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1958 | |
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The Atomium , built for Expo '58, will become a symbol of Brussels. | |
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli is elected Pope and takes the name John XXIII. on. |
Charles de Gaulle becomes the first President of the French Fifth Republic . |
1958 in other calendars | |
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From urbe condita | 2711 |
Armenian calendar | 1406-1407 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1950-1951 |
Badi calendar | 114-115 |
Bengali calendar | 1364-1365 |
Berber calendar | 2908 |
Buddhist calendar | 2502 |
Burmese calendar | 1320 |
Byzantine calendar | 7466-7467 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4654-4655 or 4594-4595 |
- 60 year cycle |
Fire Rooster ( 丁酉 , 34) - |
French revolutionary calendar |
- CLXVI CLXVII 166-167 |
Hebrew calendar | 5718-5719 |
Hindu calendar | |
- Vikram Sambat | 2014-2015 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1880-1881 |
Iranian calendar | 1336-1337 |
Islamic calendar | 1377-1378 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Nengō (era): | Shōwa 33 |
- Kōki | 2618 |
Coptic calendar | 1674-1675 |
Korean calendar | |
- Dangun era | 4291 |
- Juche era | 47 |
Minguo calendar | 47 |
Modern Olympics | XVI |
Seleucid calendar | 2269-2270 |
Thai solar calendar | 2501 |
In 1958 the world economy experienced its first post-war recession . The Federal Republic , in the middle of the economic miracle , is only slightly affected (GDP 469.2 billion euros, in 1995 prices, compared to 449.2 in the previous year = +4.45%), North America (= USA and Canada ) and South America on the other hand noticeable. 1958 (or 1957) is considered to be the year in which a long crisis in the coal and steel industry ( coal crisis (= "colliery") and crisis in the steel industry ) began in West Germany . In the Ruhr area , the largest agglomeration in Germany with over 10 million inhabitants , these crises are particularly visible (details here ).
The movement for nuclear disarmament is growing in strength worldwide. The British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament gives the movement with the peace symbol its logo, and their Aldermaston March becomes the model for the Easter marches . In Germany, the fight against atomic death is emerging in parallel .
In the Cuban Revolution , the rebels go on the offensive and are finally victorious in the Battle of Santa Clara at the turn of the year .
In France, after numerous internal crises, especially the Algerian War , the Fifth French Republic followed the fourth. The new political system was decisively shaped by Charles de Gaulle , the first president (1958–1969). As early as 1946, in his Bayeux speech, De Gaulle had outlined his ideas for a system of government with a strong president who was independent from the legislature , deliberately differentiating it from the political system of the Fourth Republic with a weak executive . Special powers in the constitutional law of June 3, 1958, including the drafting of a new constitution, enabled de Gaulle to implement these ideas in the constitution of the Fifth Republic .
Events
Politics and world events
January
- January 1st : Thomas Holenstein becomes President of Switzerland .
- January 1st : The Treaty of Rome establishing the EEC enter into force; Foundation of the European Investment Bank .
- January 1st : The Catholic diocese of Essen is founded.
- January 2nd : The German traffic offender register is set up in Flensburg
- January 2 : The Federal Cartel Office begins its work in Berlin .
- January 13 : Presentation of the Pauling petition signed by Otto Hahn , Bertrand Russell , Albert Schweitzer and 9,000 scientists to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld ; Demand for an international agreement on the immediate cessation of nuclear tests .
- January 23 : After a two-day general strike in Venezuela, the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez is overthrown.
February
- February 1 : Egypt and Syria merge to form the United Arab Republic .
- February 3rd : Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg sign the Benelux Treaty to establish an economic community.
- February 5 : After a mid-air collision with a North American F-86 fighter, the crew of a damaged Boeing B-47 bomber dropped a hydrogen bomb off the coast of Georgia without a nuclear detonator . The Tybee bomb remains uncovered.
- February 6 : Willy Brandt , Governing Mayor of Berlin, flies to the USA for 14 days, receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and then meets the American President Eisenhower .
- February 8 : French fighter planes bomb the Tunisian village of Sakhiet Sidi Youssef after French planes were shot near the border. 79 people, all civilians, died in the attack.
- February 14 : The two kingdoms Jordan and Iraq merge briefly to form the Arab Federation .
- February 14 : Herrenreiter case , decision of the Federal Court of Justice in Germany
- February 17 : The Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki makes proposals for a nuclear weapon-free zone in Central Europe ( Rapacki Plan ). He wants a ban on missile bases and the establishment of an effective control system.
- February 21 : Otto von Habsburg , who lives abroad and the eldest son of Emperor Karl I , declares that he has waived his claims against the Republic of Austria and is loyalty to its constitution. He thus causes internal political quarrels about a possible entry, which even after an officially recorded waiver of May 31, 1961 on the basis of the Habsburg law, has not yet settled.
- February 23 : Arturo Frondizi becomes the new Argentine President.
March
- March 15 : The GDR's Military History Institute is founded.
- March 19 : On March 19, the European Parliament , as the parliamentary assembly of the newly founded European Economic Community , meets for its constituent session. It has 142 members from the national parliaments of Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
- March 27 : In Moscow, Bulganin relinquishes the post of prime minister to Nikita Khrushchev .
- March 30th : Otto Hahn welcomes the decision of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow to unilaterally end nuclear weapons tests. On the other hand , he refused the honorary membership in the Soviet Academy of Sciences that was proposed to him on May 5th .
April
- April 4th : German- Nepalese diplomatic relations begin .
- April 6 : The Persian Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , divorces his wife Soraya because of childlessness.
- April 11th : Ghana becomes a member of UNESCO .
- April 14th : Tunisia becomes a member of the World Bank and the IMF .
- April 15 : The kidnapping of Joachim Göhner in Stuttgart is the first kidnapping in the Federal Republic of Germany. The perpetrator strangles the seven-year-old but demands a ransom from the father .
- April 28th : With the Ulm Einsatzgruppen trial , the legal processing of the Holocaust in Germany against members of National Socialist Einsatzgruppen in Eastern Europe during the Second World War began .
May
- May 9 : The so-called First Civil War breaks out in Lebanon due to tensions between supporters of a pro-Western and a pro-Arab policy .
- May 13 : In Algeria, the military and French Algerians revolt against Paris. In Algiers , General Jacques Massu is proclaimed president of a "welfare committee" after a coup. The Algerian crisis at the end of the Fourth was settled at the beginning of the Fifth French Republic by President Charles de Gaulle .
- May 28 : The food cards in the GDR are abolished.
- May 30th : In an interview with the 'New York Times' Otto Hahn advises the dismantling of all uranium fission reactors "in the interests of peace" and advocates the development of fusion reactors .
June
- June 1st : Charles de Gaulle becomes French Prime Minister with special powers to suppress the uprising in Algeria.
- June 7th : Helicopter incident in 1958 : A helicopter manned by nine soldiers from the US Army flies into the airspace of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and has to make an emergency landing near Frankenberg. The soldiers interned by the GDR authorities were released about six weeks later on July 19, 1958.
- June 16 : The leaders of the Hungarian people's uprising , among them the former Prime Minister Imre Nagy and the former Defense Minister Pál Maléter , are executed in a Budapest prison after a previous show trial .
- June 16 : Malaysia becomes a member of UNESCO.
July
- July 1 : In the Federal Republic of Germany, the Equal Opportunities Act comes into force, according to which women can henceforth work without the consent of their husbands.
- July 14th : The army under Colonel Abd al-Karim Qasim staged a coup in Iraq . The 23 year old King Faisal II is killed.
- July 15 : 5,000 US Marines disembark in Lebanon.
- July 16 : First Secretary Walter Ulbricht proclaims the Ten Commandments of socialist morality and ethics at the fifth party congress of the SED .
- July 17th : British paratroopers land in Jordan to stabilize King Hussein's power.
- July 26th : The last Soviet troops withdraw from Romania, which had proven reliable during the Hungarian uprising.
- July 30th : The Federal Constitutional Court appealed to consider an intended referendum on the installation of nuclear weapons under NATO command in the German federal territory to be unconstitutional. The Fight against Atomic Death movement, supported by a broad alliance, then gave up its campaign .
August
- 23 August : Agreement in the field of legal and administrative assistance between Luxembourg and the Federal Republic of Germany
- August 23 : The second Quemoy crisis breaks out in the Taiwan conflict . The Chinese People's Liberation Army begins again with a 44-day bombardment of the Republic of China- controlled islands of Quemoy and Matsu , off the mainland .
- August 23 : The Federal Aviation Agency is established in the United States after several serious air traffic collisions .
- August 28 : As agreed on September 24, 1956 in the German-Belgian border treaty ( Federal Law Gazette 1958 II p. 262 ), Belgium returns some areas to the Federal Republic.
September
- September 2nd : Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister of South Africa and establishes important apartheid laws during his term of office .
- September 14 : The German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer meets Charles de Gaulle in his hometown Colombey-les-deux-Eglises.
- September 28 : In a referendum, France approves the political restructuring of the so-called Fifth Republic .
October
- October 1 : Tunisia and Morocco join the Arab League .
- October 1 : As part of his military service , the rock 'n' roll singer Elvis Presley arrives at the stationed US Army in the Federal Republic of Germany .
- October 2nd : Guinea gains independence from France . Ahmed Sékou Touré becomes President.
- October 4th : France adopts a new constitution ( Fifth French Republic ).
- October 16 : Albania becomes a member of UNESCO.
- October 27 : General Muhammad Ayub Khan declares a state of siege on Pakistan and establishes a military dictatorship.
- October 28 : Clement Attlee , Edgar Faure , Otto Hahn and Tetsu Katayama u. a. sign an agreement in New York to convene an assembly to draft a world constitution.
November
- November 10 : In a speech in the Moscow Sports Palace, the Soviet head of state and party leader Nikita Khrushchev calls for an amendment to the Potsdam Agreement . It indicates the transfer of Soviet powers from the Allied period to the GDR . The Berlin crisis is looming.
- November 18 : Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Norway
- November 23 : The West African states of Ghana and Guinea form the Ghana-Guinea Union . The Marxist- oriented organization existed until it collapsed in 1962.
- November 27 : The Soviet Union addresses the Western powers with the Berlin ultimatum .
- November 30th : French Equatorial Africa is dissolved. The four countries of the Republic of the Congo , Gabon , Chad and the Central African Republic are created and become independent in 1960.
December
- December 4th : Dahomey (later Benin ), becomes an autonomous republic.
- December 9th : The John Birch Society is founded in Indianapolis , whose political thinking is shaped by conspiracy theories .
- December 11 : Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso ) becomes an autonomous republic.
- December 12th : Guinea becomes a member of the United Nations .
- December 18 : Niger becomes an autonomous republic.
- December 21 : Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France by a large majority
Day unknown
- Foundation of the Episcopal Aid Organization Misereor
economy
- March 31 : The Austrian airline Austrian Airlines starts scheduled air traffic between Vienna and London. It is the first connection of air traffic that was permitted again after the conclusion of the State Treaty .
