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Calendar overview 1921
Map with all linked sites: | 1921 | |
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| 1921 in other calendars | |
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| From urbe condita | 2674 |
| Armenian calendar | 1369-1370 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1913-1914 |
| Badi calendar | 77-78 |
| Bengali calendar | 1327-1328 |
| Berber calendar | 2871 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2465 |
| Burmese calendar | 1283 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7429-7430 |
| Chinese calendar | |
| - era | 4617-4618 or 4557-4558 |
| - 60 year cycle |
Metal monkey (庚申, 57) - |
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French revolution calendar |
CXXIX - CXXX 129-130 |
| Hindu calendar | |
| - Vikram Sambat | 1977-1988 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1843-1844 |
| Iranian calendar | 1299-1300 |
| Islamic calendar | 1339-1340 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Nengō (era): | Taishō 10 |
| - Kōki | 2581 |
| Jewish calendar | 5681-5682 |
| Coptic Calendar | 1637-1638 |
| Korean calendar | |
| - Dangun era | 4254 |
| - Juche era | 10 |
| Minguo calendar | 10 |
| Modern Olympics | VII |
| Seleucid calendar | 2232-2233 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2464 |
events
Politics and world events
German Empire / Poland
- January 5: On the occasion of the threat of strikes, the German government increases the salaries of railway workers by 55 to 70%.
- March 8th: The French and Belgians occupy the cities of Duisburg and Düsseldorf and secure them as collateral for the payment of reparations .
- March 19: Prussian police are deployed to restore order in Mansfeld , Hettstedt and Eisleben . The United Communist Party of Germany is therefore postponing an uprising that was already planned. The March fights in Central Germany begin.
- March 20: Referendums as a result of the Treaty of Versailles : The referendum in Upper Silesia surprisingly results in a majority of almost 60% for Germany.
- March 30th: The popular communist chief machinist and trade unionist Wilhelm Sält is "taken into protective custody" by police officers from Department IA at a shop stewards ' meeting. Two days later he dies of a gunshot wound sustained in the Berlin police headquarters in Alexanderplatz .
- May 3: Beginning of the third Polish Korfanty uprising in Upper Silesia
- May 10: Joseph Wirth , until then Minister of Finance, becomes the new Chancellor of the Weimar Republic following the resignation of Constantin Fehrenbach due to the London ultimatum on the reparations issue .
- May 11th: The German government under Chancellor Joseph Wirth complies with the Allies' London ultimatum of May 5th, which was threatened with occupation of the Ruhr area and prompted the resignation of the Fehrenbach cabinet . The German reparations should amount to 132 billion gold marks , as regulated by the victors at the London conference against strong German protests.
- 23 May: German troops under Lieutenant General Karl Hoefer and British supervision storm the pilgrimage site of St. Annaberg in Upper Silesia, which is occupied by Polish insurgents .
- June 8: The Zeppelin LZ 121 Nordstern makes its maiden voyage before it is delivered to France.
- July 3: The Zeppelin LZ 120 Bodensee is transferred to Italy as reparation, as requested by the Allies.
- July 29th: Adolf Hitler is elected party chairman of the NSDAP by the general assembly. He gains dictatorial power and sometimes uses violence to propagate political goals.
- August 12: In Berlin, after Lenin's appeal for help, the KPD -near International Workers Aid is founded, which provides support in emergencies from its donations.
- August 26th: The Reich Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger is the victim of one of the politically motivated female murders in the Weimar Republic near Bad Griesbach in the Black Forest .
Austria / Hungary
- January 26th: History of Burgenland : German-West Hungary, which has been part of the Kingdom of Hungary for more than 1000 years , is incorporated into the Republic of Austria as the state of Burgenland in accordance with the Treaty of Saint-Germain . Bad Sauerbrunn becomes the provisional seat of the state government. The land grabbing of Burgenland fails several times during the year.
- End of March: At Easter, the former Emperor Charles I undertakes an attempt at restoration in the Kingdom of Hungary from his exile in Switzerland. On the advice of Colonel Anton Lehár, he drives incognito through Austria to Budapest and calls on Imperial Administrator Miklós Horthy to resign. Only after a week's stay in Szombathely in western Hungary can he be convinced of the hopelessness of his efforts and travel back to Switzerland.
- April 24th: Referendum in Tyrol : 98.5% votes for annexation to the German Reich . However, the vote has no consequences.
- May 29: Referendum in Salzburg : 99.5% votes for annexation to the German Reich . However, the vote has no consequences.
- October 4th: Hungarian irregulars proclaim the Lajtabánság Republic . It exists until December 5th.
- October 20: Charles I makes a second attempt at restoration in Hungary. He flies with his family to Sopron , where he is expected by riot troops under Julius von Ostenburg-Morawek . The march to Budapest is delayed, however, which gives Horthy time to also gather troops. After a skirmish on October 23rd in which 19 soldiers were killed, Karl gave up his attempts at restoration. After a brief internment in the Tihany Abbey on Lake Balaton , he and his wife Zita were taken on November 1st on board the British Danube ship Glowworm to the Black Sea and then via Gibraltar to the Portuguese island of Madeira .
- November 6th: With the dethronement of the Habsburgs on the basis of a parliamentary resolution, Hungary becomes a kingdom without a king. The provisional governor Miklós Horthy , who was provisionally appointed as early as 1920 , finally assumed the role of head of state .
- 14th to 16th December: In the referendum in Ödenburg , the city of Ödenburg decides in favor of Hungary .
Switzerland
- January 1st: Edmund Schulthess becomes President of Switzerland again .
- January 30th: In Switzerland , a popular initiative for mandatory referendums on international treaties is adopted.
Great Britain and Ireland
- January 3: In London , an agreement is signed by the German Ambassador Friedrich Sthamer and the British Foreign Minister Lord Curzon to ensure the return or remuneration of British property that was confiscated during the First World War .
A minister for any use . The 1921 cartoon alludes to Churchill changing ministries "like other people change hats." Holding the mirror: David Lloyd George.
- February 13: Winston Churchill , until then Secretary of War, becomes British Colonial Secretary in the Lloyd George administration . He replaces the incumbent Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner .
- December 6th: The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London. England granted Ireland internal autonomy but retained the northern province of Ulster
The Soviet Union and its neighbors
- January 20: The Soviet Mountain Republic is founded.
- February 21: The Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts a constitution based on the Swiss model. The right to vote for women is also anchored in it.
- February 25: Soviet Russia occupies Georgia and proclaims the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic . The government under Noe Schordania fled Tbilisi and went into exile on March 18.
- February 28: A friendship treaty is signed between the RSFSR and Afghanistan , excluding military and political agreements with third parties. Kabul receives financial and technical assistance from Moscow .
- February 28: Sailors from the battleships Petropavlovsk and Sevastopol pass the Petropavlovsk resolution, whereupon 16,000 rebels join the Kronstadt sailors' uprising a day later .
- March 8th to 16th: At the 10th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , the renunciation of war communism takes place . Lenin proclaims the New Economic Policy .
- March 13th: An independent monarchy is proclaimed in Outer Mongolia . The Baltic German Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg appoints Bogd Khan as the nominal head .
- March 18: The Kronstadt sailors' uprising in Kronstadt near Saint Petersburg is bloodily suppressed.
- March 18: Soviet Russia and Poland sign a peace treaty in Riga to end the Polish-Soviet war .
- June 22nd to July 12th: The Communist International holds its III. World Congress.
- July 11: The USSR installs a puppet government in Outer Mongolia , preparing the establishment of the Mongolian People's Republic , which will remain a satellite state of the Soviet Union until 1990 .
- September 1: The area of the Kabardines is separated from the Soviet Mountain Republic . In 1922 it forms the Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Oblast together with the Balkars .
Greece / Turkey
- February 7: History of Turkey : Almost ten months after the founding of the Turkish Parliament in Ankara by Mustafa Kemal Pasha enters the Turkish Constitution of 1921 in force.
- March 15: Talât Pascha , former Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire and one responsible for the Armenian genocide , is shot dead in exile in Berlin.
- 23 August to 13 September: In the Greco-Turkish War , the Turkish army under Mustafa Kemal succeeds in repelling the Greek advance on the seat of the national government in Ankara in the Battle of Sakarya , which lasts several weeks .
- October 20: With the Treaty of Ankara , France and Turkey settle their disputes over Cilicia . In return, the Turkish national government recognizes French supremacy in Syria .
Portugal
- March 2: After just over three months, Liberato Ribeiro Pinto has to resign from his post as prime minister. His successor is Bernardino Machado , also from the Partido Democrático , who, however, only remains in office for a short time.
- On May 23, Tomé José de Barros Queirós took over government from the conservative Partido Unionista . His brief reign has been fraught with financial problems. To offset the dramatic imbalance in the budget, Finance Minister Afonso Costa is trying to obtain a loan of US $ 50 million to Portugal . However, when this loan does not come about, the entire government falls into disrepute, so that Barros Queirós has to hand over his office to his party friend António Granjo on August 30th .
- October 19: Prime Minister António Joaquim Granjo is assassinated during the Lisbon Night of Blood . Colonel Manuel Maria Coelho becomes the new Prime Minister.
- November 5: Carlos Maia Pinto becomes Prime Minister of Portugal. On December 16, he handed over his office to Francisco Pinto da Cunha Leal , who tried unsuccessfully to end the revolutionary mood of the Lisbon Bloody Night.
Italy
- January 21: The Italian Communist Party is founded in the San Marco Theater in Livorno after the revolutionary faction split from the Partito Socialista Italiano . Amadeo Bordiga takes over the party chairmanship, Antonio Gramsci and Umberto Terracini join the central committee .
Italian military cordoning off the Bolzano fruit market after the fascist attack
- April 24th: On Bloody Sunday in Bolzano , around 400 Italian fascists , led by Francesco Giunta and Achille Starace , attack a traditional South Tyrolean costume parade with clubs, pistols and hand grenades . One man is killed and around 50 people are injured, some seriously. The military now intervening is limited to escorting the aggressors to the train station, where they can leave unmolested.
Other events in Europe
- June 24th: The League of Nations decides on the Åland question that the islands remain part of the national territory of Finland , but demands various guarantees in favor of the Swedish-speaking population.
- August 16: After the death of King Peter I , his son Alexander I becomes the new ruler of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes . In contrast to his father, who largely stayed out of day-to-day politics before the war and thereby enabled the development of a parliamentary system of government in the Kingdom of Serbia, Alexander intervened directly in government policy from the start. Like the leading Serbian politicians, he advocates a centralized and monarchical state order, as enshrined in the Vidovdan constitution of June 28th. At the same time, however, he tries at their expense to expand his own position of power and to weaken the position of the most important Serbian party, the Radical People's Party , headed by the multiple Prime Minister Nikola Pašić . In doing so, he relies primarily on circles of the Serbian officer corps, with whom he is personally known from his time in the army.
