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In Cuba the revolution triumphs under Fidel Castro . | " The Day the Music Died " - Buddy Holly , Ritchie Valens and Jiles Perry Richardson are killed in a plane crash. |
Alaska and Hawaii become states of the United States . |
The SPD proposes to her Godesberger Party the way to the People's Party one. |
1959 in other calendars | |
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From urbe condita | 2712 |
Armenian calendar | 1407-1408 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1951-1952 |
Badi calendar | 115-116 |
Bengali calendar | 1365-1366 |
Berber calendar | 2909 |
Buddhist calendar | 2503 |
Burmese calendar | 1321 |
Byzantine calendar | 7467-7468 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4655-4656 or 4595-4596 |
- 60 year cycle | |
French revolutionary calendar |
- CLXVII CLXVIII 167-168 |
Hebrew calendar | 5719-5720 |
Hindu calendar | |
- Vikram Sambat | 2015-2016 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1881-1882 |
Iranian calendar | 1337-1338 |
Islamic calendar | 1378-1379 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Nengō (era): | Shōwa 34 |
- Kōki | 2619 |
Coptic calendar | 1675-1676 |
Korean calendar | |
- Dangun era | 4292 |
- Juche era | 48 |
Minguo calendar | 48 |
Modern Olympics | XVI |
Seleucid calendar | 2270-2271 |
Thai solar calendar | 2502 |
In 1959 , after the flight of the dictator Batista, the revolutionaries under Fidel Castro take power in Cuba .
The superpowers USA and USSR are trying in talks to weaken the course of confrontation in the Cold War . US Vice President Richard Nixon travels to the Soviet Union, while Kremlin leader Nikita Khrushchev is the first Soviet party and government leader to travel to the United States.
In the Federal Republic of Germany , Heinrich Lübke will succeed Federal President Theodor Heuss after Adenauer had to give up his plans to be elected Federal President in addition to the office of Federal Chancellor . The SPD is aimed with its Godesberg Program towards market economy and acceptance of the Bundeswehr new.
Events
politics
- January 1 : Paul Chaudet becomes President of Switzerland .
- January 1 : The Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees abroad. Fidel Castro comes to power.
- January 2nd : Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos move with their revolutionary troops Movement of July 26th ( M-26-7 ) in Havana , the capital of Cuba. Fidel Castro will follow on January 8th.
- January 3 : Alaska becomes the 49th state in the United States.
- January 4 : Violent unrest breaks out in Léopoldville ( Belgian Congo ), which is considered the starting point for the independence of the Congo.
- January 5 : The German federal government rejects the Soviet proposal to form a Free City of West Berlin, to recognize the GDR and to form a confederation with it .
- January 28 : The Revolutionary Party is in Thailand a new constitution in force.
- January : In Thailand , the Ministry of the Interior bans three unions for "disturbing the public silence".
- February 6 : The German Air Force receives 300 US Starfighter aircraft . 260 of these machines crash over the next few years. 110 pilots are killed (→ Starfighter affair ).
- February 13 : After the revolutionaries' victory over the Batista regime in Cuba , Fidel Castro takes over the office of Prime Minister.
- February 15 : In the administrative district of Düsseldorf , a radar device is used for the first time in the Federal Republic of Germany to measure speed .
- March 8 : George Lincoln Rockwell founds the neo-Nazi American Nazi Party in the United States .
- March 10 : A popular uprising against the Chinese occupation of Tibet begins in Lhasa .
- March 17th : The 14th Dalai Lama flees into exile in India.
- March 18 : US President Eisenhower signs statehood provision for Hawaii . This makes Hawaii the 50th state in the United States ( August 21 ).
- April 10 : Crown Prince Akihito of Japan marries the commoner Michiko .
- May 10 : In the national elections in Austria , the SPÖ becomes the party with the strongest vote with Pittermann , but the ÖVP receives the most seats, so Julius Raab remains Federal Chancellor.
- June : Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is proposed by several public figures and by the FDP as the successor to Theodor Heuss for the office of Federal President . Hahn refuses.
- June 16 : Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands
- June 17th : The Irish elect Éamon de Valera , the candidate of the Fianna Fáil party, as President of Ireland .
- June 18 : Theodor Heuss takes over the Bellevue Palace in Berlin as the second official residence of the Federal President . Due to the political situation in West Berlin, the building is only used moderately.
- 11 July : Agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Luxembourg for war indemnity of the Second World War
- 20 / July 21 : Seven countries in the OEEC decide the establishment of a European Free Trade Association ( EFTA )
- July 21 : Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and France
- July 24 : The kitchen debate between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev takes place in front of an exhibition kitchen at the American National Exhibition in Moscow .
- July 31 : A group of Basque students found the underground resistance movement Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), which uses terrorist means in the fight against the Franco dictatorship in Spain and aims for an independent Basque state.
- August 21 : Hawaii turns 50th state in the USA.
- August 26th : Chinese People's Liberation Army forces enter a disputed area on the McMahon Line between China and India and capture guards from an Indian outpost.
- September 12 : Theodor Heuss resigns from the office of German Federal President .
- September 25 : A Buddhist monk, who converted to Christianity after the fact, fired shots at the Ceylonese Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike . The prime minister is able to snatch the gun from the assassin, but dies of the injuries the following day.
- October 7 : Assassination attempt on Abd al-Karim Qasim , Prime Minister of Iraq ; Qasim is only hurt.
- October 11th : General election in Bremen
- October 17th : Morocco devalues the currency and introduces the new monetary unit dirhem .
- October 26 : Pakistan declares Rawalpindi the new capital of the republic.
- November 11 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Egypt and between the Federal Republic of Germany and Syria . Both in force since October 16, 1960
- November 15 : The Godesberg Program of the SPD is adopted.
- November 17th : Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Egypt
- November 20 : The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts the Declaration on the Rights of the Child , which takes up and supplements the comparable Geneva Declaration of the League of Nations . Thirty years later, the declaration is superseded by the Convention on the Rights of the Child .
- December 1 : international law, the Antarctic Treaty ; Result of a conference in Washington, DC, represented by the participating states Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Great Britain, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, USA and the Soviet Union; regulates the ownership and usage rights for the southern polar region. The undersigned undertake to use the area of the Antarctic continent south of 60 ° south latitude exclusively and peacefully while maintaining the freedom of scientific research and to defer the claims of individual states in this regard.
- December 10 : Uprising at the old shipyard in Windhoek , South West Africa. Eleven demonstrators are shot dead and many injured.
- December 12 : A rebellion against the regime of General Alfredo Stroessner breaks out in the border region between Paraguay and Argentina ; it is quickly put down.
- December 13 : In the first elections after the conclusion of the Zurich and London Agreement and the London Guarantee Treaty , the Cypriots vote for Archbishop Makarios III. as President of Cyprus .
- December 16 : President Sukarno extends the state of emergency in Indonesia indefinitely and is increasingly becoming the sole ruler.
- December 17th : The election to the Swiss Federal Council makes the magic formula 2: 2: 2: 1 through its composition a reality for the first time.
- December 21 : Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi marries Farah Diba, a student
- Mao Zedong , founder and long-time ruler of the PRC , annexed Tibet .
economy
- March 24th : For the first time, German citizens can participate in the privatization of state assets. The people's shares of the Preußische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG (Preussag) are clearly oversubscribed above the volume offered . The federal government is therefore making more of its capital shares available to private individuals than originally intended.
- April 11 : After the Vienna Newspaper War , the first edition of the Neue Kronen Zeitung, founded by journalist Hans Dichand with financial support from the ÖGB , appears .
- May 2 : The major West German banks ( Deutsche Bank , Dresdner Bank , Commerzbank ) start their private customer business on a broad basis by granting small loans.
- July 6 : In the since 1957 Federal Republic of Germany incorporated Saarland is Saar franc from the German mark replaced.
- October 6th : The later Spanish airline Spantax is founded in Tenerife under the company Spain Air Taxi .
- October 14 : The view -Erstausgabe appears. As a result, the first tabloid in Switzerland aroused a lot of criticism with regard to its focus on crime , sex and sports .
- December 29th : The Lisbon metro starts operating in a ypsilon-shaped subway network.
- Agricultural production cooperative obligation in the GDR is introduced
- Creation of the retail company Carrefour in France
- Foundation of the French real estate company Groupement pour le Financement de la Construction (GFC) , from which Gecina is born.
science and technology
- January 1st : Official start of the transmission of time signals via the DCF77 transmitter of the Deutsche Bundespost near Frankfurt
- January 2 : The Soviet Lunik 1 probe takes off for the moon and will be the first successful space probe to overcome the earth's gravitational field for the first time.
- January 20 : The first flight of Vickers Vanguard takes place. It is the last major European passenger plane with propeller be.
- July 7 , 3:28 p.m. CET: The planet Venus covers the bright fixed star Regulus for the first time since September 11, 1128 . The rare event, which will not repeat itself until October 1, 2044 , is used by astronomers to determine the diameter of Venus and to study Venus' atmosphere.
- July 17th : Mary Leakey finds the remains of an ancient skull in the Tanzanian Olduvai Gorge . The primate species known as Paranthropus boisei is considered to be the oldest known human ancestor .
- August 18 : The British small car "Mini" comes onto the market.
- September 12th : Lunik 2 is launched by the Soviet Union , the first lunar probe to hit Earth's satellite . However, it shatters on the moon the very next day.
- September 18 : As part of the Vanguard project , the Vanguard 3 satellite is finally placed by the United States in a near-earth orbit .
- October 4th : The Soviet space probe Lunik 3 is launched to take pictures of the far side of the moon for the first time .
- October 13 : The USA launches the Explorer 7 satellite with a Juno II rocket for research into cosmic rays .
- December 18 : The German electron synchrotron (DESY) particle physics research facility is founded in Hamburg .
- December 29th : Richard P. Feynman gives his speech There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom , which for the first time suggests the possibilities of nanotechnology .
Culture
1959 was an extraordinarily good vintage , especially in the Bordeaux wine-growing region .
- February 3rd : The Day the Music Died : Plane crash with Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper on board
- February 6 : World premiere of the opera La voix humaine by Francis Poulenc at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
- February 26th : An acid attack is carried out on the painting The Fall of the Damned by Peter Paul Rubens in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
- February 26th : The play Der Schulfreund by Johannes Mario Simmel is premiered at the Nationaltheater Mannheim .
- March 9 : At the New York Toy Fair American Toy Fair , the company Mattel , the first Barbie ago doll.
- June 10 : In France, the film Hiroshima, mon amour , directed by Alain Resnais , premieres, one of the first representatives of the French Nouvelle Vague .
