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1948 | |
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With the Berlin Airlift , the western allies respond to the Soviet blockade of Berlin . | |
Currency reform in West Germany . | David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel . |
1948 in other calendars | |
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From urbe condita | 2701 |
Armenian calendar | 1396-1397 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1940-1941 |
Badi calendar | 104-105 |
Bengali calendar | 1354-1355 |
Berber calendar | 2898 |
Buddhist calendar | 2492 |
Burmese calendar | 1310 |
Byzantine calendar | 7456-7457 |
Chinese calendar | |
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- CLVI CLVII 156-157 |
Hebrew calendar | 5708-5709 |
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- Vikram Sambat | 2004-2005 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1870-1871 |
Iranian calendar | 1326-1327 |
Islamic calendar | 1367-1368 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Nengō (era): | Shōwa 23 |
- Kōki | 2608 |
Coptic calendar | 1664-1665 |
Korean calendar | |
- Dangun era | 4281 |
- Juche era | 37 |
Minguo calendar | 37 |
Modern Olympics | XIV |
Seleucid calendar | 2259-2260 |
Thai solar calendar | 2491 |
In 1948 , the intensification of the Allied contradictions on the German question was the focus of world interest, which experienced a dramatic climax with the currency reform and the subsequent Berlin blockade , which the Western powers countered with the establishment of the Berlin Airlift . Another trouble spot is the Middle East, where the UN partition plan for Palestine from the previous year was unable to resolve the Jewish-Arab tensions; instead, they discharge in the Palestinian War , when the British mandate ends and Israel proclaims independence.
overview
Germany
On the question of Germany, the different interests between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union are becoming increasingly evident. After the Communists under Gottwald took power in Czechoslovakia in February , there are fears in the West that a similar development could threaten Berlin and Germany. At the London Six Power Conference , the first important course was set in the direction of the planned establishment of a West German state, which the Soviet side regards as a violation of the Potsdam Agreement and leads to the withdrawal of the Soviet military governor Sokolowski from the Control Council . Conversely, the Soviet side is increasingly obstructing free access to West Berlin and is also intervening directly in the authority of the Berlin magistrate under Louise Schroeder, by making the police apparatus purposefully communist.
The events escalated after a new currency, the D-Mark, was introduced in the three western zones , which accelerated the end of the rationing economy there, but at the same time threatened the Soviet zone, where the Reichsmark was initially still in circulation, with inflation. Despite the Soviet warnings, the D-Mark was introduced in West Berlin a few days later. In the east, the reaction is to close the land and waterways between the western zones and West Berlin; The electricity supply for the three western sectors will also be cut. Ernst Reuter's dramatic appeal for help to the peoples of the world is helping the Western powers to make every effort to supply West Berlin by air.
In the meantime, concrete steps are being taken towards a constitution for the three western zones. The framework conditions for this are given by the Western powers in the Frankfurt documents ; After the first preparatory consultations in the Rittersturz Conference and the Constitutional Convention at Herrenchiemsee , the Parliamentary Council in Bonn begins its work, which will ultimately lead to the drafting of the Basic Law - the name was chosen to emphasize the provisional character of the establishment of the state, the ultimate goal of which is the state Unity of Germany should be - culminates.
Palestine
In the second major trouble spot of the year, Palestine, there had been a latent civil war for a long time between the Arab population and the rapidly increasing Jewish population due to immigration from Europe. On the one hand, the British mandate was often the target of attacks, on the other hand, attacks between Jews and Arabs were the order of the day. The official end of the British mandate on May 15th caused the situation to escalate further and the Israeli side tried to counter the Arab attack by proclaiming a state of its own on May 14th (the 15th was a Sabbath). At first, the Israeli side was on the defensive, despite the immediate recognition of the new state by the superpowers; from the north the armies of Lebanon and Syria advanced into Galilee , Iraqi and Jordanian units conquered the West Bank and from Sinai Egyptian troops advanced towards Tel Aviv. After a while, however, the Israelis succeeded, not least by building up their own air force from Czech stocks, to make up ground, to secure the road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and to push back the enemy in Galilee. Attempts at international mediation initially had little effect; on the contrary, the UN Commissioner for Palestine, Count Bernadotte , fell victim to an attack by Jewish extremists because of his commitment to the Palestinian refugees.
Greece
In the Greek Civil War , the government troops made progress against the communist insurgents.
China
In China , Mao's People's Liberation Army is conquering Manchuria and threatening Beijing, which was initially held by national Chinese troops under the increasingly autocratic Chiang Kai-shek .
Korea
In Korea , the division of the state was consolidated with the establishment of the People's Republic in the north and the Republic under Rhee Syng-man in the south; However, the withdrawal of the US and Soviet troops initially gave rise to hope that an armed conflict would not break out. Beginning of the Jeju massacre .
India
The clashes between the two young states India and Pakistan over Kashmir continued on the Indian subcontinent . The murder of Mahatma Gandhi , who advocated a compromise between the two states, by a radical Hindu nationalist is symptomatic of the tensions in the region. The Nizam of Hyderabad, who initially stayed away from the Indian Union because of the high Muslim population in his country, is subjected to a one-week campaign by Indian troops.
United States
In the USA , the intensification of the Cold War is clearly noticeable at the political level . For the upcoming presidential election in November, polls predict a clear defeat for incumbent Harry S. Truman . However, this surprisingly succeeds in defeating his Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey . In July, Truman makes presidential available repealing racial segregation in the armed forces for attention.
Events
Politics and world events
January
- January 1st : Enrico Celio becomes President of Switzerland again .
- January 1st : Enrico De Nicola becomes the first Italian President.
- January 1 : The GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) comes into force.
- January 1 : The republican constitution comes into force making Italy a republic.
- January 1st : In Great Britain the railway companies are nationalized.
- January 3 : Introduction of the franc in Saarland .
- January 4th : Burma (since 1989 Myanmar ) gains independence from Great Britain .
- January 27th : Italy becomes a member of UNESCO .
- January 30th : Mahatma Gandhi is shot dead by the nationalist Hindu Nathuram Godse .
- January 30th : The Italian government issues a statute of autonomy for South Tyrol .
- January 31 : Hundreds of thousands of people arrive to cremate the body of Mahatma Gandhi and then sink the ashes in the Ganges .
February
- February 2 : Paul Ruegger becomes President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); he succeeds Carl Jacob Burckhardt .
- February 2 : The second Economic Council of the Bizone meets in Frankfurt am Main . Of the 104 representatives, 40 each belong to the SPD and the CDU / CSU.
- February 4th : Ceylon becomes independent.
- February 13 : The merger of the two soccer clubs Kölner BC 01 and SpVgg Sülz 07 creates 1. FC Köln .
- February 14 : In the western zones of Germany, the previously banned production of aluminum is permitted again.
- February 18 : Éamon de Valera resigns after 16 years as Irish Prime Minister ( Taoiseach ) after his party Fianna Fáil loses the parliamentary majority. John A. Costello is his successor .
- February 19 : In Nuremberg were made in the trial of the so-called South-East generals for war crimes in the Balkans during World War II long prison sentences against the defendants.
- February 22nd : The Soviet military administration restricts truck traffic between the western zones and Berlin.
- February 25 : The communist prime minister of Czechoslovakia , Klement Gottwald , dismisses the twelve bourgeois ministers of his government and thus secures the CP's sole power in the country.
- February 26 : The Max Planck Society is founded in Göttingen . She succeeds the Kaiser Wilhelm Society.
March
- March 1 : The Bank deutscher Länder starts its work in Frankfurt am Main . She is initially responsible for the bizone , from March 25th also for the French zone.
- March 7th : The Peronists win the elections in Argentina .
- March 10 : In the third lintel in Prague , two weeks after the communist revolution in February, the non-communist foreign minister Jan Masaryk dies . Whether he suicide committed, according to the official version, or force from a window of the Czernin Palace was thrust remains unclear.
- March 13 : A state of emergency is declared in Nicaragua due to unrest.
- March 17th : The Brussels Pact is signed. Great Britain , Belgium , the Netherlands , Luxembourg and France agree on an economic and defense community that will initially run for 50 years.
- March 17 : The People's Congress of the Soviet Occupation Zone resolves to form a People's Congress as the all-German representative body. The Brussels Pact is criticized, at the same time the recognition of the Oder-Neisse border is demanded.
- March 20 : The ruling Allied Control Council meets for the last time. Soviet Marshal Sokolovsky leaves the Control Council to protest that the Soviet side has been insufficiently informed about the London Six Power Conference , which also contradicts the Potsdam agreements.
- March 20 : Parliamentary elections are held in Singapore .
- March 26th : France and Italy agree on a customs union.
- March 28 : In the parliamentary elections in Romania, the People's Democratic United Front wins 93.2 percent of the vote
- March 31 : The Faroe Islands' autonomy law is passed by King Frederik IX of Denmark . signed. The following day, the Faroe Islands received extensive autonomy within the Kingdom of Denmark .
April
- April 3 : US President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan . 5.3 billion dollars will be released for Europe, of which the western zones of Germany will receive around 550 million.
- April 3 : An uprising breaks out on the South Korean island of Jeju , which is crushed by the police and army. Up to 30,000 people died in this conflict by May 1949.
- April 6 : The first session of the Central Parliament of British East Africa takes place in Nairobi .
- April 7th : The World Health Organization WHO is founded.
- April 9 : Over 100 Palestinian Arabs are murdered by extremist Israelis in Deir Yassin .
- April 10 : In the Einsatzgruppen trial , 14 of the 24 defendants are sentenced to death; four of these death sentences were actually carried out in 1951.
- April 13 : Romania adopts a Soviet-style constitution.
- April 16 : Creation of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation ( OEEC ).
- April 19 : Burma joins the United Nations .
- April 20 : Resumption of the London Six Power Conference on Germany Policy .
- April 23 : Berlin students call for a Free University of Berlin .
- April 23 : The Union of People's Own Enterprises ( VEB ) is founded in the Soviet occupation zone .
- April 28 : El Salvador becomes a member of UNESCO.
- April 29th : The Peasant Party is founded in the Soviet occupation zone.
- April 30 : In Bogotá is American agreement on the peaceful settlement signed and the Organization of American States established her include the 21 nations of the Americas.
May
- May 1 : After an attack on the Greek Minister of Justice Christos Ladas, the government has martial law imposed and 213 communists executed.
- May 7 : In Czechoslovakia a constitution based on the Soviet model comes into force.
- May 7th : 750 delegates from 30 countries gather in The Hague for a European Congress . Winston Churchill pleads for the unification of Europe so that it can exist as a third force alongside the two superpowers.
- May 10 : Elections take place in South Korea under UN supervision.
- May 11th : Luigi Einaudi is elected President of Italy .
- May 14 : Establishment of the State of Israel . The first prime minister is David Ben-Gurion . The new state will quickly u. a. recognized by the USA and the Soviet Union. Egypt , Saudi Arabia , Jordan , Lebanon , Iraq and Syria , on the other hand, declare war on Israel (see Palestine War ).
- May 18 : The Legislative Assembly of the Republic of China meets in Nanjing .
- May 19 : The German Writers ' Congress to mark the 100th anniversary of the revolution of 1848 takes place in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt .
- May 23 : On the initiative of the SED, the petition for signatures for unity and just peace is started in the Soviet zone of occupation .
- May 25 : The National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD) is established in the Soviet occupation zone at the instigation of the SED . She is one of the block parties .
- May 26 : In South Africa is apartheid , the party, the National Party in the general election strongest force.
- May 30 : In the parliamentary elections in Czechoslovakia with single lists, the CP is the strongest force.
- May 31 : Israel Defense Forces is formed.
June
- June 2 : Some doctors from the Nazi era are executed after the verdict of the Nuremberg Doctors ' Trial.
- June 3 : In a first referendum on Newfoundland's political future , none of the alternatives wins an absolute majority. A second referendum was then scheduled for July 22, 1948.
- June 7th : As a result of the London Six Power Conference , the London Recommendations are adopted, in which the governments of Great Britain, the USA, France and the Benelux countries are presented with the framework conditions for a West German state to be founded. These conditions will be presented to the West German prime ministers as Frankfurt documents at the beginning of July. The conference also decides that the three western zones will join the ERP program .
- June 8 : The Soviet Union halves the reparations payments of Hungary and Romania .
- June 18 : In Italy For the first democratic parliamentary elections after the Second World War instead.
- June 18 : Due to communist unrest, the British colonial power imposed an emergency law on Malaya .
- June 21 : In the western zones of occupation, the currency reform introduced the D-Mark , which replaced the Reichsmark.
- June 23rd : In order to counter the inflation triggered by the currency reform of the western zones , the Soviet military administration orders an exchange of notes in their zone; Marshal Sokolowski warns against the expansion of the western reform to the western sectors of Berlin.
