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1939
The attack on Poland and the Second World War begin with the German attack on the Westerplatte in Danzig .
The German Reich and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact .	The Soviet Union attacks Poland in the east of the country .
1939 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	1387/88 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1931/32 (September 11-12)
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Buddhist calendar	2482/83 (southern Buddhism); 2481/82 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	77th (78th) cycle Year of the Earth Rabbit 己卯 ( since February 19 , before that Earth Tiger戊寅)
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Dangun era (Korea)	4272/73 (October 2/3)
Iranian calendar	1317/18 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	1357/58 (February 20-21)
Japanese calendar	昭和Shōwa 14; Kōki 2599
Jewish calendar	5699/5700 (September 13-14)
Coptic calendar	1655/56 (September 11-12)
Malayalam calendar	1114/15
Minguo calendar (China)	Year 28 of the Republic
Seleucid era	Babylon: 2249/50 (turn of the year April) Syria: 2250/51 (turn of the year October)
Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar)	2481/82 (April 1)
Tibetan calendar	1685
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1995/96 (April)

Events

Politics and world events

Europe before the war

→ Main article : Prehistory of the Second World War in Europe

The German Reich and its expansion policy

War preparations

• January 1 : The compulsory year introduced in the previous year for unemployed, single, female young people under the age of 25 is being extended.

The territory of the Free City of Gdansk

• January 6th : The German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop holds a conference in Munich with his Polish counterpart, Colonel Józef Beck, on the "Danzig question" .
• January 13 : Hungary joins the Anti-Comintern Pact .
• January 27th : Hitler puts the " Z-Plan " into force.

The Bismarck was launched at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg

• February 14th : The 35,000-ton battleship Bismarck is launched in Hamburg.
• March 1st : Adolf Hitler declares November 9th a national holiday ( memorial day for the movement - Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch ). The death of 16 " martyrs " or their willingness to die by participating in the coup is a theme of Nazi propaganda from 1924 to 1945.

Division of Czechoslovakia:
1 - Sudeten German territories are attached to the German Reich (September / October 1938);
2 - Poland occupies territory in Teschen (October 1938);
3 - Hungary occupies border areas partly of Hungarian ethnicity (November 1938) and
4 - the Ruthenian- speaking Carpathian Ukraine (March 1939);
5 - In March 1939, the “rest of the Czech Republic” is de facto annexed by Germany and declared a protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ;
6 - of Czechoslovakia only the German satellite state Slovakia remains .

• March 14 : Under pressure from the National Socialist German Reich, Slovakia under Jozef Tiso declares itself independent from Czechoslovakia .

• March 15 : When German troops march into the Czecho-Slovak Republic , Czechoslovakia is broken up , Hitler travels to Prague and spends the night on the Hradschin .
• March 15 : After the declaration of independence of Slovakia and the destruction of the remainder of Czechoslovakia by Germany explains the Carpathian Ukraine independence, but is contrary to the Vienna Award on the same day annexed by Hungary .
• March 16 : The decree establishing the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is signed by Hitler in Prague ; Konstantin von Neurath is appointed Reich Protector .
• March 20 : The USA protests in Berlin against the annexation of Bohemia and Moravia .
• March 21 : German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop demanded in Berlin by the Polish Ambassador Józef Lipski , the "return" of Danzig .
• March 22nd / 23rd : Following a German ultimatum , the Lithuanian government signed a state treaty during the night to hand over the Memelland to the German Reich.
• March 23 : State treaty between the German Reich and Slovakia
• March 23 : Poland orders a comprehensive partial mobilization of its armed forces, Poland's foreign minister, Colonel Józef Beck , asks Great Britain to conclude an assistance pact .
• March 26 : Poland's ambassador in Berlin , Józef Lipski , informs Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that his government has refused to grant extraterritorial access to Danzig .
• March 27 : In Gdansk , the state police and the Nazi organizations are ordered to go into alarm.
• March 31 : British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announces a British-French guarantee for Poland.
• April 3 : Hitler's Führer directive: War of aggression against Poland (White case)
• April 7th : Fascist Italy begins annexing the Kingdom of Albania . The short campaign will be completed by April 12th . The Albanian King Zogu I fled to Greece.
• April 15 : The Reichsgau Sudetenland is formed.
• April 21 : The eight former Austrian federal states are transformed into Reichsgau by law .
• April 27th : With a memorandum , the German Reich terminates the German-British naval agreement because of alleged unfriendly attitude on the part of the contracting party. However, the armament of the fleet in the Z-Plan had already been approved by Adolf Hitler three months earlier.
• April 28 : The German-Polish non-aggression pact is terminated by the German Reich after Poland rejects the demand for an annexation of Danzig and a corridor to East Prussia .
• April 28th : termination of the German-British fleet agreement
• May 3 to 9 : Adolf Hitler is on a state visit to Italy.
• May 21 : For the first time, the National Socialists bestow the Mother Cross, which has little advantages . You promise yourself a higher willingness to give birth from this Order of Merit .
• May 31 : The German-Danish non-aggression pact is signed in Berlin.
• June 7 : Estonia and Latvia sign a non-aggression treaty with Germany.
• August 19 : The naval war command dispatches 14 submarines to the North Atlantic in waiting positions. From Kiel: U 45, U 46, U 47, U 48 and U 52, from Wilhelmshaven: U 28, U 29, U 33, U 34, U 37, U 38, U 39, U 40 and U 41.
• August 21 : Ironclad Admiral Graf Spee leaves Wilhelmshaven to head for an ordered waiting position in the South Atlantic.
• 23 August : By resolution of the Danzig Senate, the Gauleiter of Danzig Albert Forster is appointed head of state of the Free City of Danzig.
• August 23 : British merchant ships are instructed not to call at any more German ports.
• August 24 : Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact with a secret additional protocol for the partition of Poland.
• August 25 : The German liner SMS Schleswig-Holstein arrives in Gdansk. The bombardment of the Westerplatte , which she began there on September 1, is considered to be the beginning of the Second World War.
• August 30th : The Council of Ministers for Reich Defense is created.

Discrimination and Oppression Policy

• January 1 : The name change ordinance for Jews in the German Reich comes into force.
• January 31 : The license to practice medicine for Jewish pharmacists, dentists and veterinarians expires due to an ordinance on the Reich Citizenship Law .
• January 31 : In a speech in the Reichstag , Adolf Hitler announces the "annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe" in the event of a new world war.
• January 31 : The last issues of the Austrian daily newspapers Neues Wiener Journal and Neue Freie Presse , which were expropriated and “Aryanized” as early as 1938, appear. They are merged by the Nazi regime with the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , which was incorporated into the Ostmärkische Zeitungsverlagsgesellschaft .
• February 22nd : Reich Minister of Transport Julius Dorpmüller orders the confiscation of driving licenses, vehicle licenses and trailer licenses issued to Jews.
• March 30th : An ordinance on the registration of Jewish property is published in the Memel steamboat . The approximately 500 Jews living in Memel have to hand in their jewelry by May 31st.
• April 30 : In Germany, the law on tenancy agreements with Jews comes into force. It lifts tenant protection for Jews and initiates the ghettoization process . German Jews have to leave their homes and are concentrated in “ Jewish houses ”.

Ordinance on the establishment of a people's index dated April 21, 1939

• May 17 : With the census in the German Reich, the security service of the Reichsführer SS and the Secret State Police hope, among other things, to obtain data for a Jewish index .
• May 18 : The first 900 women imprisoned in the Nazi state are transferred from the Lichtenburg concentration camp to the newly established Ravensbrück concentration camp .
• May / June: odyssey of St. Louis
• June 26th : The Institute for Research into the Jewish Question is founded in Frankfurt am Main.
• July 4 : In the German Reich is discrimination of Jews with the creation of the National Association of Jews in Germany continued.
• September 5 : In the German Reich an ordinance against pests is passed.
• October 21 : Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign an agreement to relocate the German and Ladin minorities in South Tyrol .

Domestic politics

• January 1 : The Youth Protection Act passed on April 30, 1938 and the Working Hours Ordinance come into force.
• January 2nd : The postal savings bank service is introduced throughout the German Reich.
• February 17 : The Reich Labor Ministry issues the Reich Garage Regulations .
• April 1 : Potsdam becomes a major city through the incorporation of the city of Babelsberg, which has around 30,000 inhabitants, and other places .

Spanish Civil War

• In the final phase of the Spanish Civil War , Francisco Franco's troops captured Tarragona on January 14th , the Catalan capital of Barcelona on January 26th, and Girona on February 4th .
• February 27 : Britain and France officially recognize the Franco government .
• March 17th : Francoist Spain signs the Bloco Ibérico , a non-aggression and neutrality pact , with the Estado Novo regime in Portugal under António de Oliveira Salazar .
• March 28 : troops of General Franco conquer Madrid using the fifth column .
• March 29th : Valencia surrenders to the fascists after almost two years of siege.

The end-of-civil war document signed by Franco

• April 1st : Francisco Franco announces the end of the Spanish Civil War in Burgos .

Other events in Europe

• January 1 : Philipp Etter becomes the new Federal President of Switzerland .
• March 24th : The National Socialist Volksdeutsche movement in Liechtenstein under the leadership of the country leader Theodor Schädler tries to force the principality to join Germany. The follow-up coup failed, 36 of the over 100 coup participants flee to Feldkirch. 76 people were later questioned and around 50 were charged. For fear of German power, the leaders of the coup were released from custody in December and expelled from the country. Almost all Jews living there fled to Switzerland on the night of the Putsch, but returned in the following days. In the days after the event, the Liechtenstein Home Loyalty Association started a signature campaign to affirm Liechtenstein's independence, combined with a commitment to the Princely House and economic and political orientation towards Switzerland. This is signed by 95.4% of all eligible voters.
• April 5 : French President Albert Lebrun is re-elected for a second term by the National Assembly.
• June 29 : The parliament of the Hatay Republic , which has existed since September 1938 , decides to unite with Turkey. It is annexed to Turkey and - supplemented by the Turkish districts of Erzin, Dörtyol and Hassa - formed into the Turkish province of Hatay .

The Croatian bank

• August 26th : With the Sporazum ( agreement ) between the Yugoslav government under Prime Minister Dragiša Cvetković and the Croatian opposition under Vladko Maček , the leader of the Croatian Peasant Party , the Banovina Hrvatska receives autonomy within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia .

Second Sino-Japanese War

See also : Chronology of the Pacific War # 1939

• May 9 : In the Battle of Nanchang , the retreat of the city fails with the withdrawal of Chinese troops . In the Second Sino-Japanese War , possession of this railway junction opened the way to Indochina for the Japanese .
• May 11 : The Japanese-Soviet border conflict intensifies again.
• September 17 to October 6 : The Battle of Changsha marks the first Japanese attempt to take the city of Changsha in the central southern Chinese province of Hunan . However, the Japanese are repulsed by the Chinese troops.
• November 24th : Japanese troops occupy the Chinese industrial city of Nanning , an important economic hub between Indochina and the Republic of China .

Other events in Asia

Shepherd and companion in Lhasa

• January 19 : With the Tibet expedition led by Ernst Schäfer , Germans reach the Tibetan capital Lhasa for the first time .
• March 16 : The marriage of the Egyptian Princess Fausia to the Iranian Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is linked to the establishment of a strategic alliance between the Kingdom of Egypt , Iran and Turkey . Iran is supplying Egypt with extensive oil supplies , while officials are helping to build Iran's underdeveloped infrastructure.
• June 11 : The All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference party founded by Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah in 1932 , which sees itself as representing the interests of the population in the absolutist Indian princely state of Jammu and Kashmir , is renamed the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference . Devout Muslims then found a new party under the old name.
• June 24th : The country name of Siam is changed at the instigation of the dictator Plaek Phibunsongkhram in Thailand (Prathet Thai = "Land of the Free").

Second World War in Europe

See also : “1939” in the Chronology of World War II article

German and Soviet attack on Poland, September and October 1939

• August 31 : Six or seven SS men under the leadership of Alfred Naujocks fake a Polish attack on the Gleiwitz transmitter (whether they wear Polish uniforms is disputed) and thus provide the pretext for the war attack on Poland the following morning.
• September 1 : With the battle for the Polish post office in Gdansk and the attack on the Westerplatte , the attack on Poland and with it the Second World War in Europe begins : Wehrmacht troops attack the Free City of Gdansk and Poland . This triggers the assistance ( British-French guarantee ) and cooperation pacts ( German-Soviet non-aggression pact ). Great Britain and France call on Hitler to withdraw from Poland immediately.
• September 1st : The undecided battle at Krojanty is later used for propaganda purposes.
• September 1 : With the ordinance on extraordinary radio measures, listening to foreign radio broadcasts (" enemy broadcasters ") is punishable in the National Socialist Greater German Reich ; in special cases, death is threatened for broadcasting intercepted messages .
• September 2nd : Italy declares itself “non-belligerent”.
• September 2 : France and Great Britain give Germany an ultimatum to withdraw from Poland immediately, true to the British-French guarantee given to Poland in the event of an attack.
• September 3rd : France and Great Britain declare war on the Greater German Reich . The British passenger steamer Athenia is sunk by a German submarine without warning. The governments of Australia and New Zealand declare war on the German Reich. The British government declares the sea ​​blockade of Germany.
• September 3 : Over a thousand Germans are murdered in Poland on Bloody Sunday in Bromberg . The actual number is historically disputed.
• September 4 : In Germany, women between the ages of 18 and 25 are required to do six months of national labor .
• September 5 : The battle in the Tucheler Heide in the Polish Corridor ends after five days with a German victory.
• September 5 : The USA and Japan declare their neutrality in the European war.
• September 6th : The South African Union declares war on the German Reich.
• September 9th : French troops lead the Saar offensive and occupy some border villages in the Rhine Palatinate without resistance . As ordered, the Wehrmacht does not offer any resistance because Germany wants to avoid a two-front war.
• September 10 : Canada declares war on the German Reich.
• September 12th : French and British staffs decide at a meeting that Poland will not receive any support, although Maurice Gamelin had recently said in Warsaw that he would use “le gros de nos forces” (“the majority of our armed forces”).
• September 13th : The battle for Modlin begins with the attack on Poland . The Modlin Fortress is part of the Polish fortress quadrangle .
• September 14 : The French government (Cabinet Daladier III) orders all men between the ages of 18 and 55 belonging to “hostile nations” to be interned in camps de concentration. German Jews who have fled to France are not exempt from this .
• September 15 : The Nazi regime had the German conscientious objector August Dickmann executed.
• September 15 : The Przemyśl massacre begins. Task forces of the Security Police and the SD shoot people named Poles in the special investigation book , a total of 600 Jews .

Polish prisoners of war of the Red Arms

• September 17th : The Soviet occupation of eastern Poland begins.
• September 17 : Two torpedoes from the German U- 29 submarine hit the British aircraft carrier Courageous . The warship sinks with a crew of 518, 741 seamen are rescued by a passenger ship. The Courageous is the first British warship to be lost in World War II.
• September 18 : After 18 days the Polish government flees , Poland is considered conquered. The last scattered troops surrender on October 6th after the Battle of Kock .
• September 19 : In the ten-day battle on the Bzura , the Wehrmacht defeats the Polish troops . 170,000 soldiers are taken prisoner by Germany .
• September 25 : Andorra , which has been officially still at war with Germany since the First World War because the Treaty of Versailles was not signed, concludes a peace treaty with the German Reich. During the Second World War, the country behaved neutrally.
• September 26th : Dissolution of the French Communist Party
• September 27 : Shortly before the surrender, the Polish military found the underground movement Służba Zwycięstwu Polsce .
• September 28 : Germany and the Soviet Union sign the German-Soviet Border and Friendship Treaty , which provides for the "voluntary" resettlement of German minorities ( Bessarabian Germans , Baltic Germans and Bukovina Germans ) from the Soviet Union.
• September 28 : The battle for Warsaw ends after four weeks with the occupation of the city .
• October 4 : The secret pardon after the Polish campaign gives amnesty to German crimes on Polish territory.
• October 7th : The Führer decree for the “ consolidation of German nationality ” creates the basis for the resettlement of Baltic Germans and other “ Reichs ” and “ ethnic Germans ” in areas of Poland annexed by the Reich.
• October 8 : In World War II, after the attack on Poland, Adolf Hitler orders its territorial reorganization: the western area is annexed by the German Reich , the rest of the general government is occupied by Germany . On October 26 , the provisions apply.
• October 9th : Hitler completes a memorandum of necessity for an immediate attack and issues 'Instructions No. 6' (order to work out plans for a campaign in the west ).
• October 10 : A victory parade in Warsaw marks the end of the invasion of Poland .
• October 14 : The German submarine U 47 penetrates the British naval base Scapa Flow and sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak anchored there . 833 sailors die. This (together with the sinking of the Courageous on September 17, 1939, see above ) also shows skeptics in the leadership of the Navy the military value of submarines (see also Z-Plan ).
• October 31 : Resettlement agreement between the German Reich and Latvia
• November 6th : In the special operation in Krakow , a task force of the German security police under Bruno Müller arrests professors and employees at Krakow universities. Most of them are deported to the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps.

• November 8th : Georg Elser carried out a bomb attack on Hitler in the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich , which failed.
• November 9 : Two officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service , Richard Henry Stevens and Sigismund Payne Best , are kidnapped in Venlo , the Netherlands by an SS special command under Alfred Naujocks after German secret agents under Walter Schellenberg pretended to be resistance fighters. The Venlo incident , in which the Dutch secret service officer Luitenant Dirk Klop was shot, rendered large parts of the British espionage network in Europe practically worthless and in May 1940 provided Hitler with a justification for invading the Netherlands.
• November 17 : In the special Prague campaign , the National Socialists close all institutions of the Czech higher education system in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . The police shot and killed nine students suspected of being ringleaders during demonstrations.
• November 18 : The Dutch ocean liner Simon Bolivar runs into a German minefield near Harwich and sinks after two serious explosions. 102 people die.
• November 23rd : In a speech by Hitler to the commanders in chief , he informs generals and officers of the Wehrmacht in the New Reich Chancellery about his decision to attack France and Great Britain.
• November 23 : The battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sink the British auxiliary cruiser Rawalpindi southeast of Iceland . 265 people die, 37 survive.

Map of the Soviet offensives at the beginning of the Winter War

• November 30th : The three-month winter war between the Soviet Union and Finland begins: The attack by the Red Army initially fails with high losses.
• December 4th : In a speech by Hitler in Reichenberg to a meeting of the Hitler Youth , he speaks about the relationship between education and youth and how they are shaped by the state.
• December 7th : The Battle of Suomussalmi begins in the winter war between Finland and the Soviet Union .
• December 14th : The Soviet Union is excluded from the League of Nations due to the attack on Finland . Further measures are not taken: The USA declares a “moral embargo”.
• December 17 : The damaged German warship Admiral Graf Spee is abandoned by its own crew and sunk off Montevideo .
• December 18 : In an aerial battle over the German Bight , a German fighter squad wins over a British bomber squadron. Fifteen of the 22 machines that reach German airspace are lost. As a result, represents the Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force (RAF) his days sorties against targets in Germany largely and sets his bomber from then on almost exclusively at night one.

economy

Exhibitions

• April 22nd : The 1939 Reichsgartenschau in Stuttgart opens. It ends prematurely on September 2nd because of the start of the war .
• May 6th : Opening of the Swiss National Exhibition 1939 , called Landi 39 , in Zurich.

International treaties

• March 16 : Publication of the Düsseldorf Agreement on understanding between German and British industry
• March 23 : Trade agreement between the German Reich and Romania
• May 22nd : The steel pact between Germany and Italy is signed in Berlin .
• August 19 : A trade and credit agreement between the German Reich and the Soviet Union is signed in Moscow

Business start-ups

• January 1 : Hewlett-Packard is founded by William (Bill) Hewlett and David Packard as a scientific instrument maker in a garage in Palo Alto. This garage is now considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley .
• Mile Budak founds the Croatian newspaper Hrvatski Narod , which later developed into the journalistic organ of the fascist Ustaše . The first edition will be published on February 9th .
• December 16 : Emil Georg Bührle and the Elektrobank found Pilatus Flugzeugwerke AG in Stans , Switzerland .

traffic

• April 11th : In the German-occupied Czech Republic, construction of the never completed Vienna – Wroclaw Reichsautobahn begins .
• May 20 : The American airline Pan Am establishes a regular flight connection to Europe. With a luxurious flying boat of the type Boeing 314 to fly from New York City via Lisbon to Marseille.
• July 30 : In Belgium, after nine years of construction, the Albert Canal between Liège and Antwerp is opened.
• December 8th : Rudolf Hess inaugurates the Adolf Hitler Canal near Gleiwitz and breaks the first sod for the planned Danube-Oder Canal .

• The Transalpina across the Transylvanian Alps in Romania opens.

Others

• January 1st : Small businesses in the German Reich are now obliged to keep their books properly .

• March 1 : The first edition of the Nazi propaganda newspaper Der Adler is published by Scherl-Verlag in Berlin.
• June 15 : A new law puts the Deutsche Reichsbank under direct control of Hitler .
• August 28 : In Germany, food stamps and fuel vouchers are issued on the fourth day before the start of the war .
• September 4th : A war economy ordinance is issued in the German Reich .
• November 14th In Germany the first purchase coupons for clothing, the so-called Reichskleiderkarten , are issued.

science and technology

Antarctic exploration

• January 20 : The third German Antarctic expedition begins with survey flights from her expedition ship Schwabenland .

aviation

• January 27 : The by the American Vultee Aircraft built attack aircraft Vultee A-19 is the first flight tested.
• January 27th : The Lockheed P-38 Lightning , built as an interceptor , ascends for its maiden flight.
• January 29th : Karl Bode reaches a world record height of 3,427 meters with his helicopter .
• April 26th : Fritz Wendel sets a new world speed record (755.138 km / h) with a Messerschmitt Me 209 aircraft .
• June 20th : The Heinkel He 176 completes its maiden flight with Erich Warsitz as pilot as the first functional rocket aircraft .

Vickers Warwick

• August 13 : The British military aircraft Vickers Warwick completes its maiden flight. Planned as a bomber , it was finally redesigned and used in large numbers in sea ​​rescue and as a transport aircraft.
• August 27th : Erich Warsitz is piloting a Heinkel He 178 , the first jet aircraft powered by a Heinkel S3B jet engine .
• October 2 : The first prototype of the single-engine Soviet attack aircraft Ilyushin Il-2 completes its maiden flight with Vladimir Konstantinovich Kokkinaki as a test pilot.
• October 24th : The most successful US rigid airship , the German-built Zeppelin LZ 126 / ZR-3 "USS Los Angeles" is decommissioned.
• December 22nd : The Soviet test pilot Pyotr Michailowitsch Stefanowski tests the Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber in its maiden flight .
• December 29th : Consolidated B-24 strategic bomber makes its maiden flight.

Natural sciences

• January 6th : Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann publish their first report on the radiochemical proof of the formation of barium from uranium after exposure to neutrons in the journal Die Naturwissenschaften , which receives worldwide attention and is regarded by physicists as a sensation. As early as December 19, 1938, Otto Hahn had informed his colleague Lise Meitner , who had emigrated, in advance in a letter and described the result of the experiments as a “ bursting ” of the uranium atomic nucleus.
• January 9th : The Paris Académie des Sciences is informed of the discovery of a chemical element found by Marguerite Perey , later known as Francium .
• January 28 : The New York Times informs its readers about the new phenomenon in physics ( nuclear fission ) with the headline "Atom Explosion Frees 200,000,000 Volts - New Physics Phenomenon Credited to Hahn."
• February 10th : The second communication from Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann about the verification of what they called uranium fission for the first time is published in the natural sciences . In this article they also share evidence of nuclear fission in thorium .
• February 11th : The physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch describe the first theoretical considerations after the discovery of nuclear fission in the published edition of the science journal Nature and are thus causing further sensation in the professional world.

Others

• May 9 : The Deutschlandsender III in Herzberg (Elster) goes into operation . With an output power of 500 kW, Deutschlandsender III was one of the most powerful radio stations of its time. Its 337 meter high antenna mast was the second tallest structure in the world in 1939.

• With regard to the Landi 39 , the SBB RAe 4/8 1021 (red double arrow) is being delivered.
• The first Skybeamer is used for air traffic control of the high-voltage transmission mast of the German transmitter in Herzberg (Elster) .

Culture

• January 24th : Signing of a German-Spanish cultural agreement in Burgos

Visual arts

→ Main article : Art year 1939

Exhibition poster ( Yokoyama Taikan )

• February 28 to March 31 : The exhibition of ancient Japanese art takes place in the Staatliche Museen Berlin . On this occasion, Japan is showing almost 30 national treasures in Berlin , i.e. objects of art that are actually not allowed to be taken out of the country.
• March 20 : In the courtyard of the main fire station in Berlin-Kreuzberg , thousands of works of art from public collections that were ostracized by the National Socialists as degenerate art are burned.

• The Constantin Meunier Museum in Ixelles in the Brussels region, dedicated to the Belgian sculptor and painter Constantin Meunier , opens.

Movie

→ Main article : 1939 film year

• March 2 : In New York's Radio City Music Hall has John Ford - Western Stagecoach premiere of the movie actor John Wayne helps his career.
• July 7 : In Paris Jean Renoir's film The rules its world premiere . At its premiere, the previously most expensive French film was a failure and was attacked for its socially critical attitude. In October, shortly after the outbreak of war, the film is banned by French censors . Today the film is widely regarded as an influential classic in world cinema.
• December 14th : The "film of the century" Gone with the Wind with Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable in the leading roles celebrates an acclaimed premiere. The most expensive film up to this point is, according to inflation-adjusted box-office figures, the most commercially successful work in film history to this day .

literature

→ Main article : Literature year 1939

• April 14 : In the United States appears John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath (: German title of Wrath fruits ).
• June 15 : In the exile magazine Die neue Weltbühne, published in Paris , Bertolt Brecht's poem An die Nachgeborben , written in Danish exile in Svendborg, appears .

• Shalom Asch writes his novel Jesus. A Nazarene .
• In the United States the first appears Batman - Comic

Music and theater

→ Main article : Music year 1939

• January 6th : Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis record their first Blue Note Records record in New York .
• February 4th : World premiere of the operetta The Hungarian Wedding by Nico Dostal in Stuttgart
• February 14th : World premiere of the opera Marionetter (Eng. Marionetten ) by Hilding Rosenberg at the Royal Opera in Stockholm
• March 20 : The Reichsmusikkammer announces that unwanted musical works , the relocation and performance of which is prohibited, will be included in a list in future (see also Composers Persecuted During the National Socialist era ). The First List of Unwanted Musical Works was not published until the war began.
• April 1st : The world premiere of the musical comedy The Black Pike by Paul Burkhard takes place at the Schauspielhaus Zürich . Today it is one of the most popular musical dialects in Switzerland.

Marian Anderson at her concert at the Lincoln Memorial

• April 9 : Singer Marian Anderson gives a concert in front of the Lincoln Memorial in front of around 75,000 people after the Conservative Women's Association Daughters of the American Revolution prevented her from performing as an African American at Constitution Hall .
• April 22 : The premiere of the opera The Old Maid and the Thief of Gian Carlo Menotti takes place in New York City.
• July 29th : The last night of the Amazons , an open-air revue on the occasion of the horse race for the " Brown Ribbon of Germany ", which has been held since 1934, takes place in the park of the Nymphenburg Palace .
• October 7th : The world premiere of the opera Die Kathrin by Erich Wolfgang Korngold based on a libretto by Ernst Décsey takes place under the direction of Fritz Busch at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.
• December 31 : The Vienna Philharmonic give - under the direction of Clemens Krauss  - their first New Year's concert .

• Billie Holiday sings the song Strange Fruit for the first time in the New York jazz club Café Society .

society

• May 14 : The Peruvian Lina Medina is delivered by caesarean section to her son Gerardo in a hospital in Lima . The mother is five years, seven months and 21 days old and thus the youngest mother in medical history.
• June 17th : Eugen Weidmann , convicted of six murders, is guillotine publicly in Versailles as the last criminal in France . Due to the hype, Prime Minister Édouard Daladier ordered on June 24th that such executions should be carried out behind prison walls.
• August 17th : With four bears as "living heraldic animals ", the bear kennel in Köllnischer Park opens in Berlin .

religion

Pope Pius XII during the coronation ceremony on the Sedia gestatoria

• March 2nd : Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli succeeds Pius XI , who died on February 10th . elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII. on. He is crowned on March 12th on the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica .

• Pope Pius XII dissolves the Central Council in the Vatican and replaces it with the Pontifical Commission for the State of Vatican City .
• March 26 : German Christians and Confessing Church , that individual members give, just before the war started on the initiative of Theodor Ellwein , Robert Kauer , Theodor Odenwald , Helmuth Kittel , Hanns Kerrl and others, the "Godesberger Declaration" on a match of Protestant Christianity with the Nazis and against the Judaism from.
• April 4 : At the suggestion of Hugo Pich and at the instigation of the Church Movement German Christians , eleven German Protestant regional churches in Eisenach establish the institute for the research and elimination of the Jewish influence on German church life . The founding ceremony will take place on May 6th at the Wartburg . Siegfried Leffler will be the head , full-time employees are Walter Grundmann , Heinz Hunger and Max Adolf Wagenführer .

Disasters

• January 13 : Seventy-one people are killed in heavy bushfires in the Australian state of Victoria . Over 1,300 houses and 69 sawmills burn down, and 3,700 buildings and several cities are completely destroyed. It is estimated that around three quarters of the state will be directly or indirectly affected by this disaster.
• January 25 : Earthquake measuring 8.3 in Chillán , Chile , kills around 28,000
• April 29 : Crash of a three-engine Junkers Ju 52 / 3m near Bollstadt ( Donau-Ries district ) after a collision with a wooden observation tower used for national surveying, five dead, two injured
• September 13 : The mine cruiser "La Tour D'Auvergne" ( France ) sinks after the explosion of the sea mines on board in Casablanca ( Morocco ). 215 of the 396-strong crew are killed
• December 13 : The destroyer HMS Duchess sinks west of Scotland after a collision with the battleship HMS Barham . 129 dead
• December 22nd : Shortly after midnight , the collision of two express trains at Genthin train station claimed 196 lives. On the same evening, two more trains collide on the Stahringen – Friedrichshafen line between Markdorf and Kluftern , an accident that kills 101 people . This makes this day the worst in German railway history.
• December 27 : An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 in Erzincan in Turkey costs 32,958 lives and around 100,000 people are injured.

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

nature and environment

• November 30th : In Brazil, the Serra dos Órgãos National Park is established in the state of Rio de Janeiro . Its rock formations, which emerged towards the end of the Precambrian , are reminiscent of organ pipes or the fingers of a hand from a distance.

Sports

→ Main article : Sports year 1939

• January 8th : SK Rapid Wien wins the DFB-Pokal after a 3-1 win against FSV Frankfurt .
• February 9 : The racing driver Rudolf Caracciola sets a speed record for 3,000 cubic centimeter cars between Dessau and Bitterfeld with 398.234 km / h.
• June 18 : The German soccer championship 1938/39 , the last before the Second World War , ends with a 9-0 final victory for FC Schalke 04 against SK Admira Wien .
• September 17th : Taisto Mäki breaks the world record over 10,000 meters and is the first person to run the distance in under 30 minutes (29: 52.6 min)

Nobel Prizes

price	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
Nobel Price for physics	Ernest Lawrence (1901-1958)	United States	"For the invention and development of the cyclotron and the results achieved with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements"
Nobel Prize in Chemistry	Leopold Ružička (1887–1976)	Switzerland (born in Vukovar , then Austria-Hungary )	"For his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes "
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	Gerhard Domagk (1895–1964)	Germany	"For the discovery of the antibacterial effect of Prontosil " Gerhard Domagk is forced to reject the award due to the prohibition at the time for Germans to accept the Nobel Prize. He later accepts the certificate and medal.
Nobel Prize in literature	Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888–1964)	Finland	"For the deep understanding and the exquisite art of style, with which he describes the peasant life and the nature of his homeland in their mutual context"
Nobel Peace Prize	not awarded

Born

January

• 0January 1st : Leonas Vaidotas Ašmantas , Lithuanian industrial engineer and inventor
• 0January 1st : Michèle Mercier , French actress
• 0January 1st : Phil Read , British motorcycle racer
• 0January 1st : Raymond Touroul , French racing car driver and stuntman († 2006 )
• 0January 2nd : Franz Hummel , German composer and pianist
• 0January 2nd : Konstanze Vernon , German dancer († 2013 )
• 0January 3 : Rüdiger Ahrens , German English and cultural scientist
• 0January 3 : Dieter B. Herrmann , German astronomer and physicist
• 0January 3 : Bobby Hull , Canadian ice hockey player
• 0January 5th : Luisa Futoransky , Argentine poet and writer
• 0January 5th : Rüstəm İbrahimbəyov , Azerbaijani film writer
• 0January 6 : Valery Lobanovsky , Soviet and Ukrainian football coach († 2002 )
• 0January 7 : Ronald L. Akers , American sociologist and criminologist
• 0January 7th : Michael of Greece author and Prince of Greece
• 0January 7th : Brausch Niemann , South African racing car driver
• 0January 7th : Helga Seibert , German constitutional judge († 1999 )
• 0January 7th : Rosina Wachtmeister , Austrian artist
• 0January 9th : Francisco José Gómez Argüello Wirtz , Spanish painter
• 0January 9th : Friedel Keim , German musician
• January 10 : Scott McKenzie , American singer († 2012 )
• January 10 : Sal Mineo , Italian-American actor and singer († 1976 )
• January 10 : Franz Winzentsen , German experimental and animation filmmaker
• January 11 : Anne Heggtveit , Canadian ski racer
• January 12th : Tamás Aján , Hungarian sports official
• January 12 : Helmut Eisendle , Austrian psychologist and writer († 2003 )
• January 12th : Thomas Müller , German composer and pianist
• January 12 : Joachim Yhombi-Opango , Congolese politician († 2020 )
• January 13 : Norbert Geis , German politician
• January 14 : Jean-Christophe Ammann , Swiss art historian and curator († 2015 )
• January 14th : Helmut Lethen , German specialist in German and cultural studies
• January 14th : Heinz Rosner , German motorcycle racer and entrepreneur
• January 14th : Ute Starke , German gymnast, world champion
• January 15 : Per Ahlmark , Swedish writer and politician († 2018 )
• January 15 : Claus Dieter Clausnitzer , German actor
• January 15 : Hartmut Geerken , German musician, composer, writer, publicist, radio play author and filmmaker
• January 16 : Ralph Gibson , American photographer
• January 18 : Denton Lotz , American Baptist theologian († 2019 )
• January 19 : Rüdiger Bahr , German director, actor and voice actor
• January 19 : Ulrich Irmer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag and MEP
• January 20 : Udo Aschenbeck , German writer, bookseller and social worker († 1995 )
• January 20 : Werner Schuster , German politician († 2001 )
• January 21 : Aale-Dieter , German fishmonger
• January 21st : Luis Aróstegui Gamboa , Spanish religious
• January 21 : Engelbert Kupka , German politician
• January 21 : Friedel Lutz , German soccer player
• January 22nd : Alfredo Palacio , Ecuadorian cardiologist, President of Ecuador
• January 22nd : Erika Runge , German writer and director
• January 22nd : Krzysztof Zarębski , Polish performance artist, painter and sculptor
• January 23 : Sonny Chiba , Japanese actor
• January 23 : Enrico Fissore , Italian opera singer
• January 23 : Fred Wah , Canadian poet, writer and former college professor
• January 24 : José Argüelles , Mexican-American painter and writer († 2011 )
• January 24th : Renate Garisch-Culmberger , German athlete
• January 24 : Jan Lichardus , German-Slovak prehistory researcher († 2004 )
• January 24 : Karsten Schmidt , German lawyer
• January 24th : Joseph Vilsmaier , German film director († 2020 )
• January 25 : Rosemarie Eitzert , German author of children's books
• January 25 : Otto Wesendonck , German sculptor
• January 26 : Cyrille Salim Bustros , Archbishop of Newton (Melkite Church)
• January 27 : Róbert Angelusz , Hungarian sociologist and university professor († 2010 )
• January 29 : Germaine Greer , Australian intellectual, writer and publicist
• January 29th : Hans-Joachim Hecht , German chess player
• January 29 : Jeanne Lee , American jazz singer († 2000 )
• January 29th : Alan Silva , American jazz musician
• January 30th : Eugenio Saini , Italian enduro athlete († 2009 )

February

• 0February 1st : Fritjof Capra , Austrian physicist, esotericist and book author
• 0February 1 : Claude François , French musician († 1978 )
• 0February 1 : Joe Sample , American jazz musician, producer and pianist († 2014 )
• 0February 2nd : Karl-Åke Asph , Swedish cross-country skier
• 0February 2 : Charly Weiss , German drummer, actor and performance artist († 2009 )
• 0February 3 : Johnny Bristol , American singer, producer and songwriter († 2004 )
• 0February 3 : Michael Cimino , American film director († 2016 )
• 0February 3 : Wolfgang Kilian , German lawyer
• 0February 5th : Robert Antretter , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0February 5 : Milton Cruz , Dominican pianist († 1998 )
• 0February 5 : Evžen Zámečník , Czech composer and professor († 2018 )
• 0February 7th : Horst founder , German historian
• 0February 7th : Hermann Lause , German actor († 2005 )
• 0February 8th : Peter Röhlinger , Lord Mayor of Jena
• 0February 8 : Egon Zimmermann , Austrian ski racer († 2019 )
• 0February 9 : Rick Abao , American jazz musician, composer and entertainer († 2002 )
• 0February 9 : Dieter Hägermann , German historian († 2006 )
• 0February 9 : Péter Kovács , Hungarian art historian
• 0February 9 : Reiner Pfeiffer , German journalist († 2015 )
• 0February 9 : Janet Suzman , South African actress
• 0February 9 : Primo Zamparini , Italian boxer
• February 10 : Adrienne Clarkson , Canadian journalist, author and diplomat
• February 10 : Barbara Kolb , American composer
• February 11 : Okay Temiz , Turkish jazz drummer, percussionist, band leader and composer
• February 12 : Peter-Wolf Ascher , Austrian neurosurgeon
• February 12 : Ray Manzarek , American musician (The Doors) († 2013 )
• February 12 : Jürgen Vahlberg , German entrepreneur and politician
• February 13 : Kemal Alemdaroğlu , Turkish professor and doctor of medicine
• February 13 : Knut Amelung , German criminal law scholar († 2016 )
• February 13 : Peter D. Groenewegen , Australian economist of Dutch origin († 2018 )
• February 13 : Beate Klarsfeld , Franco-German journalist
• February 13 : Valery Ilyich Roshdestvensky , Russian cosmonaut († 2011 )
• February 14 : Razzy Bailey , American country singer and songwriter
• February 14 : Johanna Dohnal , Austrian politician (SPÖ) († 2010 )
• February 14 : Eugene Fama , American economist
• February 14th : Friedrich Kuhlmann , German agricultural economist
• February 14th : Herbert Meyer , German show jumper
• February 15 : William Van Horn , American draftsman who has been drawing Disney comics since 1988
• February 16 : Brian Large , British television director for opera recordings
• February 16 : Czesław Niemen , Polish rock singer († 2004 )
• February 16 : Adelheid D. Tröscher , German politician and educator
• February 18 : Federico Moleiro , Venezuelan poet
• February 19 : Vladimir Andreevich Atlantov , Russian opera singer
• February 19 : Jean-Pierre Aubin , French mathematician
• February 19 : Maxwell Richard Bennett , Australian brain researcher
• February 20 : Gerhard Zickenrott , German trade unionist (FDGB) and politician (SED)
• February 21 : Börje Nils Ahlstedt , Swedish actor and director
• February 21 : Ulrich Briefs , German folk scientist († 2005 )
• February 22 : Rüdiger Minor , Bishop of the Evangelical Methodist Church († 2017 )
• February 22nd : Gōzō Yoshimasu , Japanese poet
• February 23 : Denis Arndt , American television and film actor
• February 24 : Marisa Mell , Austrian actress († 1992 )
• February 24 : John Neumeier , American dancer, choreographer
• February 26 : George Flint , American football player
• February 26 : Ulli Kinalzik , German actor
• February 27th : Franco Sbarro , automobile designer and developer
• February 27 : Kenzō Takada , Japanese fashion designer
• February 28 : Paolo Bonacelli , Italian actor
• February 28 : John Aloysius Fahey , American fingerstyle guitarist and composer, musicologist and record label founder († 2001 )
• February 28 : Erika Pluhar , Austrian actress, singer and author
• February 28 : Daniel Chee Tsui , Chinese-American physicist, Nobel Prize winner

March

• 0March 1st : Dieter Asmus , German painter and graphic artist
• 0March 1st : Leo Brouwer , Cuban classical guitarist and composer
• 0March 1 : Don Talbert , American football player
• 0March 1 : Tzvetan Todorov , Bulgarian-French philosopher and essayist († 2017 )
• 0March 2nd : Marcelle Deschênes , Canadian composer
• 0March 3 : Rudolf Bayer , German computer scientist

Ariane Mnouchkine, 1986

• 0March 3 : Ariane Mnouchkine , French theater and film director, theater director and author
• 0March 4 : Hans Jürgen Wenzel , German composer, conductor and university lecturer († 2009 )
• 0March 5 : Wolf Bauer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 0March 5 : Charles Fuller , American playwright
• 0March 6 : Kit Bond , American politician
• 0March 6 : Peter Glotz , German politician († 2005 )
• 0March 6th : Canelita Medina , Venezuelan singer
• 0March 6th : Adam Osborne , British inventor of the laptop († 2003 )
• 0March 7th : Danyel Gérard , French pop singer and composer
• 0March 7th : Panajot Pano , Albanian football player († 2010 )
• 0March 8 : Mike Lowry , American politician († 2017 )

Lidija Skoblikova, 1967

• 0March 8 : Lidija Pavlovna Skoblikowa , Russian speed skater and Olympic champion
• 0March 8 : Paride Tumburus , Italian football player and coach († 2015 )
• 0March 8 : Harry Zörnack , German handball player
• 0March 9 : Jean-Pierre Chevènement , French politician
• 0March 9 : Jochen Pützenbacher , German radio presenter († 2019 )
• 0March 9 : Rohan de Saram , British cellist
• 0March 9 : Benjamin Zander , English conductor
• March 10 : Carlo Furlanis , Italian football player († 2013 )
• March 10 : Hugh Johnson , British wine critic
• March 10 : Irina Press , Soviet athlete († 2004 )
• March 10 : Heinz Schulthess , Swiss entrepreneur and racing car driver
• March 12th : Martha Schad , German historian and author
• March 13 : Youhanna Fouad El-Hage , Archbishop, Bishop of Tripoli († 2005 )
• March 13 : Gerbert Huebsch , German federal judge
• March 13 : Neil Sedaka , American singer and songwriter
• March 14th : Yves Boisset , French director and screenwriter
• March 14 : Keiji Nakazawa , Japanese mangaka († 2012 )
• March 15 : Ted Kaufman , American politician
• March 16 : Carlos Salvador Bilardo , Argentine soccer player and coach
• March 17 : Peter Aust , German actor and voice actor († 1996 )
• March 17th : Nurcholis Madjid , thinker and scholar of Indonesia († 2005 )

Giovanni Trapattoni, 2013

• March 17 : Giovanni Trapattoni , Italian football coach and football player
• March 18 : Ronald Franklin Atkinson , English football player, football coach and football expert
• March 18 : Angelo Bergamonti , Italian motorcycle racer († 1971 )

Peter Kraus, 2006

• March 18 : Peter Kraus , Austrian actor and singer
• March 18 : Tibor R. Machan , American philosopher († 2016 )
• March 18th : Klaus Teuchert , German enduro athlete
• March 18 : Jean-Pierre Wallez , French violinist and music teacher
• March 19 : Mike Longo , American jazz musician († 2020 )
• March 19 : Peter Marzinkowski , German Spiritan Father and Bishop in the Central African Republic
• March 20 : Brian Mulroney , Canadian politician
• March 20 : Giorgio Rossano , Italian football player († 2016 )
• March 21 : Herbert Amry , Austrian diplomat and Middle East expert († 1985 )
• March 21 : Ronnie Haig , American rockabilly musician
• March 22nd : Alice Miller , US politician
• March 22nd : Dietz-Rüdiger Moser , German folklorist († 2010 )
• March 22nd : Klaus Prüsse , German handball goalkeeper
• March 23 : Robin Herd , English engineer and racing car designer († 2019 )
• March 23 : Boris Tishchenko , Russian composer († 2010 )
• March 24th : Masaaki Ueki , Japanese karateka, holder of the 10th Dan
• March 26th : Elmar Frings , modern pentathlon († 2002 )
• March 26 : Jens Reich , German biologist, member of the National Ethics Council of Germany
• March 27 : Eugen Brixel , Austrian composer for brass music († 2000 )
• March 28 : Carl-Dieter Spranger , German politician
• March 29 : Terence Hill , Italian actor
• March 29 : Hanumant Singh , Indian cricketer († 2006 )
• March 30th : Donald Adamson , British historian
• March 30 : Robert Herbin , French football player and coach († 2020 )
• March 30 : Jiří Hrzán , Czech actor († 1980 )
• March 30th : Arend Oetker , German entrepreneur
• March 30th : Christine Wolter , German writer
• March 31 : Mary B. Anderson , American economist
• March 31 : Swiad Gamsachurdia , Georgian dissident and President († 1993 )

Volker Schlöndorff, 2009

• March 31 : Volker Schlöndorff , German film director and producer

Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, 1968

• March 31 : Karl-Heinz Schnellinger , German soccer player
• March 31 : Hiltigund Schreiber , Austrian art historian

April

• 0April 1 : Horst Adam , Sorbian journalist, writer and publicist
• 0April 1st : Wilhelm Bungert , German tennis player
• 0April 1 : Vitaly Semyonovich Davydov , Russian ice hockey player
• 0April 1 : Binnette Lipper , American composer and music teacher († 2016 )
• 0April 1 : Ali MacGraw , American actress
• 0April 1st : Fausto Tenzi , Swiss opera singer
• 0April 2 : Reinhard Bentmann , German art historian and monument conservator
• 0April 2 : Marvin Gaye , American soul and R&B singer († 1984 )
• 0April 3 : Henning Venske , German actor, cabaret artist, presenter and writer
• 0April 3 : Rudolf Vesper , German wrestler
• 0April 4 : Oscar Fulloné , Argentinian football player and coach († 2017 )
• 0April 4 : Ernie Terrell , American heavyweight boxer († 2014 )
• 0April 4th : Danny Thompson , British double bass player
• 0April 5 : Miguel Angel Aguilar Miranda , Ecuadorian priest and military bishop
• 0April 5 : Moses Ali , Ugandan politician
• 0April 5 : Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas , Prime Minister of South Yemen
• 0April 5 : Roger Davis , American actor
• 0April 5 : Leka Zogu , Albanian politician († 2011 )
• 0April 6 : Heinz Grossekettler , German economist († 2019 )
• 0April 6 : Cor Veldhoen , Dutch football player († 2005 )
• 0April 7 : Bernd Brinkmann , German forensic doctor

Francis Ford Coppola, 2007

• 0April 7 : Francis Ford Coppola , American director and producer
• 0April 7th : Vaçe Zela , Albanian singer († 2014 )
• 0April 8 : Edwin Frederick O'Brien , American Cardinal to the Curia
• 0April 9th : Gernot Roll , German cameraman
• April 10 : Hans Kloft , German ancient historian
• April 10 : Claudio Magris , Italian writer
• April 11 : Louise Lasser , American actress
• April 12 : Alan Ayckbourn , British playwright
• April 12th : Peter Giger , Swiss percussionist and band leader
• April 12th : Klaus Sames , German gerontologist
• April 13 : Seamus Heaney , Irish writer and Nobel Prize for Literature († 2013 )
• April 13 : Alois Kälin , Swiss Nordic combined skier and cross-country skier
• April 13 : Peter Ruckenbauer , Austrian agricultural scientist († 2019 )
• April 15 : Marty Wilde , British rock 'n' roll singer
• April 16 : Karlheinz Essl senior , Austrian entrepreneur and art collector
• April 16 : Dusty Springfield , British soul singer († 1999 )
• April 18th : Jorge Anders , Argentinian band leader and arranger
• April 18 : Walter Außenendorfer , Italian luge rider
• April 19 : Peter Berthold , German biologist, ethnologist and zoologist
• April 19 : Basil van Rooyen , South African racing car driver
• April 20 : Peter S. Beagle , American novelist and songwriter
• April 20 : Gro Harlem Brundtland , Norwegian politician
• April 20 : Katherine V. Forrest , Canadian writer
• April 20 : Gerhard Heiberg , Norwegian businessman and sports official
• April 21 : Helen Prejean , US nun and activist against the death penalty
• April 21 : Richard Goedeke , German mountaineer, climber and author
• April 21 : Dirk Schneider , member of the German Bundestag and GDR agent († 2002 )
• April 22nd : Jaroslav Krček , Czech composer and conductor
• April 22 : Jason Anthony Miller , American actor and playwright († 2001 )

Theodor Waigel, 2012

• April 22nd : Theodor Waigel , German politician
• April 23 : Lee Majors , American actor and singer
• April 23 : Ray Peterson , American rock 'n' roll singer († 2005 )
• April 23 : Stanisław Wielgus , Archbishop of Warsaw
• April 24th : Kurt Andersson , Swedish football, bandy and ice hockey player
• April 24 : Christian Breuer , German football player († 2017 )
• April 24 : Ernst Zündel , German Holocaust denier († 2017 )
• April 25 : Thomas Patrick John Anson , British photographer († 2005 )
• April 25 : Tarcisio Burgnich , Italian football player
• April 25 : Bob Gray , American cross-country skier
• April 26 : Klaus Beyer , German mathematician
• April 26 : Winfried Krause , German humorist in Saxon dialect († 2019 )
• April 27 : Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz , Polish Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Cracow
• April 27 : João Bernardo Vieira , Guinea-Bissau politician († 2009 )
• April 28 : Burkhard Driest , German actor and author († 2020 )
• April 28 : Zsigmond Szathmáry , Hungarian organist, pianist, composer and conductor
• April 29th : Jürgen Schitthelm , co-founder and longtime director of the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer
• April 30th : Trautl Brandstaller , Austrian journalist, writer and television editor
• April: Parviz Nikkhah , Iranian student leader († 1979 )

May

• 0May 1 : David Aspnes , American physicist
• 0May 1st : Johano Strasser , German political scientist, publicist and writer
• 0May 2 : Ernesto Càstano , Italian football player
• 0May 2 : Sumio Iijima , Japanese physicist
• 0May 2nd : Heinz Troll , German politician
• 0May 4th : Renate Apitz , German writer († 2008 )
• 0May 4 : Yaqui Núñez del Risco , Dominican journalist, television presenter and producer († 2014 )
• 0May 4 : Amos Oz , Israeli writer († 2018 )
• 0May 4th : Helga Steudel , German racing driver
• 0May 5th : Cesare Fiorio , Italian motorsport team boss
• 0May 5 : Dieter Wiesmann , Swiss songwriter († 2015 )
• 0May 5 : Karl-Heinz Wildmoser , German major restaurateur and sports official († 2010 )
• 0May 6th : Isla Eckinger , Swiss jazz bassist
• 0May 6 : Klaus Gerbig , German hurdler († 1992 )
• 0May 6 : Harald Scheid , German mathematician
• 0May 7 : José Antonio Abreu , Venezuelan composer († 2018 )
• 0May 7th : Marita Böhme , German actress
• 0May 7th : Volker Braun , German writer

Ruud Lubbers, 1985

• 0May 7 : Ruud Lubbers , Dutch politician, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees († 2018 )
• 0May 7 : WD Valgardson , Canadian writer
• 0May 8 : Bernd J. Diebner , German Protestant theologian, pastor, Old Testament scholar, church historian and coptologist
• 0May 8 : Paul Drayton , American sprinter and Olympic champion († 2010 )
• 0May 8 : Hans Eugen Frischknecht , Swiss composer
• 0May 8 : Bill Watrous , American jazz trombonist († 2018 )
• 0May 9 : Ralph Boston , American track and field athlete
• 0May 9 : Pierre Desproges , French humorist, author and television cabaret artist († 1988 )
• 0May 9 : Bruce Mather , Canadian composer
• 0May 9 : Ion Țiriac , Romanian businessman and sportsman
• May 10 : Robert Darnton , American historian
• May 10 : Uwe Wandrey , German writer
• May 11 : Henning Boëtius , German writer
• May 11th : Christoph Haehling von Lanzenauer , German professor of business administration
• May 11 : Renato Ascencio León , Mexican bishop
• May 11 : R. Dean Taylor , Canadian singer, songwriter, and producer
• May 12 : Daniel Acharuparambil , Indian Archbishop of Verapoly († 2009 )
• May 12 : Uta Hallant , German actress and voice actress
• May 12 : Ron Ziegler , Press Secretary in the White House under Richard Nixon († 2003 )
• May 13 : Peter Frenkel , German athlete
• May 13 : Harvey Keitel , American actor
• May 13th : Hildrun Laufer , German athlete
• May 14 : Veruschka von Lehndorff , German photo model, actress
• May 15 : Wataru Asō , Japanese governor
• May 15 : Stanisław Dróżdż , Polish poet († 2009 )
• May 16 : Eugenio Dal Corso , Italian bishop and cardinal
• May 17th : Manuel Agujetas , Spanish flamenco singer († 2015 )
• May 17 : David H. Ahl , American author
• May 17 : Dieter Schulz , German soccer player († 2018 )
• May 18 : Silvana Armenulić , Yugoslav folk singer († 1976 )
• May 18 : Hark Bohm , German actor, director and screenwriter
• May 18 : Giovanni Falcone , Italian lawyer, mafia hunter († 1992 )
• May 19 : Mariano Agate , Italian criminal († 2013 )
• May 19 : Livio Berruti , Italian athlete
• May 19 : Sonny Fortune , American jazz musician († 2018 )
• May 19 : James Fox , British actor
• May 19 : Willi Kauhsen , German racing car driver and racing team owner
• May 19 : Nancy Kwan , Chinese-American actress
• May 19 : Jānis Lūsis , Soviet javelin thrower and Olympic champion († 2020 )
• May 19 : Tomasz Sikorski , Polish composer († 1988 )
• May 20 : Roc LaRue , American rockabilly musician († 2019 )
• May 20 : Hans-Dieter Möller , German organist and music teacher
• May 21 : Heinz Holliger , Swiss oboist and composer
• May 21 : Ivo Mahlknecht , Italian ski racer († 2020 )
• May 22 : Bob Dyer , American singer-songwriter, author and filmmaker († 2007 )
• May 22nd : Árni Egilsson , Icelandic bass player and composer
• May 22 : Dieter Prochnow , German actor
• May 22nd : Ian Underwood , American musician
• May 23 : Volker Bräutigam , German composer and church musician
• May 23 : Michel Colombier , French film composer († 2004 )
• May 23 : Reinhard Hauff , German director
• May 23 : Marvin Stamm , American jazz trumpeter
• May 23 : Konrad Toenz , Swiss radio journalist and television presenter († 2015 )
• May 23 : Kent Westberry , American country and rockabilly musician
• May 24th : Helga Piur , German actress
• May 25 : Mike Harris , Rhodesian racing car driver

Ian McKellen

• May 25 : Ian McKellen , British film and stage actor
• May 25th : Klaus Naumann , German general
• May 26 : Manfred Kanther , German politician
• May 26 : Merab Kostawa , Georgian dissident († 1989 )
• May 26 : Michel Merlet , French composer and music teacher
• May 27 : Don Williams , American country singer († 2017 )
• May 28 : Maeve Binchy , Irish writer and columnist († 2012 )
• May 28 : Wilfried Lorenz , German medic († 2014 )
• May 29 : Bernd Schmidbauer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• May 29 : Al Unser , American racing car driver
• May 30th : Dieter Quester , Austrian racing driver
• May 31 : John S. Herrington , American politician

June

• 0June 1st : Roberto Aguerre Ravizza , Uruguayan sculptor, historian, architect and film director
• 0June 1 : Bernd Krewer , German forester, hunting cynologist and non-fiction author († 2020 )
• 0June 2 : Stuart S. Antman , American mathematician
• 0June 3rd : Antonio Arregui Yarza , Spanish clergyman and archbishop
• 0June 3rd : Manfred Hering , German jazz saxophonist
• 0June 3rd : Ian Hunter , British rock musician
• 0June 4th : Margrit Schriber , Swiss writer
• 0June 5th : Joe Clark , Canadian politician
• 0June 5th : Margaret Drabble , British writer and literary critic
• 0June 5th : Manuel de Elías , Mexican composer
• 0June 6th : Louis Andriessen , Dutch composer and teacher
• 0June 6 : Pedro Messone , Chilean singer and actor
• 0June 7th : Hans-Christian Ströbele , German politician
• 0June 8 : Herbert Allen Adderley , American football player
• 0June 8 : Gerhard Amendt , German sociologist
• 0June 8 : Günter Amendt , German social scientist, sex therapist, drug expert and author († 2011 )
• 0June 8 : Dietrich Bahner junior , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 2009 )
• 0June 8 : Norman Davies , British historian
• 0June 8 : Manfred Overhaus , State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance († 2019 )
• 0June 8th : Johann Schädler , Liechtenstein luge rider († 1988 )
• 0June 9 : David Hobbs , British racing car driver
• 0June 9 : Dick Vitale , American sports reporter
• 0June 9 : Charles Webb , American writer († 2020 )
• June 10 : Karl-Heinz Hornhues , German politician
• June 11th : Herbert Knoblich , German politician
• June 11 : Boje Maaßen , German educator and co-founder of the Greens
• June 11th : Salvatore Nunnari , Italian Archbishop

Jackie Stewart (right) with John Surtees in Zandvoort 1971

• June 11th : Jackie Stewart , British racing driver
• June 12th : Kent Carter , American jazz musician
• June 13 : Siegrun Klemmer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• June 14th : Dankwart Guratzsch , German journalist
• June 14 : Steny Hoyer , American politician
• June 14 : Benjamin Katz , Belgian born German photographer
• June 15 : Brian Jacques , British writer († 2011 )
• June 16 : Billy "Crash" Craddock , American country and rock 'n' roll musician
• June 16 : Albert Dailey , American jazz pianist († 1984 )
• June 16 : Rico Steinemann , Swiss journalist, Porsche race director and racing car driver († 2003 )
• June 16 : Heinz Tesar , Austrian architect
• June 17th : Donald Anderson , British politician
• June 17th : Carlo Cercignani , Italian physicist († 2010 )
• June 17th : Hanna Johansen , Swiss writer
• June 17th : Krzysztof Zanussi , Polish film producer and director
• June 18 : Jack Herer , American writer († 2010 )
• June 18 : Oleg Jantschenko , Russian organist, composer and conductor († 2002 )
• June 19 : Horst Haitzinger , political cartoonist
• June 19 : Al Wilson , American soul musician († 2008 )
• June 20 : Josef Auer , Austrian university professor, sculptor and installation artist
• June 20 : Winfried Opgenoorth , German-Austrian artist
• June 20 : Konrad Spindler , German prehistoric scientist and researcher of the Ötzi mummy († 2005 )
• June 20 : Thilo Ulbert , German Christian archaeologist
• June 22nd : Heikki Sarmanto , Finnish jazz pianist and composer
• June 23 : Manfred Funke , German political scientist and contemporary historian († 2010 )
• June 24th : Annette Andre , Australian actress
• June 24 : Səməd Behrəngi , Persian writer, teacher, journalist and civil rights activist († 1967 )
• June 24 : Henry L. Garrett , American lawyer and politician
• June 24th : HA Schult , German object and action artist
• June 25 : Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker , German scientist and politician
• June 26th : Smangaliso Mkhatshwa , South African priest and politician
• June 26th : Erwin Schastok , German radio play and voice actor.
• June 28 : Hinrich Swieter , German Finance Minister († 2002 )
• June 28 : Klaus Schmiegel , German-American chemist
• June 29th : Amarildo Tavares da Silveira , Brazilian football player and coach
• June 30th : Harry Källström , Swedish rally driver († 2009 )

July

• 0July 1 : Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim , Iraqi clergyman and opposition leader († 2003 )
• 0July 1 : Karen Black , American actress († 2013 )
• 0July 2nd : Hildebrand Diehl , Lord Mayor of the state capital Wiesbaden
• 0July 2 : Michael Anthony Foster , American science fiction writer
• 0July 2nd : Leapy Lee , British singer
• 0July 2 : Sultan bin Mohamed al-Qasimi , Emir of Sharjah
• 0July 2 : John H. Sununu , American politician
• 0July 3 : Brigitte Fassbaender , German singer and director
• 0July 3 : László Kovács , Hungarian politician
• 0July 3 : Angelo Sormani , Brazilian-Italian soccer player and coach
• 0July 3 : Joachim Ziesche , German ice hockey player
• 0July 4th : Roland Klick , German director and screenwriter
• 0July 5 : Hermann Bachmaier , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0July 5 : James Lloyd , British boxer († 2013 )
• 0July 5 : Ulrike von Möllendorff , German journalist and television presenter († 2017 )
• 0July 5 : Pawel Semjonowitsch Morosenko , Soviet actor († 1991 )
• 0July 6 : Terence 'Jet' Harris , English musician († 2011 )
• 0July 6th : Mary Peters , British athlete and Olympic champion
• 0July 7 : Ronald B. Evans , Australian football player and official († 2007 )
• 0July 7 : Wilfried Sauermann , German chess player († 2013 )
• 0July 9 : Branko Samarovski , Austrian actor
• 0July 9 : Günter Tolar , Austrian actor, TV presenter and author
• July 10 : Siah Armajani , American sculptor, film artist, and architect
• July 10th : Horst Langer , German table tennis player
• July 10 : Vicente Moncho , Argentine composer
• July 11 : Dieter Blumenwitz , German international lawyer († 2005 )
• July 12 : Charles Arthur Akers , American cross-country skier and biathlete
• July 12 : Takashi Fujimoto , American cameraman
• July 12th : Erwin Kräutler , Indian and Mission Bishop of Altamira (Brazil)
• July 12 : Klaus Liebscher , Austrian bank director and governor of the OeNB
• July 14 : Karel Gott , Czech pop singer and artist († 2019 )
• July 14 : Dieter Kunzelmann , German left-wing extremist activist († 2018 )
• July 15 : Aníbal Cavaco Silva , Portuguese politician
• July 15 : Richard Fehr , Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church († 2013 )
• July 15 : Peter Hacker , English philosopher at St. John's College, Oxford
• July 15 : Patrick Wayne , American film and television actor
• July 16 : Terry Atkinson , British conceptual artist, painter, draftsman and author
• July 16 : Corin Redgrave , British actor († 2010 )
• July 16 : Lido Vieri , Italian football player and coach
• July 17th : Fritz Bahrdt , German handball player
• July 17 : Ali Chamene'i , political and religious leader of Iran
• July 17th : Spencer Davis , British rock musician
• July 17th : Milva , Italian singer and actress
• July 18th : Brian Auger , British jazz and rock organist
• July 18 : Dion DiMucci , American pop singer
• July 18 : Gert von Kunhardt , German health trainer
• July 19 : Rainer Artenfels , Austrian actor and theater director († 1991 )
• July 19 : Volker Stoltz , German economist
• July 20 : Judy Chicago , American artist and writer
• July 21 : Jamey Aebersold , American jazz saxophonist and teacher
• July 21 : Helmut Haller , German soccer player († 2012 )
• July 21 : Bertold Klappert , German professor for systematic theology
• July 21 : John Negroponte , American diplomat
• July 22nd : Horst-Udo Ahlers , German police officer
• July 22nd : Franz Erhard Walther , German artist
• July 24th : Fadil Abdurahmanović , Bosnian chess composer
• July 24th : John Anderson , Australian sailor
• July 24th : Thomas Anderson , Australian sailor († 2010 )
• July 24 : Walt Bellamy , American basketball player († 2013 )
• July 24th : Günter Endruweit , German sociologist
• July 24 : Jürgen Hubbert , Member of the Board of Management of DaimlerChrysler AG
• July 24 : Charles McPherson , American jazz musician
• July 24th : Klaus Schlueter , Minister without Portfolio of the GDR

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• July 26 : John Howard , 25th Prime Minister of Australia
• July 27 : Irène Aebi , Swiss jazz musician (cellist, violinist, singer)
• July 27 : Gerhard Augst , German professor
• July 27 : Peppino di Capri , Italian singer
• July 27 : William Eggleston , American photographer
• July 27th : Asta Scheib , German writer
• July 28 : Barry Ashbee , Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1977 )
• July 28 : Beat Brechbühl , Swiss writer
• July 29th : Peter Dattel , only Berlin child to survive in Auschwitz
• July 29 : Annea Lockwood , New Zealand-American composer and music teacher
• July 29th : Gian Piero Reverberi , Italian composer and music producer
• July 30 : Peter Bogdanovich , American director
• July 30th : Karl Mannsfeld , German politician

August

• 0August 1 : Terry Kiser , American actor
• 0August 2 : Wes Craven , American film director and screenwriter († 2015 )
• 0August 2 : Ursula Karusseit , German actress († 2019 )
• 0August 2nd : Helga Schuchardt , German politician
• 0August 2 : John W. Snow , 73rd Treasury Secretary of the United States
• 0August 3 : Jimmie Nicol , British drummer
• 0August 4 : Frank Vincent , American actor of Italian descent († 2017 )
• 0August 5 : Otto Geiss , German painter († 2005 )
• 05th August : Irene von Orange-Nassau , sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
• 0August 9 : Flemming Hansen , Danish politician of the Conservative People's Party
• 0August 9 : Lee Cheong-jun , South Korean author († 2008 )
• 0August 9 : Bulle Ogier , French theater and film actress

Romano Prodi

• 0August 9th : Romano Prodi , Italian economist, President of the EU Commission
• August 10 : Lars Amble , Swedish actor and theater director († 2015 )
• August 10 : Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito , Filipino-German pianist
• August 11 : Johannes Akkerhaugen , Norwegian archer
• August 11th : Attila Bozay , Hungarian composer († 1999 )
• August 11th : Hallgard Bruckhaus , German voice actress
• August 11 : Renate Dannhauer-Borges , German cross-country skier
• August 11th : Helmar Müller , German athlete
• August 11 : Uta Sax , German actress
• August 12 : Oliver Ford Davies , British actor
• August 12 : George Hamilton , American film and television actor
• August 12 : Pam Kilborn , Australian athlete and Olympian
• August 12 : Roy Romanov , Canadian politician
• August 12 : Claus Wilcke , German actor
• August 13 : Erika Berger , German TV presenter and sex consultant († 2016 )
• August 13 : Alfred Mechtersheimer , German peace researcher and social scientist († 2018 )
• August 13 : Rolf Schwendter , Austrian writer and social scientist († 2013 )
• August 14th : Andreas Birkmann , German politician
• August 15 : Klaus Dittmann , German actor and voice actor († 2016 )
• August 16 : Cardinal Seán Brady , Archbishop of Armagh
• August 17 : Luther Allison , American blues guitarist († 1997 )
• August 17 : Ed Sanders , American beatnik poet, singer, activist, writer, and editor
• August 17th : Peter Wenzel , German soccer player
• August 18 : Giorgio Ferrini , Italian football player († 1976 )
• August 18 : Marita Lorenz , alleged lover of Castro († 2019 )
• August 19 : Ginger Baker , British drummer († 2019 )
• August 19 : Max Lorenz , German soccer player
• August 19 : Jürgen Strube , German industrial manager, Chairman of the Board of Management of BASF (1990–2003)
• August 20 : Erhard Bungeroth , judge at the Federal Court of Justice from 1988 to 2004
• August 20 : Fernando Poe Jr. , Filipino film star and presidential candidate († 2004 )
• August 21 : Festus Mogae , President of Botswana
• August 22 : Bodo Theodor Adolphi , German politician († 2020 )
• August 22 : Valerie Harper , American actress († 2019 )
• August 24 : Rudolf Bühler , German politician and master electrician
• August 24 : Michael E. Phelps , American mathematician and chemist
• August 24 : Heinrich Rehbein , German local politician
• August 24 : Yehoshua Sobol , Israeli playwright and writer
• August 25 : John Badham , British film director
• August 25 : Rudolf Brändle , Swiss Protestant Reformed theologian, New Testament scholar and church historian
• August 25 : Robert Jager , American composer and professor
• August 26th : Peter Fricke , German actor

Dagmar Koller

• August 26th : Dagmar Koller , Austrian singer, dancer and actress
• August 26 : Enzo Osella , Italian racing car designer and motorsport team boss
• August 26 : Ulrich Schmalz , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• August 27 : Hans Heinrich Formann , Austrian writer († 2016 )
• August 27th : Nikola Pilić , Croatian tennis player and tennis coach
• August 28 : Robert Aitken , Canadian flautist, composer and music teacher
• August 29 : Garrey Carruthers , American politician
• August 30 : Heinz-Werner Arens , President of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament († 2011 )
• August 30th : Heroídes Artigas Mariño , Uruguayan journalist and historian
• August 30 : Robert Hoffmann , Austrian actor
• August 30 : Ulla Lindkvist , Swedish orienteer († 2015 )
• August 30 : John Peel , British radio host and DJ († 2004 )
• August 31 : Karl Lohmann , German economist
• August 31 : Gerhart Kreft , judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• August 31 : Paul Winter , American saxophonist and band leader

September

• 0September 1 : Günter Debus , German psychologist
• 0September 1 : Lily Tomlin , American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
• 0September 2nd : Joachim Bäse , German soccer player
• 0September 2nd : Elaine Keillor , Canadian pianist and musicologist
• 0September 2nd : Jack Lang , French cultural politician
• 0September 2 : Nicolino Locche , Argentine boxer († 2005 )
• 0September 2nd : Henry Mintzberg , Professor of Business Administration and Management
• 0September 3 : Vasily Yegorovich Afonin , Soviet-Russian writer
• 0September 3 : Vivi Bach , Danish singer, actress, TV presenter and writer († 2013 )
• 0September 4th : Mario Casoni , Italian entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 0September 4th : Erwin Teufel , German politician
• 0September 5 : William Devane , American actor
• 0September 5 : Bernulf Kanitscheider , German philosopher and science theorist († 2017 )
• 0September 5th : George Lazenby , British actor
• 0September 5th : Hubert Striebig , French racing car driver
• 0September 6 : David Allan Coe , American country musician
• 0September 6 : Klaus Tonndorf , German politician († 2020 )
• 0September 7th : Donnie Allison , American racing driver
• 0September 7th : Christine Bergmann , German politician
• 0September 9 : Zbigniew Namysłowski , Polish jazz musician
• 0September 9 : Reuven Rivlin , Israeli politician and President
• September 10 : Elżbieta Chojnacka , Polish harpsichordist and music teacher († 2017 )
• September 11th : Alain Giletti , French figure skater
• September 11th : Josef Jakob , Romanian handball player and coach
• September 12th : Horst Mehrländer , German politician
• September 13 : Arleen Augér , American soprano († 1993 )
• September 13 : Bill Janklow , American politician († 2012 )
• September 13 : Richard Kiel , American actor († 2014 )
• September 15 : Gerhard Dobesch , Austrian ancient historian, Celtologist and classical philologist
• September 16 : Breyten Breytenbach , South African-French writer, anti-apartheid activist and painter
• September 16 : Hans Rettenbacher , Austrian jazz musician († 1989 )
• September 16 : Wolfram Schütte , German journalist, author, film critic and editor
• September 16 : Udo Steiner , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• September 17th : Jutta Appelt , German politician
• September 17th : Günther Fielmann , German entrepreneur
• September 17th : Josef Grünbeck , German entrepreneur and politician († 2012 )
• September 17 : Ron Sider , American historian, professor of theology, author, and social activist
• September 18 : Steve Marcus , American saxophonist († 2005 )
• September 18 : Jorge Sampaio , President of Portugal
• September 18 : Kate Westbrook , British jazz musician
• September 19 : Joachim Ansorge , German voice actor and actor († 1980 )
• September 20 : Samih Moudallal , Syrian weightlifter and sports official
• September 20th : Peter Radford , British athlete and Olympian
• September 21 : Jorge Más Canosa , entrepreneur and Cuban exile in the USA († 1997 )
• September 21 : Siegfried Schauzu , German motorcycle racer
• September 23 : Roy Buchanan , American blues rock guitarist († 1988 )
• September 23 : Dieter Gackstetter , German director, theater director, choreographer and actor († 2017 )
• September 23 : Janusz Gajos , Polish actor
• September 23 : Karl Meisner , German swimmer († 2019 )
• September 23 : Jürgen Wolfrum , German physicist
• September 24th : Dieter Schwarz , German entrepreneur
• September 25 : Georg Fülberth , German political scientist
• September 25 : Gianfranco Leoncini , Italian football player († 2019 )
• September 25 : David S. Mann , American politician
• September 25 : Harald Ringstorff , German politician
• September 26th : Maria Gommers , Dutch athlete and Olympian
• September 26 : Charlotte Grasnick , German author († 2009 )

George McWhirter, June 2009

• September 26 : George McWhirter , Canadian writer, translator, and professor
• September 28 : Stuart Kauffman , biologist and researcher in the field of complex systems
• September 28 : Václav Kubička , national coach of the German gymnasts († 2005 )
• September 28 : Rrok Kola Mirdita , Albanian Archbishop († 2015 )
• September 29 : Fikret Abdić , Bosnian politician, warlord and entrepreneur
• September 29 : Tommy Boyce , American rock 'n' roll musician († 1994 )
• September 29 : Larry Linville , American actor († 2000 )
• September 29 : Otto Schneitberger , German ice hockey player
• September 30 : Len Cariou , Canadian actor
• September 30th : Bata Illic , Serbian-German pop singer

October

• 0October 1 : George Archer , American golfer († 2005 )
• 0October 2nd : Özcan Arkoç , Turkish football goalkeeper and coach
• 0October 2nd : Sonning Augstin , German industrial engineer and politician
• 0October 2nd : Heinz Zander , German painter
• 0October 4th : Timothy Carlton , British actor
• 0October 4th : Brun-Hagen Hennerkes , German legal scholar
• 0October 4th : Frank Lendor , Dominican opera bassist
• 0October 4th : Ivan Mauger , New Zealand track athlete († 2018 )
• 0October 4th : Siegfried "Silla" Schubert , German ice hockey player and coach
• 0October 5 : Marie-Claire Blais , Canadian writer
• 0October 5 : AR Penck , German painter, graphic artist and sculptor († 2017 )
• 0October 6 : Jean-François Ntoutoume Emane , Prime Minister of Gabon
• 0October 7th : Tony Glover , American harmonica player and singer († 2019 )
• 0October 7 : Raimund Harmstorf , German actor († 1998 )
• 0October 7th : John E. Hopcroft , American computer scientist
• 0October 8 : Gary Lee Anderson , American marksman
• 0October 8 : Paul Hogan , Australian actor and comedian
• 0October 8 : Dieter Ordelheide , German economist († 2000 )
• 0October 8 : Aladár Pege , Hungarian double bass player († 2006 )
• October 10 : Bernd Bauchspieß , German soccer player
• October 10 : Laurel Cronin , American actress († 1992 )
• October 10 : Norbert Henke , presiding judge at the Federal Social Court
• October 11 : Maria Bueno , Brazilian tennis player († 2018 )
• October 11 : Bernd Cullmann , German athlete
• October 11 : Zenon Grocholewski , Polish Curia Cardinal († 2020 )
• October 11 : Khin Nyunt , general and politician in Myanmar
• October 12 : Vladimír Körner , Czech screenwriter, dramaturge and writer
• October 12 : Peter Musäus , German-Austrian actor and voice actor
• October 12 : Carolee Schneemann , American artist († 2019 )

Ralph Lauren, 1978

• October 14 : Ralph Lauren , American fashion designer
• October 15 : Carmelo Bossi , Italian boxer († 2014 )
• October 15 : Heide Keller , German actress
• October 15 : Telesphore Placidus Toppo , Archbishop of India and Cardinal
• October 16 : Amancio Amaro Varela , Spanish football player and coach
• October 16 : Gladys Asmah , Ghanaian politician († 2014 )
• October 16 : Nico Haak , Dutch singer († 1990 )
• October 16 : Albrecht Lehmann , German folklorist
• October 16 : Gerold Späth , Swiss writer
• October 18 : Jean-Claude Amiot , French composer and professor
• October 18 : Flavio Cotti , Swiss politician
• October 18 : Mike Ditka , American football player and coach
• October 18 : Eleonore Frey , Swiss literary scholar and writer
• October 18 : Lee Harvey Oswald , alleged murderer of John F. Kennedy († 1963 )
• October 18 : Ewald Schneidewind , German enduro athlete
• October 19 : Masabumi Kikuchi , Japanese jazz musician († 2015 )
• October 19 : Wolfgang Kuhlmann , German philosopher
• October 20th : Fausto Cepeda , Dominican opera baritone
• October 21 : Bernhard Klausnitzer , German entomologist
• October 21 : Peter Plichta , German chemist and author
• October 22nd : Joaquim Alberto Chissano , President of Mozambique
• October 22nd : Manfred Preiß , Minister for Regional and Local Affairs of the GDR
• October 22 : Tony Roberts , American actor
• October 24 : F. Murray Abraham , American film actor
• October 24th : Wilhelm von Sternburg , German publicist and author of biographies
• October 24 : Karl Stix , Austrian politician († 2003 )
• October 25 : Robert Cogoi , Belgian singer
• October 25 : Gabriele Iwersen , German politician
• October 25 : Dave Simmonds , British motorcycle racer († 1972 )

John Cleese (1989)

• October 27 : John Cleese , English comedian, actor and screenwriter
• October 27 : Marino Perani , Italian football player and coach († 2017 )
• October 28 : Giulio Angioni , Italian writer and anthropologist († 2017 )
• October 28 : Andy Bey , American jazz singer
• October 28 : Wilfried König , German chemist († 2004 )
• October 29th : Horst Chmela , Austrian songwriter
• October 29th : Makaya Ntshoko , South African jazz musician
• October 29 : Petru Stoianov , Romanian composer
• October 30 : Johannes Gachnang , Swiss artist, exhibition organizer and publisher († 2005 )
• October 30 : Leland H. Hartwell , biochemist and cancer researcher
• October 30 : Bernhard Jestaedt , judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• October 30th : Zygmunt Pioch , Polish chess player
• October 30th : Grace Slick , American singer, songwriter, pianist and model
• October 30 : Heiko Steuer , German archaeologist
• October 31st : George Michael Aspinall , British musicologist and parodist
• October 31 : Herlinde Koelbl , German photographer and documentary filmmaker
• October 31 : Karl Peters , German judge at the Federal Social Court

November

• 0November 1 : Barbara Bosson , American actress
• 0November 1st : Bernard Kouchner , French doctor, founder of Médecins sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde
• 0November 1st : Aras Ören , writer of Turkish origin
• 0November 1 : Robin Ridington , North American anthropologist
• 0November 2nd : Enrico Albertosi , Italian football player
• 0November 2 : Richard Serra , American minimalist artist
• 0November 3rd : Norbert Feldhoff , German priest, Cologne vicar general and Cologne cathedral provost
• 0November 3 : Matthias Fuchs , German actor († 2002 )
• 0November 3 : Joe McPhee , American jazz musician
• 0November 4th : Yağmur Atsız , Turkish journalist, columnist, essayist and poet
• 0November 4th : Günter Bernard , German soccer player
• 0November 5 : Marek Jablonski , Canadian pianist and music teacher († 1999 )
• 0November 5 : Kai Rautenberg , German pianist and composer († 2013 )
• 0November 6th : Satoko Kizaki , Japanese writer
• 0November 6 : Brigitte Lange , German politician († 2012 )
• 0November 6 : Dieter Nohlen , German political scientist
• 0November 7th : Barbara Liskov , American computer scientist
• 0November 7th : Daan Manneke , Dutch composer and conductor
• 0November 7th : Lene Mayer-Skumanz , Austrian author
• 0November 9th : Marco Bellocchio , Italian director and screenwriter

Björn Engholm, 2010

• 0November 9 : Björn Engholm , German politician
• 0November 9 : József Gémes , Hungarian animator, film director and screenwriter († 2013 )
• 0November 9 : Ulrich Schamoni , German film director and media entrepreneur († 1998 )
• November 10 : Hubert Laws , American jazz flutist
• November 10 : Russell Means , member of the American Indian Movement († 2012 )
• November 10 : Allan Moffat , Canadian racing car driver
• November 12 : Darrell Guder , American Presbyterian theologian, missiologist, and author
• November 12 : Lucia Popp (Lucia Poppová), Slovak opera singer († 1993 )
• November 13 : Karel Brückner , Czech football player and coach
• November 14th : Wendy Carlos , American composer and electronic musician
• November 14 : Diego Lorenzi , Roman Catholic priest and secretary to Pope John Paul I.
• November 14th : Rudolf Thome , German director
• November 15 : Karl Acham , Austrian sociologist, philosopher and science historian
• November 16 : Robert Amirchanjan , Armenian composer and educator
• November 16 : Hans Herbert von Arnim , legal scholar
• November 16 : Tor Åge Bringsværd , Norwegian writer
• November 16 : Henrik Otto Donner , Finnish composer and jazz musician († 2013 )
• November 16 : Jürgen Moll , German football player († 1968 )
• November 17th : Chris Craft , British racing car driver
• November 17th : Klaus Roth , German folklorist
• November 17th : Karl-Friedrich Tropf , judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• November 18 : Margaret Atwood , Canadian writer
• November 18 : Werner Gräber , German football player († 1995 )
• November 18 : Amanda Lear , singer, painter, presenter, writer and actress
• November 18 : John O'Keefe , British-American neuroscientist and Nobel Prize winner
• November 18 : Brenda Vaccaro , American actress
• November 19 : Emil Constantinescu , politician, President of Romania
• November 19 : Michael von Schmude , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• November 20 : Raúl Damonte Botana , Argentinian comic artist († 1987 )
• November 21 : Etta Cameron , Danish jazz singer († 2010 )

• November 21 : Budd Dwyer , American politician († 1987 )
• November 25th : Niní Cáffaro , Dominican singer
• November 25 : Martin S. Feldstein , American economist († 2019 )
• November 25 : Angelika Meissner , German actress († 2018 )
• November 26 : Abdullah Ahmad Badawi , Prime Minister of Malaysia
• November 26 : Mark Margolis , American actor

Tina Turner (1985)

• November 26th : Tina Turner , American-Swiss singer and actress
• November 27 : Dieter Aderhold , German university lecturer and politician († 1989 )
• November 27 : Laurent-Désiré Kabila , President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo († 2001 )
• November 28 : Michael Arends , German music publisher and politician
• November 29th : Elias Chacour , Israeli Arab Greek Catholic priest
• November 29th : Hermann Dechant , Austrian conductor, flautist, musicologist, composer and publishing director
• November 29th : Heinrich Ebner , Austrian photogrammeter and geodesist
• November 29 : Sandro Salvadore , Italian football player († 2007 )
• November 30th : Stephen Louis Adler , American physicist
• November 30th : Peter Caesar , German politician († 1999 )
• November 30th : Chandra Bahadur Dangi , Nepalese hat maker and smallest person in the world († 2015 )

December

• 0December 2nd : Konstantin Kohler , German Roman Catholic clergyman
• 0December 2 : Eduard Nacht , Swiss journalist and webmaster († 2016 )
• 0December 3rd : John Paul Sr. , American racing driver and drug dealer
• 0December 4th : Hans Friedrich , German painter and graphic artist
• 0December 4th : Harald Naegeli , Swiss artist
• 0December 4th : Günther Stingl , Austrian writer
• 0December 5 : Luis Díaz , Guatemalan painter, graphic artist, sculptor and architect
• 0December 5th : Klaus Langhoff , German handball trainer and handball player
• 0December 5th : Reino Paasilinna , Finnish politician
• 0December 6 : Steve Alaimo , American pop singer
• 0December 6th : Hans Reischl , German economic manager
• 0December 7th : Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf , Swiss film director
• 0December 7th : Herwig Seeböck , Austrian cabaret artist († 2011 )
• 0December 8 : Srđan Čebinac , Serbian football player
• 0December 8th : James Galway , classical flautist
• 0December 8 : Juana Rosa Pita , Cuban poet, essayist and translator
• 0December 9th : Axel Dünnwald-Metzler , German entrepreneur († 2004 )
• 0December 9 : Franz Handlos , German politician († 2013 )
• December 10 : Alexander Fyodorowitsch Andrejew , Russian physicist
• December 10th : Peter Schütt , German writer, politician and journalist
• December 11th : André Brasseur , Belgian keyboardist
• December 11 : Ulrich Heinrich , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 2007 )
• December 11 : Herbert Neder , German politician († 2015 )
• December 12th : Eduardo Casanova , Venezuelan writer, playwright and lawyer
• December 12th : María Gravina , Uruguayan writer
• December 13th : Yvon Tapy , French racing car driver
• December 14 : Josef Abrhám , Czech actor
• December 14th : Stephen A. Cook , American computer scientist
• December 14 : Dave Edwards , American football player († 2016 )
• December 15 : Nicolaus A. Huber , German composer
• December 16 : Hansjoachim Walther , German politician († 2005 )
• December 17th : Eckhardt Barthel , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• December 17 : James Booker , American blues, boogie and jazz pianist, organist and singer († 1983 )
• December 18 : Sandro Lopopolo , Italian boxing world champion († 2014 )
• December 18 : Friedrich Tenkrat , Austrian writer
• December 18 : Harold Elliot Varmus , American virologist
• December 19 : Hubert Knobloch , German sports journalist and reporter († 2004 )
• December 20th : Szabolcs Esztényi , Polish composer, pianist, piano improviser and music teacher
• December 20 : Paul Zulehner , Austrian theologian
• December 22nd : Nick Ceroli , American jazz musician († 1985 )
• December 22nd : Fritz Kopperschmidt , German regatta sailor († 2011 )
• December 22nd : Andy Petery , American racing car driver
• December 23 : Giacomo Aimoni , Italian ski jumper
• December 23 : Paul Damjakob , German organist
• December 23 : Nancy Graves , American sculptor, painter and filmmaker († 1995 )
• December 24 : Herty Lewites , Nicaraguan politician of the FSLN († 2006 )
• December 25th : Tarek Abu Al Dahab , Lebanese cyclist
• December 25th : Don Alias , American jazz musician († 2006 )
• December 25 : Royce D. Applegate , American actor († 2003 )
• December 25 : Bob James , American keyboardist and arranger
• December 25th : Tununa Mercado , Argentine writer and journalist
• December 26 : Ken Howard , British pop music writer
• December 26 : Igor Akindinowitsch Fomin , Russian theoretical solid-state physicist
• December 26th : Lynn Morley Martin , American politician
• December 26th : Lutz Niethammer , German historian
• December 26th : Paul Nabil El-Sayah , Lebanese minister
• December 26th : Richard Rickelmann , German journalist
• December 26th : Phil Spector , American music producer
• December 27 : John A. Amos, Jr. , American actor and American football player
• December 27th : Paola Andrich , Italian artisan
• December 27 : Otti Geschka , German politician
• December 28th : Conny Andersson , Swedish racing car driver
• December 28th : Philip Frederick Anschutz , American entrepreneur
• December 28 : Klaus Rudolf Schubert , German physicist
• December 29th : Bernd Uhlmann , German enduro athlete
• December 30th : Glenda Emilie Adams , Australian writer († 2007 )
• December 31 : Peter Camejo , American politician and environmentalist († 2008 )
• December 31 : Heribert Finken , German soccer player
• December 31 : Günter Lehmann , German educator
• December 31 : Edmone Roffael , Arab-German chemist and wood and forest scientist

Exact date of birth unknown

• Boukary Adji , Nigerien politician and bank manager († 2018 )
• Mehmet Aksoy , Turkish sculptor
• Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz , American botanist
• Lena Anderson , Swedish children's book illustrator
• Elke Arendt , German stage and film actress
• Axel Arens , German journalist († 1986 )
• Don Argue , American clergyman
• Ayi Kwei Armah , Ghanaian writer and publisher
• Ludmilla von Arseniew , German painter and scientist
• Tony Asher , American music writer
• Georg Auernheimer , German educational scientist
• Bernhard Eisendle , Austrian painter
• Kay T. Gainacopulus , American composer, arranger, saxophonist and music educator
• Marilyn Gaston , African American pediatrician, director of the Bureau of Primary Health Care
• Renate Hartleb , German art historian
• Ironing Board Sam , American blues singer, keyboardist, songwriter and entertainer
• Haide Klüglein , German swimmer
• James Machan , American composer, organist, church musician and music educator
• Jörg Nimmergut , German author
• Marsilio Pasotti , Italian racing driver († 1989 )
• Laura Lee Perkins , American rockabilly pianist († 2018 )
• Yak Rivais , French artist and writer
• Rinpoche Akong , Tibetan doctor, author and lama († 2013 )
• Jürgen Schornagel , German actor
• Krystyna Stypułkowska , Polish actress
• Johnny Wakelin , British musician
• James Willey , American composer and music educator

Died

January February

• 0January 2 : Roman Dmowski , Polish politician and anti-Semite (* 1864 )
• 0January 6th : Ernst Markees , Swiss composer and conductor (* 1863 )
• 0January 7th : Jupp Wiertz , German graphic artist (* 1888 )
• 0January 9 : Julius Bittner , Austrian composer (* 1874 )
• 0January 9 : Hermann Menge , German classical philologist (* 1841 )
• 0January 9 : Kirtland I. Perky , American politician (* 1867 )
• January 11 : Johann Georg Arndt , German theologian (* 1863 )
• January 14th : Waldemar of Denmark , Danish Prince (* 1858 )
• January 14 : Albert Amlacher , German teacher, pastor and writer (* 1847 )
• January 15 : Edmund König , German educator, local politician and philosopher (* 1858 )
• January 17 : Emil Friedrich Adolf Andreae , German historian (* 1879 )
• January 23 : Ernst Blass , German writer (* 1890 )
• 23 January : Matthias Sindelar , Austrian football player (* 1903 )
• January 24th : Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner , Swiss doctor, nutritionist (* 1867 )
• January 26 : Joseph Irwin France , American politician (* 1873 )
• January 26 : Newell Sanders , American politician (* 1850 )
• January 28 : William Butler Yeats , Irish writer and Nobel Prize winner (* 1865 )
• 00.January: Joseph Piché , Canadian organist (* 1877 )

• 0February 3 : Frederick Steiwer , American politician (* 1883 )
• 0February 4 : Henri Deterding , Dutch industrialist (* 1866 )
• 0February 5 : Teresa Mañé Miravet , Spanish educator and publisher (* 1865 )
• 0February 6 : Georges Gardet , French sculptor (* 1863 )
• February 10 : Pius XI. , Pope (* 1857 )
• February 11 : Gustav Lange , Norwegian composer, violinist and music teacher (* 1861 )
• February 13 : Caius Welcker , Dutch football player (* 1885 )
• February 14 : Christian August Peicke , German homeland researcher (* 1846 )
• February 16 : Jura Soyfer , Austrian writer (* 1912 )
• February 17th : Willy Hess , German violin virtuoso and teacher (* 1859 )
• February 17th : Édouard LeBel , Canadian singer (* 1865 )
• February 18 : Okamoto Kanoko , Japanese writer (* 1889 )
• February 18 : Jakub Lorenc-Zalěski , Sorbian writer and publicist (* 1874 )
• February 21 : Edlef Köppen , German writer and radio editor (* 1893 )
• February 22nd : Antonio Machado , Spanish lyric poet (* 1875 )
• February 23 : Alexander Jegorow , military leader of the Red Army in the Russian Civil War and Marshal of the Soviet Union (* 1883 )
• February 25 : Ossian Aschan , Finnish chemist (* 1860 )
• February 26 : Stanislaw Kossior , Soviet politician (* 1889 )
• February 27 : Johanna Ambrosius , German writer (* 1854 )
• February 27 : Nadeschda Krupskaja , Russian revolutionary (* 1869 )
• February 28 : Andri Augustin , Swiss Romanist (* 1876 )

March April

• 0March 1 : Okamoto Kidō , Japanese playwright (* 1872 )
• 0March 1 : Leopold Cordier , German theologian (* 1887 )

Howard Carter (1924)

• 0March 2 : Howard Carter , English archaeologist (* 1874 )
• 0March 3 : Joe Little Twig , American football player and police officer (* 1897 )
• 0March 4 : Robert P. Robinson , American politician (* 1869 )
• 0March 5 : John G. Sargent , American politician (* 1860 )
• 0March 7th : William Purnell Jackson , American politician (* 1868 )
• 0March 7th : Adelheid Popp , Austrian women's rights activist (* 1869 )
• 0March 7th : Amadeo Roldán , Cuban composer and conductor (* 1900 )
• March 11 : Albert Boehringer , German entrepreneur (* 1861 )
• March 20 : Paul Arndt , German communist and resistance fighter (* 1913 )
• March 21 : Evald Aav , Estonian singer, composer and choir director (* 1900 )
• March 24 : Gwyn Nicholls , Welsh rugby player (* 1874)
• March 24th : Willem Nolen , Dutch medic (* 1854 )
• March 26 : David Davies , Australian painter (* 1864)
• March 29 : Tachihara Michizō , Japanese poet (* 1914 )
• March 30th : Ludwig Fulda , German Germanist, philosopher and author (* 1862 )
• March 31 : Johan Petter Åhlén , Swedish entrepreneur and curler (* 1879 )

• 0April 1 : Anton Semjonowitsch Makarenko , Soviet educator and writer (* 1888 )
• 0April 4 : Alice Hughes , English photographer (* 1857 )
• April 10 : Franz-Joseph Ahles , German poet (* 1869 )
• April 18 : Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon , Scottish social reformer and women's rights activist (* 1857 )
• April 18 : Matthew Nathan , British officer and colonial administrator (* 1862 )
• April 21 : Wilhelm Kroll , German classical philologist (* 1869 )
• April 22nd : Karl Eckstein , forest scientist and entomologist (* 1859 )
• April 23 : Maria Gabriella Sagheddu , Italian Trappist (* 1914 )
• April 24th : Louis Trousselier , French cyclist (* 1881 )
• April 26 : Louis Brisset , French composer (* 1872 )

May June

• 0May 3 : Wilhelm Groener , German military and politician (* 1867 )
• 0May 6 : Wilhelm August Johannes Aisch , German beekeeper, specialist writer and editor (* 1871 )
• May 10 : Sigfús Einarsson , Icelandic composer (* 1877 )
• May 11 : Yevgeny Karlowitsch Miller , General in the Russian Civil War (* 1867 )
• May 14 : Isabelle Bean , English-Australian nurse, suffragette, feminist and theosophist (* 1862 )
• May 16 : Sidney Luxton Loney , British mathematician (* 1860 )
• May 19 : Ahmed-bey Aghayev , Azerbaijani-Turkish publicist, journalist and member of parliament (* 1869 )
• May 22nd : Ernst Toller , German politician, revolutionary and writer (* 1893 )
• May 22 : John Milliken Parker , American politician (* 1863 )
• May 23 : Margarete Böhme , German writer (* 1867 )
• May 24th : Aleksander Brückner , Polish Slavist (* 1856 )
• May 27 : Joseph Roth , Austrian writer and journalist (* 1894 )
• May 28 : Rose Austerlitz , German writer and editor (* 1876 )
• May: Werner Arndt , German table tennis official (* 1884 )

• 0June 2 : Enrique Fernández Arbós , Spanish violinist, conductor and composer (* 1863 )
• 0June 5 : Hermann Thiersch , German archaeologist (* 1874 )
• 0June 8 : Josef Laßletzberger , Austrian military bandmaster and composer (* 1862 )
• 0June 9 : Akashi Kaijin , Japanese poet (* 1901 )
• June 13 : Karl Gall , Austrian motorcycle racer (* 1903 )
• June 18 : Arthur Edwin Kennelly , British-American electrical engineer (* 1861 )
• June 19 : Grace Abbott , American social reformer, child rights activist and university teacher (* 1878 )
• June 19 : Emilio Villoresi , Italian racing driver (* 1913 )
• June 25 : Richard Seaman , British racing driver (* 1913 )
• June 26 : Ford Madox Ford , British writer (* 1873 )
• June 29 : Heinrich Alfred Ammelburg , German chemist and manager (* 1864 )
• June 29 : Mehmed Spaho , Yugoslav politician (* 1883 )
• June 30th : Johann Peter Arras , German politician (* 1870 )

July August

• 0July 3 : Ramiro Artieda , Bolivian serial killer (* 1889 )
• 0July 7th : Fritz Skowronnek , German journalist and writer (* 1858 )
• 0July 7 : Claude A. Swanson , American politician (* 1862 )

Anna Pappritz 1904

• 0July 8 : Anna Pappritz , German writer and women's rights activist (* 1861 )
• July 14th : Alfons Maria Mucha , Czech poster artist, graphic artist, illustrator, painter (* 1860 )
• July 15 : Eugen Bleuler , Swiss psychiatrist (* 1857 )
• July 18 : Witold Maliszewski , Polish composer (* 1873 )
• July 18 : Paul Schneider , German Protestant pastor (* 1897 )
• July 20 : Walter Ackermann , Swiss pilot and writer (* 1903 )
• July 23 : Carl Thiel , German music teacher, church musician and composer (* 1862 )
• July 27 : Hartley Burr Alexander , American philosopher, writer and ethnologist (* 1873 )
• July 27 : José Martínez , Argentine musician and band leader (* 1890 )
• July 28 : Francesco Paolo Frontini , Italian composer (* 1860 )

• 0August 7th : Rudi Opitz , German lithographer and photographer, Nazi victim (* 1908 )
• August 12 : Giordano Aldrighetti , Italian motorcycle and automobile racer (* 1905 )
• August 19 : Achille Fortier , Canadian composer and music teacher (* 1864 )
• August 23 : Eugène-Henri Gravelotte , French fencer (* 1876 )
• August 25 : Jan Vos , Dutch football player (* 1888 )
• August 26 : Wilhelm Burkamp , German philosopher (* 1879 )
• August 28 : Bruno Tanzmann , German writer and publisher (* 1878 )
• August 30 : Wilhelm Bölsche , German writer and naturalist (* 1861 )
• August 30 : Hans Kundt , German-Bolivian general (* 1869 )

September October

• 0September 3 : Frederick H. Blair , Canadian organist, choir director, pianist and music teacher (* 1874 )
• 0September 7th : Izumi Kyōka , Japanese writer (* 1873 )
• September 13 : Olav Duun , Norwegian writer (* 1876 )
• September 15 : August Dickmann , first conscientious objector during the Nazi era (* 1910 )
• September 15 : Lawrence Yates Sherman , American politician (* 1858 )
• September 16 : Francesco Alberti , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman, journalist and politician (* 1882 )
• September 16 : Alexander Kircher , German-Austrian marine and landscape painter and illustrator (* 1867 )

Otto Wels

• September 16 : Otto Wels , German politician (SPD) (* 1873 )
• September 17th : Georges Pitoëff , French actor, director and theater manager (* 1884 )
• September 17th : Otto Ruff , German chemist (* 1871 )
• September 17th : Otto Röhm , German entrepreneur (* 1876 )
• September 18 : Hugo Urban-Emmerich , Czechoslovak entrepreneur and racing car driver (* 1887 )
• September 20 : Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz , Polish journalist and writer (* 1898 )
• September 21 : Georg Witkowski , German literary historian (* 1863 )
• September 22nd : Werner von Fritsch , German general (* 1880 )

Sigmund Freud (1921)

• September 23 : Sigmund Freud , Austrian neurologist, psychoanalyst and author (* 1856 )
• September 24th : Carl Laemmle , founder of Universal Studios (* 1867 )
• September 26 : Hermann Aellen , Swiss writer and journalist (* 1887 )
• September 28 : Felicjan Szopski , Polish composer, music teacher and critic (* 1865 )

• 0October 3 : Marvel M. Logan , American politician (* 1874 )
• 0October 8 : Sahag II. Khabayan , Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia (* 1849 )
• October 14 : Friedrich Simon Archenhold , German astronomer (* 1861 )
• October 14th : Polaire , French dancer, singer and actress (* 1874 )
• October 15 : Robert Haab , Swiss politician (* 1865 )
• October 16 : Ludolf Nielsen , Danish composer (* 1876 )
• October 16 : Stephan Freiherr Sarkotić von Lovćen , Colonel General of the Austro-Hungarian Army (* 1858 )
• October 20 : Otto Siffling , German football player (* 1912 )
• October 23 : Zane Gray , American writer (* 1872 )
• October 25 : Maximilian Eugen Graf von Attems-Gilleis , Austrian imperial count (* 1859 )

November December

• 0November 4 : Emil Wilhelm Artmann , Austrian civil engineer, architect and university lecturer (* 1871 )
• 0November 4th : Charles Tournemire , French organist and composer (* 1870 )
• 0November 6th : Adolf Brütt , German sculptor and founder of the Weimar School of Sculpture (* 1855 )
• 0November 7th : William E. Chilton , American politician (* 1856 )
• November 10 : Charlotte Despard , British suffragette (* 1844 )
• November 11th : Emil Rieck , German landscape, genre and theater painter (* 1852 )
• November 18 : Martha Müller-Grählert , Low German writer (* 1876 )
• November 22nd : Johannes Paul Aeltermann , German clergyman (* 1876 )

Max Hinsche

• November 23 : Max Hinsche , German taxidermist, scientist and writer. (* 1896 )
• November 25 : Elbert Lee Trinkle , American politician (* 1876 )
• November 28 : James Naismith , Canadian doctor and educator (* 1861 )

Philipp Scheidemann (1918)

• November 29 : Philipp Scheidemann , social democratic politician (* 1865 )
• November 30th : Max Skladanowsky , pioneer of film art in Germany (* 1863 )

• 0December 1 : Nataly von Eschstruth , German writer (* 1860 )
• 0December 6th : Charles Dalmorès , French singer (tenor) (* 1871 )

Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (1921)

• December 12th : Douglas Fairbanks senior , American film director (* 1883 )
• December 13 : Gildardo Magaña , Mexican politician and revolutionary (* 1891 )
• December 15 : Johann Friedrich Bernd von Arnim , Prussian Minister of State and Agriculture (* 1850 )
• December 16 : Juan Demóstenes Arosemena Barreati , President of Panama (* 1879 )
• December 16 : Beryl Carroll , American politician (* 1860 )
• December 20 : Hans Langsdorff , German naval officer (* 1894 )
• December 23 : Anton Herman Gerard Fokker , Dutch aircraft manufacturer (* 1890 )
• December 31 : Sara Louisa Blomfield , Anglo-Irish Baha'i and author (* 1859 )
• December 31 : Georg Wertheim , German businessman (* 1857 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Domingo Brescia , Italian composer (* 1866 )
• Borghild Bryhn-Langgaard , Norwegian singer and music teacher (* 1883 )
• Abdol-Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma , influential Iranian politician, Prime Minister of Iran during the First World War (* 1857 )
• Karol Tichy , Polish painter (* 1871 )
• Louis-Edouard Vuillermoz , French horn player and music teacher (* 1869 )

Web links

Commons : 1939  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Chronicle 1939 on Living Virtual Museum Online

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chronicle of Naval Warfare
2. ↑ Norman Davies : Europe at War . Nikol 2009, p. 134 f.