1943

This article covers the year 1943; for the game of the same name see 1943: The Battle of Midway .

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1943
The defeat of the German Wehrmacht in the Battle of Stalingrad marked the turning point in World War II .
At the Casablanca Conference , the Allies formulated their war goals for the first time.	The Royal Air Force flies several air raids on Hamburg under the name Operation Gomorrah .
The uprising in the Warsaw ghetto is put down by the SS after a month .
1943 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	1391/92 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1935/36 (September 11-12)
Baha'i calendar	99/100 (March 20/21)
Bengali solar calendar	1347/48 (April 14 or 15)
Buddhist calendar	2486/87 (southern Buddhism); 2485/86 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	77th (78th) cycle Year of the Water Sheep癸未 ( since February 5th , before that Water Horse壬午)
Chuch'e ideology (North Korea)	Chuch'e 32
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	1305/06 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea)	4276/77 (October 2/3)
Iranian calendar	1321/22 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	1361/ 1362 /1363 (7-8 January. // 27/28 December)
Japanese calendar	昭和Shōwa 18; Koki 2603
Jewish calendar	5703/04 (September 29-30)
Coptic calendar	1659/60 (September 11-12)
Malayalam calendar	1118/19
Minguo calendar (China)	Year 32 of the republic
Seleucid era	Babylon: 2253/54 (turn of the year April) Syria: 2254/55 (turn of the year October)
Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar)	2485/86 (April 1)
Tibetan calendar	1689
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1999/2000 (April)

Events

Politics and world events

Second World War

See also : “1943” in the Chronology of World War II article

Political and diplomatic developments

• January 14th : A secret meeting of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and their operations and planning staff begins in Casablanca to discuss further warfare against the Axis powers in World War II . Josef Stalin was invited, but stayed away from the conference on the grounds that he could not leave the Soviet Union due to the encirclement of the German 6th Army in the Battle of Stalingrad , where his military leadership was needed . A reconciliation between the two French generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud who took part in the conference was only half-hearted.
• January 24th : After ten days of deliberation, the Western Allies announce the official war aims to the press for the first time: " Unconditional surrender of Germany , Italy and Japan ". The work of the German resistance is made more difficult because the Allies are not prepared to deviate from this demand. In addition, the Western Allies decide to step up air strikes on German cities.
• February 14 : German students aged 15 and over are drafted into military service as flak helpers .

The Berlin Sports Palace on February 18th

• February 18 : Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels calls for “ total war ” in a speech in the Berlin Sports Palace (see: Sports Palace speech ).
• April 19 : The Soviet intelligence service SMERSCH is founded by the NKVD . In addition to its main task of counter-espionage , the service also hunts down returning Soviet soldiers who are suspected of treason and desertion .
• 12. bis 27. May : The Allied Trident Conference in Washington come the different views of the American and British side on several points clearly evident. Finally, an agreement was reached on a follow-up conference in Canada in August and on an American military build- up in Great Britain as part of Operation Bolero .
• June 3 : Charles de Gaulle founds the ' Comité français de la Liberation nationale ' (CFLN) in Algiers together with Henri Giraud and soon takes over the management.

Manifesto of the founding assembly of the "National Committee Free Germany"

• July 12 : On the initiative of the USSR and its top military leadership under the supervision of the secret service, the National Committee Free Germany is founded near Moscow , an association of German prisoner-of-war soldiers and officers with communist German emigrants who fight against National Socialism and want to conceive a different Germany .
• July 20 : At a meeting with Hitler, Benito Mussolini accepts the demand that the Italian troops in southern Italy be subordinate to German staff.
• July 24th : On the occasion of the Allied invasion of Sicily, the Grand Fascist Council meets in the Palazzo Venezia in Rome . In the early morning hours of the next day, he passed a resolution introduced by Dino Grandi , according to which King Victor Emmanuel III. to take over the supreme command of the armed forces.
• July 25 : Victor Emanuel III. dismisses Mussolini as Prime Minister and then has him transported away in a waiting ambulance and detained in a barracks of the Carabinieri. Pietro Badoglio is appointed as the new Prime Minister the next day .
• After his arrest, Mussolini was interned on July 28th on the island of Ponza and on August 7th at the La Maddalena naval base off Sardinia.
• August 2 : The Albanian communists and the national Albanian movement Balli Kombëtar sign the Mukja Agreement .
• The Badoglio government dissolves the National Fascist Party with effect from August 6th .

Quadrant conference group photo with key military advisors

• August 14th to 24th : At the Allied Quadrant Conference in Québec , differences of opinion between Great Britain and the USA emerged again. Central themes are the surrender of Italy , Operation Overlord , the Burma campaign and the occupation of the Southeast Asia Command . The Operation Overlord is approved and the Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander (Cossac), General Frederick E. Morgan , commissioned to design a detailed plan. In addition, the Québec Agreement is signed, according to which British and Canadian researchers are to participate in the American Manhattan project from now on .
• September 3rd : Italy and the Allies sign the Cassibile armistice , announced on September 8th . Thereupon Albert Kesselring prepares the axis case , the German occupation of Italy, with the German armed forces .
• October 13 : Italy declares war on the German Reich under the new Prime Minister Pietro Badoglio .
• October 19 to November 1 : Allied Foreign Ministers' Conference in Moscow , at which the Moscow Declaration is made.
• October 24th : The soldier channel Calais , a British propaganda broadcaster, broadcasts its first program.

Tito (left) at the second AVNOJ meeting in Jajce

• 21st bis 29. November : The second meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia in Jajce are AVNOJ decisions adopted, the basic principles of independent, federal state of Yugoslavia form.

From left to right: Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill

• November 22. bis 27. November : On the Cairo conference , US President some Franklin D. Roosevelt , British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on the Allied war aims against Japan. On the sidelines of the Cairo Conference, Combined Chiefs of Staff of the Western Allies also meet to discuss their own strategy and to work out the key issues for the Soviet leadership. Following the Cairo Declaration , Roosevelt and Churchill leave the Egyptian capital Cairo and travel on to Tehran .

From left to right: Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill on the terrace of the Soviet embassy in Tehran

• November 28 to December 1 : At the Tehran Conference , Roosevelt, Churchill and Josef Stalin discuss the reorganization of Europe after the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.

Roosevelt, Inönü and Churchill (from left to right) in Cairo, 1943

• 4. bis 6. December : Roosevelt and Churchill meet again in Cairo together to talks with the Turkish President İsmet İnönü to lead about a possible entry of his country into the war against Germany, but bring these talks without results.
• December 24th : The last Christmas ring broadcast by Großdeutscher Rundfunk on the "connection between the front and home" is broadcast.

German-Soviet War

• January 1st : The 1st Panzer Army of the German Wehrmacht begins its retreat from the Caucasus on the Eastern Front .
• January 8th : Despite the hopeless situation, General Friedrich Paulus rejects the Soviet side's call to surrender the 6th Army encircled in Stalingrad .

Soviet soldiers in Stalingrad

• January 10th : The Red Army begins its last major offensive in Stalingrad under the name of Operation Kolzo to destroy the 6th Army. On the one hand, the ring around the trapped is drawn closer, on the other hand the immediate front moves further to the west, which cuts the 6th Army even further from its own troops. The Soviet troops also managed to capture the two airfields Pitomnik on January 16 and Gumrak on January 22 . From then on, Wehrmacht planes only take off and land at the “Stalingradski” emergency airport, until this too falls into Soviet hands and supplies can only be dropped over the boiler.
• January 25 : The German units in Stalingrad are split up into a southern basin and a northern basin.
• January 30th : Friedrich Paulus is promoted to Field Marshal General by radio message from the Fuehrer's headquarters .

Friedrich Paulus in Soviet captivity

• January 31 : Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders with the German units trapped in the south pocket in the Battle of Stalingrad .
• February 2 : The 6th Army also surrenders in the northern basin near Stalingrad . Around 90,000 soldiers are taken prisoner by the Soviets
• March 15 : The German Wehrmacht succeeds in retaking the city in the Battle of Kharkov on the Eastern Front .
• March 22nd : In revenge for a partisan attack, the 1st company of the SS Special Unit Dirlewanger burns the Belarusian village of Chatyn and kills almost the entire population.
• April 13 : The Großdeutsche Rundfunk reports that mass graves with Polish officers have been found in Katyn near Smolensk . In the period that followed, the Soviet Union denied being involved in the Katyn massacre .
• May 6th / 7th : The Silberstreif campaign , the largest German propaganda company in World War II, begins with the dropping of 18 million leaflets . With the use of a billion leaflets, Red Army soldiers are to be made to overflow en masse. The action turns out to be a complete failure and will be discontinued in September.

Situation development on the Eastern Front from July to December 1943

• July 5. bis 13. July : The Operation Citadel , the attack on the Soviet front bow to the Russian city of Kursk is the last major German offensive in the war against the Soviet Union and is considered the largest land battle of World History. It's a losing battle for both sides. The German armed forces ultimately have to break off the offensive, with the result that the initiative finally passes to the Red Army , which on July 12th initiates a counter-offensive with the Oryol operation . As part of this offensive, which will last until August 18, the concept of deep surgery can be successfully implemented for the first time .
• July 22 : With an offensive to completely relieve the landside enclosed Leningrad against the Army Group North of the Armed Forces of begins south Lake Ladoga the Third Ladoga battle . The aim is to take the rail link to the metropolis, especially the Mga railway junction with the Sinyavino Heights in front of it. However, by the end of the operations on September 25, she achieved only minor partial successes. Both sides suffer heavy losses in the battle.
• 3rd to 23rd August : In the Belgorod-Kharkov operation , Soviet units recapture the cities of Belgorod and Kharkov .
• August 7th : The Smolensk operation begins.
• August 12th : Adolf Hitler issues the Fuehrer order No. 10 for the "immediate expansion of the east wall " .
• August 13 : The Red Army begins the Donets Basin operation in the German-Soviet War .
• August 26th : The Battle of the Dnieper begins.
• November 3 : The Second Battle of Kiev begins.
• November 6th : In the Battle of the Dnieper , the Red Army succeeds in retaking Kiev, which had been captured by the Germans during World War II .
• December 24 : In the Ukrainian SSR which begins Red Army with the Carpathian operation Dnepr .
• December 30th : The German lines in Ukraine are breached on a broad front by the Red Army.

The war in the west / Italy

• March: Allied Operation Jedburgh , the first real collaboration between the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), the French Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action (BCRA) and the exiled military of the Netherlands and Belgium, begins. The aim is to small groups of agents with parachutes infiltrate behind the German lines in France, Belgium and the Netherlands to support the armed resistance and the D-Day to prepare and the invasion of the allied forces in Germany. Opponent's plans are to be spied on and communication and supply channels are to be destroyed by acts of sabotage .

Map of the Allied landings in Sicily

• April 30 : To deceive the German high command about the Allied war plans to land in Sicily, a corpse with prepared secret papers is thrown into the sea off the Spanish coast .
• 11. bis 14. June : The Allies occupy the Italian islands of Pantelleria , Lampedusa , Lampione and Linosa .

British soldiers on one of the landing beaches in Sicily on July 10, 1943

• July 10th : The Allied Operation Husky begins and with it the Allied Italian campaign : British, American and Canadian troops under General Dwight D. Eisenhower land in Sicily . The landings take place in a storm, which makes the operation considerably more difficult, but also means an element of surprise. The British Army lands on the southeast coast, the US on the southwest coast. The invasion force consists of almost 3,000 floating units - including six battleships and two aircraft carriers - and a good 2,500 aircraft. At the end of the first landing phase, there are around 181,000 Allied soldiers with 1,800 guns, 600 tanks and 14,000 other vehicles on the island.
• July 14 : During the capture of Biscari , the Biscari massacre by US troops of Italian and German prisoners of war occurs. 74 Italian and two German soldiers are shot after being captured.
• July 22nd : The Allies capture Palermo .
• August 1 : Under the code name Fallachse , the Wehrmacht occupied northern Italy and positions around Rome despite protests by the Italians, who were officially allied at the time.

Landings in Italy in September 1943

• September 3 : The Allied invasion of mainland Italy begins. Two British divisions land with minimal resistance from the defenders. On the same day, the Cassibile armistice was signed and announced on September 8th .

The various defense lines in 1943 (Gustav line in red)

• September 9th : Operation Avalanche marks the start of the Allied landings in the Gulf of Salerno . In the beginning they have to accept heavy losses. The German Wehrmacht withdraws on the so-called Gustav Line .
• September 9 : With the first operational radio-controlled weapon Fritz X , the Italian battleship Roma is sunk by the German Air Force using precision-guided ammunition . The rest of the Italian Navy can evade German access.
• September 10th : Wehrmacht troops occupy Rome. The German Army Group B declares the Alpine Foreland operational zone in South Tyrol , Trentino and Belluno and the Adriatic Coastal operational zone in northeast Italy .

Mussolini with German paratroopers shortly after his liberation

• September 12 : German paratroopers troops under General Kurt Student succeeds in Gran Sasso raid , the deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from his prison on the Gran Sasso to free.
• September 21 : During the massacre on Kefalonia , Wehrmacht units shoot 5200 Italian prisoners of war.

The Italian Social Republic and the German operational zones at the end of 1943

• September 23 : The fascist Italian Social Republic (SRI) is proclaimed in northern Italy with six daily orders from Mussolini . The constituent meeting of the new government takes place in the German embassy in Rome. The new fascist state on Italian soil is initially only recognized by the German Empire and the Japanese Empire , and later also by the states allied with the Axis powers such as Bulgaria , Finland , Manchukuo , Romania , Slovakia and Hungary . San Marino and Switzerland are the only neutral states to recognize the new state. After a brief hesitation, the Vatican also diplomatically recognized the RSI. The SRI's first foreign policy measure is the declaration of war on the Kingdom of Italy in the south.
• September 27th : The RSI government moves into its headquarters in Salò on Lake Garda . The government is de facto dependent on the German armed forces.
• 20th bis 28. December : Battle of Ortona

British aircraft dummy (October 1943)

• The Operation Fortitude to conceal the Operation Overlord begins: The Allies ask for their operations in Scotland and at the narrowest point of the English Channel between England and France at Dover dummies of tanks, aircraft, artillery guns and other war material of wood or rubber as a distraction and practice Landing maneuvers in the Thames.