- April 28 : The Wahnbach dam is put into operation by Prime Minister Steinhoff.
- May 24 : The US news agency UPI is created from the merger of United Press (UP) and International News Service (INS) .
- June 9 : The British Queen Elizabeth II opens Gatwick Airport in London.
- September 8 : Foundation of Interflug
- October 18 : Tunisia introduces the - non- convertible - dinar as its national currency .
- October 19 : The now paved Hochrhönstrasse is opened to traffic.
- December 2 : The regional public service banks in Germany merge to form the union- related bank for public service based in Frankfurt am Main.
- December 29 : The European Payments Union ends. Currencies of several countries become freely convertible .
- Creation of the Ernie Ball Incorporation
- Initial introduction of medicinal substances (Germany): carbutamide (oral antidiabetic ), griseofulvin ( antimycotic ), hydrochlorothiazide ( diuretic ), imipramine ( antidepressant )
- Founding of the collecting society Wort
- Start of the Four Plague Eradication Campaign in the People's Republic of China
science and technology
- January 1st : International Atomic Time (TAI) is introduced.
- January 1 : Switzerland starts regular television broadcasting.
- January 4 : 92 days after its launch, the Soviet Sputnik 1 satellite burns up when it re-enters the earth's atmosphere. With him, the era of space travel has opened.
- January 4th : Mount Everest host Sir Edmund Hillary arrives at the South Pole on a New Zealand Antarctic expedition . It is the third expedition in the world that has reached this point.
- January 7th : Dwight D. Eisenhower founds the Department of Defense Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
- January 19 : The British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs and his team arrive at the South Pole as the fourth expedition as part of the British Commonwealth Transantarctic Expedition .
- February 1 : The US positions its first satellite, named Explorer 1, in space.
- February 19 : In Marburg , Rudolf Zenker performs the first open heart surgery in Germany with the help of a heart-lung machine .
- March 2 : The British Commonwealth Transantarctic Expedition under polar explorer Vivian Fuchs and with Sir Edmund Hillary arrives at Scott Base . She crossed the Antarctic continent and covered 3,440 km in 99 days.
- May 15 : The Soviet Union sends Sputnik 3 into earth orbit for scientific tasks . The capsule is a replacement satellite after a false start in February.
- June 13 : Jean Boulet reached the record height of 10,984 meters in his helicopter.
- June 25 : The United States Air Force selects nine test pilots, including Neil Armstrong , for the Man In Space Soonest (MISS) program. It is the first astronaut selection in history.
- July 29th : NASA is founded
- August 4 : The American nuclear submarine Nautilus crosses under the North Pole.
- September 14 : Two rockets by the German designer Ernst Mohr are the first German missiles of the post-war period to advance into the high atmosphere when they are launched in the Cuxhaven Wadden region.
- October 8th : In Stockholm the doctor Åke Senning implanted the first pacemaker in a person .
- October 19 : The first world exhibition of the post-war period ends under the Atomium in Brussels .
- December 23rd : Tokyo Tower opens to the public in Tokyo . The lattice tower dissolves with 332.6 meters the Paris Eiffel Tower to 1985 as the world's tallest structure of its kind from.
- Momofuku Andō invents instant ramen and founds Nissin Foods
- Meselson-Stahl experiment : Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl demonstrate the semiconservative replication of DNA in the intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli .
- The first car telephones that can be used throughout Germany come onto the market. The devices cost around 50% of the car. The conversations with the car telephones were hand-switched .
- Start of work on the Moselle canalization
Culture
- January 15th : Premiere of the opera Vanessa by Samuel Barber at the Metropolitan Opera in New York
- January 15 : The German comedy Das Wirtshaus im Spessart (director: Kurt Hoffmann ) premieres.
- January 29th World premiere of the film Elevator to the Scaffold
- February 23 : The British artist Gerald Holtom designs the CND symbol as a peace sign . It is intended to visually support the London Easter March with the aim of achieving nuclear disarmament as soon as possible .
- April 14 : World premiere of the opera Titus Feuerfuchs by Heinrich Sutermeister after the farce with singing Der Talisman by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy in Basel
- April 16 : World premiere of the opera Nana by Manfred Gurlitt in Dortmund
- April 18 : Cultural agreement between Germany and Great Britain . In force since April 17, 1959
- April 26th : The Berlin Congress Hall is presented as a gift from the Benjamin Franklin Foundation to the city, represented by the Governing Mayor Willy Brandt .
- June 14th : Lord Mayor Thomas Wimmer opens the 800th anniversary of the city of Munich
- August 28 : Rolf Thiele's film Das Mädchen Rosemarie is premiered in Frankfurt am Main , dealing with the death of the prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt . The film artwork shows little connection with her real life story.
- September 3rd : World premiere of the musical comedy Madame Scandaleuse by Peter Kreuder in Vienna
- October 3 : World premiere of the comic opera Corinna by Wolfgang Fortner in Berlin
- October 23 : In the French magazine Spirou , the cartoonist Peyo publishes a comic with the Smurfs in a supporting role for the first time .
- December 16 : Franz Peter Wirth's film Heroes with the main actors OW Fischer and Liselotte Pulver is shown for the first time in Hamburg.
- Foundation of the artist group SPUR in Munich.
- The Łódź Film School is formed from the two previously independent schools, Wyższą Szkołą Filmową (Higher Film School) and Wyższa Szkoła Aktorska (Higher Drama School) .
- The architect and designer Arne Jacobsen designs the Egg and Swan armchairs for the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen.
religion
- February 17th : Pope Pius XII. declares St. Clare of Assisi the patron saint of television .
- Ninth Lambeth Conference of the Church of England
- October 28 : Pope election of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, who takes the name John XXIII. gives.
Disasters
- February 6 : When an airplane crashes shortly after take-off from Munich-Riem Airport , a total of 23 people are killed, including eight players from the soccer team of the English soccer champions Manchester United (see British European Airways flight 609 ).
- February: In the middle and end of February the Rhine overflows its banks twice. Cologne's old town is flooded.
- July 9th : A landslide on Lituya Bay in Alaska triggered a 520 meter high tsunami . Two fishermen die and the uninhabited coastal region is badly devastated.
- August 14 : When a KLM Lockheed Super Constellation (on the way from Amsterdam via Shannon to New York) crashed into the Atlantic, all 99 occupants of the plane died 180 km west of Ireland.
- Great Chinese famine
- Start of the state campaign Great Leap Forward in the People's Republic of China
Sports
For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .
- January 8th : At the age of fourteen, Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship , making him the youngest chess master ever in the USA and - until 1991 - worldwide.
- February 9 : At the Alpine World Ski Championships in Bad Gastein , the racer Toni Sailer celebrates his last big triumph. He is world champion in downhill , giant slalom and combined . In the fourth men's competition, the slalom , Sailer came second.
- March 12th : Basketball player Maurice Stokes falls headlong on the floor and suffers from post-traumatic encephalitis . Stokes is now paralyzed.
- May 9th : Mikhail Botvinnik wins back the world chess title in the revenge fight against Vasily Smyslow .
- May 18 : FC Schalke 04 become German football champions.
- June 29 : The hosts Sweden are defeated in the final of the World Cup with 2: 5 against Brazil . The 17-year-old Pelé scored two goals.
- August 6 : The Italians Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauri are the first mountaineers to stand on the summit of Gasherbrum IV in the Karakorum Mountains .
- September 20th / 21st : Germany surprisingly defeated the USSR with 115: 105 in the international athletics match in the Rosenaustadion . Ludwig Müller becomes the "hero of Augsburg".
- October 11th : Foundation of the "German Pony Club" in Bonn , as a forerunner of the Icelandic horse riders and breeders' association IPZV e. V. , beginning of the democratization of riding and recreational riding as a mass sport movement.
- October 19 : Brit Mike Hawthorn becomes Formula 1 world champion , Team Vanwall wins the first Formula 1 constructors' championship.
- November 12 : The mountaineer and climber Warren Harding and his team succeed in climbing the difficult rock face of Mount El Capitan in Yosemite National Park called The Nose after long attempts.
- December 28 : In overtime , the Baltimore Colts win the NFL Championship Game in New York City against the New York Giants 23-17. The dramatic closing minutes make the game The Greatest Game Ever Played in American Football History .
