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1925
Gustav Stresemann , Austen Chamberlain and Aristide Briand during the negotiations on the Locarno Treaties	Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
Paul von Hindenburg becomes the Reich President elected	Reza Shah Pahlavi becomes Shah of Iran

1925 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2678
Armenian calendar	1373-1374
Ethiopian calendar	1917-1918
Badi calendar	81-82
Bengali calendar	1331-1332
Berber calendar	2875
Buddhist calendar	2469
Burmese calendar	1287
Byzantine calendar	7433-7434
Chinese calendar
- era	4621-4622 or 4561-4562
- 60 year cycle	Wood rat ( 甲子 , 1) - Wood beef ( 乙丑 , 2)
French revolutionary calendar	CXXXIII - CXXXIV 133-134
Hebrew calendar	5685-5686
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	1981-1982
- Shaka Samvat	1847-1848
Iranian calendar	1303-1304
Islamic calendar	1343-1344
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Taishō 14
- Kōki	2585
Coptic calendar	1641-1642
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4258
- Juche era	14th
Minguo calendar	14th
Modern Olympics	VIII
Seleucid calendar	2236-2237
Thai solar calendar	2468

Events

Politics and world events

• January 1 : Jean-Marie Musy becomes President of Switzerland .
• January 1st : The Norwegian capital Christiania gets its former name Oslo again .
• January 1st : Portugal and the German Reich decide to continue the trade agreement signed in 1923 .
• January 22nd : Albania becomes a republic . Ahmet Zogu becomes president with Italian help .
• February 17 : The Kurdish Sheikh Said uprising begins in Turkey.
• February 27 : In Munich Bürgerbräukeller will NSDAP refounded and Germany's organized. Adolf Hitler makes his first appearance after his imprisonment.
• February 27 : The Turkish army begins to fight the Kurdish Sheikh Said uprising with air strikes and a major ground offensive .
• March 4 : In Washington, DC , Calvin Coolidge takes the oath as US president for the second time .
• March 6th : After a five-year transition period under the High Commissioner Herman Baltia, the eastern cantons of Belgium finally become part of Belgium . The loss of German territory was laid down in the Versailles Peace Treaty .
• March 29 : In the first presidential elections of the Weimar Republic, no candidate achieved an absolute majority - the DVP politician Karl Jarres received the most votes .
• April 4 : The SS is founded as a bodyguard for Adolf Hitler . During the Nazi era, it developed into a paramilitary organization.
• April 7th : Hitler's request for release from Austrian citizenship, granted on April 30th, 1925.
• April 10 : The city of Tsaritsyn on the Volga is renamed Stalingrad .

The Sveta Nedelya Cathedral after the attack of April 16

• 16 April : Bulgarian Communists exert a bomb attack on the Sveta Nedelya Cathedral in the Bulgarian capital Sofia from more than 150 people die, including senior politicians and military.
• April 25 : The monarchist Paul von Hindenburg is elected President of the Reich against the Center candidate Wilhelm Marx . a. also with the votes of the center parties DVP and BVP ( Reich presidential election 1925 ).
• May 30th : National Revolution in China .
• June 16 : Census in Germany : 62.5 million inhabitants excluding the Saar area .
• June 16 : Artek , the first pioneer camp of the pioneer organization Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , is founded in the Soviet Union in the Crimea as an all-union recreation camp for children with tuberculosis .
• June 17 : The Geneva Protocol banning chemical and biological weapons comes into force.
• June 18 : The Reichsgericht repeals the only decision to expropriate the princes in the Weimar Republic . The corresponding state law in the Free State of Saxony-Gotha on the confiscation of property of the Princely House of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha is not constitutional .
• July 1 : António Maria da Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal .
• July 18 : Adolf Hitler publishes his book Mein Kampf .
• July / August: French and Belgian troops evacuate the Ruhr area , Duisburg and Düsseldorf .
• August 1st : Domingos Leite Pereira becomes Prime Minister of Portugal for the third time .
• August 26th : His successor Paul von Hindenburg lifts the 1921 ban on wearing uniforms in public by Reich President Friedrich Ebert .
• September 18 : As the first major party in Europe, the SPD raises the demand for the realization of the United States of Europe in its Heidelberg program .
• September 23 : In the Soviet Union , all 19 to 40 year old workers are legally obliged to do five years of military service.
• September 25th : The first socialist party is founded in the Faroe Islands (today Javnaðarflokkurin ). Maurentius S. Viðstein becomes the first chairman .
• 17th-19th October: 1st German Reich Warrior Day in Leipzig.
• October 31 : The Persian Parliament ( Majles ) decides to oust Ahmad Shah Qajar , the last ruler of the Qajar dynasty .
• November 4th : Hitler's first speech in Braunschweig . Hitler speeches are forbidden in Bavaria, Hamburg and Prussia.
• November 20 : The Munich stab- in-the-back trial ends with the judgment that the defendant Paul Nikolaus Cossmann made an error in spreading the stab-in- the-back legend .
• November 30th : The occupying powers begin to evacuate the 'Cologne Zone' in the occupied Rhineland .
• December 1st : The Locarno Treaties are signed to conclude negotiations from October 5th to 16th. Signature by Chancellor Hans Luther . Germany, Belgium and France are foregoing a violent revision of their borders.
• December 5 : The signing of the Locarno Treaties triggers a crisis in the German government (“ Locarno Crisis ”). The DNVP leaves the coalition, the citizen block . Thanks to the opposition parties SPD and DDP, the treaties can still be ratified in the Reichstag. The Luther I cabinet exists until January 20, 1926.
• December 15 : Reza Pahlavi takes the oath of office as Shah of Persia in front of the Iranian parliament ( Majles ) .
• December 17 : Mohammad Reza Pahlavi becomes Crown Prince.

Antonio Maria da Silva

• December 18 : António Maria da Silva becomes the last Prime Minister of the first republic in Portugal .
• December 26 : The Turkish National Assembly decides to introduce the Gregorian calendar with effect from January 1, 1926.

economy

• January 1st : The United Elektrizitätswerke Westfalen GmbH (VEW) is founded in Dortmund .
• January 19 : In the Swedish Älvdalen founds Albin Hagström the company Hagström for the production of musical instruments .
• March 1 : Direct mail is approved by the Deutsche Post on a trial basis under the name direct mail for bulk printed matter
• July 10 : The official news agency of the Soviet Union, Telegrafnoe Agentstvo Sovetskovo Soyuza (TASS) , is established.
• August 2nd : Conrad Nicholson Hilton opens his first newly built hotel in Dallas , Texas , the Dallas Hilton .
• November 21 : The Orange Blossom Special luxury train, commuting between New York City and Florida's east coast , runs according to schedule for the first time .
• November 28 : The first Westphalia Hall , one of the largest in Europe, built in seven months using wood , opens in Dortmund .
• In Peoria , Illinois (USA), the merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company (Benjamin Holt) and the CL Best Tractor Company (Daniel Best) creates the Caterpillar Tractor Company.

science and technology

• January 1st : The first Vienna hydropower plant goes into operation in Opponitz .
• January 1st : first test drive on the now electrified Munich - Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway line
• April 1 : The Hebrew University of Jerusalem opens.
• July 29th : Werner Heisenberg , Max Born and Pascual Jordan submit their treatise on the fundamentals of quantum mechanics for publication in the Zeitschrift für Physik .
• August 10 : Opening of the first German seaplane route between Altona / Elbe and Dresden
• September 21 : Finding the Ehringsdorf prehistoric man , who gives new impulses to prehistoric and early historical research into the origin of man
• September: Werner Heisenberg publishes his first pioneering work on quantum mechanics : On quantum theoretical reinterpretation of kinetic and mechanical relationships (Zeitschrift für Physik).
• November 26 : A prototype of the ANT-4 bomber and all-metal aircraft makes its maiden flight in Russian aviation .
• December: Max Born and Pascual Jordan present the matrix form of the Heisenberg theory.

• First flight of the Junkers G 23
• Samuel Abraham Goudsmit and George Eugene Uhlenbeck hypothetically introduce spin as an explanation of the fine structure of the spectral lines .
• Ida Tacke , Walther Noddack and Otto Berg discover the chemical element rhenium .

Culture

• February 27 : World premiere of the opera Hassan der Schwärmer by Wilhelm Kienzl in Chemnitz
• March 20 : World premiere of the opera The Garden of Mystery by Charles Wakefield Cadman at the Metropolitan Opera in New York
• April 3rd : Premiere of Gustav Holst's opera At the Boars' Head in Manchester
• April 26 : In Berlin , one year after the author's death, Franz Kafka's fragment of the novel Der Process is published .
• May 21 : World premiere of the opera Doctor Faust by Ferruccio Busoni at the Saxon State Theater in Dresden.
• May 22nd : The shooting of Metropolis by Fritz Lang begins.
• June 14th : The exhibition Neue Sachlichkeit opens in the Mannheim Kunsthalle .
• August: World premiere of Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush at the Strand Theater, New York
• August 8th to September 13th : Reichsausstellung Deutscher Wein 1925 in Koblenz
• September 11th : World premiere of the operetta Die Teresina by Oscar Straus at the Deutsches Künstlertheater in Berlin
• October 30 : World premiere of the operetta Paganini by Franz Lehár at the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna
• December 14 : World premiere of the opera Wozzeck by Alban Berg at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin
• December 21 : World premiere of the film Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow
• The first German cross-shaped puzzle appears in the Berliner Illustrirten .
• The design museum Die Neue Sammlung is founded.

society

• July 10th : In the US state of Tennessee the eagerly pursued Scopes trial (also known as the "Monkey Trial") begins against the teacher John Thomas Scopes , who, contrary to the existing laws of the state of Tennessee, does not follow the prescribed biblical doctrine of creation in public schools , but rather taught the theory of evolution . He is fined $ 100 on July 21st .
• The new Frankfurt residential construction project is started under the direction of Ernst May , and in this context the Frankfurt kitchen emerges as a forerunner of today's fitted kitchen .

religion

Foundation of the United Church of Canada

• June 10 : The United Church of Canada is created in Toronto through the union of Presbyterians , Methodists and Congregationalists . The celebration of the first service of the united church was preceded by a 20-year planning and negotiation phase.
• December 11th : With the encyclical Quas primas , Pope Pius XI. the feast of Christ the King .
• December 25 : The Vietnamese Ngô Văn Chiêu claims to experience a revelation from the god Cao Đài . As a result, the religion of Caodaism emerged .

Disasters

• February 2 : The serum delivery to combat the diphtheria epidemic in Nome , which was transported 1085 km across Alaska by dog sledding from the train station in Nenana , reached its destination after five and a half days.

