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1955 the album 1955 (album) the song 1955 (song) August 2019 1955 border:none;b 3/3/3/3 Rosa Parks on bus on December 21, 1956.jpg Bundesarchiv Bild 183-30562-0001, Warschauer Konferenz, Grotewohl unterzeichnet.jpg Sino-Indonesian Dual Nationality Treaty signing.jpg Opening Day at Disneyland.jpg 1955 Le Mans disaster.jpg Emmett Till parents at funeral.jpg VA066641 Referendum Diem v. Bao Dai 1955.jpg Plaza-Mayo-bombardeo-1955.JPG Hurricane Diane Connecticut flood damage (cropped).jpg 350 From top to bottom, left to right: The Montgomery bus boycott begins after Rosa Parks’ arrest; the Warsaw Pact forms the Eastern Bloc; the Bandung Conference unites Asian and African nations; Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California; the 1955 Le Mans disaster kills over 80 spectators; the Lynching of Emmett Till shocks the U.S.; the 1955 State of Vietnam referendum makes Ngô Đình Diệm president; the Bombing of Plaza de Mayo reveals Argentina’s unrest; and Hurricane Diane causes major U.S. flooding. 1955 1955 2 Events January January 1955 thumb|120px|right|January 7: Marian Anderson at the Met thumb|120px|right| January 22: ICBM January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.Marjorie Millace Whiteman Digest of International Law https://books.google.com/books?id=vVIMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA306 1963 U.S. Department of State 306 January 7 – Marian Anderson is the first African-American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Metropolitan Opera What did they sing at the Met? https://books.google.com/books?id=JvUXAQAAIAAJ 1971 Wayner Publications ii January 17 – Nautilus SSN-571 6, the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations Policy statements https://books.google.com/books?id=XRJEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA724 1959 U.S. Government Printing Office 724 January 18–20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan).Xiaobing Li Hongshan Li China and the United States: A New Cold War History https://books.google.com/books?id=Re8pJnCXvWoC&pg=PA57 1998 University Press of America 978-0-7618-0978-4 57 January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England.Queenborough Marcus 2025-01-25 70 years ago, 17 people died in the Sutton Coldfield rail disaster https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/nostalgia/gallery/70-years-ago-17-people-30846672 2025-09-27 Birmingham Live en January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Taiwan from the People's Republic of China. February February 1955 February 10 – The United States Seventh Fleet helps the Republic of China evacuate the Chinese Nationalist army and residents from the Tachen Islands to Taiwan. February 16 – Nearly 100 die in a fire at a home for the elderly in Yokohama, Japan. February 19 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established, at a meeting in Bangkok. February 22 – In Chicago's Democratic primary, Mayor Martin H. Kennelly loses to the head of the Cook County Democratic Party, Richard J. Daley, 364,839 to 264,077. February 24 – The Baghdad Pact (CENTO), originally known as Middle East Treaty Organization (METO), is signed between Iraq and Turkey.United States. National Archives and Records Administration Robert B. Matchette Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States: Record groups 171-515 https://books.google.com/books?id=LLUZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT579 1995 National Archives and Records Administration 978-0-16-048312-7 579 March March 1955 March 2 – Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old African-American girl, refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white woman after the driver demands it. She is carried off the bus backwards, while being kicked, handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station. She becomes a plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle (1956), which rules bus segregation to be unconstitutional. March 20 – The movie adaptation of Evan Hunter's novel Blackboard Jungle premieres in the United States, featuring the famous single "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets. Teenagers jump from their seats to dance to the song.https://filmtalk.org/2017/04/24/blackboard-jungle-how-glenn-fords-son-peter-launched-bill-haleys-rock-around-the-clock/ "Blackboard Jungle": How Glenn Ford's son Peter launched Bill Haley's 'Rock Around the Clock' FilmTalk April 24, 2017 April April 1955 thumb|120px|right|April 15: First McDonald's opens April 1 – EOKA starts a resistance campaign against British rule in the Crown colony of Cyprus. April 5 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, due to ill-health, at the age of 80.Churchill resigns, Eden to take over - UPI Archives https://www.upi.com/Archives/1955/04/05/Churchill-resigns-Eden-to-take-over/5240554121607/ 2025-09-02 UPI en April 6 – Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. April 11 The Taiwanese Kuomintang put a bomb on the airplane Kashmir Princess, killing 16 but failing to assassinate the People's Republic of China leader, Zhou Enlai. Taekwondo, a form of Korean martial arts, is officially recognized in South Korea. A board convened by General Choi Hong Hi, including master instructors, historians and societal leaders, officially adopts the name Taekwon-Do for