The war in North Africa

• January 23rd : In the Africa campaign , British units take the Libyan city of Tripoli, which has been occupied by Italy since the Italo-Turkish War in 1911 and by German troops since 1941 .
• February 14th : Tunisian campaign : Erwin Rommel begins the battle on the Kasserin Pass .
• May 13 : The German-Italian campaign in Tunisia ends with the capitulation of the last unit of Army Group Africa under Commander-in-Chief Hans-Jürgen von Arnim .

Bombing

Copy of the Casablanca Directive

• January 21 : At the Casablanca Conference , the directive for a " joint bomber offensive " by the western allies USA and Great Britain against the German Reich is passed.
• January 27 : With an air raid on Wilhelmshaven by 55 bombers , the bombing of the United States Army Air Forces begins that day.
• Night from March 1st to 2nd: first major air raid on Berlin (night raid by the Royal Air Force): 709 dead, almost 65,000 bombed out

The badly damaged Edertalsperre

• 16 / May 17 : As Operation Chastise leads the British Royal Air Force an attack on German dams in Sauerland and in Hesse by. Roll bombs destroy the Eder and Möhnetalsperre , while the dam of the Sorpealsperre holds. More than 1,600 people died.
• May 19 : The famous Memphis Belle , a US Air Force Boeing B-17 bomber, completes its 25th and final enemy flight.
• July 12 : Around 800 residents of Turin are killed in the heaviest of the air raids on Italy to date .

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The US weekly newsreel United News reported on the destruction of Hamburg in August

• July 24th to August 3rd : British and American bombing raids on Hamburg ( Operation Gomorrah ) kill around 35,000 people.
• August 1 : During an American air raid on the Ploieşti oil fields in Romania, known as Operation Tidal Wave , 53 of 177 bombers are shot down.
• August 13 : Allied bombers attack the Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke in Wiener Neustadt in Austria . At the time, these are the largest aircraft factory in the Reich. This was the first attack on a city in what was then Ostmark.

Boeing B-17 over Schweinfurt

• August 17 : USAAF suffers heavy losses in an air raid on Regensburg and Schweinfurt ( Operation Double Strike ) .
• On the night of August 18, the Royal Air Force bombed the German rocket research facility in Peenemünde ( Operation Hydra ) .
• September 30 : The unescorted Norwegian passenger ship Sanct Svithun is sunk in an Allied air raid off the Stadlandet peninsula , killing 47 people.
• October 14th : American bombers again suffer heavy losses in an attack on Schweinfurt. 77 flying fortresses were shot down and another 121 hit so badly that they could no longer be put into service. This day later goes down in the history of the United States Army Air Forces as Black Thursday .
• October 22nd : British bombing raid on Kassel . The city is largely destroyed, thousands of people die in the hail of bombs or from panic or lack of air in bunkers . For days afterwards, high clouds of smoke stand over the city.
• November 18 : Beginning of the air battle for Berlin .
• November 22nd / 23rd : The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin is hit in a bomb attack, causing a fire that collapsed the top of the main tower.
• December 30th : The US Air Force bombs Mannheim and Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

Submarine warfare in the Atlantic

• March 4 : The German submarine U 172 sinks the British passenger steamer City of Pretoria . None of the 145 people on board survived.
• March 8 : Allied convoy HX 229 departs New York, which will suffer the most losses of all HX convoys up to its destination port of Liverpool .
• April 2 : The British passenger and cargo ship Melbourne Star is torpedoed by the German submarine U 129 off Bermuda . It explodes and sinks in two minutes. 114 people die.
• May 24th : Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz had the submarine war in the North Atlantic canceled for the time being due to the high own losses .

Southeast Asia and Pacific War

• January 29 : Japanese land-based bombers attack US warships off Rennell Island as part of the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Pacific War , losing a heavy cruiser. The battle for Guadalcanal ended with an American victory. By February 9, the island will be evacuated by the Japanese and brought under control by the United States.
• May 14 : A Japanese submarine sinks the Australian hospital ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland ; 268 people (medical staff and crew) die.
• August 6 : In the Battle of Vella Gulf meet before midnight in the Pacific War six destroyers of the US Navy on four Japanese destroyers. In the following torpedo duel , three Japanese ships are sunk, the fourth escapes destruction.
• November 1 : The two-day naval battle at Kaiserin Augusta Bay near Bougainville between warships from the USA and Japan begins. It is part of the Battle of the Northern Solomon Islands .
• 20th bis 23. November : The atoll Tarawa is the scene of the fiercest fighting between Japanese and Americans in the Pacific War .

Second Sino-Japanese War

• May 12 : The four-day massacre of Changjiao by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War kills around 30,000 civilians in the Chinese province of Hunan .

The “ final solution to the Jewish question ” / persecution of other population groups / resistance to National Socialism

• January 18 : The Nazis march into the Warsaw Ghetto to dissolve it and deport the entire population to extermination camps. The Jewish Combat Organization with their leader Mordechai Anielewicz , the Germans under SS and Police Leader Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg after four days of fighting distribute first again.
• February 18 : The Scholl siblings are arrested while distributing leaflets at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
• February 22nd : Sophie and Hans Scholl as well as their friend Christoph Probst are sentenced to death by guillotine by the People's Court under the "blood judge" Roland Freisler as members of the White Rose resistance group for " decomposing military strength ", " favoring the enemy " and "preparing for treason". The judgment is carried out on the same day in the Munich-Stadelheim prison under the supervision of Walter Roemer , head of the execution department of the Munich regional court, by executioner Johann Reichhart .
• February 26th : The first transport with Sinti and Roma deported from the German Reich arrives in the newly established "Gypsy family camp " of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp .
• February 27 : Beginning of the Rosenstrasse protest against the deportation of Jews from Berlin
• March 21 : The attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler planned by Rudolf-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff during the inspection of captured weapons fails.
• April 19 : With the onset of the Jewish Combat Organization on members of the SS, which in the Warsaw ghetto march that begins uprising in the Warsaw ghetto .
• April 19 : The students Alexander Schmorell and Willi Graf as well as the professor Kurt Huber , members of the White Rose resistance movement , are sentenced to death by the People's Court under Roland Freisler; other co-defendants received long prison terms.
• May 16 : Only when the ghetto is completely burned down can the SS, under the command of Jürgen Stroop , end the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto . As a conclusion, he has the Great Synagogue blown up.

Clouds of smoke over the burning Treblinka II during the uprising, 1943

• August 2 : The uprising planned for months in the Treblinka extermination camp breaks out. He is put down by the SS , and numerous insurgents are killed. Nevertheless, 200 to 250 prisoners manage to escape from the camp. The SS shot many of them while they were fleeing or brought them back to the camp and executed them with the fighters captured there. During their uprising, the prisoners can set fire to numerous buildings as well as the petrol tank and destroy them. The brick gas chambers remain undamaged. After the uprising, around 8,000 prisoners were gassed from two trains on August 21 . Then the SS had the camp dismantled. The SS deported 100 prisoners who did not participate in the uprising, who stayed behind or who survived the punitive measures, to the Sobibor extermination camp .
• September 15 : "Commissioning" of the Kauen concentration camp
• October 4th / 6th : Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler gives two secret speeches in front of a selected audience in the Poznan town hall , in which he justifies the Holocaust, among other things.
• October 14 : During the Sobibór uprising in the Sobibor extermination camp , around 200 prisoners managed to escape.
• November 10 : The Catholic priests Hermann Lange , Eduard Müller and Johannes Prassek , who became known as Lübeck martyrs , as well as the Protestant pastor Karl Friedrich Stellbrink are executed in the Hamburg remand prison for criticizing the Nazi regime .
• December 13 : Kalavrita massacre . Members of the German Wehrmacht murder more than 650 residents of the village in revenge for the killing of German hostages by partisans.

Other events worldwide

• January 1st : The Christian Democrat Enrico Celio becomes the new Federal President of Switzerland .
• January 1 : At the suggestion of the German Standards Committee , the week in Germany begins on Sundays at midnight and ends on the following Saturday at midnight. It was not until 1976 that the start of the week was changed to “Monday”.
• January 15 : In Arlington , Virginia, the Pentagon , headquarters of the US Department of War and one of the largest office buildings in the world, is completed after 16 months of construction.
• May 15th : The Executive Committee of the Communist International adopts the resolution to dissolve the Communist International on June 10th . Its publication comes as a complete surprise even to Comintern functionaries and is probably due to a decision by Josef Stalin . In an interview with the Reuters agency on May 28, he explained that with the dissolution in front of the world, two moments should be underlined: that Moscow does not interfere “in the life of other states” and that the communist parties “in the interests of their own people ”And not“ on orders from outside ”. In general, the dissolution of the Comintern is seen as a concession by Stalin to the western allies, the USA and Great Britain, on whose support Stalin depends after Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union.
• July 1 : With the Tōkyō-tosei , the city ​​of Tokyo is dissolved as a political unit. It is combined with the old Tokyo prefecture to form the capital city of Tokyo .

Flag of lebanon

• August 29 / September 4 : Independent candidates win a majority in Lebanon's parliamentary elections in 1943 . On October 7th, the national pact between Muslims and Christians is signed. On November 8 solves Lebanon which since 1920 existing League of Nations mandate on one side. President Béchara el-Khoury , Prime Minister Riad as-Solh and other members of the government were arrested by French units on November 11 , but released again on November 22 under international pressure. This day is now considered Lebanon's Independence Day . Immediately after independence, around 20,000 volunteers were integrated into the Free French Army under Charles de Gaulle under the command of the later President Fuad Schihab . On December 7 which will state flag officially introduced.

economy

• January 12: Hitler issues the Adolf Hitler tank program to quadruple armored vehicle production
• January 25th : A state price freeze ordinance for the stock exchanges of the German Reich ends the demand-based development of stock exchange prices .
• February 28 : In the second shutdown, the Reich Press Chamber orders 950 newspapers to be discontinued in Germany due to a shortage of raw materials.
• August 31 : The Frankfurter Zeitung ceases to appear after a decision by Adolf Hitler, who was angry about an article in the spring .
• October 17 : The Thailand-Burma Railway , built by forced laborers and prisoners of war during the occupation by Japan in World War II , during the construction of which up to 90,000 people were killed, is connected by the two sides after it has been since the beginning of the year Sections have gone into operation. On October 23 , the last construction work is completed. Operations will start on October 25th .
• November 12 : In a Führer decree known as Lex Krupp , Adolf Hitler orders the conversion of the Friedrich Krupp AG company into a partnership with a specially regulated succession . This saves the family inheritance tax .

• Nachos are invented.

science and technology

• April 16 : The Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann notices a hallucinogenic effect on himself after the renewed production of LSD- 25 when he possibly accidentally ingests the substance with his fingertips. Three days later he decided to test the substance again in a self-experiment with the smallest possible effective dose. His bike ride home from the laboratory, accompanied by strong hallucinations , goes down in the history of LSD culture under the name Bicycle Day .
• July 30 : The Ar 234 of the Arado aircraft plants , the first operational - and actually used - jet-powered bombers in the world, completed its first flight .
• August 18 : The Sikorsky S-51 transport helicopter intended for civil use makes its maiden flight in the USA .
• October 19 : Albert Schatz , Selman Abraham Waksman and Elizabeth Bugie succeed in isolating the antibiotic streptomycin , a drug against tuberculosis, for the first time at Rutgers University .

the hierarchy of needs

• Maslow publishes Maslow's hierarchy of needs .
• Establishment of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico

Culture

Visual arts

→ Main article : Art year 1943

Charlotte Salomon: Self-Portrait , 1940

• Immediately prior to her arrest on September 24 , the German-Jewish artist passes Charlotte Salomon in Villefranche-sur-Mer a tied bundle labeled property from Mrs. Moore to her familiar Dr. Georges Moridis. It contains her artistic life's work with the sheets of the series Life? Or theater? and other work. Moridis hides the remains in his house cellar on Avenue Maréchal-Joffre.

Movie

→ Main article : 1943 film year

• February 5 : In San Francisco, the Western has The Outlaw ( Outlaw ) with Jane Russell in her first film role its premiere .
• May 17th : The feature film Ossessione ( Obsession ) by Italian director Luchino Visconti premieres. The film, with Clara Calamai and Massimo Girotti in the leading roles, is based on the crime novel When the Postman Rings Twice by James M. Cain and is often seen as the beginning of Italian neorealism . It only hits Italian cinemas briefly in June and is eventually banned by censors. The negative is destroyed, but Visconti manages to save a copy.

literature

→ Main article : Literature year 1943

• January 4th : In exile in California, Thomas Mann completes his novel - Tetralogy Joseph and his brothers .
• January: The year after homosexuality was decriminalized, the first edition of the gay magazine Der Kreis appears in Switzerland . The first editor and editor is the actor Karl Meier .
• April 6 : The first edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's short story Le Petit Prince ( The Little Prince ) appears in New York City .
• May : Upton Sinclair receives the Pulitzer Prize for the novel Dragon's Teeth .

• Else Lasker-Schüler publishes her last volume of poems, Mein bluues Klavier , in Jerusalem .

Music and theater

→ Main article : Music year 1943

• February 4th : Bertolt Brechts with the collaboration of Ruth Berlau and Margarete Steffin composed play The Good Man of Sezuan has its world premiere at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . Directs this epic drama leads Leonard Steckel .
• February 20 : The opera Die Kluge by Carl Orff , based on the fairy tale The Clever Farmer's Daughter by the Brothers Grimm , is premiered in Frankfurt am Main.
• March 8 : Adolf Hitler orders: “The Bayreuth Festival will take place to the same extent as last year. […] The Salzburg Festival does not take place. For this purpose, Salzburg Theater Weeks are to be organized, in which the armaments workers and wounded in the Salzburg area take part in the performances. ” (See: Total war effort of cultural workers )
• April 1st : The opera Das Schloß Dürande by Othmar Schoeck with the libretto by Hermann Burte based on the novel of the same name by Joseph von Eichendorff is premiered at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin.
• October 10 : The comic opera Barbe-bleue by Jacques Ibert has its world premiere in Paris.
• October: The operetta Die Schöne Carlotti by Willy Czernik is premiered in Prague and becomes the composer's greatest success.
• November 13th : The operetta Queen of One Night by Will Meisel with the libretto by Just Scheu and Ernst Nebhut is premiered in Berlin .
• November 14th : The 25-year-old Leonard Bernstein leads a concert of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as a replacement for the sick Bruno Walter and thus begins his world career.

