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1926 en varios calendarios
Calendario Gregoriano1926
MCMXXVI
Ab urbe condita2679
Calendario armenio1375
ԹՎ ՌՅՀԵ
Calendario asirio6676
Calendario bahá'í82–83
Calendario saka balinés1847–1848
Calendario bengalí1333
Calendario bereber2876
Año de reinado británico16  Geo. 5  - 17  Geo. 5
Calendario budista2470
Calendario birmano1288
Calendario bizantino7434–7435
calendario chino乙丑年( Buey de madera  )
4622 o 4562
    - a -
丙寅 年( Tigre de fuego  )
4623 o 4563
Calendario copto1642-1643
Calendario discordiano3092
Calendario etíope1918-1919
Calendario hebreo5686–5687
Calendarios hindúes
 - Vikram Samvat1982-1983
 - Shaka Samvat1847–1848
 - Kali Yuga5026–5027
Calendario del Holoceno11926
Calendario igbo926–927
Calendario iraní1304–1305
Calendario islámico1344-1345
Calendario japonésTaishō 15 / Shōwa 1
(昭和 元年)
Calendario javanés1856–1857
Calendario Juche15
calendario julianoGregoriano menos 13 días
Calendario coreano4259
Calendario MinguoROC 15
民國 15 年
Calendario Nanakshahi458
Calendario solar tailandés2468–2469
Calendario tibetano阴 木 牛年
(hembra Madera - Buey )
2052 o 1671 o 899
    - a -
阳 火 虎年
(macho Fuego - Tigre )
2053 o 1672 o 900

1926 ( MCMXXVI ) fue un año común que comenzó el viernes del calendario gregoriano , el año 1926 de las designaciones de Era Común (EC) y Anno Domini (AD), el año 926 del segundo milenio , el año 26 del siglo XX , y el séptimo año de la década de 1920 .

Eventos [ editar ]

Enero [ editar ]

Artículo principal: enero de 1926
  • 1 de enero - Las inundaciones del río Rin ; 50.000 se ven obligados a evacuar sus hogares en Colonia . [1]
  • 3 de enero : Theodoros Pangalos se declara dictador en Grecia.
  • 6 de enero - Se funda la aerolínea Deutsche Luft Hansa en Berlín.
  • 8 de enero
    • Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud es coronado rey de Hejaz .
    • El príncipe heredero Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy asciende al trono, el último monarca de Vietnam.
  • 12 de enero : Freeman Gosden y Charles Correll estrenan su programa de radio Sam 'n' Henry , en el que los dos artistas blancos retratan a dos personajes negros de Harlem que buscan hacerse ricos en la gran ciudad (es un precursor del más popular de Gosden y Correll). programa posterior, Amos 'n' Andy ).
  • 16 de enero - Una obra cómica de radio de la BBC transmitida por Ronald Knox , sobre una revolución obrera, causa pánico en Londres. [2]
  • 21 de enero - El Parlamento belga acepta los Tratados de Locarno .
  • 26 de enero : el inventor escocés John Logie Baird muestra un sistema de televisión mecánico en su laboratorio de Londres para miembros de la Royal Institution y un reportero de The Times .
  • 29 de de enero de - Eugene O'Neill 's El Gran Dios Brown se abre en el teatro de Greenwich en la ciudad de Nueva York.
  • 31 de enero : las tropas británicas y belgas abandonan Colonia .

Febrero [ editar ]

Artículo principal: febrero de 1926
  • 1 de febrero : el terreno en Broadway y Wall Street en la ciudad de Nueva York se vende a un precio récord de $ 7 por pulgada cuadrada; solo es asequible durante cuatro años más.
  • 8 de febrero de - Sean O'Casey 's The Plough y las estrellas se abre en el Teatro Abbey en Dublín .
  • 12 de febrero : el ministro de Justicia irlandés, Kevin O'Higgins , nombra el Comité de Literatura del Mal .
  • 20 de febrero - La Semana Verde Internacional de Berlín debuta en Alemania.
  • 25 de febrero - Francisco Franco se convierte en General de España.

Marzo [ editar ]

Artículo principal: marzo de 1926
16 de marzo : Goddard con cohete en 1926.
  • 6 de Marzo
    • El Teatro Conmemorativo de Shakespeare en Stratford-upon-Avon (Inglaterra) es destruido por un incendio.
    • Alan Cobham establece la primera ruta aérea comercial del Reino Unido a Sudáfrica .
  • 14 de marzo - El accidente del tren El Virilla ocurre en Costa Rica matando a 248 e hiriendo a 93.
  • 16 de marzo : Robert H. Goddard lanza el primer cohete de combustible líquido en Auburn, Massachusetts .
  • 23 de marzo - Éamon de Valera organiza el partido político Fianna Fáil en Irlanda.

Abril [ editar ]

Artículo principal: abril de 1926
  • 4 de abril : el dictador griego Theodoros Pangalos gana las elecciones presidenciales , con el 93,3% de los votos; la participación es escasa, ya que el resultado se considera una conclusión inevitable. [3]
  • 7 de abril : fracasa un intento de asesinato contra el líder fascista italiano Benito Mussolini .
  • 12 de abril : por una votación de 45 a 41, el Senado de los Estados Unidos destituye al senador de Iowa Smith W. Brookhart y asienta a Daniel F. Steck , después de que Brookhart ya haya servido durante más de un año. [ ¿por qué? ] [4]
  • 17 de abril : el ejército de Zhang Zuolin captura Beijing . [5]
  • 21 de abril - La princesa Isabel Alexandra Mary de York, más tarde Isabel II del Reino Unido, nace en Mayfair , Londres .
  • 24 de abril - Tratado de Berlín : Alemania y la Unión Soviética se comprometen a neutralidad, en caso de un ataque de un tercero, durante los próximos cinco años.
  • 25 de abril - Rezā Khan es coronado Sha de Irán , bajo el nombre de "Pahlevi".
  • 30 de abril : la piloto afroamericana Bessie Coleman muere después de caer a 500 pies (150 m) de un avión.

