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1953
Uprising in the GDR on June 17, 1953
After the death of Josef Stalin , Nikita Khrushchev gradually asserts himself as his successor.	Coronation of Elizabeth II as Queen of the United Kingdom .

1953 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2706
Armenian calendar	1401-1402
Ethiopian calendar	1945-1946
Badi calendar	109-110
Bengali calendar	1359-1360
Berber calendar	2903
Buddhist calendar	2497
Burmese calendar	1315
Byzantine calendar	7461-7462
Chinese calendar
- era	4649-4650 or 4589-4590
- 60 year cycle	Water Dragon ( 壬辰 , 29) - Water Snake ( 癸巳 , 30)
French revolutionary calendar	CLXI - CLXII 161-162
Hebrew calendar	5713-5714
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2009-2010
- Shaka Samvat	1875-1876
Iranian calendar	1331-1332
Islamic calendar	1372-1373
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 28
- Kōki	2613
Coptic calendar	1669-1670
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4286
- Juche era	42
Minguo calendar	42
Modern Olympics	XV
Seleucid calendar	2264-2265
Thai solar calendar	2496

In 1953 , with the death of Joseph Stalin, the process of de-Stalinization in the USSR begins . In view of the nuclear stalemate and massive domestic political problems, his successor Khrushchev relied on a détente. Meanwhile, the political and economic problems in the GDR erupted with the uprising on June 17, 1953 .

The Cuban Revolution begins with the attack on the Moncada barracks .

Events

politics

• January 1 : Philipp Etter becomes President of Switzerland for the fourth time .
• January 1 : The Soviet Union returns the Tschangtschun Railway to the People's Republic of China .
• January 1 : The GDR officially declares 1953 the Karl Marx Year .
• January 1st : Proclamation of the Republic of Maldives
• January 14 : In the Federal Republic of Germany is crossing guards introduced service.
• January 14 : Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito is elected to the newly created office of President of Yugoslavia .
• January 16 : Abolition of the multiparty system in the Kingdom of Egypt . Egypt finally becomes a military dictatorship .
• January 20 : Inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower as 34th US President. He replaces Harry S. Truman .
• January 30th : Spain becomes a member of UNESCO .
• February 4 : The German Bundestag makes recruiting Germans for foreign military services a criminal offense in Section 109h of the Criminal Code . This is intended to put a stop to the influx to the French Foreign Legion .
• February 12 : Great Britain and the Kingdom of Egypt agree to hold elections in Sudan , which should also provide information on whether the country under British influence should continue to belong to Egypt or whether it wants to be independent.
• February 22nd : National Council election in Austria : SPÖ with Adolf Schärf strongest party.
• February 27 : Signing of the London Debt Accord .
• March 1 : Radio Liberty (then: Radio Liberation ) begins broadcasting
• March 5 : The Soviet ruler Josef Stalin dies in Moscow.
• March 9 : In Moscow , the late head of state Josef Stalin is buried at the side of state founder Lenin in the presence of around 1.5 million people.
• March 18 : The German Bundestag approved the between Israel , the Jewish Claims Conference closed and the Federal Republic of Germany Luxembourg Agreement for restitution to.
• April 6 : First state visit by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to the USA and Canada
• May 1st : Nepal becomes a member of UNESCO.
• May 3 : Deutsche Welle starts broadcasting.
• May 7th : Early release from prison for former Army Group Commander Erich von Manstein
• May 7th : In the GDR , the Soviet ruler Josef Stalin, who died in March, is honored with the naming of Stalinstadt . After the de-Stalinization , the place was given the name Eisenhüttenstadt in 1961 .
• May 10th : The city of Chemnitz is renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt and the GDR district is also given the new name.
• May 14 : The Central Committee (ZK) of the SED resolves to raise labor standards by ten percent. The resulting discontent among the workers forms the seed for the popular uprising on June 17th .
• May 18 : The base at the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz , which remained after war damage , is made available for use by Federal President Theodor Heuss as a future memorial to German unity.
• June 2 : Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In Westminster Abbey
• June 11 : In New Germany the new course decided by the Politburo is announced for the GDR .
• June 14 : In Colombia , President Laureano Gómez is overthrown by a military junta . Gustavo Rojas Pinilla is his successor .
• June 17th : popular uprising in the GDR
• June 18 : The last Egyptian-Sudanese king Fu'ad II is deposed by the military. The Republic of Egypt is proclaimed.
• June 19 : US citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are executed for nuclear espionage in the US .
• June 27 : Libya becomes a member of UNESCO.
• July 1 : The Federal Republic of Germany lifts the visa requirement for incoming visitors from member states of the Council of Europe .
• July 7th : Chile becomes a member of UNESCO.
• July 26th : Cuba . A guerrilla group led by lawyer Fidel Castro attacks the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba , but fails.
• July 27th : End of the Korean War
• August 1st : Foundation of the Federal Insurance Agency for Salaried Employees (BfA) as the carrier of the statutory pension insurance
• August 1 : In southern Africa, under British influence, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is formed , which after a decade failed because of different ideas between whites and blacks about the distribution of power.
• August 3 : The German Bundestag passes the “Law on the Reparation of National Socialist Injustice in the Provision of War Victims for Those Abroad”.
• August 4 : In Germany, the pulpit paragraph introduced in Bismarck's times in the Kulturkampf is abolished in the penal code , which threatens clergy with punishment for insubordinate political statements.
• August 12 : The Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb .
• August 16 : Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi leaves Iran . Mohammad Mossadegh refuses to acknowledge his dismissal from the post of prime minister.
• August 17 : Founding meeting of Narcotics Anonymous (self-help community for drug addicts ) in Los Angeles (USA)
• August 21 : the Republic of the Maldives is proclaimed .
• August 22 : Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi returns to the overthrow Prime Minister Mossadegh in Iran back.
• August 30th : Der Internationale Frühschoppen , a journalistic panel discussion on politics and world affairs hosted by Werner Höfer , is broadcast for the first time on German television .
• September 6 : Mohammed Daoud Khan (“Red Prince”) becomes Prime Minister in Afghanistan .
• September 6th : In the Bundestag election the Union becomes the strongest parliamentary group, Konrad Adenauer is confirmed as Chancellor .
• September 7 : Nikita Khrushchev replaces Georgi Malenkov as First Secretary of the CPSU in the Soviet Union .
• October 1 : The new state of Andhra is formed from parts of the Indian state of Madras .
• October 14 : A visa is no longer required for border traffic between Germany and the Netherlands .
• November 14 : The Federal Republic of Germany waived in Interzone transport in consultation with the Western Allies on the implementation of border controls .
• December 2nd : Kurt Sieveking becomes the new First Mayor of Hamburg. With the Hamburg Block , an electoral alliance of the CDU , FDP and German party , he replaces the Senate Brauer II under Max Brauer .

economy

• January 2 : Volkswagen lowers the price of the VW Beetle from DM 4,400 to DM 4,200.
• February 10 : In the GDR begins in the seaside resorts on the Baltic coast and on complaints the action rose to a nationalization amounts of hotels, taxis and service companies.
• February 15 : The physicist Erik Lundblad, employed by the Swedish company ASEA , produces the first synthetic diamonds .
• March 1st : Foundation of Burson-Marsteller , later a large public relations agency
• July 7th : The newly founded Federal Agency for Air Traffic Control takes over civil air traffic control in the western part of Germany.
• October 3 : The petroleum company Petrobras, with monopoly rights , is established in Brazil .
• November 9th : Germany's first pedestrian zone is opened in stairs street in Kassel .
• November 15 : A patent is granted for the sugar dispenser in Germany .
• December 17th : The Hassel coking plant , Germany's first new coking plant after the war, goes into operation.
• December 22nd : The first edition of the weekly post appears in the GDR and becomes the weekly newspaper with the highest circulation there .

science and technology

• April 23 : Beirut Airport opens.
• April 25 : Francis Crick and James Watson publish their discovery of the double helix structure of DNA in Nature 171 under the title Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid .
• May 6th : The surgeon John Heysham Gibbon performs the first operation using a heart-lung machine .
• August 12 : The Soviet Union draws level with the USA in the arms race with the detonation of a hydrogen bomb .
• August 25 : The Technical Relief Organization is founded as a federal agency by the Federal Ministry of the Interior .
• September 30th : Auguste and his son Jacques Piccard reach a record depth of 3,150 meters during a dive with their Bathyscaphe Trieste in the Tyrrhenian Sea .
• November 20 : Albert Scott Crossfield is the first person to fly a Douglas Skyrocket at twice the speed of sound ( Mach 2 ).
• November 21 : The British Museum revealed that the skeletal remains of the early humans counted Piltdown Man forgery are.
• December 12th : Chuck Yeager is the second person to fly the Bell X-1A more than twice the speed of sound and exceeds his predecessor Albert Scott Crossfield with a measured Mach 2.44 .
• George Emil Palade , American cell physiologist of Romanian origin, provides a first description of the ribosomes .
• Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman discovered at the University of Chicago to REM sleep .

Culture

• January 5th : Premiere of the play En attendant Godot ( Waiting for Godot ) by Samuel Beckett in Paris
• January 20th : First broadcast of the Augsburger Puppenkiste on television
• February 25 : World premiere of the musical Wonderful Town by Leonard Bernstein in New York
• February 25 : In France, the film has Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot of Jacques Tati premiere.
• March 19 : The Oscar - award ceremony will be televised in the United States and Canada for the first time. Bob Hope acts as a presenter on stage.
• April 9 : Cultural agreement between Germany and the United States of America
• April 10 : Warner Bros. brings its first 3D film House of Wax (German title: Professor Bondi's Cabinet ) to cinemas in the United States .
• April 22nd : The Clouzot film Le Salaire de la peur ( Wages of Fear ) premieres in France .
• May 4th : First performance of the opera Irmelin by Frederick Delius at the New Theater in Oxford
• May 7th : World premiere of the musical Can-Can by Cole Porter at the Shubert Theater in New York
• May 25 : World premiere of the opera The Harpies by Marc Blitzstein in New York
• May 26th At the 'Neue Musikfest' in Cologne, organized by the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation (NWDR), compositions by Robert Beyer and Herbert Eimert that were created in the studio for electronic music founded in Cologne in 1952 are presented for the first time .
• June 23 : World premiere of the opera The Decembrists by Yuri Alexandrowitsch Shaporin at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow
• August 17th : World premiere of the opera The Trial by Gottfried von Eine at the Salzburg Festival
• October 27th : With the play Der Etappenhase by Karl Bunje , the NWDR Cologne broadcasts a theater performance for the first time on German television from the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne .
• November 13th : World premiere of the musical comedy An angel named Schmitt by Just Scheu and Ernst Nebhut in Braunschweig
• December 25 : World premiere of Fikrats Ämirov's opera Sevil in Baku

• Nikolaus Harnoncourt founds the Ensemble Concentus Musicus Vienna together with his wife Alice Harnoncourt .
• The Order of Malta and the Caritas Association set up the Maltese Relief Service .
• The Teutonic Order is newly constituted (after being banned by the National Socialists) as the “Order Province of Germany” with its seat in Darmstadt.
• Foundation of the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg
• The J. Paul Getty Museum opens.
• The work “The ladders pull through the sky blue as a wheel of fire” by Joan Miró emerges.
• Foundation of the Deutsche Künstlerhilfe
• Foundation of the New German Biography

religion

• May 24th : Pope Pius XII. In the encyclical Doctor mellifluus pays tribute to the doctor of the church Bernhard von Clairvaux on the occasion of the upcoming 800th anniversary of his death.
• September 8 : Pope Pius XII. announces in the encyclical Fulgens corona for the first time a Marian year for 1954 .

