1923

In Greece, this year contained only 352 days as 13 days were skipped to achieve the calendrical switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar. It happened there that Wednesday, 15 February was followed by Thursday, 1 March ''.''

Events

January–February

January 5 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region.
January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, to force Germany to make reparation payments.
January 17 – First flight of the first rotorcraft, Juan de la Cierva's Cierva C.4 autogyro, in Spain.
February 5 – Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford makes 429 runs to break the world record for the highest first-class cricket score for the first time in his third match at this level, at Melbourne Cricket Ground, giving the Victoria [cricket team] an innings total of 1,059.
February 9 – Billy Hughes, having resigned as Prime Minister of Australia, after the Country Party refuses to govern in coalition with him as the leader of the Nationalist Party, is succeeded by Stanley Bruce. A Liberal–National Coalition will persist in the politics of Australia for at least 100 years.

March–April

March 1 – Eskom, the largest electricity producer in Africa, is established in South Africa.
March 3 – The first issue of TIME magazine is published.
March 6 – The Egyptian Feminist Union, the first nationwide feminist movement in Egypt, is founded at the home of activist Huda Sha'arawi.
March 9 – Vladimir Lenin suffers his third stroke, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak; consequently he retires from his position as Chairman of the Soviet government.
March 17 - Dobrolyot is formed as the first Soviet civil aviation service; it will become part of flag carrier Aeroflot.
March 23 – The Posey War, the last conflict between American Indians and settlers concludes, ending the American Indian Wars.
March 28 – Regia Aeronautica, the air force of Fascist Italy, is founded.
April 6 – The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed, in Victoria Institution, Federated Malay States.
April 12 – The Kandersteg International Scout Centre comes into existence in Switzerland.
April 19
* Hjalmar Branting leaves office as Prime Minister of Sweden, after the Swedish Riksdag has rejected a government proposal regarding unemployment benefits. Right-wing academic and jurist Ernst Trygger succeeds him.
* The Egyptian Constitution of 1923 is adopted, introducing a parliamentary system of democracy in the country.
April 23 – The Gdynia seaport is inaugurated, on the Polish Corridor.
April 26 – Wedding of [Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]: The future King George VI of the United Kingdom marries the future Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in Westminster Abbey.
April 28 – The original Wembley Stadium in London, England, opens its doors to the public for the first time, staging the FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United.

May–June

May 9
* Southeastern Michigan receives a record of snow, after temperatures plummeted from to between 1 and 6 pm on the previous day.
* The premiere of Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle (Im Dickicht), at the Residenztheater in Munich, is interrupted by Nazi demonstrators.
May 20 – British Prime Minister Bonar Law resigns, due to ill health.
May 23
* Stanley Baldwin is appointed British Prime Minister.
* Belgium's Sabena Airlines is created.
May 24 – The Irish Civil War ends.
May 26 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race is held, and is won by André Lagache and René Léonard.
May 27 – The Ku Klux Klan in the United States defies a law requiring publication of its membership.
June 9 – Bulgarian coup d'état of 1923: A military coup in Bulgaria ousts prime minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski.
June 12 – William Walton's Façade is performed for the first time, in London.
June 13 – President Li Yuanhong of China (1912–49)|China] abandons his residence because a warlord has commanded forces to surround the mansion and cut off its water and electric supplies in order to force him to abandon his post.
June 16 – The storming of Ayan in Siberia concludes the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War.
June 17 – On the Savio Circuit in Ravenna, Italy, Enzo Ferrari won his first Grand Prix as a racecar driver. It also marked the first time he ever painted the prancing horse logo on his car, which would later become the symbol of Scuderia Ferrari and Ferrari S.p.A.
June 18 – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homeless.

July–August

July 10 – Large hailstones kill 23 people in Rostov, Soviet Union.
July 13
* The Hollywood Sign is inaugurated in California.
* American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first dinosaur eggs near Flaming Cliffs, Mongolia.
July 20 – Pancho Villa is assassinated at Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua.
July 24 – The Treaty of Lausanne (1923), settling the boundaries of the modern Republic of Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in the First World War, bringing an end to the Ottoman Empire after 624 years.
July – Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic sees the number of marks needed to purchase a single American dollar reach 353,000 – more than 200 times the amount needed at the start of the year.
August 2 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th president of the United States, upon the death of President Warren G. Harding in San Francisco.
August 13
* The first major seagoing ship arrives at Gdynia, the newly constructed Polish Republic|Polish] seaport.
* Gustav Stresemann is named Chancellor of Germany, and founds a coalition government for the Weimar Republic, where hyperinflation means that more than 4,600,000 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar.
August 18 – The first British Track & Field championships for women are held in London.
August 30 – Hurricane season begins, with a tropical storm northeast of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
August 31 – The Italian navy occupies Corfu, in retaliation for the murder of an Italian officer. The League of Nations protests, and the occupation ends on September 30.

