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French parachutists at the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ | |
Press conference by Otto John , President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution , in East Berlin | Suez Canal : Egypt and Great Britain sign the Suez Agreement |
1954 in other calendars | |
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From urbe condita | 2707 |
Armenian calendar | 1402-1403 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1946-1947 |
Badi calendar | 110-111 |
Bengali calendar | 1360-1361 |
Berber calendar | 2904 |
Buddhist calendar | 2498 |
Burmese calendar | 1316 |
Byzantine calendar | 7462-7463 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4650-4651 or 4590-4591 |
- 60 year cycle |
Water snake ( 癸巳 , 30) - |
French revolutionary calendar |
- CLXII CLXIII 162-163 |
Hebrew calendar | 5714-5715 |
Hindu calendar | |
- Vikram Sambat | 2010-2011 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1876-1877 |
Iranian calendar | 1332-1333 |
Islamic calendar | 1373-1374 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Nengō (era): | Shōwa 29 |
- Kōki | 2614 |
Coptic calendar | 1670-1671 |
Korean calendar | |
- Dangun era | 4287 |
- Juche era | 43 |
Minguo calendar | 43 |
Modern Olympics | XV |
Seleucid calendar | 2265-2266 |
Thai solar calendar | 2497 |
In 1954 the Indochina War ended with the defeat of France in the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ . With the Algerian War, another colonial war of liberation against France began.
In Germany, the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Otto John, caused a scandal with his disappearance in the GDR.
In the United States, the McCarthy era culminated with the Communist Control Act of 1954 .
According to calculations made by British scientists at Cambridge University in 2010, April 11, 1954 was said to have been the most meaningless day of the 20th century .
Events
politics
- January 1 : Rodolphe Rubattel became President of Switzerland
- January 25 : Start of the Berlin Foreign Ministers' Conference (until February 18, 1954)
- February 1 : The urgent appeal of the French arms priest Abbe Pierre , for the homeless, during the unusually harsh winter of 1953 are at risk of cold death / 54 to donate, triggers an extraordinary wave of helpfulness in France.
- February 19 : Territory swap between Russia and Ukraine : Crimea against Belgorod
- February 25 : Gamal Abdel Nasser became President of Egypt
- March 1 : The US detonated the most powerful hydrogen bomb to date in the Pacific (600 times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb )
- March 13 : The Việt Minh fight the French at Điện Biên Phủ
- April 21 : A visa is no longer required for border traffic between the Federal Republic of Germany and France
- April 28 : In Colombo (Sri Lanka) the Prime Ministers of India , Pakistan , Burma , Ceylon and Indonesia met for an Asia conference , at which, among other things, the current situation in French Indochina is discussed
- May 14 : The Hague: Ratification of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
- May 17 : USA: The United States Supreme Court banned segregation in public schools
- May 20 : Chiang Kai-shek took a new term as president of after the Chinese civil war is now mainly on Taiwan Limited 's Republic of China on.
- May 29th - 31st : First Bilderberg Conference
- June 14th : The Kuratorium Indivisible Germany was founded in Berlin . The non-partisan organization aims to keep the idea of German unity alive and to strive for German reunification .
- June 18 : Around 400 "freedom fighters" trained by the CIA urged the United Fruit Company to intervene in Guatemala to overthrow the democratically elected President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán with Operation PBSUCCESS .
- July 11 : Parliament Paraguay elected by acclamation the General Alfredo Stroessner as a single candidate for future president of the country .
- July 17 : The election of the German Federal President in 1954 was held in Berlin, from which Theodor Heuss emerged as the winner.
- 20 July : Otto John , president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , sat down in the German Democratic Republic from
- July 21 : At the Geneva Conference , the partition of Vietnam was decided after the Indochina War
- July 22nd : Laos gained independence
- July 22nd : Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the USA
- August 9 : Turkey , Greece and Yugoslavia signed the Balkan Pact in Bled, which is limited to 20 years .
- August 18 : Offenbach am Main became the youngest city in Hesse with the birth of its one hundred thousandth inhabitant .
- August 24 : US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act of 1954 , a law criminalizing membership of and support for the US Communist Party .
- August 24 : Brazilian President Getúlio Dornelles Vargas killed himself with a pistol shot after losing military support the day before because of a previous assassination scandal. He is replaced by João Café Filho .
- August 30th : The establishment of the European Defense Community ( EDC ) failed due to the rejection of the EDC Treaty by the French National Assembly
- October 2 : With the Paris Agreements has been rearming the Federal Republic of Germany and the inclusion in the NATO decided
- October 4th : Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria
- October 19 : Egypt and Great Britain sign the Suez Agreement , which provides for the withdrawal of deployed British forces within twenty months. The international statute of the Suez Canal Zone recognizes Egypt in the treaty.
- October 23 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and France. In force since July 28, 1955
- October 23 : The Brussels Pact is expanded and transformed into the Western European Union (WEU).
- October 26th : The handover of the administration in Zone A to Italy by the Allied Military Government brings about the end of the Free Territory of Trieste . In Zone B , Yugoslavia is already in control .
- October 31 : In Algeria , the National Liberation Front ( Front de Liberation Nationale ) starts actions against French colonial rule and demands the country's independence
- November 1 : The Algerian War breaks out.
- November 8th : The Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I arrives for the first official state visit to the Federal Republic of Germany.
- November 16 : The German Bundestag elects Eugen Gerstenmaier as its President . He succeeds the late Hermann Ehlers in office .
- November 24th : Theodor Blank , Konrad Adenauer's agent for rearmament , is shouted down by protesters in Augsburg
- December 2 : After a conference of foreign ministers in Moscow, it is announced that the Eastern bloc will react if military integration in Western Europe and the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany take place
- December 10 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Spain . In force since March 14, 1956
- December 14 : Wilhelm Hoegner becomes Prime Minister of the coalition of four in Bavaria , consisting of the SPD , BP , GB / BHE and FDP . The only opposition party was the CSU .
economy
- March 30 : In Toronto, the first section of the Yonge University line of the Toronto Subway goes into operation. It is the first underground in Canada .
- August 16 : The first issue of the weekly sports magazine Sports Illustrated appears in the US .
- December 4th : The first fast-food restaurant of the fast food chain Burger King serves its customers in Miami , Florida .
- For the first time, the level of nutrition in the Federal Republic of Germany has reached the level of pre-war Germany. However, eating behavior has changed: significantly more fruit and less meat are eaten and less alcohol is drunk.
- For the first time Christmas bonus in public service
- Strike in the Bavarian metal industry in 1954 - a bitter defeat for IG Metall, i.e. for the members.
science and technology
- January 9 : The British North Greenland expedition measures the lowest temperature on the island of Greenland to date at -65.9 ° C at its North Ice wintering station .
- January 21 : The first nuclear powered submarine , the “ Nautilus ”, is put into service by the US Navy
- February 6 : Presentation of the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL
- February 13 : With the establishment of the Mawson Station for research purposes in the Antarctic, Australia underpins its claims to an Australian Antarctic Territory .
- June 1st : The world's first nuclear power plant goes into operation in Obninsk near Moscow .
- June 27 : The Obninsk nuclear power plant located near Moscow , the first commercial nuclear power plant in the world, begins to feed electricity into the Soviet power grid .
- August 26th : OBI Wester reaches the world speed record of 251.7 km / h with his Sikorsky XH-39 helicopter
- August 7th : The Universidad Austral de Chile is founded.
- September 29th : The European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN ) is founded in Geneva by twelve European countries .
- September 29th : The twin- engine McDonnell F-101 fighter aircraft is tested in the United States in its maiden flight.
- October 18 : Texas Instruments announces the world's first transistor radio .
- December 16 : The chemist Tracy Hall succeeds in producing synthetic diamonds in a reproducible manner using a press he developed himself .
- December 23 : Doctor Joseph Edward Murray and his team perform the first successful kidney transplant in a five and a half hour operation at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston . The identical twin Ronald Herrick donated a kidney to his brother Richard.
- Introduction of color television with the television standard NTSC in the United States
- With the Wigomat , the world's first filter coffee machine is patented in Germany
Culture
- January 24 : First broadcast of the radio play Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (director: Douglas Cleverdon ) on the British radio station BBC 3 . The work quickly became the most famous radio play in broadcasting history. The first German broadcast took place on September 20th by the NWDR Hamburg under the title Unter dem Milchwald . It was directed by Fritz Schröder-Jahn .
- February 20 : World premiere of the operetta The Third Wish by Nico Dostal at the Nuremberg Opera House
- February: The Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro opens
- April 1st : World premiere of the opera The Tender Land by Aaron Copland at the City Center Opera in New York
- April 12th : Bill Haley records the song Rock Around the Clock in New York and helps rock 'n' roll to break through.
- May 1st : Pablo Picasso paints the portrait of Sylvette
- May 13 : World premiere of the musical The Pajama Game , for which Richard Adler and Jerry Ross wrote the music and George Abbott and Richard Bissell the libretto
- June 23 : World premiere of the opera The Widow of Ephesus by Hermann Reutter in Cologne
- June: Publication of the history of O
- July 5th : Elvis Presley records the old blues song That's All Right in the Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and begins his career as a rock 'n' roll star.
- July 13 : In Germany, the doctor film Sauerbruch - That Was My Life is premiered with Ewald Balser in the role of Professor Ferdinand Sauerbruch .
- July 29th : The fantasy classic The Lord of the Rings is released in England .
- August 17th : World premiere of the opera Penelope by Rolf Liebermann at the Salzburg Festival
- August 21 : In São Paulo , the Parque do Ibirapuera, created for the 400th anniversary, is opened to the public for use.
- September 6th : The film La Strada by director Federico Fellini with Giulietta Masina in the leading role is premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
- October: Opening of the University of Film and Television Potsdam
- November 4th : World premiere of Harold Rome's musical Fanny at the Majestic Theater in New York City
- There's something in the air today : Bully Buhlan & Mona Baptiste
- Mr. Sandman : The Chordettes
- Foundation of the Jamaican record label Studio One
- List of number one hits in Germany (1954)
religion
- March 25 : In the encyclical Sacra virginitas , Pope Pius XII praises . those people in the service of God who remain celibate and virgin in their lives . They are indispensable to the honor and glory of the Church .
- June 5th : The encyclical Ecclesiae Fastos of Pope Pius XII. pays tribute to the work of St. Boniface , whom the Pope describes as an apostle for Europe and a Christian envoy.
- October 7 : The Roman Catholic Church in China is at the center of the encyclical Ad sinarum gentem by Pope Pius XII. He rejects efforts there to establish a state church and denies the compatibility of communist rules with the Catholic faith.
- October 11 : With the encyclical Ad caeli reginam , Pope Pius XII. the feast day of Mary, Queen of Heaven . The Roman Catholic Church has been celebrating the festival on August 22 each year since 1969. The Mother of God, Mary , is described by the Pope as queen.
Sports
For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .
- January 24th : The first 1000 km race at the Autódromo Juan y Oscar Alfredo Gálvez starts in Buenos Aires . It was also the first race for the newly created sports car world championship .
- March 19 : The first standardized mini golf course (Bongni system) opens in Ascona .
- March 28 : Saarland lost 3-1 in Saarbrücken against the Federal Republic of Germany in the qualifying round for the 1954 World Cup .
- April 23 : The NBA introduces the throwing clock , the birth of modern basketball
- May 6th : Roger Bannister is the first person to run the English mile under 4 minutes.
- May 23 : Hannover 96 becomes German soccer champion .
- June 15 : Foundation of the European Football Association UEFA in Basel
- 4th July : Soccer World Cup in Switzerland : The German national team (coach Sepp Herberger ) surprisingly becomes world champion for the first time with a 3-2 final victory over Hungary in the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern (see: Miracle of Bern )
- July 8th : Foundation of the Wuppertaler SV
- July 30th : The British Empire and Commonwealth Games open
- July 31 : First ascent of K2 , the second highest mountain on earth by Achille Compagnoni and Nino Lacedelli
- October 19 : Herbert Tichy , Sepp Jöchler and Pasang Dawa Lama manage the first ascent of the 8188 m high Cho Oyu
- October 23 : In East Berlin is German Angling Association founded.
- October 24th : The Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio wins the Formula 1 World Championship .
- November 11th : Foundation of the SC Empor Rostock
- December 12th : In Karlsruhe , Heinz Fütterer and Ursula Happe are named Sportsman of the Year 1954 .
- First-time award: Sportsman of the Year (Great Britain)
Disasters
- January 10th : From January 10th to 12th the avalanche disaster of 1954 occurs in Vorarlberg . 280 people are buried.
- September 9 : 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Orléansville , now Ech Cheliff , Algeria , killing around 1,250
- September 23 : 29 people are killed in the tank farm explosion near Niederstedem .
- September 26 : The sinking of the ferry Doya Maru ( Japan ) claims 1,172 lives
- December 23 : At least 70 people are killed in the series of storm surges from December 19 to 24, 1954 .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Trivia
- April 11th : According to the British programmer William Tunstall-Pedoe, April 11th, 1954 was "the boring day of the 20th century" because the fewest significant events would have taken place on this date [1]
Born
January

