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1949
Konrad Adenauer , first Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany	Walter Ulbricht , Wilhelm Pieck and Otto Grotewohl at the celebrations for the founding of the GDR
Proclamation of the People's Republic of China by Mao Zedong

1949 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2702
Armenian calendar	1397-1398
Ethiopian calendar	1941-1942
Badi calendar	105-106
Bengali calendar	1355-1356
Berber calendar	2899
Buddhist calendar	2493
Burmese calendar	1311
Byzantine calendar	7457-7458
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- era	4645-4646 or 4585-4586
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French revolutionary calendar	CLVII - CLVIII 157-158
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- Vikram Sambat	2005-2006
- Shaka Samvat	1871-1872
Iranian calendar	1327-1328
Islamic calendar	1368-1369
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- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 24
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Coptic calendar	1665-1666
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- Dangun era	4282
- Juche era	38
Minguo calendar	38
Modern Olympics	XIV
Seleucid calendar	2260-2261
Thai solar calendar	2492

In 1949 the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic as well as the proclamation of the People's Republic of China are the focus of world events.

overview

Europe

The formation of international alliances continues to deepen the division of Europe. NATO comes into being as a military alliance and initially designed for 20 years . In addition, the Council of Europe is founded as the political umbrella organization of the Western European states with its seat in Strasbourg. In Eastern Europe, the Council for Mutual Economic Aid, also known as Comecon, is established as an economic alliance.

Germany / Federal Republic / GDR

Raisin Bomber - Douglas C-54 at the Berlin Airlift Memorial

The founding phase of the two German states is accompanied by the crisis surrounding West Berlin , which defied the blockade with the help of the Berlin Airlift by the Western Allies. The Berlin question also plays an important role in the drafting of the Basic Law by the Parliamentary Council , since the German fathers and mothers of the Basic Law would like to grant Berlin the status of an equal federal state within the Federal Republic. The Allies, however, insist on their prerogatives, which also include Berlin's four-power status, so that, for example, the members of the Bundestag sent by Berlin are not allowed to participate in federal German legislation. The occupation statute also provided the Allies with rights of objection in matters of external representation, dismantling and control of the Ruhr . When the Soviet Union realized that the Berlin blockade would not be successful, it was abandoned after almost a year.

With a slight delay in the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany, the GDR was founded, but the West has refused to recognize it.

Austria

While the blocs are irreconcilably opposed to each other on the question of Germany, the conferences of foreign ministers of the four victorious powers ensure progress on the question of a settlement for Austria ; the main features of the later peace treaty were negotiated here as early as 1949.

Hungary

In the election to the National Assembly in May 1949, the unified list achieved 95.6% yes-votes. On August 20, 1949, a new constitution came into force, based on the Soviet constitution of 1936. This turns Hungary into a workers-and-peasants state , the separation of powers is abolished and a 21-member presidential council is introduced as a collective head of state who has powers between parliamentary sessions . A personality cult is developing around Mátyás Rákosi , combined with an atmosphere of terror from the State Security Authority. There are a large number of show trials against political opponents, including Cardinal Mindszenty . Communist party members and members of the government also fell victim to these processes, such as the former Foreign Minister László Rajk, who was executed in 1949 .

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia plays a special role, although it sees itself as a socialist state, but retains its independence from the Eastern Bloc, which then marginalizes the Tito government politically and economically.

Greece

In Greece the civil war leads to the defeat of the communist associations, which have to go into exile.

middle East

In the Middle East, Israel , which was founded the year before, can assert itself in the war of independence against its Arab neighbors and gain significant ground compared to the original UN partition plan ; the front line is solidified by the armistice agreement of 1949 as a "green line" in effect to form the new state border, while the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are claimed by Egypt and Jordan respectively. The hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians who have since been waiting in refugee camps in neighboring countries for the establishment of their own Palestinian state are a difficult legacy of the war.

India

At the beginning of the year, India and Pakistan agree on a ceasefire in Kashmir , where a line of demarcation establishes the status quo . On November 26, 1949 India constitutes itself as a republic (→ History of India # Republic of India , Constitution of India ).

China

In China, the People's Liberation Army under Mao Zedong succeeds in the decisive final offensive in the civil war against the national Chinese troops of Chiang Kai-shek , which initially leads to the capture of Tianjin and Beijing in the north and, after crossing the Yangtze, also to the south of China. The national Chinese government must therefore withdraw from Chongqing to Taiwan, but can maintain some islands off the coast of the mainland. On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China and established a communist state.

United States

In the USA, Harry S. Truman takes up his second term as President. The successes of the communists in China and the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb are creating an increasingly anti-communist mood in the USA, which is expressed, among other things, in attacks by Senator MacCarthy against the State Department, which he says was communist infiltrated and caused the abandonment of China. Real and supposed sympathizers of the communists are quoted before committees of inquiry and if there is any suspicion of “un-American”, ie pro-communist activities, they will face reprisals.

Events

Politics and world events

January

• January 1 : Ernst Nobs becomes President of Switzerland .
• January 1st : The Motor Vehicle Use Ordinance issued by the Economic Council comes into force, which prohibits excursions and pleasure trips.
• January 1 : Austria regains control of the border with Italy from Great Britain .
• January 1 : Juan Manuel Gálvez takes office as President of Honduras .
• January 1st : India and Pakistan agree a ceasefire to settle the Kashmir conflict .
• January 1st : Thailand becomes a member of UNESCO .
• January 2 : The government of South Korea ( Prime Minister : Rhee Syng-man ) is recognized by the USA .
• January 7 : Dean Acheson replaces George C. Marshall as Secretary of State.
• January 15 : After fierce fighting, the Chinese communists capture the city of Tianjin .
• January 19 : Foundation of the South African Government Commission for Native Education ( Eiselen Commission ) under the direction of Werner Willi Max Eiselen .
• January 20 : The re-elected US President Harry S. Truman is sworn in for his second term.
• January 24th : The Chinese People's Liberation Army reaches the north bank of the Yangtze River .
• January 25 : Elections to the first Knesset .
• January 25 : Establishment of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon).
• January 28th : Switzerland becomes a member of UNESCO.
• January 31 : Communist troops enter Beijing ; the city, previously called Beiping, is officially renamed Beijing.

February

• February 4 : Assassination attempt on Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi .
• February 8 : Cardinal József Mindszenty is sentenced to life imprisonment by a Hungarian people's court after a show trial.
• February 14 : David Ben-Gurion becomes Israel's first prime minister .
• February 14th : António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona is re-elected as President of Portugal unopposed.
• February 16 : Chaim Weizmann is elected President of Israel .
• February 24 : Armistice agreement between Israel and Egypt after the Israeli War of Independence ( March 23 with Lebanon , April 3 with Transjordan , July 20 with Syria).

March

• March 3 : The Western Allied military governors call for improvements to the Parliamentary Council's draft constitution . In particular, the Basic Law should not apply directly to Berlin, and the legislative powers of the federal states should be strengthened.
• March 4 : Andrei Vyshinsky becomes the new Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union. He takes over from Vyacheslav Molotov .
• March 8 : France recognizes the independence of Vietnam under the anti-communist government of Bảo Đại .
• March 10th : Israeli troops advance to Eilat and secure Israel access to the Red Sea.
• March 28 : US Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal resigns by surprise; he dies two weeks later in a hospital, apparently by suicide.
• March 30 : Chief of Staff Hosni az-Za'im comes to power in a coup in Syria .
• March 31 : In the Königstein State Agreement , the federal and state governments in Germany agree on the financing of scientific research institutions.

April

• April 4 : NATO is founded .
• April 8th : With the accession of the French occupation zone , the Bizone becomes a Trizone . The three foreign ministers of the Western Allies decide the occupation statute in Washington, DC ; in this they give their consent to the establishment of the Federal Republic, but reserve the right to reserve and object, particularly in the areas of Ruhr control and dismantling.
• April 8 : Fighting broke out between government forces and Karen militias in Burma .
• April 13 : In the Wilhelmstrasse trial , the last of the Nuremberg trials , members of the Foreign Office of the Third Reich were mainly sentenced to long prison sentences; the judgments are in some cases significantly softened after just a few months.
• April 13 : The fighting between Israel and Syria ceases.
• April 15 : Pope Pius XII. in the encyclical Redemptoris nostri cruciatus pleads for the internationalization of Jerusalem on the basis of the UN partition plan , the right of return of the refugees and the protection of holy places and places in Palestine .
• April 16 : As part of the Berlin Airlift , 12,849 tons of supplies are flown into the blocked city in a single day . This amount is not reached on all other flights.
• April 18 : Ireland leaves the Commonwealth of Nations and establishes itself as a separate Republic of Éire.
• April 23 : Dutch annexation plans after the Second World War are implemented when smaller territories are separated in the Selfkant and Elten areas near the border and in the Grafschaft Bentheim district . The German municipality Selfkant is placed under Dutch administration to compensate for the damage suffered in the Second World War .
• April 23 : The Chinese People's Liberation Army troops capture Nanking .
• April 23 : In Hamburg, the sensational trial of Veit Harlan , the director of the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß , ends with an acquittal.
• April 23rd : Just five days after the USS United States (CVA-58) was keeled, Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson discontinues the construction project for the first so-called "supercarrier" . This leads to the escalation of the smoldering " uprising of the admirals " against what they consider to be the US Air Force's military policy of the US government.
• April 28 : Great Britain, France, the United States and the Benelux countries sign the Ruhr Statute , an agreement to establish an international Ruhr authority. They want to use it to control coal , coke and steel production in post-war Germany.

May

• May 5th : The Council of Europe is founded; initially ten states belong to it.
• May 8 : Costa Rica receives a new constitution; it provides for the abolition of the military.
• May 9 : Rainier III. becomes Prince of Monaco .
• May 10 : The Parliamentary Council passes the electoral law for the Federal Republic and designates Bonn as the provisional capital.
• May 11 : Israel joins the United Nations .
• May 12 : The Soviet Union lifts the Berlin blockade after negotiations between the US and Soviet UN delegates Philipp Jessup and Jakow Alexandrowitsch Malik . At the same time, it was agreed that a conference of foreign ministers would be convened in June. 55 people were killed in the course of the airlift . 2.3 million tons of goods were flown into West Berlin.
• May 12th : The three western military governors in Germany formally proclaim the occupation statute , which will come into force on September 21st . It opened up limited sovereignty to the emerging Federal Republic of Germany .
• May 15 : In the elections for the 3rd People's Congress in the Soviet Occupation Zone, 66.1% of the voters vote for the candidates on the unified list.
• May 20 : The Bavarian State Parliament is the only one of the state parliaments to reject the approval of the Basic Law drawn up by the Parliamentary Council after a night session . But if two thirds of all federal states agree - which happens - he also declares its validity in the Free State of Bavaria .
• May 23 : Proclamation of the Basic Law by the Parliamentary Council .
• May 24th : The German constitution comes into force.
• May 25th : Chinese communist troops capture the city of Shanghai . On May 27, the United States withdrew all naval units from China.
• May 29 : Beginning of the session of the 3rd People's Congress of the Soviet Occupation Zone. The congress adopts the constitution of the future GDR and forms a new people's council.
• May 30th : If the vote against, the Third German People's Congress adopts the first constitution of the German Democratic Republic . The draft was unanimously approved by the German People's Council and referred to the delegates. The law comes into force on October 7th .

June

• June 2nd : Transjordan is renamed the Kingdom of Jordan .
• June 8 : In an FBI credit report for the espionage trial of Judith Coplon be Helen Keller , Dorothy Parker , Danny Kaye , Fredric March , John Garfield , Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson accused of being members of the Communist Party; most of the information later turns out to be incorrect.
• June 11th : Czechoslovakia breaks off economic relations with Yugoslavia .
• June 13 : In the Ruhr area , Belgian soldiers take action against workers who want to prevent the dismantling of a hydrogenation plant.
• June 20 : At the Foreign Ministers' Conference in Paris , in which the Foreign Ministers of the USA, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union take part, an agreement is reached on the basic principles for a peace treaty for Austria . The differences remain on the German question.
• June 27th : Burma ( Myanmar ) becomes a member of UNESCO.
• June 29th : The South African Citizenship Act severely restricts the granting of citizenship to immigrants in South Africa ; at the same time, marriages of partners who belong to different races are prohibited.
• June 29 : The last US troops leave South Korea .

