(b. 1879) ·
José
Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, Brazilian military officer
(b. 1885) ·
Claude Grahame-White,
British aviation pioneer (b. 1879) ·
Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor
(b. 1880) ·
August 20 – Alexander Evreinov,
Soviet Orthodox bishop
and reverend (b. 1877) ·
August 22 – Marie Luise Droop,
German writer, producer and director (b. 1890) ·
Raphael Lemkin, international lawyer
(b. 1900) ·
Bohuslav
Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Jack Norworth, American singer and
songwriter (b. 1879) ·
Edmund Gwenn, English actor (b. 1877) ·
Kay Kendall, English actress (b. 1927) ·
Maurice Duplessis, Premier of Quebec (b. 1890) ·
Virgilio Riento, Italian actor (b. 1889) ·
September 11 – Paul Douglas,
American actor (b. 1907) ·
Gilbert Adrian,
American costume designer (b. 1903) ·
Diomira Jacobini, Italian actress (b. 1899) ·
September 14 – Wayne
Morris, American actor (b. 1914) ·
September 15 – Chumbhotbongs
Paribatra, Prince of Thailand (b. 1904) ·
September 17 – Jack Llewelyn Davies,
one of the 'Lost Boys' for the Peter Pan book (b. 1894) ·
September 18 – Adolf Ziegler, German painter (b. 1892) ·
September 20 – Nikandr Chibisov, Russian commander
(b. 1892) ·
Josef Matthias Hauer,
Austrian composer and music theorist (b. 1883) ·
Edmund
Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, British Field Marshal (b. 1880) ·
September 24 – Wolfgang Paalen, German-Austrian-Mexican
painter, sculptor and art philosopher (b. 1905) ·
S. W. R. D.
Bandaranaike, 4th Prime Minister
of Ceylon (b. 1899) ·
Helen Broderick, American actress (b. 1891) ·
September 27 – Marcelle Géniat,
French actress (b. 1881) ·
Rimma Brailovskaya,
Russian painter (b. 1877) ·
Rudolf Caracciola,
German race car driver (b. 1901) ·
Oscar Griswold, American general (b. 1886) ·
Gerard Hoffnung, German-born English
humorist (b. 1925) ·
Vinnie Richards, American tennis player
(b. 1903) ·
September 30 – Taylor Holmes, American actor (b. 1878) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Enrico De Nicola, Italian jurist, politician
and journalist, 1st President of Italy (b. 1877) ·
October 6 – Bernard Berenson, American art historian
(b. 1865) ·
October 7 – Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921) ·
October 9 – Shirō Ishii, Japanese microbiologist
and lieutenant general of Unit 731 (b. 1892) ·
October 11 – Bert Bell, 2nd commissioner of the National
Football League (b. 1895) ·
Edward Keane,
American actor (b. 1884) ·
Arnolt Bronnen, Austrian playwright and
director (b. 1895) ·
October 14 – Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909) ·
October 15 – Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader
(b. 1909) ·
Minor Hall, American jazz musician (b. 1897) ·
George Marshall, United
States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880) ·
Boughera El Ouafi,
Algerian athlete (b. 1898) ·
Edward Hanson, 28th Governor of
American Samoa (b. 1889) ·
October 19 – Ebrahim Hakimi, 29th Prime Minister of
Iran (b. 1871) ·
October 20 – Werner Krauss, German actor (b. 1884) ·
October 22 – Joseph Cahill, Australian politician
(b. 1891) ·
October 25 – Genevieve R. Cline,
American jurist (b. 1879) ·
October 27 – Juan José Domenchina,
Spanish poet (b. 1898) ·
Lili Árkayné Sztehló,
Hungarian painter (b. 1897) ·
Camilo Cienfuegos,
Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932) November[edit] ·
November 1 – M. K.
Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, Tamil film actor and producer (b. 1910) ·
Michael Considine,
Australian politician (b. 1885) ·
Federico Tedeschini,
Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
and eminence (b. 1873) ·
George
Karslidis, Greek Orthodox priest,
elder and saint (b. 1901) ·
Friedrich Waismann,
Austrian mathematician, physicist and philosopher (b. 1896) ·
José P. Laurel,
Filipino politician and judge, 3rd President of
the Philippines (b. 1891) ·
Ivan Leonidov, Russian architect (b. 1902) ·
Muhammad
Mahabat Khan III, Nawab of Junagarh (b. 1900) ·
Victor McLaglen, English actor and boxer
(b. 1886) ·
November 8 – Frank S. Land, founder of the Order of DeMolay (b. 1890) ·
November 10 – Lupino Lane, British actor (b. 1892) ·
November 15 – Charles
Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1869) ·
November 17 – Heitor Villa-Lobos,
Brazilian composer (b. 1887) ·
November 19 – Joseph Charbonneau,
Canadian Roman Catholic prelate
and reverend (b. 1892) ·
Max Baer, American boxer and actor (b. 1909) ·
Olav Meisdalshagen,
Norwegian politician, Minister of
Finance (b. 1903) ·
November 22 – Molla Mallory, American tennis champion
(b. 1884) ·
Stepan Erzia, Russian sculptor (b. 1876) ·
Ion Gigurtu, 42nd Prime Minister of Romania
(b. 1886) ·
Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league
player (b. 1883) ·
November 25 – Gérard Philipe,
French actor (b. 1922) ·
November 29 – Hans Henny Jahnn, German playwright and
novelist (b. 1894) ·
November 30 – Alfonso López
Pumarejo, Colombian political figure, 2-time President of
Colombia (b. 1886) December[edit] ·
December 2 – Giuseppe Zucca, Italian screenwriter
(b. 1887) ·
December 3 – Juozapas Skvireckas,
Soviet Orthodox archbishop
and reverend (b. 1873) ·
December 4 – Hubert Marischka, Austrian film director
(b. 1882) ·
Charlie Hall,
English actor (b. 1899) ·
Prince Kuni Asaakira (b. 1901) ·
December 9 – Donald MacDonald,
American actor (b. 1898) ·
December 11 – Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1900) ·
Marcella Craft, American soprano (b. 1874) ·
Russell Simpson,
American actor (b. 1880) ·
Edna Wallace Hopper,
American stage actress (b. 1872) ·
Stanley Spencer, British painter (b. 1891) ·
December 19 – Andrés Martínez
Trueba, 31st President of Uruguay (b. 1884) ·
December 22 – Gilda Gray, Polish-born dancer and actress
(b. 1901) ·
December 23 – E. F.
L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, British politician (b. 1881) ·
December 24 – Edmund Goulding, American director (b. 1891) ·
December 28 – Ante Pavelic, Croatian fascist leader and
WWII war criminal (b. 1889) ·
December 29 – Juan José Morosoli,
Uruguayan writer (b. 1899) Unknown[edit] ·
Elena
Săcălici, Romanian artistic gymnast (b. 1935) Nobel prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Emilio Gino Segrè, Owen Chamberlain ·
Chemistry – Jaroslav Heyrovský ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg ·
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