Mayo [ editar ]

Artículo principal: mayo de 1926
  • 3 de mayo : los mineros del carbón están bloqueados en Gran Bretaña.
  • 4 de mayo - La huelga general del Reino Unido comienza a la medianoche, en apoyo a la huelga del carbón.
  • 9 de mayo
    • La ley marcial se declara en Gran Bretaña, debido a la huelga general.
    • La armada francesa bombardea Damasco a causa de los disturbios drusos .
    • El explorador Richard E. Byrd y el copiloto Floyd Bennett afirman ser los primeros en sobrevolar el Polo Norte en el monoplano Josephine Ford , despegando de Spitsbergen , Noruega y regresando 15 horas y 44 minutos más tarde. Ambos hombres son aclamados de inmediato como héroes nacionales, aunque desde entonces algunos expertos se han mostrado escépticos ante la afirmación, creyendo que era poco probable que el avión cubriera toda la distancia y regresara en tan poco tiempo. [6] Una entrada en el diario de Byrd, descubierto en 1996 , sugirió que el avión en realidad retrocedió 150 millas antes del Polo Norte, debido a una fuga de aceite. [7]
  • 10 de mayo
    • Comienzan las conversaciones entre el gobierno y los huelguistas en el Reino Unido
    • Aviones piloteados por el Mayor Harold Geiger y Horace Meek Hickam , estudiantes de la Escuela Táctica del Cuerpo Aéreo de los Estados Unidos , chocan en el aire en Langley Field, Virginia (Hickam se lanza en paracaídas hacia la seguridad).
  • 12 de mayo
    • Roald Amundsen y su tripulación sobrevuelan el Polo Norte , en el dirigible Norge .
    • Huelga general del Reino Unido de 1926 : En el Reino Unido, termina una huelga general de los sindicatos (la huelga comenzó el 3 de mayo ).
  • 12 - 14 de mayo - Golpe de mayo : Józef Piłsudski toma el mando en Polonia.
  • 18 de mayo : la evangelista Aimee Semple McPherson desaparece mientras visitaba una playa de Venice, California .
  • 20 de mayo : el Congreso de los Estados Unidos aprueba la Ley de Comercio Aéreo , que otorga licencias a pilotos y aviones.
  • 23 de mayo - Se establece la primera constitución libanesa .
  • 25 de mayo - Al menos 165 personas (144 confirmadas) mueren en la erupción del volcán Monte Tokachi en Hokkaido , Japón, según el informe oficial del gobierno japonés . [ página necesaria ]
  • 26 de mayo : la Guerra del Rif termina, cuando los rebeldes del Rif se rinden en Marruecos .
  • 28 de de mayo de - El 1926 golpe de Estado , al mando de Manuel Gomes da Costa en Portugal, se instala la Dictadura Nacional (Dictadura Nacional), seguido de António de Oliveira Salazar 's Estado Novo .

Junio [ editar ]

Artículo principal: junio de 1926
  • 4 de junio : Ignacy Mościcki se convierte en presidente de Polonia .
  • 7 de junio : el político liberal Carl Gustaf Ekman sucede a Rickard Sandler , como primer ministro de Suecia .
  • 19 de junio : DeFord Bailey es el primer afroamericano en actuar en el Grand Ole Opry de Nashville .
  • 29 de junio : Arthur Meighen regresa brevemente al cargo como primer ministro de Canadá durante el asunto King-Byng .

Julio [ editar ]

Artículo principal: julio de 1926
  • 1 de julio
    • El Kuomintang inicia la Expedición del Norte , una campaña de unificación militar en el norte de China.
    • El Parque Nacional Mammoth Cave en Kentucky está autorizado por el Congreso de los Estados Unidos .
  • 3 de julio : un avión Caudron C.61 , operado por Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne , se estrella en Checoslovaquia.
  • 9 de julio - En Portugal, el general Óscar Carmona toma el poder en un golpe militar.
  • 10 de julio - Un rayo cae sobre Picatinny Arsenal en Nueva Jersey; el incendio resultante hace que estallen varios millones de libras de explosivos en los próximos 2 a 3 días.
  • 15 de julio - Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Company en India presenta autobuses a motor.
  • 23 de julio : Fox Film compra las patentes del sistema de sonido Movietone para grabar sonido en una película.
  • 26 de julio - La Asociación Nacional de Abogados se incorpora en los Estados Unidos.

Agosto [ editar ]

Artículo principal: agosto de 1926
  • 1 de agosto - En México, la entrada en vigor de las medidas anticlericales estipuladas en la Constitución de 1917 provoca la Guerra Cristera .
  • 5 de agosto de - En Nueva York, los Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone estrenos del sistema, con la película Don Juan , protagonizada por John Barrymore .
  • 6 de agosto : Gertrude Ederle se convierte en la primera mujer en nadar el Canal de la Mancha , desde Francia hasta Inglaterra.
  • 18 de agosto
    • El sindicato de mineros británico inicia negociaciones con el gobierno.
    • Un mapa meteorológico se televisa por primera vez, enviado desde NAA Arlington a la oficina del Weather Bureau en Washington, DC
  • 22 de agosto : en Grecia, Georgios Kondylis expulsa a Theodoros Pangalos .
  • 23 de agosto : la repentina muerte del popular actor de cine y símbolo sexual Rudolph Valentino , a los 31 años, causa dolor e histeria masiva en todo el mundo.
  • August 25 – Pavlos Kountouriotis announces that dictatorship has ended in Greece, and he is now the president.

September[edit]

Main article: September 1926
  • September 1 – Lebanon under the French Mandate gets its first constitution, thereby becoming a republic. Charles Debbas is elected president.
  • September 8 – The German Weimar Republic joins the League of Nations.
  • September 11
    • Aloha Tower is officially dedicated at Honolulu Harbor, in the Territory of Hawaii.
    • In Rome, Italy, Gino Lucetti throws a bomb at Benito Mussolini's car, but Mussolini is unhurt.
  • September 14 – The Locarno Treaties of 1925 are ratified in Geneva, and come into effect.
  • September 16 – Philip Dunning and George Abbott's play Broadway premieres in New York City.
  • September 18 – Great Miami Hurricane: A strong hurricane devastates Miami, leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion in the modern day).
  • September 19 – Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) Stadium, well known among sports venues in Italy, officially opens in Milan.[8]
  • September 20 – The North Side Gang attempts to assassinate Al Capone, at the apex of his power at this time, spraying his headquarters in Cicero, Illinois with over a thousand rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight, as Capone is eating there. Capone escapes harm.[9][10]
  • September 21 – French war ace René Fonck and three others attempt to fly the Atlantic, in pursuit of the Orteig Prize. Before the newsreel cameras at Roosevelt Field New York, the modified Sikorsky S-35 crashes on take-off and bursts into flames. Fonck survives, but two of his men are killed.
  • September 23 – Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey to become heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
  • September 25
    • The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery.
    • William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada, after winning the Canadian federal election.
    • The Detroit Cougars, a professional ice hockey club (National Hockey League) and predecessor to the Detroit Red Wings, is founded.[11]

