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1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade.
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Events[edit]
January[edit]
- January 1
- January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declared himself dictator in Greece.
- January 6 – The airline Deutsche Luft Hansa was founded in Berlin.
- January 8 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud was crowned King of Hejaz.
- January 8 - Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of Vietnam.
- January 12 – Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiered their radio program Sam 'n' Henry, in which the two white performers portray two black characters from Harlem looking to strike it rich in the big city. It was a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, Amos 'n' Andy.
- January 16 – A BBC comic radio play broadcast by Ronald Knox about a workers' revolution caused a panic in London.[2]
- January 21 – The Belgian Parliament accepted the Locarno Treaties.
- January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated a mechanical television system for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times at his London laboratory.
- January 29 – Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown opened at the Greenwich Theatre.
- January 31 – British and Belgian troops left Cologne.
February[edit]
- February 1 – Land on Broadway and Wall Street in New York City was sold at a record $7 per sq inch.
- February 8 – Seán O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars opened at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
- February 12 – The Irish minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appointed the Committee on Evil Literature.
- February 20 – The Berlin International Green Week debuted in Berlin.
- February 25 – Francisco Franco became General of Spain.
March[edit]
- March 6 – The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by fire.
- March 6 – The first commercial air route to South Africa is established by Alan Cobham.
- March 16 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
- March 23 – Éamon de Valera organises Fianna Fáil in Ireland.
April[edit]
- April 4 – Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos won the presidential election with 93.3% of the vote. Turnout was light as the result was considered a foregone conclusion.[3]
- April 7 – An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails.
- April 12 – By a vote of 45–41, the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and seats Daniel F. Steck, after Brookhart had already served for over one year.[why?][citation needed]
- April 17 – Zhang Zuolin's army captured Beijing.[4]
- April 21 – Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of York, later Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, was born in Mayfair, London.
- April 24 – Treaty of Berlin: Germany and the Soviet Union each pledged neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
- April 25 – Rezā Khan was crowned Shah of Iran under the name "Pahlevi".
- April 30 – African-American pilot Bessie Coleman was killed after falling 500 feet (150 m) from an airplane.
May[edit]
- May 3 – Coal miners were locked out in Britain.
- May 4 – The United Kingdom general strike began at midnight in support of the coal strike.
- May 9
- Martial law was declared in Britain because of the general strike.
- The French navy bombarded Damascus because of the Druze riots.
- Explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett claimed to be the first to fly over the North Pole in the Josephine Ford monoplane, taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway and returning 15 hours and 44 minutes later. Both men were 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.[5] 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.[6]
- May 10
- Talks between the government and strikers began in the U.K.
- Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and Horace Meek Hickam, students at the Air Corps Tactical School, collided in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia. Hickam parachutes to safety.
- May 12
- Roald Amundsen and his crew flew over the North Pole in the airship Norge.
- UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ended (the strike began on May 3).
- May 12–May 14 – May Coup: Józef Piłsudski took over in Poland.
- May 18 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared while visiting a Venice, California beach.
- May 20 – The United States Congress passed the Air Commerce Act, licensing pilots and planes.
- May 23 – The first Lebanese constitution was established.
- May 26 – The Rif War ended when Rif rebels surrendered in Morocco.
- May 28 – The 1926 coup d'état commanded by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal installed the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship), followed by António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo.
June[edit]
- June 4 – Ignacy Mościcki became president of Poland.
- June 7 – The Liberal politician Carl Gustaf Ekman succeeds Rickard Sandler as Prime Minister of Sweden.
- June 19 – DeFord Bailey was the first African-American to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.
- June 29 – Arthur Meighen briefly returned to office as Prime Minister of Canada during the King-Byng Affair.
July[edit]
- July 1 – The Mammoth Cave National Park is authorized by the United States Congress.
- July 1 – The Kuomintang began a military unification campaign in northern China.
- July 3 – A Caudron C.61 aircraft operated by Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne crashed in Czechoslovakia.
- July 9 – General Óscar Carmona took power in a military coup in Portugal.
- July 10 – A bolt of lightning struck Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. The resulting fire caused several million pounds of explosives to blow up in the next two to three days.
- July 15 – BEST buses made their début in Bombay.
- July 23 – Fox Film bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
- July 26 – The National Bar Association incorporated in the United States.
August[edit]
- August 1 – In Mexico, the entry into force of anticlerical measures stipulated in the constitution of 1917 caused the Cristero War.
- August 5 – In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premiered with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
- August 6 – Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel from France to England.
- August 18
- The British miners' union began negotiations with the government.
- A weather map was televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau office in Washington, D.C.
- August 22 – In Greece, Georgios Kondylis ousted Theodoros Pangalos.
- August 23 – The sudden death of popular film actor and sex symbol Rudolph Valentino at the age of only 31 years old caused mass grief and hysteria around the world.
- August 25 – Pavlos Kountouriotis announced that dictatorship had ended in Greece and he was now the president.
September[edit]
- September 1 – Lebanon under the French Mandate got its first constitution, thereby becoming a republic. Charles Debbas was elected president.
- September 8 – The German Weimar Republic joined the League of Nations.
- September 11
- Aloha Tower was officially dedicated at Honolulu Harbor in the Territory of Hawai'i.
- In Rome, Italy, Gino Lucetti threw a bomb at Benito Mussolini's car, but Mussolini was unhurt.
