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Calendar overview 1926
Map with all linked pages: | 1926 | |
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| 1926 in other calendars | |
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| From urbe condita | 2679 |
| Armenian calendar | 1374-1375 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1918-1919 |
| Badi calendar | 82-83 |
| Bengali calendar | 1332-1333 |
| Berber calendar | 2876 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2470 |
| Burmese calendar | 1288 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7434-7435 |
| Chinese calendar | |
| - era | 4622-4623 or 4562-4563 |
| - 60 year cycle |
Wood Buffalo (乙丑, 2) - |
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French revolution calendar |
CXXXIV - CXXXV 134-135 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5686-5687 |
| Hindu calendar | |
| - Vikram Sambat | 1982-1983 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1848-1849 |
| Iranian calendar | 1304-1305 |
| Islamic calendar | 1344-1345 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Nengō (era): | Taishō 15 – Shōwa 1 |
| - Kōki | 2586 |
| Coptic calendar | 1642-1643 |
| Korean calendar | |
| - Dangun era | 4259 |
| - Juche era | 15th |
| Minguo calendar | 15th |
| Modern Olympics | VIII |
| Seleucid calendar | 2237-2238 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2469 |
Events
Politics and world events
- January 1 : Heinrich Häberlin becomes President of Switzerland .
- January 1 : In the German Reich , the income tax allowance is increased from 960 to 1200 Reichsmarks .
- January 1st : In Turkey the time calculation begins according to the Gregorian calendar .
- January 20 : The Luther I cabinet is followed by the Luther II cabinet .
- February 1 : Forced collectivization of Kyrgyzstan
- February 8 : Germany applies for membership in the League of Nations .
- February 18 : The Turkish government decides to abolish polygamy and the harem system and to adopt the Swiss Civil Code (ZGB).
- March 23 : In Ireland is of Éamon de Valera , the Fianna Fáil founded -party. She rejects the Anglo-Irish Treaty and only changes this attitude many years later.
- April 20 : US Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and French Ambassador to Washington, Henri Bérénger, sign a foundation agreement on France's inter-allied war debts from the First World War .
- April 20th to 24th: Paris conference on the amendment of the International Agreement on Motor Vehicle Traffic on October 11, 1909. On April 24th, the International Agreement on Motor Vehicle Traffic was adopted.
- April 24th : Treaty of Berlin . Germany signs a friendship treaty with the USSR .
- April 25 : Reza Pahlavi is crowned the new Shah of Persia in Tehran .
- May 4 to 12: England: Mine owners want to push through wage cuts and extended working hours and operate a lockout ; the Trades Union Congress calls for a nationwide general strike . This is generally followed and largely paralyzes the country. The government uses the army.
- 12. bis 15. May : May Coup in Poland by Marshal Jozef Pilsudski .
- May 18 : No confidence in Hans Luther in the Reichstag (details here ). It is followed by the Marx III cabinet .
- May 27th : Franco-Spanish troops smash the Rif Republic . This ends the Rif War . It had started in 1921; Between July 1923 and the end of the war, the Spaniards shot or threw over 10,000 mustard gas containers .
- May 28 : The coup of General Gomes da Costa leads to the end of the First Republic in Portugal .
- May 30th : Portugal: After the May 28th coup, Prime Minister António Maria da Silva, the last freely elected government , resigns .
- July 9th : With the aim of reunification of China, the Kuomintang starts the northern campaign .
- August 31 : Neutrality and non-aggression treaty between the USSR and Afghanistan (three-year term)
- September 8 : Germany unanimously admitted to the League of Nations
- October 17th : Kim Il-sung founds the North Korean Communist Association to smash imperialism .
- October 31 : In Bologna , fifteen-year-old Anteo Zamboni tries to shoot the fascist Prime Minister Benito Mussolini during a commemorative parade for the March on Rome . The assassin is attacked and lynched by nearby fascists . He dies the same day.
- November 27 : The Albanian government concludes the first Tirana Pact with Italy and in return receives financial aid and support in building up the police force. With the treaty, President Ahmet Zogu strengthens his domestic political position.
- December 10 : The German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann receives the Nobel Peace Prize together with his French counterpart Aristide Briand .
- December 23 : The Labor Court Act creates the Reich Labor Court in the Weimar Republic and regulates the work of the judiciary in labor matters.
- The USSR annexes the Franz Josef Land archipelago , which was only discovered in 1873 .
economy
- January 6th : Deutsche Lufthansa is founded (start of operations April 6th, 1926).
- 20th - 28. February : The Green Week Berlin , an exhibition of agricultural products, will be held for the first time.
- February 22 : The first German car Bank is in Berlin under the company Ford Credit Company , the Ford Bank founded.
- April 3 : Honduras introduces the Lempira as its currency .
- May 8 : The Great Exhibition for Health, Social Care and Physical Exercise ( GeSoLei ) opens in Düsseldorf, which over 7.5 million people visit by October 15, 1926.
- June 28 : The companies "Benz & Co Rheinische Gasmotorenfabrik Mannheim" ( Benz & Cie. From 1899) and " Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft " founded by the automobile pioneers merge to form Daimler-Benz AG , based in Berlin .
- July 12 : Winston Churchill and Joseph Caillaux , Treasury Ministers of Great Britain and France , sign a foundation agreement for the inter-allied war debts.
- September 22nd : The sudden resignation of their long-time governor and a series of articles in the sensational newspaper Der Abend über die Österreichische Postsparkasse shake up the politicians. In the postal savings bank scandal, a parliamentary committee uncovered enormous losses of the institute from speculative transactions , from a questionable loan and expensive support measures for other banks after several weeks of investigations .
- September 30th : Foundation of the International Steel Cartel
- November 15 : The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) begins broadcasting as a network in the United States with radio programs .
- Founding of the company IG Farbenindustrie AG in Frankfurt am Main
- The Ducati company is founded by Adriano and Marcello Ducati in Bologna ( Italy ). Società Scientifica Radiobrevetti Ducati initially produces components for radios.
science and technology
- February 9 : Norwegian engineer Erik Rotheim invents the spray can .
- May 9 : The rotor ship Buckau , equipped with a Flettner rotor , caused a sensation in New York City when it arrived after crossing the Atlantic.
- May 13 : The largest suspension bridge in Brazil is opened. The Hercílio Luz Bridge in Florianópolis connects the mainland with the island of Santa Catarina .
aviation
- January 6 founding of Lufthansa in Berlin .
- March: First flight of the Fokker F.VII
- March 16 : First launch of a liquid rocket by Robert Goddard in the USA
- May 9 : The US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd claims to be the first person to cross the North Pole by plane with his co-pilot Floyd Bennett , a claim that can never be proven.
- May 11 : Umberto Nobile takes off from Ny-Ålesund, Norway, on the Norge airship for a trip over the North Pole .
- May 12 : Umberto Nobile flies over the North Pole in the airship “Norge” together with Roald Amundsen and the American millionaire Lincoln Ellsworth , three days after the American Richard Evelyn Byrd .
- June 19 : The inventor Engelbert Zaschka's gyro and helicopter is registered for a patent in the German Reich.
- June: First flight of the Ford Tri-Motor Tin-Goose
- August 16 : Salzburg Airport opens
- September: First flight of the De Havilland DH 66 Hercules
- September: First flight of the Dornier Do R Super Wal
- October: First flight of the Blériot 165
- November 26 : First flight of the first cantilever all-metal bomber Tupolev TB-1
- First flight of the Latécoère Laté 21
science
- January 27 : In front of members of the Royal Institution leads John Logie Baird functioning mechanical television before.
- July: Max Born publishes the first of two papers on the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics .
- September 3rd : Inauguration of the Berlin radio tower on the occasion of the 3rd radio exhibition.
- Alexander Bogdanov becomes director of the first institute for blood transfusions , the aim of which was to rejuvenate the recipients.
- Enrico Fermi develops his quantum statistics .
- Paul Dirac establishes the connection between Fermi statistics and quantum mechanics .
- Erwin Schrödinger publishes five papers on wave mechanics ("Quantization as an eigenvalue problem", Schrödinger equation ). Schrödinger proves the equivalence of shaft and matrix mechanics.
- Mart Stam develops the cantilever chair .
- Psychoanalysis is included as a new area of responsibility in the general fee schedule for doctors .
Culture
- March 26th : premiere of the operetta Die Zirkusprinzessin by Emmerich Kálmán in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
- February 8 : The first play with Molière's George Dandin is performed in the Czech avant-garde theater Osvobozené divadlo . Few people attend the performance.
- April 24th : The operetta Adrienne by Walter Wilhelm Goetze with the libretto by Günther Bibo and Alexander Pordes-Milo based on the comedy Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé has its world premiere in Hamburg .
- April 25 : The opera Turandot by Giacomo Puccini based on the play of the same name by Carlo Gozzi is premiered at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano in Milan. The opera was only completed after the death of Puccini by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches.
- April 28 : The world premiere of the opera Kováč Wieland ( Wieland the Blacksmith ) by Ján Levoslav Bella takes place in Bratislava.
- May 7th : The premiere of the opera Les Malheurs d'Orphée by Darius Milhaud takes place at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.
- June 26 : World premiere of the Sinfonietta by Leoš Janáček in Prague
- September 25 : World premiere of the operetta Lady Hamilton by Eduard Künneke at the Schauspielhaus Breslau
- October 14 : The popular children's book Winnie-the-Pooh by Alan Alexander Milne makes its debut in London publisher Methuen & Co .
- November 8th : The world premiere of the musical Oh, Kay! by George Gershwin takes place at the Imperial Theater in New York.
- November 9th : The premiere of Paul Hindemith's opera Cardillac takes place at the Dresden State Opera under the musical direction of Fritz Busch . The opera with the libretto by Ferdinand Lion based on the novella Das Fräulein von Scuderi by ETA Hoffmann with Robert Burg in the leading role is panned by criticism.
- November 27 : The dance pantomime The Wonderful Mandarin by Béla Bartók is premiered in Cologne . Because of alleged immorality, the mayor of Cologne, Konrad Adenauer, prohibits further performances.
- December 8 : World premiere of the opera A Witch of Salem by Charles Wakefield Cadman in Chicago
- Founding of the Association of Artists and Art Sponsors e. V. GEDOK
- December 14th : Premiere of the opera Der Golem by Eugen d'Albert in Frankfurt.
religion
- February 28 : In the encyclical Rerum Ecclesiae , Pope Pius XI. towards the duty of missionary work. Missionaries should also arise from the mission countries themselves.
