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1956
The Hungarian popular uprising is bloodily suppressed with Soviet support. Around 70,000 people flee to Austria over the Andau bridge .	After anti-Soviet rallies in Georgia, the Tbilisi massacre takes place .
With the invasion of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula by Israel which begins Suez Crisis .

1956 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2709
Armenian calendar	1404-1405
Ethiopian calendar	1948-1949
Badi calendar	112-113
Bengali calendar	1362-1363
Berber calendar	2906
Buddhist calendar	2500
Burmese calendar	1318
Byzantine calendar	7464-7465
Chinese calendar
- era	4652-4653 or 4592-4593
- 60 year cycle	Wood sheep (乙未, 32) - Fire monkey (丙申, 33)
French revolution calendar	CLXIV - CLXV 164-165
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2012-2013
- Shaka Samvat	1878-1879
Iranian calendar	1334-1335
Islamic calendar	1375-1376
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 31
- Kōki	2616
Jewish calendar	5716-5717
Coptic Calendar	1672-1673
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4289
- Juche era	45
Minguo calendar	45
Modern Olympics	XVI
Seleucid calendar	2267-2268
Thai solar calendar	2499

In 1956 directs Nikita Khrushchev in the Soviet Union , the Stalinization one. The demonstrations in Tbilisi , the Poznan Uprising and the Hungarian Uprising are all bloodily suppressed as a result of Soviet control of the Eastern Bloc .

The three North African states Morocco , Tunisia and Sudan received their independence.

With the establishment of the Bundeswehr and the NVA , the rearmament of the two German states begins.

events

Politics and world events

• January 1: Markus Feldmann becomes President of Switzerland
• January 1st: The Soviet embassy building in Ottawa , Canada is completely destroyed by fire.
• January 1: The free sale of church newspapers in the GDR is prohibited.
• January 1st: Sudan gains independence from Great Britain and Egypt
• January 2: With the deployment of approx. 1,500 volunteers, the development of the Bundeswehr as a West German post-war armed force begins .
• February 5th: Opening of the Stuttgart TV tower
• February 8: Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy , in force since December 9, 1957.
• February 18: Afghanistan signs a new economic aid agreement with the US .
• February 24th: In the Soviet Union, the XX. CPSU party congress the foreign policy line pursued by party leader Nikita Khrushchev of seeking a decision between capitalism and socialism through peaceful coexistence of the systems ; On the following day, Khrushchev openly criticized the crimes of the Stalin era in his secret speech , thus initiating de-Stalinization .
• March 1: Foundation of the National People's Army of the GDR ( NVA )
• March 2nd: Morocco gains independence from France .
• March 9: Anti-Soviet demonstrations in Tbilisi are suppressed by the Soviet army .
• March 20: Tunisia gains independence from France.
• March 23: Pakistan declares itself an Islamic Republic .
• May 13: National Council election in Austria : ÖVP with Federal Chancellor Raab the party with the highest number of votes.
• April 16: Austria joins the Council of Europe .
• April 17th: In its newspaper, the Cominform in Bucharest announces the dissolution of its organization, which is supported by communist parties.
• May 17: Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Greece , in force since June 16, 1957
• May 17th: Bulgaria becomes a member of UNESCO
• May 29th: Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Norway . In force since March 9, 1957
• June 9: The conscription law is passed by the German Bundestag .
• June 28: Poznan Uprising in Poland
• July 7th: The German Bundestag decides to introduce compulsory military service .
• JULY 26: Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal , solving the Suez crisis of
• July 27: Romania becomes a member of UNESCO.
• August 1st: Belgium becomes the last European country to introduce compulsory driving licenses .
• August 9: In South Africa , 20,000 women of various ethnic origins and from all parts of the country demonstrate against the Native Urban Areas Act in front of the Union Buildings in Pretoria , the seat of government.
• August 17: In the Federal Republic of Germany the KPD is classified as an anti-constitutional party and banned .
• September 24: Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Belgium, in force since March 22, 1957
• October 10: Finland becomes a member of UNESCO.
• October 23: The popular uprising begins in Hungary
• October 25: Adolf Hitler is officially declared dead by the Berchtesgaden District Court .
• October 27: Conclusion of the Luxembourg Treaty , which includes the annexation of the Saarland to the Federal Republic of Germany on January 1, 1957, as well as the Moselle canalization
• October 30: Prime Minister Imre Nagy announces the end of the one-party system and the dissolution of the previously ruling Communist Party of Hungarian Working People during the Hungarian People's Uprising .
• October 31 - November 6: British - French air offensive against Egypt, at the same time Israeli troops advance to the Sinai Peninsula .
• November 1st: Under the revolutionary government of Imre Nagy, Hungary declares its withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact .
• November 1: With the States Reorganization Act , the reorganization of the Indian states comes into force
• November 4th: Soviet tanks enter Hungary and begin the violent suppression of the Hungarian people's uprising .
• November 6: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower is confirmed in office with over 57% of the vote against his Democratic challenger Adlai Ewing Stevenson .
• November 12: Tunisia, Morocco and Sudan join the United Nations .
• November 20: Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Chile , in force since May 24, 1959.
• November 21: Per Jacobsson from Sweden becomes director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
• November 22: Hungary's former Prime Minister Imre Nagy is arrested by the Soviet KGB with his companions while leaving the Yugoslav embassy to which he had fled after the failure of the popular uprising - despite assurances of impunity by his successor János Kádár - and deported to Romania.
• December 2nd: Cuba : Fidel Castro lands in the east of the island and begins his guerrilla war against the dictator Fulgencio Batista .
• December 5: In the Lübeck judgment, the Federal Constitutional Court confirms the refusal of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to a petition for a referendum on the creation of a German state, the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck .
• December 18: Japan becomes a member of the United Nations.
• December 31: South Africa leaves UNESCO.

business

Postage stamp for the "opening of civil aviation in the GDR"

• FEBRUARY 4: The DDR - airline German Lufthansa takes delivery of first line traffic on on the route Berlin-Warsaw.
• March 31: For the last time, tax stamps for the Berlin emergency victim have to be stuck on mail in the Federal Republic of Germany . The revenue from the emergency sacrifice stamp introduced after the Berlin blockade was intended to help reduce West Berlin's economic hardship .
• APRIL 29: The publisher Axel Springer AG is the first edition of the Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag out.
• October 17th: The Calder Hall nuclear power plant in England is officially opened as the first commercially used facility by Queen Elizabeth II .
• November 3rd: Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcasts the first commercial on German television. The actors Beppo Brem and Liesl Karlstadt advertise Persil .
• November 6th: The construction of the arch dam for the Kariba Dam begins on the Zambezi .
• November 16: Decision of the Swiss Federal Council on an immediate Sunday driving ban in Switzerland in 1956 .
• November 24th: With the maiden voyage of an airship built in the Trumpf factory, the chocolate manufacturer continues its aerial advertising for Trumpf chocolate in the post-war period.
• December 20: Genex is founded by order of the GDR government . Citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany can send goods from a gift catalog their relatives in other German part of it in German marks to pay. The GDR opened up a source of foreign currency.
• The Nepal Rastra Bank , the central bank of Nepal, was established.

science and technology

• January 3rd: GDR television starts its regular broadcasting operations.
• March 29th: Today's special signaling systems consisting of blue flashing light and siren are introduced.
• June 3: The railway administrations across Europe introduce the two-tier system. The previous 1st carriage class will be abolished, the previous 2nd will become 1st and the 3rd will become 2nd.
• June 14: The American researchers Clyde L. Cowan and Frederick Reines inform the Swiss physicist Wolfgang Pauli by telegram about the successful detection of the neutrino , which Pauli had hypothetically demonstrated as an elementary particle more than two decades earlier.
• June 15: The Eindhoven University of Technology is established as the second technical university in the Netherlands .
• July 13: The first Dartmouth conference begins. On it coined John McCarthy the term "artificial intelligence" ( " AI ").
• September 17th: The first radio telescope in Germany ( Astropeiler Stockert ) on the Stockert near Münstereifel is inaugurated.
• September 27th: Test pilot Milburn G. Apt is the first to fly in the Bell X-2 experimental aircraft at a speed of Mach 3.2 . A short time later, after a steering maneuver with the machine, he crashes and dies.
• October 31: The first plane lands at the South Pole . The US Navy expedition group headed by Rear Admiral George J. Dufek is tasked with preparing the construction of the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station .
• November 11th: Major RL Anderson and Robert S. Decker reach the world speed record of 261.9 km / h with a Sikorsky HR-2 S helicopter .
• Establishment of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station

Culture

• January 28: World premiere of the play Opera from the Fair by Emil František Burian in Prague
• January 29th: World premiere of the play The Visit of the Old Lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt in the Schauspielhaus Zurich
• January: Foundation of the Tölzer Boys Choir by Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden in Bad Tölz
• March 1st: World premiere of the operetta Palatinate Musicians by Hans Striehl at the Landestheater Linz
• March 15: World premiere of the musical My Fair Lady at the Mark Hellinger Theater in New York
• April 6: The North Carolina Museum of Art opens
• April 13: The actress Käthe Dorsch slaps the critic Hans Weigel in Vienna . The Austrian cultural scene takes an active part in the subsequent process.
• May 24th: The first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Lugano under the title Gran Premio Eurovisione della Canzone Europea .
• June 5th: Media uproar over Elvis Presley's hip movements during the Hound Dog performance
• June 17th: World premiere of the opera Der Sturm by Frank Martin at the State Opera in Vienna
• June 27: Moby Dick (director: John Huston ) premieres in the USA
• July 17: The film High Society (German title Die Ober,10,000 ) premieres in the United States . Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby sing about True Love .
• August 16: The film adaptation of Carl Zuckmayer's drama Der Hauptmann von Köpenick with Heinz Rühmann in the title role is premiered.
• September 23: World premiere of the opera König Hirsch by Hans Werner Henze at the Städtische Oper in Berlin
• October 15: World premiere of the piece Histoire de Vasco by Georges Schehadé at the Schauspielhaus Zurich
• November 10: In Théâtre Gramont in Paris, the musical is Irma la Douce by Marguerite Monnot premiered.
• November 15: In the US, the first feature film has Elvis Presley's entitled Love me tender premiere.
• December 1: World premiere of the operetta Candide by Leonard Bernstein at the Martin Beck Theater in New York City
• Philip K. Dick publishes his short story Minority Report .

religion

• August 8: In Frankfurt  is the seventh German Protestant Church opened. Its motto is "be reconciled with God" ( 2 Cor. 5:20  LUT )
• October 7th: Pope Innocent XI. is beatified
• OCTOBER 14: B. R. Ambedkar , the acknowledged leader of Dalits , occurs along with hundreds of thousands of "untouchables" in a ceremony to Buddhism about what subsequently further converts motivated for change of faith.

society

• February 9: For the first time after the Second World War , the Opera Ball is held again in Vienna .
• April 18: Prince Rainier III marries in Monaco . and the American actress Grace Kelly in civil law , the next day in church.
• June 17th: The German lottery introduces the additional number.
• June 29th: The film actress Marilyn Monroe and the playwright Arthur Miller get married.
• December 19: British police arrest doctor John Bodkin Adams on suspicion of being a serial killer . He is later acquitted .

