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Calendar overview 1908
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 4th modern Olympic Games are taking place in London . |
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| 1908 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1356/57 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1900/01 (September 10-11) |
| Baha'i calendar | 64/65 (March 20/21) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1313/14 (beginning of April 14th or 15th) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2451/52 (southern Buddhism); 2450/51 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 76th (77th) cycle
Year of the Earth Monkey戊申 ( from February 2nd , before that Fire Sheep丁未) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1270/71 (turn of the year April) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 4241/42 (October 2/3) |
| Iranian calendar | 1286/87 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 1325/26 (February 3-4) |
| Japanese calendar |
Meiji 41 (
明治 41 年 ); Kōki 2568 |
| Jewish calendar | 5668/69 (September 25-26) |
| Coptic calendar | 1624/25 (10/11 September) |
| Malayalam calendar | 1083/84 |
| Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire) | 1323/24 (March 1st) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 2218/19 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 2219/20 (turn of the year October) |
| Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar) | 2450/51 (April 1) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1964/65 (April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Empire of China
- Dec. 2 : The two-year Puyi is in Beijing for Chinese emperors crowned.
Europe
- January 1st : Ernst Brenner becomes President of Switzerland again .
- February 1 : The Portuguese King Charles I and his son, Crown Prince Ludwig Philipp , are shot in Lisbon . Ludwig Philip's younger brother Manuel II becomes the new king .
- March: Tweedmouth affair
- April 4 : The Finnish state parliament is dissolved by the Russian Tsar Nicholas II with immediate effect because of "anti-state sentiments" .
- July 24th : Under pressure from the Young Turks , the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II puts the liberal Ottoman constitution of 1876 back into force.
- May 31 : State elections: With 99 seats, the center remains the strongest party in Bavaria .
- June 21 : The Women's Sunday , organized by the Women's Social and Political Union , takes place in London's Hyde Park , and around 500,000 people take part.
- July 2 : There are no major changes in the distribution of power in the Finnish parliamentary elections .
- July 5th : A popular initiative to ban absinthe is adopted in Switzerland .
- October 5 : Bosnian annexation crisis : Austria-Hungary proclaims the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina , which leads to a European crisis.
- October 5th : Ferdinand of Bulgaria proclaims the tsarism of Bulgaria independent of the Ottoman Empire and appoints himself tsar .
- October 28 : An interview by British General Edward Montagu-Stuart-Wortley with Kaiser Wilhelm II triggers the Daily Telegraph affair .
- Mainz exceeds the 100,000-inhabitant limit and becomes a big city .
Africa
- November 15 : Leopold II , the King of the Belgians , sells his private property Congo Free State to the Belgian state after international pressure as a result of the Congo horrors , which converts it into the Belgian Congo colony .
America
- July 26 : United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte establishes the Bureau of Investigation , from which the FBI will emerge.
- November 3 : Republican William Howard Taft , supported by incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt , wins the 1908 presidential election in the United States against Democrat William Jennings Bryan , who loses his third presidential election.
economy
- January 1 : The economic equalization between Austria and Hungary comes into force.
- January 1st : The law on number plates for bicycles comes into force in France .
- 14 May : The Franco-British Exhibition opens in London to consolidate the entente cordiale between Great Britain and France agreed four years earlier . The international exhibition will be visited by more than 8 million people until it closes on October 31 .
- May 26 : In Masjed Soleyman in Iran , one of the largest oil fields in the world is discovered in a 360-meter bore by Buremah Oil. A little later the Anglo-Persian Oil Company is founded.
- May 30th : An insurance contract law is passed in Germany .
Trademarks and patents
- March 13 : The Steiff Original brand for toys made of felt and similar materials is registered.
- March 14 : The Eternit brand for asbestos-containing building materials is registered.
- March 24th : Prince Heinrich of Prussia , the brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II , receives a German patent for his invented hand-operated windshield wiper for the front car windows . However, his invention is not widely used.
- June 5 : The Maizena brand for starch is entered in the German trademark register.
- June 17 : The American inventor Frank W. Wood applies for patent protection for an electric segment display .
- June 20 : Melitta Bentz receives utility model protection for its coffee filter system from the German imperial patent office .
- October 5 : The brand name " KEMPINSKI " is initially registered for delicatessen products.
- October 13 : Chemistry professor Fritz Haber applies for a patent for his developed process for the synthetic preparation of ammonia from the elements , which he leaves to BASF for commercial use shortly afterwards . After the discovery of the Haber-Bosch process, it leads to the production of artificial fertilizers .
- November 28 : The KAFFEE HAG brand is entered in the German trademark register.
- The company Maggi brings the stock cube onto the market.
- Toblerone is invented.
Business start-ups
- June 20 : The Imperial Patent Office grants Melitta Bentz utility model protection for her invention of a coffee filter system . A global company, the Melitta Group, emerged from their idea of the "one-woman business" .
- September 16 : The automobile company General Motors is founded by William Durant as a holding company for Buick and shortly thereafter takes over Oldsmobile .
- September 27 : The first Ford Model T is completed in Detroit .
- December 15 : Melitta Bentz and her husband Hugo found the company Melitta , which aims to economically utilize the filter bag , which is protected as a utility model for the inventor .
traffic
- June 29th : The Kohlerer Bahn , an aerial cableway that connects Bozen with Kohlern , is opened.
- July 27 : The newly built Wetterhorn elevator , a combination of a lift and an aerial tramway with two suspension cables, opens on the Wetterhorn near Grindelwald in Switzerland .
science and technology
Aviation
- January 13 : The French Henri Farman succeeds in his first powered flight over a distance of more than one kilometer with his Voisin biplane . He received the Grand Prix d'Aviation for this .
- October 28 : First powered flight in Germany by Hans Grade in Magdeburg
- December 31 : The American Wilbur Wright covers 124.7 km in just under 2 1/2 hours in an airplane in Le Mans (France), which is a new world record.
Natural sciences
- January 27th : Another moon of Jupiter , later called Pasiphae , is discovered by the astronomer Philibert Jacques Melotte .
- July 10th : The Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes succeeds for the first time in liquefying the gas helium ( boiling point 4.2 K = −269 ° C).
- September 2nd : Comet C / 1908 R1 (Morehouse) is discovered.
- September 21 : The mathematician Hermann Minkowski gives a sensational lecture on space and time in Cologne . The space-time wins contours .
- Ernest Rutherford and Hans Geiger develop the first ionization detector .
- Charles H. Sternberg and his sons find and recover the Trachodon mummy in Wyoming .
Technical achievements
- January 13th : For the first time, a new wireless telegraphic connection is used between Paris and Casablanca .
- March 17 : First arrest of an offender by telegraphy : a French jewel thief in England nailed down after the Daily Mirror , a mug shot has printed.
- The Singer Building in Manhattan is completed after a two-year construction period . For almost a year it is the tallest building in the world.
Teaching and Research
- July 30th : On the occasion of its 350th anniversary, the zoologist and free thinker Ernst Haeckel donates the Phyletic Museum he founded to the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .
- The University of British Columbia is founded.
- The Harvard Business School goes into operation.
- The Coker College is founded.
Others
- January 1st : Beginning of the Nimrod expedition led by Ernest Shackleton
- June 29th : The first cable car in the world approved for passenger traffic , which connects Bolzano with the Kohlererberg, goes into operation.
- August 4 : The first test run of the Signal Corps Airship No. 1 in Fort Myer, VA, takes 7 minutes.
- August 7th : During the construction of the Danube riverbank in Willendorf (Lower Austria), the limestone figure Venus von Willendorf is excavated. The statuette is dated to around 25,000 BC. Dated to the Upper Paleolithic .
- September 1st : opening of the Hejaz Railway from Damascus to Medina
Culture
Visual arts
Abbott Handerson Thayer : Girl in Fur Hood (Head of a Woman with Fur-Lined hood)
Amedeo Modigliani : The Jewess
Claude Monet : Palazzo da Mula, Venice
Gustav Klimt : The Kiss , oil on canvas
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- The New York artist group Ashcan School is founded.
- The Austrian architect Adolf Loos publishes his essay Ornament und Verbrechen , in which a clear call for the end of Art Nouveau is expressed
- Róbert Berény , Dezső Czigány , Béla Czóbel , Károly Kernstok , Ödön Márffy , Dezső Orbán , Bertalan Pór and Lajos Tihanyi found the Hungarian avant-garde artist group Nyolcak ( The Eight ).
Movie
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- August 17th : The first well-known animated film Fantasmagorie , created by Émile Cohl , premieres at the Théatre du Gymnase in Paris.
