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1925 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1925 MCMXXV
Ab urbe condita	2678
Armenian calendar	1374 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԴ
Assyrian calendar	6675
Bahá'í calendar	81–82
Balinese saka calendar	1846–1847
Bengali calendar	1332
Berber calendar	2875
British Regnal year	15 Geo. 5 – 16 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2469
Burmese calendar	1287
Byzantine calendar	7433–7434
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4621 or 4561     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4622 or 4562
Coptic calendar	1641–1642
Discordian calendar	3091
Ethiopian calendar	1917–1918
Hebrew calendar	5685–5686
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1981–1982
- Shaka Samvat	1846–1847
- Kali Yuga	5025–5026
Holocene calendar	11925
Igbo calendar	925–926
Iranian calendar	1303–1304
Islamic calendar	1343–1344
Japanese calendar	Taishō 14 (大正１４年)
Javanese calendar	1855–1856
Juche calendar	14
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4258
Minguo calendar	ROC 14 民國14年
Nanakshahi calendar	457
Thai solar calendar	2467–2468
Tibetan calendar	阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 2051 or 1670 or 898     — to — 阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 2052 or 1671 or 899

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1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1925th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 925th year of the 2nd millennium, the 25th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1920s decade.

Events[edit]

January[edit]

• January 1 – Kristiania, the capital of Norway, reverts to its original name of Oslo.
• January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.^[1] Historians now trace this speech to the beginning of Mussolini's dictatorship.^[2]
• January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Twelve days later, Ma Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas.
• January 25 – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler .
• January 27–February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska, to combat an epidemic.

February[edit]

• February 15 – The Alice Comedy Alice Solves the Puzzle is released by Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, introducing Bootleg Pete (an early prototype for Pegleg Pete) for the first time.
• February 21 – The cover date of the very first issue of The New Yorker.^[3]
• February 25 – Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released.
• February 28 – The 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.

March[edit]

• March 4
  • İsmet İnönü is appointed prime minister in Turkey (Turkey's 4th and İnönü's 3rd government).
  • Calvin Coolidge is sworn in for a full term as President of the United States, in the first inauguration to be broadcast on radio.^[4]
• March 6 – Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union.
• March 9–May 1 – Pink's War: The British Royal Air Force bombards mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan.
• March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teacher's College in Conway, Arkansas (now the University of Central Arkansas).
• March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana.
• March 21 – Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools.
• March 31
  • The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius.
  • Radio station WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana begins broadcasting.

April[edit]

• April–October – The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes is held in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style.
• April 1
  • Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leaves Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.
  • The Patent and Trademark Office is transferred to the Department of Commerce.
• April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
• April 15 – Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer convicted of the murder of 24 boys and young men, is beheaded in Germany.

• April 16 – The Communist assault on St Nedelya Church claims roughly 150 lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
• April 19 – Colo-colo, a well-known football club of Chile, is founded in Macul, suburb of Santiago.^[5]
• April 20 – Iranian forces of Rezā Shāh occupies Ahvaz and arrests Sheikh Khaz'al.
• April 28 – Presenting the Stanley Baldwin government's budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announces Britain's return to the gold standard.^[6]

May[edit]

• May 1
  • In the Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia, the al-Baqi' mausoleums are destroyed by King Ibn Saud.
  • Barcelona S.C. founded in Ecuador.
  • The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union organisation, is founded in Guangzhou, Republic of China.
• May 5
  • Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher John T. Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
  • The General Election Law is passed in Japan.
• May 8 – African American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the sinking steamboat M.E. Norman on the Mississippi River.
• May 25
  • Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
  • The National Forensic League is founded.
• May 29 – British explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife before he disappears in the Amazon.

June[edit]

• June 1 – Percy and Florence Arrowsmith are married.
• June 6 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
• June 13 – Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines and a mechanical system in "the first public demonstration of radiovision".
• June 14
  • The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece is founded.
  • The Turkish football club Göztepe is founded.
• June 29 – The 6.8 M_w Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead.

July[edit]

• July 9 – In Dublin, Ireland, Oonagh Keogh becomes the first female member of a stock exchange in the world.
• July 10
  • Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
  • Meher Baba begins his 44-year silence.
• July 18 – Adolf Hitler publishes Volume 1 of his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
• July 21
  • Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).^[7]
  • Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
• July 25 – The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.

August[edit]

• August 1 – The New Cape Central Railway between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways.^[8]
• August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington DC.^[9]
• August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
• August 25 – The French completes their evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany.^[10]

September[edit]

• September 3 – The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a squall line near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14 crewmen.
• September 27 – Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar; A celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists. The phenomenon lasts for half an hour.^[11]

October[edit]

• October – The major money forgery and fraud of Alves dos Reis is exposed in Portugal.
• October 1 – Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated in South Dakota.

• October 2 – In London
  • John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.^[12]
  • The city's first enclosed double-decker buses are introduced.
• October 5–16 – The Locarno Treaties are negotiated.
• October 8 – Cubana de Aviación is founded.

November[edit]

• November 5 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
• November 9 – Formal foundation date of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in Germany.
• November 14
  • Australian federal election, 1925: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Matthew Charlton.
  • The first Surrealist art exhibition opens in Paris.^[13]
• November 24 – The silent film El Húsar de la Muerte is released in Santiago, Chile.
• November 26 – Prajadhipok (Rama VII) is crowned as King of Siam.
• November 28 – The weekly country music-variety radio program Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "WSM Barn Dance".

December[edit]

• December 1 – The Locarno Treaties are signed in London.
• December 11 – Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, is promulgated.^[14]
• December 16
  • Reza Shah becomes shah of Persia.
  • Alpha Phi Omega, a National service fraternity, is founded at Lafayette College.
  • Colombo Radio launches in Ceylon; the station subsequently becomes known as Radio Ceylon.
• December 25 – IG Farben is formed by the merger of six chemical companies in Germany.

Date unknown[edit]

• Spring – Leica I 35 mm film still camera is introduced.
• The Australian state of Queensland introduces a 44-hour working week.
• The Brisbane City Council, (Brisbane, Australia), is created from the amalgamation of 20 smaller cities, towns and shires.
• New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.^{[15][unreliable source?]}
• The Thompson submachine gun is sold for $175 in the 1925 Sears, Roebuck and Company mail order catalog.
• The National Football League adds 5 teams: the New York Giants, Detroit Panthers, Providence Steam Roller, a new Canton Bulldogs team and the Pottsville Maroons.
• Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Jud Süß is published.^[16]
• The Shueisha Publishing Company is founded in Tokyo.
• Wheel gymnastics is invented in Germany.

