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1947
General Marshall develops the Marshall Plan named after him , which played a decisive role in the reconstruction of West Germany.
India gains independence.	US President Harry S. Truman promulgates the Truman Doctrine .

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In 1947 the ideological differences between the emerging Eastern Bloc and the western world became clearer. In the first few months after the end of the war, the commonalities of the four victorious powers in regulating the post-war order were still in the foreground, but the emerging Cold War increasingly divided the previously united war coalition of the Allies. This is particularly clear in the Truman Doctrine , in which the US President warns against "direct or indirect aggression" by "totalitarian regimes" - the Soviet Union is not named, but the reference is obvious.

overview

Europe

Central and Southeastern Europe

In the states of central and south-eastern Europe, the communist party was initially only one political force among several; the office of head of government lay in the hands of a bourgeois politician who led a Popular Front government in which the communists were mostly responsible for internal security.

With the help of the Soviet occupying forces, the CP now manages to seize political power in Poland , Hungary , Romania and Bulgaria , using a mixture of legal means and threats; It is not uncommon for the political opponent to be denigrated as fascist and subjected to reprisals. In Czechoslovakia , the communist Klement Gottwald holds the post of head of government, but he first has to consider the twelve middle-class ministers in his government.

Tito in Yugoslavia , on the other hand, leads a socialist people's republic that managed to liberate itself from German occupation to a large extent and can therefore appear self-confident in relation to the Soviet Union and the emerging Eastern bloc .

Germany

Marshall Plan aid in West Berlin

In the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) the development towards a reorganization of society also continues. The communist-oriented SED has been the dominant force in the country since the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED in April 1946. In 1947, important points were also set in the economic field; thus the German Economic Commission is set up, which controls economic life in the SBZ centrally from East Berlin.

Since meanwhile economic life is being rebuilt on a capitalist basis in the western zones of Germany, a uniform economic policy for Germany is increasingly becoming impossible. Offers by the USA to also support Eastern European states and the Soviet Zone with Marshall Plan aid are viewed by the Soviet Union as Western propaganda; the Soviet Union forces Czechoslovakia to revoke the announced acceptance of aid. The conference of the prime ministers of the four zones of occupation ( June 5th and 6th, 1947 in Munich ) is broken off without result. On January 1, 1947, the British and US American zones were merged into the Bizone ; this appears as a further step towards the division of Germany .

The hunger winter of 1946/47 is extremely cold; there is a lack of food, fuel and much else. At the beginning of May 1947, the ration cards stated a thin slice of bread every day and 210 grams of fat every month. The summer becomes extremely hot (summer of the century ); there are crop failures . Many people die from malnutrition and infectious diseases. Another very cold winter of 1947/48 further aggravated the situation.

Greece and Turkey

The Truman Doctrine referred to specifically refers to the states of Greece and Turkey , to which Truman promised aid of 400 million dollars.

In March 1946 , communist insurgents started the Greek Civil War in Greece . They are supported by communist neighbors Albania , Yugoslavia and Bulgaria . Great Britain supported the Greek army with weapons and military advisers until March 1947 and then asked the USA for support. The US supported Greece under the Truman Doctrine beginning March 12, 1947.

Malta

Malta is granted self-government as a parliamentary democracy by Britain.

Asia

Iran

The influence of the Soviet Union in Iran can be successfully pushed back. In Iran, with the help of Soviet troops, the Kurds and Azerbaijanis had their own state system directly on the Turkish border (see Iran Crisis ); these will be reintegrated into the Iranian state after the withdrawal of the Soviet troops (more here ).

Palestine

UN partition plan for Palestine

Meanwhile, tensions in Palestine have less to do with international bloc formation than with religious differences. In Palestine, the immigration of Jews has assumed increasingly dramatic proportions. The sending back of the “Exodus” refugees to Europe, even to the hated Germany, caused an international sensation and documented for many that the British authorities were overwhelmed with the problem. The question of how to proceed after the planned end of the British mandate in Palestine in May 1948 is also a concern of the UN, which is drawing up a partition plan, which, however, has met with fierce criticism from Jewish extremists and on the Arab side. The attacks on the British occupying power and the incidents between Jewish settlers and Palestinians are becoming even more acute.

China

In the Republic of China , the advance of the communist troops under Mao continues slowly without any significant breakthroughs in the civil war there.

India

British India gains independence in August and is divided into two independent states , India and Pakistan , under the Mountbatten Plan . More than ten million people are resettled in the other country. Tensions between Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India immediately erupted over the question of which of the two new states Kashmir should belong to. The population of this principality is religiously mixed. Maharaja Hari Singh 's decision to join India prompts Muslim militias, backed by Pakistan, to begin operations in western Kashmir on October 22. Indian troops then land in the Kashmir valley and the First Indo-Pakistani War ensues . This ends on January 1, 1949 with an armistice (without a peace agreement) with a de facto partition of Kashmir.

Japan

In Japan, under the American occupation government, the post-war constitution is enacted, which contains some unique formulations such as Article 1, the tennō as the "symbol" of the state, and Article 9, the renunciation of war.

Taiwan

With the February 28 incident , a popular uprising begins.

events

politics and world affairs

January

• 1 January: Philipp Etter becomes President of Switzerland for the third time .
• January 1: Foundation of the " Bizone ": The American and British zones of occupation are combined to form a single economic area. The French zone will be connected later.

George C Marshall

• 1 January: The Netherlands becomes a member of UNESCO .
• January 1 Mining is nationalized in Britain .
• January 7: George C. Marshall becomes the new Secretary of State, succeeding James F. Byrnes .
• January 10: The UN takes over the administration of the city of Trieste .
• January 16: Vincent Auriol becomes President of France .
• January 19: In the first parliamentary elections in Poland , the communist-dominated "Democratic Bloc" made up of the Workers' Party, Socialist Party, People's Party and Democratic Party receives, according to official figures, 80.1% of the votes. However, critics speak of massive election fraud, in fact the bloc only reached 50%.
• January 22: Ecuador becomes a member of UNESCO.
• January 22: Paul Ramadier succeeds Léon Blum as head of government in France.
• January/February: One of the coldest winters in living memory in Central Europe.

February

• February 1: Alcide De Gasperi forms a cabinet in Italy made up of Christian Democrats, Communists and Left Socialists.
• February 3: The CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia passes its Ahlen Program , which is based on Christian socialism . It is never put into practice in this version, the social market economy gains the upper hand two years later.
• February 5: Bolesław Bierut becomes President of Poland .
• February 7: In the British zone, 1.5 million Germans are amnestied as followers as part of the denazification process.
• 10 February: Paris Peace Treaties with Finland , Italy, Hungary , Romania and Bulgaria .
• February 22: The Association of People Persecuted by the Nazi Regime (VVN) is founded.

Logo of the VVN-BdA

• February 25: The Allied Control Council of the victorious powers of the Second World War finally dissolves the state of Prussia with Law No. 46 .
• 25 February: In Austria, Paula von Preradović 's Land der Berge, Land am Strome becomes the anthem text of the second republic by decision of the Council of Ministers.

March

• March 1: The IMF begins its work.
• March 6: Liberia becomes a member of UNESCO.
• March 8: Founding of the Democratic Women's League in Berlin.
• March 10: A foreign ministers' conference of the four Allies begins in Moscow . Agreement was only reached on the decision to dissolve Prussia . Because of the disagreement on questions of economic policy in occupied Germany and the question of how to achieve a German central government, the conference on April 24 ends without any results.
• March 12: Truman Doctrine , beginning of American policy of containment .
• March 15 Muslim-Hindu riots end in Punjab , killing over 1,000 in two weeks.
• March: The winter of 1946/47 was extremely cold; the western European rivers were frozen. When the thaw sets in, heavy ice flows on the rivers .
• March 18: Ice floes and flotsam cause all bridges on the Weser to collapse in Bremen ( Bremen ice catastrophe )
• March 19: Paul-Henri Spaak becomes Prime Minister of Belgium for the third time . He succeeds Camille Huysmans and heads a Socialist Christian Democratic government ( Spaak III Government )
• March 25: The Netherlands and Indonesia conclude the Treaty of Linggajati .
• March 29: On Madagascar several months begin

Riots against French colonial rule .

April

• 1 April to 10 April: 36 Liberals meet at Mont Pèlerin in Switzerland at the invitation of Friedrich Hayek ; Foundation of the Mont Pelerin Society .
• April 1: Paul I takes his oath of office as King of Greece . He is the successor of his deceased brother Georg II.
• April 2: The UN hands over the Japanese possessions in the Pacific to the US in trust.
• April 10: Syria becomes a member of the IBRD ( International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ), IMF ( International Monetary Fund ) and the World Bank .
• April 17: In the Milch trial , former Field Marshal Erhard Milch is sentenced to life imprisonment; he was released early in 1954.
• April 17: The 2nd Congress of the FDGB takes place in East Berlin .
• April 18: Around 6.7 kilotons of explosives are detonated on Helgoland to destroy the bunkers there , which corresponds to half the explosive force of the Hiroshima bomb .

Frederick IX as crown prince

• 20 April: Change of throne in Denmark : The deceased Christian X is succeeded by Frederick IX.
• April 20: State elections are held in the British zone: in Lower Saxony the SPD wins 66 seats ahead of the CDU with 31; in North Rhine-Westphalia , the CDU has 92 seats, ahead of the SPD with 64 and the KPD with 28; in Schleswig-Holstein the SPD wins with 43 seats ahead of the CDU with 22.
• April 22: The US Senate approves Truman's proposed aid to Greece and Turkey .
• April 25: The Socialists become the strongest party in the lower house elections in Japan , while independents win a majority of the seats in the parallel upper house elections.
• April 25: The German Trade Union Confederation is founded in the British zone, chaired by Hans Böckler .
• April 28: Two former World Esperanto Unions merge under the old name "Universala Esperanto-Ascoio".

May

• May 3: The new Japanese constitution comes into force.
• May 3: IG Farben trial begins against 23 company executives. In July 1948 the verdicts were handed down, twelve of the accused were sentenced to prison terms.
• May 4: The communist ministers from the French government of Paul Ramadier resign from the cabinet because of differences in the wage policy .
• May 4: In Akko , the Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Tzwa'i Le'umi frees 189 members from the British prison of Akkon .
• May 8: Completion of the Zhengtai Campaign in the Chinese Civil War : The Communist People's Liberation Army succeeds in securing the Zhengtai Railway, southwest of Beijing.
• May 9th: The Hamburg dockworkers go on strike because of the insufficient food situation.
• May 10: Hjalmar Schacht is sentenced to eight years in a labor camp by a denazification tribunal in Stuttgart .
• May 22: US President Harry S. Truman approves $400 million in economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey .
• May 27: In Landsberg am Lech, 22 death sentences are carried out against those accused of the Mauthausen trial . Those commuted to “life” are released after four years.
• May 29: The British and US military governments in Germany conclude an agreement on the establishment of an economic council for the Bizone . Its main task is to improve the supply situation in both occupation zones . He can enact laws that require the approval of the military government.
• May 31: Alcide De Gasperi becomes Italian Prime Minister again; he leads a coalition of Christian Democrats and independents.
• May 31: In Hungary , Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy submits his resignation; before that, communists had kidnapped his son. His successor is Lajos Dinnyés from the Small Farmers' Party.

June

• June 3: British Viceroy Mountbatten announces the plan to partition India , which will be completed two months later with the founding of Pakistan .
• June 5: US Secretary of State George C. Marshall announces the principles of the Marshall Plan to support Europe at Harvard University.
• June 5: At the invitation of the Bavarian Prime Minister Hans Ehard , the Prime Ministers from all four occupation zones meet in Munich for talks. However, the differences of opinion about the future of Germany are so irreconcilable that the East German prime ministers are leaving early.
• June 6th: Old- age and survivors ' insurance (AHV) is introduced in Switzerland through a referendum and the economic constitution is changed.
• June 14: The Soviet military administration establishes the “ German Economic Commission ” (DWK) as the lead authority for the central administration of the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ).
• June 14: Farmer Mac Brazel finds unusual debris on a farm he manages. The dull silvery material found became famous almost 40 years later as the Roswell UFO crash .
• June 17: Berlin city councilors elect Ernst Reuter (SPD) as mayor of Berlin; the Soviet military administration, however, refused to recognize him.
• June 23: Congress overrules President Truman 's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act , making it law. The law bans a wide range of industrial action by unions. Truman calls the bill a "slave labor law."
• June 24: The US pilot Kenneth Arnold says he sees nine strangely speeding flying objects, for which the term flying saucer is used for the first time.
• June 25: The first economic council of the bizone is constituted in Frankfurt am Main .
• June 29: Beginning of the SPD party congress in Nuremberg

July

• July 4: In Spain , a law is passed that provides for the reinstatement of the monarchy after the death of Francisco Franco .
• July 4: 59 people arrested in Hollister riots .
• July 8: US General Roger Ramey tells the press that debris found near Roswell, New Mexico , is the remains of a weather balloon . An earlier Luftwaffe report about obtaining a UFO is denied .
• July 11: The Exodus leaves the port of Sète bound for Palestine . The fate of their passengers will significantly shape international opinion in favor of the establishment of the State of Israel .
• July 12: The foreign ministers of Great Britain and France, Ernest Bevin and Georges Bidault , invite their European counterparts to a conference in Paris to discuss the US European aid program . The initial commitment of some foreign ministers from the Eastern Bloc is withdrawn under pressure from the Soviet Union.
• July 18: The Exodus is captured by the British Navy off Tel Aviv .
• July 18: The United States is entrusted with the Pacific Islands Trust by the United Nations Trusteeship Council. They take over an area of ​​the Pacific that was administered by the League of Nations as the Japanese South Seas Mandate until 1944, when the islands were conquered by the United States in the War of the Pacific .
• July 19 Burmese statesman Aung San is assassinated.
• July 20: The Dutch launch a military offensive against Indonesian troops on Java .
• July 26: The National Security Act goes into effect in the United States. Among other things, it decreed the creation of the US Department of Defense , the Joint Chiefs of Staff , the United States Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency .
• July 28: The Romanian government dissolves the Peasant Party.