Sports

• January 18 : Ann Davison arrives in Dominica , Lesser Antilles . She is the first woman to cross the Atlantic as a single-handed sailor .
• April 12th : The soccer club Sportvereinigung Volkspolizei Dresden is renamed SG Dynamo Dresden and integrated into the Sportvereinigung Dynamo , the sports organization of the internal security organs in the GDR.
• May 29 : First ascent of the 8848 m high Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
• June 21 The 1. FC Kaiserslautern is German football champions .
• July 3 : First ascent of Nanga Parbat , the ninth highest mountain on earth, by Hermann Buhl
• September 13th : The Italian Alberto Ascari becomes the first double world champion in Formula 1 history .
• December 12th : The athletes of 1953 are honored in Stuttgart .
• The International DN Ice Yacht Racing Association (IDNIYRA) is founded.

Disasters

Holland storm surge

• February 1 : Flood disaster in the Netherlands (confluence of the Rhine , Meuse and Scheldt ) as well as in Belgium and Great Britain. 1,835 people die in the Netherlands and another 307 in the UK.
• June 8 : The city of Flint, Michigan , is hit by a tornado that kills 115 and injures 844 people.
• August 12 : Both islands are almost completely destroyed in the earthquake on Kefalonia and Zakynthos in 1953 .

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

Born

January

• 0January 1st : Alpha Blondy , Ivorian reggae musician
• 0January 1 : Toyin Falola , Nigerian historian
• 0January 1 : Gary E. Johnson , American politician
• 0January 2nd : Jürgen Rohde , German handball goalkeeper
• 0January 3rd : Vittorio Algeri , Italian cyclist and team leader
• 0January 5 : Ernst M. Binder , Austrian poet and theater director († 2017 )
• 0January 5 : Pamela Sue Martin , American actress
• 0January 5th : Alison Owen-Spencer , American cross-country skier
• 0January 5th : George Tenet , director of the CIA
• 0January 6th : Jon Eberson , Norwegian jazz guitarist
• 0January 6th : Etienne Jornod , Swiss entrepreneur and manager
• 0January 6th : Manfred Kaltz , German soccer player and national player
  

  Manfred Kaltz
• 0January 6th : Thomas Mirow , German politician
• 0January 6 : Malcolm Young , Australian musician († 2017 )
• 0January 7th : Jenis Kristian av Rana , Faroese politician
• 0January 7th : Dieter Hoeneß , German soccer player and manager
  

  Dieter Hoeneß
• 0January 7th : Dieter-Lebrecht Koch , German MEP
• 0January 7th : Robert Longo , American artist
• 0January 7th : Leslie Mandoki , Hungarian-German musician
• 0January 8 : Pierre Trochu , Canadian composer
• 0January 9 : Klaus Schindler , German actor
• 0January 9 : Morris Gleitzman , British author for children and young people
• 0January 9 : Bill Graves , American politician
• 0January 9 : Danny Morrison , Northern Irish journalist and writer
• January 10th : Guido Kratschmer , German athlete
• January 10 : Pat Benatar , American rock singer
• January 11 : Jeyaraj Fernandopulle , Sri Lankan politician († 2008 )
• January 12 : Friedrich Ostendorff , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• January 14th : Gunter Amler , German soccer player
• January 14th : Wolfgang Böck , Austrian actor
• January 14th : Gagey Mrozeck , German guitarist
• January 14 : Lothar Schleusener , victim of the Berlin Wall († 1966 )
• January 15 : Kent Hovind , American creationist
• January 15 : Randy White , American football player
• January 16 : Reinhard Jirgl , German writer
• January 16 : Reinhard Göhner , German politician
• January 18 : Paul Büchel , Liechtenstein judoka
• January 19 : Klaus Antoni , German Japanologist and cultural scientist
• January 19 : Desi Arnaz junior , American actor and musician
• January 19 : Jürgen Gelsdorf , German soccer player and soccer coach
• January 19 : Holger Rupprecht , Minister of Education of Brandenburg
• January 20 : Marita Breuer , German actress
• January 20 : Hermann-Josef Arentz , German politician and Member of the State Parliament
• January 21 : Paul Allen , American entrepreneur († 2018 )
  

  Paul Allen , 2013
• January 21 : Wolfgang Ludwig Werner , German tropical researcher
• January 22nd : Winfried Berkemeier , German soccer player
• January 22nd : Steve Chabot , American politician
• January 22nd : Chung Myung-whun , South Korean conductor and pianist
• January 22nd : Jim Jarmusch , American director, screenwriter and film producer
• January 23 : John Luther Adams , American composer
• January 23 : Raul Arnemann , Soviet rower
• January 23 : Antonio Villaraigosa , Mayor of Los Angeles
• January 23 : Alister McGrath , Professor of Historical Theology, Oxford
• January 23 : James D. Thornton , American composer, euponium player and music educator
• January 24th : Ulrich Holbein , German writer
• January 25 : Jutta Kaddatz , German politician
• January 26th : Reinhard Bütikofer , German politician
• January 26 : Ulrike Poppe , German civil rights activist
• January 26th : Robertas Sutkus , Lithuanian chess grandmaster in correspondence chess
• January 26 : Anders Fogh Rasmussen , Prime Minister of Denmark
  

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen , 2007
• January 26 : Lucinda Williams , American singer and songwriter
• January 27 : Shizuo Akira , Japanese immunologist
• January 27 : Frank Joseph Augustyn , Canadian ballet dancer
• January 27 : Celso Machado , Brazilian guitarist and composer
• January 27 : Bob Mintzer , American jazz and fusion clarinet and saxophonist
• January 28 : Richard Anconina , French actor
• January 28th : Chris Carter , founding member of the music project Throbbing Gristle
• January 28 : Hugo Hamilton , Irish writer
• January 28 : Helmut Middendorf , German artist
• January 29th : Peter Baumann , German rock musician
• January 29 : Richard Drautz , German winemaker and politician († 2014 )
• January 29 : Dalila Di Lazzaro , Italian actress, singer and model
• January 31 : Andreas Lukoschik , German television presenter, actor and author
• January 31 : Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• January 31 : Louis Wright , American football player
• 000January : Flor Contemplacion , Filipino double murderer († 1995 )

February

• 0February 1st : Christian Geistdörfer , German motor sportsman
• 0February 1 : Jerzy Potz , Polish ice hockey player and coach († 2000 )
• 0February 2 : Kim Merz , German pop singer
• 0February 2nd : Louis Sclavis , French clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and band leader
• 0February 2nd : Wolfgang Wahlster , German computer scientist
• 0February 3 : Ferdinand Schmatz , Austrian writer
• 0February 4th : Ulrike Längle , Austrian literary scholar and writer
• 0February 4th : Kitarō , Japanese New Age musician
• 0February 5 : Freddie Pascual Aguilar , Filipino folk rock musician and songwriter
• 0February 5th : Petrus Wilhelmus Arntz , Dutch football player
• 0February 5th : Gerhard Oppitz , German pianist
• 0February 5th : Xaver Paul Thoma , German composer for new music
• 0February 7 : John Attard-Montalto , Maltese politician
• 0February 7 : Robert Brazile , American football player
• 0February 7th : Thomas Wieczorek , German journalist and author († 2013 )
• 0February 8 : Donnie Munro , Scottish musician
• 0February 8 : Mary Steenburgen , American actress
• 0February 9 : Vito Gabrielo Antuofermo , Italian professional boxer
• February 10 : John Shirley , American science fiction writer
• February 10 : Carl Stone , American composer
• February 11 : Philip Anglim , American film and stage actor
• February 11th : Jeb Bush , American politician, Governor of Florida
• February 12th : Irene Abel , German gymnast
• February 12 : Ellika Frisell , Swedish folk musician
• February 12 : Helmut Wechselberger , Austrian cyclist
• February 13 : Vladimir Vladimirovich Antonik , Russian actor
• February 14th : Hans Krankl , Austrian footballer, singer
• February 14 : Sergei Mironov , Russian politician
• February 15 : Anthony Patrick Adams , American film and theater producer
• February 15 : Edwin Cameron , South African constitutional judge
• February 15 : Miloslav Ransdorf , Czech philosopher and politician († 2016 )
• February 15 : Friedrich Sauvigny , German mathematician
• February 16 : Roberta Williams , American computer game designer
• February 17th : Thom Åhlund , Swedish football player
• February 17th : Bernard Chauvin , French racing car driver
• February 17th : Alexandra Dinges-Dierig , German politician
• February 17th : Alar Kivilo , Canadian cameraman
• February 17th : Steve Millen , New Zealand racing car driver
• February 17th : Alain Claude Sulzer , Swiss writer and translator
• February 18 : Urs Bosshardt , Swiss actor
• February 19 : Hansi Jochmann , German actress
• February 19 : Gerd Harms , German politician

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , 2007

• February 19 : Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , Argentine politician
• February 19 : Barbara Schnitzler , German actress
• February 20 : Riccardo Chailly , Italian conductor

• February 20 : Cindy McTee , American composer and music teacher
• February 20 : Reinhard van der Heusen , German handball player
• February 21 : Dagmar Roth-Behrendt , German politician and member of the EU Parliament
• February 21 : Christine Ebersole , American actress and singer
• February 21 : William Petersen , American actor and producer
• February 23 : Satoru Nakajima , Japanese Formula 1 driver
• February 24 : Selman Ada , Turkish pianist, conductor and composer
• February 24th : Karl-Heinz Schroff , German soccer player

