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1922 March 2011 1922 border:none;b 3/3 Secret Destination (6233259813).jpg Naples Fascist rally on 24 October 1922 (2).jpg Howard Carter in the King Tutankhamen's tomb.jpg Great Fire of Smyrna (cropped) (2).jpg Washington Naval Treaty.jpg Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.jpg 350 From top to bottom, left to right: The Irish Civil War erupts between pro- and anti-Treaty forces after the creation of the Irish Free State, plunging Ireland into a brutal struggle; The March on Rome brings Benito Mussolini and the National Fascist Party to power in the Kingdom of Italy, launching fascist rule; The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carter sparks worldwide fascination with ancient Egypt; The Burning of Smyrna devastates the city in the final phase of the Greco-Turkish War, causing massive destruction and a humanitarian crisis; The Washington Naval Treaty limits naval arms among leading powers to prevent another costly race; The Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics forms the Soviet Union, uniting multiple republics under one federal government. 1922 1922 2 Events January January 1922 thumb|130px|right|January 11: Use of insulin for diabetes. January 7 – Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/491 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 491–493 Internet Archive January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann, the day after Éamon de Valera resigns.Robert Brennan Ireland Standing Firm: My Wartime Mission in Washington; And, Eamon de Valera: a Memoir https://books.google.com/books?id=O5FnAAAAMAAJ 2002 University College Dublin Press 978-1-900621-68-7 xvi January 11 – The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made, by Frederick Banting in Toronto.Diem P. Ducluzeau P. H. Scheen A. 2022-01-01 The discovery of insulin https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666970621000494 Diabetes Epidemiology and Management 5 100049 10.1016/j.deman.2021.100049 2666-9706 free January 15 – Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State. January 26 – Italian forces occupy Misrata, Libya; the reconquest of Libya begins. February February 1922 thumb|125px|right|February 28: Egypt independent. February 6 Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV, to become the 259th pope.Richard L. Rubenstein John K. Roth Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy https://books.google.com/books?id=IfoBx6skMCkC&pg=PA269 2003 Westminster John Knox Press 978-0-664-22353-3 269 The Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty is signed between the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France and Italy. Japan returns some of its control over the Shandong Peninsula to China. February 8 President of the United States Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House. In the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Cheka becomes the Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie (GPU), a section of the NKVD. February 10–17 – Modern Art Week in São Paulo marks the start of Modernism in Brazil.Amaral Aracy Kim Mrazek Hastings 1995 Stages in the Formation of Brazil's Cultural Profile Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 21 9–25 10.2307/1504129 1504129 February 14 Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt. Baragoola, the last of the Binngarra class Manly ferries, is launched at Balmain, New South Wales. February 15 – The inaugural session of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) is held in The Hague.Nagendra Singh The Role and Record of the International Court of Justice https://books.google.com/books?id=VxkEWTwXFUcC&pg=PA297 1989 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 0-7923-0291-5 297 February 26 – Leser v. Garnett: The Supreme Court of the United States rebuffs a challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote on the same terms as men. February 28 – The Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence by the United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt, and grants the country nominal independence, reserving control of military and diplomatic matters.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006July 2025King Joan Wucher Historical Dictionary of Egypt Books of Lasting Value 1989 1984 American University in Cairo Press 978-977-424-213-7 259–260Albert P. Blaustein Albert Blaustein Jay A. Sigler Benjamin R. Beede Independence Documents of the World https://books.google.com/books?id=feyI5kisdBcC&pg=PA204 1 1977 Oceana Publications Dobbs Ferry, NY 978-0-379-00794-7 204–205 March March 1922 March 2 An ice mass breaks the Oder Dam in Breslau. The British Civil Aviation Authority is established. March 4 – The silent horror film Nosferatu is premièred at the Berlin Zoological Garden in Germany. March 10 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition. March 13 – Edward, Prince of Wales, inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India, marking a capitulation of the Governor General and Secretary of State for India to growing pressure for Indianization of the officer cadre of the Indian Army. March 15 – With Egypt having gained self-government from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt. Steinberg S. D. The statesman's year-book: statistical and historical annual of the states of the world for the year 1948 Macmillan London 1948 23 December 2016 9780230270770 846 March 16 – The Rand Rebellion, which began as a strike by white South African mine workers on 28 December 1921 and became open rebellion against the state, is suppressed. March 18 – In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition (he serves only two). March 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. March 22 – Radio station WLW in Cincinnati begins broadcasting.http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/03/17/tem_wlw_700_turns_80.html https://archive.today/20120729073226/http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/03/17/tem_wlw_700_turns_80.html dead July 29, 2012 John Kiesewetter WLW 700 turns 80 2002-03-17 The Cincinnati Enquirer 2012-10-18 March 23 – Queensland, Australia, abolishes the Legislative Council (Upper House). March 26 – The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland. March 31 – Six die in the Hinterkaifeck murders north of Munich. April April 1922 April 1 – South African Railways takes control of all railway operations in South West Africa.99, 110, 115–117, 121, 149Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 188, ref. no. 200954-13 April 3 – Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. April 7 – 1922 Picardie mid-air collision: The first midair collision between airliners occurs, between a Daimler Airway de Havilland DH.18 and a Grands Express Aériens Farman Goliath over Poix-de-Picardie, Amiens, France. April 10 – Genoa Conference: The representatives of 34 countries convene to speak in Genoa, Italy about monetary economics, in the wake of World War I. April 12 – The United Kingdom's Prince of Wales arrives in Yokohama aboard HMS Renown and rides by train to Tokyo, starting a one-month visit to Japan.4 April 1922 Prince's Visit to Japan https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19220404-1.2.8.aspx 2013-12-28 The Straits Times NewspaperSGPhillips Sir Percival The Prince of Wales' Eastern book, a pictorial record of the voyages of H.M.S. "Renown", 1921-1922 Hodder and Stoughton New York 1922 192–193 https://archive.org/download/princeofwaleseas00philrich/princeofwaleseas00philrich.pdf https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://archive.org/download/princeofwaleseas00philrich/princeofwaleseas00philrich.pdf 2022-10-09 live 2013-12-28 April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women. April 16 – The Treaty of Rapallo marks a rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevik Russia. April 24 – The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy network created to link the British Empire, is opened, from the UK to Egypt. May May 1922 thumb|200px|May 30: Lincoln Memorial dedicated. May 8 – In Moscow, eight priests, two laymen and one woman are sentenced to death for opposition to the Soviet government's confiscation of church property. May 18 – Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Erik Satie and Clive Bell dine together at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, their only joint meeting.Jackson Kevin Constellation of Genius – 1922: Modernism Year One London Hutchinson 2012 978-0-091-93097-4July 2025 May 19 – The All-Russian Young Pioneer Organisation is established. May 29 – British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley is jailed for seven years for fraud. May 30 – In Washington, D.C., United States, the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated. Thomas Christopher The Lincoln Memorial & American life Princeton University Press Princeton, N.J 2002 9780691011943 xiii June June 1922 thumb|125px|right|June 9: Åland's Autonomy Day June 1 Bolshevik forces defeat Basmachi troops, under Enver Pasha. The first issue of the magazine Krestyanka is published in Russia.krestyanka.ruJuly 2025 June 9 – Åland's Regional Assembly convenes for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland; Ahvenanmaa pähkinänkuoressa Ahvenanmaa – ahaa! 2007 3 fi the day will be celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland. http://www.pohjola-norden.fi/fi/tietoa_pohjoismaista/ahvenanmaa/historiaa_lyhyesti/?id=280 Ahvenanmaan historiaa lyhyesti Pohjola Norden December 10, 2020 fi January 29, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160129231821/http://www.pohjola-norden.fi/fi/tietoa_pohjoismaista/ahvenanmaa/historiaa_lyhyesti/?id=280 dead June 11 – Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, is premiered in the U.S. Rotha Paul Robert J. Flaherty, A Biography University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia 1983 9781512818512 July 2025 June 14 – President of the United States Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio. June 22 – Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British Army field marshal Sir Henry Wilson in London; the assassins are sentenced to death on July 18.1922-07-19 Wilson Assassins Sentenced to Die – Final Judgment Entered 26 Days After Murder of British Field Marshal – Profess Patriotic Motive – Statement Defending Political Assassination, Handed in by Defendants, Is Barred by Cour. en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1922/07/19/archives/wilson-assassins-sentenced-to-die-final-judgment-entered-26-days.html 2021-05-12 0362-4331 limited June 24 – Weimar Republic foreign minister Walther Rathenau is assassinated; the murderers are captured on July 17. June 26 – Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco. June 28 The Irish Civil War and Battle of Dublin begin when the Irish National Army, using artillery loaned by the British, begins to bombard the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army forces occupying the Four Courts in Dublin. Fighting in Dublin lasts until July 5. The Syrian Federation is constituted by arrêté of Henri Gouraud. June 29 – Subhi Barakat becomes president of the Syrian Federation. July July 1922 July 11 – The Hollywood Bowl open-air music venue opens. July 17 – The final signings of Treaty 11, an agreement between George V, King of Canada, and various Canadian First Nations, are conducted at Fort Liard. July 20 – The German protectorate of Togoland is divided into the League of Nations mandates of French Togoland and British Togoland. July 27 – The Cherkess (Adyghe) Autonomous Oblast is established within the Russian SFSR. July – Hyperinflation in Germany means that 563 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar – more than double the 263 needed eight months before, dwarfing the mere 12 needed in April 1919, and even the 47 needed in December of that year. August August 1922 August 2 – The 1922 Swatow typhoon hits Shantou, China, killing more than 5,000 people. August 22 – Irish Civil War: General Michael Collins is assassinated in West Cork.Langworth Richard 2023-06-29 Michael Collins: "Tell Winston we could never have done anything without him" https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/michael-collins/ 2025-08-05 The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College en-US August 23 Morocco revolts against the Spanish.January 2022 August 26 A Turkish large-scale attack opens against Greek forces in Afyon; Turkish victory is achieved on August 30. August 28 – Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from Siberia. August Hyperinflation in Germany sees the value of the Papiermark against the dollar rise to 1,000. The last hunted California grizzly bear is shot. September September 1922 September 3 – The Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, the world's third purpose-built motorsport race track, is officially opened at Monza in the Lombardy Region of Italy.History https://www.monzanet.it/en/autodromo/history/ Autodromo Nazionale Monza dead https://web.archive.org/web/20161011131936/https://www.monzanet.it/en/autodromo/history/ 2016-10-11 September 9 – Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter İzmir, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922). September 11 The Sun News-Pictorial, a predecessor of the Melbourne, Australia, Herald Sun, is founded. The Mandate of Palestine is approved by the Council of the League of Nations. September 13 – The Gdynia Seaport Construction Act is passed by the Polish Parliament. September 13–15 – The Great Fire of Smyrna destroys most of İzmir. Responsibility is disputed.Stewart Matthew http://www.historytoday.com/matthew-stewart/catastrophe-smyrna Catastrophe at Smyrna History Today 54 7 subscription September 17 – Dutch cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champion sprinter. September 18 – The Kingdom of Hungary joins the League of Nations. September 24 - The Latvia national football team and Estonia national football team played their first official international match.Latvia vs Estonia, 24 September 1922 https://eu-football.info/_match.php?id=4912 EU Football 5 August 2025 September 24 (O. S. September 11) – 11 September 1922 Revolution in Greece. September 29 – Drums in the Night (Trommeln in der Nacht) becomes the first play by Bertolt Brecht to be staged, at the Munich Kammerspiele. October October 1922 thumb|right|200px|Benito Mussolini and Fascist Blackshirts during the March on Rome. October – 3,000 German marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar – triple the figure three months ago due to hyperinflation. October 1 – G. I. Gurdjieff opens his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France. October 3 – Rebecca Latimer Felton becomes the first female U.S. senator when Georgia's governor gives her a temporary appointment pending an election to replace Senator Thomas Watson, who has died suddenly. October 11 – Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 ends in Turkish victory. October 15 – T. S. Eliot establishes The Criterion magazine, containing the first publication of his poem The Waste Land. This first appears in the United States later this month in The Dial (dated November 1), and is first published complete with notes in book form, by Boni and Liveright in New York in December. October 18 – The British Broadcasting Company is formed.July 2025 October 25 – The 3rd Dáil enacts the Constitution of the Irish Free State. October 27 – Southern Rhodesians reject union with South Africa in a referendum. October 28 In Italy, the March on Rome brings the National Fascist Party and Benito Mussolini to power. Italy begins a period of dictatorship that lasts until the end of the Second World War. The Red Army occupies Vladivostok. Rose Bowl sports stadium officially opens in Pasadena, California.STADIUM DREAM BECOMES FACT Lowry P. 22 October 1922 Los Angeles