Born
January
- January 1 : Laima Liucija Andrikienė , Lithuanian politician
- January 1 : Grandmaster Flash , American rapper, music producer and DJ
- January 2nd : Jean-Baptiste Barrière , French composer
- January 2 : Igor Sokolow , Soviet-Russian sports shooter and Olympic champion
- January 3 : Kerry Michelle Armstrong , Australian actress
- January 4 : Matt Frewer , American actor
- January 4th : Julian Sands , British actor
- January 5th : Notburga Astleitner , Austrian politician
- January 5 : Danny Atar , Israeli politician
- January 5th : Monica Guerritore , Italian actress
- January 6th : Frankie Vázquez , Puerto Rican percussionist and singer
- January 7th : Miki Biasion , Italian rally driver
- January 7th : Florian Beck , German ski racer
- January 7th : Linda Kozlowski , American actress
- January 7 : David Lee Murphy , American country star
- January 7th : Kristin Winter , German author and painter
- January 8 : Betsy DeVos , US politician, Secretary of Education
- January 8 : Peter Sebastian , German singer, lyricist, producer and radio presenter
- January 9 : Mehmet Ali Ağca , Turkish right-wing extremist
- January 10 : Giselher W. Hoffmann , German-speaking Namibian writer († 2016 )
- January 11th : Vicki Peterson , American pop and rock musician
- January 12th : Christiane Amanpour , British-Iranian journalist
- January 12th : Andreas H. Apelt , German publicist and author
- January 12th : Jo Conrad , German author
- January 12th : Matthias Döschner , German footballer
- January 15th : Silvano Contini , Italian cyclist
- January 15th : Boris Tadić , Serbian politician and President
- January 17th : Elisabeth Apel , Hessian politician
- January 17th : Gabriele Marion Appel , German hockey player
- January 17th : Gabriel Mbilingi , Angolan theologian
- January 18 : Bernard Genghini , French national soccer player
- January 18 : Andreas Mrosek , German politician
- January 18 : Volker Pispers , German cabaret artist
- January 19 : Michel De Wolf , Belgian football player
- January 21 : Klaus Thiele , German athlete
- January 21 : Frank Ticheli , American composer and music teacher
- January 22nd : Nikolaos Anastopoulos , Greek football player and coach
- January 22nd : Mark Mitten , American film producer
- January 22 : Butz Peters , German lawyer and television presenter
- January 23 : Stephan Apel , German doctor and medical officer
- January 23 : Sergei Litvinow , Soviet-Russian athlete, hammer thrower († 2018 )
- January 24th : François Bertemes , German-Luxembourg prehistorian
- January 24th : Jools Holland , British pianist, band leader and television presenter
- January 24th : Frank Ullrich , German biathlete and national coach of the German biathletes
- January 24th : Harti Weirather , Austrian ski racer
- January 25 : Eric Abetz , Australian politician
- January 25 : Paulus Manker , Austrian actor

- January 25 : Jürgen Hingsen , German decathlete
- January 25 : Alessandro Baricco , Italian writer
- January 25 : Dinah Manoff , American actress
- January 25 : Kidane Yebio , Eritrean bishop
- January 26th : Anita Baker , American jazz singer

- January 26 : Ellen DeGeneres , American actress, presenter and comedian
- January 26th : Gian Piero Gasperini , Italian football player and coach
- January 26 : Vincenzo La Scola , Italian tenor († 2011 )
- January 27 : Mohammed Ali Abtahi , Persian clergyman and politician
- January 29 : Leif Allan Andrée , Swedish actor and drummer
- January 29th : Thomas Blumenthal , German classical guitarist and music teacher
- January 30th : Bjørn Klakegg , Norwegian jazz guitarist
- January 31 : Bernd Baumann , German economist and politician
February
- February 1st : Søren Lerby , Danish football player and coach
- February 2 : William Binnie , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- February 2 : Michel Marc Bouchard , Canadian playwright
- February 2nd : Franke Sloothaak , German-Dutch show jumper
- February 3 : Piotr Sobociński , Polish cameraman († 2001 )
- February 3 : N. Gregory Mankiw , American economist
- February 4 : Keigo Higashino , Japanese detective writer
- February 4 : Werner Schwab , Austrian writer († 1994 )
- February 4th : Tomasz Pacyński , Polish science fiction writer († 2005 )
- February 5 : Fabrizio Frizzi , Italian TV presenter († 2018 )
- February 5th : Frank Pagelsdorf , German soccer player and coach
- February 6 : Cecily Adams , American actress and director († 2004 )
- February 7th : Giuseppe Baresi , Italian football player
- February 7th : Matt Ridley , British zoologist
- February 8 : Sherri Martel , American professional wrestler and wrestling manager († 2007 )
- February 9 : Totju Andonov , Bulgarian wrestler
- February 9 : Jürgen Kuttner , German radio presenter
- February 10 : Wally Afanasieff , American music producer and songwriter
- February 10 : Birgit Diezel , German politician
- February 10 : Norbert Vollertsen , German emergency doctor and human rights activist
- February 13 : Ulrich Adrian , German television journalist
- February 13 : Pernilla August , Swedish actress and film director
- February 13 : Enzo Cosimi , Italian dancer and choreographer
- February 15 : Rabah Madjer , Algerian football player and coach
- February 15 : Christian Lindberg , Swedish composer and trombonist
- February 16 : Bernhard Englbrecht , German ice hockey player, now coach
- February 16 : Ice-T , American rapper and actor
- February 17th : Josefa Andrés Barea , Spanish politician
- February 18 : Stefan Keller , Swiss author and historian
- February 18 : Giovanni Lavaggi , Italian racing car driver
- February 19 : Lutz Ahnfeld , German politician
- February 19 : Helen Fielding , British author
- February 20 : Sabine Kaack , German actress
- February 21 : Klaus Graf , German historian and archivist
- February 21 : Simon Holt , English composer
- February 21 : Martin Weppler , German athlete
- February 21 : Angela Gehann-Dernbach , German conductor, singer, organist
- February 21 : Mary Chapin Carpenter , American country and folk singer
- February 21 : Jack Coleman , American actor
- February 21 : Jörn-Uwe Lommel , German handball trainer and handball player
- February 22 : Udi Adam , Israeli major general
- February 22nd : Almo Coppelli , Italian racing car driver
- February 23 : Heinrich Richard Arndt , German blues and rock musician
- February 24 : Sammy Kershaw , American country singer
- February 25 : Kevin Gray , American actor († 2013 )
- February 25 : Barclay Hope , Canadian actor
- February 26 : Michel Houellebecq , French writer
- February 26 : Bernd Liffers , German church musician and organist
- February 27 : Christoph Güsken , German crime writer
- February 27 : Nancy Spungen , American friend of punk musician Sid Vicious († 1978 )
- February 27 : Charlotte Britz , German Mayor of Saarbrücken
- February 28 : Christina Lathan , German athlete and Olympic champion
March
- March 1st : Hansa Czypionka , German actor
- March 1st : Katerina Jacob , German actress
- March 1st : Nik Kershaw , British pop musician
- March 1 : Bertrand Piccard , Swiss psychiatrist and scientist
- March 1 : Egbert Scheunemann , freelance author and lecturer at the University of Hamburg
- March 2nd : Kevin Curren , South African tennis player
- March 3 : Haji Nasrullah Baryalai Arsalai , Afghan politician
- March 3 : Miranda Richardson , British actress
- March 4th : Per Egil Ahlsen , Norwegian football player
- March 4th : Patricia Heaton , American actress
- March 4th : Jouko Parviainen , Finnish Nordic combined skier
- March 5th : Bülent Aris , German music producer and songwriter
- March 6th : Vittorio Agnoletto , Italian politician
- March 6th : Andrea Wicklein , German politician
- March 7th : Stefan Born , German soccer player († 2015 )
- March 8 : Gary Numan , British musician and pioneer of electro pop
- March 8 : Erwin Skamrahl , German athlete
- March 9 : Ülkü Akbaba , Austrian actress, dramaturge, director, film and theater writer
- March 10 : Sharon Stone , American actress
- March 11 : Eddie Lawson , American motorcycle racer
- March 12 : Phil Anderson , Australian cyclist
- March 12th : Max Herbrechter , German actor and cabaret artist
- March 12th : Kathrin Schmidt , German writer
- March 13 : Guillermo Arriaga Jordán , Mexican writer, screenwriter, film director and producer
- March 13 : Ján Kocian , Slovak football player and coach
- March 13 : Khalida Messaoudi , Algerian feminist
- March 14 : Albert II , Prince of Monaco
- March 14th : Leonhard Stock , Austrian ski racer
- March 14th : Reinhard Wolters , German ancient historian
- March 15th : Peter Hertel , German chess grandmaster in correspondence chess
- March 15 : Klaus-Armin Nave , German molecular and neurobiologist
- March 15 : Ralf Walter , German SPD politician
- March 16 : Maria Elisabet Wallgren Arnholm , Swedish politician
- March 16 : Marco Pütz , Luxembourg saxophonist and composer
- March 17th : José Manuel Abascal , Spanish medium and long distance runner
- March 17 : Christian Clemenson , American actor
- March 18 : Joachim Reiber , German historian, Germanist, music journalist and music writer
- March 18 : Andreas Wenzel , ski racer from Liechtenstein
- March 19 : Jean-Jacques Aubert , Swiss ancient historian
- March 19 : Anne Marie Giørtz , Norwegian jazz singer
- March 19 : Theo Koll , German journalist
- March 19 : Andy Reid , American football coach
- March 19 : Michael Radanovics , Austrian composer, arranger and violinist
- March 20 : Holly Hunter , American actress
- March 21 : Willihaben , German writer
- March 21 : Marlies Göhr , German athlete
- March 21 : Gary Oldman , British actor, director and film producer
- March 22 : Janez Potočnik , Slovenian politician and European Commissioner
- March 22nd : Claudia Sprenger , Liechtenstein cross-country skier
- March 23 : Serena Grandi , Italian actress
- March 23 : Bruno Mathieu , French organist
- March 24 : Albert Carnice Company , Andorran football player
- March 24th : Roland Koch , German politician, Prime Minister of Hesse
- March 24th : Joachim Paulick , German Lord Mayor of Görlitz
- March 25 : Enno Aufderheide , German biologist and science manager
- March 25th : Thomas Happe , German handball player
- March 26 : Elio de Angelis , Italian Formula 1 driver († 1986 )
- March 27 : Didier de Radiguès , Belgian racing driver
- March 28 : Elisabeth Andreassen , Swedish-Norwegian singer
- March 28th : Curt Hennig , American professional wrestler, “Mr. Perfect "(† 2003 )
- March 28th : Heinz Hermann , Swiss national soccer player
- March 29th : Denise , German singer, lyricist and guitarist
- March 29 : Kostas Akrivos , Greek writer
- March 29th : Marliese Arold , German author for children and young people
- March 29 : Michael Müller , German author and publisher († 2014 )
- March 30th : Markus Hinterhäuser , Austrian pianist and cultural manager
- March 31 : Walter Ameling , German ancient historian