the unified Korean martial art.History of Taekwon‑Do – International Taekwon‑Do Federation https://www.itf-tkd.org/history-of-taekwon-do/ 2025-04-05 www.itf-tkd.org April 12 – The Salk polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the Food and Drug Administration. April 15 – The first franchised McDonald's restaurant is opened by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.Wagner III John https://books.google.com/books?id=DaQJEAAAQBAJ&dq=McDonald%27s+%22Drive-In+Restaurant+Services%22&pg=PT455 Organizational Behavior: Securing Competitive Advantage Hollenbeck John R. Routledge 2020 978-1-000-33490-6 April 16 – The Burma–Japan Peace Treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries. April 17 – Imre Nagy, the communist Premier of Hungary, is ousted for being too moderate. April 18–24 – The Asian-African Conference is held in Bandung, Indonesia. May May 1955 May 5 – West Germany becomes a sovereign country, recognized by Western countries such as France, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. May 6 – The Western European Union Charter becomes effective. May 7 – Newcastle United F.C. beat Manchester City F.C. 3–1 to win the 1955 FA Cup final in English Association football. May 9 – West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). May 11 – Japanese National Railways' ferry Shiun Maru sinks after a collision with sister ship Uko Maru, in thick fog off Takamatsu, Shikoku, in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan; 166 passengers (many children) and 2 crew members are killed. This event is influential in plans to construct the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge (built 1986–98). May 14 – Eight Communist Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty in Warsaw, Poland, that is called the Warsaw Pact (it will be dissolved in 1991). May 15 The Austrian State Treaty, which restores Austria's national sovereignty, is concluded between the 4 occupying powers following World War II (the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France) and Austria, setting it up as a neutral country. Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy become the first people to reach the summit of Makalu, the fifth-highest mountain in the world, on the 1955 French Makalu expedition. The entire team of climbers reaches the summit over the next two days.Isserman Maurice Maurice Isserman Weaver Stewart Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes 2008 Yale University Press New Haven 9780300115017 1 The Golden Age of Himalayan Climbing 326 none May 18 – Free movement of residents between North and South Vietnam ends.1954 Geneva Conference Article 14(d). May 25 – Joe Brown and George Band are the first to climb Kangchenjunga in the Himalayas, as part of the British Kangchenjunga expedition led by Charles Evans. June June 1955 June 7 – The television quiz program The $64,000 Question premieres on CBS-TV in the United States, with Hal March as the host. June 11 – Le Mans disaster: Eighty-three people are killed when two racing cars collide in the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sfptx Deadliest Crash: The Le Mans 1955 Disaster 16 May 2010 June 13 – Mir mine, the first diamond mine in the Soviet Union, is discovered. June 26 – The Freedom Charter of the anti-apartheid South African Congress Alliance is adopted, at a Congress of the People in Kliptown. June 30 – The Simonstown Agreement provides for control of the naval base at Simon's Town in the Union of South Africa to transfer from the British Royal Navy to the South African Navy.The Simonstown Agreement: Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 29 October 1974. July July 1955 July 7 – The New Zealand Special Air Service is formed. July 13 – Ruth Ellis is hanged for murder in London, becoming the last woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom. July 17 The Disneyland theme park opens in Anaheim, California, an event broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network. The first atomic-generated electrical power is sold commercially, partially powering Arco, Idaho, from the U.S. National Reactor Testing Station; on July 18, Schenectady, New York, receives power from a prototype nuclear submarine reactor at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory."1955". Houghton Mifflin Guide to Science & Technology. July 18 – Illinois Governor William Stratton signs the Loyalty Oath Act, that mandates all public employees take a loyalty oath to the State of Illinois and the United States or lose their jobs. July 18–23 – Geneva Summit between the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom and France. July 27 – El Al Flight 402 from Vienna (Austria) to Tel Aviv, via Istanbul, is shot down over Bulgaria. All 58 passengers and crewmen aboard the Lockheed Constellation are killed. July 28 – The first Interlingua Congress is held in Tours, France, leading to the foundation of the Union Mundial pro Interlingua. August August 1955 thumb|120px|right| August 19: Hurricane Diane August 1 – The prototype Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft first flies, in Nevada. August 18 The First Sudanese Civil War begins. The first meeting of the Organization of Central American States (es Organización de Estados Centroamericanos, ODECA) is held, in Antigua Guatemala. August 19 – Hurricane Diane hits the northeastern United