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1928 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1928 MCMXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2681
Armenian calendar	1377 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԷ
Assyrian calendar	6678
Bahá'í calendar	84–85
Balinese saka calendar	1849–1850
Bengali calendar	1335
Berber calendar	2878
British Regnal year	18 Geo. 5 – 19 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2472
Burmese calendar	1290
Byzantine calendar	7436–7437
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4624 or 4564     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4625 or 4565
Coptic calendar	1644–1645
Discordian calendar	3094
Ethiopian calendar	1920–1921
Hebrew calendar	5688–5689
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1984–1985
- Shaka Samvat	1849–1850
- Kali Yuga	5028–5029
Holocene calendar	11928
Igbo calendar	928–929
Iranian calendar	1306–1307
Islamic calendar	1346–1347
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 3 (昭和３年)
Javanese calendar	1858–1859
Juche calendar	17
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4261
Minguo calendar	ROC 17 民國17年
Nanakshahi calendar	460
Thai solar calendar	2470–2471
Tibetan calendar	阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 2054 or 1673 or 901     — to — 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 2055 or 1674 or 902

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1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1928th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 928th year of the 2nd millennium, the 28th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1920s decade.

Events[edit]

January[edit]

• January – English bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.^[1][2]
• January 1
  • Estonia changes its currency from the mark to the kroon.
  • Abolition of domestic slavery in the British Protectorate of Sierra Leone comes into effect.^[3]
  • Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, crosses the border to Iran to defect from the Soviet Union.
• January 6–7 – The River Thames floods in London; 14 drown. On January 7, the moat at the Tower of London (drained in 1843 and planted with grass) is completely refilled by the river.
• January 12 – Convicted American murderer Ruth Snyder is executed at Sing Sing.
• January 17 – The OGPU arrests Leon Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance.
• January 26 – The volcanic island Anak Krakatau appears.^[4][5]
• January 31 – Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.

February[edit]

• February 8 – British inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York.^[6]
• February 11–19 – The 1928 Winter Olympics are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first as a separate event. Sonja Henie of Norway wins her first gold medal, in women's figure skating.
• February 12 – Heavy hail kills 11 in Britain.
• February 20 – The Japanese general election produces a hung parliament.
• February 25 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C., becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

March[edit]

• March 12 – In California, the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles fails, killing 600.
• March 15
  • March 15 incident: The Japanese government cracks down on socialists and communists.
  • Chinese warlord Shi Yousan sets fire to the Shaolin Monastery in Henan, destroying some of its ancient structures and artifacts.^[7]
• March 21 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for his first transatlantic flight.
• March 26 – The China Academy of Art is founded in Hangzhou (originally named the National Academy of Art).

April[edit]

• April 10 – Pineapple Primary: The United States Republican Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by violence, bombings and assassination attempts (two politicians are killed, Octavius C. Granady and Giuseppe Esposito).
• April 12 – A bomb attack against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini in Milan kills 17 bystanders.
• April 13 – The West Plains, Missouri Dance Hall explosion occurs.^[8]
• April 12–14 – The first ever east–west transatlantic flight by aeroplane takes place from Dublin, Ireland, to Greenly Island, Canada, using the German Junkers W 33 Bremen.
• April 14 – Two earthquakes in Chirpan and Plovdiv, Bulgaria destroy more than 21,000 buildings, and kill almost 130 people.
• April 19 – The last section ("wise – wyze") of the original Oxford English Dictionary is completed and published.^[9]
• April 22 – An Ms 6.0 earthquake affects southern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 20 dead, and destroying 3,000 homes in Corinth; a non-destructive tsunami is also observed.
• April 28 – 28 inches of snow fall in southern-central Pennsylvania.^[10]

May[edit]

• May 3 – Jinan incident: An armed conflict between the Imperial Japanese Army (allied with Northern Chinese warlords against the Kuomintang's southern army) occurs in Jinan, China.
• May 7 – Passage of the Representation of the People Act in the United Kingdom lowers the voting age for women from 30 to 21, giving them equal suffrage with men from July 2.^[11]
• May 10 – The first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady, New York, by General Electric's television station W2XB (the station is popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio station WGY).
• May 15
  • The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia commences operations.
  • The animated short Plane Crazy is released by Disney Studios in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse (in a non-distributed film).
• May 23 – A bomb attack against the Italian consulate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 22 and injures 43.
• May 24 – The airship Italia crashes at the North Pole; one of the occupants is Italian general Umberto Nobile. A rescue expedition leaves for the Pole on May 30.
• May 30 – Rookie driver Louis Meyer wins his first Indianapolis 500 (he will win that race again, in 1933 and 1936).

• May 31 – South Africa adopts a new national flag, based upon the Van Riebeeck flag or Prinsevlag (originally the Dutch flag), to replace the Red Ensign.

June[edit]

• June 3 – American serial killer Albert Fish kidnaps and kills 10-year-old Grace Budd.
• June 4 – Huanggutun incident: Zhang Zuolin, a warlord, is killed by Japanese agents in China.
• June 8 – By seizing Beijing and renaming it Běipíng, the National Revolutionary Army puts an end to the 'Fengtian warlords' Beiyang government there.
• June 9
  • Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew complete the first flight across the Pacific Ocean, from the mainland United States to Australia, in the Fokker F.VII aircraft Southern Cross. Having left Oakland, California on May 31, they reach Brisbane via Honolulu and Fiji.
  • Ellis Park Stadium, a well-known sport venue of South Africa, officially opens in Johannesburg.^[12]
• June 11 – A medical doctors' strike begins in Vienna.
• June 14 – Students take over the medical wing of Rosario University in Argentina.
• June 17–18 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to make a successful transatlantic flight, as a passenger in a Fokker F.VIIb/3m piloted by Wilmer Stultz, from Newfoundland to Wales.
• June 20 – Puniša Račić kills three opposition representatives in the Yugoslavian Parliament, and injures three others, in a gun attack.
• June 24 – A Swedish aeroplane rescues part of the Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile. The Soviet icebreaker Krasin saves the rest July 12.
• June 28
  • The keel of the first 1,000 ft (300 m)-long ocean liner, Oceanic, for the British White Star Line, is laid by Harland and Wolff in Belfast; construction is delayed, and cancelled on 23 July 1929.
  • The International Railway (New York–Ontario) switches to one-man crews, for its trolleys in Canada.
• June 29 – At the 1928 Democratic National Convention in Houston, Governor of New York Al Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.

July[edit]

• July 2 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories' W3XK station begins broadcasting on 6.42 MHz, using 48 lines.
• July 3 – British inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first colour television transmission.^[13]
• July 7 – The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri, using Otto Frederick Rohwedder's technology.
• July 12 – Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza dies in a solo plane crash in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, while returning from a goodwill flight to New York City.
• July 17 – José de León Toral assassinates Álvaro Obregón, president of Mexico.
• July 25 – The United States recalls its troops from China.
• July 27
  • English cricketer Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets, before the end of July.
  • Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness, with its theme of lesbian love, is published in London.
• July 28 – August 12 – The 1928 Summer Olympics are held in Amsterdam, opening with the lighting of the Olympic flame. Women's athletics and gymnastics debut at these games, and discus thrower Halina Konopacka of Poland becomes the first female Olympic gold medal winner for a track or field event. Coca-Cola enters Europe as sponsor of the games.

August[edit]

• August 2 – Italy and Ethiopia sign the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty.
• August 16 – Serial killer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, D.C., for burglary. According to his confession, "In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and, last but not least, I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all these things I am not in the least bit sorry."
• August 22 – Al Smith accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television.
• August 25 – Ahmet Zogu proclaims himself King Zog of Albania; he is crowned September 1.
• August 26 – In Scotland, May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her ginger beer, leading to the landmark negligence case Donoghue v Stevenson.^[14]
• August 27 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact is signed in Paris, the first treaty to outlaw aggressive war.
• August 29 – C.D. Motagua is founded as an association football club in Honduras.
• August 31 – The Threepenny Opera (German: Die Dreigroschenoper), by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, opens at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin.