- June 23 riots in front of the Berlin town hall in the Soviet sector of Berlin
- June 24th : Introduction of the Westmark imprinted with "B" in the three western sectors of Berlin
- June 24th : The Berlin blockade begins
- June 24th : The foreign ministers of the Eastern Bloc demand four-power control of the Ruhr area , the establishment of an all-German government and the fulfillment of German reparation obligations.
- June 25th : General Lucius D. Clay orders the establishment of the Berlin Airlift to supply West Berlin . The victorious Soviet Union has imposed a blockade on the divided city .
- June 26th : The first aircraft of the Berlin Airlift , a DC-4, lands in Berlin (pilot: Jack O. Bennett ).
- June 27 : Yugoslavia is excluded from membership in the Cominform ; its seat is moved from Belgrade to Bucharest .
- June 28 : The British Airlift starts under the name "Plain Fare".
July
- July 1 : The military governors of the three Western Allies hand over the Frankfurt documents to the West German Prime Minister , in which the conditions for the constitution to be created are laid down.
- July 3rd : Barracked People's Police are formed in the Soviet occupation zone.
- July 5 : The UK nationalized healthcare system as the National Health Service .
- July 8 : The reparations payments from West Germany to the Soviet Union are suspended.
- 8. - 10. July : On the Rittersturz conference in Koblenz is the merger of the three Western occupation zones to the Federal Republic of Germany decided.
- Since mid-July: Construction of the new Tegel Airport in just 85 days.
- July 15 : After an attempted assassination attempt on Palmiro Togliatti , the head of the Italian Communist Party, strikes broke out across the country.
- July 16 : Israeli troops capture Nazareth ; fierce fighting broke out in Jerusalem . The road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem with the cities of Lydda and Ramla is secured by the Israelis.
- July 18 : Armistice is agreed in the Israeli-Arab war ; it lasts until mid-October.
- July 19 : In France , Robert Schuman's first cabinet resigns ; on July 26th André Marie takes over the office of head of government, but only stays in office for six weeks.
- July 20 : Rhee Syng-man becomes President of South Korea .
- July 22nd : In a second referendum on Newfoundland's political future, 52.3% of those who vote are in favor of joining Canada.
- July 25 : Bread rationing is lifted in the UK .
- July 26 : US President Harry S. Truman ends the segregation in the US armed forces with the signing of Executive Order 9981 .
- July 29 : After swinging out of the Yugoslav Communists under Josip Broz Tito from the Soviet hegemony , the loyal to Moscow decides SED a political purge of degenerate and hostile elements from the party.
- July 31 : Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach is sentenced to twelve years imprisonment in Nuremberg , his fortune is confiscated.
August
- August 1 : The first issues of the magazines Stern and Welt am Sonntag appear.
- August 10 : A constitutional convention convened by the West German states meets in the old Herrenchiemsee Palace , which carries out important preparatory work for the work of the Parliamentary Council and which will meet until August 23.
- August 13 : Austria becomes a member of UNESCO.
- August 15 : Proclamation of the Republic of (South) Korea.
- August 20 : The identity check between the French occupation zone and the Bizone was lifted .
- 23 August : The World Council of Churches is founded in Amsterdam .
- August 26th : The Mayor of Berlin , Louise Schroeder (SPD), dismisses Police President Paul Markgraf (SED), which leads to protests by the Soviet military administration and communist demonstrations; The Soviet side rejects the establishment of a ban mile to protect parliamentary work.
- August 30 : The Romanian secret service Securitate is founded.
- August 30th : Costa Rica gains final independence.
September
- September 1 : The Parliamentary Council elects Konrad Adenauer as chairman.
- September 4th : Juliana becomes the de facto Queen of the Netherlands after the abdication of her mother Wilhelmina ; on September 6th she takes the oath on the constitution.
- September 5th : Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France again . He succeeds André Marie, who resigned on August 27, but only remains in office for two days.
- September 6th : After the Berlin city councilors were hindered by the storm of communist demonstrators on the town hall , the non-communist delegates move to the western part of Berlin. This means the de facto end of uniform city government and administration for Berlin.
- September 6th : Iran becomes a member of UNESCO.
- September 6th : With her enthronement , Queen Juliana becomes head of state in the Netherlands . She follows her mother Wilhelmina , who abdicated in her favor .
- September 9 : Hundreds of thousands of people in Berlin demonstrate for freedom in front of the Reichstag in Berlin. Ernst Reuter appeals to the Western powers: "Look at this city!"
- 9 September : Proclamation of the People's Republic of North Korea , claiming to represent all of Korea.
- September 11 : The SPD holds its party congress for the western zones in Düsseldorf ; Kurt Schumacher is elected chairman on September 15th.
- September 11 : Death of the Pakistani state founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah , who is buried in a mausoleum in Karachi ; Khawaja Nazimuddin will be the new head of state on September 14th .
- September 11th : After Robert Schuman's resignation as head of the French government on September 7th, Henri Queuille forms a new cabinet.
- September 12 : Beginning of the Indian "Operation Polo" against the state of Hyderabad . The Nizam of Hyderabad, which lies entirely within Indian territory, initially retained its independence. After attacks against Hindus, the Indian central government intervened and marched into Hyderabad, which was subjugated militarily after eight days.
- September 12 : Liaoshen campaign begins in the Chinese Civil War ; Communist troops succeed in conquering the whole of Manchuria within two months .
- September 14 : Hungary becomes a member of UNESCO.
- September 15th : Argentina becomes a member of UNESCO.
- September 17 : UN mediator Folke Bernadotte is shot dead by members of the Jewish terrorist group Lechi after he had spoken out in favor of the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Those behind the attack are being amnestied by the government of Israel.
- September 18 : With 897 flights on this day, the record is set during the Berlin Airlift .
- September 18 : Otto Nuschke is elected chairman of the Eastern CDU .
October
- October 1 : The German Patent Office is re-established in Munich .
- October 2 : The Soviet Union begins building nuclear weapons in Siberia . At the same time, it proposes to destroy all nuclear weapons and to set up an international control authority.
- October 4 : The Benelux countries, Great Britain and France form a joint defense commission. The General Staffs meet in London under the chairmanship of Bernard Montgomery .
- October 13 : The miner Adolf Hennecke extracts 24.4 m³ of coal in one shift and thus exceeds the daily target by 387%. It thus triggered the so-called Hennecke movement in the GDR.
- October 13 : Confrontations between blacks and Indians break out in Durban , South Africa.
- October 19 : The Economic Council of the Bizone adopts the Berlin Emergency Victims Act against the votes of the KPD .
- October 21 : Iraq becomes a member of UNESCO.
- October 22nd : Walter Ulbricht declares the Oder-Neisse border between Germany and Poland to be final.
- October 24 : The Israeli army goes on the offensive against Syrian and Lebanese units in Galilee with Operation Hiram.
November
- November 2 : In the US presidential election , incumbent Harry S. Truman is confirmed; the Republican Thomas E. Dewey ran against him . In the congressional elections taking place at the same time, the Democrats can win a majority in both chambers again.
- November 2 : Communist troops capture Shenyang , Manchuria.
- November 9th : The Soviet military administration threatens to force all Western Allied planes that do not comply with the air corridors to Berlin to land.
- November 12 : Former Japanese Prime Minister Tōjō Hideki is sentenced to death in the Tokyo trials for war crimes and executed on December 23.
- November 12th : General strike in the Trizone . Previously, the prices for certain consumer goods had been released and rose sharply.
- November 15 : Louis Saint-Laurent becomes Prime Minister of Canada .
- November 15 : The first HO stores are set up in the Soviet occupation zone .
- November 19 : The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling enters into force
- November 24 : The President of Venezuela , Rómulo Betancourt , is overthrown by the military.
- November 26 : The Irish Parliament decides to completely separate the country from the United Kingdom.
- November 27 : The UN Security Council calls on Albania , Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to stop aid to the communist insurgents in the Greek civil war .
- November 29th : Communist troops begin an offensive against Zhangjiakou northwest of Beijing .
- November 30th : Friedrich Ebert (SED) is elected Lord Mayor of East Berlin and forms a magistrate in which the SED holds four of 14 posts. In order to create a majority for communists from the outset, the FDGB , the FDJ and the Association of Victims of National Socialism are also allowed to provide some members. These 'representatives' are simply appointed.
December
- December 4th : Founding of the Free University of Berlin in West Berlin in response to the Stalinist influence on science in the Soviet Zone .
- December 5th : House elections take place in West Berlin; the SPD receives almost two thirds of the votes (76 seats), ahead of the CDU (26 seats) and the LDP (17). The SED, which had called for an election boycott, was awarded the 11 seats in the 1946 election. The 64.5 percent of the SPD represent the highest result for a party at the state level in democratic parties since the end of the war.
- December 7 : In the western part of Berlin, Ernst Reuter is elected mayor by the city council.
- December 8 : In response to the anti-Jewish pogroms in Cairo and terrorist attacks, the Egyptian government under Mahmoud an-Nukraschi Pasha bans the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and nationalizes its property.
- December 10 : The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights .
- December 11th : Foundation of the FDP in Heppenheim . Theodor Heuss is elected first chairman .
- December 13 : The Young Pioneers are founded in the Soviet occupation zone.
- December 16 : The wooden tower of the Berlin-Tegel radio station is blown up because it would endanger air traffic at Berlin-Tegel Airport, which is under construction.
- December 16 : Cambodia becomes independent within the Union française .
- December 17 : Israel's application to join the UN is rejected.
- December 22nd : “Operation Horev” begins: Israel attacks Egyptian troops in the western Negev to gain access to the Red Sea.
- December 26th : The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea .
- December 26th : Cardinal József Mindszenty and other church officials are arrested in Hungary .
- December 28 : Members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood kill Prime Minister Mahmud an-Nukraschi Pasha.
- December 31 : The 100,000. Airplane landing in Berlin since the airlift was built .
economy
- January 1 : Heinrich Nordhoff becomes the new General Director at VW (Wolfsburg Volkswagenwerk)
- January 1st : Nationalization of the railways in Great Britain
- January 1st : The customs agreement between the Benelux countries of Belgium , the Netherlands and Luxembourg comes into force.
- January 15 : In Saarland , the Saar franc becomes the sole legal tender . It replaces the Saar mark , which was a few months old , and is linked to the French franc .
- March 1st : The Bank of German Lands is established in Frankfurt am Main by Law No. 60 of the military government in Germany. As a central bank, it is the forerunner of the Deutsche Bundesbank .
- April 23rd : The interzonal train traffic between Berlin and the western zones is paralyzed by Soviet instructions because of alleged "technical difficulties". It was interrupted for more than a year by the Berlin blockade that was later imposed .
- April 25 : The first issue of the German illustrated magazine Quick appears.
- May 14 : The think tank RAND Corporation is created as a non-profit organization after a consulting project for the US armed forces.
- June 15 : From a regional party paper of the Communist Party of China , the first edition of which is published, the Renmin Ribao develops into the official mouthpiece of the party and one of the two largest daily newspapers in the People's Republic of China .
- June 20 : Currency reform in the three German western zones. On presentation of identification cards and grocery cards , 40 Deutsche Mark per person will be paid out.
- June 21 : The company Columbia Broadcasting System presents the long-playing record with 33 1/3 revolutions per minute. This vinyl record, invented by her colleague Peter Carl Goldmark , soon replaced the shellac record .
- June 23 : Introduction of a separate currency in the Soviet Zone
- June 28 : The Union Internationale des Architectes is founded in Lausanne by delegations from 27 countries .
- August 1st : The first edition of the German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag appears. At the same time, the illustrated news magazine stern is published for the first time.
- December 1 : The supplement stamps Notopfer Berlin are compulsory on letters in the Bizone . In Berlin , therefore, a post-war broke out in the eastern part of the city from January 1949, which affected the entire divided Germany.
- December 16 : The state credit institute for reconstruction (KfW) is founded. It is supposed to finance the reconstruction of the German economy.
- December 18 : The dam leading to the Danish island of Röm is inaugurated.
- December 20 : Richard and Maurice McDonald open their redesigned Fast Food Restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
science and technology
- February 11 : Foundation of the Max Planck Society by Otto Hahn , who is also elected first President (until 1960, then Honorary President).
- February 16 : The astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper discovers the moon Miranda orbiting the planet Uranus .
- April 14 : On the Eniwetok - Atoll begins with the Operation Sandstone third nuclear test series in the United States.
- June 3 : The 400-ton Hale Telescope in the Palomar Observatory is inaugurated. With a diameter of five meters, it is the largest telescope on earth at this time. It serves astronomical purposes, in particular the study of the galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
- October 14 : Lake Gruyère , the longest storage lake in Switzerland, is officially inaugurated.