- March 31 : Dietmar Bartsch , German politician
April
- April 1st : Toni Innauer , Austrian ski jumper
- April 1st : Tita , Brazilian soccer player
- April 2nd : Roland Violence , German politician
- April 2nd : Dierk Schmäschke , German handball manager and handball player
- April 3 : Francesca Woodman , American photographer († 1981 )

- April 3 : Alec Baldwin , American actor
- April 4th : Christian Danner , German motor sportsman
- April 4th : Hildegard Förster-Heldmann , German interior designer and politician
- April 5 : Wilson Luís Angotti Filho , Brazilian auxiliary bishop
- April 5th : Johan Kriek , South African tennis player
- April 5 : Lasantha Wickrematunge , Sri Lankan journalist († 2009 )
- April 7th : Birgit Schrowange , German TV presenter
- April 10 : Kathleen Glynn , American graphic designer and film producer
- April 10 : Elmar Məhərrəmov , Azerbaijani chess player
- April 11 : Stuart Adamson , Scottish musician († 2001 )
- April 11th : Lyudmila Kondratjewa , Russian athlete
- April 11th : Luísa Diogo , Mozambican politician
- April 12th : Ginka Sagortschewa , Bulgarian athlete
- April 13th : Ingo Holland , German chef
- April 14 : Peter Adoboh , Nigerian Bishop († 2020 )
- April 17th : Ralf Wosik , German table tennis player
- April 18 : Shaibu Amodu , Nigerian football coach († 2016 )
- April 20 : Vyacheslav Fetisov , Russian ice hockey player
- April 20 : Volker Schlott , German jazz musician
- April 21 : Andie MacDowell , American actress
- April 22nd : Oleh Rybachuk , Ukrainian politician
- April 22 : Simone Frost , German actress († 2009 )
- April 23 : Magnus Andersson , Swedish football player
- April 23 : Jost Auler , German prehistorian, historian, journalist and publisher
- April 23 : Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson , Icelandic musician, film musician
- April 23 : Radu Mihăileanu , Romanian-French film director
- April 24th : Nazir Ahmed , British politician
- April 24th : Birte Berg , German actress
- April 24th : Mercedes Stermitz , Austrian beauty queen and racing driver
- April 25 : Derek William Dick ("Fish") , Scottish musician and actor
- April 26th : Sebastian Dette , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Administrative Court and President of the Court of Auditors in Thuringia
- April 26th : Ingolf Lück , German actor, presenter and comedian
- April 27 : Christoph Achenbach , German manager
- April 27 : Ronald Adam , German soccer player
- April 27 : Jon Cassar , Canadian director
- April 28th : Doris De Agostini , Swiss ski racer
- April 28th : François Jakubowski , French entrepreneur and racing car driver

- April 28 : Kenny MacAskill , Scottish Justice Minister
- April 28 : Hal Sutton , American Professional Golfer
- April 29 : Giovanni Galli , Italian football player
- April 29 : Herbert Mertin , German politician
- April 29 : Michelle Pfeiffer , American actress
- April 29 : Peer Schmidt , German historian († 2009 )
- Amin Ahmed Mohammed Osman Abaza , Egyptian politician April:
May
- May 1st : Marika Blossfeldt , American dancer, choreographer, non-fiction author and yoga teacher
- May 2nd : David O'Leary , Irish football player and coach
- May 4 : Keith Haring , American artist († 1990 )
- May 5th : Serse Cosmi , Italian football coach
- May 5th : Elke Ferner , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- May 6 : Tommy Byrne , Irish racing driver
- May 5th : Dirk Nockemann , German politician
- May 7 : Michael Formanek , American jazz bassist and composer
- May 7th : Christine Lieberknecht , German politician
- May 7th : Josef Schlickenrieder , German ice hockey player
- May 7th : Marty Willson-Piper , British songwriter, musician and poet
- May 8 : Dieter Vieweger , German theologian and archaeologist
- May 8 : Roddy Doyle , Irish writer
- May 9 : Brad Budde , American football player
- May 10 : Rick Santorum , American politician
- May 11th : Peter Thomas Antonie , Australian rower and Olympic champion
- May 11 : Christian Brando , American actor († 2008 )
- May 11 : Tim Bollerslev , Danish economist
- May 11 : Peter Reichelt , German filmmaker
- May 12th : Cuno Affolter , Swiss journalist and comics expert
- May 12th : Massimo Briaschi , Italian football player and player agent
- May 12 : Eric Singer , American drummer
- May 13 : Jeffrey Gedmin , American political scientist
- May 14 : Joachim Armbrust , German social worker and author
- May 14 : Andrzej Grubba , Polish table tennis player († 2005 )
- May 15 : Carl Andersen , Austrian film critic and director († 2012 )
- May 15 : Regina van Dinther , German politician (CDU), President of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- May 17th : Antonella Mei-Pochtler , Italian management consultant
- May 18 : Simon Beresford-Wylie , Australian manager
- May 18th : Ettore Fioravanti , Italian jazz percussionist and band leader
- May 18 : Bruno Marini , Italian saxophonist and Hammond organ player
- May 18 : Rubén Omar Romano , Argentine football coach
- May 19 : István Bubik , Hungarian actor († 2004 )
- May 19 : Dieter Reiter , Lord Mayor of Munich
- May 20 : Gerhard Huisken , German mathematician
- May 20 : Ronald Prescott Reagan , American journalist
- May 20 : Friederike Pöhlmann-Grießinger , German director, actress and theater manager
- May 21 : Christian Audigier , French fashion designer and entrepreneur († 2015 )
- May 21 : Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis , Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka
- May 21 : Curtis McMullen , American mathematician
- May 23 : Shelly West , American country singer
- May 23 : Andreas Schlueter , German author for children and young people
- May 23 : Thomas Reiter , German Air Force officer and astronaut
- May 24 : Rodney Sharman , Canadian composer, flautist and music educator
- May 25 : Paul Weller , British singer, musician and composer
- May 27 : Neil Finn , New Zealand pop and rock musician
- May 27th : Heike Schulte-Mattler , German athlete
- May 28 : Rainer Bischoff , German politician
- May 28 : Natascha Chmyrewa , Soviet tennis player († 2015 )
- May 28 : František Straka , Czech national soccer player and soccer coach
- May 28th : Rosalie Varda , French costume maker and film producer
- May 29 : Uwe Rapolder , German football coach
- May 29 : Annette Bening , American actress
- May 29 : Kenny Washington , American jazz drummer
- May 29 : Till Mairhofer , Austrian publisher and writer
- May 30th : Klaus-Jürgen Bremm , German military historian and officer
- May 30th : Marie Fredriksson , Swedish musician († 2019 )
- May 30th : Steve Israel , American politician
- May 30 : Ted McGinley , American actor
- May 31 : Mitchell Amundsen , American cameraman
June

- June 1st : Undine Brixner , German actress
- June 1st : Nambaryn Enchbajar , since May 2005 President of Mongolia
- June 1 : Michael Landau , American guitarist, studio musician and songwriter
- June 1st : Jon Wozencroft , British graphic designer, writer and label owner
- June 2 : Lex Luger , American wrestler
- June 3rd : Margot Käßmann , Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover
- June 3 : Thierry Noir , French painter
- June 4th : Reiner Ackermann , German soccer player
- June 4th : Andreas Giebel , Bavarian comedian
- June 4 : Christoph Eidens , German jazz vibraphonist († 2005 )
- June 6 : Kai Brodersen , German ancient historian
- June 6 : Gordan Grlić Radman , Croatian diplomat
- June 7th : Andora , German artist and painter
- June 7th : Arūnas Augustinaitis , Lithuanian communication theorist
- June 7th : Fernando de la Mora , Mexican opera singer
- June 7 : Prince , American singer, composer, songwriter, record producer and multi-instrumentalist († 2016 )
- June 8th : Gerhard Böhmer , German luge rider
- June 9 : Karel Lang , Czech ice hockey goalkeeper
- June 9th : Wolfgang Peukert , German process engineer
- June 10 : Yū Suzuki , Japanese game developer
- June 10th : Attilio Tesser , Italian football player and coach
- June 10 : Nikolaus Utermöhlen , German musician and artist († 1996 )
- June 11th : Barry Adamson , English bass player
- June 12 : Mark Amodei , American politician
- June 12 : Meredith Brooks , American singer and songwriter
- June 14th : Eric Heiden , American speed skater

- June 14th : Olaf Scholz , German politician
- June 15 : Neil Arthur , English singer-songwriter
- June 15 : Ricardo Paletti , racing driver from San Marino († 1982 )
- June 17 : Jello Biafra , American hardcore and punk rock musician and political activist
- June 17th : Claudia Mitscha-Eibl , Austrian teacher and songwriter
- June 18 : Gert Postel , German impostor
- June 18 : Peter Altmaier , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- June 19 : Sergei Makarov , Russian ice hockey player
- June 20 : Kelly Johnson , British musician († 2007 )
- June 20 : Barbara Rosenkranz , Austrian politician (FPÖ)
- June 22 : Bruce Campbell , American actor
- June 25 : Serik Akhmetov , Kazakh politician
- June 25 : Oscar van Dillen , Dutch composer
- June 25th : Harald SICHERITZ , Austrian producer, director
- June 27 : Lisa Germano , American singer
- June 27 : Magnus Lindberg , Finnish composer
- June 27th : August Schmölzer , Austrian actor and writer
- June 28th : Uwe Helmes , German soccer player
- June 29th : Dieter Althaus , German politician, former Prime Minister of Thuringia
- June 29th : Rosa Mota , Portuguese athlete
- June 29th : Marcus Off , German actor
- June 29th : Ralf Rangnick , German soccer coach
- June 30th : Cornelia Doll , German soccer player
- June 30th : Esa-Pekka Salonen , Finnish conductor and composer
July
- July 3 : Kurt Bock , German manager, CEO of BASF
- July 3 : Lisa De Leeuw , American porn actress († 1993 )
- July 3 : Aaron Tippin , American country singer and songwriter
- July 4th : Deon Meyer , South African writer
- July 5th : Veronica Guerin , Irish journalist († 1996 )
- July 6th : Arnaldo Otegi , Basque nationalist politician
- July 6 : Jennifer Saunders , British actress and screenwriter
- July 7 : Cyndee Giebler , American composer and music teacher
- July 7th : Michala Petri , Danish recorder player
- July 8 : Kevin Bacon , American actor
- July 8th : Wolfgang Schädler , Liechtenstein luge rider
- July 8 : Christian Schmidt , Austrian actor and stuntman
- July 10 : Béla Fleck , American bluegrass musician
- July 10 : Fiona Shaw , Irish film actress
- July 10 : Ute Thimm , German athlete
- July 11 : Fereidun Abbassi , Iranian scientist
- July 11th : Andrew Gilbert-Scott , British racing car driver
- July 11 : Hugo Sánchez , Mexican football player and coach
- July 12th : Harald Haerter , Swiss jazz guitarist
- July 13 : Holger Teschke , German writer
- July 14th : Mircea Geoană , Romanian politician
- July 15 : Peter Torberg , German editor and translator
- July 15 : Jörg Kachelmann , Swiss moderator, journalist and meteorologist
- July 16 : Michael Flatley , American dancer with Irish roots