- January 1st : Korhan Abay , Turkish actor
- January 1 : Tajudeen Afolabi Adeola , Nigerian politician
- January 1st : Artin Ateş , Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople and head of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Turkey
- January 1st : Bernd Sebastian Kamps , German doctor
- January 1 : Trutz Graf Kerssenbrock , German politician
- January 1st : Claudia Scheler , German politician
- January 3 : Ned Lamont , American entrepreneur and politician
- January 4th : Helmut K. Anheier , German-American professor
- January 4th : Waldemar Bastos , Angolan singer († 2020 )
- January 4th : Brian Foster , experimental elementary particle physicist
- January 4th : Oleg Ivanovich Romanzew , Russian soccer coach and soccer player
- January 5th : Roland Appel , German politician
- January 5th : László Krasznahorkai , Hungarian writer
- January 6th : Martin Hein , German theologian and bishop of the Protestant Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck
- January 6th : Hans Robert Hiegel , German architect
- January 6th : Anthony Minghella , British screenwriter and film director († 2008 )
- January 7th : José María Vitier , Cuban pianist and composer
- January 9 : László Dés , Hungarian jazz musician
- January 9 : Brigitte Kraemer , German photo artist
- January 11 : Jaak Aaviksoo , Estonian scientist and politician
- January 11 : Tahar Djaout , Algerian journalist and writer († 1993 )
- January 11th : Maria Rosaria Omaggio , Italian actress and author
- January 11 : Barbara Prammer , Austrian politician († 2014 )
- January 12 : Andreas Franz , German writer († 2011 )
- January 12th : Johannes Gerlach , German radiation physicist and politician of the SPD
- January 12 : Mojo Mendiola , German music journalist and impresario, author, photographer and painter († 2017 )
- January 12 : Howard Stern , American presenter
- January 12th : Felipe Rose , founding member of the disco group Village People
- January 12th : Klaus-Peter Wolf , German writer and screenwriter
- January 13 : Thomas Eduard Abeltshauser , German lawyer
- January 13 : Bruno Coulais , French film composer
- January 13 : Alexander Thieme , German athlete († 2016 )
- January 16 : Reinhold Fanz , German soccer coach

- January 18 : Alexander Semjonowitsch Anpilogow , Soviet-Georgian handball player
- January 19 : Joachim Deckarm , German athlete and handball player
- January 19 : Evelyne Gebhardt , Member of the European Parliament for Germany
- January 19 : Katey Sagal , American actress
- January 19 : Cindy Sherman , American photographer
- January 19 : Katharina Thalbach , German actress

- January 21 : Paweł Arndt , Polish politician
- January 21 : Thomas de Maizière , German politician
- January 22nd : Tully Blanchard , American wrestler
- January 22nd : Bernd Heynemann , German politician and soccer referee
- January 22nd : Peter Pilz , Austrian politician
- January 22nd : Bernd Schneidmüller , German historian of medieval history
- January 22nd : Hartwig von Schubert , German theologian
- January 23 : Utz Rachowski , German writer
- January 23 : Rüdiger Schnuphase , German soccer player
- January 24th : Michel Abramowicz , French cameraman
- January 24th : Peter Anreiter , Austrian name researcher and professor
- January 24th : Jo Gartner , Austrian racing driver († 1986 )
- January 25 : Klaus Amrath , German football player
- January 25 : Ricardo Enrique Bochini , Argentine soccer player
- January 25 : David Grossman , Israeli writer
- January 26 : Robert Benz , German pianist and music teacher
- January 26th : Dieter "bornzero" Bornschlegel , German rock guitarist, composer, singer, lyricist
- January 26 : Owen Underhill , Canadian composer, conductor, flautist and music educator
- January 28 : Kurt Albert , German mountaineer and photographer († 2010 )
- January 28th : Peter Lampe , German theologian and historian
- January 28 : Rick Warren , American clergyman

- January 29 : Oprah Winfrey , American talk show host
- January 30th : Rahim Ademi , Croatian general
- January 30th : Jochen Kowalski , German singer
- January 31 : Mauro Baldi , Italian racing driver
February
- February 1st : Marijke Amado , Dutch presenter on German television
- February 1 : Christoph Böhr , Deputy Federal Chairman of the CDU
- February 1 : Carlo Conti , Swiss politician
- February 1st : Egbert Streuer , Dutch motorcycle racer
- February 2nd : Hansi Hinterseer , Austrian ski racer and singer
- February 2 : Chan Wing-wah , Chinese composer
- February 3 : Roman Reusch , German politician
- February 4th : Tim Caldwell , American cross-country skier
- February 5th : Stefan Jedele , German television producer
- February 5 : Cliff Martinez , American film composer
- February 5 : Matthias Spindler , German journalist and historian
- February 5th : Christian Wulffen , German artist

- February 7th : Dieter Bohlen , German musician, music producer and composer
- February 7th : Dietmar Munier , German publisher
- February 8 : Jochen Schroeder , German actor and singer
- February 9 : Ulrich Walter , German physicist and astronaut
- February 10 : Liane Deicke , German politician
- February 10th : Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen , German flautist and composer
- February 10 : Peter Ramsauer , German politician
- February 10 : Anna Solecka , German painter and photographer
- February 12 : Phil Zimmermann , American cryptologist
- February 13 : John Wolf Brennan , Irish-Swiss jazz musician and composer
- February 13 : Hannes Steinert , German painter
- February 13th : Folke Tegetthoff , Austrian fairy tale poet and storyteller
- February 14 : Vladimir Drinfeld , Ukrainian mathematician
- February 15 : Matt Groening , American animator
- February 16 : Iain M. Banks , Scottish writer († 2013 )
- February 16 : Antonio Cid Cortés , Spanish boccia player
- February 16 : Jeff Clayton , American jazz saxophonist
- February 16 : Margaux Hemingway , American actress and model († 1996 )
- February 16 : Klaus-Werner Jonas , German politician
- February 16 : Isolde Kunkel-Weber , German trade unionist (ver.di)
- February 17th : Lou Ann Barton , American blues singer
- February 17 : Rene Russo , American film actress
- February 18 : Sigisbert Dolinschek , Austrian politician

