1947

It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Events

January

January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in the 20th century causes extensive disruption of travel. Given the low ratio of private vehicle ownership at the time, it is mainly remembered in terms of its effects on the railway network.
January 1 – The Canadian Citizenship Act comes into effect, providing a Canadian citizenship separate from British law.
January 4 – First issue of weekly magazine Der Spiegel published in Hanover, Germany, edited by Rudolf Augstein.
January 10 – The United Nations adopts a resolution to take control of the free city of Trieste.
January 11 – The Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947 conclude with the Surrender at Datta Khel.
January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles; the mysterious case is never solved.
January 16 – Vincent Auriol is inaugurated as president of France.
January 19 – Ferry sinks in the South Euboean Gulf of Greece killing 392.
January 24 – In the third phase of the Greek Civil War, Dimitrios Maximos forms a monarchist government in Athens and begins a brief term as prime minister.
January 26 – A KLM Douglas DC-3 aircraft crashes soon after taking off from Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, killing all 22 people on board, including Prince Gustaf Adolf, second in line to the Swedish throne, and American opera singer Grace Moore.

February

February 3
* The lowest air temperature in North America was recorded in Snag, in the Yukon Territory.
* P.L. Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate press galleries.
February 5
* Bolesław Bierut becomes the President of Poland.
* The Government of the United Kingdom announces the £25 million Tanganyika groundnut scheme, for cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory.
February 7 – The South Pacific Commission is founded.
February 8 – The Karlslust dance hall fire in Berlin, Germany, kills over 80 people.
February 10 – In Paris, France, peace treaties are signed between the World War II Allies and Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Finland. Italy cedes most of Istria to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
February 12
* A meteorite creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
* In Burma, the Panglong Agreement is reached between the Burmese government under its leader, General Aung San, and the Shan, Kachin, and Chin ethnic peoples at the Panglong Conference. U Aung Zan Wai, Pe Khin, Major Aung, Sir Maung Gyi, Sein Mya Maung and Myoma U Than Kywe are among the negotiators.
February 17 – Cold War: The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
February 20
* An explosion at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Company in Los Angeles leaves 17 dead, 100 buildings damaged, and a crater in the ground.
* The U.S. Army Ordnance Corps Hermes program V-2 rocket Blossom I is launched into space, carrying plant material and fruitflies, the first living things to enter space.
February 21 – Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", his Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City.
February 23 – The International Organization for Standardization is founded.
February 25
* The German state of Prussia is officially abolished, by the Allied Control Council.
* Hachikō Line derailment: The worst-ever train accident in Japan kills 184 people.
* John C. Hennessy Jr. brings the first Volkswagen Beetle to the United States. He purchased the 1946 automobile from the U.S. Army Post Exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, while serving in the U.S. Army. The Beetle is shipped from Bremerhaven, arriving in New York this day.
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March

March 1
* The International Monetary Fund begins to operate.
* German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun marries his first cousin, 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp.
March 4 – The Treaty of Dunkirk is signed between the United Kingdom and France, providing for mutual assistance in the event of attack.
March 12 – The Cold War begins: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed, to help stem the spread of Communism.
March 14 – The Thames flood and other widespread flooding occurs, as the exceptionally harsh British winter of 1946–1947 ends in a thaw.
March 15 – Hindus and Muslims clash in Punjab.
March 19 – The 19th Academy Awards Ceremony is held. The movie The Best Years of Our Lives wins the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with several other Academy Awards.
March 25 – A coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois, United States; 111 miners are killed.
March 28 – A World War II Japanese booby trap explodes on Corregidor Island, killing 28 people.
March 29 – A rebellion against French rule erupts in Madagascar.
March 31 – The leaders of the Kurdish People's Republic of Mahabad, the second Kurdish state in the history of Iran, are hanged at Chuwarchira Square in Mahabad, after the state has been overrun by the Iranian army.

April

April – The previous discovery of the 'Dead Sea Scrolls' in the Qumran Caves by Bedouin shepherds, becomes known.
April 1
* Jackie Robinson, the first African American in Major League Baseball since the 1880s, signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
* Paul I becomes King of Greece, aged 45, following the death of his brother, King George II.
* The 1947 Royal New Zealand Navy mutinies begin.
April 4 – The International Civil Aviation Organization begins operations.
April 7
* The Arab Ba'ath Party is established by merger in Damascus.
*The largest recorded sunspot group appears on the solar surface.
April 9
* Multiple tornadoes strike Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, killing 184 and injuring 970.
* The Journey of Reconciliation in the Southern United States begins, organized by the Congress of Racial Equality.
April 15 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play Major League Baseball since the 1880s.
April 16
* Texas City disaster: The ammonium nitrate cargo of French-registered Liberty ship explodes in Texas City, Texas in one of the largest man-made non-nuclear explosions in history, killing at least 581, including all but one member of the city fire department, injuring at least 5,000 and destroying 20 city blocks. Of the dead, remains of 113 are never found, and 62 are unidentifiable.
* American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch describes the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "Cold War".
* The first public demonstration of a TV camera zoom lens, the Jerry Fairbanks Zoomar, is held at NBC studios in New York.
April 18
* The British Royal Navy detonates 6,800 tons of explosives, in an attempt to demolish the fortified island of Heligoland, Germany, in another of the largest man-made non-nuclear explosions in history.
* 'Mrs. Ples', an Australopithecus africanus skull, is discovered in the Sterkfontein area in Transvaal, South Africa.
April 20 – King Frederik IX succeeds his father, Christian X, on the throne of Denmark.

