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1950
Józef Cyrankiewicz and Otto Grotewohl go to the Kulturhaus to sign the Görlitz Agreement .
Landing at Incheon ( Korean War )	US Senator Joseph McCarthy

1950 in other calendars
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Bengali calendar	1356-1357
Berber calendar	2900
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- era	4646-4647 or 4586-4587
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Iranian calendar	1328-1329
Islamic calendar	1369-1370
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 25
- Kōki	2610
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Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4283
- Juche era	39
Minguo calendar	39
Modern Olympics	XIV
Seleucid calendar	2261-2262
Thai solar calendar	2493

In 1950 the institutional consolidation of the division of the world into two camps continues, the Cold War intensifies. The two camps face each other militarily for the first time in the Korean War . The domestic politics of the USA is also determined by it, in the so-called McCarthy era .

overview

Germany / Federal Republic / GDR

The division of the world into two camps also applies to the two young German states that were founded the previous year. In the Federal Republic the use of food stamps is running out; the CDU is a nationwide organization under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer ; the Federal Court of Justice begins its work in Karlsruhe; the first diplomatic representatives of the Federal Republic abroad are accredited. In the meantime, Walter Ulbricht is appointed General Secretary of the SED and the National Front is confirmed with 98.5% in the election to the People's Chamber of the GDR; In the Görlitz Agreement with Poland , the Oder-Neisse border is recognized as the final "peace border ", a step that is sharply criticized in the West.

The French Foreign Minister's Schuman Plan , which provides for a joint Franco-German administration of the coal and steel industry and which Adenauer welcomes immediately, represents a first step towards equal rights for the Federal Republic . However, differences remain between France and Germany on the Saar question: The inclusion of the Saarland in the French economic area is rejected in all political camps in the Federal Republic, especially since the Saarland and the Federal Republic of Germany have received separate invitations to the Council of Europe.

Europe

While in France the bourgeois parties determine politics - the government of Georges Bidault is followed in July by the short-lived cabinet of Henri Queuille , followed by René Pleven - in Great Britain the Labor government of Clement Attlee is confirmed in office , albeit narrowly , against which Winston Churchill had run. In the meantime, there are demonstrations and riots in Belgium on the occasion of the return of King Leopold III. from exile; Although a referendum had brought a narrow majority for his return, the pressure on him, accused of a lack of will to resist the German occupiers in World War II , finally gave in by resigning and leaving the throne to his son Baudouin I. Sweden also gets a new monarch , where Gustav VI. Adolf the late father Gustav V follows.

Korean War

The second half of the year is completely overshadowed by the Korean War . North Korean troops cross the 38th parallel and push South Korean troops back to a small bridgehead around Pusan within a few weeks . It is true that the UN Security Council (which was boycotted by the Soviet representative Malik at the time ) strongly condemned the attack and quickly decided on an intervention force . However, the USA, as a regulatory power in the Far East , had already started to drastically reduce its military presence in South Korea and Japan and is now forced to provide considerable funds for the provision of new troops and modern war material. The US jet fighters are mostly inferior to the Soviet - made MiG-15s and North Korea is also sure of the support of the People's Republic of China , which is annexing Tibet at the same time .

The American commander in chief of the UN troops, Douglas MacArthur, manages a surprise success with the daring landing at Incheon in the rear of the advancing North Korean army, which forces the communist troops to retreat. When some UN units already reached the Korean northern border on Yalu in October , China intervened and pushed the intervention army back south. At the end of the year, the front for the positional battle stabilized not far from the starting positions at the 38th parallel.

Anti-communist mood

The Korean War stirs up fear of an attack by the Eastern bloc in America and Western Europe and raises the question of a West German defense contribution. In the USA domestic politics is determined by the concern of infiltration by communists and their sympathizers, which it is hoped to counter by questioning suspects before the committee for un-American activities , which in some cases appears to be inquisitorial ; especially Senator Joseph McCarthy , who gives his name to the entire era, stands out. Espionage trials such as those against Klaus Fuchs and Alger Hiss also contribute to the anti-communist atmosphere .

The so-called Hollywood Ten , 10 directors and screenwriters from a "black list" of around 100 Hollywood personalities, have to serve 6 to 12 months' imprisonment in 1950 after they cited the first amendment of the US Constitution ( freedom of expression ) before the Un-American Activities Committee refused to testify and were convicted of disregard for Congress.

Events

Politics and world events

FRG

• January 21 : Foundation of the German Reich Party (DRP) through the merger of the Lower Saxony regional association of the DKP-DRP with the NDP .
• March 1 : The British occupying power orders the dismantling of the Salzgitter works .
• March 3rd : Saar Agreement between the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman and the Prime Minister of Saarland , Johannes Hoffmann . The agreement provides for the Saarland to be more closely aligned with France, which takes on foreign affairs and controls the coal mines; prices and wages will also be brought into line with French standards.
• April 8th : The delivery of West German hard coal to the GDR is stopped due to the lack of compensatory deliveries .

Grocery menu from Lower Saxony, 1950

• April 30th : The last food stamps (for sugar) lose their validity in West Germany; In the GDR, food stamps are still in use until 1958.
• May 11 : The CDU is formed at the federal level in Königswinter and elects Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as its federal chairman.
• June 15 : The Bundestag resolves the accession of the Federal Republic to the Council of Europe with 220 votes to 152 .
• June 18 : In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia , the government of Prime Minister Karl Arnold (CDU) is confirmed.
• July 4th : Radio Free Europe starts broadcasting in Munich.
• July 8th : Hans Globke becomes Head of Personnel in the Chancellery and Adenauer's closest confidante. He comes under criticism for his role as a commentator on the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935.
• July 9 : The SPD suffers massive losses in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein , mainly in favor of the BHE , which with 23.7% becomes the second largest party behind the SPD. Walter Bartram (CDU) will be the new Prime Minister at the head of a coalition of CDU, BHE, DP and FDP .
• July 19 : The Central Council of Jews in Germany is founded.
• July 21 : The elephant Tuffi jumps out of the moving Wuppertal suspension railway .
• August 5th : Publication of the charter of German expellees .
• August 11 : The Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe passes a resolution calling for the formation of a European army in the face of the Korean War. The Federal Republic should also be included in this process. Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer welcomes the initiative and starts negotiations with the Western allies, but on August 24 the High Commissioner John Jay McCloy first pointed out the occupation statute, which excludes Germany from rearming. In Germany, Adenauer's initiative is criticized not only by the SPD, but also by Interior Minister Gustav Heinemann .

THW logo

• August 22nd : Foundation of the THW ( Technical Relief Organization ).
• August 25th : Friedrich Flick is pardoned.
• September 1st : In West Berlin, the British armed forces set up the Watchmen's Service of the German Service Organization Berlin, from which the 248 German Security Unit emerged in 1982 .
• September 13 : The first census in the Federal Republic of Germany is carried out.
• September 19 : The Federal Republic decides to dismiss members of organizations classified as anti-constitutional from the public service (" Adenauer Decree "). The KPD , the FDJ , the VVN and the SRP are affected .
• October 8 : The Federal Court of Justice begins its work in Karlsruhe .
• October 9 : Resignation of the German Interior Minister Gustav Heinemann because of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's efforts to rearm .
• October 18 : Erich Köhler (CDU), first German Bundestag President, resigns. His successor is Hermann Ehlers , who is also a member of the CDU.
• October 24 : The US-donated Liberty Bell is inaugurated in Schöneberg Town Hall , which has served as the seat of the West Berlin city government since the division of Berlin .
• November 18 : In the state elections in Württemberg and Hesse, the SPD becomes the strongest party, the CDU has to accept heavy losses. The Union also lost a lot in the elections in Bavaria a week later, but was able to maintain its leading position here.
• December 1 : The Wachtmen's Service of the German Service Organization, set up by the British Armed Forces on September 1, 1950, begins operations in West Berlin .
• December 9 : In the House of Representatives elections in West Berlin, the SPD is clearly the strongest party.
• December 14 : Georg-August Zinn (SPD) becomes Prime Minister of Hesse ; he held the office until 1969.
• December 18 : The CSU chairman Hans Ehard is re-elected as Prime Minister of Bavaria ; he heads a CSU-SPD government.

GDR

Oder-Neisse line

• February 8 : The Ministry for State Security (MfS) is founded. Wilhelm Zaisser is initially named Minister for State Security , Erich Mielke becomes his deputy.
• March 13 : In Bautzen I prison , the majority of prisoners go on a hunger strike , which ends in a prisoner uprising.
• May 27 : At the Whitsun meeting of the FDJ in East Berlin , 462,000 participants come together. A planned train through the western part of the city was canceled after protests by West Berliners.
• July 6th : In the Görlitz Agreement between the GDR and the People's Republic of Poland , the Oder-Neisse line is established as the new Polish western border.
• July 25 : In the GDR, Walter Ulbricht becomes general secretary at the constituent meeting of the new Central Committee of the SED .
• August 31 : Jehovah's Witnesses are banned in the GDR, resulting in hundreds of arrests and show trials.
• September 1 : Because of their contacts with Noel Field , the SED functionaries Paul Merker , Leo Bauer (of the Germany transmitter editor) and Bruno Money Hammer (chief editor of the Berliner Rundfunk) expelled from the party.
• September 7th : In the city center of Berlin, Walter Ulbricht ordered the demolition of the Berlin Palace to begin.
• September 29 : The GDR becomes a member of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid .
• October 1 : From this day onwards, parents in the GDR receive a welcome allowance for the birth of a child.
• October 15 : In the elections for the GDR People's Chamber , the National Front's unified list receives 99.7% of the vote. There are protest demonstrations against the guided elections in western Germany.
• December 1 : Otto Grotewohl , Prime Minister of the GDR , proposes to Konrad Adenauer the formation of an all-German council.

Europe

• January 1 : Max Petitpierre becomes President of Switzerland .

Klaus Fuchs

• January 6 : The British government diplomatically recognizes the People's Republic of China .
• February 12 : the European Broadcasting Union is founded in Torquay .
• February 15 : Juho Kusti Paasikivi is re-elected as President of Finland .
• February 23 : Labor Party wins UK general election ; Clement Attlee is confirmed as Prime Minister.
• March 1 : In London, Klaus Fuchs , formerly involved in the Manhattan project , is convicted of betraying secrets to the Soviet Union .
• March 15 : The 1948 Copenhagen Wave Plan comes into force. Since only a few frequencies in the medium wave range are allocated to Germany in this plan, the rapid development of the VHF transmitter networks is favored.
• March 20 : The Polish government decides to expropriate church property (375,000 hectares) without compensation.
• April 6th : The World Peace Council calls for the ban on the atomic bomb in Stockholm .
• April 27 : Great Britain diplomatically recognizes the State of Israel .
• May 9 : French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman presents the Schuman Plan named after him ; then the French and German production of coal and steel are to be placed under a joint higher authority, which is to serve as a core element for European unification. The plan is implemented in 1951 in the form of the ECSC (coal and steel union) .
• May 11 : Start of the Foreign Ministers' Conference of the Western Powers in London . It welcomes the Schuman Plan and calls on the Soviet Union to repatriate all German prisoners of war.
• June 24 : In France , Georges Bidault resigns as head of government; His successor in office will initially be Henri Queuille , who will be replaced by René Pleven on July 12th .
• August 1st : After his return from exile, the Belgian King Leopold III. received in many places by hostile demonstrators who accuse him of his behavior during the Second World War. Leopold gives in to the pressure and resigns in favor of his son Baudouin .
• September 19 : The agreement establishing the European Payments Union is signed in Paris .
• October 29 : Gustav VI. After the death of his father, Gustav V , Adolf becomes the new king of Sweden .
• November 1st : Pope Pius XII. proclaims the dogma of the physical ascension of Mary .
• November 4th : The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) is signed.
• November 4 : The United Nations ends the diplomatic isolation of the Franco regime in Spain .
• December 19 : NATO announces the formation of a High Command for Europe to be taken over by Dwight D. Eisenhower .

