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1928
The iron Gustav returns to Berlin from Paris in September.
The Graf Zeppelin airship over the Berlin Victory Column .	Gustav Stresemann on the way to the League of Nations conference in Lugano . Demonstration on May 1st in Berlin-Treptow .

1928 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2681
Armenian calendar	1376-1377
Ethiopian calendar	1920-1921
Badi calendar	84-85
Bengali calendar	1334-1335
Berber calendar	2878
Buddhist calendar	2472
Burmese calendar	1290
Byzantine calendar	7436-7437
Chinese calendar
- era	4624-4625 or 4564-4565
- 60 year cycle	Fire Rabbit ( 丁卯 , 4) - Earth Dragon ( 戊辰 , 5)
French revolutionary calendar	CXXXVI - CXXXVII 136-137
Hebrew calendar	5688-5689
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	1984-1985
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Islamic calendar	1346-1347
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 3
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Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4261
- Juche era	17th
Minguo calendar	17th
Modern Olympics	IX
Seleucid calendar	2239-2240
Thai solar calendar	2471

Events

Politics and world events

International treaties

• January 1 : The visa requirement between the German Reich and Great Britain is lifted.
• August 27 : The Briand-Kellogg Pact is signed in Paris , rejecting war as a political tool.

German Empire

• February 22nd : The Afghan King Amanullah Khan visits Germany and Berlin as the first crowned head of state on his world tour for five days.
• March 30 : The German Reichstag resolves a warship building program against the votes of the SPD and KPD, around ten million marks are approved. A storm of protest breaks out during the election campaign ("Child feeding instead of armored cruiser!")
• May 20 : Reichstag elections in Germany : losses of the DNVP (from 20.5 to 14.3%) and the liberal parties; The SPD gained votes (from 26.0% to 29.8%).
• June 12 : The German Chancellor Wilhelm Marx vom Zentrum resigns after his party's defeat in the Reichstag elections.
• June 14 : Paul Löbe , Social Democratic Party of Germany , is re-elected President of the Reichstag in Berlin .

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

• June 20 : In the Parliament of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Belgrade, a Serbian MP shoots five Croatian MPs during a session. The leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, Stjepan Radić , is fatally wounded, and two other MPs also die as a result of the attack.
• August 1 : Croatian MPs meet in Zagreb and, under the impression of the June attack, speak out in favor of a separation from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

Other events in Europe

• January 1st : Edmund Schulthess becomes President of Switzerland for the third time .
• March 12th : Malta gains British Dominion status .
• April 12th : In an attempted attack on the Italian King Viktor Emanuel III. 17 people die.
• May 18 : The Shakhty trial begins in the Soviet Union against Russian and foreign engineers and skilled workers for alleged sabotage.
• July 2 : In the UK , women 21 and older are given the right to vote.
• September 1 : Ahmet Zogu , the elected president of Albania , proclaimed as Zog I. to king of the Albanians .
• December 2nd : A popular initiative for a partial ban on casinos is adopted in Switzerland .
• December 10th : Wilhelm Miklas is elected President of Austria .

Africa

• January 1 : In Sierra Leone which is slavery abolished by law.
• July 19 : The Egyptian-Sudanese King Fu'ad I suspends the Egyptian constitution from 1923 and triggers a serious state crisis in the Kingdom of Egypt .
• October 7th : Haile Selassie is crowned King ( Negus ) of Ethiopia .

America

• January 16 : The 5th Pan-American Congress begins in Havana . It is decided to create an international women’s conference.
• July 17th : Mexican President Álvaro Obregón is assassinated.
• November 6 : The Republican presidential candidate Herbert Hoover wins the US presidential election by a clear majority against the Democrat Alfred E. Smith .

Asia

• November 10 : In Japan is Hirohito in Kyoto Imperial Palace crowned the new emperor.
• December 29th : The Kuomintang declares Chinese reunification complete.

economy

• August: In the Achnacarry Agreement, the world's leading oil producers form a secret cartel

Trade fairs and world exhibitions

• May 26th : The newly built exhibition center Brno opens with an exhibition on contemporary culture and applied arts on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Czechoslovakia.
• November 28 : The Bureau International des Expositions , which oversees world expositions and international trade fairs , is founded in Paris.

Patents

• April 2 : Maurice Martenot patented the Ondes Martenot , an electronic musical instrument .
• May 2nd : Louis Marx applies for a patent in the USA for his educational game called Educational Apparatus . As an Electric Questioner , the invention was very popular among customers in the 1950s.

Business start-ups

• January 26th : The luxury cinema Titania-Palast opens in Berlin .
• April 1 : Hub van Doorne founds a company in Eindhoven that will become the automobile manufacturer DAF .
• December 3 : The Opel works in Rüsselsheim are converted into an AG with share capital of 60 million.

traffic

• May 15th : The luxury train Rheingold runs along the Rhine for the first time on the Hoek van Holland - Basel route .
• October 7th : With the timetable change, the Deutsche Reichsbahn no longer offers its customers a fourth class of wagons in order to generate higher income.

science and technology

Polar expeditions

• April 15 : The Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins takes off on a trans arctic flight with pilot Carl Ben Eielson . In Point Barrow , Alaskan , the plane takes off to its destination Spitsbergen .
• May 24th : Umberto Nobile flies over the North Pole for the second time in his airship “Italia” .
• May 25 : On Umberto Nobiles' second North Pole voyage , the airship Italia, used for research purposes, crashes in bad weather. The driver's gondola is torn off when it hits an ice floe, and a man dies. The now uncontrolled hull of the airship drifts off again with six crew members on board and remains lost. Days later, almost all of those who have fallen are rescued.
• June 18 : The Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen sets out in a flying boat to rescue Umberto Nobile's crew from the Arctic who had an accident on the airship Italia . Amundsen and his companions crash near Bear Island and are killed.
• November 16 : Sir Hubert Wilkins and Carl Ben Eielson take off for the first powered flight in Antarctica .

Transoceanic flights

• April 12th : Hermann Köhl , Freiherr von Hünefeld and James Fitzmaurice set out from Ireland for the first Atlantic crossing from east to west. The next day they arrive in Canada by plane.

The Southern Cross , taken in 1943

• June 9 : The first trans- Pacific flight is made by the pilot Charles Kingsford Smith and his three companions Charles Ulm , James Warner and Harry Lyon in their aircraft Southern Cross . After taking off on May 31, their flight from Oakland in California led in three stages with stopovers to Brisbane .

Other aviation events

• February 23 : The aviator Ernst Udet lands on the Zugspitze in a 20 hp plane .
• July 8 : The airship LZ 127 is christened "Graf Zeppelin".
• June 11th : Fritz Stamer conducts the first manned rocket flight . The Lippisch-Ente- type glider, equipped with solid rockets , is started with a rubber rope.

• First flight of the Bernard 190T in spring
• First flight of the Short S8 Calcutta
• First flight of the Sikorsky S-38
• August: First flight of the Boeing 80
• The German chief engineer and inventor Engelbert Zaschka is experimenting in Berlin with his rotary aircraft, a combined gyroplane and helicopter in coaxial construction.

Astronomy and physics

• February 28 : The Indian physicist CV Raman experimentally proves a certain scattering of light , the Raman scattering named after the discoverer . The discovery and his work on the diffusion of light are honored with the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics .

• George Paget Thomson shows the wave properties of electrons almost simultaneously with Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer (published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society London (A) 117 (1928), 600; 119 (1928), 651)
• Edwin Hubble discovers the redshift of distant galaxies
• Paul Dirac uses the formalism of spinors to formulate his equations for the spin of the electron
• George Gamow and Edward U. Condon apply quantum mechanics to the atomic nucleus and explain the alpha decay as a kind of tunnel effect
• Hans Geiger and Walther Müller develop their Geiger-Müller counter tube with which they can detect ionizing radiation . Shortly thereafter, turns Walther Bothe the counter tube in his coincidence method for the detection of electron emission by x-rays to
• Rolf Wideröe proposes the principle of the betatron (at the time known as a beam transformer)

Medicine and biology

• January 2 : George Nicolas Papanicolaou publishes the article New Cancer Diagnosis , in which he (later named after him) presents the Pap test for the first time.
• September 28 : The bacteriologist Alexander Fleming accidentally noticed that one of his staphylococci cultures in which molds of the genus Penicillium had gotten has been killed. His further investigations lead to the development of the antibacterial substance penicillin .

• Josias Braun-Blanquet publishes his plant sociology .

technology

• February 10 : first radio communication from Germany to the USA
• November 20 : The German Reichspost conducts the first radio image transmissions on a trial basis via its transmitter in Königs Wusterhausen with the help of a Fultograph . It is testing a preliminary stage in the German history of television .

• Franke & Heidecke Fabrik Photographischer Precision Apparatus, better known today under the name Rollei , builds ten camera prototypes with a recording format of 6 × 6 centimeters. The camera was launched the following year as the Model 611. It bears the name Rolleiflex, which is known to this day.

Teaching and Research

• September 11 : In Denmark's second city Aarhus , the Aarhus University founded.

Culture

Architecture and fine arts

The Kroch high-rise , completed in 1928 and designed as a clock tower , was the first high-rise in Leipzig (west side of Augustusplatz , 2005)

Goetheanum Dornach (CH)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Davoser Café , oil on canvas, Museum Landscape Hessen Kassel

• June 24th : In Koblenz the Joseph Görres monument is inaugurated as a sign of the Rhineland's affiliation with Germany.
• September 29th : Opening of the second Goetheanum in Dornach (CH) based on a design by Rudolf Steiner , one of the first concrete buildings in the world in which the building material is already used artistically. It replaces the first wooden Goetheanum that was set on fire.

• Establishment of the international association of architects CIAM
• Foundation of the Stuttgart New Secession

literature

• November 10th : The Vossische Zeitung in Berlin begins preprinting the novel Im West Nothing New by Erich Maria Remarque . Its circulation is increasing rapidly, the newspaper is coming out of the red
• December 22nd : Anna Seghers receives the Kleist Prize for her novella Revolt of the Fishermen of St. Barbara

Music and theater

• January 1st : The jazz opera Jonny plays on by Ernst Krenek is performed for the first time in Vienna
• 23 January : The visitors to the Berlin Piscator stage experience the world premiere of The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk , based on the novel written by Jaroslav Hašek
• February 18th : The opera Der Zar lets himself be photographed by Kurt Weill is premiered at the New Theater in Leipzig .
• March 2nd : World premiere of the operetta The Fraulein's Husband by Paul Abraham in Budapest
• May 29th : World premiere of the operetta Spring Girl by Franz Lehár in the New Theater am Zoo in Berlin (revision of the operetta Spring from 1922)
• June 6th : World premiere of the opera Die ägyptische Helena by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal in Dresden
• August 31 : World premiere of the Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht in Berlin
• September 28 : The Comedian Harmonists make their debut at the Great Berlin Theater
• October 4th : World premiere of the operetta Friederike by Franz Lehár at the Metropol-Theater in Berlin.
• December 13 : The Musical An American in Paris by George Gershwin is in the Carnegie Hall premiere in New York City.
• October 14 : The opera Tyll by Mark Lothar is premiered at the German National Theater in Weimar under the musical direction of Ernst Praetorius and with Walter Favre and Priska Aich in the leading roles .
• October 15 : The 6th Symphony by Kurt Atterberg ., The so-called "Dollar Symphony" is, in Cologne premiered.
• December 21st : The rope dancer piece Katharina Knie by Carl Zuckmayer is premiered at the Berlin Lessing Theater.