• The Russian exile Anna Marly wrote the Chant des Partisans in London , which became the most popular song of the French Forces françaises libres and the Resistance during World War II, and performed it on the French-language broadcasts of the BBC .

religion

• September 30th : Pope Pius XII. publishes the encyclical Divino afflante Spiritu . The third of the Bible encyclicals deals with the use of the Bible and Bible explanations and admits scientific and historical errors in the Bible.

Disasters

• September 10 : 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Tottori , Japan , killing 1,190

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

nature and environment

Ash cones from the Paricutín 1943

• February 20 : The Paricutín volcano is formed in Mexico . After one day it is 10 meters high, after three days 50 meters, now 3,170 meters.

Sports

• April 6th : Some friends decide to found a football club in Goiânia , Brazil , and the Goiás EC is created.
• April 21 : The merger of six football clubs creates FC Nantes in France
• September 4th and September 5th : the German gymnastics and game championships are held in Augsburg

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : Otto Stern
• Chemistry : George de Hevesy
• Medicine : Henrik Dam and Edward Adelbert Doisy

A Nobel Prize for Literature and a Nobel Peace Prize are not awarded.

Born

January

• 0January 1st : Antonio Juliano , Italian football player
• 0January 1 : Stanley Kamel , American actor († 2008 )
• 0January 1 : Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly , Mauritanian politician († 2019 )
• 0January 1st : Allan Starski , Polish production designer
• 0January 2nd : Filiz Akın , Turkish actress
• 0January 2 : Edward Kłosiński , Polish cameraman († 2008 )
• 0January 2 : Barış Manço , Turkish singer, composer and television producer († 1999 )
• 0January 3 : Reinhold Massag , German author and actor († 1999 )
• 0January 3 : Van Dyke Parks , American musician, composer and arranger
• 0January 4th : Egon Schultz , NCO of the GDR border troops († 1964 )
• 0January 4th : Emil Zopfi , Swiss author
• 0January 5th : Günther Maria Halmer , German actor
• 0January 5th : Henning Jensen , Danish actor and voice actor
• 0January 5 : Ramón Sampedro , Spanish quadriplegic and supporter of euthanasia († 1998 )
• 0January 5th : Ignace van Swieten , Dutch football referee († 2005 )
• 0January 5th : Christine Wodetzky , German actress († 2004 )
• 0January 6 : Barry Altschul , American jazz musician
• 0January 6 : Michael Harcourt , Canadian politician
• 0January 6 : Osvaldo Soriano , Argentine writer and journalist († 1997 )
• 0January 7th : Sadako Sasaki , most famous victim of the atomic bomb drop on Hiroshima († 1955 )
• 0January 8 : Sibylle Courvoisier , Swiss actress († 2003 )
• 0January 8th : Lee Jackson , British musician
• 0January 9 : Josef Bulva , Czech pianist († 2020 )
• 0January 9 : Scott Walker , American singer, musician and composer († 2019 )
• 0January 9 : Peter Zurek , Austrian journalist († 2013 )
• January 10th : Friederike Aust , German actress and voice actress
• January 10 : Jim Croce , American singer and songwriter († 1973 )
• January 10 : Peter Strauch , German theologian, book author and songwriter
• January 11 : Ernst Aichner , German military historian
• January 11 : Stan Ivar , American actor
• January 11 : Dieter Langewiesche , German historian
• January 11th : Eduardo Mendoza , Spanish writer
• January 11 : Rémy Zaugg , Swiss artist († 2005 )
• January 12th : Brun-Otto Bryde , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• January 13th : Klaus-Peter Puls , German politician
• January 14th : Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco , Archbishop of Genoa
• January 14th : Oscar Bronner , Austrian newspaper editor and painter
• January 14th : Mariss Jansons , Latvian conductor († 2019 )
• January 14th : Shannon Lucid , American astronaut
• January 14 : José Luis Rodríguez González , Venezuelan singer and actor
• January 14 : Ralph M. Steinman , Canadian immunologist and Nobel Prize winner († 2011 )
• January 14th : Holland Taylor , American actress
• January 14th : Manfred Wolke , German Olympic champion in boxing and boxing trainer
• January 15 : Michael Hayden , Canadian sculptor
• January 16 : Gavin Bryars , English composer and double bass player
• January 16 : Ivar Combrinck , German voice actor and director († 2006 )
• January 16 : Dieter Dowe , German historian and department head of the Historical Research Center of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn
• January 16 : Ronnie Milsap , American country and pop singer
• January 16 : Mona Seilitz , Swedish actress, voice actress and presenter († 2008 )
• January 17 : Billy Harper , American jazz saxophonist
• January 17th : Hans-Jürgen Krahl , student activist of the 1968 movement († 1970 )
• January 17 : Chris Montez , American singer
• January 17 : René Préval , Haitian politician († 2017 )
• January 18 : Ovidio Gabriele Assonitis , Italian film producer and director
• January 18 : Margot Berghaus , German social scientist
• January 18 : Al Foster , American jazz drummer
• January 18th : Dave Greenslade , British keyboardist
• January 18 : Charlie Wilson , American politician († 2013 )
• January 19 : Janis Joplin , American singer, rock and blues musician († 1970 )
  

  Janis Joplin (1969)
• January 19 : Margriet von Oranien-Nassau , Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Oranien-Nassau, Princess von Lippe-Biesterfeld
• January 20 : Margaret Scotford Archer , British sociologist
• January 20 : Rick Evans , American singer and guitarist († 2018 )
• January 20 : Einar Førde , Norwegian social democratic politician and journalist († 2004 )
• January 20 : Armando Guebuza , President of Mozambique († 2005 )
• January 21 : Mirko Frýba , Czech-Swiss psychoanalyst, Buddhist monk († 2016 )
• January 21 : Arnar Jónsson , Icelandic actor
• January 21 : Heinz Magenheimer , Austrian military historian
• January 21 : Steve Potts , American jazz saxophonist
• January 22nd : Tigran Alichanow , Russian pianist
• January 22nd : Maarten van Regteren Altena , Dutch composer and double bass player
• January 22nd : Wilhelm Genazino , German writer († 2018 )
• January 22nd : Marília Pêra , Brazilian actress († 2015 )
• January 22nd : Michał Urbaniak , Polish jazz musician
• January 23 : Gary Burton , American jazz vibraphonist
• January 23 : Gil Gerard , American actor
• January 24th : Peter Struck , German politician († 2012 )
  

  Peter Struck, 2005
• January 24th : Sharon Tate , American actress († 1969 )
• January 24th : Tony Trimmer , British racing car driver
• January 25 : Ute Apfelbeck , Austrian politician
• January 25 : Dagmar Berghoff , German radio and television presenter
• January 25 : Roy Black , German pop singer and actor († 1991 )
  

  Roy Black, 1989
• January 25 : Agata Hikari , Japanese writer († 1992 )
• January 25 : Norbert Königshofen , German politician
• January 28 : Manfred Jendryschik , German narrator, poet, essayist and editor
• January 28th : Dick Taylor , British musician and member of the original formation of the Rolling Stones
• January 29 : Bernd Schiphorst , German media manager
• January 30th : Günter Hirsch , President of the Federal Court of Justice
• January 30th : Bernd Munck , German handball player
• January 30 : Wolfgang Spanier , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 2018 )
• January 31 : Volker Huwendiek , German educator and university professor

February

• 0February 1 : Linda Gaye Scott , American actress
• 0February 2nd : Dieter Braun , German motorcycle racer
• 0February 2 : Paul Friedhoff , German entrepreneur and politician (FDP) and member of the Bundestag († 2015 )
• 0February 2nd : Dieter Müller , German carom player and world champion
  

  Dieter Müller
• 0February 2 : Wanda Rutkiewicz , Polish mountaineer († 1992 )
• 0February 3 : Domenico Calcagno , Italian Curia Cardinal
• 0February 4 : Tamara Constance Asseyev , American film producer and writer
• 0February 4th : Franz-Josef Kniola , German politician
• 0February 4th : Otto Lohmüller , German painter, sculptor and author of Boy Scout adventure books
• 0February 4 : Ken Thompson , American computer scientist
• 0February 5 : Nolan Bushnell , founder of the Atari computer company
• 0February 5th : Ernst Hinsken , German politician
• 0February 5 : Michael Mann , American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 0February 5 : Craig Morton , American football player
• 0February 5 : Ivan Tcherepnin , American composer, conductor and music teacher († 1998 )
• 0February 6th : Gisela Hoey-Meeser , German handball player
• 0February 6 : John Kornblum , American US diplomat
• 0February 6 : Jürgen Udolph , German name researcher
• 0February 7th : Danilo Arbilla Frachia , Uruguayan journalist
• 0February 7 : Urs von Arx , Swiss Christian Catholic theologian
• 0February 7th : Finnbogi Ísakson , Faroese journalist, writer and politician († 2005 )
• 0February 7th : Margit Sponheimer , German pop singer
• 0February 8 : Sibylle Nägele , German actress and radio journalist († 2015 )
• 0February 8 : Nikolaki Sawaf , Syrian Archbishop
• 0February 9 : Dieter Dierks , German recording studio operator and music producer
• 0February 9 : Joe Pesci , American actor
  

  Joe Pesci
• 0February 9 : Joseph E. Stiglitz , American economist
• February 10 : Harald Fritzsch , German physicist
• February 11 : Gerhard Glogowski , German SPD politician, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony
• February 11 : Alan Rubin , American trumpeter († 2011 )
• February 12 : Rainer Eppelmann , German clergyman and politician (CDU)
• February 12 : Manfred Schaefer , Australian soccer coach and soccer player
• February 13 : Friedrich Christian Delius , German writer
• February 13 : Jürgen Sengera , German bank manager
• February 14 : Eric Andersen , American singer and songwriter
• February 14th : Willy De Bosscher , Belgian cyclist
• February 14 : Klaus Lippold , German politician
• February 14th : Thomas Lück , German pop singer († 2019 )
• February 14 : Ischa Meijer , Dutch journalist, writer and talk show host († 1995 )
• February 14th : Maceo Parker , American radio musician
• February 15 : Heinz Josef Algermissen , Bishop of Fulda
• February 15 : Griselda Blanco , Colombian leader of the Medellín cartel († 2012 )
• February 15 : Hervé Dumont , Swiss film scholar
• February 15 : Elke Heidenreich , German author, cabaret artist, presenter and journalist
  

  Elke Heidenreich, 2012
• February 16 : Anthony Dowell , famous ballet dancer and choreographer
• February 17th : Ray Austin , British-German musician
• February 17 : Hans-Artur Bauckhage , German politician († 2018 )
• February 19 : Christopher Adey , British conductor and violinist
• February 19 : Tim Hunt , British biochemist
• February 19th : Jan de Rooy , Dutch entrepreneur and racing driver
• February 19 : Robert Trivers , American biologist
• February 20 : Mike Leigh , British theater and film director, drama and screenwriter, actor and set designer
• February 20 : Diana L. Paxson , American historical fantasy novelist
• February 21 : David Ambrose , British writer
• February 21 : Louis Jauffret , French ski racer
• February 21 : David Geffen , American film producer and director
• February 21 : Paul Kirchhof , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• February 21 : Lyudmila Yevgenevna Ulitskaya , Russian writer
• February 22nd : Horst Köhler , German politician, Federal President (2004-10)
  

  Horst Köhler, 2007
• February 22 : Eduard Weniaminowitsch Limonow , Russian author and politician († 2020 )
• February 22nd : Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière , French racing driver and entrepreneur
• February 23 : Manfred Carstens , German politician
• February 23 : Gerd Höfer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• February 23 : Christian Schmidt , German politician
• February 23 : Uwe Zerbe , German actor
• February 24 : Gigi Meroni , Italian football player († 1967 )
• February 25 : Wolfgang Berghofer , German FDJ functionary and SED politician
• February 25 : Gerhard Cromme , German manager
• February 25 : Karl Heinz Däke , Chairman of the Association of German Taxpayers
• February 25 : Pavel Dostál , Czech politician and minister of culture († 2005 )
• February 25 : George Harrison , British musician (The Beatles) († 2001 )
  

  George Harrison, 1974
• February 25 : Uta Kron , German archaeologist († 2020 )
• February 25th : Jürgen Lässig , German racing car driver
• February 26 : Michele Carey , American actress († 2018 )
• February 26th : Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage , Ibanese Archbishop
• February 26 : Bob Hite , American singer and founding member of Canned Heat († 1981 )
• February 26 : Kazimiera Prunskienė , Lithuanian politician
• February 26 : Charles P. Thacker , American computer scientist († 2017 )
• February 27 : Luiz Aquila , Brazilian painter
• February 27 : Tom Astor , German singer, composer, lyricist and producer
• February 27 : Morten Lauridsen , American composer
• February 27 : Costin Miereanu , Romanian-French composer
• February 27 : Manfred Müller , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• February 27 : Carlos Parreira , Brazilian soccer coach
• February 28 : Barbara Acklin , American soul singer and songwriter († 1998 )
• February 28 : Gerda Anger-Schmidt , Austrian children's book author († 2017 )