September–October

September 1
* The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing more than 100,000 people.
* The Kantō Massacre begins and continues for several weeks. Ethnic Koreans are killed by lynch mobs based on rumors that Koreans are committing crimes and plotting to overthrow the government. The death toll the massacre is disputed, with figures ranging from a few dozen to over 6,000 deaths. Most of the deaths were of Korean people, although it is said that other ethnic minorities and even Japanese people with unusual dialects were also killed.
September 4 – The United States Navy's first home-built rigid airship makes her first flight at Naval Air Station Lakehurst ; she contains most of the world's extracted reserves of helium at this time.
September 6 – The Fukuda Village Incident occurs as a part of the larger Kantō Massacre. Nine Japanese people, including a pregnant woman and children, are killed based on false beliefs that they are ethnic Koreans.
September 7 – At the International Police Conference in Vienna, the International Criminal Police Commission, better known as Interpol, is set up.
September 8 – Honda Point disaster: Nine United States Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast.
September 9 – Turkish head of state Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founds the Republican People's Party.
September 10 – The Irish Free State joins the League of Nations.
September 11 – Struggling for a foothold in southern China, Sun Yat-sen decides to ally his Nationalist Kuomintang party with the Comintern and the Chinese Communist Party.
September 13 – Military coup in Spain: Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship. Trade unions are prohibited for 10 years.
September 17 – 1923 Berkeley fire: A major fire in Berkeley, California, erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California.
September 18–26 – Newspaper printers strike in New York City.
September 24 – Atlantic hurricane season: The second major hurricane strikes north of Hispaniola.
September 26 – In Bavaria, Gustav Ritter von Kahr takes dictatorial powers.
September 29
* The first American Track & Field championships for women are held in New Jersey.
* The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine comes into effect, officially creating under British administration the protectorates of Palestine and the separate Emirate of Transjordan under Abdullah I. The French-administered Mandate for Syria and Lebanon also takes effect.
September 30 – Küstrin Putsch: Outside Berlin, Major Ernst Buchrucker, a leader of the Black Reichswehr, attempts a putsch by seizing several forts.
October 1 – The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens to public traffic.
October 2 – Küstrin Putsch: After two days of siege, Major Buchrucker and his men surrender.
October 6 – The Occupation of Constantinople ends when the great powers of World War I withdraw.
October 13
* Ankara replaces Istanbul, as the capital of Turkey.
* The first recorded example of a storm crossing from the Eastern Pacific into the Atlantic occurs in Oaxaca.
October 14 – The fourth tropical storm of the year forms just north of Panama.
October 15 – The fifth tropical storm of the year forms north of the Leeward Islands.
October 16
* A sixth tropical storm develops in the Gulf of Mexico; a rare occurrence, it consists of four active tropical storms simultaneously.
* Roy and Walt Disney found The [Walt Disney Company], at this time known as the Disney Brothers Studio.
October 23 – Hamburg Uprising: In Germany, the Communists attempt a putsch in Hamburg, which results in street battles in that city for the next two days, when it ends unsuccessfully.
October 27 – In Germany, General Hans von Seeckt orders the Reichswehr to dissolve the Social Democratic-Communist government of Saxony, which is refusing to accept the authority of the Reich government.
October 28 – In Qajar dynasty Persia, Reza Khan becomes Ahmad Shah Qajar's prime minister.
October 29 – Turkey becomes a republic, following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire; Kemal Atatürk is elected as first president.
October 30 – İsmet İnönü is appointed as the first prime minister of Turkey.

November–December

November 1
* The Finnish flag carrier airline Finnair is started, as Aero oy.
* The 1923 Victorian Police strike begins in Australia, with half of the Victoria Police force standing down over the use of labor spies. Rioting and looting take place in Melbourne city centre.
November 8 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government; police and troops crush the attempt the next day in one of several significant events on 9 November in German history. 20 people die as a result of associated violence.
November 11 – Adolf Hitler is arrested for his leading role in the Beer Hall Putsch.
November 12 – Her Highness Princess Maud of Fife marries Captain Charles Alexander Carnegie, in Wellington Barracks, London.
November 15 – Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic: Hyperinflation in Germany reaches its height. One United States dollar is worth 4,200,000,000,000 Papiermark. Gustav Stresemann abolishes the old currency and replaces it with the Rentenmark, at an exchange rate of one Rentenmark to 1,000,000,000,000 Papiermark.
November 23 – Gustav Stresemann's coalition government collapses in Germany.
December 1 – In Italy, the Gleno Dam on the Gleno River, in the Valle di Scalve in the northern province of Bergamo bursts, killing at least 356 people.
December 6
* 1923 United Kingdom general election: The governing Conservatives under Stanley Baldwin are reduced to a minority status, with the Labour party gaining second party status.
* Calvin Coolidge addresses the United States Congress in the first radio broadcast from a President of the U.S.
December 21 – The Nepal–Britain Treaty is the first to define the international status of Nepal as an independent sovereign country.
December 27 – Toranomon Incident: In Tokyo, Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan survives an assassination attempt by communist student Daisuke Nanba.
December 29 – Vladimir K. Zworykin files his first patent for "television systems".

Births

January

January 1
* Wahiduddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi academic
* Valentina Cortese, Italian actress
* Vulo Radev, Bulgarian film director
* Roméo Sabourin, Canadian World War II spy
January 2
* Abdel Aziz Mohamed Hegazy, 38th Prime Minister of Egypt
* Rachel Waterhouse, English historian and author
January 3
* Renato Guatelli, Italian partisan
* Hank Stram, American football coach, broadcaster
January 4
* Ricardo C. Puno, Filipino lawyer and politician
* Mohan Lall Shrimal, Indian chief justice
* Wilfred Waters, English Olympic cyclist
January 5
* Virginia Halas McCaskey, American football team owner
* Nat Neujean, Belgian sculptor
* Sam Phillips, American record producer
January 6
* Leah Chase, African-American chef, author and television personality
* Robert A. Chase, American surgeon and educator
* Norman Kirk, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand
January 7
* Gertrude Ehrlich, Austrian-born American mathematician
* Joseph A. Hardy III, American businessman
* Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic
* Jean Lucienbonnet, French racing driver
* Johnny Macknowski, Russian-born American basketball player
* Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez, Mexican chemical bacteriologist and politician
January 8
* Larry Storch, American actor
* Johnny Wardle, English cricketer
January 11
* Wright King, American actor
* Paavo Lonkila, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier
* Ernst Nolte, German historian
January 12
* Ira Hayes, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima
* Sune Wehlin, Swedish pentathlete
January 15 – Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician, 4th President of the Republic of China
January 16
* Max Fink, American neurologist and psychiatrist
* Anthony Hecht, American poet
* Antonio Riboldi, Italian Roman Catholic prelate
* Walther Wever, German fighter ace
January 17 – Francesc Badia Batalla, Spanish-born Andorran Bishop, Episcopal Véguier
January 18 – Jan Ruff O'Herne, Dutch-Australian human rights activist
January 19 – Jean Stapleton, American actress
January 20
* Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer
* Slim Whitman, American country western musician
January 21 – Prince Andrew Romanov, Russian-American artist and author
January 22 – Diana Douglas, British-born American actress, mother of actor/producer Michael Douglas
January 23
* Horace Ashenfelter, American athlete
* Silvano Campeggi, Italian film poster designer
* Cot Deal, American major league baseball player, coach
January 24 – Geneviève Asse, French painter
January 25
* Arvid Carlsson, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Rusty Draper, American singer
* Jacob Korevaar, Dutch mathematician
* Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten, Dutch economist
January 26 – Anne Jeffreys, American actress, singer
January 27 – Enrico Braggiotti, Monegasque banker
January 28
* Erling Lorentzen, Norwegian shipowner and industrialist
* Sante Spessotto, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint
January 29
* Jack Burke Jr., American golfer
* Paddy Chayefsky, American writer
* Khir Johari, Malaysian politician
January 31 – Norman Mailer, American novelist, journalist and dramatist

