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* December 2 – British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the
* January 1
** Blanca Rodríguez, First Lady of Venezuela during the 1970s-1990s (d. 2020)
** Claudio Villa, Italian singer (d. 1987)
* January 3
** Murray Dowey, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 2021)
** Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian children's illustrator
** Mohamed Yaacob, Malaysian lawyer, judge and Menteri Besar of Kelantan (d. 2009)
** Sir George Martin, English record producer (d. 2016)
* January 6 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor, bodybuilder (d. 2006)
* January 7 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician (d. 2018)
* January 8 – Evelyn Lear, American soprano (d. 2012)
* January 10 – Júlio Pomar, Portuguese painter (d. 2018)
* January 11
** Lev Dyomin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998)
** Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin, 42nd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 1984)
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* February 1 – Nancy Gates, American actress (d. 2019)
* February 2
** Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France (d. 2020)
** Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic prelate (archbishop of Managua, cardinal) (d. 2018)
* February 3 – Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician (d. 2020)
* February 4 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer (d. 2014)
* February 7
** Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
** Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Argentine cardinal
** Keiko Tsushima, Japanese actress (d. 2012)
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* March 2 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
* March 3
** Craig Dixon, American athlete (d. 2021)
** James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
* March 4 – Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, French royal, businessman (d. 2018)
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* April 1
** Charles Bressler, American tenor (d. 1996)
** Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish author (d. 2011)
** Luis de la Puente Uceda, Peruvian guerrilla leader (d. 1965)
* April 2
** Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver (d. 2014)
** Omar Graffigna, Argentine Air Force officer (d. 2019)
* April 3 – Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)
* April 5
** Roger Corman, American filmmaker, producer, actor and businessman
** Ri Kun-mo, North Korean politician (d. 2001)
* April 6
** Jeanne Martin Cissé, Guinean teacher, nationalist politician (d. 2017)
** Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor, actor (d. 1990)
** Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician (d. 2014)
* April 8 – Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian and academic
* April 9 – Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor (''Playboy'') (d. 2017)
* April 10 – Gustav Metzger, German-born stateless auto-destructive artist (d. 2017)
* April 12 – Jane Withers, American actress (d. 2021)
* April 13
** John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, British peer (d. 2014)
** Maximilian Raub, Austrian Olympic canoeist (d. 2019)
** Egon Wolff, Chilean playwright, author (d. 2016)
* April 14
** Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, producer, director, and teacher (d. 1996)
** Gloria Jean, American actress and singer (d. 2018)
** George Robledo, Chilean soccer player (d. 1989)
** Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish politician (d. 2008)
* April 15 – Jurriaan Schrofer, Dutch sculptor, designer, and educator (d. 1990)
* April 19 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician, first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. 1997)
* April 21
** Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (d. 2022)
** Arthur Rowley, English footballer (d. 2002)
** Alexander Lyudskanov, Bulgarian translator, semiotician and mathematician (d. 1976)
* April 22
** Ted Hibberd, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
** Charlotte Rae, American actress, singer (d. 2018)
** James Stirling (architect), James Stirling, Scottish architect (d. 1992)
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* May 1 – Peter Lax, Hungarian-American mathematician, academic
* May 3
** Matt Baldwin, Canadian curler
** Ema Derossi-Bjelajac, Croatian politician (d. 2020)
* May 5 – Ann B. Davis, American actress (d. 2014)
* May 8
** Sir David Attenborough, British broadcaster, naturalist, and producer
** David Hurst, German actor (d. 2019)
** Don Rickles, American stand-up comedian, actor (d. 2017)
* May 10 – Hugo Banzer, 51st President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
* May 14 – Eric Morecambe, English comedian, author (d. 1984)
* May 15
** Anthony Shaffer (writer), Anthony Shaffer, English novelist, playwright (d. 2001)
** Sir Peter Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2016)
* May 17
** Prince Dimitri Romanov, Russian prince, banker, philanthropist and author (d. 2016)
** Franz Sondheimer, German-born British chemist (d. 1981)
** Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian film actor (d. 2014)
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* June 1
** Andy Griffith, American actor, comedian, singer (d. 2012)
** Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
* June 3
** Flora MacDonald (politician), Flora MacDonald, Canadian politician and humanitarian (d. 2015)
** Allen Ginsberg, American poet (''Howl'') (d. 1997)
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* July 1
** Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (d. 2019)
** Robert Fogel, American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
** Carl Hahn, German automotive executive, chairman of Volkswagen
** Hans Werner Henze, German composer (d. 2012)
* July 2
** Liu Dajun, Chinese agricultural scientist, educator and an academician (d. 2016)
** Alfons Oehy, Swiss swimmer (d. 1977)
** Carlo Rolandi, Italian sailor (d. 2020)
* July 3 – María Lorenza Barreneche, First Lady of Argentina (d. 2016)
* July 4
** Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-born footballer (d. 2014)
** Amos Elon, Israeli writer (d. 2009)
** Lopön Tenzin Namdak, Tibetan religious leader
* July 5
** Salvador Jorge Blanco, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2010)
** Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
** Anthony Purssell, English brewing executive and rower
* July 6
** Serge Roullet, French film director and screenwriter
** Dorothy E. Smith, British-born Canadian sociologist (d. 2022)
* July 7
** Armand Lemieux, Canadian professional hockey player (d. 2015)
** Thorkild Simonsen, Danish politician (d. 2022)
** Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician, 31st Prime Minister of Cambodia (d. 2019)
** Mel Clark, American Major League Baseball outfielder (d. 2014)
* July 8
** David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher (d. 2014)
** Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist (d. 2004)
* July 9
** Jens Juul Eriksen, Danish cyclist (d. 2004)
** Mathilde Krim, founding chairman of amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research (d. 2018)
** Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
* July 10
** Carleton Carpenter, American actor and dancer (d. 2022)
** Donald Geary, American ice hockey player (d. 2015)
** Fred Gwynne, American actor and author (d. 1993)
** Harry MacPherson, American pitcher (d. 2017)
** Aldo Tortorella, Italian journalist, former politician and partisan
* July 11
** Frederick Buechner, American author and theologian (d. 2022)
** Joe Houston, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
* July 12 – Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, spouse of Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
* July 13 – Cheng Chi-sen, Taiwanese sports shooter
* July 14 – Harry Dean Stanton, American film and television actor (d. 2017)
* July 15
** Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplomat (d. 2019)
** Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
** Raymond Gosling, English physicist (d. 2015)
* July 16
** Emile Degelin, Belgian film director and novelist (d. 2017)
** Michael Otedola, Nigerian politician (d. 2014)
** Irwin Rose, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2015)
** Stef Wertheimer, German-born Israeli industrialist, investor, philanthropist and former politician
* July 17 – Édouard Carpentier, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2010)
* July 18
** Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish film director and screenwriter
** Bernard Pons, French politician and medical doctor (d. 2022)
* July 19
** Terry Cavanagh (politician), Terry Cavanagh, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
** Helen Gallagher, American actress, dancer, and singer
* July 20
** Charles David Ganao, Congolese politician (d. 2012)
** Odd Kallerud, Norwegian politician (d. 2016)
* July 21
** Otto Beyeler, Swiss cross country skier (d. 2004)
** Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
* July 22 – Bryan Forbes, English film director (d. 2013)
* July 24 – Hans Günter Winkler, German show jumping rider (d. 2018)
* July 25
** Yvonne Ciannella, American coloratura soprano in opera and concert (d. 2022)
** Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (d. 2018)
** Ray Solomonoff, American inventor (d. 2009)
* July 26 – James Best, American actor and acting coach (d. 2015)
* July 28 – Walt Brown (politician), Walt Brown, American presidential candidate
* July 29 – Franco Sensi, Italian businessman (d. 2008)
* July 30 – Nina Kulagina, Russian psychic (d. 1990)
* July 31
** Bernard Nathanson, American medical doctor and activist (d. 2011)
** Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2016)
* August 2
** Sy Mah, Canadian marathoner (d. 1988)
** George Habash, Palestinian Christian politician (d. 2008)
** Igor Spassky, Russian scientist, engineer and entrepreneur
** Hang Thun Hak, Cambodian radical politician, academic and playwright (d. 1975)
* August 3
** Rona Anderson, Scottish stage, film, and television actress (d. 2013)
** Loris Campana, Italian road and track cyclist (d. 2015)
** Tony Bennett, American singer
** Shun-ichi Iwasaki, Japanese engineer
* August 5 – Clifford Husbands, 6th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 2017)
* August 6
** Janet Asimov, American writer and psychiatrist (d. 2019)
** János Rózsás, Hungarian writer (d. 2012)
** Frank Finlay, English stage, film and television actor (d. 2016)
** Elisabeth Beresford, British author (d. 2010)
** Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
* August 7 – Stan Freberg, American author, recording artist and comedian (d. 2015)
* August 8
** Silvio Amadio, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1995)
** Jimmy Brown (musician), Jimmy Brown, American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer (d. 2006)
** Angelo Bonfietti, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2004)
* August 9 – Frank M. Robinson, American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d. 2014)
* August 10
** Marie-Claire Alain, French organist (d. 2013)
** Carol Karp, Carol Ruth Vander Velde, American mathematician (d. 1972)
** Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist (d. 2013)
* August 11
** Ron Bontemps, American basketball player (d. 2017)
** Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
** Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (d. 2019)
** John Gokongwei, Filipino billionaire businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019)
* August 12
** John Derek, American actor and film director (d. 1998)
** Osamu Ishiguro, Japanese tennis player (d. 2016)
** Hiroshi Koizumi, Japanese actor (d. 2015)
** René Vignal, French footballer (d. 2016)
* August 13
** Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician (d. 2016)
** Valentina Levko, Russian opera and chamber singer (d. 2018)
** Norris Bowden, Canadian figure skater (d. 1991)
* August 14
** Martin Broszat, German historian (d. 1989)
** René Goscinny, French comic book writer (d. 1977)
** Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (d. 2017)
* August 15
** Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet and playwright (d. 1947)
** Ivy Bottini, American activist and artist (d. 2021)
** Julius Katchen, American concert pianist (d. 1969)
** Sami Michael, Iraqi-Israeli author
** Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, former President of Greece (d. 2016)
* August 16
** Jack Britto, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (d. 2013)
** Eivind Hjelmtveit, Norwegian cultural administrator (d. 2017)
** Yu Min (physicist), Yu Min, Chinese Nuclear physics, nuclear physicist (d. 2019)
* August 17
** Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
** Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and President of the People's Republic of China, President of China (d. 2022)
* August 18 – Orlando Bosch, Cuban terrorist (d. 2011)
* August 19 – Luis Bordón, Paraguayan musician and composer (d. 2006)
* August 20 – Hocine Aït Ahmed, Algerian politician (d. 2015)
* August 21 – Marian Jaworski, Polish cardinal (d. 2020)
* August 22 – Werner Spitz, German-American forensic pathologist
* August 23 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (d. 2006)
* August 29
** Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and academic
** Ramakrishna Hegde, Indian politician (d. 2004)
** Betty Lynn, American actress (d. 2021)
* September 1
** Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (d. 2018)
** Abdur Rahman Biswas, 11th President of Bangladesh (d. 2017)
* September 2 – Ibrahim Nasir, Maldives, Maldivian president (d. 2008)
* September 3
** Uttam Kumar, Bengali people, Bengali actor (d. 1980)
** Alison Lurie, American author and academic (d. 2020)
* September 4
** Elias Hrawi, 14th President of Lebanon (d. 2006)
** Ivan Illich, Austrian philosopher and Catholic priest who founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca, Mexico (d. 2002)
* September 5 – Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince (d. 2017)
* September 6 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Claus van Amsberg, German born List of Dutch consorts, Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
* September 7 – Ivone Ramos, Cape Verdean writer (d. 2018)
* September 8 – Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer (d. 2012)
* September 9 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian Islamic theologian (d. 2022)
* September 11 – Gerrit Viljoen, South African government minister (d. 2009)
* September 13 – Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2022)
* September 14
** Dick Dale (singer), Dick Dale, American singer and musician (d. 2014)
** Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noble (d. 2017)
** John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist (d. 2015)
* September 15 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
* September 17
** Bill Black, American rock and roll musician and bandleader (d. 1965)
** Andrea Kékesy, Hungarian figure skater
* September 19
** Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)
** James Lipton, American television personality and writer (d. 2020)
* September 21
** Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
** Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
* September 22 – Bill Smith (jazz musician), Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (d. 2020)
* September 23
** Aage Birch, Danish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist (d. 2017)
** John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1967)
** Heng Freylinger, Luxembourgian wrestler (d. 2017)
* September 25
** Carlos Chasseing, Argentine politician (d. 2018)
** John Ericson, German-American actor (d. 2020)
* September 26
** Tulsi Giri, former Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2018)
** Julie London, American actress and singer (d. 2000)
* September 28 – Ozzie Van Brabant, Canadian baseball player (d. 2018)
* September 30 – Frank O'Neill (swimmer), Frank O'Neill, Australian swimmer
* October 2
** Jan Morris, born James Morris, British travel writer (d. 2020)
** John Ross (chemist), John Ross, Austrian-born American chemist (d. 2017)
* October 4 – Phar Lap, New Zealand-foaled racehorse (d. 1932)
* October 7
** Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat and military official (d. 2018)
** Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, Polish mathematician (d. 2015)
* October 8 – Carmencita Lara, Peruvian singer (d. 2018)
* October 9 – Ruth Ellis, British murderess (d. 1955)
* October 11
** Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
** Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk and peace activist (d. 2022)
** Zohurul Hoque, Indian Islamic scholar (d. 2017)
** Shin Sang-ok, South Korean film producer and director (d. 2006)
* October 12 – César Pelli, Argentine-American architect (d. 2019)
* October 13
** Jesse L. Brown, first African-American aviator in the United States Navy (d. 1950)
** Kazuo Nakamura, Japanese-Canadian painter, part of the Painters Eleven (d. 2002)
* October 15
** Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
** Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000)
** Karl Richter (conductor), Karl Richter, German conductor (d. 1981)
* October 16 – Charles Dolan, American billionaire
* October 17
** Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019)
** Beverly Garland, American actress and businesswoman (d. 2008)
* October 18
** Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
** Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
* October 19 – Marjorie Tallchief, American ballerina (d. 2021)
* October 20 – Vsevolod Murakhovsky, Ukrainian-Russian politician (d. 2017)
* October 21 – Waldir Pires, Brazilian politician (d. 2018)
* October 22 – Chan Sui-kau, Hong Kong industrialist and philanthropist (d. 2018)
* October 25
** María Concepción César, Argentine actress, singer and vedette (d. 2018)
** Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2020)
** Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano (d. 2012)
* October 27 – Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (d. 1943)
* October 28 – Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007)
* October 29
** Necmettin Erbakan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2011)
** Jon Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor (d. 2015)
* November 1 – Betsy Palmer, American actress (d. 2015)
* November 2
** Myer Skoog, American basketball player (d. 2019)
** Charlie Walker (musician), Charlie Walker, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
* November 3 – Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politician, 3rd President of Lithuania
* November 4 – Laurence Rosenthal, American composer
* November 5
** John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (d. 2017)
** Kim Jong-gil, South Korean poet (d. 2017)
* November 7 – Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (d. 2010)
* November 8
** Sonja Bata, Swiss businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
** Darleane C. Hoffman, American nuclear chemist
** Jack Mendelsohn, American writer-artist (d. 2017)
* November 9 – Stu Griffing, American Olympic rower
* November 11
** Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian automobile racing driver (d. 2016)
** Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1993)
** José Manuel Caballero, Spanish poet and novelist (d. 2021)
* November 15 – Helmut Fischer, German actor (d. 1997)
* November 16 – Ton de Leeuw, Dutch composer (d. 1996)
* November 17 – Christopher Weeramantry, Sri Lankan lawyer (d. 2017)
* November 19 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (d. 2006)
* November 20
** Choi Eun-hee, South Korean actress (d. 2018)
** Judith Magre, French actress
* November 23
** Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 2011)
** Vann Molyvann, Cambodian architect (d. 2017)
* November 24 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate
* November 25
** Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
** Poul Anderson, American science fiction author (d. 2001)
*November 26 – Rabi Ray, Indian politician (d. 2017)
* November 28 – Umberto Veronesi, Italian oncologist and politician (d. 2016)
* November 29 – Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisian politician, 5th President of Tunisia, President and 18th Head of Government of Tunisia, Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2019)
* November 30
** Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
** Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, Bolivian architect and art historian (d. 2018)
** Andrew Schally, Polish-born American endocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* December 1
** Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2018)
** Kitty Hart-Moxon, Polish-English nurse and Holocaust survivor
** Antonio Lamela, Spanish architect (d. 2017)
* December 5 – Adetowun Ogunsheye, Nigerian academic and educator
* December 9
** Raif Dizdarević, Bosnian politician
** Erhard Eppler, German politician (d. 2019)
** Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
** Lorenzo Wright, American athlete (d. 1972)
* December 10
** Leon Kossoff, English painter and illustrator (d. 2019)
** Guitar Slim, American New Orleans blues guitarist (d. 1959)
** Giorgos Ioannou, Greek artist (d. 2017)
* December 13 – George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
* December 14 – María Elena Marqués, Mexican actress (d. 2008)
* December 15
** Nikos Koundouros, Greek film director (d. 2017)
** Emmanuel Wamala, Ugandan cardinal
* December 16 – A. N. R. Robinson, 3rd President and 3rd Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014)
* December 17 – Patrice Wymore, American actress (d. 2014)
* December 19 – Herb Stempel, Herbert Stempel, American game show contestant (d. 2020)
* December 20
** Geoffrey Howe, British politician (d. 2015)
** Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (d. 2009)
** David Levine, U.S. caricaturist (d. 2009)
* December 21
** Champ Butler, American singer (d. 1992)
** Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
* December 22 – Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2015)
* December 23
** Jorge Medina (cardinal), Jorge Medina, Chilean cardinal (d. 2021)
** Metakse, Armenian poet, writer, translator and public activist (d. 2014)
* December 24
** Ronald Draper, South African cricketer
** Maria Janion, Polish scholar, critic and politician (d. 2020)
* December 26 – Gina Pellón, Cuban painter (d. 2014)
* December 29 – Amelita Ramos, First Lady of the Philippines
* December 31 – Billy Snedden, Australian politician (d. 1987)
* January 4 – Margherita of Savoy, Queen consort of Italy (b. 1851)
* January 6 – John Bowers (bishop), John Bowers, British Anglican bishop (b. 1854)
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* April 1 – Jacob Pavlovich Adler, Russian actor (b. 1855)
* April 4 – Thomas Burberry, English businessman and inventor (b. 1835)
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* July 1 – Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Italian-born Argentine botanist and mycologist (b. 1858)
* July 2
** Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
** Kristján Jónsson (politician), Kristján Jónsson, Minister for Iceland (b. 1852)
* July 9 – Mother Mary Alphonsa, American Roman Catholic religious sister, social worker, foundress and venerable (b. 1851)
* July 12
** Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator; known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (b. 1868)
** John W. Weeks, American politician in the Republican Party (b. 1860)
* July 14 – Roshanara, Anglo-Indian dancer (b. 1894)
* July 17 – Bernard Coyne (bishop), Bernard Coyne, Irish Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1854)
* July 18 – Tiburcio Arnáiz Muñoz, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1865)
* July 22
** Willard Louis, American actor (b. 1882)
** Friedrich von Wieser, Austrian economist (b. 1851)
* July 23
** Charles Avery (actor), Charles Avery, American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1873)
** Fumiko Kaneko, Japanese anarchist and nihilist (b. 1903)
* July 26
** Ella Adayevskaya, Soviet composer (b. 1846)
** Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave, Haitian political figure, 25th President of Haiti (b. 1863)
** Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman, son of 16th President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1843)
* July 30 – Albert B. Cummins, American lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