Timeshttps://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2012/1/2/2668978/rose-bowl-game-2012-history-stadium-pasadena-parade Rose Bowl Game History Schexnayder C.J. 2 January 2012 SBNATION 2 February 2018 October 31 – Benito Mussolini, 39, becomes the youngest ever Prime Minister of Italy. November November 1922 November 1 The Ottoman Empire is abolished after 600 years, and its last sultan, Mehmed VI, abdicates, leaving for exile, initially in Malta, on November 17. A broadcast receiving licence with a fee of ten shillings is introduced in the United Kingdom. November 4 – Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun: in Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to the pharaonic tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings. November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by seven educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis. November 14 – The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom, broadcasting from station 2LO in London. November 15 In the 1922 United Kingdom general election forced by the Conservatives' withdrawal from the coalition government, the Conservative Party wins an overall majority. Labour for the first time becomes the main opposition party, winning more seats than the divided Liberals. A dining club of newly elected Conservative Members of Parliament evolves the following year into the 1922 Committee. 1922 Guayaquil general strike: During a 3-day strike action in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, police and military fire into a crowd, killing at least 300. November 19 – Abdülmecid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire, is elected Caliph. November 21 – Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, formally becoming the first woman United States Senator. November 24 – Popular author and anti-Treaty Republican Erskine Childers is executed by firing squad in Dublin, after conviction by an Irish Free State military court for the unlawful possession of a gun, a weapon presented to him by Michael Collins in 1920 as a gift.Peter Cottrell The War for Ireland, 1913-1923 Oxford Osprey Publishing 2009 978-1-84603-9966July 2025 thumb|115px|right|Howard Carter in King Tutankhamun's tomb November 26 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to see inside KV62, the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, in over 3,000 years. December December 1922 thumb|125px|The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is created. (Coat of arms until 1936). December 5 – The British Parliament enacts the Irish Free State Constitution Act, by which it legally sanctions the new Constitution of the Irish Free State. December 6 – The Irish Free State officially comes into existence. George V becomes the Free State's monarch. Tim Healy is appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, and W. T. Cosgrave becomes President of the Executive Council. December 9 – Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland. December 11 – The trial of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters ends at the Old Bailey in London, for the murder of Thompson's husband; both are found guilty and sentenced to hang. December 16 – Gabriel Narutowicz, sworn on December 11 as first president of the Second Polish Republic, is assassinated by a right-wing sympathizer in Warsaw. December 20 – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on stage in Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Coco Chanel.http://www.jeancocteau.net/bio1_en.php Jean Cocteau - biography 1889-1922 Jean Cocteau Committee 2013-08-07 July 29, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130729045309/http://www.jeancocteau.net/bio1_en.php dead December 27 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be commissioned. December 30 – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasian Republic (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. December – The year ends with hyperinflation showing no sign of slowing down in Germany, with 7,000 marks now needed to buy a single American dollar.http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/weimar.htm Weimar Germany 1919-1933 Historyhome.co.uk 2011-01-05 2012-02-28 Date unknown Wracked by rapid inflation and political assassinations, and motivated by hostility and arrogance as well, the Weimar Republic announces its inability to pay more, and proposes a moratorium on reparations for 3 years. Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin, the Kurdish Independence Committee, is founded. The Inter-Parliamentary Union is established. L'Action sénégalaise weekly newspaper is founded in Senegal.Johnson G. Wesley https://books.google.com/books?id=SuaeAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA245 The Emergence of Black Politics in Senegal: The Struggle for Power in the Four Communes, 1900-1920 Stanford Stanford University Press 1971 245 978-0-8047-0783-1 Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Vegemite is invented by Australian entrepreneur Fred Walker. The Barbary lion becomes extinct in the wild, with the last killed in Morocco, in the area of the Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests.http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog358/extinctm/BarbLion.htm Extinction: Barbary Lion UWSP GEOG358 [Heywood] Uwsp.edu 2012-02-28 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120318022204/http://www4.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog358/extinctm/BarbLion.htm March 18, 2012 The Amur tiger becomes extinct in South Korea.http://www.koreanhistoryproject.org/savethetiger.htm Save the Tiger Koreanhistoryproject.org 2012-02-28 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20120311225748/http://www.koreanhistoryproject.org/savethetiger.htm March 11, 2012 During his first rebellion, Simko Shikak launched an attack on Mahabad in mid-May and July. 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'Fritz' Hollings dies at 97 The Post and Courier Brian Hicks Schuyler Kropf April 6, 2019 April 6, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190406123313/https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/ernest-f-fritz-hollings/article_b8041de2-f44b-11e8-b33f-536d8d509c2c.html April 6, 2019 dead José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop January 2 Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgarian poet and politician (d. 2003) María Fux, Argentine dancer and choreographer (d. 2023) January 4 – Karl-Erik Nilsson, Swedish wrestler (d. 2017) January 8 – Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986) January 9 Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011)Caruthers M. 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Holley, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1993) Margenau Henry Cosmos, bios, theos: scientists reflect on science, God, and the origins of the universe, life, and homo sapiens Open Court La Salle, Ill 1992 9780812691863 179 January 29 – Gerda Steinhoff, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946) January 31 – Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996) February February 1 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004) February 2 Robert Chef d'Hôtel, French athlete (d. 2019) Juan Marichal, Spanish-Canarian historian, literary critic and essayist (d. 2010) Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress (d. 2019) Induratana Paribatra, Thai royal (d. 2026) February 6 Patrick Macnee, British actor (d. 2015) Denis Norden, British television, radio scriptwriter and personality (d. 2018) Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer (d. 2015) February 7 Hattie Jacques, English actress (d. 1980) Antonio Nardini, Italian historian and author (d. 2020) February 8 Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess player and author (d. 2022) Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996) February 9 Kathryn Grayson, American actress (d. 2010)Bob Thomas Music legend Kathryn Grayson dies at 88 