July

• July 2 : The states of the Eastern Bloc stop all arms deliveries to Yugoslavia .
• July 6th : Monaco becomes a member of UNESCO.
• July 10 : The Presidents of National China and the Philippines discuss forming a Southeast Asian defense alliance.
• July 13 : Pope Pius XII. declares all communists and their sympathizers excommunicated .
• July 14th : On the French national holiday, riots and protests against the colonial power break out in Hanoi ; they claim 22 deaths.
• July 15 : In the Düsseldorf Guiding Principles, the CDU is committed to competitive performance and entrepreneurial freedom; In doing so, it turns away from the Christian-socialist Ahlen program .
• July 19th : Signing of the Franco-Lao Treaty: Laos becomes independent within the Union française .
• July 21 : The United States Senate approves the NATO treaty.
• July 27 : The French National Assembly adopts the NATO Treaty.

August

• August 8 : Bhutan gains independence from Great Britain
• August 8 : The first meeting of the Council of Europe takes place. Turkey , Greece and Iceland are accepted as new members.
• August 12 : A modification of the Geneva Conventions is signed by 18 states at the end of a diplomatic conference in Geneva . In the light of experiences in World War II , four agreements are agreed, the most important of which is the protection of civilians in times of war .

Bundestag election 1949

• August 14 : Elections to the first German Bundestag : of the 402 seats, the Union wins 139, the SPD 131, the FDP 52 and the KPD 15. Eight MPs from West Berlin have no voting rights in the Bundestag.
• August 14 : In Syria , President Husni az-Za'im is overthrown by the military; he had come to power himself through a coup four months earlier.
• August 16 : Josef Beran , Archbishop of Prague , is deposed and interned by the Czechoslovak government.
• August 17 : The Chinese People's Liberation Army captures the city of Fuzhou in Fujian Province .
• August 20 : Hungary is transformed by the communists into a people 's republic through a constitution based on the Soviet model .
• August 21 : At the Rhöndorf Conference , Adenauer speaks out against a grand coalition.
• August 25 : The national prize is awarded for the first time in Weimar .
• August 25 : Yugoslavia stops helping Greek communists in civil war; these are now only supported by Albania and Bulgaria .
• August 27 : Official termination of the Berlin Airlift
• August 28 : The German Academy for Language and Poetry is founded in Darmstadt on Goethe's 200th birthday .
• August 29th : The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb .

September

• September 1 : IG Metall is founded
• September 7th : The Deutsche Bundesbahn is founded.
• September 7th : The first German Bundestag is constituted; the meeting will be opened by senior president Paul Löbe (SPD); Erich Köhler (CDU) is elected President of the Bundestag . The Federal Council meets for the first time on the same day ; the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Karl Arnold chaired the meeting.
• September 11th : The people's initiative Return to Direct Democracy is adopted in Switzerland .
• September 12 : Theodor Heuss is elected the first Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly with 460: 312 votes ; Kurt Schumacher had competed against him .
• September 13 : The Soviet Union vetoed the admission of Austria , Ceylon , Finland , Ireland , Italy , Jordan and Portugal to the UN .
• September 14 : Pakistan becomes a member of UNESCO
• September 15 : Konrad Adenauer becomes the first Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany .
• September 16 : Israel becomes a member of UNESCO.
• September 20 : The first Adenauer cabinet is sworn in. The ministers belong to the CDU, CSU, FDP and DP.
• September 21 : The Allied High Commissioners John Jay McCloy , Sir Brian Robertson and André François-Poncet announce the end of military rule in the presence of the new Federal Cabinet.
• September 25th : Xinjiang Province joins the Chinese communists.
• September 30th : The last supply plane lands in the western part of Berlin as part of the Berlin Airlift

October

• October 1 : Establishment of the People's Republic of China .
• October 1 : The Soviet Union condemns the establishment of the Federal Republic as a breach of existing treaties.
• October 7th : The GDR is founded through the constitution of the 2nd German People's Council of the Soviet Occupation Zone as a Provisional People's Chamber ; at the same time the constitution approved by the People's Council on May 30th is declared the constitution of the new state. Otto Grotewohl is elected the first Prime Minister .
• October 9th : National Council election in Austria : ÖVP with Federal Chancellor Leopold Figl the party with the strongest vote.
• October 9 : The Greek Communist Party decides to give up resistance to the government in Athens and moves to Albania . This ends the Greek Civil War .
• October 10 : The People's Control Commission dissolves after the founding of the GDR so far in the Soviet occupation zone established Soviet Military Administration in Germany from.
• October 11 : Elections to the provisional chamber of states take place in the GDR; Together with the new People's Chamber, she elects Wilhelm Pieck as the first and only President of the GDR. On October 12th Otto Grotewohl presented his new cabinet to which u. a. Walter Ulbricht , Hermann Kastner , Georg Dertinger and Karl Steinhoff belong.
• October 12 : Foundation of the German trade union federation DGB in Munich .
• October 15 : The southern Chinese city of Kanton falls into the hands of communist troops.
• October 15 : Diplomatic recognition of the GDR by the Soviet Union.
• October 17 : The Chinese People's Liberation Army captures Amoy .
• October 17th : The GDR exchanges diplomatic representatives with Bulgaria , the ČSR , Poland , Hungary , Romania and the People's Republic of China.
• October 20 : The US drops the trials of Japanese war criminals.
• October 21 : In Stuttgart the Bund der Steuerpayers Württemberg-Baden e. V. founded.
• October 24th : UN General Secretary Trygve Lie lays the foundation stone for the new UN headquarters in New York .
• October 27 : An attempt by Chinese People's Liberation Army troops to conquer Quemoy Island off the coast of Fujian is repulsed by Chinese national troops.
• October 28 : Georges Bidault becomes the new French head of government; he takes over from Henri Queuille .

November

• November 3 : On the capital issue of the Federal Republic of Germany , the members of the first German Bundestag decide in favor of Bonn instead of Frankfurt am Main .
• November 5 : The GDR Council of Ministers decides in favor of the text Risen from Ruins by Johannes R. Becher with the melody by Hanns Eisler as the national anthem .
• November 6th : The GDR national anthem, Risen from the Ruins, is officially played for the first time.
• November 7 : Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossowski becomes Minister of Defense of Poland .
• November 12 : Josip Broz Tito announces the friendship pact between Yugoslavia and Albania .
• November 14th : Sri Lanka becomes a member of UNESCO.
• November 15 : The People's Republic of China claims to be the only one legally allowed to represent China at the UN.

The Petersberg near Bonn

• November 22nd : Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer agrees the Petersberg Agreement with the Allied High Commissioners . In it the federal government recognizes the right of the Ruhr authority to control in accordance with the Ruhr statute and commits itself to a cartel legislation and to counter any form of totalitarianism. In return, the Allies grant the Federal Republic the right to join the Council of Europe , the suspension of dismantling , the right to establish consular and trade relations with other states and the continuation of Marshall Plan assistance. The agreement met with criticism from the opposition, as they were not consulted when the settlement was reached. In this context, Kurt Schumacher calls Adenauer the “Federal Chancellor of the Allies”. On the same day the Western Allies announced that they would no longer confiscate reparations.
• November 25th : The proposal to internationalize the city of Jerusalem is rejected by Israel and also by Jordan .
• November 26th : India constitutes itself as a republic .
• November 28 : National Chinese troops evacuate Chongqing in front of the advancing army of the PRC .
• November 29th : The Cominform calls for the fight against Titoism .

December

• December 6th : The International Court of Justice is instructed by the UN to clarify the mandate issue for South West Africa.
• December 8 : The Chinese national government's evacuation to the island of Taiwan is completed; individual associations continue to fight the communist army on the mainland.
• December 10 : Trajtscho Kostow , the former deputy prime minister of Bulgaria , is sentenced to death for Titoism and anti-Soviet attitudes.
• December 10 : The Chinese People's Liberation Army takes Chengdu , the last Kuomintang- held major city on the mainland. Before that, the government of the Republic of China withdrew to the island of Taiwan.
• December 16 : Sukarno is elected President of Indonesia .
• December 17th : Burma becomes the first non-communist state to recognize the People's Republic of China .
• December 19 : Field Marshal General Erich von Manstein is sentenced to 18 years in prison by a British military tribunal.
• December 26 : Great Britain and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement.
• December 27 : Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia , which takes effect on December 31. The Dutch troops withdrew by July 1950. Government power is passed to Prime Minister Mohammad Hatta and President Sukarno .
• December 30th : India recognizes the People's Republic of China.

Date indefinite

• In Afghanistan , the Afghans invalidated the Durand Line when the state of Pakistan came into being and reclaimed their occupied territories
• Ban on the Ku Klux Klan
• Establishment of a United Nations observer group in the border area of Jammu and Kashmir ( India / Pakistan)

economy

• January 30th : The Public Services, Transport and Traffic Union (ÖTV) is founded in Stuttgart , a single union with a large number of members, which was created in the same year as the DGB .
• March 14 : In its official gazette, the Deutsche Bundespost informs about the establishment of the Central Post Office in Darmstadt . The new authority has a major impact on developments in the German postal system, such as the later introduction of postcodes .
• March 20 : In the three western sectors of Berlin , the DM becomes the sole legal tender . The Western Allies thereby end the Ostmark that has been valid since the currency reform
• July 18 : The Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry (FSK) receives the first film for assessment under youth protection aspects.
• August 17th : The Otto-Versand is founded by Werner Otto in Hamburg .
• August 18th : Master shoemaker Adolf Dassler founds the adidas company .

Currywurst

• September 4th : Herta Heuwer invents the currywurst in Berlin .
• October 19 : The committee for economic questions of the industrial associations is founded in Cologne, which a few months later changes its name to the Federal Association of German Industry .
• October 23 : In Austria, betting on football results is made in the sports pool for the first time . The sports total law provides for the annual use of surpluses from all game rounds to promote sports .
• November 1st : The first edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung appears.
• December 1 : The first official world exhibition after the Second World War opens in Port-au-Prince in Haiti .
• December 6th : The German Hotel and Restaurant Association (DEHOGA) is founded in Frankfurt am Main .
• December 28th Engineers from the Mauser weapons company , Edmund Heckler, Theodor Koch and Alex Seidel, found the Heckler & Koch company . Outwardly, they initially deal with sewing machines.

• The packaging manufacturer Schmalbach applies for a patent for the first aerosol spray can .

science and technology

• March 2 : After 94 hours in the air hits the Boeing B-50 A Lucky Lady II with the crew to the pilots James G. Gallagher after the first nonstop - circumnavigation on the Texas Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth one. The machine was refueled several times during its flight.
• March 9 : The German Research Council , a forerunner of the German Research Foundation , is set up in Göttingen .
• March 26th : The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is founded in Munich by representatives from industry and science, the state of Bavaria and the emerging Federal Republic of Germany.
• April 27th : Harald E. Thompson reached the world speed record of 208.5 km / h with his Sikorsky S-52 helicopter
• May : In Munich, the first as is the German Institute for the History of Nazi time called the Institute for Contemporary History launched. The lifting of the usual archive locks for Nazi documents by the Allies enables historians to research and work through the recent history of Germany critically .
• May 1st : The Dutch astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper discovers the Neptune - moon Nereid .
• May 21 : Capt. HD Gaddis reached a world record height of 6,468 meters with his Sikorsky S-52 .
• December 19 : In Yogyakarta is the Gadjah Mada University , the first public university in Indonesia founded.

Culture

• January 2nd : On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation in Hamburg begins broadcasting the 35-part radio play series Goethe tells his life about Hans Egon Gerlach . The title role was given by Mathias Wieman , who from the fourth part also took on the direction of Ludwig Cremer .
• February 10 : Arthur Miller's drama Death of a Salesman premieres on Broadway . Elia Kazan directs the play with Lee J. Cobb in the lead role.
• April 30 : World premiere of the opera Il Dottor Antonio by Franco Alfano at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome .
• May 7 : World premiere of the opera for actors Das Wundertheater by Hans Werner Henze in the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg
• June 8 : The 1984 novel by George Orwell is published.
• June 25th : World premiere of the opera The Enchanted Me by Ottmar Gerster in Wuppertal .
• August 9 : World premiere of Carl Orff's setting of the tragedy Antigonae by Sophocles in the German translation by Friedrich Hölderlin as part of the Salzburg Festival in the Felsenreitschule
• August 28 : The German Academy for Language and Poetry is founded in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt .
• September 8 : World premiere of Ludwig Schmidseder's operetta Abschiedswalzer in Vienna .
• October 31 : World premiere of the opera Regina by Marc Blitzstein in New York .
• December 2nd : First performance of Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony in Boston

• First award of the Hansian Goethe Prize
• Joseph Campbell publishes his work: The Hero in a Thousand Forms
• Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer's book The Farm in the Green Mountains appears

religion

• July 13 : Pope Pius XII. threatens to excommunicate those Catholics who join a communist party, publish, read or write communist books or magazines. This triggers reactions from those affected, especially in Italy.
• April 20 : The Engelwerk is founded in Tyrol at the instigation of Gabriele Bitterlich .

