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Calendar overview 1960
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| 1960 in other calendars | |
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| From urbe condita | 2713 |
| Armenian calendar | 1408-1409 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1952-1953 |
| Badi calendar | 116-117 |
| Bengali calendar | 1366-1367 |
| Berber calendar | 2910 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2504 |
| Burmese calendar | 1322 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7468-7469 |
| Chinese calendar | |
| - era | 4656-4657 or 4596-4597 |
| - 60 year cycle | |
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French revolutionary calendar |
CLXVIII - CLXIX 168-169 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5720-5721 |
| Hindu calendar | |
| - Vikram Sambat | 2016-2017 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1882-1883 |
| Iranian calendar | 1338-1339 |
| Islamic calendar | 1379-1380 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Nengō (era): | Shōwa 35 |
| - Kōki | 2620 |
| Coptic calendar | 1676-1677 |
| Korean calendar | |
| - Dangun era | 4293 |
| - Juche era | 49 |
| Minguo calendar | 49 |
| Modern Olympics | XVII |
| Seleucid calendar | 2271-2272 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2503 |
The year 1960 is also known as Year of Africa , referred to as equal to 18 African colonies to independence from their colonial powers obtained: Cameroon , Togo , Madagascar , the Republic of Congo , Benin , Niger , Burkina Faso , Ivory Coast , Chad , the Central African Republic , Gabon , Senegal , Mali , Nigeria , Mauritania as well as British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland , which united to what is now Somalia .
A new era begins in the USA with the election of John F. Kennedy as President.
Events
Annual dedications
politics
January
- January 1 : Max Petitpierre becomes President of Switzerland for the third time
- January 1 : The Atomic Energy Act on the peaceful use of nuclear energy comes into force in the Federal Republic of Germany
- January 1st : Currency reform in France : 1 franc has the value of 100 old francs
- January 1st : East Cameroon ( Cameroon ) gains independence from France
- January 12th : Party activities in Indonesia are drastically curtailed
- January 20 : Diplomatic relations between Honduras and the Federal Republic of Germany are established
- January 24th - February 1st : Algerian War : So-called “ Barricade Week ” in Algiers . Convinced that De Gaulle had betrayed them and firmly believed in the support of the popular General Massu , who was recalled by De Gaulle from Algiers, right-wing French led by Pierre Lagaillarde and Jean-Jacques Susini begin preparing for an uprising in Algiers. The French army then declared the city to be under siege . There are numerous house searches in France, including those against Jean-Marie Le Pen .
- January 27 - February 1 : Visit of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in South Africa ; he warns against the continuation of the previous policy of racial segregation ; this is rejected as interference in the internal affairs of South Africa
- January 29 : In a televised address, the French President Charles de Gaulle calls on the army to loyalty, whereupon the attempted uprising in Algiers collapses and its leaders found the Organization de l'armée secrète (OAS).
February
- February 1 : In Greensboro, North Carolina , African American students host the world's first sit-in . With the sit-in they are protesting against reserving a restaurant exclusively for whites .
- February 2 : Guinea becomes a member of UNESCO
- February 13 : Algeria “Gerboise bleue” (“blue desert jerboa”) In the Algerian Sahara, France detonated an atomic bomb for the first time see French nuclear weapons tests in Algeria .
March
- March 4 : In the port of Havana , explosions occur on the cargo ship La Coubre , which is delivering Belgian weapons to Cuba , the cause of which cannot be clarified. Between 70 and 100 people die, around 200 injured need treatment.
- March 6 : In the canton of Geneva ( Switzerland ) after a referendum the women the right to vote
- March 17 - April 26 : Meeting of the UN Conference on the Law of the Sea in Geneva with 88 countries
- March 21 : 69 black people are shot dead during a demonstration in the South African township of Sharpeville ( Sharpeville massacre )
- March 30th : The government of South Africa initially bans the African National Congress and the Pan-African Movement for one year
April
- April 1 : The UN Security Council calls on South Africa to end racial segregation.
- April 2nd : Signing of the Treaty of Independence of Madagascar (Republic of Malagasy). In effect June 26th
- April 8 : Signing of the German - Dutch Compensation Treaty on the definitive border line after the Second World War ; the areas of Elten and Selfkant placed under Dutch administration by the Allies in 1949 revert to Germany.
- April 21 : Brasília is completed, replacing Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil .
- April 23 : Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and French Prime Minister Michel Debré open the only German-French garden show in Saarbrücken to date . As a result, the site develops as a Franco-German garden into a well-frequented local recreation area.
- April 27 : South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns after allegations of election fraud under pressure from the USA .
- April 27th : Togo becomes independent from France.
May
- May 1 : shooting down of a US - reconnaissance aircraft of the type U-2 over Sverdlovsk by Soviet forces. Announced May 5th . The US pilot Francis Gary Powers survived; He is against the spy on February 10, 1962 Rudolf Abel replaced
- May 1 : With the Bombay Reorganization Act , the Indian state of Bombay is divided into the two successor states Maharashtra and Gujarat .
- May 3 : The EFTA Agreement enters into force
- May 5 : Ahmadou Ahidjo becomes the first President of the Republic of Cameroon
- May 7 : The Supreme Soviet elects Leonid Brezhnev as the new chairman of its presidium after Kliment Voroshilov resigned
- May 11 : The Israeli secret service Mossad seizes Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
- May 27 : The Turkish military , led by General Cemal Gürsel, launches a coup against the government of Adnan Menderes , who is executed. A new constitution, which is more liberal than the previous one, will be passed, but will not guarantee extended rights for Kurds . Kurdish separatism ( Turkish : "Kürtcülük") is declared a state crime
- May: An attempted coup from Argentina against the regime of General Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay fails after a short time
June
- June 5 : In a referendum in Cambodia, more than 99% (1.3 million) vote for Prince Norodom Sihanouk ; he pursues a neutralist policy
- June 15 : In the Japanese capital Tokyo, at the height of the student protests against the new edition of the alliance with the USA, a student is killed in clashes with the police, and over 500 are injured. The treaty is automatically ratified four days later.
- June 18 : Independence of the Republic of Senegal
- June 23 : The Security Council of the UN calls on Israel to promote proper reparations to Argentina to make after the Eichmann abduction had violated its sovereignty. The resolution makes it clear that it cannot be seen as an excuse for Eichmann's crimes
- June 26th : Madagascar becomes independent from France
- June 26 : Independence from Somaliland (formerly British Somaliland)
- June 30th : The Republic of the Congo gains independence from Belgium
July
- July 1 : Independence from Italian Somaliland (southern Somalia)
- July 1 : Unification of Somaliland and Italian Somaliland into Somalia
- July 11th : Moïse Tschombé , the president of the province, proclaims the autonomous state of Katanga in the Congo , which has just been granted independence . This secession is not recognized under international law .
- July 14 : The Convention of the Democratic Party of the United States elect Senator John F. Kennedy 's presidential candidates to take place in November elections; as a candidate for the vice president is Lyndon B. Johnson established
- July 15 : Hồ Chí Minh is re-elected as President of North Vietnam
- July 20 : In Ceylon , the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) under Sirimavo Bandaranaike wins the parliamentary elections; For the first time in the world, a woman will be elected head of government of a country.
- July 28 : The Congress of the Republicans elect Richard Nixon as a candidate for the US presidential election as a candidate for Vice-President UN ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge erected.
August
- August 1st : Due to disputes over Dutch New Guinea , Dutch ships are no longer allowed to call at ports in Indonesia .
- August 1 : Dahomey (from 1975 Benin ) becomes independent from France.
- August 3 : The Republic of Niger becomes independent from France.
- August 5th : Upper Volta (from 1984 Burkina Faso ) becomes independent from France.
- August 7th : Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) becomes independent from France.
- August 9 : The first law on the protection of young people at work in the Federal Republic of Germany is published. Among other things, young people under the age of 16 may be employed for a maximum of 40 hours per week, piecework and assembly line work are prohibited for young people under the age of 18.
- August 11 : The Republic of Chad becomes independent from France.
- August 13 : The Central African Republic gains independence from France.
- August 15 : The Republic of the Congo gains independence from France.
- August 16 : Cyprus gains independence from Great Britain.
- August 17th : The Republic of Gabon gains independence from France.
- August 20 : Senegal becomes independent from France as a republic.
- August 30 : The government of the GDR prohibits citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany from entering the country for a period of five days; stricter controls are taking place at the inner-German borders .
September
- September 5 : State crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo : President Joseph Kasavubu and Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba declare each other deposed.
- September 5 : In Senegal , Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of the previously independent state.
- September 8 : Coup in Laos , Suvanna Phūmā becomes the country's new leader
- September 9 : Citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany are no longer allowed to enter East Berlin without a special residence permit . In return, residents of the GDR no longer receive a visa for travel outside the Eastern Bloc countries
- September 14th : Foundation of OPEC in Baghdad . The founding members are Iran , Iraq , Kuwait , Saudi Arabia and Venezuela
- September 14 : Portugal joins the OEEC (precursor to the OECD )
- September 20 : The Central African Republic, Cyprus, Somalia, Niger, Madagascar, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, Gabon, Upper Volta, Côte d'Ivoire, Zaire and Dahomey join the United Nations
- September 22 : Mali becomes an independent republic (previously federation with Senegal)
- September 28 : The republics of Senegal and Mali join the United Nations
October
- October 1 : Nigeria becomes independent from Great Britain
- October 1 : The Malian Armed Forces are established.
- October 5 : 1960 referendum in the Union of South Africa to form a republic
- October 7 : Nigeria becomes a member of the United Nations
- October 11 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Colombia . In force since November 18, 1965
- October 13 : In front of the UN General Assembly, USSR boss Nikita Khrushchev drums his shoe on the lectern several times to bring about silence in the plenary chamber
- October 18 : Dahomey ( Benin ) becomes a member of UNESCO
- October 27 : Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) becomes a member of UNESCO
- October 28 : In Bonn , Alfred Frenzel (SPD) , a member of the Bundestag, is suspected of espionage for Czechoslovakia and arrested.
November
- November 7th : Mali becomes a member of UNESCO
- November 8 : In the US presidential election , Democrat John F. Kennedy wins a narrow decision over Republican Vice President Richard Nixon . He takes up his new office in January 1961.
- November 10 : Madagascar, Niger and Senegal become members of UNESCO
- November 11th : Cameroon and the Central African Republic become members of UNESCO
- November 14th : Upper Volta and Nigeria become members of UNESCO
- November 15 : Somalia becomes a member of UNESCO
- November 16 : Gabon becomes a member of UNESCO
- November 17th : Togo becomes a member of UNESCO
- November 18 : Kuwait becomes a member of UNESCO
- November 25th : Congo and Zaire become members of UNESCO
- November 28th : Mauritania becomes independent from France
December
- December 13 : Foundation of the European Air Traffic Control Organization ( Eurocontrol )
- December 14 : Foundation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Aid OECD (previously OEEC ) in Paris
- December 15 : The Belgian King Baudouin marries the Spanish noblewoman Fabiola Mora y Aragón .