Sports

For entries of athletics world records, see the respective discipline under athletics .

• January 22nd to September 2nd: the 7th Formula 1 World Championship is held
• January 26th to February 5th: VII. Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy
• February 5th: Harry Glaß wins bronze in ski jumping as the first German to win an Olympic medal in Nordic skiing and the first Olympic medal in the GDR
• April 30th: The Boston Celtics sign Bill Russell , laying the foundation for winning eleven NBA championships over the next 13 years.
• May 11th: First ascent of Manaslu , the eighth highest mountain on earth

May 18th: First ascent of Lhotse

• May 18: The Swiss Fritz Luchsinger and Ernst Reiss succeed in the first ascent of Lhotse , the fourth highest mountain on earth.
• June 17th: The Hessen mare Halla carries the seriously injured Hans Günter Winkler , who screamed in pain with every jump, across the course in Stockholm and secured team gold and Winkler gold in the individual ranking for the German Olympic riders. Since that day she has also been called the “miracle mare”.
• June 24th: The traditional football club Borussia Dortmund becomes German champions for the first time
• July 25th: First ascent of Gasherbrum II , the fourteenth highest mountain on earth
• September 2nd: The Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio wins the Formula 1 World Championship for the third time in a row .
• November 22nd to December 8th: XVI. Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne , Australia
• November 30th: At the age of 21, the American Floyd Patterson becomes world heavyweight boxing champion with a knockout victory over his compatriot Archie Moore . He is the youngest title holder to date.
• DECEMBER 6: The blood play from Melbourne to win water polo players from Hungary at the Olympics against the Soviet team with 4: 0, the broken-off game . After the suppression of the Hungarian people's uprising by Soviet troops, the encounter is extremely emotional .
• December 18: Hans Günter Winkler and Ursula Happe are athletes of the year in Stuttgart .
• Probable first ascent of Dschengisch Tschokusu

Disasters

• June 30th: Airplane collision over the Grand Canyon . A Super Constellation of TWA collided with a DC-7 in unmonitored airspace. All 128 people on board both aircraft die.
• July 25th: Atlantic , near Nantucket . The Italian passenger ship Andrea Doria is rammed by the passenger ship Stockholm and sinks eleven hours later on July 26th. 51 people die.
• August 8: Belgium's worst mining disaster occurs after a short circuit in the Bois du Cazier coal mine. 262 miners from different nations, including 136 Italians, are killed.

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

Born

January

• 0January 1st: Christine Lagarde , French politician
• 0January 1: Ziad Rahbani , Lebanese composer, pianist, songwriter and playwright
• 0January 1st: Sergei Starostin , Russian jazz and world clarinetist and singer
• 0January 2nd: Kevin Siembieda , American role-playing game developer

Mel Gibson , 1990

• 0January 3: Mel Gibson , Australian-American actor, director and producer
• 0January 3: Willy T. Ribbs , American racing driver
• 0January 3: Guy Ryder , Chairman of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
• 0January 4th: Francine-Dominique Liechtenhan , Swiss art historian and lecturer
• 0January 4: Rajvinder Singh , Indian author
• 0January 4th: Paul Linz , German soccer player and coach
• 0January 4th: Bernard Sumner , British guitarist and keyboardist
• 0January 5: James Lofton , American football player

Frank-Walter Steinmeier , 2009

• 0January 5: Frank-Walter Steinmeier , German politician; 12. Federal President
• 0January 6: Alexander Baillie , British cellist
• 0January 7th: David Caruso , American actor

Uwe Ochsenknecht , 2009

• 0January 7th: Uwe Ochsenknecht , German actor
• 0January 7th: Leonard Lansink , German actor
• 0January 7th: Herbert Willi , Austrian composer
• 0January 7th: August Zirner , German actor
• 0January 8th: Stefan Bernhard Eck , German politician
• 0January 8: Heinrich Leonhard Kolb , German politician
• 0January 9: Waltraud Meier , German mezzo-soprano and soprano
• 0January 9: Imelda Staunton , British theater and film actress
• 0January 9: Thorhild Widvey , Norwegian Conservative politician
• 0January 9: Lucyna Langer , Polish athlete and Olympian
• January 10: Shawn Colvin , American folk and pop singer
• January 11: Ernst Baltrusch , German ancient historian
• January 11th: Wayne Cegielski , Welsh soccer player
• January 11: Heiko Heßenkemper , German physicist and politician
• January 11th: Bert Papenfuß-Gorek , German writer
• January 12: Ute Freudenberg , German pop singer
• January 12: Nikolai Noskov , Russian rock singer, composer and musician
• January 13: Ruth Genner , Swiss politician
• January 13th: Inga Humpe , German pop musician
• January 13: Johannes Selle , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• January 14th: Étienne Daho , French pop singer
• January 15th: Matthias Eisenberg , German organist, concert harpsichordist and church musician
• January 15th: Jorge Fandermole , Argentine Canto writer
• January 15: Lee Hee-wan , coach of the German national volleyball team for women († 2011)
• January 17th: Hubertus Czernin , Austrian journalist and publisher († 2006)
• January 17: Mitch Vogel , American actor

Paul Young , 1987

• January 17th: Paul Young , British singer and songwriter
• January 18: Ralf Bursy , German singer
• January 18: Mark Collie , American country musician and film actor
• January 18: Christoph Prégardien , German tenor
• January 20: Axel Hacke , German journalist and writer
• January 20: John Naber , American swimmer
• January 20: Georg Veit , German writer

Geena Davis , 2009

• January 21: Friðriksson Ásmundur , Icelandic politician
• January 21: Geena Davis , American actress
• January 21: Jürgen Kehrer , German journalist and writer
• January 22nd: Yves Angelo , French cameraman, director and screenwriter
• January 22nd: Christoph Dieckmann , German writer
• January 22nd: Steve Riley , American musician
• January 22nd: Marianne Weber , German rower
• January 23: Gerald Jatzek , Austrian author and musician
• January 23: Larysa Kuzmenko , Canadian composer and pianist
• January 23: Eva Lohse , German politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Ludwigshafen
• January 23: Kazufumi Matsunaga , Japanese guitarist
• January 24th: Thierry Arbogast , French cameraman
• January 24th: Peter Dicke , German organist and music teacher
• January 24: Bernd Thiele , German soccer player († 2017)
• January 24th: Thomas Voelzke , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court
• January 25: Johnny Cecotto , Venezuelan motorcycle world champion and Formula 1 racing driver
• January 25th: Piergiuseppe Perazzini , Italian racing car driver
• January 26: Steve Dobrogosz , American composer
• January 27: Gerhard Hanke , German politician
• January 28: Tim Flannery , Australian biologist and zoologist
• January 28: Ulrich Gebauer , German actor

Peter Schilling, 2010

• January 28th: Peter Schilling , German singer
• January 30th: Thomas Albeck , German soccer player and official († 2017)

John Lydon, 2010

• January 31st: John Lydon , British musician and former singer of the "Sex Pistols"
• January 31: Artur Mas , Catalan politician
• January 31: Klaus Ploghaus , German athlete

February

• 0February 1: Guo Wenjing , Chinese composer
• 0February 3: Nathan Lane , American musical and film actor
• 0February 3: Lee Ranaldo , American guitarist and singer
• 0February 4th: Dylan Fowler , Welsh guitarist, composer and arranger
• 0February 4th: Eckhard Friauf , German biologist
• 0February 4th: Ahmet İyidirli , German politician
• 0February 5th: Vytautas Andriulaitis , Lithuanian correspondence chess player
• 0February 5: Vinnie Colaiuta , American drummer
• 0February 5: Hans Forster , German politician
• 0February 5th: Elke Martens , German pop singer, copywriter, actress and presenter
• 0February 5th: Héctor Rebaque , Mexican racing car driver
• 0February 6: Peter Gailer , German ice hockey player and coach
• 0February 6: Natalia Vladimirovna Linichuk , Russian figure skater
• 0February 6: Jon Walmsley , British actor and voice actor
• 0February 7th: John Nielsen , Danish racing car driver
• 0February 7: Mark St. John , American guitarist († 2007)
• 0February 9: Bejoy Nicephorus D'Cruze , Bangladeshi religious, Archbishop of Dhaka
• February 10: Maroun Ammar , Lebanese auxiliary bishop
• February 11: Didier Lockwood , French jazz violinist and composer († 2018)
• February 11: Gianpietro Zappa , Swiss football player († 2005)
• February 12: Regine Dobberschütz , German jazz singer
• February 12: Arsenio Hall , American actor and comedian
• February 12: Stanislav Moša , Czech director, librettist and theater director
• February 13: Liam Brady , Irish football player and coach
• February 13: Peter Hook , English bass player
• February 14: John Anderson , American football player
• February 14th: Katharina Fritsch , German sculptor
• February 14: Geoff Goodman , American jazz guitarist
• February 14: Rainer Guldener , Swiss actor
• February 15: Nils Landgren , Swedish jazz musician, trombonist
• February 15: Hitoshi Ogawa , Japanese racing car driver († 1992)
• February 16: Sibylle Pomorin , German jazz musician and composer
• February 16: Bodo Ramelow , German politician