Sports

• January 29th : Milan : The Austrian Eva Pawlik wins the European championship in figure skating both in compulsory and in the freestyle and beats the world champion of the same year, Alena Vrzáňová from Czechoslovakia.
• February 10 : Philadelphia , Pennsylvania : Basketball player Joe Fulks scores 63 points against the Indiana Jets, setting a new NBA record.
• April 3 : At his first car race in Europe, the Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio made people sit up and take notice by winning the Grand Prix in Sanremo .
• August 3 : The National Basketball Association (NBA) is created in the USA from the merger of the financially weak National Basketball League (NBL) and the financially strong Basketball Association of America .
• October 10 : Josef "Sepp" Herberger becomes the football coach of the German national team .
• November 12 : The German Athletics Association (DLV) is newly founded in Munich . The three regional associations from the Federal Republic (three western zones) belong to it. Max Danz becomes chairman .

Disasters

• July 10 : A by an earthquake-triggered landslide in the Pamir meets the above the Tajik village Chait altitude lake Chaus-Chait . The resulting mudslide rolls over the place and buries around 18,000 residents under a twenty to thirty meter high layer of mud and rubble.
• July 15 : The city is badly destroyed in the explosion in Prüm , twelve people die.
• August 5th : 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Ambato , Ecuador
• September 17 : The passenger steamer Noronic burns out overnight in the port of Toronto, 122 people die.
• November 1 : A Douglas DC-4 crash on Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 near Washington, killing 55 people.
• November 24th : Fires in uranium mines in Johanngeorgenstadt . According to the Telegraaf , over 2000 people die.

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

Born

January

• 0January 1st : Vehbi Akdağ , Turkish wrestler
• 0January 1st : Gerd Antos , German linguist
• 0January 1st : İzzet Avcı , Turkish archer
• 0January 1st : Dieter Montag , German actor
• 0January 1st : Uschi Reich , German film producer
• 0January 1st : Borys Tarasjuk , Ukrainian diplomat and politician, Foreign Minister of Ukraine
• 0January 1st : Anne Trabant-Haarbach , German soccer player
• 0January 2nd : Nadia Cassini , Italian actress and singer
• 0January 2 : Vicki Frederick , American actress
• 0January 5th : Erich Buck , German figure skater
• 0January 5th : Klaus-Dieter Bieler , German athlete
• 0January 5th : Gerd Puls , German writer, painter and graphic artist
• 0January 6th : Christine Dacremont , French racing car driver
• 0January 7th : Paul Faßnacht , German actor
• 0January 7th : Peter Gläser alias Caesar , German rock musician († 2008 )
• 0January 7th : Steven Williams , American actor
• 0January 8th : Bogdan Dowlasz , Polish accordionist, music educator and composer
• 0January 8th : Zoot Horn Rollo , American guitarist
• 0January 8 : Walter Witzel , German politician and Member of the State Parliament
• 0January 9 : Mark Aronoff , Canadian scholar of language morphology and professor
• 0January 9th : Mary Roos , German pop singer
  

  Mary Roos , 2007
• January 10 : Carlos Alhinho , Cape Verdean-Portuguese football player and coach († 2008 )
• January 10 : George Foreman , American heavyweight professional boxer and Christian minister
• January 10 : Linda Lovelace , American porn actress († 2002 )
• January 10 : William Vollery , Swiss racing driver († 1989 )
• January 11 : Raúl Castronovo , Argentinian football player
• January 11th : Hans-Joachim Heist , German actor and comedian
• January 11 : Hermann Korte , German Germanist and literary scholar († 2020 )
• January 11th : Adam Zamoyski , Polish historian
• January 11 : Helmut Zenker , Austrian writer and screenwriter († 2003 )
• January 12th : Ottmar Hitzfeld , German soccer player and coach
  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
• January 12 : Haruki Murakami , Japanese author
• January 12 : Paul Barresi , American actor, director
• January 12 : Michael W. Vannier , American doctor and radiologist
• January 13th : Fausto Bertoglio , Italian cyclist
• January 13 : Klaus Brandner , German politician
• January 14th : Supermax , Austrian musician († 2011 )
• January 14 : Lawrence Kasdan , American director, screenwriter, and actor
• January 15 : Arnold Beck , Liechtenstein ski racer († 2014 )
• January 15 : Götz Kauffmann , Austrian actor, cabaret artist and book author († 2010 )
• January 16 : Amama Mbabazi , Ugandan politician
• January 16 : Caroline Munro , British actress
• January 17 : Anita Borg , American computer scientist and women's rights activist († 2003 )
• January 17th : Heini Hemmi , Swiss ski racer
• January 17 : Gyude Bryant , Interim President of Liberia († 2014 )
• January 17 : Andy Kaufman , American entertainer and actor († 1984 )
• January 17th : Mick Taylor , British guitarist
• January 18 : Philippe Starck , French designer and architect
• January 18 : Billie Zöckler , German actress († 2019 )
• January 19 : Wickerl Adam , Austrian musician
• January 19 : Romuald Kazimierz Ajchler , Polish politician
• January 19 : Robert Palmer , British musician († 2003 )
• January 19 : Khalil Shaheed , American musician († 2012 )
• January 19th : Dennis Taylor , Northern Irish snooker player
• January 20 : Michael Ahern , Irish politician
• January 20 : Patrick Frey , Swiss author, publisher, cabaret artist and actor
• January 20 : Bill Owens , American politician
• January 20 : Göran Persson , Swedish Social Democratic politician, Prime Minister
• January 21 : Adelquis Remón Gay , Cuban chess player († 1992 )
• January 21 : Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir , Icelandic writer
• January 22 : Joseph Hill , Jamaican singer, guitarist and songwriter († 2006 )
• January 22nd : Steve Perry , American singer
• January 24th : Nikolaus Brender , German television journalist and media manager
  

  Nikolaus Brender , 2013
• January 24 : John Belushi , American singer and actor († 1982 )
• January 24th : Johannes K. Rücker , German adult educator
• January 25th : Doc Bundy , American racing car driver
• January 25 : Paul M. Nurse , British medic
• January 26 : David Strathairn , American actor
• January 27 : Per Røntved , Danish national soccer player
• January 28 : Gregg Popovich , American basketball coach
• January 28th : Barry Robinson , British racing car driver
• January 29 : Matthias Kaul , German percussionist and composer († 2020 )
• January 29th : Vincent Klink , German chef
• January 29th : Tommy Ramone , American musician († 2014 )
• January 29th : Stefan Diestelmann , German blues musician († 2007 )
• January 30th : Jacques Alméras , French racing driver and racing team owner
• January 31 : Maria Rauch-Kallat , Austrian politician
• January 31 : Ken Wilber , American philosopher and interdisciplinary thinker

February

• 0February 1 : Peter Millowitsch , German folk actor and theater entrepreneur
• 0February 2 : Lilo Friedrich , German politician
• 0February 2 : Brent Spiner , American actor
• 0February 3rd : Richard Jones , British racing car driver
• 0February 3rd : Hennie Kuiper , Dutch cyclist
• 0February 4 : Edward Acton , British historian and university professor
• 0February 4th : Gerold Ambrosius , German economic historian
• 0February 4 : Rasim Delić , Bosnian general († 2010 )
• 0February 4th : Helmut Heiderich , German politician
• 0February 5 : Igor Achba , Abkhaz politician and diplomat
• 0February 5 : Nuala Ahern , Irish politician
• 0February 5 : Kurt Beck , German politician
• 0February 5th : Heidi Handorf , German film editor
• 0February 6 : Adrian Alston , Australian soccer player
• 0February 6 : Reinhard Fißler , German rock singer and guitarist († 2016 )
• 0February 6 : Michael Fuchs , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 0February 6th : Manuel Orantes , Spanish tennis player
• 0February 6 : Karin Roth , German politician
• 0February 6 : Jim Sheridan , Irish director and screenwriter
• 0February 7th : Alan Lancaster , British bassist, singer and founding member of the rock group Status Quo
• 0February 8 : Brooke Adams , American actress
• 0February 8 : Niels Arestrup , French actor
• 0February 9 : Konrad Elmer , Protestant pastor and founding member of the SDP in the GDR
• February 10 : Rodney Wallace , American football player († 2013 )
• February 11 : Gerhard Kofler , South Tyrolean writer († 2005 )
• February 11 : Manfred Luckey , German politician (CDU)
• February 11th : Marc Menant , French writer, journalist and racing car driver
• February 11th : Klaus Prömpers , German television journalist
• February 11 : Detlev Redinger , German actor
• February 12 : Barbara Honigmann , German writer and painter
• February 12 : Sari Nusseibeh , Palestinian philosopher and politician
• February 12 : Fergus Slattery , Irish rugby player
• February 13 : Jo Baier , German film director and screenwriter
• February 13 : Judy Dyble , British folk rock singer († 2020 )
• February 13 : Peter Kern , Austrian actor, director, producer and author († 2015 )
• February 16 : Michel Herr , Belgian jazz pianist, composer and arranger
• February 17 : Doyle Bramhall , American blues rock guitarist, singer and drummer († 2011 )
• February 17th : Fred Frith , British composer, improviser and university professor
• February 17th : Anne Lonnberg , American actress
• February 17th : Ady Zehnpfennig , German musician
• February 18 : Gary Ridgway , American serial killer
• February 18 : Hans-Georg Türstig , German writer and translator, painter and photographer
• February 19 : Arend Agthe , German director
• February 19 : Eddie Hardin , British rock musician († 2015 )
• February 19 : Günter Sare , accident victim at a demonstration († 1985 )
• February 19 : Luise Schorn-Schütte , German historian
• February 20 : Mario Lega , Italian motorcycle racer
• February 20 : Stefan Waggershausen , German singer, composer and author
• February 20 : Bernhard Suttner , German politician
• February 20 : Ivana Trump , Czech-American model
• February 21 : Ronnie Hellström , Swedish football goalkeeper
• February 21 : Enrique Wolff , Argentine soccer player
• February 22nd : Klaus Amann , Austrian literary scholar
• February 22nd : Alan Barnard , anthropologist and ethnologist
• February 22nd : Manfred Deix , Austrian cartoonist and cartoonist († 2016 )
• February 22nd : Niki Lauda , Austrian Formula 1 world champion 1975, 1977 and 1984 († 2019 )
  

  Niki Lauda
• February 22nd : Joachim Witt , German musician
• February 22nd : Luigi Taverna , Italian racing driver
• February 23 : César Aira , Argentine writer and translator
• February 23 : Hans Hollenstein , Swiss politician (CVP)
• February 24th : Thomas Weisbecker , member of the "Movement June 2nd" († 1972 )
• February 24th : Dieter Büttner , German athlete
• February 25 : Irma Krauss , German writer
• February 25 : Amin Maalouf , French writer
• February 25 : Ireen Sheer , German-British pop singer
• February 25 : Ric Flair , American wrestler
• February 26 : Simon Crean , Australian politician
• February 26 : Emma Kirkby , English soprano
• February 26 : Bruno Strobl , Austrian composer and conductor
• February 27 : Kostas Arvasevičius , Lithuanian politician
• February 28 : Jenny Lamy , Australian track and field athlete and Olympian

March

• 0March 2nd : Isabelle Mir , French ski racer
• 0March 2 : Gates McFadden , American actress
• 0March 2 : Francisco Robles Ortega , Mexican Archbishop and Cardinal
• 0March 2nd : Antonio Vodanovic , Chilean TV presenter and journalist
• 0March 3 : Roberta Alexander , American soprano
• 0March 3 : Diane Denish , American politician
• 0March 4 : Ahmet Akyalçın , Turkish lawyer
• 0March 4th : Karel Loprais , Czech rally driver
• 0March 4 : Winfried Wolf , German politician, Member of the Bundestag

Franz Josef Jung, 2008

• 0March 5 : Franz Josef Jung , German politician

Bernard Arnault .