- The first records of polyvinylchloride come on the market
- Start of excavation work at Eridu by Iraqi archaeologists
- At the beginning of June, the Porsche 356 No. 1 Roadster , the first vehicle to be called “ Porsche ”, received its individual approval and started on its maiden voyage.
- The remote control is invented.
Culture
- February 22nd : World premiere of the musical drama Die Nachtschwalbe by Boris Blacher in Leipzig
- March 22nd : The Danish spelling reform of 1948 abolished the capitalization of nouns and introduced the letter Å .
- August 15 : Staged world premiere of the opera Le vin herbé by Frank Martin at the Salzburg Festival
- August 24 : During excavations in the vineyard caves in Bavarian walls , the Venus of Walls is found, a Venus figurine from the younger Paleolithic .
- October 14 : For the first time, a Sorbian-language program is broadcast on the radio in Germany .
- October 28 : World premiere of the opera Three Hair of Father Omniscient by Rudolf Karel at the National Theater in Prague
- December 3 : World premiere of the opera The Story of the Real Man by Mira Mendelson ( libretto ) / Sergei Prokofjew (music)
- December 18 : World premiere of the opera Circe by Werner Egk in Berlin
- Foundation of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- Founding of the Amato Opera , the "smallest opera in the world", in New York City
- The predecessors of the famous Łódź Film School , Wyższą Szkołą Filmową and Wyższa Szkoła Aktorska are founded.
- First award of the Bambi
religion
- September 27th : The Marian Congregation is the focus of the Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius XII. The head of the church calls for more spirituality in the sense of Ignatius Loyolas' book of exercises .
- October 24th : In the encyclical In multiplicibus curis Pope Pius XII calls out . to prayer for peace in Palestine . He continues to demand international guarantees for free access to the Holy Places in Jerusalem .
- December 12 : With a mass for the Catholic St. Nicolai parish , church life returns to the Aegidienkirche in Braunschweig. Since 1811 the church has served other purposes and before that it was a Protestant church from 1528 .
- Eighth Lambeth Conference of the Church of England
Sports
- January 30th to February 8th : 5th Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz
- February 13th : BC Cologne and SpVgg Sülz 07 merge to form 1. FC Cologne
- February 21 : Bayenthaler SV , SV Victoria Köln and SV 1927 Köln merge to form SC Fortuna Köln
- April 13th : FC Oberneuland is founded
- May 16 : Mikhail Botvinnik's victory at the 1948 World Chess Championship ends the chess interregnum
- July 29th to August 14th : XIV. Summer Olympic Games in London
- August 8 : 1st German soccer championship after the war. Champion: 1. FC Nürnberg
- September 18 : Stirling Moss wins the first race on the British Goodwood Circuit on a 500 cc class motorcycle .
- Founding of the Kosovar Football Association
Disasters
- June 28 : 7.3-magnitude earthquake in Fukui , Japan , kills 5,390
- July 28 : A tank car explosion at BASF Ludwigshafen results in 207 dead and around 3,800 injured
- October 6 : The Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Born
January
- January 1st : Alain Afflelou , French optician and businessman
- January 1st : Javier Aguirresarobe , Spanish cameraman
- January 1 : Antonello Aglioti , Italian theater and film director, costume and production designer († 2013 )
- January 1st : İhsan Arslan , Turkish politician
- January 1st : Heinz Blasey , German soccer player
- January 1 : Jane Getz , American jazz pianist and studio musician
- January 1 : Pawel Grachev , Russian officer and politician († 2012 )
- January 2 : Tony Judt , British historian and essayist († 2010 )
- January 2nd : Karen Swassjan , Armenian philosopher, literary scholar, cultural historian and anthroposophist
- January 2nd : Kerry Minnear , English musician
- January 3 : Angelo Marcello Anile , Italian physicist and mathematician († 2007 )
- January 3 : Manfred Kokot , German athlete
- January 5th : Giuseppe Impastato , Italian politician and anti-Mafia fighter († 1978 )
- January 5 : František Lobkowicz , Czech auxiliary bishop
- January 5th : Gloria Simonetti , Chilean singer
- January 6 : Mikhail Ryklin , Russian philosopher and essayist
- January 7th : Shobhaa De , Indian author
- January 7th : Kenny Loggins , American singer, guitarist and songwriter
- January 7th : Bernd Scheelen , German politician
- January 8 : Thurman Barker , American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer
- January 8th : Frits Boterman , Dutch historian
- January 9 : William Cowsill , American musician († 2006 )
- January 9 : Tim Hart , British folk singer, guitarist and dulcimer player († 2009 )
- January 10 : Donald Fagen , American singer and keyboardist
- January 10 : Mischa Maisky , Latvian cellist
- January 10 : Bernard Thévenet , French cyclist
- January 11 : Helga Anders , Austrian actress and voice actress († 1986 )
- January 11 : Wajima Hiroshi , Japanese sumo wrestler and 54th yokozuna († 2018 )
- January 11 : Madeline Manning , American athlete and Olympic champion
- January 12th : Anthony Corin Gerald Andrews , British actor and film producer
- January 12 : Gordon Campbell , Canadian politician
- January 12th : Carme Riera , Catalan writer and literary scholar
- January 13 : Jürgen Angelbeck , German politician
- January 13 : Bruno Hollnagel , German politician
- January 14th : T-Bone Burnett , American rock singer, guitarist and producer
- January 14 : Valery Kharlamov , Russian ice hockey player († 1981 )
- January 14th : Jean-Paul Rostagni , French football player
- January 14th : Gian Piero Ventura , Italian football player and coach
- January 14 : Carl Weathers , American actor and football player
- January 15 : Ronald Wayne Van Zant , American musician († 1977 )
- January 16 : John Carpenter , American director, actor and film music composer
- January 16 : Gregor Gysi , German politician
- January 16 : Cliff Thorburn , Canadian snooker player
- January 16 : Ulrich Tilgner , German journalist
- January 17th : Davíð Oddsson , Icelandic Prime Minister
- January 18 : Bodo Abel , German economist
- January 18 : Changuito , Cuban percussionist
- January 18 : Sergio Vitier , Cuban composer and guitarist († 2016 )
- January 19 : Hermann Adam , German economist and political scientist
- January 19 : Erica Goodman , Canadian harpist
- January 20 : Mel Pritchard , British musician († 2004 )
- January 21 : Pete Kircher , British drummer
- January 22nd : Marianne Birthler , German politician
- January 22nd : Mick Grabham , British rock and blues guitarist
- January 22nd : Fabio Mussi , Italian politician
- January 25 : Göran Åberg , Swedish football player and coach († 2001 )
- January 26 : Boris Belkin , Russian violinist
- January 27 : Mikhail Baryshnikov , American ballet dancer, choreographer and actor
- January 28th : Antonio Autiero , Italian theologian and philosopher
- January 28 : Heinz Flohe , German football player († 2013 )
- January 29th : Delia Boccardo , Italian actress
- January 29th : Halina Golanko , Polish actress
- January 29 : Guido Knopp , German historian, publicist and moderator
- January 29th : Gwyn Pritchard , British cellist and composer
- January 29th : Espen Rud , Norwegian jazz drummer
- January 30th : Edzard Ernst , UK's first professor of alternative medicine
- January 30th : Manfred Hofmann , German handball goalkeeper
February
- February 1 : Waltraud Kretzschmar , German handball player († 2018 )
- February 2nd : Remi Adefarasin , British cameraman
- February 2 : Roger Williamson , British Formula 1 racing driver († 1973 )
- February 2 : Al McKay , American musician
- February 3 : Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo , Roman Catholic Bishop, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- February 3 : János Drapál , Hungarian motorcycle racer († 1985 )
- February 3 : Henning Mankell , Swedish writer and theater director († 2015 )
- February 3 : Gennady Moissejew , Soviet motocross rider († 2017 )
- February 4th : Martin Hohmann , German politician
- February 4 : Alice Cooper , American rock musician
- February 5 : Christopher Guest , Anglo-American actor, writer, director, composer and musician
- February 5th : Sven-Göran Eriksson , Swedish football coach
- February 5 : Barbara Hershey , American actress
- February 5 : Heikki Toivanen , Finnish opera singer († 2006 )
- February 6 : Stefan Baron , editor-in-chief of WirtschaftsWoche
- February 6 : Felix Mitterer , Austrian actor and playwright
- February 6 : Renate Roland , German actress
- February 7th : Friedrich Ach , German author
- February 7 : Josef Ackermann , Swiss bank manager
- February 8 : Waldo Karpenkiel , German drummer
- February 10 : Luis Armando Collazuol , Brazilian Bishop
- February 11th : Hannelore Conradsen , German film and television director
- February 11th : Gerhard Wucherer , German athlete
- February 11 : Fritz Raff , director of the Saarländischer Rundfunk († 2011 )
- February 12 : Clemens Bollen , German politician
- February 12 : Bernd Franke , German soccer player
- February 12 : Detlev Meyer , German writer and poet († 1999 )
- February 13 : Jim Crawford , British racing car driver († 2002 )
- February 13 : Martin Morgner , German writer and historian
- February 13 : Kitten Natividad , Mexican model and actress
- February 13 : Laura Pollán , Cuban teacher and human rights activist (women in white) († 2011 )
- February 13 : Hansjörg Schellenberger , German oboist and conductor
- February 15 : Laurenz Meyer , German politician
- February 15 : Holger Ellerbrock , German politician
- February 15 : Bernd Pischetsrieder , German manager
- February 15 : Art Spiegelman , American cartoonist and comic book writer
- February 15 : Not Vital , Swiss-American artist
- February 16 : Heinz-Uwe Küenle , German mathematician
- February 16 : Uwe Reimer , German author († 2004 )
- February 16 : Eckhard Uhlenberg , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- February 18 : Georg Brunnhuber , German politician
- February 19 : Hartmut Schulze-Gerlach , German singer and presenter
- February 19th : Tony Iommi , British guitarist
- February 19 : Pim Fortuyn , Dutch politician and publicist († 2002 )
- February 21 : Detthold Aden , German manager
- February 21 : Elmar Müller , German soccer coach
- February 22nd : John David Ashton , American actor
- February 22 : Felix Gutzwiller , Swiss politician
- February 23 : Steve Priest , English bass player († 2020 )
- February 24th : Thomas Anz , German professor
- February 24 : Bernhard R. Kroener , German military historian
- February 24 : Walter Smith , Scottish football player and coach
- February 24th : Tim Staffell , British singer and bassist
- February 25 : Friedrich Koncilia , Austrian football player
- February 25 : Erwin Staudt , German football official
- February 26 : Mike Richmond , American jazz bassist
- February 26 : Boutros Marayati , Syrian Archbishop
- February 27 : Féodor Atkine , French actor
- February 27 : Helmut Nerlinger , German soccer player
- February 27 : Reinhard Tramontana , Austrian journalist († 2005 )
- February 27 : Albert Wendt , German writer
- February 28 : Mercedes Ruehl , American actress
- February 28 : Steven Chu , American physicist
- February 29 : Jirō Akagawa , Japanese writer
- February 29 : Andreas Auer , Swiss constitutional lawyer († 2018 )
- February 29 : Rainder Steenblock , German politician
- February 29 : Patricia A. McKillip , American author
- February 29 : Karen Lafferty , American singer and music teacher
- February 29 : Martin Suter , Swiss crime novelist
- Lilian Atterer , German beauty queen and photo model February:
March
- March 1st : Herwig Ahrendsen , German handball player
- March 2 : Larry Carlton , American jazz / blues / fusion guitarist, singer, and record producer
- March 2nd : Rory Gallagher , Irish guitarist († 1995 )
- March 2nd : Andrei Linde , Russian cosmologist
- March 2nd : Achim Vandreike , German politician
- March 2nd : Dan Welcher , American musician and composer
- March 3rd : Snowy White , British blues guitarist
- March 4 : James Ellroy , American writer
- March 4th : Thomas Kossendey , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- March 4th : Chris Squire , English musician († 2015 )
- March 4th : Shakin 'Stevens , British rock' n 'roll singer
- March 5th : Eddy Grant , pop musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist
- March 5 : Leslie Marmon Silko , American writer
- March 6 : Zbigniew Górny , Polish composer and conductor
- March 7th : Karl Schlögel , German writer
- March 7th : Shamil Anvarowitsch Tarpischew , Soviet-Russian tennis player and sports official
- March 8 : Peggy March , American pop singer and songwriter
- March 10 : Gerhard Friedrich , German politician
- March 10 : Waldemar Hartmann , German journalist and moderator
- March 11 : Roy Barnes , American politician
- March 11th : Franz Lambert , German composer and organist
- March 11th : Dominique Sanda , French actress
- March 12 : William M. Anderson , Northern Irish film editor
- March 12th : Les Holroyd , British singer, composer and musician
- March 12 : James Taylor , American guitarist, singer, composer and lyricist
- March 12 : Ole Thestrup , Danish actor († 2018 )
- March 14 : Billy Crystal , American actor
- March 14th : Hans Georg Faust , German politician
- March 14th : Jochen Schimmang , German writer
- March 14 : Bernd Stange , German football coach
- March 15 : David Albahari , Serbian writer
- March 15 : Gerhard Seyfried , German writer and cartoonist
- March 15 : Sérgio Vieira de Mello , Brazilian UN politician († 2003 )
- March 16 : Margaret Weis , American fantasy writer
- March 17 : William Gibson , American science fiction writer
- March 20 : John de Lancie , American actor
- March 20 : Josef Aussermair , Austrian theologian
- March 20 : Bobby Orr , Canadian ice hockey player
- March 21 : Scott E. Fahlman , American computer scientist, "inventor" of emoticons
- March 21 : Fariborz Sahba , Iranian-Canadian architect
- March 22nd : Wolf Blitzer , American journalist
- March 22nd : Bernard Dietz , German soccer player
- March 22nd : Andrew Lloyd Webber , English composer
- March 22nd : Per Stureson , Swedish racing driver
- March 23 : Peter CB Phillips , New Zealand economist
- March 24th : Günter Bentele , Professor of Public Relations
- March 24th : Reinhard Borchert , German sprinter
- March 24th : Volker Finke , German soccer coach
- March 24th : Jerzy Kukuczka , Polish mountaineer († 1989 )
- March 24th : Delio Onnis , Argentinian soccer player
- March 25 : Bonnie Bedelia , American actress
- March 25 : Rob Goorhuis , Dutch composer
- March 26 : David Anear , Australian archer
- March 26th : Peter Neumann , German motorcycle racer
- March 26 : Steven Tyler , American rock singer (Aerosmith)
- March 27 : Edgar Selge , German actor
- March 28 : John Evan , British musician
- March 28 : Trina Hosmer , American cross-country skier
- March 28th : Leo Maasburg , Austrian clergyman
- March 28 : Dianne Wiest , American film and stage actress
- March 29th : Anne-Karin , German pop singer
- March 29 : Bud Cort , American actor
- March 29 : Johnny Dowd , American alternative country musician
- March 29 : Joachim Stünker , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- March 31 : Thijs van Leer , Dutch musician and singer
- March 31 : Al Gore , American politician, 45th Vice President of the USA
- March 31 : Gary Doer , Canadian politician
- March 31 : Enrique Vila-Matas , Catalan-Spanish writer
April
- April 1 : Urs Allemann , Swiss writer
- April 1 : Jimmy Cliff , Jamaican reggae artist
- April 1st : Gudo Hoegel , German actor and voice actor
- April 1st : JJ Williams , Welsh rugby player
- April 2nd : Michael Gerhardt , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- April 2nd : Hendrik Snoek , German show jumper
- April 3 : Boris Berman , Russian pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher
- April 3 : Georg Schwarzenbeck , German soccer player
- April 3 : Oliver Grimm , German actor († 2017 )
- April 3 : Carlos Salinas de Gortari , Mexican politician and president
- April 3 : Jaap de Hoop Scheffer , Dutch politician
- April 3 : Miguel Herz-Kestranek , Austrian actor and book author
- April 3 : René Bardet , Swiss press spokesman for Swiss television (SF DRS) († 2005 )
- April 4 : Frank Winfield Anderson , American murderer
- April 4 : Towje Kleiner , German actor and screenwriter († 2012 )
- April 4 : Jacques Voigtländer , German politician
- April 4 : Dan Simmons , American writer
- April 5th : Klaus Bös , German sports scientist
- April 5 : Karin Gündisch , German writer
- April 5th : Hans Theessink , Dutch blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
- April 6 : Jean-Jacques Avenel , French jazz bassist († 2014 )
- April 6 : Hubert Bognermayr , Austrian musician († 1999 )
- April 6 : Philippe Garrel , French actor, screenwriter, director
- April 6th : Petra Kusch-Lück , German presenter, dancer and singer
- April 6th : Jo Leinen , German politician
- April 6 : Eric Robertson , Canadian composer, organist and pianist
- April 6 : Friederike Roth , German writer
- April 6 : Bengt-Arne Wickström , Swedish finance scientist
- April 7th : Pietro Anastasi , Italian football player († 2020 )
- April 7th : Ecaterina Andronescu , Romanian politician
- April 7th : Rudolf Hartung , German politician
- April 8 : Eva Heller , German writer († 2008 )
- April 8 : Dagmar Schmidt , German politician († 2005 )
- April 8th : Danuta Hübner , Polish politician and EU Commissioner
- April 9 : Claudio Ambrosini , Italian composer
- April 9 : Jaya Bachchan , Indian actress
- April 9 : Bernard-Marie Koltès , French playwright and theater director († 1989 )
- April 9th : Patty Pravo , Italian pop singer
- April 10 : Mel Blount , American football player
- April 10 : Bernd Clüver , German pop singer († 2011 )
- April 11th : Anke Maggauer-Kirsche , German poet and aphorist
- April 12th : Joschka Fischer , German politician
- April 12th : Marcello Lippi , Italian football coach
- April 13 : Michael Hammer , American economist († 2008 )
- April 13 : Miloslav Gajdoš , Czech double bass player, music teacher and composer
- April 13 : Drago Jančar , Slovenian writer
- April 14th : Chester Greenough Atkins , American politician
- April 16 : John Fitzgerald , American football player
- April 15 : Michael Kamen , American composer († 2003 )
- April 17th : Jan Hammer , Czech-American jazz pianist and keyboarder
- April 18 : Rainer René Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , German lawyer
- April 18 : Wolfgang A. Herrmann , President of the Technical University of Munich
- April 18 : Ina Lenke , German politician
- April 18 : Catherine Malfitano , American soprano
- April 18 : Richard Peterkin , Lucian sports official
- April 18 : Georges M. Saad Abi Younes , Maronite Bishop in Mexico
- April 19 : Chester Biscardi , American composer and music educator
- April 21 : Claire Denis , French director
- April 21 : Josef Flammer , Swiss ophthalmologist
- April 22nd : Ġorġ Abela , Maltese politician
- April 22nd : Yevgeny Alexandrovich Arshanov , Soviet middle-distance runner
- April 22nd : Carol Drinkwater , British actress and writer
- April 23 : Ilario Antoniazzi , Italian Archbishop
- April 24th : Tomoko Abe , Japanese politician
- April 24th : Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff , German lawyer, author and board member
- April 24th : Paul Sahli , Swiss artist and record holder
- April 24 : Kōhei Tsuka , Korean-Japanese playwright, director and theater director († 2010 )
- April 26 : Ronaldo Miranda , Brazilian composer
- April 26 : Herbert Landau , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- April 26 : Klaus Minkel , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- April 26 : Josef Bierbichler , German actor
- April 27 : Frank W. Abagnale , American con man and check fraudster
- April 27th : Yves Courage , French racing car driver and racing team owner
- April 27 : Josef Hickersberger , soccer player, soccer coach
- April 27 : Kate Pierson , American musician
- April 28 : Terry Pratchett , British fantasy writer († 2015 )
- April 29 : Andrzej Kowalczyk , Polish physicist
- April 30th : John Cooper , British racing car driver
- April 30th : Robert Tarjan , American computer scientist
May
- May 1st : Pantaleón Astiazarán , Uruguayan photographer
- May 1 : Karl Friedrich Frey , Swiss artist, musician, author, astrologer and occultist, known as Akron († 2017 )
- May 1st : Carl Morten Iversen , Norwegian jazz bassist
- May 2nd : Monika Haas , member of the RAF
- May 2nd : Christian Hartenhauer , German politician
- May 2nd : Werner Schulze-Erdel , German presenter and actor
- May 3 : Hirotaka Akamatsu , Japanese politician
- May 4 : Richard B. Hays , American theologian
- May 4th : Hurley Haywood , American racing car driver
- May 4th : Richard Pacheco , American porn actor and film director
- May 4th : Rolf Verres , German doctor and musician
- May 5 : John Atcherley Cardinal Dew , Archbishop of Wellington
- May 5th : Bill Ward , British drummer
- May 6 : Jochen Arlt , German writer
- May 6th : Caspar Eine , Austrian politician
- May 6 : Servilio de Oliveira , Brazilian boxer
- May 7th : Holger Astrup , German politician
- May 7 : Michel Dubois , French racing car driver († 2006 )
- May 7th : Ingrid Pieper-von Heiden , German politician
- May 7th : Pete Wingfield , British record producer, keyboard player and journalist
- May 8 : Petra Articus , German abbess
- May 8 : Norbert Nigbur , German soccer player
- May 8 : Pierre-François Rousselot , French racing car driver
- May 9 : Astrid Höfs , German politician
- May 10th : Thury Horath , Swiss country musician
- May 11 : Pam Ferris , American actress
- May 12th : Aqmaral Chaidarqysy Arystanbekowa , Kazakh diplomat and politician
- May 12 : Lindsay Crouse , American actress
- May 12th : Steve Winwood , British musician
- May 13 : Ivan Klánský , Czech pianist and music teacher
- May 15 : Yaakov Amidror , Israeli major general
- May 15 : Renato Casarotto , Italian mountaineer († 1986 )
- May 15 : Brian Eno , British musician
- May 15 : Peter Hussing , German heavyweight boxer († 2012 )
- May 15 : Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- May 15 : Kathleen Sebelius , US politician
- May 16 : Rainer Stephan , German author, journalist and director
- May 17th : Klaus Addicks , German anatomist and university professor
- May 17th : Dick Gaughan , Scottish folk singer
- May 17 : Winfried Kretschmann , German politician and Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg
- May 17th : Horst Köppel , German soccer player and coach
- May 17th : Thérèse Meyer-Kaelin , Swiss politician
- May 17 : Pat Toomay , American football player and writer
- May 18 : Tom Udall , American politician
- May 18 : Yi Mun-yol , South Korean writer
- May 19 : Grace Jones , Jamaican singer, model and actress
- May 20 : Jon Amiel , British-American director and film producer
- May 20 : Gerd Rubenbauer , German sports reporter and television presenter
- May 21 : Leo Sayer , British singer
- May 21 : Günter Zöller , German figure skater
- May 24 : Lorna Crozier , Canadian writer, poet and university professor
- May 24 : Richard Dembo , French film director, screenwriter and producer († 2004 )
- May 25 : Bülent Arınç , Turkish politician
- May 25 : Angelika Hartung , German actress
- May 25 : Klaus Meine , German singer and composer (Scorpions)
- May 25 : Johannes Willms , German historian, essayist and biographer
- May 26 : Leon Kieres , Polish lawyer, President of the Institute for National Remembrance (IPN)
- May 26 : Pentti Kirstilä , Finnish writer
- May 26 : Stevie Nicks , American singer
- May 27th : Thomas Ahrens , German helmsman in rowing
- May 27 : Christina Emmrich , German politician
- May 27th : Frédéric Dor , French racing car driver
- May 28th : Wil Hartog , Dutch motorcycle racer and entrepreneur
- May 28 : Pierre Rapsat , Belgian singer († 2002 )
- May 29 : Peter Paziorek , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- May 29 : Günter Sebert , German football player and coach
- May 30 : Khosrov Melikovich Arutjunyan , Armenian politician
- May 30th : Johan De Muynck , Belgian cyclist
- May 30th : Dieter Kosslick , German director of the Berlin International Film Festival
- May 30th : Michael Krone , German actor
- May 30th : Bernd Wagner , German writer
- May 31 : Svetlana Alexievich , Belarusian writer and Nobel Prize winner
- May 31 : Otto Altenbach , German automobile racing driver
- May 31 : John Bonham , British drummer († 1980 )
- May 31 : Martin Hannett , British music producer († 1991 )
- May 31 : Jürgen Stark , German economist, Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
- May 31st : Paulinho da Costa , Brazilian percussionist
June
- June 2 : Roni Bar-On , Israeli politician
- June 3 : Rolf Heissler , German terrorist
- June 3rd : Margret Mönig-Raane , board member of ver.di
