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Calendar overview 1922
1922 | |
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The German Reich and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic conclude the Treaty of Rapallo . | |
Reich Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau is murdered by the Consul organization .The British League of Nations Mandate for Palestine begins. | Fascist rule in Italy begins with the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini 's blackshirts . Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun 's tomb . |
1922 in other calendars | |
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Ab urbe condita | 2675 |
Armenian calendar | 1370-1371 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1914-1915 |
Badi calendar | 78-79 |
Bengali calendar | 1328-1329 |
Berber calendar | 2872 |
Buddhist calendar | 2466 |
Burmese calendar | 1284 |
Byzantine calendar | 7430-7431 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4618-4619 or 4558-4559 |
– 60-year cycle |
Metal Rooster (辛酉, 58)– |
French Revolutionary Calendar |
- CXXX CXXXI 130-131 |
Hindu calendar | |
– Vikram Sambat | 1978-1979 |
– Shaka Samvat | 1844-1845 |
Iranian calendar | 1300-1301 |
Islamic calendar | 1340-1341 |
Japanese calendar | |
– Nengō (era): | Taishō 11 |
- Koki | 2582 |
Jewish calendar | 5682-5683 |
Coptic calendar | 1638-1639 |
Korean calendar | |
– Dangun era | 4255 |
– Juche era | 11 |
Minguo calendar | 11 |
Modern Olympics | vii |
Seleucid calendar | 2233-2234 |
Thai solar calendar | 2465 |
events
politics and world affairs
post-war contracts
- April 16: Treaty of Rapallo between Germany and Russia. Both countries waive the reimbursement of war costs and damages.
- June 20: East Upper Silesia is ceded by the German Reich to Poland.
- 4 October: In the Geneva Protocols , Austria once again accepts the ban on joining Germany. In return, Austria receives 650 million gold crowns from a loan from the League of Nations to cope with the hyperinflation after the First World War .
Deutsches Reich
- June: Hitler is sentenced to four weeks in prison for his seditious speeches.
- June 24: The German Reich Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau is murdered by the National Socialists.
- August 11: Reich President Friedrich Ebert designates the song of the Germans as the national anthem of the German Reich .
- Founding of the youth loyal to the Kaiser
Poland
- 9 December: Engineer Gabriel Narutowicz is elected first President of the Republic of Poland by the National Assembly . A week later he was murdered by the fanatic Eligiusz Niewiadomski . Stanisław Wojciechowski , a member of the cooperative, was elected as his successor in the elections on December 20th .
Soviet Union
- January 12: Karachay-Cherkessia is separated from the Soviet Mountain Republic .
- January 16: Kabardino-Balkaria is founded.
- February 8: The secret service Cheka of the Russian CPSU is transferred to the newly founded state secret service GPU .
- April 3: Josef Stalin becomes General Secretary of the CPSU.
- December 30: Foundation of the Soviet Union
Great Britain and Ireland
- 7 January: The Irish Parliament ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty giving the new Irish Free State autonomy rights.
- June 22 British Field Marshal Henry Hughes Wilson is assassinated by IRA operatives.
- June 28: The Irish Civil War begins with the bombing and storming of the occupied Dublin Courthouse.
- 1 August: Declaration by the British Lord President of the Council Arthur Balfour that Great Britain would only seek reparations from Germany and war debts from its former allies to meet its own war debts to the United States.
- October 19: At the Carlton Club meeting , Britain's Conservative Party votes to contest the upcoming general election as an independent force. The Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George then resigns; he will be succeeded by the newly elected Conservative party leader Andrew Bonar Law .
- 6 December: After the province of Ulster was ceded in 1921, the Irish Free State was formed .
Other events in Europe
- January 1: In Austria , the city of Vienna becomes an independent federal state .
- January 1: Robert Haab becomes the new Federal President of Switzerland .
- February 7: António Maria da Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal for the second time .
- March 3: In the Free State of Fiume , fascists take power with a coup d'état . The legal government takes refuge in the neighboring Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes .
- October 28: Mussolini 's March on Rome , which also puts him in power on October 31.
Greco-Turkish War
- Aug 26 - Aug 30 August: Battle of Dumlupınar , in which the Greeks suffer a decisive defeat and are subsequently forced to withdraw from Anatolia.
- 9 September: " Asia Minor Catastrophe ": The Turks conquer the city of Smyrna (Turkish: Izmir ) in Asia Minor. Izmir burns for several days and the city's Christian residents are massacred, killing tens of thousands and destroying large parts of the city. The surviving Greek and Armenian residents are evacuated by ships, as is the defeated Greek expeditionary army. This was followed by further expulsions of Greeks from Asia Minor.
- September 11: Military coup in Greece against King Constantine I , who has to go into exile.
- September: Hanak crisis between Turkey and Great Britain, which brings both states to the brink of war. The collapse of the Lloyd George government in the face of the Turks leads to the fall of the prime minister on October 19.
- 11 October: Turkey's Mudanya armistice with Greece's western allies, to which Greece agrees three days later.
- November 1: The Grand National Assembly under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk declares the sultanate in the Ottoman Empire abolished. Mehmed VI Vahdettin flees into exile. He was succeeded - albeit only as caliph - by Abdülmecit II (until March 3, 1924). (see religion )
- 21 November: Beginning of the peace negotiations in Lausanne , Switzerland, which are concluded in July of the following year with the Treaty of Lausanne .
- November 28: Five members of the Greek government, deposed in September, and General Georgios Hatzianestis are executed after being sentenced before a military tribunal in Goudi near Athens.
Egypt
- February 28: With the declaration of Egypt's independence ( Declaration to Egypt by His Britannic Majesty's Government ) , Great Britain grants Egypt extensive independence. The protecting power retains certain rights in its former protectorate , which becomes a kingdom on March 15 .
- March 15: The Egyptian Sultan proclaims himself as Fuad I as King of Egypt . Due to serious reservations by Great Britain about granting independence to the country on the Nile , the new independence remains severely restricted.
Palestine
- June 3: Churchill memorandum: The declaration of 1917 should be understood in such a way that in Palestine Jews and Muslims should live together in one state with equal rights.
- July 24: Mandate agreement between the Allied Powers to establish a "national home of the Jewish people in Palestine"
- September 11: Beginning of British Mandate rule in Palestine
Other events in Asia
- March 18: In India , Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience . But he was released two years later.
- 10 April to 18 June: The Chinese Zhili clique led by Wu Peifu defeats the rival Fengtian clique led by Zhang Zuolin in the First Zhili-Fengtian War and takes sole control of the capital Beijing while Zhang's troops invade the withdraw Manchuria .
America
- January 2: Constitution of the Communist Party of Chile
- January 29: The Central American Federation (of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) dissolves.
- September 7: Laying of the foundation stone for the future Brazilian capital , Brasília , near the city of Planaltina
- November 21: Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton is sworn in as the first female US Senator . The representative for the US state of Georgia and at the age of 87 the oldest ever delegated member of the Senate loses her office the next day to the surprisingly elected Walter F. George .
Other international events
- February 6: In the Washington Naval Agreement , the five naval powers Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the USA agree on an armament limitation for their large warships . However, the first disarmament treaty is thwarted by an arms race in smaller ship classes that will soon burgeon.
- February 15: The Permanent Court of International Justice in The Hague holds its first session , chaired by its President Bernard Loder .
- July 5: The Nansen passport for stateless persons and emigrants is introduced. 31 states accept the travel document initiated by the League of Nations - High Commissioner for Refugee Affairs , Fridtjof Nansen .
- December: Foundation of the International Workers' Association in Berlin
business
- January 12: The Swiss Jacob Fahrni applies for a patent for a bar mower designed as a motor mower .
- March 16: In Munich, the Berdux piano factory is formed as a stock corporation from the conversion of the sole proprietorship .
- March 17: The Reich Statistical Office publishes the first official share index in Germany .
- June 21: Wilhelm Goldmann founds the Goldmann Verlag in Leipzig . The German edition of Edgar Wallace 's detective novels became the foundation for publishing success.
- 18 October: Private British Broadcasting Company formed, which becomes the public British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) five years later.
- November 28: The media company Time Inc. is founded in New York City, which over time becomes the largest publisher in the United States.
- November 30: The private limited company Vinmonopolet is founded in Oslo, which is under state supervision. The company obtains the Norwegian alcohol monopoly . Norway bought up all private shares in the years up to 1939 and since then has controlled alcohol consumption in the country via prices.
- December 1st: Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke is founded in Warnemünde by its namesake .
- RWE acquires the majority stake in BIAG Zukunft .
- Arthur Martens founds the first civilian flight school on the Wasserkuppe .
science and technology
Aviation
- March: First flight of the De Havilland DH 34
- 30 March to 15 June: Portuguese Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral become the first people to cross the Atlantic on the southern route from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro with three attempts .
- August 18: The German Arthur Martens starts from the Hessian mountain Wasserkuppe with a HAWA H 1 “Vampyr” for the first hour world record in gliding .
- October: First flight of the Dornier Do C Komet
- November: First flight of the Dornier Do J Wal
archeology
- November 4: Howard Carter discovers the entrance to the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen , KV62 , in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt .
- November 22: Howard Carter reopens the tomb entrance to Tutankhamen's tomb, which had been filled up again after the discovery, in the presence of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon .
natural sciences and medicine
- Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach carry out their experiment to prove directional quantization in magnetic fields ( Stern-Gerlach experiment ).
- Frederick Sumner Brackett discovers the series named after him in the spectrum of hydrogen .
- Foundation of the German Geophysical Society
- First vaccination against intoxication blight
- First treatment of a person with diabetes mellitus ( Leonard Thompson from Canada) with insulin in Toronto (Canada)
Culture
Visual arts
- January 16: Founding of the Working Group of Palatinate Artists
- July 24: The artist group Die Welle opens the first exhibition of works by its members in a pavilion in Prien am Chiemsee .