Ambulance in front of the colliery

• February 11 : 136 people are killed in a firedamp explosion in the minister stone colliery in Dortmund , eight miners survive the accident.
• March 16 : 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Yunnan Province , China , killing approximately 5,000

After the tornado

• March 18 : The tri-state tornado sweeps through the US states of Missouri , Illinois and Indiana , where it kills at least 695 and injures more than 2,000. This makes it the deadliest tornado in United States history to date .
• November 12 : The British submarine M1 sinks after a collision with the freighter Vidar , killing all 69 men on board.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Sports

• January 1st : The football department of TSV Hachinger Tal becomes independent as the Unterhaching game association .
• March 10th : The Greek association Olympiacos Piraeus is founded.
• September 11th : Hans Breitensträter clearly beats defending champion Paul Samson-Körner on points in the fight for the German heavyweight boxing championship .
• September 11 : The Swedish swimmer Arne Borg improved in Stockholm the world record over 400m freestyle in 4: 50.3 min.
• September 11th : For the sixth time in a row, the USA team wins the Tennis Davis Cup .
• September 16 : HC Rotterdam is founded, meanwhile the largest hockey club in the Netherlands.
• November 1st : Bernhard Ernst comments on the first live broadcast of a soccer game on German radio . Preußen Münster and Arminia Bielefeld play on the pitch .
• December 31 : The international New Year's Eve run Corrida Internacional de São Silvestre is held for the first time in São Paulo .
• Foundation of the Hanseatic Yacht School

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : James Franck and Gustav Hertz
• Chemistry : Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
• Literature : George Bernard Shaw
• Nobel Peace Prize : Austen Chamberlain and Charles G. Dawes

A Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is not awarded.

Born

January

• 0January 1 : Noach Flug , Polish economist, diplomat and Holocaust survivor († 2011 )
• 0January 1 : Thomas Koroh , 5th ceremonial head of state of the Malaysian state of Sabah († 1978 )
• 0January 1 : Mario Merz , Italian artist († 2003 )
• 0January 2 : Irina Archipowa , Soviet-Russian opera singer († 2010 )
• 0January 2nd : Heinz te Laake , artist of painting, kinetics and sculpture († 2001 )
• 0January 2 : Andrzej Nikodemowicz , Polish composer, pianist and music teacher († 2017 )
• 0January 3 : Winner Köder , German priest and artist († 2015 )
• 0January 4 : Johnny Lujack , American football player
• 0January 4th : Abdollah Mojtabavi , Persian freestyle wrestler († 2012 )
• 0January 5 : Lou Carnesecca , American basketball coach
• 0January 5 : Rudolf Wassermann , German lawyer († 2008 )
• 0January 6 : Lee Abrams , American jazz drummer († 1992 )
• 0January 6th : Luciano Liggio , powerful Sicilian mafioso († 1993 )
• 0January 6 : John DeLorean , American sports car maker († 2005 )
• 0January 6th : Regina von Sachsen-Meiningen , daughter of Georg III. Duke of Saxony-Meiningen († 2010 )
• 0January 7th : Carmen Barros , Chilean actress, singer and composer
• 0January 7th : Franz Fischer , German archaeologist († 2016 )
• 0January 7th : Pierre Gripari , French writer († 1990 )
• 0January 8 : Helmuth Hübener , German resistance fighter against National Socialism († 1942 )
• 0January 9 : Lee Van Cleef , American film and television actor († 1989 )
• January 10 : Albert Andergassen , Austrian engineer, master builder and housing manager († 1965 )
• January 10 : Hans Ferdinand Bürki , Swiss pedagogue, psychologist and theologian († 2002 )
• January 12 : Hans Gierster , German conductor († 1995 )
• January 12th : Jutta Pallos-Schönauer , painter and graphic artist
• January 12th : Georges Perron , French clergyman and Bishop of Djibouti
• January 14 : Mishima Yukio , Japanese writer and political activist († 1970 )
• January 15 : Ernst Benda , German lawyer and politician († 2009 )
• January 16 : Hans-Jürgen Augstein , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 2001 )
• January 16 : Germund Dahlquist , Swedish mathematician († 2005 )
• January 17th : Walter Arendt , German politician († 2005 )
• January 17 : Alfredo Battisti , Italian Archbishop († 2012 )
• January 18 : Gilles Deleuze , French postmodern philosopher († 1995 )
• January 18 : John V. Evans , American politician, Governor of Idaho († 2014 )
• January 18 : Arthur Paul , American graphic designer († 2018 )
• January 19 : Asat Sinnatowitsch Abbassow , Tatar opera singer († 2006 )
• January 19 : Erica Beer , German actress († 2013 )
• January 19 : Henry Gray , American blues pianist († 2020 )
• January 19 : Werner Riegel , German poet and essayist († 1956 )
• January 19 : Günter Spielmeyer , judge at the German Federal Social Court
• January 19 : Rudolf Wessely , Austrian actor († 2016 )
• January 20 : Ernesto Cardenal , Nicaraguan priest, poet and politician († 2020 )
• January 20 : Klaus Doderer , German literary scholar
• January 20 : Eugen Gomringer , writer
• January 21 : Charles Aidman , American actor († 1993 )
• January 21 : George Connor , American football player († 2003 )
• January 24th : Hans Bucka , German physicist and university lecturer († 2011 )
• January 24th : Werner Jackstädt , German entrepreneur, patron and founder of the foundation († 2005 )
• January 24th : Henk Mostert , President of the International Correspondence Chess Federation ICCF († 2002 )
• January 24 : Maria Tallchief , American prima ballerina († 2013 )
• January 26th : Ernst Haar , chairman of the GdED, member of the DGB federal executive committee, MP († 2004 )
• January 26th : Joan Leslie , American actress († 2015 )
• January 26 : Paul Newman , American actor († 2008 )
  

  Paul Newman (around 1945)
• January 27 : Sufi Abu Taleb , Egyptian politician († 2008 )
• January 27 : Juan Vitalio Acuña Núñez , Cuban revolutionary and guerrilla († 1967 )
• January 28 : Raja Ramanna , architect of the Indian nuclear weapons program († 2004 )
• January 29 : Tofiq Bəhramov , Soviet football referee and linesman († 1993 )
• January 29 : Lois Marshall , Canadian singer and vocal teacher († 1997 )
• January 30th : Douglas C. Engelbart , American inventor and computer scientist († 2013 )
  

  Douglas C. Engelbart (2008)
• January 30th : Wildor Hollmann , German doctor
• January 31 : Marianne Kehlau , German actress († 2002 )
• January 31 : Adele Kurzweil , Austrian Holocaust victim († 1942 )

February

• 0February 1 : Siegfried Assmann , German painter and sculptor
• 0February 1 : Alfred Grosser , Franco-German journalist and political scientist
• 0February 2 : Raimondo D'Inzeo , Italian show jumper († 2013 )
• 0February 2 : Robert Kirby , American racing driver († 2005 )
• 0February 2 : Elaine Stritch , American actress († 2014 )
• 0February 3rd : Paul Ausserleitner , Austrian ski jumper († 1952 )
• 0February 3 : Leon Schlumpf , Swiss politician († 2012 )
• 0February 4th : Arne Åhman , Swedish athlete
• 0February 4 : Jutta Hipp , German jazz pianist and painter († 2003 )
• 0February 4 : Russell Hoban , American writer († 2011 )
• 0February 5 : Fletcher Thompson , American politician
• 0February 6 : Wolfgang Hammerschmidt , German dramaturge († 1999 )
• 0February 6 : Pramoedya Ananta Toer , Indonesian writer († 2006 )
• 0February 7th : Marius Constant , French composer and conductor († 2004 )
• 0February 7 : Herbert Eisenreich , Austrian writer († 1986 )
• 0February 7th : Josef Rickenbacher , Swiss sculptor († 2004 )
• 0February 8 : Jack Lemmon , American actor († 2001 )
  

  Jack Lemmon (1988)
• 0February 9 : Burkhard Heim , German explosives technician, physicist and scholar († 2001 )
• February 10 : Rosemarie Banholzer , German poet
• February 10 : Mary Elizabeth Bayer , Canadian cultural politician and author († 2005 )
• February 10 : Gerhard Boeden , German police officer, President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (1987–1991) († 2010 )
• February 10 : Pierre Mondy , French actor († 2012 )
• February 11 : Horst Bollmann , German actor († 2014 )
• February 14 : Elliot Lawrence , American jazz pianist
• February 15 : Kurt Jung , German politician († 1989 )
• February 15 : Erik Schumann , German actor and voice actor († 2007 )
• February 15 : Harald Vock , German director, screenwriter, radio play author, producer and journalist († 1998 )
• February 16 : François-Xavier Ortoli , French politician, President of the European Commission († 2007 )
• February 16 : Carlos Paredes , Portuguese composer, master of the Portuguese guitar († 2004 )
• February 16 : Uwe Röhl , German church musician, organist and composer († 2005 )
• February 17th : Ron Goodwin , English film composer († 2003 )
• February 17 : Hal Holbrook , American actor
• February 18 : Fritz Apel , German soccer player († 2010 )
• February 18 : George Kennedy , American actor († 2016 )
• February 20 : Robert Altman , American director, author and TV producer († 2006 )
• February 20 : Heinz Kluncker , German trade union official († 2005 )
• February 20 : Gianfranco Parolini , Italian film director († 2018 )
• February 21 : Sam Peckinpah , American film director († 1984 )
• February 21 : Jack Ramsay , American basketball coach († 2014 )
• February 21 : Alarich Weiss , German physical chemist († 1995 )
• February 22nd : Johannes Agnoli , German political scientist († 2003 )
• February 22 : Philip Edward Archer , Ghanaian lawyer († 2002 )
• February 22nd : Edward Gorey , American author and illustrator († 2000 )
• February 22nd : Rupert Riedl , Austrian zoologist († 2005 )
• February 22 : Gerald Stern , American lyric poet, storyteller, and essayist
• February 24 : Etel Adnan , Lebanese writer and painter
• February 24 : Hans Ambrosi , German winemaker († 2012 )
• February 25 : Shehu Shagari , President of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983 († 2018 )
• February 25 : Horst Ueberhorst , German sports scientist († 2010 )
• February 27 : Guy Amouretti , French table tennis player († 2011 )
• February 27 : Egidius Braun , former President of the German Football Association
• February 27 : Hans Fauser , German football player
• February 27 : Hard rock Gunter , American country and rockabilly singer († 2013 )
• February 27 : Erich Schmidt , German wrestler († 2009 )
• February 27th : Pía Sebastiani , Argentine pianist († 2015 )
• February 27th : Shōichirō Toyoda , Japanese manager
• February 28 : Kurt Absolon , Austrian painter and graphic artist († 1958 )
• February 28 : Nag Ansorge , Swiss animation filmmaker († 2013 )
• February 28 : Richard Henry Dalitz , Australian physicist († 2006 )
• February 28 : Louis Nirenberg , Canadian mathematician († 2020 )
• February 28 : Josef Röhrig , German soccer player († 2014 )

