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January
*January 3
Events Pre-1600
*AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.
* 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, ...
announces that the United States
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has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
(Cuba–United States relations
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are restored in 2015
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).
** Aero Flight 311
Aero Flight 311, often referred to as the Kvevlax air disaster, was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Aero O/Y (now Finnair) between Kronoby and Vaasa in Finland. The aircraft, a Douglas DC-3, crashed in the municipality Kvevlax ( ...
(Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3
The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner
manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company, which had a lasting effect on the airline industry in the 1930s to 1940s and World War II.
It was developed as a larger, improved 14-bed sleeper version ...
C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero
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Aero, Ærø, or Aeros may refer to:
Aeronautics Airlines and companies
* Aero (P ...
crashes near Kvevlax
Kvevlax ( fi, Koivulahti) is a church village in the municipality of Korsholm, Finland. It is located approximately north of the city of Vaasa. Kvevlax became an independent parish in 1857. Until 1 January 1973 it was an independent municipalit ...
(Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport
Vaasa Airport ( fi, Vaasan lentoasema, sv, Vasa flygplats) is located in Vaasa, Finland, about south-east of Vaasa city centre. As of 2021, it is the 9th busiest airport in Finland with 19,231 passengers.
Regular airlines at Vaasa airport are ...
in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error
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: an investigation finds that the captain
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and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country.
* January 5
Events Pre-1600
*1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Duchy of Burgundy, Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1601–1900
*1675 – Battle of Turckh ...
** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti
Alfredo Adolfo Fioravanti (1886–1963) was an Italian sculptor, who was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", ...
marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors
The Etruscan terracotta warriors are three statues that resemble the work of the ancient Etruscans, but are in fact art forgery, art forgeries. The statues, created by Italian brothers Pio and Alfonso Riccardi and three of their six sons, were bou ...
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
.
** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel
Cemal Gürsel (; 13 October 1895 – 14 September 1966) was a Turkish army general who became the List of Presidents of Turkey, fourth President of Turkey after a coup.
Early life
He was born in the city of Erzurum as the son of an Ottoman A ...
forms the new government of Turkey
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(25th government).
* January 7
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting.
* 1325 – Alfonso IV ...
– Following a four-day conference in Casablanca
Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...
, five African chiefs of state announce plans for a NATO
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-type African organization to ensure common defense. The Charter of Casablanca involves the Casablanca Group
The Casablanca Group, sometimes known as the 'Casablanca bloc', was a short-lived, informal association of African states with a shared vision of the future of Africa and of Pan-Africanism in the early 1960s. The group was composed of seven states ...
: Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
, the United Arab Republic
The United Arab Republic (UAR; ar, الجمهورية العربية المتحدة, al-Jumhūrīyah al-'Arabīyah al-Muttaḥidah) was a sovereign state in the Middle East from 1958 until 1971. It was initially a political union between Eg ...
, Ghana
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, Guinea
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, and Mali
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.
* January 8
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
* 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...
– In France, a referendum
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supports Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...
's policies on independence for Algeria
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* January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
*1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
– British authorities announce they have uncovered a large Soviet
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spy ring
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, the Portland Spy Ring
The Portland Spy Ring was a Soviet Union, Soviet spy ring that operated in England from the late 1950s to 1961, when the core of the network was arrested by the British security services. It is one of the most famous examples of the use of reside ...
, in London.
* January 17
Events Pre-1600
* 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
** President Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, ...
gives his final State of the Union Address
The State of the Union Address (sometimes abbreviated to SOTU) is an annual message delivered by the president of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress near the beginning of each calendar year on the current conditio ...
to Congress. In a Farewell Address the same day, he warns of the increasing power of a "military–industrial complex
The expression military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a country's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy. A driving factor behind the r ...
."
** Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Émery Lumumba (; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June u ...
of the Republic of Congo
The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...
is assassinated.
* January 20
Events Pre-1600
* 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
* 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
* 1156 &ndas ...
– John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination i ...
is sworn in
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as the 35th President of the United States.
* January 24
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
* 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
*1438 – The Cou ...
– A B-52 Stratofortress
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, with two nuclear bomb
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s, crashes near Goldsboro, North Carolina
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.
* January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
** In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy
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delivers the first live presidential news conference
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. In it, he announces that the Soviet Union
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has freed the two surviving crewmen of a USAF
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RB-47
The Boeing B-47 Stratojet (Boeing company designation Model 450) is a retired American long-Range (aeronautics), range, six-engined, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic flight, subsonic speed and at high altitude ...
reconnaissance plane, shot down by Soviet flyers over the Barents Sea
The Barents Sea ( , also ; no, Barentshavet, ; russian: Баренцево море, Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territo ...
on 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 ...
, 1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Ja ...
(see RB-47H shot down).
** Acting to halt 'leftist excesses', a junta
Junta may refer to:
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* Junta (governing body) (from Spanish), the name of various historical and current governments and governing institutions, including civil ones
** Military junta, one form of junta, government led by ...
composed of two army officers and four civilians takes over El Salvador
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, ousting another junta that had ruled for three months.
* January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession o ...
– ''Supercar
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'', the first family sci-fi TV series filmed in Supermarionation
Supermarionation (a portmanteau of the words "super", "marionette" and " animation")La Rivière 2009, p. 67. is a style of television and film production employed by British company AP Films (later Century 21 Productions) in its puppet T ...
, debuts on ATV in the UK.
* January 30
Events Pre-1600
*1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
*1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
1601–1900
*1607 – An estimated ...
– President John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination i ...
delivers his first State of the Union Address
The State of the Union Address (sometimes abbreviated to SOTU) is an annual message delivered by the president of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress near the beginning of each calendar year on the current conditio ...
.
* January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
* 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the t ...
– Ham
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, a 37-pound (17-kg) male chimpanzee, is rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2
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, in a test of the Project Mercury
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spacecraft, designed to carry United States astronaut
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s into space.
February
*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 ...
– The United States tests its first Minuteman I
The LGM-30 Minuteman is an American land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in service with the Air Force Global Strike Command. , the LGM-30G Minuteman III version is the only land-based ICBM in service in the United States and re ...
intercontinental ballistic missile.
* February 4
Events Pre–1600
* 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...
– The Portuguese Colonial War
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begins in Angola
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* 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 ...
– 9 – In Congo, President Joseph Kasa-Vubu
Joseph Kasa-Vubu, alternatively Joseph Kasavubu, ( – 24 March 1969) was a Congolese politician who served as the first President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo) from 1960 until 1965.
A member of the Kong ...
names Joseph Iléo
Joseph Iléo (15 September 1921 – 19 September 1994), subsequently Zairianised as Sombo Amba Iléo, was a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was prime minister for two periods.
Early life
Joseph Iléo was born on 15 ...
as the new Prime Minister.
* February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
* 1539 – The first recorded race is hel ...
– The Beatles at The Cavern Club: Lunchtime – The Beatles
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perform under this name at The Cavern Club
The Cavern Club is a nightclub on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England.
The Cavern Club opened in 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the late 50s and early 1960s. The club became closely assoc ...
for the first time following their return to Liverpool
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from Hamburg
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, George Harrison
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's first appearance at the venue. On March 21 they begin regular performances here.
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– The USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
launches ''Venera 1
''Venera 1'' (russian: Венера-1 meaning ''Venus 1''), also known as Venera-1VA No.2 and occasionally in the West as ''Sputnik 8'' was the first spacecraft to fly past Venus, as part of the Soviet Union's Venera programme. Launched in Febru ...
'' towards Venus
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.
* February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
– The Congo government announces that villagers have killed Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Émery Lumumba (; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June u ...
.
* February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
– Discovery of the chemical elements
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: Element 103, Lawrencium
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, is first synthesized in Berkeley, California
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.
* February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
** United States President John F. Kennedy
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warns the Soviet Union
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to avoid interfering with the United Nations
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' pacification of the Congo.
** Sabena Flight 548
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crashes near Brussels
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, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating
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team and several coaches.
** The total solar eclipse of February 15, 1961
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, visible in the southern part of Europe, occurs.
* February 26
Events Pre-1600
*747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events.
* 364 – Valentinian I is p ...
– Hassan II Hassan, Hasan, Hassane, Haasana, Hassaan, Asan, Hassun, Hasun, Hassen, Hasson or Hasani may refer to:
People
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is pronounced King of Morocco
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.
March
*March
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–April
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April is commonly associated with ...
– Drilling for Project Mohole
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is undertaken off the coast of Guadalupe Island
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, Mexico.
* March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first Roman triumph, triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor ...
– United States President John F. Kennedy
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establishes the Peace Corps
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.
* March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
– Hassan II Hassan, Hasan, Hassane, Haasana, Hassaan, Asan, Hassun, Hasun, Hassen, Hasson or Hasani may refer to:
People
*Hassan (given name), Arabic given name and a list of people with that given name
*Hassan (surname), Arabic, Jewish, Irish, and Scottis ...
is crowned King of Morocco
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The present King of Moroc ...
.
* March 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''.
*1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.
* 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bour ...
** Max Conrad
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circumnavigates the earth in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record.
** The first U.S. Polaris
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submarine
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s arrive at Holy Loch
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The "Holy Loch" name is believed to date from the 6th century, when Saint Munn landed there afte ...
in Scotland.
* March 11
Events Pre-1600
* 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
* 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the venerati ...
– "Barbie
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...
" gets a boyfriend, when the "Ken
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* ''Ken'' (album), a 2017 album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer.
* ''Ken'' (film), 1964 Japanese film.
* ''Ken'' (magazine), a large-format political magazine.
* Ken Masters, a main character in ...
" doll is introduced in the United States.
* March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
*1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
*1591 – At the Battle of Tond ...
** Black and white £5 notes cease to be legal tender
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in the UK.
** 1961 Kurenivka mudslide
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: A dam bursts in Kiev
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, USSR
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, killing 145.
** United States delegate to the United Nations Security Council
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Adlai Stevenson votes against Portuguese policies in Africa.
** United States President John F. Kennedy
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proposes a long-term "Alliance for Progress
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", between the United States and Latin America.
** Cyprus
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joins the Commonwealth of Nations
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, becoming the first small country in the Commonwealth.
** Monash University
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in Melbourne, Australia takes in its first students.
** A second B-52
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crashes near Yuba City, California
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, after cabin pressure is lost and the fuel runs out. Two nuclear weapon
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s are found unexploded.
* March 15
Events Pre-1600
* 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
*44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
* 493 – Odoa ...
** South Africa announces it will withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations
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, upon becoming a republic (31 May). The nation rejoins the organization in 1994
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.
** The Union of Peoples of Angola
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, led by Holden Roberto
Álvaro Holden Roberto (January 12, 1923 – August 2, 2007) was an Angolan politician who founded and led the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) from 1962 to 1999. His memoirs are unfinished.
Early life
Roberto, son of Garcia Diasiwa ...
, attacks strategic locations in the north of Angola
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. These events result in the beginning of the colonial war with Portugal.