- November 17th : The French silent film The Assassination of the Duke of Guise premieres. It is regarded as a milestone in film history because it becomes clear that a film makes new demands on staging and acting and because it is the first film to feature original music.
- Early silent film First attempts by a skater by Max Linder , France
- Monumental film The last days of Pompeii by Luigi Maggi and Arturo Ambrosio , Italy
literature
- Lucy Maud Montgomery's first novel Anne of Green Gables is published. Due to the great success of the children's book, the Canadian will soon be writing several sequels.
- Novel The Assistant by Robert Walser in Berlin
- Psychological novel The story of the seven hanged men by Leonid Andrejew in Berlin
- Satire Prinz Kuckuck by Otto Julius Bierbaum in Munich
- Utopian agent novel The Man Who Was Thursday by Gilbert Keith Chesterton in London
- Future Vision The Penguin Island by Anatole France in Paris
- Fiction-like history presentation The Long Journey by Johannes Vilhelm Jensen in Copenhagen
- Artist novel The way into the open by Arthur Schnitzler in Berlin
- Psychogram Caspar Hauser by Jakob Wassermann in Berlin
Music and theater
- January 1 : The new conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York is the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler .
- January 2nd : World premiere of the opera Ein Wintermärchen by Karl Goldmark in Vienna
- 11 January : Premiere of the so-called custom painting music by Frank Wedekind in Nuremberg
- January 13th : World premiere of the Tyrolean farmer drama Earth by Karl Schönherr in Düsseldorf
- January 21 : The world premiere of the operetta The Man with the Three Women by Franz Lehár takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna .
- January 21 : The world premiere of the chamber play Die Gespenstersonata by August Strindberg based on the sonata of the same name by Ludwig van Beethoven takes place. The premiere flopped, the play only became a success four years after the poet's death.
- January 25th : The opera Leyli va Majnun by the Azerbaijani composer Üzeyir Hacıbəyov is premiered at the Baku Haji Zeynalabdin Tagiyev Theater. It is based on Fuzūlī's version of the popular love story Leila and Majnun .
- March 5th : premiere of the orchestral piece Rhapsodie espagnole by Maurice Ravel in Paris
- September 19 : Premiere of Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony in Prague
- September 30th : Symbolic drama The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck in Moscow
- October 30 : At the height of the Viennese operetta , the Johann Strauss Theater opens in Vienna with an adaptation of the operetta Indigo and the 40 robbers by Johann Strauss (son) .
- November 4th : Premiere of the opera Sealed by Leo Blech in Hamburg
- November 7th : premiere of the operetta The Funny Wives by Robert Stolz in Brno
- November 13th : The operetta Bub oder Mädel by Bruno Granichstaedten with the libretto by Felix Dörmann and Adolf Altmann is premiered at the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna.
- November 14th : Premiere of the operetta The Brave Soldier by Oscar Straus at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna
- November 20th : World premiere of the satirical stage play Moral by Ludwig Thoma in Berlin
- December 10 : World premiere of the tone poem Le Poème de l'Extase by Alexander Scriabin in New York City
- December 23 : premiere of the operetta The Divorced Woman by Leo Fall at the Carl-Theater in Vienna
Others
- January 2 : John D. Rockefeller donates approximately USD 2.2 million to the University of Chicago , which he founded .
- March 9th : The Olympia carnival society is founded in Basel .
- April 28 : In Switzerland is Esperanto -Weltbund founded the Universal Esperanto Association .
- June 4th : The Laeiszhalle , a concert hall, is inaugurated in Hamburg .
- The post card is introduced.
society
- July 8th : The French sculptor Thérèse Peltier is the first woman to fly in an airplane in Turin .
Voigt leaves the Tegel prison
- August 16 : Wilhelm Voigt, known as " Captain von Köpenick ", is released from prison after being pardoned by Kaiser Wilhelm II .
religion
- May 27th : Nuur ud-Din is elected first Khalifat ul-Massih , the spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community . The religious community sees itself as the successor to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , the founder of the Ahmadiyya who died the day before .
- June 29th : With the Apostolic Constitution Sapienti consilio , Pope Pius X restructures the Roman Curia . Among other things, the Holy Congregation for the Order of the Sacraments is established.
- July 6. - 5. August : Fifth Lambeth Conference of Anglican Church
- November 8th : Beatification of Christina von Stommeln
Disasters
- April 30th : Sinking of the small cruiser Matsushima after an ammunition explosion near Makung ( Pescadores Islands ). 206 of the 347 crew are killed.
- June 30th : The Tunguska event happens in Siberia .
- August 5th : The airship LZ 4 had an accident in Echterdingen near Stuttgart.
- September 19 : Huddinge railway accident
- September 20 : The Bark Star of Bengal crashes on Prince of Wales Island on the Alaska coast. 110 passengers and crew members die.
- November 12 : A firedamp explosion occurs in the Radbod colliery in Bockum-Hövel in the Münsterland region (today the city of Hamm) ; 348 miners die. As a result, the mining supervision in the Ruhr area is strengthened and basic research (outgassing behavior of coal, weather management) is intensified in the area of safety requirements. After this accident, electric pit and helmet lamps were compulsory for mining (see 1908 mine accident at the Radbod colliery ).
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- December 28 : The southern Italian cities of Messina in Sicily and Reggio Calabria are destroyed by a severe earthquake and over 70,000 people die (see Messina earthquake in 1908 ).
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
nature and environment
- January 3 : The area of the Kaziranga National Park in India is placed under protection.
- January 9 : US President Theodore Roosevelt founds the Muir Woods National Monument in California.
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- January 11th : Theodore Roosevelt, who has visited the area many times himself, founds the Grand Canyon National Monument in the Arizona Territory .
- January 16 : Theodore Roosevelt founds the Pinnacles National Monument .
- April 16 : The US state of Utah is Natural Bridges National Monument , a National Wildlife Refuge within the United States , built.
- June 13 : In Oregon is in the Blue Mountains the Malheur National Forest opened. With an approximately 2,400-year-old honey fungus, it is home to what is probably the largest living being on earth.
Sports
- January 15th : The AS Bari sports club is founded.
- 3rd February Foundation of the traditional Greek association Panathinaikos Athens
- February 12th The longest car race in the world starts: New York - Moscow - Paris .
- March 8 : The traditional Italian football club Inter Milan is founded.
- April 5th : First international match of the German national soccer team
- April 15th : The traditional Flensburg 08 football club from Flensburg is founded.
- April 27th : Summer Olympic Games in London
- May 15 : Foundation of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF)
- May 27 : The Belgian sports club RSC Anderlecht is established in a suburb of Brussels.
- June 15 : The Saarland soccer club FC 08 Homburg is founded.
- July 19 : Young people found the Dutch football club Feyenoord Rotterdam .
- July 19 : The international swimming federation Fédération Internationale de Natation Amateur (FINA) is founded in London by eight national federations .
- October 28 : The Swedish sports club Örebro SK is founded.
- December 8th : The ice hockey association Koninklijke Belgische IJshockey Federatie is created in Belgium .
- December 11th : The Swedish Ski Association is launched.
- Founding of the Dortmund association Arminia Marten
For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .
Nobel Prizes
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| Nobel Price for physics |
Gabriel Lippmann (1845-1921) |
 France (born in Hollerich , Luxembourg )
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"For his method of reproducing colors photographically based on the interference phenomenon " |
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| Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) |
 United Kingdom / New Zealand (born in Nelson , New Zealand )
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"For his investigations into the decay of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances" |
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| Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Ilya Ilyich Metschnikow (1845–1916) |
 Russia
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"In recognition of their work on immunity" |
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Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915) |
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| Nobel Prize in literature |
Rudolf Eucken (1846–1926) |
German Empire (born in Aurich , Kingdom of Hanover , German Confederation )
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"On the basis of the serious search for truth, the penetrating power of thought and the foresight, the warmth and power of representation, with which he represented and developed an ideal worldview in numerous works" |
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| Nobel Peace Prize |
Klas Pontus Arnoldson (1844-1916) |
 Sweden
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Founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League |
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Fredrik Bajer (1837-1922) |
 Denmark
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Honorary President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau |
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Historical views and maps
New year postcard 1908
Map of Colombia 1908
Map of New Orleans 1908
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Born
January
- January 4 : Geli Raubal , niece of Adolf Hitler († 1931 )
- January 6 : Menachem Avidom , Israeli composer († 1995 )
- January 6 : Michael DiSalle , American politician († 1981 )
- January 7th : Heinz Kiekebusch , German politician († 1971 )
- January 8th : Hubertäböck , German boxer
- January 9 : John Stuart Anderson , British chemist († 1990 )
- January 9 : Simone de Beauvoir , French writer, philosopher and feminist († 1986 )
- January 9 : Willi Walter Puls , German geographer and educator († 1980 )
- January 10 : Peter Fihn , German composer and conductor († 1998 )
- January 10 : Paul Henreid , Austrian-American actor and director († 1992 )
- January 10 : Bernard Lee , British actor († 1981 )
- January 10 : Sam Waagenaar , Dutch photographer and author († 1997 )
- January 11 : Dmitri Blochinzew , Soviet-Russian physicist († 1979 )
- January 12 : Gert Adriani , German art historian († 1989 )
- January 13 : Enrico Paoli , Italian chess player († 2005 )
- January 15 : Edward Teller , American physicist († 2003 )
- January 16 : Ethel Merman , American actress and singer († 1984 )
- January 16 : Günther Prien , German naval officer († 1941 )
- January 17 : Heinz Marten , German oratorio tenor and lieder singer († 1991 )
- January 18 : Stanisław Stomma , Polish publicist and politician († 2005 )
- January 19 : Alfons Abel , German academic glass painter († 1994 )
- January 20 : Isadore Nathaniel Parker , American jazz trumpeter († 2011 )
- January 21 : Bengt Strömgren , Danish astronomer and astrophysicist († 1987 )
- January 21 : Raymond Gary , American politician († 1993 )
- January 22nd : Hammie Nixon , American blues musician († 1984 )
- January 22nd : Lev Dawidowitsch Landau , Russian physicist († 1968 )
- January 22 : Gerhardt Preuschen , German agricultural scientist († 2004 )
- January 25 : Anton Stingl , German guitar interpreter and teacher († 2000 )
- January 26th : Gideon Ståhlberg , Swedish chess player († 1967 )
- January 26 : Rupprecht Geiger , German painter († 2009 )
- January 26 : Stéphane Grappelli , French jazz violinist († 1997 )
- January 27 : Hot Lips Page , American jazz musician († 1954 )
- January 27 : Trude Eipperle , German soprano († 1997 )
- January 29 : Grete Heublein , German athlete and Olympian († 1997 )
- January 29 : Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg , German artist and designer († 1998 )
- January 30 : Otto Heinrich Greve , German politician († 1968 )
- January 31 : Bill Cantrell , American racing driver († 1996 )
- January 31 : Atahualpa Yupanqui , Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist and writer († 1992 )
February
- February 1 : Cardinal Paolo Bertoli , Italian Cardinal Curia († 2001 )
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- February 1 : George Pal , Hungarian film producer and director († 1980 )
- February 2 : Pavel Šivic , Slovenian composer († 1995 )
- February 4 : Willem Karel Hendrik Karstens , Dutch botanist († 1989 )
- February 5 : Ugo Costanzo Gregorio Amadoro , Italian film director, assistant director and animation filmmaker († unknown)
- February 6 : Amintore Fanfani , Italian politician and Prime Minister († 1999 )
- February 6 : Richard Fritz Behrendt , German sociologist († 1972 )
- February 8 : Albert Lautman , French mathematician and philosopher († 1944 )
- February 8 : Antonio Machín , Cuban singer († 1977 )
- February 8 : Emil Staiger , Professor of German Studies at the University of Zurich († 1987 )
- February 10 : Jean Coulthard , Canadian composer and music teacher († 2000 )
- February 10 : Alexandre Mnouchkine , Russian-French film producer († 1993 )
- February 10 : Charles Plantivaux , French racing driver († 1993 )
- February 11 : Wuert Engelmann , American football player († 1979 )
- February 11 : Vivian Fuchs , British geologist and polar explorer († 1999 )
- February 12 : Jean Effel , French illustrator († 1982 )
- February 12 : Jacques Herbrand , French logician († 1931 )
- February 12 : Olga Benario-Prestes , German-Brazilian resistance fighter († 1942 )
- February 13 : Kurt Seibt , Chairman of the Central Revision Commission of the SED († 2002 )
- February 13 : Gerald Strang , American composer († 1983 )
- February 13 : Malvin Russell Goode , first African American television journalist and news correspondent for the American Broadcasting Company († 1995 )
- February 17th : Georges Dancigers , Russian-French film producer († 1993 )
- February 17th : Bo Yibo , Chinese politician († 2007 )
- February 18 : Hans Kahrmann , German motorcycle racer († 1973 )
- February 18 : Marga Legal , German actress († 2001 )
- February 19 : Walter Bitterlich , Austrian forest scientist († 2008 )
- February 19 : Rudi Opitz , German lithographer and photographer, Nazi victim († 1939 )
- February 20 : Alexander Elbrächter , German politician († 1995 )
- February 20 : Heino Gaze , German composer and lyricist († 1967 )
- February 20 : Jean-Marie Beaudet , Canadian conductor, pianist and organist († 1971 )
- February 21 : Hans Ertl , mountaineer, cameraman, war correspondent, director († 2000 )
- February 22nd : John Mills , English actor († 2005 )
- February 22nd : Paul Sixt , German Kapellmeister († 1964 )
- February 22 : Rómulo Betancourt , Venezuelan President († 1981 )
- February 23 : William McMahon , Australian politician and Prime Minister († 1988 )
- February 26 : Jean-Pierre Wimille , French racing car driver († 1949 )
- February 26 : Tex Avery , animated film director and illustrator († 1980 )
- February 26 : Néstor Mesta Chayres , Mexican singer († 1971 )
- February 28 : Alexander Golitzen , American Art Director († 2005 )
- February 28 : Albert Scherrer , Swiss racing driver († 1986 )
- February 29 : Balthus , Polish-French painter († 2001 )
- February 29 : Dee Brown , American writer and historian († 2002 )
- February: Majid Taufiq Arslan , Lebanese Druze leader († 1983 )
March
- March 1 : Kikuta Kazuo , Japanese playwright and actor († 1973 )
- March 2 : Walter Bruch , pioneer of German television († 1990 )
- March 2 : Olivia Manning , English writer († 1980 )
- March 2 : Willi Steinhörster , German politician († 1978 )
- March 3rd : Yvonne Godard , French swimmer († 1975 )
- March 5 : Fritz Fischer , German historian († 1999 )