- June 3 : Wolfgang Nešković , German politician and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- June 4th : Ernst Abbé , German soccer player
- June 4 : Margaret Gibson , Canadian writer († 2006 )
- June 4th : Paquito D'Rivera , Cuban jazz musician
- June 4th : Jürgen Sparwasser , German soccer player and coach
- June 4 : Jim Wallis , American preacher, Christian minister, and author
- June 5th : Sérgio Abreu , Brazilian guitarist
- June 5 : Gail Davies , American country singer and songwriter
- June 6 : Rocco Buttiglione , Italian politician
- June 6 : Jürgen Marcus , German pop singer († 2018 )
- June 7th : Nydia Caro , Puerto Rican actress and singer
- June 7th : Diethelm Sack , board member of Deutsche Bahn AG
- June 7th : Raimond Sele , Liechtenstein sport shooter
- June 8th : Hans-Josef Becker , Archbishop of Paderborn
- June 8 : Karl-Michael Krummacher , German violist
- June 8th : Jürgen von der Lippe , German TV presenter and comedian
- June 8 : Erwin Reichert , German politician († 2013 )
- June 9th : Gudrun Schyman , Swedish politician and feminist
- June 10 : Brian Adam , Scottish politician († 2013 )
- June 11 : Lynsey de Paul , British singer and songwriter († 2014 )
- June 11 : Sumaya Farhat-Naser , Palestinian peace broker in the West Bank
- June 12 : Jossi Beilin , Israeli pacifist statesman
- June 12th : Hans Binder , Austrian racing driver
- June 12 : Lyn Collins , American soul singer († 2005 )
- June 12 : Alex Skovron , Australian lyric poet
- June 13 : Claudia Storz , Swiss writer
- June 15 : Doris Papperitz , German sports journalist
- June 16 : Hans-Werner Kammer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- June 16 : Klaus Kater , German handball goalkeeper
- June 17th : Joaquín Almunia , Spanish politician and European Commissioner
- June 17th : Hrafn Gunnlaugsson , Icelandic filmmaker
- June 17th : Alpo Suhonen , Finnish ice hockey coach and theater director
- June 18 : Reinhard Michl , German draftsman, illustrator and author
- June 19 : Nick Drake , British guitarist and singer-songwriter († 1974 )
- June 19 : Erik Schinegger , Austrian ski racer
- June 20 : Anne-Marie Barat , French organist († 1990 )
- June 20 : Johannes Friedrich , regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
- June 20 : Alan Longmuir , British musician († 2018 )
- June 20 : Ludwig Scotty , President of the Republic of Nauru
- June 20 : Gerhard Strube , Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
- June 21 : Jovan Aćimović , Yugoslav football player
- June 21 : Don Airey , British rock musician
- June 21 : Ian McEwan , British writer
- June 21 : Andrzej Sapkowski , Polish writer
- June 21 : Wolfgang Seel , German soccer player
- June 21 : Chiqui Vicioso , Dominican writer and sociologist
- June 22 : Todd Rundgren , American musician, lyricist, and producer
- June 24th : John M. Armleder , Swiss concept artist
- June 24th : Georg Boomgaarden , German diplomat
- June 24 : Armando Calderón Sol , Salvadoran President († 2017 )
- June 24th : Annemarie Lütkes , German politician
- June 24th : Patrick Moraz , Swiss musician
- June 24th : Gerulf Pannach , German songwriter and lyricist of many GDR rock bands († 1998 )
- June 24th : Werner Roth , German soccer player
- June 26 : Sergei Bodrov , Russian film director, screenwriter and producer
- June 28 : Kathy Bates , American actress
- June 28th : Ellen Wellmann , German athlete
- June 29th : Sean Bergin , South African jazz musician († 2012 )
- June 29th : Günther Geis , German Catholic clergyman
- June 29th : Ian Paice , Deep Purple drummer
July
- July 2nd : Jürgen Klimke , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- July 3 : Paul Barrère , American rock guitarist and singer († 2019 )
- July 3 : Peter Ruzicka , German composer, artistic director
- July 4th : René Arnoux , French racing car driver
- July 4th : Andreas von Schoeler , German politician
- July 6 : Nathalie Baye , French actress
- July 6 : Bodo Kirchhoff , German writer
- July 7 : Kathy Reichs , American anthropologist and writer
- July 8th : Raffi , Egyptian singer and composer of children's songs
- July 8 : Eckhard Wehage , refugee from the German Republic († 1970 )
- July 9 : Robert Gratzer , Austrian writer, journalist, dramaturge and publisher († 2004 )
- July 10 : Heinz Fromm , President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
- July 10 : Michael Müller , German politician
- July 11 : Juan García Rodríguez , Cuban Archbishop of Havana, cardinal
- July 11th : Gytta Schubert , Austrian actress
- July 12 : Ben Burtt , American sound designer and engineer
- July 12 : Richard Dewes , German politician
- July 12th : Georgi Gogow , German rock musician
- July 12 : Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth , German lawyer and publisher († 2010 )
- July 12 : Elias Khoury , Lebanese writer
- July 13 : Catherine Breillat , French film director
- July 14th : Berhaneyesus Demerew Cardinal Souraphiel , Ethiopian Archbishop
- July 14th : Malte Dönselmann , German personnel and management consultant, politician (CDU)
- July 15 : Richard Franklin , Australian film director († 2007 )
- July 16 : Lars Lagerbäck , Swedish football coach
- July 16 : Cardinal Manuel Clemente , Patriarch of Lisbon
- July 16 : Angelica Schwall-Düren , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- July 16 : Pinchas Zukerman , Israeli violinist and conductor
- July 17 : Irene Andres-Suárez , Spanish Hispanicist
- July 17 : Ron Asheton , American musician († 2009 )
- July 17th : Luc Bondy , Swiss theater director († 2015 )
- July 18 : Hans Kreis , German author of books on life support and business consultant
- July 19 : Atilio Ancheta , Uruguayan soccer player
- July 19 : Beverly Archer , American actress and screenwriter
- July 19 : Keith Godchaux , American musician († 1980 )
- July 19 : Jobst Hirscht , German athlete
- July 19 : Jürgen Kerth , German blues guitarist
- July 20 : Bernd Konrad , German jazz saxophonist and composer
- July 21 : Alberto Acosta , Ecuadorian economist, politician and intellectual
- July 21 : Brad Frisselle , American racing car driver
- July 21 : Yusuf Islam , British singer and songwriter
- July 21 : Litto Nebbia , Argentinian rock and tango musician
- July 21 : Christine Perthen , German writer († 2004 )
- July 22nd : Frieder Andrich , German soccer player
- July 22 : George W. Casey Jr. , US Army general
- July 22 : Susan E. Hinton , American writer
- July 22nd : Ana de Palacio , Spanish politician
- July 22nd : Otto Waalkes , German comedian, cartoonist and actor
- July 23 : Wilhelm Dietzel , German politician
- July 23 : John Hall , American politician
- July 23 : Thomas Schäuble , German politician († 2013 )
- July 23 : Ludger Stratmann , German cabaret artist
- July 24th : Jürgen Hildebrandt , German handball trainer and handball player
- July 27 : Peggy Fleming , American figure skater and 1968 Olympic champion
- July 27 : Brunhilde Irber , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- July 27th : Fred Popovici , Romanian composer
- July 28th : Herbert Henck , German pianist
- July 29th : Jürgen Haug , German actor
- July 29 : Paul Morgan , English engineer († 2001 )
- July 30 : James H. Burnley , American politician
- July 30th : Michael Linden , German specialist doctor and psychotherapist
- July 30th : Jean Reno , French actor
- July 30th : Gerd Sonnleitner , President of the German Farmers' Association
- July 30 : Julia Tsenova , Bulgarian composer and pianist († 2010 )
- July 31 : Gerhard Weinberger , German organist and professor
August
- August 1 : Christopher Crowe , American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor
- August 2 : Borivoje Đorđević , Yugoslav football player
- August 3 : Regine Albrecht , German actress and voice actress († 2013 )
- August 3 : Mirko Kovats , Austrian investor
- August 3 : Ivan Monighetti , Russian cellist and conductor
- August 3 : Jean-Pierre Raffarin , French politician, Prime Minister
- August 4th : Klaus Aktories , German physician and pharmacologist
- August 5th : Ray Clemence , English soccer player
- August 5th : David Hungate , American bass guitarist
- August 6 : Mykola Avilov , Ukrainian-Soviet all-rounder and Olympic champion
- August 6 : Lars Larsen , Danish businessman and entrepreneur († 2019 )
- August 6 : Franz Terdenge , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court
- August 7th : Nick Adams , British racing car driver
- August 7th : Wolfgang Haas , Archbishop of Liechtenstein
- August 7th : Hans-Jürg Fehr , Swiss politician
- August 7th : Walter Schmidt , German athlete
- August 8 : Svetlana Savitskaya , Russian cosmonaut
- August 9 : William M. Daley , American businessman and politician
- August 10 : Paul Angenvoorth , German marathon runner
- August 11 : Jan Palach , Czechoslovak student († 1969 )
- August 12 : Peter Aufgebauer , German historian
- August 12 : Sam Neely , American country singer († 2006 )
- August 13 : Kathleen Battle , American soprano
- August 14 : Boris Pergamenschtschikow , Russian cellist († 2004 )
- August 15 : Tom Johnston , American rock singer and guitarist
- August 16 : Gisela Hilbrecht , German politician
- August 16 : Annemarie Huber-Hotz , Swiss Chancellor († 2019 )
- August 18 : Alejandro Abal Oliú , Uruguayan legal scholar
- August 18 : Carsten Bohn , German musician
- August 18 : Heiner Pudelko , German rock singer († 1995 )
- August 19 : Robert Hughes , Australian actor
- August 20 : Hartwig Bertrams , German racing car driver
- August 20 : John Noble , Australian actor and theater director
- August 20 : Robert Plant , British rock musician
- August 20 : Bernhard Russi , Swiss ski racer, Olympic champion
- August 20 : Barbara Allen Rainey , American pilot and first female pilot in the US armed forces († 1982 )
- August 21 : Ezzat Abou Aouf , Egyptian actor, musician and TV presenter († 2019 )
- August 22nd : Jozef Machálek , Swedish-Slovak medium and long distance runner
- August 23 : Yuri Jechanurov , Ukrainian politician
- August 24 : Spiros Argiris , Greek conductor († 1996 )
- August 24 : Burghardt Arndorfer , German politician
- August 24th : Rüdiger Döhler , German surgeon
- August 24 : Nana Jordschadze , Georgian film director
- August 24th : Jean Michel Jarre , French representative of electronic music
- August 25 : Jean-Luc Chéreau , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- August 25 : Helga Zepp-LaRouche , German journalist and politician
- August 26 : Gertrud Gabl , Austrian ski racer († 1976 )
- August 26th : Ottilie Scholz , German politician, Lord Mayor of Bochum
- August 27 : Michael Goetze , German comic artist
- August 27 : Bernhard Hüttenegger , Austrian writer
- August 27 : Ralf Reinders , German-Dutch terrorist
- August 28th : Leo G. Linder , German author, director and producer
- August 28 : Jacques Ogg , Dutch harpsichordist and pianoforte player
- August 29th : Jan Graubner , Czech Archbishop of Olomouc and Metropolitan of the Church Province of Moravia
- August 29 : Wilfried Loth , German historian and political scientist
- August 30 : Lewis Black , American comedian, actor, and writer
- August 30th : Dragoslav Stepanović , Serbian football coach
- August 31 : Harald Ertl , Austrian-German Formula 1 racing driver († 1982 )
- August 31 : Holger Osieck , German soccer coach and official
- August 31 : Rudolf Schenker , German guitarist, songwriter (Scorpions)
- August 31 : Jakob Auer , Austrian politician
September
- September 1st : Bernard Ardura , French religious and church historian
- September 1st : Hans Engel , German handball player
- September 1 : Jürgen Fitschen , German bank manager
- September 1 : James Rebhorn , American actor († 2014 )
- September 2 : Nate Archibald , American basketball player
- September 2 : Manfred Böckl , German writer
- September 2 : Helge Loytved , German lawyer
- September 2 : Christa McAuliffe , American teacher and astronaut († 1986 )
- September 2 : David J. Stevenson , New Zealand planetologist
- September 3 : Heiner Möller , German handball player
- September 3 : Levy Mwanawasa , Zambian President 2002–2008 († 2008 )
- September 4th : José Tomás Arita Valle , Honduran lawyer
- September 4th : Heribert Bruchhagen , CEO of Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG
- September 4th : Antonio Gasperi , Italian composer and music teacher
- September 4th : Hans Koch , Swiss woodwind player
- September 5th : İsmail Arca , Turkish football player and coach
- September 5 : Benita Ferrero-Waldner , Austrian politician, EU Commissioner