- February 18 : John Travolta , American actor, dancer, producer, and writer
- February 19 : Francis Buchholz , German rock musician
- February 19 : Hans-Hermann Gockel , German journalist and television presenter
- February 19 : Reiner Haseloff , German politician
- February 19 : Ludwig Hollburg , German actor
- February 19 : Dominique Probst , French composer and drummer
- February 19 : Sócrates , Brazilian soccer player († 2011 )
- February 20 : Patty Hearst , granddaughter of US media mogul William Randolph Hearst
- February 20 : Abida Parveen , Pakistani singer and musician
- February 21 : Gaby Baginsky , German pop singer
- February 21 : Ivo Van Damme , Belgian athlete († 1976 )
- February 23 : Viktor Yushchenko , Ukrainian politician, President of Ukraine
- February 23 : Hlib Lonchyna , American Bishop, Exarch of Great Britain
- February 23 : Tom Peyer , American comic book writer
- February 24 : Katharina Landgraf , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- February 24th : Plastic Bertrand , Belgian new wave musician
- February 25 : Michael Amon , Austrian writer († 2018 )
- February 26 : Arndt Ellmer , German science fiction writer
- February 26 : Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , Turkish Prime Minister
- February 26th : Ernst August von Hanover , head of the House of Welfs
- February 26 : Wolf-Rüdiger Marunde , German draftsman and cartoonist
- February 26 : Leon de Winter , Dutch writer
- February 27 : Monika Heubaum , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- February 27 : Neal Joseph Schon , American blues and rock guitarist
- February 28 : Alain Crepin , Belgian composer and professor
- February 28 : Rita Feldmeier , German actress
March
- March 1st : Monika Pflug , German speed skater
- March 1 : Catherine Bach , American actress
- March 1st : Carles Benavent , Spanish jazz and flamenco bassist
- March 1 : Ron Howard , American actor, director and film producer
- March 1st : Volker Wieker , 15th General Inspector of the Bundeswehr
- March 2nd : Hans-Jürgen Baake , German soccer player
- March 3 : Dieter Drabiniok , German politician
- March 3 : Ona Zee , American porn actress, producer and director
- March 4 : Timur Avtandilowitsch Apakidze , Russian major general († 2001 )
- March 4th : François Fillon , French politician, Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012
- March 4th : Ricky Ford , American jazz saxophonist
- March 4th : Willie Thorne , English snooker player († 2020 )
- March 5 : Jack Stamp , American composer, conductor and music teacher
- March 6th : Toni Schumacher , German football goalkeeper
- March 6 : Joey DeMaio , American musician and composer in the true metal genre
- March 8 : Rainer Wend , German politician
- March 8th : Karl Schnabl , Austrian ski jumper
- March 8th : Marie-Theres Nadig , Swiss ski racer
- March 8 : Juan Ramón Rocha , Argentinian soccer player
- March 9 : Teodor Anghelini , Romanian football player
- March 9th : Christian Eberl , German politician and member of the FDP since 1981
- March 9 : Carlos Ghosn , Brazilian manager
- March 9 : Matthias Matussek , German journalist and publicist
- March 9 : Roland Methling , German politician
- March 9 : Bobby Sands , Northern Irish resistance fighter, Member of the British House of Commons († 1981 )
- March 9 : Jock Taylor , British motorcycle racer († 1982 )
- March 10 : Tina Charles , British singer
- March 10 : Lupita D'Alessio , Mexican actress and singer
- March 10 : Luc Dardenne , Belgian film director, producer and screenwriter
- March 10 : Lajos Mocsai , Hungarian handball player and coach
- March 10 : Tomiko Yoshikawa , Japanese racing car driver
- March 11th : Lothar König , German Protestant pastor
- March 11th : Gale Norton , US Secretary of the Interior
- March 12th : Richard Winfred Anane , Ghanaian politician and medicine doctor
- March 12th : Elena Aprile , Italian particle physicist
- March 12th : Inessa Galante , Latvian soprano
- March 13 : Marika Adam , Austrian actress and theater director
- March 13 : Valerie Ann Amos , British Ambassador
- March 13 : Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres , French politician
- March 15 : Benjamin Bierman , American composer, music educator, trumpeter and band leader
- March 15 : Massimo Bubola , Italian cantaurore and music producer
- March 15 : Walter Döring , German politician (FDP)
- March 15 : Thorsten Lorenz , German media educator and university professor
- March 16 : Miklós Csemiczky , Hungarian composer and music teacher
- March 17th : Lesley-Anne Down , British actress
- March 18 : Jan Diesselhorst , German cellist († 2009 )
- March 18 : Hisaki Matsuura , Japanese writer, literary and cultural scientist
- March 18 : Andy Narell , American jazz drummer
- March 18 : Dietrich Siegl , Austrian actor
- March 19 : Jill Ellen Abramson , American journalist
- March 20th : Patrick Abada , French pole vaulter
- March 20 : Renate Adolph , German journalist and politician
- March 20 : Rudi Margreiter , Swiss pop singer († 2005 )
- March 20 : Louis Sachar , American writer
- March 20 : Charlie Simmer , Canadian ice hockey player
- March 20 : Christoph Ransmayr , Austrian writer
- March 21 : Mike Dunleavy , American basketball coach
- March 22nd : Ute Schäfer , German politician
- March 23 : Catherine Alric , French actress
- March 23 : Luigi Auriemma , American basketball coach
- March 23 : Gabriele Eckart , German writer
- March 23 : Marianne Thomann-Stahl , German politician
- March 24th : Steve LaSpina , American jazz bassist
- March 25th : Silvia Schmidt , German politician
- March 26 : Udo Di Fabio , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court

- March 26th : Jutta Speidel , German actress
- March 27 : Gerard Batten , British politician
- March 27 : Helge Iberg , Norwegian composer and jazz pianist
- March 28 : Paweł Szymański , Polish composer
- March 29th : Maritta Böttcher , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- March 29th : Chip Robinson , American racing car driver
- March 30th : Bernd Saxe , Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- March 31 : Marion Seib , German politician
- March 31 : Wolfgang Zenkner , German carom player
April
- April 1 : Dieter Müller , German soccer player
- April 1st : Giancarlo Antognoni , Italian football player
- April 1 : Jeff Porcaro , American drummer in the rock band Toto († 1992 )
- April 1st : Knut Værnes , Norwegian jazz guitarist
- April 2nd : Vladimir Ilyich Afromejew , Russian businessman, chess player and organizer
- April 2 : Gregory Abbott , American musician, singer, composer and record producer
- April 3 : Reinhard Gaier , German judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- April 3 : Eckhardt Rehberg , German politician
- April 4th : Abdelilah Benkirane , Prime Minister of Morocco
- April 4th : Michel Camilo , pianist and composer in the jazz and classical genre
- April 4th : René Girard , French football player and coach
- April 4 : Konstantine Kemularia , Georgian politician
- April 5 : Stan Ridgway , American musician
- April 5 : David Shamban , Israeli cellist
- April 6 : Frieder Butzmann , German composer, radio play author and performance artist
- April 6th : Sepp Ferstl , German ski racer
- April 6 : Aaron Kyle , American football player
- April 7th : Jackie Chan , Chinese actor
- April 9 : Arnold Stadler , German writer
- April 9 : Dennis Quaid , American actor
- April 10th : Angelika Hellmann , German gymnast
- April 10 : Peter MacNicol , American actor
- April 10 : Jouko Sihveri Törmänen , Finnish ski jumper († 2015 )
- April 11 : Ian F. Akyildiz , Turkish computer scientist and engineer
- April 11 : Willie Royster , American baseball player († 2015 )
- April 12th : Pat Travers , Canadian blues rock guitarist
- April 12 : Steve Stevaert , Belgian (Flemish) politician († 2015 )
- April 14th : Katsuhiro Otomo , Japanese comic artist, screenwriter and director
- April 15th : Michael Helmrath , German oboist, conductor and general music director
- April 15 : Ewald Schurer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 2017 )
- April 15 : Viktor Pynsenyk , Ukrainian politician, Minister of Finance
- April 15th : Seka , American porn actress
- April 16 : Sibylle Lewitscharoff , German writer
- April 16 : Ellen Barkin , American actress
- April 17th : Riccardo Patrese , Italian Formula 1 racing driver
- April 17 : Michael Sembello , American singer and musician
- April 18 : Annemarie Adlassnig , Austrian politician
- April 18th : Hans Liberg , Dutch music comedian
- April 18 : Torsten Persson , Swedish economist
- April 19th : Res Ingold , Swiss concept artist
- April 19 : Ingrid Peters , German singer
- April 19 : Trevor Francis , English football player and football coach
- April 19 : Robert Jens Rock , Canadian record producer and sound engineer
- April 20 : Gero von Boehm , German director, journalist and author
- April 20 : Piotr Gliński , Polish politician
- April 20 : Ralph Pichler , Swiss bobsleigh driver
- April 21 : Walter Freiwald , German radio and television presenter († 2019 )
- April 22nd : Ulla Burchardt , German politician
- April 23 : Anthony White , American wrestler, bodybuilder and powerlifter
- April 23 : Michael Moore , American documentary filmmaker and writer
- April 24th : Captain Sensible , British singer, guitarist and bassist
- April 24 : Mumia Abu-Jamal , American journalist
- April 25 : Bob Ross , Scottish bugler and conductor
- April 27 : Jürgen Bäuerle , German local politician
- April 28 : Günther Hasinger , German astrophysicist
- April 29th : Heinz Schaden , Austrian local politician
- April 29 : Jerry Seinfeld , American actor and comedian
- April 29th : Tina York , German pop singer
- April 30th : Howard Arman , British choir director and opera conductor
- April 30 : Douglas Norman Arnold , American mathematician
- April 30th : Jane Campion , New Zealand film director
- April 30th : Gunther Tiersch , German meteorologist and gold medalist at the Olympic Games in rowing
May
- May 2 : Elliot Goldenthal , American composer
- May 2nd : Werner Melzer , German soccer player
- May 2 : Wolfgang Mocker , German aphorist († 2009 )
- May 2nd : Modupe Oshikoya , Nigerian athlete
- May 4th : Pia Zadora , American singer
- May 5th : Martin Renner , German politician
- May 5th : Dagmar G. Wöhrl , German politician
- May 6 : Marcel Konrad , Swiss writer
- May 7th : Heinzpeter Hempelmann , German evangelical theologian and philosopher
- May 8 : Kwame Anthony Akroma-Ampim Kusi Appiah , American philosopher
- May 8 : Alexandru Custov , Romanian football player († 2008 )
- May 8th : Erika Franke , German general physician, first Bundeswehr general from the new federal states
- May 8 : David Keith , American actor
- May 9 : Domenico Caso , Italian football player and coach
- May 9 : Barb Jungr , English singer
- May 10 : Sabine Postel , German actress
- May 12 : Barry Ackroyd , British cameraman
- May 12 : Friðrik Þór Friðriksson , Icelandic film director and filmmaker
- May 13 : Georg Gafron , German journalist
- May 13 : Jean-Louis Costes , French performance artist, singer, actor, director and author
- May 13 : Johnny Logan , Irish singer and composer
- May 13 : Josef Loos , Austrian politician
- May 14th : Peter Cestonaro , German soccer player
- May 14 : Karl-Markus Gauß , Austrian writer
- May 14 : Klaus Hensel , German writer
- May 14th : Bodo Wehmeier , German soccer player
- May 15 : Janusz Stokłosa , Polish pianist and composer
- May 16 : Ulli Bögershausen , German solo guitarist and guitar teacher
- May 16 : Cindy Lee Van Dover , marine biologist specializing in deep sea
- May 16 : Jónína Leósdóttir , Icelandic author
- May 16 : Betty Olivero , Israeli composer
- May 18 : Ekkehardt Belle , German actor and voice actor
- May 18 : Rolf Bietmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- May 18th : Eric Gerets , Belgian soccer player and soccer coach
- May 18th : Reinhold Heil , German composer, sound engineer, producer, pianist, keyboardist and singer
- May 18 : Thomas Sinsel , German handball player
- May 19 : Wolfgang Maderthaner , Austrian historian
- May 19th : Phil Rudd , drummer for the Australian hard rock band AC / DC
- May 20 : Esko Aho , Finnish statesman and Prime Minister
- May 20 : Thomas Huonker , Swiss historian
- May 20 : David Paterson , American politician
- May 21 : Marc Ribot , American avant-garde guitarist and composer
- May 21 : Josef Steinkogler , Austrian politician
- May 22 : Clemens Eich , German actor and writer († 1998 )
- May 23 : Eva Afuhs , Austrian artist († 2011 )
- May 23 : Charytín Goyco , Dominican singer, TV presenter and actress
- May 23 : Paolo Olmi , Italian conductor
- May 24 : Robert Beaser , American composer, conductor and music teacher
- May 24th : Rainald Goetz , German writer
- May 25 : René Tantely Gabrio Andrianarivo , Malagasy politician
- May 25 : Christoph Neidhart , Swiss journalist and author
- May 26 : Alan Hollinghurst , British writer
- May 26th : Marian Gold , German musician and co-founder of the band Alphaville
- May 26 : Erich Hackl , Austrian writer
- May 27 : Josef Anton Achermann , Swiss sculptor
- May 27 : Jackie Slater , American football player
- May 27th : Reiner Wehle , German clarinetist, author and professor
- May 28 : Walter Heiler , German politician, mayor and Member of the State Parliament
- May 28 : Margus Leivo , Estonian politician († 2019 )
- May 29th : Jacqueline Todten , German athlete
- May 29 : John Hencken , American swimmer
- May 31 : Petra Gerstenkorn , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- May 31 : Lissy Gröner , MEP for the SPD († 2019 )
- May 31 : Wolfgang Pollanz , Austrian writer, publicist and musician
- May 31 : Anders Hillborg , Swedish composer and professor
June
- June 1 : Frédéric Chichin , French rock musician and singer-songwriter († 2007 )
- June 1 : Jan Söffing , German politician
- June 2 : Allen Emerson , American computer scientist
- June 2 : Dennis Haysbert , American actor
- June 3 : Sərdar Cəlaloğlu , Azerbaijani politician
- June 3 : Bajram Rexhepi , Kosovar politician and Prime Minister († 2017 )
- June 3 : Hans-Werner Senfft , German politician
- June 4th : Hermann Gerland , German soccer coach
- June 4th : Roger Xhonneux , Belgian handball player, coach and referee
- June 5th : Juan-José Aguirre Muñoz , Spanish bishop
- June 5th : Robert Hochbaum , German politician
- June 5th : Peter Erskine , American jazz drummer
- June 7 : Louise Erdrich , Native American writer
- June 7th : Günther Platter , Austrian politician, minister
- June 7th : Randolph Rose , German singer and actor
- June 8th : Jochen Schümann , German sailor, Olympic champion, winner of the America's Cup
- June 9 : Peter Campa , Austrian writer
- June 10 : Ichirō Aisawa , Japanese politician
- June 10 : Serge Arcuri , Canadian composer
- June 10 : Ute Frevert , German historian
- June 11 : Gerhard Grandke , German politician
- June 12 : Fred Borchelt , American rower
- June 12th : Thomas Demenga , Swiss cellist and composer
- June 12 : Belmiro Silva , Portuguese cyclist
- June 12 : Ricarda Strobel , German media scientist
- June 12th : Roman Summereder , Austrian organist and harpsichordist
- June 13 : Lance Kinsey , Canadian actor
- June 13 : Andrzej Lepper , Polish politician († 2011 )
- June 13 : Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala , Nigerian politician
- June 14th : Gianna Nannini , Italian singer-songwriter
- June 14 : Willem Schuth , German MEP
- June 15 : Danial Kenschetajuly Akhmetov , Kazakh politician
- June 15 : James Belushi , American actor and musician
- June 15 : Paul Rusesabagina , Rwandan hotel manager
- June 15 : Naguib Sawiris , Egyptian entrepreneur
- June 16 : Jeffrey Shears Ashby , American astronaut
- June 17 : Bernhard Amann , German law enforcement officer and politician
- June 17th : Emilio Pomàrico , Argentine composer
- June 18 : Stefan Gieltowski , German politician
- June 19 : Kathleen Turner , American actress