- March 5 : Ludwig Goldbrunner , German football player († 1981 )
- March 5 : Rex Harrison , British actor († 1990 )
- March 5 : Mario Heil de Brentani , German-Canadian writer and magazine editor († 1982 )
- March 6 : Ollie Sansen , American football player († 1987 )
- March 7th : Josef Garovi , Swiss composer († 1985 )
- March 7th : Anna Magnani , Italian actress († 1973 )
- March 9 : Sep Ruf , German architect († 1982 )
- March 11 : John Einar Åberg , Swedish writer and screenwriter († 1999 )
- March 11th : Hansjörg Oeschger , German forester and activist of the youth movement († 1998 )
- March 12 : Reinhold Cassirer , German-South African gallery owner († 2001 )
- March 12 : Nicholas Kaldor , Hungarian economist († 1986 )
- March 12th : Kurt Stöpel , German cyclist († 1997 )
- March 13 : Walter Annenberg , American diplomat, publisher and art patron († 2002 )
- March 14th : Maurice Merleau-Ponty , French philosopher († 1961 )
- March 14th : Elvira Osirnig , Swiss ski racer († 2000 )
- March 14 : Nikolai Petrovich Rakow , Russian composer († 1990 )
- March 14 : Gustav Zahnke , German locksmith and resistance fighter († 1930 )
- March 15 : Teodoro Fuchs , Argentine conductor and music teacher († 1969 )
- March 15 : Thure von Uexküll , founder of psychosomatic medicine († 2004 )
- March 16 : René Daumal , French writer († 1944 )
- March 16 : Robert Rossen , American screenwriter, film director and producer († 1966 )
- March 17th : Józef Ciechan , Polish sculptor († 1989 )
- March 18 : Gabriel Ruiz , Mexican composer († 1999 )
- March 19 : Marc Augier , French writer, adventurer and alpinist († 1990 )
- March 19 : Otto Henze , German forester and ornithologist († 1991 )
- March 20 : Kermit Murdock , American actor († 1981 )
- March 20 : Michael Redgrave , British actor († 1985 )
- March 22nd : Jack Crawford , Australian tennis player († 1991 )
- March 22 : Friedrich Aichberger , German lawyer († 1992 )
- March 22nd : Albrecht Goes , German writer and Protestant theologian († 2000 )
- March 22 : Maurice Stans , American politician († 1998 )
- March 23 : Archip Mikhailovich Lyulka , Soviet jet engine designer († 1984 )
- March 24 : Birgit Åkesson , Swedish dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and dance researcher († 2001 )
- March 24th : Ferdinand Metzenauer , German chess composer († 1968 )
- March 25 : Helmut Käutner , German film director and actor († 1980 )
- March 25 : David Lean , British film director († 1991 )
- March 26 : Samuel Bronston , Bessarabian-American film producer († 1994 )
- March 26th : Hilde Sperling , German tennis player († 1981 )
- March 26 : Franz Stangl , Austrian National Socialist († 1971 )
- March 28 : Grégoire Aslan , Armenian actor († 1982 )
- March 28 : Max von Arco-Zinneberg , German automobile racing driver († 1937 )
- March 29 : Ernő Grünbaum , Transylvanian Expressionist and Cubist painter († 1944 or 1945 )
- March 29 : Sigfried Uiberreither , German National Socialist and war criminal († 1984 )
- March 29 : Egon Wagenknecht , German forest and hunting scientist († 2005 )
- March 30 : Leo Hoegh , American politician († 2000 )
- March 31 : Ferry Dusika , Austrian cyclist († 1984 )
April
- April 1 : Abraham Maslow , American psychologist († 1970 )
- April 1 : Harald Bergström , Swedish mathematician († 2001 )
- April 3 : Anna Sipos , Hungarian table tennis player († 1988 )
- April 3 : Bruno Lüdke , German serial killer († 1944 )
- April 4 : Willi Kürten , German hurdler († 1944 )
- April 5 : Bette Davis , American actress († 1989 )
- April 5 : Helmut Koch , German conductor and choir director († 1975 )
- April 5 : Herbert von Karajan , Austrian conductor († 1989 )
- April 5 : Ämilian Zotz , Austrian stucco artist († 1984 )
- April 6 : Heinrich Körner , German sculptor and medalist († 1993 )
- April 7th : Günther Groenhoff , German gliding pioneer († 1932 )
- April 7 : Percy Faith , American orchestra conductor († 1976 )
- April 8 : Hugo Fregonese , director of Argentinian origin († 1987 )
- April 8 : Gottfried von Freiberg , Austrian horn player († 1962 )
- April 8 : Tommy McClennan , American blues musician († 1962 )
- April 8 : Heinz Schubert , German composer († 1945 )
- April 10 : Bernard Piché , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher († 1989 )
- April 11 : Georg Brauer , German chemist († 2001 )
- April 11 : Josef Hermann Dufhues , German politician († 1971 )
- April 11 : Karel Ančerl , Czech conductor († 1973 )
- April 11 : Robert O'Brien , American racing car driver († 1987 )
- April 11 : Wang Zhen , Chinese politician († 1993 )
- April 13 : Clemens Hasse , German actor († 1959 )
- April 13 : Bob Nolan , Canadian country singer, founding member of the Sons Of The Pioneers († 1980 )
- April 14 : Kurt Ranke , Germanist and folklorist (narrative researcher) († 1985 )
- April 15 : Eden Ahbez , American composer († 1995 )
- April 15 : Lita Gray , American actress († 1995 )
- April 15 : Ernst Lehmann , politician and resistance fighter († 1945 )
- April 15 : Richard Löwenthal , German political scientist and publicist († 1991 )
- April 16 : Max Salpeter , English violinist († 2010 )
- April 18 : Herbert Sandberg , German graphic artist and caricaturist († 1991 )
- April 19 : Robert Nünighoff , board member of Hessische Berg- und Hüttenwerke AG († 1972 )
- April 20 : Lionel Hampton , band leader, jazz percussionist and vibraphone virtuoso († 2002 )
- April 21 : Alfred Lion , American record producer of German origin († 1987 )
- April 22 : Károly Aszlányi , Hungarian writer, playwright and journalist († 1938 )
- April 24 : Viktor Semjonowitsch Abakumow , Soviet Minister for State Security († 1954 )
- April 24 : Inga Gentzel , Swedish athlete and Olympian († 1991 )
- April 24 : Józef Gosławski , Polish sculptor and medalist († 1963 )
- April 25 : Erwin Assmann , German historian († 1984 )
- April 25 : Carlos Posada Amador , Colombian composer and music teacher († 1993 )
- April 25 : Edward R. Murrow , American journalist († 1965 )
- April 27 : Carlo Felice Trossi , Italian racing car driver († 1949 )
- April 28 : Ethel Catherwood , Canadian athlete († 1987 )
- April 28 : Oskar Schindler , Sudeten German industrialist who saved around 1,200 Jews from death († 1974 )
- April 30 : Eve Arden , American actress († 1990 )
May
- May 1st : Giovannino Guareschi , Italian journalist, caricaturist and writer († 1968 )
- May 1 : Hans Schubert , German mathematician († 1987 )
- May 2 : Frank Rowlett , American mathematician and cryptologist († 1998 )
- May 2 : Karl Hartung , sculptor († 1967 )
- May 4 : Bernhard Winkelheide , German politician, member of the Economic Council of the Bizone († 1988 )
- May 4 : Wolrad Eberle , German athlete († 1949 )
- May 5 : Jacques Massu , French general († 2002 )
- May 6 : Necil Kâzım Akses , Turkish composer († 1999 )
- May 7 : Leo Sternbach , American chemist († 2005 )
- May 7 : Max Grundig , founder of Grundig AG († 1989 )
- May 8 : Helmut Aris , German politician († 1987 )
- May 8 : Hertha Thiele , German actress († 1984 )
- May 9 : Basilio Mario Biucchi , Swiss politician and university professor († 1983 )
- May 9 : August-Martin Euler , German politician († 1966 )
- May 9 : Grete Boesel , guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp († 1947 )
- May 9 : Siegfried Meurer , developer of the MAN M engine († 1997 )
- May 9 : Boris Roubakine , Canadian pianist and music teacher († 1974 )
- May 10 : Josef Wallner , German politician († 1991 )
- May 11 : Heinz Frölich , actor († 2004 )
- May 12 : Alejandro Scopelli Casanova , Argentinian-Italian soccer player and soccer coach († 1987 )
- May 13 : Beveridge Webster , American pianist and music teacher († 1999 )
- May 15 : Albert Heinrich Kniest , German chess composer († 1984 )
- May 15 : Emil Joseph Diemer , German chess player († 1990 )
- May 15 : Erich Bielka , Austrian diplomat, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1992 )
- May 15 : Joe Grant , American comic writer at Disney († 2005 )
- May 15 : Lars-Erik Larsson , Swedish composer († 1986 )
- May 17 : Pierre Louis-Dreyfus , French banker and racing car driver († 2011 )
- May 19 : Percy Williams , Canadian athlete († 1982 )
- May 19 : Rolf Dahlgrün , German politician († 1969 )
- May 19 : Gianna Perea-Labia , Italian singer (soprano) († 1994 )
- May 20 : James Stewart , American actor († 1997 )