- September 5th : Daniela Ziegler , German actress, singer and musical artist
- September 6 : Irena Andrukaitienė , Lithuanian politician
- September 6th : Karlos Arguiñano , Spanish chef and entrepreneur
- September 6th : Pedro María Artola Urrutia , Spanish football player
- September 6 : Werner Schwärzel , German motorcycle racer
- September 6 : Claydes Charles Smith , American guitarist
- September 7 : Friedmar Apel , German literary scholar and Germanist († 2018 )
- September 8 : Jean-Pierre Monseré , Belgian racing cyclist († 1971 )
- September 9 : Roel H. Augusteijn , Dutch politician
- September 10 : Bob Lanier , American basketball player
- September 10 : Charles Simonyi , American computer scientist
- September 10 : Charlie Waters , American football player
- September 10th : Francisco Zapata Bello , Venezuelan composer
- September 11th : Maria Eichhorn , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- September 11th : Flemming Hansen , Danish handball player († 2013 )
- September 11th : John Martyn OBE , British musician († 2009 )
- September 11th : Frauke Tengler , German politician
- September 12 : Enikő Buzási , Hungarian art historian
- September 12 : Ulrich Leykam , German musician
- September 12 : Willi Maier , German obstacle and long-distance runner
- September 12th : Jean-Louis Schlesser , French racing car driver
- September 12 : Steve Turre , American musician
- September 13th : Francis Connesson , French carom player and multiple world and European champion
- September 14 : Vincenzo Aita , Italian politician
- September 14 : Wulf Bernotat , German manager († 2017 )
- September 14 : Robert Taylor , American sprinter and Olympic champion († 2007 )
- September 16 : Kenney Jones , British musician
- September 16 : Takashi Suzuki , Japanese racing car driver
- September 17 : John Ritter , American film actor († 2003 )
- September 17th : Jürgen Schön , German politician
- September 18 : Anneli Aejmelaeus , Finnish theologian
- September 19 : Serge Adda , President of the French TV channel TV5 († 2004 )
- September 19 : Jeremy Irons , British actor
- September 19 : Gerhard Köpf , German writer
- September 19 : Julius Sang , Kenyan athlete and Olympic champion († 2004 )
- September 20 : George RR Martin , American writer
- September 20 : Adrian Piper , American conceptual artist
- September 21 : Herbert Wagner , German local politician
- September 23 : Ramón José Aponte Fernández , Venezuelan priest and bishop
- September 23 : Vera Nikolić , Serbian athlete
- September 25 : Peter Apathy , Austrian lawyer and professor
- September 25 : Colleen Atwood , American costume designer
- September 25 : Carl Axel Aurelius , Swedish bishop
- September 25th : Ștefan Birtalan , Romanian handball player and coach
- September 25 : Alfred Cordes , German writer and teacher
- September 25 : Charles de Gaulle , French lawyer and politician
- September 25 : Bill Pierce , American jazz saxophonist
- September 26 : Mitchell G. Ash , American historian
- September 26 : Patrick J. Geary , American historian
- September 26 : Hans-Heinrich Jordan , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 2019 )
- September 26 : Olivia Newton-John , American singer and actress
- September 26 : Tiran Porter , American singer and bassist
- September 26 : Vladimír Remek , Czech astronaut and politician
- September 26 : Erwin Waldschütz , Austrian philosopher († 1995 )
- September 26 : Arnie Zane , American photographer, dancer and choreographer († 1988 )
- September 27 : Tom Braidwood , Canadian actor, director and film producer
- September 28 : Franz-Karl Effenberg , Austrian politician († 2005 )
- September 29th : Mark Farner , American guitarist and songwriter
- September 29th : Theo Jörgensmann , German jazz clarinetist
October
- October 1 : Lynn Ahrens , American musical theater poet
- October 2nd : Gerd-Axel Ahrens , German civil engineer and traffic planner
- October 2 : Avery Brooks , American actor and director
- October 2nd : Siim Kallas , Vice-President of the European Commission
- October 2 : Persis Khambatta , Indian model and actress († 1998 )
- October 2 : Chris LeDoux , American country singer and professional rodeo rider († 2005 )
- October 2 : Ramesh Mishra , Indian sarangi player († 2017 )
- October 2nd : Anna Mitgutsch , Austrian literary scholar and writer
- October 2nd : Jochen Sachse , German athlete
- October 3 : Gisela Schneeberger , German cabaret artist and actress
- October 4th : Linda Bergen , German pop singer
- October 4th : Duke Robillard , American blues singer and guitarist
- October 5th : Bianca , German singer and composer
- October 6 : Gerry Adams , Northern Irish politician
- October 6 : Glenn Branca , American avant-garde composer († 2018 )
- October 6th : Dorothea Parton , Austrian actress
- October 7 : Diane Ackerman , American writer and poet
- October 8 : Wilfried Ahnefeld , German soccer player
- October 8 : Jon Ekerold , South African motorcycle racer
- October 8 : Gottfried Helnwein , Austrian-Irish artist
- October 8 : Claude Jade , French actress († 2006 )
- October 8 : Johnny Ramone , American guitarist and founding member of the Ramones († 2004 )
- October 8 : Winston Baldwin Spencer , Antiguan politician
- October 8 : Bernhard Uhde , Catholic theologian and university professor
- October 9 : Elisabeth Bleyleben-Koren , Austrian bank director
- October 9 : Jackson Browne , American rock musician
- October 9 : Ciaran Carson , Northern Irish poet, writer and translator († 2019 )
- October 10 : Wolfgang Baumgratz , German organist and music teacher
- October 10 : John Bundrick , British keyboardist, pianist and organist
- October 10 : Juan Falú , Argentinian guitarist
- October 10 : Séverine , French pop singer
- October 10 : Roger B. Wilson , American politician
- October 11 : Darrell Castle , American politician (Constitution Party)
- October 11th : Dietrich Murswiek , German legal scholar
- October 11 : Peter Turkson , Archbishop of Cape Coast and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- October 12 : Fritz Behrens , German politician, Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
- October 12 : Rick Parfitt , singer and guitarist († 2016 )
- October 13 : Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan , Pakistani musician († 1997 )
- October 14 : Engin Arık , Turkish physicist († 2007 )
- October 15 : Andreas Angerstorfer , German theologian and Judaist († 2012 )
- October 15th : Chris de Burgh , Irish singer
- October 15 : Konrad Sabrautzky , German director and screenwriter
- October 16 : Jack Dalrymple , American politician
- October 16 : Hema Malini , Indian film actress
- October 16 : Günther Rüther , German political scientist
- October 16 : Karen Wetterhahn , American chemist († 1997 )
- October 17th : Lutz Dammbeck , German painter, graphic artist and filmmaker
- October 17 : Robert Jordan , American writer († 2007 )
- October 17 : Margot Kidder , Canadian actress († 2018 )
- October 18 : Keith Knudsen , American drummer († 2005 )
- October 18 : Michael Weisser , German-speaking media artist and science fiction author
- October 19 : Patrick Simmons , American rock singer and guitarist
- October 19 : Pit Weyrich , German television presenter and television director
- October 20 : Helmut Achatz , German soccer player
- October 20 : Ed Allen , American author
- October 21 : Daniel Akerson , American manager
- October 22nd : Håkon Austbø , Norwegian pianist and university professor
- October 22 : Joachim Günther , German politician
- October 22 : Andy Holden , British obstacle and cross-country runner († 2014 )
- October 22 : Bo Holten , Danish composer and conductor
- October 23 : Karl Aiginger , Austrian economic researcher
- October 23 : Gordon Gottlieb , American percussionist and music teacher
- October 23 : Gerd Niebaum , German football official
- October 23 : Feisal Abdul Rauf , Egyptian-American Imam
- October 24 : Kurt Aeschbacher , Swiss television presenter
- October 24th : Barry Ryan , British singer
- October 24 : Paul Ryan , British singer and songwriter († 1992 )
- October 25 : César Amaro , Uruguayan guitarist († 2012 )
- October 25 : Dave Cowens , American basketball player
- October 25 : Werner Fuchs , German soccer player and coach († 1999 )
- October 26 : John Morrison , British racing car driver
- October 28 : Telma Hopkins , American singer and actress
- October 28 : Ingrid Pankraz , German politician
- October 28th : Joe Sachse , German jazz guitarist
- October 29 : Cardinal Charles Maung Bo , Archbishop of Yangon
- October 29 : Kate Jackson , American actress
- October 29 : Felix Kulow , Kyrgyz politician
- October 29 : Rita Pawelski , German politician
- October 30 : Günter Schweikardt , German handball player, trainer and manager
- October 31 : Asfa-Wossen Asserate , Ethiopian business consultant and author
- October 31 : Angelika Kallwass , German psychoanalyst and television presenter
November
- November 1st : Hans Aabech , Danish football player († 2018 )
- November 1 : Werner Holz , German painter († 1991 )
- November 1st : Valentina Leskaj , Albanian politician
- November 1 : Calvin Russell , American musician, representative of roots rock († 2011 )
- November 1st : Eddy Stibbe , Dutch eventing rider
- November 1 : Nicholas Thomas Wright , Anglican Bishop of Durham
- November 2nd : Leonid Levin , American computer scientist
- November 3 : Malcolm Dedman , English composer
- November 3 : Helmut Koinigg , Austrian racing driver († 1974 )
- November 3rd : Lulu , Scottish pop singer
- November 4 : Mir Tamim Ansary , Afghan-American writer and historian
- November 4th : Erich Wolfgang Skwara , Austrian literary scholar and writer
- November 4th : Birgit Steinegger , Swiss actress, parodist and entertainer
- November 4th : Amadou Toumani Touré , President of Mali
- November 5th : Ulla Berkéwicz , German writer and publisher
- November 5th : Peter Hammill , British composer, songwriter and musician
- November 5 : William Daniel Phillips , American physicist
- November 5th : Heide Rühle , German politician and MEP
- November 6th : Christoph Bayer , German politician and Member of the State Parliament
- November 6 : Glenn Frey , American rock musician († 2016 )
- November 6th : Robert Huebner , German chess player
- November 9th : Bille August , Danish film and television director
- November 9 : Luiz Felipe Scolari , Brazilian soccer coach
- November 9th : Sharon Stouder , American swimmer († 2013 )
- November 10 : Hugh Moffatt , American country singer and songwriter
- November 11th : Bernhard Lehmann , German bobsledder and handball player
- November 11 : Vincent Schiavelli , American actor († 2005 )
- November 11th : Wolfgang Schmid , German bass guitarist, composer and producer
- November 12 : Jack Dolbin , American football player
- November 12th : Hassan Rouhani , Iranian clergyman and politician
- November 12 : Egon Schmitt , German soccer player
- November 13th : Mizuko Masuda , Japanese writer
- November 14th : Hartwig Fischer , German politician
- November 14 : Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, Prince of Wales , heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- November 14th : Eva Paskuy , German handball player
- November 15th : Maria Bill , Swiss-Austrian actress
- November 15 : Andrzej Mysiński , Polish double bass player, conductor and music teacher
- November 15 : Georg Ringsgwandl , German cardiologist, cabaret artist and songwriter
- November 15 : Alois Schindler , German soccer player and coach
- November 16 : Anne André-Léonard , Belgian politician
- November 16 : Birgitta Arens , German writer
- November 16 : Norbert Lammert , German politician, President of the Bundestag
- November 16 : Robert Lange , British music producer
- November 16 : Oliver Shanti , German musician († 2016 )
- November 16 : Jimmy Young , American boxer († 2005 )
- November 17 : Eliseo Antonio Ariotti , Italian diplomat
- November 17 : Howard Dean , American politician
- November 17 : Tom Wolf , American politician
- November 18 : Ana Mendieta , American performance artist († 1985 )
- November 18 : Manfred Morgan , German pop singer, composer, lyricist and guitarist († 2015 )
- November 19 : Eduard Stöllinger , Austrian motorcycle racer († 2006 )
- November 20 : John R. Bolton , American politician and diplomat
- November 20th : Barbara Hendricks , Swedish soprano
- November 20 : Gunnar Nilsson , Swedish Formula 1 racing driver († 1978 )
- November 20th : Kenjirō Shinozuka , Japanese rally driver