- December 19 : Chad becomes a member of UNESCO
- December 31 : Max Brauer ( SPD ) occurs as First Mayor of Hamburg back
economy
- March 17 : The German Bundestag decides to privatize the state-owned Wolfsburg-based Volkswagen GmbH . The company is converted into a public limited company. 60 percent of the shares are offered for sale to private individuals as people's shares .
- April 2 : In Sihanoukville , the port built with French help is opened for ocean-going shipping . Cambodia is therefore less dependent on South Vietnam for foreign trade .
- April 14 : In the GDR , the collectivization of agriculture is declared complete.
- May 1st : Inauguration of the GDR overseas port Rostock
- July 8th : One of the highest motorable road passes on earth, the Abra el Acay , is completed after three years of construction in Argentina . It is part of the Ruta Nacional 40 and requires all-terrain vehicles on the unpaved route.
- September 23 : The newly built Europe Bridge over the Rhine near Kehl on the border with France is inaugurated. It replaces the temporary bridge that was released for road traffic in 1951.
- November 11th : In Schwedt / Oder , the foundation stone is laid for the Schwedt refinery , which became the parent company of the VEB Petrolchemical Combine in 1970 .
- December 31 : In Great Britain, the coin farthing, minted from the 13th century to 1956, loses its legal tender status .
science and technology
- January 9th : Gamal Abdel Nasser starts work on the Aswan Dam .
- January 21 : The rhesus monkey Miss Sam flies into space with a Mercury capsule .
- January 25 : Jacques Piccard reaches the record depth of 10,916 meters with his bathyscaphe .
- February 5 : In Geneva, the CERN - Proton Synchrotron , a particle accelerator , is ceremoniously opened in the presence of prominent nuclear physicists .
- April 1 : The first satellite in the TIROS series is launched in the United States . Tiros 1 helps to determine and predict the general weather situation and transmits images of the cloud cover to the earth.
- April 13 : From Cape Canaveral from being Satellite Transit 1B started, the part of the first global satellite navigation system is. It was initially used for military purposes.
- April 27 : The nuclear submarine USS Tullibee (SSN-597) is launched. It is specially designed for submarine hunting missions and is equipped with a quieter turbo-electric drive.
- May 15 : Sputnik 4 is launched as a prototype for the Vostok spacecraft .
- May 16 : Theodore Maiman uses the ruby laser to generate laser light for the first time
- June : Construction work on the Main-Danube Canal begins near Bamberg . The entire line will be opened in 1992 after 32 years of construction.
- August 18 : The birth control pill comes onto the American market and quickly enjoys great popularity among American women.
- August 20 : As part of the Soviet Sputnik 5 mission, the dogs "Belka" and "Strelka", which had been shot into space the day before, were the first living beings to return safely to earth in their landing capsule.
- September 29 : The first Austrian nuclear research reactor goes into operation in Seibersdorf near Vienna with an output of 5,000 kilowatts.
- October 7th : The University of Nigeria opens in Nsukka as part of the country's independence celebrations .
- November 13 : The first German nuclear power plant , the Kahl experimental nuclear power plant , goes into operation with an output of 15 megawatts.
- The International System of Units (SI) is so named at the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures .
- Delivery of the first Silver Arrow to the Cologne-Bonn Railways .
Culture
Single The Twist
- May 20 : The film La Dolce Vita ( The Sweet Life ) by Italian director Federico Fellini receives at the International Film Festival in Cannes , the Palme d'Or . Actress Anita Ekberg becomes popular with the film scene in the Roman Trevi Fountain .
- May 22nd : World premiere of the children's opera Der Mann im Mond by Cesar Bresgen at the Schauspielhaus Nürnberg
- June 16 : In the American cinema the film Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock first shown; an advertising campaign is causing queues at the box office.
- July 11th : Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird (German title Who disturbs the nightingale ) appears in the USA , which becomes a bestseller in a few weeks .
- August 9 : Michael Ende publishes the children's book Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
- August 15 : World premiere of the opera Le Mystère de la Nativité by Frank Martin at the Salzburg Festival
- August 17th : First appearance of the later famous Liverpool band under the name “ The Beatles ” in the Indra music club on the Große Freiheit in Hamburg's red-light district St. Pauli
- September 19 : Chubby Checker's song interpretation The Twist topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a week for the first time in the USA . The dance of the same name becomes popular all over the world in parallel with the music.
- September 22nd : World premiere of the opera Rosamunde Floris by Boris Blacher in the Städtisches Opernhaus Berlin
- September 30th : The US broadcaster ABC broadcasts the first episode of The Flintstones ( Flintstones family ).
- December 3rd : World premiere of the musical Camelot by Frederick Loewe (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (libretto) at the Majestic Theater in New York City
- December 21 : Ornette Coleman and a double quartet record the album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation , after which a branch of jazz is named.
- First award of the Käthe Kollwitz Prize
- Foundation of the Association internationale du film d'animation
society
- January 14 : The criminal trial against Pierre Jaccoud begins in Geneva before a jury . With the later conviction of the accused, the Jaccoud affair developed into a judicial scandal.
- May 2 : Caryl Chessman , sentenced to death, is executed in the US state prison in San Quentin . The execution of the judgment that had been planned in 1952 had been postponed eight times. The case sparked a worldwide discussion on the death penalty because doubts about the perpetrator remained .
- June 17 : The Nez Percé Indian people are awarded compensation of over 4.15 million US dollars by the USA following a lawsuit in the court ruling . The reason for this is the forced cession of land to the US government in 1863 at too low a price.
- November 2 : The publishing house Penguin Books is in the UK acquitted of the charge, with DH Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity to have published.
Sports
For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .
- January 6th : Max Bolkart becomes the first West German ski jumper to win the International Four Hills Tournament
- 18th bis 28. February : VIII. Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley , USA
- May 7th : Michail Tal becomes the eighth world chess champion with the victory over Michail Botvinnik .
- May 13th First ascent of Dhaulagiri , the seventh highest mountain on earth
- May 18th : Eintracht Frankfurt loses the game for the European Cup against Real Madrid in Glasgow 7-3. The game is to this day the one with the highest final score. Eintracht Frankfurt was the first German soccer team to reach the final.
- June 9 : First ascent of Distaghil Sar ( 7885 m ) in the Karakoram by an Austrian expedition
- June 21 : Armin Hary runs a new world record with 10.0 seconds in the 100 meter run at the athletics meeting in Zurich's Letzigrund .
- August 25th to September 11th : XVII. Summer Olympic Games in Rome
- European Football Championship in France : The Soviet Union wins the final against Yugoslavia (2: 1 a.s.)
- October 2 : The opening game is played in São Paulo in the newly built Morumbi Stadium .
- November 15 : New York , USA : Basketball player Elgin Baylor scores a new NBA record with 71 points against the New York Knicks
- November 24 : Boston , Massachusetts : Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scores 55 rebounds in one game
- Jack Brabham becomes Formula 1 world champion for the second time .
Disasters
- February 22nd : In an explosion in the Zwickau hard coal mine "Karl Marx" 123 miners were killed in the worst mine accident in the GDR .
- February 29 : Earthquake measuring 5.7 in Agadir , Morocco , killing 10,000 to 15,000; see the 1960 Agadir earthquake
- March 25 : The L'Oros dam near Fortaleza in the state of Ceará , northeast Brazil, breaks before its completion and causes a tidal wave that kills around 1,000
- May 22 : earthquake measuring 9.5 in Chile , killing 4,000 to 5,000
- June 28 : 45 miners are killed in a mine explosion near the Welsh town of Abertillery .
- December 16 : Airplane collision from New York City . A Douglas DC-8 , on the flight from Chicago to Idlewild, and a Lockheed Super Constellation of the TWA , on the flight from Dayton , on the approach to LaGuardia Airport , collide in the fog over New York City. 134 people die, one child is saved.
- December 17 : 52 people were killed when a passenger plane that took off in Munich-Riem crashed into a tram due to an engine failure .
- Great Chinese famine
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Born
January
- January 1 : Frank Minnifield , American football player
- January 1st : Kevin Weeda , American racing car driver
- January 1st : Axel Wintermeyer , German lawyer and politician
- January 2nd : Naoki Urasawa , Japanese mangaka
- January 3rd : Jacqueline Amirfallah , German TV cook
- January 3 : Bruno Bonhuil , French motorcycle racer († 2005 )
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January 3 : Marla Glen , American singer
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January 4 : Michael Stipe , American singer and musician (REM)
Michael Stipe , 2008 - January 5 : Chris John , American politician
- January 5th : Hans Stanggassinger , German luge rider
- January 5th : Bettina Tietjen , German TV presenter
- January 7th : Steve Webster , British motorcycle racer
- January 8 : Dave Weckl , American drummer
- January 10 : Claudia Losch , German athlete and Olympic champion
- January 10th : Ise Thomas , German politician
- January 11th : Ralf D Körper , German electronics musician
- January 11th : Stefan Gasser , German judge at the German Federal Social Court
- January 11 : Mike Turner , American politician
- January 12th : Guido Bontempi , Italian cyclist
- January 13 : Kevin Anderson , American actor
- January 13th : Monika Steinmetz , German soccer player
- January 13th : Philipp Weinges , German screenwriter and director
- January 14th : Andrea Fischer , German politician
- January 14th : Edward St Aubyn , British writer
- January 14th : Oleksandr Batjuk , Soviet cross-country skier
- January 15 : Kelly Asbury , American director and screenwriter († 2020 )
- January 15 : Ralph Herforth , German actor
- January 16 : Thaddaeus Ropac , Austrian gallery owner
- January 16 : Dirk Rühmann , German crime novel writer
- January 17th : Andreas Jung , German actor
- January 18 : Mark Rylance , American-English actor
- January 20 : Falk Boden , German racing cyclist
- January 20 : Ján Figeľ , Slovak politician and European Commissioner
- January 20th : Jeff "Tain" Watts , American jazz drummer
- January 20 : Will Wright , American computer game developer
- January 22nd : Michael Hutchence , Australian singer of the rock band INXS († 1997 )
- January 22nd : Márkos Kyprianoú , Cypriot politician and European Commissioner
- January 24th : Fridolin Ambongo Besungu , Congolese clergyman, Archbishop of Kinshasa
- January 26th : María Rivas , Venezuelan singer and composer († 2019 )
- January 27th : Reinhold Lopatka , Austrian politician
- January 27 : Hartmut Schubert , German politician
- January 28 : Robert von Dassanowsky , American cultural and film historian
- January 28 : Elie Bechara Haddad , Lebanese Archbishop
- January 29th : Gia Carangi , American model († 1986 )
- January 29 : Greg Louganis , American skydiver and Olympic champion
- January 30th : Jürgen Aust , German football referee
- January 31 : Yuri Ilyich Burlakov , Soviet, Swiss cross-country skier
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February
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- February 1st : Andreas Asche , German football goalkeeper
- February 1 : Fabrizio Pirovano , Italian motorcycle racer († 2016 )
- February 3rd : Joachim Löw , German soccer coach
- February 4th : Maren Gilzer , German actress and photo model
- February 6th : Erich Amplatz , Austrian table tennis player
- February 6th : Markus Antonietti , German chemist
- February 7th : Klaus J. Behrendt , German television actor
- February 7th : Gabriel Calderón , Argentinian football player and coach
- February 7 : James Spader , American actor
- February 8 : Benigno Aquino , Filipino politician
Alfred Gusenbauer , 2008
- February 8 : Alfred Gusenbauer , Austrian Federal Chancellor
- February 8 : Sedat Karaoğlu , Turkish football player († 2014 )
- February 9 : Holly Johnson , British singer
- February 9 : Ivar Olsen , Norwegian Nordic combined skier
- February 10 : Robert Addie , British actor († 2003 )
- February 10 : Rawilja Agletdinova , Soviet middle-distance runner († 1999 )
- February 10 : Beth Paxson , American cross-country skier
- February 11 : Joachim Raaf , German actor
- February 13th : Pierluigi Collina , Italian football referee
- February 13 : Artur Jussupow , German chess player of Russian origin
- February 13 : Peter Baartmans , Dutch pianist and composer
- February 14th : Jocelyn Pook , English composer and violinist
- February 14 : Meg Tilly , American actress, dancer and author
- February 15 : Enrique Urquijo , Spanish singer and composer († 1999 )
- February 16 : Olga Antonova , Russian athlete
- February 16 : Andreas Homoki , German director and theater director
- February 16 : Rike Koekkoek , German soccer player
- February 16 : Reiner Maurer , German soccer player and coach
- February 17th : Grzegorz Dolniak , Polish politician († 2010 )
- February 17th : Bernard Santal , Swiss racing driver
- February 18 : Dirk Brossé , Belgian composer and conductor
- February 18 : Gazebo , Italian musician
- February 18 : Greta Scacchi , Italian film actress
- February 18 : Niggi Schmassmann , Swiss motorcycle racer
- February 19 : Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Duke of York , third child of Queen Elizabeth II.