August

Flag of Pakistan

Flag of India

• 14 August: Establishment of the State of Pakistan . Ali Jinnah is the first president .
• August 15: The Mountbatten Plan goes into effect. India gets its independence. Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first head of government .
• August 16 Bulgarian opposition leader Nikola Petkov is sentenced to death for alleged espionage.
• August 16 Markos Vafiadis is elected head of the northern Greek communist counter-government.
• August 20: In the Nuremberg doctors' trial against 20 leading Nazi doctors, the verdicts are pronounced. Four of the accused received the death penalty, seven were acquitted, and the rest were sentenced to long prison terms.
• August 23: Dimitrios Maximos resigns as Prime Minister of Greece ; his successor will be Konstantin Tsaldaris on August 29.
• August 29: Cuba becomes a member of UNESCO.
• August 31: The CP becomes the strongest party in the elections in Hungary .

September

• September 1st: Rudolf Paul , Prime Minister of the State of Thuringia , escapes from the Soviet occupation zone to the American occupation zone via West Berlin . On October 9, the fugitive officially loses his position to his deputy, Werner Eggerath .
• September 14: The Polish government announces the concordat with the Vatican.
• 15 September: The Paris Peace Treaties with Germany's World War II European allies ( Italy , Romania , Hungary , Bulgaria and Finland ) come into force.
• September 18: Establishment of the United States Air Force as an independent branch of the armed forces.
• September 30: Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov delivers his famous speech on the two-camp theory at the founding meeting of the Cominform .
• September 30: Pakistan and Yemen become members of the United Nations .

October

• 1 October: The first free elections after the Second World War are held in the state of Bremen . The SPD is by far the strongest force.
• October 11: A diplomatic crisis erupts between Chile and the Soviet Union . The Soviet leadership is accused of being behind a miners' strike in Chile.
• October 11: In Washington, 42 countries sign an agreement establishing the World Meteorological Organization .
• October 12: Citizenship elections in Bremen

Territorial claims in Kashmir

• October 16: The military governments for the British and US zones of occupation present a final dismantling list ; compared to earlier lists, it is significantly reduced with 682 listed companies.

1947: UN flag

• October 20: The United Nations officially receives its current flag .
• October 21: The conflict over the rule of Kashmir erupts.
• October 27: The First Indo-Pakistani War begins with the deployment of Indian Airborne Forces in Kashmir 's capital , Srinagar .
• October 27: Luxembourg becomes a member of UNESCO.
• October 30: The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is concluded; it comes into effect on January 1, 1948.
• October 31: Colombia becomes a member of UNESCO.

November

• November 3: In the trial of the Economic and Administrative Main Office of the SS against 18 defendants, two death sentences are passed, of which Oswald Pohl is carried out in 1951; three accused are acquitted.
• 5 November: Polish Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Peasant Party, Stanislaw Mikolajczik , flees to the West after Communist reprisals against his party. Zoltán Pfeiffer , head of the Independent Party in Hungary , is taking the same step .
• November 8: Uruguay becomes a member of UNESCO.

In Thailand , influential army officers stage a coup against the civilian government of Thawan Thamrongnawasawat

• November 10: The arrest of 10 steelworkers in Marseille sparks nationwide strike action in France .
• November 16 Britain begins withdrawing troops from Palestine.
• November 20: The British heir to the throne Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten say yes.
• November 24: Robert Schuman becomes the new head of government in France at the head of a socialist-People's Republican cabinet. He succeeds Paul Ramadier .
• 25 November: With the approval of the Statute of Westminster (1931) by Parliament, New Zealand is granted full legislative independence from Great Britain by the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947 and thereby also becomes a member of the Commonwealth of Nations .
• November 25: After ten well-known artists refused to testify before the US Congress, which had questioned them about their contacts with communists, they are blacklisted as the Hollywood Ten , which ensures that they are prevented from further professional activity will.
• November 29: With Resolution 181, the UN General Assembly adopts the partition plan for Palestine with 33 votes to 13. After the end of the British Mandate rule in May 1948, the plan envisages the formation of a Jewish and a Palestinian state as well as the internationalization of Jerusalem .

December

• December 3: In the legal trial of high-ranking judges from the Nazi era, the verdicts are handed down: four of the accused receive life imprisonment, six receive prison sentences of five to ten years, and four are acquitted.
• December 6: On the initiative of the SED , the People's Congress for German Unity and a Just Peace takes place in East Berlin . While representatives of the LDP accepted the invitation, Jakob Kaiser and Ernst Lemmer , leading representatives of the East CDU, declined to take part, seeing it as purely a propaganda event. They are then relieved of their party offices by the Soviet military administration and move to West Berlin.
• December 9: In France , the unions break off the general strike and enter into wage negotiations with the government.
• December 10: George C. Marshall calls on the Soviet Union to end the dismantling of German companies in the Soviet zone.
• December 12 Iranian crisis ends with Iranian military occupying pro-independence Azarbayjan province ; the separatists had been supported by the Soviet Union. On December 16, the Republic of Kurdistan is also dissolved and reincorporated into Iran.
• December 15: The London conference of the foreign ministers of the four victorious powers in the Second World War is ended because the Allies are at odds over the German question and there is a break between the Soviet Union and the USA .
• December 16: Honduras becomes a member of UNESCO.
• December 20: The democratically elected CDU party executive in the Soviet occupation zone is dismissed by the SMAD . The Union turns into a block party .
• December 22: In Italy , the Constituent Assembly votes to adopt the new Constitution.
• December 22: Friedrich Flick is sentenced to seven years in prison in the Flick trial ; he was released early in 1950.
• December 30: King Michael I of Romania abdicates, Romania becomes a People's Republic dependent on the Soviet Union .

business

• January 1 Nationalization of mines in Great Britain
• January 4: The first issue of Der Spiegel magazine is published.
• March 11: Wallace W. Robinson receives a US patent for the scoop stretcher he invented , which is used for recovering and rescuing casualties.
• June 10: The Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab presents its first car prototype Saab 92001 and set up a division for automobile production.
• August 18: The first post-war export fair opens in Hanover.
• September 10th: With 140,000 tickets and a maximum prize of 250,000 Reichsmark , the Süddeutsche Klassenlotterie starts its lottery operations in the US occupation zone .
• September: An extremely good wine is produced in the Bordeaux wine region. In Saint-Émilion and Pomerol in particular , the wines are of fantastic quality.
• Merger of the Maggi company with the Nestlé Group to form Nestlé-Alimentana AG, today's Nestlé AG

science and technology

• April 28: Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members set off for Polynesia from the Peruvian port of Callao on a raft made of balsa logs called the Kon-Tiki . Heyerdahl wants to clarify whether colonizing the islands from South America would have been possible in this way.
• September 22: A Douglas Skymaster succeeds in crossing the Atlantic from Newfoundland to London with only device control.
• October 14: Chuck Yeager officially becomes the first person to break the sound barrier in his Bell X-1 at an altitude of about 15,000 m.
• October 15: The Wilhelm Foerster Institute is founded in Berlin with the aim of operating a public observatory .

Hughes H-4 Hercules

• November 2nd: Howard Hughes flies the “ Hercules ” he designed for journalists from all over the world . It remains the only flight of this gigantic flying boat .
• November 24: The first Aerobee sounding rocket is launched from the White Sands Missile Range in the US state of New Mexico .
• December 17: The developed strategic bomber Boeing B-47 is tested in the first flight .
• December 23: Scientists William B. Shockley , John Bardeen , and Walter H. Brattain demonstrate a prototype bipolar transistor at Bell Laboratories .
• Auguste Piccard invents and builds the first bathyscaphe (a deep-sea submarine ).
• With the discovery of the element promethium in the products of uranium fission, the last gap in the periodic table is closed.
• Foundation of the Mont Pelerin Society

Culture

• January 9: World premiere of Kurt Weill 's musical opera Street Scene to a libretto by Elmer Rice at the Adelphi Theater (New York)
• February 18: Premiere of the opera Das Telefon oder Die Liebe zu Drei by Gian Carlo Menotti at the Heckscher Theater in New York . The work was intended to complement the previously performed short opera The Medium as a curtain raiser . In both cases the composer was also his own librettist.
• March 4: Premiere of the opera Die Flut by Boris Blacher in Dresden
• March 29: First performance of the opera Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten in Glyndebourne
• 19 April: World premiere of Rafael Kubelík 's opera Veronika in Brno , (Brno)
• April 27: The first and to this day the best-known independent photography agency, Magnum , is founded in Paris.
• May 22: The PG Wodehouse novel Full Moon over Blandings Castle , starring Lord Emsworth and Galahad Threepwood , premieres in the US .
• 3 June: World premiere of Francis Poulenc 's opera Les mamelles de Tirésias at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
• 8 June: The Bavarian play Die Bernauerin by Carl Orff is premiered at the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart .
• June 9: The Musée National d'Art Moderne opens in Paris' Palais de Tokyo , presenting works of modern art of the 20th century.
• July 3: Founding of the artist group Der Kreis .
• August 6: First performance of the opera Dantons Tod by Gottfried von Einem at the Salzburg Festival
• October 2nd: Opening of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo
• October 25: Premiere of Natanael Berg 's opera Genoveva at the Kungliga Teatern in Stockholm
• Thomas Mann 's novel Doctor Faustus is completed.
• The Bach Week in Ansbach takes place for the first time.
• Tony Awards presented for the first time
• Foundation of the art museum Lentos
• The Somerset Maugham Award for literature is presented for the first time.
• The North Carolina Museum of Art is established.

religion

• March 21: In the encyclical Fulgens radiatur , Pope Pius XII. on the occasion of the 1400th anniversary of the death of Benedict of Nursia , the meaning of the saint .
• November 20: Pope Pius XII goes to the Liturgical Movement . with the encyclical Mediator Dei , in which he explains the nature of the sacred liturgy in worship .
• Spring: Discovery of the first Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran .

Sports

• February 5: The Herning IK , one of the first Danish ice hockey clubs and record champions in the country, is founded.
• May 18: First motorcycle race at the Norisring
• June 7: The Romanian army founds a sports club, which in 1961 is renamed Steaua Bucharest .

disasters

• January 19 Greek steamer Himara hits a mine south of Athens. Almost 400 people die.
• January 26: A Douglas DC-3 crashes at Kastrup Airport near Copenhagen , killing all 22 occupants, including Swedish Hereditary Prince Gustav Adolf and US opera singer and actress Grace Moore .
• February 8: Berlin-Hakenfelde , Germany. Destruction of the "Karlslust" dance hall by fire. 82 dead and over 150 injured.
• February 25: Train derailment in Japan. More than 180 people die on the Hachikō line about 30 km west of Tokyo.
• April 9: A tornado kills over 167 people in Texas and Oklahoma.
• April 16: Explosion of ammonium nitrate -laden cargo ships Grandcamp ( France ) and Highflyer ( United States ) in the port of Texas City ( Texas , United States). 486 dead, over 100 missing, 3000 injured, hundreds homeless and $65 million in damage
• April 17: British passenger liner Sir Harvey Adamson disappears without a trace while en route from Rangoon to Mergui . On board were 269 passengers and crew members.
• July 26: Ten people die when two trains collide in Switzerland near Bennau .
• December 19: The Mitholz explosion in Switzerland claims nine lives.
• December 22: More than 40 people die near Neuwied when two express trains collide.