Associated Press USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/2010-02-18-grayson_N.htm 2010-02-18 2010-02-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20221130172822/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/2010-02-18-grayson_N.htm 30 November 2022 Jim Laker, British cricketer (d. 1986) February 10 – Árpád Göncz, President of Hungary (d. 2015) February 12 – Hussein Onn, third Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990) February 13 – Gordon Tullock, American economist (d. 2014) February 15 John B. Anderson, American Congressman, presidential candidate (d. 2017)https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/us/politics/john-anderson-who-ran-against-reagan-and-carter-in-1980-is-dead-at-95.html John Anderson, Who Ran Against Reagan and Carter in 1980, Is Dead at 95 The New York Times Clymer Adam December 4, 2017 December 4, 2017 limited Poul Thomsen, Danish actor (d. 1988) February 16 – Frédéric Rossif, French film, television director (d. 1990) February 18 Helen Gurley Brown, American editor and publisher (d. 2012)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9474548/Helen-Gurley-Brown.html Helen Gurley Brown August 14, 2012 The Telegraph Telegraph Media Group https://web.archive.org/web/20120815071824/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9474548/Helen-Gurley-Brown.html August 15, 2012 live August 15, 2012 Eric Gairy, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1997) February 22 – Mohd Hamdan Abdullah, Malaysian politician (d. 1977) February 23 – Johnny Franz, English record producer (d. 1977)Johnny Franz Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & Mor... https://www.allmusic.com/artist/johnny-franz-mn0000995529 2025-05-30 AllMusic en February 24 Richard Hamilton, British painter (d. 2011)Lynton Norbert Richard Hamilton obituary https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/13/richard-hamilton-obituary The Guardian 13 September 2011 Esperanza Magaz, Cuban-born Venezuelan actress (d. 2013) February 26 William Baumol, American economist (d. 2017) Margaret Leighton, British actress (d. 1976) Paatje Phefferkorn, Dutch martial artist (d. 2021) Karl Aage Præst, Danish football player (d. 2011) March March 1 – Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995) March 2 – Hilarion Capucci, Syrian Catholic bishop (d. 2017) March 3 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/feb/18/guardianobituaries.football Nandor Hidegkuti February 18, 2002 Brian Glanville Guardian March 22, 2022 March 4 – Dina Pathak, Gujarati actress (d. 2002) March 5 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (d. 1975) March 7 – Hans Ephraimson-Abt, German-born American businessperson and advocate for the victims of aviation accidents (d. 2013) March 8 Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor (d. 2014)http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/unionleader/obituary.aspx?n=ralph-h-baer&pid=173398418&fhid=4813 Ralph H. Baer New Hampshire Union Leader March 15, 2022 Legacy.com Cyd Charisse, American actress, dancer (d. 2008)Obituary: Cyd Charisse https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/jun/18/news.culture 2008-06-18 The Guardian Ronald Bergan June 29, 2021 Yevgeny Matveyev, Soviet and Russian actor and film director (d. 2003) Mizuki Shigeru, Japanese author (d. 2015) March 9 – Count Flemming of Rosenborg (d. 2002) March 11 – Abdul Razak Hussein, second Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1976) March 12 – Jack Kerouac, American author (d. 1969)Ann Charters Samuel Charters Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation University Press of Mississippi 2010 113 March 14 – China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress, director and producer (d. 2014) March 15 – Karl-Otto Apel, German philosopher (d. 2017) March 16 – Harding Lemay, American television scriptwriter, playwright (d. 2018)HARDING LEMAY Obituary https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/harding-lemay-obituary?n=harding-lemay&pid=189459316 New York Times 10 November 2021 July 4, 2018 Legacy.com March 18 Egon Bahr, German politician (d. 2015)https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/world/europe/egon-bahr-who-helped-reunify-germany-dies-at-93.html Egon Bahr, Who Laid Groundwork for German Reunification, Dies at 93 The New York Times 20 August 2015 21 August 2015 limited Karl Kordesch, Austrian-American inventor (d. 2011) Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (died 2011)Alabama News Center March 19 – Hiroo Onoda, Japanese officer, WWII holdout (d. 2014) March 20 – Carl Reiner, American film director, producer, actor, and comedian (d. 2020)Berkvist Robert Keepnews Peter June 30, 2020 Carl Reiner, Multifaceted Master of Comedy, Is Dead at 98 en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/arts/television/carl-reiner-dead.html June 30, 2020 0362-4331 limited March 21 – Russ Meyer, American film director, producer (d. 2004) March 24 – Miguel Gustavo, Brazilian journalist and songwriter (d. 1972) March 28 Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1990) Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001) Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (d. 1958) March 31 – Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d. 1999)Tom Vallance https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-richard-kiley-1079757.html Obituary: Richard Kiley The Independent March 11, 1999 2013-12-10 April April 1 – Saad el-Shazly, Egyptian military commander (d. 2011) April 3 – Doris Day, American actress and singer (d. 2019)Harmetz Aljean Wholesome Box-Office Star and Golden Voice of 'Que Sera, Sera' 2019 The New York Times 1 April 4 Dionísio Azevedo, Brazilian television, theatre, and film actor, director, and writer (d. 1994) Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/aug/20/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries The Guardian Elmer Bernstein - Prolific Hollywood composer whose scores ranged from The Magnificent Seven to Far From Heaven Michael Freedland 19 August 2004 April 5 Tom Finney, English footballer (d. 2014)https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/feb/14/tom-finney-dies-england-preston Rawlinson Kevin Tom Finney, former England and Preston footballer, dies aged 91 The Guardian 14 February 2014 16 December 2019 Gale Storm, American singer, actress (d. 2009)https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/arts/television/29storm.html Gale Storm, 87, Is Dead; Earned Television Fame for Her Wholesome Roles The New York Times June 29, 2009 December 14, 2015 limited April 7 – Dircinha Batista, Brazilian actress and singer (d. 1999) April 8 – Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (d. 1994) April 13 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (d. 1999) April 14 – Ali Akbar Khan, Indian musician (d. 2009) April 15 – Michael Ansara, Syrian-born American actor (d. 2013) April 16 Kingsley Amis, English novelist (d. 1995) Leo Tindemans, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014) April 18 Barbara Hale, American actress (d. 2017)https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/barbara-hale-who-played-della-street-on-perry-mason-dies-at-94/2017/01/27/a18c6b20-e4d3-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html Barbara Hale, who played Della Street on 'Perry Mason', dies at 94 The Washington Post January 27, 2017 January 29, 2017 Bernstein, Adam Paulo Nogueira Neto, Brazilian environmentalist (d. 2019) Georges Dumitresco, Romanian-Swiss physician, painter, illustrator and poet (d. 2008) April 19 – Erich Hartmann, German World War II fighter pilot, highest-scoring ace in world history (d. 1993) April 21 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish writer (d. 1987) April 22 Charles Mingus, African-American musician (d. 1979) Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (d. 1993) April 24 Susanna Agnelli, Italian politician (d. 2009) Matti Lehtinen, Finnish opera singer (d. 