North America

• January 17 : In Boston , a gang of eleven robbers the Brink's money transport company . The perpetrators stole cash of more than 1.2 million as well as checks and securities of more than 1.5 million US dollars in the largest armed robbery to date in the USA . The event was filmed in 1978 as The Big Thing at Brinks with Peter Falk in the lead role.
• January 21 : Lawyer Alger Hiss is sentenced to five years in prison for perjury in the US. The case divides the American public.

General MacArthur

• January 31 : US President Harry S. Truman orders the construction of the hydrogen bomb .
• February 9 : Senator Joseph McCarthy declares the US State Department has been infiltrated by 205 communists.
• March 5 : In the United States , a two-month will strike the miners ended.
• March 14 : In the United States, the FBI publishes the first list of the ten most wanted fugitives .
• May 2 : In a statement in the rearmament discussion , the United States Chiefs of Staff recommend their government to end the policy of disarmament and demilitarization in West Germany. US President Harry S. Truman then waits.
• September 19 : At the foreign ministers' conference of the three Western powers in New York , the federal government in Bonn is recognized as the only “free and legally constituted” government in Germany.
• November 1 : A Puerto Rican nationalist attempts an unsuccessful assassination attempt against US President Truman.
• December 16 : President Truman declares a national emergency for the USA because of the Korean War .

South America

• October 3 : Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is elected President of Brazil ; he had already ruled the country during World War II.

Carlos Delgado Chalbaud

• November 13 : Venezuelan President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud , who also belongs to the ruling military junta , is kidnapped and murdered.

middle East

• January 4th : Israel declares Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
• May 24 : The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is proclaimed . Transjordan is part of the West Bank .
• July 5 : Israel : The Knesset passes the Law of Return as the first Israeli law to give all Jews in the world the right to immigrate to Israel.

South East Asia

• January 11 : The Hukbalahap Marxist guerrilla movement carries out a series of attacks in the Philippine province of Bataan .
• May 5th : Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned King of Thailand as Rama IX .
• October 4th : France loses Cao Bằng fortress to the rebels in the Indochina War .
• October 5 : The Indonesian government suppresses unrest in the Moluccas .

Korean War

Course of war

• June 25th : Beginning of the Korean War : North Korean troops invade South Korea.
• June 27 : The United Nations Security Council decides to raise intervention troops in the Korean War. The representative of the Soviet Union stayed away from the meeting.
• June 28 : North Korean troops capture Seoul . On July 5, they break through to the south coast of Korea in the Battle of Osan south of Seoul.
• July 7 : US General Douglas MacArthur takes command of the UN troops in the Korean War.
• July 11 : The US grants $ 1.2 billion in military aid to South Korea .
• July 18 : South Korea vacates the city of Daegu from the advancing North Koreans.
• July 31 : In Resolution 85 , the UN Security Council authorizes the military intervention of a UN force in the Korean War .
• September 15 : With the landing near Incheon , the counter-offensive of the Allied troops in the Korean War begins.
• September 26 : The USA declares the bombing of the city of Dandong ( Manchuria ) , which took place two days earlier, to be a mistake and declares its willingness to pay damages to the People's Republic of China .
• September 30th : South Korean troops exceed the 38th parallel; The procedure was only approved by the UN on October 7, calling for a unified and independent government in Korea. At the same time, General Douglas MacArthur , the commander in chief of the UN troops, calls on North Korea to surrender.
• October 19 : During the Korean War , the UN forces take the city of Pyongyang . On the same day, when volunteer organizations cross the Yalu River, the People's Republic of China begins to participate in the Korean War. In October, China also invades Tibet and ends its autonomy.
• October 25 : The Chinese “volunteer army”, which has moved into North Korea, has enemy contact during the Korean War and fights for the first time with a South Korean infantry unit.
• November 8th : An American Lockheed P-80 and a North Korean MiG-15 lead to the first air combat between two jet fighters in history over North Korean airspace .
• November 26th : Beginning of the battle for the Chosin reservoir : The communist units succeed in throwing back the UN troops with heavy losses; these withdraw to the Hŭngnam bridgehead , from where they will be evacuated to South Korea by the end of December.
• November 30 : US President Harry S. Truman threatens to use the atomic bomb in view of the enemy advance in the Korean War .
• December 5 : The Americans have to evacuate the city of Pyongyang before the approaching North Koreans and Chinese.

Asia and Russia

• January 26 : With the entry into force of the new constitution (adopted November 26, 1949 ) India officially becomes a republic . Rajendra Prasad becomes the first president .
• February 14 : The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China conclude a defense alliance for a period of 30 years. Stalin promises to pay $ 330 million and withdraw from Port Arthur and Dairen .
• March 1 : Chiang Kai-shek announces the continued existence of the Republic of China in Taiwan , the Kuomintang's retreat after the civil war .
• July 17 : Afghanistan . 1. Transit Agreement with the USSR .
• August 1st: Yakov Alexandrovich Malik , the representative of the Soviet Union in the UN, returns to the Security Council, which the USSR had temporarily boycotted.
• October 7th : The Chinese People's Liberation Army enters Tibet . The Tibetan army can not offer much resistance at Chamdo .
• October 21 : The troops of the Vietnamese People's Army under Võ Nguyên Giáp capture the Lang Son fortress from the French colonial troops. France is increasingly on the defensive in the Indochina War.

Africa

• January 28 : Somaliland is supported by the UN Italy as a trust territory awarded.
• April 27 : With the Group Areas Act, the government of South Africa decides to establish racially segregated living and working areas as part of the apartheid policy .
• July 7th : Implementation of the Population Registration Act begins in South Africa . The law defines groups of races and is a pillar of apartheid policy .

Organizations

• January 2nd : Guatemala becomes a member of UNESCO .
• January 10th : Panama becomes a member of UNESCO.
• January 23 : Sweden becomes a member of UNESCO.
• March 23 : With the entry into force of the founding convention, the World Meteorological Organization is created , which subsequently becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations .
• May 19 : Costa Rica becomes a member of UNESCO.
• May 27th : Indonesia becomes a member of UNESCO.
• June 14th : Jordan becomes a member of UNESCO.
• June 14 : The Republic of Korea becomes a member of UNESCO.
• September 28 : Indonesia becomes a member of the United Nations

UNHCR logo

• December 14 : The term United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees aimed UN General Assembly a successor organization for a corresponding institution of the now defunct League of Nations a.

economy

Univac I Factronic in the Deutsches Museum in Munich

• February 15 : Remington Rand takes over Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation , which develops the UNIVAC I computer.
• April 1 : The Neckermann mail order company is founded.
• April 27 : The Belgian entrepreneur Gérard Blitz founds the Club Méditerranée as a non-profit organization and realizes his idea of ​​an all-inclusive vacation for travelers in the same year.
• May 10 : In Barcelona , the car manufacturer SEAT is founded by the Spanish state holding Instituto Nacional de Industria , banks and the Italian Fiat group.
• June 3 : The Bayernkurier , the weekly party newspaper of the Christian Social Union (CSU) , launches its first edition. General Secretary Franz Josef Strauss acts as publisher and editor-in-chief .
• June 9th : ARD is founded by the regional broadcasters BR , HR , RB , SDR , SWF and NWDR and - with an advisory vote - RIAS Berlin.

science and technology

• January 14th : The prototype of the Soviet MiG-17 fighter plane takes off for its maiden flight .
• March 14th : The Rover Jet 1 makes its first trips. It is the world's first racing car with a gas turbine drive.
• May 10 : Establishment of the National Science Foundation .
• May 26th : The German engineer and inventor Engelbert Zaschka applies for a patent for his folding bike .

The first rocket launches in Cape Canaveral

• May: The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair takes place for the first time .
• July 24 : From the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is the Bumper 8 the first missiles launched.
• October 13 : The Lockheed Super Constellation , a four-engine propeller plane, completes its maiden flight.

Culture

• March 15 : The opera The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti is premiered in Philadelphia .
• April 12th : The musical comedy The Man with the Top Hat by Just Scheu and Ernst Nebhut is premiered at the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt am Main .
• May 14 : At the State Opera in Stuttgart is the opera Don Juan and Faust of Hermann Reutter premiered.
• May 16 : The musical comedy Feuerwerk by Paul Burkhard is premiered in Munich .
• August 1st : Foundation of Progress Film-Verleih in Berlin, today one of the oldest active film distributors in Germany.
• September 7th : Black Forest Girl , the first German color film after the end of the war, premieres in Stuttgart. He ushers in an era of Heimatfilm in West Germany.
• September 25 : In Hamburg , the North West German Broadcasting Corporation puts the first television station into operation. First of all, a test run is sent from a former bunker in Hamburg-Heiligengeistfeld. A regular program will not be broadcast until the end of 1952.
• November 15 : At the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg is the operetta Love in the triad of Walter Goetze premiered.

• A research group from UNESCO comes to the conclusion that the concept of race is scientifically unsustainable.
• The "Free Protestants" rename themselves to German Unitarian religious community (see Unitarians ).
• Lafayette Ronald Hubbard , founder of Scientology , publishes his main work "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health".
• The Georg Kolbe Museum opens in Berlin .
• The Grand Austrian State Prize is awarded for the first time.
• Rabbit's Moon , a short film by Kenneth Anger, appears.
• the comic Beetle Bailey appears.

society

• March 24th : The robbery murderer Johann Trnka was convicted under Austrian law and was the last to be executed in Vienna on the choke barrels.
• December: Establishment of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

religion

• March 12th : In the encyclical Anni sacri , Pope Pius XII demands a program by the clergy to combat global atheism .

Kinkaku-ji Pavilion after the fire

• July 2 : In the north-west of the Japanese city of Kyoto , the 1397 golden pavilion in the Kinkaku-ji temple complex fell victim to the arson of a Buddhist monk .
• October 30 : Pope Pius XII. According to his own statements , he is confronted with the sun miracle for the first time in the Vatican Gardens .
• November 1st : The physical assumption of Mary into heaven is confirmed by Pope Pius XII. proclaimed as the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church .
• December 6th : In the encyclical Mirabile illud , Pope Pius XII calls out. to public prayers for world peace.

Sports

• May 13th : The Great Britain Grand Prix in Silverstone is the first race in the newly designed Formula 1 World Championship. The later world champion Giuseppe Farina wins .
• June 25th : VfB Stuttgart becomes German soccer champions.
• June: Austria Wien becomes Austrian soccer champion.
• June: The entire team of the SG Dresden-Friedrichstadt soccer club , including Helmut Schön , fled the GDR to West Berlin.
• June 3rd : First ascent of Annapurna and the first eight-thousander , the tenth highest mountain on earth.
• August 3rd : Olympique Lyon founded
• July 16 : The soccer world championship in Brazil wins the neighboring country Uruguay against Brazil with 2-1.
• September 2nd : The German Gymnastics Federation is re-established.
• September 3 : With his victory at the Italian Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza , Giuseppe Farina becomes the first Formula 1 world champion after the races of the season .
• November 22nd : The Germans , who were previously excluded from international football games as the cause of World War II, play their first post-war international game . The DFB -Elf wins 1-0 against Switzerland.

Disasters

• August 15 : 8.6 magnitude earthquake struck Assam , India , killing 1,530
• August 23 : The breach of the Subansiri dam causes a seven meter high tidal wave in India that kills a total of 532 people in several villages.