- February 19 : John Paul Jr. , American racing car driver and drug dealer
- February 19 : Eberhard Zorn , 16th General Inspector of the Bundeswehr
- February 20 : Paul Arpin , French long distance runner
- February 20 : Hardy Mertens , Dutch composer and conductor
- February 20 : Cándido Muatetema Rivas , Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea († 2014 )
- February 20 : Philipp Wehr , German politician
- February 21 : Marc Dutreeuw , Belgian chess player
- February 21 : Isaac Julien , British artist and film producer
- February 22nd : Tillmann Loch , German urologist and handball player
- February 23 : Kate Davis , American documentary filmmaker
- February 23 : Lutz Herkenrath , German actor
- February 23 : Naruhito , Emperor of Japan
- February 23 : Gloria von Thurn und Taxis , German entrepreneur
- February 25 : Heiko Fischer , German figure skater († 1989 )
- February 26 : Jaz Coleman , British musician
Hannes Jaenicke , 2009
- February 26th : Hannes Jaenicke , German actor
- February 27 : Par Johan Arvidsson , Swedish swimmer
- February 27 : Simon Critchley , English philosopher
- February 27 : Andrés Gómez , Ecuadorian tennis player
- February 29th : Cheb Khaled , representative of the Algerian folk and popular music Raï
- February 29 : Norbert Lehmann , German journalist and television presenter
March
- March 1st : Armin Reutershahn , German soccer coach
- March 2nd : Lennart Ginman , Danish jazz bassist
- March 2nd : Roald Goethe , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
- March 2nd : Peter F. Hamilton , British science fiction writer
- March 2nd : Frank Rohde , German soccer player
- March 3rd : Chachamaru , Japanese guitarist
- March 3 : Gerald Höfer , German writer
- March 3rd : Andreas Thiel , German handball goalkeeper
- March 5th : Ivo Ferriani , Italian bobsledder and sports official
- March 5th : David Tibet , musician, painter, singer
- March 6 : Werner Arndt , German politician
- March 6 : Alexander Csernyin , Soviet-Hungarian chess grandmaster
- March 6 : Mike Munchak , American football player and coach
- March 7th : Ivan Lendl , Czech tennis player
- March 7th : Siegfried Wentz , German athlete
- March 8 : Bettina Bäumlisberger , German journalist
- March 8 : Finn Carter , American actress
- March 8 : Jeffrey Eugenides , American writer
- March 8 : Birgit Lechtermann , German television presenter
- March 8 : Ilme Schlichting , German biophysicist
- March 10 : Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen , German music producer and composer
- March 10 : Jan Ottosson , Swedish cross-country skier
- March 11 : Magnus Büchel , Liechtenstein judoka
- March 11th : Stefan Römer , German artist, art historian and professor
- March 12th : Reinhard Johler , Austrian ethnologist and social anthropologist
- March 13 : Yuriy Andrukhovych , Ukrainian writer, poet, essayist and translator
- March 13 : Adam Clayton , bassist
- March 13 : John Greyson , Canadian director and screenwriter
- March 13 : Hiroshi Masuoka , Japanese marathon rally driver
- March 13 : Gal Rasché , Russian-Austrian conductor
- March 13th : Quique Sinesi , Argentinian guitarist
- March 14 : Christopher Clark , Australian historian
- March 15th : Ioan Andone , Romanian football player and coach
- March 15th : Sergio Vargas , Dominican merengue singer
- March 16 : Zurab Asmaiparashvili , Georgian chess master
- March 16 : Craig P. First , American composer and music educator
- March 16 : Steve Noble , English jazz drummer
- March 16 : Sabine Orléans , German actress
- March 17th : Wilfried Auerbach , Austrian athlete, politician and business consultant
- March 17th : Thomas Flohr , Swiss entrepreneur and racing car driver
- March 17th : Thomas Kempe , German soccer player
- March 17th : Thomas Strobl , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- March 18 : Richard Biggs , American television and stage actor († 2004 )
- March 18 : Max Tidof , German actor
- March 19 : Lawrence Zoernig , American cellist and composer († 2017 )
- March 20 : Henning Heske , German poet and essayist
- March 20 : Norbert Pohlmann , German computer scientist and professor at the Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences
- March 21 : Dominic Miller , Argentinian guitarist
- March 21 : Ayrton Senna , Brazilian racing car driver and Formula 1 world champion († 1994 )
- March 22nd : Annette Ramelsberger , German journalist
- March 23 : Andreas Ammer , German author, journalist and radio play maker
- March 23 : Espen Beranek Holm , Norwegian rock musician and comedian
- March 23 : Yōko Tawada , Japanese writer
- March 24th : Nena , German pop musician
- March 24th : Klaus Kern , German physical chemist
- March 24th : Ralf Regenbogen , German soccer player
- March 24th : Yasser Seirawan , American chess master
- March 25th : Markus Maria Profitlich , German comedian, actor and voice actor
- March 25th : Peter Seisenbacher , Austrian judoka
- March 26 : Jon Huntsman Jr. , American politician
- March 26 : Ray Kaczynski , American composer and (jazz) drummer
- March 26 : Allan Peiper , Australian cyclist
- March 26th : Axel Prahl , German film actor
- March 26 : Jennifer Gray , American actress
- March 27 : Sabine Arnhold , German actress, dubbing and radio play speaker
- March 27th : Hans Pflügler , German football player
- March 27th : Manon Straché , German actress
- March 28 : Heidi Wiesler , German ski racer
- March 28 : Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt , French writer
- March 29th : Chano Domínguez , Spanish jazz pianist
- March 30 : Heinrich Bedford-Strohm , German Protestant theologian, EKD council chairman
- March 30th : Bill Johnson , American ski racer († 2016 )
- March 30th : Christoph M. Ohrt , German actor
- March 31 : Sándor Balogh , Hungarian-German handball trainer and handball player
- March 31 : Popa Chubby , blues musician
April
- April 1 : Shanna McCullough , American porn actress and producer
- April 1st : Reijo Ruotsalainen , Finnish ice hockey player
- April 1 : Nicola Tiggeler , German actress
- April 2nd : Linford Christie , British athlete
- April 4th : Jonathan Agnew , English cricketer
- April 4th : Murray Chandler , British chess master with New Zealand roots
- April 4th : Jane Eaglen , English opera singer
- April 4 : Hugo Weaving , Australian actor
- April 4th : Susan Long , American cross-country skier
- April 5 : Michael Ankermann , German politician
- April 5 : From Flores , Filipino-Canadian actor
- April 5 : Peter Kurth , German politician
- April 5th : Jorma Paavilainen , Finnish chess composer and player
- April 7th : Norbert Schramm , German figure skater
- April 8 : Olaf Asbach , German political scientist
- April 8th : Birgit Friedmann , German athlete
- April 9 : Jaak Aab , Estonian politician
- April 11 : Jeremy Clarkson , British television presenter
- April 11 : Dirk Kramer , German Nordic combined athlete
- April 11th : Armin Schlechter , German philologist and librarian
- April 12th : Viktor Moskalenko , Ukrainian chess grandmaster
- April 13th : Olaf Ludwig , German cyclist
- April 13 : Rudi Völler , German soccer player
- April 14th : Éric Andrieu , French politician
- April 14th : Norbert Rier , Italian musician
- April 15th : Susanne Bier , Danish director
- April 15th : Pedro Delgado , Spanish cyclist
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- April 15th : Philip , King of Belgium
- April 16 : Rafael Benítez , Spanish football coach
- April 16 : Rochus Hahn , German comic and screenwriter
- April 16 : Sonja Leidemann , German politician
- April 16 : Pierre Littbarski , German soccer player and coach
- April 16 : Daniel Mendelsohn , American journalist and writer
- April 17th : Thomas Blenke , German politician
- April 17 : Jörg Michael Peters , German auxiliary bishop
- April 17th : Didier Burkhalter , Swiss politician
- April 18 : Đurđa Adlešič , Croatian politician
- April 18 : Zvjezdan Cvetković , Yugoslav football player and coach († 2017 )
- April 18 : Neo Rauch , German artist
- April 18 : Matthias Schubert , German jazz musician
- April 18 : Jelena Schupijewa-Vjasowa , Ukrainian long-distance runner
- April 19 : Nicoletta Braschi , Italian actress
- April 19 : Gustavo Petro , Colombian politician
- April 19 : Lise Meloche , Canadian kayaker, cross-country skier and biathlete
- April 20 : Thomas Apolte , German economist
- April 20 : Miguel Díaz-Canel , Cuban politician
- April 20 : Debbie Flintoff-King , Australian athlete and Olympic champion
- April 20 : Marlies Rostock , German cross-country skier
- April 21 : Markus Achatz , Austrian professor, administrative and financial scientist
- April 21 : Jenny Palacios-Stillo , Honduran cross-country skier
- April 21 : Frank Pasemann , German politician
- April 22nd : Michael Gahler , German MEP
- April 22nd : Rolf Sethe , German lawyer
- April 23 : Hajime Mizoguchi , Japanese cellist and composer
- April 23 : José Varela , Spanish-German professional boxer
- April 24th : Friðrik Karlsson , Icelandic musician
- April 25 : Francesco Romano , Italian football player
- April 26 : Sidney Corbett , American composer of new music, electric guitarist and professor of composition
- April 26 : Roger Andrew Taylor , drummer for pop group Duran Duran
- April 26 : Martin Varsavsky , Argentinian entrepreneur
- April 27th : Hanne Hegh , Norwegian handball player
- April 28 : José Rui Lopes Águas , Portuguese football player and coach
- April 28 : Ian Rankin , British writer
- April 28 : Walter Zenga , Italian soccer player
- April 29 : Kuruppu Karunaratne , Sri Lankan athlete († 2008 )
- April 29 : Bernhard Setzwein , German writer
- April 30 : Weert Canzler , German social scientist and mobility researcher
May
- May 1st : Raymond Ahoua , Ivorian bishop
- May 1st : Jorge Muñiz , Mexican actor, singer and presenter
- May 3rd : Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant , Belgian businessman and sports official
- May 3 : Margarita Broich , German actress
- May 3 : Kathy Cook , British athlete and Olympian
- May 3rd : Steffen Schleiermacher , German composer, pianist, conductor
- May 3rd : Alan Thomson , Scottish bass guitarist
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- May 4th : Werner Faymann , Austrian Federal Chancellor
- May 4th : Werner Fritsch , German writer
- May 6th : Lyudmila Andonova , Bulgarian high jumper
- May 6 : Kamran Ince , Turkish-American composer and music teacher
- May 6 : Anne Parillaud , French film actress
- May 6 : John Flansburgh , American musician
- May 7th : Eric Lobron , German chess master
- May 7th : Almudena Grandes , Spanish writer
