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1927
Mississippi River flood disaster .
Charles Lindbergh is the first person to cross the Atlantic solo from New York to Paris without a stopover.	The Hindenburgdamm to Sylt is opened. Celebration of the 80th birthday of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg .

1927 in other calendars
Ab urbe condita	2680
Armenian calendar	1375-1376
Ethiopian calendar	1919-1920
Badi calendar	83-84
Bengali calendar	1333-1334
Berber calendar	2877
Buddhist calendar	2471
Burmese calendar	1289
Byzantine calendar	7435-7436
Chinese calendar
- era	4623-4624 or 4563-4564
– 60-year cycle	Fire Tiger (丙寅, 3) - Fire Rabbit (丁卯, 4)
French Revolutionary Calendar	CXXXV - CXXXVI 135-136
Hindu calendar
– Vikram Sambat	1983-1984
– Shaka Samvat	1849-1850
Iranian calendar	1305-1306
Islamic calendar	1345-1346
Japanese calendar
– Nengō (era):	showa 2
- Koki	2587
Jewish calendar	5687-5688
Coptic calendar	1643-1644
Korean calendar
– Dangun era	4260
– Juche era	16
Minguo calendar	16
Modern Olympics	viii
Seleucid calendar	2238-2239
Thai solar calendar	2470

events

politics and world affairs

• 1 January: Giuseppe Motta becomes President of Switzerland for the third time .
• January 31: The Allied Military Commission ceases operations and leaves Germany.
• February : In Paris , seven Siamese students found the Khana Ratsadon , the Siamese People's Party.
• March 19: Heavy street battles break out in Berlin between armed groups of National Socialists and Communists.
• April 18: The formation of a national government is proclaimed in Nanjing in preparation for Chinese reunification .
• April 24: National Council elections in Austria
• May 4th: The Treaty of Espino Negro (also Treaty of Tipitapa ) is concluded between the USA and Nicaragua , which allows the USA military interventions in Nicaragua at any time and places the local police under US command.
• May 9: Canberra , founded 14 years previously, becomes the new capital of Australia , replacing Melbourne .
• May 27 Britain severes diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union and terminates a mutual trade deal over Russia's support of British miners' strike.
• 1 June: The Hindenburgdamm , connecting the island of Sylt to the mainland, opens.
• July 15: In Vienna , in the course of the so-called July revolt, the Palace of Justice is stormed and set on fire after a scandalous verdict .
• August 7: During the Northern Campaign , the Chinese Communist Party renounces the existing alliance with the Kuomintang .
• August 12: In Portugal, the Revolta dos Fifis fails with an attempt at a fascist coup.
• August 23: Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in the electric chair.
• September 11: During the Autumn Harvest Uprising initiated by the Comintern , communist troops led by Mao Zedong carry out targeted combat operations for the first time against the Kuomintang National Revolutionary Army , beginning the Chinese Civil War .
• September 18: Inauguration of the Tannenberg memorial in East Prussia
• November 11: Treaty of Alliance between France and Yugoslavia
• November 22: With the conclusion of the second Tirana Pact between Italy and Albania due to Albanian tensions with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , the Balkan state accepts the situation of being an Italian protectorate .
• November 25: Over 70 governments sign International Radiotelegraphic Convention in Washington .
• December 9: Tsardom Bulgaria and Greece conclude the Mollow-Kaphantaris Agreement , which regulates the exchange of populations and the compensation of the refugees and displaced persons, including the Thracian Bulgarians , between the two countries. The agreement bears the names of two finance ministers, Vladimir Mollow and Georgios Kaphantaris .
• Abolition of the lance as the official combat weapon in the British Army and the Reichswehr

business

• January 1: Founding of Rewe as a cooperative in Cologne
• January 21: Hungary introduces the pengő as its new currency .
• March 26: Alfred Hugenberg acquires the majority in the nearly bankrupt film company Ufa .
• April 1: In Leuna , the world's first large-scale coal liquefaction plant to produce mineral oil goes into operation.
• April 14: The first Volvo leaves the factory on the island of Hisingen.
• May 7: Brazilian airline Varig is founded by German Ernst Otto Mayer .
• May 13: Black Friday on the stock exchange in Berlin. After the German Reichsbank had put pressure on the German commercial banks to take action against the share prices, which they considered excessive, the share index of the Reich Statistical Office on the Berlin Stock Exchange collapsed by 31.9 percent within one day.
• May 14: Cap Arcona is launched
• July 16: The German Reichstag passes the Job Placement and Unemployment Insurance Act . The provisional regulation of the Unemployment Welfare Ordinance within the framework of war welfare is no longer applicable, there is now a real legal entitlement to unemployment benefit .
• September 18: In the United States, the predecessor company to the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) begins broadcasting radio programs .
• October 4: Edward Lasker , better known as a chess player , is granted a patent on the breast pump he invented .
• 26 October: Founding of the Fürth mail order company Quelle

science and technology

Fokker F.VIII "Jämtland" of the Swedish airline ABA

• March: First flight of the Fokker F.VIII
• March: First flight of the Lockheed Vega
• April: Georges Lemaître presents his thesis of the beginning of the universe , later called the Big Bang .
• May 20: The Sino-Swedish expedition led by Sven Hedin sets out from Beijing to explore Mongolia , the Gobi desert and Xinjiang .
• 20./21. May: Charles Lindbergh flies non-stop from New York to Paris .
• May 25: Clärenore Stinnes and her future husband Carl-Axel Söderström set off on a world tour with an escort truck and two technicians in a production automobile, an Adler Standard 6. Together with Carl-Axel Söderström, she was the first person to circumnavigate the earth in a car.
• June 4 to 6: The American aviator Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (1893–1976) flies non-stop from New York across the Atlantic to Germany for the first time, together with a passenger Charles A. Levine. The aircraft, a Bellanca WB2 named “Columbia”, took off from New York on June 4, 1927 (Roosevelt Field, Long Island) and landed in Eisleben near Halle/Saale on June 6. It takes him about 43 hours to cover the distance of 3911 statute miles (6294 km). He then continues his flight to Berlin and lands in Klinge near Cottbus. It only reaches its destination, Berlin-Tempelhof Airport, the next day.
• The German chief engineer Engelbert Zaschka builds a helicopter with energy storage.
• June 29: Total solar eclipse in Northern Europe
• June: Werner Heisenberg publishes his work on the uncertainty principle .
• The Essen-based company Friedrich Krupp is presenting the high-performance cutting material “ Widia ” for the first time at the Leipzig Spring Fair .
• The Nuremberg-Kleinreuth broadcasting station is set up.
• Clinton Davisson and George Paget Thomson conduct their experiment to demonstrate electron scattering on solids (in: Nature 119 (1927), 558; Physical Review 30 (1927), 705).
• The pedagogue Peter Petersen founded the Jena-Plan school development concept .

Culture

Movie

Metropolis logo

• January 10: The premiere of Fritz Lang's dystopian science fiction film Metropolis takes place in Berlin 's Ufa-Palast am Zoo .
• April 30: Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. become the first movie greats to leave their footprints in the floor of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood .
• October 6: Alan Crosland 's The Jazz Singer , the first commercial sound film, premieres in Hollywood. With his success, he ensured the breakthrough of the new type of sound film .

literature

• December 26: Hugo von Hofmannsthal 's essay Value and Honor of the German Language appears in the Munich Latest News .
• Martin Heidegger : Being and Time

music and theatre

"Jonny plays" by Krenek

• January 8: Premiere of the opera Penthesilea by Othmar Schoeck at the Semperoper in Dresden
• 28 January: World premiere of Jacques Ibert 's opera Angélique in Paris
• February 10: World premiere of the jazz opera Jonny plays by Krenek at the New Theater in Leipzig
• February 21: World premiere of the operetta Der Zarewitsch by Franz Lehár at the Deutsches Künstler-Theater in Berlin
• February 17: Premiere of the opera Hanneles Himmelfahrt by Paul Graener in Dresden
• May 26: Premiere of the operetta Fairy Tale in the Snow by Robert Stolz at the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna
• July 17: The song play Mahagonny is premiered in Baden-Baden. The composer is Kurt Weill , the texts are by Bertolt Brecht . The later opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny draws on elements of the critically acclaimed Songspiel.
• September 13: Premiere of the operetta Die golden'ne Meisterin by Edmund Eysler at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna
• October 7: Premiere of the opera The Miracle of Heliane by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in Hamburg
• November 14: World premiere of George Gershwin 's musical Funny Face at the Alvin Theater in New York
• December 12: Premiere of the opera Le pauvre matelot by Darius Milhaud at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
• November 18: First performance of the opera La Campana sommersa (The Sunken Bell) by Ottorino Respighi at the Hamburg State Opera
• December 25: Premiere of the operetta Die blond Liselott by Eduard Künneke in Altenburg
• 28 December: World premiere of Arthur Honegger 's opera Antigone at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels
• First International Chopin Competition

Others

• June 2: Opening of the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum
• 9 July: While cutting peat , Jann Hanßen and his son Heye discover Walle 's plow , which is at least two thousand years old, in Walle, East Frisia .
• Founding of the Baden Secession in Freiburg
• Creation of the Committee for the Election of Miss Europe
• Opening of the National Museum Cardiff
• IFLA ( International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions ), the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, is founded in Edinburgh (Scotland).

society

Hildegard Quandt as the first Miss Germany

• 18 May: The Bath School Massacre , a series of bombings at Bath Comprehensive School, kills 45 people, mostly first through sixth graders. It is the largest mass murder at a school in US history.
• Miss Germany is elected for the first time.
• Foundation of the international movement Brotherhood of Vagabonds .

disasters

• March 7: 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Tango Province , Japan , killing more than 3,000
• April 22: Flood of the century on the Mississippi River - 70,000 km² in the states of Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and Illinois are under water. 700,000 people are affected, around 250 people die.
• May 22: A 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Qinghai , China , killing about 200,000
• 8th/9th July: A flood catastrophe hits the river valleys in the Eastern Ore Mountains and causes enormous damage, especially in the valleys of the Müglitz and Gottleuba . A total of 145 people fell victim to the floods, including 88 in Berggiesshübel alone .
• August 25 Torpedo boat destroyer Warabi sunk after collision with light cruiser Jindsu (both Japan ) off Bungo-Suido , 102 killed.
• October 25: The Italian luxury liner Principessa Mafalda hits a rock off Porto Seguro (Brazil) and sinks, killing 312 people.