May

May 1 – Portella della Ginestra massacre: The Salvatore Giuliano gang of Sicilian separatists opens fire on a Labour Day parade at Portella della Ginestra, Sicily, killing 11 people and wounding 27.
May 2 – The movie Miracle on 34th Street, a Christmastime classic, is first shown in theaters.
May 3 – The new post-war Constitution of Japan goes into effect.
May 11 – The Kingdom of Laos is officially formed, but is still a French protectorate.
The Ferrari 125 S, the first car to bear the Ferrari name, debuts.
May 22 – The Cold War begins: To fight the spread of Communism, President Harry S. Truman signs an Act of Congress that implements the Truman Doctrine. This Act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece. The Cold War ends in 1991.
May 25 – Hyundai Togun, the initial name of the Hyundai Group, is founded by Chung Ju-young.
May 29
* An Air Iceland Douglas C-47 on a domestic flight in Iceland crashes into a mountainside killing all 25 people on board.
* A United States Army Air Forces Douglas C-54 Skymaster crashes on approach to Naval Air Station Atsugi, Japan, killing all 41 on board in the worst aviation accident in Japanese history up to this time.
May 30 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 605: A Douglas C-54 Skymaster crashes near Bainbridge, Maryland, killing all 53 aboard, in America's worst commercial aviation disaster to this date.
May 31 – Alcide de Gasperi forms a new government in Italy, the first postwar Italian government not to include members of the Italian Communist Party.

June

June – The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is introduced.
June 5 – U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for American reconstruction and relief aid to Europe, in a speech at Harvard University.
June 7 – The Romanian Army founds the association football club CCA, which will become the most successful Romanian football team during its time as CSA Steaua București.
June 10 – SAAB in Sweden produces its first automobile.
June 11–15 – The first Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is held in Wales.
June 15 – The Estado Novo in Portugal orders 11 military officers and 19 university professors, who are accused of revolutionary activity, to resign.
June 21 – The Parliament of Canada votes unanimously to pass several laws regarding displaced foreign refugees.
June 23 – The United States Senate follows the House of Representatives, in overriding President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
June 24 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. Over 800 copycat sightings are reported throughout the US in the coming following weeks.
June 25 – The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is published for the first time as Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 14 juni 1942 – 1 augustus 1944 in Amsterdam, two years after the writer's death in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

July

July 1 – The United States begins the National Malaria Eradication Program, successfully eradicating malaria in 1951.
July 6
* 1947 Sylhet referendum: A referendum is held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
* The first prototype AK-47 assault rifles are built to the design of Mikhail Kalashnikov.
July 8 – Roswell UFO incident: A supposedly downed extraterrestrial spacecraft is reportedly found near Roswell, New Mexico.
July 9
* 'Flying disc' photographs published in Phoenix
* King George VI of the United Kingdom announces the engagement of his daughter Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten.
July 11 – The ship Exodus leaves France for Palestine, with 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivor refugees on board.
July 17 – Indian passenger ship is capsized by a cyclone at Mumbai, India, with 625 people killed.
July 18
* Following wide media and UNSCOP coverage, the Exodus is captured by British troops, and refused entry into Palestine at the port of Haifa.
* President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law, which places the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate next in the line of succession, after the vice president.
July 19 – Burmese nationalist Aung San, and six members of his newly formed cabinet, are assassinated during a cabinet meeting.
July 26 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into law to create the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
July 27–28 – English endurance swimmer Tom Blower becomes the first person to swim the North Channel, from Donaghadee in Northern Ireland to Portpatrick in Scotland.
July 29 – After being shut down on November 9, 1946, for a refurbishment, the ENIAC computer in the United States is turned back on again, and remains in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.

August

August 1 – Indonesian airline Garuda Indonesia is established.
August 2 – 1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accident: A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile.
August 5 – The Netherlands ends Operation Product, the first of its major military Police Actions in Indonesia.
August 7
* Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands, after a 101-day, 4,300 mile, voyage across the Eastern Pacific Ocean, demonstrating that prehistoric peoples could have traveled to the Central Pacific islands from South America.
* The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport.
August 14
* The Muslim majority regions formed by the Partition of India gain independence from the British Empire as the Dominion of Pakistan. While the transition is officially at midnight on this day, Pakistan celebrates its independence on August 14, compared with India on the 15th, because the Pakistan Standard Time is 30 minutes behind the standard time of India.
* Muhammad Ali Jinnah becomes the first governor-general of Pakistan. Liaquat Ali Khan takes office as the first prime minister of Pakistan.
August 15
* The greater Indian subcontinent, with a mixed population of Hindu, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Zoroasters, Jews, Christians, Muslims and others formed by the Partition of India, gains independence from the British Empire, as the Dominion of India. 190 years British rule in India comes to an end.
* Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as the first prime minister of India, taking his oath from Louis Mountbatten, Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Governor-General of India.
August 16 – In Greece, General Markos Vafiadis takes over the government until 1949.
August 23 – The prime minister of Greece, Dimitrios Maximos, resigns.
August 27 – The French government lowers the daily bread ration to 200 grams, causing riots in Verdun and Le Mans.
August 30 – A fire at a movie theater in Rueil, a suburb of Paris, France, kills 83 people.
August 31 – In Hungary, communists fail to gain a majority in parliamentary elections and turn to direct action as part of the country's transition to Communism (1944–1949).

September

September 9
* Women's suffrage is agreed by Argentina's Congress.
* A moth lodged in a relay is found to be the cause of a malfunction in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer, logged as the "First actual case of bug being found."
September 13 – Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru suggests the exchange of four million Hindus and Muslims between India and Pakistan.
September 15–16 – Typhoon Kathleen strikes the Bōsō Peninsula and the entire Kantō region in Japan. Heavy rains cause the Arakawa and Tone Rivers to overflow and embankment collapse. The resulting floods and debris flow kill between 1,077 and 1,920 people, injuring 1,547 and leaving 853 missing.
September 17–21 – The 1947 Fort Lauderdale hurricane in southeastern Florida, and also in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana causes widespread damage, and kills 50 people.
September 18 – In the United States:
* The National Security Act of 1947 becomes effective on this day, creating the United States Air Force, National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.
* The Department of War becomes the Department of the Army, a branch of the new Department of Defense.
September 22 – The Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties is founded by the International Communist Movement.
September 30 – Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.

