March 10 –
Debbie Brill, Canadian high jumper
*
March 11
**
László Bölöni, Romanian footballer
**
Bernie LaBarge, Canadian guitarist/vocalist
*
March 12
Events Pre-1600
* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
* 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Cat ...
**
Carl Hiaasen, American author
**
Ron Jeremy, American pornographic and straight actor, filmmaker and stand-up comedian
**
Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepalese politician
*
March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
–
Johan Ullman
Johan Ullman is a Swedish medical doctor, scientist, and inventor.
Ullman was born on March 14, 1953 in Hallstavik, Sweden to civil engineer Uddo Ullman, and Barbro Stenkulla. He grew up in Falun, and received his medical degree from the Univer ...
, Swedish medical doctor, physicist and inventor
*
March 15 –
Kumba Iala
Kumba is a metropolitan city in the Meme department, Southwest Region, Western Cameroon, referred as "K-town" in local slang. Kumba is the most developed and largest city in the Meme Department and has attracted people from the local villag ...
, Guinea-Bissauan politician, 3rd
President of Guinea-Bissau (d.
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
)
*
March 16
**
Bryan Duncan
Bryan Edward Duncan (born March 16, 1953) is an American contemporary Christian music artist. He is known for being lead singer of the group Sweet Comfort Band, solo career, and involvement with the Nehosoul Band. He is currently involved with ...
, American Christian musician
**
Isabelle Huppert, French actress
**
Richard Stallman, American free software proponent
*
March 17 –
Filemon Lagman, Filipino revolutionary (d.
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
)
*
March 18 –
Takashi Yoshimatsu
is a Japanese classical music composer. He is well known for composing the 2003 remake of ''Astro Boy''.
Biography
Yoshimatsu was born and raised in Yoyogi, Tokyo. He did not receive formal musical training while growing up. Yoshimatsu was a fa ...
, Japanese composer
*
March 19 –
Lenín Moreno, Ecuadorian politician, 44th
President of Ecuador
*
March 20 –
Sándor Csányi, Hungarian business executive, banker
*
March 23 –
Chaka Khan
Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan (), is an American singer. Her career has spanned more than five decades, beginning in the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. Known as the " Qu ...
, African-American soul singer
*
March 24 –
Mathias Richling
Mathias Richling (born 24 March 1953 in Waiblingen) is a German actor, author, comedian and Kabarett artist.
Richling studied literature, music and theatre. From 1989 to 1996 he had a program called ''Jetzt schlägt's Richling'' on the German TV ...
, German comedian
*
March 26
**
Lincoln Chafee, American politician
**
Elaine Chao, American politician, wife of Senator
Mitch McConnell
Addison Mitchell McConnell III (born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and retired attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Kentucky and the Senate minority leader since 2021. Currently in his seventh term, McConne ...
*
March 28 –
Melchior Ndadaye, 4th President of Burundi (d.
1993
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...
)
April
*
April 2
**
Jim Allister, Irish politician
**
Rosemary Bryant Mariner, American naval aviator (d.
2019
File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
)
*
April 3
**
Sandra Boynton, American author, songwriter and illustrator
**
Russ Francis, American football player
*
April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
–
Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician
*
April 6 –
Andy Hertzfeld, American computer programmer
*
April 9 –
John Howard, English singer-songwriter
*
April 10 –
Heiner Lauterbach, German actor
*
April 11
**
Guy Verhofstadt
Guy Maurice Marie Louise Verhofstadt (; ; born 11 April 1953) is a Belgian politician who was the leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe from 2009 to 2019, and has been a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Belgium ...
,
Prime Minister of Belgium
german: Premierminister von Belgien
, insignia = State Coat of Arms of Belgium.svg
, insigniasize = 100px
, insigniacaption = Coat of arms
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, flag = Government ...
**
Andrew Wiles, British-born mathematician
*
April 13
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1601–1900
*1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
–
Stephen Byers, English Labour Party politician, Secretary of State for Transport
*
April 14 –
Eric Tsang, Hong Kong actor
*
April 16
**
Peter Garrett, Australian musician, politician
**
J. Neil Schulman, American writer, activist
*
April 17 –
Linda Martin
Linda Martin (born 27 March 1952) is an Irish singer and television presenter. She is best known as the winner of the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest during which she represented Ireland with the song " Why Me?". She is also known within Irelan ...
, Irish singer, television presenter and
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...