- September 30th: An international agreement is reached in Geneva to curb the trafficking of women and children .
- November 14th: In Spain , two young communist parties merge to form the Partido Comunista de España .
Zionism
- September: Karlovy Vary meeting of the Zionist World Congress : The Jewish people have the will to want to live with the Arabs "in a spirit of solidarity and mutual respect" in Palestine .
- September 11th: The Nahalal settlement is founded as the first Jewish moshaw on the Jezreel Plain .
Other events in Asia
- February 21: A division of the Persian Cossack Brigade led by Reza Khan marches into Tehran and overthrows the government of Prime Minister Fathollah Akbar Sepahdar with the coup of February 21, 1921 . Seyyed Zia al Din Tabatabai becomes the new Prime Minister.
- March 12th to 30th: At a secret British Middle East conference held in Cairo and Jerusalem , the "sharp solution" is decided for the mandate areas of Palestine and Mesopotamia : Faisal ibn Husain is to become king in Iraq and his brother Abdallah Emir of Transjordan .
- May 1: The Druze state with the capital As-Suwaida is proclaimed within the French mandate for Syria and Lebanon .
The historic site of the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai, now part of the People's Republic of China's List of Monuments
- July 23 to August 2: In the absence of Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao , the founding congress of the Chinese Communist Party takes place in the French concession area of Shanghai . After the local police break up the meeting, the remainder of the event will be held on a tour boat on Nan Hu Lake, south of Jiaxing City . Chen Duxiu, Zhang Guotao and Li Da are elected to the three-person Central Committee .
- August 23: Faisal ibn Husain is proclaimed King of Iraq as Faisal I.
- November 4: A fanatical naval officer stabs the Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi to death in Tokyo Central Station.
United States of America
Wilson (back seat, left) to hand over office with his successor Warren G. Harding (next to Wilson in the car)
- March 4: Warren G. Harding of the Republican Party becomes the 29th President of the United States . He replaces the Democrat Woodrow Wilson . Vice President in Cabinet Harding is Calvin Coolidge , Home Secretary Albert B. Fall , who a little later in the Teapot Dome scandal is involved.
- May 19: The US passes the Emergency Quota Act , a law designed to curb heavy immigration to the United States after the First World War . The law regulates how many people are allowed to enter from which countries of origin each year. The act primarily disadvantages people from southern and eastern Europe, who are flocking to the United States in large numbers at the time.
- May 31: A newspaper report about an alleged rape attempt sparked racial rioting in Tulsa, Oklahoma , in the course of which a white mob burned down the African-American residential and business district of Greenwood. Up to 300 people are murdered.
- June 10: The Government Accountability Office is launched. This Court of Auditors reports to the United States Congress as a bipartisan investigative body .
- July 11: Former President William Howard Taft is named Chief Justice of the United States .
South America
- January 6: In Buenos Aires , the Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen declares that his country has left the League of Nations . He criticizes the fact that not all countries in the world were included in this association.
business
Monetary and Economic Policy
- January 1: In the British crown colonies of Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda, the East African shilling replaces the East African florin, which was only introduced last year, as a means of payment.
- March 21: The implementation of the New Economic Policy begins in Soviet Russia with a decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee . This is the turn away from war communism .
- The Budget and Accounting Act creates the Bureau of Budget as part of the Treasury Department in the United States .
Trade fairs and exhibitions
- 4th / 5th April: The first German fur fashion show takes place in the Krystallpalast in Leipzig .
- September 11th: The first Viennese trade fair opens after just four months of planning. Its aim is to lead Austria out of economic isolation after the First World War . The exhibitions (not accessible to the public) are spread over several locations in Vienna and have the Messe Frankfurt , which was relaunched three years earlier, as a model . The largest area comprises parts of the area of the Vienna World Exhibition of 1873 in the Prater. The central building is the rotunda , which has fallen into ruins, along with its open spaces.
Business start-ups
- March 15: Army aviator Giorgio Parodi and his friend the aircraft technician Carlo Guzzi found the Moto Guzzi company in the Italian city of Mandello del Lario with the financial support of Giorgio's father Emanuele Vittorio Parodi .
- April 5: On the initiative of Oskar von Miller , the state power supply company Bayernwerk is founded in Bavaria .
- Benelli begins series production of motorcycles.
Others
- January 10th: The commercial school Tauberbischofsheim is founded by decree of the Ministry of Education, whereby the commercial school is separated from the trade school into two independent schools.
- December 8th: An advertisement with the slogan "One Look is Worth A Thousand Words" in the trade journal Printers' Ink turns into a proverb A picture is worth a thousand words .
science and technology
- January 1: The NC-5 , a US naval aircraft manufactured by the Naval Aircraft Factory according to plans by Glenn Curtiss , flies 702 miles (1129.5 km) in a record time of 9 hours 15 with 5 passengers on board Minutes. It thus reaches an average speed of 123.44 km / h.
- February 24th: Farmer Peder Platz in Jutland finds a tree coffin while cleaning up a hill . According to investigations by Danish scientists, the girl from Egtved is discovered there, who was buried in the Nordic Bronze Age (1800-530 BC).
- March 16: In an experiment, the German chemist Fritz Winkler discovers another physical state : plasma .
- April 1: The French pilot Adrienne Bolland succeeds in the first solo flight of a woman over the Andes . With a Caudron G-III she covers the flight route from Mendoza in Argentina to Santiago de Chile in 4:17 hours.
The quest under Tower Bridge
- September 17th: Under the command of Ernest Shackleton , the Quest expedition leaves London and sets course for Antarctica.
- September 23: At the German Motor Show in Berlin, the first aerodynamically designed car, the Rumpler Teardrop Car, is presented as a world first .
- The Caudron C.61 makes its maiden flight .
- Acetylcholine is successfully isolated as the first messenger substance in the brain .
Culture
Visual arts
- January 6th: The Rembrandt painting Removing Thunderstorm in Autumn Landscape is stolen from the office of the private bank Heckscher in Hamburg . It is worth 2 million marks.
Movie
- JANUARY 21: In New York City has Charles Chaplin's tragicomedy The Kid 's premiere . Six-year-old Jackie Coogan plays the title role and becomes one of the first child stars in film history. Chaplin's future wife Lita Gray has a supporting role in the film.
- January 21: The German drama The Walk into the Night by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau premieres. Olaf Fønss and Erna Morena can be seen in the main roles .
- February 21: The Haunted House ( The enchanted house ) by and starring Buster Keaton will be premiered in the United States.
- February: The film Sehnsucht by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau based on the manuscript The Never Kissed Mouth by Carl Heinz Járosy with Conrad Veidt and Gussy Holl in the leading roles has its world premiere in Germany.
- March 6: The American family epic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ) of Rex Ingram , on the novel based Los cuatro Jinetes de Apocalipsis by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez , will be premiered and causes the breakdown of the young actor Rudolph Valentino .
- March 14: The short film Hard Luck by Buster Keaton premieres in the United States.
- April 7th: The German horror film Schloß Vogelöd by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, based on the crime novel of the same name by Rudolf Stratz , premieres.
- April 12th: The mountain cat , a German silent film grotesque in four acts by Ernst Lubitsch , is premiered in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin.
- April 12: The comedy The High Sign , Buster Keaton's debut as a producer, hits theaters a year late and receives good reviews despite Keaton's skepticism.
- MAY 15: The short film comedy The Scapegoat ( The Goat ) with Buster Keaton and Virginia Fox will premiere in the United States. Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair are responsible for the script and direction .
- August 28: The Three Musketeers is the first major costume film by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. that also stars. The silent film by director Fred Niblo is based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas the Elder and is a great success.
- Probably August: The Hungarian silent film Drakula halála ( Dracula's death ) with the Austrian Paul Askonas in the title role is considered the first Dracula film in film history.
- September 15th: The little lord
- SEPTEMBER 25: The Idle Class ( The fine folks )
- October 6th: The weary death
- October 6: Buster Keaton, In the theater
- October 22: Harold Lloyd last short film comedy Never Weaken ( Just do not weak ) has successfully premiered in the United States. Lloyd then turns to the full-length feature film.
- October 30: The silent film The Sheikh premieres in Los Angeles . Rudolph Valentino as the main actor becomes world famous overnight.
- November 10th: Water has no bars
- December 28th: Two orphans in the storm
- The documentary Manhatta of Charles Sheeler and Paul beach is published.
- The Marx Brothers make their first short film.
- verm 1921. In the Stan Laurel -Kurzfilm The Lucky Dog enters Oliver Hardy in a supporting role. It is the first joint film appearance of the later comedian duo Laurel and Hardy .
Music and theater
- January 3: The ban on Arthur Schnitzler's drama Der Reigen is lifted. It had been criticized for alleged immorality .
- January 5: At the Paris Opera is opera The Valkyrie first Wagner -Inszenierung since 1914 listed.
- April 15: The operetta Der Vetter aus Dingsda by Eduard Künneke takes place at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz in Berlin. The libretto is by Herman Haller and Fritz Oliven . The work becomes Künneke's most successful piece.
- May 23: The African-American musical Shuffle Along premieres on Broadway .
- June 4th: The world premiere of the one-act opera Mörder, Hope der Frauen by Paul Hindemith with the libretto by Oskar Kokoschka takes place together with Hindemith's opera Das Nusch-Nuschi based on the libretto by Franz Bei at the State Opera in Stuttgart.
- September 5th: The Teatro Cervantes , now the National Theater of Argentina, is inaugurated in Buenos Aires .
- September 9: World premiere of the operetta The Tango Queen by Franz Lehár at the Apollo Theater in Vienna. (Second new version of the operetta Der Göttergatte from 1904.)
- September 25: Founding of the Duisburg Opera
- December 30th: World premiere of the opera Die Liebe zu den Drei Orangen (Orig .: L'Amour des trois oranges) by Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew in Chicago
society
- January 2: Increase of wages for prisoners in the German Reich: penitentiary prisoners get from now on Mark 1 instead of 20 Pfennig, other prisoners 1.50 marks instead of 30 penny paid.
- January 17th: The English magician P. T. Selbit is the first to perform the illusion of the sawed-up virgin in London .
- March 27: Robert Oelbermann founds the Nerother Wandervogel at Drachenfels Castle .
- September 7th: As the Atlantic City Pageant , a two-day beauty pageant begins in Atlantic City for the first time , from which the choice for Miss America develops.
- SEPTEMBER 8: The sixteen year old Margaret Gorman wins the beauty contest in Atlantic City and subsequently to the first Miss America says.