September[edit]

• September 1
  • Ahmet Zogu, President of the Albanian Republic, declares the country to be a constitutional monarchy, the Albanian Kingdom, with himself as King Zog I.
  • Richard E. Byrd leaves New York for the Arctic.
• September 3
  • Philo Farnsworth demonstrates to the press in San Francisco the world's first working all-electronic television system, employing electronic scanning in both the pickup and display devices.^[15][16]
  • Alexander Fleming, at St Mary's Hospital, London, accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic Penicillin.^[17]
• September 11 – The Queen's Messenger is the first melodrama broadcast by Ernst F. W. Alexanderson at W2XAD (Schenectady, New York); WMAK (Kenmore) begins broadcasting in Buffalo, New York.
• September 12 – The Okeechobee hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing 1,200 people.
• September 15 – Tich Freeman sets an all-time record, for the number of wickets taken in an English cricket season.
• September 16 – The Okeechobee hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in Florida.
• September 25 – Paul and Joseph Galvin incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (later known as Motorola and Freescale).
• September 28 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later becomes known as penicillin.

October[edit]

• October 1 – Joseph Stalin launches the first five-year plan (1928–1932); the average nonfarm wage falls by 50% in the Soviet Union).
• October 2
  • Josemaría Escrivá founds Opus Dei.
  • Arvid Lindman returns as Prime Minister of Sweden, with his right-wing rival Ernst Trygger as Foreign Minister of Sweden.
• October 7 – Haile Selassie is crowned king (not yet emperor) of Abyssinia.
• October 8 – Chiang Kai-shek is named as Generalissimo (Chairman of the National Military Council) of the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China.
• October 12 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
• October 19 – William Edward Hickman is executed at San Quentin State Prison, for the 1927 murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker.
• October 22 – The Phi Sigma Alpha Fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
• October 26 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM) is formally established, with the adoption of the "Statutes of the International Red Cross"*
• October 28
  • Glenn Miller and Helen Burger marry in New York City.
  • The Second Youth Congress is held in Batavia, Dutch East Indies by young Indonesian nationalists, resulting in the Youth Pledge.^[18] The Indonesian national anthem, "Indonesia Raya", is introduced at the congress.^[19]

November[edit]

• November 1 – Turkey passes a law switching the country from the Arabic to the Latin-based modern Turkish alphabet.
• November 4 – Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game in a Manhattan hotel.
• November 6 – United States presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin, over Democratic New York Governor Al Smith.
• November 10
  • The enthronement ceremony of Emperor of Japan Hirohito is held, two years after he actually took the imperial throne on December 26, 1926, following the death of Emperor Taishō.
  • The MGM lion roars for the first time, at the beginning of the film White Shadows in the South Seas.
• November 12 – The SS Vestris develops a severe starboard list, is abandoned and sinks approximately 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia; estimated deaths range from 110-127.
• November 17
  • Australian federal election, 1928: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by James Scullin.
  • Boston Garden opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
• November 18 – Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first sound film and the first such film to be generally distributed.
• November 22 – The one-movement ballet Boléro (music by Maurice Ravel, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska) premières at the Paris Opéra, to a commission by Ida Rubinstein.

December[edit]

• December 3 – In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sent to greet Alberto Santos-Dumont crashes near Cap Arcona, killing all on board.
• December 6 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
• December 21 – The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam.

Date unknown[edit]

• The Ford River Rouge Complex at Dearborn, Michigan, an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the world's largest integrated factory.
• Eliot Ness begins to lead the prohibition unit in Chicago.
• The old Canaanite city of Ugarit is rediscovered.
• Margaret Mead's influential cultural anthropology text, Coming of Age in Samoa, is published in the U.S.
• The Episcopal Church in the United States of America ratifies a new revision of the Book of Common Prayer.
• W2XBS, RCA's first television station, is established in New York City.

Births[edit]

January[edit]

• January 1
  • Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist (d. 2016)
  • Gerhard Weinberg, German-American diplomatic, military historian
• January 2
  • Avie Bennett, Canadian businessman, philanthropist (d. 2017)
  • Howard Caine, American character actor (d. 1993)
  • Alberto Zedda, Italian conductor, musicologist (d. 2017)
  • Robert Goralski, American journalist (d. 1988)
  • Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese religious leader, 3rd President of Soka Gakkai
  • Ellen Kaarma, Estonian actress (d. 1973)
  • Vaughn Beals, American businessman (d. 2018)
  • Tamio Ōki, Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator (d. 2017)
  • Kate Molale, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1980)
  • Dan Rostenkowski, American politician from Illinois (d. 2010)
• January 3
  • Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, Malaysian politician (d. 2015)
  • Jan Kmenta, Czech-American economist (d. 2016)
• January 4 – Maurice Rigobert Marie-Sainte, Martinique Roman Catholic clergyman (d. 2017)
• January 5
  • Girish Chandra Saxena, Indian politician (d. 2017)
  • Qian Qichen, Chinese diplomat, politician (d. 2017)
  • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979)
  • Walter Mondale, Democratic U.S. Senator, 42nd Vice President of the United States and Presidential candidate
• January 6
  • İsmet Sezgin, Turkish politician (d. 2016)
  • George H. Ross, American businessman
  • Carlos Manga, Brazilian film director (d. 2015)
• January 7
  • William Peter Blatty, American writer (The Exorcist) (d. 2017)
  • Benny Woit, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2016)
• January 8
  • Bab Christensen, Norwegian actress (d. 2017)
  • Slade Gorton, American Republican politician
• January 9 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer, songwriter, actor and politician (d. 1994)
• January 10 – Philip Levine, American poet (d. 2015)
• January 11
  • Mitchell Ryan, American actor
  • David L. Wolper, American television producer (d. 2010)
• January 13 – Bengt Gustavsson, Swedish footballer, manager (d. 2017)
• January 14
  • Lauch Faircloth, American politician
  • Ali Akbar Moinfar, Iranian politician (d. 2018)
• January 15
  • James G. March, American sociologist (d. 2018)
  • Joanne Linville, American actress
  • William Henry Draper III, American venture capitalist
• January 16
  • William Kennedy, American author
  • Sidney Kimmel, American philanthropist, film producer (Sidney Kimmel Entertainment)
  • Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
  • Amelia Vargas, Cuban actress, dancer
• January 17
  • Ken Archer, Australian cricketer
  • Roman Frister, Polish writer (d. 2015)
  • Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
  • Vidal Sassoon, English hairdresser (d. 2012)
• January 18 – Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins, English athlete, politician
• January 19 – Mauro Panaggio, American basketball coach (d. 2018)
• January 20 – Malang, Filipino artist (d. 2017)
• January 21
  • Abraham S. Fischler, American academic (d. 2017)
  • Gene Sharp, American political theorist of nonviolent action (d. 2018)
  • Reynaldo Bignone, 45th President of Argentina (d. 2018)
• January 22
  • Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (d. 2004)
  • Birch Bayh, American Democratic politician
• January 23
  • Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)
  • Jeanne Moreau, French actress (d. 2017)
• January 24
  • Desmond Morris, English anthropologist and writer
  • Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
• January 25
  • Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer (d. 2006)
  • Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian politician, 2nd President of Georgia (d. 2014)
  • Jérôme Choquette, Canadian lawyer, politician (d. 2017)
• January 26 – Roger Vadim, French film director (d. 2000)
• January 27 – Hans Modrow, East German Premier
• January 28 – Jorge Zorreguieta, Argentine businessman, politician (d. 2017)
• January 28 – Peter Byrne, English actor, director (d. 2018)
• January 30
  • Mitch Leigh, American musical theatrrical composer, producer (d. 2014)
  • Harold Prince, American stage producer, director
• January 31
  • Miltinho, Brazilian singer (d. 2014)
  • Newman Darby, American inventor (d. 2016)