1992 winner
*
April 18 –
Rick Moranis, Canadian actor
*
April 19 –
Ruby Wax, American-born British-based performer
*
April 20 –
Sebastian Faulks, British novelist
*
April 22 –
Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer
*
April 24 –
Eric Bogosian, American actor, playwright, monologist and novelist
*
April 25 –
Ron Clements, American animation director, producer
*
April 28
**
Roberto Bolaño, Chilean author (d.
2003
File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
)
**
Kim Gordon, American rock musician
*
April 29
**
Nikolai Budarin, Russian cosmonaut
**
Bill Drummond, South African-born British artist and musician (
The KLF,
K Foundation etc.)
*
April 30 –
Merrill Osmond, American pop singer
May
*
May 2
**
Valery Gergiev, Russian-Ossetian conductor
**
Jamaal Wilkes, American basketball player
*
May 3
**
Salman Hashimikov,
Soviet heavyweight
Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and professional wrestling.
Boxing Professional
Boxers who weigh over are considered heavyweights by 3 of the 4 major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the Wo ...
wrestler
**
Gary Young, American musician (
Pavement,
Gary Young's Hospital)
*
May 5
**
Ibrahim Zakzaky, Nigerian
Shia-Islam cleric
**
Dieter Zetsche
Dieter Zetsche (; born on 5 May 1953) is a German engineer and business executive. He is the chairman of TUI AG. He was the chairman of the board of management of Daimler AG and head of Mercedes-Benz until 22 May 2019, a role he had held since 200 ...
, German auto executive
*
May 6
**
Aleksandr Akimov, Soviet engineer who was the shift supervisor during the events of the
Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuc ...
(d.
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal ente ...
)
**
Tony Blair,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
**
Graeme Souness
Graeme James Souness (; born 6 May 1953) is a Scottish former professional football player and manager, and current TV pundit.
A midfielder, Souness was the captain of the successful Liverpool team of the early 1980s, player-manager of Ranger ...
, Scottish footballer, manager
**
Lynn Whitfield, African-American actress
*
May 7 –
Ian McKay, British soldier (
VC recipient) (d.
1982
Events January
* January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).
* January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
)
*
May 8
Events Pre-1600
* 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...
**
Billy Burnette, American musician
**
Alex Van Halen, Dutch-born American rock musician
*
May 11
Events 1601–1900
*1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
*1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
–
David Gest, American entertainer, producer and television personality (d.
2016
File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
)
*
May 14
**
Michael Hebranko
Michael John Hebranko Jr. (May 14, 1953 – July 25, 2013) was an American man who suffered from an extreme case of morbid obesity and was one of the heaviest men in the world.
Hebranko was born in Brooklyn to Michael Hebranko Sr. and Jeanette ...
, American exemplar of morbid/mortal obesity (d.
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...
)
**
Norodom Sihamoni
Norodom Sihamoni ( km, នរោត្តម សីហមុនី, ; born 14 May 1953) is King of Cambodia. He became King on 14 October 2004, a week after the abdication of his father, Norodom Sihanouk. He is the eldest son of Norodom Sihano ...
, King of Cambodia
*
May 15
**
George Brett, American Major League Baseball player
**
Mike Oldfield, English composer (''
Tubular Bells'')
*
May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
**
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan (; born 16 May 1953) is an Irish actor and film producer. He is best known as the fifth actor to play secret agent James Bond in the Bond film series, starring in four films from 1995 to 2002 (''GoldenEye'', ''Tomorrow ...
, Irish actor
**
Richard Page, American musician
*
May 17 –
Luca Prodan, Italian–Scottish musician and singer (d.
1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...
)
*
May 19 –
Victoria Wood, English comic performer (d.
2016
File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
)
*
May 20 –
Robert Doyle, Australian politician
*
May 21 –
Jim Devine, British politician
*
May 23 –
Agathe Uwilingiyimana, 4th Prime Minister of Rwanda (d.
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...
)
*
May 24
Events Pre-1600
* 919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.
* 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
* 1276 – Magnus La ...
–
Alfred Molina, English actor
*
May 26
**
Kay Hagan, American lawyer, banking executive and politician (d.
2019
File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
)
**
Michael Portillo, English politician
*
May 29
**
, Russian actor (d.
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
)
**
Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer and songwriter. He came to prominence as the singer-songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since the 1990s, Elfman has garnered internation ...
, American composer
*
May 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
–
Colm Meaney
Colm J. Meaney (; ga, Colm Ó Maonaigh; born 30 May 1953) is an Irish actor known for playing Miles O'Brien in '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (1987–1994) and '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993–1999). He has guest-starred on many T ...
