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1946
The Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals ends on September 30th with the pronouncement of the verdicts.
The first General Assembly of the United Nations will take place in London on January 10th .	Rubble women at work.

1946 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2699
Armenian calendar	1394-1395
Ethiopian calendar	1938-1939
Badi calendar	102-103
Bengali calendar	1352-1353
Berber calendar	2896
Buddhist calendar	2490
Burmese calendar	1308
Byzantine calendar	7454-7455
Chinese calendar
- era	4642-4643 or 4582-4583
- 60 year cycle	Wood Rooster (乙酉, 22) - Fire Dog (丙戌, 23)
French revolution calendar	CLIV - CLV 154-155
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2002-2003
- Shaka Samvat	1868-1869
Iranian calendar	1324-1325
Islamic calendar	1365-1366
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 21
- Kōki	2606
Jewish calendar	5706-5707
Coptic Calendar	1662-1663
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4279
- Juche era	35
Minguo calendar	35
Modern Olympics	XIII
Seleucid calendar	2257-2258
Thai solar calendar	2489

1946 , the first year after the end of the Second World War , is still largely influenced by the joint creation of a post-war order for the world by the victorious coalition of the four allies . The clearest expression of this is the United Nations , whose General Assembly and Security Council begin their work at the beginning of the year.

overview

Germany

Some of the defendants in the Nuremberg Trial

In Germany, the denazification agreed in the Potsdam Agreement reached its first climax in the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals , which ended with several death sentences and a number of prison terms for the greats of the Nazi state. The famine winter of 1946/47 claimed victims.

Post-war order and beginning of the Cold War

The Iron Curtain in Europe during the Cold War from 1945 to 1990

The first differences that emerged between Stalin and the Western Allies initially appeared to be less serious and unbridgeable. In the Nuremberg Trial, for example, the Soviets demanded significantly higher penalties; however, the Anglo-American view of the fairest possible trial had prevailed. Even the first Soviet veto in the UN Security Council - which was later to be followed by well over 100 - concerned a marginal issue with the withdrawal of France and Great Britain from Lebanon and Syria . On other issues such as the restoration of the Republic of Austria , the Tokyo war crimes trials and the treatment of Italian colonial property, there was broad agreement.

More significant was the disagreement that existed over the question of a possible German central government and an economic order for Germany; these questions were initially postponed until later. The US government under Harry S. Truman ( Truman's cabinet ) trusted in its strong position as the sole nuclear power , which it demonstrated with two atomic bomb tests in the Pacific ( July 1946 ), and the British Labor government of Attlee , which was politically committed to the nationalization of the Key industries and the health service (→ National Health Service ) set, distanced itself from Churchill's war rhetoric. Churchill warned of the future danger in Europe from the Soviet Union, which would establish a system of totalitarian satellite states behind the Iron Curtain it had erected . Churchill's thesis - Stalin dismissed it as dangerous warmongering - turned out to be correct.

On September 6, 1946, US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes gave a highly acclaimed speech in Stuttgart, the so-called " Hope Speech ", in which he discussed some important changes in American policy towards Germany. On December 2, 1946, the Americans and British signed the amalgamation of their two zones of occupation to form the Bizone on January 1, 1947.

reconstruction

Initially, the focus was also on eliminating people's immediate misery. The food supply reached a critical low point worldwide; In Germany there were hunger strikes by workers who receive daily rations of 1,500 kcal or less per day and who are often infected with tuberculosis, whereupon the Allies point out that bread must be rationed in Great Britain too and that there are real famine in India. Meanwhile, the population makes do with coal theft and shops on the black market , where American cigarettes are developing into a kind of shadow currency. The dismantling policy of the Soviet Union in particular is helping to slow down reconstruction, but at least the most important transport routes, such as the bridges over the Rhine, will soon be restored.

Europe

In other European countries, the restoration of a constitutional order is in the foreground. The Fourth Republic is established in France , against the will of Charles de Gaulle , who criticizes the President's weak position.

Italy decides with a narrow majority for the introduction of the republic, so that the last king, Umberto II. , Who after the abdication of his father Victor Emanuel III. reigned for just a month, now has to resign himself.

In view of the general anti-fascist world opinion, the Spanish Franco regime finds itself exposed to international isolation without this being able to endanger its existence.

In Eastern Europe, several states declare themselves to be people's republics. Where there previously existed monarchies, such as Romania , Bulgaria or Albania , the kings are forced to abdicate. At the same time, special courts are responsible for the trial of politicians and the military who are guilty of war crimes alongside the Germans.

Colonial areas

Meanwhile, in the colonial territories of the European powers, the first clear impulses of independence strivings can be seen.

In British India, the colonial power is heading towards the liberation of the subcontinent into independence, although this is initially being delayed by the sometimes bloody clashes between Hindus and Muslims.

At the same time, the Indochina War begins with a massacre in Hải Phong , in which Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam leads the resistance against French colonial rule.

In Africa, meanwhile, the fact that the majority of black Africans are now represented in the parliament of the Gold Coast colony is symptomatic of the gradual change here as well.

Iran

The Iran crisis is considered to be one of the triggers of the Cold War . Stalin refused to withdraw the Soviet troops that had invaded Iran in 1941 as part of the Anglo-Soviet invasion . Instead, he supported separatist movements of the Kurds and Azeris who, with the proclamation of the communist republic of Mahabad and the autonomous republic of Azerbaijan , pursued the establishment of their own states separated from Iran. After intensive negotiations with the Iranian Prime Minister Ahmad Qavām , in the course of which the Soviet Union was granted oil production rights in northern Iran, and under pressure from US President Truman, Stalin withdrew the Soviet troops. On December 12, 1946, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi invaded Azerbaijan. On December 16, 1946, the Mahabad Republic came to an end.

events

Politics and world events

January

Karl Kobelt

• January 1: Karl Kobelt becomes President of Switzerland.
• January 1: The newly built Heathrow Airport near London opens.
• January 1: The last US occupation troops are withdrawn from Iran .
• January 1st: Signing of the peace treaty between India , Great Britain and Thailand in Bangkok .
• January 2nd: King Zogu resigns as head of state of Albania .
• JANUARY 5: In Nuremberg begins before a US military court of the Doctors' Trial against 23 former concentration camp -Doctors for crimes against humanity .
• January 6: Ho Chi Minh wins elections in northern Vietnam .
• January 7th: The Allies recognize Austria as a state within the borders of 1937.
• January 10: In the Chinese Civil War , a ceasefire is agreed between the communist and Chinese national troops.

United Nations flag

• January 10: Paul-Henri Spaak opens the first UN General Assembly
• January 11: Abolition of the monarchy and proclamation of the People's Republic of Albania by Enver Hoxha
• January 17: The UN Security Council holds its first meeting.
• January 20: Charles de Gaulle resigns as chairman of the French Provisional Government ; his place will be taken over by Félix Gouin on January 23rd .
• January 21: Soviet diplomat Andrei Gromyko accuses the British, who have troops stationed in Greece and Indonesia , of interfering in the internal affairs of these countries.
• JANUARY 21: In Hessen find local elections held; these are the first free elections on German soil since 1933. Local council elections in Bavaria and Württemberg-Baden follow on January 29th .
• January 22nd: Foundation of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad
• January 23: The Bavarian Homeland and King's Party (BHKP) is approved by the US military government in Bavaria .
• January 30th: The German Criminal Code is extensively amended by the Control Council Act No. 11 .
• January 31: Yugoslavia receives a new constitution based on the Soviet model. The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia consists of the six republics of Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia , Macedonia , Montenegro , Serbia and Slovenia .

February

• February 1: Trygve Lie takes office as the first Secretary General of the United Nations .
• February 1: Proclamation of the People's Republic of Hungary . Zoltán Tildy becomes president .
• February 7th: In the first stage of the land reform , 53,000 farms with 2.6 million hectares in the Soviet occupation zone are divided among new farmers.

Logo of the Partij van de Arbeid

• February 9th: The Partij van de Arbeid is founded in the Netherlands .
• February 15: The British military government sets up a German zone advisory council to advise them.
• February 15: After the cipher expert at the Soviet military attaché in Canada , Igor Gouzenko , handed over a list of 1,700 suspected espionage to the Canadian authorities, 23 of them, including employees of the Canadian nuclear research program, were arrested.
• February 16: For the first time puts the Soviet Union in a debate in the UN Security Council a veto one. Britain and France planned to come up with a timetable for their withdrawal from Lebanon and Syria, but Andrei Janayevich Vyshinsky insists on the immediate withdrawal.
• February 17: The steel workers' strike in the USA is ended. General Electric and General Motors workers will continue their strike until March 13th.

Juan Domingo Perón

• February 21: Archbishop Joseph Frings , Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen and Bishop Konrad Graf von Preysing are appointed cardinals by the Pope in Rome .
• February 21: A Finnish special court sentenced several former members of the government (including ex-President Risto Ryti and ex-Prime Minister Johan Wilhelm Rangell ) to prison terms for Finland entering the war on the side of Germany in 1941.
• February 22: The US envoy in Moscow, George F. Kennan , explains in the Long Telegram on request why the Soviet Union is not an ally for the United States. In the X article , the content of the telegram was published in Foreign Affairs magazine in the following year, triggering discussions on further US foreign policy.
• February 24: Juan Perón is elected President of Argentina .
• February 26: The CDU of the British zone elects Konrad Adenauer as its chairman.

March

• March 2nd: Foundation of the German Conservative Party - German Right Party (DKP-DRP) as a merger of the German Reconstruction Party and the German Conservative Party .

Winston Churchill

• March 5: In a speech to the Westminster College in Fulton (Missouri) warns Winston Churchill against the growing power of the Soviet Union in Europe. He uses the term iron curtain , which is popularized by the Fulton speech.
• March 5: The Prime Ministers of the three countries of the American zone sign the “Law for the Liberation from National Socialism and Militarism” in the Munich town hall. It forms the basis for the denazification that began a few weeks later .
• March 5: Ho Chi Minh reaches an agreement with the French colonial power that grants Vietnam autonomy within the Union française .
• March 6: The draft constitution of Japan is announced.
• March 7th: The FDJ is founded as a communist youth organization in the Soviet occupation zone .
• March 9: Juho Kusti Paasikivi becomes the new President of Finland after the resignation of Gustaf Mannerheim on March 4 ; he pursues a policy of compromise with the Soviet Union.
• March 10: Britain begins withdrawing its troops from Lebanon .
• MARCH 16: because of treason sentenced journalist Max Blokzijl is as the first Dutchman after the Second World War, the death penalty enforced. He spread National Socialist propaganda over the radio during the German occupation.

World Bank logo

• March 18: The World Bank begins operations.
• March 19: Switzerland and the Soviet Union resume diplomatic relations after 22 years.
• March 19: In the Soviet Union, Nikolai Michailowitsch Schwernik succeeds Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin in the office of President.
• March 29: In the parliament of the British colony Gold Coast there is a majority of black African MPs for the first time.

April

• April 1: In the United States, miners go on strike, which lasts 45 days.
• April 5: The Soviet troops evacuate the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm , which they had occupied for eleven months after the German occupation .
• April 9: The Technical University of Berlin is re-established as the Technical University of Berlin .
• April 10: In Japan find general election held; For the first time women are also entitled to vote.
• APRIL 10: The Allied Control Council , a change of the Soviet representative takes place: Vasily Sokolovsky solves Georgy Zhukov from.
• April 13th: In France, the law initiated by Marthe Richard and named after her is passed, which leads to the closure of all brothels in the country.
• April 17th: Independence of Syria from French colonial rule.
• April 18: At its last meeting in Geneva , the League of Nations dissolves itself; its powers are transferred to the United Nations .

Emblem of the SED

• April 21 to 22 April: KPD and the SPD agreed in East Berlin the merger to the Socialist Unity Party (SED). Since a survey of the Social Democrats in West Berlin showed a majority against a merger and the SPD leadership in the western zones is against a merger, the SED's sphere of activity remains limited to East Berlin and the Soviet zone.
• April 25: The first criminal trial against former members of the camp team of the National Socialist Stutthof concentration camp begins in Gdańsk .
• April 25: The foreign ministers of the four victorious powers meet in Paris for a conference. The conference was postponed to June 15, due to the numerous differences of opinion between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.
• April 29th: The Tokyo trials against Japanese army officers begin .

May

• May 6: Camille Gutt , Belgium , becomes first director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
• May 9: Victor Emmanuel III. resigns as King of Italy ; He is succeeded by his son Umberto II.
• May 9th: A three-day party congress of the SPD with 500 delegates from the western zones takes place in Hanover . Kurt Schumacher is elected chairman, the union of the SPD and KPD to form the SED in the Soviet zone is condemned.
• May 10: Jawaharlal Nehru is elected Chairman of the Indian Congress Party.
• May 11th: After 5 years in exile, Arturo Toscanini conducts the first concert “for Italy” (Concerto della Ricostruzione) in the rebuilt La Scala in Milan .
• May 12th: In the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands , the Catholic People's Party becomes the strongest party with 32 seats, ahead of the Labor Party (29). Louis Beel becomes head of government .
• May 13: A US military tribunal sentences 58 Mauthausen concentration camp guards to death.
• May 13: Order No. 4 of the Allied Military Government orders the destruction of all Nazi monuments in Germany by January 1, 1947.
• May 15: Sicily becomes an autonomous region within Italy.
• May 16: The Malmedy trial against German war criminals begins in Dachau , in which, according to the American chief prosecutor Ellis, the accused SS men were tortured.
• May 22: United Kingdom dismisses Transjordan into the independence
• May 25th: Independence of Transjordan. Emir Abdallah accepts the title of king.
• May 26: In the parliamentary elections in Czechoslovakia , the CP becomes the strongest party with 38 percent.