- June 20 : Karlheinz Brandenburg , German electrical engineer, one of the fathers of the MP3 audio codec
- June 20 : Alexander Frei , Swiss entrepreneur and racing car driver
- June 20 : Michael Anthony Sobolewski , American musician
- June 21 : Friedlinde Gurr-Hirsch , German politician
- June 21 : Robert Menasse , Austrian writer and essayist
- June 21 : Augustus Pablo , Jamaican reggae and dub musician († 1999 )
- June 21 : Robert Pastorelli , American actor († 2004 )
- June 21 : Volker Reinhardt , German historian
- June 24th : Mark Edmondson , Australian tennis player
- June 24th : Eugen Ruge , German writer, director and translator
- June 25 : David Paich , American keyboardist and singer in the US rock band Toto
- June 26 : Christoph Baumann , Swiss jazz and improvisation musician
- June 26 : Mathias Bröckers , German journalist
- June 26th : Marco Lucchinelli , Italian motorcycle racer
- June 26 : Miroslav Nemec , German actor
- June 26 : Luis Arconada , Spanish soccer player
- June 26 : Steve Barton , American singer († 2001 )
- June 27 : Seth Neiman , American racing driver and entrepreneur
- June 28 : Bruce Paul Abbott , American actor
- June 28 : Benoît Sokal , Belgian comic book writer
- June 28 : Alice Krige , South African actress
- June 29 : Leslie G. Hunt , German-American painter and etcher
- June 29 : Marcello Viotti , Italian conductor († 2005 )
- June 29 : Beat Tschümperlin , Swiss politician († 2004 )
- June 30th : Pierre Charles , Dominican politician († 2004 )
July
- July 1st : Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair , Arab entrepreneur and banker
- July 1st : Herbert Zimmermann , German soccer player
- July 1st : Eva Lichtenberger , Austrian politician
- July 2nd : Victor Amaya , American tennis player
- July 2nd : Gregor Maria Hanke , Bishop of Eichstätt
- July 3 : Herbert Hainer , German manager
- July 3 : Claudia Märtl , German historian
- July 4th : Julian Dawson , British musician and song poet
- July 4th : Günter Parche , German assassin
- July 4th : Hans Pum , Austrian ski sports official
- July 5th : Tadeusz Wielecki , Polish composer and double bass player
- July 8th : Hallstein Bøgseth , Norwegian Nordic combined skier
- July 8 : Archbishop Feofan , Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Berlin and Germany († 2017 )
- July 9 : Germán Cáceres , Salvadoran composer, conductor and music teacher

- July 10 : Neil Tennant , British musician
- July 11th : Fabrizio Castori , Italian football coach
- July 11 : Robert Giggenbach , German actor and director
- July 11 : László Tengelyi , Hungarian philosopher and university lecturer († 2014 )
- July 12 : Eric Adams , American metal singer
- July 12th : Wolfgang Dremmler , German soccer player
- July 12 : Dave Irwin , Canadian ski racer
- July 13 : Florencio Barsana “Butch” Abad , Filipino politician
- July 13 : Sezen Aksu , Turkish pop singer and composer
- July 13th : Roberto Aussel , Argentinian guitarist and professor of classical guitar
- July 14 : Dora Nkem Akunyili , Nigerian politician († 2014 )
- July 14th : Erkki Lauri Johannes Antila , Finnish biathlete
- July 14 : R. Paul Crabb , American music educator and choir director
- July 15 : Maria Lea Pedini Angelini , San Marinese politician
- July 15th : Vickiana , Dominican singer and entertainer
- July 15 : Mario Kempes , Argentinian soccer player and soccer coach
- July 17th : Frank Otfried July , German Protestant theologian and regional bishop

- July 17th : Angela Merkel , German politician, Federal Chancellor
- July 17 : Joseph Michael Straczynski , American writer and film producer
- July 18 : Takashi Amano , Japanese photographer, designer, author and aquarist († 2015 )
- July 18 : Ricky Skaggs , American country and bluegrass musician
- July 18 : Johann-Dietrich Wörner , President of the Technical University of Darmstadt
- July 19 : Alvan Leigh Adams , American basketball player
- July 19 : Brad Cooper , Australian swimmer
- July 19 : Rexhep Çeliku , Albanian choreographer and folk dancer († 2018 )
- July 20 : Knox Chandler , American guitarist
- July 20 : José Antonio Rodríguez , Dominican singer, composer and politician
- July 20 : Keith Scott , Canadian musician
- July 22 : Axel Horstmann , German politician and Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
- July 22nd : Al Di Meola , Italian-American fusion and jazz guitarist
- July 22 : Steve LaTourette , American politician († 2016 )
- July 22nd : Petra Uhlig , German handball player
- July 22nd : Giovanni Ziggiotto , Italian motorcycle racer († 1977 )
- July 23 : Annie Sprinkle , American prostitute and porn actress
- July 24 : Erdoğan Arıca , Turkish football player, coach and sports manager († 2012 )
- July 24th : Gustavo Farrera , Venezuelan singer
- July 24th : Anne-Karin Glase , German politician
- July 25 : Wilhelm Priesmeier , German politician