October

October – First recorded use of the word computer in its modern sense, referring to an electronic digital machine.
October 1 – The North American F-86 Sabre jet fighter aircraft makes its first flight.
October 5 – President Harry S. Truman delivers the first televised White House address, speaking on the world food crises.
October 14 – United States Air Force test pilot Captain Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 rocket plane faster than the speed of sound, the first time it has been accomplished.
October 20 – A war begins in Kashmir, along the border between India and Pakistan, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948. Also, Pakistan establishes diplomatic relations with the United States of America.
October 24 – The first Azad Kashmir Government is established within Pakistan, headed by Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan as its first President supported by the government of Pakistan.
October 30 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the foundation of the World Trade Organization, is established.

November

November 2 – In Long Beach, California, United States, designer and airplane pilot Howard Hughes carries out the one and only flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built and flown. This flight only lasts 8 minutes.
November 6 – The television program Meet the Press makes its debut, on the NBC-TV network in the United States.
November 9 – Junagadh is invaded by the Indian army.
November 10 – The arrest of four steel workers in Marseille begins a French communist riot, that also spreads to Paris.
November 13 – Wataru Misaka makes the roster of the New York Knicks to become the first person of color to play in modern professional basketball, months after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Misaka has led the Utah Utes to the 1944 NCAA and 1947 NIT championships.
November 15
* The International Telecommunication Union becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
* The Universal Postal Union becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
November 16
* In Brussels, 15,000 people demonstrate against the relatively short prison sentences of Belgian Nazi criminals.
* Great Britain begins withdrawing its troops from Palestine.
November 17–December 23 – John Bardeen and Walter Brattain working under William Shockley at AT&T's Bell Labs in the United States demonstrate the transistor effect, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
November 17 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
November 18 – Ballantyne's fire: A fire in Ballantynes department store in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41 people.
November 20
* Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh">Elizabeth II">Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh: Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of George VI of the United Kingdom, marries The Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey in London.
* Paul Ramadier resigns as Prime Minister of France. He is succeeded by Robert Schuman, who calls in 80,000 army reservists to quell rioting miners in France.
November 21 – The United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment begins in Havana, Cuba. This conference ends in 1948, when its members complete the Havana Charter.
November 24 – McCarthyism: The United States House of Representatives votes 346–17 to approve citations of Contempt of Congress against the "Hollywood Ten", after the screenwriters and directors refuse to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of communist influences in the movie business. The ten men are blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios on the following day.
November 25
* The New Zealand Parliament ratifies the Statute of Westminster, and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
* The new Pakistan Army and Pashtun mercenaries overrun Mirpur in Kashmir, resulting in the death of 20,000 Hindus and Sikhs.
November 27 – In Paris, France, police occupy the editorial offices of the communist newspapers.
November 29 – The United Nations General Assembly votes for the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine which will partition Mandatory Palestine between Arab and Jewish regions, resulting in the creation of the State of Israel.

December

December 3
* French communist strikers derail the Paris-Tourcoing express train because of false rumors that it is transporting soldiers; 21 people are killed.
* The Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Marlon Brando in his first great role, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway in New York City; Jessica Tandy also stars as Blanche Du Bois.
December 4 – French Interior Minister Jules S. Moch takes emergency measures against his country's rioters, after six days of violent arguments in the National Assembly.
December 6
* Arturo Toscanini conducts a concert performance of the first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello, for a broadcast on NBC Radio in the United States. The second half of the opera is broadcast a week later.
* Women are admitted to full membership of the University of Cambridge in England. following a vote in September.
December 9 – French labor unions call off the general strike, and re-commence negotiations with the French government.
December 12 – The Iranian Royal Army takes back power in the Azerbaijan province.
December 14 – Santiago Bernabeu Stadium is officially inaugurated in Madrid, and hosts its first match.
December 21 – During the mass migration of Hindus and Muslims between the new states of India and Pakistan, 400,000 are slaughtered.
December 22 – The Italian Constituent Assembly votes to accept the new Constitution of Italy.
December 30
* The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jet fighter aircraft makes its first flight in the Soviet Union.
* King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate and the Romanian monarchy is abolished.

Births

January

January 1
* F. R. David, Tunisian-born French singer
* Vladimir Titov, Russian cosmonaut
* Frances Yip, Hong Kong singer
January 2 – Jack Hanna, American Zookeeper and Television Personality
January 6
* Sandy Denny, British singer
* Ian Millar, Canadian dressage rider
January 8
* David Bowie, English singer, songwriter, and actor
* Samuel Schmid, Swiss Federal Councillor
* William G. Bonin, American serial killer and rapist
January 10 – Peer Steinbrück, German politician
January 13 – Carles Rexach, Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach
January 15 – Andrea Martin, Canadian-American actress
January 16
* Juliet Berto, French actress, director and screenwriter
* Apasra Hongsakula, Thai model, Miss Universe 1965
* Harvey Proctor, British Conservative politician
January 18 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese film director, actor
January 20 – Cyrille Guimard, French road racing cyclist
January 21 – Jill Eikenberry, American actress
January 22 – Vladimir Oravsky, Swedish writer
January 23
* Tom Carper, American politician
* Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
January 24
* Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer
* Michio Kaku, American theoretical physicist
* Warren Zevon, American rock musician
January 25 – Tostão, Brazilian footballer
January 26 – Michel Sardou, French singer and actor
January 27 – Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist
January 28 – Jeanne Shaheen, US Senator
January 29 – Linda B. Buck, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
January 30 – Steve Marriott, British rock musician
January 31
* – Jonathan Banks, American actor
* - Nolan Ryan, American baseball pitcher

February

February 1 – Clark Olofsson, Swedish criminal
February 2 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress
February 3
* Paul Auster, American novelist
* Dave Davies, English rock musician
* Melanie, American folk singer
February 4
* Halina Aszkiełowicz-Wojno, Polish volleyball player
* Dennis C. Blair, American admiral, Director of National Intelligence
* John Campbell Brown, Scottish astronomer
* Dan Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States
February 5 – Regina Duarte, Brazilian actress; former Special Secretary of Culture of Brazil
February 7 – Wayne Allwine, American voice actor
February 10 – Louise Arbour, Canadian jurist
February 11
* Yukio Hatoyama, 60th Prime Minister of Japan
* Roy Moore, American politician
February 13 – Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach
February 15
* John Adams, American composer
* Wenche Myhre, Norwegian actress, singer
* Ádám Nádasdy, Hungarian linguist and poet
February 16 – Veríssimo Correia Seabra, Bissau-Guinean military commander
February 18
* Princess Christina of the Netherlands
* José Luis Cuerda, Spanish filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
February 19 – Gustavo Rodríguez, Venezuelan actor
February 20
* Peter Osgood, English footballer
* Peter Strauss, American actor
February 21
* Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest
* Renata Sorrah, Brazilian actress
February 25
* Lee Evans, American Olympic athlete
* Doug Yule, American rock singer
February 26 – Sandie Shaw, British singer
February 27 – Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
February 28 – Stephanie Beacham, English actress

