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1957
The Democratic governor of Arkansas , Orval Faubus , hinders in Little Rock nine black students from entering the local high school
The founding nations of the EEC	Sputnik 1 (model), the first artificial earth satellite, triggers the Sputnik shock in the west.

1957 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2710
Armenian calendar	1405-1406
Ethiopian calendar	1949-1950
Badi calendar	113-114
Bengali calendar	1363-1364
Berber calendar	2907
Buddhist calendar	2501
Burmese calendar	1319
Byzantine calendar	7465-7466
Chinese calendar
- era	4653-4654 or 4593-4594
- 60 year cycle	Fire Monkey (丙申, 33) - Fire Rooster (丁酉, 34)
French revolution calendar	CLXV - CLXVI 165–166
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2013-2014
- Shaka Samvat	1879-1880
Iranian calendar	1335-1336
Islamic calendar	1376-1377
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 32
- Kōki	2617
Jewish calendar	5717-5718
Coptic Calendar	1673-1674
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4290
- Juche era	46
Minguo calendar	46
Modern Olympics	XVI
Seleucid calendar	2268-2269
Thai solar calendar	2500

The age of space travel began in 1957 with the Sputnik satellite . At the same time, it is also an expression of the systemic competition between the USA and the Soviet Union, which is also reflected in the Eisenhower Doctrine .

Meanwhile, the Treaty of Rome lays the most important cornerstone of European unification.

Politics and world events

International Relations

In response to the Suez Crisis the previous year, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the Eisenhower Doctrine in a speech to Congress on January 5 , according to which the US will defend all countries in the Middle East with all possible means if they do should succumb to aggression from international communism.

The confrontation between the superpowers became even more explosive this year when the Soviet Union announced the launch of its first ICBM on August 26 and, weeks later, on October 5, put the first artificial Earth satellite, called Sputnik , into orbit. It is therefore clear that the Soviet troops will in future be able to transport nuclear warheads to any point on earth. This fact and the feeling of inferiority trigger the Sputnik shock , especially in the USA and the rest of the western world .

Europe

On March 25, 1957, the European Economic Community was founded with the signing of the Treaty of Rome by Belgium , France , Italy , Luxembourg , the Netherlands and the Federal Republic of Germany to promote the common economic policy within the framework of European integration.

Algeria

In Algeria , the French army can achieve enormous successes against the insurgent FLN in the Battle of Algiers . The confrontation became the turning point of the war in Algeria , which had been waged since 1954 : the brutal actions of the Foreign Legion and the paratroopers and the systematic violations of human rights such as mass arrests, torture and enforced disappearances not only shocked the French public, but led to global sympathy with the Algerian nationalists who be seen as champions for liberation from colonialism and imperialism .

USA

In the US, it comes in September, three years after the official abolition of racial segregation by the Supreme Court of the United States , in the southern states to a serious confrontation, as the governor of the state of Arkansas , Orval Faubus , nine black students from entering Central High School in the capital Little Rock by means of the National Guard . President Eisenhower then restores federal authority by removing the authority of the Arkansas governor over all police and army units and sending soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division to enable black students to attend school.

events

Politics and world events

• January 1st: Hans Streuli becomes President of Switzerland .
• January 1: The accession of the Saarland to the Federal Republic of Germany made possible by the Treaty of Luxembourg comes into effect.
• January 1: In the GDR a new road traffic regulation comes into force.
• January 1: In the Federal Republic of Germany, the unemployment insurance contributions are reduced from 3 to 2%.
• January 1: The pension reform comes into force. The pension insurance was expanded to a wage-related and contribution-related insurance system based on the intergenerational contract.
• January 1st: First broadcast of the newscast Zeit im Bild by ORF
• January 5: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaims the Eisenhower Doctrine named after him in front of the American Congress .
• January 5th: The first three divisions of the Bundeswehr are placed under the command of NATO .
• January 10: Harold Macmillan succeeds Anthony Eden, who had resigned the day before as a result of the Suez crisis , as British Prime Minister.
• January 16: The cabinet of the federal government (Germany) unanimously resolves to join the planned common market of the six coal and steel states and the European Atomic Energy Community.
• January 26th: Jammu and Kashmir become a state of India through the entry into force of the national constitution providing for this .
• January 28th: ​​General a. D. Reinhard Gehlen is appointed first President of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND).
• February 14: Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Japan. In force since October 10, 1957.
• February 18: Start of the show trials in Budapest against those involved in the uprising in Hungary of October 1956.
• February 19: The black jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong was bombed in Knoxville , Tennessee by proponents of racial segregation in the United States .
• February 20: In Paris , the heads of government and foreign ministers of the six states of the coal and steel union decide to establish a common market and a European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM).
• February 27: " Hundred Flower Campaign ": In the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong gives his speech on the question of the correct handling of contradictions among the people .
• February 28: In Cairo , the heads of state of Egypt , Jordan , Syria and Saudi Arabia adopt a policy of “active neutrality” and thus reject interference by other states, as is aimed at in the Eisenhower Doctrine .
• February : Thai students demonstrate against what they believe to be the fraudulent elections of the Plaek Phibunsongkhram regime .
• March 6: The Gold Coast and British Togoland become independent from Great Britain as the Republic of Ghana .
• March 7th: The US Congress votes 350 against 60 for the Eisenhower Doctrine of January 5th.
• March 8: Ghana becomes a member of the United Nations .
• March 15: The United States announces that its troops stationed in the Federal Republic of Germany have nuclear weapons .
• March 19: A long-controversial criminal law reform is passed in Great Britain , which provides for the imposition of the death penalty only for certain offenses.
• March 20: A case is opened before a Paris military tribunal against Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber , editor-in-chief of L'Express and former lieutenant in the French army, who has criticized the conditions in the French colony of Algeria in a book and several articles .
• March 25th: Foundation of the EEC and the European Atomic Energy Community by the members of the coal and steel union founded in 1951
• March 26: Confirmation of the Federal Constitutional Court on the continued validity of the Reich Concordat
• April 1: The first conscripts in the Bundeswehr begin their military service.
• April 12: " Göttingen Declaration " by the Göttingen 18 , including Otto Hahn , Max Born and Werner Heisenberg , against the nuclear armament of the Bundeswehr.
• May 5: Adolf Schärf ( SPÖ ) is elected Austrian Federal President.
• May 8: Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey. In force since June 9, 1958
• May 10th: The Federal Constitutional Court determines that Section 175 has come about properly and does not violate the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany .
• May 10: First National Assembly in the French trust territory of Eastern Cameroon
• May 19: In the Federal Republic of Germany, the speed in localities is limited to 50 km / h.
• May 19: The All-German People's Party (GVP) dissolves in favor of the SPD .
• May 21: The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that West Berlin is a state of the Federal Republic and therefore the Basic Law applies there.
• May 29th: A passport is no longer required for border traffic between the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria .
• June 18: Proclamation of the law on equal rights for men and women in the field of civil law in the Federal Republic of Germany.
• JULY 23: When peat is in Upper Bavaria Peiting found a pine box, in the place of a hoped-for treasure later Rosalinde called bog body is built around the 1100th
• July 25: Tunisia becomes a republic and Habib Bourguiba is elected first president .
• July 29: Foundation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• August 26: The Soviet Union is the first launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile known.
• September 1st: In the Federal Republic of Germany, the speed limit of 50 km / h is legally binding for all urban vehicles .
• September 2: In Little Rock , Arkansas, USA, the governor dispatches National Guardsmen to deny access to the local school for nine black students on grounds of racial segregation .
• September 15: In the Bundestag election , the Union parties achieve an absolute majority with 50.2 percent of the second vote.
• September 17th: Malaysia becomes a member of the United Nations.
• September 17: Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat takes power in Thailand after a coup .
• September 24: Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division dispatched by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower enable the Little Rock Nine in Arkansas to visit Central High School in Little Rock .
• September 24th: The Battle of Algiers ends with a military victory for France under Jacques Massu and Yves Godard .
• October 3: Willy Brandt is elected Mayor of Berlin to succeed the late Otto Suhr .
• October 4: The Soviet Union launches the spherical Sputnik satellite from the Baikonur spaceport , triggering the so-called Sputnik shock in the west .
• October 8: The coalition of four breaks up in Bavaria . Prime Minister Wilhelm Hoegner (SPD) resigns and the CSU rules the country from now on .
• October 27: Foundation of the Association of Expellees in Germany
• November 1st: The Frankfurt prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt is found murdered in her apartment. The call girl is said to have relationships with celebrities in business and politics.
• November 5: The General Law on Consequences of War regulates legal and compensation problems that arose as a result of war and post-war events as well as the defeat of the German Reich with immediate effect .
• November 9: Trade agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Colombia
• November 14: The Lindau Agreement regulates the competences of the German federal states for the conclusion of international agreements and the transformation of the agreements concluded by the federal government with subjects of international law.
• November 15: In the US , the spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel is found guilty on all three counts - spying on or transmitting defense information to the USSR as well as unauthorized activity as an agent - and sentenced to long imprisonment.
• November 13th: In his Viennese appeal , Otto Hahn calls for the cessation of worldwide nuclear weapons tests .
• November 17th: 35,000 South Tyroleans call for a new autonomy at Sigmundskron Castle .
• December 11th: In the GDR illegally leaving their territory is punished as a republic escape from now on .
• December 13th: Friendship, trade and shipping treaty between the Dominican Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany
• December 28th: Otto Hahn pleads for an international détente policy and a general worldwide nuclear disarmament on the Bulgarian radio in Sofia .
• Max Brauer (SPD) replaces Kurt Sieveking's government in coalition with the FDP and is once again First Mayor of Hamburg.

business

• January 1: As of January 1, 1957, the German Travel Agency (DER), in conjunction with the Ministry of Trade and Supply and Deutsche Post -Werbung, publishes a hotel guide for the German Democratic Republic including the eastern sector of Greater Berlin for the first time .
• January 3: The American Hamilton Watch Company offers customers the first electrically powered wristwatch for sale.
• April 1: The Indian rupee is converted to the decimal system .
• July 4th: The federal German law against restraints of competition is passed.
• August 1: The Deutsche Bundesbank replaces the Bank of German States as the central bank .
• September 4th: Ford introduces the new Edsel brand , which develops into a legendary flop and is discontinued in 1960.
• OCTOBER 5: Between the transformer stations Ludwigsburg -Hoheneck and Rommerskirchen is the first 380 kV high-voltage line in Germany commissioned.
• December 15: The city of Munich reaches one million inhabitants .

science and technology

• January 1st: Austria starts regular television broadcasting.
• January 12th: With the Davis Station , Australia's southernmost research station is built in Antarctica.
• January 17: The oil tanker Caroline Oetker is undocked at the Deutsche Werft - with a load capacity of 32,700 t, the largest new ship that has been developed and built in the Federal Republic to date.
• January 18: Three American long-range Boeing B-52 bombers manage to circumnavigate the earth in record time without stopping.
• January 19: The first aircraft constructed in Germany after the end of the war, a single-engine high-wing aircraft of the Dornier Do 27 type , is handed over to the Federal Minister of Defense.
• January 25: First attempt to launch the US Thor , the world's first medium-range missile.
• February 1: The first test run of a Wankel engine succeeds on an NSU test stand .
• February 6: Commissioning of the electrified federal railway line in Austria from Rosenbach ( Carinthia ) via the Karawanken tunnel to Jesenice ( Yugoslavia ).
• March 11th: The German Aviation Research Institute puts the first radar device exclusively intended for meteorological purposes into operation at Essen-Mülheim Airport.
• July 1: Start of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) (End: December 31, 1958)
• September 5: The federal and state governments establish the Science Council based in Cologne.
• October 1st: Thalidomide ( Contergan ) is brought onto the market by Chemie Grünenthal GmbH in Stolberg .
• October 4: With the Sputnik, the Soviet Union puts the first artificial satellite into orbit.
• October 31: In Garching near Munich , the Munich research reactor is the first German nuclear reactor to go into operation.
• November 3rd: The Russian bitch Laika flies into Earth orbit with Sputnik 2
• December 2: The first semi-commercial light water reactor goes on stream in Shippingport, Pennsylvania .

