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1952 | |
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Explosion of Ivy Mike , the first hydrogen bomb | |
Fulgencio Batista puts on a coup in Cuba | The accident-ridden De Havilland Comet is the first jet airliner |
The "July 23rd Revolution" leads to the overthrow of King Faruq in the Kingdom of Egypt and changes the power structure of the entire region |
1952 in other calendars | |
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From urbe condita | 2705 |
Armenian calendar | 1400-1401 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1944-1945 |
Badi calendar | 108-109 |
Bengali calendar | 1358-1359 |
Berber calendar | 2902 |
Buddhist calendar | 2496 |
Burmese calendar | 1314 |
Byzantine calendar | 7460-7461 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4648-4649 or 4588-4589 |
- 60 year cycle |
Metal rabbit ( 辛卯 , 28) - |
French revolutionary calendar |
- CLX CLXI 160-161 |
Hebrew calendar | 5712-5713 |
Hindu calendar | |
- Vikram Sambat | 2008-2009 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1874-1875 |
Iranian calendar | 1330-1331 |
Islamic calendar | 1371-1372 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Nengō (era): | Shōwa 27 |
- Kōki | 2612 |
Coptic calendar | 1668-1669 |
Korean calendar | |
- Dangun era | 4285 |
- Juche era | 41 |
Minguo calendar | 41 |
Modern Olympics | XV |
Seleucid calendar | 2263-2264 |
Thai solar calendar | 2495 |
The year 1952 was marked by the ongoing Korean War . In Europe, the coal and steel union laid the foundation for what would later become the European Community, and the Federal Republic of Germany was further incorporated into Western Europe.
overview
East Asia / Korean War

The ongoing Korean War developed into a positional war along the 38th parallel; even massive bombings on North Korea's infrastructure did little to change this. The USA was interested in strengthening its position in the Far East and was instrumental in ensuring that a peace treaty was concluded with Japan that officially ended the occupation regime. At the same time, the USA demonstrated its military strength against the Eastern Bloc by detonating its first hydrogen bomb ; The election of Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower as US President, who replaced Democrat Harry S. Truman , did nothing to change this firm stance .
Federal Republic of Germany
On the question of Germany, Adenauer's CDU government consistently backed integration with the West against the resistance of the SPD. The Soviet Union tried to counteract this development by making the offer of a reunited but neutral Germany with the Stalin Note . With this, however, Stalin could not prevent the Bonn government from deciding to join the European Defense Community .
The European Coal and Steel Community (= “ Coal and Steel Union”: Federal Republic, Benelux countries, France and Italy), founded on April 18, 1951 by the Paris Treaty , came into force on July 23, 1952.
GDR
On July 24, 1952, the district reforms were implemented in the GDR . This meant a new division through area reforms into districts and counties . The 2nd party conference of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) also took place in July 1952 in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in East Berlin . Under the formula of the “systematic construction of socialism ” coined by Walter Ulbricht , a “Sovietization” of society and a strengthening of state power based on the Soviet model were introduced.
middle East
The Middle East was particularly shaken by two coups: In July, King Faruq in Egypt was overthrown by the military and his underage son Fu'ad II was formally crowned king; a little later, the military in Jordan ousted King Talal , and King Hussein I took his place . In the meantime, Israel agreed a reparation agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany , which met with criticism, especially from those left behind by the Holocaust.
Latin America
In the states of Latin America, the coup of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba and the takeover of Víctor Paz Estenssoro in Bolivia are particularly noteworthy; The latter aroused the suspicion of conservative circles in America through his socialization policy.
Africa
In Africa, colonial rule, especially the British and French, continued; With the Mau-Mau uprising in Kenya , however, the first powerful independence movement was clearly reported, which the British opposed by imposing martial law.
technology
In technology, progress was shown, among other things, in the introduction of new supercomputers such as the UNIVAC . The use of jet planes ( De Havilland DH.106 Comet ) also became increasingly popular in the civilian sector and enabled flights from England to South Africa or the return trip across the Atlantic on the same day. In the meantime, television was introduced in the two German states at the end of the year.
Sports
In sport, the focus was on the Olympic Games. The Winter Games took place in Oslo, the Summer Games , which were dominated by Emil Zátopek's achievements , in Helsinki. It was the first Olympic Games after the Second World War that German athletes were allowed to take part again.
Events
Politics and world events
- January 1 : Karl Kobelt becomes President of Switzerland again .
- January 1st : The new constitution of Greece comes into force and regulates the distribution of real estate.
- January 2 : The GDR refuses entry to a UN commission. It should clarify the requirements for possible all-German elections.
- January 2nd : Gustav Heinemann and Helene Wessel found the emergency community for peace in Europe .
- January 2nd : The Protestant Church President Martin Niemöller travels to the Soviet Union to talk to the leadership there about the release of German prisoners of war.
- January 10 : The freighter Flying Enterprise sinks off the English coast . The captain, Kurt Carlson, had only been saved from sinking immediately, after waiting for two weeks on the floating wreck.
- January 11th : The Bundestag ratifies the treaty establishing the coal and steel union against the votes of the SPD .
- January 20 : Edgar Faure becomes the new French Prime Minister to succeed René Pleven , who resigned on January 7th .
- January 26 : In Cairo , after the British occupation forces besieged and shot at an Egyptian government building in Ismailia in the Canal Zone , the events of "Black Saturday" take place. Western facilities such as hotels and cinemas go up in flames during the riots, and offices of the Muslim Brotherhood are also attacked.
- February 5 : Otto Grotewohl lays the foundation stone for the new residential building on East Berlin's Stalinallee , one of the most important prestige projects in the GDR.
- February 6th : Elizabeth II is born after the death of her father Georg VI. Queen and Head of State of the United Kingdom and various other Commonwealth countries . She found out about it after spending the night at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya .
- February 8 : According to the Federal Statistical Office , 9.6 million refugees live in the Federal Republic.
- February 8 : In the Great Defense Debate, the Bundestag resolves with 204 votes to 156 that the Federal Republic should make a military contribution on the side of the Western powers.
- February 18 : Greece and Turkey join NATO .
- February 20 : The member of the Bundestag “Dr. Franz Richter ”( SRP ) is arrested in the Bundeshaus on the charge that he is actually the former NSDAP head of Saxony's main office, Fritz Rößler .
- February 21 : Bengali Language Movement : The Pakistani government's decision to use Urdu as the sole official language sparked opposition in East Pakistan , where Bengali is spoken almost exclusively . Several protesters are killed in clashes with the police at student demonstrations in Dhaka .
- February 22nd : Nicaragua becomes a member of UNESCO .
- February 29 : Edgar Faure resigns as Prime Minister of France after only six weeks ; he will be succeeded by Antoine Pinay .
- March 1st : The British give Heligoland back to Germany.
- March 10 : Fulgencio Batista's coup in Cuba . The current president Carlos Prío fled to the USA.
- March 10 : The Soviet Union submits the Stalin Note to the Western powers .
- March 27th : In the explosion of a package filled with explosives, which was addressed to Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer , an explosives master is killed.
- March 29 : The US President Harry S. Truman , who has been in office since 1945, announces that he will renounce another full term in the upcoming elections in November .
- April 15 : Víctor Paz Estenssoro's coup in Bolivia ; he had mining nationalized and implemented an agrarian reform.
- April 25 : The federal state of Baden-Württemberg is founded by the union of the states of Baden , Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern . The FDP politician Reinhold Maier becomes the country's first prime minister at the head of a social-liberal government; the CDU loses its majority in the Federal Council.
- April 27 : St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, destroyed in World War II, is inaugurated again.
- April 28 : The peace treaty between Japan and the Republic of China (Taiwan) is signed in Taipei . On the same day, the San Francisco peace treaty between the Allies (excluding the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union) and Japan came into force, thereby regaining its sovereignty.
- May 6th : Federal President Theodor Heuss advocates using the 3rd stanza of the Deutschlandlied as the German national anthem.
- May 11th : On the "Essen Blood Sunday" the communist Philipp Müller is shot dead by the police during a demonstration.
- May 13 : After the Congress Party of India is confirmed in the first parliamentary election since independence, Jawaharlal Nehru begins his second term as Prime Minister.
- 26./27. May : The establishment of a five-kilometer-wide exclusion zone along the demarcation line to the Federal Republic of Germany begins in the GDR . This is the start of the forced relocation of over 12,000 residents. By order of the SED, the telephone lines between West Berlin and the GDR are cut on May 27.
- May 27 : Signing of the Treaty establishing the European Defense Community (EDC) .
- June 1 : West Berliners are only allowed to enter the GDR with permission.
- June 13 : Soviet fighters shoot down a Swedish military aircraft over the Baltic Sea.
- June 23 : Bombing of North Korea by the United States .
- June 30 : End of Marshall Plan aid.
- July 8th : The first pedestrian crossings in Germany are created in Munich .
- July 9th : The SED Secretary General Walter Ulbricht announces the decision of the Second Party Conference that “socialism will be built according to plan” in the GDR, thus beginning the Sovietization of the GDR.
- July 16 : GDR President Wilhelm Pieck inaugurates the pioneer camp of the pioneering republic of Wilhelm Pieck on the Werbellinsee .
- July 23 : The European Coal and Steel Community comes into force.
- July 23 : Coup in Egypt : General Muhammad Nagib arrests King Faruq .
- July 23 : The People's Chamber of the GDR decides to dissolve the five central German states in favor of 14 districts .
- July 26 : Faruq abdicates. Proclamation of Fu'ad II as the last Egyptian-Sudanese king.
- August 11 : King Talal of Jordan is deposed by the military; his successor is Hussein I.
- August 12 : About 30 Russian-Yiddish writers, artists and intellectuals are executed in Moscow's Lubyanka on the “ Night of the Murdered Poets ”. The exact number of victims is uncertain. Many of them were connected to the Jewish Antifascist Committee , including Itzik Feffer , Leib Kwitko , Solomon Abramowitsch Losowski and Perez Markisch .
- August 14 : The Federal Republic of Germany becomes a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- August 14 : In an article published in L'Observateur under the heading Trois mondes, une planète (“Three worlds, one planet”), the French demographer and historian Alfred Sauvy first formulated the term “ third world ”.
- August 24th : British troops evacuate the Suez Canal .
- September 10 : In the Luxembourg Agreement , the Federal Republic of Germany undertakes to pay compensation to Jewish victims of National Socialism in the amount of DM 3.5 billion.
- September 28 : Erich Ollenhauer succeeds the late Kurt Schumacher as chairman of the SPD .
- October 3rd : The first British atomic bomb is detonated off the Australian Montebello Islands .
- October 5th to 14th : XIX. Party congress of the CPSU
- October 17th : Walter Freitag becomes the new DGB chairman to succeed Christian Fette .
- October 20 : In Kenya , the British Governor declared Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale the state of emergency , established with the Mau Mau uprising .
- October 23 : The SRP is banned in the Federal Republic of Germany .
- November 4 : Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected 34th President of the United States . He wins over his Democratic challenger Adlai Stevenson .
- November 10 : The United Nations Secretary General , Trygve Lie , resigned from his post.
- November 18 : The future Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta is arrested by the British colonial authorities for participating in the Mau Mau uprising .
- November 21 : In Czechoslovakia , there are show trials against internal party opponents of Prime Minister Gottwald. In Slánský process eleven death sentences are imposed.
- November 29 : Foundation of the All-German People's Party (GVP) by members of the Bundestag Thea Arnold , Helene Wessel (both German Center Party ), Hans Bodensteiner ( CSU ) and Hermann Etzel ( Bavarian Party ) as well as the later Federal Presidents Gustav Heinemann and Johannes Rau .
- November 29 : The newly elected US President Eisenhower pays a visit to Korea to explore a solution to the Korean War .
- December 10 : The 1923 Constitution of the Kingdom of Egypt is repealed by the Nagib military government.
- December 25 : In a border incident in Berlin-Frohnau, a West Berlin sergeant is shot dead by Soviet soldiers.
- Signing of the Treaty on the European Defense Community of France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy and the three Benelux countries
economy
- May 2 : The British airline BOAC becomes the first company to use a jet airliner for scheduled services. A De Havilland DH.106 Comet flies the London – Johannesburg route .
- May 21 : Queen Juliana hands over the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal to its destination in the Netherlands .
- June 12 : In the Wedel district of Schulau on the Lower Elbe, the Willkomm-Höft ship welcoming system is put into operation. The Port of Hamburg oncoming ships are greeted with, or adopted.