- November 21 : Werner Lorant , German football player and coach
- November 21 : Alphonse Mouzon , American drummer, composer and producer († 2016 )
- November 22nd : Adalberto Álvarez , Cuban pianist, arranger and band leader
- November 22 : Radomir Antić , Yugoslav soccer player and Serbian soccer coach († 2020 )
- November 22nd : Raymond Boutinaud , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- November 22nd : Claude Ponti , French children's book illustrator and writer
- November 23 : Gabriele Seyfert , German figure skater, world champion
- November 23 : Reiner Calmund , German football official
- November 24th : Christoph Bergner , German politician
- November 24 : Spider Robinson , American science fiction writer
- November 25th : Catana Pérez de Cuello , Dominican pianist and music teacher
- November 26 : Elizabeth Blackburn , Australian-US molecular biologist
- November 26 : Krešimir Ćosić , Croatian basketball player († 1995 )
- November 26th : Egon Müller , German speedway driver
- November 26 : Dennis Ross , American diplomat
- November 27th : Heide Schmidt , Austrian politician
- November 28th : Agnieszka Holland , Polish film director
- November 28th : Mariana Nicolesco , Romanian soprano
- November 29th : Achille Amerio , Italian diplomat
- November 29 : Ulrich Maurer , German politician
- November 29th : Jörg Wontorra , German television presenter and television producer
- November 30th : Gerhard Heinze , German football goalkeeper
- November 30th : Alain Peltier , Belgian racing driver († 2005 )
December
- December 1st : Birgitta Ashoff , German film director, screenwriter and journalist
- December 1 : Luciano Re Cecconi , Italian football player († 1977 )
- December 1 : Guy Tunmer , South African racing car driver († 1999 )
- December 2 : Haukur Angantýsson , Icelandic chess player († 2012 )
- December 2 : TC Boyle , American writer
- December 2nd : Gebhard Fürst , German Catholic bishop
- December 2 : Reinhard Höppner , German politician († 2014 )
- December 2nd : Antonín Panenka , Czechoslovak football player
- December 2 : Christine Westermann , German TV and radio presenter
- December 2 : Gabriele Weingartner , German writer
- December 3 : Ari Trausti Guðmundsson , Icelandic philosopher, geologist and writer
- December 3rd : Ozzy Osbourne , British rock musician
- December 4th : Udo Arndt , German musician, sound engineer and producer
- December 4th : Jim Hiscott , Canadian composer and accordionist
- December 5th : Ernst Schwanhold , German politician
- December 5 : Ernst Kausen , German mathematician and linguist
- December 6th : Marius Müller-Westernhagen , German musician and actor
- December 6th : Harvie Swartz , American jazz bassist
- December 6th : Guido de Werd , Dutch art historian and museum director
- December 7th : Gertrud Leutenegger , Swiss writer
- December 8 : Sofronio Aguirre Bancud , Filipino Bishop
- December 9th : Gioconda Belli , Latin American writer
- December 10 : Abu Abbas , founder and leader of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) († 2004 )
- December 10th : Hannelore Faulstich-Wieland , German educational scientist
- December 10 : Richard Francis-Bruce , Australian film editor
- December 11th : Chester Thompson , American drummer
- December 11 : Víctor Víctor , Dominican merengue singer and composer († 2020 )
- December 12th : Roelof Wunderink , Dutch racing driver
- December 13 : Jeff Baxter , American rock guitarist and Dobro player
- December 13 : Ted Nugent , American rock musician
- December 13 : Lillian Board , British athlete († 1970 )
- December 14th : Kim Beazley , Australian politician
- December 14 : Michel Abrass , Syrian Archbishop
- December 14 : Boudewijn Büch , Dutch writer and publicist († 2002 )
- December 14 : Marianne Fritz , Austrian writer († 2007 )
- December 15 : Patricia Cowings , American space psychophysiologist
- December 15 : Cassandra Harris , Australian film actress († 1991 )
- December 16 : Pat Quinn , American politician
- December 17th : René C. Jäggi , Swiss entrepreneur and sports manager
- December 18 : Angela Sommer-Bodenburg , German children's book author
- December 18 : Edmund Emil Kemper , American serial killer
- December 18th : Liliane Saint-Pierre , Belgian singer
- December 19 : Peter Welnhofer , German politician
- December 20 : George Dyer , American racing car driver
- December 20 : Ronald M. Hahn , German author and translator
- December 20 : Beatrice Richter , German actress
- December 20th : Giuliana Sgrena , Italian journalist
- December 20 : Onno Tunç , Turkish musician, composer and arranger († 1996 )
- December 20th : Mitsuko Uchida , Japanese pianist
- December 21 : Willi Resetarits , Austrian cabaret artist and human rights activist
- December 22nd : Lana Walter , American music teacher and composer
- December 21 : Samuel L. Jackson , American actor
- December 21 : Raymond Singer , American actor and screenwriter
- December 23 : Víctor Selvino Arenhart , Argentine clergyman and bishop († 2010 )
- December 23 : Stefan Dörflinger , Swiss motorcycle racer
- December 23 : Jack Ham , American football player
- December 24th : Edwige Fenech , Italian film actress
- December 24th : Frank Jürgen "Eff Jott" Krüger , German rock musician († 2007 )
- December 24th : Menghisteab Tesfamariam , Eritrean bishop
- December 25th : Noël Mamère , French politician
- December 25 : Barbara Mandrell , American country singer
- December 26th : Carlos Álvarez , Argentine politician
- December 26th : Lolita de la Colina , Mexican singer-songwriter
- December 26 : Heinz Werner Kraehkamp , German actor († 2012 )
- December 27th : Gérard Depardieu , French actor
- December 27 : Meja Mwangi , Kenyan writer
- December 27th : Joachim Poss , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- December 29th : Michael White , Australian psychotherapist
- December 30th : Horace Engdahl , Swedish literary scholar
- December 31 : Viktor Afanassjew , Soviet cosmonaut
- December 31 : Daniel Díaz Torres , Cuban film director († 2013 )
- December 31 : Donna Summer , American singer († 2012 )
- December 31 : Joe Dallesandro , American actor
Day unknown
- Ghazi Abdel-Qadir , German author for young people
- József Ács , Hungarian composer, pianist and organist
- Peter Adamski , German pedagogue and history didactician
- Azzam al-Ahmad , Palestinian politician
- Muhlis Akarsu , Turkish baglama player and singer († 1993 )
- Omar Akbar , German professor of architectural theory
- Vyacheslav Akhunov , Uzbek artist
- Shlomo Amar , Israeli Grand Rabbi
- Claudia Amm , German actress
- Astrid Andreasen , Faroese textile artist, postage stamp designer and marine researcher
- Manfred App , German music publisher
- Walter Appel , German writer
- Detlev Arens , German author and journalist
- Dan Armon , Israeli poet
- Jeannette Christine Armstrong , Canadian writer and poet
- Everhardus Johannes Maria Arnolds , Dutch mycologist
- María Elena Arpón , Spanish actress
- Adnān Ibn Muḥammad al-ʿArʿūr , Syrian religious scholar
- Gharib Askalany , Palestinian writer and educator
- Rodney Eric Bainbridge Atkinson , English economist, publicist and politician
- Misha Bolourie , German-Azerbaijani action artist, painter and poet
- Klaus Bötig , German travel writer
- Alan Charlton , British artist
- Claudia Maria Cornwall , Canadian journalist and writer
- Rita Engelmann , German actress and voice actress
- Majid Entezami , Iranian film composer
- Manfred Günther , German school psychologist and social work scientist
- Izabella Gustowska , Polish multimedia artist
- Sue Hettmansperger , American painter and university professor
- Maureen Hunter , Canadian writer
- Jiang Jufeng , Chinese politician
- Eduard Kaeser , Swiss physicist, high school teacher, philosopher, publicist and jazz musician
- Marion Kazemi , German archivist and science historian
- Eugene de Kock , South African police colonel during apartheid
- Yitzhak Laor , Israeli writer
- Sam Llewellyn , British writer
- Colin Metters , British conductor and music educator
- Fritz-Gerd Mittelstädt , German university professor
- Harald Ossberger , Austrian pianist and music teacher
- Günter-Peter Ploog , German sports journalist and TV producer († 2016 )
- Cäcilia Rentmeister , German gender researcher
- Frank Retzel , American composer
- Bodo Ritscher , German historian
- Fred Sherry , American cellist and music educator
- Bernd Schuh , physicist, lecturer and radio editor
- Carole Terry , American organist, harpsichordist and music teacher
- Frank Weymann , German writer († 1997 )
Died
January
- January 1 : Hermann Zilcher , German composer (* 1881 )
- January 2 : Vicente Huidobro , Chilean poet (* 1893 )
- January 6th : Raoul Auernheimer , Austrian lawyer, journalist and writer (* 1876 )
- January 8 : Kurt Schwitters , German painter (* 1887 )
- January 8 : Richard Tauber , Austrian opera singer (* 1891 )
- January 14th : Isaac Schreyer , Austrian writer and translator (* 1890 )
- January 15 : Henri-Alexandre Deslandres , French astronomer (* 1853 )
- January 21 : Ernst Herzfeld , Near Eastern archaeologist (* 1879 )
- January 21 : Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari , Italian composer (* 1876 )
- January 24th : Hans Aumeier , German war criminal (* 1906 )
- January 24th : Arthur Liebehenschel , German National Socialist (* 1901 )
- January 24th : Maria Mandl , guard at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp (* 1912 )
- January 26th : Thomas Theodor Heine , painter, draftsman and satirist (* 1867 )
- January 26 : Heinrich Sohnrey , German folk writer and publicist (* 1859 )
- January 28 : Ludwig Schaschek , Austrian cameraman (* 1888 )
- January 29th : Aimone Duke of Spoleto , 4th Duke of Aosta and Duke of Spoleto (* 1900 )
- January 30th : Mahatma Gandhi , Indian politician (* 1869 )
- January 30th : Orville Wright , American aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer (* 1871 )
February
- February 2 : Bevil Rudd , South African athlete and Olympic champion (* 1894 )
- February 3 : Franz Xaver Müller , Austrian clergyman and musician (* 1870 )
- February 5 : Johannes Blaskowitz , German Colonel General (* 1883 )
- February 6 : Sidney Arodin , American jazz clarinetist and composer (* 1901 )
- February 8 : Heinrich User , Romanian journalist, politician and printer (* 1882 )
- February 8 : Samuel Prescott Bush , American industrialist (* 1863 )
- February 9 : Karl Valentin , Bavarian comedian, cabaret artist, author and film producer (* 1882 )
- February 10 : Stephen Morehouse Avery , American screenwriter (* 1893 )
- February 10 : Egon Schweidler , Austrian physicist (* 1873 )
- February 11 : Sergei Eisenstein , Soviet director (* 1898 )
- February 14 : Conrad Gröber , German bishop (* 1872 )
- February 16 : Irmfried Eberl , medical director of several "euthanasia" institutions (* 1910 )
- February 16 : Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1851 )
- February 17 : John M. Robsion , American politician (* 1873 )
- February 18 : Renato Balestrero , Italian racing driver (* 1898 )
- February 20 : Bertha Eckstein-Diener (pseudonym: Sir Galahad), Austrian writer (* 1874 )
- February 20 : Robert P. Lamont , American politician (* 1867 )
- February 23 : Arthur Grimm , German painter (* 1883 )
- February 23 : Hermann Weber , German designer and motorcycle racing driver (* 1896 )
- February 24th : Franz Stock , German Catholic priest (* 1904 )
- February 25 : Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez , Chilean politician (* 1879 )
- February 26 : Marion Ashmore , American football player (* 1899 )
- February 28 : August Arteldt , German politician (* 1870 )
March
- March 2 : Adam Scharrer , German writer (* 1889 )
- March 4 : Elsa Brändström , Swedish philanthropist (* 1888 )
- March 4 : Antonin Artaud , French actor, playwright, director, poet and theater theorist (* 1896 )
- March 10 : Jan Masaryk , Czech politician (* 1886 )
- March 11th : Felix Linnemann , 4th President of the DFB (* 1882 )
- March 16 : Clara Mannes , German-American pianist and music teacher (* 1869 )
- March 20 : Avedis Aharonian , Armenian politician, revolutionary and writer (* 1866 )
- March 23 : Nikolai Berdjajew , Russian philosopher (* 1874 )
- March 23 : George Milne, 1st Baron Milne , British Field Marshal and Chief of the Imperial General Staff (* 1866 )
- March 24 : Yevgeny Abalakov , Soviet mountaineer (* 1907 )
- March 24th : Konstantin Igumnow , Russian composer and piano virtuoso (* 1873 )
- March 25 : Warren Hymer , American actor (born 1906 )