- June 20 : Foundation of the Elim Christian community in Hamburg
- September 7th : In Vietnam, Ngô Văn Chiêu founds the religion of Caodaism .
- November 18 : Pope Pius XI is outraged about the persecution of the Church in Mexico . in the encyclical Iniquis afflictisque .
- December 20 : Pius XI. condemns Action française (AF) and its ideology.
- December 29th : Pius XI. puts the writings of AF founder Charles Maurras on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum .
Disasters
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
- September 18: Miami Hurricane 1926
Sports
- March 26th : The Real Oviedo football club in Asturias is created through the merger of two clubs .
- April 18 : The first broadcast of a German international soccer match is recorded in the history of radio . In Düsseldorf, the German team and the Netherlands split 4-2.
- August 1st : The SSC Napoli is founded.
- August 6th : Gertrude Ederle is the first woman to swim the English Channel .
- In May, the Garelli company succeeded in setting 138 world records on the Monza racetrack in just one attempt , some of which are still valid today.
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Jean-Baptiste Perrin
- Chemistry : Theodor Svedberg
- Medicine : Johannes Fibiger
- Literature : Grazia Deledda
- Nobel Peace Prize : Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann
Born
January
- January 1 : Ingeborg Feustel , German writer († 1998 )
- January 1st : Leon Weintraub , contemporary witness born in Poland
- January 2 : Howard Caine , American actor († 1993 )
- January 3 : W. Michael Blumenthal , US Secretary of the Treasury and Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin
- January 3 : George Martin , British musician and record producer († 2016 )
- January 3 : Pedro Mesías , Chilean pianist and conductor († 2007 )
- January 3 : Nell Rankin , American opera singer († 2005 )
- January 4th : Harry Levy , British music manager († 2007 )
- January 5th : Veikko Karvonen , Finnish athlete († 2007 )
- January 5 : Walther Leisler Kiep , German politician († 2016 )
- January 6th : Armando Aste , Italian alpinist († 2017 )
- January 6 : Kid Gavilán , Cuban boxer († 2003 )
- January 6 : Walter Sedlmayr , German actor († 1990 )
- January 6 : Tachihara Masaaki , Japanese writer († 1980 )
- January 7th : Hans Achim Gussone , German forest scientist († 1997 )
- January 7th : Kim Jong-pil , South Korean politician († 2018 )
- January 7 : Claude Kirk junior , American politician († 2011 )
- January 7th : Otto Knoch , German Catholic theologian, priest and university professor († 1993 )
- January 8 : Jani Christou , Egyptian composer († 1970 )
- January 8 : Dieter Hasselblatt , German radio play editor and author († 1997 )
- January 10 : Ingeborg Bukor , German sculptor († 1986 )
- January 10 : Jack Kyle , Irish rugby player († 2014 )
- January 12 : Morton Feldman , American composer († 1987 )
- January 12 : Ray Price , American country singer († 2013 )
- January 13 : Michael Bond , British writer († 2017 )
- January 14 : Robert Heinz Abeles , American chemist († 2000 )
- January 15 : Abdus Samad Azad , Bengali politician († 2005 )
- January 15 : Guido Baumann , Swiss journalist († 1992 )
- January 15 : Karl-Alfred Jacobsson , Swedish football player († 2015 )
- January 15 : Maria Schell , Austrian-Swiss actress († 2005 )
- January 15 : Günther Schellong , German physician († 2015 )
- January 16 : Yoshino Hiroshi , Japanese poet († 2014 )
- January 17th : Robert Filliou , French artist († 1987 )
- January 17 : Wolf Jobst Siedler , German publicist († 2013 )
- January 18 : Seth Abderhalden , Swiss mountaineer and extreme climber († 1960 )
- January 19 : Hermann Herder , German publisher († 2011 )
- January 19 : José Alfredo Jiménez , Mexican singer and composer († 1973 )
- January 19 : Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi , German-American journalist and writer († 2013 )
- January 19 : Fritz Weaver , American actor († 2016 )
- January 20 : Fritz Bennewitz , German theater director († 1995 )
- January 20 : Patricia Neal , American actress († 2010 )
- January 20 : David Tudor , American pianist, pioneer of electronic and experimental music († 1996 )
- January 21 : Giuseppe Alberigo , Italian Roman Catholic theologian and church historian († 2007 )
- January 21 : Truck Branss , German radio and television director († 2005 )
- January 21 : Clive Donner , British film director († 2010 )
- January 22nd : Hubert Aratym , Austrian painter († 2000 )
- January 22nd : Aurèle Nicolet , Swiss flautist († 2016 )
- January 23 : Friedrich-Wilhelm von Sell , German director († 2014 )
- January 24th : Ruth Asawa , American sculptor († 2013 )
- January 24th : Georges Lautner , French film director († 2013 )
- January 25 : Youssef Chahine , Egyptian film director († 2008 )
- January 25 : Ted White , American stunt performer and actor
- January 26 : Kurt-Heinz Stolze , German composer, pianist, harpsichordist and conductor († 1970 )
- January 27 : Heinz Aull , German politician († 1996 )
- January 27 : Ingrid Thulin , Swedish actress († 2004 )
- January 28 : Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili , Persian clergyman († 2016 )
- January 28 : Gene Hartley , American racing driver († 1993 )
- January 28th : Otto Milfait , Austrian homeland researcher
- January 29th : Franco Cerri , Italian jazz guitarist
- January 29 : Robert Falkenburg , American and Brazilian tennis player
- January 29 : Abdus Salam , Pakistani physicist and Nobel Prize winner († 1996 )
- January 29th : Mario Suárez , Venezuelan singer († 2018 )
- January 29 : Ernst Träger , German judge at the Federal Constitutional Court († 2015 )
- January 30 : Vasily Alexandrowitsch Archipow , Soviet naval officer († 1998 )
- January 30th : Ursula Langrock , German actress († 2000 )
- January 31 : Maria Emanuel Margrave von Meißen , head of the Wettin house († 2012 )
- January 31 : Johannes Joachim Degenhardt , German Cardinal and Archbishop of Paderborn († 2002 )
February
- February 1 : Jan Beenakker , Dutch physicist († 1998 )
- February 1st : Georg Espitalier , German composer and accordionist († 2010 )
- February 1 : Nancy Gates , American actress († 2019 )
- February 2 : Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , French politician, President of the Republic, President of the European Convention († 2020 )
- February 2 : Miguel Cardinal Obando Bravo , Archbishop of Managua († 2018 )
- February 2 : Fritz Stern , American historian († 2016 )
- February 3 : Art Arfons , American dragster and powerboat racing driver († 2007 )
- February 3 : Elfriede Moser-Rath , Austrian folklorist and narrative researcher († 1993 )
- February 3 : Robert McGinnis , American illustrator
- February 3 : J. Roy Rowland , American politician
- February 3 : Hans-Jochen Vogel , German politician († 2020 )
- February 3 : Richard Yates , American writer († 1992 )
- February 4 : Albert Frère , Belgian financial investor († 2018 )
- February 4 : Gyula Grosics , Hungarian football player († 2014 )
- February 5 : Stefan Gierasch , American actor († 2014 )
- February 5 : Arthur Ochs Sulzberger , American newspaper editor († 2012 )
- February 5 : Christa Williams , German pop singer († 2012 )
- February 6 : Helmut Adamzyk , German politician († 1996 )
- February 6th : Otto Austad , Norwegian ski jumper
- February 6 : Erik S. Klein , German actor († 2002 )
- February 6 : Lothar Zenetti , German theologian and writer († 2019 )
- February 7 : Konstantin Petrowitsch Feoktistow , Soviet cosmonaut († 2009 )
- February 7 : Estanislao Esteban Cardinal Karlic , Argentine Roman Catholic Archbishop
- February 7th : Mark Evgenjewitsch Taimanow , Russian chess player († 2016 )
- February 7th : Pierre Villette , French composer († 1998 )
- February 8 : Neal Cassady , American author († 1968 )
- February 8 : Sonja Ziemann , German actress and dancer († 2020 )
- February 9 : Max Appis , German soccer player († 2003 )
- February 9 : Garret FitzGerald , Irish politician († 2011 )
- February 10 : Jakob Christ , Swiss psychiatrist († 2008 )
- February 10 : Hazel Court , British actress († 2008 )
- February 10 : Kostas Mountakis , Greek lyre player († 1991 )
- February 11 : Paul Bocuse , French chef, restaurateur and cookbook author († 2018 )
- February 11 : Leslie Nielsen , Canadian actor († 2010 )
- February 11 : Hans Standl , German marksman († 2021 )
- February 12 : Rolf Brem , Swiss sculptor, draftsman and graphic artist († 2014 )
- February 12 : Buddy Childers , American jazz trumpeter († 2007 )
- February 12 : Tite Curet Alonso , Puerto Rican composer († 2003 )
- February 12 : Hans-Georg Noack , German author for children and young people († 2005 )
- February 12 : Charles Van Doren , American quiz show candidate († 2019 )
- February 12 : Werner Walde , German politician († 2010 )
- February 13 : Fay Ajzenberg-Selove , American experimental nuclear physicist († 2012 )
- February 13 : Kalayanapong Angkarn , Thai poet and painter († 2012 )
- February 13 : Knox Ramsey , American football player († 2005 )
- February 14 : Roland Dörfler , German painter († 2010 )
- February 14 : Siegfried Ludwig , Governor of Lower Austria († 2013 )
- February 14 : Claus Thierschmann , German officer, Lieutenant General of the Federal Air Force († 2012 )
- February 15 : Dieter Lattmann , German writer († 2018 )
- February 16 : David CH Austin , British rose breeder († 2018 )
- February 16 : Mario Cavagnaro , Peruvian singer-songwriter († 1998 )
- February 16 : Ahmad Fuad Muhi ad-Din , Prime Minister of Egypt († 1984 )
- February 16 : Helma Schimke , Austrian architect and mountaineer († 2018 )
- February 16 : John Schlesinger , British director († 2003 )