Bodo Ramelow , 2011

• February 16: Zbigniew Tłuczyński , Polish handball player and coach
• February 16: Claudia Wunderlich , German handball player
• February 17th: Norberto do Amaral , East Timorese Bishop of Maliana
• February 17th: Stephan Hilsberg , German politician, MdV
• February 17th: Malcolm Wilson , British rally driver and team owner
• February 18: Bidzina Ivanishvili , Georgian businessman and politician
• February 18: Horst Ludwig Meyer , German terrorist of the RAF († 1999)
• February 18: Bruce Rauner , American politician and entrepreneur
• February 18: Rüdiger Abramczik , German soccer player and coach
• February 19: Fiordaliso , Italian singer
• February 19: Koharu Kisaragi , Japanese playwright and theater director († 2000)
• February 19: Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann , German literary and cultural scientist and university professor
• February 19: Lawrie Smith , British sailor
• February 19: Rolf Wilhelm , German politician
• February 20th: Riccardo Del Fra , Italian jazz bassist, composer and arranger
• February 21: Stefan Stoppok , German musician
• February 22: Eva Bulling-Schröter , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• February 23: Sam Auinger , Austrian composer and sound artist
• February 23: Michael Angelo Batio , American rock guitarist
• February 23: Reinhold Beckmann , German TV presenter and football commentator

Reinhold Beckmann , 2007

• February 23: Sabine Sauer , German TV presenter, journalist
• February 24th: Judith Butler , American philosopher, professor of rhetoric
• February 25: Michel Friedman , German lawyer, politician and television presenter
• February 26: Milan Babić , Serbian war criminal († 2006)
• February 27: Brigitte Ederer , Austrian politician
• February 28: Pia Findeiß , German local politician
• February 28: Yehuda Grünfeld , Israeli chess player
• February 28: Knut Hoffmeister , German experimental filmmaker
• February 28: Guy Maddin , Canadian film director
• February 28: Tommy Remengesau , President of Palau
• February 29: Johannes Thimme , RAF member († 1985)
• February 29: Rudolf Volz , German author for musical theater
• February 29: Aileen Wuornos , American serial killer († 2002)
• 00.February: Lydie Auvray , French accordionist and singer

March

• 0March 1: Tim Daly , American actor
• 0March 1: Dalia Grybauskaitė , Lithuanian politician and EU Commissioner

Dalia Grybauskaitė, 2014

• 0March 2nd: Mark Evans , Australian bass player
• 0March 2nd: Karl Freller , German politician
• 0March 2: Eduardo Rodríguez , Bolivian interim president
• 0March 2nd: Hans-Joachim Vatter , German chess master
• 0March 3: Zbigniew Boniek , Polish football player
• 0March 4th: Kermit Driscoll , American jazz bassist
• 0March 5th: Steve Arrington , American singer, songwriter and drummer
• 0March 5: Adriana Barraza , Mexican actress
• 0March 5th: Ruedi Baur , Swiss star designer
• 0March 5: Teena Marie , American R&B and soul singer († 2010)
• 0March 7: Bryan Cranston , American actor
• 0March 7th: Daniel Dorff , American composer
• 0March 7: Carol Guzy , American press photographer
• 0March 8th: Bertrand Balas , French racing car driver
• 0March 8: David Malpass , American economist
• March 10: Helmut Lang , Austrian fashion designer
• March 11th: Carla Estrada , Mexican television producer
• March 11: Ozzie Newsome , American football player
• March 12th: Ove Aunli , Norwegian cross-country skier
• March 12th: Peter Weiß , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• March 12th: Steve Harris , British musician
• March 12th: Friedrich Kröhnke , German writer
• March 12: Pim Verbeek , Dutch football coach († 2019)
• March 13: Dana Delany , American actress and voice actress
• March 14th: Peter Fischer , German sports official
• March 14th: Tessa Sanderson , British javelin thrower and Olympic champion
• March 15: Frank-Peter Hansen , German writer
• March 15: Marcus Kuhl , German ice hockey player and manager
• March 15th: Marco Serafini , Luxembourg director
• March 15: Waltraud Wolff , German politician
• March 15: Paramanga Ernest Yonli , Prime Minister of Burkina Faso
• March 15: Kurt Drawert , German writer
• March 16: Enrique P. Lessa , Uruguayan biologist
• March 16: Yoriko Shōno , Japanese writer
• March 16: Martin Umbach , German actor
• March 16: Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf , Swiss politician
• March 17th: Brigitte Aubert , French writer
• March 17th: Jürgen Pahl , German soccer player
• March 17th: Paul van der Sterren , Dutch chess grandmaster
• March 18: Eduardo Alonso-Crespo , Argentine composer and conductor
• March 18: Alfredo Antoniozzi , Italian politician
• March 18: Ingemar Stenmark , Swedish ski athlete, Olympic champion
• March 19: Chris O'Neil , Australian tennis player
• March 19: Peter Steppuhn , German prehistorian († 2018)
• March 20: Sabiamad Abdul Ahad , Malaysian marksman († 2021)
• March 20: Catherine Ashton , British politician
• March 20: Timothy Mahr , American composer and music educator
• March 21: Christina Baum , German dentist and politician
• March 21: Denise Di Novi , American film producer and director
• March 21: Ingrid Kristiansen , Norwegian athlete
• March 21: Dick Beardsley , American marathon runner
• March 22nd: Maria Teresa , Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
• March 23: Rita Ernst , Swiss artist
• March 23: José Manuel Barroso , Prime Minister of Portugal and President of the European Commission

José Manuel Barroso , 2006

• March 23: Edgar Madi , Lebanese Bishop in Brazil
• March 23: Herbert Knaup , German actor
• March 23: Steven Saylor , American writer
• March 24th: Josef Auer , Austrian politician
• March 24th: Steve Ballmer , American manager
• March 24th: Peter Waterhouse , Austrian writer
• March 26: Charly McClain , American country singer
• March 27th: Axel Richter , German ice hockey goalkeeper
• March 27: Klaus Vogel , German cultural scientist and museum director
• March 27th: Thomas Wassberg , Swedish cross-country skier
• March 28: Amanda Aizpuriete , Latvian writer
• March 28: Evelin Jahl , German athlete
• March 29: Kuno Hämisegger , Swiss economist and banker († 2018)
• March 29: Kurt Thomas , American gymnast, world champion († 2020)
• March 30th: Theo Breuer , German writer and editor
• March 31: Claus Fabian , German music producer, drummer and singer

April

• 0April 1: Lara Andriessen , German writer († 2011)
• 0April 1: Louis Caldera , American politician
• 0April 1: Wolfgang Scherf , German economist
• 0April 2: Heidi Lippmann , German politician (Die Linke)
• 0April 3: Christoph Adt , German conductor and orchestral teacher
• 0April 3: Rainer Höft , German handball player
• 0April 3: Hans-Jakob Mosimann , Swiss legal scholar
• 0April 3rd: Judie Tzuke , British musician
• 0April 4: David E. Kelley , American film producer
• 0April 5: Dagmar Enkelmann , German politician
• 0April 6: Michele Bachmann , US politician
• 0April 6th: Thomas Koschwitz , German entertainer, actor and radio host
• 0April 7th: Siegfried Schneider , German politician
• 0April 8: Justin Sullivan , British musician
• April 11th: Liliana Komorowska , Polish-Canadian actress
• April 11: Reidar Sørensen , Norwegian theater and film actor
• April 12th: Walter Salles , Brazilian film director

Herbert Grönemeyer , 2004

• April 12th: Herbert Grönemeyer , German musician and actor
• April 12th: Andreas Hejj , German professor
• April 12: Yasuo Tanaka , Japanese writer and politician
• April 12: Andy García , American actor
• April 14: Barbara Bonney , American soprano
• April 15: Wolfgang Branoner , German politician
• April 15th: Gert Jan Timmerman , Dutch chess player
• April 15: Michael Cooper , American basketball player and coach
• April 16: Lise-Marie Morerod , Swiss ski racer
• April 16: Gabriel Senanes , Argentine composer
• April 16: Andres Uibo , Estonian composer, organist and university professor
• April 17th: Patrick Gallois , French classical flautist and conductor
• April 18: Roberto Calderoli , Italian politician
• April 18: Bob Latta , American politician
• April 19: Gundi Feyrer , German visual artist and writer
• April 19: Ulrich Sude , German soccer coach
• April 20: Beatrice Ask , Swedish politician
• April 20: Kacha Bendukidze , Georgian entrepreneur and Minister of State († 2014)
• April 21: Jürgen Blum , German eventing rider
• April 22: Joseph Kofi Adda , Ghanaian minister († 2021)
• April 22nd: Jukka-Pekka Saraste , Finnish conductor
• April 23: Klaus Wöller , German handball player
• April 25: Helge Antoni , Swedish pianist
• April 25: Dominique Blanc , French actress
• April 25: Jaroslava Schallerová , Czech actress
• April 25: Koo Stark , American actress, model, and photographer
• April 25: Mirko Votava , German-Czech soccer player and coach
• April 26: Wojciech Konikiewicz , Polish composer, jazz and improvisation musician
• April 26th: Tinks Pottinger , New Zealand eventing rider
• April 26th: Diethard Prengel , German cameraman
• April 27: Dagmar Patrasová , Czech film and television actress, singer and presenter
• April 28th: Thorsten Beck , German lawyer
• April 28th: Gen'yū Sōkyū , Japanese writer and Buddhist priest
• April 28: Martin Zeil , German politician and member of the Bundestag
• April 29: David C. Lane , American religious scholar
• April 29: Johnny Reinhard , American bassoonist and composer
• April 29th: Ernst Strasser , Austrian politician
• April 30th: Lars von Trier , Danish film director

May

• 0May 1st: Alexander Binsteiner , German geoarchaeologist
• 0May 1: Dirk Jung , German Taekwondo athlete and doctor († 2019)
• 0May 1: Zahir Tanin , Afghan diplomat and UN special envoy
• 0May 1st: Andreas Vitásek , Austrian cabaret artist, actor and director
• 0May 2nd: Jorge García , Spanish ski racer
• 0May 3: Natalja Andreitschenko , Russian actress
• 0May 3: Bernd Förster , German soccer player
• 0May 4th: Ulrike Meyfarth , German high jumper and two-time Olympic champion

Ulrike Meyfarth , 2012

• 0May 4: David Guterson , American writer and journalist
• 0May 5th: Kamagurka , Belgian cartoonist
• May 5th: Joachim Lätsch , German actor
• 0May 6: Barbara Krug , German athlete
• 0May 6th: Roland Wieser , German athlete
• 0May 7th: Anne Dudley , British composer and pop musician
• 0May 7th: Jan Peter Balkenende , Dutch politician and Prime Minister