- May 7 : Hisashi Nozawa , Japanese writer († 2004 )
- May 8 : Kadir Akbulut , Turkish football player
- May 8 : Recep Akdağ , Turkish politician
- May 8 : Franco Baresi , Italian football player
- May 9 : Jon Klein , English guitarist
- May 10 : Harald Meller , German archaeologist
- May 10th : Klaus-Peter Nabein , German medium and long distance runner († 2009 )
- May 10 : Gerry Kley , German politician
- May 10 : Bono , Irish singer and musician (U2)
- May 10 : Merlene Ottey , Slovenian-Jamaican athlete
- May 11 : Jesper Christian Asholt , Danish actor
- May 11th : Jürgen Schult , German athlete
- May 12 : Lisa Martin-Ondieki , Australian long-distance runner and Olympian
- May 13 : Claus Dieter Classen , German legal scholar
- May 13 : Uwe Dreher , German soccer player and coach († 2016 )
- May 13 : Maggie Mae , German pop singer
- May 13 : Elisabeth Niederer , Swiss actress
- May 13 : Eckhard Schmittdiel , German chess grandmaster
- May 13 : Benjamin Völz , German voice actor
Anne Clark , 2008
- May 14 : Anne Clark , singer and songwriter
- May 14 : Simonetta Sommaruga , Swiss politician
- May 14 : Mohamed Zaoui , Algerian amateur boxer
- May 14 : Steve Williams , American wrestler († 2009 )
- May 15 : Rob S. Bowman , American director and film producer
- May 16 : Francesca Archibugi , Italian film director, screenwriter and actress
- May 16 : Tamme Hanken , German healer and horse whisperer († 2016 )
- May 16 : Marcel Alexander Niggli , Swiss legal scholar
- May 16 : Nikollë Nikprelaj , Albanian singer
- May 18 : Brent Kenneth Ashton , Canadian ice hockey player
- May 18 : Page Hamilton , American rock singer and guitarist
- May 18 : Yannick Noah , French tennis player
- May 18 : Jari Kurri , Finnish ice hockey player
- May 19 : Mark Ashton , British activist († 1987 )
- May 19 : Alex Jacobowitz , American xylophone player
- May 19 : Daniel Glattauer , Austrian writer
- May 19 : Yazz , British pop musician
- May 19th : Shujaat Khan , Indian sitar player
- May 20 : John Billingsley , American actor
- May 20th : Tore Brunborg , Norwegian jazz musician
- May 20 : Carlos Coelho , Portuguese politician
- May 21 : Jeffrey Dahmer , American serial killer († 1994 )
- May 21 : Zigurds Lanka , Latvian chess player and coach
- May 22nd : Hideaki Anno , Japanese film director
- May 22nd : Michael Haase , German mathematician and astrophysicist
- May 23 : Linden Ashby , American actor
- May 24th : Guy Fletcher , English musician
- May 24th : Kristin Scott Thomas , British actress
- May 25 : Wallace Roney , American jazz trumpeter († 2020 )
- May 26th : Ulla Baur , German musician
- May 26 : Doug Hutchison , American actor and producer
- May 26th : Kazimiera Strolienė , Lithuanian biathlete and cross-country skier
- May 27 : Raymond Ricky Armstead , American athlete and Olympic champion
- May 27 : Emir Mutapčić , Yugoslav and Bosnian basketball player and coach
- May 28 : Mark Sanford , American politician
- May 29 : Jesse Johnson , American musician
- May 30th : Stephen Anthony James Duffy , British songwriter, singer and guitarist
- May 31 : Marco Albarello , Italian cross-country skier
- May 31 : Larry Heard , American musician
June
Tony Hadley , 2006
- June 1st : Martina Eitner-Acheampong , German actress
- June 1st : Andreas Hoppe , German actor
- June 1 : José Mário Scalon Angonese , Brazilian auxiliary bishop
- June 1st : Simon Gallup , British bass player
- June 1 : Mark Andrew Green , American politician
- June 1 : Vladimir Krutov , Russian ice hockey player and coach († 2012 )
- June 1 : Lutz Stratmann , German politician
- June 2nd : Tony Hadley , British pop singer
- June 2 : Olga Bondarenko , Russian athlete and Olympic champion
- June 3 : Peggy Wehmeier , German writer
- June 4th : José Antonio Molina , Dominican conductor, composer and pianist
- June 5th : Leslie Hendrix , American actress
- June 6 : John Eldredge , American therapist, counselor, and best-selling author
- June 6 : Steve Vai , American guitarist and composer
- June 7th : Svetlana Dašić-Kitić , Serbian handball player
- June 7th : Steffen Seibert , German television journalist, government spokesman
- June 8th : Friedrich Anzenberger , Austrian music researcher and music teacher
- June 8th : Mick Hucknall , British musician, founder of the band Simply Red
- June 9 : Eric V. Anslyn , American chemist
- June 9 : Alegre Corrêa , Brazilian jazz guitarist
- June 9 : Eva Dahlgren , singer and author
- June 11th : Sissy Raith , German soccer player and trainer
- June 12th : Hagen Stamm , German water polo player
- June 12th : Angela Ahrendts , American manager
- June 14 : Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie , President of the Ethiopian Crown Council of Ethiopia and grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie
- June 15 : Michael Kokott , German choir director
- June 15th : Manfred “Manni” Leuchter , German accordionist, composer, pianist and producer
- June 15th : Reno Steba , Dutch jazz bassist
- June 16 : Ferdinand Laholli , Albanian poet
- June 17th : Stephan Athanas , Swiss musician
- June 17th : Uwe Niesig , German artist
- June 18 : Aaron West Arkeen , American musician († 1997 )
- June 18 : Martin Rivoir , German politician and MdL
- June 19 : Raúl Vicente Amarilla Vera , Paraguayan football player and coach
- June 19 : Martin Schwanholz , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- June 20 : Nigel John Taylor , British musician
- June 21 : Andreas Knebel , German athlete
- June 22 : Erin Brockovich , U.S. paralegal
- June 25 : Bohumil Augustyn , Czech football player and coach
- June 25th : Gitte Seeberg , Danish politician
- June 25 : Aldo Serena , Italian football player
- June 26 : Rigmor Aasrud , Norwegian politician
- June 26 : Rosie Gaines , American singer
- June 26th : Peter Pysall , German handball trainer and handball player
- June 26 : Michael H. Weinstein , American composer, horn player and music teacher
- June 27 : Jim Nussle , American politician
- June 27th : Axel Rudi Pell , German hard rock and heavy metal guitarist
- June 27 : Steffen Reiche , German politician
- June 28 : Andreas Anter , German political scientist and university professor
- June 28 : Heribert C. Ottersbach , German painter
- June 29 : Ramón Orlando , Dominican merengue musician
- June 29 : Karsten Speck , German entertainer and actor
- June 30th : Andreas Schmidt , German bass baritone
- June 30 : Jack McConnell , Scottish Prime Minister
July
- July 1st : Michael Arlt , German guitarist
- July 1st : Mikael Håfström , Swedish screenwriter and director
- July 1 : Lynn Jennings , American athlete and Olympian
- July 1st : Marie-Luce Waldmeier , French ski racer
- July 3rd : Vince Clarke , British musician, founder of Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure
- July 3 : Thomas Hornauer , German media entrepreneur
- July 4th : Caroline Attia , French ski racer
- July 4th : Roland Ratzenberger , Austrian racing driver († 1994 )
- July 4th : Angelika Stucke , German writer
- July 4th : Barry Windham , American wrestler
- July 5th : Jindra Nečasová Nardelli , Czech composer, pianist and music teacher
- July 5 : Pruitt Taylor Vince , American actor
- July 6 : Valerie Brisco-Hooks , American athlete and Olympic champion
- July 6 : Robert "Robbie" Dunn , Australian soccer player and coach
- July 7 : Ernst Solèr , Swiss writer († 2008 )
- July 7th : Jochen Behle , German cross-country skier
- July 8 : Ekkehard Martin Appl , German lawyer
- July 8th : Sabine Bothe , German handball goalkeeper
- July 9 : Michael Feichtenbeiner , German soccer coach
- July 9 : Matthias Roeingh , founder of the Love Parade music and dance event in Berlin
- July 9 : Wanda Vázquez Garced , Puerto Rican lawyer and governor
- July 10 : Karl Leo , German physicist
- July 11th : Milan Augustin , Czech archivist and historian
- July 11 : Ronald M. Schernikau , German writer († 1991 )
- July 11th : Hans-Erich Tannhäuser , German engineer and local politician
- July 12th : Corynne Charby , French actress and singer
- July 14 : Polina Viktorovna Daschkowa , Russian crime writer
- July 14 : Kyle Gass , American musician and actor
- July 14th : Jane Lynch , American author, writer, singer, actress
- July 14th : Kilian Nauhaus , German church musician
- July 15 : Dennis Storhøi , Norwegian film and theater actor
- July 16 : Jonathan Mann , Canadian journalist and television presenter (CNN)
- July 16 : Christoph Mörgeli , Swiss medical historian and politician
- July 17th : Britta Böhler , German-Dutch lawyer and politician
- July 17th : Andrea Mandorlini , Italian football player and coach
- July 17th : Wolfgang Rathert , German musicologist
- July 17 : Dawn Upshaw , American singer (soprano)
- July 18 : Michael Gundlach , German musician and arranger
- July 18 : Anne-Marie Johnson , American actress
- July 19 : Volker Bengl , German tenor
- July 19 : Atom Egoyan , Canadian-Armenian director
- July 19 : Wolfgang Hunger , German sailor and orthopedist
- July 19 : Serap Riedel , German-Turkish painter
- July 19 : Joachim Wuermeling , German MEP
- July 20 : Kris Nissen ; Danish racing driver
- July 21 : Fritz Walter , German soccer player
- July 23 : Onno Meijer , Dutch actor († 2008 )
- July 23 : Fadil Vokrri , Yugoslav football player and President of the Football Association of Kosovo (FFK) († 2018 )
- July 24th : Catherine Destivelle , French mountaineer
- July 24th : Elvira Dones , Albanian writer
- July 26 : Normand Aubin , Canadian ice hockey player
- July 26 : Elena Grölz , German handball player
- July 27 : Alejandro Iglesias Rossi , Argentine composer
- July 27 : Jean Toussaint , American jazz saxophonist
- July 28 : Alexandre Czerniatynski , Belgian football player
- July 28th : Hitoshi Iwaaki , Japanese mangaka (comic artist)
- July 28th : Harald Lesch , German physicist, astronomer, philosopher, author and television presenter
- July 29 : Eckhard Nagel , German surgeon, deputy chairman of the National Ethics Council
- July 29th : Roland Riese , German politician and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
- July 30th : Luis Frank Arias Mosquera , Cuban singer and band leader
- July 30th : Richard Linklater , American film director
- July 30 : Arni Thor Sigurdsson , Icelandic politician
August
- August 1 : Chuck D , American rapper
- August 1st : Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff , German dressage rider
- August 1st : Viviana Martínez-Tosar , Argentine artist
- August 2 : Neal Morse , American rock musician
- August 3 : Antonello Antinoro , Italian politician
- August 3 : Tim Mayotte , American tennis player
- August 3rd : Kim Milton Nielsen , Danish football referee