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

Born

January

• 0January 1st : Morgan Fisher , British keyboardist
• 0January 1 : Steve Ripley , American country and blues guitarist († 2019 )
• 0January 2 : Johannes Riedl , German soccer player († 2010 )
• 0January 2 : David Shifrin , American clarinetist and music teacher
• 0January 3 : Beth Anderson , American composer
• 0January 3 : Christoph Delz , Swiss composer and pianist († 1993 )
• 0January 4th : Christel Happach-Kazan , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0January 5th : Jakob Brunnschweiler , Swiss politician
• 0January 5th : Chris Stein , guitarist and co-founder of the band Blondie
• 0January 5th : Krzysztof Wielicki , Polish mountaineer
• 0January 6 : Constanze Engelbrecht , German actress († 2000 )
• 0January 7th : Harry Böseke , German writer († 2015 )
• 0January 7 : Erin Gray , American actress
  

  Erin Gray , 2009
• 0January 7 : Stanley Grenz , American theologian and ethicist († 2005 )
• 0January 9 : Alec John Jeffreys , British geneticist
• 0January 9 : Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes , Mexican Archbishop
• 0January 9 : Gisbert Haefs , German writer
• 0January 9 : Rio Reiser , German rock musician († 1996 )
• 0January 9 : Wolfgang Rohde , German musician († 2016 )
• 0January 9 : Willi Zylajew , German politician
• January 10 : Winfried Schäfer , German soccer coach
• January 10 : Carlo Siliotto , Italian composer
• January 12th : Sinaida Stepanovna Amossova , Russian cross-country skier
• January 12th : Heinrich Fischer , Swiss rower
• January 13 : Denis Bédard , Canadian organist and composer
• January 13th : Wolfgang Holzhäuser , German football official
• January 13 : Bernd Wippich , German singer and musician († 2014 )
• January 14th : Hanne Haller , German pop singer, composer, lyricist († 2005 )
• January 15th : Uli Frommer , German soccer player
• January 15 : Rudi Rauer , German handball player († 2014 )
• January 15 : Kurt Schulzke , German painter, musician and author († 2017 )
• January 15 : Marius Trésor , French football player
• January 16 : Damo Suzuki , German singer of Japanese origin
• January 18 : Gilles Villeneuve , Canadian Formula 1 racing driver († 1982 )
• January 19 : Pier Carlo Padoan , Italian economist and politician
• January 20 : Mahamane Ousmane , Nigerien politician and President of Niger
  

  Mahamane Ousmane (right) next to Quett Masire (center) and António Mascarenhas Monteiro (left)
• January 20 : Udo Röbel , German journalist and author
• January 21 : Agnes van Ardenne , Dutch politician
• January 21 : Marion Becker , German athlete
• January 21 : Andrzej Chłopecki , Polish musicologist and critic († 2012 )
• January 21 : Patrick Leclercq , German journalist († 2011 )
• January 21 : Gary Locke , American politician
• January 21 : Silke Maier-Witt , nurse, psychologist, RAF terrorist
• January 21 : Billy Ocean , pop singer from Trinidad
• January 22nd : Paul Bew , Northern Irish historian and politician
• January 22nd : Werner Schulz , German politician
• January 23 : Richard Dean Anderson , American actor
  

  Richard Dean Anderson , 2004
• January 23 : Danny Federici , American musician († 2008 )
• January 23 : Hans-Joachim Sopart , German politician
• January 23 : Luis Alberto Spinetta , Argentine rock musician and composer († 2012 )
• January 24th : Daniel Auteuil , French actor
• January 24th : Becky Hobbs , American country singer
• January 24th : Laura Kelly , American politician
• January 25 : Jean-Marc Ayrault , French politician and Prime Minister
• January 26 : Jörg Haider , Austrian politician († 2008 )
• January 26 : Ivan Hlinka , Czech ice hockey player and coach († 2004 )
• January 27 : Ulrich Deppendorf , German journalist
  

  Ulrich Deppendorf
• January 27 : Hans-Joachim Eckstein , German Protestant theologian
• January 27 : Günter Gloser , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• January 28 : Hamad ibn Isa Al Chalifa , King of Bahrain
• January 28th : Anselm Glück , Austrian writer
• January 28th : Heinz Wewering , German harness racing driver and trainer
• January 29 : Herbert Langemann , German actor († 1987 )
• January 29th : Jody Scheckter , South African racing car driver
• January 30th : Hélène Gagné , Canadian cellist and music teacher
• January 30th : Karlheinz Weimar , German politician and Member of the State Parliament
• January 31 : Robert Grubb , Australian actor
• January 31 : Wilfried Nippel , German ancient historian
• January 31 : Leili Pärnpuu , Estonian chess player

February

Mike Campbell

• 0February 1 : Mike Campbell , American musician and guitarist
• 0February 2 : Barbara Sukowa , German actress
• 0February 2 : Serafim Urecheanu , Moldovan politician and mayor
• 0February 3rd : Markku Tuomas Puputti , Finnish pop singer
• 0February 4th : Leo Dautzenberg , German politician
• 0February 4th : Freya Klier , German writer and director
• 0February 5th : Franz Schausberger , Austrian politician
• 0February 6 : Ağaxan Abdullayev , Azerbaijani mugham singer and music teacher († 2016 )
• 0February 6 : Natalie Cole , American singer and film actress († 2015 )
• 0February 6 : Cardinal Timothy Dolan , Archbishop of New York
• 0February 6 : René Fasel , Swiss ice hockey player, President of the IIHF
• 0February 6 : Paul Gentilozzi , American racing car driver and racing team owner
• 0February 7th : Hans-Peter Annen , German diplomat
• 0February 7th : Mauro Bellugi , Italian football player
• 0February 7th : Marilyn Cochran , American ski racer
• 0February 8 : Paul Kind , Liechtenstein cyclist
• 0February 8 : Jochen Leiß , German table tennis player
• 0February 8 : Marcel Ospel , Swiss Manager, UBS Board of Directors Chairman († 2020 )
• 0February 9 : Shizuka Ijūin , Japanese writer
• February 10 : Horst Spengler , German handball player and handball trainer

Mark Spitz

• February 10 : Mark Spitz , American swimmer, Olympic champion
• February 11 : Tomasz Bugaj , Polish conductor and music teacher

Jevgēņijs Svešņikovs, 2005

• February 11 : Yevgeny Sveshnikov , Russian-Latvian chess master
• February 12 : Maulana Badruddin Ajmal , Indian politician
• February 12 : Angelo Branduardi , Italian musician
• February 12 : Steve Hackett , British musician
• February 12 : Josef Pešice , Czech football player and coach († 2017 )
• February 13 : Bob Daisley , Australian bass player

Peter Gabriel , 1978

• February 13 : Peter Gabriel , British pop musician
• February 13th : Keiko Takemiya , Japanese Mangaka
• February 15 : Berthold Huber , German trade unionist
• February 15 : Tsui Hark , Sino-Vietnamese director and producer
• February 17th : Fritz Amann , Austrian politician
• February 17th : Wolfgang Hofer , Austrian pop singer, composer and songwriter
• February 17th : Ingrid Schubert , Austrian politician
• February 18 : Shahram Nazeri , Kurdish-Iranian singer and composer
• February 19 : Takanohana Kenshi , Japanese sumo wrestler († 2005 )
• February 19th : Andy Powell , British guitarist
• February 20 : Bernhard R. Appel , German musicologist
• February 20 : Ruslan Nuraliyevich Ashuraliyev , Soviet wrestler († 2009 )
• February 20 : Walter Becker , American musician († 2017 )
• February 20 : Tony Wilson , British music manager, nightclub operator and TV journalist († 2007 )
• February 21 : Richard Tarnas , Professor of Philosophy and Psychology
• February 21 : Bruce Vogt , Canadian pianist and music educator
• February 22 : Aun Schaukat al-Chasauneh , Jordanian diplomat and lawyer
• February 22nd : Julius Erving , American basketball player
• February 22nd : Miou-Miou , French actress
• February 22nd : Simon Schobel , Romanian-German handball player and coach
• February 22nd : Julie Walters , British actress
• February 22nd : Peter Zwegat , German debt counselor, social worker and TV actor
• February 23 : Jean-Herbert Austin , Haitian soccer player
• February 23 : Klaus Brasch , German actor († 1980 )
• February 23 : Michel Meynaud , French musician († 2016 )
• February 24 : Miguel Arias Cañete , Spanish politician
• February 24 : Richard Bandler , co-developer of neurolinguistic programming
• February 24th : Klaus Brusch , German soccer player
• February 24th : Michael Greiling , German actor
• February 24 : George Thorogood , American blues rock musician
• February 25 : Neil Jordan , Irish film director, screenwriter and producer

Néstor Kirchner , 2007

• February 25 : Néstor Kirchner , Argentine politician and President († 2010 )
• February 25 : Francisco Fernández Ochoa , Spanish ski racer († 2006 )
• February 26 : Kym Anderson , Australian economist
• February 26 : Ott Arder , Estonian poet, children's book author and translator († 2004 )

Helen Clark , 2010

• February 26 : Helen Clark , New Zealand politician and former Prime Minister
• February 26 : Don Shanks , American actor and stunt performer of Native American descent
• February 27 : Gilla , Austrian singer
• February 28 : Thomas Duttenhoefer , German sculptor

March

• 0March 2 : Abdel Rahim el-Kib , Libyan politician († 2020 )
• 0March 2nd : Nick MacKenzie , Dutch singer
• 0March 3 : Karl Goldammer , Austrian painter († 2020 )
• 0March 3 : Peter Lovett , British racing car driver
• 0March 4th : Wolfgang Arendt , German mathematician
• 0March 4th : Rick Perry , American politician
  

  Rick Perry, 2011
• 0March 6th : Felix Genn , Bishop of Essen
• 0March 6th : Berthold Tillmann , German politician, Lord Mayor of Münster
• 0March 6th : Walter Vesti , Swiss ski racer
• 0March 7th : Iris Chacón , Puerto Rican dancer, singer and entertainer
• 0March 7 : Billy Joe DuPree , American football player
• 0March 7th : Reinhard Kaiser , German writer and translator
• 0March 7th : Paul Krüger , German politician
• 0March 9 : Danny Sullivan , American racing car driver
• March 10th : Karlheinz Klotz , German athlete
• March 11 : Katia Labèque , French pianist (Duo Katia and Marielle Labèque )
• March 11 : Bobby McFerrin , American vocal artist
• March 11th : Dieter Schiele , German hunting and horse painter
• March 11th : Carlo Schmid-Sutter , Swiss politician
• March 12th : Manfred Jäger , German enduro athlete
• March 12 : Leo Wieland , German journalist
• March 13 : Robert Brandom , American Professor of Philosophy
• March 13 : André Brie , German politician, Member of the European Parliament
• March 13 : Charles Krauthammer , American columnist († 2018 )
• March 13 : William H. Macy , American actor
• March 15 : Kurt Koch , Swiss Cardinal
• March 16 : Joe Bugner , Hungarian-English-Australian heavyweight boxer
• March 16 : Kate Nelligan , Canadian actress
• March 16 : Andrzej Szewczyk , Polish painter and sculptor († 2001 )
• March 17th : Rötger Feldmann , German comic artist
  

  Rötger Feldmann , 2006
• March 18 : James Conlon , American conductor
• March 18 : Brad Dourif , American actor
• March 18 : Peter Funke , German ancient historian
• March 18 : Kay Kohlmeyer , German archaeologist from the Near East
• March 18 : Larry Perkins , Australian racing car driver
• March 18 : Claudia Winterstein , German politician
• March 19 : Kirsten Boie , German writer
• March 19 : Kurt Weigel , Catholic priest, holiday chaplain and author
• March 20 : Linda Jane Aronson , British writer
• March 20 : William Hurt , American actor
• March 20 : Carl Palmer , British rock musician
• March 20 : Franz Josef Radermacher , German mathematician and economist
  

  Franz Josef Radermacher , 2009.
• March 21 : Manfred Aschke , German judge and lawyer
• March 21 : Elvira Grudzielski , Thuringian homeland researcher
• March 21 : Roger Hodgson , British musician
• March 21 : Horst Hoffmann , German writer
• March 21 : Sergei Lavrov , Russian diplomat and foreign minister since 2004
• March 21 : Tiger Okoshi , Japanese-American jazz trumpeter
• March 22nd : Hugo Egon Balder , German actor and cabaret artist
  