March

• 0March 1 : Gilbert Frank Amelio , American physicist and manager
• 0March 1 : Jürgen Alexander Heß , German illustrator († 2001 )
• 0March 1st : Franz Hohler , Swiss writer, cabaret artist and songwriter
• 0March 1 : Ben Jipcho , Kenyan athlete († 2020 )
• 0March 1 : Rashid Sunyaev , Uzbek-Russian astrophysicist
• 0March 1st : Piet Veerman , Dutch singer and guitarist
• 0March 2nd : Gabriele Gast , German-German spy
• 0March 2 : Daniel Joseph Anthony Meehan , British drummer († 2005 )
• 0March 2 : Peter Straub , American writer
• 0March 2 : Wolfgang Winkler , German actor († 2019 )
• 0March 3 : Jean-Clément Jeanbart , Syrian Archbishop
• 0March 3 : Albert A. Stahel , Swiss political scientist
• 0March 3 : Ivo Vajgl , Slovenian politician
• 0March 4th : Lucio Dalla , Cantautori rock-oriented music († 2012 )
• 0March 5 : Raimund Apfelbach , German biologist and professor of neurobiology
• 0March 5 : Lucio Battisti , Italian singer († 1998 )
• 0March 5 : Christian Führer , Protestant pastor, one of the initiators of the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig († 2014 )
• 0March 5 : Alfred Hartenbach , German politician († 2016 )
• 0March 5 : Heidi Knake-Werner , German politician
• 0March 5th : Thomas Prinzhorn , Austrian industrialist and politician (FPÖ)
• 0March 6th : Jean-Louis Ravenel , French racing car driver
• 0March 6th : Gert Sudholt , German publicist and publisher
• 0March 7 : Bob Avakian , American politician
• 0March 8 : Lynn Redgrave , British actress († 2010 )
• 0March 8 : Franz Steinegger , Swiss lawyer and politician
• 0March 9 : Robert James "Bobby" Fischer , American chess player († 2008 )
• 0March 9 : Jef Raskin , American computer scientist († 2005 )
• 0March 9 : Walfriede Schmitt , German actress
• 0March 9th : Wolf Singer , German brain researcher
• 0March 9 : Trish Van Devere , American actress
• March 10 : Rodney Gould , British motorcycle racer
• March 10 : Peter Tremayne , English historian
• March 11th : Arturo Merzario , Italian racing car driver and team owner
• March 12th : Mina Assadi , Persian poet and author

Ratko Mladić, 1993

• March 12 : Ratko Mladić , Bosnian Serb general, convicted war criminal
• March 12 : Christean Wagner , German politician (CDU)
• March 13 : Giancarlo De Sisti , Italian football player and coach
• March 13 : Mike Fisher , American racing car driver
• March 13th : Gianni Motta , Italian cyclist
• March 13 : André Téchiné , French screenwriter and film director
• March 14 : Marie Hüllenkremer , German journalist and politician († 2004 )
• March 14th : Bernd Patzke , German soccer player
• March 14 : Brigitt Petry , German singer and composer († 1971 )
• March 15 : David Cronenberg , Canadian director
• March 15 : Brenda Scott , American actress
• March 15 : Sly Stone , American funk rock singer
• March 15th : Frank Wiegand , German swimmer
• March 16 : Kirsten Dene , German actress
• March 16 : Jerry Goodman , American violinist
• March 16 : Hans Heyer , German automobile racing driver
• March 16 : Horst Lohse , German composer
• March 16 : Josef Rose , German handball player and coach
• March 17 : Bakili Muluzi , President of Malawi from 1994 to 2004
• March 18th : Nobuko Imai , Japanese violist
• March 18 : Midori Matsuya , Japanese pianist († 1994 )
• March 18 : Monika Weber , Swiss politician
• March 19 : Mario José Molina , Mexican chemist

Mario Monti, 2012

• March 19 : Mario Monti , Italian politician
• March 19 : Vern Schuppan , Australian racing car driver and racing car designer
• March 20 : Gerard Malanga , American writer, photographer and filmmaker
• March 20 : Reinhard Schermann , German local politician
• March 21 : Luigi Agnolin , Italian football referee († 2018 )
• March 21 : Hartmut Haenchen , German conductor
• March 21 : Amina Claudine Myers , American jazz musician
• March 22nd : George Benson , American jazz guitarist and singer
• March 22 : Keith Relf , British musician († 1976 )
• March 22nd : Joseph Schwantner , American composer
• March 23 : Andreas Abouna , Iraqi auxiliary bishop († 2010 )
• March 23 : Detlef Dzembritzki , German politician
• March 23 : Benjamin Joses Odoki , Ugandan lawyer and Chief Justice of Uganda
• March 24th : Marika Kilius , German figure skater
• March 25 : Heinz Flacke , German handball player
• March 25 : Paul Michael Glaser , American actor
• March 25 : Antonio Lockward Artiles , Dominican writer
• March 26 : Paolo Maurensig , Italian writer
• March 26 : Robert Woodward , American journalist and reporter
• March 27 : Romedi Arquint , Swiss theologian, teacher and politician
• March 28th : Philippe de Henning , French designer and racing car driver
• March 28th : Horst Laqua , German specialist in ophthalmology
• March 29 : Patricio José Argüello Ryan , terrorist († 1970 )
• March 29 : Eric Idle , British actor, film producer, director, composer and writer

John Major, 1996

• March 29 : John Major , British politician
• March 29 : Marta Ptaszyńska , Polish composer and music teacher
• March 29th : Vangelis , Greek composer and pioneer of electronic music
• March 30 : Siegfried Gottwald , German mathematician, logician and historian of science († 2015 )
• March 31 : Roy Andersson , Swedish director and screenwriter
• March 31 : Sharon Hampson , Canadian actress and singer
• March 31 : Christopher Walken , American actor

April

• 0April 1 : Mario Botta , Swiss architect
• 0April 2 : Heinz Abels , German sociologist
• 0April 2 : Troels Kløvedal , Danish writer († 2018 )
• 0April 3 : Mario Lavista , Mexican composer
• 0April 3 : Bernd Richter , senior teacher and politician of the ÖDP
• 0April 4 : Jiří Paďour , Bishop of Budweis († 2015 )
• 0April 4 : Michael Schneider , German writer
• 0April 5 : Werner J. Egli , Swiss writer
• 0April 5 : Jean-Louis Tauran , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 2018 )
• 0April 6 : Eckart Klein , German lawyer and university professor
• 0April 6 : Byron Mallott , American politician
• 0April 6th : Gerhard Steidele , German judoka
• 0April 7th : Joaquim Agostinho , Portuguese cyclist († 1984 )
• 0April 8 : Eberhard Vogel , German soccer player and record player in the GDR Oberliga
• 0April 9 : Wolfgang Back , German presenter and television editor († 2019 )
• April 10 : Tömöriin Artag , Mongolian wrestler († 1993 )
• April 10 : Julio Estrada , Mexican composer and musicologist
• April 10 : Bo Hansson , Swedish keyboardist and composer († 2010 )
• April 10 : Włodzimierz Schmidt , Polish chess player
  

  Włodzimierz Schmidt, 2012
• April 11th : Poul Nielson , Danish politician
• April 11th : Bernard Salam , French racing car driver
• April 11th : Ernst Tippelt , German soccer player
• April 12 : Lothar Kobluhn , German soccer player († 2019 )
• April 12th : Michael Otto , CEO of Otto-Versand
• April 14 : Ferfried Prince von Hohenzollern , German nobleman and lawyer
• April 15 : Mariann Fischer Boel , Danish politician
• April 15th : Toine Hezemans , Dutch racing car driver
• April 16 : Gerd Leo Kuck , German theater director, dramaturge and director
• April 16 : Dave Peverett , English blues and hard rock musician († 2000 )
• April 16 : Jorge Pítari , Argentine tango composer
• April 16 : Sebastião Tapajós Pena Marcião , Brazilian guitarist and composer
• April 17th : James Curnow , American composer and professor
• April 17 : Jürgen Dueball , German chess and bridge player († 2002 )
• April 17th : Roy Estrada , American rock singer and bassist
• April 18 : Alejandro Núñez Allauca , Peruvian composer
• April 18 : Günter Bartusch , German motorcycle racer († 1971 )
• April 19 : Claus Theo Gärtner , German actor
• April 19 : Gudrun Reinboth , German writer
• April 19 : Hilde De Ridder-Symoens , Belgian historian
• April 19 : Bela Toth , Italian chess player
• April 20 : John Eliot Gardiner , British conductor and choirmaster
• April 20 : Edie Sedgwick , American actress († 1971 )
• April 21 : Reiner Arntz , German linguist († 2012 )
• April 22nd : Janet Evanovich , American writer
• April 22nd : Gerhard Prinzing , German ski racer († 2018 )
• April 23 : Danish Standard Shaagi Sereeter , Mongolian wrestler
• April 23 : Paul Smart , British motorcycle racer
• April 23 : Hervé Villechaize , French actor († 1993 )
• April 23 : Jürgen Vocke , German lawyer, hunting official and politician
• April 24th : Dick Matena , Dutch comic artist and author
• April 24 : Shlemon Warduni , Iraqi auxiliary bishop in Baghdad
• April 24th : Işın Yalçınkaya , Turkish archaeologist
• April 25 : Angelo Anquilletti , Italian football player († 2015 )
• April 25 : Tony Christie , British pop singer
• April 26 : Ina Albowitz , German politician
• April 26th : Dominik Cardinal Duka , Archbishop of Prague
  

  Dominik Cardinal Duka, 2014
• April 26 : Leon Pownall , Canadian actor († 2006 )
• April 26 : Gary Wright , American musician
• April 26 : Peter Zumthor , Swiss architect
• April 27 : Helmut Marko , Austrian racing car driver
• April 27 : Freddie Waits , American jazz drummer († 1989 )
• April 28 : Jacques Dutronc , French chansonnier and actor
• April 28 : Bob Siebert , American composer and jazz musician
• April 28 : Jeffrey Tate , British conductor († 2017 )
• April 29 : Bernd Altenstein , German sculptor and university lecturer
• April 29th : Almuth Berger , German pastor in the GDR
• April 29 : Ian Kershaw , English historian (Hitler biographer)
• April 29 : Klaus Grawe , psychological psychotherapist († 2005 )
• April 29th : Margrit Spielmann , German politician
• April 30 : Frederick Chiluba , second President of Zambia 1991–2002 († 2011 )
• April 30 : David Zane Mairowitz , European-American writer
• April 30 : Bobby Vee , American rock 'n' roll and pop singer († 2016 )

May

• 0May 1st : Mohamed Askari , Egyptian musician, ethnomusicologist and music teacher
• 0May 1 : Claude Auclair , French comic artist († 1990 )
• 0May 1st : Franziskus Eisenbach , titular bishop of Sigo and auxiliary bishop emeritus of Mainz
• 0May 1 : Willi Kraus , German soccer player († 2008 )
• 0May 1st : María Orán , Spanish singer and vocal teacher († 2018 )
• 0May 2 : Mickey Bass , American jazz musician
• 0May 2nd : John Goss , Australian racing car driver
• 0May 2nd : Manfred Schnelldorfer , German figure skater and Olympic champion
• 0May 3 : Louis Frommelt , Liechtenstein sports shooter († 2005 )
• 0May 4 : Georgi Asparukhov , Bulgarian football player († 1971 )
• 0May 5th : Michael Palin , British actor and singer
• 0May 5th : Andy Roxburgh , Scottish football coach
• 0May 5 : Carlos Trillo , Argentinian comic book writer († 2011 )
• 0May 6 : Andreas Baader , German terrorist, co-founder of the RAF († 1977 )
• 0May 6 : Wolfgang Reinhardt , German athlete († 2011 )
• 0May 7 : Peter Carey , Australian writer
• 0May 8 : Pat Barker , English writer and historian
• 0May 8 : Tomas von Brömssen , Swedish actor
• 0May 9 : Emile Ardolino , American film director, film producer and stage actor († 1993 )
• 0May 9 : Ove Grahn , Swedish football player († 2007 )
• 0May 9 : Heinrich Traublinger , German politician
• May 10 : Andrzej Badeński , Polish athlete († 2008 )
• May 10 : Wolfgang Porsche , Austrian automobile manager
• May 11 : Dieter Böhmdorfer , Austrian Minister of Justice
• May 11th : Nancy Greene , Canadian ski racer
  

  Nancy Greene, 2000
• May 12 : Michael Ahlt , German lawyer († 2016 )
• May 12th : Jacky Haran , French racing car driver
• May 13 : Kurt Trampedach , Danish painter and sculptor († 2013 )
• May 14 : Jack Bruce , British rock musician († 2014 )
• May 14 : Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson , President of the Republic of Iceland
• May 14 : Tania León , Cuban composer, conductor and music teacher
• May 15 : Dieter Spöri , German politician
• May 16 : Elizabeth Kay Andrews , British politician
• May 16 : Daniel Coats , American politician
• May 17th : Joanna Bruzdowicz , Polish composer
• May 17th : Anne-Charlotte Verney , French racing car driver
• May 17 : John Warren , Australian soccer player († 2004 )
• May 17 : Valentina Alexejewna Vinogradowa , Soviet-Russian national volleyball player († 2002 )
• May 18 : Jacques-Pierre Amette , French writer
• May 18 : Daniel Frank Austin , American botanist († 2015 )
• May 18 : Helmut Haussmann , German politician
• May 18th : Gennadi Sosonko , Dutch chess player
• May 18 : Willy Wimmer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• May 19 : John Mills-Cockell , Canadian composer
• May 19 : Rafael Rodríguez Díaz , Salvadoran poet, essayist, literary critic and university professor
• May 21 : Carlo Andreotti , Italian politician, lawyer and journalist
• May 22nd : Kurt Bendlin , German athlete
• May 22nd : Gesine Schwan , German political scientist
• May 22 : Betty Williams , Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Peace Activist († 2020 )
• May 23 : Heidrun Abromeit , German political scientist
• May 23 : Gunnar Folke Schuppert , German lawyer and administrative scientist
• May 23 : Béla Ternovszky , Hungarian animator and director
• May 24th : Héctor Rubén Aguer , Argentine Archbishop
• May 24 : Svend Auken , Danish social democratic politician († 2009 )
• May 24th : Gerd Gies , German politician, Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt
• May 24th : Klaus Stoll , German double bass player and university professor
• May 25 : Jessi Colter , American country singer
• May 26th : Max Mamers , French racing driver and motorsport official
• May 26th : Erica Terpstra , Dutch swimmer, State Secretary and Member of Parliament
• May 27 : Cilla Black , British singer and television entertainer († 2015 )
• May 27 : Eva , German chanson singer († 2020 )
• May 29 : Burkhard Glaetzner , German oboist and conductor
• May 29 : Klaus Haupt , German politician
• May 30 : Gale Sayers , American football player
• May 31 : Jonis Agee , American writer
• May 31 : Helge Jung , German composer and musician († 2013 )
• May 31 : Antje Vollmer , German politician, Vice-President of the German Bundestag

