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Calendar overview 1931
Map with all linked sites: | 1931 | |
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| The Empire State Building opens. | |
| 1931 in other calendars | |
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| From urbe condita | 2684 |
| Armenian calendar | 1379-1380 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1923-1924 |
| Badi calendar | 87-88 |
| Bengali calendar | 1337-1338 |
| Berber calendar | 2881 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2475 |
| Burmese calendar | 1293 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7439-7440 |
| Chinese calendar | |
| - era | 4627-4628 or 4567-4568 |
| - 60 year cycle |
Metal horse (庚午, 7) - |
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French revolution calendar |
CXXXIX - CXL 139-140 |
| Hindu calendar | |
| - Vikram Sambat | 1987-1988 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1853-1854 |
| Iranian calendar | 1309-1310 |
| Islamic calendar | 1349-1350 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Nengō (era): | Shōwa 6 |
| - Kōki | 2591 |
| Jewish calendar | 5691-5692 |
| Coptic Calendar | 1647-1648 |
| Korean calendar | |
| - Dangun era | 4264 |
| - Juche era | 20th |
| Minguo calendar | 20th |
| Modern Olympics | IX |
| Seleucid calendar | 2242-2243 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2474 |
events
Politics and world events
Deutsches Reich
- January 1: The Reich leadership of the NSDAP moves into the Brown House in Munich .
- October 11th: Formation of the Harzburg Front . National opposition ( NSDAP , DNVP , Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten ) against the Iron Front ( SPD , trade unions, Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold )
- 17./18. October: Adolf Hitler demonstrates with a mass march of 100,000 men in Braunschweig .
- DECEMBER 16: The Iron Front form mainly Social Democrats and trade unionists in the time of the Weimar Republic in the resistance against Nazism . You want to create a counterweight to the right-wing extremist Harzburg Front .
Other events in Europe
- January 1st: Heinrich Häberlin becomes President of Switzerland again .
- April 14: A republic is proclaimed in Spain - the second in the country's history . King Alfonso XIII goes into exile abroad.
- September 12: The Pfrimer Putsch begins in Styria . Walter Pfrimer wants to bring a home guard government to power in Austria. The armed forces stopped the march on Vienna the following day .
- December 14th: In Utrecht the fascist Nationaal-Socialistische Bewegungsing in the Netherlands is founded.
- 29./30. December: Finland holds a referendum on prohibition . Due to the overwhelming majority of voters, prohibition was abolished in the following year and the state-controlled alcohol monopoly Alko was founded.
The British Commonwealth
- January 19: The London Conference on India , boycotted by the Congress Party , ends with no results. The British idea of a Dominion does not find a majority among the Indian participants.
- September 15: Beginning of the Invergordon mutiny in the Atlantic Fleet , a part of the British Royal Navy due to drastic pay cuts
- December 11: The British Parliament passes the Statute of Westminster , which gives the Dominions in the British Commonwealth of Nations extensive legislative independence. This makes Canada , Australia , New Zealand , South Africa , Newfoundland (part of Canada since 1949) and the Irish Free State (later: Republic of Ireland) sovereign states.
America
- January 3rd: President Florencio Harmodio Arosemena has to resign due to a financial crisis that became known the day before . On January 16, the previous Vice-President Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované was appointed President of Panama by the Supreme Court .
- March 5: In Bolivia is Daniel Salamanca Urey for the second time President.
Asia
- September 18: Japan invades Manchuria (China) and occupies it until early 1932 (see Manchuria crisis )
business
Great Depression
- 1931/1932: The economic crisis in Germany reaches its peak. There are 70,000 bankruptcies and 6 million unemployed.
- March 24: Carl Duisberg calls for a closed economic bloc from Bordeaux to Sofia at the “Wirtschaft in Not” conference of the Bavarian Association of Industrialists .
- May 11th: The Österreichische Credit-Anstalt declares its insolvency , thus triggering a serious financial crisis. The bank is subsequently saved from final ruin by means of restructuring measures and with state help.
- June 20: In order to strengthen the confidence of the capital markets, which had disappeared during the global economic crisis , the American President Herbert Hoover proposes a one-year moratorium on reparations and inter-allied war debts .
- July 13: The insolvency of the Darmstädter und Nationalbank causes a banking crisis to which several small banks subsequently fall victim.
- July 13th: Danatbank , illiquid due to the German banking crisis, does not open its counters. Savers storm the other German banks and savings banks to save their deposits. This also makes other banks illiquid.
- July 14th: The German banking crisis leads the Brüning government to order several general bank holidays in Germany through several emergency ordinances to prevent an onslaught of unsettled customers in order to repay their deposits.
- August 5th: Payment transactions are fully released again.
- November 6th: In the German banking crisis , an emergency ordinance issued by Reich President Paul von Hindenburg gave the savings banks the legal form of an institution under public law . Your assets are to be separated from the - mostly communal - guarantor , the institute is only allowed to grant them limited communal loans.
Business start-ups
- January 1st: The Swiss airline Swissair is founded through the merger of two other airlines.
- May 31: The German-Chinese airline Eurasia starts operations.
Others
- March 18th: The first electric shaver comes onto the market.
- JUNE 20: The Schneefernerhaus on the Zugspitze is the mountain station of the Bavarian Zugspitze Railway opened.
- August 27: The Dornier Do X flying boat , the largest aircraft of its time, lands in New York City after a journey of several months and is greeted with great cheers.
- August 28: Merger of the trade health insurance fund in Leipzig, founded in 1904, and the Vag zu Barmen association in 1922 as Barmenia insurance bank for medium-sized companies and civil servants, to form the Leipzig Association - Barmenia health insurance for civil servants, independent professions and medium- sized businesses a. G. as a forerunner of today's Barmenia health insurance a. G.
- August 31: After built 4,320,446 vehicles, the Ford Motor Company production of the Model A a. Model B replaces the series.
- September 21: Great Britain leaves the gold standard , the pound sterling becomes free currency.
science and technology
- March 10th: In Egypt, the Tebtunis lunar calendar is displayed in the remains of a temple complex from the second century BC. Discovered.
- May 1: The Empire State Building in New York City is opened by US President Herbert Hoover . At 381 meters, the building is the tallest in the world until it lost this status in 1972 due to the World Trade Center .
- May 27: The Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard starts with his assistant Paul Kipfer in a stratosphere - balloon in place Gersthofen to explore the upper atmosphere. Both advance to the previously unreached height of 15,781 meters. The balloon goes down on the Gurgler Ferner in Obergurgl .
- July 24th: The Russian polar explorer Rudolf Lasarewitsch Samoilowitsch and the entrepreneur Hugo Eckener embark on a week-long expedition with the rigid airship LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin".
- July 31: In the AEG research laboratory in Berlin, a refrigerator (" Einstein-Szilárd refrigerator ") designed according to a design by Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd goes into operation for the first time.
- August 21: Manfred von Ardenne publicly presents the world's first fully electronic test arrangement for the transmission of moving images at the Berlin radio exhibition .
- December 6th: Foundation of the Society for the Study of Fascism
- December 8: The electrical engineers Lloyd Espenschied and Herman A. Affel received a US patent for the coaxial cable they had invented and which they applied for on May 23, 1929.
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence developed the cyclotron in Berkeley , thereby laying the foundation for modern high-energy physics .
- Kurt Gödel publishes his most important work on formally undecidable theorems of the Principia mathematica and related systems with the proof of Gödel's incompleteness theorem .
- Louis Leon Thurstone develops multiple factor analysis .
- Arist Dethleffs invents the first caravan under the name "Wohnauto" for a business trip, later series production in the Dethleffs company .
- The American chemist Harold C. Urey discovered deuterium , the heavy hydrogen .
Culture
- February 15: The cosmopolitan artist group Abstraction-Création is founded in Paris on the initiative of Georges Vantongerloo .
architecture
- December 5: The Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow is blown up on the orders of Lasar Moisseyevich Kaganowitsch .
- The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, the world's first “skyscraper”, is being demolished.
Visual arts
- January 17th to February 28th: Exhibition of Japanese painting in Berlin
- October 12: The Christ the Redeemer designed by Heitor Silva Costa on Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro is consecrated.
- Foundation of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Movie
- JANUARY 30: In Los Angeles, will premiere of City Lights ( City Lights ) instead. In addition to Chaplin as a tramp, Virginia Cherrill can be seen in the role of the flower girl. The tragic comedy becomes one of Charlie Chaplin's most successful films.
- February 12: The horror film Dracula by director Tod Browning has its world premiere. This film with Bela Lugosi in the title role is considered to be the first official film adaptation of Bram Stoker's eponymous horror novel .
- February 19: In Berlin, the film The Threepenny Opera, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst , is premiered after a comparison . Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill had taken civil law proceedings against the type of film in a three- penny process.
- May 11th: The premiere of the crime film M by Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou with Peter Lorre in the leading role takes place in Berlin in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo . In the period that followed, this work established itself as one of the most important German films.
- August 15: Pardon Us , the first full-length feature film by comedian duo Laurel and Hardy, premieres. It forms a kind of remake of the silent film The Second Hundred Years from 1927.
- September 29th: The film Der Kongreßtanzt by Erik Charell with Lilian Harvey , Willy Fritsch and Conrad Veidt premieres in Vienna. The film, elaborately produced by the UFA , is considered to be a highlight of German operetta films and is the most expensive film production of the Weimar Republic.
- November 21: The film Frankenstein with Boris Karloff in the role of the monster and directed by James Whale premieres. It is the first sound film adaptation of the novel by Mary Shelley of the same name .