February

February 1
* Stig Mårtensson, Swedish racing cyclist
* Gena Turgel, Polish author, Holocaust survivor and educator
February 2
* James Dickey, American poet, author
* Red Schoendienst, American baseball player
* Liz Smith, American gossip columnist
* Clem Windsor, Australian rugby union player, surgeon
February 3 – Edith Barney, American female professional baseball player
February 4
* Bonar Bain, Canadian actor
* Belisario Betancur, Colombian politician, 26th President of Colombia
February 5
* Dora Bryan, English actress
* Fatmawati, 1st First Lady of Indonesia
* Claude King, American country music singer and songwriter
February 6
* Gyula Lóránt, Hungarian footballer and manager
* Georges Pouliot, Canadian fencer
* Vija Vētra, Latvian dancer and choreographer
February 7
* Egil Abrahamsen, Norwegian ships engineer
* George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, first grandchild of King George V
* William F. Stanton, American politician
February 8 – Urpo Korhonen, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier
February 9 – Brendan Behan, Irish author
February 10
* Allie Sherman, American professional football coach
* Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer
February 11
* Antony Flew, English philosopher and academic
* Rosita Fornés, Cuban-American actress
* Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples, English politician
February 12
* Knox Martin, American artist
* Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film, opera director
February 13
* Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist
* Chuck Yeager, American test pilot, NASA official
February 15
* Marcel Denis, Belgian comics artist
* Ken Hofmann, American businessman
February 16 – Samuel Willenberg, Polish-born Israeli sculptor, painter and last surviving member of the Treblinka extermination camp revolt
February 17 – Jun Fukuda, Japanese film director
February 18 – Allan Melvin, American actor
February 20
* Victor Atiyeh, American politician
* Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guyana and 2nd President of Guyana
* Robert Lucy, Swiss gymnast
February 21
* Wilbur R. Ingalls Jr., American architect
* William Winter, American politician
February 22 – Norman Smith, English singer, record producer
February 23
* Ioannis Grivas, Greek judge, politician and 176th Prime Minister of Greece
* rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan politician and Interim President
* John van Hengel, American "Father of Food Banking"
February 24 – David Soyer, American cellist
February 27
* Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophone player, actor
* James Ross MacDonald, American physicist
February 28
* Jean Carson, American actress
* Charles Durning, American actor

March

March 2
* Orrin Keepnews, American record producer
* Robert H. Michel, American Republican Party politician
March 3
* Tamara Lisitsian, Soviet film director
* Doc Watson, American folk guitarist, songwriter
March 4
* Russell Freeburg, American journalist and author
* Piero D'Inzeo, Italian Olympic show jumping rider
* Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer, broadcaster
March 6
* Ed McMahon, American television personality
* Wes Montgomery, African-American jazz musician
March 7
* Mahlon Clark, American musician
* Thomas Keating, American monk
March 8 – Louk Hulsman, Dutch criminologist
March 9
* James L. Buckley, American politician, United States Senator
* Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* William Lyon, American major general
March 10 – Val Logsdon Fitch, American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 11
* Agatha Barbara, Maltese politician
* Paul Muller, Swiss actor
March 12
* Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed-skater
* Wally Schirra, American astronaut
* Mae Young, American wrestler
March 14
* Diane Arbus, American photographer
* Joe M. Jackson, American Medal of Honour recipient
* Celeste Rodrigues, Portuguese singer
March 15
* Lou Richards, Australian footballer
* Willy Semmelrogge, German actor
March 19 – Oskar Fischer, East German politician
March 21
* Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Canadian geographer, author and academic
* Merle Keagle, American female professional baseball player
* Olive Nicol, Baroness Nicol, British politician, life peer
* Rezső Nyers, Hungarian politician
* Nirmala Srivastava, Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga
March 22 – Marcel Marceau, world-renowned French mime
March 24 – Murray Hamilton, American actor
March 25
* Lewis Elton, German-English physicist and researcher
* Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist
March 26
* Romolo Catasta, Italian Olympic rower
* Baba Hari Dass, Indian yoga master, silent monk, and commentator
* Bob Elliott, American comedian
March 27
* Ulla Sallert, Swedish actress, singer
* Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet
March 28
* Thad Jones, American jazz musician
* Ine Schäffer, Austrian athlete
March 29 – Geoff Duke, British motorcycle racer
March 31
* Don Barksdale, American basketball player
* Shoshana Damari, Yemenite-Israeli singer