Atomic icebreaker Lenin

• December 5: In the Soviet Union finds launching of the nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin instead.
• December 6th: The first attempt at launch by a US satellite fails, the rocket explodes on the test stand.
• December 16: The GDR's first nuclear reactor is put into operation in Rossendorf near Dresden.
• December 20: The European Nuclear Energy Agency is founded to develop a joint nuclear research program for European countries.
• December 28: James Bowman, USA, reaches an altitude of 9,076 meters with his Cessna prototype YH-41 helicopter - a world record.
• The Danish doctor Jens Christian Skou discovered the sodium-potassium ion pump .

Trabant P 50

• When VEB Sachsenring , the first will Trabant , the pilot series of the Trabant P 50 built.
• Magirus-Deutz delivered what was then the world's largest fire truck in the world to Uruguay : the round-hooded semitrailer truck held 8,000 liters of extinguishing water, 800 liters of foam compound and around 900 kilograms of carbonic acid to suffocate fires.

Culture

• January 1: In the Louvre in Paris , a visitor throws a stone at the picture of the Mona Lisa . Leonardo da Vinci's painting is easily damaged.
• January 15: Kurosawa 's film Kumonosu-jō ( The Castle in the Cobweb ), based on Shakespeare's Macbeth, premieres in Japan .
• January 16: The Cavern Club , one of the cradles of beat music , opens in Liverpool .
• January 20th: The musical Katharina Knie by Mischa Spoliansky (based on the tightrope walker play of the same name by Carl Zuckmayer ) is premiered at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich .
• January 25: World premiere of Erich Kästner's The School of Dictators in Munich.
• January 26: World premiere of the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (Conversations of the Carmelites) by Francis Poulenc at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano
• January 31: The film by director Wolfgang Staudte (with Maria Schell in the title role), named after the drama of the same name, Rose Bernd von Gerhart Hauptmann , premieres in Hanover .
• February 19: Opening of the important exhibition by the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky in the Munich Municipal Gallery . The collection, with many pictures that have not yet been exhibited, is a gift from Gabriele Münter, Kandinsky's partner, to the city of Munich .
• March 8: The film “ Der Untertan ” by director Wolfgang Staudte has its premiere in Munich, based on the novel of the same name by Heinrich Mann .
• April 13: World premiere of the film The Twelve Jurors
• April 29th: The 1957 Federal Horticultural Show opens in Cologne
• May 9: World premiere of the comic opera Der Revisor by Werner Egk at the Schwetzingen Festival
• May 9: World premiere of Carlos Chávez Ramírez's opera The Visitors in New York
• June 8th: World premiere of the lyrical tragedy Blood Wedding by Wolfgang Fortner in Cologne
• July 7th: John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time at a church festival in Liverpool . As the Beatles , they become the most famous rock band in music history with George Harrison and Ringo Starr .
• July 23: World premiere of the melodrama A Tale of Two Cities by Arthur Benjamin at London's Sadler's Wells Opera
• July 25th: The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is established as a public corporation .
• JULY 28: In northern Italy Cosio d'Arroscia is Situationist International , an association of avant-garde artists founded.
• August 3: On the occasion of the radio exhibition in Frankfurt am Main , the first program Zum Blauen Bock with Otto Höpfner is broadcast by ARD .
• August 11: World premiere of the opera Die Harmonie der Welt by Paul Hindemith at the Munich State Theater
• August 17th: World premiere of the new version of the three-act opera buffa Die Schule der Frauen by Rolf Liebermann as part of the Salzburg Festival
• September 24th: World premiere of the dance drama Maratona by Hans Werner Henze in Berlin
• September 26: World premiere of the musical West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein at New York's Winter Garden Theater
• September: First German-American Steuben Parade in New York
• OCTOBER 2: In theaters Britain's war movie is The Bridge on the River Kwai ( The Bridge on the River Kwai on), whose film music in the wake of the March from the River Kwai and whistled Colonel Bogey March for earwig is.
• October 12: World premiere of the new version of the operetta Hopsa by Paul Burkhard in Wiesbaden
• November 22nd: The American singer Harry Belafonte becomes the first black man to reach number 1 on the British charts. His interpretation of the Christmas carol Mary’s Boy Child by the African American Jester Joseph Hairston stays there for seven weeks.
• The artist group ZERO is founded.
• Establishes the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo.
• Max Frisch publishes his novel Homo Faber at Suhrkamp Verlag . A report .
• In Suhrkamp Verlag 's first novel appears Martin Walser , marriages in Philippsburg .
• Ernst Jünger's novel Transparent Bees is published by Ernst Klett Verlag.
• Pnin , the fourth English-language novel by the Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov , is published by New York-based Viking Press .

religion

• February 23: The diocese of Essen is established with the circumscription bull Germanicae gentis by Pope Pius XII. It was erected on January 1st, 1958.
• March 19: Pope Pius XII. Allows the celebration of evening masses , which one of his predecessors, Pope Pius V , banned under threat of suspension in 1566 . In this context, the commandment of eucharistic sobriety is relaxed.
• April 21: In the encyclical Fidei Donum , Pope Pius XII calls out. on the European bishops to remedy the shortage of priests in Africa, Asia and South America by sending priests .
• September 8th: Film , radio and television are the subject of the encyclical Miranda prorsus by Pope Pius XII.

Sports

• January 5: Jackie Robinson , the first black player in baseball history to appear in the major leagues, retires.
• January: The first commercially produced Frisbees are sold in the USA .
• January 13th to September 8th: the 8th Formula 1 World Championship is held
• February 5: The Bundeswehr sports school opens in Sonthofen .
• March 2: In Colorado Springs , the Canadian couple Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul wins the world championships in figure skating, ahead of the German champions Marika Kilius / Franz Ningel .
• March 5: The Swedish national team becomes ice hockey world champion in Moscow with 4: 4 goals against defending champions USSR .
• April 27th: Vasily Smyslow defeats Mikhail Botvinnik and becomes the seventh world chess champion .
• June 9: First ascent of Broad Peak , the twelfth highest mountain on earth by Hermann Buhl , Marcus Schmuck , Fritz Wintersteller and Kurt Diemberger
• September 8: The Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio wins the Formula 1 World Championship for the fourth time in a row , making Fangio five-time Formula 1 World Champion. This record was only set by Michael Schumacher in 2002 and broken in 2003.
• December 29th: FC Bayern Munich wins its first DFB Cup in the Rosenaustadion .

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Disasters and accidents

• January 2: In a total of eight plane crashes in the USA, France and Italy, 39 people die from January 1 to January 2 and 70 are injured.
• June 3: 15 recruits die in the Iller accident ; The result is the founding of the Soldiers Relief Organization on October 18th
• June 27: Earthquake of unknown magnitude in Russia , around 1,200 dead
• July 2: 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Iran , killing around 1,200
• September 21: 80 sailors die in the sinking of the four-masted barque Pamir
• September 27: Eruption of the Capelinhos volcano on the Azores island of Faial
• September 29: Nuclear accident at the Mayak nuclear facility ( Russia ): Kyshtym accident
• October 10: A fire breaks out in the Windscale nuclear complex / England (renamed Sellafield ) and radioactive substances are released
• December 13: 7.3 earthquake in Iran kills 1,130

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

Trivia

• February 6: In Portugal, men are allowed to swim in bathing trunks after only swimsuits were previously allowed. Two-piece swimsuits for women remain banned.

Born

January

• 0January 1: Jennifer Edwards , American actress
• 0January 3: Mark Atkins , Australian musician and artist
• 0January 3: Bojan Križaj , Slovenian ski racer
• 0January 4th: Patty Loveless , American country singer
• 0January 5th: Karl Allgöwer , German soccer player
• 0January 7: Nicholson Baker , American writer
• 0January 7th: Christian Constantin , Swiss entrepreneur and architect
• 0January 7th: Hank Häberle , German country musician († 2007)
• 0January 7th: Andreas Staribacher , Austrian politician
• 0January 8th: Carmina Brenner , German politician and head of the authorities
• 0January 8: Dwight Clark , American football player and official († 2018)
• 0January 8: Andreas Koziol , German writer
• 0January 9: Dirk Metz , State Secretary in the Hessian State Chancellery
• January 10: Franz Fitzke , German journalist
• January 11: Darryl Dawkins , American basketball player († 2015)
• January 11: Himuro Saeko , Japanese writer († 2008)
• January 11th: Yslaire , Belgian comic artist
• January 12th: John Lasseter , American animated film director
• January 12th: António Vitorino , EU Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs
• January 12: Audronė Žigaitytė-Nekrošienė , Lithuanian composer, music pedagogue, critic and journalist
• January 13: Lorrie Moore , American writer
• January 13: Daniel Osvaldo Scioli , Argentine Vice President
• January 14: David Bergen , Canadian writer
• January 15th: Michael Ausserwinkler , Austrian physician and politician
• January 16: Ian Atkins , English football player and coach
• January 16: Reinhard Eugen Bösch , member of the Austrian National Council
• January 16: Ricardo Darín , Argentine actor
• January 17th: Nancy Argenta , Canadian soprano
• January 17th: Bernd Hitzler , Mayor, Member of the State Parliament
• January 18: Hans Caspar von der Crone , Swiss lawyer
• January 18: Roman Schwaller , Swiss tenor saxophonist
• January 19: Roger Ashton-Griffiths , British-Canadian actor and filmmaker
• January 19th: Peter Aude , Danish actor
• January 19th: Michel Périn , French rally driver
• January 20: Roland Bernhard , German lawyer and district administrator
• January 20: Jürgen Elsässer , German journalist and political activist
• January 20th: Andy Sheppard , English jazz saxophonist
• January 20: Michael Veith , German ski racer
• January 21: Rainer Laupichler , German actor
• January 22: David S. Addington , American lawyer and government official
• January 22nd: Mike Bossy , Canadian ice hockey player
• January 22nd: Michel Cusson , Canadian composer
• January 22nd: Andrzej Udalski , Polish astrophysicist and astronomer
• January 23: Caroline von Hannover , daughter of Prince Rainier III. of Monaco and Princess Gracia Patricia
• January 23: Paul Steiner , German soccer player
• January 24th: Klaus Fiehe , German musician and radio presenter
• January 24: Ramón Martín Huerta , Mexican politician († 2005)
• January 24th: Gabriel Valverde , Argentine composer
• January 25: Luis Garavito , Colombian serial killer
• January 26: Masamicz Amano , Japanese composer
• January 27: Janick Gers , British rock musician
• January 27: Klaus Heuser , German musician and producer
• January 27: Frank Miller , American novelist, comic book and screenwriter
• January 28: Vasyl Archypenko , Ukrainian hurdler
• January 28: Samih Sawiris , Egyptian entrepreneur
• January 29th: Gregor Aas , German forest scientist
• January 29th: Manuela Groß , German figure skater, Olympic medalist
• January 29th: David Murry , American racing car driver
• January 30: Polly Horvath , North American writer
• January 30: Payne Stewart , American golfer († 1999)
• January 31: Ronald Åhman , Swedish football player