• 0March 5th : Bernard Arnault , French entrepreneur and billionaire
• 0March 6 : Shaukat Aziz , Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan
• 0March 7th : Wolfgang Reitzle , CEO of Linde AG
• 0March 8 : Antonello Venditti , Italian singer-songwriter
• 0March 8 : Teófilo Cubillas , Peruvian football player
• 0March 8 : Barthold Kuijken , Belgian flautist and conductor
• 0March 9 : Kalevi Aho , Finnish composer
• March 10 : Peter Bauer , German politician
• March 10 : Michael Udow , American percussionist, composer and music educator

Georg Schramm as pensioner Lothar Dombrowski , 2006

• March 11th : Georg Schramm , German cabaret artist
• March 11th : Giesela Brandes-Steggewentz , German politician and trade unionist
• March 12 : Bill Payne , American rock pianist and keyboard player
• March 12 : Reinhard Weis , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• March 12 : Rob Cohen , American director
• March 13 : Jürgen Banscherus , German writer
• March 13 : Jutta Braband , representative of the civil rights movement of the GDR
• March 13 : Julia Migenes , American soprano and actress
• March 14th : Dennis Báthory-Kitsz , American composer
• March 15 : Gholam Reza Aghazadeh , Iranian politician
• March 16 : Michael Aichhorn , Austrian theater maker, actor and artist († 2008 )
• March 17 : Hartmut Briesenick , German athlete († 2013 )

Patrick Duffy in The Man from Atlantis , 1977

• March 17 : Patrick Duffy , American television actor
• March 17th : Werner Lämmerhirt , German guitarist († 2016 )
• March 18 : Karin Adelmund , Dutch politician († 2005 )
• March 18 : Jacques Secrétin , French table tennis player
• March 18 : Alex Higgins , Northern Irish snooker player († 2010 )
• March 18 : Rodrigo Rato , Spanish politician; Director of the IMF
• March 19 : Bladder Joseph Cupich , Archbishop of Chicago and Cardinal
• March 20 : Marcia Ball , American blues singer and pianist
• March 20 : Josip Bozanić , Archbishop of Zagreb and Cardinal
• March 21 : Rolf-Dieter Amend , German canoeist and canoe trainer
• March 21 : Horst Gläsker , German artist
• March 22nd : Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant , French theater and film actress
• March 21 : Eddie Money , American rock musician († 2019 )
• March 21 : Slavoj Žižek , Slovenian philosophy professor, psychoanalyst and cultural critic
• March 23 : Thomas Aumüller , German lawyer
• March 23 : Trevor Jones , South African film composer and arranger
• March 23 : Max Stadler , German judge and politician († 2013 )
• March 24th : Erwin Kremers , German soccer player
• March 24th : Helmut Kremers , German soccer player
• March 24th : Ruud Krol , Dutch football player
• March 24th : Nick Lowe , English songwriter, bassist, singer and record producer
• March 25 : Kaja Danczowska , Polish violinist and music teacher
• March 25th : Philippe de Villiers , French politician
• March 25 : Sue Klebold , American writer and social activist
• March 26 : Uwe Beckmeyer , German politician
• March 26th : Bärbel Dieckmann , Lord Mayor of Bonn
• March 26 : Giuseppe Sabadini , Italian football player and coach
• March 26 : Patrick Süskind , German writer and screenwriter
• March 26th : Rainer Thiel , German soccer player
• March 27 : John Lagrand , Dutch musician († 2005 )
• March 27 : Eberhard Walde , German politician († 2011 )
• March 28 : Peter Alltschekow , German politician
• March 28th : Dres Balmer , Swiss writer
• March 28 : Ernst Diehl , German football player
• March 28 : Leslie Valiant , British computer scientist and Turing Prize winner
• March 29 : Kayahan Açar , Turkish singer, composer and songwriter († 2015 )
• March 29 : Christoph Leitl , Austrian entrepreneur and politician
• March 29 : Michael Brecker , American tenor saxophonist († 2007 )
• March 29 : Pauline Marois , Canadian politician
• March 29 : Yuri Stern , Israeli politician († 2007 )
• March 30th : Lene Lovich , American singer
• March 30th : Hans Zach , German ice hockey coach
• March 30 : José Natividad González Parás , Governor of the Nuevo León state in Mexico

April

• 0April 1 : Reid Anderson , Canadian dancer and ballet director
• 0April 1 : Gil Scott-Heron , American musician and poet († 2011 )
• 0April 2nd : Per Husby , Norwegian jazz pianist and composer
• 0April 2nd : Steve Saleen , American racing car driver and entrepreneur
• 0April 3 : Max Rüdlinger , Swiss actor
• 0April 3 : Thomas Meyer-Fiebig , German composer and concert organist
• 0April 3 : Norbert Thiede , German discus thrower
• 0April 3rd : Richard Thompson , English folk rock singer and guitarist
• 0April 4 : Shing-Tung Yau , Chinese mathematician
• 0April 4 : Junior Braithwaite , Jamaican musician († 1999 )
• 0April 4 : Udo van Kampen , German journalist
• 0April 4th : Klaus-Dieter Klebsch , German voice actor and actor
• 0April 4th : Bruno Mégret , French politician
• 0April 4 : Abdullah Öcalan , Kurdish terrorist
• 0April 5 : Judith Resnik , American astronaut († 1986 )
• 0April 5 : Martin Hellwig , German economist
• 0April 5th : Dominique Rouits , French conductor and music teacher
• 0April 6 : Janet Ågren , Swedish actress
• 0April 6 : Patrick Hernandez , French singer
• 0April 6 : Horst Ludwig Störmer , German physicist
• 0April 6 : Brigitte Schwaiger , Austrian writer († 2010 )
• 0April 6 : Zhong Acheng , Chinese writer and screenwriter
• 0April 7th : Meta Antenen , Swiss athlete
• 0April 7th : Ludmila Budar , Sorbian Slavist and educator
• 0April 7th : Evelyn Haas , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• 0April 7th : Gerhard Jaschke , Austrian writer
• 0April 7 : Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko , governor of St. Petersburg
• 0April 7th : John Oates , American singer and producer
• 0April 8 : Philip Aaberg , American pianist and composer
• 0April 8th : Hagen Klein , German motorcycle racer
• 0April 8th : John Madden , British film director
• 0April 8 : Erdal Merdan , German-Turkish author, director and actor († 2010 )

Bernd Eichinger , 2008

• April 11 : Bernd Eichinger , German film producer and director († 2011 )
• April 12 : Anke Eymer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• April 12 : Walter Pradt , German soccer player and coach († 2014 )
• April 12 : Scott Turow , American lawyer and author
• April 13 : Marilyn Bowering , Canadian writer, poet, and playwright
• April 13 : Ricardo Zunino , Argentine racing car driver
• April 14 : Stephen Lloyd Arnold , American politician
• April 14th : Peter Bursch , German musician and author
• April 14th : Chas Mortimer , British motorcycle racer
• April 14 : John Shea , American actor
• April 15th : Alain Minc , French entrepreneur
• April 15 : Matthias Wissmann , German politician
• April 15 : Alla Borisovna Pugacheva , Russian singer and composer
• April 16 : Sheila Dow , British professor, professor of economics at the University of Stirling
• April 16 : Marc Vervenne , Flemish or Belgian theologian
• April 18 : Avril Doyle , Irish politician
• April 18 : Josef Kajnek , Czech theologian, auxiliary bishop in Königgrätz
• April 19 : Joachim Sauer , German physical chemist
• April 19 : Paloma Picasso , Spanish-French designer
• April 20 : Great Cranston , Canadian figure skater and artist († 2015 )
• April 20 : Gilbert Kaiser , Liechtenstein sports shooter
• April 20 : Jessica Lange , American film actress
• April 21 : Frank Hofmann , German politician
• April 22nd : Jutta Barth , German visual artist
• April 22nd : Spencer Haywood , American basketball player
• April 22nd : Harald Noack , German lawyer, administrative officer and politician
• April 23 : Denisse de Kalafe , Mexican singer-songwriter of Brazilian origin
• April 23 : John Miles , English musician and composer
• April 23 : Michalis Nikoloudis , Greek musician
• April 24 : Ulrike Andresen , German painter and graphic artist († 2006 )
• April 24th : Wilfrido Vargas , Dominican band leader, trumpeter and singer
• April 25 : Dominique Strauss-Kahn , French politician, Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• April 26th : Carlos Bianchi , Argentine soccer player and coach
• April 27th : Jean Asselborn , Luxembourg politician
• April 27 : P. Sathasivam , Indian lawyer (Chief Justice of India)
• April 28 : Jerome Apt III , American physicist and astronaut
• April 28 : Didier Bonnet , French racing driver and racing car designer († 2011 )
• April 28 : Christian Neureuther , German skier
• April 28th : Peter Reber , Swiss songwriter and singer
• April 28 : Rüdiger Schubert , German politician
• April 29th : Kent-Harry Andersson , Swedish handball coach
• April 29th : Nuno Júdice , Portuguese poet and university professor
• April 30th : Jean-Louis Bousquet , French racing car driver
• April 30th : António Guterres , Portuguese politician and Prime Minister
• April 30th : Karl Meiler , German tennis player and coach († 2014 )

May

• 0May 1st : Tim Hodgkinson , British musician, composer and musicologist
• 0May 1 : Lewis Perdue , American writer
• 0May 2nd : Alfons Schuhbeck , German cook and book author
• 0May 2nd : Marco Vanoli , Swiss entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 0May 3 : Kaoru Abe , Japanese jazz pianist, guitarist and saxophonist († 1978 )
• 0May 3 : Leopoldo Luque , Argentine soccer player
• 0May 3 : Hans Michelbach , German politician
• 0May 3 : Rüdiger Veit , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0May 4th : Norbert Atzler , German politician
• 0May 4th : Pekka Päivärinta , Finnish athlete
• 0May 4 : Graham Swift , English writer
• 0May 5th : Henning Höppner , German politician
• 0May 5th : Despina Petecel-Theodoru , Romanian musicologist
• 0May 5th : Jan Vičar , Czech composer, musicologist and music teacher
• 0May 6 : Peter Sellin , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0May 7th : Florian Gerster , German politician
• 0May 7th : Lia Roberts , Romanian politician
• 0May 7 : Keith , American singer
• 0May 9 : Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , Nigerien politician and president of the country († 1999 )
• 0May 9 : Bob Margolin , American blues musician
• 0May 9 : Billy Joel , American singer and songwriter
  

  Billy Joel , 2007
• 0May 9 : Heinz Stickel , German soccer player († 2015 )
• May 10 : Robert Kreis , Dutch cabaret artist, pianist and entertainer
• May 10 : Hans Reichel , German guitarist, violinist, instrument maker and typographer († 2011 )
• May 10 : Sylvia Renz , German writer
• May 12th : Josef Beutelmann , German business economist
• May 12th : Moto Hagio , Japanese manga artist
• May 12 : Wolfgang Kos , Austrian radio journalist
• May 12 : Hans Leyendecker , German journalist
• May 12 : Albert Schönberger , German organist and church musician
• May 12 : Harry Wijnvoord , Dutch TV presenter
• May 13 : Ingeborg Arlt , German writer
• May 13 : Alexander Vilenkin , Russian-American physicist
• May 13 : Franklyn Ajaye , American actor and stand-up comedian
• May 14 : Sverre Årnes , Norwegian writer, comic book writer and screenwriter
• May 15 : Douglas Raymond Acomb , Canadian ice hockey player
• May 16 : Paul Ackerley , New Zealand field hockey player and coach († 2011 )
• May 16 : Karlheinz Hackl , Austrian actor and theater director († 2014 )
• May 16 : Haig Oundjian , British figure skater
• May 17th : Bill Bruford , British drummer
• May 17th : Marc Fosset , French musician
• May 17th : Andrew Latimer , British musician and founding member of the band Camel
• May 17th : Elke Leonhard , German politician
• May 18 : Jim McNeely , American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
• May 18 : Rick Wakeman , British musician
• May 18 : Uschi Eid , German politician
• May 19 : Uwe Braunschweig , German handball player († 2013 )
• May 19 : Dusty Hill , American bassist and singer
• May 19 : Donald R. Haurin , American economist
• May 19 : Stephen Varcoe , English classical singer
• May 21 : Stefano Anzi , Italian entrepreneur and ski racer
• May 21 : Arno , Belgian musician
• May 22nd : Gila Altmann , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• May 22 : Nancy Hollister , US politician
• May 22nd : Klemens Schnorr , German organist and musicologist
• May 23 : Carol Barnett , American composer and flautist
• May 23 : Cardinal Daniel DiNardo , Archbishop of Galveston-Houston
• May 23 : Alan García , President of Peru from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011 († 2019 )
• May 23 : Sepp Trütsch , presenter and singer from folk music programs
• May 24th : Jim Broadbent , British actor
• May 25 : Norman Fischer , American cellist and music teacher
• May 26 : Ricardo Arredondo , Mexican boxer († 1991 )
• May 26 : Ward Cunningham , computer scientist and inventor of the wiki concept
• May 26 : Pam Grier , American actress
• May 26 : Hank Williams Jr. , American country musician
• May 27 : Christoph Krummacher , German theologian and church musician
• May 28 : Ernst Burgbacher , German politician
• May 29 : Gina Bovaird , American motorcycle racer
• May 29 : Johann Krieger , German politician, Lord Mayor of the large district town of Ehingen
• May 29 : Francis Rossi , British composer, singer and guitarist
  