April

April 2
* Alice Haylett, American professional baseball player
* Gloria Henry, American actress
* Johnny Paton, Scottish football player, coach and manager
* G. Spencer-Brown, British mathematician
April 4
* Maximiano Tuazon Cruz, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate
* Gene Reynolds, American actor
* Peter Vaughan, English actor
April 5 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam
April 8
* George Fisher, American political cartoonist
* Edward Mulhare, Irish-born American actor
April 10 – John Watkins, South African cricketer
April 12 – Ann Miller, American actress and dancer
April 13 – Don Adams, American actor, comedian
April 14
* Lydia Clarke, American actress, photographer
* Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentine professional golfer, winner of the 1967 Open Championship
April 15 – Douglas Wass, British civil servant
April 17 – Étienne Bally, French sprinter
April 19 – Sen Sōshitsu XV, Japanese hereditary master
April 20
* Mother Angelica, American nun, founder of the Eternal Word Television Network
* Irene Lieblich, Polish-born painter
April 22
* Paula Fox, American writer
* Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, English/Canadian geologist and glaciologist
* Bettie Page, American model
* Aaron Spelling, American television producer, writer
April 23 – Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas
April 24
* Sir John Conant, 2nd Baronet, English aristocrat
* Bülent Ulusu, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey
April 25
* Francis Graham-Smith, English astronomer, academic
* Albert King, American musician
* Grant Munro, Canadian animator, filmmaker and actor
April 27 – Lloyd F. Wheat, American lawyer and politician
April 29 – Walter Deutsch, Austrian musicologist
April 30
* Al Lewis, American actor
* Francis Tucker, South African rally driver

May

May 1
* Frank Brian, American basketball player
* Fernando Cabrita, Portuguese football forward, manager
* Joseph Heller, American novelist
* Billy Steel, Scottish footballer
May 2
* Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland
* Paul Shooner, Canadian politician
May 3
* Francis Bellotti, American lawyer and politician
* Francesco Paolo Bonifacio, Italian politician and jurist
* Alexander Harvey II, American judge
May 4
* Gillis William Long, American politician
* Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer, musician, conductor, poet and author
* Eric Sykes, English actor
May 5
* Sergey Akhromeyev, Soviet marshal, former Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces
* Ezekiel Guti, Zimbabwean pastor and archbishop
* Edit Perényi-Weckinger, Hungarian gymnast
* Konrad Repgen, German historian
* Richard Wollheim, English philosopher
May 6
* Josep Seguer, Spanish football defender, manager
* Archduchess Yolande of Austria
May 7
* Anne Baxter, American actress
* Jim Lowe, American singer-songwriter
* J. Mack Robinson, American businessman
May 8
* Louise Meriwether, American novelist, journalist and activist
* Yusof Rawa, Malaysian politician
May 10 – Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan
May 11
* Louise Arnold, American baseball player
* Eugenio Calabi, Italian-born American mathematician
* Fred McLafferty, American chemist
May 12 – Mila del Sol, Filipino actress, entrepreneur and philanthropist
May 13
* Ruth Adler Schnee, German-American textile, interior designer
* John Pearce, Australian tennis player
* Betty Webb, code breaker at Bletchley Park during World War Two
May 14
* Willis Blair, Canadian politician
* Josette Molland, WWII French Resistance member and artist
* Alberto Ortiz, Uruguayan pentathlete
* Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi Foreign Minister
* Alfredo Pieroni, Italian journalist
* Mrinal Sen, Indian filmmaker
May 15
* Doris Dowling, American actress
* John Lanchbery, English composer
* Gholamreza Pahlavi, Persian prince
May 16
* Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Lingam Suryanarayana, Indian surgeon
May 17
* Anthony Eyton, English painter and educator
* Peter Mennin, American composer, teacher and administrator
* David Wasawo, Kenyan zoologist, conservationist, and university administrator
May 18 – Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica
May 19 – Peter Lo Sui Yin, Malaysian politician
May 20 – Israel Gutman, Israeli historian
May 21
* Vernon Biever, American photographer
* Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician
* Désiré Carré, French footballer
* Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer
* Ara Parseghian, American football coach
* Evelyn Ward, American actress
May 23
* Ranajit Guha, Indian historian
* Kalidas Shrestha, Nepalese artist
May 24 – Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker, actor and screenwriter
May 25 – Bernard Koura, French painter
May 26
* James Arness, American actor
* Roy Dotrice, English actor
* Horst Tappert, German television actor
May 27
* Henry Kissinger, German-born United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* Sumner Redstone, American businessman
* Alfonso Wong, Hong Kong cartoonist
May 28
* György Ligeti, Hungarian composer
* N. T. Rama Rao, Indian film actor, politician
* T. M. Thiagarajan, Carnatic musicologist from Tamil Nadu in Southern India
May 29
* Edward H. Sims, American author
* Eugene Wright, American jazz bassist
May 30
* Zdeněk Košta, Czech cyclist
* Jimmy Lydon, American actor, producer
* Dennis V. Razis, Greek oncologist
May 31
* Robert O. Becker, American orthopedic surgeon
* Ellsworth Kelly, American artist
* Rainier III, Prince of Monaco

