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March 2011 1925 1925 border:none;b 3/3 Leonhard Seppala with dogs.jpg Tri-State Tornado JCHS14 (cropped).jpg Druze warriors.jpg Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial- Outdoor proceedings on July 20, 1925, showing William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. (2 of 4 photos) (2898243103) crop.jpg BASA-1577K-1-61-14-Sofia, Bulgaria (cropped).JPG Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R03618, Locarno, Gustav Stresemann, Chamberlain, Briand.jpg 350 From top to bottom, left to right: The 1925 serum run to Nome sees mushers race across Alaska to deliver life-saving diphtheria antitoxin, capturing global attention; The deadly 1925 Tri-State tornado sweeps through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 and becoming the deadliest U.S. tornado; The Great Syrian Revolt erupts as Syrian nationalists rise against French rule; The Scopes Trial in Tennessee sparks a nationwide debate on evolution and religion in public education; The St. Nedelya Church bombing in Sofia, Bulgaria, kills hundreds during a funeral, escalating political violence; The Locarno Treaties are signed to secure peace and stabilize postwar borders in Western Europe. 1925 1925 2 Events January January 1925 January 1 – The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies which will be regarded by historians as the beginning of his dictatorship.Pugliese Stanislao G. 2004 Fascism, Anti-fascism, and the Resistance in Italy: 1919 to the Present Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 69 0-7425-3123-6 January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Fifteen days later, Miriam A. Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas. January 25 – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler. January 27–February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. Territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic. February February 1925 February 25 – Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released. February 28 – The 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America. March March 1925 March 1 – New York City Fire Department Rescue 2 is put in service in Brooklyn. March 4 – İsmet İnönü is appointed prime minister in Turkey (Turkey's 4th and İnönü's 3rd government). March 6 – Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union. March 9–May 1 – Pink's War: The British Royal Air Force bombards mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan. March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teachers' College in Conway, Arkansas (the modern-day University of Central Arkansas). March 16 – At 22:42 local time a 7.0 earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 5,000 people. March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana. March 21 – Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges, to a libretto by Colette, is premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/music/lenfant-et-les-sortileges-maurice-ravel L'Enfant et les sortilèges - Details McLellan Joe LA Philharmonic https://web.archive.org/web/20171230104847/https://www.laphil.com/philpedia/music/lenfant-et-les-sortileges-maurice-ravel 30 December 2017 dead March 31 – The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius. April April 1925 April–October – The fr Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes is held in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style. April 1 – In the United States: Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states. The Patent and Trademark Office is transferred to the Department of Commerce. April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is published in New York. April 15 – Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer convicted of the murder of 24 boys and young men, is guillotined in Germany. April 16 – A communist assault on St Nedelya Church claims roughly 150 lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.100 Years since "Bloody Holy Thursday", Bulgaria's Deadliest Terrorist Act https://www.bta.bg/en/news/archives/872798-100-years-since-bloody-holy-thursday-bulgaria-s-deadliest-terrorist-act 2025-08-05 www.bta.bg en April 19 – Colo-colo, a well-known football club of Chile, is founded in Macul, suburb of Santiago.Colo-Colo: Sitio Oficial del Eterno Campeón http://www.colocolo.cl/historia/fundacion/la-fundacion-del-club-1920-1930/ La fundación del club (1920-1930) 10 September 2017 April 20 – Iranian forces of Reza Shah occupy Ahvaz and arrest Sheikh Khazʽal Ibn Jabir. April 28 – Presenting the Stanley Baldwin government's budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announces Britain's return to the gold standard.Mercer Derrik 1989 Chronicle of the 20th Century London Chronicle Communications Ltd. 328–29 978-0-582-03919-3 May May 1925 May 1 In the Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia, the al-Baqi' mausoleums are destroyed by King Ibn Saud. Barcelona S.C. founded in Ecuador. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union organisation, is founded in Guangzhou, Republic of China. May 5 – The General Election Law is passed in Japan, extending suffrage to all males aged 25 and over.Colegrove Kenneth 1929 Labor Parties in Japan https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400113000/type/journal_article American Political Science Review en 23 2 329–363 10.2307/1945218 1945218 145649163 0003-0554 subscription May 8 – African-American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the sinking steamboat M.E. Norman on the Mississippi River. May 16 – The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1639/40) takes place in Paris. Michael Kennedy (music critic) Kennedy Michael Oxford Dictionary of Music Oxford University Press Oxford 2006 0-19-861459-4 732 May 21 – The opera Doktor Faust, unfinished when composer Ferruccio Busoni died, is premiered in Dresden.21 Maggio 1925, Giovedì almanac-gherardo-casaglia.com May 29 – English explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife before he disappears in the Amazon. June June 1925 June 6 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded as an automobile manufacturer by Walter Chrysler in the United States.Chrysler Corporation Detroit Historical Society https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/chrysler-corporation 2025-09-16 www.detroithistorical.org en June 13 – American engineer Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines and a mechanical system in "the first public demonstration of radiovision". June 14 The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece is founded. The Turkish football club Göztepe is founded. June 29 – The 6.8 w Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead. July July 1925 July 10–21 – Scopes trial: in a staged test case (the "Monkey Trial") in Dayton, Tennessee, United States, John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher (technically arrested on May 5 and indicted on May 25) is accused of assigning a reading from a (state-mandated) textbook on Darwinian evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law, the "Butler Act". He is found guilty and fined $100, though the verdict is later overturned on a technicality. The trial makes explicit the fundamentalist–modernist controversy within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, with William Jennings Bryan (who dies on July 26) being challenged by the liberal Clarence Darrow.Moran Jeffrey P. The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents Bedford/St. Martin's 2002 July 10 – Meher Baba begins his 44-year silence. July 18 – Adolf Hitler publishes Volume 1 of his personal manifesto Mein Kampf in Germany. July 21 – English racing motorist Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph 0 on on land when at Pendine Sands in Wales he drives a Sunbeam 350HP automobile at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph 0 on.http://www.nationalmotormuseum.org.uk/blue_bird_anniversary Blue Bird Celebrates 90th Anniversary National Motor Museum Trust November 2, 2017 November 7, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171107031840/http://www.nationalmotormuseum.org.uk/blue_bird_anniversary dead July 25 The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. The Temporary Slavery Commission of the League of Nations files its report on their global investigation of slavery and the slave trade, preparing the ground for the introduction of the 1926 Slavery Convention.Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. USA: AltaMira Press. 100–121. July 29 – Werner Heisenberg, Max Born and Pascual Jordan published their Umdeutung paper, reporting a breakthrough in quantum physics, in Zeitschrift für Physik in Germany. August August 1925 August 1 – The New Cape Central Railway between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways.Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 189, ref. no. 200954-13 August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal racist organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington, D.C.The day 30,000 white supremacists in KKK robes marched in the nation's capitalWashington Post. August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse in California is completed and goes on line. August 25 – The French complete their evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany.http://www.indiana.edu/~league/1925.htm Chronology 1925 2002 indiana.edu January 2, 2015 April 2, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200402163002/http://www.indiana.edu/~league/1925.htm dead August 31 – Anthropologist Margaret Mead lands in American Samoa to begin nine months of field work that will culminate in her 1928 book Coming of Age in Samoa. The bestselling book will become the first popular anthropological study and will change many attitudes towards tribal peoples. September September 1925 September 3 – The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a squall line near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14 crewmen. September 27 – Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar: a celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists. The phenomenon lasts for half an hour.http://www.orthodox.net/articles/cross-in-athens.html The Appearance of the Cross Near Athens in 1925 Priest Seraphim Holland October October 1925 October – The major money forgery and fraud of Alves dos Reis is exposed in Portugal. October 1 – The United States Congress grants permission for Gutzon Borglum to begin constructing Mount Rushmore National Memorial on federal land in South Dakota. October 2 – In London, UK, John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.R. W. Burns Television: An International History of the Formative Years 1998 London Institution of Electrical Engineers 978-0-85296-914-4 264 October 4 – S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, is sunk during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with her the whole crew of 53.http://www.kaslib.fi/MARE/HIST/s2_1.htm Torpedovene S2:n tuho 4.10.1925 Antero Honkasalo Wayback Machine 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20060830015005/http://www.kaslib.fi/MARE/HIST/s2_1.htm October 4, 2021 August 30, 2006 fi October 5–16 – The Locarno Treaties are negotiated. October 19–29 – Incident at Petrich: A brief conflict occurs between Bulgaria and Greece after a Greek soldier accidentally crosses into the Bulgarian side and is shot by border guards. November November 1925 November 9 – Formal foundation date of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in Germany. November 14 1925 Australian federal election: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Matthew Charlton. The first Surrealist art exhibition opens in Paris.Mercer Derrik 1989 Chronicle of the 20th Century London Chronicle Communications Ltd. 335 978-0-582-03919-3 November 17 – The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition, a world's fair, opens in Dunedin, New Zealand. November 24 – The silent film El Húsar de la Muerte is released in Santiago, Chile. November 26 – Prajadhipok (Rama VII) is crowned as King of Siam. November 28 – The weekly country music-variety radio programme Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "WSM Barn Dance". December December 1925 December 1 – The Locarno Treaties are signed in London, intended to secure the post-war continental European territorial settlement. December 11 – Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, is promulgated.http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius11/P11PRIMA.HTM Quas Primas October 17, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120815205132/http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius11/P11PRIMA.HTM August 15, 2012 dead December 12 – The first motel in the world, the Milestone Mo-Tel (later the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo), opens in San Luis Obispo, California.442 December 14 – Wozzeck, Alban Berg's first opera, is premiered at the Berlin State Opera conducted by Erich Kleiber. December 15 – Reza Shah takes the oath to become the first shah of Persia of the Pahlavi dynasty. December 25 – IG Farben is formed by the merger of six chemical companies in Germany. thumb|115px|Paris Rue de Montmartre in 1925 Date unknown New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.City Mayors: The world's largest cities (1 to 100) http://www.citymayors.com/features/largest_cities1.html www.citymayors.com 2025-11-28Largest Cities Through History About.com Matt Rosenberg http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm 2008-11-13 August 18, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160818124242/http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm deadNovember 2008 Islamic Bektashi Order lodges in Turkey are closed down by order of the country's President, Atatürk, and the leadership moves to Albania.Elsie Robert The Albanian Bektashi: history and culture of a Dervish order in the Balkans I.B. Tauris 2019 978-1-78831-569-2 London 1108619669 Robert Elsie Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Jud Süß (translated as Jew Süss or Power) is published in Germany.Q. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public rev. London Chatto & Windus 1965 Ernest Blythe, Minister for Finance in the Irish Free State, arranges an annual government subsidy of £850 for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, making it the first state-supported theatre in the English-speaking world.Kavanagh Peter Peter Kavanagh (writer) The Story of the Abbey Theatre New York Devin-Adair 1950 125–126 Births births January thumb|100px|Veikko Hakulinen thumb|100px|Maria Tallchief thumb|100px|Ignacio López Tarso thumb|100px|Shafik Wazzan thumb|100px|Paul Newman thumb|100px|Douglas Engelbart January 1 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador (d. 2005)Raph Uwechue Africa Who's who https://books.google.com/books?id=9EAOAQAAMAAJ 1991 Africa Journal Limited 978-0-903274-17-3 359 January 4 – Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (d. 2003)https://www.olympic.org/veikko-hakulinen Veikko Hakulinen IOC March 17, 2021 January 6 – John DeLorean, American car maker (d. 2005)Geoff Tibballs Business blunders https://books.google.com/books?id=QN5gCpksHZgC 1 September 1999 Robinson 978-1-84119-011-2 282 January 7 Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter (d. 1995)Deus Loci https://books.google.com/books?id=VO0fAQAAIAAJ 1996 Okanagan College 3 Harry Stradling Jr., American cinematographer (d. 2017)Barnes Mike Famed Cinematographer Harry Stradling Jr. Dies at 92 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harry-stradling-jr-dead-way-we-were-little-big-man-cinematographer-was-92-1052315 26 May 2019 The Hollywood Reporter October 27, 2017 https://archive.today/20190526023549/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harry-stradling-jr-dead-way-we-were-little-big-man-cinematographer-was-92-1052315 26 May 2019 live January 8 – Bernardo Ruiz, Spanish road cycling racer (d. 2025) January 9 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)Mike Malloy Lee Van Cleef: A Biographical, Film, and Television Reference https://books.google.com/books?id=sIUdAQAAIAAJ 1998 McFarland 978-0-7864-0437-7 3 January 10 – Peter Colotka, Slovak academic, lawyer and politician, Prime Minister 1969–1988 (d. 2019)Index Co-Cz http://rulers.org/indexc4.html Rulers 6 September 2013 January 12 – Katherine MacGregor, American actress (d. 2018)California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGL7-RNQ1 