Others

• January 4 : In Munich will Militant League for German Culture established
• January 7th : Walt Disney invents the legendary Mickey Mouse
• Completion of the Plaza de España in Seville
• The Roland Roland in Bad Windsheim is erected as a memorial

society

• June 4th : Gustav Hartmann , the Iron Gustav , arrives in Paris (coming from Berlin) with his horse-drawn carriage.
• August 30th : The son of the same name of the industrialist Hugo Stinnes , who died in 1924, is arrested on a large scale for a fraudulent deal with war bonds.
• November 1 : Turkey passes a law to introduce the Latin alphabet . The law comes into force on November 3rd .

religion

• January 6th : The encyclical Mortalium animos by Pope Pius XI. is considered a document of the ecumenical return . Other churches are seen as apostate in it and called upon by him to return to the true church .
• March 23 : The first mosque built by Muslims in Germany is inaugurated in Berlin . (then: Berlin mosque )
• October 2nd : In Madrid, the Spanish priest Josemaría Escrivá founds the Catholic association Opus Dei .
• December 20 : The papal bull Divini cultus sanctitatem calls for Pius XI to encourage Gregorian chant and sacred music in the liturgy .

Disasters

• January 7th : A storm from the east that backs up the Thames leads to a dam break in London . Parts of the city are under water. People are dying, many are homeless.
• January 16 : In Völklingen, 13 people die in a blast furnace explosion in the iron and steel works.
• March 12 : The dam of the St. Francis Dam near Los Angeles breaks: approx. 400 dead
• March 30th : Severe earthquake in the Turkish city of Izmir
• April 22nd : Another major earthquake destroys almost the entire Greek city of Corinth
• June 20 : A train derails near the Franconian town of Siegelsdorf . 24 people are killed and over 100 injured.
• July 6 : The transport ship “Angamos” ( Chile ) stranded in a storm near Punta Morguillas (Chile) and breaks apart. 283 dead, 8 survivors
• September 13 : The Okeechobee Hurricane devastated the islands of the Caribbean and the east coast of the United States . At least 4,075 people are killed.
• November 12 : The British liner Vestris of the Lamport & Holt Line capsizes and sinks in the North Atlantic after a storm pushed seawater into the ship through an open cargo hatch (112 dead)
• December: The Danish training ship København with a crew of 80 disappears without a trace on the crossing from Buenos Aires to Melbourne.

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

Sports

• January 6th : Boxing: Max Schmeling defends his title as European light heavyweight champion with a knockout victory over the Italian Michele Bonaglia .
• February 11 : Opening of the II. Winter Olympics in St. Moritz
• February 19 : Closing ceremony of the II. Olympic Winter Games
• March 4 : The first Arlberg-Kandahar race , an alpine skiing event consisting of slalom and downhill skiing , ends in St. Anton am Arlberg .
• April 4th : Boxing: Max Schmeling becomes German heavyweight champion by winning points over defending champion Franz Diener .
• May 17th : Opening of the IX. Summer Olympics in Amsterdam
• May 19 : The Stade Roland Garros tennis arena opens in Paris . The French Open will then be held there.
• June 20 : The Spanish football club Real Valladolid is created from the merger of two local clubs.
• June 26th : Kurt Helbig becomes Germany's first Olympic weightlifting champion in Amsterdam.
• August 12 : Closing ceremony of the IX. Summer Olympics
• September 16 : Football: Germany wins against Denmark in Nuremberg with 2: 1
• Richard Halliburton is the first person to swim the entire length of the Panama Canal .

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : Owen Willans Richardson
• Chemistry : Adolf Windaus
• Medicine : Charles Nicolle
• Literature : Sigrid Undset

A Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded.

Born

January

• 0January 1 : Fritz Senn , Swiss publicist
• 0January 1 : Hap Sharp , American racing driver († 1993 )
• 0January 1 : Pranas Vaičekonis , Lithuanian canon lawyer, professor of canon law and theology, priest († 2006 )
• 0January 2 : Gerhard Amanshauser , Austrian writer († 2006 )
• 0January 2 : Daisaku Ikeda , Japanese Buddhist, philosopher, author
• 0January 2 : Tamio Ōki , Japanese voice actor († 2017 )
• 0January 2 : Tiberiu Olah , Romanian composer († 2002 )
• 0January 2nd : Wolfgang Sauer , German jazz and pop singer († 2015 )
• 0January 3 : Rob Pronk , Dutch jazz bandleader, arranger, pianist and composer († 2012 )
• 0January 4 : Werner Felfe , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR († 1988 )
• 0January 5 : Zulfikar Ali Bhutto , President and Prime Minister of Pakistan († 1979 )
• 0January 5 : Walter Mondale , American politician, 42nd Vice President of the USA
• 0January 6 : Giovanni Attanasio , Italian actor († 1988 )
• 0January 6 : Capucine , French actress († 1990 )
• 0January 6th : Astrid Gehlhoff-Claes , German writer and translator († 2011 )
• 0January 6 : Richard Meier , German lawyer († 2015 )
• 0January 7 : William Peter Blatty , American writer and director († 2017 )
• 0January 7th : Emilio Pericoli , Italian singer († 2013 )
• 0January 8 : Felice Andreasi , Italian actor († 2005 )
• 0January 8 : Slade Gorton , American politician († 2020 )
• 0January 8 : Joseph Pach , Canadian violinist
• 0January 8 : Luther Perkins , American guitarist († 1968 )
• 0January 8 : Roland Ploeger , German composer († 2004 )
• 0January 8 : Rudi Schmitt , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0January 8 : Gilberte Thirion , Belgian racing driver († 2008 )
• 0January 9 : Fritz Dirtl , Austrian motorcycle racer († 1956 )
• 0January 9 : Wolfgang Draeger , German actor and voice actor
• 0January 9 : Domenico Modugno , Italian singer and songwriter († 1994 )
• January 11th : Will Brandes , German pop singer († 1990 )
• January 11th : Cal Massey , American jazz composer and trumpeter († 1972 )
• January 11 : David L. Wolper , American film producer († 2010 )
• January 11 : Harry Wüstenhagen , German actor and voice actor († 1999 )
• January 12 : Bill Lange , American football player († 1995 )
• January 12 : Peter Lerche , German legal scholar († 2016 )
• January 12 : Lloyd Ruby , American racing driver († 2009 )
• January 12 : Tommy Spurlin , American rockabilly musician († 2005 )
• January 14 : Hilario Chávez Joya , Mexican bishop († 2010 )
• January 14th : Leek Faircloth , American politician
• January 14 : Joe Muranyi , Hungarian-American jazz musician († 2012 )
• January 14th : Karl-Heinz Prinz , German soccer player
• January 14 : Jürgen Weber , German sculptor († 2007 )
• January 14 : Garry Winogrand , American photographer († 1984 )
• January 16 : Pilar Lorengar , Spanish soprano († 1996 )
• January 17 : Jean Barraqué , French composer († 1973 )
• January 17 : Benno Meyer-Wehlack , German writer († 2014 )
• January 17th : Vidal Sassoon , British hair stylist and entrepreneur († 2012 )
• January 18 : Betty Berzon , American author and psychotherapist († 2006 )
• January 18 : Alexander Gomelski , Russian basketball player and coach († 2005 )
• January 19 : Christof Krause , German sculptor († 2005 )
• January 19 : Hans Georg Wunderlich , German geologist († 1974 )
• January 20 : Rainer Arlt , German agricultural law scholar, university professor and politician († 1997 )
• January 20 : Harry Ristock , German social democratic politician († 1992 )
• January 21 : Reynaldo Bignone , Argentine General († 2018 )
• January 21 : Carol Beach York , American author of youth literature († 2013 )
• January 21 : Trude Mally , Austrian singer and dudler († 2009 )
• January 22 : Birch Bayh , American politician († 2019 )
• January 22nd : Wolfram Gehring , German organist
• January 23 : Jeanne Moreau , French actress, film director and singer († 2017 )

Jeanne Moreau , 1958

• January 24th : Desmond Morris , British zoologist, behaviorist, publicist and artist
• January 24th : Michel Serrault , French actor († 2007 )
• January 25 : Helmut Ahner , German actor and voice actor († 2014 )
• January 25 : Karl Walter Diess , Austrian actor († 2014 )
• January 25 : Eduard Shevardnadze , Soviet Foreign Minister, Georgian President († 2014 )
• January 26 : Heinrich Franke , German politician, President of the Federal Labor Office († 2004 )
• January 26 : Roger Vadim , French film director († 2000 )
• January 27 : Jean-Michel Damase , French composer († 2013 )
• January 27 : Hans Modrow , German politician, head of government of the GDR

Hans Modrow , 1989

• January 28 : Akiko Baba , Japanese writer and literary scholar
• January 28 : Jirō Kawamura , Japanese translator, literary scholar and critic († 2008 )
• January 28 : Jorge Zorreguieta , Argentine Minister of Agriculture († 2017 )
• January 29 : Kurt Joachim von Bornhaupt , German judge († 2009 )
• January 29 : Bengt Hambraeus , Swedish composer, organist and musicologist († 2000 )
• January 30th : Ruth Brown , American rhythm and blues singer († 2006 )
• January 30th : Harold Prince , American theater director and producer († 2019 )

February

• 0February 1 : Jean Aubain , French composer († 2015 )
• 0February 1 : Tom Lantos , American politician († 2008 )
• 0February 1 : Stuart Whitman , American actor († 2020 )
• 0February 2 : Ciriaco De Mita , Italian politician
• 0February 3 : Andrzej Szczypiorski , Polish writer († 2000 )
• 0February 3 : Svend Wad , Danish boxer († 2004 )
• 0February 4th : Gian Luigi Polidoro , Italian film director († 2000 )
• 0February 4 : Kim Yŏng-nam , North Korean politician, chairman of the North Korean Supreme People's Assembly
• 0February 5 : Ernst Eisenmann , German trade unionist († 2016 )
• 0February 5 : Bruno Krupp , German politician († 2015 )
• 0February 5 : Heddo Schulenburg , German actor
• 0February 6 : Walter Auffenberg , American biologist († 2004 )
• 0February 6 : Sjel de Bruijckere , Dutch football player († 2011 )
• 0February 6 : Arno Esch , German politician († 1951 )
• 0February 7 : Carlo Ross , German writer († 2004 )
• 0February 8 : Siegfried Fink , German drummer and composer († 2006 )
• 0February 9 : Rolf Apreck , German chamber and opera singer († 1989 )
• 0February 9 : Frank Frazetta , American fantasy and science fiction illustrator († 2010 )
• 0February 9 : Rinus Michels , Dutch football coach († 2005 )
• February 10 : Walter Felke , German entrepreneur and local politician († 2017 )
• February 10 : Jean-Luc Lagardère , French entrepreneur († 2003 )
• February 10 : Nelson Pinedo , Colombian singer († 2016 )