2022)https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12581216 Kansallisbaritoni Matti Lehtinen on kuollut August 17, 2022 Yle Uutiset April 26 Keith McKenzie, Australian rules footballer, coach (d. 2018) Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian journalist and politician, Governor General of Canada (d. 1993)Jeanne Sauvé The Canadian Encyclopedia https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jeanne-mathilde-sauve Jean-Noel Tremblay 26 February 2018 29 January 2021 Margaret Scott, South African ballerina, choreographer (d. 2019) April 27 Martin Gray, Polish writer (d. 2016) Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012) April 28 – Barbara Lüdemann, German politician (d. 1992)Lüdemann, Barbara https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/1098435869 2025-05-28 Hessian Biography Hessian Institute for Regional History de Hessisches Institut für Landesgeschichte April 29 – Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician (d. 2016) May May 1 – Vitaly Popkov, Russian fighter ace (d. 2010) May 2 – Roscoe Lee Browne, African-American actor (d. 2007) May 4 – Eugenie Clark, American marine biologist (d. 2015) Eugenie Clark, Scholar of the Life Aquatic, Dies at 92 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/us/eugenie-clark-scholar-of-the-life-aquatic-dies-at-92.html The New York Times 2015-02-25 2016-01-08 0362-4331 Robert D. Mcfadden limited May 6 – Anna Elizabeth Botha, first wife of South African State President P. W. Botha (d. 1997) May 7 – Darren McGavin, American actor (d. 2006)https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/26/AR2006022600040.html The Washington Post Actor Darren McGavin Dies at 83 Risling Greg February 26, 2006 December 28, 2016 Associated PressHerz 1975 20–21 May 8 – Yusof Rawa, Malaysian politician (d. 2000) May 9 – Rolands Kalniņš, Latvian film director (d. 2022) May 11 – Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist (d. 2020) May 13 Otl Aicher, German graphic artist (d. 1991) Bea Arthur, American actress, comedian (d. 2009)Obituary: Bea Arthur https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/27/obituary-bea-arthur The Guardian 8 April 2021 en 26 April 2009 May 14 – Franjo Tuđman, first President of Croatia (d. 1999) May 15 – Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun (d. 2021) May 18 – Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (d. 2005) May 22 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987) May 25 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984) May 27 Otto Carius, German tank commander (d. 2015)https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/otto-carius-s0v7rh3mltb Otto Carius 12 February 2015 The Times 12 June 2015 Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (d. 2015) May 28 – Pompeyo Márquez, Venezuelan politician (d. 2017) May 29 Reginald Rodrigues, Indian field hockey player (d. 1995) Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (d. 2001) May 31 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992)10.1093/ref:odnb/51023 The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 June June 1 – Bibi Ferreira, Brazilian actress (d. 2019) June 3 – Alain Resnais, French film director (d. 2014) June 5 – Sheila Sim, English actress (d. 2016) June 7 – Selma van de Perre, Dutch–British resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor (d. 2025) June 9 – Hein Eersel, Surinamese linguist and cultural researcher (d. 2022)https://www.srherald.com/suriname/2022/06/11/hein-eersel-heengegaan/ Hein Eersel heengegaan June 11, 2022 Suriname Herald June 10 – Judy Garland, American singer, actress (d. 1969)Judy Garland Biography, Movies, Songs, & Facts Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judy-Garland www.britannica.com 2 January 2022 en June 11 – Tibor Baranski, Hungarian-American educator (d. 2019) June 12 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (d. 2013) June 14 – Kevin Roche, Irish-American architect (d. 2019) June 18 – Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004) June 19 Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009) Ahmad Yani, Indonesian general (d. 1965) June 22 – Mona Lisa, Filipino actress (d. 2019) June 23 – Wu Yingyin, Chinese singer (d. 2009) June 24 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer, lyricist (d. 1988) June 25 – Sita bint Fahd Al Damir, Saudi princess (d. 2012) June 26 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013) June 29 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991) July July 1 – Mordechai Bibi, Israeli politician (d. 2023) July 2 Pierre Cardin, Italian-born French fashion designer (d. 2020) Paula Valenska, Czech actress (d. 1994) July 3 Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (Corneille), Dutch painter (d. 2010) Viggo Rivad, Danish photographer (d. 2016) Howie Schultz, American baseball and basketball player (d. 2009) July 5 – Doris Margaret Anderson, Canadian nutritionist and senator (d. 2022) July 7 Francis Jeanson, French philosopher (d. 2009) P. Gopinathan Nair, Indian social worker (d. 2022) July 10 Petar Kovachev, Bulgarian cross country skier Jake LaMotta, American boxer (d. 2017) Herb McKenley, Jamaican Olympic sprinter (d. 2007) July 13 Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar, Egyptian military commander (d. 2011) Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician (d. 2016)Anker Jorgensen, Danish Prime Minister Who Opposed Vietnam War, Dies at 93 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/world/europe/anker-jorgensen-former-prime-minister-of-denmark-dies-at-93.html 22 March 2016 The New York Times March 21, 2016 limited July 14 – Käbi Laretei, Estonian and Swedish concert pianist (d. 2014) July 15 Ghulam Nabi Firaq, Kashmiri poet, writer and educationist (d. 2016) B. Rajam Iyer, South Indian Carnatic singer (d. 2009) Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018) Dottie Frazier, American scuba diver (d. 2022)Archbold Rich 2019-09-20 At 97, Dottie May Frazier has led an extraordinary life but she isn't done – she's aiming for 100 https://www.presstelegram.com/rich-archbold-dottie-may-frazier-at-97-has-led-an-extraordinary-life-but-she-isnt-done-shes-aiming-for-100 2020-12-16 Long Beach Press Telegram en-US July 16 – Anatoli Levitin, Soviet Russian painter, art educator (d. 2018) July 17 – Tetsurō Tamba, Japanese actor (d. 2006) July 18 Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (d. 1996)Alexander Bird Thomas Kuhn http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/ Stanford University Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2004 plato.stanford.edu Hedy Stenuf, Austrian figure skater (d. 2010) July 19 George McGovern, American politician, historian and author (d. 2012) Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, King of Malaysia (d. 2008) July 21 Kay Starr, American jazz and pop singer (d. 2016)Belcher David Kay Starr, Hillbilly Singer With Crossover Appeal, Dies at 94 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/arts/music/kay-starr-hillbilly-singer-with-crossover-appeal-dies-at-94.html The New York Times July 21, 2018 en November 3, 2016 limited Mollie Sugden, English comedy actress (d. 2009) July 25 – John B. Goodenough, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023) July 26 Blake Edwards, American film director (d. 2010) Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000) July 27 Adolfo Celi, Italian actor and director (d. 1986) Norman Lear, American television writer and producer (d. 2023)Alexander Bryan Norman Lear's 100th birthday celebration on ABC: 'I cannot believe a century has passed' https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2022/07/27/norman-lear-100th-birthday-tv-legend-cant-believe-century-passed/10114888002/ USA Today 13 March 2023 en July 27, 2022 July 28 – Hans Frauenfelder, Swiss-born American physicist and biophysicist (d. 2022) August August 1 – Guan Xuezeng, Chinese actor (d. 2006) August 2 – Tupua Leupena, Tuvaluan politician (d. 1996) August 3 – Su Bai, Chinese