- June 14 : World premiere of Giselher Klebe's opera The Deadly Wishes in Düsseldorf
- July 11. bis 11. October : The Documenta II - World exhibition of art takes place in Kassel instead.
- September 4th : The world premiere of the Edgar Wallace film The Frog with the Mask takes place in Stuttgart . The film triggered a veritable wave of crime films in Germany that would last into the 1970s .
- September 8 : Inauguration of the new Beethoven Hall in Bonn
- September 9 : Grass ' Die Blechtrommel is released
- September 12 : In the US , NBC broadcasts the first episode of the television series Bonanza .
- September 15 : Five Transylvanian writers ( Wolf von Aichelburg , Andreas Birkner , Hans Bergel , Georg Scherg , Harald Siegmund ) are sentenced to a total of 95 years of forced labor in Kronstadt
- September 20 : World premiere of the opera The Assassination of Caesar by Giselher Klebe in Essen
- October 21 : The Guggenheim Museum in New York, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright , opens .
- October 29th : The first episode of Astérix le Gaulois appears in the first issue of the Pilote comic magazine
- November 10 : First performance of the radio opera Przygoda Króla Artura (The Adventures of King Arthur) by Grażyna Bacewicz on Radio Warsaw
- November 16 : World premiere of the musical The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater in New York City.
- November 17th : Radio Luxemburg is organizing - based on the Sanremo Festival - for the first time a German Schlager Festival in the Wiesbaden Rhein-Main-Hallen .
- November 18 : The film Ben Hur, directed by William Wyler, premieres in New York City .
- The novel Memento Mori by Muriel Spark appears
- The youth magazine twen appears for the first time in Germany
- The Essen employee Werner Schöppner invents the millionfold hit game Malefiz .
- Opening of the Museum of Transport
- Opening of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk (Denmark)
- Foundation of the artist group Grupo Ibiza 59
- The Nuremberg theater is built.
- Sculpture Symposium St. Margarethen
- The groundbreaking jazz albums Kind of Blue ( Miles Davis ), Time Out ( Dave Brubeck ), Mingus Ah Um ( Charles Mingus ) and The Shape of Jazz to Come ( Ornette Coleman ) are released
religion
- January 25 : Pope John XXIII. Surprisingly convenes the Second Vatican Council .
- May 9th : The foundation stone for the new Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is laid in Berlin . The sacred building is based on plans by the architect Egon Eiermann .
- May 17th : 300,000 people attend the inauguration of the Cristo Rei statue in Almada , Portugal . Its construction goes back to a vow made by bishops in 1940 when the Second World War spared the state.
Sports
- June 26th : Swede Ingemar Johansson wins heavyweight boxing world champion. Defending champion Floyd Patterson goes down seven times in the third round before the referee ends the fight.
- September 9 : The University Sports Club Mainz (USC Mainz) is founded, from which a number of well-known athletes later emerged.
- October 26th : Ex-snooker world champion Joe Davis introduces his new game variant Snooker Plus .
- November 8 : Minneapolis , Minnesota : Basketball player Elgin Baylor scores a new NBA record with 64 points against the Boston Celtics
- Jack Brabham becomes Formula 1 world champion for the first time .
- Eintracht Frankfurt becomes German soccer champions 5-3 after extra time against Kickers Offenbach in the final in Berlin
For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .
Disasters
- January 9th : The Vega de Tera dam breaks in the Spanish province of Zamora . Between 140 and 145 people die in the resulting tidal wave .
- January 30th: Sinking of the Hans Hedtoft , a 1958 Danish combined ship of Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel (KGH) Denmark's most modern ship, declared unsinkable at the time, sank on the return journey from its maiden voyage to Greenland in a collision with an iceberg, killing all 95 people on board. The shipwreck was never found.
- June 20 : 45 people die in the bus accident in Lauffen am Neckar. It is the worst bus accident in the Federal Republic of Germany.
- December 2 : The Malpasset dam collapses in southern France . 421 people died as a result of the tidal wave.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Born
January
- January 1 : Michael Didi Adgum Mangoria , Sudanese Coadjutor Bishop and Apostolic Administrator of El Obeid
- January 1st : Azali Assoumani , President of the Comoros
- January 1st : Roland Eugen Beiküfner , German actor
- January 1 : Jane Comerford , Australian lecturer in singing and lead singer
- January 1 : Abdul Ahad Momand , Afghan cosmonaut
- January 2nd : Ines Müller , German athlete
- January 3 : Alessandro Andrei , Italian shot putter and Olympic champion
- January 4th : Andrzej Adamczyk , Polish politician
- January 4th : Ali Ahmeti , Albanian politician
- January 5 : Clancy Brown , American actor
- January 7th : Friedrich Ani , German writer
- January 7th : Manfred Fischer , German motorcycle racer
- January 8 : Kim Duk-koo , South Korean boxer († 1982 )
- January 8 : Paul Hester , Australian musician († 2005 )
- January 8th : Martin Langer , German cameraman
- January 8th : Leo Lukas , Austrian cabaret artist, director and writer
- January 9 : Ridvan Dibra , Albanian poet, literary scholar and journalist
- January 9 : Rigoberta Menchú Tum , Guatemalan human rights activist
- January 9 : Monika Staab , German soccer coach
- January 10th : Lothar Arnold , German musician and chess player
- January 10 : Chandra Cheeseborough , American athlete and Olympic champion
- January 10 : Shu Fujisawa , Japanese writer
- January 10 : Curt Kirkwood , American songwriter, singer and guitarist
- January 10th : Maurizio Sarri , Italian football coach
- January 11th : Majid Mohammed Abdullah , Saudi Arabian footballer
- January 11th : Roberto Andò , Italian theater and film director
- January 11 : Richard Josef Arnold , German politician
- January 11 : Christian Stadelmann , German violinist († 2019 )
- January 12th : Blixa Bargeld , German musician, performance artist, composer, author and actor
- January 12th : Per Gessle , Swedish musician and songwriter
- January 12 : Vladimir Yashchenko , Ukrainian high jumper († 1999 )
- January 12th : Ralf Moeller , German bodybuilder and actor
- January 12 : Weranika Tscharkassava , Belarusian opposition journalist († 2004 )
- January 12th : Torsten Zwingenberger , German jazz drummer
- January 13 : Kid Ramos , American blues rock guitarist
- January 14th : René Creemers , Dutch jazz musician
- January 14 : Bernd Franke , German composer
- January 15 : Frank Pfütze , German swimmer († 1991 )
- January 16 : Sade Adu , Nigerian-British soul and R&B singer
- January 17 : Andrés Arteaga Manieu , Chilean auxiliary bishop
- January 17th : Susanna Hoffs , American pop singer
- January 17th : Salome Kammer , German actress, musician
- January 17th : Fabio Luisi , Italian conductor
- January 18 : Dagmar Lurz , German figure skater
- January 18 : Volkmar Vogel , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- January 19 : Margarete Bause , German politician
- January 19 : Harold Kreis , German-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- January 20 : Alfred Agyenta , Ghanaian bishop
- January 20th : Antoine Hervé , French composer and pianist
- January 20 : RA Salvatore , American author of various fantasy book series
- January 21 : Günter Nooke , German politician
- January 21 : Oskar Roehler , German film director
- January 22nd : Linda Blair , American actress
- January 22nd : Urs Meier , Swiss football referee
- January 23 : Raimund Becker , board member of the Federal Employment Agency
- January 23 : Scott Thorson , American showman
- January 24th : Matthias Anthuber , German doctor, university professor and handball player
- January 24th : Christian Juckenack , German politician, State Secretary in Thuringia
- January 24th : Michel Preud'homme , Belgian football player
- January 25 : Radomír Ištvan , Czech composer and music teacher
- January 25 : Toni Servillo , Italian actor and theater director
- January 26th : Moritz Hunzinger , German public relations entrepreneur
- January 26 : Salvador Sánchez , Mexican featherweight boxer († 1982 )
- January 26th : Ingo Schachtschneider , right-wing extremist politician
- January 26 : Erwin Vandenbergh , Belgian football player
- January 27 : Jörg Becker , German business IT specialist
- January 28 : Frank Darabont , American director, writer
- January 29th : Peter Hettlich , German politician
- January 30th : Steve Augeri , American singer
- January 30th : Alexander Bob , German doctor and publishing manager
- January 30th : Lutz Hoffmann , German gymnast († 1997 )
- January 30th : Anke Sevenich , German actress
- January 30th : Davide Tardozzi , Italian motorcycle racer
- January 30th : Jody Watley , American musician
- January 31 : Pierre Aïm , French cameraman
- January 31 : Alessandro Paganessi , Italian cyclist
- January 31 : Petar Popangelow , Bulgarian ski racer
February
- February 1 : Barbara Auer , German actress
- February 1 : Thomas Auler , German politician
- February 1st : Ottmar Liebert , German guitarist
- February 2nd : Hella von Sinnen , German television entertainer and comedian
- February 2nd : Hubertus von Hohenlohe , Austrian ski racer
- February 3 : Fabián Bielinsky , Argentinian director († 2006 )
- February 4th : Darryl Johansen , Australian chess grandmaster
- February 4th : Cornelia Pieper , German politician
- February 4 : Lawrence Taylor , American football player
- February 5 : Jennifer Granholm , US politician
- February 6 : Dermot Bolger , Irish writer, editor and publisher
- February 7th : Christine Angot , French writer
- February 7th : Carmen Ibáñez , Chilean journalist and politician
- February 8 : Heinz Günthardt , Swiss tennis player
- February 8 : Irina Kalinina , Soviet-Russian water diver and Olympic champion
- February 8 : Jürgen Kruse , German theater director
- February 8 : Mark Kuhn , Swiss actor
- February 8 : Mauricio Macri , Argentine entrepreneur and politician
- February 9 : Kevin Buckler , American racing car driver, racing team owner and winemaker
