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1951
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for betraying atomic secrets	The Iranian oil industry is nationalized under Prime Minister Hossein Ala
Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida signs the San Francisco Peace Treaty

1951 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2704
Armenian calendar	1399-1400
Ethiopian calendar	1943-1944
Badi calendar	107-108
Bengali calendar	1357-1358
Berber calendar	2901
Buddhist calendar	2495
Burmese calendar	1313
Byzantine calendar	7459-7460
Chinese calendar
- era	4647-4648 or 4587-4588
- 60 year cycle	Metal tiger (庚寅, 27) - metal bunny (辛卯, 28)
French revolution calendar	CLIX - CLX 159-160
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2007-2008
- Shaka Samvat	1873-1874
Iranian calendar	1329-1330
Islamic calendar	1370-1371
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 26
- Kōki	2611
Jewish calendar	5711-5712
Coptic Calendar	1667-1668
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4284
- Juche era	40
Minguo calendar	40
Modern Olympics	XIV
Seleucid calendar	2262-2263
Thai solar calendar	2494

The year 1951 was marked by the increasing hostilities between the Eastern Bloc and the Western world , which were reflected in the Korean War and the McCarthy era , especially the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg .

overview

Korean War

After the North Korean and Chinese troops managed to take Seoul in the Korean War at the beginning of the year , the international coalition was able to recapture the city some time later. The war of movement turned into a positional war. In this situation, Commander-in-Chief Douglas MacArthur pleaded for an expansion of the war through the use of atomic bombs against the Chinese supply lines; US President Harry S. Truman rejected this, however, with reference to the possible threat to world peace as a result and had MacArthur replaced by Ridgway. Nevertheless, the United States tested its nuclear weapons in Nevada under tactical conditions. H. with the participation of infantry troops.

Federal Republic of Germany

In the meantime, the Adenauer government in the Federal Republic of Germany achieved gradual emancipation from the Western occupation regime. The young Federal Republic was granted further characteristics of state sovereignty - the Federal Constitutional Court began its work, as did the new Foreign Ministry under the leadership of Adenauer himself; The merchant navy was now also allowed to fly the German flag - but at the same time the commitment to the Western allies was affirmed and the possibility of an own defense contribution against possible aggression from the east was explored, against the resistance of the SPD, which under Kurt Schumacher consistently opposed a Pronounced remilitarization. While the Americans initially continued denazification by executing a few high-ranking SS officers , the growing independence of the German judiciary meant that Nazi perpetrators were increasingly able to benefit from amnesties. By January 31, 1951, 792,176 people had been granted an amnesty.

GDR

The amnesty of the National Socialists by the Federal Government was also a topic of the East German propaganda, which at the same time achieved respectable success through mass events such as the World Youth Festival . Border and air incidents, the deportation of unwelcome critics from West Berlin to the East, as well as show trials that also killed young people, cast a shadow over the rhetoric of the communist government in East Berlin. Their demand for free elections in Germany as a whole had no consequences in view of the ideological differences between East and West. Processes similar to those in the GDR were also taking place in other bloc states in the east, such as the show trials of Jihlava in Czechoslovakia against representatives of the Church.

United States

In the USA, too, during the so-called McCarthy era , developments in Korea and Europe resulted in increasingly harsh Cold War rhetoric, which was directed against artists and other intellectuals with leftist sympathies and which was particularly spectacular in the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg showed in which the judge accused the couple of betraying nuclear secrecy to the Soviet Union, which is why the two were also directly responsible for the Korean War; the death penalty was accordingly imposed on them.

Greece and Turkey

The admission of Greece and Turkey to NATO was intended to counter Soviet influence in the Balkans and the Middle East.

UK and Middle East

Britain had especially with independence aspirations of Egyptian and Iranian deal page. The Egyptian government under Prime Minister Mustafa an-Nahhas Pascha and King Faruq had unilaterally terminated the alliance treaty of 1936, which in particular endangered British sovereignty over the Suez Canal and thus Britain's free access to its remaining Asian colonies. In Iran, meanwhile, Prime Minister Hossein Ala relied on the nationalization of the oil industry, which until then had been in British hands. The Labor government of Clement Attlee did not always act happily in these conflicts and was subsequently voted out in favor of the Conservative World War I Prime Minister Winston Churchill .

Japan

The peace treaty of San Francisco gave Japan back full sovereignty and thereby ended the time of the American occupation .

events

Politics and world events

• January 1: Beginning of the GDR's first five-year plan .
• January 1st: Presentation of the new German national anthem by Federal President Theodor Heuss .
• January 1st: India is the first state to officially declare the state of war with Germany over.
• January 1st: Eduard von Steiger becomes President of Switzerland again .
• January 2: Basic food, gasoline and oil are rationed in Hungary .
• January 4th: During the Korean War , the troops of North Korea and China advance further and take Seoul .
• January 12: In the election for the mayor of Berlin, Ernst Reuter (SPD) and Walther Schreiber (CDU) came to a stalemate, as both received the same number of votes. Schreiber then withdraws his candidacy in favor of Reuters.
• February 2: Agreement on industrial property protection between the Federal Republic of Germany and Sweden .
• February 12: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi marries Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari .
• February 27: The US President's term of office is limited to two terms by a constitutional amendment.
• March 6: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's criminal trial opens in New York City . The prosecution accuses them of nuclear espionage for the Soviet Union .
• March 7th: General Ali Razmara , Prime Minister of Iran and opponent of the nationalization of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company , is assassinated by a member of the Fedayeen Islam .
• March 10: Henri Queuille becomes head of government in France ; he takes over from René Pleven .
• March 14: The UN troops succeed in retaking the largely destroyed Seoul.
• March 15: Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer also takes over the newly created office of Foreign Minister. The Occupation Statute had previously been revised accordingly by the Allied High Commission.
• March 15: The Iranian Parliament ( Majles ) decides to nationalize the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company , thus triggering the Abadan crisis .
• March 16: The law on the Federal Border Guard is passed at the time of the rearmament discussion . The federal special police was initially responsible for securing the border.
• April 2: General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Commander-in-Chief of NATO forces in Europe.
• April 5: US citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death in the US for espionage for the Soviet Union.
• April 10: The Bundestag passes the Co-Determination Act .
• April 11: US President Truman removes General Douglas MacArthur as supreme commander in the Korean War and appoints Matthew B. Ridgway as his successor.
• April 15: The first SOS Children's Village opens in Imst in Tyrol .
• April 18th The Paris Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) is signed. It came into force in July 1952.
• April 21: The Federal Republic of Germany signs a trade agreement with the Kingdom of Egypt .
• May 1st: The Council of Europe decides to accept the Federal Republic as a full member.
• May 18: The UN General Assembly decides to embargo strategically important goods against the People's Republic of China because of the Korean War .
• May 19: The UK allows Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Irish, Manx, Cornish and Norn to be spoken in schools without penalizing the speaker.
• May 25: Tibet signed a " 17-point agreement " with the People's Republic of China under duress, guaranteeing Tibet autonomy and free religious practice.
• May 26: The British-Iranian oil dispute comes to a head: the British government files a complaint with the International Court of Justice in The Hague against the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company decided by the Iranian parliament ( Majles ) ; Iran remains adamant, however.
• May 27: The Social Democrat Theodor Körner is elected as the new Federal President of Austria .
• June 7th: The Allies carry out the last death sentences against Nazi criminals in Landsberg .
• June 14: Konrad Adenauer's first official state visit abroad ( Italy ).
• June 22nd: Christian Fette becomes chairman of the DGB as the successor to the late Hans Böckler .
• June 25: Friedrich-Wilhelm Lübke becomes Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein .
• June 26th: The FDJ is banned in the Federal Republic.
• June 28: Karl Du Mont becomes the first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Netherlands .
• July 2nd: Japan becomes a member of UNESCO
• July 2: A meeting of the local communist national committee in Babice , Czechoslovakia is ambushed by four gunmen and three committee members are killed. The crime formed the occasion of the show trials in Jihlava , which were directed against the influence of the church on the rural population and in which eleven people were sentenced to death and 111 to long prison terms.

Berlin-Tempelhof Airlift Memorial

• July 3: Cambodia becomes a member of UNESCO.
• July 6th: Vietnam becomes a member of UNESCO.
• July 9: Laos becomes a member of UNESCO.
• July 10: The Airlift Memorial in front of Tempelhof Airport is inaugurated in Berlin .
• July 11: The Federal Republic of Germany becomes a member of UNESCO.
• 16./17. July: Baudouin I is crowned King of Belgium after his father Leopold III. has resigned.
• July 20: King Abdallah I of Jordan is murdered on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem .
• August 3: Ivar Rooth , Sweden , becomes Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
• August 5th: Opening of the 3rd World Youth Festival in East Berlin .
• August 11: René Pleven is again head of government in France .
• September 1st: Australia , New Zealand and the USA sign the ANZUS agreement , a mutual defense alliance. It complements the Japanese peace treaty and the US- Philippines alliance agreement , which will take effect at the same time.
• September 8th: Conclusion of the San Francisco Peace Treaty between Japan and 48 countries. It comes into force on April 28, 1952.
• September 11th: A Czechoslovak express train breaks through the border with the Federal Republic of Germany near Selb .
• September 15: The People's Chamber of the GDR appeals to the Bundestag to approve elections for all of Germany.
• September 20: NATO decides to admit Greece and Turkey , which will take effect on February 18, 1952.
• September 28: The Federal Constitutional Court begins its work in Karlsruhe .
• October 3: In the Werzeit high school student trial, 19 young people are sentenced to long prison terms for "boycotting".
• October 7th: General election in Bremen . The SPD with the previous mayor Wilhelm Kaisen remains the strongest party and then governs in a coalition with the CDU and FDP .
• October 15: The Egyptian government under Mustafa an-Nahhas Pascha unilaterally terminates the assistance pact with Great Britain from 1936; King Faruq is proclaimed King of Egypt and Sudan in the Egyptian Parliament ; the sovereignty of the British over the Suez Canal is no longer recognized. As a result, the British occupy Ismailia on November 19 , where there are clashes with 14 dead.
• October 16: Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan is assassinated. He dies the same day.
• October 24: US President Truman announces the end of the state of war with Germany.
• October 26th: The general election in Great Britain is won by the Conservatives under Winston Churchill . This becomes British Prime Minister again and replaces the Labor politician Clement Attlee ; Secretary of State is Anthony Eden .
• November 11: Juan Peron is re-elected as President of Argentina .
• November 16: The federal government applies to the Federal Constitutional Court to ban the KPD and the SRP .
• November 16: Kneppelfreed (" Kneppelfreitag ") in West Friesland
• December 3: Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on his first state visit to England
• December 13: Paraguay becomes a member of the OAS (Organization of American States)
• December 24th: Libya becomes independent from Italy. King Idris I becomes head of state .