March

March 1 – Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and television host
March 2 – Yuri Bogatyryov, Soviet actor
March 3
*Óscar Washington Tabárez, Uruguayan football manager and former player
*Mike Sheahan, Australian journalist
March 4
* Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
* Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor
March 6
* Kiki Dee, English pop singer
* Dick Fosbury, American high-jumper
* Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
* Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, producer, director and activist
* John Stossel, American journalist
March 7 – Walter Röhrl, German racing driver
March 8
* Carole Bayer Sager, American singer, songwriter
* Michael S. Hart, American author, inventor
March 9 – Ryszard Peryt, Polish conductor, librettist
March 10 – Kim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada
March 11 – Geoff Hunt, Australian squash player
March 12
* Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist
* Mitt Romney, American businessman, politician, Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 presidential candidate, and US Senator
March 13 – Beat Richner, Swiss pediatrician, cellist
March 15 – Ry Cooder, American guitarist
March 16
* Baek Yoon-sik, South Korean actor
* Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist
March 17 – Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born composer, producer
March 18 – Tamara Griesser Pečar, Slovenian historian
March 19 – Glenn Close, American actress
March 21 – Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of Yemen
March 22 – James Patterson, American author
March 24
* Louise Lanctôt, Canadian terrorist and writer
* Alan Sugar, English entrepreneur
March 25 – Elton John, English singer-songwriter and composer
March 26 – Subhash Kak, Indian-American author
March 31
* Wong Choon Wah, Malaysian footballer
* César Gaviria, Colombian economist, politician and 28th President of Colombia

April

April 1
* Alain Connes, French mathematician
* Ingrid Steeger, German actress, comedian
* Tzipi Shavit, Israeli actress
April 2
* Paquita la del Barrio, Mexican singer, actress
* Emmylou Harris, American singer, songwriter
* Camille Paglia, American literary critic
April 5 – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, 14th President of the Philippines, daughter of president Diosdado Macapagal
April 6 – John Ratzenberger, American actor
April 7 – Florian Schneider, German musician
April 10 – Bunny Wailer, Jamaican reggae musician
April 12
* Tom Clancy, American author
* David Letterman, American talk show host
April 13 – Mike Chapman, Australian-born songwriter, record producer
April 15 – Lois Chiles, American actress
April 16
* Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, African-American basketball player, actor
* Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter
April 18
* Kathy Acker, American author
* Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director
* James Woods, American actor
April 19 – Murray Perahia, American pianist
April 20
* Daud Ibrahim, Malaysian cyclist
* Hector, Finnish rock musician
April 21 – Iggy Pop, American rock musician
April 24 – Josep Borrell, Spanish minister, MEP and EU High Representative
April 25
* Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer and coach
* Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
April 27 – Pete Ham, Welsh rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
April 29
* Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian journalist, essayist and professor of philosophy
* Tommy James, American rock singer, producer
April 30 – Malini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actress, filmmaker and politician

May

May 1 – Jacob Bekenstein, Mexico-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist
May 4 – Theda Skocpol, American sociologist
May 5 – Malam Bacai Sanhá, Guinea-Bissau politician
May 6 – Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
May 8 – H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
May 9 – Yukiya Amano, Japanese international civil servant
May 10 – Caroline B. Cooney, American author
May 11
* Walter Selke, German physicist
* Butch Trucks, American drummer
May 12 – Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician, philosopher and historian
May 13 – Stephen R. Donaldson, American novelist
May 14
* José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, Colombian drug lord
* Tamara Dobson, African-American actress, fashion model
* Ana Martín, Mexican actress, singer, producer and former model
May 15 – Muhyiddin Yassin, Prime Minister of Malaysia
May 18 – John Bruton, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland
May 19 – Paul Brady, Northern Irish singer, songwriter
May 21 – Lolit Solis, Filipina talent manager
May 24 – Maude Barlow, Canadian author, activist and National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians
May 26 – Glenn Turner, New Zealand cricket captain
May 27
* Peter DeFazio, American politician
* Branko Oblak, Slovenian football player and coach
May 28
* Pedro Giachino, Argentine Navy officer
* Zahi Hawass, Egyptian archaeologist

June

June 1
* Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
* Ronnie Wood, English rock musician
June 2 – Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Punjabi saint, Sikh theologian, military leader
June 3 – Dave Alexander, American musician
June 4 – Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
June 5
* Laurie Anderson, American experimental performance artist, composer and musician
* Jojon, Indonesian comedian, actor
June 6
* David Blunkett, British politician
* Robert Englund, American actor
* Tapani Hyvönen, Finnish designer and business founder
* Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
June 8 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 9
* Françoise Demulder, French war photographer
* Robert Indermaur, Swiss painter and sculptor
June 10 – Ken Singleton, American baseball player
June 15
* Alain Aspect, French quantum physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
* John Hoagland, American war photographer
June 19
* Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
* Salman Rushdie, Indian-born British author
June 20 – Candy Clark, American actress
June 21
* Rachel Adato, Israeli gynecologist, lawyer and politician
* Shirin Ebadi, Iranian activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
* Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher, author
June 22
* Bruno Latour, French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist
* Natalya Varley, Soviet, Russian film, theater actress
* Murray Webb, New Zealand caricature artist, test cricketer
* David Jones, Northern Irish European Tour golfer
* Octavia E. Butler, American author
* Trevor Blades, English cricketer
* Pete Maravich, American basketball player
* Jerry John Rawlings, 2-time President of Ghana
June 23
* Bryan Brown, Australian actor
* Thor Hansen, Norwegian-born professional poker player
June 24
* Mick Fleetwood, British musician
* Helena Vondráčková, Czech singer
* Peter Weller, American actor and director
June 25 – Jimmie Walker, African-American actor
June 26 – Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan politician
June 27
* Hans Ooft, Dutch football player, manager
* Abdel Djaadaoui, Algerian footballer
June 29 – David Chiang, Hong Kong actor
June 30 – Jean-Yves Le Drian, French minister