February[edit]

• February 1
  • Sam Edwards, Welsh physicist (d. 2015)
  • Tom Lantos, American politician (d. 2008)
  • Stuart Whitman, American film, television actor
• February 2
  • Ciriaco De Mita, Italian politician
  • Felix Pirani, British theoretical physicist (d. 2015)
• February 3 – Frankie Vaughan, British singer (d. 1999)
• February 4
  • Kim Yong-nam, North Korean politician
  • Vincent Wong, British actor (d. 2015)
• February 5 – Andrew Greeley, American Catholic priest, fiction novelist (d. 2013)
• February 8 – Gene Lees, Canadian biographer, lyricist (d. 2010)
• February 9
  • George Brady, Czech-Canadian businessman and Holocaust survivor
  • Frank Frazetta, American illustrator (d. 2010)
  • Rinus Michels, Dutch association football player, coach (d. 2005)
  • Roger Mudd, American journalist
• February 13 – Refik Erduran, Turkish playwright, columnist and writer (d. 2017)
• February 14
  • Sergey Kapitsa, Russian physicist, demographer (d. 2012)
  • Norman Bridwell, American cartoonist (d. 2014)
• February 15 – Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban militant (d. 2018)
• February 16 – Porfi Jiménez, Dominican-Venezuelan musician (d. 2010)
• February 18 – John Ostrom, American paleontologist (d. 2005)
• February 19 – Onuora Nzekwu, Nigerian writer (d. 2017)
• February 20
  • Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat
  • Friedrich Wetter, German Catholic cardinal
• February 21 – Cecil Sandford, English motorcycle racer
• February 22
  • Sir Bruce Forsyth, English entertainer (d. 2017)
  • Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, Indian scientist, writer, and administrator (d. 2017)
• February 23
  • David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer (d. 2017)
  • Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 1973)
  • Vasily Lazarev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1990)
• February 24 – Naqsh Lyallpuri, Indian ghazal (d. 2017)
• February 25 – Paul Elvstrøm, Danish yachtsman (d. 2016)
• February 26
  • Fats Domino, African-American musician (d. 2017)
  • Anatoly Filipchenko, Russian cosmonaut
  • Ariel Sharon, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 2014)
• February 27 – Cláudio Correia e Castro (pt), Brazilian actor (d. 2005)
• February 29
  • Joss Ackland, British actor
  • Michael Henshall, English bishop (d. 2017)

March[edit]

• March 1 – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016)
• March 3
  • Diane Foster, Canadian athlete
  • Gudrun Pausewang, German young fiction writer
• March 4
  • Samuel Adler, American composer
  • Alan Sillitoe, English writer (d. 2010)
• March 6
  • Delbert Daisey, American waterfowl wood carver, decoy maker (d. 2017)
  • Zoe Ducós, Argentine actress (d. 2002)
  • Dan Towler, American football player (d. 2001)
• March 7
  • William Blankenship, American operatic tenor (d. 2017)
  • Arthur Dion Hanna, Bahamian politician
  • Edgar Elbakyan, Armenian actor (d. 1988)
• March 8 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990)
• March 9
  • Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, Nigerian politician, military officer (d. 2017)
  • Keely Smith, American singer (d. 2017)
• March 10
  • Sara Montiel, Spanish singer, actress (d. 2013)
  • Kiyoshi Atsumi, Japanese actor (d. 1996)
  • James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998)
• March 11 – Sandy Mactaggart, Scottish-born Canadian educator, philanthropist (d. 2017)
• March 12
  • Edward Albee, American dramatist (d. 2016)
  • Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007)
• March 14
  • Frank Borman, American astronaut
  • Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish naturalist, broadcaster (d. 1980)
  • Earl Smith, American baseball center fielder (d. 2014)
• March 16
  • Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor (d. 2014)
  • Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2010)
  • Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
  • Victor Maddern, English actor (d. 1993)
• March 17 – Eunice Gayson, English actress (d. 2018)
• March 18
  • Lennart Carleson, Swedish mathematician
  • Julia Mullock, American-Korean royal (d. 2017)
  • Fidel Valdez Ramos, 12th President of the Philippines
  • José María Setién, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
  • Mirka Mora, French-Australian artist, cultural figure (d. 2018)
• March 19
  • Clive van Ryneveld, South African cricketer (d. 2018)
  • Arthur Cook, American sport shooter
  • Dequinha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1997)
  • John Hall Buchanan Jr., American politician (d. 2018)
  • Hans Küng, Swiss Roman Catholic theologian
  • Sutanto Djuhar, Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneur (d. 2018)
  • Patrick McGoohan, American-born British-based actor of Irish descent (d. 2009)
• March 20 – Fred Rogers, American children's television host (d. 2003)
• March 21 – Surya Bahadur Thapa, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2015)
• March 23
  • Alf Morris, British politician (d. 2012)
  • Raymond Wilson, English physicist (d. 2018)
• March 24
  • Ivar Aronsson, Swedish rower (d. 2017)
  • Byron Janis, American pianist
  • Mel Rosen, American track and field coach (d. 2018)
• March 25
  • Aubrey Dunn Sr., American politician (d. 2012)
  • Jim Lovell, American astronaut
  • Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (d. 2008)
• March 28
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born American National Security Advisor (d. 2017)
  • Alexander Grothendieck, German-born mathematician (d. 2014)
• March 29 – Vincent Gigante, American Mafia gangster (d. 2005)
• March 30
  • Lilia Prado, Mexican actress, dancer (d. 2006)
  • Robert Badinter, French lawyer, politician
• March 31
  • Lefty Frizzell, American country music performer (d. 1975)
  • Gordie Howe, Canadian hockey player (d. 2016)
  • Paul Carlson, American physician, medical missionary (d. 1964)

April[edit]

• April 1 – George Grizzard, American actor (d. 2007)
• April 2
  • Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991)
  • Piet Römer, Dutch actor (d. 2012)
• April 3 – Jennifer Paterson, English chef, actress, and television personality (d. 1999)
• April 4
  • Estelle Harris, American actress
  • Maya Angelou, African-American poet, novelist (d. 2014)
  • Iakovos Garmatis, Greek-born American Orthodox hierarch (d. 2017)
• April 6
  • Joi Lansing, American actress (d. 1972)
  • James D. Watson, American geneticist; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• April 7
  • James Garner, American actor, producer (d. 2014)
  • Alan J. Pakula, American producer, director (d. 1998)
  • James White, Irish writer (d. 1999)
  • Valeria Sabel, Italian actress (d. 2009)
• April 8
  • Eric Porter, English actor (d. 1995)
  • Algimantas Nasvytis, Lithuanian architect (d. 2018)
• April 9
  • Floyd Spence, American politician (d. 2001)
  • Tom Lehrer, American songwriter, satirist
• April 10
  • Kenneth Earl Hurlburt, Canadian politician (d. 2016)
  • Ashok Mitra, Indian economist, politician (d. 2018)
• April 11 – Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy
• April 12
  • Hardy Krüger, German actor
  • Jean-François Paillard, French conductor (d. 2013)
• April 14 – Egil Monn-Iversen, Norwegian composer, pianist (d. 2017)
• April 15 – Vida Alves, Brazilian actress (d. 2017)
• April 17
  • Cynthia Ozick, American writer
  • Victor Lownes, American businessman (d. 2017)
• April 18
  • Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (d. 2015)
  • Mikio Sato, Japanese mathematician
• April 19
  • Richard Garwin, American physicist
  • Alexis Korner, British musician (d. 1984)
  • Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak, King of Malaysia (d. 2014)
• April 20 – Robert Byrne, American chess player (d. 2013)
• April 23 – Shirley Temple, American actress, diplomat (d. 2014)
• April 24 – Tommy Docherty, Scottish footballer, manager
• April 25
  • Jack Fitzmaurice, English professional snooker player (d. 2005)
  • Cy Twombly, American artist (d. 2011)
• April 27
  • Brigitte Auber, French actress
  • Fred Weintraub, American film, television producer (d. 2017)
• April 28 – Yves Klein, French artist (d. 1962)