States, killing over 200 people and causing over $1 billion in damage. August 20 – Hundreds of people are killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria. August 22 – Eleven schoolchildren are killed when their school bus is hit by a freight train in Spring City, Tennessee. August 26 – Satyajit Ray's film Pather Panchali is released in India. August 28 – Black 14-year-old Emmett Till is lynched and shot in the head for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Money, Mississippi; his white murderers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, are acquitted by an all-white jury. September September 1955 thumb|150px|upright|September 18: Britain annexes Rockall September 2 – Under the guidance of Dr. Humphry Osmond, Christopher Mayhew ingests 400 mg of mescaline hydrochloride and allows himself to be filmed as part of a Panorama special for BBC TV in the U.K. that is never broadcast. September 3 – Little Richard records "Tutti Frutti" in New Orleans; it is released in October. September 6 – Istanbul pogrom: Istanbul's Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored pogrom. September 10 – The long-running Western television series Gunsmoke debuts, on the CBS network in the United States. September 14 – Pope Pius XII elevates many of the apostolic vicariates in Africa to Metropolitan Archdioceses. September 15 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in Paris, by Olympia Press. September 16 The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight. A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile. September 18 – The United Kingdom formally annexes the uninhabited Atlantic island of Rockall. September 19–21 – President of Argentina Juan Perón is ousted in a military coup. September 19 – Hurricane Hilda kills about 200 people in Mexico. September 21–30 – Hurricane Janet, one of the strongest North Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, sweeps the Lesser Antilles and Mexico, causing more than 1,020 deaths.Category 5 Monsters! http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/satellite/satelliteseye/educational/cat5hur.html United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2013-02-02 National Climatic Data Center September 22 – Commercial television starts in the United Kingdom with the Independent Television Authority's first ITV franchises beginning broadcasting in London, ending the BBC monopoly. September 24 Dwight D. Eisenhower, president of the United States, suffers a coronary thrombosis while on vacation in Denver, Colorado. Vice President Nixon assumed administrative duties and presided over Cabinet and National Security Council meetings while Eisenhower recovers.Dwight D. Eisenhower Event Timeline The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/dwight-d-eisenhower-event-timeline 2025-04-05 www.presidency.ucsb.edu enVice-President Richard Nixon (1955 - 1957) https://waverlyhs.weebly.com/us-history-blog-may-2019---may-2020/vice-president-richard-nixon-1955-1957 2025-04-05 Mr. Jensen's U.S. History Website en Founder of Swiss watchmaker Glycine Watch SA, Eugène Meylan, age 64, is murdered.May 1956 L'affaire du Mail fr XXIV 29–31 Der Kreis / Le Cercle 5 10.5169/seals-569258 free [s.n.] September 30 – Actor James Dean is killed when his automobile collides with another car at a highway junction, near Cholame, California. October October 1955 October 4 – The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is released from prison in Seoul, South Korea. October 5 – Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California. October 11 – 70-mm film for projection is introduced, with the theatrical release of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical film, Oklahoma!. October 14 – The Organization of Central American States secretariat is inaugurated. October 26 After the last Allied troops have left Austria, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, the country declares its permanent neutrality. Ngô Đình Diệm proclaims Vietnam to be a republic, with himself as its President (following the State of Vietnam referendum on October 23), and forms the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. October 29 – Soviet battleship Novorossiysk explodes at moorings in Sevastopol Bay, killing 608 (the Soviet Union's worst naval disaster to date). November November 1955 thumb|120px|right| October 26: Austria declares permanent neutrality November 1 Official start date of the Vietnam War between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and Republic of Vietnam; the north is allied with the Viet Cong.Name of Technical Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon to be added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Department of Defense (DoD) https://www.defense.gov/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=1902 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131020044326/http://www.defense.gov/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=1902 20 October 2013 A time bomb explodes in the cargo hold of United Airlines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B, over Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board. November 3 – The Rimutaka Tunnel opens on the New Zealand Railways, at 5.46 mi (8.79 km), the longest in the Southern Hemisphere at this time. November 15 – The Democratic Party of Japan and Japan Liberal Party merge to