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

Sports

→ Main article : Sport Year 1927

• January 1: The International Lawn Tennis Association accepts the German Tennis Association as a member.
• March 26: The first car race called Mille Miglia on northern Italian roads starts in Brescia .
• 23 April: Cardiff City become the first (and so far only) Welsh club to win the FA Cup .
• May 26: The first race takes place on the Badberg square, today's Sachsenring .
• June 18: The Nürburgring is inaugurated with a motorcycle race as part of the first Eifel race .
• June 19: Max Schmeling wins the European title in Dortmund.

rainbow jersey

• July 21: The Italian Alfredo Binda becomes the winner of the UCI Road World Championships for professionals , to be held at the Nürburgring . Binda is the first to receive a rainbow jersey.
• July 22: The football club AS Roma is founded.
• July 30: Edi Hans Pawlata is the first European to succeed in the Eskimo role .
• October 8: In Leipzig, the Achilleion is opened as a sports hall with a capacity for 8,000 spectators. The building is also used as an exhibition hall.
• November 29: Alexander Alekhine becomes the new World Chess Champion with a win of 18.5 points to 15.5 against José Raúl Capablanca .
• Joe Davis co-organizes the first World Snooker Championship and wins it by beating Tom Dennis 20-11 (frames).

Nobel prizes

• Physics : Arthur Holly Compton and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
• Chemistry : Heinrich Otto Wieland
• Medicine : Julius Wagner-Jauregg
• Literature : Henri Bergson
• Nobel Peace Prize : Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde

Born

January

• 0January 1: Maurice Béjart , French ballet dancer and choreographer († 2007)
• 0January 1: Ahmad Jawed , Afghan literary scholar and peace educator (died 2002)
• 0January 1: Juliusz Łuciuk , Polish composer († 2020)
• 0January 1: Jean-Paul Mousseau , Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 1991)
• 0January 1: Vernon L. Smith , Professor of Economics and Law

Vernon Smith

• 0January 2 Raúl Gustavo Aguirre , Argentine literary critic and poet (died 1983)
• 0January 2 Gino Marchetti , American football player († 2019)
• 0January 2 Herbert Sczepan , Baptist pastor and evangelist († 2004)
• 0January 2 Arnold Zellner , American economist (died 2010)
• 0January 4: Hans Bentzien , SED functionary and Minister for Culture of the GDR († 2015)
• 0January 4 Lauro Cavazos , American politician
• 0January 4: Claus Jacobi , German journalist (died 2013)
• 0January 4: Thomas Noguchi , US forensic scientist
• 0January 4 Barbara Rush , American actress
• 0January 5 Mino Argento , Italian-American artist
• 0January 5: Joker Paz Arroyo , Filipino politician (died 2015)
• 0January 5: Werner Baumgart , German saxophonist and arranger († 2009)
• 0January 5: Dieter Henrich , German philosopher
• 0January 5: Władysław Ślesicki , Polish film director and screenwriter (died 2008)
• 0January 6: Manfred Gebhardt , German journalist and author (died 2013)
• 0January 6: Alfred Sirven , French entrepreneur (Elf Aquitaine) († 2005)
• 0January 6: Maria Voderholzer , German teacher and writer (died 2015)
• 0January 7: Abdul Hamid , Pakistani field hockey player († 2019)
• 0January 7 Achille Maramotti , Italian fashion entrepreneur and lawyer (died 2005)
• 0January 8: Karlheinz Eber , General Secretary of the CVJM-Landesverband Bayern († 2004)
• 0January 8: Hellmuth Hahn , German local researcher, historian, doctor and local politician († 2015)
• 0January 8: Uzi Wiesel , Israeli cellist and music educator († 2019)
• 0January 9: Adolfo Antonio Cardinal Suárez Rivera , Archbishop of Monterrey (died 2008)
• 0January 9: Rodolfo Walsh , Argentine writer and journalist (died 1977)
• January 10: Johnnie Ray , American singer (d. 1990)
• January 10: Otto Stich , Swiss politician (died 2012)
• January 11: Franz Bummerl , Czech musician and composer († 2011)
• January 11: Marta Hidy , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher († 2010)
• January 12: Leopold Ahlsen , German writer (died 2018)
• January 12 Herbert Aulich , German painter, graphic artist and object artist († 2020)
• January 12: Ignatz Bubis , Chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (died 1999)

Ignatz Bubis (1997)

• January 12: Leopoldo Federico , Argentine bandoneonist and tango composer († 2014)
• January 12: Salvatore Martirano , American composer (d. 1995)
• January 12: Leslie Orgel , British chemist (died 2007)
• January 13: Brockman Adams , American politician (died 2004)
• January 13: Liz Anderson , American country singer-songwriter († 2011)
• January 13 Sydney Brenner , British biologist and Nobel laureate (died 2019)
• January 15: Kirti Nidhi Bista , Nepali non-party politician (died 2017)
• January 15 Phyllis Coates , American actress
• January 15: Walter Schneider , German motorcycle racer (died 2010)
• January 16: Paul Antaki , Egyptian auxiliary bishop (died 2011)
• January 17: Donald Erb , American composer (died 2008)
• January 17: Eartha Kitt , American singer and actress († 2008)
• January 17: Harlan Mathews , American politician (died 2014)
• January 18 Werner Liebrich , German soccer player and coach (died 1995)
• January 18: Rudolf Schlott , German football coach (died 2014)
• January 19: Lothar Dräger , German author (died 2016)
• January 20: Günther Grotkamp , German publishing manager
• January 20: Wolfgang Kasack , German Slavist (died 2003)
• January 20 Dietrich Rössler , German theologian (died 2021)
• January 21: Udo Walendy , German political scientist
• January 22 - Lou Creekmur , American football player (d. 2009)
• January 22: Joe Perry , American football player (died 2011)
• January 23 Ennio Antonelli , Italian boxer and actor (died 2004)
• January 24: Paula Hawkins , American politician (died 2009)
• January 24: Rüdiger Seitz , Austrian composer and music teacher (d. 1991)
• January 24: Rose-Marie Wörner , German landscape architect and garden monument conservator († 2015)
• January 25: Antônio Carlos Jobim , Brazilian singer and composer (d. 1994)
• January 26: Hans Bardens , German politician, MP († 2003)
• January 26: Erni Mangold , Austrian actress
• January 26: Vic Mees , Belgian footballer (died 2012)
• January 27 Giovanni Arpino , Italian writer and journalist (died 1987)
• January 27: Gianni De Luca , Italian comic artist (d. 1991)
• January 27 Diether Ritzert , German painter and graphic artist († 1987)
• January 27: Vicente Joaquim Zico , Brazilian Archbishop (died 2015)
• January 28: Per Oscarsson , Swedish actor (died 2010)
• January 28: Hans Stefan Seifriz , German politician, MP († 2020)
• January 29 Edward Paul Abbey , American naturalist, philosopher and writer (d. 1989)
• January 30: Ahmed Abdul-Malik , American jazz musician (d. 1993)
• January 30: Bernhard Elsner , German military scientist and major general of the GDR († 2017)
• January 30: Olof Palme , Swedish politician and two-time prime minister (died 1986)
• January 31: Alfred Heindler , Austrian district politician († 2005)
• January 31: Christiane Uhlhorn , German politician (CDU) († 2016)

February

• 0February 1 Jimmy Andrews , Scottish footballer (died 2012)
• 0February 1: Hans Gmür , Swiss author († 2004)
• 0February 1: Günter Guillaume , GDR spy in the Federal Chancellery 1970–1974 († 1995)
  

  Gunter Guillaume, 1974
• 0February 1 Rick Wilkins , Canadian composer, arranger, saxophonist and conductor
• 0February 2: Stan Getz , American tenor saxophone (d. 1991)
• 0February 3 Kenneth Anger , American filmmaker and author
• 0February 3: Hans-Georg Arlt , German violinist (died 2011)
• 0February 3: Friedrich Karl Flick , German entrepreneur (died 2006)
• 0February 4: Henri d'Attilio , French politician (died 2008)
• 0February 4: Arthur Cohn , Swiss film producer
• 0February 4: Horst Ehmke , German politician (died 2017)
  

  Horst Ehmke, 2003
• 0February 4 – Rolf Landauer , German-American physicist and information scientist (d. 1999)
• 0February 5: Jean Hamilius , Luxembourg politician and track and field athlete
• 0February 5: Hans-Jürgen Imiela , German art historian (died 2005)
• 0February 5: Gerhard Klarner , German news anchor (died 1990)
• 0February 5 – Ewald Schmeken , German historian and sociologist (died 2009)
• 0February 6: Piți Apolzan , Romanian footballer (died 1982)
• 0February 6: Charles Gerhardt , American conductor, arranger, sound engineer and record producer (d. 1999)
• 0February 6: Tom McIntosh , American jazz trombonist and composer († 2017)
• 0February 6: Friedel Münch , German motorcycle designer (died 2014)
• 0February 7: Juliette Gréco , French singer and actress († 2020)
• 0February 7 Michel Hausser , French jazz vibraphonist
• 0February 7: Laurie Johnson , English composer
• 0February 7: Volodymyr Kuz , Soviet track and field athlete (distance runner) (died 1975)
• 0February 9: David Wheeler , British computer pioneer (d. 2004)
• February 10 Alma Adamkienė , Lithuanian politician's wife and first lady
• February 10 Leontyne Price , American concert and opera singer
• February 11: Dieter Eppler , German actor and radio play director († 2008)
• February 11: Inge Jens , German literary scholar and publicist († 2021)
• February 11: Johannes Menskes , German choir director and composer († 2021)
• February 11: Jochen Schröder , German actor and voice actor
• February 12: Paul Bühlmann , Swiss folk actor († 2000)
• February 12: Gottfried Pohlan , German motorcycle racer (d. 1989)
• February 13: Lieselott Enders , German archivist and historian (died 2009)
• February 13 Herbert Pilch , German linguist, Celtic scholar and politician († 2018)
• February 13 Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt , German writer
• February 14: Hans Kann , Austrian pianist and composer († 2005)
• February 14: Lois Maxwell , Canadian actress (died 2007)
• February 15: Harvey Korman , American actor (died 2008)
• February 15 Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini SJ , Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Milan (died 2012)
  

  Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, 2010
• February 16 – Günter Apel , German trade unionist and politician (died 2007)
• February 16 Ludwig Averkamp , German theologian; Archbishop of Hamburg († 2013)
• February 16 June Brown , British actress
• February 16 Lothar Rathmann , German historian and Arabist
• February 16: Botho Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein , German politician († 2008)
• February 17 Juan Almeida , Cuban revolutionary and politician (died 2009)
• February 17: Pentti Isotalo , Finnish ice hockey player and referee († 2021)
• February 17: Ernst Jenni , Swiss Reformed theologian, pastor and professor of Old Testament and Semitic linguistics
• February 18: Rik Battaglia , Italian actor (died 2015)
• February 18: John Warner , American politician (died 2021)
• February 19 Alice Dye , American golf architect and amateur golfer (died 2019)
• February 19: Bob Johnson , American racing driver (d. 2008)
• February 19: Gerhard Perl , German classical scholar († 2008)
• February 19 Hugo Portisch , Austrian journalist (died 2021)
• February 20: Gerhard Audorf , German athlete and civil engineer (d. 1999)
• February 20: Heinz Aulfes , German politician
• February 20: Marie-Claire Barth-Frommel , Swiss Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar († 2019)
• February 20 Carl Damm , German politician (CDU) (died 1993)
• February 20 Aloys Felke , German businessman and politician (died 1997)
• February 20: Ibrahim Ferrer , Cuban musician (died 2005)
• February 20: Hubert de Givenchy , French fashion designer († 2018)
• February 20: Sidney Poitier , American actor († 2022)