May[edit]

• May 1
  • Marcelo Pinto Carvalheira, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 2017)
  • Sonny James, American country singer (d. 2016)
  • Sisavath Keobounphanh, 13th Prime Minister of Laos
  • Delfim Netto, Brazilian economist, former Minister of Finance, Agriculture, and Planning of Brazil, professor and congressman
  • Desmond Titterington, British race car driver (d. 2002)
• May 2
  • Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, French writer, German translator
  • Hans Trass, Estonian ecologist, botanist (d. 2017)
• May 3
  • Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003)
  • Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (d. 2001)
• May 4
  • Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter (d. 2006)
  • Elemér Hankiss, Hungarian sociologist, philosopher (d. 2015)
  • Hosni Mubarak, 4th President of Egypt
  • Betsy Rawls, American golfer
  • Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (d. 1961)
  • Joseph Tydings, former Democratic United States Senator
• May 5 – Marshall Grant, American musician (d. 2011)
• May 7 – John Ingle, American actor (d. 2012)
• May 8
  • Gregory Scarpa, American mobster (d. 1994)
  • Theodore Sorenson, American lawyer, speechwriter (d. 2010)
• May 9
  • Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (d. 1995)
  • Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)
  • Jean Smith, American professional baseball player (d. 2011)
• May 10
  • Mel Lewis, American jazz drummer, band leader (d. 1990)
  • Lothar Schmid, German chess player (d. 2013)
  • Arnold Rüütel, President of Estonia
• May 11 – Arthur Foulkes, Former Governor-General of the Bahamas
• May 12
  • Burt Bacharach, American composer
  • Manuel Lujan Jr., American politician
• May 13
  • Enrique Bolaños, former President of Nicaragua
  • Édouard Molinaro, French film director, screenwriter (d. 2013)
  • Eugène Van Roosbroeck, Belgian racing cyclist (d. 2018)
  • Jim Shoulders, American rodeo cowboy (d. 2007)
• May 14 – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian amateur heavyweight boxer (d. 2012)
• May 16 – Billy Martin, American baseball player, manager (d. 1989)
• May 18 – Pernell Roberts, American actor (d. 2010)
• May 19
  • Klara Berkovich, Soviet-American violinist
  • Dolph Schayes, American basketball player (d. 2015)
• May 22 – T. Boone Pickens, American businessman
• May 23
  • Jeannie Carson, English actress, comedian
  • Rosemary Clooney, American singer, actress (d. 2002)
• May 24
  • Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer, cutter (d. 2015)
  • William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer (d. 2016)
  • Jacobo Zabludovsky, Mexican journalist (d. 2015)
  • Leonard B. Sand, American judge (d. 2016)
• May 26 – Jack Kevorkian, American right-to-die advocate (d. 2011)
• May 29 – George A. Sinner, American politician (d. 2018)
• May 30 – Agnès Varda, Belgian-born French director, producer and screenwriter

June[edit]

• June 1
  • Georgi Dobrovolski, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1971)
  • Bob Monkhouse, English comedian, game show host (d. 2003)
• June 3
  • Donald Judd, American artist (d. 1994)
  • John Richard Reid, New Zealand cricketer
• June 4 – Ruth Westheimer, German-American sex therapist, film and television personality, and author
• June 5 – Tony Richardson, English film, theater director (d. 1991)
• June 6
  • George Deukmejian, American Republican politician (d. 2018)
  • Ed Fury, American actor, bodybuilder and model
  • Elio Sgreccia, Italian cardinal
• June 7
  • Bernard F. Burke, American astronomer (d. 2018)
  • James Ivory, American director, screenwriter and producer
• June 9 – Dawn Hampton, American cabaret, jazz singer, saxophonist, dancer and songwriter (d. 2016)
• June 10 – Maurice Sendak, American children's author, illustrator (d. 2012)
• June 11 – Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Spanish Queen Consort of King Baudouin of Belgium (d. 2014)
• June 12
  • Vic Damone, American singer (d. 2018)
  • Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician, diplomat
  • Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter
• June 13
  • Giacomo Biffi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 2015)
  • John Forbes Nash Jr., American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (d. 2015)
• June 14 – Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (aka Che Guevara), Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary (d. 1967)
• June 16 – Annie Cordy, Belgian actress and singer
• June 17 – Juan María Bordaberry, Uruguayan dictator (d. 2011)
• June 18 – Michael Blakemore, Australian actor, director
• June 19
  • Tommy DeVito, American musician, former guitarist of The Four Seasons
  • Jacques Dupont, French Olympic cyclist
  • Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
• June 20
  • William Berger, Austrian-born American actor (d. 1993)
  • Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (d. 1964)
  • Martin Landau, American actor (d. 2017)
  • Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer, far-right politician
• June 21
  • Charles D. Baker, American businessman, former U.S. government official
  • Margit Bara, Hungarian actress (d. 2016)
  • Avraham Bendori, Israeli footballer
  • Wolfgang Haken, German mathematician
  • Fiorella Mari, Brazilian-Italian actress
  • Al Mengert, American former professional golfer
• June 22
  • Alfred M. Gray, Jr., American general
  • Kiyohara Kiyoshi (ja), Japanese journalist
  • Ralph Waite, American actor, political activist (The Waltons) (d. 2014)
• June 23
  • Paul Cholakis, Canadian football player
  • Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician
  • Leon Fleischer, American concert pianist
  • Ray Hyman, American Professor Emeritus of Psychology
  • Pete Ladygo, American football player (d. 2014)
• June 24
  • Wolfgang Altenburg, German general
  • Lester Grinspoon, American Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
  • Lawrence A. Skantze, United States Air Force general
  • Ivan Štraus, Bosnian architect
• June 25
  • Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
  • Michel Brault, Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer (d. 2013)
  • Robert Dean Hunter, American politician
  • Edwin Mills, American economist
  • John A. Wickham Jr., United States Army military officer
• June 26
  • Samuel Belzberg, Canadian businessman, philanthropist (d. 2018)
  • Danford B. Greene, American actor (d. 2015)
  • Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
  • Bill Sheffield, 5th Governor of Alaska
• June 27
  • Edward B. Cottingham, American politician
  • Lin Ho-ming, Taiwanese former sports shooter
  • Antoinette Spaak, Belgian politician
• June 28
  • Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat, politician
  • Harold Evans, British newspaper editor
  • Patrick Hemingway, second son of American author Ernest Hemingway
• June 29
  • Bill Bagley, American politician
  • Alfredo Biondi, Italian policitian, lawyer
  • Hans Cavalli-Björkman, Swedish lawyer
  • James Lincoln Collier, American journalist, professional musician and author
  • Uri Gallin, Israeli Olympic discus thrower
  • Jean-Louis Pesch, French writer
  • Nick Testa, American professional baseball catcher, coach
  • Gene Verble, American shortstop (d. 2017)
• June 30
  • Tony Conyers, British journalist (d. 2011)
  • Nathaniel Tarn, American poet, essayist, anthropologist and translator

July[edit]