- July 25 : Jürgen Trittin , German politician, Federal Minister
- July 26th : Mareike Carrière , German actress († 2014 )
- July 26 : Vitas Gerulaitis , American tennis player († 1994 )
- July 27th : Philippe Alliot , French racing car driver
- July 28 : Gabi Ashkenazi , Israeli lieutenant general
- July 28 : Gerd Faltings , German physicist and mathematician and recipient of the Fields Medal
- July 28th : Steve Morse , American guitarist and founder of the Dixi Dregs
- July 28 : Hugo Chávez , Venezuelan President († 2013 )
- July 29 : Jeannetta Arnette , American actress
- July 31 : Miguel Amaral , Portuguese entrepreneur and racing car driver
August
- August 1st : Benno Möhlmann , German soccer coach
- August 1 : Michael Badnarik , American software engineer and politician
- August 2nd : Richard Epple , alleged RAF terrorist mistakenly shot by the police († 1972 )
- August 3 : Robert Ronald Atwell , British Bishop
- August 4th : Anatoly Kinach , Ukrainian politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
- August 5 : Bill Gilligan , American ice hockey coach
- August 5 : Richard Preston , American writer
- August 6 : Jürgen Owczarzak , German football player and coach
- August 7 : Jonathan Pollard , US citizen and spy for the Israeli secret service Mossad
- August 7 : Valery Gassayev , Soviet football player and coach of CSKA Moscow
- August 7 : Osman Pepe , Turkish Environment Minister
- August 8 : Ottmar Holdenrieder , German forest scientist, mycologist and ecologist
- August 9 : Loïc Amisse , French football player and coach
- August 10 : Eliot Fisk , American guitarist
- August 10 : Heinz-Peter Haustein , German politician
- August 11th : Tilo Braune , German politician
- August 11th : Joe Jackson , English musician
- August 11th : Bortolo Mutti , Italian football player and coach
- August 11 : Roland Reber , German director, writer and actor
- August 12 : Ray Abruzzo , Italian-American actor
- August 12 : Max Straubinger , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
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August 12 : François Hollande , French politicianFrançois Hollande , 2015
- August 12 : Pat Metheny , American jazz guitarist
- August 13 : Nico Assumpção , Brazilian bassist († 2001 )
- August 13 : Wolfgang Meyer , German clarinetist († 2019 )
- August 14th : Abdu Usman Abubakar , Nigerian diplomat
- August 14 : Christian Gross , Swiss football player and coach
- August 16 : George Galloway , British politician and pacifist
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August 16 : James Cameron , Canadian directorJames Cameron , 2010
- August 16 : Christel Klinzmann , German soccer player
- August 17 : Eric Johnson , American guitarist and singer
- August 17th : Andrés Pastrana , Colombian politician and president
- August 17 : Ingrid Daubechies , Professor and Director at Princeton University
- August 18 : Hilmar Eichhorn , German actor
- August 19 : Tim Hagans , American jazz trumpeter
- August 19 : Roger Kusch , German politician, Hamburg Senator for Justice
- August 19 : Oscar Larrauri , Argentine racing car driver
- August 20 : John William Ashe , Antiguan diplomat († 2016 )
- August 21 : Edgar Geenen , German football functionary († 2007 )
- August 21 : Humbert Balsan , French film producer († 2005 )
- August 21 : Didier Six , French national football player
- August 21 : Archie Griffin , American football player
- August 21 : Siegfried Jaschinski , CEO of the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
- August 21 : Dieter Weberpals , German flautist
- August 22 : Berhane Asfaw , Ethiopian paleoanthropologist
- August 22nd : Gary Kulesha , Canadian composer, conductor, pianist and music educator
- August 23 : Robert Bösch , Swiss photographer and mountaineer
- August 24th : Alvaro Cordero , Venezuelan composer
- August 25 : Elvis Costello , English musician
- August 25 : Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle , French cyclist
- August 25 : Bruno Manser , Swiss ethnologist and environmental activist († 2005 )
- August 26 : Dimitri Hegemann , German cultural manager
- August 26 : Scott Henderson , American guitarist
- August 26 : Tracy Krohn , American racing car driver and entrepreneur
- August 26th : Michael Küttner , German jazz musician
- August 27 : Derek Warwick , British racing car driver
- August 28 : Alexander Wikentjewitsch Skworzow , Russian ice hockey player († 2020 )
- August 30 : Stefan Bollinger , German political scientist and historian
- August 30 : Aljaksandr Lukashenka , President of Belarus
- August 30 : David Paymer , American actor
- August 31 : Robert Kocharyan , President of the Republic of Armenia
September
- September 1 : Axel Troost , German economist and politician
- September 2nd : Andrej Babiš , Czech entrepreneur and politician
- September 2nd : Marco Varner , Italian composer and music teacher
- September 3 : Markus Boysen , German film actor
- September 4th : Arpana Caur , Indian painter and graphic artist
- September 5th : Per Knut Aaland , Norwegian cross-country skier
- September 6th : Georgi Tajijewitsch Agsamow , Soviet chess master († 1986 )
- September 6 : Carly Fiorina , American manager
- September 7th : Stéphane Abrial , French general
- September 7th : Horst Dreier , German lawyer and legal philosopher
- September 7 : Michael Emerson , American actor
- September 7th : Francisco Guterres , East Timorese politician
- September 9 : Jeffrey Combs , American actor
- September 10 : Nafigulla Chudchatowitsch Aschirow , Russian Mufti
- September 10th : Silvia Chivás , Cuban sprinter
- September 10 : Jürgen Hasebrink , German football player
- September 10 : Clark Johnson , American actor, director, and television producer
- September 10 : Karl-Heinz Podzielny , German chess player († 2019 )
- September 11th : Herbert Bösch , Austrian politician and MEP
- September 12 : Robert Gober , American artist
- September 13 : Steve Kilbey , British musician, singer, songwriter, poet and painter
- September 13 : George Yeo , Singaporean brigadier general and politician
- September 14 : David Wojnarowicz , American artist, author and photographer († 1992 )
- September 16 : Patrick Bourdais , French racing car driver
- September 16 : Franz Thönnes , German politician
- September 16 : Michael Nava , American writer and lawyer
- September 17th : Daniel Anker , Swiss journalist and author
- September 17th : Márta Kelemen , Hungarian gymnast
- September 17th : František Kunzo , Slovak football player
- September 18 : Jayne-Ann Igel , German writer
- September 18 : Einar Már Guðmundsson , Icelandic writer
- September 18 : Peter Bofinger , German economist, business expert
- September 18 : Steven Pinker , Harvard University psychologist
- September 18 : Reiner Scheidhauer , German motorcycle racer
- September 19 : Sissi Tax , Austrian writer
- September 19 : Michael Wolff , American musician, composer and actor
- September 20 : Lloyd C. Blankfein , US bank manager
- September 20 : Bernd Feustel , German chess player († 2012 )
- September 21 : Shinzō Abe , Japanese LDP politician and 57th Prime Minister of Japan
- September 21 : Wolfgang Steinbach , German soccer player
- September 22nd : Uwe Lyko , German cabaret artist and comedian
- September 22nd : Shari Belafonte-Harper , American actress
- September 22nd : Roland Hartwig , German lawyer and politician
- September 22 : Thomas Oelmayer , member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg
- September 23 : Guglielmo Andreini , Italian enduro athlete
- 23 September : Cherie Blair , British attorney, wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair
- September 24th : Davey Arthur , Irish folk musician, singer and songwriter
- September 24th : Monika Knoche , German politicians
- September 24th : Marco Tardelli , Italian football player and coach
- September 25th : Antymos Apostolis , Polish blues and fusion guitarist
- September 26 : Alice , Italian pop singer
- September 26 : César Rosas , Mexican rock singer and guitarist
- September 26 : Mauro Sandreani , Italian football player and coach
- September 27 : Kornél Horváth , Hungarian jazz percussionist
- September 27th : Josef Niederhammer , Austrian double bass player
- September 27th : Larry Wall , inventor of the Perl programming language
- September 28 : Margot Wallström , Swedish Vice President of the EU Commission
- September 28 : Peter Wawerzinek , German writer
- September 29th : Helene Flöss , Austrian writer
- September 29 : Mojib Latif , German meteorologist and climate researcher
- September 29 : Debbie Shapiro , American actress and singer
- September 30 : Patrice Rushen , American rhythm and blues singer
October
- October 1st : Hans the violin , German rock violinist , band and studio musician
- October 1 : Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein , German politician
- October 2 : Lorraine Bracco , American actress
- October 3 : Stevie Ray Vaughan , American blues musician († 1990 )
- October 3 : Al Sharpton , American civil rights activist and politician
- October 3 : Monika Griefahn , German politician
- October 4th : YKA , French comic artist († 2017 )
- October 4th : Wolfgang Storz , German journalist
- October 5th : Jimmy Hartwig , German soccer player
- October 6 : David Hidalgo , American singer and musician
- October 6 : Hilde Mattheis , German politician
- October 6 : Helmut Zierl , German actor
- October 7th : Rainer Will , German actor
- October 8th : Brigitte Rohde , German athlete
- October 8 : Michael Dudikoff , American action film star
- October 8 : Craig Benson , American politician
- October 8th : Huub Rothengatter , Dutch racing driver
- October 9 : Reinhold Robbe , German politician
- October 9 : Scott Bakula , American actor
- October 9 : Mike Micevski , Australian soccer player

- October 10 : Ariane Ascaride , French actress
- October 10 : David Lee Roth , singer in Van Halen
- October 11th : Peter Finger , German guitarist
- October 11th : Hermann Gaub , German biophysicist
- October 11 : Sascha Hehn , German actor
- October 11 : Gustav Horn , German economist
- October 11 : Danny Sugerman , manager of Ray Manzarek (The Doors) and Jim Osterberg († 2005 )
- October 13 : Hans-Jürgen Abromeit , German theologian and bishop
- October 13 : Wolfgang Fellner , Austrian journalist and media maker
- October 13 : Silvio Micali , American computer scientist
- October 15 : Gabrio Rosa , Italian racing driver
- October 16 : Tim Berne , American alto saxophonist
- October 16 : Lorenzo Carcaterra , American writer
- October 16 : Corinna Harfouch , German actress
- October 17th : René Botteron , Swiss football player
- October 18 : Liz Burch , Australian actress
- October 18 : John Du , Filipino clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Palo
- October 18th : Miguel Piñera , Chilean musician
- October 18 : Franz Raschid , German football player and coach († 2010 )
- October 18 : Édouard Stern , French banker and financier († 2005 )
- October 18 : Ramona Wulf , German pop singer
- October 19 : Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir , Bishop of the Icelandic State Church
- October 20 : Lee Roy Selmon , American football player († 2011 )
- October 20 : OP Zier , Austrian author
- October 21 : Pamela J. Fayle , Australian Ambassador
- October 21 : Marcel Răducanu , Romanian football player
- October 23 : Uli Stein , German soccer player
- October 23 : Ang Lee , Taiwanese director and screenwriter
- October 25 : Mike Eruzione , American ice hockey player
- October 26 : Christoph Nix , German legal scholar and theater director
- October 27th : Siegmund Astner , Austrian politician
- October 27 : Wookie Mayer , German actress
- October 27 : Karl-Gustav Richter , German ice hockey player
- October 29 : Ruslan Sultanovich Auschew , Russian general and politician
- October 29 : Alois Estermann , 31st Commander of the Swiss Guard in the Vatican († 1998 )
- October 29th : Sigrun Siegl , German athlete
- October 29th : Anita Meyer , Dutch singer
- October 29 : Matthias Zschokke , Swiss writer and filmmaker
- October 29 : Herman Frazier , American track and field athlete and Olympic champion
- October 30th : Piero Gros , Italian ski racer
- October 30 : Martina Servatius , German actress († 2016 )
- October 31 : Mario Amizic , Croatian table tennis coach
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November
- November 1st : Klaus Ernst , German trade unionist and politician (WASG)
- November 2 : Brian Augustyn , American comic book writer and editor
- November 3rd : Siegfried Mauser , German pianist
- November 3rd : Adam Ant , British pop musician
- November 4 : Alexander Timofejewitsch Aksinin , Russian athlete and Olympic champion († 2020 )
- November 4th : Klaus Ignatzek , German jazz musician
- November 4th : Hervé Regout , Belgian racing driver
- November 6 : Klaus-Günter Pods , German judge at the Federal Labor Court (BAG) († 2004 )
- November 6th : Roger Berbig , Swiss football player
- November 7th : Philippe Haezebrouck , French racing driver
- November 7th : Robin Beck , American singer
- November 7th : Monika Finsterbusch , German author and illustrator
- November 7th : Guy Gavriel Kay , Canadian fantasy writer
- November 8 : Michael Brown , US attorney, director of the FEMA Civil Protection Agency
- November 8 : Andrzej Czerwiński , Polish politician
- November 8 : Kazuo Ishiguro , Japanese writer
- November 8 : Rickie Lee Jones , American pop and jazz musician
- November 9th : Deborah Sue Armstrong , American sprinter
- November 9th : Dietrich Thurau , German racing cyclist
- November 10 : Hartwig Gauder , German athlete († 2020 )
- November 10th : Jutta Kirst , German athlete
- November 10 : Matiaz Tomlje , Slovenian racing car driver
- November 12th : Marek Chlanda , Polish draftsman, graphic artist, installation and performance artist
- November 12th : Olivier Hutman , French jazz pianist
- November 12th : Paul McNamee , Australian tennis player
- November 13 : Emanuel Günther , German soccer player
- November 13 : Chris Noth , American actor
- November 14th : Fritz Rudolf Körper , German politician
- November 14th : Bernard Hinault , French cyclist
- November 14th : Rudolf Holze , German chemist and university professor
- November 14th : Tatjana Böhm , Minister without Portfolio of the GDR