Sydney Poitier

• February 21: Reinhard Appel , German journalist (died 2011)
• February 21: Walter S. Hartley , American composer († 2016)
• February 21: Pierre Mercure , Canadian composer and television producer (d. 1966)
• February 21: Paul Raabe , German literary scholar and librarian († 2013)
• February 22 – Florencio Campomanes , Filipino chess player and official (died 2010)
• February 22: Ernst Huberty , German sports journalist and TV presenter
• February 22 - Guy Mitchell , American pop singer and film actor (d. 1999)
• February 23: Robert N. Bellah , American sociologist (died 2013)
• February 23: Werner Dolata , German politician, MdA, MP († 2015)
• February 23: Karel Hron , Czech organist and music teacher (died 2010)
• February 23 Willie Ormond , Scottish footballer and coach (d. 1984)
• February 24: Earl Peterson , American country music artist (d. 1971)
• February 24: Emmanuelle Riva , French actress (died 2017)
• February 24: Ernst Sieber , Swiss pastor, author and head of a social work († 2018)
• February 25: Dieter Ertel , German journalist and editor († 2013)
• February 25 – Ernst Ludwig , German lawyer and politician (died 2017)
• February 26: Hans Heinz Holz , German Marxist philosopher (died 2011)
• February 27: James Thomas Lynn , American politician (died 2010)
• February 27: Fredi Pankonin , German handball goalkeeper († 2018)
• February 28: Franz Rieser , Austrian teacher (died 2007)

March

• 0March 1 George Ogden Abell , American astronomer (d. 1983)
• 0March 1: Rudi Arndt , German politician (died 2004)
• 0March 1: Harry Belafonte , American singer, actor, entertainer and civil rights activist
  

  Harry Belafonte (2011)
• 0March 1: Claude Gensac , French actress (died 2016)
• 0March 2: Erich Angermann , German historian (died 1992)
• 0March 2: Witold Szalonek , Polish composer (died 2001)
• 0March 2: Roger Walkowiak , French cyclist (died 2017)
• 0March 3 Donald "Don" Joel Aronow , American designer and speedboat operator (d. 1987)
• 0March 3: Pierre Aubert , Swiss politician (died 2016)
• 0March 4 Phil Batt , American politician
• 0March 4 Dick Savitt , American tennis player
• 0March 4: Jan van Schijndel , Dutch footballer (died 2011)
• 0March 5 Jack Cassidy , American actor, singer (d. 1976)
• 0March 6: Willi Bartels , German racing driver (died 2005)
• 0March 6 Gordon Cooper , American astronaut (died 2004)
• 0March 6: Gabriel García Márquez , Colombian writer (died 2014)
  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2002)
• 0March 6: Friedrich Hänssler , German Protestant theologian, musicologist and publisher († 2019)
• 0March 6: Otto Maychrzak , German handball player († 2002)
• 0March 8: Josef Berg , Czech composer (died 1971)
• 0March 8 Dick Hyman , American jazz pianist
• 0March 8: Simon Jubani , Albanian Catholic priest (died 2011)
• 0March 8: Stanisław Kania , Polish politician, party leader of Poland from 1980 to 1981 († 2020)
• 0March 8: Harry Thürk , German writer (died 2005)
• 0March 9: Jaime de Armiñán , Spanish film director and screenwriter
• 0March 9: Klaus Dieter Arndt , German politician (died 1974)
• 0March 9: Renate Brockpähler , German folklorist (died 1989)
• 0March 9: Johannes Hanselmann , Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria († 1999)
• 0March 9: Bezerra da Silva , Brazilian singer-songwriter († 2005)
• March 10: Jupp Derwall , German football coach and player (died 2007)
  

  Jupp Derwall , 2004
• March 10: Paul Frantz , French football coach, player and official, and educator (died 2016)
• March 10 Barbara Marx Sinatra , American model and showgirl († 2017)
• March 10: Paul Wunderlich , German painter and draftsman (died 2010)
• March 11: Vince Boryla , American basketball player, coach, official and scout (died 2016)
• March 11: Joachim Fuchsberger , German actor and entertainer († 2014)
  

  Joachim Fuchsberger , 2008
• March 11: Freda Meissner-Blau , Austrian politician († 2015)
• March 11: Dempsey Wilson , American racing driver (d. 1971)
• March 12: Raúl Alfonsín , President of Argentina († 2009)
• March 12: Georg Hörtnagel , German double bass player and concert agent († 2020)
• March 12: Elmar Zeitler , German physicist (died 2020)
• March 13: Georges Badin , French poet and painter (died 2014)
• March 14: Wilhelm Burgard , Saarland athlete († 2000)
• March 14: Wolfgang Grönebaum , German actor (died 1998)
• March 14: Adam Edward Semeniuk , Canadian country music artist († 2017)
• March 15: Hanns Joachim Friedrichs , German TV presenter (died 1995)
• March 15: Rüdiger Klessmann , German art historian († 2020)
• March 15: Aaron Rosand , American violinist and music educator († 2019)
• March 15: Carl Smith , American country music singer († 2010)
• March 16 Gert Andreae , German actor (died 1972)
• March 16: Bruno Auderset , Swiss journalist
• March 16: Ruby Braff , American cornetist (d. 2003)
• March 16: Gerhard Hofmann , German football coach
• March 16: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov , Soviet cosmonaut (died 1967)
• March 16 Daniel Patrick Moynihan , American politician and sociologist (died 2003)
• March 17: Betty Allen , American mezzo-soprano and lecturer († 2009)
• March 17: Patrick Allen , British actor and voice artist (died 2006)
• March 17: Roberto Suazo Córdova , Honduran politician (died 2018)
• March 18: Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani , Prime Minister of Algeria (d. 1996)
• March 18: John Kander , American composer

John Kander

• March 18: George Plimpton , American novelist and promoter of young writers († 2003)
• March 19: Don Richard Ashburn , American baseball player (d. 1997)
• March 19 Richard Nelson Bolles , American pastor (died 2017)
• March 19: Eduardo Manet , Cuban writer
• March 19 Allen Newell , American computer scientist and cognitive psychologist (d. 1992)
• March 20: Dewey Balfa , American Cajun musician (d. 1992)
• March 20: John Joubert , English composer († 2019)
• March 21: Halton Arp , American astronomer (died 2013)
• March 21: Robert-Alexander Bohnke , pianist († 2004)
• March 21 – Hans-Dietrich Genscher , German politician, Minister of the Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2016)
  

  Hans Dietrich Genscher (2008)
• March 22: Henning Rischbieter , German theater critic († 2013)
• March 23: Vytautas Astrauskas , Lithuanian rheumatologist and politician (died 2004)
• March 23: Mato Damjanović , Croatian chess grandmaster († 2011)
• March 24 Gerald Donald Aurbach , American physiologist and endocrinologist (d. 1991)
• March 24: Martin Walser , German writer
  

  Martin Walser , 2010
• March 25 Karl Ameisbichler , Austrian boxer
• March 25: Herbert Fux , Austrian actor and politician (died 2007)
• March 25: Heinz Kunert , German inventor (died 2012)
• March 26: Jürgen Goslar , German actor and director († 2021)
• March 27: Cecil Bødker , Danish writer († 2020)
• March 27: François Furet , French historian (died 1997)
• March 27: Anthony Lewis , American journalist (died 2013)
• March 27: Mstislav Rostropovich , Russian cellist and conductor (died 2007)
• March 28: Marianne Fredriksson , Swedish writer (died 2007)
• March 28: Harry Tisch , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED and Chairman of the FDGB in the GDR († 1995)
• March 29: Alfred Neven DuMont , German publisher (died 2015)
• March 29: Martin Fleischmann , British chemist (died 2012)
• March 29: John McLaughlin , American presenter († 2016)
• March 29: John Robert Vane , British biochemist (died 2004)
• March 30: Karola Ágai , Hungarian opera singer († 2010)
• March 30 Robert Temple Armstrong , British politician and life peer (died 2020)
• March 30: Egon Günther , German film director and writer († 2017)
• March 31: César Chávez , founder of the United Farm Workers (d. 1993)
• March 31 William Daniels , American actor, past President of the American Actors' Union
• March 31: Vladimir Sergeyevich Ilyushin , Soviet test pilot (died 2010)
• March 31: Erich Kirste , German physicist (died 2002)
• March 31: Alberto Labarthe , Chilean track and field athlete († 2021)
• March 31: Eduardo Cardinal Martínez Somalo , Spanish Cardinal Chamberlain (d. 2021)
• March 31: Ludwig Polsterer , Austrian newspaper editor (d. 1979)

April

• 0April 1: Thomas Holtzmann , German actor († 2013)
• 0April 1 Ferenc Puskás , Hungarian football player and coach (died 2006)

Ferenc Puskas (1954)

• 0April 2: Rolf Andiel , German painter, graphic artist and draftsman († 1992)
• 0April 2: Carmen Basilio , American boxer (died 2012)
• 0April 2: Rita Gam , American actress (died 2016)
• 0April 2: Rembert Weakland , US Catholic Archbishop
• 0April 4 Aušra Augustinavičiūtė , Lithuanian psychologist, sociologist and economist (died 2005)
• 0April 4 Monique Chaumette , French actress
• 0April 4: Cliff Finch , American politician (died 1986)
• 0April 5 Neil Dudley Anderson , Vice Admiral of New Zealand (died 2010)
• 0April 5: Eugene Vincent Atkinson , American politician (died 2016)
• 0April 5: Thanin Kraivichien , Prime Minister of Thailand
• 0April 5: Ida Krottendorf , Austrian actress (d. 1998)
• 0April 6 – Gerry Mulligan , American jazz musician and composer (d. 1996)
• 0April 7: Wolfgang Mattheuer , German painter, graphic artist and sculptor († 2004)
• 0April 7: Michael Babatunde Olatunji , Nigerian percussionist († 2003)
• 0April 7: Albrecht Schlageter , German local and mining researcher († 1999)
• April 10 Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh , Iranian ethnomusicologist and composer (died 1999)
• April 10 Warren Thew , American-Swiss pianist, composer, poet and illustrator († 1984)
• April 11: Klaus Harpprecht , German journalist and author († 2016)
• April 11: Dieter Thoma , German journalist and presenter († 2017)
• April 13: Walo Lüönd , Swiss actor († 2012)
• April 13 Bill Wedderburn , British lawyer and politician (died 2012)
• April 14: Hans Helmut Dickow , German actor (d. 1989)
• April 14: Alan MacDiarmid , New Zealand chemist, Nobel laureate († 2007)
• April 15: Wolf Häfele , German physicist (died 2013)
• April 15: Robert L. Mills , American physicist (d. 1999)
• April 16: Claus Arndt , German politician (died 2014)
• April 16: Benedict XVI (born Joseph Alois Ratzinger), 265th Pope

Benedict XVI (2007)