• July 1
  • Karim Allawi Homaidi, Iraqi football player
  • Jim Hankinson, English footballer (d. 2016)
  • Robert Wemyss, Australian football (soccer) player
  • Andreas Aarflot, Norwegian theologian, bishop emeritus in the Church of Norway
  • Birgitta Ulfsson, Finnish actress (d. 2017)
  • Gunnar Möller, German television, film actor (d. 2017)
  • Ram Naresh Yadav, Indian politician (d. 2016)
• July 2
  • Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr., American Korean War fighter ace, test pilot (d. 1958)
  • Tatyana Piletskaya, Soviet, Russian film, stage actress
  • Line Renaud, French actress
• July 3
  • Evelyn Anthony, British female writer
  • Georges-Jean Arnaud, French author
  • Pierrette Bloch, Swiss painter, textile artist (d. 2017)
  • Raymond Setlakwe, Canadian entrepreneur, lawyer, and politician
• July 4
  • Eugenia Viteri, Ecuadorian novelist, anthologist and teacher
  • Giampiero Boniperti, Italian football player
  • Constantin Enache, Romanian cross country skier (d. 2017)
  • Teofisto Guingona, Jr., 13th Vice President of the Philippines
  • Patrick Tilley, British science fiction author
• July 5
  • Lorraine Fisher, American professional baseball player (d. 2007)
  • Juris Hartmanis, Latvian-born American computer scientist, computational theorist
  • Ernie Kell, American politician (d. 2017)
  • Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (d. 2013)
  • Bruce Nickells, American harness racing driver, trainer
• July 6
  • Antony Hignell, English cricketer, javelin thrower (d. 2015)
  • Richard R. Larson, American politician
  • Bernard Malgrange, French mathematician
  • Wally Osterkorn, American professional basketball player (d. 2012)
  • Néstor de Villa, Filipino actor (d. 2004)
• July 7
  • Tom Chambers, Canadian politician
  • Patricia Hitchcock, English actress
  • Charles James McDonnell, American Catholic bishop
  • Henry Sommerville, Australian fencer
  • Paul Wyss, Swiss politician
• July 8
  • Pat Adams, American painter, printmaker
  • Gordon Hill, English football player
  • Balakh Sher Mazari, Pakistani politician, former Prime Minister
  • Ángel Tulio Zof, Argentine footballer, coach (d. 2014)
• July 9
  • Federico Bahamontes, Spanish road bicycle racer
  • Vince Edwards, American actor (Ben Casey) (d. 1996)
  • Nikos Milas, Greek basketball player, basketball coach
  • Juan Rodríguez, Uruguayan rower
• July 10
  • John Glenn, American Major League Baseball outfielder
  • Herb Johnson, American football player
  • Jack Nel, South African cricketer (d. 2018)
• July 11
  • Dor Bahadur Bista, Nepalese anthropologist, social scientist and activist (dis. 1995)
  • Jane Gardam, English writer
  • Carmelita González, Mexican actress (d. 2010)
  • Greville Janner, British politician, barrister, and writer (d. 2015)
• July 12
  • Muhammad Naqi Mallick, Pakistani cyclist
  • Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Hayden White, American historian (d. 2018)
  • Paul Ronty, Canadian ice hockey centre
  • S. R. Janakiraman, Indian Carnatic vocalist, musicologist
  • Alastair Burnet, British journalist, broadcaster (d. 2012)
• July 13
  • Bob Crane, American actor (Hogan's Heroes) (d. 1978)
  • Edgar Espinoza, Venezuelan former sports shooter
  • Daryl Spencer, American professional baseball player (d. 2017)
  • Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (d. 1999)
• July 14
  • Bedabrata Barua, Indian politician
  • Pal Benko, French chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems
  • Ion Ioniță, Romanian cyclist
  • Haydn Morris, British and Irish Lions international rugby union wing three-quarter
  • Nancy Olson, American actress
  • William Rees-Mogg, English journalist, public servant (d. 2012)
• July 15
  • Viramachaneni Vimla Devi, Indian parliamentarian
  • Hans Andersson-Tvilling, Swedish ice hockey player
  • Stig Andersson-Tvilling, Swedish ice hockey player (d. 1989)
  • A. Dean Jeffs, American politician (d. 2018)
  • Nicholas Rescher, German-American philosopher
  • Tom Troupe, American actor, writer
  • Aleksandr Zasukhin, Soviet boxer
• July 16
  • Eliane Lage (pt), Brazilian-French actress
  • Bella Davidovich, Soviet-born Jewish-American pianist
  • Anita Brookner, English novelist, art historian (d. 2016)
  • Concha Valdés Miranda, Cuban songwriter (d. 2017)
  • Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (d. 2011)
• July 17
  • Robert Nixon, Canadian politician
  • Chris Giles, Irish footballer
  • David Leach, senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy
  • Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (d. 2011)
• July 18
  • Baddiewinkle, (b. Helen Ruth Elam Van Winkle), American internet personality
  • Manuel Guerra, Spanish swimmer
  • Stig Grybe, Swedish actor, comedian, writer and film director (d. 2017)
  • Simon Vinkenoog, Dutch poet, writer (d. 2009)
  • Billy Harrell, American reserve infielder in Major League Baseball (d. 2014)
• July 19
  • Choi Yun-chil, South Korean long-distance runner
  • Samuel John Hazo, American author
  • Lal Chand, Indian long-distance runner
• July 20
  • Belaid Abdessalam, Algerian politician
  • Peter Ind, British jazz double-bassist, record producer
  • Jan Meyers, American politician
  • Sheldon Solow, American real estate mogul
  • Pavel Kohout, Czech-Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet
• July 21
  • Josefina Echánove, Mexican actress, model and journalist
  • Anne Harris, Canadian sculptor
  • Jervis Percy, British modern pentathlete
  • Hirofumi Uzawa, Japanese economist (d. 2014)
• July 22
  • Freda Dowie, English actress
  • Orson Bean, American film, television, and stage actor
  • Hugh Edighoffer, Canadian politician
  • Robert Bergland, American politician
  • Nick Galifianakis, American politician
  • Jimmy Hill, English football professional, personality (d. 2015)
  • Stu Locklin, American Major League Baseball outfielder (d. 2016)
  • Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
• July 23
  • Leon Fleisher, American pianist, conductor
  • Denis Mahony, Irish Gaelic footballer (d. 2017)
  • Vera Rubin, American astronomer (d. 2016)
  • Alan Rafkin, American television actor, director and producer (d. 2001)
• July 24
  • Jardel Filho, Brazilian actor (d. 1983)
  • Keshubhai Patel, Indian politician
• July 25
  • Dolphy, Filipino actor, comedian (d. 2012)
  • Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
• July 26
  • Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician, 8th President of Italy (d. 2010)
  • Elliott Erwitt, French-American photographer, director
  • Joe Jackson, African-American manager, father of Michael Jackson (d. 2018)
  • Stanley Kubrick, American film director (2001: A Space Odyssey) (d. 1999)
  • Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, English politician
  • Bernice Rubens, British novelist (d. 2004)
• July 27 – Joseph Kittinger, American colonel, U.S. Air Force pilot
• July 28 – Ann Sloat, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
• July 29
  • T. H. P. Chentharasseri, Indian historian (d. 2018)
  • Philippe Bär, Dutch Roman Catholic bishop
  • Li Ka-shing, Asia's & Hong Kong's richest person, major philanthropist
• July 30
  • Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player (d. 2007)
  • Paul Bisciglia, French film actor (d. 2010)
• July 31 – Gilles Carle, Canadian film director, screenwriter (d. 2009)

August[edit]