June

• 0June 2nd : Graham Bonney , British pop singer
• 0June 2 : Blinky Palermo , German painter († 1977 )
• 0June 2nd : Udo Röhrig , German handball player and trainer
• 0June 2 : Crescenzio Sepe , Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal
• 0June 2 : László Sillai , Hungarian wrestler († 2007 )
• 0June 3 : Ronald Aspery , British fusion musician († 2003 )
• 0June 3 : Billy Cunningham , American basketball player and coach
• 0June 3 : Frieder Gadesmann , German Protestant theologian a. Educator († 2014 )
• 0June 4 : Salomon Korn , Chairman of the Board of the Frankfurt Jewish Community, Vice-President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
• 0June 4th : Gladys Rodríguez , Puerto Rican actress
• 0June 5 : Jaak Panksepp , Estonian-American psychologist and university professor († 2017 )
• 0June 6th : Hans Peter Duerr , German ethnologist and cultural history researcher
• 0June 6 : Klaus Mangold , German manager
• 0June 8 : William Calley , American officer
• 0June 8 : Willie Davenport , American athlete and Olympic champion († 2002 )
• 0June 8 : Roger Fouts , American psychologist, anthropologist, and behaviorist
• 0June 8th : Penny Rimbaud , English musician, producer, sound engineer, sound designer and writer
• 0June 8th : Herbert Schmalstieg , former Lord Mayor of the state capital Hanover
• 0June 9 : Kenny Barron , American jazz pianist
• 0June 9 : Joe Haldeman , American science fiction writer
• 0June 9 : Charles Saatchi , British art collector, founder of the Saatchi Gallery
• June 10 : Peter Kurzck , German writer († 2013 )
• June 10 : Volker Wahl , German archivist and historian
• June 11 : Johann Kurzbauer , Austrian politician († 2019 )
• June 11 : Walter Zuber , German politician († 2014 )
• June 13 : Emilio Ambasz , American industrial designer and architect
• June 13 : Hinnerk Fock , German politician
• June 13 : Ludwig Güttler , German trumpeter
• June 13 : Malcolm McDowell , English actor
• June 13 : Jim Tucker , American politician
• June 14 : Piet Keizer , Dutch football player († 2017 )
• June 14th : Jeanine Meerapfel , Argentinian-German film director, screenwriter and film lecturer
• June 14th : Maja Stolle , Swiss actress
• June 15 : Johnny Hallyday , French singer, songwriter and actor († 2017 )

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

• June 15 : Poul Nyrup Rasmussen , Danish politician
• June 16 : Alfred Grimm , German object artist, painter and draftsman
• June 16 : Heiner Keupp , German social psychologist and professor
• June 17 : Newt Gingrich , American politician
• June 17 : Barry Manilow , American singer
• June 17 : Burt Rutan , American aerospace engineer, entrepreneur
• June 17th : Fritz Teufel , fun revolutionary during the student movement in Berlin († 2010 )
• June 18 : Frédéric von Anhalt , German-American entrepreneur
• June 18 : Matti Ilmari Aura , Finnish politician († 2011 )
• June 18 : Klaus-Peter Köhler , German politician
• June 20 : Ursula Engelen-Kefer , Deputy Chairwoman of the DGB
• June 21 : Achim-Bernd Andexer , German doctor
• June 21 : Beat Fehr , Swiss racing driver († 1967 )
• June 21 : Prince Leopold of Bavaria , racing driver and descendant of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
• June 21 : Manfred Jürgen Matschke , German economist
• June 22nd : Emile Antony , Luxembourg soccer player
• June 22nd : Klaus Maria Brandauer , Austrian actor and director
• June 22nd : Simo Lampinen , Finnish rally driver
• June 22nd : Marita Lange , German athlete
• June 23 : Robert Aspöck , Austrian lawyer and politician († 2018 )

Vinton Cerf, 2010

• June 23 : Vinton G. Cerf , American computer scientist, is considered one of the fathers of the Internet
• June 23 : Paul Kersten , German writer and radio editor († 2020 )
• June 23 : James Levine , American conductor and pianist
• June 23 : Albert Pintat Santolària , Andorran politician and head of government
• June 24th : Juan Carlos Arellano , Uruguayan artist
• June 24 : Frank Lowe , American jazz saxophonist († 2003 )
• June 26 : Georgie Fame , British R&B musician
• June 26 : Allen Strange , American composer, musicologist and musician († 2008 )
• June 27th : Harm Ottenbros , Dutch cyclist
• June 27 : Kira von Prussia , daughter of Louis Ferdinand von Prussia and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillowna († 2004 )
• June 28 : Donald Johanson , American paleoanthropologist, discoverer of Lucy

Klaus von Klitzing

• June 28 : Klaus von Klitzing , German physicist
• June 28 : Ryszard Krynicki , Polish poet, translator of German poetry and publisher
• June 29 : Gerhard Auer , German rower († 2019 )
• June 29 : Little Eva , American singer († 2003 )

Florence Ballard

• June 30 : Florence Ballard , American musician († 1976 )
• June 30th : Dieter Kottysch , German middleweight boxer († 2017 )
• June 30th : Hartmann von der Tann , German journalist

July

• 0July 1st : François Dompierre , Canadian composer
• 0July 1 : Rolf Idler , German theater actor († 2012 )
• 0July 1 : Jeff Wayne , American composer and musician
• 0July 2nd : Walter Godefroot , Belgian cyclist and team boss
• 0July 3 : Ulrich Ammon , German linguist († 2019 )
• 0July 3 : Norman Earl Thagard , American astronaut
• 0July 4th : Conny Bauer , German trombonist
• 0July 4th : Orestes Rodríguez Vargas , Peruvian-Spanish chess grandmaster
• 0July 4th : Heide Simonis , German politician
  

  Heide Simonis, 2011
• 0July 4th : Fred Wesley , American trombonist
• 0July 4th : Alan Wilson , American musician († 1970 )
• 0July 4th : Christoph Zöpel , German politician
• 0July 5th : Robbie Robertson , Canadian rock musician
• 0July 6 : Rodolfo de Anda , Mexican actor, film director and producer († 2010 )
• 0July 6 : Hans-Jürgen Papier , German President of the Federal Constitutional Court
• 0July 7 : Heribert Aigner , Austrian ancient historian († 2015 )
• 0July 7 : Toto Cutugno , Italian songwriter, songwriter and singer
• 0July 7 : Martin Lüttge , German actor and director († 2017 )
• 0July 8 : Francis J. Harvey , American politician
• 0July 8th : Joe Kučera , Czech saxophonist and jazz flutist
• 0July 9 : Gerd Althoff , German historian
• 0July 9 : František Ringo Čech , Czech drummer, singer, songwriter, actor, painter and writer
• 0July 9 : Soledad Miranda , Spanish actress († 1970 )
• July 10 : Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid , Egyptian thinker and Islamic scholar († 2010 )
• July 10 : Arthur Ashe , American tennis player († 1993 )
• July 10 : Chris Lohner , Austrian actress, presenter and author
• July 10 : Ursula Wolff , German actress and voice actress
• July 11 : Peter Dschulnigg , Swiss Roman Catholic theologian († 2011 )
• July 11 : Rolf Stommelen , German Formula 1 racing driver († 1983 )
• July 11 : Karin Ugowski , German actress
• July 12 : Cornelius Johnson , American football player
• July 12 : Christine McVie , British musician, singer and songwriter
• July 13 : Fabrizio Poletti , Italian soccer player
• July 14th : Eldbjørg Løwer , Norwegian politician from Venstre
• July 14 : Katrin Seybold , German filmmaker († 2012 )
• July 15 : Jocelyn Bell Burnell , British radio astronomer
• July 15 : Frank Glaubrecht , German voice actor and actor
• July 15 : Doris Runge , German writer
• July 15 : Franz Schuster , German politician
• July 15 : Billy Truax , American football player
• July 16 : Reinaldo Arenas , Cuban writer († 1990 )
• July 16 : Patricia Churchland , Canadian philosopher
• July 16 : Wolfram Ebersbach , German painter
• July 16 : Ulf Göpfert , German painter and graphic artist
• July 16 : Jimmy Johnson , American football coach
• July 16 : Walter Schenker , Swiss writer († 2018 )
• July 16 : Peter Stasiuk , Canadian Bishop
• July 16 : Verena von Weymarn , general doctor and first woman in the rank of general in the Bundeswehr
• July 17 : Joseph Nanven Garba , Nigerian politician († 2002 )
• July 17th : Ahmed Issa , Chadian athlete († 1983 )
• July 17th : Anselm Prester , German painter
• July 17 : Heinz Viktor Simon , German politician († 2019 )
• July 17th : Robin Smith , British racing car driver and team owner
• July 18 : Gerhard Barkleit , German physicist
• July 18th : Willie Green , British racing car driver
• July 18 : Reinhard Steege , judge at the Federal Social Court
• July 19 : Ursula Seiler-Albring , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• July 20 : Chris Amon , New Zealand racing driver († 2016 )
• July 21 : Peter Gröbner , Austrian chemist and biochemist
• July 23 : Irina Liebmann , German writer
• July 23 : Tony Joe White , American guitarist and singer († 2018 )
• July 24 : Lyudmila Ivanovna Bragina , Russian athlete
• July 24th : Loni von Friedl , Austrian actress
• July 25th : Jim McCarty , British musician
• July 25 : Erika Steinbach , German politician
• July 26th : Mick Jagger , British rock musician
  

  Mick Jagger, 2008
• July 26th : Andrea True , American porn actress and singer († 2011 )
• July 27th : Max Jean , French racing car driver
• July 27 : Aono Sō , Japanese writer
• July 28 : Michael Bernard Bloomfield , American blues guitarist († 1981 )
• July 28 : Bill Bradley , American basketball player and politician
• July 28 : Richard Wright , English musician († 2008 )
• July 29th : Michael Holm , German musician, lyricist and producer
  

  Michael Holm, 2012
• July 29th : Jürg Jegge , Swiss moderator, educator and writer
• July 29th : Ingrid Krämer-Gulbin , German high diver
• July 30 : Giovanni Goria , Italian politician and Prime Minister († 1994 )
• July 30th : Horst Neißer , German writer, publisher and librarian
• July 30 : Willi Vallendar , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Administrative Court
• July 31 : William Bennett , American politician
• July 31 : Lobo , American singer and songwriter
• July 31 : Friedrich Roderfeld , German athlete and Olympic participant
• July 31 : Hagen Schulze , German historian († 2014 )

August

• 0August 1st : Angela Schmid , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 0August 2nd : Dirk H. Dau , judge at the Federal Social Court a. D.
• 0August 2 : Rainer Nägele , American literary scholar
• 0August 2nd : Oliver Seraphin , Dominican businessman, politician and Prime Minister
• 0August 2 : Max Wright , American actor († 2019 )
• 0August 3 : Steven Millhauser , American writer
• 0August 4th : Barbara Saß-Viehweger , German politician
• 0August 4th : Gerd Tenzer , German manager and association official
• 0August 4th : Bjørn Wirkola , Norwegian ski jumper
• 0August 5th : José Evangelista , Canadian composer
• 0August 5th : Leo Kinnunen , Finnish racing driver († 2017 )
• 0August 5 : Sammi Smith , American singer († 2005 )
• 0August 6 : Michael Anderson Jr. , British actor
• 0August 6 : Alfred Kohler , Austrian historian
• 0August 6th : Helmut Pfleger , German chess player
• 0August 6 : Jonathan Postel , Internet pioneer († 1998 )
• 0August 6th : Johannes Siegrist , Swiss medical sociologist with a chair in Düsseldorf
• 0August 7th : Luz Leskowitz , Austrian violinist and lecturer
• 0August 7 : Franz Josef Wagner , German tabloid journalist
• 0August 8 : Daniel Börtz , Swedish composer
• 0August 8 : Esma Redžepova , Macedonian singer († 2016 )
• 0August 9 : Danielle Gaubert , French actress († 1987 )
• 0August 9 : Joe Handley , Canadian politician
• 0August 9 : Lubomir Kavalek , American chess grandmaster
• 0August 9 : Margrit Schlankardt , German politician
• 0August 9 : Bernhard C. Wintzek , German publicist († 2018 )
• August 10 : Gisela Ehrensperger , Swiss opera singer
• August 10 : Ronnie Spector , American singer
• August 11 : Pervez Musharraf , President of Pakistan
• August 11 : Axel Th. Simon , German entrepreneur, brewer († 2018 )
• August 12th : Herta Däubler-Gmelin , German politician
• August 12 : Christoph Grimm , German politician
• August 13 : Paul Alger , German soccer player
• August 13 : Geoff Muldaur , American folk singer
• August 13 : Gottfried Veit , South Tyrolean regional music director
• August 13 : Walter Villa , Italian motorcycle racer († 2002 )
• August 14 : Herbert Exenberger , Austrian librarian and publicist († 2009 )
• August 14th : Herman Van Springel , Belgian cyclist
• August 14 : Wolf Wondratschek , German writer
• August 15 : Barbara Bouchet , German-American actress
• August 15th : María Rojo , Mexican actress and senator
• August 17th : Christian Kluttig , German conductor, pianist and university professor
• August 17th : Marion Maerz , German pop singer

Robert De Niro, 2008

• August 17 : Robert De Niro , American actor and producer
• August 17th : Marion Maerz , German pop singer
• August 17th : Dave "Snaker" Ray , American blues singer and guitarist († 2002 )
• August 18 : Karin Burneleit , GDR athlete
• August 18 : Edwin Hawkins , American gospel musician († 2018 )
• August 18 : Manuela , German pop singer († 2001 )
• August 18 : Gianni Rivera , Italian football player
• August 18 : Roberto Rosato , Italian football player († 2010 )
• August 18 : Carl Wayne , British singer and actor († 2004 )
• August 19 : Bruce Arnold Ackerman , American philosopher
• August 19th : Don Fardon , British pop singer
• August 20 : Jorge Arriagada , Chilean composer
• August 21 : Perry Christie , Prime Minister of the Bahamas
• August 22nd : Nahas Angula , Namibian politician
• August 23 : Raúl Cubas Grau , President of Paraguay
• August 23 : Nelson DeMille , American writer

Pino Presti in Munich

• August 23 : Pino Presti , Italian bassist, arranger, composer, orchestra leader and music producer
• August 23 : Makoto Satō , Japanese theater director and playwright
• August 24 : John Cipollina , American rock musician, guitarist († 1989 )
• August 25 : Gunter Berger , German actor († 2015 )
• August 25 : Spartaco Dini , Italian racing car driver († 2019 )
• August 25 : Niles Eldredge , American biologist
• August 25 : Günter "Baby" Sommer , German drummer and percussionist
• August 26 : Angelika Mechtel , German writer († 2000 )
• August 26 : Tadeusz Nalepa , Polish guitarist, composer and singer († 2007 )
• August 26 : Hagen Wend , German New Apostolic clergyman
• August 27 : Bob Kerrey , American politician