• April 16: Rolf Schult , German actor and voice actor († 2013)
• April 17: Margot Honecker , German politician and Minister for Public Education of the GDR († 2016)
• April 18: Leo Rajendram Antony , Sri Lankan Bishop (died 2012)
• April 18: Samuel P. Huntington , American political scientist and author (died 2008)
• April 18 Tadeusz Mazowiecki , Polish politician and Prime Minister (died 2013)
• April 19: John Diercks , American composer and pianist († 2020)
• April 19 Ernst Lange , German Protestant theologian and church reformer (died 1974)
• April 20: Phil Hill , American racing driver (d. 2008)
• April 20 Kazue Morisaki , Japanese writer
• April 20 Karl Alexander Müller , Swiss physicist
• April 21 Ahmed Arif , Turkish poet (died 1991)
• April 21: Robert Savoie , Canadian singer and music educator († 2007)
• April 22: Laurel Aitken , Cuban singer and songwriter († 2005)
• April 23: Werner Koch , German expert († 1993)
• April 24: Josy Barthel , Luxembourg athlete and Olympic champion († 1992)
• April 25: Rosemarie Fendel , German actress († 2013)
• April 25: Frances Hyland , Canadian actress († 2004)
• April 25 Werner Jarowinsky , German politician (died 1990)
• April 25: Siegfried Palm , German cellist (died 2005)
• April 25: Albert Uderzo , artist of the well-known comic series Asterix († 2020)

Albert Uderzo (2012)

• April 25: Ernst Widmer , Swiss-Brazilian composer (died 1990)
• April 26: Gerardo Marotta , Italian patron of philosophy (died 2017)
• April 26 Roswitha Verhülsdonk , German politician
• April 26: Johann Weber , Austrian Roman Catholic bishop (died 2020)
• April 27: Connie Kay , American drummer (d. 1994)
• April 28 Guy Duijck , Belgian composer and professor († 2008)
• April 29: Heijo Hangen , German artist († 2019)
• April 29 Dorothy Manley , British track and field athlete (d. 2021)
• April 29 Cecil James McNeely , American rhythm and blues saxophonist (died 2018)
• April 29: Walter Thirring , Austrian physicist (died 2014)
• April 30 George Seligman , American mathematician
• April 30: Tamisuke Watanuki , Japanese politician and former MP

May

• 0May 1: Greta Andersen , Danish swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
• 0May 1: Gary Bertini , Israeli conductor and composer († 2005)
• 0May 1: Laura Betti , Italian actress († 2004)
• 0May 1: Horst Drinda , German director and actor († 2005)
• 0May 1: František Hrúzik , Czechoslovak eventing rider († 2021)
• 0May 1: Akira Yoshimura , Japanese writer (died 2006)
• 0May 1: Albert Zafy , Malagasy politician (died 2017)
• 0May 1 – Walter Zeman , Austrian footballer (died 1991)
• 0May 2: Horst Abt , German entrepreneur († 2015)
• 0May 2: Michael Broadbent , British wine commentator and critic (died 2020)
• 0May 2: Wolfgang Walter , German mathematician (died 2010)
• 0May 3 David Rosenmann-Taub , Chilean lyricist and pianist
• 0May 4: Peter Bachér , German journalist and author († 2020)
• 0May 4: Peter Boenisch , German journalist (died 2005)
  

  Peter Boenisch , 1983
• 0May 4: Trude Herr , German actress (died 1991)
• 0May 5 Art Pollard , American racing driver (d. 1973)
• 0May 5: Charles Rosen , American pianist and music theorist († 2012)
• 0May 5: Robert Spaemann , German philosopher (died 2018)
• 0May 6: Franz Baum , Baden-Württemberg politician († 2016)
• 0May 7: Joseph Agassi , Israeli academic
• 0May 7: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , British novelist and screenwriter († 2013)
• 08 May: László Cardinal Paskai , Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest († 2015)
• 0May 9 Guido Caroli , Italian speed skater (died 2021)
• 0May 9: Hans Daiber , German journalist and author († 2013)
• 0May 9: Manfred Eigen , German biophysicist († 2019)
  

  Manfred Eigen , 1996
• 0May 9: Carlos Piantini , Dominican violinist and conductor (died 2010)
• 0May 9: Wim Thoelke , German TV presenter (died 1995)
• May 10: Friedrich J. Lucas , German historian and history teacher (died 1974)
• May 10: Marcel Mart , Luxembourg politician of the Democratic Party († 2019)
• May 10 Nayantara Sahgal , Indian writer
• May 11 Charles Wolfgang Arnade , American historian and Hispanist (died 2008)
• May 11: Bernard Fox , Welsh actor (died 2016)
• May 13: Rudolf Marić , chess master and chess book author from Yugoslavia († 1990)
• May 13 Herbert Ross , American choreographer and film director († 2001)
• May 13: Waldemar Schieber , German horn player
• May 13 Archie Scott-Brown , British racing driver (d. 1958)
• May 13: Narziss Sokatscheff , Bulgarian-born actor († 2006)
• May 14 Herbert W. Franke , German-language science fiction writer
• May 14: Walter E. Richartz , German chemist and writer (died 1980)
• May 15: Freddy Rousselle , Belgian racing driver (died 2016)
• May 16: Paul Angerer , Austrian conductor and composer († 2017)
• May 16: Pavlina Apostolova , Yugoslav opera singer († 2018)
• May 16: Hans-Joachim Bormeister , German forester (died 2013)
• May 17: Heinz Frieler , German politician (died 1990)
• May 17: Winnie Jakob , cartoonist and publicist († 2012)
• May 17: Hans Koch , cultural scientist and cultural functionary of the GDR († 1986)
• May 17: Jean-Louis Richard , French actor (died 2012)
• May 18: Harvey Carignan , American serial killer
• May 18: Renee Harmon , German actress (died 2006)
• May 18: Egon Monk , German actor, director, dramaturge and author († 2007)
• May 18 Karl Peglau , German traffic psychologist (died 2009)
• May 18: Yoshio Tsuchiya , Japanese actor (died 2017)
• May 19: Serge Lang , American mathematician (died 2005)
• May 20 Bud Grant , American football player
• May 20: David Hedison , American actor (died 2019)
• May 20: Franciszek Cardinal Macharski , Archbishop of Kraków (died 2016)
  

  Franciszek Cardinal Macharski (2002)
• May 20: Michel Scheuer , German kayaker and Olympic champion († 2015)
• May 21: Rudolf Bock , German experimental physicist,
• May 21 Bill Holman , American jazz musician
• May 21 Werner Mangold , German sociologist (died 2020)
• May 22: Michael Constantine , American actor (died 2021)
• May 22 Ernst-Otto Czempiel , German political scientist († 2017)
• May 22: Richard Hundhammer , German politician (died 2012)
• May 22: Hubert Luthe , Bishop of Essen († 2014)
• May 22: George A. Olah , American chemist (d. 2017)
• May 22 Otto Tellmann , Romanian handball player and coach († 2013)
• May 23: Dieter Hildebrandt , German cabaret artist († 2013)
  

  Dieter Hildebrandt, 2010
• May 23: Joseph Roman , American actor (died 2018)
• May 23: Wilhelm Wannemacher , German educator, non-fiction author, and novelist
• May 24: Claude Abbes , French footballer (died 2008)
• May 25: Robert Ludlum , American writer, actor and producer († 2001)
• May 25: Elio Pagliarani , Italian poet (died 2012)
• May 26 Christian Graf von Krockow , German political scientist, historian and writer († 2002)
• May 26 Antonio Prieto , Chilean singer and actor (died 2011)
• May 27: Peter Zvi Malkin , Israeli secret agent (d. 2005)
• May 28: Habil Əliyev , Azerbaijani Kamanche player (died 2015)
• May 29 Varkey Vithayathil , Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (died 2011)
• May 30: Werner Haas , German motorcycle racer (died 1956)
• May 30 Tino Schwierzina , German politician (died 2003)
• May 30: Clint Walker , American actor (died 2018)
• May 31: Wolfgang Gasser , Austrian actor (died 2007)
• May 31: Koreyoshi Kurahara , Japanese film director and screenwriter († 2002)

June

• 0June 1 Herbert Schnoor , German politician (died 2021)
• 0June 1: Willem Scholten , Dutch politician (died 2005)
  

  William Scholten
• 0June 2 – Ladislav Alster , Czechoslovak chess player and chess journalist (died 1991)
• 0June 3: Manfred Flegel , Minister of the GDR († 2018)
• 0June 3: Oscar Schneider , German politician
• 0June 4: Willy Hagara , Austrian pop singer and actor († 2015)
• 0June 4: Geoffrey Palmer , English actor (died 2020)
• 0June 6: Hubert Abel , German physician († 2018)
• 0June 6: Ursula Böttcher , German animal tamer (died 2010)
• 0June 7: Wolfgang Kartte , German administrative lawyer and President of the Federal Cartel Office († 2003)
• 08 June: George Lamming , writer from Barbados
• 0June 8 - Wolfgang Schieren , German manager and CEO of Allianz AG (died 1996)
• 0June 8: Jerry Stiller , American actor († 2020)
• 0June 9 Waltraut Haas , Austrian actress and singer
  

  Waltraut Haas (2013)
• 0June 9 George Nigh , American politician
• 0June 9 Marlies Müller , German javelin thrower
• 0June 9: Helmut Zilk , Austrian journalist, politician and mayor of Vienna († 2008)
• June 10 Eugene N. Parker , American astrophysicist
• June 11 Ernst-Heinz Amberg , German Lutheran theologian (died 2020)
• June 12: Bill Cheesbourg , American racing driver (d. 1995)
• June 12: Al Fairweather , British musician (died 1993)
• June 13: Antonio Arellano Durán , Venezuelan bishop (died 2003)
• June 13: Slim Dusty , Australian singer-songwriter († 2003)
• June 14: Gert Augst , German church musician (died 2005)
• June 15 – Ross Andru , American comic artist and publishing editor (d. 1993)
• June 15: Ben Flowers , American baseball player (died 2009)
• June 15: Hugo Pratt , Italian comics writer (d. 1995)
• June 16: Charles Jarrott , British-Canadian director († 2011)
• June 16: Robert Paul Kraft , American astronomer (died 2015)
• June 16 Herbert Lichtenfeld , German television writer (died 2001)
• June 16 Erich Wiesner , Austrian industrialist and politician (died 2001)
• June 17: Charles Austin , American jazz trumpeter († 2012)
• June 17: Martin Böttcher , German film composer and conductor († 2019)
  