March

• 0March 1 : Dedé Mirabal , Dominican opponent of the regime
• 0March 1 : Alexandre do Nascimento , Angolan Archbishop and Cardinal
• 0March 3 : Tzwi Zamir , director of the Israeli secret service Mossad
• 0March 4 : Edmond Abelé , French bishop († 2017 )
• 0March 4 : Hans Albers , German industrial manager, Chairman of the Board of Management of BASF AG († 1999 )
• 0March 4 : Paul Mauriat , French orchestra leader († 2006 )
• 0March 4th : Christa Meves , German child and adolescent psychotherapist
• 0March 5 : Jimmy Bryant , American country guitarist († 1980 )
• 0March 5 : Jacques Vergès , French lawyer and criminal defense attorney († 2013 )
• 0March 6 : Roy Etzel , German trumpeter and band leader († 2015 )
• 0March 7 : Josef Ertl , German politician († 2000 )
• 0March 7th : Willigis Jäger , German Benedictine monk and Zen master († 2020 )
• 0March 7th : Trude Unruh , German politician and activist for the elderly
• 0March 8 : Warren Bennis , American economist († 2014 )
• 0March 8 : Efim Geller , Soviet chess player († 1998 )
• 0March 9 : Francisco José Arnáiz Zarandona , Auxiliary Bishop in Santo Domingo († 2014 )
• 0March 9 : Mahmoud Fayad , Egyptian weightlifter († 2002 )
• 0March 9 : Jack Smight , American director († 2003 )
• March 10 : Manolis Anagnostakis , Greek author († 2005 )
• March 11 : Christopher Anvil , American science fiction writer († 2009 )
• March 12 : Louison Bobet , French cyclist († 1983 )
• March 12 : Lucius Burckhardt , Swiss sociologist and economist († 2003 )
• March 12 : Georges Delerue , French film composer († 1992 )
• March 12 : Leo Esaki , Japanese physicist
• March 12 : Harry Harrison , American science fiction writer († 2012 )
• March 12 : G. William Whitehurst , American politician
• March 13 : Karl-Eddi Armgort , German politician († 2011 )
• March 13 : Fernando Birri , Argentine director, film theorist, poet and puppeteer († 2017 )
• March 13 : Herbert Fleischmann , German film and television actor († 1984 )
• March 13 : Roy Haynes , American jazz drummer
• March 13 : Inge Müller , German writer (GDR) († 1966 )
• March 14 : Bert Even , German politician, President of the Federal Office of Administration († 2016 )
• March 14th : Bernhard Vossebein , German table tennis player
• March 15 : Claus Weyrosta , German politician († 2003 )
• March 15 : Werner Wolf , German musicologist († 2019 )
• March 16 : Alessandro Alessandroni , Italian musician († 2017 )
• March 16 : Luis E. Miramontes , Mexican chemist and co-inventor of the first birth control pill († 2004 )
  

  Luis E. Miramontes (right) with Mario J. Molina, around 1995
• March 16 : Joachim Raffert , German politician († 2005 )
• March 17 : Gabriele Ferzetti , Italian actor († 2015 )
• March 17 : Willi Steffen , Swiss football player († 2005 )
• March 18 : Antonio González Zumárraga , Archbishop of Quito and Cardinal († 2008 )
• March 18 : Georg Piltz , German art historian, writer and editor († 2011 )
• March 18 : Innokenti Smoktunowski , Russian / Soviet actor († 1994 )
• March 19 : Brent Scowcroft , US Lieutenant General and Security Advisor († 2020 )
• March 20 : John Ehrlichman , Chief Advisor to Richard Nixon († 1999 )
• March 21 : Peter Brook , British theater director
• March 21 : Hugo Koblet , Swiss cyclist († 1964 )
• March 22nd : Wolfgang Bächler , German writer († 2007 )
• March 23 : Joachim Illies , German biologist, entomologist and non-fiction author († 1982 )
• March 24th : Hans Faber , German soccer player († 2000 )
• March 24th : Gerhard Riedmann , Austrian actor († 2004 )
• March 25 : Pierre Daignault , Canadian actor, folk singer and writer († 2003 )
• March 25 : Don Freeland , American racing driver († 2007 )
• March 25th : Erika Herbst , German medical journalist and esotericist
• March 25 : Flannery O'Connor , American writer († 1964 )
• March 26 : Pierre Boulez , French composer, conductor and music theorist († 2016 )
  

  Pierre Boulez (1968)
• March 26 : James Moody , American jazz musician († 2010 )
• March 26 : Vesta M. Roy , American politician († 2002 )
• March 26th : Daniel Abraham Yanofsky , Canadian chess player († 2000 )
• March 27 : Harold Ashby , American swing tenor saxophonist and clarinetist († 2003 )
• March 27 : Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy , American composer († 2013 )
• March 27 : Ibrahim Hélou , Lebanese Archbishop († 1996 )
• March 28 : Alberto Grimaldi , Italian film producer
• March 30th : Ivo Malec , French composer of Croatian origin († 2019 )
• March 30th : Hans Reichelt , Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister of the GDR
• March 31 : Andrea Bianchi , Italian director, screenwriter and film editor († 2013 )
• March 31 : Fritz Cron , German motorcycle racer († 2017 )
• March 31 : Bernhard Heisig , German painter († 2011 )

April

• 0April 1 : Wojciech Has , Polish film director († 2000 )
• 0April 1 : Joe Menke , German music producer and pop composer († 2001 )
• 0April 2 : George MacDonald Fraser , English author († 2008 )

Hans Rosenthal

• 0April 2 : Hans Rosenthal , German TV show host († 1987 )
• 0April 2 : Walerian Wróbel , Polish forced laborer († 1942 )
• 0April 3 : Tony Benn , British politician († 2014 )
• 0April 4 : Dettmar Cramer , German soccer player and coach († 2015 )
• 0April 4 : Serge Dassault , French publisher and politician († 2018 )
• 0April 4 : César Keizer , Swiss cabaret artist († 2007 )
• 0April 4 : Johann Schröder , German mathematician († 2007 )
• 0April 5 : Kieth Engen , American opera singer († 2004 )
• 0April 6 : Helga Deen , German Jew, Holocaust victim († 1943 )
• 0April 7 : Doe Avedon , American actress († 2011 )
• 0April 7 : Max Bächer , German architect († 2011 )
• 0April 7th : Hans-Joachim Heusinger , Justice Minister of the GDR
• 0April 8 : Walter Uhlig , German opera singer, tenor († 2006 )
• 0April 9 : Heinz Nixdorf , German company founder and business manager († 1986 )
• 0April 9 : Hugo Ruf , German harpsichordist and music professor († 1999 )
• April 10 : Idris Abdul Wakil , Tanzanian politician († 2000 )
• April 10 : Rusty Wellington , American country and rockabilly musician († 1986 )
• April 11th : Viola Gregg Liuzzo , American civil rights activist († 1965 )
• April 11th : Emil Mangelsdorff , German musician
• April 12 : Ned Miller , American country singer and songwriter († 2016 )
• April 13 : Ernst Arfken , German church musician and theologian († 2006 )
• April 13 : Annie Bousquet , French-Austrian racing driver († 1956 )
• April 14 : Gene Ammons , American tenor saxophonist († 1974 )
• April 14 : Abel Muzorewa , Zimbabwean politician († 2010 )
• April 14 : Rod Steiger , American actor († 2002 )
• April 14 : Peter Zwetkoff , Bulgarian composer († 2012 )
• April 15 : Sergio Garrone , Italian film director and screenwriter
• April 17th : Kurt Hartung , German marathon runner
• April 17 : Gitta Lind , German pop singer († 1974 )
• April 17 : Annelie Thorndike , documentarist of the German Democratic Republic († 2012 )
• April 17th : Henry Volken , Swiss Jesuit, missionary in India († 2000 )
• April 18 : Adolf Schmidt , German trade unionist and politician († 2013 )
• April 18 : Marcus Schmuck , Austrian mountaineer († 2005 )
• April 19 : Hugh O'Brian , American actor († 2016 )
• April 20 : Italo Acconcia , Italian football player († 1983 )
• April 20 : Ernie Stautner , American football player and coach († 2006 )
• April 21 : Alfred Kelbassa , German soccer player († 1988 )
• April 21 : Herbert Keppler , American editor of photo magazines and camera developer († 2008 )
• April 21 : Sibghatullah Modschaddedi , Afghan politician († 2019 )
• April 21 : Sally Perel , survived as a Jew in the German Hitler Youth, author of "Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon"
• April 22nd : Hans Arnold , Swiss-Swedish animator and illustrator († 2010 )
• April 22 : George Cole , British actor († 2015 )
• April 22 : Amparo Montes , Mexican singer († 2002 )
• April 23 : Finn Olav Gundelach , Danish diplomat († 1981 )
• April 25 : Sammy Drechsel , German cabaret artist, journalist and sports reporter († 1986 )
• April 26th : Dieter von Andrian , German graphic artist († 1992 )
• April 26 : Michele Ferrero , Italian entrepreneur († 2015 )
• April 26 : Pat Griffith , British racing car driver († 1980 )
• April 26 : Jørgen Ingmann , Danish guitarist († 2015 )
• April 27 : Brigitte Auber , French actress
• April 28th : Henry Luce III. , American publisher († 2005 )
• April 28 : James Hector MacDonald , American Archbishop
• April 28 : Otto Šimánek , Czech actor († 1992 )
• April 29 : Colette Marchand , French dancer and actress († 2015 )
• April 30 : Johnny Horton , American country singer († 1960 )
• April 30 : Rudolf Radke , German journalist and publicist († 2015 )

May

• 0May 1 : Gabriele Amorth , Italian priest and exorcist († 2016 )
• 0May 1 : Chuck Bednarik , American football player († 2015 )
• 0May 1 : Clay Blair , American historian and non-fiction author († 1998 )
• 0May 1 : Scott Carpenter , American astronaut and aquanaut († 2013 )
• 0May 2 : Eva Aeppli , Swiss material artist († 2015 )
• 0May 2 : John Neville , British-Canadian actor († 2011 )
• 0May 3 : Gottfried Kramer , German actor († 1994 )
• 0May 4 : Heinz Eckner , German actor and comedian († 2012 )
• 0May 5 : Eddi Arent , German actor, comedian and hotelier († 2013 )