Gotthilf Fischer , 2006

• February 11 : Gotthilf Fischer , German choir director
• February 11 : Conrad Janis , American actor and jazz trombonist
• February 12 : Heinz Baumann , German actor and voice actor
• February 12 : Andreas E. Beurmann , German musicologist, composer and physicist († 2016 )
• February 12 : James Cohn , American composer
• February 12 : Horst Köbbert , German singer and presenter († 2014 )
• February 12 : Alexander Papendiek , German actor († 1974 )
• February 12 : Jürgen Thormann , German actor and voice actor
• February 14 : Dieter Meichsner , German writer, dramaturge, screenwriter and producer († 2010 )
• February 15 : Luis Posada Carriles , Cuban terrorist († 2018 )
• February 16 : Porfi Jiménez , Venezuelan composer, arranger and band leader († 2010 )
• February 16 : Edzard Reuter , German manager, CEO of Daimler-Benz AG
• February 16 : Eva-Ingeborg Scholz , German actress
• February 17th : Walther Busse von Colbe , German business economist
• February 18 : Peter Arens , Swiss actor and theater director († 2015 )
• February 18 : Eeva Kilpi , Finnish writer and poet
• February 19 : Nicolas Hayek , Swiss entrepreneur († 2010 )
• February 19 : Socrates Kapsaskis , a Greek poet, film director and translator († 2007 )
• February 20 : Osvaldo Berlingieri , Argentine tango pianist and composer († 2015 )

Friedrich Weather

• February 20 : Friedrich Wetter , Archbishop of Munich and Freising
• February 21 : Cecil Sandford , British motorcycle racer
• February 22 : Paul Dooley , American actor
• February 22nd : Axel Strøbye , Danish actor († 2005 )
• February 24th : Juan Allende-Blin , Chilean composer
• February 24th : Ursel Burmeister , German handball player
• February 24 : Al Lettieri , American actor († 1975 )
• February 25 : Stephen C. Apostolof , American erotic producer and trash film director († 2005 )
• February 25 : Paul Elvstrøm , Danish sailor († 2016 )
• February 25 : Larry Gelbart , American screenwriter († 2009 )
• February 25 : Heinrich Jaenecke , German journalist, publicist and historian († 2014 )
• February 25 : Václav Rusek , Czech pharmaceutical historian († 2016 )
• February 25 : Klaus Traube , German environmental researcher († 2016 )
• February 25 : Johannes Vogel , German diplomat († 2017 )
• February 25 : Bibiana Zeller , Austrian actress
• February 26th : Fats Domino , American pianist, singer and songwriter († 2017 )
• February 26 : Odo Marquard , German philosopher († 2015 )
• February 26th : Anatoly Filipchenko , Soviet cosmonaut
  

  Ariel Sharon , 2004
• February 26 : Ariel Sharon , Israeli politician († 2014 )
• February 27 : Klaus Dick , German auxiliary bishop
• February 27 : Wolfgang Fischer , German athlete († 1987 )
• February 27 : Fred Gebhardt , German politician († 2000 )
• February 27 : Alexander Götz , Austrian politician († 2018 )
• February 27th : Heinrich Heß , German canoeist († 1993 )
• February 27 : Alfred Hrdlicka , Austrian sculptor, draftsman, painter and graphic artist († 2009 )

• February 28 : Tom Aldredge , American actor († 2011 )
• February 28 : Wolfgang Döbereiner , German astrologer and homeopath († 2014 )
• February 29 : Joss Ackland , British actor
• February 29 : Seymour Papert , American mathematician and learning theorist († 2016 )
• February: Jacques Soisson , French painter, etcher and sculptor († 2012 )

March

• 0March 1 : Peter von Polenz , German linguist († 2011 )
• 0March 1 : Jacques Rivette , French film director († 2016 )
• 0March 2 : Kurt Ackermann , German architect († 2014 )
• 0March 2 : Margot Kruse , German Romanist († 2013 )
• 0March 3 : Pierre Michelot , French jazz musician and composer († 2005 )
• 0March 3 : Gudrun Pausewang , German writer († 2020 )
• 0March 4 : Samuel Hans Adler , German-American composer and conductor
• 0March 4th : Geneviève Aubry , Swiss politician
• 0March 4 : Alan Sillitoe , British writer († 2010 )
• 0March 6 : Georg Eder , Austrian Archbishop († 2015 )
• 0March 6 : Kaoru Chiba , Japanese horn player († 2008 )
• 0March 6 : Dorothea Kleine , German writer († 2010 )
• 0March 6 : Christa Wehling , German actress († 1996 )
• 0March 8 : Frank Michael Beyer , German composer and conductor († 2008 )
• 0March 8 : Bill Lomas , British motorcycle racer († 2007 )
• 0March 8 : Jacqueline Richard , Canadian pianist, répétiteur and conductor († 2015 )
• 0March 9 : Wilhelm Salber , Director of the Psychological Institute at the University of Cologne († 2016 )
• 0March 9 : Gerald Bull , Canadian artillery scientist († 1990 )
• 0March 9 : Helmar Meinel , German writer and satirist
• March 10 : Hans Heinrich Angermüller , German political scientist († 2013 )
• March 10 : Kiyoshi Atsumi , Japanese actor († 1996 )
• March 10 : René Bonnière , French-Canadian director
• March 10 : James Earl Ray , American assassin († 1998 )
• March 11 : Gerhard Ambros , German politician († 2007 )
• March 11 : Käthe Recheis , Austrian author of children's and young people's books († 2015 )
• March 11 : Frederick Stafford , actor († 1979 )
• March 12 : Edward Albee , American writer († 2016 )
• March 12 : Walter Althammer , German politician
• March 12 : Philip Jones , English trumpeter and founder of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble († 2000 )
• March 12 : Werner Krolikowski , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED of the GDR
• March 12 : Paul Kuhn , German pianist, band leader and singer († 2013 )
  

  Paul Kuhn , 2013
• March 12 : Aldemaro Romero , Venezuelan composer and conductor († 2007 )
• March 13 : Ernst Anders , Austrian actor († 1991 )
• March 14 : Karl Frank Austen , American immunologist
• March 14th : Frank Borman , American astronaut
• March 14 : Denise Voïta , Swiss painter and graphic artist († 2008 )
• March 15 : Manfred Bochmann , Minister for Geology of the GDR († 2011 )
• March 16 : Karlheinz Böhm , Austrian actor and founder of the aid organization "Menschen für Menschen" (MfM) († 2014 )
• March 16 : Wakanohana Kanji I. , Japanese sumo wrestler and 45th yokozuna († 2010 )
• March 16 : Christa Ludwig , German opera and concert singer
• March 16 : Karl Otto Meyer , Danish-German politician († 2016 )
• March 16 : Rudolf Sigl , Director of the Institute for Astronomical and Physical Geodesy († 1998 )
• March 17th : Eunice Gayson , British actress († 2018 )
• March 18 : Alfred Einwag , German lawyer
• March 18 : Charlotte von Mahlsdorf , founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf († 2002 )
• March 18 : Virtú Maragno , Argentine composer († 2004 )
• March 18 : Antonio Pacenza , Argentine boxer († 1999 )
• March 18 : Gustav Peichl , Austrian architect and author († 2019 )
• March 18 : Miguel Poblet , Spanish cyclist († 2013 )
• March 18 : Fidel Ramos , Philippine general and 12th President of the Philippines
• March 19 : Emil Handschin , Swiss ice hockey player († 1990 )
• March 19 : Hans Küng , Swiss Catholic theologian
  

  Hans Küng , 2009
• March 19 : Patrick McGoohan , American actor and director († 2009 )
• March 19 : Hans Georg Zambona , German composer, pianist and writer
• March 20 : Inés Camelo Arredondo , Mexican writer († 1989 )
• March 21 : Werner Böckenförde , German cathedral chapter, theologian and lawyer († 2003 )
• March 21 : Peter Hacks , German playwright and writer († 2003 )
• March 21 : Klara Köttner-Benigni , Austrian writer († 2015 )
• March 21 : Aina Wifalk , Swedish social scientist and inventor of the modern walker († 1983 )
• March 22 : William Reynolds Archer Jr. , American politician
• March 23 : Karl-Heinz Tuschel , German science fiction author, poet and cabaret writer († 2005 )
• March 24th : Horst Jäger , German writer († 2009 )
• March 24 : Byron Janis , American pianist, composer and musicologist
• March 24th : Karl Orthuber , Austrian entrepreneur and racing car driver
• March 25 : Roald Aas , Norwegian speed skater († 2012 )
• March 25 : Benedikt Huber , Swiss architect, university professor, editor and publishing director († 2019 )
• March 25 : James Arthur Lovell , American astronaut
• March 27 : Douglas Applegate , American politician
• March 27 : Hellmuth Klauhs , Austrian bank director († 1990 )
• March 27 : Seiko Tanabe , Japanese writer († 2019 )
• March 28 : Hans Jochen Boecker , German Protestant theologian († 2020 )
• March 28 : Zbigniew Brzeziński , Polish-American political scientist († 2017 )
• March 28 : Alexander Grothendieck , French mathematician of German origin († 2014 )
• March 28 : Henk van Lijnschooten , Dutch composer and conductor († 2006 )
• March 28th : Hans-Georg Wieck , German diplomat
• March 29 : Philip Locke , English actor († 2004 )
• March 30th : Aurel Anton , Romanian chess player († 2015 )
• March 30th : Adriaan von Müller , German prehistorian
• March 30 : Tom Sharpe , British writer († 2013 )
• March 31 : Lefty Frizzell , American country singer († 1975 )
• March 31 : Karl Haehser , German politician († 2012 )
• March 31 : Gordie Howe , Canadian ice hockey player (NHL) († 2016 )

April

James Garner , 1987

• 0April 2 : Joseph Bernardin , Archbishop of Chicago and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 1996 )
• 0April 2 : Gino Munaron , Italian racing car driver († 2009 )
• 0April 2 : Serge Gainsbourg , French chansonnier († 1991 )
• 0April 2 : Dolly Rathebe , South African jazz and blues singer and actress († 2004 )
• 0April 2 : Alain Vanzo , French opera singer (tenor) († 2002 )
• 0April 3 : Eva Forest , Spanish writer and publisher († 2007 )
• 0April 3 : Earl Lloyd , American basketball player, first African American in the NBA († 2015 )
• 0April 3 : Don Gibson , American country singer and songwriter († 2003 )
• 0April 3 : Kevin Hagen , American actor († 2005 )
• 0April 4 : Maya Angelou , American writer and civil rights activist († 2014 )
• 0April 4 : Alfredo Armenteros , Cuban trumpeter († 2016 )
• 0April 4 : Agustín Pérez Pardella , Argentine writer († 2004 )
• 0April 4 : Josef Rattner , Austrian psychologist
• 0April 4 : Bud Tingelstad , American racing driver († 1981 )
• 0April 5 : Katharina von Arx , Swiss writer and journalist († 2013 )
• 0April 5 : James Milligan , Canadian singer († 1961 )
• 0April 5 : Hansrudi Wäscher , German comic artist and author († 2016 )
• 0April 6 : Hermann Ebeling , German theater actor and voice actor († 2000 )
• 0April 6 : Paul-Werner Scheele , Bishop of Würzburg († 2019 )