- June 24th : first publication of Bild (newspaper)
- Foundation of the first German airline company after the Second World War ( Südflug International ) by Rul Bückle
science and technology
- January 2nd : The first cars are produced at the Ford company in Cologne .
- July 18 : The German Fulbright Commission is founded. It allows the Fulbright program on scholarship students and academics to study in the United States and vice versa in Germany.
- August 26th : For the first time, a British jet aircraft makes a return flight across the Atlantic within a day.
- September 11 : The American doctor Charles A. Hufnagel inserts an artificial heart valve that he developed himself into the first patient .
- September 17 : EJ Smith flies 1,958.2 km in his Bell 47 D helicopter : world record.
- October 14 : The Cité radieuse opens in Marseille . The building is the first of five modern residential units designed by the architect Le Corbusier .

- November 1 (local time) : US nuclear physicists detonate the first hydrogen bomb on the Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific Ocean . The test under the code name Ivy Mike also leads to the discovery of the chemical elements fermium and einsteinium .
- December 21 : In the GDR , television begins as a "public trial program" from Berlin-Adlershof with two hours of broadcasting time a day.
- December 25th : From Christmas on there will be regular official television broadcasts in the Federal Republic of Germany, which are broadcast by the North West German Radio . Only 1,000 connections are registered.
Culture
- January 13th : World premiere of the comic opera The Cunning Susanne by Franz Xaver Lehner in Nuremberg
- January 17th : At the premiere of the film Hanna Amon with Veit Harlan protests break out because of his Nazi past.
- February 7th : The novel Tauben im Gras by Wolfgang Koeppen appears.
- February 17th : World premiere of the lyrical drama Boulevard Solitude by Hans Werner Henze at the State Theater in Hanover .
- March 26 : World premiere of the opera Leonore 40/45 by Rolf Liebermann in Basel .
- March 29th : Doctor Eisenbart , a mighty spectaculum in seven pictures by Nico Dostal (music) and Hermann Hermecke (libretto) is premiered in Nuremberg .
- April 19 : The rediscovery of Emil Nolde's work begins with an exhibition in Mannheim .
- May 16 : World premiere of the operetta Bozena by Oscar Straus in Munich
- June 10 : The 1952 Goethe Prize is awarded to the playwright Carl Zuckmayer .
- June 12 : World premiere of Leonard Bernstein's opera Trouble in Tahiti at Brandeis University in Waltham , Massachusetts .
- June 16 : Andy Warhol shows Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote , his first solo exhibition, at the Hugo Gallery in New York City .
- 23 June : The new version of the opera Cardillac by Paul Hindemith - expanded from three to four acts and redesigned in terms of text by the composer - is premiered at the City Theater in Zurich .
- September: Beyond Eden by John Steinbeck appears.
- August 16 : Pig or not pig , another novel by PG Wodehouse with the absent-minded Lord Emsworth as protagonist, appears for the first time as a sequel in the American magazine Collier's Weekly .
- September 4 : Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea appears.
- September 23 : World premiere of the ballet opera Prussian fairy tale by Boris Blacher in the German State Opera .
- 25 September : World premiere of the play The Mousetrap ( The Mousetrap ) by Agatha Christie at Ambassadors Theater in London .
- September 30 : The first Cinerama film, This is Cinerama, premieres at New York Broadway Theater .
- December 31 : World premiere of the operetta Alles Kapriolen by Siegfried Köhler in Koblenz
- The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is published; it was premiered in 1953.
Sports
- February 2 : In Dortmund the Westfalenhalle , with 13,500 seats the largest sports hall in Europe at the time, is inaugurated.
- The VI. Olympic Winter Games will take place from 14. bis 25. February in Oslo , Norway instead.
- The XV. The Summer Olympics will be held in Helsinki , Finland from July 19 to August 3 .
- June 8 : In Cologne proposes middleweights Peter Müller , called de Aap , during a boxing match the referee ko
- July 4th : Frank Sedgman (USA) wins against Jaroslav Drobný (Egypt) in the tennis final of Wimbledon .
- July 20th : Fausto Coppi wins the Tour de France .
- September 7th : The Italian Alberto Ascari wins the Formula 1 World Championship .
- September 14 : German altitude record of 13,015 m in a glider by Joachim P. Kuettner as part of the "Jetstream Project"
- October 16 : KFC Phönix and VfB Mühlburg merge to form Karlsruher SC .
Disasters
- April 27 : The rapid minesweeper USS Hobson sinks during a maneuver in the Atlantic after colliding with the aircraft carrier Wasp (both US). 176 dead and many injured.
- October 8 : One of the worst rail accidents in British Rail history occurs at Harrow & Wealdstone Station, north-west of London . 112 people die and 340 are injured when an express train rams the back of a local train and another express train drives into the accident site in the opposite direction.
- November 5 : A tsunami destroys the city of Severo-Kurilsk on the Kuril Islands, killing 2,336 people.
- 5. - 9. December : London : A smog disaster prompts several thousand fatalities.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Born
January
- January 1 : Ahn Sung-ki , South Korean actor
- January 1st : François Chatriot , French rally driver
- January 1st : Steve Earle , American racing car driver
- January 1 : Ítalo Estupiñán , Ecuadorian-Mexican soccer player († 2016 )
- January 1st : Knut Folkerts , former RAF terrorist
- January 1st : Urs Leimgruber , Swiss saxophonist
- January 2nd : Indulis Emsis , Latvian biologist, politician and former Prime Minister
- January 2nd : Hartmut Büttner , German politician
- January 2 : Konrad Steffen , Swiss glaciologist († 2020 )
- January 3 : Adelheid Arndt , German actress
- January 3 : Gianfranco Fini , Italian politician
- January 4 : Rudolf Borchert , German politician († 2019 )
- January 4th : Josef Cap , Austrian politician
- January 4th : Michael Hoenig , German musician
- January 5th : Uli Hoeneß , German soccer player and manager
- January 5th : Leif Øgaard , Norwegian chess player
- January 6th : Wolfgang Merkel , German political scientist
- January 7th : Sammo Hung , Chinese martial arts artist
- January 7th : Hans-Josef Fell , German politician
- January 8th : Klaus-Peter Flosbach , German politician
- January 9th : Marek Belka , Polish Prime Minister
- January 9 : Hans-Martin Leili , German soccer player
- January 10 : William Parker , American jazz bassist
- January 10 : Oleh Romanyschyn , Ukrainian chess grandmaster
- January 10 : Monika Schnaitmann , German politician
- January 10th : Gerhard Schöne , German songwriter
- January 11 : Bille Brown , Australian actor († 2013 )
- January 11 : Lucas da Costa , East Timorese politician, independence activist († 2019 )
- January 11th : Jens Goebel , German politician
- January 11 : Diana Gabaldon , American contemporary writer
- January 11 : Lee Ritenour , American musician and producer
- January 12th : John Walker , New Zealand athlete
- January 12 : Florian Havemann , German writer, painter and composer
- January 12 : Ricky Van Shelton , American country singer
- January 12 : Walter Mosley , American crime novelist
- January 13 : Max Beck , Liechtenstein luge rider († 2019 )
- January 13 : Klaus Rapp , German politician
- January 13th : Pekka Pohjola , Finnish musician († 2008 )
- January 14th : Gaby Berger , German pop singer
- January 14 : Michele Castoro , Italian theologian, Archbishop of Manfredonia († 2018 )
- January 14 : Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu , Romanian politician and head of government
- January 14th : Klaus Jensen , German politician; State Secretary
- January 15 : Juan Antonio Ahuntchain Alles , Uruguayan soccer coach and soccer player
- January 15th : Boris Blank , Swiss musician
- January 16 : Piercarlo Ghinzani , Italian racing car driver
- January 17th : Saulius Arlauskas , Lithuanian lawyer, legal philosopher
- January 17th : Michael Sommer , Federal Chairman of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB)
- January 17th : Lothar Vogt , German chess grandmaster
- January 18 : Michael Jüllich , German percussionist and composer
- January 18th : Wim Rijsbergen , Dutch football player and coach
- January 18 : KM Veerappan , Indian gang leader († 2004 )
- January 19 : Erwin Kaipel , Austrian politician (SPÖ)
- January 19 : Christiane Kuby , German translator
- January 20 : Ute Hommola , German athlete
- January 20 : Thomas Reuter , German composer, choir director and pianist
- January 20 : Ann Savoy , American Cajun musician (vocals and guitar)
- January 20 : Hans-Joachim Schabedoth , German trade unionist and politician († 2020 )
- January 20 : Paul Stanley , American guitarist and singer
- January 21 : Karl Timmermann , German singer, lyricist, composer and producer
- January 21 : Werner Grissmann , Austrian ski racer
- January 21 : Michail Umansky , Russian-German chess master († 2010 )
- January 22nd : Stefano Bartolini , Italian political scientist
- January 23 : Dorothee Eberhardt , German composer
- January 23 : Henrique da Costa Mecking , Brazilian chess master and clergyman
- January 23 : Jaroslav Pouzar , Czechoslovak ice hockey player
- January 23 : Reinhard Saftig , German soccer coach
- January 24th : Siegmund Ehrmann , German politician
- January 25 : Malan Marnersdóttir , Faroese literary scholar
- January 26th : Frédéric Lodéon , French cellist and conductor
- January 26 : Konrad Samwer , German physicist and materials scientist
- January 27 : Asma Jilani Jahangir , Pakistani lawyer († 2018 )
- January 27 : Billy Johnson , American football player
- January 28 : Richard Glatzer , American director and film producer († 2015 )
- January 28th : Michael Jones , French singer and guitarist
- January 29 : Jakob Brechbühl , former Swiss football player
- January 29 : Klaus-Uwe Nommensen , German Protestant theologian and author
- January 30 : Valery Michailowitsch Chalilow , Russian general and composer († 2016 )
- January 30th : Christa Moog , German writer
- January 30th : Lorenz-Günther Köstner , German soccer coach
- January 31 : Ulrike Apel-Haefs , German politician († 2009 )
- January 31 : Rodolfo Daluisio , Argentine composer and music educator
- January 31 : Jan Hofer , German news anchor
- January 31 : Leslie Lemke , American musician and composer
February
- February 1 : Norbert Barthle , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- February 2nd : Yuri Boidman , Ukrainian-German chess master
- February 2 : Duane Chapman , American bounty hunter
- February 2 : Agenor Girardi , Brazilian Catholic Bishop of União da Vitória († 2018 )
- February 2 : Reinhard Häfner , German soccer player († 2016 )
- February 2nd : Ralph Merkle , pioneer for asymmetric cryptosystems
- February 2 : Park Geun-hye , South Korean politician
- February 2 : Carol Ann Susi , American actress († 2014 )
- February 2nd : Michael Wickmann , German local politician
- February 3 : Cellou Dalein Diallo , Prime Minister of Guinea
- February 4th : Kudsi Erguner , Turkish nay player and composer
- February 4th : Kurt Klühspies , German handball player
- February 4th : Dominique Lacaud , French racing car driver
- February 5 : Daniel Balavoine , French singer († 1986 )
- February 6 : Viktor Giacobbo , Swiss author, cabaret artist, presenter and actor
- February 6 : Ricardo Antonio La Volpe , Mexican soccer player and coach
- February 6 : Christian Mähr , Austrian editor and writer
- February 7 : Hans-Jürgen Appelrath , German computer scientist († 2016 )
- February 7th : Wolfgang U. Eckart , German medical historian
- February 7 : Vasco Rossi , Italian singer, songwriter and radio host
- February 7th : Didi Senft , German artist and inventor, "Tourteufel"
- February 8 : Francisco Marinho , Brazilian soccer player († 2014 )
- February 9 : Tony Attwood , British psychologist
- February 9 : Zhang Jilong , Chinese football official
- February 10 : Frank Bsirske , German union official, chairman of the ver.di union
- February 10 : Lee Hsien Loong , Prime Minister of Singapore
- February 12th : Patrick Gaillard , French Formula 1 racing driver
- February 12 : Anton Himstedt , German sculptor
- February 12 : Heinz-Josef Koitka , German soccer player
- February 12 : Simon MacCorkindale , British actor and filmmaker († 2010 )
- February 12 : Michael McDonald , American rock singer and keyboarder
- February 12 : Angelika Speitel , German RAF terrorist
- February 13th : Freddy Maertens , Belgian cyclist
- February 13 : Hans-Joachim Fuchtel , German politician
- February 13 : Irene Dische , German-American writer
- February 14th : Marlies Ameling , German designer and industrial designer
- February 14 : Peter-Michael Diestel , Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of the GDR