José María Aznar , 2003

• February 25 : Siegfried Anzinger , Austrian painter, graphic artist and sculptor
• February 25 : José María Aznar , Spanish politician, Prime Minister
• February 25 : Leszek Deptuła , Polish politician († 2010 )
• February 25 : Martin Kippenberger , German painter and installation artist († 1997 )
• February 26 : Michael Bolton , American pop musician
• February 27 : Yolande Moreau , Belgian comedian, actress, director and screenwriter
• February 27 : Karl Imfeld , Swiss sculptor
• February 28 : Gabriele Hiller-Ohm , German politician
• February 28 : Falko Daim , Austrian archaeologist
• February 28 : Franz Voves , Austrian politician
• February 28 : Jochen Kolenda , German actor
• February 28 : Paul Krugman , American economist and writer
• February 28 : Bodo Morshäuser , German writer

March

• 0March 1st : Rolf Danneberg , German athlete
• 0March 1 : Klaus Wanninger , German writer and theologian
• 0March 1st : Stephan Wittwer , Swiss musician, improviser and composer
• 0March 2nd : Petra Wernicke , German politician
• 0March 3rd : Reinhard Karger , German composer and musician
• 0March 3rd : Zico , Brazilian soccer player, coach of the Japanese national soccer team
• 0March 3 : Aram Asatryan , Armenian pop singer († 2006 )
• 0March 3rd : Dagmar Freitag , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0March 3 : Jan Simonsen , Norwegian politician
• 0March 3 : Josef Winkler , Austrian writer
• 0March 4 : Lothar Kremershof , German ice hockey player († 2003 )
• 0March 4th : Rose Laurens , French pop singer († 2018 )
• 0March 4th : Reinhold Roth , German motorcycle racer
• 0March 5th : Gardi Hutter , Swiss actress and author
• 0March 5th : Marcelo Piñeyro , Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter
• 0March 5 : Tom Russell , American singer, songwriter
• 0March 5th : Richard Sanderson , Scottish singer
• 0March 6 : Wolfgang Grams , terrorist of the Red Army Faction (RAF) († 1993 )
• 0March 7th : Guy Abrahams , Panamanian sprinter
• 0March 7 : Kenny Aronoff , American drummer
• 0March 7th : Siw Inger , Swedish singer
• 0March 8 : Bernd Mattheus , German writer
• 0March 8th : Herbert Schwarz , German speed skater
• 0March 9th : Horst Rasch , German politician
• 0March 9 : Anna Henkel-Grönemeyer , German actress († 1998 )
• March 10 : Paul Haggis , Canadian screenwriter, film producer and director
• March 10 : Cho Hun Hyeon , South Korean Go player
• March 10 : Ronnie Earl , American blues guitarist
• March 11th : László Bölöni , Romanian football player and coach
• March 11 : Carole André Smith , French actress
• March 11th : Willi Winter , German cabaret artist
• March 12 : Alwin Fitting , German employee representative at RWE Power AG
• March 12th : Jürgen Fritz , German keyboardist
• March 12 : Bruce David Hales , Australian businessman
• March 12th : Ron Jeremy , American porn actor
• March 12th : Ryan Paris , Italian pop singer and producer
• March 13 : Volker Bartsch , German sculptor and painter
• March 13 : Hartmut Grimm , German musicologist († 2017 )
• March 15 : Kumba Ialá , President of Guinea-Bissau († 2014 )
• March 15 : Karl Heinrich Wüthrich , Swiss lawyer
• March 16 : Kei Akagi , Japanese-American jazz musician
• March 16 : Thomas Angyan , Austrian cultural manager and artistic director
• March 16 : Isabelle Huppert , French film actress
• March 16 : Rainer Knaak , German chess player
• March 16 : Richard Stallman , American activist and programmer
• March 17th : Ulrich Klan , German composer, author
• March 18 : Harald Schartau , German politician
• March 19 : Hans Rinn , German luge rider
• March 19 : Billy Sheehan , American bass player
• March 20 : Alicia Kozameh , Argentine writer
• March 20 : Sigi Schmid , German-American football coach († 2018 )
• March 22 : Thomas Hiram Andrews , American politician
• March 22nd : Dagmar Veškrnová-Havlová , Czech actress
• March 22nd : Susan Morton Blaustein , American composer and music teacher
• March 22nd : Vladimir Trofimenko , Russian athlete
• March 23 : Chaka Khan , American singer
• March 23 : Dalibor Janda , Czech singer
• March 24th : Mathias Richling , German cabaret artist, author and actor
  

  Mathias Richling , 2009
• March 25 : Christos Ardizoglou , Greek football player
• March 25 : Joseph Weishaupt , German radio journalist († 1992 )
• March 26th : René Weller , German boxer
• March 26th : Tatiana Prowidochina , Russian athlete and Olympian
• March 27th : Annemarie Moser-Pröll , Austrian ski racer
• March 28 : Souhaila Sami Andrawes as-Sayeh , Palestinian terrorist
• March 28 : Melchior Ndadaye , Burundian politician († 1993 )
• March 29 : David Joseph Attard , Maltese lawyer
• March 29th : Jørgen Emborg , Danish jazz pianist and composer
• March 29th : Fritz Hauser , Swiss musician
• March 29 : Georg Klein , German writer
• March 29 : Eberhard Schockenhoff , Professor of Moral Theology and member of the National Ethics Council († 2020 )
• March 29th : Margit Chrismert , Saxon politician and graduate agricultural pedagogue
• March 31 : Erich Schmeckenbecher , German musician, singer and songwriter

April

• 0April 1st : Hari Chand , Indian long distance runner
• 0April 1 : Oliver Ivanović , Serbian-Kosovar politician († 2018 )
• 0April 1 : Barry Sonnenfeld , American cameraman and film director
• 0April 2 : Will Hoy , British racing driver († 2002 )
• 0April 2nd : Eivind riding , former Norwegian politician
• 0April 3 : Pierre Anna Gaston Aspeslag , Belgian detective writer
• 0April 4 : Robert Levy , American trumpeter, conductor, composer and music teacher
• 0April 5 : Guillermo Figueroa , Puerto Rican violinist and conductor
• 0April 5 : Jerome Harris , American jazz bassist and guitarist
• 0April 6 : Patrick Doyle , British composer

Heiner Lauterbach

• 0April 6th : Christopher Franke , pioneer of electronic music
• 0April 6th : Gisbert Piatkowski , German guitarist, rock musician and guitar teacher
• 0April 6th : Thomas Spitzer , head of the First General Insecurity
• 0April 8 : Heinrich Meier , German philosopher
• 0April 8 : Waldemar Fydrych , Polish social activist and happening artist
• 0April 9 : Hal Ketchum , American country singer
• April 10 : Bob Boilen , American radio host, musician and author
• April 10 : Heiner Lauterbach , German actor
• April 10 : David Moorcroft , British athlete
• April 11th : Lyubov Viktorovna Burda , Soviet gymnast
• April 11 : Andrew Wiles , British mathematician
• April 11th : Elvira Possekel , German athlete
• April 11 : Udo Schenk , German actor and voice actor
• April 11th : Giancarlo Scottà , Italian politician

Guy Verhofstadt , 2005

• April 11th : Guy Verhofstadt , Prime Minister of Belgium
• April 12th : Anne Abernathy , Luge Luge from the US Virgin Islands
• April 12th : Reinhard Gerer , Austrian chef
• April 12th : Hans-Georg Rsameee , German immunologist and researcher
• April 13 : Johann Giefing , Austrian politician (SPÖ) and municipal secretary
• April 13 : Rüdiger Kramer , German artist († 2017 )
• April 14 : Matthias Frings , German journalist, television presenter and writer
• April 14 : Gabriele Stötzer , German writer
• April 15 : Klaus Angermann , German musicologist and opera dramaturge
• April 15 : Katsunori Iketani , Japanese racing car driver
• April 15 : Peter Stauber , Austrian politician
• April 16 : Jeremy Burgess , Australian engineer

Peter Garrett 2007

• April 16 : Peter Garrett , Australian musician and politician
• April 17th : Pierre Assouline , French writer and journalist
• April 17th : Frithjof Schmidt , German MEP
• April 18 : Rick Moranis , Canadian actor and comedian
• April 18 : Marc Theis , Luxembourg artist, photographer and non-fiction author
• April 19 : Sara Simeoni , Italian athlete
• April 20 : Serge Aubey , French cyclist
• April 20 : Marie-Luise Dött , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• April 21 : Michael Asher , English author and desert explorer
• April 21 : Asko Antero Autio , Finnish cross-country skier
• April 21 : Zbigniew Graca , Polish conductor
• April 22nd : Thommie Bayer , German writer, musician and painter
• April 22nd : Alain Oreille , French rally driver
• April 23 : Jerzy Klempel , Polish handball player († 2004 )
• April 23 : Liane Michaelis , German handball player
• April 23 : Marion Titze , German writer
• April 24th : Edmund Arens , German theologian
• April 24 : Bino , Italian pop singer († 2010 )
• April 24th : Naoki Nagasaka , Japanese racing car driver
• April 25 : Giorgio Battistelli , Italian avant-garde composer
• April 25 : Jakob Paul Gillmann , Swiss writer and surveyor
• April 26 : Anna Bergmann , German cultural historian

Arved Fuchs (January 2016)

• April 26th : Arved Fuchs , German polar explorer and author
• April 26 : Vlado Kalember , Croatian pop singer
• April 26 : Gerd Silberbauer , German actor
• April 27 : Michael Edward Arth , American artist, house, landscape and town planner, futurologist and author
• April 27 : Jari Askins , US politician
• April 27 : Pat Hennen , American motorcycle racer
• April 28 : Kim Gordon , American bassist, singer, guitarist
• April 28 : Roberto Bolaño , Chilean writer († 2003 )
• April 29 : Karin Jöns , German MEP
• April 29 : Jan AP Kaczmarek , Polish composer
• April 30th : Peter Maulshagen , German soccer player
• April 30 : Merrill Osmond , American singer and actor

May

• 0May 1 : Mayumi Aoki , Japanese swimmer
• 0May 1st : Steve Baker , British harmonica player and blues musician
• 0May 1 : Rea Brändle , Swiss journalist and writer († 2019 )
• 0May 1st : Pierre Franckh , German actor
• 0May 1 : James W. Newton , American jazz flutist, conductor, and composer
• 0May 1 : Detlev Samland , German politician († 2009 )
• 0May 1st : Klaus Wiesehügel , German trade unionist
• 0May 2 : Valery Abissalovich Gergiev , Russian conductor
• 0May 2nd : Domitien Ndayizeye , President of Burundi
• 0May 4th : Oleta Adams , American singer and pianist
• 0May 4 : Dangutė Ambrasienė-Sadaunykaitė , Lithuanian lawyer, judge at the Lithuanian Supreme Court
• 0May 5 : Dieter Zetsche , Chairman of the Board of Management of DaimlerChrysler AG