James Watson , 2012

• 0April 6 : James Watson , American biochemist
• 0April 7 : James Garner , American actor († 2014 )
• 0April 7 : Francis Haskell , English art historian († 2000 )
• 0April 7 : Alan J. Pakula , American filmmaker († 1998 )
• 0April 7 : James White , Northern Irish author († 1999 )
• 0April 8 : Fred Ebb , American songwriter († 2004 )
• 0April 8 : Leah Rabin , Israeli politician and wife of Yitzhak Rabin († 2000 )
• 0April 9 : Paul Arizin , American basketball player († 2006 )
• 0April 9 : Tom Lehrer , American singer, songwriter, satirist, and mathematician
• 0April 9 : Georg Miske , German weightlifter († 2009 )
• 0April 9 : Erling Norvik , Norwegian politician and journalist († 1998 )
• 0April 9 : Iris Wittig , German military pilot († 1978 )
• April 10 : Berit Ås , Norwegian politician and social psychologist
• April 10 : Rosco Gordon , American blues musician († 2002 )
• April 10 : Ota Hofman , Czech screenwriter († 1989 )
• April 11 : Ethel Kennedy , wife of Robert F. Kennedy
• April 11 : Johann Staber , Austrian architect († 2005 )

Hardy Kruger , 2013

• April 12th : Hardy Krüger , German film actor
• April 13 : Doug Bragg , American country and rockabilly musician († 1973 )
• April 13th : Heinz Butin , German phytopathologist and forest scientist
• April 13 : Teddy Charles , American jazz musician, composer and record producer († 2012 )
• April 13 : José Agustín Goytisolo , Spanish poet († 1999 )
• April 13 : Gianni Marzotto , Italian racing driver († 2012 )
• April 15 : Hanna-Renate Laurien , German politician († 2010 )
• April 16 : Walter Grob , Swiss accordionist and composer († 2014 )
• April 16 : Hans-Jürgen Wegener , German forest official († 2016 )
• April 17 : Cynthia Ozick , American writer
• April 17th : Wolf Gerlach , German set designer, film architect, caricaturist, painter, author and the inventor of the Mainzelmännchen († 2012 )
• April 18 : Karl Josef Cardinal Becker , German dogmatist and Jesuit priest († 2015 )
• April 18 : Ken Colyer , British jazz and skifflemusic († 1988 )
• April 18 : Heinz Lieven , German actor
• April 18 : Otto Piene , German artist († 2014 )
• April 18 : Jürgen Seifert , German political scientist and civil rights activist († 2005 )
• April 19 : Helga Anschütz , German orientalist, geographer and lecturer († 2006 )
• April 19 : Karlheinz Kaske , Siemens manager, engineer, honorary professor († 1998 )
• April 19 : Alexis Korner , English blues musician († 1984 )
• April 20 : Gordon Vernon Audley , Canadian speed skater († 2012 )
• April 20 : Robert Byrne , American chess grandmaster († 2013 )
• April 20 : Hans Werner Kettenbach , German journalist and writer († 2018 )
• April 20 : Heinz Melkus , German racing car driver and designer of racing cars († 2005 )
• April 21 : Georg Kronawitter , German politician († 2016 )
• April 22 : Elgudscha Amaschukeli , Georgian sculptor and painter († 2002 )

Shirley Temple , 1944

• April 23 : Shirley Temple , American actress († 2014 )
• April 24th : Karlheinz Bauer (entrepreneur) , German civil engineer, contractor and pioneer of special civil engineering
• April 24 : Johnny Griffin , American jazz musician († 2008 )
• April 24 : Manfred Sack , German architecture critic († 2014 )
• April 24th : Heinz Schröder , German puppeteer († 2009 )
• April 24th : Jerzy Tchórzewski , Polish painter, graphic artist and art teacher († 1999 )
• April 25 : Richard Anders , German writer († 2012 )
• April 25 : Cy Twombly , American artist († 2011 )
• April 26 : Hertha Kräftner , Austrian writer († 1951 )
• April 28 : Alberto Blancafort , Spanish conductor and composer († 2004 )
• April 28 : Frank Horvat , Italian photographer
• April 28 : Yves Klein , French painter, sculptor and performance artist († 1962 )
• April 28 : Eugene Shoemaker , American astronomer († 1997 )
• April 28 : Georges Kwaïter , Syrian Archbishop († 2011 )
• April 29 : Helmut Bruno Anders , German legal scholar and historian († 1985 )
• April 29 : Hanspeter Scherr , German composer and choir director († 1983 )
• April 29 : Jan Schotte , Belgian cardinal († 2005 )

May

• 0May 1 : Marcelo Pinto Carvalheira , Brazilian Archbishop († 2017 )
• 0May 1 : Desmond Titterington , British racing driver († 2002 )
• 0May 2 : Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt , Franco-German writer and translator
• 0May 2 : Rolf Heyne , German publisher († 2000 )
• 0May 3 : Richard Lewis Arnowitt , American theoretical physicist († 2014 )
• 0May 3 : Dave Dudley , American country singer († 2003 )
• 0May 3 : Julien Guiomar , French actor († 2010 )
• 0May 4 : Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips , German automobile racing driver († 1961 )
• 0May 4 : Maynard Ferguson , Canadian jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player († 2006 )
• 0May 4 : Günter Gerlach , German church musician, school musician and composer († 2003 )
• 0May 4th : Margaret Kohn , American pianist and music teacher
• 0May 4 : Husni Mubarak , President of Egypt (1981–2011) († 2020 )
  

  Husni Mubarak , 2009
• 0May 5 : Cornelis Kalkman , Dutch botanist († 1998 )
• 0May 5 : Herbert Kitzel , German artist († 1978 )
• 0May 6 : Walter Hoeres , German philosopher († 2016 )
• 0May 7 : Michael Croissant , German sculptor and artist († 2002 )
• 0May 8 : Manfred Gerlach , German politician († 2011 )
• 0May 8 : Shibusawa Tatsuhiko , Japanese writer († 1987 )
• 0May 8 : Ted Sorensen , American politician († 2010 )
• 0May 8th : Nora Nova , German-Bulgarian pop singer
• 0May 8 : William Sydeman , American composer and music educator
• 0May 9 : Peter Sanderson Ashcroft , British manager († 2008 )
• 0May 9 : Pancho Gonzales , American tennis player († 1995 )
• 0May 9 : Peter Merseburger , German journalist and author
• 0May 9 : Harry Rasky , Canadian documentary producer and director († 2007 )
• May 10 : Hans Noever , German film director, actor and screenwriter
• May 10 : Arnold Rüütel , Estonian politician and president
• May 10 : Lothar Schmid , German publisher and chess player († 2013 )
• May 10 : Pierre Mouallem , Archbishop of the Melkites in Israel
• May 11 : Yaacov Agam , Israeli visual artist and representative of kinetic art
• May 11th : Anne van der Bijl , Dutch missionary
• May 11 : Christopher Bird , American botanist and writer († 1996 )
• May 11 : Marco Ferreri , Italian film director († 1997 )
• May 12 : Burt Bacharach , American pianist and composer
• May 12 : Jan Krugier , Polish-Swiss gallery owner and art collector († 2008 )
• May 12 : Manuel Marulanda , Colombian guerrilla leader, leader of the FARC († 2008 )
• May 13 : Enrique Bolaños Geyer , President of the Republic of Nicaragua (2002–2007)
• May 13 : Édouard Molinaro , French director and screenwriter († 2013 )
• May 14 : Graziano Arrighetti , Italian Graecist and papyrologist († 2017 )
• May 14 : Ernst Cincera , Swiss politician (FDP) († 2004 )
• May 15 : Walter Dostal , Austrian ethnologist († 2011 )
• May 15 : Raymond Federman , American writer († 2009 )
• May 16 : Ludvík Armbruster , Czech Jesuit and philosopher
• May 16 : Günter Ferdinand Ris , German sculptor († 2005 )
• May 16 : Hermann Schmitz , German philosopher
• May 17th : Idi Amin , Ugandan dictator († 2003 )
• May 18 : John Abineri , British actor († 2000 )
• May 18 : Klaus Arnold , German sculptor and painter († 2009 )
• May 18 : Rigobert Günther , German ancient historian († 2000 )
• May 18 : Pernell Roberts , American actor († 2010 )
  

  Pernell Roberts , 1959
• May 18 : Jo Schlesser , Formula 1 racing driver († 1968 )
• May 19 : Colin Chapman , British racing car designer († 1982 )
• May 19 : Pol Pot , Cambodian politician, brother “No. 1 "of the Khmer Rouge († 1998 )
• May 19 : Dolph Schayes , American basketball player († 2015 )
• May 20 : Al Aronowitz , American music journalist († 2005 )
• May 20 : Keith Ballisat , British racing car driver († 1996 )
• May 20 : Werner Büdeler , German journalist and author († 2004 )
• May 21 : Guido Pedroli , Swiss educator and politician († 1962 )
• May 21 : António Ribeiro , Patriarch of Lisbon and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 1998 )
• May 22 : René Andrianne , Belgian Romance studies and literary scholar († 2009 )
• May 22 : T. Boone Pickens , American entrepreneur († 2019 )
• May 22nd : André Wicky , Swiss racing car driver and racing team owner († 2016 )
• May 23 : Hans Blum , German composer, lyricist, music producer and singer
• May 23 : Rosemary Clooney , American actress and singer († 2002 )
• May 23 : Nigel Davenport , British actor († 2013 )
• May 23 : Pauline Julien , Canadian singer and actress († 1998 )
• May 23 : Jesse Thomas , American football player († 2012 )
• May 24th : Adrian Frutiger , Swiss type designer († 2015 )
• May 24 : Hans Glöckel , German school pedagogue and university professor († 2012 )
• May 24 : William Trevor , Irish writer († 2016 )
• May 26 : Augusto Aristizábal Ospina , Colombian bishop († 2004 )
• May 26 : Leo Grills , Australian actor († 2007 )
• May 26 : Jack Kevorkian , American pathologist († 2011 )
• May 26 : Arlene Pach , Canadian pianist and music teacher († 2000 )
• May 28 : Dennis Armitage , British jazz pianist, saxophonist and painter († 2005 )
• May 29 : George Sinner , American politician († 2018 )
• May 30 : Dwight W. Berreman , American physicist
• May 30th : Gustav Leonhardt , Dutch musician († 2012 )
• May 30th : Agnès Varda , Belgian film director († 2019 )

June

• 0June 1 : Georgi Timofejewitsch Dobrowolski , Soviet cosmonaut († 1971 )
• 0June 3 : Donald Judd , American painter, sculptor and architect († 1994 )
• 0June 3 : Klaus Rose , German economist
• 0June 4th : Ruth Westheimer , German-American sex therapist
• 0June 5 : Gilles Aillaud , French painter, graphic artist, set designer and author († 2005 )
• 0June 5 : Jussi Taneli Aro , Finnish linguist († 1983 )
• 0June 5 : Yrjö Asikainen , Finnish football player († 2008 )
• 0June 5 : Umberto Maglioli , Italian racing driver († 1999 )
• 0June 5 : Adriana Pasquali , Italian lawyer and politician († 2020 )
• 0June 5th : Tony Richardson , English director († 1991 )
• 0June 5 : Otto F. Walter , Swiss writer († 1994 )
• 0June 6 : George Deukmejian , American politician († 2018 )
• 0June 6 : Elio Sgreccia , Italian Cardinal Curia († 2019 )
• 0June 7 : Bernard Flood Burke , American astronomer († 2018 )
• 0June 7th : James Ivory , American film director
• 0June 7 : Peter Walter , German veterinarian († 1982 )
• 0June 8 : Lothar Curdt , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 2005 )
• 0June 9 : Erwin Scheuch , German sociologist († 2003 )
• 0June 9 : Jacob Siskind , Canadian music critic († 2010 )
• June 10 : Carl Dahlhaus , German musicologist († 1989 )
• June 10 : Maurice Sendak , American illustrator and children's book author († 2012 )
• June 11 : Fabiola Mora y Aragón , Belgian Queen († 2014 )
• June 11 : Helmut Arndt , German historian († 2016 )
• June 12 : Vic Damone , American singer and actor († 2018 )
• June 12 : Petros Molyviatis , Greek politician and foreign minister
• June 12 : Leon Zelman , Austrian journalist († 2007 )
• June 13 : Li Ka-shing , Chinese entrepreneur
  