, Irish actor
*
May 31 –
Kathie Sullivan, American singer
June
*
June 1
**
David Berkowitz, American serial killer
**
Diana Canova
Diana Canova (born June 1, 1953) is an American actress, director, and professor. She is best known for her role as Corinne Tate on '' Soap'' (1977-1980).
Early life
Canova was born Diane Canova Rivero in West Palm Beach, Florida, to actress ...
, American actress, adjunct professor
*
June 2
**
Keith Allen, British actor
**
Cornel West, African-American philosopher, political activist, social critic, author
*
June 3 –
Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, Dutch-born wrestler, opera singer and actor (d.
1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...
)
*
June 4
**
Paul De Meo, American screenwriter, producer (d.
2018
File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...
)
**
Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur
*
June 5
Events Pre-1600
*1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
*1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles II of Naples, Charles ...
–
Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer
*
June 7
**
Johnny Clegg, South African Zulu musician and anthropologist (d.
2019
File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
)
**
Dougie Donnelly
Douglas Donnelly (born 7 June 1953) is a Scottish television personality best known for presenting sports coverage.
Career
Donnelly was born in Glasgow, where he began his career with Radio Clyde in the 1970s, presenting the top-rated Mid Morn ...
, Scottish television broadcaster
*
June 8 –
Ivo Sanader, 8th
Prime Minister of Croatia
*
June 10 –
John Edwards, American politician
*
June 11
**
Peter Bergman, American actor
**
Barbara Minty
Barbara Minty (born June 11, 1953), also known as Barbara Minty McQueen, is a former fashion model who was the third wife and widow of American film star Steve McQueen.
Biography
Minty was born in Seattle, Washington, and spent several years growi ...
, American model
*
June 12 –
Michael Donovan, Canadian voice actor
*
June 13
**
Tim Allen, American actor, comedian (''
Home Improvement'')
**
Atso Almila Atso Almila (born 13 June 1953, in Helsinki 1) is a Finnish orchestral conductor, music director, composer, trombonist and teacher.
He has worked with most Finnish orchestras as a guest conductor or otherwise. Though he primarily operates in Finlan ...
, Finnish conductor, composer
*
June 14 –
Hana Laszlo, Israeli actress and comedian
*
June 15
**
Antonia Rados
Antonia Rados (born 15 June 1953 in Klagenfurt, Carinthia) is an Austrian television journalist working for RTL Television since 1993.
Nowadays a political scientist with a PhD, Rados began her career in 1978 at ORF. Working as a foreign correspo ...
, Austrian television journalist
**
Xi Jinping,
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party,
Paramount leader
Paramount leader () is an informal term for the most important political figure in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The paramount leader typically controls the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA), often hol ...
of China
*
June 20
Events Pre-1600
* 451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
* 1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting ...
–
Ulrich Mühe, German actor (d.
2007
File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...
)
*
June 21
Events Pre-1600
* 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
* 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...
–
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto ( ur, بینظیر بُھٹو; sd, بينظير ڀُٽو; Urdu ; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 t ...
,
Prime Minister of Pakistan (d.
2007
File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...
)
*
June 22
**
Wim Eijk, Dutch archbishop
**
Cyndi Lauper, American singer (''
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun'')
*
June 23
Events Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
* 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
* 1280 – The Spanish Re ...
**
Vincenzo Di Nicola, Italian-Canadian psychologist, psychiatrist and philosopher
*
June 24 –
Ivo Lill
Ivo Lill (24 June 1953 – 4 August 2019) was an Estonian glass artist.
Early life and education
Ivo Lill was born in Tallinn to Felix Lill and Asta Lill (''née'' Multer). His father was arrested by Soviet authorities and spent several years s ...
, Estonian artist
*
June 29
**
Don Dokken, American rock singer, musician
**
Colin Hay, Scottish-born Australian singer-songwriter (''
Men at Work'')
**
Ingo Kühl, German painter, sculptor and architect
July
*
July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
**
Pat Donovan
Patrick Emery Donovan (born July 1, 1953) is a former American football Tackle (gridiron football position), offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Stanford University. ''Spor ...
, American football offensive lineman
**
Lawrence Gonzi, 11th
Prime Minister of Malta
**
Jadranka Kosor, Croatian politician
**
Nasir Ali Mamun, Bengali portrait photographer
**
Sangay Ngedup, Prime Minister of Bhutan
*
July 2 –
Nacer Sandjak, Algerian footballer and manager
*
July 3
**
Lotta Sollander
Lotta Sollander (born 3 July 1953 in Frösön) is a Swedish former alpine skier, who competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics
The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport ...