Tony Blair 2007

• 0May 6 : Tony Blair , British politician and Prime Minister
• 0May 6th : Paul Rübig , Austrian politician
• 0May 6th : Graeme Souness , Scottish soccer player and soccer coach
• 0May 7th : María de Fátima Geraldes , Dominican pianist
• 0May 7th : Frank Michael , Belgian singer
• 0May 8th : Antonio Arcari , Italian clergyman, diplomat of the Holy See
• 0May 8 : Remo Fernandes , Indian singer, guitarist and composer
• 0May 8 : Walter Krause , German national soccer player
• 0May 8 : Hartmut Krüger , German handball player and handball trainer
• 0May 9 : David Benoit , American jazz pianist
• 0May 9 : Johannes Singhammer , German politician
• 0May 9 : John "Rhino" Edwards , British bassist
• May 10th : Silke Stokar von Neuforn , German politician
• May 10 : Ralf Rothmann , German writer
• May 11th : Helma Orosz , German politician
• May 11 : Thomas Middelhoff , Chairman of the Executive Board of Bertelsmann AG and KarstadtQuelle
• May 12 : Reinhold Aumaier , Austrian writer
• May 13 : Hilde Adolf , German politician
• May 13th : Georg Zipfel , German cross-country skier, Olympic participant and ex-national trainer
• May 14 : Virgílio dos Anjos , East Timorese guerrilla († 2010 )
• May 14th : Norodom Sihamoni , King of Cambodia
• May 15th : Mike Oldfield , British multi-instrumentalist and composer
• May 15th : Jacques Cornu , Swiss motorcycle racer
• May 15 : Franco Selvaggi , Italian football player
• May 16 : Heinz Affolter , Swiss musician

Pierce Brosnan , 2002

• May 16 : Pierce Brosnan , Irish actor
• May 16 : Kitanoumi Toshimitsu , Japanese sumo wrestler and the 55th yokozuna († 2015 )
• May 17th : Rolf Gnadl , German politician
• May 17th : Marek Biliński , Polish composer and musician
• May 17 : Qassym-Shomart Toqayev , Kazakh politician and President of Kazakhstan since 2019
• May 18 : Richard Boczkowski , German handball player
• May 18 : Renée Schroeder , Austrian biochemist
• May 19 : Alain Iannetta , French racing car driver
• May 20 : Roland Gerber , German football player († 2015 )
• May 20th : Tato Gomez , German music producer of Chilean origin
• May 20 : Dick Decloe , Canadian ice hockey player
• May 21 : M. Keith Booker , American English scholar, literary scholar, and non-fiction author
• May 21 : Albrecht Broemme , President of the Federal Agency "Technical Aid Organization"
• May 21 : Ralph Lewin , Swiss politician and economist
• May 22 : Doris Barnett , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• May 22nd : Helmut Holter , German politician
• May 22 : Bum-Kun Cha , South Korean soccer player
• May 23 : Marlies Ahlert , German economist
• May 23 : Enzo Héctor Trossero , Argentinian football player and coach
• May 24th : Angelo Antolini , Italian priest
• May 24 : Allan Gordon Bell , Canadian composer
• May 24th : Nell Campbell , Australian actress and singer
• May 24th : Alfred Molina , British actor
• May 25 : Frederic Meisner , German TV presenter
• May 25 : Daniel Passarella , Argentine soccer player
• May 25 : Gaetano Scirea , Italian football player († 1989 )
• May 25 : David Torn , American jazz guitarist and composer
• May 28 : Marc di Napoli , French actor
• May 29 : Alexander Gavrilowitsch Abdulow , Russian actor and director († 2008 )

Danny Elfman , 2010

• May 29 : Danny Elfman , American film music composer
• May 29 : Olisa Agbakoba , Nigerian lawyer
• May 29 : Michel Krine , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
• May 30 : Eduard Stapel , spokesman for the Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany († 2017 )
• May 31 : Bruno Frick , Swiss politician
• May 31 : Hans Neuenfels , German director

June

• 0June 1st : Liv Ragnheim Arnesen , Norwegian cross-country skier and adventurer
• 0June 1 : David Berkowitz (the Son of Sam), American serial killer
• 0June 1st : Caspar Memering , German soccer player
• 0June 2nd : Vidar Johansen , Norwegian jazz musician
• 0June 2 : Cornel West , professor of theology, intellectual of Afro-American descent
• 0June 3 : Martin Bartenstein , Austrian entrepreneur, minister
• 0June 4 : Jimmy McCulloch , British musician († 1979 )
• 0June 4th : Walter Novellino , Italian football player and coach
• 0June 6th : Marianela Sánchez , Dominican singer
• 0June 7th : Peter Ascherl , German-Canadian ice hockey player
• 0June 7th : Johnny Clegg , British guitarist, singer, dancer and composer († 2019 )
• 0June 7th : Jaromír Nohavica , Czech songwriter
• 0June 7th : Libuše Šafránková , Czech actress
• 0June 8 : Peter Spiegel , German non-fiction author
• June 10 : John Edwards , American politician, Senator from North Carolina
• June 11 : Vera Jakowlewna Komissowa , Russian athlete and Olympic champion
• June 11th : Volker Ladenthin , German educational scientist
• June 11 : Mark Nauseef , American jazz percussionist
• June 12 : John Stanley Kenneth Arnold , British Bishop
• June 12 : Oscar Edelstein , Argentine composer and music teacher
• June 12 : Gary Farmer , Canadian actor
• June 13 : Tim Allen , American actor
• June 13 : Michael Augustin , German writer and journalist
• June 13 : Gustav Reiner , German motorcycle racer († 2007 )
• June 13 : Georges Didi-Huberman , French art historian and philosopher
• June 14th : Hanna Laslo , Israeli cabaret artist, comedian and actress
• June 15 : Eje Elgh , Swedish racing car driver
• June 15th : Antonia Rados , Austrian television journalist
• June 15 : Xi Jinping , Chinese politician
  

  Xi Jinping , 2012
• June 16 : Malcolm Mortimore , British musician
• June 17th : Krikor-Okosdinos Coussa , Syrian bishop in Egypt
• June 18 : Peter Donohoe , English pianist
• June 19 : Matthias Kniesbeck , German actor and director († 2018 )
• June 19 : Jean-Michel Martin , Belgian racing driver
• June 19 : Harald Wehmeier , German journalist and author
• June 20 : Ulrich Mühe , German actor († 2007 )
• June 20 : Harri Nykänen , Finnish writer
• June 21 : Benazir Bhutto , Pakistani politician († 2007 )
• June 21 : Michael Bowen , American actor
• June 21 : Gábor Gergely , Hungarian table tennis player
• June 21 : Bernhard Zimniok , German politician
• June 22nd : Cyndi Lauper , American singer and songwriter
  

  Cyndi Lauper, 2008
• June 23 : Nicola Calipari , employee of the Italian foreign intelligence service SISMI († 2005 )
• June 23 : Armen Zarkissyan , Armenian physicist, computer scientist, entrepreneur, diplomat and politician
• June 24th : Hannes Schöner , German singer and musician ("Höhner")
• June 24th : Takao Wada , Japanese racing car driver
• June 25 : Olivier Ameisen , French cardiologist and book author († 2013 )
• June 25 : Heidi Aschl , German civil engineer
• June 25 : Patrick Roth , German writer and director
• June 25 : Udo Samel , German actor
• June 26 : Magnus F. Andersson , Swedish composer and trombonist
• June 27th : Hans Reckers , President of the LZB Hessen
• June 28 : Clemens Appel , German lawyer, politician and management consultant
• June 28 : Wolfgang Lechner , Austrian journalist
• June 29th : Ingo Kühl , German painter, draftsman, sculptor and architect
  

  Ingo Kühl in Atelier Berlin 2015
• June 30 : Krystyna Bochenek , Polish journalist († 2010 )
• June 30th : Hal Lindes , English-American guitarist and composer

July

• 0July 1st : Michele Arnaboldi , Swiss architect and university professor
• 0July 1 : Peter Baumgartner , Professor of Business Education
• 0July 1 : Mike Haynes , American football player
• 0July 1st : Jadranka Kosor , Croatian politician and journalist
• 0July 1 : Nikolai Kuznetsov , Soviet rower
• 0July 2nd : Jean-Claude Borelly , French trumpeter
• 0July 4th : Bob Breunig , American football player
• 0July 4th : Gerda Haßler , German linguist and Romance philologist
• 0July 5th : Jörg Tauss , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0July 7th : Sabine Asgodom , German management trainer, journalist and author
• 0July 7 : Gottfried Vollmer , German actor
• 0July 8 : Rick Knoop , American racing car driver
• 0July 9 : David Lee Camp , American politician
• July 10 : Ronald Nicholas Andruff , Canadian ice hockey player
• July 10 : Ahmed Attaf , Algerian diplomat and politician
• July 12 : Joachim Auer , German politician († 2017 )
• July 12th : Wolfgang Alexander John Zaugg , Swedish murderer
• July 13 : Pavle Vujcic , Serbian violinist
• July 14 : Bebe Buell , American musician and model
• July 14 : Martha Coakley , US lawyer and politician, Attorney General of the state of Massachusetts
• July 15 : Jean-Bertrand Aristide , President of Haiti
• July 15 : Neda Arnerić , Serbian actress († 2020 )
• July 15 : John Denham , British MP
• July 16 : Andrea Wolfmayr , Austrian writer and politician
• July 17 : Robin Merrill , English singer, film actor, television presenter
• July 18 : Bernhard Koloczek , judge at the German Federal Social Court
• July 18 : Neil Stubenhaus , American musician
• July 19 : René Houseman , Argentinian football player († 2018 )
• July 19 : Silvia Siefert , German handball player
• July 20 : Dave Evans , British musician
• July 20 : Thomas L. Friedman , American journalist
• July 21 : Eric Bazilian , American musician
• July 21 : Thomas Emmrich , German tennis player
• July 21 : Harald Nickel , German football player († 2019 )
• July 22nd : Peter Ehmke , German soccer player
• July 22nd : René Vandereycken , Belgian football player and coach
• July 23 : Matthias Brücken , German soccer player
• July 23 : Günther Gebhardt , German automobile racing driver and racing car designer
• July 23 : Michael Kind , German actor
• July 23 : Karl-Heinz Radschinsky , German weightlifter
• July 24 : Ute Berg , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• July 24 : Jon Faddis , American jazz trumpeter, band leader and composer
• July 25 : Santiago Ziesmer , German-Spanish voice actor
• July 26 : Kari Astala , Finnish mathematician
• July 26th : Felix Magath , German soccer coach and player
• July 26th : Willi Melliger , Swiss show jumper († 2018 )
• July 27 : Christoph Kotanko , Austrian journalist
• July 28 : Alain Riou , French politician († 2004 )
• July 28 : Vladimir Rushailo , Russian politician
• July 28 : Katharina Koschny , German voice actress, actress and singer
• July 28 : Krista Sager , German politician
  