- November 14th : Condoleezza Rice , US politician, Secretary of State
- November 15th : Anson Funderburgh , American blues guitarist
- November 15th : Uli Stielike , German soccer player and trainer
- November 15 : Hans-Günter Bruns , German soccer player
- November 15 : Tony Thompson , American drummer († 2003 )
- November 16 : Allison Anders , American director, screenwriter, and producer
- November 16 : Tommy Archer , American racing car driver
- November 16 : Donald Runnicles , British conductor
- November 17 : Egon Werdin , German cameraman († 2018 )
- November 18 : Christoph Wilhelm Aigner , Austrian writer and translator
- November 20th : Aneka , Scottish folk singer
- November 20 : Kaspar Heidelbach , German director
- November 20 : Frank Marino , Canadian rock musician
- November 23 : Ross Brawn , British engineer and manager
- November 23 : Bruce Hornsby , American pianist and singer-songwriter
- November 24th : Franz Reindl , German ice hockey coach and official
- November 24th : Emir Kusturica , Yugoslav filmmaker
- November 25 : Rudolf Mellinghoff , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- November 26th : Marta Andreasen , Spanish-British accountant and politician
- November 27 : Jean-Claude Asselborn , Luxembourg writer and literary critic
- November 27 : Patricia McPherson , American actress and model
- November 27 : Ed Saindon , American jazz musician and college professor
- November 28 : Barbara Grabowska , Polish actress († 1994 )
- November 28 : Julian Nida-Rümelin , German philosopher
- November 28th : Axel Heilhecker , German guitarist, composer, producer and singer
- November 28th : Peter FE Sloane , British-German professional and business educator
- November 29th : Alida Abola , Latvian orienteer
- November 29th : Ralf Huettner , German director
- November 29th : Terry Lingner , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- November 30th : Bernhard Arndt , German pianist
- November 30th : Daniel Nivel , French policeman
- November 30 : Lawrence Summers , American professor of economics
December
- December 1st : Karl-Heinz Körbel , German soccer player and coach
- December 1st : Annette Haven , American porn actress
- December 1 : François Van der Elst , Belgian football player († 2017 )
- December 2nd : Franz Comploi , Italian organist and music teacher
- December 4th : F. Javier García Arnaiz , Spanish general
- December 4th : Gregory Hlady , Ukrainian-Canadian actor
- December 5 : Dieter Bartke , German handball goalkeeper († 2002 )
- December 5 : Hanif Kureishi , British writer
- December 6th : Hajo F. Breuer , German author and editor († 2014 )
- December 6th : Beat Furrer , Austrian composer and conductor of Swiss origin
- December 6th : Steve Swell , American jazz trombonist
- December 6th : Christopher Wenner , British journalist, television presenter and filmmaker
- December 7th : Reinhold Zwick , German theologian
- December 8th : Louis de Bernières , British writer
- December 8th : Graham Cripsey , English snooker player
- December 8th : Peter Kotte , German soccer player
- December 8th : Heinz-Jürgen Voise , German soccer player and coach
- December 8 : Josef Walcher , Austrian ski racer († 1984 )
- December 9 : Kip Hanrahan , American music producer and percussionist
- December 9 : Jean-Claude Juncker , Luxembourg politician and Prime Minister; President of the European Commission
- December 9th : Steve Rodby , American bass player
- December 10th : Price Cobb , American racing car driver
- December 10 : Florentin Smarandache , American-Romanian mathematician
- December 10th : DJ Hollywood , American rapper and DJ
- December 11th : Jermaine Jackson , American singer
- December 12th : Kader Abdolah , Iranian writer
- December 12 : Sibylle Laurischk , German politician († 2020 )
- December 13 : John Anderson , American country singer
- December 13 : Tamora Pierce , American writer
- December 14th : Eva Mattes , German actress
- December 15 : Jürgen Reinholz , German politician
- December 15 : Mark R. Warner , American politician
- December 16 : Joe Fonda , American jazz bassist
- December 16 : Peter Meisinger , German handball player and coach
- December 16 : Timothy Sullivan , Canadian composer and music educator
- December 17th : Simon Aeby , Swiss director, producer and screenwriter
- December 18 : Glenn Buhr , Canadian composer and pianist
- December 18 : Roland Claus , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- December 18 : Ray Liotta , American actor
- December 18 : Uli Jon Roth , German guitarist
- December 18 : Willi Wülbeck , German athlete
- December 19 : Oswald Metzger , German politician
- December 21 : Chris Evert , American tennis player
- December 22nd : Anna Galiena , Italian actress
- December 22nd : Joseph Kwaku Afrifah-Agyekum , Ghanaian bishop
- December 22nd : Barbara Lanzinger , German politician
- December 22nd : Christian Liebig , German bass player and rock musician
- December 23 : Michael Diekmann , German manager
- December 23 : Brian Teacher , American tennis player
- December 24th : Lorenz Caffier , German politician
- December 24 : Cynthia Folio , American composer, flautist and music teacher
- December 24th : Ulrike Kriener , German actress
- December 24th : Christian Ruck , German politician