form the Japan Liberal Democratic Party, beginning the "1955 System".Liberal-Democratic Party of Japan political party, Japan https://www.britannica.com/topic/Liberal-Democratic-Party-of-Japan 2021-11-02 Encyclopedia Britannica en November 19 – C. Northcote Parkinson first propounds 'Parkinson's law', in The Economist. November 23 – The Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean are transferred from British to Australian control. November 26 – The British Governor of Cyprus declares a state of emergency on the island. December December 1955 December 1 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger, and is arrested, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott. December 4 – The International Federation of Blood Donor Organizations is founded in Luxembourg. December 5 The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge, to become the AFL–CIO. The Montgomery Improvement Association is formed in Montgomery, Alabama, by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other Black ministers to coordinate the Montgomery bus boycott by Black people. December 9 – Adnan Menderes of DP forms the new government of Turkey (22nd government). December 10 – 1955 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a substantially increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by H. V. Evatt. This election comes in the immediate aftermath of the devastating split in the Labor Party, which leads to the formation of the Democratic Labor Party. The DLP will preference against Labor, and keep the Coalition in office until 1972. December 14 – Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sri Lanka join the United Nations simultaneously, after several years of moratorium on admitting new members that began during the Korean War. December 19 – Australian comedian Barry Humphries first introduces his character Edna Everage on stage in Melbourne.Thorpe Vanessa Goodnight possum! Tributes to Dame Edna creator Barry Humphries The Observer London 2023-04-23 2023-04-25 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/apr/23/dame-edna-everage-barry-humphries-tributes 8 December 20 – Cardiff is officially declared capital of Wales by the British Government.Deans David 2015-12-20 Sixty years as a capital hailed as making Cardiff into 'world-class centre' https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/happy-birthday-cardiff-sixty-years-10629481 2025-09-12 Wales Online en December 22 – American cytogeneticist Joe Hin Tjio discovers the correct number of human chromosomes, forty-six. December 31 – Austria becomes independent, under terms of the May 15 Austrian State Treaty. World population World population: 2,755,823,000 Africa: 246,746,000 Asia: 1,541,947,000 Europe: 575,184,000 South America: 190,797,000 North America: 186,884,000 Oceania: 14,265,000 Births births 2 January thumb|100px|Rowan Atkinson thumb|100px|Kevin Costner thumb|100px|Sir Simon Rattle thumb|100px|Olivier Assayas thumb|100px|Eddie Van Halen thumb|100px|John Roberts thumb|100px|Vinod Khosla thumb|100px|Nicolas Sarkozy thumb|100px|Mychal Thompson January 1 Mary Beard, English classicist Simon Schaffer, English historian of science and philosophyhttps://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1130259/ Simon Schaffer University of Cambridge 21 September 2025 Mulatu Teshome, Ethiopian politician and 8th President of Ethiopia January 4 – Mark Hollis, English musician (d. 2019)Marsh James James Marsh (artist) Roberts Chris Benjamin Toby Spirit of Talk Talk expanded paperback London Rocket 88 2015 1st pub. 2012 978-1-906615-95-6 31 January 5 – Mamata Banerjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal January 6 – Rowan Atkinson, English comic actor January 7 – Belinda Meuldijk, Dutch actress January 9 Michiko Kakutani, American literary critic J. 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Simmons, American actor January 10 – Michael Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions, UFO, Michael Schenker Group) January 13 Paul Kelly, Australian musician Jay McInerney, American writer January 15 – Andreas Gursky, German photographer January 17 Steve Earle, American crossover singer-songwriterRose Mike January 17, 2023 Today's famous birthdays list for January 17, 2023 includes celebrities James Earl Jones, Jim Carrey https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/01/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-january-17-2023-includes-celebrities-james-earl-jones-jim-carrey.html January 17, 2023 Cleveland.com Katalin Karikó, Hungarian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize laureateJames Gallagher Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66983060 2023-10-02 2023-10-02 January 18 Kevin Costner, American actor, producer and director Frankie Knuckles, American disk jockey and record producer (d. 2014)https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/arts/music/frankie-knuckles-59-pioneer-house-dj-dies.html?ref=obituaries Frankie Knuckles, 59, Pioneer House D.J., Dies Slotnick Daniel E. April 2, 2014 The New York Times April 7, 2014 Marilyn Mazur, Danish percussionist January 19 Sir Simon Rattle, English orchestral conductor((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=PA92 24 September 2019 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-64143-316-7 92 Paul Rodriguez, Mexican American actor and comedian January 20 – McKeeva Bush, Caymanian politicianhttp://www.gov.ky/portal/page?