October[edit]

Main article: October 1926
  • October 2 – Józef Piłsudski becomes prime minister of Poland.
  • October 12 – British miners agree to end their strike.
  • October 14 – A. A. Milne's children's book Winnie-the-Pooh is published in London, featuring the eponymous bear.
  • October 19 – The 1926 Imperial Conference opens in London.
  • October 20 – A hurricane kills 650 in Cuba.
  • October 23
    • Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
    • A decree in Italy bans women from holding public office.
    • The Fazal Mosque, the first purpose-built in London and the first Ahmadiyya mosque in Britain, is completed.
  • October 31 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis, that has developed after his appendix ruptured.

November[edit]

Main article: November 1926
  • November 8 – The APOEL FC is founded in Cyprus.
  • November 10 – In San Francisco, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boarding house landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds.
  • November 11 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.
  • November 15
    • The NBC Radio Network opens in the United States with 24 stations (formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA).
    • The Balfour Declaration is approved by the 1926 Imperial Conference, making the Commonwealth dominions equal and independent.
  • November 24
    • The village of Rocquebillier, in the French Riviera, is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm.
    • Sri Aurobindo retires, leaving "The Mother" to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry, India.
  • November 25 – The death penalty is re-established in Italy.
  • November 26 – All Italian Communist deputies are arrested.
  • November 27 – The restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins in Williamsburg, Virginia.

December[edit]

Main article: December 1926
December 25: Emperor Hirohito
  • December 2 – British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law that had been declared due to the general strike.
  • December 3 – Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found at a Harrogate hotel.
  • December 7 – The Council for the Preservation of Rural England (CPRE) is founded (later the Campaign to Protect Rural England).
  • December 13 – Miina Sillanpää becomes Finland’s first female government minister.
  • December 17 – 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état: A democratically elected government is overthrown in Lithuania; Antanas Smetona assumes power.
  • December 18 – Turkey converts to the Gregorian calendar, making the next day January 1 1927.
  • December 23 – Nicaraguan President Adolfo Díaz requests U.S. military assistance in the ongoing 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.[12][13]
  • December 26 – In the history of Japan, the Shōwa period begins from this day, due to the death of Emperor Taishō on the day before. His son Hirohito will reign as Emperor of Japan until 1989. Showa 1 in the Japanese calendar is just six days long, prior to January 1 Showa 2 (1927).[citation needed]

Date unknown[edit]

  • Dr Muthulakshmi Reddi becomes the first woman to be appointed to a legislature in India, the Madras Legislative Council.
  • Stephen H. Langdon begins excavations in Jemdet Nasr, finding proto-cuneiform clay tablets (3100–2900 BCE).
  • Phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust) is first synthesized.
  • Widows' pensions are introduced in New South Wales, Australia.
  • The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded.
  • Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and marks rodeo's first high-cut rodeo chaps at Stirling, Alberta, Canada.
  • The International African Institute is founded in London.
  • Raymond Pearl publishes his landmark book, Alcohol and Longevity.
  • American microbiologist Selman Waksman publishes Enzymes.
  • The Pike School of Andover, Massachusetts is founded.
  • Industrial output surpasses the level of 1913 in the USSR.[clarification needed][citation needed]

Births[edit]

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January[edit]

George Martin
Kim Jong-pil
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin
Patricia Neal
Steve Reeves
Abdus Salam
  • January 1
    • Dean Bandiera, Canadian football player (d. 2020)
    • José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal (d. 2019)
    • Blanca Rodríguez, First Lady of Venezuela (d. 2020)
    • Claudio Villa, Italian singer (d. 1987)
  • January 2 – Toshirō Daigo, Japanese judoka
  • January 3
    • W. Michael Blumenthal, German-American economist and politician
    • Murray Dowey, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
    • Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian children's illustrator
    • Mohamed Yaacob, Malaysian lawyer, judge and Menteri Besar of Kelantan (d. 2009)
    • Sir George Martin, English record producer (d. 2016)
  • January 6 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor, bodybuilder (d. 2006)
  • January 7 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician (d. 2018)
  • January 8
    • Evelyn Lear, American soprano (d. 2012)
    • Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
  • January 10 – Júlio Pomar, Portuguese painter (d. 2018)[14]
  • January 11
    • Lev Dyomin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998)
    • Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin, 42nd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 1984)
  • January 12
    • Ray Price, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
    • Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987)
  • January 13 – Michael Bond, English fiction writer, creator of Paddington Bear (d. 2017)
  • January 14 – Tom Tryon, American actor, 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, former Governor of Tucuman (d. 2011)
    • Newton N. Minow, American attorney
    • Moira Shearer, Scottish actress, dancer (d. 2006)
  • January 18 – Hannie van Leeuwen, Dutch politician (d. 2018)
  • January 19 – Fritz Weaver, American actor (d. 2016)
  • January 20
    • Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
    • David Tudor, American pianist, composer (d. 1996)
  • January 21
    • Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
    • Roger Taillibert, French architect (d. 2019)
  • January 23 – Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (d. 2012)
  • January 25 – Dick McGuire, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
  • January 26 – 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
    • Bob Falkenburg, American tennis player and entrepreneur
    • Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
  • January 31 – Chuck Willis, American singer, songwriter (d. 1958) (some sources give his year of birth as 1928)

February[edit]