February

• 0February 1st: Andreas Anderegg , Swiss boxer
• 0February 1st: Walter Schachner , Austrian soccer coach
• 0February 2nd: Matthias Assmann , German athlete
• 0February 2: Saʿd al-Faqīh , Saudi Arabian dissident
• 0February 3: Marlon Riggs , American film producer, author and poet († 1994)
• 0February 3: Ulrich Karger , religion teacher and writer
• 0February 3rd: Guy Martin , French three-star chef
• 0February 4th: Don Davis , American composer
• 0February 5th: Azouz Begag , French writer, sociologist and politician
• 0February 5: Silke Hinrichsen , German politician († 2012)
• 0February 5: Jüri Tamm , Estonian hammer thrower and politician († 2021)
• 0February 6: Matthew Best , British conductor
• 0February 6th: Andrea Bürgin , Swiss actress
• 0February 6: Simon Phillips , British drummer
• 0February 6: Ralph Thiekötter , German sound engineer
• 0February 7: Dominic Asquith , British diplomat
• 0February 7th: Tatjana Bunjak , Soviet rower
• 0February 7th: Lioba Happel , German writer
• 0February 8: Imogen Kogge , German actress
• 0February 8: Mohammed Valli Moosa , South African politician
• 0February 9: Astrid Baumann , German lawyer
• 0February 9: Jaco Van Dormael , Belgian director, writer
• 0February 9: Cardinal John Ribat , Archbishop of Port Moresby
• February 10: Regina Ammicht Quinn , German theologian, Germanist and university professor
• February 10: Olivier Anken , Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper
• February 10: Stephan Balkenhol , German sculptor
• February 10: Steffen Flath , German politician
• February 14th: Marina Arrate Palma , Chilean poet and psychologist
• February 14: Tommy Campbell , American jazz drummer
• February 14th: Soile Isokoski , Finnish soprano
• February 15: Heribert Klein , German journalist and organist († 2005)
• February 16: LeVar Burton , American actor
• February 16: Rainer Podeswa , German physicist, business economist and politician
• February 17th: Loreena McKennitt , Canadian musician and composer
• February 18: Marita Koch , track and field athlete in the GDR
  

  Marita Koch
• February 18: Vanna White , American "Wheel of Fortune Fairy"
• February 19: Ray Winstone , British actor
• February 19: Rainer Wieland , German MEP
• February 19: Falco , Austrian singer, musician († 1998)
  

  Falco (right) with manager Claudia Wohlfromm, 1997
• February 19: Wolfgang Lück , German mathematician
• February 20: Mario Grech , Maltese Bishop and Cardinal
• February 20: Martha Lavey , American actress and theater director († 2017)
• February 21: Raymond Roche , French motorcycle racer
• February 22nd: Ursula Hantl-Unthan , German lawyer
• February 23: Andreas Schockenhoff , German politician, Member of the Bundestag († 2014)
• February 24: İsa Yunis oğlu Qəmbər , Azerbaijani politician
• February 24: Philippe Vandevelde , Belgian comic artist († 2019)
• February 26: Joe Mullen , American ice hockey player and coach
• February 27: Adrian Smith , British rock musician
• February 27: Viktor Markin , Soviet athlete and Olympic champion
• February 28: Jan Ceulemans , Belgian football player
• February 28: Peter Heine , German lawyer

March

• 0March 1: Pete Athans , American mountaineer
• 0March 1: Peter Zelinka , Czechoslovak biathlete († 2021)
• 0March 2nd: Heinrich Schafmeister , German actor
• 0March 3: Atli Eðvaldsson , Icelandic football player and coach († 2019)
• 0March 3rd: Vasile Oprea , Romanian handball player and coach
• 0March 3: Nicholas Shakespeare , British writer
• 0March 4th: Holger Altmeppen , German lawyer and university professor
• 0March 5th: Henning Krautmacher , German singer ("Höhner")
• 0March 5: Dietmar Wischmeyer , German comedian, author and columnist
• 0March 6: Klaus Kaiser , German politician
• 0March 7th: Maurizio Arrivabene , Italian manager and motorsport official
• 0March 7: Robert Harris , British journalist, non-fiction author and writer
• 0March 8: Clive Burr , British musician († 2013)
• 0March 8: Billy Childs , American jazz pianist and composer
• 0March 8: Kathleen Gertrud Ferrier , Dutch politician
• 0March 8: Herbert Pöck , Austrian ice hockey player and coach
• 0March 8: Axel A. Weber , former President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
• 0March 9: Mauro Bonifacio , Italian composer, conductor and music teacher
• 0March 9: Oliver Stritzel , German actor and speaker
• March 10th: Mino Cinelu , French jazz and pop drummer
• March 10: Barbara Fenner , German television and theater actress, radio play writer and journalist
• March 10th: Hans-Peter Friedrich , German politician
  

  Hans-Peter Friedrich , 2012
• March 10: Ian McNuff , British rower
• March 10: Shannon Tweed , Canadian actress and model
• March 10: Osama bin Laden , Saudi Arabian terrorist († 2011)
  

  Osama bin Laden , 1997
• March 11: Rupert Ahrens , President of GPRA, the association of PR agencies in Germany
• March 11: Qasem Soleimani , Iranian major general († 2020)
• March 12th: Patrick Battiston , French football player
• March 12th: Marlon Jackson , American singer and musician, founding member of the Jackson Five
• March 13: Marcellino Lucchi , Italian motorcycle racer
• March 14th: Franco Frattini , Italian politician and European Commissioner
• March 14th: Martin Lohmann , German Roman Catholic publicist
• March 14th: Pasquale Passarelli , German wrestler
• March 14: Tad Williams , American writer
• March 15: Joaquim de Almeida , Portuguese-American actor
• March 15th: Juan José Ibarretxe , Spanish politician
• March 15: Henni Nachtsheim , German musician, comedian, writer and actor
• March 15: Kevin Tarte , American singer
• March 16: Dirk Rauin , German handball player and coach
• March 18: Roland Adrowitzer , Austrian television journalist
• March 18: Doğan Akhanlı , German writer († 2021)
• March 19: Øystein Sevåg , Norwegian new age musician
• March 20: Spike Lee , American actor
• March 21: Youssef Rzouga , Tunisian poet
• March 22nd: Jean-Luc Blanchemain , French racing car driver
• March 23: Akira Asada , Japanese philosopher and economist
• March 23: Lucio Gutiérrez , Ecuadorian ex-military and politician, President of Ecuador (2003-2005)
• March 24th: László I. Kish , Swiss actor
• March 24th: Martin Kolbe , German musician
• March 24th: Thomas Krokowski , German handball player
• March 24th: Sílvia Munt , Spanish actress, screenwriter and director
• March 25: Iván Bächer , Hungarian writer and journalist († 2013)
• March 26th: Aktan Abdykalykow , Kyrgyz director
• March 26th: Dorrit Klotzbücher , German lawyer
• March 26: Paul Morley , English music journalist
• March 26: Manfred Wolf , former German-Canadian ice hockey player
• March 27: Clark Ross , Canadian composer, guitarist and music educator
• March 28: John Murray Anderson , Canadian ice hockey striker
• March 28: Peter Asmussen , Danish writer, playwright and screenwriter († 2016)
• March 28: Holger Meitinger , German ice hockey player
• March 29: Helmut Zerlett , German musician, composer and producer
• March 29: Christopher Lambert , American actor
• March 30th: Dave Stryker , American jazz guitarist
• March 30th: Mona Seefried , Austrian actress
• March 31: Patrick G. Forrester , American astronaut
• March 31: Alan Duncan , British politician

April

• 0April 3: Yves Chaland , French draftsman and comic book author († 1990)
• 0April 3: Shpendi Sollaku , Albanian writer known as Noé
• 0April 3: Johanna Walser , German writer and translator
• 0April 4: Andreas Austilat , German journalist and author
• 0April 4: Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán , Mexican drug trafficker, head of the Sinaloa cartel
• 0April 4: Aki Kaurismäki , Finnish director
• 0April 4: Peter Kurth , German actor
• 0April 4: Franz Untersteller , German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), State Minister
• 0April 5: Sebastian Adayanthrath , Indian bishop
• 0April 5: Katherine Harris , American politician
• 0April 5th: Armin Rühl , German drummer
• 0April 5: Frank Vogel , German politician
• 0April 6: Maurizio Damilano , Italian athlete and Olympic champion
• 0April 7th: Andrea L'Arronge , German actress and voice actress
• 0April 8: James M. Ashworth , British marathon runner
• 0April 8: Alberto Vera Aréjula , Spanish auxiliary bishop
• 0April 8: Andrea Ypsilanti , German politician
• 0April 9: Severiano Ballesteros , Spanish professional golfer († 2011)
• 0April 9: André Manoukian , French jazz pianist, composer, arranger and producer
• April 10: Birgit Heinecke , German handball player
• April 11: Juan Carlos Arteche Gómez , Spanish football player († 2010)
• April 11: Jim Lauderdale , American country singer and songwriter
• April 12: Wolfgang Baasch , German politician
• April 12: Vince Gill , American country musician
• April 12th: Alex Lauzon , Austrian writer and poker player
• April 12th: Tabaré Aguerre Lombardo , Uruguayan politician and agricultural engineer
• April 12th: Wolfhard Pencz , German clarinetist and university professor
• April 14: Lothaire Bluteau , Canadian actor
• April 14th: Michail Wassiljewitsch Pletnjow , Russian pianist, conductor and composer
• April 14: Patricia Smith , Canadian rower and sports officer
• April 15: Evelyn Ashford , American athlete
• April 16: Shamil Abbyasov , Kyrgyz long and triple jumper
• April 16: Thomas Heitz , German lawyer and former judge at the Federal Administrative Court
• April 16: Oleksandr Zinchenko , Ukrainian politician and Deputy Speaker of Parliament († 2010)
• April 17th: Marc Marie Max Aillet , French Bishop of Bayonne
• April 17th: Teresa Austin , Canadian actress and animal rights activist
• April 17th: Afrika Bambaataa , American rapper
• April 17: Dwane Casey , American basketball coach
• April 17th: Nick Hornby , British writer
• April 18: Marc Duez , Belgian racing car driver
• April 18: John Hartshorne , British racing car driver
• April 19: Mukesh Ambani , Indian entrepreneur
  

  Mukesh Ambani
• April 19: Ian Edmondson , American freestyle skier
• April 19: Tony Martin , British rock singer
• April 19: Lilli Gruber , South Tyrolean journalist and politician
• April 20: Richard Olivier Attipoé , Togolese politician and minister († 2007)
• April 20: Kristin Clemet , Norwegian politician
• April 21: Monika Auer , Italian luge rider
• April 21: Cor Mutsers , Dutch guitarist
• April 21: Herbert Wetterauer , German artist
• April 22nd: Glenn Monroig , Puerto Rican Canto writer
• April 22nd: Donald Tusk , Polish politician and co-founder of the Platforma Obywatelska party
  

  Donald Tusk
• April 23: Peter Nebelo , German politician
• April 23: Dominique Horwitz , German actor
• April 23: Neville Brody , British graphic designer, typographer and art director
• April 24: Bamir Topi , Albanian politician
• April 25: Joseph P. Aucoin , US Vice Admiral
• April 25th: Cor Euser , Dutch racing car driver
• April 26: Georg Kofler , South Tyrolean manager
• April 27: Michael Henke , German soccer player and coach
• April 28: Hans-Hermann Heidner , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Fiscal Court
• April 28th: Wilma Landkroon , Dutch singer
• April 28th: Thomas Madl , German politician
• April 28: Benny Schnier , German pop singer, actor and presenter
• April 28: Christopher Young , American composer
• April 29: Alberto Alesina , Italian economist († 2020)
• April 29: Daniel Day-Lewis , English actor
  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
• April 29: Timothy Treadwell , American environmentalist († 2003)
• April 30th: Darko Anić , French chess player and teacher
• April 30: Ivan Atanasov , Bulgarian ice hockey player
• April 30th: Giuseppe Sannino , Italian football player and coach