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

Born

January

• 0January 1: Peter Fischli , Swiss actor and theater director
• 0January 1 Jane Olivor , American pop singer
• 0January 2 Ute Erdsiek-Rave , German politician
• 0January 2: Eberhard Figgemeier , editor for sports at ZDF († 2020)
• 0January 2 Calvin Hill , American football player
• 0January 3 Fran Cotton , English rugby player
• 0January 3 Seweryn Krajewski , Polish pop musician, singer, guitarist and composer
• 0January 3: Peter Mangold , British historian and journalist (died 2017)
• 0January 4: Winfried Aufenanger , German athletics coach († 2021)
• 0January 4 Chris Cutler , British drummer, percussionist, composer, writer and music theorist
• 0January 4 Robert Van Mackelenberg , Dutch actor
• 0January 5: Osman Arpacıoğlu , Turkish footballer († 2021)
• 0January 5: Rita Kühne , German track and field athlete and Olympic champion
• 0January 5: Jörg Swoboda , pastor of the Union of Evangelical Free Churches (Baptists)
• 0January 5: Joachim Vobbe , German Old Catholic Bishop (died 2017)
• 0January 6: Sandy Denny , British singer (d. 1978)
• 0January 7: Heinz Aemisegger , Swiss jurist, federal judge and President of the Federal Supreme Court
• 0January 7 Sadık Ahmet , Greek politician and surgeon (died 1995)
• 0January 7: Josip Alebić , Yugoslav athlete († 2021)
• 0January 7: Dan Emil Anca , Romanian football player and coach (died 2005)
• 0January 7: Stefan Angelow , Bulgarian wrestler († 2019)
• 0January 7 Jean-Marie Lemerle , French racing driver and racing team owner
• 0January 8: Toivo Asmer , Estonian politician and entrepreneur
• 0January 8: William Bonin , American serial killer (d. 1996)
• 0January 8: David Bowie , British musician (died 2016)
  

  David Bowie, 1987
• 0January 8: Igor Ivanov , Canadian chess player (died 2005)
• 0January 8: Samuel Schmid , Swiss politician
• 0January 9: Yuri Baluevsky , Russian general
• January 10: R. Paul Drummond , American composer and music educator (d. 2007)
• January 10: George Alec Effinger , American science fiction writer (died 2002)
• January 10 Hubert Maessen , Dutch publicist, author of contemporary history books († 2015)
• January 10: Peer Steinbrück , German politician
  

  Peer Steinbruck , 2013
• January 10: Tiit Vähi , Estonian politician and entrepreneur
• January 10 Karl-Reinhard Volz , German forest scientist
• January 11 Rosemarie Priebus , German politician
• January 12 – Gustl Angstmann , German writer and textbook author († 1998)
• January 12: Matt Molloy , Irish flutist
• January 12: Winfried Neuhäuser , German footballer
• January 13: Luciano Chiarugi , Italian football player and coach
• January 13: John Lees , British singer, songwriter, composer and guitarist
• January 13: Jürgen Linden , politician and mayor of the city of Aachen
• January 14: Ina Deter , German musician
• January 14: Hans Fehr , Swiss politician
• January 14: Ian Harrower , British motor racing driver
• January 14: Peter Nogly , German footballer
• January 14 Beverly Perdue , American politician
• January 14 Susanne Vill , German musicologist and theater scholar
• January 14: Ernst Wohlwend , Swiss politician
• January 15: Martin Chalfie , US Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• January 15: José Juncadella , Spanish automobile racer and entrepreneur
• January 15: Jonas Liaučius , Lithuanian jurist, barrister and politician
• January 15 Michael Schanze , German singer, book author and TV presenter
• January 15: Veronica Tennant , Canadian dancer and choreographer
• January 16: Theodor Abt , Swiss sociologist
• January 16: Thomas Cardinal Collins , Archbishop of Toronto
• January 16: Karl-Heinz Klar , German politician
• January 17: Hermann Aschwer , German triathlete and author
• January 17: Herman van Dijk , Dutch econometrician
• January 18: Horst Engel , German politician
• January 18: Takeshi Kitano , Japanese director and actor
• January 18 Jacques Rouvier , French pianist
• January 19: Leszek Balcerowicz , Polish economist and politician
• January 19 Rod Evans , British singer
• January 20 Dag Jostein Fjærvoll , Norwegian politician of the Kristelig Folkeparti (died 2021)
• January 20 Reinhard P. Gruber , Austrian writer
• January 20 Batya Gur , Israeli writer, journalist and literary scholar († 2005)
• January 20: Anton Schindling , German historian (died 2020)
• January 21 Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś , Polish alpine skier
• January 21 Cherith Baldry , British novelist
• January 21 Alexander Gusev , Russian ice hockey player and coach (died 2020)
• January 22: Vincenzo Apicella , Italian bishop
• January 23: Megawati Sukarnoputri , Indonesian politician, President of Indonesia
• January 23: Gerhard Bäcker , German sociologist
• January 23: Jürg Frischknecht , Swiss journalist and writer († 2016)
• January 23: Winfried Stöcker , German physician, scientist, inventor and entrepreneur
• January 24: Giorgio Chinaglia , Italy international footballer († 2012)
• January 24 Michio Kaku , American physicist
• January 24: Jerzy Konikowski , German chess player of Polish origin
• January 24: Joseph Nicolosi , American psychologist (died 2017)
• January 25: Ángel Nieto , Spanish motorcycle racer (died 2017)
• January 26: Robert Cailliau , Belgian computer scientist
• January 26: Patrick Dewaere , French actor (died 1982)
• January 27 – Heinz Bonn , German soccer player (died 1991)
• January 28: August Humer , Austrian organist and harpsichordist (died 2007)
• January 28 Jeanne Shaheen , American politician
• January 29 Linda B. Buck , US neurophysiologist
• January 29: David Byron , English musician (died 1985)
• January 29: Mladen Kuchev , Bulgarian weightlifter
• January 29: Jochen Sanio , President of Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority
• January 29: Siegfried Zimmer , German educator and Protestant theologian
• January 30: Hans Ehlert , German officer and military historian
• January 30: Steve Marriott , British rock musician (d. 1991)
• January 30 Barbara Wood , American writer
• January 31: Paul Hoser , German historian
• January 31: Rudolf Schieffer , German historian (died 2018)

February

• 0February 1: Gaston Rahier , Belgian motocross rider (d. 2005)
• 0February 2: Wilfrid Adam , German politician
• 0February 2 Gregory Gerald Antonacci , American film producer and director († 2017)
• 0February 3 Paul Auster , American writer and director
• 0February 3 Dave Davies , English musician
• 0February 3 Georg Jarzembowski , German politician, MEP, government director
• 0February 3 Stephen McHattie , Canadian actor
• 0February 3: Melanie Safka , American folk singer and hippie icon
• 0February 5: Eduardo Antunes Coimbra , Brazilian soccer player and coach
• 0February 5 Chris Biscoe , English jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist
• 0February 5: Jenny Gröllmann , German actress († 2006)
• 0February 5: Benoît Jacquot , French screenwriter and film director
• 0February 5: Ricardo Lindo Fuentes , Salvadorian poet, storyteller, playwright and essayist (died 2016)
• 0February 6: Horst-Wolfram Kerll , German diplomat
• 0February 7 Ruth Aspöck , Austrian writer
• 0February 7: Jürgen Türk , German politician and MP
• 0February 7: John Weathers , British musician
• 0February 8: Leo Niehorster , US-Dutch author
• 0February 9: Reinhard Adler , German footballer
• 0February 9: Joe Ely , American country music singer-songwriter
• 0February 9: Major Harris , American soul singer (died 2012)
• 0February 9 Boris Franzevich Gulko , US chess grandmaster
• February 10 Louise Arbor , Canadian judge and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
• February 11 Gerd B. Achenbach , German philosopher
• February 11: Derek Shulman , British musician
• February 13: Mohammad Reza Adelkhani , Iranian footballer
• February 13: Julien Cools , Belgian footballer
• February 13: Urs Faes , Swiss writer
• February 13 Mike Krzyzewski , American basketball coach
• February 13: Jerzy Montag , German lawyer and politician
• February 13: Wolf-Wilhelm Richter , German jurist
• February 14: Tim Buckley , American singer and songwriter (d. 1975)
• February 14 Heide Ecker-Rosendahl , former German track and field athlete
• February 14: Judd Gregg , American politician
• February 14: Vartan Malakian , Armenian-American artist
• February 14: Phạm Tuân , Vietnamese pilot, engineer and cosmonaut
• February 14 Stephen A. Schwarzman , American entrepreneur, investment banker and patron
• February 14: Jochen Welt , German politician, MP
• February 15: John Adams , American composer
• February 15: Andrew Bagnall , New Zealand automobile racer
• February 15 Marisa Berenson , American actress
• February 15: Dagmar Käsling , German track and field athlete and Olympic champion
• February 15 Calixto Malcom , Panamanian basketball player and judge († 2021)
• February 15: Wencke Myhre , pop singer
  

  Wencke Myhre , 2009
• February 16: Toni Bortoluzzi , Swiss politician and member of the National Council
• February 16: Veríssimo Correia Seabra , President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2004)
• February 16: Rainer Nitschke , German radio and television presenter
• February 16: Franz West , Austrian visual artist († 2012)
• February 18 Dennis DeYoung , American musician
• February 18 Eliot Engel , American politician
• February 18: Carlos Lopes , Portuguese athlete
• February 19: Michel Elkoubi , French automobile racer
• 19 February: Wulf von Schimmelmann , German manager
• February 19: Lucas Vis , Dutch conductor and composer
• February 20 Henry Hübchen , German film and theater actor
• February 20 Peter Strauss , American actor
• February 21: Eddy Achterberg , Dutch football player and coach
• February 21: Gregory Dayman , New Zealand hockey player
• February 21: Stephen Hadley , US National Security Advisor to US President George W. Bush
• February 21 Olympia Snowe , US politician
• February 22 Karl Reinhard Aigner , German vascular surgeon and oncologist
• February 22: Jean-Claude Depince , French racing driver (d. 1988)
• February 22: Ludwig Noack , German-Sorbian politician (died 1996)
• February 23 Rodrigo Arocena Linn , Uruguayan mathematician, university lecturer, journalist and publicist
• February 23: Hartmut Golze , German jurist
• February 23: Boris Kuznetsov , Soviet boxer and Olympic champion 1972 († 2006)
• February 24: Christa Naher , German artist
• February 25: Giuseppe Cardinal Betori , Archbishop of Florence
• February 25: Jorge Donn , Argentine ballet dancer (d. 1992)
• February 25: Lee Evans , American track and field and Olympic gold medalist (d. 2021)
• February 25: Ryō Kawasaki , Japanese musician († 2020)
• February 26: Sandie Shaw , British pop singer
• February 27: Giuseppe Bertolucci , Italian screenwriter and director († 2012)
• February 27 Alan Guth , American physicist
• February 27 Gidon Kremer , Latvian violinist
• February 27 Mike Montgomery , American basketball coach
• February 28: Bernd Arnold , German climber and mountaineer
• February 28: Włodzimierz Lubański , Polish footballer

March

• 0March 1: Klaus Uwe Benneter , German politician
• 0March 1: Peter Tettinger , German lawyer (died 2005)
• 0March 2: Michael Frenzel , German manager and politician
• 0March 2: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen , Danish director
• 0March 2 Yuri Matiyasevich , Russian mathematician
• 0March 2: Nelson Ned , Brazilian singer-songwriter († 2014)
• 0March 2 Tilman Spengler , German sinologist and writer
• 0March 2: Hans-Hermann Wendhausen , German politician and MdL
• 0March 2: Wolfgang Wodarg , German politician
• 0March 3 Takeo Ischi , Japanese singer and yodeler
• 0March 3: Óscar Tabárez , Uruguayan soccer player and coach
• 0March 3 Johnny Tame , German singer and composer
• 0March 3 Jennifer Warnes , American singer
• 0March 4 Uschi Brüning , German jazz singer and soul singer
• 0March 4 Jan Garbarek , Norwegian saxophonist, jazz musician
• 0March 5: Nobuhiko Hasegawa , Japanese table tennis player (died 2005)
• 0March 5 John Kitzhaber , American politician
• 0March 5: Konstanty Andrzej Kulka , Polish violinist
• 0March 6 Kiki Dee , British singer-songwriter
• 0March 6 Dick Fosbury , American track and field athlete
• 0March 6: Teru Miyamoto , Japanese writer
• 0March 6 Rob Reiner , American film director, film producer and actor
• 0March 7: Laila Riksaasen Dahl , Bishop of Norway
• 0March 7: Wolfgang Grotthaus , German politician
• 0March 7: Walter Röhrl , German racing driver
• 0March 7: Rubén Suñé , Argentine soccer player († 2019)
• 0March 7: Ed Swillms , German composer and rock musician
• 0March 9: Kali Fasteau , American jazz musician († 2020)
• 0March 9: Keri Hulme , New Zealand writer († 2021)
• 0March 9 Emiliano Mondonico , Italian soccer player and coach (died 2018)
• March 10: John 'Oke Afareha , Nigerian Bishop
• March 10: Kim Campbell , Canadian politician
• March 10: Lissette , Cuban singer, composer and actress
• March 12: Aldo Arencibia , Cuban cyclist
• March 12: Peter Harry Carstensen , German politician
• March 12: Konrad Hünteler , German musician († 2020)
• March 12 Mitt Romney , American politician
• March 12: Kalervo Palsa , Finnish Expressionist painter (died 1987)
• March 12: Franz Zettl , Austrian musician
• March 13 Jacek Bierezin , Polish poet and opposition figure (died 1993)
• March 13 Wojciech Müller , Polish painter, graphic artist and sculptor (died 2018)
• March 13: Beat Richner , Swiss pediatrician and musician († 2018)
• March 13 Lyn St. James , American racing driver
• March 14: Jona Lewie , British pop singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
• March 15: Rolf Ackermann , German footballer
• March 15 Jean Carn , American singer
• March 15 Ry Cooder , American musician
• March 15: Juraj Kukura , Slovak actor and theater director
• March 15: Federico Peña , United States Secretary of Transportation
• March 15: Franz Schuh , Austrian writer and essayist
• March 16: Keith Devlin , British mathematician and science writer
• March 17: Jan Andersson , Swedish politician
• March 17: Lorenz Funk Sr. , German ice hockey player († 2017)
• March 18: BJ Wilson , British rock musician (died 1990)
• March 19: Jeff Andrus , American screenwriter and novelist († 2011)
• March 19: Joseph-Theodor Blank , German politician
• March 19 Glenn Close , American actress
  