- February 17th : Friedrich Cerha , Austrian composer and conductor
- February 17 : John Meyendorff , Russian Orthodox theologian († 1992 )
- February 18 : Archie Randolph Ammons , American university professor and poet († 2001 )
- February 18 : Klaus Bungert , German politician († 2006 )
- February 19 : György Kurtág , Romanian-Hungarian composer
- February 19 : Egisto Pandolfini , Italian football player († 2019 )
- February 20 : Bobby Jaspar , Belgian jazz musician († 1963 )
- February 20 : Richard Matheson , American SF and screenwriter († 2013 )
- February 20 : Ken Olsen , American engineer and founder of DEC († 2011 )
- February 20 : Bob Richards , American athlete and pastor
- February 20 : Alfonso Sastre , Spanish author
- February 21 : Karl Otto Conrady , German literary historian († 2020 )
- February 21 : Hans Schwier , German politician († 1996 )
- February 21 : Ronnie Verrell , English jazz drummer († 2002 )
- February 22 : Finn Gustavsen , Norwegian socialist and politician († 2005 )
- February 22 : Kenneth Williams , British actor and comedian († 1988 )
- February 22nd : Bud Yorkin , American director and producer († 2015 )
- February 23 : Wolfgang Arps , German actor († 2001 )
- February 23 : Luigi de Magistris , Italian Cardinal Emeritus
- February 24th : Dieter Engelhardt , German marathon runner
- February 24 : Erich Loest , German writer († 2013 )
- February 26 : Willem Johan Aerts , Dutch Byzantinist and Neo-Greekist († 2017 )
- February 26 : Günter Asser , German mathematician († 2015 )
- February 26 : Chris Anderson , American jazz pianist († 2008 )
- February 26 : Ernst Grabbe , German actor († 2006 )
- February 27 : Elisabeth Borchers , German poet and writer († 2013 )
- February 27 : David H. Hubel , Canadian neurobiologist and Nobel Prize winner († 2013 )
- February 27 : Martha Mercader , Argentine writer, journalist, playwright, filmmaker and politician († 2010 )
- February 28 : Svetlana Iossifovna Allilueva , daughter of the Soviet head of state and party leader Josef Stalin († 2011 )
- February 28 : Ernst Waldemar Bauer , German television journalist, biologist, book author and documentary filmmaker († 2015 )
March
- March 1st : Robert Clary , French actor
- March 1 : Ernst-Ulrich von Kameke , German church musician, organist and composer († 2019 )
- March 1 : Claude Landini , Swiss basketball player († 2021 )
- March 1 : Pete Rozelle , American sports official († 1996 )
- March 2 : Bernard Cardinal Agré , Archbishop of Abidjan († 2014 )
- March 2 : Hermann Eiselen , German entrepreneur and patron († 2009 )
- March 3 : Heinz Knobloch , German writer and columnist († 2003 )
- March 3 : Käthe Reichel , German actress († 2012 )
- March 4 : Michel de Bourbon-Parma , French nobleman, war hero and racing car driver († 2018 )
- March 4 : Pascual Pérez , Argentine boxer, Olympic champion and world champion († 1977 )
- March 4 : Fran Warren , American jazz and pop singer († 2013 )
- March 5 : Hans-Jürgen Wende , German handball player († 2012 )
- March 6 : Alan Greenspan , American economist
- March 6 : Elwood Hillis , American politician
- March 6 : Miroslav Klega , Czech composer († 1993 )
- March 6 : Andrzej Wajda , Polish film and theater director († 2016 )
- March 6 : Ken Whyld , British chess journalist and chess historian († 2003 )
- March 7 : George Brecht , American artist († 2008 )
- March 7th : Ernst Ocffekt , Austrian football player and coach († 1980 )
- March 8 : Giovan Battista Fabbri , Italian football player and coach († 2015 )
- March 8 : Wolfgang Greese , German actor († 2001 )
- March 8 : Salahuddin Abdul Aziz , King of Malaysia († 2001 )
- March 9 : Celso Garrido Lecca , Peruvian composer
- March 9 : Jerry Ross , American composer and songwriter († 1955 )
- March 10 : Walter Ameling , German electrical engineer († 2010 )
- March 10 : Peter Boerner , German-American literary scholar and Goethe researcher († 2015 )
- March 10 : Roland Charrière , French racing car driver († 1990 )
- March 11 : Ralph Abernathy , American civil rights activist († 1990 )
- March 11th : Heinz Kiessling , German musician, orchestra conductor, composer and music producer († 2003 )
- March 11 : Karl Moersch , German politician († 2017 )
- March 11 : Peer Schmidt , German actor and voice actor († 2010 )
- March 12 : George Ryoichi Ariyoshi , American politician
- March 12 : Karl Czok , German historian († 2013 )
- March 12 : Eberhard Heinrich , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED of the GDR († 2019 )
- March 14 : François Morel , Canadian composer, pianist and conductor († 2018 )
- March 15 : Henry Adefope , Nigerian politician († 2012 )
- March 15 : Wilhelm Noll , German motorcycle racer († 2017 )
- March 16 : Edwar al-Charrat , Egyptian writer († 2015 )
- March 16 : Jerry Lewis , American actor, director and producer († 2017 )
- March 17 : Peter Atteslander , Swiss sociologist († 2016 )
- March 17 : Siegfried Lenz , German writer († 2014 )
- March 18 : Peter Graves , American actor († 2010 )
- March 20 : Friedel Schirmer , German decathlete and politician († 2014 )
- March 22nd : Ivo Babuška , Czech mathematician
- March 24th : Willi Bäuerle , German politician, Member of the Bundestag († 1996 )
- March 24 : Desmond Cardinal Connell , Archbishop of Dublin († 2017 )
- March 24 : Dario Fo , Italian playwright, director, composer, narrator and actor († 2016 )
- March 24th : Heriberto Herrera , Paraguayan-Spanish soccer player and coach († 1996 )
- March 25 : Derek Bickerton , American linguist († 2018 )
- March 25 : László Papp , Hungarian boxer († 2003 )
- March 26 : Heinz A. Staab , German chemist († 2012 )
- March 27 : Günter Sosna , German soccer player and coach († 2004 )
- March 27 : Jacques de la Villeglé , French artist
- March 30th : Erika Arlt , German homeland researcher († 2015 )
- March 30th : Sydney Chaplin , American film actor († 2009 )
- March 30th : Ingvar Kamprad , Swedish entrepreneur († 2018 )
- March 31 : Caspar Diethelm , Swiss composer and conductor († 1997 )
- March 31 : John Fowles , British novelist († 2005 )
- March: Count Ossie , Jamaican drummer and band leader († 1976 )
April
- April 1 : Anne McCaffrey , American science fiction writer († 2011 )
- April 2 : Jiří Adamíra , Czech actor († 1993 )
- April 2 : Jack Brabham , Australian racing car driver († 2014 )
- April 2 : Max Greger , German jazz musician and conductor († 2015 )
- April 2 : Edgar Hilsenrath , German writer († 2018 )
- April 2 : Reinhard Peters , German conductor and musician († 2008 )
- April 2 : William Windham , British rower († 2021 )
- April 3 : Valentin Falin , Soviet diplomat and politician († 2018 )
- April 3 : Virgil Grissom , American astronaut († 1967 )
- April 5 : Otto Amann , Austrian politician († 2011 )
- April 5 : Roger Corman , American film producer and director
- April 5 : Stan Levey , American jazz drummer († 2005 )
- April 5 : Ekkehard Schwartz , German forest scientist († 2005 )
- April 5 : Herbert Georg Albert Arz von Straussenburg , German diplomat († 2018 )
- April 6 : Yehuda Bauer , Israeli historian
- April 6 : Alexander Butterfield , White House assistant, a key figure in the Watergate scandal
- April 6 : Gil Kane , American comic artist of Latvian descent († 2000 )
- April 6 : Ian Paisley , pastor and politician in Northern Ireland († 2014 )
- April 8 : Shirley Mills , American actress († 2010 )
- April 8 : Jürgen Moltmann , German theologian
- April 8 : Elisabeth Wiedemann , German actress († 2015 )
- April 9 : Marcello Argilli , Italian lawyer, journalist, writer, children's book author and comic book author († 2014 )
- April 9 : Ewald Aul , German Holocaust survivor and head of the Jewish community in Osnabrück († 2013 )
- April 9 : Hugh Hefner , American publisher († 2017 )
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- April 10 : William H. Danforth , American doctor, director of the board of directors of Washington University († 2020 )
- April 10 : Gustav Metzger , German visual artist († 2017 )
- April 11 : David M. Abshire , President of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation († 2014 )
- April 11 : Victor Bouchard , Canadian pianist and composer († 2011 )
- April 11 : Franz Herre , German historian and publicist
- April 11 : Pete Lovely , American racing driver († 2011 )
- April 11 : Erna Spoorenberg , Dutch soprano († 2004 )
- April 12 : Said Ramadan , Egyptian Islamic fundamentalist († 1995 )
- April 12 : Jane Withers , American actress
- April 13 : Samuel Epstein , British-born medical doctor († 2018 )
- April 13 : Gottfried-Karl Kindermann , German political scientist
- April 13 : Miyao Tomiko , Japanese writer († 2014 )
- April 14 : Barbara Anderson , New Zealand writer († 2013 )
- April 14 : Khachatur Avetisyan , Armenian composer († 1996 )
- April 14 : Walter Buser , Swiss legal scholar († 2019 )
- April 14 : Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo , Spanish politician († 2008 )
- April 14 : Myung Rye-hyun , North Korean soccer player and coach
- April 14 : Piero Nelli , Italian documentary filmmaker and film director († 2014 )
- April 16 : John Friedmann , American geographer and economist, founder of World City Research († 2017 )
- April 16 : Ponkie , German journalist and film critic
- April 17 : Ronald Senator , British composer and music teacher († 2015 )
- April 18 : Horst Käsler , German handball player and trainer and professor of sports didactics († 1987 )
- April 19 : Sonja Åkesson , Swedish writer and artist († 1977 )
- April 21 : Elizabeth II , Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- April 22 : Harald Leipnitz , German actor († 2000 )
- April 22 : Charlotte Rae , American actress and singer († 2018 )