May

• 0May 2: Dominic Lee Pudwill Gorie , American astronaut
• 0May 2nd: Markus Stockhausen , German trumpeter and composer
• 0May 3: William Clay Ford Junior , chairman and general manager of Ford Motor Company
• 0May 3: Claus Hormel , German handball player
• 0May 4th: Peter Koch (cyclist) , German cyclist
• 0May 4th: Kathy Kreiner , Canadian ski racer
• 0May 5th: Clemens Martin Auer , Austrian politician
• 0May 5: John Ortberg , American psychologist, theologian, pastor, speaker, and author
• 0May 5: Werner Rambow , German local politician († 2017)
• 0May 6: Gabriele Fograscher , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0May 6: George Tintor , Canadian rower († 2021)
• 0May 7: Karen Lynne Deal , American conductor
• 0May 8: Bill Cowher , American football player
• 0May 8: Bernd Krauss , German-Austrian soccer player and soccer coach
• 0May 8th: Hans-Joachim Meisch , German cyclist
• 0May 8: Marie Myriam , French singer of Portuguese descent
• 0May 9: Paolo Barzman , French-American director
• 0May 9: Fulvio Collovati , Italian football player
• May 10th: André Dosé , Swiss Manager and President of the Grasshoppers Board of Directors
• May 10: Frank Dammann , German handball player († 2017)
• May 10: Sid Vicious , British punk rock musician († 1979)
• May 10: Steve Mahre , American ski racer
• May 10th: Phil Mahre , American ski racer
• May 11: Manfred Hausleitner , Austrian drummer
• May 11: Peter North , American actor and porn actor
• May 12: Aribert Günzler , German pianist, conductor, author and composer
• May 13: Erika Adensamer , Austrian politician
• May 13: Andrea Klump , German ex-terrorist
• May 13: Kōji Suzuki , Japanese writer
• May 13: Mark Heap , British actor
• May 13: Stefano Tacconi , Italian football player and politician
• May 14: Daniela Dessì , Italian opera singer, soprano († 2016)
• May 14: Gaby Hauptmann , German writer
• May 14: Oliver Simon , German singer († 2013)
• May 15: Jürgen Kucharczyk , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• May 16: Joan Benoit , American marathon runner
• May 16: Thomas Hirschhorn , Swiss installation artist
• May 17th: Wilfried Hannes , German soccer player
• May 17th: Peter Høeg , Danish writer
• May 18: Frank Plasberg , German journalist and television presenter
  

  Frank Plasberg , 2008
• May 18: Michael Cretu , Romanian music producer
• May 19: Danuta Jazłowiecka , Polish politician
• May 19: Bill Laimbeer , American basketball player
• May 20: Ernst Palmberger , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
• May 21: Renée Soutendijk , Dutch actress
• May 22nd: Hege Schøyen , Norwegian actress and singer
• May 23: Patrick Gonin , French racing car driver
• May 23: Lars Sponheim , Norwegian liberal Venstre politician
• May 24th: Angelika Beer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• May 24th: Walter Moers , German draftsman and copywriter
• May 25: Éder Aleixo , Brazilian soccer player
• May 25: Thomas Schmidt , German radio presenter († 2019)
• May 26: ʿAla 'al-Aswani , Egyptian writer and dentist
• May 26: Margareta Wolf , German politician
• May 26: Ulrike Lunacek , Austrian politician
• May 26: Olivia Pascal , German actress
• May 26th: Klaus Pruenster , Austrian musician
• May 26: Uğur Yücel , Turkish actor, cabaret artist and film producer
• May 27: Dag Terje Andersen , Norwegian politician
• May 27: Wolfgang Augustyn , German art historian and editor
• May 27th: Siouxsie Sioux , British singer, musician and songwriter
• May 28: Jörg Arnold , German lawyer
• May 28: Paul van Buitenen , European civil servant
• May 28: Frank Schätzing , German writer
• May 29: Peter Adam , German film editor
• May 29: Lynne Arriale , American jazz pianist and university professor
• May 29: Ted Levine , American actor
• May 29: Jean-Christophe Yoccoz , French mathematician († 2016)
• May 29: Mohsen Makhmalbaf , Iranian film director and writer
• May 30th: Oxana Bilosir , Ukrainian singer and politician, Minister of Culture of Ukraine
• May 30th: Avshalom Cyrus Elitzur , Israeli physicist and philosopher
• May 30th: Peter Niklas Wilson , German jazz bassist and musicologist († 2003)
• May 31: Gabriel Barylli , Austrian writer, actor and director

June

• 0June 1: Carlos Duarte , Venezuelan composer and pianist († 2003)
• 0June 1st: Ferid Rragami , Albanian national soccer player
• 0June 2: Gregory A. Boyd , American Baptist theologian, pastor, author, and public speaker
• 0June 2: Sara Douglass , Australian author († 2011)
• 0June 2nd: Werner Ehrhardt , German violinist and conductor
• 0June 3: Mark Chung , German musician and music publisher
• 0June 3: Ingrid Eberle , Austrian ski racer
• 0June 3: Peter de Villiers , South African rugby coach
• 0June 4th: Manfred Beckmann , German fencer
• 0June 4th: Norbert Nachtweih , German soccer player
• 0June 5: Thomas Kling , German poet († 2005)
• 0June 6th: Alfred Arbinger , German soccer player and coach
• 0June 6: Christian Rach , German chef
• 0June 7th: Rainer Ackermann , German soccer player
• 0June 7th: Juan Luis Guerra , Dominican singer, guitarist and composer
• 0June 7th: Paddy McAloon , British singer and songwriter
• 0June 7th: Rolf Stöckel , German politician
• 0June 7th: Fred Vargas , French crime novelist
• 0June 7th: Jo Vargas , French painter and set designer
• 0June 8: Scott Adams , American comic book artist
• 0June 8th: Dietmar Vettermann , German politician and Lord Mayor of Zwickau
• 0June 9: Jürg Beeler , Swiss writer
• 0June 9th: Tobias Meister , German actor and voice actor
• June 10: Doris Meyer , German politician († 2012)
• June 11th: Sir Geoffrey Doyne Adams KCMG , British diplomat
• June 11: Walter Hauser , Swiss writer and journalist
• June 12: Geri Allen , American jazz pianist († 2017)
• June 12: Matthias Domaschk , German civil rights activist († 1981)
• June 13: Rolf Brendel , German drummer
• June 14: Bradley J. Anderson , American costume designer († 2000)
• June 16: Jüri Alperten , Estonian conductor († 2020)
• June 16: Clio Goldsmith , French actress
• June 17th: Joachim Król , German actor
  

  Joachim Król , 2009
• June 17th: Sabine Röther-Kirschke , German handball player
• June 17: Stephen Shellen , Canadian actor
• June 18: Irene Epple , German ski racer
• June 18: Richard Powers , American writer
• June 19: Susanne Bredehöft , German actress
• June 19: Anna Lindh , Swedish politician († 2003)
• June 20: Elke Hoff , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• June 21: Lucien DeBlois , Canadian ice hockey player
• June 21: Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle , Archbishop of Manila
• June 22nd: Arkadi Ghukassjan , President of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh
• June 22nd: Ron Haslam , British motorcycle racer
• June 22nd: Armin Kratzert , German writer and journalist
• June 23: Frances McDormand , American actress
• June 23: Jochen Schweizer , German entrepreneur
• June 23: Yale Strom , American filmmaker, musician, composer, writer, and photographer
• June 24: David Abram , American cultural ecologist, philosopher, and author
• June 24th: Georges Nicolas Haddad , Lebanese Archbishop of Banyas
• June 24: Mark Parkinson , American politician
• June 24: John J. Farmer , American politician
• June 25: Ingrid Fischbach , German politician
• June 25th: Doris König , German legal scholar, Vice-President of the Federal Constitutional Court
• June 26: Ceán Chaffin , American film producer
• June 26: Gabriele Pauli , German politician
• June 26: Pietro Paolo Virdis , Italian football player
• June 27th: Gabriella Dorio , Italian athlete and Olympic champion
• June 27: Peter Eckhart Reichel , German author, radio play director and audio book producer
• June 28: Georgi Parvanov , Bulgarian President
• June 28: Lance Nethery , Canadian ice hockey coach, player and manager
• June 29: María Conchita Alonso , American actress and singer
• June 29: Ronald Dietrich Asmus , American diplomat and political scientist († 2011)
• June 29th: Patrick Bornhauser , French racing car driver and entrepreneur
• June 29: Robert Forster , Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter
• June 30th: Daniel Hugo Cámpora Sivori , Argentine chess player
• June 30th: Hans Vermeersch , Belgian composer and conductor

July

• 0July 1st: Yasuhiro Yamashita , Japanese judoka
• 0July 2nd: Bret "The Hitman" Hart , Canadian professional wrestler
• 0July 3: Hannelore Roedel , German politician
• 0July 3: Thomas Flierl , German politician, Berlin Senator for Science, Research and Culture
• 0July 4th: Milan Mokroš , German ice hockey coach
• 0July 7th: Dierk Berner , German real estate agent and handball player
• 0July 7th: Joaquina Rosa Aguilar Rivero , Spanish politician
• 0July 8th: Gisela Nacken , German politician
• 0July 9: Ardian Klosi , Albanian publicist († 2012)
• 0July 9: Kelly McGillis , American actress
• 0July 9: Marc Almond , British singer and songwriter
• July 10: Johannes Arndt , German historian
• July 10: Elena Zaremba , Russian opera and concert singer
• July 11th: Peter Murphy , British musician
• July 11: Karl-Josef Laumann , Minister for Labor, Health and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia
• July 11: Valentin Herr , German soccer player
• July 12: Götz Alsmann , German musician, entertainer and music professor
  

  Götz Alsmann , 2005
• July 13: Burkhard Brandt , German chemist
• July 13: Cameron Crowe , American director and actor
• July 13: Rinat Dassajew , Russian football player
• July 13: Renate Wolf , German handball player and handball trainer
• July 14th: Julian Bethwaite , sailing dinghy designer
• July 16: Daniel Glaus , Swiss organist and composer
• July 16: Wolfgang Raufelder , German politician († 2016)
• July 16: Adam Robak , Polish foil fencer
• July 16: Włodzimierz Smolarek , Polish football player († 2012)
• July 18: José Pedro Correio de Aguiar Branco , Portuguese lawyer and politician
• July 19: Bruce Darnell , American choreographer and model
• July 19: Hermann Scheuringer , Austrian Germanist
• July 20: Doreen Daume , German translator († 2013)
• July 21: Rumjana Gotschewa , Bulgarian chess player
• July 21: Stefan Löfven , Swedish politician, Prime Minister
• July 22nd: Álvaro Corcuera , Mexican priest and superior general († 2014)
• July 23: Rufus Beck , German theater and film actor
• July 23: Theo van Gogh , Dutch film director, publicist and satirist († 2004)
• July 23: Armin-Paul Hampel , German journalist and politician
• July 24: Shavkat Mirziyoyev , Uzbek politician
• July 24: Pam Tillis , American country singer
• July 25th: Bogdan Musiol , German bobsleigh athlete
• July 25: Steve Podborski , Canadian ski racer
• July 25: Olivia Silhavy , Austrian actress
• July 26th: Alexander Hüther , German guitarist, songwriter, music publisher and producer
• July 26: Eugen Ray , German athlete († 1986)
• July 26: Nana Visitor , American actress
• July 27th: Hansi Müller , German soccer player
• July 27th: Leon Kalin , Slovenian handball official and former handball referee
• July 28: Oscar Muller , French football player († 2005)
• July 28: Scott Pelley , American television journalist
• July 28: Judith von Radetzky , German actress
• July 29th: Thomas Borer , Swiss management consultant and former ambassador to Germany
• July 29th: Hannes Gschwentner , Deputy Governor of Tyrol, regional party chairman of the SPÖ
• July 29: László Kuncz , Hungarian water polo player († 2020)
• July 29th: Ulrich Tukur , German actor and musician
• July 30th: Jochen Cornelius-Bundschuh , German Protestant theologian and regional bishop
• July 30th: Ingo Schmitt , German MEP
• July 30th: Detlev Müller-Siemens , German composer and conductor
• July 30th: Berdien Stenberg , Dutch flautist
• July 31: John Austin , American tennis player
• July 31: Klaus Dörre , German sociologist
• July 31: Gisela Wurm , Austrian politician (SPÖ)