  Martin Boettcher (2002)
• June 17: Lucio Fulci , Italian film director and producer († 1996)
• June 17: Irene Ludwig , German art patron (died 2010)
• June 17: Bernd Rabe , German musician († 2001)
• June 17: Ernst Schubert , German art historian and historian († 2012)
• June 18: Suzanne Baron , French film editor († 1995)
• June 18: Hans Berentzen , German spirits manufacturer († 2005)
• June 18 Lutz Jahoda , German actor, entertainer, singer and author
• June 20 Karl-Heinz Adler , German sculptor and conceptual artist (died 2018)
• June 20: Georg Arfmann , German sculptor (died 2015)
• June 20 – Josef Posipal , German soccer player (died 1997)
• June 21: José Antonio Méndez , Cuban singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1989)
• June 22 Herbert Hisel , German humorist (died 1982)
• June 22: Horst Keitel , German actor and voice actor († 2015)
• June 22: Alice Vollenweider , Swiss Romance scholar, cookbook author and literary translator († 2011)
• June 23: Bob Fosse , American choreographer and film director (d. 1987)
• June 23 Herbert MacKay-Fraser , American racing driver (d. 1957)
• June 23: Kenneth McKellar , British tenor singer (died 2010)
• June 23: Utz Richter , German actor (died 2015)
• June 23: Rolf Alexander Wilhelm , German film and television composer († 2013)
• June 24 Willi Aberer , Austrian politician (died 2007)
• June 24 – Franz Josef Delonge , German lawyer and local politician (died 1988)
• June 24: James B. Edwards , American politician (died 2014)
• June 24 Martin L. Perl , American physicist (died 2014)
• June 26 Gilbert Bilezikian , French-American Baptist pastor, college teacher, and author
• June 26: Klaus Hornung , German political scientist (died 2017)
• June 26 Jerry Schatzberg , American director and photographer
• June 27: Otto Herbert Hajek , German sculptor (died 2005)
• June 27: Erika Simon , German archaeologist († 2019)
• June 28: Frank Sherwood Rowland , American chemist (d. 2012)
• June 28: Stefan Sonderegger , Swiss Germanist and linguist († 2017)
• June 29: Piero Dorazio , Italian painter (died 2005)
• June 29: Henry Jaeger , German writer (died 2000)
• June 29: Karl Ravens , German politician (died 2017)
• June 30 Shirley Fry , American tennis player († 2021)
• June 30: Frank McCabe , American basketball player († 2021)
• June 30: Pat McCormick , American actor and comedy writer (died 2005)
• June 30 Patricia Snell , Canadian opera singer

July

• 0July 1 Winfield Dunn , American politician

Winfield Dunn (2007)

• 0July 1 Erika Freeman , Austro-American psychoanalyst
• 0July 1: Chandra Shekhar , Indian politician (died 2007)
• 0July 1 – Jesús Villalobos Villegas , Peruvian soccer player (d. 1976)
• 0July 2: Ruth Berghaus , German director of musical theater († 1996)
• 0July 2: Gerhard Gawliczek , German soccer player (died 2010)
• 0July 2: Gerónimo Pellerano , Dominican singer (d. 1991)
• 0July 2: Brock Peters , American actor and singer († 2005)
• 0July 2: Robert F. Schloeth , Swiss zoologist (died 2012)
• 0July 2 Dietrich Strothmann , German journalist
• 0July 3: Ingeborg Bayer , German writer († 2017)
• 0July 3: Tim O'Connor , American actor (died 2018)
• 0July 3: Ken Russell , British film director († 2011)
• 0July 4: Wilhelm Hillek , Austrian officer and editor (died 2009)
• 0July 4 Watts S. Humphrey , American computer scientist (died 2010)
• 0July 4 Gina Lollobrigida , Italian actress

Gina Lollobrigida, 1960s

• 0July 4: Jim McWithey , American racing driver (d. 2009)
• 0July 4 Neil Simon , American playwright and screenwriter († 2018)
• 0July 5: Hartwig Amman , German pastor and local historian (died 2007)
• 0July 5: Hans Gottfried Bernrath , German politician (died 2010)
• 0July 5: Walter Matthias Diggelmann , Swiss writer (died 1979)
• 0July 5 Karl-Emil Schade , German pastor and Bible translator (died 2007)
• 0July 6: Johannes Hendrikus Donner , Dutch chess grandmaster (died 1988)
• 0July 6 Georg Gallus , German politician († 2021)
• 0July 6: Janet Leigh , American film actress († 2004)
• 0July 7: Martin Ransohoff , American film producer († 2017)
• 0July 7 Doc Severinsen , American jazz musician
• 0July 8 Lisa Lu , American actress of Chinese descent
• 0July 8 – Alexander May , German actor and screenwriter († 2008)
• 0July 8 Richard Tomita , American weightlifter (died 2021)
• 0July 9 Ed Ames , American pop singer and actor
• 0July 9: Red Kelly , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2019)
• July 10: Marcel Azzola , French jazz accordionist († 2019)
• July 10: David Dinkins , American politician (died 2020)
• July 10 William Smithers , American actor
• July 10: Paul Wühr , German writer (died 2016)
• July 11 Herbert Blomstedt , American-Swedish conductor
• July 11 Theodore Maiman , American physicist (died 2007)
• July 12: Abune Antonios , Eritrean Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
• July 13: Gerd Roellecke , German legal scholar (died 2011)
• July 13: Simone Veil , French politician and President of the European Parliament († 2017)
• July 14: Kow Nkensen Arkaah , Ghanaian politician (died 2001)
• July 14: Fritz Harkort , German folklorist and narrative researcher (died 1972)
• July 15: Nan Martin , American actress (died 2010)
• July 15: Rowland Pack , Canadian cellist, organist and choir director (d. 1964)
• July 15 Joe Turkel , American actor
• July 16: Serge Baudo , French conductor
• July 16 Thomas Ellwein , German political scientist (died 1998)
• July 17: Liliane Funcken , Belgian artist († 2015)
• July 18: Ludwig Harig , German writer (died 2018)
• July 18: Kurt Masur , German conductor (died 2015)

Kurt Masur , 2012

• July 19: Jan Myrdal , Swedish writer (died 2020)
• July 20 Lyudmila Mikhailovna Alexeyeva , Russian historian, human rights activist and Soviet dissident (died 2018)
• July 20: Michael Gielen , Austrian conductor and composer († 2019)
• July 20 – Dick Stanfel , American football player (died 2015)
• July 21: Peter Haasen , German physicist (died 1993)
• July 21: Michael Janisch , Austrian actor (died 2004)
• July 21 Willy Moese , German comic artist and caricaturist († 2007)
• July 22: Giuseppe Giorgio Englert , Swiss electronic music composer († 2007)
• July 23: Gérard Brach , French screenwriter († 2006)
• July 23: Jürgen Driehaus , German prehistorian (died 1986)
• July 23: Elliot See , American astronaut of the Gemini project (d. 1966)
• July 24 Alex Katz , American painter
• July 25: Bert Breit , Austrian composer, journalist, filmmaker, illustrator († 2004)
• July 25 Arminio Rothstein , Austrian painter, puppeteer and puppeteer (d. 1994)
• July 25 Abdelaziz Ben Tifour , Franco-Algerian footballer (died 1970)
• July 26 – Charles Whittenberg , American composer and music educator (d. 1984)
• July 27: Dawid Rubinowicz , Polish author (died 1942)
• July 27: Heinz Wewers , German soccer player (died 2008)
• July 28: John Ashbery , American poet (died 2017)
• July 28 – Hans Bauer , German soccer player (died 1997)
• July 28 Ermes Muccinelli , Italian footballer (d. 1994)
• July 28: David Viñas , Argentine writer (died 2011)
• July 28: Heini Walter , Swiss racing driver († 2009)
• July 29: Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer , German music producer and label founder (MPS) († 2004)
• July 29: Harry Mulisch , Dutch writer (died 2010)
• July 30: Harri Czepuck , German journalist, chairman of the journalists' association of the GDR († 2015)
• July 30 Viktors Lorencs , Latvian screenwriter and actor (died 1992)
• July 31 Cecilia Mangini , Italian documentary filmmaker and photographer († 2021)
• July 31: Ștefan Niculescu , Romanian composer (died 2008)
• July 31 Tony Thomas , British-American film historian, television and music producer († 1997)
• July 31: Walter Vogt , Swiss psychiatrist and writer (died 1988)

August

• 0August 1: André Cools , Belgian socialist politician (died 1991)

Andre Cools

• 0August 2: Fredrik Bull-Hansen , Norwegian officer and diplomat (died 2018)
• 0August 2: Ernesto Formenti , Italian boxer (d. 1989)
• 0August 6: Inga Landgré , Swedish actress
• 0August 6: Manfred Schubert , German cabaret artist († 2021)
• 0August 7: Alfredo Angeli , Italian documentary filmmaker and film director († 2005)
• 0August 7: George Busbee , American politician (died 2004)
• 0August 7: Edwin Edwards , American politician (died 2021)
• 0August 8: Svyatoslav Fyodorov , Russian eye surgeon, entrepreneur and politician (died 2000)
• 0August 9: Daniel Keyes , American writer (died 2014)
• 0August 9 Marvin Minsky , American researcher in the field of artificial intelligence († 2016)
• August 10 Mario Abbate , Italian singer and actor (died 1981)
• August 10 Jean Guichet , French racing driver
• August 11 – Jim Doran , American football player (d. 1994)
• August 11: Raymond Leppard , British conductor, composer and harpsichordist (died 2019)
• August 11: Stuart Rosenberg , American film director († 2007)
• August 12: Bernie Piltch , Canadian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist (d. 1983)
• August 12: Porter Wagoner , American country music singer († 2007)
• August 15: John Cranko , British dancer and choreographer (died 1973)
• August 15: Günter Dohrow , German athlete and handball player († 2008)
• August 15: Aké Loba , Ivorian writer († 2012)
• August 15: Albin Sättler , German artist (died 1998)
• August 16: John Henry Barnes , founder of the Christian scout organization Royal Rangers (d. 1989)
• August 16 Herbert Schäfer , German football coach (died 1991)
• August 16 Karl-Heinz Vosgerau , German actor (died 2021)
• August 17: Sam Butera , American saxophonist and arranger († 2009)
• August 17: F. Ray Keyser , American politician (died 2015)
• August 18 Rosalynn Carter , former First Lady of the United States
• August 18: John Rhodes , British racing driver
• August 19 Jim Broyhill , American politician
• August 19: Emil Cimiotti , German sculptor (died 2019)
• August 19 LQ Jones , American actor († 2021)
• August 22: David de Keyser , British actor (died 2021)
• August 23: Bruno Bartholome , German athlete (died 1994)
• August 23: Houari Boumedienne , Algerian leader (d. 1978)
• August 23: Dick Bruna , Dutch author, illustrator and graphic designer (died 2017)
• August 23: Walter Giller , German actor (died 2011)
• August 23: Hans-Joachim Gottschol , German entrepreneur (died 2007)
• August 23: Allan Kaprow , American artist and art theorist (died 2006)
• August 23 Martial Solal , French jazz pianist
• August 24: Harry Markowitz , American economist, Nobel laureate
• August 24 Wolfgang Trossbach , German track and field athlete and football coach
• August 24: David Wooldridge , British conductor and composer (d. 1998)
• August 25 Althea Gibson , American tennis player (d. 2003)
• August 26: Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi , Indian architect
• August 27: Morris Levy , US recording empresario (d. 1990)
• August 27: Liselott Linsenhoff , German dressage rider (d. 1999)
• August 27: Rainer Wolffhardt , German television director († 2017)
• August 29 Gerard Gratton , Canadian weightlifter (d. 1963)
• August 29: Red Kelly , American jazz bassist (d. 2004)
• August 29: Forrest Westbrook , American jazz pianist († 2014)
• August 30 David Brian Barrett , British Anglican priest, evangelical missionary, missiologist and sociologist of religion (died 2011)
• August 30: Bill Daily , American comedian and actor (died 2018)
• August 30: George L. Hersey , American historian of art and architecture († 2007)
• August 30: Piet Kee , Dutch organist and composer († 2018)
• August 31: Marianus Arokiasamy , Indian Archbishop (died 2007)