- August 4th : Steve Preston , American politician
- August 4th : Bernard Rose , British director
- August 4th : José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero , Spanish politician
- August 6 : Elayne Angel , American piercer
- August 6th : Landis Stevens Arnold , American ski jumper
- August 6 : Michael Ekwoy Apochi , Nigerian bishop
- August 6th : Gero Drnek , German keyboardist
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- August 7 : David Duchovny , American actor
- August 7 : Michael Roes , German writer
- August 7th : Manfred Perterer , Austrian journalist
- August 7th : Dirk Sommerfeld , German handball player
- August 8th : Ralf König , German comic artist
Ralf König , 2013
- August 8 : Ulrich Maly , German politician and Lord Mayor of Nuremberg
- August 9 : Barbara De Rossi , Italian actress
Antonio Banderas , 2009
- August 10 : Antonio Banderas , Spanish actor
- August 12 : Ryan van den Akker , Dutch music and voice actress
- August 12 : Laurent Fignon , French cyclist († 2010 )
- August 13 : Jürgen Gauß , German theoretical chemist
- August 13th : Phil Taylor , English darts player
- August 14th : Sarah Brightman , English singer and actress
- August 15 : Karlheinz Essl jun. , Austrian composer and sound artist
- August 15th : Susanne Mischke , German writer and screenwriter
- August 16 : Franz Welser-Möst , Austrian conductor
- August 17th : Lisa Coleman , American musician
- August 17th : Stephan Eicher , Swiss (rock) chansonnier
- August 17th : Ágúst Már Jónsson , Icelandic football player
Sean Penn , 2009
- August 17 : Sean Penn , American actor, director and writer
- August 18 : Andreas Pinkwart , German politician
- August 18 : Ulrich Woelk , German writer
- August 19 : Morten Andersen , Danish American football player
- August 19 : Manfred Auster , German diplomat
- August 19 : Bobby Hebert , American football player
- August 21 : Peter Apfelbaum , American musician and composer
- August 21 : Stefan Attefall , Swedish politician
- August 22nd : Collin Raye , American country singer
- August 22nd : Daniel Rohr , Swiss actor, director and theater manager
- August 23 : Klaus Karlbauer , Austrian composer, director and performance artist
- August 23 : Jukkis Uotila , Finnish jazz drummer
- August 24 : Kim Christofte , Danish football player
- August 24th : Steven Lindsey , American astronaut
- August 24th : Takashi Miike , Japanese film director
- August 24th : Heike Trammer , Austrian politician of the BZÖ
- August 24th : Franz Viehböck , Austrian electrical engineer and spaceman
- August 25 : Lee Joseph Archambault , American astronaut
- August 26 : Robert Terry Chesser , American ornithologist
- August 26 : Branford Marsalis , American jazz saxophonist
- August 27 : Peter Gaffert , German forester and politician
- August 27 : Tom Nekljudow , Finnish jazz bassist
- August 28 : Julio César Romero , Paraguayan soccer player
- August 29 : Çingiz Fuad oğlu Mustafayev , Azerbaijani journalist († 1992 )
- August 30 : Bako Sahakjan , Armenian politician
- August 31 : Klaus Baier , German politician
- August 31 : Christian Käs , German politician († 2015 )
September
- September 1st : Ralf Aussem , German soccer player
- September 1st : Uwe Busse , German pop singer, songwriter and producer
- September 1 : Joseph Williams , American singer and film composer
- September 2nd : Arnaldo Antunes , Brazilian writer and musician
- September 2nd : Gottfried Curio , German physicist and politician
- September 2nd : Kristin Halvorsen , Norwegian politician
- September 2nd : Doug Poland , American motorcycle racer
- September 3 : Anett Pötzsch , German figure skater
- September 4th : Lonnie Plaxico , American jazz bassist
- September 4th : Ralf Pröve , German historian
- September 4th : Elke Richter , German soccer player
- September 4th : Kim Thayil , American musician
- September 5 : Abdullah Abdullah , Afghan politician
- September 5th : Bernhard Sperrfechter , German guitarist, author and lecturer
- September 6th : Stephan Engels , German soccer player
- September 7th : Stephan Kuhnert , German soccer player
- September 7th : Igor Sechin , Russian politician and manager
- September 7th : Robbie Stirling , Canadian racing car driver
- September 8th : Stefano Casiraghi , Italian entrepreneur and pleasure boat driver († 1990 )
- September 8th : Aimee Mann , American singer, songwriter, bassist and guitarist
- September 8th : Aguri Suzuki , Japanese racing car driver and racing team owner
- September 8 : Victoria Trauttmansdorff , Austrian actress
- September 9 : Hugh Grant , British actor
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- September 10 : Colin Firth , British actor
- September 10 : Harald Krassnitzer , Austrian actor
- September 10 : Lou Richter , German moderator
- September 10 : Ralf Schmidt , German singer ( IC Falkenberg )
- September 11th : Predrag Nikolić , Bosnian chess player
- September 11 : Ágúst Friðrik Hauksson , Icelandic football player
- September 12th : Uwe Ackermann , German athlete
- September 12 : Marie-Agnès Annequin-Plantagenet , French soccer player
- September 12 : Robert John Burke , American actor
- September 13 : Holger Afflerbach , German historian
- September 13 : Kevin Carter , South African photojournalist († 1994 )
- September 13 : David Fine , Canadian animator and film director
- September 13 : Walle Sayer , German writer
- September 14th : Christian Petzold , German film director
- September 14 : Callum Keith Rennie , Canadian actor
- September 15th : Klaus Abbelen , German racing driver and entrepreneur
- September 15 : David Archer , American geologist
- September 15 : Daniel Hohrath , German military historian
- September 16 : Jayne Brook , American actress
- September 16 : Danny John-Jules , British actor, dancer and singer
- September 16 : Graham Brentley Haynes , American jazz musician
- September 16 : Taneti Mamau , President of Kiribati
- September 16 : Mike Mignola , American comic book writer and illustrator
- September 16 : Wilhelm Rahn , German politician
- September 17th : Damon Hill , British Formula 1 racing driver, 1996 World Champion
- September 17th : Günter Dworek , spokesman for the Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany
- September 17th : Andy Grünenfelder , Swiss cross-country skier
- September 19 : Pepe Angelillo , Argentine jazz pianist, arranger and composer
- September 19 : Petra Emmerich-Kopatsch , German politician
- September 19 : Alexander Häusser , German writer
- September 19 : Manfred Rumpl , Austrian writer
- September 20 : Alice Brown , American athlete and Olympic champion
- September 20 : Ecki Stieg , German journalist, moderator and musician
- September 21 : Marion Appel-Schiefer , German volleyball player
- September 21 : David James Elliott , American actor
- September 22nd : Michael Schramm , German theologian and business ethicist
- September 23 : Barbara Mensing , German archer, two-time Olympic medalist
- September 24th : Manfred Aichinger , Austrian choreographer and dance teacher
- September 24th : Erich Mächler , Swiss cyclist
- September 24 : Kirsten Tackmann , German politician (Left Party) and Member of the Bundestag
- September 25 : Andrzej Stasiuk , Polish author, journalist and literary critic
- September 25 : Igor Belanov , Ukrainian football player
- September 25 : Sam Whipple , American actor († 2002 )
- September 26 : Uwe Bein , German football player
- September 27 : Ralf Augustin , German soccer player
- September 27th : Jean-Marc Barr , French actor
- September 27 : Patrick Lindner , German pop singer
- September 27 : Manfred Nerlinger , German weightlifter
- September 27th : Marco Saviozzi , French racing car driver
- September 28 : Mehmed Baždarević , Yugoslav soccer player and Bosnian-Herzegovinian soccer coach
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- September 28 : Jennifer Rush , American singer
- September 29 : Chris Bauer , American jazz harmonica player
- September 29th : Heinrich Fiechtner , German doctor and politician
- September 30th : Blanche Lincoln , American politician
- September : Lassaad Abdelli , Tunisian football player
October
- October 1st : Michael Schindhelm , German author and theater director
- October 1st : Markus Wolfahrt , Austrian musician
- October 2 : Glenn Christopher Anderson , Canadian ice hockey player
- October 2 : Terence Winter , American screenwriter and producer
- October 2nd : Volker Beck , German soccer player
- October 3 : Michel Godard , French jazz musician
- October 5th : Toomas Annus , Estonian entrepreneur and investor
- October 5 : Daniel Baldwin , American actor
- October 5th : Antônio de Oliveira Filho , Brazilian soccer player
- October 5th : Max Nagl , Austrian jazz saxophonist and composer
- October 5th : Evangelia Tzampazi , Greek politician
- October 6 : Yves Leterme , Belgian politician
- October 6 : Shun Medoruma , Japanese writer
- October 6 : Sabine Töpperwien , German sports journalist
- October 7th : Viktor Lazlo , Franco-Belgian pop singer
- October 8th : Andrea Anastasi , Italian volleyball coach and player
- October 8 : Ralf Minge , German footballer
- October 10 : Khadija Arib , Dutch politician
- October 10 : Arlene McCarthy , UK Member of the European Parliament
- October 10 : Michaela Engelmeier , German politician
- October 10 : Dieter Fensel , German computer scientist
- October 10 : Simon Townshend , British guitarist, singer and songwriter
- October 11 : Stan Douglas , Canadian artist
- October 11th : Michael Niesemann , German oboist and university professor
- October 12 : Jürgen Engler , German musician and producer
- October 12 : Michael Grosse-Brömer , German politician
- October 12 : Karsten Heinz , German handball trainer and handball goalkeeper
- October 12 : Alexei Kudrin , Russian politician
- October 13 : Pe Werner , German singer
- October 13 : George Pratt , American comic book artist, illustrator, artist, and writer
- October 14th : Bernd Armbruster , German kayak world champion
- October 14th : Steve Cram , English athlete
- October 14 : Hubertus Hess-Grunewald , German lawyer and football official
- October 16 : Bob Mold , American singer, songwriter and guitarist
- October 16 : Johannes Schild , German composer and conductor
- October 16 : Jürgen Jansen , German referee
- October 16 : Petra Pfaff , German athlete
- October 17th : Hartmut Weber , German athlete
- October 17 : Rob Marshall , American director and choreographer
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October 18 : Jean-Claude Van Damme , Belgian actor
Jean-Claude Van Damme , 2010 - October 18 : Horst Wiemann , German handball player and coach