- April 22nd : James Stirling , British architect († 1992 )
- April 23 : Aram A. Avakian , American film director, screenwriter and film editor († 1987 )
- April 24th : Thorbjörn Fälldin , Swedish Prime Minister († 2016 )
- April 25 : Vittorio Gelmetti , Italian composer († 1992 )
- April 26 : Joseph Benjamin Hutto , American blues musician († 1983 )
- April 26 : Oldřich František Korte , Czech composer († 2014 )
- April 26 : Michael Mathias Prechtl , German painter, illustrator and caricaturist († 2003 )
- April 27 : Tim LaHaye , American author († 2016 )
- April 28 : Bhanu Athaiya , Indian costume designer († 2020 )
- April 28 : Francis Burt , English composer († 2012 )
- April 28 : Harper Lee , American writer and Pulitzer Prize winner (1961) († 2016 )
- April 29 : Paul Baran , American computer scientist († 2011 )
- April 29 : Carrie P. Meek , US politician
- April 29 : Maria Pirwitz , German sculptor and painter († 1984 )
- April 30 : Wilhelm Bierfelder , German economist († 2017 )
- April 30 : Cloris Leachman , American actress († 2021 )
- April 30 : François Morellet , French artist († 2016 )
- April 30 : Kōno Taeko , Japanese writer († 2015 )
May
- May 1 : Cheo García , Venezuelan singer († 1994 )
- May 1st : Peter Lax , Hungarian mathematician
- May 2nd : Aída Bonnelly de Díaz , Dominican musicologist, critic and pedagogue
- May 3 : Jimmy Cleveland , American jazz trombonist († 2008 )
- May 3 : Ann B. Davis , American television actress († 2014 )
- May 3 : Georgi Konstantinowitsch Mossolow , Russian pilot († 2018 )
- May 4th : Umberto Masetti , Italian motorcycle racer († 2006 )
- May 4th : Gerlind Reinshagen , German writer († 2019 )
- May 6 : Franz Mon , German poet
- May 7 : Val Bisoglio , American actor
- May 7 : Thomas Bowles , American baritone saxophone player († 2000 )
- May 7 : Curtis Hobock , American country and rockabilly musician († 1988 )
- May 7 : Herbie Steward , American jazz saxophonist († 2003 )
- May 8 : Sir David Frederick Attenborough , British documentary filmmaker and naturalist
- May 8 : Theodor Hirsch , German actor († 2019 )
- May 8 : Don Rickles , American comedian († 2017 )
- May 8 : Leopold Schädler , Liechtenstein ski racer († 1992 )
- May 8 : Morgan Sterne , American actor († 2011 )
- May 8 : Víctor Yturbe , Mexican singer († 1987 )
- May 9 : Aaron Corthen Reed , American blues saxophonist and singer († 2004 )
- May 10 : Franco Angrisano , Italian actor († 1996 )
- May 10 : Günter Spang , German writer († 2011 )
- May 10 : Hugo Banzer Suárez , Bolivian military, politician and President († 2002 )
- May 11 : Roberto Escobar-Budge , Chilean composer and philosopher († 2011 )
- May 11 : Osman Ragheb , Egyptian actor
- May 11 : Rob Schroeder , American racing car driver († 2011 )
- May 12 : Helmut Bläss , German theater director, director and actor († 2005 )
- May 12 : James Samuel Coleman , American sociologist († 1995 )
- May 12 : Marilyn Knowlden , American actress
- May 12 : Weltin Wolfinger , Liechtenstein bobsleigh driver († 2010 )
- May 14 : Eric Morecambe , English comedian († 1984 )
- May 15 : Richard Hey , German crime writer and radio play author († 2004 )
- May 15 : Inoue Mitsuharu , Japanese writer († 1992 )
- May 15 : Clermont Pépin , Canadian composer, pianist and music teacher († 2006 )
- May 15 : Anthony Shaffer , British screenwriter († 2001 )
- May 15 : Peter Shaffer , British playwright († 2016 )
- May 16 : Franz Konz , German textbook author († 2013 )
- May 16 : Robert Lifton , American psychiatrist
- May 17 : Manfred Ewald , German sports official († 2002 )
- May 17 : Karl Lieffen , German stage, film and television actor († 1999 )
- May 17 : Dietmar Schönherr , Austrian actor, presenter, speaker and writer († 2014 )
- May 17 : Franz Sondheimer , German chemist († 1981 )
- May 18 : Hortense Anda-Bührle , Swiss entrepreneur, art collector and patron († 2014 )
- May 18 : Bob Benny , Belgian singer († 2011 )
- May 19 : Mark Andrews , American politician († 2020 )
- May 19 : Peter Zadek , German director († 2009 )
- May 20 : Bob Sweikert , American racing driver († 1956 )
- May 21 : Robert Creeley , American poet, author († 2005 )
- May 22 : Egon Boldt , German trade unionist and politician († 2003 )
- May 22nd : Hans-Joachim Wiemken , German rowing helmsman
- May 23 : Horst Flick , German television director
- May 25 : Curt Engelhorn , co-partner of the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Mannheim († 2016 )
- May 25 : Max von der Grün , German writer († 2005 )
- May 25 : Peter Schulze-Rohr , German director and screenwriter († 2007 )
- May 25 : Bill Sharman , American basketball player and coach († 2013 )
- May 26 : Vahakn N. Dadrian , Armenian sociologist († 2019 )
- May 26 : Miles Davis , American jazz musician (trumpet) († 1991 )
- May 26 : Joseph Horovitz , British composer and professor
- May 26 : Otto Wüst , Bishop of Basel († 2002 )
- May 27 : Clifford "Bud" Shank , American jazz musician († 2009 )
- May 28 : Gerhard Beil , SED functionary and Minister for Foreign Trade of the GDR († 2010 )
- May 28 : Russ Freeman , American jazz pianist († 2002 )
- May 28 : Joachim Salzgeber , Swiss Benedictine and educator († 2012 )
- May 29 : Larry Burrows , British photographer and war correspondent († 1971 )
- May 29 : Abdoulaye Wade , Senegalese President
- May 30 : Chuck Arnold , American racing driver († 1997 )
- May 31 : Willi Erzgräber , German Anglicist († 2001 )
- May 31 : Helmut Jacoby , German architect and architectural draftsman († 2005 )
- May 31 : Stefan Kaminsky , German bank manager († 2002 )
- May 31 : John G. Kemeny , Hungarian mathematician († 1992 )
- May 31 : James Krüss , German writer and poet († 1997 )
June
- June 1 : Alexander Alexandrowitsch Anufrijew , Soviet athlete († 1966 )
- June 1 : Tony Camargo , Mexican singer († 2020 )
- June 1 : Andy Griffith , American actor, writer and producer († 2012 )
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- June 1 : Marilyn Monroe , American film star († 1962 )
- June 1 : Richard Schweiker , American politician († 2015 )
- June 2 : Raul Hilberg , American historian († 2007 )
- June 3 : Roscoe Bartlett , American medic and politician
- June 3 : Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar , Venezuelan composer († 2020 )
- June 3 : Allen Ginsberg , American writer († 1997 )
- June 3 : Martin Gregor-Dellin , German writer († 1988 )
- June 4th : Miguel Arteche Salinas , Chilean writer and poet († 2012 )
- June 4 : Judith Malina , American theater and film actress, author and director († 2015 )
- June 5 : Camillo Cibin , Italian papal bodyguard († 2009 )
- June 5 : Konrad Kraske , German politician († 2016 )
- June 5 : Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis , German nobleman, landowner and entrepreneur († 1990 )
- June 6th : Giotto Bizzarrini , Italian designer
- June 6 : Şara Sayın , Turkish literary scholar, Germanist and Turkologist († 2017 )
- June 6 : Klaus Tennstedt , German conductor († 1998 )
- June 8 : Margot Ebert , German actress († 2009 )
- June 9 : Jimmy Gourley , American jazz guitarist († 2008 )
- June 10 : June Haver , American actress († 2005 )
- June 10 : Georg Heinrichs , German architect and urban planner († 2020 )
- June 10 : George Hovland , American cross-country skier († 2021 )
- June 10 : Lionel Jeffries , British actor († 2010 )
- June 11 : Carlisle Floyd , American composer
- June 11 : Georg Mautner Markhof , Austrian industrialist and politician († 2008 )
- June 12 : Ibaragi Noriko , Japanese writer († 2006 )
- June 13 : Jérôme Lejeune , French medic († 1994 )
- June 14 : Hermann Kant , German writer († 2016 )
- June 14 : Don Newcombe , American baseball player († 2019 )
- June 14 : Otto Ziege , German cyclist and official († 2014 )
- June 15 : Modesta Bor , Venezuelan composer († 1998 )
- June 15 : Giancarlo Sala , Italian racing driver († 1981 )
- June 15 : Roland H. Wiegenstein , German freelance journalist and radio play director
- June 16 : Adriano Emperado , Hawaiian martial arts trainer († 2009 )
- June 16 : Efraín Ríos Montt , President of Guatemala († 2018 )
- June 18 : Aad Bak , Dutch football player († 2009 )
- June 18 : Valentino Braitenberg , Italian cyberneticist and writer († 2011 )
- June 18 : Gerhard Dallmann , German writer
- June 18 : Ingeborg Kleinert , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1989 )
- June 18 : Elisabeth Ruttkay , Austrian archaeologist († 2009 )
- June 18 : Gisela Schöbel-Graß , German swimmer
- June 19 : Elisabeth Axmann , Romanian-German writer († 2015 )
- June 19 : Arno J. Mayer , American historian
- June 19 : Josef Nesvadba , Czech writer, translator and psychiatrist († 2005 )
- June 20 : Giovanni Viola , Italian football player († 2008 )
- June 22nd : Horst Fuhrmann , German historian († 2011 )
- June 22nd : Tadeusz Konwicki , Polish writer († 2015 )
- June 22nd : Ruth Zechlin , German composer († 2007 )
- June 23 : Otto-Werner Mueller , American conductor and music teacher († 2016 )
- June 23 : Arnaldo Pomodoro , Italian sculptor
- June 24th : Aremu Arogundade , Nigerian sprinter
- June 24 : Walter Hirrlinger , German politician († 2018 )
- June 25 : Oswald Andrae , German writer († 1997 )
- June 25 : Ingeborg Bachmann , Austrian writer († 1973 )
- June 26 : Hamilton Naki , South African surgeon († 2005 )
- June 28 : Mel Brooks , American comedian and director
- June 28 : Horst Niendorf , German actor and voice actor († 1999 )
- June 29 : Jorge Enrique Adoum , Ecuadorian writer, politician, essayist and diplomat († 2009 )
- June 30 : Peter Alexander , Austrian singer and actor († 2011 )
- June 30 : Paul Berg , American biochemist and molecular biologist
July
- July 1 : Fernando José Corbató , American computer scientist († 2019 )