Wolfgang Nordwig, 1965

• August 27 : Wolfgang Nordwig , German pole vaulter and Olympic champion
• August 27 : Tuesday Weld , American actress
• August 28 : Gerd Pieper , German entrepreneur
• August 28 : Branislav Sloboda , Slovak-German forest scientist, mathematician and computer scientist
• August 28 : David Soul , American actor and singer
• August 28 : Julio Viera , Argentine composer and music teacher
• August 28 : Frithjof Vierock , German actor
• August 29 : Joachim Cochlovius , Evangelical Lutheran theologian
• August 30 : Robert Crumb , artist, illustrator, and comic book artist
• August 30th : Jean-Claude Killy , French ski racer
• August 30 : David Maslanka , American composer and music teacher († 2017 )

September

• 0September 1st : Gerhard Aigner , German football official
• 0September 2nd : Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin , German soccer player
• 0September 3 : Dieter Mietz , German soccer player
• 0September 3 : Heinz Dieter Paul , German composer and conductor
• 0September 3 : Dagmar Schipanski , German scientist and politician
• 0September 3 : Moritz Suter , Swiss entrepreneur and pilot
• 0September 4th : Giuseppe Gentile , Italian athlete
• 0September 5th : Aloys Lenz , German politician, MdL
• 0September 6th : Roger Waters , British musician of the rock group Pink Floyd
• 0September 7th : Gloria Gaynor , American disco singer
• 0September 7th : Friedemann Kupsa , Austrian cellist
• 0September 7th : Lena Valaitis , Lithuanian-German pop singer
• 0September 8th : Wolfgang Gehrcke , German politician
• 0September 9 : Peter Dreßen , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0September 9 : Jürgen Gosch , German theater director († 2009 )
• 0September 9 : Erika Lotz , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• September 10 : Jochen Feldhoff , German handball player
• September 10 : Horst-Dieter Höttges , German football player
• September 10 : Arturo Sudbrack Jamardo , Brazilian pianist († 2019 )
• September 11th : Mickey Hart , American drummer and percussionist
• September 11 : Vitaly Komar , American artist
• September 11th : Dieter Schubert , German rower
• September 12 : Kurt Demmler , German songwriter and lyricist of many GDR rock bands († 2009 )
• September 12 : Hiroaki Kuwahara , Japanese composer and professor
• September 12 : François Marthouret , French actor
• September 12 : Maria Muldaur , American folk, country, jazz and blues singer
• September 12 : Ralph Neely , American football player
• September 12 : Michael Ondaatje , Canadian writer
• September 13th : Jean-Marie Alméras , French racing driver and racing team owner
• September 13 : Åke Arne Gunder Andersson , Swedish writer and cultural journalist
• September 13 : Luis Eduardo Aute , Spanish poet, songwriter, painter and filmmaker († 2020 )
• September 13 : Bernd Nielsen , German handball player († 2003 )
• September 14 : Ken Sasaki , Japanese pianist († 1991 )
• September 15 : Shin'ichirō Ikebe , Japanese composer
• September 16 : Oskar Lafontaine , German politician
  

  Oskar Lafontaine, 2005
• September 16 : Klaus Uwe Ludwig , German church musician († 2019 )
• September 16 : Heiko Thieme , German-American portfolio manager
• September 16 : Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter , Evangelical Lutheran bishop
• September 19 : Alard von Arnim , German politician († 2014 )
• September 19 : Christl Haas , Austrian ski racer († 2001 )
• September 20 : Sani Abacha , general and military dictator of Nigeria († 1998 )
• September 20 : Tommy Nobis , American football player († 2017 )
• September 21 : Ludwig Georg Braun , President of the DIHK
• September 21 : Ilse Falk , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• September 21 : Klaus Kordon , German writer
• September 22nd : Ralph James Quincy Adams , American historian
• September 22nd : Benedetta Barzini , Italian photo model
• September 22nd : Paul Hoffert , Canadian composer, pianist, vibraphonist and music teacher
• September 23 : Remo Angioli , Italian film producer
• September 23 : Gaby Dohm , Austrian television actress
• September 23 : Julio Iglesias , Spanish singer
  

  Julio Iglesias, 2007
• September 23 : Lino Oviedo , Paraguayan general and commander in chief († 2013 )
• September 24th : Hannelore Soup , German athlete
• September 24 : Antonio Tabucchi , Italian author and literary scholar († 2012 )
• September 25 : Lee William Aaker , American actor
• September 25 : Willi Entenmann , German soccer player and coach († 2012 )
• September 25 : Robert Gates , US Secretary of Defense
• September 25 : Robert Walden , American actor
• September 26 : Helga Lippelt , German writer
• September 26 : Brigitte Schulte , German politician
• September 27 : Randolph Charles Bachman , Canadian rock musician
• September 27 : Walter Riester , German politician
• September 27th : Liisa Suihkonen , Finnish cross-country skier
• September 28th : Win Percy , British racing driver
• September 28 : Nick St. Nicholas , German-Canadian musician
• September 28 : James Patrick Walsh , American actor († 1998 )
• September 28 : Ursula Werner , German actress
• September 29 : Art Eggleton , Canadian politician
• September 29th : Holk Freytag , German director
• September 29 : Michaela Geiger , German politician († 1998 )
• September 29th : Wolfgang Overath , German soccer player
• September 29 : Lech Wałęsa , Polish union leader and politician
  

  Lech Wałęsa, 2009
• September 29 : Theo Windges , German artist
• September 30th : Emidio Campi , Italian-Swiss Reformed theologian

October

• 0October 1st : Jean-Jacques Annaud , French director
• 0October 1st : Rolf Berend , MEP of the CDU for Thuringia
• 0October 1 : José Santacruz Londoño , Colombian drug dealer, co-founder of the Cali cartel († 1996 )
• 0October 2 : Joachim Hermann Luger , German actor
• 0October 2nd : Eduardo Serra , Portuguese-French cameraman
• 0October 2nd : Paul Van Himst , Belgian football player and coach
• 0October 3 : Jeremiasz Anchimiuk , Archbishop of the Polish Orthodox Church († 2017 )
• 0October 3 : Jean-Paul Bonnaire , French actor († 2013 )
• 0October 4th : Owen Davidson , Australian tennis player
• 0October 4th : Joachim Radkau , German historian
• 0October 4th : Buddy Roemer , American politician
• 0October 5 : Maciej Paderewski , Polish pianist and music teacher († 2010 )
• 0October 5th : Inna Tschurikowa , Russian actress
• 0October 6th : Ottavio Bianchi , Italian football player and coach
• 0October 6 : Jürgen Johannesdotter , regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church Schaumburg-Lippe
• 0October 6 : Joachim Walther , German writer († 2020 )
• 0October 6 : Udo Zimmermann , German composer, director and conductor
• 0October 8 : Wolfgang Lakenmacher , German handball player and coach
• 0October 8 : RL Stine , American children's author
• 0October 8th : Wolfgang Ziegler , German rock and pop singer and composer
• 0October 9 : Barbara Beuys , German writer
• 0October 9 : Renato Cappellini , Italian football player
• October 10 : Denis Komivi Amuzu-Dzakpah , Togolese Archbishop
• October 10 : Reinhard Libuda , German soccer player († 1996 )
• October 10 : Ursula Staack , German actress, singer and cabaret artist
• October 11 : Geert van Keulen , Dutch composer, conductor, clarinetist and music teacher
• October 11 : John Nettles , British actor
  

  John Nettles
• October 11 : Thomas Wachweger , German artist († 2015 )
• October 11 : Heinz Wässle , neurologist, director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
• October 12 : Elisabeth Altmann , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• October 12 : Odd Einar Dørum , Norwegian politician
• October 12 : Köbi Kuhn , Swiss soccer coach and soccer player († 2019 )
• October 12th : Peter Ostermeyer , German chess master
• October 12 : Heinrich Pachl , German cabaret artist, actor, author and filmmaker († 2012 )
• October 12 : Bertil Roos , Swedish racing car driver († 2016 )
• October 12 : Lin Shaye , American actress
• October 13 : Rick Boyer , American writer
• October 13 : Peter Sauber , Swiss team manager and founder of Sauber-Petronas
• October 13 : Anne Wibble , Swedish politician and finance minister († 2000 )
• October 14 : Mohammad Chātami , Iranian politician and president
• October 14 : Anthony Iannaccone , American composer and music educator
• October 14 : Franz Jarnach , German musician and actor († 2017 )
• October 14th : Wolfgang Peiner , German politician
• October 17th : Christian Brückner , German voice actor, voiceover and audio book interpreter
• October 17th : Phelps "Catfish" Collins , American guitarist († 2010 )
• October 17 : Susan Davenny-Wyner , American singer and conductor
• October 18 : Andrej Bajuk , Slovenian politician († 2011 )
• October 18 : Hagen Kluck , German politician
• October 20 : Micky , Spanish pop singer and actor
• October 20 : Madeleine Schickedanz , German entrepreneur
• October 20th : Elżbieta Sikora , Polish composer
• October 20 : Carlo von Tiedemann , German actor and television presenter
  

  Carlo von Tiedemann, 2010
• October 22nd : Blas Emilio Atehortúa , Colombian composer († 2020 )
• October 22nd : Jan de Bont , Dutch cameraman, film director and film producer
• October 22 : Catherine Deneuve , French actress
  

  Catherine Deneuve, 2000
• October 22nd : Urszula Dudziak , Polish jazz singer
• October 22 : Hans Hartz , German singer and songwriter († 2002 )
• October 22 : Wolfgang Thierse , German politician, President of the Bundestag 1998–2005
• October 23 : Jorge Arbeleche , Uruguayan writer, essayist and lecturer
• October 23 : Walter Höflechner , Austrian historian
• October 24th : Fritz Näf , Swiss conductor
• October 24th : Seppo Paakkunainen , Finnish jazz saxophonist and composer
• October 24th : Carlo Senoner , Italian ski racer
• October 24th : Theodor Stolojan , Romanian politician
• October 25 : Heinz-Joachim Weber , German media manager
• October 26 : João Casimiro Namorado de Aguiar , Portuguese writer († 2010 )
• October 26 : Toni Gruber , German motorcycle racer
• October 27 : Carmen Argenziano , American actor († 2019 )
• October 27 : Roland Schäfer , German actor and director
• October 28 : Cornelia Froboess , German actress and pop singer
  

  Cornelia Froboess, 1962
• October 28 : Jürgen Lang , German Romance studies and university professor
• October 29 : Sigi Busch , German jazz bassist and university professor
• October 29 : Ishmael Noko , Zimbabwean Lutheran theologian
• October 30 : Hans-Peter Gensichen , German Protestant theologian († 2019 )

November

• 0November 1st : Salvatore Adamo , Belgian musician, songwriter and pop singer
• 0November 1st : Jacques Attali , French economist
• 0November 1st : Alfio Rúben Basile , Argentine soccer player and soccer coach
• 0November 1 : Tom Mack , American football player
• 0November 3 : Tee Corinne , American photographer and artist († 2006 )
• 0November 3 : Bernd Faulenbach , German historian
• 0November 3rd : Bert Jansch , British folk singer and guitarist († 2011 )
• 0November 4 : Leif Erland Andersson , Swedish astronomer († 1979 )
• 0November 4 : Ingeborg Schäuble , chairwoman of the board of Deutsche Welthungerhilfe
• 0November 5 : Mariano Etkin , Argentine composer and music teacher († 2016 )
• 0November 5 : Sam Shepard , American playwright and actor († 2017 )
• 0November 6 : Gert J. Hödl , Austrian ice and sand artist († 2017 )
• 0November 6 : Sasha Sokolov , Russian writer
• 0November 7th : Silvia Cartwright , Governor General of New Zealand
• 0November 7 : Stephen Greenblatt , American literary scholar
• 0November 7th : Joni Mitchell , Canadian musician and painter
• 0November 7th : Bert Rürup , professor of economics and economist
• 0November 7 : Michael Spence , American economist
• 0November 8 : Rainer Witt , German journalist, radio reporter, television presenter, writer, cabaret artist and gallery owner († 2014 )
• 0November 9 : Michael Kunze , German songwriter, writer and librettist
• 0November 9 : Günther Tietjen , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1993 )
• November 11th : Peter Bernhard , Swiss racing driver
• November 11th : Uwe Kröger , German television journalist
• November 12 : Björn Waldegård , Swedish rally driver († 2014 )
• November 13 : Detlev Albers , German political scientist and politician († 2008 )
• November 13 : Roberto Boninsegna , Italian football player
• November 13 : Włodzimierz Korcz , Polish composer
• November 14 : Rafael Leonardo Callejas , Honduran economist and politician († 2020 )
• November 14 : Jim Cantalupo , head of the McDonald's restaurant company († 2004 )
• November 14 : Miklós Maros , Hungarian composer
• November 14th : Peter Norton , American software developer and entrepreneur
• November 14 : Brigitte Woggon , German psychiatrist and specialist journalist († 2019 )
• November 17 : Herbert Adamec , Austrian actor and director († 2009 )
• November 17th : Axel Schultes , German architect and urban planner
• November 17th : Gerhard Vollmer , German physicist and philosopher
• November 18 : Wilfried Micke , German table tennis player († 2018 )
• November 18 : Cardinal Leonardo Sandri , Cardinal Curia of the Roman Catholic Church
• November 20 : Roberto Octavio Balmori Cinta , Roman Catholic Bishop of Ciudad Valles
• November 20 : Suze Rotolo , American artist († 2011 )
• November 21 : Viktor Sidjak , Soviet saber fencer and four-time Olympic champion
• November 22 : Jörg Hube , German actor, director and cabaret artist († 2009 )
• November 22nd : Billie Jean King , American tennis player
• November 22 : William Kotzwinkle , American writer
• November 22nd : Alexander Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn , German entrepreneur
• November 23 : Günther Beckstein , German politician, Bavarian Minister of the Interior, Bavarian Prime Minister
  