- March 28 : John Duncan MacLean , Canadian politician (* 1873 )
- March 30 : John H. Bieling , American singer (* 1869 )
- March 31 : Egon Erwin Kisch , Prague journalist (* 1885 )
April
- April 2 : Sabahattin Ali , Turkish writer and teacher (* 1907 )
- April 3 : Jakob Haringer , German writer (* 1898 )
- April 4 : George Dorrington Cunningham , English organist and music teacher (* 1878 )
- April 5 : Abby Aldrich Rockefeller , American patroness and co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art (* 1874 )
- April 8 : Abd al-Qadir al-Husaini , Palestinian nationalist (* 1907 )
- April 10 : Wilhelm Külz , German politician (* 1875 )
- April 10 : Robert L. Williams , American politician (* 1868 )
- April 14th : Gerhard Anschütz , German constitutional lawyer (* 1867 )
- April 16 : Juozas Gruodis , Lithuanian composer and music teacher (* 1884 )
- April 17 : Johan Paul van Limburg Stirum , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (* 1873 )
- April 17 : John Madden , Scottish football player and coach (* 1865 )
- April 18 : Erich Metzeltin , German railway engineer (* 1871 )
- April 21 : Aldo Leopold , American forest scientist and ecologist (* 1887 )
- April 21 : Carlos López Buchardo , Argentine composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1881 )
- April 22nd : Ili Kronstein , Austrian painter (* 1897 )
- April 22nd : Alfredo de Oro (or April 23rd), Cuban billiards player and world champion
- April 24th : Manuel María Ponce , Mexican composer (* 1882 )
- April 28 : Walter Krause , German national soccer player (* 1896 )
- April 29 : Bernardus Dirks Eerdmans , Dutch Protestant theologian and politician (* 1868 )
- April 30 : Hubert Knackfuß , German building researcher and archaeologist (* 1866 )
May
- May 1st : Marceli Popławski , Polish composer, violinist, conductor and music teacher (* 1882 )
- May 8 : Joseph E. Atkinson , Canadian newspaper publisher and activist (* 1865 )
- May 9 : Paul Hunder , German football player (* 1884 )
- May 12 : Francisco Alonso , Spanish composer (* 1887 )
- May 14 : John H. Overton , American politician (* 1875 )
- May 20 : Bogumił Šwjela , Sorbian clergyman, linguist and publicist (* 1873 )
- May 16 : Ralph Hepburn , American motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1896 )
- May 16 : Jacques Ledure , Belgian racing driver (* 1948)
- May 21 : Artur Dinter , German writer and Nazi politician (* 1876 )
- May 24th : Jacques Feyder , Franco-Belgian film director (* 1885 )
- May 25 : Sidney Preston Osborn , American politician (* 1884 )
- May 26 : Theo Morell , German Nazi doctor (* 1886 )
- May 28 : Hubert Eisdell , English singer (* 1882 )
- May 29 : Dame May Whitty , British actress (* 1865 )
June
- June 1 : Sonny Boy Williamson I. , American blues musician and harmonica player (* 1914 )
- June 2 : Viktor Brack , German war criminal (* 1904 )
- June 2 : Karl Brandt , physician and personal physician to Adolf Hitler (* 1904 )
- June 2 : Georges Casse , French racing car driver (* 1890 )
- June 2 : Wolfram Sievers , Reich Managing Director (* 1905 )
- June 4th : Albrecht Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , German politician and member of the Reichstag (* 1886 )
- June 5 : Glen Edwards , American test pilot (* 1918 )
- June 6 : Aron Freimann , German-Jewish historian (* 1871 )
- June 6th : Louis Jean Lumière , French photo technology pioneer (* 1864 )
- June 8 : Ferdinand Bronner , German writer and playwright (* 1867 )
- June 9 : Maria Belpaire , Flemish writer (* 1853 )
- June 11 : Hugh M. Dorsey , American politician (* 1871 )
- June 13 : Dazai Osamu , Japanese writer (* 1909 )
- June 14 : Gertrude Franklin Atherton , American writer (* 1857 )
- June 14 : Ernst Henrik Ellberg , Swedish composer (* 1868 )
- June 16 : Marcel Brillouin , French physicist (* 1854 )
- June 16 : Rufus Jones , American author, college professor, mystic, philosopher and Quaker (* 1863 )
- June 20 : George Frederick Boyle , Australian composer (* 1886 )
- June 21 : Hans Aull , German judge (* 1869 )
- June 23 : Hans Adam , German naval officer (* 1883 )
- June 27 : Wilhelm Sauter , German painter (* 1896 )
- June 30 : Morris Fuller Benton , American engineer and type designer (* 1872 )
July
- July 1 : Omobono Tenni , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1905 )
- July 1 : Achille Varzi , Italian racing driver (* 1904 )
- July 1 : Paolo Salman , Syrian Archbishop in Jordan (* 1886 )
- July 4th : Christian Kautz , Swiss racing driver (* 1913 )
- July 5 : Georges Bernanos , French writer (* 1888 )
- July 6th : Luigi Arrigoni , Italian Archbishop (* 1890 )
- July 8 : Bruno H. Bürgel , German astronomer, writer and science journalist (* 1875 )
- July 11 : John Anderson , American discus thrower (* 1907 )
- July 11th : Gerhard Kittel , German Protestant theologian (* 1888 )
- July 15 : John J. Pershing , American soldier and general (* 1860 )
- July 16 : Arthur Traube , German chemist (* 1878 )
- July 18 : Eduard "Ede" Telcs , Hungarian sculptor and medalist (* 1872 )
- July 21 : Arshile Gorky , American painter (* 1904 )
- July 23 : DW Griffith , American actor, director and film producer (* 1875 )
- July 24th : Bruno Ahrends , German architect (* 1878 )
- July 27 : Woolf Barnato , British financier, automobile racing driver and cricketer (* 1895 )
- July 29 : Ruth Neudeck , German SS supervisor in the Ravensbrück concentration camp (* 1920 )
- July 31 : George Adee , American football player and tennis official (* 1874 )
August
- August 3 : Lorenz Bock , German lawyer and politician (* 1883 )
- August 4th : Mileva Marić , Serbian mathematician (* 1875 )
- August 9 : Hugo Ferdinand Boss , German textile entrepreneur (* 1885 )
- August 10 : Emmy Hennings , German writer and cabaret artist (* 1885 )
- August 15 : George Tallis , Australian theater entrepreneur (* 1869 )
- August 16 : Edward Hill Amet , American inventor (* 1860 )
- August 16 : Babe Ruth , American baseball player (* 1895 )
- August 19 : Frederick Philip Grove , German and Canadian writer and translator (* 1879 )
- August 21 : Richard Atwater , American journalist, university lecturer and children's book author (* 1892 )
- August 22nd : Adolf Behne , German architect, art politician and scientist (* 1885 )
- August 25 : Hermann Gieseler , German trade union official (* 1889 )
- August 27 : Oscar Lorenzo Fernández , Brazilian composer (* 1897 )
- August 27 : Charles Evans Hughes , American politician and lawyer (* 1862 )
- August 28 : James M. Slattery , American politician (* 1878 )
- August 30 : Alice Salomon , German suffragette (* 1872 )
- August 31 : Janus Djurhuus , Faroese poet (* 1881 )
- August 31 : Andrei Zhdanov , Soviet politician (* 1896 )
September
- September 1 : Thomas Parnell , Professor of Physics at the University of Queensland (* 1881 )
- September 3 : Edvard Beneš , Czech politician (* 1884 )
- September 5 : Richard C. Tolman , American physicist (* 1881 )
- September 8 : Georg Schmückle , German writer (* 1880 )
- September 10 : Ferdinand I , Tsar of Bulgaria (* 1861 )
- September 11 : Muhammad Ali Jinnah , politician in British India, is considered the founder of the state of Pakistan (* 1876 )
- September 13 : Paul Wegener , German actor and director (* 1874 )
- September 14 : Vernon Dalhart , American singer and country musician (* 1883 )
- September 16 : Manuel Arce y Ochotorena , Archbishop of Tarragona and Cardinal (* 1879 )
- September 17th : Édouard Brisson , French racing driver (* 1882 )
- September 17th : Folke Bernadotte , Swedish officer (* 1895 )
- September 17 : Emil Ludwig , German writer (* 1881 )
- September 20 : Emma Zimmer , SS superintendent in the Ravensbrück concentration camp (* 1888 )
- September 23 : Gustav Ricker , scientist and doctor (* 1870 )
- September 28 : Gregg Toland , American cameraman (* 1904 )
- September 30th : Edith Roosevelt , second wife of US President Theodore Roosevelt (* 1861 )
October
- October 3 : Alois Wolfmüller , German inventor, engineer and flight technician (* 1864 )
- October 8 : Sydney Anderson , American politician (* 1881 )
- October 9 : Alfred Roth , German politician, MdR (* 1879 )
- October 10 : Siegmund von Hausegger , Austrian composer and conductor (* 1872 )
- October 10 : Mary Eaton , American actress (* 1901 )
- October 12 : Alfred Kerr , German theater critic (* 1867 )
- October 18 : Walther von Brauchitsch , Commander-in-Chief of the Army in the Third Reich (* 1881 )
- October 21 : Koene Dirk Parmentier , Dutch aviation pioneer (* 1904 )
- October 22 : Ernst von Aster , German philosopher and historian of philosophy (* 1880 )
- October 22 : August Hlond , Archbishop of Gniezno and Posen and Archbishop of Warsaw and Primate in Poland (* 1881 )
- October 23 : Eugeniusz Morawski-Dąbrowa , Polish composer (* 1876 )
- October 24 : Franz Lehár , Austrian composer (* 1870 )
- October 25 : Walter Bock , German chemist (* 1895 )
- October 27 : Charles Levadé , French composer (* 1869 )
- October 29 : Antonio Létourneau , Canadian organist and music teacher (* 1885 )
- October 31 : Milly Steger , German artist (* 1881 )
November
- November 4 : Helena Zboińska-Ruszkowska , Polish singer and vocal teacher (* 1877 )
- November 5 : Hans Schrader , German archaeologist (* 1869 )
- November 15 : Clarence Morley , American politician (* 1869 )
- November 19 : Adam Ankenbrand , German SS-Unterscharführer (* 1887 )
- November 19 : Mannes Francken , Dutch football player (* 1888 )
- November 20 : Alfred Götze , German prehistorian (* 1865 )
- November 23 : Üzeyir Hacıbəyov , Azerbaijani composer (* 1885 )
- November 24th : Hans Watzlik , Sudeten German writer (* 1879 )
- November 25 : Bjarnat Krawc , Sorbian composer and music teacher (* 1861 )
- Karl Arndt , German politician and trade unionist (* 1886 ) November:
December
- December 1 : Somerton man , mysterious murder victim (* around 1903)
- December 2nd : Chano Pozo , Cuban percussionist (* 1915 )
- December 4 : Karl Bonhoeffer , psychiatrist, neurologist and medical expert (* 1868 )
- December 4 : Hermann Behrends , Lieutenant General of the Police and SS Group Leader of the Waffen SS (* 1907 )
- December 8 : Richard Illge , German politician (* 1868 )
- December 8th : Carl Watzinger , German archaeologist (* 1877 )
- December 9 : Theodore Christianson , American politician (* 1883 )
- December 10 : Friedrich Altrichter , German officer and military writer (* 1890 )
- December 10 : Enrique Mario Casella , Argentine composer (* 1891 )
- December 12th : Johann Anetseder , German politician (* 1898 )
- December 12th : Franjo Dugan , Croatian composer (* 1874 )
- December 13th : Frans Drion , Dutch teacher, politician and anarchist (* 1874 )
- December 14th : RO Morris , English composer and music teacher (* 1886 )
- December 15 : João Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa , Portuguese military and politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (* 1883 )
- December 16 : Rudolf Löw , Swiss painter and writer (* 1878 )
- December 18 : Charles Bennett , British athlete and Olympic champion (* 1870 )
- December 18 : William Arms Fisher , American composer, music historian and publisher (* 1861 )
- December 20 : Christopher Rawdon Briggs , English violinist and music teacher (* 1869 )
- December 20 : C. Aubrey Smith , British actor (born 1863 )
- December 21 : Otto Adler , German trade union official (* 1876 )
- December 23 : Tōjō Hideki , 40th Japanese Prime Minister and General (* 1884 )
- December 23 : Doihara Kenji , Japanese master spy (* 1883 )
- December 25 : Carl Abrahamsson , Swedish ice hockey player (* 1896 )
- December 27th : Arrigo Serato , Italian violinist and music teacher (* 1877 )
- December 28 : Hans Bogner , German classical philologist (* 1895 )
- December 29th : Harry Farjeon , English composer (* 1878 )
- December 30th : Denton Welch , British writer (born 1915 )
- December 31 : Malcolm Campbell , English racing driver and journalist (* 1885 )
- December 31 : Otto Vitense , German pedagogue and regional historian (* 1880 )
Date unknown
- Wilhelm Auberlen , German painter and sculptor (* 1860 )
- Stefan Ochaba , Austrian composer, church musician and choir director (* 1904 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
- Chemistry : Arne Tiselius
- Medicine : Paul Hermann Müller
- Literature : TS Eliot
A Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arno Scholz : nullvier - A vintage between the fronts , arani-Verlag , Berlin 1962, p. 466 f ( online )
- ^ McDonalds History