  Hugo Egon Balder, 2004
• March 22nd : Pieke Biermann , German crime novelist and translator
• March 22nd : Goran Bregović , Bosnian musician and composer
• March 22nd : Herman Weigel , German film producer and screenwriter
• March 23 : James David Archibald , American zoologist
• March 23 : Corinne Cléry , French actress
• March 23 : Michael Easley , American politician and governor of North Carolina
• March 24th : Johanna Arenhövel , German politician
• March 24th : Claudia Lux , German librarian
• March 26th : Peter Paul Ahrens , German politician
• March 26th : Martin Short , actor, screenwriter and producer
• March 26 : Alan Silvestri , American composer
• March 27th : Tony Banks , British musician
• March 27 : David Edgar , American swimmer and Olympic champion
• March 27 : Burk Mertens , German radio presenter and carnivalist († 2004 )
• March 28 : Roland Andersson , Swedish football player and coach
• March 29 : Werner Fischer , German civil rights activist
• March 30th : Robbie Coltrane , Scottish actor
• March 30th : Bernd Grimmer , German economist and politician
• March 31 : András Adorján , Hungarian chess player

April

• 0April 1 : Lothar Binding , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0April 1 : Paolo Conti , Italian football player

Currie on Ultravox's Return to Eden tour in Duisburg's Theater am Marientor , August 7, 2009

• 0April 1st : Billy Currie , British musician and songwriter
• 0April 1 : Loris Kessel , Swiss racing driver († 2010 )
• 0April 1st : Ed Nijpels , Dutch politician
• 0April 2 : Klaus Arp , German composer, conductor and music teacher († 2016 )
• 0April 3 : Diether Dehm , German politician, also songwriter and author
• 0April 3 : Georges Christoffel Maria Evers , Dutch nursing scientist († 2003 )
• 0April 3 : Roswitha Müller-Piepenkötter , German politician
• 0April 4 : Klaus Kreuzeder , German saxophonist († 2014 )
• 0April 5 : Bent Åserud , Norwegian composer

Agnetha Fältskog , 1977

• 0April 5th : Agnetha Fältskog , Swedish singer
• 0April 5th : Harpo , Swedish pop singer
• 0April 6 : Nelson Dawidjan , Soviet wrestler († 2016 )
• 0April 6th : Tina Engel , German actress
• 0April 6 : Sue Schell , Swiss-American singer
• 0April 7th : Tor Fuglevik , Norwegian journalist and media manager
• 0April 7 : Günther Friedrich Nolting , German politician († 2008 )
• 0April 7th : Cyriak Schwaighofer , Austrian politician
• 0April 7th : Franz Wittmann , Austrian rally driver
• 0April 8 : Hans-Rudolf Bachmann , Swiss Protestant Reformed pastor and author
• 0April 8 : Martin Grzimek , German writer
• 0April 8th : Grzegorz Lato , Polish football player
• 0April 8th : Margrit Wetzel , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0April 9th : Wolfram Kuschke , German politician and Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
• April 10 : Kurt Edler , German teacher and Hamburg politician
• April 10 : Eddie Hazel , American guitarist († 1992 )
• April 11 : Paul Fromin , French composer and conductor
• April 12th : Georgi Ananiev , Bulgarian politician
• April 12 : Flavio Briatore , Italian Formula 1 team boss

David Cassidy , 2007

• April 12 : David Cassidy , American actor and singer († 2017 )
• April 12th : Emilio Del Guercio , Argentinian rock guitarist and bassist
• April 12th : Joachim Knape , German professor of general rhetoric
• April 13 : Ron Perlman , American actor
• April 13 : Dieter Perlowski , German writer
• April 14 : Péter Esterházy , Hungarian writer († 2016 )
• April 15 : Abd al-Rahman ibn Hamad al-Attiyya , Qatari diplomat and politician
• April 15 : Paul Lüönd , Swiss Schwyzergerger and politician († 2014 )
• April 15 : Azmi Mohamed Megahed , Egyptian volleyball player († 2020 )
• April 16 : Luqman Arnold , British manager
• April 16 : Thierry Perrier , French racing car driver
• April 18 : Philip Akin , Canadian actor
• April 18 : Grigory Sokolow , Russian pianist
• April 18 : Wolfram Tschiche , GDR opposition activist and philosopher
• April 19 : Harald Hein , German fencer († 2008 )
• April 20 : Humberto Coelho , Portuguese football player and coach
• April 20 : Detlef Helling , German politician
• April 20 : Alexander Ivanovich Lebed , Russian politician and governor of Krasnoyarsk († 2002 )
• April 21 : Benedikt Dyrlich , Sorbian writer, politician and editor-in-chief
• April 22nd : Peter Frampton , British rock musician
• April 23 : Maria Böhmer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• April 24 : Rob Hyman , American musician
• April 24th : Anita Lochner , German actress and voice actress
• April 24th : Helmut Rau , German politician and Member of the State Parliament
• April 25 : Helmut Draxler , Austrian manager
• April 25th : Steve Ferrone , British soul drummer
• April 25 : Peter Hintze , German politician († 2016 )
• April 25 : Heribert Rech , German politician
• April 26th : Patrick Artero , French jazz trumpeter, cornetist and flugelhorn player
• April 26 : L. Shankar , Indian violinist and composer
• April 27 : Paolino Pulici , Italian football player
• April 27th : Reinhard Wolf , German geographer, nature and monument conservationist, non-fiction author
• April 28th : Martin Asphaug , Norwegian film director and screenwriter
• April 28 : Brian Brett , Canadian writer and poet

Jay Leno , 2005

• April 28 : Jay Leno , American comedian and television presenter
• April 29th : Hans Altherr , Swiss politician
• April 29th : Phillip Noyce , Australian director
• April 29 : Yonehara Mari , Japanese writer († 2006 )
• April 29 : Bjarne Reuter , Danish writer
• April 30 : Ursula Auerswald , German doctor and politician († 2004 )
• April 30th : Pedro Barceló , Spanish-German ancient historian
• April 30 : Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt , German politician and judge at the Federal Constitutional Court

May

• 0May 2nd : Ulrich Goll , German politician
• 0May 2nd : Angela Krauss , German writer
• 0May 2nd : Manfred Maurenbrecher , German songwriter and author
• 0May 2 : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , American gender theorist and author († 2009 )
• 0May 3rd : Dag Syver Arnesen , Norwegian pianist
• 0May 3rd : Wolfram Bodag , German blues musician, lyricist and composer
• 0May 3rd : Mary Hopkin , British singer
• 0May 3rd : Helmuth Pree , Austrian canon lawyer
• 0May 5th : Maggie MacNeal , Dutch singer
• 0May 5 : Morton Rhue , American writer
  

  Morton Rhue , 2006
• 0May 5th : Barbara Salesch , German judge
• 0May 6 : Jeffery Deaver , American writer
• 0May 6 : Stelian Moculescu , coach of the German men's national volleyball team
• 0May 6th : Rainer Potschak , German soccer player
• 0May 7th : Anna Elisabeth Achatz , Austrian farmer and politician
• 0May 7 : John Coates , Australian lawyer and sports official
• 0May 7th : Elisabeth Gürtler-Mauthner , Austrian entrepreneur
• 0May 7th : Bernd Tauber , German actor
• 0May 8 : José Ángel Gurría , Mexican politician and OECD Secretary General
• 0May 9 : Luciano Spinosi , Italian football player
• May 11 : Rolf Gith , German painter, graphic artist and designer
• May 12 : Bruce Boxleitner , American actor
• May 12 : Gabriel Byrne , Irish film actor
• May 12 : Günter "Holly" Holwas , German blues musician († 2014 )
• May 12th : Renate Stecher , German athlete
• May 13 : Sleiman Hajjar , Lebanese Bishop in Canada († 2002 )
• May 13 : Danny Kirwan , British musician († 2018 )
• May 13 : Stevie Wonder , American pop singer
  

  Stevie Wonder , 2006
• May 14 : Mark Blum , American actor († 2020 )
• May 14 : Veljko Barbieri , Croatian author
• May 15 : Ernst Dörfler , German author, environmentalist and co-founder of the Green Party in the GDR
  

  Ernst Paul Dörfler
• May 15 : Bernd Schröder , German politician († 2013 )
• May 16 : Johannes Georg Bednorz , German physicist
• May 16 : Siemen Rühaak , German actor, singer and director
• May 17 : Howard Ashman , American writer and producer († 1991 )
• May 17 : Janez Drnovšek , Slovenian politician and statesman († 2008 )
• May 17th : Werther Lohse , German rock musician
• May 17th : Algirdas Martinaitis , Lithuanian composer
• May 17 : Valerija Novodworskaja , Russian radical-liberal politician and publicist († 2014 )
• May 17th : Lena Wixell , former Swedish child actress
• May 18 : Thomas Gottschalk , German TV presenter and actor
  

  Thomas Gottschalk , 2010
• May 18 : Mark Mothersbaugh , American musician, composer and singer
• May 19 : Peter Ponger , Austrian jazz pianist and film composer
• May 19 : Tadeusz Ślusarski , Polish athlete († 1998 )
• May 19 : Austin Stevens , South African adventurer and documentary filmmaker
• May 20th : Ray Bellm , British racing car driver
• May 20 : Victor Lewis , American jazz drummer
• May 22 : Michio Ashikaga , Japanese soccer player
• May 23 : Matthias Holtmann , German radio editor
• May 25 : Otomar Kvěch , Czech composer and music teacher († 2018 )
• May 25th : Thomas Osman , Eritrean Bishop
• May 26 : Yevgeny Gorstkow , Soviet boxer († 2020 )
• May 26 : Ewa Klamt , German politician and member of the European Parliament
• May 27 : Dee Dee Bridgewater , American jazz singer
• May 27th : Rita Grießhaber , German politician
• May 27 : Heinz Lanfermann , German politician
• May 29 : Oskar Ansull , German writer and reciter
• May 29 : Matthias Siegfried Augustin , German theologian
• May 29 : Lothar Hay , German politician
• May 29 : Rebbie Jackson , American singer and musician
• May 30th : Bertrand Delanoë , French politician, Mayor of Paris
• May 30th : Peter van Roye , German rower
• May 31 : Volker Anding , German director, multimedia artist, Grimme Prize laureate and university professor
• May 31 : Jorge Enrique Taiana , Argentine politician
• 00.May: Abu Ubaida al-Banschiri , Egyptian terrorist († 1996 )

June

• 0June 1 : Tim Bishop , American politician
• 0June 1 : Gennady Manakov , Soviet cosmonaut († 2019 )
• 0June 1st : Roger Van Gool , Belgian football player

Peter Hans , August 2004

• 0June 1 : Peter Hans , German politician († 2007 )
• 0June 1st : Annemarie Jorritsma , Dutch politician
• 0June 2nd : Nicos Apostolidis , German-Greek musician
• 0June 2nd : Jonathan Evans , British politician
• 0June 3 : Marianne Bachmeier , German woman who shot her daughter's murderer († 1996 )
• 0June 3 : Melissa Mathison , American screenwriter († 2015 )
• 0June 3 : Suzi Quatro , American singer
• 0June 3 : Deniece Williams , American R&B and gospel singer
• 0June 5th : Avi Assouly , French football player, sports journalist and politician
• 0June 5th : Albrecht Beutelspacher , German mathematician
• 0June 5th : Thea Dückert , German politician
• 0June 5 : Ronnie Dyson , American pop singer († 1990 )
• 0June 5th : Johannes Voggenhuber , Austrian politician

Rowan Williams , 2007

• 0June 6th : Chantal Akerman , Belgian film director and professor of film († 2015 )
• 0June 8th : Sônia Braga , Brazilian actress
• 0June 9 : Ulrich Adam , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0June 9th : Trevor Bolder , English rock bassist († 2013 )
• 0June 9th : Angelika Buck , German figure skater
• June 10 : Hans Hugenholtz Junior , Dutch racing driver and entrepreneur
• June 10 : Anna Jantar , Polish pop singer († 1980 )
• June 10 : Marcel Khalifé , Lebanese musician and composer
• June 12 : Klaus Eberhartinger , Austrian musician and comedian
• June 12th : Vyacheslav Ivanovich Polunin , Russian clown

Lakshmi Mittal .