1951 saw the first amnesties for people who had been convicted of their involvement with National Socialism. B. for the armaments magnate Krupp .

business

• February 15: Kurt Mix receives a patent for the sports and training device he developed , better known as an ergometer .
• April 19: 1st German Motor Show in Frankfurt am Main . Opening by Federal President Theodor Heuss
• April 20: The first international Photokina opens in Cologne
• May 9th: Fogra founded , at that time as the "German Society for the Promotion of Research in the Graphics Industry"
• May 18: The first Tetra-Pak packaging for milk is presented to the public in Lund , Sweden .
• August 31: The first long-playing record with 33 1/3 revolutions per minute is presented by Deutsche Grammophon in Düsseldorf .
• November 13th: The winemakers of Beaujolais fight for an exemption from French wine law. You may now their wine as early as the third Thursday of November market .

science and technology

• May 13th: Jacqueline Auriol breaks the sound barrier with a jet fighter as the first woman .
• September 28th: ​​The astronomer Seth Barnes Nicholson discovers the outer moon Ananke orbiting the planet Jupiter .
• December 8th: The GDR Building Academy is opened with a state ceremony .
• December 20: In the research reactor EBR-1 ( Experimental Breeder Reactor I ) in Arco , Idaho, USA, nuclear power generation succeeds for the first time . The system's output is sufficient on the first day to provide electricity for four light bulbs. From the second day onwards, the amount of electricity is sufficient for personal use and for research purposes.
• Carl Djerassi , Gregory Pincus and John Rock develop the first birth control pill .
• At the Frankfurt IAA, the commercial vehicle manufacturer Magirus-Deutz is presenting what was then the world's highest turntable ladder , which had a height of 52 + 2 meters, and the world's first rescue vehicle with a rotating crane.
• Asch's conformity experiment

Culture

• January 1: The BBC starts broadcasting the radio play series The Archers on a regular basis .
• January 14th: In Chemnitz , the Kulturpalast , the first building of its kind in the GDR based on the Soviet model, is inaugurated by Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl .
• January 18: The film Die Sünderin with Hildegard Knef in the leading role is shown for the first time and causes a scandal because of the alleged glorification of prostitution , euthanasia and suicide . Performance bans and church rejection from the pulpits arouse interest and ensure a cinematic audience success.
• January 21: Opening of the Museum Oskar Reinhart in Winterthur
• March 17th: World premiere of the opera The Condemnation of Lucullus by Paul Dessau at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
• April 14th: The Rennsteig song is sung in public for the first time in the Thuringian town of Hirschbach .
• June 29th: Opening of the first Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth after the war
• July 12: The operetta Geliebte Manuela by Fred Raymond, based on a libretto by Just Scheu and Ernst Nebhut, is premiered at the Nationaltheater Mannheim .
• 26 August: The musical film An American in Paris has in London Premiere .
• October 23: The first six volumes of the Suhrkamp library appear. The publisher Peter Suhrkamp designed the book series for an elite reader .
• November 13: World premiere of the fairy tale opera The Hedgehog as Bridegroom by Cesar Bresgen in Nuremberg
• November 24th: World premiere of Gigi
• December 4th: The PEN Center Germany is founded in Darmstadt .
• December 17th: The film Sie danced Just One Summer is shown for the first time in Sweden . A nude bathing scene is a topic of conversation around the world.
• December 24: Premiere of the Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti in the NBC Studios in New York City with a live broadcast on TV
• First presentation of the German Film Awards : Among other things, Erich Kästner is honored as the best screenwriter with the film ribbon in gold . The double Lottchen wins the race as the “best full-length feature film”. His director Josef von Baky receives the directing award in gold
• The novel " Requiem for a Nun " by William Faulkner appears
• The world bestseller " The Catcher in the Rye " by JD Salinger appears
• The São Paulo Biennale takes place for the first time
• Foundation of the International Society for Education through Art

religion

• September 15: In the encyclical Ingruentium malorum , Pope Pius XII expresses himself . to pray the rosary .
• August 12th: Foundation of the "German Mission Community, Association for Charity e. V. “, today DMG interpersonal , a Christian aid and missionary organization with 350 employees in 76 countries worldwide.
• December 28th: ​​The Apostolic Genootschap splits off from the New Apostolic Church in the Netherlands after disagreements over a successor to the Apostles there .

Sports

• January 5th: The German Olympic Society is founded.
• March 11: The first Asian Games come to an end in New Delhi .
• May 27 to October 28: the 2nd Formula 1 World Championship is held

August 5th: Youth sports show after the opening

• August 5: Under great propagandistic effort, the III. World Youth Festival opens in East Berlin .
• September 16: The Augsburg Rosenaustadion opens.

First Mediterranean Games

• October 5th: The first Mediterranean Games begin in Alexandria with participants from the Mediterranean countries.
• OCTOBER 28: The Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio wins on the Pedralbes Circuit in the final race of the season the Spanish Grand Prix and at the same time world champion in Formula 1 .
• The NBA All-Star Games take place for the first time .

Disasters

• January 21: The eruption of the volcano Lamington on the island of New Guinea die almost 3,000 people.
• In August, over 200 residents of the French community of Pont-Saint-Esprit were poisoned, 7 of whom died, from ergot that was processed into flour by a local bakery.
• At the end of November there is a devastating flood disaster in northern Italy when the Po overflows its banks.

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

Born

January

• 0January 1st: Luc Ferry , French education politician
• 0January 1st: Ulrike Flach , German politician
• 0January 1st: Gerd Leipold , German environmental activist
• 0January 1st: Lars-Erik Nielsen , Danish entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 0January 1st: Jim Rakete , German photographer
• 0January 1st: Ulrich Stockmann , German MEP
• 0January 1st: Hans-Joachim Stuck , German automobile racing driver
• 0January 1: Gen'ichirō Takahashi , Japanese writer
• 0January 1st: Karl Wannemacher , German cook
• 0January 2nd: André Aciman , Egyptian author and professor
• 0January 3: Rainer M. Schröder , German writer
• 0January 4th: Barbara Ann Cochran , American ski racer
• 0January 6: Wolfram Adolphi , German journalist and political scientist
• 0January 6: Kim Wilson , American blues rock singer and harmonica player
• 0January 7th: Talghat Mussabaev , Kazakh cosmonaut
• 0January 7th: Massimo Sigala , Italian racing car driver
• 0January 8: Kenneth Anthony , Prime Minister of St. Lucia
• 0January 8: Paul Dresher , American composer
• 0January 8: John McTiernan , American film director and producer
• 0January 8: Bernhard Rapkay , German MEP
• 0January 9: Michel Barnier , French politician, Foreign Minister and European Commissioner
• 0January 9: Crystal Gayle , American singer
• January 10: Holger Ortel , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• January 11: Philip Tartaglia , Scottish Roman Catholic Archbishop († 2021)
• January 12: Kirstie Alley , American actress and Scientologist
• January 12th: Ernst Bier , German jazz drummer
• January 12: Rush Limbaugh , American radio host († 2021)
• January 12: Drew Pearson , American football player
• January 13: Alexander Dix , German lawyer and data protection expert
• January 14th: Martin Auer , Austrian writer
• January 14th: Fița Lovin , Romanian athlete
• January 15: Sharon Doucet , American writer
• January 15: Rolf-Josef Eibicht , German publicist
• January 15: Christoph Eymann , Swiss politician (LPS)
• January 15: Catherine Trautmann , French politician
• January 16: Thomas Naumann , German actor
• January 17th: Heinz-Dieter Assmann , German lawyer and professor
• January 17: Roland Thöni , Italian ski racer († 2021)
• January 18: Steve Grossman , American jazz saxophonist († 2020)
• January 18: Renato Zaccarelli , Italian football player and coach
• January 19: Charalampos Babis Angourakis , Greek politician († 2014)
• January 19: Gildo Insfrán , Argentine politician
• January 19: Peter Pander , German football official
• January 21: Eric Holder , American politician
• January 21: Karl Zimmermann , politician from Baden-Württemberg
• January 22nd: Cajus Julius Caesar , German politician
• January 22nd: Ondrej Nepela , Slovak figure skater and figure skating coach († 1989)
• January 23: Ángela Carrasco , Dominican singer
• January 23: Nick Woodland , British rock 'n' roll and blues guitarist
• January 24th: Manfred Gruber (artist) , German painter and set designer
• January 25: Hans-Jürgen Dörner , German soccer coach and player (GDR)
• January 25: Bill Viola , American video and installation artist
• January 26th: Jarmila Kratochvílová , Czech athlete
• January 26th: Fulvio Pelli , Swiss politician
• January 26th: Hubert Rehm (alias Siegfried Bär ), German publicist, author and publisher
• January 26: Erick Wujcik , American developer of role-playing games and co-founder of Palladium Books († 2008)
• January 27: Anders Dahl-Nielsen , Danish handball player, coach and official
• January 27: Nancy Galbraith , American composer, organist and music teacher
• January 27: Charles Mooney , American boxer
• January 28: Stefan Sethe , lawyer and political scientist
• January 28th: Toni Valeruz , Italian extreme skier
• January 29th: Peter Cornelius , Austrian singer
• January 29: Markus Felber , Swiss lawyer and journalist, federal court correspondent for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung
• January 30th: Phil Collins , British rock musician, composer and actor

Phil Collins , 2007

• January 31: Farideh Akashe-Böhme , German-Iranian author († 2008)
• January 31: Holger Hantke , German musician, composer and music teacher
• January 31: Wiebke Hendriksen , German table tennis player
• January 31: Dieter Hillebrand , German politician
• January 31: Phil Manzanera , British musician
• January 31: Cristine Rose , American actress

February

• 0February 1: Albert Salvadó , Andorran industrial engineer and author († 2020)
• 0February 2nd: Georg Markus , Austrian writer and journalist
• 0February 3: Arsène Auguste , Haitian football defender († 1993)
• 0February 3: Blaise Compaoré , President of Burkina Faso
• 0February 4th: Ernst Dieter Rossmann , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0February 5: Helmut Spanner , German author of children's and picture books
• 0February 6: Jacques Villeret , French actor († 2005)
• 0February 7th: Mayte Mateos , Spanish singer
• 0February 7th: Christian Tissier , French Aikido teacher
• 0February 8: Jiři Keuthen , German artist (painter) († 2007)
• 0February 8: Erwin Lotter , German politician († 2014)
• 0February 9: Mitsuru Adachi , Japanese manga artist
• 0February 9: Michael Zittel , German actor
• February 10: Zeudi Araya , Eritrean actress
• February 11: Michael Leavitt , American politician
• February 11: Vojtěch Saudek , Czech composer († 2003)
• February 12: Karl A. Lamers , German politician and member of the Bundestag
• February 13: Katja Lange-Müller , German writer
• February 13: Albert Schmidt , German politician
• February 14th: Boško Abramović , Serbian chess master
• February 14: Michael Doucet , American fiddle player and singer-songwriter
• February 14: Kevin Keegan , English soccer player
• February 14th: Daniel Miller , British record producer
• February 15: Muṣṭafā Abū Shāqūr , Libyan electrical engineer and politician
• February 15th: Markku Alén , Finnish rally driver
• February 15: Gerald Hüther , German neurobiologist and brain researcher
• February 15: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak , Polish actress
• February 15: Melissa Manchester , American singer-songwriter
• February 15: Jane Seymour , British actress
• February 16: Franz-Josef Bode , Bishop of Osnabrück
• February 17th: Bernd Haunfelder , German historian and publicist