June

• June 1: In Romania , Ion Antonescu , who led the country in World War II as a “conducator” and ally of Germany, is executed after being sentenced by a people's court.
• 2nd / 3rd June : In Italy , the new constitution-giving assembly is elected . At the same time there will be a referendum on the future form of government. 54.3% of the electorate vote for the republic; Umberto II goes into exile. He had only officiated as King of Italy since May 9 , after his father Victor Emanuel III. had abdicated. Alcide De Gasperi is provisionally performing the duties of the head of state until a president is elected.
• June 8: Sukarno calls on the Indonesians to resist the Dutch colonial power.
• June 9th: Thailand - King Bhumibol Adulyadej becomes head of state.
• June 15: The second round of the foreign ministers' conference of the victorious powers begins in Paris . While agreement was reached on the previous Italian possessions of Libya and Dodecanese , the question of the formation of a future German central government was postponed.

Sir Archibald Wavell

• June 16: Archibald Wavell's attempt to set up a 14-member interim government in British India with an equal number of Hindus and Muslims fails due to opposition from the Congress Party .
• June 18: Proclamation of the Republic of Italy .
• June 24: Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of the second constituent assembly in France .
• June 25: US Military Governor Lucius D. Clay orders the dismantling of his zone of occupation to be stopped as long as the question of whether Germany is treated as an economic unit has not been clarified.
• June 28th: Enrico De Nicola is elected first President of Italy.
• June 30: In a referendum in Saxony almost 78 percent of residents speak of Saxony made for the expropriation of large farms of Nazis and war criminals.
• June 30th: The four occupying powers in Germany lead to the inter-zone traffic to Interzone pass one.

July

• July 1: The merger of the zones of occupation of the future Federal Republic of Germany at the suggestion of the USA is prevented by France and the Soviet Union .
• July 4th: Pogrom of Kielce : In the Polish city of Kielce over 40 Jews are killed by the population.
• July 4th: The Philippines gain independence.
• July 15: US President Truman grants Great Britain a loan of $ 3.5 billion.
• July 16: In the Malmedy trial , 43 SS members who shot American prisoners during the Ardennes offensive are sentenced to death.
• July 17: In Berlin, the British military government announces the intended amalgamation of the northern Rhine province with the province of Westphalia . Düsseldorf becomes the capital of the new state of North Rhine-Westphalia .
• July 22nd: The King David Hotel in Jerusalem is partially blown up by Irgun Jewish terrorists . 91 civilians (including 16 British nationals) are killed.
• July 29th: The conference of the 21 nations begins in Paris , at which peace conditions are to be negotiated for Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland, the losers of the war.

August

• August 2: Camille Huysmans becomes head of government in Belgium at the head of a social-liberal cabinet.
• August 7th: The Soviet Union demands participation in the control of navigation through the Dardanelles . The western powers reject this with reference to the 1936 Montreux Convention.
• August 12: Great Britain imposes a ban on immigration to Palestine.
• August 14: Mao's People 's Liberation Army starts a successful offensive against Chinese national troops near Kaifeng .
• August 15: The Korean capital Gyeongseong (Kyŏngsŏng) is renamed Seoul (Sŏul).
• August 16: The Kurdish Democratic Party KDP ( Kurdish پارتی دیموکراتی کوردستان Partiya Demokratie a Kurdistanê - PDK ) is founded by representatives of the Kurdish intelligentsia and the urban petty bourgeoisie. Despite his absence, Molla Mustafa Barzani was elected chairman.
• August 19: 3,000 people are killed in fighting between Hindus and Muslims in Calcutta .
• August 20: In the Control Council Act No. 34, the Allies dissolve the German Wehrmacht . In fact, with its unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945 , the army lost its importance.
• August 23: The British military government dissolves the Prussian provinces in their zone of occupation and founds the states of North Rhine-Westphalia , Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein .
• August 24: British Governor Archibald Wavell appoints Jawaharlal Nehru as head of India's executive government.
• August 30th: The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is formed in the French occupation zone .

September

George II of Greece

• September 1st: France votes against the political unity of the future Federal Republic of Germany in the three western occupation zones .
• September 1st: In a referendum, the Greeks speak out in favor of the return of George II .
• September 3: Dingtao campaign begins in the Chinese Civil War . Communist troops achieve a tactical victory in the Xuzhou area .
• September 4th: Street battles between Muslims and Hindus break out in Bombay , killing over 100 people.
• September 5: The military governors of the British and US zones, Brian Hubert Robertson and Lucius D. Clay , decide to create unified central offices for a bizone .
• September 6: In his speech in Stuttgart, the American Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that he wants to unite the economy of the occupation zones in occupied Germany. Only Great Britain agrees to do so.
• September 8: Bulgaria is declared a People's Republic after a referendum . The young Tsar Simeon II goes into exile.
• September 12: Referendum in the Faroe Islands to separate the country from the Kingdom of Denmark . A slim majority of the population is in favor. Independence is proclaimed there on September 18th, but canceled by Denmark on September 20th.
• September 12: US Secretary of Commerce Henry Agard Wallace warns of policies that could lead to war with the Soviet Union. He was released by Truman a little later and replaced by Averell Harriman .
• September 13th: Persons of German nationality are excluded from the Polish national community in Poland by a Bierut decree .
• September 15: The first local elections after the war take place in the French and British zones .
• September 20: The US withdraws its troops from Iceland .
• September 28th: ​​King George II returns to Greece .

Ostbau Justice Palace Nuremberg

• September 30th and October 1st: pronouncement of the verdicts in the Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals . Twelve death sentences, seven prison terms and three acquittals were passed. Hermann Göring commits suicide before the execution of his death sentence.

October

• October 4: US President Truman appeals to British Prime Minister Clement Attlee to re-allow Jewish immigration to Palestine.
• October 8: The Kuomintang extends Chiang Kai-shek's term of office by three years.
• October 12th: The Control Council Directive No. 38 aims to arrest and punish war criminals , National Socialists and militarists as well as the internment , control and surveillance of potentially dangerous Germans.
• October 13: France adopts the Constitution for the Fourth Republic .
• October 13: Thailand agrees to return territories annexed from French Indochina in 1940.
• October 13th: general election in Bremen ,
• October 16: Execution of the death sentences of the Nuremberg trials .
• October 20: Last free elections in the Soviet occupation zone .
• October 22: Due to a Stalin decree of May 13, 1946, thousands of German technicians and engineers who had been working for the Soviet troops in armaments factories for aircraft and missiles ( V2 ), among others. had worked in Staßfurt and Bleicherode , and their relatives were forced to work in the Soviet Union from now on in a surprise action. After ten days of train travel, they were dropped off with their families and property in Kuibyshev (since 1990 Samara) and later on the island of Gorodomlja , where they continued their work in the dismantled factories until 1952.
• October 26th: In the British occupation zone , the former states of Hanover , Oldenburg and Braunschweig are formed into the state of Lower Saxony . Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (SPD) becomes the first Prime Minister .
• October 27: The Communist-dominated Patriotic Front wins the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria . It received 364 seats, the opposition 101.
• October 28: The Bavarian Party is founded in the Straubinger Hof restaurant in Munich , with Ludwig Lallinger becoming the first chairman .
• October 31: The Zionist terrorist organization Irgun bombs the British embassy in Rome .

November

• November 3: The new Japanese constitution , which comes into force on May 3, 1947, is passed

UNESCO flag

• November 4th: UNESCO is founded by the founding states: Australia , Brazil , Republic of China , Denmark , Dominican Republic , France , Greece , Great Britain , India , Canada , Lebanon , Mexico , New Zealand , Norway , Saudi Arabia , South Africa , Turkey and the USA . In the same year Poland , Bolivia , Syria , Haiti , Sweden , Iceland , Afghanistan , Peru , the Philippines and Belgium also become members of UNESCO.
• November 5: US Congress and gubernatorial elections take place. The election winners are the Republicans, who for the first time since 1933 can win a majority in both chambers of Congress.
• November 8th: In Haiphong in North Vietnam , there are violent clashes between the Viet Minh and French colonial troops. The bombardment of Haiphong by a French warship then kills several thousand.
• November 16: The SED presents a first draft constitution for the “democratic German republic”.
• November 19: In the parliamentary elections in Romania , the CP receives 79.86 percent of the vote, according to official figures. Observers speak of massive voter influence and election fraud.
• November 21: Communist Georgi Dimitrov is elected first Prime Minister of Bulgaria .
• November 23: Arab extremists shoot Fauzi Husseini , the Arab High Commissioner for Palestine .
• November 24th: The first state elections take place in Württemberg-Baden : The CDU receives 39 seats ahead of the SPD with 32, the DVP with 19 and the KPD with 10 seats.
• November 27: Indian politician Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the superpowers to approve a ban on nuclear tests.
• November 28: Georges Bidault resigns as French head of government.

December

• December 1: The Hessian constitution comes into force through a referendum. At the same time there are state elections: The SPD becomes the strongest force with 38 seats, ahead of the CDU (28) and the LDP (14). Germany's first post-war constitution was that of Württemberg-Baden , which came into force two days earlier.
• December 2nd: Creation of the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
• December 2nd: Referendum on the Bavarian constitution and state elections in Bavaria . The constitution is adopted and comes into force on December 9th - the CSU achieves an absolute majority in the state elections, but forms a coalition with the SPD and WAV . The FDP becomes the only opposition party.
• December 9: Beginning of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial ; the American First Military Tribunal finally sentenced seven of the 23 defendants to death and a further nine to long prison terms.
• December 11th: The first issue of the Hörzu program guide appears.
• December 11th: The UN excludes the Spanish Franco regime from participating in its institutions.
• December 11th: The aid organization UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) is founded to help children during World War II .
• December 12: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi invades the Iranian province of Azerbaijan . The members of the communist Azerbaijani people's government are arrested or flee to the Soviet Union.
• December 13: Thomas Mann is again inserted into the honorary doctorate -würde to him in 1919 by the University of Bonn was awarded.
• December 14th: The General Assembly of the United Nations in London chooses New York City as the permanent seat of the organization.
• December 14: South Africa's proposal to annex the mandate area of ​​South West Africa (Namibia) is rejected by the UN .
• December 15: Thailand becomes 55th member of the UN .
• December 18: German representatives of the economic administration in the Soviet occupation zone agree in Minden with the central administration for economy an exchange of goods for 1947 in the amount of 210 million RM. German business people are allowed to trade abroad.
• December 18: In France, Léon Blum becomes head of government in the first cabinet of the Fourth Republic ; he heads a socialist government.
• December 19: French colonial authorities enforce martial law on Vietnam after Viet Minh militias blew up Hanoi's power station . French troops overthrow the government of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam Hanoi. The Việt Minh go after an attack on the city located in the French garrison in the ground and begin the Indochina War led struggle against foreign rule.
• December 22nd: France sets up a customs border between Saarland and the French occupation zone in Germany. US Military Governor Lucius D. Clay objects to the measure, but it is approved by the Council of State Ministers in New York.
• December 31: Cardinal Joseph Frings gives his famous New Year's Eve sermon in Cologne-Riehl .
• December 31: Juan Perón becomes President of Argentina , his wife Eva Perón becomes First Lady .
• Max Brauer ( SPD ) becomes First Mayor of Hamburg in a coalition with the FDP .

business

Flatbed truck from Magirus

• January 1: The Magirus plants receive permission from the occupying powers to resume truck production.
• January 1: The Bank of France is nationalized, the previous shareholders compensated.
• January 8th: The Braunschweiger Zeitung appears for the first time as a licensed newspaper in the British occupation zone.
• February 21: The first edition of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit appears.
• February 28: The French sports newspaper L'Équipe appears with the first edition.
• March 1st: The Bank of England is nationalized, its existing shareholders are compensated.
• April 2: The first edition of the German daily newspaper Die Welt appears in Hamburg.
• April 8: In France, the energy company Électricité de France is created from the nationalization of several companies.
• May 1: The Pilbara Strike begins in Western Australia . 800 farm workers, mainly Aborigines , want to use the stoppage to achieve fairer wages, better working conditions and human and cultural rights for the indigenous population .
• May 8: The first Leipzig trade fair after the end of the Second World War opens.
• August 1st: The new forint becomes the Hungarian national currency.
• August 1st: The national airline British European Airways is founded in Great Britain .
• September 24: Two pilots found the airline Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong .
• November 29th: The Allgemeine Zeitung is founded in Mainz with a French license . Part of the crew changes from their editorial team in 1949 to found the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .
• December 16: The fashion designer Christian Dior sets up his studio in Paris .
• Foundation of the confectionery group Ferrero in Alba (Italy).
• Foundation of Axel Springer AG , publishing house in Hamburg.
• The Japanese company Sony is founded by Morita Akio and Ibuka Masaru .
• The Australian transport company TNT Express , an express service , is founded.

science and technology

Project Diana antenna

• January 10: The American electrical engineer John Hibbett DeWitt succeeds in proving that the ionosphere is permeable to radio waves. In Project Diana , the US Signal Corps succeeded for the first time in sending a radio signal to the moon using an earth-moon-earth radio link and receiving the radio echo 2.4 seconds later.
• July 21: The first jet-powered aircraft takes off and lands from an aircraft carrier . Off the coast of Virginia , the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt is testing the McDonnell FH prototype XFD-1 , a fighter aircraft commissioned by the United States Navy .
• August 13: The Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo is founded.
• Percy Spencer develops the microwave oven at Raytheon .