- September 5: Director, comedian, and discoverer of Buster Keaton , Roscoe Arbuckle , has a Labor Day party with friends at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco . The young actress Virginia Rappe falls seriously ill and dies four days later in a clinic. Through a number of circumstances, Fatty Arbuckle is charged with rape and murder. His innocence is finally proven in three trials, but his great Hollywood career comes to an end with the scandal.
religion
- May: The Reformed Apostolic Congregation Association comes into being through the exclusion of Carl August Brückner from the New Apostolic Church
- June 29: On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the death of St. Dominic , Pope Benedict XV. its importance for the Church in the encyclical Fausto appetente die .
Disasters
- January 2: 244 people are killed in the sinking of the Spanish steamship Santa Isabell off Gilla Garcia.
- January 31: A five-masted cargo ship Carroll A. Deering , stranded in a heavy storm , is spotted on the sandbars off Cape Hatteras on the east coast of the United States ; no trace of the crew of eleven or the lifeboats is ever found.
- 23 August: Launched by the United States Navy given in the UK in order airship R38 crashes at the fourth test drive near Hull from. Of the British and American crew members, five survive the crash and 44 die. British airship construction is interrupted by the tragic event for about ten years.
- September 21: Ammonium nitrate explosion in the Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik (BASF) Ludwigshafen-Oppau ( German Empire ). 500 dead, 2,000 injured; Building destroyed. See explosion of the Oppau nitrogen works .
- The famine begins in Soviet Russia, killing around 5 million people.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- January 19: The Portuguese football club Sporting Braga is created.
- March 8th: The Aalen Lawn Games Association is founded. A predecessor club with the same name existed before the First World War.
- March 24th: The First Women's Olympic Games start in Monte-Carlo ; they are organized by the International Women's Sports Federation. Around 100 women from England, France, Switzerland and Italy will take part in the event, which will last until March 31. Running competitions (between 60 and 800 meters, hurdles and relay sprints), high and long jump, javelin throw and shot put are held. There is also a basketball tournament as well as demonstrations of gymnastics and the push ball game.
- April 17th: The water sports club 1921 is founded.
- April 28: The early race victory over the incumbent since 1894 Emanuel Lasker is José Raúl Capablanca , the third world chess champion .
- June 12th: With a 5-0 win against the Berliner FC Vorwärts 1890 , 1. FC Nuremberg in Düsseldorf becomes German football champions for the second time since 1920.
- July 21: The SpVgg Bayreuth is founded.
- October 30: At the Campeonato Sudamericano soccer competition in Buenos Aires, the hosts Argentina beat the Uruguayans 1-0 in the last game of the tournament and become South American champions for the first time.
- November 4th: The German Dance Sports Association is created as the Reich Association for Dance Sports through an entry in the Berlin register of associations .
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Albert Einstein
- Chemistry : Frederick Soddy
- Literature : Anatole France
- Nobel Peace Prize : Karl Hjalmar Branting , Christian Lous Lange
A Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was not awarded.
Born
January
- January 1: César Baldaccini , French sculptor and sculptor († 1998)
- January 1: Hermann-Josef Kaltenborn , German local politician († 1999)
- January 1: Alain Mimoun , French athlete of Algerian origin († 2013)
- January 2: Bob Bruce Ashton , American composer and music teacher († 2006)
- January 2: Hans Güth , former German politician (CDU of the GDR) and editor († 2013)
- January 3: Mily Dür , Swiss writer and poet († 2016)
- January 3: Claude Vigée , French poet († 2020)
- January 4: Eberhard Cohrs , German comedian and actor († 1999)
- January 4th: Torsten Lilliecrona , Swedish actor († 1999)
- January 4: Friedrich Schütter , German actor and voice actor († 1995)
- January 5: Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Swiss writer, playwright and painter († 1990)
- January 5: Shinya Inoué , Japanese-American cell biologist († 2019)
- January 5: Jean , Luxembourg Grand Duke, Count and Prince († 2019)
- January 5: Russell Mathews , Australian economist († 2000)
- January 6th: Louis Déprez , French cyclist († 1999)
- January 6: Bob Wilder , American racing driver († 1953)
- January 6: Hans Winter , German mechanical engineer and university professor († 1999)
- January 7: Joseph Asher , German-American rabbi († 1990)
- January 7th: Jules Schelvis , Dutch survivor of the Holocaust († 2016)
- January 8: Leonardo Sciascia , Italian writer († 1989)
- January 9: Fred Kwasi Apaloo , Ghanaian lawyer and politician († 2000)
- January 11th: Kathleen Byron , British film actress († 2009)
- January 11: Juanita M. Kreps , American economist and politician († 2010)
- January 11: Berry Lipman , German band leader, composer, arranger and music producer († 2016)
- January 12: Fride Larsson , Swedish military patrol runner († 1955)
- January 13: Pedro Luís António , Angolan bishop († 2014)
- January 14: Werner Bergmann , German cameraman († 1990)
- January 14: Murray Bookchin , American anarchist († 2006)
- January 14: Kenneth Bulmer , British SF writer († 2005)
- January 15: Edward Statkiewicz , Polish violinist and music teacher († 1970)
- January 16: José Arribas , French coach († 1989)
- January 17: Antonio Prohías , Cuban-American cartoonist († 1998)
- January 18: Yōichirō Nambu , American physicist († 2015)
- January 18: Belding Scribner , American doctor († 2003)
- January 18: Libero Tresoldi , Bishop of Crema, Italy († 2009)
- January 19: Gunther Baumann , German soccer player († 1998)
- January 19: Patricia Highsmith , American writer († 1995)
- January 19: Katrin Höngesberg , German draftsman, painter, illustrator and writer († 2009)
- January 19: Miklós Mészöly , Hungarian writer († 2001)
- January 20: Erwin Brocke , Vice President of the German Federal Social Court († 2004)
- January 20: Bernt Engelmann , German writer and journalist († 1994)
- January 20: Václav Kotva , Czech actor († 2004)
- January 20: Oscar Müller , German actor († 2003)
- January 21: Howard Unruh , American veteran and mass murderer († 2009)
- January 22nd: Arno Babadschanjan , Armenian composer († 1983)
- January 22nd: Sepp Weiler , German ski jumper († 1997)
- January 23: Silvio Gazzaniga , Italian sculptor († 2016)
- January 23: Marija Gimbutas , Lithuanian archaeologist († 1994)
- January 25: Juan Vicente Mas Quiles , Spanish composer and conductor († 2021)
- January 25: Alfred Reed , American composer and professor († 2005)
- January 26th: Eddie Barclay , French music producer († 2005)
- January 27: Georges Mathieu , French painter († 2012)
- January 27: Kurt Meyer , German soccer player († 2008)
- January 27: Donna Reed , American actress († 1986)
- January 28th: Pierre Galet , French oenologist, specialist in vine breeding and ampelography († 2019)
- January 29: Hans Dichand , Austrian journalist, editor of the Kronen Zeitung († 2010)
- January 29: Mustafa bin Halim , Libyan politician († 2021)
- January 31: John Agar , American actor († 2002)
- January 31: John Anderson , American trumpeter († 1974)
- January 31: Eva-Maria Buch , resistance fighter in the Third Reich († 1943)
- January 31: Carol Channing , American singer and actress († 2019)
- January 31: Mario Lanza , American singer (tenor) († 1959)
- January 31: Kurt Marti , Swiss pastor and writer († 2017)
February
- February 1: José-Maria Ibánez , Argentine racing car driver
- February 1: Heinz Kluge , German handball player († 2001)
- February 1: Peter Sallis , British actor and speaker († 2017)
- February 2: Klaus Friedrich , judge at the German Federal Social Court († 2005)
- February 2: Adolf Riedl , German entrepreneur († 2003)
- February 3: Herbert Baack , German politician, member of the Bundestag († 2006)
- February 3: Joseph Wang Dian Duo , Catholic priest († 2004)
- February 4: Betty Friedan , American feminist and publicist († 2006)
- February 4: Lotfi Zadeh , American computer scientist, father of fuzzy logic († 2017)
- February 5: Ken Adam , German-British production designer († 2016)
- February 6: Zvi Aharoni , Israeli Mossad agent († 2012)
- February 7th: Nexhmije Hoxha , Albanian politician († 2020)
- February 8: Hans Albert , German sociologist and philosopher
- February 8: Ekkehard Fritsch , German actor († 1987)
- February 8: Fritz Heinrich , German politician († 1959)
- February 9: Eusebio Castigliano , Italian football player († 1949)
- February 9: Joseph Fontanet , French politician († 1980)
- February 9: Georg Gaidzik , people's police officer and a victim of the popular uprising in the GDR († 1953)
- February 9: Constance Keene , American pianist and music teacher († 2005)
- February 9: Heinz Schöffler , German lecturer, writer, literary and art critic. († 1973)
- February 10: Adrian Cruft , British composer and professor († 1987)
- February 10: Margarete Hannsmann , German writer († 2007)
- February 10: Heinz Quermann , television entertainer of the GDR († 2003)
- February 12: Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli , American programmer († 2006)
- February 12: Günter Aust , German art historian († 2018)
- February 13: Markus Bernhard , German handball and basketball player († 2002)
- February 13: Jeanne Demessieux , French composer, pianist, organist and teacher († 1968)
- February 15: Frank Seno , American football player († 1974)
- February 16: Jean Behra , French racing car driver († 1959)
- February 16: Hua Guofeng , Chinese politician († 2008)
- February 17: Herbert Köfer , German actor, presenter, radio play and voice actor († 2021)
- February 19: Lamberto Antonelli , Italian journalist and author
- February 19: Len Levy , American football player († 1999)
- February 19: Ernie McCoy , American racing car driver († 2001)
- February 19: Claude Pascal , French composer († 2017)
- February 19: Samuel Cochran Phillips , American general († 1990)
- February 19: Ann Savage , American film actress († 2008)
- February 20: Les "Carrot Top" Anderson , American country musician († 2001)
- February 20: Robert Knight Andras , Canadian entrepreneur and politician († 1982)
- February 20: Packiam Arokiaswamy , Archbishop of India († 2003)
- February 20: Louis Biesbrouck , Dutch football player († 2005)