- February 11 : Nick Carter , UK Chief of the Defense Staff
- February 11 : Roberto Moreno , Brazilian racing car driver
- February 11 : René Müller , German soccer player and coach
- February 12 : Omar Hakim , American drummer
- February 14 : Renée Fleming , American soprano
- February 14 : Phillip Greenlief , American jazz saxophonist
- February 15 : Reinhard Loske , German politician
- February 16 : John McEnroe , American tennis player
- February 16 : Gordon Herbert , Canadian basketball coach
- February 18 : Jayne Atkinson , American actress
- February 18 : Gerry Ehrmann , German soccer player
- February 19 : Ueli Amstad , Swiss politician
- February 22nd : Holger Hieronymus , German soccer player
- February 22nd : Michail Naumowitsch Gurewitsch , Belgian chess master
- February 22 : Kyle MacLachlan , American actor
- February 22nd : Hans Stefan Steinheuer , German chef
- February 22nd : Margarethe Tiesel , Austrian actress
- February 23 : Clayton Conrad Anderson , American astronaut
- February 23 : Giorgio Ascanelli , Italian engineer
- February 23 : Jürgen Friedl , German soccer player
- February 23 : Karin Wolff , German politician
- February 25 : Johannes Herrschmann , German actor
- February 26th : Klaus Riegert , German politician
- February 27 : Niklaus Helbling , Swiss theater director, dramaturge and author
- February 27 : Johnny Van Zant , American musician
- February 28 : Jack Abramoff , American political lobbyist
- February 28 : Rainer Wolter , German chef
March
- March 1 : Laura Karpman , American composer and university professor
- March 2nd : Meta Niederkorn , Austrian historian
- March 2 : Larry Stewart , American country singer
- March 3 : Wilfried Klenk , German politician
- March 3 : Liliana Vitale , Argentine composer, singer and pianist
- March 4th : Carlos Palau , Spanish racing car driver
- March 4th : Annette Seemann , German writer and translator
- March 5 : Wasken Zarkissjan , Prime Minister of Armenia († 1999 )
- March 5 : Darío Alejandro Grandinetti , Argentine actor
- March 6 : Tom Arnold , American actor
- March 7 : Donna Murphy , American actress
- March 8 : Thomas Valter Åhlén , Swedish ice hockey player
- March 8 : Brian McGee , Scottish drummer
- March 8 : Ethan Freeman , American musical actor
- March 9 : Tom Amandes , American actor
- March 9 : Kato Kaelin , American actor
- March 9 : Giovanni di Lorenzo , German-Italian journalist
- March 10th : Hans-Jürgen Kaiser , German organist
- March 11th : Elisabeth Schroedter , German MEP
- March 11th : Maria Epple , German ski racer
- March 11th : Martin Loeb , French actor
- March 11th : Nina Hartley , American porn actress
- March 11 : Dejan Stojanović , Serbian-American poet
- March 12 : Dennis Alexio , American actor and boxer
- March 12th : Hermann Parzinger , German prehistoric scientist and President of the DAI
- March 13th : Till Backhaus , German politician
- March 13 : Greg Norton , American bass player and chef
- March 15 : Renny Harlin , Finnish film director and producer
- March 15 : Ben Okri , Nigerian writer
- March 15 : Peter Ablinger , Austrian composer
- March 16 : Flavor Flav , American rapper
- March 16 : Arben Minga , Albanian football player († 2007 )
- March 16 : Ludger Pistor , German actor
- March 16 : Jens Stoltenberg , Norwegian politician and Minister of State
- March 16 : Savina Yannatou , Greek singer
- March 17 : Danny Ainge , American basketball player
- March 18 : Luc Besson , French film director
- March 18 : Irene Cara , American singer and actress
- March 18 : Roberto Tricella , Italian football player
- March 19 : Gunar Schimrock , German handball goalkeeper
- March 20 : Sting , American wrestler
- March 20 : Thomas Ehrhorn , German politician
- March 20 : Martin Short , British racing car driver
- March 21 : Nobuo Uematsu , Japanese musician
- March 22nd : Bernd Asmus , German composer and university lecturer
- March 22nd : Stefan Maskiewicz , German artist
- March 22nd : Matthew Modine , American actor
- March 23 : Zuzana Brabcová , Czech writer († 2015 )
- March 23 : Epic Soundtracks , British musician and artist († 1997 )
- March 24 : Terrell Anthony , American actor
- March 24 : Renaldo Nehemiah , American athlete
- March 24th : Uwe Schwenker , German handball player and official
- March 25th : Petra Zieger , German rock singer
- March 26th : Axel Berg , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- March 26 : Sigi Roch , German handball player
- March 27 : Klaus-Dieter Dieckmann , German footballer
- March 27th : Petra Hess , German politician
- March 28 : Laura Chinchilla , Costa Rican politician
- March 28 : Jacob de Haan , Dutch composer and musician
- March 29 : Perry Farrell , American rock musician
- March 31 : Thierry Claveyrolat , French cyclist († 1999 )
- March 31 : Markus Hediger , Swiss writer and translator
April
- April 1st : Anna Augustynowicz , Polish theater director
- April 1st : Helmuth Duckadam , Romanian football goalkeeper
- April 1 : Christian Thielemann , German conductor
- April 2 : Rolf Schwanitz , German politician
- April 2nd : Juha Kankkunen , Finnish rally driver
- April 2nd : Gelindo Bordin , Italian marathon runner
- April 3 : Mark Adler , American computer scientist and aerospace engineer
- April 3 : David Hyde Pierce , American actor
- April 3 : Tadej Slabe , Slovenian geographer and extreme climber
- April 3 : Fermín Vélez , Spanish racing car driver († 2003 )
- April 5 : Armin Andres , German basketball player and coach
- April 5th : Co Streiff , Swiss jazz musician
- April 5th : Martin Verdonk , Dutch jazz percussionist
- April 6th : Aljaksandr Karschakewitsch , Belarusian handball coach and player
- April 6 : Pietro Vierchowod , Italian football player
- April 9 : Erik Veje Rasmussen , Danish handball player and coach
- April 10 : Katrin Mietzner , German handball player
- April 10 : Jochen Nickel , German actor
- April 10 : Brian Setzer , American musician
- April 10 : Stanislaw Tillich , German politician
- April 12 : Andy Bausch , Luxembourg film director
- April 13 : Zeruya Shalev , Israeli writer
- April 14th : Bert Blase , Dutch politician of the PvdA
- April 15th : Fruit Chan , Chinese director
- April 15 : Uli Dembinski , German aerobatic pilot
- April 15 : Christian Hartmann , German historian
- April 15 : Emma Thompson , British actress
- April 16 : Stefan Hecker , German handball player († 2019 )
- April 16 : Hartmut Koschyk , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- April 17th : Sean Bean , British actor
- April 17th : Nanette Scriba , German chanson singer
- April 18 : Norihiko Akagi , Japanese politician
- April 19 : Patricia Charbonneau , American actress
- April 20 : James Wong , American producer, screenwriter, and director
- April 21 : Robert Smith , founder, singer and guitarist of the rock band The Cure
- April 21 : Gerhard Delling , German sports journalist
- April 21 : Jerry Only , American rock musician
- April 22nd : Peter Druschel , founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science
- April 22 : Ryan Stiles , American actor
- April 23 : Georgina Abela , Maltese singer and composer
- April 23 : Anba Gabriel , Egyptian bishop
- April 24th : Marc-Aeilko Aris , German medievalist, philologist, historian of philosophy and priest
- April 24th : Peter Jahr , German politician
- April 24th : Johannes Rauch , Austrian politician
- April 26 : Tom Pauls , German actor and cabaret artist
- April 26 : Gerald Brandstötter , Austrian sculptor († 2004 )
- April 26th : Michael Lielacher , Austrian manager and entrepreneur
- April 27 : Sheena Easton , British singer
- April 27 : Daniel E. Freeman , American music historian and scholar
- April 27 : Scott Robinson , American jazz saxophonist
- April 27th : Doris Senger , German politician
- April 28 : Norbert Campmann , German musician († 2007 )
- April 28 : Susanne Hüttmann-Stoll , judge at the German Federal Social Court
- April 28 : Erhard Loretan , Swiss mountaineer († 2011 )
- April 29th : Craig Armstrong , Scottish composer
- April 30th : Elaine Fine , American composer
- April 30 : Stephen Harper , Canadian politician
May
- May 1st : Bea von Malchus , German actress, director and author
- May 2nd : Marcel van de Beeten , Dutch jazz guitarist and singer-songwriter
- May 2nd : Lone Scherfig , Danish screenwriter and director
- May 3 : Shigeru Kan-no , Japanese conductor and composer
- May 3rd : Andrea Spatzek , Austrian actress
- May 4 : Maurizio Cheli , Italian Air Force officer and astronaut
- May 4th : Udo Hemmelgarn , German politician
- May 4th : Inger Nilsson , Swedish actress
- May 4 : Randy Travis , American country singer and songwriter
- May 5th : Steve Stevens , American musician
- May 6th : Didier Conrad , French comic artist, a. a. from Asterix
- May 6 : Prince Oskar of Prussia , 37th Lord Master of the Order of St. John
- May 7th : Horst Eckert , German author of crime novels
- May 7th : Bruno Ilien , French racing car driver
- May 9 : János Áder , Hungarian politician
- May 9 : Fred Apke , German playwright, director and actor
- May 9 : Dennis Chambers , American drummer
- May 9 : Ulrich Matthes , German actor
- May 10 : Hamide Akbayir , German politician
- May 10 : Giorgi Guraspashvili , Georgian painter and sculptor
- May 10 : Heinz Karrer , Swiss manager and handball player
- May 10 : Agustin Kola , Albanian football player
- May 12 : Lutz Blochberger , German actor
- May 12 : Ving Rhames , American actor
- May 12 : Klaus Zechiel-Eckes , German historian († 2010 )
- May 13 : Roger Muraro , French pianist
- May 13 : Andreas Wimberger , Austrian actor and speaker († 2019 )
- May 14 : Patrick Bruel , French singer and actor
- May 14th : Stéphane Mertens , Belgian motorcycle racer
- May 15 : Maurizio Angeloni , Italian director
- May 15 : Andrew Eldritch , English singer and producer
- May 15 : Ronald Pofalla , German politician
- May 15 : Thomas Springel , German handball player
- May 16 : Guy Zerafa , Canadian musician and composer
- May 17th : Jojo Anand , Indian Bishop of Hazaribag
- May 17th : Michaela Sburny , Austrian politician
- May 18 : Dominik Brunner , German manager and S-Bahn hero († 2009 )
- May 18 : Lauren Flanigan , American opera singer
- May 18th : Ranga Yogeshwar , editor and presenter at WDR