- December 2nd: The film Emil and the Detectives by Gerhard Lamprecht and Samuel Wilder, based on the novel of the same name by Erich Kästner , premieres in Berlin.
- December 26th: The feature film Mata Hari with Greta Garbo in the title role is shown for the first time in New York City.
literature
- February: The novels Monsieur Gallet, décédé and Le Pendu de Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon , written in the previous year, appear as the first novels about Commissioner Maigret .
- Erich Kästner publishes the novel Fabian - The Story of a Moralist as well as the two children's novels Pünktchen and Anton and Der 35. Mai or Konrad rides in the South Seas .
- Shortly before Arthur Schnitzler's death, his novella Flight into Darkness, written between 1912 and 1917 under the working title Wahn , appears .
Music and theater
- January 18: In Konigsberg the comic opera has King Midas of Wilhelm Kempff its premiere . The libretto , written by the composer, is based on the text book for the Singspiel The Judgment of Midas by Christoph Martin Wieland .
- June 4th: At the Komische Oper Berlin , the operetta will be women like it ...! premiered by Walter Kollo . The libretto comes from the team of authors Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach . Rideamus alias Fritz Oliven contributed the lyrics.
- July 24th: The world premiere of the operetta Die Blume von Hawaii by Paul Abraham takes place at the New Theater in Leipzig.
- OCTOBER 26: The play Mourning Becomes Electra ( Mourning Becomes Electra ) by Eugene O'Neill has a successful premiere at the Guild Theater on Broadway. Another 150 performances will follow.
- November 2: The folk play Tales from the Vienna Woods by Ödön von Horváth is premiered at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin , directed by Heinz Hilpert . Contributors include Carola Neher , Peter Lorre , Hans Moser , Paul Hörbiger and Paul Dahlke . Despite massive criticism from conservative and right-wing extremist circles, the piece is a great success.
- November 13th: The opera Friedemann Bach by Paul Graener is premiered in the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin. The libretto is by Rudolf Lothar . The text is based on the "biographical" novel of the same name by Albert Emil Brachvogel . The title character is the composer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach . But the plot is fictitious.
- December 26: The Musical Of Thee I Sing by George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin , George Simon Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind takes place at the Majestic Theater in New York.
religion
- February 12: Vatican Radio broadcasts the message Qui arcano Dei Consiglio from Pope Pius XI at 4:30 p.m. and thus starts transmitting, initially on a trial basis.
- December 16: Pope Pius XI. canonized Albertus Magnus in Rome and at the same time declares him a Doctor of the Church .
Disasters
- February 3: The Hawke's Bay earthquake and subsequent fire largely destroy the New Zealand cities of Hastings , Havelock North and Napier , killing 256 people. Numerous aftershocks, which culminated on February 13 with the 7.3 magnitude earthquake, did not allow the region to calm down for weeks.
- March 31: Earthquake measuring 5.6 in Nicaragua , killing around 2,400
- June 6th: The Munich Glaspalast is burned to a state of flames. 3,000 paintings including the complete works of the special exhibition German Romantics burn with the exhibition building.
- August: Around 1.4 million people are killed in China when the Yangtze River floods .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- May 13: Count Henri Baillet-Latour shares the result for the award of the XI. Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 with, with 43 votes for, 16 for Barcelona and 8 abstentions.
- May 24th to July 12th: Hosting of the 1st European Grand Prix Championship
- July 11: Opening of the Prater Stadium in Vienna (today Ernst Happel Stadium ) on the occasion of the 2nd Workers' Olympics
- July 12: Ferdinando Minoia becomes the first European Grand Prix champion
- Foundation of the Austrian Golf Association ÖGV
- Foundation of the SC Bern SCB
- Founding of the Billard Sportverband Österreich BSVÖ
- There are three major European championships .
Nobel Prizes
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| Nobel Price for physics | not awarded | |||
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Carl Bosch (1874-1940) |
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"For their services to the discovery and development of high pressure chemical processes" |
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Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949) |
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| Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Otto Warburg (1883-1970) |
Deutsches Reich
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"For the discovery of the nature and the function of the respiratory ferment " (note: the term ferment is hardly used today - it has been replaced by the term enzyme ) |
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| Nobel Prize in literature |
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931) |
 Sweden
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"Erik Axel Karlfeldt's poetry" |
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| Nobel Peace Prize |
Jane Addams (1860-1935) |
 United States
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President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom |
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Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) |
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Born
January
- January 1: Sergei Ivanovich Adjan , Russian mathematician († 2020)
- January 1st: Rainer Ansorge , German mathematician and university professor
- January 1: Jurij Grós , Sorbian functionary and politician († 2019)
- January 2nd: Hermann Fünfgeld , German Broadcasting Director († 2018)
- January 3: Werner Buschmann , Minister for Light Industry of the GDR
- January 4th: Alexander Arnot , German diplomat
- January 4th: Nora Iuga , Romanian poet and translator
- January 5: Alvin Ailey , American dancer and choreographer († 1989)
- January 5th: Alfred Brendel , Austrian pianist
- January 5: Robert Duvall , American actor
- January 5: Juan Goytisolo , Spanish journalist and writer († 2017)
- January 6: Franz Albert , Austrian racing driver († 2017)
- January 6: EL Doctorow , American writer and editor († 2015)
- January 6: Kurt Grimm , German film and television director († 2004)
- January 6: Lucienne L'Heureux-Arel , Canadian organist and music teacher
- January 6: Philip W. Noel , American politician
- January 6: Joachim Specht , German writer († 2016)
- January 7th: Alan Maley , British painter and special effects artist († 1995)
- January 7th: Hans Nordin , Swedish ski jumper and ski jumping official († 2021)
- January 8: Bill Graham , American impresario († 1991)
- January 9: Algis Budrys , American science fiction writer († 2008)
- January 10: Helmut Arntzen , German literary scholar, essayist, aphorist and fable author († 2014)
- January 10: Ilse Strambowski , German actress
- January 11: Mary Rodgers , American musical composer and writer († 2014)
- January 11: Gerhard Weiser , German politician († 2003)
- January 12: Roland Alphonso , Jamaican tenor saxophonist († 1998)
- January 12: Yolande Dulude , Canadian singer († 2003)
- January 12th: Pierre Monneret , French motorcycle racer († 2010)
- January 13: Ian Hendry , English actor († 1984)
- January 13: Charles Nelson Reilly , American actor († 2007)
- January 14: Yves Berger , French writer († 2004)
- January 14: Elmar Gunsch , Austrian moderator and author († 2013)
- January 14th: Caterina Valente , actress and singer
- January 15: Derek Meddings , American specialist in special effects and models († 1995)
- January 16: Alfred Ardelt , German politician († 2011)
- January 16: Johannes Rau , Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia and German Federal President († 2006)
Johannes Rau , 1986 - January 17th: Monica Gubser , Swiss actress († 2019)
- January 17: James Earl Jones , African-American actor
- January 17th: Lolita , Austrian singer († 2010)
- January 17: Nikolai von Michalewsky , German writer († 2000)
- January 17: Ted Scapa , Dutch-Swiss contemporary artist, publisher and television presenter
- January 17: Douglas Wilder , American politician
- January 18: Chun Doo-hwan , South Korean President († 2021)
- January 18: Kōichi Isoda , Japanese literary critic and scholar († 1987)
- January 19: Ingrid Andree , German actress
- January 19: Vittorio Ghidella , Managing Director of the Fiat Auto Division († 2011)
- January 20: Ariyoshi Sawako , Japanese writer († 1984)
- January 20: Preston Henn , American racing driver and entrepreneur († 2017)
- January 20: David M. Lee , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- January 20: Günther Maleuda , German politician, party chairman of the DBD († 2012)
- January 21: Manon Andreas-Grisebach , German literary scholar, translator and politician
- January 21: Anatol Herzfeld , German sculptor († 2019)
- January 21: Heinz Luthringshauser , German motorcycle racer († 1997)
- January 22nd: Sam Cooke , American singer († 1964)
- January 22nd: Wigand Freiherr von Salmuth , German entrepreneur († 2006)
- January 23: Lorenzo Artale , Italian screenwriter, film director and actor († 2002)