June

June 2
* Ted Leehane, Australian rules footballer
* Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician, economist and Nobel Prize laureate
June 3
* Phil Nimmons, American jazz musician and composer
* Peter Thorne, British Royal Air Force pilot
June 4
* Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer
* Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Japanese princess
June 5 – Peggy Stewart, American actress
June 6
* V. C. Andrews, American novelist
* Jeff Dwire, American small businessman
June 7
* Jean Baratte, French international footballer, striker and manager
* Giorgio Belladonna, Italian bridge player, one of the greatest of all time
* Harold Garde, American artist
June 8
* Alice Coleman, English geographer
* Tang Hsiang Chien, Hong Kong industrialist
June 9
* Stanley Michael Gartler, American molecular biologist and geneticist
* Gerald Götting, German politician
* René Henry Gracida, American bishop
* I. H. Latif, Indian military officer
June 10
* Madeleine Lebeau, French actress
* Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur
* Françoise Sullivan, Canadian painter, sculptor, dancer and choreographer
June 11 – Bernard F. Grabowski, American politician
June 12
* Juan Arza, Spanish football forward, manager
* Herta Elviste, Estonian actress
June 13 – Lloyd Conover, American scientist
June 14
* Jack Hayward, English businessman
* Silvia Infantas, Chilean singer and actress
* Judith Kerr, English writer and illustrator
* Kari Polanyi Levitt, Canadian economist
* Donald Smith, English cricketer
June 15
* Herbert Chitepo, Zimbabwe African National Union leader
* Johnny Most, American basketball radio announcer
* Ninian Stephen, 20th Governor-General of Australia
June 16 – Wanda Janicka, Polish architect, participant in the Warsaw Uprising
June 17
* William G. Adams, 9th mayor of St. John's, member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
* Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop
* Anthony Bevilacqua, American Roman Catholic cardinal
* Sukh Dev, Indian organic chemist, academic and researcher
* W. M. Gorman, Irish economist, academic
* Arnold S. Relman, American internist
* Jan Veselý, Czech cyclist
June 18
* Clinton Ballou, American biochemist and professor
* Szymon Szurmiej, Polish-Jewish actor, director, and general manager
* Elizabeth Weber, South African literary writer
June 19
* Geri M. Joseph, American journalist and academic
* Andrés Rodríguez, 47th President of Paraguay
June 20
* Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, Danish actor
* Franklin B. Zimmerman, American musicologist and conductor
June 21 – Johann Eyfells, Icelandic artist
June 22
* John Oldham, American college player, athletic director and basketball coach
* Felo Ramírez, Cuban-American Spanish-language radio voice of the Miami Marlins
June 23
* André Antunes, Portuguese sports shooter
* Makhmut Gareev, Russian general
* Doris Johnson, American politician
* Mario Milita, Italian actor and voice actor
* Ranasinghe Premadasa, Sri Lanka statesman, 3rd President of Sri Lanka
* Jerry Rullo, American professional basketball player
* Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian Resistance fighter
June 24
* Yves Bonnefoy, French poet, art historian
* Cesare Romiti, Italian economist
* T-Model Ford, African-American blues musician
* Benjamin de Vries, Dutch-born Israeli economic historian
June 25
* Jamshid Amouzegar, 43rd Prime Minister of Iran
* Stan Clements, English footballer
* Doug Everingham, Australian politician, minister
* Sam Francis, American painter
* Vatroslav Mimica, Croatian film director, screenwriter
June 26
* Ed Bearss, American military historian and author
* Barbara Graham, American criminal
* Jonah Kinigstein, American artist
* Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince
June 27
* Beth Chatto, British plantswoman, garden designer and author
* Mitchell Flint, American lawyer, veteran aviator
* Gus Zernial, American baseball player, sports commentator
June 28
* Daniil Khrabrovitsky, Soviet film director
* Giff Roux, American basketball player
* Gaye Stewart, Canadian ice hockey forward
June 29
* Sérgio Britto, Brazilian actor
* Renyldo Ferreira, Brazilian equestrian
* Alfred Goodwin, senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
* Olav Thon, Norwegian real estate magnate
* Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer, educator
June 30
* Gad Beck, Israeli-German educator, author, activist and Holocaust survivor
* Ivo Orlandi, Venezuelan sports shooter

July

July 1
* Scotty Bowers, American marine, author
* Herman Chernoff, American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist
July 2
* Constantin Dăscălescu, 52nd Prime Minister of Romania
* Wisława Szymborska, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
July 3
* Hugo Machado, Uruguayan cyclist
* Felipe Zetter, Mexican football defender
July 4
* Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor
* George Mostow, American mathematician, renowned for his contributions to Lie theory
July 5 – Hermann Gummel, German semiconductor industry pioneer
July 6
* Constantin Bălăceanu-Stolnici, Romanian neurologist
* Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish Communist politician, 8th Prime Minister of Poland and President of Poland
* Kallu Dhani Ram, Fijian farmers activist
July 7
* Leonardo Ferrel, Bolivian football player
* Whitney North Seymour Jr., American administrator
* Kitty White, American jazz singer
July 8
* Val Bettin, American actor
* Harrison Dillard, African-American track and field athlete
* Ivor Germain, Barbadian professional light/welterweight boxer
* Eric Hill, English cricketer
July 9 – Jill Knight, British politician
July 10
* Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress
* John Bradley, U.S. Navy flag raiser on Iwo Jima
* Stanton Forbes, American writer
* Rudolf Kehrer, Soviet and Russian classical pianist
* Mátyás Tímár, Hungarian politician and economist
July 11
* Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, Brazilian football player
* Gilbert Morand, French non-commissioned officer, skier
* Roy Neighbors, American politician
* Richard Pipes, Polish-American academic who specialized in Russian history
* Bernard Punsly, American actor
July 12
* Francisco Castro, Puerto Rican long jumper, triple jumper
* Freddie Fields, American theatrical agent, film producer
* James E. Gunn, American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist
July 13
* Alexandre Astruc, French film critic, director
* Ashley Bryan, American writer and illustrator
* James H. Harvey, American Air Force officer
* Shmuel Laviv-Lubin, Israeli sports shooter
* Erich Lessing, Austrian photographer
* Norma Zimmer, American singer
July 14
* María Martín, Spanish actress
* Dale Robertson, American actor
July 16
* Chris Argyris, American business theorist
* Mari Evans, African-American poet
* Giuseppe Madini, Italian professional football player
* Len Okrie, American catcher
July 18
* Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor
* Michael Medwin, English actor
* Odvar Omland, Norwegian politician
July 19
* Alex Hannum, American basketball player
* Soini Nikkinen, Finnish javelin thrower
July 20
* Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist, journalist
* Elisabeth Becker, German Nazi war criminal
* James Bree, British actor
July 21
* Walter Brenner, American professor
* Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* William Wise, American children's writer
July 22
* Bob Dole, American Republican politician, presidential candidate
* Anthony Enahoro, Nigerian politician
* Mukesh, Indian singer
* The Fabulous Moolah, American professional wrestler
July 23
* Witto Aloma, Cuban Major League Baseball player
* Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist
July 24 – Albert Vanhoye, French cardinal
July 25
* Estelle Getty, American actress
* Leonardo Villar, Brazilian actor
July 28
* Robert P. Madison, American architect
* Ian McDonald, Australian cricketer
July 29
* Edgar Cortright, American scientist, engineer
* Jim Marshall, British founder of Marshall Amplification
July 31
* Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist noted for inventing Kevlar
* Jean-Jacques Moreau, French mathematician, mechanician
* William Joseph Nealon Jr., American judge
* Kent Rogers, American actor