archaeologist (d. 2018) August 4 – Janez Stanovnik, Slovenian economist and politician (d. 2020)https://www.dnevnik.si/1042921204/slovenija/janez-stanovnik-19222020-partizan-ki-je-v-zepu-hkrati-nosil-clansko-izkaznico-komunisticne-partije-in-rozni-venec Janez Stanovnik (1922–2020): Partizan, ki je v žepu hkrati nosil člansko izkaznico komunistične partije in rožni venec | Dnevnik Dnevnik.si 31 January 2020 January 31, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200131192728/https://www.dnevnik.si/1042921204/slovenija/janez-stanovnik-19222020-partizan-ki-je-v-zepu-hkrati-nosil-clansko-izkaznico-komunisticne-partije-in-rozni-venec dead August 8 Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999) Alberto Granado, Cuban writer and scientist (d. 2011)https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/world/americas/07granado.html Alberto Granado, 88, Friend of Che, Dies Victoria Burnett The New York Times March 6, 2011 limited August 9 – Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985) August 11 – Sara Luzita, Spanish actress and dancer (d. 2025) August 12 – Miloš Jakeš, Czech politician (d. 2020) August 14 – Leslie Marr, English artist and racing driver (d. 2021) August 15 Lukas Foss, German-born composer (d. 2009) Mehnga Singh, Indian high jumper August 22 – Micheline Presle, French actress (d. 2024) August 23 Tônia Carrero, Brazilian actress (d. 2018) Inge Deutschkron, German-Israeli journalist and author (d. 2022) Roland Dumas, French lawyer and politician (d. 2024) August 24 René Lévesque, 23rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1987) Jules Wieme, member of De La Salle Brothers who developed agriculture in northern Rwanda (d. 2015) Howard Zinn, American social activist and historian (d. 2010)https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/us/29zinn.html Howard Zinn, Historian, Is Dead at 87 New York Times January 28, 2010 January 28, 2010 Powell Michael limited August 25 Gloria Dea, American actress, dancer, and magician (d. 2023) Ivry Gitlis, Israeli violinist (d. 2020) August 27 – Sōsuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1998) August 31 – André Baudry, French magazine editor (d. 2018) Date Unknown – Wu Nansheng, Chinese politician (d. 2018) September September 1 Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born American actress, dancer and singer (d. 2007) Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director (d. 2000) September 2 – Arthur Ashkin, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020) September 6 – Adriano Moreira, Portuguese politician, Minister of the Overseas Provinces, President of the CDS – People's Party (d. 2022) September 7 David Croft, British writer, producer and actor (d. 2011) Necdet Calp, Turkish civil servant, politician (d. 1998) September 8 – Sid Caesar, American actor, comedian (d. 2014) September 9 Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017) Manolis Glezos, Greek Resistance fighter (d. 2020) Warwick Kerr, Brazilian geneticist (d. 2018) September 14 – Donald E. Allured, American handbell choir director, composer, and arranger (d. 2011) September 15 Jackie Cooper, American actor, director (d. 2011) Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian (d. 2001) September 16 Guy Hamilton, French-English director, screenwriter (d. 2016) Janis Paige, American actress (d. 2024) September 17 – Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (d. 1979) September 19 Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (d. 2000) Dana Zátopková, Czech Olympic javelin thrower (d. 2020)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/03/13/dana-zatopkova-double-olympic-javelin-champion-whose-love-affair/ Dana Zatopkova, Olympic javelin champion whose love affair with Emil Zatopek enthralled the sporting world – obituary The Telegraph March 13, 2020 www.telegraph.co.uk September 21 – Lee Hee-ho, First Lady of South Korea (d. 2019) September 24 – Asit Sen, Indian Bengali film director (d. 2001) September 25 Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992) Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal (d. 2019) September 28 – Jules Sedney, Prime Minister of Suriname (d. 2020) September 29 Noémi Ban, Hungarian-American lecturer, public speaker and Holocaust survivor (d. 2019) Karl-Heinz Köpcke, German television presenter, news speaker (d. 1991) Lizabeth Scott, American actress (d. 2015) October October 1 – Yang Chen-Ning, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2025) October 3 – Raffaele La Capria, Italian novelist and screenwriter (d. 2022) October 4 – Gianna Beretta Molla, Italian Roman Catholic pediatrician, saint (d. 1962) October 5 – José Froilán González, Argentine racing driver (Formula 1) (d. 2013) October 11 – Wolfgang Zuckermann, German-American harpsichord maker and sustainability activist (d. 2018) October 12 Eric G. Hall, Burmese-Pakistani Air Vice Marshal and World War II veteran (d. 1998)http://www.paf.gov.pk/pioneering_officers.html https://archive.today/20130408100134/http://www.paf.gov.pk/pioneering_officers.html dead 2013-04-08 Pioneering Officers Pakistan Air Force - Official Website Blue Demon, Mexican luchador (d. 2000) October 14 – Yumeji Tsukioka, Japanese actress (d. 2017) October 15 – Luigi Giussani, Italian Catholic priest (d. 2005) October 17 – Angel Wagenstein, Bulgarian screenwriter and author (d. 2023) October 19 - Ebrahim Golestan, Iranian filmmaker (d. 2023)Karimi Daryoush 23 August 2023 Renowned Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan dies aged 100 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66594075 BBC 12 May 2026 October 23 – Coleen Gray, American actress (d. 2015)Coleen Gray obituary https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/05/coleen-gray The Guardian 10 December 2020 en 5 August 2015 October 27 Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor, singer (d. 1998) Ruby Dee, American actress, poet, activist, journalist and second wife of Ossie Davis (d. 2014)http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ruby-gem-90-article-1.1201556 Ruby Dee marks 90th birthday with new documentary about her illustrious life with late husband Ossie Davis New York Daily News November 13, 2012 Carlos Andrés Pérez, 55th President of Venezuela (d. 2010) Michel Galabru, French actor (d. 2016) October 28 – Gershon Kingsley, German-American composer (d. 2019) October 30 – Iancu Țucărman, Romanian Holocaust survivor (d. 2021)https://newsweek.ro/actualitate/a-murit-iancu-tucarman-penultimul-supravietuitor-al-trenurilor-mortii-din-timpul-pogromului A murit Iancu Țucărman, penultimul supraviețuitor al "trenurilor morții" din timpul Pogromului Alex Darvari Newsweek România 9 January 2021 rohttps://adevarul.ro/news/societate/iancu-Tucarman-supravietuitor-pogromului-iasi-murit-cauza-covid-19-1_5ff8c5ae5163ec4271bc21c6/index.html Iancu Țucărman, supraviețuitor al Pogromului de la Iași, a murit din cauza COVID-19 George Andrei Cristescu Adevărul 8 January 2021 ro October 31 Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress, children's book author (d. 2005) András Hegedüs, 45th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1999) Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia (d. 2012) November November 5 – María Isabel Rodríguez, Salvadorian physician, academic and government official November 8 – Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon, heart transplant pioneer (d. 2001) November 9 Dorothy Dandridge, African-American actress (d. 1965) Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006) November 11 George Blake, né Behar, Dutch-born British double agent (d. 2020) Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007)Kurt Vonnegut Biography, Facts, & Books https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kurt-Vonnegut Encyclopedia Britannica 16 April 2020 en November 12 Ichiro Abe, Japanese judoka (d. 2022) Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)Baxter Brian September 12, 2002 Obituary: Kim Hunter