* July 31 – Bronislav Grombchevsky, Soviet army and explorer (b. 1855)
* August 1 – Israel Zangwill, British novelist and playwright (b. 1864)
* August 6 – Constantin Climescu, Romanian mathematician and politician (b. 1844)
* August 14 – John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
* August 21 – Ugyen Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1861)
* August 22
** Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
** Joe Moore (actor), Joe Moore, American actor (b. 1894)
* August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
* August 27 – John Rodgers (naval officer, World War I), John Rodgers, American naval officer and naval aviation pioneer (b. 1881)
* August 30 – Eddie Lyons, American actor (b. 1886)
* September 15
** Alexander Boyter, American stonemason (b. 1848)
** Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
* September 17 – Rashid Tali’a, 1st Prime Minister of Transjordan (b. 1877)
* September 21 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
* September 25 – Herbert Booth, English Salvationist, third son of William Booth, William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
* September 26 – José María Orellana, Guatemalan political and military leader, 14th President of Guatemala (b. 1872)
* October 7 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (b. 1856)
* October 9
** Vaso Abashidze, Georgian actor (b. 1854)
** Josias von Heeringen, German general (b. 1850)
* October 11
** Hymie Weiss, American gangster (b. 1898)
* October 12
** Edwin Abbott Abbott, English author and theologian (b. 1838)
** Paul Puhallo von Brlog, Croatian Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1856)
* October 16 – Princess Frederica of Hanover (b. 1848)
* October 19
** Victor Babeș, Romanian bacteriologist (b. 1854)
** Ludvig Karsten, German painter (b. 1876)
* October 20 – Eugene V. Debs, American labor and political leader (b. 1855)
* October 24 – Salomon Ehrmann, Czech-born Austrian dermatologist and histologist (b. 1854)
* October 31
** Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born American escapologist (b. 1874)
** Charles Vance Millar, Canadian businessman (b. 1853)
* November 3 – Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter and entertainer (b. 1860)
* November 6 – Carl Swartz, Swedish politician, 14th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1858)
* November 7 – Tom Forman (actor), Tom Forman, American actor and director (b. 1893)
* November 10 – Lyubov Dostoyevskaya, Russian writer (b. 1869)
* November 19 – Thomas Cusack (politician), Thomas Cusack, American entrepreneur, pioneer and politician (b. 1858)
* November 21 – Joseph McKenna, American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1843)
* December 2 – Gérard Cooreman, Belgian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1852)
* December 3 – Siegfried Jacobsohn, German writer and critic (b. 1881)
* December 4 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
* December 5 – Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
* December 10 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian and Yugoslav statesman, 33rd Prime Minister of Serbia and 4th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1855)
* December 16 – William Larned, American tennis champion (b. 1872)
* December 17 – Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish inventor and founder of Ericsson (b. 1846)
* December 20 – Narcisa Freixas, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1859)
* December 22 – Mina Arndt, New Zealand painter (b. 1885)
* December 24 – Johan Castberg, Norwegian Radical politician (b. 1862)
* December 25
** Oleksander Barvinsky, Ukrainian politician (b. 1847)
** Emperor Taishō, Emperor of Japan, one of the leaders of World War I (b. 1879)
* December 27 – Amalia Riégo, Swedish opera singer (b. 1850)
* December 28 – Robert William Felkin, British-born medical missionary, explorer, anthropologist and occultist (b. 1853)
* December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (b. 1875)
* December 30 – Felice Napoleone Canevaro, Italian admiral (b. 1838)
Events
January
* January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud
Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud ( ar, عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود, ʿAbd al ʿAzīz bin ʿAbd ar Raḥman Āl Suʿūd; 15 January 1875Ibn Saud's birth year has been a source of debate. It is generally accepted ...
is crowned King of Hejaz.
** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of Vietnam.
* January 12
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
* 1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already rei ...
– Freeman Gosden
Freeman Fisher "Gozzie" Gosden (May 5, 1899 – December 10, 1982) was an American radio comedian, actor and pioneer in the development of the situation comedy form. He is best known for his work in the radio series ''Amos 'n' Andy''.
Life and ...
and Charles Correll
Charles James Correll (February 2, 1890 – September 26, 1972) was an American radio comedian, actor and writer, known best for his work in the radio series ''Amos 'n' Andy'' with Freeman Gosden. Correll voiced the main character Andy Brown, a ...
premiere their radio
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program '' Sam 'n' Henry'', in which the two white performers portray two black characters from Harlem
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looking to strike it rich in the big city (it is a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, ''Amos 'n' Andy
''Amos 'n' Andy'' is an American radio sitcom about black characters, initially set in Chicago and later in the Harlem section of New York City. While the show had a brief life on 1950s television with black actors, the 1928 to 1960 radio show ...
'').
* January 16 – A BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
...Ronald Knox
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, about a workers' revolution, causes a panic in London.
* January 21
Events Pre-1600
* 763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa.
* 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when ...
– The Belgian Parliament accepts the Locarno Treaties.
* January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
*1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
* 1564 – The Council of Tren ...
– Scottish inventor John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird FRSE (; 13 August 188814 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly dem ...
demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from ''The Times
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''.
* January 29
Events
Pre-1600
* 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
* 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, rul ...
– Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Literature, literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama tech ...
's ''The Great God Brown
''The Great God Brown'' is a play by Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Literature, literature. His poetically titled plays were amon ...
'' opens at the Greenwich Theatre in New York City.
* January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
*1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the ...
– British and Belgian troops leave Cologne
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.
February
* February 1 – Land onBroadway
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Theatre
* Broadway Theatre (disambiguation)
* Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
**Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...
and Wall Street in New York City is sold at a record $7 per sq inch; it is only affordable for four more years.
* February 8
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
*1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al ...
– Seán O'Casey
Seán O'Casey ( ga, Seán Ó Cathasaigh ; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
...
's ''The Plough and the Stars
''The Plough and the Stars'' is a four-act play by the Irish writer Seán O'Casey that was first performed on 8 February 1926 at the Abbey Theatre. It is set in Dublin and addresses the 1916 Easter Rising. The play's title references the Sta ...
'' opens at the Abbey Theatre
The Abbey Theatre ( ga, Amharclann na Mainistreach), also known as the National Theatre of Ireland ( ga, Amharclann Náisiúnta na hÉireann), in Dublin, Ireland, is one of the country's leading cultural institutions. First opening to the p ...
in Dublin
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.
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– The Irish minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins
Kevin Christopher O'Higgins ( ga, Caoimhghín Críostóir Ó hUigín; 7 June 1892 – 10 July 1927) was an Irish politician who served as Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister for Justice from 1922 to 1927, Minister for External ...
, appoints the Committee on Evil Literature.
* February 20 – The Berlin International Green Week
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debuts in Germany.
* February 25 – Francisco Franco becomes General in Spain.
March
* March 6
Events Pre-1600
* 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.
* 632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
* 845 & ...
** The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
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in Stratford-upon-Avon (England) is destroyed by fire.
** The first commercial air route from the United Kingdom to South Africa
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is established by Alan Cobham
Sir Alan John Cobham, KBE, AFC (6 May 1894 – 21 October 1973) was an English aviation pioneer.
Early life and family
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.
* March 14 – The El Virilla train accident occurs in Costa Rica killing 248 people and injuring 93.
* March 16
Events Pre-1600
* 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
*1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
* 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse ...
– Robert H. Goddard
Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Goddard successfully laun ...
launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts
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History
The Auburn area was first settled in 1714 as of today outer parts of Worcester, Sutton, Leicester and Oxford, Massachus ...
.
* March 23
Events Pre-1600
*1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
*1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last rel ...
– Éamon de Valera
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organises the political party Fianna Fáil
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in Ireland.
April
* April 4 – Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos wins thepresidential election
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Elections by country
Albania
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Chile
The pre ...
, with 93.3% of the vote; turnout is light, as the result is considered a foregone conclusion.
* April 7
Events Pre-1600
* 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.
* 529 – First ''Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Empe ...
– An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails.
* April 17
Events Pre-1600
*1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
*1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan ...
– Zhang Zuolin
Zhang Zuolin (; March 19, 1875 June 4, 1928), courtesy name Yuting (雨亭), nicknamed Zhang Laogang (張老疙瘩), was an influential Chinese bandit, soldier, and warlord during the Warlord Era in China. The warlord of Manchuria from 1916 to ...
's army captures Beijing
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.
* April 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
*1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ...
– Treaty of Berlin: Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality, in the event of an attack on the other by a third party, for the next five years.