* March 18
Events Pre-1600
* 37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ''(aka Caligula = Little Boots)'' emperor.Tacitus, ''Annals'' V.10.
* 1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Ara ...
** A ceasefire
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takes effect in the Algerian War of Independence
The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November ...
.
** ''Nous les amoureux'' by Jean-Claude Pascal (music by Jacques Datin, text by Maurice Vidalin) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1961
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for Luxembourg
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.
* March 29
Events Pre-1600
* 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
* 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
– The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution
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is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C.
)
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to vote in presidential elections.
* March 30
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
* 1282 &ndas ...
– The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
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is signed at New York.
April
* April 5
Events Pre-1600
* 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
* 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...
– The New Guinea Council
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History
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of Western Papua is installed.
* April 8
Events Pre-1600
* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
*1139 – Ro ...
– British India Steam Navigation Company
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History
The ''Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company'' had been formed out of Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co, a trading partn ...
passenger ship ' blows up and sinks off Dubai; 238 passengers and crew are killed.
* April 11
Events Pre-1600
* 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
* 1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
* 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferra ...
– The trial of Nazi
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Adolf Eichmann
Otto Adolf Eichmann ( ,"Eichmann"
''
''
Jerusalem
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.
* April 12
Events Pre-1600
* 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
* 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted ...
** ''Vostok 1
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'': Soviet cosmonaut
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Yuri Gagarin
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becomes the first human in space, orbiting the Earth once before parachuting to the ground.
** Albert Kalonji
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Ear ...
takes the title ''Emperor Albert I Kalonji'' of South Kasai
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.
** Bernard Schwarz gets the patent for the body electrode.
* 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 ...
– In Portugal, a coup attempt against António de Oliveira Salazar
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fails.
* April 17
Events Pre-1600
*1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
*1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan ...
** The Bay of Pigs Invasion
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of Cuba
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begins; it fails by April 19
Events Pre-1600
*AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
* 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at ...
.
** The 33rd Academy Awards ceremony is held in Santa Monica, California
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: ''The Apartment
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'' (1960) wins most awards, including Best Picture
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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.
* April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
* 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...
– Portugal sends its first military reinforcement to Angola
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* April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
* 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
* 1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroy ...
– Fidel Castro
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announces that the Bay of Pigs Invasion
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has been defeated.
* April 22
Events Pre-1600
* 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
* 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
* 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern ...
– Algiers putsch
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: Four French generals who oppose de Gaulle
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's policies in Algeria
)
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fail in a coup attempt.
* April 23
Events Pre-1600
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
* 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...
– Judy Garland
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performs in a legendary comeback concert at Carnegie Hall
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in New York City.
* April 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
* 1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy m ...
– Swedish
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** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
warship
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'' Vasa'', sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628
Events
January–March
* January 19 – (26 Jumada al-Awwal 1037 A.H.) The reign of Salef-ud-din Muhammad Shahryar as the Mughal Emperor, Shahryar Mirza, comes to an end a little more than two months after the November 7 dea ...
, is recovered from Stockholm
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Harbor.
* April 27
Events Pre-1600
* 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''.
* 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
** President Kennedy
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* John Kennedy (Louisiana politician), (born 1951), US Senator from Louisiana
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urges newspapers to consider national interest in times of struggle against "a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy", in an address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association''.
** Sierra Leone
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becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
May
*May 4
Events Pre-1600
* 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''.
* 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are ...
– U.S. Freedom Riders
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begin interstate bus rides, to test the new U.S. Supreme Court
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integration
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*Path integration
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decision.
* May 5
Events Pre-1600
* 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
*1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
* 1260 – Ku ...
– Mercury program
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: Alan Shepard
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becomes the first American in space, aboard Mercury-Redstone 3
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.
* May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
*1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanis ...
– Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
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becomes the first team in the 20th century to win the English
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* English people
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* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
league and cup double. , this is the last time Tottenham have won the English League.
* 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 ...
– Briton George Blake
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is sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for spying.
* May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
*1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally rati ...
– In a speech on "Television and the Public Interest
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" to the National Association of Broadcasters
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, FCC
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chairman Newton N. Minow
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describes commercial television programming as a "vast wasteland".
* May 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
*1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
* 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forc ...
– Civil rights movement
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: A Freedom Riders
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bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama
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, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob
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of Ku Klux Klan
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members.
* May 15
Events Pre-1600
* 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty.
* 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbog ...
– J. Heinrich Matthaei
Johannes Heinrich Matthaei (born 4 May 1929) is a German biochemist. He is best known for his unique contribution to solving the genetic code on 15 May 1961.
Career
Whilst a post-doctoral visitor in the laboratory of Marshall Warren Nirenberg ...
alone performs the Poly-U-Experiment, and is the first person to recognize and understand the genetic code
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. This is the birthdate of modern genetics
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.
* 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 ...
– Park Chung-hee
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takes over in a military coup, in South Korea.
* May 19
Events
Pre-1600
* 639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace.
* 715 – Pope Gregory II is elected.
* 1051 – Henry I of France marries the Rus' princess, Anne of Kiev.
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– ''Venera 1
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'' becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus
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(however, the probe loses contact with Earth a month earlier, and does not send back any data).
* May 21
Events Pre-1600
* 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as ''Caesar (title), Caesar'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
* 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is Siege of Syracuse ...
– Civil rights movement
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: Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
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Governor John Patterson declares martial law
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in an attempt to restore order, after race riot
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s break out.
* May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
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– An earthquake
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rocks New South Wales.
* 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 ...
– Civil rights movement
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: Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions ''Morgan v. Virginia' ...
are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
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for "disturbing the peace", after disembarking from their bus.
* May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
– Apollo program: President Kennedy
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announces, before a special joint session of Congress, his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.
* May 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 &ndash ...
– Tunku Abdul Rahman
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, Prime Minister of Federation of Malaya, Malaya, holds a press conference in Singapore, announcing his idea to form the Federation of Malaysia, comprising Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo (Sabah).
* May 28 – Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This is later considered the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
* May 30 – Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, ruler of the Dominican Republic since 1930, is killed in an ambush.
* May 31
** In France, rebel generals Maurice Challe and Andre Zelelr are sentenced to 15 years in prison.
** South Africa becomes a republic, and officially leaves the Commonwealth of Nations
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.
** President John F. Kennedy
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and Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...
meet in Paris.
** S.L. Benfica, Benfica beats FC Barcelona, Barcelona 3–2 at Wankdorf Stadium, Bern and wins the 1960–61 European Cup (football).
June
* June 1 – Ethiopia experiences its most devastating earthquake of the 20th century, with a magnitude of 6.7. The town of Majete is destroyed, 45% of the houses in Karakore collapse, of the main road north of Karakore are damaged by landslides and fissures, and 5,000 inhabitants in the area are left homeless. * June 4 – Vienna summit:John F. Kennedy
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and Nikita Khrushchev meet during two days in Vienna. They discuss nuclear tests, disarmament and Germany.
* June 16 – Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev requests asylum in France, while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet.
* June 17
** A Paris-to-Strasbourg train derails near Vitry-le-François; 24 are killed, 109 injured.
** The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded, with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
* June 19 – The British protectorate ends in Kuwait and it becomes an emirate.
* June 22 – Moise Tshombe is released for lack of evidence of his connection to the murder of Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Émery Lumumba (; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June u ...
.
* June 23 – The Antarctic Treaty comes into effect.
* June 25 – Iraqi president Abd al-Karim Qasim announces his intention to annex newly independent Kuwait (such an annexation Gulf War, will occur in 1990).
* June 27 – Kuwait requests British help against the Iraqi threat; the United Kingdom sends in troops.
July
* July 4 – Soviet submarine K-19 suffers a reactor leak in the North Atlantic. * July 5 – The first Israeli rocket, ''Shavit 2'', is launched. * July 8 – A mine explosion in Czechoslovakia leaves 108 dead. * July 12 ** A Czechoslovakian Ilyushin Il-18 crashes while attempting to land atCasablanca
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, Morocco, killing all 72 people on board.
** Khadakwasla Dam, Two dams that supplied water to the City of Pune, India burst, causing death of more than 1000 residents.
* July 17 – Baseball legend Ty Cobb dies at the age of 74, at Emory University Hospital.
* July 21 – Mercury program
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: Gus Grissom, Virgil I. Grissom, piloting the Mercury-Redstone 4 spacecraft ''Liberty Bell 7'', becomes the second American to go into space (sub-orbital). After splashdown, the hatch prematurely opens, and the spacecraft sinks (it is recovered in 1999).
* July 25 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination i ...
gives a widely watched TV speech on the Berlin crisis, warning "we will not be driven out of Berlin." Kennedy urges Americans to build fallout shelters, setting off a four-month debate on civil defense.
* July 31
** At Fenway Park in Boston, the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game tie occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain (the only tie until 2002).
** Ireland submits the first application from a non-founding country to join the European Economic Community.
August
* August – The United States founds theAlliance for Progress
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.
* August 1 – The Six Flags Over Texas theme park officially opens to the public.
* August 6 – ''Vostok 2'': Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second human to orbit the Earth, and the first to be in outer space for more than one day.
* August 7 – ''Vostok 2'' lands in the Soviet Union.
* August 10 – The United Kingdom applies for membership in the European Economic Community.
* August 11 – An Solar eclipse of August 11, 1961, annular solar eclipse is visible from the Southern Ocean.
* August 13 – Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin, and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. On August 22 Ida Siekmann jumps from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to the West, becoming the List of deaths at the Berlin Wall, first of at least 138 people to die at the Wall.
* August 21 – Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison in Kenya.
* August 25 – João Goulart replaces Jânio Quadros as President of Brazil (he is ousted in 1964).
* August 30 – The Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness is signed at the United Nations in New York, coming into effect December 13, 1975.
September
* September 1 ** The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins, with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate. ** The first meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement is held. The Soviet Union resumes nuclear testing, escalating fears over the ongoing Berlin crisis. * September 7 – Tom and Jerry make a return with their first cartoon short since 1958, ''Switchin' Kitten''. The new creator, Gene Deitch, makes 12 more Tom and Jerry shorts through 1962. * September 10 – During the 1961 Italian Grand Prix, F1 Italian Grand Prix on the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, circuit of Monza, German Wolfgang von Trips, driving a Ferrari, crashes into a stand, killing 14 spectators and himself. * September 12 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded. * September 14 ** The new military government ofTurkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
sentences 15 members of the previous government to death.
** The Focolare Movement opens its first North American center in New York (state), New York.
* September 17
** Military rulers in Turkey
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hang former prime minister Adnan Menderes, together with the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Fatin Rüştü Zorlu and former Minister of Finance Hasan Polatkan.
** The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena (Pittsburgh), Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
* September 18 – United Nations
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Secretary-General of the United Nations, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in 1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash, an air crash, en route to Katanga Province, Katanga, Congo.