• August 1
  • M. R. Khan, Bangladeshi pediatrician (d. 2016)
  • James R. Dixon, American professor (d. 2015)
  • Shen Daren, Chinese politician (d. 2017)
  • Jack Shea, American film, television director (d. 2013)
• August 2 – Yoko Tani, French-born Japanese actress, nightclub entertainer (d. 1999)
• August 3
  • Janet Abu-Lughod, American sociologist (d. 2013)
  • Henning Moritzen, Danish actor (d. 2012)
  • Cécile Aubry, French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director (d. 2010)
• August 4
  • Udham Singh, Indian Hockey team player, winner of three gold and one silver medals (d. 2000)
  • Flóra Kádár, Hungarian actress (d. 2002)
  • Gerard Damiano, American adult film director (d. 2008)
• August 5
  • Albrecht Dold, German mathematician (d. 2011)
  • Chung Won-shik, South Korean politician, educator, soldier, and author
  • Dinesh Chandra Joarder, Indian politician (d. 2018)
  • Bogdan Maglich, American physicist (d. 2017)
• August 6
  • Jean-Christophe Averty, French television, radio director (d. 2017)
  • Mary Grant, Ghanaian politician (d. 2016)
  • Michel Clouscard, French Marxist philosopher, sociologist (d. 2009)
  • Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
  • Jean Carrière, French writer (d. 2005)
• August 7
  • Helen Vita, Swiss chanson singer, actress, and comedian (d. 2001)
  • James Randi, Canadian-American retired stage magician, scientific skeptic
  • Anthony Lejeune, English writer, editor, and broadcaster (d. 2018)
• August 8
  • Lubor Bárta, Czech composer (d. 1972)
  • Simón Díaz, Venezuelan folk composer, singer (d. 2014)
  • Jane Stoll, American professional baseball player (d. 2000)
• August 9
  • Dolores Wilson, American coloratura soprano (d. 2010)
  • Milan Bjegojević, Yugoslav basketball player, coach (d. 2003)
  • Bob Cousy, American basketball player
  • Martin Greenfield, American tailor and Holocaust survivor
  • Gerd Ruge, German journalist, author and filmmaker
  • Camilla Wicks, American violinist
• August 10
  • Peter Barry, Irish Fine Gael politician, businessman (d. 2016)
  • Don Bustany, American radio, television broadcaster (d. 2018)
  • Jimmy Dean, American country musician, entrepreneur (d. 2010)
  • Eddie Fisher, American singer (d. 2010)
• August 11 – Beniamino Andreatta, Italian economist, politician (d. 2007)
• August 12
  • Bob Buhl, American baseball player (d. 2001)
  • Beni Virtzberg, Israeli forester, Holocaust survivor and writer (d. 1968)
• August 13 – Pedro Pedrossian, Brazilian politician (d. 2017)
• August 14
  • Jacques Rouffio, French film director, screenwriter (d. 2016)
  • Gunnar Andersson, Swedish football player (d. 1969)
  • Joëlle Bernard, French film, television actress (d. 1977)
• August 15
  • Manfredo do Carmo, Brazilian mathematician (d. 2018)
  • Carl Joachim Classen, German classical scholar (d. 2013)
  • Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, 2-time Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2002)
  • Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, Indian sitar player (d. 2017)
  • Simone Silva, Egyptian-born French film actress (d. 1957)
• August 16
  • Levan Sanadze, Georgian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres (d. 1998)
  • Shōji Yasui, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
  • George Ahlgren, American rower who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics (d. 1951)
  • Eydie Gormé, American singer (d. 2013)
  • Ann Blyth, American actress, singer
• August 17 – Willem Duys, Dutch radio and television presenter, tennis player and music producer (d. 2011)
• August 18
  • Marge Schott, American baseball team owner (d. 2004)
  • John Liu Shi-gong, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2017)
  • Alan R. Katritzky, British-born American chemist (d. 2014)
• August 19 – Queen Ratna of Nepal
• August 20 – Frank Rosolino, American jazz trombonist (d. 1978)
• August 21
  • Wu Chuanyu, Indonesian-born Chinese swimmer who competed in the Olympic Games in 1948 and 1952 (d. 1954)
  • Chris Brasher, British track and field athlete, sports journalist and co-founder of the London Marathon (d. 2003)
  • Art Farmer, American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player (d. 1999)
  • Gillian Sheen, English Olympic fencer
• August 22
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
  • Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter, sculptor (d. 1996)
• August 23 – Marian Seldes, American actress (d. 2014)
• August 24 – Levko Lukyanenko, Ukrainian politician (d. 2018)
• August 25 – Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• August 26
  • Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (d. 2006)
  • Saliu Adetunji, Nigerian monarch of Ibadan
• August 27
  • Péter Boross, Hungarian politician
  • Piet Bleeker, Dutch long-distance runner (d. 2018)
  • Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party
  • Francesco Saverio Salerno, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
• August 28 – Ed Salem, American football quarterback, defensive back (d. 2001)
• August 29 – Herbert Meier, Swiss author, translator
• August 30 – Shirley Huffman, American politician (d. 2018)
• August 31
  • A. W. Pryor, Australian physicist (d. 2014)
  • James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)
  • Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2005)

September[edit]

• September 1 – Allene Roberts, American actress
• September 2 – Muhammad Dandamayev, Russian Babylonia historian (d. 2017)
• September 3
  • Pilar Pallete, Peruvian actress
  • Gaston Thorn, Luxembourg Prime Minister (d. 2007)
  • A. M. Azahari, Brunei politician (d. 2002)
• September 4 – Dick York, American actor (Bewitched) (d. 1992)
• September 5
  • Damayanti Joshi, Indian classical dancer of Kathak (d. 2004)
  • Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz musician (d. 2005)
• September 6
  • Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect
  • Robert M. Pirsig, American philosopher, author (d. 2017)
  • Yevgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor, composer (d. 2002)
  • Mirosława Litmanowicz, Polish chess player (d. 2017)
  • Sid Watkins, English neurosurgeon (d. 2012)
• September 7 – Donald Henderson, American epidemiologist (d. 2016)
• September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American artist (d. 2007)
• September 10
  • Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant, politician
  • Selma Lopes, Brazilian actress, dubbing vocalist
  • Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher, humanitarian
• September 11
  • Earl Holliman, American actor
  • William X. Kienzle, American author (d. 2001)
• September 12
  • Robert Irwin, American painter
  • M. V. Rajasekharan, Indian member of Rajya Sabha
  • Violeta Vidaurre, Chilean actress
• September 13
  • Robert Indiana, American contemporary artist (d. 2018)
  • Tzannis Tzannetakis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2010)
• September 14
  • Dick Clark, American politician
  • Park Honan, American academic, author (d. 2014)
• September 15
  • Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (d. 1975)
  • Henry Silva, American actor
• September 16 – Hironoshin Furuhashi, Japanese swimmer (d. 2009)
• September 17 – Roddy McDowall, British actor (d. 1998)
• September 18 – Sigrid Kahle, Swedish journalist, writer (d. 2013)
• September 19 – Adam West, American actor (Batman) (d. 2017)
• September 20
  • Donald Hall, American poet, United States Poet Laureate (d. 2018)
  • Jacqueline Desmarais, Canadian billionaire philanthropist (d. 2018)
  • Jack Edwards, American politician
  • Shiro Hashizume, Japanese Olympic swimmer
  • Ruth Richard, American female professional baseball player (d. 2018)
  • Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (d. 2000)
• September 21 – Con Devitt, Scottish-born New Zealand trade unionist (d. 2014)
• September 22
  • Elizabeth Evans^{[disambiguation needed]}, prominent Newfoundland resident
  • Justin Marie Bomboko, Congolese civil servant (d. 2014)
  • James Lawson, African-American civil rights activist, minister
  • Richard Stone, American politician
• September 23
  • Bernie Custis, American and Canadian football player (d. 2017)
  • Santiago Vernazza, Argentine footballer (d. 2017)
• September 25 – Victor Gold, American journalist, press secretary (d. 2017)
• September 26
  • Robert D. Ray, American lawyer, politician (d. 2018)
  • Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor
• September 27 – Garry Watson, American child actor
• September 28
  • Koko Taylor, African-American singer (d. 2009)
  • Dick Gernert, American professional baseball player (d. 2017)
• September 30
  • Elie Wiesel, Rumanian-born Holocaust survivor, writer, lecturer, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 2016)
  • Mirta Díaz-Balart, Fidel Castro's first wife