August

• 0August 1st: Ivan Blecha , Head of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Olomouc
• 0August 1st: Klaus Brähmig , German politician
• 0August 1st: Stefan Gubser , Swiss actor
• 0August 1st: Beate Merk , German politician
• 0August 1st: Ulrike Weyh , German gymnast
• 0August 2nd: Helen Bischofberger , Liechtenstein athlete
• 0August 2nd: Maria Splitt , Liechtenstein athlete
• 0August 2nd: Thomas Straubhaar , Swiss economist
• 0August 2: Butch Vig , American drummer
• 0August 3: Bodo Rudwaleit , German footballer
• 0August 4: Robert Ernest Andrews , American politician
• 0August 4th: Olaf Beyer , German middle-distance runner
• 0August 4th: Peter Frey , German journalist, editor-in-chief of ZDF
• 0August 4th: Stefan Lübbe , German publisher († 2014)
• 0August 4: Franz Pany , expellee officer († 2021)
• 0August 4th: Arto Tunçboyacıyan , Turkish-Armenian drummer and band leader
• 0August 4th: Alfred Waibel , German motorcycle racer
• 0August 6: James McGreevey , American politician, Governor of New Jersey
• 0August 7th: Harald Effenberg , German actor
• 0August 7th: Andrea Gotzmann , German basketball player and association official
• 0August 7: Rainer Leisten , German logistics scientist († 2017)
• 0August 9: Paul Frommelt , ski racer from Liechtenstein
• 0August 9: Melanie Griffith , American film actress
  

  Melanie Griffith with husband Antonio Banderas, 2010
• 0August 9: David Hart , Dutch entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 0August 9: Klaus Wunder , German soccer player
• August 10: Ronald Borchers , German soccer player
• August 11th: Ian Stuart Donaldson , singer and "head" of the neo-Nazi skin band Skrewdriver († 1993)
• August 11th: Jochen Hagt , German lawyer and local politician
• August 11th: Richie Ramone , American drummer for the Ramones
• August 11: Michael Kühntopf , German-Swiss publicist and author
• August 12: Martin Aeschlimann , Swiss physicist
• August 12: Wolfram Paulus , Austrian film director and screenwriter († 2020)
• August 13: Faisal ad-Dachil , Kuwaiti soccer player
• August 13: David Crane , American screenwriter and film producer
• August 14: Ulrich Konrad , German musicologist
• August 15: Per-Gunnar Andersson , Swedish racing car driver
• August 15: Thomas Böttger , German composer and pianist
• August 16: Laura Innes , American actress and director
• August 16: Christian Tasche , German actor († 2013)
• August 17th: Rabih Abou-Khalil , Lebanese oud player and jazz musician
• August 17th: Robin Cousins , English figure skater
• August 17th: Boris Nemsic , Austrian manager of Bosnian origin
• August 17th: Ralf Richter , German actor
• August 18th: Carole Bouquet , French actress
• August 18: Tan Dun , Chinese composer and conductor
• August 18: Jadwiga Kotnowska , Polish flautist
• August 18: Harald Schmidt , German actor, cabaret artist and presenter
  

  Harald Schmidt , 2010
• August 18th: Carole Bouquet , French actress
• August 19: Rudi Bommer , German soccer player and coach
• August 19: Engelbert Hüging , German table tennis player
• August 19: Cesare Prandelli , Italian football player and coach
• August 19: Gerda Verburg , Dutch Minister
• August 20: Holger Ansmann , German politician
• August 20th: Finlay Calder , Scottish rugby player
• August 20: David Heilbroner , American documentary filmmaker
• August 21: Peter Clarke , British drummer
• August 21: John Howe , Canadian book illustrator
• August 22nd: Steve Davis , English snooker player
• August 22nd: Hiltrud Breyer , German politician and MEP
• August 23: Antonio Meneses , Brazilian cellist
• August 23: Heidemaria Onodi , Austrian politician
• August 24: Stephen Fry , British writer, screenwriter, actor and director
  

  Stephen Fry , 2008
• August 24th: Norbert Trieloff , German footballer
• August 24th: Jane Wang , English-American double bass player and composer
• August 25: Kai Taschner , German actor and voice actor
• August 26th: Dominique Dupuy , French racing car driver
• August 26th: Michael Nötzel , German politician and entrepreneur
• August 26: Christian Schmidt , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• August 26th: Dr. Alban , pop musician, rapper and music producer
• August 27: Bernhard Langer , German golfer
• August 28: Ai Weiwei , Chinese conceptual artist, sculptor and curator
• August 28: Óscar Andrade , Chilean Canto writer
• August 28: Frank Baumann , Swiss comedian, TV presenter and advertising expert
• August 28: Christoph Konrad , German MEP
• August 28: Daniel Stern , American actor
• August 29: Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Svetschnikow , artist of abstract painting
• August 29th: Miki Malör , Austrian theater maker
• August 29: Grzegorz Ciechowski , Polish rock musician († 2001)
• August 30: Gerald Albright , American jazz saxophonist
• August 30th: Raulín Rosendo , Dominican salsa singer
• August 31: Walter Brookmann , German politician
• August 31: Thomas Harms , German theater actor
• August 31: Uwe Hobler , German politician

September

• 0September 1st: Gloria Estefan , Cuban singer
  

  Gloria Estefan , 2009
• 0September 2: Wolfgang Achtner , German theologian and author († 2017)
• 0September 2nd: Ingrid Auerswald , German athlete and Olympic champion
• 0September 2nd: Steve Porcaro , keyboardist, songwriter and founding member of the rock band Toto
• 0September 3: Erhan Önal , Turkish soccer player († 2021)
• 0September 4th: Khandi Alexander , American actress
• 0September 4th: Hanns-Jørg Rohwedder , German politician
• 0September 4: Patricia Tallman , American actress, stuntwoman
• 0September 5th: Emly Starr , Belgian singer
• 0September 5th: Peter Winnen , Dutch cyclist and journalist
• 0September 6: José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa , Portuguese politician and Prime Minister
• 0September 8: Heather Thomas , American actress
• 0September 9: Pierre-Laurent Aimard , French pianist
• 0September 9: Rebecca Völz , German actress
• September 10th: Matthias Brenner , German actor, director, author and general manager
• September 10: Paweł Huelle , Polish writer
• September 10: Andreï Makine , French writer
• September 10: Karsten Petersohn , German soccer player and coach
• September 11th: Gernot Rumpold , Austrian politician
• September 11th: Preben Elkjær Larsen , Danish football player
• September 11th: Jon Moss , British drummer
• September 12: Dorothee Dzwonnek , Secretary General of the German Research Foundation
• September 12: Michael McMahon , American politician
• September 12: Rachel Ward , British-Australian film actress
• September 12th: Hans Zimmer , German composer
  

  Hans Zimmer, 2008
• September 12: Kazim as-Sahir , Iraqi singer
• September 13: Vincent Appice , American hard rock / heavy metal drummer
• September 14: François Asselineau , French politician
• September 14th: Dominic Dobson , American racing car driver
• September 14th: Helmut Schulte , German soccer coach
• September 16: Mark Diese , American chess player († 2008)
• September 16: Assumpta Serna , Spanish actress
• September 17: Christian Loidl , German writer and performer († 2001)
• September 17th: Peter Löscher , Austrian manager
• September 17th: Andris Piebalgs , Latvian diplomat, politician and European Commissioner
• September 18: Tom Wright , British architect
• September 19: Carmen Maria Cârneci , Romanian composer and conductor
• September 19: Parminder Singh Saini , Kenyan hockey player († 2021)
• September 20: Sabine Christiansen , German editor
  

  Sabine Christiansen , 2012
• September 20: Peter Schneider , Swiss psychoanalyst and radio columnist
• September 21: Ernst Höfner , German ice hockey player and coach
• September 21: Sidney Moncrief , American basketball player
• September 21: Hanns-Georg Rodek , German journalist and film critic
• September 21: Kevin Rudd , Australian politician, former Prime Minister
  

  Kevin Rudd , 2013
• September 22nd: Nick Cave , Australian musician, lyricist, poet and actor
• September 22nd: Giuseppe Saronni , Italian cyclist
• September 22nd: Thomas Stritzl , German politician
• September 23: Jochem Ahmann , German artist and designer
• September 23: Rosalind Chao , American actress
• September 23: Gerold Wucherpfennig , German politician
• September 23: Suzanne von Borsody , German actress
• September 24th: Wolfgang Wolf , German soccer coach and soccer player
• September 25: Glenn Hubbard , American baseball player
• September 25: Michael Madsen , American actor
• September 25: Charles Tannock , British MEP
• September 26th: Klaus Augenthaler , German soccer player and coach
  

  Klaus Augenthaler .
• September 26: Roger MacBride Allen , American science fiction writer
• September 26: Luigi De Canio , Italian football player and coach
• September 26th: Joachim Hunger , German regatta sailor and medic († 1990)
• September 27th: Johann Lafer , Austrian cook, entrepreneur and non-fiction author
• September 27: Peter Sellars , American theater director
• September 28th: Wolfgang Tomböck , Austrian horn player
• September 28: Hubert Steiner , Austrian historian
• September 29th: Harald Schmid , German athlete
• September 30th: Fran Drescher , American actress and producer

October

• 0October 2nd: Lutz Michael Fröhlich , German soccer referee
• 0October 2nd: Janry , Belgian comic artist
• 0October 2nd: Osman Kavala , Turkish entrepreneur and patron
• 0October 3: Francisco Casanova , Dominican opera singer (tenor) († 2019)
• 0October 3: Heiko Waßer , German sports journalist and commentator on the Formula 1 races on RTL
• 0October 4th: Michael Anthony , Guyanese boxer
• 0October 4th: Andrea Gysi , German politician
• 0October 4th: Isabelle von Siebenthal , Swiss actress
• 0October 4th: Russell Simmons , American entrepreneur, hip-hop
• 0October 6th: Peter Müller , Swiss ski racer
• 0October 7: Michael W. Smith , American singer and songwriter
• 0October 7th: Jayne Torvill , British figure skater
• 0October 8: Joseph Atiyeh , Syrian wrestler
• 0October 8th: Astrid Benöhr , German ultra-triathlete
• 0October 8: Antonio Cabrini , Italian football player
• 0October 8: André Rettberg , Dutch manager
• 0October 9: Kathrin Aehnlich , German writer
• 0October 9: Benno Groß , German gymnast and gymnastics trainer
• October 10: Christel Justen , German swimmer and sports therapist († 2005)
• October 10: Rumiko Takahashi , Japanese mangaka
• October 11: Luciano Favero , Italian football player
• October 11: Dawn French , British actress and comedian
• October 11th: Martin Wimmer , German motorcycle racer
• October 12: Annik Honoré , Belgian journalist and concert organizer († 2014)
• October 13: Christian Köckert , German politician
• October 14: Claudio Alsuyet , Argentine composer
• October 15: Mira Nair , Indian film director
• October 16: Sabine John , German athlete and Olympic participant
• October 17th: Eleftheria Arvanitaki , Greek singer
• October 17th: Uwe Kolbe , German poet and prose author
• October 17th: Pino Palladino , Italian-British bass player
• October 18: Payao Poontarat , Thai boxer († 2006)
• October 18: Precious Wilson , Jamaican pop singer
• October 19: William O'Leary , American actor
• October 19: Gilbert von Sohlern , German actor
• October 20: Anouar Brahem , Tunisian oud player, jazz musician and composer
• October 20: Andrzej Dziadek , Polish composer
• October 21: Attila the Stockbroker , English songwriter, musician and poet
• October 21: Lyle Workman , American musician and film composer
• October 21: Steven Lee Lukather , American guitarist, singer
• October 21: Wolfgang Ketterle , German physicist
  