- Opening of the Akron Art Museum
Movie
- March 5: Premiere of the silent film Nosferatu, a symphony of horror by FW Murnau in Berlin
- After right-wing extremists had already tried to destroy the film negative in November, the feature film Nathan the Wise by Manfred Noa , starring Werner Krauss in the title role , will premiere on December 29 at the Alhambra in Berlin . The film received positive reviews but soon fell victim to anti-Jewish propaganda. It is the only film adaptation of the play of the same name by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing .
literature
- February 2: James Joyce 's novel Ulysses is published as a book in Paris.
music and theatre
- 22 January: World premiere of the operetta Frühling by Franz Lehár at Kabarett Hölle in the Theater an der Wien , Vienna
- March 18: First performance of the romantic opera The Tower of the Voivode by Ernst von Dohnányi in Budapest
- March 26: Premiere of the opera Sancta Susanna by Paul Hindemith in Frankfurt am Main
- April 15: World premiere of Eduard Künneke 's operetta Verliebteleute at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz in Berlin
- May 10: Premiere of the opera Venus by Othmar Schoeck in Zurich
- May 12: Premiere of the operetta Frasquita by Franz Lehár at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna
- May 28: Premiere of the opera Der Zwerg by Alexander von Zemlinsky in Cologne
- 3 June: Premiere of the opera Mavra by Igor Stravinsky at the Paris Opera
- September 9: Premiere of the operetta Madame Pompadour by Leo Fall at the Berlin Theater
- September 23: The drama of the Night Drums is staged as the first play by Bertolt Brecht and premiered at the Munich Kammerspiele under the direction of Otto Falckenberg .
society
- 8 June: Alexander Karađorđević , the King of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , and Maria of Romania marry .
religion
- January 22: Pope Benedict XV. dies. The Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, is elected Pope on February 6 after a four-day conclave and takes the name of Pius XI. on. The coronation will take place on February 12.
- 10 May : In Italy, negotiations between the Vatican and the Soviet government are successfully concluded. In a treaty, the Russians commit to freedom of religion.
- November 19: The Grand National Assembly elects Abdülmecit II as the successor to the office of Caliph for Mehmed VI , who had fled abroad . Vahdettin . Abdülmecit II is the 101st and last caliph (until March 3, 1924).
- December 23: With his inaugural encyclical Ubi arcano Dei , the new Pope Pius XI proclaims. His program: pax christi in regno christi , the peace of Christ in Christ's kingdom. He makes explicit the pastoral and political concerns of his two predecessors, Benedict XV. and Pius X. , condemns “social modernism ” and develops positive guidelines for a peaceful social order on the foundation of the Catholic religion.
disasters
- January 20: The Sarotti factory in Berlin-Tempelhof burns out almost completely for three days, see parts road .
- May 20: The British ocean liner Egypt is rammed by a French cargo ship in dense fog off the island of Ouessant and sinks within 20 minutes. 87 passengers and crew die.
- August 26: The light cruiser "Niikata" ( Japan ) sank in a storm off the west coast of Kamchatka . The entire crew (approx. 400 men) is killed.
- Famine ends in Soviet Russia, which claimed about 5 million lives.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- July 9: Johnny Weissmuller sets a new world record in the 100 meter freestyle swim in Alameda, California in exactly 58.6 seconds.
- August 1: A car race takes place in Brooksland (USA), which becomes the subject of the first sports radio report.
- Ralph Samuelson invents the sport of water skiing on Lake Pepin .
Nobel prizes
- Physics : Niels Bohr
- Chemistry : Francis William Aston
- Medicine : Archibald Vivian Hill , Otto Fritz Meyerhof
- Literature : Jacinto Benavente
- Nobel Peace Prize : Fridtjof Nansen
Born
January
- Doğan Andaç , Turkish lieutenant colonel, football coach and official († 2013) January 1:
- Hashikawa Bunzō , Japanese historian and political scientist († 1983) January 1
- Bobby Capó , Puerto Rican singer and composer (d. 1989) January 1:
- Andrzej Hiolski , Polish singer (died 2000) January 1:
- Fritz Hollings , US politician (died 2019) January 1:
- Helmut Simon , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court († 2013) January 1:
- Alois Vogel , Austrian writer († 2005) January 1:
- Marie Bayerová , Czech translator of German-language works and philosopher († 1997) January 2:
- Blaga Dimitrova , Bulgarian writer and poet (died 2003) January 2
- Eddie Zack , American country music artist (d. 2002) January 2:
- Marcel Müller-Wieland , Swiss educator and philosopher († 2015) January 3:
- John R. Schmidhauser , American politician and political scientist (died 2018) January 3:
- Frank Wess , American jazz saxophonist († 2013) January 4:
- Yamada Fūtarō , Japanese writer († 2001) January 4:
- Knud Erik Andersen , Danish cyclist (d. 1997) January 5:
- Albert Falke , German politician (died 2010) January 5:
- Celestino Piatti , Swiss graphic artist and book designer († 2007) January 5:
- Herbert Zwär , German footballer January 6
- Francisco Aramburu , Brazilian soccer player (d. 1997) January 7
- Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal , French flutist (died 2000) January 7:
- Georgi Maximowitsch Adelson-Velsky , Russian mathematician and computer scientist (died 2014) January 8:
- Har Gobind Khorana , Indian-American molecular biologist (d. 2011) January 9:
- Ahmed Sékou Touré , Guinean dictator (d. 1984) January 9:
- January 10 Aldo Ballarin , Italian footballer (died 1949)
- January 10: Franz Kain , Austrian journalist, writer and politician (died 1997)
- January 10: Walter Kern , German-Austrian fundamental theologian and chaplain († 2007)
- January 10: Hannelore Schroth , German actress (d. 1987)
- January 11 Erich Aberle , German actor and radio play announcer. († 2002)
- January 11: Neville Duke , British fighter pilot (died 2007)
- January 11 Diether von Sallwitz , German news anchor and journalist (died 1963)
- January 12: Ben Guntenaar , Dutch sculptor (died 2009)
- January 12: André-René Latrille , former French footballer († 2011)
- January 13 Clarence Emil Anderson , American fighter pilot and test pilot
- January 13: Thomas Valentin , German writer (died 1980)
- January 14: Mohamed Aboulkhair Zaki Badawi , Egyptian Islamic scholar (died 2006)
- January 14: Helga Göring , German actress (died 2010)
- January 14: John Stephen Hales , Australian businessman (died 2002)
- January 14: Harald Zusanek , Austrian writer (died 1989)
- January 15 Jake Colhouer , American football player (d. 1998)
- January 15: Franz Fühmann , German writer (died 1984)
- January 15: Paul Casimir Marcinkus , Archbishop Emeritus and President of the Vatican Bank († 2006)
- January 16: Hermann Bachmann , German painter (died 1995)
- January 17: Luis Echeverría Álvarez , former President of Mexico
- January 17: Nicholas deB. Katzenbach , American politician (died 2012)
- January 17: Betty White , American actress († 2021)
- January 19: Jerzy Kawalerowicz , Polish film director († 2007)
- January 19: Bohumil Soudský , Czechoslovakian prehistorian (died 1976)
- January 20 Ray Anthony , American bandleader, songwriter and actor
- January 20: Klaas Carel Faber , Dutch member of the Waffen-SS (died 2012)
- January 20: James Hanson , British entrepreneur (died 2004)
- January 20: Václav Kotva , Czech actor (died 2004)
- January 21 Telly Savalas , American actor (d. 1994)
- January 21: Paul Scofield , British actor (died 2008)
- January 22: Walter Ableiter , German politician (died 1993)
- January 22: Arciso Artesiani , Italian motorcycle racer (died 2005)
- January 22: Eugen Böhringer , German racing driver and rally driver (died 2013)
- January 22: José Luis Caballero , Mexican singer († 2009)
- January 22 Sylvia Rexach , Puerto Rican singer, composer and songwriter (d. 1961)
- January 23: Gerhard Bosse , German violinist and conductor (died 2012)
- January 23: Louise N'Jie , Gambian politician (died 2014)
- January 24: Frans Grootjans , Belgian politician of the Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang (died 1999)
- January 24: Hermann Lange , German legal scholar († 2018)
- January 24: Anna Morawska , Polish publicist, translator and writer (died 1972)
- January 24 Georg Sommer , German lawyer (died 2021)
- January 24: Eeltje Visserman , Dutch chess problem composer (d. 1978)
- January 25: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza , Italian biologist, geneticist (died 2018)
- January 25: Kurt Kranich , German journalist
- January 26: Abraham Malamat , Austro-Israelite historian (died 2010)
- January 28: Robert W. Holley , American biochemist (d. 1993)
- January 29: Franz Alexius , German soccer player (died 1997)
- January 30: Dick Martin , American comedian, actor and director († 2008)
- January 30: Wilhelm Karl Prince of Prussia , German Protector of the Order of St. John († 2007)
- January 31: W. Ross Adey , Australian neuroscientist (d. 2004)
- January 31: Marcel Jullian , French author, publicist, director and television producer († 2004)
February
- Renata Tebaldi , Italian soprano singer († 2004) February 1:
- Shmuel Agmon , Israeli mathematician February 2
- André David , French composer († 2007) February 2:
- Ilse Jahn , German biologist (died 2010) February 2:
- Andrej Lettrich , Slovak director and screenwriter († 1993) February 3
- Hans Sennholz , economist of the Austrian School († 2007) February 3:
- Bhimsen Joshi , Indian singer (died 2011) February 4:
- Alain de Changy , Belgian racing driver (d. 1994) February 5:
- Rudolf Lorenzen , German writer (died 2013) February 5:
- Jeanine Rueff , French composer (died 1999) February 5:
- Jocelyn Burdick , American politician († 2019) February 6:
- Patrick Macnee , British-American actor (died 2015) February 6
- Muhammad Aslam , Pakistani sprinter (died 2019) February 8:
- Yuri Averbakh , Russian chess player February 8:
- Erika Burkart , Swiss poet (died 2010) February 8:
- Kathryn Grayson , American actress and singer († 2010) February 9
- Arnold Keyserling , German philosopher and religious scholar (died 2005) February 9:
- February 10: Árpád Göncz , Hungarian writer, translator and politician (died 2015)
- February 10: Harold Hughes , American politician (died 1996)
- February 10: Hans Kindermann , German lawyer (died 2018)
- February 11 Pablo González Casanova , Mexican sociologist
- February 11: Svenn Thorkild Stray , Norwegian politician (died 2012)
- February 12: Gustl Bayrhammer , German actor (died 1993)
- February 12 Kay Rose , American audio engineer (died 2002)
- February 13: Willi Heeks , German racing driver (d. 1996)
- February 13 – Otto Tausig , Austrian actor, screenwriter and director († 2011)
- February 13 Gordon Tullock , American professor of law and economics († 2014)
- February 14: Heinz Friedrich , German journalist and publisher (died 2004)
- February 15: John B. Anderson , American politician (died 2017)
- February 15: Sleepy Jeffers , American country musician (d. 1992)
- February 15 Herman Kahn , American cyberneticist (d. 1983)
- February 15: Kurt Rapf , Austrian composer, conductor and organist († 2007)
- February 15: Jožef Smej , Slovenian auxiliary bishop (died 2020)
- February 16: Sepp Folger , German ski racer (died 2013)
- February 16: Gerhard Möllhoff , German neurologist, social medicine doctor and psychiatrist († 2005)
- February 16 – Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer , German major and Wehrmacht pilot (died 1950)
- February 16: Rudolf Teschner , German chess player (died 2006)
- February 17: Franz Fedier , German-Swiss painter (died 2005)
- February 18: Hazy Osterwald , Swiss musician († 2012)
- February 19 – Władysław Bartoszewski , Polish historian, publicist and politician (died 2015)
- February 21: Norman Francis McFarland , US bishop (d. 2010)
- February 22: Andre Asriel , Austro-German composer († 2019)
- February 22: Paul Reinehr , German local historian and painter († 2009)
- February 22: Apostolos Santas , Greek resistance fighter (died 2011)
- February 22 Marshall Teague , American racing driver (d. 1959)
- February 23: Rudolf Arzinger , German international law scholar and jurist (died 1970)
- February 24: Richard Hamilton , British painter and printmaker (died 2011)
- February 24: Steven Hill , American actor (died 2016)
- February 24 Elmar Maria Kredel , German Catholic theologian and Archbishop of Bamberg (died 2008)
- February 25: Tex Winter , American basketball coach (died 2018)
- February 26: William J. Baumol , American economist (died 2017)
- February 26: Karl Aage Præst , Danish footballer († 2011)
- February 27: Tilemann Grimm , German sinologist (died 2002)
- February 27 Erna Roth-Oberth , Transylvanian-German lawyer, founder of the Hermann Oberth Space Museum († 2012)
- Roberto Rocca , Italian-Argentine engineer and entrepreneur (died 2003) February:
March
- William Maxwell Gaines , founder of MAD magazine and editor of several comic book series (d. 1992) March 1:
- Albert Leicht , German politician (died 1994) March 1:
- Yitzhak Rabin , Israeli general and politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner (died 1995) March 1:
- Herbert Ahues , German chess composer († 2015) March 2:
- Elfriede Mohneke , guard at Ravensbrück concentration camp († 1994) March 2:
- Frances Spence , US programmer of the ENIAC († 2012) March 2:
- Antonín Závodný , Czech composer (died 1990) March 2:
- Nándor Hidegkuti , Hungarian footballer (died 2002) March 3
- Kazimierz Serocki , Polish composer (died 1981) March 3:
- Alexandru Vona , Romanian writer, architect (died 2004) March 3
- Rolf Arland , German composer († 2015) March 4:
- Richard E. Cunha , American film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter († 2005) March 4
- Iring Fetscher , German political scientist and author († 2014) March 4:
- Richard von Frankenberg , German racing driver journalist and author (died 1973) March 4:
- Xenia Stad-de Jong , Dutch athlete († 2012) March 4:
- James Noble , American actor (died 2016) March 5:
- Pier Paolo Pasolini , Italian film director and poet (d. 1975) March 5:
- Jean Martin , French actor (died 2009) March 6:
- Arthur P. Jacobs , American film producer (d. 1973) March 7
- Olga Alexandrovna Ladyschenskaya , Russian mathematician and physicist (died 2004) March 7:
- Andy Phillip , American basketball player (d. 2001) March 7
- Elsbeth Plehn , German singer, singing teacher and university teacher († 2001) March 7:
- Ernst Riedelbauch , German motorcycle racer (d. 1997) March 7:
- Rolf Ulrici , German writer (died 1997) March 7:
- Ralph Baer , German-American game developer (died 2014) March 8
- Cyd Charisse , American film actress († 2008) March 8:
- Heinar Kipphardt , German playwright (died 1982) March 8:
- Shigeru Mizuki , Japanese manga artist († 2015) March 8
- Chuck Murphy , American country and rockabilly musician († 2001) March 8:
- Diether Posser , German politician (died 2010) March 9
- March 10: Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf , Austrian ski racer and entrepreneur († 2020)
- March 11: Martin Jim Aitken , British physicist (died 2017)
- March 11: Tun Abdul Razak bin Haji Dato' Hussein Al-Haj , Malaysian politician (died 1976)
- March 11 Giuseppe Baldini , Italian soccer player and coach (died 2009)
- March 11: Cornelius Castoriadis , Greek psychoanalyst, lawyer and resistance fighter (died 1997)
- March 12: Helga Goetze , German artist, writer and political activist († 2008)
- March 12 Jack Kerouac , American writer (died 1969)
- March 13: Karl Dietrich Bracher , German professor of political science and contemporary history († 2016)
- March 14: Eric Alfons Arnlind , Swedish chess player (d. 1998)
- March 14: Les Baxter , American orchestra leader and arranger († 1996)
- March 14 Milton Greene , American photographer (died 1985)
- March 14: Anatoly Solovyov , Soviet actor (died 2000)
- March 15 Karl-Otto Apel , German philosopher (died 2017)
- March 15: Horst Wendlandt , German film producer († 2002)
- March 17: Günter Luther , German admiral (died 1997)
- March 17: Lydia Ropolt , Austrian painter (d. 1995)
- March 17 Patrick Suppes , American philosopher of science (died 2014)
- March 18 – Egon Bahr , German politician and Federal Minister († 2015)
- March 18 Frank Gatski , American football player (d. 2005)
- March 18: Horacio Siburu , Argentine modern pentathlete († 2000)
- March 19: Eduard Amstad , Swiss judge and politician (died 2015)
- March 19 Ernst Bokon , Austrian footballer (died 1991)
- March 19: Annelies Kammenhuber , German hithitologist (died 1995)
- March 20: Irina Alexandrovna Antonova , Russian art historian and museum director († 2020)
- March 20: Doug Barnard , American politician (died 2018)
- March 20 Renato Iturrate , Chilean cyclist (died 2021)
- March 20: Jack Kruschen , Canadian actor (died 2002)
- March 20: Carl Reiner , American actor and director († 2020)
- March 21 Russ Meyer († 2004) American director, screenwriter, producer
- March 21: Livio Dante Porta , Argentine railway engineer (died 2003)
- March 22: Farrochru Parsa , Iranian minister, educator and doctor (died 1980)
- March 24: King Pleasure , American jazz singer (d. 1981)
- March 26: William Milliken , American politician (died 2019)
- March 27: Dick King-Smith , English children's author (died 2011)
- March 27: Dan Kurzman , American journalist and non-fiction author (died 2010)
- March 28: Theo Albrecht , German entrepreneur (died 2010)
- March 28 Neville Bonner , Australian politician (died 1999)
- March 28: Helge Christian Bronée , Danish footballer (d. 1999)
- March 28 Fred Naumetz , American football player (d. 1998)
- March 29: Fritz Swoboda , Austrian Waffen-SS member and war criminal († 2007)
- March 30: Turhan Bey , American actor (died 2012)
- March 30: Virgilio Noè , Italian cardinal (died 2011)
- March 31: Walt Stickel , American football player (d. 1987)
April
- Alan J. Perlis , American computer scientist (d. 1990) April 1
- Wolfgang Rennert , German conductor (died 2012) April 1:
- Dino Monduzzi , Italian cardinal (died 2006) April 2:
- Franz Ortner , Austrian journalist (died 1988) April 2:
- John C. Whitehead , American entrepreneur (died 2015) April 2:
- Ernie Adams , English footballer (died 2009) April 3:
- Doris Day , American actress († 2019) April 3
- Georges Layek , Syrian Archbishop (died 1983) April 3:
- Carlo Lizzani , Italian film director and screenwriter († 2013) April 3
- Robert Abplanalp , American inventor (d. 2003) April 4:
- Elmer Bernstein , American film music composer († 2004) April 4
- João Ferreira Bigode , Brazilian soccer player († 2003) April 4
- Pál Kucsera , Hungarian cyclist (died 1985) April 4
- Tom Finney , English footballer (died 2014) April 5:
- Harry Freedman , Canadian composer, English horn player and music educator († 2005) April 5:
- Gale Storm , American actress and singer († 2009) April 5:
- Alfonso Thiele , Italian racing driver (d. 1986) April 5:
- Nancy Mackay , Canadian sprinter (died 2016) April 6:
- Klaus Havenstein , German actor, cabaret artist and presenter († 1998) April 7:
- Kenneth Peacock , Canadian composer, musicologist and pianist (died 2000) April 7:
- Mongo Santamaría , Cuban percussionist († 2003) April 7:
- Annemarie Schimmel , German Islamic scholar († 2003) April 7:
- Hugo Strasser , German clarinetist and band leader († 2016) April 7:
- Alfred Lorenzer , German psychoanalyst and sociologist († 2002) April 8:
- Carl Amery , German writer and environmental activist (died 2005) April 9
- Hanno Hahn , German art historian and architectural researcher (died 1960) April 9:
- Johnny Thomson , American racing driver (d. 1960) April 9:
- Dénes Zsigmondy , Hungarian violinist (died 2014) April 9:
- April 10: John Brim , American blues musician (d. 2003)
- April 10 Giuseppe Casari , Italian footballer (died 2013)
- April 10: Hans-Eugen Schulze , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice († 2013)
- April 11: Aleksandar Ivanov Rajchev , Bulgarian composer († 2003)
- April 12: Edwin Thomas Astley , British film composer (d. 1998)
- April 13: Hardt-Waltherr Hämer , German architect (died 2012)
- April 13: Julius Nyerere , Tanzanian politician (died 1999)
- April 14 María Luisa Bemberg , Argentine screenwriter, film and theater director († 1995)
- April 14: Rolf Hagen , German historian and museum director († 2009)
- April 14: Kurt Meßmer , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Finance Court († 2012)
- April 14: Stella Zázvorková , Czech actress († 2005)
- April 15: Michael Ansara , American actor (died 2013)
- April 15: Hans-Joachim Baeuchle , German politician and MP († 2007)
- April 15: Bruno Merk , Bavarian politician and Bavarian Minister of the Interior († 2013)
- April 15 Jacques Normand , Canadian singer and entertainer (d. 1998)
- April 15: Harold Washington , American politician (died 1987)
- April 15: Graham Whitehead , British racing driver (d. 1981)
- April 15: Siegfried Wischnewski , German actor (died 1989)
- April 16 Kingsley William Amis , English novelist and poet (died 1995)
- April 16: John Christopher , English science fiction writer (died 2012)
- April 16: Boby Lapointe , French singer (d. 1972)
- April 16: Leo Tindemans , Belgian politician and prime minister (died 2014)
- April 18 Anne Daubenspeck-Focke , German sculptor and painter (died 2021)
- April 18: Barbara Hale , American actress (died 2017)
- April 18: Lord Kitchener , Trinidadian composer and singer († 2000)
- April 18 – Ollie Poole , American football player (d. 2009)
- April 19: Luigi Barbarito , Italian Curial Bishop (died 2017)
- April 19: Werner Cyprys , German singer, composer, songwriter and music producer († 2000)
- April 19 Erich Hartmann , German Air Force officer and fighter pilot (d. 1993)
- April 19 Kuno Klötzer , German football coach (died 2011)
- April 19 Don Sharp , British film director and screenwriter († 2011)
- April 21: Mundell Lowe , American jazz guitarist († 2017)
- April 21: Alistair MacLean , Scottish novelist (died 1987)
- April 21: Pierre Petit , French composer (died 2000)
- April 22 Elden C. Bailey , American percussionist and music educator († 2004)
- April 22 Charles Mingus , American jazz musician (d. 1979)
- April 24: Susanna Agnelli , Italian politician and author († 2009)
- April 24: JD Cannon , American actor (died 2005)
- April 24: Fred Delmare , German actor (died 2009)
- April 25: Rosalia Angeleri , Italian actress (d. 1969)
- April 25: Georges Cottier , Swiss cardinal (died 2016)
- April 25: Miura Ayako , Japanese writer (died 1999)
- April 26: Asger Hartvig Aaboe , Danish historian of mathematics and astronomy (died 2007)
- April 26 Pol Bury , Belgian painter and sculptor (died 2005)
- April 26 Roger Grava , Italian-French footballer (d. 1949)
- April 27: Hans Bemmann , German writer (died 2003)
- April 27: Max Geiger , Swiss evangelical clergyman and university teacher (died 1978)
- April 27: Jack Klugman , American film and television actor (died 2012)
- April 27: Sheila Scott , English pilot (died 1988)
- April 28: Robert Milson Appleby , British paleontologist (d. 2004)
- April 28 William Broomfield , American politician (died 2019)
- April 28 Pino Cerami , Italian-Belgian cyclist (died 2014)
- April 28: Thomas Niggl , German Benedictine monk and Abbot of Weltenburg (died 2011)
- April 29 Helmut Krackowizer , Austrian economist, journalist, motorcycle racer and motorcycle history expert (died 2001)
- April 29: Toots Thielemans , Belgian jazz musician († 2016)
- April 30 Kurt Herget , German footballer
- Jamal al-Atassi , Syrian politician (died 2000) April:
May
- Friedrich Wilhelm Christians , German banker (died 2004) May 1:
- Serge Reggiani , French actor and singer († 2004) May 2
- Jeanne Landry , Canadian pianist, music teacher and composer († 2011) May 3:
- Maria Müller-Sommer , German stage publisher May 4:
- Antonia Arnold , German writer († 2007) May 5:
- Karl Bock , German pediatric cardiologist (died 2004) May 5:
- Adil Çarçani , Albanian head of government during the communist dictatorship († 1997) May 5:
- Julio Ardiles Gray , Argentine writer (died 2009) May 6:
- Walter Gehlhoff , German diplomat and State Secretary (died 2004) May 6:
- Pat Harder , American football player (d. 1992) May 6
- Ralph Hirschmann , American chemist (died 2009) May 6:
- Dominique Aubier , French writer (died 2014) May 7:
- Darren McGavin , American actor (died 2006) May 7:
- Robert Buchet , French racing driver (d. 1974) May 8:
- Bernardin Cardinal Gantin , African Curial Cardinal (died 2008) May 8:
- Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan , Archbishop of Seoul († 2009) May 8:
- Oswald Paulig , German consumer cooperative member and politician († 2006) May 8:
- Walter H. Hitzig , Swiss pediatrician and transplant doctor († 2012) May 9:
- May 10: Jacques Albrespic , French composer and organist (died 1987)
- May 10 Emilio Arenales Catalán , Guatemalan politician (died 1969)
- May 10: Gunther Leupolt , teacher, teacher, author of local history literature from Upper Lusatia († 2017)
- May 11: Fritz Senft , Swiss writer (died 1997)
- May 12: Roy Salvadori , British racing driver (d. 2012)
- May 13: Otl Aicher , German sculptor, graphic artist, designer († 1991)
- May 13: Beatrice Arthur , American actress and singer († 2009)
- May 13: Peter Brückner , German social psychologist (died 1982)
- May 14 Agha Hasan Abedi , Pakistani banker (died 1995)
- May 14: Arnold Peters , Canadian politician (died 1996)
- May 14: Franjo Tuđman , President of Croatia (d. 1999)
- May 15: Dora Doll , French actress († 2015)
- May 16: Albert Vietor , German business manager, chairman of the board of Neue Heimat († 1984)
- May 17: Antje Weisgerber , German actress († 2004)
- May 18: Orfila Bardesio , Uruguayan poet (died 2009)
- May 18: Ingeborg Bingener , German author and politician (Die TierschutzParty) († 2001)
- May 18: Bill Macy , American actor (died 2019)
- May 18: Werner Riepel , German actor, singer and radio play announcer († 2012)
- May 18 Kai Winding , Danish-born American jazz trombonist (died 1983)
- May 19 Herbert Burdenski , German soccer player and soccer coach (died 2001)
- May 19: Hanna-Maria Zippelius , German behavioral biologist († 1994)
- May 21: Odal von Alten-Nordheim , German politician and MP († 2004)
- May 21: Pio Laghi , Italian cardinal (died 2009)
- May 24 Horst Rippert , German journalist, sports reporter and fighter pilot († 2013)
- May 25 Enrico Berlinguer , Italian politician and anti-fascist (died 1984)
- May 25: Kitty Kallen , American pop singer († 2016)
- May 26: Werner Augustiner , Austrian painter (died 1986)
- May 26 Reinhard Goerdeler , German lawyer and chartered accountant (died 1996)
- May 26: Herbert Schade , German athlete (died 1994)
- May 27: Otto Carius , German tank commander (died 2015)
- May 27: Christopher Lee , British actor (died 2015)
- May 27: John David Vanderhoof , American politician (died 2013)
- May 28: José Craveirinha , Mozambican poet (died 2003)
- May 29: Jacques Morel , French actor (died 2008)
- May 30: Hal Clement , American science fiction writer (died 2003)
- May 31: Denholm Elliott , British actor (died 1992)
- May 31: Bernhard Hassenstein , German behavioral biologist († 2016)
June
- Joan Copeland , American actress (died 2022) June 1:
- Ruth Rehmann , German writer (died 2016) June 1:
- Juan Antonio Bardem , Spanish film director and screenwriter († 2002) June 2:
- Ruth Bunkenburg , German actress, writer and radio play announcer († 2015) June 2:
- Clair Cameron Patterson , American geochemist (d. 1995) June 2
- Iván Patachich , Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1993) June 3:
- Alain Resnais , French film director († 2014) June 3:
- Iain Hamilton , Scottish composer and music educator († 2000) June 6:
- Donald Keene , American Japanologist (died 2019) June 6
- Vilhelm Aubert , Norwegian sociologist (died 1988) June 7:
- Henk Zeevalking , Dutch politician (died 2005) June 7:
- Balduin Baas , German actor (died 2006) June 9:
- June 10 Robert Alan Aurthur , American novelist, screenwriter and film producer (d. 1978)
- June 10 – Judy Garland , American film actress and singer (d. 1969)
- June 10 Luís Romano de Madeira Melo , Cape Verdean writer and poet (died 2010)
- June 11 Alberto Bovone , Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1998)
- June 11: John Bromfield , American actor (died 2005)
- June 11: Michael Cacoyannis , Greek film director, screenwriter and producer († 2011)
- June 11 – Erving Goffman , American sociologist (d. 1982)
- June 12: Günter Behnisch , German architect (died 2010)
- June 13 Vittorio Marzotto , Italian racing driver (d. 1999)
- June 14: Günter Freund , German radio presenter († 2010)
- June 14: Kevin Roche , American architect (died 2019)
- June 15: Jaki Byard , American jazz musician (d. 1999)
- June 15: Mo Udall , American politician (died 1998)
- June 16: Gerhard Kießling , German ice hockey player and coach (died 2017)
- June 16 Wayne Mixson , American politician (died 2020)
- June 16 Irma Tübler , German politician (died 1992)
- June 17: Hans Eisen , German general (died 2002)
- June 17: Kelsey Jones , Canadian composer, harpsichordist, pianist, organist, conductor and music educator († 2004)