- October 19 : Mark Davis , American baseball player
- October 19 : Jean-Michel Pilc , French jazz pianist
- October 19 : Jennifer Holliday , American musical and R&B singer
- October 20 : Lepa Brena , Yugoslav singer
- October 21 : Israel Akopkochjan , Armenian boxer
- October 22nd : Harri Toivonen , Finnish racing car driver
- October 23 : Max Patrick Adenauer , German entrepreneur
- October 23 : Mirwais , French musician and record producer
- October 23 : Wayne Rainey , American motorcycle racer
- October 23 : Erich Rinner , Austrian solo trumpeter
- October 24th : Bernd Andler , German handball referee
- October 24 : Bushra al-Assad , Syrian politician
- October 24th : Wolfgang Güllich , German sport climber († 1992 )
- October 24 : Christoph Schlingensief , German film and theater director († 2010 )
- October 24 : Joachim Winkelhock , German racing car driver
- October 25 : Jörg Schmidt , Lord Mayor of Radolfzell on Lake Constance
- October 25 : Elias Nassar , Lebanese Bishop
- October 27 : Manfredo Kraemer , German-Argentinian violinist and conductor
- October 29 : Agim Çeku , Prime Minister of Kosovo Province
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October 29 : Dieter Nuhr , German cabaret artist
Dieter Nuhr , 2006 - October 30 : Andreas Hägele , German football player and coach († 2018 )
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October 30 : Diego Maradona , Argentinian football player († 2020 )
Diego Maradona , 2012 - October 31 : Wilfried Aepinus , German soccer player
- October 31 : Cyrus Reza Pahlavi , eldest son of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife Farah Diba
November
- November 1 : Tim Cook , American manager
- November 2nd : Andy Borg , Austrian pop singer
- November 3rd : Augustin Jagg , German theater director
- November 4th : Adrián Iaies , Argentine jazz and tango pianist and composer
- November 4th : Miss Menke , German singer
- November 5th : Christof Lang , German TV journalist and presenter
- November 5th : Martin Blumenau , Austrian radio presenter
- November 5th : Tilda Swinton , Scottish actress
- November 5th : Betsy Haines , American cross-country skier
- November 6th : Stefano Arquilla , Italian filmmaker
- November 7th : Charlie Bell , American entrepreneur († 2005 )
- November 7th : Tommy Thayer , lead guitarist at Kiss
- November 8 : Elizabeth Avellan , American film producer
- November 8 : Sadi Tekelioğlu , Turkish-Danish journalist
- November 9th : Andreas Brehme , German soccer player and coach
- November 9th : Roland Dickgießer , German soccer player
- November 9 : Kurt Lanthaler , South Tyrolean writer
- November 10 : Ernst-Ingolf Angermann , German politician
- November 10th : Georg Fischer , German biathlete and cross-country skier
- November 11 : Lawrence Bayne , Canadian actor
- November 11th : Marcel Koller , Swiss football player and coach
- November 11th : Hyapatia Lee , American actress, singer, dancer and porn actress
- November 11 : Stanley Tucci , American actor, film producer and director
- November 13 : Petra Bierwirth , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- November 13th : Wolfgang Murnberger , Austrian film director
- November 14th : Elias Bierdel , head of the emergency aid organization Cap Anamur
- November 15 : Then Huff , American studio guitarist and music producer
- November 15 : Susanne Lothar , German actress († 2012 )
- November 15th : Willi Langer , Austrian bass player
- November 17 : RuPaul , American artist and presenter
- November 17th : Uwe Hassbecker , German guitarist
- November 17th : Jonathan Ross , British presenter
- November 17th : Petrik Sander , German soccer coach and official
- November 18 : Gabriele Arenberger , Austrian politician
- November 18 : Kim Wilde , British musician
- November 19 : Jan Koneffke , German writer
- November 19 : Ferdinand Kramer , German historian
- November 19 : Don Ross , Canadian composer and guitarist
- November 19 : Matt Sorum , American drummer
- November 20 : Veronika Bellmann , German politician
- November 21 : Rudolf Anschober , Austrian politician
- November 21 : Algirdas Astrauskas , Lithuanian economist and politician
- November 21 : Dan Kimball , American theologian, pastor, and author
- November 22nd : Leos Carax , French film director
- November 23 : Sam Ermolenko , American track athlete
- November 25 : Robert Dunlop , British motorcycle racer († 2008 )
- November 25 : Amy Grant , American singer and songwriter
- November 25 : John F. Kennedy Jr. , American lawyer and publisher († 1999 )
- November 26 : Jack Markell , American politician
- November 26th : Delio Rossi , Italian football player and coach
- November 27 : Eike Immel , German soccer player
- November 27 : Yulia Tymoshenko , Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine
- November 28 : John Galliano , American fashion designer
- November 29th : Jörg Föste , German entrepreneur and managing director of the Bergischer HC handball club
- November 30th : Hiam Abbass , Palestinian actress
- November 30th : Gary Lineker , English soccer player
December
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- December 1st : Adriano Aguzzi , Italian-Swiss doctor and university lecturer
- December 1 : Carol Alt , American model and actress
- December 1st : Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich , German speed skater
- December 1st : Petra Sitte , German politician
- December 2 : Justus von Dohnányi , German actor
- December 3rd : Jam El Mar , German music producer
- December 3 : Daryl Hannah , American actress
- December 3 : Igor Larionov , Russian ice hockey player
- December 3 : Julianne Moore , American actress
- December 4th : Glynis Nunn , Australian athlete and Olympic champion
- December 5th : Frans Adelaar , Dutch football player and coach
- December 5th : Günter Hermann , German soccer player
- December 7th : Robert Amper , German actor, director, writer and voice actor
- December 7th : Holger C. Gotha , German actor, director and screenwriter
- December 7th : Yasuhide Itō , Japanese composer and pianist
- December 7th : Abdellatif Kechiche , French director, screenwriter and actor
- December 7th : Erhard Riedlsperger , Austrian screenwriter and director
- December 8 : Aaron Allston , American author († 2014 )
- December 8th : Inger Helene Nybråten , Norwegian cross-country skier
- December 9th : Christoph Chorherr , Austrian politician
- December 10 : Kenneth Branagh , British actor and director
- December 10th : Stefan Münz , German author of the reference for hypertext, SELFHTML
- December 10th : Stefan Dotzler , German cross-country skier
- December 11th : Rachel Portman , British composer
- December 11th : Roberto Fraga , French playwright
Volker Beck , 2010
- December 12th : Volker Beck , German politician
- December 12th : Martina Hellmann , German athlete
- December 12th : Nicola Horlick , UK fund manager
- December 12th : Andreas Knie , German social scientist
- December 12th : Lee Kyeong-yeong , South Korean actor
- December 13 : José Eduardo Agualusa , Angolan writer
- December 13th : Trey Gunn , American musician
- December 13 : Hendrik Schubert , German biologist and professor of ecology
- December 15 : Andrea Simmen , Swiss writer († 2005 )
- December 16 : John Cryan , UK bank manager
- December 16 : Detlef Dähn , German historian, photographer and author
- December 17th : Moreno Argentin , Italian cyclist
- December 17th : Jürgen Tarrach , German actor
- December 18 : Hans-Jörg Criens , German football player († 2019 )
- December 18 : Günther Kronenbitter , German historian
- December 18 : Kazuhide Uekusa , Japanese economist, chairman of the Three-Nations Research Institute
- December 19 : Oliver Fehn , German writer and translator († 2019 )
- December 20 : Nalo Hopkinson , American author
- December 21 : Shuichi Abe , Japanese politician
- December 22nd : Felicitas Hoppe , German writer
- December 22 : Jean-Michel Basquiat , American graffiti artist, painter and draftsman († 1988 )
- December 23 : Susanne Riermeier , German cross-country skier
- December 24th : Peter Hauk , German forester and politician
- December 26 : Ruud Kaiser , Dutch football player and coach
- December 26th : Mother Meera , Indian mystic
- December 27th : Maryam d'Abo , British actress
- December 27 : Gerald Eckert , German composer, cellist, and painter
- December 27th : Martin Glover , English music producer
- December 27th : Valdas Tutkus , Commander in Chief of the Lithuanian Armed Forces
- December 28 : Ray Bourque , Canadian ice hockey player
- December 28 : Terri Garber , American television actress
- December 29th : Carola Anding , German cross-country skier
- December 30th : Rick Amann , German ice hockey player
- December 30th : Peter Schulz , German soccer player and coach
- December 30th : Sabine Zimmermann , German politician
- December 31 : Ute Nestler , German cross-country skier
Day unknown
- Esma Abdelhamid , Tunisian author
- Walter Achatz , German architect
- Adeva , American house and R&B singer
- Hikmet Temel Akarsu , Turkish novelist and short story writer and satirist
- Helga Amesberger , Austrian ethnologist, sociologist and political scientist
- Joshua David Angrist , American economist
- El Vez , Mexican-American musician and singer-songwriter, actually Robert López
- Kerry Argent , Australian writer and illustrator
- Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos , Greek politician
- Ali Ashour , Libyan judge and politician
- Kemal Astare , German writer
- Vladimir Astrachanzew , Ukrainian violinist
- Jawad al-Bulani , Iraqi politician
- Kenneth Allen , Jamaican dancehall and reggae singer
- Uli Auffermann , German writer, photographer and journalist
- Andrea Aust , German voice actress and actress
- Wolfgang Breul , German theologian
- Carlos Carmona , Argentine composer, guitarist and conductor
- Brad Dutz , American musician
- Andreas Ernst , German psychologist and environmental scientist
- Kelley Eskridge , American writer and screenwriter
- Santiago Espel , Argentine writer
- Ruth Florack , German literary scholar and university professor
- Frank Golischewski , German author, composer, director, pianist and cabaret artist
- Matthias Hermann , German musicologist and teacher, conductor and composer
- René Hofschneider , German actor
- Konrad Klek , German Protestant theologian, pastor, organist, university music director and university professor
- Rüdiger Klos , German politician
- Gary Knudson , American composer
- Adele Landauer , German actress
- Mark Ledford , American jazz musician († 2004 )