https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/sep/13/guardianobituaries.arts The Guardian London February 5, 2017 November 13 – Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d. 1984) November 14 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2016) Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973) November 16 – José Saramago, Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)Richard Lea https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/18/jose-saramago-writer-nobel-dies Nobel laureate José Saramago dies, aged 87 London The Guardian 18 June 2010 18 June 2010 November 17 – Stanley Cohen, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2020) November 18 – Luis Somoza Debayle, 26th President of Nicaragua (d. 1967) November 19 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist, epigrapher (d. 1999) November 22 – Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff, Norwegian communist (d. 1971) November 23 – Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese politician, statesman (d. 2008) November 24 – Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American inventor and scientist (d. 2012) November 26: Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000) Richard James, British army officer and civil servant (d. 2008)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lives-remembered-jimmy-james-940211.html Lives Remembered: Jimmy James Independent 24 September 2008 November 27 – Nicholas Magallanes, Mexican-American principal dancer, charter member of the New York City Ballet (d. 1977) Date Unknown – Abdullahi Issa, Somali politician, 1st Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 1988) December December 1 – Charles Gérard, French actor (d. 2019) December 4 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (d. 1959) December 8 Lucian Freud, German born painter (d. 2011) Gerhard Löwenthal, German journalist (d. 2002) December 9 – Redd Foxx, African-American comedian and actor (d. 1991) December 10 – Edith Ballantyne, Czech-born Canadian peace activist (d. 2025) December 11 Frank Blaichman, Polish author (d. 2018) Dilip Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2021) Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress, television personality (d. 2008) December 12 – Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter, writer (d. 1979) December 14 Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001) Antonio Larreta, Uruguayan theatre actor, critic and writer (d. 2015) December 17 – Josiane Serre, French academic chemist, teacher, pioneer of quantum chemistry (d. 2004) December 18 – Carlos Altamirano, Chilean lawyer and socialist politician (d. 2019) December 21 Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (d. 1989) Paul Winchell, American actor (d. 2005) Cécile DeWitt-Morette, French mathematician and physicist (d. 2017) December 22 – Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, Princess of Luxembourg (d. 2011) December 24 Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990) Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-American filmmaker and poet (d. 2019) December 28 Stan Lee, American comics creator (d. 2018)Kandell Jonathan Webster Andy Stan Lee Is Dead at 95; Superhero of Marvel Comics + Video (05:26) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/obituaries/stan-lee-dead.html November 12, 2018 The New York Times November 13, 2018 https://archive.today/20181112194330/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/obituaries/stan-lee-dead.html November 12, 2018 live limited Ramapada Chowdhury, Indian novelist and writer (d. 2018) December 29 William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998) William Gaddis, 75, Innovative Author Of Complex, Demanding Novels, Is Dead Gussow, Mel The New York Times December 17, 1998 https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/17/us/william-gaddis-75-innovative-author-of-complex-demanding-novels-is-dead.html?pagewanted=1 June 7, 2010 limited Masroor Hosain, Pakistani aerobatic pilot (d. 1969) December 30 Boes Boestami, Indonesian actor (d. 1970) Magín Díaz, Colombian musician and composer (d. 2017) December 31 Tomas Balduino, Brazilian bishop (d. 2014) Deaths thumb|right|100px|Sir Ernest Shackleton thumb|right|100px|Ōkuma Shigenobu thumb|100px|Frank Tudor thumb|right|100px|Pope Benedict XV thumb|100px|Yamagata Aritomo thumb|100px|Charles I of Austria thumb|100px|Ernest Solvay thumb|100px|Michael Mayr thumb|100px|W. 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Rivers thumb|100px|Albert I, Prince of Monaco thumb|100px|Alexander Graham Bell thumb|100px|Saint Benjamin of Petrograd thumb|100px|Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna thumb|right|100px|Oscar Hertwig thumb|100px|Marcel Proust thumb|100px|Gabriel Narutowicz January January 1 – István Kühár, Prekmurje Slovene writer, politician (b. 1887) January 5 – Sir Ernest Shackleton, British explorer (b. 1874) January 10 Ōkuma Shigenobu, 2-time Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1838) Frank Tudor, Australian politician (b. 1866) January 15 – John Kirk, British explorer (b. 1832) January 22 Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854) Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1837) James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Irish-born politician, diplomat and historian (b. 1838) William Christie, British astronomer (b. 1845) January 23 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855) January 27 Nellie Bly, American undercover journalist (b. 1864) Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (b. 1840)Cigliana, Simona; Fedi, Roberto (2002). Giovanni Verga. Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato. p. 287. (in Italian). January 31 – Heinrich Reinhardt, Austrian composer (b. 1865) February February 1 Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese field marshal, 3rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1838) William Desmond Taylor, Irish-born film director (b. 1872) Long Bruce William Desmond Taylor: a dossier Scarecrow Press Metuchen, N.J 1991 9781461674344 275 February 3 Christiaan de Wet, Boer general, rebel leader, and politician (b. 1854) John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839) February 4 – Henry Jones, British philosopher (b. 1852) February 8 – Kabayama Sukenori, Japanese samurai, general and statesman (b. 1837) February 14 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish Minister of Interior (b. 1880) February 16 – Newton Knight, American farmer, soldier and Southern Unionist in Mississippi and Civil War guerrilla (b. 1829) February 23 – John Joseph Jolly Kyle, Argentine chemist (b. 1838).Enrique Herrero Ducloux Juan J. J. Kyle (1838-1922) Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina XCIII 170 Buenos Aires Imprenta y casa editora «Coni» 1922 https://archive.org/stream/analesdelasocied94soci#page/n179/mode/1up es Internet Archive February 25 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (executed) (b. 1869)The Solicitors' Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=PgANAQAAMAAJ 1965 The Journal 808 March March 1 – Pichichi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892) March 4 – Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874) March 10 – Harry Kellar, American magician (b. 1849) March 19 – Max von Hausen, German general (b. 1846) March 21 – C. V. Raman Pillai, Indian novelist and playwright (b. 1858) March 31 – Andreas Gruber (b. 1859), Cäzila Gruber (b. 1850), Viktoria Gabriel (b. 1887), Cäzila Gabriel (b. 1915), Josef Gruber (b. 1920) and Maria Baumgartner (b. 1878). The Hinterkaifeck murders April April 1 – Emperor Charles I of Austria (b. 1887) April 2 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1884) April 8 – Erich von Falkenhayn, German general (b. 1861) April 9 Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist (b. 1866) Patrick Manson, Scottish physician (b. 1844) April 14 – Cap Anson, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1852) April 28 – Paul Deschanel, President of France (b. 1855) May May 4 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Communist politician (executed) (b. 1888) Roszkowski Wojciech Biographical dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century Routledge London New York 2015 9781317475941 459 May 7 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857) May 12 – John Martin Poyer, United States Navy commander, 12th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1861) May 15 – Leslie Ward, English portrait artist, caricaturist (b. 1851) May 16 – Rudolf Montecuccoli, Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. 