• June 13 : Nick Brown , British politician and minister
• June 13 : Gerd Zewe , German soccer player
• June 14th : Cosey , Swiss comic artist and illustrator
• June 14 : Rowan Williams , Archbishop of Canterbury
• June 15 : Alan Feinberg , American pianist and music teacher
• June 15 : Lakshmi Mittal , Indian steel magnate
• June 16 : Paweł Anweiler , German theologian
• June 16 : Klaus Lage , German musician
• June 17th : Thomas Freitag , German cabaret artist
• June 17th : Rudolf Mang , German weightlifter († 2018 )
• June 18 : Annelie Ehrhardt , German athlete
• June 18 : Mike Johanns , American politician
• June 18 : Jackie Leven , British composer and folk musician († 2011 )
• June 19th : Ann Wilson , front vocalist for Heart group

Gudrun Landgrebe , 2012

• June 20 : Gudrun Landgrebe , German actress
• June 21 : Rainer Arnold , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• June 21 : Anne Carson , Canadian poet, essayist, translator and classical philologist
• June 21 : John Paul Young , Australian pop singer
• June 22nd : Adrian Năstase , Romanian politician
• June 22 : Zenonas Petrauskas , Lithuanian international lawyer and politician († 2009 )
• June 23 : Dave Butz , American football player
• June 23 : Pavel Gililov , Russian pianist
• June 23 : Wolfgang Herrmann , German singer, composer, lyricist and arranger
• June 23 : John Katzenbach , American writer
• June 23 : Cardinal Orani João Tempesta , Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro
• June 24th : Wilfried , Austrian singer († 2017 )
• June 25 : Paul Breuer , German politician, district administrator of Siegen-Wittgenstein
• June 25 : Michel Côté , Canadian actor
• June 25 : Uğur Erdener , Turkish sports official
• June 26th : Peter Gaymann , German cartoonist and author
• June 26th : Klaus Schlagheck , German handball player
• June 27 : Clay Blaker , American country musician
• June 27 : Renate Gradistanac , German politician
• June 27 : Ursula Kabas , Austrian writer
• June 28 : Ulvi Arslan , German civil engineer
• June 28 : Guttorm Guttormsen , Norwegian jazz musician
• June 28 : Ernst Kranz , German politician
• June 28th : Marlene Streeruwitz , Austrian writer
• June 29th : Gerald Thalheim , German politician
• June 30th : Bodo Fürneisen , German film director and screenwriter
• June 30th : Leonard Whiting , British actor

July

• 0July 1st : Elke Aberle , German actress

Reinhard Mirmseker at the German Figure Skating Championships 2006 in Berlin

• 0July 1 : Konrad Breitenborn , German historian and politician, MdL
• 0July 1st : Reinhard Mirmseker , German figure skater
• 0July 2nd : Annika Thor , Swedish writer
• 0July 3 : James Hahn , American politician, Mayor of Los Angeles
• 0July 5 : Huey Lewis , American musician and actor
• 0July 5th : Manfred Schütz , German entrepreneur
• 0July 6 : Gabriele Albertini , Italian politician
• 0July 6th : Hans-Joachim Andree , German soccer player
• 0July 6 : Rainer Osmann , German handball player and coach
• 0July 7th : Vaughn Armstrong , American film actor
• 0July 7th : Gerda Hasselfeldt , German politician
• 0July 9 : Viktor Yanukovych , Ukrainian politician
• 0July 9th : Adriano Panatta , Italian tennis player
• 0July 9th : Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo , Indonesian Archbishop and Cardinal
• July 10 : Prokopis Pavlopoulos , Greek President
• July 10 : James Anthony Walker , American composer
• July 11 : Petras Ancelis , Lithuanian lawyer, criminalist, jurist and professor
• July 12 : Eric Carr , American musician and drummer († 1991 )
• July 13 : Leonid Gosman , Russian politician
• July 14 : Frank Carillo , American rock musician
• July 15 : Lam Akol Ajawin , Sudanese politician
• July 16 : Gerd Christian , actually Gerd-Christian Biege, German pop singer
• July 17 : Anthony Ríos , Dominican singer and composer († 2019 )
• July 17 : Phoebe Snow , American singer († 2011 )
• July 17th : Andreas Troge , German economist, President of the Federal Environment Agency
• July 18 : Richard Branson , English entrepreneur, balloonist
• July 18 : Robert Harold Bredl , Australian documentary filmmaker, wildlife park owner and reptile specialist
• July 18 : Jack Layton , Canadian politician († 2011 )
• July 18 : Jakob Tanner , Swiss modern historian
• July 18 : Mark Udall , American politician

Per-Kristian Foss

• July 19 : Per-Kristian Foss , Norwegian politician
• July 19 : Craig Siebert , American racing driver († 1999 )
• July 20 : Elfriede Kern , Austrian writer
• July 21 : Ubaldo Fillol , Argentinian soccer player
• July 21 : Hans-Kurt Hill , German politician
• July 23 : Igor Giorgadze , Georgian State Security Minister
• July 23 : Konrad Nabel , German politician
• July 24th : Walter Schachermayer , Austrian mathematician
• July 24 : James Glickenhaus , American director, screenwriter, producer, and investment manager
• July 25 : Gerold Amelung , German diplomat
• July 28 : Hellmut Königshaus , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• July 28 : Isidore Battikha , Syrian Archbishop
• July 29 : Monika Auweter-Kurtz , German physicist
• July 29th : Jenny Holzer , American concept artist
• July 29th : Maricica Puică , Romanian athlete and Olympic champion
• July 29th : Helmut Schmitzberger , Austrian composer and conductor
• July 29th : Radu Voina , Romanian handball player and coach
• July 30 : Erroll Fraser , speed skater from the British Virgin Islands († 2002 )
• July 30 : Frank Stallone , American actor and singer
• July 31 : Michel Gonneville , Canadian composer
• July 31 : Reinhard Kluth , German church musician († 2020 )
• July 31 : Gérard Tremblay , French racing driver

August

• 0August 1st : Annegrit Arens , German writer and screenwriter
• 0August 1st : Stephan Braunfels , German architect
• 0August 1 : Roy Williams , American basketball coach
• 0August 2nd : Jussi Adler-Olsen , Danish author
• 0August 2nd : Joan Albert Amargós , Spanish conductor and composer
• 0August 2nd : Mathieu Carrière , German actor
  

  Mathieu Carrière , 2004
• 0August 2nd : Ted Turner , British guitarist
• 0August 3rd : Waldemar Cierpinski , German marathon runner
• 0August 3 : John Landis , American film director and screenwriter
• 0August 3 : Ernesto Samper , Colombian politician, President of the Republic of Colombia
• 0August 4th : Giulia Follina , German actress
• 0August 4th : István Jónyer , Hungarian table tennis player
• 0August 4th : Danny Williams , Canadian politician
• 0August 5th : Dieter Ammer , German manager
• 0August 5th : Rosi Mittermaier , German ski racer
  

  Rosi Mittermaier (left) with husband Christian Neureuther, 2013
• 0August 5th : Frank Terletzki , German soccer player
• 0August 6 : Damião António Franklin , Angolan Archbishop of Luanda († 2014 )
• 0August 7 : Rodney Crowell , American country singer, songwriter, and producer
• 0August 7th : Éric Graham , French racing car driver
• 0August 7th : Dave Wottle , American middle-distance runner and Olympic champion
• 0August 8 : Martine Aubry , French politician and Mayor of Lille
• 0August 8 : W. Craig Broadwater , American lawyer († 2006 )
• 0August 8 : Ken Kutaragi , Japanese manager
• 0August 8 : Jamie O'Hara , American country singer and songwriter
• 0August 9 : Anémone , French actress († 2019 )
• 0August 9 : Ulla Brede-Hoffmann , German politician
• 0August 9 : Mauro Corona , Italian mountaineer, sculptor and writer
• August 10 : Patti Austin , American soul, R&B and jazz singer
• August 10 : Rémy Girard , Canadian actor
• August 11 : Elmar Kraushaar , German journalist and writer
• August 11 : Steve Wozniak , American computer engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Apple Computer
  

  Steve Wozniak
• August 12 : Iris Berben , German actress
  

  Iris Berben , 2012
• August 12 : George McGinnis , American basketball player
• August 14th : Gary Larson , American comic artist and cartoonist
• August 14 : Joseph Pehrson , American composer and pianist
• August 15 : Kurt Andermann , German historian and archivist
• August 15 : Neil J. Gunther , Australian scientist
• August 15 : Anne, Princess Royal , English princess and daughter of Elizabeth II.
• August 15th : Jorma Ollila , Finnish entrepreneur
• August 15 : Gaylen Ross , American filmmaker and former actress
• August 15 : Erwin Stricker , Italian ski racer and entrepreneur († 2010 )
• August 16 : Hasely Crawford , athlete from Trinidad and Tobago
• August 16 : Wiltrud Drexel , Austrian ski racer
• August 16 : Josef Göppel , German politician
• August 17th : Christian Kohlund , Swiss actor
• August 18 : Jeffrey Burns , American composer and pianist († 2004 )
• August 18th : Jerry Martin , American ski jumper
• August 18 : Fusanosuke Natsume , Japanese mangaka and manga critic
• August 18 : Ingo Stawitz , German politician
• August 19 : Anita Ammersfeld , Austrian soprano, actress and theater director
• August 20 : Manfred Wittrock , German psychologist
• August 20 : Petra Kandarr , German sprinter († 2017 )
• August 20 : Irena Kukutz , German politician, artist and publicist
• August 21 : Patrick Juvet , Swiss singer, pianist and songwriter
• August 22nd : Lewis Libby , American lawyer and politician
• August 23 : Luigi Delneri , Italian football player and coach
• August 25 : Nugsar Bagration-Grusinski , head of the Georgian royal family
• August 25 : Willy DeVille , American musician († 2009 )
• August 26th : Hans-Christoph Ammon , German Brigadier General
• August 26th : Ahmet Özhan , Turkish singer of classical Turkish and mystical music
• August 27 : Mario Benusiglio , Italian racing car driver († 2014 )
• August 28 : Roberto Appratto , Uruguayan writer and literary critic
• August 28 : Michael Anthony Arthur , British diplomat
• August 29th : Wolfgang Albert , German doctor
• August 29 : Norbert Rüther , German politician
• August 29 : Manfred Zöllmer , German politician
• August 30th : Horacio Cabarcos , Argentine double bass player and tango musician
• August 30th : Dana , Irish singer and politician
• August 30th : Li Zhanshu , Chinese politician
• August 30th : Micky Moody , British guitarist
• August 31 : Irene Gruss , Argentine poet († 2018 )
• 00.August: Mamady Keïta , Guinean musician

September

• 0September 1st : Wagit Yusufowitsch Alekperow , Russian entrepreneur
• 0September 1st : Mikhail Jefimowitsch Fradkow , Prime Minister of Russia
• 0September 1st : Johann Gärtner , German politician
• 0September 1st : Stefan Junge , German athlete
  

  Stefan Junge, 1972
• 0September 1st : Neithard Resa , German violist
• 0September 1st : Per-Inge Walfridsson , Swedish car athlete
• 0September 2nd : Michael Rother , German musician
• 0September 2nd : Zvonimir Serdarušić , German handball coach
• 0September 3 : Jean-Pierre Abelin , French politician
• 0September 5th : Julien Andavo Mbia , Congolese bishop of Isiro-Niangara
• 0September 6 : Uwe Kagelmann , German figure skater
• 0September 6th : Charlie Nearburg , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 0September 6th : Christoph Sramek , German music historian and critic
• 0September 7th : Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva , Brazilian soccer player and journalist († 2016 )
• 0September 8 : James N. Mattis , US Military and Defense Secretary
• 0September 8th : Léa Pool , Swiss-Canadian film director and screenwriter
• 0September 8 : Zachary Richard , American singer-songwriter and author
• 0September 9 : Ulrike Arnold , German artist
• September 10 : Babette Cole , British children's author and illustrator († 2017 )
• September 10th : Anthony Joseph "Joe" Perry , American musician
• September 11th : Barry Sheene , British motorcycle racer († 2003 )
• September 13 : Josef Arnold , Swiss politician
• September 13 : Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz , Polish politician
• September 13 : Peter Larisch , German handball player
• September 14 : Paul Kossoff , English rock and blues guitarist († 1976 )
• September 14th : Eugene Huu-Chau "Gene" Trinh , American astronaut
  