Culture

• January 1st: World premiere of the play Afterwards by Helmut Weiss in Berlin
• February 21: Foundation of the Working Group for Contemporary Building e. V. in Kiel
• May 8: World premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Medium at Columbia University's Brander Matthews Theater in New York City

Annie Get Your Gun

• May 16: The world premiere of the musical Annie Get Your Gun by Irving Berlin about the life of the art protectionist Annie Oakley takes place at the New York Imperial Theater . The best known number from it is the song There's No Business Like Show Business .
• July 5th: The modern bikini worn by Micheline Bernardini and created by fashion designer Louis Réard is presented in the Piscine Molitor swimming pool in Paris . The fashion proposal triggers a scandal and a worldwide ban on bathing in public.
• July 12: World premiere of the opera War and Peace (Orig .: Woina i mir ) by Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew in Saint Petersburg
• July 14: Benjamin Spock's Infant and Child Care appears for the first time. The work is considered to be the second best-selling book of the 20th century in the USA.
• August 23: The Howard Hawks film Dead Sleeping, starring Humphrey Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe, is shown in United States cinemas . The film adaptation of a novel by Raymond Chandler creates a film noir .
• September 20th: The 1st Cannes International Film Festival opens.
• October 15: Premiere of the first German post-war film, the DEFA production The Murderers Are Among Us (director: Wolfgang Staudte , leading actress: Hildegard Knef ) in the Berlin Admiralspalast
• November 14: The Belgian comic magazine Spirou publishes the first Morris- drawn story about the lonely cowboy Lucky Luke .
• December 14: World premiere of Des Teufels General by Carl Zuckmayer at the Schauspielhaus Zurich
• Foundation of the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art
• The Association of German Archivists e. V. is founded
• Foundation of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
• Foundation of the Ernst Barlach Society Hamburg
• Foundation of the Otto Falckenberg School
• Foundation of the Paul Gerhardt School

religion

Pius XII.

• January 16: Pope Pius XII. gives St. Anthony of Padua the title of Doctor of the Church .
• February 18: Pope Pius XII. determined 32 new cardinals. These are the first appointments since 1937.
• April 11th: There are Catholic bishops in China for the first time ; the Roman Catholic Church founds the following dioceses on this day: Diocese Chowtsun , Diocese Ichow , Diocese Shanghai , Diocese Tsaochow , Diocese Wuchow , Diocese Yangku and Diocese Yenchow
• September 10th: On a trip through Calcutta, Mother Teresa felt the calling to help the poor at the sight of a crucifix.

Sports

• March 24th: The death of Alexander Alekhine leads to the interregnum in chess
• May 22nd: Major FT Casman and Major WE Zins set a new record with their Sikorsky R-5 A helicopter .
• June 6: The National Basketball Association is founded.
• July 11th: The International Handball Federation is founded in Basel .
• August 1st: The football club Sampdoria Genoa is created from the merger of the two clubs SG Sampierdarenese and SG Andrea Doria .
• September 6th: A group of seven Soviet mountaineers succeeds in the first ascent of Pik Karl Marx in the high mountains of the Pamir .

Disasters

• February 20: 405 miners are killed in an explosion at the Grimberg 3/4 Monopol colliery in Bergkamen in the northern Ruhr area .
• April 1: Hilo , Hawaii , is hit by a tsunami caused by an earthquake near the Aleutian Islands . 159 people died when a 14 meter high tidal wave washed over the country.
• May 31: Earthquake measuring 6.0 in Turkey , around 1,200 dead
• November 10: 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Ancash , Peru , killing around 1,400
• December 20: 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck Tonankai, Japan , killing 1,330

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

Born

January

• 0January 1st: Roberto Rivelino , Brazilian soccer player
• 0January 1st: Barbara Zakrzewska , Polish composer
• 0January 2nd: Philippe Dagoreau , French racing car driver
• 0January 2nd: Ilma Rakusa , Swiss literary scholar, writer and literary translator
• 0January 3: Antoine Audo , Syrian bishop
• 0January 3: Rudolf Böhmler , German lawyer and politician
• 0January 3: Motohiko Hino , Japanese jazz drummer († 1999)
• 0January 3: John Paul Jones , English rock musician and record producer
• 0January 3: Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz , Belarusian Roman Catholic Archbishop
• 0January 3rd: Olivia Molina , German-Mexican Tango and Schlager singer
• 0January 4: Lisa Appignanesi , Canadian-British author
• 0January 4th: Marek Borowski , Polish politician
• 0January 4th: Arthur Conley , American soul singer († 2003)
• 0January 5: Diane Keaton , American actress, film producer, and television film director

Diane Keaton

• 0January 5th: Giuseppe Materazzi , Italian football player and coach
• 0January 5: Yevgeny Anatolyevich Popov , Russian prose writer
• 0January 5: Prince Tomohito of Mikasa , Japanese heir to the throne († 2012)
• 0January 6: Syd Barrett , British guitarist, singer and songwriter († 2006)
• 0January 6: Ahmed el-Tayeb , Rector of Al-Azhar University in Cairo
• 0January 7th: Jeffrey B. Berlin , American literary scholar and Germanist († 2021)
• 0January 7th: Mike Wilds , British racing car driver
• 0January 8: Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo , Mexican police officer and drug dealer
• 0January 8: Hadayatullah Hübsch , German writer and imam († 2011)
• 0January 8: Robby Krieger , American musician (The Doors)
• 0January 8: Norbert Mateusz Kuźnik , Polish composer, music theorist, organist and organ builder († 2006)
• 0January 9: Mogens Lykketoft , Danish social democratic politician
• January 10: Aynsley Dunbar , British drummer
• January 10: Robert Gadocha , Polish football player
• January 10: Juha Siira , Finnish regatta sailor († 2021)
• January 12: George Duke , American jazz pianist, arranger and producer († 2013)
• January 12: Ryszard Szurkowski , Polish cyclist († 2021)
• January 13: Jean-Pierre Augert , French ski racer († 1976)
• January 13th: Wolfgang Boos , German ice hockey player
• January 13: Cornelius Bumpus , American rock singer and instrumentalist († 2004)
• January 13: Boris Gardiner , Jamaican singer, songwriter and bassist
• January 14th: Howard Carpendale , German singer and composer of South African origin
• January 14: Harold Shipman , British medic († 2004)
• January 15: Peter Bronkhorst , Dutch activist († 2007)
• January 16: Kabir Bedi , Indian actor
• January 16: Annegret Soltau , German body art collage artist
• January 17th: Frank Geerk , German writer († 2008)
• January 17th: François Walthéry , Belgian comic artist
• January 18: Joseph Deiss , Swiss politician
• January 18: Henrique Pereira Rosa , President of Guinea-Bissau († 2013)
• January 19: Julian Barnes , British writer
• January 19: Alexander Kostinsky , Ukrainian-Jewish poet, writer, illustrator
• January 19: Reinhard Lakomy , German composer and singer († 2013)
• January 19: Dolly Parton , American country singer
  

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• January 20: David Lynch , American director
• January 20: Ernst Probst , German science journalist
• January 20th: Aurelio Samorì , Italian composer
• January 21: Nella Martinetti , Swiss singer, composer and lyricist († 2011)
• January 21: Johnny Oates , American baseball player († 2004)
• January 22: Malcolm McLaren , British artist, fashion designer, designer, music manager and musician († 2010)
• January 23: Arnoldo Alemán , President of Nicaragua from 1997 to 2002
• January 23: Boris Berezovsky , Russian entrepreneur († 2013)
• January 23: Zvonko Bušić , Croatian-American terrorist († 2013)
• January 23: Rob Stolk , Dutch activist († 2001)
• January 23: Don Whittington , American racing car driver
• January 27: Lech Raczak , Polish actor, director and theater scholar († 2020)
• January 28th: Thomas Mann , German MEP
• January 28: Gailene Stock , Australian ballet dancer and dance teacher († 2014)
• January 29th: Marika Mindszenty , Hungarian-Austrian actress
• January 29: Günter Ohnemus , German writer and translator
• January 30th: Ottorino Assolari , Italian bishop
• January 30th: Christophe Pierre , French Archbishop and Vatican diplomat
• January 31: Terry Alan Kath , American musician († 1978)
• January 31: Willi Seebauer , German soccer player

Wolfgang Stumph

• January 31: Wolfgang Stumph , German actor and cabaret artist
• January 31: Wilfried Terno , German judge at the Federal Court of Justice

February

• 0February 1: Elisabeth Sladen , British actress († 2011)
• 0February 2: Isayas Afewerki , President and Prime Minister of Eritrea
• 0February 2nd: Whistling Jack Smith , British singer
• 0February 3rd: Bruno Kneubühler , Swiss motorcycle racer
• 0February 3rd: Stan Webb , British guitarist
• 0February 4th: Sieglinde Ammann , Swiss long jumper, discus thrower and pentathlete
• 0February 4: Dana Wilson , American composer and music educator
• 0February 5: Robert Atkins , British politician
• 0February 5th: Boris Bukowski , Austrian musician
• 0February 5th: Mauro Pagani , Italian cantautore, multi-instrumentalist and composer
• 0February 5th: Charlotte Rampling , British actress
• 0February 6: Richard Hayward , American rock drummer († 2010)
• 0February 6: Masatomo Taniguchi , Japanese basketball player († 2021)
• 0February 7: Arthur Ozolins , Canadian pianist
• 0February 8: Gert Jonke , Austrian writer († 2009)
• 0February 9: Joseph Prathan Sridanusil , Thai Roman Catholic priest
• 0February 9: Stephen Thega , Kenyan boxer († 2021)
• February 10: Dick Anderson , American football player
• February 10: Jürgen Aretz , German civil servant
• February 11: Pierre Curzi , Canadian actor
• February 11: Knut Vollebæk , Norwegian diplomat and Christian Democrat politician
• February 12: Harald Irmscher , German soccer player and soccer coach
• February 12: Ajda Pekkan , Turkish singer and actress
• February 12: Walter Westrupp , German musician and creative
• February 13: Assunção Afonso dos Anjos , Angolan diplomat and politician
• February 13: Artur Jorge , Portuguese soccer coach and soccer player
• February 14: Maria Christina Aumont , French actress († 2006)
• February 14: Bernard Dowiyogo , Nauruan politician († 2003)
• February 14: Timothy Fok , Chinese entrepreneur and sports official from Hong Kong
• February 14: Gregory Hines , American tap dancer and actor († 2003)
• February 14th: Tan Aik Huang , Malaysian badminton player
• February 15: Kim Ry Andersen , Danish politician and music manager
• February 15: John Trudell , Indian freedom fighter, musician and actor († 2015)
• February 16: August Hanning , President of the BND
• February 16: Gerd Knesel , German songwriter († 1992)
• February 17: Dodie Stevens , American singer
• February 19: Pierre van der Linden , Dutch jazz and rock drummer
• February 19: Carolyn B. Maloney , American politician
• February 19: Luis Puenzo , Argentine film director and screenwriter
• February 19: Karen Silkwood , union activist and chemical technician († 1974)
• February 20: Brenda Blethyn , British actress
• February 21: Raúl Argemí , Argentine journalist and writer
• February 21: Tyne Daly , American actress
• February 21: Alan Rickman , British stage and film actor († 2016)
• February 21: Ottmar Schreiner , German politician († 2013)
• February 22nd: Éric Marie Pierre Henri Aumonier , French bishop
• February 23: Anatoly Andreevich Banischewski , Azerbaijani football player († 1997)
• February 23: Peter Casagrande , German painter
• February 23: Bodo H. Hauser , German journalist and moderator († 2004)
• February 24: Sergio Gori , Italian football player
• February 24: Don Siegelman , American politician
• February 24: Markus Zürcher , Swiss visual artist, representative of conceptual art († 2013)
• February 25: Roland Hemmo , German voice actor and actor
• February 25: Franz Xaver Kroetz , German writer and director
• February 25th: Jean Todt , French racing car driver, manager and motorsport official
• February 26: Jaecki Schwarz , German actor

Ahmed Zewail

• February 26: Ahmed Zewail , Egyptian chemist, Nobel Laureate (1999) († 2016)
• February 27: Mary-Claire King , American geneticist
• February 27th: Nippy Noya , Indonesian percussionist
• February 28: Robin Cook , British politician and Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001 († 2005)
• February 28: Pierre Dørge , Danish jazz guitarist, band leader and composer
• February 28: Don Francisco , American singer and composer
• February 28: Ludwig Hirsch , Austrian singer and songwriter († 2011)
• February 28: Joaquín Pardo , Colombian football player († 2020)

March

• 0March 1: Tony Ashton , British rock musician († 2001)
• 0March 1: Elvin Bethea , American football player
• 0March 1: Jim Crace , English writer
• 0March 1: Jost Gross , Swiss politician († 2005)
• 0March 1st: Gert Hoffmann , German politician, NPD, Lord Mayor of Braunschweig
• 0March 1: Kim Gwong-hyong , North Korean wrestler
• 0March 1st: Jan Kodeš , Czech tennis player
• 0March 3: James Craig "Jim" Adamson , American astronaut
• 0March 3rd: Charles Asati , Kenyan sprinter
• 0March 3: Jorge Cayetano Zaín Asís , Argentine journalist and writer
• 0March 3: Manfred Flügge , German writer
• 0March 3rd: Dunja Rajter , German singer and actress

David Gilmour

• 0March 4th: Michael Anthony Ashcroft , British businessman and politician
• 0March 4th: Sergio Fernández Barroso , Cuban composer
• 0March 4th: Xaver Frick , Liechtenstein middle-distance runner
• 0March 4: Ralph Kirshbaum , American cellist and music teacher
• 0March 5th: Murray Head , British actor and singer
• 0March 5: Koos van Zomere , Dutch writer
• 0March 6: Patrick Baudry , French astronaut
• 0March 6: David Gilmour , guitarist, singer, composer and songwriter for the rock group Pink Floyd

Bernd Hölzenbein

• 0March 7th: Matthew Fisher , English musician
• 0March 7th: Bert Franzke , German actor and voice actor
• 0March 7th: Zsuzsa Koncz , Hungarian chanson, pop and pop singer
• 0March 9: Bernd Hölzenbein , German soccer player
• March 10: Hiroshi Fushida , Japanese racing car driver
• March 10: Gianni Giudici , Italian racing car driver
• March 10: Robin Mitchell , Fijian sports official
• March 10: Axel Theimer , American composer, conductor, choir director, music teacher and singer
• March 10: Jim Valvano , American basketball coach († 1993)
• March 12th: Ricky King , German musician
  