_pageid=1142,1595737&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL Hon McKeeva Bush OBE, JP: Biography Cayman Islands Government 2012-12-11 10 March 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120310165735/http://www.gov.ky/portal/page?_pageid=1142,1595737&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL dead January 21 – Jeff Koons, American artist((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 22 – Sonja Morgenstern, German figure skater January 25 – Olivier Assayas, French film director January 26 Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American rock musician (Van Halen) (d. 2020) Lucía Méndez, Mexican film actress January 27 – John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States January 28 Vinod Khosla, Indian-born American venture capitalist Nicolas Sarkozy, 23rd President of FranceB. Turner The Statesman's Yearbook 2008: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZPlDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA468 12 January 2017 Springer 978-1-349-74024-6 468 January 30 – Mychal Thompson, Bahamian basketball player January 31 – Virginia Ruzici, Romanian tennis playerVirginia Ruzici https://www.wtatennis.com/players/180065/name Women's Tennis Association February thumb|100px|Mo Yan alt=|thumb|123x123px|Jeff Daniels thumb|100px|Kelsey Grammer thumb|100px|Steve Jobs thumb|100px|Alain Prost thumb|100px|Leann Hunley February 2 – Leszek Engelking, Polish poet, writer and translator (d. 2022) February 3 – Izzeldin Abuelaish, Canadian-Palestinian doctor and author February 5 – Mary Chen, Taiwanese environmentalist and politician February 6 – Irinej Dobrijević, American-born Serbian Bishop of Australia and New Zealand February 7 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor (d. 2017) February 8 Janusz Cisek, Polish historian (d. 2020) Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler (d. 2018) John Grisham, American novelist Ethan Phillips, American actor Xu Bing, Chinese artist February 10 Pablo Borges Delgado, Cuban artist Jayarathna Herath, Sri Lankan politician, cabinet minister, MP (2000–2024)Hon. Jayarathna Herath, M.P. https://www.parliament.lk/en/members-of-parliament/mp-profile/203 2026-03-04 Parliament of Sri Lanka Greg Norman, Australian golfer February 14 Guillermo Francella, Argentine actor Mitsuhisa Taguchi, Japanese footballer (d. 2019) February 15 Janice Dickinson, American model, photographer, author and talent agent Christopher McDonald, American actor February 16 – Bradley Byrne, American business attorney and politician, AlabamaByrne, Bradley (1955-) https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=B001289 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress United States Congress 22 January 2020 February 17 – Mo Yan, Chinese writer February 19 Jeff Daniels, American actor Siri Hustvedt, American novelistOctober 2026 February 21 – Kelsey Grammer, American actor and comedian February 22 – David Axelrod, American political analyst February 23 – Flip Saunders, American basketball coach (d. 2015) February 24 Deborah Coyne, Canadian constitutional lawyer Steve Jobs, American businessman and founder of Apple Computer (d. 2011) Alain Prost, French four-time Formula 1 world champion February 27 – Grady Booch, American software engineerOctober 2026 February 28 – Gilbert Gottfried, American stand-up comedian and actor (d. 2022)October 2026 March thumb|100px|Penn Jillette thumb|100px|Nina Hagen thumb|100px|Gary Sinise thumb|100px|Jair Bolsonaro thumb|100px|Bruce Willis thumb|100px|Mariano Rajoy thumb|100px|Reba McEntire thumb|100px|Brendan Gleeson thumb|100px|Marina Sirtis thumb|100px|Angus Young March 1 Sir Timothy Laurence, English vice admiral and second husband of Anne, Princess Royal Denis Mukwege, Congolese gynecologist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate March 2 – Shoko Asahara, Japanese cult leader (Aum Shinrikyo) (d. 2018) March 3 – Kent Derricott, Canadian TV personality in Japan March 4 Dominique Pinon, French actor Tim Costello, Australian Baptist minister March 5 Julien Dray, French politician Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian (Penn & Teller) Deddy Mizwar, Indonesian politician, actor, movie Director March 6 Wendy Boglioli, American Olympic gold medallist swimmer (1976) Jay Ilagan, Filipino actor (d. 1992) Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician, 5th President of Burundi (d. 1994) Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (d. 2015) March 8 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981) March 9 Ornella Muti, Italian actress Franco Uncini, Italian motorcycle racer March 10 Yousra, Egyptian actress and singer Marianne Rosenberg, German singer March 11 – Nina Hagen, German pop singer March 13 Bruno Conti, Italian football player Gail Grandchamp, American female boxer Glenne Headly, American actress of film, stage and television (d. 2017) Milovan Bojić, Serbian medical doctor, administrator and politician March 14 Stephen R. Bissette, American comics artist Daniel Bertoni, Argentine footballer Nigel Biggar, British Anglican priest, theologian and ethicist March 15 Robert Kabbas, Egyptian-born Australian Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Dee Snider, American rock singer (Twisted Sister) March 16 Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director