  Glenn Close , 2012.
• March 19: Ernst Gerlach , German handball player
• March 19: Daniel D. Harris , American guitarist and actor († 2012)
• March 19: Max E. Keller , Swiss composer and musician
• March 19: José Lacay , Dominican singer († 2016)
• March 19: Erika Zuchold , German gymnast, world champion († 2015)
• March 20: John Boswell , American historian (died 1994)
• March 20: Samuel Kobia , Kenyan theologian and WCC general secretary
• March 22: Aleida Assmann , Anglicist, Egyptologist and literary and cultural scholar
• March 22 André Heller , Austrian singer-songwriter, poet
• March 22 Jelena Hoffmann , German politician and MP
• March 22: Wolfgang Mayrhuber , CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG († 2018)
• March 22: Érik Orsenna , French writer
• March 23 Christiane Brunner , Swiss lawyer, trade unionist and politician
• March 23 Justin O. Schmidt , American entomologist
• March 24: Jiří Bartoška , Czech actor
• March 24: Pierre Dieudonné , Belgian racing driver
• March 24 Archie Gemmill , Scotland footballer
• March 24 Christine Gregoire , American politician
• March 24: Aurora Lacasa , German pop singer of Spanish descent
• March 24 Paul McCandless , American jazz musician
• March 25: Gisela Ahlemeyer , German athlete († 2021)
• March 25: Elton John , British singer, composer and pianist

Elton John , 1980s

• March 26: Yōjirō Terada , Japanese automobile racer
• March 27: Jochen Aido , German soccer player
• March 27 Oliver Friggieri , Maltese writer and university lecturer († 2020)
• March 27: Brian Jones , British aviation pioneer
• March 27: Aad de Mos , Dutch football manager
• March 27: Ursula Summ , German author
• March 29 Patricia Anthony , American author († 2013)
• March 29: Michael Bauer , German journalist
• March 29: Inge Bödding , German track and field athlete
• March 29 Bobby Kimball , American singer
• March 30 Marilyn Crispell , American jazz pianist
• March 30: Albert Fritz , German cyclist (died 2019)
• March 30: Terje Venaas , Norwegian jazz bassist
• March 30 Joe Williams , American football player
• March 30: Tsushima Yūko , Japanese writer († 2016)
• March 31: Alberto Anrango , Ecuadorian kichwa teacher and politician
• March 31: Kristian Blak , Faroese pianist and composer
• March 31: Luigi Padovese , Italian Roman Catholic Bishop and Vicar Apostolic of Anatolia (died 2010)
• March 31: Domenico Mogavero , Italian Roman Catholic bishop

Domenico Mogavero (2015)

April

• 01 April: Beşir Atalay , Turkish sociologist, university professor and politician
• 0April 1 Ingrid Steeger , German actress

Ingrid Steeger , 2012

• 0April 1 Frank Tusa , American jazz bassist
• 0April 2 Emmylou Harris , American country music singer
• 0April 2 Camille Paglia , American art and cultural historian
• 0April 3: Anders Eliasson , Swedish composer († 2013)
• 0April 4: Wojciech Michniewski , Polish composer and conductor
• 0April 4 Salvatore Sciarrino , Italian composer
• 0April 4: Frank Spieth , German politician
• 0April 5: Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , President of the Philippines
• 0April 5: Lothar Vosseler , German author (died 2019)
• 0April 6: Oswaldo Piazza , Argentine football player and coach
• 0April 6 John Ratzenberger , American actor
• 0April 6 Christel Riemann-Hanewinckel , German politician
• 0April 7: Florian Schneider-Esleben , German musician († 2020)
• 0April 8 Thommy Abrahamsson , Swedish ice hockey player
• 0April 8: Michael Holzach , German journalist and author († 1983)
• 0April 8 Steve Howe , British guitarist
• 0April 8: Pascal Lamy , French politician
• 0April 8: Larry Norman , American singer and composer († 2008)
• April 10: Bunny Wailer , Jamaican reggae musician († 2021)
• April 11: Hartmut Barth-Engelbart , German author
• April 11: Uli Edel , German film director
• April 11 Anton Gigl , German soccer player (died 1996)
• April 12 Ali Arslan , German writer
• April 12: Tom Clancy , American writer (died 2013)
• April 12: David Letterman , American talk show host

• April 13: Agostina Belli , Italian actress
• April 13: Reto Hänny , Swiss writer
• April 13: Tom Krey , German painter
  

  Tom Krey , 2014
• April 13 Holger Schwiers , German actor and voice actor
• April 14: Hortense von Gelmini , German musician, painter and writer
• April 15: Bill Aitken , Scottish politician
• April 15 Mike Chapman , Australian record producer and songwriter
• April 15 Lois Chiles , American actress and lecturer
• April 15 Sepp Krassnitzer , Austrian musician
• April 16 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , American basketball player
• April 16: Gerry Rafferty , British singer and songwriter († 2011)
• April 16: Fred Viebahn , German writer
• 17 April: Albert Deß , German politician and MEP
• April 17: Achim Großmann , German politician
• April 17: Werner Hackmann , President of the German Football League († 2007)
• April 17 Sherrie Levine , American photographer and conceptual artist
• April 18 Kathy Acker , American writer (died 1997)
• April 18 Moses Blah , President of Liberia († 2013)
• April 18: Konradin Groth , German trumpeter
• April 18 Bernd Hengst , German musician
• April 18 Jerzy Stuhr , Polish actor and director
• April 18 Rainer Würdig , German handball player
• April 19: Michael Herbricht , politician of The Republican party
• April 19: Norbert Conrad Kaser , South Tyrolean poet (died 1978)
• April 19 Murray Perahia , American pianist
• April 19 Sandro Petraglia , Italian film critic and screenwriter
• April 20 Luigi Maifredi , Italian football coach
• April 21: Kralle Krawinkel , German musician and guitarist († 2014)
• April 21: Iggy Pop , American rock singer, composer and drummer

Iggy Pop , 1979

• April 21: Hubert Weiger , German conservationist
• April 22: Barry Guy , British double bass player (jazz, early music, improvisational music)
• April 22 Cornelius Horan , Catholic priest from Ireland
• April 23 Lyudmila Vasilyevna Aksyonova , Soviet sprinter
• April 23: Ifi Amadiume , Nigerian author, ethnologist and feminist
• April 23 Anushavan Gassan-Jalalov , Soviet rower
• April 23: Wolfgang Gedeon , German medical specialist and politician
• April 23 Eddy Joosen , Belgian racing driver and entrepreneur
• April 23: Christer Pettersson , prime suspect in the Olof Palme murder (died 2004)
• April 23 Reinhard Schwabenitzky , Austrian director and screenwriter
• April 24: Josep Borrell , Spanish politician
• April 25: Johan Cruyff , Dutch footballer (died 2016)

Johan Cruyff

• April 26: David Byrne , Irish politician, EU Commissioner
• April 26 Donna de Varona , American swimmer
• April 27: Heribert August , German priest
• April 27: Pete Ham , British rock singer and guitarist (died 1975)
• April 27: Bernhard Hiesinger , German rower
• April 27 Maria del Mar Bonet , Mallorcan singer
• April 27 Renate Will , Bavarian politician
• April 28 Christian Jacq , French Egyptologist
• April 28 Nicola LeFanu , English composer and music teacher
• April 28: Ernst Pfister , German politician
• April 29 Jim Ryun , American politician, track and field athlete
• April 30 Margene Adkins , American football player
• April 30 Jaume Cabré , Spanish philologist and writer
• April 30: Thomas Goppel , German politician
• April 30: Ramiz Guliyev , Azerbaijani tar player and music educator
• April 30: Karin von Welck , German ethnologist, Senator for Culture in Hamburg (2004–2010)

May

• 0May 1 Thomas Larry Adcock , American crime writer
• 0May 1: Jacob Bekenstein , Israeli physicist (died 2015)
• 0May 1 Garvin Davis , Bahamian boxer
• 0May 1: Krzysztof Knittel , Polish composer
• 0May 1: Danilo Popivoda , Yugoslav footballer († 2021)
• 0May 2: Manfred Harder , German soccer referee (died 2018)
• 0May 2: Philippe Herreweghe , Belgian conductor
• 0May 2: Prashanta Nanda , Indian actor, film director and politician
• 0May 3: Götz Aly , German journalist and historian
• 0May 4 Richard Jenkins , American actor
• 0May 5 Malam Bacai Sanhá , President of Guinea-Bissau (died 2012)
• 0May 6 Gunilla Lindberg , Swedish sports official
• 0May 6 Ronald L. Rivest , American mathematician and cryptologist
• 0May 7: Hans Peter Adamski , German painter and printmaker
• 0May 7: Gary R. Herbert , Lieutenant Governor of Utah
• 0May 7: Henk Smits , Dutch cyclist
• 0May 8: Bernd Heller , German TV presenter
• 0May 8: H. Robert Horvitz , Professor of Biology
• 08 May: Aram I Keshishian , Lebanese minister of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the current "Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia"
• 0May 8: Susanne Schmidt , German business journalist
• 0May 9: Florencio Aguilera Correa , Spanish painter, art collector and music promoter
• 0May 9: Yukiya Amano , Japanese diplomat (died 2019)
• 0May 9: Peter Planyavsky , Austrian organist and composer
• 0May 9 Steffi Stephan , German rock musician and bass guitarist
• May 10 Ahmed Abdullah , American jazz trumpeter
• May 10 Angelika Graf , German politician and MP
• May 10: Rainer Fornahl , German politician (died 2014)
• May 11: Hansjürgen Garstka , German Data Protection Commissioner for the State of Berlin
• May 11: Latif Nazemi , Afghan poet, literary critic and writer
• May 12 Georg von Rauch , German terrorist (died 1971)
• May 12: Zdeněk Zeman , Czech football coach
• May 12: Rolf Zuckowski , German musician, composer, music producer and author of children's songs
  

  Rolf Zuckowski , 2006
• May 13: Irmgard Möller , German terrorist and member of the Red Army Faction
• May 14 Martin Böttger , German civil rights activist and politician
• May 14 Hans Orsolics , Austrian boxer and singer
• May 14: Karin Struck , German writer (died 2006)
• May 15 Paulo de Carvalho , Portuguese singer
• May 15 Dirk Jasper , German publicist, non-fiction author and multimedia producer († 2011)
• May 16: Mats Bertil Åhlberg , Swedish ice hockey player
• May 17 Michael Wolffsohn , German historian and political scientist
• May 19 Zdeněk Juračka , Czech rock guitarist († 2017)
• May 19: Barbara Schöne , German actress and singer
• May 20: Sky du Mont , Argentine-German actor
  

  Sky du Mont , 2011
• May 20: Jürgen Oppermann , German entrepreneur and racing driver
• May 20: Bernhard Paul , Austrian circus director, stage director and clown
• May 23 Richie Beirach , American jazz musician
• May 23 Jean-Jacques Kravetz , French keyboardist and saxophonist
• May 23: Hans-Jürgen Pohmann , German tennis player and journalist
• May 24 Maude Barlow , Canadian writer and activist
• May 24 Sybil Danning , Austrian actress
• May 24: Martin Winterkorn , German manager
  

  Martin Winterkorn , 2011
• May 25 Murray G. Hall , Canadian-Austrian Germanist
• May 26: Gerd Biegel , German historian and museum director
• May 27: Liana Alexandra , Romanian composer and music teacher († 2011)
• May 27: Hans-Peter Repnik , German politician and MP
• May 27: SAID , Iranian-German poet and writer († 2021)
• May 28 Zahi Hawass , Egyptian archaeologist
• May 28: Firəngiz Əlizadə , Azerbaijani pianist and composer
• May 28 Leland Bruce Sklar , American bassist, singer and composer
• May 29: Astrid Proll , co-founder of the Red Army Faction
• May 29: Gene Robinson , Anglican Bishop of the US Episcopal Church in New Hampshire
• May 30: Karl-Josef Assenmacher , German football referee
• May 30 Erik Spiekermann , German typographic designer and typeface designer
• May 31 Greg Abate , American jazz musician (saxophones, flute), arranger and composer
• May 31: Gabriele Hinzmann , German track and field athlete
• May 31: Bernd Krause , German rower