- Christiane Leuchtmann , German actress
- Antje Lewald , German actress
- Jan Lublinski , freelance radio and science journalist
- Martín Mele , Argentine artist
- Georg Peez , German art educator
- Tim Ries , American jazz saxophonist and university professor
- Martin Ruf , German writer and translator
- Gintaras Rinkevičius , Lithuanian conductor
- Dominik Sackmann , Swiss musicologist, music writer and organist
- Martina Salomon , Austrian journalist
- Veit Schubert , German actor, director and lecturer in acting
- Irene Schwarz , German actress
- Richard Shindell , American folk musician and singer-songwriter
- Zebulon Simentov , Afghan businessman
- Andreas Spannagel , German jazz musician
- Peter Sych , Australian software developer, instrument maker and installation artist
- Genc Tomorri , Albanian national soccer player and soccer coach
- Zhou Qiang , Chinese politician
- Betti Xiang , Chinese musician
- Yang Wei , Chinese musician
- Elmar Witt , German conductor, horn player and music teacher
- Katrina Wreede , American composer, violist and music teacher
- Suzanne Zialenbach , German actress
Died
January
- January 1 : Margaret Sullavan , American actress (* 1909 )
Fausto Coppi , 1952
- January 2 : Fausto Coppi , Italian cyclist (* 1919 )
- January 3 : Victor Sjöström , Swedish director and actor (* 1879 )
Albert Camus , 1957
- January 4th : Albert Camus , French writer (* 1913 )
- January 4 : Friedel Hoefer , German portrait and landscape painter (* 1883 )
- January 4th : Dudley Nichols , American screenwriter (* 1895 )
- January 5 : Fernand Gregh , French writer and literary critic (* 1873 )
- January 6 : Charles Hawks , American politician (* 1899 )
- January 6 : Erik Robert Lindahl , Swedish economist (* 1891 )
- January 7th : Hans Bellée , German archivist and historian (* 1889 )
- January 12 : Carlos Di Sarli , Argentine tango musician (* 1903 )
- January 12th : Nevil Shute , English writer, aircraft engineer and pilot (* 1899 )
- January 14th : Ralph Chubb , British poet, printer and artist (* 1892 )
- January 15 : Friedrich Leibbrandt , German chemist (* 1894 )
- January 18 : Raymond de Tornaco , Belgian racing driver (* 1886 )
- January 18 : Julius von Borsody , Austrian film architect and production designer (* 1892 )
- January 19 : Ralph Peer , country musician (* 1892 )
- January 23 : Wolfgang Kayser , German Germanist and literary scholar (* 1906 )
- January 24th : Edwin Fischer , Swiss pianist (* 1886 )
- January 24th : Hino Ashihei , Japanese writer (* 1907 )
- January 25 : Ilse Arlt , Austrian social worker (* 1876 )
- January 25 : Diana Barrymore , American actress (* 1921 )
- January 25 : Rutland Boughton , English composer (* 1878 )
- January 25 : Ernst Gehrcke , German physicist (* 1878 )
- January 25 : Beno Gutenberg , German seismologist (* 1889 )
- January 26 : Ralph Horr , American politician (* 1884 )
- January 26 : Hans Lukaschek , German politician (* 1885 )
- January 27 : Oswaldo Aranha , Brazilian politician (* 1894 )
- January 27 : Eugène Daignault , Canadian actor and singer (* 1895 )
- January 28 : Zora Neale Hurston , American writer and anthropologist (* 1891 )
- January 30th : James Crawford Biggs , American lawyer and politician (* 1872 )
- January 31 : Harry Blanchard , American racing driver (* 1931 )
February
- February 3 : Gustave Guillaume , French linguist (* 1883 )
- February 5 : Rudolf Nelson , musician, pianist, composer and theater director (* 1878 )
- February 6 : Jesse Belvin , American R&B musician (* 1932 )
- February 7 : Igor Kurchatov , Soviet physicist (* 1903 )
- February 8 : John Langshaw Austin , English philosopher and linguist (* 1911 )
- February 8 : Eduard Hermann , Estonian walker (* 1887 )
- February 8 : Hans Hinkel , journalist and ministerial official (* 1901 )
- February 8 : Giles Gilbert Scott , English architect (* 1880 )
- February 9 : Leslie Callingham , British racing driver (* 1905 )
- February 9 : Arthur Schütz , Austrian engineer and writer (* 1880 )
- February 9 : Ernst von Dohnányi , Hungarian pianist and composer (* 1877 )
- February 10 : Alojzije Stepinac , Archbishop of Zagreb and Cardinal (* 1898 )
- February 11 : Karl von Buchka (politician) , German politician (* 1885 )
- February 11 : Victor Klemperer , German writer and literary scholar (* 1881 )
- February 12 : Oskar Anderson , statistician, economist (* 1887 )
- February 12 : Jean-Michel Atlan , French artist (* 1913 )
- February 12 : Louis Audouin-Dubreuil , French officer (* 1887 )
- February 12 : Oskar von Hindenburg , son of President Paul von Hindenburg (* 1883 )
- February 12 : Roelof Klein , Dutch rower (* 1877 )
- February 14 : Sven Rudolphsson Lidman , Swedish writer (* 1882 )
- February 15 : Tonny Kessler , Dutch football player (* 1889 )
- February 20 : Philipp Wehr , German politician (* 1906 )
- February 21 : Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley , wife of the last Viceroy of India (* 1901 )
- February 21 : Jacques Becker , French film director (* 1906 )
- February 22 : Paul-Émile Borduas , Canadian painter (* 1905 )
- February 23 : Arthur Legat , Belgian racing driver (* 1898 )
- February 25 : Johannes Hoffmann , German politician (* 1889 )
- February 26 : William J. Bulow , American politician (* 1869 )
- February 27 : Oszkár Asbóth , Hungarian engineer and aviation pioneer (* 1891 )
- February 27 : Ettore Chimeri , Venezuelan racing car driver (* 1924 )
- February 27 : Hermann Lindrath , German politician (* 1896 )
- February 28 : Lina Drechsler Adamson , Canadian violinist and music teacher (* 1876 )
- February 28 : Walter Zawadil , German politician (* 1909 )
March
- March 1 : Paul Leverkuehn , German politician (* 1893 )
- March 2 : Arthur Louis Day , American geophysicist (* 1869 )
- March 4 : Herbert O'Conor , American politician (* 1896 )
- March 5 : Malcolm C. Tarver , American politician (* 1885 )
- March 6 : Pedro Reszka , Chilean painter (* 1872 )
- March 9 : Otto Ackermann , Swiss conductor (* 1909 )
- March 9 : Bernhard Aschner , Austrian physiologist and doctor (* 1883 )
- March 9 : Richard L. Neuberger , American politician (* 1912 )
- March 10 : John Harlan Amen , American prosecutor (* 1898 )
- March 11 : Roy Chapman Andrews , American researcher, adventurer and paleontologist (* 1884 )
- March 11th : Frederick H. Dominick , American politician (* 1877 )
- March 12 : Semjon Bogdanow , head of the Soviet military administration in Brandenburg (* 1894 )
- March 13th : Louis Wagner , French racing car driver (* 1882 )
- March 17th : Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor , Spanish painter (* 1875 )
- March 20 : Régulo Rico , Venezuelan composer and music teacher (* 1877 )
- March 21 : Hermann Burte , German poet and painter (* 1879 )
- March 22nd : José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube , Basque politician (* 1904 )
- March 22nd : Agnes Arber , English botanist (* 1879 )
- March 23 : Franklin Leopold Adams , American journalist, translator and radio announcer (* 1881 )
- March 23 : Ludwig Bergstrasse , German politician (* 1883 )
- March 23 : Said Nursî , Islamic theologian and enlightener of Turkish-Kurdish origin (* 1876 )
- March 25 : Anna Ahrens , Low German local poet (* 1871 )
- March 25 : Erich Bachem , German engineer and designer (* 1906 )
- March 28 : Russell V. Mack , American politician (* 1891 )
- March 29 : Luiz Americano , Brazilian clarinetist, saxophonist and composer (* 1900 )
- March 30th : Joseph Haas , German composer (* 1879 )
- March 31 : Franz-Josef Binder , Austrian motorcycle racer and development engineer (* 1908 )
April
- April 1 : Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad , King of Malaysia (* 1895 )
- April 4 : Christian Arnold , German painter (* 1889 )
- April 5 : Adela Wilgocka , Polish singer and vocal teacher (* 1875 )
- April 7th : Henri Guisan , General of the Swiss Army during the Second World War (* 1874 )
- April 9 : Arthur Benjamin , Australian composer (* 1893 )
- April 12 : Walter Peterhans , German photographer (* 1897 )
- April 15 : Wilhelm Gülich , German politician (* 1895 )
- April 18 : Joseph Antz , German educator (* 1880 )
- April 17 : Eddie Cochran , American rock 'n' roll star (born 1938 )
- April 20 : Xenia Alexandrovna Romanowa , Russian Grand Duchess (* 1875 )
- April 21 : Olof Aschberg , Swedish banker (* 1877 )
- April 21 : Ellery Sedgwick , American writer (* 1872 )
- April 22nd : Ephraim Lipson , British economic historian (* 1888 )
- April 22nd : August Thienemann , German zoologist and ecologist, founder of limnology (* 1882 )
- April 23 : Kagawa Toyohiko , Japanese theologian and social reformer (* 1888 )
- April 24th : Norah de Kresz , English pianist and music teacher (* 1882 )
Max von Laue , 1929
- April 24th : Max von Laue , German physicist (* 1879 )
- April 25 : Inocenc Arnošt Bláha , Czech sociologist, philosopher, educator (* 1879 )
- April 25 : Amanullah Khan , King of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929 (* 1892 )
- April 25th : August Kopff , German astronomer and discoverer of many asteroids (* 1882 )
- April 25 : Ilmari Krohn , Finnish composer and musicologist (* 1867 )
- April 25 : Hope Emerson , American actress (* 1897 )
- April 26 : Wander Johannes de Haas , Dutch physicist and mathematician (* 1878 )
- April 26 : Wolfgang Müller , German actor and cabaret artist (* 1922 )
- April 28 : Carlos Ibáñez del Campo , Chilean military and politician (* 1877 )
- April 28 : Anton Pannekoek , Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist (* 1873 )
- April 29 : Adolf Cillien , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1893 )
- April 29 : Colin Stanley Gum , Australian astronomer (* 1924 )
May
- May 1st : José María Granada , Spanish playwright, screenwriter and director (* 1893 )
- May 1 : Ernst Otto Oßwald , German architect (* 1880 )
- May 4th : Pedro Arispe , Uruguayan football player (* 1900 )
- May 6 : Paul Abraham , Hungarian composer (* 1892 )
- May 8 : Hugo Alfvén , Swedish composer, conductor (* 1872 )
- May 8 : John Henry Constantine Whitehead , British mathematician (* 1904 )
- May 9 : Reinhold Artmann , German politician (* 1870 )
- May 10 : Yuri Olescha , Russian writer (* 1899 )
- May 11 : John D. Rockefeller II , philanthropist (* 1874 )
- May 12 : Cecil Armstrong Gibbs , English composer (* 1889 )
- May 15 : Heinrich Ancker , German naval officer (* 1886 )
- May 17th : Jules Supervielle , poet, writer of plays and short stories (* 1884 )
- May 21 : Adolf Aber , German musicologist and critic (* 1893 )
- May 22 : Franz Dornseiff , German classical philologist (* 1888 )
Georges Claude , 1926