- February 14 : Sushma Swaraj , Indian politician († 2019 )
- February 15 : George Antonysamy , Archbishop of India
- February 15 : Bill T. Jones , American dancer and choreographer
- February 15 : Hans Kruppa , German writer
- February 15 : Tomislav Nikolić , Serbian politician
- February 15 : Nikolai Evgenjewitsch Sorokin , Russian actor and director († 2013 )
- February 15 : Rosemarie Tüpker , German music therapist and musicologist
- February 16 : James Ingram , American soul musician, songwriter and record producer († 2019 )
- February 16 : Jan Kerouac , American author († 1996 )
- February 16 : Wolfgang Lippert , German singer, presenter and entertainer
- February 17th : Anders Åslund , Swedish economist
- February 17th : Karin Büttner-Janz , German gymnast and clinic director
- February 17th : Ludger Volmer , German politician
- February 17th : Peter Freund , German writer
- February 18 : Efva Katarina Attling , Swedish actress and model
- February 18 : Hansjörg Aemisegger , Swiss cyclist
- February 18 : Johann Schneider-Ammann , Swiss entrepreneur and politician
- February 19 : Amy Tan , Sino-US writer
- February 19 : Ryū Murakami , Japanese author
- February 19 : Matthias Kurth , President of the Federal Network Agency (regulatory authority)
- February 19 : Danilo Türk , Slovenian politician
- February 20 : Udo Böbel , German handball player and handball trainer
- February 20 : Abdalá Bucaram , Ecuadorian lawyer and politician
- February 20 : Hans-Jürgen Irmer , German politician
- February 21 : Vitaly Tschurkin , Russian UN diplomat († 2017 )
- February 21 : Jean-Jacques Burnel , British-French musician
- February 22nd : Bernd August , German boxer († 1988 )
- February 22nd : Thomas Wessinghage , German athlete
- February 23 : Sören Åkeby , Swedish football coach
- February 23 : Peter Ammon , German diplomat
- February 23 : Pedro Pérez , Cuban athlete, triple jumper († 2018 )
- February 23 : Stefan Winghart , German prehistoric archaeologist, monument conservator and state curator
- February 23 : Knud Wollenberger , German poet († 2012 )
- February 24th : Jadwiga Rappé , Polish singer
- February 24 : Bruno Zuppiger , Swiss SVP politician († 2016 )
- February 25 : Kristin Heyne , German politician († 2002 )
- February 25 : Joey Dunlop , British motorcycle racer († 2000 )
- February 25 : Christian Kolonovits , Austrian composer and conductor
- February 26th : John Giblin , British bass player
- February 28 : Rudolf Bastiaan Andeweg , Dutch political scientist
- February 28 : Arthur Barrow , American musician
- February 28 : Michel Bury , French marksman
- February 29 : Raúl González , Mexican walker and Olympic champion
- February 29th : Holger Oertel , German handball goalkeeper and handball trainer
- February 29th : Gérard Pansanel , French jazz guitarist
- February 29th : Hermann Schützenhöfer , Austrian politician
March
- March 1st : Matthäus Strebl , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- March 2 : Nugsar Ashuba , Abkhazian politician
- March 2 : Sergei Vadimowitsch Stepashin , Russian Prime Minister
- March 3 : Wolfgang Kubicki , German politician
- March 3 : Günter Assenmacher , official of the Archdiocese of Cologne
- March 4th : Claudia Guderian , German author and journalist
- March 4th : Terje Andersen , Norwegian speed skater
- March 4th : Umberto Tozzi , Italian musician
- March 5 : Rodrigo Aguilar Martínez , Mexican bishop
- March 5th : Alan Clark , British keyboardist
- March 5 : Hartmut Heinrich , discoverer of the so-called Heinrich events
- March 5 : Yuri Michailowitsch Kuzenko , Soviet athlete, decathlete († 2018 )
- March 5th : Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos , Prime Minister of Angola
- March 5 : Isatou Njie Saidy , Vice President of The Gambia
- March 6th : Marielle Labèque , French pianist (Duo Katia and Marielle Labèque )
- March 7th : Stelian Anghel , Romanian soccer player and sports official († 2009 )
- March 7th : William Boyd , Scottish novelist, screenwriter and director
- March 7th : Dominique Mamberti , French cardinal to the Curia
- March 7th : Wolf Rauch , Austrian information scientist
- March 8 : Pius Segmüller , Commander of the Pontifical Swiss Guard, National Council
- March 9 : Bill Beaumont , English rugby player
- March 9 : Reto Parolari , Swiss conductor († 2019 )
- March 9 : Amir Peretz , Israeli politician and trade unionist
- March 10 : Morgan Tsvangirai , Zimbabwean politician († 2018 )
- March 11 : Douglas Adams , English writer († 2001 )
- March 11th : Pier Paolo Bianchi , Italian motorcycle racer
- March 11 : Ricardo Martinelli , Panamanian politician and entrepreneur
- March 12 : Yasuhiko Okudera , Japanese soccer player
- March 12 : Randy Stonehill , American singer and composer
- March 13 : Wolfgang Rihm , German composer, musicologist and essayist
- March 14th : Jaime Caruana , Spanish banker
- March 14 : Martin E. Dempsey , General in the US Army
- March 16 : Alice Hoffman , American author
- March 17th : Manolo Badrena , Puerto Rican percussionist
- March 18 : Pat Eddery , Irish jockey († 2015 )
- March 18 : Dennis Chun , American actor
- March 18 : Michaela May , German actress
- March 18 : Peter Prager , German actor
- March 18 : Salome Zurabishvili , Georgian Foreign Minister
- March 19 : Wolfgang Ambros , Austrian musician, songwriter
- March 19 : Joseph Borġ , Maltese politician and EU commissioner
- March 19 : Jörg Pfeifer , German athlete
- March 19 : Ulrich Schröder , German lawyer and bank manager († 2018 )
- March 19 : Joseph J. Urusemal , President of the Federated States of Micronesia
- March 19 : Harvey Weinstein , American film producer
- March 20 : Geoff Brabham , Australian racing car driver
- March 21 : John Fergus , American racing car driver
- March 21 : John Holmes , British rugby player († 2009 )
- March 23 : Peter Louis Cakü , Myanmar Bishop of Kengtung († 2020 )
- March 23 : Bodo Dieckmann , German archaeologist
- March 23 : Jan Hadermann , Belgian composer
- March 23 : Pola Kinski , German actress
- March 23 : Kim Stanley Robinson , American science fiction writer
- March 23 : Rex Tillerson , American manager and politician
- March 23 : Franziska Walser , German actress
- March 24th : Dioni Fernández , Dominican merengue musician
- March 24th : Reinhard Genzel , German astrophysicist
- March 24th : Allan Guggenbühl , Swiss psychologist and expert on youth violence
- March 25 : Jung Chang , British writer of Chinese origin
- March 25th : Antanas Mockus , Colombian philosopher, mathematician and politician
- March 26 : Yoshitaka Amano , Japanese artist
- March 26th : Peter Augar , German football referee
- March 26th : Bodo Henkel , German presenter and voice actor
- March 26th : Wolfgang Hegewald , German writer
- March 26 : Didier Pironi , French Formula 1 racing driver († 1987 )
- March 26 : Wang Jun , Chinese politician
- March 27 : Felix Haug , Swiss pop musician († 2004 )
- March 27 : Pamela Roylance , American actress
- March 27 : Maria Schneider , French actress († 2011 )
- March 28 : Keith Ashfield , Canadian politician († 2018 )
- March 28th : Tony Brise , British Formula 1 racing driver († 1975 )
- March 29 : Rainer Bonhof , German soccer player and coach
- March 29th : Teófilo Stevenson , Cuban amateur boxer († 2012 )
- March 30th : Jose F. Advincula , Indonesian Archbishop of Capiz
- March 30th : Wallace Arthur , British zoologist
- March 31 : Horst Bredemeier , German handball trainer and functional
- March 31 : Nelly Miricioiu , Romanian opera singer, soprano
- March 31 : Paul-Heinz Wellmann , German athlete
- March 31 : Vanessa del Rio , American model, porn actress and entrepreneur
- Chen Zhenggao , Chinese politician March:
- Yuan Chunqing , Chinese politician March:
April
- April 1st : Angelika Bahmann , German canoeist
- April 1 : Uwe Behrendt , German right-wing extremist († 1981 )
- April 1 : Hans-Georg Bürger , German racing car driver († 1980 )
- April 1 : Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi , Libyan assassin († 2012 )
- April 2nd : Thomas Bscher , German racing car driver, banker and manager
- April 2nd : Alex Conti , German guitarist
- April 2nd : Richard Spénard , Canadian racing car driver
- April 3rd : Beat Fäh , Swiss director, actor and author
- April 3 : Dieter Krause , German handball player
- April 3 : Franz XA Zipperer , German music journalist († 2015 )
- April 4th : Rosemarie Ackermann , German athlete
- April 4 : Pat Burns , Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2010 )
- April 4 : Klaus Franz , German trade union official
- April 4th : María Mendiola , Spanish pop singer
- April 4 : Gary Moore , Northern Irish blues and rock musician († 2011 )
- April 4 : Villy Søvndal , Danish politician
- April 4 : Pius Walder , Austrian woodcutter and poacher († 1982 )
- April 5 : Mitch Pileggi , American actor
- April 6 : Michael Vesper , German politician
- April 7 : Rubén Galván , Argentinian football player († 2018 )
- April 7th : Hans-Ulrich Krüger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- April 7 : Vladimir Alexandrovich Sharov , Russian writer († 2018 )
- April 8th : Arcadi Gaydamak , Israeli billionaire
- April 8 : Kim Warwick , Australian tennis player
- April 9 : Jerzy Szmajdziński , Polish politician († 2010 )
- April 10 : Grigori Alexejewitsch Jawlinski , Russian politician of the Yabloko party
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April 10 : Steven Seagal , American actorSteven Seagal , 2007
- April 10 : Richard Wagner , German writer
- April 11th : Karl-Heinz Dellwo , German publisher, former RAF terrorist
- April 12th : Hellmut Hattler , German jazz and rock bassist
- April 12 : Hermann Strampfer , German lawyer and administrative officer († 2015 )
- April 12 : Christof Wetterich , German theoretical physicist
- April 13 : Nari Erick Avari , Indian actor
- April 14 : Udo Voigt , German political scientist and politician
- April 15 : Glenn Shadix , American actor († 2010 )
- April 16 : Yochanan Afek , Israeli-Dutch chess composer and player
- April 16 : Peter Arnold , German horn player
- April 16 : Ulrich Deuschle , German politician
- April 16 : Rico Saccani , American conductor
- April 16 : Alexander Tschäppät , Swiss politician († 2018 )
- April 16 : Billy West , American animated series and film spokesperson
- April 16 : Peter Westbrook , American fencer
- April 17th : Helge Achenbach , German art advisor
- April 17 : Joe Alaskey , American actor and voice actor († 2016 )
- April 17 : Ernest Wichner , German writer
- April 18 : Enzo Calderari , Swiss entrepreneur and car racing driver
- April 18 : Andreas Hellmann , German doctor and medical officer
- April 18 : Bo Katzman , Swiss musician, singer
- April 18 : Hans-Ulrich Seidt , German diplomat
- April 19 : Alexis Argüello , Nicaraguan boxer and politician († 2009 )
- April 20 : Peep Aru , Estonian politician
- April 20 : Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern , German entrepreneur
- April 21 : Soslan Petrovich Andijew , Soviet wrestler († 2018 )
- April 21 : Pascal Auberson , Swiss singer, percussionist and pianist
- April 22nd : François Berléand , French actor
- April 22nd : Marilyn Chambers , American porn actress († 2009 )
- April 22nd : Dave Mancini , American percussionist, music educator and composer
- April 22nd : Alfons Karl Zwicker , Swiss composer and pianist
- April 23 : Esther Dischereit , German writer
- April 23 : Narada Michael Walden , American producer and singer
- April 24th : Jean-Paul Gaultier , French fashion designer
- April 25 : Vladislav Alexandrovich Tretyak , Russian ice hockey player
- April 25 : Claus Bernhard Auer , German diplomat
- April 25 : Michael Aufhauser , German animal rights activist
- April 25 : Jacques Santini , French football coach and football player
- April 26 : Renate Ackermann , German politician
- April 27 : Ari Vatanen , Finnish rally driver and politician
- April 28 : Mary McDonnell , American actress
- April 29 : Barbara Hendricks , German politician
- April 29 : David Icke , British publicist and soccer player
- April 29 : Anatoly Nogowitsyn , Russian Colonel General († 2019 )
- April 29th : Karl Rauber , German politician
- April 29th : Dietmar Schmidt , German handball player and handball trainer
- April 29 : Dave Valentin , American jazz flutist († 2017 )
- April 30th : Jacques Audiard , French film director and screenwriter
- April 30th : Martin Gutzeit , founder of the Social Democratic Party of the GDR
May
- May 2nd : Christopher Doyle , Australian cinematographer, photographer, director, screenwriter
- May 2nd : Gotthold Schwarz , Thomaskantor and director of the St. Thomas Choir Leipzig
- May 3 : Robert Donatucci , American politician († 2010 )
- May 3 : Ruth W. Lingenfelser , German poet
- May 3 : Christian Schramm , former Lord Mayor of Bautzen
- May 3 : Joseph William Tobin , American Cardinal, Archbishop of Newark
- May 3rd : Allan Wells , British athlete
- May 4th : Hans Affenzeller , Austrian politician
- May 4th : Günter Aumann , German mathematician