* September 21 – In France, the Organisation de l'armée secrète, OAS slips an anti-de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...
message into TV programming.
* September 24
** The old Deutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is returned to its newly rebuilt house, as the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
** In the U.S., the Walt Disney anthology television series, renamed ''Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color'', moves from ABC to NBC after seven years on the air, and begins telecasting its programs in color for the first time. Years later, after Disney's death, the still-on-the-air program will be renamed ''The Wonderful World of Disney''.
* September 28 – A 1961 Syrian coup d'état, military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic
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, the union between Egypt and Syria.
* September 30 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is formed to replace the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC).
October
* October 1 – Baseball player Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 61st home run in the last game of the season, against the Boston Red Sox, setting a new record for the longer baseball season. The record for the shorter season is still held by Babe Ruth. *October 5 – Breakfast at Tiffany's (film), ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (film) was theatrically released by Paramount Pictures, to critical and commercial success. * October 10 – A volcanic eruption on Tristan da Cunha causes the whole population to be evacuated to Britain, where they will remain until 1963. * October 12 – The death penalty is abolished in New Zealand. * October 17 – Paris massacre of 1961: French police in Paris attack about 30,000 protesting a curfew applied solely toAlgeria
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* October 18 – ''West Side Story (1961 film), West Side Story'' is released as a film in the United States.
* October 19 – The Arab League takes over protecting Kuwait; the last British troops leave.
* October 25 – The first edition of ''Private Eye'', the British satirical magazine, is published.
* October 26 – Cemal Gürsel
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becomes the fourth president of Turkey (his former title is head of state and government; he is elected as president by constitutional referendum).
* October 27
** An armistice begins in Katanga Province, Katanga, Congo.
** Mongolia and Mauritania join the United Nations
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.
** Confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie: A standoff between Soviet
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and American tanks in Berlin, Germany heightens Cold War tensions.
** Fahrettin Özdilek becomes the acting prime minister of Turkey.
* October 29
** GMA Network, DZBB-TV Channel 7, the Philippines' third TV station, is launched.
** Devrim, the first ever car designed and produced in Turkey
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, is released. The project has been completed in only 130 days almost from scratch, a period including decision on the project, research, design, development and production of four vehicles.
* October 30
** Nuclear weapons testing: The Soviet Union
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detonates a 58-megaton yield hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, over Novaya Zemlya (it remains the largest ever man-made explosion).
** The Note Crisis: The Soviet Union issues a diplomatic note to Finland, proposing military co-operation.
* October 31
** Hurricane Hattie devastates Belize City, Belize killing over 270. After the hurricane, the capital moves to the inland city of Belmopan.
** Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin Mausoleum.
November
* November 1 ** The Hungry generation Movement is launched in Calcutta, India. ** The Interstate Commerce Commission's federal order banning segregation at all interstate public facilities officially comes into effect. * November 2 – ''Kean (musical), Kean'' opens at Broadway Theater in New York City for 92 performances. * November 3 – The United Nations General Assembly unanimously elects Burmese diplomat U Thant to the position of acting Secretary-General of the United Nations, Secretary-General. * November 6 – The US government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith. * November 8 ** Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 crashes while attempting to land at Richmond, Virginia, killing 77 people on board. ** KVN, Russia's longest running TV show, airs for the first time on Soviet television. * November 9 – Robert Michael White, Robert White records a Flight airspeed record, world air speed record of , in an North American X-15, X-15. * November 10 – ''Catch-22'' by Joseph Heller is first published, in the US. * November 11 ** Congolese soldiers murder 13 ItalianUnited Nations
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pilots.
** Stalingrad is renamed Volgograd.
*November 14 – Yves Saint Laurent (brand), Yves Saint Laurent, a Luxury goods, luxury fashion brand of France, founded in Rue La Boetie, Paris.
* November 17 – Michael Rockefeller, son of Govenor of New York, New York Governor and later Vice President of the United States, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea.
* November 18 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy
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sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
* November 19 – Rebellion of the Pilots: A military uprising overthrows the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic.
* November 20 – İsmet İnönü of the Republican People's Party, CHP forms the new government of Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
(26th government, first coalition in Turkey, partner Justice Party (Turkey), AP).
* November 21 – The "La Ronde (restaurant), La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, the first revolving restaurant in the United States.
* November 24 – The World Food Programme (WFP) is formed as a temporary United Nations
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program.
* November 30 – The Soviet Union
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vetoes Kuwait's application for United Nations
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membership.
December
* December 1 – Netherlands New Guinea raises the new Morning Star flag, and changes its name to Republic of West Papua, West Papua. * December 2 – Cold War: In a nationally broadcast speech,Cuba
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n leader Fidel Castro
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announces he is a Marxist–Leninist, and that Cuba will adopt socialism.
* December 5 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy
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gives support to the Akosombo Dam, Volta Dam project in Ghana
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.
* December 9
** Tanganyika (1961–1964), Tanganyika gains independence as a Commonwealth realm, with Julius Nyerere as its first Prime Minister, with Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Tanganyika, and represented locally by the Governor-General of Tanganyika.
** 1961 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal/National Party of Australia, Country Coalition (Australia), Coalition Menzies Government (1949-66), Government is re-elected with a one-seat majority, narrowly defeating the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party led by Arthur Calwell. One of the closest election results in Australian history, such a result will not be replicated again 2016 Australian federal election, until 2016. Notably, former Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister Earle Page loses his seat, although he dies a few days later, never knowing the result.
* December 10 – The Soviet Union
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severs Soviet-Albanian Relations, diplomatic relations with Albania.
* December 11
** American involvement in the Vietnam War officially begins, as the first American helicopters arrive in Saigon, along with 400 U.S. personnel.
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* December 23 –
* January 2
** Gabrielle Carteris, American actress, and trade union leader
** Todd Haynes, American film director
*
*
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* April 1
** Susan Boyle, Scottish singer
** Kujira, Japanese voice actress
* April 2 – Christopher Meloni, American actor
* April 3
** Elizabeth Gracen, American beauty queen, actress and model
** Eddie Murphy, African-American actor and comedian
** Edward Highmore, English actor
*
* May 1 – Marilyn Milian, American judge
* May 2 – Steve James (snooker player), Steve James, English snooker player
* May 3
** Joe Murray (animator), Joe Murray, American animator
** David Vitter, U.S. Senator (R-LA)
*
* June 1
** Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player
** Dilipkumar Viraji Thakor, Indian politician
* June 2 – Dez Cadena, American musician
* June 3
** Lawrence Lessig, American academic and political activist
** Ed Wynne (guitarist), Ed Wynne, English musician (Ozric Tentacles)
* June 4
**El DeBarge, American urban singer; was member of American urban group DeBarge
**Sam Harris (singer), Sam Harris, American actor and pop musician
* June 5
** Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
** Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d. 2006)
** Rosie Kane, Member of Scottish Parliament
* June 6 – Tom Araya, Chilean-born rock musician (Slayer)
* June 8 – Katy Garbi, Greek singer
* June 9
** Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer and author
** Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer and playwright
* June 10
** Kim Deal, Kim and Kelley Deal, American musicians
** Maxi Priest, born Max Elliott, British reggae singer
* June 12 – Yuri Rozanov, Russian sports TV commentator (d. 2021)
* June 14 – Boy George, born George O'Dowd, British singer-songwriter and music producer
* June 15
** Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer
** Greg Kouri, Lebanese-Canadian investor, real estate businessman, and co-founder of Zip2
* June 17
** Muslimgauze, British ethnic electronica and experimental musician (d. 1999)
** Kōichi Yamadera, Japanese voice actor
* June 18
** Sakahoko Nobushige, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2019)
** Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player
** Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter
* June 19 – Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 2nd President of Nepal
* June 20 – Karin Enke, Karin Kania, German speed skater
* June 21
**Iztok Mlakar, Slovenian singer-songwriter and theatre actor
**Joko Widodo, 7th President of Indonesia
* June 23
** Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist
** David Leavitt, American novelist
* June 24
** Raja Yong Sofia, Malaysian aristocrat
** Lisa Bevill, American Christian musician
** Iain Glen, Scottish actor
** Curt Smith, British singer and keyboardist
* June 25
** Jamil Khir Baharom, Malaysian politician and former military officer
** Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, writer, director, and singer in Seona Dancing
* June 26 – Greg LeMond, American cyclist
* June 27
** Tim Whitnall, English playwright, screenwriter and actor
** Meera Syal, British-Indian comedian and actress
* June 28
** Jeff Malone, American basketball player
** Eliezer Melamed, Israeli rabbi
* June 29
** Greg Hetson, American rock guitarist
** Sharon Lawrence, American actress, singer and dancer
*
* August 1 – Danny Blind, Dutch footballer
* August 2 – Pete de Freitas, English musician and producer (d. 1989)
* August 3
** Art Porter Jr., American jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
** Molly Hagan, American actress
** Nick Harvey, English politician
* August 4
** Pumpuang Duangjan, Thai megastar singer and actress (d. 1992)
** Robin Carnahan, Secretary of State of Missouri
** Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
** Lauren Tom, American actress and voice artist
* August 5
** Mercedes Aráoz, 1st Vice President of Peru
** Janet McTeer, English actress
** Hishamuddin Hussein, Malaysian politician
* August 7
** Ileen Getz, American actress (d. 2005)
** Brian Conley, English actor, comedian, singer and presenter
** Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast
** Maggie Wheeler, American actress
* August 8
** The Edge, Irish rock guitarist (U2)
** Bruce Matthews (American football), Bruce Matthews, American football player
** Rikki Rockett, American rock drummer (Poison (American band), Poison)
* August 9
**Brad Gilbert, American tennis player
**John Key, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand
* August 10 – Beatrice Alda, American actress and filmmaker
* August 11
** Suniel Shetty, Indian actor, producer and entrepreneur
** Jukka Tapanimäki, Finnish game programmer (d. 2000)
* August 12 – Lawrence (musician), Lawrence, English musician
* August 13
** Mahesh Anand, Indian actor (d. 2019)
** Dawnn Lewis, American voice actress
** Koji Kondo, Japanese video game composer (Nintendo)
* August 14 – Susan Olsen, American actress
* August 15 – Suhasini Maniratnam, Indian actress
* August 16
** Elpidia Carrillo, Mexican-American actress
** Urara Takano, Japanese voice actress
* August 17 – Uwe Schmitt, German sprinter and hurdler (d. 1995)
* August 18
** Huw Edwards (journalist), Huw Edwards, BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist and presenter
** Bob Woodruff, American television journalist and activist
* August 19 – Tony Longo, American actor (d.