* April 25
Events Pre-1600
*404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
* 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the ...
– Rezā Khan is crowned Shah of Iran
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, under the name "Pahlevi".
May
*May 4
Events Pre-1600
* 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''.
* 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus ar ...
– The United Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of a strike by coal miners.
* May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
*1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally rati ...
** Following the general strike which began May 4, martial law
Martial law is the imposition of direct military control of normal civil functions or suspension of civil law by a government, especially in response to an emergency where civil forces are overwhelmed, or in an occupied territory.
Use
Marti ...
is declared in the United Kingdom.
** The French navy bombards Damascus, because of Druze riots.
** Explorer Richard E. Byrd
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and co-pilot Floyd Bennett
Floyd Bennett (October 25, 1890 – April 25, 1928) was a United States Naval Aviator, along with then USN Commander Richard E. Byrd, to have made the first flight to the North Pole in May 1926. However, their claim to have reached the pole is d ...
claim to be the first to fly over the North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's rotation, Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distingu ...
in the ''Josephine Ford'' monoplane, taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway and returning 15 hours and 44 minutes later. Both men are immediately hailed as national heroes, though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, believing that the plane was unlikely to have covered the entire distance and back in that short an amount of time. An entry in Byrd's diary, discovered in 1996, suggested that the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole, due to an oil leak.
* May 10 – Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger
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and Horace Meek Hickam
Horace Meek Hickam (August 14, 1885 – November 5, 1934) was a pioneer airpower advocate and an officer in the United States Army Air Corps. Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, is named in his honor.
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The son of a lawyer, Hickam was born ...
, students at the United States Air Corps Tactical School
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, collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia.
* May 12
Events Pre-1600
* 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism.
* 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang d ...
** Roald Amundsen
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (, ; ; 16 July 1872 – ) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Born in Borge, Østfold, Norway, Amundsen beg ...
and his crew fly over the North Pole
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, in the airship ''Norge''.
** UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade union
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s ends.
* May 12
Events Pre-1600
* 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism.
* 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang d ...
– 14 – May Coup: Józef Piłsudski
Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Naczelnik państwa, Chief of State (1918–1922) and Marshal of Poland, First Marshal of Second Polish Republic, Poland (from 1920). He was ...
takes over in Poland.
* May 18
Events Pre-1600
* 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
* 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of ...
– Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears, while visiting a Venice, California
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Venice was founded by Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a seaside resort town. It was an independent city until 1926, when it was annexed by ...
beach.
* May 20
Events Pre-1600
* 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
* 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...
– The United States Congress
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passes the Air Commerce Act
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In 1934, the Aeronautics Bran ...
, licensing pilots and planes.
* May 23
Events Pre-1600
* 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction.
*1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
* 1533 – The marriage of King Henry VI ...
– The first Lebanese constitution is established.
* May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
– At least 165 persons (144 confirmed) die in the Mount Tokachi volcano eruption in Hokkaido
is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel.
The lar ...
, Japan, according to the Japanese government official report.
* May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire tak ...
– The Rif War
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Led by Abd el-Krim, the Riffians at first inflicted several de ...
ends, when Rif
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rebels surrender in Morocco
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.
* May 28
Events Pre-1600
*585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from ...
– The 1926 coup d'état, commanded by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal, installs the Ditadura Nacional
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(National Dictatorship), followed by António de Oliveira Salazar
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's Estado Novo.
June
*June 4
Events Pre-1600
*1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
* 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedr ...
– Ignacy Mościcki becomes president of Poland.
* June 7 – Liberal politician Carl Gustaf Ekman succeeds Rickard Sandler, as Prime Minister of Sweden.
* June 29 – Arthur Meighen briefly returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada during the King-Byng Affair.
July
* July 1 ** The Kuomintang begins the Northern Expedition, a military unification campaign in northern China. ** The Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky is authorized by theUnited States Congress
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.
* July 3 – A Caudron C.61 aircraft, operated by Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne, crashes in Czechoslovakia.
* July 9 – In Portugal, General Óscar Carmona takes power in a military coup.
* July 10 – A bolt of lightning strikes Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey; the resulting fire causes several million pounds of explosives to blow up in the next 2–3 days.
* July 15 – Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Company in India introduces motor buses.
* July 23 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
* July 26 – The United States National Bar Association is incorporated.
August
* August 1 – In Mexico, the entry into force of anticlerical measures stipulated in the Constitution of 1917 causes the Cristero War. * August 2 – The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded. * August 5 – In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system is seen by audiences for the first time, in the movie ''Don Juan (1926 film), Don Juan'', starring John Barrymore. * August 6 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel, from France to England. * August 18 – In the United States, a weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau office in Washington, D.C. * August 22 – In Greece, Georgios Kondylis ousts Theodoros Pangalos. * August 25 – Pavlos Kountouriotis announces that dictatorship has ended in Greece, and he is now the president.September
* September 1 – Lebanon under the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, French Mandate gets its first constitution, thereby becoming a republic, with Charles Debbas as its president. * September 8 – The German Weimar Republic joins the League of Nations. * September 11 – In Rome, Italy, Gino Lucetti throws a bomb at Benito Mussolini's car, but Mussolini is unhurt. * September 14 – The Locarno Treaties of 1925 are ratified in Geneva, and come into effect. * September 18 – 1926 Miami hurricane, Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion in the modern day). * September 19 – San Siro, Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) Stadium, well known among sports venues in Italy, officially opens in Milan. * September 20 – The North Side Gang attempts to assassinate Al Capone, at the apex of his power at this time, spraying his headquarters in Cicero, Illinois with over a thousand rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight, as Capone is eating there. Capone escapes harm. * September 21 – French war ace René Fonck and three others attempt to fly the Atlantic, in pursuit of the Orteig Prize. Before the newsreel cameras at Roosevelt Field New York, the modified Sikorsky S-35 crashes on take-off and bursts into flames. Fonck survives, but two of his men are killed. * September 23 – Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey to become heavyweight boxing champion of the world. * September 25 ** The League of Nations 1926 Slavery Convention, Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery. ** William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada, after winning the 1926 Canadian federal election, Canadian federal election.October
* October 2 –Józef Piłsudski
Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Naczelnik państwa, Chief of State (1918–1922) and Marshal of Poland, First Marshal of Second Polish Republic, Poland (from 1920). He was ...
becomes prime minister of Poland.
* October 12 – British miners agree to end their strike.
* October 14 – A. A. Milne's children's book ''Winnie-the-Pooh (book), Winnie-the-Pooh'' is published in London, featuring the eponymous bear.
* October 16 – An ammunition explosion on troopship ''Kuang Yuang'' explodes near Kiukiang, China, killing 1,200.
* October 19 – The 1926 Imperial Conference opens in London.
* October 20 – A 1926 Havana–Bermuda hurricane, hurricane kills 650 in Cuba.
* October 23
** Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
** A decree in Italy bans women from holding public office.
** The Fazal Mosque, the first purpose-built in London and the first Ahmadiyya mosque in Britain, is completed.
* October 31 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis, that has developed after his vermiform appendix, appendix ruptured.
November
* November 10 – In San Francisco, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boarding house landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds. * November 11 – The United States Numbered Highways, United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established. * November 15 ** The ''NBC'' Radio Network opens in the United States with 24 stations (formed by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA). ** The Balfour Declaration of 1926, Balfour Declaration is approved by the 1926 Imperial Conference, making the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth dominions equal and independent. * November 24 ** The village of Rocquebillier, in the French Riviera, is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm. ** Sri Aurobindo retires, leaving "Mirra Alfassa, The Mother" to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, Puducherry, India. * November 25 – The death penalty is re-established in Italy. * November 26 – All Italian Communist Party, Italian Communist Italian Chamber of Deputies, deputies are arrested. * November 27 – The restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.December
* December 2 – British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law
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Use
Marti ...
that had been declared due to the general strike.
* December 3 – Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found at a Harrogate hotel.
* December 7 – The Council for the Preservation of Rural England (CPRE) is founded (later the Campaign to Protect Rural England).
* December 13 – Miina Sillanpää becomes Finland's first female government minister.
* December 17 – 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état: A democratically elected government is overthrown in Lithuania; Antanas Smetona assumes power.
* December 18 – Turkey converts to the Gregorian calendar, making the next day January 1 1927.
* December 23 – Nicaraguan President Adolfo Díaz requests U.S. military assistance in the ongoing Nicaraguan civil war (1926–27), civil war. American peacekeeping troops immediately set up neutral zones in Puerto Cabezas and at the mouth of the Rio Grande to protect American and foreign lives and property.
* December 26 – In the history of Japan, the Shōwa period begins from this day, due to the death of Emperor Taishō on the day before. His son Hirohito will reign as Emperor of Japan until 1989.
Date unknown
* Dr Muthulakshmi Reddi becomes the first woman to be appointed to a legislature in India, the Madras Legislative Council. * Stephen Herbert Langdon, Stephen H. Langdon begins excavations in Jemdet Nasr, finding proto-cuneiform clay tablets (3100–2900 BCE). * Phencyclidine ''(PCP, angel dust)'' is first synthesized. * Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and marks rodeo's first high-cut rodeo chaps at Stirling, Alberta, Canada. * The International African Institute is founded in London. * Industrial output surpasses the level of 1913 in the USSR.Births
January
* January 1
** Blanca Rodríguez, First Lady of Venezuela during the 1970s-1990s (d. 2020)
** Claudio Villa, Italian singer (d. 1987)
* January 3
** Murray Dowey, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 2021)
** Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian children's illustrator
** Mohamed Yaacob, Malaysian lawyer, judge and Menteri Besar of Kelantan (d. 2009)
** Sir George Martin, English record producer (d. 2016)
* January 6 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor, bodybuilder (d. 2006)
* January 7 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician (d. 2018)
* January 8 – Evelyn Lear, American soprano (d. 2012)
* January 10 – Júlio Pomar, Portuguese painter (d. 2018)
* January 11
** Lev Dyomin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998)
** Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin, 42nd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 1984)
* January 12
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
* 1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already rei ...