- January 24: Lars Valter Hörmander , Swedish mathematician and Fields Medalist († 2012)
- January 24th: Ib Nørholm , Danish composer († 2019)
- January 24th: Trutz Rendtorff , German theologian († 2016)
- January 25: Günter Biermann , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1997)
- January 25: Carlo Binetti , Swiss politician and football coach († 2014)
- January 25: Dean Jones , American actor († 2015)
- January 25th: André Moccand , Swiss rower
- January 26th: Mary Murphy , American actress († 2011)
- January 26: Bernard Cardinal Panafieu , Archbishop of Marseille († 2017)
- January 27: Manfred Aregger , Swiss politician
- January 27: Mordecai Richler , Canadian writer († 2001)
- January 28: Felicia Donceanu , Romanian composer
- January 28: Ezio Flagello , American opera singer († 2009)
- January 28: Sakyō Komatsu , Japanese science fiction writer († 2011)
- January 28: Bringfried Müller , German soccer player and coach († 2016)
- January 29: Leslie Bricusse , OBE, British composer and songwriter of film music († 2021)
- January 29: Gert Hofmann , German writer († 1993)
- January 29: Ferenc Mádl , Hungarian lawyer, President of Hungary († 2011)
- January 30: Linda Nochlin , American art historian († 2017)
- January 31: Hansjörg Felmy , German theater and film actor († 2007)
Hansjörg Felmy , 1959 - January 31: Léon Wurmser , American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author († 2020)
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February
- February 1: Iajuddin Ahmed , Bengali politician, head of state of Bangladesh († 2012)
- February 1: Madeleine Berthod , Swiss ski racer
- February 1: Igor Dsjalozhinsky , Russian physicist († 2021)
- February 1: Boris Yeltsin , Russian politician and President († 2007)
- February 1: Oswald Oberhuber , Austrian painter, sculptor and graphic artist († 2020)
- February 1: Friedrich Voss , German politician († 2012)
- February 2: Andreas Antonius Maria van Agt , Dutch politician
- February 2: Ladislav Čepčianský , Czechoslovak canoeist († 2021)
- February 2: Hans Rampf , German ice hockey player and national coach († 2001)
- February 3: Hans-Dieter Asner , German actor
- February 4: Isabel Martínez de Perón , Argentine President 1974–1976
- February 6: Heinz Kahlau , German poet († 2012)
- February 6: Rip Torn , American actor († 2019)
- February 6: Mamie van Doren , American actress
- February 6: Ricardo J. Vidal , Archbishop of Cebu and Cardinal († 2017)
- February 6: René Villiger , Swiss artist and graphic designer († 2010)
- February 7: Holger Börner , German Prime Minister († 2006)
- February 8: James Dean , American film actor († 1955)
- February 8: Shadia , Egyptian film actress and singer († 2017)
- February 9: Thomas Bernhard , Austrian writer († 1989)
- February 9: Imanuel Geiss , German historian († 2012)
- February 9: Philipp Harnoncourt , Catholic theologian and priest († 2020)
- February 9: Josef Masopust , Czechoslovak football player († 2015)
- February 9: Robert Morris , American sculptor († 2018)
- February 10: József Ács , Hungarian sculptor and medalist
- February 12: Herbert F. Schubert , German dancer and choreographer († 2011)
- February 12: Janwillem van de Wetering , Dutch writer († 2008)
- February 14: Jonathan Adams , British actor († 2005)
- February 14: Brian Kelly , American film and television actor († 2005)
- February 15: Claire Bloom , British actress
- February 16: Alfred Kolleritsch , Austrian writer and poet († 2020)
- February 16: Makoto Ōoka , Japanese poet and literary scholar († 2017)
- February 16: Ken Takakura , Japanese actor († 2014)
- February 18: Ruprecht Düll , German botanist († 2014)
- February 18: Johnny Hart , American cartoonist († 2007)
- February 18: Toni Morrison , American writer and Nobel Prize for Literature († 2019)
- February 18: Margarete Müller , German politician
- February 18: Hans Nerth , German writer, director and journalist
- February 18: Bob St. Clair , American football player († 2015)
- February 18: Lydia Pfann , German gymnast († 2019)
- February 19: Camillo Ruini , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- February 19: Jorge Álvaro Sarmientos , Guatemalan composer († 2012)
- February 20: Harold Keck , American racing car driver († 2007)
- February 20: John Willard Milnor , American Professor of Mathematics
- February 21: Pablo Uribe , Colombian fencer († 2021)
- February 22: Roy Adler , American mathematician († 2016)
- February 22nd: Georg Brühl , German autodidactic art scholar, journalist and controversial art collector († 2009)
- February 22: Richard Kawakami , American politician († 1987)
- February 23: Carl Ewen , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- February 23: Gustav-Adolf Schur , German cyclist and politician
- February 23: Tom Wesselmann , American painter († 2004)
- February 24: Uri Orlev , Israeli children's author
- February 24: James Abouretsk , American politician
- February 25: Ernest Gondzik , Polish wrestler († 2021)
- February 26: Francisco Kröpfl , Argentine composer († 2021)
- February 27: Walter Santesso , Italian actor, director and screenwriter († 2008)
- February 28: Gavin MacLeod , American actor († 2021)
- February 28: Dean Smith , American basketball coach († 2015)
March
- March 2: Mikhail Sergejewitsch Gorbachev , General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU in the Soviet Union
- March 2: Franz Matter , Swiss actor and director († 1999)
- March 2: Ottokar Uhl , Austrian architect († 2011)
- March 3: Franz Anderrüthi , Swiss mountaineer and mountain guide († 2020)
- March 3: Hannelore Marschall-Oehmichen , German doll carver and co-founder of the Augsburger Puppenkiste († 2003)
- March 4: Odo Haas , German Benedictine abbot († 2019)
- March 4: William Henry Keeler , Archbishop of Baltimore and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 2017)
- March 5th: Frédéric Othon Théodore Aristidès , French comic artist († 2013)
- March 5: Barry Tuckwell , Australian horn player and conductor († 2020)
- March 6: Hal Needham , American stuntman, director, actor and screenwriter († 2013)
- March 6: Gerd Siemoneit-Barum , German circus director († 2021)
- March 7th: Mady Mesplé , French soprano († 2020)
- March 7th: Hans Müller , Swiss figure skater († 2021)
- March 8th: Heinz Mack , German artist and experimenter in the spectrum of colored light
- March 8: John McPhee , American non-fiction author
- March 8: Neil Postman , American media scholar and critic († 2003)
- March 9: Masahiro Shinoda , Japanese director and screenwriter
- March 10: Bernadetta Matuszczak , Polish composer († 2021)
- March 11th: Janosch (Horst Eckert), German children's author and writer
- March 11: Rupert Murdoch , Australian-American media entrepreneur
Rupert Murdoch , 2011 - March 12: François Rabbath , American composer
- March 12: Jerzy Tuszewski , Polish journalist, documentary filmmaker, playwright, radio and theater director and producer of documentaries († 2016)
- March 13: Wolfgang Kohlhaase , German director and writer
- March 13: Álvaro Menéndez Leal , Salvadoran poet, storyteller, playwright, essayist and journalist († 2000)
- March 14: Saïd Brahimi , Algerian-French football player and coach († 1997)
- March 15: Dominic Joseph Fontana , American musician († 2018)
- March 16: Theo Altmeyer , German tenor and professor of singing († 2007)
- March 16: Augusto Boal , Brazilian playwright and director († 2009)
- March 16: Ernst Hilbich , German actor
- March 19: Emma Andijewska , Ukrainian poet, writer and painter
- March 19: Alfred Hirschmeier , German film architect († 1996)
- March 20: Antonio Tauriello , Argentine composer, conductor and pianist († 2011)
- March 22: Burton Richter , American physicist († 2018)
- March 22nd: William Shatner , Canadian actor, singer, writer
William Shatner , 2012 - March 23: Yevgeny Grishin , Russian speed skater († 2005)
- March 23: Viktor Korchnoi , Soviet-Swiss chess player († 2016)
- March 25: Vytautas Barkauskas , Lithuanian composer († 2020)
- March 25: Jack Chambers , Canadian painter († 1978)
- March 25: Paul Motian , American jazz musician († 2011)
- March 25: Jeanne Omelenchuk , American cyclist, speed skater and politician († 2008)
- March 25th: Vassilis Soukas , Greek clarinetist († 1993)
- March 26: Leonard Nimoy , American actor, director and film producer († 2015)
- March 27: Magdalena Ezoe , American composer and music teacher
- March 27: Siegfried Künkele , German lawyer and botanist († 2004)
- March 27: Yoriaki Matsudaira , Japanese composer
- March 28: Gene Anderson , British actress († 1965)
- March 28: Jane Rule , Canadian author († 2007)
- March 29: Norman Tebbit , British Conservative politician
- March 30: Sándor Szokolay , Hungarian composer († 2013)
- March 31: Miller Barber , American professional golfer († 2013)
- March 31: Eberhard Pohlmann , German lawyer and politician (CDU)
- March 31: Tamara Andreevna Tyschkewitsch , Soviet athlete and Olympic champion († 1997)
April
- April 1: George Baker , British actor († 2011)
- April 1: Rolf Hochhuth , German playwright († 2020)
- April 1: Fernando Puig Rosado , Spanish painter, graphic artist, children's book illustrator and animation filmmaker († 2016)
- April 1: Peter Stoll , German forester and conservationist († 2015)
- April 2nd: Manuel Carra , Spanish pianist, composer and music teacher
- April 2: Howard Engel , Canadian writer († 2019)
- April 3: Jiří Laburda , Czech composer
- April 4: Bobby Ray Inman , American admiral