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Garret FitzGerald
Leslie Nielsen
Bob Richards
  • February 1 – Nancy Gates, American actress (d. 2019)
  • February 2
    • Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France (d. 2020)
    • Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic prelate (archbishop of Managua, cardinal) (d. 2018)
  • February 3 – Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician (d. 2020)
  • February 4 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer (d. 2014)
  • February 7
    • Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
    • Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Argentine cardinal
    • Keiko Tsushima, Japanese actress (d. 2012)
  • February 8
    • Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)
    • Birgitte Reimer, Danish actress (d. 2021)
    • Sonja Ziemann, German actress (d. 2020)
  • February 9 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish lawyer, politician, and 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2011)
  • February 10
    • Carmen Romano, First Lady of Mexico (d. 2000)
    • Mimi Sheraton, American food critic
    • Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer, football manager (d. 1993)
  • February 11
    • Paul Bocuse, French chef (d. 2018)
    • Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (d. 2010)
  • February 12 – Charles Van Doren, American professor, subject of film Quiz Show (d. 2019)
  • February 13 – Bill Mercer, American sportscaster
  • February 14
    • Moneta Sleet Jr., American press photographer (d. 1996)
    • Alfred Körner, Austrian footballer (d. 2020)
  • February 15 – Muhammad al-Badr, King of Yemen (d. 1996)
  • February 16
    • Margot Frank, German sister of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
    • John Schlesinger, British film director (d. 2003)
  • February 17
    • Peter T. Flawn, American geologist, educator (d. 2017)
    • John Meyendorff, French-born American Orthodox scholar, protopresbyter and educator (d. 1992)
  • February 18
    • Abdelsalam al-Majali, 60th and 63rd Prime Minister of Jordan
    • Jeanne Wilson, American swimmer (d. 2018)
  • February 19 – György Kurtág, Hungarian composer and academic
  • February 20
    • Whitney Blake, American actress (d. 2002)
    • Richard Matheson, American author (d. 2013)
    • Bob Richards, American track and field athlete
    • Gillian Lynne, English ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director (d. 2018)
    • María de la Purísima Salvat Romero, Spanish nun, saint (d. 1998)
  • February 22
    • Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
    • Miguel León-Portilla, Mexican anthropologist and historian (d. 2019)
  • February 23
    • Luigi De Magistris, Italian cardinal
    • Claire Shulman, American politician (d. 2020)
  • February 24 – Knut Kleve, Norwegian philologist (d. 2017)
  • February 26
    • Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler (d. 2015)
    • Henry Molaison, American memory disorder patient (d. 2008)
    • Doris Belack, American actress (d. 2011)
    • Efraín Sánchez, Colombian footballer and manager (d. 2020)
  • 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]

Andrzej Wajda
Ralph Abernathy
Jerry Lewis
Siegfried Lenz
Dario Fo
Ingvar Kamprad
  • March 1
    • Robert Clary, French-American actor, author and lecturer
    • Barbara Clegg, British actress and scriptwriter
    • Pete Rozelle, American National Football League commissioner (d. 1996)
  • March 2 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
  • March 3
    • Craig Dixon, American athlete
    • James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
  • March 4
    • Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, French royal, businessman (d. 2018)
    • Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway (d. 2018)
    • Fran Warren, American popular singer (d. 2013)
  • March 5 – Joan Shawlee, American actress (d. 1987)
  • March 6
    • Alan Greenspan, American economist, Federal Reserve Chairman
    • Yoshimi Osawa, Japanese judoka
    • Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (d. 2016)
  • March 7 – Chemmanam Chacko, Indian poet (d. 2018)
  • March 8 – Sultan Salahuddin of Selangor (d. 2001)
  • March 10 – Aleksandr Zatsepin, Soviet and Russian composer
  • March 11
    • Ralph Abernathy, African-American civil rights leader (d. 1990)
    • Thomas Starzl, American physician (d. 2017)
  • March 12 – George Ariyoshi, American politician, lawyer
  • March 13 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
  • March 14 – Carlos Heitor Cony, Brazilian journalist, writer (d. 2018)
  • March 15 – Uria Simango, Mozambican politician
  • March 16
    • Edwar al-Kharrat, Egyptian novelist, writer and critic (d. 2015)
    • Jerry Lewis, American comedian, humanitarian and philanthropist (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)
    • Tan Chin Nam, Malaysian businessman and racehorse owner (d. 2018)
  • March 19 – Tony Collins, English football player and manager (d. 2021)
  • March 21
    • Carlos Almenar Otero, Venezuelan singer, songwriter (d. 2018)
    • 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)
    • Ventsislav Yankov, Bulgarian pianist
  • March 25
    • Wiesława Mazurkiewicz, Polish actress (d. 2021)
    • László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
    • Gene Shalit, American film and book critic and television personality
  • March 26 – Aldo Tarlao, Italian Olympic rower (d. 2018)
  • March 27 – Harry Connick Sr., American attorney
  • 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, television host (Hollywood Squares)
    • Sydney Chaplin, American actor (d. 2009)
  • March 31 – John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005)

April[edit]

Anne McCaffrey
Gus Grissom
Roger Corman
Ian Paisley
Hugh Hefner
Elizabeth II
Harper Lee
Cloris Leachman
  • April 1
    • Charles Bressler, American tenor (d. 1996)
    • Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish author (d. 2011)
    • Luis de la Puente Uceda, Peruvian guerrilla leader (d. 1965)
  • April 2
    • Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver (d. 2014)
    • Omar Graffigna, Argentine Air Force officer (d. 2019)
  • April 3 – Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)[15]
  • April 5
    • Roger Corman, American filmmaker, producer, actor and businessman
    • Ri Kun-mo, North Korean politician (d. 2001)
  • April 6
    • Randy Weston, American jazz pianist and composer (d. 2018)
    • Jeanne Martin Cissé, Guinean teacher, nationalist politician (d. 2017)
    • Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor, actor (d. 1990)
    • Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
    • Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician (d. 2014)
  • April 8
    • Shecky Greene, American actor
    • Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian and academic
  • April 9 – Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor (Playboy) (d. 2017)
  • April 10 – Gustav Metzger, German-born stateless auto-destructive artist (d. 2017)
  • April 12
    • Khozh-Akhmed Bersanov, Chechen ethnographer (d. 2018)
    • Jane Withers, American actress
  • April 13
    • John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, British peer (d. 2014)
    • Maximilian Raub, Austrian Olympic canoeist (d. 2019)
    • Egon Wolff, Chilean playwright, author (d. 2016)
  • April 14
    • Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, producer, director, and teacher (d. 1996)
    • Gloria Jean, American actress and singer (d. 2018)
    • George Robledo, Chilean soccer player (d. 1989)
    • Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish politician (d. 2008)
  • April 19 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician, first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. 1997)
  • April 21
    • Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom[16]
    • Arthur Rowley, English footballer (d. 2002)
    • Alexander Lyudskanov, Bulgarian translator, semiotician and mathematician (d. 1976)
  • April 22
    • Ted Hibberd, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
    • Charlotte Rae, American actress, singer (d. 2018)
    • James Stirling, Scottish architect (d. 1992)
  • April 24
    • Marilyn Erskine, American actress
    • 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 27
    • Tim LaHaye, American evangelist, speaker and author (d. 2016)
    • Vladimír Černý, Czechoslovakian modern pentathlete (d. 2016)
  • April 28
    • James Bama, American artist
    • Greg Gates, American rower (d. 2020)
    • 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, poet (d. 1982)
    • Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, Santomean poet (d. 2010)
    • Cloris Leachman, American actress (d. 2021)
    • Christian Mohn, Norwegian ski jumper and sports official (d. 2019)