- December 25th : Annie Lennox , British singer and songwriter
- December 25th : Steve Wariner , American country musician and songwriter
- December 26th : Ulrich Koehler , German politician (FDP), State Secretary in Saxony-Anhalt
- December 26th : Susan Butcher , American dog trainer († 2006 )
- December 26th : David Shep , Canadian racing car driver
- December 27th : Novella Calligaris , Italian swimmer
- December 27th : John Watts , British singer, guitarist and poet
- December 28 : Denzel Washington , American actor
- December 29 : Phillip Anthony O'Hara , Australian economist
- December 30th : Roberto Abbado , Italian conductor
- December 30th : Rodney Allen Brooks , Australian director of CSAIL at MIT
- December 30th : Wolfgang Pohl , German soccer player
- December 31 : Gloria Afua Akuffo , Ghanaian lawyer and politician
- December 31 : Sylvie Bodorová , Czech composer
- December 31 : Hans-Hubertus Mack , German officer and educationalist
- December 31 : Alex Salmond , Scottish politician
- Jeffrey Arch , American screenwriter and film producer December:
Day unknown
- Larry Abramson , Israeli artist
- Karen B. Ackoff , American professor
- Adochi , Romanian painter and sculptor
- Carl Aigner , Austrian art historian
- Zohair Youssif Akache , Palestinian terrorist († 1977 )
- Belkıs Akkale , Turkish singer and actress
- Susana Amundaraín , Venezuelan painter, installation and performance artist
- Lars Andersson , Swedish writer and translator
- Irene Andessner , Austrian visual artist
- Paul Apak Angilirq , Canadian screenwriter († 1998 )
- Amy Arbus , American photographer
- Hans-Peter Archner , German journalist and radio editor
- Ljuba Arnautovic , Austrian translator, journalist and author
- Susan Arnold , American manager
- Juan Luis Arsuaga , Spanish paleoanthropologist
- Guarionex Aquino , Dominican jazz percussionist
- Ivica Astalos , German cartoonist, copywriter and graphic artist
- Michèle Audin , French mathematician
- Philippe Alexandre Autexier , French musicologist († 1998 )
- Rainer Beßling , German art critic and cultural journalist
- Marilyn Bliss , American composer
- Thomas Brunnschweiler , Swiss writer and journalist
- Abdul Raschid Dostum , Uzbek warlord and politician in Afghanistan
- Mary Ehlinger , American actress and composer
- María Inés Falconi , Argentine author and teacher
- Joachim Fuchs-Charrier , German drummer
- Orlando Jacinto García , American composer and music teacher
- James Gourlay , tuba player and professor of music
- Günther Grünsteudel , German librarian and author
- Olaf Van Gonnissen , German guitarist
- Kevin Hart , Australian poet and literary critic
- Michael Höhenberger , German politician
- Allan Kozinn , American journalist and music critic
- Martin Maria Krüger , German musician
- Adam Krużel , Polish baritone
- Irene Kugler , German actress
- Bernhard Leube , German theologian and university professor
- Ludger Lohmann , German organist and professor
- Eugen May , German actor
- Jochen A. Modeß , German church musician, organist, composer and university professor
- Hartmut Neumann , German painter, sculptor and photographer
- Michael Niedermeier , German literary and art historian
- Rüdiger Oppermann , German musician
- Thomas Axel Palka , German precision mechanic and politician
- Betsy Pecanins , Mexican singer († 2016 )
- Joan Peruga Guerrero , Andorran writer
- Heiner Pott , German politician
- Günther Schauerte , German archaeologist
- Hayko Siemens , German church musician
- Petra Thorbrietz , German journalist and author
- Angelika Weiz , German jazz singer
- Julius Penson Williams , American conductor, composer and music teacher
- Patricia Young , Canadian writer and poet
- Ekhard Zinke , German lawyer
Died
January
- January 1 : Alfred Cooper , British politician, diplomat and author (* 1890 )
- January 3 : Christian Friedrich Lautenschlager , German mechanic and racing car driver (* 1877 )
- January 2 : Harald Abatz , German politician (* 1893 )
- January 7th : Paul von Schoenaich , German major general, later pacifist (* 1866 )
- January 7th : Ludwig Klitzsch , German publicist and entrepreneur (* 1881 )
- January 8 : Franz Böhner , German politician (* 1889 )
- January 11 : Oscar Straus , Austrian operetta composer (* 1870 )
- January 12 : Max Niedermann , Swiss classical philologist and politician (* 1874 )
- January 13 : Adolf Gondrell , German emcee and actor (* 1902 )
- January 15 : Hermann Höpker-Aschoff , German politician and President of the Constitutional Court (* 1883 )
- January 15 : Rudolf Ruscheweyh , Dutch-Liechtenstein arms dealer, secret service employee and party donor (* 1905 )
- January 15 : Erich Stahl , German general (* 1893 )
- January 18 : Sydney Greenstreet , British actor (* 1879 )
- January 19 : Theodor Kaluza , German physicist (* 1885 )
- January 20 : Wadi 'al-Bustani , Lebanese poet and translator (* 1886 )
- January 21 : Billy Jenkins , art shooter, lasso thrower and raptor dresser (* 1885 )
- January 22nd : Ernest Friederich , French automobile racing driver and mechanic (* 1886 )
- January 23 : Amir Adil Arslan , Syrian politician (* 1880 )
- January 26 : Adolf Spilker , German chemist and technician (* 1863 )
- January 27 : Hinrich Abel , German politician (* 1884 )
- January 28 : Eugeniusz Romer , Polish geographer and cartographer (* 1871 )
- January 29 : Walter Conrad Arensberg , American literary scholar and art collector (* 1878 )
- January 31 : Alfred Auerbach , German actor and writer (* 1873 )
February
- February 1 : Bernard Arens , Luxembourg theologian and writer (* 1873 )
- February 1 : Edwin Howard Armstrong , American electrical engineer and inventor (* 1890 )
- February 1 : Josef Brendle , academic painter (* 1888 )
- February 2 : Theodor Rogalski , Romanian composer (* 1901 )
- February 4 : William Adams (Governor) , American politician (* 1861 )
- February 6 : Friedrich Meinecke , German historian and university professor (* 1862 )
- February 7th : Jan Adam Maklakiewicz , Polish composer (* 1899 )
- February 9 : Friedrich Hauck , German Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1882 )
- February 10 : Robert Görlinger , German politician (* 1888 )
- February 11 : Arthur Duray , French-American racing driver (* 1882 )
- February 12 : Dsiga Wertow , Soviet director (* 1896 )
- February 13 : Paul Heidelbach , German writer, city archivist, editor and librarian (* 1870 )
- February 13 : Heinrich Zerkaulen , German writer (* 1892 )
- February 16 : Senda Berenson Abbott , American sports teacher (* 1868 )
- February 19 : Wladimir Wiese , Russian-Soviet oceanographer and polar explorer (* 1886 )
- February 23 : Jacques Mieses , German-British chess player (* 1865 )
- February 27 : Bobby Ball , American racing driver (* 1925 )
March
- March 5 : Kishida Kunio , Japanese playwright (* 1890 )
- March 6 : Massimo Massimi , Italian Cardinal (* 1877 )
- March 6 : Hermann Dietrich , German politician (* 1879 )
- March 6 : Carl Eduard , Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (* 1884 )
- March 7th : Otto Diels , German chemist (* 1876 )
- March 7th : Ernst Winter , German politician (* 1888 )
- March 7th : Ludwik Hirszfeld , Polish physician and immunologist (* 1884 )
- March 9 : Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs , German astronomer (* 1912 )
- March 9 : Clara Westhoff , German sculptor (* 1878 )
- March 10 : Alfred Lamoureux , Canadian composer and music teacher (* 1876 )
- March 12 : Marianne Weber , German women's rights activist, sociologist and legal historian (* 1870 )
- March 13 : Otto Fee , German actor (* 1877 )
- March 19 : Walter Braunfels , German composer and pianist (* 1882 )
- March 25th : Gertrud Bäumer , German women's rights activist, politician, educator, Member of the European Parliament (* 1873 )
- March 25 : Leon Schiller , Polish theater director and theater theorist (* 1887 )
- March 26 : Ferdinand Hardekopf , German journalist, writer, poet and translator (* 1876 )
- March 27 : Walter Pierce , American politician (* 1861 )
- March 29 : Rudolf Ahlers , German author (* 1889 )
- March 30th : Thomas Schneider , German racing driver (* 1875 )
- March 30th : Fritz London , German-American physicist (* 1900 )
April
- April 1 : Jan Thomée , Dutch football player (* 1886 )
- April 2 : William Heffelfinger , American football player (* 1867 )
- April 3 : Remzi Oğuz Arık , Turkish archaeologist and politician (* 1899 )
- April 4 : Frederick von Antal , Hungarian-British art historian (* 1888 )
- April 5 : Märtha of Sweden , Crown Princess of Norway (* 1901 )
- April 10 : Ludwig Curtius , German classical archaeologist (* 1874 )
- April 10 : Auguste Lumière , French film technology pioneer (* 1862 )
- April 12 : Dwight Griswold , American politician (* 1893 )
- April 14th : Lil Green , American blues singer (born 1919 )
- April 14 : Gilbert Rahm , German clergyman (* 1885 )
- April 14 : Siegfried von Roedern , German politician (* 1870 )
- April 15 : Arthur Fickenscher , American composer (* 1871 )
- April 15 : Feliks Wróbel , Polish composer (* 1894 )
- April 16 : Friedrich Arenhövel , German writer (* 1886 )
- April 16 : Ernst Krenn , Austrian Scandinavian (* 1897 )
- April 16 : Lorenz Rogger , Swiss Catholic clergyman and educator (* 1878 )
- April 18 : Émile Marcelin , French composer (* 1906 )
- April 21 : Emil Leon Post , American mathematician and logician (* 1897 )
- April 21 : Petre Sergescu , Romanian mathematician and mathematician (* 1893 )
- April 22 : Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels , Austrian clergyman (* 1874 )
- April 24th : Augustin Schuldis , Catholic priest, papal house prelate (* 1891 )
- April 24 : Mikhail Leonidowitsch Starokadomski , Russian composer (* 1901 )
- April 27 : Richard Schmitz , Austrian politician (* 1885 )
- April 28 : Wendelin Rauch , Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau (* 1885 )
- April 29 : Léon Jouhaux , French trade unionist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (* 1879 )
- April 29th : Joe May , Austrian director and producer (* 1880 )
- Texas Alexander , American blues singer (* 1900 )
May
- May 1st : Johnny Aubert , Swiss pianist (* 1889 )
- May 3rd : Silvio Dal Cin , Italian racing driver
- May 5th : Franz Aubell , Austrian geodesist (* 1878 )
- May 6 : Peter Lorson , Catholic theologian, Jesuit, writer (* 1897 )
- May 10 : Ekkehard Arendt , Austrian actor (* 1892 )
- May 10 : Erik Reger , German writer (* 1893 )
- May 11 : Sait Faik , Turkish writer (* 1906 )
- May 14 : Heinz Guderian , German general in the Third Reich (* 1888 )
- May 15 : Norbert Jacques , Luxembourgish writer (* 1880 )
- May 16 : Heinrich Wilhelm Joseph Acker , German politician (* 1896)
- May 16 : Werner Bischof , Swiss photographer (* 1916 )
- May 16 : Clemens Krauss , Austrian conductor (* 1893 )
- May 17 : Samuel Belov , American violinist, violist and music teacher (* 1884 )
- May 19 : Charles Ives , American composer (* 1874 )
- May 24 : William Van Alen , American architect (* 1882 )
- May 24th : Edwin Rolfe , American poet (* 1909 )
- May 25 : Robert Capa , American photographer of Hungarian origin (* 1913 )
- May 26 : Waldemar Gurian , Russian-German-American political scientist (* 1902 )
- May 26 : Franz Pfemfert , German publicist, editor, literary critic, photographer (* 1879 )
- May 27 : Jan Schoemaker , Dutch football player (* 1882 )
- May 27 : Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando , Austrian writer and draftsman (* 1877 )
- May 27 : Arthur Koepchen , technical director of RWE (* 1878 )
- Albert Ackermann , German entrepreneur (* 1882 ) May:
June
- June 1 : Martin Andersen Nexø , Danish writer (* 1869 )
- June 1 : Wilhelm Stapel , German publicist (* 1882 )
- June 2 : Karl Caspar , German pilot and entrepreneur (* 1883 )
- June 6 : Josef Bohatec , Czech philosopher and theologian (* 1876 )
- June 6th : Fritz Kasparek , Austrian alpinist (* 1910 )
- June 7th : Alan Turing , British mathematician and cryptanalyst (* 1912 )
- June 9 : Alain LeRoy Locke , American philosopher (* 1886 )
- June 10 : Charles Francis Adams , American politician (* 1866 )
- June 10 : Mathilde Paravicini , Swiss humanist (* 1875 )
- June 12 : E. Ray Goetz , American songwriter, producer, screenwriter and actor (* 1886 )
- June 18 : Zygmunt Modzelewski , Polish politician and economist (* 1900 )
- June 22nd : Karl Taylor Compton , American physicist (* 1887 )
- June 27 : Theodor Loos , German actor (* 1883 )
- June 29 : Hugo Dingler , German philosopher (* 1881 )
- June 29 : H. Maurice Jacquet , French composer and conductor (* 1886 )
July
- July 1st : Thea von Harbou , German screenwriter (* 1888 )
- July 5 : Bob Scott , American racing driver (* 1928 )
- July 6 : Julio Acosta García , President of Costa Rica (* 1872 )
- July 8 : August Liessens , Belgian-Canadian organist and composer (* 1894 )
- July 12th : Marc Azéma , French racing car driver (* 1905 )
- July 13 : Anton Arnold , Austrian opera singer (* 1880 )
- July 13 : Jacques E. Brandenberger , Swiss chemist and textile engineer, inventor of the cellophane (* 1872 )
- July 13 : Joel Bennett Clark , American politician and judge (* 1890 )
- July 13 : Frida Kahlo , Mexican painter (* 1907 )
- July 14 : Jacinto Benavente , Spanish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1922) (* 1866 )
- July 15 : Sadriddin Aini , Tajik poet and writer (* 1878 )
- July 17th : Henri Frankfort , Dutch archaeologist, ancient orientalist and Egyptologist (* 1897 )
- July 19 : Josef Linster , Romanian-German composer and music teacher (* 1889 )
- July 19 : Hannes Meyer , Swiss architect and urbanist (* 1889 )
- July 20 : Blair Moody , American politician (* 1902 )
- July 23 : Georg Lippold , German archaeologist (* 1885 )
- July 23 : Josef Sellmair , German theologian and educator (* 1896 )
- July 27 : Diran Alexanian , Armenian cellist, composer and music teacher (* 1881 )
- July 27 : Alexander Gurwitsch , Russian physician and biologist (* 1874 )
- July 31 : Antoinette Roberte Sophie Wilhelmine von Nassau-Weilburg , Bavarian Crown Princess (* 1899 )
August
- August 2nd : René Amengual Astaburuaga , Chilean composer (* 1911 )
- August 2 : Teodor Regedziński , Polish chess player (* 1894 )
- August 3 : Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette , French writer, cabaret artist and journalist (* 1873 )
- August 3 : William Douw Lighthall , Canadian lyric poet and writer (* 1857 )
- August 5 : Vasily Jan , Russian writer (* 1875 )
- August 7th : Wilhelm Dittmann , German politician (* 1874 )
- August 13 : Demetrius Constantine Dounis , Greek violinist and music teacher (* 1893 )
- August 14 : Hugo Eckener , head of the Zeppelin factory in Friedrichshafen (* 1868 )
- August 15 : Alfred Wilhelm Anschütz , German surgeon and university professor (* 1870 )
- August 16 : Elsbeth Krukenberg-Conze , German writer and women's rights activist (* 1867 )
- August 17 : Billy Murray , American singer (* 1877 )
- August 19 : Alcide De Gasperi , Italian politician (* 1881 )
- August 20 : Wilhelm Brückner , chief adjutant of Adolf Hitler (* 1884 )
- August 21 : Johannes Maximilian Avenarius , expressionist painter, graphic artist and illustrator (* 1887 )
- August 22nd : Wilhelm Tenhagen , German politician (* 1911 )
- August 24 : Cyril Asquith , British lawyer (* 1890 )
- August 24 : Robert Talbot , Canadian violinist, music teacher and composer (* 1893 )
- August 24 : Getúlio Dornelles Vargas , Brazilian politician (* 1882 )
- August 26 : Ernst Aeppli , Swiss psychoanalyst (* 1892 )
- August 30th : Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster , Archbishop of Milan and Cardinal (* 1880 )
- August 30th : Kurt Streitwolf , German officer (* 1871 )
September
- September 1 : Harry Cording , British actor (* 1891 )
- September 1 : Heinrich Mache , Austrian physicist (* 1876 )
- September 2 : Friedrich Eymann , Reformed theologian, pedagogue and anthroposophist (* 1887 )
- September 5 : Eugen Schiffer , German lawyer and politician (* 1860 )
- September 7th : Bud Fisher , American cartoonist and comic artist (* 1885 )
- September 8 : André Derain , French painter (* 1880 )
- September 8 : Curtis D. Wilbur , American politician and lawyer (* 1867 )
- September 10 : Peter Anders , German opera singer (* 1908 )
- September 11th : Rupert Hollaus , Austrian motorcycle racer (* 1931 )
- September 15 : Raimund Nimführ , Austrian aviation theorist and aircraft pioneer (* 1874 )
- September 15 : Arthur Wieferich , German mathematician (* 1884 )
- September 19 : Miles Franklin , Australian writer (* 1879 )
- September 25 : Vitaliano Brancati , Italian writer (* 1907 )
- September 26 : Chajim Jehuda Leib Auerbach , Israeli rabbi (* 1883 )
- September 27 : Maximilian von Weichs , German Field Marshal General in World War II (* 1881 )
- September 28 : George Harrison Shull , American botanist and plant geneticist (* 1874 )
- September 29 : Alexander Abascheli , Georgian-Soviet poet (* 1884 )
- September 30th : Leopold Atlas , American playwright and screenwriter (* 1907 )
October
- October 4 : Georg Hamel , German mathematician (* 1877 )
- October 4th : Francesco Borgongini Duca , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1884 )
- October 6 : Hakon Børresen , Danish composer (* 1876 )
- October 6 : Fred Hall , American musician and conductor (* 1898 )
- October 9 : Olivier Guimond , Canadian actor and comedian (* 1893 )
- October 11 : Theodore Lyman , American physicist (* 1874 )
- October 13 : Josef Böhm , German politician (* 1887 )
- October 13 : Emmy Heim , Austrian singer and music teacher (* 1885 )
- October 15 : Maurice Bedel , French writer (* 1883 )
- October 16 : Takashi Akiba , Japanese sociologist (* 1888 )
- October 16 : Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke , German politician (* 1887 )
- October 19 : Albrecht Bethe , German physiologist (* 1872 )
- October 20 : Friedrich Hartjenstein , camp commandant of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp (* 1905 )
- October 21 : Domenico Jorio , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1867 )
- October 22 : Oswald de Andrade , Brazilian writer (* 1890 )
- October 22 : Harrison Henry Atwood , American politician (* 1863 )
- October 22 : George McManus , American cartoonist and comic artist (* 1884 )
- October 22 : Roscoe C. Patterson , American politician (* 1876 )
- October 24 : José Rodríguez Carballeira , Spanish pianist (* 1895 )
- October 25 : Manuel Trucco , Chilean politician (* 1875 )
- October 27 : Georg Hartmann , German manufacturer and honorary citizen of Frankfurt am Main (* 1870 )
- October 27 : Franco Alfano , Italian composer (* 1875 )
- October 29 : Walter Asmis , German lawyer and agricultural functionary (* 1880 )
- October 29 : Hermann Ehlers , German politician (* 1904 )
- October 30 : Gustav Dahrendorf , German politician and journalist (* 1901 )
- October 31 : Pieter Boelmans ter Spill , Dutch football player (* 1886 )
- October: Gregori Garbovitsky , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher (* 1892 )
November
- November 1 : John Lennard-Jones , British mathematician and physicist (* 1894 )
- November 3 : Ernst Neumann-Neander , painter and inventor, motorcycle builder (* 1871 )

