411 REFERENCE · Wikipedia
1950
Reference material by Wikipedia contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
yes
August 2019
1950
1950 the song by King Princess 1950 (song) the song by Amedeo Minghi 1950 (Amedeo Minghi song)
border:none;b 3/3/3/3 Battle of Inchon.png 解放军在康定.jpg Jogo no Estádio do Maracanã, antes da Copa do Mundo de 1950.tif Welch-McCarthy-Hearings.jpg Assam earthquake, 1950, Photograph Kingdon Ward- RIWATCH Museum (cropped).jpg Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R87570, Görlitzer Abkommen.jpg Jayuya1950.gif Typhoon Jane 1950 Scan10003 (cropped).JPG Bhumbol coronation 2.jpg 350 From top to bottom, left to right:
The Korean War begins as North Korea invades the South in the Battle of Inchon;
The Annexation of Tibet by China brings Tibet under Chinese control;
The 1950 FIFA World Cup ends with Uruguay’s Maracanazo upset over Brazil;
McCarthyism drives anti-communist hysteria in the U.S.;
The 1950 Assam–Tibet earthquake causes massive destruction;
The Treaty of Zgorzelec confirms the Oder–Neisse border;
The Jayuya Uprising challenges U.S. rule in Puerto Rico;
Typhoon Jane devastates Japan;
King Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned.
1950
1950
2
Events
January
January 1950
January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.IPA - History of the IPA https://www.ipa-international.org/history/The-IPA-is-founded/142963 2025-03-10 www.ipa-international.org
January 5 – Sverdlovsk plane crash: Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 aboard are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/profiles/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=102155 Athletes – Famous Olympic Athletes, Medalists, Sports Heroes May 9, 2017
January 6 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China; the Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
January 7 – A fire in the St Elizabeth's Ward of Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, United States, kills 41 patients.Iowa. Inspection Bureau Mercy Hospital, St. Elizabeth's Ward Building Fire: Davenport, Iowa, January 7, 1950 https://books.google.com/books?id=7SEmyQEACAAJ 1950 Iowa Inspection Bureau
January 9 – The Israeli government recognizes the People's Republic of China.2017-01-23 Israel and China – bridging the two ends of Asia https://www.jpost.com/opinion/israel-and-china-bridging-the-two-ends-of-asia-479376 2025-09-02 The Jerusalem Post en 0792-822X
January 12 – British submarine Truculent P315 6 collides with Swedish oil tanker Divina in the Thames Estuary and sinks; 64 die.Submarine losses 1904 to present day https://web.archive.org/web/20070808171910/http://www.rnsubmus.co.uk/general/losses.htm August 8, 2007 , RN Submarine Museum, Gosport.
January 13 – Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.
thumb|180px|right|January 14 – Mount Lamington erupts in Papua New Guinea.
January 21 – In the United States, suspected spy Alger Hiss is convicted on two counts of perjury.United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities Annual Report for the Year ... https://books.google.com/books?id=9opJYMJTbIoC&pg=PA32 1950 The Committee 32
January 23 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.Staff C. I. E. 2025-01-23 Knesset Declares Jerusalem Capital of Israel https://israeled.org/knesset-declares-jerusalem-capital/ 2025-09-12 CIE en-US
January 24 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs, German émigré physicist, confesses to a British MI5 interrogator that he is a Soviet spy: for seven years, he passed top secret data on U.S. and British nuclear weapons research to the Soviet Union. Fuchs is formally charged on February 2.Christopher Andrew, Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (Random House Digital, 2009), pp. 387–88
January 26 – India promulgates its constitution, forming a republic, and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president. The Kingdom of Mysore is merged into the new republic.
January 31
United States President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949."Year by Year 1950" – History Channel International
The last Kuomintang troops surrender in mainland China.
February
February 1950
February 1 – Chiang Kai-shek is re-elected as president of the Republic of China.
February 6
In West Virginia, 372,000 coal miners strike (they remain out until March 3).West Virginia Historical Society https://web.archive.org/web/20190829035647/http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhs/wvhs2203.pdf August 29, 2019 (retrieved August 26, 2018)
In India, the first Cabinet Secretary (N. R. Pillai) is appointed.
February 8
The Stasi is founded in East Germany, and acts as a secret police until 1990.
A payment is first made by Diners Club card, in New York, United States (the first use of a charge card).Diners Club International Celebrates 75 Years https://www.forbes.com/sites/diners-club-international/2025/02/14/diners-club-international-celebrates-75-years/ 2025-04-05 Forbes enThe current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS). April 2025
February 9 – In Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin makes a speech that claims to have 205 communists in the U.S. State Department.
February 11
Two Viet Minh battalions attack a French base in French Indochina.
Finland recognizes Indonesia.
February 12
The European Broadcasting Union is founded.The EBU - European Broadcasting Union formed https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/february/the-ebu 2025-03-10 www.bbc.com en-GB
Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction.
February 13 – British Columbia B-36 crash: The U.S. Air Force loses a Convair B-36 bomber that carried a Mark 4 nuclear bomb off the west coast of Canada, and produces the world's first Broken Arrow.2025-02-13 Today in Aviation History: First Broken Arrow Incident - Vintage Aviation News https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbird-articles/today-in-aviation-history/today-in-aviation-history-first-broken-arrow-incident.html 2025-04-05 en-US
February 14 – Cold War:
The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty (terminated in 1979).
In an election speech at Edinburgh, Winston Churchill proposes "a parley at the summit" with Soviet leaders, the first use of the term "summit" for such a meeting.David Kynaston David Kynaston Austerity Britain 1945–51 London Bloomsbury 2007 978-0-7475-7985-4 385
February 15 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi is re-elected president of Finland.
February 19 – Konrad Adenauer tries unsuccessfully to negotiate with East Germany, to begin reunification.
February 21 – Cunard liner Aquitania arrives at the scrapyard in Faslane at the end of a 36-year career, the longest of any in the 20th Century.
February 23 – 1950 United Kingdom general election: The Labour Party, led by Clement Attlee, remains in office, but the Tories, led by Winston Churchill, increase their seats in the House of Commons.
February – The Ad Hoc Committee on Slavery of the United Nations is formally inaugurated with its first meeting at Lake Success in February 1950.Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. Storbritannien: AltaMira Press. p. 323-324
March
March 1950
March 1
Klaus Fuchs is convicted in London of spying against both Britain and the United States for the Soviet Union, by giving to the latter top secret atomic bomb data.
Acting President of the Republic of China Li Zongren ends his term in office and Chiang Kai-shek resumes his duties as president, after moving the government of the Republic to Taipei, Taiwan.
March 3 – Poland indicates its intention to exile all Germans.
March 8 – The first Volkswagen Type 2 (also known as the Microbus) rolls off the assembly line in Wolfsburg, Germany.
March 12
A plane carrying returning rugby fans from Ireland to Wales crashes near Llandow, with the loss of 80 lives.
Royal question: 1950 Belgian monarchy referendum – In Belgium, a referendum on the monarchy shows 57.7% support the return of King Leopold III from exile to resume exercise of his constitutional powers, 42.3% against. The King has said he would abdicate if he did not receive 55% support, and that the final decision would be for the federal parliament.
March 18 – The Belgian government collapses, after the March 12 referendum.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/18/newsid_2840000/2840237.stm BBC News 1950: Government falls as Belgians vote for king March 18, 1950
March 20 – The Polish government enacts a law to take possession of properties owned by Roman Catholic churches.Marian S. Mazgaj Church and State in Communist Poland: A History, 1944–1989 Jefferson, NC McFarland 2010 55–56 9780786459049
March 22 – Egypt demands that Britain remove all its troops from the Suez Canal zone.
March 23 – The 22nd Academy Awards ceremony is held in Hollywood. All the King's Men (1949 film) is Best Picture.
April
April 1950
April 14 – Influential British adventure comic Eagle is launched.
April 21 – Nainital wedding massacre: A mass stabbing occurs at Nainital in India, killing 22 members of the Harijan caste.22 guests slain, The Bend Bulletin (21 April 1950)22 guests slain as wedding held, The Ogden Standard-Examiner (21 April 1950)Drunk Gurkha Kills 22, Los Angeles Times (22 April 1950) Murders 22 at wedding, The_Huntingdon_Daily_News (22 April 1950)
April 24 – Jordan formally annexes the West Bank.Jordanian Annexation of the West Bank (April 1950) https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jordanian-annexation-of-the-west-bank-april-1950 2025-09-27 www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
April 27
Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating the races.