  Liza Minnelli , 2008
• March 12: Liza Minnelli , American actress and singer
• March 13: James Acheson , British costume designer
• March 13: Yann Arthus-Bertrand , French photographer
• March 14: Zygmunt Anczok , Polish football player
• March 14: Álvaro Enrique Arzú Irigoyen , Guatemalan politician († 2018)
• March 14th: Gianni Bella , Italian singer
• March 14th: Leonti Pavlovich Shevtsov , General in the Soviet Union and Russia
• March 14: Wes Unseld , American basketball player († 2020)
• March 15: Sarah Young American writer and bestselling author Jesus Calling
• March 16: Heribert Müller , German historian (late Middle Ages)
• March 16: Guesch Patti , French singer and actress
• March 16: Hubert Soudant , Dutch conductor
• March 17th: Michael Finnissy , English composer, pianist and music teacher
• March 17th: Edeltraud Hollay , SPD politician from Baden-Württemberg
• March 17: Eugen Jesser , President and Director of the Vienna Boys' Choir († 2008)
• March 17th: Lindsay Owen-Jones , British manager and racing car driver
• March 17th: Rolf-Dieter Postlep , German economist and university president
• March 18: Michel Leclère , French racing car driver
• March 19: Elliot Archilla , Puerto Rican biathlete
• March 19: Benno Budar , Sorbian writer, translator, editor
• March 19: Jan Pavel , Czech composer, conductor and music teacher
• March 19: Joachim Sartorius , German lawyer, diplomat, theater director, poet and translator
• March 19: Bernd Zimmermann , German mathematics educator and university professor († 2018)
• March 20: Klaus Ackermann , German soccer player
• March 21: Ray Dorset , British rock musician
• March 21: Zsolt Gárdonyi , Hungarian composer
• March 21: Wolfgang Günter Lerch , German journalist, orientalist and author
• March 22nd: Rudy Rucker , American writer and computer scientist
• March 22nd: Harry Vanda , Australian music producer
• March 23: Pepe Lienhard , Swiss band leader
• March 23: Lee Towers , Dutch singer
• March 24th: Robert Becker , American director († 1993)
• March 24th: Su Kramer , German singer, composer and lyricist
• March 24th: Colin Petersen , Australian actor and musician
• March 24th: Jean-Daniel Raulet , French racing car driver
• March 24th: Herbert Wernicke , opera director, stage and costume designer († 2002)
• March 25th: Mercè Capdevila , Spanish composer
• March 25: Maurice Krafft , French volcanologist († 1991)
• March 26: Lyudmila Titova , Russian speed skater and Olympic champion in 1968
• March 27: Michael Vaillancourt Aris , British historian and Tibetologist († 1999)
• March 27: Andrew Steven Bown , British musician
• March 27th: Olaf Malolepski , German pop singer
• March 28: Wubbo Ockels , Dutch physicist and spaceman († 2014)
• March 29: Wolfgang Drexler , German politician and Member of the State Parliament
• March 29: Blaine Nye , American football player and entrepreneur
• March 30: Namat Abdullah , Malaysian football player († 2020)
• March 30th: Reinhold Adelmann , German soccer player
• March 30th: Ray Lema , Congolese drummer
• March 30th: Wolfgang Spindler , judge and president of the Federal Fiscal Court
• March 31: Fiorello Provera , Italian politician
• March 31: Jörg Schild , Swiss politician, President of the Swiss Olympic Association
• March 31: Klaus Wolfermann , German athlete

April

• 0April 1: Jürgen Büssow , German politician, district president of the Düsseldorf administrative district
• 0April 1st: Iván Faragó , Hungarian chess grandmaster
• 0April 1: Jean-François Garreaud , French actor († 2020)
• 0April 1: Hermann Goltz , German theologian and Eastern Church Scientist († 2010)
• 0April 1st: Helmut Kukacka , Austrian politician and State Secretary
• 0April 1: Ronnie Lane , British rock musician († 1997)
• 0April 1st: Arrigo Sacchi , Italian football player and coach
• 0April 1: Manfred Stengl , Austrian luge, bobsleigh and motorcycle racer († 1992)
• 0April 2nd: Lajos Koltai , Hungarian cameraman and film director
• 0April 2: Brigitte Struzyk , German writer
• 0April 2: Sue Townsend , British writer († 2014)
• 0April 3rd: Marisa Paredes , Spanish actress
• 0April 3: Hanna Suchocka , Polish politician

Wolfgang Ischinger

• 0April 4th: Lars-Göran Arwidson , Swedish biathlete
• 0April 5th: Jane Asher , British actress and writer
• 0April 6th: Wolfgang Ischinger , Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the USA, diplomat
• 0April 6: Danny Kortchmar , American rock singer and guitarist
• 0April 6: Giorgio Mariani , Italian football player († 2011)
• 0April 7th: Colette Besson , French athlete and Olympic champion († 2005)
• 0April 7th: Hiram Cruz , American racing car driver
• 0April 7: Robert Metcalfe , American computer scientist
• 0April 7th: Heðin Mortensen , Mayor of the Faroese capital Tórshavn
• 0April 8: Joe Kernan , American politician († 2020)
• 0April 8: Johannes Andreas Pflug , German politician
• April 10: Charles Arthur Arnoldi , American painter, printmaker, and sculptor
• April 10: Anne Boyd , Australian composer and music teacher
• April 10: Yves Daoust , Canadian composer
• April 11th: Teresa Pérez Frangie , Dominican opera singer
• April 12th: Ria Endres , German writer
  

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• April 12: Ed O'Neill , American actor
• April 13: Josef Ackerl , Austrian politician
• April 14th: Abdilatif Abdalla , Kenyan writer
• April 14th: Dietrich Hahn , German journalist and publicist
• April 14th: Knut Kristiansen , Norwegian jazz pianist
• April 15: Francis Antonysamy , Indian bishop
• April 15: Friedrich Chlubna , Austrian chess problem composer († 2005)
• April 15: Fernando Filoni , Italian Cardinal to the Curia
• April 15: Beate Morgenstern , German writer
• April 15: Winfried Nachtwei , German politician
• April 15: Willi Neuberger , German soccer player
• April 16: Margot Adler , American author, journalist, lecturer, Wicca priestess, radio journalist and correspondent for National Public Radio († 2014)
• April 16: Karl Friedrich Sinner , German forester and conservationist († 2017)
• April 16: Pēteris Vasks , Latvian composer
• April 17: Georges JF Köhler , German biologist and Nobel Prize winner († 1995)
• April 18: Jean-François Balmer , French-Swiss actor
• April 18: Milan Puzrla , Czechoslovak cyclist († 2021)
• April 18: Skip Spence , American rock musician († 1999)
• April 19: Duygu Asena , Turkish journalist, writer and women's rights activist († 2006)
• April 19: Tim Curry , English actor and singer
• April 20: Andreas Ackermann , German politician
• April 20: Georges Michel Bakar , Archbishop of Egypt
• April 20: Sabine Bergmann-Pohl , German politician
• April 20: Richard P. Brent , Australian mathematician and computer scientist
• April 20: Irene Ellenberger , German politician
• April 20: Fedor den Hertog , Dutch cyclist and Olympic champion († 2011)
• April 20: Ricardo Maduro , politician from Honduras
• April 21: Patrick Rambaud , French writer
• April 21: Xaver Schwarzenberger , Austrian cameraman and director
• April 22nd: John Waters , American film director
• April 23: Clemente Domínguez y Gómez , head of the Palmarian Catholic Church († 2005)
• April 24th: Stafford James , American jazz bassist
• April 25: Elfriede Czurda , Austrian art historian and writer

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• April 25: Vladimir Wolfowitsch Zhirinovsky , Russian politician and member of the Duma
• April 25: Andrzej Seweryn , Polish actor
• April 25: Talia Shire , American actress
• April 26: Vera F. Birkenbihl , German management trainer and non-fiction author († 2011)
• April 26: Milton Schwantes , Brazilian evangelical liberation theologian and biblical scholar († 2012)
• April 27: Gordon Haskell , British musician († 2020)
• April 27: Franz Roth , German soccer player
• April 27: Gerd Wiltfang , German show jumper († 1997)
• April 29: Humphrey Carpenter , English writer and biographer († 2005)
• April 29th: Karl-Heinz Funke , German politician

Carl XVI. Gustaf, 2009

• April 30th: Carl XVI. Gustaf , King of Sweden
• April 30th: Sven Nordqvist , Swedish draftsman and children's book author
• April 30: Bill Plympton , American animator
• 00.April: Jacques Tukumbé Nyimbusède Anyilunda , Bishop of Dapaong
• 00.April: Pauline Nyiramasuhuko , former Rwandan minister for families and women, convicted of genocide

May

• 0May 1st: René Aebi , Swiss pacemaker
• 0May 1st: Peter Kostelka , Austrian politician
• 0May 1: Joanna Lumley , British actress and model
• 0May 1st: Rainer Slotta , German industrial archaeologist
• 0May 1st: John Woo , Chinese director and film producer
• 0May 2nd: José Alcántara Almánzar , Dominican narrator, essayist, literary critic, sociologist and university professor
• 0May 2nd: Bruce Robinson , British actor, screenwriter and director
• 0May 2nd: Dany Snobeck , French racing car driver
• 0May 2nd: David Suchet , British actor
• 0May 3: Jean Auclair , French politician
• 0May 3: José Genoíno , Brazilian politician
• 0May 3: John Primer , American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
• 0May 4th: Franz Biedermann , Liechtenstein decathlete
• 0May 4th: John Watson , Northern Irish racing driver

John Watson

• 0May 5th: André Marceau , French bishop
• 0May 6: Heinz Eggert , German politician and Member of the State Parliament
• 0May 6: Carolyn Garcia , Merry Pranksters icon
• 0May 6: Svein Arne Hansen , Norwegian sports official († 2020)
• 0May 7: Bill Danoff , American songwriter and singer
• 0May 7: Thelma Houston , American R&B and disco singer
• 0May 7: Bill Kreutzmann , American rock musician, drummer
• 0May 9: Emil Angehrn , Swiss philosopher
• 0May 9: Erik Aurelius , Swedish bishop
• 0May 9: Candice Bergen , American actress
• 0May 9: Drafi Deutscher , German singer, composer and music producer († 2006)
• May 10: Klaus Ager , Austrian composer and conductor
• May 10: Tony Clunn , English major and amateur archaeologist († 2014)
• May 10: Donovan , Scottish rock poet
• May 10: Birutė Galdikas , Canadian zoologist and behavioral scientist
• May 10: Dave Mason , British musician
• May 10: Franz-Josef Paefgen , German manager
• May 10: Ulrich Stranz , German composer († 2004)
• May 11th: Robert Jarvik , co-inventor of the artificial heart
• May 11: László Polgár , Hungarian educator
• May 11: Lenore Von Stein , American composer
• May 12th: Gana Abba Kimet , Chadian athlete
• May 12: Willy Braillard , Belgian entrepreneur and racing car driver
• May 12th: Daniel Libeskind , architect, advocate of deconstructivism

Daniel Libeskind

• May 12: Józef Rychlik , Polish composer and music teacher
• May 12: Horst Schnellhardt , German MEP
• May 12: L. Neil Smith , American science fiction writer and political activist († 2021)
• May 13: Jean Rondeau , French racing car driver and designer († 1985)
• May 15: Hellmuth Eichner , German painter and sculptor († 2012)
• May 15: Klaus-Peter Siegloch , German journalist and ZDF presenter
• May 16: Anna Margareta Birgitta Asp , Swedish art director and production designer
• May 16: Robert Fripp , English guitarist and progressive rock composer
• May 17: Joan Barfoot , Canadian writer and journalist
• May 17th: Uwe Bartels , German politician
• May 17th: Udo Lindenberg , German rock musician

Udo Lindenberg

• May 18: Gerd Langguth , German political scientist and politician († 2013)
• May 18: Günther Messner , South Tyrolean mountaineer († 1970)
• May 18: Raymond "Ray" Richards , Australian soccer player and coach
• May 18: Kenji Takahashi , Japanese racing car driver
• May 19: Kurt Joachim Lauk , German MEP, President of the Economic Council
• May 19: André the Giant , wrestler and actor († 1993)
• May 19: Michele Placido , Italian actor, director and screenwriter
• May 20: Cher , American singer and actress

Cher, 2010

• May 20: Dan Diner , German historian and political writer
• May 20: Mario Guilloti , Argentine boxer († 2021)
• May 20: Norbert Hauser , German politician
• May 20: Michel Longtin , Canadian composer
• May 20: Craig Patrick , American ice hockey player and coach
• May 21: Erwin Kostedde , German Bundesliga soccer player and national player
• May 22: George Best , Northern Irish football player († 2005)
• May 22nd: Cardinal Francesco Montenegro , Archbishop of Agrigento
• May 22: Brigitte Wimmer , German politician
• May 23: Don Moye , American jazz drummer, singer and composer
• May 23: Ruth Underwood , American percussionist
• May 24th: Tansu Çiller , Turkish politician
• May 24th: Dieter Durst , German cyclist and pacemaker
• May 24th: Thomas Nordahl , Swedish football player and coach
• May 24: Irena Szewińska , Polish athlete († 2018)
• May 25: Bill Adam , Canadian racing car driver
• May 25: Antonis Antoniadis , Greek football player
• May 25: Jean-Pierre Danguillaume , French cyclist
• May 25: Siegfried Fietz , German songwriter (lyricist, composer and producer)
• May 26: Leslie Crum Aiello , American paleoanthropologist
• May 26: Radua Ashur , Egyptian writer and professor of English literature († 2014)
• May 26: Ruprecht Polenz , German politician
  

  Ruprecht Polenz, 2012
• May 26: Mick Ronson , British guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer († 1993)
• May 26: Ulrich Schubert , Austrian chemist
• May 27: Lewis Collins , British actor († 2013)
• May 27: Eike Hovermann , German politician
• May 27: Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , Danish jazz bassist and instrumentalist († 2005)
• May 27: John Williams , British motorcycle racer († 1978)
• May 28: Bruno Oberhammer , Austrian composer, organist and music teacher
• May 29: Jean-Louis Capette , French racing car driver († 2015)
• May 29: Héctor Yazalde , Argentinian football player († 1997)
• May 30: Dragan Džajić , Yugoslav soccer player
• May 30th: Eddy Ouwens , Dutch music producer and songwriter
• May 30th: Paul Podolay , Slovak-German politician
• May 30th: Wolfgang Seeliger , German conductor
• May 31: Gabriele Goettle , German journalist and writer
• May 31: Agnes Schierhuber , Austrian politician