- November 3 : Henri Matisse , French painter (* 1869 )
- November 5 : Hot Lips Page , American jazz musician (* 1908 )
- November 6 : Butler Ames , American politician (* 1871)
- November 7th : William Umstead , American politician (* 1895 )
- November 8 : Charles B. Henderson , American politician (* 1873 )
- November 9 : Clifford Walker , American politician (* 1877 )
- November 12th : Richard Karl Theodor Ambronn , German geophysicist (* 1887 )
- November 12th : John Meehan , American screenwriter (* 1890 )
- November 15 : Charley Jordan , American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter (* 1890 )
- November 15 : Lionel Barrymore , American actor and director (* 1878 )
- November 16 : Ewald von Kleist , General Field Marshal in the Third Reich (* 1881 )
- November 17th : Ragnar Sunnqvist , Swedish motorcycle racer (* 1908 )
- November 18 : Edward L. Jackson , American politician (* 1873 )
- November 19 : Otto Anthes , German educator and writer (* 1867 )
- November 20 : Count Alexei Ignatjew , Russian and Soviet general and diplomat (* 1877 )
- November 20 : Clyde Vernon Cessna , American aviation pioneer (* 1879 )
- November 21 : Karol Rathaus , Polish composer (* 1895 )
- November 21 : William S. Beardsley , American politician (* 1901 )
- November 22nd : Moroni Olsen , American actor (* 1889 )
- November 22nd : Roy Rene , Australian comedian and actor (* 1891 )
- November 23 : Pavel Dědeček , Czech conductor and music teacher (* 1885 )
- November 24th : Boris Hambourg , Russian cellist (* 1885 )
- November 27 : Juan Gualberto Guevara , Archbishop of Lima and Cardinal (* 1882 )
- November 28 : Enrico Fermi , Italian nuclear physicist (* 1901 )

- November 30th : Wilhelm Furtwängler , German conductor and composer (* 1886 )
December
- December 1 : Fred Rose , American country musician, composer and publicist (* 1898 )
- December 2 : Enrique Soro Barriga , Chilean composer (* 1884 )
- December 2 : James Fairman Fielder , American politician (* 1867 )
- December 6th : Ludwig Anschütz , German chemist and professor (* 1889 )
- December 7th : Jiang Kanghu , Chinese politician and literary scholar (* 1883 )
- December 9 : Josef Escher , Swiss politician (* 1885 )
- December 14th : Emil Rausch , German swimmer (* 1882 )
- December 14 : Willem Vogelsang , Dutch art historian (* 1875 )
- December 15 : Papa Celestin , American jazz trumpeter, cornet player, singer and band leader (* 1884 )
- December 19 : Viktor Semjonowitsch Abakumow , Soviet Minister for State Security (* 1908 )
- December 19 : Hermann Adolf Wilhelm Aisch , German pastor and writer (* 1867 )
- December 20 : James Hilton , English writer (* 1900 )
- December 20 : Emilis Melngailis , Latvian composer (* 1874 )
- December 25 : Johnny Ace , American musician (born 1929 )
- December 25th : Rosario Scalero , Italian violinist, music teacher and composer (* 1870 )
- December 26 : Christian Frederik Beck , Danish painter (* 1876 )
- December 28 : Wincenty Lutosławski , Polish philosopher (* 1863 )
- December 28 : Heinrich Uhlendahl , German librarian (* 1886 )
- December 29 : Bolesław Fotygo-Folański , Polish actor, opera singer and director (* 1883 )
- December 30th : Eugen von Österreich-Teschen , Austrian field marshal in World War I (* 1863 )
- December 30th : Günther Quandt , German industrialist (* 1881 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Theodor Artmann , German businessman and politician (* 1882 )
- Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag , Polish Kabbalist (* 1884 )
- Charlie Collier , British motorcycle racer and entrepreneur (* 1885 )
- René de Knyff , French racing driver and chairman of the CSI motorsport association (* 1865 )
- Yanaki Manakis , Ottoman film pioneer (* 1878 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Max Born and Walther Bothe
- Chemistry : Linus Pauling
- Medicine : John Franklin Enders , Thomas Huckle Weller, and Frederick Chapman Robbins
- Literature : Ernest Hemingway
- Nobel Peace Prize : United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Web links
- Annual review from tagesschau.de
- Annual chronicle of the House of History of the FRG
- The cabinet minutes of the Federal Government (1954) in the Federal Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ The dreary day of the century Futurezone from November 26, 2010.
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↑ chronik.net daily entry for November 8, 1954
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