Britain formally recognises Israel.
May
May 1950
May 1 – UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, begins operations.
May 5 – Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), king of Thailand since 1946, is crowned, at The Grand Palace in Bangkok.
May 6 – Cazin rebellion in Bosnia against Communist agrarian reforms.
May 8 – Tollund Man is unearthed in Denmark.Welcome to the story about Tollund Man https://www.museumsilkeborg.dk/welcome-to-the-story-about-tollund-man#:~:text=He%20was%20found%20in%20the,the%20past%20%E2%80%93%20face%20to%20face. 2025-03-10 Tollund Man en
May 9 – Robert Schuman presents his proposal for the creation of a pan-European organisation, which he believes to be indispensable to the maintenance of permanently peaceful relations between the different nations of the continent. This proposal, known as the "Schuman Declaration", is considered to be the beginning of the creation of what becomes the European Union.
May 11 – The Kefauver Committee hearings into U.S. organized crime begin.
May 13 – The first race in the inaugural FIA Formula One World Championship in automobile racing is held, at Silverstone, England.
May 14 – The Huntsville Times runs the headline "Dr. von Braun Says Rocket Flights Possible to Moon."
May 17 – Israeli Air Force Spitfires intercept a British Royal Air Force Short Sunderland when it inadvertently crosses into Israeli airspace, forcing it to land at Lod Airport. The Sunderland's crew have been issued maps that do not depict Israel, as Britain had not recognized the Jewish state at the time they were issued.
May 22
Celâl Bayar becomes the third president of Turkey and Adnan Menderes of the DP forms the new government of Turkey (19th government).
Recorded premiere of Four Last Songs (1948) by German composer Richard Strauss (d. 1949) given by the composer's choice of soloist, Norwegian-born soprano Kirsten Flagstad, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler at the Royal Albert Hall in London,https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2007/Apr07/Strauss_Harbin_SBT1410.htm Strauss, Wagner, Flagstad, Harbin SBT1410 [DH]: Classical CD Reviews - April 2007 MusicWeb-International www.musicweb-international.com sponsored by Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, Sultan of Mysore.
May 24 – The United States Maritime Administration is formed (under the Department of Commerce).
May 25 – The Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel is formally opened to traffic in New York City.
May 29
St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The pilot series of the world's longest-running radio soap opera, The Archers, is first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in the U.K. It will still be running more than 75 years later.
June
thumbnail|right|240px|June 25 – Korean War begins.
June 1950
June 1–23 – Mauna Loa in Hawaii starts erupting.
June 3 – Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, of the French Annapurna expedition, become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak.
June 6 – In Turkey, the Adhan (call to prayer) in Arabic is permitted by law after a ban of 18 years.Zafar Imam Muslims in India https://books.google.com/books?id=PhduAAAAMAAJ 1975 Orient Longman 288 9780883860779
June 8 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
June 16 – Maracanã Stadium, which becomes a well-known sports venue of Brazil, opens in Rio de Janeiro, in advance of the opening of the 1950 FIFA World Cup in the country on June 24.Américas https://books.google.com/books?id=SU0gAQAAMAAJ 2005 Division of Cultural Relations, Pan American Union 4
June 25 – The Korean War begins: Troops and T-34 tanks of the North Korean People's Army cross the 38th parallel into South Korea.
June 27 – Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman orders American military forces to aid in the defense of South Korea.
June 28 – Korean War:
North Korean forces capture Seoul, but do not win the war.
Hangang Bridge bombing: The South Korean army, in an attempt to defend Seoul, blows up the Hangang Bridge while it is crowded with refugees.
Seoul National University Hospital massacre: North Korean troops kill around 800 medical staff and patients.
Bodo League massacre begins: South Korean armed forces and police summarily execute at least 100,000 suspected North Korean sympathizers.
July
July 1950
July 14–21 – Korean War: Battle of Taejon – North Korean forces capture the city held by the U.S. 24th Infantry Division, but the delay allows establishment of the Pusan Perimeter.
July 16 – Uruguay beats Brazil 2–1, to win the 1950 World Cup, the match dubbed the Maracanazo.
July 17 – The Suppression of Communism Act (passed on June 26 by the Parliament of South Africa) comes into force in South Africa.
July 20 – Air Battle of South Korea: After a month-long campaign, the majority of North Korea's People's Air Force is destroyed by anti-communist forces.Robert F. Futrell The United States Air Force in Korea, 1950–1953 United States Government Printing Office 1997 Washington, D.C. 978-0-16-048879-5 101
July 22 – Royal question in Belgium: King Leopold III returns from exile, provoking a general strike, particularly in Wallonia.Ramón Arango E. Leopold III and the Belgian Royal Question 1963 Johns Hopkins Press Baltimore 5357114
July 30 – 4 workers striking over the "Royal question" in Belgium are shot dead by the Gendarmerie, at Grâce-Berleur near Liège.Witte Els Craeybeckx Jan Meynen Alain Political History of Belgium from 1830 Onwards 2009 ASP Brussels 978-90-5487-517-8 New 242
August
August 1950
August 1 – Royal question: King Leopold III of Belgium publicly announces that he will abdicate in favor of his son, Baudouin.
August 5
2 Squadron SAAF departs from South Africa to take part in the Korean War.McGregor P. M. J. 1978-06-03 The History of No 2 Squadron, SAAF, in the Korean War Military History Journal The South African Military History Society 4 3 0026-4016 http://samilitaryhistory.org/journal.html 2009-07-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20090823023750/http://samilitaryhistory.org/journal.html August 23, 2009 dead
1950 Fairfield-Suisun Boeing B-29 crash: A bomb-laden Boeing B-29 Superfortress crashes into a residential area in California, United States, killing 17 people and injuring 68.
August 6 – Monarchist demonstrations lead to a riot in Brussels.
August 8
American Florence Chadwick swims the English Channel in 13 hours, 22 minutes, beating the women's record for the crossing.
Winston Churchill supports the idea of a pan-European army, allied with Canada and the U.S.
August 12
Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre – 75 U.S. soldiers are executed after being captured in battle by North Korea.
In his encyclical Humani generis, Pope Pius XII requires Catholic theologians to defer to the teachings of the Church as a whole but declares evolution to be a serious hypothesis that does not contradict essential Catholic views.
August 15 – The 8.6 w Assam–Tibet earthquake shakes the region, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing about 4,800 people.
August 17 – Korean War: Hill 303 massacre – 39 U.S. soldiers are executed after being captured in battle by North Korea.
August 22
France announces the introduction of a government-guaranteed minimum wage.United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics Notes on Labor Abroad https://books.google.com/books?id=cuJYAAAAYAAJ 1949 4–5
The Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary is founded in Tagbilaran City, Philippines.
August 23 – Legendary African American singer-actor Paul Robeson, whose passport has recently been revoked because of his alleged Communist affiliations, meets with U.S. officials in an effort to get it reinstated. He is unsuccessful, and it is not reinstated until 1958.
September
September 1950
September 3 – Italian racing driver Giuseppe Farina becomes the first winner of the FIA Formula One World Championship, being the only driver to win the championship in his home country.
September 7 – The Knockshinnoch Disaster in Scotland kills 13 coal miners; 116 are rescued.
September 15 – Korean War: Battle of Inchon – Allied troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur land in Inchon, occupied by North Korea, to begin a U.N. counteroffensive.
September 18 – Rede Tupi, the first television broadcast network in South America, is founded in Brazil.
September 19
West Germany decides to purge communist officials.
Korean War: An attack by North Korean forces is repelled at the Battle of Nam River.Bowers William T. William M. Hammong George L. MacGarrigle Black Soldier, White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea 2005 University Press of the Pacific 978-1-4102-2467-5 179–180
September 26 – Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
October
October 1950
October – Turing test published.http://aitopics.org/misc/brief-history Brief History (timeline) AI Topics Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence August 24, 2016
October 2 – The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven U.S. newspapers.
October 3 – Getúlio Vargas is elected president of Brazil for a 5-year term.
October 5 – The Indonesian government quells riots in the Moluccas.
October 7
Battle of Chamdo: The Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, begins with the Chinese People's Liberation Army invading across the Jinsha River. By October 19 they will have taken the border town of Chamdo, and the Tibetan army will have surrendered.
The Agate Pass Bridge opens for traffic in Washington State.
October 9 – The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre begins in South Korea.