October[edit]

• October 1
  • Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born South African actor (d. 1973)
  • Sivaji Ganesan, Indian stage, film actor (d. 2001)
  • George Peppard, American film, television actor (d. 1994)
  • Zhu Rongji, former Premier of the People's Republic of China
• October 2 – George "Spanky" McFarland, American child actor (d. 1993)
• October 3
  • Edward L. Moyers, American railroad executive (d. 2006)
  • Kåre Willoch, Norwegian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Norway
  • Erik Bruhn, Danish danseur, choreographer, artistic director, actor, and author (d. 1986)
• October 4
  • Ray Barry, American-Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2018)
  • Torben Ulrich, Danish tennis player
• October 7
  • Muriel Bevis, American female professional baseball player (d. 2002)
  • Ali Kafi, Pakistani politician (d. 2013)
  • José Messias, Brazilian musician, composer, and writer (d. 2015)
  • Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet, painter (d. 1980)
  • Abraham Woods, American civil rights leader (d. 2008)
• October 8
  • Neil Harvey, Australian cricketer
  • Bill Maynard, English comic actor (d. 2018)
• October 9
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (d. 2016)
  • Clare Drake, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2018)
• October 10 – Sheila F. Walsh, English novelist (d. 2009)
• October 11 – Geoffrey Tordoff, Baron Tordoff, English businessman, politician
• October 12 – Dilbagh Singh Athwal, Indian geneticist, agriculturist (d. 2017)
• October 14
  • Arnfinn Bergmann, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (d. 2011)
  • Gary Graffman, American concert pianist
• October 15
  • María Cristina Arango Vega, First Lady of Colombia (d. 2017)
  • Paul Giambarba, American graphic designer
• October 17
  • Lerone Bennett Jr., African-American scholar, author (d. 2018)
  • Jimmy Breslin, American journalist, author (d. 2017)
  • Michael Palmer, senior British Army officer (d. 2017)
  • Alejandro Végh Villegas, Uruguayan political figure (d. 2017)
• October 18
  • Ernest Simoni, Albanian Catholic cardinal
  • Dick Taverne, English politician
• October 19 – Borisav Jović, 13th President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
• October 20 – Li Peng, former Premier of the People's Republic of China
• October 21
  • Vern Mikkelsen, American professional basketball player (d. 2013)
  • Whitey Ford, American baseball player
  • Yu Guangzhong, Taiwanese poet (d. 2017)
  • Ed Nelson, American actor (d. 2014)
• October 22 – Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian film director (d. 2018)
• October 24 – Mohammad Beheshti, Chief Justice of Iran (d. 1981)
• October 25
  • Jeanne Cooper, American actress (d. 2013)
  • Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006)
  • Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect
  • Marion Ross, American actress
• October 26 Erich Kukk, Estonian phycologist, conservationist (d. 2017)
• October 27
  • Maria Fernanda, Brazilian actress
  • Datta Gaekwad, Indian cricketer
  • Shulamit Aloni, Israeli politician (d. 2014)
• October 28 – Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, English politician
• October 30 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999)
• October 31 – Roy Romer, American politician

November[edit]

• November 3
  • Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d. 1989)
  • George Yardley, American basketball player (d. 2004)
  • Nick Holonyak, American electrical engineer, inventor
• November 4
  • Mihai Chițac, Romanian general (d. 2010)
  • George Stanich, American athlete
• November 7 – Herbert Flam, American tennis player (d. 1980)
• November 8 – Ursula Haverbeck, German historian
• November 9
  • Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
  • Werner Veigel, German journalist, news presenter (d. 1995)
• November 10 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
• November 11 – Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (d. 2012)
• November 12 – Bobby Baker, American political adviser to Lyndon B. Johnson (d. 2017)
• November 14
  • Bernabé Martí, Spanish operatic tenor
  • Vitaliy Masol, 3rd Prime Minister of Ukraine (d. 2018)
• November 15 – C. W. McCall, American country singer, politician
• November 16
  • Patricia Giles, Australian activist (d. 2017)
  • Clu Gulager, American actor, director
• November 17
  • Betty Kaunda, former first lady of Zambia (d. 2012)
  • Arman, French artist (d. 2005)
  • Rance Howard, American actor (d. 2017)
  • Amata Kabua, 1st President of the Marshall Islands (d. 1996)
  • Colin McDonald, Australian cricketer
  • Anna Meyer, American female professional baseball player
• November 18
  • Inge Bandekow, wife of German industrialist Harald Quandt (d. 1978)
  • Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer (d. 1994)
  • Lloyd R. Leavitt Jr., American air force lieutenant general (d. 2016)
  • Norman Baker, American explorer (d. 2017)
• November 19
  • Ina van Faassen, Dutch actress, comedian (d. 2011)
  • Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (d. 2012)
• November 20
  • Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor (d. 2017)
  • Dale M. Cochran, American politician (d. 2018)
• November 21 – Augustin Bubník, Czech ice hockey player, coach and politician (d. 2017)
• November 22
  • Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (d. 2008)
  • Pat Smythe, British showjumper, author (d. 1996)
• November 23 – Guy Molinari, American politician (d. 2018)
• November 28
  • Toaripi Lauti, 1st Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2014)
  • Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (d. 1980)
  • Piet Steenbergen, Dutch footballer (d. 2010)
  • Bano Qudsia, Pakistani writer (d. 2017)
  • Floyd Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
• November 29 – Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (d. 2003)
• November 30
  • Takako Doi, Japanese politician (d. 2014)
  • Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach
  • Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Dutch Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 2016)
  • Karin Söder, Swedish politician (d. 2015)

December[edit]

• December 1 – Sarge Ferris, American professional poker player (d. 1989)
• December 2
  • Guy Bourdin, French fashion photographer (d. 1991)
  • Edwin Kessler, American atmospheric scientist (d. 2017)
• December 3
  • Karin Bang, Norwegian writer (d. 2017)
  • Michel Adama-Tamboux, Central African politician, diplomat (d. 2018)
• December 4
  • Lajos Somodi Sr., Hungarian fencer (d. 2012)
  • Hebe de Bonafini, Argentine activist
• December 6 – Stanley Clinton-Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis, English politician, solicitor
• December 7
  • Zdeněk Mahler, Czech writer, musicologist, pedagogue and screenwriter (d. 2018)
  • Noam Chomsky, American linguist
• December 9 – Dick Van Patten, American actor (d. 2015)
• December 10 – Barbara Nichols, American actress (d. 1976)
• December 11
  • Peter Firmin, English artist, puppet maker (d. 2018)
  • Paul Bircher, English rower
• December 12 – Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (d. 1998)
• December 13 – Nati Mistral, Spanish actress (d. 2017)
• December 15
  • Ida Haendel, Polish-British violinist
  • Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000)
• December 16
  • Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author (d. 1982)
  • Bruce Ames, American biochemist
• December 17
  • George Lindsey, American actor (d. 2012)
  • Francis George Adeodatus Micallef, Maltese Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
• December 19 – Guy Razanamasy, 2-time Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2011)
• December 20 – Donald Adams, British actor and opera singer (d. 1996)
• December 22 – Luisa Massimo, Italian pediatrician (d. 2016)
• December 23
  • Billy Cook, American spree killer (d. 1952)
  • Roger Jepsen, American politician
• December 24 – Nancy Tuckerman, American secretary (d. 2018)
• December 25
  • Irish McCalla, American actress, model (d. 2002)
  • Dick Miller, American actor
• December 26 &ndsah; Martin Cooper, American "Father of the mobile phone"
• December 28
  • Bill Gradison, American politician
  • George W. Stocking Jr., German-born American scholar (d. 2013)
• December 29 – Piers Dixon, British Conservative Party politician (d. 2017)
• December 30
  • Bo Diddley, African-American musician (d. 2008)
  • Christian Millau, French food critic, author (d. 2017)
• December 31
  • Veijo Meri, Finnish writer (d. 2015)
  • Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)
  • Tatyana Shmyga, Soviet-Russian operetta/musical theatre performer (d. 2011)