June

• 0June 1 Rini van Bracht , Dutch carom player and multiple world and European champion
• 01 June: Ron Dennis , McLaren-Mercedes Formula 1 Team Principal
• 0June 1: Georg Elwert , German ethno-sociologist († 2005)
• 0June 1: Konstantin Wecker , German musician, songwriter, composer and author
• 0June 1 Ron Wood , British rock musician
• 0June 2 Heiderose Berroth , German politician, MdL
• 0June 2: Alexandra Chick , Zimbabwean field hockey player
• 0June 2 Mark Elder , English conductor
• 0June 2: Eckhard Naumann , German politician
• 0June 2: Sonia Robertson , Zimbabwean hockey player
• 0June 3: John Dykstra , special effects expert
• 0June 3: Mickey Finn , British musician († 2003)
• 0June 4: Johnny Dyani , South African jazz musician and composer (d. 1986)
• 0June 4: Peter Görtz , German handball player († 2013)
• 0June 4: Viktor Klima , Austrian politician, Chancellor, manager

Viktor Klima , 1998

• 0June 4: Hanspeter Latour , Swiss football coach and player
• 0June 5 Laurie Anderson , American artist and musician
• 0June 5: David Hare , British playwright and film director
• 0June 6: David Blunkett , British politician, Home Secretary
• 0June 6 Robert Englund , American actor and director
• 0June 6: Peter Lenk , German sculptor
• 0June 8: Franz Bartzsch , German pop singer, keyboardist and songwriter († 2010)
• 0June 8 Julie Driscoll , British singer
• 0June 8 Joan La Barbara , American singer and composer
• 0June 8 Sara Paretsky , American writer
• 0June 8: Eric F. Wieschaus , American biochemist and Nobel laureate
• June 11: Bob Evans , British motor racing driver
• June 12 Shari Eubank , American actress
• June 13 Andrew Dalby , British linguist
• June 13: John Kahn , American bassist (d. 1996)
• June 13: Alan G. Lafley , CEO of Procter & Gamble
• June 13 Jerrold Nadler , American politician
• 13 June: Jan Nuck , Sorbian politician, Domowina chairman
• June 14: Ernst Berg , Dutch racing driver
• June 14 Barry Melton , American guitarist
• June 14: Philémon Yang , Prime Minister of Cameroon
• June 15: Efraín Amador , Cuban lutenist, composer and music teacher
• June 15: Alain Aspect , French physicist
• June 15: Paul Patterson , English composer
• June 15 Dava Sobel , US science editor and writer
• June 16: Günther Kaufmann , German actor (died 2012)
• June 16: -minu , Swiss author, columnist, moderator and a Basel original
• June 16 Willy Mutunga , Kenyan lawyer and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya
• 17 June: Jógvan Arge , Faroese author and politician
• June 17: Bruno Banzer , Liechtenstein artistic gymnast
• June 17: Jozef De Kesel , Belgian cardinal, Archbishop of Malines-Brussels
• June 18: George Cosmas Adyebo , Ugandan politician (died 2000)
• June 18 Romeo Crennel , American football coach
• June 18 Carol Windley , Canadian writer
• June 18 Hanns Zischler , German film actor
• June 18 Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl , German politician
• June 19: Lucien Rossiaud , French automobile racer and entrepreneur
• June 19 Salman Rushdie , British writer
• June 20: Josef Clemens , Curial Bishop and Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
• June 20: Werner Dreibus , German politician
• June 20: Michael Kindo , Indian hockey player († 2020)
• June 21: Rudolf Bussmann , Swiss writer
• June 21 Joey Molland , British rock singer and guitarist, member of Badfinger
• June 21 Duane Thomas , American football player
• June 22 Octavia Butler , American science fiction writer (died 2006)
• June 22: Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot , Canadian writer († 2012)
• June 22: Alain Couderc , French racing driver († 2020)
• June 22 – Pete Maravich , American basketball player (d. 1988)
• June 22: Jerry Rawlings , President of Ghana (d. 2020)
• June 23: Bryan Brown , Australian actor
• June 24 Mick Fleetwood , British rock musician
• June 25: Ingrid Franzen , German politician
• June 25: Charles Mendez , American racing driver and motorsport official
• June 25: John Powell , American discus thrower
• June 25 Jacques Zegers , Belgian singer
• June 26 Brian Abrahams , British jazz drummer and singer
• June 26: Karl Auer , President of football club TSV 1860 Munich
• June 26 Alfredo Castelli , Italian comics writer
• June 26: Peter Sloterdijk , German cultural philosopher
• June 26: Rainer Stinner , German politician and MP
• June 28: Peter Abrahams , American author
• June 28 John Aston junior , English footballer
• June 28: Christine Deviers-Joncour , mistress of French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas
• June 29 Georg Ahrens , German sculptor and university teacher († 2021)
• June 29: Peter Frankenberg , German geographer and politician
• June 29: Ágúst Guðmundsson , Icelandic film director, producer and screenwriter
• June 29 Brian Herbert , American science fiction writer
• June 30: Khairy Beshara , Egyptian director
• June 30: Vladimir Vladimirovich Petrov , Soviet ice hockey player (died 2017)

July

• 0July 1: Kazuyoshi Hoshino , Japanese automobile racer
• 0July 1 Helga Kühn-Mengel , German politician
• 0July 1 Johannes Werner Pichler , Austrian university professor
• 0July 2 Francesco Abussi , Italian cinematographer, screenwriter and film director
• 0July 2: Jürg Amann , Swiss writer († 2013)
• 0July 2 Werner Weidenfeld , German political scientist
• 0July 3 Peter Rauch , German actor and theater director
• 0July 3 Rob Rensenbrink , Dutch footballer († 2020)
• 0July 3 Claxton Welch , American football player
• 0July 5 Hans-Michael Bock , German film historian, filmmaker and publicist
• 0July 7: Gabriele Dossi , German actress († 2021)
• 0July 7 Fredl Fesl , German musician and singer
• 0July 7: Gyanendra , King of Nepal
• 0July 8: Miriam Goldschmidt , German actress, director and author († 2017)
• 0July 8 Philippe Liégeois (Turkish), Belgian comic artist
• 0July 9 Mario Andreotti , Swiss literary scholar
• 0July 9: Mitch Mitchell , British actor and drummer († 2008)
• 0July 9 OJ Simpson , American football star and actor

O.J. Simpson , 1990

• July 10 Horst Blankenburg , German footballer
• July 10 Arlo Guthrie , American musician
• July 10: Dagmar Heller , German actress and voice actress († 2015)
• July 12: Josef Miller , Bavarian politician
• July 12 Henning Kagermann , German physicist
• July 13 Claire Beyer , German writer
• 14 July: Navin Ramgoolam , Prime Minister of Mauritius
• July 15: Peter Banks , British rock guitarist († 2013)
• July 16: Evan Clements , British racing driver
• July 16 Alexis Herman , American politician
• July 16: Don Kitch , American racing driver
• July 16: Álvaro Ramazzini , Guatemalan Bishop of Huehuetenango, cardinal
• July 16 Assata Shakur , American civil and human rights activist
• July 17 Joyce Anne Annelay , British politician
• July 17 Walther L. Bernecker , German publicist on Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American history
• July 17 Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall , wife of Prince Charles, Duke of Wales
• July 17: Phil Cordell , British musician (died 2007)
• July 17: Wolfgang Flür , German musician
• July 17: Dorthe Kollo , Danish-German schlager singer
• July 17 Abraham "Abe" Laboriel , American bassist
• July 18: Franz Josef Görtz , German journalist, editor and writer (died 2017)
• July 18 Dermot Healy , Irish poet, novelist and playwright (died 2014)
• July 18: Ignazio La Russa , Italian politician
• July 18: Jörg Ziercke , President of the German Federal Criminal Police Office
• July 19 Hans-Jürgen Kreische , German footballer
• July 19 Brian May , British guitarist
• July 20: Gerd Binnig , German physicist and Nobel laureate
• July 20: Rolf Hartung , German rower
• July 20: Wilhelm Leber , Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church
• July 20 Carlos Santana , American musician and guitarist of Mexican descent

Carlos Santana , 1978

• July 21: Co Adriaanse , Dutch football manager
• July 21 Elisabeth Jeggle , German politician
• July 21: Johannes Weinrich , German terrorist
• July 22: Don Henley , American rock musician (The Eagles)
• July 23 Mohan Mahadeo Agashe , Indian actor and psychiatrist
• July 23: Werner Kofler , Austrian writer (died 2011)
• July 23: Torsten Palm , Swedish racing car driver
• July 23 Lakshminarayana Subramaniam , Indian violinist, composer and conductor
• July 23 Hans-Jürgen Wittkamp , German footballer
• July 23: Pierre Yver , French racing driver
• July 24 Ernst Sucharipa , Austrian diplomat (died 2005)
• July 25 Adolfo Rodríguez Saá , Argentine politician, President of Argentina
• July 26 Thomas Auerbach , German civil rights activist (died 2020)
• July 26 Georg Herold , German sculptor
• July 26 Klaus Hofbauer , German politician (died 2021)
• July 27: Jochen Heck , German rower
• July 28 Dick Ebersol , radio and television personality, NBC Sports President
• July 28 Barbara Ferrell , American track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist
• July 28 Bill Mockridge , Canadian actor and cabaret performer
• July 29: Robert Boubet , French racing driver
• July 29: Thomas Rosenlocher , German writer
• July 30 William Atherton , American actor
• July 30: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi , French virologist
• July 30 Arnold Schwarzenegger , Austrian-American actor and politician, Governor of California

Arnold Schwarzenegger

• July 31 Yleana Bautista , Cuban pianist and music teacher
• July 31: Richard Griffiths , British actor (died 2013)
• July 31: Hans Kaiser , German politician
• July 31: Hubert Védrine , French politician

August

• 0August 1: Tsutomu Adachi , Japanese manga artist (died 2004)
• 01 August Günter Baumann , German politician and MP
• 0August 1 Jan Tomasz Gross , American sociologist and historian
• 0August 1 Jacek Kleyff , Polish singer-songwriter, cabaret artist, actor and painter
• 0August 1 Leoluca Orlando , Italian lawyer, politician and anti-mafia fighter
• 0August 2 Massiel , Spanish singer
• 0August 4 Ja'el German , Israeli politician
• 0August 4: Hubert Ingraham , Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 1992 to 2002
• 0August 4: Klaus Schulze , German pioneer of electronic music
• 0August 5 - Gary "Angry" Anderson , Australian rock singer and actor
• 0August 5 Rick Derringer , American rock musician
• 0August 6: Petr Novotný , Czech presenter, humorist, actor and screenwriter
• 0August 7 Kerry Reid , Australian tennis player
• 0August 8: Tommy Ellis , American racing driver
• 0August 8: Karl-Friedrich Fischer , German engineer, rector of Zwickau University of Applied Sciences
• 0August 8 Lutz Riedel , German actor and voice actor
• August 10: Dmitri Konstantinovich Alexeyev , Russian pianist
• August 10: Ian Anderson , founding member of music group Jethro Tull
• August 11 Arkady Georgievich Andreasyan , Soviet-Armenian football player and coach (died 2020)
• 10 August Anwar Ibrahim , Malaysian politician and Deputy Prime Minister
• 10 August Mechtild Rothe , German SPD politician and MEP
• August 11 Stuart Gordon , American director, producer and screenwriter († 2020)
• August 11: Diether Krebs , German actor and cabaret artist († 2000)
• August 11: Alois Schloder , German ice hockey player
• August 11: Thomas Vogel , German writer and journalist (died 2017)
• August 12 Howard William Atherton , British cinematographer
• August 12: Atli Gíslason , Icelandic politician
• August 12: Stefano Benni , Italian writer, journalist and satirist
• August 12 Albie Donnelly , British saxophonist and singer
• August 12: Waltraud Lehn , German politician
• August 15: Wanda Schmid , Swiss author
• August 16 Carol Moseley Braun , American politician
• August 16: Ephraim Inoni , Prime Minister of Cameroon
• August 16: Giancarlo Martini , Italian racing driver and entrepreneur (died 2013)
• August 16: Dan Yuhas , Israeli composer
• August 17: Mohamed Abdelaziz , Moroccan politician (died 2016)
• August 18: Eleonore Weisgerber , German actress
• August 20 Alan Lee , British illustrator and film designer
• August 21: Paul Crawford , Canadian composer, organist, broadcast producer and music educator
• August 21 Otto Kastl , former German soccer player
• August 21 Ben Shneiderman , American computer scientist
• August 21 Marlies Volkmer , German politician
• August 22 Alan Sked , British historian and politician
• August 23: Terje Rypdal , Norwegian guitarist and composer
• August 23: Jerzy Satanowski , Polish composer
• August 24: Paulo Coelho , Brazilian novelist and best-selling author