  Günther Beckstein, 2012
• November 23 : Eberhard Feik , German actor († 1994 )
• November 24 : Richard Tee , American pianist, organist and arranger († 1993 )
• November 25 : Dante M. Caputo , Argentine politician († 2018 )
• November 25 : Gerard Mortier , Belgian artistic director and festival director († 2014 )
• November 25th : Jerry Portnoy , American blues musician
• November 26th : Pierre Antoniucci , French painter
• November 26 : Juan Antonio Giménez López , Argentinian comic artist († 2020 )
• November 26 : Bruce Paltrow , American film and television producer († 2002 )
• November 27th : Jil Sander , German fashion designer
• November 28 : Robert Paul Brenner , American historian
• November 28 : RB Greaves , American singer and songwriter († 2012 )
• November 28 : Alexander Knaifel , Russian cellist and composer
• November 28 : Randy Newman , American singer / songwriter, pianist, and composer
• November 29 : Dirk Fischer , German politician
• November 30th : William Dear , Canadian film director, screenwriter, and film producer
• November 30th : Andreas Grothusen , German actor
• November 30th : Terrence Malick , American screenwriter, director, and film producer
• November 30 : Joel Shatzky , American writer and literature professor († 2020 )
• November 30th : Ulay , German performance artist († 2020 )
• November: Hiroe Amano , Japanese badminton player

December

• 0December 1 : Wolf-Rüdiger Eisentraut , German architect
• 0December 1st : Ortrun Enderlein , German luge athlete
• 0December 1 : Evelyn Gressmann , German actress, voice actress († 2018 )
• 0December 1 : Manfred Weiß , private of the border troops of the GDR († 1962 )
• 0December 2 : Steve Rubell , founder of the New York discotheque Studio 54 († 1989 )
• 0December 2nd : Thomas Zaunschirm , German art scholar
• 0December 4th : Constanze Angerer , German judge and public prosecutor
• 0December 4th : Werner Becker , German musician, arranger and music producer
• 0December 4th : Christine Beckers , Belgian racing car driver
• 0December 4th : Björn-Hergen Schimpf , German television presenter
• 0December 4th : Volker Storch , German zoologist
• 0December 6th : Keith West , British singer
• 0December 7th : Jürgen Walter , German singer and composer
• 0December 8 : Jim Morrison , American rock singer and lyric poet († 1971 )
• 0December 8th : Bodo Tümmler , German athlete
• 0December 8 : Mary Woronov , American actress
• 0December 9 : Michael Krüger , German writer, poet, publisher and translator
• 0December 9 : Jimmy Owens , American jazz trumpeter
• December 10 : Bo Emanuelsson , Swedish racing car driver
• December 10th : Bruno Pasquier , French violist
• December 11th : Alain de Benoist , French thought leader of the New Right

John Kerry, 2013

• December 11 : John Kerry , American politician, Senator from Massachusetts
• December 12th : Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts , American guitarist and rock musician
• December 12th : Jerzy Husar , Polish composer and pianist
• December 12th : Ulrich Rüß , German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and pastor

Renate Schmidt, 2009

• December 12th : Renate Schmidt , German politician
• December 13th : Gertraud Jesserer , Austrian film and castle actress
• December 13th : Jutta Lampe , German actress
• December 13 : Johan Reinhard , American archaeologist
• December 13th : Arturo Ripstein , Mexican director, producer and screenwriter
• December 14th : Lydia Huber , German singer of popular music
• December 14th : Monica Pick-Hieronimi , German soprano
• December 15 : Edmundo Luis Flavio Abastoflor Montero , Bolivian Archbishop
• December 16 : Frank Göhre , German writer
• December 17th : Christopher Cazenove , British actor († 2010 )
• December 17th : Gyula Márfi , Hungarian Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Veszprém
• December 17th : Kurt Reusch , German handball coach
• December 17th : Bernhard HF Taureck , German philosopher
• December 18 : Bobby Keys , American musician († 2014 )

Keith Richards, 2008

• December 18 : Keith Richards , British guitarist (The Rolling Stones)
• December 19 : Hans Achatz , Austrian politician and judge († 2017 )
• December 21 : Helga Adler , German woman politician
• December 21 : Albert Lee , British rock guitarist
• December 21 : Jack Nance , American actor († 1996 )
• December 22 : Paul Wolfowitz , American politician, US Deputy Secretary of Defense
• December 23 : Gianni Ambrosio , Italian Bishop of Piacenza-Bobbio
• December 23 : Elizabeth Hartman , American actress († 1987 )
• December 23 : Bárður Jákupsson , Faroese painter, graphic artist and author of art books
• December 23 : Butler Lampson , American computer scientist
• December 23 : Margaret MacMillan , Canadian historian

Silvia of Sweden, 2012

• December 23 : Silvia , wife of the Swedish King Karl XVI. Gustaf
• December 24th : Tarja Halonen , Finnish politician and president
• December 24th : Volker Kriegel , German jazz guitarist and composer as well as cartoonist († 2003 )
• December 24th : Godehard Schramm , German writer, storyteller and radio editor
• December 25th : Bill Bowrey , Australian tennis player
• December 25th : Hans-Peter Greiner , former judge at the Federal Court of Justice. D.
• December 25th : Trevor Lucas , Australian folk singer and guitarist († 1989 )
• December 25th : Hanna Schygulla , German actress
• December 26th : Richard Schröder , German philosopher and theologian
• December 26th : Galsan Tschinag , Turkish speaking Tuva with the rank of chief of the tribe
• December 27th : Georges Bou-Jaoudé Lebanese Archbishop
• December 27th : Joan Manuel Serrat , Catalan singer-songwriter
• December 27th : Stephan Sulke , Swiss singer and composer
• December 28 : Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne , Archbishop of Lima and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• December 28 : Kurt-Dieter Grill , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• December 28 : Siegfried Helias , German politician
• December 28 : Bernard Maury , French jazz pianist, arranger and music teacher († 2005 )
• December 29 : William Martin Aucoin , American manager († 2010 )
• December 30th : Manfred Classen , German soccer player
• December 30th : Frieder Henf , German lawyer
• December 31 : Yawovi Agboyibo , Togolese politician († 2020 )
• December 31 : John Denver , American rhythm singer († 1997 )
• December 31 : Wolfgang Gerhardt , German politician, chairman of the FDP parliamentary group
• December 31 : Horst Heese , German soccer player and soccer coach
• December 31 : Lynzee Klingman , American film editor

Ben Kingsley 2010

• December 31 : Ben Kingsley , British actor
• December: Heide Ackermann , German folk, TV and theater actress
• December: Terry Ackland-Snow , English production designer

Exact date of birth unknown

• Carin Abicht , German actress and radio play speaker
• Christopher Aikman , Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer
• Eric Åkerlund , Swedish writer and teacher
• Ibrahim al-Hamdi , President of the Yemen Arab Republic († 1977 )
• Maktum bin Raschid Al Maktum , Emir of Dubai († 2006 )
• Anton Amann , Austrian sociologist and gerontologist
• Gert Ammann , Austrian art historian
• Atholl John Anderson , New Zealand archaeologist, anthropologist and professor emeritus
• Elijah Anderson , American sociologist and criminologist
• Haskell Vaughn Anderson III. , American film and stage actor
• Arnim André , German actor and voice actor († 2001 )
• Dietrich Andreas , German diplomat
• Heinz Josef Angerlehner , Austrian industrialist and art collector
• Gerd Appenzeller , German journalist
• Vasco Are , Italian artist († 2001 )
• Jesús Hernández Aristu , Spanish social scientist, supervisor and university professor
• Letty Aronson , American film producer
• Davi Arrigucci Júnior , Brazilian author and literary scholar
• Yücel Aşkın , Turkish university director, author and documentary filmmaker
• Hans-Jörg Assmann , German actor
• Mulatu Astatke , Ethiopian musician
• Gerd Aufmkolk , German landscape architect
• Arif Aziz , Azerbaijani artist
• Christian Collum , German church musician
• Christine Evans , English poet
• Razeq Fani , Afghan poet and writer († 2007 )
• Jill Godmilow , American film director and producer
• Alex Hug , Swiss musician
• Sten Ingelf , Swedish composer, jazz musician and music teacher
• Sven-Åke Johansson , Swedish composer, musician, author and visual artist
• Mohammad Rahim Khushnawaz , Afghan rababer († 2011 )
• Winston Mankunku , South African musician († 2009 )
• Jutta Motz , German writer
• Martin Ostertag , German cellist and music teacher
• Michael Palme , German sports journalist († 2010 )
• Franco Patria , Italian racing driver († 1964 )
• Peter Peter , Austrian racing driver and entrepreneur
• Norberto Santana , Dominican painter
• Lothar Schneider , German cartoonist
• Ernesto Soto , Venezuelan racing car driver († 1995 )
• Helmut Tributsch , German natural scientist
• Josef Winiger , Swiss translator and author
• Danny Yung , Chinese artist

Died

January February

• 0January 1 : Arthur Ruppin , Jewish sociologist, Zionist and pioneer in founding the city of Tel Aviv (* 1876 )
• 0January 2 : Max Augustin , Austrian politician (* 1886 )

Nikola Tesla, around 1890

• 0January 7 : Nikola Tesla , inventor and electrical engineer of Serbian origin (* 1856 )
• 0January 9th : Anathon Aall , Norwegian philosopher (* 1867 )
• January 12 : Howard Atwood Kelly , American gynecologist (* 1858 )
• January 12 : Frank A. Perret , American inventor, entrepreneur and volcanologist (* 1867 )
• January 12 : Ferdinando Rodolfi , Italian bishop (* 1866 )
• January 13 : Rudolf Huch , German lawyer and writer (* 1862 )
• January 13 : Sophie Taeuber-Arp , Swiss painter and sculptor (* 1889 )
• January 13 : Else Ury , German writer and children's book author (* 1877 )
• January 14 : Adolf Sandberger , German composer and musicologist (* 1864 )
• January 16 : Maximilian Arnold , German politician (* 1874 )
• January 20 : Don Azpiazú , Cuban band leader (* 1893 )
• January 20 : Giacomo Benvenuti , Italian musicologist and editor, composer and organist (* 1885 )
• January 23 : Duncan Clinch Heyward , American politician (* 1864 )
• January 30th : Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi , French writer, journalist and theater manager (* 1865 )

• 0February 3 : Alois Andritzki , Sorbian Catholic priest and Christian martyr (* 1914 )
• 0February 3 : Rudolf Herzog , German journalist and writer (* 1869 )
• 0February 3 : Otto Schmeil , German botanist, educator and specialist book author (* 1860 )
• 0February 4 : Rudolf Rittner , German actor (* 1869 )
• 0February 5 : Pieter Helbert Damsté , Dutch classical philologist (* 1860 )
• 0February 5 : Joseph Turmel , French theologian and historian (* 1859 )
• 0February 6 : Bogislav von Selchow , German writer and naval officer (* 1877 )
• 0February 8 : Paul Haehling v. Lanzenauer , German general (* 1896 )
• 0February 9 : Gunnar Gundersen , Australian mathematician, university teacher and chess player (* 1882 )
• 0February 9 : Martinus Theodorus Houtsma , Dutch orientalist (* 1851 )
• February 12 : Kurata Hyakuzō , Japanese writer (* 1891 )

David Hilbert, 1912

• February 14 : David Hilbert , German mathematician (* 1862 )
• February 16 : Mildred Harnack , American-German literary scholar, resistance fighter (* 1902 )
• February 19 : Lynne Overman , American actor (* 1887 )
• February 22nd : Dmitri Michejewitsch Melkich , Russian composer (* 1885 )
• February 22nd : Christoph Probst , medical student and member of the White Rose (* 1919 )
• February 22nd : Hans Scholl , resistance fighter against National Socialism (* 1918 )
• February 22nd : Sophie Scholl , resistance fighter of the White Rose (* 1921 )
• February 24 : Bernhard Adelung , German politician (* 1876 )
• February 24 : Walther Kolbe , German ancient historian (* 1876 )
• February 24 : Helene Stöcker , German women's rights activist and pacifist (* 1869 )
• February 25 : Laure Gatet , French Resistance fighter (* 1913 )
• February 27 : Karl Gall , Austrian football player (* 1905 )
• February 27 : Alexander Matrosov , Russian soldier (* 1924 )

Alexandre Yersin

• February 28 : Alexandre Émile Jean Yersin , Swiss-French doctor and bacteriologist (* 1863 )

March April

• 0March 2 : Frank C. Partridge , American politician (* 1861 )
• 0March 3 : Ludwig Leinberger , German football player (* 1903 )
• 0March 4 : Alfred E. Reames , American politician (* 1870 )
• 0March 4 : Ita Wegman , doctor, co-founder of anthroposophically extended medicine (* 1876 )
• 0March 5 : Bedřich Václavek , Czech literary critic and theorist (* 1897 )
• 0March 7th : Alma Moodie , Australian violinist (* 1898 )
• March 10 : Otto Modersohn , German painter (* 1865 )
• March 12 : Karl Heldmann , German historian (* 1869 )
• March 13 : Viktor Klemperer von Klemenau , German banker (* 1876 )
• March 15 : Konrad Hahm , German folklorist (* 1892 )
• March 15 : Karl Schönherr , Austrian playwright (* 1867 )
• March 19 : Abel Decaux , French composer, organist and music teacher (* 1869 )
• March 20 : Arthur von Weinberg , German chemist and honorary citizen of Frankfurt am Main (* 1860 )
• March 25 : Hans von Tschammer und Osten , German Reich Sports Leader (* 1887 )

Sergei Rachmaninov, 1901

• March 28 : Sergei Rachmaninow , Russian pianist, composer and conductor (* 1873 )
• March 30th : Maria Restituta , religious and nurse (* 1894 )
• March: Michaele Helene Aronheim , German benefactress (* 1858 )