Date unknown[edit]

• Norman Carlberg, American sculptor
• George Parrish, retired American NASCAR Cup Series driver

Deaths[edit]

January–March[edit]

• January 1 – Loie Fuller, American dancer (b. 1862)
• January 3
  • Dorothy Donnelly, American actress, songwriter (b. 1880)
  • Emily Stevens, American actress (b. 1882)
• January 6 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
• January 11 – Thomas Hardy, British writer (b. 1840)
• January 12 – Ruth Snyder, American murderer (executed) (b. 1895)
• January 16 – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1851)
• January 21
  • John de Robeck, British admiral (b. 1862)
  • Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b. 1880)
• January 25 – Charles Gorman, American actor (b. 1865)
• January 28 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish novelist, screenwriter (b. 1867)
• January 29 – Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
• January 30 – Johannes Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867)
• February 1 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1869)
• February 4 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• February 7 – Adolfo de Carolis, Italian painter (b. 1874)
• February 8 – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857)
• February 12 – Manfred von Clary-Aldringen, Austro-Hungarian nobleman, statesman and former Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1852)
• February 15 – H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
• February 16 – Eddie Foy, American vaudevillian (b. 1856)
• February 25 – Toribio Romo González, Mexican Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (b. 1900)
• February 26 – Juan Vázquez de Mella, Spanish scholar, politician (b. 1861)
• February 27 – Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky, German diplomat, noble (b. 1860)
• February 28 – Armando Diaz, Italian general, Marshal of Italy (b. 1861)
• March 7 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
• March 10 – Mateo Elias Nieves Castillo, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1882)
• March 19 – Nora Bayes, American singer, actress (b. 1880)
• March 21 – Edward Walter Maunder, British astronomer (b. 1851)
• March 31 – Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (b. 1858)

April–June[edit]

• April 2 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• April 5 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
• April 13 – Gonzalo Córdova, 21st President of Ecuador (b. 1863)
• April 19 – Dorus Rijkers, famous Dutch sailor, savior of over 500 men, women and children (b. 1847)
• April 22
  • Warner B. Bayley, United States Navy rear admiral (b. 1845)
  • Frank Currier, American actor (b. 1857)
• April 25
  • Floyd Bennett, American aviator (b. 1890)
  • Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian general, anti-Bolshevik leader (b. 1878)
• April 27 – Alessandro Guidoni, Italian air force general (b. 1880)
• May 8 – Clara Williams, American actress (b. 1888)
• May 10 – Ivan Merz, Yugoslav Roman Catholic blessed (b. 1896)
• May 18 – Big Bill Haywood, American labor leader (b. 1869)
• May 19
  • Max Scheler, German philosopher (b. 1874)
  • Henry F. Gilbert, American composer (b. 1868)
• May 22 – Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (b. 1904)
• June 3 – Alexander Hamilton, American priest and blessed (b. 1847)
• June 4 – Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
• June 5 – Liege Hulett, South African politician, sugar magnate (b. 1838)
• June 12 – Salvador Díaz Mirón, Mexican poet (b. 1853)
• June 14 – Emmeline Pankhurst, British women's suffrage campaigner (b. 1858)
• June 16 – Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (b. 1867)
• June 18 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer (b. 1872)
• June 22
  • A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851)
  • George Siegmann, American actor (b. 1882)
• June 24 – Holbrook Blinn, American actor (b. 1872)
• June 28 – Leo Ditrichstein, Austrian-born actor, playwright (b. 1865)

July–September[edit]

• July 1 – Frankie Yale, American gangster (b. 1893)
• July 17
  • Álvaro Obregón, Mexican military officer, 39th President of Mexico (assassinated) (b. 1880)
  • Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1842)
• July 21
  • Mihail Savov, Bulgarian general (b. 1857)
  • Dame Ellen Terry, British actress (b. 1847)
• July 22 – William M. Folger, American admiral (b. 1844)
• July 30 – John Christopher Cutler, 2nd Governor of Utah (suicide) (b. 1905)
• August 8
  • Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (b. 1857)
  • Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (assassinated) (b. 1871)
• August 12 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854)
• August 16 – Carlo Del Prete, Italian aviator (b. 1897)
• August 19
  • Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, British politician, lawyer (b. 1856)
  • Stephanos Skouloudis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1838)
• August 27 – Émile Fayolle, French general (b. 1852)
• August 30
  • Hugh Evan-Thomas, British admiral (b. 1862)
  • Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• September 9 – Urban Shocker, American baseball player (b. 1890)
• September 13 – Italo Svevo, Italian writer, businessman (b. 1861)
• September 29 – John Devoy, Irish rebel leader, exile (b. 1842)

October–December[edit]

• October 1 – Cecilia Eusepi, Italian religious leader and blessed (b. 1910)
• October 8 – Larry Semon, American film actor (b. 1889)
• October 13 – Dagmar of Denmark, later Maria Fyodorovna, wife of Tsar Alexander III and Empress Consort of Russia (b. 1847)
• October 22 – Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist (b. 1863)
• October 30 – Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1864)
• October 31 – John William Wood, Sr., North Carolinian politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina (b. 1855)
• November 5 – Vlasios Tsirogiannis, Greek general (b. 1872)
• November 6 – Arnold Rothstein, Jewish-American businessman, gangster (b. 1882)
• November 10 – Alexander Trepov, former Prime Minister of the Russian Empire (b. 1862)
• November 12 – Oskar Victorovich Stark, Russian admiral, explorer (b. 1846)
• November 13 – Enrico Cecchetti, Italian ballet dancer (b. 1850)
• November 17 – Lala Lajpat Rai (The Lion of Punjab), Indian independence movement leader (b. 1865)
• November 18 – Mauritz Stiller, Finnish screenwriter, director (b. 1883)
• November 21 – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (b. 1858)
• November 26 – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (b. 1863)
• November 27 – Frank Hedges Butler, British wine merchant, founding member of the Aero Club of Great Britain (b. 1855)
• November 27 – Marco Rafael Lima Lopez, Mexican general, last president of the Caulensian governorate (b. 1841)
• December 1
  • Arthur Gore, British tennis player (b. 1868)
  • José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
• December 2 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Governor-General of Australia (b. 1852)
• December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, British architect (b. 1868)
• December 11 – Lewis Latimer, American inventor (b. 1848)
• December 12 – Patriarch Gregory IV of Antioch (b. 1859)
• December 14
  • Theodore Roberts, American actor (b. 1861)
  • Pierre Ruffey, French general (b. 1851)
• December 16 – Elinor Wylie, American poet, novelist (b. 1885)
• December 17 – Eglantyne Jebb, British human rights activist, co-founder of Save the Children (b. 1876)
• December 21 – Luigi Cadorna, Italian general (b. 1850)
• December 25 – Fred Thomson, American actor (b. 1890)

Nobel Prizes[edit]

• Physics – Owen Willans Richardson
• Chemistry – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
• Physiology or Medicine – Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
• Literature – Sigrid Undset
• Peace – not awarded

In fiction[edit]

• This year is the setting of the video game Blood (1997) retroactively dated in the game's sequel Blood II: The Chosen (1998)
• This is the year that the Stargate is discovered in Giza, Egypt, near the Great Pyramids, as seen in the film Stargate (1994).

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