  Li Ka-shing (center)
• June 13 : Antonio Arguedas Mendieta , Bolivian politician († 2000 )
• June 13th : Giacomo Cardinal Biffi , Italian Archbishop of Bologna († 2015 )
• June 13th : Arnold Bittlinger , German Protestant pastor
• June 13 : Renée Morisset , Canadian pianist († 2009 )
• June 13 : John Forbes Nash Jr. , American mathematician († 2015 )
• June 14 : Josef Auer , German jazz musician († 2013 )
• June 14 : Ernesto Che Guevara , Argentine revolutionary and socialist († 1967 )
  

  Che Guevara
• June 15 : Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt , Austrian behavioral scientist and ethnologist († 2018 )
• June 16 : John Cuneo , Australian regatta sailor († 2020 )
• June 16 : Dagmar Rom , Austrian ski racer
• June 16 : Ernst Stankovski , Austrian actor, chansonnier and quizmaster
• June 17th : Mignon Dunn , American opera singer and vocal teacher
• June 17 : Peter Seiichi Cardinal Shirayanagi , Archbishop of Tokyo († 2009 )
• June 18 : Maggie McNamara , American actress († 1978 )
• June 19 : Jacques Dupont , French cyclist († 2019 )
• June 19 : Hasegawa Ryūsei , Japanese poet († 2019 )
• June 20 : Eric Dolphy , American jazz musician († 1964 )
• June 20 : Martin Landau , American film and television actor († 2017 )
• June 20 : Jean-Marie Le Pen , French politician
• June 20 : Heinrich Nöth , German chemist († 2015 )
• June 21 : Mona Baptiste , pop singer († 1993 )
• June 22nd : Horst Keitel , German actor and voice actor († 2015 )
• June 22nd : Ralph Waite , American actor († 2014 )
• June 22nd : Hans F. Zacher , constitutional and social law teacher († 2015 )
• June 23 : Klaus von Dohnanyi , German politician
• June 24th : Wolfgang Altenburg , German general
• June 25 : Alexei Alexejewitsch Abrikossow , Russian physicist († 2017 )
• June 25 : Michel Brault , Canadian cameraman and director († 2013 )
• June 25 : Hermann Buschfort , German politician († 2003 )
• June 25 : Peyo , Belgian comic artist († 1992 )
  

  Peyo, 1990
• June 26 : Jacob Druckman , American composer and music teacher († 1996 )
• June 26 : Hermann Jünger , German goldsmith († 2005 )
• June 26th : Nakamatsu Yoshirō , Japanese inventor
• June 27 : Jerome Anthony Ambro junior , American politician († 1993 )
• June 28 : John Stewart Bell , Irish physicist († 1990 )
• June 28 : Claus Biederstaedt , German actor († 2020 )
• June 28 : Hans Blix , Swedish Foreign Minister
• June 28 : Paul Urmuzescu , Romanian composer († 2018 )

July

• 0July 1 : Esma Agolli , Albanian actress († 2010 )
• 0July 1 : Gunnar Möller , German actor († 2017 )
• 0July 1 : Hans-Joachim Rüscher , economic functionary of the SED in the GDR († 2015 )
• 0July 2nd : Line Renaud , French singer and actress
• 0July 3 : Günter Bruno Fuchs , German writer and graphic artist († 1977 )
• 0July 4th : Giampiero Boniperti , Italian football player and Honorary President of Juventus Turin
• 0July 5th : Juris Hartmanis , Latvian-American computer scientist
• 0July 5 : Pierre Mauroy , French politician († 2013 )
• 0July 7 : Bálint Balla , Hungarian-German sociologist († 2018 )
• 0July 7th : Patricia Hitchcock , English actress
• 0July 9 : Federico Bahamontes , Spanish cyclist
• 0July 9 : Rolf Hennig , German non-fiction author, natural philosopher and publicist († 2016 )
• 0July 9 : Julián Plaza , Argentine tango composer and arranger, bandoneonist and pianist († 2003 )
• July 10 : Alejandro de Tomaso , Argentine racing car driver and entrepreneur († 2003 )
• July 12 : Louis Auslander , American mathematician († 1997 )
• July 12 : Elias James Corey Jr. , American chemist and professor at Harvard University
• July 13 : Bob Crane , American actor († 1978 )
• July 13 : Sven Davidson , Swedish tennis player († 2008 )
• July 14 : Martin Accola , Swiss clergyman († 2012 )
• July 14th : Nancy Olson , American actress
• July 14 : Manfred Schmidt , German singer (tenor)
• July 15 : Hans Lennart Andersson-Tvilling , Swedish ice hockey player
• July 15 : Stig Andersson-Tvilling , Swedish ice hockey player († 1989 )
• July 15 : Pál Benkő , Hungarian-American chess grandmaster and study composer († 2019 )
• July 15 : Peter-Klaus Budig , German university professor and minister of the GDR († 2012 )
• July 15 : Horst Cotta , German physician († 2011 )
• July 15 : Elmer George , American racing driver († 1976 )
• July 15 : Carl Woese , American biologist († 2012 )
• July 16 : Manfred Kluge , German composer and church musician († 1971 )
• July 16 : Robert Sheckley , American writer († 2005 )
• July 16 : Alois M. Schader , German civil engineer and founder
• July 16 : David C. Treen , American politician († 2009 )
• July 17 : Johannes Arnold , German writer († 1987 )
• July 17 : Vince Guaraldi , American jazz musician, pianist and composer († 1976 )
• July 18 : Carl Fontana , American jazz trombonist († 2003 )
• July 18 : Simon Vinkenoog , Dutch writer and poet († 2009 )
• July 19 : Werner Drexler , German pianist, composer and orchestra leader
• July 20 : Belaid Abdessalam , Algerian Prime Minister († 2020 )
• July 20 : Peter Ind , British jazz musician
• July 20 : Pavel Kohout , Czech writer and politician
• July 22 : Orson Bean , American actor († 2020 )
• July 22nd : George Dreyfus , Australian composer
• July 22nd : Gerhard Händler , GDR People's Police Officer († 1953 )
• July 22nd : Per Højholt , Danish writer († 2004 )
• July 23 : Leon Fleisher , American pianist († 2020 )
• July 23 : Luigi Locati , Italian bishop and missionary († 2005 )
• July 23 : Vera Rubin , American astronomer († 2016 )
• July 23 : Don Scott , British boxer († 2013 )
• July 23 : Hubert Selby , American writer († 2004 )
• July 24 : Antanas Rekašius , Lithuanian composer († 2003 )
• July 24th : Rosemarie Schuder , German writer († 2018 )
• July 25 : Biagio Agnes , Italian journalist († 2011 )
• July 26 : Karl Leo Johannes Ågren , Finnish-Swedish writer († 1984 )
• July 26 : Tadeusz Baird , Polish composer († 1981 )
• July 26th : Don Beauman , British racing car driver († 1955 )
• July 26 : Francesco Cossiga , Italian politician († 2010 )
• July 26 : Elliott Erwitt , American photographer
• July 26 : Stanley Kubrick , American film director († 1999 )

Self-portrait by Stanley Kubrick , late 1940s

• July 26 : Peter Lougheed , Canadian politician († 2012 )
• July 27 : Patrick Dankwa Anin , Ghanaian politician († 1999 )
• July 27 : Jean Mansour , Lebanese Archbishop († 2006 )
• July 27 : Joseph Kittinger , American pilot
• July 27 : Karl Mai , German soccer player († 1993 )
• July 27 : Dick Yelvington , American football player († 2013 )
• July 28 : Gorgen Ray Aghayan , Persian costume designer († 2011 )
• July 28 : Bella Davidovich , American pianist
• July 28 : Griselda Gambaro , Argentine playwright and writer
• July 28th : Angélica Gorodischer , Argentine writer
• July 28 : Guy Verrier , French racing driver († 2019 )
• July 29th : Mary Simmons , Canadian singer
• July 30th : Chris Howland , British presenter, actor and pop singer († 2013 )
• July 30 : Wojciech Siemion , Polish actor († 2010 )
• July 30 : Dieter Trautwein , Protestant theologian († 2002 )
• July 31 : Kurt Sontheimer , German political scientist († 2005 )

August

• 0August 1st : Helmuth Herold , German interpreter and teacher of the harmonica († 2001 )
• 0August 2 : Luigi Colani , German designer († 2019 )
• 0August 2 : Theo Hotz , Swiss architect († 2018 )
• 0August 3 : Cécile Aubry , French actress, children's book author and television director († 2010 )
• 0August 3 : Irene Koss , actress and the first German TV announcer († 1996 )
• 0August 4th : Christian Goethals , Belgian racing driver († 2003 )
• 0August 5 : Johann Baptist Metz , German Catholic theologian († 2019 )
• 0August 5 : Edgar Rabsch , German organist, choir director and composer († 1990 )
• 0August 5th : Ulrich Wilckens , bishop in the North Elbian Evangelical Church
• 0August 6 : Andy Warhol , American artist and founder of Pop Art († 1987 )
  

  Andy Warhol , 1977
• 0August 7th : James Randi , stage magician and prominent member of the Skeptic Movement
• 0August 7th : Helen Vita , German chansonniere, actress and cabaret artist († 2001 )
• 0August 8 : Lubor Bárta , Czech composer († 1972 )
• 0August 8 : Don Burrows , Australian jazz musician († 2020 )
• 0August 8 : Simón Díaz , Venezuelan composer and singer, comedian, actor and television presenter († 2014 )
• 0August 8 : Werner Hofmann , Austrian art historian († 2013 )
• 0August 8 : Vilayat Khan , Indian sitar virtuoso († 2004 )
• 0August 8 : François Remetter , French football player
• 0August 9 : Bob Cousy , American basketball player
• 0August 9 : Gerd Ruge , German journalist for WDR and ARD
  