- February 21: John Ralph Armellino , American soldier and politician († 2004)
- February 21: Blanche Aubry , Swiss actress († 1986)
- February 21: Cardinal Antonio María Javierre Ortas , Cardinal Curia († 2007)
- February 21: Zdeněk Miler , Czech animated film maker († 2011)
- February 21: John Rawls , American philosopher († 2002)
- February 22: Sune Andersson , Swedish football player and coach († 2002)
- February 22: Jean-Bédel Bokassa , President and later Emperor of the Central African Republic († 1996)
- February 22: Wayne Booth , American literary scholar († 2005)
- February 22: Giulietta Masina , Italian actress († 1994)
- February 23: Adulf Peter Goop , Liechtenstein legal advisor, local historian and patron († 2011)
- February 24: Ludvík Aškenazy , Czech writer, playwright and screenwriter († 1986)
- February 24: Ingvar Lidholm , Swedish composer († 2017)
- February 24: Ludwig Munzinger junior , German publisher († 2012)
- February 24: Gaston Reiff , Belgian athlete († 1992)
- February 24: Abe Vigoda , American actor († 2016)
- February 25: Rolf Appel , German chemist († 2012)
- February 27: Stan Turley , American politician († 2014)
- February 28: Alexander Arendt , German medic († 1986)
- February 28: August Henne , German forester († 2006)
- February 28: Willi Sitte , German visual artist († 2013)
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March
- March 1: Terence Cooke , Archbishop of New York and Cardinal († 1983)
- March 1: Richard Wilbur , American poet and writer († 2017)
- March 2: Lykke Aresin , German doctor and sexologist († 2011)
- March 2: Cornelius Edward Gallagher , American politician († 2018)
- March 2: Kazimierz Górski , Polish football player and coach († 2006)
- March 2: Ernst Haas , Austrian-American photographer and author († 1986)
- March 2: Robert Simpson , English composer († 1997)
- March 3: Diana Barrymore , American actress († 1960)
- March 3: Paul Guimard , French writer († 2004)
- March 4: Halim El-Dabh , American singer, musicologist and music teacher of Egyptian origin († 2017)
- March 4th: Ademilde Fonseca , Brazilian singer († 2012)
- March 5: Berkley Bedell , American politician († 2019)
- March 5: Günther Neutze , German actor († 1991)
- March 6: Hans-Hubertus Bühmann , German forester and politician († 2014)
- March 7th: Franz Mack , German entrepreneur, founder of Europa-Park († 2010)
- March 8: Alexei Berest , Soviet cosmonaut († 1970)
- March 8: Denys de La Patellière , French film director and screenwriter († 2013)
- March 8: József Romhányi , Hungarian screenwriter, librettist and poet († 1983)
- March 10: Otto Heinrich Kühner , German writer († 1996)
- March 11th: Astor Piazzolla , Argentine tango musician, bandoneon player and composer († 1992)
- March 11: Léopold Reichling , Luxembourg botanist and entomologist († 2009)
- March 12: Giovanni Agnelli , Italian industrialist († 2003)
- March 12: Gordon MacRae , American singer and actor († 1986)
- March 12: Don McCafferty , American football coach († 1974)
- March 12: Chet Mutryn , American football player († 1995)
- March 12: Ralph Shapey , American conductor and composer († 2002)
- March 13: Armando Cabrera , Dominican composer
- March 13: Al Jaffee , American cartoonist
- March 14: Karl Dietrich Adam , German paleontologist († 2012)
- March 14: Waldemar Beck , German rower († 2014)
- March 14: Ulrich Koch , German violist († 1996)
- March 15: Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann , computer scientist from the GDR († 1998)
- March 16: Josef van Eimern , German forest and agricultural meteorologist († 2008)
- March 16: Anne Truitt , American sculptor of minimalism († 2004)
- March 17: Meir Amit , Israeli general and director of the Mossad († 2009)
- March 18: Bartolomeu Anania , Romanian writer and clergyman († 2011)
- March 18: Eilif Armand , Norwegian actor, poet and literary critic († 1993)
- March 18: Hellema , Dutch writer and resistance fighter († 2005)
- March 18: Claire Pratt , Canadian graphic artist, poet and editor († 1995)
- March 19: Émile Bongiorni , French football player († 1949)
- March 19: Joseph-Marie Trinh Van-Can , Archbishop of Hanoi and Cardinal († 1990)
- March 20: Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow , Senegalese politician
- March 20: Rudolf Noelte , German director († 2002)
- March 21: Abd as-Salam Muhammad Arif , President of Iraq († 1966)
- March 21: Paco Godia , Spanish racing car driver († 1990)
- March 21: Arthur Grumiaux , Belgian violinist († 1986)
- March 22nd: Johnny Bruck , German draftsman and photolithographer († 1995)
- March 22nd: John Gilligan , American politician († 2013)
- March 22nd: Nino Manfredi , Italian actor († 2004)
- March 22nd: Wolfgang Schwenke , German zoologist, entomologist and forest scientist († 2006)
- March 22nd: Edith Teichmann , German actress and voice actress († 2018)
- March 23: Donald Campbell , British speed record holder († 1967)
- March 23: Geoffrey Chater , British film actor († 2021)
- March 23: Heinz Rox-Schulz , globetrotter and adventurer († 2004)
- March 23: Gert Fritz Unger , German writer († 2005)
- March 24th: Otto Meyer , German politician († 2013)
- March 24: Ken Rudd , British entrepreneur and racing car driver († 2009)
- March 24th: Wassili Wassiljewitsch Smyslow , Russian chess grandmaster († 2010)
- March 25: Hans Guido Mutke , fighter pilot in the Air Force († 2004)
- March 25: Simone Signoret , French actress († 1985)
- March 25th: Trude Simonsohn , Jewish Auschwitz survivor
- March 25: Josef Staribacher , Austrian politician († 2014)
- March 27: Georges Anderla , French economist and statistician († 2005)
- March 27: Paulo Moacyr Barbosa Nascimento , Brazilian soccer player († 2000)
- March 27: Toni Berger , German folk actor († 2005)
- March 27: Johanna König , German actress († 2009)
- March 27: Phil Chess , American record producer († 2016)
- March 28: Harold Melvin Agnew , American physicist († 2013)
- March 28: Dirk Bogarde , British actor († 1999)
- March 28: Herschel Grynszpan , political assassin, justification for Reichspogromnacht (lost 1942)
- March 30th: Aquilino Boyd , Panamanian diplomat and politician († 2004)
- March 30: Ishii Kan , Japanese composer († 2009)
- March 31: Lowell Fulson , American blues guitarist and singer († 1999)
April
- April 1: Dante Agostini , French drummer († 1980)
- April 1: Frederick Fortune , American bobsledder († 1994)
- April 1: André Stil , French writer († 2004)
- April 2nd: Theodor Herrmann , German soccer player
- April 3: Franz Geiger , German screenwriter, director and actor († 2011)
- April 3: Jan Sterling , American stage and film actress († 2004)
- April 4: Leonhard Mahlein , German trade unionist († 1985)
- April 4: Hans Schilling , German architect († 2009)
- April 6: Arnold Marquis , German actor and voice actor († 1990)
- April 6: Heinrich Schmid , German linguist († 1999)
- April 6: Christel Schulz , German athlete († 2014)
- April 7th: Bill Butler , American cinematographer
- April 8: Franco Corelli , Italian singer (tenor) († 2003)
- April 8: Jan Novák , Czech composer († 1984)
- April 9: Francesco Adorno , Italian university professor and historian of philosophy († 2010)
- April 9: Vince Banonis , American football player († 2010)
- April 9: Carlos Pizarro , Puerto Rican singer († 2000)
- April 9: Alfred Preißler , German soccer player († 2003)
- April 9: Hansjürg Steinlin , Swiss forest scientist († 2004)
- April 10: Chuck Connors , American actor († 1992)
- April 12: Slim Dortch , American country and rockabilly musician († 2000)
- April 12: James Dougherty , American police officer and first husband of Marilyn Monroe († 2005)
- April 12: Frans Krajcberg , Brazilian sculptor and painter († 2017)
- April 12: Günter Gerhard Lange , German typographer and teacher († 2008)
- April 13: Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon , Swiss entrepreneur and art collector († 2002)
- April 14: Thomas Schelling , American economist and Nobel Prize winner († 2016)
- April 14: Gerhard Schürer , German politician († 2010)
- April 15: Georgi Timofejewitsch Beregowoi , Soviet cosmonaut († 1995)
- April 15: Ray Poole , American football player († 2008)
- April 16: Víctor Balaguer , Spanish singer († 1984)
- April 16: Alfons Michael Dauer , German musicologist and ethnologist († 2010)
- April 16: Dieter Korp , German journalist and specialist book author († 2015)
- April 16: Wolfgang Leonhard , German historian and author († 2014)
- April 16: Peter Ustinov , writer, actor, director († 2004)
- April 17th: Sergio Sollima , Italian film director († 2015)
- April 18: Heinz Werner Hübner , German journalist († 2005)
- April 19: Hans Landauer , Austrian freedom fighter in the Spanish Civil War († 2014)
- April 19: Reece Shipley , American country musician († 1998)
- April 19: Roberto Cardinal Tucci , Artistic Director of Radio Vatican († 2015)
- April 20: Marianne Hediger , Swiss actress († 2017)
- April 21: Nicolaus Dreyer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 2003)
- April 21: Michel Hakim , Lebanese Archbishop († 2006)
- April 21: Sieglinde Wagner , Austrian singer († 2003)
- April 22nd: Candido Camero , Cuban percussionist († 2020)
- April 22nd: Charles Philip "Gabby" , Hawaiian steel guitarist († 1980)
- April 23: Elinor Isabel Judefind Agnew , wife of Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnews († 2012)
- April 23: Toni Schmücker , German industrial manager, VW CEO 1975–1981 († 1996)
- April 25: Karel Appel , Dutch painter and co-founder of the painter group "Cobra" († 2006)
- April 26: Jimmy Giuffre , American jazz musician († 2008)
- April 26: François Picard , French racing car driver († 1996)
- April 26: Horst Schulze , German actor and opera singer († 2018)
- April 27: Robert Dhéry , French film actor and director († 2004)
- April 27: Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff , German actor and television presenter († 1998)
- April 27: Pietro Mitolo , South Tyrolean politician († 2010)
- April 27: Erwin Ringel , Austrian depth psychologist and neurologist († 1994)
- April 28: Stana Tomašević , Yugoslav partisan, politician and diplomat († 1983)
- April 30: Roger L. Easton , American scientist († 2014)
- April 30th: Pierre Flahault , French racing driver († 2016)
May
- May 1: Robert Goldmann , American journalist († 2018)
- May 1: Rudolf Rumetsch , German administrative lawyer, district administrator and ministerial official († 1998)
- May 2: Satyajit Ray , Indian director († 1992)
- May 3: Vasco Gonçalves , Portuguese military officer and politician († 2005)
- May 3: Karl-Heinz Spilker , German politician, Member of the Bundestag and treasurer of the CSU († 2011)