- July 1 : Robert Fogel , American economist and Nobel Prize winner († 2013 )
- July 1st : Carl Hahn junior , German manager
- July 1 : Hans Werner Henze , German composer († 2012 )
- July 1 : Mainhardt Graf von Nayhauß , German journalist († 2021 )
- July 1st : Atilio Stampone , Argentine tango pianist and composer
- July 2 : Lee Allen , American R&B saxophonist († 1994 )
- July 2 : Clara Walker , American swimmer († 2021 )
- July 3 : Rae Allen , American actress
- July 3 : Charles Thomas Ashcroft , English football goalkeeper († 2010 )
- July 3 : Johnny Coles , American jazz trumpeter († 1997 )
- July 4th : Alfredo Di Stéfano , Argentinian-Spanish soccer player and coach († 2014 )
- July 4th : Willoughby Goddard , British actor († 2008 )
- July 4th : Milagros Lanty , Dominican singer
- July 4th : Günter Mast , German entrepreneur and football official († 2011 )
- July 5 : Salvador Jorge Blanco , Dominican politician and President († 2010 )
- July 5 : Diana Lynn , American actress and pianist († 1971 )
- July 7 : Christopher John Audland , British diplomat († 2019 )
- July 7th : Nuon Chea , chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge († 2019 )
- July 7th : Giuseppe Pattoni , Italian motorcycle racer, mechanic and entrepreneur († 1999 )
- July 7th : Thorkild Simonsen , Danish politician
- July 8 : David Malet Armstrong , Australian philosopher († 2014 )
- July 8 : John Dingell junior , American politician († 2019 )
- July 8 : Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , Swiss-American doctor († 2004 )
- July 8 : Heinz-Jürgen Zierke , German dramaturge († 2015 )
- July 9 : Murphy Anderson , American comic artist († 2015 )
- July 9 : János Gosztonyi , Hungarian actor, director and playwright († 2014 )
- July 9 : Henri-Ferdinand Lavanchy , Swiss entrepreneur, founder of Adecco († 2012 )
- July 9 : Georg Lohmeier , Bavarian writer, screenwriter, actor and royalist († 2015 )
- July 9 : Ben R. Mottelson , American-Danish physicist
- July 10 : Carleton Carpenter , American actor
- July 10 : Fred Gwynne , American actor and author († 1993 )
- July 10 : Jaba Iosseliani , Georgian head of state and criminal († 2003 )
- July 10 : Tony Settember , American racing car driver († 2014 )
- July 11 : Rodolfo Arizaga , Argentine composer († 1985 )
- July 11 : Frederick Buechner , American writer, Reformed theologian, and Presbyterian pastor
- July 12 : Carl Adam Petri , German mathematician and computer scientist († 2010 )
- July 12 : Oswald Mathias Ungers , German postmodern architect († 2007 )
- July 14th : Edith Carstensen , German silhouette artist († 2018 )
- July 14th : Cindy Ellis , German pop singer
- July 14 : Arthur Feldmann , German-speaking writer of Austrian-Jewish origin († 2012 )
- July 14 : Harry Dean Stanton , American actor († 2017 )
- July 15 : Driss Chraïbi , Moroccan author († 2007 )
- July 15 : Leopoldo Galtieri , Argentine military († 2003 )
- July 15 : Carl Melles , Hungarian-Austrian conductor († 2004 )
- July 16 : FC Gundlach , German photographer
- July 16 : Ivica Horvat , Yugoslav football player and coach († 2012 )
- July 16 : Heinrich Kwiatkowski , German soccer player († 2008 )
- July 16 : Alfred Pfaff , German soccer player († 2008 )
- July 16 : Irwin Rose , American biochemist († 2015 )
- July 18 : Elisabeth Müller , Swiss film actress († 2006 )
- July 19 : Helen Gallagher , American actress
- July 19 : Sue Thompson , American pop and country singer
- July 20 : Walter Schumacher , German soccer player
- July 21 : Norman Birnbaum , American sociologist († 2019 )
- July 21 : Norman Jewison , Canadian film director
- July 21 : Karel Reisz , Czech-English director († 2002 )
- July 21 : Giancarlo Vitali , Italian football player and coach († 2011 )
- July 22 : Bryan Forbes , British film director, screenwriter and actor († 2013 )
- July 22nd : Wolfgang Iser , German literary scholar († 2007 )
- July 22nd : James Innell Packer , English-Canadian Anglican theologian and author († 2020 )
- July 23 : Cedella Marley Booker , Jamaican author and singer († 2008 )
- July 23 : Ludvík Vaculík , Czech writer († 2015 )
- July 24th : Hans Günter Winkler , German show jumper († 2018 )
- July 25 : Okuno Takeo , Japanese literary critic († 1997 )
- July 26 : James Best , American actor († 2015 )
- July 27 : Margret Dünser , Austrian journalist († 1980 )
- July 29 : Dominique Appia , Swiss painter († 2017 )
- July 30th : Betye Saar , American artist
- July 31 : Hilary Putnam , American philosopher († 2016 )
August
- August 1 : Theo Adam , German chamber singer and opera director († 2019 )
- August 1 : Karl Kohn , American composer, pianist and music teacher
- August 2 : Elisabeth Adler , German director of an Evangelical Academy († 1997 )
- August 3 : Rushdy Said Bughdady Abaza , Egyptian actor († 1980 )
- August 3 : Rona Anderson , British actress († 2013 )
- August 3 : Maurice Auslander , American mathematician († 1994 )
- August 3 : Tony Bennett , American jazz musician
- August 3 : Anthony Sampson , British journalist and writer († 2004 )
- August 4 : Werner Koch , German writer († 1992 )
- August 5th : Betsy Jolas , French composer
- August 5th : Per Wahlöö , Swedish crime novelist († 1975 )
- August 6 : Janet Asimov , American science fiction writer and psychoanalyst († 2019 )
- August 6 : Frank Finlay , British actor († 2016 )
- August 6 : Ernst Gehmacher , Austrian journalist and social scientist († 2021 )
- August 6 : Harald Leupold-Löwenthal , Austrian psychoanalyst († 2007 )
- August 6 : Christa Reinig , German writer († 2008 )
- August 7 : John Otho Marsh junior , American politician († 2019 )
- August 7th : Jean-Claude Touche , French organist and composer († 1944 )
- August 8 : Herbert H. Ágústsson , Icelandic composer and horn player († 2017 )
- August 8 : Silvio Amadio , Italian film director and screenwriter († 1995 )
- August 8 : Richard Norman Anderson , American actor († 2017 )
- August 8 : Piero Drogo , Italian racing car driver and designer († 1973 )
- August 8 : Stjepan Đureković , Yugoslav industrial manager and dissident († 1983 )
- August 8 : Urbie Green , American jazz trombonist († 2018 )
- August 9 : Aglaja Schmid , Austrian actress († 2003 )
- August 10 : Marie-Claire Alain , French organist and music teacher († 2013 )
- August 11 : Aaron Klug , British biochemist, molecular biologist and Nobel Prize winner († 2018 )
- August 12 : Paul Suter , Swiss sculptor († 2009 )
- August 13 : Chanoch Bartow , Israeli writer and journalist († 2016 )
- August 13 : Fidel Castro , President of Cuba († 2016 )
- August 14 : Alice Adams , American author and university professor († 1999 )
- August 14 : Agostino Cacciavillan , Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- August 14 : René Goscinny , French comic book writer († 1977 )
- August 15 : Armin Andrä , German oral surgeon and dentist († 2018 )
- August 15 : Georgann Johnson , American actress († 2018 )
- August 15 : Julius Katchen , American pianist († 1969 )
- August 15 : Sami Michael , Israeli author
- August 15 : Konstantinos Stefanopoulos , Greek politician († 2016 )
- August 15 : Karl Heinz Türk , German homeland researcher († 2019 )
- August 17th : Duilio Brignetti , Italian modern pentathlon († 1993 )
- August 17 : Jiang Zemin , Chinese statesman and politician
- August 18 : Johnny Boyd , American racing driver († 2003 )
- August 19 : Arthur Rock , American businessman
- August 20 : Hocine Aït Ahmed , Algerian politician († 2015 )
- August 21 : Achim Brankačk , Sorbian choir director and author († 2013 )
- August 21 : Felix Czeike , Austrian historian and popular educator († 2006 )
- August 21 : Cardinal Marian Jaworski , Archbishop of Lviv († 2020 )
- August 23 : Clifford Geertz , American anthropologist († 2006 )
- August 23 : Leo Leandros , Greek composer, singer, lyricist and producer
- August 22 : Max Georg Freiherr von Twickel , German auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Münster († 2013 )
- August 23 : Herbert Beattie , American opera singer († 2019 )
- August 26 : Stefano Angeleri , Italian football player and coach († 2012 )
- August 27 : Karl-Heinz Heddergott , German soccer coach and specialist author
- August 27 : Werner Ludwig , German politician († 2020 )
- August 27 : Kristen Nygaard , Norwegian computer scientist († 2002 )
- August 28 : Luis Amplatz , Italian separatist († 1964 )
- August 28 : Hal Russell , American jazz musician († 1992 )
- August 29 : Hélène Ahrweiler , Greek Byzantinist and UNICEF ambassador
- August 29 : Betty Lynn , American actress
- August 30 : Rudi Gutendorf , German soccer coach († 2019 )
September
- September 1 : Antonio Abenoza , Spanish football player († 1953 )
- September 1 : Abdur Rahman Biswas , Bangladeshi politician († 2017 )
- September 2 : Ibrahim Nasir , Maldivian politician, first President of the Second Republic of the Maldives 1968–1978 († 2008 )
- September 2 : Erich Selbmann , German journalist († 2006 )
- September 3 : Ilídio do Amaral , Portuguese geographer († 2017 )
- September 3 : Rudi Arnstadt , captain of the border troops of the GDR († 1962 )
- September 3 : Jochen Bleicken , German historian († 2005 )
- September 3 : Alison Lurie , American writer and literary scholar († 2020 )
- September 3rd : Irene Papas , Greek actress
- September 4 : Yevgeny Nikolajewitsch Andrejew , Russian test pilot and parachutist († 2000 )
- September 4 : Ivan Illich , Austrian educator, philosopher, theologian († 2002 )
- September 4 : Robert J. Lagomarsino , American politician († 2021 )
- September 4 : Helmut Ringelmann , German film producer († 2011 )
- September 5 : Joki Freund , German jazz musician († 2012 )