- May 4 : Antony Hamilton , British film actor († 1995 )
- May 4th : This Jenny , Swiss entrepreneur and politician († 2014 )
- May 4th : Vera Lengsfeld , German politician
- May 4th : Bärbel Höhn , German politician
- May 5th : Maia Ciobanu , Romanian composer
- May 5 : Edwin M. Lee , US Mayor († 2017 )
- May 5th : Ryszard Szeremeta , Polish composer, conductor and jazz singer
- May 6 : Claudius Armbruster , German Romanist
- May 6 : Christian Clavier , French actor
- May 6 : Andrea Čunderlíková , Czech actress
- May 6 : Michael O'Hare , American actor († 2012 )
- May 6 : Alexander Radszun , German actor
- May 6 : Herbert Rusche , German politician and gay activist
- May 7th : Stanley Dickens , Swedish racing car driver
- May 8 : Matti Geschonneck , German director
- May 8 : Charles J. Camarda , American astronaut
- May 8 : Vittorio Sgarbi , Italian art critic and politician
- May 9th : Dick Annegarn , Dutch singer, songwriter and guitarist
- May 10th : Kikki Danielsson , Swedish singer and accordionist
- May 10 : Vanderlei Luxemburgo , Brazilian soccer coach
- May 10 : Mario Capezzuto , German politician and Member of the State Parliament
- May 10 : Ulrich Hahnen , German politician († 2016 )
- May 10 : Roland Kaiser , German pop singer
- May 10 : Sly Dunbar , Jamaican drummer and producer
- May 11 : Frances Fisher , British-American theater and film actress
- May 11 : Hallur Ellingsgaard , Faroese leader of the Republican Party
- May 11 : Renaud , French musician
- May 11 : Shohreh Aghdashloo , Iranian actress
- May 12 : André Greiner-Pol , German rock musician († 2008 )
- May 12 : Margie Mahoney , American cross-country skier
- May 13 : Olaf Bernstengel , German puppeteer († 2020 )
- May 13 : Mary Cleere Haran , American singer and author († 2011 )
- May 14 : David Byrne , British musician
- May 14 : Robert Zemeckis , American director and film producer
- May 15 : Christine Goetz , German art historian († 2020 )
- May 15 : Herbert Marxer , Liechtenstein ski racer
- May 15 : Peter Strieder , German politician
- May 16 : James Herndon , American media psychologist
- May 16 : Erich Weishaupt , German ice hockey player
- May 17th : Bernhard Brink , German pop singer and television presenter
- May 17th : Eva Schmidt , Austrian writer
- May 17 : Klaus Zapf , German entrepreneur († 2014 )
- May 18 : Jeana Yeager , US test pilot
- May 18 : George Strait , American country musician
- May 19 : Gustav Deutsch , Austrian film artist († 2019 )
- May 19 : Guri Ingebrigtsen , Norwegian doctor and politician († 2020 )
- May 19 : Lambertus van Marwijk , Dutch football player and coach
- May 19th : Cristóbal López Romero , Spanish priest, Archbishop of Rabat, cardinal
- May 19 : Heiko Wildberg , German politician
- May 20 : Christian Klar , German terrorist (RAF)
- May 20 : Roger Milla , Cameroonian football player
- May 20 : Rick Upchurch , American football player
- May 21 : Mr. T , American actor
- May 22nd : Bernhard Brinkmann , German politician
- May 22nd : Peter Jaskola , Polish Catholic priest and professor of theology
- May 23 : Deborah Adair , American actress
- May 23 : Christina Vanja , German historian and archivist
- May 24th : Ranieri Randaccio , Italian racing driver
- May 25 : Vera Vasilyevna Anissimowa , Soviet sprinter
- May 25 : Philipp Graf Lerchenfeld , German politician († 2017 )
- May 26 : Ursula Arnold-Cramer , German politician
- May 27th : Hans Peter Stauch , German industrial foreman and politician
- May 28 : Mahmud Jibril , Libyan politician († 2020 )
- May 28 : Heino Wiese , German politician
- May 29 : Walter Landin , German writer
- May 29 : Ekkehard Wenger , German economist
- May 30 : Zoltán Kocsis , Hungarian pianist and conductor († 2016 )
- May 30 : Younus Shaikh , Pakistani doctor, human rights activist, rationalist and free thinker
- May 31 : Frank Ulrich Montgomery , German medic and association official
June
- June 1 : Johannes Lerle , German anti-abortion opponent and theologian
- June 1st : Peter Thiesen , German educator and writer
- June 1st : Mindaugas Urbaitis , Lithuanian composer
- June 2 : Pete Farndon , British rock musician († 1983 )
- June 2 : Hildegard Krekel , German actress († 2013 )
- June 3 : David Richards , British motorsport official
- June 3 : Dominique Laffin , French actress († 1985 )
- June 4th : Bronisław Komorowski , Polish politician, President
- June 4th : Karl-Heinz Lambertz , Belgian politician
- June 5 : Helmuth Markov , German politician
- June 5th : Nicko McBrain , English musician and drummer in the Iron Maiden group
- June 5 : Bernd Busemann , German politician
- June 6th : Bernd Wehmeyer , German soccer player and manager
- June 6th : Thomas Arndt , German ornithologist
- June 7th : Hubert Auriol , French motocross and enduro racing driver
- June 7th : Liam Neeson , Irish actor
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June 7th : Orhan Pamuk , Turkish journalist and writerOrhan Pamuk , 2009
- June 8th : Peter Fischli , Swiss artist
- June 8th : Paul Hildgartner , Italian luge rider
- June 8th : Janusz Kowalski , Polish cyclist
- June 9th : Elia Andrioletti , Italian enduro athlete
- June 9 : Günter Hujara , German ski sports official and trainer
- June 9th : Carlos Perón , Swiss musician
- June 10 : Bernd Stegmann , German church musician
- June 11th : Doris Maletzki , German athlete
- June 11 : Wolfgang Bosbach , German politician
- June 11 : Bronisław Wildstein , Polish journalist and writer
- June 12 : Spencer Abraham , American politician
- June 12th : Jean-Pierre Audy , French politician
- June 12 : Wolfgang Bierstedt , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- June 12th : Cornelia Hanisch , German fencer
- June 13 : Jonathan Feldman , American pianist and music educator
- June 13 : Wilfried Kowarik , Austrian Benedictine and historian († 2018 )
- June 13 : Angelo Moreschi , Italian bishop in Ethiopia († 2020 )
- June 15 : Aina Kemanis , American singer and flautist
- June 16 : Giorgos Andrea Papandreou , Greek politician
- June 16 : Alexander Gennadijewitsch Saizew , Russian figure skater
- June 16 : Jerry Hadley , American opera singer († 2007 )
- June 17th : Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot , Spanish Curia Bishop, Cardinal
- June 17th : Franz Böni , Swiss writer
- June 17th : Sergio Marchionne , Italian-Canadian manager († 2018 )
- June 17th : Nikolaus Piper , German journalist
- June 17th : Matteo Thun , Italian architect and designer
- June 18 : Tiiu Aro , Estonian politician
- June 18th : Marcella Bella , Italian singer
- June 18 : Isabella Rossellini , Italian actress
- June 18 : John Carl Buechler , American film director and actor († 2019 )
- June 19 : Robert William Ainsworth , British politician
- June 19 : Philippe Manoury , French composer
- June 20 : John Goodman , American actor and comedian
- June 20 : Mabel Rivera , Spanish actress
- June 21 : Luis Días , Dominican rock and jazz musician († 2009 )
- June 21 : Kadir Özcan , Turkish football player and coach († 2013 )
- June 22nd : Graham Greene , Canadian actor
- June 23 : Jürgen Schmieder , German politician
- June 23 : Rita Maiburg , German pilot, first female scheduled flight captain in the world († 1977 )
- June 23 : Peter Whiteside , British modern pentathlon († 2020 )
- June 25th : Marieluise Beck , German politician
- June 25 : Hans-Joachim Abel , German soccer player
- June 25th : Péter Erdő , Archbishop of Budapest and Cardinal
- June 26 : Enrico Ghezzi , Italian film critic, writer and television presenter
- June 26th : Hansi Kraus , German actor
- June 26 : Gordon McQueen , Scottish soccer player
- June 27th : Paul Wellens , Belgian cyclist
- June 28 : Abdo Arbach , Syrian clergyman and exarch of Argentina
- June 28 : Pietro Mennea , Italian athlete († 2013 )
- June 28 : Alan Pasqua , American jazz and rock pianist
- June 29 : Frank Magnitz , German politician
- June 29th : Klaus Ohlmann , German dentist and glider pilot
- June 29th : Hans-Werner Rhein , German insurance lawyer
- June 30th : Stefan Zauner , German musician
July

- July 1 : David Arkenstone , American musician and composer
- July 1 : Dan Aykroyd , Canadian film actor
- July 1 : Philippe Barakat , Syrian Catholic priest, Archbishop of Homs († 2020 )
- July 1 : Leon Ndugu Chancler , American drummer, music producer († 2018 )
- July 1st : Peter Graham , Czech composer and music teacher
- July 2 : Ian Affleck , Canadian theoretical physicist
- July 2 : Ahmed Ouyahia , Algerian politician
- July 2nd : Norbert Hansen , German trade unionist
- July 2nd : Jamey George Haddad , American drummer and percussionist
- July 2 : Joseph Vu Duy Thông , Vietnamese Catholic Bishop († 2017 )
- July 3rd : Lena Andersson , Swedish table tennis player and trainer
- July 3 : Laura Branigan , American pop singer († 2004 )
- July 3 : Andy Fraser , British musician († 2015 )
- July 3rd : Hugo Moraga , Chilean Canto writer
- July 3 : Klaus-Peter Wiedmann , German economist
- July 4th : Álvaro Uribe Vélez , Colombian politician and President
- July 5th : Albert Fortell , Austrian actor and author
- July 5th : Adolphe Lechtenberg , German painter and draftsman
- July 5th : Kitamura Sō , Japanese playwright and essayist
- July 6 : Hilary Mantel , British writer
- July 6 : Dimitris Reppas , Greek politician
- July 6 : Adi Shamir , Israeli mathematician and cryptologist
- July 7 : Ulrich Potofski , German sports presenter
- July 7th : Christina Voss , German handball player
- July 8 : Ahmad Nazif , Egyptian Prime Minister
- July 8 : Ulrich Wehling , German skier
- July 8 : Alan Whitney Brown , American comedian
- July 9 : David Macdonald , Canadian organist († 2003 )
- July 9 : Hans Jürgen Fahn , Bavarian politician (Free Voters)
- July 10 : Michael Schottenberg , Austrian actor and director
- July 10 : Scott Adams , American programmer, computer game developer
- July 10 : Lee Hae-chan , South Korean politician and Prime Minister
- July 11 : Bill Barber , Canadian ice hockey player
- July 11 : Otto Hauser , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- July 11 : Raymond Voss , German musician
- July 12th : Liz Mitchell , Jamaican singer
- July 12th : Tomy Wigand , German director
- July 14 : José Aristeu Vieira , Brazilian Bishop
- July 14th : Joel Silver , American film producer
- July 15 : Włodzimierz Kiniorski , Polish composer, jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist
- July 15 : Terry O'Quinn , American actor
- July 15th : Pierluigi Pairetto , Italian football referee
- July 15th : Marky Ramone , American drummer for the Ramones
- July 15 : Johnny Thunders , New York punk musician († 1991 )
- July 16 : Stewart Copeland , American pop star
- July 16 : Brigitte Fronzek , German politician and Mayor of Elmshorn
- July 16 : Juliane Plambeck , German terrorist († 1980 )
- July 16 : Gabriela Schimmer-Göresz , German politician (ÖDP)

- July 17th : Thomas Ahlström , Swedish football player
- July 17 : Donal Fox , American pianist and composer
- July 17 : David Hasselhoff , American singer and actor
- July 17th : Renate Köcher , German pollster
- July 18 : Klaus Moegling , German teacher, political didactic and sports scientist
- July 19 : Harald Aumeier , German soccer player
- July 19 : Allen Larkin Collins , American musician († 1990 )
- July 19 : Winfried Hermann , German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), State Minister
- July 19 : Bonnie Johansen-Werner , American composer and music teacher
- July 19 : Hans-Georg Panczak , German actor and voice actor
- July 21 : Hannele Lauri , Finnish actress
- July 21 : Peter Schoenen , German teacher, writer and non-fiction author († 2014 )
- July 21 : Nina Serbina , Ukrainian high jumper
- July 23 : Leopoldo Billings , Venezuelan composer
- July 23 : Peter Bleser , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- July 23 : Mark Weiser , American computer scientist († 1999 )
- July 24th : Mario Mettbach , German politician
- July 25 : Hans-Robert Metelmann , Minister of Culture of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- July 26 : Heiner Brand , German handball player and coach
- July 26 : Stellan Bengtsson , Swedish table tennis player
- July 26 : Mathias Schubert , German politician († 2004 )
- July 27 : Roxanne Hart , American actress
- July 27th : Ellen Streidt , German athlete and Olympian
- July 28 : Eva Wilms , German athlete
- July 28th : Cordt Schnibben , German journalist
- July 29th : Susanne Amatosero , German painter, theater and radio play author and director
- July 29 : Wendy Hughes , Australian actress († 2014 )
- July 29th : Joe Johnson , English snooker player
- July 29 : Christa Nickels , German politician
- July 29 : Harold Robinson , American double bass player and music teacher
- July 30th : Renata Al-Ghoul , German business lawyer, artist and oil painter
- July 30th : Ilan Chester , Venezuelan musician and singer
- July 31 : Marlies Amann-Marxer , Liechtenstein politician
- July 31 : Alejandro Víctor Washington Atchugarry Bonomi , Uruguayan politician († 2017 )
- July 31 : Reinhard Goebel , German baroque violinist