Paulo Coelho , 2008

• August 24: Roger De Vlaeminck , Belgian cyclist
• August 24: Peter Paul Koprowski , Canadian composer, pianist, conductor and music educator of Polish origin
• August 25 Anne Archer , American actress
• August 25 Enriquillo Sánchez Mulet , Dominican writer, journalist and university lecturer (died 2004)
• August 25 Keith Tippett , British jazz pianist († 2020)
• August 27 John Robert Anderson , American psychologist
• August 27 Barbara Bach , American actress
• August 27: Harry Reems , American theater and porn actor (died 2013)
• August 27: Fritz Schramma , former Lord Mayor of Cologne
• August 28: James Aubrey , British actor (died 2010)
• August 28: Emlyn Hughes , English footballer (died 2004)
• August 29 Irene Dyk-Ploss , Austrian university teacher and politician
• August 29 Temple Grandin , US specialist in commercial livestock facilities
• August 29: James Hunt , British racing driver (d. 1993)
• August 30: Rauli Somerjoki , Finnish rock musician and singer (d. 1987)
• August 31 Luca Cordero di Montezemolo , Italian manager and entrepreneur

September

• 0September 1: Rolf Kutzmutz , German politician
• 0September 1 Christiane Ufholz , German rock and jazz singer
• 02 September Kevin Cardinal Farrell , Irish-American bishop and Curia cardinal
• 0September 2: Louis Michel , Belgian politician
• 0September 3: Kjell Magne Bondevik , Norwegian politician
• 0September 3 Mario Draghi , Italian banking executive
  

  Mario Draghi
• 0September 3 Marie-Luise Kling-de Lazzer , German Protestant theologian
• 0September 3 Ulf Krüger , German musician, composer, lyricist and producer
• 0September 3: Nikolaus Schneider , German Protestant theologian
• 0September 4: Peter Behrens , German drummer, musician and clown († 2016)
• 0September 4 Dieter Köster , German film and television director
• 0September 5 Mel Collins , English musician
• 05 September: Herbert Mai , German union official
• 0September 5: Buddy Miles , American rock, blues, soul and funk drummer († 2008)
• 0September 5: Dieter Rampl , German entrepreneur
• 0September 5: Charles Bobo Shaw , American jazz drummer and band leader († 2017)
• 06 September: Hans Ulrich Aschenborn , Namibian animal painter
• 06 September: Annette Fasse , German politician and MP
• 0September 6: Sylvester James , American musician (d. 1988)
• 0September 6: Eduard Oswald , German politician
• 0September 7 Tony Bongiovi , American recording engineer and record producer
• 08 September Valery Afanasyev , Russian pianist
• 0September 8: Halldór Ásgrímsson , Prime Minister of Iceland († 2015)
• 0September 8: Jochen Dieckmann , German finance minister
• 0September 8: Ioan Moisin , Romanian politician and engineer (died 2017)
• 0September 8: Claudio Sala , Italian football player and coach
• 0September 9: Ujjal Dosanjh , Canadian politician
• September 10 Alexander Mihalyovich Galin , Russian playwright and director
• September 10 Adriano Guarnieri , Italian composer
• September 10: Herbert Rische , German manager (BfA)
• September 11: Toni Bruk , Sorbian film director and producer († 2020)
• September 11 Bob Catley , British rock singer
• September 11 Gerry Conway , British folk drummer
• September 12: Jakob Hefti , Swiss horn player and chamber musician
• September 12: Peter Kutemann , Dutch entrepreneur and racing driver
• September 12 Jean-Claude Lagniez , French racing driver and racing team owner
• September 13: Abdul Ajib bin Ahmad , Malaysian politician (died 2011)
• September 13 Elfgard Schittenhelm , German track and field athlete
• September 14: Walter Adler , German director
• September 14: Fredy Lienhard , Swiss automobile racer and entrepreneur
• September 14 Sam Neill , New Zealand actor
• September 14: Harry Parker , American baseball player (died 2012)
• September 14: Sebastian Pflugbeil , civil rights activist and minister without portfolio of the GDR
• September 14: Jerzy Popiełuszko , Polish clergyman (died 1984)
• September 15: Dirk Reinartz , German photographer (died 2004)
• September 16 Russ Abbot , British musician, comedian and actor
• September 16 Steven Gellman , Canadian composer, pianist and music educator
• September 16: Ilona Gusenbauer , Austrian track and field athlete
• September 16 Dieter Riedel , German football player and coach
• September 16: Hilda Elvira Santiago , Cuban pianist, composer, choir director and music teacher
• September 17 Richard James Ashworth , British politician
• September 18 Marinus van Aalst , Dutch sculptor, object and installation artist
• September 18: Bernd Apitz , German singer
• September 18 Petra-Evelyne Merkel , German politician
• September 19 Viktor Vladimirovich Erofeyev , Russian writer
• September 19: Alain Lipietz , French Green economist and engineer
• September 19: Jozef Móder , Czechoslovak footballer and European champion
• September 19: Niklas Stiller , German physician and writer
• September 20: Oscar Jairo Arboleda , Colombian soccer player and coach
• September 20: Wojciech Kurtyka , Polish mountaineer
• September 20: Mia Martini , Italian singer († 1995)
• September 21 Nick Castle , American actor, screenwriter and director
• September 21 Donald William Felder , American rock guitarist
• September 21: Kaoru Hoshino , Japanese automobile racer
• September 21 Stephen King , American writer
  

  StephenKing , 2007
• 21 September: Anke Spoorendonk , Danish minority politician in Schleswig-Holstein
• September 22 Betty Wishart , American composer
• September 23 Christian Escoudé , French jazz guitarist
• September 24: Bernard Béguin , French rally driver
• 24 September: Peter Götz , German politician and MP
• September 24 John Zook , American football player († 2020)
• September 25: Ulrich Boom , auxiliary bishop in Würzburg
• September 25: John Fiddler , British rock musician
• September 25: Wolfgang Hocquél , German art historian and monument conservator
• September 26: Lynn Anderson , American country music singer († 2015)
• September 26: Josef Jahrmann , Austrian politician
• September 27 Dirk Nicolaas Advocaat , Dutch football player and football coach
• September 27: Harry Baer , German actor, producer and writer
• September 27: Ulrich Daldrup , German politician (CDU), mayor and scientist
• September 27: Barbara Dickson , British singer, musician and actress
• September 27: Klaus Herlitz , German entrepreneur
• September 27: Meat Loaf , American rock singer and actor († 2022)
  

  Meat Loaf , 2009
• September 28 Gerd Bollmann , German politician (died 2017)
• September 28 Herbert Haupt , Austrian politician
• September 29: Jörg van Essen , German politician
• September 30 Michael Adams , German legal scholar and economist
• September 30: Marc Bolan , British singer, guitarist and songwriter (d. 1977)

October

• 0October 1 Axel Adamietz , German lawyer and notary
• 0October 1 Jeremy Adler , British poet and professor
• 0October 1 Dave Arneson , American game designer (died 2009)
• 0October 1 Stephen Collins , American actor, director and writer
• 01 October: Kees Schoonenbeek , Dutch composer and organist
• 0October 1: Mariska Veres , Dutch pop singer (Shocking Blue) († 2006)
• 0October 2 Ward Churchill , American writer, academic and activist
• 0October 2: Květoslav Mašita , Czechoslovak enduro athlete
• 0October 2 Dieter Pfaff , German actor and director († 2013)

Dieter Pfaff , 2012

• 0October 2 Christa Prets , Austrian politician, Member of the European Parliament
• 02 October: Janusz Rat , German dentist, chairman of the board of the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Dentists
• 0October 2 Faye-Ellen Silverman , American composer, pianist and music teacher
• 0October 3: Verena Stefan , Swiss writer († 2017)
• 0October 4 Stefan Persson , Swedish entrepreneur

Stephen Persson

• 0October 4: Rezzo hose , Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour
• 0October 5: Johannes Attems , Austrian bank manager
• 0October 5 Brian Johnson , Australian lead singer for hard rock band AC/DC
• 0October 5 Michael Keyser , American racing driver, journalist and photographer
• 0October 5: Bernd F. Lunkewitz , German real estate investor and publisher
• 0October 6: Thomas R. Fischer , German banker
• 08 October: Bob van Asperen , Dutch harpsichordist, organist and conductor
• 08 October: Peter Heesen , Federal Chairman of the German Civil Service Association
• 0October 9: France Gall , French singer († 2018)
• 0October 9: Rita Wilden , German track and field athlete and Olympian
• October 11 Mwata Bowden , American jazz musician
• October 11 Robert Lighthizer , American lawyer and government official
• October 11: Loukas Papadimos , Vice President of the European Central Bank
• October 13 Sammy Hagar , American singer
• October 13 – Zbigniew Jasiukiewicz , Polish volleyball player (died 2005)
• October 13 Robert D. Levin , American pianist, music educator and scholar
• October 13 Hans-Dieter Schmitz , German handball player and coach
• October 13: Rafael Villanueva , Dominican conductor (d. 1995)
• October 14 Charles Joiner , American football player
• October 14 Hartmut König , German politician, songwriter
• October 14: Rikky von Opel , Liechtenstein automobile racer
• October 14 Lukas Resetarits , Austrian actor
• October 14: Nikolai Volkoff , professional wrestler, Croatian-Russian (died 2018)
• October 15: Walter Boudreau , Canadian composer and saxophonist
• October 15: Jan Niklas , German actor
• October 15: José Viccario , Argentine boxer
• October 16 Terry Griffiths , Welsh snooker player
• 16 October Thokozile Masipa , South African jurist
• October 16 Bob Weir , American singer and guitarist
• October 16: David Zucker , American director and screenwriter
• October 17: Hans-Georg Aschoff , German historian
• October 18: Monika Helfer , Austrian writer
• October 19 Rudolf Herfurtner , German writer
• October 20: Georg Wilhelm Adamowitsch , German engineer, administrative scientist, civil servant and politician
• October 20 David Gillingham , American composer and music educator
• October 20: Aljoscha Rompe , German-Swiss punk musician († 2000)
• October 21: Ai , American poet and college teacher († 2010)
• October 21 Jerry Bergonzi , American jazz saxophonist
• 21 October: Arnold Schölzel , editor-in-chief of the Junge Welt daily newspaper
• October 22 Haley Barbour , American politician
• 22 October: Karl-Heinz Florenz , German MEP
• October 22: Richard Piper , British racing driver
• October 23 Abd al-Aziz ar-Rantisi , Palestinian general commander of Hamas (died 2004)
• October 23 – Kazimierz Deyna , Polish footballer (died 1989)
• October 23: Greg Ridley , British rock musician (died 2003)
• October 24: Gerhard Abraham , Austrian politician
• October 24 Kevin Kline , American actor
• October 25: Brigitte Asdonk , German terrorist
• October 25: Thomas Natschinski , German composer and singer
• October 25: Glenn Tipton , English heavy metal guitarist
• October 26: Ian Ashley , British motor racing driver
• October 26 Hillary Clinton , US politician

Hillary Clinton , 2009

• October 26: Christian Ude , German politician
• October 27 Edgar Broughton , English singer and guitarist
• October 28: Jō Kondō , Japanese composer
• October 28: Wolfgang Renner , German cyclist and entrepreneur
• October 29 Richard Dreyfuss , American actor
• October 29 Mirza Khazar , Azerbaijani author, radio journalist, translator of the Bible (died 2020)
• October 29: Kemal Kurt , writer, translator and photographer († 2002)
• October 29 Coline Serreau , French filmmaker and writer
• October 30 Glenn Andreotta , American pilot (d. 1968)
• October 30 John Celona , American composer, saxophonist, conductor and music educator
• October 30 Timothy B. Schmit , American musician
• October 31: Alberto Bigon , Italian football player and coach
• October 31: Herman Van Rompuy , Belgian politician, Prime Minister

Herman Van Rompuy , 2012

• October 31 Frank Shorter , American track and field athlete
• 000October: Terence Ascott , British civil engineer

November

• 0November 1 Ted Hendricks , American football player
• 0November 1 Jim Steinman , American rock and musical composer and record producer († 2021)
• 0November 1 Tsunekazu Takeda , Japanese show jumper and sports official
• 0November 2: Günter Neuhold , Austrian conductor
• 0November 2 Dave Pegg , British folk rock singer and bass player
• 0November 3: Wolfgang Coy , German computer scientist and university lecturer
• 0November 3: Mieko Kanai , Japanese writer
• 0November 4 Ike Thomas , American football player
• 0November 4: Alexei Nikolayevich Ulanov , Russian figure skater
• 0November 4 Bettina Wegner , German singer-songwriter and lyricist
• 0November 7: Günter Abel , German philosopher
• 0November 7 Bob Anderson , English darts player
• 0November 7: Ryszard Rumianek , Polish clergyman (died 2010)
• 0November 7: Elke Wülfing , German politician and MP
• 0November 8: Giorgio Francia , Italian racing driver
• 0November 8: Ruth Hieronymi , German politician
• 0November 9 Ursula Apitzsch , German political scientist and sociologist
• 0November 9 Kate Clinton , American comedian and author
• 0November 9: Donald Grantham , American composer, conductor and university lecturer
• November 10: Bachir Gemayel , Lebanese President (d. 1982)
• November 10: Greg Lake , British rock musician (died 2016)
• November 10: Jim Miller , American Nordic combined athlete
• November 11: Xuan Ai , Chinese painter
• November 11: Trevor Ferguson , Canadian novelist and playwright