- September 14 – The Locarno Treaties of 1925 were ratified in Geneva and came into effect.
- September 16 – Philip Dunning and George Abbott's play Broadway premieres in New York City.
- September 18 – Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastated Miami, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion today).
- September 19 – Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) Stadium, as known well for sports venues of Italy, officially opened in Milan.[citation needed]
- September 20 – The North Side Gang attempted to assassinate Al Capone, spraying his headquarters in Cicero, Illinois with over a thousand rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight as Capone was eating there. Capone escaped harm.[7][8]
- September 21 – French war ace René Fonck and three others attempted 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 survived but two of his men are killed.
- September 23 – Gene Tunney defeated Jack Dempsey and became heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
- September 25
- The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolished all types of slavery.
- William Lyon Mackenzie King returned to office as Prime Minister of Canada after winning the Canadian federal election.
- Detroit Cougars, a professional ice hockey club (National Hockey League) and predecessor to the Detroit Red Wings, founded.[9]
October[edit]
- October 2 – Józef Piłsudski became prime minister of Poland.
- October 12 – British miners agreed to end their strike.
- October 14 – A. A. Milne's children's book Winnie-the-Pooh was published in London, featuring the eponymous bear.
- October 19 – The 1926 Imperial Conference opened in London.
- October 20 – A hurricane killed 650 in Cuba.
- October 23
- Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev were removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- A decree in Italy banned 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 died of gangrene and peritonitis that has developed after his appendix ruptured.
November[edit]
- November 5 – The APOEL FC is founded.
- November 10 – In San Francisco, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") killed and then rapes his 9th victim, a boarding house landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
- November 11 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, was established.
- November 15
- The NBC radio network opened with 24 stations (formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA).
- The Balfour Declaration was approved by the 1926 Imperial Conference, making the Commonwealth dominions equal and independent.
- November 24
- The village of Rocquebillier in the French Riviera was almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm.
- Sri Aurobindo retired, leaving The Mother to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry, India.
- November 25 – The death penalty was re-established in Italy.
- November 26 – All Italian Communist deputies were arrested.
- November 27 – The restoration of Colonial Williamsburg began in Williamsburg, Virginia.
December[edit]
- December 2 – British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ended the martial law that had been declared due to general strike.
- December 3 – Agatha Christie disappeared from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she was found at a Harrogate hotel.
- December 7 – The Council for the Preservation of Rural England (CPRE) founded; now the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
- December 17 – 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état: A democratically elected government was overthrown in Lithuania; Antanas Smetona assumed power.
- December 18 – Turkey converted to the Gregorian calendar, making the next day January 1 1927.
- December 23 – Nicaraguan President Adolfo Díaz requested U.S. military assistance in the ongoing 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.[10][11]
- December 26 – In the history of Japan, the Shōwa period began from this day due to the death of Emperor Taishō on the day before. His son Hirohito reigned as Emperor of Japan until 1989. Showa 1 in the Japanese calendar was just six days long, prior to January 1 Showa 2 (1927).[citation needed]
Date unknown[edit]
- Dr Muthulakshmi Reddi became the first woman appointed to a legislature in India, the Madras Legislative Council.
- Stephen H. Langdon began excavations in Jemdet Nasr finding proto-cuneiform clay tablets (3100–2900 BCE)
- Phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust) was first synthesized.
- Widows' pensions were introduced in New South Wales, Australia.
- The short-lived Western Australian Secession League was founded.
- Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designed and marked rodeo's first high-cut rodeo chaps at Stirling, Alberta Canada.
- The International African Institute is founded in London.
- Raymond Pearl published his landmark book, Alcohol and Longevity.
- American microbiologist Selman Waksman published Enzymes.
- The Pike School of Andover, Massachusetts was founded.
- Industrial output surpassed the level of 1913 in the USSR.[clarification needed][citation needed]
- Al Capone was at the apex of his power.
Births[edit]
January[edit]
- January 1
- José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal
- Claudio Villa, Italian singer (d. 1987)
- Rolf Fjeldvær, Norwegian politician (d. 2017)
- January 2
- John Stroppa, Canadian football player (d. 2017)
- Harold Bradley, American session guitarist on country music records
- Bandar bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi royal (d. 2016)
- January 3
- Mohamed Yaacob, Malaysian lawyer and judge (d. 2009)
- Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian illustrator
- George Martin, English producer of The Beatles (d. 2016)
- January 4 – Betty Kennedy, Canadian broadcaster, journalist, author, and Senator (d. 2017)
- January 5 – William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet (d. 2009)
- January 6 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
- January 7 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician
- January 8
- Chester Feldman, American television game show producer (d. 1997)
- Evelyn Lear, American soprano (d. 2012)
- Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
- Soupy Sales, American comedian (d. 2009)
- January 10 – Júlio Pomar, Portuguese painter (d. 2018)
- January 11
- Lev Dyomin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
- Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin, 42nd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 1984)
- Giusto Pio, Italian musician and songwriter (d. 2017)
- Grant Tinker, American television executive (d. 2016)
- January 12
- Ray Price, American singer (d. 2013)
- Shumon Miura, Japanese novelist (d. 2017)
- 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 16 – Walter Maslow, American actor
- January 17
- Antonio Domingo Bussi, Argentine Army General and former Governor of Tucuman (d. 2011)
- Newton N. Minow, American attorney
- Moira Shearer, Scottish actress and dancer (d. 2006)
- January 19 – Fritz Weaver, American actor (d. 2016)
- January 20
- Patricia Neal, American actress (The Day The Earth Stood Still) (d. 2010)
- David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
- January 21 – Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
- January 23 – Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (d. 2012)
- January 26 – Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (d. 1980)
- January 27
- Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
- Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
- January 28 – Amin al-Hafez, 22nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2009)
- January 29
- Amelita Ramos, former First Lady of the Philippines
- Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
- January 31 – Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (d. 1958). Some sources give his year of birth as 1928.