- July 31 : Helmuts Balderis , Latvian ice hockey player
- Anne Anderson , Irish diplomat July:
August
- August 1 : Zoran Đinđić , Serbian politician and writer († 2003 )
- August 2nd : Alain Giresse , French football player
- August 2 : Sebastiano Tusa , Italian archaeologist and politician († 2019 )
- August 3 : Osvaldo Ardiles , Argentine soccer player
- August 3 : Axel Schäfer , German politician
- August 3rd : Thomas Munkelt , German athlete
- August 3 : Frank Schaeffer , American author, director and painter
- August 3rd : Ihor Wosnjak , Ukrainian clergyman, Archbishop of Lemberg
- August 4th : Moya Brennan , Irish singer
- August 4th : Daniel Bautista , Mexican athlete
- August 4th : Gábor Demszky , Hungarian politician
- August 4th : Franco Saudelli , Italian comic artist
- August 4th : Tadeusz Wojciechowski , conductor and cellist
- August 5 : Hun Sen , Cambodian politician
- August 6th : Vito Angiuli , Italian bishop
- August 6 : Hans-Jörn Arp , German politician
- August 6 : Christoph Biemann , German author, director and television presenter
- August 6 : Wojciech Fortuna , Polish ski jumper and Olympic champion
- August 6 : David McLetchie , British politician († 2013 )
- August 6 : Vinnie Vincent , American guitarist
- August 7 : Caroline Aaron , American actress
- August 7 : Helga Lopez , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- August 7th : Karl Schweitzer , Austrian politician
- August 8 : Brigitte Ahrenholz , German rower († 2018 )
- August 8 : Anton Fig , American rock and jazz drummer
- August 8 : Norbert Glante , German politician
- August 8 : Jostein Gaarder , Norwegian writer
- August 8 : Jean-Claude Mermoud , Swiss politician († 2011 )
- August 8 : Carsten Peter Thiede , German historian and papyrologist († 2004 )
- August 9 : Jürgen Gehb , German politician
- August 9 : Hubert Haensel , German writer
- August 9 : Rui Jordão , Portuguese football player († 2019 )
- August 10 : Jerzy Pilch , Polish writer († 2020 )
- August 10 : Diane Venora , American actress
- August 11 : Tabea Blumenschein , German actress and author († 2020 )
- August 11 : Curt Cress , German drummer
- August 12 : Gerardo Amato , Italian actor
- August 12 : Ingela Bruner , Swedish-Austrian scientist († 2014 )
- August 12 : Chen Kaige , Chinese director and writer
- August 12 : Hans-Ulrich Treichel , German writer
- August 12 : Charlie Whiting , British motorsport official († 2019 )
- August 13 : Herb Ritts , American photographer († 2002 )
- August 14th : Joseph Atanga , Archbishop of Cameroon
- August 14 : Christina Rost , German handball player
- August 14 : Alex van Warmerdam , Dutch director
- August 15 : Jirō Atsumi , Japanese enka singer
- August 15 : Barbara Imhof , German politician
- August 15 : Rudi Kargus , German soccer player
- August 15 : Bernard Lacombe , French football player
- August 15 : Heinzpeter Moecke , German doctor, manager and publicist († 2015 )
- August 16 : Isa Jank , German actress
- August 16 : Walter Olivera , Uruguayan soccer player
- August 16 : Sonia Silvestre , Dominican singer († 2014 )
- August 16 : Reginald VelJohnson , American actor
- August 17 : Gary Armagnac , American actor
- August 17th : Nelson Piquet , Brazilian Formula 1 racing driver
- August 17th : Heiner Goebbels , German composer, director and radio play maker
- August 17th : Walter Knofel , Austrian director († 2018 )
- August 17th : Guillermo Vilas , Argentinian tennis player
- August 17th : Werner Stepanek , German educator
- August 18 : Lowell Lyttleton Lewis , German politician
- August 18 : Markus Meckel , German politician and GDR foreign minister
- August 18 : Wolfgang Niess , German historian, author and moderator
- August 18 : Patrick Swayze , American actor († 2009 )
- August 18th : Ricardo Julio "Ricky" Villa , Argentinian soccer player
- August 19 : Jonathan Frakes , American actor and director
- August 19 : Gabriela Grillo , German entrepreneur and dressage rider
- August 19 : Bodo Hombach , German politician
- August 19 : David Munyon , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- August 19 : Alexei Nikolajewitsch Rudoi , Russian geographer († 2018 )
- August 20 : John Hiatt , American country singer and songwriter
- August 21 : Joe Strummer , English punk musician († 2002 )
- August 21 : Jiří Paroubek , Czech politician
- August 22 : Hans Otfried Dittmer , German writer and publisher († 2018 )
- August 22 : George Ferguson , Canadian ice hockey player († 2019 )
- August 22nd : Klaus Gruner , German handball player
- August 22 : Santiago Santamaría , Argentinian football player († 2013 )
- August 22nd : Michael Sziedat , German soccer player
- August 23 : Stephan Articus , German sociologist
- August 23 : Terry Austin , American comic artist
- August 23 : Kirby Dick , American film director, producer and screenwriter
- August 23 : Bernd Protzner , German politician, General Secretary of the CSU († 2018 )
- August 23 : Santillana , Spanish soccer player
- August 23 : Vicky Leandros , Greek pop singer
- August 23 : Klaus-Dietrich Flade , German astronaut
- August 24 : Raymond Asquith , British diplomat and politician
- August 24th : Ian Grob , British racing car driver
- August 24 : Linton Kwesi Johnson , English poet and reggae musician
- August 24 : Udo Pastörs , German politician
- August 24 : Billy Ward , American jazz drummer
- August 25 : Geoff Downes , British rock musician
- August 26 : Michael Jeter , American actor († 2003 )
- August 26th : Peter Wolf , Austro-American producer and composer
- August 27 : Karl Adamek , German music sociologist
- August 27 : Daniel Astegiano , Argentine soccer player
- August 27 : Karel De Wolf , Belgian composer and conductor († 2011 )
- August 27 : Undine Gruenter , German writer († 2002 )
- August 27 : Matthias Raue , German composer and musician
- August 28 : Rita Dove , American poet and writer
- August 28th : Eduardo Fernández , Uruguayan guitarist
- August 28 : Wendelin Wiedeking , CEO of Volkswagen AG and Porsche AG
- August 29 : Sanny Åslund , Swedish football player, coach and manager
- August 29 : Michael Wessing , German athlete († 2019 )
- August 30th : Wojciech Fibak , Polish tennis player
- August 31 : Herbert Reul , German MEP
- August 31 : Kim Kashkashian , American violist
- August 31 : Lee Hyla , American composer († 2014 )
September
- September 1 : Ed Neumeister , American jazz trombonist
- September 2 : Jimmy Connors , American tennis player
- September 3 : Kurt Gartlehner , Austrian politician
- September 4 : Rishi Kapoor , Indian actor († 2020 )
- September 4th : Evelyn Roll , German journalist and publicist
- September 5th : Ricky Fataar , South African drummer
- September 6th : Dominik Graf , German film and television director
- September 6th : Alfred Klink , German chef
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September 6th : Bernd Römer , German guitarist, band KaratBernd Römer , 2001
- September 7 : Ricardo Tormo , Spanish motorcycle racer († 1998 )
- September 8 : Ioanna Karystiani , Greek writer
- September 8 : Udo Schnelle , German Protestant theologian
- September 9th : Phil Palmer , English session guitarist
- September 9 : Bi Skaarup , Danish historian († 2014 )
- September 9 : Luzi Stamm , Swiss politician
- September 10 : Wolfgang Aßbrock , German politician († 2007 )
- September 10 : Gregor Eichele , Swiss chemist and molecular biologist
- September 10th : Bruno Giacomelli , Italian Formula 1 racing driver
- September 10th : Werner Hug , Swiss chess master
- September 10th : Margitta Pufe , German athlete
- September 11th : Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand , German athlete
- September 12 : Neil Peart , lyricist and drummer for the rock band Rush († 2020 )
- September 12 : Selimchan Abdumuslimowitsch Jandarbijew , Chechen poet and separatist leader († 2004 )
- September 13th : Johanna Schaller , later Johanna Klier, German athlete and Olympic champion
- September 13 : Don Was , American musician and record producer
- September 14 : Martyn Burke , Canadian writer, screenwriter, and director
- September 14 : Margit Schumann , German luge († 2017 )
- September 16 : Fatos Nano , Albanian Prime Minister
- September 16 : Gernot Grumbach , German politician
- September 16 : Mickey Rourke , American actor
- September 17th : Barbara Engel , German reality TV actress
- September 17 : Milan Šašik , Ukrainian bishop († 2020 )
- September 17th : Harold Solomon , American tennis player
- September 17th : Norbert Walter-Borjans , German politician
- September 18 : John Ruocco , American jazz clarinet and saxophonist
- September 18 : Heinz Seiffert , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- September 19 : Holger Biege , German composer, singer, pianist, arranger and lyricist († 2018 )
- September 19 : Bernard de Dryver , Belgian racing driver
- September 19 : Nile Rodgers , American musician and record producer
- September 19 : Marina Ruperti , German television journalist
- September 19 : Elfi Scho-Antwerpes , German politician
- September 20 : Gabriele Badorek , German handball player
- September 20th : Grażyna Rabsztyn , Polish athlete and multiple world record holder
- September 21 : Claus Dittbrenner , German politician († 2013 )
- September 21 : Anneliese Michel , German Catholic, died after exorcism († 1976 )
- September 22 : Jürgen Jürgens , German radio presenter († 2018 )
- September 22nd : Lutz Rathenow , German poet and prose writer
- September 24th : Annegret Kroniger , German athlete
- September 24th : Sepp Zeilbauer , Austrian athlete, decathlete
- September 25 : Colin Friels , Australian actor
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September 25 : Christopher Reeve , American actor and director († 2004 )Christopher Reeve , 1985
- September 28 : Sylvia Kristel , Dutch actress († 2012 )
- September 28 : Lenny Solomon , Canadian jazz violinist, arranger and composer
- September 29 : Lonzo , German musician († 2001 )
- September 29th : Ross Daly , world musician and multi-instrumentalist of Irish origin
- September 29th : Monika Zehrt , track and field athlete of the GDR
- September 30th : Glenn Leslie Aitken , English soccer player
- September 30th : Margit Conrad , German politician
- September 30th : Jürgen Glowacz , German soccer player
- September 30th : Philippe Laguérie , French Catholic priest
- September 30 : Al Leong , American actor and stunt performer
October
- October 1st : Olga Minejewa , Russian athlete and Olympian
- October 3 : Wolfgang Burger , German crime writer
- October 3 : Neil Gehrels , American astronomer († 2017 )
- October 5th : Regine Aeppli Wartmann , Swiss politician
- October 5th : Clive Barker , British writer and director
- October 5th : Imran Khan , Pakistani cricketer and politician
- October 5th : David Lebón , Argentinian rock musician
- October 5 : Vladimir Newsorov , Soviet-Russian judoka and Olympic champion
- October 5th : Hermes Phettberg , Austrian artist, actor, author and talk show host
- October 5 : Emomalij Rahmon , Tajik President
- October 6 : Matthew Sweeney , Irish writer († 2018 )
- October 7th : Mary Badham , American actress
- October 7 : Vladimir Putin , Russian President
- October 7th : Don Edward Machholz , American amateur astronomer
- October 9th : Philipp Meikl , Austrian singer and musician
- October 9 : Dennis Stratton , British musician
- October 10 : Siegfried Stohr , Italian racing driver
- October 11 : Jim Kahr , American guitarist and singer
- October 11 : Angelika Mertens , German politician († 2019 )
- October 11 : Hartmut Schreier , German actor
- October 12 : Danielle Proulx , Canadian actress
- October 13 : Helmut F. Kaplan , Austrian writer, philosopher, ethicist
- October 13 : John Lone , Chinese-American actor
- October 13 : Elisabeth Motschmann , German politician
- October 13 : Henry Padovani , French guitarist
- October 14 : Harry Anderson , American actor († 2018 )
- October 14 : Nikolai Andrianow , Soviet gymnast († 2011 )
- October 14 : Rick Aviles , American stand-up comedian and actor († 1995 )
- October 14th : Margriet Eshuys , Dutch pop singer
- October 14 : Kaija Saariaho , Finnish composer
- October 14th : Peach Weber , Swiss cabaret artist and comedian
- October 15 : Manuel Jiménez , Dominican singer and composer
- October 16 : Ray Anderson , American jazz trombonist
- October 18 : Haya Raschid Al Chalifa , Bahraini lawyer and diplomat
- October 19 : Marie-Christine Arnautu , French politician
- October 19 : Perico Fernández , Spanish boxer († 2016 )
- October 19 : Virginio Ferrari , Italian motorcycle racer
- October 19 : Heike Wilms-Kegel , German politician
- October 19 : Edo Zanki , German musician and producer († 2019 )
- October 20 : Ed Fagan , American attorney
- October 21 : Mehdi Charef , Algerian writer, film director and playwright
- October 21 : Brent Mydland , keyboardist for Grateful Dead († 1990 )
- October 22 : Jeff Goldblum , American actor
- October 22 : Yoshiki Tanaka , Japanese writer
- October 23 : Pierre Moerlen , French drummer and composer († 2005 )