  Wolfgang Ketterle
• October 23: Paul Kagame , President of Rwanda and the African Union
• October 23: Martin Luther King III , American human rights activist
• October 23: Olga Alexandrovna Slavnikova , Russian journalist and writer
• October 24: Jean-Jacques Martin , French comic artist († 1991)
• October 24th: Wolfgang Müller , German artist, musician and author
• October 25: Harry Arroyo , American boxer
• October 25: Dhruba Ghosh , Indian sarang player († 2017)
• October 25: Robbie McIntosh , British rock guitarist, member of the Pretenders
• October 25: Ulrich Kasparick , German politician
• October 25: Nancy Cartwright , American actress
• October 26: Peter Wuffli , Swiss manager
• October 27: Pia Frankenberg , German director and book author
• October 27: Axel Freimuth , physicist, rector of the University of Cologne
• October 27: Glenn Hoddle , English football coach and player
• October 27: Tsai Ming-Liang , film director from Taiwan
• October 28: Florence Arthaud , French sailor and skipper († 2015)
• October 28: Christian Berkel , German actor
• October 28: Manfred Freisler , German handball player
• October 28: Ahmet Kaya , Kurdish-Turkish protest singer († 2000)
• October 28: Klaus-Heiner Lehne , German politician and member of the EU Parliament
• October 28: Stephen Paul David Morris , British drummer
• October 29: Raúl Arias , Mexican soccer coach and player
• October 29: Dan Castellaneta , American actor
• October 30th: Susanne Gelhard , German journalist and foreign correspondent

November

• 0November 1: Bernhard Kaster , German politician
• 0November 1: Lyle Lovett , American country musician
• 0November 2nd: Bärbel Broschat , German athlete
• 0November 2: Carter Beauford , American drummer (Dave Matthews Band)
• 0November 2nd: Lucien Favre , Swiss football coach and former player
• 0November 3: Hartmut Andryczuk , German artist, author and publisher
• 0November 3rd: Dolph Lundgren , Swedish actor
  

  Dolph Lundgren , 2012
• 0November 3: Hubert Ulrich , German politician of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party
• 0November 3rd: Mechthild Rawert , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0November 3rd: Ingolf Wiegert , German handball player
• 0November 4th: Anthony John Abbott , Australian politician
• 0November 4th: Hansjörg Schertenleib , Swiss writer
• 0November 4th: Elena Kats-Chernin , Uzbek-Australian composer
• 0November 5: Jon-Erik Hexum , American actor († 1984)
• 0November 5: Kellen Winslow , American football player
• 0November 6: Klaus Kleinfeld , German manager and former CEO of Siemens AG
• 0November 6: Luis Diaz , American percussionist and music educator
• 0November 8th: Porl Thompson , English guitarist and painter
• November 10: Jochen Grywatsch , German specialist in German
• November 10: Ingo Metzmacher , German conductor and opera director
• November 12th: Cécilia Maria Sara Isabel Attias , French mannequin
• November 13: Stephen Baxter , British author
• November 13: Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen , Dutch director († 2005)
• November 13: Sylvia Paletschek , German modern historian
• November 14th: Frank Affolter , Dutch pianist and composer
• November 14th: Nicholas Lens , Belgian author and composer
• November 14th: Wolfgang Hoppe , German bobsleigh driver
• November 14th: Uwe Schummer , German politician
• November 15: Kevin Eubanks , American jazz musician
• November 15: Richard Gray , American level designer
• November 16: Tom Bayer , German sports reporter
• November 16: Rafael Amador Flores , Mexican soccer player († 2018)
• November 16: Jorge Liderman , American composer († 2008)
• November 17th: Jan Bucher , American freestyle skier
• November 17th: Claus Kühnl , German composer
• November 18: Andreas Schilling , German composer, film composer and double bass player
• November 19: Ofra Haza , Israeli singer († 2000)
• November 20: Stefan Bellof , German racing driver († 1985)
• November 22nd: Glen Clark , Canadian politician
• November 22nd: Thomas Lehr , German writer
• November 23: Andrew Toney , American former basketball player
• November 24th: Alfons Haider , Austrian actor
• November 24th: Denise Crosby , American actress
  

  Denise Crosby (2015)
• November 25th: Ursula Andermatt , Swiss actress
• November 25: Robert L. Ehrlich , United States Governor of Maryland
• November 25th: Frank Hill , German composer and guitarist
• November 25th: Monte Melkonian , American political activist, Asala terrorist and militant († 1993)
• November 25th: Torsten Müller (musician) , German jazz double bass player
• November 26th: Rainer Kuppinger , German soccer goalkeeper
• November 26th: Matthias Reim , German musician
• November 26th: Manuel Tejada , Dominican composer and arranger
• November 26th: Andrea Zogg , Swiss actor and director
• November 27th: Kenny Acheson , Northern Irish racing driver
• November 27: Bertram Engel , German drummer
• November 27: Caroline Bouvier Kennedy , eldest daughter of John F. Kennedy
• November 27: Zacharias Kunuk , Canadian film producer, director and screenwriter
• November 28th: Bart van der Putten , Dutch jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
• November 29: Janet Napolitano , American politician
• November 29: Jennifer Batten , American guitarist
• November 29th: Jean-Philippe Toussaint , Belgian writer
• November 30th: Margaret Spellings , US politician
• 000November: Pierre Raymond Audi , French-Lebanese theater director and theater director

December

• 0December 1st: Arnulf Meffle , German handball player
• 0December 2nd: Dagfinn Høybråten , Norwegian politician, chairman of Kristelig Folkeparti
• 0December 4th: Eric Steven Raymond , hacker and figurehead of the free software community
• 0December 5: Lydia Hauenschild , German writer
• 0December 5th: Patriz Ilg , German athlete
• 0December 6: Steve Bedrosian , American baseball player
• 0December 6: Andrew Cuomo , American politician
• 0December 7th: Jürgen Kaminsky , German soccer player and coach
• 0December 7th: Frank Pastor , German footballer
• 0December 7th: Oswald Sattler , South Tyrolean musician
• 0December 8th: Hannelore Anke , German swimmer
• 0December 8: Mikhail Mikhailovich Kasyanov , Russian politician
• 0December 9: Emmanuel Carrère , French writer
• 0December 9: Donny Osmond , American singer, talk show host and actor
• 0December 9: Kenny Washington , American jazz singer
• December 10th: Paul Hardcastle , British musician
• December 10: Peter Littelmann , German mathematician
• December 10th: Prem Pal Singh Rawat , Guru and Spiritual Guide of Elan Vital
• December 10: Michael Clarke Duncan , American actor († 2012)
• December 11th: Jörg Haustein , Protestant theologian († 2004)
• December 12th: Sheila E. , American percussionist, drummer and singer
• December 12th: Brigitte Karner , Austrian actress
• December 12: Robert Lepage , Canadian theater director, film director and actor
• December 12th: Susanna Tamaro , Italian writer and film director
• December 13: Sven-Eric Bechtolf , German actor and director
• December 13: Steve Buscemi , American film and stage actor
• December 14: Peter Schell , Swiss actor († 2021)
• December 16: Victor Aguedo E. Agbayani , Filipino politician
• December 16: Gerald Hambitzer , German harpsichordist, clavichord and fortepiano player
• December 17th: Hanne Adsbøl , Danish badminton player
• December 17th: Willi Seitz , German singer
• December 18: Hilary Engisch , American freestyle skier
• December 19: Olaf Bär , German singer (baritone)
• December 19: Cyril Collard , French director († 1993)
• December 19: Michael Edward Fossum , American astronaut
• December 19: Kevin McHale , American basketball player
• December 19: Burkhard Schröder , German basketball player
• December 20th: Billy Bragg , English singer and songwriter
• December 20th: Piet Klocke , German comedian
• December 20: Mike Watt , American musician and producer
• December 20th: Emil Pirchan , Austrian set designer and author
• December 21: Jürgen Domian , German moderator, journalist and author
  

  Jürgen Domian , 2008
• December 21: Rolf Kanies , German actor
• December 21: Mary Raftery , Irish investigative journalist († 2012)
• December 23: Konrad Reiss , head of T-Systems († 2005)
• December 23: Petra Zieser , German actress
• December 24th: António André dos Santos Ferreira , Portuguese football player
• December 24th: Othmar Karas , Austrian politician
• December 24: Hamid Karzai , President of the Transitional Government of Afghanistan
• December 25th: Pavel Fajt , Czech jazz and rock drummer
• December 25th: Shane MacGowan , Irish musician
• December 25th: Dugarsürengiin Ojuunbold , Mongolian wrestler († 2002)
• December 25th: Douglas Wolfsperger , German film director
• December 26th: Barbara Höll , German politician
• December 27: Christos Yiannopoulos , German screenwriter and author
• December 28th: Petra Weis , German politician
• December 29th: Oliver Hirschbiegel , German director
• December 31: Heinz-Josef Braun , German musician, actor and cabaret artist
• December 31: Fabrizio Meoni , Italian motorcyclist († 2005)
• December 31: Guðmundur Andri Thorsson , Icelandic writer and politician

Day unknown

• Ulrike Ackermann , German political scientist and journalist
• Hashem Aghadscheri , Persian professor of history
• Maryam Akhondy , Iranian singer and musician
• Gülşen Aktaş , Turkish teacher and political scientist
• Rizgar Muhammad Amin , Iraqi lawyer
• Nasrin Amirsedghi , German publicist, philologist, orientalist, literary and film scholar
• Bruno Frank Apitz , German actor
• Martin Archer , British musician, composer and band leader
• Shari Arison , Israeli entrepreneur
• Ricardo de Armas , Argentine composer and cellist
• Klaus Armstroff , German electrician, politician and neo-Nazi
• Shimon Attie , American photo artist
• Greg Bartholomew , American composer
• Hans de Beer , Dutch illustrator and author
• Michaela Biet , German sculptor
• Wolfgang Binder , German television presenter
• Vladislav Bláha , Czech guitarist and music teacher
• Christoph Bossert , German organist and music teacher
• Daniel Bozzani , Argentine composer and conductor
• Helmut Branny , German conductor, double bass player and professor of chamber music
• Laurent Cuniot , French composer, conductor and music teacher
• Wolfgang Ehrler , German handball player and trainer
• Junus Ghanuni , Afghan politician
• Jaime Guiscafré-Ramon , Latin American composer and guitarist
• Stefan Hardt , German radio play director and jazz saxophonist
• Birgid Helmy , German sculptor
• Ingelore Hinz-Schallreuter , German paleontologist
• Joseph Kelemen , Hungarian organist
• Andrei Kolkutin , Russian painter
• Susanna Kraus , German actress and artist
• Joachim Krause , German-Swiss organist, church musician and conductor
• Ramona Kunze-Libnow , German actress
• Massimo Laura , Italian concert guitarist
• Li Dongsheng , Chinese entrepreneur
• Fatimata M'Baye , African civil rights activist
• Philippe Mabboux , French organist and composer
• Oliver Nägele , German actor
• JPR Ochieng'-Odero (Jimi Patt Roberts), Kenyan biologist and playwright
• Dörte Maria Packeiser , German organist, choir director, cantor and church music director
• Susann Pásztor , German writer
• Jean-François Pouliot , Canadian director
• Alim Qasimov , Azerbaijani mugham singer
• Christoph Richter , cellist and music teacher
• Christoph Rihs , Swiss artist
• Johannes Roloff , German pianist and arranger
• Arno Rude , German radio play and screenwriter
• Jim Scheuer , American music educator and composer
• Bruno Schneider , Swiss horn player
• Robert Schulte-Hemming , German composer
• Andrea Sihler , Austrian actress
• Linda Catlin Smith , Canadian composer
• Michael Stöckigt , German composer and pianist
• Sabine Thiesler , German writer, speaker and actress
• Andreas Weiser , German journalist, author, musician and composer
• Arnulf Wenning , German pop singer