Births[edit]

January[edit]

• January 1
  • Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador (d. 2005)
  • Ahmad Koroh, Malaysian politician (d. 1978)
  • Charlie Capps, American politician (d. 2009)
• January 2
  • Larry Harmon, American entertainer and television producer (d. 2008)
  • Eraño de Guzman Manalo, 2nd Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) (d. 2009)
• January 4
  • Henry Gleitman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology (d. 2015)
  • Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (d. 2003)
  • Betty Kennedy, Canadian broadcaster (d. 2017)
  • Enrico Perucconi, Italian athlete
• January 6
  • John DeLorean, American car maker (d. 2005)
  • Joseph-André Motte, French furniture designer (d. 2013)
• January 7
  • Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (d. 1995)
  • Harry Stradling Jr., American cinematographer (d. 2017)
• January 8 – Helmuth Hübener, German youth political activist against the Hitler regime (d. 1942)
• January 9 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
• January 10 – Elizabeth Virginia Hallanan, American judge (d. 2004)
• January 13
  • Georgi Kaloyanchev, Bulgarian actor (d. 2012)
  • Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)
  • Elwyn Welch, New Zealand farmer, ornithologist, conservationist and Open Brethren missionary (d. 1961)
• January 14 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)
• January 15 – August Englas, Estonian wrestler (d. 2017)
• January 16
  • Harold "Alfalfa" Switzer, American child actor (d. 1967)
  • Jesse J. Taylor, United States Navy naval aviator (d. 1965)
  • Shafik Wazzan, 27th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1999)
• January 17
  • Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d. 1996)
  • Edgar Ray Killen, American Ku Klux Klan leader and convicted murderer (d. 2018)
• January 18 – Art Paul, American graphic designer (d. 2018)
• January 20 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet and politician
• January 21 – Charles Aidman, American actor (d. 1993)
• January 22
  • Bobby Young, American professional baseball player (d. 1985)
  • John Davies Evans, English archaeologist and academic (d. 2011)
• January 25
  • Barbara Carroll, American jazz pianist (d. 2017)
  • Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
• January 26
  • Joan Leslie, American actress (d. 2015)
  • Paul Newman, American actor, film director, entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2008)
• January 27 – Sufi Abu Taleb, President of Egypt (d. 2008)
• January 29
  • Dub Garrett, American football guard (d. 1976)
  • Robert W. McCollum, American epidemiologist, (d. 2010)
• January 30 – Douglas Engelbart, American inventor (d. 2013)
• January 31
  • Bernardino Rivera Álvarez, Bolivian bishop (d. 2010)
  • Micheline Lannoy, Belgian figure skater

February[edit]

• February 1
  • Bobby Laing, Scottish professional footballer (d. 1985)
  • Mary Nesbitt, American female professional baseball player (d. 2013)
• February 2 – Elaine Stritch, American actress (d. 2014)
• February 3
  • Shelley Berman, American comedian and actor (d. 2017)
  • John Fiedler, American actor (d. 2005)
  • Leon Schlumpf, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 2012)
• February 4
  • Arne Åhman, Swedish athlete
  • Jutta Hipp, German born American jazz pianist and composer (d. 2003)
• February 7 – Hans Schmidt, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2012)
• February 8 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001)
• February 9 – Billy Williamson, American musician (d. 1996)
• February 10 – Pierre Mondy, French film and theatre actor and director (d. 2012)
• February 11
  • Virginia E. Johnson, American sexologist (d. 2013)
  • Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (d. 2013)
  • Kim Stanley, American actress (d. 2001)
• February 12 – Ted Innes, Australian politician (d. 2010)
• February 16 – Romolo Bizzotto, Italian professional football player and coach (d. 2017)
• February 17
  • Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
  • Hal Holbrook, American actor
• February 18
  • Abdelsalam al-Majali, 60th and 63rd Prime Minister of Jordan
  • Ghafar Baba, Malaysian politician (d. 2006)
  • George Kennedy, American actor (d. 2016)
• February 20
  • Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006)
  • Pat Lanigan, Australian public servant (d. 1992)
• February 21
  • Sam Peckinpah, American film director (d. 1984)
  • Štefan Vrablec, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
• February 22 – Gerald Stern, American poet, essayist and educator
• February 23
  • Eric Prabhakar, Indian sprinter (d. 2011)
  • Patricia Broderick, American playwright and painter (d. 2003)
• February 24 – Bud Day, United States Air Force colonel (d. 2013)
• February 25
  • Maddy English, American female baseball player (d. 2004)
  • Lisa Kirk, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
  • Eduardo Risso, Uruguayan Olympic rower
  • Shehu Shagari, President of Nigeria (1979-83)
• February 26
  • Miroslava, Czechoslovakian-Mexican actress (d. 1955)
  • Arthur S. Abramson, American linguist (d. 2017)
  • Lefty Kreh, American sports photojournalist, author and sport fisherman (d. 2018)
  • Dave Pell, American jazz musician (d. 2017)
  • Everton Weekes, West Indian cricketer
• February 27
  • Samuel Dash, American Watergate Congressional counsel (d. 2004)
  • Ed Quirk, American football fullback (d. 1962)

March[edit]

• March 1
  • Keith Harvey Miller, American politician
  • Alexandre do Nascimento, Angolan prelate
• March 4
  • Inezita Barroso, Brazilian sertanejo singer, guitarist, actress, TV presenter, librarian, folklorist and teacher (d. 2015)
  • Alan R. Battersby, English organic chemist (d. 2018)
  • Paul Mauriat, French musician (Love is Blue) (d. 2006)
• March 6 – Clyde Biggers, American football coach (d. 1976)
• March 7
  • Josef Ertl, German politician (d. 2000)
  • Rene Gagnon, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1979)
• March 8
  • Dennis Lotis, South African-born English singer and actor
  • Marta Lynch, Argentinian writer (d. 1985)
  • John Harland Bryant, American physician (d. 2017)
• March 12
  • Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • G. William Whitehurst, American politician
• March 13 – Samir Gharbo, Egyptian water polo player (d. 2018)
• March 14
  • Joseph A. Unanue, American chief executive (d. 2013)
  • John Jacobs, English golfer (d. 2017)
• March 15 – Art Murakowski, American football player (d. 1985)
• March 16
  • Mary Hinkson, African-American dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)
  • Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (d. 2004)
• March 17 – Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor (d. 2015)
• March 18 – Alessandro Alessandroni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2017)
• March 19 – Brent Scowcroft, American general and diplomat
• March 20 – Romana Acosta Bañuelos, American public servant (d. 2018)
• March 22 – Gerard Hoffnung, German-born English humorist (d. 1959)
• March 23
  • Robie Lester, American Grammy-nominated voice artist and singer (d. 2005)
  • David Watkin, British cinematographer (d. 2008)
• March 25
  • Flannery O'Connor, American writer (d. 1964)
  • Kishori Sinha, Indian politician (d. 2016)
• March 26
  • Pierre Boulez, French composer (d. 2016)
  • Ted Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton, English politician
• March 27
  • Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, English farmer and politician
  • Ian Robinson, Australian politician (d. 2017)
• March 28 – Raja Perempuan Budriah, Malaysian royal consort (d. 2008)
• March 31 – John Wesley Hanes III, American civil servant (d. 2018)