- October 23 : Heimo Schwilk , German journalist and author
- October 24th : Tania Libertad , Peruvian-Mexican singer
- October 24 : David Weber , American science fiction and fantasy writer
- October 26 : Solveig Fiske , Norwegian Bishop
- October 27th : Anthony Arndt , German actor, presenter and racing cyclist
- October 27 : Roberto Benigni , Italian director and actor
- October 27 : Francis Fukuyama , American political scientist
- October 27 : Serge Saulnier , French racing car driver, racing team owner and motorsport official
- October 28 : Tuck Andress , American jazz guitarist
- October 28 : Jörgen Augustsson , Swedish football player
- October 29 : Peter Bond , German actor and TV presenter of Polish origin
- October 29th : Marcia Fudge , US politician
- October 29 : Ida Kavafian , American violinist, violist and music teacher
- October 30 : Arnold Karibone Amet , Papua New Guinea lawyer and politician
- October 30 : Patrick Pugliese , Canadian water polo player († 2020 )
- October 30th : Hans-Joachim Otto , German politician
- October 31 : Andrea Breth , German theater director
- October 31 : Franz-Josef Tenhagen , German football player and coach
November
- November 1st : Ali-Reza Asgari , Iranian politician and officer
- November 2 : Hanery Amman , Swiss musician († 2017 )
- November 2 : David Andrews , American actor
- November 2nd : Larry Fink , American entrepreneur
- November 2nd : Jean-Remy von Matt , Swiss entrepreneur and copywriter
- November 3 : Roseanne Barr , American actress
- November 3 : Jim Cummings , American voice actor
- November 4th : Robin Lautenbach , German television journalist
- November 4th : Tawadros II , Patriarch of Alexandria and Pope of the Copts
- November 5 : Oleh Blochin , Ukrainian football player
- November 5th : Vandana Shiva , Indian philosopher, ecologist, civil rights activist and feminist
- November 6 : Michael Cunningham , American novelist
- November 7th : Modibo Sidibé , Malay politician
- November 8 : John Denny , American baseball player
- November 8 : Christie Hefner , American entrepreneur
- November 8th : Jan Raas , Dutch cyclist
- November 9th : Andreas Aigmüller , German-Austrian musician and composer
- November 9th : Peter Hahne , German television presenter
- November 10 : Vesna Acevska , Macedonian poet, author and translator
- November 10 : Fernando Allende , Mexican actor and singer
- November 10th : Marco Arnolfo , Italian Archbishop
- November 11th : Lothar Angermund , German soccer player
- November 11th : Christopher Loeak , President of the Marshall Islands
- November 11th : Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell , Austrian bank director
- November 12th : Dietrich Grönemeyer , German doctor and co-founder of microtherapy
- November 12th : Mary Honeyball , German MEP
- November 12 : Ernie Fletcher , Kentucky Governor
- November 12 : Ján Kubiš , Slovak diplomat and OSCE Secretary General
- November 12th : Thomas Lengauer , German computer scientist
- November 13 : Stuart Cornfeld , American film producer († 2020 )
- November 13th : Hans Heiss , Italian historian and archivist as well as South Tyrolean politician
- November 13 : Bjambasürengiin Scharaw , Mongolian composer († 2019 )
- November 14 : Metin Kaplan , self-proclaimed "Caliph of Cologne"
- November 14th : Maria Kliegel , German cellist
- November 14th : Pascal Pessiot , French racing driver and entrepreneur
- November 15 : Rolf Arnold , German educator
- November 15th : Antonella Ruggiero , Italian singer
- November 15 : Randy Savage , American wrestler († 2011 )
- November 16 : Karl-Heinz Ach , German soccer player and coach
- November 16 : Lawrence Rush Atkinson IV , American journalist, military historian, and non-fiction author
- November 16 : Diepreye Alamieyeseigha , Nigerian politician († 2015 )
- November 16 : Lauren Newton , American singer and composer
- November 16 : Jean Salem , French philosopher († 2018 )
- November 16 : Klaus Zeh , German politician
- November 16 : Shigeru Miyamoto , chief executive of the Japanese video game company Nintendo
- November 17th : Ernst-Michael von Abercron , German politician
- November 17 : Christopher Butterfield , Canadian composer, music educator, performance artist and rock guitarist
- November 17th : Hubert von Goisern , Austrian musician
- November 17th : Ties Kruize , Dutch hockey player
- November 17 ; Miroslava Němcová , Czech politician
- November 17 : Cyril Ramaphosa , South African politician
- November 17th : Marion Tietz , German handball player
- November 18 : Frank Köllges , German jazz percussionist, composer and performance artist († 2012 )
- November 18 : Harald Konopka , German soccer player
- November 18 : Willi Frommelt , Liechtenstein skier
- November 18 : Karl-Georg Wellmann , German politician (CDU) and Member of the Bundestag
- November 18 : Paul Wengert , Lord Mayor of Augsburg
- November 20 : Hans Jürgen Noss , German politician
- November 20 : Wolfgang Kneib , German soccer player
- November 20 : Elfi Graf , Austrian pop singer
- November 21 : Pietro Ghedin , Italian football player and coach
- November 21 : Cornelius Littmann , German LGBT activist
- November 21 : Eimuntas Nekrošius , Lithuanian director († 2018 )
- November 23 : Corinna Werwigk-Hertneck , German politician
- November 24th : Norbert Haug , German journalist and motorsport boss at Daimler-Chrysler
- November 24 : Ilja Richter , German actor and television presenter
- November 24 : Rachel Chagall , American actress
- November 25 : Daniel Marco Kur Adwok , Sudanese auxiliary bishop
- November 25 : Stanisław Krupowicz , Polish composer and music teacher
- November 25th : Gabriele Oriali , Italian football player
- November 26 : Eva Brunner , Swiss author and translator
- November 26 : Richard Carrión , Puerto Rican finance manager and sports official
- November 26th : Jan Philipp Reemtsma , German literary scholar, essayist
- November 27 : Wilhelm-Albrecht Achilles , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- November 27 : Michele Barra , Swiss politician († 2013 )
- November 27 : Daryl Stuermer , American rock musician
- November 27th : Axel Viehweger , Minister for Building and Urban Development of the GDR
- November 28th : Rolf Oesterreich , German figure skater
- November 28 : Pat Cox , President of the European Parliament
- November 29 : Erzsébet Wolf , Hungarian badminton player
- November 29 : Tom Wright , American actor and stunt performer
- November 30th : Chris Joris , Belgian jazz musician (percussion, piano) and composer
- November 30th : Christine Price , former British middle and long distance runner
December
- December 2nd : Andreas Mölzer , Austrian politician and publicist
- December 2 : Klaus F. Zimmermann , German economist
- December 3rd : Bruno Jonas , German cabaret artist
- December 4th : Heinz Strobl , Austrian composer and musician
- December 5 : Günther Förg , German artist († 2013 )
- December 5th : Michaela Pilters , German journalist
- December 5th : Walter Sittler , German actor
- December 5 : Georg Schuchter , Austrian actor († 2001 )
- December 6th : Christian Kulik , German soccer player
- December 7th : Paco Romero , Spanish racing car driver
- December 8th : Heinz Prokop , German handball trainer and handball player
- December 9 : Michael Dorn , American actor
- December 10 : Julianne Baird , American soprano and specialist author
- December 10th : Herbert Bastian , German chess teacher, international master
- December 10 : Bernd Jakubowski , German football goalkeeper († 2007 )
- December 11th : Josef Bläser , German soccer player
- December 11th : Andrea De Carlo , Italian writer
- December 11th : Thomas Gumpert , German actor
- December 11th : Susan Seidelman , American film director
- December 12th : Päivi Aulikki Aaltonen , Finnish archer
- December 12th : Pankraz Friday , Swiss politician († 2013 )
- December 12th : Sarah Douglas , British actress
- December 12 : Helen Dunmore , British writer († 2017 )
- December 13 : Jean Rouaud , French writer
- December 14th : Tamara Danz , German singer († 1996 )
- December 14th : John Lurie , American composer, musician, actor
- December 15 : Lee Aronsohn , American television producer and screenwriter
- December 15 : Allan Simonsen , Danish football player
- December 16 : Manuel Barrueco , Cuban guitarist
- December 16 : Alex Fergusson , Scottish guitarist and music producer
- December 16 : Francesco Graziani , Italian football player
- December 16 : Jon Laukvik , Norwegian organist and music professor
- December 17th : Ed Starink , Dutch studio musician, composer, arranger and music producer
- December 18 : Irja Askola , Finnish bishop
- December 18 : Hans Hurch , Austrian film journalist and cultural manager († 2017 )
- December 18 : Phil Shoenfelt , British singer, songwriter
- December 18 : Bettina Rheims , French photographer
- December 18 : Krystyna Janda , Polish actress
- December 19 : Paul-Siméon Ahouanan Djro , Ivorian priest and archbishop
- December 19 : Peter Stephan Jungk , American German-speaking writer
- December 20th : Jenny Agutter , British actress
- December 20 : Lena Strothmann , German politician
- December 20 : Ray Bumatai , American actor, comedian and musician († 2005 )
- December 21 : Hani Shaker , Egyptian actor and singer
- December 22nd : Uri Yehuda Ariel , Israeli politician
- December 22nd : Jochen Wiedemann , German scientist
- December 22 : Sandra Kalniete , Latvian EU Commissioner
- December 23 : Andreas Martin , German pop singer
- December 24th : Lorne Calvert , Canadian politician
- December 24th : Helmut Schüller , Austrian Catholic priest
- December 25 : Christine Lehder , German politician
- December 25th : Desireless , French singer
- December 25 : Youssouf Ouédraogo , Prime Minister of Burkina Faso († 2017 )
- December 26 : Alexander Ankwab , Abkhaz Prime Minister
- December 26th : André-Michel Schub , American pianist and music teacher
- December 26th : Riki Sorsa , Finnish pop and rock singer († 2016 )
- December 27th : Ainsley Edward Armstrong , sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago
- December 27 : Bob Flanagan , American writer and artist († 1996 )
- December 27th : Herman Jeurissen , Dutch horn player
- December 27 : Gerlinde Kaupa , German politician
- December 27 : David Knopfler , Scottish musician (Dire Straits)
- December 27 : Raimund Krauth , German football player († 2012 )
- December 28 : Arun Jaitley , Indian politician († 2019 )
- December 29th : Joe Lovano , American jazz musician
- December 30th : June Anderson , American opera singer
- December 30th : Hans-Lothar Bock , German handball player
- December 30th : Gerd Schädlich , German soccer coach and soccer player
- December 31 : Thomas Bopp , politician from Baden-Württemberg
- December 31 : Lawrence Fritts , American composer and music educator
- December 31 : Jean-Pierre Rives , French rugby union player and sculptor
- December 31 : Wolfgang Welt , German writer († 2016 )
Day unknown
- Youssouf Saleh Abbas , Chadian politician
- Mustafa Muhammad Abd al-Jalil , Libyan politician
- Fulvio Accialini , Italian film maker
- Bernd Ahlert , German guitarist, university teacher and guitar maker
- Ahn Sang-soo , South Korean graphic designer and typographer
- Wolfgang Aichinger , Austrian cellist
- Hamad bin Chalifa bin Hamad bin Abdullah bin Jassim bin Muhammed Al Thani , Emir of Qatar
- Mohammed Al-Fassi , Saudi Arabian-Moroccan businessman († 2002 )
- Dan Allender , American psychologist, therapist, author and speaker
- Christine Amor , Australian actress
- Craig A. Anderson , American psychologist
- Walt Anderson , American dentist and American football referee
- Dörte Andres , German interpreter
- Kurt App , German object artist
- Malcolm Archer , British organist, choir director and composer
- Atsuo Asami , Japanese amateur astronomer and asteroid explorer
- William Aspray , American historian of science
- Bolat Atabaev , Kazakh theater director and human rights fighter
- Carlos Atilano , Venezuelan composer and guitarist
- Caroline Atkinson , American economist and journalist
- Scott Atran , American anthropologist
- Pascal Attinger , Swiss ancient orientalist
- Dimos Avdeliodis , Greek director and actor
- Vishwa Mohan Bhatt , Indian guitarist
- Karl Braun , German ethnologist
- Michael Brook , Canadian musician, guitarist and record producer
- Klaus vom Bruch , German media artist
- Philip Carr-Gomm , English psychologist and druid
- Maria Berica Dalla Vecchia , Italian dancer, choreographer and music teacher
- Fernando José de França Dias Van Dúnem , Angolan politician and ambassador
- Susanne Fischer-Rizzi , German alternative practitioner, phytotherapist and author
- Benedict Freitag , Swiss theater and film actor
- Perry Goldstein , American composer and music educator
- Ali Gomaa , Egyptian Grand Mufti
- Henry Gwiazda , American composer
- Werner Hagen , German musician
- Michel Jarraud , French meteorologist
- Scott Johnson , American composer
- Gernot Krää , German film director and freelance writer.