Eddi Arent , 1971

• 0May 5 : Jindřich Polák , Czech film director († 2003 )
• 0May 6 : Wolf von Ausin , German lawyer († 2010 )
• 0May 6 : Hanns Dieter Hüsch , German cabaret artist, actor and presenter († 2005 )
• 0May 7 : Wolf Schneider , German journalist, non-fiction author and language critic
• 0May 8th : Dino Attanasio , Italian comic artist
• 0May 8 : Arno Borst , German historian († 2007 )
• 0May 8 : André-Paul Duchâteau , Belgian comic writer († 2020 )
• 0May 8 : Ali Hassan Mwinyi , President of the United Republic of Tanzania
• 0May 8 : Hanne Wieder , German cabaret artist, diseuse and actress († 1990 )
• 0May 9 : Heimrad Bäcker , Austrian writer and editor († 2003 )
• May 10 : Nasuh Akar , Turkish wrestler († 1984 )
• May 10 : Hashida Sugako , Japanese television writer and essayist
• May 10 : Néstor Rossi , Argentinian football player and coach († 2007 )
• May 11 : Rubem Fonseca , Brazilian writer († 2020 )
• May 11 : Max Morlock , German football player († 1994 )
  

  Max Morlock
• May 11 : Günther Simon , film actor of the GDR († 1972 )
• May 12 : Yogi Berra , American baseball player and manager († 2015 )
• May 13 : Roger Asselberghs , Belgian jazz musician († 2013 )
• May 13 : Walter Plata , German typesetter and typographer († 2005 )
• May 13 : Giselle Vesco , German actress
• May 14 : Tristram Cary , British-Australian composer († 2008 )
• May 14 : Tatjana Iwanow , German actress and singer († 1979 )
• May 14 : François Maistre , French actor († 2016 )
• May 14 : Boris Parsadanjan , Estonian composer († 1997 )
• May 14 : Heinrich Popitz , German sociologist († 2002 )
• May 14 : Al Porcino , American jazz trumpeter († 2013 )
• May 14 : Ninian Sanderson , British racing car driver († 1985 )
• May 15 : Hans Herbert Jöris , German conductor and university lecturer († 2008 )
• May 15 : Ralph Eugene Meatyard , American photographer († 1972 )
• May 15 : Klaus Meyer-Gasters , German watercolor artist († 2016 )
• May 15 : Carl Sanders , American politician, Governor of Georgia († 2014 )
• May 16 : Bobbejaan , Belgian singer and entertainer († 2010 )
• May 16 : Hannes Hegen , German graphic artist and comic artist († 2014 )
• May 16 : Ginette Keller , French composer († 2010 )
• May 16 : Nílton Santos , Brazilian soccer player († 2013 )
• May 17 : Michel de Certeau , French Jesuit, sociologist, historian and cultural philosopher († 1986 )
• May 18 : Erni Bieler , Austrian jazz and pop singer († 2002 )
• May 18 : Justus Dahinden , Swiss architect († 2020 )
• May 19 : Dominik Kalata , Catholic Bishop († 2018 )
• May 19 : Malcolm X , American leader of the black movement († 1965 )
  

  Malcolm X , 1964
• May 20 : Horst Alisch , German cartoonist and comic artist († 2020 )
• May 20 : Caroline Muhr , German writer († 1978 )
• May 20 : Emy Storm , Swedish actress († 2014 )
• May 20 : Alexei Tupolev , Russian aircraft designer († 2001 )
• May 21 : Stefan Gierowski , Polish painter
• May 21 : Max Thürkauf , Swiss scientist and philosopher († 1993 )
• May 22 : Emilio Carballido , Mexican playwright and screenwriter († 2008 )
• May 22 : Jean Tinguely , Swiss painter, sculptor and experimental artist († 1991 )
• May 23 : Joseph James , American racing car driver († 1952 )
• May 23 : Joshua Lederberg , American geneticist († 2008 )
• May 24 : Gladys Afamado , Uruguayan artist and writer
• May 24 : Carlo Annovazzi , Italian football player († 1980 )
• May 24 : Günter Brocker , German soccer coach († 2015 )
• May 24th : Helmut Hasse , German soccer player
• May 25 : René Carcan , Belgian artist († 1993 )
• May 25 : Claude Pinoteau , French screenwriter and film director († 2012 )
• May 26 : Glória de Sant'Anna , Portuguese poet († 2009 )
• May 26 : Alec McCowen , British actor († 2017 )
• May 27 : Jean-Paul Aron , French journalist, writer and philosopher († 1988 )
• May 27 : Fernando Ariztía Ruiz , Chilean bishop († 2003 )
• May 27 : Tony Hillerman , American detective novel writer († 2008 )
• May 27 : Gustl Weishappel , German-Austrian actor and radio presenter († 2008 )
• May 28 : Bülent Ecevit , Turkish politician († 2006 )
• May 28 : Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , German singer († 2012 )
• May 28 : Bill Hook , British Virgin Islands chess player († 2010 )
• May 28 : Lucien N. Nedzi , American politician
• May 28 : Heinz Reincke , German actor and voice actor († 2011 )
• May 29 : Horst Beseler , German writer
• May 29 : Arnold Odermatt , Swiss police photographer
• May 30 : John Cocke , American computer scientist († 2002 )
• May 30th : Horst Dohlus , German politician († 2007 )
• May 30 : Robert Glasgow , American organist and music teacher († 2008 )
• May 30th : Rolf Illig , German actor († 2005 )
• May 31 : Frei Otto , German architect, architectural theorist and professor († 2015 )

June

• 0June 1 : Rita-Maria Nowotny , German actress († 2000 )
• 0June 1 : Peter Uebersax , Swiss journalist († 2011 )
• 0June 2 : Buddy Elias , Swiss actor († 2015 )
• 0June 3 : Tony Curtis , American film actor († 2010 )
  

  Tony Curtis , 2007
• 0June 3 : Werner H. Spross , Swiss entrepreneur, investor, billionaire and patron († 2004 )
• 0June 3 : Wilhelm Varnholt , German local politician († 1983 )
• 0June 3 : Thomas Joseph Winning , British Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 2001 )
• 0June 3 : Gerhard Zwerenz , German writer († 2015 )
• 0June 4th : Elieser Sudit , Israeli explosives expert and terrorist († 2011 )
• 0June 4 : Hubert Suschka , German actor († 1986 )
• 0June 5 : Boy Gobert , German-Austrian theater and film actor († 1986 )
• 0June 6 : Al Gray , American jazz trombonist († 2000 )
• 0June 6 : Erika Weinzierl , Austrian historian († 2014 )
• 0June 7th : Karl Weschke , German-British painter († 2005 )
• 0June 8 : Barbara Bush , First Lady of the United States; Wife of George HW Bush and mother of George W. Bush († 2018 )
• 0June 8 : Charles Tyner , American actor († 2017 )
• 0June 9th : Holger Perfort , Danish actor
• June 10 : James Salter , American writer († 2015 )
• June 10 : Françoise Sullivan , Canadian painter, sculptor, dancer and choreographer
• June 11 : Elfriede Ott , Austrian chamber actress, singer and director († 2019 )
• June 12th : Raphaël Géminiani , French cyclist
• June 14th : Jean-Louis Rosier , French racing driver († 2011 )
• June 14 : Pierre Salinger , spokesman for John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson († 2004 )
• June 16 : Sven Agge , Swedish biathlete († 2005 )
• June 16 : Bebe Barron , American film music composer († 2008 )
• June 16 : Otto Muehl , Austrian action artist, representative of Viennese Actionism († 2013 )
• June 18 : Ennio Appignanesi , Italian Archbishop († 2015 )
• June 18 : Ben Rich , American aircraft designer († 1995 )
• June 20 : Franco Castellano , Italian director and screenwriter († 1999 )
• June 20 : Doris Hart , American tennis player († 2015 )
• June 20 : Audie Murphy , American film actor († 1971 )
• June 21 : Stanley Moss , American poet
• June 21 : Giovanni Spadolini , Italian journalist, historian and politician († 1994 )
• June 21 : Maureen Stapleton , American actress († 2006 )
• June 23 : Manfred Fuhrmann , German classical philologist († 2005 )
• June 23 : Sahib Shihab , American jazz musician († 1989 )
• June 23 : Oliver Smithies , geneticist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine († 2017 )
• June 24 : Egon Hugenschmidt , German politician, Mayor of Lörrach from 1960 to 1984 († 2010 )
• June 25 : June Lockhart , American actress
• June 25 : Gerhard Pahl , German mechanical engineer († 2015 )
• June 25 : Virginia Patton , American actress
• June 25 : Peter C. von Seidlein , German architect († 2014 )
• June 25 : Robert Venturi , American architect and architectural theorist († 2018 )
• June 26th : Pavel Belyayev , Soviet cosmonaut († 1970 )
• June 26 : Clifton Chenier , American blues musician († 1987 )
• June 26 : Jürgen Joedicke , German architect, architecture theorist and university professor († 2015 )
• June 26 : Virgilio Maroso , Italian football player († 1949 )
• June 26 : Erich Reusch , German sculptor and architect († 2019 )
• June 26th : Wolfgang Unzicker , German chess player († 2006 )
• June 26th : Gertrude Wagner , Austrian chess referee († 2009 )
• June 27 : Erich Fuchs , German athlete and sports educator († 2014 )
• June 28 : Antonio Amurri , Italian writer and humorist († 1992 )
• June 28 : Giselher Klebe , German composer († 2009 )
• June 29 : John Fujioka , American actor († 2018 )
• June 29th : Sylvain Garant , French racing car driver († 1993 )
• June 29th : Robert Hébras , French resistance fighter
• June 29th : Marilyn Mason , organist and music teacher († 2019 )
• June 29th : Giorgio Napolitano , Italian politician and President

Giorgio Napolitano , 2006

• June 29 : Vladimir Sagorovsky , Soviet chess player († 1994 )
• June 29 : Hale Smith , American composer, pianist and music teacher († 2009 )
• June 29 : Cara Williams , American actress
• June 30th : Philippe Jaccottet , French poet, essayist and translator

July

• 0July 1 : Farley Granger , American actor († 2011 )
• 0July 1 : Franca Magnani , Italian journalist († 1996 )
• 0July 1 : Heinrich Wiesner , Swiss writer († 2019 )
• 0July 2 : María Judith Franco , Puerto Rican actress and voice actress († 2017 )
• 0July 2 : Medgar Evers , African American civil rights activist († 1963 )
• 0July 2 : Patrice Lumumba , Congolese politician († 1961 )
• 0July 4th : Cathy Berberian , American singer and avant-garde composer († 1983 )
• 0July 5 : Wilhelm Rammo , German boxer († 2009 )
• 0July 5 : Jean Raspail , French writer († 2020 )
• 0July 6 : Bill Haley , American rock musician († 1981 )
  