- July 17th : Wong Kar-Wai , Hong Kong film director
- July 17th : Robert Kaller , German art educator and freelance visual artist
- July 18 : Thomas Henry Ashton , British politician
- July 18 : Valerio Olgiati , Swiss architect and architecture teacher
- July 18 : Bent Sørensen , Danish composer
- July 19 : Hans-Ola Ericsson , Swedish organist and composer
- July 20 : Pedro Amorim , Brazilian choir musician (mandolin and guitar)
- July 20th : Michael MacNeil , Scottish keyboardist
- July 21 : Helga Trüpel , German MEP
- July 22nd : Eve Beglarian , American composer
- July 22nd : Iva Bittová , Czech singer, actress and violinist
- July 23 : Klaus-Dieter Augst , German soccer player
- July 23 : Frank Mill , German soccer player
- July 24th : Mick Karn , English musician († 2011 )
- July 25 : Hanan Eshel , Israeli archaeologist († 2010 )
- July 25 : Alexei Filippenko , American astrophysicist and professor
- July 25 : Roger Lenhart , German politician
- July 25 : Karlheinz Förster , German football player
- July 25th : Thurston Moore , American guitarist and singer
- July 26th : Thierry Gilardi , French sports journalist († 2008 )
- July 26th : Ramona Neubert , German athlete
- July 26th : Romy Müller , German athlete and Olympic champion
- July 27th : Thomas Gehring , German politician
- July 27 : Barbara Rudnik , German actress († 2009 )
- July 27th : Margarethe Schreinemakers , German TV presenter
- July 27 : Peter Schneider , politician from Baden-Württemberg
- July 27 : Andreas Graf von Arnim , German entrepreneur († 2005 )
- July 28 : Terry Fox , Canadian athlete and activist († 1981 )
- July 29th : Johannes Kirchlechner , German cameraman
- July 30th : Daley Thompson , British decathlete
- July 30th : Kate Bush , English singer, pianist and songwriter
- July 31 : Rainer Gassner , Liechtenstein luge rider
- July 31 : Bill Berry , American musician (REM)
- July 31 : Andrea Astrid Vosshoff , German politician
August
- August 1st : Paul Gray , British bass player
- August 1 : Michael Penn , American musician
- August 2 : Brian Agler , American basketball coach
- August 2nd : Damian Harris , British-American film director and screenwriter
- August 3 : Günther Bansemer , German football player
- August 3rd : Bettine Jahn , German athlete
- August 4th : Paul Evans Aidoo , Ghanaian politician
- August 4th : Andrea Dombois , German politician
- August 4th : Silvan Schalom , Israeli politician


- August 5th : Hastomo Arbi , Indonesian badminton player
- August 5th : Uladzimir Makey , Belarusian politician and diplomat
- August 5th : Ulla Salzgeber , German dressage rider
- August 7th : Bruce Dickinson , British rock musician for the heavy metal band Iron Maiden
- August 8 : Cecilia Roth , Argentine actress
- August 9 : Amanda Bearse , American actress
- August 9 : Jean-Claude Hollerich , Archbishop of Luxembourg, Cardinal
- August 10 : Don Swayze , American actor
- August 11th : Conrad Seidl , Austrian editor and book author
- August 13 : Pete King , British musician († 1987 )
- August 13 : Feargal Sharkey , Northern Irish singer
- August 13 : Randall Shughart , American soldier († 1993 )
- August 14th : Volkher Häusler , German conductor, church musician and choir director
- August 16 : Angela Bassett , American actress
- August 16 : Madonna , American singer, film actress and author
- August 16 : Steve Sem-Sandberg , Swedish writer
- August 17th : Frank Augsten , German politician
- August 17th : Belinda Carlisle , American singer
- August 18th : Didier Auriol , French rally driver
- August 18 : Rodolfo Illanes , Bolivian politician († 2016 )
- August 18 : Madeleine Stowe , American actress
- August 19 : Anthony Muñoz , American football player
- August 19 : Brendan Nelson , Australian Politician, Minister for Education, Science and Training
- August 20 : Arnd Bauerkämper , German historian
- August 21 : Steve Case , American founder of America Online
- August 22nd : Colm Feore , American-Canadian actor
- August 22nd : Vernon Reid , American fusion and crossover guitarist
- August 23 : Mariano Moruja , Argentine choir director and music teacher
- August 24 : Steve Guttenberg , American actor
- August 25 : Tim Burton , American writer, producer, and film director
- August 26th : Andreas Bielau , German footballer (GDR) and national player
- August 26 : David Finck , American jazz bassist
- August 26th : Nichi Vendola , Italian journalist and politician
- August 27 : Sergei Krikalev , Russian cosmonaut
- August 27 : Maurizio Sandro Sala , Brazilian racing car driver
- August 28 : José Antonio Rodriguez Avelar , Mexican boxer
- August 28 : Peter Malota , American actor and martial arts fighter
- August 28 : Erwin Raphael McManus , American theologian, pastor, and author
- August 29 : Michael Jackson , American singer, entertainer, dancer and composer († 2009 )
- August 30 : Gustaf Neumann , Austrian business IT specialist
- August 30 : Anna Politkovskaya , Russian reporter, author and activist for human rights († 2006 )
September
- September 1st : Dagmar Manzel , German actress
- September 3 : Uri Adelman , Israeli writer, musician and composer († 2004 )
- September 3rd : Achim Arbeiter , German archaeologist
- September 4th : Thorsten Becker , German writer
- September 4th : Norbert König , German sports presenter
- September 4th : Roger Liebi , Swiss Bible teacher and interpreter of the Brethren congregations
- September 6 : Fredy Arco , Spanish child actor
- September 6th : Amelie Fried , German presenter and writer
- September 6 : Arsinée Khanjian , Armenian actress and film director
- September 7th : Arotxa , Uruguayan draftsman and caricaturist
- September 9 : Páll Guðlaugsson , Icelandic football coach
- September 9 : Knut Schubert , German figure skater and figure skating coach
- September 10 : Dirk Abel , German mechanical engineer
- September 10 : Chris Columbus , American director, producer and screenwriter
- September 10 : Klaus Dürr , German industrial economist and politician († 2020 )
- September 10th : Siobhan Fahey , Irish rock singer
- September 10 : Wolfgang M. Heckl , German biophysicist
- September 10 : Elke Kruse , German drummer
- September 10 : Gottfried Küssel , Austrian right-wing extremist and Holocaust denier
- September 10 : Renate Sommer , German MEP
- September 10 : Gerd Truntschka , German ice hockey player
- September 11th : Silvio Baldini , Italian football coach
- September 11th : Julia Nickson-Soul , American actress
- September 11th : Scott Patterson , American actor
- September 12 : Kim Fupz Aakeson , Danish writer, illustrator, comic book writer and screenwriter
- September 12th : Franco Amurri , Italian film director and screenwriter
- September 12 : Peter Becker , German biochemist and molecular biologist
- September 13 : Albrecht Koschorke , German literary scholar
- September 13th : Peter Wirnsberger , Austrian ski racer
- September 13 : Robert Millar , Scottish cyclist
- September 14 : Fernando Olivera Vega , Peruvian politician
- September 14th : André Lüderitz , German politician
- September 16 : Donald Antrim , American author
- September 16 : Jennifer Tilly , American actress
- September 17th : Andrea Eckert , Austrian actress and documentary filmmaker
- September 17th : Janez Janša , Slovenian politician
- September 18 : István Antal , Romanian ice hockey player, coach and official († 2009 )
- September 19th : Lita Ford , British rock singer and guitarist
- September 19 : Johanna Schall , German actress
- September 20 : Arn Anderson , American wrestler
- September 20 : Mychael Danna , Canadian film music composer
- September 20 : Norbert Meier , German soccer player and soccer coach
- September 20 : Michael Wildenhain , German writer
- September 20 : Ines Paulke , German rock musician († 2010 )
- September 21 : Rick Mahorn , American basketball player
- September 21 : Dagmar Stelberg , German handball player
- September 22nd : Andrea Bocelli , Italian singer (tenor)
- September 22 : Joan Jett , American rock singer and guitarist
- September 23 : Besnik Mustafaj , Albanian politician
- September 24th : Konrad Adams , German actor
- September 24th : Benedict Hansen , Danish actress
- September 24 : Kevin Sorbo , American actor
- September 25 : Martin Stadelmaier , German politician
- September 26th : Georg Ager , Austrian ski racer
- September 26 : Rudi Cerne , German figure skater, sports journalist and television presenter
- September 26 : Darby Crash , American punk rock musician († 1980 )
- September 27 : Neil Adams , English judoka
- September 27th : Marek Ast , Polish politician
- September 27 : Irvine Welsh , British writer
- September 28 : Peter Gantzler , Danish actor
- September 28th : Angella Issajenko , Canadian sprinter

- September 29 : Tom Buhrow , German journalist
- September 29 : Susanne Ruoff , Swiss manager
- September 29 : Karen Young , American actress
- September 30th : Marty Stuart , American country singer
October
- October 1st : Masato Nakamura , Japanese bass player
- October 2nd : Kim Andersen , Danish cyclist
- October 2nd : Árni Matthias Mathiesen , Icelandic politician
- October 5th : Antonio Di Gennaro , Italian football player
- October 5th : André Kuipers , Dutch astronaut
- October 5 : Neil deGrasse Tyson , American astrophysicist, cosmologist, science journalist, television presenter, and non-fiction author
- October 6 : Harry Lamott Crowl , Brazilian composer
- October 7th : Sunnyi Melles , German actress
- October 8 : Hector Avalos , American religious scholar
- October 8 : Michael Jarrell , Swiss composer

- October 8 : Ursula von der Leyen , German politician
- October 10 : Anne Delaney , American composer, singer and songwriter
- October 10 : John Mace Grunsfeld , American astronaut
- October 10 : Hans-Jürgen Schatz , German actor
- October 10 : Tanya Tucker , American country singer
- October 11 : Gustav Herzog , German politician
- October 12 : Steve Austria , American politician
- October 13 : Izumi Matsumoto , Japanese manga artist
- October 14 : Tayfun Bademsoy , German-Turkish actor and speaker
- October 14th : Thomas Dolby , British musician-keyboardist
- October 14 : Klaas Huizing , full professor at the chair for systematic theology

- October 14 : Peter Kloeppel , German journalist
- October 14 : Peter Lipp , German handball player
- October 14 : Isabel Sabogal , Peruvian-Polish writer and translator
- October 15 : Michaele Hustedt , German politician
- October 15 : Perlat Musta , Albanian football player
- October 16 : Mike Muuss , author of the freeware network program Ping († 2000 )
- October 16 : Tim Robbins , American actor
- October 17 : Alan Jackson , American country musician
- October 18 : Jan Jastram , German sculptor
- October 18 : Julio Olarticoechea , Argentine soccer player
- October 18 : Peter Zimmerling , German Protestant theologian and professor of practical theology
- October 20 : Scott Hall , American wrestler
- October 20th : Rainer Hartmann , German jazz guitarist