April[edit]

• April 1 – Piero Livi, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• April 2 – Hans Rosenthal, German radio editor, director, one of the most popular German radio and TV hosts of the 1970s and 1980s (d. 1987)
• April 3
  • Tony Benn, British politician (d. 2014)
  • Jan Merlin, American actor, screenwriter and author
• April 4 – Serge Dassault, French businessman and politician (d. 2018)
• April 5 – Donald Burgett, American writer and World War II veteran (d. 2017)
• April 7 – Chaturanan Mishra, Indian politician (d. 2011)
• April 11 – Gordy Giovanelli, American Olympic rower
• April 12 – Evelyn Berezin, American computer scientist and engineer
• April 13 – Michael Halliday, English-Australian linguist (d. 2018)
• April 14
  • Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974)
  • Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2010)
  • Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
• April 15
  • Beryl Te Wiata, New Zealand actor, author, and scriptwriter (d. 2017)
  • Milton J. Rosenberg, American psychology professor (d. 2018)
• April 17
  • René Moawad, 13th President of Lebanon (d. 1989)
  • Charles Yanofsky, American geneticist (d. 2018)
• April 18 – Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014)
• April 19
  • Chuck Klausing, American football player and coach (d. 2018)
  • Hugh O'Brian, American soldier and actor (d. 2016)
  • John Kraaijkamp Sr., Dutch actor and comedian (d. 2011)
• April 20
  • Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (d. 2006)
  • Elena Verdugo, American actress (d. 2017)
  • Bob Will, American Olympic rower
• April 21
  • Anthony Mason, Australian soldier and judge
  • Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Former acting President of Afghanistan
  • Solomon Perel, Israeli motivational speaker
  • John Swinton of Kimmerghame, English general and politician
• April 22 – George Cole, English actor (d. 2015)
• April 24
  • Faye Dancer, American baseball player (d. 2002)
  • Eugen Weber, Romanian-born historian (d. 2007)
• April 25
  • Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher, English businessman
  • Janete Clair, Brazilian television, radio play, and novel writer (d. 1983)
  • Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)
  • Louis O'Neill, Canadian politician
• April 26
  • Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author
  • Michele Ferrero, Italian businessman (d. 2015)
  • Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician (d. 2015)
• April 27 – Akio Kimura (ja), Japanese professor of Russian studies (d. 2017)
• April 28 – John Thorn, American headmaster, author and educational consultant
• April 29
  • John Compton, Saint Lucian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2007)
  • Iwao Takamoto, Japanese-American animator (d. 2007)
• April 30 – Johnny Horton, American country music and rockabilly singer (d. 1960)

May[edit]

• May 1
  • Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (d. 2013)
  • Anna May Hutchison, American professional baseball player (d. 1998)
• May 2
  • Maria Barroso, Portuguese politician and actress (d. 2015)
  • Inga Gill, Swedish actress (d. 2000)
  • John Neville, English actor (d. 2011)
  • Lou Rowan, Australian Test cricket match umpire (d. 2017)
• May 3
  • Ngiratkel Etpison, 5th President of Palau (d. 1997)
  • Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions (d. 2007)
• May 4
  • Syed Ahmad Syed Mahmud Shahabuddin, Malaysian politician (d. 2008)
  • Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian footballer (d. 2015)
  • Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman
• May 5 – Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor (d. 1968)
• May 7 – Jorge Loredo, Brazilian actor and comedian (d. 2015)
• May 8 – Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 2nd President of Tanzania
• May 9 – Vladimir Tadej, Croatian production designer, screenwriter and film director (d. 2017)
• May 10 – Ilie Verdeț, 51st Prime Minister of Romania (d. 2001)
• May 11 – Edward Zemprelli, American politician (d. 2017)
• May 12 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player (d. 2015)
• May 14
  • Sophie Kurys, American professional baseball player (d. 2013)
  • Patrice Munsel, American actress, singer, and operatic soprano (d. 2016)
  • Marvin Traub, American businessman and writer (d. 2012)
• May 15 – Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist (d. 2015)
• May 16
  • James F. Holland, American physician (d. 2018)
  • Nancy Roman, American astronomer
  • Ola Vincent, Nigerian economist and banker (d. 2012)
• May 17 – Herb Henson, American country music (d. 1963)
• May 18 – Gérard Corboud, Swiss entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist (d. 2017)
• May 19
  • Malcolm X, African-American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
  • Brian Moll, Australian character actor, director and producer (d. 2010)
  • Pol Pot, Cambodian Stalinist dictator and leader of the Khmer Rouge (d. 1998)
• May 20 – Gregory Yong, Archbishop of Singapore (d. 2008)
• May 22
  • Julio Garrett Ayllón, Vice President of Bolivia (d. 2018)
  • James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
  • Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991)
• May 23 – Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
• May 24 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and film director (d. 1994)
• May 25
  • Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
  • José María Gatica, Argentine boxer (d. 1963)
  • Rudolf Scheurer, Swiss football referee (d. 2015)
• May 26
  • Alec McCowen, English actor (d. 2017)
  • Carmen Montejo, Cuban-born Mexican actress (d. 2013)
• May 27 – Frank Dempsey, American football player (d. 2013)
• May 28
  • Bülent Ecevit, 3-time Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2006)
  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German lyric baritone and conductor (d. 2012)
  • Lucien Nedzi, American politician
  • Pavel Štěpán, Czech pianist (d. 1998)
• May 29 – Thomas Collier Platt Jr., American judge (d. 2017)
• May 30 – John Marks, English physician and author
• May 31
  • Julian Beck, American actor, director, poet, and painter (d. 1985)
  • Frei Otto, German architect (d. 2015)
  • Donn A. Starry, American army officer (d. 2011)