  Gerd Ruge , 2008
• 0August 9 : Camilla Wicks , US-Norwegian violinist and music teacher
• August 10 : Edgar Blum , Palatinate painter, graphic artist, illustrator, author and filmmaker († 2019 )
• August 10 : Jimmy Dean , American country musician († 2010 )
• August 10 : Eddie Fisher , American singer and entertainer († 2010 )
• August 10 : Gerino Gerini , Italian Formula 1 racing driver († 2013 )
• August 10 : Gerhard Kettner , German lithographer and graphic artist, professor and rector († 1993 )
• August 10 : Franz Lehrndorfer , German organist and music professor († 2013 )
• August 11 : Beniamino Andreatta , Italian economist and politician († 2007 )
• August 11 : Lucho Gatica , Chilean singer († 2018 )
• August 11 : Jo Herbst , German actor and cabaret artist († 1980 )
• August 11 : Stan Kesler , American session musician (steel guitarist and bassist)
• August 12 : Herbert Kremp , German journalist and publicist († 2020 )
• August 14 : Gunnar Andersson , Swedish football player († 1969 )
• August 14 : Arsenius Butscher , German motorcycle racer († 2013 )
• August 14 : Lina Wertmüller , Italian film director
• August 15 : Paul Lawrence Adderley , Bahamas politician († 2012 )
• August 15 : Carl Joachim Classen , German classical philologist († 2013 )
• August 15 : Nicolas Roeg , British film director and cameraman († 2018 )
• August 16 : Ann Blyth , American actress
• August 16 : Ara Guler , Turkish-Armenian photographer († 2018 )
• August 16 : Anthony Price , British writer and journalist († 2019 )
• August 16 : Karl-Heinz Vosgerau , German actor
• August 18 : Barbara Strzelecka , Polish harpsichordist, musicologist and composer
• August 19 : Peter C. Steiner , German cellist († 2003 )
• August 20 : Siegfried Böhm , SED functionary and Minister of Finance of the GDR († 1980 )
• August 20 : Luciano De Crescenzo , Italian writer and engineer († 2019 )
• August 20 : Günter Fehring , German archaeologist († 2020 )
• August 21 : Mário Pinto de Andrade , Angolan politician and author († 1990 )
• August 21 : Chris Brasher , British athlete and Olympic champion († 2003 )
• August 21 : Art Farmer , American jazz trumpeter († 1999 )
• August 21 : Elmo Langley , American racing driver († 1996 )
• August 21 : Hans Voelkner , German secret agent (GDR) († 2002 )
• August 22 : Alice Baber , American painter († 1982 )
• August 22 : Günther C. Kirchberger , German painter († 2010 )
• August 22 : Ray Marshall , American economist and politician
• August 22nd : Alfred Pohl , German graphic artist and wood cutter († 2019 )
• August 22 : Karlheinz Stockhausen , German composer († 2007 )
• August 23 : Israel Gohberg , Soviet-Israeli mathematician († 2009 )
• August 23 : Marian Seldes , American actress († 2014 )
• August 23 : Hermann Weber , German historian and political scientist († 2014 )
• August 24th : Karlheinz Zöller , German flautist († 2005 )
• August 25 : Miguel Ángel Álvarez , Puerto Rican actor and director († 2011 )
• August 25 : Elie Amsini Kiswaya , Congolese bishop († 2008 )
• August 25 : Herbert Kroemer , German physicist
• August 26 : Alessandro Assolari , Italian bishop († 2005 )
• August 26 : Werner Niefer , German automotive manager, CEO of Mercedes-Benz AG († 1993 )
• August 26 : Zdeněk Veselovský , Czech zoologist († 2006 )
• August 27 : Vaidotas Antanaitis , Lithuanian forest scientist, politician and diplomat († 2018 )
• August 27 : Vitaly Michailowitsch Bujanowski , Russian horn player, music professor and composer († 1993 )
• August 27 : Mangosuthu Buthelezi , South African politician
• August 27 : Osamu Shimomura , Japanese biochemist († 2018 )
• August 28 : Karl-Michael Vogler , German actor († 2009 )
• August 29th : Volodymyr Apatskyj , Ukrainian bassoonist
• August 29 : Adolf Bieringer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1988 )
• August 29 : Klaus Bölling , German publicist († 2014 )
• August 29 : Aaron Victor Cicourel , American sociologist
• August 29 : Herbert Meier , Swiss writer († 2018 )
• August 29 : Dsidra Ritenbergs , Latvian actress and director († 2003 )
• August 29 : Stefan Moses , German photographer († 2018 )
• August 30 : William M. Bass , American anthropologist
• August 30th : Lloyd Casner , American racing driver and team owner († 1965 )
• August 30 : Harvey Hart , American film director and film producer († 1989 )
• August 31 : Marie-Brigitte Gauthier-Chaufour , French composer († 2001 )
• August 31 : Jaime Lachica Sin , Archbishop of Manila and Cardinal († 2005 )
• August 31 : Klaus Oehler , German philosopher

September

• 0September 1 : Edwin Kowalik , Polish pianist, publicist and composer († 1997 )
• 0September 1st : René Rubiella , Puerto Rican actor
• 0September 2nd : Hans Ackermann , German soccer player
• 0September 2 : Horace Silver , American jazz pianist and composer († 2014 )
• 0September 2 : Miloslav Ištvan , Czech composer and music teacher († 1990 )
• 0September 3 : Serge Bourguignon , French film director and screenwriter
• 0September 3 : Marianne Kiefer , German actress († 2008 )
• 0September 3 : Gaston Thorn , Luxembourg politician († 2007 )
• 0September 5 : Albert Mangelsdorff , German jazz trombonist († 2005 )
• 0September 6 : Robert M. Pirsig , American author and philosopher († 2017 )
• 0September 6 : Yevgeny Svetlanov , Russian conductor, composer and pianist († 2002 )
• 0September 6 : Sid Watkins , British neurosurgeon, chief physician of Formula 1 (1978-2004) († 2012 )
• 0September 9 : Moses Bosco Anderson , American Auxiliary Bishop († 2013 )
• 0September 9 : Fritz Herkenrath , German football player († 2016 )
• 0September 9 : Sol LeWitt , American artist († 2007 )
• September 10 : Jochen Stern , German actor
• September 10 : Jean Vanier , Canadian founder of L'Arche († 2019 )
• September 11th : Reubin O'Donovan Askew , American politician († 2014 )
• September 11 : Friedrich Berentzen , German spirits manufacturer († 2009 )
• September 11th : Earl Holliman , American actor
• September 11th : Jěwa Wórša Lanzyna , Sorbian painter, graphic artist and book designer
• September 13 : Diane Foster , Canadian athlete and Olympian
• September 13 : Robert Indiana , American Pop Art painter († 2018 )
• September 13 : Johannes Poethen , German writer († 2001 )
• September 14 : Richard C. Clark , American politician
• September 14 : Alberto Korda , Cuban photographer († 2001 )
• September 14 : Günther Landgraf , German physicist, rector of the TU Dresden († 2006 )
• September 14 : Humberto Maturana , Chilean biologist specializing in neurobiology
• September 14th : Angus Ogilvy , member of the British royal family († 2004 )
• September 15 : Cannonball Adderley , American jazz saxophonist († 1975 )
• September 15 : Henry Silva , American actor
• September 16 : Sieghart von Arnim , German manager and non-fiction author
• September 16 : John Adel Elya , Lebanese clergyman and Bishop of Newton (USA) († 2019 )
• September 18 : Chester Gill , Barbadian-Swiss jazz musician, composer and choir director († 2003 )
• September 19 : Bruno Dallansky , Austrian actor († 2008 )
• September 19 : Wolfram Siebeck , German gastronomy critic and author († 2016 )
• September 19 : Adam West , American actor († 2017 )
• September 20 : Donald Hall , American poet († 2018 )
• September 20 : Gary Jennings , American writer († 1999 )
• September 21 : John Milan Ashbrook , American politician († 1982 )
• September 21 : Frank Bencriscutto , American composer and music teacher († 1997 )
• September 21 : Édouard Glissant , French writer and philosopher († 2011 )
• September 21 : Josef Strauss , German football goalkeeper († 2012 )
• September 22 : Georges Eggenberger , Swiss politician (SP) († 2010 )
• September 22 : Eugene Roche , American actor († 2004 )
• September 23 : Juliane Hund , German chess player († 1999 )
• September 23 : Jakob Miltz , German soccer player († 1984 )
• September 24th : Jürgen Isberg , German handball player
• September 25 : Ottavio Bugatti , Italian football player († 2016 )
• September 26 : Robert D. Ray , American politician († 2018 )
• September 27th : Haro Senft , German film producer, film director and screenwriter († 2016 )
• September 28 : Hans Geister , German athlete († 2012 )
• September 28 : Günther Steines , German athlete († 1982 )
• September 28 : Koko Taylor , American blues singer († 2009 )
• September 29 : Stanisław Manturzewski , Polish actor, screenwriter and director († 2014 )
• September 29 : Gerhard Stoltenberg , German politician, multiple Federal Minister († 2001 )

Gerhard Stoltenberg , 1978

• September 30 : Martin Greiffenhagen , German political scientist († 2004 )
• September 30th : Jean Mésange , French racing car driver († 1999 )
• September 30 : Elie Wiesel , American writer and publicist († 2016 )
• September 30 : Emilio Caprile , Italian football player († 2020 )

October

• 0October 1 : Willy Mairesse , Belgian racing driver († 1969 )
• 0October 1 : George Peppard , American actor († 1994 )
• 0October 1 : Herbert Zdarzil , Austrian educator († 2008 )
• 0October 2 : Oswalt Kolle , German journalist and film producer († 2010 )
• 0October 2 : Wolfhart Pannenberg , German Protestant theologian († 2014 )
• 0October 2 : Willy Tröger , German soccer player († 2004 )
• 0October 2nd : Eberhard von Kuenheim , German manager
• 0October 2 : Ted Nichols , American composer, arranger, conductor and music teacher
• 0October 3 : Erik Bruhn , Danish ballet dancer († 1986 )
• 0October 3 : Kåre Willoch , Norwegian conservative politician and economist
• 0October 4 : James Forman , American civil rights activist († 2005 )
• 0October 4 : Bob Scott , American racing driver († 1954 )
• 0October 4 : Alvin Toffler , American writer and futurologist († 2016 )
• 0October 4th : Erich Vanis , Austrian mountaineer, author († 2004 )
• 0October 5 : Henning Schwarz , German politician and Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein († 1993 )
• 0October 5 : Kurt Tschenscher , German soccer referee († 2014 )
• 0October 6 : Yōji Akao , Japanese economic theorist († 2016 )
• 0October 6 : Jean-Jacques Antier , French writer
• 0October 6 : Alfred Hans Zoller , German composer, jazz pianist, cantor and organist († 2006 )
• 0October 7 : Ali Hussein Kafi , Algerian President († 2013 )
• 0October 7th : Sanne Ledermann , German victim of the Holocaust, friend of Anne Frank († 1943 )
• 0October 8 : Valdir Pereira , Brazilian soccer player († 2001 )
• 0October 8 : Helmut Qualtinger , Austrian cabaret artist and writer († 1986 )
• 0October 9 : Hermann W. von der Dunk , Dutch historian († 2018 )
• 0October 9 : Pat O'Connor , American racing driver († 1958 )
• 0October 9 : Einojuhani Rautavaara , Finnish composer († 2016 )
• October 10 : Susumu Hani , Japanese film director and screenwriter
• October 11th : Ernst Ammann , German set designer and actor († 1982 )
• October 11 : Alfonso de Portago , Spanish automobile racing driver and bobsleigh athlete († 1957 )
• October 12 : Jiwan Gasparjan , Armenian instrumentalist and composer
• October 13 : Ernst Ankermann , German lawyer and judge
• October 14 : Edith Hancke , German actress and voice actress († 2015 )
• October 14 : Kenneth Johnson , British long distance, cross and obstacle runner († 2015 )
• October 14 : Héctor Rial Laguía , Argentinian football player († 1991 )
• October 15 : Eduard Schütz , Baptist theologian († 2001 )
• October 16 : Mary Daly , American theologian († 2010 )
• October 16 : Ann Guilbert , American actress († 2016 )
• October 17 : Bobby Walston , American football player († 1987 )
• October 18 : Ernest Simoni , Albanian Roman Catholic clergyman and cardinal
• October 19 : Eduard Hauser , German politician and member of the Bundestag († 2010 )
• October 19 : Mustapha Zitouni , Algerian-French football player and coach († 2014 )
• October 20 : Josef Krawina , Austrian architect († 2018 )
• October 20 : Li Peng , Chinese politician († 2019 )
• October 21 : Whitey Ford , American baseball player
• October 21 : Józef Kański , Polish music critic
• October 21 : Jef Penders , Dutch composer and conductor († 2015 )
• October 21 : Ardico Magnini , Italian football player († 2020 )
• October 21 : René Saorgin , French organist († 2015 )
• October 21 : Joyce Wein , American music and festival manager († 2005 )
• October 22 : Hans-Jacob Krümmel , German business economist and university professor († 2016 )
• October 23 : Mario Alborghetti , Italian racing driver († 1955 )
• October 23 : Karl Heinz Bender , German actor and radio play speaker
• October 23 : Günter Rohrbach , German film and television producer
• October 23 : Zhu Rongji , Chinese politician
• October 24 : Gabriel Laub , Czech and German-speaking journalist, satirist and aphorist († 1998 )
• October 24th : Otti Wilmanns , German botanist
• October 25 : Wolfgang Eger , German historian and author († 2005 )
• October 25 : Peter Naur , Danish astronomer and computer scientist († 2016 )
• October 25 : Marion Ross , American actress
• October 26 : Peter Appleyard , Canadian jazz musician († 2013 )
• October 26 : Albert Brewer , American politician († 2017 )
• October 26 : Jean-Claude Vidilles , French racing car driver († 1997 )
• October 27 : Hermann Oxfort , German Mayor and Justice Senator († 2003 )
• October 30 : Michael James Andrews , British painter († 1995 )
• October 30 : Daniel Nathans , American microbiologist and biochemist, Nobel Laureate († 1999 )
• October 30 : Joachim Wattendorff , German biologist († 2008 )
• October 31 : Jean-François Deniau , French politician and writer; Member of the Académie française († 2007 )
• October 31 : August Everding , German director, manager, cultural politician and general manager († 1999 )
• October 31 : Helmut Pemsel , Austrian author and former entrepreneur
• October 31 : Roy Romer , American politician