, Swedish alpine skier
**
Les Strong, English association footballer
*
July 11
**
Angélica Aragón, Mexican actress
**
Leon Spinks, African-American boxer (d.
2021
File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...
)
*
July 12 –
Alessi Brothers, American pop rock singer-songwriter duo
*
July 15
**
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president. A proponent of liberation theology, Aristide was appointed to a parish in Port-au-Prince in ...
,
President of Haiti
The president of Haiti ( ht, Prezidan peyi Ayiti, french: Président d'Haïti), officially called the president of the Republic of Haiti (french: link=no, Président de la République d'Haïti, ht, link=no, Prezidan Repiblik Ayiti), is the head ...
**
Raisul Islam Asad, Bangladeshi actor
*
July 17 –
Nuria Bages, Mexican actress
*
July 19 –
Shōichi Nakagawa, Japanese politician (d.
2009
File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...
)
*
July 21
**
Jeff Fatt
Jeffrey Wayne Fatt, AM (born 21 July 1953) is an Australian musician and actor. He was a member of the children's group The Wiggles from its founding in 1991 to 2012, and was also in the 1980s and 1990s pop band The Cockroaches. He was the old ...
, Australian musician, former member of
The Wiggles
**
Sylvia Chang
Sylvia Chang (born 21 July 1953) is a Taiwanese actress, writer, singer, producer and director. In 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. In 2018, she was one of the jury members of the main competition ...
, Taiwanese actress
*
July 23 –
Najib Abdul Razak
Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak ( ms, محمد نجيب بن عبد الرزاق, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, ; born 23 July 1953) is a Malaysian politician who served as the 6th prime minister of Malaysi ...
, 6th
Prime Minister of Malaysia
*
July 24
**
Tadashi Kawamata, Japanese contemporary artist
**
Claire McCaskill, U.S. Senator
*
July 25 –
Tim Gunn
Timothy MacKenzie Gunn (born July 29, 1953) is an American author, academic, and television personality. He served on the faculty of Parsons School of Design from 1982 to 2007 and was chair of fashion design at the school from August 2000 to Mar ...
, American fashion expert
*
July 27 –
Yahoo Serious, Australian filmmaker
*
July 29
** Ken Burns, American documentary filmmaker
** Geddy Lee, Canadian rock musician (Rush (band), Rush)
* July 31
** Tōru Furuya, Japanese voice actor
** James Read, American actor
August
* August 1
** Robert Cray, American musician
** Steven Krasner, American sportswriter
* August 2 – Butch Patrick, American child actor and musician
* August 4 – Antonio Tajani, Italian politician, President of the European Parliament
*
August 5
** András Ligeti, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d.
2021
File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...
)
** Rick Mahler, American baseball player (d. 2005)
*
August 8 – Nigel Mansell, English 1992 Formula 1 world champion
* August 9 – Jean Tirole, French Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize-winning economist
* August 11 – Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
*
August 12
** Carlos Mesa, President of Bolivia
** Teddi Siddall, American actress (d.
2018
File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...
)
* August 14
** Cliff Johnson (game designer), Cliff Johnson, American game designer
** James Horner, American film composer (d. 2015)
*
August 15
** Wolfgang Hohlbein, German writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction
** Carol Thatcher, English television personality
** Sir Mark Thatcher, English businessman
* August 16 – Kathie Lee Gifford, American singer and actress
*
August 17 – Herta Müller, German Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize-winning writer
* August 18 – Louie Gohmert, American politician
* August 19 – Benoît Régent, French actor (d.
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...
)
*
August 20
** Peter Horton, American actor and director
** Mike Jackson (Texas politician), Mike Jackson, member of the Texas Senate
* August 21 – Géza Szőcs, Hungarian poet and politician
* August 24 – Ron Holloway, American tenor saxophonist
* August 26
** Edward Lowassa, 8th Prime Minister of Tanzania
** Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
* August 27 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian rock musician (Rush (band), Rush)
* August 29 – James Quesada, Nicaraguan-born anthropologist
* August 30 – Robert Parish, American basketball player
* August 31 – György Károly, Hungarian author (d.
2018
File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...
)
September
* September 2 – John Zorn, American musician
*
September 4 – Fatih Terim, Turkish footballer and manager
* September 8 – Stu Ungar, American poker player (d.