June[edit]

• June 1 – Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher (d. 2017)
• June 2
  • Julius Blank, semiconductor pioneer (d. 2011)
  • Buddy Elias, Swiss actor and president of the Anne Frank Fonds (d. 2015)
• June 3 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
• June 4 – Antonio Puchades, Spanish footballer (d. 2013)
• June 5
  • Warren Frost, American actor (d. 2017)
  • Bill Hayes, American actor and singer
• June 6 – Hideji Ōtaki, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
• June 7
  • John Biddle, American yachting cinematographer and lecturer (d. 2008)
  • Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (d. 2017)
  • Robert Smithdas, American deaf-blind teacher, advocate and author (d. 2014)
• June 8
  • Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)
  • Claude Estier, French politician and journalist (d. 2016)
• June 9
  • Don Ritchie, Australian official (d. 2012)
  • Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and executive (d. 2014)
  • Robert H. Traurig, American lawyer and businessman (d. 2018)
• June 10
  • Fortunato Abat, Filipino army general and politician (d. 2018)
  • Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist (d. 2017)
• June 11 – William Styron, American writer (d. 2006)
• June 13 – Dušan Trbojević, Serbian pianist, composer, musical writer and university professor (d. 2011)
• June 14
  • Hideyuki Fujisawa, Japanese professional Go player (d. 2009)
  • Jean-Louis Rosier, French racecar driver (d. 2011)
  • Pierre Salinger, White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)
• June 15
  • Richard Baker, English journalist and author
  • Vasily Golubev, Soviet, Russian painter (d. 1985)
  • Attilâ İlhan, Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer (d. 2005)
• June 16
  • Lewis Morley, American Photographer (d. 2013)
  • Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist (d. 2017)
• June 17
  • Luce d'Eramo, Italian writer and literary critic (d. 2001)
  • Mervyn Finlay, Australian former member of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Queen's Counsel (d. 2014)
  • Wendell Erickson, American politician (d. 2018)
• June 20
  • András Kovács, Hungarian filmmaker (d. 2017)
  • Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and actor (d. 1971)
• June 21
  • Larisa Avdeyeva, Russian mezzo-soprano (d. 2013)
  • Jean-Gabriel Castel, French-Canadian law professor
  • Stanley Moss, American poet, publisher, and art dealer
  • Giovanni Spadolini, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1994)
  • Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
• June 22
  • Nat Boxer, American sound engineer (d. 2009)
  • Frank Hindle, English footballer player
  • Ben Jarvis, American politician
• June 23
  • Art Modell, American businessman (d. 2012)
  • Oliver Smithies, British-American geneticist (d. 2017)
• June 24 – Ogden R. Reid, United States Representative from New York
• June 25
  • John Briley, American writer
  • Virginia Patton, American actress
  • Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud, French lawyer and politician
  • June Lockhart, American actress
  • Robert Venturi, American architect
  • P. Viswambharan, Indian politician, socialist, trade unionist and journalist (d. 2016)
• June 26
  • Jean Frydman, French resistant and businessman
  • Richard X. Slattery, American actor (d. 1997)
• June 27 – Wayne Terwilliger, American second baseman, coach, and manager in Major League Baseball
• June 28 – Ray Boyle, American actor
• June 29
  • Mervyn Alexander, English Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2010)
  • Francis S. Currey, American Medal of Honour recipient
  • John Fujioka, American actor of Japanese descent
  • Shirley Brannock Jones, American judge
  • Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician and 11th President of Italy
  • Arthur Storch, American actor and stage director (d. 2013)
  • Cara Williams, American actress
• June 30
  • Ebrahim Amini, Iranian politician
  • Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss poet and translator
  • Ros Mey, Cambodian-born American Buddhist monk and survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime (d. 2010)
  • Fred Schaus, American basketball player, head coach and athletic director (d. 2010)

July[edit]