May[edit]

David Attenborough
Don Rickles
Miles Davis
Abdoulaye Wade
Katie Boyle
  • May 1 – Peter Lax, Hungarian-American mathematician, academic
  • May 3
    • Matt Baldwin, Canadian curler
    • Ema Derossi-Bjelajac, Croatian politician (d. 2020)
  • May 4 – David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon, English politician (d. 2020)
  • 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 (d. 2019)
    • Don Rickles, American stand-up comedian, actor (d. 2017)
  • May 10
    • Hugo Banzer , 51st President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
    • Pasquale Panìco, Italian politician (d. 2018)
  • May 12 – Earl Hutto, American politician (d. 2020)
  • May 14 – Eric Morecambe, English comedian, author (d. 1984)
  • May 15
    • Anthony Shaffer, English novelist, playwright (d. 2001)
    • Sir Peter Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2016)
  • May 17
    • David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, Scottish soldier and politician
    • Prince Dimitri Romanov, Russian prince, banker, philanthropist and author (d. 2016)
    • Franz Sondheimer, German-born British chemist (d. 1981)
    • Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian film actor (d. 2014)
  • May 18 – Niranjan Bhagat, Indian poet (d. 2018)
  • May 19
    • Mark Andrews, American politician (d. 2020)
    • Edward Parkes, English engineer and academic (d. 2019)
  • 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)
  • May 24 – Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter
  • May 25
    • Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
    • Bill Sharman, American basketball player, coach (d. 2013)
  • May 26
    • Miles Davis, African-American Jazz musician (d. 1991)
    • Desmond Davis, British film and television director
  • May 27
    • Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. 2009)
    • Kees Rijvers, Dutch football player and manager
  • May 29
    • 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, session musician (d. 2017)
    • Johnny Gimble, American country musician, fiddler (d. 2015)
    • Tsuneo Watanabe, Japanese businessman

June[edit]

Andy Griffith
Marilyn Monroe
Allen Ginsberg
Efraín Ríos Montt
Johanna Quandt
Tadeusz Konwicki
Mel Brooks
Peter Alexander
  • June 1
    • Andy Griffith, American actor, comedian, singer (d. 2012)
    • Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
  • June 3
    • Flora MacDonald, Canadian politician and humanitarian (d. 2015)
    • 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
    • Meredith Belbin, English researcher and management consultant
    • Robert Earl Hughes, American who was the heaviest human being recorded in the history of the world during his lifetime (d. 1958)
    • Ain Kaalep, Estonian poet, playwright and critic (d. 2020)
  • 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
    • Sholom Rivkin, American rabbi (d. 2011)
    • Antônio Ribeiro de Oliveira, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
  • June 7 – Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian politician (d. 2020)
  • June 8 – Ilie Ceaușescu, Romanian general and communist politician (d. 2002)
  • June 9
    • Georgia Holt, American singer and actress
    • Happy Rockefeller, American socialite (d. 2015)
  • June 10
    • June Haver, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
    • Lionel Jeffries, British film director and actor (d. 2010)
  • June 11
    • Carlisle Floyd, American composer and educator
    • Frank Plicka, Czech-born photographer (d. 2010)
  • June 12
    • Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine goalkeeper (d. 2020)
    • Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author (d. 2001)
  • June 13
    • Satoru Abe, Japanese-American sculptor and painter
    • Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
    • June Krauser, American swimmer (d. 2014)
  • 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
    • 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)
  • 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 (d. unknown)
    • Blackie Gejeian, American race car driver, race car builder, and hot rod enthusiast (d. 2016)
    • Barbara Scofield, American tennis player
  • June 25
    • Ján Eugen Kočiš, Czech bishop (d. 2019)
    • Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
    • Gordon Robertson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
    • Stig Sollander, Swedish alpine skier (d. 2019)
  • June 26
    • Mahendra Bhatnagar, Indian poet (d. 2020)
    • Fernando Mönckeberg Barros, Chilean surgeon
    • Luis Molné, Andorran alpine skier
    • André Monnier, French ski jumper
    • Fritz Zwazl, Austrian swimmer
  • June 27
    • Giambattista Bonis, Italian professional football player
    • Len Ceglarski, American hockey player (d. 2017)
    • Geza de Kaplany, Hungarian-born physician
    • Don Raleigh, American ice hockey player (d. 2012)
    • Bruce Tozer, Australian cricketer
    • Galina Vecherkovskaya, Russian rower
  • June 28
    • 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

July[edit]