  Krista Sager , 2009
• July 29 : Geddy Lee , Canadian musician
• July 29 : Ken Burns , American director
• July 29th : Teresa Orlowski , pornography producer and actress
• July 29th : Onofrio Russo , Italian racing car driver
• July 30th : Walter Aichinger , Austrian doctor and politician
• July 30th : Heribert Prantl , German journalist
• July 31 : Ted Baillieu , Australian politician
• July 31 : Hans-Otto Pingel , German track athlete
• July 31 : Brunhilde Raiser , German theologian
• July 31 : James Read , American actor

August

• 0August 2nd : Peter-Michael Kolbe , German rower
• 0August 6 : Karl Ruben Anderson , American ski racer
• 0August 6 : Monica Morell , Swiss pop singer († 2008 )
• 0August 6th : Stella Maessen , Dutch singer
• 0August 7th : Andreas Bereczky , German-Hungarian graduate engineer, production director of ZDF
• 0August 8 : Lloyd James Austin III. , American general
• 0August 8th : Rolf Beilschmidt , German athlete

Nigel Mansell , 1991

• 0August 8th : Nigel Mansell , British racing driver
• 0August 8 : Emilio Mendoza , Venezuelan composer
• 0August 8 : Grégoire Solotareff , French author and illustrator of children's books
• 0August 8 : Roberto Urbay , Cuban pianist and music educator
• 0August 9 : Carl-Ludwig Thiele , German politician
• 0August 9 : Robert Cray , American blues guitarist and singer
• 0August 9 : Walter Smuch , German handball trainer and handball player
• August 10 : Michael Schneider , German recorder player and conductor
• August 10 : Wolfgang Müller , German actor, voice actor and screenwriter

Wolfgang Hohlbein , 2007

• August 11 : Wolfgang Hohlbein , German writer
• August 11 : Hulk Hogan , American wrestler and actor
• August 12 : Bernardo Aguerre , Uruguayan guitarist and composer
• August 12 : Carlos Mesa , Bolivian politician
• August 12 : Franz Posch , Austrian folk musician
• August 13 : Ronald Gregor Asch , German historian
• August 13 : Carla Bodendorf , German athlete
• August 14 : Hany Abo Rida , Egyptian football official
• August 14 : Norbert Ziegler , German soccer player
• August 14th : Ulla Meinecke , representative of the German language chanson
• August 14 : László Melis , Hungarian violinist and composer († 2018 )
• August 15 : Wolfgang Hohlbein , German writer
• August 15 : Joaquín Montañés , Spanish-German soccer player
• August 15th : Judith Szücs , Hungarian pop singer
• August 15th : Mark Thatcher , British entrepreneur

Herta Müller , 2012

• August 17th : Herta Müller , German writer
• August 17th : Manfred Kolbe , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• August 17th : Małgorzata Potocka , Polish actor, film director and producer
• August 17th : Zere Yacobe Selassie , grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie
• August 19 : Franz Xaver Kirschner , Bavarian politician and entrepreneur
• August 19 : Nanni Moretti , Italian director, producer and actor
• August 20 : David First , American composer
• August 22nd : Evelyn Thomas , American singer
• August 23 : Florence Wambugu , Kenyan plant pathologist and virologist
• August 24th : Elfi Zinn , German athlete
• August 24 : Sascha Anderson , German poet and prose writer
• August 25 : Uladsimir Aljaxejewitsch Arlou , Belarusian historian and poet
• August 25th : Maurizio Malvestiti , Italian priest, Bishop of Lodi
• August 25 : Javier Giménez Noble , Argentine composer
• August 26th : Paolo Di Lauro , leader of the Italian Camorra
• August 27 : Jørn Didriksen , Norwegian speed skater
• August 27 : Gabriele Haefs , German literary translator
• August 27 : Alex Lifeson , Canadian musician
• August 28 : Jocco Abendroth , German singer, guitarist and composer († 2007 )
• August 28 : Ditmar Jakobs , German soccer player
• August 28 : Elmar Schenkel , German writer and translator
• August 30 : Werner Schnappauf , Bavarian Minister of State
• August 31 : Napoleon Seyfarth , German author and AIDS activist
• August 31 : Miguel Ángel Guerra , Argentine racing car driver

September

• 0September 1 : Ahmad Shah Massoud , Mujahideen fighter of Afghanistan († 2001 )
• 0September 2nd : Gerhard Thiele , German astronaut
• 0September 2nd : John Zorn , American composer and band leader
• 0September 3 : Jean-Pierre Jeunet , French director
• 0September 3 : Günther Thomae , German volleyball player, national and world selection player
• 0September 4th : Michael Klemm , German author, director and actor
• 0September 4th : Luis Mejía Oviedo , Dominican sports official
• 0September 4th : Fatih Terim , Turkish soccer player and coach
• 0September 5th : Barbara Schneider , Swiss politician
• 0September 6 : Renato Antonioli , Italian ski racer
• 0September 6th : Gianbattista Baronchelli , Italian cyclist
• 0September 6th : Herwig Mitteregger , Austrian drummer and singer
• 0September 6th : Joachim Pöltl , German horn player
• 0September 7th : Anne-Marie Aspelund , Swedish singer
• 0September 7th : Benjamin Montmorency Tench III , American keyboardist and songwriter
• September 10 : Craig Harris , American jazz trombonist
• September 10 : Amy Irving , American actress
• September 12 : Terry Porter , American cross-country skier
• September 13 : Günther Krause , German politician
• September 14 : Uli Becker , German writer
• September 14th : Christoph Haas , German musician, composer and rhythm teacher
• September 15th : Manuel Mello-Breyner , Portuguese racing car driver and motorsport official
• September 15 : Michael Schramm , German conductor, musicologist and officer
• September 16 : Olga Lara , Dominican singer and composer
• September 16 : Christopher Rich , American actor
• September 17th : Lale Akgün , German politician
• September 17th : Luís Filipe Marques Amado , Portuguese politician
• September 18 : Léo Apotheker , German manager
• September 18 : Anna Levine , American actress
• September 19 : Grażyna Szapołowska , Polish actress
• September 19 : Burkhardt Seiler , German label owner, concert promoter and publisher
• September 20 : Joachim Unseld , German publisher
• September 20 : Renato Curi , Italian football player († 1977 )
• September 20 : Horst Hayer (* 1953), German soccer player
• September 20th : Ricardo Moar , Spanish football official

Reinhard Cardinal Marx (2010)

• September 21 : Reinhard Cardinal Marx , Archbishop of Munich and Freising
• September 22nd : Ségolène Royal , French politician
• September 22nd : Richard Fairbrass , British musician
• September 23 : Vera Dominke , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• September 24th : Carlo Hommel , Luxembourg organist († 2006 )
• September 25th : Jean-Philippe Grand , French racing car driver and racing team owner
• September 25 : Gregory Meeks , American politician
• September 25th : Liuwe Tamminga , Dutch organist
• September 26th : Micha Marah , Belgian singer
• September 27 : Diane Julie Abbott , British politician
• September 27th : Amritanandamayi , Indian Avatar Guru
• September 27 : Claudio Gentile , Italian footballer and coach
• September 27th : Wolfgang Braun , German film producer
• September 28 : Gerold Reichenbach , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• September 28 : Otmar Hasler , Head of Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein
• September 29 : Jean-Claude Lauzon , Canadian director († 1997 )
• September 30 : Deborah Allen , American country music musician

October

Klaus Wowereit , 2012

• 0October 1st : Klaus Wowereit , German politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin
• 0October 1 : Grete Waitz , Norwegian athlete and sports legend († 2011 )
• 0October 1 : John Hegley , English poet
• 0October 3rd : Cornelia Bürki , Swiss athlete
• 0October 4th : Birgit Fischer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0October 4th : Gabriel Loidolt , Austrian writer
• 0October 4th : Andreas Vollenweider , Swiss musician and composer
• 0October 5th : Josef Christian Aigner , Austrian psychoanalyst and psychotherapist
• 0October 5th : Pierre de Thoisy , French racing car driver
• 0October 7 : Ronald Worm , German soccer player
• 0October 7th : Tico Torres , drummer for the rock band Bon Jovi
• 0October 8 : Nabi Avcı , Turkish politician
• 0October 8 : Guido Fuchs , German liturgist
• 0October 9 : Helmut Roleder , German soccer player
• 0October 9 : Tony Shalhoub , American actor
• 0October 9 : Lidia Zielińska , Polish composer

Midge Ure , 2011

• October 10 : Midge Ure , British rock guitarist, singer and songwriter
• October 11th : Martin Lücker , German organist, church musician
• October 11 : David Morse , American actor
• October 12 : Daniel Louis , Canadian film producer
• October 13 : Bertrand Adams , German politician
• October 14 : Aldo Maldera , Italian football player († 2012 )
• October 14 : Willi Thomczyk , German actor
• October 15 : Manfred Angerer , Austrian musicologist († 2010 )
• October 15 : Günther Oettinger , German politician, former Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg
• October 15 : Tito Jackson , American singer
• October 16 : Dietrich Adam , German actor
• October 16 : Tony Carey , American rock musician
• October 16 : Falcão , Brazilian soccer player
• October 17th : Roger de Weck , Swiss publicist
• October 19 : Wang Yi , Chinese Foreign Minister
• October 21 : Eleonora Giorgi , Italian actress
• October 21 : Keith Green , American singer and composer († 1982 )
• October 21 : Peter Mandelson , British Labor Party politician
• October 21 : Henning Sprogøe , Danish film and theater actor
• October 22nd : Johannes Nollé , German ancient historian, epigraphist and numismatist
• October 23 : Altuğ Taner Akçam , Turkish historian, sociologist and author
• October 23 : Marek Chołoniewski , Polish composer, music organizer and educator
• October 23 : Joaquín Lavín , Chilean politician
• October 24th : Christoph Daum , German soccer coach
• October 25 : Adelbert von Deyen , German musician, composer, painter and graphic artist († 2018 )
• October 25 : Corina Dietz , German film editor
• October 27 : Ruedi Lais , Swiss politician
• October 27 : Robert Picardo , American actor
• October 28 : Desmond Child , American songwriter, composer and producer
• October 30 : Vincenzo Guerini , Italian football player, coach and official
• October 30 : Charles Martin Smith , American actor
• October 31 : Michael John Anderson , American actor
• October 31 : Ulrich Giezendanner , Swiss transport company and politician