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
)
* September 10 – Amy Irving, American actress
* September 12
** Nan Goldin, American photographer
** Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer, artist and photographer (d. 2004)
* September 13 – Ann Dusenberry, American film actress
* September 19 – Probal Dasgupta, Indian linguist and Esperantist
* September 22 – Ségolène Royal, French politician
*
September 23
Events Pre-1600
* 38 – Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified.
* 1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat ...
– Alexey Maslov, commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces
* September 27 – Greg Ham, Australian rock musician (
Men at Work) (d. 2012)
* September 29 – Denis Potvin, Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player
October
* October 1
** Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete (d. 2011)
** Klaus Wowereit, German politician
* October 2 – Brandon Wilson (writer), Brandon Wilson, American author and explorer
* October 4 – Kerry Sherman, American actress
* October 7 – Tico Torres, American Drummer (Bon Jovi)
*
October 9 – Tony Shalhoub, American actor
*
October 10 – Midge Ure, Scottish musician, singer-songwriter and producer
*
October 12
** Les Dennis, British comedian and television presenter
** Serge Lepeltier, French politician
* October 14
** Greg Evigan, American actor
** Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, actress, writer
* October 15
** Tito Jackson, African-American singer and guitarist (The Jackson 5)
** Larry Miller (comedian), Larry Miller, American actor and comedian
* October 16 – Martha Smith, American model and actress
* October 21
** Keith Green, American-born Christian piano player (d.
1982
Events January
* January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).
* January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
)
** Peter Mandelson, British politician and member of the United Kingdom Labour Party, Labour Party
** Hugh Wolff, American orchestral conductor
*
October 22 – Loyiso Nongxa, South African mathematician
* October 24
** Christoph Daum, German footballer and manager
** Steven Hatfill, American physician, virologist and bio-weapons expert
** David Wright (British musician), David Wright, British composer and producer, co-founder of AD Music
* October 26 – Keith Strickland, American musician (The B-52's)
* October 27
** Paul Alcock, English football referee (d.
2018
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)
** Peter Firth, British actor
** Robert Picardo, American actor
* October 29 – Lorelei King, American-born actress
* October 31 – Michael J. Anderson, American actor
November
* November 1
**Darrell Issa, American businessman and Congressman
** Susan Tse, Hong Kong actress and opera singer
** Bruce Poliquin, American politician
* November 2 – Tom Lyle, American comics artist (d.
2019
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)
* November 3
**Koji Horaguchi, Japanese rugby union player (d. 1999)
** Dennis Miller, American comedian and radio host
** Kate Capshaw, American actress
* November 4
** Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
** Peter Lord, British film producer and director
** Van Stephenson, American singer-songwriter (d.
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
)
*
November 5 – Florentino V. Floro, Filipino dwarf judge
* November 7 – Ottfried Fischer, German actor and Kabarett artist
* November 8 – John Musker, American animation director
* November 11
** Andy Partridge, British musician and frontman of the band XTC
* November 13
** Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico (2018—present)
** Waswo X. Waswo, American photographer
** Diana Weston, Canadian-born English screen actress
** Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer (d. 1991)
* November 14 – Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France
* November 15 – Alexander O'Neal, American singer
* November 16 – Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, writer, actor and television presenter
* November 18
** Alan Moore, English writer and magician
** Kevin Nealon, American actor and comedian
** Kath Soucie, American actress and voice actress
* November 19
** Robert Beltran, American actor
** Tom Villard, American actor (d.
1994
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)
* November 23 – Francis Cabrel, French singer
* November 24
** Glenn Withrow, American actress
** Tod Machover, American composer
*
November 25 – Graham Eadie, Australian rugby league player
* November 27
** Steve Bannon, American political figure
** Boris Grebenshchikov, Soviet and Russian rock musician
** Curtis Armstrong, American actor
* November 28 – Pamela Hayden, American voice actress
*
November 29
Events Pre-1600
* 561 – Following the death of King Chlothar I at Compiègne, his four sons, Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I, divide the Frankish Kingdom.
* 618 – The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over t ...