• July 1
  • Aubyn Curtiss, American politician (d. 2017)
  • Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)
  • Art McNally, American football referee
• July 2
  • Marvin Rainwater, American country and rockabilly singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
  • Medgar Evers, African-American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
  • Patrice Lumumba, Congolese independence leader (d. 1961)
• July 3
  • Roger Chesneau, French steeplechaser
  • Keiji Hase, Japanese swimmer
  • Terry Moriarty, Australian rules footballer (d. 2011)
  • Danny Nardico, American professional boxer (d. 2010)
• July 4
  • John Imbrie, American paleoceanographer (d. 2016)
  • Jim Kettle, Australian rules footballer
  • Dorothy Head Knode, American tennis player
  • Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and former politician
• July 5
  • Jean Raspail, French author, traveler and explorer
  • Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker, and teacher (d. 2017)
  • Unto Wiitala, Finnish ice hockey player
• July 6
  • Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress and author (d. 2002)
  • Merv Griffin, American game show developer and host (d. 2007)
  • Bill Haley, American musician (d. 1981)
  • Gazi Yaşargil, Turkish scientist and neurosurgeon
• July 7
  • Marc Breslow, American television director (d. 2015)
  • Fernand Decanali, French cyclist (d. 2017)
  • Erich Hartstein, German journalist and contributing editor
  • Jud Kinberg, American producer and screenwriter (d. 2016)
• July 8
  • Lies Bonnier, Dutch swimmer
  • Nicholas Brathwaite, Prime minister of Grenada (d. 2016)
  • Arthur Imperatore Sr., Italian-American businessman from New Jersey
  • Bill Mackrides, American football quarterback
  • Dominique Nohain, French actor, dramatist and director (d. 2017)
• July 9
  • Tom Luken, American politician (d. 2018)
  • Mary de Rachewiltz, American poet and translator
  • Borislav Stanković, Serbian former basketball player and coach
  • Marion Gay Wofford, American politician
• July 10
  • Ernest Bertrand Boland, American Roman Catholic bishop
  • Jerome Kohlberg Jr., American businessman (d. 2015)
  • Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian politician; Prime Minister of Malaysia
• July 11
  • Mattiwilda Dobbs, African-American coloratura soprano (d. 2015)
  • Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (d. 2017)
  • Peter Kyros, American politician (d. 2012)
  • Fernando Matthei, Chilean Air Force General (d. 2017)
• July 12
  • Don Campbell, Canadian ice hockey (d. 2012)
  • William Benner Enright, American judge
  • Rosie Harris, English author
• July 13
  • Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and writer
  • Suzanne Zimmerman, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist
• July 14
  • Francisco Álvarez Martínez, Roman Catholic prelate
  • Elmo Bovio, Argentine professional football player
  • Bruce L. Douglas, American politician
  • Sheila Guyse, African-American singer, actress, and recording artist (d. 2013)
  • Carlos Velázquez, Argentine modern pentathlete
• July 15
  • Evan Hultman, American politician
  • D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker
  • Gaston Rousseau, French racing cyclist
  • Badal Sarkar, Indian dramatist and theatre director (d. 2011)
• July 16 – Rosita Quintana, Argentine actress
• July 17
  • Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, German cellist and Holocaust survivor
  • Mohammad Hasan Sharq, Afghan politician
  • Ted Vogel, American marathon runner
• July 18
  • Hubert Doggart, English sports administrator, cricketer and schoolmaster (d. 2018)
  • Allan Elsom, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2010)
  • Raymond Jones, Australian architect
  • Windy McCall, relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (d. 2015)
  • Shirley Strickland, Australian Olympic athlete (d. 2004)
  • Friedrich Zimmermann, German politician (d. 2012)
• July 19
  • Otto Arosemena, 32nd President of Ecuador (d. 1984)
  • Henri Beaujean, French politician
  • John Dossetor, Canadian physician and bioethicist
  • Jean-Pierre Faye, French philosopher, poet, and writer
  • Jack Petchey, British businessman
  • Michael Pfeiffer, German former professional football player (d. 2018)
  • Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer
• July 20
  • Jacques Delors, French politician
  • Frantz Fanon, French-Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1961)
  • Stan Hovdebo, New Democratic Party member of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 2018)
  • Eric Watson, New Zealand former cricketer (d. 2017)
• July 21
  • Hans Meyer, South African actor
  • Johnny Peirson, Canadian ice hockey player
• July 22
  • Irving Sandler, American art critic, art historian, and educator (d. 2018)
  • Joseph Sargent, American film director (d. 2014)
• July 23
  • Tajuddin Ahmad, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
  • Gloria DeHaven, American actress (d. 2016)
  • Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (d. 2017)
  • Govind Talwalkar, Indian journalist (d. 2017)
• July 24 – Stephen Porter, American stage director (d. 2013)
• July 25
  • Benny Benjamin, American musician, known as the main drummer used by Motown for studio recordings (d. 1969)
  • Jutta Zilliacus, Finnish journalist and politician
• July 26
  • Robert Hirsch, French actor (d. 2017)
  • Ana María Matute, Spanish writer (d. 2014)
  • Neil O'Reilly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1985)
• July 28
  • Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011)
  • Ali Bozer, Turkish politician
• July 29
  • Shivram Dattatreya Phadnis, Indian cartoonist
  • Carmen Stănescu, Romanian actress (d. 2018)
  • Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
  • Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, British nobleman (d. 2012)
• July 30
  • Stan Stennett, Welsh comedian, actor and jazz musician (d. 2013)
  • Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (d. 1984)
• July 31
  • Harry Malmberg, American second baseman and coach (d. 1976)
  • Carmel Quinn, Irish-American singer and performer

August[edit]

• August 1
  • Cor Edskes, Dutch organ builder and restorer (d. 2015)
  • Pam Gems, English playwright (d. 2011)
  • Roy Mackal, American biologist (d. 2013)
• August 2
  • Jorge Rafael Videla, 42nd President of Argentina (d. 2013)
  • Alan Whicker, British television presenter (d. 2013)
• August 3
  • Dom Um Romão, Brazilian jazz drummer (d. 2005)
  • Guy Degrenne, French businessman (d. 2006)
• August 4 – Betty Trezza, Italian-American female professional baseball player (d. 2007)
• August 6
  • Eddie Baily, England international footballer (d. 2010)
  • Barbara Bates, American actress and singer (d. 1969)
  • Lilyan Chauvin, French-American actress (d. 2008)
  • Olavi Rokka, American gardener and horticulturist (d. 2011)
• August 7 – M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist
• August 8
  • Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003)
  • Frank Lauterbur, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
  • Aziz Sattar, Malaysian actor, comedian, singer and director (d. 2014)
• August 9
  • David A. Huffman, American computer scientist (d. 1999)
  • Valentín Pimstein, Chilean-Mexican producer of telenovelas (d. 2017)
  • Olavi Rokka, Finnish modern pentathlete (d. 2011)
  • Ginny Tyler, American voice actress (d. 2012)
• August 10 – Stanislav Brebera, Czech chemist (d. 2012)
• August 11 – Arlene Dahl, American actress
• August 12
  • Thor Vilhjálmsson, Icelandic writer (d. 2011)
  • Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (d. 1986)
  • Dean Sensanbaugher, American football halfback and defensive back (d. 2005)
  • Norris McWhirter (d. 2004) and his twin brother,
  • Ross McWhirter (d. 1975), Scottish co-founders of the Guinness Book of Records
  • Lois Jurgens, American convicted murderer (d. 2013)
  • Leopold Barschandt, Austrian footballer (d. 2000)
  • Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (d. 1986)
  • George Wetherill, Director Emeritus, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (d. 2006)
  • Dale Bumpers, American politician (d. 2016)
• August 13
  • José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentine executive and policy maker (d. 2013)
  • Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect based in Christchurch (d. 2012)
  • Benny Bailey, American bebop and hard-bop jazz trumpeter (d. 2005)
• August 15
  • Mike Connors, American actor (d. 2017)
  • Ruth Lessing, American female professional baseball player (d. 2000)
  • Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (d. 2007)
  • Bill Pinkney, American performer and singer (d. 2007)
  • Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-born French pianist (d. 2015)
• August 16
  • Idriss ibn al-Hassan al-Alami, Moroccan poet and translator (d. 2007)
  • Mal Waldron, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger (d. 2002)
  • William G. Hundley, American criminal defense attorney (d. 2006)
  • Kirke Mechem, American composer
• August 18 – Pegeen Vail Guggenheim, Swiss-American painter (d. 1967)
• August 19 – Madhav Dalvi, Indian cricketer (d. 2012)
• August 20 – Henning Larsen, Danish architect (d. 2013)
• August 21 – Toma Caragiu, Romanian theatre, television and film actor (d. 1977)
• August 22
  • Honor Blackman, English actress
  • Terry Donahue, Canadian female professional baseball player
• August 25
  • Thea Astley, Australian writer (d. 2004)
  • Hasan Tiro, Indonesian politician (d. 2010)
• August 26
  • Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005)
  • Etelka Keserű, Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2018)
• August 27
  • Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and Vatican diplomat (d. 2017)
  • Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (d. 2011)
  • Jaswant Singh Neki, Indian academic and poet (d. 2015)
• August 28
  • Antônio Agostinho Marochi, Brazilian bishop (d. 2018)
  • Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2003)
  • José Parra Martínez, Spanish footballer (d. 2016)
• August 29
  • Dick Cusack, American actor, filmmaker and humorist (d. 2003)
  • Demetrio Basilio Lakas Bahas, former President of Panama (d. 1999)
• August 30
  • Chris Anderson, cottish footballer, educator and football administrator (d. 1986)
  • Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
• August 31
  • Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)
  • Ted Schwinden, American politician
  • Pete Vonachen, American restaurateur and baseball team owner (d. 2013)