- May 19 : Nicole Brown Simpson , American murder victim († 1994 )
- May 20 : Marianne Curley , Australian author of children's books
- May 20 : Israel Kamakawiwoʻole , Hawaiian singer († 1997 )
- May 21 : Andreas Trautmann , German soccer player
- May 21 : Nick Cassavetes , American actor and director
- May 22 : Linda Emond , American actress
- May 22nd : Mara Mattuschka , Austrian film director and performance artist
- May 22nd : Morrissey , British singer
- May 23 : Marcella Mesker , Dutch tennis player
- May 24 : Per-Eric Lindbergh , Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper († 1985 )
- May 24th : Franz Rieger , Bavarian politician
- May 24th : Max Strauss , German lawyer and oldest son of Franz Josef Strauss
- May 25 : Aribert Wolf , German politician
- May 26th : Benoît Fromanger , French flautist, conductor and music teacher
- May 26th : Lothar Neukirchner , German motorcycle racer
- May 27 : Angelika Bartsch , German actress
- May 28 : Frank Astor , German coach, trainer, entertainer, actor and author
- May 29th : Reimund Dietzen , German racing cyclist
- May 29 : Igor Alexandrowitsch Domnikow , Russian journalist († 2000 )
- May 29 : Rupert Everett , British actor
- May 29 : Mel George Gaynor , British drummer
- May 29 : Steve Hanley , British musician
- May 29 : Roland Koch , Swiss actor
- May 29 : Adrian Paul , British actor
- May 30th : Georg-Christof Bertsch , German designer
- May 30th : Pietro Tonolo , Italian jazz saxophonist
- May 31 : Florian Bramböck , Austrian composer and professor
- May 31 : Andrea de Cesaris , Italian racing car driver († 2014 )
- May 31 : Uwe Meyeringh , German trade unionist
June
- June 1st : Alfred Adewale Martins , Archbishop of Lagos
- June 1st : Martin Brundle , British Formula 1 racing driver
- June 2nd : Michel Aoun , Lebanese priest and bishop
- June 2nd : Conradin Cathomen , Swiss ski racer
- June 3rd : Waltraut Antonov , Austrian politician
- June 3rd : Ruth Weckenmann , German SPD politician, Member of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- June 4th : Anil Ambani , Indian businessman
- June 4th : Brent Michael Davids , American composer
- June 5 : Helmuth Frauendorfer , German writer
- June 5th : Werner Schildhauer , German athlete
- June 6 : Jürgen Bärsch , German Roman Catholic theologian
- June 6 : Marwan Barghuthi , Palestinian politician
- June 6 : David Schultz , American wrestler († 1996 )
- June 6th : Neal H. Moritz , American film producer
- June 6th : Andreas Liebold , German presenter, cabaret artist, author and media trainer
- June 6 : Andrei Wassiljewitsch Prokofjew , Soviet athlete († 1989 )
- June 6th : Rainer Kaufmann , German director
- June 7 : Matthew Ishaya Audu , Nigerian Bishop
- June 7th : Mike Pence , American politician and Vice President
- June 7th : Andreas Renner , German politician
- June 7th : Anker Eli Petersen , Faroese graphic artist, postage stamp designer and author
- June 7th : Tracey Adams , American porn actress
- June 8th : Emmanuel Bex , French jazz organist
- June 8 : Christoph Matznetter , Austrian politician
- June 9 : Fritz Rott , German voice actor and dialogue book author
- June 10 : Carlo Ancelotti , Italian football player and coach
- June 10 : Bernardito Cleopas Auza , Archbishop of the Philippines
- June 10 : Rainer Balzer , German engineer and politician
- June 11 : Mike Arcuri , American politician
- June 11 : Hugh Laurie , English actor
- June 12 : Beniamino Vignola , Italian football player
- June 13 : Klaus Johannis , Romanian politician of German descent
- June 13 : Mike Smith , American football coach
- June 14th : Marcus Miller , American musician and electric bass player
- June 15th : Tor Endresen , Norwegian pop singer
- June 16 : Susan Schubert , German singer
- June 16 : James Hellwig , American wrestler († 2014 )
- June 16 : Hagen Melzer , German athlete
- June 17th : Baltazar Maria de Moráis Junior , Brazilian soccer player
- June 17th : Judith Kuckart , German dancer, choreographer, director and writer
- June 17th : Reinmar Henschke , German jazz pianist and composer
- June 17th : Adrie van der Poel , Dutch cyclist
- June 17th : Kazuki Yao , Japanese voice actor
- June 18 : Ricky van Helden , German rock musician
- June 18 : Zuzana Navarová , Czech singer, musician and composer († 2004 )
- June 18th : Jan Rokita , Polish politician of the party "Platforma Obywatelska"
- June 19 : Christian Wulff , German politician, tenth Federal President
- June 20 : Thomas Krüger , German politician and President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
- June 20 : Peter Rehaag , German politician
- June 21 : Tom Chambers , American basketball player
- June 21 : Kathy Mattea , American country singer and songwriter
- June 21 : Hans-Joachim Watzke , German football functionary
- June 22nd : Tristán Bauer , Argentinian film director, screenwriter and cameraman
- June 22nd : Nicola Sirkis , French musician
- June 22nd : Stéphane Sirkis , French musician († 1999 )
- June 23 : Karin Kortmann , German politician
- June 23 : Michel Trollé , French racing car driver
- June 24th : Markus Wienstroer , German guitarist and violinist
- June 25th : Lutz Dombrowski , German athlete
- June 25 : Rolf Mützenich , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- June 26th : Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen , Norwegian judge
- June 26th : Joëlle Aubron , French terrorist († 2006 )
- June 26th : Leander Haußmann , German film and theater director
- June 26 : Josef Mahlmeister , German author
- June 27 : Janusz Kamiński , Polish-American cameraman
- June 27 : Jeff Miller , American politician
- June 27th : Khadja Nin , Belgian musician
- June 27th : Corien Wortmann , Dutch manager and politician
- June 28 : Siegfried Grüninger , German football goalkeeper († 2016)
- June 28th : Silvo Lahtela , German writer and chess player
- June 28 : Frank Wörndl , German ski racer
- June 30 : Vincent D'Onofrio , American actor
- June 30th : Daniel Goldhagen , American sociologist and political scientist
July
- July 1 : Marilyn Perkins Biery , American church musician and composer
- July 1 : Kim Hyung-chil , South Korean rider († 2006 )
- July 2nd : Iris Radisch , German literary journalist
- July 3 : Kader Arif , French politician
- July 3 : Helmut Kurrat , German handball player and handball trainer
- July 4th : Victoria Abril , Spanish actress
- July 4th : Uwe Klett , German politician
- July 4th : Cardinal Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet , Archbishop of Montevideo
- July 5th : Marc Cohn , American singer-songwriter
- July 5th : Pablo Helman , Argentine artist
- July 6 : Mikael Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- July 6 : Joe Jacoby , American football player
- July 6th : Thomas Kügel , German actor
- July 6 : Yves Laroche , Canadian freestyle skier
- July 7th : Alessandro Nannini , Italian Formula 1 racing driver
- July 7th : Kerstin Knabe , German athlete
- July 7th : Wanda Bieler , Italian ski racer
- July 8 : Bill Farmer , New Zealand racing car driver
- July 8 : Robert Knepper , American actor
- July 8 : Víctor Rasgado , Mexican composer
- July 9 : Jim Kerr , lead singer and songwriter for Simple Minds
- July 9 : Kevin Nash , American professional wrestler
- July 10th : Anjani , American singer and pianist
- July 10 : Hans-Otto Schmiedeberg , German politician
- July 10 : Sandy West , American singer († 2006 )
- July 11th : Heidi-Elke Gaugel , German athlete
- July 11th : Tobias Moretti , Austrian theater and film actor
- July 11th : Richie Sambora , American rock guitarist
- July 11 : Suzanne Vega , American singer-songwriter
- July 14th : Peter Angerer , German biathlete
- July 14th : Werner Dutz , German inventor and child kidnapper
- July 14th : Klaus Schreiber , German actor
- July 15 : Michael Boddenberg , CDU politician in Hesse
- July 16 : Gary Allan Anderson , South African American football player
- July 16 : Gerd Wessig , German athlete
- July 17th : Jörg Knör , German comedian and parodist
- July 19 : Wolfgang G. Amann , German politician
- July 19 : Juan José Campanella , Argentine film director and screenwriter
- July 20 : Christian Ankowitsch , Austrian journalist and writer
- July 20 : Radney Foster , American country singer and songwriter
- July 21 : Michael Hull , German competition dancer
- July 23 : Noël Martin , British-Jamaican construction worker, victim of right-wing violence in Germany († 2020 )
- July 24th : Giuseppe Abbagnale , Italian rower
- July 24th : Barry Romberg , Canadian jazz drummer, band leader and composer
- July 24th : Thomas Schreiber , German journalist and TV program manager
- July 24th : Saskia Vester , German actress
- July 24th : Roland Wetzig , German bobsleigh driver
- July 24th : James Zollar , American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
- July 26 : Kevin Spacey , American actor
- July 27th : Michael Sagmeister , German musician
- July 29th : Klaus-Peter Dehde , German politician
- July 30th : Petra Felke , German athlete and Olympic champion
- July 31 : Guillo Espel , Argentine composer and guitarist
- July 31st : Stanley Jordan , American jazz guitarist
August
- August 1st : Peter-Martin Schmidt , vicar general in the diocese of Fulda
- August 3 : Kōichi Tanaka , Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002
- August 3 : John C. McGinley , American actor
- August 3 : Jürgen Martens , Saxon politician
- August 3rd : Stefan Oberndorfer , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
- August 4th : Anthony Radziwill , Swiss filmmaker († 1999 )
- August 5th : Pat Smear , American musician
- August 6 : Eija-Liisa Ahtila , Finnish filmmaker and video artist
- August 6 : Darwin Rudy Andino Ramírez , Honduran Bishop
- August 7th : Koenraad Elst , Belgian historian
- August 7th : Paolo Ravaglia , Italian composer
- August 7th : Edward Simoni , German-Polish pan flutist or multi-instrumentalist as well as composer and arranger
- August 8 : Valerio Varesi , Italian journalist and crime novelist
- August 8 : Ronald Weigel , German athlete
- August 9 : James Kwesi Appiah , Ghanaian soccer coach and player
- August 9 : Michael Kors , American fashion designer
- August 9 : Idrissa Seck , Prime Minister of Senegal
- August 9 : Kurtis Blow , rap pioneer