July

July 1
* Marc Benno, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
* Arantxa Urretabizkaia, Basque writer, screenwriter and actress
* Sharad Yadav, Indian politician
July 2 – Larry David, American actor, writer, producer and director
July 3
* Betty Buckley, American actress, singer
* Mike Burton, American swimmer
* Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch football player
* Jana Švandová, Czech actress
July 4
* Francisco Fernández de Cevallos, Mexican politician
* Eva Goës, Swedish politician
* Carla Panerai, Italian sprinter
July 5 – Toos Beumer, Dutch swimmer
July 6 – Shelley Hack, American model, actress, producer, political and media advisor
July 7
* Richard Beckinsale, English actor
* King Gyanendra of Nepal
* Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
July 9
* Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician
* O. J. Simpson, African-American football player and actor
July 10
* Allen Fong, Hong Kong film director
* Arlo Guthrie, American folk singer
July 11 – Riad Ismat, Syrian writer, critic and theatre director
July 12
* Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby union player
*Wilko Johnson, English rock musician
* Lenka Termerová, Czech actress
July 14 – Navin Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius
July 15 – Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter
July 16
* Roelf Meyer, South African politician, businessman
* Alexis Herman, American political figure and social worker
July 17 – Queen Camilla, Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realms since 2022 as the wife of Charles III
July 19 – Brian May, English rock guitarist
July 20
* Gerd Binnig, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Carlos Santana, Mexican-born rock guitarist
July 21 – Co Adriaanse, Dutch football manager
July 22
* Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian, director, and novelist
* Erica Gavin, American actress
* Don Henley, American singer, songwriter and musician
July 24 – Peter Serkin, American classical pianist
July 27
* Bob Klein, American football player
* Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman
* Giora Spiegel, Israeli footballer and coach
July 28 – Su Tseng-chang, Taiwanese politician, 41st and 50th Premier of the Republic of China
July 30
* William Atherton, American actor
* Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American actor, bodybuilder and 38th Governor of California
July 31 – Richard Griffiths, English actor

August

August 1
* Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet
* Leoluca Orlando, Italian politician
August 4 – Hubert Ingraham, Bahamian politician
August 5 – Graham Lovett, English footballer
August 7 – Franciscus Henri, Dutch-born Australian children's entertainer, composer and artist
August 8
* Terangi Adam, Nauruan politician
* George Costigan, British actor, screenwriter
* Ken Dryden, Canadian NHL goaltender, author and politician
August 9 – John Varley, American science-fiction author
August 10
* Ian Anderson, British rock musician
* Drupi, Italian singer
* Anwar Ibrahim, 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia
August 11
* Diether Krebs, German actor, cabaret artist and comedian
* Wilma van den Berg, Dutch sprinter
August 14
* Maddy Prior, English folk singer
* Danielle Steel, American romance novelist
August 15 – Raakhee, Indian actress
August 16
* Carol Moseley Braun, African-American politician
* Marc Messier, Canadian actor
August 17 – Mohamed Abdelaziz, Sahrawi politician
August 20 – José Wilker, Brazilian actor
August 21 – Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada
August 22
* Cindy Williams, American actress
* Peter Irniq, Canadian Commissioner of Nunavut
August 23 – Willy Russell, British playwright
August 24 – Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
August 26 – Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer
August 28
* Emlyn Hughes, English footballer
* Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
* Alice Playten, American actress
August 29
* James Hunt, British 1976 Formula 1 world champion
* Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and autism expert
* Jah Lloyd, Jamaican reggae singer, deejay and producer
August 30 – Allan Rock, Canadian politician, diplomat
August 31
* Ramón Castellano de Torres, Spanish painter
* Somchai Wongsawat, 26th Prime Minister of Thailand

September

September 3 – Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway
September 5
* Danny Florencio, Filipino basketball player
* Buddy Miles, African-American drummer, singer and composer
* Kiyoshi Takayama, Japanese yakuza boss
September 6
* Jane Curtin, American actress, comedian
* Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer, coach
* Jacob Rubinovitz, Israeli scientist
September 8 – Amos Biwott, Kenyan Olympic athlete
September 13 – Ajib Ahmad, Malaysian politician
September 14
* Sam Neill, British-born New Zealand actor
* Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish Roman Catholic priest and blessed
September 16 – Russ Abbot, British comedian, actor and singer
September 19 – Tanith Lee, British author
September 21
* Don Felder, American musician and songwriter
* Stephen King, American writer and novelist, specializing in the horror genre
September 22 – Jo Beverley, Anglo-Canadian writer
September 23 – Mary Kay Place, American actress
September 25
* Cheryl Tiegs, American model, actress
* Cecil Womack, African-American singer, songwriter
September 26 – Lynn Anderson, American country music singer
September 27
* Dick Advocaat, Dutch football manager
* Meat Loaf, American rock singer, actor
* Denis Lawson, Scottish actor and director
September 28
* Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Indonesian politician and former military officer
* Marcelo Guinle, Argentine politician
* Sheikh Hasina, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
September 30
* Marc Bolan, English rock musician
* Rula Lenska, English actress