February[edit]
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- February 2
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France
- Lia Laats, Estonian actress (d. 2004)
- Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Managua and cardinal (d. 2018)
- February 3 – Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician
- February 4 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer (d. 2014)
- February 7
- Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
- Bill Hoest, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
- Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Argentine cardinal
- Keiko Tsushima, Japanese actress (d. 2012)
- February 8 – Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)
- February 9 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2011)
- February 10
- Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (d. 1993)
- Mimi Sheraton, American food critic
- February 11
- Paul Bocuse, French chef (d. 2018)
- Alexander Gibson, British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera (d. 1995)
- Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (d. 2010)
- February 12
- Joe Garagiola Sr., American baseball player (d. 2016)
- Charles Van Doren, American professor and subject of film, Quiz Show (film)
- February 14 – Al Brodax, American film and television producer (d. 2016)
- February 16
- Margot Frank, sister of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
- John Schlesinger, British film director (d. 2003)
- February 17
- Peter T. Flawn, American geologist and educator (d. 2017)
- John Meyendorff, French-born American Orthodox scholar, protopresbiter and educator (d. 1992)
- February 18 – Jeanne Wilson, American swimmer (d. 2018)
- February 19 – Pierre Guénin, French journalist and gay rights activist (d. 2017)
- February 20
- Whitney Blake, American actress (d. 2002)
- Richard Matheson, American author (d. 2013)
- Bob Richards, American track and field athlete
- Maria de la Purisima Salvat Romero, Spanish nun and saint (d. 1998)
- February 22 – Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
- February 23
- Lawrence Holofcener, American-British sculptor, poet, lyricist, playwright, novelist, actor and director (d. 2017)
- Luigi De Magistris, Italian cardinal
- February 24
- Knut Kleve, Norwegian philologist (d. 2017)
- Dave Sands, Australian boxer (d. 1952)
- February 26
- Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler (d. 2015)
- Henry Molaison, American memory disorder patient (d. 2008)
- Miroslava, Czechoslovakian-born Mexican actress (d. 1955)
- 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[edit]
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- March 1
- Pete Rozelle, American commissioner of the National Football League (d. 1996)
- Robert Clary, French-American actor, author and lecturer
- March 2 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
- March 3 – James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
- March 4
- DeVan Dallas, American politician (d. 2016)
- Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway
- James J. Eagan, former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. 2000)
- Fran Warren, American popular singer (d. 2013)
- March 5 – Norman Macfarlane, Baron Macfarlane of Bearsden, Scottish industrialist and politician
- March 6
- Alan Greenspan, American economist and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
- Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (d. 2016)
- March 8
- Sultan Salahuddin of Selangor (d. 2001)
- Dick Teed, American Major League Baseball player (d. 2014)
- March 9 – Joe Franklin, American radio and television personality (d. 2015)
- March 10 – Seto Wan'ya , Japanese writer and novelist (d. 1993)
- March 11
- Derek Benfield, English playwright and actor (d. 2009)
- Thomas Starzl, American physician (d. 2017)
- March 13 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
- March 14 – Carlos Heitor Cony, Brazilian journalist and writer (d. 2018)
- March 15 – Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (d. 1983)
- March 16
- Edwar al-Kharrat, Egyptian novelist, writer and critic (d. 2015)
- Charles Goodell, American politician (d. 1987)
- Jerry Lewis, American comedian and humanitarian (Muscular Dystrophy Telethon) (d. 2017)
- March 17
- Jaynne Bittner, American female baseball player (d. 2017)
- Siegfried Lenz, German writer (d. 2014)
- March 18
- Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010)
- Ángel Peralta Pineda, Spanish rejoneador and actor (d. 2018)
- March 21
- Beatriz Aguirre, Mexican film and television actress
- Heikki Hasu, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier
- March 23 – Berta Loran, Brazilian-Polish actress
- March 24
- Dario Fo, Italian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
- Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (d. 2017)
- Tony Streather, English army officer
- Ventsislav Yankov, Bulgarian pianist
- March 25
- László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
- Gene Shalit, American film critic and television personality
- March 28 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2014)
- March 30
- Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman (d. 2018)
- Peter Marshall, American singer and television host (Hollywood Squares)
- Sydney Chaplin, American actor (d. 2009)
- March 31 – John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005)
April[edit]
- April 1
- Charles Bressler, American tenor (d. 1996)
- Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish author (d. 2011)
- April 2
- Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver (d. 2014)
- Omar Graffigna, Argentine Air Force officer
- Robert Holmes, British scriptwriter (d. 1986)
- April 3
- Valentin Falin, Soviet diplomat and politician (d. 2018)
- Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)
- R. W. Schambach, American televangelist, speaker and author (d. 2012)
- April 5
- Roger Corman, American filmmaker, producer, actor and businessman
- Ri Kun-mo, North Korean politician
- April 6
- Jeanne Martin Cissé, Guinean teacher and nationalist politician (d. 2017)
- Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor and actor (d. 1990)
- Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
- Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician (d. 2014)
- April 9
- Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor (Playboy) (d. 2017)
- Harris Wofford, American politician
- April 10 – Gustav Metzger, German-born stateless auto-destructive artist (d. 2017)
- April 11 – Gervase de Peyer, English clarinetist and conductor (d. 2017)
- April 12
- Khozh-Akhmed Bersanov, Chechen ethnographer (d. 2018)
- Jane Withers, American actress
- April 13
- Neil Betts, Australian rugby union player (d. 2017)
- Egon Wolff, Chilean playwright and author (d. 2016)
- John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, British peer (d. 2014)
- April 14
- Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, producer, director, teacher (d. 1996)
- George Robledo, Chilean soccer player (d. 1989)
- Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish politician (d. 2008)
- April 15 – Walter Dee Huddleston, American politician
- April 17 – Gerry McNeil, Canadian hockey player (d. 2004)
- April 19 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. 1997)
- April 21
- Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- 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 and singer
- James Stirling, Scottish architect (d. 1992)
- April 24 – Thorbjörn Fälldin, 2-Time Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 2016)
- April 25
- Patricia Castell, Argentine actress (d. 2013)
- Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
- April 26
- David Coleman, British television sports broadcaster (d. 2013)
- Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
- April 27
- Alvin Baldus, American Democratic politician (d. 2017)
- Tim LaHaye, American evangelist, speaker and author (d. 2016)
- Vladimír Černý, Czechoslovakian modern pentathlete (d. 2016)
- Alvin Baldus, American Democratic politician (d. 2017)
- April 28
- James Bama, American artist and illustrator
- Harper Lee, American novelist (d. 2016)
- April 29
- Paul Baran, American internet pioneer (d. 2011)
- Leonard Fenton, English actor and director
- April 30
- Edmund Cooper, British author and poet (d. 1982)
- Cloris Leachman, American actress
May[edit]
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- May 1 – Peter Lax, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic
- May 3 – Matt Baldwin, Canadian curler
- May 4 – David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon, English politician
- May 5
- Ann B. Davis, American actress (d. 2014)
- Bing Russell, American actor (d. 2003)
- May 8
- Sir David Attenborough, British broadcaster, naturalist and producer
- David Hurst, German actor
- Don Rickles, American comedian and actor (d. 2017)
- May 10
- Hugo Banzer, 62nd and 75th President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
- Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, American film personality and publisher of The Hollywood Reporter (d. 2004)
- Pasquale Panìco, Italian politician (d. 2018)
- May 12 – Earl Dewitt Hutto, American politician
- May 13 – Joy Coghill, Canadian actress, director, and writer (d. 2017)
- May 14 – Eric Morecambe, English comedian and author (d. 1984)
- May 15
- Anthony Shaffer, English novelist and playwright (d. 2001)
- Sir Peter Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2016)
- May 17
- David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, Scottish soldier and politician
- Franz Sondheimer, German-born British chemist (d. 1981)
- May 17 – Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian film actor (d. 2014)
- May 18
- Dirch Passer, Danish actor (d. 1980)
- Douglas Henry, American politician (d. 2017)
- May 19
- Mark Andrews, American politician
- Edward Parkes, English engineer and academic
- May 21 – Robert Creeley, American Poet (d. 2005)
- May 23
- Aileen Hernandez, African-American union organizer, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist (d. 2017)
- Desmond Carrington, British actor and broadcaster (d. 2017)
- May 25
- Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
- Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
- May 26 – Miles Davis, American musician (d. 1991)
- May 27
- Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. 2009)
- Kees Rijvers, Dutch football player and manager
- May 28 – Colin Hutton, English rugby union and rugby league (d. 2017)
- May 29
- Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe, Queen Consort of Tonga (d. 2017)
- Abdoulaye Wade, 3rd President of Senegal
- Katie Boyle, Italian-British actress, television personality, and game-show panelist (d. 2018)
- May 30
- Tony Terran, American trumpet player and session musician (d. 2017)
- Johnny Gimble, American country musician and fiddler (d. 2015)
- Tsuneo Watanabe, Japanese businessman
June[edit]
- June 1
- Andy Griffith, American actor (d. 2012)
- Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
- June 3
- Roscoe Bartlett, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives
- Roxcy Bolton, American feminist and civil and women's rights activist (d. 2017)
- Allen Ginsberg, American poet (Howl) (d. 1997)
- June 4 – Ain Kaalep, Estonian poet, playwright and critic
- June 5
- Emile Capgras, Martinican politician (d. 2014)
- Paul Soros, Hungarian-born American mechanical engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
- Peter Peterson, American banker and businessman, American Secretary of Commerce (d. 2018)
- June 6 – Antônio Ribeiro de Oliveira, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
- June 7
- Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician
- Dick Williams, American singer and actor (d. 2018)
- 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)
- Henri Minczeles, French journalist (d. 2017)
- June 11
- Carlisle Floyd, American composer and educator
- Frank Plicka, Czech-born photographer (d. 2010)
- June 12
- Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine goalkeeper
- Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author (d. 2001)
- June 13
- Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
- June Krauser, American swimmer (d. 2014)
- June 14 – Don Newcombe, American baseball player
- June 15 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
- June 16
- Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemalan career military officer and politician (d. 2018)