- May 4: Werner Schumacher , German actor († 2004)
- May 5: May Nilsson , Swedish ski racer († 2009)
- May 5: Arthur L. Schawlow , American physicist († 1999)
- May 6: Erich Fried , Austrian poet, translator and essayist († 1988)
- May 6: Elizabeth Sellars , British actress († 2019)
- May 7: Georges Harris , Belgian racing driver († 2019)
- May 7: Gaston Rébuffat , French mountaineer († 1985)
- May 8: Henri Arends , Dutch conductor († 1994)
- May 8: Marie-Madeleine Duruflé , French organist († 1999)
- May 9: Daniel Berrigan , American Jesuit, writer and peace activist († 2016)
- May 9: Sophie Scholl , German resistance fighter in the Third Reich († 1943)
- May 10: Oliver Hassencamp , German cabaret artist, actor and author († 1988)
- May 11: Geoffrey Crossley , British racing driver († 2002)
- May 11: Herbert Giersch , German economist († 2010)
- May 11: Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , German politician († 2016)
- May 12: Giovanni Benelli , Archbishop of Florence and Cardinal († 1982)
- May 12: Joseph Beuys , German artist († 1986)
- May 12: Farley Mowat , Canadian writer († 2014)
- May 13: Terry Fell , American country musician († 2007)
- May 13: Wolfgang Jacobeit , German folklorist († 2018)
- May 13: Carlos Werner , German actor († 2016)
- May 14: Hafiz Sabri Koçi , Albanian theologian († 2004)
- May 15: Čestmír Vycpálek , Czech football player and coach († 2002)
- May 16: Harry Carey junior , American film actor († 2012)
- May 16: Winnie Markus , German film actress († 2002)
- May 17th: Dennis Brain , British horn player († 1957)
- May 17: Sigi Feigel , Swiss lawyer who campaigned against anti-Semitism († 2004)
- May 18: Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz , British mathematician († 2009)
- May 19: Martha Carson , American country gospel musician († 2004)
- May 19: Daniel Gélin , French actor († 2002)
- May 20: Erwin Andrä , German designer, university rector and deputy chairman of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR
- May 20: Wolfgang Borchert , German writer († 1947)
- May 20: Karl Dedecius , German translator († 2016)
- May 20: Aldo Gordini , French racing car driver († 1995)
- May 20: Hal Newhouser , American baseball player († 1998)
- May 21: Jean Dewasne , French painter, sculptor and author († 1999)
- May 21: Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sakharov , Soviet nuclear scientist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate († 1989)
- May 21: Adriano Soldini , Swiss educator and writer († 1989)
- May 23: Walter Baum , German typographer, teacher and graphic artist († 2007)
- May 23: James Blish , American science fiction writer († 1975)
- May 23: Humphrey Lyttelton , British jazz musician and author († 2008)
- May 23: Grigory Tschuchrai , Soviet film director († 2001)
- May 25: Hal David , American pop music lyricist († 2012)
- May 25: Jack Steinberger , American physicist († 2020)
- May 26: Walter Laqueur , American historian († 2018)
- May 27: Charles Gates Jr. , American businessman and philanthropist († 2005)
- May 27: Harry G. Haskell , American politician († 2020)
- May 28: Heinz Günther Konsalik , German writer († 1999)
- May 28: Edwin Koller , Swiss politician († 2005)
- May 28: Bill Paschal , American football player († 2003)
- May 29: Alessandro Bausani , Italian Iranist, Islamic scholar and linguist († 1988)
- May 30: Frank Kilroy , American football player († 2007)
June
- June 1: Nelson Riddle , American composer and big band leader († 1985)
- June 1: Albert Tepper , American composer and music teacher († 2010)
- June 3: Charlie Aldrich , American country musician, guitarist and composer († 2015)
- June 3: Eberhard Schlotter , German painter and graphic artist († 2014)
- June 4: Bobby Wanzer , American basketball player († 2016)
- June 6: Horst-Gregorio Canellas , German football official († 1999)
- June 7th: Tal Farlow , American jazz guitarist († 1998)
- June 7: Bernard Lown , American cardiologist and activist († 2021)
- June 7th: Hans Oswald , German soccer player
- June 8th: Anneliese Overbeck , German painter and graphic artist († 2004)
- June 8: Ivan Southall , Australian author for young people and non-fiction († 2008)
- June 8: Suharto , Indonesian general and politician († 2008)
- June 10: Sergio Victor Arellano Stark , Chilean major general († 2016)
- June 10: Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , husband of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain († 2021)
- June 10: Kåre Fuglesang , Norwegian violinist and music teacher († 2000)
- June 10: Jean Robic , French cyclist († 1980)
- June 10: Hans Rotta , German publisher, editor, editor and biologist († 2008)
- June 10: Garry Walberg , American actor († 2012)
- June 11: Hans Detlev Becker , German journalist († 2014)
- June 11: Waltrud Will-Feld , German politician († 2013)
- June 12: Hans Carl Artmann , Austrian poet († 2000)
- June 12: Heinz Weiss , German actor († 2010)
- June 12: Johan Witteveen , Dutch politician and Managing Director of the IMF († 2019)
- June 14: Samuel C. Ashcroft , American Braille pioneer († 2006)
- June 14: Hans Stark , SS-Unterscharführer († 1991)
- June 15: Erroll Garner , American composer and pianist († 1977)
- June 15: Heinz Kaminski , German chemical engineer and space researcher († 2002)
- June 16: Olav Hodne , Norwegian missionary and author († 2009)
- June 16: Gustav Just , journalist in the GDR († 2011)
- June 17: William Anderson , American naval officer, explorer and politician († 2007)
- June 17th: Tony Scott , American jazz musician (clarinet, saxophone, electronics, composition) († 2007)
- June 18: Chaya Arbel , Israeli composer († 2006)
- June 19: Louis Jourdan , French actor († 2015)
- June 20: Matilde Rosa Araújo , Portuguese writer († 2010)
- June 20: Pancho Segura , tennis player from Ecuador († 2017)
- June 21: Gebhard Büchel , Liechtenstein decathlete
- June 21: Helmut Heißenbüttel , German writer († 1996)
- June 21: Judy Holliday , American actress († 1965)
- June 21: Jane Russell , American actress († 2011)
- June 23: Paul Findley , American politician († 2019)
- June 24th: Hans Geissberger , Swiss sculptor and painter († 1999)
- June 24th: Gerhard Sommer , German SS-Untersturmführer († 2019)
- June 25: Celia Franca , Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer († 2007)
- June 25: Heinrich Windelen , German politician († 2015)
- June 27: Yusuf Atılgan , Turkish writer († 1989)
- June 27: Muriel Pavlow , British film actress († 2019)
- June 27: Roy Schechter , American aviator and racing car driver († 2016)
- June 28: Peter Dubovský , Slovak auxiliary bishop († 2008)
- June 28: PV Narasimha Rao , Indian politician († 2004)
- June 29: Reinhard Mohn , German entrepreneur, publisher († 2009)
- June 29th: Heinz Rath , German soccer player
- June 30: Oswaldo López Arellano , Honduran President († 2010)
- June 30th: Pierre Labric , French organist, composer and music teacher
July
- July 1: François Abou Mokh , Syrian Curia Bishop († 2006)
- July 1: Seretse Khama , first President of Botswana († 1980)
- July 3: Leo Navratil , Austrian psychiatrist († 2006)
- July 4th: Gérard Debreu , French economist and Nobel Prize winner († 2004)
- July 4th: Tibor Varga , Hungarian violinist, conductor and teacher († 2003)
- July 5: Hugo Staudinger , German historian and scientific theorist († 2004)
- July 6: Charles A. Ferguson , American linguist († 1998)
- July 6: Nancy Reagan , American actress and first lady († 2016)
- July 7th: Rollo Gebhard , German single-handed sailor, author and animal rights activist († 2013)
- July 7th: Adolf von Thadden , German politician († 1996)
- July 7th: Stanisław Wisłocki , Polish composer, conductor and music teacher († 1998)
- July 8: Arturo Gatica , Chilean singer († 1996)
- July 8: John Money , New Zealand psychologist and sex researcher († 2006)
- July 8th: Edgar Morin , French sociologist and philosopher
- July 9: Hans-Joachim Reiche , German journalist († 2005)
- July 10: Harvey Ball , American graphic designer († 2001)
- July 10: Jake LaMotta , American middleweight boxer († 2017)
- July 10: Eunice Shriver , activist for the disabled († 2009)
- July 11: Ilse Werner , German actress († 2005)
- July 12: Peter Edel , German graphic artist and writer († 1983)
- July 13: Ernest Gold , American composer of Austrian origin († 1999)
- July 13: Friedrich Peter , Austrian politician († 2005)
- July 14th: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson , British chemist († 1996)
- July 15: Jack Beeson , American composer († 2010)
- July 15: Manolo Fábregas , Mexican actor, director and film producer of Spanish origin († 1996)
- July 15: Jean Heywood , British actress († 2019)
- July 16: Ernst Beyeler , Swiss artist († 2010)
- July 17: Burnu Acquanetta , American actress († 2004)
- July 17th: Louis Lachenal , French mountaineer († 1955)
- July 17: Bernard Morel , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor († 1996)
- July 17th: Lito Peña , Puerto Rican saxophonist, band leader, composer and arranger († 2002)
- July 18: Aaron T. Beck , American psychiatrist and psychotherapist († 2021)
- July 18: Heinz Bennent , German actor († 2011)
- July 18: John Glenn , American test pilot, astronaut and politician († 2016)
- July 18: Richard Leacock , British documentary director and cameraman († 2011)
- July 18: Hans Conrad Leipelt , German student and member of the White Rose († 1945)
- July 19: Bertil Antonsson , Swedish wrestler († 2006)
- July 19: Harold Camping , American radio preacher († 2013)
- July 19: Laurence Mitchell , British racing driver († 2009)
- July 19: André Moynet , French aviator in World War II, politician and racing car driver († 1993)
- July 19: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner († 2011)
- July 20: Désiré Dondeyne , French composer and conductor († 2015)
- July 20: Mercedes Pardo , Venezuelan painter († 2005)
- July 21: James Cooke Brown , American sociologist and science fiction writer († 2000)
- July 21: Ted Schroeder , American tennis player († 2006)
- July 21: Werner Schubert-Deister , German painter and sculptor († 1991)
- July 22nd: Rudolf Diwald , Austrian table tennis player († 1952)
- July 22: William V. Roth , American politician († 2003)
- July 23: Robert Brown , British actor († 2003)
- July 24: Giuseppe Di Stefano , Italian opera singer (tenor) († 2008)
- July 25: Adolph Herseth , American trumpeter († 2013)
- July 25: Paul Watzlawick , Austrian psychotherapist and author († 2007)
- July 26: Amedeo Amadei , Italian football player and coach († 2013)
- July 26: Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel , German politician, Member of the Bundestag († 2007)