  Francis Rossi, 2013
• May 30th : Hans Baumgartner , German athlete
• May 30th : Rüdiger Joswig , German actor and voice actor
• May 31 : Ulrich Horstmann , German writer
• May 31 : Tom Berenger , American actor

June

• 0June 2nd : Szymon Kawalla , Polish composer, conductor, violinist and music teacher
• 0June 2 : Neil Shicoff , American opera singer
• 0June 3rd : Philippe Djian , French writer
• 0June 4th : Gwendolyn von Ambesser , German actress, director and author
• 0June 4th : Maria Canins , Italian cyclist, cross-country skier and mountain biker
• 0June 4th : Jan Gulbransson , German artist and cartoonist
• 0June 4th : Rainer Ulrich , German soccer player and soccer coach
• 0June 5 : Ken Follett , British writer
  

  Ken Follett
• 0June 5th : Frank Schubert , German enduro athlete
• 0June 6th : Albert Frick , Liechtenstein ski racer
• 0June 6 : Paul Lovens , German musician
• 0June 7th : Kjell-Åke Gunnar Andersson , Swedish film director, screenwriter and cameraman
• 0June 7th : Albert Zweifel , Swiss cyclist
• 0June 8 : Emanuel Ax , American pianist of Polish origin
• 0June 8 : Josef Brendle , Liechtenstein sport shooter
• 0June 8th : Hildegard Falck , German athlete
• June 10 : Ozan Arif , Turkish producer and singer († 2019 )
• June 10 : Jan Brokken , Dutch writer
• June 10 : Gudrun Brug , German writer
• June 10 : Simon Webb , chess player from Great Britain († 2005 )
• June 11th : Frank Beard , drummer for the rock band ZZ Top
• June 11th : Issei Sagawa , Japanese murderer and writer
• June 11th : Ned Lagin , American keyboardist
• June 12th : Jens Böhrnsen , German politician
• June 12 : Christoph Strässer , German politician
• June 12 : John Wetton , British rock musician († 2017 )
• June 13 : Ulla Schmidt , German politician and Federal Minister
  

  Ulla Schmidt , 2007
• June 14th : Alan White , drummer for Yes group
• June 14 : Harry Turtledove , American historian and novelist
• June 15 : Henry A. Alviani , American composer, choir director and music educator
• June 15 : Simone Rethel , German actress
• June 15 : Elmar Hörig , German radio presenter
• June 15 : Klaus Havenstein , German football player (GDR)
• June 16 : Michael Cramer , German politician
• June 16 : Jairo , Argentine singer
• June 16 : Geoff Pierson , American actor
• June 17 : Tom Corbett , American politician
• June 17th : Philip Charles Lithman , British rock guitarist († 1987 )
• June 18 : Jarosław Kaczyński , Polish politician
• June 18 : Lech Kaczyński , Polish President and co-founder of the right-wing PiS party († 2010 )
• June 18 : Peggy Lukac , American actress, director, comedian and fashion designer
• June 18 : Jean-Philippe Maitre , Swiss politician, President of the National Council († 2006 )
• June 18 : Anton Gorbunow , German long-distance runner
• June 18 : Paul Tonko , American politician
• June 19 : John Duigan , Australian director and screenwriter
• June 19 : Hassan Shehata , Egyptian football coach
• June 19 : Sigrid Sternebeck , member of the "second generation" of the Red Army faction
• June 20 : Till Bastian , German physician, publicist and author
• June 20 : Hans Georg Bulla , German writer
• June 20 : Bernd Eilert , German writer
• June 20 : Lionel Richie , American singer
  

  Lionel Richie , 2011
• June 21 : Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski , German composer († 2013 )
• June 21 : Alexander Heisler , German concert organizer and doctor
• June 22nd : Pierre Amoyal , French violinist and conductor
• June 22nd : Peter Gauweiler , German politician
• June 22 : Meryl Streep , American actress
  

  Meryl Streep , 1989
• June 23 : Monika Hutter , Swiss politician († 2001 )
• June 23 : Midori Ishii , Japanese politician
• June 24 : Ulrich Steinwedel , German judge at the Federal Social Court
• June 24th : John Illsley , British bass player
• June 25th : Patrick Tambay , French racing car driver
• June 26 : Gyula Babos , Hungarian jazz guitarist († 2018 )
• June 27 : Rafael Chirbes , Spanish writer († 2015 )
• June 27 : Karen De Pastel , American-Austrian musician, conductor and composer
• June 27 : Rolf Janshen , German economic manager
• June 27th : Michael Quaas , German handball trainer and handball player
• June 28 : Peter Gruss , German biologist
• June 29 : Micky Arison , Israeli-American businessman
• June 29 : Andrew Bernstein , American philosopher
• June 29 : Joan Clos , Mayor of Barcelona since 1997
• June 29 : Dan Dierdorf , American football player and sports presenter
• June 29 : Ann Veneman , American politician
• June 30th : Andy Scott , British musician, The Sweet
• June 30 : Alexina Louie , Canadian composer

July

• 0July 1 : John Farnham , British-Australian singer
• 0July 1 : Franz Fehrenbach , German manager
• 0July 1 : Denis Johnson , American writer († 2017 )
• 0July 2nd : Roy Bittan , American keyboardist
• 0July 2nd : Hanno Pöschl , Austrian actor
• 0July 2nd : Bud Scott , American jazz musician
• 0July 3 : Peter Mussbach , German director
• 0July 3rd : Bernard Robin , French racing car driver
• 0July 3 : Bo Xilai , Chinese politician
• 0July 4th : Horst Seehofer , German politician
  

  Horst Seehofer , 2012
• 0July 4 : Werner Seifert , CEO of Deutsche Börse AG
• 0July 5 : Mohammed Ali Akid , Tunisian football player († 1979 )
• 0July 5 : Abhay Vasant Ashtekar , Indian-American theoretical physicist
• 0July 5th : Hans Augustin , Austrian writer
• 0July 5 : Stephan Kretschmer , retired German Brigadier General D. and former military attaché
• 0July 5th : Sepp Schauer , German actor
• 0July 5th : Sylvia Wetzel , Buddhist feminist
• 0July 7th : Shelley Duvall , American actress
• 0July 8th : Christina Heinich , German athlete
• 0July 8 : Johannes Mötsch , German archivist and historian
• 0July 8 : Jochen-Konrad Fromme , German politician
• 0July 9 : Rolf Büttner , German trade unionist
• 0July 9 : Wolfgang Gaitzsch , German archaeologist
• July 10 : Don Askarian , Azerbaijani-Armenian film producer, director and screenwriter († 2018 )
• July 10th : Gisela von der Aue , German politician
• July 11 : Liona Boyd , Canadian guitarist
• July 12 : Susanne Jaffke , member of the People's Chamber of the GDR
• July 13 : Daniel Grosgurin , Swiss cellist
• July 15 : Christel Augenstein , German politician
• July 15 : Trevor Horn , British musician and record producer
• July 15 : Heinrich Peuckmann , German writer
• July 15 : Muhammad bin Raschid Al Maktum , Emir of Dubai
• July 15 : Carl Bildt , Swedish politician and Prime Minister
• July 15 : Richard Russo , American writer
• July 17th : Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler , British bass player
• July 17th : Chico Freeman , American jazz musician
• July 17 : Andrei Fursenko , Russian politician
• July 18 : Jerzy Gorgoń , Polish football player
• July 19 : Maren Kroymann , German actress, cabaret artist and singer
  

  Maren Kroymann , 2011
• July 19 : Kgalema Motlanthe , South African politician and incumbent president
• July 21 : Lyudmila Smirnova , Russian figure skater
• July 22nd : Alan Menken , American composer
• July 22nd : Lasse Virén , Finnish athlete
• July 23 : Carlos Bonell , English guitarist and music teacher
• July 23 : Sławomir Czarnecki , Polish composer and music teacher
• July 24th : Christine Aya Nebout Adjobi , Ivorian politician and doctor
• July 24th : Joan Enric Vives i Sicília , Bishop of Urgell and Co-Prince of Andorra
• July 24 : Josef Pirrung , German football player († 2011 )
• July 24th : Marc Yor , French mathematician († 2014 )
• July 26th : Sharron Angle , US politician
• July 26 : Larry Schneider , American jazz musician
• July 26th : Thaksin Shinawatra , Prime Minister of Thailand
• July 26 : Roger Meddows-Taylor , drummer for rock group Queen
• July 27 : Maury Chaykin , American-Canadian actor († 2010 )
• July 27 : Bernt Jansen , German table tennis player
• July 27 : Predrag Timko , Yugoslav handball player
• July 29 : Rainer Baumann , German musician († 2007 )
• July 29th : Roland Schäfer , German administrative lawyer and local politician
• July 29th : Ron Sommer , German manager
• July 30th : Gerd Antes , German mathematician and biometrician
• July 31 : Bernd Ettel , German architect
• July 31 : Riccardo Lay , Italian jazz bassist

August

• 0August 1st : Kurmanbek Bakiyev , Kyrgyz President
• 0August 2nd : Roy Andersson , Swedish football player
• 0August 2nd : Bei Dao , Chinese essayist and poet
• 0August 2nd : Reinhold Hiller , German politician
• 0August 2 : Louis Krages , German racing driver and businessman († 2001 )
• 0August 3 : Fritz Egner , German radio and television presenter
• 0August 3 : Christoph Geiser , Swiss writer
• 0August 3 : Valery Vasilyev , Soviet ice hockey player († 2012 )
• 0August 4th : Josef Kraus , German pedagogue and association official
• 0August 5th : Helga Seidler , German athlete and Olympic champion
• 0August 6th : Olli Ahvenlahti , Finnish jazz pianist
• 0August 6 : Horst Wohlers , German football player and coach
• 0August 7 : Walid Jumblat , Lebanese politician
• 0August 7th : Tim Renwick , British musician and guitarist
• 0August 8 : Keith Carradine , American actor, director and singer
• 0August 8 : Werner Weinhold , GDR refugee who shot two border soldiers
• 0August 9th : Markus Büchel , Bishop of St. Gallen
• August 10 : Jean-Claude Basso , French racing car driver
• August 11th : Hans-Martin Haller , German politician
• August 11 : Tim Hutchinson , American politician
• August 12 : Fernando Collor de Mello , President of Brazil between 1990 and 1992

Mark Knopfler

• August 12 : Mark Knopfler , Scottish musician (Dire Straits)
• August 13 : Walter Arnold , German politician
• August 13 : Bartholomäus Kalb , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• August 13 : Claude Meisch , Luxembourg zoologist
• August 14 : Bernd Moldenhauer , GDR dissident († 1980 )
• August 14 : Morten Olsen , Danish football player and coach
• August 15 : Garry Disher , Australian writer
• August 16 : Klaus Ehl , German athlete
• August 17th : Bub Asman , American sound designer and film editor
• August 17th : Jean-Noël Augert , French ski racer
• August 17th : Edgar Schneider , German soccer player
• August 19 : Werner Ablass , German author and coach († 2018 )
• August 19 : Erika Skrotzki , German actress
• August 20 : Nikolas Asimos , Greek songwriter († 1988 )
• August 20 : Hans-Heinrich Ehlen , German politician
• August 20 : Leonard Lehrman , American composer and musicologist
• August 20 : Phil Lynott , Irish rock musician († 1986 )
• August 22nd : Fernando Arias Cabello , Peruvian singer and composer († 2015 )
• August 23 : Giuseppe Arigoni , Swiss politician († 2010 )
• August 23 : William Lane Craig , American evangelical theologian and philosopher
• August 23 : Shelley Long , American actress
• August 24th : Pia Degermark , Swedish actress
• August 24 : Bob Holden , American politician
• August 24 : Natalja Lebedewa , Soviet hurdler
• August 24 : Charles Rocket , American actor († 2005 )
• August 24 : David Zwilling , Austrian ski racer
• August 25 : Martin Amis , English writer
• August 25 : Wolfgang Meckelburg , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• August 25 : John Savage , American film actor and producer
• August 25th : Gene Simmons , bassist for the hard rock group Kiss
• August 25 : Salif Keïta , African singer and songwriter
• August 25 : Rosemarie Will , German judge and professor
• August 27 : Akira Amari , Japanese politician
• August 27 : Miles Goodman , American composer († 1996 )
• August 27 : Istvan Kantor , Canadian artist, musician
• August 28 : Imogen Cooper , English pianist
• August 28 : Martin Lamble , British folk rock drummer († 1969 )
• August 28 : Svetislav Pešić , Serbian basketball player and coach
• August 28 : Conny Torstensson , Swedish football player
• August 29 : John A. Agnew , British-American geographer and professor
• August 29 : Hans Ammerich , German historian and archivist
• August 29 : Wolfgang Dziony , German musician
• August 29 : Kurt Mehlhorn , German computer scientist
• August 30 : Stuart Agnew , British politician
• August 30th : Norbert Marshall Andradi , Sri Lankan Bishop