September

• 0September 1: Wolfgang Klafki , German educationalist († 2016)

Wolfgang Klafki (2002)

• 0September 1: Soshana , Austrian painter († 2015)
• 0September 2: Francis Matthews , British theatre, film and television actor (died 2014)
• 0September 3 Aliaksandr Adamovich , Belarusian writer, critic and literary scholar (died 1994)
• 0September 4: Ulrich Finckh , German Protestant pastor (died 2019)
• 0September 4: John McCarthy , American computer scientist, inventor of the LISP programming language (died 2011)
• 0September 5: Dionys Jobst , German politician (CSU) and MP († 2017)
• 0September 5 Paul Volcker , American economist (died 2019)
• 0September 7: Abram van Heerden , South African track and field athlete (d. 2021)
• 0September 7: Eugen Helmlé , German writer and literary translator († 2000)
• 0September 8 Gabdulkhay Achatov , Russian linguist and Turkologist (died 1986)
• 0September 8: Specs Wright , American jazz drummer (d. 1963)
• 0September 9 Andrei Vladimirovich Anikin , Russian economist and writer (died 2001)
• 0September 9: Elvin Jones , American musician (died 2004)
• September 10: Hans Altenhein , German publisher
• September 10: Albert Benz , Swiss composer and conductor (died 1988)
• September 10: Gerhard Jahn , German politician (died 1998)
• September 10: Johnny Keating , Scottish jazz musician and orchestra leader († 2015)
• September 11: Myrta Silva , Puerto Rican singer and composer (d. 1987)
• September 11: Walter Zeller , German motorcycle racer (died 1995)
• September 14: Markus Egen , German ice hockey player († 2021)
• September 14: Ari Friðbjörn Guðmundsson , Icelandic swimmer and ski jumper († 2003)
• September 14 Edmund Casimir Cardinal Szoka , Archbishop of Detroit and Curia Cardinal (died 2014)
• September 15 Rudolf Anderson Jr. , American pilot and officer (d. 1962)
• September 15 Margaret Keane , American painter
• September 15: Eberhard Stüber , Austrian biologist
• September 16: Peter Falk , American actor (died 2011)

Peter Falk , 2007

• September 16: Sadako Ogata , Japanese UN diplomat and refugee commissioner (died 2019)
• September 17 Hein († 2016) & Oss († 2019), German songwriter and singer
• September 19: Harold Brown , American nuclear physicist and politician (died 2019)
• September 19 Karl Gamma , Swiss ski racer and sports official († 2021)
• September 19 Rosemary Harris , British actress
• September 20: Peter Borgelt , German television and theater actor (d. 1994)
• September 20: Red Mitchell , American jazz bassist (d. 1992)
• September 20: Paul-Ernst Straehle , German entrepreneur and racing driver (d. 2010)
• September 20: Katharina Tüschen , German actress († 2012)
• September 21: Owen Stuart Aspinall , American politician (d. 1997)
• September 21: Michael Kehlmann , Austrian director and actor († 2005)
• September 21: Manuel Troncoso , Dominican composer († 2012)
• September 22: Ernst-Albert Arndt , German marine biologist (died 2014)
• September 22 Gordon Astall , English footballer († 2020)
• September 22 Herwig Blankertz , German educator (died 1983)
• September 22 Barbara Cramer-Nauhaus , German Anglist and translator († 2001)
• September 23: Klaus Heinrich , German religious scholar († 2020)
• September 23: Mighty Joe Young , American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (d. 1999)
• September 24: Hans Derben , German politician (died 2009)
• September 24: Arthur Malet , English actor (died 2013)
• September 24 Elisabeth Schindler , Austrian politician (died 1997)
• September 25 Ernie Andrews , American blues and jazz singer
• September 25: Colin Davis , British conductor (died 2013)
• September 25 Earl Zindars , American jazz composer and percussionist († 2005)
• September 26: Hans J. Baer , Swiss banker (died 2011)
• September 26 Enzo Bearzot , Italian soccer player and coach (died 2010)
• September 26: Wilhelm Gustav Illbruck , German entrepreneur (died 2004)
• September 27: Robert George Ackman , Canadian chemist and professor (d. 2013)
• September 27: Emmanuel III. Cardinal Delly , Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon (died 2014)
• September 27: Werner Fuchs , German archaeologist (died 2016)
• September 27: Romano Scarpa , Italian comics artist and writer († 2005)
• September 28: Alan Bridges , British director, actor and producer († 2013)
• September 28 James W. Symington , American politician
• September 28: Robert Thomas , French writer (died 1989)
• September 29 Adhemar da Silva , Brazilian track and field athlete († 2001)
• September 29: Sherwood Johnston , American racing driver (d. 2000)
• September 29 Pete McCloskey , American politician
• September 30: Alma von Stockhausen , German philosopher (died 2020)

October

• 0October 1: Tom Bosley , American actor (died 2010)
• 0October 1: Sivaji Ganesan , Indian film actor (died 2001)
• 0October 2 Margot Leonard , German actress and voice actress
• 0October 2: Uta Ranke-Heinemann , Catholic theologian and author († 2021)

Uta Ranke-Heinemann

• 0October 2: Gerhard Steffens , German politician (CDU) (died 1998)
• 0October 3: Hans Edmund Andresen , Danish racing cyclist (died 2014)
• 0October 3: Kenojuak Ashevak , Canadian women artists († 2013)
• 0October 3 Bertram Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham , British nobleman, politician and writer (died 2021)
• 0October 3: Paul Reynard , French-American painter (died 2005)
• 0October 4 Karlheinz Blaschke , German archivist and historian (died 2020)
• 0October 4: Roberto Bussinello , Italian racing driver (d. 1999)
• 0October 4 – Eva Pawlik , Austrian figure skater, film actress and TV commentator († 1983)
• 0October 4: Wolfgang Schmidt-Futterer , civil judge at the District Court of Mannheim († 1978)
• 0October 5 – Rolf Herricht , German actor and comedian (died 1981)
• 0October 6: Paul Badura-Skoda , Austrian pianist († 2019)
• 0October 7: Juan Benet , Spanish writer (died 1993)
• 0October 7: Margret Homeyer , German actress († 2018)
• 0October 7 Kazimierz Korybutiak , Polish pianist and music teacher
• 0October 7 Ronald D. Laing , British psychiatrist (d. 1989)
• 0October 7: Al Martino , American singer († 2009)
• 0October 8: César Milstein , Argentine molecular biologist († 2002)
• 08 October: Abraham Nehmé , Syrian Archbishop
• 0October 9: Wilhelm Ernst , Catholic moral theologian (died 2001)
• October 11: Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium , mother of Luxembourg Grand Duke Henri († 2005)
• October 11 – Pierre Doukan , French violinist, composer and music teacher (died 1995)
• October 11: William Perry , US Secretary of Defense and defense expert
• October 12: Horst Rudolf Abe , German medical historian († 2006)
• October 12: Wolfgang Kullmann , German Greek scholar
• October 13: Rosemarie Isopp , Austrian radio presenter of the ORF († 2019)
• October 13 Anita Kerr , American singer, arranger, composer, conductor, pianist and record producer
• October 13 Friedhart Klix , German psychologist (died 2004)
• October 13: Lee Konitz , American musician († 2020)
• October 13 Turgut Özal , Turkish President and Prime Minister († 1993)
• October 14: Johannes Baumgartner , Swiss athlete († 2021)
• October 14: Thomas Luckmann , German sociologist (died 2016)
• October 14: Roger Moore , British actor (died 2017)
  

  Roger Moore , 1973
• October 15: Jeannette Charles , British stand-in for Queen Elizabeth II.
• October 16 – Günter Grass , German writer, painter and sculptor, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (died 2015)

Gunter Grass , 2006

• October 16 Lee Montague , British actor
• October 16: Rudolf Morsey , German historian
• October 17: Friedrich Hirzebruch , German mathematician (died 2012)
• October 18: George C. Scott , American actor, director and producer (d. 1999)
• October 19: Pierre Alechinsky , Belgian painter
• October 19 Jean Bastien-Thiry , French colonel and assassin (died 1963)
• October 19: Hans Schäfer , German soccer player (died 2017)
• October 20: Werner Kreindl , Austrian actor (d. 1992)
• October 20: Oskar Pastior , German writer (died 2006)
• October 20 Abel Santamaría , Cuban revolutionary (died 1953)
• October 21: Roman Schnur , German constitutional lawyer († 1996)
• October 21: Howard Zieff , American director († 2009)
• October 23 – Hans Batz , German politician, MP (died 1986)
• October 23: Edward Kienholz , American object artist (d. 1994)
• October 23: Leszek Kołakowski , Polish philosopher (died 2009)
• October 24 Domenico Amoroso , Italian religious priest and bishop (died 1997)
• October 24: Gilbert Bécaud , French singer († 2001)
• October 24: Jean-Claude Pascal , French fashion designer, actor and singer (d. 1992)
• October 25 Hans Klaas , German businessman and entrepreneur (died 2011)
• October 25 Lawrence Kohlberg , American psychologist, professor of educational sciences (d. 1987)
• October 26: Hubert Aumüller , German politician
• October 26: Waldemaro Bartolozzi , Italian cyclist and team leader (d. 2020)
• October 26 Janet Moreau , American track and field athlete (d. 2021)
• October 27 Dominick Argento , American composer and university teacher († 2019)
• October 27: Thomas Nipperdey , German historian (died 1992)
• October 27: Hugo Schiltz , Belgian politician (died 2006)
• October 28 Cleo Laine , English singer and actress
• October 28 Armando Recio , Dominican singer
• October 29: Eberhard Mannschatz , German educator (died 2019)
• October 29 Frank Sedgman , Australian tennis player
• October 30: Weldon Rogers , American country, rockabilly musician and producer († 2004)
• October 31: Ernst Augustin , German writer (died 2019)