- William F. Roemer, Jr., United States FBI agent (d. 1996)
- Taketoshi Naito, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
- June 18
- Avshalom Haviv, (d. 1947)
- Allan Sandage, American astronomer (d. 2010)
- June 19
- Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician and inventor
- Arno Mayer, American historian and writer
- June 21
- Fred Cone, former professional American football fullback
- Yvette Lévy, French Survivor and a Holocaust witness
- Washington Malianga, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2014)
- Johanna Quandt, German business woman (d. 2015)
- June 22
- George Englund, American film editor, director, producer and actor (d. 2017)
- Elyakim Haetzni, Israeli lawyer
- Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish filmmaker (d. 2015)
- Rachid Solh, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2014)
- Ray Szmanda, American radio and television announcer
- June 23
- Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Japanese freestyle swimmer (d. 2011)
- Magda Herzberger, Romanian author, poet and composer, survivor of the Holocaust
- Annette Mbaye d'Erneville, Senegalese writer
- Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor
- June 24
- Muslim Arogundade, Nigerian sprinter
- Blackie Gejeian, American race car driver, race car builder, and hot rod enthusiast (d. 2016)
- Barbara Scofield, American tennis player
- Hans Günter Winkler, German show jumping rider
- June 25
- Dame Margaret Anstee, British diplomat (d. 2016)
- Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
- Gordon Robertson, Canadian ice hockey player
- Stig Sollander, Swedish alpine skier
- June 26
- Mahendra Bhatnagar, Indian poet
- Paddy Fahey, Irish composer and fiddler
- Luis Molné, Andorran alpine skier
- André Monnier, French ski jumper
- Fritz Zwazl, Austrian former swimmer
- June 27
- Giambattista Bonis, Italian professional football player
- Len Ceglarski, American hockey player (d. 2017)
- Geza de Kaplany, Hungarian-born physician
- Don Raleigh, American ice hockey player (d. 2012)
- Bruce Tozer, Australian former cricketer
- Galina Vecherkovskaya, Russian rower
- June 28
- Satoru Abe, American sculptor and painter
- Elisabeta Abrudeanu, Romanian artistic gymnast
- George Booth, American cartoonist
- Mel Brooks, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
- June 29
- Roger Stuart Bacon, American politician
- Bobby Morgan, American professional baseball player
- June 30
- Peter Alexander, Austrian actor and singer (d. 2011)
- Paul Berg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Božena Moserová, Czech alpine skier
- Reg Newton, English professional football goalkeeper
July[edit]
- July 1
- Juan Jaime Cesio, Argentine brigadier general (d. 2017)
- Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist
- Robert Fogel, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- Carl Hahn, German automotive executive, chairman of Volkswagen
- Hans Werner Henze, German composer (d. 2012)
- Stan Obst, Australian rules footballer
- July 2
- Liu Dajun, Chinese agricultural scientist, educator and an academician (d. 2016)
- Alfons Oehy, Swiss swimmer
- Carlo Rolandi, Italian sailor
- July 3
- Rae Allen, American actress, director, and singer
- María Lorenza Barreneche, former First Lady of Argentina (d. 2016)
- Laurence Street, Australian jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
- July 4
- Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-born footballer (d. 2014)
- Amos Elon, Israeli writer (d. 2009)
- Lopön Tenzin Namdak, Tibetan religious leader
- Mary Stuart, American soap actress (d. 2002)
- July 5
- Roy Hawes, American first baseman in Major League Baseball (d. 2017)
- Viola Harris, American actress (d. 2017)
- Mario Picone. American pitcher (d. 2013)
- Anthony John Richard Purssell, English brewing executive, businessman and former athlete
- July 6 – Serge Roullet, French film director and screenwriter
- July 7
- Yvonne Ciannella, American coloratura soprano in opera and concert
- Armand Lemieux, Canadian professional hockey player (d. 2015)
- Thorkild Simonsen, Danish politician
- Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician; 31st Prime Minister of Cambodia
- Mel Clark, American Major League Baseball outfielder (d. 2014)
- Bobby McIlvenny, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2016)
- July 8
- David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher (d. 2014)
- John Dingell, American politician
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004)
- July 9
- Jens Juul Eriksen, Danish cyclist
- Mathilde Krim, founding chairman of amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research (d. 2018)
- Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Peter Mullins, Australian decathlete (d. 2012)
- July 10
- Carleton Carpenter, American actor and dancer
- Donald Geary, American ice hockey player (d. 2015)
- Fred Gwynne, American actor and author (d. 1993)
- Harry Macpherson, American pitcher (d. 2017)
- Tony Settember, American racing driver (d. 2014)
- Aldo Tortorella, Italian journalist, former politician and partisan
- July 11
- Frederick Buechner, American author and theologian
- Joe Houston, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
- July 12
- Abe Addams, American soccer player (d. 2017)
- Cec Thompson, English rugby league footballer (d. 2011)
- July 13
- Cheng Chi-sen, Taiwanese sports shooter
- T. Loren Christianson, American politician
- Thomas Clark, American politician
- July 14
- Jean Cottard, French fencer
- Wallace Jones, American professional basketball player (d. 2014)
- Harry Dean Stanton, American film and television actor (d. 2017)
- July 15
- Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplomat
- Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
- Raymond Gosling, English physicist (d. 2015)
- July 16
- Emile Degelin, Belgian film director and novelist (d. 2017)
- Paul M. Ellwood Jr., prominent figure in American health care
- 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)
- William Pierson, American television, motion picture and stage actor (d. 2004)
- Charles Zwick, American civil servant
- July 18
- Nita Bieber, American actress
- François Fassone, French footballer
- Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish film director and screenwriter
- Bernard Pons, French politician and medical doctor
- Robert Sloman, English writer (d. 2005)
- July 19
- Terry Cavanagh, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
- Helen Gallagher, American actress, dancer, and singer
- Robert E. Lavender, American Justice
- July 20
- Charles David Ganao, Congolose politician (d. 2012)
- Russ Gorman, Australian politician (d. 2017)
- Odd Kallerud, Norwegian politician
- July 21
- Otto Beyeler, Swiss cross country skier
- Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
- Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistan Army general
- July 22 – Bryan Forbes, English film director (d. 2013)
- July 25
- Whitey Lockman, American player, coach, manager (d. 2009)
- Ray Solomonoff, American inventor (d. 2009)
- July 26
- James Best, American actor and acting coach (d. 2015)
- Moacir Santos, Brazilian composer, multi-instrumentalist and music educator (d. 2006)
- July 27 – Doris Satterfield, American professional baseball player (d. 1993)
- July 28 – Walt Brown, American presidential candidate
- July 29 – Franco Sensi, Italian businessman (d. 2008)
- July 30 – Sir Patrick Russell, British jurist (High Court of England and Wales) (d. 2002)
- July 31
- Bernard Nathanson, American medical doctor and activist (d. 2011)
- Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2016)
August[edit]
- August 1 – Hannah Hauxwell, English TV personality (d. 2018)
- August 2
- Sy Mah, Canadian marathoner (d. 1988)
- George Habash, Palestinian Christian politician (d. 2008)
- W. Carter Merbreier, American television host (Captain Noah) (d. 2016)
- 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
- August 5 – Clifford Husbands, 6th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 2017)
- August 6
- János Rózsás, Hungarian writer (d. 2012)
- Frank Finlay, English stage, film and television actor (d. 2016)
- Elisabeth Beresford, British author (d. 2010)
- Luis Bordón, English author (d. 1986)
- 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)
- Arturo García Bustos, Mexican painter (d. 2017)
- Jimmy Brown, American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer (d. 2006)
- Angelo Bonfietti, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2004)
- August 9
- Willie Finlay, Scottish professional football player and coach (d. 2014)
- Frank M. Robinson, American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d. 2014)
- August 10
- Michel Breitman, French writer and translator (d. 2009)
- Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist (d. 2013)
- Marie-Claire Alain, French organist (d. 2013)
- August 11 – Ron Bontemps, American basketball player (d. 2017)
- August 12
- John Derek, American actor and film director (d. 1998)
- Osamu Ishiguro, Japanese tennis player (d. 2016)
- Hiroshi Koizumi, Japanese actor (d. 2015)
- Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
- René Vignal, French footballer (d. 2016)
- August 13
- Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician (d. 2016)
- Roy Heath, Guyanese writer (d. 2008)
- Norris Bowden, Canadian figure skater (d. 1991)
- Dennis Eagan, British field hockey player (d. 2012)
- August 14
- Martin Broszat, German historian (d. 1989)
- Agostino Cacciavillan, Italian cardinal
- Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (d. 2017)
- René Goscinny, French comic book writer (d. 1977)
- August 15
- Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet and playwright (d. 1947)
- Julius Katchen, American concert pianist (d. 1969)
- Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, former President of Greece (d. 2016)
- August 16
- Roger Agache, French archaeologist (d. 2011)
- Jack Britto, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (d. 2013)
- Eivind Hjelmtveit, Norwegian cultural administrator (d. 2017)
- Christopher Polge, English biologist (d. 2006)
- Yu Min, Chinese nuclear physicist
- August 17
- Maurice Lusien, French swimmer (d. 2017)
- Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
- Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China
- August 18
- Orlando Bosch, Cuban terrorist (d. 2011)
- Franca Marzi, Italian film actress (d. 1989)
- August 19
- Luis Bordón, Paraguayan musician and composer (d. 2006)
- George Daniels, British horologist (d. 2011)
- Martin Halliday, British physician (d. 2008)
- August 20
- Hocine Aït Ahmed, Algerian politician (d. 2015)
- Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach (d. 2014)
- August 21 – Marian Jaworski, Polish cardinal
- August 22
- Lois Hall, American actress (d. 2006)
- Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, American Roman Catholic nun and university president (d. 2012)
- August 23
- Vasco Cabral, Guinea-Bissauan writer and politician (d. 2005)
- Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (d. 2006)
- August 26 – Robert Vickrey, American artist and author (d. 2011)
- August 27 – Albert H. Owens Jr., American oncologist (d. 2017)
- August 29
- Don Doll, American football player and coach (d. 2010)
- Ramakrishna Hegde, Indian politician (d. 2004)
- Betty Lynn, American actress
- August 30 – Robert Pierre Sarrabère, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2017)
September[edit]
- September 1 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, 11th President of Bangladesh (d. 2017)
- September 2
- Armando Cossutta, Italian communist politician (d. 2015)
- Ibrahim Nasir Rannabanderyi Kilegefan, Maldivian president (d. 2008)
- September 3
- Uttam Kumar, Bengali actor (d. 1980)
- Irene Papas, Greek actress
- September 4 – Elias Hrawi, 14th President of Lebanon (d. 2006)
- September 5 – Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince (d. 2017)
- September 6
- Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
- Maurice Cowling, British historian (d. 2005)
- Maurice Prather, American photographer (d. 2001)
- September 7
- Ronnie Gilbert, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2015)
- Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997)
- Ivone Ramos, Cape Verdean writer (d. 2018)
- September 8 – Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer (d. 2012)
- September 9 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian Islamic theologian