** Ray Price (musician), Ray Price, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
** Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987)
* January 13 – Michael Bond, English fiction writer, creator of ''Paddington Bear'' (d. 2017)
* January 14 – Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (d. 1991)
* January 15 – Maria Schell, Austrian actress (d. 2005)
* January 17
** Antonio Domingo Bussi, Argentine Army general, former Governor of Tucuman (d. 2011)
** Moira Shearer, Scottish actress, dancer (d. 2006)
* January 18 – Hannie van Leeuwen, Dutch politician (d. 2018)
* January 19 – Fritz Weaver, American actor (d. 2016)
* January 20 – Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
* January 21
Events Pre-1600
* 763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa.
* 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when ...
** Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
** Roger Taillibert, French architect (d. 2019)
* January 23 – Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (d. 2012)
* January 25 – Dick McGuire, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
* January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
*1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
* 1564 – The Council of Tren ...
– Franco Evangelisti (composer), Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (d. 1980)
* January 27 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
* January 28 – Amin al-Hafez (Lebanon), Amin al-Hafez, 22nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2009)
* January 29
Events
Pre-1600
* 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
* 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, rul ...
** Bob Falkenburg, American tennis player and entrepreneur (d. 2022)
** Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
* January 30 – Vasily Arkhipov, Soviet naval officer (d. 1998)
February
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* February 1 – Nancy Gates, American actress (d. 2019)
* February 2
** Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France (d. 2020)
** Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic prelate (archbishop of Managua, cardinal) (d. 2018)
* February 3 – Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician (d. 2020)
* February 4 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer (d. 2014)
* February 7
** Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
** Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Argentine cardinal
** Keiko Tsushima, Japanese actress (d. 2012)
* February 8
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
*1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al ...
** Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)
** Birgitte Reimer, Danish actress (d. 2021)
** Sonja Ziemann, German actress (d. 2020)
* February 9 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish lawyer, politician, and 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2011)
* February 10
** Carmen Romano, First Lady of Mexico (d. 2000)
** Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer, football manager (d. 1993)
* February 11
** Paul Bocuse, French chef (d. 2018)
** Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (d. 2010)
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– Charles Van Doren, American professor, subject of film Quiz Show (film), ''Quiz Show'' (d. 2019)
* February 14 – Alfred Körner, Austrian footballer (d. 2020)
* February 15 – Muhammad al-Badr, King of Yemen (d. 1996)
* February 16 – John Schlesinger, British film director (d. 2003)
* February 17 – John Meyendorff, French-born American Orthodox scholar, protopresbyter and educator (d. 1992)
* February 18
** Abdelsalam al-Majali, 60th and 63rd Prime Minister of Jordan
** Jeanne Wilson, American swimmer (d. 2018)
* February 19 – György Kurtág, Hungarian composer and academic
* February 20
** Richard Matheson, American author (d. 2013)
** Bob Richards, American track and field athlete
** Gillian Lynne, English ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director (d. 2018)
** María de la Purísima Salvat Romero, Spanish nun, saint (d. 1998)
* February 22
** Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
** Miguel León-Portilla, Mexican anthropologist and historian (d. 2019)
* February 24 – Knut Kleve, Norwegian philologist (d. 2017)
* February 26 – Henry Molaison, American memory disorder patient (d. 2008)
* February 27 – David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2013)
* February 28 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian author (d. 2011)
March
* March 2 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
* March 3
** Craig Dixon, American athlete (d. 2021)
** James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
* March 4 – Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, French royal, businessman (d. 2018)
* March 6
Events Pre-1600
* 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.
* 632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
* 845 & ...
** Alan Greenspan, American economist, Federal Reserve Chairman
** Yoshimi Osawa, Japanese judoka (d. 2022)
** Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (d. 2016)
* March 8 – Sultan Salahuddin of Selangor (d. 2001)
* March 10 – Aleksandr Zatsepin, Soviet and Russian composer
* March 11
** Ralph Abernathy, African-American civil rights leader (d. 1990)
** Thomas Starzl, American physician (d. 2017)
* March 13 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
* March 14 – Carlos Heitor Cony, Brazilian journalist, writer (d. 2018)
* March 16
Events Pre-1600
* 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
*1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
* 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse ...
** Edwar al-Kharrat, Egyptian novelist, writer and critic (d. 2015)
** Jerry Lewis, American comedian, humanitarian and philanthropist (d. 2017)
* March 17 – Siegfried Lenz, German writer (d. 2014)
* March 18
** Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010)
** Tan Chin Nam, Malaysian businessman and racehorse owner (d. 2018)
* March 21 – Heikki Hasu, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier
* March 23
Events Pre-1600
*1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
*1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last rel ...
– Berta Loran, Brazilian-Polish actress
* March 24
** Dario Fo, Italian author, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
** Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (d. 2017)
* March 25
** Wiesława Mazurkiewicz, Polish actress (d. 2021)
** László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
* March 26 – Aldo Tarlao, Italian Olympic rower (d. 2018)
* March 28 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2014)
* March 30
** Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman, founder of IKEA (d. 2018)
** Peter Marshall (entertainer), Peter Marshall, American singer, television host (''Hollywood Squares'')
** Sydney Chaplin (American actor), Sydney Chaplin, American actor (d. 2009)
* March 31 – John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005)
April
* April 1
** Charles Bressler, American tenor (d. 1996)
** Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish author (d. 2011)
** Luis de la Puente Uceda, Peruvian guerrilla leader (d. 1965)
* April 2
** Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver (d. 2014)
** Omar Graffigna, Argentine Air Force officer (d. 2019)
* April 3 – Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)
* April 5
** Roger Corman, American filmmaker, producer, actor and businessman
** Ri Kun-mo, North Korean politician (d. 2001)
* April 6
** Jeanne Martin Cissé, Guinean teacher, nationalist politician (d. 2017)
** Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor, actor (d. 1990)
** Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician (d. 2014)
* April 8 – Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian and academic
* April 9 – Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor (''Playboy'') (d. 2017)
* April 10 – Gustav Metzger, German-born stateless auto-destructive artist (d. 2017)
* April 12 – Jane Withers, American actress (d. 2021)
* April 13
** John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, British peer (d. 2014)
** Maximilian Raub, Austrian Olympic canoeist (d. 2019)
** Egon Wolff, Chilean playwright, author (d. 2016)
* April 14
** Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, producer, director, and teacher (d. 1996)
** Gloria Jean, American actress and singer (d. 2018)
** George Robledo, Chilean soccer player (d. 1989)
** Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish politician (d. 2008)
* April 15 – Jurriaan Schrofer, Dutch sculptor, designer, and educator (d. 1990)
* April 19 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician, first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. 1997)
* April 21
** Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (d. 2022)
** Arthur Rowley, English footballer (d. 2002)
** Alexander Lyudskanov, Bulgarian translator, semiotician and mathematician (d. 1976)
* April 22
** Ted Hibberd, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
** Charlotte Rae, American actress, singer (d. 2018)
** James Stirling (architect), James Stirling, Scottish architect (d. 1992)
* April 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
*1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ...
– Thorbjörn Fälldin, twice Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 2016)
* April 27
** Tim LaHaye, American evangelist, speaker and author (d. 2016)
** Vladimír Černý, Czechoslovakian modern pentathlete (d. 2016)
* April 28 – Harper Lee, American novelist (d. 2016)
* April 29 – Paul Baran, American internet pioneer (d. 2011)
* April 30
** Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, Santomean poet (d. 2010)
** Cloris Leachman, American actress (d. 2021)
** Christian Mohn, Norwegian ski jumper and sports official (d. 2019)
May
* May 1 – Peter Lax, Hungarian-American mathematician, academic
* May 3
** Matt Baldwin, Canadian curler
** Ema Derossi-Bjelajac, Croatian politician (d. 2020)
* May 5 – Ann B. Davis, American actress (d. 2014)
* May 8
** Sir David Attenborough, British broadcaster, naturalist, and producer
** David Hurst, German actor (d. 2019)
** Don Rickles, American stand-up comedian, actor (d. 2017)
* May 10 – Hugo Banzer, 51st President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
* May 14 – Eric Morecambe, English comedian, author (d. 1984)
* May 15
** Anthony Shaffer (writer), Anthony Shaffer, English novelist, playwright (d. 2001)
** Sir Peter Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2016)
* May 17
** Prince Dimitri Romanov, Russian prince, banker, philanthropist and author (d. 2016)
** Franz Sondheimer, German-born British chemist (d. 1981)
** Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian film actor (d. 2014)
* May 18
Events Pre-1600
* 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
* 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of ...
– Niranjan Bhagat, Indian poet (d. 2018)
* May 21 – Robert Creeley, American poet (d. 2005)
* May 23
Events Pre-1600
* 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction.
*1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
* 1533 – The marriage of King Henry VI ...
– Aileen Hernandez, African-American union organizer, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist (d. 2017)
* May 24 – Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter
* May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
** Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
** Bill Sharman, American basketball player, coach (d. 2013)
* May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire tak ...