November

Zbigniew Cybulski

• 0November 1 Marcel Ophüls , French film director
• 0November 2: Steve Ditko , comic artist († 2018)
• 0November 3 Zbigniew Cybulski , Polish actor (died 1967)
• 0November 3 Odvar Nordli , Norwegian social democratic politician (died 2018)
• 0November 4: John O'Gorman Arundel , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
• 0November 5: Hirotsugu Akaike , Japanese statistician (died 2009)
• 0November 5: Helmut Aßmann , German racing driver († 2010)
• 0November 5: Armin Weiß , German chemist († 2010)
• 0November 7: Claude Storez , French racing driver (d. 1959)
• 0November 7: Hiroshi Yamauchi , Japanese entrepreneur (died 2013)
• 0November 8: Lal Krishna Advani , Indian politician
• 0November 8: Ken Dodd , English singer, actor and entertainer (died 2018)
• 0November 8: Nguyễn Khánh , South Vietnamese general and politician (died 2013)
• 0November 8 Patti Page , American country and pop singer († 2013)
• 0November 8: Jørgen Reenberg , Danish actor
• November 11 Moses Allison , American jazz pianist and singer († 2016)
• November 11: Luigi Malerba , Italian novelist and screenwriter († 2008)
• November 12 – Jack Butler , American football player and sports scout (died 2013)
• November 12: Yutaka Taniyama , Japanese mathematician (died 1958)
• November 13 Tomás Rivera Morales , Puerto Rican composer, cuatro player and music educator (d. 2001)
• November 14: Carl Schell , Swiss actor († 2019)
• November 14: McLean Stevenson , American actor (d. 1996)
• November 14: Narciso Yepes , Spanish classical guitarist (d. 1997)
• November 15: Gerhard Woitzik , German politician
• November 16 Robert Butler , American director
• November 16 Emile Wafflard , Belgian carom player and world champion (d. 1994)
• November 17: Walter Halbritter , Minister and Head of the Office for Awards in the GDR († 2003)
• November 18: Liane Augustin , Austrian singer, diseuse, actress and voice actress († 1978)
• November 18: Carmen Delia Dipiní , Puerto Rican singer (d. 1998)
• November 18 Klaus Poche , German writer, screenwriter and illustrator (died 2007)
• November 19: Eddie Garrett , American actor (died 2010)
• November 19: Günter Kallmann , German choir director, singer and composer († 2016)
• November 20: Miriam Akavia , Israeli writer and translator († 2015)

Miriam Akavia, 2008

• November 20 Estelle Parsons , American actress
• November 21 – Theodor Puff , German soccer player (died 1999)
• November 21: Barbara Rütting , German actress, author and politician († 2020)
• November 22 Jimmy Knepper , American jazz trombonist († 2003)
• 23 November: Angelo Cardinal Sodano , Cardinal Dean, Cardinal Secretary Emeritus

Angelo Sodano , 2006

• November 24 Emma Lou Diemer , American composer and professor
• November 24: Ahmadou Kourouma , Ivorian writer († 2003)
• November 24: Wolfgang Ecke , German writer (died 1983)
• November 25: Werner Biel , German rower (died 2006)
• November 25: Wolfgang Rolly , auxiliary bishop of Mainz and titular bishop of Taborenta († 2008)
• November 26: Shūhei Fujisawa , Japanese writer (died 1997)
• November 27: Barthel Schink , resistance fighter against National Socialism († 1944)
• November 27: William E. Simon , American businessman and politician (died 2000)
• November 28: Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah ibni Sultan Badlishah , Malaysian king (died 2017)
• November 28 Paulino Fernandes Madeca , Angolan Roman Catholic bishop (died 2008)
• November 29: Günter Rohrmoser , German social philosopher (died 2008)
• November 30 Martha Chase , American researcher († 2003)
• November 30: Robert Guillaume , American actor (died 2017)
• November 30: Jack Metcalf , American politician (died 2007)

December

• 0December 1: Dick Guldstrand , American entrepreneur and racing driver (died 2015)
• 0December 1: Jürgen Westphal , German politician

Juergen Westphal, 1979

• 0December 2 Benjamin Maxwell Acton , Australian ice hockey player (d. 2020)
• 0December 2: Gasisa Akhmetonova Shubanova , Kazakh composer (died 1993)
• 0December 3: Janusz Dolny , Polish pianist and music teacher (died 2008)
• 0December 3: Andy Williams , American pop singer and entertainer († 2012)
• 0December 4: Werner von Aesch , Swiss cabaret artist († 2008)
• 0December 4 Gerhard Arnold , German politician (died 1984)
• 0December 4 Gaetana Aulenti , Italian architect, interior designer, designer and architectural theorist († 2012)
• 0December 4 William Labov , American linguist
• 0December 4 Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio , Spanish writer (died 2019)
• 0December 4: Leopold Wagner , Austrian politician (died 2008)
• 0December 5: Willi Betz , German haulage contractor (died 2015)
• 0December 5: Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), King of Thailand since 1946 († 2016)

Bhumibol Adulyadej, 2010

• 0December 5 – Anton Jaumann , German politician and economics minister (died 1994)
• 0December 6 Ken Blaiklock , British geodesist and polar explorer (died 2020)
• 0December 6: Sergio Corbucci , Italian film director († 1990)
• 0December 6: Alfred Dick , German politician and environment minister (died 2005)
• 0December 7: Heinz-Werner Baer , German educator and scientist († 2009)
• 0December 7: Jorge Fontenla , Argentine pianist, conductor and composer († 2016)
• 0December 7: José Ivo Lorscheiter , Brazilian Bishop († 2007)
• 0December 8: Wolfgang Hempel , German sports journalist and reporter († 2004)
• 0December 8: Niklas Luhmann , German sociologist (died 1998)
• 0December 9: Karin Andersen , German actress († 2013)
• December 10: Klaus Hafner , German chemist (died 2021)
• December 11 Friedrich G. Beckhaus , German actor
• December 11: Dovima , American fashion model (d. 1990)
• December 11: Stein Eriksen , Norwegian skier (died 2015)
• December 11: Lloyd Meeds , American politician (died 2005)
• December 11: Heinz Florian Oertel , German sports reporter, journalist, presenter and actor of the GDR
• December 12: Dennis Herrold , American rockabilly musician († 2002)
• December 12: Robert Noyce , credited with inventing the integrated circuit (d. 1990)
• December 13: Geneviève Page , French actress
• December 14 Givi Margvelashvili , German-Georgian writer and philosopher († 2020)
• December 14: Günter Särchen , German Catholic social worker († 2004)
• December 15: William MacKey , American racing driver (d. 1951)
• December 16: Helmut Klingen , German mathematician (died 2017)
• December 17: Richard Long , American actor (died 1974)
• December 18 Ramsey Clark , American lawyer and politician (died 2021)
• December 18: Hans Riexinger , German local historian († 2019)
• December 18: Wolfgang Schleidt , researcher in the field of behavioral biology
• December 19: James Booth , English actor (died 2005)
• December 19: Paul Guers , French actor (died 2016)
• December 20: Kim Young-sam , South Korean politician (died 2015)
• December 20: Edward Shaske , Canadian marksman (d. 2021)
• December 21: Ogawa Kunio , Japanese writer (died 2008)
• December 22: Ferdinand Zechmeister Austrian football player († 1998)
• December 24: Mary Higgins Clark , American crime novelist († 2020)
• December 24: Angelika Schrobsdorff , German writer (died 2016)
• December 24: Victor Sillon , French athlete (died 2021)
• December 24: Eugen Thomass , German film composer († 2009)
• December 25: Gerhard Holtz-Baumert , German writer (died 1996)
• December 25: Rudi Georgi , economic functionary of the GDR († 2020)
• December 25: Alan King , American actor (died 2004)
• 25 December Ram Narayan , Indian sarangi player
• December 26: Vasile Arvinte , Romanian Romance scholar and scholar (died 2011)
• December 26: Akihiko Hirata , Japanese actor (died 1984)
• December 26: Denis Quilley , British actor and singer (died 2003)
• December 26 – Ingo Schubert , German doctor, university lecturer and politician († 1999)
• December 27: Hermann Ansorge , German agricultural chemist (died 2010)
• December 27: Anne Legendre Armstrong , US diplomat and politician (died 2008)
• December 27 Bill Crow , American jazz bassist
• December 27: Wolf-Dietrich Großer , German politician (died 2016)
• December 27: Stefan Knafl , Austrian politician (died 2005)
• December 28 Edward Babiuch , Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland in 1980 († 2021)
• December 28: Gustave Gosselin , Belgian racing driver
• December 28 Raimundo Revoredo Ruiz , Peruvian Roman Catholic religious religious (died 2021)
• December 29: Giorgio Capitani , Italian film director († 2017)
• December 29 – Andy Stanfield , American track and field and Olympic gold medalist (d. 1985)
• December 30: Robert Hossein , French actor and director († 2020)
• December 30 Hamed Karoui , Tunisian politician and Prime Minister of Tunisia (died 2020)
• December 31: Dieter Noll , German writer (died 2008)

Exact date of birth unknown

• Nesmith Cornett Ankeny , American mathematician (died 1993)
• Issam al-Attar , Syrian Islamist
• Martin Canin , American painter (died 2000)
• Ursula Gerstel , German actress, dubbing and radio play speaker
• Ilse Harms-Lipski , German painter and illustrator († 2017)
• Karl Hofmann , German motorcycle racer (died 1978)
• Hanna Jäger , German painter, light and installation artist († 2014)
• Bruce Jennings , American racing driver (died 1997)
• Hermann Schäfer , German composer, music teacher and scholar († 2009)
• Jerzy Zgodziński , Polish percussionist and music educator (died 1996)

Died

January

Ascher Hirsch Ginsberg

• 0January 2: Ascher Hirsch Ginsberg , Zionist activist, journalist and main representative of cultural Zionism (b. 1856)
• 0January 3: Carl Runge , German mathematician (b. 1856)
• 0January 9: Houston Stewart Chamberlain , English-German writer and cultural philosopher (b. 1855)
• 0January 9: Percival W. Clement , American politician (b. 1846)
• January 12: Hermann von Tappeiner , Austrian physician and pharmacologist (b. 1847)
• January 15: Dawid Janowski , Polish chess player (born 1868)
• January 15: David Rowland Francis , American politician (born 1850)
• January 17: Juliette Gordon Low , founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
• January 18: Otto Wiener , German physicist (b. 1862)
• January 23: Hilma Kristina Elisabet Angered-Strandberg , Swedish writer (born 1855)
• January 26: Lyman J. Gage , American politician (b. 1836)

February

Hazrat Inayat Khan, circa 1920.