- Frank Lloyd , British horn player
- Michael Loceff , American computer scientist, producer and screenwriter
- Thomas Lubowski , German journalist
- Hugh Lupton , English storyteller and author
- Luo Baoming , Chinese politician
- Samuel Magrill , American composer and music educator
- Nele Moost , German author
- Linsey Pollak , Australian musician and instrument maker
- Gabriele Quandt-Langenscheidt , German entrepreneur
- James Signorile , American composer
- Katerina Vatsella , art historian and curator
- Wang Sanyun , Chinese politician
- Serhiy Svyatchenko Ukrainian artist
- Udo Witte , German director
- Manfredo Zimmermann , Argentine flautist and university professor
- Paula Zsidi , Hungarian archaeologist and museologist
Died
January
- January 3 : Luigi Stefano Giarda , Italian composer, cellist and music teacher (* 1868 )
- January 6th : Alfred Meebold , German botanist, writer and anthroposophist (* 1863 )
- January 6th : Hermann Stopperich , German politician (* 1895 )
- January 8 : Antonia Maury , astronomer (* 1866 )
- January 9th : Paul Ausserleitner , Austrian ski jumper (* 1925 )
- January 9th : Antonie Straßmann , German sports and zeppelin pilot (* 1901 )
- January 10 : Honoré Jackson , Canadian journalist (* 1861 )
- January 11th : Jean de Lattre de Tassigny , French general (* 1889 )
- January 14 : Artur Kapp , Estonian composer (* 1878 )
- January 15 : Samuel M. Shortridge , American politician (* 1861 )
- January 17th : Paul Langhans , German geographer and cartographer (* 1867 )
- January 18 : Curly Howard , American comedian (* 1903 )
- January 19 : Wilhelm Schäfer , German writer (* 1868 )
- January 20 : Arthur Farwell , American composer (* 1872 )
- January 20 : Pat Morris Neff , American politician (* 1871 )
- January 22nd : Alexander Behm , German physicist (* 1880 )
- January 22nd : Karl Glässing , Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden, Chief Finance President in Darmstadt (* 1866 )
- January 22nd : Robert Porter Patterson , American politician (* 1891 )
- January 22nd : Roger Vitrac , French playwright and surrealist (* 1899 )
- January 25 : Sveinn Björnsson , first President of Iceland (* 1881 )
- January 26 : Chorloogiin Tschoibalsan , Mongolian communist politician (* 1895 )
- January 28th : Thomas Hicks , American marathon runner, Olympic champion (* 1876 )
- January 30th : Alfred Thon , German painter, draftsman and art teacher (* 1886 )
- January 31 : Georg Kohl , German politician (* 1881 )
- January 31 : Pedro Prado , Chilean writer (* 1886 )
February
- February 3 : Kambara Ariake , Japanese writer (* 1876 )
- February 4 : Elisabeth von Plotho , role model for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest (* 1853 )
- February 5 : Adela Verne , English composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1877 )
- February 6 : Lipót Aschner , Hungarian industrialist (* 1872 )
- February 6th : George VI. , King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (* 1895 )
- February 7 : Rudolf Hans Bartsch , Austrian writer (* 1873 )
- February 7 : Pete Henry , American football player and coach (* 1897 )
- February 9 : Peter Nonnenmühlen , local politician and mayor of Mönchengladbach (* 1868 )
- February 10 : Macedonio Fernández , Argentine writer (* 1874 )
- February 11 : Alfred Liebig , German architect (* 1878 )
- February 12 : Ernst Zahn , Swiss writer (* 1867 )
- February 13 : Alfred Einstein , German musicologist and music critic (* 1880 )
- February 14th : Maurice Dewaele , Belgian cyclist (* 1896 )
- February 14 : William Joseph Elford , British chemist and microbiologist (* 1900 )
- February 15 : Gustaf Nagel , German eccentric and traveling preacher (* 1874 )
- February 17th : Lotte Pritzel , German doll maker, costume designer and draftsman (* 1887 )
- February 18 : Cliff Eros , German circus entrepreneur, sensational actor, artist and trainer (* 1889 )
- February 18 : Johannes Antonius James Barge , Dutch anatomist (* 1884 )
- February 19 : Lawrence Grant , British actor (* 1870 )
- February 19 : Knut Hamsun , Norwegian writer (* 1859 )
- February 20 : Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola , Ecuadorian banker and president (* 1888 )
- February 20 : Wilhelm Knothe , German politician (* 1888 )
- February 25 : Erwein von Aretin , Bavarian journalist and local politician (* 1887 )
- February 25 : Saitō Mokichi , Japanese poet and essayist (* 1882 )
- February 25 : Carl Schröter , German politician (* 1887 )
- February 26 : Theodoros Pangalos , general and politician in Greece (* 1878 )
- February 28 : Albert Forster , Gauleiter of the NSDAP and Reich Governor in Danzig (* 1902 )
March
- March 1 : Kume Masao , Japanese writer (* 1891 )
- March 1 : Gregory La Cava , American film director and cartoonist (* 1892 )
- March 1 : Theodor Mollison , German anthropologist (* 1874 )
- March 2 : Bernhard Lohmüller , German politician (* 1891 )
- March 4 : Charles Scott Sherrington , British neurophysiologist (* 1857 )
- March 5 : Georg Arends , German plant breeder and gardener (* 1863 )
- March 5 : Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachev , Russian composer (* 1889 )
- March 6 : Giacomo Rimini , American opera singer and music teacher of Italian origin (* 1887 )
- March 6 : Jürgen Stroop , SS group leader, leader of the mass murder in the Warsaw ghetto (* 1895 )
- March 7th : Yogananda , Yogi and Guru (* 1893 )
- March 9 : Alexandra Kollontai , Russian revolutionary, diplomat and writer (* 1872 )
- March 9 : Eberhard Wildermuth , German politician (* 1890 )
- March 10 : Ben Fuller , Australian theater entrepreneur (* 1875 )
- March 13 : Giovanni Battista Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1872 )
- March 13 : Johan Nygaardsvold , Norwegian social democratic politician (* 1879 )
- March 15 : Wilhelm Burger , German auxiliary bishop (* 1880 )
- March 16 : Stephan Weickert , German politician (* 1892 )
- March 17 : Nándor Láng , Hungarian archaeologist, historian and classical philologist (* 1871 )
- March 19 : John H. Bartlett , American politician (* 1869 )
- March 19 : Hans Wittwer , Swiss architect (* 1894 )
- March 20 : Mario Ajmone Cat , Italian general (* 1894 )
- March 21 : Peter Petersen , German reform pedagogue (* 1884 )
- March 22nd : Uncle Dave Macon , American country musician (* 1870 )
- March 24 : Wilhelm Jelinek , German works council chairman and anarcho-syndicalist (* 1889 )
- March 25 : William Sutherland Maxwell , Canadian Bahai (* 1874 )
- March 25 : Egon von Tresckow , German illustrator, comic artist and caricaturist (* 1907 )
- March 26 : John Ponsonby , British general and division commander in World War I (* 1866 )
- March 29 : Katherine Sophie Dreier , American painter and art patron (* 1877 )
- March 31 : John George Clark Anderson , British ancient historian and epigraphist (* 1870 )
- March 31 : Walter Schellenberg , head of the military secret services in the Third Reich (* 1910 )
- March 31 : Wallace H. White , American politician (* 1877 )
April
- April 1 : Ferenc Molnár , Hungarian writer and journalist (* 1878 )
- April 2 : Antonio Cortis , Spanish opera singer (* 1891 )
- April 2 : Bernard Ferdinand Lyot , French astronomer (* 1897 )
- April 9 : Carl Friedemann , Swiss composer and conductor (* 1862 )
- April 10 : Frederic Austin , English opera singer and composer (* 1872 )
- April 15 : Bruno Barilli , Italian composer, journalist and writer (* 1880 )
- April 15 : Ludwig Kaas , central politician during the Weimar Republic (* 1881 )
- April 15 : Viktor Chernov , Russian politician (* 1873 )
- April 17th : Rudolf Dix , German lawyer and notary (* 1884 )
- April 18 : Leo Smith , Canadian composer, cellist and music teacher (* 1881 )
- April 19 : Carl August Graf von Attems-Petzenstein , Austrian zoologist (* 1868 )
- April 19 : Jean-Marie Musy , Swiss politician (* 1876 )
- April 21 : Alfred Andersen-Wingar , Norwegian composer (* 1869 )
- April 23 : Richard Stafford Cripps , British lawyer and politician (* 1889 )
- April 23 : Wilhelm Paschek , German politician (* 1897 )
- April 23 : Elisabeth Schumann , German-American soprano (* 1888 )
- April 24th : Hendrik Anthony Kramers , Dutch physicist (* 1894 )
- April 26 : Jan van der Hoeve , Dutch ophthalmologist (* 1878 )
May
- May 2 : Leopold van Itallie , Dutch pharmacologist and toxicologist (* 1866 )
- May 5 : Hans Adolf von Arenstorff , German major general and manor owner (* 1895 )
- May 6 : Maria Montessori , Italian doctor, reform pedagogue, philosopher and philanthropist (* 1870 )
- May 7 : Alfred La Liberté , Canadian composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1882 )
- May 9 : Kurt Beyer , German engineer (* 1881 )
- May 10 : Paul Greifzu , German automobile and motorcycle racing driver (* 1902 )
- May 11 : Alessio Ascalesi , Archbishop of Naples and Cardinal (* 1872 )
- May 11 : Philipp Müller , German worker (* 1931 )
- May 11 : Giovanni Tebaldini , Italian composer, musicologist and organist (* 1864 )
- May 15 : Albert Bassermann , German actor (* 1867 )
- May 18 : Rosetter Gleason Cole , American composer (* 1866 )
- May 21 : John Garfield , American actor (born 1913 )
- May 23 : Georg Schumann , German composer (* 1866 )
- May 25 : Ibrahim Dalliu , Albanian clergyman and publicist (* 1878 )
- May 25 : Ettore Tolomei , Italian nationalist (* 1865 )
- May 26 : Emilie Flöge , Austrian designer, fashion designer, entrepreneur and partner of Gustav Klimt (* 1874 )
- May 27 : Arthur Illies , German painter and graphic artist (* 1870 )
June
- June 1 : John Dewey , American philosopher and educator (* 1859 )
- June 6 : Josef Moser , Austrian politician (* 1870 )
- June 8 : Johnny McDowell , American racing car driver (* 1915 )
- June 9 : Alice Austen , American photographer (* 1866 )
- June 9 : Adolf Busch , German violinist and composer (* 1891 )
- June 12 : Michael von Faulhaber , Cardinal and Archbishop of Munich and Freising (* 1869 )
- June 13 : Emma Eames , American opera singer and vocal teacher (* 1865 )
- June 13 : Max Pulver , Swiss psychologist, graphologist, poet, playwright and storyteller (* 1889 )
- June 14 : Felix Calonder , Swiss politician (* 1863 )
- June 15 : Krystyna Skarbek , Polish agent in the British intelligence service Special Operations Executive (* 1908 )