Peter Maffay , 2012

• August 30th : Peter Maffay , Romanian-German musician
• August 31 : Olaf Berner , German teacher and handball player

Richard Gere, 2007

• August 31 : Richard Gere , American actor
• August 31 : David Politzer , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• 00.August: George Winston , American pianist, composer and arranger

September

• 0September 1 : Ronald Craig Arkin , American scientist
• 0September 2 : Joachim Erwin , German politician, Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf († 2008 )
• 0September 2 : Hans-Hermann Hoppe , German economist

Frank Ripploh , 1986

• 0September 2 : Frank Ripploh , German actor and director († 2002 )
• 0September 2 : Albert West , Dutch pop singer and music producer († 2015 )
• 0September 3 : Onaje Allan Gumbs , American jazz musician († 2020 )
• 0September 3 : Volker Kauder , German politician
• 0September 3 : José Pekerman , Argentinian soccer player
• 0September 3 : Petros VII , Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria († 2004 )
• 0September 5th : Wolfgang Schuster , German politician, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
• 0September 6 : Helmut Kuhne , German politician and MEP
• 0September 8 : Barbara Kisseler , German politician without party († 2016 )
• 0September 9 : John Curry , British figure skater († 1994 )
• 0September 9 : James Barnes , American composer and professor († 1987 )
• 0September 9 : Ádám Fischer , Hungarian conductor
• 0September 9 : Joe McNulty , American cross-country skier
• September 10 : Karin Evers-Meyer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag

Bill O'Reilly , 2010

• September 10 : Bill O'Reilly ; American presenter
• September 11th : Bill Whittington , American racing car driver
• September 12 : Charles Burlingame , captain of American Airlines Flight 77 († 2001 )
• September 12 : Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina , Russian figure skater
• September 13 : Itamar Assumpção , Brazilian singer, composer, arranger and actor († 2003 )
• September 13 : Wilfried Poßner , chairman of the pioneer organization "Ernst Thälmann" in the GDR
• September 14 : Steven Earl Gaines , American musician († 1977 )
• September 14th : Michael Häupl , Austrian politician, Mayor of Vienna
• September 15 : Michael Lameck , German soccer player
• September 16 : Rüdiger May , German political scientist, PR consultant and author
• September 16 : Franz-Josef Pauly , German football player
• September 16 : Oz Scott , American television director and producer
• September 17th : José Rafael Lantigua , Dominican journalist, writer, literary critic and politician
• September 17th : Zbigniew Wassermann , Polish politician († 2010 )
• September 18 : Mo Mowlam , British politician († 2005 )
• September 18 : Peter Shilton , English football player
• September 19 : Richard Rogler , German cabaret artist
• September 20 : Michel Amandry , French numismatist
• September 20 : Sabine Azéma , French actress
• September 20 : Carlos Babington , Argentinian soccer player
• September 21 : Reinhard Schultz , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• September 21 : Odilo Pedro Scherer , Brazilian clergyman, Archbishop of São Paulo
• September 22nd : Ab'Aigre , Swiss comic artist († 2006 )
• September 22 : Harold Carmichael , American football player
• September 22nd : Ludwig Schick , Archbishop of Bamberg
• September 23 : Juan Manuel Asensi Ripoll , Spanish soccer player
• September 23 : Quini , Spanish football player († 2018 )

Bruce Springsteen , 1988

• September 23 : Bruce Springsteen , American rock musician
• September 24th : Donald Allan , Australian cyclist
• September 24th : Lars Anders Arborelius , Swedish religious and cardinal

Pedro Almodóvar , 2008

• September 25th : Pedro Almodóvar , Spanish film director
• September 25 : Wolfgang Droege , Canadian-German right-wing extremist († 2005 )
• September 25 : Bertram Fleck , German politician (CDU)
• September 26th : Eduardo Gatti , Chilean Canto writer
• September 26 : Jane Smiley , American author
• September 29 : Rolf Birkhölzer , German football player
• September 29 : Sverre Erik Jebens , Norwegian lawyer
• September 29th : Toni Mang , German motorcycle racer
• September 30th : Michel Tognini , French astronaut
• September 30th : Klaus Westebbe , German handball player

October

André Rieu , 2010

• 0October 1st : André Rieu , Dutch violinist
• 0October 2nd : Michael Bleekemolen , Dutch racing driver
• 0October 2 : Michael Böckler , German writer
• 0October 2 : Annie Leibovitz , American photographer
• 0October 2 : Richard Hell , American musician and writer
• 0October 3 : Andreas Altmann , German reporter and author
• 0October 3 : Lindsey Buckingham , American rock musician
• 0October 4 : Michael David Adamle , American sports journalist and American football player
• 0October 4th : Valery Shalvovich Arshba , Abkhazian politician
• 0October 4 : Armand Anthony Assante Jr. , American actor
• 0October 4th : Antonello Cuccureddu , Italian football player and coach
• 0October 4th : Luis Sepúlveda , Chilean writer, director, journalist and political activist († 2020 )
• 0October 5 : Peter Ackroyd , British writer
• 0October 5th : Christian Brand , German bank manager
• 0October 5th : Klaus Ludwig , German racing car driver
• 0October 6th : Georg Schirmbeck , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0October 6 : Bobby Farrell , Dutch DJ and dancer († 2010 )
• 0October 7 : Gabriel Yared , Lebanese composer
• 0October 7th : Kieran Kane , American singer and songwriter
• 0October 7 : Alice Walton , American entrepreneur
• 0October 7 : Gabriel Yared , Lebanese composer

Sigourney Weaver, 2010

• 0October 8 : Sigourney Weaver , American actress
• 0October 8 : Hamish Stuart , Scottish musician
• 0October 9 : Daniela Dahn , German journalist and writer
• 0October 9 : Helmut Dockter , German political official
• 0October 9 : Ottavia Piccolo , Italian actress
• October 10 : Anupong Paochinda , Thai Army Officer
• October 10 : Hans-Joachim Hacker , German politician
• October 11 : Helga Gießelmann , German politician
• October 12 : Roland Mack , German entrepreneur, managing director of Europa-Park
• October 13 : Leif Andersson , Swedish wrestler
• October 13 : Detlef Bernd Blettenberg , German writer

Gerd Dudenhöffer as Heinz Becker, 2008

• October 13 : Gerd Dudenhöffer , German cabaret artist
• October 13 : Patrick Nève , Belgian racing driver († 2017 )
• October 13 : Rick Vito , American guitarist
• October 14 : Gottfried Mutschlechner , Italian mountaineer († 1991 )
• October 15 : Mustafa Abubakar , Indonesian politician
• October 15 : Bilal Arular , Turkish football player and coach
• October 15 : Norbert Schindler , German politician
• October 15 : Jochen Beyse , German writer
• October 15 : Michael Köhlmeier , Austrian writer
• October 16 : Ásta Ragnheiður Jóhannesdóttir , Icelandic politician
• October 17th : Andreas Arndt , German philosopher
• October 17 : Owen Arthur , Prime Minister of Barbados († 2020 )
• October 17th : Bernd Siebert , German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
• October 17th : Kazutoki Umezu , Japanese jazz musician
• October 18 : Erwin Sellering , German politician
• October 19 : Tatyana Mikhailovna Anisimova , Russian athlete and Olympian
• October 19 : Heinrich Dieter Neumann , German writer and crime novel writer
• October 20 : James Michael Harvey , American Cardinal
• October 20 : Karin Stief-Kreihe , German politician († 2018 )
• October 20 : Valery Borsov , Soviet athlete
• October 21 : Lydia Westrich , German politician
• October 21 : Frank-Thomas Mende , German actor and director

Benjamin Netanyahu , 2010

• October 21 : Benjamin Netanyahu , Israeli politician and prime minister
• October 21 : Shulamit Ran , Israeli-American composer and music teacher
• October 22nd : Agustinus Agus , Indonesian bishop
• October 22nd : Butch Goring , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• October 22nd : Joël Gouhier , French racing car driver
• October 22nd : Manfred Trojahn , German composer, conductor, opera director and essayist
• October 22nd : Arsène Wenger , French football coach
• October 23 : Hans Ager , Austrian politician
• October 23 : Harald Grosskopf , German musician
• October 23 : Shabbir Banoobhai , South African poet
• October 23 : Tristan Honsinger , American cellist
• October 24 : Nick Ainger , Member of Parliament
• October 24th : De Aal , Dutch pop singer
• October 25 : Nikolaus Brass , German composer
• October 26 : Rafael Pérez Botija , Spanish composer and arranger
• October 26 : Friedhelm Repnik , German politician and Minister of Social Affairs for the state of Baden-Württemberg
• October 26 : Brodie Greer , American actor
• October 27 : Bodo Staiger , German musician and producer († 2019 )
• October 28 : Bruce Jenner , American athlete, actor, and producer
• October 28 : Howard Sandroff , American composer and music educator
• October 29 : Georges I. Gurdjieff , Greek-Armenian esotericist, author, choreographer and composer
• October 30 : Michal Ajvaz , Czech prose writer, poet, essayist and translator
• October 30th : Achim Amme , German author, actor and musician
• October 30th : Josef Pühringer , Austrian religious teacher, lawyer and Austrian politician
• October 30th : Angelo Zadra , Italian racing driver
• October 31 : Markus Schächter , German journalist, media manager and director of the ZDF

November

• 0November 1st : Bernhard Cullmann , German soccer player
• 0November 1st : Gunter Funk , German handball player and handball trainer
• 0November 1st : Rainer Hunold , German actor
• 0November 1st : Sebastian von Rotenhan , German forest owner and politician
• 0November 1st : Bruno Sotty , French racing car driver
• 0November 2nd : Hermann Ohlicher , German soccer player
• 0November 2nd : Lois McMaster Bujold , American writer of science fiction and fantasy books

Anna Wintour, 2009

• 0November 3rd : Anna Wintour , British fashion journalist
• 0November 3rd : Roswitha Krause , German swimmer and handball player
• 0November 3rd : Roswitha Quadflieg , German writer
• 0November 4 : Abutalip Ibischanowitsch Akhmetov , Kazakh diplomat († 2010 )
• 0November 6th : Josef Angermüller , German motorcycle track racer († 1977 )
• 0November 6 : Arturo Sandoval , American jazz and fusion musician
• 0November 7th : Peter Anders , German soccer player
• 0November 8th : Biagio Abrate , Italian general
• 0November 8th : Antoine Nabil Andari , Lebanese Curia Bishop
• 0November 8 : Bonnie Raitt , American rhythm and blues singer
• November 10 : John Bradley Ashford , American politician
• November 11th : Hany Azer , Egyptian civil engineer
• November 14th : Raúl Di Blasio , Argentine pianist
• November 14th : Jacob Kohnstamm , Dutch data protection expert
• November 14th : Pierre Buyoya , President of Burundi
• November 15 : Cardinal Arlindo Gomes Furtado , Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde
• November 15 : Michael Meier , German football official
• November 17 : Jon Avnet , American director and film producer
• November 17 : John Boehner , American politician
• November 17th : Thomas Hill , American hurdler
• November 18 : Carl Sture Mikael Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
• November 18 : Max Dudler , Swiss architect
• November 18 : Herman Rarebell , German drummer
• November 19 : Alicia Asconeguy , Uruguayan painter and graphic artist
• November 19 : Nigel Bennett , British-Canadian actor and writer
• November 20 : Ronald Augustin , Dutch terrorist
• November 20 : Johannes Beisenherz , German politician, Mayor of Castrop-Rauxel
• November 20 : Juha Mieto , Finnish cross-country skier
• November 21 : Hermann Kues , German politician
• November 22nd : Joseph Nguyễn Chí Linh , Catholic clergyman
• November 22 : Mauro Zani , Italian politician
• November 23 : Gunilla Countess von Bismarck , German nobleman
• November 23 : Marcia Griffiths , Jamaican singer
• November 23 : Christine Mielitz , German general manager and director
• November 24th : Renate Rudolph , German handball player
• November 24 : Linda Tripp , US civil servant († 2020 )
• November 25th : Christel Humme , German politician
• November 25th : Herbert Junck , German drummer († 2005 )
• November 26th : Marí Bin Amude Alkatiri , Prime Minister of East Timor
• November 26th : Shlomo Artzi-Hertzig , Israeli pop and rock singer
• November 27th : Otto Breg , Austrian bobsledder († 2010 )
• November 27 : Werner Langen , German MEP
• November 27th : Marcel Reif , Swiss sports journalist and commentator
• November 27th : Masanori Sekiya , Japanese racing car driver
• November 28 : Ernest Kaltenegger , Austrian politician and Graz City Councilor (KPÖ)
• November 28 : Victor Ostrovsky , Israeli agent
• November 28 : Paul Shaffer , Canadian musician
• November 28 : Corneliu Vadim Tudor , Romanian politician († 2015 )
• November 28 : Alexander Borissowitsch Godunow , Russian dancer and actor († 1995 )
• November 29 : Stefan Hormuth , German social psychologist († 2010 )
• November 29th : Bigote Arrocet , Argentine-Chilean singer, comedian and actor
• November 29 : Garry Shandling , American actor and comedian († 2016 )
• November 30th : Jean-Claude Justice , French racing car driver († 1999 )
• November 30th : Margaret Whitton , American actress († 2016 )