• Laura Auteri , Italian Germanist

November

• 0November 1st : Raffaele Arena , Italian actor
• 0November 3rd : Jürgen Straub , German athlete
• 0November 3rd : Kate Capshaw , American film actress
• 0November 4th : Carlos Gutierrez , American entrepreneur and politician
• 0November 4th : Tina Theune-Meyer , sports teacher, trainer of the German women's national soccer team
• 0November 5th : Dennis Andries , Guyanese boxer
• 0November 6th : Reinhard Hauke , German cathedral pastor, auxiliary bishop
• 0November 6 : Ron Underwood , American director
• 0November 7th : Ursula Kamizuru , German table tennis player

Ottfried Fischer , 2009

• 0November 7th : Ottfried Fischer , German actor and cabaret artist
• 0November 7th : Alexander Romankow , Soviet foil fencer, Olympic champion and twelve-time world champion
• 0November 9 : Carver Alan Ames , British minister
• 0November 9 : David Leslie , British racing driver and television commentator († 2008 )
• November 11th : Philippe Auvray , French racing car driver
• November 11th : Andrew John Partridge , English songwriter, guitarist, label boss and producer
• November 12 : Ursula Mogg , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• November 13 : Bernd Scherers , German church musician and university professor
• November 13 : Charles Tickner , American figure skater
• November 13 : Frances Conroy , American actress
• November 14th : Herbert Neumann , German soccer player and soccer coach
• November 14 : Sorin Lerescu , Romanian composer
• November 15 : Elizabeth Arthur , American writer
• November 16 : Rick Bourke , Australian rugby player († 2006 )
• November 16 : Brigitte Zypries , German politician
• November 17th : Ulrike Bruns , German athlete
• November 18 : Monika Helbing , member of the Red Army parliamentary group
• November 18 : Franz Maget , German politician
• November 18 : Alan Moore , British comic writer and co-writer
• November 18 : Hartmut Volle , German actor
• November 19 : Mikhail Ivanovich An , Soviet football player († 1979 )
• November 19 : Robert Beltran , American actor
• November 20 : Halid Bešlić , Bosnian singer
• November 20 : Johannes Buchmann , German computer scientist and cryptographer
• November 23 : Francis Cabrel , French musician
• November 23 : Bernard Foccroulle , Belgian composer, organist and opera director
• November 23 : Johan de Meij , Dutch composer and conductor
• November 25th : Herbert Breiteneder , Austrian racing driver († 2008 )
• November 25 : Jeffrey Skilling , American manager
• November 25th : Wolfgang Stolz , German handball player
• November 26th : Hilary Benn , British politician
• November 27 : Curtis Armstrong , American actor
• November 27 : Stephen Bannon , American publicist and political advisor
• November 27 : David Felder , American composer and music educator
• November 27 : Jūgi Hisama , Japanese writer
• November 28 : John King , American composer, guitarist and violist
• November 28 : Ewald Lienen , German soccer coach and soccer player
• November 28th : Gordon Marsden , British politician
• November 28 : Michael Chertoff , US judge
• November 28 : Nadija Olisarenko , Soviet-Ukrainian middle-distance runner and Olympic champion († 2017 )
• November 29th : Hans-Jürgen "Jäcki" Reznicek , German musician
• November 29th : Rudolf Köberle , German politician
• November 29th : Huub Stevens , Dutch football coach
• November 30th : Steve James , American director and producer

December

• 0December 1 : Robert Agnew , American sociologist and criminologist
• 0December 1st : Holger Jung , German legal scholar and advertiser

Franz Klammer

• 0December 2nd : Adrian Amstutz , Swiss entrepreneur and politician
• 0December 3rd : Franz Klammer , Austrian ski racer
• 0December 4th : Arulappan Amalraj , Indian Bishop of Ootacamund
• 0December 4th : Jean-Marie Pfaff , Belgian football player
• 0December 6th : Rolf Brack , German handball player and handball trainer
• 0December 6 : Tom Hulce , American actor
• 0December 7th : Jocelyne Boisseau , French actress
• 0December 7th : Uwe Vorkötter , German journalist
• 0December 8 : Norman Finkelstein , American political scientist
• 0December 8th : Władysław Kozakiewicz , Polish athlete

Kim Basinger

• 0December 8 : Kim Basinger , American actress
• 0December 8 : Sam Kinison , American actor and comedian († 1992 )
• 0December 9 : Nicolin Kunz , Austrian actress († 1997 )
• 0December 9 : John Malkovich , American actor and producer
• December 10 : Rainer Adrion , German soccer coach and soccer player
• December 10th : Friedhelm Funkel , German soccer player and soccer coach
• December 11th : Elizabeth Key Armstrong , American actress
• December 11 : Arno Ehret , German handball player and trainer
• December 11th : Reinhold Kliegl , German psychologist
• December 13 : Ben Bernanke , American economist
• December 13 : Udo Lielischkies , German journalist and TV presenter
• December 13 : Pat Torpey , American musician († 2018 )
• December 14th : Vijay Amritraj , Indian Tamil athlete, actor and entrepreneur
• December 16 : Héctor Timerman , Argentine politician and lawyer († 2018 )
• December 17th : Alexander Beliavsky , Ukrainian-Slovenian chess master
• December 17th : Maya Homburger , Swiss violinist
• December 17th : Sally Menke , American film editor and producer († 2010 )
• December 18 : Kevin Beattie , English soccer player († 2018 )
• December 21 : András Schiff , Hungarian pianist
• December 21 : Betty Wright , American soul singer († 2020 )
• December 22nd : Hans-Michael Holczer , German cycling manager
• December 22nd : Jann Jakobs , Lord Mayor of Potsdam
• December 22nd : Paolo Mondini , Italian racing car driver
• December 22nd : Margit Schreiner , Austrian writer
• December 23 : Wieland Schmidt , German handball goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach
• December 24th : Hans-Jürgen von Bose , German composer
• December 24th : Doris Plenert , German actress, theater director, broadcaster, journalist and book author
• December 24th : Christina Weiss , German journalist and politician
• December 25th : Jürgen Röber , German soccer player and current coach
• December 26th : Sepp Dürr , German farmer, politician
• December 26th : Elfriede Harrer-Friesenbichler , Austrian politician († 1986 )
• December 26 : Toomas Hendrik Ilves , Estonian politician, President (2006 to 2016)
• December 26 : Leonel Fernández Reyna , President of the Dominican Republic
• December 26th : Steve Sisolak , American entrepreneur and politician
• December 26th : Dieter Waltke , German handball player
• December 27th : Steven Dann , Canadian violist
• December 28th : Richard Clayderman , French pianist
• December 28 : Steffen Mauersberger , German enduro athlete († 2000 )
• December 29th : Gali Atari , Israeli singer and actress
• December 29th : Thomas Bach , German lawyer, fencer, Olympic champion and sports official

Matthias Platzeck

• December 29 : Matthias Platzeck , German politician, Prime Minister of Brandenburg
• December 29th : Max Werner , Dutch singer and drummer
• December 30th : Bill Kazmaier , American powerlifter and professional wrestler
• December 31 : James Remar , American actor
• December 31 : Jane Badler , American actress
• December 31st : Frédéric Da Rocha , French racing driver

Day unknown

• Norbert Abels , German dramaturge, journalist, cultural scientist and musician
• Horst Afflerbach , German theologian
• Hartwig Akkermann , German author
• Nuri Aksel , German university lecturer
• Armand Amar , French composer
• Victor Ambros , American biologist
• Roberto Ampuero , Chilean writer, columnist and university teacher
• Erika Andreß , German lawyer
• Darol Anger , American violinist
• Philipp von Appen , German sculptor
• Hannes Arnold , German artist and sculptor
• Elisabeth Augustin , Austrian actress
• Wolfgang Auhagen , German musicologist
• Paolo Beschi , Italian musician
• Steve Biddulph , Australian family psychologist
• Steve Blank , American entrepreneur, lecturer, and author
• Uwe Büschken , German actor and voice actor
• Celia Caturelli , Argentine artist
• Jiang Daming , Chinese politician
• Roland Florstedt , German actor
• Gabi Geist , German actress
• Ulrike Gerst , German painter
• David Gilson , English conductor and tuba player
• Uki Goñi , Argentine journalist and historian
• Axel Gottschick , German actor and radio play speaker
• Warren Gooch , American composer and music educator
• Dirk van Gunsteren , German literary translator
• Serge Houde , Canadian actor
• Uwe Jellinek , German actor and voice actor
• Karl Kranzkowski , German actor
• Thomas Meinhardt , German actor and audio book reader
• Carlos Narea , Spanish musician and record producer of Chilean origin
• James Nares , English painter, photographer and video artist
• Radhia Nasraoui , Tunisian human rights lawyer
• Heiger Ostertag , German writer and historian
• Dietmar Ostwald , German writer
• Chrissie Parrott , Australian ballet dancer, choreographer and multimedia artist
• Werner Pöllmann , German educator and local researcher
• Abdul Rahman , Afghan politician († 2002 )
• Reinhard Raue , German musician († 2006 )
• Erich Räuker , German voice actor
• David Resnick , American composer and music educator
• Volker Rodekamp , German folklorist and museum director
• Günter Schneidewind , German radio presenter
• Christoph Schoener , German church musician
• Robyn Schulkowsky , American percussionist and composer
• Gaby Schuster , German player manager
• Nahed Selim , Egyptian interpreter and freelance journalist
• Rangin Dadfar Spanta , German-Afghan political scientist
• Dariush Talai , Iranian tar and setar player, composer, musicologist and educator
• Raphael Wallfisch , British cellist
• Thomas Wartmann , German director, producer and screenwriter
• Paul Westwood , British bass player
• Andrea Wildner , Austrian actress

Died (selection)

January

• 0January 1 : Hank Williams , American country musician (born 1923 )
• 0January 6th : Hugo ten Hövel , German politician (* 1890 )
• January 10 : Hans Aanrud , Norwegian writer (* 1863 )
• January 10 : Theo Mackeben , German pianist, conductor and composer (* 1897 )
• January 11th : Noe Schordania , Georgian politician, Prime Minister (* 1868 )
• January 13 : Frederick William Schlieder , American organist and music teacher (* 1873 )
• January 14 : Torii Ryūzō , Japanese anthropologist and archaeologist (* 1870 )
• January 15 : Ambrose Carmichael , Australian politician (* 1866 )
• January 19 : Hans Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg , German politician (* 1892 )
• January 22nd : Albert von Thurn und Taxis , German nobleman (* 1867 )
• January 26 : Georges Aeby , Swiss composer (* 1902 )
• January 27 : Wilhelm Kattwinkel , German member of the Reichstag (* 1883 )
• January 27 : Walter Guernsey Reynolds , American organist and composer (* 1873 )