Tina Beattie, British Christian theologian, writer and broadcaster Jiro Watanabe, Japanese world super flyweight champion boxer Bob Ley, American sports anchor and reporter Petr Aven, Russian businessman, economist and politician Michael L. Brown, American author and radio host March 17 Cynthia McKinney, American politician, activist Gary Sinise, American actor, producer and director Mark Boone Junior, American character actor March 18 Carlos Enrique Trinidad Gómez, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018) Guillermo Dávila, Venezuelan actor and singer Dwayne Murphy, American baseball player Paul Chan Mo-po, Hong Kong politician and accountant March 19 Pino Daniele, Italian music artist (d. 2015) Bruce Willis, American actor Simon Yam, Hong Kong actor March 20 Eric Schiller, American chess player and author (d. 2018) Mariya Takeuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter March 21 Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian congressman and politician, 38th President of Brazil Philippe Troussier, French football coach Bärbel Wöckel, East German sprinter March 22 Lena Olin, Swedish actress Pete Sessions, American politician Valdis Zatlers, 7th President of Latvia March 23 Moses Malone, American basketball player (d. 2015) Susan Schwab, American politician, who served under President George W. Bush as United States Trade Representative March 24 Kim Johnston Ulrich, American actress Candy Reynolds, American tennis playerhttps://www.wtatennis.com/players/180033/name Candy Reynolds Women's Tennis Association Celâl Şengör, Turkish geologist March 25 Wendy Larry, American head coach of the Old Dominion University Lady Monarchs women's basketball team Daniel Boulud, French chef and restaurateur Patty Brard, Dutch entertainer and entrepreneur of Indo descent March 26 Danny Arndt, Canadian ice hockey player Dean Dillon, American country musician and songwriter March 27 – Mariano Rajoy, Prime Minister of Spain March 28 Reba McEntire, American country singer and actress John Alderdice, Northern Ireland politician March 29 Earl Campbell, American football player Margaret Cuomo, American radiologist Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor Christopher Lawford, American author, actor and activist (d. 2018) Marina Sirtis, English actress Henry Bellingham, British politician March 30 Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Filipina film director (d. 2012) Randy VanWarmer, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004) Humberto Vélez, Mexican voice actor March 31 Philip Dimitrov, Bulgarian politician Angus Young, lead guitarist of Australian rock group AC/DC April thumb|100px|Sirindhorn thumb|100px|Michael Rooker thumb|100px|Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg thumb|100px|Judy Davis thumb|100px|John Nunn thumb|100px|Eddie Jobson thumb|100px|Kate Mulgrew April 1 – Ockie Oosthuizen, South African rugby union player (d. 2019) April 2 Sirindhorn, Princess Royal of Thailand Chellie Pingree, Democratic politician, Maine's 1st congressional district April 3 – Mick Mars, American rock guitarist (Mötley Crüe) April 4 Casey Biggs, American actor John Bird, Canadian engineer, scientist and journalist April 5 Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist (d. 2024)Yoon John Notoya Kiuko Akira Toriyama, Creator of 'Dragon Ball,' Dies at 68 The New York Times 8 March 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/arts/akira-toriyama-dead.html 21 March 2024 Anthony Horowitz, English novelist and screenwriter Lazarus Chakwera, Malawian politician and theologian, President of Malawi and minister of defence April 6 – Michael Rooker, American actor April 7 Bruno Zaremba, French footballer (d. 2018) Grace Hightower, American philanthropist, actress and singer Gregg Jarrett, American lawyer turned journalist Akira Nishino, Japanese soccer player and manager Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993) April 8 Kane Hodder, American actor Barbara Kingsolver, American fiction writer Ricky Bell, American football player (d. 1984) Glen Burtnik, American singer, songwriter, entertainer and multi-instrumentalist April 9 – Kate Heyhoe, American food writer April 10 – Philip J. Hanlon, American mathematician and computer science, 18th President of Dartmouth College April 11 Kevin Brady, American politician, Texas's 8th congressional district Michael Callen, American singer-songwriter, composer, author and AIDS activist (d. 1993) April 12 Fred Ryan, chief executive officer of The Washington Post Jean-Louis Aubert, French musician April 13 Steve Camp, American Christian musician Hideki Saijo, Japanese singer and actor (d. 2018) José Alperovich, Argentine politician Ole von Beust, German politician April 14 Don Roos, American screenwriter Binod Chaudhary, Nepalese billionaire businessman, politician and philanthropist April 15 Tommy Castro, American blues guitarist Dodi Fayed, Egyptian film producer (d. 1997)Smith Sally Bedell 24 May 2011 Dodi's Life in the Fast Lane https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1997/12/dodi-fayed-199712 8 October 2022 Vanity Fair April 16 Henri, Grand Duke of LuxembourgEast Roger Thomas Richard J. 