Gordon Brown (2008)

• February 20: Gordon Brown , British Prime Minister
• February 20: Randy California , American guitarist († 1997)
• February 20: Günter Jankowiak , German actor, musician, author and director
• February 20: Heidemarie Wright , German politician
• February 21: Giuseppe Arlacchi , Italian sociologist and politician
• February 21: Wolfgang Frank , German soccer player and coach († 2013)
• February 21: Marek Polasik , Polish physicist
• February 21: Richard Tonks , New Zealand rower and rowing coach
• February 21: Vince Welnick , American keyboardist († 2006)
• February 22nd: Rolf-Dieter Krause , German television journalist
• February 22nd: Mirko Smiljanic , radio and science journalist
• February 23: Eddie Dibbs , American tennis player
• February 23: Johannes Geffert , German organist and church musician
• February 23: Ed Jones , American football player
• February 23: Minato Kawamura , Japanese literary and cultural scholar
• February 23: Patricia Richardson , American actress
• February 23: Bertico Sosa , Dominican composer, arranger and pianist († 2005)
• February 24: Tony Holiday , German pop singer and lyricist († 1990)
• February 24: John Ogonowski , flight captain of American Airlines Flight 11 († 2001)
• February 25: Giampiero Marini , Italian football player
• February 25: Esther Morales-Cañadas , Spanish harpsichordist and musicologist
• February 25: Donald Quarrie , Jamaican sprinter and Olympic champion
• February 26: Harvey Leroy Atwater , American political advisor and strategist († 1991)
• February 27: Steve Harley , British musician
• February 27: Susanne Sievers , German archaeologist
• February 28: Gustav Thöni , South Tyrolean skier

March

• 0March 1st: Susanne Albrecht , former RAF member
• 0March 1: Elliott Sharp , American multi-instrumentalist and composer
• 0March 1: Scott Ross , American harpsichordist († 1989)
• 0March 2nd: Erwin Hilbert , German painter, author and songwriter
• 0March 2nd: Jan Gmyrek , Polish handball player
• 0March 2nd: Dagmar Mühlenfeld , Lord Mayor of Mülheim an der Ruhr
• 0March 3: Benny Barnes , American football player
• 0March 3rd: Lindsay Cooper , English bassoon and saxophone player and composer († 2013)
• 0March 3: Günter Ollenschläger , German doctor and science journalist
• 0March 4th: Edelgard Bulmahn , German politician

Edelgard Bulmahn , 2009

• 0March 4th: Kenny Dalglish , Scottish football player and coach
• 0March 4th: Chris Rea , British singer, musician, composer and guitarist
• 0March 5: Yuri Kravchenko , Minister of the Interior of Ukraine († 2005)
• 0March 6: Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio , Ivorian politician
• 0March 6th: Wolfgang Hanisch , German athlete
• 0March 6: Gerrie Knetemann , Dutch cyclist († 2004)
• 0March 6: Walter Cooper Trout , American composer, guitarist and singer
• 0March 7th: Nenad Stekić , Yugoslav long jumper († 2021)
• 0March 9: Zakir Hussain , Indian tabla player and composer
• 0March 9: Ulrich Schacht , German writer († 2018)
• March 10: Brad Fiedel , American film composer
• March 13: Gunter Arnold , German sprinter
• March 14th: Gottfried Ackermann , German violinist
• March 15: Gerhard Falkner , German writer
• March 15: Jürgen Mlynek , German physicist
• March 16: Joe DeLamielleure , American football player
• March 16: PC Hodgell , American fantasy writer
• March 17: Kurt Russell , American actor
• March 18: Bill Frisell , American jazz guitarist
• March 19: Carl Barzilauskas , American football player
• March 19: Christine Laser , German athlete
• March 20: Martin Ahrends , German writer and editor
• March 20: Jimmie Vaughan , American blues rock guitarist and singer
• March 21: Abraham Desta , Ethiopian Bishop
• March 21: Roman Kalarus , Polish poster artist, graphic artist, cartoonist and designer
• March 21: Hamid Skif , Algerian writer and journalist († 2011)
• March 23: Michel Aupetit , French Archbishop
• March 23: Vinci Clodumar , Nauruan politician and ambassador to the United Nations
• March 23: María Felicia Pérez , Cuban choir director and music teacher
• March 24th: Christian Aichinger , Austrian bank manager
• March 24th: Tommy Hilfiger , American fashion designer
• March 24th: Monika Stolz , German politician
• March 25: Claus B. Andersen , Danish badminton player
• March 25: Gabriele Behler , German politician
• March 26th: Klaus Hoffmann , German singer, actor and songwriter
• March 26: Costică Ștefănescu , Romanian football player and coach († 2013)
• March 26: Carl E. Wieman , American physicist
• March 27th: Herbert Anderl , Austrian civil servant
• March 27: Paul Offit , American medic and vaccine developer
• March 28: Karen Kain , Canadian ballet dancer
• March 28: Matti Pellonpää , Finnish actor († 1995)
• March 28: David Reese , American poker player († 2007)
• March 29: Klaus Bachler , Austrian actor and theater director
• March 29: Hardy Åström , Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper
• March 29: Hans-Wilhelm Steinfeld , Norwegian journalist and historian
• March 30: Musa Aman , Malaysian politician
• March 30th: Barbara Britch , American cross-country skier
• March 30th: Wolfgang Niedecken , German singer, co-founder and front man of the Kölsch rock band BAP

Wolfgang Niedecken

• March 31: Henry Spinetti , British drummer and session musician

April

• 0April 1: John P. Abizaid , American officer
• 0April 1st: Rolf Biland , Swiss motorcycle racer

Johanna Wanka , 2012

• 0April 1: Johanna Wanka , German politician, Science Minister of Brandenburg, Federal Minister
• 0April 3: Guillermo Dela Vega Afable , Filipino Bishop
• 0April 4th: Francesco De Gregori , Italian Cantautore (songwriter)
• 0April 5th: Ubol Ratana , Thai princess
• 0April 5: Alfred Šramek , Austrian opera singer († 2016)
• 0April 5: Josef Wiesehöfer , German ancient historian
• 0April 6: Jim Boelsen , American actor
• 0April 7: Bob Berg , American jazz musician († 2002)
• 0April 8: Gerd Andres , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0April 8: Sara Botsford , Canadian actress
• 0April 8: Pieter van Geel , Dutch CDA politician
• 0April 8th: Ruth Tesmar , German artist and university professor
• 0April 9th: Andrzej Krzanowski , Polish composer and accordionist († 1990)
• April 10: Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru , Spanish Curia Bishop
• April 10: Kork Ballington , South African motorcycle racer
• April 10: Jacqueline Cramer , Dutch Environment Minister
• April 12th: Ray Mallock , British racing car driver and team owner
• April 13: Ivano Bordon , Italian soccer player
• April 13: Kaci Kullmann Five , Norwegian conservative politician († 2017)
• April 13: Joachim Streich , German soccer player
• April 13: Max Weinberg , American musician
• April 14th: Luitpold Prince of Bavaria , great-grandson of the last King of Bavaria
• April 14: Pyotr Nikolajewitsch Mamonow , Russian rock musician and actor († 2021)
• April 14th: Stephan Wald , German cabaret artist, actor and voice imitator
• April 14th: Julian Lloyd Webber , English cellist and composer
• April 15: Michael Fahres , German composer
• April 15: Bernhard Lassahn , German writer
• April 15: John Lynch Phillips , American astronaut
• April 15th: Beatrix Schuba , Austrian figure skater
• April 16: Ioan Mihai Cochinescu , Romanian writer and essayist
• April 16: Björgvin Helgi Halldórsson , Icelandic pop singer
• April 16: Takazumi Katayama , Japanese motorcycle racer
• April 16: Ari Kristinsson , Icelandic cameraman, producer, director and screenwriter
• April 16: Bill Walker , American politician
• April 17th: Jack Bruno , British drummer
• April 17th: Horst Hrubesch , German soccer player and coach
• April 17: Olivia Hussey , Argentine-British actress
• April 18: Thomas Ebermann , German publicist and politician
• April 19: Jóannes Eidesgaard , Faroese politician
• April 19: Hermann Naehring , German percussionist, arranger and composer
• April 19: Alain Lalonde , Canadian composer
• April 20: Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller , German politician
• April 20: Luther Vandross , American rhythm and blues singer († 2005)
• April 21: Bernhard Andres , German politician
• April 21: Jean-Pierre Dardenne , Belgian director, producer, screenwriter
• April 21: Horst W. Hamacher , German business mathematician
• April 21: Jean Piché , Canadian composer, multimedia artist and music educator
• April 21: Luis Rocco , Argentine flautist
• April 22nd: Paul Carrack , British songwriter, singer, keyboardist and guitarist
• April 23: Hendrik Schaper , German rock musician and keyboard player
• April 24th: Heinz Paula , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• April 24: André Lara Resende , Brazilian banker and racing car driver
• April 25: Wilfried Finke , German furniture entrepreneur and football official († 2019)
• April 26: Yu Zaiqing , Chinese politician and sports official
• April 27: Ace Frehley , American rock musician
• April 27: Viviane Reding , Luxembourg journalist and politician
• April 28: Gerhard Hirschmann , Austrian politician († 2019)
• April 28th: Axel Siefer , German actor
• April 29: Dale Earnhardt , American NASCAR driver († 2001)
• April 30th: Garabed Antranikian , German biologist
• April 30th: Gitta Trauernicht , German politician