November 14, 2018 www.familysearch.org January 13 Rosemary Murphy, American actress (d. 2014) Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)Dancing Times https://books.google.com/books?id=pXcnVYn7ysgC 2000 Dancing Times 265 January 14 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970) Stokes Henry The life and death of Yukio Mishima Cooper Square Press Distributed by National Book Network New York Place of publication not identified 2000 9780815410744 37 January 15 August Englas, Estonian wrestler (d. 2017) Ruth Slenczynska, American pianist (d. 2026) Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor (d. 2023) January 16 – Shafik Wazzan, 27th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1999) January 17 Robert Cormier, American young adult author (d. 2000)2005-01-17 Robert Cormier Born https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/robert-cormier-born.html 2025-12-08 www.massmoments.org en Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d. 1996) January 20 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet and politician (d. 2020) January 24 – Maria Tallchief, American ballerina (d. 2013)Maria Tallchief, ballet star who was inspiration for Balanchine, dies at 88 April 12, 2013 The Washington Post Sarah Halzack https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/maria-tallchief-ballet-star-who-was-inspiration-for-balanchine-dies-at-88/2013/04/12/5888f3de-c5dc-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html April 14, 2013 January 25 – Barbara Carroll, American jazz pianist (d. 2017) January 26 Joan Leslie, American actress (d. 2015) Paul Newman, American actor, film director, entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2008) January 27 – Sufi Abu Taleb, President of Egypt (d. 2008) January 29 – Robert W. McCollum, American epidemiologist (d. 2010) January 30 – Douglas Engelbart, American inventor (d. 2013) January 31 Bernardino Rivera Álvarez, Bolivian bishop (d. 2010) Micheline Lannoy, Belgian figure skater (d. 2023) February thumb|100px|Elaine Stritch 100px|thumb|Arne Åhman thumb|100px|Jack Lemmon thumb|100px|Robert Altman thumb|100px|Shehu Shagari February 2 – Elaine Stritch, American actress (d. 2014) February 3 Shelley Berman, American comedian and actor (d. 2017) John Fiedler, American actor (d. 2005) Leon Schlumpf, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 2012) February 4 Arne Åhman, Swedish athlete (d. 2022) Jutta Hipp, German born American jazz pianist and composer (d. 2003) February 8 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001) February 10 Dhalia, Indonesian actress (d. 1991)Malawau Buce 1991 In Memorial Dahlia Vista https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02cEk7xqty1vA9Qy4RGJ4hnFH1mHEKj4uD2ToSdubbBgqiDWmZaCXp4VE8Lvf47enHl&id=100002729673319 2022-07-27 Pierre Mondy, French film and theatre actor and director (d. 2012) Daisy Myers, African-American educator (d. 2011)Daisy Myers Obituary (2011) - York, PA - York Daily Record https://www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/york/154941095 live 2021-03-27 Legacy https://web.archive.org/web/20210623222915/https://www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/york/154941095 June 23, 2021 February 11 Virginia E. Johnson, American sexologist (d. 2013) Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (d. 2013) Kim Stanley, American actress (d. 2001) February 16 – Romolo Bizzotto, Italian professional football player and coach (d. 2017) February 17 Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003) Hal Holbrook, American actor (d. 2021) February 18 Abdelsalam al-Majali, 60th and 63rd Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 2023) Ghafar Baba, Malaysian politician (d. 2006) George Kennedy, American actor (d. 2016) Krishna Sobti, Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist (d. 2019)Krishna Sobti – Hindi Writer: The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress, New Delhi Office) https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/krishnasobti.html www.loc.gov The Library of Congress 2 May 2024 February 20 – Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006) February 21 Sam Peckinpah, American film director (d. 1984) Štefan Vrablec, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017) February 22 – Edward Gorey, American writer, illustrator and playwright (d. 2000) February 23 – Eric Prabhakar, Indian sprinter (d. 2011) Maddy English, American female baseball player (d. 2004) February 25 Lisa Kirk, American actress and singer (d. 1990) Eduardo Risso, Uruguayan rower (d. 1986) Shehu Shagari, President of Nigeria (1979–83) (d. 2018) February 26 – Everton Weekes, West Indian cricketer (d. 2020) February 28 Louis Nirenberg, Canadian-American mathematician (d. 2020) Harry H. Corbett, English actor (d. 1982) March thumb|100px|Leo Esaki thumb|100px|Pierre Boulez March 1 Keith Harvey Miller, American politician (d. 2019) Alexandre do Nascimento, Angolan prelate (d. 2024) March 4 Inezita Barroso, Brazilian singer, guitarist, actress, TV presenter (d. 2015) Alan R. Battersby, English organic chemist (d. 2018) Paul Mauriat, French musician ("L'amour est bleu") (d. 2006) Christa Meves, German psychotherapist and writer March 7 – Josef Ertl, German politician (d. 2000) March 8 John Harland Bryant, American physician (d. 2017) Dennis Lotis, South African-English singer and actor (d. 2023) March 11 – Duncan Ndegwa, Head of Civil Service and Secretary to the Cabinet in Kenya March 12 Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate G. William Whitehurst, American journalist and politician March 13 Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer (d. 2024) John Tate, American mathematician (d. 2019) March 14 – Francis A. Marzen, Roman Catholic priest (d. 2004) March 15 – Art Murakowski, American football player (d. 1985) March 16 Mary Hinkson, African-American dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)Kisselgoff Anna Mary Hinkson, a star for Martha Graham, dies at 89 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/arts/dance/-mary-hinkson-a-star-for-martha-graham-dies-at-89.html 11 October 2021 The New York Times 29 November 2014 Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (d. 2004) March 17 – Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor (d. 2015) March 18 – Alessandro Alessandroni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2017) March 19 – Brent Scowcroft, American general and diplomat (d. 2020) March 21 – Peter Brook, English theatre director (d. 2022) March 22 – Gerard Hoffnung, German-born English humorist (d. 1959) March 23 Robie Lester, American Grammy-nominated voice artist and singer (d. 2005) David Watkin, British cinematographer (d. 2008) March 25 Flannery O'Connor, American writer (d. 1964) Kishori Sinha, Indian politician (d. 2016) March 26 – Pierre Boulez, French composer (d. 2016) March 27 – Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, English farmer and politician (d. 2022) March 28 – Raja Perempuan Budriah, Malaysian royal consort (d. 2008) March 29 – David Tsimakuridze, Georgian freestyle wrestler (d. 2006) April 100px|thumb|Rod Steiger 100px|thumb|Bob Hastings 100px|thumb|Hugh O'Brian 100px|thumb|Solomon Perel April 1 – Piero Livi, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2015) April 2 – Roger Milner, British actor (d. 2014) April 3 – Tony Benn, British politician (d. 2014) April 4 – Serge Dassault, French businessman and politician (d. 2018) April 7 – Chaturanan Mishra, Indian politician (d. 2011) April 13 – Michael Halliday, English-Australian linguist (d. 2018) April 14 Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974) Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2010) Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002) April 15 Milton J. 