August

August 2
*Shimon Peres, 8th Prime Minister of Israel, 9th President of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
*Charlie Wells, American crime novelist
*Ike Williams, American boxer
August 3
* Jean Hagen, American actress
* Anne Klein, American fashion designer
* Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Orthodox Church of Alexandria">Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church">Orthodox Church of Alexandria
August 4
* Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy, American judge
* Santiago Omar Riveros, Argentine general
* Franz Karl Stanzel, Austrian literary theorist
August 5
* Sir Michael Kerry, QC, British civil servant, Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor
* Devan Nair, third President of Singapore
August 6
* John Dunmore, New Zealand academic, historian and author
* Paul Hellyer, Canadian engineer, politician
* Moira Lister, Anglo-South African film, stage and television actress
* Jack Parnell, English producer, bandleader and musician
August 7 – Ramesh Mehta, Indian playwright, director and actor
August 8
* Eve Miller, American actress
* Latifa al-Zayyat, Egyptian activist, writer
August 9 – John Stephenson, American actor and voice actor
August 10
* Iosif Fabian, Romanian football striker, coach
* Rhonda Fleming, American actress
* Fred Ridgway, English cricketer
* David H. Rodgers, American politician
August 11
* Jeanne Bisgood, English golfer
* Roy Roper, New Zealand rugby player
August 12
* Ruth Stiles Gannett, American children's writer
* Carlo Smuraglia, Italian politician and partisan
August 14
* Kuldip Nayar, Indian journalist, human rights activist and politician
* Ivan Uzlov, Soviet-born Ukrainian scientist and metallurgist
August 15
* Enver Mamedov, Soviet diplomat and media manager
* Rose Marie, American actress, comedian, and singer
August 16
* Francisco de Andrade, Portuguese competitive sailor, Olympic medalist
* Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian cartoonist, playwright
August 17 – Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan artist
August 19 – Esmeralda Agoglia, Argentinian ballerina
August 20
* Jim Reeves, American country singer
* Arthur Upton, South African cricketer
August 21 – Larry Grayson, English comedian, game show host
August 22
* Guenter Lewy, German-born American author and political scientist
* Aldo Scavarda, Italian cinematographer
* Carolina Slim, American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist
August 23
* Siti Hartinah, 2nd First Lady of Indonesia, wife of Suharto
* Artturi Niemelä, Finnish homesteader and politician
* Henry F. Warner, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
* Balram Jakhar, Indian politician
August 24
* Eddie Deerfield, American government official
* Arthur Jensen, American educational psychologist
August 25 – Luis Abanto Morales, Peruvian singer, composer
August 26
* N. A. Ramaiah, Indian physical chemist
* Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor, pianist
August 27
* Inge Egger, Austrian actress
* Hun Neang, father of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen
August 28
* Arthur Payne, Australian speedway rider
* Andrea Veggio, Italian Roman Catholic bishop
August 29
* Sir Richard Attenborough, English actor, film director
* Maurizio Bucci, Italian diplomat
* Ashi Tashi Dorji, Bhutanese royal
* Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, chairman of the BBC
August 30
* Joseph Lawson Howze, American Roman Catholic bishop
* Giacomo Rondinella, Italian singer, actor
* Vic Seixas, American tennis player
August 31 – Emilinha Borba, popular Brazilian singer