November

• 0November 1 : Eduard Ackermann , German politician († 2015 )
• 0November 1 : Dieter Borkowski , German writer, journalist and historian († 2000 )
• 0November 2 : Leon Hart , American football player († 2002 )
• 0November 3 : Osamu Tezuka , Japanese doctor and manga artist († 1989 )
• 0November 3 : George Yardley , American basketball player († 2004 )
• 0November 4 : Manzoor Hussain Atif , Pakistani hockey player and sports official († 2008 )
• 0November 4 : Larry Bunker , American jazz drummer († 2005 )
• 0November 6th : Marianne Christina Schilling , German actress († 2012 )
• 0November 7th : Daniel Francis Annan , Ghanaian lawyer and politician († 2006 )
• 0November 8th : Rudolf Heitefuss , German phytomedicist
• 0November 8 : Rudolf Machenschalk , Austrian manager († 2005 )
• 0November 9 : Lojze Kovačič , Slovenian writer and teacher († 2004 )
• 0November 9th : Werner Veigel , chief spokesman for the ARD Tagesschau († 1995 )
• 0November 9 : Anne Sexton , American poet († 1974 )

Ennio Morricone, 2012

• November 10 : Ennio Morricone , Italian (film music) composer and conductor († 2020 )
• November 10 : Beppe Wolgers , Swedish actor, director, writer and composer († 1986 )
• November 11th : Ernestine Anderson , American jazz and blues singer († 2016 )
• November 11th : Arthur Cunningham , American composer († 1997 )
• November 11 : Carlos Fuentes , Mexican writer († 2012 )
• November 12th : Henry Büttner , German cartoonist
• November 12 : Napoleón Dihmes , Dominican opera tenor († 2006 )
• November 12th : Werner Klumpp , German politician
• November 12th : Martin Purtscher , Austrian politician and governor of Vorarlberg
• November 13 : Hampton Hawes , American jazz musician († 1977 )
• November 15 : William Heirens , American serial killer († 2012 )
• November 15 : Jerry Toth , Canadian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist, composer and arranger († 1999 )
• November 15 : CW McCall , American country singer
• November 16 : Vladimír Boublík , a Czech theological philosopher († 1974 )
• November 17 : Arman , French object artist and co-founder of Nouveau Réalisme († 2005 )
• November 17 : Rance Howard , American actor († 2017 )
• November 17 : Don Lawrence , British comic artist († 2003 )
• November 17 : Friedrich Prinz , German historian († 2003 )
• November 18 : Sheila Jordan , American jazz singer
• November 18 : Rudolf Spengler , German handball player and handball trainer († 2019 )
• November 19 : Ernst Hiller , German motorcycle racer († 2008 )
• November 20 : Elsbeth Lange , German palynologist († 2009 )
• November 20 : Dolf Verroen , Dutch writer
• November 21 : Pierre Dumay , French racing car driver
• November 22 : Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley , British politician and Anglican clergyman († 2008 )
• November 22nd : Gösta Nordahl , Swedish football player († 2003 )
• November 23 : Jerry Bock , American composer († 2010 )
• November 24th : Gerhard Bengsch , German writer and screenwriter († 2004 )
• November 25 : Giuseppe Agostino , Italian Archbishop († 2014 )
• November 25 : Konrad Naumann , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR († 1992 )
• November 27 : Kurt Abels , German Germanist († 2014 )
• November 27th : Horst Gehann , German composer, conductor, organist, harpsichordist, music publisher († 2007 )
• November 27 : Stanley Hoffmann , American political scientist († 2015 )
• November 27 : Rainer Kerndl , German journalist and writer († 2018 )
• November 27 : Josh Kirby , British draftsman and artist († 2001 )
• November 28 : Toaripi Lauti , Tuvaluan politician († 2014 )
• November 28 : David Mostyn , British Army General († 2007 )
• November 28 : Dariush Safvat , Iranian setār and santur player and musicologist († 2013 )
• November 29 : Joan Martí Alanís , Bishop of Urgell and Co-Prince of Andorra († 2009 )
• November 29th : Virginia López , Puerto Rican singer
• November 29 : Hotsuki Ozaki , Japanese author and literary critic († 1999 )
• November 30th : Chic Hecht , American politician († 2006 )
• November 30th : Peter Hans Kolvenbach , Dutch general general († 2016 )

December

• 0December 1st : Klaus Rainer Röhl , German journalist and publicist
• 0December 2 : Jörg Demus , Austrian pianist († 2019 )
• 0December 2 : Fred Düren , German actor († 2015 )
• 0December 2 : Jimmy Haggett , American country and rockabilly musician († 2000 )
• 0December 2nd : Irina Pabst , known for her commitment to AIDS relief († 2004 )
• 0December 2nd : Rita Paul , German actress and singer
• 0December 3 : Joachim Nottke , German author, actor and voice actor († 1998 )
• 0December 4th : Frank Tiberi , American jazz musician
• 0December 6 : Duilio Arigoni , Swiss chemist († 2020 )
• 0December 6 : Carlos María Ariz Bolea , Spanish bishop († 2015 )
• 0December 6 : Jan Hendriks , German stage, film and television actor († 1991 )
• 0December 6 : Karel Pecka , Czech writer and dissident († 1997 )
• 0December 7th : Noam Chomsky , American linguist
• 0December 8 : Hannes Flesner , East Frisian artist († 1984 )
• 0December 8th : Jimmy Smith , American jazz and blues organist († 2005 )
• December 10 : Dagfinn Aarskog , Norwegian pediatrician and human geneticist († 2014 )
• December 10 : Egon Christian Andresen , German electrical engineer († 2010 )
• December 10 : Dan Blocker , American actor († 1972 )
• December 10 : Jeremy Morse , British chess composer († 2016 )
• December 11 : Renny Ottolina , Venezuelan television entertainer and producer († 1978 )
• December 12th : Tschingis Aitmatow , Kyrgyz writer († 2008 )
• December 12th : Helen Frankenthaler , American painter († 2011 )
• December 12th : Jean Meeus , Belgian mathematician, astronomer and author
• December 12th : Heinrich Rathke , German pastor, theologian and regional bishop in Mecklenburg
• December 13 : Wolfgang Hutter , Austrian painter and graphic artist († 2014 )
• December 13 : Nati Mistral , Spanish singer and actress († 2017 )
• December 13th : Jutta Müller , German figure skating coach
• December 13 : Jack Tramiel , Polish-American entrepreneur and computer pioneer († 2012 )
• December 14th : Aníbal Abreu , Venezuelan pianist, arranger and composer
• December 15 : Ernie Ashworth , American country musician († 2009 )
• December 15 : Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Austrian painter and architect († 2000 )
  

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser , 1998
• December 16 : Bruce Nathan Ames , American biochemist and biologist
• December 16 : Philip K. Dick , American writer († 1982 )
• December 16 : Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler , German farmer, politician, manager and entrepreneur († 2011 )
  

  Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler , 1984
• December 16 : Daniel Timsit , Algerian doctor († 2002 )
• December 18 : Mirza Tahir Ahmad , Khalifat ul-Masih VI. († 2003 )
• December 18 : Joachim Kaiser , German journalist, critic and writer († 2017 )
• December 18 : Galt MacDermot , Canadian composer († 2018 )
• December 19 : Nikolaus Arndt , German architect, historian and local politician († 2016 )
• December 19 : Herbert Bötticher , German actor († 2008 )
• December 20 : Jack Christiansen , US-Canadian American football player and coach († 1986 )
• December 22nd : Regine Lutz , Swiss actress
• December 23 : Anthony Cronin , Irish writer († 2016 )
• December 23 : Buddy Harman , American drummer († 2008 )
• December 23 : Hubert Glaser , German historian († 2019 )
• December 24th : Siegurd Fitzek , German actor
• December 24th : Manfred Rommel , Lord Mayor of Stuttgart († 2013 )
• December 25 : Christian Geissler , German writer († 2008 )
• December 25th : Pepe Jara , Mexican singer († 2005 )
• December 25 : Heinrich Poos , German composer († 2020 )
• December 26 : Herbert Batliner , Liechtenstein lawyer († 2019 )
• December 26th : Martin Cooper : American electrical engineer
  

  Martin Cooper , 2007
• December 27 : Manfred Arlt , German architect († 2006 )
• December 27th : Martin Michael Arnold , German physician and university professor
• December 27 : Walter Romberg , German politician († 2014 )
• December 28 : Dariush Forouhar , Iranian politician († 1998 )
• December 29th : Danica Aćimac , Yugoslav actress († 2009 )
• December 29 : Ludwig Huber , German politician († 2003 )
• December 29 : Adolf Oberth , Transylvanian chemist and inventor († 2007 )
• December 30th : Bo Diddley , American musician († 2008 )
• December 31 : Hugh McElhenny , American football player
• December 31 : Veijo Meri , Finnish writer († 2015 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Florian Ambru , Romanian football player and coach
• Abdul-Qader Arnaout , Syrian Islamic scholar († 2004 )
• Us Conradi , German actress and writer
• Danuta Dworakowska , Polish pianist and music teacher
• Maurice Sheehy , Irish classical philologist and church historian († 1991 )
• Lu Wenfu , Chinese writer († 2005 )