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Sakall, Hungarian actor (b. 1883) February 20 – Oswald Avery, American physician and medical researcher (b. 1877) February 23 – Paul Claudel, French poet, dramatist and diplomat (b. 1868) February 27 – Trixie Friganza, American actress (b. 1870) March thumb|100px|Sir Alexander Fleming March 3 – Katharine Drexel, American Roman Catholic foundress and saint (b. 1858) March 8 – William C. deMille, American screenwriter and director (b. 1878) March 9 Miroslava Stern, Czech-Mexican actress (b. 1926) Matthew Henson, American explorer (b. 1866)https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgZoZW5zb24SB21hdHRoZXcaAWE-/ Burial Detail: Henson, Matthew A (Section 8, Grave S-15-1)date=October 16, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201016165543/https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgZoZW5zb24SB21hdHRoZXcaAWE-/ October 16, 2020 March 11 – Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1881)BBC - History - Alexander Fleming https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/fleming_alexander.shtml bbc.co.uk January 3, 2017 March 12 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist (b. 1920) March 14 – Ruth Poll, American lyricist and music publisher (b. 1899)"Ruth Poll Dies". The Cash Box. March 26, 1955. p. 17. Retrieved March 19, 2023. March 16 – Nicolas de Staël, Russian painter (b. 1914) March 19 – Mihály Károlyi, 1st President of Hungary and 20th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1875) March 23 – Artur Bernardes, 12th President of Brazil (b. 1875) March 24 – John W. Davis, American politician, diplomat and lawyer (b. 1873) April thumb|100px|Albert Einstein April 5 – Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1918)https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Szele Tibor Szele MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive 25 January 2022 April 7 Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885) Dániel Bánffy, Hungarian politician (b. 1893) April 10 – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit priest, philosopher, paleontologist and geologist (b. 1881)Smulders Pieter Frans https://archive.org/details/designofteilhard0000smul The design of Teilhard de Chardin: an essay in theological reflection 1967 Newman Press registration April 11 – Clifton Sprague, American admiral (b. 1896)https://www.bosamar.com/pages/sprague_bio Zend Guard Loader is not installed www.bosamar.com April 13 – Stanley Yale Beach, American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur (b. 1877) April 18 – Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)https://time.com/3494553/the-day-albert-einstein-died-a-photographers-story/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141112114029/http://time.com/3494553/the-day-albert-einstein-died-a-photographers-story/ live 12 November 2014 Cosgrove, Ben The Day Albert Einstein Died: A Photographer's Story 14 March 2014 Time 24 April 2018 April 19 – Jim Corbett, Anglo-Indian hunter, conservationist and author (b. 1875)https://theprint.in/theprint-profile/jim-corbett-the-man-known-for-being-both-a-hunter-and-champion-of-tigers/267507/ Jim Corbett — the man known for being both a hunter and champion of tigers Taran Deol ThePrint July 25, 2019 April 24 Alfred Polgar, Austrian-born journalist (b. 1873) Walter Seymour Allward, Canadian sculptor (b. 1874) April 25 – Constance Collier, English actress and acting coach (b. 1878) April 30 – John Henry Towers, American admiral and naval aviation pioneer (b. 1885)John Henry Towers 30 January 1885 - 30 April 1955 May thumb|100px|Mary McLeod Bethune May 2 – Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, 10th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1872) May 4 Louis Charles Breguet, French aircraft designer and builder and early aviation pioneer (b. 1880) George Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881) May 10 – Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (b. 1881) May 16 – James Agee, American writer (b. 1909) May 17 – Owen Roberts, American jurist (b. 1875)https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1355/owen-roberts Owen Roberts David L. 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Salaman, British botanist (b. 1874)https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.1955.0017 10.1098/rsbm.1955.0017 free Redcliffe Nathan Salaman, 1874-1955 1955 Smith Kenneth Manley Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1 238–245 71902371 subscription June 13 – Walter Braemer, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1883) June 17 – Carlyle Blackwell, American actor (b. 1884) June 26 – Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (b. 1895) June 27 – Harry Agganis, American college football player and professional baseball player (b. 1929) June 29 Gerhard Benkowitz, schoolteacher and resistance activist against the German Democratic Republic (b. 1923) Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881) July thumb|100px|Adolfo de la Huerta July 3 – Adelbert Ames Jr., American scientist (b. 1880) July 9 – Adolfo de la Huerta, 38th President of Mexico (b. 1881)https://www.lifeder.com/adolfo-huerta-marcor/ Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor: Biografía y Gobierno lifeder.com es May 29, 2019 Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor: Biography and Government July 13 Ruth Ellis, British murderer, last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom (b. 1926) Stanley Price, American film and television actor (b. 1892) July 20 – Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1869) July 23 – Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1871) July 25 Isaak Dunayevsky, Soviet film composer and conductor (b. 1900) Gertrude Beasley, American writer, feminist and memoirist (b. 1892) July 26 – Raymond C. Archibald, Canadian-American mathematician (b. 1875) July 29 – Catherine Backus, American sculptor (b. 1863) July 31 – Robert Francis, American actor (b. 1930) August 100px|thumb|Carmen Miranda August 1 – William Hamilton, American Olympic athlete (b. 1883) August 2 Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Bavarian military leader and last Bavarian crown prince (b. 1869) Wallace Stevens, American poet (b. 1879) August 5 Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-born Brazilian singer and actress (b. 1909) Suzan Ball, American actress (b. 1933) August 9 – Marion Bauer, American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic (b. 1882) August 11 – Frank Seiberling, American inventor, co-founder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (b. 1859) August 12 Thomas Mann, German novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875) James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) August 13 – Florence Easton, English opera soprano (b. 1882)http://operascotland.org/person/8475/Florence+Easton Florence Easton | Opera Scotland operascotland.org August 17 – Fernand Léger, French painter and sculptor (b. 1881) August 22 – Raymond Duval, French general (b. 1894)https://generals.dk/general/Duval/Raymond-Francis/France.html Biography of General Raymond-Francis Duval (1894 – 1955), France generals.dk August 27 – Devere Allen, American socialist, pacifist political activist and journalist (b. 1891)Powers R.S. Vogele W.B. Bond D. Kruegler C. 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Matthias Alexander, Australian actor and author (b. 1869) October 13 Manuel Ávila Camacho, 45th President of Mexico (b. 1897)https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/a/avila_camacho.htm Manuel Ávila Camacho Biografias y Vidas es May 29, 2019 Alexandrina of Balazar, Portuguese Roman Catholic mystic, victim soul and blessed (b. 1904) October 17 – Dimitrios Maximos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1873) October 18 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883) October 19 – John Hodiak, American actor (b. 1914) October 22 – Cyril Alington, English educationalist, scholar, cleric and author (b. 1872) October 25 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese atomic bomb sickness victim (b. 1943) October 27 – Juan de Dios Martínez, 23rd President of Ecuador (b. 1875) November thumb|100px|Shemp Howard November 1 – Dale Carnegie, American writer and lecturer (b. 1888) November 4 – Cy Young, American baseball player (Cleveland Spiders) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1867) November 5 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883) November 6 – Edwin Barclay, 18th president of Liberia (b. 1882)Dunn Elwood D. Beyan Amos J. Burrowes Carl Patrick 2000 Historical Dictionary of Liberia https://books.google.com/books?id=qt0_RrW8ghkC Lanham, Maryland Scarecrow Press 9781461659310 33–34 November 7 – Tom Powers, American actor (b. 1890) November 12 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer and architect (b. 1878) November 14 Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright (b. 1896) Ruby M. Ayres, British romance novelist (b. 1881) November 15 – Lloyd Bacon, American actor and director (b. 1889) November 17 James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894) Helmuth Weidling, German general (b. 1891) November 20 – Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish socialist politician and 31st Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1877) November 22 – Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges) (b. 1895) November 27 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892) December thumb|100px|Hermann Weyl December 1 – Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham, British colonial administrator and politician (b. 1879) December 5 – Jirō Minami, Japanese general and Governor-General of Korea (1936–1942) (b. 1874) December 6 – Honus Wagner, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1874) December 8 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher (b. 1885) December 13 – António Egas Moniz, Portuguese neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874) December 14 – Paddy Mayne, Irish & British lions rugby international, Founding member of the S.A.S December 15 Otto Braun, German politician, Minister President of the Free State of Prussia (b. 1872) Dorothy Bernard, American actress (b 1890) December 18 – Anna Murray Vail, American botanist (b. 1863) December 21 – Garegin Nzhdeh, Armenian statesman (b. 1886) December 22 – Mary Josephine Bedford, Australian philanthropist (b. 1861) December 24 – Nana Bryant, American actress (b. 1888) December 31 – Charles Ulrick Bay, American businessman and diplomat (b. 1888) Unknown date Jnanadabhiram Barua, Indian Assamese language writer, dramatist, translator and barrister (b. 1880) Nobel Prizes right|100px Physics – Willis Eugene Lamb and Polykarp Kusch Chemistry – Vincent du Vigneaud Physiology or Medicine – Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell Literature – Halldór Kiljan Laxness Peace – not awarded References 1950s