October 11 – The Federal Communications Commission in the United States issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).
October 19 – Korean War: The People's Republic of China enters the conflict, by sending thousands of soldiers across the Yalu River.
October 20 – Australia passes the Communist Party Dissolution Act, which is later struck down by the High Court.
October 28 – Torcida Split is founded, in support of the Association football club HNK Hajduk Split, in SFR Yugoslavia.
October 29 – Upon the death of Gustaf V of Sweden, he is succeeded as king by his 68-year-old son Gustaf VI Adolf.
October 30 – The Jayuya Uprising is started by Puerto Rican Nationalists against the United States-supported government.
November
November 1950
November 1
Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" at the VaticanJoseph Pelletier The Sun Danced at Fatima Doubleday New York 1983 150, 151 and defines a new dogma of Roman Catholicism, the Munificentissimus Deus, which says that God took Mary's body into Heaven after her death (the "Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary").
Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who is staying at the Blair-Lee House in Washington, D.C. during White House repairs.
November 4 – The United Nations ends the diplomatic isolation of Spain.
November 8 – Korean War: While in an F-80, United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown intercepts 2 North Korean MiG-15s near the Yalu River and shoots them down, in the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history.
November 10 – A U.S. Air Force B-50 Superfortress bomber, experiencing an in-flight emergency, jettisons and detonates a Mark 4 nuclear bomb over Quebec, Canada (the device lacks its plutonium core).
November 13
The President of Venezuela, Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, is kidnapped and murdered in Caracas.
A Curtiss Reid Flying Services plane crashes while en route to Paris from Rome, killing all 52 on board.
November 17 – Tenzin Gyatso, 15, is formally enthroned as the 14th Dalai Lama, becoming temporal ruler of Tibet.Ram Rahul March of Central Asia Indus Publishing 2000
November 18 – The United Nations accepts the formation of the Libyan National Council.
November 24 – A phenomenal winter storm ravages the northeastern United States, brings 30–50 inches of snow and temperatures below zero, and kills 323 people.
November 26 – Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack against South Korean and United Nations forces at the Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, dashing any hopes for a quick end to the conflict.
November 28
The Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic Development in South and South-East Asia comes into effect.
Greece and Yugoslavia reform diplomatic relations.
November 29 – The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA is founded.
November 30 – Douglas MacArthur threatens to use nuclear weapons in Korea.
December
December 1950
December 2 – Korean War: The Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River ends with the Chinese People's Volunteer Army expelling United Nations forces from North Korea.
December 31 – The inaugural 12 Hours of Sebring automobile endurance race is held in Florida.
Date unknown
Raid Pyrénéen, a French timed bicycle challenge, is first staged.http://www.ccb-cyclo.fr/raid-pyreneen.html Le Raid Pyrénéen - la traversée des Pyrénées à vélo www.ccb-cyclo.fr August 20, 2022 August 20, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220820141839/http://www.ccb-cyclo.fr/raid-pyreneen.html dead
Summer – The first newspaper for the Romanian minority in modern Hungary, Foaia Românească ("The Romanian Sheet"), is founded.https://www.revista-studii-uvvg.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ROLUL-PRESEI.pdf Rolul presei în viața unei minorități. Perspectivă generală cu referire la evoluția în timp a săptămânalului "Foaia Românească" Eva Iova Șimon Studii de Știință și Cultură 2 5 123–125 2006 ro
Births
births
January
thumb|100px|Victoria Principal
thumb|100px|Jörg Haider
January 1 – Wayne Bennett, Australian rugby league player and coachNovember 2020
January 3
Victoria Principal, American actress (Dallas)The Bulletin https://books.google.com/books?id=vuOFAAAAIAAJ 1990 J. Haynes and J.F. Archibald 93
Vesna Vulović, Serbian flight attendant and world-record holding plane crash survivor (d. 2016)The Daily Telegraph Vesna Vulovic, air stewardess who survived a plane crash – obituary https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/01/03/vesna-vulovic-air-stewardess-survived-plane-crash-obituary/ subscription 3 January 2017 9 August 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170810044802/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/01/03/vesna-vulovic-air-stewardess-survived-plane-crash-obituary/ 10 August 2017 live
January 7
Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer, songwriter and philanthropist (d. 2016) Billboard https://books.google.com/books?id=cggEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA74 2 October 1999 Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 74
Erin Gray, American actress((Editors of Chase's)) Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA77 24 September 2019 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-64143-316-7 77
January 9 – Alec Jeffreys, British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profilingNeil Schlager Science and Its Times: 1950-present https://books.google.com/books?id=1o5FAAAAYAAJ 2000 Gale Group 978-0-7876-3939-6 157
January 12 – Dorrit Moussaieff, Israeli-born British businesswoman; First Lady of Iceland 2003-2016https://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/designers/dorrit-moussaieff/ Dorrit Moussaieff Fashion Model Directory 15 November 2020
January 14 – Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya, Hindu religious leader Nagar Shanti Lal
The Holy Journey of a Divine Saint: Being the English Rendering of Swarnayatra Abhinandan Granth Acharya Divakar Sharma Siva Kumar Goyal Surendra Sharma
Sushil B. R. Publishing Corporation First, Hardback New Delhi, India
2002 81-7646-288-8 37–53.
January 16
Debbie Allen, African-American actress, dancer, and choreographerPaul T. Hellmann Historical Gazetteer of the United States https://books.google.com/books?id=5aFyDLBIjJ8C&pg=RA7-PA1931 14 February 2006 Routledge 1-135-94858-5 7
Honey Irani, Indian film actress and screenwriter
Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican writer
January 18 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)Christopher Hilton Jacques Villeneuve: In His Own Right https://books.google.com/books?id=_27Ho16PLLYC 1996 Patrick Stephens 978-1-85260-557-5 13
January 21 – Billy Ocean, Trinidadian–British singer((Editors of Chase's)) Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA95 30 September 2018 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-64143-264-1 95
January 23 – Richard Dean Anderson, American actor (MacGyver)((Editors of Chase's)) Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 30 September 2018 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-64143-264-1 97
January 24
Daniel Auteuil, French actorFilm Review https://books.google.com/books?id=U3VZAAAAMAAJ 2000 Orpheus Pub 85
Gennifer Flowers, American actress, connected to Bill Clinton
January 26 – Jörg Haider, Austrian politician (d. 2008)David Wilsford Political Leaders of Contemporary Western Europe: A Biographical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=B8iJNlWcdIUC&pg=PA183 1995 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-28623-0 183
January 29
Ann Jillian, American actressPaul T. Hellmann Historical Gazetteer of the United States https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA496 14 February 2006 Routledge 1-135-94859-3 496
Jody Scheckter, South African racing driverJoseph M. Siegman The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame https://books.google.com/books?id=Qpiphgls99IC&pg=PA19 1992 SP Books 978-1-56171-028-7 19
Miklós Vámos, Hungarian writer, screenwriter
January 31 - Ismael Mario Zambada "El Mayo" García, Mexican drug lordRedacción Por 2025-08-25 La ‘misteriosa’ edad de ‘El Mayo’ Zambada: ¿Cuántos años tiene? https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/2025/08/25/la-misteriosa-edad-de-el-mayo-zambada-cuantos-anos-tiene/ 2026-07-25 El Financiero es
February
thumb|100px|Peter Gabriel
February 1 – Kazimierz Nycz, Polish clergyman
February 3 – Morgan Fairchild, American actress (Flamingo Road)
February 5 – Jonathan Freeman, American actor and puppeteer.