– Miles Davis, African-American Jazz musician (d. 1991)
* May 27 – Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. 2009)
* May 29 – Abdoulaye Wade, 3rd President of Senegal
June
* June 1
** Andy Griffith, American actor, comedian, singer (d. 2012)
** Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
* June 3
** Flora MacDonald (politician), Flora MacDonald, Canadian politician and humanitarian (d. 2015)
** Allen Ginsberg, American poet (''Howl'') (d. 1997)
* June 4
Events Pre-1600
*1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
* 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedr ...
– Robert Earl Hughes, American who was the heaviest human being recorded in the history of the world during his lifetime (d. 1958)
* June 5
** Emile Capgras, Martinican politician (d. 2014)
** Paul Soros, Hungarian-born American mechanical engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
* June 6 – Antônio Ribeiro de Oliveira, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
* June 7 – Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian politician (d. 2020)
* June 9 – Happy Rockefeller, American socialite (d. 2015)
* June 10
** June Haver, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
** Lionel Jeffries, British film director and actor (d. 2010)
* June 11
** Carlisle Floyd, American composer and educator (d. 2021)
** Frank Plicka, Czech-born photographer (d. 2010)
* June 12
** Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine goalkeeper (d. 2020)
** Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author (d. 2001)
* June 13
** Satoru Abe, Japanese-American sculptor and painter
** June Krauser, American swimmer (d. 2014)
* June 16 – Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemalan career military officer and politician (d. 2018)
* June 18
** Avshalom Haviv, (d. 1947)
** Allan Sandage, American astronomer (d. 2010)
* June 19 – Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician and inventor
* June 21
** Washington Malianga, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2014)
** Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (d. 2015)
* June 22
** George Englund, American film editor, director, producer, and actor (d. 2017)
** Elyakim Haetzni, Israeli lawyer (d. 2022)
** Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish filmmaker (d. 2015)
** Rachid Solh, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2014)
* June 23
** Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Japanese freestyle swimmer (d. 2011)
** Magda Herzberger, Romanian author, poet and composer, survivor of the Holocaust (d. 2021)
** Annette Mbaye d'Erneville, Senegalese writer
** Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor
* June 24
** Muslim Arogundade, Nigerian sprinter (d. unknown)
** Barbara Scofield, American tennis player
* June 25
** Ján Eugen Kočiš, Czech bishop (d. 2019)
** Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
** Gordon Robertson (ice hockey), Gordon Robertson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
** Stig Sollander, Swedish alpine skier (d. 2019)
* June 26
** Mahendra Bhatnagar, Indian poet (d. 2020)
** Fernando Mönckeberg Barros, Chilean surgeon
** Luis Molné, Andorran alpine skier
** André Monnier, French ski jumper
** Fritz Zwazl, Austrian swimmer
* June 27
** Giambattista Bonis, Italian professional football player
** Geza de Kaplany, Hungarian-born physician
** Don Raleigh, American ice hockey player (d. 2012)
** Bruce Tozer, Australian cricketer (d. 2021)
** Galina Vecherkovskaya, Russian rower
* June 28
** Elisabeta Abrudeanu, Romanian artistic gymnast
** George Booth (cartoonist), George Booth, American cartoonist
** Mel Brooks, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
* June 30
** Peter Alexander (Austrian performer), Peter Alexander, Austrian actor and singer (d. 2011)
** Paul Berg, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate
** Božena Moserová, Czech alpine skier (d. 2017)
July
* July 1
** Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (d. 2019)
** Robert Fogel, American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
** Carl Hahn, German automotive executive, chairman of Volkswagen
** Hans Werner Henze, German composer (d. 2012)
* July 2
** Liu Dajun, Chinese agricultural scientist, educator and an academician (d. 2016)
** Alfons Oehy, Swiss swimmer (d. 1977)
** Carlo Rolandi, Italian sailor (d. 2020)
* July 3 – María Lorenza Barreneche, First Lady of Argentina (d. 2016)
* July 4
** Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-born footballer (d. 2014)
** Amos Elon, Israeli writer (d. 2009)
** Lopön Tenzin Namdak, Tibetan religious leader
* July 5
** Salvador Jorge Blanco, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2010)
** Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
** Anthony Purssell, English brewing executive and rower
* July 6
** Serge Roullet, French film director and screenwriter
** Dorothy E. Smith, British-born Canadian sociologist (d. 2022)
* July 7
** Armand Lemieux, Canadian professional hockey player (d. 2015)
** Thorkild Simonsen, Danish politician (d. 2022)
** Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician, 31st Prime Minister of Cambodia (d. 2019)
** Mel Clark, American Major League Baseball outfielder (d. 2014)
* July 8
** David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher (d. 2014)
** Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist (d. 2004)
* July 9
** Jens Juul Eriksen, Danish cyclist (d. 2004)
** Mathilde Krim, founding chairman of amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research (d. 2018)
** Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
* July 10
** Carleton Carpenter, American actor and dancer (d. 2022)
** Donald Geary, American ice hockey player (d. 2015)
** Fred Gwynne, American actor and author (d. 1993)
** Harry MacPherson, American pitcher (d. 2017)
** Aldo Tortorella, Italian journalist, former politician and partisan
* July 11
** Frederick Buechner, American author and theologian (d. 2022)
** Joe Houston, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
* July 12 – Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, spouse of Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
* July 13 – Cheng Chi-sen, Taiwanese sports shooter
* July 14 – Harry Dean Stanton, American film and television actor (d. 2017)
* July 15
** Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplomat (d. 2019)
** Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
** Raymond Gosling, English physicist (d. 2015)
* July 16
** Emile Degelin, Belgian film director and novelist (d. 2017)
** Michael Otedola, Nigerian politician (d. 2014)
** Irwin Rose, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2015)
** Stef Wertheimer, German-born Israeli industrialist, investor, philanthropist and former politician
* July 17 – Édouard Carpentier, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2010)
* July 18
** Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish film director and screenwriter
** Bernard Pons, French politician and medical doctor (d. 2022)
* July 19
** Terry Cavanagh (politician), Terry Cavanagh, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
** Helen Gallagher, American actress, dancer, and singer
* July 20
** Charles David Ganao, Congolese politician (d. 2012)
** Odd Kallerud, Norwegian politician (d. 2016)
* July 21
** Otto Beyeler, Swiss cross country skier (d. 2004)
** Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
* July 22 – Bryan Forbes, English film director (d. 2013)
* July 24 – Hans Günter Winkler, German show jumping rider (d. 2018)
* July 25
** Yvonne Ciannella, American coloratura soprano in opera and concert (d. 2022)
** Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (d. 2018)
** Ray Solomonoff, American inventor (d. 2009)
* July 26 – James Best, American actor and acting coach (d. 2015)
* July 28 – Walt Brown (politician), Walt Brown, American presidential candidate
* July 29 – Franco Sensi, Italian businessman (d. 2008)
* July 30 – Nina Kulagina, Russian psychic (d. 1990)
* July 31
** Bernard Nathanson, American medical doctor and activist (d. 2011)
** Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2016)
August
* August 2
** Sy Mah, Canadian marathoner (d. 1988)
** George Habash, Palestinian Christian politician (d. 2008)
** Igor Spassky, Russian scientist, engineer and entrepreneur
** Hang Thun Hak, Cambodian radical politician, academic and playwright (d. 1975)
* August 3
** Rona Anderson, Scottish stage, film, and television actress (d. 2013)
** Loris Campana, Italian road and track cyclist (d. 2015)
** Tony Bennett, American singer
** Shun-ichi Iwasaki, Japanese engineer
* August 5 – Clifford Husbands, 6th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 2017)
* August 6
** Janet Asimov, American writer and psychiatrist (d. 2019)
** János Rózsás, Hungarian writer (d. 2012)
** Frank Finlay, English stage, film and television actor (d. 2016)
** Elisabeth Beresford, British author (d. 2010)
** Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
* August 7 – Stan Freberg, American author, recording artist and comedian (d. 2015)
* August 8
** Silvio Amadio, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1995)
** Jimmy Brown (musician), Jimmy Brown, American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer (d. 2006)
** Angelo Bonfietti, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2004)
* August 9 – Frank M. Robinson, American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d. 2014)
* August 10
** Marie-Claire Alain, French organist (d. 2013)
** Carol Karp, Carol Ruth Vander Velde, American mathematician (d. 1972)
** Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist (d. 2013)
* August 11
** Ron Bontemps, American basketball player (d. 2017)
** Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
** Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (d. 2019)
** John Gokongwei, Filipino billionaire businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019)
* August 12
** John Derek, American actor and film director (d. 1998)
** Osamu Ishiguro, Japanese tennis player (d. 2016)
** Hiroshi Koizumi, Japanese actor (d. 2015)
** René Vignal, French footballer (d. 2016)
* August 13
** Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician (d. 2016)
** Valentina Levko, Russian opera and chamber singer (d. 2018)
** Norris Bowden, Canadian figure skater (d. 1991)
* August 14
** Martin Broszat, German historian (d. 1989)
** René Goscinny, French comic book writer (d. 1977)
** Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (d. 2017)
* August 15
** Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet and playwright (d. 1947)
** Ivy Bottini, American activist and artist (d. 2021)
** Julius Katchen, American concert pianist (d. 1969)
** Sami Michael, Iraqi-Israeli author
** Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, former President of Greece (d. 2016)
* August 16
** Jack Britto, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (d. 2013)
** Eivind Hjelmtveit, Norwegian cultural administrator (d. 2017)
** Yu Min (physicist), Yu Min, Chinese Nuclear physics, nuclear physicist (d. 2019)
* August 17
** Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
** Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and President of the People's Republic of China, President of China (d. 2022)
* August 18 – Orlando Bosch, Cuban terrorist (d. 2011)
* August 19 – Luis Bordón, Paraguayan musician and composer (d. 2006)
* August 20 – Hocine Aït Ahmed, Algerian politician (d. 2015)
* August 21 – Marian Jaworski, Polish cardinal (d. 2020)