- May 20 : Karel De Schrijver , Belgian composer and professor († 1992 )
- May 20 : Walter Kolbenhoff , German writer, journalist and radio editor († 1993 )
- May 21 : Watkins Moorman Abbitt , American politician († 1998 )
- May 21 : Heinz Wehner , German jazz musician († 1945 )
- May 22 : Lionel Audet , Canadian Auxiliary Bishop († 1989 )
- May 22 : Erika Eisenblätter-Laskowski , German painter († 2003 )
- May 22 : Gustav Jaenecke , German ice hockey and tennis player († 1985 )
- May 22nd : Victor Reinshagen , Swiss conductor and composer († 1992 )
- May 22 : Herbert Simoleit , German priest († 1944 )
- May 23 : Annemarie Schwarzenbach , Swiss writer and journalist († 1942 )
- May 23 : Hélène Boucher , French pilot († 1934 )
- May 23 : John Bardeen , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner († 1991 )
- May 23 : Max Abramovitz , American architect († 2004 )
- May 24th : Emil Friedman , Czech music teacher, violinist and conductor († 2002 )
- May 25 : Theodore Roethke , American poet († 1963 )
- May 26 : Alexei Nikolajewitsch Arbusow , Soviet-Russian playwright († 1986 )
- May 26 : Robert Morley , British actor and writer († 1992 )
- May 27 : Hans Gustav Güterbock , German Hittiteologist († 2000 )
- May 27 : Harold Rome , American composer and lyricist († 1993 )
- May 28 : Ian Fleming , British writer († 1964 )
- May 29 : Hans Weigel , writer and theater critic († 1991 )
- May 30 : Hannes Alfvén , Swedish physicist († 1995 )
- May 30 : Lucien Martin , Canadian violinist and conductor († 1950 )
- May 30th : John Slade , German-American broker († 2005 )
- May 31 : Don Ameche , American actor († 1993 )
June
- June 1 : Peter de Mendelssohn , German-British writer, historian and essayist († 1982 )
- June 2 : Rosa Arnsberg , promoter of understanding between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans († 2010 )
- June 2 : Artur Petzoldt , President of the Federal Railway Directorate Hamburg († 1972 )
- June 2 : Othar Turner , American Fife musician († 2003 )
- June 4 : John Adaskin , Canadian cellist, conductor and radio producer († 1964 )
- June 4 : Jan Zdeněk Bartoš , Czech composer († 1981 )
- June 4 : Texas Ruby , American country musician († 1963 )
- June 5th : Franco Rol , Italian racing driver († 1977 )
- June 6 : Giovanni Bracco , Italian racing car driver († 1968 )
- June 6 : Rudolf Gramlich , German football player († 1988 )
- June 6 : Norbert Schlesinger , Austrian architect († 1980 )
- June 7 : Leo Fritz Gruber , Photokina founder and photo collector († 2005 )
- June 7 : Walter Kreck , German theologian († 2002 )
- June 8th : Margherita Carosio , Italian opera singer († 2005 )
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- June 9 : Robert Cummings , American film actor († 1990 )
- June 10 : Karl Gußner , German football player († 1985 )
- June 11 : Law Adam , Dutch football player († 1941 )
- June 11 : Rolf Agop , German conductor and university professor († 1998 )
- June 11 : Karl Hein , German athlete († 1982 )
- June 11th : Francisco Marto , Portuguese blessed, witness of an apparition of Mary († 1919 )
- June 12 : Otto Skorzeny , Austrian officer in the Waffen SS († 1975 )
- June 13 : LB Abbott , American cameraman and special effects artist († 1985 )
- June 13 : Nino Pirrotta , Italian musicologist and educator († 1998 )
- June 15 : Vera Atkins , British Intelligence Officer († 2000 )
- June 15 : Maria Carbone , Italian opera singer and vocal teacher († 2002 )
- June 16 : George M. McCune , developed the McCune-Reischauer romanization († 1948 )
- June 16 : Hans Jakob , German soccer player († 1994 )
- June 16 : Sarit Dhanarajata , Prime Minister of Thailand († 1963 )
- June 18 : Karl Hohmann , German football player († 1974 )
- June 18 : Maria Helena Vieira da Silva , Portuguese-French painter and graphic artist († 1992 )
- June 18 : Nedra Volz , American actress († 2003 )
- June 19 : Quentin N. Burdick , American politician († 1992 )
- June 19 : Alfred Gleisner , German politician († 1991 )
- June 19 : Ottmar Kohler , German doctor and fictional character († 1979 )
- June 19 : Hippolyt Poschinger von Frauenau , Bavarian entrepreneur, forest manager and politician († 1990 )
- June 20 : Erik Asklund , Swedish writer and screenwriter († 1980 )
- June 21 : René Bianco , French opera singer (baritone) († 2008 )
- June 22 : Beaumont Newhall , American author, photo historian and curator († 1993 )
- June 23 : Jammal-ud-Din Affendi , Afghan hockey player
- June 24 : Hugo Distler , German composer and Protestant church musician († 1942 )
- June 25 : Friedrich Kempf , German Jesuit and church historian († 2002 )
- June 25th : Fritz Huth , German horn player († 1980 )
- June 25 : Willard Van Orman Quine , American philosopher († 2000 )
- June 26 : Salvador Allende , Chilean doctor and politician, President of Chile 1970 to 1973 († 1973 )
- June 26 : William F. Knowland , American politician († 1974 )
- June 26 : Fritz Kaßmann , German politician († 1991 )
- June 27 : Kurt Mattick , German politician († 1986 )
- June 27 : Gene Venzke , American middle-distance runner († 1992 )
- June 29 : Leroy Anderson , American composer († 1975 )
- June 29th : Fritz Feierabend , Swiss bobsleigh athlete († 1978 )
- June 29 : Anna Sten , Russian-American actress of the late silent and early talkies era († 1993 )
- June 30 : Winston Graham , British writer († 2003 )
- June 30th : Eunice Norton , American pianist († 2005 )
July
- July 1 : Peter Anders , German opera singer († 1954 )
- July 2 : Samuel Hersenhoren , Canadian violinist and conductor († 1982 )
- July 2 : Thurgood Marshall , civil rights activist, member of the US Supreme Court († 1993 )
- July 3 : MFK Fisher , American essayist († 1991 )
- July 3 : Robert B. Meyner , American politician († 1990 )
- July 3 : Thomas Narcejac , French crime novelist († 1998 )
- July 4th : Aurelio Peccei , Italian industrialist and co-founder of the Club of Rome († 1984 )
- July 7 : Evert Willem Beth , Dutch logician († 1964 )
- July 7 : Revilo P. Oliver , American classical philologist and publicist († 1994 )
- July 7th : Bernhard Wensch , German Roman Catholic priest and opponent of National Socialism († 1942 )
- July 8 : Franz-Josef Binder , Austrian motorcycle racing driver and development engineer († 1960 )
- July 8 : Kaii Higashiyama , Japanese landscape painter († 1999 )
- July 8 : Louis Jordan , American saxophonist († 1975 )
- July 8 : Harald Reinl , Austrian film director and screenwriter († 1986 )
- July 8 : Nelson Rockefeller , American politician, Vice President of the USA († 1979 )
- July 9 : Takashi Asahina , Japanese conductor († 2001 )
- July 9 : Minor White , American photographer († 1976 )
- July 11th : Fritz Steuri , Swiss mountain guide and skier († 1953 )
- July 13 : Dorothy Round , English tennis player († 1982 )
- July 14th : Hermann Dietzfelbinger , German Protestant pastor, theologian and Bavarian regional bishop († 1984 )
- July 15 : Albert Volkmann , German chess problem composer († 1985 )
- July 16 : Gerd Achgelis , German aerobatic pilot († 1991 )
- July 16 : Else Brems , Danish singer and music teacher († 1995 )
- July 18 : Edward V. Long , American politician († 1972 )
- July 19 : Aenne Michalsky , Austrian opera singer ( 1986 )
- July 20 : Gunnar de Frumerie , Swedish pianist and composer († 1987 )
- July 20 : Walter Strzygowski , Austrian economic geographer († 1970 )
- July 21 : William E. Jenner , American politician († 1985 )
- July 21 : Gerhard Sperling , German painter († 1975 )
- July 21 : Ljerko Spiller , Argentinian violinist, conductor and music teacher († 2008 )
- July 23 : Elio Vittorini , Italian writer († 1966 )
- July 26 : Heinz Auerswald , German lawyer († 1970 )
- July 26 : Børge Ralov , Danish ballet dancer and choreographer († 1981 )
- July 26 : Corrado Ursi , Archbishop of Naples and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 2003 )
- July 27th : Willi Remer , German modern pentathlete
- July 28 : Taso Mathieson , British racing car driver († 1991 )
- July 30 : Heinrich Andergassen , Austrian SS officer († 1946 )
- July 30th : Arno Assmann , German actor, director and general manager († 1979 )
- July 31 : Franz Meyers , German politician († 2002 )
August
- August 1st : Elsa Oehmigen , German street musician († 1995 )
- August 2 : René Graetz , German sculptor and graphic artist († 1974 )
- August 3 : Ernesto Geisel , Brazilian President († 1996 )