October

October 1
* Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
* Stephen Collins, American actor
* Mariska Veres, Dutch singer
October 2 – Ward Churchill, American author, activist
October 3
* Alain Mucchielli, French physician
* Fred DeLuca, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Subway
* John Perry Barlow, American internet activist, writer, and lyricist
October 4 – Ann Widdecombe, British politician
October 5 – Brian Johnson, English rock singer
October 9 – France Gall, French singer
October 13 – Sammy Hagar, American rock musician
October 14 – Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian-Russian professional wrestler
October 17 – Simi Garewal, Indian actress, producer, director, and talk show host
October 18
* James H. Fallon, American neuroscientist
* Job Cohen, Dutch politician
October 19
* Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comics artist and illustrator
* Gunnar Staalesen, Norwegian author
October 24 – Kevin Kline, American actor
October 26
* Hillary Clinton, American politician, First Lady, US Senator, Secretary of State, and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate
* Ene Järvis, Estonian actress
October 28 – Henri Michel, French football player and coach
October 29 – Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
October 30
* Numa Turcatti, Uruguayan law student, victim of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash.
* Timothy B. Schmit, American musician
October 31
* Carmen Alborch, Spanish feminist, writer and politician
* Herman Van Rompuy, Belgian politician, 66th Prime Minister of Belgium

November

November 1
* Taizo Ichinose, Japanese war photographer
* Bob Weston, British musician
November 3 – Mazie Hirono, US Senator
November 5 – Rubén Juárez, Argentine bandoneonist, singer and songwriter of tango
November 6 – E. Lee Spence, German-born American pioneer underwater archaeologist, treasure hunter
November 7
* Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional baseball player
* Usha Uthup, Indian singer
* Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist, writer and founder of Manager Daily
* Sefi Rivlin, Israeli actor, footballer and comedian
November 8 – Minnie Riperton, African-American singer
November 10
* Glen Buxton, American rock guitarist
* Greg Lake, English musician, producer
November 12 – Carlos Ezquerra, Spanish comics artist
November 13 – Joe Mantegna, American actor, producer and director
November 14 – P. J. O'Rourke, American journalist, satirist
November 15
* Steven G. Kellman, American author, critic
* Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Nations
November 17
* Will Vinton, American animator, filmmaker
* Inky Mark, Canadian politician
November 18
* Lim Boon Heng, Singaporean politician
* Ali Bakar, Malaysian football player
November 19 - Anfinn Kallsberg, Faroese Prime Minister
November 20
* Joe Walsh, American rock singer, songwriter and guitarist
* Nurlan Balgimbayev, Kazakh politician
November 21
* Alcione, Brazilian singer
* Nickolas Grace, British actor
* Chua Ek Kay, Singaporean painter
November 22 – Terje Rød-Larsen, Norwegian diplomat, politician and sociologist
November 24 – Dwight Schultz, American actor
November 25 – John Larroquette, American actor
November 27 – Clare Torry, English singer and songwriter
November 29 – Mirza Khazar, Azerbaijani author
November 30
* Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet
* Stuart Baird, English film editor, producer and director
* Véronique Le Flaguais, Canadian actress
* David Mamet, American playwright
* Moses Nagamootoo, 8th Prime Minister of Guyana

December

December 1 – Bob Fulton, English-Australian rugby league player
December 2 – Isaac Bitton, French rock drummer
December 6 – Romildo Ribeiro Soares, Brazilian televangelist, missionary, author, singer, businessman and composer
December 7
* Oliver Dragojević, Croatian singer
* Johnny Bench, American baseball player
* Wendy Padbury, British actress
* Jeff Maxwell, American actor
December 8
* Gregg Allman, American singer, songwriter and musician
* Gérard Blanc, French singer
* Thomas R. Cech, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 9 – Tom Daschle, U.S. Senator
December 10 – Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
December 12
* Will Alsop, English architect
* Carmen Zuleta, Venezuelan judge
December 14
* Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
* Dilma Rousseff, 36th President of Brazil
December 16
* Ben Cross, English actor
* Vincent Matthews, American athlete
* Trevor Żahra, Maltese novelist, poet and illustrator
December 18 – Leonid Yuzefovich, Russian crime fiction writer
December 21 – Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist
December 22
* Mitsuo Tsukahara, Japanese gymnast
* Porfirio Lobo, 54th President of Honduras
December 25 – Pepe Smith, Filipino rock musician
December 28 – Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player
December 29
* Ted Danson, American actor
* Cozy Powell, English drummer
December 30 – Jeff Lynne, British musician
December 31
* Rita Lee, Brazilian rock singer, composer
* Tim Matheson, American actor, film director and producer
* Burton Cummings, Canadian musician

Date unknown

Marouf al-Bakhit, twice Prime Minister of Jordan

Deaths

January

January 3 – Al Herpin, French-born American insomniac, "The Man Who Never Slept"
January 9
* Herman Bing, German actor
* Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist
January 10
* Arthur E. Andersen, American accountant
* Hanns Sachs, Austrian psychoanalyst
January 11 – Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born vaudeville performer
January 12
* Zdenko Blažeković, Yugoslavian politician
* Júlio Afrânio Peixoto, Brazilian physician, writer, politician and historian
* Rosa Smith Eigenmann, American ichthyologist
January 13
* Sixto María Durán Cárdenas, Ecuadorian pianist, composer and lawyer
* Ignazio Lupo, Italian-born American gangster
January 14
* Bill Hewitt, American football player, Pro Football Hall of Fame member
* Elizabeth Short (Black Dahlia), American murder victim
* Gustave Mathieu, French anarchist illegalist, suspected of being one of Ravachol's main accomplices
January 17 – Hryhoriy Khomyshyn, Ukrainian Roman Catholic bishop, martyr and blessed
January 18 – Maria Giovanna Fasce, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed, Augustinian nun and blessed
January 19 – Manuel Machado, Spanish poet
January 20
* Josh Gibson, African-American baseball player, MLB Hall of Fame member
* Andrew Volstead, American politician
January 22 – Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, British writer
January 23
* Pierre Bonnard, French painter
* Roy Geiger, American general
January 24 – August Meyszner, Austrian-born SS officer
January 25 – Al Capone, American gangster
January 26
* Grace Moore, American opera singer, actress
* Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
* Gerrit Johannes Geysendorffer, Dutch aviation pioneer
January 27 – Vassily Balabanov, Soviet administrator, Provincial Governor of Imperial Russia
January 28 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-born French composer
January 30 – Frederick Blackman, British plant physiologist