- September 14
- 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 16
- John Knowles, American author (d. 2001)
- Robert H. Schuller, American televangelist, motivational speaker and author (d. 2015)
- September 17 – Bill Black, American rock and roll musician and bandleader (d. 1965)
- September 19
- Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- James Lipton, American television personality and writer
- Duke Snider, American baseball player (d. 2011)
- September 21
- Carla Calò, Italian actress
- Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
- 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 24 – Aubrey Burl, British archaeologist
- September 25
- Carlos Chasseing, Argentine politician (d. 2018)
- Charles J. Colgan, American politician and businessman (d. 2017)
- September 26
- Tulsi Giri, former Prime Minister of Nepal
- Julie London, American actress and singer (d. 2000)
- September 28 – Jerry Clower, American country comedian (d. 1998)
- September 30
- Dave Hunt, American apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author (d. 2013)
- Frank O'Neill, Australian swimmer
October[edit]
- October 1 – Max Morath, American musician
- October 2
- Jan Morris, born James Morris, British travel writer
- John Ross, Austrian-born American chemist (d. 2017)
- October 4
- Phar Lap, New Zealand-foaled racehorse (d. 1932)
- Senaida Wirth, American female professional baseball player (d. 1967)
- October 7
- Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat and military official (d. 2018)
- Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, Polish mathematician (d. 2015)
- October 9 – Ruth Ellis, British murderess (d. 1955)
- October 10 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
- October 11
- Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
- Zohurul Hoque, Indian Islamic scholar (d. 2017)
- Earle Hyman, American film and television actor (d. 2017)
- Shin Sang-ok, South Korean film producer and director (d. 2006)
- 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)
- Jeffrey Hayden, American television director and producer (d. 2016)
- Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000)
- Karl Richter, German conductor (d. 1981)
- October 17
- Julie Adams, American actress
- 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)
- Pauline Pirok, American female professional baseball player
- October 20 – Vsevolod Murakhovsky, Ukrainian-Russian politician (d. 2017)
- October 21
- Waldir Pires, Brazilian politician
- Bob Rosburg, American golfer (d. 2009)
- October 22 – Chan Sui-kau, Hong Kong industrialist and philanthropist (d. 2018)
- October 25
- Biff McGuire, American actor
- Walter Mengden, American attorney and politician (d. 2018)
- Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano (d. 2012)
- 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)
- October 30
November[edit]
- November 1
- James Marson, French politician (d. 2017)
- Betsy Palmer, American actress (d. 2015)
- November 3 – Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politician, 3rd President of Lithuania
- November 4 – Carmen A. Orechio, American politician (d. 2018)
- November 5
- John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (d. 2017)
- Kim Jong-gil, South Korean poet (d. 2017)
- November 6 – Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian (d. 2012)
- November 7 – Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (d. 2010)
- November 8
- Sonja Bata, Swiss businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
- Jack Mendelsohn, American writer-artist (d. 2017)
- November 11 – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian automobile racing driver (d. 2016)
- November 15 – Helmut Fischer, German actor (d. 1997)
- November 16
- Amy Applegren, American professional baseball player (d. 2011)
- 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)
- John Gardner, English spy novelist (d. 2007)
- November 23
- Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 2011)
- R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)
- Vann Molyvann, Cambodian architect (d. 2017)
- November 24 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- November 25
- Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
- Poul Anderson, American science fiction author (d. 2001)
- November 26
- Peter van Pels, German-Dutch love interest of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
- Rabi Ray, Indian politician (d. 2017)
- November 28
- David Alexander, British Royal Marines general (d. 2017)
- Umberto Veronesi, Italian oncologist and politician (d. 2016)
- November 29 – Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisian politician
- 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[edit]
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- December 1
- Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2018)
- Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
- December 5 – Adetowun Ogunsheye, Nigerian academic and educator
- December 7 – Charley Marouani, Tunisian impresario and celebrity agent (d. 2017)
- December 9
- Raif Dizdarević, Bosnian politician
- Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- December 10
- Guitar Slim, American New Orleans blues guitarist (d. 1959)
- Giorgos Ioannou, Greek artist (d. 2017)
- December 11 – Diego Natale Bona, Italian Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2017)
- December 13 – George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
- December 15
- Nikos Koundouros, Greek film director (d. 2017)
- Emmanuel Wamala, Ugandan cardinal
- December 16
- James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
- A. N. R. Robinson, 3rd President and 3rd Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014)
- December 17
- Allan V. Cox, American geologist (d. 1987)
- Bill Keightley, American equipment manager for the University of Kentucky men's basketball team from 1962 to 2008 (d. 2008)
- December 20
- Geoffrey Howe, British politician (d. 2015)
- Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (d. 2009)
- David Levine, U.S. caricaturist (d. 2009)
- December 21
- Elisabeth Elliot, American Christian author and speaker (d. 2015)
- Joe Paterno, American football coach and philanthropist (d. 2012)
- December 22
- Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2015)
- Roberta Leigh, British writer, artist and television producer (d. 2014)
- December 23
- Robert Bly, American poet
- Jorge Medina Estévez, Chilean cardinal
- Metakse, Armenian poet, writer, translator and public activist (d. 2014)
- December 25
- Eugene Gendlin, Austrian-born American philosopher (d. 2017)
- Arnold Parsons, English wrestler
- December 26 – Gina Pellón, Cuban painter (d. 2014)
- December 31 – Billy Snedden, Australian politician (d. 1987)
Unknown[edit]
- Stuart Canin, American violinist and conductor
- Jerry Thorpe, American director and producer
Deaths[edit]
January–March[edit]
- January 4 – Margherita of Savoy, Queen consort of Italy (b. 1851)
- January 6 – John Bowers, British Anglican bishop (b. 1854)
- January 12 – 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
- Marie C. Brehm, American suffragette
- 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
- Bucura Dumbravă, Hungarian-born Romanian novelist, promoter, hiker and Theosophist (b. 1868)
- John Flannagan, American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1860)
- Joseph Sarsfield Glass, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1874)
- January 28
- Katō Takaaki, Japanese politician, 24th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1860)
- Ernest Troubridge, British admiral (b. 1862)
- January 30 – Barbara La Marr, American film actress (b. 1896)
- February 1 – Theodosius of Skopje, Bulgaria 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 – William Bateson, British geneticist (b. 1861)
- February 10 – Aqif Pasha Elbasani, Albanian political figure (b. 1860)
- February 12 – Art Smith, American pilot (b. 1890)
- February 13 – Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist (b. 1845)
- February 17 – Jan Cieplak, Polish Roman Catholic priest, bishop and servant of God (b. 1857)
- February 21 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- February 24
- John Jacob Bausch, German-born American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (b. 1830)
- 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 II (b. 1835)
- March 11
- Maibelle Heikes Justice, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1871)
- Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki (b. 1865)
- March 12 – E. W. Scripps, American newspaper publisher (b. 1854)
- March 16 – 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 (b. 1852)
- March 28 – Prince Philippe, Duke of Orleans (b. 1869)
- March 29 – Charles Williamson Crook, British teacher, trade unionist and politician (b. 1862)
April–June[edit]
Emperor Sunjong
Sultan Mehmed VI
- April 1 – Jacob Pavlovich Adler, Russian actor (b. 1855)
- April 7 – Giovanni Amendola, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1882)
- April 9 – Henry Miller, British-born American stage actor and producer (b. 1859)
- April 10 – Ōshima Yoshimasa, Japanese general (b. 1850)
- April 17 – Antonio Adolfo Pérez y Aguilar, Salvadorian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1839)
- April 19 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Soviet statisician (b. 1874)
- April 20 – Billy Quirk, American actor (b. 1873)
- April 22 – Federico Gana, Chilean writer and diplomat (b. 1867)
- April 24 – Sunjong, last Emperor of Korea (b. 1874)
- April 25 – 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 – 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 – Count Nikolaus Szécsen von Temerin (b. 1857)
- May 22 – Tomás Arejola, Filipino lawyer, legislator, diplomat and writer (b. 1865)
- May 26
- Frank Nelson Cole, American mathematician (b. 1861)
- Symon Petliura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
- May 27 – Michele Comella, Italian painter (b. 1856)
- June 8 – Emily Hobhouse, British welfare campaigner (b. 1860)
- 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 artist (b. 1844)
- June 18 – Olga Constantinovna of Russia (b. 1851)
- June 23 – Jón Magnússon, Icelandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1857)
July–September[edit]
King Ugyen Wangchuck
- July 1 – Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Italian-born Argentine botanist and mycologist (b. 1858)
- July 2
- Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
- Kristján Jónsson Minister of 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, 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, 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 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, American actor (b. 1894)
- August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
- August 27 – John Rodgers, American naval officer and naval aviation pioneer (b. 1881)
- August 30 – Eddie Lyons, American actor (b. 1886)
- September – Rashid Tali’a, 1st Prime Minister of Transjordan (b. 1877)
- September 15
- Alexander Boyter, American stonemason (b. 1848)
- Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
- September 21 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
- September 25 – Herbert Booth, English Salvationist, third son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
- September 26 – José María Orellana, Guatemalan political and military leader, 14th President of Guatemala (b. 1872)
October–December[edit]
- 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)
- Earle Hyman, American actor (b. 2017)
- October 12 – Paul Puhallo von Brlog, Croatian 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, Jewish-born Austrian dermatologist and histologist (b. 1854)
- October 31
- Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born 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, American actor and director (b. 1893)
- November 10 – Lyubov Dostoyevskaya, Russian writer (b. 1869)
- November 19 – Thomas Cusack, American entrepreneur, pioneer and politician (b. 1858)
- 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 – 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 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[edit]
- Physics – Jean Baptiste Perrin
- Chemistry – Theodor Svedberg
- Physiology or Medicine – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
- Literature – Grazia Deledda
- Peace – Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
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