- August 4th : Wilhelm Keilmann , German pianist, conductor and composer († 1989 )
- August 4th : Inger Karén , first contralto at the Dresden State Opera († 1972 )
- August 5 : Harold Holt , Australian politician and Prime Minister († 1967 )
- August 5th : Miriam Rothschild , British zoologist († 2005 )
- August 6 : Helen Jacobs , American tennis player († 1997 )
- August 6 : Necdet Mahfi Ayral , Turkish actor († 2004 )
- August 6 : Rufino Jiao Santos , Archbishop of Manila and Cardinal († 1973 )
- August 7 : Robert Bernardis , Austrian resistance fighter († 1944 )
- August 7 : Rino Tami , Swiss architect († 1994 )
- August 8 : Lloyd Burdick , American football player († 1945 )
- August 8 : Alfredo Núñez de Borbón , Mexican violinist and composer († 1979 )
- August 8 : Ford Rainey , American actor († 2005 )
- August 9 : Laurenz Börgel , German entrepreneur, local politician and district administrator († 1992 )
- August 9 : Tommaso Landolfi , Italian writer († 1979 )
- August 9 : Elli Schmidt , chairwoman of the DFD in the GDR († 1980 )
- August 10 : Friedrich Haug , judge at the Federal Social Court 1957 to 1974 († 2004 )
- August 10 : Lauri Lehtinen , Finnish athlete and Olympic champion († 1973 )
- August 11 : Ragnar Sunnqvist , Swedish motorcycle racer († 1954 )
- August 12 : Nina Vladimirovna Makarova , Russian composer († 1976 )
- August 13 : Willi Beuster , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1981 )
- August 15 : Otto Kerner , American politician († 1976 )
- August 17 : Kurt Hessenberg , German composer and music teacher († 1994 )
- August 18th : Víctor Cruz , Cuban singer, bassist and composer; Pioneer of Cuban and Latin American music in Germany († 1998 )
- August 18 : Edgar Faure , French politician († 1988 )
- August 18 : Heinrich Hellwege , German politician († 1991 )
- August 19 : Johannes Gohl , German officer († 1982 )
- August 19 : Warren P. Knowles , American politician († 1993 )
- August 20 : Beattie Feathers , American football player and coach († 1979 )
- August 21 : Guillermo Arellano Moraga , Chilean football player († 1999 )
- August 22 : Henri Cartier-Bresson , French photographer, director, actor († 2004 )
- August 22nd : Erwin Thiesies , German rugby player and coach († 1993 )
- August 23 : Arthur Adamov , French writer and playwright († 1970 )
- August 23 : Heinrich Drerup , German archaeologist († 1995 )
- August 23 : Josef Bugala , Austrian football player († 1999 )
- August 25 : Walburga Wegner , German opera singer († 1993 )
- August 27 : Karl Ernst Rahtgens , German officer and resistance fighter († 1944 )
- August 27 : Lyndon B. Johnson , American politician, 36th President of the USA († 1973 )
- August 28 : Robert Merle , French writer and novelist († 2004 )
- August 28 : Wilhelm Urban , German politician († 1973 )
- August 30 : Sepp Ahrer , Austrian social democrat and revolutionary († 1934 )
- August 30th : Fred MacMurray , American actor († 1991 )
- August 31 : Conrad Baden , Norwegian composer and organist († 1989 )
- August 31 : William Saroyan , American writer († 1981 )
- August 31 : Herbert Dill , German athlete and Olympic participant († 1944 )
September
- September 1 : Wilhelm M. Busch , German illustrator († 1987 )
- September 1 : Mongi Slim , Tunisian politician († 1969 )
- September 4 : Edward Dmytryk , American film director († 1999 )
- September 4 : Dita Parlo , German-French film actress († 1971 )
- September 4 : Richard Wright , American writer († 1960 )
- September 5 : Edoardo Amaldi , Italian physicist († 1989 )
- September 5 : Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick , Spanish actor and theater director († 1991 )
- September 5 : Henry Hammill Fowler , American politician († 2000 )
- September 5 : Arnaldo Momigliano , Italian historian († 1987 )
- September 6 : Sara Barkin , Canadian singer and pianist († 2002 )
- September 6 : Vladimir Kotelnikow , Russian mathematician († 2005 )
- September 6 : Alfred Schieske , German actor († 1970 )
- September 6th : Fritz Spengler , German field handball player († 2003 )
- September 6th : Max Danz , German sports official († 2000 )
- September 7 : Paul Brown , American football coach († 1991 )
- September 7 : Hasan Balyuzi , Persian Baha'i scholar († 1980 )
- September 7 : Michael Ellis DeBakey , American heart surgeon († 2008 )
- September 8 : Erwin Anders , German cameraman († 1972 )
- September 9 : Cesare Pavese , Italian writer († 1950 )
- September 12 : Werner Flume , German lawyer († 2009 )
- September 13 : Sicco Mansholt , Dutch farmer and politician († 1995 )
- September 13 : Madeleine Ozeray , Belgian-French actress († 1989 )
- September 13 : Carlos Peucelle , Argentinian football player and coach († 1990 )
- September 15 : Gerd Gaiser , German writer († 1976 )
- September 16 : Pedro Geoffroy Rivas , Salvadoran journalist, poet, anthropologist and linguist († 1979 )
- September 16 : Friedrich Torberg , Austrian writer and journalist († 1979 )
- September 17 : Franz Grothe , German composer († 1982 )
- September 18 : Viktor Ambarzumjan , Armenian astrophysicist († 1996 )
- September 19 : Mika Waltari , Finnish writer († 1979 )
- September 19 : Victor Weisskopf , American physicist († 2002 )
- September 20 : Ernest Manning , Canadian politician († 1996 )
- September 20 : Alexander Mitscherlich , German psychoanalyst and writer († 1982 )
- September 21 : George Simpson , American athlete and Olympian († 1961 )
- September 23 : Franz Adler , American sociologist († 1983 )
- September 24 : Egon Reinert , German politician († 1959 )
- September 25 : Jacqueline Audry , French film director († 1977 )
- September 26 : Emil Maier-Dorn , German writer († 1986 )
- September 27 : Dietrich Keuning , German politician († 1980 )
- September 27 : Thomas A. Wofford , American politician († 1978 )
- September 28 : Marin Goleminow , Bulgarian composer († 2000 )
- September 29 : Robert Margulies , German politician († 1974 )
- September 29 : Eddie Tolan , American sprinter and Olympic champion († 1967 )
- September 30th : Ludwig Lallinger , German politician († 1992 )
- September 30 : David Oistrach , Russian violinist († 1974 )
- September 30th : Edzard Schaper , German writer and translator († 1984 )
- September 30th : Wolfgang von Zeynek , German lawyer († 1995 )
October
- October 1 : Giuseppe Casoria , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 2001 )
- October 1 : Herman D. Koppel , Danish pianist and composer († 1998 )
- October 3 : Ery Bos , German-Dutch actress († 2005 )
- October 3 : Ferdinand Strobel , Swiss Jesuit and church historian († 1999 )
- October 5 : Paul-Émile Corbeil , Canadian singer and vocal teacher, radio producer and actor († 1965 )
- October 5 : Joshua Logan , American film and theater director († 1988 )
- October 6 : François Brassard , Canadian ethnomusicologist and organist († 1976 )
- October 6 : Carole Lombard , American actress († 1942 )
- October 6 : Sergei Lwowitsch Sobolew , Russian mathematician († 1989 )
- October 8 : Paul Yoder , American composer and professor († 1990 )
- October 8 : Vyacheslav Ragosin , Soviet chess player († 1962 )
- October 9 : James Folsom senior , American politician († 1987 )
- October 9 : Werner von Haeften , German lawyer, officer and resistance fighter († 1944 )
- October 10 : Edmund Stadler , German middle-distance runner († 1979 )
- October 12 : Heinrich Wilper , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1967 )
- October 13 : Enrique de Marchena y Dujarric , Dominican composer and diplomat († 1988 )
- October 13 : Fritz Schröder-Jahn , German actor and radio play director († 1980 )
- October 15 : Osborne Anderson , American ice hockey player († 1989 )
- October 15 : John Kenneth Galbraith , economist, social critic, presidential advisor, novelist and diplomat († 2006 )
- October 16 : Robert Ardrey , American playwright, screenwriter and anthropologist († 1980 )
- October 16 : Enver Hoxha , Albanian politician († 1985 )
- October 16 : Zbigniew Turski , Polish composer and conductor († 1979 )
- October 17 : Yang Jingnian , Chinese economist († 2016 )
- October 17 : Walter Bäumer , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver († 1941 )
- October 19 : Geirr Tveitt , Norwegian composer and pianist († 1981 )
- October 20 : Stuart Hamblen , American country musician († 1989 )
- October 21 : Howard Ferguson , Irish composer († 1999 )