  Bill Haley & his Comets, 1954
• 0July 6 : Gazi Yaşargil , Turkish neurosurgeon
• 0July 8 : Nicholas Brathwaite , Prime Minister of Grenada († 2016 )
• 0July 8 : Marco Cardinal Cé , Patriarch of Venice († 2014 )
• 0July 9 : Guru Dutt , Indian film director, actor and producer († 1964 )
• 0July 9 : Peter Ludwig , German industrialist and art patron († 1996 )
• July 10 : Mahathir bin Mohamad , Prime Minister of Malaysia
• July 11 : Charles Chaynes , French composer († 2016 )
• July 11 : Nicolai Gedda , Swedish lyric tenor († 2017 )
• July 11 : Ruth Niehaus , German actress († 1994 )
• July 11 : Theodore B. Taylor , American physicist († 2004 )
• July 12 : Yasushi Akutagawa , Japanese composer († 1989 )
• July 12 : Ludwig Doerr , German organist († 2015 )
• July 12 : Roger Smith , General Motors CEO († 2007 )
• July 13 : Horst Muys , German pop singer and Cologne carnivalist († 1970 )
• July 14th : Cardinal Francisco Álvarez Martínez , Archbishop of Toledo
• July 14 : Luis Antonio Escobar , Colombian composer and musicologist († 1993 )
• July 14 : Horst Ritter , German soccer player and horn player († 2001 )
• July 15 : Philip Carey , American actor († 2009 )
• July 15 : DA Pennebaker , American documentary filmmaker († 2019 )
• July 16 : Johann Adamik , German soccer player († 2005 )
• July 17 : Silviu Dimitrovici , Romanian graduate engineer in civil engineering († 1964 )
• July 17th : Anita Lasker-Wallfisch , German-British cellist
• July 17 : Albrecht Schöne , German specialist in German
• July 18 : François Augiéras , French author († 1971 )
• July 18 : Shirley Strickland de la Hunty , Australian athlete and Olympic champion († 2004 )
• July 18 : Friedrich Zimmermann , German politician († 2012 )
• July 19 : Otto Arosemena Gómez , President of Ecuador († 1984 )
• July 19 : Jean-Pierre Faye , French writer, philosopher and literary historian
• July 19 : Michael Pfeiffer , German soccer player († 2018 )
• July 20 : Jacques Delors , French Socialist Party politician
  

  Jacques Delors , 2001
• July 20 : Frantz Fanon , French writer and pioneer of decolonization († 1961 )
• July 20 : Michel Perrault , Canadian composer, conductor, timpanist and music teacher
• July 20 : John Prchlik , American football player († 2003 )
• July 21 : Erich Saling , German gynecologist and obstetrician
• July 22 : Paul Lanneau , Belgian Catholic Bishop († 2017 )
• July 22nd : Joseph Sargent , American film director, film producer and actor († 2014 )
• July 23 : Gloria DeHaven , American film actress († 2016 )
• July 23 : Quett Masire , President of Botswana († 2017 )
• July 24th : Adele Addison , American soprano
• July 24th : Ignacio Aldecoa , Spanish writer († 1969 )
• July 24th : Miiko Taka , American actress
• July 25 : Benny Benjamin , American session drummer († 1969 )
• July 25 : Günter Lampe , German composer († 2003 )
• July 25 : Helmut Schlüter , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1967 )
• July 26th : Hans Bergel , German writer and journalist
• July 26 : Jerzy Einhorn , Polish-Swedish radiation therapist and politician († 2000 )
• July 26 : Ana María Matute , Spanish writer († 2014 )
• July 27 : Kippie Moeketsi , South African jazz saxophonist († 1983 )
• July 27 : Imo Moszkowicz , German director († 2011 )
• July 28 : Baruch Samuel Blumberg , American physician († 2011 )
• July 28 : André Boucourechliev , French composer and music writer († 1997 )
• July 28 : Rolf Ludwig , German actor († 1999 )
• July 28 : Bruno Pesaola , Argentine-Italian football player and coach († 2015 )
• July 28 : Juan Schiaffino , Uruguayan-Italian football player († 2002 )
• July 29th : Mikis Theodorakis , Greek composer and politician
• July 29 : Ted Lindsay , Canadian ice hockey player († 2019 )
• July 30 : Bienvenido Brens , Dominican musician and composer († 2007 )
• July 30th : Antoine Duhamel , French composer († 2014 )
• July 30th : Peter Neuhof , German radio and newspaper journalist
• July 30th : Jacques Sernas , French film actor († 2015 )
• July 31 : Rolf Andresen , German sports official († 2008 )
• July 31 : AOL Atkin , British-American mathematician († 2008 )

August

• 0August 1 : Ernst Jandl , Austrian poet († 2000 )
• 0August 1 : Albert Plohnke , German engineer († 2009 )
• 0August 2 : Jorge Rafael Videla , Argentine general and dictator († 2013 )

Jorge Rafael Videla , 1976

• 0August 3 : Marv Levy , American football coach
• 0August 3 : Dom Um Romão , Brazilian drummer and percussionist († 2005 )
• 0August 3rd : Alain Touraine , French sociologist
• 0August 4th : Kurt Vogelsang , German politician († 2015 )
• 0August 5th : Albert Eschenmoser , Swiss chemist
• 0August 6 : Claus Hinrich Casdorff , German radio and television journalist († 2004 )
• 0August 6 : Josef Heinrich Darchinger , German photographer († 2013 )
• 0August 6 : Richard Gramlich , German mystic researcher († 2006 )
• 0August 6 : Leland Smith , American composer, bassoonist and music teacher († 2013 )
• 0August 7 : Julián Orbón , Cuban composer († 1991 )
• 0August 7th : Armand Gaétan Razafindratandra , Archbishop of Antananarivo († 2010 )
• 0August 7th : MS Swaminathan , Indian agronomist
• 0August 8 : Alija Izetbegović , Bosnian politician and Islamic activist († 2003 )
• 0August 8 : Woodie Wilson , American racing driver († 1994 )
• 0August 9 : Alfred Antkowiak , German publisher and writer († 1976 )
• 0August 9 : David A. Huffman , American computer pioneer († 1999 )
• 0August 9 : Lenard Sutton , American racing car driver († 2006 )
• August 10 : Stanislav Brebera , Czech chemist († 2012 )
• August 11th : Rune Andréasson , Swedish comic artist and animator († 1999 )
• August 11th : Michael Argyle , English social psychologist († 2002 )
• August 11 : Arlene Dahl , American film actress
• August 11 : Mike Douglas , American entertainer († 2006 )
• August 11 : Carl Rowan , American journalist and author († 2000 )
• August 12 : Dale Bumpers , American politician († 2016 )
• August 12 : Norris McWhirter , British publisher († 2004 )
• August 12 : Thor Vilhjálmsson , Icelandic writer, author († 2011 )
• August 13 : Benny Bailey , American jazz trumpeter († 2005 )
• August 13 : Fritz Pirkl , German politician († 1993 )
• August 15 : Mike Connors , American actor († 2017 )
• August 15 : Rose Maddox , American country singer († 1998 )
• August 15 : Leonie Ossowski , German writer († 2019 )
• August 15 : Oscar Peterson , Canadian jazz pianist and composer († 2007 )
• August 16 : Mal Waldron , American jazz pianist († 2002 )
• August 17th : Ellen Umlauf , Austrian actress († 2000 )
• August 18 : Brian Aldiss , British science fiction writer († 2017 )
• August 19 : Claude Gauvreau , Canadian writer († 1971 )
• August 21 : Gert von Paczensky , German journalist and restaurant critic († 2014 )
• August 21 : Maurice Pialat , French film director and actor († 2003 )
• August 22 : Justus Ahlheim , German politician († 2002 )
• August 22 : Lope Balaguer , Dominican singer († 2015 )
• August 23 : Jean Kerguen , French racing car driver and entrepreneur († 2005 )
• August 23 : Włodzimierz Kotoński , Polish composer († 2014 )
• August 23 : Sulchan Zinzadze , Georgian composer († 1991 )
• August 24 : Shirley Hufstedler , US lawyer and politician († 2016 )
• August 24 : Karel Vrána , Czech Catholic theologian and philosopher († 2004 )
• August 25 : Thea Astley , Australian writer († 2004 )
• August 25 : Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt , Chilean composer and music teacher († 2010 )
• August 25 : Maurice Binder , American filmmaker, designer of the James Bond opening credits († 1991 )
• August 25 : Hilmar Hoffmann , German cultural worker († 2018 )
• August 26 : Bobby Ball , American racing driver († 1954 )
• August 26th : Alain Peyrefitte , French politician, member of the Académie française († 1999 )
• August 27 : Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo , Italian Curia Cardinal († 2017 )
• August 27 : Leopoldo Pirelli , Italian entrepreneur († 2007 )
• August 27 : Maruya Saiichi , Japanese writer († 2012 )
• August 28 : Hans Krause-Wichmann , German rower († 2007 )
• August 29 : Demetrio Basilio Lakas , 35th President of Panama († 1999 )
• August 30 : Johann Gansch , Austrian composer for brass music († 1998 )
• August 30 : Rolf Henniger , German actor and director († 2015 )
• August 30 : Verena Wiet , German voice actress and actress († 2011 )
• August 31 : Kamlang-ek Arthit , Thai military and politician († 2015 )
• August 31 : Vratislav Blažek , Czech dramaturge and film scenarist, songwriter († 1973 )
• August 31 : Marvin Davis , American multi-billionaire († 2004 )
• August 31 : Ted Schwinden , American politician

September

• 0September 1st : Madeleine Chapsal , French journalist and writer
• 0September 1 : Bob Curtis , American dancer and choreographer († 2009 )
• 0September 1 : Roy Jay Glauber , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner († 2018 )
• 0September 1 : Art Pepper , American alto saxophonist († 1982 )
• 0September 2 : Ike Franklin Andrews , American politician († 2010 )
• 0September 2 : Russ Conway , British pianist, composer and singer († 2000 )
• 0September 4th : Leo Apostel , Belgian philosopher († 1995 )
• 0September 4 : William Louis Beatty , American lawyer († 2001 )
• 0September 6 : Andrea Camilleri , Italian writer († 2019 )
• 0September 6 : Max Imdahl , German art historian († 1988 )
• 0September 6 : Jimmy Reed , American blues singer and musician († 1976 )
• 0September 6 : Gert Schliephake , German zoologist († 2007 )
• 0September 7th : Laura Ashley , Welsh designer († 1985 )
• 0September 8 : Peter Sellers , English actor († 1980 )
  