- June 17: Paul Schallück , German writer (died 1976)
- June 17 Dieter Wedekind , German cinematographer (died 2014)
- June 18: Claude Helffer , French pianist (died 2004)
- June 18: Helmut Schröcke , German mineralogist and publicist († 2018)
- June 19: Mousey Alexander , American jazz drummer (d. 1988)
- June 19: Aage Niels Bohr , Danish physicist (died 2009)
- June 20: Hans Ulrich Graf , Swiss politician (SVP) and publisher († 2010)
- June 21: Léon Yehouda Ashkénasi , French rabbi (died 1996)
- June 21: Leo Kufelnizky , German Palestine Pioneer (died 1947)
- June 22: Juan Amenábar , Chilean composer (d. 1999)
- June 22: Bill Blass , American fashion designer (d. 2002)
- June 22 Osvaldo Fattori , Italian soccer player and coach (died 2017)
- June 22: Lore Wissmann , German soprano (died 2007)
- June 24: Manny Albam , jazz baritone saxophonist and arranger († 2001)
- June 24: Jack Carter , American actor and comedian (died 2015)
- June 26: Eleanor Parker , American actress († 2013)
- June 27: George Walker , American composer and music educator († 2018)
- June 28 Ernst Arnds , German politician (died 1971)
- June 28: Michael Vale , American actor (died 2005)
- June 29: Paul Flora , Austrian draftsman and caricaturist († 2009)
- June 30: Heinrich Bednar , Austrian table tennis player († 2000)
- June 30: Gilles Lefebvre , Canadian violinist (died 2001)
- June 30 Horst Lemke , German illustrator and graphic artist (died 1985)
July
- Riccardo Carapellese , Italian football player and coach (d. 1995) July 1
- Wolfgang Heibges , German frigate captain and commander of the submarine U 999 († 2005) July 1:
- Jiří Ropek , Czech organist, composer and music teacher († 2005) July 1:
- Pierre Cardin , French fashion designer and entrepreneur († 2020) July 2
- Josef Guggenmos , German poet and children's book author († 2003) July 2 –
- Jacques Pollet , French racing driver (d. 1997) July 2:
- Corneille , Dutch painter, sculptor and poet (died 2010) July 3:
- Helmut Schoeck , Austrian sociologist (died 1993) July 3:
- James Harvey , American politician (died 2019) July 4:
- Ulrich Neuenschwander , Swiss Reformed theologian (died 1977) July 4:
- Ilse Gräfin von Bredow , German writer († 2014) July 5:
- Alan A. Armer , American television producer († 2010) July 7:
- Eva Brumby , German actress († 2002) July 9:
- Jim Pollard , American basketball player (d. 1993) July 9 –
- July 10 Enzo Barboni , Italian screenwriter and director († 2002)
- July 10 – Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin , German Wehrmacht officer and resistance fighter (died 2013)
- July 10: Herb McKenley , Jamaican athlete and Olympic gold medalist (d. 2007)
- July 11: Norman Abbott , American director and producer († 2016)
- July 11: Marie-Thérèse Ibos , French violinist (died 2011)
- July 11: Fritz Riess , German racing driver (d. 1991)
- July 11: Günter Spendel , German legal scholar (died 2009)
- July 11: Jerald terHorst , American journalist (died 2010)
- July 12: Mark Hatfield , American politician (died 2011)
- July 12: Werner Maser , German historian (died 2007)
- July 12 Michael Ventris , English linguist (died 1956)
- July 13: Anker Jørgensen , Danish politician (died 2016)
- July 14: Hildy Beyeler , Swiss art collector and co-founder of Art-Basel († 2008)
- July 14: Ursula Lübbe , German publisher († 2016)
- July 15: Leon Max Lederman , American physicist (died 2018)
- July 18 Georg Kreisler , Austrian cabaret artist, composer, satirist and writer († 2011)
- July 18 Thomas Samuel Kuhn , American physicist, philosopher of science and historian of science (d. 1996)
- July 19: George McGovern , American politician (died 2012)
- July 20: Aníbal Arias , Argentine guitarist († 2010)
- July 20: Joachim-Ernst Berendt , German music journalist and critic († 2000)
- July 20 Alan Stephenson Boyd , American politician (died 2020)
- July 20: Anton Albertus Herman Kassenaar , Dutch biochemist (died 2013)
- July 20: Ernie Wilkins , American jazz musician (d. 1999)
- July 21 Kay Starr , American jazz and pop singer († 2016)
- July 21: Mollie Sugden , British actress (died 2009)
- July 23: Damiano Damiani , Italian film director († 2013)
- July 24 Bernard Huijbers , Dutch composer, church musician and Jesuit (died 2003)
- July 24: Bernard Ładysz , Polish opera singer († 2020)
- July 24 Charles Mathias , American politician (died 2010)
- July 24 Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski , German politician, Federal Minister († 2005)
- July 25 Torben Agersnap , Danish sociologist (died 2013)
- July 25: John B. Goodenough , American physicist and Nobel laureate in chemistry
- July 25 Elisa Soteldo , Venezuelan singer, pianist and music teacher († 2016)
- July 26: Chairil Anwar , Indonesian poet (died 1949)
- July 26 Gilberto Agustoni , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 2017)
- July 26: Gérard Calvi , French film composer († 2015)
- July 26: Blake Edwards , American film director, actor and screenwriter († 2010)
- July 26 Andrzej Koszewski , Polish composer, musicologist and educator (died 2015)
- July 27 Werner Hofmann , German sociologist, co-founder of Action Democratic Progress († 1969)
- July 27 Norman Lear , American television writer and producer
- July 28: Jacques Piccard , Swiss deep sea explorer and oceanographer († 2008)
- July 29 Erich Hartmann , German-American photographer (d. 1999)
- July 30 – Hansgeorg Stengel , German journalist, writer, satirist and cabaret artist († 2003)
- July 30: Zbigniew Wiszniewski , Polish composer and music educator (died 1999)
- July 30: Friedrich Wolff , German lawyer, chairman of the Berlin Bar Council in East Germany
- July 31 Lorenzo Antonetti , Italian cardinal (died 2013)
August
- Arthur Hill , Canadian theater, film and television actor (died 2006) August 1:
- Hans Löfflad , German politician (died 1997) August 1:
- Gábor Agárdi , Hungarian actor (died 2006) August 2:
- Jan Buck , Sorbian painter († 2019) August 2:
- Paul Fitzgerald , Australian portrait painter (died 2017) August 2:
- Paul Laxalt , American politician (died 2018) August 2:
- Isao Nakauchi , Japanese entrepreneur and philanthropist (died 2005) August 2:
- Manuel Correia de Oliveira Andrade , Brazilian author, historian, geographer, jurist and professor († 2007) August 3
- Tom Kines , Canadian folk singer, folk music collector and multi-instrumentalist (d. 1994) August 3:
- Kurt Zips , Austrian actor and voice actor (d. 1988) August 3:
- Georg Auer , Austrian journalist (died 2004) August 4:
- Luis Cardinal Aponte Martínez , Archbishop of San Juan (died 2012) August 4:
- Freddie Laker , British airline businessman (died 2006) August 6:
- Daniel Walker , American politician (died 2015) August 6:
- Josef W. Janker , German writer (died 2010) August 7:
- Boy Lornsen , German sculptor and writer (died 1995) August 7:
- Alberto Granado , Che Guevara's travel companion on his tour of South America († 2011) August 8:
- Gertrude Himmelfarb , US historian († 2019) August 8:
- Egon Schwarz , American literary scholar of Austrian descent († 2017) August 8:
- Günter Steffens , German writer (died 1985) August 8:
- Fritz Umgelter , German film and television director († 1981) August 8
- Klaus Nonnenmann , German writer (died 1993) August 9:
- August 10: Loro Boriçi , Albanian football player and coach (d. 1984)
- August 11 Ron Grainer , Australian composer (d. 1981)
- August 11: Gustav Huonker , Swiss author and politician (died 2019)
- August 12 Humphrey Edward Gregory Atkins , British politician (d. 1996)
- August 12: Miloš Jakeš , Czechoslovakian politician (died 2020)
- August 15 Hristo Bayev , Bulgarian opera and operetta singer (died 1983)
- August 15: Lukas Foss , American composer and conductor († 2009)
- August 15: Boris Sichkin , Russian-American actor, dancer and choreographer (died 2002)
- August 16 Zdeněk Matějček , Czech child psychologist (died 2004)
- August 17: Frederick B. Dent , American politician and businessman († 2019)
- August 17: Rudolf Haag , German physicist (died 2016)
- August 18: Alain Robbe-Grillet , French writer and filmmaker (died 2008)
- August 19 Léopold Anoul , Belgian footballer (d. 1990)
- August 19: Hans Adolf Halbey , German poet and lyricist (died 2003)
- August 20 Alexander Malachovsky , German-speaking actor, radio play director and speaker († 1989)
- August 21 M. Robert Aaron , American electrical engineer (d. 2007)
- August 21: Elisabeth Alexander , German writer (died 2009)
- August 22: Miloš Kopecký , Czech actor (d. 1996)
- August 22: Kurt Laue , German soccer goalkeeper
- August 22: Lennart Nilsson , Swedish photographer and science filmmaker (died 2017)
- August 22 Micheline Presle , French actress
- August 23: Arnold Andenmatten , Swiss skier and ski instructor († 2018)
- August 23: Inge Deutschkron , Israeli journalist and author
- August 23: Roland Dumas , French politician
- August 23: George Kell , American baseball player (d. 2009)
- August 23: Oswald Rathfelder , German scientist, botanist and conservationist (died 2011)
- August 24 Howard Zinn , American historian and political scientist (died 2010)
- August 25: Hellmut Andics , Austrian journalist and author (died 1998)
- August 25: Claude Bridel , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university teacher († 2007)
- August 25: Ivry Gitlis , Israeli-French violinist († 2020)
- August 25: Marie Marcks , German cartoonist and author († 2014)
- August 26: Lazar Nikolov , Bulgarian composer († 2005)
- August 27: Robert Dauber , German cellist and composer (died 1945)
- August 27 Frank Kelly Freas , American painter and illustrator (died 2005)
- August 29: Harri Asi , Estonian writer and poet (died 2009)
- August 29: Richard Blackwell , American style critic (d. 2008)