February 6 – Natalie Cole, African-American singer (d. 2015)
February 7 – Karen Joy Fowler, American authorContemporary Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=Pa3iAAAAMAAJ 1994 Gale Research Company 978-0-8103-5554-5 141
February 10
Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician and economist, assassinated while campaigning for President of Mexico (d. 1994)https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/6885/Luis%20Donaldo%20Colosio%20Murrieta Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta Busca Biografias es May 30, 2019
Mark Spitz, American Olympic swimmerPaul T. Hellmann Historical Gazetteer of the United States https://books.google.com/books?id=5aFyDLBIjJ8C&pg=PA1942-IA48 14 February 2006 Routledge 1-135-94858-5 1942
February 12
Michael Ironside, Canadian actor (V)
João W. Nery, Brazilian writer and LGBT activist (d. 2018)https://www.guiagaysaopaulo.com.br/noticias/cidadania/pioneiro-na-luta-trans-no-brasil-joao-w.-nery-morre-aos-68-anos Pioneiro na luta trans no Brasil, João W. Nery morre aos 68 anos Portuguese guiagaysaopaulo.com.br 26 October 2018 28 July 2019
February 13
Peter Gabriel, British rock musician, original lead singer of GenesisAlan Hewitt Opening the Musical Box: A Genesis Chronicle https://books.google.com/books?id=NvQ5AQAAIAAJ 2000 Firefly 978-0-946719-30-3 13
Bob Daisley, Australian musician
Lyman Hoffman, American politician and member of the Alaska State Legislature since 1987
February 15 – Tsui Hark, Hong Kong film director
February 16 – Peter Hain, Kenyan-born British politicianDod Vacher Vacher Dod Publishing Dod's Guide to the General Election, June 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=RjOIAAAAMAAJ 2001 Vacher Dod Publishing 978-0-905702-32-2 131
February 18
Nana Amba Eyiaba I, Ghanaian queen mother and advocatehttp://cwtlgh.org/nana-amba-eyiaba-I Nana Amba Eyiaba I The Council of Women Traditional Leaders, Ghana https://web.archive.org/web/20140908153539/http://cwtlgh.org/nana-amba-eyiaba-I September 8, 2014 August 11, 2018
John Hughes, American film director, producer and writer (d. 2009)McLellan Dennis https://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-john-hughes7-2009aug07,0,6955065.story John Hughes dies at 59; writer-director of '80s teen films Los Angeles Times August 7, 2009 July 26, 2011
Cybill Shepherd, American actress (The Last Picture Show)
February 21
Larry Drake, American actor, voice artist, and comedian (d. 2016)
Sahle-Work Zewde, President of Ethiopiahttps://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/sahle-work-zewde/ Sahle-Work Zewde Iowa State University 15 November 2020
February 22
Julius Erving, African-American basketball player
Fabio Innocenti, retired Italian volleyball playerInnocenti Fabio https://www.legavolley.it/player/INN-F-55 Legavolley Lega Pallavolo Serie A 16 October 2023 Italian
Awn Al-Khasawneh, Prime Minister of JordanAustralia. Parliament. House of Representatives Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Representatives https://books.google.com/books?id=3clDAQAAIAAJ 2001 Commonwealth Government Printer 29677
Miou-Miou, French actressJames Monaco The Encyclopedia of Film https://books.google.com/books?id=kqcYAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA7-PA1978 1991 Perigee Books 978-0-399-51604-7 7
Julie Walters, English actress((Editors of Chase's)) Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA142 30 September 2018 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-64143-264-1 142
February 24 – George Thorogood, American musician
February 25
Neil Jordan, Irish film director, writer and producerYvonne Tasker Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers https://books.google.com/books?id=P8OCud_HKywC&pg=PA192 11 September 2002 Routledge 978-1-134-65664-6 192
Néstor Kirchner, 49th President of Argentina (d. 2010)Political Risk Yearbook - 2010: Vol. 3 - South America https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXVaAAAAYAAJ 2010 PRS Group Incorporated 978-1-933539-98-0 39
February 26
Jonathan Cain, American musician
Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New ZealandWho's who in Asian and Australasian Politics https://books.google.com/books?id=Ge25AAAAIAAJ 1991 Bowker-Saur 978-0-86291-593-3 58
February 27 – Azean Irdawaty, Malaysian actress, singer (d. 2013)
February 28 – Jaime Fabregas, Filipino actor
March
thumb|100px|Karen Carpenter
thumb|right|100px|William Hurt
thumb|100px|Martin Short
March 1 – Phil Alden Robinson, American film director
March 2 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (d. 1983)
March 4 – Rick Perry, American politician, 14th U.S. Secretary of Energy, 47th Governor of Texas
March 9 – Danny Sullivan, American race car driver
March 10
Carlos Roberto Flores, President of Honduras
Catherine Pugh, Democrat politician, 50th mayor of Baltimore and criminalhttps://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/36loc/bcity/former/html/msa14413.html Catherine E. Pugh, Mayor, Baltimore, Maryland msa.maryland.gov
March 11
Bobby McFerrin, African-American singer (Don't Worry, Be Happy)
Jerry Zucker, American film producer, director and writer
March 12 – Javier Clemente, Spanish football player, manager
March 13
Robert Brandom, American philosopher
William H. Macy, American actor
Charles Krauthammer, American conservative political commentator (d. 2018)
March 18 – Brad Dourif, American actor
March 20 – William Hurt, American actor (d. 2022)
March 21 – Sergey Lavrov, current Foreign Minister of Russia
March 22
Hugo Egon Balder, German actor, television presenter
Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player (d. 2012)
March 26
Teddy Pendergrass, African-American singer (d. 2010)
Martin Short, Canadian-born comedian (Saturday Night Live)
Alan Silvestri, American composer, conductor
March 27 – Maria Ewing, American operatic sopranoCharles Moritz Current Biography Yearbook https://books.google.com/books?id=12CgNqCwDwkC 1991 H. W. Wilson Company 227 9780824201289 (d. 2022)
March 29
Kulsoom Nawaz, Pakistani politician (d. 2018)
Mory Kanté, Guinean musician (d. 2020)
March 30 – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian (d. 2022)
April
thumb|100px|Joyce Banda
thumb|100px|Agnetha Fältskog
thumb|100px|David Cassidy
thumb|100px|Jay Leno
April 1 – Samuel Alito, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
April 4 – Christine Lahti, American actress
April 5
Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish pop singer, songwriter (ABBA)
Harpo, Swedish pop musician
Paul Oscher, American blues singer-songwriter
April 6 – Tan Aik Mong, Malaysian badminton player (d. 2020)
April 8 – Grzegorz Lato, Polish footballer
April 11 – Bill Irwin, American actorhttps://www.broadwayworld.com/people/bio/Bill-Irwin/ Bill Irwin Biography Broadway World 9 September 2020
April 12
Joyce Banda, née Mtila, 4th President of MalawiB. Turner The Statesman's Yearbook 2013: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World https://books.google.com/books?id=9pLlDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA818 12 January 2017 Springer 978-1-349-59541-9 818
David Cassidy, American actor and singer (d. 2017)Gale Group Kathleen Edgar Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television https://books.google.com/books?id=GcviAAAAMAAJ December 1996 Gale 978-0-7876-0130-0 48
April 13
Ron Perlman, American television, film, stage, and voice actor
Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2021)2021-04-06 Rugby league great Tommy Raudonikis dies aged 70 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-07/rugby-league-legend-tommy-raudonikis-dies-aged-70/100052450 live 2021-04-07 ABC News en-AU https://web.archive.org/web/20210406235625/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-07/rugby-league-legend-tommy-raudonikis-dies-aged-70/100052450 April 6, 2021
Joseph Paul Franklin, American serial killer and terrorist (d. 2013)
April 14
Francis Collins, American physicianHarry LeVine Genetic Engineering: A Reference Handbook https://books.google.com/books?id=7yo0Baa0lgwC&pg=PA123 2006 ABC-CLIO 978-1-85109-860-6 123
Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer (d. 2016)
April 15 − Josiane Balasko, French actress, writer and director
April 18 − Kenny Ortega, American filmmaker, touring manager, and choreographer
April 20 − N. Chandrababu Naidu, Indian politician, 13th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
April 22
Peter Frampton, English rock musician
Thierry Zéno, Belgian filmmaker
April 26
Liz Chase, Zimbabwean field hockey player (d. 2018)
Susana Higuchi, Peruvian politician (d.2021)
April 28 – Jay Leno, American comedian and talk show host
April 29
Paul Holmes, New Zealand radio and television broadcaster (d. 2013)
Debbie Stabenow, former United States Senator from Michigan (2001-2025)
May
thumb|100px|Googoosh
thumb|100px|Stevie Wonder
thumb|100px|Jill Stein
thumb|100px|Janez Drnovšek
May 2 – Lou Gramm, American singer-songwriter (Foreigner)