Jan Peter Balkenende, 2007

• 0May 8: Sharon Burley , Australian figure skater
• 0May 9: Frank Andersson , Swedish wrestler († 2018)
• 0May 9: Wendy Crewson , Canadian actress
• 0May 9: Chris MacAllister , American racing car driver
• May 11th: Jella Teuchner , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• May 12th: Greg Phillinganes , American session keyboardist
• May 13: Katalin Szili , Hungarian lawyer
• May 13: Vjekoslav Bevanda , Bosnian-Herzegovinian politician
• May 14: Gillian Bradshaw , American writer
• May 15: Adílio , Brazilian soccer player
• May 16: Sergei Andreyev , Soviet football player and football coach
• May 17th: Martin Löns , German lawyer
• May 17: Bob Saget , American actor
• May 17th: Dave Sim , Canadian comic artist
• May 17: Annise Parker , US politician
• May 18: Tatjana Blacher , German actress
• May 18: Lothar Thoms , German cyclist († 2017)
• May 18: Jean Mbarga , Catholic priest
• May 19: Hellmut Krug , German referee
• May 20: Boris Akunin , Russian crime writer, Japanologist
• May 20: Ingvar Ambjørnsen , Norwegian writer
• May 20: Tomáš Šmíd , Czech tennis player
• May 21: Wolfgang Puschnig , Austrian jazz musician
• May 22nd: Dennie Christian , German pop singer
• May 23: Christoph Antweiler , German ethnologist
• May 23: Ursula Plassnik , diplomat, politician, Austrian Foreign Minister
• May 24th: Sean Kelly , Irish cyclist
• May 25: Mina Ahadi , Iranian activist
• May 25: Stavros Arnaoutakis , Greek politician
• May 25: Peteco Carabajal , Argentine composer, songwriter and all-round musician
• May 25: Ulrich Junghanns , Minister of Economics of Brandenburg
• May 25: Carlos Lavado , Venezuelan motorcycle racer
• May 26th: Pierre Aussu , French football player
• May 26th: Frédéric Dutoit , French politician
• May 27: Clemens Tönnies , German entrepreneur and sports official
• May 27: Giuseppe Tornatore , Italian film director
• May 27: Ulrich Wenner , German legal scholar and judge
• May 28: Don Burgess , American cinematographer
• May 28: Jerry Douglas , American country musician
• May 29: La Toya Jackson , American musician
• May 29th: Anant Singh , South African film producer and opponent of apartheid
• May 30th: Javier Sicilia , Mexican writer
• May 30th: Allen Timpany , British racing car driver
• May 31: Valery Bragin , Russian ice hockey player
• May 31: Rolf Hübler , German enduro athlete († 2013)
• May 31: Margret Suckale , Chief Human Resources Officer at Deutsche Bahn AG

June

• 0June 1: Stephan Barratt-Due , Norwegian violinist and music teacher
• 0June 1: Gregg Harper , American politician
• 0June 1st: Peter Tomka , Judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague
• 0June 2: Adelheid Dahimène , Austrian writer († 2010)
• 0June 3: Ekkehard Klug , German politician
• 0June 3: Suren Nalbandjan , Soviet wrestler
• 0June 3: Zé do Rock , Brazilian writer living in Germany
• 0June 4th: Martin Adams , English darts player
• 0June 4: John R. MacArthur , American journalist
• 0June 4th: Bernd Posselt , German politician
• 0June 5: Kenny G , American soprano saxophonist
• 0June 5: Nicolette Goulet , American actress († 2008)
• 0June 5th: Keith Marshall , British musician and member of the band Hello
• 0June 5th: Kerstin Specht , German writer
• 0June 6th: Björn Borg , Swedish tennis player
  

  Bjorn Borg
• 0June 6th: Bubbi Morthens , songwriter in Iceland
• 0June 7th: Eugenia León , Mexican singer and actress
• 0June 8: Udo Bullmann , German politician
• 0June 9th: Berit Aunli , Norwegian cross-country skier
• 0June 9: Patricia Cornwell , American writer
• 0June 9: Jürgen Jost , German mathematician, Leibniz Prize winner
• 0June 9: Wolfgang Pregler , German actor
• June 10: Laimutė Baikauskaitė , Lithuanian middle-distance runner and Olympic runner-up
• June 10: Peter van Merksteijn sr. Dutch racing car driver
• June 10: Rolandas Paksas , President of Lithuania
• June 11: Joe Montana , American football player
• June 11: Ray Nagin , New Orleans Mayor
• June 11: Simon Plouffe , Canadian mathematician
• June 12: Onutė Narbutaitė , Lithuanian composer
• June 13: Katharina Boele-Woelki , German legal scholar
• June 14th: Juan Carlos Baglietto , Argentine singer-songwriter
• June 15: Robin Curtis , American actress
• June 15: Yevgeny Kisselev , Russian television journalist
• June 16: Mesrop II. Mutafyan , Archbishop and Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Constantinople († 2019)
• June 16: Siegfried Schuch , German conservationist
• June 17th: Rolf Koschorrek , German politician († 2020)
• June 18: Karl Mittermaier , Italian author, journalist and musician
• June 18: Stefano Scodanibbio , Italian composer († 2012)
• June 19: Doug Stone , American country musician
• June 20: Anton Amann , Austrian chemist († 2015)
• June 20: Simone Klages , German children's book author and illustrator
• June 22nd: Derek Forbes , Scottish bass player
• June 22: Tim Russ , American actor
• June 23: Esther Gemsch , Swiss actress
• June 25: Michael Ammar , American magician
• June 25: Anthony Bourdain , American chef and author († 2018)
• June 25: Kirsten Harms , German director and opera director
• June 25: Joachim Kuhs , German politician
• June 25th: Frank Paschek , German athlete
• June 25: Madeleine Petrovic , Austrian politician
• June 25: Boris Trajkovski , Macedonian politician († 2004)
• June 26: Chris Isaak , American singer and film actor
• June 27: Philippe Adamov , French comic artist († 2020)
• June 27: Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud , Saudi Arabian astronaut
• June 27: Larry Christiansen , American chess player
• June 27th: Maria João , Portuguese singer
• June 28th: Romy Kermer , German figure skater, Olympic medalist
• June 28: Helmut Kickton , German church musician
• June 28: Niki List , Austrian film director, screenwriter and producer († 2009)
• June 28th: Nadija Prishchepa , Soviet rower
• June 29th: Britta Neander , German musician († 2004)
• June 29: Nick Fry , British economist and entrepreneur
• June 29: Pedro Santana Lopes , Portuguese politician and Prime Minister
• June 30th: Volker Beck , German athlete
• June 30th: Lothar Höbelt , Austrian historian

July

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• 0July 1: Alan Ruck , American actor
• 0July 1: Disco King Mario , American hip-hop pioneer († around 1994)
• 0July 3: Jorge Luis Prats , Cuban pianist
• 0July 4th: Bettina Böttinger , German TV presenter
• 0July 4th: Werner Follmann , German lawyer
• 0July 5th: Gabi Decker , German cabaret artist
• 0July 5th: Terry Chimes , co-founder and drummer of British punk band The Clash
• 0July 5th: Peter Oberndorfer , German racing car driver
• 0July 6: Mikhail Abramov , Russian admiral
• 0July 6th: Joop Atsma , Dutch politician
• 0July 6: John Jorgenson , American guitarist
• 0July 7th: Peter Hoffmann , German writer and publicist
• 0July 8: Mirosław Drzewiecki , former Polish Minister of Sports and Tourism
• 0July 8: Raffaele Mertes , Italian filmmaker
• 0July 8: Millard Hampton , American athlete and Olympic champion
• 0July 8: Bernhard Mattes , CEO of Ford-Werke GmbH

Tom Hanks , 1989

• 0July 9: Tom Hanks , American actor and director
• 0July 9: Christian Spatzek , Austrian actor
• July 10: Inge Aures , German politician

Günther Jauch , 2008

• July 13: Günther Jauch , German television journalist
• July 14: Vladimir Kulich , Czech actor
• July 15: Ian Curtis , English singer of the rock band Joy Division († 1980)
• July 15th: Gérard Lesne , French countertenor
• July 15: Joe Satriani , American rock guitarist
• July 15: Wayne Taylor , South African racing car driver
• July 16: Peter Becker , German rower
• July 16: Patrick Camus , French racing car driver
• July 16: Lutz Eigendorf , German soccer player († 1983)
• July 16: Jerry Doyle , American actor († 2016)
• July 16: Tony Kushner , American novelist and screenwriter
• July 18: Meral Akşener , Turkish politician
• July 18: Edmund Becker , German soccer player and coach
• July 18: Audrey Landers , American actress
• July 19: Juliane Werding , German pop singer
• July 20: Julio Falcioni , Argentine football goalkeeper and coach
• July 20: Paul Cook , British drummer
• July 20: Ivo Medek , Czech composer and music teacher
• July 21: Helmut Engel , German jazz musician, composer and lecturer
• July 21: Michael Connelly , American writer
• July 22nd: Basilio Athai , Archbishop of Myanmar
• July 22nd: Asmi Bischara , Israeli-Arab politician
• July 22nd: Claude Barthélemy , French guitarist, composer, arranger and big band leader
• July 22nd: Mick Pointer , British drummer
• July 23: Arno Del Curto , Swiss hockey trainer
• July 24th: Charlie Crist , American politician
• July 24th: Antoine Fagot , Belgian football player
• July 24th: Carmen Nebel , German TV presenter
• July 25: Frances H. Arnold , American biochemist and chemical engineer
• July 25: Patrick de Radiguès , Belgian racing car driver and sailor
• July 25: Thomas Ulmer , German MEP
• July 26: Teddy Atlas , American boxing coach and television commentator
• July 26: Dorothy Hamill , American figure skater
• July 27: Hubert Gorbach , Austrian Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister
• July 27: Helmut Seitz , German financial scientist († 2009)
• July 28: Nikolaus von Bomhard , German manager
• July 28: Robert Swan , polar explorer and environmentalist
• July 29: Viv Anderson , English soccer player
• July 29th: Evelyne Dirren , Swiss ski racer
• July 29th: Edita Tahiri , Kosovar politician
• July 30th: Georg Gänswein , priest, private secretary Benedict XVI.
• July 31: Michael Biehn , American film actor
• July 31: Włodzimierz Potasiński , Polish major general († 2010)