**Alex Grey, American artist
** Vlado Kreslin, Slovenian singer
** Christine Pascal, French actress, director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
** Rosemary West, British serial killer
*
November 30 – June Pointer, American singer (The Pointer Sisters) (d. 2006)
December
*
December 2 – Joel Fuhrman, American certified family physician
*
December 6
**Geoff Hoon, British Labour Party politician
**Tom Hulce, American actor and theater producer
**Gary Ward (outfielder), Gary Ward, American baseball player
*
December 8
** Kim Basinger, American actress and fashion model
** Norman G. Finkelstein, American political scientist
** Sam Kinison, American comedian (d. 1992)
* December 9 – John Malkovich, American actor and film director
* December 13
** Ben Bernanke, American economist, Federal Reserve System chairman
** Bob Gainey, Canadian hockey player
* December 14 – Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician, 4th Minister for National Defence (Greece), Greek Minister for National Defence
*
December 17
** Ikue Mori, Japanese drummer, composer and graphic designer
** Bill Pullman, American actor
* December 18
** Kevin Beattie, English footballer (d.
2018
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)
** Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov, Chechen bard
* December 21 – András Schiff, Hungarian concert pianist and conductor
*
December 23
**
Nuria Bages, Mexican stage and television actress
** Marián Geišberg, Slovak actor (d.
2018
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)
** Martha Wash, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
*
December 24 – Timothy Carhart, American actor
* December 26
** Leonel Fernández, President of the Dominican Republic
** Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Estonian politician, 4th President of Estonia
* December 27 – Gina Lopez, Filipino environmentalist and philanthropist (d.
2019
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)
* December 28
** Richard Clayderman, French pianist
** Tatsumi Fujinami, Japanese professional wrestler
* December 29
** Thomas Bach, 9th President of the International Olympic Committee
** Stanley Williams, American reformed murderer (d. 2005)
* December 31 – James Remar, American actor
Date unknown
* Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, 6th President of Mauritania (d.
2017
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)
* Dan Petrescu (businessman), Dan Petrescu, Romanian businessman and billionaire
Deaths
January
*
January 1
** Maksim Purkayev, Soviet general (b. 1894)
** Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923)
* January 2 – Guccio Gucci, founder of Gucci (b. 1881)
*
January 4
Events Pre-1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
* 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army.
1601–1900
*1649 – Engli ...
** Arthur Hoyt, American actor (b. 1874)
** Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, Japanese prince (b. 1902)
*
January 5 – Mitchell Hepburn, Canadian politician, 11th Premier of Ontario (b. 1896)
* January 7
**Henry Diesen, Norwegian admiral (b. 1883)
**Martin and Osa Johnson, Osa Johnson, American adventurer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1894)
* January 8 – Charles Edward Merriam, American political scientist (b. 1874)
* January 9 – Madame le Corbeau (Marguerite Pitre), Canadian murderer (b. 1909) (hanged)
*
January 13
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
* 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...
– Edward Marsh (polymath), Sir Edward Marsh, English polymath and civil servant (b. 1872)
*
January 16
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
* 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...
– Israel Goldstine, New Zealand lawyer and politician (b. 1898)
*
January 21 – Mary Mannering, early 20th-century English stage actress (b. 1876)
*
January 28 – James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
*
January 29 – Reginald Wingate, Sir Reginald Wingate, British army general and colonial administrator (b. 1861)
* January 30 – Lionel Belmore, English actor (b. 1867)
February–March
*
February 1
Events Pre-1600
* 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
* 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Mon ...
– William Sydney Marchant, British colonial official (b. 1894)
*
February 2
Events Pre-1600
* 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of "Roman law".
* 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King ...
– Alan Curtis (American actor), Alan Curtis, American actor (b. 1909)
*
February 3
Events Pre-1600
* 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
*1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
*1488 – ...
– Richard Rushall, British businessman (b. 1865)
*
February 5
Events Pre-1600
* 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
– Iuliu Maniu, 32nd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1873)
*
February 9 – Cecil Hepworth, English director (b. 1874)
*
February 12 – Hal Colebatch, Australian politician (b. 1872)
* February 16 – James L. Kraft, Canadian-American entrepreneur, inventor (b. 1874)
*
February 19
Events Pre-1600
* 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
* 356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan ...
– Nobutake Kondō, Japanese admiral (b. 1886)
*
February 20
Events Pre-1600
*1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated.
*1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland ...
– Francesco Saverio Nitti, Italian economist and political figure, 24th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1868)
*
February 21 – Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen, Bavarian general (b. 1862)
* February 24 – Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)
*
February 25
Events Pre-1600
* 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.
* 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
...
– Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)
*
February 27
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
* 425 – The University of Constantinople ...
– Paul Hurst (actor), Paul Hurst, American actor (b. 1888)
* March 2 – Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner (b. 1882)
*
March 3 – James J. Jeffries, American boxing champion (b. 1875)
*
March 5
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
* 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern ...
** Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer and producer (b. 1897)
** Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet and Russian composer (b. 1891)
**
Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (b. 1878)
* March 7 – Edward Sedgwick, American director (b. 1892)
*
March 13 – Johan Laidoner, Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army (b. 1884)
*
March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
– Klement Gottwald, 5th List of presidents of Czechoslovakia, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1896)
*
March 15 – Carl Stockdale, American actor (b. 1874)
*
March 20 – Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian writer (b. 1892)
* March 21 – Toni Wolff, Swiss psychoanalyst (b. 1888)
* March 22 – Gustav Herglotz, German mathematician (b. 1881)
*
March 23
** Raoul Dufy, French painter (b. 1875)
** Oskar Luts, Estonian writer and playwright (b. 1887)
*
March 24
** Mary of Teck, consort of George V, George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
** Paul Couturier, French priest (b. 1881)
*
March 28 – Jim Thorpe, Native-American athlete and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1887)
* March 31 – Ivan Lebedeff, Russian actor (b. 1895)
April
*
April 2
** Jean Epstein, French film director (b. 1897)
** Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)
*
April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
** King Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)
** Rachilde, French author (b. 1860)
*
April 9
** Eddie Cochems, American father of the forward pass in football (b. 1877)
** Hans Reichenbach, German philosopher (b. 1891)
** Stanisław Wojciechowski, 2nd President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1869)
*
April 11
** Boris Kidrič, 1st Prime Minister of Slovenia (b.
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6 ...
)
** Kid Nichols, American baseball player (Boston Braves (baseball), Boston Braves) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1869)
* April 12 – Lionel Logue, Australian speech and language therapist (b. 1880)
*
April 13
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1601–1900
*1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
– Eduard C. Lindeman, American social worker and author (b. 1885)
*
April 20 – Erich Weinert, German writer, member of the Communist Party of Germany (b. 1890)
* April 27 – Maud Gonne, English-born Irish republican revolutionary, memoirist; spouse of John MacBride (b. 1866)
*
April 29 – Alice Prin, French artists' model (b. 1901)
May–June
* May 1 – Everett Shinn, American painter (b. 1876)
*
May 8
Events Pre-1600
* 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...
– Anna Rüling, German journalist, "the first known lesbian activist" (b. 1880)
*
May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
** Nicolae Rădescu, Romanian military officer and statesman, 45th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1874)
** Django Reinhardt, Belgian jazz musician (b. 1910)
*
May 19 – Dámaso Berenguer, Spanish soldier and Prime Minister (b. 1873)
*
May 21 – Ernst Zermelo, German logician and mathematician (b. 1871)
* May 27 – Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (Cleveland Spiders) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1868)
*
May 29 – Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
*
May 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
– Dooley Wilson, American actor (b. 1886)
*
May 31 – Vladimir Tatlin, Soviet and Russian painter and architect (b. 1885)
*
June 1 – Alex James (footballer), Alex James, Scottish football (soccer) player (b. 1901)
*
June 5
Events Pre-1600
*1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
*1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles II of Naples, Charles ...
** William Farnum, American actor (b. 1876)
** Bill Tilden, American tennis champion (b. 1893)
** Roland Young, English actor (b. 1887)
*
June 9 – Godfrey Tearle, American actor (b. 1884)
*
June 15 – Henry Scattergood, American cricketer (b. 1877)
*
June 18 – René Fonck, French aviator, top Allied World War I Flying Ace (b. 1894)
* June 19
** Harold Cazneaux, Australian photographer (b. 1878)
** Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communist spies (b. 1918 and 1915, respectively) (executed on same day)
** Norman Ross, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1896)
*
June 22 – Bill Lange (coach), Bill Lange, American sports coach (b. 1897)
*
June 23
Events Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
* 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
* 1280 – The Spanish Re ...
– Albert Gleizes, French artist and theoretician (b. 1881)
*
June 30 – Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator of children's books (b. 1874)
July
*
July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
– Totius (poet), Totius, Afrikaans poet (b. 1877)
*
July 9
Events Pre-1600
*118 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
* 381 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodos ...