Carl Hahn
Alfredo Di Stéfano
Nuon Chea
David Malet Armstrong
Harry Dean Stanton
Leopoldo Galtieri
Stef Wertheimer
Maunu Kurkvaara
Norman Jewison
James Best
  • July 1
    • Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (d. 2019)
    • Robert Fogel, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
    • Carl Hahn, German automotive executive, chairman of Volkswagen
    • Hans Werner Henze, German composer (d. 2012)
  • July 2
    • Liu Dajun, Chinese agricultural scientist, educator and an academician (d. 2016)
    • Alfons Oehy, Swiss swimmer (d. 1977)
    • Carlo Rolandi, Italian sailor
  • July 3
    • Rae Allen, American actress, director, and singer
    • María Lorenza Barreneche, former First Lady of Argentina (d. 2016)
  • July 4
    • Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-born footballer (d. 2014)
    • Amos Elon, Israeli writer (d. 2009)
    • Lopön Tenzin Namdak, Tibetan religious leader
    • 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)
    • Salvador Jorge Blanco, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2010)
    • Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
    • Mario Picone, American pitcher (d. 2013)
    • Anthony Purssell, English brewing executive and rower
  • 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 (d. 2019)
    • Mel Clark, American Major League Baseball outfielder (d. 2014)
  • July 8
    • David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher (d. 2014)
    • 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
  • 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)
    • Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, spouse of Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
  • July 13
    • Cheng Chi-sen, Taiwanese sports shooter
    • T. Loren Christianson, American politician (d. 2019)
    • Thomas Clark, American politician (d. 2020)
  • July 14
    • 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 (d. 2019)
    • Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
    • Raymond Gosling, English physicist (d. 2015)
  • July 16
    • Emile Degelin, Belgian film director and novelist (d. 2017)
    • 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 (d. 2018)
  • July 18
    • Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish film director and screenwriter
    • Bernard Pons, French politician and medical doctor
    • Nita Bieber, American actress (d. 2019)
  • July 19
    • Terry Cavanagh, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
    • Helen Gallagher, American actress, dancer, and singer
    • Robert E. Lavender, American judge (d. 2020)
  • July 20
    • Charles David Ganao, Congolese politician (d. 2012)
    • Odd Kallerud, Norwegian politician
  • July 21
    • Otto Beyeler, Swiss cross country skier
    • Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
  • July 22 – Bryan Forbes, English film director (d. 2013)
  • July 24 – Hans Günter Winkler, German show jumping rider (d. 2018)
  • July 25
    • Whitey Lockman, American player, coach, manager (d. 2009)
    • Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (d. 2018)
    • 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 – Nina Kulagina, Russian psychic (d. 1990)
  • July 31
    • Bernard Nathanson, American medical doctor and activist (d. 2011)
    • Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2016)

August[edit]

Tony Bennett
Stan Freberg
Aaron Klug
Claus von Bülow
Fidel Castro
Agostino Cacciavillan
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
Jiang Zemin
  • August 1 – Meg Randall, American actress (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
    • Shun-ichi Iwasaki, Japanese engineer
  • August 5 – Clifford Husbands, 6th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 2017)
  • August 6
    • Janet Asimov, American writer and psychiatrist (d. 2019)
    • János Rózsás, Hungarian writer (d. 2012)
    • Frank Finlay, English stage, film and television actor (d. 2016)
    • Elisabeth Beresford, British author (d. 2010)
    • Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
  • August 7
    • John Otho Marsh Jr., American politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Army (d. 2019)
    • Stan Freberg, American author, recording artist and comedian (d. 2015)
    • Bowen Stassforth, American swimmer (d. 2019)
  • August 8
    • Silvio Amadio, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1995)
    • Jimmy Brown, American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer (d. 2006)
    • Angelo Bonfietti, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2004)
  • August 9 – Frank M. Robinson, American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d. 2014)
  • August 10
    • Marie-Claire Alain, French organist (d. 2013)[17]
    • Carol Ruth Vander Velde, American mathematician (d. 1972)[18]
    • Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist (d. 2013)
  • August 11
    • Ron Bontemps, American basketball player (d. 2017)
    • Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
    • Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (d. 2019)
    • John Gokongwei, Filipino billionaire businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019)
  • August 12
    • John Derek, American actor and film director (d. 1998)
    • Osamu Ishiguro, Japanese tennis player (d. 2016)
    • Hiroshi Koizumi, Japanese actor (d. 2015)
    • 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)
    • Valentina Levko, Russian opera and chamber singer (d. 2018)
    • Norris Bowden, Canadian figure skater (d. 1991)
  • August 14
    • Martin Broszat, German historian (d. 1989)
    • Agostino Cacciavillan, Italian cardinal
    • René Goscinny, French comic book writer (d. 1977)
    • Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (d. 2017)
  • August 15
    • Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet and playwright (d. 1947)
    • Ivy Bottini, American activist and artist
    • Julius Katchen, American concert pianist (d. 1969)
    • Sami Michael, Iraqi-Israeli author
    • Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, former President of Greece (d. 2016)
  • August 16
    • Jack Britto, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (d. 2013)
    • Eivind Hjelmtveit, Norwegian cultural administrator (d. 2017)
    • Yu Min, Chinese nuclear physicist (d. 2019)
  • August 17
    • 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)
  • August 20 – Hocine Aït Ahmed, Algerian politician (d. 2015)
  • August 21 – Marian Jaworski, Polish cardinal (d. 2020)
  • August 22 – Werner Spitz, German-American forensic pathologist
  • August 23 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (d. 2006)
  • August 29
    • Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and academic
    • Ramakrishna Hegde, Indian politician (d. 2004)
    • Betty Lynn, American actress

September[edit]

Elias Hrawi
Prince Claus
Masatoshi Koshiba
James Lipton
Donald A. Glaser
John Coltrane
Julie London
  • September 1
    • Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (d. 2018)
    • 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
    • Joseph P. Kolter, American politician (d. 2019)
    • Uttam Kumar, Bengali actor (d. 1980)
    • Irene Papas, Albanian-Greek actresses
    • Alison Lurie, American author and academic (d. 2020)
  • September 4
    • Elias Hrawi, 14th President of Lebanon (d. 2006)
    • Ivan Illich, Austrian philosopher and Catholic priest who founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca, Mexico (d. 2002)[19]
    • Robert J. Lagomarsino, American politician
  • 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 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
    • Charles Duncan Jr., American entrepreneur and politician
    • Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian Islamic theologian
  • September 11 – Gerrit Viljoen, South African government minister (d. 2009)
  • September 13 – Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
  • 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)
    • Bhichai Rattakul, Thai politician
    • Robert H. Schuller, American televangelist, motivational speaker and author (d. 2015)
  • September 17
    • Bill Black, American rock and roll musician and bandleader (d. 1965)
    • Andrea Kékesy, Hungarian figure skater
  • September 18 – Bob Toski, American golfer
  • September 19
    • Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)
    • James Lipton, American television personality and writer (d. 2020)
    • Duke Snider, American baseball player (d. 2011)
  • September 21
    • Carla Calò, Italian actress (d. 2019)
    • Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
    • Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
  • September 22 – Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (d. 2020)
  • September 23
    • Aage Birch, Danish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist (d. 2017)
    • John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1967)
    • Heng Freylinger, Luxembourgian wrestler (d. 2017)
  • September 25
    • Carlos Chasseing, Argentine politician (d. 2018)
    • Charles J. Colgan, American politician and businessman (d. 2017)
    • John Ericson, German-American actor (d. 2020)
  • September 26
    • Tulsi Giri, former Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2018)
    • Julie London, American actress and singer (d. 2000)
  • September 28
    • Jerry Clower, American country comedian (d. 1998)
    • Ozzie Van Brabant, Canadian baseball player (d. 2018)
  • September 29
    • Chuck Cooper, American basketball player (d. 1984)
    • Philip Ruppe, American politician
  • September 30
    • Dave Hunt, American apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author (d. 2013)
    • Frank O'Neill, Australian swimmer