- August 31: August Graf Kageneck , German journalist (died 2004)
September
- Yvonne De Carlo , American actress (died 2007) September 1:
- Vittorio Gassman , Italian actor (died 2000) September 1
- Melvin R. Laird , US politician (died 2016) September 1:
- Arthur Ashkin , American experimental physicist (d. 2020) September 2
- Martin Christoffel , Swiss chess player († 2001) September 2:
- Wolfgang Urchs , German director († 2016) September 2:
- Steffan Danielsen , Faroese painter (died 1976) September 3:
- Salli Terri , American singer and singing teacher (d. 1996) September 3
- Rosalio José Castillo Lara , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 2007) September 4:
- Gisela Trowe , German actress (died 2010) September 5:
- Ernst W. Wies , German historian (died 2012) September 6:
- Peter Wapnewski , German scholar (died 2012) September 7:
- Sid Caesar , American actor (died 2014) September 8:
- Lyndon LaRouche , American political activist (died 2019) September 8:
- Héctor Rossetto , Argentine chess champion (d. 2009) September 8:
- Hans Georg Dehmelt , American physicist and Nobel laureate († 2017) September 9:
- Manolis Glezos , Greek politician and author († 2020) September 9
- Warwick Kerr , Brazilian geneticist and entomologist (died 2018) September 9
- Stephen Murray-Smith , Australian editor and author (d. 1988) September 9
- September 10 Bernard Bailyn , American historian (died 2020)
- September 10: Yma Sumac , Peruvian singer († 2008)
- September 11 Adegboyega Folaranmi Adedoyin , Nigerian track and field athlete (d. 2014)
- September 11: Robert Day , British film director († 2017)
- September 12: Peter Sichel , German-American wine merchant and US secret agent
- September 13 Charles Brown , American blues singer and pianist (d. 1999)
- September 13: Alfons Kolling , state curator of the Saarland († 2003)
- September 14: Arthur Agstner , Austrian Ambassador (died 1991)
- September 14: Michel Auclair , French actor (died 1988)
- September 15: Robert James Gilbert Anderson , British fencer and actor (died 2012)
- September 15: Jackie Cooper , American actor (died 2011)
- September 16: Hans Baltisberger , German motorcycle racer (died 1956)
- September 16: Guy Hamilton , British film director († 2016)
- September 16 Janis Paige , American actress
- September 16: Ursula Wölfel , German children's book author († 2014)
- September 17: Radu Aldulescu , Romanian cellist (died 2006)
- September 17 Karl Kaufhold , German composer, conductor and organist (died 2015)
- September 17: Agostinho Neto , first President of Angola, poet and nationalist leader (died 1979)
- September 19: Jochen Steffen , German politician (died 1987)
- September 19: Walter R. Peterson , American politician (died 2011)
- September 19: Emil Zátopek , Czech athlete († 2000)
- September 19: Dana Zátopková , Czech track and field athlete, Olympic champion († 2020)
- September 20: Pierre Barbizet , French pianist and music teacher (d. 1990)
- September 20 William Kapell , American pianist (d. 1953)
- September 21: Nathan Apea Aferi , Ghanaian politician (died 2003)
- September 21: Siegfried Seifert , German zoologist (died 1998)
- September 22: Hubert Bruhs , German sculptor (died 2005)
- September 22: Yvette Horner , French accordionist († 2018)
- September 23: Louise Latham , American actress (died 2018)
- September 24: Meche Barba , Mexican actress and dancer († 2000)
- September 24: Bert I. Gordon , American film director, film producer and screenwriter
- September 24: Gerhard Watzke , Austrian rower (died 2021)
- September 25 Hammer DeRoburt , founding President of the Republic of Nauru (d. 1992)
- September 25: Roger Cardinal Etchegaray , Archbishop of Marseille (died 2019)
- September 27: Arthur Penn , American film director († 2010)
- September 28 Francesco Caroli , Italian artiste and clown (died 2004)
- September 28 William E. Leuchtenburg , American historian
- September 28 Andreas Flitner , German educator and educational politician († 2016)
- September 28 Jules Sedney , Surinamese politician (died 2020)
- September 29: Karl-Heinz Köpcke , chief spokesman for the Tagesschau († 1991)
- September 29: Hans Otto , German organist and cantor (died 1996)
- September 29: Lizabeth Scott , American actress († 2015)
- September 30: Kurt Neubauer , Berlin Mayor and Interior Senator († 2012)
- September 30: Oscar Pettiford , American musician (d. 1960)
October
- Héctor Campos-Parsi , Puerto Rican composer (d. 1998) October 1:
- Rafael Masella , Canadian clarinetist, music educator and composer († 2006) October 1
- Matsushita Shin'ichi , Japanese composer (d. 1990) October 1:
- Inge Merkel , Austrian writer († 2006) October 1:
- Chen Ning Yang , Chinese-American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics October 1
- Otmar Mácha , Czech composer († 2006) October 2:
- John Craxton , English painter (died 2009) October 3:
- Olga Guillot , Cuban singer († 2010) October 3:
- Gianna Beretta Molla , Italian Catholic pediatrician, saint (1962) October 4
- José Froilán González , Argentine Formula One racing driver (d. 2013) October 5:
- Bil Keane , American cartoonist (died 2011) October 5:
- Woodrow Parfrey , American actor (d. 1984) October 5:
- Klaus Dill , German painter (died 2000) October 6:
- Tommaso Maestrelli , Italian footballer and coach (died 1976) October 7
- Eileen Essell , British actress (died 2015) October 8:
- Katharina Focke , German politician (died 2016) October 8:
- Nils Liedholm , Swedish football and bandy player and football coach († 2007) October 8
- Stefania Woytowicz , Polish singer († 2005) October 8:
- Robert Siegfried Dieter Athenstedt , German fencer and fencing coach (died 2015) October 9:
- Lutz Röhrich , German folklorist and narrative researcher († 2006) October 9:
- Lee Wilde , American actress and singer († 2015) October 9:
- October 10: Reine Flachot , French cellist (d. 1998)
- October 10: Helmut Nordhaus , German soccer player (died 2014)
- October 10: Lyn Wilde , American actress and singer († 2016)
- October 13: Gilberto Mendes , Brazilian composer († 2016)
- October 14: Jaroslav Koutecký , Czech chemist (died 2005)
- October 15: Agustina Bessa-Luís , Portuguese writer (died 2019)
- October 15: Robert Frederick Froehlke , American politician (died 2016)
- October 15: Lorraine Gordon , US jazz club owner († 2018)
- October 16: Carlos Mercader , Uruguayan modern pentathlete († 2010)
- October 17: Luiz Bonfá , Brazilian composer and guitarist († 2001)
- October 17: Angel Wagenstein , Bulgarian novelist and screenwriter
- October 18 Camillo Togni , Italian composer, pianist and music teacher (d. 1993)
- October 19: Jack Anderson , American journalist (died 2005)
- October 19: Jürgen Brandt , German General, Inspector General of the German Armed Forces 1978–83 († 2003)
- October 20: John Anderson , American actor (died 1992)
- 20 October Gaositwe Kogakwa Tibe Chiepe , Botswana politician and diplomat
- October 21 – Per-Olof Åstrand , Swedish physiologist and sports scientist (died 2015)
- October 21 Liliane Bettencourt , French entrepreneur and billionaire (died 2017)
- October 21: Peter Demetz , literary scholar
- October 21 Emil Schlee , German politician and historian (died 2009)
- October 22: Sebastian Auer , Austrian engineer and inventor
- October 22 – Eugen Dietrich Graue , German legal scholar and university lecturer († 2006)
- October 22 – Tadeusz Machl , Polish composer, organist and music teacher (died 2003)
- October 22: Sícoris , Andorran journalist and writer († 2006)
- October 23: Gerhard Bronner , Austrian composer, musician and cabaret artist († 2007)
- October 24 Horst Stern , German journalist, filmmaker and writer (died 2019)
- October 26 Darcy Ribeiro , Brazilian anthropologist, politician, and writer (died 1997)
- October 27 – Poul Bundgaard , Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
- October 27: Ruby Dee , American actress (died 2014)
- October 27: Michel Galabru , French actor (died 2016)
- October 27 Carlos Andrés Pérez , two-time President of Venezuela († 2010)
- October 28: Günter Bast , German internal medicine specialist († 1997)
- October 28: Silvia De Grasse , Panamanian singer (d. 1978)
- October 28: Marie Louise Fischer , German writer (died 2005)
- October 28: Gershon Kingsley , German-American composer († 2019)
- October 28 Ernest Vaast , French footballer (died 2011)
- October 29: Arthur Apfel , British figure skater (died 2017)
- October 29: Neal Hefti , American jazz musician († 2008)
- October 29 Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev , Russian sociologist and logician (died 2006)
- October 30 Heinrich Dahlinger , German handball player (died 2008)
- October 31: Barbara Bel Geddes , American actress (died 2005)
- October 31: Illinois Jacquet , American jazz musician († 2004)
- October 31: Norodom Sihanouk , King of Cambodia (died 2012)
November
- Antonio di Benedetto , Argentine writer (died 1986) November 2
- Benno Besson , Swiss actor, director and theater manager († 2006) November 4:
- Ralph Earl Sutton , American musician (d. 2001) November 4
- Serge Lancen , French composer and musician († 2005) November 5:
- Cecil H. Underwood , American politician (d. 2008) November 5:
- Ernesto Duarte Brito , Cuban pianist, composer and bandleader (died 1988) November 7:
- Conrad Ahlers , German SPD politician (died 1980) November 8:
- Christiaan Barnard , South African medical doctor († 2001) November 8:
- Ademir de Menezes , Brazilian soccer player (died 1996) November 8:
- Hannsheinz Porst , German entrepreneur (died 2010) November 8:
- Boutros Raï , Syrian Archbishop of Lebanon (died 1994) November 8:
- Hans-Günter Hoppe , German politician (died 2000) November 9:
- Dorothy Dandridge , American actress and singer (d. 1965) November 9
- Raymond Devos , French comedian (died 2006) November 9:
- Erich Ebert , German actor, dubbing actor, dubbing author and dialogue director († 2000) November 9:
- Edeltraud Forster , German abbess of the monastery of St. Hildegard Eibingen (died 2019) November 9:
- Imre Lakatos , Hungarian mathematician, physicist and philosopher of science (died 1974) November 9:
- Lauro Olmo , Spanish writer (died 1994) November 9:
- Fiete Reder , German handball player and coach († 2004) November 9:
- Sherman W. Tribbitt , American politician (died 2010) November 9:
- Augusto Vargas Alzamora , Archbishop of Lima and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 2000) November 9:
- November 11 George Blake , British double agent (d. 2020)
- November 11: Fred J. Koenekamp , American cinematographer († 2017)
- November 11: Oskar Rosi , German artist, († 2010)
- November 11: Poldl Schuhwerk , Bavarian local historian, poet and painter († 2005)
- November 11: Kurt Vonnegut , American writer (died 2007)
- November 12: Kim Hunter , American actress († 2002)
- November 13 Ursula Adam , German journalist and poet (died 1979)
- November 13: Mildred Goodman , Canadian violinist († 2017)
- November 13: Madeleine Sherwood , Canadian actress († 2016)
- November 13: Oskar Werner , Austrian actor and declaimer (d. 1984)
- November 14: Boutros Boutros-Ghali , Egyptian politician, United Nations Secretary-General (died 2016)
- November 14 Veronica Lake , American actress (d. 1973)
- November 15: Werner Eichhorn , German actor (died 2005)
- November 15 Giorgio Manganelli , Italian writer, journalist and literary scholar (died 1990)
- November 15: Francesco Rosi , Italian film director and screenwriter († 2015)
- November 16: Gene Amdahl , American computer architect and entrepreneur († 2015)
- November 16: Patricia Barry , American film actress († 2016)
- November 16 Salvatore Giuliano , Sicilian bandit and separatist (died 1950)
- November 16: Sidney Mintz , American anthropologist (died 2015)
- November 16: José Saramago , Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize winner in Literature († 2010)
- November 17: Stanley Cohen , American biochemist (d. 2020)
- November 17: Gert Tiedtke , German carom player and multiple German champion in art shot († 2021)
- November 18 Marjorie Gestring , American diver (d. 1992)
- November 19: Wilmut Borell , German actor (died 1997)
- November 19: Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov , Soviet Egyptologist (died 1999)
- November 19: Rajko Mitić , Yugoslav football player and coach († 2008)
- November 20: Johnny Leach , English table tennis player (died 2014)
- November 21: Maria Casarès , French actress (d. 1996)
- November 22: Roberto Aballay , Argentine footballer
- November 22: Fikrät Ämirov , Azerbaijani composer (died 1984)
- November 22: Jörg Zink , German Protestant theologian (died 2016)
- November 23 Manuel Fraga Iribarne , Spanish politician and head of government (died 2012)
- November 23: Peter Lehner , Swiss poet (died 1987)
- November 23: Stephan Pfürtner , German Catholic moral theologian and social ethicist.(† 2012)
- November 25: Bob Holbert , American entrepreneur and racing driver (d. 2007)
- November 23: Inge Landgut , German actress and voice actress († 1986)
- November 26: Charles M. Schulz , American comic artist († 2000)
- November 27: John Kodwo Amissah , Ghanaian Archbishop (d. 1991)
- November 27 Jacqueline White , American actress
- November 28: Lode Anthonis , Belgian racing cyclist (d. 1992)
- November 28 Pinchas Lapide , Austrian Jewish theologian and religious scholar (died 1997)
- November 29: Ria Baran , German figure skater (died 1986)
- November 29: Hans-Werner Grosse , German glider pilot († 2021)
- November 29: Erwin Heerich , German artist (died 2004)
- November 30: André Bord , French politician and Resistance fighter († 2013)
- November 30: Norbert Kricke , German sculptor (died 1984)
December
- Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov , Soviet football and ice hockey player (died 1979) December 1 –
- Gerd Mehl , German sports reporter († 2001) December 1:
- Jean-Charles , French journalist and writer (died 2003) December 2
- Henry Grunwald , editor-in-chief of "Time" and US Ambassador to Austria († 2005) December 3:
- Walter Kremershof , German ice hockey player (died 1997) December 3 –
- Len Lesser , American actor (died 2011) December 3:
- Muriel Millard , Canadian actress, singer, dancer and painter († 2014) December 3:
- Sven Nykvist , Swedish cinematographer and film director († 2006) December 3:
- Luis Benjamín , Puerto Rican pianist (died 1988) December 4:
- Kurt Weinmann , German chemist (died 2007) December 5:
- Jack Ashley , British politician (died 2012) December 6:
- Ernst Pfiffner , Swiss composer, organist and conductor († 2011) December 6:
- Guy Thys , Belgian football coach (d. 2003) December 6:
- Willy Andergassen , Italian artist († 2001) December 7:
- Lucian Freud , British painter (died 2011) December 8:
- Gerhard Löwenthal , German journalist and TV presenter (died 2002) December 8:
- Sol Yaged , American jazz clarinetist († 2019) December 8:
- Semavi Eyice , Turkish art historian and Byzantinist (died 2018) December 9:
- December 11: Grigoris Bithikotsis , Greek singer († 2005)
- December 11: Dilip Kumar , Indian film actor († 2021)
- 12 December: Vasily Fyodorovich Borissov , Soviet sports shooter
- December 12: Július Schubert , Czechoslovak footballer (died 1949)
- December 13: Robert Veyron-Lacroix , French harpsichordist and pianist (died 1991)
- December 14: Nikolai Gennadievich Bassov , Russian physicist (died 2001)
- December 14: Hans Daniel , German actor and news anchor (died 2008)
- December 14: Donald Hewitt , American journalist, director and TV producer († 2009)
- December 14: Wolfgang Müller , German actor and cabaret artist (died 1960)
- December 15: Kurt Weidemann , German graphic designer, typographer, author and teacher († 2011)
- December 16: David Scott-Barrett , British officer (died 2004)
- December 17 Mario Rigamonti , Italian soccer player (died 1949)
- December 18 Jack Bascom Brooks , American politician (died 2012)
- December 18: Illo Schieder , German pop singer († 2004)
- December 18: Klaus Schwarzkopf , German actor and voice actor (died 1991)
- December 19: Walter Höllerer , German writer and literary scholar († 2003)
- December 20: Walter Eichenberg , German composer and musician († 2018)
- December 20 Tony Vaccaro , American photographer
- December 22: Don Fellows , American actor (died 2007)
- December 22: Peter Lorenz , German politician (died 1987)
- December 22 Jean Malaurie , French geomorphologist and ethnologist
- December 22: Jim Wright , American politician (died 2015)
- December 23: Horst Brasch , SED party functionary, temporarily Deputy Minister for Culture of the GDR († 1989)
- December 23 Micheline Ostermeyer , French athlete and pianist († 2001)
- December 24: Ava Gardner , American actress (d. 1990)
- December 24: Jonas Mekas , Lithuanian film director and writer († 2019)
- December 25 – Félix Loustau , Argentine soccer player (died 2003)
- December 26: Miguel Hesayne , Argentine bishop (died 2019)
- December 26: Samuel H. Young , American politician (died 2017)
- December 27: Karel Hiršl , Czechoslovak resistance fighter (died 1945)
- December 28: Ivan Desny , Franco-German actor (died 2002)
- December 28 Otto Eckl , Austrian table tennis player (died 1993)
- December 28: Stan Lee , American comic book writer (died 2018)
- December 29: William Gaddis , American writer (died 1998)
- December 29: Rose Lee Maphis , American country music artist († 2021)
- December 31: Tom Fears , American football player and coach († 2000)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Marcello Andrei , Italian film director and screenwriter
- Bernard Astraud , French pilot and entrepreneur (died 1985)
- William J. Ballard , American choral conductor, music educator and scholar († 2006)
- Emilio Gálvez , Mexican singer and violinist (died 1991)
- Charles Leonard Hamblin , Australian philosopher, logician and computer pioneer (died 1985)
- Halla Huhm , Korean dancer and dance teacher († 1994)
- Kurt Kaiser , German pianist, bassoonist and arranger
Died
January February
- Hauptmann von Köpenick ), German-Luxembourgish shoemaker (b. 1849) January 3: Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt (known as
- Ernest Shackleton , British polar explorer (b. 1874) January 5:
- Antonio Scontrino , Italian composer (b. 1850) January 7:
- Wilhelm Rühlmann , German organ builder (b. 1842) January 8:
- January 10: Ōkuma Shigenobu , Japanese politician and prime minister (b. 1838)
- January 17: Carl Robert , German classical scholar and archaeologist (b. 1850)
- January 21: Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan , French mathematician (born 1838)
- January 22: Benedict XV. , Pope (b. 1854)
- January 22: James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce , British politician, historian and diplomat
- January 22: Elsa Andersson , Swedish pilot (b. 1897)
- January 23: Lorenz Ludwig Auler , German politician (born 1853)
- January 23: René Beeh , German painter and printmaker (b. 1886)
- January 23: Arthur Nikisch , Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
- January 26: Alfred Gercke , German classics scholar (b. 1860)
- January 27: Nellie Bly , American journalist and world traveler (b. 1864)
- January 28: Elizabeth Jane Gardner , American-French painter (b. 1837)
- Ferdinand Gustav Hans von Arnim , Prussian general (b. 1846) February 3:
- Christiaan De Wet , South African politician and Boer general (b. 1854) 5 February:
- Slavoljub Eduard Penkala , engineer and inventor from Croatia (b. 1871) February 5:
- Georg August Zenker , German gardener, botanist and zoologist (b. 1855) February 6