- October 20th : Mark King , British funk bassist and singer for the pop band Level 42
- October 20 : Viggo Mortensen , American actor, photographer, poet, painter and musician
- October 20 : Ivo Pogorelich , Serbian pianist
- October 20 : Eric Scott , American actor
- October 21 : Dieter Amann , Austrian ski racer
- October 21 : Julio Médem , Spanish film director and screenwriter
- October 21 : Udo Wachtveitl , German actor, director and screenwriter
- October 22nd : Stefan Gwildis , German musician
- October 22 : Detlef Siegfried , German modern historian
- October 22nd : Johnny Unser , American racing driver and motorsport official
- October 23 : Frank Schaffer , German athlete
- October 23 : Thierry van Werveke , Luxembourg actor and singer († 2009 )
- October 24 : Vincent K. Brooks , US Army Brigadier General
- October 25 : Carina Gödecke , German politician
- October 25 : Kornelia Ender , German swimmer
- October 26 : Walter Junghans , German soccer goalkeeper
- October 26 : Shaun Woodward , British politician
- October 27th : Manu Katché , French drummer
- October 27th : Simon Le Bon , British singer and member of the Duran Duran group
- October 28th : Ernst Middendorp , German soccer coach
- October 29 : Nicolette Kressl , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- October 30 : Martin Adler , Swedish journalist and photographer († 2006 )
- October 31 : Yves Loubet , French rally driver
November
- November 2nd : Michka Assayas , French author and music journalist
- November 2nd : Kai Maertens , German actor
- November 4th : Uwe Bewersdorf , German figure skater
- November 4th : Joachim Körber , German writer, editor, publisher and translator
- November 4 : Thomas Roberts , American guitarist and songwriter († 2006 )
- November 5 : Robert Patrick , American actor
- November 6th : Urs Freuler , Swiss cyclist
- November 6th : Reinhard Winter , German educator and gender researcher
- November 8th : Gerolf Annemans . Belgian politician
- November 8th : Don Byron , American jazz musician
- November 9 : Eva Herman , German television presenter and author
- November 10th : Michael Dusek , German soccer player and soccer coach
- November 10th : Hans-Uwe Pilz , German soccer player
- November 11 : Bernd Pfarr , German painter and cartoonist († 2004 )
- November 11th : Chris Jones , American singer, musician, composer and guitarist († 2005 )
- November 13 : Michael Fitz , German actor and musician
- November 13 : Michael Kreißl , Austrian politician († 2004 )
- November 14th : Hans Aurenhammer , Austrian art historian
- November 14th : Heike Taubert , German politician
- November 14 : Ingrīda Ūdre , Latvian EU Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union
- November 14th : Terezija Stoisits , Austrian politician
- November 15 : Narinder Dhami , British author for children and young people
- November 15 : Leslie Malton , German-American actress
- November 16 : Mick Werup , German actor († 2011 )
- November 16 : Roberto Guerrero , Colombian racing car driver
- November 16 : Marg Helgenberger , American actress
- November 16 : Neil Geoffrey Turok , South African physicist and astrophysicist
- November 17th : Wolfgang Glüxam , Austrian harpsichordist and organist († 2020 )
- November 17 : Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio , American film actress
- November 17th : Rodolfo Stroeter , Brazilian bassist and composer
- November 17th : Jean-Louis Tournadre , French motorcycle racer
- November 18 : Shirley Strong , British athlete
- November 19 : Claudio Foscarini , Italian football player and coach
- November 19 : Scott McGinnis , American actor
- November 19 : Uwe Zimmermann , German mechanical engineer
- November 22 : Jamie Lee Curtis , American actress and children's book writer
- November 22nd : Bruce Payne , British actor
- November 23 : Ronald Schill , German politician
- November 24th : Roy Aitken , Scottish soccer player
- November 24th : Carmel , British singer
- November 24th : Jean-François Yvon , French racing car driver
- November 25 : Olaf Seier , German football player (GDR)
- November 25 : Johannes Werner (politician) , German politician (CDU)
- November 26th : Andreas Aebi , Swiss politician
- November 26th : Ellen Fiedler , German athlete
- November 26 : Nader Mashayekhi , Iranian composer and conductor
- November 27 : Anat Atzmon , Israeli actress and singer
- November 27 : Manfred Ländner , Bavarian politician (CSU)
- November 28th : Kriss Akabusi , British athlete
- November 28th : Hideki Okada , Japanese racing car driver
- November 29 : Lennardt Krüger , German actor († 2020 )
- November 30th : Hinako Sugiura , Japanese mangaka († 2005 )
- November 30th : Stacey Q , American singer, dancer and voice actress
December
- December 1st : Javier Aguirre , Mexican soccer coach and soccer player
- December 1 : Kwesi Ahoomey-Zunu , Togolese politician
- December 1st : Alberto Cova , Italian athlete
- December 1 : Charlene Tilton , American actress
- December 3 : Georg Austen , German theologian
- December 3 : Otto Becker , German show jumper
- December 4th : Jonathan Asselin , Canadian show jumper
- December 4th : Wolfgang Schäfer , German soccer player
- December 5 : Sarah Davidson , Canadian harpist and music teacher
- December 5th : Klaus Nierhoff , German actor
- December 6th : Nick Park , British animator
- December 7th : Rick Rude , American wrestler († 1999 )
- December 7th : Kersten Naumann , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- December 8th : Heilgard Asmus , German theologian
- December 8 : Rob Byrnes , American author
- December 8th : Jean Dalibard , French physicist
- December 8th : Bernd Kölmel , German politician
- December 9th : Peer Martiny , German director, actor and author
- December 9th : Despina Pajanou , Greek actress
- December 10th : Cornelia Funke , German author of children's and young people's books
- December 10th : Ng Eng Hen , Singaporean doctor and politician
- December 11th : Werner Augsburger , Swiss volleyball player
- December 11th : Janko Ferk , Austrian lawyer and writer
- December 11th : Nikki Sixx , American musician
- December 12th : Mustafa Reşit Akçay , Turkish football coach
- December 12th : Gabriele Löwe , German athlete
- December 12th : Sheree J. Wilson , American actress
- December 13 : Yūichi Seirai , Japanese writer
- December 15th : Aziza Jalal , Moroccan singer
- December 15 : Alfredo Ormando , Italian writer († 1998 )
- December 15 : Stephan Weil , German politician
- December 17th : Bernhard Antener , Swiss politician
- December 17th : Penelope Houston , American singer
- December 17 : Mike Mills , American musician (REM)
- December 17th : Gerhard Waibel , German motorcycle racer
- December 19 : José Aguilar Pulsán , Cuban boxer († 2014 )
- December 19 : Limahl , British pop singer
- December 19 : Laura K. Sindberg , American music teacher
- December 20 : Jürgen Raab , German soccer player and coach
- December 21 : Rolf Lappert , Swiss writer
- December 21 : Tamara Bykowa , Russian athlete
- December 22nd : Marijam Agischewa , Austrian actress
- December 22nd : Frank Gambale , Australian guitarist
- December 22nd : Jerzy Hawrylewicz , Polish football player († 2009 )
- December 22nd : Kevin Kern , American pianist, musician and composer
- December 23 : Achim Tang , German bassist and composer
- December 24th : Marc Abrams , American bass player
- December 24th : Hans Spaan , Dutch motorcycle racer
- December 25th : Dimi Mint Abba , Mauritanian musician († 2011 )
- December 26th : Jean-Marc Noël Aveline , French Archbishop
- December 26th : David Miller , Toronto Mayor
- December 27 : Florian Martens , German actor
- December 27 : Steffen Mensching , German cultural scientist, writer, actor and director
- December 28 : William H. Chapman Nyaho , American pianist and music educator
- December 28 : Joe Diffie , American country singer († 2020 )
- December 29 : Lakhdar Belloumi , Algerian football player and football coach
- December 30th : Michael Stäuble , Swiss sports journalist, sports reporter and television editor
- December 31 : Uwe Scholz , German choreographer and ballet director († 2004 )
Day unknown
- Hiroshi Abe , Japanese amateur astronomer
- Salah Abdel Maksud , Egyptian politician
- Ravi Agarwal , Indian photojournalist and environmental activist
- Regine Ahrem , German dramaturge, director and radio play author
- Wilhelm Karl Aicher , German molecular biologist
- Hans Dieter Aigner , Austrian artist and writer
- Selahattin Akarsu , Turkish singer and saz player
- Aykut Zahid Akman , Turkish civil servant
- Matthias Altenburg (pseudonym: Jan Seghers), German journalist and writer
- Hubertus von Amelunxen , German Romanist and author
- Andrea Amort , Austrian dance critic, dance historian, dramaturge, festival and exhibition curator
- Christoph Anczykowski , German draftsman
- Ole Andersen , Danish handball coach
- Rusty Anderson , American guitarist
- Johannes Angerbauer-Goldhoff , Austrian jewelry artist, sculptor and concept artist
- Marie-Luise Angerer , Austrian media and cultural scientist
- Lotte Anker , Danish saxophonist and composer
- Birgit Apfelbaum , German communication and social scientist
- Marçal Aquino , Brazilian writer, journalist and screenwriter
- Juan Carlos Arce , Spanish writer and lawyer
- Nelson Ronny Ascher , Brazilian poet
- Rainer Aurig , German historian
- Johan Auwerx , Belgian physiologist and molecular biologist
- Martin Böcker , German organist
- Claus Boje , German film producer
- Peter Böthig , German Germanist and literary scholar
- Paul Coletti , Scottish violist and music teacher
- Dalbello , Canadian musician
- Héctor Abad Faciolince , Colombian author, essayist and editor
- Shafrira Goldwasser , American computer scientist
- Ben Haggarty , English narrator (storyteller)
- Scott L. Hines , American composer
- Brian Hughes , American conductor and music educator
- Li Jinyuan , Chinese entrepreneur
- Marcin Krzyżanowski , Polish composer and cellist
- Dorin Marc , Romanian professor
- James Marchionda , American Dominican priest, preacher, composer and musician
- Alan MacDonald , English author
- Katja Nottke , German actress and voice actress
- Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir , Icelandic writer and bestselling author
- Lennie Peterson , American graphic artist, illustrator, musician and music educator
- Patricia Pisani , Argentine artist
- Kenneth Pomeranz , American historian and sinologist
- Gabriel Rivano , Argentinian bandoneonist, guitarist, flautist and composer
- Sue Scullard , British writer and graphic artist
- Georg Schreiber , German photographer
- Vera Stein , German author and victim of forced psychiatric treatment
- Andreas Stopp , German radio journalist
- Dieter Storz , German military historian and conservator
- David Walter , French oboist, conductor and professor
- Andrea Wolf , German actress
- Elena Zaremba , Russian opera and concert singer
