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Operation Barbarossa : The Wehrmacht invades the Soviet Union . |
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After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor , the United States enters the war . |
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1941 in other calendars | |
Armenian calendar | 1389/90 (turn of the year July) |
Ethiopian calendar | 1933/34 (September 10-11) |
Baha'i calendar | 97/98 (March 20/21) |
Bengali solar calendar | 1345/46 (April 14 or 15) |
Buddhist calendar | 2484/85 (southern Buddhism); 2483/84 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
Chinese calendar | 77th (78th) cycle
Year of the Metal Snake辛巳 ( since January 27 , before that Metal Dragon庚辰) |
Chuch'e ideology (North Korea) | Chuch'e 30 |
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1303/04 (turn of the year April) |
Dangun era (Korea) | 4274/75 (October 2/3) |
Iranian calendar | 1319/20 (around March 21) |
Islamic calendar | 1359/60 (January 28-29) |
Japanese calendar | 昭和Shōwa 16; Kōki 2601 |
Jewish calendar | 5701/02 (September 21-22) |
Coptic Calendar | 1657/58 (September 10-11) |
Malayalam calendar | 1116/17 |
Minguo calendar (China) | Year 30 of the republic |
Seleucid era | Babylon: 2251/52 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 2252/53 (turn of the year October) |
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Tibetan calendar | 1687 |
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1997/98 (April) |
events
Politics and world events
Second World War
The Atlantic Charter
Under the impression of the German invasion of the Soviet Union , the heads of government of the USA , Franklin D. Roosevelt , and Great Britain , Winston S. Churchill , met in the placentia from August 9th to 12th in the highest secrecy on the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales Bay off Newfoundland . Here they agree on the Atlantic Charter , which will be published on August 14th and in which they formulate the common principles of their international policy.
A total of eight points are recorded, including: renouncing territorial expansion, equal access to world trade and raw materials, renouncing the use of force, right of nations to self-determination, closest economic cooperation of all nations with the aim of creating better working conditions, economic equilibrium and the protection of workers , Security for the peoples from tyranny, freedom of the seas, disarming of nations to ensure a system of permanent security.
Two of the points relate directly to a world organization. The declaration was signed on September 24th by the Soviet Union and nine (exile) governments of occupied Europe, namely Belgium, Greece, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Czechoslovakia and representatives of Free France . The Atlantic Charter thus becomes the fundamental document for the United Nations . It has the aim of improving the world order and leans on the fourteen-point plan of Woodrow Wilson on.
In addition, increased US arms deliveries to Great Britain and the USSR were agreed at the conference, as well as an expansion of the American security zone for these deliveries to Iceland . Discussions that mainly revolve around the situation in the Republic of China and Spain did not lead to any strategic military decisions.
At its 2nd meeting at St. James's Palace in London on September 24th, the Inter Allied Council adopts the general principles of the Atlantic Charter .
On December 22, begins in Washington, DC which, Arcadia Conference , where the Declaration of the United Nations decided. Here also the definition of Europe as the main theater of war by the Allies takes place, in order to first eliminate the danger emanating from Germany ( Germany first ).
The war in the Balkans
- February 28th: German troops enter Bulgaria from Romania.
- March 1st: Bulgaria under Tsar Boris III. joins the Tripartite Pact .
- March 25: Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia , who leads the affairs of state for his underage cousin Peter II , signs a treaty in Vienna by which the Kingdom of Yugoslavia accedes to the Tripartite Pact . Two days later there is a British-backed coup by Serbian air force officers led by Dušan Simović . Peter II is declared of legal age, Prince Regent Paul and Prime Minister Dragiša Cvetković removed from his position. The new rulers declare the neutrality of Yugoslavia .
- March 27: After the military coup in Yugoslavia, Hitler issues “Directive No. 25” to smash the state.
- March 30: Yugoslav Foreign Minister Momčilo Ninčić summons German Ambassador Viktor von Heeren and gives him a report stating that the new government will accept all international obligations, including accession to the Tripartite Pact, as long as the country's national interests are protected will. However, he never receives an answer. The German embassy in Belgrade is evacuated on April 2nd .
- April 3: After the suicide of Pál Teleki , who advocated a strict course of neutrality, Imperial Administrator Miklós Horthy appoints László Bárdossy as Prime Minister of Hungary . This is preparing Hungary's participation in the coming German Yugoslavia campaign, in which Hungary has been promised extensive territorial gains up to Croatia.
- April 6: Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union sign a friendship and non-aggression pact dated the previous day.
- April 6th: The German Balkan campaign begins with an air raid on Belgrade ; German troops invade Yugoslavia and Greece.
- April 9: The Wehrmacht breaks through the Greek Metaxas line .
- April 10: The German Wehrmacht invades Zagreb . Colonel Slavko Kvaternik proclaims the Independent State of Croatia , which also includes Slavonia, Syrmia and almost all of Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. On April 15, the German satellite state joins the three-power pact.
- 12./13. April: More than 50 people die in bombing raids by the German air force on Sarajevo .
- April 17th: Yugoslavia signs unconditional surrender . King Peter II and his government go into exile in Great Britain. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia will be smashed. Germany annexes Slovenia , Italy annexes Dalmatia , Bulgaria annexes Macedonia and Albania annexes Montenegro . Ustasha -Leader Ante Pavelić returns from his long-time exile in Zagreb back and organizes Croatia as the leader of the state. Serbia is under military occupation.
- April 18: It is officially announced in Athens that the Greek Prime Minister Alexandros Koryzis has died of a heart attack. In fact, Koryzis shot himself after an argument with King George II in a cabinet meeting over the policy after the German invasion of the Balkans . Emmanouil Tsouderos forms a new government.
- April 20: General Georgios Tsolakoglou , in consultation with other officers, releases the commander of the Epirus Army Ioannis Pitsikas from his command and then presents SS Obergruppenführer Josef Dietrich to surrender to the express order of the Greek Army General Alexandros Papagos .
- April 21: The Allied Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean and Middle East Archibald Wavell orders the evacuation of the remaining Allied troops to Crete and Egypt .
- April 23rd: The Greek King George II embarks with his troops for Crete .
- 24./25. April: The battle of Thermopylae ends with a breakthrough by German troops into southern Greece.
- April 26th: The Wehrmacht occupies Corinth .
- April 27th: German troops conquer Athens .
- April 29th: The campaign on the Greek mainland ends with the capture of Kalamata in the south of the Peloponnese .
- April 30th: The first Serbian puppet government under Milan Aćimović is installed by the German occupiers.
- Beginning of May: Members of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia decide in Zagreb to set up military committees for all regional sections of the party.
- May 13: The Yugoslav general Draža Mihailović reaches the Ravna Gora plateau in western Serbia, where he establishes the headquarters of the Chetnik units under his command .
- May 20 to June 1: The airborne battle for Crete ends with the conquest of the island by the German Wehrmacht, supported by Italian troops . Aviation General Kurt Student orders brutal retaliatory actions against the island's resilient population from May 31st. According to the order, for example, the village of Kandanos is destroyed and numerous men are arbitrarily arrested and shot in the village of Kondomari .
- June 22nd: The communist Sisak partisan detachment is founded in a forest near Sisak .
- June 27th: The Yugoslav People's Liberation Army under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito is founded.
- July 5: A communist proclamation, decided at a meeting of the Politburo of the JPY on the previous day, calls on the people of Yugoslavia to armed resistance. As a result, the partisans had their first minor clashes with the occupying power.
- August 29: In Serbia, the " government of national rescue " under Milan Nedić, another puppet government takes over government affairs.
- September 20: The partisan republic of Užice is proclaimed in western Serbia.
- October 21: As reprisal for a partisan attack that shoots Wehrmacht in the massacre at Kragujevac 2,323 herded together people, including 300 students of a high school with its 18 teachers.
Soviet Union / "Operation Barbarossa"
- March 30th: In a speech to around 200–250 generals in the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler announces war against the Soviet Union , the annihilation of Bolshevism and world power plans .
- May 2: Herbert Backe , State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture , formulates the so-called hunger plan in a meeting with several state secretaries and leading officers of the Wehrmacht , which calculates the starvation of many millions of prisoners of war and civilians in an attack on the Soviet Union.
- May 13th: In the martial law decree , the German Wehrmacht is authorized to carry out executions and collective violence against the civilian population for the forthcoming campaign against the Soviet Union .
- June 6th: In the secret commissioner order of the OKW the instruction is given to the armed forces to shoot captured political commissioners . Shortly afterwards, the Wehrmacht and the security service agreed that so-called intelligentsia , Jews , fanatical communists and the terminally ill should also be liquidated.
- June 14th: Hitler's speech to the commanders-in-chief on June 14th, 1941 dealt with the upcoming Eastern campaign against the Soviet Union.
- June 14: The Soviet occupying forces deported 15,000 Latvians from Latvia to Siberia on the night of June 13 to 14, and 40,000 Lithuanians from Lithuania to Siberia on June 14 .
- June 15: The German communist spy Richard Sorge sends information to Moscow that Germany's war against the Soviet Union will begin on June 22. However, this message to the GRU with precise information about the day, the strength and the directions of the attack is ignored by Stalin and presented as enemy propaganda.
- June 22nd: With the implementation of Operation Barbarossa , the attack by the Wehrmacht on the Soviet Union, the German-Soviet War begins . It is designed as a war of annihilation to destroy “Jewish Bolshevism” . The entire European part of the Soviet Union is to be conquered, its political and military leaders murdered and large parts of the civilian population decimated and disenfranchised. According to the General Plan East , large-scale expulsions are to follow in order to subsequently Germanize the conquered areas . In addition, task forces are set up and trained to commit mass murders of the Jewish population behind the front .
- June 22nd: The Army Group Center of the German Wehrmacht under Fedor von Bock crosses the demarcation line to the Soviet Union and meets the western front of the Red Army . The ensuing battle near Białystok and Minsk ended with a victory for the Wehrmacht. Most of Minsk was already occupied by Germans on June 28, but the last Soviet troops did not surrender until July 9. The Russian commander Dmitri Grigoryevich Pavlov is ordered back to Moscow and shot on July 22 for treason and “criminal incompetence”. The Wehrmacht continues its march on Moscow.
- June 23 to June 29: In the tank battle near Dubno-Luzk-Rivne , Panzer Group 1 of Army Group South under Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt defeated strong armored forces on the Soviet Southwest Front under Colonel General Michail Kirponos .
- June 24th: Heinrich Himmler commissions the agricultural scientist Konrad Meyer as head of the planning staff of the Reichskommissariat for the consolidation of the German nationality to work out the general plan east for the settlement in the east . The program receives based on the East Frankish King Henry I named program Heinrich . The first version will be available on July 15th.
- June 29th: The propaganda song From Finland to the Black Sea by Herms Niel and Norbert Schultze, commissioned by Joseph Goebbels , with the choirs of the Berlin State Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as a large orchestra is broadcast for the first time. At the end of the song, the quote from Franz Liszt's Les Preludes , known as Russia Fanfare, is added, which from now on introduces the special reports of the Wehrmacht High Command on German radio. At the beginning of the war another signal was used, which comes from the song Die Wacht am Rhein and was therefore also called France Fanfare .
- June 30th: To fight the German Reich together , the Polish government-in-exile and the Soviet Union decide on the Sikorski-Maiski Agreement , which, however, remains ineffective two years later when the Katyn massacre became known.
- July 10th: The Smolensk Kettle Battle begins. It ends with another German victory on September 10, but the Soviet units succeeded in slowing the advance of the Wehrmacht and their blitzkrieg concept suffered a first setback.
- July 12: Great Britain and the Soviet Union sign a mutual aid agreement.
- July 13: Six bombers of the Soviet air forces fly the first of the Allied air raids on Ploieşti against the oil production facilities controlled by the German Reich. This affects the Astra Română, Lumina and especially Orion refineries. From August 10th to 13th, the railway bridge at Cernavodă , which connects Ploieşti with the port of Constanța, was attacked several times and finally destroyed.
- July 15 to August 8: In the Kesselschlacht near Uman , the German armed forces destroy 20 divisions of the Red Army with Hungarian and Romanian auxiliary troops and advance further on Kiev .
- July 21: With a total of 195 fighter planes , the German Air Force flies its first air raid on Moscow , which extends into the following day.
- July / August: The brown folder is published. It contains general legal, administrative-organizational and economic-political regulations that have been formulated as orientation aids, guidelines and service instructions for the Reich Commissioners , General Commissioners and Area Commissioners in the civil administrations of the Reich Commissioner Ostland (Part 1 of the portfolio) and Reich Commissioner Ukraine (Part 2).
- August 8th: The battle for Odessa begins. It ends on October 16 with a victory for the Axis powers Romania and Germany, but their advance in the southern part of the Eastern Front can be decisively delayed. On September 29, the German breakthrough in the Crimea under General Erich von Manstein and the threat to the Donets Basin and Sevastopol . The Soviet High Command then decided to evacuate Odessa .
- August 25 After weeks of fighting in the August crisis , Guderian's tanks, 300 kilometers from Moscow, turned south into the rear of the Kiev group.
- 23 August to 26 September: The battle for Kiev ends with a victory for the German troops under General Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and the occupation of the city by the German Empire. On September 24th, a Soviet explosive device broke out a large fire that could not be brought under control until September 29th. The Soviet units under Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny lose around 700,000 soldiers in the battle for Kiev. With the high Soviet losses, the Wehrmacht High Command combines the hope of being able to capture the Crimean peninsula and advance into the Caucasus before winter sets in. The heavy losses of the Red Army lead the German army command to believe that the attack on Moscow could succeed despite the advanced season and Hitler now orders a direct march on the Soviet capital.
- August 28: The Volga German Republic in the Soviet Union is dissolved.
- September 8: The Leningrad blockade begins, with over a million people starving to death by 1944.
- September 10: In Moscow , the German national broadcaster begins its radio broadcasts in German. Information and propaganda are intended to encourage resistance against the National Socialists in the Reich .
- September 14th: After a secret meeting of the Japanese Privy Council, Richard Sorge informs the GRU in Moscow that Japan would now attack the USA and the British colonies in the Pacific as a strategic target, thus averting the threat to the Soviet Union in the Far East. With this information, which was decisive for the war, Marshal Georgi Zhukov was able to withdraw the Soviet troops from Siberia and use them to stop the German advance 25 km from Moscow. Sorge was exposed just a month later and arrested in Japan on October 18.
- September 30 to October 30: In the double battle of Vyazma and Bryansk between the German Army Group Center and the Soviet West - , Reserve - and Bryansk Front , the Wehrmacht can large parts of the Soviet defenders encircle and consume, but the advance runs in the autumn Mud and the increasing Soviet resistance.
- October 2: The battle for Moscow begins.
- October 20: In the course of the Taifun operation , German troops force the mass of five Soviet armies in the Vyazma pocket to surrender in front of Moscow .
- October 30: In the Russian campaign , a German army tries to conquer the seaport of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula , but remains unsuccessful. The battle for Sevastopol begins.
- November 1st: The German Wehrmacht conquers Simferopol in the Crimea.
- November 10: The road of life , an ice road across Lake Ladoga to supply the city of Leningrad , which was enclosed by the Wehrmacht , is used for the first time.
- November 17: German and Soviet troops begin offensives in the German-Soviet War in the Battle of Rostov .
- December 7th: German troops stand 17 kilometers from Moscow - and have to turn back (see Battle of Moscow )
- December 19: Adolf Hitler takes place of the dismissed Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch the supreme command of the army .
The war in the west
- February: Marcel Déat founds the fascist party Rassemblement national populaire , which advocates collaboration with the German occupation forces under the Vichy regime .
- May 10: Hitler's deputy Rudolf Heß flies to Scotland in a Messerschmitt Bf 110 to meet Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton , whom he met at the Olympic Games in Berlin and whom he was the leader of the British peace movement and Opponent of Prime Minister Winston Churchill believes that he is campaigning for peace with Germany. Hess jumps off with the parachute and becomes a British prisoner of war. His flight was viewed by the public as treason by the National Socialist government and Hess was declared insane. The staff of the Deputy Leader is renamed the Party Chancellery and subordinates to Martin Bormann , who is appointed Reich Minister.
- May: The German air strikes on Great Britain decrease noticeably because bombers and fighters are needed for the planned attack on the Soviet Union .
- December 7th: The OKW's secret night and fog decree is issued. As a deterrent, it provides for the secret abortion of Western Europeans who are suspected of resisting the occupation .
- December 11: Four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , Germany and Italy declare war on the United States .
The “final solution to the Jewish question” / persecution of other population groups
- FEBRUARY 12: In Amsterdam is on the orders of Hans Boehmcker , deputy Arthur Seyss-Inquart , the Judenrat Amsterdam built.
- March 3: The head of the Krakow administrative district , SS-Gruppenführer Otto Wächter , orders the establishment of a “Jewish housing estate”. All Jewish residents of the city must have moved to the Krakow ghetto by March 20 . From this point onwards, 15,000 people are crammed into a district where 3,000 people previously lived.
- April: Operation 14f13 , the selection and killing of concentration camp inmates labeled as “sick”, “old” and “no longer able to work”, begins.
- June 27: German Police Battalion 309 burns down the Great Synagogue in Białystok , where around two thousand rounded up Jews are imprisoned.
- July 10: In the Jedwabne massacre , 1,600 (?) Jews from Poland are burned alive. According to excavations in 2001, however, there are between 300 and 400 Jewish victims.
- July 31: The German Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring instructs Reinhard Heydrich , the chief of the security police and the SD , to submit an overall draft for the implementation of the desired final solution to the Jewish question .
- August 24th: After church protests, the " T4 Action ", known as " euthanasia ", is discontinued during the Nazi era. The so-called “wild euthanasia” is later continued in Aktion Brandt . Hundreds of thousands of people are killed in the murder of the sick and disabled.
- August 27: SS and police battalion 320 carry out mass shooting of 23,600 Jews in the Kamenets-Podolsk massacre. For the first time, all Jews in a region, regardless of their age or gender, are murdered.
- September 1: The National Socialist leadership issues a police ordinance that makes it mandatory for all Jews in the German Reich to wear the “ Star of David ” from September 19 onwards from the age of six. The badge consists of two yellow fabric triangles that are sewn on top of each other in the form of a six-pointed star and bears the words "Jew" in black letters. The star must be worn “clearly visible” and “firmly sewn to the left chest of the garment”. At home too, Jews have to wear the “Star of David” when they open someone's front door. - Police patrols randomly check on the street whether the badge is sewn on firmly enough. Violations can result in admission to a concentration camp (so-called “ protective custody ”). In the period that followed, further discriminatory ordinances were issued against the Jews, e.g. B. the prohibition to leave the soft picture of the hometown. - In the occupied Polish territories , the so-called “ Generalgouvernement ”, the compulsory identification for Jews was introduced by Governor General Hans Frank as early as November 1939 and consists of a white armband with a blue star.
- September 29th: At Babyn Yar, members of the SD and Einsatzgruppe C, in cooperation with the Wehrmacht, execute more than 33,000 Kiev Jews.
- October 27: The state police headquarters in Düsseldorf organized the first deportations of Jewish men, women and children to the Litzmannstadt ghetto from several train stations . Between November 5th and 9th, 5,007 Sinti and Roma are deported to the ghetto and locked in a separate area, the so-called "Gypsy camp ".
- November 24th: The first train with young Jewish men arrives at Terezin in the Theresienstadt concentration camp , they form the construction team for the new concentration camp .
- November 25: A law issued by the dictator Ante Pavelić in the fascist independent state of Croatia legalizes the establishment of the Jasenovac concentration camp .
- November 30th: The massacre begins in Rumbula Forest in Riga. Over three days around 27,500 Jews were murdered by task forces of the security police and the SD and auxiliary police command of Viktors Arājs .
- 9th to 13th December: Sonderkommando 11b and the staff unit of Einsatzgruppe D of the Reichsführer SS security service commit the Simferopol massacre of 13,000 Jews , Krimchaks and " gypsies " in the Crimea with the support of the Wehrmacht .
- December 17: The French military commander , Otto von Stülpnagel , fines the Jews in France with a fine of 1 billion francs.
- December 21: The mass murder of around 54,000 Jewish prisoners by Romanian soldiers, Ukrainian police officers and local ethnic Germans begins in the Bogdanowka concentration camp .
The war in Africa
- January 22nd: British units under Richard O'Connor capture the fortified Libyan city of Tobruk during Operation Compass . 25,000 soldiers of the Italian colonial power become prisoners of war .
- February 3: The Battle of Keren begins in Italian East Africa . Troops of the British Empire want to conquer the city in Eritrea , which is held by Italian units , a hurdle in the planned British advance on the enemy's naval base in the port city of Massaua .
- February 11th: The first units of the German Africa Corps under the command of Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel arrive in Libya as part of the Sonnenblume company in support of the Italian armed forces from Naples and reach Tripoli on February 14th . To face the Allied troops, they are moved to Sirte .
- April 4: The Libyan city of Benghazi is captured by German-Italian armored units during the Africa campaign .
- April 5: British troops capture Addis Ababa , the capital of annexed Abyssinia , which is part of Italian East Africa .
- April 11th: The siege of Tobruk by the German Africa Corps begins.
- May 25th: The deployment of the German Wehrmacht in North Africa is completed with the 15th Panzer Division .
- June 15-17 : The Allies' Operation Battleaxe to relieve Tobruk fails.
- November 18: Allied Operation Crusader under Claude Auchinleck begins.
- November 27th: The Axis powers have to break off the siege of Tobruk and withdraw from the Cyrenaica .
Iraq / Syrian-Lebanese campaign
- April 1: In a military coup , the " Golden Square ", four nationalist officers and former Prime Minister Rashid Ali al-Gailani take power with the aim of ending British influence in Iraq . Abd ul-Ilah , regent for the minor King Faisal II , is accused by the coup plotters of disregarding the constitution.
- On April 28, Iraqi troops occupy the heights around the British Habbaniyya Air Force Base . The commander of the Iraqi units calls on the British to suspend their flights, otherwise he will bombard the airfield. They then call on the Iraqis to withdraw. When this does not happen, British attacks on Iraqi troops and Iraqi airfields near Baghdad are launched on May 2nd. The surprised besiegers have to accept great losses of material within a short period of time. At the same time, the British troops in Transjordan are alerted and prepared for an invasion of Iraq.
- May 6: On the initiative of diplomat Fritz Grobba , around 20 German and 12 Italian fighter planes are relocated over Syria to Iraq to support the putschists.
- Despite the numerical superiority of the Iraqi troops, the British units managed to quickly overrun their defensive positions and, with the help of reinforcements from Transjordan, advance to Baghdad via Fallujah . The attack on Baghdad began on May 27 and ended on May 31 with the city's surrender.
- 1./2. June: As a result of the defeat, the Farhud , a pogrom against the Jewish population of Baghdad, takes place under the leadership of the Mufti Mohammed Amin al-Husseini
- June 5: British bombers attack Aleppo airport from Transjordan .
- June 8: The Syrian-Lebanese campaign begins when two brigades of the Australian 7th Infantry Division under General John Lavarack cross the border into Syria north of Acre and Tiberias and march towards Beirut and Rayak . At the same time British-Indian troops under General Paul Legentilhomme penetrate further east near Dar'a inland to advance on Damascus .
- June 21: After heavy fighting, the British enter Damascus. On the same day, the Arab Legion advanced from Iraq to Palmyra .
- July 9: Australian forces capture Damur south of Beirut.
- Henri Fernand Dentz , French High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon , offers a ceasefire that will come into force on July 12th.
- On July 14th, the Convention on the End of Hostilities is signed in Acre. The allied troops occupy the entire French mandate area and reached the delivery of the Vichy-French planes.
Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
- August 25: Soviet and British troops invade neutral Iran without a declaration of war as part of Operation Countenance . The aim of the invasion is to secure the Iranian oil fields and to establish a supply line through which the United States will transport military equipment via the Trans-Iranian Railroad to the Soviet Union under the Loan and Lease Act . There is a full occupation of Iran by September 17, which will last until the end of World War II .
- September 16: Reza Shah Pahlavi signs his declaration of abdication in favor of his son Mohammad Reza .
- September 17th: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi swears the oath on the constitution in front of the Iranian parliament and takes over the reign as Shah of Iran.
- September 17th: Operation Countenance is over. In fact, until the end of the war, Iran will remain divided into a British zone of occupation in the south and a Soviet zone of occupation in the north. The Iranian army is also prohibited from stationing its own armed forces in the areas of northern Iran occupied by Soviet troops. As a result, the central government in Tehran is losing control of northern Iran.
Second Sino-Japanese War
- September 6: The second battle for Changsha in the Second Sino-Japanese War begins. The Japanese attack under Yasuji Okamura will be repulsed by the Chinese defenders by October 8th.
- December 24th: The third battle for Changsha is the third attempt to capture the Chinese city of Changsha in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, which remains unsuccessful until December 31st due to bitter resistance from the Chinese defenders under Xue Yue .
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
- January 4th: French bombers attack the cities of Udon Thani and Nong Khai in the Franco-Thai War .
- January 6th: A Thai division crosses the Cambodian border and takes the border town of Poipet , a second division marches into Laos .
- January 11th: The Thai Air Force attacks the Vietnamese city of Hanoi with six bombers and four fighters.
- January 17th: In the Franco-Thai War , the French navy inflicts a heavy defeat on its opponent in the sea battle near Ko Chang . At the mediation of Japan , a ceasefire was agreed on January 28th. A peace conference begins in Tokyo on February 7th. The negotiations end on May 9th with Thai territorial gains in the French colonies of Laos and Cambodia: France cedes the provinces of Sayaburi , Battambang and Siem Reap (but not the temples of Angkor Wat ) back to Thailand.
- April 13: Japan and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality agreement .
- July 25: The United States imposes a complete oil embargo on Japan. As the UK and the Dutch East Indies join this move, Japan will lose 75% of its foreign trade and 90% of its oil imports.
- August 11th: General mobilization is ordered in Japan . The development towards a war begins when there are no successes in negotiations with the USA on the Japanese approach in Indochina and in the Pacific region.
- October 17: Japanese Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro resigns, his successor being Tōjō Hideki .
- December 7th: Under the command of Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force leads the attack on Pearl Harbor . This attack, carried out without a declaration of war , on the United States ' Pacific fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor , Hawaii , led to the United States' entry into World War II and the associated Pacific War on the following day .
- December 7th: Two Japanese destroyers bombard the Midway Islands .
- December 8th: Simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese offensive in the Pacific and Southeast Asia begins on the other side of the date line . The Japanese begin the landings in the Philippines . The Japanese invasion of the Malay Peninsula and Thailand begins, and the attack on the British crown colony of Hong Kong begins .
- December 8th: Japanese forces begin attacking Guam . They conquer the island just two days later.

- December 8th: In addition to the USA, several allied states and the Dutch government-in-exile declare war on the Japanese Empire.
- December 8th: The battle for Wake begins. It ends on December 23rd with the capture of Wake Atoll by the Japanese attackers.
- December 10: The sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Forces is a severe setback for the Royal Navy and for the first time permanently shatters belief in the Singapore strategy and a victory for the Allies.
- December 10: Japanese landing forces under the command of General Homma Masaharu disembark on the main Philippine island of Luzon in the Battle of the Philippines .
- December 16: In the Pacific War , the Japanese invasion of Borneo begins under the command of Kiyotake Kawaguchi .
- December 25th: After eighteen days of fighting, Governor Mark Aitchison Young hands over the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong to the Imperial Japanese Army . The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in the Pacific War begins.
Sea warfare in the Atlantic and European waters
- January 16: The British passenger ship Oropesa is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 96 in front of the Rockall sandbank . 106 passengers and crew drown, almost half of the people on board.
- January 17: 35 miles northeast of the Rockall sandbank, the unescorted British passenger ship Almeda Star is torpedoed and shot at by the German submarine U 96 . The steamer sinks within three minutes, killing all 360 passengers and crew.
- January 17: The German submarine U 106 sinks the British passenger ship Zealandic near Rockall , killing all 73 people on board.
- March 25: The German auxiliary cruiser Thor attacks the British passenger ship Britannia on the West African coast , which is on its way to Bombay without an escort . The ocean liner goes up in flames and sinks. 122 crew members and 127 passengers are killed.
- March 28: In the Battle of Cape Matapan , the British Mediterranean Fleet, under the command of Andrew Cunningham , defeats an Italian naval unit under Angelo Iachino off the island of Gavdos . The Hercules enterprise for the conquest of Malta becomes impossible for the Axis Powers. The siege of the archipelago continues, however.
- April 30th: South-east of the rocky island of Rockall , the British passenger and cargo steamer Nerissa , which is on its way to Liverpool with both military and civilians, is attacked by the German submarine U 552 with three torpedoes without warning and sunk within a few minutes. 207 people are killed.
- May 9: British warships hijack the German submarine U 110 and capture an intact Enigma cipher machine and associated secret documents.
- May 24th: As part of the Rhine Exercise Company , with which Admiral Erich Raeder is trying to send two German ships into the Atlantic, the battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen are placed in Denmark by units of the British Royal Navy . During the battle in the Denmark Strait, the Bismarck sinks the battle cruiser HMS Hood . Only three out of 1,419 crew members survive.

- May 27: The Bismarck is attacked by two battleships and two heavy cruisers of the Royal Navy and sunk. 2,104 crew members are killed, 116 are rescued.
- June 1st: The Prinz Eugen arrives at the port of Brest. The Rhine exercise company is thus over.
- August 19: The British passenger steamer Aguila is sunk by the German submarine U 201 to the southwest of the Fastnet rock on the Irish coast . 157 passengers and crew members die.
- September 13: The unarmed Norwegian passenger ship Barøy is sunk by the torpedo of a British Fairey Albacore torpedo bomber in the Vestfjord . 112 people, mostly Norwegian civilians, die.
- September 13: The Hurtigruten passenger steamer Richard With is sunk by the British submarine Tigris on the coast of Finnmark in northern Norway . 99 passengers and crew members die.
- November 7th: The Soviet hospital ship Armenija with 5000 to 7000 people on board is sunk in the Black Sea by a German Heinkel He 111 .
Other events in Europe
- January 1st: Swiss citizenship is changed. A withdrawal of civil rights is now possible.
- January 1st: Ernst Wetter becomes the new Federal President of Switzerland .
- January 15th: King Alfonso XIII. renounces the Spanish throne in Roman exile in favor of his son Juan de Borbón y Battenberg .
United States of America
- January 6: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulates the Four Freedoms in his State of the Union Address .

- January 20: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt begins his third term.
- June 29th: With the help of a double agent, the entire German Duquesne spy ring in the United States is arrested.
- September 11th: The foundation stone for the Pentagon takes place.
Other events around the world
- July 5: Border disputes trigger the Peruvian-Ecuadorian War between the two states . The intervention of the mediating powers Brazil , Argentina and the USA leads to the withdrawal of their troops from the section of the controversial border on July 31, before the conflict becomes a serious problem.
business
- February 4: The American Roy Plunkett receives the US patent applied for for the invention of the Teflon coating .
- April 2: In French Equatorial Africa , Free France under Charles de Gaulle founds the Caisse Centrale de la France Libre to function as an issuing institute for Central Africa.
- June 14: The American government freezes all German assets in the USA .
- June 16: The economic management staff east publishes the green folder .
- July 1: Commercial TV operations also begin in the United States with the broadcast of the first television commercial . The WBNT station in New York's Empire State Building shows television advertisements for the watch manufacturer Bulova .
- July 31: The first Basel trolleybus line goes into operation.
- July 29: In Switzerland , sales tax is introduced with tax rates of two and three percent.
- October 30: The National Socialist leadership in Germany introduces a program called Iron Saving for savers in order to tie up excess purchasing power of the population and to open up a source of finance for war expenditures with the incentive of tax advantages.
science and technology
- January 9: The British Avro Lancaster bomber is tested in its first flight . The aircraft is subsequently produced in large numbers (7377 copies) for the Royal Air Force .
- February 12: A London policeman is the first person to be treated with penicillin , but dies several weeks later after having to discontinue therapy due to insufficient supplies.
- February 19: The US newspaper Daily News named an all-terrain vehicle " Jeep " in its edition .
- April 27: In the annexed Reichsgau Wartheland , the National Socialists found the University of Posen with an educational mandate based on their ideological principles.
- May 12th: Konrad Zuse presents the calculating machine Z3 .
- July 25: The groundbreaking ceremony for the main aero engine works in Ostmark takes place in Wiener Neudorf .
- September 27: Patrick Henry, the first of 2,710 Liberty freighters as part of the Emergency Shipbuilding Program , is launched in Baltimore .
Culture
Visual arts
- January 18: The Museu Marítim de Barcelona opens to visitors. The previously planned museum opening was delayed by the Spanish Civil War .
- October 31: After 14 years of construction, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial is declared completed.
- Pablo Picasso paints the painting Dora Maar au Chat .
Movie
- April 4: The Nazi propaganda film Ohm Krüger with Emil Jannings in the title role has its world premiere in Berlin .
- May 1: The New York Palace Theater has Orson Welles ' film Citizen Kane premiere.
- October 3: The crime film The Maltese Falcon by John Huston premieres in the USA. In the third film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett , the director stayed close to the original for the first time during the eight-week filming period. Humphrey Bogart stars as the die-hard private detective Sam Spade. The low-budget production was a great success and was considered to be the initial spark for the film noir genre .
- October 23: In New York, the movie musical You'll Never Get Rich ( Reich you'll never ) with Rita Hayworth on the side of Fred Astaire Premiere.
- October 31: In Berlin, women are better diplomats , the first German feature film in color has its premiere.
- NOVEMBER 14: Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Suspicion ( suspected ), with Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine in the lead roles, has premiere.
literature
- Franz Werfel publishes Das Lied von Bernadette .
Music and theater
- January 10: The play Arsenic and Old Lace ( Arsenic and Old Lace ) by Joseph Kesselring was in the Broadway premiere.
- January 15th: The Quatuor pour la fin du temps ( Quartet for the End of Times ) by Olivier Messiaen is premiered in the prisoner of war camp Stalag VIII A in Görlitz .
- January 23: The world premiere of the musical Lady in the Dark with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ira Gershwin takes place at the Alvin Theater in New York. The book is by Moss Hart , who is also directing it. Gertrude Lawrence , Danny Kaye , Macdonald Carey and Victor Mature play in the original cast .
- February 5th: The opera Fürstin Tarakanowa by Boris Blacher is premiered in Wuppertal.
- MARCH 24: The drama version of the novel Native Son by Richard Wright is directed by Orson Welles at the St. James Theater premiered in New York.
- April 5: The world premiere of the ballet Verklungene Feste by Pia and Pino Mlakar (libretto and choreography) to the music of François Couperin, arranged by Richard Strauss, takes place at the National Theater in Munich .
- April 19: Bertolt Brecht's drama Mother Courage and Her Children is premiered at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . The subject matter of the epic play comes from the picaresque novel Trutz Simplex or the biography of the Ertz cheater and country trooper Courasche by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen .
- April 30: The world premiere of the operetta Der Reiter der Kaiserin by August Pepöck based on motifs from the novel Der Kerzlmacher von St. Stephan by Alfons von Czibulka takes place at the Raimund Theater in Vienna.
- October 11th: The opera Die Hexe von Passau by Ottmar Gerster is premiered in Düsseldorf.
- October 18: The German premiere of Kurt Atterberg's opera Aladin takes place in Chemnitz.
- December 25th: In the USA, Bing Crosby presented the Irving Berlin song White Christmas for the first time on a radio broadcast .
religion
- January 3: Marcial Maciel founds the Congregation of Legionaries of Christ in Mexico City.
Disasters
- November 7th: The Soviet hospital ship Armenija is sunk in the Black Sea by a German Heinkel He 111 with 5000 to 7000 people on board.
- December 13: A glacier break in the Palcacocha Lake in the Peruvian Andes causes the collapse of the moraine wall that dams the lake . A mudslide falling furiously into the valley kills around 6,000 people in the city of Huaraz, 23 kilometers away .
- Autumn / Winter 1941/1942: Great famine in Greece
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- August 19: On the Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska is the reserve Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge established.
- 18./19. September: six solar storms of magnitude nine, i.e. the highest magnitude, hit the earth within 24 hours .
Sports
- June 22nd: With SK Rapid Wien , an Austrian team wins the German soccer championship for a unique time in history . The Viennese defeat FC Schalke 04 in the final at the Berlin Olympic Stadium after a 3-0 deficit, 4-3.
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prizes are not awarded.
Born
January
- Marco Antonio Andolfi , Italian actor († 2018) January 1:
- Simón Andreu , Spanish actor January 1st:
- Joseph Bessala , Cameroonian boxer († 2010) January 1:
- Fernando Suárez Paz , Argentine tango violinist († 2020) January 1:
- Johannes Gerster , German politician, Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Israel († 2021) January 2:
- Joachim Kath , German communication scientist and book author January 2nd:
- Sergio Hualpa , Argentine composer († 1990) January 3:
- Horst W. Opaschowski , German educationalist January 3:
- George Pan Cosmatos , Greek film director († 2005) January 4th:
- Chuck McKinley , American tennis player, Wimbledon winner († 1986) January 5:
- Hayao Miyazaki , Japanese cartoon film director January 5:
- Philippe Busquin , Belgian politician January 6th:
- Tamara Lund , Finnish opera singer and actress († 2005) January 6:
- John Ernest Walker , American biochemist January 7:
- Severino Andreoli , Italian professional cyclist January 8th:
- Graham Chapman , British actor and writer († 1989) January 8:
- Boris Vallejo , American illustrator of Peruvian origin January 8:
- Joan Baez , American folk singer January 9:
- Ernst Vlcek , Austrian science fiction author († 2008) January 9:
- January 10: Horst Jüssen , German actor, director and author († 2008)
- January 11th: Shmuel Ashkenasi , Israeli violinist
- January 11: Georges Claisse , French actor († 2021)
- January 11th: Wolf Lepenies , German sociologist
- January 11: Rašid Šemšedinović , Yugoslav ice hockey goalkeeper († 2021)
- January 11: Lawrence Shreeve , Canadian wrestler
- January 12: Long John Baldry , British singer († 2005)
- January 12: Hans Georg Koch , German composer († 2005)
- January 13: Eckhard Krautzun , German soccer coach and soccer player
- January 13: Pasqual Maragall , Catalan politician
- January 13th: Meinhard Nehmer , German bobsleigh driver
- January 14: Faye Dunaway , American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
- January 14th: Milan Kučan , Yugoslav or Slovenian politician and statesman
- January 14th: Oscar Quiñones Carrillo , Peruvian chess player and teacher
- January 15: Geoffrey Beevers , British actor
- January 16: Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton , Archbishop of Benin
- January 16: Ewa Demarczyk , Polish singer and actress († 2020)
- January 16: Iris Gusner , German director
- January 16: Carlo Maria Viganò , Italian Archbishop of Curia
- January 17th: Karin Reichert-Frisch , German athlete
- January 18: Bobby Goldsboro , American musician and record producer
- January 18: David Ruffin , American gospel and soul singer († 1991)
- January 19: Tony Anholt , British actor († 2002)
- January 19: Stan Persky , Canadian writer, media commentator, and university lecturer
- January 20: Pete Ariel , German film director, film editor, assistant director and screenwriter († 2012)
- January 20: Herbert Christ , German politician
- January 21: Plácido Domingo , Spanish opera singer (tenor)
- January 21st: Stathis Giallelis , Greek actor
- January 21: Richie Havens , American folk singer and musician († 2013)
- January 21: Harald Kahl , German politician
- January 21: Elaine Showalter , American feminist and literary scholar
- January 23: Dumeng Giovanoli , Swiss ski racer
- January 23: João Ubaldo Ribeiro , Brazilian writer († 2014)
- January 24th: Michael Chapman , British guitarist († 2021)
- January 24th: Neil Diamond , American singer and songwriter
- January 24th: Aaron Neville , American singer
- January 24th: Peter Randt , German handball player
- January 24th: Dan Shechtman , Israeli physicist
- January 25: Sengai Aaliyan , Tamil writer († 2016)
- January 25: Buddy Baker , American racing driver († 2015)
- January 25: Sara Jenkins , Canadian swimmer († 2020)
- January 25: Siegfried Trotnow , German gynecologist and reproductive medicine specialist († 2004)
- January 26: Kurt Laurenz Metzler , Swiss sculptor
- January 26th: Jochen Missfeldt , German writer
- January 26th: Heinrich von Pierer , German manager
- January 27: Karl Diller , German politician
- January 27: Bobby Hutcherson , American jazz vibraphonist, xylophone and marimba player († 2016)
- January 27: Beatrice Tinsley , a New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist († 1981)
- January 28th: Jochen Busse , German actor and cabaret artist
- January 28: Wolfgang Hepp , German actor
- January 28: King Tubby , Jamaican reggae musician († 1989)
- January 28th: Peter Voss , German journalist
- January 29th: Michael Arndt , German Archbishop
- January 29th: Gail Mowry Ashley , American geologist
- January 29: Uwe H. Schneider , German lawyer
- January 30: Gregory Benford , American science fiction writer and physicist
- January 30th: Dick Cheney , American politician, Vice President of the USA
- James William Ashton , Australian polo player († 2010) January
February
- Karl Dall , German TV presenter and comedian († 2020) February 1:
- Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Firsow , Russian ice hockey player († 2000) February 1:
- Jerry Spinelli , author of books for young adults and novels for young adults February 1:
- Bolívar Echeverría , Ecuadorian-Mexican scientist, philosopher and writer († 2010) February 2:
- Serge Tcherepnin , American composer February 2:
- Michael Scharang , Austrian writer February 3:
- Wolfgang Buresch , freelance writer, puppeteer, director February 4th:
- Edina Pop , German-Hungarian pop singer February 4th:
- Peter Raue , German art sponsor February 4th:
- Hubert Straßl , Austrian writer February 4th:
- Barrett Strong , American songwriter and singer February 5:
- Kaspar Villiger , Swiss politician February 5:
- Gareth Wyn Williams , British politician († 2003) February 5:
- Klaus Buchner , German physicist and ÖDP politician February 6:
- Rosemarie Ambé , German pop singer and TV presenter († 2014) February 7th:
- James Roger Prior Angel , American astronomer February 7:
- Volker Fadinger , German ancient historian February 7th:
- Leslie Lamport , American computer scientist February 7th:
- Wolfgang Blochwitz , German soccer player († 2005) February 8:
- Nick Nolte , American actor February 8:
- Irmlind Berg , Bavarian politician (SPD) February 9:
- February 10: Michael Apted , British director († 2021)
- February 10: Ray Miller , German pop singer
- February 10: David Parnas , software engineering pioneer
- February 10: Eike von Savigny , German philosopher
- February 11: Rudolf Brunnenmeier , German soccer player († 2003)
- February 11: Neritan Ceka , Albanian archaeologist and politician
- February 11: Sérgio Mendes , Brazilian pianist and arranger
- February 11: Margot Middelhauve , German artist
- February 12: Christoph Höhne , German athlete
- February 12: Bruno Lawrence , English musician and actor († 1995)
- February 12: Queen Esther Marrow , American gospel singer
- February 12: Binjamin Wilkomirski , Swiss author
- February 13: Konrad Gilges , German politician
- February 13: Walter Hirche , German politician
- February 13: Heidi Horten , Austrian art collector
- February 13: Sigmar Polke , German painter († 2010)
- February 13: Bo Svenson , American actor
- February 14: Big Jim Sullivan , British guitarist († 2012)
- February 15: Florinda Bolkan , Brazilian actress
- February 15: Klaus Matthiesen , German politician († 1998)
- February 16: Josef Schnusenberg , German tax advisor and football official
- February 17th: Heidi Biebl , German ski racer and Olympic champion
- February 17th: Julia McKenzie , British actress
- February 18: Lajos Dudas , German-Hungarian jazz clarinetist
- February 18: David Thomson , British film critic
- February 19: Carlos Roqué Alsina , Argentine classical music composer
- February 19: David Gross , American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- February 19: Hil Kabashi , Albanian Roman Catholic Bishop
- February 20th: Giuseppe Arzilli , Head of State of San Marino
- February 20: Alexander Gauland , German lawyer, publicist and politician
- February 20: Siegfried "Sigi" Hupfauer , German mountaineer
- February 20: Lim Kit Siang , Malay politician
- February 20: Dave Manders , American football player
- February 20: Buffy Sainte-Marie , Canadian musician, composer and performing artist
- February 21: Nojim Maiyegun , Nigerian boxer
- February 21: Heinrich Zankl , German human biologist and non-fiction author
- February 22nd: Giorgos Arvanitis , Greek cameraman
- February 22nd: Jack Darcus , Canadian director, screenwriter, painter and writer
- February 22nd: Günter Fischer , German politician and Member of the State Parliament
- February 22nd: Rafael Hipólito Mejía Domínguez , President of the Dominican Republic
- February 22nd: Jürgen Nöldner , German soccer player
- February 22nd: Jean-Pierre Rouget , French racing car driver
- February 25: Pierluigi Cera , Italian football player
- February 25: Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin , German politician
- February 26: Katharina Bott , German art historian
- February 26: Wolfram Lindner , German cycling trainer († 2010)
- February 26: Jobst Plog , German director of the NDR
- February 26: Hagen Tschoeltsch , German politician, MdL
- February 27: Paddy Ashdown , British politician († 2018)
- February 27: Rudolf Kraus , German politician († 2018)
- February 27: Gabriel Zubeir Wako , Archbishop of Khartoum and Cardinal
March
- Sulejman Halil Mato , Albanian writer March 1:
- Franklin Zielski , Canadian rower († 2021) March 1:
- Jutta Hoffmann , German stage and film actress March 3rd:
- John Curtis Thomas , American athlete († 2013) March 3:
- John Aprea , American actor March 4:
- David Darling , American musician († 2021) March 4:
- Adrian Lyne , British director March 4th:
- Peter Brötzmann , German jazz musician March 6th:
- Ralph Bryans , British motorcycle racer († 2014) March 7th:
- Heinz Fraas , German politician March 7th:
- Peter Schuster , Austrian chemist March 7th:
- Manfred Seipold , German actor and voice actor († 1989) March 7:
- Ivana Loudová , Czech composer († 2017) March 8:
- Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin , Russian figure skater and figure skating coach March 8:
- Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier , Archbishop of Durban March 8:
- Norbert Langer , German actor and dubbing and radio play speaker March 9:
- Wolfgang Schröder , Austrian-German forest scientist March 9th:
- March 10: Péter Mansfeld , Hungarian schoolboy and victim of communist justice in Hungary († 1959)
- March 11: Tim Johnston , British athlete († 2021)
- March 12: Erkki Salmenhaara , Finnish composer and musicologist († 2002)
- March 13th: Heinrich Burger , German correspondence chess grandmaster
- March 14: James R. Clapper , US Director of Intelligence
- March 14: Malcolm Douglas , Australian wildlife filmmaker († 2010)
- March 14th: Wolfgang Petersen , German film director and producer
- March 15: Jürgen Knieper , German composer of film music
- March 15: Jean-Louis Lafosse , French racing driver († 1981)
- March 15: Mike Love , American musician
- March 16: Bernardo Bertolucci , Italian film director († 2018)
- March 16: Robert Guéï , military leader of Côte d'Ivoire († 2002)
- March 17: Paul Kantner , American rock musician († 2016)
- March 18: Wolfgang Bauer , Austrian writer for Forum Stadtpark († 2005)
- March 18: Wilson Pickett , American soul singer († 2006)
- March 19: Bruno Leonardo Gelber , Argentine pianist
- March 19: Ole Nydahl , Danish Buddhist
- March 19: Tommi Piper , German actor and voice actor
- March 20: Gianfranco Lombardi , Italian basketball player and coach († 2021)
- March 21: Violeta Andrei , Romanian actress
- March 21: Hubert Deittert , German politician and member of the Bundestag († 2020)
- March 21: Dirk Frimout , Belgian astronaut
- March 22: Bruno Ganz , Swiss actor († 2019)
- March 24th: Leopold Auburger , German linguist
- March 24: Karl Blessing , German publisher († 2005)
- March 24th: Mara Cruz , Spanish actress
- March 24th: Ulrich Parzany , German theologian, evangelist, leader of YMCA and ProChrist
- March 25: Richard Agreiter , Austrian sculptor
- March 25: Erhard Busek , Austrian politician
- March 25: Mathias Gnädinger , Swiss actor († 2015)
- March 25: Gunter Pleuger , German diplomat
- March 25: Gerd Poppe , civil rights activist and minister without portfolio of the GDR
- March 26: Richard Dawkins , English zoologist, ethologist and evolutionary biologist
- March 27: Kurt Felix , TV presenter and TV journalist († 2012)
- March 27: Ivan Gašparovič , Slovak politician and President
- March 27: Liese Prokop , Austrian politician († 2006)
- March 28th: Holger Bartsch , German politician
- March 28: Alf Clausen , American composer
- March 28th: Detlev Ganten , specialist in pharmacology and molecular medicine
- March 28: Peter Hladik , German actor
- March 28: Zsuzsanna Sirokay , Hungarian pianist
- March 28: Rolf Zacher , German actor († 2018)
- March 29: Renato Corsetti , Chair of the UEA
- March 29: Peter Sadler , British racing car driver († 2009)
- March 29: Bruno Simma , German international lawyer
- March 29: Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. , American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner
- March 30th: André de Cortanze , French racing car designer and racing car driver
- March 31: Mirla Castellanos , Venezuelan singer
- March 31: Heinz Putzhammer , German elementary school teacher, member of the DGB and the National Ethics Council († 2006)
April
- David Childs , American architect April 1:
- Heinz Hermann Thiele , German entrepreneur († 2021) April 2:
- Eric Braeden , American actor April 3:
- Roland W. , German pop singer († 2009) April 3:
- Angelica Domröse , German actress April 4th:
- Helme Heine , German writer April 4:
- Siegfried Schmalzriedt , German university professor and musicologist († 2008) April 4:
- Hans-Werner Bussinger , German actor († 2009) April 5:
- Dave Swarbrick , British violinist († 2016) April 5:
- Hans W. Geißendörfer , German director, author and producer April 6:
- Gheorghe Zamfir , Romanian pan flute virtuoso April 6th:
- Kristin Tüttenberg , judge at the Federal Social Court April 7th:
- Heinz Zuber , German actor April 7th:
- Monika Krause-Fuchs , German politician and sexologist in Cuba († 2019) April 8:
- Vivienne Westwood , English fashion designer April 8th:
- Amos Johnson , American racing car driver April 9:
- April 10: Jamie Reid , Canadian poet, writer and art activist († 2015)
- April 10: Gilles de Robien , French politician
- April 10: Paul Theroux , American travel writer
- April 10: Martin Waddell , British writer
- April 11: Benno Hurt , German writer, photographer and lawyer
- April 11: Lewis E. Platt , American manager († 2005)
- April 11: Karsten Voigt , German politician
- April 12th: Dieter Auch , German politician
- April 12: Bobby Moore , English soccer player († 1993)
- April 12: Iain Quarrier , Canadian actor
- April 13: Michael Stuart Brown , American geneticist
- April 13: Jean-Marc Reiser , French comic artist († 1983)
- April 14th: Landolf Scherzer , German writer and publicist
- April 14: Ingrid Smejkal , Austrian politician († 2017)
- April 15: Jochen van Aerssen , German politician († 1992)
- April 15: Roland Astor , Austrian actor, musical performer, radio play speaker and voice actor
- April 15: Ulrich Heising , German director († 2013)
- April 15: Klaus Stiller , German writer
- April 16: Alois Büchel , Liechtenstein theater director, director and athlete
- April 16: Roberto Poggiali , Italian cyclist
- April 17th: Fritz von Friedl , Austrian actor and speaker
- April 17: Adolphus Hailstork , American composer and music educator
- April 18: Michael D. Higgins , Irish politician and poet, Irish President-in-Office
- April 19: Edit Buchholz , German table tennis player
- April 19: Leopoldo Igarza , Venezuelan composer, guitarist and music teacher
- April 19: Jürgen Kocka , German social historian
- April 20: Alewtina Viktorovna Aparina , Russian politician († 2013)
- April 20: Ryan O'Neal , American actor
- April 20: Friedhelm Prayon , German archaeologist
- April 21: David Boren , American politician
- April 21: Harry Miller , South African jazz bassist († 1983)
- April 21: Michael Succow , German biologist
- April 22nd: Hans Robert Hansen , German-Austrian economist and business IT specialist
- April 22: Amir Pnueli , Israeli computer scientist († 2009)
- April 22: Michael Schulte , German writer and literary translator († 2019)
- April 23: Jacqueline Boyer , French chanson and pop singer
- April 23: Hal Daub , American Republican Party politician
- April 23: Arie den Hartog , Dutch cyclist († 2018)
- April 24th: Rolf Grimm , German soccer player
- April 24: Richard Holbrooke , American diplomat († 2010)
- April 24th: John Christopher Williams , Australian guitarist
- April 25: Werner Enke , German actor and author
- April 25: Markus Lüpertz , German painter
- April 25: Walter Mixa , German Roman Catholic Bishop (1996-2010) and Catholic Military Bishop (2000-2010)
- April 25: Rudolf Růžička , Czech composer
- April 25: Bertrand Tavernier , French film director († 2021)
- April 26: Claudine Auger , French actress († 2019)
- April 26: Regine Hildebrandt , German biologist and politician († 2001)
- April 26: John Mitchell , American New Classical Music composer
- April 27: Lutz Ackermann , German sculptor
- April 27: Peter Ensikat , German writer and cabaret artist († 2013)
- April 27: Friedrich Goldmann , German composer and conductor († 2009)
- April 27: Fethullah Gülen , Turkish Islamic scholar
- April 27: Aminata Sow Fall , Senegalese writer
- April 28th: Horst Adler , Austrian prehistorian
- April 28th: Lucien Aimar , French cyclist
- April 28: Ann-Margret , Swedish actress
- April 28th: Peter Kunter , German soccer player
- April 29: Toney Anaya , American politician
- April 30: Sean Arnold , British actor († 2020)
- April 30th: Stavros Dimas , Greek politician and European Commissioner for Environment
- April 30: Luis Antonio García Navarro , Spanish conductor († 2001)
- April 30th: Heinz Prüller , Austrian journalist
May
- Jorge Felix Arrate MacNiven , Chilean politician May 1st:
- Tony Adamowicz , American racing car driver († 2016) May 2:
- Elvira Hoffmann , German writer May 2nd:
- Eddy Louiss , French jazz pianist and organist († 2015) May 2nd:
- Jules Albert Wijdenbosch , Surinamese politician May 2nd:
- Dieter Borchmeyer , German literary scholar May 3:
- Nona Gaprindashvili , Georgian chess player May 3:
- Dave Robinson , American football player May 3:
- David LaFlamme , American rock violinist May 4th:
- Kay Nehm , German lawyer, Attorney General May 4th:
- Joachim Wanke , German bishop May 4th:
- Georg Hamburger , German politician and CDU member May 5th:
- Alexander Pavlovich Ragulin , Russian ice hockey player († 2004) May 5:
- Gena Dimitrova , Bulgarian opera singer († 2005) May 6:
- Ivica Osim , Yugoslav soccer player and coach May 6:
- Friedrich Seifert , German mineralogist and geophysicist May 8:
- Hinrich Enderlein , German politician May 9:
- May 11: Eric Burdon , British rock singer (The Animals)
- May 12: Erik Zimen , Swedish biologist († 2003)
- May 13: Hademar Bankhofer , Austrian journalist
- May 13: Senta Berger , Austrian actress and film producer
- May 13: Heinrich Bolleter , Bishop of the Methodist Church in Central and Southern Europe
- May 13: Joe Brown , British musician
- May 13: Imca Marina , Dutch singer
- May 13: Ritchie Valens , American rock 'n' roll musician († 1959)
- May 14: Habib Galhia , Tunisian boxer († 2011)
- May 15: Jürgen Gosch , German entrepreneur
- May 15: Hans Weber , German motor sportsman († 1969)
- May 17th: Csilla von Boeselager , co-founder of the Hungarian Malteser Caritas service († 1994)
- May 17: Earl Benjamin Nelson , American politician
- May 18: Malcolm Sim Longair , Scottish astronomer
- May 18: Mauricio de Narváez , Colombian racing car driver and racing team owner
- May 19: Ritt Bjerregaard , Danish social democratic politician
- May 19: Nora Ephron , American screenwriter and film director († 2012)
- May 19: Heinz Oberhummer , Austrian physicist († 2015)
- May 20: Goh Chok Tong , Prime Minister of Singapore and General Secretary of the People's Action Party (PAP)
- May 20: Josef Schwarz , German athlete
- May 20: Peter Sefrin , German doctor and personality in emergency and disaster medicine
- May 21: Erhard Ahmann , German soccer player and trainer († 2005)
- May 21: Martin Carthy , British folk singer, guitarist and mandolin player
- May 21: Norbert Klaus Fuchs , German author, editor and publisher
- May 22: Donald Harman Akenson , American historian and writer
- May 22nd: Martha Langbein , German athlete
- May 23: Otto Andrae , Swiss trumpet and trombone player († 2021)
- May 23: Roderik de Man , Dutch composer
- May 23: Ernst Schubert , German historian († 2006)
- May 24: Bob Dylan , American folk and rock musician
- May 25: Winfried Bölke , German racing cyclist († 2021)
- May 25: Vladimir Voronin , Moldovan politician and President of Moldova
- May 26: Giorgio Ariani , Italian comedian and actor († 2016)
- May 27: Gisela Bock , Bavarian politician
- May 28: Guntram Vesper , German writer and poet († 2020)
- May 29th: Inger Reidun Aufles , Norwegian cross-country skier
- May 29: Pepi Bader , German bobsleigh driver († 2021)
- May 29: David McHugh , American composer
- May 29: Doug Scott , British extreme mountaineer († 2020)
- May 29: Bob Simon , American CBS correspondent († 2015)
- May 30th: Detlev Blanke , German lecturer for interlinguistics († 2016)
- May 30th: José Luís Encarnação , Portuguese computer scientist
- May 30th: Heribert Faßbender , German sports journalist
- May 31: Wolfgang Fahrian , German soccer player
- May 31: Roland Girtler , Austrian sociologist, cultural anthropologist and philosopher
- May 31: Hans Neuenfels , German writer, librettist, theater and opera director
- May 31: William D. Nordhaus , American economist
- May 31: Karin Tietze-Ludwig , German presenter and TV announcer
June
- Jigjidiin Mönchbat , Mongolian wrestler († 2018) June 1:
- Stacy Keach , American actor June 2:
- Irène Schweizer , Swiss pianist and drummer June 2nd:
- Charlie Watts , British drummer, member of the Rolling Stones († 2021) June 2:
- Monika Maron , German writer June 3:
- Klaus Michael Grüber , German theater and opera director († 2008) June 4:
- Winfried Albert Holtmann , German cycling manager and journalist († 2003) June 4th:
- Martha Argerich , Argentine pianist June 5th:
- Werner Böhm , German singer († 2020) June 5:
- Barbara Brylska , Polish actress June 5th:
- Arne Fuhrmann , German politician June 5th:
- Spalding Gray , American actor, screenwriter and writer († 2004) June 5:
- Hartmut Heidemann , German soccer player June 5th:
- Alfred Luhmer , German professor of business administration June 5:
- Neal Adams , American draftsman and graphic artist June 6:
- Larry Donn , American rockabilly musician († 2012) June 7:
- Herbert Herrmann , Swiss actor June 7th:
- George Pell , Archbishop of Sydney and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church June 8:
- Paula Robison , American flautist and music teacher June 8:
- Wolfgang Benz , German historian June 9:
- Jon Lord , British musician († 2012) June 9:
- Dieter Schulte , German politician June 9:
- Florian Vetsch , Swiss entrepreneur and racing car driver June 9:
- Joseph Jules Zerey , Archbishop of Egypt June 9:
- June 10: José Antonio Ardanza Garro , Spanish politician
- June 10: Horst Kubatschka , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- June 10: Jürgen Piepenburg , German soccer player
- June 10: Jürgen Prochnow , German actor
- June 10: Oswald Schwemmer , German philosopher
- June 10: Dave Walker , Australian racing car driver
- June 11: Helmut Krauss , German actor, cabaret artist and voice actor († 2019)
- June 12: Chick Corea , American jazz pianist and composer († 2021)
- June 12th: Roy Harper , British musician
- June 12: Walther Umstätter , Professor of Library and Information Science († 2019)
- June 13: Esther Ofarim , Israeli actress and singer
- June 13: Grazia Salvatori , Italian composer and organist
- June 13th: Frans Verbeeck , Belgian cyclist
- June 15: Winfried EH Blum , German-Austrian soil biologist and forest scientist
- June 15: Hagen Kleinert , German physicist
- June 15: Frank Strecker , German actor, director and author († 2000)
- June 16: Aldrich Ames , CIA employee and double agent
- June 16: Tõnu Õim , Estonian chess master
- June 16: Hans-Peter Wild , Swiss entrepreneur
- June 17th: Renate Jäger , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- June 17th: Herbert Leiser , Swiss actor
- June 17: William Lucking , American film and stage actor († 2021)
- June 18: Norman Ascot , German singer
- June 18: Roger Lemerre , French football player and coach
- June 19: Václav Klaus , Czech economist and Prime Minister
- June 20th: Stephen Frears , British film director
- June 20: Dieter Mann , German theater and film actor
- June 20: Ulf Merbold , German physicist and astronaut
- June 20: Reimut Reiche , German psychologist, sociologist and sex researcher
- June 21: Liz Mohn , German entrepreneur
- June 21: Heinz Trixner , Austrian actor
- June 21: Harald Vogel , German organist
- June 22nd: Raschid al-Ghannuschi , Tunisian politician
- June 22nd: Ed Bradley , American journalist († 2006)
- June 22nd: Widmar Hader , German composer
- June 24th: Hans-Dieter Arntz , German regional historian
- June 24th: Erkin Koray , Turkish singer
- June 24: Julia Kristeva , Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst and author
- June 24th: Christa Lörcher , German politician
- June 24: Charles Whitman , American architecture student and sniper († 1966)
- June 25: Denys Arcand , Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer
- June 25: Alby Cullaz , French jazz double bass player († 1998)
- June 26: Wayne Dockery , American jazz bassist († 2018)
- June 26th: Tamara Nikolajewna Moskwina , Russian figure skater and figure skating coach
- June 27: James P. Hogan , British science fiction writer († 2010)
- June 27: Krzysztof Kieślowski , Polish film director and screenwriter († 1996)
- June 28: David Johnston , Canadian law scholar and author
- June 29: Margitta Gummel , German athlete († 2021)
- June 29th: Jacques Toubon , French politician
- June 30th: Hans Jürgen Ahrens , Chairman of the Federal Association of AOK
- June 30th: Roger Blachon , French cartoonist († 2008)
- June 30th: Klaus Häcker , German handball player and trainer
- June 30: Otto Sander , German actor († 2013)
- June 30: Willem Albert Wagenaar , Dutch forensic psychologist († 2011)
July
- Bob Gansler , American football coach July 1:
- Alfred Goodman Gilman , American pharmacologist († 2015) July 1:
- Myron Scholes , Canadian finance scientist, Nobel Prize winner July 1:
- Twyla Tharp , American choreographer and ballet master July 1:
- Wendell Mottley , athlete and politician from Trinidad and Tobago July 2nd:
- Wolfgang Schulz , German songwriter († 1992) July 2:
- Gloria Allred , American lawyer and civil rights activist July 3:
- Oskar Bachmann , Swiss politician († 2013) July 3:
- Robert Leidinger , German politician July 3:
- Liamine Zéroual , former President of Algeria July 3:
- German Frers , Argentine yacht designer July 4th:
- Tomaž Šalamun , Slovenian poet († 2014) July 4th:
- Pavel Sedláček , Czech rock singer, guitarist and composer July 4th:
- Eckart Witzigmann , Austrian cook July 4th:
- Barbara Frischmuth , Austrian writer and translator July 5th:
- Margot Hellwig , German singer of popular music July 5th:
- Wolfgang Zeitlmann , German politician and Member of the Bundestag July 5th:
- Viktor Petrovich Ageev , Soviet boxer July 7th:
- Michael Howard , British politician July 7th:
- John Fru Ndi , Cameroonian politician July 7th:
- Wolfram Setz , German historian and essayist July 7th:
- Klaus J. Stöhlker , German-Swiss journalist and entrepreneur July 8:
- Nancy Farmer , American writer July 9:
- Peter Kitchak , American entrepreneur and racing car driver July 9:
- Ulrich Schwab , German theater director July 9:
- July 10: Giorgio Dellagiovanna , Italian football player († 2013)
- July 10: Alain Krivine , French politician
- July 10: Dale Olsen , American flautist, musicologist and educator
- July 11: Heiner Bremer , German journalist
- July 11: Hans Raidel , German politician
- July 12: Eddy Bell (also known as Eddy Blazonczyk), American rock 'n' roll and polka musician († 2012)
- July 12: Richard Tuttle , American sculptor
- July 13th: Diethelm Ferner , German soccer player and soccer coach
- July 13: Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera , 15th President of Uruguay
- July 13: Jacques Perrin , French actor and producer
- July 14th: Daniel Gache , French racing car driver
- July 14th: Andreas Khol , Austrian politician
- July 15: Geoffrey Burgon , British ballet and film music composer († 2010)
- July 15: Anwar Fazal , Malaysian consumer advocate
- July 15: Diethard Finkelmann , German handball player
- July 16: Desmond Dekker , Jamaican ska singer and composer († 2006)
- July 16: Dietrich von Gumppenberg , German politician and entrepreneur († 2021)
- July 16: François Lapierre , Canadian Catholic missionary and bishop
- July 16: Gladys Marín , Chilean politician († 2005)
- July 16: Dag Solstad , Norwegian author
- July 16: Karl Stetter , German biologist
- July 17th: Jürgen Flimm , German director, director of the Salzburg Festival
- July 17th: Achim Warmbold , German rally driver
- July 18: Frank Farian , German music producer, composer and singer
- July 18: Gloster Richardson , American football player († 2020)
- July 18: Karl von Wogau , German MEP
- July 18: Pete Yellin , American jazz musician († 2016)
- July 19: Peter Franke , German actor
- July 19: Neelie Kroes , Dutch politician
- July 19: Uta Nickel , German politician
- July 19: Palmenia Pizarro , Chilean singer
- July 20: Björn-Uwe Abels , German prehistoric archaeologist and conservator
- July 21: Diogo Freitas do Amaral , Portuguese politician († 2019)
- July 22nd: Harry Behre , German soccer player
- July 22nd: George Clinton , American musician
- July 22nd: Thorwald Proll , German poet
- July 23: Christopher Andrew , British historian
- July 23: Heinz Anger , Austrian painter
- July 23: Sergio Mattarella , Italian President
- July 23: Hartwig Steenken , German show jumper († 1978)
- July 24th: Ernst Elitz , German journalist and university professor
- July 24: Risto Kala , Finnish basketball player and medic († 2021)
- July 24: Ekkehard Schulz , German manager
- July 25: Frank Böckelmann , German author
- July 25: Raúl Ruiz , Chilean-French film director and screenwriter († 2011)
- July 26: Colin François Lloyd Austin , British classical philologist and papyrologist († 2010)
- July 26: Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker , German biochemist
- July 27: Johannes Fritsch , German composer († 2010)
- July 27th: August-Wilhelm Scheer , director of the institute at Saarland University
- July 27: Peter Seifert , Lord Mayor of Chemnitz (Saxony)
- July 27: Zlatko Škorić , Yugoslav football goalkeeper and coach († 2019)
- July 28th: Hans Fricke , German biologist and animal filmmaker
- July 28: Riccardo Muti , Italian master conductor
- July 28: Pentti Saarman , Finnish boxer († 2021)
- July 29: Wolfgang Bittner , German writer
- July 29th: Peter Hohl , German writer, publicist and publisher
- July 29th: May Spils , German director
- July 29: David Warner , British stage and film actor
- July 30: Paul Anka , Canadian singer
- July 30th: Karin Beyer , German swimmer, world record holder
- July 31: Frøydis Ree Wekre , Norwegian horn player and professor
August
- Ron Brown , American politician († 1996) August 1:
- Nathalie Delon , French actress and director († 2021) August 1:
- Jordi Savall , Spanish musicologist and gambist August 1st:
- Christa Thoben , German politician August 1st:
- Hans Werner Tobler , Swiss historian August 1:
- François Weyergans , Belgian-French writer († 2019) August 2:
- Hans-Peter von Kirchbach , German general August 3:
- Martha Stewart , American television and magazine personality August 3:
- Martin Jarvis , English actor August 4th:
- Ted Strickland , American politician August 4th:
- Peter Assion , German folklorist and Germanist († 1994) August 5:
- Alexander K. Dewdney , Canadian computer scientist, book author August 5:
- Airto Guimorv Moreira , Brazilian jazz percussionist August 5th:
- Karlheinz Liefers , German actor, theater and radio play director († 2006) August 6:
- Hubert Wipplinger , Austrian lobbyist († 2004) August 6:
- Klaus Brand , German handball player and trainer August 7th:
- Franco Columbu , Italian-American bodybuilder, chiropractor, author and film actor († 2019) August 7th:
- Howard Johnson , American baritone saxophonist, tuba player, composer and arranger († 2021) August 7:
- Volkert Kraeft , German actor and speaker August 7th:
- Volkmar W. Kübler , German business and economist and lawyer († 2009) August 7:
- Renate Blank , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 2021) August 8:
- Hubert Schoonbroodt , Belgian organist, oboist, conductor and choir director († 1992) August 8:
- Alfred Vaino Aho , Canadian computer scientist August 9:
- José Manuel Calderón , Dominican Bachata singer, composer and guitarist August 9:
- Jack Elder , American luge rider August 9:
- Peter Hartz , German manager August 9:
- August 10: Lawrence Casserley , English composer, improviser and music teacher
- August 11: John Simon , American rock music producer
- August 11th: Georg Untergaßmair , South Tyrolean abbot and university professor
- August 12th: Edwin Roberts , athlete from Trinidad and Tobago
- August 13th: Chucho Avellanet , Puerto Rican singer
- August 13: Ambrogio Fogar , Italian adventurer († 2005)
- August 13: Dante Grela , Argentine composer and music teacher
- August 13: Chris Hanburger , American football player
- August 13: Henning Voscherau , German notary and politician, First Mayor of Hamburg († 2016)
- August 14: Matthias Claus Angermeyer , German medic
- August 14: David Crosby , American guitarist, singer and songwriter
- August 14: Uta Zapf , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- August 15: Aref Arefkia , Persian singer
- August 15: Jürgen Dietz , German Shrovetide Speaker († 2015)
- August 16: Ahmad al-Mirghani , Sudanese President († 2008)
- August 16: Kōjin Karatani , Japanese literary scholar and philosopher
- August 17: Stere Adamache , Romanian football player († 1978)
- August 17: Dieter Ameling , German manager († 2020)
- August 17: Ibrahim Babangida , officer, politician and former President of Nigeria
- August 17: Lothar Bisky , German politician, Federal Chairman of the PDS († 2013)
- August 17th: Werner Edelmann , Swiss entrepreneur and President of FC Basel
- August 17th: Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler , German entrepreneur
- August 17th: Jutta Semler , German doctor († 2016)
- August 17th: Jürgen Thumann , President of the Federation of German Industries. V.
- August 17th: Fritz Wepper , German actor
- August 18: Karin Buchholz , German voice actress
- August 18: Helmut Kajzar , Polish director († 1982)
- August 19: Gerd vom Bruch , German soccer coach
- August 19: Rolf Königs , German football official
- August 20: Georg Girisch , German politician
- August 20: Hannelore Hoger , German actress
- August 20: Slobodan Milošević , Yugoslav-Serbian politician († 2006)
- August 20: Július Satinský , Slovak actor († 2002)
- August 21: György Vukán , Hungarian composer, pianist and jazz musician († 2013)
- August 22nd: Klaus-Peter Sattler , Austrian composer
- August 23: Hans-Gerd Adler , German local politician
- August 23: Renato Anselmi , Swiss jazz musician
- August 23: Ray Appleton , American jazz drummer and percussionist († 2015)
- August 23: Hermann Auernhammer , German professor of technology in crop production and landscape management
- August 23: Lotti Krekel , German actress and singer
- August 23: Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve , British philosopher,
- August 24th: Hans-Georg Reimann , German walker
- August 24: Skip Scott , American racing driver († 2003)
- August 25: Carol Bolt , Canadian playwright († 2000)
- August 25: Mario Corso , Italian football player and coach († 2020)
- August 25: Angelo Domenghini , Italian football player and coach
- August 26: Chris Curtis , English drummer and singer († 2005)
- August 26th: Barbet Schroeder , French film director
- August 27: Götz Dieckmann , German modern historian
- August 27: Bernard Ebbers , Canadian manager and criminal († 2020)
- August 27: Cesária Évora , Cape Verdean singer († 2011)
- August 27: Monika Sperr , German writer († 1984)
- August 28: Nils Andersson , Swedish football player and coach
- August 29: Sibylle Bergemann , German photographer († 2010)
- August 29: Christel Deichmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- August 29: Günter Delling , German pathologist († 2016)
- August 29th: Ole Ritter , Danish cyclist
- August 30: Manfred Erdenberger , German journalist, radio and television presenter
- August 30: Ignazio Giunti , Italian racing driver († 1971)
- August 31: Knut Faldbakken , Norwegian writer
- August 31: Wolfgang Hilbig , German writer († 2007)
- August 31: Walter Mossmann , German songwriter († 2015)
- August 31: Emmanuel Nunes , Portuguese composer († 2012)
September
- Dave Cowart , American racing car driver September 3rd:
- Felipe Pirela , Venezuelan singer († 1972) September 4th:
- Earl Ross , Canadian racing driver († 2014) September 4th:
- Aleksandar Shalamanov , Bulgarian soccer player and ski racer († 2021) September 4:
- Rachid Boudjedra , Algerian writer September 5:
- Manfred Popp , German physicist September 5:
- Wilfried Härle , German theologian September 6:
- Micky Waller , British rock musician, drummer († 2008) September 6th:
- Gerhard Augustin , German music producer († 2021) September 7th:
- Konrad Körner , German jazz musician and university professor September 8th:
- Bernie Sanders , American politician, member of the House of Representatives (I-VT) September 8:
- Julius Schädler , Liechtenstein luge rider († 2001) September 8:
- Peter Braun , Lord Mayor of the large district town of Germering September 9:
- Otis Redding , American soul singer († 1967) September 9:
- Dennis Ritchie , American computer scientist († 2011) September 9:
- September 10: Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig , German politician
- September 10: Stephen Jay Gould , American paleontologist, geologist and evolutionary researcher († 2002)
- September 10: Christopher Hogwood , British conductor and harpsichordist († 2014)
- September 10: Gunpei Yokoi , game developer at the video game company Nintendo († 1997)
- September 11th: Tanja Berg , German pop singer
- September 12: Klaus van Ackern , German anesthetist
- September 12: Günter Rexrodt , German politician († 2004)
- September 13: Tadao Andō , Japanese architect
- September 13: David Clayton-Thomas , Canadian musician
- September 13: Knut Kiesewetter , German singer, songwriter and trombonist († 2016)
- September 13: Wolf Klinz , German MEP
- September 13: Bernd Lötsch , Austrian biologist
- September 13: Ahmet Necdet Sezer , Turkish President
- September 13: Günther Tschanun , Swiss murderer († 2015)
- September 14: Heinz Heinen , Belgian-German ancient historian († 2013)
- September 14: Eckhard Henscheid , German writer
- September 14: Alberto Naranjo , Venezuelan musician and composer († 2020)
- September 15: Rudolf Aeschbacher , Swiss politician
- September 15: Flórián Albert , Hungarian football player († 2011)
- September 15: Csaba Meleghegyi , Hungarian chess player († 2004)
- September 15: Charles Schumann , German bartender and restaurateur
- September 16: Jim McBride , American film director
- September 16: Richard Perle , American neo-conservative politician
- September 16: Hans-Georg Stümke , German weather observer, writer, historian and publicist († 2002)
- September 17th: Rudolf Lange , German naval officer and politician
- September 17: Donald Segretti , American attorney
- September 19: Umberto Bossi , Italian politician
- September 19: Cass Elliot , American singer and member of the band The Mamas and the Papas († 1974)
- September 19: Peter Hinnen , Swiss yodeler and pop singer
- September 19: Peter Horton , Austrian guitarist, songwriter, television presenter and writer
- September 19: Markus Imhoof , Swiss film director
- September 19: Mariangela Melato , Italian actress († 2013)
- September 20: Gerd Achenbach , German politician
- September 20: Butch Byrd , American football player
- September 20: François Sérvanin , French racing driver
- September 21: Roberto Szidon , Brazilian pianist († 2011)
- September 21: Herbert Watterott , German sports journalist
- September 21: James Woolsey , American politician
- September 22nd: Roger Mandeville , American racing car driver
- September 22nd: Cesare Salvadori , Italian saber fencer († 2021)
- September 23: Luis Durnwalder , South Tyrolean politician
- September 23: Kuno Füssel , German theologian
- September 23: Margitta Terborg , German politician
- September 23: Norma Winstone , British jazz singer
- September 24th: Alexander Lang , German theater director
- September 24: John Mackey , American football player († 2011)
- September 24: Linda McCartney , American photographer, wife of Paul McCartney († 1998)
- September 24th: Tony Rutter , English motorcycle racer († 2020)
- September 24th: Italo Zilioli , Italian cyclist
- September 25: Diego Coletti , Italian bishop
- September 25: Raymundo Gleyzer , Argentine filmmaker (probably † 1976)
- September 25: Takao Sakurai , Japanese bantamweight boxer († 2012)
- September 26: Salvatore Accardo , Italian violinist and conductor
- September 26: David Frizzell , American country singer
- September 26: Vadim Glowna , German actor and director († 2012)
- September 26: Karin Gregorek , German actress
- September 26: Fiede Kay , singer and songwriter of Low German songs († 2005)
- September 27: Tommaso Di Ciaula , Italian writer and journalist († 2021)
- September 27: Roger Claessen , Belgian football player († 1982)
- September 28: Mary Penelope Aubrey-Fletcher , British peeress and politician
- September 28: David Lewis , American philosopher († 2001)
- September 28: Edmund Stoiber , German politician, Prime Minister of the Free State of Bavaria
- September 28: Charley Taylor , American football player
- September 29: Gaston Salvatore , German-speaking writer († 2015)
- September 30th: Britt Eleonora Arenander , Swedish writer, translator and journalist
- September 30: Paul Bremer , American politician, civil administrator for Iraq
- September 30th: Os Guinness , British sociologist, social critic, apologist, public speaker, author and evangelical thought leader
- September 30th: Reine Wisell , Swedish racing car driver
October
- Vyacheslav Vedenin , Soviet cross-country skier († 2021) October 1:
- Hilbert Meyer , German professor for school education October 2nd:
- John Sinclair , American poet, writer, former manager of MC5 October 2:
- Jean Vallée , Belgian singer († 2014) October 2:
- Fikret Adanır , Turkish historian October 3:
- Chubby Checker , American rock and roll singer October 3:
- Mike Gallagher , American cross-country skier († 2013) October 3:
- Victor Palciauskas , American chess player October 3:
- Willi Wagner , German obstacle runner October 3rd:
- Anne Rice , American writer († 2021) October 4:
- Jerrel Wilson , American football player († 2005) October 4:
- Robert Wilson , American director, painter, set designer, and architect October 4:
- Manfred Bofinger , German graphic artist and cartoonist († 2006) October 5:
- Eduardo Duhalde , Argentine President October 5:
- John Nicholson , New Zealand engine tuner and racing car driver († 2017) October 6:
- Thomas Pröpper , Catholic dogmatist and fundamental theologian († 2015) October 6:
- Hans Arnold , German soccer player († 1991) October 8:
- Jesse Jackson , American Baptist pastor, politician, and civil rights activist October 8:
- Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig , German politician October 8th:
- Giancarlo Bercellino , Italian football player October 9:
- Trent Lott , American politician and former US Senator for the state of Mississippi October 9:
- October 10: Peter Coyote , American actor
- October 10: Assadullah Habib , Afghan poet and writer
- October 10: Gerd Honsik , Austrian writer and Holocaust denier († 2018)
- October 10: Ken Saro-Wiwa , Nigerian civil rights activist and writer († 1995)
- October 10: Gert Voss , German actor († 2014)
- October 11: Lester Bowie , jazz trumpeter, band leader and composer († 1999)
- October 12th: André Gahinet , French racing car driver
- October 13: Hans Achenbach , German teacher of criminal law
- October 13: Neil Aspinall , British road manager and assistant to the Beatles († 2008)
- October 13: Robert Hunter , Canadian journalist, author and politician († 2005)
- October 13: Peter Kschentz , German musician of the GDR rock band Klaus Renft Combo († 2005)
- October 13: Martin Mayer , German politician († 2017)
- October 13: Paul Simon , American musician
- October 14: Peter Ducke , German soccer player
- October 14th: Anton Pelinka , political scientist, Dean of the University of Innsbruck
- October 14: Desanka Pešut , Yugoslav sports shooter († 2021)
- October 15: Rosie Douglas , Dominican politician († 2000)
- October 16: Hans Gratzer , Austrian director and theater manager († 2005)
- October 16: Claude Savard , Canadian pianist and music teacher († 2003)
- October 18: Billy Cox , American bassist
- October 19: Jo Bolling , German actor
- October 19: Eddie Daniels , American jazz clarinet and saxophonist
- October 19: Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos , Angolan writer, politician and freedom fighter
- October 21: Steve "The Colonel" Cropper , American guitarist, producer and songwriter
- October 22: Max Apple , American novelist and screenwriter
- October 22nd: Dietrich Austermann , German politician
- October 23: Jürgen Egert , German politician († 1992)
- October 23: Lawrence Foster , American conductor
- October 23: Knut Hinz , German actor
- October 23: Herbert Lübking , German field and indoor handball player
- October 23: René Metge , French rally driver
- October 23: Igor Nikolaevich Smirnov , politician, President of Transnistria
- October 24: Sally Daley , American composer, organist and church musician
- October 24: Peter Takeo Okada , Japanese Catholic priest, Archbishop of Tokyo († 2020)
- October 25: Lynda Benglis , American artist
- October 25: Helen Reddy , Australian singer and film actress († 2020)
- October 25: Wolf-Rüdiger Schenke , German teacher of constitutional law
- October 25: Anne Tyler , American writer
- October 26: Bob de Groot , Belgian comic artist
- October 26: Holger Meins , German terrorist and member of the RAF († 1974)
- October 26: Peter Przygodda , German film editor († 2011)
- October 27: Gerd Brantenberg , Norwegian author
- October 28th: Hank B. Marvin , English guitarist and songwriter
- October 29: Peter Pelikan , Austrian architect
- October 30: Theodor Hänsch , German physicist
- October 30: Otto Kentzler , German entrepreneur († 2019)
- October 31: Peter Aczel , British mathematical logician and computer scientist
- October 31st: Derek Bell , British racing car driver
- October 31: Peter Bräutigam , German photographer and Thuringian state guild master († 2005)
November
- Thomas W. Appelquist , American theoretical physicist November 1:
- Horst Arzt , German politician and football official November 1st:
- Metin Akpınar , Turkish actor November 2nd:
- Bruce Welch , British guitarist, songwriter, producer and singer November 2nd:
- Hans Martin Corrinth , German church musician, composer and university professor November 3rd:
- Brian Poole , British pop singer November 3rd:
- Raúl Emilio Bernao , Argentinian football player († 2007) November 4:
- Klaus Kirschner , German politician November 4th:
- Art Garfunkel , American singer November 5th:
- Ulrike Gauss , German art historian and museologist († 2021) November 5:
- Simon Langton , British director November 5th:
- Axel Zerdick , German economist and journalist († 2003) November 5:
- Hannelore Bey , German dancer November 6th:
- John Carter , American politician and judge November 6:
- Mário Cláudio , Portuguese writer November 6th:
- James Hamilton-Paterson , English writer November 6:
- Matti Keinonen , Finnish ice hockey player and coach († 2021) November 6:
- Douglas Wayne Sahm , American country, blues and rock musician († 1999) November 6:
- Hughes Kirschoffer , French racing car driver November 7th:
- Angelo Scola , Patriarch of Venice and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church November 7th:
- Gary Windo , British saxophonist († 1992) November 7th:
- Volker Lutz , German choir director, conductor, organist, church music director and university professor († 2020) November 8:
- Michael Arndt , German politician November 9th:
- Tom Fogerty , American musician and guitarist († 1990) November 9:
- November 10th: Daniela Ambrosoli , Swiss entrepreneur, film director, patron, founder and president of the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation
- November 10: Martin Kannegiesser , German association official and entrepreneur
- November 11th: William Arthur Adcocks , British marathon runner
- November 11th: Helga Masthoff , German tennis player
- November 11th: Gérard Vial , Swiss racing driver
- November 12: Rainer Riehn , German composer and conductor († 2015)
- November 13: Eberhard Diepgen , German politician
- November 14th: Dieter Kühr , German teacher and clarinetist
- November 15: Alice Calaprice , American biographer of Albert Einstein born in Germany and longstanding publisher
- November 16: Harvey Lodish , American cell biologist and textbook author
- November 16: Katharina Sieverding , German photographer
- November 18: David Hemmings , British actor and director († 2003)
- November 18: Klaus Hildebrand , German historian
- November 19: Horst Schmidt , Secretary General of the German Football Association
- November 19: Tommy Thompson , American politician
- November 20th: Dino Armas , Uruguayan theater director and dramaturge
- November 20: Dr. John , rock 'n' roll, blues and jazz musician and music producer († 2019)
- November 20: Gary Karr , American musician
- November 21: Hans Hermann Henrix , German Roman Catholic theologian and author
- November 21: Margriet de Moor , Dutch writer
- November 22: Tadeusz Chmielewski , Polish pianist and music teacher († 2012)
- November 22nd: Günther Koch , German radio reporter
- November 23: Oscar Alem , Argentine double bass player, pianist and composer († 2017)
- November 23: Jochen Hauser , German writer and screenwriter
- November 23: Franco Nero , Italian actor
- November 24: John De Andrea , American artist
- November 24th: Pete Best , Beatles' first drummer
- November 24th: Gary Boyle , British jazz rock and fusion guitarist
- November 24th: Donald "Duck" Dunn , American bassist, producer and songwriter († 2012)
- November 26th: agnès b. , French fashion designer
- November 27: Louis van Dijk , Dutch pianist († 2020)
- November 27th: Aimé Jacquet , French soccer player and coach
- November 28: Laura Antonelli , Italian actress († 2015)
- November 28th: Hermann Strasser German sociologist and publicist
- November 28th: Jesper Thilo , Danish jazz saxophonist and flutist
- November 29: Lothar Emmerich , German soccer player († 2003)
- November 30th: Cornelius Aarts , Dutch soccer player († 2008)
- November 30th: John Burton , British racing driver
- November: Robert Audi , American philosopher
December
- Stephen A. Benton , American physicist († 2003) December 1:
- Federico Faggin , Italian entrepreneur December 1st:
- Günter Graf , German politician and Member of the Bundestag December 1:
- Peter Letzgus , German politician and Member of the Bundestag December 1:
- Jesús Moncada , Spanish writer († 2005) December 1:
- Dieter Schurr , German soccer player December 2nd:
- Julius Eduard Erdmann Ernst-August Prince von Anhalt , German journalist and book author December 3:
- Hans Angerer , German administrative lawyer and civil servant († 2012) December 4:
- Franz Jaeger (economist) , Swiss economist, politician and entrepreneur December 4th:
- Giovanni Tonucci , Italian bishop December 4th:
- Péter Balázs , Hungarian politician and EU commissioner December 5th:
- Håkon Øverby , Norwegian wrestler († 2021) December 5:
- Helen Cornelius , American country musician December 6:
- Heinz Gstrein , Austrian-Swiss orientalist, Orthodox theologian, foreign correspondent and non-fiction author December 6th:
- Bruce Nauman , American conceptual artist December 6:
- Jürgen Horlemann , German politician and publisher († 1995) December 7th:
- Klaus Rose , German politician December 7th:
- Martin John Amos , American bishop December 8:
- Bob Brown , American football player December 8:
- Geoff Hurst , English soccer player December 8th:
- Michael Naumann , German journalist and politician December 8th:
- Günter Pröpper , German soccer player December 8th:
- Katrin Sello , German art historian and director of the Kunstverein Hannover († 1992) December 8:
- Kirsti Møller Andersen , Danish mathematician historian December 9:
- December 10th: Franco Ambrosetti , Swiss jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
- December 10: Jan Flieger , German children's, youth and crime writer
- December 10: Ricarda Liver , Swiss Romance philologist
- December 10: Günter Willumeit , German humorist, parodist and entertainer († 2013)
- December 11th: Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski , Polish composer and music teacher († 2011)
- December 12th: Smaranda Oțeanu-Bunea , Romanian composer
- December 14th: Lothar Appler , German cyclist
- December 14: Karan Armstrong , American soprano († 2021)
- December 14: Antoni Morell i Mora , Andorran writer († 2020)
- December 14: Rainer Probst , German painter, educator and school politician († 2004)
- December 16: Vittorio Mezzogiorno , Italian actor († 1994)
- December 16: Lesley Stahl , American television journalist
- December 17th: Dave Dee , British pop singer († 2009)
- December 17th: Gilbert Gress , French football player and coach
- December 18: Wayne Baker , American racing car driver
- December 18: William of Gloucester , grandson of King George V († 1972)
- December 18: Georg Hentschel , German theologian, Catholic priest
- December 18: Philipp Sonntag , German actor
- December 19: Maurice White , founder of the band Earth, Wind and Fire († 2016)
- December 21: Klaus-Jürgen Hedrich , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- December 22nd: M. Stanley Whittingham , British-American chemist
- December 23: Tim Hardin , American musician († 1980)
- December 23: Klaus Reisch , Austrian racing driver († 1971)
- December 24th: Michael Billington , British actor († 2005)
- December 24th: Hans Eichel , German politician
- December 24th: Manfred Schurti , Liechtenstein automobile racing driver
- December 25: Lex Hixon , American poet, philosopher and spiritual teacher († 1995)
- December 25th: Klaus Klundt , German chess master
- December 25th: Don Pullen , American jazz pianist († 1995)
- December 25th: Guido Reybrouck , Belgian cyclist
- December 26th: Keyvan Dahesch , former press spokesman for the Hessian State Supply Office († 2018)
- December 26: Rattlesnake Annie , American country singer
- December 26th: Daniel Schmid , Swiss film and opera director († 2006)
- December 28th: Peter-Christian Fueter , Swiss film producer
- December 28th: Teruo Higa , Professor of Horticulture, discoverer of Effective Microorganisms (EM)
- December 28th: Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach , German musician, conductor and general music director
- December 29th: Daphne Arden , British sprinter
- December 30th: Joel Appelbaum , American physicist
- December 30th: Bruno Parma , Slovenian chess grandmaster
- December 31st: John Howard Dalton , American businessman and politician
- December 31: Alex Ferguson , Scottish football coach
- December 31: Manfred Güllner , German sociologist
- December 31: Sarah Miles , British actress
Exact date of birth unknown
- Norbert A'Campo , Dutch mathematician
- Christian Adam , German artist († 2021)
- Lykourgos A. Angelopoulos , Greek church musician, musicologist and choir director († 2014)
- Philip Arestis , British economist
- Tomas Arvidsson , Swedish detective writer
- Volker Arzt , German graduate physicist, moderator and author
- Jan Aust , German actor, theater director and director
- Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser , Swiss ethnomusicologist
- Uta Beth , German journalist, radio play author, director and editor
- Safia Hama Dschan , Afghan teacher and women's rights activist († 2006)
- John Fletcher , British musician († 1987)
- Ingvild Goetz , German art collector and curator
- Christer Grewin , Swedish sound engineer and composer († 1999)
- Beverley Harper , Australian author († 2002)
- Kjell Johansson , Swedish writer
- Joel Krosnick , American cellist, chamber musician and music teacher
- Dieter Krumpholz , German motorcycle racer († 1966)
- Christa Maerker , German journalist, film critic, documentary film, screenplay and radio play writer
- Pat Mallet , French comic artist († 2012)
- Terry Winter Owens , American composer, pianist and harpsichordist († 2007)
- Rudi Palla , Austrian filmmaker and writer
- Annette Peacock , American
- Barbara Rath , German actress
- Dieter Rexroth , German musicologist and dramaturge
- Samuel Rhodes , American violist, composer and music teacher
- Willy "El Baby" Rodríguez , Cuban singer
- Irina Fjodorovna Schnittke , Russian pianist
- Ronald Shroyer , American composer, music teacher, saxophonist and flautist
- Anita Smisek , American music publisher, organist, and pianist
- Hagen Stehr , German-Australian tuna farmer and entrepreneur
- Alma Yoray , American dancer, singer and yoga teacher († 2010)
Died
January February
- Max Neal , German Schwank author (* 1865) January 1:
- Mischa Levitzki , American pianist (* 1898) January 2:
- January 2 : Josef Strzygowski , Austrian art historian and founder of comparative art research (* 1862)
- Henri Bergson , French philosopher (* 1859) January 4th:
- Amy Johnson , British pilot (* 1903) January 5th:
- Georges Truc , French conductor (* 1893) January 6th:
- Robert Baden-Powell , founder of the Boy Scout Movement (* 1857) January 8:
- January 10: Issai Schur , German mathematician (* 1875)
- January 10: Johannes Biehle , German physicist, bell and organ builder (* 1870)
- January 11th: Emanuel Lasker , German-Jewish chess player (* 1868)
- January 12th: Edu Snethlage , Dutch football player (* 1886)
- January 13: James Joyce , Irish writer (* 1882)
- January 14th : Fritz Grünbaum , Austrian cabaret artist (* 1880)
- January 17th: Virginio Arias , Chilean sculptor (* 1855)
- January 17th: Karl Tappenbeck , German politician (* 1858)
- January 18 : Berthold Hatschek , Austrian zoologist (* 1854)
- January 18 : Anton Kuh , Austrian journalist, essayist and narrator (* 1890)
- January 24th: Martha Remmert , German pianist, music teacher, conductor, music festival manager and music writer (* 1853)
- January 26: Marie Narelle , Australian singer (* 1870)
- January 27 : Leopold Adametz , Austrian animal breeding and genetic researcher (* 1861)
- January 27: Iver Holter , Norwegian composer (* 1850)
- January 29th: Ioannis Metaxas , Greek general and politician (* 1871)
- January 30th : Emil von Guttenberg , Austrian Lieutenant Marshal and Minister of Railways (* 1841)
- Walter Abbott , English football player (* 1877) February 1:
- Lina Hähnle , founder of the Federation for Bird Protection (* 1851) February 1:
- Karl Schapper , German resistance fighter against National Socialism (* 1879) February 1:
- Johannes Schlaf , German playwright, narrator and translator (* 1862) February 2:
- Louis Emmerson , American politician (* 1863) February 4:
- Andrew Barton Paterson , Australian poet (* 1864) February 5:
- Elizabeth von Arnim , English writer (* 1866) February 9:
- February 11: Rudolf Hilferding , German-Austrian politician and economist (* 1877)
- February 12: Oskar Dressel , German chemist (* 1865)
- February 13: Marcet Haldeman , American author (* 1887)
- February 14: Alfred Apfel , German lawyer, criminal defense attorney and author (* 1882)
- February 15: Guido Adler , Austrian musicologist (* 1855)
- February 18: Alfred Gustav Benedictus Ackermann-Teubner , German publisher and bookseller (* 1857)
- February 19: Jacques Curie , French physicist (* 1855)
- February 20: Carlos Baca-Flor , Peruvian painter (* 1867 or 1869)
- February 20: Mary Bolduc , Canadian singer-songwriter (* 1894)
- February 21: Frederick Banting , co-discoverer of insulin (* 1891)
- February 24: Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière , German naval officer (* 1886)
- February 24: Oskar Loerke , German poet, narrator and essayist (* 1884)
- February 24th: Hugo von Preen , Austrian painter and local researcher (* 1854)
- February 25: Harry Nice , American politician (* 1877)
- February 28: Alfonso XIII. , King of Spain (* 1886)
March April
- Ruby Laffoon , American politician (* 1869) March 1:
- Edoardo Mascheroni , Italian conductor and composer (* 1852) March 4:
- Ludwig Quidde , German historian, politician and pacifist (* 1858) March 4:
- John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum , American sculptor (* 1867) March 6:
- Günther Prien , German submarine commander (* 1908) March 7th:
- Sherwood Anderson , American narrator (* 1876) March 8:
- March 10: August Abbehusen , German architect (* 1875)
- March 10: Karl Joseph Schulte , German Cardinal and Archbishop of Cologne (* 1871)
- March 11: Walter Frenzel , German prehistorian and museum director (* 1892)
- March 12: Charles Sanford Skilton , American composer and organist (* 1868)
- March 15: Alexej von Jawlensky , Russian painter (* 1865)
- March 18: Henri Cornet , French cyclist (* 1884)
- March 19: Matteo Ceirano , Italian racing car driver and entrepreneur (* 1870)
- March 25: Nicolaas van Wijk , Dutch German studies scholar , Dutch scholar and father of Dutch Slavonic Studies (* 1880)
- March 28: Virginia Woolf , English writer (* 1882)
- March 29: Robert Oelbermann , federal founder and federal leader of the Nerother Wandering Bird (* 1896)
- March 30th: Elisabeth Baumann-Schlachter , Swiss writer (* 1887)
- Edmund Hauler , Austrian classical philologist (* 1859) April 1:
- Pál Teleki , Hungarian Prime Minister (* 1879) April 3:
- Karl Angermayer , Austrian politician (* 1862) April 5:
- Elsa Asenijeff , Austrian writer (* 1867) April 5:
- Nigel Gresley , British steam locomotive designer (* 1876) April 5:
- Emil Stumpp , German teacher, painter and press illustrator (* 1886) April 5:
- Lazăr Edeleanu , Romanian chemist (* 1861) April 7th:
- Marcel Prévost , French writer (* 1862) April 8:
- Mariusz Zaruski , Polish general, sailor, mountaineer, writer, poet and painter (* 1867) April 8th:
- Morris Sheppard , American politician (* 1875) April 9:
- April 10: Joseph Saucier , Canadian singer, choir director and pianist (* 1869)
- April 13: Annie Jump Cannon , American astronomer (* 1863)
- April 17th: Al Bowlly , South African pop and jazz singer (* 1898)
- April 17th: Hans Driesch , German biologist and natural philosopher (* 1867)
- April 17: Alexander Zinn , German writer and politician (* 1880)
- April 19: Johanna Müller-Hermann , Austrian composer (* 1868)
- April 24: Karin Boye , Swedish writer (* 1900)
- April 26: Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem , German writer (* 1854)
- April 30th: Edgar Aabye , Danish athlete (* 1865)
May June
- Julia Claussen , Swedish singer and music teacher (* 1879) May 1st:
- Karl Peter Anspach , German businessman (* 1889) May 1:
- Ignacy Popiel , Polish chess player (* 1863) May 2nd:
- Erich Aschenheim , German medical advisor and university professor (* 1882) May 3:
- Georges Durand , French journalist and motorsport official (* 1864) May 3:
- Ludwig Arntz , German architect, monument conservator and cathedral builder (* 1855) May 5:
- Heinrich Simon , German journalist and publisher (* 1880) May 6:
- James Frazer , British anthropologist (* 1854) May 7: Sir
- May 14: Maurice Bavaud , Swiss seminarian and assassin on Hitler (* 1916)
- May 15: Law Adam , Dutch football player (* 1908)
- May 16: Johannes Kuhlo , German theologian and composer (* 1856)
- May 18: Frederic Mosley Sackett , American politician and diplomat (* 1868)
- May 18: Werner Sombart , German sociologist and economist (* 1863)
- May 20: Hermann Schöne , German classical philologist (* 1870)
- May 20: Wilhelm Süssmann , German Lieutenant General (* 1891)
- May 21: George Habib Antonius , Lebanese writer (* 1891)
- May 23: Herbert Austin , English industrialist and politician (* 1866)
- May 23: Slavko Osterc , Slovenian composer (* 1895)
- May 25: Miguel Lerdo de Tejada , Mexican composer (* 1869)
- May 27: Oswald Baer , Austrian painter of the New Objectivity (* 1906)
- May 27: Ernst Lindemann , German naval officer (* 1894)
- May 28: Theodor Siebs , German Germanist (* 1862)
- May 29: Friedrich Wilhelm Constantin Ashoff , German entrepreneur (* 1886)
- May 29: Léo-Pol Morin , Canadian pianist, music critic and composer (* 1892)
- May 30th: Henri Hyvernat , French-American Coptologist, Semitist and Orientalist (* 1858)
- May 30th: Prajadhipok , King of Siam (* 1893)
- May 30th: Johanna Naber , Dutch feminist (* 1859)
- May 31: Rodolfo Amoedo , Brazilian painter (* 1857)
- Hans Berger , German neurologist and psychiatrist, inventor of the EEG (* 1873) June 1:
- Ernst Eichhoff , German politician (* 1873) June 1:
- Kurt Hensel , German mathematician (* 1861) June 1:
- Wilhelm II , German Emperor and King of Prussia (* 1859) June 4:
- June 11: Alexander Cameron Rutherford , Canadian politician (* 1857)
- June 15: Otfrid Foerster , German neuroscientist (* 1873)
- June 15: Traugott von Jagow , Police President of Berlin (* 1865)
- June 17th: Johan Wagenaar , Dutch composer and organist (* 1862)
- June 22nd: Byron Patton Harrison , American politician (* 1881)
- June 22nd: Ludwig Vörg , German alpinist (* 1911)
- June 23: Ben M. Williamson , American politician (* 1864)
- June 26: Andrew Jackson Houston , American politician (* 1854)
- June 30: Walter Bäumer , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1908)
- June 30th: Hugo Becker , German cellist, cello teacher and composer (* 1863)
July August
- Nicholas Embiricos , Greek shipowner and racing car driver (* 1910) July 1:
- Heinz Kapelle , leader of the KJVD in Berlin (* 1913) July 1:
- Friedrich Karl Akel , Estonian politician and diplomat (* 1871) July 3:
- Gottfried Krüger , German physician and local researcher (* 1863) July 3:
- Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński , Polish poet (* 1874) July 4th:
- Karl Kotratschek , Austrian athlete (* 1914) July 4th:
- Stepan Pawlowitsch Suprun , Soviet pilot (* 1907) July 4th:
- Philippe Gaubert , French composer and flautist (* 1879) July 8:
- Agnes Straub , German actress (* 1890) July 8:
- July 10: Edmond Marie Lambert van Aubel , Belgian experimental physicist (* 1864)
- July 11: Arthur Evans , British archaeologist (* 1851)
- July 13: Eduard Norden , German classical philologist and historian of religion (* 1868)
- July 15: Max Kretzer , German writer (* 1854)
- July 15: Walter Ruttmann , German director (* 1887)
- July 17th: Emil Barth , German politician (* 1879)
- July 19: Bartolomeo Costantini , Italian aviator and racing car driver (* 1889)
- July 24: Willis Chatman Hawley , American politician (* 1864)
- July 26: Henri Léon Lebesgue , French mathematician (* 1875)
- July 26: Josephine Siebe , German children's book author (* 1870)
- July 30: Ado Anderkopp , Estonian politician and journalist (* 1894)
- Alva M. Lumpkin , American lawyer and politician (* 1886) August 1:
- Alfred Leonhard Tietz , German entrepreneur (* 1883) August 4th:
- Rabindranath Tagore , Bengali poet, painter, philosopher (* 1861) August 7:
- August 10: Mario Amadori , Italian pharmaceutical chemist and university professor (* 1886)
- August 11: Herbert Adamski , German rower (* 1910)
- August 14: Maximilian Kolbe , Polish Franciscan minorite (* 1894)
- August 16: Felix Mader , German Roman Catholic priest, art historian and monument conservator (* 1867)
- August 16: Michael Murach , German amateur boxer (* 1911)
- August 22: Julius Petersen , German literary scholar (* 1878)
- August 25: Gholamali Bayandor , Iranian Rear Admiral (* 1898)
- August 26th: Georg Escherich , German forester, politician and explorer (* 1870)
- August 28: Ugo Agostoni , Italian racing cyclist (* 1893)
- August 31: Alfred Hettner , German geographer (* 1859)
- August 31: Marina Tsvetaeva , Russian poet (* 1892)
September October
- George Pardee , American politician (* 1857) September 1:
- Ramón Emilio Peralta , Dominican composer, conductor, music teacher and saxophonist (* 1868) September 7th:
- September 12: Hans Spemann , German biologist (* 1869)
- September 22nd: Nicolas Cadi , Syrian Archbishop (* 1861)
- September 24: Gottfried Feder , German economic theorist and politician of the NSDAP (* 1883)
- September 29: Felipe Agoncillo , Filipino lawyer and diplomat (* 1859)
- September 29: Vilmos Aba-Novák , Hungarian painter (* 1894)
- September 29: Friedrich Engel , German mathematician (* 1861)
- Albin Müller , German architect, educator and designer (* 1871) October 2:
- Wilhelm Kienzl , Austrian composer (* 1857) October 3:
- Ernest Marland , American politician (* 1874) October 3:
- Albert Roberval , Canadian singer, conductor, theater director and music teacher (* 1869) October 4:
- Gustav Gerson Kahn , American musician, songwriter and lyricist (* 1886) October 8:
- October 12: Harry M. Daugherty , American politician (* 1860)
- October 14: Arthur Holitscher , Austrian travel writer, essayist, novelist and playwright (* 1869)
- October 16: Arthur Kronfeld , German psychiatrist (* 1886)
- October 17: Dirk Fock , Governor of Suriname and Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (* 1858)
- October 17: Friedrich Marx , German classical philologist (* 1859)
- October 17: Guglielmo Zuelli , Italian composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1859)
- October 20: Hanuš Bonn , Czech poet, literary critic and translator (* 1913)
- October 24: Heinrich Brockhaus , German art historian (* 1858)
- October 25: Robert Delaunay , French painter (* 1885)
- October 26: Harry von Arnim , German officer (* 1890)
- October 27: Albert Colomb , French racing car driver (* 1878)
- October 27: Viktor Wassiljewitsch Talalichin , Soviet pilot (* 1918)
- October 29: Alexander Nikolajewitsch Afinogenow , Russian writer and playwright (* 1904)
- October 29: Bruno Cassirer , German publisher, gallery owner and horse breeder (* 1872)
- October: Josef Adelbrecht , Austrian football player (* 1910)
November December
- Walter Otto , German ancient historian (* 1878) November 1:
- Wassili Ivanovich Anutschin , Russian ethnographer and journalist (* 1875) November 4:
- Amédé Ardoin , American musician (* 1898) November 4:
- Joachim Gottschalk , German actor (* 1904) November 6th:
- Walter Krämer , German politician (* 1892) November 6th:
- Maurice Leblanc , French writer (* 1864) November 6th:
- Albin Zollinger , Swiss writer (* 1895) November 7th:
- November 12th: Martha Abicht , German kindergarten teacher (* 1878)
- November 12: Leo Graetz , German physicist (* 1856)
- November 12: Eduardo Schaerer , Paraguayan politician (* 1873)
- November 15: Wal Handley , British motorcycle and automobile racer (* 1902)
- November 17: Edmond Haraucourt , French writer (* 1856)
- November 17: Ernst Udet , German Colonel General (* 1896)
- November 18: Walther Nernst , German physicist and chemist (* 1864)
- November 21: Basilio Khouri , Syrian Archbishop (* 1883)
- November 22nd: Kurt Koffka , German psychologist (* 1886)
- November 22nd: Werner Mölders , German Air Force Colonel (* 1913)
- November 23: Horace F. Graham , American politician (* 1862)
- November 25th: Pedro Aguirre Cerda , Chilean politician (* 1879)
- Alva Blanchard Adams , American politician (* 1875) December 1:
- Amrita Sher-Gil , Indian-Hungarian artist (* 1913) December 5:
- Ludwig Anton , Austrian writer and doctor (* 1872) December 8th:
- Eduard Freiherr von Böhm-Ermolli , Austrian field marshal and military leader (* 1856) December 9th:
- December 10: Albert Döderlein , German gynecologist (* 1860)
- December 15: Hanns Kerrl , Nazi politician, minister (* 1887)
- December 22nd: Leopoldo Mugnone , Italian conductor and composer (* 1858)
- December 29th: Erich Aberger , German racing cyclist (* 1892)
- December 29: Luigi Albertini , Italian politician and publicist (* 1871)
- December 29th: Pierre Kunc , French composer and organist (* 1865)
- December 30th: El Lissitzky , Russian painter (* 1890)
Exact date of death unknown
- Richard Aspöck jun. , Austrian gardener assistant (* 1919)
- Mary Ellen Christian , Australian singer and singing teacher (* 1848)
- Amanda Courtaux , French music teacher and composer (* 1856)
- John Dilleshaw , American old-time musician (* 1896)
- Hans Euler , German physicist (* 1909)
- Wilhelm Wrage , German painter (* 1861)
Literature for the year 1941
- Horst Wisser: We from the year 1941 - childhood and youth , Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg – Gleichen 2019, 19th edition, ISBN 978-3-8313-3041-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fatal weather phenomenon, the day-bright war night of 1941 , on spiegel.de