August

• 0August 1st: Axel Milberg , German actor
• 0August 3rd: Ian Crichton , Canadian guitarist for the band Saga
• 0August 4th: Frederic Glesser , American composer
• 0August 5th: Carmen Anhorn , Swiss singer (soprano, mezzo-soprano)
• 0August 5th: Jerry Ciccoritti , Canadian film director
• 0August 5th: Anja Kruse , German actress
• 0August 6: Ulrike Mehl , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0August 8: Lena Stolze , German actress
• 0August 8: Birgit Vanderbeke , German writer
• 0August 8: Nathan Wang , American composer
• 0August 9: Virgil Moorefield , American composer, drummer, multimedia artist, and book author
• 0August 9: Adam Nimoy , American director
• August 10: Max Hardcore , American porn actor
• August 10: Sergei Sukhoruchenkov , Soviet-Russian racing cyclist
• August 12: Bruce Greenwood , Canadian actor
• August 12: Dorothee Stapelfeldt , German local politician
• August 14: Rainer Römer , German drummer and radio play author
• August 15: Paulo Autuori de Mello , Brazilian soccer coach
• August 15: Laurel Hester , American gay activist († 2006)
• August 15: Russ Tolman , American singer-songwriter, singer, guitarist, composer, lyricist, and record producer
• August 17th: Philippe Aghion , French economist
• August 17: Reinhard Hesse , German journalist and speechwriter († 2004)
• August 17: John Kosmina , Australian football player and coach
• August 17th: Nigel Lamb , British aerobatic pilot
• August 18th: Andrew Bennie , New Zealand eventing rider
• August 18: John Debney , American film composer
• August 18: Heike Jonca , German actress
• August 18th: Andy Pilgrim , British racing car driver
• August 18: Rainer Maria Woelki , Archbishop of Cologne
• August 19: Adam Arkin , American actor
• August 19: Maria Berger , Austrian politician, MdEU
• August 19: Sergio Brio , Italian football player
• August 21: Kim Cattrall , Canadian-American actress
• August 22: Valery Abramov , Russian long-distance runner († 2016)
• August 22nd: Horst Seidenfaden , German journalist and writer
• August 22nd: Charles Slater , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
• August 23: Dave Grossman , American military psychologist
• August 23: Valgerd Svarstad Haugland , Norwegian Christian Democrat politician
• August 24: Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar , Sultan of Sokoto
• August 24: Jürgen Krause , German handball player and coach
• August 24th: Nina Ruge , German television journalist
• August 24th: Potti Wahl , German handball player and trainer
• August 25: Robert Brahm , auxiliary bishop in Trier
• August 25: Henri Toivonen , Finnish rally driver († 1986)
• August 25: Harald Wolf , German politician and Berlin Senator for Economic Affairs
• August 27: Kürşat Atılgan , Turkish politician
• August 27: Glen Matlock , bassist and founding member of the Sex Pistols
• August 29: GG Allin , American rock and punk musician († 1993)
• August 29: Eddie Murray , Canadian American football player
• August 30: Bernadette Zurbriggen , Swiss ski racer
• August 30th: Ismaël Lô , Senegalese musician
• August 31: Danny Dziuk , German musician

September

• 0September 1st: Emil Andreev , Bulgarian writer
• 0September 1: Vinnie Johnson , American basketball player
• 0September 2nd: Zlatan Arnautović , Yugoslav handball player
• 0September 2nd: Jamal Karsli , German politician and interpreter
• 0September 3: Masahiro Akimoto , Japanese ski jumper
• 0September 3: Hans-Georg Beyer , German handball player
• 0September 3: Klaus Draeger , German engineer and manager
• 0September 4th: Nikola Špirić , Prime Minister of Bosnia
• 0September 4th: Werner Zirngibl , German tennis player
• 0September 5th: Uwe Anton , German science fiction writer and translator
• 0September 5th: Wolfgang Anzengruber , Austrian manager
• 0September 6th: Denis Morin , French racing car driver
• 0September 7th: Michael Feinstein , American songwriter and pianist
• 0September 7th: Diane Warren , American composer
• 0September 8: Helmut Böttiger , German writer
• 0September 8: Maurice Cheeks , American basketball player
• 0September 8: Eivin One Pedersen , Norwegian jazz musician († 2012)
• 0September 8: Gerd Rosendahl , German handball player
• 0September 8: Frank Tovey , British musician († 2002)
• 0September 9th: Anatoly Arzebarskyj , Soviet cosmonaut
• September 10: Henrik Agerbeck , Danish football player
• September 10: David Tanenbaum , American classical guitarist
• September 11th: Christof Florus , German politician
• September 11th: Thomas Griese , German lawyer and politician
• September 12: Jeffrey Kahane , American pianist, harpsichordist, conductor and music teacher
• September 14: Ray Wilkins , English football coach and football player († 2018)
• September 14: Kostas Karamanlis , Prime Minister of the Republic of Greece
• September 15: Ross Anderson , British researcher, author and security technology consultant
• September 15th: Mie Miki , Japanese accordionist and professor
• September 15: Rick Sutherland , American racing car driver

David Copperfield 2011

• September 16: David Copperfield , American magician
• September 16: Seppo Eichkorn , German soccer coach
• September 16: Mirko Šarović , Bosnian politician and President of the Republika Srpska
• September 16: Peter Stellwag , German table tennis player
• September 17th: Almasbek Atambayev , Kyrgyz politician
• September 17th: Christian Jung , German plant geneticist and molecular biologist
• September 18: Tim McInnerny , British actor
• September 19: Lenny Castro , American percussionist
• September 19: Elisabeth Grochtmann , German politician
• September 19: Cyrus Nowrasteh , American screenwriter and director
• September 19: Wolfgang Lackerschmid , German jazz musician
• September 20th: Steve Coleman , jazz musician, alto saxophonist, leader
• September 20th: Elisabeth Max-Theurer , Austrian dressage rider
• September 20th: Cyril Neveu , French motorcycle racer
• September 21: Pamela Behr , German ski racer
• September 21: Momir Bulatović , Montenegrin politician and president († 2019)
• September 21: Wolfgang Galow , German correspondence chess player and photographer
• September 21: Joachim Herrmann , German politician
• September 21: Dieter Lüst , German theoretical physicist
• September 21: Susan McNuff , British rower
• September 22nd: Fritz Fischer , German biathlete and Olympic champion
• September 22nd: Thomas Wilkening , German TV producer († 2005)
• September 22nd: Nathan Seiberg , Israeli-American physicist
• September 23: Paolo Rossi , Italian football player († 2020)
• September 23: Peter David , American writer
• September 24th: Ilona Slupianek , German athlete
• September 25th: Peter Kwaku Atuahene , Ghanaian bishop
• September 25: Salvatore Bagni , Italian football player
• September 25th: Purple Schulz , German pop singer
• September 26th: Axel Pape , German actor
• September 26: Linda Hamilton , American actress
• September 27: Steve Archibald , Scottish football player and coach
• September 27: David Garfield , American keyboardist, songwriter and producer
• September 27: Martin Handford , British children's author and illustrator ( Where's Walter? )
• September 27: Michael Luther , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• September 28: Paul Achleitner , Austrian banker
• September 29: Sebastian Coe , British athlete and politician

Désirée Nick , 2011

• September 30th: Frank Arnesen , Danish football official and football player
• September 30th: Désirée Nick , German entertainer, actress and author

October

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Carrie Fisher, 2013

• 0October 1: Andrus Ansip , Estonian Prime Minister
• 0October 1st: Theresa May , British politician
• 0October 1: Vance Law , American baseball player
• 0October 3: John Richard Attlee , British politician
• 0October 3: Peter Frechette , American actor
• 0October 3: Ralph Morgenstern , German actor
• 0October 4th: Hans van Breukelen , Dutch football player
• 0October 4th: Karl-Heinz Paqué , German economist and politician
• 0October 4th: Doug Padilla , American athlete
• 0October 4th: Christoph Waltz , German-Austrian actor
• 0October 6: Sadiq al-Ahmar , Yemeni politician and militia leader
• 0October 6: Bruno Nöckler , Italian ski racer († 1982)
• 0October 7th: Atanas Atanassow , Bulgarian long jumper
• 0October 8: Stephanie Zimbalist , American actress
• 0October 8: Timothy Collins , American entrepreneur
• 0October 9: Katherine Alice Applegate , American science fiction writer
• 0October 9th: Ignaz Netzer , German blues guitarist, harmonica player, singer and songwriter
• October 10: Amanda Burton , British actress
• October 10: David Hempleman-Adams , British entrepreneur and adventurer
• October 10: Taur Matan Ruak , East Timorese freedom fighter, general and president
• October 11th: Marisol Casado , Spanish triathlete, President of the International Triathlon Union
• October 11: Nicanor Duarte Frutos , President of Paraguay
• October 12: Mark Dismore , American racing car driver
• October 12: Gabriele Frechen , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• October 12: Reinhard Kiefer , German writer and literary scholar
• October 13: Chris Carter , film producer and screenwriter
• October 14th: Chris Bangle , American automobile designer
• October 14: Leila Ben Ali , influential First Lady of Tunisia (1992-2011)
• October 14: Constanze Krehl , German MEP
• October 14: Valery Ivanovich Zyganov , Russian skier
• October 14: Peter Lüscher , Swiss ski racer
• October 15: Freddie Röckenhaus , German journalist and documentary filmmaker
• October 15: Claus Vinçon , German actor
• October 16: Linard Bardill , Swiss theologian, songwriter and writer
• October 16: Elisabeth Edl , Austrian translator
• October 17th: Norbert Henke , German handball trainer and handball player
• October 18: Isabelle Autissier , French sailor and author
• October 18: Michael Lesch , German actor
• October 18: Martina Navratilova , Czech tennis player
• October 18: Jim Talent , American politician and senator
• October 19: Didier Theys , Belgian racing car driver
• October 20: Danny Boyle , British director
• October 20: Stephan Zacharias , German composer
• October 20th: Peter Zipfel , German cross-country skier
• October 21: Carrie Fisher , American actress and author († 2016)
• October 22nd: Jun Aoki , Japanese architect
• October 22nd: Pierre Ehret , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
• October 22nd: Klaus Tscheuschner , politician, Lord Mayor of Flensburg
• October 23: Robert Evans , UK MEP
• October 23: Dwight Yoakam , American country musician and film actor

Katrin Sass , 2012

• October 23: Katrin Sass , German theater, film and television actress
• October 23: Dianne Reeves , American jazz singer and songwriter
• October 24: Karl Karst , German radio journalist
• October 25: Bernard Harvey , Jamaican pianist, keyboardist and organist
• October 27: Christiane Wartenberg , German athlete
• October 27: Michèle Chardonnet , French athlete and Olympian
• October 27: Veronica Hart , American porn actress, actress
• October 28: Michael Guggemos , German politician and trade unionist
• October 28: Franky Vercauteren , Belgian football player and coach
• October 28th: Volker Zotz , Austrian philosopher