Trevor Ferguson

• November 11: René Harris , Nauruan politician and President († 2008)
• November 11: Claus Mattheck , German professor
• November 11: Paul Pribbernow , German cartoonist
• November 12: Annika Idström , Finnish writer († 2011)
• November 12 Patrice Leconte , French director and screenwriter
• November 13 Mike Devecka , American Nordic combined athlete and ski jumper
• November 15 Bob Dandridge , American basketball player
• November 15: Bill Richardson , American politician
• November 15 Haji Nasser Ntege Ssebagala , Ugandan politician (died 2020)
• November 16 Hannelore Burosch , German handball player
• November 16: Gerhard Haatz , German enduro athlete († 2012)
• November 16: Eberhard Thust , German boxing executive
• November 16: Siegmar Wätzlich , German soccer player (died 2019)
• November 17: Wolfgang J. Bittner , Austrian Protestant theologian, speaker and author
• November 17: Alfred Dagenbach , German journalist and politician
• November 19 Eckart Lange , German music teacher
• November 20: Gerd Szepanski , German sports reporter († 2012)
• November 20: Hans Rudolf Wöhrl , German entrepreneur
• November 20 Joe Walsh , American rock musician
• November 21 Klaus Esser , German lawyer and manager
• November 21: Udo Stark , German businessman
• November 22: Hans Jörg Armbruster , German journalist
• November 22: Max Romeo , Jamaican singer
• November 22: Nevio Scala , Italian football player and coach
• November 24: Eva Lundgren , Swedish feminist, scholar and author
• November 24 Dwight Schultz , American actor
• 24 November Anatoly Vapirov , Ukrainian jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, composer
• November 25: Silvia Annichiarico , Italian singer, actress and radio host
• November 25: Stéphane Courtois , French historian
• November 25: Val Fuentes , American drummer
• November 25 John Larroquette , American actor
• November 26: John Amagoalik , Canadian politician
• November 26: Dieter E. Appelt , German politician (died 2016)
• November 26 Roger Wehrli , American football player
• November 27 Julio César Anderson , Guatemalan soccer player († 2021)
• November 27: Ismail Omar Guelleh , President of Djibouti
• November 27 Barbara Scheuch-Vötterle , German music publisher
• November 28: Michel Berger , French singer and composer (died 1992)
• November 28 William DeVaughn , American singer, songwriter and guitarist
• November 29: Petra Kelly , German politician (died 1992)
• November 29: Ivan Kurz , Czech composer and music teacher
• November 30 Karl-Heinz Handschuh , German footballer
• November 30 David Mamet , American screenwriter, playwright, film director, novelist
• November 30: Julio Pane , Argentine tango musician

December

• 0December 1 Tahar Ben Jelloun , Moroccan writer
• 0December 2: Rudolf Scharping , German politician

Rudolf Scharping , around 2000

• 0December 3 Mario Borghezio , Italian politician
• 0December 3 Olga Pall , Austrian alpine skier
• 0December 3: Heinrich Walcher , Austrian painter and musician
• 0December 4: Cayle Chernin , Canadian actress and film producer († 2011)
• 0December 4: Ute Kumpf , German politician
• 0December 4 Ursula Krechel , German writer
• 0December 5: Ursula Cantieni , Swiss-German actress
• 0December 5: Jørgen Kosmo , Norwegian Arbeiderpartiet politician (died 2017)
• 0December 5 Jim Plunkett , American football player
• 0December 5 Kim Simmonds , British blues and rock guitarist
• 0December 6: Uli Beckerhoff , German jazz musician
• 0December 6: Geoffrey Hinton , British scientist
• 0December 6 Herbert Kloiber , Austrian media entrepreneur
• 0December 6: Luigi Moreschi , Italian racing driver
• 0December 6: Wolf Christian Schröder , German writer
• 0December 7: Harald Ettl , Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament
• 0December 7 Anne Fine , British novelist
• 0December 7: Wilton Daniel Gregory , American archbishop and cardinal
• 0December 7: Stephen Mosko , American composer, conductor and music educator (d. 2005)
• 0December 8: Gregg Allman , American rock musician (died 2017)
• 08 December: Michael Antoni , German jurist and civil servant
• 0December 8: Thomas R. Cech , US Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• 0December 8 Francis Huster , French actor
• 0December 9: Mark Dvoretsky , Russian chess coach and author (died 2016)
• 0December 9 Steven Holl , American architect
• December 10: Jürgen Barth , German racing car driver, winner of the 1977 24 Hours of Le Mans
• December 11: Renate Angerer , Austrian politician
• December 12: Hermann Egner , German wind music composer († 2005)
• December 13: Darlene Cates , American actress (died 2017)
• December 13 Luis Ángel González Macchi , Paraguayan politician, President of the State of Paraguay
• December 14: Bernd Großmann , German athletics coach († 2005)
• December 14 Christopher Parkening , American guitarist
• December 14: Dilma Rousseff , Brazilian politician

Dilma Rousseff, 2011

• December 15 Erwin Ortner , Austrian choirmaster and conductor
• December 15: Wahei Tatematsu , Japanese writer (died 2010)
• December 15: George Tucker , Puerto Rican luger and physicist
• December 16: Krystyna Makowska-Ławrynowicz , Polish pianist and music teacher
• December 16: Vince Matthews , American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist
• December 17 Mykola Yanovych Azarov , Ukrainian politician
• December 17: Sachar Bron , Russian violinist and violin teacher
• December 17 Marilyn Hassett , American actress
• December 19 Janie Fricke , American country music singer
• December 20: Simon Beck , Liechtenstein luger
• December 20 Gigliola Cinquetti , Italian singer
• December 20 Wilfried Krüger , German musician
• 20 December: Marlene Rupprecht , German politician and MP
• December 20 Franz Sales Sklenitzka , Austrian writer and graphic artist
• December 20: Stevie Wright , Australian rock musician, singer († 2015)
• December 21: Christian Bienert , German radio presenter († 2020)
• December 21: Paco de Lucía , Spanish guitarist and grandmaster of flamenco guitar († 2014)
• December 22: Marcello Semeraro , Italian bishop and cardinal
• December 23 Ulrich Stiehl , German non-fiction author and programmer
• December 24 Michael Arnal , German screenwriter and director
• December 24: Henner von Hesberg , German archaeologist
• December 24: Brigitte Meyer , Bavarian politician and mayor
• December 25: Jozias Johannes van Aartsen , Dutch politician
• December 25: Antje Blumenthal , German politician, MP
• December 26: Jean Echenoz , French writer
• December 26: Peter Sattmann , German actor
• December 27 Katherine Patricia Irene Adams , British politician
• December 27: Mariella Mehr , Swiss writer
• December 27 Tracy Nelson , American singer
• December 27: Roberto Quintanilla , Mexican entrepreneur and automobile racer
• December 28 Mark Washington , American football player
• December 29 Ted Danson , American actor
• December 29: Cozy Powell , British rock musician, drummer (d. 1998)
• December 30: Paul Edwards , British racing driver
• December 30: Ulrich Gabriel , Austrian artist
• December 30: Jeff Lynne , British musician and record producer
• December 30: Teresa Parodi , Argentine cantautora and composer
• December 30 David Qualey , American guitarist and composer
• December 31: Ralph Eichler , Swiss physicist
• December 31: Klaus Hagemann , German politician
• 00December: David Ovey , British motor racing driver

day unknown

• Shane Acton , British circumnavigator (died 2002)
• Meir Agassi , Israeli author and poet (died 1998)
• Hasan Aksay , Turkish general
• Vanio Amici , Italian film editor and film director
• Ertuğrul Apakan , Turkish diplomat
• Manuel Asur González García , Spanish philosopher
• Erendiz Atasü , Turkish writer
• Ahmad Muhammad Sa'id al-Atrushi , Iraqi politician
• Achim Bednorz , German photographer
• Claus Biegert , German journalist and author
• Karl-Heinz Bölling , German radio play author
• Ermanno Cavazzoni , Italian writer
• Svatopluk Čech , Czech bassoonist, bass guitarist and rock singer
• Don Dickinson , Canadian writer
• Jörn-Peter Dirx , German painter and children's book author
• Miguel Angel Girollet , Argentine guitarist (died 1996)
• Micha Guttmann , German lawyer, journalist and media trainer
• Christian Hoening , German actor
• Klaus Holitzka , German graphic artist and author
• Jean-Luis Jorge , Dominican director, screenwriter, film and television producer († 2000)
• Heidi Knetsch , German radio play author
• Werner Knoedgegen , German puppeteer
• Valeri Krivoborodov , Russian cellist
• Christopher Lewis , Canadian musicologist (died 1992)
• Beate Meffert , German computer scientist († 2021)
• Meuser , German sculptor and object artist
• Felix Mühlholzer , German philosopher
• Petra Oelker , German journalist and writer
• Stefan Richwien , German radio play author
• Stephan Sattler , German journalist
• Matthäus Schilcher , German geoinformatician, geodesist and university professor
• Karl-Heinz Schmidt-Lauzemis , German radio play and screenwriter
• Mitsos Stavrakakis , Greek lyric poet and composer
• Haji Mohammed Chamkani , Afghan politician (died 2012)
• Peter Weissflog , German director and author

Died

January

• 0January 3: Ernst Hardt , German writer (b. 1876)
• 0January 5: Eduard Wilhelm Franz Anderson , German painter (born 1873)
• 0January 5: Karl Blume , German composer and singer (b. 1883)
• 0January 5: Ovington Weller , American politician (b. 1862)
• 0January 7: Johannes Wendland , Prussian evangelical clergyman and university teacher (b. 1871)
• 0January 9: Karl Mannheim , German-Hungarian sociologist (b. 1893)
• 0January 9: Fidelis von Stotzingen , German Benedictine, Abbot of the Maria Laach Monastery and Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation (b. 1871)
• January 10: Arthur Edward Andersen , American entrepreneur (b. 1885)
• January 10: Oda Sakunosuke , Japanese writer (born 1913)
• January 11: Lynn Frazier , American politician (b. 1874)
• January 14: Bill Hewitt , American football player (b. 1909)
• January 17: Andrei Grigoryevich Shkuro , Russian general (b. 1887)
• January 22: Max Berg , German architect (b. 1870)
• January 23: Pierre Bonnard , French Symbolist painter (b. 1867)
• January 24: Felix Timmermans , Belgian writer (b. 1886)

Al Capone , circa 1935

• January 25: Al Capone , American mobster (b. 1899)
• January 28: Ernst Borkowsky , German educator, historian and literary scholar (b. 1860)
• January 29: Albert Karl Arnstadt , German politician (born 1862)

February

• 0February 1: Hans Detlev Abraham Otto von Arnim-Kröchlendorff , German politician (born 1878)
• 0February 2: Ernst Diehl , German classics scholar (b. 1874)
• 0February 2: Willibald Hentschel , German writer (born 1858)
• 0February 5: Hans Fallada , German writer (b. 1893)
• 0February 6: Oliver Gardner , American politician (b. 1882)
• 0February 8: Ernst Klett , German entrepreneur (b. 1863)
• February 11: Gregori Aminoff , Swedish artist (b. 1883)
• February 11: Wilhelm Kohlbach , German general (b. 1896)
• February 13: Erich Hecke , German mathematician (b. 1887)
• February 17: Gustav Leutelt , Sudeten German poet and writer (b. 1860)
• February 18: Joachim Ernst von Anhalt , last Duke of Anhalt (b. 1901)
• February 24: Tor Julius Efraim Andræ , Swedish religious historian and bishop (b. 1885)
• February 26: Walter Adam , Austrian journalist and politician (b. 1886)
• February 26: Heinrich Häberlin , Swiss politician (b. 1868)
• February 28: Francis Yard , French writer (b. 1873)

March

• 0March 5: Alfredo Casella , Italian composer (b. 1883)
• 0March 6: Halford Mackinder , British geographer and geopolitician (b. 1861)
• 0March 7 Ossi Oswalda , German actress of the silent film and early talkie era (b. 1898)
• 0March 9: Wilhelm Werner , German racing driver (b. 1874)
• March 12: Winston Churchill , American writer (b. 1871)
• March 12: Walter S. Goodland , American politician (b. 1862)
• March 12: Smith Wigglesworth , British artisan, evangelist and Pentecostal preacher (b. 1859)
• March 16: Anna Ebert , politician and member of the Magdeburg City Council (b. 1889)
• March 17: Karel Anděl , Czech selenographer and co-founder of the Czech Astronomical Society (b. 1884)
• March 19: Ernst Krieck , German educator and writer (b. 1882)
• March 20: Victor Moritz Goldschmidt , Swiss geochemist (b. 1888)
• March 22: Wilhelm Ernst Asbeck , German writer (b. 1881)
• March 23: David Ashworth , English football referee and coach (b. 1868)
• March 27: Karl Bornhäuser , German Protestant theologian (b. 1868)
• March 31: Georg Ledebour , German journalist and politician, MdR (b. 1850)
• March 31: Qazi Mohammed , sole head of government of the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad (b. 1900 or 1901)