• 0April 3 : Conrad Veidt , German actor (* 1893 )
• 0April 4 : Raoul Laparra , French composer (* 1876 )
• 0April 6 : Alexandre Millerand , French President (* 1859 )
• 0April 9 : James Ashcroft , English football goalkeeper (* 1878 )
• April 11th : Daniel Calhoun Roper , American politician (* 1867 )
• April 13 : Oskar Schlemmer , German painter, sculptor and stage designer (* 1888 )
• April 16 : Carlos Arniches y Barrera , Spanish playwright and writer (* 1866 )
• April 16 : Christoph Drollinger , German Protestant clergyman and founder of the Swiss Congregation for Early Christianity (* 1861 )
• April 24th : James Adams , Scottish football player and referee (* 1864 )
• April 24th : Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord , German general and part of the military resistance against Adolf Hitler (* 1878 )
• April 27 : Fanny Starhemberg , Austrian politician (* 1875 )
• April 28 : Rosa Manus , Dutch feminist (* 1881 )
• April 29 : Joseph Isidor Achron , Polish-Lithuanian composer and violinist (* 1886 )
• April 29 : Gustav Adolph Edler von Arthaber , Austrian paleontologist and Triassic stratigraph (* 1864 )
• April 29 : Wilhelm Schlenk , German chemist (* 1879 )
• April 30th : Leo Smit , Dutch composer and pianist (* 1900 )
• April 30th : Beatrice Webb , British socialist (* 1858 )

May June

• 0May 2 : Viktor Lutze , SA Chief of Staff (* 1890 )
• 0May 3 : Harold Arminius Miller , American racing car and engine designer (* 1875 )
• 0May 3 : Eduard Schwyzer , Swiss classical philologist and Indo-Europeanist (* 1874 )
• 0May 4th : Georges Yvan André , French athlete (* 1889 )
• 0May 4th : Wilhelm Middelschulte , German composer and organist (* 1863 )
• 0May 7 : Keith Birlem , American football player and soldier (born 1915 )
• 0May 7 : Jakob Hausheer , Swiss Protestant theologian, linguist and university lecturer (* 1865 )
• 0May 7 : Heinrich Lüders , German orientalist and Indologist (* 1869 )
• 0May 8 : Mordechaj Anielewicz , Polish resistance fighter (* 1919 )
• 0May 8 : Erich Aron , German lawyer, district court director and university professor (* 1857 )
• May 10 : Siegfried Rädel , German politician, KPD member and resistance fighter (* 1893 )
• May 16 : Roy Hall , American old-time musician (* 1907 )
• May 16 : Alfred Hoche , German psychiatrist (* 1865 )
  

  Alfred Hoche
• May 17 : Johanna Elberskirchen , German author and feminist activist (* 1864 )
• May 17 : James Aloysius O'Gorman , American lawyer and politician (* 1860 )
• May 21 : Fritz Arthur Hugo foreigner , German politician (* 1885 )
• May 23 : William Aberhart , Canadian politician and preacher (* 1878 )
• May 26 : Edsel Ford , American industrialist (* 1893 )
• May 27 : Adolf Urban , German football player (* 1914 )

• 0June 1 : Amédée Henri Gustave Noël Gastoué , French musicologist and composer (* 1873 )
• 0June 1 : Leslie Howard , British actor (* 1893 )
• 0June 3 : Nels Nelsen , Canadian-Norwegian ski jumper (* 1894 )
• 0June 4th : Carl Krone , founder of Circus Krone (* 1870 )
• 0June 6th : Guido Fubini , Italian mathematician (* 1879 )
• June 10 : Abd al-Aziz , Sultan of the Alawids in Morocco (* around 1880 )
• June 12 : Hanns Heinz Ewers , German writer (* 1871 )
• June 24th : Otto Rühle , German politician and writer (* 1874 )
• June 24th : Alice Rühle-Gerstel , German writer (* 1894 )

Karl Landsteiner's bronze bust

• June 26 : Karl Landsteiner , Austrian bacteriologist (* 1868 )

July August

• 0July 1 : Willem Johan Cornelis Arondeus , Dutch painter, writer and resistance fighter (* 1894 )
• 0July 1 : Johan Brouwer , Dutch author, Romanist, Hispanicist, translator and resistance fighter (* 1898 )
• 0July 3 : Kurt Friedrich Coelestin Agthe , German genre and landscape painter (* 1862 )
• 04th July : Władysław Sikorski , Polish Prime Minister in exile (plane crash) (* 1881 )
• 0July 5 : Timothy Thomas Ansberry , American lawyer and politician (* 1871 )
• July 10 : Arthur Nevin , American composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1871 )
• July 13 : Alexander Schmorell , co-founder of the White Rose resistance group (* 1917 )
• July 13 : Kurt Huber , member of the White Rose (* 1893 )
• July 14 : Luz Long , German athlete (* 1913 )
• July 16 : Helga Deen , Holocaust victim (* 1925 )
• July 17 : Sepp Amschl , Austrian teacher and composer (* 1878 )
• July 26 : Karl Adam , German lawyer and district chief (* 1899 )
• July 26 : Luis Barros Borgoño , Chilean politician (* 1858 )
• July 28 : Pierre-Macario Saba, Syrian Archbishop of Aleppo (* 1873 )
• July 30th : Anna Croissant-Rust , German writer (* 1860 )
• July 30th : Benjamin Dale , English organist and composer (* 1885 )

• 0August 5 : Liane Berkowitz , German resistance fighter against National Socialism (* 1923 )
• 0August 5th : Cato Bontjes van Beek , German resistance fighter (* 1920 )
• 0August 5th : Hilde Coppi , German resistance fighter (* 1909 )
• 0August 5 : Adam Kuckhoff , German writer, resistance fighter (* 1887 )
• 0August 6 : Hans Gruner , German African explorer and colonial official in Togo (* 1865 )
• 0August 6 : Arthur Knautz , German field handball player (* 1911 )
• 0August 8 : Leon Asher , German physiologist (* 1865)
• August 12 : Kurt Eggers , German writer and Nazi cultural politician (* 1905 )
• August 13 : Jakob Gapp , Austrian priest and resistance fighter against National Socialism (* 1897 )
• August 18 : Hans Jeschonnek , German general (* 1899 )
• August 20th : Rita Arnould , Belgian resistance fighter
• August 21 : Karl Ebermaier , German governor of Cameroon (* 1862 )
• August 21 : Henrik Pontoppidan , Danish writer (* 1857 )
• August 24th : Ernst Anemüller , German philologist, high school professor and librarian (* 1859 )
• August 24th : Simone Weil , French philosopher (* 1909 )
• August 26th : Giulio Aquila , Hungarian functionary (* 1893 )
• August 26th : Ted Ray , famous British professional golfer and two-time major winner (* 1877 )
• August 28 : Boris III. , Tsar of Bulgaria (* 1894 )
• August 30 : Eddy de Neve , Dutch football player (* 1885 )

September October

• 0September 1 : Karl Friedrich Otto Atangana Ntchama , Cameroonian politician (* around 1883 )
• 0September 2 : Wilhelm Geiger , German Indologist and Iranist (* 1856 )
• 0September 3 : Rudolf Mandrella , German lawyer and Nazi opponent (* 1902 )
• 0September 6th : Omar Cáceres , Chilean poet (* 1904 )
• 0September 6 : Dé Kessler , Dutch football player (* 1891 )
• 0September 6 : Friend Richardson , 25th Governor of California (* 1865 )
• 0September 7th : Karlrobert Kreiten , German pianist (* 1916 )
• 0September 8 : João Gomez de Araújo , Brazilian composer (* 1846 )
• 0September 9 : Charles McLean Andrews , American historian and university professor (* 1863 )
• 0September 9 : Fernand Gabriel , French racing car driver (* 1878 )
• September 11th : Susan Stebbing , British philosopher (* 1885 )
• September 14th : Léonard Misonne , Belgian master of landscape photography (* 1870 )
• September 16 : Carl Abegg , Swiss textile manufacturer (* 1860 )
• September 17th : Stella Agsteribbe , Dutch gymnast (* 1909 )
• September 19 : Alexander Petrovich Apsit , Latvian artist (* 1880 )
• September 21 : Ladislaus Tuszyński , Austrian illustrator, caricaturist and animator (* 1876 )
• September 23 : Lucien Sicotte , Canadian violinist and music teacher (* 1902 )
• September 25 : Josef Albisser , Swiss lawyer and politician (SP) (* 1868 )
• September 25 : Kurt Rosenfeld , German socialist (* 1877 )
• September 27 : Albrecht Adolf Konrad Achilles , German officer (* 1914 )
• September 30th : Naum Aronson , Russian-French sculptor (* 1872 )
• September 30th : Franz Oppenheimer , German sociologist and economist (* 1864 )
• September: Oswald Teichmüller , German mathematician (* 1913 )

• 0October 1 : Algirdas Savickis , Lithuanian painter (* 1917 )
• 0October 2 : Robert Nathaniel Dett , Canadian composer (* 1882 )
• 0October 2 : John William Evans , Australian politician and Prime Minister of Tasmania (* 1855 )
• 0October 3 : Raoul Heinrich Francé , Austrian bionic scientist and natural philosopher (* 1874 )
• 0October 5 : Ludwig von Estorff , German general (* 1859 )
• 0October 7th : Marguerite Radclyffe Hall , British writer (* 1880 )
• 0October 8 : Otto Erler , German playwright (* 1872 )
• 0October 9 : Gerhard Wilhelm Kernkamp , Dutch historian (* 1864 )
• 0October 9 : Pieter Zeeman , Dutch physicist (* 1865 )
• October 10 : Franz Diekamp , Roman Catholic theologian (* 1864 )
• October 10 : Charlotte Salomon , German painter of the Jewish faith (* 1917 )
• October 12 : Willi Graf , member of the White Rose resistance group (* 1918 )
• October 12 : Max Wertheimer , founder of Gestalt theory and Gestalt psychology (* 1880 )
• October 15 : Heinrich Maria von Aretin , German politician (* 1875 )
• October 15 : Stasys Šimkus , Lithuanian composer (* 1887 )
• October 19 : André Antoine , French theater director and film director (* 1858 )
• October 19 : Camille Claudel , French sculptor (* 1864 )
• October 22nd : Josef Venantius von Wöss , Austrian church musician, composer and publisher's editor (* 1863 )
• October 24 : Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau , Canadian poet and essayist (* 1912 )
• October 26 : Bernhard Ankermann , German ethnologist and Africa researcher (* 1859 )
• October 28 : Guillermo Vergara , Chilean painter (* 1890 )
• October 29 : Percy Goetschius , American music theorist and composition teacher (* 1853 )
• October 31 : Albert Borlase Armitage , British polar explorer (* 1864 )
• October 31 : Max Reinhardt , Austrian theater director (* 1873 )

November December

• 0November 5 : Oskar Ameringer , German-American carpenter, musician, editor and politician (* 1870 )
• 0November 5 : Elza Pliekšāne , Latvian poet and playwright (* 1865 )
• 0November 5 : Bernhard Lichtenberg , Catholic theologian (* 1875 )
• 0November 9th : Johann Auinger , Austrian politician (* 1866 )
• November 11th : Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Arning , German medic, colonial politician and politician (* 1865 )
• November 11 : Herbert A. Fricker , Canadian choir director, organist, music teacher and composer (* 1868 )
• November 11 : Henry L. Myers , American politician (* 1862 )
• November 11th : André Pirro , French musicologist (* 1869 )
• November 12th : Agnes Bluhm , German doctor (* 1862 )
• November 19 : Georg Hermann , German writer (* 1871 )
• November 21 : Ernst zu Reventlow , German naval officer, writer and politician (* 1869 )
• November 22nd : Pietro Yon , Italian-American organist and composer (* 1886 )
• November 23 : Wilhelm von Arnim-Lützlow , German author (* 1879 )
• November 23 : Bruno Satori-Neumann , German theater scholar (* 1886 )
• November 23 : Torolf Voss , Norwegian composer and conductor (* 1877 )
• November 26 : Charles GD Roberts , Canadian poet and writer (* 1860 )
• November 28 : Arthur Catterall , English violinist, conductor and music teacher (* 1883 )

• 0December 1 : Amos Arbor , Canadian ice hockey player (* 1895 )
• 0December 2 : Berthold Maurenbrecher , German classical philologist (* 1868 )
• 0December 2 : Johan Nordahl Grieg , Norwegian writer, poet, playwright and journalist (* 1902 )
• 0December 3 : Henryk Trzonek , Polish violist (* 1912 )
• 0December 4 : Otto Arpke , German painter, illustrator and commercial artist (* 1886 )
• 0December 4th : Paul Felix Atenstädt , German classical philologist and grammar school teacher (* 1866 )
• 0December 4th : Carlo Mierendorff , German socialist and resistance fighter (* 1897 )
• 0December 9 : Georges Dufrénoy , French painter (* 1870 )
• December 12th : Henri Abraham , French physicist (* 1868 )

John Harvey Kellogg, around 1910

• December 14th : John Harvey Kellogg , American entrepreneur and inventor (* 1852 )
• December 18 : Alfred Roßner , German entrepreneur and rescuer of Jews (* 1906 )
• December 19 : Otto Barblan , Swiss composer, organist and music teacher (* 1860 )
• December 19 : Carl Busch , American composer (* 1862 )
• December 20 : Anita Augspurg , German women's rights activist (* 1857 )
• December 21 : Nicola Moscardelli , Italian writer, journalist and literary critic (* 1894 )
• December 22nd : Beatrix Potter , English children's book author (* 1866 )
• December 22nd : Heinrich Pudor , German publicist and pioneer of nudism in Germany (* 1865 )
• December 26 : Paul B. Johnson Sr. , American politician (* 1880 )
• December 28 : Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg , Austrian classical philologist and Germanist (* 1884 )
• December 29 : Martin Faßbender , German professor, publicist and politician (* 1856 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Zygmunt Andrychiewicz , Polish painter (* 1861 )
• Wassili Iwanowitsch Anutschin , Russian ethnographer and journalist (* 1875 )
• Rosebery d'Arguto , Polish music teacher, composer and conductor (* 1890 )
• Emir Emin Arslan , Ottoman politician, diplomat, writer and publisher (* 1868 )
• Abdülhakim Arvâsi , Kurdish legal scholar (* 1865 )
• Hermann Aust , German entrepreneur (* 1853 )
• Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli , Azerbaijani writer and statesman (* 1887 )
• Germaine Cernay , French mezzo-soprano (* 1900 )
• Vladimir Dyck , Ukrainian composer and music teacher (* 1882 )
• Tom Newman , English snooker and English billiards player (* 1894 )
• Wilmer Watts , American old-time musician (* around 1892 )

Web links

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• Chronicle 1943 on Living Virtual Museum Online