Died

January

• 0January 4 : Jacob van Rees , Dutch author and anarchist (* 1854 )
• January 10 : Ralph Allan Aitken , Scottish football player (* 1863 )
• January 11 : Thomas Hardy , British writer (* 1840 )
• January 15 : Ferdinand Mülhens , landowner and entrepreneur in Königswinter (* 1844 )
• January 21 : Nikolai Astrup , Norwegian painter (* 1880 )
• January 30th : Karl Bleibtreu , German writer (* 1859 )
• January 30th : Johannes Fibiger , Danish pathologist (* 1867 )

February

• 0February 1 : Ah Toy , American prostitute and brothel operator (* 1828 )
• 0February 4th : Hendrik Antoon Lorentz , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize winner (* 1853 )
• 0February 4 : Fritz Raschig , German industrialist, chemist and politician (* 1863 )
• 0February 4 : Aram J. Pothier , American politician (* 1854 )
• February 13 : Franz Christoph Büscher , German lawyer (* 1848 )
• February 15 : Herbert Henry Asquith , British politician and head of government (* 1852 )
• February 15 : Curt von Morgen , German officer and explorer (* 1858 )
• February 19 : Rufin Steimer , Swiss Capuchin preacher and historian (* 1866 )
• February 20 : Antonio Abetti , Italian astronomer (* 1846 )
• February 20 : Josef Arbesser von Rastburg , Austrian landscape and architecture painter (* 1850 )
• February 24th : Eduard Hahn , German agrarian ethnologist, geographer and economic historian (* 1856 )
• February 25 : William O'Brien , Irish journalist and politician (* 1852 )
• February 26 : Johannes Chrząszcz , Silesian priest (* 1857 )
• February 28 : Carl Josef Alois Bourdet , German painter and watercolorist (* 1851 )
• February 29 : Armando Diaz , Italian Marshal (* 1861 )
• February 29 : Adolphe Appia , Swiss architect, stage designer and theorist (* 1862 )

March

• 0March 1 : Jacob Adolf Hägg , Swedish composer (* 1850 )
• 0March 4th : Franjo Vilhar Kalski , Croatian composer (* 1852 )
• 0March 5 : Emil Mayrisch , President of the ARBED Board of Directors (* 1862 )
• 0March 9 : Julius Goerdeler , German judge and parliamentarian (* 1844 )
• March 11th : Georges Guiraud , French composer, organist and music teacher (* 1868 )
• March 11 : Franz Roubaud , Russian painter (* 1856 )
• March 12th : Marija Jermolowa , Russian theater actress (* 1853 )
• March 13 : Laura Valborg Aulin , Swedish composer (* 1860 )
• March 14th : Agnes Gosche , German philologist (* 1857 )
• March 17th : Paul Sprigade , German cartographer (* 1863 )
• March 27 : Leslie Stuart , English composer (* 1864 )
• March 30th : Adolf Angst , Swiss entrepreneur (* 1845 )
• March 30th : Frank B. Willis , American politician (* 1871 )
• March 31 : Gustave Ador , Swiss politician (* 1845 )

April

• 0April 7 : Alexander Bogdanow , Russian philosopher, economist, sociologist (* 1873 )
• April 15 : Pietro Bordino , Italian racing driver (* 1887 )
• April 18 : Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński , Polish pianist, conductor, composer and music teacher (* 1869 )
• April 25 : Pyotr Wrangel , Russian general (* 1878 )
• April 26 : Percy Shelley Anneke , American entrepreneur (* 1850 )
• April 29 : Friedrich von Bezold , German historian (* 1848 )
• April 29 : Heinrich Federer , Swiss writer (* 1866 )

May

• 0May 7 : Aleksandr Spendiarjan , Armenian composer (* 1871 )
• May 11th : Lilli (* 1897 ) and Emil Bohnke (* 1888 ), musician couple
• May 13 : Ida Boy-Ed , German writer (* 1852 )
• May 13 : Ernst Buss , Swiss Protestant clergyman (* 1843 )
• May 15 : Max Auzinger , German magician and actor (* 1839 )
• May 16 : Rudolf Heinze , German lawyer and politician (* 1865 )
• May 18 : Moritz von Auffenberg , Austro-Hungarian Army and Minister of War (* 1852 )
• May 18 : William Dudley Haywood , American trade unionist (* 1869 )
• May 19 : Charlotte Basté , German actress (* 1867 )
• May 19 : Henry Franklin Gilbert , American composer (* 1868 )
• May 19 : Max Scheler , German philosopher (* 1874 )
• May 20 : Rupert Karner , Austrian motorcycle racer (* 1896 )
• May 27 : Arthur Moritz Schoenflies , mathematician (* 1853 )

June

• 0June 2 : Otto Nordenskjöld , Swedish polar explorer (* 1869 )
• 0June 5 : Kurt von Schleinitz , German officer (* 1859 )
• 0June 6 : John D. Works , American politician (* 1847 )
• June 14th : Emmeline Pankhurst , British suffragette (* 1858 )
• June 16 : Harry A. Richardson , American politician (* 1853 )
• June 17 : Edwin Meredith , American businessman and politician (* 1876 )

Roald Amundsen , 1920

• June 18 : Roald Amundsen , Norwegian polar explorer, missing (* 1872 )
• June 28 : Victor Auburtin , German journalist and writer (* 1870 )
• June 28 : John Isaac Thornycroft , English engineer (* 1843 )
• June 29 : Álvaro de Castro , Portuguese military and politician, Prime Minister (* 1878 )

July

• 0July 1 : Frankie Yale , Italian criminal in New York (* 1893 )
• 0July 2 : Willi Henkelmann , German motorcycle racer (* 1899 )
• 0July 8 : Erich Adickes , German philosopher (* 1866 )
• 0July 9 : George Earle Chamberlain , American politician (* 1854 )
• July 15 : Čeněk Junek , Czechoslovak banker and racing car driver (* 1894 )
• July 16 : Ernst von Halle , German automobile racing driver (* 1905 )
• July 17 : Álvaro Obregón , Mexican general and politician (* 1880 )
• July 20 : Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius , Swedish entomologist (* 1853 )
• July 21 : Kostas Karyotakis , Greek poet and prose writer (* 1896 )
• July 23 : Kasai Zenzō , Japanese writer (* 1887 )
• July 25 : Jane Sutherland , Australian landscape painter (* 1853 )
• July 25 : Moina Mathers , English artist and occultist (* 1865 )
• July 27 : Karl Armbrust , German painter (* 1867 )

August

• 0August 9 : Friedrich II , Grand Duke of Baden (* 1857 )
• August 12 : Leoš Janáček , Czech composer (* 1854 )
• August 13 : Georg Wilhelm Ferdinand von Amann , Prussian general (* 1839 )
• August 13 : Fernand Charron , French cyclist and automobile racer (* 1866 )
• August 13 : Fernand de La Tombelle , French composer and organist (* 1854 )
• August 14 : Klabund (pseudonym for Alfred Henschke), German writer (* 1890 )
• August 16 : Antonín Sova , Czech poet and writer (* 1864 )
• August 17 : George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet , British historian and statesman in the William Gladstone government (* 1838 )
• August 19 : Richard Burdon Haldane , British politician and philosopher (* 1856 )
• August 20 : Huldreich Heusser , German automobile racing driver (* 1889 )
• August 25 : Alfred Meyer-Waldeck , defender of the German protected area Kiautschou (* 1864 )
• August 28 : Hannah Chaplin , British artist, mother of Charlie Chaplin (* 1865 )

Wilhelm Vienna

• August 30 : Wilhelm Wien , German physicist (* 1864 )
• August 30 : Franz von Stuck , German painter and sculptor (* 1863 )
• August 31 : Bruno Wille , German preacher, philosopher, journalist and writer (* 1860 )

September

• 0September 1 : Gottfried Zumoffen , Swiss Jesuit and archaeologist (* 1845 )
• 0September 8 : Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau , German Foreign Minister (* 1869 )
• 0September 9 : Emilio Materassi , Italian racing car driver (* 1894 )
• September 11th : Paul Ferrier , French librettist and playwright (* 1843 )
• September 13 : Italo Svevo , Italian writer (* 1861 )
• September 16 : Marie Stritt , German women's rights activist (* 1855 )
• September 17th : Wakayama Bokusui , Japanese writer (* 1885 )
• September 23 : Matthew Arthur , Scottish businessman and peer (* 1852 )
• September 25 : Richard Felton Outcault , American comic book artist, author and painter (* 1863 )
• September 29 : Ludwig von Pastor , German-Austrian historian (* 1854 )

October

• 0October 4 : Hermann Bamberg , German businessman and politician (* 1846 )
• October 13 : Dagmar of Denmark , mother of Tsar Nicholas II (* 1847 )
• October 22 : Andrew Fisher , Australian Prime Minister (* 1862 )
• October 23 : François-Alphonse Aulard , French historian (* 1849 )
• October 25 : Hirotsu Ryūrō , Japanese writer (* 1861 )

November

• 0November 5 : Ottokar Kernstock , Austrian poet and priest (* 1848 )
• 0November 7th : Mattia Battistini , Italian opera singer (* 1856 )
• November 10th : Anita Berber , German dancer and actress (* 1899 )
• November 14th : Katharina Brandis , German painter (* 1841 )
• November 15 : Paul Thiersch , German architect and university professor (* 1879 )
• November 19 : Franz Stuhlmann , German zoologist and Africa explorer (* 1863 )
• November 21 : Hermann Sudermann , German writer and playwright (* 1857 )
• November 23 : William E. Purcell , American politician (* 1856 )
• November 24th : Richard Schwemer , German teacher and historian (* 1857 )
• November 26th : Reinhard Scheer , German admiral (* 1863 )

December

• 0December 4 : Delina Filkins , Supercentenarian and oldest person in the world between 1926 and 1980. (* 1815 )
• 0December 7th : Giuseppe Francica-Nava de Bontifè , Archbishop of Catania and Cardinal (* 1846 )
• December 10 : Charles Rennie Mackintosh , British architect (* 1868 )
• December 20 : Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney , French Bahai (* 1873 )
• December 23 : John Merle Coulter , American botanist (* 1851 )
• December 24th : Frank M. Byrne , American politician (* 1858 )
• December 25th : Theodor von Frimmel , Austrian art historian and musicologist (* 1853 )
• December 25 : Osanai Kaoru , Japanese playwright, translator and theater director (* 1881 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Abdul Rahman ibn Abdallah , Imam of the Wahhabis (* 1850 )
• Louis Aronsohn , German banker and politician (* 1850 )
• Teotoros Lapçinciyan , Armenian author and researcher (* 1873 )
• Mischa Léon , Danish singer (* 1889 )

Web links

Commons : 1928  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Chronicle 1928 on Living Virtual Museum Online

Footnotes

1. ↑ zeit.de (2009) .