* September 1
** Bam Bam Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
** Boney James, American saxophonist, songwriter and record producer
* September 2
** Eugenio Derbez, Mexican actor, comedian and filmmaker
** Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
** Ron Wasserman, American composer
** Anthony Wong Chau Sang, Anthony Wong Chau-sang, Hong Kong actor
* September 3
** Andy Griffiths (author), Andy Griffiths, Australian author
** Iwan Fals, Indonesian singer-songwriter
** Yermi Kaplan, Israeli musician
* September 5 – Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist and composer
* September 6
** Bruce W. Smith, American animator, director and producer
** Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian rock musician and songwriter (A-ha)
* September 7 – Kevin Kennedy (actor), Kevin Kennedy, British actor
* September 11
** E.G. Daily, American actress, voice actress and singer
** Virginia Madsen, American actress
* September 12 – Mylène Farmer, Canadian singer and songwriter
* September 13 – Dave Mustaine, American metal singer, guitarist
* September 14 – Martina Gedeck, German actress
* September 15
** Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league player and coach
** Dan Marino, American football player
** Colin McFarlane, British actor and voice actor
** Lidia Yusupova, Chechen human-rights lawyer
* September 16 – Jen Tolley, American-Canadian actress and singer
* September 17 – Jim Cornette, American author and podcaster
* September 18 – James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (d. 2013)
* September 20 – Lisa Bloom, American lawyer
* September 22
** Bonnie Hunt, American actress, comedian, writer, director and television producer
** Catherine Oxenberg, American actress
* September 23
** Chi McBride, American actor
** William C. McCool, U.S. Navy Commander and astronaut (d. 2003)
* September 24
** Fiona Corke, Australian actress
** Michael Tavera, American composer
* September 25
** Heather Locklear, American actress
** Steve Scott (journalist), Steve Scott, British journalist and presenter
* September 26 – Wes Hopkins, American football player (d. 2018)
* September 27
** Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer
** Melissa Newman, American artist and singer
* September 28
** Yordanka Donkova, Bulgarian athlete
** Wayne Westner, South African golfer (d. 2017)
* September 29 – Julia Gillard, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
* September 30
** Crystal Bernard, American actress and singer
** Gary Coyne, Australian rugby league player
** Eric Stoltz, American actor and director
** Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress
* October 1
** Gary Ablett, Sr., Gary Ablett, Australian rules footballer
** Rico Constantino, American professional wrestler
** Michael Righeira, Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor
* October 3 – Ludger Stühlmeyer, German cantor, composer and musicologist
* October 4
** Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese manga artist (d. 2022)
** Philippe Russo, French singer
** Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
* October 5 – Matthew Kauffman, American journalist, George Polk Award winner
* October 6 – Mark Shasha, American artist, author and illustrator
* October 10 – Jodi Benson, American actress and singer
* October 11
** Amr Diab, Egyptian singer
** Steve Young, American football player
* October 12 – Diego García (runner), Diego García, Spanish long-distance athlete (d. 2001)
* October 13
** Rachel De Thame, English gardener and television presenter
** Doc Rivers, American basketball player and coach
* October 14 – Jim Burns, British science-fiction illustrator
* October 15 – Meera Sanyal, Indian banker (d. 2019)
* October 16
** Chris Doleman, American football player (d. 2020)
** Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (d. 1998)
** Paul Vaessen, English footballer (d. 2001)
** Randy Vasquez, American actor
** Kim Wayans, American actress, comedian, producer, writer and director
* October 18
** Wynton Marsalis, African-American trumpeter and composer
** Rick Moody, American writer
** Gladstone Small, Barbadian-English cricketer
* October 19 – Cliff Lyons, Australian rugby league player
* October 20
** Les Stroud, Canadian survival expert, filmmaker and musician
** Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
* October 22
** Todd Oldham, American designer
** Robert Torti, American actor and singer
* October 24 – Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist
* October 25
** Ward Burton, American NASCAR driver
** Pat Sharp, British radio DJ and host
** Chad Smith, American musician
* October 26 – Dylan McDermott, American actor
* October 29 – Randy Jackson (Jacksons singer), Randy Jackson, African-American pop singer (The Jackson 5)
* October 30 – Dmitry Muratov, Russian campaigning journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* October 31
** Alonzo Babers, American runner
** Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director
** Larry Mullen, Jr., Irish rock drummer (U2)
* November 1
** Anne Donovan, American basketball player and coach (d. 2018)
** Heng Swee Keat, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
* November 2
** Lisa de Cazotte, American soap opera producer (d. 2019)
** k.d. lang, Canadian singer and songwriter
* November 3 – David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon
* November 4
** Daron Hagen, American composer
** Dominic Heale, British journalist and newsreader
** Ralph Macchio, American actor
** Jeff Probst, American television personality
** Jerry Sadowitz, American-born British stand-up comic and card magician
** Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
* November 5 – Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (d. 2012)
* November 9
** Jill Dando, British journalist and television presenter (d. 1999)
** Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist
* November 12 – Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast
* November 14
** Ben Coleman (basketball), Ben Coleman, American basketball player (d. 2019)
** Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (d. 2007)
** D. B. Sweeney, American actor
* November 16
** Andrea Prodan, Scottish-Italian film actor, composer and musician
** Corinne Hermès, French singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1983 winner
* November 18
** Michael Hawley, American academic and artist (d. 2020)
** Steven Moffat, Scottish screenwriter
** Anthony Warlow, Australian singer
* November 19 – Meg Ryan, American actress and film director
* November 20 – Dave Watson, English footballer
* November 21 – Maria Kawamura, Japanese voice actress
* November 22
** Mariel Hemingway, American actress
** Stephen Hough, British-Australian pianist
** Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
* November 24 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist
* November 25 – Matthias Freihof, German television actor and director
November 27 Lieselotte Lauer, (child family name: Schröder) German company C. Lorenz AG, SEL (Standard Elektrik Lorenz) Reported missing since July 1992
* November 28 – Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer
* November 29
** Kim Delaney, American actress
** Tom Sizemore, American actor
* December 1 – Salahuddin Ayub, Malaysian politician
* December 3 – Marcelo Fromer, Brazilian guitarist
* December 4
** Rocky Dennis, American teenager who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia (d. 1978)
** Frank Reich, American football player
* December 5
** Alan Davies (footballer), Alan Davies, English-Welsh international footballer (d. 1992)
** Laura Flanders, British born American journalist
* December 6 - Colin Salmon, British actor
*December 8 – Ann Coulter, American author, conservative commentator and attorney
* December 9
** Beril Dedeoğlu, Turkish politician and academic (d. 2019)
** David Anthony Higgins, American actor
* December 10
** Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, Nepalese Buddhist (d. 1993)
** Nia Peeples, American actress
* December 12
** Daniel O'Donnell, Irish singer
** Sarah Sutton, British actress
* December 13
**Karen Witter, American actress and model
**Per Øystein Sørensen, Norwegian lead singer Fra Lippo Lippi
* December 15 – Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist and politician
* December 16
** Bill Hicks, American comedian (d.
*
* February 2 – Anna May Wong, Chinese-American actress (b. 1905)
* February 3 – William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, Viscount Dunrossil, Australian Governor-General (b. 1893)
*
*
* April 2 – Wallingford Riegger, American music composer (b. 1885)
* April 3 – Eliseo Mouriño, Argentine footballer (b. 1927)
* April 6 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870)
* April 7
** Vanessa Bell, English artist and interior designer (b. 1879)
** Jesús Guridi, Spanish Basque composer (b. 1886)
** Marian Driscoll Jordan, American actress and radio personality (b. 1898)
* April 9 – Ahmet Zog/Zog I of Albania, Zog I, Skanderberg III, Albanian political leader, 11th Prime Minister of Albania, 7th President of Albania and King of Albania (b. 1895)
* April 10 – John Hope Simpson, Sir John Hope Simpson, British politician (b. 1868)
*
* May 3
** Lajos Dinnyés, 41st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1901)
** Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher (b. 1908)
*
* June – Constantin Constantinescu-Claps, Romanian general (b. 1884)
* June 6 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
* June 9 – Camille Guérin, French bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872)
* June 14 – Eddie Polo, Austrian-American actor (b. 1875)
* June 16 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
* June 17
** Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
** Thomas Darden, American Rear admiral (United States), Rear admiral, 37th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1900)
* June 18 – Eddie Gaedel, American with dwarfism (b. 1925)
* June 19 – Richard Ernest William Turner, Sir Richard Turner, Canadian general, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1871)
* June 23 – Nikolai Malko, Soviet conductor (b. 1883)
* June 24
** William J. Connors, American politician (b. 1891)
** George Washington Vanderbilt III, American philanthropist (b. 1914)
* June 25 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and pilot (b. 1886)
* June 27
** Paul Guilfoyle (actor, born 1902), Paul Guilfoyle, American actor (b. 1902)
** Mukhtar Auezov, Kazakh writer (b. 1897)
* June 30 – Lee de Forest, American inventor (b. 1873)
*
* August 1 – Domingo Pérez Cáceres, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1892)
* August 4
** Zoltán Tildy, 39th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1889)
** Maurice Tourneur, French film director (b. 1873)
* August 5 – Sidney Holland, New Zealand politician, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1893)
* August 8 – Mei Lanfang, Beijing opera star (b. 1894)
* August 9 – Walter Bedell Smith, American general and diplomat (b. 1895)
* August 11 – William Jackson (gangster), William Jackson, American gangster (b. 1920)
* August 14
** Henri Breuil, French priest, archaeologist, anthropologist and ethnologist (b. 1877)
** Clark Ashton Smith, American writer and sculptor (b. 1893)
* August 20 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
* August 23 – Beals Wright, American tennis player (b. 1879)
* August 26
** Howard P. Robertson, American physicist (b. 1903)
** Gail Russell, American actress (b. 1924)
* August 30
** Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
** Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician and mining engineer (b. 1894)
* September 1 – Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1910)
* September 3
** Richard Mason (explorer), Richard Mason, British explorer (b. 1934)
* September 4 – Charles D.B. King, President of Liberia from 1920 to 1930 (b. 1875)
* September 7 – Pieter Gerbrandy, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1940 to 1945 (b. 1885)
* September 16
** Percy Chapman, English cricketer (b. 1900)
** Hasan Fehmi (Ataç), Hasan Fehmi, Turkish politician (b. 1879)
* September 17
** Miguel Gómez Bao, Spanish-born Argentine actor (b. 1894)
** Adnan Menderes, Turkish statesman, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (executed) (b. 1899)
* September 18
** Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat, politician and author, 2nd Secretary General of the United Nations, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905)
* September 21 – Georgia Ann Robinson, community worker and first African Americans, African American woman to be appointed a Los Angeles police officer (b. 1879)
* September 22 – Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)
* September 23 – Elmer Diktonius, Finnish poet and composer (b. 1896)
* September 24 – Sumner Welles, American diplomat (b. 1892)
* September 25 – Frank Fay (American actor), Frank Fay, American vaudeville comedian and film and stage actor (b. 1891)
* September 26
** Robert L. Eichelberger, American general (b. 1886)
** Juanita Hansen, American actress (b. 1895)
* September 27 – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), American poet and novelist (b. 1886)
* October 1 – Donald Cook (actor), Donald Cook, American actor (b. 1901)
* October 2 – Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (b. 1881)
* October 4 – Max Weber (artist), Max Weber, Polish-American artist (b. 1881)
* October 6 – J. Reuben Clark, American politician and Mormon leader (b. 1871)
* October 11
** Lucy Tayiah Eads, Kaw tribal chief (b. 1888)
** Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
* October 13
** Louis Rwagasore, 2nd Prime Minister of Burundi (assassinated) (b. 1932)
** Maya Deren, Russian-born American filmmaker (b. 1917)
** Zoltán Korda, Hungarian screenwriter and director (b. 1895)
** Dun Karm Psaila, Maltese writer (b. 1871)
* October 14
** Paul Ramadier, French politician, 63rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1888)
** Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876)
* October 19