May

• 0May 1st: Dieter Schubert , German soccer player
• 0May 2: John Glascock , British musician († 1979)
• 0May 2nd: Ondřej Soukup , Czech musician and composer
• 0May 3rd: Jan Bielecki , Polish politician and Prime Minister
• 0May 3: Klaus Modick , German writer and literary translator
• 0May 3: Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaja , Russian writer
• 0May 4th: Julio César Arzú , Honduran soccer player
• 0May 4th: Rolf de Heer , Australian director, screenwriter and film producer
• 0May 4th: Heinz Wirthensohn , Swiss chess master
• 0May 5: Nick Bebout , American football player
• 0May 5: Nicholas Guest , American actor and voice actor
• 0May 5th: Cyprien Katsaris , French pianist and composer of Cypriot descent
• 0May 5th: Wolfgang Stehmer , politician from Baden-Württemberg
• 0May 5: Peter Zintner , German actor († 2018)
• 0May 6: Samuel K. Doe , President of Liberia († 1990)
• 0May 6th: Gerhard Gruber , Austrian pianist
• 0May 6: Ilja Seifert , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0May 7th: Bernard John Marsden , English guitarist
• 0May 8: Philip Bailey , American funk, soul, and R&B artist
• 0May 8: Humberto Brenes , Costa Rican poker player
• 0May 9: Friedhelm Aust , German soccer player († 2015)
• 0May 9: Christopher Dewdney , Canadian writer and poet
• 0May 9: Franz Dobusch , Austrian politician, Mayor of Linz
• May 10: Mevlüt Asar , Turkish-German writer and poet
• May 10: Wolfgang Apel , German animal rights activist († 2017)
• May 10: John Burke , Canadian composer and music teacher († 2020)
• May 11: Ed Stelmach , Canadian politician
• May 12: Vic Stanfield , Canadian ice hockey player
• May 13: Vytautas Arbačiauskas , Lithuanian politician
• May 13: Li Hongzhi , Chinese Buddhist, founder of Falun Gong
• May 15: Frank Wilczek , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• May 16: Christian Lacroix , French fashion designer
  

  Christian Lacroix , 2008
• May 16: Joachim Rittmeyer , Swiss cabaret artist
• May 16: Emmanuel Todd , French historian, demographer and political writer
• May 17: Simon Henry Ward Hughes , British politician
• May 18: Ben Feringa , Dutch chemist and Nobel Prize winner
• May 18: Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann , German terrorist († 1995)
• May 18: Karl Schiewerling , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 2021)
• May 18: Angela Voigt , German athlete († 2013)
• May 19: Axel Berg , German Ambassador
• May 19: Karl Brunner , Italian luge rider
• May 19: Joey Ramone , American singer with the band Ramones († 2001)
• May 20: Thomas Dale Akers , American astronaut
• May 20: Wolfgang Büscher , German journalist
• May 20: Manfred Püchel , German politician and party and parliamentary group leader of the SPD Saxony-Anhalt
• May 21: Andreas Burckhardt , Swiss politician
• May 21: Al Franken , American author, comedian, and radio host
• May 21: Torey L. Hayden , American writer and psychologist
• May 22: Wolf-Dieter Poschmann , German sports presenter († 2021)
• May 23: Anatoly Evgenyevich Karpov , Russian chess player
  

  Anatoly Karpov
• May 24: Kent-Erik Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
• May 25: Hendrik Auhagen , German politician
• May 25: François Bayrou , French politician
• May 26: Ilona Christen , German radio and television presenter († 2009)
• May 26: Sally Ride , first American woman in space († 2012)
• May 26: Stuart Tosh , British musician
• May 29: Gerhard Ruiss , Austrian writer
• May 30th: René Staar , Austrian composer and violinist
• May 31: Karl-Hans Riehm , German athlete
• 000May: Carla Apuzzo , Italian film producer, screenwriter and director

June

• 0June 3: Jill Biden , American politician, First Lady of the United States
• 0June 4: Leigh Kennedy , American writer
• 0June 4th: Eva Klotz , South Tyrolean politician
• 0June 4th: Bronisław Malinowski , Polish athlete, Olympic champion († 1981)
• 0June 6: Gabriele Auenmüller , German opera singer and prompter († 2015)
• 0June 6: Lorenz Jäger , German sociologist and journalist
• 0June 6: Noritake Takahara , Japanese racing car driver
• 0June 8th: Franz Konrad , Austrian-German racing driver
• 0June 8: Tony Rice , American country musician († 2020)
• 0June 8: Bonnie Tyler , Welsh singer
  

  Bonnie Tyler , 2005
• 0June 9: Ismail Abilov , Bulgarian wrestler
• 0June 9: James Newton Howard , American composer
• 0June 9: Ulla Jelpke , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 0June 9: Benny Neyman , Dutch singer († 2008)
• June 10: Alan Bangs , British music journalist
• June 10: Burglinde Pollak , German athlete
• June 10: Trini Trimpop , German rock musician and filmmaker
• June 11th: Marijan Beneš , Yugoslav boxer († 2018)
• June 11: Manfred Breuckmann , German radio reporter and sports commentator
• June 12: Andranik Markarjan , Armenian politician and Prime Minister († 2007)
• June 12: Michael Sachs , German legal scholar
• June 12th: Hans Niessl , Austrian politician
• June 13: Mariana Paunova , Canadian singer and pianist († 2002)
• June 14th: Gerhard Fischer , Swiss politician
• June 14: Alexander Nikolajewitsch Sokurow , Russian director and screenwriter
• June 15: Uda Heller , German politician
• June 16: Armin Emrich , German handball player and trainer
• June 17th: Herbert Zinell , German politician
• June 18: Yousif Abba , Syrian Catholic Archbishop
• June 18: Steve Miner , American director
• June 19: Aiman ​​az-Zawahiri , Egyptian terrorist
• June 19: Vladimir Mikhailovich Assejew , Russian politician
• June 19: Francesco Moser , Italian racing cyclist
• June 20: João Semedo , Portuguese politician († 2018)
• June 21: Nils Lofgren , American rock musician
• June 21: Marcel Tarrès , French racing car driver
• June 22nd: Therese Frösch , Swiss politician
• June 23: Norbert Carius , German journalist
• June 23: Michèle Mouton , French rally driver
• June 24th: Raelene Boyle , Australian athlete and Olympian
• June 24th: Ivar Formo , Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic champion († 2006)
• June 24th: Werner Sele , Liechtenstein luge rider
• June 26th: Elvira Drobinski-Weiß , German politician
• June 26: Jürgen Rüttgers , German politician
• June 27: Andy Evans , American racing car driver
• June 27: Mary McAleese , Irish politician and President (1997-2011)
• June 27th: Ulf Andersson , Swedish chess player
• June 28th: Rolf Milser , German weightlifter
• June 29: John Doerr , US investment manager
• June 29: Ferdinand Dudenhöffer , German transport scientist
• June 29: Don Rosa , American comic book artist
• June 29th: Peter Rost , German handball player, trainer and official
• June 30th: Stanley Clarke , American bass player
• June 30th: André Hazes , Dutch singer († 2004)

July

• 0July 1: Daryl Anderson , American actor
• 0July 1st: Imre Gedővári , Hungarian fencer († 2014)

Fred Schneider, 2007

• 0July 1: Fred Schneider , American musician
• 0July 2nd: Fabio Frizzi , Italian composer
• 0July 5: Alan Belkin , Canadian composer, organist and music teacher
• 0July 6th: Maja Brunner , Swiss singer
• 0July 6: Adrian Iorgulescu , Romanian composer
• 0July 6: Geoffrey Rush , Australian actor
• 0July 7th: Blondie Chaplin , South African guitarist and singer
• 0July 7: Bradford Tracey , German pianist and harpsichordist († 1987)
• 0July 9: Chris Cooper , American actor
• 0July 9: Eugeniusz Knapik , Polish composer, pianist and music teacher
• 0July 9: Anita Schäfer , German politician
• July 10: Hans-Joachim Czub , lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice († 2016)
• July 10: Uwe Kils , German marine biologist
• July 11: Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Anissin , Russian ice hockey player
• July 11: Walter Meeuws , Belgian football player and coach
• July 12th: Udo Dahmen , German drummer, artistic director of the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg and lecturer
• July 12: Jamey Sheridan , American actor
• July 13: Gertrude Aubauer , Austrian journalist and politician
• July 13: Rob Bishop , American politician
• July 13: Monika Brüning , German politician
• July 13: Bohumil Cepák , Czechoslovak handball goalkeeper († 2021)
• July 13: Sonia Seymour Mikich , German journalist
• July 13: Alfred Tacke , German politician and manager
• July 14: Erich Hallhuber , German actor († 2003)
• July 14: Heidrun Hesse , German philosopher († 2007)
• July 15: Ernest Charles Arnason , Canadian ice hockey player
• July 15: Gregory Isaacs , Jamaican reggae singer († 2010)
• July 15: Rick Kehoe , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• July 15: Jesse Ventura , American politician
• July 17: Lucie Arnaz , American actress
• July 17th: Frank Castorf , German director and director of the Volksbühne Berlin

Elio Di Rupo , 2012

• July 18: Elio Di Rupo , Belgian politician, Prime Minister
• July 19: Monika Baumgartner , German actress
• July 19: Abel Ferrara , American screenwriter, director
• July 20: Björn Andersson , Swedish football player
• July 20: Larry Black , American athlete and Olympic champion († 2006)
• July 20: Christian Enzmann , German architect
• July 20: Harald Grill , German writer
• July 21: Eberhard Gienger , German gymnast and politician
• July 21: Karl Öllinger , Austrian politician

Robin Williams , 2004

• July 21: Robin Williams , American actor and comedian († 2014)
• July 22nd: Giovanni Battaglin , Italian cyclist
• July 22nd: Gafur Akhmedovich Rakhimov , Uzbek sports official
• July 22nd: Sabine Zimmermann , German TV presenter and production manager († 2020)
• July 24: Govind Prasad Agrawal , Indian-American physicist
• July 24th: Birgit Arnold , German politician
• July 24: Lynda Carter , American actress
• July 24th: Ruediger Dahlke , Austrian medical doctor
• July 25: Verdine White , American bass player
• July 26th: Günter Dreibrodt , German handball player

Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , 2013

• July 26th: Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , German politician
• July 27: Bernardo Atxaga , Spanish writer
• July 28th: Santiago Calatrava , Spanish architect, artist and civil engineer
• July 28th: Veronika Fischer , German singer
• July 29: Susan Blackmore , British writer, lecturer and broadcaster
• July 29th: Mario Delpini , Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Milan
• July 29th: Jan de Haan , Dutch composer and musician
• July 30th: Hans Christiani , German film actor
• July 31: Evonne Goolagong , Australian tennis player
• July 31: Carlo Karges , German musician († 2002)
• July 31: Howard Levy , American harmonica player
• July 31: Martin Mosebach , German writer