• 0February 1 Heinrich Hess , German civil servant, local historian and politician (b. 1844)
• 0February 5: Hazrat Inayat Khan , founder of the "Sufi Order International" and "International Sufi Movement" (b. 1882)
• 0February 7: Walter Guion , American lawyer and politician (b. 1849)
• 0February 7: Myfit Bey Libohova , Albanian politician (b. 1876)
• 0February 8: Heinrich Braun , German social democratic politician and publicist (b. 1854)
• February 11: Wilhelm Bader Sr. , German organ builder (* 1846)
• February 12: Agnes Karll , German nursing reformer (b. 1868)
• February 13: Brooks Adams , American historian (b. 1848)
• February 16 Otto Keller , German classical scholar (b. 1838)
• February 18: Paul Steindorff , American conductor (born 1864)
• February 19: Georg Brandes , Danish writer (b. 1842)
• February 19: Robert Fuchs , Austrian composer (b. 1847)
• February 20: Willard Saulsbury Jr. , American politician (b. 1861)
• February 22: Judson Harmon , American politician (b. 1846)
• February 25: David Baird , American politician (b. 1839)
• February 25: Luise Gerbing , German local historian (b. 1855)

March

Jan Kaspar

• 0March 2: Jan Kašpar , Czech engineer and first aircraft designer and pilot in Czech Republic (b. 1883)
• 0March 2: Marie Lipsius , German writer and music historian (b. 1837)
• 0March 3: Mikhail Artsybashev , Russian writer (b. 1878)
• 0March 4: Romain-Octave Pelletier , Canadian organist and composer (b. 1843)
• 0March 8: Babette von Bülow , German writer (b. 1850)
• March 12: Georges Docquois , French writer (b. 1863)
• March 12: Walter Henry Rothwell , English conductor (b. 1872)
• March 14: Helene Jacobsen , Danish lithographer and painter (b. 1888)
• March 20: George Wellington , American politician (b. 1852)
• March 28: Hermann Ernst Ludwig Viktor Ambronn , German botanist and physicist (b. 1856)
• March 29: Besarion Chelaia , Georgian cleric (b. 1861)
• March 30: Charles Flohot , French automobile racer (b. 1888)
• March 30: Ladislas Lazaro , American politician (b. 1872)
• March 31: Kang Youwei , Chinese reformer, educator and philosopher (b. 1858)

April

• 0April 4: Vincent Drucci , American mobster (b. 1901)
• 0April 4: Albert Van Coile , Belgian footballer (born 1900)
• April 21: Hugo Schuchardt , German Romance scholar (b. 1842)
• April 21: Ernst Wasserzieh , German etymologist (b. 1860)
• April 26: Edward T. Lewis , American politician (b. 1834)
• April 28: Maria Janitschek , Austrian writer (b. 1859)

May

Oscar Swahn, 1912

• 0May 1: Oscar Swahn , Swedish marksman and oldest ever Olympic champion (b. 1847)
• 0May 3: David Alfonso Arellano Mayorga , Chilean footballer (b. 1902)
• 0May 8: Nathan Stein , German judge, first Jewish court president (b. 1857)
• May 11: Juan Gris , Spanish-French Cubist painter (b. 1887)
• May 13: Stine Andresen , German writer (b. 1849)
• May 15: Mario Saetti , Italian motorcycle and automobile racer (*unknown)
• May 23: Wilhelm Ahrens , German mathematician and writer (born 1872)
• May 30: Vincenzo Cerulli , Italian astronomer (born 1859)
• May 30: Arnold Niggli , Swiss music historian and critic (b. 1843)

June

• 0June 2: Friedrich Hegar , Swiss composer and conductor (born 1841)
• 0June 2: Hüseyin Avni Lifij , Ottoman Turkish painter (b. 1886)
• 0June 4: Foster MacGowan Voorhees , American politician (b. 1856)
• 0June 5: Victor Attinger , Swiss photographer and publisher (b. 1856)
• 0June 7: Archie Birkin , British motorcycle racer (b. 1905)
• 0June 9: Michael Ancher , Danish painter (b. 1849)
• 0June 9: Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin , American suffragette (b. 1838)
• 10 June: Wilhelm Bode , German evangelical pastor, cooperative founder, conservationist, known as Heidepastor (b. 1860)
• June 10: Paul Werner , German politician (b. 1848)
• June 11: Ernst Moser , German writer and bookseller (b. 1863)
• June 14: Jerome K. Jerome , British novelist (b. 1859)
• June 14: William Carey Jones , American politician (b. 1855)
• June 15: Sophie von Adelung , German writer and painter (b. 1850)
• June 15: Ottavio Bottecchia , Italian racing cyclist (b. 1894)
• June 15: William Joseph Deboe , American politician (b. 1849)
• June 25: Heinrich Schenck , German botanist (b. 1860)

July

• 0July 1: Charles W. Gates , American politician (b. 1856)
• 0July 2: Joseph Gaudentius Anderson , American auxiliary bishop (b. 1865)
• 0July 3: Gérard de Courcelles , French racing driver (b. 1889)

Albrecht Kossel

• 0July 5: Albrecht Kossel , German physician and physiologist (b. 1853)
• 0July 6: Wilhelm Blos , German journalist, writer and politician (b. 1849)
• 0July 7: Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler , Swedish mathematician (born 1846)
• July 10: Louise Abbéma , French painter (born 1853)
• July 13: Marcel Michelot , French automobile racer (b. 1892)
• July 14: Fritz Hofmann , German athlete (b. 1871)
• July 15: Paul Bäumer , German pilot and fighter pilot in World War I (b. 1896)
• July 15: Constance Markiewicz , Irish freedom fighter, Minister (b. 1868)
• July 17: Luise Adolpha Le Beau , German pianist and composer (born 1850)
• July 20: Ferdinand I , Romanian king (b. 1865)
• July 23: Arthur Hoffmann , Swiss politician (b. 1857)
• July 24: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke , Japanese writer (born 1892)
• July 30: James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey , Ghanaian teacher and missionary (b. 1875)
• July 30: Robert de Flers , French playwright and journalist (b. 1872)
• July 30: Ernst Koerner , German painter (b. 1846)

August

Joseph O'Mara

• 0August 3: Emil Ferdinand Fehling , Mayor of Lübeck (b. 1847)
• 0August 4: Eugène Atget , French photographer (b. 1857)
• 0August 5: Joseph O'Mara , Irish operatic tenor (b. 1864)
• 0August 7: Kirellos V , Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark (b. 1831)
• August 11: Koizumi Chikashi , Japanese lyric poet (b. 1886)
• August 12: Carl Pulfrich , physicist and optician (b. 1858)
• August 13: Hermann Abert , German music scholar (b. 1871)
• August 13: James Oliver Curwood , American writer (b. 1878)
• August 13: Árpád Doppler , Hungarian-German composer (b. 1857)
• August 17: John Oliver , Canadian politician (b. 1856)
• August 18: Johannes Theodor Baargeld , German author and publicist (b. 1892)
• August 25: Elisabeth Aspe , Estonian writer (b. 1860)
• August 31: Andranik Ozanian , Armenian general and freedom fighter (b. 1865)

September

Marcus Loew, 1910

• 0September 5: Marcus Loew : American motion picture industry pioneer (b. 1870)
• September 12: Walter Oskar Ernst Amelung , German classical archaeologist (b. 1865)
• September 14: Hugo Ball , German author and biographer (b. 1886)
• September 14: Isadora Duncan , American dancer (b. 1877)
• September 16: Max von Gruber , Austrian physician and founder of modern hygiene (b. 1853)
• September 16: James H. Higgins , American politician (b. 1876)
• September 18: Charles R. Miller , American politician (b. 1857)
• September 26: Arthur Trebitsch , Austrian writer and philosopher (b. 1880)

Willem Einthoven , 1906

• September 29: Willem Einthoven , Dutch physician and Nobel laureate (b. 1860)
• September 29: Arthur Achleitner , German writer (b. 1858)

October

• 0October 2: Svante Arrhenius , Swedish physicist and chemist (born 1859)
• 0October 2: Austin Peay , American politician (b. 1876)
• 0October 3: Hermann Weil , German-Argentine entrepreneur (b. 1868)
• 0October 4: Paul Leonhardt , Councilor of Wittenberg (b. 1852)
• 0October 4: Eduard Riggenbach , Swiss Protestant theologian and university teacher (b. 1861)
• 0October 8: Ange Flégier , French composer, music critic, painter and writer (born 1846)
• 0October 8: Ricardo Güiraldes , Argentine writer (b. 1886)
• 10 October: Aurél Stromfeld , k.u.k. officer and Chief of Staff of the Army of the Hungarian Soviet Republic (b. 1878)

Gustav Weisskopf .

• October 10: Gustav Weißkopf , German-American pioneer of powered flight (b. 1874)
• October 12: Miguel R. Dávila , President of Honduras (b. 1856)
• October 14: Eero Erkko , Finnish journalist and politician (b. 1860)
• 14 October: Heinrich XXIV , Prince Reuss zu Greiz (b. 1878)
• October 19 Karl Maria Alexander von Auersperg , Austrian landowner and politician (b. 1859)
• October 20: Georg von Below , German historian (b. 1858)
• October 21: Hans Goltz , German art dealer and a pioneer of modern art (b. 1873)
• October 22: Borisav "Bora" Stanković , Serbian writer (b. 1876)
• October 26: Hermann Muthesius , architect (b. 1861)
• October 26: Yagi Jūkichi , Japanese writer (b. 1898)
• October 30: Maximilian Harden , German publicist (b. 1861)
• October 31: Paul Felix Aschrott , German jurist, criminal law and social reformer (b. 1856)

November

• 0November 2: Charles Augustus Semlin , Canadian politician (born 1836)
• 0November 8: Arthur Strasser , Austrian sculptor (b. 1854)
• November 17: Mulai Yusuf , Sultan of the Alawids in Morocco (b. 1882)
• November 20: Wilhelm Stenhammar , Swedish composer, pianist and conductor (born 1871)
• November 21: Oscar Keller , American politician (b. 1878)
• November 23: Miguel Pro , Mexican Catholic priest and martyr (b. 1891)
• November 23: Stanisław Przybyszewski , Polish writer (b. 1868)
• November 25: Alfred De Sève , Canadian violinist, music educator and composer (b. 1858)
• November 26: Giovanni Bonzano , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1867)
• November 28: John W. Griggs , American politician (b. 1849)
• November 28 Karl Rieker , German legal scholar and legal historian (b. 1857)

December

Herbert Hadley, 1912

• 0December 1: Herbert S. Hadley , American politician (b. 1872)
• 0December 4: Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky , Austrian film pioneer (b. 1886)
• 06 December: Gustave Ramaciotti , Australian theater director and soldier (b. 1861)
• 09 December: Franz Rohr von Denta , k.u.k. Field Marshal (b. 1854)
• December 10: Bruno Ertler , Austrian writer (b. 1889)
• December 15: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven , German Dadaist artist (b. 1874)
• December 16: Hugh Archibald Clarke , Canadian composer (b. 1839)
• December 20: Michael Georg Conrad , German writer of naturalism (b. 1846)
• December 20: Andrieus A. Jones , American politician (b. 1862)
• December 29: Andreas Amrhein , Swiss Benedictine monk (b. 1844)
• December 31: Max Meyer-Olbersleben , German composer (b. 1850)

Exact date of death unknown

Herman Alois Mayer, 1910

• Hermann Alois Mayer , German businessman, health researcher, naturopath, inventor, philosopher and writer (born 1871)
• Abdol Majid Mirza , Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1845)
• Ahmed Hikmet Müftüoğlu , Turkish poet and writer (born 1870)

literature

• Bill Bryson: Summer of 1927 . Goldmann, 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-30123-2 , pp. 640 (Original title: One Summer: America 1927. Translated by Thomas Bauer).

web links

Commons : 1927  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Living Virtual Museum Online