- Ursula Zeller , German art historian, curator and museum director
Died
January
- January 1 : Edward Weston , American photographer, founder of the group f / 64 (* 1886 )
- January 3 : Alexander Meißner , Austrian physicist (* 1883 )
- January 4th : John Anderson , British politician (* 1882 )
- January 4th : Adelgunde of Bavaria , Bavarian princess (* 1870 )
- 4th January : Alliott Verdon Roe , British aviation pioneer (* 1877 )
- January 5 : Jack McCracken , American basketball player (born 1911 )
- January 6 : Lois Irene Marshall , American politician's wife (* 1873 )
- January 7th : Goffredo Zehender , Italian racing car driver (* 1901 )
- January 8 : John Duff , Canadian racing car driver (* 1895 )
- January 8 : Viktor Geramb , Austrian folklorist (* 1884 )
- January 8 : Paul Pilgrim , American athlete and Olympic champion (* 1883 )
- January 9 : Paul Fechter , German theater critic, editor and writer (* 1880 )
- January 9 : Karl Reinhardt , German classical philologist (* 1886 )
- January 12 : Arthur Shepherd , American composer (* 1880 )
- January 14th : August Herman Andresen , American politician (* 1890 )
- January 15 : Yevgeny Lwowitsch Schwarz , Russian writer and playwright (* 1896 )
- January 18 : Edmund Adam , German correspondence chess player and chess official (* 1894 )
- January 18 : Matthew M. Neely , American politician (* 1874 )
- January 21 : Josef Brönner , German politician (* 1884 )
- January 21 : Alvin Olin King , American politician (* 1890 )
- January 21 : Ernst Ziegler , German entrepreneur and art collector (* 1874 )
- January 27th : Oskar Prince of Prussia , former Prussian officer. D .; Major General a. D. (* 1888 )

- January 30th : Ernst Heinkel , German engineer (* 1888 )
February
- February 1 : Lukas Christ , Swiss Protestant clergyman (* 1881 )
- February 1 : Clinton Davisson , American physicist (* 1881 )
- February 2 : Albert Debrunner , Swiss classical philologist and linguist (* 1884 )
- February 4 : Monta Bell , American producer, director and screenwriter (* 1891 )
- February 4 : Henry Kuttner , American writer (* 1915 )
- February 5 : Gian Battista Mantegazzi , Swiss composer and conductor (* 1889 )
- February 5 : Henry Tomlinson , British writer and journalist (* 1873 )
- February 6 : Geoff Bent , English football player (* 1932 )
- February 6 : Roger Byrne , English football player (born 1929 )
- February 6 : Eddie Colman , English football player (* 1936 )
- February 6th : Walter Crickmer , English football club secretary (* 1900 )
- February 6 : Tom Curry , English football player and coach (* 1894 )
- February 6 : Mark Jones , English soccer player (* 1933 )
- February 6 : David Pegg , English football player (* 1935 )
- February 6 : Frank Swift , English football player and journalist (* 1913 )
- February 6 : Tommy Taylor , English soccer player (* 1932 )
- February 6 : Bert Whalley , English football player and coach (* 1973 )
- February 6 : Liam "Billy" Whelan , English soccer player (* 1935 )
- February 11 : Heinrich Hermelink , Protestant church historian (* 1877 )
- February 11 : Ernest Jones , Welsh psychoanalyst (* 1879 )
- February 12 : Petr Bezruč , Czech writer and poet (* 1867 )
- February 12 : Douglas Rayner Hartree , British mathematician and physicist (* 1897 )
- February 13 : Aymé Kunc , French composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1877 )
- February 13 : Christabel Pankhurst , British suffragette (* 1880 )
- February 13 : Georges Rouault , French painter and printmaker (* 1871 )
- February 14 : Jakob Kneip , German local poet (* 1881 )
- February 16 : Victor Arendorff , Swedish writer, journalist and poet (* 1878 )
- February 16 : Rudolf Pleil , German serial killer (* 1924 )
- February 17th : Wilhelm Bahlburg , German politician (* 1888 )
- February 17 : Herbert E. Hitchcock , American politician (* 1867 )
- February 18 : Jaroslav Kvapil , Czech composer (* 1892 )
- February 20 : Dwight H. Green , American politician (* 1897 )
- February 20 : Isidore Philipp , Hungarian-French pianist and music teacher (* 1863 )
- February 21 : Henryk Arctowski , Polish scientist, oceanographer and explorer of the Antarctic (* 1871 )
- February 21 : Duncan Edwards , English football player (* 1936 )
- February 24 : Paul Amann , Austrian writer and translator (* 1884 )
- February 24th : Hans Nadler , German painter (* 1879 )
March
- March 1st : Giacomo Balla , Italian painter of Futurism (* 1871 )
- March 3 : Wilhelm Zaisser , Minister for State Security in the GDR (* 1893 )
- March 6th : Anton Reinthaller , Austrian landowner and politician (* 1895 )
- March 11 : John Joseph Dempsey , American politician (* 1879 )
- March 15 : Kubo Sakae , Japanese playwright (* 1900 )
- March 15 : Albert Steeger , German polymath (* 1885 )
- March 17th : John Pius Boland , Irish lawyer, first Olympic tennis champion (* 1870 )
- March 17 : Roscoe C. McCulloch , American politician (* 1880 )
- March 17 : John Johnston Parker , American judge, among others at the Nuremberg Trials (* 1885 )
- March 18 : Max Terpis (actually Max Pfister ), Swiss dancer, choreographer, director and psychologist (* 1889 )
- March 20 : Yvan Goor , Belgian cyclist and motorcycle racer (* 1884 )
- March 21 : Gottfried Kölwel , German poet, playwright and storyteller (* 1889 )
- March 22nd : Michael Todd , American film producer (* 1909 )
- March 23 : Don Hartman , American composer, film director, film producer and screenwriter (* 1900 )
- March 25 : August Siemsen , politician and educator (* 1884 )
- March 25 : Emerson Whithorne , American composer (* 1884 )
- March 26 : Hans Wacker , German painter (* 1868 )
- March 27 : Leon C. Phillips , American politician (* 1890 )
- March 28 : WC Handy , American blues composer (* 1873 )
- March 29 : Alessandro Verde , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1865 )
- March 31 : Hans Ehrenberg , German theologian (* 1883 )
April
- April 1 : Břetislav Bakala , Czech conductor, choir director and composer (* 1897 )
- April 2 : Arnold von Salis , Swiss archaeologist (* 1881 )
- April 3 : Emil Abel , Austrian chemist (* 1875 )
- April 3 : Theodor Kramer , Austrian poet (* 1897 )
- April 4 : Franz Eccard von Bentivegni , German general and war criminal (* 1896 )
- April 4 : Jan Morávek , Czech writer and journalist (* 1888 )
- April 4 : María Luisa Sepúlveda , Chilean composer and music teacher (* 1892 )
- April 5 : Ásgrímur Jónsson , Icelandic painter (* 1876 )
- April 6 : Vítězslav Nezval , Czech poet, writer and translator (* 1900 )
- April 6 : Reinhold Schneider , German writer (* 1903 )
- April 8 : Alcibíades Arosemena , 26th President of Panama (* 1883 )
- April 10 : Jean Philippe Vogel , Dutch orientalist (* 1871 )
- April 11 : Paul A. Dever , American politician (* 1903 )
- April 11 : Marcel Pilet-Golaz , Swiss politician (FDP) (* 1889 )
- April 12 : Alice Verne-Bredt , English composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1868 )
- April 13 : Raúl Hugo Espoile , Argentine composer (* 1889 )
- April 16 : Rosalind Franklin , British biochemist (* 1920 )
- April 16 : W. Kerr Scott , American politician (* 1896 )
- April 16 : Mieczysław Szaleski , Polish violist and music teacher (* 1891 )
- April 17th : Wolfgang Klausner , German politician (* 1906 )
- April 17 : Rita Montaner , Cuban singer and actress (* 1900 )
- April 18 : William Joscelyn Arkell , British geologist (* 1904 )
- April 19 : Albert Akst , American musician and film editor (* 1899 )
- April 20 : Adolf Scheibe , German physicist and inventor (* 1895 )
- April 23 : Henock Abrahamsson , Swedish football goalkeeper (* 1909 )
- April 24 : Richard Goldschmidt , German biologist and geneticist (* 1878 )
- April 25 : Iosif Iser , Romanian painter (* 1881 )
- April 25 : Charles-Victor Mauguin , Professor of Mineralogy (* 1878 )
- April 26 : Kurt Absolon , Austrian painter and graphic artist (* 1925 )
- April 29 : Warren A. Haggott , American politician (* 1864 )
- April 30 : Alvan T. Fuller , American politician (* 1878 )
- April 30 : Paul Hans Jaeger , German politician (* 1886 )
May
- May 1 : Oscar Torp , Norwegian social democratic politician (* 1893 )
- May 2 : Alfred Weber , German sociologist and economist (* 1868 )
- May 5 : Otto Abetz , German art teacher and diplomat (* 1903 )
- May 5 : James Branch Cabell , American writer (* 1879 )
- May 7th : Mihkel Lüdig , Estonian composer (* 1880 )
- May 11 : Beatrice Langley , English violinist (* 1872 )
- May 16 : Lisa Albrecht , German politician (* 1896 )
- May 17 : Hugo Häring , German architect and author (* 1882 )
- May 19 : Ronald Colman , British actor (* 1891 )
- May 19 : Wilhelm Mellies , German politician (* 1899 )
- May 19 : Archie Scott-Brown , British racing driver (* 1927 )
- May 21 : Erich Langer , German politician (* 1905 )
- May 22nd : Wilhelm Roelen , German mining expert and entrepreneur (* 1889 )
- May 26 : Gaston Dethier , American organist and composer (* 1875 )
- May 26 : Ruth Smith , Faroese painter and graphic artist (* 1913 )
- May 27 : Samuel Stritch , Archbishop of Chicago and Cardinal (* 1887 )
- May 29 : Juan Ramón Jiménez , Spanish poet, prose writer and Nobel Prize winner (1956) (* 1881 )
- May 30 : Pat O'Connor , American racing driver (* 1928 )
June
- June 2 : Erwin Bauer , German racing car driver (* 1912 )
- June 4 : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott , American poet, novelist and children's book author (* 1872 )
- June 5 : Maurice-Yves Sandoz , Swiss writer (* 1892 )
- June 7 : Walter Freitag , German politician (* 1889 )
- June 8 : Franz Gleitze , local poet (* 1869 )
- June 9 : Robert Donat , British actor (born 1905 )
- June 13 : Johan Bierens de Haan , Dutch bio and ethologist (* 1883 )
- June 14 : George Fonder , American racing driver (* 1917 )
- June 16 : José Pablo Moncayo , Mexican composer and conductor (* 1912 )
- June 16 : Imre Nagy , Hungarian politician and agricultural economist (* 1896 )
- June 17 : Raoul Maria Eduard Karl Aslan-Zumpart , Austro-Greek actor (* 1886 )
- June 17th : Wells Coates , Canadian architect and designer (* 1895 )
- June 20 : Kurt Alder , German chemist (* 1902 )
- June 21 : Eduard Erdmann , Latvian composer and pianist (* 1896 )
- June 21 : Jean-Marie Brussin , French racing driver and industrialist (* 1924 )
- June 23 : Armas Järnefelt , Finnish composer (* 1869 )
- June 25 : Heinz Winkler , Minister for Development in the GDR (* 1910 )
- June 29 : Karl Arnold , German politician (* 1901 )
- June 30th : Walther Schreiber , German politician (* 1884 )
July
- July 4th : Gonzalo Curiel , Mexican pianist and composer (* 1904 )
- July 4th : Birger Forell , pastor, helper for refugees a. a. during the Second World War (* 1893 )
- July 4th : Fernando de Fuentes , Mexican film director (* 1894 )
- July 5 : Milton Abramowitz , American mathematician (* 1915 )
- July 6 : Art Bisch , American racing car driver (* 1926 )