September[edit]

• September 1 – Arvonne Fraser, American women's rights activist (d. 2018)
• September 2 – Ike Franklin Andrews, American politician (d. 2010)
• September 3
  • Shoista Mullojonova, Tajik-born Shashmakom singer (d. 2010)
  • Maureen Haughey, Irish political figure (d. 2017)
• September 7 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (d. 1985)
• September 8 – Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor (d. 1980)
• September 10 – Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1996)
• September 11 – Armando Monteiro Filho, Brazilian businessman, engineer and politician (d. 2018)
• September 12
  • Stan Lopata, American professional baseball player (d. 2013)
  • Dick Moore, American child actor (d. 2015)
• September 13
  • Marshall Flaum, American television director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2010)
  • Mel Tormé, American musician (d. 1999)
• September 14 – Winston Cenac, 3rd Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2004)
• September 15
  • John Eden, Baron Eden of Winton, English politician
  • Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009)
• September 16
  • Eugene Garfield, American linguist and businessman (d. 2017)
  • Charles Haughey, sixth Taoiseach (head of government of the Republic of Ireland) (d. 2006)
  • B.B. King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
• September 19 – Franklin Sousley, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1945)
• September 20 – Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Siam (d. 1946)
• September 23 – Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
• September 24 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
• September 25
  • Edwin N. Lightfoot, American chemical engineer (d. 2017)
  • Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007)
  • Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (d. 2016)
• September 26 – Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and racing driver (d. 1982)
• September 27 – Robert G. Edwards, British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (d. 2013)
• September 28
  • Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)
  • Carolyn Morris, American female professional baseball player (d. 1996)
• September 29 – John Tower, American politician (d. 1991)
• September 30 – Arkady Ostashev, Russian scientist and cosmonaut (d. 1998)

October[edit]

• October 1
  • Christine Pullein-Thompson, British author (d. 2005)
  • Diana Pullein-Thompson, British author (d. 2015)
  • Yang Hyong-sop, North Korean politician
• October 2 – José A. Martínez Suárez, Argentine film director and screenwriter
• October 3 – Gore Vidal, American author (d. 2012)
• October 4 – Fyodor Terentyev, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 1963)
• October 5
  • Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997)
  • Antoine Gizenga, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Murray Riley, Australian Olympic rower
• October 6 – Hiroshi H. Miyamura, American Medal of Honour recipient
• October 7 – Mildred Earp, American female professional baseball player
• October 8
  • Álvaro Magaña, 38th President of El Salvador (d. 2001)
  • Eleanor Anne Young, American religious sister, research scientist, and educator (d. 2007)
• October 9 – Isyaku Rabiu, Nigerian businessman (d. 2018)
• October 10
  • Anne Pippin Burnett, American classics scholar (d. 2017)
  • Thomas F. Stroock, American politician (d. 2009)
• October 11 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013)
• October 13
  • Lenny Bruce, American comic (d. 1966)
  • Carlos Robles Piquer, Spanish diplomat and politician (d. 2018)
  • Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 (d. 2013)
• October 14 – Phillip V. Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist (d. 2012)
• October 15 – Bob Rowland Smith, Australian politician (d. 2012)
• October 16
  • Daniel J. Evans, American politician
  • Angela Lansbury, English-born U.S. actress
• October 18 – Ramiz Alia, 13th President of Albania (d. 2011)
• October 19
  • Bernard Hepton, English actor and director (d. 2018)
  • Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine Naval military officer (d. 2010)
• October 20
  • Art Buchwald, American humorist and columnist (d. 2007)
  • Hiromu Nonaka, Japanese politician (d. 2018)
  • Gene Wood, American game show announcer (d. 2004)
• October 21
  • Surjit Singh Barnala, Indian politician (d. 2017)
  • Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer (d. 2003)
• October 22
  • Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Hawaiian genealogist, author and hula expert (d. 2014)
  • Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and graphic artist (d. 2008)
• October 23
  • Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host (d. 2005)
  • José Freire Falcão, Brazilian cardinal
• October 24
• Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)
  • Al Feldstein, American artist and comic book creator (d. 2014)
  • Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician (d. 2013)
• October 25
  • Cora Etter, American politician
  • Aliya Moldagulova, Soviet soldier and sniper (d. 1944)
• October 27
  • Warren Christopher, American diplomat (d. 2011)
  • Jiro Ono, Japanese chef
• October 29
  • Dominick Dunne, American writer (d. 2009)
  • Sir William Gladstone, 7th Baronet, British aristocrat and Chief Scout (d. 2018)
  • Robert Hardy, English actor (d. 2017)
  • Klaus Roth, German-born British mathematician (d. 2015)
• October 31
  • Ngaire Lane, New Zealand swimmer
  • John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
  • Robert Rheault, American army officer (d. 2013)

November[edit]

