Congo, Katangan prime minister Moise Tshombe recognizes the Congolese constitution.
* December 23 –
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's National Day, national holiday, the Grand Duke's Official Birthday, is set on June 23 by Grand Ducal decree.
* December 30 – Congolese troops capture
Albert Kalonji
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South Kasai
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(who soon escapes).
* December 31 – Ireland's first national television station, ''Telefís Éireann'' (later Raidió Teilifís Éireann), begins broadcasting.
Births
January
![Wayne Gretzky 2006-02-18 Turin 001](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Wayne_Gretzky_2006-02-18_Turin_001.jpg)
* 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
![Mark Latham 1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Mark_Latham_1.jpg)
*
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
![Amy Sedaris080112](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Amy_Sedaris080112.jpg)
*
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
![George Lopez 2010](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/George_Lopez_2010.jpg)
* 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
![Kevin McDonald-1-17 (13683967045)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Kevin_McDonald-1-17_%2813683967045%29.jpg)
* 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
** 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 – Ilaria Alpi, Italian journalist (d.
1994
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)
* May 27 – 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
![Ricky Gervais 2010](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Ricky_Gervais_2010.jpg)
* 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
![National Memorial Day Concert 2017 (34117818524) (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/National_Memorial_Day_Concert_2017_%2834117818524%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
*
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
![Koji kondo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Koji_kondo.jpg)
* 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
![Julia Gillard 2010](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Julia_Gillard_2010.jpg)
* 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
![Peter Jackson SDCC 2014](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Peter_Jackson_SDCC_2014.jpg)
* 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
![Mariel Hemingway headshot, free use](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Mariel_Hemingway_headshot%2C_free_use.jpg)
* 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
![Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev - President of the Republic of Azerbaijan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Ilham_Heydar_oglu_Aliyev_-_President_of_the_Republic_of_Azerbaijan.jpg)
* 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
![Patrice Lumumba, 1960](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Patrice_Lumumba%2C_1960.jpg)
*
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
![Mohammed V](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Mohammed_V.jpg)
* 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
![Victor d%27Arcy and Harold Abrahams 1920](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Victor_d%27Arcy_and_Harold_Abrahams_1920.jpg)
*
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
![Padma Shamsher JBR](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Padma_Shamsher_JBR.jpg)
* 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
![Gary Cooper (1952)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Gary_Cooper_%281952%29.jpg)
* 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 – Joan Davis, American actress (b. 1912)
* May 30 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician and soldier, 2-time President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
June
![Jeff Chandler - 1958](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Jeff_Chandler_-_1958.jpg)
* 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
![1913 Ty Cobb portrait photo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/1913_Ty_Cobb_portrait_photo.png)
*
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
![Sidney George Holland (1953) 2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Sidney_George_Holland_%281953%29_2.png)
* 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
![Mariondavies](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Mariondavies.jpg)
* 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
![Sergio Osmena photo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Sergio_Osmena_photo.jpg)
* 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
![Anselmo Alliegro y Milá](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Anselmo_Alliegro_y_Mil%C3%A1.jpg)
* 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
![Bundesarchiv Bild 101III-Ludwig-006-19, Kurt Meyer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101III-Ludwig-006-19%2C_Kurt_Meyer.jpg)
* 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
* Upside down year
References
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