- July 26: Karin Hertz , German sculptor († 2017)
- July 27: Eugenio Coseriu , Romance studies and general linguist († 2002)
- July 27: Émile Genest , Canadian actor and comedian († 2003)
- July 27: Karl Ernst Tielebier-Langenscheidt , German publisher
- July 29: Chris Marker , French writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker († 2012)
- July 31: Peter Benenson , British lawyer, founder of Amnesty International († 2005)
- July 31: Vladimir Keilis-Borok , Russian geophysicist and earthquake researcher († 2013)
- July 31: Margarita Luna García , Dominican pianist and composer († 2016)
- July 31: Donald Malarkey , American paratrooper († 2017)
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August
- August 1: Jack Kramer , American tennis player († 2009)
- August 2: Rudi Michel , German sports journalist († 2008)
- August 2nd: Erwin Wenzl , Austrian politician († 2005)
- August 3: Richard Adler , American composer and songwriter († 2012)
- August 3: Frank De Felitta , American actor and screenwriter († 2016)
- August 3: Marilyn Maxwell , American actress († 1972)
- August 4th: Herb Ellis , American jazz musician († 2010)
- August 4: Maurice Richard , Canadian ice hockey player († 2000)
- August 6: Buddy Collette , American jazz musician († 2010)
- August 7th: René Alain , Canadian accordionist († 1968)
- August 7: Karel Husa , American composer and professor († 2016)
- August 8: Roger Nixon , American composer and music teacher († 2009)
- August 8: Webb Pierce , American country singer († 1991)
- August 8: Esther Williams , American actress († 2013)
- August 9: Lola Bobesco , Belgian violinist of Romanian origin († 2003)
- August 9: John James Exon , American politician († 2005)
- August 10: John Archer , British sprinter († 1997)
- August 10: Agnes Giebel , German soprano († 2017)
- August 11: Alex Haley , American writer († 1992)
- August 11: Frederick Mayer , German educator, university professor, author († 2006)
- August 11: Carl Möhner , Austrian actor and painter († 2005)
- August 12: Martin Appelfeller , German major general († 2001)
- August 13: Raúl Matas , Chilean journalist and presenter († 2004)
- August 13: Engelbert Niebler , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court († 2006)
- August 13: Imre Sarkadi , Hungarian writer († 1961)
- August 14: Julia Hartwig , Polish poet and translator († 2017)
- August 14: Giorgio Strehler , Italian director († 1997)
- August 15: Eckart Afheldt , German military († 1999)
- August 16: Hans Karl Otto Asplund , Swedish architect († 1994)
- August 16: Avrahm Galper , Canadian clarinetist and music teacher († 2004)
- August 16: Max Thurian , Swiss theologian († 1996)
- August 16: Dick Wildung , American football player († 2006)
- August 17: Geoffrey Rudolph Elton , British historian of German origin († 1994)
- August 17: Walter Koschatzky , Austrian art historian († 2003)
- August 19: Jonas Algirdas Antanaitis , Lithuanian politician († 2018)
- August 19: Gene Roddenberry , screenwriter, television and film producer († 1991)
- August 20: Leonid Viktorovich Afanassjew , Soviet composer († 1995)
- August 20: Jürgen Kieser , German comic artist, commercial artist and caricaturist († 2019)
- August 21: Wolfgang Heyl , German politician († 2014)
- August 22: Michael Yeats , Irish politician (Fianna Fáil) († 2007)
- August 23: Kenneth Arrow , American economist († 2017)
- August 23: Franco Ossola , Italian football player († 1949)
- August 24: Schuyler Carron , American bobsleigh athlete († 1964)
- August 24: Ercole Rabitti , Italian football player and coach († 2009)
- August 24: Sam Tingle , Rhodesian racing car driver († 2008)
- August 25: Walter Achenbach , German physician († 2015)
- August 25: Monty Hall , Canadian show host and television producer († 2017)
- August 25: Brian Moore , writer and screenwriter († 1999)
- August 26: Shimshon Avraham Amitsur , Israeli mathematician († 1994)
- August 26: Ben Bradlee , American journalist, Vice President of the Washington Post († 2014)
- August 26: Maxime A. Faget , American NASA space technician († 2004)
- August 27: Gerhard Kander , Canadian violinist († 2008)
- August 27: Leo Penn , American film director, actor, screenwriter and film producer († 1998)
- August 27: Karel Ptáčník , Czech writer († 2002)
- August 27: Manuel Rueda , Dominican writer and pianist († 1999)
- August 28: Fernando Fernán Gómez , Spanish actor and director († 2007)
- August 28: Barbro Hiort af Ornäs , Swedish actress († 2015)
- August 28: Fred Weyrich , German music producer, songwriter and singer († 1999)
- August 29: Iris Apfel , American businesswoman
- August 29: Gerhard Grüneberg , SED functionary († 1981)
- August 29: Erni Singerl , Bavarian folk actress († 2005)
- August 31: Hermann Vetter , German soccer player
September
- September 1: Dieter Ahlers , German lawyer († 2009)
- September 1: Willem Frederik Hermans , Dutch writer († 1995)
- September 1: Kurt Hübner , German philosopher († 2013)
- September 2: Ernst Balluf , Austrian painter and graphic artist († 2008)
- September 3: John Aston , English football player († 2003)
- September 3: Henry Bellmon , American politician († 2009)
- September 3: Luigi Bühler , Swiss chess problem composer († 2004)
- September 3: Thurston Dart , English harpsichordist, conductor and music teacher († 1971)
- September 3: Ruth Orkin , American photographer and filmmaker († 1985)
- September 4: Ariel Ramírez , Argentine composer († 2010)
- September 4: Herbert Weicker , German actor and voice actor († 1997)
- September 5: Karl Decker , Austrian soccer player and coach († 2005)
- September 5: Jack Valenti , longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America († 2007)
- September 6: Carmen Laforet , Spanish writer († 2004)
- September 8: Hans Ulrich Engelmann , German composer († 2011)
- September 8: Victor Razafimahatratra , Archbishop of Antananarivo and Cardinal († 1993)
- September 9: Solomon Konstantinowitsch Apt , Russian translator († 2010)
- September 9: Andrzej Dobrowolski , Polish composer and music teacher († 1990)
- September 9: Evelyn M. Witkin , American geneticist
- September 10: Alfred Bengsch , Catholic bishop and cardinal († 1979)
- September 11th: Myqerem Fuga , Albanian politician († 2003)
- September 11th: Bruno Moravetz , German sports reporter († 2013)
- September 11th: Ydnekachew Tessema , Ethiopian football player and sports official († 1987)
- September 12: Stanisław Lem , Polish philosopher, essayist and science fiction author († 2006)
- September 14: Erhard Agricola , German linguist and writer († 1995)
- September 14: Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns , Brazilian Bishop († 2016)
- September 14: Helmut Bantz , German gymnast († 2004)
- September 15: Henry H. Arnhold , American banker († 2018)
- September 15: Snooky Pryor , American blues singer and harmonica player († 2006)
- September 16: Jon Hendricks , American jazz singer († 2017)
- September 17: Virgilio Barco Vargas , politician and President of the Republic of Colombia († 1997)
- September 17: Roger H. Zion , American politician († 2019)
- September 18: Nermin Abadan-Unat , German-Turkish sociologist and women's researcher
- September 18: Kamal Hasan Ali , Egyptian general, politician and Prime Minister († 1993)
- September 19: Paulo Freire , Brazilian educator, lawyer, historian, philosopher († 1997)
- September 20: Carlo Parola , Italian football player and coach († 2000)
- September 21: Chico Hamilton , American jazz musician and composer († 2013)
- September 22nd: Wolfgang Arnold , Austrian writer († 1998)
- September 22nd: Ian Raby , British racing car driver († 1967)
- September 23: Ernst Naumann , German publisher († 2004)
- September 25: Jacques Martin , French comic artist († 2010)
- September 25: Ann-Charlott Settgast , German writer († 1988)
- September 26: Hellmut Arnold , German officer
- September 26: Cyprian Ekwensi , Nigerian writer († 2007)
- September 26: Tivadar Kardos , Hungarian chess problem composer († 1998)
- September 27: Gonzague Olivier , French racing car driver and boat builder († 2013)
- September 27: John Malcolm Patterson , American politician († 2021)
- September 29: Wolfgang Mischnick , German politician and Federal Minister († 2002)
- September 29: Otto Gerhard Prokop , Austrian anatomist and forensic doctor († 2009)
- September 30th: Deborah Kerr , American actress († 2007)
- September 30th: Leo Mülfarth , German author and university lecturer († 2009)
- September 30: Stanisław Nagy , Polish theologian and cardinal († 2013)
October
- October 2: Peter Florin , German politician († 2014)
- October 2: Mike Nazaruk , American racing car driver († 1955)
- October 2: Albert Scott Crossfield , American test pilot († 2006)
- October 2: Giorgio Scarlatti , Italian racing car driver († 1990)
- October 3: Hermann Arnhold , Russian poet († 1991)
- October 4: Alexander Leonowitsch Kemurdschian , Russian aerospace engineer († 2003)
- October 4th: Francisco Morales Bermúdez , President of Peru from 1975 to 1980
- October 4: Pierre Riché , French historian († 2019)
- October 5: Johann Ludwig Atrops , German engineer († 2001)
- October 5: Joachim Piefke , German manager († 2003)
- October 5: Bill Willis , American football player and coach († 2007)
- October 6: Rinaldo Martino , Argentine-Italian football player († 2000)
- October 6: Boris Mersson , Swiss composer and pianist († 2013)
- October 6: Julia Dingwort-Nusseck , German business journalist
- October 7: Dirk Dautzenberg , German actor and theater director († 2009)
- October 7: Raymond Goethals , Belgian football coach († 2004)
- October 7: Siegfried Spielmann , German billiard player († 1999)
- October 8: Mélanie Berger-Volle , Austro-French tailor, resistance fighter and contemporary witness
- October 8: Günther Jerschke , German actor († 1997)
- October 9: Adrienne Clostre , French composer († 2006)
- October 9: María Luisa Landín , Mexican singer († 2014)
- October 9: Tadeusz Różewicz , Polish writer († 2014)
- October 9: Georg Schreiber , German physician and medical journalist († 1996)
- October 10: Julius Watkins , American horn player († 1977)
- October 10: Andrea Zanzotto , Italian poet († 2011)
- October 11: Ernst Dürr , Austrian politician († 2002)
- October 12: Jaroslav Drobný , Czechoslovak tennis and ice hockey player († 2001)
- October 13: Jaroslav Juhan , Guatemalan racing car driver († 2011)
- October 13: Salvador Minuchin , Argentine pediatrician and psychotherapist († 2017)
- October 13: Yves Montand , French chansonnier and actor († 1991)
- October 14: Josef Amadori , German soccer player († 2007)
- October 14: Jean-Daniel Chapuis , Swiss Protestant clergyman († 1988)