December

• 0December 1 : Pablo Escobar , Colombian politician and drug trafficker († 1993 )
• 0December 1 : Wolfgang Gerhards , German politician and Minister of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 0December 3 : John Akii-Bua , Ugandan athlete († 1997 )
• 0December 3 : Barbara Maria Blida , Polish politician († 2007 )
• 0December 3 : Cécile Bühlmann , Swiss politician
• 0December 4th : GG Anderson , German composer, producer and pop singer
  

  GG Anderson, 2005
• 0December 4th : Jeff Bridges , American actor
• 0December 5th : Edeltraut Töpfer , German politician
• 0December 6th : Jutta Meurers-Balke , German archaeologist and archaeobotanist
• 0December 6th : Maria Michalk , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0December 6th : Josef Wolfgruber , German enduro athlete
• 0December 7th : Heino Maulshagen , German soccer player († 2014 )
• 0December 7th : Tom Waits , American composer, actor and author
• 0December 8th : Ray Shulman , British musician
• 0December 9th : Rolf Kramer , German politician

Kadri Gopalnath, 2009

• December 11th : Kadri Gopalnath , Indian saxophonist († 2019 )
• December 11th : Gérard MacQuillan , British entrepreneur and racing car driver
• December 12th : Hans-Henning Adler , German politician
• December 12 : David Samuel Harvard Abulafia , British historian
• December 12 : Franz Fuchs , Austrian letter bomb bomber († 2000 )
• December 12th : Bill Nighy , British actor
• December 12th : Beat Sterchi , Swiss writer
• December 12th : Marc Ravalomanana , President of Madagascar
• December 13 : Tarık Akan , Turkish actor († 2016 )
• December 13 : Manfred Bleskin , German journalist and television presenter († 2014 )
• December 13 : Manuel Villar, Jr. , Filipino politician
• December 14th : Bill Gregory , American football player
• December 14th : Inger Lise Rypdal , Norwegian singer and actress
• December 14th : Cliff Williams , bass guitarist for the Australian band AC / DC
• December 15 : Irineu Andreassa , Brazilian Bishop of Lages
• December 15 : Don Johnson , American actor
• December 16 : Billy Gibbons , guitarist and singer of the band ZZ Top
• December 16 : Sugar Blue , American blues harmonica player
• December 16 : Daud Rafiqpoor , Afghan geographer
• December 17th : Zeki Arslan , German artist and painter
• December 17th : Wolfgang Böhme , German handball player and coach
• December 17th : Paul Rodgers , British rock musician
• December 19 : Hans-Josef Kapellmann , German football player
• December 21 : Thomas Sankara , politician in Burkina Faso († 1987 )
• December 21 : Gottfried Böttger , German pianist († 2017 )
• December 21 : Alexander Anatoljewitsch Chartschikow , Russian anti-liberal musician and poet
• December 21 : Marilyn Scott , American jazz singer
• December 22 : Manfred Burgsmüller , German soccer player († 2019 )
• December 22 : Maurice Gibb , Bee Gees member, musician († 2003 )
• December 22 : Robin Gibb , Bee Gees member, singer († 2012 )
  

  Robin Gibb 1973
• December 22nd : Ray Guy , American football player
• December 22nd : Knut vom Bovert , German lawyer and mayor of Haan
• December 23 : Robert Steven "Adrian" Belew , American guitarist and composer
• December 24 : Paul R. Abramson , American psychologist and sexologist
• December 24th : Warwick Brown , Australian racing car driver
• December 24th : Ryszard Legutko , Polish philosopher and politician
• December 24th : Barbie Millowitsch-Steinhaus , German actress and radio play speaker
• December 24th : Willi Reimann , German soccer player and coach
• December 25th : Uwe Häntsch , German graphic artist and illustrator
• December 25th : Bernhard Hemmerle , German church musician and composer
• December 25th : Joe Louis Walker , American blues guitarist
• December 26th : Karola Hattop , German film and television director
• December 26th : Keiji Matsumoto , Japanese racing car driver († 2015 )
• December 26 : José Ramos-Horta , Nobel Prize Winner and Prime Minister of East Timor
• December 27 : Akwasi "Kwesi" Osei-Adjei , Ghanaian politician
• December 27th : Klaus Fischer , German soccer player and coach
  

  Klaus Fischer
• December 28 : Karl-Ernst Schmidt , German local politician
• December 28th : Hildegard Wester , German politician
• December 29 : Karl-Heinz Kalbfell , German automobile manager and racing driver († 2013 )
• December 29th : Wolle Kriwanek , German singer († 2003 )
• December 31 : Karl Amon , Austrian journalist
• December 31 : Neil Crang , Australian racing car driver
• December 31 : Rainer Fetting , German painter and sculptor
• December 31 : Bärbel Zieling , Lord Mayor of Duisburg

Day unknown

• Soazig Aaron , French writer
• Ali Achour , Moroccan Ambassador
• Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein El-Akkad , former Egyptian head of a mosque community
• Eleanor Alberga , British composer
• Meinrat O. Andreae , German mineralogist
• Klaus Ammann , German musician and composer
• Miguel Amorós , Spanish historian, theorist and activist
• Claes Andrén , Swedish zoologist
• Franco Angeli , Italian film director
• Hans Anliker , Swiss trombonist and composer
• Urs App , Swiss researcher
• Arjun Appadurai , Indian ethnologist
• Michel Arcand , Canadian film editor
• Ernst Arendt , German wildlife filmmaker
• Arledge J. Armenaki , American cinematographer and university professor
• Martin Arndt , German science author
• Peter Aschwanden , Swiss filmmaker († 2010 )
• Dan Ashbel , Israeli diplomat
• Mick Audsley , British film editor
• Charles Atlas , American film director, performance and video artist
• Maria Sabine Augstein , German lawyer
• Michael Austermann , German educator and university lecturer
• Salwa Bakr , Egyptian writer
• Terry Camilleri , Australian actor
• Hans Christoph Becker-Foss , German organist and choir director, church musician
• Charles Binamé , Canadian film director
• Jane Brockman , American composer and music teacher
• Martin Brody , American composer and music educator
• Barry Cooper , English musicologist
• Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri , Argentine pianist and music teacher
• Josep Enric Dallerès Codina , Andorran writer
• Robert Dickow , American composer, horn player and music teacher
• Jan De Maeyer , Belgian composer and oboist
• Klaus Eichhorn , German organist and university professor
• Daniel Friedrich , German actor
• Christian Funke , German violinist and university professor
• Jack Gabel , American composer
• Raviv Gazit , Israeli composer and music educator
• Jörn Grabowski , German historian and archivist
• Friedemann Graef , German musician
• Ulrich Hasenkamp , German business IT specialist and university professor
• Hedi Kriegeskotte , German actress and speaker
• Mary Jane Leach , American composer
• Gerd Mackensen , German painter, set designer, photographer and sculptor
• Chris Mann , Australian poet, composer and performer († 2018 )
• James Marshall , American composer
• Raúl Montenegro , Argentine biologist
• Alain Pierre Pradel , French composer and pianist
• Enrique Schmidt , Nicaraguan politician († 1984 )
• Judith Shatin , American composer and music teacher
• Andrzej Sikorowski , Polish singer, composer, guitarist and author
• Glen Velez , American jazz percussionist and composer
• Volker Wagner , German educator, athletics manager and trainer
• Ewa Wycichowska , Polish ballet dancer and choreographer
• Wu Xinxiong , Chinese politician
• Katarina Tomaschewsky , German actress and voice actress
• Wolfgang Zach , German painter and object artist

Died

January

• 0January 7th : José Ramos Preto , Prime Minister of Portugal (* 1871 )
• 0January 9 : Ernst Buddeberg , German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, pastor, author and director of the Liebenzeller Mission (* 1873 )
• January 10 : Erich von Drygalski , German geographer, geophysicist and polar researcher (* 1865 )
• January 10 : Max Haller , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1879 )
• January 10 : Francisco Soñé , Dominican composer, music teacher, conductor and clarinetist (* 1860 )
• January 13 : Aino Aalto , Finnish architect and designer (* 1894 )
• January 13 : Carl Zimmermann , Prussian officer and commander of the Cameroon Defense Force (* 1864 )
• January 15 : Jakob Künzler , Swiss carpenter, deacon, Protestant missionary, doctor and savior of Armenian orphans (* 1871 )
• January 15 : Engelbert-Maria , Duke of Arenberg (* 1872 )
• January 16 : Mike Connors , Australian actor and theater director (* 1892 )
• January 16 : Gabriel Hatton , French racing car driver (* 1877 )
• January 18 : Adalbert Hock , German painter (* 1866 )
• January 19 : Herbert Drews , German motorcycle racer (* 1907 )
• January 27 : Boris Assafjew , Russian composer (* 1884 )
• January 28 : Jean-Pierre Wimille , French racing driver (* 1908 )
• January 30th : Rice W. Means , American politician (* 1877 )
• January 31 : Otto Hupp , German graphic artist (* 1859 )

February

• 0February 1 : Nicolae Cocea , Romanian writer (* 1880 )
• 0February 3 : Karl Schubert , Austrian curative and Waldorf teacher (* 1889 )
• 0February 6 : Georg Amberger , German athlete (* 1890 )
• 0February 8 : Franco Leoni , Italian composer (* 1864 )
• 0February 8 : Leonid Alexejewitsch Polowinkin , Russian composer (* 1894 )
• February 10 : Abe Isoo , Japanese parliamentarian, intellectual and pacifist (* 1865)
• February 11 : Johannes Freumbichler , native Austrian writer (* 1881 )
• February 11 : Axel Munthe , Swedish doctor and author (* 1857 )
• February 12 : Hassan al-Banna , Egyptian teacher and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (* 1906 )

Niceto Alcalá Zamora, 1931

• February 18 : Niceto Alcalá Zamora , Spanish politician (* 1877 )
• February 20 : Alexander Bittorf , German internal physician and pathologist (* 1876 )
• February 27 : Franz Adam Beyerlein , German writer (* 1871 )

March

• 0March 2 : Pietro Ferrero , Italian entrepreneur (* 1898 )
• 0March 4 : Joannes Baptista Sproll , bishop and opponent of National Socialism (* 1870 )
• 0March 5 : Walter Gresham Andrews , American politician (* 1889 )
• 0March 6 : Al Bernard , American singer (* 1888 )
• 0March 6 : Robert Storm Petersen , Danish painter, cartoonist, quick draftsman, conférencier, cabaret artist and actor (* 1882 )
• March 11 : Hans Langmaack , German actor, radio play speaker, director, reciter and acting teacher (* 1870 )
• March 12th : August Bier , German surgeon (* 1861 )
• March 14 : Georg Hellmuth Neuendorff , German writer and reform pedagogue (* 1882 )
• March 16 : Leyland Hodgson , English actor (* 1892 )
• March 19 : Vinçenc Kolë Prennushi , Albanian Roman Catholic Archbishop (* 1885 )
• March 21 : Erwin Lendvai , Hungarian composer (* 1882 )
• March 23 : Joseph Neuhäuser , German composer (* 1890 )
• March 25 : August Wilhelm von Prussia , Prussian prince and SA leader (* 1887 )
• March 28 : Theodor Seitz , German colonial politician (* 1863 )
• March 29 : Theodor Reismann-Grone , German publisher and politician (* 1863 )

Friedrich Bergius

• March 30th : Friedrich Bergius , German chemist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1884 )