- June 16 : Theodor Geiger , German sociologist (* 1891 )
- June 17th : Heinrich Germer , SED politician and city councilor for popular education and culture in Magdeburg (* 1900 )
- June 17 : Alberto Williams , Argentine composer and conductor (* 1862 )
- June 18 : Efim Bogoljubow , Russian-German chess grandmaster (* 1889 )
- June 18 : Heinrich Schlusnus , German opera and concert singer (baritone) (* 1888 )
- June 20 : Luigi Fagioli , Italian racing driver (* 1898 )
- June 22nd : Eugen Abresch , German entrepreneur, inventor, art collector and politician (* 1867 )
- June 23 : Peter Georg Cohrs , German politician (* 1894 )
- June 23 : Arthur Lisowsky , Professor at the St. Gallen Commercial College (* 1895 )
- June 24th : Botho Henning Elster , German major general (* 1894 )
- June 25 : Luke Jordan , American blues guitarist and singer (* 1892 )
- June 28 : Ludwig Radermacher , German classical philologist (* 1867 )
- Charles Montier , French racing driver and vehicle designer (* 1879 ) June:
July
- July 1st : Johann Paul Arnold , German aquarist (* 1869 )
- July 2 : Frank Welsman , Canadian conductor, music teacher and pianist (* 1873 )
- July 3 : Wilhelm Schmidtbonn , German writer (* 1876 )
- July 3 : Daniel Zamudio , Colombian composer and musicologist (* 1885 )
- July 6th : Felix Huch , German doctor and writer (* 1880 )
- July 7th : André Pisart , Belgian racing driver (* 1898 )
- July 8 : Karl Jakob Hirsch , German artist and writer (* 1892 )
- July 9 : Max Clarenbach , German painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (* 1880 )
- July 10 : Rued Langgaard , Danish composer and organist (* 1893 )
- July 19 : Elly Heuss-Knapp , German politician, founder of the maternal recovery organization (* 1881 )
- July 20 : Ferdinand Lot , French historian (* 1866 )
- July 21 : Edwin Hoernle , German writer, KPD functionary (* 1883 )
- July 21 : Ben Olcott , American politician (* 1872 )
- July 22nd : Antonio María Valencia , Colombian composer (* 1902 )
- July 23 : Carl Severing , German politician and minister (* 1875 )
- July 26 : Eva Perón , First Lady of Argentina and second wife of Juan Perón (* 1919 )
- July 29th : Georg Michael Martin Hubert von Arnswaldt , German forester and conservationist (* 1866 )
- July 31 : Clara Viebig , German narrator (* 1860 )
- July 31 : Waldemar Bonsels , German writer (* 1880 )
August
- August 2 : Johann Lemmerz , German designer and entrepreneur (* 1878 )
- August 2 : Joseph Schnetz , Austrian philologist (* 1873 )
- August 6 : Richard Charles Mills , Australian economist (* 1886 )
- August 9 : Bartholomäus Koßmann , German politician (* 1883 )
- August 13 : Wilm Hosenfeld , Wehrmacht officer in World War II (* 1895 )
- August 15 : Richard Adamík , Czech doctor and moral idealist (* 1867 )
- August 15 : Armida Barelli , Italian activist of the women's movement (* 1882 )
- August 15 : Jesse Thoor , German writer (* 1905 )
- August 16 : Philipp Auerbach , German politician and state commissioner for the racially, religiously and politically persecuted (* 1906 )

- August 20 : Kurt Schumacher , German politician (* 1895 )
- August 27 : Armand Gagnier , Canadian clarinetist and conductor (* 1895 )
- August 31 : Jim Rigsby , American racing driver (* 1923 )
September
- September 1 : Kosugi Tengai , Japanese writer (* 1865 )
- September 4th : Carlo Sforza , Italian politician, anti-fascist (* 1872 )
- September 6 : William Ewart Napier , American chess player of English origin (* 1881 )
- September 11th : Robert Lauterborn , German hydrobiologist, zoologist, botanist and science historian (* 1869 )
- September 11th : Alexander Steffen , German horticultural director, plant breeder and author (* 1871 )
- September 13 : Friedrich Bothe , German teacher and historian (* 1869 )
- September 13 : Hermann Hummel , German politician (* 1876 )
- September 17th : Fred Sauer , Austrian actor, director and screenwriter (* 1886 )
- September 20 : Bill Schindler , American racing driver (* 1909 )
- September 21 : Roland H. Hartley , American politician (* 1864 )
- September 22nd : Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg , first President of Finland (* 1865 )
- September 23 : Karel Hoffmeister , Czech pianist and musicologist (* 1868 )
- September 26 : George Santayana , American philosopher and writer (* 1863 )
- September 29 : Clifford Hugh Douglas , British economic theorist, engineer (* 1879 )
- September 30th : Waldorf Astor , British politician and newspaper publisher (* 1879 )
- Alexander Popovich , Austrian football player and coach (* 1891 ) September:
October
- October 3 : Alfred Neumann , German writer (* 1895 )
- October 5 : Vincentius Eugenio Bossilkoff , Blessed, Bulgarian bishop (* 1900 )
- October 6 : Felix Daniel Ascher , German architect (* 1883 )
- October 10 : Franz Johann Ludwig August Adenauer , German lawyer (* 1872 )
- October 11th : Jack Conway , American director, actor and producer (* 1887 )
- October 13 : Gaston Baty , French director, playwright and theater director (* 1885 )
- October 14 : Paul Hey , German illustrator and graphic artist (* 1867 )
- October 18 : Francis P. Matthews , American politician (* 1887 )
- October 19 : Doi Bansui , Japanese poet and translator (* 1871 )
- October 19 : Ernst Streeruwitz , Austrian officer, industrial manager and politician (* 1874 )
- October 19 : Jan van der Sluis , Dutch football player (* 1889 )
- October 19 : Aleksander Wielhorski , Polish pianist and composer (* 1890 )
- October 20 : Michael Rostovtzeff , Russian-American ancient historian (* 1870 )
- October 21 : Bernard Povel , German politician (* 1897 )
- October 22 : Ernst Rüdin , Swiss doctor, psychiatrist and racial hygienist (* 1874 )
- October 24 : Frederick Jacobi , American composer (* 1891 )
- October 25 : Sergei Bortkiewicz , Russian composer (* 1877 )
- October 27 : Ludwig Fahrenkrog , German poet and painter (* 1867 )
- October 29 : Sepp Straffner , Austrian politician (* 1875 )
- October 31 : Alexander Alexandrowitsch Andronow , Soviet physicist (* 1901 )
- October 31 : Adolf Chybiński , Polish musicologist and teacher (* 1880 )
November

- November 5 : Joseph James , American racing driver (* 1925 )
- November 9 : Chaim Weizmann , first President of Israel (* 1874 )
- November 10th : Otto Appel , German phytomedicist (* 1867 )
- November 11 : Ernst Busse , head of the International Prisoner Committee in Buchenwald Concentration Camp (* 1897 )
- November 15 : Vasyl Krytschewskyj , Ukrainian art historian, painter, architect, graphic artist and stage designer (* 1873 )
- November 16 : Charles Maurras , French writer and political publicist (* 1868 )
- November 17 : Franz John , German football official and photographer (* 1872 )
- November 18 : Paul Éluard , French poet (* 1895 )
- November 18 : A. Harry Moore , American politician (* 1879 )
- November 18 : Dutch Speck , American football player (* 1886 )
- November 20 : Benedetto Croce , Italian philosopher, humanist, historian, politician and critic (* 1866 )
- November 20 : Jock Porter , British motorcycle racer, entrepreneur and motorcycle designer (* 1894 )
- November 25 : Julien-Fernand Vaubourgoin , French organist, composer and music teacher (* 1880 )
- November 26th : Sven Hedin , Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer (* 1865 )
- November 28 : Ota Wićaz , Sorbian literary and cultural historian and writer (* 1874 )
- November 28 : Elena of Montenegro , Queen of Italy (* 1873 )
December
- December 1 : Edward James Gay , American politician (* 1878 )
- December 1 : Wilhelm Speyer , German writer (* 1887 )
- December 3 : Ludvík Frejka , Czech politician and publicist (* 1904 )
- December 3 : Rudolf Slánský , General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (* 1901 )
- December 4 : Giuseppe Antonio Borgese , Italian critic and writer (* 1882 )
- December 4 : Karen Horney , German-American psychologist (* 1885 )
- December 5 : Imre Waldbauer , Hungarian violinist and music teacher (* 1892 )
- December 6th : Karl Lautenschlager , Lord Mayor (* 1868 )
- December 7th : Helmut Hugo Alfred Augustin , German pastor (* 1912 )
- December 8 : Pedro Sinzig , Franciscan, Brazilian writer, journalist and composer (* 1876 )
- December 12 : Lawrence Henry Aurie , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (* 1905 )
- December 12 : Bedřich Hrozný , Czech linguist and orientalist (* 1879 )
- December 12th : Max Laeuger , German artist (* 1864 )
- December 14 : Fartein Valen , Norwegian composer (* 1887 )
- December 18 : Ernst Mayer , German politician (* 1901 )
- December 18 : Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach , German paleontologist (* 1871 )
- December 20 : Heinrich Lilienfein , German writer and Secretary General of the German Schiller Foundation (* 1879 )
- December 20 : Ivan Olbracht , Czech writer, publicist, journalist and translator (* 1882 )
- December 22nd : Vincas Bacevičius , Lithuanian music teacher, pianist, conductor and composer (* 1875 )
- December 23 : Eli Filip Heckscher , Swedish economic historian (* 1879 )
- December 24th : Ivo Zeiger , papal diplomat (* 1898 )
- December 25 : Herman Sörgel , German architect (* 1885 )
- December 27th : Henri Winkelman , Dutch general (* 1876 )
- December 28 : Carlo Agostini , Archbishop and Patriarch of Venice and Cardinal (* 1888 )
- December 28 : Alexander G. Barry , American politician (* 1892 )
- December 28 : Fletcher Henderson , American jazz pianist, band leader and composer (* 1897 )
- December 30th : Willie Brown , American blues musician (* 1900 )
Day unknown
- Alessandro Abate , Italian painter (* 1867 )
- Edith Andreae , German salonnière (* 1883 )
- Jola Jobst , German actress (* 1915 )
- Red Newman , Canadian comedian and singer (born 1887 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell
- Chemistry : Archer John Porter Martin and Richard LM Synge
- Medicine : Selman Abraham Waksman
- Literature : François Mauriac
- Nobel Peace Prize : Albert Schweitzer
Web links
- Annual review from tagesschau.de
- Annual chronicle of the House of History of the FRG
- The Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government (1952) in the Federal Archives
- Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Vol. 2, Adenauer and the High Commissioners 1952. ISBN 978-3-486-55201-0 (1st edition 1952)