- October 15: Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu , Romanian table tennis player († 2006)
- October 15: Hoimar von Ditfurth , German writer and television presenter († 1989)
- October 15: Al Pease , Canadian racing car driver († 2014)
- October 16: Esteban Servellón , Salvadoran composer, musician, conductor and music teacher († 2003)
- October 16: Georges Wilson , French actor († 2010)
- October 19: Bill Bright , American evangelist († 2003)
- October 19: George Nader , American actor († 2002)
- October 19: Gunnar Nordahl , Swedish football player († 1995)
- October 20: Manuel Ayulo , American racing driver († 1955)
- October 20: Heinz Lehmann , German chess player († 1995)
- October 21: Malcolm Arnold , English composer († 2006)
- October 22: Georges Brassens , French poet, author and interpreter of chansons († 1981)
- October 22: Herbert Gruhl , German politician and environmentalist († 1993)
- October 22: Cuthbert Sebastian , Governor General of St. Kitts and Nevis († 2017)
- October 22: Czesław Słania , stamp and banknote engraver († 2005)
- October 24: Ulrich Berger , German politician and trade unionist († 2003)
- October 24: Rafa Galindo , Venezuelan singer († 2010)
- October 24: Sena Jurinac , Croatian singer († 2011)
- October 24: Flor Roffé de Estévez , Venezuelan music teacher and composer († 2004)
- October 25: Michael I , last Romanian king († 2017)
- October 26: Joe Fulks , American basketball player († 1976)
- October 27: José Ádem Chain , Mexican mathematician († 1991)
- October 27: Nell I. Mondy , American biochemist († 2005)
- October 28: Alewtina Bilinkina , Soviet volcanologist and geologist († 1951)
- October 29: Alois Mertes , German politician († 1985)
- October 30: Abraham Leonardus Appel , Dutch football player and coach († 1997)
- October 30: Rudolf Asmus , Czech opera singer († 2000)
- October 31: Walter Fitz , German pop singer, composer and popular actor († 1992)
- October: Hans Wrage , German painter († 2012)
November
- November 1: Ilse Aichinger , Austrian writer († 2016)
- November 1: Wadih El Safi , Lebanese singer, songwriter, composer and actor († 2013)
- November 1: Harald Quandt , German industrialist († 1967)
- November 2: Federico Brito Figueroa , Venezuelan Marxist historian and anthropologist († 2000)
- November 2: Sören Kam , member of the Danish SS units († 2015)
- November 2: William Schaefer , American politician († 2011)
- November 2nd: Wanda Półtawska , Polish psychiatrist
- November 3: Charles Bronson , American actor († 2003)
- November 4th: Kurt Abraham , German jazz musician († 1988)
- November 4: Gert Ledig , German writer († 1999)
- November 4: Miriam Solovieff , American violinist and music teacher († 2004)
- November 5: Kurt Adolff , German racing driver († 2012)
- November 5th: Jacqueline Brumaire , French soprano († 2000)
- November 5th: György Cziffra , Hungarian pianist († 1994)
- November 5: Fausia of Egypt , first wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen of Iran († 2013)
- November 5: Walter Queißner , German long-distance runner and sports official († 1997)
- November 6th: Julius Hackethal , German medic († 1997)
- November 6: Karl Herold , German politician († 1977)
- November 6: James Jones , American writer († 1977)
- November 7th: Andrew Athanassoulias Athens , American businessman († 2013)
- November 7th: Manuel Fernández Álvarez , Spanish historian († 2010)
- November 8: Walter Mirisch , American film producer
- November 9: Pierrette Alarie , Canadian singer and vocal teacher († 2011)
- November 10: Abd ar-Rahman Scharkawi , Egyptian writer († 1987)
- November 11: Bruno Banducci , American football player († 1985)
- November 11th: Terrel Bell , American politician († 1996)
- November 11: Milorad Pavić , Yugoslav football coach († 2005)
- November 12: Hartmut Aschermann , German theologian († 2009)
- November 12: Robert Fleming , Canadian composer, pianist, organist, choir director and music teacher († 1976)
- November 13: Ghislaine Demonceau , French violinist († 2014)
- November 13: Yoshiro Irino , Japanese composer († 1980)
- November 13: Joonas Kokkonen , Finnish composer († 1996)
- November 14: Constance Baker Motley , US federal judge († 2005)
- November 15: Gil Bouley , American football player († 2006)
- November 15: Helmut Schönnamsgruber , German scientist, nature conservationist and club and association official († 2008)
- November 16: Edmondo Fabbri , Italian football player and coach († 1995)
- November 17: Albert Bertelsen , Danish painter († 2019)
- November 17th: Edith Keller-Herrmann , German chess player († 2010)
- November 17: Warren Tallman , American literary scholar († 1994)
- November 18: Chabua Amiredschibi , Georgian writer († 2013)
- November 19: Géza Anda , Swiss pianist († 1976)
- November 19: Max Kruse , German children's book author († 2015)
- November 20: Jim Garrison , New Orleans attorney 1962-1973 († 1992)
- November 20: Robert Schwan , German football manager († 2002)
- November 21: Maxwell William Ward , Canadian aviation pioneer and entrepreneur († 2020)
- November 22nd: Pierre Arnold , Swiss manager († 2007)
- November 22: Rodney Dangerfield , American comedian, actor († 2004)
- November 22: Henry F. Sherwood , German-American computer pioneer († 2005)
- November 24: John Lindsay , American politician († 2000)
- November 24th: Lieselotte Quilling , German actress († 1997)
- November 25: Vladimír Černušák , Czechoslovak sports official († 2018)
- November 25: Gottfried Sälzler , German soccer player and sports official († 1968)
- November 26: Henry Beckman , Canadian actor († 2008)
- November 26th: Françoise Gilot , French painter
- November 27: Alexander Dubček , Slovak politician († 1992)
- November 29: Warren Anderson , American manager († 2014)
- November 30th: Edward Adamczyk , Polish athlete and physical education teacher († 1993)
December
- December 2: Otis Dudley Duncan , American sociologist († 2004)
- December 2: Carlo Furno , Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 2015)
- December 3: Phyllis Curtin , American opera singer (soprano) and music teacher († 2016)
- December 4: Carlos Franqui , Cuban poet, writer, journalist and art critic († 2010)
- December 4: Paul Schäfer , German founder of Colonia Dignidad in Chile († 2010)
- December 5: Satoshi Anabuki , Japanese fighter pilot († 2005)
- December 5: Louis de Froment , French conductor († 1994)
- December 6: Khalil Abi-Nader , Lebanese bishop († 2009)
- December 6th: Marcel Callo , French Catholic youth worker and opponent of National Socialism († 1945)
- December 6: Otto Graham , American football player and coach, basketball player († 2003)
- December 7th: Tilda Thamar , Argentine film actress and painter († 1989)
- December 8: Peter René Körner , German actor, singer and presenter († 1989)
- December 9th: Herbert Koschel , German javelin thrower († 1980)
- December 10: Richard Ackerschott , German football player († 2002)
- December 10: Christine Brückner , German writer († 1996)
- December 10th: Georg Stefan Troller , Austrian writer, television journalist and documentary filmmaker
- December 11th: Liz Smith , British film actress († 2016)
- December 11: Bob Zimny , American football player († 2011)
- December 12th: George Frankl , Austrian psychoanalyst, philosopher and author († 2004)
- December 12: Valerie Steinmann , Swiss actress († 2011)
- December 13: Ludwig Baumann , German peace activist († 2018)
- December 14: Mike McCormack , American politician († 2020)
- December 14: Charley Trippi , American football player and coach
- December 15: Nadija Andrianowa , Ukrainian author, translator and Esperantist († 1998)
- December 15: Evelyn Künneke , German singer, dancer and actress († 2001)
- December 17th: Anne Golon , French writer († 2017)
- December 18: Renato Baldini , Italian film actor († 1995)
- December 19: Noel George Butlin , Australian economist and historian († 1991)
- December 19: Christian Kipfer , Swiss gymnast († 2009)
- December 19: Ludvík Podéšt , Czech composer († 1968)
- December 20: Willi Walter Horst Ankermann , German pharmacologist and sculptor († 2005)
- December 20: George Roy Hill , American film director († 2002)
- December 20: Gomi Kōsuke , Japanese writer († 1980)
- December 21: Heinrich Adameck , SED functionary and chairman of the State Committee for Television († 2010)
- December 21: Karl-Günther Bechem , German racing driver († 2011)
- December 21: Paul Falk , German figure skater († 2017)
- December 21: Augusto Monterroso , Guatemalan writer and diplomat († 2003)
- December 21: Maila Nurmi , American actress († 2008)
- December 22nd: Dimitris Fampas , Greek guitarist and composer († 1996)
- December 22nd: Laine Mets , Estonian pianist and music teacher († 2007)
- December 22nd: Reinhold Stecher , Austrian clergyman, Bishop of the Diocese of Innsbruck († 2013)
- December 23: Hans Bausch , German journalist and broadcast director († 1991)
- December 23: Ludwig Deiters , German architect and general curator in the GDR († 2018)
- December 23: Günther Nenning , Austrian journalist, author and political activist († 2006)
- December 23: Heinrich Riethmüller , German composer († 2006)
- December 24: Bill Dudley , American football player († 2010)
- December 25: Walter Than , German table tennis player († 2011)
- December 26: Steve Allen , American comedian and musician († 2000)
- December 26: Dietrich Andernacht , German historian and archivist († 1996)
- December 26th: Thomas von Randow , German mathematician, science editor and book author († 2009)
- December 27: Emil Obermann , German journalist and television presenter († 1994)
- December 27: Yohannes Woldegiorgis , Ethiopian Bishop († 2002)
- December 28: Tamara Ehlert , German poet († 2008)
- December 28: Cyril Frankel , British film and television director († 2017)
- December 28: Johnny Otis , American band leader, producer and talent scout († 2012)
- December 30th: John Lloyd Ackrill , English historian of philosophy († 2007)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Sabit Osman Avcı , Turkish politician († 2009)
- Marie-Thérèse Chailley , French violist and music teacher († 2001)
- Salvador García , Mexican singer and actor († unknown)
- Robert Last , German drummer († 1986)
- Ahmad Mogharebi , Iranian general and Soviet spy († 1977)
- Roland Schnell , German motorcycle racer († 1980)
Died
January February
- January 2: Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg , German politician (* 1856)
- January 3: Arseni Nikolajewitsch Koreschtschenko , Russian composer (* 1870)
- January 5th: Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf , Swedish zoologist (* 1857)