** Şemsettin Günaltay, Turkish historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1883)
** Sergio Osmeña, Filipino politician, 4th President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
* October 21 – Karl Korsch, German Marxist theoretician (b. 1886)
* October 22
** Joseph M. Schenck, Russian-born film studio executive (b. 1878)
** Aloys Van de Vyvere, 25th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1871)
* October 26 – Milan Stojadinović, 12th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1888)
* October 30 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of Italy (b. 1874)
* October 31 – Augustus John, Welsh painter (b. 1878)
* November 1 – Mordecai Ham, American evangelist (b. 1877)
* November 2
** James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)
** Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, 12th Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894)
* November 3 – Thomas Flynn (bishop of Lancaster), Thomas Flynn, British Roman Catholic prelate and reverend (b. 1880)
* November 9 – Ferdinand Bie, Norwegian Olympic athlete (b. 1888)
* November 15
** Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
** Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch plant pathologist (b. 1883)
* November 16 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1882)
* November 22 – Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, Cuban politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Cuba, leader of World War II (b. 1899)
* November 24 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress, novelist and aviator (b. 1892)
* November 25 – Adelina de Lara, British composer (b. 1872)
* November 30 – Anna Gould, American heiress and socialite, daughter of financier Jay Gould (b. 1875)
* December 2 – Dulcie Mary Pillers, English medical illustrator (b. 1891)
* December 3 – Pat O'Hara Wood, Australian tennis player (b. 1891)
* December 6 – Frantz Fanon, Caribbean philosopher (b. 1925)
* December 7 – Herbert Pitman, British sailor, third officer of the (b. 1877)
* December 10 – Elwyn Welch, New Zealand farmer, ornithologist, conservationist and Open Brethren missionary (b. 1925)
* December 13 – Anna Mary Robertson Moses aka Grandma Moses, American naïve painter (b. 1860)
* December 15 – Gioacchino Failla, Italian-born American physicist (b. 1891)
* December 20
** Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904)
** Earle Page, Sir Earle Page, Australian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
* December 23
** Kurt Meyer, German ''Generalmajor der Waffen-SS'' and war criminal (b. 1910)
** Fanny Schoonheyt, Dutch Communist Lieutenant in the Spanish Civil War. (b. 1912)
* December 25 – Otto Loewi, German-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
* December 27 – Bernard McConville, American screenwriter (b. 1887)
* December 28 – Edith Wilson, First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 (b. 1872)
* December 29
** Anton Flettner, German aviation engineer and inventor (b. 1885)
** Sibyl Morrison, first female barrister in New South Wales, Australia (b. 1895)
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* December 30 – Congolese troops capture Albert Kalonji
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* December 31 – Ireland's first national television station, ''Telefís Éireann'' (later Raidió Teilifís Éireann), begins broadcasting.
Births
January
* January 2
** Gabrielle Carteris, American actress, and trade union leader
** Todd Haynes, American film director
* January 7
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting.
* 1325 – Alfonso IV ...
– Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
* January 8
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
* 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...
– Calvin Smith, American athlete
* January 11
** Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish rally driver (d. 1989)
** Karl von Habsburg, Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Austrian politician, noble
* January 13 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress, producer and comedian
* January 14
** Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (d. 1996)
** Mike Tramp, Danish rock singer (''White Lion'')
* January 17
Events Pre-1600
* 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
– Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian chess player
* January 18
** Peter Beardsley, English footballer
** Mark Messier, Canadian hockey player
* January 22
** Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter, musician and artist (d. 2019)
** Shigeru Nakahara, Japanese voice actor
* January 24
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
* 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
*1438 – The Cou ...
– Guido Buchwald, German footballer
* January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
– Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician
* January 26 – Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player
* January 27 – Saifuddin Abdullah, Malaysian politician
* January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession o ...
– Arnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic writer
* January 29 – Petra Thümer, German swimmer
February
* 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 ...
– Volker Fried, German field hockey player
* February 3 – Jim Balsillie, Canadian CEO and philanthropist
* February 4
Events Pre–1600
* 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...
** Aleksandr Nikitin (footballer), Aleksandr Nikitin, Russian football coach and player (d. 2021)
** Denis Cyr, Canadian-American ice hockey player and politician
* 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 ...
– Flordelis, Brazilian pastor, singer and politician
* February 6 – Yuko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
* February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
* 1539 – The first recorded race is hel ...
– Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor
* February 11 – Mary Docter, American speed skater
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– David Graeber, American anthropologist, anarchist activist and author (d. 2020)
* February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
– Henry Rollins, American musician and activist
* February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
– Maria do Carmo Silveira, Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe
* February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
– Benoît Chamoux, French alpinist (d. 1995)
* February 16 – Niko Nirvi, Finnish journalist
* February 17
** Meir Kessler, Israeli rabbi
** Andrey Korotayev, Russian anthropologist, economic historian and sociologist
* February 18 – Hironobu Kageyama, Japanese singer
* February 19 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (d. 1998)
* February 20
** Dwayne McDuffie, American writer of comics and television (d. 2011)
** Phil Powers (climber), Phil Powers, American alpinist
** Imogen Stubbs, British actress and playwright
* February 21
** Christopher Atkins, American actor
** Abhijit Banerjee, Indian-born economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
** Geoff Moore, American Christian musician
* February 22 – Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
* February 27 – James Worthy, American basketball player and analyst
* February 28 – Richard Waugh (actor), Richard Waugh, Canadian voice actor
March
* March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
** Milorad Mandić, Serbian actor (d. 2016)
** Mary Page Keller, American actress
** John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer
* March 4
** Ray Mancini, American boxer
** Roger Wessels, South African golfer
* March 5 – Charles Poliquin, Canadian strength coach
* March 9
** Mike Leach (American football coach), Mike Leach, American college football coach
** Rick Steiner, American professional wrestler
* March 10
** Mike Bullard (ice hockey), Mike Bullard, American hockey player
** Laurel Clark, American astronaut (d. 2003)
** Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast
* March 11
Events Pre-1600
* 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
* 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the venerati ...
– Elias Koteas, Canadian film and television actor
*March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
*1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
*1591 – At the Battle of Tond ...
- Vasily Ignatenko, Soviet firefighter at the Chernobyl disaster (d. 1986)
*March 14
** Kim Boyce, American Christian musician
** Gary Dell'Abate, American radio producer
** Marc Koska, English businessman and inventor
** Hiro Matsushita, Japanese Businessman and Former Racing driver
* March 16
** Brett Kenny, Australian rugby league player
** Todd McFarlane, Canadian comic book creator and entrepreneur
** Michiru Ōshima, Japanese composer
* March 17
** Umayya Abu-Hanna, Palestine-born Finnish writer and politician
** Alexander Bard, Swedish musician (Army of Lovers)
** Sam Bowie, American basketball player
** Dana Reeve, American actress, singer and activist (d. 2006)
** Casey Siemaszko, American actor
* March 21
** Kassie DePaiva, American actress
** Lothar Matthäus, German footballer
* March 22
** Simon Furman, British comic book writer
* March 23
** Norrie McCathie, Scottish footballer (d. 1996)
** Ali Hewson, Irish activist and businesswoman
** Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster
* March 24
** Mitsuru Ogata, Japanese voice actor
** Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist, Greek Finance Minister
* March 25
** Reggie Fils-Aimé, American businessman
** Vitalijus Satkevičius, Lithuanian politician
* March 26 – William Hague, former UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Foreign Secretary and former Leader of the UK Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party
* March 27 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
* March 28 – Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach
* March 29
Events Pre-1600
* 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
* 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
** Amy Sedaris, American actress, comedian and writer
** Gerardo Teissonniere, Puerto Rican pianist
* March 30
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
* 1282 &ndas ...
– Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999)
* March 31 – Gary Winick, American filmmaker (d. 2011)
April
* April 1
** Susan Boyle, Scottish singer
** Kujira, Japanese voice actress
* April 2 – Christopher Meloni, American actor
* April 3
** Elizabeth Gracen, American beauty queen, actress and model
** Eddie Murphy, African-American actor and comedian
** Edward Highmore, English actor
* April 5
Events Pre-1600
* 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
* 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...
– Lisa Zane, American actress
* April 6 – Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (d. 2000)
* April 7
** DONDI, American graffiti artist (d. 1998)
** Thurl Bailey, American basketball player
* April 9
** Mick Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 2019)
** April Boy Regino, Filipino musician (d. 2020)
* April 10 – Rudy Dhaenens, Belgian road bicycle racer (d. 1998)
* April 11
Events Pre-1600
* 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
* 1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
* 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferra ...
– Vincent Gallo, American actor
* April 12
Events Pre-1600
* 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
* 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted ...
– Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician
* April 14
** Robert Carlyle, Scottish film and television actor
** Neil Dougherty, American basketball coach (d. 2011)
** Humberto Martins, Brazilian actor
* April 17
Events Pre-1600
*1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
*1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan ...
** Igor Lavrinenko, Belarusian politician (d. 2021)
** Frank J. Christensen, American labor leader
** Boomer Esiason, American football player and color commentator
** Greg Gianforte, U.S. Representative from Montana's at large district
** Daphna Kastner, Canadian actress
* April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
* 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...
– Jane Leeves, English actress
* April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
* 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
* 1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroy ...
** Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
** Don Mattingly, American baseball player
* April 21
** John Jairo Arias Tascón 'Pinina', Colombian criminal (d. 1990)
** Cathy Cavadini, American voice actress
* April 22
Events Pre-1600
* 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
* 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
* 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern ...
– Alo Mattiisen, Estonian musician and composer (d. 1996)
* April 23
Events Pre-1600
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
* 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...
** Dirk Bach, German actor and comedian (d. 2012)
** George Lopez, American actor and comedian
* April 26
** Mike Francis, Italian singer and composer (d. 2009)
** Anthony Cumia, American radio personality
* April 27
Events Pre-1600
* 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''.
* 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
– Moana Pozzi, Italian pornographic actress, television personality and politician (d. 1994
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* April 28 – Futoshi Matsunaga, Japanese serial killer
* April 29 – Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese voice actor
* April 30 – Isiah Thomas, African-American basketball player, coach and team owner
May
* May 1 – Marilyn Milian, American judge
* May 2 – Steve James (snooker player), Steve James, English snooker player
* May 3
** Joe Murray (animator), Joe Murray, American animator
** David Vitter, U.S. Senator (R-LA)
* May 4
Events Pre-1600
* 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''.