June

• 0June 1st: Vera Beths , Dutch violinist
• 0June 1st: Brian Cox , British actor
• 0June 1: Werner Müller , German politician and manager († 2019)
• 0June 2nd: Lasse Hallström , Swedish director
• 0June 2: Inga Nielsen , Danish opera singer († 2008)
• 0June 2nd: Horst Pomplun , German entrepreneur
• 0June 2: Peter Sutcliffe , English serial killer († 2020)
• 0June 3: Michael Clarke , American drummer († 1993)
• 0June 3: Mohamed El Asar , Egyptian politician († 2020)
• 0June 3rd: Yvette Fontaine , Belgian racing car driver
• 0June 3rd: Penelope Wilton , British actress
• 0June 5: Herbert Prügl , Austrian motorcycle racer († 2007)
• 0June 5: Stefania Sandrelli , Italian actress
• 0June 6: Tony Levin , American musician

Tony Levin

• 0June 6th: Irena Protasewicz , Polish pianist and music teacher
• 0June 6: Sherwood Stewart , American tennis player
• 0June 7th: Manfred Ritschel , German soccer player
• 0June 8th: Anatoly Nikolayevich Amelin , Russian table tennis player
• 0June 8th: Pearlette Louisy , Governor General of St Lucia
• 0June 8: Eiji Morioka , Japanese boxer († 2004)
• 0June 8: Peter Renz , German writer
• 0June 8: Harvey Sachs , US-Canadian conductor, music historian, and music writer
• 0June 8: Alan Scarfe , British actor
• 0June 9: Didier Astruc , French chemist
• 0June 9th: Antonio Avati , Italian film producer and screenwriter
• 0June 9: Deyda Hydara , Gambian journalist († 2004)
• June 10: Mensje van Keulen , Dutch writer
• June 11: Svatopluk Čech , Czech clarinetist, saxophonist and arranger
• June 11: Paul Lynch , British-Canadian director
• June 11: Jan Petersen , Norwegian Conservative politician, lawyer and diplomat
• June 11: Richard Pietraß , German poet
• June 12th: Margot Queitsch , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• June 13: Julia Elizabeth Annas , American philosopher and historian of philosophy
• June 13: Ranulph Glanville , British philosopher and architect († 2014)
• June 13: Peter Spahn , German ancient historian
• June 14: Donald Trump , American entrepreneur and President

Donald Trump, 2011

• June 14: Ahmed Zahir , Afghan singer († 1979)
• June 15: Brigitte Fossey , French actress
• June 15: Michael Lynch , British historian
• June 15: Demis Roussos , Greek singer († 2015)
• June 16: Rick Adelman , American basketball coach
• June 16: John Jacob Astor VIII , British businessman, politician and peer
• June 16: Volker Blumentritt , German politician
• June 16: Milan Hurtala , Czechoslovak rower († 2021)
• June 16: Iain Matthews , British folk guitarist and singer
• June 17th: Eduardo Camaño , Argentine politician, President for 2 days
• June 17th: Gérard Grisey , French composer († 1998)
• June 17th: Peter Rosei , Austrian writer
• June 18: Victor Abagna Mossa , Congolese bishop
• June 18: Hanny Alders , Dutch bestselling author († 2010)
• June 18: Maria Bethânia , Brazilian singer, composer and songwriter
• June 18: Fabio Capello , Italian soccer player, soccer coach
• June 19: Arnjolt Beer , French athlete from New Caledonia
• June 19: András Haán , Hungarian basketball player, sailor and cardiac surgeon († 2021)
• June 19: Werner Reinke , German radio presenter
• June 20: Zeynep Ahunbay , Turkish architectural historian
• June 20: Tony Aitken , British actor
• June 20: Ahmed Benbitour , Algerian politician
• June 20: Xanana Gusmão , Minister and Former Prime Minister and President of East Timor

Xanana Gusmão

• June 20: Joseph Absi , Syrian clergyman, Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
• June 20: Zülfü Livaneli , Turkish composer, singer, writer and film director
• June 20: Bob Vila , Cuban-US host of home improvement television shows
• June 21: Rob Dyson , American racing car driver and team owner
• June 21: David Weiss , Swiss artist († 2012)
• June 21: Steve Merrill , American politician († 2020)
• June 22nd: Eliades Ochoa , Cuban guitarist and singer
• June 23: Rafik Schami , Syrian-German writer
• June 23: Franziska Wiethold , board member of ver.di
• June 25: Roméo Dallaire , Commander of the United Nations Blue Helmet Forces in Rwanda
• June 25: Ulrik le Fevre , Danish football player
• June 25th: Henk van Kessel , Dutch motorcycle racer
• June 25: Ana Lang , Swiss writer
• June 25: Wolfgang Mutzeck , German educationalist and university professor († 2009)
• June 26th: Maria von Welser , German television journalist
• June 26: Gerhard Tötschinger , Austrian actor and writer († 2016)
• June 27: Harald Augter , German lawyer and association official († 2015)
• June 27: Mária T. Bíró (Mária Tóthné Bíró), Hungarian archaeologist
• June 27: Zsuzsanna Gahse , German writer
• June 28: Robert Lynn Asprin , American writer († 2008)
• June 29: Peter Anders , German soccer player
• June 29th: Marie-France Broquet , French porn actress
• June 29: Egon von Fürstenberg , Swiss fashion designer († 2004)
• June 29th: Gitte Hænning , Danish singer
  

  Gitte Hænning , 2010
• June 29th: Ernesto Pérez Balladares , politician and President of Panama
• June 29th: Joelle Wallach , American composer and music teacher
• June 30th: Ginette Bellavance , Italian composer, singer and actress
• June 30: Helmut Dubiel , German sociologist and university professor († 2015)
• June 30th: Giles Swayne , British composer

July

• 0July 1: Stefan Aust , editor-in-chief of the news magazine Der Spiegel

Stefan Aust

• 0July 1: Hans-Michael Goldmann , German politician
• 0July 1st: Béla Korény , Austrian pianist, composer and concert organizer of Hungarian origin
• 0July 1: Clark Matis , American cross-country skier
• 0July 1: Mireya Moscoso , Panamanian President
• 0July 1st: Alceu Valença , carnival musician in Olinda
• 0July 2nd: Miklós Ajtai , Hungarian computer scientist
• 0July 2: Richard Axel , American physician, Nobel Prize winner
• 0July 2nd: Jean-Luc Darbellay , Swiss composer, conductor, clarinetist and doctor
• 0July 3: Johnny Lee , American country musician
• 0July 3: Leszek Miller , Polish politician and Prime Minister
• 0July 3: Bolo Yeung , Chinese film actor
• 0July 4th: Skeeter McKitterick , American racing car driver
• 0July 4: Michael Milken , American financier and investment banker
• 0July 4th: Birgit Schnieber-Jastram , German politician
• 0July 5th: Giuseppe Furino , Italian football player
• 0July 5th: Gerardus' t Hooft , Dutch physicist
• 0July 5: Gerd Lüdemann , theologian († 2021)
• 0July 6: George W. Bush , Texas Governor, 43rd President of the United States

George W. Bush

• 0July 6: Bernard Chenevière , Swiss racing driver
• 0July 6: Sylvester Stallone , American actor

Sylvester Stallone (2012)

• 0July 7th: Inga Abel , German actress († 2000)
• 0July 7: Girish Saran Agarwal , Indian-American physicist
• 0July 7: Kuno Bärenbold , German writer († 2008)
• 0July 9: Bon Scott , British-Australian rock musician († 1980)
• 0July 9th: Dudley Wood , British racing car driver
• July 10: Jacques Heuclin , French politician and racing car driver († 2007)
• July 10: Jean-Pierre Jarier , French racing car driver
• July 10: Sue Lyon , American actress († 2019)
• July 10: Regina Thoss , German singer
• July 11: Walter Franz Altherr , German politician
• July 11th: Roland Atz , Italian politician
• July 11th: Roland Bassaler , French racing car driver
• July 11th: Volker Harbs , German handball player
• July 11th: Kimiko Itō , Japanese jazz singer
• July 11th: Reino Laine , Finnish jazz bassist
• July 11: Michał Tarkowski , Polish actor, cabaret artist, screenwriter and director
• July 12th: Jens Beutel , German politician, Lord Mayor of Mainz († 2019)
• July 12: Roberto Castelli , Italian politician
• July 12: Seán Keane , Irish violinist
• July 12: Ricardo-Horacio Neumann , Argentinian soccer player († 2008)
• July 13: Pierre-Yves Artaud , French flautist, composer and music teacher
• July 13: Gabriele Gysi , German actress and director
• July 13: Wolfgang Heubisch , Bavarian politician
• July 13: Cheech Marin , American actor
• July 14: James Saunders , American ballet dancer and choreographer († 1996)
• July 15th: Hassanal Bolkiah , Sultan of Brunei
• July 15: Dieter Herzog , German soccer player
• July 15: Achim Mentzel , German musician and TV presenter († 2016)
• July 15: Linda Ronstadt , American singer and songwriter
• July 16: Monica Aspelund , Swedish singer
• July 16: Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Astapowski , Soviet football goalkeeper († 2012)
• July 16: Ron Yary , American football player
• July 17th: Alun Armstrong , British film and stage actor
• July 17th: Karl Peter Bruch , German politician
• July 17th: Eric Leman , Belgian cyclist
• July 17: David Young , Canadian writer
• July 18: Siegfried Broß , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• July 18: Michael Czerny , Czech-Canadian Jesuit, Curia Cardinal
• July 18: Svein Ludvigsen , Norwegian politician
• July 18: Mark Noll , American church historian and author
• July 18: Karel de Rooij , Dutch musician and cabaret artist
• July 19: Alan Gorrie , Australian musician and singer
• July 19: Ulli Martin , German pop singer
• July 19: Ilie Năstase , Romanian tennis player
• July 20: Roswitha Aulenkamp , German composer, piano teacher and pianist
• July 20: Pia Jarvad , Danish linguist
• July 20: Heorhij Kirpa , Minister of Transport of Ukraine († 2004)
• July 21: Mark Aizikovitch , German-Ukrainian klezmer singer and actor († 2013)
• July 21: Friedhelm Julius Beucher , German politician
• July 21: Domingo Cavallo , Argentine economist and politician
• July 21: Kenneth Starr , American lawyer and special investigator
• July 22nd: James Edgar , American politician
• July 22: Danny Glover , American actor

Danny Glover

• July 22nd: Mireille Mathieu , French singer

Mireille Mathieu (1971)

• July 23: Buffy Ettmayer , Austrian soccer player
• July 23: Andy Mackay , British musician
• July 23: Kenper Miller , American racing car driver and team owner
• July 23: David Noon , American composer and music educator
• July 24: William McKenzie, Baron McKenzie of Luton , British politician and life peer († 2021)
• July 25th: Rita Marley , Jamaican reggae musician of Cuban origin
• July 25: Hans Joachim Suchan , German civil servant and politician, administrative director of ZDF
• July 26th: Erwin Huber , German politician and Member of the State Parliament
• July 26th: Heiko Postma , German publicist, writer and translator
• July 26: Christian Rudzki , Argentine soccer player
• July 26th: Wolfgang Schneiderhan , General Inspector of the Bundeswehr
• July 27: Toqtar Aubäkirow , Kazakh military pilot and spaceman
• July 27: Donald Louis Evans , American politician
• July 27: Donny the Punk , American prisoner rights activist († 1996)
• July 27: Milan Šamko , German pianist and keyboard player († 2019)
• July 27: Matthias Schultheiss , German comic artist and author
• July 27: Rade Šerbedžija , Serbian actor
• July 28: Marty Hinze , American racing car driver and drug dealer
• July 28: Alexander Saprykin , Soviet volleyball player († 2021)
• July 29th: Stig Blomqvist , Swedish rally driver
• July 29: David Geringas , Lithuanian conductor and cellist living in Germany
• July 30: Gerald Freihofner , Austrian journalist († 2019)

August

• 0August 1st: Madeleine Amgwerd , Swiss politician
• 0August 1st: David Calder , British actor
• 0August 2nd: Inga Rumpf , German singer and composer
• 0August 3: Keith Lynn Ackerman , American bishop
• 0August 3rd: Jack Straw , British Labor Party politician
• 0August 3: Syreeta , American soul singer and songwriter († 2004)
• 0August 4th: Uri Mayer , Canadian conductor and violist
• 0August 5: Loni Anderson , American actress
• 0August 5th: Marie de Hennezel , French psychologist, psychotherapist and non-fiction author
• 0August 5: Shirley Ann Jackson , American physicist
• 0August 5th: Rick van der Linden , Dutch composer and keyboardist († 2006)
• 0August 6: Elisabeth Guigou , French politician
  