- September 6th : Claus von Amsberg , husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands († 2002 )
- September 7 : Juan Ángel Belda Dardiñá , Spanish bishop († 2010 )
- September 7th : Erich Juskowiak , German soccer player († 1983 )
- September 9 : Charles W. Duncan , American politician
- September 9 : Michael Lentz , German screenwriter, actor and director († 2001 )
- September 9 : Hannes Schmidhauser , Swiss film actor, screenwriter and director († 2000 )
- September 10 : Ladislav Adamec , Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1988 to 1989 († 2007 )
- September 10 : Hans Oesch , Swiss musicologist († 1992 )
- September 10 : Alexander Wargon , Australian engineer († 2010 )
- September 12 : Ellen Callmann , American art historian († 2002 )
- September 12 : Gaby Schönthan (born Gabriele Philipp, married. Gabriele Frischauer ), Austrian actress and writer († 2002 )
- September 12 : Frans Ludo Verbeeck , Belgian composer and conductor († 2000 )
- September 13 : Sidney Drell , American physicist († 2016 )
- September 13 : Peter Schütt , German forest scientist († 2010 )
- September 14 : Vincenzo Agnetti , Italian conceptual artist, photographer, art theorist and writer († 1981 )
- September 14 : Michel Butor , French writer († 2016 )
- September 14th : Georg May , German theologian and canon lawyer
- September 15 : Klaus Dehler , doctor and Bavarian politician († 2005 )
- September 15 : Ed Derwinski , American politician († 2012 )
- September 15 : Yevgeny Samsonov , Soviet rower, Olympic runner-up and Russian rowing coach († 2014 )
- September 15 : Jean-Pierre Serre , French mathematician
- September 16 : Tommy Bond , American actor († 2005 )
- September 16 : Robert Schuller , American pastor († 2015 )
- September 16 : Rudolf Zehetgruber , Austrian actor, director, screenwriter and film producer
- September 17 : Kurt Anliker , Swiss classical philologist († 2006 )
- September 17th : Hermann Bausinger , German folklorist
- September 17 : Bill Black , American musician († 1965 )
- September 17th : Jean-Marie Lustiger , Archbishop of Paris († 2007 )
- September 17th : Jack McDuff , American jazz organist († 2001 )
- September 17 : Klaus Schütz , German politician († 2012 )
- September 18 : Dionis Bubani , Albanian writer († 2006 )
- September 18 : Abel Goumba , politician of the Central African Republic († 2009 )
- September 19 : Carlo Fruttero , Italian writer († 2012 )
- September 19 : Masatoshi Koshiba , Japanese physicist († 2020 )
- September 19 : James Lipton , American filmmaker († 2020 )
- September 19 : Nini Rosso , Italian jazz trumpeter and composer († 1994 )
- September 19 : Duke Snider , American baseball player († 2011 )
- September 20 : Wolfgang Gruner , German cabaret artist, actor and director († 2002 )
- September 20 : Harald Hakenbeck , German painter and graphic artist
- September 20 : Libero Liberati , Italian motorcycle racer († 1962 )
- September 21 : Donald Arthur Glaser , American physicist and neurobiologist († 2013 )
- September 22nd : Hans von der Goltz , German manager († 2018 )
- September 23 : John Coltrane , American jazz musician (saxophone) († 1967 )
- September 23 : Henri Freylinger , Luxembourg wrestler († 2017 )
- September 24th : Ricardo María Carles Gordó , Archbishop of Barcelona († 2013 )
- September 24th : Veit Relin , Austrian actor, screenwriter and director († 2013 )
- September 25 : Otfried Steger , Minister for Electrical Engineering and Electronics of the GDR († 2002 )
- September 26 : Tulsi Giri , Nepalese non-party politician († 2018 )
- September 26 : Sydney Humphreys , Canadian violinist and music teacher († 2015 )
- September 26 : Chucho Sanoja , Venezuelan composer, arranger, orchestra leader and pianist († 1998 )
- September 29th : Tony Echavarría , Dominican singer and cabaret artist († 1993 )
- September 29 : Egon Höhmann , German politician († 1979 )
- September 29 : Alfred Nann , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 2018 )
- September 29 : Philip Ruppe , American politician
- September 30th : Heinz-Horst Deichmann , German entrepreneur († 2014 )
- September 30th : Hans-Günter Schodruch , German politician and MEP († 1999 )
- September 30 : Eric Stanton , American comic book artist and illustrator († 1999 )
October
- October 1 : Manfred Messerschmidt , German military historian
- October 1 : Els Oksaar , Estonian-Swedish linguist († 2015 )
- October 3 : Marques Haynes , American basketball player († 2015 )
- October 7 : Marcello Abbado , Italian composer and pianist († 2020 )
- October 7 : Paul Gerhard Aring , German theologian († 2003 )
- October 7 : Rolf Reuter , German conductor and university lecturer († 2007 )
- October 8 : Günter Mittag , member of the Central Committee of the SED († 1994 )
- October 8 : Ruth Mönch , German actress, singer and presenter († 2000 )
- October 8 : Krzysztof Skubiszewski , Polish politician († 2010 )
- October 9 : Ruth Ellis , British murderer († 1955 )
- October 9 : Walter Neuhäusser , German architect († 2021 )
- October 9 : Shi Jiuyong , Chinese lawyer
- October 10 : Oscar Brown Jr. , American jazz singer and lyricist († 2005 )
- October 11 : Rudolf Arens , German grassland scientist († 1991 )
- October 11 : Earle Hyman , American actor († 2017 )
- October 11th : Thích Nhất Hạnh , Vietnamese monk
- October 12 : Fabio De Agostini , Italian screenwriter and film director
- October 12 : Hidehiko Matsumoto , Japanese jazz musician and actor († 2000 )
- October 12 : César Pelli , Argentine architect († 2019 )
- October 13 : Ray Brown , American jazz bassist († 2002 )
- October 13 : Martin Ťapák , Czech actor, director, screenwriter and choreographer († 2015 )
- October 14 : Conrad Drzewiecki , Polish ballet dancer and choreographer († 2007 )
- October 14 : Theo Fischer , German composer
- October 14 : Gérald Gagnier , Canadian composer, trumpeter and conductor († 1961 )
- October 14 : Günther Schwarberg , German author († 2008 )
- October 15 : Genrich Saulowitsch Altschuller , Russian engineer and scientist († 1998 )
- October 15 : Michel Foucault , French philosopher († 1984 )
- October 15 : Karl Richter , German choir director, conductor, organist and harpsichordist († 1981 )
- October 17 : Julie Adams , American actress († 2019 )
- October 17th : Beverly Garland , American actress († 2008 )
- October 17 : Roberto Lippi , Italian racing car driver († 2011 )
- October 18 : Walter Asam , German lawyer and politician († 2002 )
- October 18 : Chuck Berry , American rock 'n' roll pioneer († 2017 )
- October 18 : Klaus Kinski , German actor († 1991 )
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- October 19 : Udo Schaefer , German Baha'i theologian († 2019 )
- October 19 : Edward Lewis Wallant , American writer († 1962 )
- October 20 : Luigi Di Gianni , Italian documentary filmmaker († 2019 )
- October 21 : Don Elliott , American jazz musician and producer († 1984 )
- October 21 : Werner Holzer , German journalist and publicist († 2016 )
- October 21 : Leo Kirch , German media entrepreneur († 2011 )
- October 21 : Josef Krings , German politician and Lord Mayor of Duisburg from 1975 to 1997 († 2019 )
- October 21 : Hubert Luttenberger , German motorcycle racer
- October 21 : Bill Waller , American politician († 2011 )
- October 22 : Nikolaus Senn , Swiss bank manager († 2014 )
- October 23 : Larry Crockett , American racing car driver († 1955 )
- October 24 : Corrado Olmi , Italian actor († 2020 )
- October 24 : Yelberton Abraham Tittle , American football player († 2017 )
- October 25 : Jimmy Heath , American composer († 2020 )
- October 25 : Galina Vishnevskaya , Russian soprano († 2012 )
- October 26 : George Crum , Canadian conductor and pianist († 2007 )
- October 26 : Bernhard Klodt , German soccer player († 1996 )
- October 27 : Otto Baitinger , German soccer player
- October 27 : Harry Robbins Haldeman , White House Chief of Staff under President Nixon († 1993 )
- October 27 : Tewfik Saleh , Egyptian film director and screenwriter († 2013 )
- October 27 : Kai Warner , German musician († 1982 )
- October 29 : Necmettin Erbakan , Turkish Islamist politician († 2011 )
- October 29th : Thomas Reiner , German actor and voice actor
- October 29 : Jon Vickers , Canadian hero tenor († 2015 )
- October 30 : Georg Ewald , Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food Management of the GDR († 1973 )
- October 30 : Jacques Swaters , Belgian racing car driver and racing team owner († 2010 )
- October 30 : Dieter Zechlin , German pianist († 2012 )
- October 31 : Rudolf Agsten , German politician († 2008 )
- October 31 : Hans Auenmüller , German conductor and composer († 1991 )
November
- November 1 : Lars Ardelius , Swedish writer († 2012 )
- November 1 : Günter de Bruyn , German writer († 2020 )
- November 1 : Lou Donaldson , American jazz saxophonist
- November 1 : Betsy Palmer , American actress († 2015 )
- November 1 : Bob Veith , American racing driver († 2006 )
- November 2nd : Antonio Cantisani , Italian Archbishop
- November 2 : Peter Robert Franke , German ancient historian and numismatist († 2018 )
- November 3 : Valdas Adamkus , President of Lithuania
- November 3 : Billy Mitchell , American jazz saxophonist († 2001 )
- November 3 : Alois Schardt , German journalist, program director of ZDF († 1998 )
- November 5 : John Berger , British painter, writer and art critic († 2017 )
- November 5 : Andrónico Luksic Abaroa , Chilean billionaire († 2005 )
- November 7th : Alfred Dallinger , Austrian politician († 1989 )
- November 7th : Joan Sutherland , Australian soprano († 2010 )
- November 8 : Eberhard Itzenplitz , German director († 2012 )
- November 8 : Peter van Pels , victim of the Holocaust († 1945 )