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 2009

• October 28: Mahmoud Ahmadineschād , Iranian President
• October 30th: Juliet Stevenson , British film actress
• October 30: Christina Rau , political scientist and wife of Johannes Rau
• October 31: Annie Finch , American poet, translator, and editor
• October 31: Reinhold Gall , German politician and Member of the State Parliament

November

• 0November 1st: Gaby Albrecht , German singer
• 0November 1st: Ralf Isau , German writer
• 0November 2: Dale Brown , American writer
• 0November 3rd: Karl-Heinz Aul , German soccer player and soccer coach
• 0November 3rd: Hubert Hüppe , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0November 4th: James Honeyman-Scott , British guitarist, member of the Pretenders († 1982)
• 0November 4th: Jordan Rudess , American keyboardist
• 0November 4th: Andreas Schmidt , German politician
• 0November 5th: Denise Jannah , Dutch jazz singer
• 0November 6: Lei Clijsters , Belgian football player († 2009)
• 0November 6th: Marc Dutroux , Belgian serial killer
• 0November 7th: Anna Ogino , Japanese writer
• 0November 8th: Mari Boine , Sami-Norwegian musician
• 0November 8: Richard Curtis , New Zealand screenwriter
• November 11: José Luis Brown , Argentinian football player († 2019)
• November 11: Rainer Schedlinski , German writer († 2019)
• November 11th: Vedran Smailović , Bosnian cellist
• November 12th: Uwe Strübing , German composer
• November 13: Erhan Arslan , Turkish football goalkeeper and coach
• November 13: Charlie Baker , American politician
  

  Charlie Baker
• November 13: Christof Koch , American neuroscientist
• November 13th: Aldo Nova , Canadian guitarist, keyboardist, singer and producer
• November 13: Bill Scanlon , American tennis professional († 2021)
• November 14: Keith Alexander , British football player († 2010)
• November 14: Ken Bowersox , U.S. Air Force Colonel and astronaut
• November 14th: Hans-Jürgen Gede , German soccer coach and soccer player
• November 14: Peter R. de Vries , Dutch investigative journalist († 2021)
• November 15: Zlatko Kranjčar , Croatian soccer player and soccer coach († 2021)
• November 19: Eileen Collins , American astronaut
• November 19: Jim Hodges , American politician
• November 20: Bo Derek , American actress
• November 20: Olli Dittrich , German actor and comedian
  

  Olli Dittrich .
• November 20: Helmfried von Lüttichau , German actor
• November 21: Cynthia Rhodes , American dancer and actress
• November 22nd: Antje Vogel-Sperl , German politician
• November 23: Shane Gould , Australian swimmer
• November 24: Ruben Santiago-Hudson , American actor
• November 25th: Gabriel Aeppli , Swiss-American solid-state physicist
• November 26th: Ronald Schminke , German politician
• November 27th: Thomas Hörster , German soccer player and soccer coach
• November 27: Günter Grünwald , German cabaret artist
• November 27: Lionello Manfredonia , Italian football player
• November 28: Charlie Kohlhase , American jazz saxophonist
• November 28: Bernd Scholl , German composer and musician
• November 29: Bambus-Klaus , German innkeeper and pop singer († 2012 )
• November 29th: Andreas Bornschein , German football player (GDR)
• November 30th: Anders Åslund , Swedish football player
• November 30th: Heinz Rudolf Kunze , German rock singer
  

  Heinz Rudolf Kunze , 2005
• November 30th: Claude-Oliver Rudolph , German actor

December

• 0December 1: Julee Cruise , American singer
• 0December 1st: Jorge Pardo , Spanish saxophonist and flautist
• 0December 3: Charles M. Huber , German actor and politician
• 0December 3: Mario Wirz , German writer († 2013)
• 0December 4th: Lisa Politt , political cabaret artist
• 0December 4th: Guy Morin , Swiss politician

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• 0December 5th: Klaus Allofs , German soccer player and manager
• 0December 5th: Rosalía Arteaga , Ecuadorian lawyer, writer and politician
• 0December 5th: Krystian Zimerman , Polish pianist and orchestra leader
• 0December 6: Randy Rhoads , American rock guitarist († 1982)
• 0December 6th: Hans Kammerlander , South Tyrolean mountaineer
• 0December 6: Peter Buck , American musician (REM)
• 0December 7: Larry Bird , American basketball player
• 0December 7th: Rebecca Harms , German politician and documentary filmmaker
• 0December 7th: Michele Oliveri , Italian actor and director
• 0December 8: Pierre Pincemaille , French composer, organist and music teacher († 2018)
• 0December 8th: Marietta Meade , German actress and voice actress
• 0December 9: Michael Groschek , German politician
• 0December 9: Akio Miyazawa , Japanese playwright and writer
• 0December 9: Ulrich Peltzer , German writer
• 0December 9: Sylvia , American country musician
• 0December 9: Jean-Pierre Thiollet , French writer
• December 10: Christine Goll , Swiss politician
• December 11th: Thomas Andersson , Swedish football player
• December 11th: Dankwart Brinksmeier , Protestant pastor, co-founder of the SDP in the GDR

Tom Gerhardt , 2008

• December 12th: Tom Gerhardt , German comedian
• December 13: Majida El Roumi , Lebanese singer and actress
• December 14th: Sandy Adams , US politician
• December 14th: Dieter Agatha , German soccer player
• December 14: Béla Réthy , German sports presenter of Hungarian origin
• December 14th: Hanni Wenzel , Liechtenstein Olympic champion
• December 14: Erhard Wunderlich , German handball player († 2012)
• December 15: Mark Hummel , American harmonica player
• December 17: Peter Farrelly , American director, producer and screenwriter
• December 18: Elke Best , German pop singer
• December 18: Reinhold Ewald , German physicist and astronaut
• December 18: Christian Y. Schmidt , German journalist and author
• December 18: Thomas Ziegler , German science fiction writer († 2004)
• December 19: Masami Akita , Japanese Japanoise musician and author
• December 20: Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz , Mauritanian general
• December 21: Roc LaFortune , Canadian actor
• December 21: Lee Roy Parnell , American country singer and songwriter
• December 23: Michele Alboreto , Italian racing driver († 2001)
• December 23rd: Dave "Moonface" Murray , British musician
• December 24: Irene Khan , 7th International Secretary General of Amnesty International (AI)
• December 25th: Stefan Grüttner , German politician
• December 26: Christian Bieniek , German writer († 2005)
• December 26th: Hans Brinkmann , German writer
• December 26: David Sedaris , American writer and journalist
• December 27: Rachel Bissex , American folk singer and singer-songwriter († 2005)
• December 27th: Horst Kummeth , German actor, director and author
• December 27th: Doina Melinte , Romanian athlete and Olympic champion
• December 27: Rabe Perplexum , German painter and performance artist († 1996)
• December 27: Arno Scherzberg , German legal scholar
• December 28th: Nigel Kennedy , British violinist
• December 28: Birgitt Bender , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• December 28th: Burkhard Spinnen , German writer
• December 28: Hans-Joachim Dose , judge at the German Federal Court of Justice
• December 29th: Christine Errath , German figure skater
• December 29th: Thomas Etzold , German cameraman
• December 30th: Suzy Bogguss , American country singer
• December 31: Andrea Gabriella Kapsaski , Greek actress, film producer, poet and translator
• December 31: Helma Knorscheidt , German athlete
• December 31: Christine Scheel , German politician

Day unknown

• Roland Adloff , German writer
• Steven Aftergood , American physicist and political scientist
• Kōichirō Agata , Japanese administrative scientist
• Oskar Aichinger , Austrian composer and pianist
• Ghassan Andoni , Palestinian physicist and peace activist
• Christophe André , French psychiatrist and psychotherapist
• Volker Angres , German journalist
• Birgit Antoni , German artist and painter
• Nizamettin Ariç , Kurdish singer and film director
• Sabine Arlitt , Swiss art critic
• Ralphe Armstrong , American fusion and jazz bassist
• Sigrid Arnade , German veterinarian and activist
• Eduard Arzt , Austrian physicist
• Stephan Aschböck , Austrian keyboardist and composer
• René Aubry , French composer
• Arnold Auer , Austrian politician († 2020)
• Kurt Augustin , Austrian sculptor, graphic artist and restorer
• Alice Auma , Ugandan rebel leader († 2007)
• Hanefi Avcı , Turkish author
• Martin Bärenz , German cellist, double bass player, composer and arranger
• Anna Maria Bauer , Polish painter
• Dominic Catalano , American children's book illustrator and author
• Deborah Drattell , American composer
• Dror Elimelech , Israeli composer and poet
• Rajmil Fischman , Peruvian composer and music educator
• Christopher B. Frye , American composer and music educator
• Sheila F. Gagen , American composer and music teacher
• François Gorin , French journalist, music critic and author
• David Hahn , American composer, guitarist, lutenist and mandolinist
• Jonathan Locke Hart , Canadian literary scholar and poet
• Dave Heath , English flautist and composer
• A. Eric Heukeshoven , American composer and music teacher
• Jörg Hindemith , German singer, composer and music producer
• Matthias Keller , German pianist, organist, composer and music journalist
• Eberhard Lauer , German organist and church musician
• Li Hongzhong , Chinese politician
• Hans Losert , German medieval archaeologist
• Lu Pei , Chinese-American composer and music educator
• Ernst-Christoph Meier , German political scientist and ministerial official
• Tony Millionaire , American comic book artist
• Han Nolan , American author
• Katalin Ottományi , Hungarian archaeologist
• Werner Pees , German diocesan music director and cathedral music director
• Geneviève Picot , Australian actress
• Irene Rindje , German actress
• Dagmar Röhrlich , German science journalist
• Kjell Roos , Swedish singer and guitarist
• Karin Sarholz , German radio editor
• Andreas Scheinhütte , German guitarist and author
• Wolfgang Seifen , German organist
• Ekkehard Skoruppa , German journalist
• Andrei Smirnow , Russian multimedia artist and performer, composer, instrument maker and music teacher
• Thies Völker , German non-fiction author
• Wolfram Wessels , German journalist, radio historian, feature and radio play author and director
• Richard Wester , German saxophonist and composer
• Martha Zechmeister , Austrian theologian
• Samuel Zygmuntowicz , violin maker