* 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are ...
** Jay Aston, British singer (Bucks Fizz (band), Bucks Fizz)
** Mary Elizabeth McDonough, American actress, producer, director and author
* May 5
Events Pre-1600
* 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
*1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
* 1260 – Ku ...
– Hiroshi Hase, Japanese professional wrestler
* May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
*1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanis ...
** George Clooney, American actor
** Wally Wingert, American actor and voice actor
** Frans Timmermans, Dutch politician and European Commissioner
* May 7 – Robert Spano, American conductor and pianist
* 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 ...
** Akira Taue, Japanese professional wrestler
* May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
*1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally rati ...
** Rene Capo, American judoka (d. 2009)
** John Corbett, American actor and country music singer
* May 10 – Danny Carey, American drummer (Tool (band), Tool, Pigmy Love Circus)
* May 11
** Paul Begala, American political commentator
** Lar Park Lincoln, American actress
* May 12 – Billy Duffy, British guitarist (The Cult)
* May 13 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
* May 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
*1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
* 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forc ...
** Urban Priol, German Kabarett artist and comedian
** Tim Roth, English actor and director
*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 ...
** Solveig Dommartin, French actress (d. 2007)
** Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor, voice actor and comedian
** Charles Wright (wrestler), Charles Wright, American professional wrestler
* May 17 – Enya, Irish musician
* May 18 – Jim Bowden (baseball), Jim Bowden, American baseball executive
* May 20 – Clive Allen, British footballer
* May 21
Events Pre-1600
* 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as ''Caesar (title), Caesar'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
* 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is Siege of Syracuse ...
– Brent Briscoe, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2017)
* May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
* 11 ...
** Mike Breen, American sports announcer
** Ann Cusack, American actress
* May 23
** Mitar Subotić, Serbian musician and composer (d. 1999)
** Karen Duffy, American actress
* 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 ...
– Ilaria Alpi, Italian journalist (d. 1994
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* May 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 &ndash ...
– Peri Gilpin, American actress
* May 28 – Roland Gift, British singer and musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
* May 29 – Melissa Etheridge, American musician
* May 30
** Ralph Carter, American actor
** Harry Enfield, English comedian, actor, writer and director
* May 31
** Ray Cote, Canadian ice hockey player
** Lea Thompson, American actress
June
* June 1
** Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player
** Dilipkumar Viraji Thakor, Indian politician
* June 2 – Dez Cadena, American musician
* June 3
** Lawrence Lessig, American academic and political activist
** Ed Wynne (guitarist), Ed Wynne, English musician (Ozric Tentacles)
* June 4
**El DeBarge, American urban singer; was member of American urban group DeBarge
**Sam Harris (singer), Sam Harris, American actor and pop musician
* June 5
** Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
** Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d. 2006)
** Rosie Kane, Member of Scottish Parliament
* June 6 – Tom Araya, Chilean-born rock musician (Slayer)
* June 8 – Katy Garbi, Greek singer
* June 9
** Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer and author
** Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer and playwright
* June 10
** Kim Deal, Kim and Kelley Deal, American musicians
** Maxi Priest, born Max Elliott, British reggae singer
* June 12 – Yuri Rozanov, Russian sports TV commentator (d. 2021)
* June 14 – Boy George, born George O'Dowd, British singer-songwriter and music producer
* June 15
** Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer
** Greg Kouri, Lebanese-Canadian investor, real estate businessman, and co-founder of Zip2
* June 17
** Muslimgauze, British ethnic electronica and experimental musician (d. 1999)
** Kōichi Yamadera, Japanese voice actor
* June 18
** Sakahoko Nobushige, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2019)
** Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player
** Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter
* June 19 – Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 2nd President of Nepal
* June 20 – Karin Enke, Karin Kania, German speed skater
* June 21
**Iztok Mlakar, Slovenian singer-songwriter and theatre actor
**Joko Widodo, 7th President of Indonesia
* June 23
** Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist
** David Leavitt, American novelist
* June 24
** Raja Yong Sofia, Malaysian aristocrat
** Lisa Bevill, American Christian musician
** Iain Glen, Scottish actor
** Curt Smith, British singer and keyboardist
* June 25
** Jamil Khir Baharom, Malaysian politician and former military officer
** Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, writer, director, and singer in Seona Dancing
* June 26 – Greg LeMond, American cyclist
* June 27
** Tim Whitnall, English playwright, screenwriter and actor
** Meera Syal, British-Indian comedian and actress
* June 28
** Jeff Malone, American basketball player
** Eliezer Melamed, Israeli rabbi
* June 29
** Greg Hetson, American rock guitarist
** Sharon Lawrence, American actress, singer and dancer
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 ...
** Diana, Princess of Wales, born The Hon. Diana Spencer, English princess consort as first wife of Charles III of the United Kingdom, Charles, Prince of Wales (d. 1997)
** Vito Bratta, American rock guitarist
** Ivan Kaye, English actor
** Jefferson King, British bodybuilder and wrestler
** Carl Lewis, American athlete
** Fredy Schmidtke, German track cyclist (d. 2017)
** Michelle Wright, Canadian country music artist
* July 2
** Tetchie Agbayani, Filipina actress
** Jimmy McNichol, American child actor
** Samy Naceri, French actor
** Ram Chiang, Hong Kong actor and singer-composer
* July 3
** Tatiana Aleshina, Russian composer, singer-songwriter, theater artist and poet
** Mosi Alli, Tanzanian sprinter
** Suzanne Dando, English Olympic gymnast
** Joe Moreira, Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and mixed martial artist
* July 4
** Charles Hector, Malaysian human rights advocate and activist
** Andrew Zimmern, American television personality (Bizarre Foods)
* July 5 – Patrizia Scianca, Italian voice actress
* July 6
** Richard Mofe-Damijo, Nigerian actor
** Rick Price, Australian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer
* July 7
** Peter Michael Escovedo, American percussionist and musical director
** Eric Jerome Dickey, American writer
* July 8
** Toby Keith, American country music singer
** Andy Fletcher (musician), Andy Fletcher, English musician. (d. 2022)
** Olaf Johannessen (actor), Olaf Johannessen, Faroese stage and actor
* July 9 – Raymond Cruz, American actor
* July 10
** Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
** Lee Heung-sil, South Korean footballer
** Liyel Imoke, Nigerian politician
** Killion Munyama, Zambian-Polish economist, academic lecturer and politician
* July 11
** João Donizeti Silvestre, Brazilian businessman, historian, biologist and politician
** Ron Luce, American writer
** Ophir Pines-Paz, Israeli politician
** Sylvester Tung Kiem San, Indonesian bishop
* July 12 – Mark McGann, English actor, director, writer and musician
* July 13 – Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer
* July 14 – Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
* July 15
** Forest Whitaker, African-American actor and film director
** David Cicilline, American politician
* July 16
** Li Ruiying, Chinese media personality and politician
** Copycat (software)#External links, J. Alan Brogan, Irish programmer
* July 17
** António Costa, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal, 119th Prime Minister (2015–present)
** Jeremy Hardy, English comedian (d. 2019)
** Guru (rapper), Guru, American rapper (Gang Starr) (d. 2010)
** Zbigniew Zamachowski, Polish actor
* July 18 – Elizabeth McGovern, American actress and musician
* July 19
** Noriyuki Abe, Japanese anime director
** Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
** Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
** Lisa Lampanelli, American stand-up comedian, actress and insult comic
** Campbell Scott, American actor, director, producer and voice artist
* July 21
** Kenji Haga, Japanese entertainment talent, actor and businessperson
** Mokgweetsi Masisi, 5th President of Botswana
* July 22
** Masumi Hayashi (murderer), Masumi Hayashi, Japanese serial killer
** Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, Porfirije, born Prvoslav Perić, Serbian Patriarch
** Irina Rozanova, Russian actress
** Keith Sweat, American singer
* July 23
** Martin Gore, British musician and songwriter
** Michael Durant, American military pilot
** Milind Gunaji, Indian actor, model, television show host
** Woody Harrelson, American actor and comedian
** David Kaufman (actor), David Kaufman, American actor and voice actor
* July 24
** :fr:Bruno Colmant, Bruno Colmant, Belgian economist and author
** Joseph Kony, Ugandan insurgent, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army
* July 25
** Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress
** Hugo Teufel III, American lawyer and government official, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security
* July 26
** Raquel Dodge, General Prosecutor of Brazil
** Gary Cherone, American rock singer-songwriter
** David Heyman, English film producer, founder of Heyday Films
** Keiko Matsui, Japanese pianist and composer
** Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer
* July 27
** Ed Orgeron, American football coach
** Erez Tal, Israeli television host
* July 28
** Mustafa El Haddaoui, Moroccan footballer
** Aleksandr Kurlovich, Soviet-Belarusian Olympic weightlifter (d. 2018)
* July 30 – Laurence Fishburne, African-American actor and film director
August
* August 1 – Danny Blind, Dutch footballer
* August 2 – Pete de Freitas, English musician and producer (d. 1989)
* August 3
** Art Porter Jr., American jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
** Molly Hagan, American actress
** Nick Harvey, English politician
* August 4
** Pumpuang Duangjan, Thai megastar singer and actress (d. 1992)
** Robin Carnahan, Secretary of State of Missouri
** Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
** Lauren Tom, American actress and voice artist
* August 5
** Mercedes Aráoz, 1st Vice President of Peru
** Janet McTeer, English actress
** Hishamuddin Hussein, Malaysian politician
* August 7
** Ileen Getz, American actress (d. 2005)
** Brian Conley, English actor, comedian, singer and presenter
** Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast
** Maggie Wheeler, American actress
* August 8
** The Edge, Irish rock guitarist (U2)
** Bruce Matthews (American football), Bruce Matthews, American football player
** Rikki Rockett, American rock drummer (Poison (American band), Poison)
* August 9
**Brad Gilbert, American tennis player
**John Key, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand
* August 10 – Beatrice Alda, American actress and filmmaker
* August 11
** Suniel Shetty, Indian actor, producer and entrepreneur
** Jukka Tapanimäki, Finnish game programmer (d. 2000)
* August 12 – Lawrence (musician), Lawrence, English musician
* August 13
** Mahesh Anand, Indian actor (d. 2019)
** Dawnn Lewis, American voice actress
** Koji Kondo, Japanese video game composer (Nintendo)
* August 14 – Susan Olsen, American actress
* August 15 – Suhasini Maniratnam, Indian actress
* August 16
** Elpidia Carrillo, Mexican-American actress
** Urara Takano, Japanese voice actress
* August 17 – Uwe Schmitt, German sprinter and hurdler (d. 1995)
* August 18
** Huw Edwards (journalist), Huw Edwards, BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist and presenter
** Bob Woodruff, American television journalist and activist
* August 19 – Tony Longo, American actor (d. 2015
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* August 20
** Plamen Nikolov (footballer born 1961), Plamen Nikolov, Bulgarian footballer
** Linda Manz, American actress (d. 2020)
** Manuel Merino, Peruvian politician, 68th President of Peru
* August 21 – Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist, cartoonist and animator (d. 2018)
* August 22 – Roland Orzabal, British musician and songwriter
* August 23
** Bhupesh Baghel, Indian politician and current Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
** Alexandre Desplat, French film composer
* August 24 – Jared Harris, English actor
* August 25
** Billy Ray Cyrus, American actor and singer
** Benjamin Bwalya, Zambian footballer and coach (d. 1999)
* August 27 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer and film director
* August 28
** Jennifer Coolidge, American actress and comedian
** Deepak Tijori, Indian actor and director
* August 30 – Brian Mitchell (boxer), Brian Mitchell, South African boxer