– Annie Kenney, British working-class suffragette (b. 1879)
*
July 11 – Oliver Campbell, American tennis player (b. 1871)
*
July 12 – Herbert Rawlinson, English actor (b. 1885)
*
July 15 – John Christie (murderer), John Christie, English serial killer (b. 1899) (hanged)
* July 16 – Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (b. 1870)
*
July 17 – Maude Adams, American actress (b. 1872)
* July 20 – Dumarsais Estimé, 30th
President of Haiti
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(b. 1900)
*
July 26 – Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and Prime Minister of Greece, Prime Minister (b. 1883)
*
July 29 – Richard Pearse, New Zealand airplane pioneer (b. 1877)
* July 31 – Robert A. Taft, American politician, United States Senate Majority Leader (b. 1889)
August
* August 1 – Jānis Mendriks, Soviet Roman Catholic priest (b. 1907)
* August 11 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (b. 1892)
*
August 15 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
*
August 22 – Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
* August 30
** Gaetano Merola, Italian conductor (b. 1881)
** Maurice Nicoll, British psychiatrist (b. 1884)
September
* September 2 – Jonathan M. Wainwright (general), Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883)
*
September 5
** Richard Walther Darré, Nazi SS General (b. 1895)
** Francis Ford (actor), Francis Ford, American actor and director (b. 1881)
** Constantin Levaditi, Romanian physician and microbiologist (b. 1874)
*
September 7 – Nobuyuki Abe, Japanese Prime Minister and military leader (b. 1875)
* September 8 – Fred M. Vinson,
Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1890)
* September 12
** Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
** Lewis Stone, American actor (b. 1879)
* September 13 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (b. 1868)
* September 15 – Erich Mendelsohn, German architect (b. 1887)
* September 24 – Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (born 1878)
*
September 26 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
* September 27 – Hans Fritzsche, German Nazi senior official, one of only three acquitted at the Nuremberg trials (b. 1900)
* September 28 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
* September 30
** Robert Mawdesley, British stage and radio actor (b. 1900)
** Lewis Fry Richardson, English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist (b. 1881)
October
* October 3 – Arnold Bax, Sir Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1887)
*
October 6 – Porter Hall, American actor (b. 1888)
* October 8
** Nigel Bruce, British character actor (b. 1895)
** Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (b.
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6 ...
)
*
October 12 – Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Swedish politician, 13th Prime Minister of Sweden, one of the leaders of World War I (b. 1862)
* October 13 – Millard Mitchell, American actor (b. 1903)
* October 14 – Arthur Wimperis, English illustrator and playwright (b. 1874)
* October 20 – Robert Brooke-Popham, Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, British air chief marshal (b. 1878)
* October 25 – Holger Pedersen (linguist), Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867)
* October 27 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
November
*
November 5 – Harry A. Marmer, Ukrainian-born American mathematician and oceanographer (b. 1885)
* November 8
** Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
** John van Melle, Dutch-born author (b. 1883)
*
November 9
Events Pre-1600
* 694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
* 1277 – The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement f ...
** Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1859)
** King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1875)
** Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
* November 16 – T. F. O'Rahilly, Irish academic (b. 1882)
* November 18 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (b. 1901)
*
November 21
Events Pre-1600
*164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)
* 235 & ...
** António Cabreira, Portuguese polygraph (b. 1868)
** Larry Shields, American musician (b. 1893)
* November 22 – Sulaiman Nadvi, Indian/Pakistani historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (b. 1884)
* November 27 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
* November 28 – Rudolf Bauer (artist), Rudolf Bauer, German-born painter (b. 1889)
*
November 29
Events Pre-1600
* 561 – Following the death of King Chlothar I at Compiègne, his four sons, Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I, divide the Frankish Kingdom.
* 618 – The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over t ...
** Ernest Barnes, English mathematician, scientist and theologian (b. 1874)
** Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (b. 1875)
** Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895)
*
November 30 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
December
* December – Seth Weeks, African-American jazz mandolinist, composer, arranger and bandleader (b. 1868)
*
December 2
** Radu Băldescu, Romanian general (b. 1888)
** Trần Trọng Kim, Vietnamese historian and Prime Minister of the Empire of Vietnam (b. 1883)
* December 5
** Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1911)
** Ray Paddock, American farmer and politician (b. 1877)
* December 10 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (b. 1872)
* December 14 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American writer (b. 1896)
* December 19 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
* December 21 – Nicholas H. Heck, American geophysicist, oceanographer and surveyor (b. 1882)
*
December 23 –
Lavrentiy Beria, Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union), Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union (b. 1899)
*
December 25 – Lee Shubert, Polish-born theater owner and operator (b. 1871)
* December 27
** Şükrü Saracoğlu, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1887)
** Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894)
* December 31 – Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (b. 1889)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Frits Zernike
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Hermann Staudinger
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Winston Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – George Marshall
References
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