- July 6th : Carl Boese , German film director, actor and author (* 1887 )
- July 6th : Luigi Musso , Italian Formula 1 racing driver (* 1924 )
- July 6th : Emil Teubner , wood carver and sculptor from the Ore Mountains (* 1877 )
- July 9 : Gabriel Scott , Norwegian writer (* 1874 )
- July 10 : Franz Bardon , German magician (* 1909 )
- July 11 : Roy Harvey , American country musician (* 1892 )
- July 13 : Paul Ash , American violinist, pianist, composer and big band leader (* 1891 )
- July 13 : Keith Campbell , Australian motorcycle racer (* 1931 )
- July 14 : Abd ul-Ilah , Iraqi prince (* 1913 )
- July 14 : Faisal II , King of Iraq from 1939 to 1958 (* 1935 )
- July 15 : Giuseppe Armellini , Italian astronomer (* 1887 )
- July 16 : Oskar Farner , Swiss Protestant clergyman and Zwingli researcher (* 1884 )
- July 18 : Henri Farman , French aviation pioneer (* 1874 )
- July 19 : Karol Adwentowicz , Polish theater and film actor, director and theater director (* 1871 )
- July 21 : Lenka von Koerber , German journalist (* 1888 )
- July 22nd : Mikhail Soschtschenko , Russian writer (* 1894 )
- July 24th : Til Brugman , Dutch writer (* 1888 )
- July 26 : Fernand Alfred Désiré Augereau , French cyclist (* 1882 )
- July 26 : Eugene Millikin , American politician (* 1891 )
- July 26 : Siegfried Passarge , German geographer (* 1866 )
- July 28 : Bernhard Howaldt junior , German engineer, shipowner, entrepreneur (* 1880 )
- July 28 : Jeanne Berta Semmig , German writer and poet (* 1867 )
August
- August 2 : Wilhelm Büning , German architect (* 1881 )
- August 2nd : Michele Navarra , Mafia member (* 1905 )
- August 3 : Peter Collins , British racing driver (* 1931 )
- August 5 : Regino E. Boti , Cuban writer (* 1878 )
- August 6th : Maurice Germot , French tennis player (* 1882 )
- August 8 : Ludwig Adler , Austrian obstetrician and gynecologist (* 1876 )
- August 9 : Felipe Boero , Argentine composer (* 1884 )
- August 13 : Valerio Abbondio , Swiss teacher and poet (* 1891 )
- August 15 : Big Bill Broonzy , American blues musician (* 1903 )
- August 16 : Paul Panzer , German actor (* 1872 )
- August 17th : Florent Schmitt , French composer (* 1870 )
- August 18 : Johann Sebastian Dang , founder of the Darmstädter Echos (* 1891 )
- August 21 : Stevan Hristić , Yugoslav composer (* 1885 )
- August 23 : Roger Martin du Gard , French writer (* 1881 )
- August 24th : Inge Stoll , German motorcycle racer (* 1930 )
- August 25 : Leo Blech , German composer and conductor (* 1871 )
- August 26 : Ralph Vaughan Williams , English composer and conductor (* 1872 )
- August 26 : Hans Henn , German politician (* 1899 )
- August 27 : Johannes Gronowski , German politician (* 1874 )
- August 27 : Ernest Lawrence , American nuclear physicist (* 1901 )
- August 30th : Karl Drewes , German general (* 1895 )
- August 30 : Karl Heim , German Protestant theologian (* 1874 )
September
- September 1 : René Gaudin , French racing car driver (* 1889 )
- September 2 : Nikolai Anziferow , Russian historian, writer and local researcher (* 1889 )
- September 2nd : Betty Humby Beecham , English pianist (* 1908 )
- September 9 : Giovanni Prini , Italian sculptor and painter (* 1877 )
- September 9th : Cas Ruffelse , Dutch football player (* 1888 )
- September 11th : Carl Carls , German chess player (* 1880 )
- September 11th : Hans Grundig , painter and graphic artist (* 1901 )
- September 11th : Robert Lach , Austrian musicologist (* 1874 )
- September 14th : Volkmar Herntrich , Protestant regional bishop (* 1908 )
- September 15 : Constant Feith , Dutch football player (* 1884 )
- September 17th : Fritz Paneth , German-Austrian chemist (* 1887 )
- September 18 : Olaf Gulbransson , painter, draftsman and caricaturist (* 1873 )
- September 19 : Rudolf Rocker , author, historian and anarcho-syndicalist (* 1873 )
- September 20 : Oscar O'Brien , Canadian composer, arranger, organist, pianist and music teacher (* 1892 )
- September 21 : Francisco Olazar , Argentinian football player and coach (* 1885 )
- September 21 : Peter Whitehead , English Formula 1 racing driver (* 1914 )
- September 25 : Viktor Schauberger , Austrian forester, researcher and inventor (* 1885 )
- September 25 : John B. Watson , American psychologist (* 1878 )
- September 26 : Zdeňka Baldová , Czech actress (* 1885 )
- September 26 : Breckinridge Long , American diplomat (* 1881 )
- September 27 : Adolfo Salazar , Spanish composer, music critic and musicologist (* 1890 )
- September 27 : Albert Soergel , German literary scholar (* 1880 )
- September 28 : Mezzi Andreossi , Swiss ice hockey player (* 1897 )
- September 28 : Aarre Merikanto , Finnish composer (* 1893 )
- September 28 : Jimmy Reece , American racing car driver (* 1929 )
- September 30th : Adolf Franz Samwer , German politician (* 1895 )
October
- October 2 : Charles Avery Dunning , Canadian politician (* 1885 )
- October 2 : Karl Skraup , Austrian actor (* 1898 )
- October 2 : Marie Stopes , British suffragette (* 1880 )
- October 3 : George Kennedy Allen Bell , Anglican Bishop (* 1883 )
- October 3 : Hans Walter Gruhle , German psychologist and psychiatrist (* 1880 )
- October 4 : Ida Wüst , German actress (* 1884 )
- October 6 : Ewald Aufermann , Professor of Business Administration (* 1892 or 1893 )
- October 7 : Rex Griffin , American old-time and country musician (* 1912 )
- October 9 : Pius XII. , Pope from 1939 to 1958 (* 1876 )
- October 11 : Johannes R. Becher , German writer (* 1891 )
- October 14 : Douglas Mawson , British polar explorer (* 1882 )
- October 15 : Teodoro Gutiérrez Calderón , Colombian poet and writer (* 1890 )
- October 17th : Celso Costantini , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1876 )
- October 19 : Albert Steigenberger , German hotelier (* 1889 )
- October 19 : Josef Wintrich , President of the Federal Constitutional Court from 1954 to 1958 (* 1891 )
- October 22nd : Hellmuth Helsig , German film actor (* 1902 )
- October 23 : Erich Köhler , German politician (* 1892 )
- October 24 : Theodor Kröger , German writer (* 1891 )
- October 24 : George Edward Moore , English philosopher (* 1873 )
- October 25 : Josef Achmann , German painter and graphic artist (* 1885 )
- October 25 : Stuart Lewis-Evans , British Formula 1 racing driver (* 1930 )
- October 25 : Edward Aloysius Mooney , Archbishop of Detroit and Cardinal (* 1882 )
- October 26 : Javier Rengifo , Chilean composer (* 1884 )
- October 27 : Walter von Molo , German writer (* 1880 )
- October 29 : Zoë Akins , American screenwriter and playwright (* 1886 )
- October 31 : Maurice Rost , French racing car driver and aviator (* 1886 )
November
- November 3 : Markus Feldmann , Swiss politician (SVP) (* 1897 )
- November 4 : Hermann von Kuhl , German general and military historian (* 1856 )
- November 10 : Karl Assmann , Austrian lawyer, soccer player and co-founder of SK Sturm Graz (* 1890 )
- November 14th : Hermann Zaiss , German healing evangelist (* 1889 )
- November 15 : Samuel Hopkins Adams , American journalist and writer (* 1871 )
- November 15 : Tyrone Power , American film and stage actor (born 1914 )
- November 17 : Yutaka Taniyama , Japanese mathematician (* 1927 )
- November 18 : Henry Nielsen , Danish middle and long distance runner (* 1910 )
- November 19 : Vittorio Ambrosio , Italian general (* 1879 )
- November 23 : Ernst Aebersold , Swiss politician (* 1887 )
- November 24th : Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood , British politician and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (* 1864 )
- November 26th : Monte Attell , American boxer (* 1885 )
- November 26 : Heinrich Haslinde , German politician (* 1881 )
- November 27 : Jeanne Demons , Canadian actress (* 1890 )
- November 28 : Karl Flink , German national soccer player (* 1895 )
- November 29 : Roy Owen West , American politician (* 1868 )
December
- December 2 : Carl Bilfinger , German constitutional lawyer (* 1897 )
- December 2 : Jan Kok , Dutch football player (* 1889 )
- December 5 : Willie Applegarth , British athlete and Olympic champion (* 1890 )
- December 5 : Ferdinand Bruckner , Austro-German writer and theater director (* 1891 )
- December 6th : Josef Gockeln , German politician (* 1900 )
- December 6 : Myers Y. Cooper , American politician (* 1873 )
- December 8 : Mads Nielsen , Danish writer (* 1879 )
- December 10 : Heinrich Aschoff , German farmer and Righteous Among the Nations (* 1893 )
- December 11th : Rudolf Rößler , spy during the Second World War (* 1897 )
- December 11th : Alfons Walde , Austrian painter and architect (* 1891 )
- December 12th : Milutin Milanković , Serbian astrophysicist (* 1879 )
- December 14 : René Guillou , French composer (* 1903 )

- December 15 : Wolfgang Pauli , physicist, Nobel Prize winner (* 1900 )
- December 16 : János Székely , Hungarian writer and screenwriter (* 1901 )
- December 17th : Richard Ungewitter , German pioneer and organizer of the nudist movement (* 1869 )
- December 17th : Georg Zimmermann , Austrian politician and minister (* 1897 )
- December 19 : Felix Kwieton , Austrian middle and long distance runner (* 1877 )
- December 19 : Francis P. Murphy , American politician (* 1877 )
- December 20 : Clara Thompson , American doctor and psychoanalyst (* 1893 )
- December 21 : Lion Feuchtwanger , German writer (* 1884 )
- December 24th : Henry Heinemann , German-Dutch tropical medicine specialist (* 1883 )
- December 26 : Éva Gauthier , Canadian singer (* 1885 )
- December 27th : Édouard Flament , French composer (* 1880 )
- December 29 : Heinz Gemein , German politician (* 1906 )
- December 30th : Emanuel Ondříček , Czech violinist, music teacher and composer (* 1880 )
Day unknown
- Herbert Adams , English writer (* 1874 )
- Adolf Karl Paul Ammon , German industrialist (* 1874 )
- Helene Arnau , Austrian landscape, portrait and war painter (* 1870 )
- Ishii Hakutei , Japanese painter and printmaker (* 1882 )
- Ali Soheili , Iranian Prime Minister (* 1896 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Pawel Cherenkov , Ilja Michailowitsch Frank and Igor Tamm
- Chemistry : Frederick Sanger
- Medicine : George Wells Beadle , Edward Lawrie Tatum, and Joshua Lederberg
- Literature : Boris Pasternak
- Nobel Peace Prize : Georges Pire
music
- André Claveau wins the 3rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest for France on March 12th in Hilversum with the song Dors mon amour
- List of number one hits in Germany (1958)
- Foundation of the Bee Gees - ( Robin , Maurice and Barry Gibb )
Individual evidence
- ^ The growth of the German economy ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 7 pp.)
- ↑ Don J. Miller: Giant Waves in Lituya Bay, Alaska. ( Memento of November 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) In: Geological survey professional paper 354-C. Washington 1960.
- ↑ The largest recorded tsunami was a wave 1720 feet tall in Lituya Bay, Alaska. on: geology.com