- April 4: Karl Obermayr , Bavarian folk actor († 1985)
- April 4: Arthur Weisberg , American bassoonist, conductor, music teacher and composer († 2009)
- April 5: Philipp Müller , German worker († 1952)
- April 6: Ivan Dixon , American actor and television director († 2008)
- April 6: Clyde Emrich , American weightlifter († 2021)
- April 7: Donald Barthelme , American writer († 1989)
- April 7: Daniel Ellsberg , American economist
- April 7: Ted Kotcheff , Canadian director
- April 8: John Gavin , American actor and politician († 2018)
- April 8: René Maillard , French composer († 2012)
- April 9: Leone Frollo , Italian comic artist († 2018)
- April 9: Heisuke Hironaka , Japanese mathematician
- April 9: Myriam Marbe , Romanian composer († 1997)
- April 9: Tom Phillis , Australian motorcycle racer († 1962)
- April 10: Eberhard Kunkel , German comic author and publisher († 2019)
- April 10: Rafael Solano , Dominican composer and pianist
- April 10: Bruno Weber , Swiss artist and architect († 2011)
- April 11: Sergio Sebastiani , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- April 11: Johnny Sheffield , American film actor († 2010)
- April 11: John Wofford , American eventing rider († 2021)
- April 12: Chico Anysio , Brazilian actor, writer, comedian and composer († 2012)
- April 12: Karl Hinderer , German mathematician († 2010)
- April 13: Michel Deville , French film director and screenwriter
- April 13: Dan Gurney , American racing driver and team owner († 2018)
- April 13th: August Hobl , German motorcycle racer
- April 14: Vic Wilson , British racing driver († 2001)
- April 15: Klaus Liesen , German Chairman of the Supervisory Board († 2017)
- April 15: Tomas Tranströmer , Swedish poet and Nobel Prize winner († 2015)
- April 15: Pierre Vaneck , French actor († 2010)
- April 15: Kurt Weinzierl , Austrian actor († 2008)
- April 17: Rudolf Austen , German painter and graphic artist († 2003)
- April 17: Bill Ramsey , German jazz and pop singer († 2021)
- April 17th: Hilmar Thate , German actor († 2016)
- April 19: José de Jesús Aguilera Rodríguez , Mexican bishop († 1999)
- April 19: Clement Athelston Arrindell , Governor of St. Kitts and Nevis († 2011)
- April 19: Frederick P. Brooks , American computer scientist
- April 20: Theodor Sele , Liechtenstein ski racer
- April 21: Gabriel de Broglie , French historian and statesman
- April 21: Margo MacKinnon , Canadian singer and vocal teacher
- April 21: Siegfried Müller senior , German automobile racing driver
- April 23: Billy Davenport , American drummer († 1999)
- April 23: Karl Recktenwald , German motorcycle racer († 1964)
- April 24th: Antonio Attolini Lack , Mexican architect († 2012)
- April 24: Abdelhamid Kermali , Algerian-French football player and coach († 2013)
- April 24th: Bridget Riley , British painter
- April 24th: Meinolf Wewel , German publisher
- April 25: Hans-Joachim Böhme , German politician and minister of the GDR († 1995)
- April 25: Hans Georg Pescher , German ice hockey player and coach
- April 27: Krzysztof Komeda , Polish musician († 1969)
- April 28: Karl Foitek , Austrian-Swiss racing driver and entrepreneur († 2019)
- April 29: Frank Auerbach , British painter
- April 29: Lonnie Donegan , British skiffle musician († 2002)
- April 30: Bill Clay , American politician
- April 30th: Adriana Asti , Italian actress
- April 30: Willy Harlander , German actor († 2000)
May
- May 1: Winfried Seidinger , Austrian politician († 2009)
- May 2: Martha Grimes , American writer
- May 2: Werner Titel , politician, Minister for Environmental Protection and Water Management of the GDR († 1971)
- May 3: Aldo Rossi , architect and designer († 1997)
- May 4: Arno Klönne , German sociologist, political scientist and author († 2015)
- May 4th: Gennadi Nikolajewitsch Roshdestvensky , Russian conductor († 2018)
- May 5th: Jakob Bichsel , Swiss composer and conductor
- May 6: Jonathan Bush , American entrepreneur, member of the Bush family († 2021)
- May 6: Willie Mays , American baseball player
- May 7: Teresa Brewer , American pop singer († 2007)
- May 7: Ingvar Wixell , Swedish opera singer († 2011)
- May 7: Gene Wolfe , American science fiction writer († 2019)
- May 8: Walter Rudolf , German legal scholar and data protection officer for the state of Rhineland-Palatinate († 2020)
- May 8: Charles Wilson , Canadian composer, choir director and music teacher
- May 9: Knut Andersen , Norwegian film director, screenwriter, actor and film editor († 2019)
- May 10: Ettore Scola , Italian director and screenwriter († 2016)
- May 10: Yūzō Toyama , Japanese composer and professor
- May 11: Jean-François Aubert , Swiss constitutional lawyer and politician
- May 13: George Firestone , American entrepreneur and politician († 2012)
- May 13: Jim Jones , American cult leader († 1978)
- May 13: Jiří Petr , Czech agronomist († 2014)
- May 13: Werner Stiegler , German enduro athlete
- May 15: Joseph A. Califano , American politician
- May 15: Georg Grammer , German entrepreneur († 2005)
- May 16: Donald Martino , American composer († 2005)
- May 16: Wolfango Montanari , Italian athlete († 2021)
- May 16: Natwar Singh , Indian politician
- May 16: Thomas Ungar , Austrian conductor and music teacher
- May 16: Lowell P. Weicker , American politician
- May 17: Emil Bildstein , German water polo player († 2021)
- May 17: Jackie McLean , American jazz alto saxophonist († 2006)
- May 17: Jerry Norton , American football player († 2020)
- May 18: Claude Bobrowski , French racing car driver († 2011)
- May 18: Don Martin , cartoonist for MAD magazine († 2000)
- May 18: Robert Morse , American film actor
- May 19: Bob Anderson , British motorcycle and automobile racer († 1967)
- May 19: William Docker Browning , American lawyer († 2008)
- May 19: Alfred Schmidt , German philosopher and sociologist († 2012)
- May 19: Tom Toelle , German director († 2006)
- May 21: Lorenz Specht , German motorcycle athlete († 2016)
- May 23: William Rex Austin , New Zealand politician
- May 23: Barbara Barrie , American actress and writer
- May 24: Michael Lonsdale , French actor († 2020)
- May 26: Willibald Hilf , director of Südwestfunk (SWF) († 2004)
- May 27: Věroslav Neumann , Czech composer and music teacher († 2006)
- May 27: Hans Rudolf Zöbeley , German composer, choir conductor and church musician († 2007)
- May 28: Carroll Baker , American actress
- May 28: Sonny Burgess , American rockabilly musician († 2017)
- May 28: Friedrich Gabler , Austrian horn player († 2016)
- May 28: Eric Von Schmidt , American painter, illustrator, folk, blues singer and singer-songwriter († 2007)
- May 28: Gordon Willis , American cameraman († 2014)
- May 29th: Egon Ditt , German chess player and official. († 2005)
- May 30: Gerasimos Arsenis , Greek politician († 2016)
- May 30: Audrey Flack , American painter and sculptor
- May 30: Harald Winkel , German economist, historian and publisher († 2005)
- May 31: Zvi Hecker , Israeli architect
- May 31: John Robert Schrieffer , American physicist († 2019)
June
- June 1: Jamil Ahmad , Pakistani writer († 2014)
- June 3: Françoise Arnoul , French actress († 2021)
- June 3rd: Raúl Castro , revolutionary and Cuban politician
- June 3: Josef Hattig , German politician († 2020)
- June 3: John Norman , American fantasy and science fiction writer
- June 3: Lindy Remigino , American athlete († 2018)
- June 4th: DM Jayaratne , Sri Lankan politician († 2019)
- June 4th: Erasmus Schöfer , German writer
- June 4: Jan Zábrana , Czech writer, poet and translator († 1984)
- June 5: Zygmunt Apostoł , Polish film, television and theater actor († 2018)
- June 5: Jacques Demy , French film director († 1990)
- June 7: Okot p'Bitek , Ugandan poet, teacher and ethnologist († 1982)
- June 7: Mike Pratt , British composer, musician and actor († 1976)
- June 7: Salim Ghazal , Lebanese Curia Bishop († 2011)
- June 7th: Dorothy Stang , Brazilian nun, civil rights activist, environmental activist († 2005)
- June 8: Barbara Adolph , German actress and voice actress
- June 8: James Goldstone , American film director, film producer and screenwriter († 1999)
- June 8: Dana Wynter , British actress († 2011)
- June 9: Edwin Kratschmer , German writer and art historian
- June 9: Joe Santos , American actor († 2016)
- June 10: Dan Constantinescu , Romanian composer († 1993)
- June 10: João Gilberto , Brazilian guitarist, singer and composer († 2019)
- June 10: Johann Friedrich Henschel , Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court († 2007)
- June 11: Werner Arnold , German weightlifter
- June 12: Mac Ahlberg , Swedish cameraman, film director and screenwriter († 2012)
- June 13: Georges Arvanitas , French jazz pianist and Hammond organ player († 2005)
- June 13: Věra Suková , Czechoslovak tennis player († 1982)
- June 13: Irvin D. Yalom , American psychiatrist and writer
- June 14th: Marla Gibbs , American actress
- June 14: Sieghardt Rupp , German-speaking actor († 2015)
- June 14: Jr. Walker , American tenor saxophonist († 1995)
- June 14: Klaus Zernack , German historian († 2017)
- June 15: Ingrid van Bergen , German actress
- June 16: István Eörsi , Hungarian poet, playwright, prose writer and essayist († 2005)
- June 16: Francesca Schinzinger , German historian († 1995)
- June 16: John Shelby Spong , American bishop († 2021)
- June 17: Edward Frederick Anderson , American botanist († 2001)
- June 17: Alex Carmel , Israeli historian († 2002)
- June 18: Fernando Henrique Cardoso , Brazilian sociologist and politician
- June 18: Hans Maier , German political scientist and politician
- June 18: Klaus Wunderlich , German musician († 1997)
- June 19: Martin Aßmann , German civil engineer and entrepreneur († 2018)
- June 20: Olympia Dukakis , American actress († 2021)
- June 20: William Joseph Foley , Australian Roman Catholic Archbishop († 1991)
- June 21: Leopold Gressenbauer , Austrian politician († 1988)
- June 21: David Kushnir , Israeli athlete and soccer player († 2020)
- June 21: Enzo Maiorca , Italian freediver († 2016)
- June 21: Erik Neutsch , German writer († 2013)
- June 22nd: Umbi Arlati , Swiss jazz trumpeter and music teacher († 2015)
- June 22nd: Vera Marzot , Italian costume designer († 2012)
- June 22nd: Teruyuki Okazaki , Japanese karateka, holder of the 10th Dan († 2020)
- June 23: Urs Jaeggi , Swiss sociologist, writer, painter and sculptor († 2021)
- June 23: Kazuo Okamatsu , Japanese writer and philologist († 2012)
- June 23: Ola Ullsten , Swedish politician and diplomat, Prime Minister († 2018)
- June 23: Johannes Edmund Vecchi , Argentine Superior General of the Order of Salesian Don Bosco († 2002)
- June 24: Habib Bacha , Jordanian Archbishop of Beirut and Jbeil († 1999)
- June 24th: Tita Carloni , Swiss architect († 2012)
- June 24th: Billy Casper , American golfer († 2015)
- June 24th: Rudolf Müller , Former Bishop of Görlitz († 2012)
- June 25: Vishwanath Pratap Singh , Indian Prime Minister († 2008)
- June 25: Miroslav Košler , Czech choir director and music teacher († 2016)
- June 25: Erwin Stahl , German politician († 2019)
- June 26: Colin Wilson , British writer († 2013)
- June 27: Charles Bronfman , Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist
- June 27: Ryszard Kwiatkowski , Polish composer († 1993)
- June 27: Martinus JG Veltman , Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner († 2021)
- June 28: Jürg Federspiel , Swiss writer († 2007)
- June 28: Ivan Nagel , German theater scholar and director († 2012)
- June 28: Hasso Zorn , German actor and voice actor († 2016)
- June 30th: Harry Blanchard , American racing car driver († 1960)
- June 30: Hyman Bress , Canadian violinist and composer († 1995)
- June 30th: Hans Gruijters , Dutch politician († 2005)
- June 30th: Andrew Hill , American jazz pianist († 2007)
- June 30th: Brian Muir , Australian racing car driver († 1983)
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July
- July 1: Lonnie Barron , American country and rockabilly musician († 1957)
- July 1st: Leslie Caron , French dancer and actress
- July 1: Adolf Kabatek , German manager and comic book writer († 1997)
- July 1: Seyni Kountché , President of Niger († 1987)
- July 2: Robert Ito , Canadian film actor
- July 3: Klaus Schröter , German literary scholar and literary historian († 2017)
- July 4th: Jean-Baptiste Rossi , French journalist, screenwriter and writer († 2003)
- July 5th: Nicole Darrigrand , French water diver († 2021)
- July 5: Reimar Lenz , German author, publicist († 2014)
- July 6: Horst Albach , German economist
- July 6: Donal Donnelly , English-Irish actor († 2010)
- July 6: Robert Dunham , American actor († 2001)
- July 6: Murad Wilfried Hofmann , German lawyer and diplomat († 2020)
- July 6: Antonella Lualdi , Italian film actress
- July 6: Joyce Mekeel , American composer, harpsichordist and music teacher († 1997)
- July 6: Emily Nasrallah , Lebanese writer († 2018)
- July 6: Della Reese , American jazz and blues singer and film actress († 2017)
- July 7: David Eddings , American fantasy writer († 2009)
- July 8: Jürgen Böttcher , German painter and documentary film director
- July 10: Nick Adams , American film actor († 1968)
- July 10: Phil Coleman , American athlete († 2021)
- July 10: Julian May , American writer († 2017)
- July 10: Alice Munro , Canadian writer and Nobel Prize winner
- July 11: Kurt Batt , German literary scholar, critic and editor († 1975)
- July 11: John N. Dalton , American politician († 1986)
- July 11: Tab Hunter , American film actor and pop singer († 2018)
- July 11: Hans Klein , German politician († 1996)
- July 15: Clive Cussler , American writer († 2020)
- July 16: Werner König , German musicologist and composer († 2018)
- July 16: Hans Manz , Swiss author of children's books († 2016)
- July 17: Walter Odersky , President of the Federal Court of Justice
- July 19: Heinz Assmann , German politician
- July 20: Phillip Coles , Australian canoeist, lifeguard and sports official
- July 20: Karl Grünheid , Minister for Mechanical Engineering of the GDR († 2004)
- July 20: Tony Marsh , British racing car driver († 2009)
- July 20: Horst Prinzbach , German chemist († 2012)
- July 21: José Carlos da Fonseca , Brazilian lawyer and politician († 2007)
- July 22nd: Gordon Krunnfusz , American composer and music teacher († 2011)
- July 23: Arata Isozaki , Japanese architect
- July 23: Jan Troell , Swedish film director
- July 24: Sverre Holm , Norwegian actor († 2005)
- July 24th: Ermanno Olmi , Italian director († 2018)
- July 25: Peter Armbruster , German physicist
- July 25: Alfred Bellebaum , German sociologist and happiness researcher († 2021)
- July 26: Tony Curiel , Dominican opera baritone († 2009)
- July 26: Edward Zacca , Jamaican Governor General († 2019)
- July 27: Jerry Van Dyke , American film actor († 2018)
- July 28: Karl-Friedrich Haas , German athlete († 2021)
- July 29: Harold Sanford Kant , American show business lawyer († 2008)
- July 29: Joachim Leitert , German motorcycle racer († 2004)
- July 29: Otti Pfeiffer , German poet and author of children's and young adult books († 2001)
- July 30th: Moshe Atzmon , Israeli conductor
- July 30th: Ursula Donath , German athlete
- July 30th: Dominique Lapierre , French writer
- July 31: Karl Heinrich Friauf , German constitutional lawyer († 2016)
- July 31: Nick Bollettieri , American tennis coach
- July 31: Ivan Rebroff , German singer († 2008)
August
- August 1: Hal Connolly , American hammer thrower and Olympic champion († 2010)
- August 1st: Dino da Costa , Brazilian soccer player and coach († 2020)
- August 1: John Stratton , Canadian singer, music historian and producer
- August 2nd: Ruth Maria Kubitschek , German actress
- August 2: Philippa Schuyler , American pianist, journalist and author († 1967)
- August 4: Paul Avrich , American historian († 2006)
- August 4th: Viktor Lukas , German organist and university professor
- August 5th: Janusz Majewski , Polish film director, dramaturge and screenwriter
- August 7th: Nils R. Århammar , Swedish linguist
- August 7th: FRC Clarke , Canadian organist, choir director, composer and music teacher († 2009)
- August 7: Gottfried Kiesow , German conservationist and chairman of the German Foundation for Monument Protection († 2011)
- August 8: Peter Fitz , German actor († 2013)
- August 8: Roger Penrose , British mathematician and theoretical physicist
- August 9: Paul Schmidt , German middle-distance runner
- August 9: Sarah Whitmore , British dressage rider († 2021)
- August 9: Mario Zagallo , Brazilian soccer player and soccer coach
- August 10: Tom Laughlin , American film actor († 2013)
- August 11: Peter Ala Adjetey , Ghanaian lawyer, university professor and politician († 2008)
- August 11: Daniele Amati , Italian theoretical particle physicist
- August 12: Ernst Fivian , Swiss gymnast († 2021)
- August 12: William Goldman , American screenwriter and writer († 2018)
- August 15: Richard F. Heck , American chemist († 2015)
- August 16: Alessandro Mendini , Italian designer and architect († 2019)
- August 17th: Luisín Landáez , Venezuelan-Chilean singer († 2008)
- August 17th: Jacques Neirynck , Swiss electrical engineer, consumer advocate and author
- August 18: Helmut Sieger , German navigator, sea sportsman, naval officer and doctorate in education
- August 18: Hans Tietmeyer , German economist († 2016)
- August 19: Aldo Emäne , French swimmer († 2021)
- August 19: Ruth Hohmann , German jazz singer
- August 19: Marianne Koch , German film actress
- August 20: Bernd Becher , German photographer († 2007)
- August 20: Don King , American boxing promoter
- August 21: Barry Foster , British actor († 2002)
- August 21: Dietrich Schuberth , church musician and Protestant theologian
- August 22: Stefan Andreae , German pastoral theologian († 2011)
- August 23: Hamilton Othanel Smith , American biochemist
- August 24: Friedhelm Dohmann , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1970)
- August 25: Cecil D. Andrus , American politician († 2017)
- August 25: Karl "Kolle" Günnemann , German national handball player († 2015)
- August 25: Regis Philbin , American TV presenter († 2020)
- August 27: Chinmoy , spiritual teacher († 2007)
- August 28: Henri Boulad , Egyptian Jesuit, mystic and author
- August 28: Josef Dreier , German politician
- August 28: István Erdélyi , Hungarian archaeologist and historian († 2020)
- August 30: Ifor James , British horn player († 2004)
- August 30: Ermano Maggini , Swiss music teacher and composer († 1991)
- August 30: John Leonard Swigert , American astronaut († 1982)
- August 31: Jean Béliveau , Canadian ice hockey player († 2014)
- August 31: Kazumi Takahashi , Japanese writer and sinologist († 1971)
September
- September 1st: Michael O. Rabin , Israeli computer scientist
- September 1: Javier Solís , Mexican singer († 1966)
- September 1: Martin Stade , German writer († 2018)
- September 2: Clifford Jordan , American jazz saxophonist († 1993)
- September 2: Alan K. Simpson , American politician
- September 3: Samir Amin , Egyptian economist and critic of neocolonialism († 2018)
- September 3: John Hotchkis , American racing car driver
- September 3: Fritz J. Raddatz , German columnist and writer († 2015)
Fritz J. Raddatz , 2003
- September 4th: Mitzi Gaynor , American actress
- September 4: Rupert Hollaus , Austrian motorcycle racer († 1954)
- September 4: Anthony de Mello , Indian Jesuit priest († 1987)
- September 5: Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas , Malay philosopher and thinker
- September 5: Virgil Gonsalves , American jazz saxophonist († 2008)
- September 6: Sander M. Levin , American politician
- September 7th: Irshad Panjatan , Indian actor and pantomime
- September 9th: Edwin Bhend , Swiss chess master
- September 9: Waldemar Świerzy , Polish graphic and graphic designer († 2013)
- September 10: Philip Baker Hall , American film actor
- September 10th: Franco Manzecchi , Italian jazz drummer († 1979)
- September 11: Hans-Ulrich Wehler , German historian († 2014)
- September 12: Ian Holm , British actor († 2020)
- September 12: George Jones , American country musician († 2013)
- September 13: Lucio Amelio , Italian art dealer and gallery owner († 1994)
- September 13: Barbara Bain , American actress
- September 13: Marjorie Jackson , Australian athlete and governor of the Australian state of South Australia
- September 13: Kurt Schirra , German boxer († 1983)
- September 14: Pavel Blatný , Czech composer († 2021)
- September 14: Ivan Klíma , Czech writer
- September 14: Rudi Strahl , German playwright, narrator and poet († 2001)
- September 16: Jan Johansson , Swedish jazz musician and composer († 1968)
- September 16: Günther Kleiber , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED and minister in the GDR († 2013)
- September 16: Werner Lueg , German athlete († 2014)
- September 17: Hanns Adrian , German architect and urban planner († 2003)
- September 17th: Anne Bancroft , American actress († 2005)
- September 17: Jacinto Gimbernard , Dominican violinist and writer († 2017)
- September 17th: Ayako Sono , Japanese writer
- September 18: Julio Grondona , President of the Argentine Football Association († 2014)
- September 18: Hans Sievers , German actor and voice actor († 2012)
- September 19: Wolfgang Altenburger , German comic author and editor († 2008)
- September 19: Brook Benton , American soul singer and songwriter († 1988)
- September 19: Jean-Claude Carrière , French screenwriter and writer († 2021)
- September 19: Derek Gardner , British automobile designer († 2011)
- September 20: Haya Harareet , Israeli film and theater actress († 2021)
- September 20: Malachy McCourt , American actor
- September 21: Larry Hagman , American actor († 2012)
- September 21: Ivan Toplak , Yugoslav football player and coach († 2021)
- September 22nd: Johnny Bernero , American drummer († 2001)
- September 22nd: Ernst Degner , German motorcycle racing driver and world champion († 1983)
- September 22: Isidore Mankofsky , American cameraman († 2021)
- September 22nd: Nello Santi , Italian conductor († 2020)
- September 22nd: Fay Weldon , British author and feminist
- September 23: Ignatius Kutu Acheampong , Head of State of Ghana († 1979)
- September 23: Alwin Brück , German politician († 2020)
- September 24th: John Michael Geoffrey Manningham "Tom" Adams , Barbadian politician († 1985)
- September 24: Gilberto Aceves Navarro , Mexican painter († 2019)
- September 24: Joseph Kallas , Lebanese Archbishop
- September 24: Haidi Streletz , German politician († 2010)
- September 25: Manouchehr Atashi , Persian poet and translator († 2005)
- September 27: Norbert Szyperski , German economist († 2016)
- September 27th: Freddy Quinn , German-speaking pop singer
Freddy Quinn , 1971
- September 27: Jan Corazolla , German conductor and cellist († 1998)
- September 28: John Gilmore , American jazz musician († 1995)
- September 29: James Cronin , American physicist († 2016)
- September 29: Anita Ekberg , Swedish actress († 2015)
Anita Ekberg , 2007 - September 29: Erhard Mahne , German politician
- September 29: Huschmand Sabet , German-Persian entrepreneur († 2016)
- September 30th: Angie Dickinson , American actress
- September 30th: Eveline Gottzein , German engineer
October
- October 1: Sylvano Bussotti , Italian composer († 2021)
- October 1: Ronald Lötzsch , German linguist († 2018)
- October 2: Keith Campbell , Australian motorcycle racer († 1958)
- October 2nd: Pierre Cogen , French organist, composer and music teacher
- October 3: Eugenio Corecco , Roman Catholic Bishop in the Diocese of Lugano († 1995)
- October 4th: Thane Baker , American athlete and Olympic champion
- October 4: Richard Rorty , American philosopher († 2007)
- October 6: Riccardo Giacconi , American astrophysicist († 2018)
- October 6: Lee Man-hee , South Korean director († 1975)
- October 7: Cotton Fitzsimmons , American basketball player († 2004)
- October 7: Walter Kubiczeck , German composer and band leader († 2009)
- October 7: Maria Schaumayer , Austrian economist and politician († 2013)
- October 7: Gordon Terry , American country musician († 2006)
- October 7: Desmond Tutu , South African bishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- October 8: Bill Brown , Scottish soccer player († 2004)
- October 12: Ole-Johan Dahl , Norwegian computer scientist († 2002)
- October 12: Thomas Nicholls , British boxer († 2021)
- October 12: Raoul Pleskow , American composer and music teacher
- October 13: Dritëro Agolli , Albanian writer and publicist († 2017)
- October 13: Raymond Kopa , French football player († 2017)
- October 13: Franz Rudnick , German actor († 2005)
- October 14: Heinz Fütterer , athlete and athlete from "Phoenix Karlsruhe" († 2019)
- October 14: Jock Lawrence , British racing car driver († 2006)
- October 14: Rafael Puyana Michelsen , Colombian harpsichordist († 2013)
- October 15: APJ Abdul Kalam , Indian politician († 2015)
- October 16: Charles Colson , American advisor to Richard Nixon († 2012)
- October 16: Salvador , Brazilian soccer player († 1973)
- October 16: Hans Friderichs , German politician
Hans Friderichs , 1975
- October 17: Ernst Hinterberger , Austrian writer († 2012)
- October 17: Anatoly Pristavkin , Russian writer († 2008)
- October 17: Gina Ruck-Pauquèt , German writer († 2018)
- October 17th: Gerd Seifert , German horn player († 2019)
- October 18: Geoff Barrowcliffe , British football player († 2009)
- October 18: John Warwick Montgomery , American Lutheran theologian, lawyer, and author
- October 19: John le Carré , British writer († 2020)
- October 20: Antti Hyry , Finnish writer († 2016)
- October 20: Mickey Mantle , American baseball player († 1995)
- October 20: Pak Wanso , Korean author († 2011)
- October 21: William Bradley , British racing car driver († 2000)
- October 21: Fritz Freyschlag , Austrian politician and lobbyist († 2004)
- October 21: Thomas C. Oden , American evangelical theologian († 2016)
- October 23: Jim Bunning , American baseball player and politician († 2017)
- October 23: William Patrick Clark , American politician († 2013)
- October 23: Donald Hadfield , Canadian organist, choir director and church musician († 2005)
- October 24th: Sofia Gubaidulina , Russian composer
- October 25: Annie Girardot , French actress († 2011)
- October 25: Klaus Hasselmann , German climate researcher and Nobel Prize winner for physics
- October 26: Hermann von Loewenich , regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria († 2008)
- October 27: Nawal El Saadawi , Egyptian writer and fighter for human rights († 2021)
- October 28: Jimmy Patton , American country and rockabilly musician († 1989)
- October 29: Franco Interlenghi , Italian actor and film producer († 2015)
- October 30: Ruth Klüger , American literary scholar and writer († 2020)
- October 30: Hedi Lang , Swiss politician († 2004)
- October 31: David Lumsdaine , Australian composer
- October 31: Dan Rather , American journalist
November
- November 2: Paul E. Affeldt , American author and music producer († 2004)
- November 2: Phil Woods , American musician († 2015)
- November 3: Yasuo Irisawa , Japanese poet († 2018)
- November 3: Herbert Kesel , German rower († 2011)
- November 3: Andrew L. Lewis , American politician († 2016)
- November 3rd: Monica Vitti , Italian actress
- November 4: Bernard Francis Law , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 2017)
- November 5: Thomas R. Pickering , American diplomat and business manager
- November 5: Charles Taylor , Canadian political scientist and philosopher
- November 5: Ike Turner , American musician and producer († 2007)
- November 6: Peter Collins , British racing car driver († 1958)
- November 6: Mike Nichols , American director, screenwriter and producer († 2014)
- November 8: George Maciunas , American artist († 1978)
- November 8th: Jim Redman , Rhodesian motorcycle racer
- November 8: Morley Safer , Canadian reporter († 2016)
- November 8: Paolo Taviani , Italian film director
- November 9: Srđan Savić , Yugoslav athlete († 2020)
- November 10: Louise Martini , Austrian actress († 2013)
- November 10: Albrecht Milnik , German forest scientist
- November 11: Pete Stark , American politician († 2020)
- November 12: Norman Mineta , American politician
- November 13: Raymond Gniewek , American violinist († 2021)
- November 13: Sakti Mazumdar , Indian boxer († 2021)
- November 15: Mwai Kibaki , Kenyan politician
- November 15: Pascal Lissouba , Congolese politician († 2020)
- November 15: Valeria Moriconi , Italian actress († 2005)
- November 16: Bob Gibson , American folk musician († 1996)
- November 16: Günter Hotz , computer science pioneer
- November 16: Hubert Sumlin , American blues guitarist († 2011)
- November 17th: Robert Bober , French writer and filmmaker
- November 17: Pierre Nora , French historian and publisher
- November 18: Wolfgang Wickler , German zoologist, behavioral scientist and publicist
- November 20: Rudi Hirsch , German handball player († 2021)
- November 21: Achim Becker , SED functionary; Chairman of the State Broadcasting Committee († 2021)
- November 21: Malcolm Williamson , Australian composer († 2003)
- November 22nd: Sergio Zardini , Italian bobsledder († 1966)
- November 24: Stan Jones , American football player and coach († 2010)
- November 24: Frits Louer , Dutch football player († 2021)
- November 25: Nat Adderley , American jazz cornet player and trumpeter († 2000)
- November 25: Gerhard Baumgärtel , German politician († 1997)
- November 26: Adolfo Maria Pérez Esquivel , Argentine sculptor, architect and civil rights activist
- November 26: Adrianus Johannes Simonis , Archbishop of Utrecht and Cardinal († 2020)
- November 27: Fernando Lima Bello , Portuguese sailor and sports official († 2021)
- November 27: Wolfgang Rauchfuß , German politician († 2005)
- November 28: Hope Lange , American actress († 2003)
- November 28: Tomi Ungerer , French draftsman, graphic artist, illustrator and author († 2019)
- November 30th: Dick Hutcherson , American racing driver († 2005)
- November 30: Bill Walsh , American football coach († 2007)
December
- December 1: Jean-Claude Abrioux , French politician († 2011)
- December 1: George Maxwell Richards , Trinidadian politician († 2018)
- December 2: Nigel Calder , British science journalist and climate skeptic († 2014)
- December 2nd: Masaaki Hatsumi , head of the Bujinkan
- December 2: Edwin Meese , American politician
- December 3: Franz Josef Degenhardt , German songwriter, writer and lawyer († 2011)
- December 3: Paulo Maluf , Brazilian politician
- December 6: Mario Agnes , Italian historian and journalist († 2018)
- December 6th: Lonesome Drifter , American country and rockabilly musician
- December 6th: Volker Oppitz , German financial mathematician and economist
- December 7th: Eric Anderson , English soccer player († 1990)
- December 7th: Josef Göhlen , German children's book author
- December 8: Bob Arum , American boxing promoter
- December 8: Rudolf Komorous , Canadian composer, bassoonist and music teacher
- December 10th: Luis Santi , Cuban pianist, singer and band leader
- December 10: Makoto Shinohara , Japanese composer and professor
- December 11: Ronald Dworkin , American philosopher († 2013)
- December 11: Rajneesh Chandra Mohan , founder and leader of a religious movement († 1990)
- December 11th: Rita Moreno , American actress
- December 13: Giorgio Ardisson , Italian actor († 2014)
- December 13: George Fortune , American opera singer († 2019)
- December 13: William G. Cambridge , American lawyer († 2004)
- December 13: Carl-Heinz Janson , functionary in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR († 2015)
- December 13: Wolfgang Stockmeier , German composer, organist and university professor († 2015)
- December 15: Klaus Rifbjerg , Danish writer († 2015)
- December 15: Peter Schmidhuber , German politician († 2020)
- December 15: Dieter Seeler , German soccer player († 1979)
- December 15: Tanikawa Shuntarō , Japanese writer and poet
- December 16: Kenneth Gilbert , Canadian harpsichordist († 2020)
- December 16: Shelby Singleton , American music producer († 2009)
- December 17: John R. Arthur , American chemist and materials scientist
- December 17th: Constantin Heereman von Zuydtwyck , German politician († 2017)
- December 17: Frankie Miller , American country musician
- December 18: Allen Klein , American businessman († 2009)
- December 18: Gunnel Lindblom , Swedish actress and director († 2021)
- December 18: Helmut Steinberger , Vice-President of the OSCE Court of Arbitration († 2014)
- December 20: Ike Skelton , American politician († 2013)
- December 21: Julia Gschnitzer , Austrian actress
- December 21: Redha Malek , Algerian politician and Prime Minister († 2017)
- December 22nd: Gisela Birkemeyer , German athlete
- December 23: Adu Ababio II. , Nigerian chief († 2007)
- December 23: Maria Tipo , Italian pianist
- December 24: Walter Abish , American writer
- December 24: Ray Bryant , American jazz pianist († 2011)
- December 24th: Christian Enzensberger , German writer († 2009)
- December 24th: Mauricio Kagel , Argentine-German composer, conductor, librettist and director († 2008)
- December 24th: Uwe Lüthje , German-Austrian economist († 2003)
- December 25th: Konrad Löw , German lawyer and political scientist
- December 26: Roger Piantoni , French football player († 2018)
- December 27: Josef Lapid , Israeli politician and minister († 2008)
- December 27: Scotty Moore , American musician and guitarist († 2016)
- December 28: Renato Capriles , Venezuelan musician and orchestra leader († 2014)
- December 28: Guy Debord , French artist and philosopher († 1994)
- December 29: Albert Probst , German politician († 2015)
- December 30th: Skeeter Davis , American singer († 2004)
- December 31: Kurt Muthspiel , Austrian choir teacher and composer († 2001)
- December 31: Mildred Scheel , wife of Walter Scheel and founder of the German Cancer Aid († 1985)
- December 31: Bob Shaw , British SF writer († 1996)
Exact date of birth unknown
- Norbert Adam , Austrian sports official and journalist
- Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abd al-Aziz , Saudi prince († 2017)
- Muhammad Salim Abdullah , German journalist († 2016)
- Thomas Agro , American mobster († 1987)
- Antonio Amendola , Italian actor, film producer and film director
- İsmet Atlı , Turkish wrestler († 2014)
- Awalmir , Afghan singer, musician and composer († 1982)
- Manfred Janke , German writer and radio play author
- Karlheinz Knuth , German screenplay, radio play and crime writer, television and radio director († 2008)
- Vincenzo Rotolo , Italian Neo-Greekist
- Motoharu Yoshizawa , Japanese jazz bassist († 1998)
Died
January
- January 1: Hjalmar Bergman , Swedish writer (* 1883)
- January 1: Martinus Willem Beijerinck , Dutch microbiologist (* 1851)
- January 4: Art Acord , American actor and rodeo champion (* 1890)
- January 3: Joseph Joffre , French general (* 1852)
- January 9: Claude Anet , French writer (* 1868)
- January 11th: Gertrud Arnold , German actress (* 1871)
- January 13: Kálmán Kandó , Hungarian engineer, inventor and railway pioneer (* 1869)
- January 15: Leonhard Schrickel , German writer and local researcher (* 1876)
- January 20: Margrethe Munthe , Norwegian writer (* 1860)
- January 21: Felix Blumenfeld , Russian composer (* 1863)
- January 23: Anna Pawlowa , Russian dancer (* 1881)
- January 24th: Eduard Pelissier , German high school teacher and historian (* 1850)
- January 26: Edward I. Edwards , American politician (* 1863)
- January 28: Bernardo Soto Alfaro , President of Costa Rica (* 1854)
February
- February 4th: Dominique Gauchet , French admiral (* 1853)
- February 8: Robert Zimmermann , Swiss Jesuit, university professor and linguist (* 1874)
- February 9: Gustav Kemmann , German transport scientist (* 1858)
- February 11: Dora Hohlfeld , German poet (* 1860)
- February 11: Charles Parsons , British engineer (* 1854)
- February 19: Marie Eugenie Delle Grazie , Austrian writer (* 1864)
- February 23: Mario Ancona , Italian singer and music teacher (* 1860)
- February 23: Nellie Melba , Australian soprano singer (* 1861)
- February 24th: Friedrich August , Grand Duke of Oldenburg (* 1852)
- February 26: Otto Wallach , German chemist (* 1847)
March
- March 2: Georg Schaumberg , German writer (* 1855)
- March 3: Otto Reutter , German comedian (* 1870)
- March 7th: Casimir von Arx , Swiss politician (* 1852)
- March 7th: Sophie Kleinfeller-Pühn , German genre painter (* 1864)
- March 9: Charles Galloway , American composer (* 1871)
- March 11th: Otto Hense , German classical philologist (* 1845)
- March 11th: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , German director (* 1888)
- March 11: Paul Ziller , German architect (* 1846)
- March 12: Lillie P. Bliss , patroness and co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art (* 1864)
- March 16: James Benjamin Aswell , American politician (* 1869)
- March 20: Hermann Müller , German politician (SPD) (* 1876)
- March 21: Ernesto Consolo , Italian pianist, music teacher and composer (* 1864)
- March 22nd: Ofelia Nieto , Spanish singer (* 1898)
- March 23: Richard Reitzenstein , German classical philologist and historian of religion (* 1861)
- March 26th: Otto Keller , Swabian dialect poet and composer (* 1875)
- March 27: Arnold Bennett , British writer (* 1867)
April
- April 2: Fritz Greve , German painter and art professor (* 1863)
- April 4: George Whitefield Chadwick , American composer (* 1854)
- April 8: Erik Axel Karlfeldt , Swedish poet (* 1864)
- April 9: Friedrich Ackermann , German politician (* 1866)
- April 9: Paul Vidal , French composer (* 1863)
- April 10: Hans Anton Aschenborn , German animal painter, illustrator and author (* 1888)
- April 10: Khalil Gibran , Lebanese artist and poet (* 1883)
- April 11th: Teresa Claramunt , Spanish feminist, anarchist and syndicalist (* 1862)
- April 14: Richard Armstedt , German philologist, historian and teacher (* 1851)
- April 15: Emilio Aceval , Paraguayan politician (* 1853)
- April 18: Wilhelm Schneidewind , German agricultural chemist (* 1860)
- April 22: Franz Saran , German Germanist (* 1866)
- April 23: Jean Victor Augagneur , French doctor and politician (* 1855)
- April 26th: Axel Holst , Norwegian doctor (* 1860)
- April 26: George Herbert Mead , Professor of Philosophy and Social Psychology (* 1863)
- April 30th: Adolf von Arnim , German sports official (* 1875)
- April: Arnold Shultz , American blues and old-time guitarist (* 1886)
May
- May 3: Otto Winter-Hjelm , Norwegian composer, conductor, organist, music critic and teacher (* 1837)
- May 4: Xenophon P. Wilfley , American politician (* 1871)
- May 5: Glen Kidston , British racing car driver (* 1899)
- May 5: Benoit Oppenheim the Elder , German banker (* 1842)
- May 6: Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe , German scientist and inventor of the gyro compass (* 1872)
- May 6: Fiddlin 'Sam Long , American old-time musician (* 1876)
- May 6: Hans Georg Wilhelm von Schubert , German Protestant theologian and historian (* 1859)
- May 8: Hans Otto Löwenstein , Austrian film director and producer (* 1881)
- May 9: Albert A. Michelson , American physicist (* 1852)
- May 10: Maria Slavona , German painter (* 1865)
- May 11th: Arno Zaspel , German motorcycle racer (* unknown)
- May 12: Eugène Ysaÿe , Belgian violinist and composer (* 1858)
- May 14: Viktor Dyk , Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and lawyer (* 1877)
- May 15: Thomas Ashby , British classical archaeologist (* 1874)
- May 16: Emiliano Figueroa Larraín , Chilean politician (* 1866)
- May 18: Remmer Janssen , Evangelical Lutheran pastor in Strackholt (* 1850)
- May 23: Luigi Arcangeli , Italian motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1894)
- May 25: Hans von Arnim , German classical philologist (* 1859)
- May 26: Kate Marsden , British nurse and leprosy researcher (* 1859)
- May 28: Jacques Normand , French writer (* 1848)
- May 29: Wilhelm Exner , President of the Austrian Trade Association (* 1840)
- May 29: Felix Hollaender , German writer (* 1867)
- May 31: Sigurd Savonius , Finnish architect and inventor (* 1884)
- May 31: Willy Stöwer , German marine painter of the imperial era (* 1864)
June
- June 2: Alberto Orrego Luco , Chilean painter (* 1854)
- June 5: Crescente Errázuriz Valdivieso , Chilean Dominican brother, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile, church historian and lawyer (* 1839)
- June 5: Adolf von Groß , friend of the Wagner family, honorary citizen of Bayreuth (* 1845)
- June 5: Solon Irving Bailey , American astronomer (* 1854)
- June 5: Max Kienitz , German forester, forest scientist and nature conservationist (* 1849)
- June 9: Henrique Oswald , Brazilian composer (* 1852)
- June 13: Kitasato Shibasaburō , Japanese doctor and bacteriologist (* 1853)
- June 18: Oskar Minkowski , German medic (* 1858)
- June 19: Freddie Hicks , British motorcycle racer (* 1899 or 1900)
- June 21: Onesimos Nesib , Ethiopian Bible translator
- June 21: Nellie Stewart , Australian actress and singer (* 1858)
- June 28: Maximilian zu Hardegg , Austrian nobleman and racing car driver (* 1906)
July
- July 2: Peter Kürten , serial killer (* 1883)
- July 5: Friedrich Austerlitz , Austrian journalist and politician (* 1862)
- July 6: Edward Goodrich Acheson , American chemist and technician (* 1856)
- July 7th: Willem Leonard Pieter Arnold Molengraaff , Dutch legal scholar (* 1858)
- July 10: Tony Schumacher , German children's book author (* 1848)
- July 10: Louise McKinney , Canadian suffragette, politician and member of the Famous Five (* 1868)
- July 12: Nathan Söderblom , Swedish Protestant theologian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (* 1866)
- July 12: Friedrich Gundolf , German literary scholar of Jewish origin (* 1880)
- July 16: Alice Pike Barney , American painter (* 1857)
- July 16: Charles T. Studd , English cricketer and Protestant missionary (* 1860)
- July 22nd: Otto Rossbach , German classical philologist and archaeologist (* 1858)
- July 27: Auguste Forel , psychiatrist and entomologist (* 1848)
- July 27: Jacques Herbrand , French logician (* 1908)
- July 27th: Alfredo Peri-Morosini , Catholic bishop (* 1862)
- July 27: Lennart Arvid Lundberg , Swedish pianist, composer and music teacher (* 1863)
- July 30th: Johannes Benjamin Brennecke , doctor (* 1849)
August
- August 4: Daniel Read Anthony junior , American politician (* 1870)
- August 6: Bix Beiderbecke , American jazz musician and cornet player (* 1903)
- August 6: Armand Leclaire , Canadian actor and author (* 1888)
- August 14: Richard R. Kenney , American politician (* 1856)
- August 20: Waldemar von Baußnern , German composer and music teacher (* 1866)
- August 20: Oskar von Truppel , German naval officer and governor of Kiautschou (* 1854)
- August 26: Heinrich Grünfeld , Austrian composer, cellist and music teacher (* 1855)
- August 27: Louis Andrieux , French politician, prefect of police in Paris and ambassador (* 1840)
- August 27: Frank Harris , Irish-English author and editor (* 1856)
- August 31: Andrei Viktorovich Anochin , Russian ethnographer, musicologist and composer (* 1869)
September
- September 9: Lujo Brentano , German economist and social reformer (* 1844)
- September 10: Salvatore Maranzano , American mafia boss (* 1886)
- September 11: Richard Irvine Manning III , American politician (* 1859)
- September 12: Lili Elbe , Danish painter (* 1882)
- September 15: Hermann Bernhard Joachim Ascher , German lawyer (* 1844)
- September 16: Umar al-Muchtar , Libyan Koran teacher (* 1862)
- September 18: John F. Nugent , American politician (* 1868)
- September 18: Geli Raubal , Hitler's niece (* 1908)
- September 19: Gerhard Krahmer , German archaeologist (* 1890)
- September 21: Ferdinand Noack , German archaeologist (* 1865)
- September 25: Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , German classical philologist (* 1848)
- September 26: Harry Macdonough , Canadian singer (* 1871)
- September 30th: Henry C. Warmoth , American politician (* 1842)
October
- October 2: Georg Demmler , German architect, athlete and sports official (* 1873)
- October 3: Carl Nielsen , Danish composer (* 1865)
- October 4: Artur Oppman , Polish writer (* 1867)
- October 8: Luigi von Kunits , Austrian conductor, composer, violinist and music teacher (* 1870)
- October 10: Carl von Bach , German mechanical engineer (* 1847)
- October 13: Ernst Didring , Swedish writer (* 1868)
- October 15: Giuseppe Ernesto Ardizzone , American mobster (* 1884)
- October 16: William Oscar Atkeson , American politician (* 1854)
- October 17th: Alfons Maria Jakob , German neurologist (* 1884)
- October 18: Ernest Robinson Ackerman , American politician (* 1863)
- October 18: Thomas Alva Edison , American inventor (* 1847)
- October 18: Lesser Ury , German painter (* 1861)
- October 19: Georg Engel , German writer (* 1866)
- October 20: Franziska Ellmenreich , German actress (* 1847)
- October 20: Emánuel Moór , Hungarian composer (* 1863)
- October 21: Barbecue Bob , American blues pioneer (* 1902)
- October 21: Arthur Schnitzler , Austrian writer (* 1862)
- October 26: Celestino Piaggio , Argentine composer, pianist and conductor (* 1886)
- October 27: Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský , Czech conductor and composer (* 1870)
- October 28: Patrick McMahon Glynn , Australian politician (* 1855)
- October 30: Guido Holzknecht , Austrian doctor and radiologist (* 1872)
November
- November 4: Buddy Bolden , American jazz musician (* 1877)
- November 5: Guido Maria Conforti , Seliger, archbishop and founder of the order (* 1865)
- November 5: Ole Edvart Rølvaag , Norwegian-American writer (* 1876)
- November 6th: Leyla Gülefşan Açba-Ançabadze , princess at the Ottoman court (* 1898)
- November 6th: Thaddeus H. Caraway , American politician (* 1871)
- November 9: William Nelson Runyon , American politician (* 1871)
- November 14th: Eddie Mapp , American blues harmonica player (* 1910)
- November 14: Richard Müller , German politician (* 1851)
- November 17: Georgi Atanasov , Bulgarian composer and conductor (* 1882)
- November 18: Charles-Maurice Couyba , French politician and writer (* 1866)
- November 19: Frederic Cliffe , English composer (* 1857)
- November 19: Xu Zhimo , Chinese poet (* 1897)
- November 22nd: Karl Adolph , Austrian writer (* 1869)
- November 25: Alfred A. Taylor , American politician (* 1848)
- November 27: David Bruce , Australian-English doctor and microbiologist (* 1855)
- November 27: Michael Hoke Smith , American politician (* 1855)
- November 30th: Marc Delmas , French composer (* 1885)
- November: Ignaz Wilhelm Auspitzer , Austrian editor and screenwriter (* 1867)
December
- December 2: Justin Elie , Haitian composer and pianist (* 1883)
- December 2: Vincent d'Indy , French composer (* 1851)
- December 9th: Agnes Willms-Wildermuth , German writer (* 1844)
- December 10: Georg von Ompteda , German writer and translator (* 1863)
- December 13: Gustave Le Bon , French doctor and sociologist (* 1841)
- December 20: Edvard Brandes , Danish cultural politician and writer (* 1847)
- December 20: Gustaf Kossinna , philologist and archaeologist (* 1858)
- December 27: Walter Courvoisier , Swiss composer (* 1875)
Exact date of death unknown
- Helene Anton , German writer (* 1859)
- Ida Giesecke , German painter (* 1866)
- Najaf Qoli Chan Samsam al-Saltane , Iranian Prime Minister (* 1851)
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