  Elisabeth Guigou
• 0August 6: Allan Holdsworth , English jazz guitarist († 2017)
• 0August 6th: Peter Simonischek , Austrian actor
• 0August 8: Michel Lateste , French racing car driver
• 0August 8: Ed Schafer , American politician
• 0August 8: Dragutin Šurbek , Croatian table tennis player († 2018)
• 0August 9: Carlos José Ñáñez , Archbishop of Cordoba
• August 10: Sergio Mariotti , Italian chess grandmaster
• August 10: Hans Joachim Teichler , German sports scientist
• August 11: Óscar Berger Perdomo , Guatemalan politician and President of Guatemala
• August 11: Marilyn vos Savant , American newspaper columnist
• August 11: Norbert Thom , German economist († 2019)
• August 11: Gerhard Wächter , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• August 12: Gerd Anthoff , German television, theater and folk actor
• August 13: Stefan Melak , Polish civil rights activist and journalist († 2010)
• August 14th: Fritz Aichinger , Austrian politician
• August 14: Larry Graham , Jr., American singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer
• August 14: Bjørn Howard Kruse , Norwegian composer and jazz musician
• August 14: Herbert Kubicek , Professor of Applied Computer Science
• August 16: Masud Barzani , Kurdish politician
• August 16: Friedhelm Loh , German entrepreneur
• August 16: Alexander Stephan , German-American Germanist († 2009)
• August 16: Lesley Ann Warren , American actress
• August 17th: Bernd Noske , German drummer and singer († 2014)
• August 17th: Helmut Pechlaner , director of the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna
• August 17th: Angel Romero , Spanish guitarist and conductor
• August 17th: Sammy Vomáčka , Czech guitarist
• August 18: Franz-Joseph Peine , German legal scholar († 2021)
• August 19: Bill Clinton , 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001
  

  Bill Clinton , 1993
• August 19: Willi Lemke , German football functionary and politician
  

  Willi Lemke
• August 19: Beat Raaflaub , Swiss conductor
• August 20: Peter Ambrozy , Austrian politician
• August 20: Henryk M. Broder , German-speaking journalist and writer
• August 20: Axel Dirx , German politician (SPD) and trade unionist (IG Metall) († 2017)
• August 20: Laurent Fabius , French politician
• August 20: Jürgen Hambrecht , German industrial manager
• August 20: Ralf Hütter , German musician, Kraftwerk
• August 20: Hans Meiser , German television presenter
  

  Hans Meiser, 2007
• August 20: Gudrun Schaich-Walch , German politician
• August 21: Suzie , Dutch-Swedish singer and artist († 2008)
• August 22: KC Cole , American science journalist and writer
• August 22: Raimund Krone , German actor and voice actor († 2021)
• August 23: Keith Moon , British musician († 1978)
• August 24: Victor David Akers , English football coach
• August 24th: Manfred Zapf , German soccer player
• August 25th: Arthur Heyne , German rower
• August 25: Franz Obermeier , German politician
• August 25: Charlie Sanders , American football player († 2015)
• August 26th: Albert Dufréne , French racing driver and entrepreneur
• August 26: Valerie Simpson , American songwriter and producer
• August 26: Mark Snow , American film music composer
• August 26: Alison Steadman , British actress
• August 27: Mamoun Fansa , Syrian prehistorian and museum director who lives and works in Germany
• August 27: Flossie Wong-Staal , virologist and molecular biologist († 2020)
• August 28: Anders Gärderud , Swedish athlete and Olympic champion
• August 28: Elena Mauti Nunziata , Italian opera singer
• August 29: Bob Beamon , American athlete
• August 29: Louis Dicaire , Canadian Auxiliary Bishop († 2020)
• August 30th: Anne-Marie of Denmark , Queen of Greece
• August 30th: Jacques Tardi , French comic artist

September

• 0September 1st: Barry Gibb , British singer, composer, producer
• 0September 1: Roh Moo-hyun , South Korean President († 2009)
• 0September 1st: Erich Schärer , Swiss bobsleigh driver
• 0September 2: Billy Preston , American soul musician († 2006)
• 0September 2nd: Angelika Volquartz , teacher and politician, Lord Mayor of Kiel
• 0September 3rd: William Brian Ashton , English rugby union player and coach
• 0September 3rd: René Pijnen , Dutch cyclist
• 0September 5: Lily Brett , Australian-American writer
• 0September 5th: Freddie Mercury , British rock singer († 1991)

Freddie Mercury

• 0September 7th: Massimo Fecchi , Italian comic artist
• 0September 7th: Francisco Varela , Chilean biologist and philosopher († 2001)
• 0September 8: Dirk Ahner , German economist
• 0September 8: LC Greenwood , American football player († 2013)
• 0September 8: Jochen Kelter , German writer
• 0September 8: Aziz Sancar , Turkish-American biochemist and geneticist
• September 10: Michèle Alliot-Marie , French politician
• September 10: Wieland Backes , German television presenter
• September 10: Jim Hines , American sprinter and Olympic champion
• September 11: Sandy Skoglund , American photographer and installation artist
• September 12: Siegfried C. Augustin , Austrian engineer († 2011)
• September 12: Minnie Bruce Pratt , American writer and university professor
• September 13: Frank Marshall , American film producer, director and actor
• September 14th: Kristian Pech , German writer
• September 15: Tommy Lee Jones , American actor
  

  Tommy Lee Jones
• September 15: Oliver Stone , American director

Oliver Stone

• September 17th: Barbara Weiler , German MEP
• September 18: Arthur Aeschlimann , Swiss lawyer
• September 18: Nicholas Clay , English actor († 2000)
• September 18: Hans Kollhoff , German architect
• September 18: Hans Podiuk , German politician
• September 18: Mark Steedman , British linguist and psychologist
• September 19: Louie Austen , Austrian musician
• September 19: John Robert Coghlan , English drummer
• September 20: Julian Kornhauser , Polish poet and literary critic
• September 20: Norbert Leben , German farmer and forest manager, association official and local politician
• September 21: Moritz Leuenberger , Swiss politician
• September 21: Dolores Schmidinger , Austrian actress and cabaret artist
• September 22nd: Guido Adler , German medic
• September 22: Hans-Joachim Beeskow , German Protestant theologian, church and art historian († 2021)
• September 22nd: Dieter Wiefelspütz , German politician and SPD member
• September 23: Enrico Catuzzi , Italian football player and coach († 2006)
• September 23: Franz Fischler , EU Commissioner, politician, minister
• September 23: Gisela Frick , German politician
• September 23: Brigitte Seebacher , German historian, journalist and publicist
• September 24: David Anspaugh , American director
• September 24: Natalia Utevlewna Arinbassarowa , Russian actress and ballerina
• September 24: Joe Greene , American football player
• September 24th: Marc Neikrug , American composer and pianist
• September 24th: Uschi Obermaier , German model
• September 24th: César Pedroso , Cuban pianist
• September 26: Andrea Dworkin , American feminist and sociologist († 2005)
• September 26th: Detlef Schubert , German State Secretary
• September 27: Nikos Anastasiadis , Cypriot politician
• September 28th: Jean-Claude Ferrarin , French racing car driver
• September 28th: Kenneth Knudsen , Danish jazz musician
• September 28: Manfred Weinreich , German rower
• September 29: Søren Asmussen , Danish mathematician and university professor
• September 29: Patricia Hodge , British actress
• September 30th: Jochen Mass , German racing car driver
• September 30th: Dan O'Bannon , American screenwriter and director († 2009)

October

• 0October 1: David John Arnold , British historian
• 0October 1st: Dave Holland , British jazz bassist and composer

Dave Holland

• 0October 2nd: Jean-Jacques Aillagon , French politician
• 0October 2nd: Ron Griffiths , British rock singer and guitarist
• 0October 2: Marie-Georges Pascal , French actress († 1985)
• 0October 3: Pat Arnold , American soul singer
• 0October 3: Tristan Keuris , Dutch composer and musician († 1996)
• 0October 3: Sheila Silver , American composer and music teacher
• 0October 3: Sigmar Solbach , German actor and voice actor
• 0October 4: Susan Sarandon , American actress
• 0October 4th: Francesco Speroni , Italian politician
• 0October 5th: Victor Monroe Armstrong , British stunt performer
• 0October 5th: Kjell Johansson , Swedish table tennis player († 2011)
• 0October 5: Edward Włodarczyk , Polish historian († 2021)
• 0October 6: Otmar Bernhard , German politician
• 0October 6: Alexandre de Carvalho Kaneko , Brazilian soccer player and entrepreneur († 2017)
• 0October 6: Millie Small , Jamaican pop and ska singer († 2020)
• 0October 7th: Valeria Bufanu , Romanian athlete and Olympian
• 0October 7th: Georg Danzer , Austrian songwriter and singer († 2007)

Georg Danzer, 2003

• 0October 8: Hanan Ashrawi , Palestinian politician
• 0October 8th: Jean-Jacques Brilleix , French film director
• 0October 8: Wolfgang Ender , Liechtenstein ski racer
• 0October 8: Alexander Gorshkov , Russian figure skater
• 0October 8: Dennis Kucinich , American politician
• 0October 8: Lennox Miller , Jamaican athlete († 2004)
• 0October 8: John T. Walton , American entrepreneur († 2005)
• 0October 9: Walt Koken , American banjo and fiddle player and singer
• 0October 9: Gert Loschütz , German writer
• October 10: Charles Dance , British actor
• October 10: John Prine , American country singer and songwriter († 2020)
• October 11: Rabah Belamri , Algerian writer († 1995)
• October 11: Daryl Hall , American pop singer
• October 11th: Sawao Katō , Japanese gymnast
  

  Sawao Kato
• October 11: George McCorkle , American musician and songwriter († 2007)
• October 11: EY Meyer , Swiss writer
• October 12: Christian Debias , French racing car driver († 2021)
• October 13: Karl-Heinz Betz , German biologist and journalist
• October 13: Ulrich Wutzke , German geologist, publisher and editor
• October 14: François Bozizé , President of the Central African Republic

François Bozizé

• October 14th: Justin Hayward , British singer, guitarist and songwriter
• October 15: Victor Banerjee , Indian actor
• October 15th: Palle Danielsson , Swedish jazz bassist
• October 15: Tessa de Loo , Dutch writer
• October 15: Herbert Napp , German lawyer and mayor of Neuss am Rhein
• October 16: Roger Dubos , French racing car driver († 1973)
• October 16: Carlos Ott , Canadian architect
• October 16: Wolfgang Rübsam , German-American organist and music teacher
• October 17th: Enzo Coloni , Italian racing car driver and racing team owner
• October 17: Adam Michnik , Polish essayist and political publicist
• October 17: Bob Seagren , American athlete
• October 17th: Wolfgang Welsch , German philosopher
• October 18: Michel Graillier , French jazz pianist († 2003)
• October 18: Howard Shore , Canadian composer and conductor
• October 19: Brigitte Baumeister , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• October 19: Jürgen Croy , German goalkeeper
• October 19: Philip Pullman , British writer
• October 20th: Lucien Van Impe , Belgian cyclist
• October 20: Elfriede Jelinek , Austrian writer

Elfriede Jelinek, 2004

• October 21: Marek Drewnowski , Polish pianist
• October 21: Werner Wenning , German manager
• October 23: Mel Martínez , American politician, Senator for Florida
• October 24: Everett Dunklee , American cross-country skier
• October 24th: Tina Richter , German handball player
• October 24th: Thorkild Thyrring , Danish racing car driver
• October 25: Elías Figueroa , Chilean football player
• October 25: Stephan Remmler , German singer, composer and music producer
• October 26: Maureen Anderman , American actress
• October 26: Pat Sajak , American presenter
• October 27: Ivan Reitman , Canadian director and film producer
• October 27: Martin-Christian Schmidt , German harpsichord maker and musical instrument restorer († 2000)
• October 27: Carrie Snodgress , American actress († 2004)
• October 27: Wolfgang Streeck , German sociologist
• October 29th: Peter Green , British blues rock guitarist and co-founder of the group Fleetwood Mac († 2020)
• October 30: William Thurston , American mathematician († 2012)
• October 30th: Chris Slade , British drummer

November

• 0November 1: Ric Grech , British rock musician († 1990)
• 0November 1st: Ingeborg Junge-Reyer , German politician
• 0November 1st: Dennis Muren , American special effects veteran of American cinema
• 0November 2: Giuseppe Sinopoli , Italian conductor, composer, physician and archaeologist († 2001)
• 0November 3rd: Helmut Frommhold , German rock musician, composer
• 0November 3: Reinhard Karl , German mountaineer, photographer and writer († 1982)

Tom Savini

• 0November 3: Tom Savini , American film actor, director
• 0November 4th: Csaba Ali , Hungarian swimmer († 2020)
• 0November 4: David Garibaldi , American drummer
• 0November 4th: Penny McLean , Austrian singer and author
• 0November 4th: Luciana Serra , Italian opera singer
• 0November 5: Gram Parsons , musician (country rock) († 1973)
• 0November 6: Jürgen Bartsch , German serial killer († 1976)

Sally Field

• 0November 6: Sally Field , American actress
• 0November 6th: Christa Heilmann , German speech scientist and university professor
• 0November 6th: Maximilian Lehmer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0November 6: George Young , Australian rock musician and record producer († 2017)
• 0November 6th: Dieter Zembski , German footballer
• 0November 6th: Hannelore Zober , German handball player
• 0November 7th: Wolfgang Arenhövel , German lawyer
• 0November 7th: Gilius van Bergeijk , Dutch composer and music teacher
• 0November 7th: Hans-Günter Bruckmann , German politician
• 0November 8: Sharon Brown , Canadian writer
• 0November 8: Peter Maiwald , German writer († 2008)
• 0November 8th: Roy Wood , British songwriter and guitarist
• 0November 9th: Josef Broukal , Austrian journalist and politician
• 0November 9: Benny Mardones , American singer-songwriter († 2020)
• November 10: Sissy de Mas , German TV presenter
• November 10th: Hannes Swoboda , Austrian politician
• November 11th: Al Holbert , American racing driver († 1988)
• November 11th: Andreas Reimann , German writer and graphic artist
• November 12: James F. Amos , American military man
• November 12: Krister Henriksson , Swedish actor
• November 12: Keith Claudius Mitchell , Prime Minister of Grenada
• November 13: Stanisław Barańczak , Polish poet, translator and literary scholar († 2014)
• November 13th: Katrin Eigenfeld , German politician
• November 13: Ray Wylie Hubbard , American country musician
• November 14: Jay Ungar , American fiddle player and composer
• November 15: Larry Cole , American football player
• November 15: Romain Feitler , Luxembourg racing driver
• November 15th: Rino Vernizzi , Italian bassoonist
• November 16: Halil Haxhosaj , Albanian writer
• November 16: Wolfgang Kleff , German soccer player
• November 16: Ole Olsen , Danish track athlete
• November 17th: Martin Barre , lead guitarist for Jethro Tull
• November 17: Terry Branstad , American politician
  