- November 9 : Maria Anders , German historian († 1997 )
- November 9th : Idrissa Arouna , Nigerien officer, politician and diplomat
- November 9 : Martin Benrath , German actor († 2000 )
- November 9 : Hugh Leonard , Irish playwright and journalist († 2009 )
- November 9 : Mary Morrison , Canadian singer and vocal teacher
- November 10 : Art Bisch , American racing driver († 1958 )
- November 10 : Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo , Archbishop of Guadalajara and Cardinal († 1993 )
- November 10 : Jacques Rozier , French film director
- November 10 : Jeroným Zajíček , American composer and music teacher of Czech origin († 2007 )
- November 11th : Harry Arlt , German soccer player († 2014 )
- November 11 : José Manuel Caballero Bonald , Spanish writer († 2021 )
- November 11th : Maria Teresa de Filippis , Italian racing car driver († 2016 )
- November 11 : Noah Gordon , American writer
- November 13 : Harry Hughes , American politician († 2019 )
- November 14 : Günter Fromm , author on Thuringian railway history († 1994 )
- November 14 : Leonie Rysanek , Austrian chamber singer († 1998 )
- November 15 : Alfred Biehle , German politician († 2014 )
- November 15 : Helmut Fischer , German actor († 1997 )
- November 15 : Raúl Marrero , Puerto Rican Canto writer († 2018 )
- November 15 : Manfred Müller , German bishop († 2015 )
- November 16 : Ton de Leeuw , Dutch composer and music teacher († 1996 )
- November 16 : Alexei Suetin , Russian chess player († 2001 )
- November 17 : Mohamed Diab al-Attar , Egyptian football player and referee († 2016 )
- November 17 : Robert Brown , American actor
- November 17 : Mirko Tremaglia , Italian politician († 2011 )
- November 19 : Thomas John Ashton , British banker and peer († 2008 )
- November 19 : Jeane Kirkpatrick , American political scientist and ex-ambassador to the UN († 2006 )
- November 19 : Pino Rauti , Italian politician († 2012 )
- November 20 : Peter Kingsley Archer , British politician († 2012 )
- November 20 : Judith Magre , French actress
- November 20 : Miroslav Tichý , Czech photographer and painter († 2011 )
- November 21 : Anna Anni , Italian costume designer († 2011 )
- November 21 : Cardinal William Wakefield Baum , Archbishop of Washington († 2015 )
- November 21 : Josef Rut , Czech composer, violinist and musicologist († 2007 )
- November 22 : Gerhard Altenbourg , German painter and graphic artist († 1989 )
- November 23 : RL Burnside , American blues singer († 2005 )
- November 23 : Ivano Fontana , Italian boxer († 1993 )
- November 23 : Sathya Sai Baba , Indian guru († 2011 )
- November 24th : Reinhold Amonat , German politician († 2010 )
- November 24 : Werner Heiduczek , German writer († 2019 )
- November 24 : Tsung-Dao Lee , US-Chinese physicist
- November 25 : Poul Anderson , American science fiction writer († 2001 )
- November 25 : Terry Kilburn , British actor
- November 26th : Herbert Freudenberger , German psychoanalyst († 1999 )
- November 26th : Ralf Wolter , German actor
- November 27 : Franz Baum , German archer and national coach († 2010 )
- November 28 : Eberhard von Brauchitsch , German manager († 2010 )
- November 28 : Max Gassner , Liechtenstein ski racer († 1994 )
- November 29 : Beji Caid Essebsi , President of Tunisia (2014-2019) († 2019 )
- November 30th : Rafael Avalos , Mexican soccer player († 1993 )
- November 30 : Andrew Victor Schally , Lithuanian-American physiologist
December
- December 1 : Mieczysław Rakowski , Polish politician and journalist († 2008 )
- December 3 : Joachim Dalsass , South Tyrolean politician († 2005 )
- December 4 : Fernando Valenti , American harpsichordist († 1990 )
- December 4 : Carl Zimmerer , German economist († 2001 )
- December 6 : Jim Jeffords , American racing driver († 2014 )
- December 8 : Günter Abramzik , German theologian († 1992 )
- December 8 : Joachim Fest , German historian, journalist and author († 2006 )
- December 9 : Yusuf al-Qaradawi , Islamic legal scholar
- December 9 : Ed Elisian , American racing car driver († 1959 )
- December 9 : Erhard Eppler , German politician († 2019 )
- December 9 : Henry Way Kendall , American physicist, Nobel Laureate († 1999 )
- December 10 : Noël Goemanne , Belgian-American composer, church musician, organist and choir director († 2010 )
- December 10th : Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones , American blues guitarist († 1959 )
- December 11th : Jules Angst , Swiss professor of psychiatry
- December 11th : Big Mama Thornton , American blues singer († 1984 )
- December 12 : Elvio Romero , Paraguayan poet († 2004 )
- December 13 : George Rhoden , Jamaican athlete and Olympic champion
- December 14 : Martin Hengel , German Protestant theologian († 2009 )
- December 14 : Herbert Roth , German composer and interpreter of folk music († 1983 )
- December 15 : Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala , Archbishop of Kampala
- December 15 : Karl Wienand , German politician († 2011 )
- December 16 : Claude Brinegar , American politician († 2009 )
- December 17 : Kurt Goth , German football goalkeeper († 1990 )
- December 17 : Jean Assaad Haddad , Lebanese Archbishop († 2021 )
- December 17th : Patrice Wymore , American actress († 2014 )
- December 19 : Gustavo Arcos , Cuban dissident († 2006 )
- December 19 : Abdulwahab Al-Bayyati , Iraqi poet († 1999 )
- December 19 : Eckart Dux , German actor and voice actor
- December 19 : Bobby Layne , American football player († 1986 )
- December 20 : Geoffrey Howe , British Conservative politician († 2015 )
- December 20 : Otto Graf Lambsdorff , German politician († 2009 )
- December 20 : Piero Operto , Italian football player († 1949 )
- December 20 : Kurt Rommel , German pastor and hymn composer († 2011 )
- December 21 : James B. Adams , US government official († 2020 )
- December 21 : Herbert Ehrenberg , German politician († 2018 )
- December 21 : Joe Paterno , US college football coach († 2012 )
- December 22nd : Demetrio Ignacio Aquino Aquino , Paraguayan bishop († 2003 )
- December 22nd : James D. Ployhar , American composer and conductor († 2007 )
- December 23 : Helmut Baierl , Vice President of the Academy of Arts of the GDR († 2005 )
- December 23 : Robert Bly , American writer
- December 23 : Raymond Daveluy , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher († 2016 )
- December 23 : Allen Forte , American musicologist and theorist († 2014 )
- December 23 : Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez , Cardinal of the Chilean Curia
- December 25 : Réjane Cardinal , Canadian singer († 2000 )
- December 26th : Marija Georgiewa Atanasowa , Bulgarian politician and pilot († 2000 )
- December 26 : Hans Otto Bäumer , German politician († 1998 )
- December 26th : Gina Pellón , Cuban artist († 2014 )
- December 27 : Jerome Courtland , American film director, film producer and actor († 2012 )
- December 29 : Dagobert Krause , FDGB trade unionist in the GDR († 2009 )
- December 30th : Stan Tracey , British jazz pianist, arranger and composer († 2013 )
- December 31 : Hermann Lübbe , German philosopher
Exact date of birth unknown
- Tadashi Abe , Japanese Aikido teacher († 1984 )
- Louai al-Atassi , Syrian general and politician († 2003 )
- Ralph Anspach , American economist and inventor of Anti-Monopoly
- Haschim Hakim Hasan Taha 'Aqrawi , Kurdish politician
- Gisela Kleinschmidt , German watercolor painter († 1997 )
- Earl Bernard Murray , American trumpeter and conductor († 2002 )
- Simon Spierer , Swiss art collector and art patron († 2005 )
- Dagmar White , Czech singer and music teacher
Died
January
- January 4th : Margaret of Italy , Queen of Italy (* 1851 )
- January 5 : Edward Granville Browne , British orientalist (* 1862 )
- January 6 : Émile Paladilhe , French composer and pianist (* 1844 )
- January 7th : Paul Cassirer , publisher and gallery owner in Berlin (* 1871 )
- January 10 : Eino Leino , Finnish writer (* 1878 )
- January 11 : Ernst Assmann , German physician and scientist (* 1849 )
- January 19 : Stephan Ehses , German church historian (* 1855 )
- January 21 : Camillo Golgi , Italian doctor and physiologist (* 1843 )
- January 25 : Wilhelm Autenrieth , German pharmacist (* 1863 )
- January 26 : Joseph Beattie Armstrong , New Zealand botanist (* 1850 )
February
- February 1 : Ishibashi Ningetsu , Japanese literary critic and writer (* 1865 )
- February 2 : Karl von Weizsäcker , President of the Württemberg State Ministry (* 1853 )
- February 5 : André Gedalge , French composer (* 1856 )
- February 6 : Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich Graf von Baudissin , German theologian (* 1847 )
- February 9 : Larissa Reissner , Soviet writer (* 1895 )
- February 13 : Friedrich Krafft von Crailsheim , Bavarian politician (* 1841 )
- February 14 : Juan Bautista Cardinal Benlloch y Vivó , Archbishop of Burgos (* 1864 )
- February 15 : Giuseppe Allamano , Seliger, Italian priest and founder of the order (* 1851 )
- February 17 : Louisa Thiers , American age record holder (* 1814 )
- February 21 : Heike Kamerlingh Onnes , Dutch physicist (* 1853 )
- February 26 : Fredrik Pijper , Dutch Reformed theologian and church historian (* 1859 )
- February 28 : Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly , French astronomer (* 1842 )
- February 28 : Rienzi Melville Johnston , American journalist and politician (* 1849 )
March
- March 5 : Otto Ernst , German writer (* 1862 )
- March 16 : Maggie Moore , American-Australian actress (* 1851 )
- March 26 : Constantin Fehrenbach , German politician and Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (* 1852 )
- March 26 : Franz Kneisel , American violist and music teacher of Romanian origin (* 1865 )