- August 10 : Rosanna Arquette , American actress
- August 11 : Frank H. Asbeck , German entrepreneur and CEO
- August 12 : Michael Andrejewski , German politician
- August 12th : Finn Borchsenius , Danish botanist
- August 12 : Jerzy Kornowicz , Polish composer
- August 13 : Jürgen Beck , German handball player
- August 13 : Thomas Ravelli , Swedish football player
- August 14 : Marcia Gay Harden , American actress
- August 14 : Magic Johnson , American basketball player
- August 16 : Friedrich Aumayr , Austrian physicist
- August 17 : Jonathan Franzen , American writer
- August 17 : David Koresh , the leader of the Davidian sect († 1993 )
- August 19th : Maridalia Hernández , Dominican singer
- August 20 : Sabine Rossbach , German journalist and radio presenter, director of the NDR Landesfunkhaus Hamburg (2010-)
- August 21 : Jiří Lála , Czech ice hockey player
- August 22nd : Heike Arnold , German entrepreneur
- August 22nd : Eric Boeren , Dutch jazz cornetist
- August 22nd : Deborah Sasson , American opera singer and musical artist
- August 23 : John H. Adler , American politician († 2011 )
- August 23 : Bruno Chevillon , French jazz double bass player
- August 24th : Keita Amemiya , Japanese game character designer and film director
- August 24 : Michael Andersson , Swedish football player
- August 24th : Peter Assion , German soccer coach
- August 24 : Michael Kleeberg , German writer and literary translator
- August 25 : Sönke Wortmann , German director
- August 26th : Laurence Auer , French diplomat
- August 26th : Mark Bender , German country singer
- August 26th : Frank Hempel , German politician
- August 27 : Jürgen Becker , German cabaret artist, author and television presenter
- August 27 : Gerhard Berger , Austrian Formula 1 driver
- August 27 : Gundolf Köhler , German neo-Nazi († 1980 )
- August 27th : Markus , German pop singer
- August 27 : Daniela Romo , Mexican singer and actress
- August 29 : Rebecca De Mornay , American actress, director and film producer
- August 29 : Ernesto Rodrigues , Portuguese violinist and composer
- August 29 : Stephen Wolfram , English mathematician
- August 30th : Stephan Braun , German politician
- August 30th : Harald Weyel , German politician
- August 30 : Viktor Worms , German moderator and journalist
- August 31 : Olaf Krätke , German actor and director
- August 31 : Ralph Krueger , American ice hockey coach
September
- September 1st : Simone Ritscher , German actress
- September 3 : Wolfgang April , German soccer player
- September 3 : Stephan Bickhardt , German pastor
- September 3 : Merritt Butrick , American actor († 1989 )
- September 3rd : José Luis Laguía , Spanish cyclist
- September 3 : Andrew Lawrence-King , British principal harpist, continuo player and conductor
- September 3rd : Cocoa Tea , Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer
- September 4th : Robbie Deans , New Zealand rugby player and coach
- September 4th : Armin Kogler , Austrian ski jumper
- September 5th : Sabine Amsbeck-Dopheide , German politician
- September 5 : Waldemar Pawlak , Polish politician
- September 7th : Alfreð Gíslason , Icelandic handball player and coach
- September 9 : Éric Serra , French composer
- September 10 : Hayk Dèinyan , Armenian opera singer
- September 10 : Tim Knight , English composer, choir director and music teacher
- September 11 : Jeffrey Hoover , American composer and painter
- September 12 : Ben Chandler , American politician
- September 12 : Deron Cherry , American football player
- September 12 : Sigmar Gabriel , German politician
- September 13 : Ivan Majstorović , German handball player and coach
- September 14th : Morten Harket , Norwegian singer of the pop band A-ha
- September 14th : Ashlyn Gere , American porn actress
- September 15 : Monika Eigensperger , Austrian journalist and radio presenter
- September 15 : Andreas Eschbach , German science fiction author
- September 18 : Levent Aktoprak , German writer, radio and television journalist
- September 18 : Christian Wulf , German martial artist and trainer
- September 19 : Sally Barker , English folk rock singer and songwriter
- September 19 : Gwen Hoebig , Canadian violinist and music teacher
- September 20 : Christian Lindner , German journalist
- September 21 : George Crin Laurențiu Antonescu , Romanian historian and politician
- September 21 : Andrzej Buncol , Polish football player
- September 21 : Dave Coulier , American actor and comedian
- September 21 : John Oliver , Canadian composer
- September 22 : Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus , German politician
- September 22nd : Tony Reedus , American musician († 2008 )
- September 23 : Didier Squiban , Breton pianist
- September 23 : Dale Whittington , American racing driver († 2003 )
- September 23 : Jason Alexander , American actor
- September 24th : Cara Silverman , American film editor († 2014 )
- September 25 : Eduardo Mario Acevedo Cardozo , Uruguayan football player and coach
- September 26 : Oscar Omar Aparicio Céspedes , Bolivian Archbishop
- September 28 : Ron Fellows , Canadian racing car driver and entrepreneur
- September 28 : Laura Bruce , American artist
- September 29th : Carlos Cardús , Spanish motorcycle racer
- September 29 : Rolf Kalb , German sports journalist and commentator
October
- October 1st : Youssou N'Dour , Senegalese singer and songwriter
- October 1 : Uwe Witt , German politician
- October 2nd : Saúl Vera , Venezuelan mandolin and bandola player
- October 3 : Henry Gründler , German television presenter
- October 3rd : Michy Reincke , German pop singer
- October 3 : Karl Eirik Schjøtt-Pedersen , Norwegian politician
- October 3rd : Martina Willing , German athlete
- October 4th : Chris Lowe , British musician
- October 4th : Hitonari "Jinsei" Tsuji , Japanese writer, musician, photographer and director
- October 5th : Thomas Remark , German soccer player
- October 6 : Brian Higgins , American politician
- October 7th : Martin Knosp , German freestyle wrestler
- October 7th : Loris Reggiani , Italian motorcycle racer
- October 8th : Gaby Bußmann , German athlete
- October 8 : Christin Cooper , American skier
- October 8 : Mayada El Hennawy , Syrian singer
- October 8 : Erik Gundersen , Danish track athlete
- October 9 : Lucio Andrice Muandula , Bishop of the Diocese of Xai-Xai
- October 9th : Rudolf Voderholzer , Bishop of the Diocese of Regensburg
- October 10 : Kirsty MacColl , British singer and songwriter († 2000 )
- October 10 : Maya Ying Lin , American artist and architect
- October 10 : Michael Klein , Romanian football player († 1993 )
- October 11th : Wayne Gardner , Australian motorcycle racer
- October 12th : Beate Peters , German athlete
- October 13 : Massimo Bonini , San Marino soccer player
- October 13 : Robert Jarczyk , German actor
- October 14 : Alexei Viktorovich Kassatonov , Russian ice hockey player
- October 15 : Markus Grübel , German politician
- October 15 : Sarah Ferguson , ex-wife of Britain's Prince Andrew (Duke of York)
- October 15 : Todd Solondz , American director, actor and screenwriter
- October 16 : Sven-Georg Adenauer , German politician
- October 16 : John Whittingdale , British politician
- October 17th : Kornelia Kunisch , German handball player
- October 17th : Michael Stübgen , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- October 18 : Ernesto Canto , Mexican athlete and Olympic champion
- October 18 : Gary Schocker , American flautist and composer
- October 19 : Ronnie Burrage , American jazz drummer
- October 19 : Mike Jackel , German-Canadian basketball player
- October 20th : Eriko Asai , Japanese marathon runner
- October 20 : Karl-Heinz Bührer , German soccer player
- October 20 : Andreas Ehrig , German speed skater and sports scientist
- October 20 : Morten Andreas Meyer , Norwegian Conservative politician
- October 20 : Akif Pirinçci , German-Turkish writer
- October 20 : Shuping Wang , Chinese doctor († 2019 )
- October 21 : Michael Arndt , German Taekwondoin
- October 21 : Åslaug Haga , Norwegian politician
- October 21 : Cardinal Sergio da Rocha , Archbishop of Brasília
- October 21 : Tamara De Treaux , American actress († 1990 )
- October 21 : Ken Watanabe , Japanese actor
- October 23 : Svein Dag Hauge , Norwegian guitarist, songwriter and music producer
- October 23 : Weird Al Yankovic , American musician
- October 23 : Sam Raimi , American director
- October 24 : Alan Hirsch , South African missionologist, speaker and author
- October 24th : Jouni Yrjölä , Finnish chess grandmaster
- October 25 : Christine Joy Amphlett , Australian singer, songwriter and actress († 2013 )
- October 26 : François Chau , Cambodian-American actor
- October 26 : Dana Kimmell , American actress
- October 26 : Sabine Knickrehm , judge at the German Federal Social Court
- October 26 : Evo Morales , President of Bolivia
- October 27 : Jürgen Baldiga , German artist and photographer († 1993 )
- October 27 : Rick Carlisle , American basketball player and coach
- October 28 : Peter Pacult , Austrian soccer player and coach
- October 30th : Rachel Ashwell , British interior designer
- October 31 : Mats Näslund , Swedish professional ice hockey player
- October 31 : Neal Stephenson , American science fiction writer
- October 31 : Geoffrey Edwards , American actor, director and screenwriter
November
- November 1 : Jörg W. Busch , German medieval historian
- November 1st : Conrad Herwig , American jazz trombonist
- November 1st : Hans-Dieter Karras , German church musician and organist
- November 1st : Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. , Spanish sports official
- November 2 : Michael Nagula , German writer
- November 2nd : Roland Koch , German writer and literary scholar
- November 2nd : Saïd Aouita , Moroccan athlete
- November 2nd : Kai Wandschneider , German handball trainer and handball player
- November 3 : Hal Hartley , American film director and screenwriter
- November 4th : Andreas Kieling , German documentary filmmaker, film producer and author
- November 4th : Ken Kirzinger , Canadian stuntman and actor
- November 4 : Deborah Rennard , American actress
- November 5th : Bryan Adams , Canadian rock singer, composer and photographer
- November 7th : Ednan Aslan , Austrian-Turkish professor