August

• 0August 1: Tommy Bolin , American guitarist († 1976)
• 0August 1st: Norbert Formanski , German politician
• 0August 1st: Guy Martinolle , French racing car driver
• 0August 2: Burkhard Asmuss , German historian († 2012)
• 0August 2nd: Steve Hillage , British musician and producer
• 0August 2nd: Uli Schaus , German handball goalkeeper
• 0August 2nd: Joe Lynn Turner , singer for rock bands Rainbow and Deep Purple
• 0August 2nd: Roland Zoss , Swiss song poet and writer
• 0August 3: Ralf Fücks , German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
• 0August 3: Hans Wilhelm Schlegel , German astronaut
• 0August 5th: Adrian Fisher , British maze designer
• 0August 5th: Franz-Peter Hofmeister , German athlete
• 0August 6th: Francesco Beschi , Italian priest, Bishop of Bergamo
• 0August 6: Catherine Hicks , American American film actress
• 0August 6: František Kaberle senior , Czechoslovak national ice hockey player
• 0August 7th: Ajahn Brahm , Buddhist monk
• 0August 7th: Lee Fisher , American politician
• 0August 7th: Pete Way , British bassist, rock musician († 2020)
• 0August 8: Lothar Alisch , German politician († 2000)
• 0August 8: Mamoru Oshii , Japanese director
• 0August 8: Randy Shilts , American author († 1994)
• 0August 9: Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis , Lithuanian doctor and politician
• 0August 9: Michaele Schreyer , German politician; EU commissioner
• August 11: Róža Domašcyna , Sorbian poet and translator
• August 11: Werner Nickel , German soccer player and coach
• August 12: Klaus Toppmöller , German soccer player and coach
• August 13: Dan Fogelberg , American singer-songwriter († 2007)
• August 13: Angelika Krüger-Leißner , German politician
• August 13: Peter Zimmermann , German actor
• August 16: Mats Olof Aronsson , Swedish football player
• August 16: Waltraut Borchmann , German actress
• August 17th: Alan Minter , British professional boxer († 2020)
• August 17th: Konrad Weise , German soccer player
• August 18: Aslan Ahmad oglu Aslanov , Azerbaijani journalist
• August 18: Ewald Aukes , German politician
• August 19: John Deacon , bassist and composer for the rock band Queen
• August 19: Rüdiger Lucassen , German politician
• August 19: Jean-Luc Mélenchon , French socialist politician
• August 19: Gustavo Santaolalla , Argentine musician and record producer
• August 20: Greg Bear , American science fiction writer
• August 20: Mohammed Mursi , Egyptian President († 2019)
• August 20: Kalle Pohl , German musician and comedian
• August 21: Glenn Hughes , British rock musician
• August 21: Karekin II , Catholicos of the Armenian-Gregorian Church of the Apostles
• August 22nd: Hans-Joachim Flebbe , German entrepreneur, founder of CinemaxX AG
• August 22: Leiko Ikemura , Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor
• August 23: Akhmat Abdulchamidowitsch Kadyrov , President of the Chechen Republic († 2004)
• August 23: Michael Kunzler , German theologian († 2014)
• August 23: Nūr of Jordan , fourth wife of King Hussein I.
• August 24: Danny Joe Brown , singer of Molly Hatchet († 2005)
• August 24: George Brunner , American composer, musician and record producer
• August 24: Rainer Gebauer , German soccer player
• August 25: Michael Batz , German author and dramaturge

Rob Halford

• August 25: Rob Halford , British hard rock musician
• August 26: Edward Witten , American physicist
• August 27: Christof Wackernagel , German actor and author; former RAF terrorist
• August 28: Rafał Augustyn , Polish composer, music and literary critic
• August 28: Dieter Bast , German soccer player
• August 28: Barbara Hambly , American fantasy writer
• August 28th: Qigang Chen , French composer of Chinese origin
• August 30: Timothy Bottoms , American actor
• August 30th: Behgjet Pacolli , Kosovar-Swiss entrepreneur and politician
• August 31: Eduard Douša , Czech composer
• August 31: Friedemann , German musician and music producer

September

• 0September 1: Timothy Zahn , American science fiction writer
• 0September 2: Jim DeMint , American politician
• 0September 2: Annerose Kirchner , German author

Mark Harmon , 2006

• 0September 2: Mark Harmon , American actor
• 0September 3: Michael Arndt , German politician
• 0September 5th: Ronny Abraham , French lawyer
• 0September 5: Margarete Aburumieh , Austrian politician

Paul Breitner (front)

• 0September 5: Paul Breitner , German soccer player
• 0September 5: Michael Keaton , American actor
• 0September 6: Zoltán Ribli , Hungarian chess player
• 0September 7: Christine Elaine Hynde , American rock guitarist and singer
• 0September 8th: Gundi Ellert , German director, author and popular actress
• 0September 8: Franciszek Gągor , Polish Army Chief († 2010)
• 0September 9: Ross C. Anderson , American politician
• 0September 9: Alexander John Gosse Downer , Australian politician
• 0September 9: Andreas Meier , Swiss computer scientist
• 0September 9: Ramón Puerta , Argentine politician
• 0September 9: Swetlana Schönfeld , German actress and director
• September 10: Carlos José Tissera , Argentine Roman Catholic Bishop
• September 12: Bertie Ahern , Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland
• September 12: Barbara Angelsberger , Swiss politician
• September 12th: Joëlle Léandre , French double bass player
• September 13: Scott N. Bradley , American politician ( Constitution Party )
• September 13: Anne Devlin , Northern Irish writer
• September 14: Sergei Nikolajewitsch Arzibaschew , Russian theater director and actor († 2015)
• September 14: Volodymyr Melnykov , Ukrainian writer, poet and composer
• September 14: Franz Rampelmann , German actor
• September 14th: Doina Rotaru , Romanian composer
• September 15: Anna Cambiaghi , Italian racing car driver
• September 15: Pete Carroll , American football player and coach
• September 15: Lisa Fitz , German cabaret artist
• September 15: Johan Neeskens , Dutch football player
• September 15: Francesco Fortugno , Italian politician († 2005)
• September 16: Andy Irvine , Scottish rugby player
• September 16: Siegfried Lambor , German soccer player
• September 16: Cornelius Sim , Bruneian bishop and cardinal († 2021)
• September 17th: Doro Pass-Weingartz , German politician
• September 17: Cassandra Peterson , American actress
• September 18: Steve Slagle , American jazz saxophonist
• September 18: Dee Dee Ramone , bass player with the Ramones († 2002)
• September 18: Marc Surer , Swiss Formula 1 racing driver
• September 19: Marianne Adam , German athlete
• September 19: Rudolf Hundstorfer , Austrian politician, President of the ÖGB († 2019)
• September 19: Erwin Steinhauer , Austrian actor and cabaret artist
• September 20: Alfred Angelo Attanasio , American fantasy and science fiction writer
• September 20: Cornelia Behm , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• September 20: Guy Lafleur , Canadian ice hockey player
• September 20th: Javier Marías , Spanish writer
• September 20: Thomas Schühly , German film producer
• September 21: Hermann Onko Aeikens , German agronomist and politician
• September 21: Bruce Arena , American football coach
• September 21: Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov , President of Chechnya († 2005)
• September 22nd: David Coverdale , British hard rock singer and band leader for Whitesnake
• September 22nd: Wolfgang Petry , German-speaking musician
• September 23: Annette Otterstedt , German musicologist and viol player († 2020)
• September 23: Ulrich Petzold , German member of the Bundestag
• September 24th: Arthur W. Ahrweiler , German cameraman
• September 24: Ulrich Herbert , German historian
• September 24th: Heinz Hoenig , German film actor
• September 24th: Matthias Sannemüller , German violist
• September 25: Jardena Arasi , Israeli singer
• September 25: Mark Hamill , American actor
• September 25: Bob McAdoo , American basketball player
• September 25: Manfred Praeker , German bass player and music producer († 2012)
• September 26: Michael Ambühl , Swiss State Secretary
• September 26: Dave Casper , American football player
• September 27: Péter Baczakó , Hungarian weightlifter and Olympic champion († 2008)
• September 27: Wojciech Giertych , Polish theologian
• September 28: Jim Diamond , Scottish pop singer and songwriter († 2015)
• September 28: Hans-Joachim Schalles , German classical archaeologist († 2015)
• September 29: Maureen Caird , Australian athlete and Olympic champion

Michelle Bachelet , 2012

• September 29: Michelle Bachelet , Chilean politician

October

• 0October 1: Maurizio Maggiani , Italian writer
• 0October 2: François Abou Salem , French-Palestinian comedian, writer and director († 2011)

Sting , 2009

• 0October 2nd: Sting , British pop star
• 0October 3rd: Hannes Bongartz , German soccer player and soccer coach
• 0October 3: Keb 'Mo' , American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
• 0October 3: Helmut Schubert , German materials scientist († 2012)
• 0October 4th: Frank-Wolf Matthies , German writer
• 0October 5: Karen Allen , American actress

Bob Geldof , 2009

• 0October 5th: Bob Geldof , Irish musician
• 0October 6: Ralf-Peter Märtin , German historian and publishing manager († 2016)
• 0October 6: Hans-Jürgen Uhl , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0October 6: Manfred Winkelhock , German racing car driver († 1985)
• 0October 7th: Enki Bilal , French comic book artist and illustrator
• 0October 7: John Mellencamp , American rock and folk singer
• 0October 8: Jutta Haug , German politician
• 0October 8th: Timo Salonen , Finnish rally driver
• 0October 8: Frank-Jürgen Weise , Chairman of the German Federal Employment Agency
• 0October 9: Mark Weber , American history reviser, Holocaust denier
• October 10: Arnulf Rating , German cabaret artist

• October 10: Willi Brase , German politician

• October 10: Eugen Egner , German draftsman and writer
• October 11th: Jean-Jacques Goldman , French composer and performer
• October 11: Reiner Luyken , German journalist
• October 13: Reinhard Knodt , German writer
• October 15: Abdel Moneim Abul Futuh Abdel Hady , Egyptian politician
• October 15: AF Th. Van der Heijden , Dutch writer
• October 15: Heinz Schmitt , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• October 15: Roscoe Tanner , American tennis player
• October 15: Alev Tekinay , German-Turkish writer
• October 15th: Rafael Vaganian , Armenian chess grandmaster
• October 16: Günter Blamberger , German specialist in German and university professor
• October 16: Li Ho-pyong , North Korean wrestler
• October 16: Sibylle Pfeiffer , German politician
• October 16: Lothar Walsdorf , German writer († 2004)
• October 17th: Christoph Marthaler , Swiss director
• October 17: Chung Mong-joon , South Korean politician
• October 18: Hans-Georg Jaunich , German handball player
• October 18: Stephan Schwartz , German film, theater and television actor
• October 19: Kurt Schrader , American politician
• October 20: Yann Le Puits , French writer
• October 20: Eliot Pattison , American attorney and crime writer
• October 20: Claudio Ranieri , Italian football player and coach
• October 21: Sigmund Gottlieb , German journalist and editor-in-chief of Bavarian TV
• October 22: Hartmut Ostermann , German entrepreneur and Saarland state politician
• October 23: Charly García , Argentine pop star
• October 23: Gerd Kische , German soccer player
• October 23: Mauricio Pergelier , Chilean organist
• October 23: Ingo Peter , German soccer coach
• October 23: Fatmir Sejdiu , President of Kosovo