May 3 – Kensō Soai, Japanese organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureatefor the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2026/press-release/ 2026-10-07 2026-10-07 NobelPrize.org en-US Nobel Foundation
May 5 – Googoosh, Iranian singer and actress
May 6 – Jeffery Deaver, American crime writerhttp://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82232411.html Deaver, Jeffrey Library of Congress January 28, 2018
May 7 – Tim Russert, American journalist (Meet the Press) (d. 2008)United States. Congress Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress https://books.google.com/books?id=5HAFOyYH4gQC&pg=PA12619 2008 U.S. Government Printing Office 12619
May 10 – Dale Wilson, Canadian voice actor
May 11 – Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (d. 2014)
May 12
Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor
Ana Cano, Spanish philologisthttps://www.lne.es/occidente/2016/05/05/ana-cano-oficialidad-unica-oportunidad-19576277.html Ana Cano: "La oficialidad es la única oportunidad de que el gallego-asturiano sobreviva" 5 May 2016
May 13
Joe Johnston, American film director
Danny Kirwan, English rock musician (d. 2018)
Stevie Wonder, African-American musician
May 14 – Jill Stein, American politician and activist, 2016 Green Party presidential candidate
May 15 – Renate Stecher, East German sprinterhttps://www.olympic.org/renate-stecher Renate Stecher Olympic.org 14 November 2020
May 16 – Georg Bednorz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
May 17 – Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Slovenia, 2nd President of Slovenia (d. 2008)
May 18
Thomas Gottschalk, German radio, television host, entertainer and actor
Mark Mothersbaugh, American composer, artist and singer (Devo)
May 23 – Richard Chase, American "vampirist" serial killer (d. 1980)https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/richard-trenton-chase/ Richard Trenton Chase
May 29 – Frederick Sumaye, 7th Prime Minister of TanzaniaRoger East Richard J. Thomas Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders https://books.google.com/books?id=gJG3AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT535 3 June 2014 Taylor & Francis 978-1-317-63939-8 535
June
thumb|100px|Nouri al-Maliki
thumb|100px|Sonia Manzano
June 3
Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter (d. 2015)
Suzi Quatro, American singer-songwriterAndy Gregory The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 https://books.google.com/books?id=gZIjT8PgJMEC&pg=PA417 2002 Psychology Press 978-1-85743-161-2 417
Deniece Williams, African-American singer
June 5 – Abraham Sarmiento Jr., Filipino journalist and political activist (d. 1977)
June 8 – Kathy Baker, American actress
June 13 – Belinda Bauer, Australian actress
June 14 – Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
June 15 – Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist
June 16 – Mithun Chakraborty, Indian actor, singer, producer, writer, social worker and entrepreneur
June 19
Ray Lovelock, Italian actor and musicianhttps://www.discogs.com/artist/1213646-Ray-Lovelock Ray Lovelock Discogs https://web.archive.org/web/20241112220328/https://www.discogs.com/artist/1213646-Ray-Lovelock November 12, 2024
Ann Wilson, American singer, musician ((Heart))
June 20 – Nouri al-Maliki, 74th Prime Minister of Iraq
June 21
Anne Carson, Canadian poet, essayist, translator and classical scholar, Nobel Prize laureate2026-10-08 'Bold and inventive' Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Literature Prize https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq4g1j54nepyo 2026-10-08 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20261008113231/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq4g1j54nepyo 2026-10-08 live Youngs Ian
Joey Kramer, American rock drummer
Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and musician
June 22
Adrian Năstase, 59th Prime Minister of Romania
Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
June 24 – Nancy Allen, American actress
June 25
Nitza Saul, Israeli actress
Marcello Toninelli, Italian comics writer
June 26 – Jaak Joala, Estonian singer, musician (d. 2010)
June 29 – Simone Gbagbo, ICC criminal, previously Ivorian politician and First Lady
July
thumb|100px|Viktor Yanukovych
thumb|100px|Richard Branson
July 5 – Huey Lewis, American rock singer
July 9 – Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine
July 11 – Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani nuclear physicist and social activist
July 12 – Eric Carr, American rock drummer, musician (Kiss) (d. 1991)Nick Talevski The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries https://books.google.com/books?id=beMTAQAAIAAJ 1999 Omnibus 978-0-7119-7548-4 59
July 13
Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Jurelang Zedkaia, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (d. 2015)
July 14
Chungsen Leung, Taiwanese-Canadian businessman, politician
James F. Capalino, American businessperson
July 17
Tengku Sulaiman Shah, Malaysian corporate figure
Phoebe Snow, African-American singer-songwriter (d. 2011) Thursby Keith April 27, 2011 https://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-phoebe-snow-20110427,0,5216521.story Phoebe Snow dies at 60; singer of 1974 hit 'Poetry Man' Los Angeles Times April 27, 2011
Stevo Stepanovski, Macedonian bibliophile
July 18
Sir Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
Jack Layton, Canadian politician (d. 2011)Maxine Block Anna Herthe Rothe Marjorie Dent Candee Current Biography Yearbook https://books.google.com/books?id=LKIrAQAAMAAJ 2009 H.W. Wilson 307
July 19 – Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
July 26 – Susan George, British actress
July 28
Soh Chin Aun, Malaysian footballer
Sir Tapley Seaton, Kittitian politician, 4th Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (d. 2023)
July 29 – Jenny Holzer, American conceptual artistKathy Halbreich Culture and Commentary: An Eighties Perspective https://books.google.com/books?id=MrFPAAAAMAAJ 1990 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution 978-0-9623203-2-3 177
August
thumb|100px|Ernesto Samper
thumb|100px|Steve Wozniak
thumb|100px|Anne, Princess Royal
August 2 – Ken Kutaragi, Japanese businessman
August 3
John Landis, American film director
Ernesto Samper, 29th President of Colombia
August 5 – Rosi Mittermaier, German ski racer (d. 2023)Rosi Mittermaier German skier Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rosi-Mittermaier www.britannica.com 8 October 2022 en
August 7 – Alan Keyes, African-American conservative political activist
August 8 – Lucjan Lis, Polish-German cyclist (d. 2015)
August 9 – Anémone, French actress, filmmaker and political activist (d. 2019)
August 11
Gennadiy Nikonov, Russian weapon designer (d. 2003)
Steve Wozniak, American inventor, engineer, programmer, philanthropist, and entrepreneurInductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame https://books.google.com/books?id=i15RAAAAMAAJ 2003 National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, Incorporated 192
August 12 – Iris Berben, German actress
August 15
Anne, Princess Royal, British royal, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh38995 16 August 1950 4197
Neil J. Gunther, Australian/American physicist, computer scientist
August 16
Hasely Crawford, West Indian athletehttps://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/trinidad-and-tobago/hasely-crawford-14344109 Hasely Crawford profile World Athletics 19 November 2020
Marshall Manesh, Persian actor
August 17 – Jose Apolinario Lozada Jr., Filipino diplomat, politician (d. 2018)
August 19 – Sudha Murthy, Indian philanthropist and authorhttps://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/article/happy-birthday-sudha-murty-the-philanthropist-who-found-her-life-s-purpose-in-serving-people/639258 Happy Birthday, Sudha Murty: The Philanthropist who found her life's purpose in serving people 19 August 2020 Etnonews.com Kirti Pandey 19 November 2020
August 21 – Arthur Bremer, American attempted assassin of George WallaceNow, Arthur Bremer Is Known The New York Times May 22, 1972 https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/22/archives/now-arthur-bremer-is-known-now-arthur-bremer-is-known-shooting-ends.html 17 April 2024
August 22 – Scooter Libby, American conservative political adviser
August 23 – Alan Tam, Hong Kong singer and actor
August 24 – Marc Aaronson, American astronomer
August 27 – Charles Fleischer, American actor, stand-up comedian and voice artist
September
thumb|100px|Phil McGraw
thumb|100px|Julie Kavner
alt=Narendra Modi|thumb|123x123px|Narendra Modi
thumb|100px|Bill Murray
September 1
Mikhail Fradkov, Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russia (2004–2007)
Phil McGraw, American TV psychologist
September 7 – Julie Kavner, American actress and the voice of Marge Simpson
September 14
Paul Kossoff, British rock guitarist (Free) (d. 1976)
Masami Kuwashima, Japanese racing driver
Juan Carlos Boveri, Argentine author, psychologist, sociologist, and cultural anthropologist.Juan Carlos Boveri Biografía https://www.escritores.org/libros/index.php/item/juan-carlos-boveri escritores.org Internet Applications s.l. 20 July 2023 Spanish