  Peter Sellers, 1973
• 0September 9 : Gonzalo Arroyo , Chilean priest and liberation theologian († 2012 )
• 0September 9 : Soňa Červená , Czech opera singer and actress
• September 10 : Roy Brown , American blues musician († 1981 )
• September 10 : Edgar Külow , German cabaret artist, actor, voice actor and author († 2012 )
• September 10 : Boris Tchaikovsky , Russian composer († 1996 )
• September 11 : Alan Bergman , American singer-songwriter
• September 11th : Harry Somers , Canadian composer († 1999 )
• September 12 : Dickie Moore , American actor († 2015 )
• September 13 : Gabriel Charpentier , Canadian composer and poet
• September 13 : Amilcar Salomón Zorilla , Peruvian painter
• September 14 : Arnold Poll , German Roman Catholic priest († 2016 )
• September 15 : James Coignard , French painter and printmaker († 2008 )
• September 15 : Giuseppe Fava , Italian journalist and writer († 1984 )
• September 15 : Lino Fayen , Venezuelan entrepreneur and racing car driver († 1972 )
• September 15 : Robert Hoernschemeyer , American football player († 1980 )
• September 15 : Erika Köth , German chamber singer and soprano († 1989 )
• September 15 : Helle Virkner , Danish actress († 2009 )
• September 16 : Felix Mathias Auer , Swiss economist, journalist and politician († 2016 )
• September 16 : BB King , American blues musician († 2015 )
• September 16 : Morgan Woodward , American actor († 2019 )
• September 17 : Jorge Ardila Serrano , Colombian bishop († 2010 )
• September 17th : Hildegard Bienen , visual artist († 1990 )
• September 17th : Vatche Hovsepian , Armenian duduk player († 1987 )
• September 18 : Luigi Pintor , Italian journalist, publicist and politician († 2003 )
• September 19 : Ray Batts , American country musician († 2015 )
• September 19 : Ōshiro Tatsuhiro , Japanese writer
• September 20 : Justo Gallego Martínez , Spanish monk
• September 20 : Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII.), King of Thailand († 1946 )
• September 20 : Heinz Wackers , German ice hockey goalie
• September 21 : Victor Kirst , politician, member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1976 († 1997 )
• September 22nd : Heribert Apfalter , Austrian industrial manager († 1987 )
• September 23 : Angelo Acerbi , Italian Roman Catholic Archbishop and emeritus Vatican diplomat
• September 23 : Hartmut von Hentig , German educator
• September 23 : Eleonora Rossi Drago , Italian actress († 2007 )
• September 24 : Tsuji Kunio , Japanese writer and university professor († 1999 )
• September 25 : Hans Matthöfer , German politician († 2009 )
• September 25 : Wendell Phillips , American archaeologist († 1975 )
• September 26 : Marty Robbins , American country singer and songwriter († 1982 )
• September 27 : J. Howard Edmondson , American politician († 1971 )
• September 27 : Robert Edwards , British medic († 2013 )
• September 27 : Franc Zadravec , Slovenian literary scholar († 2016 )
• September 28 : Seymour Cray , American computer scientist († 1996 )
• September 28 : Ib Storm Larsen , Danish rower († 1991 )
• September 28 : Carl Weiss , German journalist († 2018 )
• September 29th : Oskar Anweiler , German educational scientist
• September 29 : John Tower , American politician († 1991 )
• September 30th : Horacio Armani , Argentine journalist and poet († 2013 )

October

• 0October 1st : José Beyaert , French cyclist († 2005 )
• 0October 1 : Finn Carling , Norwegian writer († 2004 )
• 0October 1 : Benno Pludra , German writer († 2014 )
• 0October 2 : Paul Goldsmith , American motorcycle and automobile racer
• 0October 2 : Alois Piňos , Czech composer and music teacher († 2008 )
• 0October 2 : Kin Sekihan , Japanese writer
• 0October 2 : Phil Urso , American jazz saxophonist († 2008 )
• 0October 3 : George Acquaah , Ghanaian athlete († 1963 )
• 0October 3 : Gore Vidal , American writer († 2012 )
• 0October 3 : George Wein , American jazz musician and impresario
• 0October 5 : Antoine Gizenga , Congolese politician († 2019 )
• 0October 5 : Roberto Juarroz , Argentine writer († 1995 )
• 0October 5th : Herbert Kretzmer , South African songwriter
• 0October 7th : Fred Bertelmann , German pop singer and actor († 2014 )
• 0October 7 : Karlheinz Hoffmann , German sculptor († 2011 )
• 0October 8 : Iradsch Afshār , Iranian library scholar and historian († 2011 )
• 0October 8 : Olle Hellbom , Swedish director and screenwriter († 1982 )
• 0October 8 : Paul Van Hoeydonck , Belgian artist
• 0October 9 : Robert Docking , American politician († 1983 )
• 0October 9 : Robert Finch , American politician († 1995 )
• 0October 9 : Barbara König , German writer and radio play author († 2011 )
• 0October 9 : Markus Kutter , Swiss historian, advertiser, publicist and politician († 2005 )
• October 10 : Francisco Aguabella , Cuban Latin jazz drummer and percussionist († 2010 )
• October 11 : Wander Bertoni , Austrian sculptor († 2019 )
• October 11 : Elmar Hillebrand , German sculptor († 2016 )
• October 11 : Elmore Leonard , American writer († 2013 )
• October 11 : Robert Linn , American composer and music teacher († 1999 )
• October 12 : Helmuth Reichel , Swiss organist, conductor and composer
• October 12 : Hilde von Lang , German publisher († 2011 )
• October 13 : Lenny Bruce , American stand-up comedian and satirist († 1966 )
• October 13 : Dora Dunkl , German-Austrian poet and writer († 1982 )
• October 13 : Frank D. Gilroy , American writer and director († 2015 )
• October 13 : Margaret Thatcher , British politician († 2013 )
  

  Margaret Thatcher
• October 14 : Phillip Tobias , South African paleoanthropologist († 2012 )
• October 15 : Mickey "Guitar" Baker , American guitarist († 2012 )
• October 15 : Carl Becker , German classical philologist († 1973 )
• October 15 : Vitus B. Dröscher , German non-fiction author († 2010 )
• October 16 : Daniel J. Evans , American politician
• October 16 : Oskar Koller , German painter († 2004 )
• October 16 : Angela Lansbury , American actress of British descent
• October 17 : Pierre Koenig , American architect († 2004 )
• October 18 : Ramiz Alia , Albanian politician († 2011 )
• October 18 : Helmut Beyer , German football functionary († 2011 )
• October 19 : Czesław Kiszczak , Polish politician and military, Minister of the Interior of Poland († 2015 )
• October 19 : Emilio Massera , Argentine admiral and politician († 2010 )
• October 20 : Art Buchwald , American publicist and humorist († 2007 )
• October 20 : Roger Hanin , French actor and film director († 2015 )
• October 20 : Günter Kießling , German General († 2009 )
• October 20 : Herman Roelstraete , Belgian composer and conductor († 1985 )
• October 21 : Celia Cruz , Cuban singer († 2003 )
• October 21 : Virginia Zeani , Romanian opera singer
• October 22 : Willy Potthoff , German reform pedagogue († 2006 )
• October 22 : Robert Rauschenberg , American painter and object artist († 2008 )
• October 22 : Joachim Rottmann , German judge at the Federal Constitutional Court († 2014 )
• October 23 : Carlo Caracciolo , Italian media entrepreneur († 2008 )
• October 23 : Johnny Carson , entertainer in the USA († 2005 )
  

  Johnny Carson (1994)
• October 23 : Angèle Durand , Belgian singer and actress († 2001 )
• October 23 : Cardinal José Freire Falcão , Archbishop of Brasília
• October 23 : Jochen Müller , German soccer player († 1985 )
• October 24 : Luciano Berio , Italian composer († 2003 )
• October 24 : Willie Mabon , American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist († 1985 )
• October 24th : Pierre Monichon , French music teacher and scholar, inventor of the harmonéon († 2006 )
• October 24 : Judge Roegholt , Dutch historian († 2005 )
• October 25 : Klaus Friedrich Roth , British Professor of Mathematics († 2015 )
• October 27 : Warren Christopher , American politician († 2011 )
• October 27 : Ruth Stephan , German actress and cabaret artist († 1975 )
• October 29 : Robert Hardy , British actor († 2017 )
• October 29 : Zoot Sims , American jazz musician († 1985 )
• October 30 : Gisela Glende , Office Manager of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR († 2016 )
• October 30 : Servais-Théodore Pinckaers , Belgian moral theologian († 2008 )
• October 30th : Wolfgang Vogel , German lawyer and negotiator in the GDR release of prisoners († 2008 )
• October 31 : Lee Grant , American actress
• October 31 : Heinrich Hannover , German lawyer and author
• October 31 : John Anthony Pople , British mathematician and chemist († 2004 )

November

• 0November 1 : Fritz Laband , German soccer player († 1982 )
• 0November 1 : Dickson Mabon , British politician († 2008 )
• 0November 2 : Heinrich Rubner , German historian and forest scientist († 2017 )
• 0November 3 : Dieter Wellershoff , German writer († 2018 )
• 0November 4 : Franz Xaver Eder , German bishop in Passau († 2013 )
• 0November 4 : Doris Roberts , American actress († 2016 )
• 0November 5 : Egon Matt , Liechtenstein cross-country skier († 2004 )
• 0November 6th : Jean Aurel , French screenwriter and film director († 1996 )
• 0November 6th : Michel Bouquet , French actor
• 0November 7th : Luís Andrés Edo , Spanish activist, resistance fighter († 2009 )
• 0November 7th : Ernst Mosch , German entertainment musician († 1999 )
• 0November 7th : Fritz Peter , Swiss singer (tenor) († 1994 )
• 0November 9 : Giovanni Coppa , Italian cardinal († 2016 )
• 0November 9 : Helmut Rohde , German politician († 2016 )
• November 10 : Richard Burton , British actor († 1984 )
  