Franz-Josef Sehr, 2016

• October 24th: Chris von Rohr , Swiss rock musician
• October 24: Frank Schumann , German publisher and publicist
• October 25th: Hans-Georg Aschenbach , German ski jumper
• October 26: Bootsy Collins , American bass player
• October 27: KK Downing , co-founder and guitarist of the heavy metal band Judas Priest
• October 27: Franz-Josef Sehr , German businessman and fire department official
• October 28: Klaus Auhuber , German ice hockey player
• October 29: Fausto Correia , Portuguese politician († 2007)
• October 29th: Peter Höhne , German handball trainer and handball goalkeeper
• October 29th: Tiff Needell , British racing car driver and journalist
• October 29th: Holger Weinert , German television presenter
• October 30: Mehmet Kemal Ağar , Turkish politician
• October 30th: Trilok Gurtu , Indian percussionist, singer and composer
• October 31: Volker-Michael Anton , German correspondence chess grandmaster

November

• 0November 2nd: Alexander Schonath , German politician
• 0November 3rd: Jan Faktor , Czech-German writer
• 0November 3rd: Franz Huhn , German politician (CDU) and mayor
• 0November 4th: David Arner , American jazz pianist, composer and university professor
• 0November 4th: Traian Băsescu , Romanian politician, Mayor of Bucharest
• 0November 4th: Carlo Fugazza , Italian karate master
• 0November 4th: Dagmar Reim , German broadcasting director
• 0November 4th: Reina Roffé , Argentine writer and journalist
• 0November 4th: Eugenio Torre , Filipino chess player
• 0November 4th: Cosey Fanni Tutti , British musician and artist
• 0November 5: Gilbert Achcar , French-Lebanese political scientist and sociologist
• 0November 5th: Lieselotte Ahnert , German psychologist and professor
• 0November 5: Tony Evers , American politician
• 0November 5th: Hanns-Josef Ortheil , German writer
• 0November 7th: Christa Klaß , German MEP
• 0November 8: Alfredo Ignacio Astiz , Argentine lieutenant captain
• 0November 8: Michele De Lucchi , Italian designer and architect
• 0November 9: Šarūnas Adomavičius , Lithuanian diplomat, lawyer and politician
• 0November 9: Gerry Brown , American jazz drummer
• 0November 9: Lou Ferrigno , American actor and professional bodybuilder
• November 10: Werner Söllner , German writer († 2019)
• November 11: Kim Peek , autistic island talent, provided the inspiration for the film Rain Man with Dustin Hoffman († 2009)
• November 12: Ben Siebenrock , German sculptor († 2018)
• November 14: Alec John Such , American bass player
• November 15th: Eroc , German musician and music producer
• November 15: Mike Mentzer , American professional bodybuilder († 2001)
• November 15: Paul Seitz , American composer and music teacher
• November 16: Denis Gougeon , Canadian composer
• November 16: Bernd Lehmann (geodesist) , German geodesist († 2018)
• November 16: Paula Vogel , American author and university professor
• November 17th: Werner Hoyer , German politician
• November 17th: Lucía Huergo , Cuban composer, music producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist († 2015)
• November 17th: Willi Stächele , German politician and Minister for Nutrition in Baden-Württemberg
• November 17: Jack Vettriano , British painter
• November 18: Justin Raimondo , American journalist († 2019)
• November 18: Heinrich Schiff , Austrian cellist and conductor († 2016)
• November 18: Klaus-Peter Schweizer , German musician and pop singer
• November 19: Zeenat Aman , Indian model and film actress
• November 19: Gerhard Feige , Bishop of Magdeburg
• November 19: Kenny Werner , American jazz pianist
• November 20: León Gieco , Argentine pop star
• November 20: David Walters , American politician

Thomas Roth

• November 21: Thomas Roth , German journalist
• November 22nd: Cecilia García , Dominican singer, actress and television producer
• November 22nd: Bernd Herrmann , German athlete
• November 22nd: Kent Nagano , American conductor
• November 26th: Angelika Barbe , German politician
• November 26th: Ilona Staller , Hungarian porn actress
• November 26: Sulejman Tihić , Bosnian politician († 2014)
• November 27th: Kathryn Bigelow , American film director
• November 28th: Therese Affolter , Swiss actress
• November 28: Bobby Chacon , American boxer († 2016)
• November 29: Jean Schmidt , US politician
• November 29: John Stagliano , American porn actor and director
• November 30th: Peter Reichel , German soccer player

December

• 0December 1: Jaco Pastorius , American jazz musician and composer († 1987)
• 0December 1st: Fausto Rey , Dominican singer
• 0December 1: Treat Williams , American actor
• 0December 2nd: Giuseppe Ammendola , Italian actor, playwright and film director
• 0December 2: Andrei Miron , German prehistorian († 2011)
• 0December 3: Harald Neubauer , German politician and journalist
• 0December 4th: Gary Rossington , American musician
• 0December 6th: Klaus Karl-Kraus , German cabaret artist
• 0December 7th: Daniel Branca , Argentinian painter and comic artist († 2005)
• 0December 8: Bill Bryson , American journalist and writer
• 0December 8: Richard Desmond , British publisher
• 0December 8th: Elfi Eschke , German actress
• 0December 8th: Hans-Ulrich Jörges , German journalist
• 0December 9: Dominique Dropsy , French football player († 2015)
• 0December 9th: Gunter Dueck , German mathematician
• 0December 9th: Pedro Estevan , Spanish percussionist
• 0December 9th: Angelika Milster , German singer and actress
• 0December 9: Dragan Pantelić , Yugoslav football goalkeeper († 2021)
• 0December 9th: Dieter Rebsch , German soccer player
• December 10th: Eduard Angele , German soccer player
• December 10th: Louis Descartes , French racing car driver and racing team owner († 1991)
• December 10: Hans-Peter Müller , German sociologist
• December 10: Johnny Rodriguez , American country singer
• December 11th: Jacques Anouma , Ivorian football official
• December 11th: Spike Edney , British musician
• December 12th: Anatoly Nikolajewitsch Aljabjew , Russian biathlete
• December 12th: Steven Alan Hawley , American astronaut
• December 12: Bill Hybels , American theologian, pastor, speaker, and author
• December 13: Jirō Asada , Japanese writer
• December 13: Grażyna Gęsicka , Polish politician († 2010)
• December 13: Ulrike Merten , German politician

Mike Kruger .

• December 14: Christoph Auffarth , German religious scholar and theologian
• December 14th: Mike Krüger , German cabaret artist and singer
• December 14th: Jan Timman , Dutch chess player
• December 16: Robben Ford , American blues guitarist and singer
• December 16: Hans Heinz , German politician
• December 16: Mark Patterson , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
• December 17th: Tatyana Wassiljewna Kasankina , Russian athlete and Olympic champion
• December 18: Reimer Böge , German MEP
• December 18: Volker Bouffier , German politician, Prime Minister of Hesse
• December 19: Celso Dayrit , Filipino fencer and sports official († 2021)
• December 19: Anette Rückes , German athlete and Olympian
• December 20: Kate Atkinson , British writer
• December 20: Wau Holland , German journalist and computer activist († 2001)
• December 22nd: Adam Wodnicki , Polish pianist and music teacher
• December 23: Anthony Phillips , British musician
• December 24th: Beppo Pohlmann , German songwriter, lyricist and composer
• December 25th: Herluf Andersen , Danish archer
• December 25th: Gerald Zschorsch , German writer
• December 26: Magnus Malm , Swedish publicist, author and speaker
• December 26th: Guido Pozzo , Italian Curia Archbishop
• December 26: John Scofield , American jazz guitarist and composer
• December 27th: Hans Aarsman , Dutch photographer and author
• December 27th: William Waldorf Astor , British nobleman and politician
• December 28: John Gray , American couple and family therapist
• December 30th: Neil Cusack , Irish long distance runner
• December 30th: Jörg Graser , German director and screenwriter
• December 30: Ben Witherington , New Testament Evangelical scholar
• December 31: Thomas William "Tom" Hamilton , American musician
• December 31st: Jimmy Haslip , American jazz bassist
• December 31: Hartmut Möllring , CDU politician in Lower Saxony
• December 31: Vasilis Rakopoulos , Greek guitarist, trumpeter and music teacher
• December 31: Kenny Roberts sr. , American motorcycle racer

Day unknown

• Muhammad Abu Tir , Palestinian politician
• Carol J. Adams , American author
• Ursi Anna Aeschbacher , Swiss writer and publisher
• Rudolf Agstner , Austrian Ambassador († 2016)
• Vilson Ahmeti , Albanian politician
• Kwamena Ahwoi , Ghanaian politician
• Kurt Anglet , German theologian and professor
• Brigitte Antes , German librettist
• Pablo Ardouin , Chilean folk musician and songwriter
• Mohammad Reza Aref , Persian politician and scientist
• Fraser Andrew Armstrong , British chemist
• Ottilie Arndt , German writer
• Gerhard M. Artmann , German physician and author
• Öwezgeldi Ataýew , Turkmen politician
• Svetulevičius Arvydas , Lithuanian politician
• Helmut Asche , German social scientist and development worker
• Bill Atkinson , American programmer and wildlife photographer
• Silas Atopare , Papua New Guinea Governor General († 2021)
• Norbert Francis Attard , Maltese artist
• George C. Baker , American organist, composer, music educator, and dermatologist
• Albin Braig , German dialect actor
• Tina Bursill , Australian actress
• Dirk Busch , German singer, composer and sociologist
• Lawrence Bush , American writer, essayist, and editor
• Greg Cannom , American makeup artist
• Alexandru Ciutureanu , Romanian sculptor († 2013)
• Donald Crockett , American composer, conductor and music educator
• Donald von Frankenberg , German artist
• Humberto Gatica , American record producer, sound engineer and arranger
• Ulla Geiger , German actress and filmmaker
• Monika Gibas , German historian
• Daniel Gutwein , American composer, jazz saxophonist, shakuhashi player and music teacher
• Maria Katarzyna Lasatowicz , Polish Germanist, university professor and editor
• Kalliopi Lemos , Greek sculptor, painter and installation artist
• Amy Leverenz , American singer
• Gerald Levinson , American composer
• Luo Zhijun , Chinese politician
• Rudolf Lutz , Swiss organist, conductor, music teacher, improviser and composer
• Marjorie Merryman , American composer and music teacher
• Gerd Pasch , German media technology educator and senior radio editor
• Rodman Philbrick , American author
• Peter Robert , German translator, writer and documentary filmmaker
• Hartmut Schoen , German director
• Kai Sichtermann , German musician
• Christophe Soulé , French mathematician
• Sabine Strobel , German actress, voice actress and dialogue director.
• Ali Tarhouni , American university professor and Libyan opposition activist in exile
• Ludwig wedding slip , German landscape architect
• Ursula Weck , German radio play director and author
• Stanley N. Williams , American volcanologist
• Ransom Wilson , American flautist and conductor
• John Bruce Yeh , American clarinetist and music teacher