• January 28 : Derek Bentley , victim of the British judiciary (* 1933 )
• January 28 : Hans Freundt , German actor, radio play director, radio broadcaster and author (* 1892 )
• January 28 : James Scullin , Australian politician and Prime Minister (* 1876 )
• January 28 : Theophil Wurm , German theologian and Protestant bishop (* 1868 )
• January 30th : Ernst August , last reigning Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (* 1887 )

February

• 0February 2 : Gustav Strube , American composer (* 1867 )
• 0February 4th : Antonio Conte , Italian fencer (* 1867 )
• 0February 4th : Emmerich David , German clergyman and vicar general in Cologne (* 1882 )
• 0February 6 : Hans Strobel , German architect and building advisor (* 1881 )
• February 7 : Carlos Raygada , Peruvian literary and music critic (* 1898 )
• February 10 : Maria Labia , Italian opera singer (* 1880 )
• February 10 : David A. Reed , American politician (* 1880 )
• February 12 : Ralph H. Cameron , American politician (* 1863 )
• February 12 : Carl Froelich , German film pioneer and director (* 1875 )
• February 13 : Manfred Curry , German-American scientist, sailor and author (* 1899 )
• February 19 : Nobutake Kondo , Japanese admiral (* 1886 )
• February 20 : Emmy Andriesse , Dutch photographer (* 1914 )
• February 21 : Raymond Glaszmann , French racing car driver (* 1884 )
• February 22nd : Albertine Assor , founder of the Albertinen Hospital in Hamburg (* 1863 )
• February 23 : Big Maceo Merriweather , American blues musician (* 1905 )
• February 24 : Gerd von Rundstedt , German field marshal in World War II (* 1875 )
• February 24th : Fanny Moser , Swiss zoologist and parapsychologist (* 1872 )
• February 25 : João Itiberê da Cunha , Brazilian composer and music critic (* 1870 )

March

• 0March 2 : James Lightbody , American athlete and Olympic champion (* 1882 )
• 0March 3 : Heinrich Aschenbrandt , German officer (* 1884 )
• 0March 5 : Josef Stalin , dictator of the Soviet Union (* 1878 )

Sergei Prokofiev , 1918

• 0March 5 : Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew , Russian composer (* 1891 )
• 0March 5 : Herman J. Mankiewicz , Polish-American Hollywood screenwriter (* 1897 )
• March 10 : Alex Groesbeck , American politician (* 1873 )
• March 11 : Rudolf Herzog , German classical philologist and archaeologist (* 1871 )
• March 12 : Itō Shizuo , Japanese lyric poet (* 1906 )
• March 13 : Leopold Kunschak , Austrian politician (* 1871 )
• March 14 : Klement Gottwald , Czech politician (* 1896 )
• March 16 : Henrik Herse , German dramaturge and writer (* 1895 )
• March 17th : Conrado del Campo , Spanish composer, violinist and music teacher (* 1878 )
• March 18 : Peter von Agris , German entrepreneur, local politician and honorary district administrator (* 1900 )
• March 19 : Arkadi Dmitrijewitsch Schwezow , Soviet engine designer (* 1892 )
• March 21 : David Sholtz , American politician (* 1891 )
• March 23 : Raoul Dufy , French painter (* 1877 )
• March 24th : Maria von Teck , British royal consort (* 1867 )
• March 28 : Alfred Philippson , German and Jewish geographer (* 1864 )
• March 28 : Jim Thorpe , American athlete (* 1888 )
• March 29 : Arthur Fields , American singer (* 1888 )
• March 30 : Bert Bailey , Australian actor, author and theater impresario (* 1868 )
• March 30th : Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár , Austrian conductor, composer (* 1877 )
• March 31 : Jan Akkersdijk , Dutch football player (* 1887 )

April

• 0April 2 : Hugo Sperrle , German field marshal in the Third Reich (* 1885 )
• 0April 2 : Siegfried Bernfeld , reform pedagogue, Marxist, psychoanalyst, Zionist (* 1892 )
• 0April 4 : Ludovic Lamothe , Haitian pianist and composer (* 1882 )
• 0April 9 : Emile Aerts , Belgian track cyclist (* 1892 )
• 0April 9 : Stanisław Wojciechowski , Polish President (* 1869 )
• 0April 9 : Hans Reichenbach , physicist, philosopher and logician (* 1891 )
• April 10 : Carol II , King of Romania (* 1893 )
• April 15 : Knud Zimsen , Mayor of Reykjavík (* 1875 )
• April 16 : Heinrich Claß , German politician (* 1868 )
• April 17 : Franz Langoth , Austrian politician (* 1877 )
• April 18 : David Farbstein , Swiss politician (* 1868 )
• April 20 : Erich Weinert , German writer (* 1890 )
• April 24 : Mahmud Afschartus , Persian general and police chief of Tehran (* 1908 )
• April 25 : Paul Senn , Swiss photographer (* 1901 )
• April 27 : Maud Gonne , Irish revolutionary (* 1866 )
• April 29 : Alice Prin , French singer, actress, model and painter (* 1901 )
• April 30 : Garrett L. Withers , American politician (* 1884 )
• 000April: Saïl Ameriane Mohamed Ben Amerzaine , Algerian and French anarchist (* 1894 )

May

• 0May 2 : Käte Duncker , German politician (* 1871 )
• 0May 2 : Friedrich Wilhelm Kieling , German administrative lawyer and mayor (* 1902 )
• 0May 3 : Origuchi Shinobu , Japanese writer and literary scholar (* 1887 )
• May 11 : Jean Adair , Canadian actress (* 1873 )
• May 11 : Margarete Kupfer , German actress (* 1881)
• May 11 : Willy Schootemeijer , Dutch composer and pianist (* 1897 )
• May 12 : Fritz Mackensen , German painter (* 1866 )
• May 12 : Jeanne Maubourg , Canadian singer and music teacher (* 1875 )
• May 16 : Django Reinhardt , is considered the father and founder of European jazz (* 1910 )
• May 17 : Eric DeLamarter , American composer (* 1880 )
• May 17 : Howard Fogg , Canadian conductor and composer (* 1892 )
• May 18 : Rudolf Nadolny , German diplomat (* 1873 )
• May 21 : Ernst Zermelo , German mathematician (* 1871 )
• May 22 : Martha Arendsee , German politician and women's rights activist (* 1885 )
• May 22 : Arthur Georg Arzt , German politician (* 1880 )
• May 22 : Bob Wilder , American automobile racing driver (* 1921 )
• May 25 : Hermann Bruse , German painter and graphic artist (* 1904 )
• May 26 : Albert Spalding , American violin virtuoso and composer (* 1888 )
• May 27 : Otto Meissner , head of the office of the Reich President (* 1880 )
• May 27 : Editha Klipstein , German writer and journalist (* 1880 )
• May 28 : Agustín Abarca , Chilean painter (* 1882 )
• May 28 : Hori Tatsuo , Japanese writer (* 1904 )
• May 30th : Carl Scarborough , American racing car driver (* 1914 )
• May 30th : Pieter Cornelis Tobias van der Hoeven , Dutch gynecologist (* 1870 )
• May 31 : Vladimir Evgrafowitsch Tatlin , Russian sculptor (* 1885 )

June

• 0June 3 : Florence Price , American composer (* 1887 )
• 0June 5 : William Tilden , American tennis player (* 1893 )
• 0June 7th : Pierre Boncompagni , French racing driver (* 1913 )
• 0June 7th : Harry Puddicombe , Canadian music teacher and composer (* 1870 )
• 0June 9 : Lore Agnes , German politician and women's rights activist (* 1876 )
  

  Lore Agnes
• 0June 9 : Ugo Betti , Italian playwright (* 1892 )
• June 10 : Grzegorz Fitelberg , Polish composer and conductor (* 1879 )
• June 11 : Marcel Herrand , French actor (* 1897 )
• June 12 : Leslie Graham , British motorcycle racer (* 1911 )
• June 13 : Hans Arko , Austrian lawyer and politician (* 1888 )
• June 17 : Gerhard Händler , East German People's Police Officer (* 1928 )
• June 17 : Johann Waldbach , victim of the popular uprising of June 17, 1953 (* 1920 )
• June 17 : Georg Gaidzik , victim of the popular uprising of June 17, 1953 (* 1921 )
• June 18 : René Fonck , French flying ace (* 1894 )
• June 23 : Albert Gleizes , French painter and writer (* 1881 )
• June 24 : George Herbert Walker , American banker (* 1875 )
• June 25 : Antonio Abenoza , Spanish football player (* 1926 )
• June 26 : Nathan Lewis Miller , American politician (* 1868 )
• June 26 : Willis Smith , American politician (* 1887 )
• June 30th : Elsa Beskow , Swedish children's author, painter and illustrator (* 1874 )
  

  Elsa Beskov
• June 30th : Vsevolod Illarionowitsch Pudowkin , filmmaker and film theorist of the Soviet Union (* 1893 )

July

• 0July 5 : Titta Ruffo , Italian opera singer (baritone) (* 1877 )
• 0July 6 : Julia de Burgos , Puerto Rican poet (* 1914 )
• 0July 8th : Fritz Steuri , Swiss mountain guide and skier (* 1908 )
• July 10 : Benito García de la Parra , Spanish composer and music teacher (* 1884 )
• July 11th : Oliver Campbell , American tennis player (* 1871 )
• July 12 : Joseph Jongen , Belgian composer and organist (* 1873 )
• July 12 : Yevgeny Paton , Ukrainian scientist (* 1870 )
• July 15 : Eugenio Balzan , Italian journalist and industrialist (* 1874 )
• July 15 : Erik Nölting , German politician (* 1892 )
• July 16 : Hilaire Belloc , English writer (* 1870 )
• July 16 : Stanislav Ondříček , Czech violinist and music teacher (* 1885 )
• July 17 : Maude Ewing Adams Kiskadden , American stage actress (* 1872 )
• July 19 : Maurice J. Tobin , American politician (* 1901 )
• July 21 : Anton Cromme , German politician (* 1901 )
• July 22nd : Edward L. Leahy , American politician (* 1886 )
• July 24 : Charles W. Tobey , American politician (* 1880 )
• July 24th : Hendrik Ebo Kaspers , Dutch anti-militarist and anarchist (* 1869 )
• July 25 : Johann Ohde , German civil engineer (* 1905 )
• July 26 : Abel Santamaría , Cuban revolutionary (* 1927 )
• July 27th : Edith Lucy Austin , British tennis player (* 1867 )
• July 27 : Bodewin Keitel , German general (* 1888 )
• July 27 : Siegfried Schopflocher , Canadian Bahai (* 1877 )
• July 29 : Richard Pearse , New Zealand aviation pioneer (* 1877 )
• July 31 : Nikolai Selinski , Russian chemist (* 1861 )
• July 31 : Robert A. Taft , American politician (* 1889 )
• July 31 : Georg Zacharias , German swimmer (* 1886 )