September 15 – Rajiv Malhotra, Indian-American author
September 16 – Henry Louis Gates Jr., American literary critic, professor, and historian
September 17 – Narendra Modi, 14th Prime Minister of India
September 21 – Bill Murray, American actor and comedian
September 22 – Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
September 24
Feng Ting-kuo, Taiwanese politician (d. 2018)
Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
September 26 – Mohamed Tarabulsi, Lebanese weightlifter (d.2002)
September 27 – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese actor (d. 2025)
September 28 – Christina Hoff Sommers, American author and philosopherhttps://books.google.com/books?id=P5C8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65 A Glitch in the Matrix: Jordan Peterson and the Intellectual Dark Web Leonard Payne October 22, 2019 Lulu.com 9780244229030 Google Books
October
thumb|100px|Jakaya Kikwete
thumb|100px|Tom Petty
thumb|100px|Rino Gaetano
thumb|100px|John Candy
October 1
Boris Morukov, Russian astronaut (d. 2015)
Randy Quaid, American actor, comedian
October 3 – Phyllis Nelson, American singer (d. 1998)
October 5 – Laura Gemser, Indonesian born-Dutch actress
October 7 – Jakaya Kikwete, 4th President of Tanzania
October 9 – Jody Williams, American teacher, aid worker and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 10
Ana Margarita Gasteazoro, Salvadoran activist (d. 1993)
Nora Roberts, American novelist
October 12
Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor
Pilar Pilapil, Filipina actress
Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996)
October 14 - Arun Khetarpal, Indian Military Officer
October 16 – Angry Grandpa, American YouTuber (d. 2017)
October 18 – Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
October 19 – Bishop Bill Ray, 10th Bishop of North Queensland
October 20 – Tom Petty, American rock singer (d. 2017)
October 22 – Donald Ramotar, 8th President of Guyana
October 25
Walter Kwok, Hong Kong entrepreneur (d. 2018)
Chris Norman, English singer (Smokie)
October 28
Annette Humpe, German singer (Ideal, Ich + Ich)
Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian human rights activist
October 29
Rino Gaetano, Italian musician and singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
Abdullah Gül, 11th President of Turkey
October 31 – John Candy, Canadian comedian, actor (d. 1994)
November
thumb|100px|Ed Harris
November 1 – Robert B. Laughlin, American Nobel Prize laureateGosta Ekspong Nobelstiftelsen Physics, 1996-2000 https://books.google.com/books?id=3Hq45YSQlzQC&pg=PA245 2002 World Scientific 978-981-238-003-6 245
November 3
Massimo Mongai, Italian author (d. 2016)
Nayyara Noor, Pakistani playback singer (d. 2022)https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/21/singer-nayyara-noor-nightingale-of-pakistan-dies-age-71 Singer Nayyara Noor, 'Nightingale of Pakistan', dies at age 71 Abid Hussain www.aljazeera.com
November 4
Charles Frazier, American novelist
Markie Post, American actress (d. 2021)https://deadline.com/2021/08/markie-post-dead-night-court-actress-was-70-1234811055/ Markie Post Dies: Actress Known for 'Night Court', 'The Fall Guy' & More Was 70 August 8, 2021
November 9 – Maravillas Rojo, Catalan politician
November 10 – Debra Hill, American producer (d. 2005)
November 17 – Roland Matthes, German swimmer (d. 2019)
November 21 – Alberto Juantorena, Cuban athlete
November 22 – Steven Van Zandt, American singer, songwriter, musician, producer, actor, and activist.
November 23 – Chuck Schumer, American politician
November 28
Ed Harris, American actor and film director((Editors of Chase's)) Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA574 30 September 2018 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-64143-264-1 574
Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 29 – Olavi Mäenpää, Finnish politician (d. 2018)
December
thumb|100px|Joan Armatrading
thumb|100px|Rajinikanth
December 1
Manju Bansal, Indian molecular biologist
Themba Dlamini, 9th Prime Minister of Swaziland
December 2
Amin Saikal, Australian academic professor
Benjamin Stora, French historian
Paul Watson, Canadian-American founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
December 5 – Camarón de la Isla, Spanish singer (d. 1992)
December 7 – Hasanaga Sadigov, Azerbaijani ashik musician (d. 2018)
December 9 – Joan Armatrading, St. Kitts-born English singer, songwriter
December 12
Heiner Flassbeck, German economist, professor, publicist, political counselor and State secretary
Rajinikanth, Indian actor
December 13 – Wendie Malick, American actress and former fashion model
December 19 – Manny Trillo, Venezuelan-born American baseball player
December 23 – Vicente del Bosque, Spanish footballer, manager
December 25 – Yehuda Poliker, Israeli singer, songwriter, musician, and painter
December 30 – Safiya Henderson-Holmes, African-American poet (d. 2001)
Date unknown
Koibla Djimasta, 7th Prime Minister of Chad (d. 2007)
Joseph Yodoyman, 4th Prime Minister of Chad (d. 1993)Mario J. Azevedo Samuel Decalo Historical Dictionary of Chad https://books.google.com/books?id=Xd9jDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA541 15 August 2018 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-5381-1437-7 542
Deaths
deaths 3
January
thumb|100px|George Orwell
thumb|100px|Alan Hale, Sr.
thumb|100px|Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
January 1 – William A. Griffin, American Roman Catholic prelate and reverend (b. 1885)
January 2
Emil Jannings, Swiss-born German actor (b. 1884)
Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer, conductor (b. 1883)
January 3 – Tess Gardella, Italian-born American actress, dancer (b. 1894)
January 7
Monty Banks, Italian comedian, director (b. 1897)
Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, Spanish politician, writer, painter and doctor (b. 1886)
January 8 – Joseph Schumpeter, Czech economist, political scientist (b. 1883)
January 11 – James A. Colescott, American Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (b. 1897)
January 12 – John M. Stahl, American film director, producer (b. 1886)
January 13 – Gino Frittelli, Italian painter (b. 1879)
January 14 – Ieu Koeus, 9th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1905)
January 15 – Henry H. Arnold, American general and aviation pioneer (b. 1886)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Harley-Arnold Henry Harley Arnold | US Air Force General & Aviation Pioneer | Britannica June 21, 2025 www.britannica.com
January 16 – Ali Moustafa Mosharafa, Egyptian physicist (b. 1898)
January 17 – Seiichi Hatano, Japanese philosopher (b. 1877)
January 18 – Horace Rice, Australian tennis player (b. 1872)
January 20 – Ray Duggan, Australian speedway rider (b. 1913)
January 21 – George Orwell, British author (b. 1903)
January 22 – Alan Hale Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
January 23 – Vasil Kolarov, Bulgarian Communist politician, former provisional head of State and 33rd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1877)
January 29
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1885)
Kiyoshi Katsuki, Japanese general (b. 1881) Ammenthorp Steen https://www.generals.dk/general/Katsuki/Kiyoshi/Japan.html Kiyoshi Katsuki The Generals of World War II
February
thumb|100px|Karl Seitz
February 3
Lionel Cripps, Rhodesian politician (b. 1863)
Karl Seitz, Austrian politician, 1st President of Austria (b. 1869)
February 6 – Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
February 7
D. K. Broster, British historical novelist (b. 1877)
Masao Inoue, Japanese actor, director (b. 1881)
William Murphy, American Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop and reverend (b. 1885)
February 9
Abdul Qadir, Indian editor (b. 1874)
Franz Justus Rarkowski, German Roman Catholic bishop and reverend (b. 1873)
Ted Theodore, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland (b. 1884)
February 10 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
February 11 – Kiki Cuyler, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1898)
February 12 – Bernard Meninsky, Ukrainian-born British artist, painter, draughtsman and teacher (b. 1891)
February 13 – Rafael Sabatini, Italian writer (b. 1875)
February 14
Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas, Bolivian painter (b. 1899)
Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist, radio engineer and father of radio astronomy (b. 1905)
February 16
Johannes Hjelmslev, Danish mathematician (b. 1873)
Mile-a-Minute Murphy, American cyclist (b. 1870)
February 21 – Gerhard Kowalewski, German mathematician (b. 1876)
February 23 – Piotr Śmietański, Polish executioner (b. 1899)
February 25
Ignatius Arnoz, Czech Roman Catholic prelate and reverend (b. 1885)
George Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1885)
February 26 – Harry Lauder, British entertainer (b. 1870)