Died

January

Ferdinand Porsche († January 30)

• 0January 1: Jan Valtin , German communist and writer (* 1905)
• 0January 2nd: Paul Münch , German teacher and Palatinate dialect poet (* 1879)
• 0January 4th: Evlyn Howard-Jones , English pianist, conductor and music teacher (* 1877)
• 0January 5: William Luther Hill , American politician (* 1873)
• 0January 5: Andrei Platonow , Russian writer (* 1899)
• 0January 6th: Wilhelm Sollmann , German journalist and politician (* 1881)
• 0January 7th: René Guénon , French metaphysician and esoteric writer (* 1886)
• 0January 8: Gustav Zeitzschel , German opera singer (* 1868)
• 0January 8: Max tom Dieck , German politician (* 1869)
• January 10: Tom Delahanty , American baseball player (* 1872)
• January 10: Stanisław Golachowski , Polish musicologist and teacher (* 1907)
• January 10: Sinclair Lewis , American writer (* 1885)
• January 10th: Athos Palma , Argentine composer and music teacher (* 1891)
• January 12: Momme Andresen , German chemist (* 1857)
• January 14th: Fritz Balogh , German soccer player (* 1920)
• January 15: Erwin Voellmy , Swiss chess master and mathematician (* 1886)
• January 16: Julius Bamberger , owner of a department store in Bremen (* 1880)
• January 18: Christian Portner , Swiss Evangelist (* 1870)
• January 20: Alexander Chuhaldin , Canadian violinist, conductor, composer and music teacher (* 1892)
• January 20: Johann Culemeyer , German engineer (* 1883)
• January 22nd: Anna Siemsen , German educator and politician (* 1882)
• January 22nd: Karl Ludwig Nessler , German hairdresser and the inventor of the permanent wave (* 1872)
• January 22nd: Harald Bohr , Danish mathematician (* 1887)
• January 22nd: Georg Herting , German sculptor (* 1872)
• January 27: Gustaf Mannerheim , Finnish officer and statesman (* 1867)
• January 30th: Ferdinand Porsche , Austrian-German car designer (* 1875)
• January 30th: Arnold Zimmermann , Swiss Protestant clergyman and local researcher (* 1872)

February

André Gide († February 19)

Alfred Hugenberg († March 12)

• 0February 3: Marguerite Boulc'h , French chanson singer, also known as Fréhel (* 1891)
• 0February 3: Alfred Cohn , American screenwriter (* 1880)
• 0February 3: August Horch , German mechanical engineer (* 1868)
• 0February 4: Cecil Gant , American blues singer and pianist (* 1913)
• 0February 5: Enrique Mejía Arredondo , Dominican composer and conductor (* 1901)
• 0February 8: Fritz Thyssen , German entrepreneur (* 1873)
• 0February 9: Ernest Hutcheson , Australian pianist, music teacher and composer (* 1871)
• February 10: Joseph Bovet , Swiss composer and priest (* 1879)
• February 11: Louis Brody , German actor (* 1896)
• February 12: Marc de Ranse , French composer, organist, conductor and music teacher (* 1881)
• February 13: Lars Gabriel Andersson , Swedish teacher and herpetologist (* 1868)
• February 16: Hans Böckler , German politician and trade union official (* 1875)
• February 16: Heinrich von Srbik , Austrian historian (* 1878)
• February 19: André Gide , French writer (* 1869)
• February 20: Lorenz Ludwig Maximilian Ernst von Angerer , German physicist (* 1881)
• February 20: Karl Rüdiger , German politician (* 1896)
• February 20: Howard Brockway , American composer (* 1870)
• February 25: Alfred Grünwald , Austrian operetta librettist (* 1884)

March

• 0March 6: Ivor Novello , British actor, playwright and musical composer (* 1893)
• 0March 7th: Rangsit , Thai prince (* 1885)
• 0March 8: Virgil Chapman , American politician (* 1895)
• 0March 8: Samuel D. Jackson , American politician (* 1895)
• March 10: Hans Karl Abel , German writer (* 1876)
• March 10: Ludwig Kohl , German politician (* 1870)
• March 12th: Alfred Hugenberg , German entrepreneur and politician (* 1865)
• March 13: Hara Tamiki , Japanese writer (* 1905)
• March 14: Saladin Schmitt , German theater scholar, director and theater director (* 1883)
• March 15: John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos , Greek-South African astronomer (* 1889)
• March 17th: Karl Albrecht von Habsburg-Altenburg , Austro-Polish military and landowner (* 1888)
• March 19: Dmytro Doroshenko , Ukrainian historian and politician (* 1882)
• March 20: Thomas G. Burch , American politician (* 1869)
• March 20: Kathleen Lockhart Manning , American composer (* 1890)
• March 22nd: Peter August Böckstiegel , German painter (* 1889)
• March 22nd: Willem Mengelberg , Dutch conductor (* 1871)
• March 25: Bruno Leddin , German politician (* 1898)
• March 25: Zoltán Mechlovits , Hungarian table tennis player (* 1891)
• March 25: Wilhelm Altmann , German music historian and librarian (* 1862)
• March 26: James Hinkle , American politician (* 1864)
• March 28: Georg Otto Angerer , German politician (* 1893)
• March 30th: Christie Benet , American politician (* 1879)
• March 31: Alfred Cossmann , Austrian engraver and commercial artist (* 1870)

April

Arthur H. Vandenberg

• 0April 2: Simon Barere , Russian pianist (* 1896)
• 0April 6: Halfdan Cleve , Norwegian composer (* 1879)
• 0April 8: Adolph Koldofsky , Canadian violinist (* 1905)
• April 14: Ernest Bevin , British union leader and politician (* 1881)
• April 16: Gábor Finály , Hungarian classical philologist and archaeologist (* 1871)
• April 16: Martin Loibl , German politician (* 1898)
• April 17th: Renato Magi , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1913)
• April 17: Ernst Moro , German professor of paediatrics (* 1874)
• April 17: Robert Ritter , German National Socialist racial theorist (* 1901)
• April 17th: Berthe Weill , French art dealer and gallery owner (* 1865)
• April 18: Daisy Bates , Irish-born Australian journalist (* 1859)
• April 18: António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona , President of Portugal (* 1869)
• April 18: Arthur H. Vandenberg , American politician (* 1884)
• April 20: Maeda Yugure , Japanese poet (* 1883)
• April 23: Charles Gates Dawes , American politician, Vice President of the USA (* 1865)
• April 26th: Otto Bäurle , German athlete (* 1887)
• April 25: Jerzy Fitelberg , Polish composer (* 1903)
• April 26: John Alden Carpenter , American composer (* 1876)

Ludwig Wittgenstein , 1910

• April 29: Ludwig Wittgenstein , Austro-British philosopher (* 1889)

May

• 0May 1: Georg Baesecke , German old Germanist (* 1876)
• 0May 1st: José Cavaquinho , Brazilian cavaquinho player, guitarist, flautist, conductor and composer (* 1884)
• 0May 5: John Flynn , Australian theologian (* 1880)
• 0May 6: Raffaele Alberti , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1907)
• 0May 6: Hans Andrias Djurhuus , Faroese poet (* 1883)
• 0May 6: Guido Leoni , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1915)
• 0May 7: Warner Baxter , American actor (* 1889)
• 0May 9: Marie Ault , British actress (* 1890)
• 0May 9: Leo Bosschart , Dutch football player (* 1888)
• May 10: Willi Busch , German actor (* 1893)
• May 12: Wassili Michailowitsch Alexejew , Russian sinologist (* 1881)
• May 12: Carl Kraemer , German animal rights activist (* 1873)
• May 14: Ernst Roth , German politician (* 1901)
• May 17: S. Sylvan Simon , American director and producer (born 1910)
• May 18: Gaspar Agüero y Barreras , Cuban composer and pianist (* 1873)
• May 19: Paul August Reimund Frank , German architect (* 1878)
• May 22nd: Roland Jacobi , Hungarian table tennis player (* 1893)
• May 24th: Judith Andrée-Hanslik , Austrian philologist (* 1906)
• May 25: René Gagnier , Canadian violinist, conductor, composer and euphonium player (* 1892)
• May 25: Franz Klebusch , German actor (* 1887)
• May 25: Paula von Preradović , Austrian writer (* 1887)
• May 26: Lincoln Ellsworth , American polar explorer (* 1880)
• May 29: Robert Kahn , German composer and music teacher (* 1865)
• May 29: Josef Bohuslav Foerster , Czech composer (* 1859)
• May 29: Géza Maróczy , Hungarian chess player (* 1870)
• May 30th: Hermann Broch , Austrian writer (* 1886)
• May 30th: Dimitrios Levidis , Greek composer (* 1886)
• May 30th: Stepan Njaga , Moldovan composer (* 1900)
• May 31: Denis Joseph Dougherty , Archbishop of Philadelphia and Cardinal (* 1865)

June

• 0June 2: Émile Chartier , French philosopher, writer and journalist (* 1868)
• 0June 4: Sergei Kussewizki , Russian-American conductor and double bass player (* 1874)
• 0June 7th: Werner Braune , SS-Standartenführer, head of the Gestapo in Wesermünde (* 1909)
• 0June 7: Paul Blobel , architect, SS-Standartenführer (* 1894)
• 0June 7th: Erich Naumann , Head of Task Force B, Head of Office III SD Main Office (* 1905)
• 0June 7th: Otto Ohlendorf , SS general, head of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) (* 1907)
• 0June 7th: Oswald Pohl , member of the SS who was significantly involved in the implementation of the Holocaust (* 1892)
• 0June 9: Carl Fuchs , English cellist (* 1865)
• June 10: Jean-Jacques Waltz , Alsatian graphic artist and local researcher (* 1873)
• June 12: Anna Feldhusen , German painter and etcher (* 1867)
• June 12: Marcel Tournier , French harpist and composer (* 1879)
• June 13: Maurice Benoist , French racing car driver (* 1892)
• June 13: Ben Chifley , Australian politician and Prime Minister (* 1885)
• June 19: Albert Bertelin , French composer (* 1872)
• June 21: Charles Dillon Perrine , American astronomer (* 1867)
• June 23: Victor Johnson , British cyclist, Olympic and world champion (* 1883)
• June 23: Armin Knab , German composer (* 1881)
• June 26: Frank Ferera , Hawaiian musician (* 1885)
• June 26: George Udny Yule , Scottish statistician (* 1871)
• June 28: Fumiko Hayashi , Japanese writer (* 1903)