  Richard Burton with Sophia Loren, 1974
• November 11 : Oscar Asboth , Hungarian painter († 1991 )
• November 11 : John Guillermin , British director († 2015 )
• November 11th : Martin Humer , Austrian photographer, known as "the porn hunter" († 2011 )
• November 11 : Jan Simons , Canadian singer and vocal teacher († 2006 )
• November 11th : Jonathan Winters , American comedy actor († 2013 )
• November 12 : Gaetano Arfé , Italian politician, journalist and historian († 2007 )
• November 12 : Heinz Schubert , German actor († 1999 )
• November 12 : Stanislav Šebek , Czech composer and music teacher († 1984 )
• November 13 : Christoph Engel , German actor († 2011 )
• November 14 : Helmut Hofmann , German boxer († 2017 )
• November 14 : Roi Medvedev , Russian historian and politician
• November 14 : Shores Medvedev , Russian biochemist and historian († 2018 )
• November 14 : Carola Stern , German publicist and journalist († 2006 )
• November 15 : Jurriaan Andriessen , Dutch composer and teacher († 1996 )
• November 15 : Howard Baker , American politician († 2014 )
• November 15 : Gerd Duwner , German actor and voice actor († 1996 )
• November 15 : Heinz Piontek , German writer († 2003 )
• November 17 : Siluvaimathu Teresanathan Amalnather , Indian bishop of Tuticorin († 2010 )
• November 17 : Aristid Lindenmayer , Hungarian biologist († 1989 )
• November 17th : Charles Mackerras , Australian conductor († 2010 )
• November 17 : Rock Hudson , American film actor († 1985 )
  

  Rock Hudson
• November 17 : Günter Naumann , German actor († 2009 )
• November 17th : Horst Naumann , German actor
• November 18 : Gerd Bacher , Austrian journalist and artistic director († 2015 )
• November 19 : Zygmunt Bauman , Polish-British sociologist and philosopher († 2017 )
• November 20 : Robert F. Kennedy , American politician, Senator from New York († 1968 )
• November 20 : Manlio Scopigno , Italian football player and coach († 1993 )
• November 22nd : Bruno Lietz , Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food Management of the GDR († 2005 )
• November 22nd : Jerrie Mock , American pilot († 2014 )
• November 23 : Helmut Gude , German athlete († 2001 )
• November 23 : Johnny Mandel , American composer († 2020 )
• November 23 : Frederic Vester , German biochemist, environmental expert and author († 2003 )
• November 24th : Al Cohn , American jazz saxophonist († 1988 )
• November 24 : Rubén Elosegui , Argentine sculptor and painter († 1991 )
• November 24th : Simon van der Meer , Dutch physicist († 2011 )
• November 25 : María Asquerino , Spanish actress († 2013 )
• November 26 : Annemarie Düringer , Swiss actress († 2014 )
• November 26 : Eugene Istomin , American pianist († 2003 )
• November 26 : Heinrich Köppler , German politician († 1980 )
• November 27 : Derroll Adams , American folk singer († 2000 )
• November 27 : Bertold Hummel , German composer († 2002 )
• November 27 : Claude Lanzmann , French director († 2018 )
• November 27 : John Maddox , British chemist and science journalist († 2009 )
• November 27 : Marshall Thompson , American actor († 1992 )
• November 28 : József Bozsik , Hungarian football player and coach († 1978 )
• November 28 : Gigi Gryce , American jazz saxophonist († 1983 )
• November 29th : Rul Bückle , German entrepreneur, pilot and fighter pilot († 2005 )
• November 29 : Ernst Happel , Austrian football player and coach († 1992 )
• November 30 : William H. Gates, Sr. , American attorney and philanthropist († 2020 )
• November 30th : Vojtěch Jasný , Czech director and screenwriter († 2019 )
• November 30th : Thomas Francis Little , Australian Archbishop of Melbourne († 2008 )
• November 30th : Alf Önnerfors , Swedish philologist († 2019 )

December

• 0December 1 : Kurt Kelm , German translator († 2009 )
• 0December 1 : Manfred Köhnlechner , media manager and alternative practitioner († 2002 )
• 0December 1 : Peter Thomas , German film composer († 2020 )
• 0December 2 : Julie Harris , American actress († 2013 )
• 0December 2 : Jacques Lacarrière , French writer († 2005 )
• 0December 3 : Ferlin Husky , American country singer († 2011 )
• 0December 3 : Kim Dae-jung , South Korean President († 2009 )
• 0December 4 : Albert Bandura , Canadian psychologist
• 0December 4 : Sauro Tomà , Italian football player († 2018 )
• 0December 5th : Massimo Pradella , Italian conductor
• 0December 5 : Henri Oreiller , French ski racer († 1962 )
• 0December 5 : Anastasio Somoza Debayle , Nicaraguan President († 1980 )
• 0December 5th : Erica Zentner , Canadian violinist and music teacher
• 0December 6th : Carl Andrießen , German screenwriter, satirist and critic († 1993 )
• 0December 6 : Bob Cooper , American musician († 1993 )
• 0December 6 : Andy Robustelli , American football player († 2011 )
• 0December 7th : Max Zaslofsky , American basketball player († 1985 )
• 0December 8 : Sammy Davis, Jr. , American singer, dancer and actor († 1990 )
  

  Sammy Davis, Jr., 1986
• 0December 8 : Arnaldo Forlani , Italian politician (Christian Democrat)
• 0December 8 : Carmen Martín Gaite , Spanish writer († 2000 )
• 0December 9 : Ernest Gellner , anthropologist, sociologist and philosopher († 1995 )
• 0December 9 : Paul Kim Ok-kyun , South Korean auxiliary bishop († 2010 )
• December 10 : Karl-Heinz Althoff , German physicist and university professor
• December 10 : Jean Byron , American actress († 2006 )
• December 10 : Zdeněk Šesták , Czech composer and musicologist
• December 11 : Elmer Angsman , American football player († 2002 )
• December 11 : Paul Greengard , American biochemist, Nobel Laureate in Medicine († 2019 )
• December 12th : Dodo Marmarosa , American jazz pianist († 2002 )
• December 12 : Ahmad Schamlou , Persian poet († 2000 )
• December 12th : Hans-Günther Wauer , German church musician († 2016 )
• December 13 : Dick Van Dyke , American television and film actor
• December 14 : Annemie Fontana , Swiss artist († 2002 )
• December 15 : Günther Ungeheuer , German actor († 1989 )
• December 16 : Bert Hellinger , German family therapist and author († 2019 )
• December 17 : Dieter von Landsberg-Velen , German sports official († 2012 )
• December 17 : Calvin Tomkins , American writer and art critic
• December 19 : Rabah Bitat , Algerian President (1978–1979) († 2000 )
• December 19 : Tankred Dorst , German playwright and writer († 2017 )
• December 19 : Papa Molina , Dominican composer
• December 19 : Tana Schanzara , German actress († 2008 )
  

  Tana Schanzara , 2000
• December 20 : Fred Angerer , German architect († 2010 )
• December 21 : Olga Arossewa , Russian actress († 2013 )
• December 21st : Billy "The Kid" Emerson , American keyboard player
• December 21 : Paul Kurtz , American philosopher († 2012 )
• December 22nd : Luciana Angiolillo , Italian actress
• December 22nd : Károly Makk , Hungarian film director and screenwriter († 2017 )
• December 22 : Walter Womacka , German artist and cultural functionary of the GDR († 2010 )
• December 23 : Pierre Bérégovoy , French socialist politician († 1993 )
• December 23 : Milan Uherek , Czech choir director and composer († 2012 )
• December 24th : Claude Frank , American pianist of German origin († 2014 )
• December 25 : Richard Gruner , German entrepreneur and publisher († 2010 )
• December 25th : Ossi Reichert , German ski racer, Olympic champion in giant slalom († 2006 )
• December 26 : Georg Buschner , coach of the GDR national soccer team († 2007 )
• December 27 : Moshe Arens , Israeli politician and former defense and foreign minister († 2019 )
• December 27 : Michel Piccoli , French actor († 2020 )
• December 27 : Heinz Ulzheimer , German athlete († 2016 )
• December 28 : Hildegard Knef , German actress, chanson singer and author († 2002 )
  

  Hildegard Knef , 1995
• December 29 : Jay Chamberlain , American racing driver († 2001 )
• December 29 : Heinrich Rieker , German journalist and writer
• December 31 : Irina Korschunow , German writer († 2013 )
• December 31 : Jaap Schröder , Dutch violinist and conductor († 2020 )
• December 31 : Hermann Josef Spital , German theologian, Roman Catholic Bishop of Trier from 1981 to 2001 († 2007 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Don Alden Adams , American theologian
• Shahpur Ahmadzai , Afghan general († 1978 )
• Kurt Ard , Danish illustrator, painter and graphic artist
• Claude Aubert , Swiss jazz musician († 2000 )
• Alice Sz. Burger , Hungarian archaeologist
• Franco Lini , journalist and 1967 team manager at Scuderia Ferrari († 1997 )
• James Pataki , Canadian violinist and violist of Hungarian origin († 2004 )

Died

January

• 0January 3 : Nikolai Kotschetow , Russian composer (* 1864 )
• January 13 : Franz Zorn von Bulach , Auxiliary Bishop of Strasbourg and Titular Bishop of Erythrae (* 1858 )
• January 14 : Camille Decoppet , Swiss politician (* 1862 )
• 25 January : Anton Griessen , Swiss supporter of the Antonians, specialist historian and biographer (* 1867 )
• January 25 : Ivan Vučetić , Argentine criminologist (* 1858 )
• January 27 : Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell , British Field Marshal (* 1841 )
• January 28 : Augustus O. Bourn , American politician (* 1834 )
• January 30th : Hermann Brandt , German settler and farmer (* 1856 )
• January 31 : George Washington Cable , American writer (* 1844 )

February

• 0February 3 : Oliver Heaviside , British physicist (* 1850 )

Robert Koldewey , Babylon 1906

• 0February 4 : Paul Gilbert , German judge, local politician, local history researcher, club and association official (* 1859 )
• 0February 4 : Robert Koldewey , German architect and archaeologist (* 1855 )
• 0February 5 : Antti Aarne , Finnish fairy tale researcher (* 1867 )
• February 15 : Kinoshita Rigen , Japanese poet (* 1886 )
• February 17th : Ignacio Andrade , Venezuelan officer and politician (* 1839 )
• February 20 : Marco Enrico Bossi , Italian organist and composer (* 1861 )
• February 24 : Alois Mrštík , Czech writer and dramaturge (* 1861 )
• February 24th : Max von Stetten , German officer (* 1860 )
• February 25 : Josef Armin , Austrian comedian, couplet singer and playwright (* 1858 )
• February 25 : Joseph Medill McCormick , American politician (* 1877 )

Friedrich Ebert , 1925

• February 28 : Friedrich Ebert , German politician and Reich President (* 1871 )