Died

January

• 0January 4th: Theodor Körner , Austrian politician (Federal President) (* 1873)
• 0January 5th: Oldřich Duras , Czechoslovak chess master (* 1882)
• 0January 7th: Jože Plečnik , Slovenian architect (* 1872)
• 0January 8: Viktor von Weizsäcker , German medic (* 1886)
• 0January 9: Mary Carr Moore , American composer (* 1873)
• January 10: Gabriela Mistral , Chilean poet and diplomat; Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945 (* 1889)
• January 12th: Ken Wharton , English Formula 1 racing driver (* 1916)
• January 12: Arthur Scheunert , German veterinarian (* 1879)
• January 13: Onoe Saishū , Japanese tanka poet (* 1876)
• January 14: Robert John Armstrong , American bishop (* 1884)
• January 14th: Humphrey Bogart , American film actor (* 1899)
• January 15: Red Dunn , American football player (born 1901)
• January 16: Arturo Toscanini , Italian conductor (* 1867)
• January 17th: Jules Robin , French racing car driver (* 1879)
• January 18: Tomitaro Makino , Japanese botanist (* 1862)
• January 20: Dudley Benjafield , British doctor and racing car driver (* 1887)
• January 20: Dean Benedetti , American tenor saxophonist (* 1922)
• January 20: James Connolly , first modern Olympic champion (* 1868)
• January 21: Adolf Ahrens , German captain and politician (* 1879)
• January 21: Petar Krstić , Serbian composer (* 1877)

Claire Waldoff, 1905

• January 22nd: Claire Waldoff , German chanson singer (* 1884)
• January 25: Martina Wied , Austrian writer (* 1882)
• January 25: Franz Maria Luitpold of Bavaria , Bavarian Prince and Major General (* 1875)
• January 27: Bess Mensendieck , Dutch-American doctor, founder of early breathing and body pedagogy (* 1864)
• January 31: Christian Hülsmeyer , inventor of the radar and entrepreneur (* 1881)

February

• 0February 1: Friedrich Paulus , General Field Marshal in the Third Reich (* 1890)
• 0February 2: Valery Larbaud , French writer and literary critic (* 1881)
• 0February 4: Pierre Aeby , Swiss politician (* 1884)
• 0February 4: Erich Ponto , German actor (* 1884)
• 0February 5: Redfield Proctor junior , American politician (* 1879)

Walther Bothe , 1954

• 0February 8: Walther Bothe , German physicist (* 1891)
• 0February 8: John von Neumann , Hungarian-American chemist, mathematician and physicist (* 1903)
• 0February 9: Charles Faroux , French motorsport official and race director (* 1872)
• 0February 9: Miklós Horthy , Hungarian politician (* 1868)
• February 10: Laura Ingalls Wilder , American writer (* 1867)
• February 12: Johannes Anker Larsen , Danish writer (* 1874)
• February 13: Gustav Mie , German physicist, known for his description of Mie scattering (* 1868)
• February 14: Robert Gilbert Vansittart , British diplomat (* 1881)
• February 16: Józef Hofmann , Polish-American pianist (* 1876)
• February 16: John Sealy Edward Townsend , British physicist (* 1868)
• February 18: Henry Norris Russell , American astronomer (* 1877)
• February 19: Maurice Garin , French cyclist (* 1871)
• February 20: Sadri Maksudi Arsal , Tatar statesman, legal scholar, thinker and scientist (* 1879)
• February 21: Willem Frederik Donath , Dutch physiologist and hygienist (* 1889)
• February 25: Georges Beauchemin , Canadian singer (* 1891)
• February 25: Gene Buck , American illustrator, songwriter and music producer (* 1885)
• February 25: George Moran , American criminal and rival of Al Capone (* 1893)
• February 27: Ernst Kris , Austrian-American art historian and psychoanalyst (* 1900)
• February 28: Nils Åberg , Swedish archaeologist (* 1888)

March

• 0March 4: Mohammed Larbi Ben M'hidi , political leader in the Algerian War of Independence (* 1923)
• 0March 4: Elisabeth Marie Auguste of Bavaria , Princess of Bavaria until 1918 (* 1874)
• 0March 7th: Johann Wolfgang Amschler , German biologist (* 1893)
• 0March 7: Wyndham Lewis , British writer, painter (* 1882)
• 0March 8: János Esterházy , Hungarian nobleman and politician (* 1901)
• 0March 8: Othmar Schoeck , Swiss composer and conductor (* 1886)
• 0March 8: Birger Dahlerus , Swedish industrialist (* 1891)
• 0March 9: Kennerley Rumford , English singer (baritone) (* 1870)
• March 11: Richard Evelyn Byrd , American polar explorer and admiral (* 1888)
• March 11th: Jinzai Kiyoshi , Japanese writer (* 1903)
• March 13: Ernst Nobs , Swiss politician (* 1886)
• March 14: Boris Nikolajewitsch Jurjew , Soviet helicopter designer and pioneer (* 1889)
• March 14: Eugenio Castellotti , Italian racing driver (* 1930)
• March 15: Just Knud Qvigstad , Norwegian philologist and politician (* 1853)
• March 15: Nelson Kraschel , American politician (* 1889)
• March 16: Johnny Torrio , mentor of Al Capone and predecessor as leader of the Chicago underworld (* 1882)
• March 16: Constantin Brâncuși , Romanian sculptor (* 1876)
• March 17: Ramon Magsaysay , Filipino politician and President (* 1907)
• March 18: Emma Cotta , German sculptor (* 1880)
• March 19: Katayama Hiroko , Japanese poet and translator (* 1878)
• March 21: Charles Kay Ogden , British linguist and writer (* 1889)
• March 25: George Townshend , Irish Bahai (* 1876)
• March 26: Joseph Chavée , Belgian racing driver (* 1884)
• March 26th: Max Ophüls , Franco-German film director (* 1902)
• March 27: Franziskus Demann , Bishop of Osnabrück (* 1900)
• March 28: Jack Butler Yeats , Irish artist (* 1871)
• March 29th: Hedwig Andersen , German speech therapist (* 1866)
• March 30th: Max Amann , German politician and publicist (* 1891)
• 00.March: Karl Geiser , Swiss sculptor (* 1898)

April

• 0April 2: Joseph Massolle , German engineer (* 1889)
• 0April 3: Ned Sparks , Canadian actor (* 1883)
• 0April 4: Adolf Rading , German architect (* 1888)
• 0April 6: Johann Emil Schaudt , German architect and craftsman (* 1871)
• 0April 7th: Tami Oelfken , German writer and reform pedagogue (* 1888)
• 0April 7th: Leo von Jena , member of the SS and the Waffen-SS (* 1876)
• 0April 7: John Hart , Canadian politician (* 1879)
• 0April 8: Pedro Segura y Sáenz , Archbishop of Seville and Cardinal (* 1880)
• April 12: Wilhelm Niklas , German politician (* 1887)
• April 14: Kuni Tremel-Eggert , German writer (* 1889)
• April 15: Maximilian Rott , German businessman and writer (* 1903)
• April 17th: Sepp Aman , Austrian politician (* 1870)
• April 18: Huug de Groot , Dutch football player (* 1890)
• April 18: Ben W. Hooper , American politician, governor of Tennessee (* 1870)
• April 19: Al Plunkett , Canadian singer (* 1899)
• April 21: Lou Brero , American racing driver (* 1909)
• April 21: John Graham Kerr , English embryologist and zoologist (* 1869)
• April 23: Reinder Pieter van Calcar , Dutch bacteriologist (* 1872)
• April 23: Johannes Christensen , Danish marathon runner and engineer (* 1889)
• April 24th: Andreas Nielsen , German Lieutenant General (* 1899)
• April 24: Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies and Dutch Foreign Minister (* 1872)
• April 27: Jean de Sperati , stamp forger (* 1884)
• April 28: Ferenc Hirzer , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1902)
• April 29: William Charles Aalsmeer , Dutch cardiologist (* 1889)
• April 30th: Kathleen Atkinson , American tennis player (* 1875)
• April 30: Ludwig Schiedermair , German privy councilor and musicologist (* 1876)

May

• 0May 2: Gilberte de Courgenay , Swiss waitress, soldier idol (* 1896)
• 0May 2: Tadeusz Kassern , Polish composer (* 1904)
• 0May 2: Otto Lenz , German politician (* 1903)
• 0May 2: Joseph McCarthy , American politician (* 1908)
• 0May 3: Ernst Bertram , German Germanist, poet and writer (* 1884)
• 0May 4: Gé Fortgens , Dutch football player (* 1887)
• 0May 5th: Michail Fabianowitsch Gnessin , Russian composer (* 1883)
• 0May 7: Zenón Noriega Agüero , Peruvian president of a military junta 1950 (* 1900)
• 0May 7th Elisabeth Baumgartner , Swiss farmer and author of plays and radio plays in Bern German (* 1889)
• 0May 7: Wilhelm Filchner , German geophysicist, explorer and travel writer (* 1877)
• 0May 9: Heinrich Campendonk , German painter and graphic artist (* 1889)
• May 10: Edvardas Adamkevičius , Lithuanian general (* 1888)
• May 10: Guido Ascoli , Italian mathematician (* 1887)
• May 12: Alfonso de Portago , Spanish automobile racing driver and bobsleigh athlete (* 1928)
• May 12: Stefan I (Exarch) (1878–1957), Bulgarian Metropolitan and Exarch (* 1878)
• May 12: Erich von Stroheim , Austrian / American director and actor (* 1885)
• May 14: Sir Sidney Solomon Abrahams , British long jumper and sprinter (* 1885)
• May 15: Keith Andrews , American racing driver (* 1920)
• May 15: Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer , German chemist (* 1899)
• May 15: Fritz van Calker , German constitutional lawyer (* 1864)
• May 16: Eliot Ness , American tax officer and prohibition agent (born 1903)
• May 21: Johannes Pinsk , German Catholic theologian (* 1891)
• May 22: Franz Borkenau , historical philosopher, cultural historian and sociologist (* 1900)
• May 22: Franz Feldhaus , autodidact, German electrical engineer and scientific writer (* 1874)
• May 28: Martin Wagner , German architect and urban planner (* 1885)
• May 29: James Whale , British director (* 1889)
• May 30: Toivo Pekkanen , Finnish writer (* 1902)
• May 31: Peeter Sink , Estonian pastor, poet, painter and photographer (* 1902)