  Eugene Huu-Chau Trinh
• September 14 : Lukas Beckmann , German politician
• September 15 : Mirza Masrur Ahmad , Khalifat ul-Massih V.
• September 16 : Loyola de Palacio , Spanish politician († 2006 )
• September 17th : Viktor Lois , Hungarian sculptor, installation and multimedia artist
• September 18 : Shabana Azmi , Indian film actress and social activist
• September 18 : Luis Contreras , American actor († 2004 )
• September 19 : Erkki Liikanen , Finnish politician
• September 19th : André Lombard , Swiss champion in chess
• September 20 : Hassan Aref , Egyptian-American engineer and physicist († 2011 )
• September 20 : Hans-Peter Wetzel , German politician
• September 21 : Charles Clarke , British politician
• September 21 : Bill Murray , American actor
  

  Bill Murray, 2009
• September 21 : Hans Demant , German engineer and CEO of Adam Opel AG
• September 22nd : Max Färberböck , German film director
• September 22nd : Gerd Frähmcke , German athlete
• September 23 : Niels Henrik Arendt , Danish Bishop († 2015 )
• September 23 : George Garzone , American jazz saxophonist and teacher
• September 23 : Timothy Keller , American Presbyterian theologian, pastor, church planter, and best-selling author
• September 23 : Dietmar Lorenz , German judoka and Olympic champion
• September 24 : Samuel Joseph Aquila , American Archbishop
• September 24th : Philippe Dermagne , French racing driver
• September 25 : Jan Paul Niederkorn , Austrian historian
• September 25 : Helmut Schmiedt , German literary scholar
• September 26 : Helmut Ahrens , German biographer and journalist
• September 26th : Bärbel Struppert , German athlete
• September 26th : Rolf Töpperwien , German sports reporter
• September 27 : Fabienne Pakleppa , Swiss writer
• September 27th : Emil Sänze , German business economist and politician
• September 28 : John Sayles , American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor
• September 28 : Josef Tošovský , Czech banker and politician
• September 30th : Mariano García Remón , Spanish football coach

October

• 0October 1st : Uschi Bauer , German singer of popular music
• 0October 1 : Randy Quaid , American actor
• 0October 2nd : Pietro Algeri , Italian cyclist and coach
• 0October 2nd : Ian McNeice , British actor
• 0October 2nd : Mike Rutherford , British bass and guitarist
• 0October 3 : Dennis Holmes , American actor
• 0October 3rd : Andrzej Szarmach , Polish soccer player and soccer coach
• 0October 3 : Siegfried Voigt , German handball player
• 0October 4th : Stefan Bajohr , German politician and social scientist
• 0October 4th : Michael Heubach , German rock musician and composer
• 0October 4th : Klaus Scheer , German soccer player
• 0October 5th : Paola Felix , Swiss singer
• 0October 5th : Laura Gemser , Indonesian actress and porn star
• 0October 5th : Hugo Hovenkamp , Dutch football player
• 0October 5 : James Rizzi , American artist († 2011 )
• 0October 6th : Pierre-Yves Asselin , French organist and music teacher
• 0October 6 : David Brin , American science fiction writer
• 0October 6 : Alois Rhiel , Hessian Minister of Economics
• 0October 8 : Johanna Auer , Austrian politician
• 0October 8 : Miguel Angel Brindisi , Argentine soccer player
• 0October 9 : Jody Williams , American teacher and human rights activist, Nobel Prize winner
• October 10 : Nora Roberts , American novelist
• October 10 : Takashi Yorino , Japanese racing car driver
• October 11th : Albert "Al" Anderson , American guitarist
• October 12 : Susan Anton , American singer and film actress
• October 12 : Roland Asch , German racing driver
• October 12 : Horst Friedrich , German politician
• October 12 : Andrzej Mitan , Polish singer, composer, concept and video artist, poet, art organizer and publisher († 2018 )
• October 13 : Hans Wilhelm Kristofer Agrell , Swedish historian and writer
• October 13 : Mayke de Jong , Dutch historian
• October 13 : Simon Nicol , British folk rock musician
• October 13 : Annegret Richter , German athlete
• October 13 : Rolf Rüssmann , German soccer player and manager († 2009 )
• October 14 : Kurt Jara , Austrian football player and coach
• October 15 : Horst Stachelhaus , German bass player and journalist († 1999 )
• October 17th : Philippe Barbarin , Archbishop of Lyon and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• October 17th : Peter Eichstädt , German politician
• October 17th : Erich Kühnhackl , German ice hockey player and coach
• October 18th : Mervyn Africa , British jazz musician
• October 18 : Gudrun Kopp , German politician
• October 18 : Annamaria Morini , Italian musician († 2016 )
• October 18 : Wendy Wasserstein , American playwright († 2006 )
• October 20 : Tom Petty , American musician († 2017 )
  

  Tom Petty
• October 20 : Christine Schnell , German actress and theater pedagogue
• October 21 : Riccardo Agusta , Italian entrepreneur and racing car driver († 2018 )
• October 22nd : Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller , historian and professor of medieval history
• October 22 : Bill Owens , American politician, governor of Colorado
• October 23 : Fidèle Agbatchi , Archbishop of Benin
• October 23 : Lothar Doering , German handball player and trainer
• October 23 : Harry Sacksioni , Dutch musician and composer
• October 24 : Helmut Brandt , German politician
• October 24 : Bert Pronk , Dutch cyclist († 2005 )
• October 25 : Chris Norman , British singer-songwriter
• October 25 : Fernando Areas Rifan , Brazilian Bishop
• October 26 : Jens Asendorpf , German psychologist
• October 26 : Anne Bärenz , German singer and pianist († 2005 )
• October 26 : Pavel Trávníček , Czech actor and voice actor
• October 27 : Richard Clarke , American terrorist expert
• October 28th : Sihem Bensedrine , Tunisian journalist
• October 28 : Annette Humpe , German pop singer and music producer
  

  Annette Humpe
• October 29 : James Dillon , English composer
• October 29 : Abdullah Gül , Turkish politician
• October 29 : Inge Höger-Neuling , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• October 30 : Adamos Adamou , Cypriot politician
• October 30th : Erika Ober , German politician
• October 31 : John Candy , Canadian comedian and actor († 1994 )
• October 31 : Harald Ganzinger , German computer scientist († 2004 )
• October 31 : Zaha Hadid , Iraqi-British architect and professor († 2016 )

November

Barbara Fairchild .

Robert B. Laughlin 1998

• 0November 1 : Robert B. Laughlin , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• 0November 1 : Julio F. Largacha , Argentine pianist and professor of piano († 2006 )
• 0November 1st : Mitch Kapor , American software developer and entrepreneur
• 0November 2nd : Frank Diez , German guitarist, composer, lyricist and producer
• 0November 2nd : Ljubomir Ljubojević , Serbian chess master
• 0November 2nd : Erika Mann , German politician and MEP
• 0November 2nd : Jürgen Wilhelm , German soccer player
• 0November 3 : Hias , Austrian singer, entertainer and accordion player († 2007 )
• 0November 4 : Jon W. Finson , American musicologist
• 0November 4 : Charles Frazier , American writer
• 0November 4th : Karlheinz Steinmüller , German writer
• 0November 5th : Manni von Bohr , German musician
• 0November 5 : Thorbjørn Jagland , Norwegian social democratic politician
• 0November 5th : Walter Plathe , German actor
• 0November 6th : Lothar Kurbjuweit , German soccer player
• 0November 7th : Lindsay Duncan , British actress
• 0November 7th : Robert Redl , German soccer player († 2016 )
• 0November 9th : Tahani al-Gebali , Egyptian judge
• 0November 9th : Johannes Schmoelling , German musician
• November 11th : Pierre Pagani , French racing car driver
• November 12 : Barbara Fairchild , American country singer and songwriter
• November 12th : Charlotte Kerner , German writer and journalist
• November 12th : Ulrich Schulze , German chess player
• November 12 : Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh , Dutch actor († 1997 )
• November 16 : Harvey Martin , American football player († 2001 )
• November 17 : Adalbert Durrer , Swiss politician († 2008 )

Roland Matthes .

• November 17th : Christine Heindl , Austrian politician
• November 17 : Roland Matthes , world record holder and four-time Olympic champion in swimming († 2019 )
• November 18 : Graham Parker , British musician and songwriter
• November 20 : Siegfried Kauder , German politician
• November 21 : Alberto Juantorena , Cuban athlete
• November 21 : Günter Rosenke , German politician
• November 21 : Gennady Mikhailovich Karponosov , Russian figure skater
• November 22nd : Franjo Marincic , German actor
• November 22 : Steven Van Zandt , American musician, record producer and actor
• November 24th : Marco Biagi , Italian professor of labor law († 2002 )
• November 25th : Eckhard Cordes , German manager
• November 25 : Giorgio Faletti , Italian author, presenter, composer and actor († 2014 )
• November 26th : Stefan Bartmann , German director
• November 26th : Dieter Burdenski , German soccer player
• November 27 : Wayne Eagling , Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer
• November 27 : Philippe Delerm , French writer
• November 28 : Emanuel Ammon , Swiss photographer
• November 28th : Hans Fassnacht , German swimmer

Ed Harris

• November 28 : Ed Harris , American actor, director and producer
• November 28 : Russell Hulse , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• November 28 : Andrä Wolter , German educational scientist
• November 29th : Jean-François Baldé , French motorcycle racer
• November 29 : Ian Hideo Levy , American-Japanese writer and translator
• November 29th : Dietmar Danner , German soccer player
• November 29th : Georg Quander , German opera and film director, music journalist, author and former State Opera director of the German State Opera Berlin, cultural manager and since 2005 cultural department of the city of Cologne
• November 29th : Einar Henning Smebye , Norwegian pianist and music teacher
• November 30th : Wolfgang Niersbach , German sports journalist and football official
• November 30th : Claudia Rieschel , German actress

December

• 0December 1st : Absalom Themba Dlamini , Prime Minister of Swaziland
• 0December 1 : Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler , German politician
• 0December 1 : Ueli Maurer , Swiss politician
  

  Ueli Maurer , 2011
• 0December 1 : Paul Vincent , German musician and composer († 2016 )
• 0December 2 : Otto Georgens , auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Speyer
• 0December 2nd : Ursela Monn , Swiss actress
  

  Ursela Monn at the Berlinale 2011
• 0December 4th : Renate Augstein , German lawyer and ministerial director
• 0December 4th : Barry Blue , British singer, songwriter and producer
• 0December 4th : Pierino Gavazzi , Italian cyclist
• 0December 4th : Ingo Wegener , German computer scientist († 2008 )
• 0December 6th : Guy Drut , French sportsman
• 0December 6th : Chris Hodgetts , British racing car driver
• 0December 6th : Hisaishi Joe , Japanese composer
• 0December 7th : Rimas Andrikis , Lithuanian lawyer
• 0December 7th : Wiesław Kwaśny , Polish violinist, violist and music teacher
• 0December 8 : Dan Hartman , American musician († 1994 )
• 0December 8th : Arthur König , German politician, Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald
• 0December 9th : Joan Armatrading , British singer
• 0December 9th : Wolfgang Fierek , German actor and pop singer
• 0December 9th : Alan Sorrenti , Italian singer, guitarist and songwriter
• December 12 : Heiner Flassbeck , German economist
• December 12th : Richard Galliano , French jazz accordionist and composer
• December 13 : Tom Vilsack , Iowa Governor
• December 14th : Christiane Krause , German athlete
• December 15th : Alain Flotard , French racing driver
• December 15 : Jerry Grossman , American cellist
• December 15 : Boris Gryzlov , Russian politician
• December 15th : Stjepko Gut , Serbian jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
• December 15 : Sophy , Puerto Rican singer
• December 16 : Mark Alan Adler , American mathematician
• December 16 : Krzysztof Baculewski , Polish composer and music teacher
• December 17th : Solomon Amanchukwu Amatu , Nigerian Bishop of Okigwe
• December 17th : Carlton Lloyd "Carlie" Barrett , Jamaican drummer († 1987 )
• December 18 : Gillian Armstrong , Australian director
• December 18 : Rolf Gaßmann , German politician
• December 18 : Leonard Maltin , American film critic
• December 19 : Hans-Jürgen Andexer , German soccer player
• December 19 : Walter Frosch , German soccer player († 2013 )
• December 19 : Jürgen Fuchs , German civil rights activist and writer († 1999 )
• December 19 : Imerio Testori , Italian motorcycle racer († 1976 )
• December 20 : Bongi Makeba , South African singer and songwriter († 1985 )
• December 21 : Thomas Hürlimann , Swiss writer
• December 21 : Jeffrey Katzenberg , American film producer
• December 22nd : Roland Stegmayer , German soccer player
• December 23 : Vicente del Bosque , Spanish football coach and football player
  