- Eduard Anthes , German prehistorian (b. 1859) February 7:
- Auguste Glardon , Swiss evangelical minister (b. 1839) February 9:
- February 15: Clara Gertrud Wichmann , Dutch jurist, publicist, pacifist (born 1885)
- February 16: Christoph Paul von Andreae , German industrialist and landowner (b. 1850)
- February 16: Newton Knight , Confederate Army deserter in Civil War (b. 1849)
- February 18: Hugo Player , German sculptor (b. 1854)
- February 20: Reinhard Mannesmann , German industrialist (b. 1856)
- February 20: John F. Shafroth , American politician (b. 1854)
- February 23: Georg Anthes , German violinist, opera singer and theater director (born 1863)
- February 25: Anton von Kersting , German military (b. 1849)
March April
- Richard Schöne , German archaeologist (b. 1840) March 5:
- René Bohn , German chemist (b. 1862) March 6:
- Carl Ludwig Schleich , German physician and writer (b. 1859) March 7:
- March 10: Hans Sitt , German composer (b. 1850)
- March 11: Anastasia Mikhailovna Romanova , Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg (b. 1860)
- March 11: Robert J. Wynne , American politician (b. 1851)
- March 25: Ulrich Thieme , German art historian (b. 1865)
- March 28: Julius Wieting , German surgeon (born 1868)
- Charles I , Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (b. 1887) 1 April:
- Hermann Rorschach , Swiss psychiatrist (born 1884) April 2:
- Ramabai Dongre Medhavi , Indian social reformer (b. 1858) April 5:
- Erich von Falkenhayn , German officer (b. 1861) April 8:
- April 10: Irving Webster Drew , American politician (b. 1845)
- April 12: František Ondříček , Czech violinist and composer (born 1857)
- April 12 George Henry Wilson , American dentist and college professor (b. 1922)
- April 19: Marjorie Pickthall , English-Canadian writer (b. 1882)
- April 19: Theodor von Scheve , German chess champion (b. 1851)
- April 21: Alessandro Moreschi , last castrato (b. 1858)
- April 23: Abraham Adler , German economist (born 1850)
- April 23: Vlaho Bukovac , Croatian painter (b. 1855)
- April 26: Rudolf Jung , German historian and archivist (b. 1859)
- April 28 Joseph Aumer , German orientalist and librarian (b. 1835)
May June
- Asle Gronna , American politician (b. 1858) May 4:
- Diego Dublé Almeida , Chilean general and politician (b. 1841) May 6:
- Otto Hieronimus , German-Austrian automobile designer and racing driver (b. 1879) May 8:
- May 11: Allen M. Fletcher , American politician (b. 1853)
- May 18: Alphonse Laveran , French physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (b. 1845)
- May 22: Eduard Fiechtner , German mayor (b. 1843)
- May 24: Karl Schäfer , German organ builder (b. 1838)
- May 26: Ernest Solvay , Belgian chemist (b. 1838)
- May 27 Heinrich Nils Antoine-Feill , German lawyer (born 1855)
- May 28: Emilio Zanini , Swiss teacher and writer (b. 1866)
- Samuel E. Pingree , American politician (b. 1832) June 1:
- William P. Pollock , American politician (b. 1870) June 2:
- Hermann Diels , German classical scholar and historian of philosophy (b. 1848) June 4:
- George Carmack , American prospector (b. 1860) June 5:
- Lillian Russell , American singer (b. 1861) June 5:
- June 12: Wolfgang Kapp , General Landscape Director and putschist (b. 1858)
- June 16: Karl Blasel , Austrian actor and theater director (b. 1831)
- June 17: Hermann Jordan , German Protestant clergyman and university teacher (b. 1878)
- June 17: Otto Lehmann , German physicist (“father” of liquid crystal research) (b. 1855)
- June 19: Fritz Arnheim , German historian (b. 1866)
- June 20: Aeba Kōson , Japanese novelist and theater critic (b. 1855)
- June 20: Wilhelm Hallwachs , German physicist (b. 1859)
- June 22: Newton Blanchard , American politician (b. 1849)
- 24 June: Alexander Stepanovich Antonov , leader of the Tambov Peasant Uprising during the Russian Civil War (b. 1888)
- June 24: Walther Rathenau , German Reich Foreign Minister (b. 1867)
- 26 June: Albert I , Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
- June 26: Ciro Luis Urriola , President of Panama (b. 1863)
- June 27: Paul Schreckenbach , German pastor and writer (b. 1866)
July August
- Emanuel La Roche , Swiss architect (b. 1863) July 1:
- Carl Grossmann , serial killer (b. 1863) July 5:
- July 12: George Washington Steele , American politician (b. 1839)
- July 13: Rosa Bloch-Bollag , figure of the Swiss labor movement (b. 1880)
- July 15: Biagio Nazzaro , Italian automobile and motorcycle racer (b. 1890)
- July 17: Heinrich Rubens , German physicist (born 1865)
- July 20: Andrei Markov , Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
- July 21: Cemal Pasha , Turkish general and politician (b. 1872)
- July 30: Karl Dove , German geographer, meteorologist and explorer of Africa (b. 1863)
- Francis S. White , American politician (b. 1847) August 1:
- Alexander Graham Bell , Scottish-Canadian inventor (b. 1847) August 2:
- William E. Crow , American politician (b. 1870) August 2:
- Minna Cauer , German educator and women's rights activist (b. 1841) August 3
- Matyáš Lerch , Czech mathematician (b. 1860) August 3:
- Enver Pasha , Turkish general and politician (b. 1881) August 4:
- August 12 Arthur Griffith , Irish independence fighter and President of the Republic (b. 1872)
- August 18: William Henry Hudson , Argentine-British writer, naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1841)
- August 18: Otto Stoll , Swiss geographer and ethnologist (b. 1849)
- August 19 Gustav Jacob Adt , German manufacturer and politician (born 1860)
- August 22: Henriette Arendt , first German female police officer (b. 1874)
- August 22: Michael Collins , Irish freedom fighter (b. 1890)
- August 23: Albert J. Hopkins , American politician (b. 1846)
- August 28: Friedrich Schrader , German writer and orientalist (b. 1865)
- August 29: Vic Gonsalves , Dutch footballer (b. 1887)
- August 29: Georges Sorel , French social philosopher (b. 1847)
September October
- Samu Pecz , Hungarian architect (b. 1854) September 1:
- Henry Lawson , Australian author and poet (b. 1867) September 2
- Georgette Agutte , French painter (b. 1867) September 5:
- Léonce Girardot , French automobile racer (b. 1864) September 7:
- William Stewart Halsted , American surgeon (b. 1852) September 7:
- Gregor Kuhn , German racing driver (*unknown) September 9:
- September 10: Árpád Szendy , Hungarian composer (b. 1863)
- September 11: Louis Adolphe Coerne , American composer (b. 1870)
- September 11: Anton Kolm , Austrian director, film pioneer (b. 1865)
- September 15: Friedrich Nobbe , German agricultural chemist, botanist and seed researcher (b. 1830)
- September 15: Fritz Stüber-Gunther , Austrian writer (b. 1872)
- September 18: Cornelis Adrianus Pekelharing , Dutch physician (b. 1848)
- September 22: Charles Santley , English opera and oratorio singer (b. 1834)
- September 25: Tōkai Sanshi , Japanese writer (b. 1852)
- September 25: Johannes Petrus Kuenen , Dutch physicist (born 1866)
- September 26: David Yakovlevich Aizman , Russian Jewish writer (b. 1869)
- September 27: Philippe Godet , Swiss writer (b. 1850)
- Lucius F.C. Garvin , American politician (b. 1841) October 2
- Jorge Montt Álvarez , Chilean officer and politician (b. 1845) October 9:
- October 10 Luisa Capetillo , Puerto Rican feminist and anarchist (b. 1879)
- October 11: August Leopold Philipp Maria Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga , pretender to the Brazilian throne (b. 1867)
- October 20: Stephan Burián , Austro-Hungarian politician (b. 1852)
- October 22: Lyman Abbott , American philosopher of religion (b. 1835)
- October 24: Wilhelm Bode , German Goethe researcher (b. 1862)
- October 25: Oscar Hertwig , German zoologist (b. 1849)
- October 29: Fritz Drechsler , German architect (b. 1861)
- October 30: Pavel Argeyev , Franco-Russian fighter pilot (b. 1887)
November December
- Alva Adams , American politician (b. 1850) November 1:
- Jacques Bizet , French entrepreneur and writer (b. 1872) November 3:
- November 12: Bellamy Storer , American diplomat and politician (b. 1847)
- November 14: Carl Michael Ziehrer , Austrian composer (b. 1843)
- November 16: Max Abraham , German theoretical physicist (b. 1875)
- November 16: Kunigunde Ansion , Austrian writer (b. 1863)
- November 17: Albert Aichele , Swiss pioneer in electrical engineering (b. 1865)
- November 17: Robert Comtesse , Swiss politician (b. 1847)
- November 18: Marcel Proust , French novelist (b. 1871)
- November 24: August Leue , German architect, officer and colonial official (b. 1854)
- December 12: John Wanamaker , American merchant and former US Postal Secretary (b. 1838)
- December 13: Arthur Wesley Dow , American landscape painter (b. 1857)
- December 17: Antonín Kalina , Czech politician (b. 1870)
- December 19: Georg von Borries , German government official (b. 1857)
- December 19: Friedrich Delitzsch , German Assyriologist (b. 1850)
- December 20: Hermann Struckmann , German jurist (b. 1839)
- December 21: Emil Doepler , German painter (b. 1855)
- December 22: LeBaron Bradford Prince , American politician (b. 1840)
- December 24: Emil Frey , Swiss politician (b. 1838)
- December 30: Richard Zeckwer , American composer (b. 1850)
Exact date of death unknown
- Faraḥ Anṭūn , Syrian journalist (b. 1874)
- José Backhaus , Chilean painter (born 1884)
- Wilhelm Ferch , Romanian-German composer and choir director (born 1881)
- Victor Piaggio , Argentine conductor and music teacher (born 1864)
- Alexander Rechnitzer , Austro-Hungarian inventor (b. c. 1880)
- Jaroslaw de Zielinski , American pianist, organist, choirmaster, music teacher and composer (born 1847)
web links
Commons : 1922 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Living Virtual Museum Online
- Digital copies of newspapers from 1922 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library