October[edit]

Thích Nhất Hạnh
Jean Peters
Julie Adams
Chuck Berry
Jimmy Heath
Necmettin Erbakan
  • October 1 – Max Morath, American musician
  • October 2
    • Jan Morris, born James Morris, British travel writer (d. 2020)
    • 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
    • Marcello Abbado, Italian composer and pianist (d. 2020)
    • Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat and military official (d. 2018)
    • Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, Polish mathematician (d. 2015)
  • October 8 – Carmencita Lara, Peruvian singer (d. 2018)
  • October 9 – Ruth Ellis, British murderess (d. 1955)
  • October 10 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
  • October 11
    • Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
    • Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, and peace activist[20][21])
    • 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 12
    • César Pelli, Argentine-American architect (d. 2019)
    • Nikita Simonyan, Soviet footballer and coach
  • 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 16
    • Charles Dolan, American billionaire
    • Mikhail Soldatov, Soviet KGB officer (d. 1997)
  • October 17
    • Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019)
    • Beverly Garland, American actress and businesswoman (d. 2008)
  • October 18
    • Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
    • Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
    • Pauline Pirok, American female professional baseball player (d. 2020)
  • October 19 – Marjorie Tallchief, American ballerina
  • October 20 – Vsevolod Murakhovsky, Ukrainian-Russian politician (d. 2017)
  • October 21
    • Waldir Pires, Brazilian politician (d. 2018)
    • Bob Rosburg, American golfer (d. 2009)
  • October 22 – Chan Sui-kau, Hong Kong industrialist and philanthropist (d. 2018)
  • October 25
    • María Concepción César, Argentine actress, singer and vedette (d. 2018)
    • Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2020)
    • Biff McGuire, American actor
    • Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano (d. 2012)
  • October 27 – Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (d. 1943)[22]
  • October 28 – Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007)
  • October 29
    • Necmettin Erbakan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2011)
    • Jon Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor (d. 2015)

November[edit]

Betsy Palmer
Valdas Adamkus
Joan Sutherland
Jeffrey Hunter
Beji Caid Essebsi
  • November 1 – Betsy Palmer, American actress (d. 2015)
  • November 2
    • Myer Skoog, American basketball player (d. 2019)
    • Charlie Walker, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
  • November 3 – Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politician, 3rd President of Lithuania
  • November 4
    • Carmen A. Orechio, American politician (d. 2018)
    • Laurence Rosenthal, American composer
  • November 5
    • John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (d. 2017)
    • Kim Jong-gil, South Korean poet (d. 2017)
  • November 7 – Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (d. 2010)
  • November 8
    • Sonja Bata, Swiss businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
    • Darleane C. Hoffman, American nuclear chemist
    • Jack Mendelsohn, American writer-artist (d. 2017)
  • November 9 – Stu Griffing, American Olympic rower
  • November 11
    • Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian automobile racing driver (d. 2016)
    • Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1993)
  • 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)
    • Judith Magre, French actress
  • 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
    • Ivano Fontana, Italian boxer (d. 1993)
    • Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
    • Terry Kilburn, American actor
    • Peter Wright, English ballet teacher, director and choreographer
    • 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 – Umberto Veronesi, Italian oncologist and politician (d. 2016)
  • November 29 – Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisian politician, 5th President and 18th Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2019)
  • November 30
    • Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
    • Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, Bolivian architect and art historian (d. 2018)
    • Andrew Schally, Polish-born American endocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

December[edit]

Raif Dizdarević
Joe Paterno
Alcides Ghiggia
  • December 1
    • Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2018)
    • Kitty Hart-Moxon, Polish-English nurse and Holocaust survivor
  • December 5 – Adetowun Ogunsheye, Nigerian academic and educator
  • December 7 – William John McNaughton, American bishop (d. 2020)
  • December 9
    • Raif Dizdarević, Bosnian politician
    • Erhard Eppler, German politician (d. 2019)
    • Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
    • Lorenzo Wright, American athlete (d. 1972)[23]
  • December 10
    • Leon Kossoff, English painter and illustrator (d. 2019)
    • Guitar Slim, American New Orleans blues guitarist (d. 1959)
    • Giorgos Ioannou, Greek artist (d. 2017)
  • December 13
    • Carl Erskine, American baseball player
    • George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
  • December 14 – María Elena Marqués, Mexican actress (d. 2008)
  • December 15
    • Nikos Koundouros, Greek film director (d. 2017)
    • Emmanuel Wamala, Ugandan cardinal
  • December 16
    • James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
    • A. N. R. Robinson, 3rd President and 3rd Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014)
  • December 17 – Patrice Wymore, American actress (d. 2014)
  • December 19 – Herbert Stempel, American game show contestant (d. 2020)
  • December 20
    • Geoffrey Howe, British politician (d. 2015)
    • Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (d. 2009)
    • David Levine, U.S. caricaturist (d. 2009)
  • December 21
    • Elisabeth Elliot, American Christian author and speaker (d. 2015)
    • Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
  • December 22 – Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2015)
  • December 23
    • Robert Bly, American poet
    • Jorge Medina Estévez, Chilean cardinal
    • Metakse, Armenian poet, writer, translator and public activist (d. 2014)
  • December 24
    • Ronald Draper, South African cricketer
    • Maria Janion, Polish scholar, critic and politician (d. 2020)
  • December 26 – Gina Pellón, Cuban painter (d. 2014)
  • December 29 – Amelita Ramos, First Lady of the Philippines
  • December 31 – Billy Snedden, Australian politician (d. 1987)

Deaths[edit]

January–March[edit]