• November 2 – Leif Hermansen, Danish rower
• November 4
  • Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer (d. 2018)
  • Doris Roberts, American actress (d. 2016)
• November 6 – Michel Bouquet, French actor
• November 7 – Angelo Thomas Acerra, American Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1990)
• November 8 – Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress
• November 9 – Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (d. 2016)
• November 10 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor, better known for his role in Cleopatra (d. 1984)
• November 11
  • Nigel Cecil, British naval officer (d. 2017)
  • John Guillermin, British director (d. 2015)
  • June Whitfield, English actress
  • Jonathan Winters, American actor and comedian (d. 2013)
• November 12 – Heinz Schubert, German actor (d. 1999)
• November 17 – Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
• November 18 – Gene Mauch, baseball manager (d. 2005)
• November 19 – Zygmunt Bauman, Polish military officer, sociologist and philosopher (d. 2017)
• November 20
  • Kaye Ballard, American actress, comedian, and singer
  • Robert F. Kennedy, American politician and Attorney General of the United States (d. 1968)
  • Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina (d. 2015)
• November 22
  • Gunther Schuller, American musician (d. 2015)
  • Miki Muster, Slovenian artist (d. 2018)
• November 23
  • Gene Brito, American football Defensive end (d. 1965)
  • José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran politician, 39th President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
• November 24
  • William F. Buckley, Jr., American journalist, author, and commentator (d. 2008)
  • André Lévy, French sinologist (d. 2017)
  • Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• November 26
  • Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, Uruguayan general and former dictator (d. 2016)
  • Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
• November 27
  • Claude Lanzmann, French filmmaker (d. 2018)
  • John Maddox, Welsh science writer (d. 2009)
  • Marshall Thompson, American actor (d. 1992)
  • Ernie Wise, English comedian (d. 1999)
• November 28
  • Grace Berg Schaible, American lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
  • Herb Wallerstein, American director and producer (d. 1985)
• November 29 – "Sunshine" Sonny Payne, American radio presenter (d. 2018)
• November 30
  • Maryon Pittman Allen, American politician and journalist (d. 2018)
  • Donald Collins, American politician (d. 2018)
  • Hayashiya Sanpei I, Japanese comedian (d. 1980)

December[edit]

• December 1 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998)
• December 2 – Julie Harris, American actress (d. 2013)
• December 3 – Erik Mørk, Danish actor (d. 1993)
• December 4
  • Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)
  • Sauro Tomà, Italian footballer (d. 2018)
• December 5
  • Henri Oreiller, French Olympic alpine skier (d. 1962)
  • Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (d. 1980)
• December 6
  • Oliver Bernard, English poet and translator (d. 2013)
  • Shigeko Higashikuni, Japanese princess (d. 1961)
• December 8
  • Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician, and actor (d. 1990)
  • Arnaldo Forlani, 43rd Prime Minister of Italy
  • Hank Thompson, American player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (d. 1969)
• December 11 – Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• December 12
  • Anne V. Coates, British film editor (d. 2018)
  • Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer (d. 2017)
• December 13
  • John Ehle, American writer (d. 2018)
  • Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, and dancer
• December 15
  • Trần Thiện Khiêm, Vietnamise politician
  • Hiroshi Motoyama, Japanese scientist (d. 2015)
  • Kasey Rogers, American actress (d. 2006)
• December 19
  • Rabah Bitat, Algerian politician, interim President of Algeria (d. 2000)
  • Tankred Dorst, German playwright (d. 2017)
  • Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (d. 2012)
• December 20 – Béla Goldoványi, Hungarian athlete (d. 1972)
• December 21
  • John Harlan, American game show announcer (d. 2017)
  • Dorothy Kamenshek, American professional baseball player (d. 2010)
• December 22 – Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, Hero of the Soviet Union recipient
• December 23
  • Pierre Bérégovoy, French politician, 111th Prime Minister of France (d. 1993)
  • Harry Guardino, American actor (d. 1995)
  • Duncan Hallas, prominent member of the Trotskyist movement in Great Britain (d. 2002)
• December 24 – Prosper Grech, Maltese cardinal
• December 25
  • Ned Garver, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 2017)
  • Dorothy Mueller, American professional baseball player (d. 1985)
• December 27
  • Wilson Frost, American politician (d. 2018)
  • Michel Piccoli, French actor, singer, director, and producer
• December 28
  • Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (d. 2002)
  • Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005)
• December 29
  • Keshav Dutt, Indian field hockey player
  • Pete Dye, American golf course architect
  • Luis Alberto Monge, Costa Rican politician (d. 2016)
• December 30
  • Shirley Herz, American Broadway theatre (d. 2013)
  • Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
  • Frank Meisler, Israeli architect and sculptor (d. 2018)
• December 31 – Richard Gordon, British producer (d. 2011)

Date unknown[edit]

• Ahmad Lozi, Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 2014)
• Godrej Sidhwa, Pakistani theologist (d. 2011)
• Shafik Wazzan, 27th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1999)

Deaths[edit]

January[edit]

• January 4 – Nellie Cashman, Irish-born prospector (b. 1845)
• January 6 – Rafaela Porras Ayllón, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (b. 1850)
• January 8 – George Bellows, American artist (b. 1882)
• January 14
  • Camille Decoppet, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1852)
  • Harry Furniss, British cartoonist, illustrator and pioneer animator (b. 1854)
• January 16 – Aleksey Kuropatkin, Russian general and Imperial Russian Minister of War (b. 1848)
• January 18
  • Charles Lanrezac, French general (b. 1852)
  • J. M. E. McTaggart, English philosopher (b. 1866)
• January 22 – Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer, writer and mountain climber (b. 1859)^[17]
• January 25 – Alexander Kaulbars, Russian general and explorer (b. 1844)
• January 26
  • Caspar F. Goodrich, American admiral (b. 1847)
  • Sir James Mackenzie, Scottish cardiologist (b. 1853)
• January 31 – George Washington Cable, American writer (b. 1844)

February[edit]

• February 2 – Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater (b. 1873)
• February 3 – Oliver Heaviside, British mathematician (b. 1850)
• February 4 – Robert Koldewey, German architect and archaeologist (b. 1855)
• February 10 – Aristide Bruant, French singer and nightclub owner (b. 1851)
• February 11 – H. E. Beunke, Dutch writer (b. 1851)
• February 17 – Ignacio Andrade, Venezuela military and politician, 23rd President of Venezuela (b. 1839)
• February 18 – James Lane Allen, American writer (b. 1849)
• February 21 – Fernando De Lucia, Italian tenor (b. 1860)
• February 23 – Samuel Berger, American Olympic boxer (b. 1884)
• February 24 – Hjalmar Branting, 19th Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
• February 25 – Louis Feuillade, French silent film director (b. 1873)
• February 28 – Friedrich Ebert, 1st President of Germany (Weimar Republic) (b. 1871)

March[edit]

• March 2 – Luigj Gurakuqi, Albanian writer and politician (b. 1879)
• March 4
  • Moritz Moszkowski, Polish composer (b. 1854)
  • James Ward, British philosopher and psychologist (b. 1843)
  • John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1860)
• March 7 – Georgy Evgenyevich Lvov, Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1861)
• March 8
  • Manuel Míguez González, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1831)
  • Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (b. 1866)
• March 10 – Myer Prinstein, American track athlete (b. 1878)
• March 12
  • Gergely Luthár, Hungarian Slovene writer (b. 1841)
  • Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1866)
• March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, American silent film actress (b. 1910)
• March 14 – Walter Camp, American football coach (b. 1859)
• March 19 – Nariman Narimanov, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1870)
• March 20 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (b. 1859)
• March 28 – Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, British general (b. 1864)
• March 30 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (b. 1861)