* August 31 – :ms:Saleem, Saleem, Malaysian singer (d. 2018)
September
* September 1
** Bam Bam Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
** Boney James, American saxophonist, songwriter and record producer
* September 2
** Eugenio Derbez, Mexican actor, comedian and filmmaker
** Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
** Ron Wasserman, American composer
** Anthony Wong Chau Sang, Anthony Wong Chau-sang, Hong Kong actor
* September 3
** Andy Griffiths (author), Andy Griffiths, Australian author
** Iwan Fals, Indonesian singer-songwriter
** Yermi Kaplan, Israeli musician
* September 5 – Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist and composer
* September 6
** Bruce W. Smith, American animator, director and producer
** Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian rock musician and songwriter (A-ha)
* September 7 – Kevin Kennedy (actor), Kevin Kennedy, British actor
* September 11
** E.G. Daily, American actress, voice actress and singer
** Virginia Madsen, American actress
* September 12 – Mylène Farmer, Canadian singer and songwriter
* September 13 – Dave Mustaine, American metal singer, guitarist
* September 14 – Martina Gedeck, German actress
* September 15
** Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league player and coach
** Dan Marino, American football player
** Colin McFarlane, British actor and voice actor
** Lidia Yusupova, Chechen human-rights lawyer
* September 16 – Jen Tolley, American-Canadian actress and singer
* September 17 – Jim Cornette, American author and podcaster
* September 18 – James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (d. 2013)
* September 20 – Lisa Bloom, American lawyer
* September 22
** Bonnie Hunt, American actress, comedian, writer, director and television producer
** Catherine Oxenberg, American actress
* September 23
** Chi McBride, American actor
** William C. McCool, U.S. Navy Commander and astronaut (d. 2003)
* September 24
** Fiona Corke, Australian actress
** Michael Tavera, American composer
* September 25
** Heather Locklear, American actress
** Steve Scott (journalist), Steve Scott, British journalist and presenter
* September 26 – Wes Hopkins, American football player (d. 2018)
* September 27
** Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer
** Melissa Newman, American artist and singer
* September 28
** Yordanka Donkova, Bulgarian athlete
** Wayne Westner, South African golfer (d. 2017)
* September 29 – Julia Gillard, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
* September 30
** Crystal Bernard, American actress and singer
** Gary Coyne, Australian rugby league player
** Eric Stoltz, American actor and director
** Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress
October
* October 1
** Gary Ablett, Sr., Gary Ablett, Australian rules footballer
** Rico Constantino, American professional wrestler
** Michael Righeira, Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor
* October 3 – Ludger Stühlmeyer, German cantor, composer and musicologist
* October 4
** Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese manga artist (d. 2022)
** Philippe Russo, French singer
** Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
* October 5 – Matthew Kauffman, American journalist, George Polk Award winner
* October 6 – Mark Shasha, American artist, author and illustrator
* October 10 – Jodi Benson, American actress and singer
* October 11
** Amr Diab, Egyptian singer
** Steve Young, American football player
* October 12 – Diego García (runner), Diego García, Spanish long-distance athlete (d. 2001)
* October 13
** Rachel De Thame, English gardener and television presenter
** Doc Rivers, American basketball player and coach
* October 14 – Jim Burns, British science-fiction illustrator
* October 15 – Meera Sanyal, Indian banker (d. 2019)
* October 16
** Chris Doleman, American football player (d. 2020)
** Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (d. 1998)
** Paul Vaessen, English footballer (d. 2001)
** Randy Vasquez, American actor
** Kim Wayans, American actress, comedian, producer, writer and director
* October 18
** Wynton Marsalis, African-American trumpeter and composer
** Rick Moody, American writer
** Gladstone Small, Barbadian-English cricketer
* October 19 – Cliff Lyons, Australian rugby league player
* October 20
** Les Stroud, Canadian survival expert, filmmaker and musician
** Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
* October 22
** Todd Oldham, American designer
** Robert Torti, American actor and singer
* October 24 – Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist
* October 25
** Ward Burton, American NASCAR driver
** Pat Sharp, British radio DJ and host
** Chad Smith, American musician
* October 26 – Dylan McDermott, American actor
* October 29 – Randy Jackson (Jacksons singer), Randy Jackson, African-American pop singer (The Jackson 5)
* October 30 – Dmitry Muratov, Russian campaigning journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* October 31
** Alonzo Babers, American runner
** Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director
** Larry Mullen, Jr., Irish rock drummer (U2)
November
* November 1
** Anne Donovan, American basketball player and coach (d. 2018)
** Heng Swee Keat, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
* November 2
** Lisa de Cazotte, American soap opera producer (d. 2019)
** k.d. lang, Canadian singer and songwriter
* November 3 – David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon
* November 4
** Daron Hagen, American composer
** Dominic Heale, British journalist and newsreader
** Ralph Macchio, American actor
** Jeff Probst, American television personality
** Jerry Sadowitz, American-born British stand-up comic and card magician
** Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
* November 5 – Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (d. 2012)
* November 9
** Jill Dando, British journalist and television presenter (d. 1999)
** Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist
* November 12 – Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast
* November 14
** Ben Coleman (basketball), Ben Coleman, American basketball player (d. 2019)
** Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (d. 2007)
** D. B. Sweeney, American actor
* November 16
** Andrea Prodan, Scottish-Italian film actor, composer and musician
** Corinne Hermès, French singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1983 winner
* November 18
** Michael Hawley, American academic and artist (d. 2020)
** Steven Moffat, Scottish screenwriter
** Anthony Warlow, Australian singer
* November 19 – Meg Ryan, American actress and film director
* November 20 – Dave Watson, English footballer
* November 21 – Maria Kawamura, Japanese voice actress
* November 22
** Mariel Hemingway, American actress
** Stephen Hough, British-Australian pianist
** Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
* November 24 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist
* November 25 – Matthias Freihof, German television actor and director
November 27 Lieselotte Lauer, (child family name: Schröder) German company C. Lorenz AG, SEL (Standard Elektrik Lorenz) Reported missing since July 1992
* November 28 – Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer
* November 29
** Kim Delaney, American actress
** Tom Sizemore, American actor
December
* December 1 – Salahuddin Ayub, Malaysian politician
* December 3 – Marcelo Fromer, Brazilian guitarist
* December 4
** Rocky Dennis, American teenager who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia (d. 1978)
** Frank Reich, American football player
* December 5
** Alan Davies (footballer), Alan Davies, English-Welsh international footballer (d. 1992)
** Laura Flanders, British born American journalist
* December 6 - Colin Salmon, British actor
*December 8 – Ann Coulter, American author, conservative commentator and attorney
* December 9
** Beril Dedeoğlu, Turkish politician and academic (d. 2019)
** David Anthony Higgins, American actor
* December 10
** Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, Nepalese Buddhist (d. 1993)
** Nia Peeples, American actress
* December 12
** Daniel O'Donnell, Irish singer
** Sarah Sutton, British actress
* December 13
**Karen Witter, American actress and model
**Per Øystein Sørensen, Norwegian lead singer Fra Lippo Lippi
* December 15 – Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist and politician
* December 16
** Bill Hicks, American comedian (d. 1994
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** Jon Tenney, American actor
** Sam Robards, American actor
** Shane Black, American film director
* December 19
** Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
** Matthew Waterhouse, British actor
** Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004)
* December 20 – Mohammad Fouad, Arab singer and actor
* December 21 – Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor
* December 22 – Kassim Majaliwa, 10th Prime Minister of Tanzania
* December 23 – Ezzat el Kamhawi, Egyptian novelist
* December 24
** Ilham Aliyev, 7th Prime Minister of Azerbaijan and 4th President of Azerbaijan
** Wade Williams, American actor
* December 25
** Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian senator
** Ghislaine Maxwell, British socialite
** David Thompson (Barbadian politician), David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2010)
* December 26 – John Lynch (actor), John Lynch, Northern Irish actor
* December 27 – Guido Westerwelle, German politician (d. 2016)
* December 29 – Jim Reid, Scottish musician
* December 30
** Douglas Coupland, Canadian author
** Bill English, 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand
** Sean Hannity, American radio/television host and conservative commentator
** Ben Johnson (Canadian sprinter), Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete
Deaths
January
* January 3
Events Pre-1600
*AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.
* 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...
– Auvergne Doherty, Australian businesswoman (b. 1896)
* January 4 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
* January 8
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
* 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...
– František Flos, Czech novelist (b. 1864)
* January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
*1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
– Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1867)
* January 10 – Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
* January 13
** Nino Marchesini, Italian actor (b. 1895)
** Blanche Ring, American singer and actress (b. 1871)
* January 14 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
* January 17
Events Pre-1600
* 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
– Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Émery Lumumba (; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June u ...
, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
* January 18 – Thomas Anthony Dooley III, physician (b. 1927)
* January 21
** Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887)
** John J. Becker, American composer and pianist (b. 1886)
* January 24
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
* 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
*1438 – The Cou ...
– Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)
* January 26 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)
* January 29 – Jesse Wallace, American naval officer, 29th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1899)
* January 30
Events Pre-1600
*1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
*1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
1601–1900
*1607 – An estimated ...
– Dorothy Thompson, American journalist (b. 1893)
February
* February 2 – Anna May Wong, Chinese-American actress (b. 1905)
* February 3 – William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, Viscount Dunrossil, Australian Governor-General (b. 1893)
* February 4
Events Pre–1600
* 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...
** Hazel Heald, American writer (b. 1896)
** Philip Game, Sir Philip Game, British army officer, colonial governor and police officer (b. 1876)
* February 6 – Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, British politician (b. 1876)
* February 7 – William Duncan (actor), William Duncan, American actor (b. 1879)
* February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
* 1539 – The first recorded race is hel ...
– Carlos Luz, Brazilian politician, 19th President of Brazil (b. 1894)
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– Richmond K. Turner, American admiral (b. 1885)
* February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
– Arthur Ripley, American film director (b. 1897)
* February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
– Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
* February 16 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891)
* February 17
** Horatio Pettus Mackintosh Berney-Ficklin, Horatio Berney-Filkin, British army general (b. 1892)
** Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)
* February 20 – Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882)
* February 22
** George de Cuevas, Chilean-American ballet impresario and choreographer (b. 1885)
** Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
* February 26
Events Pre-1600
*747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events.