Camillo Golgi
Kato Takaaki
Theodosius of Skopje
Jan Cieplak
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Macarius II
Prince Philippe of Orléans
  • January 4 – Margherita of Savoy, Queen consort of Italy (b. 1851)
  • January 6 – John Bowers, British Anglican bishop (b. 1854)
  • January 12 – Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
  • January 15
    • Giambattista De Curtis, Italian painter (b. 1860)
    • Louis Majorelle, French furniture designer (b. 1859)
    • Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
  • January 21
    • 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)
    • Sir 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 14 – John Jacob Bausch, German-born American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (b. 1830)
  • February 17 – Jan Cieplak, Polish Roman Catholic priest, bishop and servant of God (b. 1857)
  • February 21 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
  • February 24 – Eddie Plank, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1875)
  • March 3 – Eugenia Mantelli, Italian opera singer (b. 1860)
  • March 4 – Patriarch Macarius II (b. 1835)
  • March 10 – Belle C. Greene, American writer (b. 1842)
  • 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)
    • Albion Woodbury Small, American sociologist (b. 1854)
  • 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
Antoni Gaudí
Jón Magnússon
  • April 1 – Jacob Pavlovich Adler, Russian actor (b. 1855)
  • April 4 – Thomas Burberry, English businessman and inventor (b. 1835)
  • 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 11 – Luther Burbank, American biologist, botanist and agricultural scientist (b. 1849)
  • April 14 – Otto Stark, American painter (b. 1859)
  • April 17 – Antonio Adolfo Pérez y Aguilar, Salvadorian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1839)
  • April 19 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Soviet statistician (b. 1874)
  • April 20 – Billy Quirk, American actor (b. 1873)
  • April 22 – Federico Gana, Chilean writer and diplomat (b. 1867)
  • April 24 – 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
    • Aleksei Evert, Russian general (b. 1857; may have been executed in 1918)
    • 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 4 – Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (b. 1853)
  • June 8
    • Emily Hobhouse, British welfare campaigner (b. 1860)
    • Mariam Thresia Chiramel, Indian Catholic professed religious and stigmatist (b. 1876)
  • June 9 – Sanford B. Dole, President of Hawaii and 1st Territorial Governor of Hawaii (b. 1844)
  • June 10 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (b. 1852)
  • June 13 – Nikolay Chkheidze, Soviet politician (b. 1864)
  • June 14
    • Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1844)
    • Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Anglo-Irish politician (b. 1841)
  • June 18 – Olga Constantinovna of Russia (b. 1851)
  • June 23 – Jón Magnússon, Icelandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1857)

July–September[edit]

Mother Mary Alphonsa
Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave
King Ugyen Wangchuck
Rudolph Valentino
José María Orellana
  • July 1 – Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Italian-born Argentine botanist and mycologist (b. 1858)
  • July 2
    • Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
    • Kristján Jónsson, Minister for Iceland (b. 1852)
  • July 9 – Mother Mary Alphonsa, American Roman Catholic religious sister, social worker, foundress and venerable (b. 1851)
  • July 12
    • Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator; known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (b. 1868)
    • John W. Weeks, American politician in the Republican Party (b. 1860)
  • July 14 – Roshanara, Anglo-Indian dancer (b. 1894)
  • July 17 – Bernard Coyne, 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 30 – Albert B. Cummins, American lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
  • July 31 – Bronislav Grombchevsky, Soviet army and explorer (b. 1855)
  • August 1 – Israel Zangwill, British novelist and playwright (b. 1864)
  • August 6 – Constantin Climescu, Romanian mathematician and politician (b. 1844)
  • August 14 – John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
  • August 21 – Ugyen Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1861)
  • August 22
    • Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (b. 1834)
    • Joe Moore, 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]

Harry Houdini
Annie Oakley
Claude Monet
Nikola Pašić
Emperor Taishō
  • October 7 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (b. 1856)
  • October 9
    • Vaso Abashidze, Georgian actor (b. 1854)
    • Sir Arthur Dyke Acland, 13th Baronet, British politician (b. 1847)
    • Josias von Heeringen, German general (b. 1850)
  • October 11
    • Hymie Weiss, American gangster (b. 1898)
  • October 12
    • Edwin Abbott Abbott, English author and theologian (b. 1838)
    • Paul Puhallo von Brlog, Croatian Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1856)
  • October 16 – Princess Frederica of Hanover (b. 1848)
  • October 19
    • Victor Babeș, Romanian bacteriologist (b. 1854)
    • Ludvig Karsten, German painter (b. 1876)
  • October 20 – Eugene V. Debs, American labor and political leader (b. 1855)
  • October 24 – Salomon Ehrmann, Jewish-born Austrian dermatologist and histologist (b. 1854)
  • October 31
    • Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born American escapologist (b. 1874)
    • Charles Vance Millar, Canadian businessman (b. 1853)
  • November 3 – Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter and entertainer (b. 1860)
  • November 6 – Carl Swartz, Swedish politician, 14th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1858)
  • November 7 – Tom Forman, 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)
  • November 21 – Joseph McKenna, American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1843)
  • November 26 – John Browning, American firearms inventor (b. 1855)
  • December 2 – Gérard Cooreman, Belgian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1852)
  • December 3 – Siegfried Jacobsohn, German writer and critic (b. 1881)
  • December 4 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
  • December 5 – Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
  • December 10 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian and Yugoslav statesman, 33rd Prime Minister of Serbia and 4th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1855)
  • December 16 – William Larned, American tennis champion (b. 1872)
  • December 17 – Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish inventor and founder of Ericsson (b. 1846)
  • December 20 – Narcisa Freixas, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1859)
  • December 22 – Mina Arndt, New Zealand painter (b. 1885)
  • December 24 – Johan Castberg, Norwegian Radical politician (b. 1862)
  • December 25
    • Oleksander Barvinsky, Ukrainian politician (b. 1847)
    • Emperor Taishō, Emperor of Japan, one of the leaders of World War I (b. 1879)
  • December 27 – Amalia Riégo, Swedish opera singer (b. 1850)
  • December 28 – Robert William Felkin, British-born medical missionary, explorer, anthropologist and occultist (b. 1853)
  • December 29 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (b. 1875)
  • December 30 – Felice Napoleone Canevaro, Italian admiral (b. 1838)

Undated[edit]

  • Elisabeth Cavazza, American author, journalist, and music critic (b. 1849)
  • Dimitrios Ioannou, Greek general (b. 1861)
  • Lillie Eginton Warren, American speech educator (b. 1859)

Nobel Prizes[edit]

  • Physics – Jean Baptiste Perrin
  • Chemistry – Theodor Svedberg
  • Physiology or Medicine – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger[24]
  • Literature – Grazia Deledda
  • Peace – Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann

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