September

September 1
* Rocky Marciano, American boxer
* Tunku Ampuan Najihah, Queen consort of Malaysia
* Kenneth Thomson, Canadian businessman, art collector
September 3
* Glen Bell, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell
* Mort Walker, American cartoonist, creator of Beetle Bailey
September 4
* Mirko Ellis, Swiss-Italian actor
* Ram Kishore Shukla, Indian politician
* Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani banker, writer and humorist
September 5 – Aileen Adams, English consultant anaesthetist
September 6
* Eloy Tato Losada, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop
* King Peter II of Yugoslavia
September 7
* Madeleine Dring, British composer, actress
* Peter Lawford, English actor
* Bill Nankivell, Australian politician
September 8
* Joy Laville, English-Mexican sculptor, potter and painter
* Eleanor Vadala, American chemist, materials engineer and balloonist
September 9
* Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Cliff Robertson, American actor
* Charles Grier Sellers, American historian
* Marcel Zanini, Turkish-born French jazz musician
September 10
* Uri Avnery, Israeli writer
* Joe Wallach, American businessman
September 11
* Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer
* Harry D. Schultz, American investment adviser and author
September 12 – Joe Shulman, American jazz bassist,
* Mary E Reed, Member of Mt Rainier Methodist Church
September 13
* Natália Correia, Portuguese writer, poet and social activist
* U. L. Gooch, American politician
* Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Soviet partisan
September 14 – Carl-Erik Asplund, Swedish speed skater
September 15 – Audrey Stuckes, English material scientist
September 16 – Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore
September 17
* David Oreck, American entrepreneur
* Hank Williams, American country musician
September 18
* Queen Anne of Romania, born Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, French-born queen consort
* Al Quie, American politician
September 20 – Geraldine Clinton Little, Northern Ireland-born poet
September 21
* Carol Berman, American politician
* Linwood Holton, American politician
* Luba Skořepová, Czech actress
September 22
* Dannie Abse, Welsh poet
* Agha Ibrahim Akram, Pakistani general
September 23
* Anita Cornwell, American lesbian feminist author
* Basil Feldman, Baron Feldman, English politician
* Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Swiss auctioneer and art collector
* Maybell Lebron, Argentine-born Paraguayan writer
* Socorro Ramos, Filipino entrepreneur
* Shubert Spero, American rabbi
* Jimmy Weldon, American voice actor and ventriloquist
* Samuel V. Wilson, American army general
September 24
* Mervyn Brown, British diplomat and historian
* Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player
* Li Yuan-tsu, Taiwanese politician
September 26
* Aleksandr Alov, Soviet film director, screenwriter
* Dev Anand, Indian actor, film producer, writer and director
* James Hennessy, English businessman and diplomat
September 27
* James Condon, Australian actor
* George Dickson, American football player
September 28
* Giuseppe Casale, Italian Roman Catholic bishop
* Roedad Khan, Pakistani politician and civil servant
September 29 – Nicholas Amer, English actor
September 30
* Norman C. Gaddis, American Air Force officer and fighter pilot
* Thérèse Gouin Décarie, Canadian developmental psychologist and educator
* Donald Swann, Welsh musician and composer

October

October 1
* Babe McCarthy, American professional and collegiate basketball coach
* Mary Morello, American anti-censorship activist
* Kim Yaroshevskaya, Russian-born Canadian actress
October 2
* Abdullah CD, Malaysian politician
* Shih Chun-jen, Taiwanese neurosurgeon
* Absalón Castellanos Domínguez, Mexican politician
* Judith Hemmendinger, German-born Israeli researcher and author
* Eugenio Cruz Vargas, Chilean poet, painter
* Hershel W. Williams, American Medal of Honour recipient
October 3
* Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician
* Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Polish-born orchestral conductor
October 4 – Charlton Heston, American actor
October 5
* Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic football player, politician
* Glynis Johns, South African-born Welsh actress
* Ricardo Lavié, Argentine actor
* Stig Dagerman, Swedish writer
October 6
* Yasar Kemal, Turkish writer
* Robert Kuok, Malaysian-Chinese business magnate, investor
* Yakov Neishtadt, Russian-born Israeli chess player
* Emmett Hulcy Tidd, American military officer
October 7 – Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard, war criminal
October 9
* Helen Corey, American cookbook author and educator
* Haim Gouri, Israeli poet
* Keshub Mahindra, Indian businessman
* V. P. Appukutta Poduval, Indian independence activist
October 10
* James "Jabby" Jabara, American aviator, first American jet fighter ace
* Asri Muda, Malaysian politician
* Nicholas Parsons, English television and radio presenter
* Murray Walker, British motor racing commentator
October 13
* Harry Pregerson, American federal judge
* Faas Wilkes, Dutch football player
October 15
* Italo Calvino, Italian writer
* Bettina Moissi, German actress
October 16 – Linda Darnell, American actress
October 17
* Henryk Gulbinowicz, Polish cardinal
* Charles McClendon, American Hall of Fame college football coach
October 18 – Eileen Sheridan, English cyclist
October 19 – Beatrix Hamburg, American psychiatrist
October 20
* V. S. Achuthanandan, Indian politician
* Marc Clark, English-born Australian sculptor
* Otfried Preußler, German children's books author
October 23
* John Meisel, Canadian political scientist, professor and scholar
* Ned Rorem, American composer and author
* Frank Sutton, American actor
* Julia Wipplinger, South African tennis player
October 24
* Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster
* Denise Levertov, British-born American poet
October 25
* J. Esmonde Barry, Canadian healthcare activist, political commentator
* Achille Silvestrini, Italian cardinal
October 27
* Dorothy Kloss, American dancer
* Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist
October 29
* Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles Crabbe, Ghanaian judge
* Carl Djerassi, American chemist
* Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete

November

November 1
* Victoria de los Ángeles, Catalan soprano
* Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author
* James Ramsden, English politician
* Imre Varga, Hungarian sculptor
November 2
* Henry Moore, English bishop
* Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball player, coach
* Ida Vitale, Uruguayan translator, author and literary critic
November 3
* Garnett Thomas Eisele, American district court judge
* Violetta Elvin, née Prokhorova, Russian-born ballerina
* Charles Nolte, American actor, director, playwright and educator
* Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Irish Roman Catholic prelate
* Giovanni Battista Urbani, Italian politician
November 4
* John Herbers, American journalist, author, editor, World War II veteran and Pulitzer Prize finalist
* Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
* Guillermo Rodríguez, 31st President of Ecuador
November 5
* Rudolf Augstein, German journalist, founder and part-owner of magazine Der Spiegel
* Kay Lionikas, Greek-American female baseball player
* Aiko Satō, Japanese novelist
November 6 – Nizoramo Zaripova, Soviet politician and women's rights activist
November 8
* Yisrael Friedman, Romanian-born Israeli rabbi
* Józef Hen, Polish writer
* Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
* Jaroslav Šír, Czechoslovak soldier and skier
November 9 – Elizabeth Hawley, American journalist
November 11
* Victor Brombert, American scholar
* P. K. van der Byl, Rhodesian politician
* William P. Murphy Jr., American medical doctor and inventor
* Isaac Trachtenberg, Soviet-born Ukrainian hygienist
November 12 – Loriot, German actor
November 13 – Linda Christian, Mexican film actress
November 14
* Misael Pastrana Borrero, 23rd President of Colombia
* Cleyde Yáconis, Brazilian actress
November 15
* Michael Lapage, English rower
* Fred Richmond, American politician
November 17
* Louis Danziger, American graphic designer and educator
* Ruth W. Greenfield, American concert pianist and teacher
* Aristides Pereira, President of Cape Verde
* Mike Garcia, American professional baseball player
November 18
* Howard R. Lamar, American historian
* Edith Graef McGeer, American-born Canadian neuroscientist
* Cornelis Ruhtenberg, American painter
* Alan Shepard, first American astronaut, fifth person to walk on the Moon
* Ted Stevens, American politician
November 19 – Robert Harlow, Canadian writer and academic
November 20 – Nadine Gordimer, South African fiction writer, Nobel Prize laureate
November 22
* Tu An, Chinese poet, translator
* Martin Forde, American labor union activist
* Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
November 23
* Betty Brewer, American actress
* Billy Haughton, American harness driver, trainer
* Eric Heath, New Zealand artist and illustrator
* Keiju Kobayashi, Japanese actor
* Julien J. LeBourgeois, American vice admiral
* Gloria Whelan, American poet, short story writer and novelist
November 24 – Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, Acting President of Venezuela
November 25 – Mauno Koivisto, 2-Time Prime Minister of Finland and 9th President of Finland
November 26
* Luigi Bettazzi, Italian Catholic bishop
* Tom Hughes, Australian politician and barrister
* Pat Phoenix, English actress
November 28
* Gloria Grahame, American actress
* James Karen, American actor
November 29 – Augusto Lauro, Italian prelate

December

December 1
* Maurice De Bevere, better known as Morris, Belgian cartoonist, comics artist and illustrator
* William F. House, American otologist, inventor of the Cochlear implant
* Dick Shawn, American actor
* Stansfield Turner, American admiral, Director of Central Intelligence
December 2 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano
December 3
* Dede Allen, American film editor
* Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav football player
* Moyra Fraser, British actress
* Abe Pollin, American sports owner
December 4
* Vincent Ball, Australian actor
* Simon Bland, English soldier and courtier
December 5
* Khosiat Boboeva, Tajikistani historian
* Eleanor Dapkus, American female professional baseball player
* Johnny Pate, American jazz musician
* Philip Slier, Dutch Jewish typesetter
December 6
* Emile Hemmen, Luxembourg poet and writer
* Maury Laws, American composer
* Bryan Thwaites, English mathematician, educationalist and administrator
December 7
* Robert Geddes, American architect
* Ted Knight, American actor
December 8
* Dewey Martin, American actor
* Rudolph Pariser, American physicist and polymer chemist
December 9
* Jack M. Guttentag, American academic
* Elliot Valenstein, American psychologist and neuroscientist
December 10
* Harold Gould, American character actor
* Abelardo Quinteros, Chilean composer
* Meg Woolf, English artist
December 11
* Betsy Blair, American film actress
* Denis Brian, Welsh journalist and author
* Farhang Mehr, Iranian-born American Zoroastrian scholar, writer
December 12
* Bob Barker, American game show host
* Bob Dorough, American pianist and composer
* Jacqueline Fleury, French resistance fighter
* Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Ethiopian nun
* Ken Kavanagh, Australian motorcycle racer
December 13
* Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Larry Doby, African-American baseball player
* Doireann MacDermott, Irish translator, writer and academic
* Alfonso Osorio, Spanish politician
* Antoni Tàpies, Catalan painter
* Herb Wilkinson, American basketball player
December 14
* Sully Boyar, American actor
* Chris Ogunbanjo, Nigerian lawyer and philanthropist
* Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
December 15
* Freeman Dyson, English-born physicist
* Aishah Ghani, Malaysian politician
* Viktor Shuvalov, Soviet ice hockey player
December 16
* Jo-Carroll Dennison, American actress, Miss America
* Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist
December 17
* Robert William Bradford, Canadian artist
* Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian
December 18
* Edwin Bramall, senior British Army officer
* Émile Knecht, Swiss Olympic rower
December 19 – Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor
December 20 – Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Sri Lankan novelist
December 21 – Wat Misaka, American baseball player
December 22 – Peregrine Worsthorne, English journalist, writer and broadcaster
December 23
* Dave Bolen, American athlete and ambassador
* José Serra Gil, Spanish racing cyclist
* Enrique Lucca, Venezuelan sports shooter
* TL Osborn, American televangelist, singer and author
* James Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral, vice presidential candidate
* Earl P. Yates, American admiral
December 24
* George Patton IV, American general
* Simon Perchik, American poet
December 25
* Luis Álamos, Chilean football manager
* René Girard, French-American historian
* Sonya Olschanezky, World War II heroine
* Satyananda Saraswati, Indian founder of Satyananda Yoga and Bihar Yoga
* Billy Watson, American child actor
* Jack Zunz, South African-English engineer
December 26
* Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator and sculptor
* Dick Teague, American industrial designer
December 27 – Lucas Mangope, President of Bophuthatswana Bantustan
December 28
* Louis Lansana Beavogui, Guinean politician
* Georg Hille, Norwegian clergyman
* Mira Sulpizi, Italian composer
December 29
* Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, French mathematician and physicist
* Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician
* Lily Ebert, Hungarian-born English Holocaust survivor
* David Teacher, British RAF veteran
* Dina Merrill, American actress, heiress, socialite and philanthropist
* Mike Nussbaum, American actor and director
December 30 – Carl-Göran Ekerwald, Swedish novelist, literary critic and teacher
December 31 – Balbir Singh Sr., Indian hockey player

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