Died

January

Joseph Wirth

• 0January 1: Ludwig Dürr , German airship designer (* 1878)
• 0January 3: Alexander Grechaninov , Russian composer (* 1864)
• 0January 3: Joseph Wirth , German politician (* 1879)
• 0January 7th: Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler , German type designer (* 1882)
• 0January 9: Julius Herman Boeke , Dutch economist (* 1884)
• January 10: Alfred Klotz , German classical philologist (* 1874)
• January 10: César Moro , Peruvian poet and surrealist painter (* 1903)
• January 12: Franz Dinghofer , Austrian judge and politician (* 1873)
• January 13: Lyonel Feininger , German-American-French caricaturist and painter (* 1871)
• January 15: Bartolomé Pérez Casas , Spanish composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1873)
• January 17: Blind Alfred Reed , American country musician (* 1880)
• January 18: Makbule Atadan , sister of the founder of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (* 1885)
• January 23: Alexander Korda , Hungarian director (* 1893)
• January 24th: Oskar Karlweis , Austrian actor (* 1894)
• January 27: Erich Kleiber , Austrian conductor (* 1890)
• January 28: Marie Juchacz , German social reformer and women's rights activist (* 1879)
• January 30th: Hans Beschorner , German archivist and historian (* 1872)
• January 31: AA Milne , English writer (* 1882)

February

• 0February 3: Émile Borel , French mathematician and politician (* 1871)
• 0February 3: Johnny Claes , Belgian racing driver (* 1916)
• 0February 3: Eilhard Alfred Mitscherlich , German soil scientist and agricultural scientist (* 1874)
• 0February 4th: Janko Binenbaum , Turkish composer (* 1880)
• 0February 4th: Peder Gram , Danish composer (* 1881)
• 0February 5: Savielly Tartakower , Polish-French chess player (* 1887)
• 0February 6: Henri Chrétien , French astronomer and inventor (* 1879)
• February 10: Otto Müller , German publisher (* 1901)
• February 13: Jan Łukasiewicz , Polish philosopher, mathematician and logician (* 1878)
• February 14th: Henri Arnaud , French middle-distance runner (* 1891)

Arnošt Bart
(† February 15)

• February 14th: Enrique Sáenz-Valiente , Argentinian marksman and automobile racing driver (* 1917)
• February 15: Arnošt Bart-Brězynčanski , Sorbian politician, first Domowina chairman (* 1870)
• February 18: Gustave Charpentier , French composer (* 1860)
• February 18: Peter Rohr , Romanian-German composer and conductor (* 1881)
• February 19: Karl Bösch , Austrian politician (* 1879)
• February 20: Heinrich Barkhausen , German physicist (* 1881)
• February 21: Karl Anton , German theologian (* 1887)
• February 21: Edwin Franko Goldman , American composer and conductor (* 1878)
• February 24: Heinrich Imig , German politician (* 1893)
• February 24: Gerrit Smith Miller , American zoologist (* 1869)
• February 25: Elmer Drew Merrill , American botanist (* 1876)
• February 26: Rudolf Kanzler , German surveyor and politician (* 1873)
• February 27: Günther Ramin , German organist, choir director and composer (* 1898)
• February 28: Harley M. Kilgore , American politician (* 1893)
• February 28: Frigyes Riesz , Hungarian mathematician (* 1880)
• February 29: Elpidio Quirino , Filipino politician and President (* 1890)

March

• 0March 3: Ernst Loof , German engineer, racing driver, race director and entrepreneur (* 1907)
• 0March 4: Otto Harder , German football player (* 1892)
• 0March 5: Erich Itor Kahn , German musician (* 1905)
• March 11: Sergei Wassilenko , Russian composer and conductor (* 1872)
• March 12: Bolesław Bierut , Polish politician (* 1892)
• March 12: Peter Goessler , German archaeologist (* 1872)
• March 16: Sergei Evsejew , Russian composer (* 1894)
• March 17: Irène Joliot-Curie , French chemist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1897)
• March 18: Louis Bromfield , American writer (* 1896)
• March 18: Nikolaj Velimirović , Serbian Orthodox Bishop (* 1881)
• March 21: Raymond E. Willis , American politician (* 1875)
• March 22: George Sarton , American historian of science (* 1884)
• March 23: Mort Dixon , American musician, songwriter and lyricist (* 1892)
• March 24th: Edmund Taylor Whittaker , British mathematician (* 1873)
• March 28: Burghard Breitner , Austrian surgeon (* 1884)
• March 29: Hans Hermann Adler , German newspaper scientist and professor (* 1891)
• March 30th: EC Bentley , British writer (* 1875)
• March 30th: Thomas Dufferin Pattullo , Canadian politician (* 1873)
• March 31: Ralph DePalma , American motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1882)

April

• 0April 1: Viola Gillette , American singer (* 1871)
• 0April 2: Takamura Kōtarō , Japanese poet, essayist and sculptor (* 1883)
• 0April 5: Wilhelm Schussen , German writer (* 1874)
• 0April 6: Walter Rohrbeck , German university professor (* 1885)
• April 10: Božidar Širola , Croatian composer (* 1889)

Emil Nolde .

• April 13: Alfred Birlem , German football referee (* 1888)
• April 13: Emil Nolde , German Expressionist painter (* 1867)
• April 14: Johannes Busch , German Protestant theologian and evangelist (* 1905)
• April 15: Michael Gamper , Italian priest and publicist (* 1885)
• April 16: Jean de Marguenat , French director, screenwriter and racing car driver (* 1893)
• April 19: Ernst Robert Curtius , German scholar and Romanist (* 1886)
• April 21: Angelo Dibona , South Tyrolean climber and mountain guide (* 1879)
• April 21: Stan Golestan , Romanian composer and music critic (* 1875)
• April 22nd: Walt Faulkner , American racing car driver (* 1920)
• April 24: Albrecht Alt , German theologian (* 1883)
• April 24: Kurt Moosdorf , German politician, SPD (* 1884)
• April 24th: Henry Stephenson , British film and stage actor (* 1871)
• April 25: Paul Renner , German typographer (* 1878)
• April 26: Edward Arnold , American actor (* 1890)
• April 26: Gustav Oelsner , German architect and town planner (* 1879)
• April 28: Friedrich Schmidt-Ott , German science organizer (* 1860)
• April 29: Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb , General Field Marshal in the Third Reich (* 1876)
• April 30: Alben W. Barkley , Vice President of the United States, politician (* 1877)

May

• 0May 1: LeRoy Samse , American athlete (* 1883)
• 0May 3: Albert Kallee , German lawyer (* 1884)
• 0May 4: Mina Benson Hubbard , Canadian explorer (* 1870)
• 0May 6: Fergus Anderson , British motorcycle racer (* 1909)
• 0May 6: Karl Schworm , German author and local poet (* 1889)
• 0May 7: Josef Hoffmann , Austrian architect and designer (* 1870)
• May 10: Adele Gerhard , German writer (* 1868)
• May 11: Walter Sydney Adams , American astronomer (* 1876)
• May 11: Matsumoto Takashi , Japanese writer (* 1906)
• May 12: Vladimír Ambros , Czech composer (* 1890)
• May 12: Arthur Letondal , Canadian organist, music teacher and composer (* 1869)
• May 15: Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg , German composer (* 1876)
• May 15: Jovan Bandur , Croatian composer (* 1899)
• May 15: Paul Köttgen , German soil scientist (* 1881)
• May 15: Julius Oetiker , Swiss lawyer and civil servant (* 1877)
• May 15: Austin Osman Spare , British printmaker, painter and magician (* 1886)
• May 19: Ferdinand Andri , Austrian painter and graphic artist (* 1871)
• May 20: Albert Duquesne , Canadian actor (* 1890)
• May 20: William John Gies , American biochemist and dentist (* 1872)
• May 19: Otto Pannenbecker , German politician (* 1879)
• May 20: Zoltán von Halmay , Hungarian swimmer and swimming coach (* 1881)
• May 21: Kurt Heinig , German politician, journalist and writer (* 1886)
• May 24th: Wilhelm Naegel , German politician (* 1904)
• May 25: Johann Radon , Austrian mathematician (* 1887)
• May 29: Hermann Abendroth , German conductor (* 1883)
• May 30: Valaida Snow , American jazz trumpeter and singer (* 1904)
• May 30: Tadeusz Wilczak , Polish conductor (* 1908)
• May 31: Diedrich Westermann , German Africanist and ethnologist (* 1875)

June

• 0June 2: Arthur Adolph , German politician (* 1896)
• 0June 3: Victor Gonzalez , French organ builder (* 1877)
• 0June 5: Rudolph Sauerwein , German automobile racing driver (* 1901)
• 0June 6: Hiram Bingham , American archaeologist and politician (* 1875)
• 0June 6th: Otto Lukas , German teacher, poet and writer (* 1881)
• 0June 7th: Julien Benda , French philosopher and writer (* 1867)
• 0June 8: Hans Meiser , Protestant regional bishop of Bavaria (* 1881)
• June 10: Fritz Dirtl , Austrian motorcycle racer (* 1928)
• June 13: Reginald Goss-Custard , English organist and composer (* 1877)
• June 16: Fritz Koch-Gotha , German illustrator and writer (* 1877)
• June 17th: Paul Rostock , doctor, defendant in the Nuremberg medical trial (* 1892)
• June 17: Bob Sweikert , American racing driver (* 1926)
• June 19: Vladimir Obruchev , Soviet geologist, geographer and writer (* 1863)
• June 19: Lulu von Strauss and Torney , German poet and writer (* 1873)
• June 20: August Hinrichs , German writer (* 1879)
• June 22nd: Walter de la Mare , English poet and author (* 1873)
• June 22nd: José Perotti , Chilean painter and sculptor (* 1898)
• June 23: Reinhold Glière , Russian composer (* 1875)
• June 25: Ernest J. King , American admiral (* 1878)
• June 25: Miyagi Michio , Japanese composer and koto player (* 1894)
• June 26: Clifford Brown , American jazz trumpeter (* 1930)
• June 29: Thomas R. Underwood , American politician (* 1898)
• June 30th: Annie Bousquet , French-Austrian racing car driver (* 1925)
• June 30th: Alfredo Ferrari , Italian engineer (* 1932)