April[edit]

• April 6 – Alexandra Kitchin, British model for Lewis Carroll (b. 1864)
• April 7 – Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (b. 1865)
• April 13 – Elwood Haynes, American inventor (b. 1857)
• April 14 – John Singer Sargent, American artist (b. 1856)
• April 15
  • August Endell, German architect (b. 1871)
  • Fritz Haarmann, German serial killer (executed) (b. 1879)
• April 16 – Gunther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg (b. 1852)
• April 19 – John Walter Smith, American politician (b. 1845)
• April 22 – André Caplet, French composer and conductor (b. 1878)

May[edit]

• May 2
  • Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b. 1848)
  • Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian poet (b. 1898)
• May 3 – Clement Ader, French Army Captain and aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
• May 4 – Giovanni Battista Grassi, Italian physician and zoologist (b. 1854)
• May 7
  • William Hesketh Lever, British industrialist, philanthropist and politician (b. 1851)
  • Doveton Sturdee, British admiral (b. 1859)
• May 10
  • Alexandru Marghiloman, 25th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1854)
  • William Massey, 19th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
• May 12
  • Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
  • Charles Mangin, French general (b. 1866)
• May 14 – H. Rider Haggard, British writer (b. 1856)
• May 15 – Nelson A. Miles, American general (b. 1839)
• May 20
  • Elias M. Ammons, Governor of Colorado (b. 1860)
  • Joseph Howard, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1862)
• May 21 – Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agricultural scientist and guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)
• May 22 – John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British World War I field marshal (b. 1852)
• May 31 – John Palm, Curaçao born composer (b. 1885)

June[edit]

• June 1
  • Lucien Guitry, French actor (b. 1860)
  • Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States (b. 1854)
• June 2 – James Ellsworth, American mine owner and banker (b. 1849)
• June 3 – Camille Flammarion, French astronomer (b. 1842)
• June 16 – Emmett Hardy, American jazz cornetist (b. 1903)
• June 17 – Adolf Pilar von Pilchau, Baltic German politician, regent of the United Baltic Duchy and baron (b. 1851)
• June 18 – Robert M. La Follette Sr., American politician (b. 1855)
• June 20 – Josef Breuer, Austrian neurologist (b. 1842)
• June 22 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
• June 29 – Christian Michelsen, Norwegian politician and 1st Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1857)

July[edit]

• July 1 – Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866)
• July 2 – Nikolai Golitsyn, last Prime Minister of the Russian Empire (executed) (b. 1850)
• July 4 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Roman Catholic social activist and blessed (b. 1901)
• July 7 – Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b. 1871)
• July 14 – Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (b. 1901)
• July 17 – Lovis Corinth, German painter (b. 1858)
• July 19
  • Francisco Jose Fernandes Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician (b. 1867)
  • John Indermaur, British lawyer (b. 1851)
• July 26
  • Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1888)
  • William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860)
  • Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1848)
• July 30 – William Wynn Westcott, British Freemason (b. 1848)

August[edit]

• August 5 – Jennie Lee, American actress (b. 1848)
• August 6 – Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (b. 1853)
• August 12 – Severo Fernández, 29th President of Bolivia (b. 1849)
• August 15 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian landscape painter (b. 1878)
• August 17 – Ioan Slavici, Romanian writer (b. 1848)
• August 25 – Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852)

September[edit]

• September 7 – René Viviani, 81st Prime Minister of France (b. 1863)
• September 16 – Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian mathematician (b. 1888)
• September 17 – Carl Eytel, German-American artist working in Palm Springs, California (b. 1862)
• September 29 – Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851)

October[edit]

• October 5 – Anna Schäffer, German Roman Catholic mystic, stigmatist and saint (b. 1882)
• October 7 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1880)
• October 10 – James Buchanan Duke, American tobacco and electric power industrialist (b. 1856)
• October 14 – Eugen Sandow, German-born bodybuilder, physical culturist (b. 1867)
• October 20 – Jonah of Hankou, Russian Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1888)
• October 31
  • George Anderson, Danish criminal (b. 1880)
  • Mikhail Frunze, Russian Bolshevik leader (b. 1885)
  • Max Linder, French silent film actor (b. 1883)
  • José Ingenieros, Argentine physician, sociologist and philosopher (b. 1877)

November[edit]

• November 1 – Lester Cuneo, American actor (b. 1888)
• November 3 – Lucile McVey, American actress, part of comedy team with her late husband Sidney Drew (b. 1890)
• November 6 – Khải Định, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1885)
• November 20
  • Queen Alexandra, consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)
  • Clara Morris, Victorian stage actress (b. 1846)
• November 21 – Robert Wrenn, American tennis player (b. 1873)
• November 24 – Margaret Sinclair, British nun and venerable (b. 1900)
• November 25 – King Vajiravudh of Siam (b. 1880)

December[edit]

• December 5
  • Wilhelmina Drucker, Dutch politician and writer (b. 1847)
  • Władysław Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, American actress (b. 1888)
• December 9 – Pablo Iglesias, co-founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (b. 1850)
• December 13 – Antonio Maura, Spanish conservative politician, 5-time Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1853)
• December 15 – Battling Siki, Senegalese boxer (b. 1897)
• December 19 – José Ignacio Quintón, Puerto Rican composer and pianist (b. 1881)
• December 21
  • Lottie Lyell, Australian female pioneer film director and producer (b. 1890)
  • Jules Méline, French statesman, 50th Prime Minister of France (b. 1838)
• December 22
  • Alice, Princess Dowager of Monaco, consort of Albert I of Monaco (b. 1858)
  • Mary Thurman, American actress (b. 1895)
• December 25 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877)
• December 28
  • Raymond P. Rodgers, American admiral (b. 1849)
  • Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet (b. 1895)
• December 29 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter (b. 1865)
• December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards, Canadian film director (b. 1867)

Date unknown[edit]

• Emma Curtis Hopkins, American spiritual writer (b. 1849)

Nobel Prizes[edit]

• Physics – James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz
• Chemistry – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
• Physiology or Medicine – not awarded
• Literature – George Bernard Shaw
• Peace – Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes

References[edit]