  Martin Barre
• November 18: Alan Dean Foster , American SF and fantasy writer
• November 19: Claus Asendorf , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• November 20: Duane Allman , slide guitar legend, rock and blues guitarist († 1971)
• November 20: Alice Aycock , American sculptor
• November 20: Algimantas Butnorius , Lithuanian chess grandmaster († 2017)
• November 20: James Donald Murray , American luge rider
• November 21: Helmut Bergfelder , German soccer player
• November 22nd: Gabriele von Arnim , German journalist and writer
• November 22: Aston Barrett , Jamaican reggae bassist (The Wailers)
• November 22nd: Friedhelm Mönter , German journalist and radio presenter († 2009)
• November 23: Agnes Buen Garnås , Norwegian folk singer
• November 23: Ludwig Bründl , German soccer player
• November 24: Josef Augusta , Czech ice hockey coach and player († 2017)
• November 24th: Ted Bundy , American serial killer († 1989)
• November 24th: Oscar Milani , German-Argentinian harpsichordist
• November 24th: Raphaël Bedros XXI. Minassian , Armenian Catholic clergyman, Patriarch of Cilicia
• November 24th: Kurt Segner , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• November 24: Tom Stincic , American football player
• November 25: Atiku Abubakar , Nigerian Vice President
• November 25: Werner Andres , German mechanical engineer and university professor († 2012)
• November 25: Michael Feast , British actor
• November 25th: Maximilian Herberger , university professor of law
• November 26th: Pfuri Baldenweg , Australian-Swiss musician and harmonica player
• November 26: Ray Kennedy , American singer († 2014)
• November 26: Art Shell , American football player and coach
• November 27: Gerhard Abstreiter , German semiconductor physicist
• November 27: Sabine Bard , German politician, Member of the Bundestag († 2016)
• November 27: Ludwig Fels , German writer († 2021)
• November 28th: Joe Dante , American film director
• November 29: Eamonn Campbell , Irish folk musician († 2017)
• November 29th: Franz Merkhoffer , German soccer player
• November 29: Karin Rehbock-Zureich , German politician
• November 29th: Silvio Rodríguez , Cuban songwriter
• November 30th: Marina Abramović , Serbian performance artist

December

• 0December 1st: Rudolf Buchbinder , Austrian concert pianist
• 0December 1st: Tunç Hamarat , Austrian chess player of Turkish descent
• 0December 1st: Gilbert O'Sullivan , Irish songwriter and singer
• 0December 2: Mark Hanson , American Lutheran bishop
• 0December 2: David Macaulay , American architect, art historian and graphic artist
• 0December 2nd: John Sheldon , British racing car driver
• 0December 2nd: Hans-Jürgen Veil , German wrestler
• 0December 2: Gianni Versace , Italian fashion designer († 1997)
• 0December 2nd: Franz Wurz , Austrian automobile racing driver
• 0December 3rd: Joop Zoetemelk , Dutch cyclist
• 0December 4th: Pierre Even , Luxembourg composer
• 0December 4th: Geert Mak , Dutch journalist and historian

Geert Mak

• 0December 5th: José Carreras , Spanish tenor
• 0December 5th: Andy Kim , Canadian singer
• 0December 5th: Hans Liechti , Swiss cameraman and director
• 0December 5th: Sarel van der Merwe , South African racing car driver
• 0December 5th: Tadeusz Sławek , Polish poet, essayist, translator, literary critic and scholar
• 0December 7th: Ernst Uhrlau , German secret service coordinator of the federal government
• 0December 8th: Jacques Bourboulon , French photographer
• 0December 8th: Noël Forgeard , French manager
• 0December 8: John B. Taylor , American economist
• 0December 9: Ahmadshah bin Abdullah , 9th ceremonial head of state of the Malaysian state of Sabah
• 0December 9th: Erich Beer , German soccer player
• 0December 9: Mervyn Davies , Welsh rugby player († 2012)
• 0December 9: Erich G. Fritz , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0December 9: Sonia Gandhi , Indian politician
  

  Sonia Gandhi, 2007
• December 10: Eberhard Aurich , 1st Secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ in the GDR
• December 10: Werner Brinkmann , sole director of Stiftung Warentest (1995–2011)
• December 10th: Flores Chaviano , Cuban composer, guitarist and conductor
• December 10th: Catherine Hiegel , French actress
• December 10th: Veronika von Quast , German actress
• December 11th: Werner E. Ablaß , German politician
• December 11th: Thorwald Dethlefsen , German esotericist and author († 2010)
• December 11th: Karl-Dieter Grüske , German economist and university professor
• December 11th: Susanne Kastner , German politician
• December 12th: Bruce Ditmas , American jazz drummer
• December 12th: Yasuo Kuwahara , Japanese mandolinist and composer († 2003)
• December 12: Renzo Zorzi , Italian racing car driver († 2015)
• December 13: Pierino Prati , Italian football player and coach († 2020)
• December 14th: Antony Beevor , British historian
• December 14th: Jane Birkin , British actress and singer
• December 14: Leon Botstein , American conductor and musicologist
• December 14th: Patty Duke , American actress († 2016)
• December 14: Julia Edenhofer , German author and radio presenter († 2018)
• December 14th: Ruth Fuchs , German athlete and politician
• December 14: Sanjay Gandhi , Indian politician, son of Indira Gandhi († 1980)
• December 14: Peter Lorimer , Scottish football player († 2021)
• December 14th: Stan Smith , American tennis player
• December 14th: Michael Vespoli , American rower
• December 15: Carmine Appice , American rock musician, drummer
• December 15: Comunardo Niccolai , Italian football player and coach
• December 15: Žarko Puhovski , Professor of Political Philosophy in Zagreb
• December 15: Christel Wehage , refugee from the German republic († 1970)
• December 16: Benny Andersson , Swedish singer and musician
• December 16: Ernst Hack , Austrian wrestler († 1986)
• December 16: Axel Heinzmann , German political activist († 2018)
• December 16: Trevor Pinnock , English conductor and harpsichordist
• December 16: Roland Sandberg , Swedish football player
• December 17th: Martin Smith , English drummer († 1997)
• December 18: Steve Biko , founder of the Black Consciousness movement († 1977)
• December 18: Rudolf Karl Krause , German politician
• December 18: Christian Peschke , German sculptor and painter († 2017)
• December 18: Steven Spielberg , American director, producer and screenwriter

Steven Spielberg

• December 19: Jean-Christophe Mitterrand , French President's son and advisor
• December 19: Werner Pfirter , Swiss motorcycle racer († 1973)
• December 19: Robert Urich , American actor († 2002)
• December 20: Georges Darms , Swiss Indo-European and Romanist
• December 20: Uri Geller , Israeli stage magician
• December 20: Dick Wolf , American producer
• December 21: Donald A. Carson , American professor of theology, New Testament scholar, and author
• December 21: Roderich Feldes , German writer († 1996)
• December 21: Carl Wilson , American musician (The Beach Boys) († 1998)
• December 22nd: Karin Oehme , German actress
• December 23: Luther Grosvenor , British rock musician
• December 23: Edita Gruberová , Slovak soprano († 2021)
• December 24th: Jan Akkerman , Dutch musician, rock and jazz guitarist
• December 24th: Vittorio Giardino , Italian comic artist and author
• December 24th: Erwin Pröll , Austrian politician and governor of Lower Austria
• December 24th: Andrew Yao , Chinese-American computer scientist
• December 25: Jimmy Buffett , American singer and songwriter
• December 25th: Tina Rainford , German singer
• December 25th: Reinhard Rauball , German lawyer and sports official
• December 26th: Bruno Gehrig , Swiss manager
• December 26th: Joseph Sifakis , Greek-French computer scientist
• December 26: Uli Stein , German cartoonist († 2020)
• December 27th: Schiffkowitz , Austrian musician
• December 27th: Hans Weder , Swiss theologian specializing in the New Testament
• December 28: Pierre Falardeau , French-Canadian director and political activist († 2009)
• December 28: Werner Faulstich , German media scientist († 2019)
• December 28: Edgar Winter , American musician
• December 29: Syed Shahid Ali , Pakistani sports official
• December 29th: Olimpia Carlisi , Italian actress
• December 29th: Marianne Faithfull , British musician and actress
• December 29th: Gilles Peress , French photo reporter
• December 30th: Willibald Böck , German politician († 2016)
• December 30th: Clive Bunker , English drummer
• December 30th: Marc Forné Molné , Andorran politician
• December 30th: Gerry Neef , German soccer player († 2010)
• December 30th: Patti Smith , American rock musician and rock poet
• December 30th: Berti Vogts , German soccer player and coach

Berti Vogts

• December 31: Werner Adler , German soccer player
• December 31: Diane von Fürstenberg , Belgian-American fashion designer
• December 31: Lyudmila Pachomowa , Russian figure skater († 1986)

Day unknown

• Pacita Abad , American painter († 2004)
• Roland Adolph , German clergyman († 1997)
• Miyoko Akashi , Japanese diplomat
• Akinbode Akinbiyi , British-Nigerian photographer
• Erol Aksoy , Turkish entrepreneur
• Wolfgang von Ancken , German politician
• Claudine André , Belgian-Congolese art dealer, animal rights activist and author
• Ingrid Anker , German social scientist and politician
• Doris Arden , German actress
• Marie-Paul Armand , French writer († 2011)
• Martin Arnold , German peace researcher
• Ole Arntzen , Norwegian ski jumper, ski jumping trainer and official († 2013)
• Muzaffer Metin Ataç , Turkish admiral
• Pidder Auberger , German visual artist and photographer († 2012)
• Robert Hamilton Austin , American biophysicist
• Bernhard Baier , German actor
• Jürgen Bevers , German journalist and radio play author
• Rainer Bloß , German keyboardist and synthesizer specialist († 2015)
• Krystyna Borucińska , Polish pianist and music teacher
• Christoph Busch , German radio play and screenwriter and photographer
• Nadir adh-Dhahabi , Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Jordan
• Egidius Doll , German organist
• Eckhard Dörr , German visual artist
• Ángel Serafín Seriche Dougan , Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea
• Faradsch Fauda , Egyptian agronomist, publicist, intellectual and political activist († 1992)
• Danuta Gleed , Canadian writer († 1996)
• Leona Gom , Canadian writer and university professor
• Ralph Heid , Swiss xylophone player († 2008)
• Ellen Hellwig , German actress, radio play and voice actress
• Martin Hotton , English composer
• Huang Huahua , Chinese politician
• Thomas L. Jentz , American author († 2012)
• Brigitte Lämmle , German television psychologist
• Luis Lamprecht , German actor
• Lin Shusen , Chinese politician
• Ada Mee , German artist
• Michael Müller , German art and architecture historian
• Junior Murvin , possibly also a Jamaican reggae musician born in 1949 († 2013)
• Axel Scheibchen , German radio play author and director
• Michael Sladek , German doctor and environmental activist
• Ursula Sladek , German entrepreneur
• Vassilis Stavrakakis , Greek singer
• Angelika Thomas , German actress
• Adri van Velsen , Dutch tenor saxophonist and music teacher
• Vadim Zakharov , Russian pianist
• Lü Zushan , Chinese politician
• Conrad Zwicky , Swiss violist and composer

Died

January

• 0January 2: Eduard Kado , German painter, draftsman, sculptor and craftsman (* 1875)

Gustav Witt

• 0January 3: Gustav Witt , German astronomer (* 1866)
• 0January 4th: Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the Younger , German theologian (* 1877)
• 0January 5: Eduardo Brito , Dominican opera and tzarzuela singer (baritone) (* 1905)
• 0January 8: Paula Müller-Otfried , German women's rights activist and politician (* 1865)
• 0January 9: Countee Cullen , American writer (born 1903)
• January 17th: Armando Donoso , Chilean essayist, journalist, editor and literary critic (* 1886)
• January 18: Julio Fossa Calderón , Chilean painter (* 1874)
• January 18: Ludwig Huber , German farmer and politician (* 1889)
• January 19: Johannes Abromeit , German botanist (* 1857)
• January 19: Frank Stephen Meighen , Canadian officer and patron of the arts (* 1870)
• January 23: Heinrich Bongartz , German fighter pilot in World War I (* 1892)
• January 25: Martin Möbius , German botanist (* 1859)
• January 29: Harry Hopkins , American politician (* 1890)
• January 29: Sidney Jones , English composer and conductor (* 1861)
• January 29: Bolesława Maria Lament , Polish nun, founder of the order and blessed (* 1862)
• January 30th: Carl Gröpler , German executioner (* 1868)
• 000January: Margarete Adam , German university professor (* 1885)

February

• 0February 1: Hans Bethge , German poet (* 1876)
• 0February 4: Herbert Baker , British architect (* 1862)
• 0February 5: Bernd von Arnim , German Slavist (* 1899)
• 0February 6: Gustav Böß , German politician, Lord Mayor of Berlin (* 1873)
• 0February 7th: Karl Kalbfleisch , German classical philologist (* 1868)

Felix Hoffmann

• 0February 8: Felix Hoffmann , German chemist (* 1868)
• February 12: Adolf Lorenz , Austrian orthopedist (* 1854)
• February 13: Harold S. Bucquet , American film director of English origin (* 1891)
• February 15: Hans Woldemar Schack , German botanist (* 1878)
• February 18: Frédéric Auckenthaler , Swiss ice hockey player (* 1899)
• February 19: Esther von Kirchbach , German publicist (* 1894)
• February 22nd: André Jolles , Dutch literary scholar (* 1874)
• February 24: Hugh Allen , British conductor, organist and music teacher (* 1869)
• February 24th: Heinrich XXXIX. , Paraglider of Reuss-Köstritz (* 1891)
• February 24: René Le Bègue , French racing car driver (* 1914)
• February 28: Eriks Ādamsons , Latvian writer (* 1907)