February 27 – Yvan Goll, French dramatist (b. 1891)https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/goll-yvan Goll, Yvan | Encyclopedia.com www.encyclopedia.com
March
thumb|100px|Albert François Lebrun
thumb|100px|Heinrich Mann
thumb|100px|Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
thumb|100px|Leon Blum
March 2 – Rosli Dhobi, Malay Sarawakian nationalist (b. 1932)
March 4 – Anthony Holles, British actor (b. 1901)
March 5
Sid Grauman, American theatre entrepreneur (b. 1879)
Edgar Lee Masters, American poet (b. 1868)
March 6
Albert Lebrun, French politician, 15th President of France (b. 1871)
Harry Redfern, British architect (b. 1861)
Lew Lehr, American comedian (b. 1895)
March 10 – Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
March 11
Ralph Freeman, British engineer (b. 1880)
Heinrich Mann, German novelist (b. 1871)
Brock Pemberton, American theatrical producer (b. 1885)
March 15
Alexander Kabiskoy, Soviet WWII heroine (b. 1920)
Carl Storck, 3rd President of the National Football League (b. 1892)
March 18 – Väinö Kivilinna, Finnish teacher, activist and politician (b. 1875)
March 19
Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (Tarzan) (b. 1875)
Sir Norman Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, 28th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1872)
March 20 – Frederick Twort, English bacteriologist (b. 1877)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-Twort Frederick William Twort | British scientist | Britannica www.britannica.com
March 21 – Katherine Grey, American actress (b. 1873)
March 22 – Emmanuel Mounier, French philosopher (b. 1905)
March 24
James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
Harold Laski, British political theorist, economist (b. 1893)
March 25
Frank Buck, American animal collector (b. 1884)
Frances Micklethwait, British chemist (b. 1867)
March 27 – Solomone Ula Ata, Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1883)https://the-meaning.com/solomone_ula_ata.html Solomone Ula Ata The Meaning
March 30
Léon Blum, French statesman, 2-time Prime Minister of France (b. 1872)
Joe Yule, British entertainer, father of Mickey Rooney (b. 1894)
April
thumb|100px|Recep Peker
thumb|100px|Reverend Franciscus Janssens
April 1
F. O. Matthiessen, American historian, literary critic (b. 1902)
Recep Peker, Turkish officer, politician and 6th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1889)
April 3 – Kurt Weill, German-born composer (b. 1900)
April 5 – Charles Binaggio, American gangster (b. 1909)
April 7 – Walter Huston, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1883)
April 8 – Vaslav Nijinsky, Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer (b. 1889)
April 10
Fevzi Çakmak, Turkish military officer, statesman and Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1876)
Alfred Fischer, German architect (b. 1881)
April 11 – Bainbridge Colby, United States Secretary of State (b. 1869)
April 13
Saleh al-Ali, Syrian revolt leader (b. 1884)
James Morrison, Canadian Roman Catholic bishop and reverend (b. 1861)
April 14 – Ramana Maharshi, Indian sage and jivanmukta (b. 1879)https://www.sriramanamaharshi.org/ramana-maharshi/multimedia-timeline/ Sri Ramana Maharshi Timeline Sri Ramana Maharshi
April 16
Henry J. Knauf, American politician (b. 1891)
Arnaud Massy, French golfer (b. 1877)http://www.northberwick.org.uk/massy.html Arnaud Massy www.northberwick.org.uk
April 17 – Władysław Filipkowski, Polish military commander (b. 1892)
April 23
Gemma Bellincioni, Italian soprano (b. 1864)
Franciscus Janssens, Dutch Roman Catholic abbot and reverend (b. 1881)
April 26 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, American academic and activist (b. 1881)
George Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
Hobart Cavanaugh, American character actor (b. 1886)
Karel Koželuh, Czech tennis player (b. 1895)
April 30 – Francesco Jovine, Italian writer, author (b. 1902)
May
thumb|100px|right|Gavrilo V, Serbian Patriarch
thumbnail|100px|Alfonso Quiñónez Molina
May 1 – Lothrop Stoddard, American eugenicist (b. 1883)
May 6 – Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes, Nicaraguan politician, 23rd President of Nicaragua (b. 1872)
May 7 – Gavrilo V, Serbian Patriarch (b. 1881)
May 8 – Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician and immunologist (b. 1865)Vital Brazil http://oswaldocruz.fiocruz.br/index.php/en/holdings/correspondence/scientific-correspondence/vital-brazil oswaldocruz.fiocruz.br Biblioteca Virtual Oswaldo Cruz 15 October 2020 June 10, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210610191950/http://oswaldocruz.fiocruz.br/index.php/en/holdings/correspondence/scientific-correspondence/vital-brazil dead
May 9
Harry Stubbs, British-born American actor (b. 1874)
Esteban Terradas i Illa, Andorran mathematician, scientist and engineer (b. 1883)
May 10
John Gould Fletcher, American poet (b. 1886)
Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer and archivist (b. 1883)
May 11 – Cedric Holland, British admiral (b. 1889)
May 12 – Harold Basil Christian, South African-Rhodesian horticulturalist (b. 1871)
May 18 – Henri Cihoski, Romanian general and politician (b. 1871)
May 19
Giuseppe Garibaldi II, Italian soldier, patriot, revolutionary and grandson of Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi (b. 1879)
Giuseppina Suriano, Italian Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1915)
May 22
Andrew McDonald, British Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop and reverend (b. 1871)
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina, Salvadoran politician, physician, and three-time president of El Salvador (b. 1874)
May 24
Isidore Ngei Ko Lat, Burmese catechist, Roman Catholic priest, martyr and blessed (killed in action) (b. 1918)
Peter Petrovich Troyanskii, Soviet educator and scholar (b. 1894)
Mario Vergara, Italian Roman Catholic priest, martyr and blessed (killed in action) (b. 1910)
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, British field marshal (b. 1883)
May 25 – Nicolae Ciupercă, Romanian general and politician (b. 1882)
May 26 – Stanisław Kętrzyński, Polish historian, diplomat (b. 1878)
May 28 – Vicente Sotto, Filipino politician (b. 1877)
June
thumb|100px|Kazys Grinius
thumb|100px|Melitta Bentz
thumb|100px|Metropolitan Theophilus Pashkovsky
June 3 – Ahmad Tajuddin, Sultan of Brunei (b. 1913)
June 4
Carmen Baroja, Spanish writer, ethnologist (b. 1883)
George Cecil Ives, German-born British poet, writer, penal reformer and early gay rights campaigner (b. 1867)
Kazys Grinius, 3rd President of Lithuania (b. 1866)
June 5 – Miklós Bánffy, Hungarian nobleman, politician and novelist (b. 1873)
June 6 – William Wadsworth, American actor (b. 1874)
June 9 – Denis Auguste Duchêne, French general (b. 1862)
June 20 – Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, Japanese autobiographer, novelist (b. 1874)
June 22 – Jane Cowl, American actress (b. 1883)
June 24 – Darwan Singh Negi, Indian Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1881)
June 26 – Antonina Nezhdanova, Soviet soprano (b. 1873)
June 27
Záviš Kalandra, Czechoslovak historian, theorist (b. 1902)
Theophilus Pashkovsky, American Orthodox archbishop, metropolitan (b. 1874)
June 28 – Archbishop Makarios II (b. 1870)
June 29 – Melitta Bentz, German entrepreneur, who invented the coffee filter in 1908 (b. 1873)
July
thumb|100px|Antonie Nedošinská
thumb|100px|William Lyon Mackenzie King
July 1 – Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1873)Marquis Who's Who, Inc Who was who in American History, Arts and Letters https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTQOAQAAMAAJ 1975 Marquis Who's Who 978-0-8379-3301-6 451
July 5 – Salvatore Giuliano, Italian bandit (b. 1922)
July 7 – Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)
July 8
Helen Holmes, American actress (b. 1892)
Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (b. 1878)https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/spann-othmar Spann, Othmar | Encyclopedia.com www.encyclopedia.com
July 10 – Richard Maury, American naturalized Argentine engineer (b. 1882)
July 11 – Buddy DeSylva, American songwriter (b. 1895)
July 12
Lev Galler, Soviet admiral (b. 1883)
Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1859)
July 17
Evangeline Booth, 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (b. 1885)
July 18 – Mignon Talbot, American paleontologist (b. 1869)
July 21 – Rex Ingram, Irish-born American director (b. 1892)
July 22 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian political leader, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
July 24 – Zeffie Tilbury, English stage and film actress (b. 1863) https://theatreheritage.org.au/on-stage-magazine/biographies/item/502-tilbury-zeffie-1863-1950 Theatre Heritage Australia 30 July 2021 Tilbury, Zeffie
July 27 – Marta Steinsvik, Norwegian author (b. 1877)
July 28 – Kevin Budden, Australian amateur herpetologist (b. 1930)
July 30 – Guilhermina Suggia, Portuguese cellist (b. 1885)Obituary, The Musical Times, September 1950, p. 362Marques Virgílio https://hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/EFEMERIDES/Suggia/Suggia_NotasBiograficas.htm Notas biográficas 2018 25 April 2021 Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa
August
thumb|100px|Tadeusz Tomaszewski
thumb|100px|Arturo Alessandri
August 3
Pierre-Émile Côté, Canadian politician (b. 1887)
Kristian Laake, Norwegian general (b. 1875)
August 6 – Francisco José Urrutia Olano, Colombian diplomat and jurist (b. 1870)
August 8 – Nikolai Myaskovsky, Soviet composer (b. 1881)
August 10 – Tadeusz Tomaszewski, 34th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1881)
August 19
Black Elk, Wičháša Wakȟáŋ (Medicine Man or Holy Man) of the Ogala Teton Lakota (Western Sioux) (b. 1863)
Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist, engineer (b. 1871)
August 22 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
August 23 – Frank Phillips, American oil executive (b. 1873)
August 24
Arturo Alessandri, Chilean politician, reformer and 3-time President of Chile (b. 1868)
Vasily Gordov, Soviet general (executed) (b. 1896)
Grigory Kulik, Soviet military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union (executed) (b. 1890)
August 25 – Giuseppe Grassi, Italian politician (b. 1883)
August 26
Giuseppe De Luca, Italian baritone (b. 1876)
Ransom E. Olds, American automotive pioneer (b. 1864)
August 27 – Cesare Pavese, Italian poet, novelist (b. 1908)
August 31 – Pere Tarrés i Claret, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1905)
September
thumb|100px|Jan Smuts
September 4
Max Davidson, German actor (b. 1875)
Pieter Franciscus Dierckx, Belgian painter (b. 1871)
September 6 – Olaf Stapledon, British author, philosopher (b. 1886)
September 10 – Raymond Sommer, American race car driver (b. 1906)
September 11
Rudolph Palm, Curaçao-born composer (b. 1880)
Jan Smuts, 2nd Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1870)
September 13 – Sara Allgood, Irish actress (b. 1880)
September 15
Maraimalai Adigal, Indian orator, writer (b. 1876)
Baldomero López, American hero of Korean War (b. 1925)
September 16
Frederick Bennett, New Zealand Anglican bishop and reverend (b. 1871)
Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)
September 21 – Edward Arthur Milne, British astrophysicist, mathematician (b. 1896)
September 23
George Carlton, American actor (b. 1885)
Kenneth Muir, British soldier, posthumous winner of the Victoria Cross (b.1912)
September 29 – Alfréd Meissner, Czechoslovak politician, Holocaust survivor (b. 1871)
September 30 – Prince Hubertus of Prussia (b. 1909)
October
thumb|100px|Al Jolson
thumb|100px|Miguel Mariano Gómez
thumb|100px|King Gustaf V of Sweden
October 1 – Mikhail Rodionov, Soviet statesman, Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1907)
October 2 – John F. Fitzgerald, American politician, Mayor of Boston (b. 1863)
October 5 – Thomas Addis Emmet, American-born Jamaican Roman Catholic bishop and reverend (b. 1873)
October 9 – Nicolai Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1882)
October 11 – Pauline Lord, American actress (b. 1890)
October 13 – Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
October 14 – António Maria da Silva, Portuguese politician, interim and 3-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1872)
October 18 – Giuseppe Borgatti, Italian tenor (b. 1871)
October 19
Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)
Viktor Strazhev, Soviet bibliographer, translator, poet and literary critic (b. 1879)
October 20 – Henry L. Stimson, United States Secretary of State (b. 1867)
October 23 – Al Jolson, American musician, actor (The Jazz Singer) (b. 1886)
October 25 – Yi Gwangsu, Korean writer, activist (b. 1891)
October 26 – Miguel Mariano Gómez, Cuban politician, 7th President of Cuba (b. 1889)
October 29
Maurice Costello, American actor (b. 1877)
King Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
Lucien Martin, Canadian violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1908)
October 30 – Raimundo Díaz Pacheco, Puerto Rican activist (b. 1906)
October 31 – Giacomo Gorrini, Italian diplomat (b. 1859)
November
thumb|100px|Kuniaki Koiso
thumb|100px|Hryhorij Lakota
thumb|100px|Abdul Hamid Karami
November 2 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
November 3 – Kuniaki Koiso, Japanese general, 41st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1880)
November 4
Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1887)
Francisca Herrera Garrido, Spanish writer (b. 1869)
November 5 – Michael Strange, American poet (b, 1890)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Strange Michael Strange | Biography, Books, Plays, & Facts | Britannica www.britannica.com
November 8 – Bernice Herstein, American socialite (b. 1918)
November 9 – Attilio Andreoli, Italian painter (b. 1877)
November 10 – Hanns Kräly, Oscar-winning German screenwriter (b. 1884)
November 11
Alexandros Diomidis, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1875)
Lúcio Alberto Pinheiro dos Santos, Portuguese philosopher, teacher (b. 1889)
November 12
Hryhorij Lakota, Soviet Eastern Catholic bishop and blessed (b. 1883)
Julia Marlowe, English-born American stage actress (b. 1865)
November 16 – Bob Smith, American doctor, physician and surgeon (b. 1879)
November 17 – Virginia Fábregas, Mexican actress (b. 1871)Virginia Fábregas http://rotonda.segob.gob.mx/work/models/Rotonda/Resource/contenidos/P34t.html Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres June 13, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140714124242/http://rotonda.segob.gob.mx/work/models/Rotonda/Resource/contenidos/P34t.html July 14, 2014 dead
November 23 – Abdul Hamid Karami, Lebanese political figure, religious leader and 16th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1890)
November 25
Johannes V. Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish-born Swedish linguist, diplomat (b. 1873)
November 27 – T. Sathasiva Iyer, Ceylon Tamil scholar, Tamil language writer (b. 1882)
November 28 – James Corbitt, British murderer (hanged) (b. 1913)
November 29 – Ma Zhanshan, Chinese general (b. 1885)
November 30 – Werner Haase, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1900)
December
thumb|100px|Peter Fraser
thumb|100px|Enrico Mizzi
thumb|100px|Karl Renner
December 2
James Fenton, Australian politician (b. 1864)
Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917)
December 4 – Jesse L. Brown, American aviator in the United States Navy (killed in action) (b. 1926)
December 5 – Sri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
December 11
Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German prince (b. 1863)
Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer, computing pioneer (b. 1893)
December 12
Luigi Biancheri, Italian admiral (b. 1891)
Peter Fraser, New Zealand political figure, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand, leader of World War II (b. 1884)
December 15 – Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader (b. 1875)
December 18 – Viliam Žingor, Slovak general and anti-fascist fighter (b. 1912)Mikušovič Dušan Legendárny partizánsky veliteľ Viliam Žingor opustil komunistov tesne pred ich pučom. Pomstili sa mu popravou https://dennikn.sk/4145877/legendarny-partizansky-velitel-viliam-zingor-opustil-komunistov-tesne-pred-ich-pucom-pomstili-sa-mu-popravou/ Denník N 30 August 2024 sk-SK 28 August 2024
December 20 – Enrico Mizzi, Maltese politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1885)
December 22 – Walter Damrosch, German-born American conductor and composer (b. 1862)
December 23
Francisco Lomuto, Argentine pianist, composer (b. 1893)
Walton Walker, American general (b. 1889)
December 25 – Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet, playwright (b. 1903)
December 26 – Liane de Pougy, French vedette and dancer (b. 1869)
December 27 – Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884)
December 30 – Mihail Manoilescu, Romanian journalist, engineer, economist, politician and memoirist (b. 1891)
December 31 – Karl Renner, Austrian Social Democrat politician, 4th President of Austria (b. 1870)
Nobel Prizes
right|100px
Physics – Cecil Frank Powellhttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1950/powell/biographical/ Cecil Powell Biographical Nobel Prize 19 November 2020
Chemistry – Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alderhttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1950/summary/ Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950 Nobel Prize 19 November 2020
Medicine – Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeusz Reichstein, Philip Showalter Henchhttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1950/summary/ Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950 Nobel Prize 19 November 2020
Literature – Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russellhttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1950/russell/facts/ Bertrand Russell Facts Nobel Prize 19 November 2020
Peace – Ralph Bunchehttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1950/bunche/facts/ Ralph Bunche Facts Nobel Prize 19 November 2020
References