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Greenberg, American business executive May 8 – Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 2nd President of Tanzania (d. 2024) May 9 – Vladimir Tadej, Croatian production designer, screenwriter and film director (d. 2017) May 10 – Ilie Verdeț, 51st prime minister of Romania (d. 2001) May 12 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player (d. 2015) May 14 – Oona O'Neill, American actress (d. 1991) May 15 – Andrei Eshpai, Soviet and Russian composer (d. 2015) May 16 Nancy Roman, American astronomer (d. 2018) Ola Vincent, Nigerian economist and banker (d. 2012) May 18 – Gérard Corboud, Swiss entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist (d. 2017) May 19 Malcolm X, African-American civil rights activist (d. 1965) Pol Pot, Cambodian Stalinist dictator and leader of the Khmer Rouge (d. 1998) May 20 – Gregory Yong, Archbishop of Singapore (d. 2008) May 22 Julio Garrett Ayllón, 33rd Vice President of Bolivia (d. 2018) James King, American tenor (d. 2005) Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991) May 23 – Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008) May 24 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and film director (d. 1994)Screen International Film and TV Year Book https://books.google.com/books?id=6uBkAAAAMAAJ 1992 Screen International, King Publications Limited 978-0-900925-21-4 242 May 25 Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)Paul T. Hellmann Historical Gazetteer of the United States https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA79 14 February 2006 Routledge 1-135-94859-3 79 José María Gatica, Argentine boxer (d. 1963) Rudolf Scheurer, Swiss football referee (d. 2015) May 26 Alec McCowen, English actor (d. 2017) Carmen Montejo, Cuban-born Mexican actress (d. 2013) May 28 Bülent Ecevit, 3-time prime minister of Turkey (d. 2006) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German lyric baritone and conductor (d. 2012) Lucien Nedzi, American politician and member of the US House of Representatives from 1961 to 1981 (d. 2025) Pavel Štěpán, Czech pianist (d. 1998) May 30 – John Marks, English doctor and author (d. 2022) May 31 Julian Beck, American actor, director, poet and painter (d. 1985) Frei Otto, German architect (d. 2015) Donn A. Starry, American army officer (d. 2011) June thumb|100px|Tony Curtis thumb|100px|Barbara Bush thumb|100px|Audie Murphy thumb|100px|June Lockhart thumb|100px|Giorgio Napolitano June 2 Julius Blank, semiconductor pioneer (d. 2011) Buddy Elias, Swiss actor and president of the Anne Frank Fonds (d. 2015) June 3 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010) June 4 – Antonio Puchades, Spanish footballer (d. 2013) June 5 Bill Hayes, American actor (d. 2024) Maharani Wisma Susana Siregar, Indonesian-Dutch freedom fighter and wife of President Sukarno June 6 – Hideji Ōtaki, Japanese actor (d. 2012) June 7 – Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (d. 2017) June 8 – Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States (d. 2018) June 10 Fortunato Abat, Filipino army general and politician (d. 2018) Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic and syndicated columnist (d. 2017) June 11 – William Styron, American writer (d. 2006)https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/books/02styron.html William Styron, Novelist, Dies at 81 The New York Times Christopher Lehmann-Haupt November 2, 2006 June 12 – Raphaël Géminiani, French road cycling racer (d. 2024) June 13 – Dušan Trbojević, Serbian pianist, composer, musical writer and university professor (d. 2011) June 14 Hideyuki Fujisawa, Japanese professional Go player (d. 2009) Pierre Salinger, White House Press Secretary (d. 2004) June 15 Richard Baker, English broadcast journalist and author (d. 2018) Vasily Golubev, Soviet, Russian painter (d. 1985) Attilâ İlhan, Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer (d. 2005) June 16 – Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist (d. 2017) June 17 – Mervyn Finlay, Australian member of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Queen's Counsel (d. 2014) June 20 András Kovács, Hungarian filmmaker (d. 2017) Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and actor (d. 1971)Bob Larkins Boyd Magers The Films of Audie Murphy https://books.google.com/books?id=emtZAAAAMAAJ 2004 McFarland & Company 978-0-7864-1761-2 8 June 21 Larisa Avdeyeva, Russian mezzo-soprano (d. 2013) Giovanni Spadolini, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1994) Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006) June 23 – Oliver Smithies, British-American geneticist (d. 2017)https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2007/smithies/facts/ Oliver Smithies Nobel Prize March 17, 2021 June 25 June Lockhart, American actress (d. 2025) Robert Venturi, American architect (d. 2018)Cleveland Amory Celebrity Register https://books.google.com/books?id=yfsZAAAAYAAJ 1986 Harper & Row 978-0-9615476-0-8 519 P. Viswambharan, Indian politician, socialist, trade unionist and journalist (d. 2016) June 26 – Jean Frydman, French resistant and businessman (d. 2021) June 29 Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician and 11th President of Italy (d. 2023) Cara Williams, American actress (d. 2021) June 30 Ebrahim Amini, Iranian politician (d. 2020) Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss poet and translator (d. 2021) Ros Mey, Cambodian-born American Buddhist monk and survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime (d. 2010) Fred Schaus, American basketball player, head coach and athletic director (d. 2010) July thumb|100px|Farley Granger thumb|100px|Patrice Lumumba thumb|100px|Jean Raspail thumb|100px|Merv Griffin thumb|100px|Bill Haley thumb|100px|Mahathir Mohamad thumb|100px|Ana María Matute thumb|100px|Mikis Theodorakis July 1 Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011) Art McNally, American football referee (d. 2023) July 2 Marvin Rainwater, American country and rockabilly singer and songwriter (d. 2013) Medgar Evers, African-American civil rights activist (d. 1963) Patrice Lumumba, Congolese independence leader (d. 1961) July 3 – Roger Chesneau, French steeplechaser (d. 2012) July 4 – Dorothy Head Knode, American tennis player (d. 2015) July 5 Jelesko Grancharoff, Bulgarian-Australian resistance fighter and anarchist (d. 2016)Dupuy Rolf Rolf Dupuy CEP 2026 GRANCHAROFF, Jelesko [dit “Jack the Anarchist”, “Jack GRANSHAW”] https://militants-anarchistes.info/spip.php?article7030 2026-06-11 Dictionnaire international des militant.e.s anarchistes fr Jean Raspail, French author, traveler and explorer (d. 2020) Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher (d. 2017) Unto Wiitala, Finnish ice hockey player (d. 2019) July 6 Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress and author (d. 2002) Merv Griffin, American game show host and producer, talk show host, singer (d. 2007) Bill Haley, American musician (d. 1981)John Swenson Bill Haley https://books.google.com/books?id=sFxGk7oH0iUC 1982 W.H. Allen 978-0-491-02947-6 15 Gazi Yaşargil, Turkish scientist and neurosurgeon (d. 2025) July 8 – Nicholas Brathwaite, Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 2016)Phil Gunson Greg Chamberlain Andrew Thompson The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of Central America and the Caribbean https://books.google.com/books?id=tEJACwAAQBAJ&pg=PT50 22 December 2015 Routledge 978-1-317-27053-9 50 July 9 Mary de Rachewiltz, Italian-American poet and translator (d. 2026) Borislav Stanković, Serbian basketball player and coach (d. 2020) July 10 – Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian politician; Former prime minister of Malaysia July 11 Mattiwilda Dobbs, African-American coloratura soprano (d. 2015) Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (d. 2017)Roy Hemming Discovering Music: Where to Start on Records and Tapes, the Great Composers and Their Works, Today's Major Recording Artists https://books.google.com/books?id=Bhw5AQAAIAAJ 1974 Four Winds Press 978-0-590-07144-4 300 David Graham, British actor and voice artist (d. 2024) Fernando Matthei, Chilean Air Force General (d. 2017) July 12 – Don Campbell, Canadian ice hockey (d. 2012) July 13 – Suzanne Zimmerman, American competition swimmer and Olympic medallist (d. 2021) July 14 Francisco Álvarez Martínez, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2022) Elmo Bovio, Argentine professional football player (d. 2017) Carlos Velázquez, Argentine modern pentathlete July 15 D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (d. 2019) Badal Sarkar, Indian dramatist and theatre director (d. 2011) July 16 – Rosita Quintana, Argentine actress (d. 2021) July 17 Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, German cellist and Holocaust survivor Mohammad Hasan Sharq, Afghan politician Ted Vogel, American marathon runner (d. 2019) July 18 Allan Elsom, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2010) Raymond Jones, Australian architect (d. 2022) Shirley Strickland, Australian Olympic athlete (d. 2004) Friedrich Zimmermann, German politician (d. 2012) July 19 Otto Arosemena, 32nd president of Ecuador (d. 1984) Henri Beaujean, French politician (d. 2021) John Dossetor, Canadian physician and bioethicist (d. 2020) Jack Petchey, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 2024) Michael Pfeiffer, German footballer (d. 2018) Sue Thompson, American singer (d. 2021) July 20 Jacques Delors, French politician (d. 2023) Frantz Fanon, French-Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1961) Eric Watson, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2017) July 21 Hans Meyer, South African actor (d. 2020) Johnny Peirson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2021) July 22 – Joseph Sargent, American film director (d. 2014) July 23 Tajuddin Ahmad, 1st prime minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975) G. Holmes Braddock, American politician (d. 2025)Cohen Howard July 24, 2025 'He shaped the futures of millions of students.' G. Holmes Braddock dies at 100 https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article311323395.html subscription July 27, 2025 Miami Herald Gloria DeHaven, American actress (d. 2016) Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (d. 2017) July 24 Stephen Porter, American stage director (d. 2013) Miiko Taka, American actress (d. 2023) July 25 Jutta Zilliacus, Finnish journalist and politician (d. 2026) Ana González de Recabarren, Chilean human rights activist (d. 2018) July 26 Robert Hirsch, French actor (d. 2017) Ana María Matute, Spanish writer (d. 2014)Ana Maria Matute, Novelist, Dies at 88 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/books/ana-maria-matute-spanish-novelist-marked-by-civil-war-dies-at-88.html?ref=obituaries The New York Times William Yardley 27 July 2014 4 July 2014 July 28 Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011) Ali Bozer, Turkish politician (d. 2020) July 29 S. D. Phadnis, Indian cartoonist Carmen Stănescu, Romanian actress (d. 2018) Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer (d. 2021) July 31 – Carmel Quinn, Irish-American singer (d. 2021) August thumb|100px|Jorge Rafael Videla thumb|100px|Alija Izetbegović 100px|thumb|Oscar Peterson 100px|thumb|Honor Blackman 100px|thumb|Juanita Reina 100px|thumb|Katyna Ranieri August 2 Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg, Princess of Luxembourg (d. 2023) Jorge Rafael Videla, 42nd president of Argentina (d. 2013) August 3 Marv Levy, American football coach and executive Dom Um Romão, Brazilian jazz drummer (d. 2005) August 6 Eddie Baily, England international footballer (d. 2010) Barbara Bates, American actress and singer (d. 1969) Lilyan Chauvin, French-American actress (d. 2008) August 7 – M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist (d. 2023) August 8 Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003) Aziz Sattar, Malaysian actor, comedian, singer and director (d. 2014) Ginny Tyler, American voice actress (d. 2012) August 9 David A. Huffman, American computer scientist (d. 1999) Valentín Pimstein, Chilean-Mexican producer of telenovelas (d. 2017) Olavi Rokka, Finnish modern pentathlete (d. 2011) August 10 – Stanislav Brebera, Czech chemist (d. 2012) August 11 – Arlene Dahl, American actress (d. 2021) August 12 Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (d. 1986) Leopold Barschandt, Austrian footballer (d. 2000) George Wetherill, geophysicist (d. 2006) Dale Bumpers, American politician (d. 2016) August 13 José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentine executive and policy maker (d. 2013) Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect based in Christchurch (d. 2012) August 15 Mike Connors, American actor (d. 2017) Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (d. 2007) Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-born French pianist (d. 2015) August 16 – Kirke Mechem, American composer August 18 – Pegeen Vail Guggenheim, Swiss-American painter (d. 1967) August 19 – Madhav Dalvi, Indian cricketer (d. 2012) August 20 Stan Hovdebo, New Democratic Party member of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 2018) Henning Larsen, Danish architect (d. 2013) August 21 – Toma Caragiu, Romanian theatre, television and film actor (d. 1977) August 22 – Honor Blackman, English actress (d. 2020)Whitmore Greg Honor Blackman – a life in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2020/apr/06/honor-blackman-a-life-in-pictures The Guardian 6 April 2020 6 April 2020 August 26 – Etelka Keserű, Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2018) August 27 Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and Vatican diplomat (d. 2017) Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (d. 2011)https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/bolton_wanderers/9363142.stm Bolton legend Nat Lofthouse dies at 85 16 January 2011 2011-01-16 BBC Sport Jaswant Singh Neki, Indian academic and poet (d. 2015) August 28 Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 2003) José Parra Martínez, Spanish footballer (d. 2016) August 29 – Demetrio B. Lakas, President of Panama (d. 1999) August 31 Ted Blakey, American historian, activist, and businessman (d. 2004)Edman Patricia A. Dakota Images: Theodore R. ("Ted") Blakey South Dakota History 2005 34 4 384 https://www.sdhspress.com/journal/south-dakota-history-34-4/dakota-images-theodore-r-ateda-blakey/vol-34-no-4-dakota-images-theodore-r-ted-blakey.pdf November 25, 2024 South Dakota State Historical Society Press Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003) September thumb|100px|Andrea Camilleri thumb|100px|Peter Sellers thumb|100px|B. B. King September 1 Michael J. Cleary, Irish Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2020) Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982) Ihor Yukhnovskyi, Ukrainian physicist and politician (d. 2024) September 3 – Shoista Mullojonova, Tajik-born Shashmakom singer (d. 2010) September 6 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer and director (d. 2019)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/17/andrea-camilleri-obituary-inspector-montalbano Andrea Camilleri obituary John Hooper 17 July 2019 The Guardian 27 June 2020 September 7 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (d. 1985) September 8 Jacqueline Ceballos, American feminist Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor (d. 1980) September 10 Marthe Gautier, French medical doctor and researcher known for discovering the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities (d. 2022) Boris Tchaikovsky, Soviet and Russian composer (d. 1996) September 11 – Armando Monteiro Filho, Brazilian businessman, engineer and politician (d. 2018) September 13 – Mel Tormé, American musician (d. 1999) September 14 – Winston Cenac, 3rd prime minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2004) September 15 – Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009) September 16 Eugene Garfield, American linguist and businessman (d. 2017)https://web.archive.org/web/20170228082153/http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view%2FarticleNo%2F48636%2Ftitle%2FScientometrics-Pioneer-Eugene-Garfield-Dies%2F February 28, 2017 http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/48636/title/Scientometrics-Pioneer-Eugene-Garfield-Dies/ Scientometrics Pioneer Eugene Garfield Dies The Scientist February 27, 2017 dead Charles Haughey, sixth Taoiseach (head of government of the Republic of Ireland) (d. 2006) B. B. King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015) Morgan Woodward, American actor (d. 2019) Martha Firestone Ford, American Businesswoman and former principal owner of the Detroit Lions September 19 – Pete Murray, British Radio and television presenter September 20 – Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Siam (d. 1946) September 23 – Angelo Acerbi, Italian Catholic archbishop and cardinal September 24 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004) September 