- October 22 : Zygmund Przemyslaw Rondomanski , American composer († 2000 )
- October 23 : Ilya Michailowitsch Frank , Russian physicist, 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics († 1990 )
- October 27 : Hermann Glüsing , German farmer and politician († 1981 )
- October 27 : Lee Krasner , American painter († 1984 )
- October 28 : Arturo Frondizi Ercoli , Argentine politician and president († 1995 )
- October 30 : Rudolf Werner Ackermann , German painter († 1982 )
- October 30 : Franco Margola , Italian composer and music teacher († 1992 )
- October 30 : Patsy Montana , American country singer († 1996 )
- October 30 : Orlando Spreng , Swiss postal worker and writer († 1950 )
November
- November 1 : Pawoł Nedo , Sorbian educator and ethnologist, Domowina chairman († 1984 )
- November 2 : Bunny Berigan , American jazz trumpeter († 1942 )
- November 3 : Bronko Nagurski , Canadian American football player († 1990 )
- November 4 : Józef Rotblat , Polish physicist († 2005 )
- November 6 : ET Klassen , American businessman († 1990 )
- November 6 : Tadeusz Wilczak , Polish conductor († 1956 )
- November 8 : Günther Anders , German cameraman († 1977 )
- November 8 : Martha Gellhorn , American writer and reporter († 1998 )
- November 8 : Heinz Klevenow , German actor († 1975 )
- November 10 : Paul Cohen , producer and manager of country music († 1970 )
- November 11 : Serafín Aedo , Spanish football player († 1988 )
- November 11 : Karl Bosl , German historian († 1993 )
- November 11th : Martin Held , German actor († 1992 )
- November 12 : Hans Werner Richter , German writer († 1993 )
- November 14 : Joseph McCarthy , American politician († 1957 )
- November 14 : Wolfgang Yourgrau , American social psychologist, physicist and journalist († 1979 )
- November 15 : Carlo Abarth , Austrian racing driver and tuner († 1979 )
- November 15 : Rafael von Uslar , Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory in Mainz († 2003 )
- November 16 : Nicolás Lindley López , head of a Peruvian military junta in 1963 († 1995 )
- November 17 : Pietro Sernagiotto , Brazilian-Italian football player († 1965 )
- November 18 : Imogene Coca , American comedy actress († 2001 )
- November 19 : Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur , French organist and composer († 2002 )
- November 19 : Heidi Oetinger , German publisher († 2009 )
- November 21 : Walter Dreizner , German photographer († 1996 )
- November 21 : Salo Flohr , Czechoslovak-Soviet chess master († 1983 )
- November 21 : Francisco Simó Damirón , Dominican pianist and composer († 1992 )
- November 22 : Nathan Ward Ackerman , American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and university professor († 1971 )
- November 24th : Aleksander Ford , Polish film director († 1980 )
- November 24th : Harry Kemelman , American crime novelist († 1996 )
- November 26th : Jimmy Davidson , Canadian bandleader, jazz cornetist and singer († 1978 )
- November 28 : Erich von Holst , German biologist and behavioral scientist († 1962 )
- November 28 : Claude Lévi-Strauss , French ethnologist and anthropologist († 2009 )
- November 29 : Paul Kühmstedt , German composer and conductor († 1996 )
- November 30th : Arie Aroch , Israeli painter and diplomat († 1974 )
December
- December 2 : Roland Hampe , German archaeologist and translator († 1981 )
- December 3 : Herbert Haag , German organist and church musician († 1977 )
- December 3 : Walter Nehb , German sprinter († 1966 )
- December 4 : Alfred Day Hershey , American biologist († 1997 )
- December 4 : Helmut Thielicke , German theologian († 1986 )
- December 4th : Thaddeus Mann , Ukrainian biochemist († 1993 )
- December 5 : Heinz-Eberhardt Andres , German politician († 1977 )
- December 5 : Hermann A. Eplée , German politician († 1973 )
- December 5 : Walter Rieger , German lawyer and politician († 1989 )
- December 6 : Nicholas Goldschmidt , Canadian conductor, music teacher, pianist and singer († 2004 )
- December 6th : Pierre Graber , Swiss politician († 2003 )
- December 6 : Babyface Nelson , American gangster and bank robber († 1934 )
- December 7th : John Doeg , American tennis player († 1978 )
- December 7th : Slim Bryant , American country musician († 2010 )
- December 8th : Volkmar Herntrich , Protestant regional bishop († 1958 )
- December 8 : Max Rouquette , French writer in the Occitan language († 2005 )
- December 8 : John Volpe , American politician († 1994 )
- December 9 : Sigmund Haringer , German football player († 1975 )
- December 9 : Karl-Maria Schley , German actor and radio play speaker († 1980 )
- December 10 : Marino 'Mario' Evaristo , Argentinian footballer († 1993 )
- December 10 : Olivier Messiaen , French composer and organist († 1992 )
- December 11 : Carlos Arias Navarro , Spanish politician († 1989 )
- December 11 : Elliott Carter , American composer († 2012 )
- December 11th : Amon Göth , concentration camp overseer († 1946 )
- December 11th : Manoel de Oliveira , Portuguese film director († 2015 )
- December 13 : Van Heflin , American actor († 1971 )
- December 13 : Kurt Heyns , German chemist († 2005 )
- December 14 : Friedrich Joloff , German actor († 1988 )
- December 14 : Laurence Naismith , British actor († 1992 )
- December 15 : Karl Ackermann , German journalist and publisher († 1996 )
- December 15 : Walter Glöckler , German automobile and motorcycle racing driver and automobile designer († 1988 )
- December 16 : Sonja Graf , German chess player († 1965 )
- December 16 : Hans Schaffner , Swiss politician († 2004 )
- December 17 : Willard Frank Libby , American chemist († 1980 )
- December 18 : Hans Scheele , German athlete († 1941 )
- December 18 : Paul Siple , American polar explorer (Antarctica) († 1968 )
- December 19 : Gisèle Freund , Franco-German photographer and photo historian († 2000 )
- December 20 : Herbert A. Frenzel , German Scandinavianist, journalist, translator and theater scholar († 1995 )
- December 20 : Klaus Katterbach , German physicist († 1971 )
- December 22nd : Max Bill , Swiss architect, artist and designer († 1994 )
- December 22nd : Giacomo Manzù , Italian sculptor, graphic artist and draftsman († 1991 )
- December 22nd : Paula Mollenhauer , German athlete († 1988 )
- December 23 : Hermann Mathias Görgen , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1994 )
- December 23 : Yousuf Karsh , Canadian photographer of Armenian origin († 2002 )
- December 25th : Quentin Crisp , British eccentric, author and entertainer († 1999 )
- December 27 : Karl Berg , Austrian Archbishop († 1997 )
- December 28 : Lew Ayres , American actor († 1996 )
- December 29 : Helmut Gollwitzer , Protestant theologian and writer († 1993 )
- December 30th : Herbert Küchler , German problem composer († 1964 )
- December 31 : Simon Wiesenthal , Austrian director of the Jewish Documentation Center Vienna († 2005 )
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- Gustav Aduatz , Austrian architect († 1991 )
- Mahmud Afschartus , Persian general and police chief of Tehran († 1953 )
- Herbert Anker , German architect († 1987 )
- Harry Fuchs , American cellist († 1986 )
- Ernst Gotthardt , German geodesist, photogrammeter and university professor († 1976 )
- Percy Hunt , British motorcycle racer († unknown)
- Jan Kucharski , Polish organist and music teacher († 2002 )
- Jonny Rieger , German writer († 1985 )
- Antonio Romera , Chilean art scholar and critic, draftsman and caricaturist († 1975 )
Died
First quarter
- January 9 : Wilhelm Busch , German poet, painter and draftsman (* 1832 )
- January 9 : Abraham Goldfaden , Ukrainian-Yiddish writer (* 1840 )
- January 13 : Hashimoto Gahō , Japanese painter (* 1835 )
- January 13 : George Anthony Walkem , Canadian politician (* 1834 )
- January 14th : Holger Drachmann , Danish poet (* 1846 )
- January 18 : Charles H. Sawyer , American politician (* 1840 )
- January 19 : Charles Emory Smith , American politician (* 1842 )
- January 25 : Mikhail Chigorin , Russian chess master (* 1850 )
- January 28 : Josef Freinademetz , Catholic religious, missionary to China, saint (* 1852 )
- February 1 : Milovan Glišić , Serbian writer and translator (* 1847 )
- February 1 : Rafael Guastavino , Spanish architect and builder (* 1842 )
- February 1 : Charles I , King of Portugal (* 1863 )