- November 7th : Claus Kaminsky , Lord Mayor of Hanau
- November 7th : Petra Platen , German handball player and sports medicine specialist
- November 7th : Vera Russwurm , Austrian TV presenter
- November 7th : Klaus Suonsaari , Finnish jazz drummer
- November 8th : Andrea Ursula Asch , German politician
- November 9th : Thomas Quasthoff , German singer
- November 9th : Harry Schärer , Swiss musical composer, author and director
- November 9th : Sito Pons , Spanish motorcycle racer
- November 10 : Fernando Geraldes , Dominican conductor, choir director, music teacher and singer
- November 10 : Martin Hebner , German politician
- November 10 : Randy Mamola , American motorcycle racer
- November 11th : Katja Flint , German actress
- November 11th : Lee Haney , American bodybuilder
- November 11th : Michael Pfeuti , Swiss double bass player
- November 11 : Christian Schwarzenegger , Swiss professor
- November 13 : Caroline Goodall , British-Australian film and stage actress
- November 13 : Hari Kostov , Macedonian Prime Minister
- November 13 : José Carlos Somoza , Spanish writer
- November 14 : Paul Albert Attanasio , American screenwriter and film producer
- November 16 : Ursula Konzett , Liechtenstein ski racer
- November 17th : Thomas Allofs , German soccer player
- November 18 : Cindy Blackman , American jazz drummer
- November 18 : Karla Faye Tucker , former drug addict, executed as a murderer († 1998 )
- November 18 : Ulrich Noethen , German actor
- November 19 : Christian Buse , German actor
- November 19th : Jack Leconte , French racing driver and racing team owner
- November 20 : Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst , Bishop of Limburg
- November 20 : Sean Young , American actress
- November 20 : Orlando Figes , British historian
- November 21 : Orlando Maldonado , Puerto Rican boxing champion
- November 22 : Siad Abu Ain , Palestinian politician († 2014 )
- November 22nd : Patrice Marie Anderson-Jankowski , American biathlete
- November 22nd : Oleg Kimowitsch Wassiljew , Russian figure skater and coach
- November 23 : Dominique Dunne , American film actress († 1982 )
- November 23 : Maxwell Caulfield , British actor
- November 23 : Udo Degener , German chess problem composer
- November 23 : Eduardo Risso , Argentinian comic artist
- November 24th : Helmut Höflehner , Austrian ski racer
- November 25th : Marti Epstein , American composer
- November 25 : Charles Kennedy , Chairman of the British Liberal Democrats († 2015 )
- November 26th : Uwe Neuhaus , German soccer player and soccer coach
- November 26th : Kai Wingenfelder , singer and songwriter for the rock band Fury In The Slaughterhouse
- November 27th : Charlie Burchill , guitarist for the Scottish rock band Simple Minds
- November 27 : Viktoria Mullova , Russian violinist
- November 28th : Stephen Roche , Irish cyclist
- November 29th : Rahm Emanuel , American politician
- November 29th : Johannes Maria Suykerbuyk , Dutch composer and musician
- November 30th : Sylvia Hanika , German tennis player
December
- December 1 : Urs Rohner , Swiss business lawyer and manager
- December 2nd : Felice Accrocca , Italian Archbishop
- December 2 : Hansjörg Zauner , Austrian writer and visual artist († 2017 )
- December 3 : Paul Manning , American screenwriter and film producer († 2005 )
- December 4th : Christa Luding-Rothenburger , German speed skater
- December 4th : Nico Hofmann , German director, film producer and screenwriter
- December 4th : Thomas Putensen , German actor, pianist, composer and singer
- December 5th : Dieter Falk , German music producer, keyboard player, arranger and composer
- December 5 : Julio Galán , Mexican painter († 2006 )
- December 5th : Michael Hasel , German flautist and conductor
- December 6 : Satoru Iwata , Japanese manager († 2015 )
- December 6th : Nicolaus Adi Seputra , Indonesian Archbishop
- December 10 : Mark Anthony Aguirre , American basketball player
- December 10th : Michaela Gansterer , Austrian politician
- December 10 : Ruud van Megen , Dutch playwright, screenwriter and librettist
- December 13th : Jophi Ries , German actor and director
- December 13 : Johnny Whitaker , American actor
- December 14th : Andreas Mand , German writer
- December 14 : Lars-Erik Jonsson , Swedish opera tenor († 2006 )
- December 14th : Paul Frielinghaus , German actor
- December 15 : Ariel Auslender , German sculptor and painter
- December 15 : Hugh Russell , Northern Irish boxer
- December 16 : Mutsumi Aoki , Japanese artist
- December 16 : Yuri Shevtsov , Belarusian handball player and coach
- December 16 : Ingo Wellenreuther , German politician
- December 17 : Phillip Aspinall , Archbishop of Australia
- December 19 : Dirk Schnell , German handball player
- December 20 : Ramazan Avcı , Turkish terrorist victim († 1985 )
- December 20 : Hildegard Körner , German athlete
- December 20 : Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz , Polish politician
- December 21 : Florence Griffith-Joyner , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1998 )
- December 21 : Sergio Rubini , Italian actor
- December 21 : Andreas Matti , Swiss actor
- December 22nd : John Patitucci , American jazz bassist
- December 22nd : Bernd Schuster , German soccer player and coach
- December 22nd : Bryan Willman , American racing car driver
- December 24th : Irene Fischer , German actress
- December 24th : Michaela Noll , German politician
- December 25 : Michael Philip Anderson , American astronaut († 2003 )
- December 26th : Hans Nielsen , Danish track athlete
- December 26th : Wolfgang Rolff , German soccer player and assistant coach
- December 28th : Hansjörg Kunze , German athlete
- December 29 : Patricia Clarkson , American actress
- December 31 : Liveris Andritsos , Greek basketball player and coach
- December 31 : Konstanze Breitebner , Austrian actress
- December 31 : Val Kilmer , American actor
- December 31st : Paul Westerberg , American singer, guitarist and songwriter
Day unknown
- Mona Abaza , Egyptian sociologist
- Çingiz Abdullayev , Azerbaijani writer
- Gebhard Aberer , Austrian ski jumper
- Anant M. Agarwal , Indian-American computer scientist
- Federico Agostini , Italian violinist
- Milena Agus , Italian writer
- Erhard Ahlrichs , German historian and author
- Ingo Ahmels , German musician, visual artist / sound installer, publicist and teacher
- Hans Aichinger , German painter
- Anwar al-Bunni , Syrian lawyer
- Thomas Albus , German voice actor
- Abdullah bin Chalifa Al Thani , Qatari politician
- Ehsan Aman , Afghan singer
- Efraín Amaya , Venezuelan composer and conductor
- Friedel Ammann , Swiss photographer
- Carmine Amoroso , Italian screenwriter and film director
- Douglas Allen Anderson , American literary scholar and bookseller
- Elizabeth S. Anderson , American professor
- Yves André , French mathematician
- Matthias Ank , German church musician
- Heinz Antor , German English specialist
- Thomas Anzenhofer , German actor
- John Maurice Archambault , American metal singer
- Martin Arnold , Austrian filmmaker and artist
- Kaan Arslanoğlu , Turkish psychiatrist, journalist and writer
- Martin Assig , German painter
- Brigitte Aulenbacher , German sociologist
- Turgay Avcı , Turkish Cypriot politician
- Winfried Bönig , German organist
- Arno Bornkamp , Dutch saxophonist and music teacher
- Ted Brandsen , Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer
- Ingo Bredenbach , German organist and church musician
- Alejandro Cardona , Costa Rican composer, filmmaker and guitarist
- Pei-Yu Chang , Sino-Austrian conductor
- Horst Christill , German church musician and composer
- Víctor González , Argentine screenwriter, director and cameraman
- Walter Hilgers , German tuba player and conductor
- Lynn Job , American composer and poet
- Michael Langer , Austrian guitarist, composer and guitar teacher
- Andreas Leupold , German actor
- Dal Martino , German musician
- Joss McWilliam , Australian actor
- Andreas Meisner , German organist and church musician
- Helmut Metzger , German director
- James Moyer , American music educator, percussionist and composer
- Frank-Manuel Peter , German dance scholar
- Tine Plesch , German music journalist and feminist author († 2004 )
- Martin Pohl-Hesse , German clarinetist, saxophonist, music teacher and composer
- Ingo Politz , German musician, composer, producer and drummer
- Johannes Quack , German organist and church musician
- Commander Ramona , Mexican Zapatista rebel († 2006 )
- Joachim Rassow , German biochemist and university professor
- Rainer Reiners , German actor
- John Rennie , American science journalist
- Karl Ritter , Austrian musician and composer
- Bassam Saba , Lebanese musician, composer and conductor
- Lee Santana , American lutenist and composer
- Veit Scherzer , German religious scholar, author, editor and publisher
- Richard Schabl , German freestyle skier
- Tilo Schmitz , German voice actor
- Mycle Schneider , German energy and nuclear policy advisor
- Christine Schornsheim , German harpsichordist and pianist
- Josef Still , German organist
- Martin Strohhäcker , German organist
- Miroslav Tadić , Macedonian guitarist
- Kate Thompson , Irish actress and writer
- Henk van Twillert , Dutch saxophonist, singer-songwriter and music teacher
- Luc Walpot , Belgian journalist
- Axel Wandtke , German actor, radio play speaker and director
- Victoria Watson , British singer and composer
- Geoffrey Wright , Australian film director
- Evan Ziporyn , American composer and clarinetist
Died
January
- January 1 : Albert Huber , Swiss diplomat (* 1897 )
- January 1 : Hans May , Austrian-German-British composer (* 1886 )
- January 2 : Muhammad Zakaria Goneim , Egyptian Egyptologist (* 1905 )
- January 3 : Ernst Balzli , Bernese dialect writer and teacher (* 1902 )
- January 5 : Davis Elkins , American politician (* 1876 )
- January 10 : Michael Grzimek , German animal filmmaker (* 1934 )
- January 10 : Gustav Schröder , German captain (* 1885 )
- January 17th : Joan Amades i Gelats , Catalan ethnologist and folklorist (* 1890 )
- January 18 : Rita Sacchetto , German dancer and actress (* 1880 )
- January 19 : Richard Kirman senior , American politician (* 1877 )
- January 19 : Hans Venatier , German writer (* 1903 )
- January 21 : Cecil B. DeMille , American director and film producer (* 1881 )