February

February 3 – Petar Živković, Yugoslav politician, 11th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
February 6
* O. Max Gardner, Governor of North Carolina
* Luigi Russolo, Italian Futurist painter, composer
February 11
* Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler
* Ernest Terah Hooley, English fraudster
February 12
* Kurt Lewin, German-born American psychologist
* Sidney Toler, American actor
February 14 – Celestina Boninsegna, Italian soprano
February 15 – Mustafa Abdel-Razek, Egyptian Islamic philosopher
February 16
* Pedro de Répide Gallegos, Spanish journalist, writer
* Bertha Schwarz, German soprano
February 18
* Valentina Dmitryeva, Soviet writer, teacher and doctor
* Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt
February 19 – James W. Bagley, American aerial photographer, topographic engineer and inventor
February 20
* Henry Herbert, British actor
* Viktor Gutić, Croatian fascist official
February 23 – Hakim Habibur Rahman, Indian physician, writer, journalist and politician
February 24
* Morinosuke Chiwaki, Japanese dentist
* Pierre Janet, French psychologist
February 26
* Antonino D'Agata, Italian politician
* Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, president of the Federal Council
* Ben Webster, British-born American actor
February 27 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor

March

March 2 – Whately Carington, British parapsychologist
March 5 – Alfredo Casella, Italian composer
March 9
* Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffrage leader
* Jhaverchand Meghani, Indian poet, writer
* Evripidis Bakirtzis, Hellenic Army officer and Greek politician
March 11
*Victor Lustig, Austrian-born con artist
*Wilhelm Heye, German general
March 12 – Walter Samuel Goodland, Governor of Wisconsin
March 15
* Jean-Richard Bloch, French critic, novelist and playwright
March 17 – Taixu, Chinese Buddhist activist
March 18 – William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer
March 19
* James A. Gilmore, American businessman and baseball executive
* Prudence Heward, Canadian painter
March 20 – Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist
March 21 – Homer Lusk Collyer, American hermit brother
March 23
* Archduchess Louise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany
* Ferdinand Zecca, French actor, producer, director and screenwriter
March 25 – Chen Cheng-po, Taiwanese painter
March 28
* Johnny Evers, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Fame member
* Karol Świerczewski, Polish military leader
March 29 – Manuel de Adalid y Gamero, Honduran composer

April

April 1 – King George II of Greece
April 5 – Petro Trad, Lebanese lawyer, politician, 14th Prime Minister of Lebanon and 5th President of Lebanon
April 7
* Henry Ford, American industrialist, automobile manufacturer
* Savvas the New of Kalymnos, Greek Orthodox priest and saint
April 8 – Langley Collyer, American hermit brother
April 9 – William Foden, American composer
April 10
* Charles Bally, Swiss linguist
* John Ince, American actor
April 12 – Duke Robert of Württemberg
April 14 – Ayoub Tabet, 6th Prime Minister of Lebanon
April 15 – Georg Friederici, German ethnologist
April 16
* Guido Donegani, Italian engineer, businessman and politician
* Rudolf Höss, German commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp
April 17 – Izso Glickstein, American musician
April 18 – Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician, Roman Catholic priest, 1st Prime Minister of Slovakia and President of Slovakia
April 20
*King Christian X of Denmark
* Louis R. de Steiguer, American admiral
April 21 – Heitor da Silva Costa, Brazilian engineer, designer and constructor
April 23 – Gyula Károlyi, Hungarian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Hungary
April 24 – Willa Cather, American novelist
April 25
* José María Reina Andrade, acting president of Guatemala
* Ana Cumpănaș, Austro-Hungarian prostitute
April 26 – Francesco Paolo Finocchiaro, Italian painter
April 29
*Gheorghie Ciuhandu, Romanian Orthodox priest, theologian, historian and advocate
* Irving Fisher, American economist
April 30
* Francesc Cambó, Andorran politician
* Sir Almroth Wright, British bacteriologist and immunologist

May

May 8 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate
May 11 – Frederic Goudy, American printer, artist and type designer
May 13 – Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet
May 15 – Miguel Abadía Méndez, Colombian politician, 12th President of Colombia
May 16
* Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, British biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Kalle Hakala, Finnish politician
* Michael Joseph Curley, American Roman Catholic bishop and reverend
* Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general of the National Revolutionary Army
May 17
* George Forbes, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
* Seabiscuit, thoroughbred racehorse
May 18 – Lucile Gleason, American actress
May 20 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
May 23 – Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss writer
May 28 – August Eigruber, Nazi war criminal
May 30 – Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Austrian sailor, patriarch of the Von Trapp Family of The Sound of Music fame
May 31 – Adrienne Ames, American actress

June

June 6
* S. H. Dudley, American urban singer
* Władysław Raczkiewicz, Polish politician, lawyer, diplomat and 5th President of Poland
* José Marques da Silva, Portuguese architect
June 9
* Augusto Giacometti, Italian painter
* J. Warren Kerrigan, American actor
June 11 – Richard Hönigswald, Hungarian-born American philosopher
June 14 – Albert Marquet, French painter
June 17 – Maxwell Perkins, American literary editor
June 18
*Alfred Allen, American actor
* Richard Cooper, British actor
* Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese rear admiral, convicted war criminal
*John Henry Patteron, Anglo-Irish soldier, hunter and author
June 19 – Kōsō Abe, Japanese admiral, convicted war criminal
June 20 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster
June 24 – Bartolome Pagano, Italian actor
June 26 – R. B. Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada
June 28 – Franciszek Mączyński, Polish architect

July

July 7 – José Luis Tamayo, 20th President of Ecuador
July 12 – Jimmie Lunceford, American jazz musician
July 13 – George Francis Davis, New Zealand born Australian industrialist
July 15
* Brandon Hurst, American stage, screen veteran
* Henry Kolker, American actor
July 17
* Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat, humanitarian
* Prince Sisowath Youtevong, 4th Prime Minister of Cambodia
July 18 – Fumio Hayashi, Japanese physician
July 19 – Aung San, Burmese nationalist
July 21 – Patriarch Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas
July 23
* Alice Fischer, American actress
* Ángel Roffo, Argentine doctor
July 26 – Archbishop Leontios of Cyprus
July 29
* Leo Stein, American art collector, critic
* George Bausewine, American baseball player, umpire
July 30
* Sir Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia
* Fedir Krychevsky, Ukrainian painter