25 Paul B. MacCready Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007) Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (d. 2016) Hasan Tiro, Indonesian politician (d. 2010)Hasan di Tiro, Who Led Indonesia Rebels, Dies at 84 Aubrey Belford The New York Times 3 June 2010 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/world/asia/04tiro.html?ref=obituaries September 26 Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and racing driver (d. 1982) Bobby Shantz, American Baseball Player September 27 – Robert G. Edwards, British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (d. 2013) September 28 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991) September 30 Joseph Hitti, Lebanese Catholic bishop (d. 2022) Arkady Ostashev, Russian scientist and rocket engineer (d. 1998) October thumb|100px|Simone Segouin thumb|100px|Marlen Khutsiev thumb|100px|Antoine Gizenga thumb|100px|Margaret Thatcher thumb|100px|Dame Angela Lansbury thumb|100px|Johnny Carson thumb|100px|Warren Christopher October 1 – Yang Hyong-sop, North Korean politician (d. 2022) October 2 – José A. Martínez Suárez, Argentine film director and screenwriter (d. 2019) October 3 Simone Segouin (also known as Nicole Minet), French Resistance fighter and partisan (d. 2023)https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/06/18-year-old-french-resistance-fighter-simone-segouin-captured-25-nazis-during-the-fall-of-chartres/ 18 year old French Resistance fighter Simone Segouin captured 25 Nazis during the fall of Chartres October 6, 2016 thevintagenews Gore Vidal, American author (d. 2012) October 4 – Fyodor Terentyev, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 1963) October 5 Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997) Antoine Gizenga, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2019) Herbert Kretzmer, South African-English journalist and songwriter (d. 2020) Murray Riley, Australian rower (d. 2020) October 7 – Mildred Earp, American female professional baseball player (d. 2017) October 8 – Álvaro Magaña, 38th president of El Salvador (d. 2001) October 9 – Isyaku Rabiu, Nigerian businessman (d. 2018) October 11 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013) October 13 Lenny Bruce, American comic (d. 1966) Carlos Robles Piquer, Spanish diplomat and politician (d. 2018) Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 (d. 2013)Obituary: Margaret Thatcher https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10364876 BBC News 24 November 2020 8 April 2013 October 14 – Phillip V. Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist (d. 2012) October 15 – Bob Rowland Smith, Australian politician (d. 2012) October 16 Daniel J. Evans, American politician (d. 2024) Dame Angela Lansbury, Irish-British-born American actress (d. 2022) October 18 – Ramiz Alia, 13th president of Albania (d. 2011) October 19 Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine Naval military officer (d. 2010) Raymond Impanis, Belgian cyclist (d. 2010) October 20 Art Buchwald, American humorist and columnist (d. 2007) Hiromu Nonaka, Japanese politician (d. 2018) October 21 Surjit Singh Barnala, Indian politician (d. 2017) Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer (d. 2003) Virginia Zeani, Romanian soprano (d. 2023) October 22 Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Hawaiian genealogist, author and hula expert (d. 2014) Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and graphic artist (d. 2008) October 23 Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host (d. 2005) José Freire Falcão, Brazilian cardinal (d. 2021) Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (d. 1994) October 24 Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003) Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician (d. 2013) October 25 Aliya Moldagulova, Soviet soldier and sniper (d. 1944) October 27 Warren Christopher, American diplomat (d. 2011) Paul Fox, English television executive (d. 2024) Jiro Ono, Japanese chef October 29 Robert Hardy, English actor (d. 2017) Klaus Roth, German-born British mathematician (d. 2015) October 31 Ngaire Lane, New Zealand swimmer (d. 2021) John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) November thumb|100px|Richard Burton 100px|thumb|Rock Hudson thumb|100px|Robert F. Kennedy thumb|100px|José Napoleón Duarte thumb|100px|Maryon Pittman Allen November 2 – Leif Hermansen, Danish rower (d. 2005) November 4 Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer (d. 2018) Doris Roberts, American actress (d. 2016)Doris Roberts https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/14436959.doris-roberts/ HeraldScotland April 19, 2016 7 May 2021 en November 6 – Michel Bouquet, French actor (d. 2022) November 8 – Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (d. 2019) November 9 – Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (d. 2016) November 10 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor, better known for his role in Cleopatra (d. 1984) November 11 Dame June Whitfield, English actress (d. 2018) Jonathan Winters, American actor and comedian (d. 2013) November 12 – Heinz Schubert, German actor (d. 1999) November 17 – Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985) November 19 – Zygmunt Bauman, Polish military officer, sociologist and philosopher (d. 2017) November 20 Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, Attorney General of the United States and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate (d. 1968) Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina (d. 2015) November 22 Miki Muster, Slovenian artist (d. 2018) Gunther Schuller, American musician (d. 2015)https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/gunther-schuller-pulitzer-prize-winning-composer-who-bridged-jazz-and-classical-music-dies-at-89/2015/06/22/9cccc350-18ec-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who bridged jazz and classical music, dies at 89 The Washington Post Matt Schudel 2015-06-22 June 23, 2015 November 23 José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran politician, 39th President of El Salvador (d. 1990) Johnny Mandel, American composer and conductor (d. 2020) William Tebeau, African-American engineer (d. 2013)William Tebeau Obituary (1925 - 2013) - Salem, OR - The Statesman Journal https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/statesmanjournal/name/william-tebeau-obituary?id=17021860 2025-07-09 Legacy.com November 24 William F. Buckley Jr., American journalist, author and commentator (d. 2008)Italie Hillel Associated Press Author, Conservative Commentator William F. Buckley Jr. Dies at 82 February 27, 2008 November 21, 2020 KVIA.com https://kvia.com/news/2008/02/27/author-conservative-commentator-william-f-buckley-jr-dies-at-82/ April 18, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210418203637/https://kvia.com/news/2008/02/27/author-conservative-commentator-william-f-buckley-jr-dies-at-82/ live Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011) November 26 Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, Uruguayan general and dictator (d. 2016) Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003) November 27 Claude Lanzmann, French filmmaker (d. 2018) Ernie Wise, English comedian (d. 1999) November 30 Lise Bourdin, French actress (d. 2025) Maryon Pittman Allen, American politician and journalist (d. 2018) Hayashiya Sanpei I, Japanese comedian (d. 1980) December thumb|100px|Julie Harris thumb|100px|Henri Oreiller thumb|100px|Shigeko Higashikuni thumb|100px|Sammy Davis Jr. thumb|100px|Dick Van Dyke thumb |100px|Milton Obote December 1 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998)https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1994/rodbell-autobio.html Martin Rodbell - Biographical nobelprize.org 2015-05-15 December 2 – Julie Harris, American actress (d. 2013) December 3 – Erik Mørk, Danish actor (d. 1993) December 4 Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009) Sauro Tomà, Italian footballer (d. 2018) December 5 Henri Oreiller, French Olympic alpine skier (d. 1962) Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (d. 1980) December 6 – Shigeko Higashikuni, Japanese princess (d. 1961) December 7 – Hermano da Silva Ramos, French-Brazilian racing driver (d. 2026) December 8 Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician and actor (d. 1990) Arnaldo Forlani, 43rd prime minister of Italy (d. 2023) December 11 – Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2019)Smith Harrison Paul Greengard, Nobel laureate who showed how nerve cells communicate, dies at 93 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/paul-greengard-nobel-laureate-who-showed-how-nerve-cells-communicate-dies-at-93/2019/04/15/b6b403d2-5f88-11e9-bfad-36a7eb36cb60_story.html 10 January 2021 Washington Post December 12 Anne V. Coates, British film editor (d. 2018) Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer (d. 2017) December 13 – Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer and dancerVan Dyke, Dick: U.S. Actor http://www.museum.tv/eotv/vandykedic.