Henry Ford (1919)

April

• 01 April: George II , King of Greece (b. 1890)
• 01 April: Franz Seldte , co-founder of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten (b. 1882)
• 0April 1: Carl Krayl , German architect (b. 1890)
• 0April 3: Giannis M. Apostolakis , Greek Neo-Greekist (b. 1886)
• 0April 6: Václav Kaprál , Czech composer (b. 1889)
• 0April 7: Henry Ford , American entrepreneur (b. 1863)
• April 12: Juana la Macarrona , Spanish flamenco dancer (b. 1870)
• April 13: Jean Chassagne , French automobile racer (b. 1881)
• April 16: Rudolf Höß , German National Socialist and commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1901)
• April 17 GB Samuelson , British film producer and director (b. 1889)

Christian X , 1925

• 20 April: Christian X , King of Denmark (b. 1870)
• April 28 Theodor Arps , German naval officer (b. 1884)
• April 29: Richard Merrill Atkinson , American politician (b. 1894)
• April 29: Irving Fisher , American economist (b. 1867)

May

• 0May 1: Josef Feinhals , German entrepreneur (b. 1867)
• 02 May: Dorothea Binz , head warden at Ravensbrück concentration camp (b. 1920)
• 0May 8 Attilio Ferraris , Italian footballer (b. 1904)
• May 11: Richard Ohnsorg , German actor, theater founder and director (b. 1876)
• May 16: Frederick Gowland Hopkins , British biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
• May 17: Ignacy Dygas , Polish singer (tenor) (b. 1881)
• May 17: Hugo Visscher , Dutch church historian, Reformed theologian and politician (b. 1864)
• May 19: John Heijning , Dutch footballer (b. 1884)

Philipp Lenard (around 1905)

• May 20: Philipp Lenard , German Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
• May 24: Heinrich Dubbel , German professor of mechanical engineering (b. 1873)
• May 24: Albert Guyot , French entrepreneur and racing driver (b. 1881)
• May 26 Frances Helen Aitchison , British tennis player (born 1881)
• May 28: Johann Altfuldisch , deputy head of part of Mauthausen concentration camp (b. 1911)
• May 31: Adrienne Ames , American actress (b. 1907)

June

• 0June 1: Carl von Schubert , German civil servant and diplomat (b. 1882)
• 0June 4: Zaven Der Yeghiayan , Armenian Archbishop and Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1868)
• 0June 6: H.H. Dudley , American singer (b. 1864)
• 0June 6: Alphonse Martin , Canadian organist, pianist and music educator (b. 1884)
• June 12: Jāzeps Mediņš , Latvian composer (b. 1877)
• June 16: Bronisław Huberman , Polish violinist (b. 1882)
• June 18: Eric Nares , British officer (b. 1892)
• June 20: Howard M. Gore , American politician (b. 1877)
• June 23: Heinrich Arzt , German entrepreneur (b. 1874)
• June 26: Richard Bedford Bennett , Canadian politician (born 1870)
• June 26: Marie Feyler , Swiss doctor and suffragette (b. 1865)
• June 28: Stanislav Kostka Neumann , Czech poet (b. 1875)
• June 28: Per Steenberg , Norwegian organist and composer (b. 1870)
• June 30: Rudolf Noack , German soccer player (b. 1913)

July

• 0July 1: Clarence Lucas , Canadian composer, conductor and music educator (b. 1866)
• 0July 7: Maximilian Kaller , Bishop of Warmia in East Prussia (b. 1880)
• 0July 9: Otto Ampferer , Austrian alpinist and geologist (b. 1875)
• July 14: Franz Servaes , German journalist, critic and writer (b. 1862)
• July 15: Gertrud Jungnickel , German portrait painter (b. 1870)
• July 19: Georg Glatzl , German organ builder (b. 1881)
• July 19: Aung San , commander of Burma's Independent Army and national hero (b. 1915)
• July 19: Robert L. Owen , American politician (b. 1856)
• July 21: Joseph Emmanuel II Toma , Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans (b. 1852)
• July 22: Josef Behrens , German engineer and inventor (b. 1890)
• July 25: Ernst Articus , German jurist and civil servant (b. 1876)
• July 25: Alexandre Denéréaz , Swiss composer (b. 1875)
• July 26: Wilhelm Lobsien , German writer (b. 1872)
• July 27: Willi Arlt , German soccer player (b. 1919)
• July 30: Joseph Cook , Australian politician and Prime Minister (b. 1860)
• July 30: Rohan Koda , Japanese writer (b. 1867)
• July 31: Harry B. Hawes , American politician (b. 1869)

August

• 0August 5: Josef Aigner , Austrian provincial civil servant and politician (b. 1884)
• August 11 Albert Johann Anthony , German internist and university lecturer (b. 1901)
• August 15: Nils Andersson , Swedish footballer (b. 1887)
• August 17: George C. Atcheson Jr. , American diplomat (b. 1896)
• August 18: Anton Ivanovich Denikin , Russian general (b. 1872)
• August 19: Oskar Moll , German painter (b. 1875)
• August 21 Ettore Bugatti , Italian automobile manufacturer and designer (b. 1881)
• August 27: Johanna Ey , German gallery owner (b. 1864)

September

• 0September 1: Marius Anton Graf von Attems, Freiherr von Heiligenkreuz, Luziniss Potgora, Falkenstein und Tanzenberg , Austrian Imperial and Royal governor in the Kingdom of Dalmatia and Privy Councilor (b. 1862)
• 0September 2: Hulda von Levetzow , German author (b. 1863)
• 0September 6: Paul Guthnick , German astronomer (b. 1879)
• 0September 8: Victor Horta , Belgian Art Nouveau architect (b. 1861)
• 08 September: Cyril IX. Moghabghab , Lebanese cleric and Patriarch of Antioch (b. 1855)
• September 10: Adachi Hatazō , Japanese general (b. 1890)
• September 11: Alice Keppel , British mistress (b. 1869)
• September 13: Marguerite Hasselmans , French pianist (b. 1876)
• September 14 Augustin Wibbelt , German Roman Catholic clergyman and Westphalian dialect poet and writer (b. 1862)
• September 18: Clifford Warren Ashley , American painter and author (b. 1881)
• September 20: Fiorello LaGuardia , New York Mayor (b. 1882)
• 20 September: Heinz-Hellmuth von Wühlisch , German Lieutenant General (b. 1892)
• September 23: Nikola Petkov , Bulgarian politician (b. 1893)
• September 25 Joseph H. August , American cinematographer (b. 1890)
• September 25: Fritz Theodor Kuhnen , German politician and member of the Reichstag (b. 1879)
• 28 September: Elsa von Gutmann , Princess of Liechtenstein (b. 1875)
• September 29: Johannes Oscar Schubert , German mathematician, physicist, geodesist and meteorologist (b. 1859)
• September 30: Johann Flierl , German missionary (b. 1858)

October

Max Planck , around 1930

• 0October 2: Charles F. Adams , American entrepreneur (b. 1876)
• 0October 4: Max Planck , German physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1858)
• 0October 6: Leevi Madetoja , Finnish composer (b. 1887)
• 0October 7: Martin Schneeweiss , Austrian motorcycle racer (b. 1907)
• October 13: Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd , Field Marshal and Chief of the Imperial General Staff (b. 1871)
• October 13: Sidney James Webb , British politician (born 1859)
• 16 October: Viktor Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz , Austrian President of the Maritime Authority in Trieste (b. 1864)
• October 16: João Pernambuco , Brazilian guitarist and composer (born 1883)
• October 16: Gitz Rice , Canadian singer, pianist, composer and entertainer (b. 1891)
• October 16: Balys Sruoga , Lithuanian poet, playwright, critic and literary scholar (born 1896)
• October 17: Arthur M. Hyde , American politician (b. 1877)
• October 18: Augustine Lonergan , American politician (b. 1874)
• October 19: Ezequiel Plaza , Chilean painter (b. 1892)
• October 23: Franz Joseph Koch , German teacher and author (born 1875)
• October 29: Theodore Holland , English composer and music teacher (b. 1878)
• October 30: Ernest Dainty , Canadian pianist, organist, composer and conductor (born 1891)

November

• 000November : John Lachlan Cope , British physician and polar explorer (b. 1893)
• 0November 3: John Gilbert Winant , American politician (b. 1889)
• 0November 5 Karl Eschenburg , German photographer (b. 1900)
• 0November 5: Fritz Schumacher , German architect (b. 1869)
• November 12 Herbert Stockmann , German painter and graphic artist (b. 1913)
• November 12: Heinrich Nüßlein , antiquarian and painter ("The Prophet in the painter's coat") (b. 1879)
• November 14: Joseph Allard , Canadian fiddle player and composer (b. 1873)

Ernst Lubitsch , before 1920

• November 14 Verena Conzett-Knecht , Swiss trade unionist and women's rights activist (b. 1861)
• November 17: Ricarda Huch , German writer, poet and storyteller (b. 1864)
• November 18: Kurt Oppenheim , German entrepreneur, manager and chemist (b. 1886)
• November 20: Wolfgang Borchert , German novelist and playwright (b. 1921)
• November 20: Georg Kolbe , German sculptor (b. 1877)
• November 22: James J. Davis , American politician (b. 1873)
• November 24: George Curry , American politician (b. 1861)
• November 26: Ernie Adams , American actor (b. 1885)
• November 29: Rudolf Liechtensteinhan the Elder , Swiss pastor and theologian (b. 1875)
• November 30: Ernst Lubitsch , German film director (b. 1892)

December

• 0December 1: Friedrich Andres , German religious scholar (b. 1882)
• 0December 1: Aleister Crowley , British occultist (b. 1875)
• 0December 1: Franz Fischer , German chemist (b. 1877)
• 0December 2: Franz Xaver Schwarz , Reichsleiter and Reich Treasurer of the NSDAP (b. 1875)
• 0December 5: Kurt Klamroth , German entrepreneur (b. 1872)
• 09 December: Hanns Ludin , SA Obergruppenfuhrer and Ambassador of Slovakia (b. 1905)
• December 13: Nicholas Roerich , Russian painter and writer (born 1874)
• 11 December: Asdreni , Albanian poet (b. 1872)
• December 13: Arthur Walsh , American politician (b. 1896)
• December 14: Stanley Baldwin , British politician and Prime Minister (b. 1867)
• December 15: Leonardo Argüello Barreto , President of Nicaragua (b. 1875)
• December 15 Arthurmachen , British author of fantastic stories (b. 1863)
• December 15 Karl Stanka , German painter, draftsman and chronicler (b. 1883)
• December 17: Friedrich Attenhuber , German painter (b. 1877)
• December 17: Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted , Danish chemist and artist (b. 1879)
• December 19: Duncan Campbell Scott , Canadian poet and storyteller (b. 1862)
• December 20 Benigno S. Aquino senior , Filipino politician (b. 1894)
• December 20: Saint-Georges de Bouhélier , French writer (b. 1876)
• December 22 Auguste Distave , Belgian graphic artist, (b. 1887)
• December 24: Clement Young , American politician (b. 1869)

Victor Emmanuel III. , around 1905

• December 27: Friedrich Schwendimann , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and church historian (b. 1867)
• December 28: Victor Emmanuel III. , Italian king (b. 1869)
• December 30: Alfred North Whitehead , British philosopher and mathematician (b. 1861)
• December 30: Yokomitsu Riichi , Japanese writer (b. 1898)

day unknown

• Ferdinand Amelin , Austro-Hungarian quarrying and stonemasonry company Amelin (b. 1868)
• Anastasios Andreou , Greek athlete (born 1877)
• Mikhail Yevseevich Bukinik , Russian cellist, composer, music educator and music critic (born 1872)
• José Gil , Argentine composer and music educator (born 1886)
• Georg Hoffmann , German swimmer and water jumper (born 1880)
• Fathollah Akbar Sepahdar , Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1878)

Nobel prizes

• Physics : Edward Victor Appleton
• Chemistry : Robert Robinson
• Medicine : Carl Ferdinand Cori , Gerty Theresa Cori (the first woman in this award category) and Bernardo Alberto Houssay
• Literature : André Gide
• Nobel Peace Prize : Quakers ( The Friend's Service Council and The American Friend's Service Committee )

web links

Commons : 1947  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Annual chronicle from the house of the history of the FRG

itemizations

1. ↑ It was the fourth coldest in the period 1881 to 2020 (statista.de February 8, 2021 )
2. ↑ wdr.de: The cold and famine winter