- January 22nd : Mike Hawthorn , English racing car driver (* 1929 )
- January 22nd : Elisabeth Moore , American tennis player (* 1876 )
- January 26th : Bruno Gröning , alleged healer (* 1906 )
February
- February 1 : Willie Hoppe , American carom player and 51-time world champion (* 1887 )
- February 2nd : Alexander Rueb , Dutch chess official, President of FIDE (* 1882 )
- February 3 : Ritchie Valens , American rock 'n' roll musician with Mexican roots (* 1941 )
- February 3 : The Big Bopper , American rock 'n' roll musician (born 1930 )
- February 3 : Buddy Holly , American rock 'n' roll musician and composer (* 1936 )
- February 5 : Curt Sachs , music theorist and teacher (* 1881 )
- February 6 : Jules Mazellier , French composer (* 1879 )
- February 7th : Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones , American blues guitarist (* 1926 )
- February 7 : John Semmelink , Canadian ski racer (* 1938 )
- February 7th : Claude Storez , French racing car driver (* 1927 )
- February 8 : William Joseph Donovan , Intelligence Coordinator on President Roosevelt's ( 1883 )
- February 8 : Próspero Bisquertt , Chilean composer (* 1881 )
- February 8 : Josef Friedrich Perkonig , Austrian writer (* 1890 )
- February 9 : Karl Mauss , German officer (* 1898 )
- February 11 : Marshall Teague , American racing car driver (* 1922 )
- February 12 : Johannes Eckert , Frankfurter Original (* 1888 )
- February 12 : George Antheil , American pianist, composer, inventor (* 1900 )
- February 13 : Johannes Degener , German politician (* 1889 )
- February 14 : Hans Louis Ferdinand von Löwenstein zu Löwenstein , German politician and member of the Reichstag (* 1874 )
- February 14 : Karl Gatermann the Elder , German painter, draftsman and graphic artist (* 1883 )
- February 15 : Owen Willans Richardson , English physicist (* 1879 )
- February 16 : Tim Mara , American football official (* 1887 )
- February 17 : Otfrid von Hanstein , German writer (* 1869 )
- February 18 : Hermann Foppa , Austrian politician (* 1882 )
- February 18 : Erich Zeisl , Austrian composer and music teacher (* 1905 )
- February 19 : Fritz Spieß , German naval officer (* 1881 )
- February 20 : Otto Bartning , German architect and architectural theorist (* 1883 )
- February 22nd : Robert Noorduyn , Dutch developer and manufacturer of aircraft (* 1893 )
- February 23 : Pierre Frieden , Luxembourgish Christian socialist politician and writer (* 1892 )
- February 24 : Heinrich Aumund , German entrepreneur and university professor (* 1873 )
- February 25 : Erich Sauer , German theologian (* 1898 )
- February 28 : James Maxwell Anderson , American playwright and librettist (* 1888 )
- February 28 : Beatrix Farrand , American landscape architect (* 1872 )
March
- March 3 : Lou Costello , American actor, producer and comedian (* 1906 )
- March 3 : Maurits Frank , Dutch cellist and music teacher (* 1892 )
- March 4 : Maxie Long , American sprinter and Olympic champion (* 1878 )
- March 7th : Arthur Cecil Pigou , English economist (* 1877 )
- March 7th : Fritz Heinrich , German politician (* 1921 )
- March 13 : Andrés Gaos , Spanish composer, violinist and music teacher (* 1874 )
- March 14th : Max Lingner , German painter and graphic artist (* 1888 )
- March 15 : Lester Young , American tenor saxophonist (* 1909 )
- March 16 : Jops Reeman , Dutch football player (* 1886 )
- March 17th : Galaktion Tabidze , Georgian writer (* 1891 )
- March 21 : Péter Mansfeld , victim of communist justice in Hungary (* 1941 )
- March 21 : Heinrich Leuchtgens , German politician (* 1876 )
- March 23 : Emma Trentini , American singer of Italian origin (* 1878 )
- March 26 : Franz Blücher , German politician and Federal Minister (* 1896 )
- March 26 : Raymond Chandler , American writer (* 1888 )
- March 29 : Johnny Allen , American baseball player (born 1904 or 1905)
- March 29 : Barthélemy Boganda , politician of the Central African Republic (* 1910 )
- March 30th : Daniil Leonidowitsch Andrejew , Russian writer and poet (* 1906 )
- March 31 : Johann Heinrich Suhrkamp , German publisher (* 1891 )
April
- April 1 : Fritz Ahrberg , German entrepreneur (* 1866 )
- April 1 : Rudolf Kassner , Austrian writer, essayist, translator, cultural philosopher (* 1873 )
- April 2 : Benjamin Christensen , Danish director (* 1879 )
- April 2 : Mykolay Charnetskyi , Seliger, Ukrainian bishop (* 1884 )
- April 6 : Anton Diel , German politician (* 1898 )
- April 8 : Jonathan Zenneck , German physicist, radio pioneer and inventor (* 1871 )
- April 8 : Hugo Eberhardt , German architect (* 1874 )
- April 9 : George Amick , American racing car driver (* 1924 )
- April 9 : Charles Borel-Clerc , French composer (* 1879 )
- April 9 : Henri-Pierre Roché , French writer and art collector (* 1879 )
- April 9 : Frank Lloyd Wright , American architect (* 1867 )
- April 9 : Steen Secher , Danish sailor (* 1959)
- April 10 : Harald Schering , German physicist, inventor of the Schering Bridge (* 1880 )
- April 13 : Eduard van Beinum , Dutch conductor (* 1900 )
- April 13 : Friedrich Nowack , German politician (* 1890 )
- April 17 : Kawaji Ryūkō , Japanese poet (* 1888 )
- April 19 : Gustav Kramer , German zoologist and ornithologist (* 1910 )
- April 20 : Edward Johnson , Canadian singer and opera director (* 1878 )
- April 21 : Arthur Stanley Angwin , British radio pioneer (* 1883 )
- April 22nd : Roger Bourcier , French racing car driver (* 1898 )
- April 23 : Egon Reinert , German politician (* 1908 )
- April 24th : Broadus Farmer , Canadian violinist and music teacher (* 1890 )
- April 27 : Alfred Adolph , German politician (* 1895 )
- April 27 : William Fielding Ogburn , American sociologist (* 1886 )
- April 28 : Franz Paul Koch , German cameraman (* 1898 )
- April 29 : Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson , British general and governor (* 1891 )
- April 30th : Armand Marsick , Belgian violin virtuoso and composer (* 1877 )
May
- May 4th : Alfred Agache , French architect and urban planner (* 1875 )
- May 4th : Georges Grente , Bishop of Le Mans and Cardinal (* 1872 )
- May 5 : Carlos Saavedra Lamas , Argentine politician (* 1878 )
- May 7th : Crisanto Luque Sánchez , Archbishop of Bogotá and Cardinal (* 1889 )
- May 10 : Taco Hajo van den Honert , Dutch botanist (* 1899 )
- May 14 : Sidney Bechet , Creole soprano saxophonist and clarinetist (* 1897 )
- May 15 : Max d'Ollone , French composer (* 1875 )
- May 16 : Friedrich Grimm , German international lawyer and criminal defense attorney (* 1888 )
- May 18 : Enrique Guaita , Argentinian-Italian football player (* 1910 )
- May 19 : Friedrich Funder , editor of the Vienna daily Reichspost (* 1872 )
- May 20 : Alfred Schütz , Austrian sociologist (* 1899 )
- May 21 : Ilse Abel , German actress (* 1909 )
- May 22nd : Oktavia Auguste Aigner-Rollett , Austrian medic (* 1877 )
- May 22nd : Carl Albert Loosli , Swiss writer and journalist (* 1877 )
- May 24 : John Foster Dulles , American politician, Secretary of State (* 1888 )
- May 24th : Ville Kyrönen , Finnish long-distance and cross-country runner (* 1891 )
- May 25 : Johann Baptist Umberg , Swiss Jesuit and university professor (* 1875 )
- May 26 : Jess Willard , American country musician (born 1916 )
- May 27 : Hermann Lüdemann , German politician (* 1880 )
- May 28 : Ludlow Griscom , American ornithologist and botanist (* 1890 )
- May 31 : Ede Zathureczky , Hungarian violinist and music teacher (* 1903 )
June
- June 1st : Sax Rohmer , English crime author and esoteric (* 1883 )
- June 4 : Hijikata Yoshi , Japanese theater director (* 1898 )
- June 4th : Charles Vidor , American director (* 1900 )
- June 8th : Eduard Castle , Austrian literary historian (* 1875 )
- June 9 : Adolf Windaus , German chemist (* 1876 )
- June 10 : Henry P. Fletcher , American diplomat and politician (* 1873 )
- June 11th : Grantly Dick-Read , English doctor (* 1890 )
- June 14 : Joe Stöckel , Bavarian comedian, author and film producer (* 1894 )
- June 16 : Konrad Knudsen , Norwegian journalist and politician (* 1890 )
- June 18 : Ethel Barrymore , American actress (* 1879 )
- June 18 : Vincenzo Cardarelli , Italian journalist, writer and poet (* 1887 )
- June 20 : Ashida Hitoshi , Japanese politician and Prime Minister (* 1887 )
- June 21 : Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl , Norwegian pianist and composer (* 1885 )
- June 22nd : Hermann Brill , German politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism (* 1895 )
- June 23 : Boris Vian , French writer, engineer, actor and translator (* 1920 )
- June 23 : Jean Gallon , French composer and composition teacher (* 1878 )
- June 25 : Charles Starkweather , American serial killer (born 1938 )
- June 28 : Hermann Leopoldi , Austrian composer, cabaret artist and piano humorist (* 1888 )
- June 30th : Gyula Grosz , German doctor (* 1878 )
- June 30 : Lazare Saminsky , Russian-Jewish composer (* 1882 )
July
- July 1 : Władysław Raczkowski , Polish conductor, choirmaster, organist and pianist (* 1893 )
- July 1 : Nicolás Urcelay , Mexican singer (* 1919 )
- July 3 : Johan Bojer , Norwegian writer (* 1872 )
- July 3 : Karl Reiche , German writer (* 1902 )
- July 4th : Hans Weymar , German football player (* 1884 )
- July 6 : George Grosz , German painter and graphic artist (* 1893 )
- July 9 : Karl Diedrichsen , German politician (* 1895 )
- July 10 : Eugen Schmitz , German musicologist and critic (* 1882 )
- July 12 : Walther Lietzmann , German mathematician, pedagogue and maths didactic (* 1880 )
- July 14 : Karlheinz Arens , German writer and dramaturge (* 1900 )
- July 14th : Adrian Wettach , music clown (* 1880 )
- July 15 : Agostino Gemelli , Italian priest and medic (* 1878 )
- July 15 : Ernest Bloch , American composer (* 1880 )
- July 17th : Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa , Spanish painter (* 1871 )
- July 17 : Billie Holiday , American jazz singer (born 1915 )
- July 19 : Licco Amar , Hungarian violinist (* 1891 )
- July 20 : Karl Anshelm Ansén , Swedish football player (* 1887 )
- July 20 : Bernhard Raestrup , German politician (* 1880 )
- July 22nd : Douglas McKay , American politician (* 1893 )
- July 23 : Franz Miltner , Austrian ancient historian and archaeologist (* 1901 )