July

Ferdinand Sauerbruch († July 2)

Arnold Schönberg († July 13)

• 0July 2: Ferdinand Sauerbruch , German surgeon (* 1875)
• 0July 5: James Norman Hall , American writer (* 1887)
• 0July 8: Joseph-Jean Goulet , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher (* 1870)
• 0July 9: Jørgen Bentzon , Danish composer (* 1897)
• 0July 9: Hans Hauschulz , SED politician (* 1912)
• July 13: Arnold Schönberg , Austrian composer and music theorist (* 1874)
• July 14th: Dario Ambrosini , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1918)
• July 14th: Otto Antoine , German commercial artist and vedute painter (* 1865)
• July 20: Abdallah ibn Husain I , Emir and King of (Trans-) Jordan (* 1882)
• July 20: Wilhelm of Prussia , Crown Prince of the German Empire (* 1882)
• July 23: Robert J. Flaherty , American filmmaker (* 1884)

Philippe Pétain, around 1930

• July 23: Philippe Pétain , French general and President of the Vichy regime (* 1856)
• July 24th: Arno Esch , German LDP politician (* 1928)
• July 26: Martin Trapp , American politician (* 1877)
• July 28: Kurt Bürger , Prime Minister of Mecklenburg (* 1894)
• July 29: Alewtina Bilinkina , Soviet volcanologist and geologist (* 1921)
• July 29: Walt Brown , American racing driver (born 1911)
• July 29th: Cecil Green , American racing driver (* 1919)
• July 29: Wilhelm Hamacher , German politician (* 1883)

August

• 0August 4th: Ernst von Weizsäcker , German diplomat and politician (* 1882)
• 0August 8: Charles Hitchcock Adams , American chemist, timber merchant and amateur astronomer (* 1868)
• August 11: Walter Hahm , German officer, General of the Wehrmacht in World War II (* 1894)
• August 13th: Andreas spokesman von Bernegg , Swiss crop scientist (* 1871)

William Randolph Hearst , 1906

• August 14: William Randolph Hearst , American publisher and media tsar (* 1863)
• August 15: Sante Geminiani , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1919)
• August 15: Gianni Leoni , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1915)
• August 15: Artur Schnabel , Austrian pianist and composer (* 1882)
• August 16: Eduardo Chibás , Cuban politician, founder of the Orthodox Party (* 1907)
• August 19: Adolf Heinrich August von Achenbach , Prussian politician (* 1866)
• August 19: Walter Bloem , German writer (* 1868)
• August 21: Gustav Davis , Austrian journalist and newspaper editor (* 1856)
• August 21: Constant Lambert , English composer (* 1905)
• August 22nd: Johannes Kirschweng , Catholic priest and writer (* 1900)
• August 24: Louis Waizman , Canadian composer, violist, trombonist, pianist and music teacher (* 1863)
• August 28: Robert Walker , American actor (born 1918)
• August 30: Erich Emminger , German politician (* 1880)
• August 31: Abraham Cahan , American journalist, publicist and writer (* 1860)
• 000August: Georgette Bréjean-Silver , French opera singer (* 1870)

September

• 0September 1: Heinrich Maria Martin Schäfer , German politician (* 1879)
• 0September 2: Karl Anlauf , German journalist (* 1877)
• 0September 3: Theodor Roemer , German agricultural scientist (* 1883)
• 0September 4: Louis Adamic , American journalist and writer (* 1899)
• 0September 4: Leo Waibel , German geographer (* 1888)
• 0September 6th: Karl Slevogt , German designer, automobile pioneer and racing driver (* 1876)
• September 14: Fritz Busch , German conductor (* 1890)
• September 15: Jacinto Guerrero , Spanish composer (* 1895)
• September 22: Allen Sisson , American old-time musician (* 1873)
• September 23: Siegfried Bettmann , British bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturer (* 1863)
• September 25: Hans Naumann , German ancient Germanist and folklorist (* 1886)
• September 26: Montagu Allan , Canadian banker, ship owner and sports sponsor (* 1860)
• September 27: Augusto de Vasconcelos , Portuguese doctor, diplomat and politician, foreign minister and prime minister (* 1867)
• September 28: Carl Albert Andersen , Norwegian athlete and gymnast (* 1876)

October

• 0October 1: Karel Teige , Czech artist, art theorist, critic, publicist and translator (* 1900)
• 0October 1: Otto Wurzburg , composer of chess problems (* 1875)
• 0October 2: Hermann Pistor , German optician and physicist (* 1875)
• 0October 4: Henrietta Lacks , donor of a tissue sample from which the HeLa cells were developed (* 1920)

Otto Meyerhof, 1923

• 0October 6: Otto Fritz Meyerhof , German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner (* 1884)
• 0October 7: Joseph Rosier , American politician (* 1870)
• October 12: Heinrich Hoffmann , German Protestant theologian and university professor (* 1874)
• October 14: Hermann Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz , Austrian politician and KuK treasurer (* 1865)
• October 15: Friedrich Wilhelm Andreas , German sculptor, porcelain designer and interior designer (* 1882)
• October 17th: Johann Becker , German lawyer and politician (* 1869)
• October 17: Bernhard Kellermann , German writer (* 1879)
• October 18: Philipp Friedrich Wilhelm Abegg , German administrative officer (* 1876)
• October 19: Hans Adolf Bühler , German painter (* 1877)
• October 19: Gustav Knepper , German entrepreneur (* 1870)
• October 20: Franz Xaver Aenderl , German politician and writer (* 1883)
• October 20: Karl Jarres , German politician of the Weimar Republic, Lord Mayor of Duisburg (* 1874)
• October 21: Willy Fischer , German politician (* 1904)
• October 22: Ida Beer-Walbrunn , German painter (* 1878)
• October 23: Fritz Tarnow , German social democrat, trade unionist and member of the Bundestag (* 1880)
• October 25: Amélie d'Orléans , last Queen of Portugal (* 1865)
• October 29: Robert Grant Aitken , American astronomer (* 1864)

November

• 0November 4th: Ernesto Ambrosini , Italian athlete (* 1894)
• 0November 5: Reggie Walker , South African athlete and Olympic champion (* 1889)
• 0November 6th: Wilhelm Schmid , German classical philologist (* 1859)
• 0November 7th: Johannes von Hieber , liberal politician and President of Württemberg (* 1862)
• 0November 9: Sigmund Romberg , Hungarian composer (* 1887)
• November 11th: Mack Hellings , American racing driver (* 1917)
• November 11th: Walter Hyde , British opera singer and vocal teacher (* 1875)
• November 12th: Alfred Washington Adson , American neurosurgeon (* 1887)
• November 12: Konstantin Biebl , Czech poet (* 1898)
• November 13: Karl Brunner , German politician (* 1905)
• November 13th: Hertha Kräftner , Austrian writer (* 1928)
• November 13: Nikolai Medtner , Russian composer (* 1880)
• November 15: René Bonneau , French racing car driver (* 1898)
• November 19: Leopold Andrian , Austrian poet, writer and diplomat (* 1875)
• November 19: Karl Attenberger , German cameraman (* 1885)
• November 19: František Čech , Czech puppeteer and puppeteer writer (* 1898)
• November 27: Jan Sterringa , Dutch theosophist and anarchist (* 1870)
• November 28: Käthe Papke , German native writer (* 1872)
• November 29th: Levon Schant , Armenian playwright, writer, poet, and founder of the "Foundation of National Culture" (* 1869)
• November 29: Kenneth S. Wherry , American politician (* 1892)

December

• 0December 2: José de Jesús Ravelo , Dominican composer and music teacher (* 1876)
• 0December 2: Manuel Ugarte , Argentine writer (* 1875)
• 0December 3: Otto Palandt , German lawyer and editor (* 1877)
• 0December 5: Franz Arnholdt , German trade unionist, publisher and local politician (* 1885)
• 0December 6th: Léon Rothier , French singer (bass) (* 1874)
• 0December 7th: Edward Leedskalnin , Latvian sculptor and engineer (* 1887)
• 0December 7th: Hans Heinrich Müller , German architect (* 1879)
• December 10: Algernon Blackwood , British writer (* 1869)
• December 11th: Christopher Addison , British doctor and politician (* 1869)
• December 11th: Fanny Schreck , German actress (* 1877)
• December 14: Hans-Detlef Herhudt von Rohden , German major general (* 1899)
• December 17: Charlotte Andrews Stephens , educator, first African American teacher in the Little Rock School District (* 1854)
• December 18: Paul Appenzeller , Swiss dialect author (* 1888)
• December 18: André Durieux , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher (* 1899)
• December 19: Arthur Capper , American politician (* 1865)
• December 23: Aram Andonian , Armenian writer and journalist (* 1875)
• December 23: Enrique Santos Discépolo , Argentine composer (* 1901)
• December 23: Alfrēds Kalniņš , Latvian composer (* 1879)
• December 31: Maxim Litvinov , Soviet Foreign Minister (* 1876)
• December 31: Pleasant Crump , last survivor, who verifiably took part in the American Civil War as a soldier (* 1847)

Day unknown

• Eugen Abele , German pastor and local researcher (* 1874)
• Paul Augé , French publisher, Romanist and lexicographer (* 1881)
• Leopoldine Augustin , Austrian theater actress and singer (* 1863)
• Hassan Vosough , Iranian politician and Prime Minister of Iran (* 1868)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : John Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
• Chemistry : Edwin Mattison McMillan and Glenn T. Seaborg
• Medicine : Max Theiler
• Literature : Pär Lagerkvist
• Nobel Peace Prize : Léon Jouhaux

Web links

Commons : 1951 (Category)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : 1951  - album containing pictures, videos and audio files

• Annual chronicle of the House of History of the FRG
• The Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government (1951) in the Federal Archives

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the Landsberg War Crimes Prison , under US orders from 1946 to 1958, the last seven of a total of 308 war criminals sentenced to death were hanged on June 7, 1951 :
   • Oswald Pohl , who was sentenced to death as the main defendant in the Economic and Administrative Main Office of the SS ,
   • four of those convicted in the Einsatzgruppen trial ( Otto Ohlendorf , Erich Naumann , Paul Blobel , Werner Braune ) and
   • two convicted in the Dachau trials - namely the adjutant of the camp commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp Hans-Theodor Schmidt and the report leader of the subcamp complex Mühldorf Georg Schallermair
2. ↑ spiegel.de February 21, 2006: Amnesia and Amnesty