- March 27 : Karl Bernhard Bamler , German meteorologist, teacher and pioneer of free ballooning (* 1865 )
April
- April 1 : Charles Théophile Angrand , French painter (* 1854 )
- April 4 : August Thyssen , German industrialist (* 1842 )
- April 4 : Adolf Wach , German legal scholar (* 1843 )
- April 5 : Washington Ellsworth Lindsey , American politician (* 1862 )
- April 7 : Giovanni Amendola , Italian journalist and politician (* 1882 )
- April 8 : John Ferguson Weir , American painter, sculptor and author (* 1841 )
- April 11th : Olindo Raggi , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1896 )
- April 14 : Gottfried Merzbacher , German geographer, mountaineer and explorer (* 1843 )
- April 17th : Anton Foerster , Slovenian composer (* 1837 )
- April 18 : Jan Szczepanik , Polish chemist and inventor (* 1872 )
- April 22nd : Gustav Adolf Arndt , German lawyer and university professor (* 1849 )
- April 25 : Ellen Key , Swedish women's rights activist, reform pedagogue and writer (* 1849 )
- April 25 : Giulio Masetti , Italian nobleman and racing car driver (* 1894 )
- April 25 : Sunjong , last monarch of the Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire (* 1874 )
- April 28 : Adolf Ott , German priest and official (* 1869 )
- April 30 : Bessie Coleman , American pilot (* 1892 )
May
- May 5 : Franz von Soxhlet , German agricultural chemist (* 1848 )
- May 10 : Alton B. Parker , lawyer and US presidential candidate (* 1852 )
- May 13 : August Bender , German chemist and entrepreneur (* 1847 )
- May 21 : Georgi Catoire , Russian composer (* 1861 )
- May 21 : Friedrich Kluge , German linguist (* 1856 )
- May 23 : Hans Koessler , German composer (* 1853 )
- May 24 : Joseph Lafayette Rawlins , American politician (* 1850 )
- May 25 : Symon Petljura , Ukrainian publicist, politician and President of the Ukrainian People's Republic (* 1879 )
June
- June 1 : William Wright Heard , American politician (* 1853 )
- June 2 : Stephen R. Fitzgarrald , American politician (* 1854 )
- June 2 : William Boog Leishman , British medic (* 1865 )
- June 2 : Marie Roze , French opera singer (* 1846 )
- June 7 : Nikolos Tschcheidze , President of the Georgian National Assembly (* 1864 )
- June 8th : Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan , Blessed Indian nun and founder of the order (* 1876 )
- June 10 : Antoni Gaudí , Spanish architect (* 1852 )
- June 11th : Hans Thaler , Austrian gynecologist and obstetrician (* 1878 )
- June 13 : Gottfried Lindauer , Czech painter (* 1839 )
- June 14 : Mary Cassatt , American painter (* 1844 )
- June 18 : Louis Svećenski , Croatian-American violist, violinist and music teacher (* 1862 )
- June 23 : Jón Magnússon , Icelandic Prime Minister (* 1859 )
July
- July 1 : Carlos Luis Spegazzini , Italian-Argentine botanist and mycologist (* 1858 )
- July 2 : Eduard Beyer , German lawyer and politician (* 1854 )
- July 2 : Émile Coué , founder of modern conscious autosuggestion (* 1857 )
- July 2 : Kristján Jónsson , Icelandic Prime Minister (* 1852 )
- July 12 : Gertrude Bell , British travel writer and historian (* 1868 )
- July 12 : Charles Wood , Irish composer (* 1866 )
- July 19 : Ernst Lecher , Austrian physicist (* 1856 )
- July 20 : Felix Dzerzhinsky , Russian professional revolutionary (* 1877 )
- July 21 : Washington Augustus Roebling , American engineer (* 1837 )
- July 22nd : Friedrich von Wieser , Austrian economist (* 1851 )
- July 25 : Henry Dickerson McDaniel , American politician (* 1836 )
- July 26 : Ella Adaïewsky , Russian pianist and composer (* 1846 )
- July 26 : Robert Todd Lincoln , American politician (* 1843 )
- July 27 : Otto Gussmann , German painter, professor of ornamentation and architecture-related painting and designer (* 1869 )
- July 28 : Jenő Károly , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1886 )
- July 30 : Albert B. Cummins , American politician (* 1850 )
August
- August 17th : Oskar Arke , German pioneer in the electrotechnical porcelain industry (* 1854 )
- August 21 : Ugyen Wangchuck , first king of Bhutan (* 1861 )
- August 22 : Charles William Eliot , American chemist (* 1834 )
- August 23 : Rudolph Valentino , Italian actor (* 1895 )
- August 27 : John Philo Hoyt , American politician (* 1841 )
- August 29 : Alfred Amschl , Austrian lawyer and writer (* 1852 )
- August 29 : John George Adami , British-Canadian pathologist (* 1862 )
September
- September 1 : John Hunn , American politician (* 1849 )
- September 3 : Maurice Hennequin , French writer and librettist (* 1863 )
- September 5 : Karl Harrer , journalist and founding member of the German Workers' Party (DAP), from which the NSDAP emerged (* 1890 )
- September 6 : Harriet Williams Russell Strong , American inventor, conservationist and suffragette (* 1844 )
- September 7th : Franz Muncker , German literary historian (* 1855 )
- September 9 : Anton Jörgen Andersen , Swedish composer (* 1845 )
- September 10 : Jérôme Marcadanti , French racing car driver (* 1893 )
- September 15 : Rudolf Eucken , German philosopher and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (* 1846 )
- September 17 : Gustav Roethe , German old Germanist (* 1859 )
- September 17th : August Sauer , Austrian literary scholar (* 1855 )
- September 17 : Augustus Stephen Vogt , Canadian music teacher, choir director, organist and composer (* 1861 )
- September 23 : Paul Kammerer , Austrian biologist (* 1880 )
- September 29th : Hans Wessely , Austrian violinist and music teacher (* 1862 )
October
- October 5 : Carl Rehfus , German hunting writer and cynologist (* 1857 )
- October 7th : Emil Kraepelin , German psychiatrist (* 1856 )
- October 9 : Waso Abashidze , Georgian actor (* 1854 )
- October 10 : Pierre Decourcelle , French writer (* 1856 )
- October 11 : Hymie Weiss , US gangster during Prohibition (* 1898 )
- October 11 : Albert Robida , French writer and caricaturist (* 1848 )
- October 11 : Henry L. Fuqua , American politician (* 1865 )
- October 13 : Hans E. Kinck , Norwegian writer (* 1865 )
- October 19 : Victor Babeș , Romanian pathologist and bacteriologist (* 1854 )
- October 19 : Martti Rautanen , Finnish Protestant missionary (* 1845 )
- October 20 : Eugene V. Debs , American socialist politician (* 1855 )
- October 23 : Satyro Bilhar , Brazilian singer, guitarist and composer (* 1860 )
- October 25 : Charles M. Russell , American painter, sculptor, illustrator and writer (* 1864 )
- October 31 : Harry Houdini , Hungarian escapologist and magician (* 1874 )
- October 31 : Charles Vance Millar , Canadian lawyer and entrepreneur (* 1853 )
November
- November 1 : Robert Sieger , Austrian geographer and university lecturer (* 1864 )
- November 3 : Annie Oakley , American art shooter (* 1860 )
- November 4 : William Wallace Gilchrist , American painter (* 1879 )
- November 9 : Karl Ernst Ranke , German internist (* 1870 )
- November 10 : Ernst Julius Arnold , German politician (* 1847 )
- November 10 : Wilhelm Braune , German Germanist (* 1850 )
- November 12th : Leopold Freiherr von Aichelburg-Labia , Austrian politician (* 1853 )
- November 15 : Hiram Abrams , American entrepreneur and first president of the film distributor United Artists (* 1878 )
- November 15 : Lafayette Young , American politician (* 1848 )
- November 18 : Konrad Agahd , German writer, educator and journalist (* 1867 )
- November 18 : Carl Ethan Akeley , American hunter, taxidermist, naturalist, professor, artist and inventor (* 1864 )
- November 23 : Heinrich Josef Maria Abel , Catholic priest and Jesuit (* 1843 )
- November 25th : Georg Arnhold , German banker and pacifist (* 1859 )
- November 25th : Ludwig Aub , German bookseller, writer, graphologist and clairvoyant (* 1862 )
- November 26th : John Moses Browning , American inventor (* 1855 )
- November 26 : Eliška Krásnohorská , Czech writer (* 1847 )
December
- December 3 : Siegfried Jacobsohn , German journalist (* 1881 )
- December 4 : Carl Markees , Swiss violinist, music teacher and composer (* 1865 )
- December 5 : Claude Monet , French painter (* 1840 )
- December 6 : George Alfred Carlson , American politician (* 1875 )
- December 7th : William B. McKinley , American politician (* 1856 )
- December 10 : Nikola Pašić , Serbian politician and Prime Minister (* 1845 )
- December 17th : Klemens Brosch , Austrian graphic artist (* 1894 )
- December 19 : Paul Preuss , German botanist and explorer (* 1861 )
- December 19 : William R. Webb , American educator and politician (* 1842 )
- December 20 : Giuseppe Magrini , Italian cellist, music teacher and composer (* 1857 )
- December 20 : Ettore Ximenes , Italian sculptor (* 1855 )
- December 23 : Heinrich Moritz Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz , Austrian cavalry general and Austro-Hungarian Privy Councilor (* 1852 )
- December 25th : Yoshihito , 123rd Tennō (Emperor) of Japan (* 1879 )
- December 26 : Alexander Monroe Dockery , American politician (* 1845 )
- December 26 : Howard MacNutt , American Bahai and disciple of Abdu'l Bahas (* 1859 )
- December 29th : Rainer Maria Rilke , German poet (* 1875 )
Exact date of death unknown
- David Kerin , Russian violinist (* 1869 )
- Sepahsalar Tonekaboni , Commander in Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces supporting the Constitutional Revolution and Prime Minister of Iran (* 1847 )
literature
- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht : 1926. A year on the edge of time . Frankfurt / M .: Suhrkamp 2003. ISBN 3-518-29255-2 .
Web links
Commons : 1926 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
- Chronicle 1926 on Living Virtual Museum Online
- Digital copies of newspapers from 1926 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library