March

Clemens August Graf von Galen († March 22)

• 0March 6: William Henry Wills , American politician (* 1882)
• March 10: Karl Haushofer , German military and geopolitician (* 1869)
• March 10: Karl Hans Strobl , Austrian writer (* 1877)
• March 11: Ahmad Kasravi , Iranian linguist, historian and philosopher (* 1890)
• March 11: George Walter Caldwell , American ENT doctor, painter and writer (* 1866)
• March 12: József Gera , Hungarian pediatrician, politician and National Socialist (* 1896)
• March 13: Werner von Blomberg , German general and minister (* 1878)
• March 13: Thomas Dunhill , English composer (* 1877)
• March 14: José Saldías , Argentine writer and journalist (* 1891)
• March 14: Hubert D. Stephens , American politician (* 1875)
• March 18: Jules Amiguet , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1867)
• March 20: Henry Handel Richardson , Australian writer (* 1870)
• March 22nd: Clemens August Graf von Galen , German Cardinal (* 1878)
• March 23: Francisco Largo Caballero , Spanish politician and Prime Minister (* 1869)
• March 23: Gilbert Newton Lewis , American physical chemist (* 1875)
• March 24th: Alexander Alekhine , Russian chess master (* 1892)
• March 25: Ludwig Deubner , German classical philologist and religious scholar (* 1877)
• March 26: Alexandru Zirra , Romanian composer (* 1883)
• March 27: Octave Aubry , French historian and writer (* 1881)
• March 31: Martin Davey , American politician (* 1884)
• March 31: Takeda Rintarō , Japanese writer (* 1904)

April

John Maynard Keynes († April 21)

• 0April 1: Cesare Orsenigo , apostolic nuncio in Germany (* 1873)
• 0April 3: Homma Masaharu , Japanese command officer (* 1887)
• 0April 4: Hans Bothmann , second head of the Chelmno extermination camp (* 1911)
• 0April 5: Gottlieb Löffler , German painter (* 1868)
• 0April 5: Vincent Youmans , American composer (* 1898)
• 0April 8: A. Victor Donahey , American politician (* 1873)
• April 15: Adelgunde of Portugal , Duchess of Guimarães and an Infanta of Portugal (* 1858)
• April 18: Franz Heinrich Achermann , Swiss clergyman and author (* 1881)
• April 19: Rikichi Andō , Japanese general (* 1884)
• April 20: Ernesto Buonaiuti , Italian theologian (* 1881)
• April 20: Paul Wirth , Sorbian Slavist and linguist (* 1906)
• April 21: John Maynard Keynes , English mathematician and economist (* 1883)
• April 22nd: Lionel Atwill , British-American film and stage actor (* 1885)
• April 23: Jesús Castillo , Guatemalan composer (* 1877)
• April 25: Oswald Adolf Erich , German painter and folklorist (* 1883)
• April 26th: Hermann von Keyserling , German philosopher (* 1880)
• April 28: Ricardo Richon Brunet , Chilean painter and art critic (* 1866)

May

• 0May 1: Edward Bairstow , English organist, pedagogue, composer, choir director and conductor (* 1874)
• 0May 3: Heinz Kükelhaus , German travel journalist, novelist and adventurer (* 1902)
• 0May 3: Clara Lichtenstein , English pianist and music teacher (* around 1860)
• 0May 5: Lothar König , German Jesuit, active in the resistance against National Socialism (* 1906)
• 0May 6: Alcides Arguedas , Bolivian writer, politician and historian (* 1879)
• 0May 6: Erhard Kutschenreuter , German composer (* 1873)
• 0May 7: Gustav Robert Löscher , writer and educator (* 1881)
• 0May 9: William Cabell Bruce , American politician (* 1860)
• May 12: Germain Lefebrve , Canadian singer, choir director and music teacher (* 1889)
• May 19: John Tener , American politician and baseball player (* 1863)
• May 20: Emil Frey , Swiss composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1889)
• May 24: Merritt Mechem , American politician (* 1870)
• May 28: Carter Glass , American politician (* 1858)
• May 29: Karl Janisch , German mechanical engineer and industrial manager, honorary citizen of Piesteritz (* 1870)

Karl Janisch

June

• 0June 1: Mihai Antonescu , Romanian politician (* 1904)
• 0June 3: Mikhail Kalinin , Soviet politician (* 1875)
• 0June 4: James Francis Kenney , Canadian historian, archivist and Celtologist (* 1884)

Gerhart Hauptmann , 1914

• 0June 6: Gerhart Hauptmann , German writer and playwright (* 1862)
• 0June 7th: Ted Mellors , British motorcycle racer (* 1907)
• 0June 8: Paul Adler , German writer (* 1878)
• 0June 9th: Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII.), King of Thailand (* 1925)
• June 13: Julio Ortíz de Zárate , Chilean painter and sculptor (* 1885)
• June 17: Joe Dawson , American racing car driver (* 1889)
• June 20: Gobulo Wanrong , last empress of the Qing dynasty in China, later Empress of Manchukuo (* 1906)
• June 23: William S. Hart , American filmmaker and actor (* 1864)
• June 25: Albert H. Roberts , American politician (* 1868)
• June 27: Juan Antonio Ríos Morales , Chilean politician (* 1888)

July

• 0July 1st: Sytse Frederick Willem Koolhoven , Dutch racing car driver, aircraft designer and entrepreneur (* 1886)
• 0July 3: Alfred Karl Hermann Schultze , German legal scholar and legal historian (* 1864)
• 0July 4th: Othenio Abel , Austrian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist (* 1875)
• 0July 8: Alexander Alexandrow , Russian composer (* 1883)
• July 13: Franz Arczynski , German trade union official and politician (* 1886)
• July 13: Alfred Stieglitz , American photographer (* 1864)
• July 14th: George Riley Puckett , American country singer (* 1894)
• July 14: Jorge Ubico Castañeda , Guatemalan President (* 1878)
• July 17th: Florence Fuller , Australian painter (* 1867)
• July 17th: Dragoljub Draža Mihailović , Serbian general (* 1893)
• July 18: Gilbert de Rudder , pseudonym Grizzly , Belgian motorcycle racer (* 1911)
• July 25: Narcissus Kaspar Ach , German psychologist and university professor (* 1871)
• July 26th: Heinrich Andergassen , Austrian SS officer (* 1908)
• July 27: Gertrude Stein , Jewish-American writer (* 1874)
• July 28: Robert Mazaud , French racing driver (* 1906)

August

HG Wells († August 13)

Wilhelm Marx

• 0August 1: Andrei Vlasov , Russian general (* 1901)
• 0August 4th: Raoul Paquet , Canadian organist, music teacher and composer (* 1893)
• 0August 5: Wilhelm Marx , Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (* 1863)
• 0August 8: María Barrientos , Spanish opera singer (* 1884)
• August 11: Walter Hamelehle , German motorcycle racer (* 1912)
• August 12: Alfred Stock , German chemist (* 1876)
• August 13: HG Wells , British writer (* 1866)
• August 14: Robert Wagner , Nazi Gauleiter of Baden (* 1895)
• August 15: Charles Amberg , German librettist, songwriter and composer (* 1894)
• August 18: Nils Georg Åberg , Swedish long and triple jumper (* 1893)
• August 21: Alfredo Gómez Jaime , Colombian poet (* 1878)
• August 22nd: Döme Sztójay , Hungarian military and politician (* 1883)
• August 24th: Antonio Paoli , Puerto Rican opera singer (* 1871)
• August 29: Chino Shōshō , Japanese Germanist and translator (* 1883)
• August 30: Grigory Semjonow , General in the Russian Civil War (* 1890)

September

• 0September 2: Chino Masako , Japanese poet (* 1880)

Paul Lincke

• 0September 3: Paul Lincke , German composer and Kapellmeister (* 1866)
• 0September 5: John I. Cox , American politician, governor of Tennessee (* 1855)
• 0September 6: Alfred Körte , German classical philologist (* 1866)
• 0September 6: Erich Sichting , KPD politician, anti-fascist and sports functionary (* 1896)
• 0September 7th: Paul Zech , German writer (* 1881)
• 0September 9: Violet Jacob , Scottish writer (* 1863)
• September 13: Amon Göth , Commander of the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp - Cracow (* 1908)
• September 13: Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lansere , Russian or Soviet painter (* 1875)
• September 15: Elkan Nathan Adler , British lawyer and academic traveler (* 1861)
• September 18: Charles O. Andrews , American politician (* 1877)
• September 21: Itami Mansaku , Japanese director and screenwriter (* 1900)

Heinrich George

• September 25: Heinrich George , German actor (* 1893)
• September 25: Franz von Hoeßlin , German conductor (* 1885)
• September 26: Alfons Breska Czech poet and translator (* 1873)
• September 30th: Jan Heřman , Czech pianist and music teacher (* 1886)

October

• 0October 1: Guy Park , American politician, governor of Missouri (* 1872)
• 0October 2: Eduard Bass , Czech writer, journalist, singer, actor, reciter, cenferencier and lyricist (* 1888)

Gifford Pinchot

• 0October 4: Gifford Pinchot , American forest scientist, politician and environmentalist (* 1865)
• 0October 6: Otto Barsch , German geologist and geophysicist (* 1879)
• 0October 6: Per Albin Hansson , Swedish politician and Prime Minister (* 1885)
• 0October 6: Morimoto Kaoru , Japanese playwright (* 1912)
• 0October 7: Ewald von Demandowsky , National Socialist Reichsfilmdramaturg (* 1906)
• 0October 8: Gustav Wilhelm Johannes von Zahn , German geographer (* 1871)
• 0October 9: Israel Aharoni , Israeli zoologist (* 1882)
• 0October 9: Ernst Münch , German forest scientist (* 1876)
• October 12: Giuseppe Adami , Italian playwright, librettist, screenwriter and music critic (* 1878)
• October 14: Franz Baumgartner , Austrian architect (* 1876)
• October 15: Hermann Göring , National Socialist politician and minister (* 1893)
• October 16: Granville Bantock , English composer (* 1868)
• October 16: Hans Frank , National Socialist politician (* 1900)
• October 16: Wilhelm Frick , National Socialist politician and minister (* 1877)
• October 16: Alfred Jodl , German Colonel General (* 1890)
• October 16: Ernst Kaltenbrunner , Austrian National Socialist and head of the Reich Security Main Office (* 1903)
• October 16: Wilhelm Keitel , German Field Marshal General (* 1882)
• October 16: Joachim von Ribbentrop , politician during the time of National Socialism (* 1893)
• October 16: Alfred Rosenberg , ideologist and National Socialist politician (* 1893)
• October 16: Fritz Sauckel , German politician, General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment (* 1894)
• October 16: Arthur Seyß-Inquart , National Socialist politician (* 1892)
• October 16: Julius Streicher , National Socialist politician and editor of "Stürmer" (* 1885)
• October 21: Artur Streiter , German writer and anarchist (* 1905)
• October 22: Henry Bergman , American actor (* 1868)
• October 22: Phillips Lee Goldsborough , American politician (* 1865)
• October 22: Homer Ledbetter , American football player (born 1910)
• October 23: Kurt Daluege , SS-Oberstgruppenführer and Chief of the Ordnungspolizei (* 1897)
• October 28: Manuel Ortiz de Zárate , Chilean painter (* 1887)
• October 30: Mamie Smith , American singer, dancer and actress (* 1891)

November

• 0November 4: Josef Mesk , Austrian classical philologist (* 1869)
• 0November 5: Arthur Liebert , German philosopher (* 1878)

Sigismond Stojowski

• 0November 5: Sigismond Stojowski , Polish pianist and composer (* 1870)
• 0November 7th: Henry Lehrman , silent film actor, director and producer (* 1886)
• 0November 7th: Louis Otten , Dutch football player and medic (* 1883)
• November 13: Kurt Arndt , German chemist (* 1873)
• November 14th: Manuel de Falla , Spanish composer (* 1876)
• November 16: Giovanni Anfossi , Italian composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1864)
• November 18: James John "Jimmy" Walker , American politician and Mayor of New York City (* 1881)
• November 20: I Gusti Ngurah Rai , Indonesian freedom fighter (* 1917)
• November 24: Alfonso Broqua , Uruguayan composer (* 1876)
• November 27: Max Dreyer , German writer and playwright (* 1862)
• November 27th: Alfred Götze , German philologist and Germanist (* 1876)
• November 28: Nusch Éluard , Franco-German actress, model and surrealist muse (* 1906)
• November 30th: Gustav Noske , SPD politician (* 1868)

December

• 0December 1: Emmy von Egidy , German sculptor and writer (* 1872)
• 0December 4: Ernst Kornemann , German ancient historian (* 1868)
• 0December 6: Charles Stewart , Canadian politician (* 1868)
• 0December 7th: Georges Malfait , French athlete (* 1878)
• December 12th: Renée Falconetti , French actress (* 1892)
• December 21: Armando Augusto Salgado Freire , Portuguese guitarist and composer (* 1891)
• December 21: Eugene Talmadge , American politician (* 1884)
• December 25: WC Fields , American comedian and author (* 1880)
• December 26th: Franjo Bučar , Croatian writer and sports official; Father of Olympic Sports in Croatia (* 1866)
• December 26th: Max Warburg , German banker (* 1867)
• December 28: Ada Sara Adler , Danish classical philologist and librarian (* 1878)
• December 29: James Thomas Milton Anderson , Canadian politician (* 1878)

Day unknown

• Rudolf von Arps-Aubert , German art historian and museum director (* 1894)
• Franz Hoffmann , Austrian military bandmaster and composer (* 1872)
• Emilio Perea , Italian opera singer (* 1884)

Nobel Prizes

Percy Williams Bridgman

• Physics : Percy W. Bridgman
• Chemistry : James Batcheller Sumner , John Howard Northrop, and Wendell Meredith Stanley
• Medicine : Hermann Joseph Muller
• Literature : Hermann Hesse
• Nobel Peace Prize : Emily Greene Balch and John Raleigh Mott

Web links

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