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20141015112621/http://www.museum.tv/eotv/vandykedic.htm October 15, 2014 September 29, 2014 Museum of Broadcast Communications December 15 Trần Thiện Khiêm, Vietnamese politician (d. 2021) Hiroshi Motoyama, Japanese scientist (d. 2015) December 19 Rabah Bitat, Algerian politician, interim President of Algeria (d. 2000) Tankred Dorst, German playwright (d. 2017)1 June 2017 Tankred Dorst ist tot https://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2017-06/schriftsteller-tankred-dorst-ist-tot Die Zeit Hamburg de 16 October 2019 Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (d. 2012) December 20 – Béla Goldoványi, Hungarian athlete (d. 1972) December 22 – Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, military doctor and war heroine (d. 2019) December 23 – Pierre Bérégovoy, French politician, 111th Prime Minister of France (d. 1993) December 24 – Prosper Grech, Maltese cardinal (d. 2019) December 27 Moshe Arens, Israeli diplomat and politician (d. 2019)https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/14/moshe-arens-obituary Moshe Arens obituary 14 January 2019 Lawrence Joffe The Guardian 4 October 2022 Michel Piccoli, French actor, singer, director and producer (d. 2020) December 28 Willy Kemp, Luxembourgish road cycling racer (d. 2021)https://www.wort.lu/de/sport/willy-kemp-im-alter-von-95-jahren-gestorben-616f2754de135b92364e9da2 Willy Kemp im Alter von 95 Jahren gestorben de Luxemburger Wort October 19, 2021 4 October 2022 October 20, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211020163827/https://www.wort.lu/de/sport/willy-kemp-im-alter-von-95-jahren-gestorben-616f2754de135b92364e9da2 dead Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (d. 2002) Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005) December 29 Keshav Dutt, Indian field hockey player (d. 2021) Luis Alberto Monge, 39th President of Costa Rica (d. 2016) Deaths January January 5 – Yevgenia Bosch, Ukrainian politician (b. 1879)https://spartacus-educational.com/RUS-Evgenia-Bosh.htm Evgenia Bosh Spartacus Educational January 6 – Rafaela Porras Ayllón, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (b. 1850) January 8 – George Bellows, American artist (b. 1882) January 14 – Camille Decoppet, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1862) January 16 – Aleksey Kuropatkin, Russian general and Imperial Russian Minister of War (b. 1848) January 18 Charles Lanrezac, French general (b. 1852) J. M. E. McTaggart, English philosopher (b. 1866)mctaggart John M E McTaggart McDaniel Chris January 22 – Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer, writer and mountain climber (b. 1859)Literature of Travel and Exploration: R to Z, index, ed. Jennifer Speake, p. 1296 January 26 – Sir James Mackenzie, Scottish cardiologist (b. 1853) February thumb|110px|Hjalmar Branting thumb|110px|Friedrich Ebert February 2 – Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater (b. 1873) February 3 – Oliver Heaviside, British mathematician (b. 1850) February 4 – Robert Koldewey, German architect and archaeologist (b. 1855) February 11 – Aristide Bruant, French singer and nightclub owner (b. 1851) February 13 – Floyd Collins, American cave explorer (b. 1887) February 17 – Ignacio Andrade, Venezuela military and politician, 23rd President of Venezuela (b. 1839) February 18 – James Lane Allen, American writer (b. 1849) February 21 – Fernando De Lucia, Italian tenor (b. 1860) February 23 Samuel Berger, American Olympic boxer (b. 1884) James H. Wilson, American Union Army major general (b. 1837) February 24 Hjalmar Branting, 19th Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860) John Palm, Curaçao-born composer (b. 1885) February 25 – Louis Feuillade, French silent film director (b. 1873) February 28 – Friedrich Ebert, 1st President of Germany (1919–1945) (b. 1871) March thumb|110px|Sun Yat-sen thumb|110px|Lucille Ricksen March 1 – Homer Plessy, American political activist (b. 1862 or 1863) March 2 William A. Clark, American entrepreneur and politician (b. 1839) Luigj Gurakuqi, Albanian writer and politician (b. 1879) March 4 Moritz Moszkowski, Polish composer (b. 1854) James Ward, British philosopher and psychologist (b. 1843) John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1860) March 7 – Georgy Lvov, Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1861) March 8 Manuel Míguez González, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1831) Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (b. 1866) March 10 – Myer Prinstein, Polish-American track athlete (b. 1878) March 12 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician, politician and revolutionary (b. 1866) March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, American silent film actress (b. 1910) March 14 – Walter Camp, American football coach (b. 1859)Walter Camp American sportsman https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Camp Encyclopedia Britannica en 2020-05-20 March 19 – Nariman Narimanov, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1870) March 20 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (b. 1859) March 28 – Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, British general (b. 1864) March 30 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (b. 1861) April thumb|110px|Fritz Haarmann April 7 – Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (b. 1865) April 13 Elwood Haynes, American inventor (b. 1857) August Endell, German architect (b. 1871) April 15 John Singer Sargent, American artist (b. 1856) Fritz Haarmann, German serial killer (executed) (b. 1879) April 16 – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, German prince (b. 1852) April 17 – Wong Fei-hung, Chinese healer and revolutionary (b. 1847) April 19 – John Walter Smith, American politician (b. 1845) April 20 – Herbert Lawford, British tennis player (b. 1851) April 22 – André Caplet, French composer and conductor (b. 1878) Unknown date – Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni, Moroccan sharif and tribal leader (b. 1871) May thumb|110px|William Massey thumb|110px|Lucien Guitry May 2 Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b. 1848) Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian poet (b. 1898) May 3 – Clément Ader, French Army captain and aviation pioneer (b. 1841) May 4 – Giovanni Battista Grassi, Italian physician and zoologist (b. 1854) May 5 – Catharine van Tussenbroek, Dutch physician (b. 1852) May 7 William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, British industrialist, philanthropist and politician (b. 1851) Sir Doveton Sturdee, British admiral (b. 1859)http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36364?docPos=1 Doveton Sturdee 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/36364 7 December 2014 May 10 Alexandru Marghiloman, 25th prime minister of Romania (b. 1854) William Massey, 19th prime minister of New Zealand (b. 1856) May 12 Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)David Herbert Lawrence Amy Lowell E. Claire Healey The Letters of D.H. Lawrence & Amy Lowell, 1914-1925 https://books.google.com/books?id=dAYeAQAAIAAJ 1985 Black Sparrow Press 978-0-87685-667-3 135 Charles Mangin, French general (b. 1866) May 13 – Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, British politician and colonial administrator (b. 1854) Milner, Alfred Milner, Viscount x May 14 – H. Rider Haggard, British writer (b. 1856)Rider Haggard Dies in London