* August 22 – Werner Spitz, German-American forensic pathologist
* August 23 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (d. 2006)
* August 29
** Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and academic
** Ramakrishna Hegde, Indian politician (d. 2004)
** Betty Lynn, American actress (d. 2021)
September
* September 1
** Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (d. 2018)
** Abdur Rahman Biswas, 11th President of Bangladesh (d. 2017)
* September 2 – Ibrahim Nasir, Maldives, Maldivian president (d. 2008)
* September 3
** Uttam Kumar, Bengali people, Bengali actor (d. 1980)
** Alison Lurie, American author and academic (d. 2020)
* September 4
** Elias Hrawi, 14th President of Lebanon (d. 2006)
** Ivan Illich, Austrian philosopher and Catholic priest who founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca, Mexico (d. 2002)
* September 5 – Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince (d. 2017)
* September 6 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Claus van Amsberg, German born List of Dutch consorts, Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
* September 7 – Ivone Ramos, Cape Verdean writer (d. 2018)
* September 8 – Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer (d. 2012)
* September 9 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian Islamic theologian (d. 2022)
* September 11 – Gerrit Viljoen, South African government minister (d. 2009)
* September 13 – Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2022)
* September 14
** Dick Dale (singer), Dick Dale, American singer and musician (d. 2014)
** Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noble (d. 2017)
** John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist (d. 2015)
* September 15 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
* September 17
** Bill Black, American rock and roll musician and bandleader (d. 1965)
** Andrea Kékesy, Hungarian figure skater
* September 19
** Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)
** James Lipton, American television personality and writer (d. 2020)
* September 21
** Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
** Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
* September 22 – Bill Smith (jazz musician), Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (d. 2020)
* September 23
** Aage Birch, Danish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist (d. 2017)
** John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1967)
** Heng Freylinger, Luxembourgian wrestler (d. 2017)
* September 25
** Carlos Chasseing, Argentine politician (d. 2018)
** John Ericson, German-American actor (d. 2020)
* September 26
** Tulsi Giri, former Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2018)
** Julie London, American actress and singer (d. 2000)
* September 28 – Ozzie Van Brabant, Canadian baseball player (d. 2018)
* September 30 – Frank O'Neill (swimmer), Frank O'Neill, Australian swimmer
October
* October 2
** Jan Morris, born James Morris, British travel writer (d. 2020)
** John Ross (chemist), John Ross, Austrian-born American chemist (d. 2017)
* October 4 – Phar Lap, New Zealand-foaled racehorse (d. 1932)
* October 7
** Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat and military official (d. 2018)
** Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, Polish mathematician (d. 2015)
* October 8 – Carmencita Lara, Peruvian singer (d. 2018)
* October 9 – Ruth Ellis, British murderess (d. 1955)
* October 11
** Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
** Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk and peace activist (d. 2022)
** Zohurul Hoque, Indian Islamic scholar (d. 2017)
** Shin Sang-ok, South Korean film producer and director (d. 2006)
* October 12 – César Pelli, Argentine-American architect (d. 2019)
* October 13
** Jesse L. Brown, first African-American aviator in the United States Navy (d. 1950)
** Kazuo Nakamura, Japanese-Canadian painter, part of the Painters Eleven (d. 2002)
* October 15
** Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
** Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000)
** Karl Richter (conductor), Karl Richter, German conductor (d. 1981)
* October 16 – Charles Dolan, American billionaire
* October 17
** Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019)
** Beverly Garland, American actress and businesswoman (d. 2008)
* October 18
** Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
** Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
* October 19 – Marjorie Tallchief, American ballerina (d. 2021)
* October 20 – Vsevolod Murakhovsky, Ukrainian-Russian politician (d. 2017)
* October 21 – Waldir Pires, Brazilian politician (d. 2018)
* October 22 – Chan Sui-kau, Hong Kong industrialist and philanthropist (d. 2018)
* October 25
** María Concepción César, Argentine actress, singer and vedette (d. 2018)
** Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2020)
** Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano (d. 2012)
* October 27 – Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (d. 1943)
* October 28 – Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007)
* October 29
** Necmettin Erbakan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2011)
** Jon Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor (d. 2015)
November
* November 1 – Betsy Palmer, American actress (d. 2015)
* November 2
** Myer Skoog, American basketball player (d. 2019)
** Charlie Walker (musician), Charlie Walker, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
* November 3 – Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politician, 3rd President of Lithuania
* November 4 – Laurence Rosenthal, American composer
* November 5
** John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (d. 2017)
** Kim Jong-gil, South Korean poet (d. 2017)
* November 7 – Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (d. 2010)
* November 8
** Sonja Bata, Swiss businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
** Darleane C. Hoffman, American nuclear chemist
** Jack Mendelsohn, American writer-artist (d. 2017)
* November 9 – Stu Griffing, American Olympic rower
* November 11
** Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian automobile racing driver (d. 2016)
** Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1993)
** José Manuel Caballero, Spanish poet and novelist (d. 2021)
* November 15 – Helmut Fischer, German actor (d. 1997)
* November 16 – Ton de Leeuw, Dutch composer (d. 1996)
* November 17 – Christopher Weeramantry, Sri Lankan lawyer (d. 2017)
* November 19 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (d. 2006)
* November 20
** Choi Eun-hee, South Korean actress (d. 2018)
** Judith Magre, French actress
* November 23
** Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 2011)
** Vann Molyvann, Cambodian architect (d. 2017)
* November 24 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate
* November 25
** Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
** Poul Anderson, American science fiction author (d. 2001)
*November 26 – Rabi Ray, Indian politician (d. 2017)
* November 28 – Umberto Veronesi, Italian oncologist and politician (d. 2016)
* November 29 – Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisian politician, 5th President of Tunisia, President and 18th Head of Government of Tunisia, Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2019)
* November 30
** Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
** Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, Bolivian architect and art historian (d. 2018)
** Andrew Schally, Polish-born American endocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
December
* December 1
** Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2018)
** Kitty Hart-Moxon, Polish-English nurse and Holocaust survivor
** Antonio Lamela, Spanish architect (d. 2017)
* December 5 – Adetowun Ogunsheye, Nigerian academic and educator
* December 9
** Raif Dizdarević, Bosnian politician
** Erhard Eppler, German politician (d. 2019)
** Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
** Lorenzo Wright, American athlete (d. 1972)
* December 10
** Leon Kossoff, English painter and illustrator (d. 2019)
** Guitar Slim, American New Orleans blues guitarist (d. 1959)
** Giorgos Ioannou, Greek artist (d. 2017)
* December 13 – George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
* December 14 – María Elena Marqués, Mexican actress (d. 2008)
* December 15
** Nikos Koundouros, Greek film director (d. 2017)
** Emmanuel Wamala, Ugandan cardinal
* December 16 – A. N. R. Robinson, 3rd President and 3rd Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014)
* December 17 – Patrice Wymore, American actress (d. 2014)
* December 19 – Herb Stempel, Herbert Stempel, American game show contestant (d. 2020)
* December 20
** Geoffrey Howe, British politician (d. 2015)
** Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (d. 2009)
** David Levine, U.S. caricaturist (d. 2009)
* December 21
** Champ Butler, American singer (d. 1992)
** Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
* December 22 – Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2015)
* December 23
** Jorge Medina (cardinal), Jorge Medina, Chilean cardinal (d. 2021)
** Metakse, Armenian poet, writer, translator and public activist (d. 2014)
* December 24
** Ronald Draper, South African cricketer
** Maria Janion, Polish scholar, critic and politician (d. 2020)
* December 26 – Gina Pellón, Cuban painter (d. 2014)
* December 29 – Amelita Ramos, First Lady of the Philippines
* December 31 – Billy Snedden, Australian politician (d. 1987)
Deaths
January–March
* January 4 – Margherita of Savoy, Queen consort of Italy (b. 1851)
* January 6 – John Bowers (bishop), John Bowers, British Anglican bishop (b. 1854)
* January 12
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
* 1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already rei ...
– Austin Chapman, Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
* January 15
** Giambattista De Curtis, Italian painter (b. 1860)
** Louis Majorelle, French furniture designer (b. 1859)
** Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
* January 21
Events Pre-1600
* 763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa.
* 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when ...
** Marie C. Brehm, American suffragette (b. 1859)
** Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)
* January 23 – Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Belgian Catholic cardinal and philosopher (b. 1851)
* January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
*1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
* 1564 – The Council of Tren ...
** Bucura Dumbravă, Hungarian-born Romanian novelist, promoter, hiker and Theosophist (b. 1868)
** Joseph Sarsfield Glass, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1874)
* January 28
** Katō Takaaki, Japanese politician, 24th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1860)
** Ernest Troubridge, Sir Ernest Troubridge, British admiral (b. 1862)
* January 30 – Barbara La Marr, American film actress (b. 1896)
* February 1 – Theodosius of Skopje, Bulgaria Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox religious leader and saint (b. 1846)
* February 5 – Gustav Eberlein, German sculptor, painter and writer (b. 1847)
* February 6 – Carrie Clark Ward, American stage and film character actress (b. 1862)
* February 8
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
*1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al ...