- July 24th : Hans Behrendt , German Lieutenant General (* 1892 )
- July 24th : Alfred Dehlinger , Württemberg politician (* 1874 )
- July 25th : Wolf Hirth , German glider pioneer (* 1900 )
- July 27 : Aleksandar Zankow , Bulgarian politician (* 1879 )
- July 28 : Clemens Hasse , German actor (* 1908 )
- July 29 : Heinrich von Gleichen-Rußwurm , young conservative publicist (* 1882 )
- July 31 : Oskar Vogt , German brain researcher (* 1870 )
- July 31 : Germaine Richier , French sculptor and graphic artist (* 1902 )
August
- August 1 : Jean Behra , French motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1921 )
- August 1 : Ivor Bueb , British racing driver (* 1923 )
- August 2 : Paul Forell , German football player (* 1892 )
- August 6 : Preston Sturges , American screenwriter and director (* 1935 )
- August 6 : Salman Schocken , German-Israeli publisher (* 1877 )
- August 9 : Emil František Burian , Czech composer (* 1904 )
- August 10 : Heinrich Pössenbacher , German furniture manufacturer (* 1877 )
- August 12 : Max Nonne , German neurologist (* 1861 )
- August 14 : Felix Swinstead , English pianist, composer and music teacher (* 1880 )
- August 15 : François Lecot , French racing car driver (* 1878 )
- August 16 : Wanda Landowska , Polish harpsichordist and pianist (* 1879 )
- August 17th : Pedro Humberto Allende Sarón , Chilean composer (* 1885 )
- August 18 : Karl Erich Andrée , German geologist and paleontologist (* 1880 )
- August 19 : Blind Willie McTell , American blues musician (* 1901 )
- August 20 : Johan Ankerstjerne , Danish cameraman (* 1886 )
- August 20 : Alfred Kubin , Austrian graphic artist, book illustrator and painter (* 1877 )
- August 20 : William F. Halsey , American admiral (* 1882 )
- August 22nd : Josef Ackermann , German journalist (* 1896 )
- August 23 : Magda Bäumken , German actress (* 1890 )
- August 27 : Joseph John Annabring , Hungarian bishop (* 1900 )
- August 28 : Raphael Lemkin , Polish lawyer and peace researcher (* 1900 )
- August 28 : Bohuslav Martinů , Czech composer (* 1890 )
- August 28 : George W. Meyer , American songwriter (* 1884 )
- August 30th : Ed Elisian , American racing car driver (* 1926 )
- August 31 : Hugo Rudolph Kruyt , Dutch chemist (* 1882 )
- August 31 : Josef Oesterle , German politician (* 1899 )
September
- September 7 : Tom Hupke , American football player (* 1910 )
- September 7th : Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia , Italian industrial designer and graphic artist (* 1879 )
- September 10 : Ramón Fonst , Cuban fencer (* 1883 )
- September 12 : Hans Bernoulli , Swiss architect and professor (* 1876 )
- September 12 : William C. Stadie , American medic (* 1886 )
- September 13 : Adrian Adolph Greenberg , American costume designer (* 1903 )
- September 13 : Frank C. Walker , American politician (* 1886 )
- September 13 : Adam David , Swiss African explorer and big game hunter (* 1872 )
- September 14 : Wilhelm Laforet , German politician (* 1877 )
- September 18 : Benjamin Péret , French poet and writer (* 1899 )
- September 18 : Adolf Ziegler , German painter and President of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts (* 1892 )
- September 20 : Vincent Richards , American tennis player (* 1903 )
- September 22nd : Josef Matthias Hauer , Austrian composer (* 1883 )
- September 25 : Paul Artaria , Swiss architect and trainer of designers (* 1892 )
- September 26 : Erna von Abendroth , German nurse (* 1887 )
- September 26 : SWRD Bandaranaike , Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (* 1899 )
- September 27 : Hans Grimm , German writer and nationalist publicist (* 1875 )
- September 28 : Rudolf Caracciola , German automobile racing driver (* 1901 )
- September 28 : Frank Martin Church , American organist, composer and music teacher (* 1874 )
- September 29 : Matthäus Herrmann , German politician (* 1879 )
October
- October 1 : Emil Hegetschweiler , Swiss actor (* 1887 )
- October 1 : Enrico De Nicola , Italian lawyer, journalist and politician (* 1877)
- October 2 : Géza de Kresz , Austro-Hungarian-Canadian violinist, music teacher and composer (* 1882 )
- October 5 : Josip Mandić , Croatian composer (* 1883 )
- October 5 : Paul Silverberg , German industrialist (* 1876 )
- October 6 : Bernard Berenson , American art historian and art dealer (* 1865 )
- October 7 : Mario Lanza , American singer (tenor) (* 1921 )
- October 11 : Johannes Kunze , German politician (* 1892 )
- October 12 : Otto Schlüter , German geographer (* 1872 )
- October 12 : Arnolt Bronnen , German-speaking writer (* 1895 )
- October 12 : Owen Saunders-Davies , British racing car driver (* 1901 )
- October 14 : Errol Flynn , Australian film actor (* 1909 )
- October 14 : Heinz Meyer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag (* 1897 )
- October 14 : Karl Scharrer , Austrian agricultural chemist (* 1892 )
- October 15 : Leopold Fejér , Hungarian mathematician (* 1880 )
- October 15 : Felix Ortt , Dutch author, philosopher and anarchist (* 1866 )
- October 15 : Henk Robijns , Dutch carom player and world champion (* 1883 )
- October 16 : George C. Marshall , American general and statesman (* 1880 )
- October 17th : Otto Feick , inventor of the gym wheel (* 1890 )
- October 18 : Boughera El-Ouafi , Algerian athlete (* 1898 )
- October 18 : Helmuth Gmelin , German actor and theater director (* 1891 )
- October 20 : Werner Krauss , German actor (* 1884 )
- October 21 : Alois Ederer , German problem composer (* 1893 )
- October 21 : Wilhelm von Kaufmann , German doctor and film producer (* 1888 )
- October 22 : Ruth Beutler , German zoologist (* 1897 )
- October 25 : Joseph Friedrich Abert , German historian and archivist (* 1879 )
- October 27 : Alfred Büchi , Swiss engineer and national councilor (* 1879 )
- October 28 : Walther Bauersfeld , German engineer and physicist (* 1879 )
- October 28 : Camilo Cienfuegos , Cuban revolutionary (* 1932 )
- October 30 : Harry Hill McAlister , American politician, Governor of Tennessee (* 1875 )
November
- November 2 : Charles Brackenbury , British racing car driver (* 1907 )
- November 2 : Tino Danieli , Italian entrepreneur and racing car driver (* 1887 )
- November 2 : Federico Tedeschini , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1873 )
- November 3rd : Hubert Franz Maria von Andlau-Homburg , Alsatian nobleman, landowner and politician (* 1868 )
- November 3 : Friedrich Niggli , Swiss composer and music teacher (* 1875 )
- November 3 : Walter Rothkegel , German soil and tax scientist (* 1874 )
- November 4 : Manuel Felipe Rugeles , Venezuelan poet and essayist (* 1903 )
- November 4th : Friedrich Waismann , Austrian philosopher (* 1896 )
- November 6th : Juan Carlos Dávalos , Argentine writer (* 1887 )
- November 6 : José P. Laurel , Philippine politician and president (* 1891 )
- November 7th : Victor McLaglen , British actor (* 1886 )
- November 9 : Ramón Cabanillas , Spanish-Galician writer (* 1876 )
- November 10 : Felix Jacoby , German antiquarian and philologist (* 1876 )
- November 11th : Charles Chauvel , Australian screenwriter, film director and producer (* 1897 )
- November 13 : Johannes Schmidt-Wodder , Danish theologian (* 1869 )
- November 15 : Charles Thomson Rees Wilson , Anglo-Scottish physicist (* 1869 )
- November 17 : Heitor Villa-Lobos , Brazilian composer and conductor (* 1887 )
- November 19 : Kurt C. Volkhart , German engineer, designer and racing car driver (* 1890 )
- November 20 : JR Tremblay , Canadian actor and author (* 1883 )
- November 21 : Max Baer , American heavyweight boxer (* 1909 )
- November 21 : Bertus Freese , Dutch national soccer player (* 1902 )
- November 21 : Molla Mallory , Norwegian tennis player (* 1884 )
- November 22nd : Rudolf Riege , German painter and graphic artist (* 1892 )
- November 24th : Boris Eichenbaum , Russian literary scholar (* 1886 )
- November 25th : Jean Grémillon , French film director (* 1901 )
- November 26th : Gustav Canaval , Austrian journalist (* 1898 )
- November 26 : Albert Ketèlbey , English composer (* 1875 )
- November 27 : Rufus C. Holman , American politician (* 1877 )
- November 27 : Irnfried von Wechmar , German officer and journalist (* 1899 )
- November 29 : Fritz Brun , Swiss composer and conductor (* 1878 )
- November 29th : Hans Henny Jahnn , German writer, organ builder and publisher (* 1894 )
- November 29 : Egon Vietta , German travel writer, essayist, playwright and critic (* 1903 )
- Achille Philip , French organist and composer (* 1878 ) November:
December
- December 1 : Peter Christel Asmussen , German politician (* 1887 )
- December 2 : John August Anderson , American astronomer (* 1876 )
- December 2 : Fritz Bache , German football player (* 1898 )
- December 2 : Josef Hutter , Czech musicologist and teacher (* 1894 )
- December 4th : Hubert Marischka , Austrian director and screenwriter (* 1882 )
- December 6 : Erhard Schmidt , German mathematician (* 1876 )
- December 9 : Kurt Held , pseudonym of the German writer Kurt Kläber (* 1897 )
- December 13 : William Knous , American politician (* 1889 )
- December 13 : Peter Platzer , Austrian football player (* 1910 )
- December 16 : Alfred Ahrens , German politician (* 1899 )
- December 16 : Hans Piekenbrock , Lieutenant General (* 1893 )
- December 18 : Wilhelm Schomburgk , President of the German Tennis Association (* 1882 )
- December 24th : Edmund Goulding , British-American film director (* 1891 )
- December 27 : Dietrich Kralik , Austrian old Germanist (* 1884 )
- December 28 : Ante Pavelić , Croatian politician (* 1889 )
Date unknown
- José Aguilar Álvarez , Mexican medic (* 1902 )
- George Walter Anderson , English football player (* 1891 )
- Leif Halvorsen , Norwegian composer, violinist and conductor (* 1887 )
- Emmerich Schwach , Romanian-German composer, violinist, conductor and choir director (* 1880 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain
- Chemistry : Jaroslav Heyrovský
- Medicine : Severo Ochoa and Arthur Kornberg
- Literature : Salvatore Quasimodo
- Nobel Peace Prize : Philip Noel-Baker
music
- Teddy Scholten wins the 4th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands on March 11th in Cannes with the song Een beetje .
- List of number one hits in Germany (1959)