  Vicente del Bosque
• December 23 : Cyro Baptista , Brazilian jazz percussionist
• December 23 : Axel Kählert , German handball player
• December 24th : Jürgen Achtel , German soccer player
• December 24 : Dana Gioia , American poet, essayist, and literary critic
• December 24th : Urs Kliby , Swiss ventriloquist
• December 25 : Karl Rove , American party strategist and Spin Doctor
• December 26 : Raja Pervez Ashraf , Pakistani politician
• December 27 : Joe Armstrong , British computer scientist († 2019 )
• December 27 : Roberto Bettega , Italian football player
• December 27 : Terry John Bozzio , American drummer
• December 28 : Nikolai Yuryevich Anfimov , Soviet boxer
• December 28 : Hugh McDonald , American musician
• December 29th : Edip Akbayram , Turkish composer and singer
• December 29th : Isabel Weicken , German actress, singer and musical artist
• December 30th : Dave Stewart , British keyboardist, arranger and producer
• December 30th : Bjarne Stroustrup , Danish computer scientist
• December 31 : Karl Addicks , German politician
• December 31 : Inge Helten , German athlete and Olympian

Day unknown

• Gaji Akhmedovich Abashilov , Russian journalist and politician († 2008 )
• Ziad Abu Amr , Palestinian politician, author and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council
• Barbara Magdalena Ahren , Austrian-Swiss actress and theater director
• Josef Aichholzer , Austrian film producer
• Musa Khan Akbarzada , Afghan politician
• Makio Akiyama , Japanese astronomer
• As-Sayyid al-Badawi Shahata , Egyptian businessman and politician
• Hama Amadou , Nigerien politician
• Jean-François Amiguet , Swiss film director and screenwriter
• Thomas E. Ammann , Swiss art dealer († 1993 )
• Mario Angelo , Austrian author and director († 2015 )
• Karl Michael Armer , German editor and author
• Hendrik Arnst , German actor
• Dietmar Aschenbach , German ski jumper and trainer
• Giuma Ahmed Abdallah Attaiga , Libyan politician
• Miguel Ausili , Argentine-Italian sculptor

Maïssa Bey

• Maïssa Bey , Algerian writer
• Kees Boeke , Dutch composer as well as gambist and recorder player
• Arthúr Björgvin Bollason , Icelandic journalist, writer and translator
• Eckart Brandt , German pomologist
• Stephan Breith , German cellist
• Jo Ann Endicott , Australian dancer
• Jorge Gabriel Fontenla , Argentine conductor, choir director and music teacher
• Michael Friedrichs-Friedlaender , German artist who produces the stumbling blocks to
• Larry Gaab , American composer
• Heinz Geisler , German rock musician and composer
• Guo Gengmao , Chinese politician
• Qin Guangrong , Chinese politician
• Michael Hametner , Austrian-German journalist, editor, speaker and critic
• Karlheinz Hartmann , German dialect actor
• Thomas Hartmann , German painter
• Bernd Kleinow , German harmonica player
• Etyen Mahçupyan , Armenian-Turkish journalist
• Jean-Jacques Milteau , French blues singer and harmonica player
• Joel Raaen , American composer, arranger, choir director, trombonist and music teacher
• Ciro Scarponi , Italian clarinetist and composer († 2006 )
• Roland Schaeffer , German musician
• John Schneider , American guitarist
• Stefan Siller , German journalist and radio host
• Lukas Stepanik , Austrian director and producer
• Wolfram Syré , German organist and musicologist
• Frieder Venus , German actor
• Marion Verbruggen , Dutch recorder player
• Nils Vigeland , American composer
• Irena Wisełka-Cieślar , Polish organist and music teacher
• Sus Zwick , Swiss artist

Died

January

Emil Jannings , 1929

• 0January 2 : Emil Jannings , German actor (* 1884 )
• 0January 5 : Herbert Bellmer , German teacher and writer (* 1895 )
• 0January 5 : Oswald Bumke , German psychiatrist and neurologist (* 1877 )
• 0January 5 : John Rabe , German merchant who saved 250,000 Chinese (* 1882 )
• 0January 8 : Joseph Schumpeter , Austrian economist and author (* 1883 )

Henry Harley Arnold , 1949/50

• January 15 : Henry Harley Arnold , American general (* 1886 )
• January 16 : Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , German diplomat, head of the Krupp Group (* 1870 )
• January 21 : Julius Lips , German ethnologist and legal sociologist (* 1895 )

George Orwell , 1933

• January 21 : George Orwell , British writer and essayist (* 1903 )
• January 23 : Wassil Kolarow , Bulgarian politician (* 1877 )
• January 27th : Orlando Spreng , Swiss postal worker and writer (* 1908 )
• January 28 : Joe McCoy , American blues guitarist and singer (* 1905 )
• January 30th : Franz Friedrich Andreae , German banker (* 1873 )
• January 30th : Eugen Ottowitsch Gunst , Russian composer (* 1877 )
• January 31 : Alfonso Esparza Oteo , Mexican composer, pianist and singer (* 1894 )

February

• 0February 1 : Buddy Stewart , American jazz singer (* 1922 )
• 0February 2 : Elisabeth Brönner , German politician and member of the Weimar National Assembly (* 1880 )

Elisabeth Brönner

• 0February 2 : Constantin Carathéodory , German mathematician of Greek origin (* 1873 )
• 0February 3 : Karl Seitz , Austrian politician (* 1869 )
• 0February 4 : Charlot Strasser , Swiss psychiatrist and writer (* 1884 )
• 0February 6 : Georges Imbert , Franco-German inventor (* 1884 )
• 0February 8 : Arthur Kampf , German history painter (* 1864 )
• 0February 8 : Ralph Roese , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1900 )
• February 10 : Marcel Mauss , French ethnologist (* 1872 )
• February 10 : Armen Tigranjan , Armenian composer (* 1879 )
• February 11 : Friedrich Lindemann , German writer and journalist (* 1898 )
• February 12 : Dirk Coster , Dutch physicist (* 1889 )
• February 12 : Friedrich (Fritz) Gansberg , German writer, elementary school teacher and reform pedagogue (* 1871 )
• February 13 : Rafael Sabatini , Italian-British writer (* 1875 )
• February 14 : Karl Guthe Jansky , American physicist and radio engineer (* 1905 )
• February 14 : Jean Charles Naber , Dutch legal scholar (* 1858 )
• February 15 : Erich Nehlhans , chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin (* 1899 )
• February 16 : Victor Julius Franz , German zoologist (* 1883 )
• February 20 : Carl Burger , German sculptor (* 1875 )
• February 25 : George Richards Minot , American doctor, Nobel Prize winner (* 1885 )
• February 27 : Herbert Assmann , German internist and university professor (* 1882 )
• February 27 : Yvan Goll , Franco-German poet (* 1891 )
• February 27 : Heinrich Waderé , German sculptor and medalist (* 1865 )

March

• 0March 2 : George Hively , American screenwriter and film editor (* 1889 )
• 0March 3 : Eugen Klöpfer , German actor (* 1886 )
• 0March 4th : Johanne Dybwad , Norwegian actress (* 1867 )

Albert Lebrun, 1937

• 0March 6 : Albert Lebrun , French politician and last President of the Third Republic (* 1871 )
• 0March 6 : Wladimir Wettschinkin , Soviet aerodynamicist (* 1888 )
• 0March 7th : Sebastian Fichtner , German Lieutenant General of the Third Reich (* 1894 )
• 0March 9 : Felix Buttersack , German military doctor and writer (* 1865 )

Heinrich Mann

• March 11th : Heinrich Mann , German writer (* 1871 )
• March 12 : Howard Sutherland , American politician (* 1865 )
• March 15 : Josef Andre , German politician (* 1879 )
• March 15 : Alice Blackwell , American journalist and suffragette (* 1857 )

Alice Blackwell

• March 15 : Luise Fleck , Austrian director (* 1873 )
• March 19 : Edgar Rice Burroughs , American writer (* 1875 )
• March 20 : Walter Eucken , German economist (* 1891 )
• March 23 : Josef Schatz , Austrian Germanist and dialect researcher (* 1871 )
• March 24th : James Rudolph Garfield , American politician (* 1865 )
• March 27 : Johann Michael Bossard , Swiss artist (* 1874 )
• March 27 : Leopold Hennet , Austrian agrarian, civil servant and minister (* 1876 )
• March 27th : Artur Mahraun , founder and "Grand Master" of the Young German Order, founder of the neighborhood movement (* 1890 )
• March 28 : Ernst Hellinger , German mathematician (* 1883 )
• March 29 : Jakub Appenszlak , Polish journalist, literary critic and translator (* 1894 )
• March 30th : Léon Blum , French politician (* 1872 )
• March 30th : Brynolf Wennerberg , Swedish poster artist and painter (* 1866 )

April

• 0April 2 : Friedrich Schönauer , German politician (* 1904 )
• 0April 3 : Kurt Weill , German composer (* 1900 )

Anna Pawlowa and Vaslav Nijinsky

• 0April 8 : Vaslav Nijinsky , Polish-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
• 0April 9 : Cemil Cem , Turkish cartoonist and editor (* 1882 )
• April 11 : Bainbridge Colby , American politician and former Secretary of State (* 1869 )
• April 14th : Ramana Maharshi , Indian spiritualist and yogi (* 1879 )
• April 15 : August Konermann , German Roman Catholic pastor and publicist (* 1881 )
• April 18 : Lazarus Goldschmidt , orientalist (* 1871 )
• April 18 : Wilhelm Scharrelmann , German teacher and writer (* 1875 )
• April 20 : Warwick Deeping , British writer (* 1877 )
• April 21 : Johannes Hohlfeld , German genealogist and historian (* 1888 )
• April 22nd : Jean Errecaldé , French racing driver (* 1893 )
• April 23 : Julian F. Abele , American architect (* 1881 )
• April 23 : Gemma Bellincioni , Italian opera soprano (* 1864 )
• April 24 : Richard Weissbach , German publisher (* 1882 )
• April 27 : Karl Straube , German organist and choir director (* 1873 )
• April 28 : Oakes Ames , American botanist (* 1874 )
• April 30 : Palmièri , Canadian actor (* 1871 )
• April 30 : Josef Reither , Austrian politician (* 1880 )

May

• 0May 2 : Abraham Asscher , Dutch diamond dealer and politician (* 1880 )
• 0May 2 : Paul Eugen Sieg , German physicist and writer of technical science fiction (* 1899 )
• 0May 4 : William Rose Benét , American poet and editor (* 1886 )
• May 10 : Vasile Aftenie , Romanian auxiliary bishop (* 1899 )
• May 17 : Eduardo Fabini , Uruguayan composer (* 1882 )
• May 17th : Anton Kolig , Austrian painter (* 1886 )
• May 19 : Giuseppe Garibaldi the Younger , Italian adventurer and revolutionary (* 1879 )
• May 20 : Leopold Andres , Austrian general, cartographer and geodesist (* 1866 )
• May 21 : Harry L. Davis , American politician (* 1878 )
• May 22 : Agnes von Zahn-Harnack , German teacher, writer and women's rights activist (* 1884 )
• May 24 : Trigant Burrow , American psychiatrist (* 1875 )
• May 25 : Niels Clemmensen , Danish pianist and composer (* 1900 )
• May 29 : Wilhelm Bendow , German actor and comedian (* 1884 )
• May 29 : Hermann Gretsch , German designer (* 1895 )
• May 30th : William Lemke , American politician (* 1878 )