- January 8: Béatrice La Palme , Canadian singer, violinist and music teacher (* 1878)
- January 12th: Gervase Elwes , English singer (* 1866)
- January 17th: Joachim von Bonin , German politician (* 1857)
- January 18: Wilhelm Foerster , German astronomer (* 1832)
- January 18: Adolf von Hildebrand , German sculptor (* 1847)
- January 21: Arthur Sifton , Canadian politician and judge (* 1858)
- January 22nd: Louis Armand , French cave explorer (* 1854)
- January 23: Hugo Oppenheim , German banker (* 1847)
- January 23: Władysław Żeleński , Polish composer (* 1837)
- January 26: Georg Oskar Immanuel von Hase , German publisher and bookseller (* 1846)
- February 3: Colin Archer , Norwegian yacht and ship designer (* 1832)
- February 3: Julius von Soden , German politician and governor of Cameroon (* 1846)
- February 3: Franz Weineck , German grammar school director and local researcher (* 1839)
- February 4: Carl Hauptmann , German writer (* 1858)
- February 6: Alberto Membreño Vásquez , President of Honduras (* 1859)
- February 8: Francisco d'Andrade , Portuguese opera singer (* 1859)
- February 8: Josip Ipavec , Slovenian composer (* 1873)
- February 8: Peter Kropotkin , Russian anarchist (* 1842)
- February 14th: Thompson Benton Ferguson , American politician (* 1857)
- February 16: Ernst Ziel , German writer and editor (* 1841)
- February 25: Elisabeth Fedde , Norwegian deaconess (* 1850)
March April
- March 3: Henry Goudy , British lawyer and university professor (* 1848)
- March 7th: Emanuel Hugo Eugen Ottokar von Aderkas , Russian administrative lawyer, privy councilor and landowner (* 1859)
- March 7th: Alexander Dutow , Cossack leader in the Russian Civil War (* 1879)
- March 8: Thomas H. Paynter , American politician (* 1851)
- March 15: Talât Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, leader of the Young Turks (* 1874)
- March 15: Caroline Weldon , Swiss-American artist, civil rights activist and confidante of Sitting Bull (* 1844)
- March 17: Oltwig von Kamptz , German officer (* 1857)
- March 21: Georg Schläger , German teacher and folk song researcher (* 1870)
- March 27: Karl Ernst Osthaus , German art patron (* 1874)
- March 29: Levi Ankeny , American politician (* 1844)
- April 1: Joseph-Daniel Dussault , Canadian organist and music teacher (* 1864)
- April 1: Carl Johannes Thomae , German mathematician (* 1840)
- April 6: Maximilian Delphinius Berlitz , German-American language teacher and founder of the Berlitz language schools (* 1852)
- April 7th: Lorenz Adlon , German restaurateur and hotelier (* 1849)
- April 10: Jeter Connelly Pritchard , American politician (* 1857)
- April 11th: Auguste Viktoria , last German Empress (* 1858)
- April 13: Theodor Leutwein , German governor of German South West Africa (* 1849)
- April 15: Georg Heinrich Maria Kirstein , Bishop of Mainz (* 1858)
- April 18: August Scherl , German major publisher (* 1849)
- April 21: Hans Georg Joachim Apel-Pusch , German officer (* 1862)
- April 24: Julius Krautz , German executioner (* 1843)
- April 25: Max Jacob , German architect (* 1849)
- April 29: Samuel T. Strang , American organist and composer (* 1856)
May June
- May 3: Emil Baudenbacher , Swiss Protestant clergyman and folk writer (* 1874)
- May 4: Alfred Hermann Fried , German pacifist, publicist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (* 1864)
- May 7th: Max Buchner , German explorer (* 1846)
- May 12: Emilia Pardo Bazán , Spanish writer (* 1851)
- May 13: Jean François Victor Aicard , French poet, novelist and playwright (* 1848)
- May 18: Franklin Knight Lane , American politician (* 1864)
- May 19: Edward Douglass White , Chief Justice of the USA 1910–1921 (* 1845)
- May 27: Haydn Keeton , English organist, music teacher and composer (* 1847)
- June 1: Robert Rowand Anderson , Scottish architect (* 1834)
- June 4: Ludwig Knorr , German chemist (* 1859)
- June 4th: Harry Walden , German actor (* 1875)
- June 5: Georges Feydeau , French playwright (* 1862)
- June 9: Karl Gareis , parliamentary group leader of the USPD in the Bavarian state parliament (* 1889)
- June 11: Wilhelm Sievers , German geographer and explorer (* 1860)
- June 15: Oscar Wilhelm Stübel , German diplomat (* 1846)
- June 16: William E. Mason , American politician (* 1850)
- June 17: Nagao Aruga , Japanese legal scholar and sociologist (* 1860)
- June 18: Eduardo Acevedo Díaz , Uruguayan writer and politician (* 1851)
- June 20: Karl Aderhold , German politician (* 1884)
- June 21: Murphy J. Foster , American politician (* 1849)
- June 24th: Charles Frédéric Porret , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1845)
- June 26: Alfred Percy Sinnett , English author and theosophist (* 1840)
- June 28: Charles Joseph Bonaparte , grandson of Jerome Bonaparte (* 1851)
- June 29: Jennie Churchill , American-British philanthropist and author (* 1854)
- June 29: Otto Seeck , German ancient historian (* 1850)
July August
- July 4th: Miles Benjamin McSweeney , American politician (* 1855)
- July 11: Karl Radinger von Radinghofen , Austrian classical philologist and museum specialist (* 1869)
- July 12th: Harry George Hawker , Australian aviation pioneer (* 1889)
- July 13: Gabriel Lippmann , French physicist, Nobel Prize winner (* 1845)
- July 13: Emil Pfeiffer , German internist and pediatrician (* 1846)
- July 16: Giovanni Arcangeli , Italian botanist (* 1840)
- July 19: Joseph Zimmermann , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman (* 1849)
- July 24: Cyrus I. Scofield , American lawyer and theologian (* 1843)
- July 30th: Luise Ahlborn , German writer (* 1834)
- August 2nd: Jean Agélou , French photographer (* 1878)
- August 2: Enrico Caruso , Italian opera singer (* 1873)
- August 7th: Alexander Blok , Russian poet (* 1880)
- August 8: Juhani Aho , Finnish writer and journalist (* 1861)
- August 11: Henry Carter Adams , American finance and economist (* 1851)
- August 14: Georg von Schönerer , Austrian landowner and politician (* 1842)
- August 15: Philipp Heinrich Ast , German shepherd and herbalist (* 1878)
- August 19: Heinrich Eduard Burlage , German politician (* 1857)
- August 23: Feliksa Kozłowska , Polish nun (* 1862)
- August 26: Ludwig Thoma , German writer and satirist (* 1867)
- August 26: Matthias Erzberger , German politician (* 1875)
September October
- September 6: José Mariano Benjamin Zubiaur , Argentine educator (* 1856)
- September 11: George P. Wetmore , American politician (* 1846)
- September 12: Caesar Carpentier Antoine , American politician (* 1836)
- September 12: Carlo Maffeis , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1883)
- September 15: Roman von Ungern-Sternberg , baron of German-Baltic origin (* 1886)
- September 17th: Philipp zu Eulenburg , German diplomat (* 1847)
- September 17th: Filip Rězak , Sorbian pastor, translator and dictionary author (* 1859)
- September 21: Amala , Indian wolf child (* 1919)
- September 21: Eugen Dühring , German economist, socialist and philosopher (* 1833)
- September 24th: Hermann Boßdorf , German writer (* 1877)
- September 27: Engelbert Humperdinck , German composer of classical music (* 1854)
- September 28: Ludwig Forrer , Swiss politician (* 1845)
- September 28: Oskar Panizza , German doctor and writer (* 1853)
- September 30th: Jean-Baptiste Eugène Abel , French politician (* 1863)
- October 1: Julius von Hann , Austrian mathematician, meteorologist (* 1839)
- October 1: Lamar Fontaine , American writer (* 1841)
- October 2: Wilhelm II , King of Württemberg (* 1848)
- October 3: Mohammad Taqi-Khan Pesyan , Iranian military commander and politician (* 1892)
- October 10: Otto von Gierke , German lawyer and historian (* 1841)
- October 11: Haruthiun Abeljanz , Swiss chemist (* 1849)
- October 12: Philander C. Knox , American politician (* 1853)
- October 13: Max Bewer , German poet and writer (* 1861)
- October 13: Peter Dybwad , German architect of Norwegian origin (* 1859)
- October 18: Ulrich Kreusler , German agricultural chemist (* 1844)
- October 18: Ludwig III. , last Bavarian king (* 1845)
- October 19: António Joaquim Granjo , Portuguese Prime Minister (* 1881)
- October 19: Gotthold Gundermann , German classical philologist (* 1856)
- October 25: Fritz Arnold , German painter (* 1883)
- October 25: Niels Pedersen Mols , Danish animal and landscape painter (* 1859)
- October 28: William Speirs Bruce , Scottish polar explorer and oceanographer (* 1867)
- October 29: Wilhelm Erb , German neurologist (* 1840)
November December
- November 2: Andreas Heusler , Swiss lawyer, legal historian and politician (* 1834)
- November 4th: Oscar Montelius , Swedish archivist and archaeologist (* 1843)
- November 5: Antoinette Brown Blackwell , American suffragette (* 1825)
- November 6: Luther E. Hall , American politician (* 1869)
- November 8th: Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav , Slovak poet (* 1849)
- November 12: Fernand Khnopff , Belgian painter and graphic artist (* 1858)
- November 14th: Isabella of Brazil , last Crown Princess of Brazil (* 1846)
- November 19: Hans Georg von Doering , German officer and colonial official (* 1866)
- November 19: Hendrik Wefers Bettink , Dutch pharmacologist (* 1839)
- November 23: John Boyd Dunlop , British inventor (* 1840)
- November 25: Etienne Soukkarie , Syrian clergyman and patriarchal vicar of Alexandria (* 1868)
- November 28: ʿAbdul-Baha ' , central figure of the Baha'i faith (* 1844)
- December 6th: Said Halim Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (* 1864)
- December 15: John Nixon , British general (* 1857)
- December 16: Adriaan Joseph Heymans , Belgian impressionist landscape painter (* 1839)
- December 16: Camille Saint-Saëns , French pianist, organist and composer (* 1835)
- December 17th: Gabriela Zapolska , Polish writer (* 1857)
- December 20: Julius Richard Petri , German bacteriologist (* 1852)
- December 23: Friedrich von Thiersch , German architect (* 1852)
- December 25: Vladimir Korolenko , Russian poet (* 1853)
- December 29th: Hermann Paul , German philologist and linguist (* 1846)
- December 31: Boies Penrose , American politician (* 1860)
Exact date of death unknown
- Émile Arnaud , French lawyer, notary, pacifist and writer (* 1884)
- Auweyida , Nauruan King (* before 1850)
- Nat Love , American slave, cowboy, rodeo rider, Pullman porter and author (* 1854)
- Wilhelm Schwach , Romanian-German composer, music teacher and choir director (* 1850)
Web links
Commons : 1921 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/1921/ ( Living virtual museum online )
- Digital copies of newspapers from 1921 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library