April

• 0April 4 : Stephen Lucas Bridges , Argentine writer, ethnographer and farmer (* 1874 )
• 0April 5 : Ernst Lommatzsch , German classical philologist (* 1871 )
• 0April 5 : Erich Zeigner , Prime Minister of Saxony and Lord Mayor of Leipzig (* 1886 )
• 0April 8 : Wilhelm Adam , German army officer (* 1877 )
• April 10 : Jara Beneš , Czech composer (* 1897 )
• April 10 : Adolf Wallenberg , German internist and neurologist (* 1862 )
• April 13 : Marie-Louise Berneri , Italian author and anarchist (* 1918 )
• April 18 : Paul Wilhelm Georg Hoffmann , German politician and member of the Reichstag (* 1879 )
• April 18 : Ulrich Salchow , Swedish figure skater (* 1877 )
• April 25 : Jankel Adler , Polish painter and engraver (* 1895 )
• April 27 : Frederic Collin Walcott , American politician (* 1869 )
• April 28 : Chairil Anwar , Indonesian poet (* 1922 )
• April 29 : Fabian Ware , British major general (* 1869 )

May

• 0May 4 : Valerio Bacigalupo , Italian football player (* 1924 )
• 0May 4th : Aldo Ballarin , Italian football player (* 1922 )
• 0May 4 : Émile Bongiorni , French football player (* 1921 )
• 0May 4th : Eusebio Castigliano , Italian football player (* 1921 )
• 0May 4 : Ernő Erbstein , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1898 )
• 0May 4 : Guglielmo Gabetto , Italian football player (* 1916 )
• 0May 4 : Roger Grava , Italian-French football player (* 1922 )
• 0May 4th : Giuseppe Grezar , Italian football player (* 1918 )
• 0May 4 : Ezio Loik , Italian football player (* 1919 )
• 0May 4th : Virgilio Maroso , Italian football player (* 1925 )
• 0May 4th : Danilo Martelli , Italian football player (* 1923 )
• 0May 4 : Valentino Mazzola , Italian football player (* 1919 )
• 0May 4 : Romeo Menti , Italian football player (* 1919 )
• 0May 4 : Piero Operto , Italian football player (* 1926 )
• 0May 4th : Franco Ossola , Italian football player (* 1921 )
• 0May 4 : Mario Rigamonti , Italian football player (* 1922 )
• 0May 5 : Carlo Felice Trossi , Italian racing driver (* 1908 )
• 0May 6 : Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian writer and Nobel Prize winner (* 1862 )
• 0May 9 : Louis II , Prince of Monaco (* 1870 )
• May 13 : Nakamura Murao , Japanese literary theorist and critic (* 1886 )
• May 15 : Mary Antin , American author and activist (* 1881 )
• May 19 : Peter Jilemnický , Czech writer (* 1901 )
• May 19 : Paul Schultze-Naumburg , German architect and art theorist (* 1869 )

Klaus Mann , 1944

• May 21 : Klaus Mann , German writer (* 1906 )
• May 21 : Antonio Mesa , Dominican singer (* 1895 )
• May 22 : James V. Forrestal , American politician (* 1892 )
• May 22 : Hans Pfitzner , German composer (* 1869 )
• May 24th : Rosita Renard , Chilean pianist (* 1894 )
• May 24th : Philipp Zoch , German general (* 1892 )
• May 27 : Rosy Wertheim , Dutch composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1888 )
• May 30th : Franz von Rintelen , German officer and spy (* 1878 )
• 00.May: Willy Rosenstein , German pilot, fighter pilot and automobile racing driver (* 1892 )

June

• 0June 4th : Miel van Leijden , Dutch football player (* 1885 )
• June 10 : Sigrid Undset , Norwegian writer (* 1882 )
• June 11 : Koçi Xoxe , Albanian politician (* 1911 )
• June 11 : Oton Župančič , Slovenian writer (* 1878 )
• June 14 : Otto Stählin , German classical philologist (* 1868 )
• June 17th : Arvo Ossian Aaltonen , Finnish swimmer (* 1889 )
• June 19 : William Comstock , American politician (* 1877 )
• June 19 : Ferdinand Weisheitinger, humorist from Bavaria who became known as Weiß Ferdl (* 1883 )
• June 23 : Heinrich Schnee , German governor and politician, MdR, member of the Lytton Commission of the League of Nations (* 1871 )
• June 26 : Ray Lyman Wilbur , American politician and medic (* 1875 )

July

• 0July 2 : Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgarian politician (* 1882 )
• 0July 3 : Friedrich Ablass , German politician (* 1895 )
• 0July 7 : Henry F. Hollis , American politician (* 1869 )
• 0July 7 : Bunk Johnson , American cornetist and trumpeter (* 1879 )
• 0July 9 : Fritz Hart , English composer (* 1874 )
• 0July 9 : Elliot Major , American politician (* 1864 )
• July 11 : Arminio Janner , Swiss university professor and journalist (* 1886 )
• July 11 : Beauford H. Jester , American politician (* 1893 )
• July 13 : Walt Kuhn , American artist and organizer of the Armory Show from 1913 (* 1877 )
• July 13 : Walther Wadehn , German major general (* 1896 )
• July 14 : Caesar von Arx , Swiss playwright (* 1895 )
• July 17th : Miel Mundt , Dutch football player (* 1880 )
• July 18 : Bernhard Hoetger , German painter and sculptor (* 1874 )
• July 31 : Albert Rehm , German classical philologist (* 1871 )

August

• 0August 3 : Oskar Grether , German Protestant theologian and university professor (* 1902 )
• 0August 8 : Richard Watney , British racing driver and businessman (* 1904 )
• 0August 9 : Harry Davenport , American actor (* 1866 )
• August 10 : Homer Burton Adkins , American chemist (* 1892 )
• August 11th : Maurice Tornay , Augustinian canon (* 1910 )
• August 12 : Al Shean , American-German comedian (* 1868 )
• August 16 : John Lemmoné , Australian flautist, composer and music manager (* 1861 )

Margaret Mitchell , 1941

• August 16 : Margaret Mitchell , American writer (* 1900 )
• August 17th : Sophie von Arnim , German writer (* 1876 )
• August 18 : József Viola , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1896 )
• August 21 : Gerhard von Keußler , German composer and conductor (* 1874 )
• August 23 : Herbert Greenfield , Canadian politician (* 1869 )
• August 26 : Theodor Barth , Swiss painter (* 1875 )
• 000August: Karl Ahorner , Austrian politician (* 1889 )

September

• 0September 2 : Louis Chenard , French entrepreneur and racing car driver (* 1887 )
• 0September 4 : Frank Croxton , American singer (* 1877 )
• 0September 4 : Hermann August Eidmann , German zoologist and forest scientist (* 1897 )
• 0September 4 : Herbert Eulenberg , German poet and writer (* 1876 )
• 0September 4th : Liberato Ribeiro Pinto , Portuguese military and politician, Prime Minister (* 1880 )
• 0September 5 : E. Robert Schmitz , French pianist and music teacher (* 1889 )

Richard Strauss , around 1900

• 0September 8 : Richard Strauss , German composer (* 1864 )
• September 10 : John E. Weeks , American politician (* 1853 )
• September 11th : Henri Rabaud , French composer (* 1873 )
• September 12 : Walter Buch , Reichsleiter of the NSDAP (* 1883 )
• September 13 : August Krogh , Danish doctor and zoologist (* 1874 )
• September 14 : Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen , farmer and Reichstag member of the NSDAP (* 1901 )
• September 15 : Ludwig Hohlwein , German poster artist (* 1874 )
• September 16 : Victor Cordero Gonzales , Peruvian singer and composer (* 1893 )
• September 19 : Nikos Skalkottas , Greek composer (* 1904 )
• September 22nd : Edouard Giroux , French racing car driver (* 1871 )
• September 23 : Pierre de Bréville , French composer (* 1861 )
• September 28 : Nancy Dalberg , Danish composer (* 1881 )

October

• 0October 2nd : Kosta Manojlović . Serbian composer and ethnomusicologist (* 1890 )
• 0October 6 : Robert E. Hannegan , American politician (* 1903 )
• 0October 7th : Hugo Chanoch Fuchs , rabbi and Jewish historian (* 1878 )
• 0October 7th : Martin Punitzer , German architect (* 1889 )
• 0October 8 : Friedrich Ackermann , Bavarian politician and lawyer (* 1876 )
• 0October 8 : Bert H. Miller , American politician (* 1879 )
• October 10 : Charles Silver , French composer (* 1868 )
• October 11 : Albert H. Rausch , German writer (* 1882 )
• October 13 : August Aichhorn , Austrian educator and psychoanalyst (* 1878 )
• October 14 : Karl Adrian , Austrian local researcher (* 1861 )
• October 15 : László Rajk , Hungarian politician (* 1909 )
• October 17 : Gustav Schröer , German journalist and writer (* 1876 )
• October 20 : Jacques Copeau , French playwright, actor and theater director (* 1879 )
• October 27 : Fritz Linnert , German politician of the FDP (* 1885 )
• October 28 : Jaroslav Labský , Czech composer (* 1875 )
• October 29 : Georges I. Gurdjieff , Greek-Armenian wisdom teacher, choreographer, composer (* probably 1872 )
• October 31 : Édouard Dujardin , French writer (* 1861 )
• October 31 : Edward Stettinius Jr. , US Secretary of State (* 1900 )

November

• 0November 4 : Otto Arthur Siegfried von Auwers , German physicist (* 1895 )
• 0November 6th : Alwin Brandes , German politician and union leader (* 1866 )
• 0November 9th : Louis Arnould , French Romance studies and French studies (* 1864 )
• November 11th : Alphonse Boog , French composer, educator and historian (* 1872 )
• November 12th : Johannes Runge , German athlete and sports official (* 1878 )
• November 15 : Nathuram Godse , murderer of Mahatma Gandhi (* 1910 )
• November 18 : Elmer Ivan Applegate , American botanist (* 1867 )
• November 19 : James Ensor , Belgian painter (* 1860 )

Gustav Radbruch , before 1921

• November 23 : Gustav Radbruch , German legal scholar and politician (* 1878 )
• November 25 : Günther Sewald , German politician (* 1905 )
• November 25 : John Callaway Walton , American politician (* 1881 )
• November 27 : William H. King , American politician (* 1863 )
• November 28th : Pierre Bacqueyrisses , French entrepreneur and racing car driver (* 1893 )
• November 30th : Julius P. Heil , American politician (* 1876 )

December

• 0December 5 : Alfred J. Lotka , Austrian-American mathematician, chemist, ecologist and demographer (* 1880 )
• 0December 6th : Leadbelly , American blues singer (* 1889 )
• December 11 : Fiddlin 'John Carson , American country musician (* 1868 )
• December 11th : Charles Dullin , French actor, director and theater manager (* 1885 )
• December 12th : Harry T. Burleigh , American composer (* 1866 )
• December 12 : Arthur Tetzlaff , German publisher (* 1871 )
• December 16 : Jean-Josaphat Gagnier , Canadian conductor and composer (* 1885 )
• December 16 : Ferdinand Pfohl , German music critic, writer and composer (* 1862 )
• December 17th : David Stanley Smith , American composer (* 1877 )
• December 18 : Sem Benelli , Italian playwright (* 1877 )
• December 19 : Toni Attenberger , German film director, film producer, screenwriter, journalist and writer (* 1882 )
• December 20 : Wilhelm Weigand , German poet and writer (* 1862 )
• December 22nd : Wilhelm August Lautenschläger , German composer and pianist (* 1880 )
• December 23 : Arthur Eichengrün , German chemist (* 1867 )
• December 24th : Wilhelm Schüffner , Dutch microbiologist and immunologist (* 1867 )
• December 27 : Iva Anderson , American jazz singer (* 1905 )
• December 28 : Hervey Allen , American writer (* 1889 )
• December 31 : Josef Maria Auchentaller , Austrian painter, draftsman and graphic artist (* 1865 )

Day unknown

• Eduardo Chicharro y Agüera , Spanish painter (* 1873 )
• Hagop Iskender , Armenian-Turkish photographer (* 1871 )
• Hugo Suette , Austrian politician (NSDAP) and war criminal (* 1903 )
• Amédée Tremblay , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher (* 1876 )
• Ulises Vásquez , Chilean painter (* 1892 )

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : Yukawa Hideki
• Chemistry : William Francis Giauque
• Medicine : Walter Rudolf Hess and Egas Moniz
• Literature : William Faulkner
• Nobel Peace Prize : John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr

Web links

Commons : 1949  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Annual chronicle of the House of History of the FRG
• The Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government (1949) in the Federal Archives

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see also Occupied Postwar Austria # British Zone
2. ↑ www.bundestag.de
3. ↑ Bernard A. Cook (Ed.): Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia , 2014, p. 462 ( text )
4. ↑ Heiner Boberski: The angel work. Theory and Practice of the Opus Sanctorum Angelorum . Otto Müller Verlag 1993, Salzburg, page 296. ISBN 3-7013-0854-3
5. ↑ Tour report "Between Pamir and Desert"
6. ↑ Walter Steiner: On the Pamir glaciers . 2nd Edition. VEB FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1982, p. 87 f .