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1934
Johan Laidoner is the leader of a coup in Estonia .	King Alexander I of Yugoslavia is murdered by Vlada the chauffeur .
In Austria it comes to civil war .
1934 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	1382/83 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1926/27 (September 10-11)
Baha'i calendar	90/91 (March 20/21)
Bengali solar calendar	1339/40 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)
Buddhist calendar	2477/78 (southern Buddhism); 2476/77 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	77th (78th) cycle Year of the Wood Dog甲戌 ( since February 14 , before that water tap癸酉)
Chuch'e ideology (North Korea)	Chuch'e 23
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	1296/97 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea)	4267/68 (October 2/3)
Iranian calendar	1312/13 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	1352/53 (April 15/16)
Japanese calendar	昭和Shōwa 9; Kōki 2594
Jewish calendar	5694/95 (9/10 September)
Coptic calendar	1650/51 (September 10-11)
Malayalam calendar	1109/10
Minguo calendar (China)	Year 23 of the republic
Seleucid era	Babylon: 2244/45 (turn of the year April) Syria: 2245/46 (turn of the year October)
Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar)	2476/77 (April 1)
Tibetan calendar	1680
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1990/91 (April)

The year 1934 is by the Nazis used to their power in Germany to consolidate and get rid of other political opponents, for example, during the Nazi propaganda designated as Rohm Putsch . The publication of the Marburg speech , the last public speech critical of the regime by Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen , was prevented by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels . After the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg , Adolf Hitler united the offices of Reich President and Reich Chancellor and from then on called himself Führer and Reich Chancellor .

Civil war breaks out in Austria . The February uprising of the Social Democratic Republican Protection Association against the Austro-Fascist dictatorship is quickly and bloodily suppressed with the help of the military and the Christian Home Guard. At the end of July the National Socialists tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the Dollfuss government (“ July coup ”). Around 200 people died, including Chancellor Dollfuss . His successor will be the previous Minister of Education, Kurt Schuschnigg .

The Yugoslav King Alexander I and the French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou fell victim to an attack by right-wing Ustashas . He is succeeded by his son Peter II. In a coup d'état , head of state Konstantin Päts and army chief Johan Laidoner take power in Estonia . Päts bans political parties and suspends freedom of expression and freedom of the press . Two months later, a coup d'état by Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis follows in Latvia, and four days later the elected government in Bulgaria is also overthrown by a military coup and an authoritarian regime is installed. Belgium's King Albert I dies in a climbing accident; he is followed by his son Leopold III. on the throne.

In China , under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the long march of the Red Army begins, which lasts almost a year and not even 10% of the originally almost 100,000 marchers will survive.

The opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Shostakowitsch celebrates one success after another after its premiere in the Mariinsky Theater in Leningrad , Italy wins the soccer world championship in its own country, Donald Duck has his first appearance in the short film The Wise Little Hen and off the Philippines, The Pearl of Allah is found, to this day the largest pearl in the world.

Events

Politics and world events

chronology
January 1st	Switzerland : Marcel Pilet-Golaz becomes Federal President . German Empire : The state of Mecklenburg is founded.
January 26th	German-Polish non-aggression pact
February 9	The Balkan Entente against Bulgaria is closed.
12 - February 15	Austria : The February uprising is bloodily suppressed.
February 23	Leopold III. becomes king of the Belgians .
March 12th	Estonia : Coup d'état by Konstantin Päts and Johan Laidoner .
17. March	Roman protocols between Italy, Austria and Hungary
1st of May	Austria: The May constitution comes into force.
May 11th	German Reich: " Action against bad guys and criticism "
May 15	Latvia : Coup by Kārlis Ulmanis .
May 19th :	Military coup in Bulgaria
May 20th	The Saudi-Yemeni war ends with the Taif Agreement .
14th June	Adolf Hitler on a state visit to Italy.
June 30th	" Röhm Putsch " in the German Empire
July 25th	July coup in Austria, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is murdered.
30th July	Austria: Kurt Schuschnigg becomes Federal Chancellor.
August 2nd	German Empire: Reich President Paul von Hindenburg dies.
August 19th	Referendum on the head of state of the German Reich
September 18	The Soviet Union is accepted into the League of Nations .
9th October	Kingdom of Yugoslavia : King Alexander I is murdered.
October 27	China : The Long March of Mao Zedong's Communist Party begins.
Ongoing events

German Empire

• January 1 : The law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring , passed in National Socialist Germany on July 14, 1933 , comes into force.

Mecklenburg 1815-1934

• January 1st : The state of Mecklenburg is founded from the states of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt becomes the new governor of Mecklenburg.
• January 11th : The German News Agency (DNB) disguised as an independent private company is founded in Berlin. The official central news and press agency in Germany during the Nazi era is in fact Reich property and influenced by the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda . The two predecessors Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau and Telegraphen-Union are merged into the DNB .
• January 26th : Friendship and non-aggression pact between Germany and Poland .
• January 30th : The German states lose their sovereignty through the law on the reconstruction of the Reich .
• February 14 : After the national parliaments were abolished, the National Socialists also dissolved the Reichsrat , a constitutional organ of the Weimar Republic .
• February 16 : First law to transfer the administration of justice to the Reich
• May 11th : Joseph Goebbels opens the so-called " Action against Miesmacher and criticism ".
• June 14th : Hitler on a state visit to Italy. Meeting with Benito Mussolini in Venice .
• June 17 : In its evening edition, the Frankfurter Zeitung prints the dissident Marburg speech given by the German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen on the same day. This edition was confiscated and any further publication of the text was prohibited by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels .
• June 30th : Röhm Putsch , "cleansing" the SA leadership
• July 1 : Ernst Röhm is shot by Theodor Eicke in his cell in Stadelheim on behalf of Hitler after he had previously failed to comply with the request to commit suicide.

Law on State Emergency Defense Measures of July 3, 1934

• July 3 : Law on State Rescue Measures
• August 1st : Unification of the presidential and chancellery in the person of Hitler
• August 2nd : After the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg , the Reichswehr is sworn in on Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler on the same day .
• August 19 : Referendum on the merging of the offices of Reich President and Reich Chancellor in the person of Adolf Hitler.
• October 20 : With a raid on Schwarzfischer , one of the gay scene bars in Munich, and in the Glockenbachviertel , the Nazis begin their nationwide persecution of gays and lesbians. The pretext is the outrage about the "putschist" Ernst Röhm and his relatively openly lived homosexuality. That evening 145 men were arrested, 39 of them were taken to the Dachau concentration camp for several weeks .

• Eberhard Taubert founds the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question on behalf of the Reich Propaganda Ministry .

Austria

• February 12 : When the police and the Christian Social Home Guard wanted to search the Hotel Schiff in Linz for weapons, the Social Democratic Republican Protection Association under the local commander Richard Bernaschek opened fire. Thus begins in Austria the February uprising the Social Democrats against the Austro-fascist regime of Engelbert Dollfuss . The uprising is bloodily suppressed by February 15th . The social democratic party leadership under Otto Bauer , Julius Deutsch and others fled to Czechoslovakia , which was evaluated by the representatives of the corporate state for propaganda purposes. Numerous parties involved are then tried and executed in a standing trial.
• March 17 : Italy , Austria and Hungary agree closer economic cooperation in the Roman Protocols .
• May 1st : The authoritarian May constitution , the imposed constitution of the Austro-Fascist corporate state , drawn up under the chairmanship of Otto Ender , comes into force.
• July 25 : The National Socialist July Putsch penetrate as soldiers of the Armed Forces and police disguised SS men's in the Federal Chancellery in Vienna and assassinate Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. The other members of the government can escape. At the same time, another group of putschists penetrated the RAVAG broadcasting rooms in Vienna and forced the broadcast of the false report that Engelbert Dollfuss had handed over the business of government to the former Styrian governor Anton Rintelen . This should be the call for the National Socialists in all of Austria to begin with the revolt against the state power. Fighting lasted several days in parts of Carinthia, Styria and Upper Austria and there were minor uprisings in Salzburg. In the other federal states, however, it remains quiet and the attempted coup will be suppressed by July 30th . On July 26th, a courier from Germany was picked up in the village of Kollerschlag . The so-called Kollerschlager document found with him contains extensive instructions for the procedure during the coup.

Kurt Schuschnigg 1934

• July 30th : The previous Minister of Education Kurt Schuschnigg becomes the new Austrian Federal Chancellor , the new Chairman of the Fatherland Front and Vice Chancellor Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg .
• July 31 : Dollfuss' murderer Otto Planetta is executed with an accomplice after a military trial by executioner Johann Lang at the choke barn.
• After the coup, Adolf Hitler kept his distance from the Austrian National Socialists. On August 3, the Austrian national leadership of the NSDAP is dissolved. Its leader, Theodor Habicht , who fled to Germany, loses all of his party functions.
• In September, the number of political prisoners held in detention camps and notary arrests reached 13,338.

France / Andorra

Police on the Place de la Concorde, February 7, 1934

• February 6th : Third French Republic : Following a large anti-government demonstration in Paris, the unrest of February 6th, 1934 ensues . In street battles, members of the right-wing extremist leagues almost manage to storm the Palais Bourbon , where the Chamber of Deputies is currently in session. The police use firearms, 15 demonstrators are killed and over 2,000 injured. The unrest was triggered by a corruption affair and the related dismissal of the Paris police prefect.
• February 7 : The left cabinet of Daladier II resigns as a result of the unrest of February 6, 1934 ; he is followed by the conservative Doumergue II cabinet .
• July 7th : The exiled Russian nobleman Boris Michailowitsch Skossyrew is proclaimed king by the Andorran parliament. He received 23 votes out of 24. Boris I had 10,000 copies of his constitution printed and sent them to Spanish and French personalities. France does not intervene, not being too interested in Andorran affairs, leaving matters to the General Council and considering the monarchy valid. The Spanish Council of Ministers also sees no need for action. On July 21, however , the Bishop of Urgell, as co-prince of Andorra , sends four Spanish police officers into the country and arrests the pretender to the throne.
• November 8 : Pierre-Étienne Flandin succeeds the resigned Gaston Doumergue as Prime Minister of France.

Belgium

Leopold III. of Belgium

• February 17th : The Belgian King Albert I dies in a climbing accident.
• February 23 : His son Leopold III. becomes king of the Belgians .

Other events in Central and Western Europe

• January 1st : Marcel Pilet-Golaz becomes the new Federal President of Switzerland .
• January 1st : Anthony Eden becomes the new Lord Seal Keeper in Great Britain .

Balkans

• February 9 : In Athens is Balkan Pact concluded a military alliance of countries in the region against Bulgarian supremacy aspirations.
• May 19 : In a military coup by members of the Sweno group in Bulgaria, the elected Prime Minister Nikola Muschanov is replaced by Colonel Kimon Georgiev . The government Georgiev is part of since 1879 valid Tarnovo Constitution suspended. The number of municipalities will be reduced from 2,500 to 800 and the number of civil servants will be reduced. On May 24th, a trade agreement is signed with Yugoslavia . On June 12th the parliament, the political parties and other organizations were dissolved and press censorship was introduced.

Record of the attack

• Oct. 9 If the: Macedonian interior Revolutionary Organization ( VMRO ) and planned by the Croatian right-wing Ustashe supported attack on the Yugoslav King I. Alexander this and the French Foreign Minister to Louis Barthou during a state visit in Marseille by Vlado Chernozemski killed.

Baltic States and Soviet Union

• March 12 : Head of state Konstantin Päts and army chief Johan Laidoner take power in Estonia in a coup d'état . Päts bans political parties and suspends freedom of expression and freedom of the press in the country.

Ulmanis in 1934

• May 15 : Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian regime in Latvia in a coup . It bans political parties and suspends freedom of expression and the press in the country.
• September 18 : The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations as the 59th member and thus steps out of its previous political isolation.

America

• January 1 : Fiorello LaGuardia takes office as Mayor of New York City after beating incumbent John P. O'Brien . Shortly after his election, he appoints Thomas E. Dewey as Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime. This is primarily against organized gambling in order to break the power of Tammany Hall and the New York gangs.
• January 20 : New York City Social Housing : New York City Housing Authority ( NYCHA ), the first public housing agency in the United States, is launched. The first social housing project begins on the Lower East Side .

China

The long march

• October 27 : From the Jiangxi Soviet in Yudu , the “ Long March ” of the Red Army under the leadership of Mao Zedong to the north and west through China to free itself from the encirclement by Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army . Probably only 35 of the more than 85,000 people are women. Over 15,000 soldiers, over 30,000 wounded and women remain behind. Among those left behind are several high-ranking members of the Chinese Soviet, such as Qu Qiubai and Mao Zedong's youngest brother, Mao Zetan , who were captured after the Kuomintang took the area in November and later executed.

Saudi-Yemeni War

• May 20 : The for possession of the province of Asir guided Saudi Yemeni war ends with the Taif Agreement , the lack of a specific fixed border demarcation in the wake often skirmishes causes.

economy

• January 20 : In Germany the National Socialists pass the law on the organization of national work . The leader principle is thus introduced in commercial enterprises . Employees are bound to absolute obedience to their superiors .
• January 20 : FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD., The predecessor of today's Fujifilm Group, is founded.
• March 4th : With the Tatra 77 , the world's first mass-produced streamlined car is presented at the Prague Motor Show.
• April 18 : The first public laundromat opens in the United States , believed to be the Washateria in Fort Worth, Texas .
• April 21 : The between Florence and Bologna located Apennine Base Tunnel is opened. The rail tunnel shortens the previously existing rail link by 35 kilometers.
• April 24th : Laurens Hammond receives a patent from the Washington patent office for the Hammond organ he developed .
• June 19 : The United States sets up the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) as the central authority to regulate telephone, telegraph and radio traffic.
• October 12 : The Steyr-Werke merge with Austro-Daimler - Puch-Werke AG to form Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG .
• November 1st : The 1934 German-British payment agreement is concluded.

science and technology

aviation

The Sikorsky S-42

• March 30 : The four-engine Sikorsky S-42 flying boat from Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation breaks all existing records for passenger aircraft in terms of speed, range, payload and cruising altitude on its maiden flight. This heralds a new era of long-haul flight.
• April 17 : The twin-engine, as biplane designed commercial aircraft De Havilland Dragon Rapide DH.89 start to its first flight .

The Zaschka muscle power aircraft

• July 11 : The German chief engineer and inventor Engelbert Zaschka , who developed an early muscle power aircraft , the Zaschka muscle power aircraft , uses it to hover around 20 meters during flight tests at Berlin-Tempelhof Airport . However, the device is too heavy for long-term flight.
• November 5 : The Russian airship CCCP-B6 ( USSR-W6 ), built under the guidance of Umberto Nobile , makes its maiden voyage. It is considered the most successful Russian airship .

More inventions and discoveries

• March 3 : The German designer Erich Franke invents the wire ball bearing (now called wire race bearing ) and applies for a patent for his invention.

Mount Sidley

• November 18 : The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovers the extinct shield volcano Mount Sidley in Antarctica from an airplane .

Culture

Visual arts

Amrita Sher-Gil, self-portrait as a Tahitian

• The Indo-Hungarian artist Amrita Sher-Gil paints the painting Self-Portrait as a Tahitian in oil on canvas . It shows the artist with a naked torso in front of a Japanese-looking background and takes up motifs from the works of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh .

Movie

→ Main article : 1934 film year

• June 9th : Donald Duck makes his first appearance in the short film The Clever Little Hen by Al Taliaferro .

literature

→ Main article : Literature year 1934

• January 7th : The comic series by the cartoonist Alex Raymond about the space hero Flash Gordon starts in US newspapers.
• April: The Munich literary magazine Das Innere Reich appears for the first time.
• December 13th : The first story of Eoplauen's father and son appears in the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung .

• After he had already been turned down by 13 publishers, James M. Cain finally published the detective novel The Postman Always Rings Twice .
• The émigré newspaper “ Aufbau ” is founded by Jewish refugees in New York.

Music and theater

→ Main article : Music year 1934

Program sheet of the world premiere

• Jan. 20 : At the Vienna State Opera has the operetta Giuditta by Franz Lehár , under the direction of the composer its premiere . The libretto is by Paul Knepler and Fritz Löhner-Beda . Jarmila Novotná can be seen in the title role, Richard Tauber sings the male lead .
• January 22nd : The opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Orig .: Леди Макбет Мценского уезда ) by Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Shostakowitsch based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov premieres at the Mariinsky Theater in Leningrad with overwhelming success . The opera celebrated one success after another until January 28, 1936.
• March 31st : Walter Wilhelm Goetzes operetta Der goldene Pierrot is premiered in the Theater des Westens in Berlin.
• May 28 : The first Glyndebourne Festival initiated by John Christie opens with Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro with Fritz Busch as conductor and Carl Ebert as director. The festival, which focuses on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, lasts six weeks.
• November 21 : At the Alvin Theater in New York City is the Musical Comedy Anything Goes by Cole Porter premiered. It is the first of five Broadway musicals for which Cole Porter composed and in which Ethel Merman plays the lead role. The book is by Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse , the revision by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay , who also directs.
• December 13th : The comedy Back and forth by Ödön von Horváth is premiered at the Schauspielhaus Zurich under the direction of Gustav Hartungs .
• December 22nd : In Berlin, the operetta The Dancer Fanny Elßler is premiered with posthumous music by Johann Strauss (son) . The libretto is by Hans Adler .
• December 29th : The world premiere of the tragic poem Yerma by Federico García Lorca takes place at the Teatro Español in Madrid.

Others

• April 18 : The television broadcaster Paul Nipkow conducts the first television broadcast in Germany in the Berlin Kroll Opera .

Governor's Palace in Williamsburg

• April 23rd : The replica of the British Governor's Palace, which was destroyed by fire in 1781, is opened to the public in the museum town of Williamsburg (Virginia) . The governors of the Crown Colony of Virginia resided in the original building .
• The Marmottan Monet Museum opens.
• Palacio de Bellas Artes is completed.

society

Alcatraz satellite image

• January 1 : The former fort on Alcatraz Island off San Francisco is converted into a federal prison . The first inmates, 53 men from Atlanta State Prison, will arrive later this year. Alcatraz functions as a maximum security prison until 1963 , accommodating prisoners who have been deemed incorrigible and difficult in other prisons.
• May 28th : The Dionne quintuplets are born in the Canadian province of Ontario . You will be the first babies to manage a one in 57 million chance of survival.

• Founding of the youth association of the Gray Order

religion

• May 6th : The first edition of the illustrated weekly L'Osservatore Romano della Domenica appears in the Vatican .
• 29th to 31st May : First Confessional Synod of the Evangelical Church in Barmen , adoption of the Barmen Theological Declaration
• July: Congress of the European Baptist Federation (EBF) in Berlin on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the German Baptists

Disasters

• January 3 : 142 miners die in a coal dust explosion at the Nelson III colliery near Ossegg .
• January 15 : 8.1 magnitude earthquake in Nepal and India , killing around 10,700
• February 13 : The Soviet cargo steamer Cheliuskin , which got caught in pack ice , sank in the Chukchi Sea during a scientific expedition. One person dies, the other 104 sailors and passengers flee onto a large ice floe . Head of state Stalin rejects offered US aid. The castaways are finally discovered in March and rescued by air. The rescue of the shipwrecked leads to the Foundation of the Hero of the Soviet Union award on April 16 .
• March 12 : The Japanese torpedo boat Tomozuru capsized in a storm off Sasebo during an exercise . Around 100 of the 113 crew members are killed.
• April 13 : When the Saratov railway bridge across the Volga collapsed , around 150 people died.
• May 11 : One of the most violent dust storms in US history carries 300 million tons of topsoil thousands of kilometers into the Atlantic . In doing so, he destroys the existence of 165,000 farmers .
• September 8 : The American luxury steamer Morro Castle catches fire in the middle of the night off the coast of New Jersey and burns down within a very short time, 137 passengers and crew members die.
• September 22nd : A mining disaster occurs in the Welsh town of Gresford . An explosion followed by fire kills 266 miners and rescue workers.

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

nature and environment

• April 12th : The - apart from tornadoes - up to then the highest wind speed measured on our planet near the ground is registered on Mount Washington (New Hampshire) with 372 km / h.
• May 7th : The pearl of Allah is found by a diver in a giant clam off the Philippine island of Palawan .

Sports

→ Main article : Sports year 1934

• June 10 : Host Italy wins the soccer world championship ahead of Czechoslovakia , Germany and Austria .
• July: The German Nanga Parbat expedition in 1934 ends in a catastrophe. The Nanga Parbat is then hyped up by the National Socialist propaganda as the “German mountain of fate”.
• August 11th : The fourth Women's World Games open in London . Under pressure from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it will be the last event of its kind.

• First ascent of Mount Foraker

Nobel Prizes

price	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
Nobel Price for physics	not awarded
Nobel Prize in Chemistry	Harold C. Urey (1893-1981)	United States	"For his discovery of heavy hydrogen "
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	George Hoyt Whipple (1878-1976)	United States	"For your liver therapy against anemia "
	George Richards Minot (1885-1950)	United States
	William Parry Murphy (1892-1987)	United States
Nobel Prize in literature	Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)	Italy	"For his bold and ingenious new creation of drama and stage art"
Nobel Peace Prize	Arthur Henderson (1863-1935)	United Kingdom	Chairman of the Conference on the Disarmament of the League of Nations (1932–1934)

Born

January

• 0January 1st : Rimgaudas Abraitis , Lithuanian engineer and energy economist
• 0January 1 : Lakhdar Brahimi , Algerian politician
• 0January 1 : Horst Glassl , German historian
• 0January 1 : Alfred Gleitze , German politician († 2004 )
• 0January 1st : Hans Huber , German boxer
• 0January 1st : Raúl Eduardo Cardinal Vela Chiriboga , Archbishop of Quito
• 0January 3 : Walter Benigni , Austrian art photographer († 2019 )
• 0January 3 : Mario David , Italian football player and coach († 2005 )
• 0January 4 : Hellmuth Karasek , German journalist, book author and literary critic († 2015 )
  

  Hellmuth Karasek, 2012
• 0January 4 : Rudolf Schuster , second President of Slovakia (1999–2004)
  

  Rudolf Schuster, 2011
• 0January 4th : Zurab Tsereteli , Georgian-Russian sculptor and visual artist
• 0January 5 : Phil Ramone , American music producer († 2013 )
• 0January 5th : Cees See , Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist († 1985 )
• 0January 6th : Sylvia Syms , British actress
• 0January 7th : Charles Jenkins Sr. , American sprinter and Olympic champion
• 0January 7th : Tassos Papadopoulos , President of Cyprus († 2008 )
• 0January 8 : Jacques Anquetil , French cyclist († 1987 )
• 0January 8 : Osvaldo Montes , Argentine bandoneonist and tango composer († 2014 )
• 0January 8 : Alexandra Ripley , American writer († 2004 )
• January 10 : Leonid Kravchuk , first President of Ukraine
• January 11 : Nelson Philip Ashmole , British zoologist and conservationist
• January 11 : Jean Chrétien , Canadian politician
• January 11th : Tony Hoare , British computer scientist
• January 12 : Jannpeter Zopfs , judge at the German Federal Court of Justice († 2020 )
• January 13 : Denise Guénard , French athlete († 2017 )
• January 13 : Robin Milner , British computer scientist († 2010 )
• January 14th : Hans Deinzer , German clarinetist and music teacher († 2020 )
• January 14 : Alberto Rodríguez Larreta , Argentine racing car driver († 1977 )
• January 14th : Frieder Liebendörfer , Swiss musician and author
• January 14 : Gisbert Schneider , German professor and church music director († 2018 )
• January 15 : Mário de Araújo Cabral , Portuguese racing driver († 2020 )
• January 15 : Hans-Wilhelm Ebeling , Minister for Economic Cooperation of the GDR
• January 16 : Richard Wernick , American composer and music educator
• January 18 : Hendrick Chin A Sen , President of Suriname († 1999 )
• January 19 : Rupert Lake , Antiguan sports official
• January 20th : Giorgio Bassi , Italian racing driver
• January 21 : Franz Böhmert , German doctor and sports official († 2004 )
• January 22nd : Vijay Anand , Indian film director († 2004 )
• January 22 : Bill Bixby , American actor († 1993 )
• January 25 : Hiroshi Hasegawa , Japanese motorcycle racer
• January 26 : David Forbes , Australian regatta sailor
• January 27 : Édith Cresson , French politician
• January 29th : Kassian Lauterer , Abbot of the Territorial Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau
• January 30th : Giovanni Battista Re , Italian Cardinal to the Curia
• January 31 : Peter Ackermann , German painter and graphic artist († 2007 )
• January 31 : Ernesto Brambilla , Italian motorcycle and automobile racer († 2020 )
• January 31 : Marwan Kassab-Bachi , Syrian painter († 2016 )
• January 31 : Eva Mozes Kor , Holocaust survivor († 2019 )
• January 31 : Bobby Lee Trammell , American rockabilly musician and politician († 2008 )

February

• 0February 2 : Peter Ahrendt , German sailor († 2013 )
• 0February 2nd : Otar Iosseliani , Georgian-French film director
• 0February 3 : Suzan Ball , American actress († 1955 )
• 0February 3 : Johannes Kühn , German writer
• 0February 3 : Wolfgang Niescher , German handball player and doctor († 2010 )
• 0February 4th : Felipe Aguirre Franco , Mexican senior archbishop
• 0February 5 : Hank Aaron , American baseball player
• 0February 6 : Yoshihiko Ikegami , Japanese linguist and literary scholar
• 0February 7th : King Curtis , American tenor saxophonist († 1971 )
• 0February 7 : Edward Fenech Adami , President of Malta
• 0February 7th : Sujit Kumar , Indian film actor († 2010 )

Murtasa Rachimow (2006)

• 0February 7th : Murtasa Rakhimov , President of the Russian republic of Bashkiria
• 0February 8 : Joachim Angerer , University Professor and Abbot († 2019 )
• 0February 9 : Manfred von Richthofen , German athlete, entrepreneur and sports official († 2014 )
• February 10 : Fleur Adcock , British-New Zealand poet and translator
• February 10 : Rahn Burton , American jazz pianist († 2013 )
• February 11 : Mel Carnahan , American politician († 2000 )
• February 11 : Curtis Johnson , American rockabilly musician († 2001 )
• February 11 : Francesco Pennisi , Italian composer († 2000 )
• February 11th : Mary Quant , British fashion designer, "inventor" of the mini skirt
• February 11 : John Surtees , British racing driver († 2017 )
• February 12 : Nurhan Atasoy , Turkish art historian
• February 12 : Anne O. Krueger , Deputy Director General of the IMF
• February 12 : Bill Russell , American basketball player
• February 13 : Alexander Kaul , German biophysicist
• February 13 : George Segal , American actor

Niklaus Wirth, 2005

• February 15 : Niklaus Wirth , Swiss computer scientist
• February 16 : William Dean Tinker , American organist, pianist, harpsichordist and music educator
• February 17 : Alfred Aichinger , Austrian social security employee and politician († 2009 )
• February 17 : Alan Bates , British actor († 2003 )
• February 17th : Anner Bylsma , Dutch musician († 2019 )
• February 17 : Frederik Hetmann , German writer († 2006 )
• February 17th : Barry Humphries , Australian comedian and satirist
• February 18 : Aldo Ceccato , Italian conductor
• February 18 : Heini Müller , German soccer player and coach
• February 18 : Skip Battin , American country rock singer and bassist († 2003 )
• February 19 : Sheila Henig , Canadian pianist and singer († 1979 )
• February 19 : Herbert Rosendorfer , German lawyer and writer († 2012 )
• February 19 : Karl-Heinz Wegmann , German shot putter († 1989 )
• February 20 : Dieter Augustin , German actor († 1989 )
• February 20 : Bobby Unser , American racing car driver
• February 20 : Kurt Wölfflin , Austrian writer († 1998 )
• February 21 : Warren Johansson , American author and philologist († 1994 )

Rue McClanahan 2007

• February 21 : Rue McClanahan , American actress († 2010 )
• February 22 : Sparky Anderson , American baseball player and manager († 2010 )
• February 24 : Bettino Craxi , Italian politician († 2000 )
• February 24th : Klaus Darga , German chess player
• February 24 : Bingu wa Mutharika , President of Malawi († 2012 )
• February 24th : Erich Pawlu , German author
• February 24 : George Ryan , American politician, Governor of Illinois
• February 25 : John Wimber , American musician († 1997 )
• February 26 : José Luis Cuevas , Mexican painter, graphic artist and sculptor († 2017 )
• February 26 : Stig Engström , Swedish main suspect in the murder of Olof Palme († 2000 )
• February 26 : Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina , Algerian film director and screenwriter
• February 26 : Manfred Poerschke , German athlete and Olympian
• February 27 : N. Scott Momaday , Native American writer, literary scholar, and painter
• February 27 : Ralph Nader , American consumer advocate and politician
• February 28 : Willie Bobo , American jazz percussionist († 1983 )
• February 28 : Bob Neyret , French entrepreneur and racing car driver

March

• 0March 1 : Jacques Chessex , Swiss writer († 2009 )
• 0March 1 : Joan Hackett , American actress († 1983 )
• 0March 2nd : Joseph Groussard , French cyclist
• 0March 2nd : Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn , German theologian
• 0March 3 : Jacek Kuroń , Polish civil rights activist, publicist, historian and politician († 2004 )
• 0March 4 : Mario Davidovsky , Argentine composer († 2019 )
• 0March 4th : Hubert Gloger , German soccer player
• 0March 4 : Gleb Jakunin , Russian Orthodox priest, Soviet dissident and Russian politician († 2014 )
• 0March 4 : Klaus Motschmann , German political scientist († 2016 )
• 0March 5 : Daniel Kahneman , Israeli-American psychologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 0March 8 : Kurt Mahr , German writer († 1993 )
• 0March 8 : Christian Wolff , American composer

Yuri Gagarin

• 0March 9 : Yuri Gagarin , Soviet cosmonaut and colonel in the Air Force († 1968 )
• 0March 9th : Dietmar Grieser , Austrian writer
• 0March 9 : Lothar Zysk , judge at the German Federal Court of Justice († 2017 )
• March 10 : José Gustavo Angel Ramírez , Colombian Bishop († 2013 )
• March 11th : Ingrid Lotz , German athlete
• March 12 : Adolf Frohner , Austrian painter and graphic artist († 2007 )
• March 14 : Eugene Cernan , American astronaut († 2017 )
• March 14 : Dionigi Tettamanzi , Italian Archbishop and Cardinal († 2017 )
• March 14 : Volker von Törne , German poet and writer († 1980 )
• March 15 : Wolfgang Hufschmidt , German composer and church musician († 2018 )
• March 15 : Wolf Krisch , German politician
• March 16 : Roger Norrington , British conductor
• March 17 : Gloryette Clark , American film editor and screenwriter († 2014 )
• March 18 : Adolf Merckle , German entrepreneur († 2009 )
• March 19 : Walter Rempe , German politician († 1993 )
• March 20 : Peter Berling , German author and actor († 2017 )
• March 20 : David Malouf , Australian author
• March 22nd : Bola Ajibola , Nigerian lawyer
• March 22 : Ekkehart Krippendorff , German political scientist († 2018 )
• March 24 : Richard Leising , German poet († 1997 )
• March 24th : Ryszard Zub , Polish saber fencer and trainer († 2015 )
• March 25 : Bernard Boyer , French racing car designer and racing driver († 2018 )
• March 25 : Johnny Burnette , American rockabilly musician († 1964 )
• March 25th : Karlheinz Schreiber , German arms dealer
• March 25 : Gloria Steinem , American feminist
• March 26 : Alan Arkin , American actor and director
• March 26 : Donald Bailey , American jazz drummer († 2013 )
• March 26 : Masakazu Yamazaki , Japanese playwright, literary critic and philosopher († 2020 )
• March 27 : Georges Amanieu , French football player († 2016 )
• March 27 : Jutta Limbach , German legal scholar and SPD politician († 2016 )
• March 28 : Guenter Ahlers , American physicist
• March 28 : Siegfried Thiele , German composer
• March 30th : Mahmut Atalay , Turkish wrestler († 2004 )
• March 30th : Achim Freyer , German director, set designer and painter
• March 30th : Hans Hollein , Austrian architect and designer († 2014 )

Richard Chamberlain

• March 31 : Richard Chamberlain , American actor
• March 31 : Shirley Jones , American actress
• March 31 : Heinz Kautzleben , scientist and geophysicist from the GDR
• March 31 : John D. Loudermilk , American country singer and songwriter († 2016 )
• March 31 : Carlo Rubbia , Italian physicist

April

• 0April 1 : Jim Ed Brown , American country musician († 2015 )
• 0April 1st : Roberto Ciulli , Italian theater director
• 0April 2 : Paul Cohen , American mathematician († 2007 )
• 0April 2 : Shirley Douglas , Canadian actress († 2020 )
• 0April 2nd : Umberto Orsini , Italian actor
• 0April 2 : Hans-Jürgen Warnecke , German scientist († 2019 )
• 0April 2 : David Zafer , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher († 2019 )
• 0April 3 : Wolf Euba , German reciter, actor, director and author († 2013 )

Jane Goodall (2010)

• 0April 3rd : Jane Goodall , British behavioral scientist
• 0April 3 : Jim Parker , American football player († 2005 )
• 0April 4 : Joachim Latacz , German classical philologist
• 0April 4 : Anthony CE Quainton , American diplomat
• 0April 5 : Horst Amann , German soccer player

Roman Herzog (2006)

• 0April 5 : Roman Herzog , German Federal President and President of the Federal Constitutional Court († 2017 )
• 0April 6 : Anton Geesink , Dutch judoka († 2010 )
• 0April 6 : Ingo Insterburg , German comedian († 2018 )
• 0April 6 : Mario Merola , Italian singer († 2006 )
• 0April 6 : Guy Peellaert , Belgian illustrator and comic book artist († 2008 )
• 0April 6 : Willie Toweel , South African boxer († 2017 )
• 0April 7 : Victor Feldman , English jazz musician († 1987 )
• 0April 7th : Antonio Ruiz-Pipó , Spanish composer and pianist († 1997 )
• 0April 8 : Kishō Kurokawa , Japanese architect († 2007 )
• 0April 9 : Josef Arthold , Austrian politician († 2002 )
• April 10 : Zsolt Durkó , Hungarian composer († 1997 )
• April 10 : Guido Venturoni , Chief of Staff of the Italian Armed Forces
• April 11 : Norma Beecroft , Canadian composer
• April 12 : Michael Grzimek , German animal filmmaker († 1959 )
• April 13 : Klaus Beyreiss , German medic († 2013 )
• April 13 : Heinrich Wilhelm Laufhütte , judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• April 13 : Siegfried Matthus , German composer
• April 16 : Robert Stigwood , Australian music and film producer († 2016 )
• April 16 : Vicar , Chilean comic artist at Disney († 2012 )
• April 17th : Wedig Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling , German forest scientist
• April 18 : George Shirley , American opera singer
• April 19 : Jean Ziegler , Swiss professor of sociology and politician

Shirley MacLaine (1987)

• April 24 : Shirley MacLaine , American actress
• April 24 : Michael Taylor , British racing car driver († 2017 )
• April 25 : Kevin Aje , Nigerian clergyman, Bishop of Sokoto († 2019 )
• April 26 : Gerlind Ahnert , German presenter, actress and voice actress († 2007 )
• April 26 : Josef Seiz , German table tennis player († 2010 )
• April 27 : Jürgen Kühling , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court († 2019 )
• April 27 : Brennan Manning , American Catholic theologian, speaker and author († 2013 )
• April 28 : Max Amling , German politician († 2017 )
• April 28 : Lois Duncan , American writer († 2016 )
• April 29 : Luis Aparicio , Venezuelan baseball player
• April 29th : Pedro Pires , President of Cape Verde
• April 30th : Jürgen Schneider , German building contractor and bankrupt

May

• 0May 3 : Ivan Andonov , Bulgarian actor, director and painter († 2011 )
• 0May 3 : Otwin Massing , German political scientist and sociologist († 2019 )
• 0May 3 : Georges Moustaki , French singer and poet († 2013 )
• 0May 4th : Erika Emmerich , German lawyer and manager
• 0May 5 : Henri Konan Bédié , President of Ivory Coast
• 0May 5 : Alfred Freiherr von Oppenheim , German private banker († 2005 )
• 0May 6th : Oskar Gottlieb Blarr , German composer, organist and church musician
• 0May 6 : Alois Glaubitz , German football player (GDR)
• 0May 6th : Hennes Junkermann , German racing cyclist
• 0May 7th : Günter Topmann , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0May 8 : Walther Hadding , German civil law scholar
• 0May 8 : Jan Paul Nagel , Sorbian composer and Domowina chairman († 1997 )
• 0May 9 : Bengt Anlert , Swedish football player and coach († 2018 )
• 0May 9 : Björn Anlert , Swedish football player († 2018 )
• 0May 9 : Alan Bennett , British writer and actor
• 0May 9 : Hans-Helmuth Knütter , German political scientist and extremism researcher
• May 10 : Jayne Cortez , American poet and improviser († 2012 )
• May 11th : Thomas Buergenthal , Member of the International Court of Justice in The Hague
• May 11 : Jack Twyman , American basketball player († 2012 )
• May 12 : Werner Bräunig , German writer († 1976 )
• May 13 : Paddy Driver , South African motorcycle and car racer
• May 13 : Peter Häberle , German constitutional law teacher
• May 13 : Adolf Muschg , Swiss writer and literary scholar
• May 13 : Hans-Peter Schwarz , German historian and political scientist († 2017 )
• May 14 : Abraham Ashkenasi , American political scientist († 2016 )
• May 14 : Aurelio Milani , Italian football player († 2014 )
• May 14th : Siân Phillips , British actress
• May 16 : Georg Aigner , German engineer and politician
• May 16 : Billy Sanders , British singer († 2001 )
• May 16 : Ilse Seemann , German actress, radio play speaker, radio presenter and author
• May 17 : Victor Arbez , French cross-country skier and biathlete († 2016 )
• May 17 : Ron Wayne , co-founder of Apple
• May 20 : Alfons Schilling , Swiss artist († 2013 )
• May 21 : Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson , Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
• May 21 : Karl Schneider , German politician
• May 22nd : Kristlieb Adloff , German theologian
• May 22 : Merry Anders , American actress († 2012 )
• May 23 : Syd Millar , Irish rugby player and Chairman of the World Federation
• May 23 : Robert Moog , pioneer of electronic music, inventor of one of the first synthesizers († 2005 )
• May 24 : Edward Robert Adams , former South African Bishop of Oudtshoorn
• May 24th : Nils Diederich , German politician and political scientist
• May 25 : Eldar Asimsade , Soviet football referee († 2003 )
• May 25 : Reinhard Franz , German soccer player († 2015 )

Harlan Ellison (1986)

• May 27 : Harlan Ellison , American author († 2018 )
• May 27 : Uwe Friedrichsen , German actor, audio book and voice actor († 2016 )
• May 28 : Gerhard Dahne , German publicist and publisher
• May 28 : Dionne quintuplets , the first known surviving quintuplets
• May 29 : Benjamin Patterson , American artist († 2016 )
• May 29 : Udo Proksch , German designer and businessman, criminal († 2001 )
• May 29 : Karl-Heinz Schäfer , German civil engineer and contractor († 2011 )
• May 29 : Bill Vander Zalm , Canadian politician
• May 30th : Alexei Leonow , Soviet cosmonaut († 2019 )
• May 30 : Kurt Arentz , German sculptor († 2014 )
• May 30th : Dieter Süverkrüp , German songwriter
• May 31 : Karl-Erik Welin , Swedish pianist, organist and composer († 1992 )

June

• 0June 1 : Pat Boone , American singer
• 0June 1 : Hermann Josef Pottmeyer , German fundamental theologian
• 0June 2 : Josef Ammann , Swiss contemporary artist
• 0June 2nd : Karl-Heinz Feldkamp , German soccer player and coach
• 0June 4th : Vilhjálmur Einarsson , Icelandic athlete and Olympic medalist († 2019 )
• 0June 4th : Pierre Eyt , Archbishop of Bordeaux and Cardinal († 2001 )
• 0June 4th : Yaak Karsunke , German writer and actor
• 0June 5 : Ulrich Immenga , German legal scholar
• 0June 5 : Ralph Rumney , English artist († 2002 )
• 0June 6 : Taichi Yamada , Japanese writer and screenwriter

Albert II of Belgium, 2010

• 0June 6th : Albert II , King of Belgium
• 0June 7th : Peter Monteverdi , Swiss car maker and "father" of the Monteverdi car brand († 1998 )
• 0June 7 : Wynn Stewart , American country musician († 1985 )
• 0June 8 : Mikio Aoki , Japanese politician
• 0June 9 : Dieter Haack , German politician
• 0June 9 : Jackie Wilson , rhythm and blues and soul singer († 1984 )
• June 10 : Alois Mock , Austrian politician († 2017 )
• June 10 : Jürgen Spohn , German graphic artist († 1992 )
• June 12 : Winfried Scharlau , German journalist and historian († 2004 )
• June 14 : Peter O. Chotjewitz , German writer and lawyer († 2010 )
• June 14 : Gideon Rodan , American biochemist and osteopath († 2006 )
• June 14 : Mieke Telkamp , Dutch lawyer and singer († 2016 )
• June 15 : Jan Berdyszak , Polish sculptor, painter, installation artist, art theorist and teacher († 2014 )

Mikel Laboa, 2007

• June 15 : Mikel Laboa , Spanish-Basque songwriter and guitarist († 2008 )
• June 16 : Eileen Atkins , British actress and screenwriter
• June 16 : Bill Cobbs , American actor
• June 16 : William F. Sharpe , American economist
• June 17th : Peter Janssens , German composer, inventor of Sacro Pop († 1998 )
• June 18 : Mitsuteru Yokoyama , Japanese manga artist († 2004 )
• June 19 : FJ Bogner , German cabaret artist and writer († 2020 )
• June 19 : Thomas Dieterich , Judge at the Federal Constitutional Court and President of the Federal Labor Court († 2016 )
• June 20 : Theodore M. Andersson , American Medievalist
• June 20 : Heinz Edelmann , German illustrator and graphic designer († 2009 )
• June 20 : Wilhelm Kewenig , German politician († 1993 )
• June 20 : Rossana Podestà , Italian film actress († 2013 )
• June 20th : Anne Sylvestre , French singer-songwriter
• June 20 : Cornel Țăranu , Romanian composer
• June 21 : Ken Matthews , British athlete and Olympic champion († 2019 )
• June 22 : Willie Adams , Canadian politician
• June 22nd : Paul Ambros , German ice hockey player († 2015 )
• June 22nd : Günter Ashauer , Head of the Deutsche Sparkassenakademie († 2007 )
• June 22nd : Gerhard Neumann , German Germanist († 2017 )
• June 22 : Herbert Schimansky , judge at the Federal Court of Justice from 1982 to 1999
• June 23 : Ingrid Kötter , German author for children and young people
• June 24th : Tommy Bridger , British racing car driver († 1991 )
• June 24th : Maria Carta , Italian actress and singer († 1994 )
• June 26 : Dave Grusin , American film composer and jazz musician
• June 26 : Anatoly Ivanov , Russian solo drummer, composer and conductor († 2012 )
• June 27 : Peter Shaw Ashton , British forest scientist and professor
• June 27 : Alberto Bevilacqua , Italian writer, screenwriter and film director († 2013 )
• June 28 : Michael Artin , American mathematician
• June 28 : Helmut Hesse , German economist († 2016 )
• June 29th : Rudolf Dannhauer , German cross-country skier
• June 30th : Claus Anshof , German educator and historian

July

• 0July 1 : Jamie Farr , American actor
• 0July 1st : Sarah Jones , British dancer

Sydney Pollack, 2006

• 0July 1 : Sydney Pollack , American film director, producer and actor († 2008 )
• 0July 1st : Alicia Terzian , Argentine composer
• 0July 2nd : Gio Batta Morassi , Italian violin maker († 2018 )
• 0July 3 : Stefan Abajiev , Bulgarian football player and coach
• 0July 3 : Manfred Bieler , German writer, radio play and television play author († 2002 )
• 0July 3 : Sieghart Dittmann , German epidemiologist and chess player
• 0July 3 : Christian Manen , French composer and music teacher
• 0July 3 : Wolfgang Milde , German manuscript scholar and library director († 2011 )
• 0July 6 : Günther Domenig , Austrian architect († 2012 )
• 0July 6 : René Urtreger , French jazz pianist
• 0July 6th : Marta Valdés , Cuban singer and composer
• 0July 7th : Vinko Globokar , Yugoslav trombonist and composer
• 0July 7 : Richard Taylor , British politician
• 0July 8 : Edward D. DiPrete , American politician
• 0July 8 : Marty Feldman , British-American author, actor and director († 1982 )
• 0July 8 : Hinrich Schwenker , German handball player († 2005 )
• 0July 8 : Rodney Stark , American sociologist of religion
• 0July 8 : Walter Tilgner , German biologist, nature photographer and sound engineer
• 0July 9 : Michael Graves , American architect and designer († 2015 )
• 0July 9 : Pierre Perret , French author and singer
• 0July 9 : Arno Reinfrank , German writer, publicist and translator († 2001 )

Alfred Biolek (2009)

• July 10 : Alfred Biolek , German talk show host
• July 10 : Lois Lilienstein , American-Canadian actress, singer and pianist († 2015 )

Giorgio Armani, 2009

• July 11th : Giorgio Armani , Italian fashion designer
• July 11 : Helen Cresswell , British writer († 2005 )
• July 11th : Teuvo Kohonen , Finnish computer scientist, inventor of the self-organizing maps
• July 11 : Horst F. Pampel , local researcher from Baden († 2010 )
• July 12 : Van Cliburn , American pianist († 2013 )
• July 13 : Agnes Auffinger , German painter and sculptor († 2014 )
• July 13 : Peter Bulthaup , German philosopher and chemist († 2004 )
• July 13 : Wole Soyinka , Nigerian writer and Nobel Prize for Literature
• July 14 : Marcel Gotlieb , French comic artist († 2016 )
• July 15 : Harrison Birtwistle , English composer
• July 16 : Albert Aguayo , Argentine-Canadian neuroscientist
• July 16 : Jean-François Leuba , Swiss lawyer and politician († 2004 )
• July 17th : Horst Auer , German architect, medalist and professor († 2007 )
• July 17th : Philippe Capdenat , French composer and music teacher
• July 17 : Johanna Grund , German politician and publicist († 2017 )
• July 17 : Gundolf Keil , German medical historian
• July 17 : Rainer Kirsch , German writer and poet († 2015 )
• July 17 : Hans-Joachim Rudolphi , German legal scholar († 2009 )
• July 18 : Edward Bond , English playwright
• July 18 : Roger Reynolds , American composer
• July 20 : Uwe Johnson , German writer († 1984 )
• July 20 : Horst Stark , German actor and voice actor
• July 21 : Américo Amorim , Portuguese entrepreneur († 2017 )
• July 21 : Jonathan Miller , British theater and opera director († 2019 )
• July 21 : Ulrich Müther , German architect († 2007 )
• July 22nd : Louise Fletcher , American actress
• July 22nd : Peter Selmer , German legal scholar
• July 23 : Héctor De Bourgoing , Argentine-French footballer († 1993 )
• July 23 : Steve Lacy , American jazz musician and soprano saxophonist († 2004 )
• July 23 : Veronika Petrovici , plastic surgeon
• July 23 : Vlado Stenzel , Yugoslav handball player and coach
• July 24 : Willie Davis , American football player and entrepreneur († 2020 )
• July 24th : Horst Floth , German bobsleigh athlete († 2005 )
• July 26th : Alpo Aho , Finnish bandy player († 1983 )
• July 26 : Anthony Gilbert , English composer and music teacher
• July 26 : Tommy McDonald , American football player († 2018 )
• July 27th : Rita Czech-Blasel , German cross-country skier
• July 27 : Salvatore Rabbio , American percussionist and music educator
• July 28 : Brian May , Australian composer for film music († 1997 )
• July 29 : Geert-Hinrich Ahrens , German lawyer and diplomat
• July 29 : Bernard Aubertin , French artist († 2015 )
• July 29th : Reiner Maria Gohlke , German manager
• July 29 : Albert Speer junior , German architect and urban planner († 2017 )
• July 30th : Engelbert Kraus , German soccer player († 2016 )
• July 30 : André Prévost , Canadian composer († 2001 )
• July 30th : Siegfried Thiele , German teacher, author and publicist

August

• 0August 1st : Hermann Baumann , German horn player
• 0August 1 : Pit Krüger , German comedian, singer and actor († 2003 )
• 0August 1st : Oskar Negt , German social philosopher

Valery Bykowski (2008)

• 0August 2nd : Valery Bykovsky , Soviet cosmonaut († 2019 )
• 0August 3 : Jonas Savimbi , Angolan politician and founder and leader of the UNITA rebels († 2002 )
• 0August 5th : Giovanni Anselmo , Italian sculptor and object artist
• 0August 5 : Wendell Berry , American poet, farmer, and environmental activist
• 0August 5 : Vern Gosdin , American country singer († 2009 )
• 0August 6 : Piers Anthony , English writer
• 0August 6 : Chris Bonington , British mountaineer
• 0August 6 : Diane DiPrima , American writer
• 0August 7th : Steve Ihnat , American actor, screenwriter and director († 1972 )
• 0August 7 : Richard Levinson , American film producer and screenwriter († 1987 )
• 0August 7 : Dieter Schlesak , German writer († 2019 )
• 0August 8 : Chaplain Burović , Albanian writer and journalist
• 0August 8 : Cláudio Hummes , Archbishop of São Paulo and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 0August 9 : Colin Buchanan , British Anglican bishop and theologian
• August 10 : Ludwig Elm , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• August 11 : Erika Áts , Hungarian poet, translator and editor
• August 11 : Carmelo Mesa-Lago , Cuban-American economist
• August 12th : Arnold Angenendt , German theologian and church historian
• August 14 : Franco Costa , Italian painter and costume designer († 2015 )
• August 14 : Vernon Dobtcheff , French actor
• August 16 : Jean Löring , German football official and patron († 2005 )
• August 16 : Gottfried Müller , Minister for Media Policy of the GDR
• August 16 : Pierre Richard , French actor
• August 17th : Marian Borkowski , Polish composer, pianist, musicologist and music teacher
• August 19 : David Durenberger , American politician
• August 20 : Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer , German writer, playwright, translator and musicologist († 2011 )
• August 20 : Frieda Grafe , German film critic, film essayist and translator († 2002 )

Armi Kuusela (1959)

• August 20 : Armi Kuusela , Finnish model and actress
• August 20 : Arno Surminski , German writer
• August 21 : Gennadi Aigi , Chuvash poet († 2006 )
• August 21 : Simon Phillips , British racing car driver († 2013 )
• August 22nd : Volker Beuthien , German legal scholar
• August 22 : Hartmut Boockmann , German historian († 1998 )
• August 22nd : John Chowning , American composer and music educator and digital music pioneer

Norman Schwarzkopf (1988)

• August 22 : Norman Schwarzkopf , American General († 2012 )
• August 23 : Carlos Amigo Vallejo , Archbishop of Seville and Cardinal
• August 23 : Flavio Emoli , Italian football player († 2015 )
• August 23 : Sonny Jurgensen , American football player
• August 23 : Raul de Souza , Brazilian jazz musician
• August 24 : Kenny Baker , British actor († 2016 )
• August 25 : Zilda Arns , Brazilian physician († 2010 )
• August 25 : Ali Akbar Hāschemi Rafsanjāni , Iranian clergyman and politician († 2017 )
• August 25 : Dietrich Unkrodt , German tuba player and double bass player († 2006 )
• August 26 : Ugo Amaldi , Italian experimental physicist
• August 26th : Paul Gauselmann , German entrepreneur
• August 28 : Leander Petzoldt , German folklorist
• August 29 : Steve Arneil , British Budoka
• August 29 : Henrique de Curitiba , Polish-Brazilian composer († 2008 )
• August 29 : Horst Szymaniak , German football player († 2009 )
• August 30 : Richard Grathoff , phenomenologist and professor emeritus for sociology († 2013 )
• August 30 : Baloo Gupte , Indian cricketer († 2005 )

September

• 0September 1 : Paolo Sardi , Italian Cardinal Curia († 2019 )
• 0September 1 : Horst Callies , German ancient historian
• 0September 2 : Allen Carr , British writer († 2006 )
• 0September 2 : Dieter Clauss , German general
• 0September 3 : Mundito Espinal , Dominican journalist, presenter and composer († 2015 )
• 0September 3 : Freddie King , American blues musician († 1976 )
• 0September 4th : Guy-Claude Burger , Swiss musician and physicist
• 0September 4 : Clive WJ Granger , British economist († 2009 )
• 0September 4 : Engelbert Kliemstein , Austrian artist († 1961 )
• 0September 5 : Yuri Afanassjew , Russian historian and politician († 2015 )
• 0September 5 : Don Chandler , American football player († 2011 )
• 0September 5 : Paul Josef Cordes , German Archbishop and President of the Papal Council Cor Unum
  

  Paul Josef Cardinal Cordes
• 0September 5 : Ricardo de la Espriella Toral , 37th President of Panama
• 0September 7th : Mary Bauermeister , German artist
• 0September 7th : Omar Karami , Lebanese politician († 2015 )
• 0September 7th : Waldo de los Ríos , Argentine pianist, orchestra conductor, arranger and composer († 1977 )
• 0September 7th : Little Milton , American blues musician († 2005 )
• 0September 7th : Wolfgang Unterzaucher , Austrian actor
• 0September 8 : Peter Maxwell Davies , British composer († 2016 )
• September 10 : Roger Maris , American baseball player († 1985 )
• September 11th : Norma Croker , Australian athlete and Olympic champion († 2019 )
• September 12 : Tesfamariam Bedho , Eritrean Bishop († 2002 )
• September 12 : Glenn Davis , American athlete († 2009 )
• September 14 : Sarah Kofman , French philosopher († 1994 )
• September 14 : Kate Millett , American writer and feminist († 2017 )
• September 14th : Don Walser , American country musician († 2006 )
• September 16 : Elgin Baylor , American basketball player
• September 16 : Pierre Bergé , French experimental physicist († 1997 )
• September 16 : Reinhard Döhl , German literary and media scholar, author and artist († 2004 )
• September 16 : Ronnie Drew , Irish singer and guitarist († 2008 )
• September 16 : Hans A. Engelhard , German politician († 2008 )
• September 16 : Jakup Mato , Albanian literary critic († 2005 )
• September 17th : Aubrey Cagle , American rockabilly musician († 2004 )
• September 17th : Maureen Connolly , American tennis player († 1969 )
• September 17th : Valda Osborn , British figure skater
• September 18 : Dieter Stolte , German journalist and TV director
• September 19 : Horst Arndt , German rower († 2014 )
• September 19 : Brian Epstein , British businessman, manager of the Beatles († 1967 )
• September 20 : John Earls Dalton , Australian professor of cultural and social anthropology
• September 20 : Sophia Loren , Italian film actress
  

  Sophia Loren, 1986
• September 20 : Eberhard Stanjek , German sports journalist, presenter of the ARD sports show († 2001 )
• September 21 : Jean Spencer Ashbrook , American politician
• September 21 : Leonard Cohen , Canadian writer, composer and singer († 2016 )
  

  Leonard Cohen, 1988
• September 22 : Akira Abe , Japanese writer († 1989 )
• September 22nd : Nuscha de Archer , German costume designer
• September 22 : Lute Olson , American basketball coach
• September 22nd : Ornella Vanoni , Italian actress and singer
• September 22 : Rolf Zischeck , German football and handball player († 2012)
• September 23 : Per Olov Enquist , Swedish writer and journalist († 2020 )
• September 23 : Rolf Kosiek , German scientist, publicist and politician
• September 23 : Franc Cardinal Rodé , Slovenian Curia Cardinal
• September 23 : Fisher Tull , American composer and music teacher († 1994 )
• September 24 : Edgardo Angara , Filipino politician († 2018 )
• September 24 : John Brunner , British science fiction writer († 1995 )
• September 24 : Arne Carlson , American politician
• September 24 : Yasutaka Tsutsui , Japanese writer
• September 24 : Manfred Wörner , German politician († 1994 )
  

  Manfred Woerner, 1982
• September 26th : Dick Heckstall-Smith , British musician, saxophonist († 2004 )
• September 27 : Wilford Brimley , American actor († 2020 )
• September 27 : Edward Meeks , French actor
• September 28 : Brigitte Bardot , French actress
  

  Brigitte Bardot, 1968
• September 28 : René Libeer , French boxer († 2006 )
• September 29 : Helmut Kapitulski , German football player
• September 30 : Alan A'Court , English football player († 2009 )
• September 30 : Zdena Frýbová , Czech writer († 2010 )
• September 30 : Udo Jürgens , Austrian singer and songwriter († 2014 )
  

  Udo Juergens, 2006
• September 30th : Anna Kashfi , American film actress († 2015 )

October

• 0October 1st : Petar Radenković , Serbian football goalkeeper
• 0October 2nd : Klaus Schnädelbach , German geodesist
• 0October 3 : Eugene Koffi Adoboli , Togolese Prime Minister
• 0October 3 : Jerry Apodaca , American politician
• 0October 3 : Benjamin Boretz , American composer and music teacher, theorist and critic
• 0October 4 : Sam Huff , American football player
• 0October 5 : Robert T. Anderson , American organist and music teacher († 2009 )
• 0October 5 : Nikolai Durakov , Russian bandy player
• 0October 7th : Feliksas Bajoras , Lithuanian composer

Amiri Baraka (center)

• 0October 7 : Amiri Baraka , American poet, playwright, music critic and prose author († 2014 )
• 0October 7th : Jean-Claude Briavoine , French racing driver
• 0October 7 : Ulrike Meinhof , German journalist and terrorist, co-founder of the RAF († 1976 )
• 0October 8 : Dietrich Höffler , German physician and professor († 2020 )
• 0October 9 : Abdullah Ibrahim , South African pianist and composer
• 0October 9 : Johnny Jay , American rockabilly musician
• October 10 : Karl Clauss Dietel , German artist and President of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR
• October 10 : Kunie Iwahashi , Japanese writer († 2014 )
• October 11 : Luis Héctor Villalba , Archbishop of Argentina
• October 11th : Paul Vollmar , German religious, auxiliary bishop
• October 12 : Oğuz Atay , Turkish writer († 1977 )
• October 12 : Richard Meier , American architect
• October 12 : Klaus Offerhaus , President of the Federal Fiscal Court (1994–1999) († 2019 )
• October 12th : Gregorio Pérez Companc , Argentinian entrepreneur
• October 13 : Roland Gräf , German director of DEFA († 2017 )
• October 13 : Alain Margoni , French composer

Nana Mouskouri, 2012

• October 13th : Nana Mouskouri , Greek singer
• October 16 : Peter Ashdown , British racing car driver
• October 16 : Dave Heinz , American racing driver († 1992 )
• October 16 : Rolf Geiger , German soccer player
• October 17th : Christian Bruhn , German composer, arranger and songwriter
• October 17 : Johnny Haynes , English soccer player († 2005 )
• October 17th : Digne Meller Marcovicz , German photographer and photojournalist († 2014 )
• October 17 : Rico Rodriguez , Jamaican trombonist and composer († 2015 )
• October 17th : Jörg Schlaich , German civil engineer and professor emeritus
• October 18 : Leticia Daneri , Argentine Cantautora
• October 18 : Renna Kellaway , British pianist and music teacher
• October 18 : Dorothea Rockburne , Canadian painter
• October 19 : Yakubu Gowon , Nigerian President
• October 19 : Eva-Maria Hagen , German actress, singer, painter and author
• October 22 : Zoltán Friedmanszky , Hungarian football player and coach
• October 22nd : Julio Jiménez , Spanish cyclist
• October 24 : Samuel Bonis , American geologist and volcanologist
• October 24 : Jean-Baptiste Gourion , Algerian Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop († 2005 )
• October 24 : Ute Quast , German doctor and non-fiction author
• October 25 : Carlos Sherman , Belarusian-Spanish translator and writer († 2005 )
• October 26 : Jacques Loussier , French pianist and composer († 2019 )
• October 26 : Peter Marginter , Austrian author and translator († 2008 )
• October 26 : Ulrich Plenzdorf , German writer, screenwriter and dramaturge († 2007 )
• October 27 : Barre Phillips , American jazz bassist
• October 28 : Douglas Tate , British harmonica player, harmonica manufacturer, dealer and specialist book author († 2005 )
• October 29 : Yves Cornière , French church musician and composer († 2011 )
• October 30 : Frans Brüggen , Dutch conductor and flautist († 2014 )
• October 30th : Hamilton Camp , American actor, singer and songwriter († 2005 )
• October 31 : Wilhelm Buckermann , German local politician († 2004 )

November

• 0November 1 : Umberto Agnelli , Italian entrepreneur († 2004 )
• 0November 1st : Herbert Binder , German soccer player

Klaus Richtzenhain

• 0November 1st : Klaus Richtzenhain , German athlete
• 0November 2 : Joseph E. Brennan , American politician
• 0November 2nd : Ken Rosewall , Australian tennis player
• 0November 3 : Raul Donazar Calvet , Brazilian soccer player († 2008 )
• 0November 4th : Judith Herzberg , Dutch writer
• 0November 5th : Simon Achidi Achu , Prime Minister of Cameroon
• 0November 7th : Annemarie Brodhagen , German television presenter
• 0November 8 : Friedrich Adolphi , German politician († 2014 )
• 0November 8th : Ursel Fiedler , German table tennis player
• 0November 8th : Lothar Milde , German athlete
• 0November 8th : Melitón Sánchez Rivas , Panamanian sports official
• 0November 9 : Juan Luis Buñuel , film and television director († 2017 )
• 0November 9 : Ingvar Carlsson , Swedish Prime Minister
• 0November 9 : Elmar Pieroth , German politician and Berlin Senator for Economic Affairs (CDU) († 2018 )

Carl Sagan, 1980

• 0November 9 : Carl Sagan , American astronomer and writer († 1996 )
• November 10 : Lucien Bianchi , Belgian racing driver and Le Mans winner († 1969 )
• November 11th : Margarethe Bacher , top chef from the Saarland († 2005 )
• November 11 : Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen , German politician
• November 12 : Al Hendrix , American rock 'n' roll and country singer
• November 12 : Charles Manson , American musician and murderer († 2017 )
• November 12th : Leonid Stein , Soviet chess player († 1973 )
• November 12 : Vavá , Brazilian soccer player († 2002 )
• November 13 : Peter Arnett , US war correspondent
• November 13 : Hans Barth , German journalist and science author († 2011 )
• November 14th : Carlo De Benedetti , Italian entrepreneur
• November 15 : Martin Bangemann , German politician and Federal Minister
• November 15 : Joanna Barnes , American actress and writer
• November 15 : Peter Dickinson , British composer, pianist and music critic
• November 15 : Adolf Katzenmeier , physiotherapist for the German national soccer team († 2016 )
• November 18 : Vasilis Vasilikos , Greek writer
• November 19 : Roland Ducke , German soccer player († 2005 )
• November 19 : Kurt Hamrin , Swedish football and ice hockey player
• November 20 : Lev Polugajewski , Russian-Soviet chess master († 1995 )
• November 21 : Dietrich Weise , German soccer coach
• November 22 : Muniruddin Ahmed , Pakistani Islamic scholar and writer († 2019 )
• November 22 : William Arveson , American mathematician († 2011 )
• November 22 : Jackie Pretorius , South African racing car driver († 2009 )
• November 22nd : Hildegard Sennlaub , German educator and writer
• November 23 : Lew Hoad , Australian tennis player († 1994 )
• November 24th : Wolfgang Rademann , German television producer († 2016 )
• November 24th : Alfred Schnittke , German-Russian composer and pianist († 1998 )
• November 24th : Sven-Bertil Taube , Swedish singer and actor
• November 24 : Dieter E. Zimmer , German writer, translator and publicist († 2020 )
• November 25 : Joachim Adamietz , German classical philologist († 1996 )
• November 27 : Antoine Abel , Seychellois writer and poet († 2004 )
• November 27 : Franz-Josef Antwerpes , German regional politician
• November 27 : Gilbert Strang , American mathematician
• November 28 : Carlos Fariñas , Cuban composer († 2002 )
• November 29th : Mary Carter Reitano , Australian tennis player
• November 29 : Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo , President of Benin
• November 29th : Günter Wewel , German chamber singer
• November 30 : Jürgen Kühl , German sprinter († 2020 )

December

• 0December 1 : Wilhelm Keim , German chemist († 2018 )
• 0December 2 : Dieter Baacke , German educationalist († 1999 )

Tarcisio Bertone

• 0December 2nd : Tarcisio Bertone , Archbishop of Genoa and Cardinal
• 0December 3 : Viktor Gorbatko , Soviet cosmonaut († 2017 )
• 0December 3 : Abimael Guzmán , leader of the Maoist guerrilla movement "Shining Path" in Peru
• 0December 3 : Hans Saner , Swiss philosopher († 2017 )
• 0December 4 : Victor French , American actor and director († 1989 )
• 0December 5 : Fayza Ahmed , Egyptian singer and actress († 1983 )
• 0December 5th : Hassan Akesbi , Moroccan football player
• 0December 5th : Joan Didion , American author and journalist
• 0December 5th : Eberhard Jüngel , German theologian and professor
• 0December 5 : Julius Wess , Austrian theoretical physicist († 2007 )
• 0December 6th : Ingolf Metze , German finance scientist
• 0December 7th : Leonhard Neidhart , Swiss political scientist
• 0December 7th : Frank País , revolutionary in the Cuban underground († 1957 )
• 0December 7 : Jan Wornar , Sorbian-speaking German writer († 1999 )
• 0December 8 : Horst Räcke , German painter († 2007 )

Judi Dench, 2007

• 0December 9 : Judi Dench , British actress
• 0December 9 : Morten Grunwald , Danish actor and director († 2018 )
• 0December 9th : Wayne Weiler , American racing car driver († 2005 )
• 0December 9 : Junior Wells , American blues musician († 1998 )
• December 10 : Ireneo A. Amantillo , Filipino Former Bishop of Tandag († 2018 )
• December 10 : Howard M. Temin , American biologist († 1994 )
• December 11th : Jürgen Becker , German theologian
• December 11th : Hans Daniels , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• December 11 : Del Shofner , American football player († 2020 )
• December 12th : Hilla Limann , President of Ghana († 1998 )
• December 12 : Ramón Marsal , Spanish football player († 2007 )
• December 13 : Richard Isay , American psychiatrist († 2012 )
• December 14th : Shyam Benegal , Indian film director
• December 15 : Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed , Somali politician († 2012 )
• December 15 : Mohammed Farah Aidid , Somali politician († 1996 )
• December 15 : Curtis Fuller , American jazz trombonist
• December 15 : Stanislau Shushkevich , Belarusian scientist and politician
• December 16 : Nobuyuki Aihara , Japanese gymnast († 2013 )

Rudi Carrell, 1980

• December 19 : Rudi Carrell , Dutch showmaster († 2006 )
• December 19 : Pratibha Patil , 13th President of India
• December 20th : Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja , Archbishop of Jakarta and Cardinal
• December 21 : Hank Crawford , American alto saxophonist († 2009 )
• December 21 : Giuseppina Leone , Italian athlete and Olympian
• December 21 : Petra Pascal , German singer
• December 21 : Rudy Solari , American actor († 1991 )
• December 23 : Chuck Mayfield , American country musician († 2015 )
• December 24th : Beda Vickermann OFM, German missionary († 2015 )
• December 24th : Enrique Dussel , Argentine philosopher, historian and theologian
• December 24th : Noël Lancien , French composer and conductor († 1999 )
• December 24th : Stjepan Mesić , Croatian President
• December 25 : John Ashley , American actor and singer († 1997 )
• December 25th : Giancarlo Baghetti , Italian racing driver († 1995 )
• December 25 : Bob Martinez , American politician
• December 25th : Peter Weidenbach , German forester
• December 27 : Aidan Chambers , British author and editor

Larissa Latynina

• December 27th : Larissa Latynina , Soviet gymnast
• December 27th : Pat Moss , British rally driver († 2008 )
• December 28 : John Fellows Akers , American manager († 2014 )
• December 28 : Rudi Faßnacht , German football coach († 2000 )
• December 28 : Dieter Goltzsche , German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
• December 28th : Maggie Smith , British actress
• December 29 : Forugh Farrochzad , Iranian poet and film director († 1967 )

John N. Bahcall

• December 30th : John N. Bahcall , American astrophysicist († 2005 )
• December 30th : Barry Briggs , New Zealand track athlete
• December 30th : Jean-Claude Henry , French composer
• December 30th : Del Shannon , American rock 'n' roll singer († 1990 )
• December 30th : Russ Tamblyn , American actor
• December 31 : Inge Auerbacher , American chemist

Exact date of birth unknown

• Freda Adler , American sociologist and criminologist
• Ammar Al-Talibi , Algerian university professor and politician
• Clay Margrave Armstrong , American physiologist
• Dave Ashman , American weightlifter († 1984 )
• Turan Dursun , Turkish critic of religion and civil rights activist († 1990 )
• Lansana Conté , President of Guinea († 2008 )
• Efraim Halevy , Former Director of the Mossad
• Alexander Herzog , German actor and voice actor († 2009 )
• Johannes Holey , German author
• Henry Holt , American conductor, opera director and music teacher († 1997 )
• Erika Karasek , German folklorist
• Horst Lateika , German actor and puppeteer
• Dan Miron , Israeli literary scholar and critic
• Ekkehard Schneck , German church musician
• Otto Karl Werckmeister , German art historian and author

Died

January February

• 0January 1st : Blagoje Bersa , Croatian composer (* 1873 )
• 0January 1 : Max Sauerlandt , German art historian (* 1880 )
• 0January 1 : Jakob Wassermann , German-speaking writer (* 1873 )

Herbert Chapman

• 0January 6th : Herbert Chapman , English football player and coach (* 1878 )
• 0January 6th : Eucarpio Espinosa , Chilean painter (* 1867 )
• 0January 8 : Andrei Bely , Russian poet and theorist (* 1880 )
• 0January 8 : Adolf Rettelbusch , German painter (* 1858 )
• January 10th : Marinus van der Lubbe , Dutch worker, alleged arsonist of the Reichstag in Berlin (* 1909 )
• January 10 : Vincenzo Ferroni , Italian composer and music teacher (* 1858 )
• January 15 : Hermann Bahr , Austrian writer and playwright (* 1863 )
• January 19 : Karl Arnsperger , German administrative officer (* 1870 )
• January 24th : Felix Knubben , German church musician and composer (* 1880 )

Fritz Haber, 1918

• January 29 : Fritz Haber , German chemist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1868 )

• 0February 2 : James Hartness , American politician (* 1861 )
• 0February 3 : Aussie Elliott , American criminal (born 1914 )
• 0February 5 : William Morris Davis , American geologist, meteorologist and geographer (* 1850 )
• 0February 7 : Ernesto Quesada , Argentine sociologist, lawyer, publicist, historian and linguist (* 1858 )
• 0February 7th : Heinrich Rippler , German writer, journalist and politician (* 1866 )
• 0February 9 : Giuseppe Carboni , Canadian singing teacher, conductor and composer (* 1866 )
• February 10 : Ossip Schubin , Czech-German writer (* 1854 )
• February 10 : Fedor von Zobeltitz , German journalist and writer (* 1857 )
• February 11 : Fritz Klatte , German chemist (* 1880 )
• February 12 : Jacques Joseph , German surgeon, pioneer of rhinoplasty (* 1865 )
• February 13 : Carl Appel , German Romance studies and university professor (* 1857 )
• February 14 : Gustav Kirstein , German publisher (* 1870 )
• February 15 : Ai Xia , Chinese actress (* 1912 )
• February 15 : Richard Zoozmann , German poet and writer (* 1863 )
• February 17th : Albert I , Belgian King (* 1875 )
• February 17 : Sepp Ahrer , Austrian social democrat and revolutionary (* 1908 )
• February 17 : Fernando de Arteaga y Pereira , Spanish poet, Romanist and Hispanist (* 1851 )
• February 17th : Siegbert Tarrasch , German chess grandmaster (* 1862 )
• February 23 : Edward Elgar , English composer (* 1857 )
• February 24 : Naoki Sanjūgo , Japanese writer (* 1891 )
• February 26 : Kârale Andreassen , Greenlandic painter, draftsman and catechist (* 1890 )
• February 27 : Berthe Constance Ursule Art , Belgian pastel and still life painter (* 1857 )

March April

• 0March 1 : Toros Toramanian , Armenian architect and historian (* 1864 )
• March 12 : Harry Green , British long-distance runner (* 1886 )
• March 14th : João do Canto e Castro , Portuguese admiral and politician, President (* 1862 )
• March 17 : Wilhelm Meyer-Förster , German writer (* 1862 )
• March 19 : Hugo Prinz , German ancient historian (* 1883 )
• March 19 : Anthony Johannes Blok , Dutch criminal lawyer (* 1868 )
• March 19 : Edward Montagu-Stuart-Wortley , British general (* 1857 )
• March 21 : Otto Baumgarten , German Protestant theologian (* 1858 )
• March 21 : Franz Schreker , Austrian composer (* 1878 )
• March 23 : Wenzel Hablik , German painter, graphic artist and artisan (* 1881 )
• March 29 : Ludwig Marum , lawyer and SPD politician (* 1882 )

• 0April 4 : Braulio Dueño Colón , Puerto Rican composer (* 1854 )
• 0April 4 : Pierantonio Tasca , Italian composer (* 1858 )
• 0April 4 : Johanna Niese , Austrian actress (* 1875 )
• 0April 7th : Karl von Eine , Prussian Minister of War (* 1853 )
• 0April 8 : Frank C. Mars , American entrepreneur (* 1883 )
• 0April 9 : Gustav Aufschläger , German explosives chemist and company leader (* 1853 )
• 0April 9 : Rudolf Koch , type designer, calligrapher, typographer and teacher (* 1876 )
• 0April 9 : Oskar von Miller , German engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum (* 1855 )
• April 11 : John Collier , British painter and writer (* 1850 )
• April 14 : Gustav Voigts , German farmer, trader and mayor (* 1866 )
• April 18 : August Amrhein , German clergyman (* 1847 )
• April 21 : Eduard Gustav Adolf von Bonin , landowner and Prussian politician (* 1846 )
• April 22nd : Josef Auer , German wood sculptor (* 1867 )
• April 22nd : Nahum J. Bachelder , American politician (* 1854 )
• April 23 : Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink , Norwegian polar explorer (* 1864 )
• April 24 : Émile Chautard , French actor and director (* 1881 )

May June

• 0May 1 : Viktor Apfelbeck , Austrian-Yugoslav entomologist and museum curator (* 1859 )
• 0May 5 : Nakamura Kenkichi , Japanese poet (* 1889 )
• 0May 7th : Charly Jellen , Austrian racing car driver and entrepreneur (* 1909 )
• May 13 : Albert Sleeper , American politician (* 1862 )
• May 16 : Auguste Hertzer , German nurse (* 1855 )
• May 23 : Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow ( Bonnie and Clyde )
• May 25 : Gustav Holst , British composer (* 1874 )
• May 25 : Anani Jawaschow , Bulgarian pedagogue, botanist and archaeologist (* 1855 )
• May 25 : William B. Wilson , American politician (* 1862 )
• May 28 : Leonhard Angerer , Austrian naturalist (* 1861 )

• 0June 2 : James Rolph junior , American politician (* 1869 )
• 0June 5 : Corrado Ricci , Italian archaeologist and art historian (* 1858 )
• 0June 7th : Nicanor González Méndez , Chilean painter (* 1864 )
• 0June 8 : Felix Maria Ghebre Amlak , Ethiopian priest (* 1895 )
• June 10 : Plácido António Cunha de Abreu , Portuguese aerobatic pilot (* 1903 )
• June 10 : Frederick Delius , English composer (* 1862 )
• June 13th : Syd Crabtree , British motorcycle racer (* 1903 or 1904 )
• June 13 : Theodor Däubler , German writer (* 1876 )

Alfred Bruneau

• June 15 : Alfred Bruneau , French composer and music critic (* 1857 )
• June 17 : Samuel Shaw Ulysses Arentz , American politician (* 1879 )
• June 24th : Dirk Meints Agena , German lawyer, farmer and politician (* 1889 )
• June 24 : Charles Spalding Thomas , American politician (* 1849 )
• June 26 : Nathaniel Lord Britton , American geologist and botanist (* 1859 )
• June 26th : Max Pallenberg , Austrian singer, actor and comedian (* 1877 )
• June 29 : Adolf Kašpar , Czech painter and illustrator (* 1877 )
• June 30th : Gustav Ritter von Kahr , Bavarian Prime Minister (* 1862 )
• June 30 : Kurt von Schleicher , Lieutenant General and Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (* 1882 )
• June 30th : Gregor Strasser, German National Socialist politician (* 1892 )
• June 30th : Erich Klausener , Chairman of the Catholic Action in the Diocese of Berlin (* 1885 )

July August

• 0July 1 : Julius Adler , German lawyer (* 1882 )
• 0July 1 : Fritz Gerlich , German journalist and archivist (* 1883 )
• 0July 1 : Erik Haps , Belgian motorcycle racer (* 1909 )
• 0July 1 : Gunnar Kalén , Swedish motorcycle racer (* 1901 )
• 0July 1 : Ernst Röhm , National Socialist politician and SA leader (* 1887 )
• 0July 2 : Pol Demeuter , Belgian motorcycle racer (* 1904 )
• 0July 2 : Henry Hollis Horton , American politician (* 1866 )
• 0July 3 : Ludwig Sütterlin , German linguist and Germanist (* 1863 )
• 0July 4th : Chaim Nachman Bialik , Jewish poet, author and journalist (* 1873 )
• 0July 4th : Abelardo Bustamante , Chilean painter and sculptor (* 1888 )

Marie Curie, 1920

• 0July 4th : Marie Curie , Polish-French chemist and physicist (* 1867 )
• 0July 5 : Caesar Ahrens , German chemist (* 1868 )
• 0July 6 : Nestor Makhno , Ukrainian anarchist, leader of the Makhnovshchina named after him (* 1888 )
• 0July 6 : Franklin MacVeagh , American politician (* 1837 )
• 0July 6 : Harry A. Pollard , American actor and director (* 1879 )
• 0July 6 : Kurt Sethe , German Egyptologist (* 1869 )
• 0July 8 : Johann Friedrich Ahlhorn , German politician (* 1855 )
• July 10 : Erich Mühsam , German writer and anarchist (* 1878 )
• July 14 : Willo Welzenbach , German mountaineer (* 1899 )
• July 15 : Arie van der Pluym , Dutch motorcycle racer (* 1906 )
• July 22nd : John Dillinger , first person whom the FBI designated as public enemy No. 1 (* 1903 )
• July 23 : Jean Gaupillat , French entrepreneur and racing car driver (* 1891 )
• July 24th : Hans Hahn , Austrian mathematician (* 1879 )
• July 25 : Engelbert Dollfuß , Austrian politician and Federal Chancellor (* 1892 )
• July 26 : William F. Kirby , American politician (* 1867 )
• July 27th : Nelly Diener , Swiss flight attendant (* 1912 )
• July 29 : Eduard Philipp Arnold , German architect, lecturer and author (* 1866 )
• July 29 : John L. McLaurin , American politician (* 1860 )
• July 30th : Ernst von Woliehen , German writer (* 1855 )

Paul von Hindenburg

• 0August 2 : Paul von Hindenburg , Field Marshal General and second Reich President (* 1847 )
• 0August 9 : Arnaldo Galliera , Italian composer and music teacher (* 1871 )
• August 12 : Hendrik Petrus Berlage , Dutch architect (* 1856 )
• August 13 : Mary Hunter Austin , American writer and playwright (* 1868 )
• August 14 : Pyotr Ivanovich Tschardynin , Russian actor and silent film director (* 1871 or 1873 )
• August 15 : Guy Moll , Algerian racing car driver (* 1910 )
• August 19 : Henry T. Rainey , American politician (* 1860 )
• August 20 : Gabriel Zelger , Swiss bishop (* 1867 )
• August 23 : Viktor Kaplan , Austrian engineer (* 1876 )
• August 26 : Hugh Caulfield Hamilton , Northern Irish racing driver (* 1905 )

Tannatt William Edgeworth David

• August 28 : Tannatt William Edgeworth David , Australian geologist, surveyor and polar explorer (* 1858 )

September October

• 0September 4 : Paul Aust , German landscape painter, graphic artist and writer (* 1866 )
• 0September 9 : Edward Theodore England , American politician (* 1869 )
• September 13 : William Lorimer , American politician (* 1861 )
• September 15 : Jean Bungartz , German animal painter and author (* 1854 )
• September 19 : Brito Camacho , Portuguese politician (* 1862 )
• September 20 : Víctor Mercante , Argentine educator and writer (* 1870 )
• September 26 : Inoue Kenkabō , Japanese writer (* 1870 )
• September 30th : John K. Shields , American politician (* 1858 )

• 0October 1 : Luis Amigó , Spanish Capuchin, bishop and founder of the order (* 1854 )
• 0October 6 : James Taliaferro , American politician (* 1847 )
• 0October 7th : Ludwig Freiherr von Stein zu Lausnitz , German officer and explorer (* 1868 )
• 0October 8 : Krikor Balakian , Armenian bishop (* 1875 )
• 0October 9 : Alexander I , King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (* 1888 )
• 0October 9 : Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi , Tunisian poet (* 1909 )
• 0October 9 : Louis Barthou , French politician (* 1862 )
• October 10 : Takamura Kōun , Japanese sculptor (* 1852 )
• October 12 : Michael O'Shaughnessy , Irish-born civil engineer and urban planner from San Francisco (* 1864 )
• October 14 : Leonid Sobinow , Russian opera singer (* 1872 )
• October 15 : Samuel Fischer , German publisher (* 1859 )
• October 15 : Raymond Poincaré , French statesman (* 1860 )

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

• October 17th : Santiago Ramón y Cajal , Spanish medic and Nobel Prize winner (* 1852 )
• October 18 : Thies Hinrich Engelbrecht , German agricultural geographer (* 1853 )
• October 18 : Franc-Nohain , French writer and librettist (* 1872 )
• October 18 : Rudolf von Tavel , Swiss journalist and writer (* 1866 )
• October 19 : Johan Joseph Aarts , Dutch painter and graphic artist (* 1871 )
• October 29 : Wilhelm IV. Anthes , German politician (* 1877 )
• October 29 : Gustavo E. Campa , Mexican composer (* 1863 )
• October 29 : Kurt Floericke , German scientist (* 1869 )

November December

Walther Bensemann 1896

• November 12 : Walther Bensemann , German philologist, co-founder of the DFB (* 1873 )
• November 12th : Henri Verbrugghen , Belgian conductor, violinist and music teacher (* 1873 )
• November 13th : Fritz Wrampe , German sculptor (* 1893 )
• November 16 : Carl von Linde , German engineer (* 1842 )

Joachim Ringelnatz, before 1925

• November 17 : Joachim Ringelnatz , German writer (* 1883 )
• November 30th : Florian Berndl , Austrian naturopath (* 1856 )
• November 30th : Hélène Boucher , French pilot (* 1908 )
• November 30th : Philip Hale , American organist and music critic (* 1854 )

• 0December 1 : Heinrich Kielhorn , German pioneer of special education (* 1847 )
• 0December 1 : Sergei Kirov , Soviet state and party functionary (* 1886 )
• 0December 2 : Jakob Meisenheimer , German chemist (* 1876 )
• December 11th : Raoul Bachmann , French racing car driver (* 1884 )
• December 12th : Arthur Keller , German medic (* 1868 )
• December 17 : William L. Harding , American politician (* 1877 )
• December 19 : Françis Planté , French pianist (* 1839 )
• December 20 : Nikolai Jakowlewitsch Marr , Georgian linguist (* 1865 )
• December 21 : August Anton Hieronymus Gärtner , German physician and microbiologist (* 1848 )
• December 23 : Henri Dallier , French composer and organist (* 1849 )
• December 24th : George WP Hunt , American politician (* 1859 )
• December 25th : Max Grube , German actor, theater director and writer (* 1854 )
• December 26 : John Emory Andrus , American politician (* 1841 )
• December 28th : Pablo Gargallo , Spanish sculptor (* 1881 )
• December 28 : Adachi Mineichirō , Japanese lawyer and diplomat (* 1870 )
• December 29 : Willy Seidel , German writer (* 1887 )
• December 30th : Josef Autrith , Austrian politician (* 1896 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Oskar Herrfurth , German painter and illustrator (* 1862 )
• Fritz Köster , German editor and anarcho-syndicalist (* 1855 )
• Frederick Maxson , American composer and organist (* 1862 )
• César Stiattesi , Argentine composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1881 )
• Alice Verlet , Belgian opera singer and music teacher (* 1873 )

Web links

Commons : 1934  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• living virtual museum online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (RGBl. I, p. 91, full text )