June

• 0June 3: Wilhelm Hausenstein , German writer, art critic, publicist and diplomat (* 1882)
• 0June 4: Louise Schroeder , German SPD politician (* 1887)
• June 12: Jimmy Dorsey , American jazz musician (* 1904)
• June 12: Stanisław Szpinalski , Polish pianist and music teacher (* 1901)
• June 14th: Nico Bouvy , Dutch football player (* 1892)
• June 15: Paul Ilg , Swiss writer (* 1875)
• June 17th: Augusto Samuel Boyd , 19th President of Panama (* 1879)
• June 19: Karl Plagge , German officer in the Wehrmacht, who saved approx. 250 Jews (* 1897)
• June 21: Johannes Stark , German physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (* 1874)
• June 21: František Kupka , Czech painter, perhaps the founder of abstraction (* 1871)
• June 23: Louis Fürnberg , German writer, poet and musician (* 1909)
• June 24: Frank Blachford , Canadian violinist, music teacher, conductor and composer (* 1879)
• June 24th: Wilhelm Heuber , German Nazi politician and lawyer (* 1898)
• June 24th: Herman Peltzer , Dutch football player (* 1887)
• June 25th: Thea Aichbichler , German actress (* 1889)

Alfred Döblin , ca.1930

• June 26th: Alfred Döblin , German doctor and socially critical writer (* 1878)
• June 27: Hermann Buhl , Austrian mountaineer (* 1924)
• June 27: Malcolm Lowry , English writer (* 1909)

July

• 0July 1: August Euler , German aviation pioneer (* 1868)
• 0July 1: Fritz Gils , German artist (* 1901)
• 0July 2: Ladislav Zelenka , Czech cellist (* 1881)
• 0July 3: Elisabeth Büchsel , German painter (* 1867)
• 0July 3: Richard Mohaupt , German composer (* 1904)
• 0July 4th: Leo von Prittwitz and Gaffron , Russian major general (* 1878)
• 0July 5: Zdeněk Němeček , Czech writer and dramaturge (* 1894)
• 0July 7th: Lucien Molon , French racing car driver (* 1883)
• 0July 9: Stephan Jaeggi , Swiss composer and conductor (* 1903)
• 0July 9: Alexander Fjodorowitsch Goedicke , Russian musician and composer (* 1877)
• July 10: Shalom Asch , Yiddish writer and playwright (* 1880)
• July 11th: Aga Khan III. , Head of the Ismaili Nizarites (* 1877)
• July 12: Andreas Breynk , German national soccer player (* 1890)
• July 14th: Herbert MacKay-Fraser , American racing driver (* 1927)
• July 14th: William Whitehouse , British racing car driver (* 1909)
• July 15: Willy de Vos , Dutch football player (* 1880)
• July 15: James M. Cox , American politician (* 1870)
• July 16: Serge Chaloff , American jazz saxophonist (* 1923)
• July 17th: Carl Auböck senior , Austrian painter and designer (* 1900)
• July 18: Johannes Böhm , German politician (* 1890)
• July 19: Curzio Malaparte , Italian writer and journalist of German descent (* 1898)
• July 23: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Italian writer (* 1896)
• July 24th: Julius Bochmann , German teacher and philatelist, founder of the Bochmann catalog of German occasional postmarks (* 1901)
• July 24th: Sacha Guitry , French actor, film director, screenwriter and playwright (* 1885)
• July 28: Edith Abbott , American social scientist and social reformer (* 1876)
• July 29: Franz Anderle , Austrian officer (* 1874)
• July 29: Jules Blangenois , Belgian composer and conductor (* 1870)
• July 29: Ricardo Rojas , Argentine writer, essayist, educational politician and educator (* 1882)
• July 30th: Frank País , revolutionary in the Cuban underground (* 1934)
• July 31: Helene Funke , German painter and graphic artist (* 1869)

August

• 0August 4th: Otto von Zwiedineck-Südhorst , Austrian economist (* 1871)
• 0August 4th: Emil Hadina , Austrian-Sudeten German writer (* 1885)
• 0August 4: Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa , President of Brazil (* 1869)
• 0August 7th: Oliver Hardy , American comedian and film actor (* 1892)
• 0August 8: Hans von Kahlenberg , German writer (* 1870)
• August 11: Rudolf Weigl , Polish biologist and physician (* 1883)
• August 13: Fredrik Størmer , Norwegian geophysicist and mathematician (* 1874)
• August 16: Irving Langmuir , American chemist, physicist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1881)
• August 16: Hans Studer , Swiss engineer (* 1875)
• August 18: Joe Gould , American writer (* 1889)
• August 21: Harald Ulrik Sverdrup , Norwegian oceanographer and professor (* 1888)
• August 22nd: Richard Delbrueck , German archaeologist (* 1875)
• August 22nd: Edward Dent , English musicologist (* 1876)
• August 23: Giovanni Mercati , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1866)
• August 23: Eugène Schueller , French chemist and founder of L'Oréal (* 1881)
• August 24th: Fritz Hillebrand , German motorcycle racer (* 1917)
• August 25: Leo Perutz , Austrian writer (* 1882)
• August 28: Willi Agatz , German politician (* 1904)
• August 30: Josep Lluís Facerías , Spanish anarchist and resistance fighter (* 1920)
• August 30: Walter Fuchs , Austro-German chemist (* 1891)
• August 30: Otto Suhr , German politician (* 1894)

September

• 0September 1: Dennis Brain , British horn player (* 1921)
• 0September 7: Björn Helland-Hansen , Norwegian oceanographer (* 1877)
• September 11th: Petar Stojanović , Serbian composer (* 1877)
• September 12: Marie Arning , German politician (* 1887)
• September 13: Wilhelm Diess , Bavarian storyteller, lawyer and theater director (* 1884)
• September 15: Antonio Mediz Bolio , Mexican writer, journalist and politician (* 1884)
• September 16: Qi Baishi , Chinese painter (* 1864)
• September 19: Fritz Katzmann , SS group leader, lieutenant general of the Waffen SS and war criminal (* 1906)
• September 20: Jean Sibelius , Finnish composer (* 1865)
• September 21: Otto Armster , German intelligence officer and resistance fighter (* 1891)
• September 21: Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , owner of the Krupp Group (* 1886)

Haakon VII, 1905

• September 21: Haakon VII , King of Norway (* 1872)
• September 25: Albertine Morin-Labrecque , Canadian composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1886)
• September 27: Alois Schlögl , German agricultural functionary and politician (* 1893)
• September 28: Alberto Ascoli , Italian serologist, hygienist and physiological chemist (* 1877)

October

Christian Diorr

• 0October 5: Oskar Hagen , art historian and founder of the Handel Festival in Göttingen (* 1888)
• 0October 5: José Leandro Andrade , Uruguayan football player (* 1901)
• 0October 6: Hisao Jūran , Japanese writer (* 1902)
• 0October 8: Karl Georg Pfleiderer , German politician (* 1899)
• 0October 9: Hermann Dieckmann , German politician (* 1885)
• October 11: René Victor Auberjonois , Swiss painter (* 1872)
• October 12: Michael Horlacher , German politician (* 1888)
• October 13: Erich Auerbach , German literary scholar and Romance philologist (* 1892)
• October 16: Ralph Benatzky , Austrian composer (* 1884)
• October 19: Vere Gordon Childe , Australian archaeologist (* 1892)
• October 21: Joseph T. Rucker , American cameraman (* 1887)
• October 22: Bok de Korver , Dutch football player (* 1883)
• October 24th: Christian Dior , French fashion designer (* 1905)
• October 25: Albert Anastasia , American Mafioso (* 1902)
• October 25: Henry van de Velde , Belgian architect and designer (* 1863)

Gerty Cori , 1947

• October 26: Gerty Cori , Austrian-American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner (* 1896)
• October 26: Nikos Kazantzakis , Greek writer (* 1883)
• October 28: Ernst Graefenberg , German medic (* 1881)
• October 29: Rosemarie Nitribitt , German prostitute (* 1933)
• October 29: Louis B. Mayer , American film producer (* 1884)
• October 31: Peter G. Gerry , American politician (* 1879)

November

• 0November 2: Georgi Azagarow , Russian film director and actor (* 1892)
• 0November 2: Ted Meredith , American athlete and Olympic champion (* 1891)
• 0November 3: Wilhelm Reich , Austrian psychoanalyst (* 1897)
• 0November 4th: Shoghi Effendi , administrator of the Baha'i religion (* 1897)
• 0November 5: Otto Stolz , Austrian historian and folklorist (* 1881)
• 0November 9: Jacques Rouché , French editor and opera director (* 1862)
• November 11th: Hans Adler , Austrian librettist, writer and poet (* 1880)
• November 11: Ugo Amaldi , Italian mathematician (* 1875)
• November 13: Antonín Zápotocký , Czechoslovak politician (* 1884)
• November 14: James M. Tunnell , American politician (* 1879)
• November 17: Hans Nordmann , German railway engineer (* 1879)
• November 18: Rudolf Diels , head of the Gestapo (* 1900)
• November 20: Fritz Erle , German engineer and racing car driver (* 1875)
• November 21: Cary Hardee , American politician (* 1876)
• November 21: Francis Burton Harrison , American politician (* 1873)
• November 23: William Wright Arnold , American lawyer and politician (* 1877)
• November 24th: Diego Rivera , Mexican painter (* 1886)
• November 25th: George of Greece , son of the Greek king George I (Greece) (* 1869)
• November 26: Jack Gardner , American jazz pianist (* 1903)
• November 29: Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Austro-American composer (* 1897)
• November 30th: Beniamino Gigli , Italian opera singer and film actor (* 1890)
• November 30th: Adeodato Giovanni Piazza , Patriarch of Venice and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1884)

December

• 0December 3: Edward Larrabee Adams , American Romanist and Provençalist (* 1878)
• 0December 5: Guido Schmidt , Austrian diplomat and politician (* 1901)
• 0December 6th: Robert Esnault-Pelterie , French aviation and rocket pioneer (* 1881)
• 0December 6th: Karl Friedrich Rößle , Professor of Business Administration, (* 1893)
• 0December 9: Otto Landsberg , German politician and lawyer (* 1869)
• December 10th: Maurice McLoughlin , American tennis player (* 1890)
• December 12th: Fritz von Waldthausen , German banker (* 1887)
• December 13: Georg Pahl , German actor and radio play speaker (* 1893)
• December 13: Carl Arthur Richter , Swiss composer and conductor (* 1883)
• December 14: Josef Lada , Czech illustrator and children's book author (* 1887)
• December 14th: Gerhart Ziller , Minister for Mechanical Engineering and Minister for Heavy Machinery of the GDR (* 1912)
• December 16: Heinrich Hoffmann , personal photographer of Adolf Hitler (* 1885)
• December 18: Əyyub Abbasov , Azerbaijani writer (* 1905)
• December 18: Wilhelm Petersen , German composer (* 1890)
• December 24th: Maurice Schilles , French cyclist (* 1888)
• December 24th: Norma Talmadge , American actress (* 1894)
• December 25th: Käthe Dorsch , German actress (* 1890)
• December 27: Otto Nuschke , German politician and Deputy Prime Minister of the GDR (* 1883)
• December 27: Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer , diplomat, journalist, lawyer and political scientist (* 1894)
• December 28: Oscar Matthiesen , Danish painter (* 1861)

Day unknown

• Julius von Bernuth , German major general (* 1861)
• Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker , British algologist (* 1901)
• Heinrich Müller , Swiss football player and coach (* 1889)
• José Pierson , Mexican music teacher (* 1861)
• Paul von Rautenfeld , German customs officer, ethnologist and zoologist (* 1865)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee
• Chemistry : Alexander Robert Todd
• Medicine : Daniel Bovet
• Literature : Albert Camus
• Nobel Peace Prize : Lester Bowles Pearson

music

• Corry Brokken wins the 2nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest on March 3rd in Frankfurt am Main with the song Net as toen for the Netherlands
• List of number one hits in Germany (1957)

Web links

Commons : 1957  - 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 (1957) in the Federal Archives