March

• 0March 2 : Luigj Gurakuqi , Albanian writer and politician (* 1879 )
• 0March 2nd : Oskar Lenz , German-Austrian Africa explorer, mineralogist and geologist (* 1848 )
• 0March 3 : Wilhelm von Seldeneck , German entrepreneur (* 1849 )
• March 10 : Werner Fritze , businessman, royal councilor and local politician (* 1836 )
• March 12th : Sun Yat-sen , Chinese President (* 1866 )
• March 16 : August von Wassermann , German bacteriologist (* 1866 )
• March 19 : Charles Allen Culberson , American politician (* 1855 )
• March 19 : Marie Elisabeth Moritz , German painter (* 1860 )
• March 20 : George Curzon , British politician (* 1859 )
• March 22nd : Julian Balthasar Marchlewski , politician and co-founder of the Spartakusbund (* 1866 )
• March 26 : Hugo Bettauer , Austrian writer (* 1872 )
• March 29 : Bajram Curri , Albanian freedom fighter (* 1862 )
• March 30th : Rudolf Steiner , philosopher and founder of anthroposophy (* 1861 )

April

• 0April 4 : WW Rouse Ball , English mathematician and historian of mathematics (* 1850 )
• 0April 6 : Guido Mentasti , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1897 )
• 0April 9 : Fritz Baedeker , German publisher (* 1844 )
• 0April 9 : Johannes Mayerhofer , Austrian artist and author (* 1859 )
• April 11 : Lewis D. Apsley , American politician (* 1852 )
• April 14 : John Singer Sargent , American painter (* 1856 )
• April 15 : August Endell , German architect (* 1871 )
• April 15 : Fritz Haarmann , German serial killer (* 1879 )
• April 15 : Willem Henri Julius , Dutch physicist (* 1860 )
• April 19 : John Walter Smith , American politician (* 1845 )
• April 23 : Armand Marseille , well-known doll manufacturer (* 1856 )

May

• 0May 2 : Johann Palisa , Austrian astronomer (* 1848 )
• 0May 3rd : Clément Ader , French aviation pioneer and inventor (* 1841 )

Barros Queirós

• 0May 5 : Tomé José de Barros Queirós , Portuguese Finance Minister and Prime Minister (* 1872 )
• 0May 7 : Teuvo Pakkala , Finnish writer (* 1862 )
• May 12 : Arthur Napoleão , Brazilian composer (* 1843 )
• May 16 : Selden P. Spencer , American politician (* 1862 )
• May 18 : August Frickenhaus , German archaeologist (* 1882 )
• May 20 : Elias M. Ammons , American politician (* 1860 )
• May 24th : Andreas Henze , German Roman Catholic priest, high school professor and meteorologist (* 1833 )
• May 24th : Fritz Herbert , SPD member of the Reichstag for Pomerania, member of the consumer cooperative (* 1860 )
• May 27th : Seyyit Abdülkadir Efendi , Ottoman-Kurdish politician (* 1851 )
• May 28 : João Pinheiro Chagas , Portuguese journalist, diplomat and politician, Prime Minister (* 1863 )
• May 30 : Arthur Moeller van den Bruck , German writer (* 1876 )

June

• 0June 1 : Thomas Riley Marshall , American politician (* 1854 )
• 0June 3 : Camille Flammarion , French astronomer and popular science writer (* 1842 )
• 0June 4th : Pierre Louÿs , French writer (* 1870 )
• 0June 5 : Jenny Apolant , German women's rights activist (* 1874 )
• 0June 9 : David Edward Cronin , American painter (* 1839 )
• June 12 : Richard Teichmann , German chess master (* 1868 )
• June 13 : Henny Koch , German writer and translator (* 1854 )
• June 20 : Josef Breuer , Viennese doctor, physiologist and philosopher (* 1842 )
• June 20 : Marius Mestivier , French racing car driver (* 1895 )
• June 22nd : Paul Cazeneuve , Canadian actor and theater director (* 1871 )
• June 22nd : Felix Klein , German mathematician (* 1849 )
• June 22nd : Edwin F. Ladd , American politician (* 1859 )
• June 23 : Julius Haagn , born Julius Jagendeubel, Austrian politician and businessman (* 1844 )
• June 26 : Ernesto Drangosch , Argentine composer and pianist (* 1882 )
• June 29 : Sheikh Said , Kurdish Islamic leader (* 1865 )

July

• 0July 1 : Erik Satie , French composer and pianist (* 1866 )
• 0July 4th : George W. Atkinson , American politician (* 1845 )
• 0July 5 : Hjalmar Borgstrøm , Norwegian composer (* 1864 )
• 0July 5 : Otto Lummer , German physicist (* 1860 )
• 0July 6th : Antoine Taudou , French music teacher, violinist and composer (* 1846 )
• July 11 : Isacco Mariani , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1892 )
• July 17th : Lovis Corinth , German Impressionist painter (* 1858 )
• July 19 : Josiah Grout , American politician (* 1841 )
• July 22nd : Albert Jaegers , German-American sculptor (* 1868 )
• July 23 : Alberto Valenzuela Llanos , Chilean painter (* 1869 )
• July 24 : Paul Asten , German Imperial Judge (* 1861 )
• July 24th : Ottilie Baader , German women's rights activist, socialist and member of the SPD (* 1847 )
• July 25 : Wiktor Barabasz , Polish pianist, conductor and music teacher (* 1855 )
• July 26th : Antonio Ascari , Italian racing car driver (* 1888 )
• July 26th : Théodore Botrel , French chansonnier (* 1868 )
• July 26 : Gottlob Frege , German mathematician, logician and philosopher (* 1848 )

August

• 0August 4th : Friedrich Auerbach , German chemist (* 1870 )
• 0August 5th : Georges Palante , French philosopher and anarchist (* 1862 )
• 0August 7 : George Gray , American politician and lawyer (* 1840 )
• 0August 8 : Nikolai von Astudin , Russian landscape painter (* 1847 )
• 0August 9 : Christian Bartholomae , German Indo-Europeanist, Iranist and Indologist (* 1855 )
• August 10 : Eduard Arnhold , German entrepreneur, patron of the arts and philanthropist (* 1849 )
• August 16 : Alfred Merz , Austro-German oceanographer (* 1880 )
• August 19 : Wilhelm Streitberg , German Indo-Europeanist (* 1864 )
• August 20 : Jakob Christoph Heer , Swiss writer (* 1859 )
• August 21 : Eugen Gutmann , German banker (* 1840 )
• August 25 : Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf , Field Marshal and Chief of Staff of the Army of Austria-Hungary (* 1852 )
• August 25 : Kazimierz Morawski , Polish philologist, historian and translator (* 1852 )
• August 28 : Fredrik Wilhelm Gomnaes , Norwegian composer (* 1868 )
• August 29 : Anton Nowacki , Swiss crop scientist (* 1839 )
• August 30th : Henri-Julien Matthys , Belgian entrepreneur and racing car driver (* 1884 )

September

• September 16 : Alexander Friedmann , Russian physicist and mathematician (* 1888 )
• September 16 : Leo Fall , Austrian composer (* 1873 )
• September 19 : Therese von Bayern , German ethnologist, zoologist, botanist and anthropologist (* 1850 )
• September 19 : Georg Schweinfurth , German African explorer (* 1836 )
• September 19 : Paul Torchy , French racing car driver (* 1897 )
• September 22nd : Moritz Heimann , German writer and journalist (* 1868 )
• September 29 : Léon Bourgeois , first President of the League of Nations and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (* 1851 )

October

Hugo Preuss

• 0October 6 : Israel Abrahams , British Judaist (* 1858 )
• 0October 6 : René Hanriot , French racing car driver and aviation pioneer (* 1867 )
• 0October 9 : Hugo Preuss , German lawyer, politician and the father of the Weimar Constitution (* 1860 )
• October 14 : Eugen Sandow , founder of modern bodybuilding (* 1867 )
• October 17th : Christian Grünig , Swiss farmer, pietist and supporter of the sanctification movement (* 1858 )
• October 21 : Heinrich von Angeli , Austrian painter (* 1840 )
• October 24 : Jindřich Šimon Baar , Catholic priest and writer, representative of realism (* 1869 )
• October 25 : Demetrios I. Kadi , Syrian clergyman and Patriarch of Antioch (* 1861 )

November

• 0November 5 : Anton Elter , German classical philologist (* 1858 )
• 0November 6 : Khải Định , twelfth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty (* 1885 )
• 0November 9th : Liborius Hausner Edler von Hauswehr , Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal Lieutenant (* 1834 )
• November 12 : Roman Statkowski , Polish composer and music teacher (* 1859 )
• November 12th : Tominaga Tarō , Japanese writer (* 1901 )
• November 16 : Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl , German church painter and draftsman (* 1856 )
• November 17th : Fritz Angerstein , German mass murderer (* 1891 )
• November 20 : Alexandra of Denmark , Princess of Denmark, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (* 1844 )
• November 22nd : John Esslemont , British Bahai (* 1874 )
• November 25th : Vajiravudh , Siamese king (* 1881 )
• November 26 : Johannes Haarklou , Norwegian composer (* 1847 )
• November 28 : Alfred Pérot , French physicist (* 1863 )

December

• 0December 3 : Carroll Smalley Page , American politician (* 1843 )
• 0December 3 : Giacomo Setaccioli , Italian composer (* 1868 )
• 0December 5 : Ernst Justus Haeberlin , lawyer and numismatist (* 1847 )
• 0December 5 : Władysław Reymont , Polish writer, Nobel Prize winner (* 1867 )
• 0December 9 : Eugène Gigout , French organist and composer (* 1844 )
• December 19 : José Ignacio Quintón , Puerto Rican composer and pianist (* 1881 )
• December 21 : Melli Beese , German pilot and aircraft designer (* 1886 )
• December 21 : Alexandre Desmarteaux , Canadian actor and singer (* around 1880 )
• December 22nd : Alice Heine , Duchess of Richelieu and Princess of Monaco (* 1858 )
• December 25th : Karl Abraham , German neurologist and psychiatrist (* 1877 )
• December 26 : Jan Letzel , Czech architect (* 1880 )
• December 26 : Georg Thieme , German publisher (* 1860 )
• December 28 : Sergei Jessenin , Soviet poet (* 1895 )
• December 31 : Paul Förster , German high school teacher, publicist and politician (* 1844 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Edmundo Acebedo , Uruguayan soccer player (* unknown)
• Alberto Lobos , Chilean painter (* 1892 )
• Ion Perdicaris , Greek-American bon vivant, whose abduction in 1904 triggered the so-called Perdicaris incident (* 1840 )
• Jaime Torrent , Chilean painter (* 1893 )

Web links

Commons : 1925  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Digital copies of newspapers from 1925 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eberhard Kolb: The Weimar Republic . 3. Edition. Oldenbourg: Munich 1993, p. 79.