Hospital. Author of 'She,' 'King Solomon's Mines' and Many Other Novels Was Nearly 69. He Was Knighted in 1912. An Authority on Agriculture and Sociology. Served on Government Missions https://www.nytimes.com/1925/05/15/archives/rider-haggard-dies-in-london-hospital-author-of-she-king-solomons.html New York Times 15 May 1925 18 November 2012 May 15 – Nelson A. Miles, American general (b. 1839) May 20 Ramón Auñón y Villalón, Spanish admiral and politician (b. 1844) Elias M. Ammons, Governor of Colorado (b. 1860) Joseph Howard, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1862) May 21 – Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agricultural scientist and guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871) May 22 – John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British World War I field marshal (b. 1852) May 25 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877) May 28 – João Pinheiro Chagas, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1863) May 29 – Percy Fawcett, British explorer, anthropologist and archaeologist (disappeared) (b. 1867) June thumb|149x149px|Thomas R. Marshall June 1 Lucien Guitry, French actor (b. 1860) Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States (b. 1854) June 2 – James Ellsworth, American mine owner and banker (b. 1849) June 3 – Camille Flammarion, French astronomer (b. 1842) June 9 – Antony MacDonnell, 1st Baron MacDonnell, Irish civil servant (b. 1844) June 12 – Mary Cole Walling, American patriot, lecturer (b. 1838) June 17 – Adolf Pilar von Pilchau, Baltic German politician, regent of the United Baltic Duchy and baron (b. 1851)thumb|110px|Christian Michelsen June 18 – Robert M. La Follette, American politician (b. 1855) June 20 – Josef Breuer, Austrian neurologist (b. 1842) June 22 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849) June 28 – Georgina Febres-Cordero, Venezuelan nun (b. 1861) June 29 – Christian Michelsen, Norwegian politician and 1st Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1857) July thumb|110px|Pancho Villa thumb|right|110px|Severo Fernández July 1 – Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866) July 2 – Nikolai Golitsyn, last Prime Minister of the Russian Empire (executed) (b. 1850) July 4 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Roman Catholic social activist and blessed (b. 1901) July 8 – Clarence Hudson White, American photographer (b. 1871) July 14 – Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (b. 1901) July 17 – Lovis Corinth, German painter (b. 1858) July 19 – Francisco José Fernandes Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician (b. 1867) July 26 Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888) William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860) Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1848) August thumb|right|110px|René Viviani August 4 – Charles W. Clark, American baritone (b. 1865)https://www.nytimes.com/1925/08/04/archives/baritone-clark-dies-wifes-death-follows-internationally-known.html Baritone Clark dies; Wife's Death follows; Internationally Known Concert Singer Is Stricken While Sitting in a Chicago Theatre New York Times August 4, 1925 August 5 – Jennie Lee, American actress (b. 1848) August 6 – Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (b. 1853) August 12 – Severo Fernández, 24th President of Bolivia (b. 1849) August 15 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian landscape painter (b. 1878) August 17 – Ioan Slavici, Romanian writer (b. 1848) August 20 – Liao Zhongkai, Chinese politician, Kuomintang leader and financier (b. 1877) August 25 – Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852) September September 6 or September 8 – Louisa Briggs, Aboriginal Australian rights activist (b. 1818 or 1836) September 7 – René Viviani, 81st Prime Minister of France (b. 1863) September 16 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1888) September 17 – Carl Eytel, German-American artist working in Palm Springs, California (b. 1862) September 18 – Yui Mitsue, Japanese general (b. 1860) September 29 – Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851) October thumb|110px|St Anna Schäffer thumb|110px|Vajiravudh thumb|110px|Władysław Reymont October 5 – Anna Schäffer, German Roman Catholic mystic, stigmatist and saint (b. 1882) October 7 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1880) October 10 – James Buchanan Duke, American tobacco and electric power industrialist (b. 1856) October 14 – Eugen Sandow, German-born bodybuilder, physical culturist (b. 1867) October 15 – Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary and educator (b. 1848) October 20 – Jonah of Hankou, Russian Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1888) October 31 George Anderson, Danish criminal (b. 1880) Mikhail Frunze, Russian Bolshevik leader (b. 1885) José Ingenieros, Argentine physician, sociologist and philosopher (b. 1877) Thomas Henry Tracy, Canadian architect and alderman (b. 1848)Victorian Architecture in London and Southwestern Ontario: Symbols of Aspiration https://archive.org/details/victorianarchite0000taus/mode/2up?q=%22john+mackenzie+moore%22 Tausky Nancy Z. Distefano Lynne D. 2018 978-1-4875-8257-9 University of Toronto Press Toronto 207 10.3138/j.ctvfrxbbj November November 1 Lester Cuneo, American actor (b. 1888)https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba13e0970 Lester Cuneo May 11, 2023 December 7, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211207103943/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba13e0970 dead Max Linder, French actor (b. 1883)http://www.frenchfilms.org/biography/max-linder.html Biography and filmography of Max Linder James Travers January 1, 2013 frenchfilms.org November 5 – Sidney Reilly, Russian spy (executed) (b. c.1873) November 6 – Khải Định, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1885) November 12 – Robert Wrenn, American tennis player (b. 1873) November 20 Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, consort of King Edward VII (b. 1844)Queen Alexandra, wife of Edward VII https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/queen-alexandra-wife-of-edward-vii Westminster Abbey 7 October 2022 en Clara Morris, American stage actress (b. 1846) November 24 – Margaret Sinclair, British nun and venerable (b. 1900) November 26 – King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) of Siam (b. 1880) December thumb|110px|Antonio Maura thumb|110px|Jules Méline December 5 Wilhelmina Drucker, Dutch politician and writer (b. 1847) Władysław Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, American actress (b. 1888) December 9 – Pablo Iglesias Posse, co-founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (b. 1850) December 13 – Antonio Maura, Spanish conservative politician, 5-time Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1853) December 15 – Battling Siki, Senegalese boxer (b. 1897) December 18 – Sir Hamo Thornycroft, British sculptor (b. 1850) December 19 – José Ignacio Quintón, Puerto Rican composer and pianist (b. 1881) December 20 – Prior João Ferreira Sardo, the founder of the Gafanha da Nazaré died of a long-term lung disease. December 21 Lottie Lyell, Australian female pioneer film director and producer (b. 1890) Jules Méline, French statesman, 50th Prime Minister of France (b. 1838) December 22 Alice, Princess Dowager of Monaco, consort of Albert I of Monaco (b. 1858) Mary Thurman, American actress (b. 1895) December 25 Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877) Ester Rachel Kamińska, Polish actress, "mother of Yiddish theatre" (b. 1870) December 27 – Marie-Louise Jaÿ, French businesswoman (b. 1838) December 28 Sergei Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet (b. 1895) Raymond P. Rodgers, American admiral (b. 1849) December 29 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter (b. 1865) December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards, Canadian film director (b. 1867) Nobel Prizes right|100px Physics – James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz Chemistry – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy Physiology or Medicine – not awarded Literature – George Bernard Shaw Peace – Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes References 30em