August

• 0August 4th : Fritz Koelle , German sculptor (* 1895 )
• 0August 5 : Josef Hehl , German potter and ceramic artist (* 1885 )
• 0August 7th : Holm Olaf Bursum , American politician (* 1867 )
• 0August 7th : Robert Archer Cooper , American politician (* 1874 )
• 0August 9 : Lucien Adrion , French painter (* 1889 )
• August 11 : Tazio Nuvolari , Italian racing driver (* 1892 )
• August 11 : Ludwig Strauss , German writer and literary scholar (* 1892 )
• August 11 : Ernst Molden , Austrian journalist and historian (* 1886 )
• August 12 : Paul Gurk , German writer and painter (* 1880 )
• August 12 : Bobby Kohlrausch , German racing car driver (* 1904 )
• August 13 : Géza Nagy , Hungarian chess player (* 1892 )
• August 13 : Eugen Täubler , German ancient historian (* 1879 )
• August 15 : Anton Aberle , German-Swiss architect (* 1876 )
• August 15 : Ludwig Prandtl , German physicist (* 1875 )
• August 18 : Edward J. Flynn , American politician (* 1891 )
• August 23 : Octávio Bevilacqua , Brazilian musicologist and teacher (* 1887 )
• 23 August : Gottfried Hinze , German football functionary (* 1873 )
• August 25 : Hans Eduard Fierz ( Hans Eduard Fierz-David ), Swiss chemist (* 1882 )
• August 27 : Nikolai Berezovsky , Russian composer and violinist (* 1900 )
• August 29 : Richard Euringer , National Socialist German writer (* 1891 )
• August 29 : James H. Hughes , American politician (* 1867 )

September

• 0September 1st : Alfons Dopsch , Austrian medievalist and diplomat (* 1868 )
• 0September 1 : Jacques Thibaud , French violinist (* 1880 )
• 0September 2 : Jonathan Wainwright , General in the US Army (* 1883 )
• 0September 7th : Nobuyuki Abe , general, politician and 36th Prime Minister of Japan (* 1875 )
• 0September 7th : Fritz Heitmann , German organist (* 1891 )
• 0September 8 : Johannes Baumann , Swiss politician and Federal President (* 1874 )
• 0September 8 : John J. Cornwell , American politician (* 1867 )
• 0September 8 : Rolf Werner Juhle , American volcanologist (* 1929 )
• 0September 8 : Fred M. Vinson , American politician (* 1890 )
• 0September 8 : George A. Wilson , American politician (* 1884 )
• September 12 : James Hamilton , British nobleman and politician (* 1869 )
• September 12 : Tom C. Rye , American politician (* 1863 )
• September 12 : Hugo Schmeisser , German weapons designer (* 1884 )
• September 14 : Karl Geiler , first Prime Minister of Hesse (* 1878 )
• September 15 : Erich Mendelsohn , German-British architect (* 1887 )
• September 17th : Egon Caesar Conte Corti , Austrian writer (* 1886 )
• September 17 : Emil Ermatinger , Swiss Germanist (* 1873 )
• September 17 : Henry Holden Huss , American composer (* 1862 )
• September 17th : Erdet Wenxiu , concubine of the last emperor of China Puyi (* 1909 )
• September 19 : Jacob Fleck , Austrian film pioneer, screenwriter, director, producer (* 1881 )
• September 20 : Georg-Wilhelm Postel , German General of the Wehrmacht (Army) (* 1896)
• September 21 : Anastasius Nordenholz , German-Argentine economic philosopher (* 1862 )
• September 21 : Anton Willem Nieuwenhuis , Dutch ethnologist (* 1864 )
• September 22nd : Scott Loftin , American politician (* 1878 )
• September 25 : William Brede Kristensen , Norwegian church historian († 1953)
• September 27 : Hans Fritzsche , functionary in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (* 1900 )
• September 28 : Edwin Hubble , American astronomer (* 1889 )
• September 28 : Daniel T. McCarty , American politician (* 1912 )
• September 29 : Ernst Eschmann , Swiss writer (* 1886 )
• September 29 : Ernst Reuter , German politician (* 1889 )
• September 30th : Gerard Abraham van Rijnberk , Dutch physiologist (* 1874 )
• September 30th : Lewis Fry Richardson , British mathematician and peace researcher (* 1881 )

October

• 0October 2 : John Marin , American painter (* 1870 )
• 0October 2 : Ernő Szép , Hungarian poet, writer and journalist (* 1884 )
• 0October 3 : Arnold Bax , English composer (* 1883 )
• 0October 5 : Friedrich Wolf , German doctor, writer (* 1888 )
• 0October 6th : Rahel Hirsch , German medic (* 1870 )
• 0October 6 : Wera Muchina , Russian sculptor (* 1889 )
• 0October 8 : Kathleen Ferrier , English singer (alto) (* 1912 )
• 0October 8 : Nigel Bruce , British actor (* 1895 )
• 0October 9 : James Finlayson , film actor and comedian (* 1887 )
• October 10 : Midge Ure , British rock music guitarist and singer-songwriter
• October 15 : Helene Mayer , German fencer (* 1910 )
• October 17 : Jim Delahanty , American baseball player (* 1879 )
• October 17th : Carl Aage Hilbert , Danish lawyer and governor of the Faroe Islands (* 1899 )
• October 18 : Federico Gerdes , Peruvian composer, conductor and pianist (* 1873 )
• October 18 : Hector Pellerin , Canadian singer, actor and entertainer (* 1887 )
• October 20 : Werner Baumbach , general of the fighter pilots and bomber pilot in World War II (* 1916 )
• October 21 : Reinhard Piper , German publisher and art historian (* 1879 )
• October 22 : Albert Meyer , Swiss politician (FDP) (* 1870 )
• October 26 : Zdzisław Jachimecki , Polish musicologist and educator (* 1882 )
• October 27 : Eduard Künneke , German operetta composer (* 1885 )
• October 29 : Arthur Lemisch , Austrian politician (* 1865 )
• October 29 : William Kapell , American pianist (* 1922 )
• October 30 : Emmerich Kálmán , Hungarian composer (* 1882 )
• October 31 : Ewald Banse , German geographer and writer (* 1883 )

November

• 0November 3rd : André Auffray , French cyclist (* 1884 )
• 0November 3 : Heinrich Danioth , Swiss painter (* 1896 )
• 0November 4 : Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge , American pianist and patron (* 1864 )
• 0November 5 : Wladimir Romanowitsch Bakaleinikoff , American violist, conductor and composer of Russian origin (* 1885 )
• 0November 8 : Ivan Bunin , Russian writer and poet (* 1870 )

• 0November 9th : Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud , founder of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (* 1875 )
• 0November 9 : Dylan Thomas , Welsh poet (born 1914 )
• November 12th : Edmund Kaufmann , German politician (* 1893 )
• November 13 : Emilio Bontà , Swiss teacher and local researcher (* 1882 )
• November 18 : Ruth Crawford Seeger , American composer (* 1901 )
• November 21 : William Denney , American politician (* 1873 )
• November 21 : Felice Bonetto , Italian racing driver (* 1903 )
• November 22nd : Jorge Meléndez Ramírez , President of El Salvador (* 1871 )
• November 23 : Ivor Atkins , Welsh organist, choir director and composer (* 1869 )
• November 24th : Romain Pelletier , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher (* 1875 )
• November 27 : Eugene O'Neill , American playwright (* 1888 )
• November 27 : Rudolf Bernauer , Austrian chanson writer, operetta librettist and theater director (* 1880 )
• November 29 : Karl Maximilian Arnold , German draftsman, caricaturist and painter (* 1883 )
• November 30th : Ernesto Cortázar , Mexican composer, actor, director and screenwriter (* 1897 )

December

• 0December 4th : Fritz Henßler , German printer, politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1886 )
• 0December 4th : Daniel Gregory Mason , American composer (* 1873 )
• 0December 5 : Jorge Negrete , Mexican actor and singer (* 1911 )
• 0December 9th : Issai Alexandrovich Dobrowen , Russian-Norwegian composer, conductor and pianist (* 1891 )
• December 10 : Heinrich Allina , Austrian politician and publicist (* 1878 )
• December 13 : Kurt Diemer , German football player (* 1893 )
• December 14 : Theodor Geyr , German church painter (* 1895 )
• December 14th : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , American writer (* 1896 )
• December 15 : Kishio Hirao , Japanese composer (* 1907 )
• December 15 : Walter Linse , German lawyer (* 1903 )
• December 15 : George White , American politician (* 1872 )
• December 17th : Jules-Henri Addor , Swiss politician (* 1894 )
• December 19 : Robert Andrews Millikan , American physicist (* 1868 )
• December 19 : Rudolf Leonhard , German writer and communist (* 1889 )
• December 21 : Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe , Ghanaian doctor, author and poet (* 1913 )
• December 23 : Pierre Dupong , Luxembourg politician (* 1885 )
• December 23 : Ernst Altstaedt , German internist (* 1885 )
• December 23 : Lavrenti Beria , Soviet intelligence chief (* 1899 )
• December 24th : Carl Cremer , German politician (* 1876 )
• December 25th : Georg Anschütz , German psychologist (* 1886 )
• December 25th : Walther Kolbe , German politician (* 1899 )
• December 27 : Józef Turczyński , Polish pianist and music teacher (* 1884 )
• December 27 : Julian Tuwim , Polish-Jewish poet (* 1894 )
• December 31 : Albert Plesman , Dutch aviation pioneer (* 1889 )
• 000December: Robert Aumüller , German manager (* 1878 )

Date unknown

• Sir Joseph Addison , British diplomat (* 1879 )
• Heinrich Frantzen , German composer (* 1880 )
• Sardar Mohammed Haschim Khan , Afghan politician and regent (* 1885 )
• Emmett Lundy , American old-time musician (* 1864 )
• Mariette Mazarin , Belgian opera singer (* 1874 )
• Fiddlin 'Powers , American old-time musician (* 1877 )
• Florence Randal Livesay , Canadian writer, translator and journalist (* 1874 )

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : Frits Zernike
• Chemistry : Hermann Staudinger
• Medicine : Hans Adolf Krebs and Fritz Albert Lipmann
• Literature : Winston Churchill
• Nobel Peace Prize : George Catlett Marshall

music

• List of number one hits in Germany (1953)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Konrad Adenauer Foundation - Adenauer - tabular curriculum vitae. Retrieved February 20, 2020 . 

Web links

Commons : 1953 (Category)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : 1953  - album containing pictures, videos and audio files

• Annual review from tagesschau.de
• Annual chronicle of the House of History of the FRG
• The cabinet minutes of the Federal Government (1953) in the Federal Archives