1843) May 18 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845) May 19 – Son Byong-hi, Korean activist (b. 1861) May 21 – Michael Mayr, Austrian politician, 2nd Chancellor of Austria (b. 1864) May 26 – Ernest Solvay, Belgian chemist, philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1838) June June 4 – W. H. R. Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864) June 6 Lillian Russell, American singer, actress (b. 1861) Richard A. Ballinger, American politician (b. 1858) June 18 Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851) Belgrave Ninnis, British explorer (b. 1837) June 20 – Vittorio Monti, Italian composer (b. 1868) June 21 – Take Ionescu, 29th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1858) June 22 – Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, British field marshal and politician (b. 1864) June 23 – Wu Tingfang, Chinese Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1842) June 24 – Walther Rathenau, German statesman, Weimar Republic foreign minister (assassinated) (b. 1867) June 26 – Prince Albert I of Monaco (b. 1848) June 27 – Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito of Japan (b. 1867) June 28 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet, playwright (b. 1885) July July 4 – Lothar von Richthofen, German World War I flying ace (flying accident) (b. 1894) July 6 – Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, Polish-born missionary sister (b. 1863) July 8 – Muhammad V an-Nasir, Bey of Tunis (b. 1855) July 17 – Heinrich Rubens, German physicist (b. 1865)https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz106818.html Rubens, Heinrich - Deutsche Biographie Deutsche Biographie www.deutsche-biographie.de July 20 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856) July 22 – Jōkichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854) July 25 – Paul Maistre, French general (b. 1858) July 28 – Jules Guesde, French Socialist journalist and politician (b. 1845) July 31 – Mary Noailles Murfree, American novelist (b. 1850) August August 1 – Harry Boland, Irish republican (b. 1887) August 2 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor (b. 1847) August 3 – Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist, politician (b. 1851) August 4 Nikolai Nebogatov, Russian admiral (b. 1849) Enver Pasha, Ottoman military leader, Turkish revolutionary (b. 1881) August 5 – Tommy McCarthy, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1863) August 12 – Arthur Griffith, Irish republican, President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1872) August 13 – Saint Benjamin of Petrograd (b. 1873) August 14 – Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, British newspaper magnate (b. 1865)Wilson, A. N. Hutchinson 2005 After the Victorians 12: Chief 191–2 978-0-09-179484-2 Retrieved 23 November 2013. August 19 – Felip Pedrell, Spanish composer (b. 1841) August 22 Sir Thomas Brock, British sculptor (b. 1847) Michael Collins, Irish republican, revolutionary, and Chairman of the Provisional Government (assassinated) (b. 1890) August 23 – Gheorghe Bengescu, Romanian diplomat and man of letters (b. 1844) August 25 – Ioannis Svoronos, Greek numismatist (b. 1863) August 29 – Georges Sorel, French philosopher, theorist of revolutionary syndicalism (b. 1847) September September 1 – Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany, British royal (b. 1861) September 4 – James Young, Scottish footballer (motorcycle accident) (b. 1882)http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/football_player_profile.cfm?page=823&playerID=112866&CFID=449150&CFTOKEN=69345798 Player & Result Finder: Scottish Football Association The Scottish FA 1922-09-04 2012-02-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20220410134540/https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/players/?pid=112866 10 April 2022 September 5 – Sarah Winchester, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (b. 1837) September 7 – William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (b. 1852) September 10 Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna (b. 1867) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, British poet (b. 1840) September 18 – Alfons Grotowski, Polish sanitary engineer (b. 1833)Encyklopedia Warszawy. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1994. ISBN 83-01-08836-2. (in Polish) September 25 – Carlo Caneva, Italian general (b. 1845) September 26 Sir Charles Wade, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1863) Thomas E. Watson, American politician, senator (b. 1856) October October 7 – Marie Lloyd, British singer (b. 1870) October 11 – Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1867) October 19 – Seaton Schroeder, American admiral (b. 1849)Collection: Seaton Schroeder papers U.S. Naval War College Archives https://usnwcarchives.org/repositories/2/resources/334 2023-10-17 February 2026 InternetArchiveBot October 22 – Lyman Abbott, American theologian (b. 1835)Encyclopædia Britannica Abbott, Lyman 15th 2010 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. I: A-Ak – Bayes Chicago, IL 978-1-59339-837-8 13 registration https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia2009ency/page/13 October 25 – Oscar Hertwig, German zoologist (b. 1849) October 30 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author (b. 1863) Tezla Albert Hungarian Authors: A Bibliographical Handbook Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mass 1970 9780674426504 174 November November 1 – Lima Barreto, Brazilian writer (b. 1881) November 7 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1860) November 18 – Marcel Proust, French author (b. 1871) Carter William The UAB Marcel Proust Symposium: in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Swann's Way (1913-1988) Summa Publications Birmingham, Ala 1989 9780917786754 2 November 23 – Eduard Seler, Prussian scholar, Mesoamericanist (b. 1849) November 24 Erskine Childers, Irish novelist, nationalist (executed) (b. 1870) Sidney Sonnino, 19th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1847) November 27 – Demetrio Castillo Duany, Cuban revolutionary, soldier, and politician (b. 1856) November 28 – Dimitrios Gounaris, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1867) December December 8 – Mary Marcy, American socialist (b. 1877) December 12 – John Wanamaker, American businessman (b. 1838) December 13 – Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861) December 14 – Henry Pierrepoint, British executioner (b. 1878) December 16 – Gabriel Narutowicz, Polish professor and politician, 1st President of Poland (assassinated) (b. 1865) December 17 – David Lindsay, Australian explorer (b. 1856) Date unknown Édouard Harlé, French engineer and prehistorian (b. 1850) Sufi Azizur Rahman, Bengali Muslim theologian and teacher (b. 1862)Mashayekh-e-Chatgam 1 Ahmadullah Mufti 2016 Ahmad Publishers Dhaka 137–139 978-984-92106-4-1 3 Sergei Sheydeman, Russian general (b. 1857) Nobel Prizes right|100px Physics – Niels Henrik David Bohr Chemistry – Francis William Aston Physiology or Medicine – Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Fritz Meyerhof Literature – Jacinto Benavente Peace – Fridtjof Nansen References Sources Herz Peggy 1975 TV Close-ups https://archive.org/details/tvcloseups00herz registration Scholastic New York 2360608