August

August – Teresa Magbanua, Filipino general
August 3
* José Pardo y Barreda, Peruvian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Peru and 2-time President of Peru
* Vic Willis, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Fame member
August 7 – Anton Denikin, Russian military leader
August 9 – Carlo Romanelli, Italian sculptor
August 10 – Antonio Sciortino, Maltese sculptor
August 15 – Claudio Granzotto, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed
August 17 – Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
August 21 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian car designer, founder of Bugatti
August 23 – Hasmik, Soviet actress
August 29
* Manolete, Spanish bullfighter
* Kōtarō Nakamura, Imperial Japanese Army general

September

September 1 – Frederick Russell Burnham, American Scout, father of the international Scouting movement
September 8 – Victor Horta, Belgian Art Nouveau architect
September 9
* Ananda Coomaraswamy, Ceylonese-born American philosopher
* Mary Willie Arvin, American nurse
September 10 – Hatazō Adachi, Japanese general
September 11
*Robert Lee Bullard, American general
*Alice Keppel, mistress of Edward VII
September 20
*Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mayor of New York
*Jantina Tammes, Dutch plant biologist
September 21
* Harry Carey, American film actor
* Vasily Glagolev, Soviet general
September 26 – Hugh Lofting, British-born writer
September 27 – Luigi Barlassina, Patriarch of Jerusalem

October

October 1
* Olive Borden, American actress
* Gregorio Martinez Sierra, Spanish writer, poet, dramatist and director
October 2 – P. D. Ouspensky, Soviet mathematician
October 3
* Ernest L. Riebau, American politician
* Traian Brăileanu, Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian sociologist and politician
October 4 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 6 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer
October 7 – Arshak Fetvadjian, Armenian artist, painter and designer
October 10 – Jo Mora, Uruguayan-born American cartoonist
October 12
* James Farley, American actor
* Sir Ian Hamilton, British general
October 13 – Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, British economist, social reformer
October 15 – Osmond Brock, British Royal Navy officer
October 16 – Anna B. Eckstein, German peace campaigner
October 17 – John Halliday, American actor
October 18
* Harry C. Bradley, American actor
* Massimo Terzano, Italian cinematographer
* Gay Gibson, British actress and murder victim
October 20 – Sir Albert Howard, English botanist and organic farming pioneer
October 23
* Carl Shelton, American gangster
* Martin Fiebig, German Luftwaffe general convicted of war crimes
October 24 – Dudley Digges, Irish actor
October 27 – María Teresalina Sánchez, Spanish Franciscan religious sister, missionary and martyr
October 29 – Frances Cleveland, First Lady of the United States
October 30 – John Joseph Cantwell, Irish-born American prelate of the Catholic Church

November

November 1 – Óscar Castro Zúñiga, Chilean writer and poet
November 3
* John Gilbert Winant, American diplomat and politician
* A. C. Cuza, Romanian politician and economist
November 7
* Sándor Garbai, Prime Minister of Hungary
* William Ernest Cooke, Australian astronomer
November 8
* Mariano Benlliure, Spanish sculptor
* Constantin Sănătescu, Romanian general, statesman and 44th Prime Minister of Romania
November 10
* Louis Collard, Belgian fascist politician and Nazi collaborator
*Victor Matthys, Belgian fascist politician and Nazi collaborator
November 14 – Verena Conzett, Swiss magazine publisher and labor and women's rights activist
November 15 – Eduard Ritter von Schleich, German fighter ace, air force general
November 16 – Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman, politician
November 17 – Josaphat Kotsylovsky, Ukrainian Roman Catholic bishop, martyr and blessed
November 20
* Georg Kolbe, German sculptor
* Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright
November 26 – Ernie Adams, American actor
November 28
* W. E. Lawrence, American actor
* Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general
November 30 – Ernst Lubitsch, German film director

December

December 1
* Aleister Crowley, British occultist
* G. H. Hardy, British mathematician
* Sir John Fraser, 1st Baronet, of Tain, British surgeon and professor
December 2 – Franz Xaver Schwarz, German Nazi politician
December 3 – Heinrich Hetsch, German physician, microbiologist
December 4
* Margaret Butler, New Zealand sculptor
* Walter Walker, American actor
December 6 – Tadashige Daigo, Japanese admiral
December 7
* Tristan Bernard, French writer, lawyer
* Nicholas Murray Butler, American president of Columbia University, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
* Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft, British politician
December 9 – John Kelly, American actor
December 10 – Pierre Petit de Julleville, French Roman Catholic priest, bishop and eminence
December 12 – Huda Sha'arawi, Egyptian feminist
December 13
* Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter
* Juan Bautista Vargas Arreola, Mexican general during Mexican Revolution
December 14
* Stanley Baldwin, British Conservative politician, 3-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army
December 15 – Arthur Machen, British writer
December 16 – Walter Dew, British Metropolitan Police officer
December 17
* Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish chemist
* Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer
* Bernard Spilsbury, British pathologist
December 20
* Benigno Aquino Sr., Filipino politician
* Luigi Chiarelli, Italian playwright
December 23 – Ziauddin Ahmad, Indian educationalist and politician
December 25 – Gaspar G. Bacon, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
December 27 – Johannes Winkler, German rocket pioneer
December 28 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
December 30
* Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, forger
* Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician, philosopher
December 31 – Louise Beaudet, Canadian actress, singer and dancer

Date unknown

Ayoub Tabet, 6th Prime Minister of Lebanon
Mariette Leslie Cotton, American artist
Gustaf Erikson, Finnish shipowner
Mari Gerekmezyan, one of Turkey's first female sculptors and the first female Armenian sculptor

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Edward Victor Appleton
Chemistry – Sir Robert Robinson
Medicine – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay
Literature – André Gide
Peace – The Friends Service Council and The American Friends Service Committee, on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends