1942

This article covers the year 1942; for the game of the same name, see 1942 (computer game) .

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1942
The German 6th Army undertakes the attack on Stalingrad .
The “ final solution to the Jewish question ” is organized at the Wannsee Conference .	26 states sign the United Nations Declaration .
The Battle of Midway marks a turning point in the Pacific War .
1942 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	1390/91 (July turn of the year)
Ethiopian calendar	1934/35 (10/11 September)
Baha'i calendar	98/99 (20/21 March)
Bengali solar calendar	1346/47 (April 14 or 15)
Buddhist calendar	2485/86 (Southern Buddhism); 2484/85 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	77th (78th) cycle Year of the Water Horse壬午 ( since February 15 , before that Metal Snake辛巳)
Chuch'e ideology (North Korea)	Chuche 31
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	1304/05 (New Year's April)
Dangun era (Korea)	4275/76 (October 2nd/3rd)
Iranian calendar	1320/21 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	1360/61 (18/19 January)
Japanese calendar	昭和Showa 17; Koki 2602
Jewish calendar	5702/03 (September 11/12)
Coptic calendar	1658/59 (10/11 September)
Malayalam calendar	1117/18
Minguo Calendar (China)	Year 31 of the Republic
Seleucid era	Babylon: 2252/53 (April turn of the year) Syria: 2253/54 (October turn of the year)
Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar)	2484/85 (April 1)
Tibetan calendar	1688
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese calendar)	1998/99 (April)

events

politics and world affairs

Second World War

See also : "1942" in the Chronology of World War II article

Political and diplomatic developments

• January 1: History of the United Nations : During the Arcadia Conference in Washington, D.C. , 26 states of the anti-Hitler coalition sign the United Nations Declaration . It serves to formalize and confirm the Atlantic Charter adopted last year and is a step towards the founding of the United Nations .
• January 1: Venezuela breaks diplomatic relations with Italy , Japan and the German Empire .

The 33 convicted members of the Duquesne spy ring (FBI photo).

• January 2: The largest espionage case in US history ends with 33 German agents of the Duquesne spy ring being sentenced to prison terms totaling over 300 years. J. Edgar Hoover describes the dismantling of the spy ring as the greatest counterintelligence success in United States history .
• January 25 Thailand declares war on Britain and the United States, entering World War II on the side of the Axis powers .
• January 29: Half a year after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran , the new Shah Mohammad Reza Shah signed an agreement in which the USSR and Great Britain were assured all possible non-military support.
• February 1: The US government broadcaster Voice of America broadcasts its first program in German via British transmitters.
• February 15: The Vichy regime legislates for abortion to be a "crime against state security" and imposes the death penalty on those who perform abortions on pregnant women .

Internees in front of barracks in Minidoka

• February 19: In the United States, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 , a directive establishing restricted military areas that will result in the forcible relocation and internment of Japanese-Americans . Manzanar War Relocation Center and Minidoka War Relocation Center are two of ten internment camps that will be established on this legal basis.
• March 9: Major General Henry H. Arnold becomes Commanding General of the United States Army Air Forces , giving them greater autonomy from the United States Army .
• April 26: The last Reichstag session in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 takes place in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin. Adolf Hitler now becomes the supreme court – without being bound by existing legal provisions. (See also: Resolution of the Greater German Reichstag of April 26, 1942 )
• August 4: The Swiss Federal Council confirms in a decision that Jewish Germans in particular will be rejected at the borders, even if the foreigners affected by this could suffer serious disadvantages (danger to life and limb).
• August 8: For six participants in the Operation Pastorius commando operation , their willingness to commit acts of sabotage in the United States on behalf of Germany ends shortly after a US military court sentenced them to the electric chair . Two other perpetrators in spe receive long prison sentences.
• October 30: The crew of the British destroyer HMS Petard captured code books of the Enigma-M4 cipher machine while sinking the German submarine U- 559 off the coast of Egypt .

First assembly of AVNOJ in Bihać

• 26./27. November: On the initiative of Josip Broz Tito , the Antifascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia is founded in Bihać as a self-proclaimed wartime parliament and provisional wartime government.
• December 18: The Interallied Declaration on the Extermination of the Jews in 1942 is read out. This declaration shows and legally announces that the international community will pursue the Nazi crimes against the Jews after the Nazi regime was defeated.

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  Map of Europe at the beginning of 1942

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  Map of Europe at the end of 1942

German-Soviet War

Red Army offensive south of Lake Ilmen, 7 January to 21 February 1942

• January 8: Troops of the Soviet Northwest Front under Pavel Alexeyevich Kurochkin open the attack on the positions of X Army Corps under Christian Hansen and II Army Corps under Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt . The Soviet 11th Army broke through the positions of the 290th Infantry Division on the southern shore of Lake Ilmen and by January 9 was in front of Staraya Russa . Despite continuous attacks, the city is held by German troops.
• January 8 Battle of Rzhev begins.
• January 9: With an offensive in the German-Soviet War , the Red Army succeeds in separating the German Army Groups North and Center.
• January 15: Because of the failures on the eastern front , there is a crisis in the military leadership of the Wehrmacht . The commander-in-chief of Army Group North , Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb , resigned.

Kholm cauldron
January 18 to May 5, 1942

• January 18: The Battle of Cholm begins with a partisan attack on the German occupiers . Several thousand German soldiers ("Scherer Combat Group") are surrounded and only released after 105 days.
• January: In the Battle of Moscow , Soviet advances are made at Vyazma, Rzhev and Mozhaisk.

Unloading of Junkers Ju 52 at Demjansk

• February 8: The Red Army closes the pocket around Demyansk . In a pocket area of ​​about 3,000 square kilometers with a front perimeter of about 300 kilometers around the city of Demyansk , six divisions with about 95,000 soldiers and 20,000 horses are trapped. This includes the SS Division Totenkopf under SS-Obergruppenfuhrer and General der Waffen-SS Theodor Eicke . However, the boiler is successfully powered by the air.
• February 20: Heinrich Himmler , Reichsfuhrer SS and Chief of the German Police , issues general provisions on the recruitment and deployment of workers from the East , the so-called Ostarbeiterverlass , modeled on the Poland Decrees .
• May: Operation Bustard Hunt is a German-Romanian military operation to conquer the Kerch Peninsula on the eastern side of Crimea . The German surprise attack begins on May 8th. On May 11, the 22nd Panzer Division reached the coast, encircling large parts of the Soviet 51st Army. On May 13, the siege of the Adzhimushkai quarries begins , where 13,000 Red Army soldiers are entrenched. On May 14th the port is taken. The last fights last until May 20th.

Map of the Battle of Kharkov

• May 12th to 28th: After initial Soviet successes, the Battle of Kharkov leads to the encirclement of a large part of the attacking units by a German counterattack. The victory at Kharkov is one of the last victorious pocket battles of the Wehrmacht. With this victory, the Germans gained the strategic prerequisites for the summer offensive of 1942.

The destroyed port of Sevastopol

• 7 June: In the war against the Soviet Union , the German Wehrmacht begins a second major attack on the port city of Sevastopol , which has been declared a Soviet fortress, after days of artillery and aerial bombardment in Operation Störfang . The conquest of Crimea by the German Wehrmacht is completed on July 4th with the capture of the Chersonesus Peninsula .
• June 28: German Fall Blau summer offensive begins, renamed Operation Braunschweig on June 30 . The Soviet defenders are retreating almost everywhere, since the Soviet High Command was expecting the German summer offensive near Moscow and 50% of the Red Army is stationed there. On July 5 the German tank spearheads reached the Don near Voronezh . However, the Soviet units can avoid being destroyed by surrendering terrain.
• July 9: Adolf Hitler splits Army Group South into Army Group A and Army Group B , which are to advance in two different directions at the same time. Because he protested against this conduct of operations, Commander-in-Chief Fedor von Bock was replaced by Maximilian von Weichs on July 15 .
• July 23: From the Werwolf headquarters in the Ukraine , Adolf Hitler orders Operation Edelweiß to advance Army Group A into the Caucasus. Army Group A captures Rostov-on-Don .
• July 25: Adolf Hitler orders Operation Fischheron , the advance of Army Group B via Astrakhan to Stalingrad .
• 25 July to 11 August: The 6th Army under Friedrich Paulus is victorious in the Battle of Kalatsch .
• July 28: Stalin's Order No. 227 ( Not a Step Back! ) made surrender punishable by death.
• August 16-30: Operation Wonderland
• August 23: A massive German air raid on Stalingrad in the run-up to the German assault phase on Stalingrad results in the almost total destruction of the city and the deaths of thousands of civilians.
• October 18: The secret commando order of the OKW is issued, it provides for the killing of captured commando soldiers.
• October 30: The 48 survivors of the siege of the Adzhimushkai quarries on the Kerch Peninsula surrender to the German Wehrmacht.
• 19 November: Battle of Stalingrad : The Red Army's counter-offensive begins with Operation Uranus .
• November 25 to December 21: Operation Mars

The War in the West

Burning British landing craft on Dieppe beach

• August 19: Operation Jubilee , an attempted landing by British and Canadian troops near the northern French port of Dieppe , which was intended by Stalin to establish the Second Allied Front against the Axis Powers in World War II , fails. After high Allied losses of up to 70% of the deployed forces, the operation is abandoned the next day, but provides important insights for Operation Overlord two years later.
• August 24: Conscription for Alsatian citizens ( Malgré-nous ) despite being French citizens.
• August 25: Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt orders the fortification of the entire Atlantic coast from Norway to France into an " Atlantic Wall ".
• August 31: General strike in Luxembourg against the German occupation forces
• September 8: To build the Atlantic Wall, the population of the occupied territories is forced to do forced labor by the Todt Organization , in violation of international law .
• 11 November: In response to the Allied landings in Algeria during World War II , German troops in Operation Anton also occupy the previously non-German-occupied part of Vichy France . This leads to the scuttling of the Vichy fleet at Toulon on November 27th .

Siege of Malta

→ Main article : Siege of Malta (World War II)

• March 22: Second sea battle in the Gulf of Syrte
• June 2-16: Operations Vigorous and Harpoon
• August 9-13: Operation Pedestal

The War in North Africa

• January 2 German and Italian troops in Bardijja , Libya , surrender.
• Massive attacks by the German Air Fleet 2 under Albert Kesselring on important hubs such as Malta , from where British submarines and planes attack German and Italian supplies, ensure that these disruptions are temporarily stopped around the turn of the year. Under these circumstances, Erwin Rommel succeeds in regaining the initiative in January. He uses the operational advantage resulting from the air support and, in particular, freshly brought in reinforcements for a surprise counterattack that takes Panzerarmee Afrika to El Alamein , just 100 kilometers from Alexandria , by the end of June.
• May 26 German Operation Theseus , aimed at capturing Tobruk , begins.
• June 11: Axis forces capture Bir Hacheim .

Rommel in his "Greif" command vehicle, photo taken by the Wehrmacht propaganda company, June 1942

• June 21 Allied defenders of the Libyan city of Tobruk surrender after two weeks of fierce fighting. The German Afrika Korps occupied the place during the Africa campaign and captured a large amount of supplies. The "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel was then promoted to Field Marshal , while Neil Ritchie was relieved of Allied command and replaced by Claude Auchinleck .
• July 1–31: The First Battle of El Alamein ends in a tactical draw, but the Allies under Claude Auchinleck succeed in halting the Axis advance on Alexandria.
• August 13 British General Claude Auchinleck, who has refused to order a major offensive until he and his troops are properly prepared, is removed from office by Winston Churchill and replaced by Harold Alexander and Bernard Montgomery .
• August 30-September 6: The Battle of Alam Halfa ends in victory for the defending British Army, giving the initiative in North Africa to the Allies for good.

Montgomery watches his armored units advance

• October 23: The British under Bernard Montgomery counterattack at El-Alamein - even later than suggested by Auchinleck. The Second Battle of El Alamein ends in Allied victory on November 4th. A halt order from Hitler dated November 3 is ignored by Rommel with the backing of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring . After their withdrawal, the German and Italian units reach the Libyan border on November 6th.

Allied invasion of Morocco and Algeria

• 8 November: French North Africa in World War II : Operation Torch : British and US troops land in French North Africa under the overall command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower . In the all-American sub- operation Brushwood , bazookas are used by the American troops for the first time . Safi is the first place to capitulate . At the same time, a resistance putsch begins in Algiers . Admiral François Darlan and General Alphonse Juin capitulated within days, after which they were declared deposed by the Vichy regime under Philippe Pétain .
• November 13: A New Zealand division clears a corridor to Tobruk, which has been under siege by Afrika Korps troops for 230 days .

Second Sino-Japanese War

Chinese soldier in the Third Battle of Changsha

• January 1: In the third Battle of Changsha in the Second Sino-Japanese War , the Chinese defenders of the city of Changsha in southern China's Hunan Province, under the command of Xue Yue , launch a surprise counterattack. By January 15, the Japanese attackers under Korechika Anami had difficulty escaping the developing pocket.

Southeast Asia and Pacific War

See also : "1942" in the Pacific War Chronology article

The Pacific and Southeast Asia in 1942

• January 2: The British Crown Colony of Singapore is bombed by the Japanese Air Force.
• January 2: Japanese troops occupy Manila , capital of the Philippines , as part of the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia .
• January 8: In order to stop the Japanese advance in the Pacific War , the Allies found the joint command ABDACOM in Singapore.
• January 11: Japan declares war on the Netherlands and begins the same day 's conquest of the Dutch East Indies in the War of the Pacific at the Battle of Tarakan .
• January 11: Japanese invasion of Peninsular Malay : Japanese cycling troops capture Kuala Lumpur , capital of the British-controlled Federated Malay States .
• January 20: Burma campaign : The Japanese army invades Burma .
• January 24: The United States wins a tactical victory in the naval battle off Balikpapan , but this does not delay the landing of Japanese troops on Borneo and the seizure of the Balikpapan oil fields on the same day.
• January 23: The Japanese capture of Rabaul begins the multi-year Battle of New Guinea . It is one of the most strategically important battles in the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA) .
• January 31: The Japanese invasion of the Malay Peninsula in the Pacific War ends successfully on the mainland. The Allies withdraw to the island of Singapore. The Battle of Singapore between Japanese and Allied troops under British command begins , lasting until February 15 .
• February 4: At the Battle of Makassar , a fleet of ABDACOM under Karel Doorman suffers a heavy defeat against an invading Japanese fleet under Takeo Takagi .

Japanese Army Paratroopers during the Battle of Palembang

• February 6: Japanese units launch the first air raid on the Dutch East Indies- owned Sunda island of Sumatra .
• February 14 Japanese invasion of Sumatra begins. It ends on March 28th with the complete conquest of the island.
• February 14: Japanese War Crimes in World War II : During the Battle of Singapore , Japanese soldiers commit the Alexandra Hospital massacre.
• 14th/15th February: In the Battle of Palembang , Japanese units succeed in capturing and securing the oil refineries near Palembang on Sumatra before they can be destroyed by the Allies.

Yamashita and Percival at the surrender negotiations

• February 15: Japan is victorious at the Battle of Singapore , the Allied forces under Arthur Percival surrender to the Japanese under Tomoyuki Yamashita .
• February 16: Japanese soldiers commit the Bangka massacre : Dozens of British soldiers and Australian nurses recently shipwrecked on the island are shot or stabbed on Bangka beach. Some survivors spend the rest of the war in Japanese captivity.

Darwin Harbor during the air raid

• February 19: The Japanese air force launches the first and most massive of its air raids on Australia with the air raid on Darwin . The Battle of Timor , which lasted almost a year, began on the same day . Japanese troops simultaneously attack Dutch West Timor and Portuguese Timor , which is formally neutral but has been occupied by the Allies since last year .
• 19/20 February: Battle of Badung Strait ends in Imperial Japanese Navy victory over ABDA fleet .

Japanese landings on Java

• 27./28. February Japanese victory at the Battle of the Java Sea almost completely destroys the Allied ABDA fleet of US, British, Dutch and Australian ships . The following day begins the Japanese invasion of Java , completed by March 10. The whole of the Dutch East Indies is now in Japanese hands.
• March 3: The Japanese air raid on Broome destroys numerous aircraft at Broome Airport in Australia and kills 88 people.
• March 3-7: Japanese conquest of Burma : After their defeat at the Battle of Pegu , Allied troops withdraw from the Burmese capital of Rangoon .
• March 9: The Allies on Java surrender to the Japanese in the Pacific War. All of the Dutch East Indies then remained in Japanese hands until the end of the war.

Generals Jonathan Wainwright and Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines

• March: The US War Department withdraws General Douglas MacArthur from the Philippines , where the situation has become hopeless against the invading Japanese , to appoint him supreme commander of allied forces in the Southwest Pacific Area . He is replaced by Jonathan Wainwright on direct orders from Franklin D. Roosevelt . About 14,000 US Marines and 2,000 Filipino tank soldiers are able to form a last pocket of resistance on the Bataan Peninsula and the offshore island of Corregidor .
• April 9 Defending troops in Philippines surrender to Japanese under Homma Masaharu . Immediately afterwards the death march from Bataan begins , the transfer of the prisoners to a Japanese camp. The march is considered one of the greatest war crimes committed by the Japanese in World War II .
• April 18: The United States Army Air Forces , led by James Harold Doolittle , conduct the Doolittle Raid , a surprise attack on Tokyo . It is the first attack on the Japanese home islands in this war and is primarily used for psychological warfare . The actual damage done is minimal.

Battle of the Coral Sea

• May 7: The Battle of the Coral Sea southwest of the Solomon Islands and east of New Guinea is the first in a series of so-called carrier battles in which Japanese and Allied naval units face each other, but the decisive combat operations are fought exclusively with aircraft. It ends in a tactical draw the following day, but the Americans score a strategic win as the Japanese are forced to abandon planned Operation MO , which was designed to disrupt Allied supply routes to Southeast Asia.
• May: The Imperial Japanese Navy transports Allied prisoners of war in so-called " ships from hell " for the first time.
• 3rd/4th June: Japanese aircraft fly the attack on Dutch Harbor on the Aleutian island of Unalaska .

Burning oil tanks on Midway

• June 4-7: The United States Navy defeats the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Midway in the Pacific War . The Japanese lost four out of six large aircraft carriers and many of their trained pilots in the fighting, resulting in a balance of power between the two fleets. The battle is considered a turning point in the Pacific War .
• June 6: 500 Japanese marines disembark on the US island of Kiska in the Pacific War , opening the Battle of the Aleutians .
• June 9: The Battle of the Philippines ends after about six months with the capture of the Philippines by the Japanese.

Amphibious landing units on the way to Guadalcanal beach

The fighting on Guadalcanal 1942

• August 7: The US begins Operation Watchtower with landings on the Solomon Islands of Tulagi, Gavutu-Tanambogo and Guadalcanal .
• August 9: In the Battle of Savo Island in the Pacific War , the Japanese record a success at the Solomon Islands . An Allied fleet consisting of two heavy cruisers and two destroyers is taken by surprise.
• August 16: The US Navy airship L-8 lands as a ghost ship without its crew in Daly City, California. The two pilots remain missing.
• August 21: In the Battle of the Tenaru , a Japanese offensive in the Battle of Guadalcanal is repelled by the Allies.
• August 23–25: At the Battle of the Eastern Solomons , a Japanese fleet under Admiral Nagumo Chūichi attempts to trap Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher 's task force by sending the Japanese light carrier Ryūjō ahead of them to ambush the Americans worthy target, causing them to attack the Ryūjō with all their aircraft, leaving their aircraft carriers unprotected by fighter planes . However, the plan fails.
• September 9: The first Japanese bomb falls on the mainland United States at Wheeler Ridge , Oregon. The aim of the attack with an incendiary bomb is to set off large-scale fires and thus tie up the enemy's workforce.
• September 13: The Japanese begin an attack to retake US-held Henderson Field on Guadalcanal . The Battle of Bloody Ridge ends on September 16th with an American victory.
• September 16: Japan and Thailand sign a treaty to build the Thailand-Burma railway , later known as the "Railway of Death".
• October 11: The Allies are victorious at the Battle of Cape Esperance .

Bombing next to the USS Enterprise during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands

• October 26: The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands is the fourth carrier battle of the Pacific War. The Japanese are victorious, but suffer disproportionately high losses of experienced aircrew and are unable to drive the Allies from Guadalcanal as planned.
• November 13: The naval battle of Guadalcanal begins. Japan's last attempt to control the waters around Guadalcanal ends in defeat on November 15. The Tokyo Express , which is actually supposed to provide Japanese supplies, now begins the gradual withdrawal of the Japanese troops, mainly using fast destroyers, in the direction of New Guinea .
• November 30: The Battle of Tassafaronga ends in Japanese victory.
• December 15 Final ground fighting begins inside Guadalcanal.

U-boat War in the Atlantic

• January 11: The submarine U 123 sinks a British freighter as a prelude to Operation Paukenschlag , the operation of German submarines off the North American east coast.
• January 19: 251 people die when U -66 sinks the unarmed Canadian passenger ship RMS Lady Hawkins .
• July 5: The unarmed British passenger liner Avila Star is sunk by the German submarine U- 201 without warning with three torpedoes east of the Azores . 84 passengers and crew die. The last lifeboat is only found after 20 days.
• August 16: The German submarine U 507 sinks the three unarmed Brazilian passenger ships Araraquara (131 dead), Annibal Benévolo (150 dead) and Baependy (270 dead) off the Brazilian coast without warning .
• September 12: The German submarine U 156 sinks the British troop transport Laconia in the Atlantic with 1,800 Italian prisoners of war and Allied soldiers on board. The commander has the shipwrecked rescued and asks for help, giving their position in plain text . The US Air Force then bombed the lifeboats and the U 156. This prompted Admiral Karl Dönitz to issue the so-called Laconia order .
• October 14: The Canadian passenger ferry Caribou is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U- 69 off Newfoundland without warning. 136 passengers and crew die.
• October 29: The German submarine U 575 sinks the British passenger liner Abosso in the North Atlantic . 362 people die.
• November 2: When the Dutch passenger and cargo ship Zaandam of the Holland-America Line is sunk by the German submarine U 174 , 134 of the 299 passengers and crew on board die.
• November 6: German submarine U 68 sinks British passenger liner City of Cairo . The boats get lost in the Atlantic, the last one is not found until 51 days later. 104 passengers and crew are killed.
• December 7: The German submarine U 515 sinks the British passenger liner Ceramic (18,713 GRT) west of the Azores with five torpedoes. Only one of the 656 passengers and crew is saved.

bomb war

• February 14: Area Bombing Directive : During the Second World War , the British Air Ministry issued instructions on area bombing ("on the civil population ... without restriction").

Lübeck Cathedral with Museum am Dom after the attack

• 28/29 March: Lübeck is the first major German city to be attacked by the Royal Air Force with carpet bombing . The individual fires caused by the incendiary bombs quickly develop into large fires in a confined space and cause a fire storm due to the heat that develops . 320 people lose their lives, 783 are injured. More than 15,000 people become homeless.
• 23./24. April: The first of the German so-called “ Baedeker raids ” on militarily insignificant but culturally significant cities targets the city of Exeter . Two days later the city of Bath is attacked, followed by the cities of Norwich and York , and finally Canterbury at the end of May . The attacks in the five cities killed a total of 1,637 civilians and injured 1,760. More than 50,000 buildings are destroyed or severely damaged.
• April 23 to 27: Rostock is the second major German city to be extensively destroyed by the British Air Force.
• 30./31. May: Operation Millennium : The first thousand-bomber attack flies against Cologne .
• August 1: The air raids on Düsseldorf begin with the first bombs being dropped .
• From August, the United States Army Air Forces fly the first air raids on German cities.
• September 9: The Nazi regime decides to build the Flak Towers in Vienna .

The "Final Solution to the Jewish Question"/ Resistance to National Socialism

Villa of the Wannsee Conference

• January 20th: At the Wannsee Conference in Berlin convened by Reinhard Heydrich , the administrative implementation of the “ final solution to the Jewish question ”, the Holocaust , is organized. Secretary of the conference is Adolf Eichmann . Heinrich Himmler commissioned the Lublin SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik to carry out the so-called “ Operation Reinhardt ” as part of the “ Heinrich Program ” .
• January 29: The first follow-up conference to the Wannsee Conference takes place in the offices of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories in Berlin , where a far-reaching definition of “Jew” is set. Further follow-up conferences will take place on March 6 and October 27 in Adolf Eichmann's department IV B 4 at Kurfürstenstrasse 115/116 in Berlin.
• February 26: Arrest of German resistance fighter Nikolaus Christoph von Halem
• March 17: The first train transport with Jews from the Lublin ghetto arrives at the Belzec extermination camp as part of the “ Reinhardt operation ” . Within the next four weeks, 75,000 people are killed, after which the transports are temporarily stopped in order to enlarge the camp.
• Mid-April: About 250 Jews from a nearby labor camp are killed in a “test gassing” in the newly built Sobibor extermination camp . From the beginning of May to the end of July up to 90,000 Jews will probably be killed "factorily"; after that, the action had to be interrupted due to track construction work.
• May 22: The first meeting of the Kreisau Circle around Helmuth James Graf von Moltke , a bourgeois resistance group during the National Socialist era, begins.

Heydrich's car after the assassination

• May 27: An assassination attempt, Operation Anthropoid , is carried out on Reinhard Heydrich on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile . The deputy Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia dies of his injuries on June 4. The assassins Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš are tracked down by the Gestapo in the Cyril and Methodius Church in Prague on June 18 and killed in a shootout. In retaliation for the attack, German police units destroyed the towns of Lidice and Ležáky over the next few days .
• May 28: The Kraków ghetto is sealed off. By June 8, around 6,000 people were taken to the Belzec extermination camp . Three hundred more are shot in the ghetto in the course of this "action".
• End of May: Construction of the Treblinka extermination camp begins.
• June 30: Ban on teaching Jewish students in the German Reich .
• June: The two siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl , Alexander Schmorell , Christoph Probst , Willi Graf and the university professor Kurt Huber found the resistance group Weisse Rose in Munich , which relies primarily on Christian and humanistic values.
• July 12: Jastrebarsko , Sisak and Gornja Rijeka children's concentration camps are completed in the Independent State of Croatia .
• 16th/17th July: German and French officials arrest 13,152 Jewish men, women and children at the Rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris. Around 8,000 of them are being held for days in the Vélodrome d'Hiver cycling arena in unbearable conditions. On July 19, the survivors were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
• July 22: The liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto begins.
• July 23: The first transport from the Warsaw ghetto arrives at the Treblinka extermination camp .
• July 28: The Jewish Combat Organization is founded in the Warsaw Ghetto. Founding members include Mordechaj Anielewicz , Zivia Lubetkin and Yitzhak Zuckerman , among others .

Riegner Telegram

• July: Contemporary knowledge of the Holocaust : Via the Jewish journalist Benjamin Sagalowitz , the industrialist Eduard Schulte passed on the information about the beginning of the systematic extermination of the Jews in Germany and the occupied territories to Gerhart M. Riegner , the representative of the World Jewish Congress in Switzerland. The Riegner telegram , which he forwarded to London and Washington on August 8, was initially met with disbelief and disinterest from the Allies.
• Early August: Employees secure the Oneg Shabbat underground archive set up by Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw ghetto by walling the documents in watertight metal containers.
• September: Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz establish the Provisional Committee for Aid to Jews in German-occupied Poland . In December, this gave rise to the secret council for the support of the Jews , codenamed Żegota , which up until 1945 smuggled more than 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto and housed them with Polish families or in orphanages.
• During another evacuation operation on October 27 and 28 in the Kraków ghetto, 7,000 people were deported to Belzec and Auschwitz and 600 were shot in the ghetto. The site is reduced and divided into Ghetto A and Ghetto B in December .
• 1 December: The youth detention center in Litzmannstadt is opened.
• December 16: With the Auschwitz Decree , Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler orders the deportation of Sinti and Roma living within the German Reich .

Other events related to the war in Europe

• 1 September: Beginning of resettlement of the market town of Neweklau and 71 surrounding villages to create the Beneschau SS military training area .
• 3 October 3:58 p.m.: First successful test launch of the A4 /V2 rocket in Peenemünde . It achieves a peak height of 84.5 kilometers and a range of 190 kilometers. This successful launch was preceded by three false starts on March 16, June 13 and August 17 of the same year.
• November 30th: The starvation diet decree of the Bavarian State Minister of the Interior legalizes malnutrition and thus leads to the death of many thousands of psychiatric patients in Bavaria.

Other events worldwide

• 1 January: Philipp Etter becomes President of Switzerland again .
• January 25: The Swiss people vote against the introduction of popular elections in the Federal Council and against its enlargement from seven to nine members.
• January 29: Ecuador loses almost half of its land to Peru ( Protocol of Rio de Janeiro ).
• February 6: Egyptian-Sudanese King Faruq , under British pressure, appoints Mustafa an-Nahhas Pasha as the new Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Egypt . The appointment of a new head of government had previously led to a serious government crisis.
• August 9: After advocating India's immediate independence the previous day , Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British colonial powers alongside a number of members of Congress . This forms the trigger of the “Quit India” movement .
• September 19: Founding conference of the European Youth Association in Vienna

business

• January 1st: The further expansion of the Reichsautobahn is stopped. Almost 4,000 km have been completed.
• January 1st: Textiles are rationed in Sweden with immediate effect: A clothing card is introduced.
• January 4: The sale of private cars is banned in the USA in order to convert the auto industry to war production.
• January 13th: The automobile manufacturer Henry Ford receives a US patent for a car chassis design which he has already implemented in the chassis of the Soybean Car .
• February 10: Glenn Miller receives the first gold record in music history from his record company RCA for his version of Chattanooga Choo Choo . At this point, over a million records have been sold in the United States .
• May 22: The United Steelworkers union is founded in the USA.
• 11 September: The first Geneva trolleybus line goes into operation. It complements the Geneva tram line, which opened in 1862 .

Construction of the Alaska Highway

• November 20: The Alaska Highway , which was completed in October, is officially opened. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , the construction of the road was pushed by the USA from a military point of view. The road connects Dawson Creek , located in the Canadian province of British Columbia , with Delta Junction in the US state of Alaska .
• December 21st: A strike by the miners in the Bolivian tin mine Catavi for better wages and working conditions is bloodily ended by a military operation. Hundreds of civilians die.

science and technology

Pit River Bridge June 1942

• June 16: The Pit River Bridge , a combined road and rail bridge across Shasta Lake in Shasta County , California , is constructed. At this time it is the highest double -decker bridge in the world.
• July 18: The first flight of the first ever mass-produced jet aircraft, the Messerschmitt Me 262 , succeeds.
• September 21: The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight . She would prove to be the largest and most powerful bomber in World War II.
• The American biochemist Vincent du Vigneaud succeeds in the total synthesis of biotin , which is also known as vitamin H.
• December 2: As part of the Manhattan Project , the team led by Robert Oppenheimer succeeds in the first controlled nuclear fission chain reaction with the Chicago Pile reactor built by Enrico Fermi .

Culture

Visual arts

→ Main article : Art Year 1942

Invitation to the opening of "Art of this Century"

• October 20: Peggy Guggenheim opens the avant-garde Art of This Century museum and gallery in Manhattan. She commissioned the architect Friedrich Kiesler to design the rooms .
• Edward Hopper produces his best-known work, Nighthawks , in oil on canvas .
• David Hare , in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp , André Breton and Max Ernst , publishes the surrealist magazine VVV for the first time .

Movie

→ Main article : Film year 1942

• January 10: All German film production is combined in Universum-Film AG ( UFA ). Integrated companies include Bavaria Film , Berlin-Film , Terra Film , Tobis AG , Prag-Film and Wien-Film . The personnel hierarchy of the UFA is reorganized according to the National Socialist leadership principle. The coordination of the individual branches of the UFI group is the task of the newly appointed Reich Film Director Fritz Hippler , who reports directly to Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels .
• April 3: The feature film Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book , the first film adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's of the same name , premieres in the United States.
• June 4: The William Wyler film Mrs. Miniver , starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon , premieres at New York's Radio City Music Hall . The film drama becomes the financially most successful film of the year.

Movie logo

• June 12: The Nazi propaganda film The Great Love by Rolf Hansen , starring Zarah Leander and Viktor Staal , premieres in Berlin. All music interludes were composed by Michael Jary , texted by Bruno Balz and sung by Zarah Leander and become successful hits . The film itself becomes the most commercially successful film in the Third Reich .

title of the movie

• August 8: The Disney film Bambi , based on Felix Salten 's book Bambi, celebrates in London. A Life Story from the Forest Premiere. The US premiere follows on August 13 in New York. Edward H. Plumb is responsible for the film music . The theme song Love Is a Song is by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey . The film is initially a flop.
• August 14: The anti-Soviet propaganda film GPU by Karl Ritter premieres in Berlin. Laura Solari and Andrews Engelmann are in the lead roles .
• November 6: The German crime film Dr. Crippen on board by Erich Engels with Rudolf Fernau in the title role based on the novel of the same name by Walter Ebert. The film deals with the real criminal case involving the English murderer Dr. Hawley Crippen .
• November 26th: Michael Curtiz 's film Casablanca premieres at New York's Hollywood Theater after test screenings had already taken place on September 22nd in California with consistently positive reactions. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in the lead roles .

literature

→ Main article : Literary Year 1942

• December 7th: The first edition of Stefan Zweig 's best-known work Schachnovelle appears in Buenos Aires .
• Stefan Zweig 's autobiographical work The World of Yesterday , which he wrote in exile, is published after his suicide in cooperation with the publishers Hamish-Hamilton London and Bermann-Fischer Verlag AB in Stockholm.
• Albert Camus publishes the existentialist -philosophical novel L'Étranger ( The Stranger ) with the Paris publishing house Gallimard . This becomes one of the most printed French novels of the 20th century.
• French author Jean Marcel Bruller secretly publishes the novella Le silence de la mer ( The Silence of the Sea ) under the pseudonym Vercors in German-occupied Paris . It is the first-ever title from the underground publisher Éditions de Minuit .
• John Steinbeck 's novel The Moon Is Down is published.
• The American author Isaac Asimov published the short story Runaround in the science fiction magazine Astounding , in which he formulated the three robot laws for the first time.
• Agatha Christie publishes the detective novels Dead Man in the Library , The Unfinished Picture and The Shadow Hand .
• British children's author Enid Blyton publishes Five on a Treasure Island , the first novel in her Five Friends series.

Music, theater and variety shows

→ Main article : Music year 1942

• March 5: The 7th Symphony ( Leningrad Symphony ) by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich is premiered in Kuibyshev by the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, which had been relocated there because of the war , under the direction of Samuil Samosud . A performance in Moscow will follow on March 27th. The music is so captivating that even an air raid alarm fails to persuade the audience to seek shelter.
• April 9: Igor Stravinsky's Circus Polka premieres at a performance by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in New York .
• April 30: Over 20 artists from various genres take part in the Hollywood Victory Caravan , a tour of the USA on a special train in support of the US Army and Navy. The variety show has 14 stations.

Bing Crosby 1942

• May 29: At Decca Studios in New York City, Bing Crosby and other collaborators record Irving Berlin 's composition White Christmas . The song will eventually become the world's most successful Christmas single commercially .
• October 28: Capriccio , the last opera by Richard Strauss , premieres at the National Theater in Munich . The libretto was created between 1934 and 1941 as a joint effort by several authors: the original idea came from Stefan Zweig ; at his request, Joseph Gregor made several drafts. The further execution took over Clemens Krauss and Richard Strauss with the participation of Hans Swarowsky .
• 31 October: The opera The Magic Island by Heinrich Sutermeister , based on the drama The Tempest by William Shakespeare , premieres at the Semperoper in Dresden.
• November 21: In the US , the performer Bing Crosby reaches number 1 in the US charts for the first time with Irving Berlin 's song White Christmas and stays there for ten weeks.
• November 28: The premiere of the operetta Manina by Nico Dostal to the libretto by Hans Adler and Alexander Lix takes place in the Admiralspalast in Berlin.

religion

• May 1: Joseph Frings becomes Archbishop of Cologne .
• Merger of the German Baptist , Elim and Brethren congregations to form the Federation of Evangelical Free Church Congregations

disasters

• January 9: Off Menorca , the Lamoricière , a passenger ship owned by the French shipping company Compagnie Générale Transatlantique , sinks after water entered the hull in a severe storm. 301 people die.
• February 18: The destroyer Truxtun ( USA ) runs aground in bad weather during an escort operation in Placentia Bay ( Canada ), breaks up and sinks. Over 100 dead
• February 24: The Bulgarian steamer Struma with 764 Jewish refugees on board is sunk by a Soviet submarine near the Bosphorus . There is only one survivor. The goiter had previously been forced to return to the Black Sea by Turkish authorities. The refugees were not allowed to continue their journey or to land
• 22 August: Destroyer escort Ingraham (USA) sank west of Halifax in the North Atlantic after colliding with tanker Chemung . Of the 200 man crew on the destroyer, 189 men died and the tanker was badly damaged.
• 2 October: The anti-aircraft cruiser Curacoa sank off the north coast of Ireland after colliding with the troop transport passenger ship Queen Mary (both Great Britain ). 331 of the cruiser's 430-strong crew die
• November 23: The British passenger and cargo steamer Tilawa is sunk by two torpedoes in the Indian Ocean by the Japanese submarine I-29 . 280 passengers and crew die.
• December 20: 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Erbaa , Turkey, killing around 3,000

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

nature and environment

• January 21: −30.5 degrees Celsius is the coldest temperature ever recorded in Munich .

Sports

• January 3: In order to make skis available to the German Wehrmacht , all winter sports events, including the Ski World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, are cancelled.
• November 22nd: The last international match of the German national soccer team took place in Bratislava. They won against Slovakia 5:2. During the entire game there was a negative mood against the DFB-Elf. In the same year, Germany was expelled from FIFA.

Nobel prizes

Nobel prizes are not awarded.

Born

January

• 0January 1 Bruno Arcari , Italian boxer
• 0January 1: Anne Duden , German writer
• 0January 1: Edward Joseph Hoffman , American scientist (died 2004)
• 0January 1 Joe McDonald , American singer-songwriter
• 0January 1: Alassane Ouattara , Prime Minister of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
• 0January 2 Dennis Hastert , American politician
• 0January 2 Jake McCoy , American ice hockey player (d. 2021)
• 0January 2: Hans Werner Schmöle , German politician (died 2013)
• 0January 3 László Sólyom , Hungarian politician, President of Hungary
• 0January 4: Jim Downing , American racing driver and mechanical engineer
• 0January 4 John McLaughlin , British musician, guitarist, songwriter
• 0January 5: Charles Alexander Aitken , Scottish footballer
• 0January 5: Giorgi Arsenishvili , Georgian mathematician and politician (died 2010)
• 0January 5: Ernst Meincke , German actor and voice actor
• 0January 5 Maurizio Pollini , Italian pianist and conductor
• 0January 6: Hilmar Kabas , Austrian politician
• 0January 6: Bernd Neumann , German politician
• 0January 6: Jochen Senf , German actor and author (died 2018)
• 0January 7: Vasily Alexeyev , Soviet weightlifter (died 2011)
• 0January 7: Björn R. Kommer , German art historian and museum director
• 0January 7: Danny Williams , South African musician († 2005)
• 0January 8: Per Anon Anonsen , Norwegian film editor, actor, screenwriter and film producer
• 0January 8: Albrecht Glaser , German politician
• 0January 8: Stephen Hawking , British physicist (died 2018)
  

  Stephen Hawking
• 0January 8: Koizumi Junichirō , Prime Minister of Japan
• 0January 8 Bob Taft , American politician
• January 10: Walter Hill , American director
• January 10: Günther Huber , Austrian racing driver
• January 10 Rimantas Šavelis , Lithuanian novelist and screenwriter († 2021)
• January 11: Clarence Clemons , American saxophonist († 2011)
• January 11 Ingrid Wessel , German Southeast Asia scholar
• January 12: Roland Amstutz , Swiss actor (d. 1997)
• January 12 Axel Gehrke , German doctor and politician (died 2021)
• January 14: Michael Gwisdek , German film actor (died 2020)
• January 14: Gerben Karstens , Dutch racing cyclist
• January 15: Jacques Coulon , French racing driver
• January 15 Evelyn Grill , Austrian writer
• January 15: Gaetano Salvemini , Italian football player and coach
• January 16: René Angélil , Canadian singer and manager († 2016)
• January 16: Sigrid Combüchen , Swedish writer and literary critic
• January 16: Nicole Fontaine , French politician (died 2018)
• January 16 Barbara Lynn , American singer, guitarist and songwriter
• January 17: Muhammad Ali , American boxer (died 2016)
  

  Muhammad Ali with US President Ronald Reagan, 1983
• January 17: Roland Bausert , German crooner
• January 17: Ulf Grahn , Swedish composer
• January 17: Rudolf Hickel , German economist
• January 17: Ulf Hoelscher , German violinist
• January 17: Frank Lehmann , German business journalist and stock market commentator
• January 18: Vassula Ryden , Egyptian author
• January 19: Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro Escápite , Mexican brigadier general († 2012)
• January 19 Michael Crawford , British actor
• January 19: Reiner Schöne , German actor, musician and voice actor
• January 20: José Luis Aussín Suárez , Mexican soccer player
• January 20: Heinz-Günter Bargfrede , German politician, MP
• January 20 Reinhard Dauber , German architect, art historian and university lecturer
• January 20: William Powell , American singer (d. 1977)
• January 21: Freddy Breck , German pop singer (died 2008)
• January 21: Edwin Starr , American soul singer († 2003)
• January 22 Amin Gemayel , Lebanese politician and former President of Lebanon
• January 22: Anke Hartnagel , German politician (died 2004)
• January 22: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo , Mexican film director († 2020)
• January 23: Wolfgang Abraham , German soccer player (died 2013)
• January 23: Hans Alsér , Swedish table tennis player (died 1977)
• January 23 Willy Bogner junior , German alpine skier
• January 24 Melvin Fitting , American mathematician
• January 24: Ingo Friedrich , German politician
• January 25: Miguel Alfonseca , Dominican poet, storyteller, playwright and philosopher (died 1994)
• January 25 Martin Dolde , German engineer and church politician
• January 25 Carl Eller , American football player
• January 25: Eusébio , Portuguese footballer (died 2014)
• January 26: Guy Chasseuil , French racing driver
• January 26 Horst Jankhöfer , German handball player and handball coach
• January 27: Maki Asakawa , Japanese singer, songwriter and producer († 2010)
• January 27: Petr Kotík , Czech composer
• January 27 Stewart Raffill , American film director and screenwriter
• January 27 Steve Wynn , American multi-millionaire and casino operator
• January 28: Hans-Jürgen Bäumler , German figure skater
• January 28: André Waignein , Belgian composer and conductor († 2015)
• January 29: Claudine Longet , French singer and actress
• January 30: Marty Balin , American rock musician († 2018)
• January 30: Heidi Brühl , German actress and singer († 1991)
  

  Heidi Bruehl, 1959
• January 31: Daniela Bianchi , Italian actress
• January 31: Daniel Goeudevert , French car salesman, manager and business consultant
• January 31: Derek Jarman , British film director (d. 1994)

February

• 0February 1: Klaus Peter Arnold , Austrian geographer, historian and tourism scientist († 2017)
• 0February 1: Hans Peter Heinzl , Austrian cabaret artist († 1996)
• 0February 1 Terry Jones , British comedian, director and writer († 2020)

Terry Jones

• 0February 1 Felix Latzke , Austrian football player and football coach
• 0February 1: Nené , Brazilian soccer player and coach (died 2016)
• 0February 1: Vural Öger , Turkish-German entrepreneur ("Öger Tours") and politician
• 0February 2 Bo Hopkins , American actor
• 0February 2 Graham Nash , British singer and songwriter
• 0February 2 James Blood Ulmer , American jazz and blues guitarist
• 0February 2 Ron Williams , German-American actor, singer, cabaret artist and host
• 0February 4 Frank Zander , German musician and television star
• 0February 5 Otto Fräßdorf , German footballer
• 0February 7: Gareth Hunt , English actor (died 2007)
• 0February 7 Klaus Theweleit , German literary scholar, cultural theorist and author
• 0February 8 Marianne Ach , German writer and educator
• 0February 8: Terry Melcher , American record producer and songwriter († 2004)
• 0February 9 Carole King , American rock/pop musician
• 0February 9: Miloš Štědroň , Czech composer and musicologist
• 0February 9 Kirsten Thorup , Danish writer
• February 10 Howard Mudd , American football player († 2020)
• February 10 Lawrence Weiner , American visual artist, exponent of conceptual art (died 2021)
• February 11: Fritz Hähle , German politician
• February 11 Arild Holm , Norwegian alpine skier
• February 12: Ehud Barak , Israeli general, politician and prime minister
• February 13 Otto Bernhardt , German politician (died 2021)
• February 13: Volker Bigl , German physician († 2005)
• February 14: Michael Bloomberg , American politician
  

  Michael Bloomberg, 2011
• February 14: Pertti Purhonen , Finnish boxer (died 2011)
• February 14 Andrew Robinson , American actor
• February 14 – Ricardo Rodríguez , Mexican racing driver (d. 1962)
• February 15 Ronald George Atkey , Canadian lawyer, university lecturer and politician (died 2017)
• February 15 Glyn Johns , British recording engineer and record producer
• February 16 Ulrich Aust , German architect and monument conservator (died 1992)
• February 16: Gabriel Brnčić , Chilean composer
• February 17: Heinrich Breloer , German film director
• February 17 Dieter Laser , German actor († 2020)
• February 17: John Morton , American racing driver
• February 17: Klaus Weiss , German jazz drummer (died 2008)
• February 18 Katsuaki Asai , Japanese Aikido teacher
• February 18 – Martin Ness , German table tennis player (died 1987)
• February 19: Timothy Bond , Canadian film director and screenwriter
• February 19: Bruno Deserti , Italian racing driver (d. 1965)
• February 19: Klaus Halser , German motorcycle racer
• February 20: Phil Esposito , Canadian ice hockey player
• February 20 Mitch McConnell , American politician
• February 20: Claude Miller , French film director and screenwriter († 2012)
• February 21: Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei , Italian religious religious and archbishop
• February 21: Joachim Becker , German lawyer and politician
• February 21: Margarethe von Trotta , German director and screenwriter
  

  Margarethe von Trotta, 2013
• February 23: Selim Bešlagić , Bosnian politician
• February 24: Chris Doerk , German pop singer
• February 24: Volker Jung , German politician
• February 24: Joseph Lieberman , United States Senator
• February 24: Bernd Rupp , German footballer
• February 24: Keto von Waberer , German writer
• February 26: Lennart Åberg , Swedish jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer († 2021)
• February 26: Jozef Adamec , Slovak footballer and coach (died 2018)
• February 26: Wolf Gremm , German film and television director († 2015)
• February 26: Franz Romer , German politician
• February 27: Robert Grubbs , American chemist (died 2021)
• February 27: Klaus-Dieter Sieloff , German soccer player (died 2011)
• February 28 Stuart A. Aaronson , American cancer researcher
• February 28 Martin Aigner , Austrian mathematician
• February 28: Bernardo Adam Ferrero , Spanish composer and conductor
• February 28: Brian Jones , British musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)
• February 28: Dino Zoff , Italian football player and coach
• 00February: Abed Abdi , Arab-Israeli painter and draftsman, graphic artist, sculptor, blacksmith and lecturer

March

• 0March 1: Konrad Adam , German journalist and publicist
• 0March 1 Michael Giles , British jazz-rock drummer
• 0March 1: Bernhard Heitz , Old Catholic Bishop of Austria
• 0March 1: Harald Kujat , German general
• 0March 1: José Nieto , Spanish composer of film music
• 0March 2: Jon Finch , British actor (died 2012)
• 0March 2 John Irving , American novelist
  

  John Irving, 2010
• 0March 2 Adrian Metcalfe , British athlete (d. 2021)
• 0March 2: Lou Reed , American musician and songwriter († 2013)
  

  Lou Reed, 2008
• 0March 3: Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz , German-American author and activist
• 0March 4: Ernst Behringer , Baden-Württemberg politician
• 0March 4: Henk Vonk , Dutch football coach (died 2019)
• 0March 4: Henryk Waniek , Polish painter, stage designer, writer, art critic and essayist
• 0March 4: Bob Wootton , American guitarist († 2017)
• 0March 5: Felipe González , Spanish lawyer and politician
  

  Felipe Gonzalez, 2012
• 0March 5: George Pieterson , Dutch clarinetist (died 2016)
• 0March 6: George Kingsley Acquah , Ghanaian lawyer and politician (died 2007)
• 0March 6 Paco Cepero , Spanish flamenco guitarist
• 0March 6: Robin Kenyatta , American saxophonist (d. 2004)
• 0March 6 Ben Murphy , American actor
• 0March 6 Flora Purim , Brazilian jazz singer
• 0March 8: Reinhold Huhn , soldier of the border troops of the GDR († 1962)
• 0March 8: Ann Packer , British track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist
• 0March 9 John Cale , British art rock musician
• 0March 9: Pedro Rivera Toledo , Puerto Rican composer, arranger, saxophonist and conductor
• March 10: Peter Friedrich , German politician (died 2021)
• March 11: Hartmut Röseler , German politician
• March 11: Willi Weber , German manager
• March 12: Fred Julsing , Dutch cartoonist (died 2005)
• 12 March: Ratko Mladić , Serbian general of the Republika Srpska
• March 12 Jimmy Wynn , American baseball player († 2020)
• March 13 David N. Cutler , American software engineer
• March 13: Scatman John , American scat singer (d. 1999)
• March 13: Jürgen Mikol , German actor
• March 14 Rita Tushingham , British actress
• March 15: Hella Adam , German classics scholar
• March 15: Klaus Buß , German politician
• March 15: Jacques Henry , French rally driver (died 2016)
• March 15: Emöke Pöstenyi , Hungarian dancer and choreographer
• March 16: Franz Annen , Swiss theologian (died 2018)
• March 16: Gijs van Lennep , Dutch racing driver
• March 16: Werner Trzmiel , German track and field athlete
• March 17: Jens Ehrhardt , German wealth manager
• March 17: John Wayne Gacy , American serial killer (d. 1994)
• March 17 Rudolf Gleißner , German cellist
• March 17: Dietmar Keller , Minister of Culture in the GDR
• March 17: Hans Pizka , Austrian horn player
• March 17: Pak Doo-ik , North Korean soccer player
• March 17: Monika Wulf-Mathies , German union official
• March 18 Doris Pack , German politician
• March 19 Giuseppe Brizi , Italian football player and coach
• March 19 David Minge , American politician
• March 20: Uve Schikora , German rock musician, composer and music producer
• March 21: Françoise Dorléac , French actress (d. 1967)
• March 21: Fradique de Menezes , President of São Tomé and Príncipe
• March 22: Bernd Herzsprung , German actor
• March 22: Gerhard Stratthaus , German politician
• March 23: Ama Ata Aidoo , Ghanaian writer and politician
• March 23 Michael Haneke , Austrian theater and film director, screenwriter and film critic
• March 23: Walter Rodney , Guyanese historian and politician (died 1980)
• March 25 Aretha Franklin , American soul singer († 2018)
  

  Aretha Franklin, 2007
• March 25 Richard O'Brien , English actor, author and composer
• March 25: Ulrike Piechota , German writer
• March 26 Erica Jong , American writer
• March 26: Alfred Kieser , professor of general business administration and organization
• March 27: John E. Sulston , British scientist and Nobel laureate (died 2018)
• March 27 Michael York , British actor
• March 28: Klaus Ahlheim , German educational scientist († 2020)
• March 28: Luis Felipe Areta Sampériz , Spanish athlete and priest
• March 28: Bernard Darniche , French automobile racer
• March 28 Daniel Dennett , American philosopher
• March 28: Neil Kinnock , Vice-President of the European Commission
• March 28: Mike Newell , British director
  

  Mike Newell, 2010
• March 28: Hartmut Perschau , German politician
• March 28: Conrad Schumann , first border refugee of the NVA († 1998)
• March 28 Jerry Sloan , American basketball coach († 2020)
• March 30 María del Carmen Aquino Rotundo , Uruguayan writer and journalist
• March 30 Cor Schuuring , Dutch racing cyclist
• March 30 Fred Stalder , French racing driver and racing team owner
• March 31: Anne Poirier , French artist
• March: Audrey Arno , German singer († 2012)

April

• 0April 1: Ingrid Ahrendt-Schulte , German historian (died 2006)
• 0April 1: Hans Daiber , German orientalist
• 0April 1 Samuel R. Delany , American science fiction writer
• 0April 2 Neithard Bethke , German church musician
• 0April 2: Leon Russell , American musician (died 2016)
• 0April 3 Mike Elliott , American cross-country skier
• 0April 4 Michel Fourniret , French serial killer (died 2021)
• 0April 4: Wolfgang Grupp , German entrepreneur
• 0April 4: Horst Schild , German politician and MP
• 0April 5: Pascal Couchepin , Swiss politician
• 0April 5: Peter Greenaway , British experimental artist and filmmaker
• 0April 5 Irmgard Schwaetzer , German politician
  

  Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer, 1991
• 0April 6 Barry Levinson , American film director
• 0April 6: Anita Pallenberg , model, actress and fashion designer († 2017)
• 0April 6: Kabir Stori , Pashtun poet and writer (died 2006)
• 0April 6: Philip Werren , Canadian composer and music educator
• 0April 8: Roger Chapman , British singer
• 0April 8 Leon Huff , American soul pianist
• 0April 8 Manfred Kallenbach , German soccer player (died 2010)
• 0April 8: Douglas Trumbull , American film special effects specialist
• 0April 8: Wolf Werner , German football coach († 2018)
• 0April 9: Jürgen Hausmann , German jurist
• April 12 Carlos Reutemann , Argentine racing driver (d. 2021)
• April 12: Wolfgang Zeh , German administrative scientist
• April 12: Jacob Zuma , South African politician
  

  Jacob Zuma, 2009
• April 13: Ricardo Blázquez , Archbishop of Valladolid
• April 13 Bill Conti , American composer
• April 13: Otto Marchi , Swiss writer and historian († 2004)
• April 14: Valery Nikolayevich Brumel , Soviet track and field athlete († 2003)
• April 14: Elias Rahal , Lebanese Archbishop
• April 15 Ginette Acevedo , Chilean singer
• April 15 Matthias Rothmund , German surgeon
• April 16 Leo Nucci , Italian opera singer, baritone
• April 16 Frank Williams , team principal and co-owner of the Williams F1 racing team († 2021)
• April 17: Kenos Aroi , Nauruan politician and President of the Republic of Nauru (d. 1991)
• April 17 Katia Krafft , French volcanologist (died 1991)
• April 17: Aziz Mian , representative of the Qawwali († 2000)
• April 17 Michael Ranta , American composer
• April 17: Lisa Seuster , German politician (SPD)
• April 17 Buster Williams , American jazz bassist
• April 18: Jochen Rindt , Austrian racing driver (d. 1970)
  

  Jochen Rindt, 1968
• April 19: Frank Elstner , German television show host
  

  Frank Elstner, 2005
• April 19 Alan Price , British musician
• April 20 Raymond Cousse , French writer and actor (died 1991)
• April 20: Arto Paasilinna , Finnish writer († 2018)
• April 22 Giorgio Agamben , Italian philosopher, essayist and author
• April 23: Jorge Antunes , Brazilian composer
• April 23 Edmond Baudoin , French caricaturist and comics artist
• April 23: Sandra Dee , American actress (died 2005)
• April 24 Barbra Streisand , American film actress, singer and film director
  

  Barbra Streisand, 1962
• April 24: Werner Teske , captain of the MfS and last victim of the death penalty in Germany († 1981)
• April 25: Josef Dvořák , Czech actor
• April 25: Volkmar Schubert , German politician
• April 26: Mojmír Bártek , Czech jazz trombonist and composer
• April 26 Werner Biskup , German soccer player and coach (died 2014)
• April 26: Wolfgang Börnsen , German politician
• April 26 Horst Förster , German jurist and politician
• April 26: Manfred Korfmann , German archaeologist (died 2005)
• April 26 Bobby Rydell , American singer and entertainer
• April 27 Jim Keltner , American drummer
• April 27: John Shrapnel , British actor (died 2020)
• April 28: Kokou Guy Acolatse , Togolese footballer
• April 30 Alexander Wedderburn , Scottish theologian (died 2018)

May

• 0May 1: Wolf Appel , German opera singer (died 1999)
• 0May 1 Gerald Howard Ashworth , American sprinter
• 0May 2 Brigitte Berendonk , German discus thrower and shot putter
• 0May 2: Udo Ehrbar , German politician
• 0May 2: Bogusław Kaczyński , Polish journalist, music critic and theorist, TV presenter and promoter of classical music (died 2016)
• 0May 2: Wojciech Pszoniak , Polish actor (died 2020)
• 0May 2 Jacques Rogge , Belgian orthopedic surgeon and President of the IOC (died 2021)
• 0May 2: Udo Steinke , German-speaking writer († 1999)
• 0May 2 Rainer Zimmermann , German handball player
• 0May 2: Bernd Ziskofen , personality in the history of rallycross (d. 1993)
• 0May 3: Věra Čáslavská , Czech artistic gymnast († 2016)
• 0May 3 Henning Frenzel , German footballer
• 0May 3: Karl-Heinz Garnitz , German writer
• 0May 3 – Antoni Piechniczek , Polish footballer and football coach
• 0May 4: Nickolas Ashford , American songwriter and producer († 2011)
• 0May 5: Roberto Pinto Ferreira Mameri Abdenur , Brazilian diplomat
• 0May 5 Marc Alaimo , American actor
• 0May 5: Patrick Poirier , French artist
• 0May 5 Peter Rubin , German singer, presenter and guitarist
• 0May 5: Tammy Wynette , American country music singer († 1998)
• 0May 6: Thierry Émilien Flavien Aubin , French mathematician (died 2009)
• 0May 6: Amadeus August , German actor (died 1992)
• 0May 6: Carmen Collado López , Cuban choirmaster and music teacher
• 0May 6: Ariel Dorfman , Chilean author and playwright
• 0May 7 Alan C. Ashton , American computer scientist
• 0May 7: Pietro Farina , Italian bishop (died 2013)
• 0May 7: Justin Hinds , Jamaican singer († 2005)
• 0May 7 Gerhard Polt , Bavarian cabaret artist
• 0May 7: Jochen Striebeck , German actor and voice talent
• 0May 8 Michele Dancelli , Italian cyclist
• 0May 9 John Ashcroft , American politician
• 0May 9 Tommy Roe , American singer, guitarist and songwriter
• May 10 Gilbert Guillaume Marie-Jean Aubry , French bishop
• May 10 Jim Calhoun , American basketball coach
• May 10 Carl Douglas , Jamaican singer
• May 11 Elisabeth Gehrer , Austrian politician
• May 12: Klaus Adam , German national basketball player
• May 12: Ian Dury , English musician, songwriter and actor (died 2000)
• May 12: Michel Fugain , French singer and composer
• May 12: Friedhelm Hofmann , Bishop of Würzburg
• May 12: Heinz Köhler , German politician
• May 12: Barry B. Longyear , American SF writer
• May 12: Klaus Solmecke , former mayor of Gevelsberg
• May 12 Billy Swan , American country music singer-songwriter
• May 13: Jeffrey Astle , English footballer (died 2002)
• May 13: Pál Schmitt , Hungarian fencer, diplomat and politician
• May 14 Prentis Hancock , Scottish actor
• May 14: Dieter Pützhofen , German politician
• May 14 Jörg-Otto Spiller , German politician and MP
• May 14 Rüdiger Vogler , German actor
• May 15 Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini , Estonian politician (died 2018)
• May 16 Marie-Thérèse Lefebvre , Canadian musicologist
• May 17: Jacqueline Crevoisier , Swiss writer and translator († 2016)
• May 17: Eberhard David , Lord Mayor of the City of Bielefeld
• May 17 Verena C. Harksen , German translator, editor and writer
• May 17 Taj Mahal , American blues musician
• May 18: Massimo Antonelli , Italian film director and conceptual artist
• May 18 Rodney Dillard , American country music artist
• May 19: Alexandra , German singer (died 1969)
• May 19: Hans-Jürgen Ewers , President of the TU Berlin († 2002)
• May 19: Otto Jägersberg , German writer and filmmaker
• May 19: Gary Kildall , American computer scientist (d. 1994)
• May 20: Harro Adt , German Ambassador
• May 20: Charles B. Blankart , Swiss economist
• May 20 Egon Jüttner , German politician and MP
• May 20 Leroy Kelly , American football player
• May 21: Ferdinand Ahuis , German theologian
• May 21: Danny Ongais , American racing driver
• May 22 Sergio Anaya , Mexican soccer player
• May 22: Guy Bovet , Swiss organist and composer
• May 22 Theodore Kaczynski , US letter bomb assassin
• May 22 Eva-Maria Kors , German politician
• May 22: Leon Rainer , German voice actor and actor
• May 23: Johannes Fried , German historian
• May 23 Christopher Herrick , English organist
• May 23: José Omar Pastoriza , Argentine soccer player and soccer coach (d. 2004)
• May 23: Heinz Schilling , German historian
• May 24: Hannu Mikkola , Finnish rally driver (d. 2021)
• May 24 Fraser Stoddart , British-American chemist
• May 25: Kristian Gerner , Swedish historian, author and expert on Eastern Europe
• May 27: Kent Bernard , sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago
• May 27: Piers Courage , British racing driver (d. 1970)
• May 27: Peter Grottian , German professor of political science († 2020)
• May 27 Karl Heinz Roth , German historian, social researcher and physician
• May 27: Robin Widdows , British bobsledder and automobile racer
• May 28 Stanley Prusiner , US professor of biochemistry
• May 29: Cox Kocher , Swiss entrepreneur and racing driver
• May 31: Jo Vonlanthen , Swiss racing car driver

June

• 0June 1: Fernando Atzori , Italian Olympic champion in boxing († 2020)
• 0June 1 Clifford Barry , Canadian water polo player and swimming coach (died 2021)
• 0June 2 Stefan Behrens , German actor and voice actor
• 0June 2: Thomas Danneberg , German actor and voice actor
• 0June 3 Celso Luís Nunes Amorim , Brazilian politician
• 0June 3: Michael Bürsch , German politician (died 2012)
• 0June 3: Curtis Mayfield , American soul musician (d. 1999)
• 0June 5: Charles Dodge , American composer
• 0June 5: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo , President of Equatorial Guinea
• 0June 6: Klaus Bednarz , German journalist and moderator († 2015)
  

  Klaus Bednarz, 2007
• 0June 6: Ulrike Ottinger , German artist and filmmaker
• 0June 6: Norberto Rivera Carrera , Archbishop of Mexico City and cardinal
• 0June 7: Anneke Grönloh , Dutch singer († 2018)
• 0June 7 Dennis L. Meadows , American economist and author
• 0June 8: Jacques Dubochet , Swiss biophysicist
• 0June 8: Walter Leykauf , German singer, composer, presenter and music publisher
• 0June 8 Horst Wolter , German footballer
• June 10 Hartwig Bauer , German surgeon
• June 10: Lopo Fortunato Ferreira do Nascimento , Prime Minister of Angola
• June 10: Herwig van Staa , Austrian politician
• June 11: Peter Blusch , German footballer
• June 11: Gunter Gabriel , German singer († 2017)
• June 11 Parris Glendening , American politician
• June 11 Hellmut Lorenz , Austrian art historian
• June 11 Reinhard Riegel , German legal scholar and data protection expert (died 2000)
• June 12 Len Barry , American pop singer († 2020)
• June 12 Helga Daub , German politician and MP
• June 12: Ahmed Aboul Gheit , Egyptian diplomat and politician
• June 12: Bert Sakmann , German Nobel Prize winner for medicine
• June 13 Abdulsalami Abubakar , President of Nigeria
• June 14 Jim Busby , American racing driver and racing team owner
• June 14: Manfred Hampel , German politician
• June 14 Jonathan Raban , British writer
• June 15: Herman Berkien , Dutch entertainer and singer (died 2005)
• June 15: Néstor Marconi , Argentine bandoneonist
• June 15: John E. McLaughlin , director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• June 15: Friedhelm Ost , German politician
• June 16 Giacomo Agostini , Italian motorcycle racer
• June 16: John Rostill , British musician and composer (The Shadows) († 1973)
• June 16: Walter Schwimmer , Austrian politician, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
• June 16: Graham Townsend , Canadian fiddler, mandolinist, pianist and composer (d. 1998)
• June 17: Mohammed el-Baradei , Director General of the IAEA, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• June 17 Christiane Blumhoff , German actress
• June 18: Roger Ebert , American film critic (died 2013)
• June 18 Oswald Huber , Austrian psychologist and cartoonist
• June 18: Jürgen May , German track and field athlete
• 18 June: Thabo Mbeki , President of South Africa
• June 18: Paul McCartney , British singer, musician and composer (The Beatles)
  

  Paul McCartney, 1964
• June 18 Nick Tate , Australian actor
• June 18: Hans Vonk , Dutch conductor (died 2004)
• June 18: Wolfgang Zöller , German politician and MP
• June 19: Muammar al-Gaddafi , Libyan politician (died 2011)
  

  Muammar al-Gaddafi (left) with Gamal Abdel Nasser, 1969
• June 19 Bob Kasten , American politician
• June 20: Santiago Agrelo Martínez , Archbishop of Tangier
• June 20 Otto Garhofer , German footballer
• June 20: Heinz Kindermann , German politician
• June 20: Brian Wilson , American musician (The Beach Boys)
• June 21: Seiji Aochi , Japanese ski jumper (died 2008)
• June 21: Barbara Dickmann , German journalist
• June 21: Lothar Fischer , German politician (died 2013)
• June 21: Helmut Linssen , German politician
• June 22 Julie Corman , US film producer
• June 22 Laila Freivalds , Swedish politician
• June 22: Ehrhart Körting , German politician
• June 22 Eddie Prévost , British improv drummer
• June 23 Dieter Antoni , Austrian civil servant and politician (died 2021)
• June 23 Martin Rees , British astronomer
• June 23 Hannes Wader , German songwriter, singer and guitarist
• June 24 Uwe Appold , German graduate designer, sculptor and painter
• June 24 Arthur Brown , British rock singer
• June 24: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle , Chilean politician
• June 24 Martin Herrenknecht , German entrepreneur
• June 24: Gerhard Roth , Austrian writer
• June 24: Fredrik Vahle , German singer-songwriter
• June 25: Ivan Binar , Czech writer and translator
• June 25 Joe Chambers , American jazz drummer
• June 25: Bengt Johansson , Swedish handball coach
• June 25: Volker David Kirchner , German composer († 2020)
• June 25 Willis Reed , American basketball player
• June 25: Michel Tremblay , Canadian writer and director
• June 26 Gilberto Gil , Brazilian musician and politician
• June 26 Sigrid Löffler , Austrian publicist and literary critic
  

  Sigrid Loeffler, 2009
• June 27 Klaus Arnold , German historian
• June 27 Bruce Johnston , American musician and composer
  

  Bruce Johnston (2006)
• June 27: Volker Löffler , German track and field athlete
• June 27 Frank Mills , Canadian pianist
• June 27 Ilse Neubauer , German actress
• June 27 Waltraud Schoppe , German politician
• June 28: Chris Hani , South African politician (died 1993)
• June 28 Rupert Sheldrake , British author and biologist
• June 28: Vidosav Stevanović , Serbian writer
• June 28: Hans-Joachim Walde , German athlete († 2013)
• June 29: Jurgis Juozapaitis , Lithuanian composer
• June 29 Andrea Jonasson , German actress
• June 29: Wolfgang Kramer , German game designer
• June 30 Robert Ballard , American writer and deep-sea scientist
• June 30: Alfred Fisher , Canadian composer, pianist and music educator († 2016)
• June 30: Klaus Renft , German musician and band leader († 2006)
• June 30: Friedrich von Thun , Austrian actor

July

• 0July 1 Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri , Iraqi general (died 2020)
• 0July 1 Geneviève Bujold , French-Canadian film actress
• 0July 1 Andraé Crouch , American gospel singer and composer († 2015)
• 0July 2 Michael Abene , American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and producer
• 0July 2: Vicente Fox , President of Mexico
  

  Vicente Fox
• 0July 2 Gert Neumann , German writer
• 0July 2 Celia Nyamweru , British-Kenyan cultural anthropologist and geoscientist
• 0July 2: Antanas Trumpa , Lithuanian entrepreneur
• 0July 3 Kevin Johnson , Australian singer-songwriter
• 0July 3 Uwe Nickel , German graphic artist and painter
• 0July 3: Gerhard Pilz , Austrian tradesman (printer), screenwriter and actor († 2016)
• 0July 3 Allan Rae , Canadian composer and music educator
• 0July 4 – Floyd Little , American football player († 2021)
• 04 July: Michael of Kent , British nobleman
• 0July 4 Peter Rowan , American bluegrass musician
• 0July 5: Matthias Bamert , Swiss composer and conductor
• 0July 5: Hannes Löhr , German soccer player and coach (died 2016)
• 0July 7: Eric Chapuis , Swiss racing car driver
• 0July 7: Abdul Hamid II , Pakistani field hockey player
• 0July 9: Denis Payot , Swiss lawyer (died 1990)
• 0July 9 Richard Roundtree , American film actor
• July 10: Hermann Burger , Swiss writer (died 1989)
• July 10: Ronnie James Dio , American musician (died 2010)
  

  Ronnie James Dio, 2009
• July 10 Franz-Josef Hönig , German footballer
• July 10: Mirjana Marković , Serbian politician (died 2019)
• July 10 Peter Ruhring , German actor
• July 11 Daphne Marlatt , Canadian writer of Australian descent
• July 11: Tomasz Stańko , Polish jazz trumpeter (died 2018)
• July 12 Lothar Ledderose , German art historian
• July 12 Richard Stoltzman , American clarinetist
• July 13: Rudolf Albrecht , representative of the church peace movement in the GDR († 2015)
• July 13 Rod Chandler , American politician
• July 13 Harrison Ford , American actor
  

  Harrison Ford on the set of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• July 13: Gerhard Hetz , German swimmer (died 2012)
• July 13 Roger McGuinn , American musician
• July 13: Helmut Weber , German doctor
• July 14 Peter Hanser-Strecker , German music publisher
• July 14: Javier Solana , Spanish politician and EU Foreign Minister
• July 16 Margaret Smith Court , Australian tennis player
• July 17: Marie France Anglade , French actress († 2014)
• July 17: Connie Hawkins , American basketball player († 2017)
• July 17: Rainer Marr , German economist
• July 17 Leo van Oostrom , Dutch saxophonist and music teacher
• July 17 Michael Seresin , New Zealand cinematographer and film director
• July 18 Giacinto Facchetti , Italian footballer (died 2006)
• July 18: Klaus Göbel , German musician († 2021)
• July 18 Walter Kreye , German actor
• July 18: Adolf Ogi , Swiss politician
• July 21 Alfred Gomolka , German politician and Member of the European Parliament (died 2020)
• July 21: Klaus-Rüdiger Landowsky , German politician (CDU)
• July 21 Gabriel Sala , Argentine choreographer and dance teacher
• July 22 Toyohiro Akiyama , Japanese television journalist and cosmonaut
• July 22 Peter Habeler , Austrian extreme mountaineer and adventurer
• July 22: Bernd Schröder , German football coach
• July 23: Myra Hindley , English serial killer († 2002)
• July 23 Edda Müller , German politician
• July 23: Ulrich Teichler , German university researcher
• July 24: Gernot Endemann , German actor and voice actor († 2020)
• July 24 Mike Yaconelli , American pastor, author and satirist († 2003)
• July 25 John Brian Atwood , US government official and college professor
• July 25 Manfried Rauchensteiner , Austrian military historian
• July 25 Karl Wieghardt , German chemist
• July 26: Hannelore Elsner , German actress (died 2019)
  

  Hannelore Elsner, 2011
• July 26 – Barry Graves , German journalist, author and radio host (died 1994)
• July 26: Vladimír Mečiar , Slovak politician
• July 27 Lanny Flaherty , American actor
• July 27: T. Sankaran , Indian percussionist
• July 28 Neilia Hunter Biden , American teacher and first wife of Joe Biden (d. 1972)
• July 28 Bolesław Kwiatkowski , Polish basketball player (died 2021)
• July 28 Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi , Japanese cellist and music teacher
• July 29 Sten Nadolny , German writer
• July 30: Harald Bretschneider , German evangelical minister
• July 30 Sergio Ferrero , Italian artist and extreme sportsman
• July 31 Daniel Boone , British singer
• July 31: Hartmut Mehdorn , German industrial manager and former CEO of Deutsche Bahn AG

August

• 0August 1: Claes-Håkan Ahnsjö , Swedish tenor
• 0August 1: Kent Andersson , Swedish motorcycle racer (died 2006)
• 0August 1: Clive Baker , British racing driver
• 0August 1: Jerry García , musician and bandleader of the Grateful Dead († 1995)
• 0August 1 Adriano Sofri , Italian journalist
• 0August 2 Isabel Allende , Chilean-American writer
• 0August 2 Tonino Ascari , Italian racing driver and entrepreneur (died 2008)
• 0August 2 Leo Beenhakker , Dutch football manager
• 0August 2: Chester Leo Helms , co-founder of the group Big Brother & the Holding Company (d. 2005)
• 0August 3 Friedel Grützmacher , German politician
• 0August 3 Gudrun Gundelach , German actress
• 0August 3: Hugo Simon , Austrian show jumper
• 0August 4: Don S. Davis , American actor (died 2008)
• 0August 4: David Lange , Prime Minister of New Zealand 1984–1989 († 2005)
• 0August 4: Walter Stürm , Swiss escape king in the 1970s to 1990s († 1999)
• 0August 4: Gunter Thielen , CEO of Bertelsmann AG
• 0August 5 Igor Luther , Slovakian cinematographer (died 2020)
• 0August 5 Sergio Ramírez , Nicaraguan writer and politician
• 0August 6 Faiz Mohammed Askar , Afghan wrestler
• 0August 6: Evelyn Hamann , German actress (died 2007)
  

  Evelyn Hamann (early 1980s)
• 0August 6: Jean-Marie Jacquemin , Belgian racing driver
• 0August 6: Byard Lancaster , American jazz saxophonist and flutist († 2012)
• 0August 7: Niels Andersen , Danish actor and theater director
• 0August 7 Tobin Bell , American actor
• 0August 7: Siegfried Held , German footballer
• 0August 7 Carlos Monzón , Argentine boxer (d. 1995)
• 0August 7: BJ Thomas , American pop and country singer († 2021)
• 0August 7: Caetano Veloso , Brazilian singer, composer and songwriter
• 0August 9 Ernst-Günter Afting , German biochemist
• 0August 9: Frans Cornelis Adrianus van Anraat , Dutch entrepreneur and war criminal
• 0August 9 Jack DeJohnette , American jazz drummer and pianist
• 0August 9: Karol Sidon , Czech writer and rabbi
• August 10 John Bailey , American cinematographer
• August 10 Giovanni Lodetti , Italian footballer
• August 11: Volker Neumann , German publishing manager
• August 12: Volker Anding , German Ambassador
• August 12: Wolfgang Huber , Council President of the Evangelical Church
• August 12 Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt , German orthopedist and sports medicine doctor
• August 12 – David Munrow , English musician and musicologist (died 1976)
• August 12 Martin Seligman , American psychologist
• August 13 Sheila Armstrong , English soprano
• August 13: Mike Beuttler , British racing driver (d. 1988)
• August 13 Hissène Habré , politician of Chad (died 2021)
• August 13: Son Seals , American blues musician (d. 2004)
• August 14 Alberto Abruzzese , Italian literary and media scholar
• August 14 Molefi Kete Asante , American author and Afrocentrist
• August 15: Toni Catany , Spanish photographer (died 2013)
• August 15 Gerhard Roth , German biologist
• August 15: Stefano Sebastiani , Italian racing car driver
• August 15: Friede Springer , German publisher
  

  Peace Springer, 2014
• August 15 Pete York , British rock musician, drummer
• August 16 Dietrich Hollinder Bäumer , German-Swedish actor
• August 16: Reinhard Klimmt , German politician
• August 16 Lesley Turner , Australian tennis player
• August 16: John E. Woods , US translator
• August 17: Müslüm Məhəmməd oğlu Maqomayev , Azerbaijani opera and pop singer († 2008)
• August 18: Lauro António de Carvalho Torres Corado , Portuguese director
• August 18: Martin Germann , Swiss librarian and non-fiction author
• August 19 Ray Cooper , English percussionist
• August 19: Gerda Kupferschmied , German high jumper
• August 20: Denis Dayan , French racing driver (d. 1970)
• August 20 Hermann Haverkamp , German water polo player (died 2021)
• August 20: Isaac Hayes , American soul musician and composer († 2008)
• August 20: Bernd Kannenberg , German athlete (died 2021)
• August 20: Hans-Joachim Klein , German swimmer
• August 20: Bernd Podak , German handball goalkeeper († 2018)
• August 21 Herbert Bönnen , German footballer
• August 21: Volker Danner , German soccer player (died 2005)
• August 21 Tommy Kent , German crooner, actor, painter and architect
• August 21 Arthur Langerman , Belgian anti-Semitism collector
• August 21: Ernst Welteke , German SPD politician and economist; formerly. Bundesbank President
• August 22: Harald Norpoth , German track and field athlete
• August 23: Jürg Stenzl , Swiss musicologist, author and university teacher
• 24 August: Barthélemy Adoukonou , Beninese theologian and Curia Bishop
• August 24: Gerhard Garbers , German actor
• August 24: Karlheinz Guttmacher , German politician
• August 24 Hans Peter Korff , German actor
  

  Hans-Peter Korff
• August 24: Giovanni Migliorati , Italian bishop (died 2016)
• August 24: Frank-Michael Pietzsch , German politician
• August 24 Karen Uhlenbeck , American mathematician
• August 25 Nathan Deal , American politician
• August 25 Frances Itani , Canadian writer and poet
• August 25 Howard Jacobson , British writer
• August 25: Oreal Perras , Canadian professional wrestler (died 2017)
• August 25: Hilde Zach , Austrian local politician († 2011)
• August 26: Amelia Louer , Dutch track and field athlete (d. 2021)
• August 26: Hubert Raudaschl , Austrian sailor
• August 27 Tanya Maria Atwater , US geophysicist and marine geologist
• August 27: Tom Belsø , Danish racing driver († 2020)
• August 27 Barbara Duden , German medical historian
• August 27: Bill Ivy , British motorcycle racer (d. 1969)
• 27 August: Per Stig Møller , Danish Foreign Minister
• August 28: Ali Podrimja , Kosovo Albanian poet (died 2012)
• August 28 Henning Schulte-Noelle , German manager, CEO of Allianz AG
• August 28: José Eduardo dos Santos , President of Angola
  

  Jose Eduardo dos Santos
• August 28: Jorge Urosa , Cardinal, Archbishop of Caracas (died 2021)
• August 29: Gottfried John , German actor (died 2014)
• August 29: Federico Lombardi , head of the Vatican Press Office
• August 29 Sterling Morrison , British musician and guitarist (died 1995)
• August 29 Cornelie Sonntag-Wolgast , German politician
• August 29: Coen Zuidema , Dutch chess player
• August 30: Jonathan William Patrick Aitken , British politician
• August 30: Yvon Ambrose , Indian Bishop of Tuticorin
• August 31 Isao Aoki , Japanese professional golfer
• August 31: Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi , Italian racing driver
• August 31: Raymond Ranjeva , Malagasy lawyer and Vice-President of the International Court of Justice

September

• 01 September: Hans Achterhuis , Dutch professor of applied philosophy
• 0September 1: Charlie Brooks , American murderer (d. 1982)
• 0September 1: António Lobo Antunes , Portuguese writer
• 0September 1: Friedrich-Carl Wodarz , German politician
• 0September 2 Rodrigo Lloreda Caicedo , Colombian politician (died 2000)
• 0September 3 Alan Jardine , American musician and founding member of The Beach Boys
• 03 September: Claire Krähenbühl , Swiss writer
• 0September 4 Ernesto Agazzi Sarasola , Uruguayan politician and agricultural engineer
• 0September 4: Brian Cherney , Canadian composer
• 0September 4 Merald "Bubba" Knight , American singer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips )
• 0September 5: Werner Herzog , German film director
  

  Werner Herzog, 2009
• 0September 5 Bonga Kuenda , Angolan pop singer and songwriter
• 0September 5: Eduardo Mata , Mexican composer († 1995)
• 05 September: Norbert Trelle , Bishop Emeritus of Hildesheim
• 0September 6 Dave Bargeron , American jazz trombonist and tuba player
• 0September 6 Al Dacascos , American martial artist, founder of the Wun Hop Kuen Do style
• 0September 7: Uwe Rosenbaum , German journalist and media manager
• 0September 8: Detlef Parr , German politician
• 0September 9: Ted Herold , German singer († 2021)
• September 10: Peter Benz , German politician
• 10 September: Volker Neumann , German politician and MP
• September 11: Harro Ohlenburg , German university rector († 2011)
• September 11: Marybeth Tinning , American serial killer
• September 12 Mario Frustalupi , Italian footballer (d. 1990)
• 12 September: Delme Thomas , Welsh rugby player
• September 13: Sōichi Aikawa , Japanese politician (died 2021)
• 14 September: Manfred Butzmann , German graphic artist
• September 14 Oliver Lake , American jazz musician
• 14 September Bernard MacLaverty , Northern Irish writer
• September 14: Kuldar Sink , Estonian composer († 1995)
• September 15 Thomas Astan , German religious priest and actor
• 15 September: Emmerson Mnangagwa , Zimbabwean politician
• September 15: Wen Jiabao , Chinese politician
• September 16: Beverly Aadland , American actress († 2010)
• September 16: Ingrid Stahmer , German politician (died 2020)
• September 17: Anke Brunn , German politician
• September 17 Robert Graysmith , American non-fiction author
• September 17: Johannes Heinrichs , German social philosopher
• September 18: Udo Andriof , German jurist
• September 18 Horst Gecks , German footballer
• September 18 Gerhard Kentschke , German footballer
• September 18: Imant Raminsh , Canadian composer, conductor and choir director
• September 18 Marco Rota , Italian Disney comics artist
• September 18: Wolfgang Schäuble , German politician and federal minister
  

  Wolfgang Schäuble, 2006
• September 19: Peter Gäng , German philosopher and Indologist
• September 19 Wally Hilgenberg , American football player
• September 19 Danny Kalb , American musician, guitarist
• September 20 Mike Cooper , English guitarist and singer
• September 20: Jürgen Hart , German cabaret artist († 2002)
• September 21: Peter van Inwagen , American philosopher
• September 22 Alan Robert Rogowski , American professional wrestler and manager
• September 22 Gail Bowen , Canadian novelist, college professor and playwright
• September 22 Giuseppe Ros , Italian boxer
• September 22 David Stern († 2020) American manager, commissioner of the NBA
• September 23: Mathew Anikuzhikattil , Bishop of India (d. 2020)
• September 23: Wuelfo Gutiérrez , Cuban singer († 2005)
• September 23: Randolf Kronberg , German actor and voice actor († 2007)
• September 23: Jeremy Steig , American jazz flautist († 2016)
• September 24 Gerry Marsden , British singer and musician († 2021)
• 24 September: Gerhard Rübenkönig , German politician and MP
• September 24 Hans-Günther Schmidt , Romanian-German handball player
• September 24: Erik Silvester , German pop singer and producer († 2008)
• September 25: Óscar Bonavena , Argentine heavyweight boxer (d. 1976)
• September 25: Henri Pescarolo , French racing driver
• September 25: Volker Rühe , German politician
  

  Volker Rühe, 2001
• September 25: Franz Ruland , Managing Director of the Association of German Pension Insurance Institutions
• September 25: John Taylor , British jazz musician (died 2015)
• September 25: Rainer Trübsbach , German historian
• September 26: Ingrid Mickler-Becker , German track and field athlete
• September 27 Alvin Stardust , British rock musician and actor († 2014)
• September 28: Manfred Durban , German musician († 2016)
• September 28 Donna Leon , American writer
  

  Donna Leon, 2010
• September 29: Felice Gimondi , Italian cyclist (died 2019)
• September 29: Ian McShane , British film actor
• September 30 Andrzej Dutkiewicz , Polish composer, pianist and music educator

October

• 0October 1: Wilfried Peffgen , German cyclist (died 2021)
• 01 October: Alfonsas Vaišvila , Lithuanian legal philosopher
• 0October 1: Günter Wallraff , German journalist
  

  Gunter Wallraff (2013)
• 0October 2: Ingrid Wiener , Austrian artist and chef
• 0October 2 Manfred Zapatka , German actor
• 0October 3 John Herbert Atkinson , British civil engineer
• 0October 3: Roberto Perfumo , Argentine soccer player (died 2016)
• 0October 4: Irm Hermann , German film, theater and television actress († 2020)
• 0October 4: Yves Yersin , Swiss film director († 2018)
• 0October 5: Charles Ansbacher , American conductor (died 2010)
• 0October 5 Adam Hochschild , American journalist and writer
• 05 October: John Seale , Australian cinematographer
• 0October 6: Britt Ekland , Swedish actress
• 0October 6: Ulf Fink , German politician
• 0October 6: Eberhard Schulte-Wissermann , German politician and Lord Mayor of Koblenz
• 0October 6: Anna Wahlgren , Swedish author
• 0October 7: Wolfgang Heilemann , German photographer
• 0October 7: José Antonio Muñoz , Argentine comic artist
• 0October 7: Rico Weber , Swiss artist († 2004)
• 0October 9: Anita Albus , German writer and illustrator
• October 10: Luis Díaz , Cuban Son singer and composer
• 10 October: Lutz Goepel , German MEP
• October 11: Amitabh Bachchan , Indian actor
• October 12: Daliah Lavi , Israeli film actress († 2017)
• October 12: Magnus Schädler , Liechtenstein luger († 2015)
• October 13: Pieter Andreas Kemper , Dutch footballer († 2020)
• 13 October: Andreas Laun , Austrian Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop and moral theologian
• October 13: Dieter Stappert , Austrian journalist and team manager in motorsport († 2008)
• October 14: Péter Nádas , Hungarian writer
• October 15 Christopher Frederick Andrews , British schlager and pop singer
• October 16: Olivier Anders , German military
• October 16 Cholo Brenes , Dominican music promoter, lawyer, political scientist, sociologist and columnist (died 2017)
• October 16: Annette Zwar , German historian
• October 17: Pierre-André Bovey , Swiss composer and flautist
• October 17: Hartmut Nassauer , German politician
• October 18 Janis Antonovics , American ecologist and professor
• October 18: Gianfranco Ravasi , Italian Curia cardinal
  

  Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi (2012)
• October 19: Péter Medgyessy , politician, Prime Minister of Hungary
• October 19: Jim Rogers , co-founded the Quantum Fund hedge fund with George Soros
• October 19 Andrew Vachss , American attorney and writer (died 2021)
• October 20 Walter Brun , Swiss racing car driver and racing team owner
• October 20: Earl Hindman , American actor (died 2003)
• October 20: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard , German biologist, Nobel laureate
• October 21 Les AuCoin , American politician
• October 21 Elvin Bishop , American singer and guitarist
• October 21: Allan Grice , Australian racing driver and politician
• October 23: Michael Crichton , American novelist, screenwriter and director († 2008)
  

  Michael Crichton
• October 23 Douglas Dunn , Scottish librarian and writer
• October 24: Rolf Opitz , German entrepreneur (died 2005)
• October 25: Diana Hartog , Canadian poet
• October 25 Elsbeth Sigmund , Swiss actress and teacher
• October 26: Bob Hoskins , British actor (died 2014)
• 26 October: Kurt Lechner , German MEP
• October 26 Milton Nascimento , Brazilian musician
• October 26: Jonathan Williams , British racing driver (d. 2014)
• October 27: Philip Catherine , Belgian jazz musician (guitarist)
• October 27: Janusz Korwin-Mikke , Polish politician
• October 28 Kurt Nowak , German theologian and church historian (died 2001)
• October 29 Lee Clayton , American musician and composer
• October 29 Bob Ross , American painter and television star (died 1995)
• October 30: Sven-David Sandström , Swedish composer († 2019)
• October 31 Claudio Michelotto , Italian cyclist
• October 31 Alí Rafael Primera Rossell , Venezuelan musician (d. 1985)
• October 31: Daniel François Roth , French composer, organist and pedagogue
• October 31 Ginka Steinwachs , German writer
• October 31: David Ogden Stiers , American actor and musician († 2018)

November

• 0November 1: Alajdin Abazi , Macedonian professor and physicist
• 0November 1: Larry Flynt , US publisher (d. 2021)
• 01 November: Hansjörg Geiger , German jurist, honorary professor and state secretary
• 0November 1: Ralph Klein , Canadian politician (died 2013)
• 0November 1: Ulrich Pleitgen , German actor and speaker († 2018)
• 0November 1: Klaus Wilkens , later DLRG Federal Chairman
• 0November 2: Shere Hite , German-American sex researcher († 2020)
• 0November 2 Stefanie Powers , American actress
• 0November 3: Tadatoshi Akiba , Japanese politician
• 0November 3 Martin Cruz Smith , American writer
• 0November 3: Hans Meyer , German football coach
• 0November 5: George Bertsch , American theoretical nuclear physicist
• 0November 5: Joachim Nocke , German legal scholar († 2017)
• 0November 6: Tora Aasland , Norwegian politician
• 0November 6: Ferenc Gyurcsek , Hungarian sculptor
• 0November 7: Johnny Rivers , American rock 'n' roll musician
• 0November 7 Jean Shrimpton , British model
  

  Jean Shrimpton
• 0November 7: André Armand Vingt-Trois , Archbishop of Paris
• 0November 8: Kurt Gloor , Swiss film director († 1997)
• 0November 8 Sandro Mazzola , Italian footballer
• 0November 9 Bill Elgart , American jazz drummer
• 0November 9 Richard Greene , American folk and rock musician
• 0November 9 Karin Kiwus , German writer
• 0November 9: Digby Martland , British motor racing driver
• November 10 Robert F. Engle , American economist
• November 10: Börje Jansson , Swedish motorcycle racer
• November 10: Hans-Rudolf Merz , Swiss Federal Councilor, Finance Minister
• November 12: Nikolaus Amrhein , German professor of biochemistry and physiology
• November 12: Sabina Grzimek , German sculptor
• November 12: Paulinho da Viola , Brazilian musician, singer and composer
• November 12 Dieter Wedel , German director and screenwriter
• November 13 John Paul Hammond , American blues singer and guitarist
• November 13: Lothar Zagrosek , German conductor and general music director
• November 14: Klaus Beer , German track and field athlete
• November 14: Natalja Gutman , Russian cellist
• November 15: Daniel Barenboim , Argentine-Israeli pianist and conductor
• November 16: Lester Eriksson , Swedish swimmer (died 2021)
• November 16: Wolfgang Krätschmer , German physicist
• November 17: Bob Gaudio , American singer, keyboardist, songwriter and record producer
• November 17 Martin Scorsese , American film director
  

  Martin Scorsese, 2007
• November 18 Menno Aden , German legal scholar and lawyer
• November 18: Héctor Casanova , Cuban singer and composer († 2007)
• November 18 Linda Evans , American actress
  

  Linda Evans , 2012
• November 18: Fernando Sandoval , Brazilian water polo player († 2020)
• November 19 Gary Ackerman , American politician
• November 19 Gerhard Aumüller , German physician
• November 19: Jean Auroux , French politician
• November 19: Calvin Klein , American fashion designer
  

  Calvin Klein, 2011
• November 20: Joe Biden , American politician, Senator, Vice President of the United States and 46th and incumbent President of the United States (Democratic Party)
• November 20 Norman Greenbaum , American singer-songwriter
• November 20 Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt , German actor and director
• November 21: Gataivasa Afa Anoa'i , Samoan-American professional wrestler and wrestling manager
• November 21 Brigitte Blobel , German writer
• November 21: Franz Staab , German historian (died 2004)
• November 21 Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul , German politician and federal minister
• November 22: Johny Schleck , Luxembourg cyclist
• November 23 Mathew T. Anden , German theater, television and film actor (d. 1985)
• November 23: Susan Anspach , American theater and film actress († 2018)
• November 23: Helmut Schröer , Lord Mayor of the city of Trier
• November 23 Jiří Stivín , Czech jazz musician
• November 24 Billy Connolly , Scottish actor
• November 24: Jean Ping , Gabonese politician diplomat and President of the 59th UN General Assembly
• November 25 Dieter Leisegang , German philosopher, author, translator (died 1973)
• November 25: Rosa von Praunheim , German director
  

  Rosa von Praunheim, 2008
• November 27 Manolo Blahnik , Spanish shoe designer
• November 27: Kaspar Eichel , German actor and speaker
• November 27: Jimi Hendrix , African-American guitarist, singer and composer (d. 1970)
  

  Jimi Hendrix
• November 27 Henryk Hoser , Polish doctor, priest, bishop (died 2021)
• November 27: Walter Weiss , Austrian philosopher and author
• November 28: Claude Haldi , Swiss racing driver († 2017)
• November 28: Andreas Hörtnagl , Austrian politician
• November 29: Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf , German politician
• November 29: Mabel Mambretti , Argentine composer and musicologist
• November 30: Reinhard Kurth , German virologist, doctor, head of the Robert Koch Institute († 2014)
• November 30: Burghart Schmidt , German philosopher
• November 30: Eduardo Serrano , Venezuelan actor

December

• 0December 1: Mohamed Kamel Amr , Egyptian diplomat and politician
• 0December 1 Harlene Anderson , American psychologist, psychotherapist, and non-fiction author
• 0December 1: Dieter Annies , German politician
• 0December 1 Dieter Feller , German soccer goalkeeper
• 02 December: Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir , Icelandic political scientist
• 0December 2 Ulrich Wickert , German television journalist and presenter
• 0December 3 Georges Mauduit , French alpine skier
• 0December 3: Alice Schwarzer , German journalist
  

  Alice Schwarzer, 2010
• 0December 3: Frank Sels , Belgian comic artist and writer (d. 1986)
• 0December 4 Gemma Jones , British actress
• 04 December: Maria Scharwieß , German composer, organist and church musician
• 0December 4: Dieter Zlof , kidnapper of Richard Oetker
• 0December 5: Herbert Dreilich , German rock musician (died 2004)
• 0December 5 Klaus Sammer , German football player and coach
• 0December 6: Peter Handke , Austrian writer and translator
  

  Peter Handke, 2006
• 0December 6: Herbjørg Wassmo , Norwegian writer
• 0December 7: Peter Enders , Member of the German Bundestag
• 0December 7: Jonathan D. Kramer , American composer, musicologist and educator († 2004)
• 0December 8 Mario Savio , American civil rights activist (d. 1996)
• 0December 9 – Billy Bremner , Scottish footballer (died 1997)
• 0December 9 Dick Butkus , American football player
• 0December 9: Alex Gilady , Israeli journalist and sports official
• December 11 Alfred William Arrowsmith , English footballer (died 2005)
• December 11: Thomas Mitscherlich , German film director and author († 1998)
• December 11 Frank Schöbel , German musician
• December 11 Karen Susman , American tennis player
• December 12: Hannelore Rönsch , German politician
• December 13: Klaus-Dieter Arlt , German politician
• 13 December: Urs Bührer , Swiss composer, organist and music teacher
• December 13: Johann Hahlen , President of the Federal Statistical Office
• December 13: Ludwig-Holger Pfahls , German politician
• December 13: Wolf D. Prix , Austrian architect
• December 13: Arne Treholt , Norwegian politician (social democrat) and diplomat
• December 14 Gerd Kaminski , Austrian legal scholar
• December 15: Dave Clark , British musician and music manager
• December 16 Harm Dallmeyer , German member of the Bundestag (died 1983)
• December 16: Friedrich Denk , German teacher and author
• December 16 Eugene Robert Glazer , American actor
• December 17: Muhammadu Buhari , President of Nigeria from 1983 to 1985
• December 17: Paul Butterfield , American musician (died 1987)
• December 17 Karl Odermatt , Swiss footballer
• December 17 Ulrich Schaffer , German writer, poet and photographer
• December 17 Jeffrey Wigand , former vice president of Brown & Williamson and whistleblower on 60 Minutes
• December 18: Michael Auditor , German politician
• December 18 Katja Behrens , German writer and translator († 2021)
• December 19: Cyril Grandet , French racing driver
• December 20 Paul Dräger , German classical philologist, translator and historian of science
• December 20: Bob Hayes , American sprinter and American football player (d. 2002)
• December 20 Raimo Suikkanen , Finnish cyclist (died 2021)
• December 20: Jean-Claude Trichet , French financial expert and President of the European Central Bank
• December 20: Larry Willis , American jazz pianist († 2019)
• December 20 Roger Woodward , Australian pianist, music educator and composer
• December 21: Uwe Dick , German writer
• December 21: Hu Jintao , General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, President of the People's Republic of China
  

  Hu Jintao, 2011
• December 21 Reinhard Mey , German singer-songwriter
• December 21: Peter Propping , German human geneticist (died 2016)
• December 21: Manfred Such , German politician
• December 21 Carla Thomas , American soul singer
• December 21: Crispin Wright , British philosopher
• 22 December Anyu Zapryanov Angelov , Bulgarian politician and Minister of Defence
• December 22: John Casablancas , Hispanic-American entrepreneur and model (died 2013)
• December 22 Dick Parry , English saxophonist
• 22 December: Hans-Dieter Schöne , German organist and church music director
• December 23: Kennan Ranibok Adeang , Nauruan politician (died 2011)
• December 23 Quentin Alice Louise Bryce , Australian jurist and Governor of the State of Queensland
• December 24: Rolf Gaißmaier , German footballer
• December 24: Dominique Manotti , French novelist and historian
• December 25 Nobel Alfonso , Dominican publicist, radio and television announcer, producer and director
• December 25 Noël del Bello , French racing driver and racing team owner
• December 25: Enrique Morente , Spanish flamenco singer and composer (died 2010)
• December 26: Jonathan Barnes , British philosopher
• December 26 Gray Davis , American politician
• December 26 Doug Hammond , American jazz musician
• December 27: Oscar Cardozo Ocampo , Argentine arranger, pianist and composer († 2001)
• December 27 Klaus Hoffer , Austrian writer
• December 27: Thomas Menino , American politician (died 2014)
• December 27: Claus Schiprowski , German track and field athlete
• December 28 Peter Berlin , German male model, draftsman and photographer
• December 29: Karel Bělohoubek , Czech composer and conductor († 2016)
• December 29: Albert Henrichs , German-American Greek scholar (died 2017)
• December 29: Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga , Archbishop of Tegucigalpa and Cardinal
• December 29: Cordula Trantow , German actress, director and artistic director
• December 29: Wilfried Wagner , German lawyer and Vice President of the Federal Fiscal Court
• December 30 Jean-Claude Barclay , French tennis player
• December 30 Vladimir Bukovsky , Soviet dissident, Russian publicist (died 2019)
• December 30: Matt Cohen , Canadian writer (died 1999)
• December 30: Robert Quine , American musician and guitarist († 2004)
• December 31: Gunter Hofmann , German journalist
• December 31: Ferdinand Lacina , Austrian politician
• December 31 Andy Summers , English pop and rock guitarist

Exact date of birth unknown

• Adil Abd al-Mahdi , Iraqi politician
• Iolu Johnson Abil , Vanuatuan politician
• Mustapha Tettey Addy , Ghanaian drummer
• Georges Adéagbo , Beninese installation artist
• Rolena Adorno , American linguist and historian
• Farhad Afshar , Swiss sociologist
• Gerald R. Allen , US-Australian ichthyologist
• Hossein Amanat , Iranian-Canadian architect
• Arthur Amiotte , American artist and art historian
• Luis Alberto Ammann , Argentine writer, journalist and politician († 2020)
• Hanns-Jörg Anders , German photographer
• Robert D. Anderson , British historian
• Gunnar Andersson , Swedish philosopher and philosopher of science
• Peter Johannes Antes , German religious scholar
• Heino Apel , German education, development and environmental economist
• Pavlos Apostolidis , Greek politician and diplomat
• Heribert Arens , German theologian, religious priest, Franciscan and homiletic
• Raymond George Arnold , American experimental nuclear physicist
• Josef Art , German ju-jutsuka, non-fiction author and sports official
• Javier Artiñano Ansorena , Spanish costume and set designer († 2013)
• Petre Astafei , Romanian pole vaulter
• Şenkal Atasagun , Turkish official
• Mino Auletta , Italian lawyer
• Wasef Bakhtari , Afghan intellectual and poet
• Djamchid Chemirani , Iranian zarb player
• Graeme Clifford , Australian film editor and film director
• Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke , German jurist and legal historian
• Karl-Friedrich Haag , German Protestant theologian
• Reinhard Hummel , German radio play author
• Jeff Johnson , American country and rockabilly musician (died 2010)
• Klaus Klemm , German educationalist
• Gottfried Knapp , German art critic and author
• Hainer Kober , German translator
• Anne Linsel , German filmmaker
• Lutz Mahlerwein , German television journalist
• Uri Margolin , Israeli-Canadian literary scholar
• Woldeghiorghis Mathewos , Ethiopian bishop
• Hans Peter Mensing , German historian
• Juan-David Nasio , Argentine psychoanalyst
• Gerald Near , American composer and church musician
• Jimmi D. Paesler , German painter
• Iwan Roth , Swiss saxophonist and professor of music
• Peter Schetty , Swiss automobile racer and race director for Scuderia Ferrari
• Gerard Sibbritt , Australian ballet dancer and dance educator
• Lennart Souchon , German naval officer and military theorist
• Greg Steinke , American composer, music educator, and oboist
• Rolf Thiele , German artist and university lecturer
• Tsumura Reijirō , Japanese nō actor
• Lito Valle , Argentine pianist, composer, conductor, arranger and music teacher
• Uwe Wesp , German meteorologist and presenter
• Jeannette Zarou , Canadian opera singer

Died

January February

• 0January 4: William Hall Milton , American politician (b. 1864)
• 0January 4: Mel Sheppard , American track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1883)
• 0January 5: Vladimir Nikolayevich Andronnikov , Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician and statesman (b. 1885)
• 0January 6: Henri de Baillet-Latour , third President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) (b. 1876)
• 0January 6: Alexander Belyayev , Russian writer (b. 1884)
• 0January 6: Emma Calvé , French opera singer (b. 1858)
• 0January 6: Tina Modotti , Italian photographer and revolutionary (born 1896)
• 0January 7: Alfred Johan Asikainen , Finnish wrestler (b. 1888)
• 0January 8: Catharinus Elling , Norwegian composer, folk music collector, music critic and educator (born 1858)
• 0January 8: Joseph Franklin Rutherford , leader of Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1869)
• January 12: Theodore Annemann , American magician (b. 1907)
• January 12: Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov , Soviet aircraft designer (b. 1891)
• January 14: Fred Fisher , American composer of German descent (b. 1875)
• January 16: Carole Lombard , American actress (b. 1908)
• January 17: Georg Hirschfeld , German writer of Jewish descent (b. 1873)
• January 17: Walter von Reichenau , German Field Marshal (b. 1884)
• January 19: William Ezekiel Andrews , American politician (born 1854)
• January 19: Coleman Livingston Blease , American politician (b. 1868)
• January 21: Christiaan Cornelissen , Dutch author, activist, libertarian socialist (b. 1864)
• January 21: Henryk Opieński , Polish composer (b. 1870)
• January 21: Woldemar Tranzschel , Russian botanist and mycologist (b. 1868)
• January 21: Heinrich Wolf , German writer (b. 1858)
• January 22: Walter Sickert , British painter (b. 1860)
• January 23: Friedrich von Feilitzsch , politician in the principality of Schaumburg-Lippe and its first prime minister (b. 1858)
• January 26: Albert Elmer Austin , American politician (b. 1877)
• January 26: Felix Hausdorff , German mathematician (b. 1868)
• January 30: Ina von Grumbkow , German adventuress and author (b. 1872)
• January 30: Frederick Haultain , Canadian politician and judge (b. 1857)
• January 31 Otto Kern , German classical scholar and archaeologist (b. 1863)
• 0February 2: Daniil Kharms , Russian writer (b. 1905)
• 0February 2: Hugh D. McIntosh , Australian sports promoter, newspaper publisher and theater entrepreneur (b. 1876)
• 0February 3: Ludwig Kießling , German crop production scientist and plant breeder (b. 1875)
• 0February 4: Fountain L. Thompson , American politician (b. 1854)
• 0February 6: František Mareš , Czech National Democrat, later Fascist-leaning politician, physiologist and philosopher (b. 1857)
• 0February 6: Paul Fischer , German national soccer player (b. 1882)
• 0February 7: Hermann Gramlich , German national soccer player (b. 1913)
• 0February 8: Fritz Todt , Nazi politician, minister (b. 1891)
• 0February 9: Bernardo Attolico , Italian diplomat (b. 1880)
• February 13: Carlos López y Valles , Mexican actor (b. 1887)
• February 14: Georgi Alexandrovich Astakhov , Soviet diplomat (b. 1897)
• February 16: Julius Nicolaus Weisfert , German journalist and editor (b. 1873)
• February 22: August von Parseval , German airship designer (b. 1861)
• February 23: Robert Katscher , Austrian composer and lyricist (b. 1894)
• February 23: Stefan Zweig , Austrian writer (b. 1881)
• February 24: Anton Drexler , co-founder of the German Workers' Party (DAP) (b. 1884)
• February 25: Leo Ascher , Austrian composer and jurist (b. 1880)
• February 25: Jesse Fuller McDonald , American politician (born 1858)
• February 27: Karel Willem Frederick Marie Doorman , Dutch rear admiral (b. 1889)
• February 27: Joseph Emile Harley , American politician (b. 1880)
• February 27: Ernst Pfeiffer , German author and journalist (born 1875)
• February 28 Gustav Neuhaus , German jurist and linguist (b. 1866)

March April

• 0March 1: Leon Adde , American jazz drummer (b. 1904)
• 0March 2: Charlie Christian , American jazz guitarist (b. 1916)
• 0March 3: Amadeus, 3rd Duke of Aosta , Count of Savoy, Duke of Apulia, Governor and Viceroy of Italian East Africa (b. 1898)
• 0March 8: José Raúl Capablanca , Cuban chess player (b. 1888)
• March 11: Enric Morera , Catalan composer (b. 1865)

Robert Bosch, 1888

• March 12: Robert Bosch , German industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1861)
• March 12: William Henry Bragg , British physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1862)
• March 14: Bibb Graves , American politician (b. 1873)
• March 14: Rolland H. Spaulding , American politician (b. 1873)
• March 15: Alexander von Zemlinsky , Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1871)
• March 20: Vasily Pavlovich Kalafati , Russian composer (b. 1869)
• March 20: Teodoro Valcárcel , Peruvian composer (b. 1900)
• March 21: Jindřich Štyrský , Czech painter, photographer, graphic artist, poet, advocate of surrealism and art theorist (b. 1899)
• March 22: Ernst Fabricius , German archaeologist and ancient historian (b. 1857)
• March 22: Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov , Russian film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1885)
• March 24: Eduard Blocher , Swiss evangelical clergyman and linguist (b. 1870)
• March 27: Paul Gustav Wilhelm Arras , German teacher, archivist and local historian (b. 1857)
• March 27: Heinrich Roman Abt , Swiss politician (born 1883)
• March 27: Gonzalo Argüelles Bringas , Mexican painter (b. 1877)
• March 27: René L. De Rouen , American politician (b. 1874)
• 0April 3: Albert Siklós , Hungarian composer (b. 1878)
• 0April 3: Kasia von Szadurska , German painter and printmaker (b. 1886)
• April 11: James Bede , American politician (b. 1856)
• April 15: José Moreno Carbonero , Spanish painter (b. 1860)
• April 15: Robert Musil , Austrian writer (b. 1880)
• April 17: Alfred Hertz , American conductor of German descent (b. 1872)
• April 18: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney , American patron and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
• April 22: Carl Dorno , German naturalist (b. 1865)
• April 23: Olga Benario , German communist and victim of Nazism (b. 1908)
• April 24: Lucy Maud Montgomery , Canadian novelist (b. 1874)
• April 24: Fryco Rocha , Lower Sorbian poet and writer (b. 1863)
• April 25: Ernst Neustadt , German classics scholar, educator and headmaster (b. 1883)
• April 25: Georg Singer , KPD politician (b. 1898)
• April 28 UV Swaminatha Iyer , Tamil scholar and philologist (b. 1855)
• April 30: Joseph Charles Arthur , American botanist (b. 1850)
• April 30: Jakob van Hoddis , German writer (born 1887)

May June

• 0May 1: Georg von Eucken-Addenhausen , jurist and statesman in East Friesland (b. 1855)
• 0May 3: Thorvald Stauning , Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
• 0May 7: Felix Weingartner , Austrian composer (b. 1863)
• 0May 9: William Ellery Sweet , American politician (b. 1869)
• May 11: Hagiwara Sakutarō , Japanese writer (born 1886)
• May 14 Frank Churchill , American film score composer (b. 1901)
• May 15: Carl Röver , German Nazi politician (b. 1889)
• May 16: Bronisław Malinowski , Polish-British social anthropologist (b. 1884)
• May 24: Paul Arndt , German political economist (born 1870)
• May 23: Charles Robert Ashbee , English architect, interior designer, craftsman, art theorist and poet (b. 1863)
• May 23: Harald Lie , Norwegian composer (b. 1902)
• May 24: Ludwig Ascher , German social hygienist (born 1865)
• May 25: Emanuel Feuermann , American cellist of Austrian descent (b. 1902)
• 26 May: Jan Maria Michał Kowalski , Polish bishop of the Mariavites Old Catholic Church, victim of Nazism (b. 1871)
• May 27: Chen Duxiu , Chinese politician (b. 1879)
• 000May: Henriette Arndt , German teacher (born 1892)
• 0June 1: David Solomonovich Schor , Russian-Jewish pianist and music teacher (b. 1867)
• 0June 2: Bunny Berigan , American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
• 0June 4: Mordechaj Gebirtig , Polish poet and composer (b. 1877)
• 0June 4: Reinhard Heydrich , leading Nazi politician (b. 1904)
• 0June 5: István Abonyi , Hungarian chess player and chess functionary (b. 1886)
• 0June 5: Michael Berolzheimer , German entrepreneur, lawyer and art collector (b. 1866)
• 0June 5: Gérard Hekking , French cellist and music teacher (b. 1879)
• 0June 6: George Andrew Reisner , American Egyptologist (b. 1867)
• June 10: Gustav Gull , Swiss architect (b. 1858)
• June 12: Walter Leigh , British composer (b. 1905)
• June 14: Heinrich Vogeler , German painter (b. 1872)
• June 14 Werner Widmayer , German national soccer player (b. 1909)
• June 16: Lucien Boyer , French singer and composer (b. 1876)
• June 23: Valdemar Poulsen , Danish physicist and engineer (b. 1869)
• June 24: Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff , German pathologist (b. 1866)
• June 27: John Gary Evans , American politician (b. 1863)
• June 27: Ludwig Pfandl , German writer, Romance scholar, Hispanist and historian (b. 1881)

July August

• 0July 1: Adam von Au , German educator and politician (born 1869)
• 0July 1: Alfredo Bevilacqua , Argentine tango musician (b. 1874)
• 0July 3: Marian Abramski , Polish victim of Nazism (b. 1905)
• 0July 7: William Henry Young , English mathematician (b. 1863)
• 0July 9: Kelly Harrell , American old-time musician (b. 1889)
• 0July 9: Max Hans Kühne , German architect (b. 1874)
• July 10: Franz Blei , Austrian writer, translator and literary critic (b. 1871)
• July 11: Hans Korseck , German jazz guitarist (b. 1911)
• July 12: Thomas F. Bayard , American politician (b. 1868)
• July 15: Roberto María Ortiz , President of Argentina (b. 1886)
• July 18: Alfred Fane , British racing driver and aviator (b. 1911)
• July 18: Otto Schmitz , German jurist and politician (b. 1883)
• July 18: George Sutherland , American politician and lawyer (b. 1862)
• July 20: Moses Louis Annenberg , American publicist (b. 1877)
• July 22: Heinrich Reimers , German publicist (b. 1879)
• July 24: Hendrik Bolkestein , Dutch ancient historian (b. 1877)
• July 24: Juan Peiró , Spanish economist and anarchist (b. 1887)
• July 26: Roberto Arlt , Argentine storyteller, playwright and journalist (b. 1900)
• July 26: Georg Alexander Pick , Austrian mathematician (b. 1859)
• July 27: Ludwig Ahlmann , German banker and politician (b. 1859)
• July 28: Flinders Petrie , British archaeologist (b. 1853)
• July: Marysia Ajzensztat , Polish singer (born 1923)
• 0August 2: Friedrich Aereboe , German agricultural economist (born 1865)
• 0August 5: Janusz Korczak , Polish physician, children's book author and educator (b. 1878)
• 0August 6: Alfonso Castaldi , Italian composer (b. 1874)
• 0August 6: Anna , wolf child from Pennsylvania (b. 1932)
• 0August 6: Paul Corder , English composer (b. 1879)
• 0August 8: Rudolf Abel , German bacteriologist (b. 1868)
• 0August 9 Arnold Genthe , German-American photographer (b. 1869)
• 0August 9: Edith Stein , German philosopher and religious, saint (b. 1891)
• August 11: August Wilhelm Andernach , German manufacturer, large landowner and alpinist (b. 1862)
• August 12: Pasquale Amato , Italian singer (b. 1878)
• August 12: Rudolf Hasse , German racing driver (b. 1906)
• August 15: Bernhard Wensch , German Roman Catholic priest and opponent of Nazism (b. 1908)
• August 16: Rudolf Greinz , Austrian writer (b. 1866)
• August 16: Thorvald Otterstrom , American composer (b. 1868)
• August 17: Herman Auerbach , Polish mathematician (born 1901)
• August 17: Irène Némirovsky , French writer of Ukrainian descent (b. 1903)
• August 17: Gerbrandus Jelgersma , Dutch psychiatrist and neurologist (b. 1859)
• August 18: Erwin Schulhoff , Czech composer and pianist (b. 1894)
• August 20: Rudolf Spielmann , Austrian chess grandmaster (b. 1883)
• August 22: Alice Duer Miller , American novelist (b. 1874)
• August 22: Clemens von Franckenstein , German opera composer and general manager in Munich (b. 1875)
• August 25: William B. Pine , American politician (b. 1877)
• August 25: Walerian Wróbel , Polish forced laborer (b. 1925)
• August 25: Panayot Pipkov , Bulgarian composer (b. 1871)
• August 25: George, Duke of Kent , 4th son of George V (b. 1902)
• August 28: Clara Arnheim , German painter (b. 1865)
• August 28: Belisario Porras Barahona , President of Panama (b. 1856)
• August 28: Fabio Fiallo , Dominican politician, diplomat, journalist and writer (b. 1866)
• August 30: Jules Caffot , French organist and composer (born 1865)
• August 30: Amalia Paoli , Puerto Rican opera singer (b. 1861)

September October

• 0September 2: Westmoreland Davis , American politician (b. 1859)
• 0September 7: Cecilia Beaux , American painter (b. 1855)
• 0September 7: Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt , German fighter pilot in World War II (missing)
• 0September 9: Adele Kurzweil , Austrian Holocaust victim (b. 1925)
• 0September 9: Bruno Kurzweil , Austrian lawyer (b. 1891)
• 10 September: Oluf Krag , Danish Minister of the Interior (b. 1870)
• September 16: Carlo Bigatto , Italian football player and coach (b. 1895)
• September 17: Henri Hinrichsen , German publisher (b. 1868)
• September 24: Bruno Ablass , German politician (b. 1866)
• September 25: John K. Griffith , American politician (b. 1882)
• September 30: Hans-Joachim Marseille German fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1919)

• 01 October: Antonio Maria Arrègui , Spanish religious priest and moral theologian (b. 1868)
• 0October 2: Adolph Larsen , Danish landscape painter (b. 1856)
• 0October 3: František Čech-Vyšata , Czech travel writer (b. 1881)
• 0October 7: Norman Gale , English lyric poet (b. 1862)
• 0October 7: Jean Strohl , Franco-Swiss zoologist, historian of science and university lecturer (b. 1886)
• 0October 8 Wilhelm Crönert , German classical scholar (b. 1874)
• 0October 9: Jesse H. Metcalf , American politician (b. 1860)
• October 10: Richard von Schaukal , Austrian poet (born 1874)
• October 12: Édouard Nanny , French double bass player and composer (b. 1872)
• October 20: Friedrich Munzer , classical philologist (b. 1868)
• 20 or 21 October: Rita Kurzmann- Leuchter , Austrian pianist and music teacher (b. 1900)
• October 26: Clemens Lugowski , German scholar (b. 1904)
• October 27: Udell Sylvester Andrews , American film director and screenwriter (b. 1894)

November December

• 0November 1: Hugo Distler , German organist and composer (b. 1908)
• 0November 2: James Z. Spearing , American politician (b. 1864)
• 0November 3: Carl Sternheim , German dramatist and author (b. 1878)
• 0November 4: Edward C. Stokes , American politician (b. 1860)
• 0November 5: Théodore Ribail , French automobile racer (b. 1895)
• 0November 9: Ernest Chuard , Swiss politician (b. 1857)
• November 11: Billy DeBeck , American comic artist (b. 1890)
• November 11: Leopold Rückert , Baden politician (b. 1881)
• November 14: Sidney Fox , American actress (b. 1907)
• November 15: Annemarie Schwarzenbach , Swiss writer (born 1908)
• November 16: Joseph Schmidt , German-Austrian chamber singer and cantor (b. 1904)
• November 19 Bruno Schulz , Polish-Jewish writer, literary critic, graphic artist and draftsman (b. 1892)
• November 20: Julius Andree , German professor (b. 1889)
• November 21: Leopold Berchtold , Austro-Hungarian politician (b. 1863)
• November 21: James Barry Munnick Hertzog , Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1866)
• November 22: Kitahara Hakushū , Japanese writer (b. 1885)
• November 26: Francesco Agello , Italian test pilot (b. 1902)
• November 30: Hans Lewy , German racing driver (b. 1896)
• 0December 3: Arthur Berson , German meteorologist (b. 1859)
• 0December 3: Wilhelm Peterson-Berger , Swedish composer and music critic (born 1867)
• 0December 4: Nakajima Atsushi , Japanese writer (born 1909)
• 0December 6: Augustin Savard , French composer and music teacher (b. 1861)
• 0December 7: Philip Allen Bennett , American politician (b. 1881)
• 0December 7: Siegmund Hellmann , German historian (b. 1872)
• December 11: Jochen Klepper , German journalist, novelist and religious songwriter (b. 1903)
• December 11: Séraphine Louis , French painter (b. 1864)
• December 14: Hubert Work , American politician (b. 1860)
• December 16: Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger , German-speaking Jewish poet and victim of the Shoah (b. 1924)
• December 20: Dan Ahearn , American track and field athlete (b. 1888)
• December 21: Franz Boas , American ethnologist, linguist, physicist and geographer (b. 1858)
• December 21: Francis Bousquet , French composer (b. 1890)
• December 22: Hans Anetsberger , German portrait and landscape painter (b. 1870)
• December 22 – Arvid Harnack , German jurist, political economist and resistance fighter (b. 1901)
• December 22: Harro Schulze-Boysen , German officer, publicist and resistance fighter (b. 1909)
• December 22: Gerhard Wartenberg , German author (b. 1904)
• December 23: Franklin Ellsworth , American politician (b. 1879)
• December 24: Friedrich Klose , German composer (b. 1862)
• December 24: François Darlan , French politician (b. 1881)
• December 25: Vojislav Vučković , Serbian composer (b. 1910)
• December 26: Frank Dawson Adams , Canadian geologist (b. 1859)
• December 26: Frederic Storck , Romanian sculptor (b. 1872)
• December 27: Reginald Blomfield , British landscape architect (b. 1856)
• December 29: Heinz Körvers , German handball player (b. 1915)

Exact date of death unknown

• Friedrich Adler , German architect (born 1878)
• Erich Liebermann-Roßwiese , German pianist, composer and librettist (born 1886)
• Auguste Mangeot , French music critic and pianist (born 1873)
• Emma Meyn , German painter (born 1875)
• Martin Rosebery d'Arguto , Polish music teacher, composer and conductor (born 1890)
• Arturo Rossato , Italian journalist, playwright, librettist and lyricist (born 1882)
• Anna Schoen-René , American singer and music teacher (born 1864)

literature

• Dirk Black: We from the year 1942 - childhood and youth , Wartberg Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2005, ISBN 3-8313-1542-6

web links

Commons : 1942  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Living virtual museum online at dhm.de