July

• 0July 1: Tawfiq Abu l-Huda , Prime Minister of Transjordan (* 1894)
• 0July 5: Francis J. Myers , American politician (* 1901)
• 0July 7th: Gottfried Benn , German doctor, poet and essayist (* 1886)
• July 10: Georg Dittmann , German classical philologist (* 1871)
• July 11: Werner Riegel , German poet and essayist (* 1925)
• July 14th: Jos van Son , Dutch football player (* 1893)
• July 15: William H. Murray , American politician (* 1869)
• July 17th: Bodo von Borries , German electrical engineer and co-inventor of the electron microscope (* 1905)
• July 24th: Alessandro Anzani , Italian engineer and racing driver (* 1877)
• July 27: Leopold Petznek , President of the Austrian Court of Auditors (* 1881)
• July 27: Otto Ziegler , German politician (* 1895)
• July 28: Walter Andrae , German building researcher and archaeologist (* 1875)
• July 28th: Louis Héry , racing car driver (* 1916)
• July 29th: Ludwig Klages , German philosopher of life, psychologist (* 1872)

August

• 0August 3: Albert Finck , German politician (* 1895)
• 0August 5: John Miller Andrews , Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (* 1871)
• 0August 5: Wilhelm Stockums , auxiliary bishop in Cologne (* 1877)
• 0August 6: Johan Frans van Bemmelen , Dutch paleontologist and zoologist (* 1859)
• 0August 7th: John Latouche , American writer and librettist (* 1914)
• 0August 8: Just Scheu , German composer, librettist, actor, screenwriter and on (* 1903)
• August 11: Jackson Pollock , American painter (* 1912)
• August 11th: Frieda von Richthofen , German writer and translator (* 1879)
• August 12: Gianpiero Combi , Italian football player (* 1902)
• August 12: Albert Freude , German Roman Catholic pastor (* 1877)
• August 12: Ernst Kreidolf , Swiss picture book illustrator (* 1863)
• August 13: Hans-Hasso von Veltheim , German Indologist, anthroposophist and world traveler (* 1885)

Bertolt Brecht , 1954

• August 14: Bertolt Brecht , German writer (* 1898)
• August 14: Konstantin von Neurath , German Foreign Minister and Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia (* 1873)
• August 14: Joseph Godehard Machens , German bishop (* 1886)
• August 16: Bela Lugosi , Hungarian actor (* 1882)
• August 16: Theodor Pallady , Romanian painter (* 1871)
• August 16: Wilhelm Wenker , pastor of St. Hippolytus in Gelsenkirchen-Horst (* 1874)
• August 17th: Abram Jampolski , Russian violinist and music teacher (* 1890)
• August 20: Bernard William Griffin , Archbishop of Westminster and Cardinal (* 1899)
• August 21: Juan José de Amézaga , Uruguayan lawyer (* 1881)
• August 23: Ernst Frick , Swiss painter (* 1881)
• August 25: Alfred Charles Kinsey , American sex researcher (* 1894)
• August 25: Robert Oppenheim , German private banker (* 1882)
• August 26th: Hans Baltisberger , German motorcycle racer (* 1922)
• August 31: Percy MacKaye , American playwright and poet (* 1875)
• August 31: Yves Nat , French pianist and composer (* 1890)

September

• 0September 5: Walther Hensel , German folk song researcher and folk song collector (* 1887)
• 0September 6th: Witold Hurewicz , Polish mathematician (* 1904)
• 0September 6: Alex Raymond , American draftsman (* 1909)
• 0September 6th: Michael Ventris , English linguist (* 1922)
• 0September 7th: Karl Blodig , Austrian mountaineer, ophthalmologist, author (* 1859)
• 0September 7th: Otto Juljewitsch Schmidt , Soviet geophysicist and Arctic researcher (* 1891)
• September 10: Homer S. Cummings , American politician (* 1870)
• September 11th: Herminio Masantonio , Argentinian football player (* 1910)
• September 12: Hermann Ammann , German linguist (* 1885)
• September 12: Hans Carossa , German poet and author (* 1878)
• September 15: Jacques Companéez , French screenwriter (* 1906)
• September 19: Ferdinand Holthausen , German Anglicist (* 1860)
• September 21: Karl Caspar , German painter (* 1879)
• September 25: Khadr Sayed El Touni , Egyptian weightlifter (* 1915)
• September 26: Lucien Febvre , French historian (* 1878)
• September 27: Gerald Finzi , English composer (* 1901)
• September 27: Mildred Didrikson Zaharias , American athlete and golfer (* 1911)
• September 28: William Edward Boeing , American aircraft designer (* 1881)

October

• 0October 1: Stan Ockers , Belgian racing cyclist (* 1920)
• 0October 2: George Bancroft , American actor (* 1882)
• 0October 4th: Tommy Thistlethwayte , British racing car driver (* 1903)
• 0October 5: Juan Armet , Spanish football player and coach (* 1895)
• 0October 7th: Maud Allan , Canadian-American dancer (* 1873)
• 0October 7th: Max von Prittwitz and Gaffron , German major general (* 1876)
• 0October 8: Walter Walker , American politician (* 1883)
• 0October 9: Lucie Höflich , German actress (* 1883)
• October 12: Otto Bruchwitz , German educator and local researcher (* 1877)
• October 13: Robert Lehr , German politician (* 1883)
• October 14: Benno von Arent , German architect and "Reichsbühnenbildner" (stage designer) in the Third Reich (* 1898)
• October 16: Jules Rimet , President of FIFA (* 1873)
• October 18: Grosvenor Atterbury , American architect, town planner and writer (* 1869)
• October 18: Josef Blum , Austrian soccer player and coach (* 1898)
• October 21: Ángel Castro Argiz , father of Fidel and Raúl Castro (* 1875)
• October 21: Ludwig Arzt , German entrepreneur (* 1873)
• October 25: Walter Karbe , German homeland researcher (* 1877)
• October 26: Lucien Gagnier , Canadian flautist (* 1900)
• October 26: Walter Gieseking , German pianist and composer (* 1895)
• October 26: Otto Scheff , Austrian freestyle swimmer (* 1889)
• October 27: Domingos Leite Pereira , Portuguese politician (* 1882)
• October 29: Walter Evans Edge , American politician (* 1873)

Fritz Hofmann

• October 29: Fritz Hofmann , German chemist (* 1866)
• October 29: Louis Rosier , French racing driver (* 1905)

November

• 0November 1st: Lajos Asztalos , Hungarian chess master (* 1889)
• 0November 1: Pietro Badoglio , Italian politician and general (* 1871)
• 0November 1: Tommy Johnson , American blues guitarist (* 1896)
• 0November 2: Leo Baeck , rabbi and representative of liberal Judaism (* 1873)
• 0November 3: Johanna Geisler , German singer and actress (* 1888)
• 0November 3: August Winnig , trade unionist and ethnic writer (* 1878)
• 0November 4th: Luis Arroyo , Spanish actor and director (* 1915)
• 0November 4th: Freddie Dixon , British motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1892)
• 0November 5: Art Tatum , American piano virtuoso of jazz (* 1909)
• 0November 5: Jules Saliège , Archbishop of Toulouse and Cardinal (* 1870)
• 0November 5: Freda Wuesthoff , German physicist, lawyer and pacifist (* 1896)
• 0November 9th: Hubert Houben , German athlete (* 1898)
• November 10: David Seymour , Polish photographer (* 1911)
• November 10: Victor Young , American composer, violinist and conductor (* 1900)
• November 12th: Juan Negrín , Spanish politician and last Prime Minister of the Spanish Republic (* 1891)
• November 13: Werner Haas , German motorcycle racer (* 1927)
• November 15: Elisabeth of Romania , Queen of Greece (* 1894)
• November 20: Emmerich Hanus , Austrian film actor, director and producer (* 1879)
• November 21: Aizu Yaichi , Japanese literary scholar and poet (* 1881)
• November 23: Armin Berg , Austrian cabaret artist (* 1883)
• November 23: Viktor Kienböck , Austrian politician and lawyer (* 1873)
• November 23: Jean Alexandru Steriadi , Romanian painter and graphic artist (* 1880)
• November 24th: Stina Aronson , Swedish writer (* 1892)
• November 24th: Guido Cantelli , Italian conductor (* 1920)
• November 26: Tommy Dorsey , American jazz musician (* 1905)
• November 26th: Adolf Küry , Bishop in Switzerland (* 1870)
• November 27th: Peet Stol , Dutch football player (* 1880)
• November 28: Valerian Bierdiajew , Polish composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1885)
• November 29: Willi Auerswald , German SS Oberscharführer (* 1894)

December

• 0December 1: Jakob Rauch , German clergyman (* 1881)
• 0December 2: Franz Osten , German film director (* 1876)
• 0December 3: Alexander Rodchenko , Russian painter, graphic artist and photographer (* 1891)
• 0December 6th: Albert Aftalion , French economist and business cycle theorist (* 1874)
• 0December 7th: Henry Fillmore , American composer, trombonist and conductor (* 1881)
• 0December 8: Jimmie Angel , American bush pilot (* 1899)
• December 11th: Elise Daimler , German painter and graphic artist (* 1875)
• December 14: Juho Kusti Paasikivi , Finnish President (* 1870)
• December 17th: Ernst Brandt , KPD functionary and minister in Saxony-Anhalt (* 1896)
• December 18: Pedro Luna , Chilean painter (* 1896)
• December 20: Paul Bonatz , German architect and bridge builder (* 1877)
• December 24th: Paul Stricker , German educator and mycologist (* 1878)
• December 25: Robert Walser , German-speaking Swiss writer (* 1878)
• December 26: Preston Tucker , American car designer and manufacturer (born 1903)
• December 28: Iwan Puni , Russian painter (* 1892)
• December 30th: Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy the Younger , German chemist and industrialist (* 1879)
• December 30th: Heinrich Scholz , Protestant theologian and philosopher (* 1884)
• December 31: Edwin Plimpton Adams , physicist (* 1878)

Date unknown

• Felipe Bojalil Gil , Mexican singer and composer (* 1912)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : William B. Shockley , John Bardeen, and Walter Houser Brattain
• Chemistry : Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and Nikolai Semjonow
• Medicine : André Frédéric Cournand , Werner Forßmann and Dickinson W. Richards
• Literature : Juan Ramón Jiménez

A Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded.

music

• Lys Assia wins the 1st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Lugano with the song Refrain for Switzerland on May 24th
• List of number one hits in Germany (1956)
• List of the best-selling singles in the USA (1956)

literature

• Simon Hall: 1956: World in Insurrection. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-608-94859-2 .

Web links

Commons : 1956  - Collection of 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 (1956) in the Federal Archives

Individual proof

1. ^ "An epoch year in the history of freedom" , review in Deutschlandradio Kultur on March 26, 2016.