* 364 – Valentinian I is p ...
** Uberto De Morpurgo, Italian tennis player (b. 1896)
** King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
* February 28 – Aaron S. Merrill, Aaron S. "Tip" Merrill, American admiral (b. 1890)
March
* March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
** Azizul Haq, Bengali Islamic scholar (b. 1903)
** Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
* March 6
** George Formby, British singer, comedian and actor (b. 1904)
** Oswald Rayner, British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6 agent (b. 1888)
* March 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''.
*1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.
* 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bour ...
** Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879)
** Gala Galaction, Romanian writer (b. 1879)
* March 12
** Victor d'Arcy, British Olympic athlete (b. 1887)
** Belinda Lee, English actress (b. 1935)
* March 17 – Susanna M. Salter, first woman mayor in the United States (b. 1860)
* March 22 – Nikolai Massalitinov, Soviet-born Bulgarian actor (b. 1880)
* March 23 – Valentin Bondarenko, Russian cosmonaut
An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally r ...
(b. 1937)
* March 25 – Arthur Drewry, English administrator, 5th President of FIFA (b. 1891)
* March 26 – Carlos Duarte Costa, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop and saint, founder of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (b. 1888)
April
* April 2 – Wallingford Riegger, American music composer (b. 1885)
* April 3 – Eliseo Mouriño, Argentine footballer (b. 1927)
* April 6 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870)
* April 7
** Vanessa Bell, English artist and interior designer (b. 1879)
** Jesús Guridi, Spanish Basque composer (b. 1886)
** Marian Driscoll Jordan, American actress and radio personality (b. 1898)
* April 9 – Ahmet Zog/Zog I of Albania, Zog I, Skanderberg III, Albanian political leader, 11th Prime Minister of Albania, 7th President of Albania and King of Albania (b. 1895)
* April 10 – John Hope Simpson, Sir John Hope Simpson, British politician (b. 1868)
* April 11
Events Pre-1600
* 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
* 1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
* 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferra ...
– Padma Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 16th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1882)
* April 12
Events Pre-1600
* 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
* 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted ...
** Mbarek Bekkay, 1st Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1907)
** Aziz Ezzat Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1869)
* April 19
Events Pre-1600
*AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
* 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at ...
– Manuel Quiroga (violinist), Manuel Quiroga, Spanish violinist (b. 1892)
* April 21 – James Melton, American tenor (b. 1904)
* April 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
* 1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy m ...
– Lee Moran, American actor (b. 1888)
* April 25
** Robert Garrett, American Olympic athlete (b. 1875)
** George Melford, American actor (b. 1877)
* April 27
Events Pre-1600
* 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''.
* 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
** Roy Del Ruth, American film director (b. 1893)
** Minoru Sasaki, Japanese general (b. 1893)
* April 30
** Dickie Dale, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1927)
** Jessie Redmon Fauset, American editor, writer and educator (b. 1882)
May
* May 3
** Lajos Dinnyés, 41st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1901)
** Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher (b. 1908)
* May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
*1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanis ...
– Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet and philosopher (b. 1895)
* May 13 – Gary Cooper, American actor (''High Noon'') (b. 1901)
* May 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
*1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
* 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forc ...
– Albert Sévigny, Canadian politician (b. 1881)
* 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 ...
– George A. Malcolm, American jurist and educator (b. 1881)
* May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
* 11 ...
– Joan Davis, American actress (b. 1912)
* May 30 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician and soldier, 2-time President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
June
* June – Constantin Constantinescu-Claps, Romanian general (b. 1884)
* June 6 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
* June 9 – Camille Guérin, French bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872)
* June 14 – Eddie Polo, Austrian-American actor (b. 1875)
* June 16 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
* June 17
** Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
** Thomas Darden, American Rear admiral (United States), Rear admiral, 37th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1900)
* June 18 – Eddie Gaedel, American with dwarfism (b. 1925)
* June 19 – Richard Ernest William Turner, Sir Richard Turner, Canadian general, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1871)
* June 23 – Nikolai Malko, Soviet conductor (b. 1883)
* June 24
** William J. Connors, American politician (b. 1891)
** George Washington Vanderbilt III, American philanthropist (b. 1914)
* June 25 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and pilot (b. 1886)
* June 27
** Paul Guilfoyle (actor, born 1902), Paul Guilfoyle, American actor (b. 1902)
** Mukhtar Auezov, Kazakh writer (b. 1897)
* June 30 – Lee de Forest, American inventor (b. 1873)
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 ...
** Nasuhi al-Bukhari, Syrian soldier and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1881)
** Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
* July 2 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1899)
* July 4 – Franklyn Farnum, American actor (b. 1878)
* July 6
** Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
** Woodall Rodgers, American politician, 43rd Mayor of Dallas (b. 1890)
* July 9 – Whittaker Chambers, American spy and witness in Alger Hiss, Hiss case
* July 15 – Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
* July 17 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player and a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1886)
* July 23
** Esther Dale, American actress (b. 1885)
** Valentine Davies, American screenwriter (b. 1905)
** Shigeko Higashikuni, Princess Teru of Japan (b. 1925)
* July 28 – Harry Gribbon, American actor of silent films (b. 1885)
* July 30 – Sediqeh Dowlatabadi, Persian feminist, women's rights activist and journalist (b. 1882)
August
* August 1 – Domingo Pérez Cáceres, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1892)
* August 4
** Zoltán Tildy, 39th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1889)
** Maurice Tourneur, French film director (b. 1873)
* August 5 – Sidney Holland, New Zealand politician, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1893)
* August 8 – Mei Lanfang, Beijing opera star (b. 1894)
* August 9 – Walter Bedell Smith, American general and diplomat (b. 1895)
* August 11 – William Jackson (gangster), William Jackson, American gangster (b. 1920)
* August 14
** Henri Breuil, French priest, archaeologist, anthropologist and ethnologist (b. 1877)
** Clark Ashton Smith, American writer and sculptor (b. 1893)
* August 20 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
* August 23 – Beals Wright, American tennis player (b. 1879)
* August 26
** Howard P. Robertson, American physicist (b. 1903)
** Gail Russell, American actress (b. 1924)
* August 30
** Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
** Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician and mining engineer (b. 1894)
September
* September 1 – Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1910)
* September 3
** Richard Mason (explorer), Richard Mason, British explorer (b. 1934)
* September 4 – Charles D.B. King, President of Liberia from 1920 to 1930 (b. 1875)
* September 7 – Pieter Gerbrandy, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1940 to 1945 (b. 1885)
* September 16
** Percy Chapman, English cricketer (b. 1900)
** Hasan Fehmi (Ataç), Hasan Fehmi, Turkish politician (b. 1879)
* September 17
** Miguel Gómez Bao, Spanish-born Argentine actor (b. 1894)
** Adnan Menderes, Turkish statesman, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (executed) (b. 1899)
* September 18
** Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat, politician and author, 2nd Secretary General of the United Nations, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905)
* September 21 – Georgia Ann Robinson, community worker and first African Americans, African American woman to be appointed a Los Angeles police officer (b. 1879)
* September 22 – Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)
* September 23 – Elmer Diktonius, Finnish poet and composer (b. 1896)
* September 24 – Sumner Welles, American diplomat (b. 1892)
* September 25 – Frank Fay (American actor), Frank Fay, American vaudeville comedian and film and stage actor (b. 1891)
* September 26
** Robert L. Eichelberger, American general (b. 1886)
** Juanita Hansen, American actress (b. 1895)
* September 27 – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), American poet and novelist (b. 1886)
October
* October 1 – Donald Cook (actor), Donald Cook, American actor (b. 1901)
* October 2 – Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (b. 1881)
* October 4 – Max Weber (artist), Max Weber, Polish-American artist (b. 1881)
* October 6 – J. Reuben Clark, American politician and Mormon leader (b. 1871)
* October 11
** Lucy Tayiah Eads, Kaw tribal chief (b. 1888)
** Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
* October 13
** Louis Rwagasore, 2nd Prime Minister of Burundi (assassinated) (b. 1932)
** Maya Deren, Russian-born American filmmaker (b. 1917)
** Zoltán Korda, Hungarian screenwriter and director (b. 1895)
** Dun Karm Psaila, Maltese writer (b. 1871)
* October 14
** Paul Ramadier, French politician, 63rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1888)
** Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876)
* October 19
** Şemsettin Günaltay, Turkish historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1883)
** Sergio Osmeña, Filipino politician, 4th President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
* October 21 – Karl Korsch, German Marxist theoretician (b. 1886)
* October 22
** Joseph M. Schenck, Russian-born film studio executive (b. 1878)
** Aloys Van de Vyvere, 25th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1871)
* October 26 – Milan Stojadinović, 12th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1888)
* October 30 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of Italy (b. 1874)
* October 31 – Augustus John, Welsh painter (b. 1878)
November
* November 1 – Mordecai Ham, American evangelist (b. 1877)
* November 2
** James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)
** Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, 12th Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894)
* November 3 – Thomas Flynn (bishop of Lancaster), Thomas Flynn, British Roman Catholic prelate and reverend (b. 1880)
* November 9 – Ferdinand Bie, Norwegian Olympic athlete (b. 1888)
* November 15
** Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
** Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch plant pathologist (b. 1883)
* November 16 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1882)
* November 22 – Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, Cuban politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Cuba, leader of World War II (b. 1899)
* November 24 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress, novelist and aviator (b. 1892)
* November 25 – Adelina de Lara, British composer (b. 1872)
* November 30 – Anna Gould, American heiress and socialite, daughter of financier Jay Gould (b. 1875)
December
* December 2 – Dulcie Mary Pillers, English medical illustrator (b. 1891)
* December 3 – Pat O'Hara Wood, Australian tennis player (b. 1891)
* December 6 – Frantz Fanon, Caribbean philosopher (b. 1925)
* December 7 – Herbert Pitman, British sailor, third officer of the (b. 1877)
* December 10 – Elwyn Welch, New Zealand farmer, ornithologist, conservationist and Open Brethren missionary (b. 1925)
* December 13 – Anna Mary Robertson Moses aka Grandma Moses, American naïve painter (b. 1860)
* December 15 – Gioacchino Failla, Italian-born American physicist (b. 1891)
* December 20
** Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904)
** Earle Page, Sir Earle Page, Australian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
* December 23
** Kurt Meyer, German ''Generalmajor der Waffen-SS'' and war criminal (b. 1910)
** Fanny Schoonheyt, Dutch Communist Lieutenant in the Spanish Civil War. (b. 1912)
* December 25 – Otto Loewi, German-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
* December 27 – Bernard McConville, American screenwriter (b. 1887)
* December 28 – Edith Wilson, First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 (b. 1872)
* December 29
** Anton Flettner, German aviation engineer and inventor (b. 1885)
** Sibyl Morrison, first female barrister in New South Wales, Australia (b. 1895)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Melvin Calvin * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Georg von Békésy * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Ivo Andrić * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Dag Hammarskjöld (posthumously)See also
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