- February 2 : Louis Brisson , French priest, founder of the Oblates of St. Franz v. Sales (* 1817 )
- February 4 : Herrmann Bachstein , German railway pioneer (* 1834 )
- February 6 : Justus Köberle , German Protestant theologian and university lecturer (* 1871 )
- February 7th : Ernst I , Duke of Saxony-Altenburg (* 1826 )
- February 10 : George A. Jenks , American lawyer and politician (* 1836 )
- February 11 : Jo Abbott , American politician (* 1840 )
- February 11 : Elard Hugo Meyer , German Indo-Europeanist (* 1837 )
- February 19 : Hermann Laurent , French mathematician (* 1841 )
- February 20 : Ludwig Schwabe , German classical philologist and archaeologist (* 1835 )
- February 23 : Friedrich von Esmarch , German doctor (* 1823 )
- February 26 : August Ritter , Professor of Mechanics and Astrophysicist (* 1826 )
- February 27 : Ernst Hottenroth , German sculptor (* 1872 )
- February 27 : Adolf Kirchhoff , German classical philologist and researcher (* 1826 )
- February 28 : Pat Garrett , American Sheriff of Lincoln County (* 1850 )
- March 3 : Jakob Geis , Bavarian folk singer (* 1840 )
- March 4 : Redfield Proctor , American politician (* 1831 )
- March 5 : Hans Glauning , German officer (* 1868 )
- March 7 : Bernhard Howaldt , German entrepreneur and engineer (* 1850 )
- March 11 : Josef Hlávka , Czech builder, architect and patron (* 1831 )
- March 11 : Edmondo De Amicis , Italian writer (* 1846 )
- March 13 : Raoul Arnauld de la Perière , German actor (* 1874 )
- March 16 : Jean Jacques David , Swiss African explorer and mining engineer (* 1871 )
- March 16 : Friedrich von Erckert , German colonial officer (* 1869 )
- March 17 : William Pinkney Whyte , American politician (* 1824 )
- March 18 : Julius Scharlach , German lawyer and entrepreneur (* 1842 )
- March 19 : Eduard Zeller , German philosopher (* 1814 )
- March 22nd : William James Bryan , American lawyer and politician (* 1876 )
- March 23 : Luis Felipe Arias , Guatemalan pianist and composer (* 1876 )
- March 30th : Rudolph Reichmann , German-American newspaper publisher (* 1821 )
Second quarter
- April 11th : Henry Edward Bird , English chess player (* 1829 )
- April 13 : Emil Gött , German writer (* 1864 )
- April 14 : Konrad Furrer , Swiss Protestant clergyman and Palestine researcher (* 1838 )
- April 15 : Antoine Béchamp , French medic, biologist and pharmacologist (* 1816 )
- April 19 : Simon B. Conover , American politician (* 1840 )
- April 22 : Henry Campbell-Bannerman , British politician and head of government (* 1836 )
- April 24th : Poul la Cour , Danish meteorologist, wind turbine pioneer (* 1846 )
- April 25 : Johnson N. Camden , American politician (* 1828 )
- April 26 : Karl August Möbius , zoologist and ecologist (* 1825 )
- May 3 : Franz Bücheler , German classical philologist (* 1837 )
- May 6 : Albrecht Dieterich , German classical philologist (* 1866 )
- May 7th : Ludovic Halévy , French playwright (* 1834 )
- May 12 : Melesio Morales , Mexican composer (* 1838 )
- May 16 : Johannes Marinus Simon Baljon , Dutch Reformed theologian (* 1861 )
- May 17th : Carl Koldewey , German polar explorer (* 1837 )
- May 23 : François Coppée , French writer (* 1842 )
- May 26 : Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , founder of the Ahmadiyya (* 1835 )
- May 27th : Carl Bruno Tröndlin , politician and mayor of Leipzig (* 1835 )
- May 28 : Alfred Trappen , German mechanical engineer (* 1828 )
- May 29 : Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg , Thuringian cantor, organist and composer (* 1827 )
- May 31 : Anton Lux , Austrian artillery lieutenant and traveler to Africa (* 1847 )
- June 1 : James Kimbrough Jones , American politician (* 1839 )
- June 2 : John DeWitt Clinton Atkins , American politician (* 1825 )
- June 5 : Luca Fumagalli , Italian pianist, composer and music teacher (* 1837 )
- June 11 : John Vines Wright , American politician (* 1828 )
- June 13th : Antonio Aguilar y Correa , Spanish politician (* 1824)
- June 13 : Tom Wiggins , American musician and composer (* 1849 )
- June 15 : Vojtěch Hřímalý , Czech composer, conductor and violinist (* 1842 )
- June 17th : Ernesto Tornquist , Argentinian industrialist (* 1842 )
- June 21 : Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow , Russian composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1844 )
- June 23 : Kunikida Doppo , Japanese writer (* 1871 )
- June 24th : Grover Cleveland , 22nd and 24th President of the USA (* 1837 )
- June 28 : Franz Treller , German actor and writer (* 1839 )
Third quarter
- July 2 : Wilhelm Grube , German sinologist (* 1855 )
- July 3 : Joel Chandler Harris , American journalist and writer (* 1848 )
- July 5 : Jonas Lie , Norwegian storyteller and playwright (* 1833 )
- July 11th : Friedrich Adolf Traun , German athlete (* 1876 )
- July 14 : William Mason , American composer (* 1829 )
- July 18 : Bertha von Brukenthal , Austrian composer (* 1846 )
- July 18 : Otto Pfleiderer , German Protestant theologian (* 1839 )
- July 20 : Dimitrios Vikelas , Greek sports official and first President of the IOC (* 1835 )
- July 22nd : William Randal Cremer , British politician and Nobel Prize winner (* 1828 )
- July 23 : Grete Beier , German murderer (* 1885 )
- July 24 : Walter Leistikow , Berlin painter (* 1865 )
- July 27 : Paul Homeyer , German organist (* 1853 )
- July 30th : James Budd , American politician (* 1851 )
- August 8 : Joseph Maria Olbrich , Austrian architect (* 1867 )
- August 8 : Christian Schneller , Tyrolean writer (* 1831 )
- August 14 : Friedrich Paulsen , German pedagogue and Kant researcher (* 1846 )
- August 20 : Gustav Ipavec , Slovenian composer (* 1831 )
- August 20 : Louis Varney , French operetta composer (* 1844 )
- August 23 : Hermann Speck von Sternburg , German diplomat and art collector (* 1852 )
- August 25 : Antoine Henri Becquerel , French physicist, Nobel Prize winner (* 1852 )
- August 27 : William Freeman Vilas , American politician (* 1840 )
- August 28 : Knud Sehested , Danish politician (* 1850 )
- September 3 : Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk , Governor of the Dutch East Indies (* 1847 )
- September 13 : Edmund Kretschmer , German composer (* 1830 )
- September 15 : Friedrich Adler , master builder, architect and building researcher (* 1827 )
- September 15 : Georg Adler , German economist (* 1863 )
- September 20 : Pablo de Sarasate , Spanish violinist and composer (* 1844 )
- September 29th : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis , Brazilian author (* 1839 )
- September 29th : Wilhelm Reiss , German explorer and volcanologist (* 1838 )
- September 30th : Alfred Thompson Bricher , American landscape painter (* 1837 )
Fourth Quarter
- October 13 : Antoinette Charlotte Marie Josephine Karoline Frida von Sachsen-Altenburg , Duchess of Anhalt (* 1838 )
- October 17 : William Harris Ashmead , American entomologist (* 1855 )
- November 2 : Josef Mayburger , Austrian painter (* 1814 )
- November 5 : Andrew Graham , Irish astronomer (* 1815 )
- November 8 : Edward W. Carmack , American politician (* 1858 )
- November 8 : Victorien Sardou , French playwright (* 1831 )
- November 8th : Eduard Wölfflin , Swiss classical philologist (* 1831 )
- November 14th : Guangxu , the penultimate Chinese emperor of the Qing Dynasty (* 1871 )
- November 15 : Dowager Empress Cixi , concubine of the Manchu Emperor Xianfeng (* 1835 )
- November 20 : Georgi Voronoi , Russian mathematician (* 1868 )
- November 22nd : Claude Paul Taffanel , French flautist and composer (* 1844 )
- November 27 : Knud Bergslien , Norwegian painter (* 1827 )
- December 2 : Ilse Frapan , German writer (* 1849 )
- December 4th : Max Arnhold , German banker and Freemason (* 1845 )
- December 8 : Josef Zemp , Swiss politician (* 1834 )
- December 10 : Julius Dammann , German clergyman and writer (* 1840 )
- December 16 : American Horse II , Indian chief (* 1840 )
- December 19 : Georg Kruse , German actor and writer (* 1830 )
- December 20 : Benjamin Ipavec , Slovenian composer (* 1829 )
- December 22nd : Georg Christian von Lobkowitz , Bohemian nobleman and politician (* 1835 )
- December 28 : Charles Marley Anderson , American politician (* 1845 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Qasim Amin , Egyptian lawyer (* 1863 )
Web links
Commons : 1908 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/1908/ (Living virtual museum online)