June

Leopold Ziegenbein, captain of the Bremen , 1931

Milada Horáková

Melitta Bentz

• June 16 : Arnold Eucken , German physical chemist (* 1884 )
• June 17 : Fritz Arnold , German politician (* 1883 )
• June 18 : Kurt Witte , German classical philologist (* 1885 )

• June 21 : Leopold Ziegenbein , German seaman (* 1874 )
• June 22nd : Kurt Fischer , German politician (* 1900 )
• June 22nd : Julio Fonseca , Costa Rican composer (* 1885 )
• June 23 : Franz Springer , German composer and conductor (* 1881 )
• June 27 : Milada Horáková , Czechoslovak women's rights activist (* 1901 )
• June 27 : Záviš Kalandra , Czechoslovak historian, journalist, publicist and writer (* 1902 )
• June 29 : Melitta Bentz , company founder ; Inventor of the coffee filter (* 1873 )

July

• 0July 1 : Pjotr ​​Spiridonowitsch Agafoschin , Russian guitarist and music teacher (* 1874 )
• 0July 1 : Émile Jaques-Dalcroze , composer and music teacher (* 1865 )
• 0July 1 : Eliel Saarinen , Finnish architect (* 1873 )
• 0July 2 : Eligio Pometta , Swiss politician and local researcher (* 1865 )
• 0July 3 : David Whitworth , British motorcycle racer (* 1904 )
• 0July 5 : Salvatore Giuliano , Sicilian bandit and separatist (* 1922 )
• 0July 7th : Fats Navarro , American jazz trumpeter (* 1923 )
• July 15 : Rudolf Friedrich Arnold , German politician and resistance fighter (* 1896 )
• July 15 : Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer , German major and pilot in the Wehrmacht (* 1922 )
• July 16 : Herman Felhoelter , American Franciscan priest and "war hero" (* 1913 )
• July 16 : Reinhold Wulle , German politician and publicist (* 1882 )
• July 19 : Henri Miro , Canadian composer of Spanish origin (* 1879 )
• July 20 : Albert Riemenschneider , American Bach researcher and music teacher (* 1878 )
• July 21 : Rex Ingram , Irish-American film director (* 1892 )
• July 22 : William Lyon Mackenzie King , Canadian politician (* 1874 )
• July 25 : Elisabeth Langgässer , German writer (* 1899 )
• July 26 : Charlie McCoy , American blues guitarist, singer and mandolin player (* 1909 )
• July 29th : Joe Fry , British racing driver (born 1915 )
• July 30th : Alfred Wiłkomirski , Polish violinist, violist and music teacher (* 1873 )

August

• 0August 2nd : Luigi Lavitrano , Archbishop of Palermo and Cardinal (* 1874 )

Emil Abderhalden

• 0August 5 : Emil Abderhalden , Swiss physiologist (* 1877 )
• 0August 5 : William Emerson Brock , American politician (* 1872 )
• 0August 8 : Nikolai Myaskovsky , Russian composer (* 1881 )
• August 18 : Walter Hubert Weiss , jazz and big band musician (* 1910 )
• August 22 : Ferdinand Herbst , German Protestant theologian (* 1890 )
• August 22nd : Jan Johannes Blanksma , Dutch chemist (* 1875 )
• August 23 : Dionisio Anzilotti , Italian lawyer (* 1867 )
• August 24th : Arturo Alessandri , Chilean politician (* 1868 )
• August 24 : Ernst Wiechert , German writer (* 1887 )
• August 25 : Dezyderiusz Danczowski , Polish cellist and music teacher (* 1891 )
• August 26 : Samuel Guyer , Swiss art historian (* 1879 )
• August 26 : Ransom Eli Olds , American car pioneer, founder of the automobile manufacturer Oldsmobile (* 1864 )
• August 27 : Cesare Pavese , Italian writer (* 1908 )
• August 29 : Albert Michael Koeniger , German church historian and canonist (* 1874 )

September

• 0September 2 : Anton Apold , Austrian metallurgical engineer (* 1877 )
• 0September 2 : Edward H. Moore , American politician (* 1871 )
• 0September 5 : Fritz Steuri , Swiss mountain guide and skier (* 1879 )
• 0September 6th : Olaf Stapledon , English science fiction writer (* 1886 )
• 0September 8 : Victor Hémery , French racing car driver (* 1876 )
• September 10 : Raymond Sommer , French racing car driver (* 1906 )
• September 10 : Piet Valkenburg , Dutch football player (* 1888 )
• September 11th : Jan Christiaan Smuts , South African statesman and general (* 1870 )
• September 16 : Robert Gradmann , German pastor, geographer, botanist and regional scientist (* 1865 )
• September 21 : Anton Kippenberg , German publisher (* 1874 )
• September 22nd : Ralph Carr , American politician (* 1887 )
• September 22nd : Friedrich Veiel , German Protestant-Pietist clergyman, missionary, inspector and head of the St. Chrischona pilgrimage mission (* 1866 )
• September 24th : Rudolf Grashey , radiologist and doctor (* 1876 )
• September 24 : Viktoria von Hessen-Darmstadt , Princess of Hessen-Darmstadt (* 1863 )
• September 28 : Joë Bousquet , French writer (* 1897 )
• September 29th : Duarte Leite Pereira da Silva , Portuguese historian, journalist, diplomat and politician (* 1864 )
• September 29 : Robert F. Rockwell , American politician (* 1886 )
• September 30th : Hugo Bieber , German journalist and literary historian (* 1883 )
• September 30th : Friedrich Fehér , Austrian actor and film director (* 1889 )

October

Edna St. Vincent Millay

• 0October 2 : John F. Fitzgerald , American politician (* 1863 )
• 0January 5 : Eugène Flaud , French racing car driver (* 1881 )
• 0October 5 : Helen Taylor , American composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1915 )
• 0October 7th : Willis Carrier , American engineer and inventor (* 1876 )
• 0October 7th : Louis Halphen , French historian (* 1880 )
• 0October 9 : Nicolai Hartmann , German philosopher (* 1882 )
• 0October 9 : Dimitri Usnadze , Georgian scientist (* 1886 )
• October 10 : Josef Straßberger , German weightlifter and Olympic champion (* 1894 )
• October 11 : Friedrich Ranke , German philologist and folklorist (* 1882 )
• October 14 : António Maria da Silva , Portuguese politician and multiple Prime Minister of Portugal (* 1872 )
• October 18 : Paul Krause , German politician (* 1905 )

Gustav V King of Sweden

• October 18 : Eugen Neufeld , Austrian actor (* 1882 )
• October 19 : Edna St. Vincent Millay , American writer (* 1892 )
• October 20 : Lucien Martin , Canadian violinist and conductor (* 1908 )
• October 22 : Paul Samuel Leon Johnson , founder of the Laity Home Missionary Movement (* 1873 )
• October 23 : Al Jolson , American singer and entertainer (* 1886 )
• October 27 : Ernst Falkner , German politician (* 1909 )
• October 29 : Gustav V , King of Sweden from 1907 to 1950 (* 1858 )

November

• 0November 1 : Heinrich Tessenow , German architect and professor (* 1876 )

George Bernard Shaw 1925

• 0November 2 : George Bernard Shaw , Irish writer (* 1856 )
• 0November 2 : Piet van Wijngaarden , Dutch motorcycle racer (* 1898 )
• 0November 3 : Herman Schmalenbach , German philosopher (* 1885 )
• 0November 4 : Theodor Duesterberg , functionary and chairman of the Stahlhelmbund (* 1875 )
• 0November 5 : Faiyaz Khan , Indian singer of classical Hindustan music and composer (* 1886 )
• 0November 4 : Eliseo Grenet , Cuban pianist and composer (* 1893 )
• 0November 7th : Josef Hassid , Polish violinist (* 1923 )
• November 11 : Valentin Appel , German actor and director (* 1883 )
• November 11th : Pierre-Jules Boulanger , French manager (* 1885 )
• November 12 : Lesley T. Ashburner , American hurdler (* 1883 )
• November 14th : Carl Heinrich Apstein , German zoologist (* 1862 )
• November 16 : Robert Holbrook Smith , American doctor (* 1879 )
• November 20 : Francesco Cilea , Italian composer and music teacher (* 1866 )
• November 21 : Erich Klabunde , German politician (* 1907 )
• November 22 : Jorge González Bastías , Chilean poet (* 1879 )
• November 23 : Hermann Haller , Swiss sculptor (* 1880 )
• November 25 : Johannes Vilhelm Jensen , Danish writer and Nobel Prize winner (* 1873 )
• November 25th : Christian Riecken , German engineer and racing car driver (* 1880 )
• November 26th : Hedwig Courths-Mahler , German writer (* 1867 )
• November 26 : Willem Willeke , Dutch-American cellist, pianist and music teacher (* 1879 )
• November 30th : Erich Ziegel , German actor, director, artistic director and playwright (* 1876 )

December

• 0December 1 : Charles Engelhard , American industrialist (* 1867 )
• 0December 1 : Ernest John Moeran , English composer (* 1894 )
• 0December 2 : Dinu Lipatti , Romanian pianist and composer (* 1917 )

December 5:
Aurobindo Ghose ;
Photo taken around 1900

• 0December 5th : Aurobindo , Indian politician, philosopher and guru, developer of integral yoga (* 1872 )
• 0December 6th : Pietro Lana , Italian football player (* 1888 )
• December 10th (other information: December 9th or 11th ): Georg Hann , Austrian chamber singer (bass) (* 1897 )
• December 11th : Hantaro Nagaoka , Japanese physicist (* 1865 )
• December 12 : Robert Krups , German local politician (* 1887 )
• December 15 : Vallabhbhai Patel , Indian statesman (* 1875 )
• December 19 : Théodore Steeg , French politician (* 1868 )
• December 21 : Konrad Graf von Preysing , Cardinal (* 1880 )
• December 22nd : Julius Weismann , German composer (* 1879 )
• December 23 : Vincenzo Tommasini , Italian composer (* 1878 )
• December 24th : Adolf Attenhofer , Swiss writer and Indologist (* 1879 )
• December 25 : Rudolf Schwander , State Secretary in the Reich Economic Office (* 1868 )
• December 25 : Leopold Stocker , Austrian right-wing publisher (* 1886 )

Karl Renner (around 1905)

• December 26 : John W. Harreld , American politician (* 1872 )
• December 27 : Max Beckmann , German painter and graphic artist (* 1884 )
• December 29th : Reinhard Süring , German meteorologist (* 1866 )
• December 30th : Billy Burch , American ice hockey player (* 1900 )
• December 31 : Charles Koechlin , French composer (* 1867 )
• December 31 : Karl Renner , Austrian politician (* 1870 )

Day unknown

• Auguste Aramini , French singer (* around 1875)
• Ernest Archdeacon , French lawyer and aviation pioneer (* 1863 )
• Victor Crumière , French painter (* 1895 )
• Paul Glowka , German football goalkeeper (* 1910 )
• Héctor J. Díaz , Dominican writer and composer (* 1910 )
• Ferruccio Scattola , Italian painter (* 1873 )
• Frederick William Twort , English bacteriologist, next to Félix Hubert d'Hérelle discoverer of bacteriophages (* 1877 )
• Agustín Undurraga , Chilean painter (* 1875 )

Nobel Prizes

Cecil Powell, 1950

• Physics : Cecil Powell
• Chemistry : Otto Paul Hermann Diels and Kurt Alder
• Medicine : Edward Calvin Kendall , Tadeus Reichstein and Philip Showalter Hench
• Literature : Bertrand Russell
• Nobel Peace Prize : Ralph Bunche

Web links

Commons : 1950 (Category)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : 1950  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Annual chronicle of the House of History of the FRG
• The Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government (1950) in the Federal Archives