– William Bateson, British geneticist (b. 1861)
* February 10 – Aqif Pasha Elbasani, Albanian political figure (b. 1860)
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– Art Smith (pilot), Art Smith, American pilot (b. 1890)
* February 13 – Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist (b. 1845)
* February 14 – John Jacob Bausch, German-born American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (b. 1830)
* February 17 – Jan Cieplak, Polish Roman Catholic priest, bishop and servant of God (b. 1857)
* February 21 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
* February 24 – Eddie Plank, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1875)
* March 3 – Eugenia Mantelli, Italian opera singer (b. 1860)
* March 4 – Patriarch Macarius (Nevsky), Macarius II (b. 1835)
* March 11 – Maibelle Heikes Justice, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1871)
* March 12 – E. W. Scripps, American newspaper publisher (b. 1854)
* March 16
Events Pre-1600
* 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
*1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
* 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse ...
– Sergeant Stubby, World War I American hero war dog (b. 1916)
* March 17 – Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (b. 1853)
* March 19 – Friedrich Brodersen, German opera singer (b. 1873)
* March 20
** Krishna Govinda Gupta, Indian statesman, member of Indian Civil Service (b. 1851)
** Louise of Sweden, Queen consort of Denmark (b. 1851)
* March 24 – Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg (b. 1860)
* March 26 – Constantin Fehrenbach, German politician and 13th Chancellor of Germany (German Reich), Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
* March 28 – Prince Philippe, Duke of Orleans (1869-1926), Prince Philippe, Duke of Orleans (b. 1869)
* March 29 – Charles Williamson Crook, British teacher, trade unionist and politician (b. 1862)
April–June
* April 1 – Jacob Pavlovich Adler, Russian actor (b. 1855)
* April 4 – Thomas Burberry, English businessman and inventor (b. 1835)
* April 7
Events Pre-1600
* 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.
* 529 – First ''Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Empe ...
– Giovanni Amendola, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1882)
* April 9 – Henry Miller (actor), Henry Miller, British-born American stage actor and producer (b. 1859)
* April 10 – Ōshima Yoshimasa, Japanese general (b. 1850)
* April 11 – Luther Burbank, American biologist, botanist and agricultural scientist (b. 1849)
* April 14 – Otto Stark, American painter (b. 1859)
* April 17
Events Pre-1600
*1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
*1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan ...
– Antonio Adolfo Pérez y Aguilar, Salvadorian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1839)
* April 19 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Soviet statistician (b. 1874)
* April 20 – Billy Quirk, American actor (b. 1873)
* April 22 – Federico Gana, Chilean writer and diplomat (b. 1867)
* April 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
*1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ...
– Sunjong of Korea, Sunjong, last Emperor of Korea (b. 1874)
* April 25
Events Pre-1600
*404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
* 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the ...
– Ellen Key, Swedish feminist writer (b. 1849)
* April 26 – Jeffreys Lewis, English-born stage actress (b. 1852)
* April 28 – Kawamura Kageaki, Japanese field marshal (b. 1850)
* April 30 – Bessie Coleman, American pilot (b. 1892)
* May 3 – Victor, Prince Napoleon (b. 1849)
* May 7 – Lillian Lawrence, American actress (b. 1868)
* May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
*1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally rati ...
– J. M. Dent, British publisher (b. 1849)
* May 10
** Alton B. Parker, American judge and political candidate (b. 1852)
** Giacinto Menotti Serrati, Italian politician (b. 1874)
* May 16 – Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
* May 18
Events Pre-1600
* 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
* 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of ...
– Count Nikolaus Szécsen von Temerin (b. 1857)
* May 22 – Tomás Arejola, Filipino lawyer, legislator, diplomat and writer (b. 1865)
* May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire tak ...
** Frank Nelson Cole, American mathematician (b. 1861)
** Symon Petliura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
* May 27 – Michele Comella, Italian painter (b. 1856)
* June 4
Events Pre-1600
*1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
* 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedr ...
– Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (b. 1853)
* June 8
** Emily Hobhouse, British welfare campaigner (b. 1860)
** Mariam Thresia Chiramel, Indian Catholic professed religious and stigmatist (b. 1876)
* June 9 – Sanford B. Dole, President of Hawaii and 1st Territorial Governor of Hawaii (b. 1844)
* June 10 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (b. 1852)
* June 13 – Nikolay Chkheidze, Soviet politician (b. 1864)
* June 14
** Mary Cassatt, American painter and printmaker (b. 1844)
** Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Anglo-Irish politician (b. 1841)
* June 18 – Olga Constantinovna of Russia (b. 1851)
* June 23 – Jón Magnússon (politician), Jón Magnússon, Icelandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1857)
July–September
* July 1 – Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Italian-born Argentine botanist and mycologist (b. 1858)
* July 2
** Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
** Kristján Jónsson (politician), Kristján Jónsson, Minister for Iceland (b. 1852)
* July 9 – Mother Mary Alphonsa, American Roman Catholic religious sister, social worker, foundress and venerable (b. 1851)
* July 12
** Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator; known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (b. 1868)
** John W. Weeks, American politician in the Republican Party (b. 1860)
* July 14 – Roshanara, Anglo-Indian dancer (b. 1894)
* July 17 – Bernard Coyne (bishop), Bernard Coyne, Irish Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1854)
* July 18 – Tiburcio Arnáiz Muñoz, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1865)
* July 22
** Willard Louis, American actor (b. 1882)
** Friedrich von Wieser, Austrian economist (b. 1851)
* July 23
** Charles Avery (actor), Charles Avery, American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1873)
** Fumiko Kaneko, Japanese anarchist and nihilist (b. 1903)
* July 26
** Ella Adayevskaya, Soviet composer (b. 1846)
** Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave, Haitian political figure, 25th President of Haiti (b. 1863)
** Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman and businessman, son of 16th President Abraham Lincoln (b. 1843)
* July 30 – Albert B. Cummins, American lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
* July 31 – Bronislav Grombchevsky, Soviet army and explorer (b. 1855)
* August 1 – Israel Zangwill, British novelist and playwright (b. 1864)
* August 6 – Constantin Climescu, Romanian mathematician and politician (b. 1844)
* August 14 – John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
* August 21 – Ugyen Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1861)
* August 22
** Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
** Joe Moore (actor), Joe Moore, American actor (b. 1894)
* August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
* August 27 – John Rodgers (naval officer, World War I), John Rodgers, American naval officer and naval aviation pioneer (b. 1881)
* August 30 – Eddie Lyons, American actor (b. 1886)
* September 15
** Alexander Boyter, American stonemason (b. 1848)
** Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
* September 17 – Rashid Tali’a, 1st Prime Minister of Transjordan (b. 1877)
* September 21 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
* September 25 – Herbert Booth, English Salvationist, third son of William Booth, William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
* September 26 – José María Orellana, Guatemalan political and military leader, 14th President of Guatemala (b. 1872)
October–December
* October 7 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (b. 1856)
* October 9
** Vaso Abashidze, Georgian actor (b. 1854)
** Josias von Heeringen, German general (b. 1850)
* October 11
** Hymie Weiss, American gangster (b. 1898)
* October 12
** Edwin Abbott Abbott, English author and theologian (b. 1838)
** Paul Puhallo von Brlog, Croatian Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1856)
* October 16 – Princess Frederica of Hanover (b. 1848)
* October 19
** Victor Babeș, Romanian bacteriologist (b. 1854)
** Ludvig Karsten, German painter (b. 1876)
* October 20 – Eugene V. Debs, American labor and political leader (b. 1855)
* October 24 – Salomon Ehrmann, Czech-born Austrian dermatologist and histologist (b. 1854)
* October 31
** Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born American escapologist (b. 1874)
** Charles Vance Millar, Canadian businessman (b. 1853)
* November 3 – Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter and entertainer (b. 1860)
* November 6 – Carl Swartz, Swedish politician, 14th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1858)
* November 7 – Tom Forman (actor), Tom Forman, American actor and director (b. 1893)
* November 10 – Lyubov Dostoyevskaya, Russian writer (b. 1869)
* November 19 – Thomas Cusack (politician), Thomas Cusack, American entrepreneur, pioneer and politician (b. 1858)
* November 21 – Joseph McKenna, American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1843)
* December 2 – Gérard Cooreman, Belgian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1852)
* December 3 – Siegfried Jacobsohn, German writer and critic (b. 1881)
* December 4 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
* December 5 – Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
* December 10 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian and Yugoslav statesman, 33rd Prime Minister of Serbia and 4th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1855)
* December 16 – William Larned, American tennis champion (b. 1872)
* December 17 – Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish inventor and founder of Ericsson (b. 1846)
* December 20 – Narcisa Freixas, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1859)
* December 22 – Mina Arndt, New Zealand painter (b. 1885)
* December 24 – Johan Castberg, Norwegian Radical politician (b. 1862)
* December 25
** Oleksander Barvinsky, Ukrainian politician (b. 1847)
** Emperor Taishō, Emperor of Japan, one of the leaders of World War I (b. 1879)
* December 27 – Amalia Riégo, Swedish opera singer (b. 1850)
* December 28 – Robert William Felkin, British-born medical missionary, explorer, anthropologist and occultist (b. 1853)
* December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (b. 1875)
* December 30 – Felice Napoleone Canevaro, Italian admiral (b. 1838)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Jean Baptiste Perrin * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Theodor Svedberg * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Grazia Deledda * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Aristide Briand, Gustav StresemannReferences
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