- May 23 : Georges Claude , French inventor (* 1870 )
- May 27 : Alfred Wilhelm Arnold , German politician (* 1888 )
- May 27 : George Zucco , American film and stage actor (* 1886 )
- May 27 : James Montgomery Flagg , American draftsman and illustrator (* 1877 )
- May 30th : Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak , Russian poet and writer (* 1890 )
- May 31 : Walther Funk , German journalist and politician (* 1890 )
- May 31 : Willem Elsschot , Dutch- speaking writer from Belgium (* 1882 )
June
- June 1 : Paula Hitler , sister of Adolf Hitler (* 1896 )
- June 4th : Willy Anker , German politician (* 1885 )
- June 4th : Józef Haller von Hallenburg , General of the 2nd Polish Republic (* 1873 )
- June 4 : Jan Morávek , Czech historian and archivist (* 1887 )
- June 6th : Hermann Rützler , Austrian photographer and racing car driver (* 1883 )
- June 7th : Clemens Laar , German writer (* 1906 )
- June 8 : Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher , German etymologist (* 1877 )
- June 9 : Semyon Lavochkin , Soviet aircraft designer (* 1900 )
- June 9 : Hans José Rehfisch , German playwright (* 1891 )
- June 12 : Hugo Atzwanger , Austrian painter, graphic artist, photographer and folklorist (* 1883 )
- June 13 : Gaston Delalande , French racing driver (* 1874 )
- June 13 : Wilhelm Keppler , German entrepreneur and SS-Obergruppenführer (* 1882 )
- June 13 : Ken McArthur , South African marathon runner and Olympic champion (* 1881 or 1882 )
- June 14 : Paul John Kvale , American politician (* 1896 )
- June 14th : Frank Silver , American songwriter, bandleader and vaudeville actor (* 1896 )
- June 16 : Harry Pollitt , British Communist and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (* 1890 )
- June 19 : Chris Bristow , English Formula 1 racing driver (* 1937 )
- June 19 : Alan Stacey , English Formula 1 racing driver (* 1933 )
- June 20 : Herbert Fritsche , German poet (* 1911 )
- June 22nd : Hermann Duncker , German politician and trade union official (* 1874 )
- June 25 : Otto Ender , Austrian politician (* 1875 )
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- June 25 : Walter Baade , German astronomer and astrophysicist (* 1893 )
- June 26th : Fridolin Keidel , German aviation pioneer (* 1882 )
- June 27 : Otto Köhler , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1897 )
- June 27th : Charlotte Dod , English tennis player (* 1871 )
- June 28 : Juan Jover , Spanish automobile racing driver (* 1903 )
- June 30th : Clarence Cameron White , American composer (* 1880 )
July
- July 1 : Hermann Neubacher , Austrian economist and politician (* 1893 )
- July 5 : Otto Hersing , German naval officer (* 1885 )
- July 6th : Aneurin Bevan , British politician (* 1897 )
Johann Gottfried Bischoff with his wife Margarete, 1907
- July 6 : Johann Gottfried Bischoff , Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church (* 1871 )
- July 9 : Edward Burlingame Hill , American composer (* 1872 )
- July 9 : Walter Scharwenka , German composer and organist (* 1881 )
- July 10 : Hans Jahn , German politician (* 1885 )
- July 12 : E. Maurice Adler , American film producer and screenwriter (* 1906 )
- July 12 : Pietro Fumasoni Biondi , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1872 )
- July 13 : Hans Loch , German politician, chairman of the LDPD and finance minister of the GDR (* 1898 )
- July 14th : Maurice de Broglie , 6th Duke of Broglie, physicist, member of the Académie française (* 1875 )
- July 15 : Clemens Schmalstich , German composer and conductor (* 1880 )
- July 16 : Albert Kesselring , General Field Marshal in the Third Reich (* 1885 )
- July 16 : John Phillips Marquand , American writer (* 1893 )
- July 18 : Paco Escribano , Dominican humorist (* 1917 )
- July 20 : Hans Schlange-Schöningen , German politician, Reich Minister (* 1886 )
- July 21 : Massimo Bontempelli , Italian writer (* 1878 )
- July 22nd : Wolf von Niebelschütz , German writer and historian (* 1913 )
- July 23 : Elie Spivak , Canadian violinist and music teacher (* 1902 )
Hans Albers (left) and an Italian tenor, 1924
- July 24th : Hans Albers , German actor (* 1891 )
- July 26 : Cedric Gibbons , American art director (* 1893 )
- July 26 : Váša Příhoda , Czech violinist (* 1900 )
- July 27 : Liesl Karlstadt , Bavarian soubrette, actress and cabaret artist (* 1892 )
- July 28 : Enrique Amorim , Uruguayan writer (* 1900 )
- July 28 : Ethel Lilian Voynich , British writer (* 1864 )
- July 29th : Max Becker , German politician (* 1888 )
- July 29 : Robert P. Bass , American politician (* 1873 )
- July 30th : Arnold Königs , German architect and building contractor (* 1871 )
- July 30th : Carl Otto Czeschka , Austrian graphic artist and painter (* 1878 )
- July 31 : Martin Karl Hasse , German university professor, composer and music writer (* 1883 )
- July 31 : Philip Perlman , American lawyer and politician (* 1890 )
August
- August 1 : Ascan Lutteroth , German district court director (* 1874 )
- August 4th : Frédéric Théllusson , Belgian racing driver (* 1894 )
- August 5 : Arthur Meighen , Canadian politician (* 1874 )
- August 7th : André Bloch , French composer (* 1873 )
- August 9 : Marie Ulfers , German writer (* 1888 )
- August 10 : Frank Lloyd , British-American actor, director and producer (* 1886 )
Emil Strauss. Portrait of Ernst Würtenberger
- August 10 : Emil Strauss , German poet (* 1866 )
- August 10 : Oswald Veblen , American mathematician (* 1880 )
- August 11 : Walter Stengel , German cultural historian (* 1882 )
- August 18 : Carlo Emilio Bonferroni , Italian mathematician (* 1892 )
- August 18 : Blanche Gauthier , Canadian actress and singer (* 1884 )
- August 20 : John Francis O'Hara , Archbishop of Philadelphia and Cardinal (* 1888 )
- August 20 : Paul Smets , German musicologist, bell and organ expert (* 1901 )
- August 23 : Oscar Hammerstein , American producer and musical writer (* 1895 )
- August 24th : Erwin Ackerknecht , German public librarian, director of the Schiller National Museum (* 1880 )
- August 25 : Raymond Abrashkin , American writer, screenwriter and director (born 1911 )
- August 29 : Vicki Baum , Austrian harpist and writer (* 1888 )
- August 29 : Artur Kutscher , German literary and theater scholar (* 1878 )
September
- September 2 : Max Nathan , German automobile racing driver (* 1919 )
- September 4 : Alfred E. Green , American director (* 1889 )
- September 5 : Earl Long , American politician (* 1895 )
- September 7th : Alfonso Ortíz Tirado , Mexican doctor and singer (* 1893 )
- September 7th : Wilhelm Pieck , German communist, politician and President of the GDR (* 1876 )
- September 8 : Feroze Gandhi , Indian politician and journalist (* 1912 )
- September 8 : Dagoberto Godoy , Chilean pilot who was the first to fly over the Andes (* 1893 )
- September 8 : Oscar Pettiford , American musician (* 1922 )
- September 9 : Leonhard Adam , German legal scholar and ethnologist (* 1891 )
- September 9 : Jussi Björling , Swedish singer (* 1911 )
- September 11th : Karl Benno von Mechow , German writer (* 1897 )
- September 12 : Egon Berger-Waldenegg , Austrian lawyer, politician and landowner (* 1880 )
- September 12 : Curt Goetz , German-Swiss writer and actor (* 1888 )
- September 13 : Dino Borgioli , Italian opera singer (* 1891 )
- September 13 : Thomas C. Hennings , American politician (* 1903 )
- September 13 : Leó Weiner , Hungarian composer (* 1885 )
- September 14 : Richard Sjöberg , Swedish athlete (* 1890 )
- September 14th : Just Dillgardt , German politician (* 1889 )
- September 21 : Franz Merkle , German economist (* 1905 )
- September 21 : Frank Elmore Ross , American astronomer and physicist (* 1874 )
- September 22nd : Melanie Klein , Austro-British psychoanalyst (* 1882 )
- September 24th : Harald Braun , German director (* 1901 )
- September 24 : Mátyás Seiber , Hungarian composer (* 1905 )
- September 24th : Johnny Thomson , American racing car driver (* 1922 )
- September 27 : Herman Nohl , educator, philosopher (* 1879 )
- September 27 : Sylvia Pankhurst , British suffragette (* 1882 )
- September 29 : Franz Arnold , German playwright (* 1878 )
- September 30th : Anne Marie Basse , Danish painter (* 1877 )
October
- October 1 : Giuseppe Fietta , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1883 )
- October 2 : Alfred Jäger , German rower (* 1873 or 1974)
- October 6 : Karel Absolon , Czech archaeologist and speleologist (* 1877 )
- October 10 : Basil Ruysdael , American actor (* 1878 )
- October 12 : Inejirō Asanuma , Japanese politician (* 1898 )
- October 12 : Hans Helmhart Auer von Herrenkirchen , German economist and university lecturer (* 1877 )
- October 14 : Abram Ioffe , Soviet physicist (* 1880 )
- October 14 : Sigurd Hoel , Norwegian writer (* 1890 )
- October 15 : Henny Porten , actress and star of the German silent film (* 1890 )
- October 19 : John S. Gibson , American politician (* 1893 )
- October 19 : Franz Schwede , National Socialist politician (* 1888 )
- October 19 : George Stevenson Wallace , Australian comedian and actor (* 1895 )
- October 20 : Edward D. Crippa , American politician (* 1899 )
- October 21 : Paul Fallot , French geologist and paleontologist (* 1889 )
- October 24th : François Piazzoli , French racing car driver (* 1886 )
- October 26 : Erik Peterson , Roman Catholic theologian (* 1890 )
- October 28 : Margarita Abella Caprile , Argentine writer (* 1901 )
- October 29 : Johan Gunnar Andersson , Swedish archaeologist, paleontologist and geologist (* 1874 )
November
- November 1 : Heinrich Albert , German politician and the last Reich Treasury Minister (* 1874 )
- November 2 : Anni Holdmann , German athlete and Olympic participant (* 1900 )
Theodor Arldt , 1927
- November 2 : Dimitri Mitropoulos , Greek-American conductor (* 1896 )
- November 5 : Johnny Horton , American country singer (born 1925 )
- November 5 : Mack Sennett , American filmmaker (* 1880 )
- November 6th : Erich Raeder , German Grand Admiral (* 1876 )
- November 7th : AP Carter , American country musician (* 1891 )
- November 8 : Ernst Beutler , German literary historian and Goethe researcher (* 1885 )
- November 9th : Ernst Wilhelm Bohle , NSDAP Gauleiter and head of the foreign organization (* 1903 )
- November 10 : Isadore Freed , American composer (* 1900 )
- November 11th : Hermann Apelt , German politician (* 1876 )
- November 11th : Theodor Arldt , German scientist, historian and writer (* 1878 )
- November 14 : Karl Wegele , German soccer player (* 1887 )
- November 16 : Wilhelm Apel , German politician (* 1873 )
Clark Gable , 1943
- November 16 : Clark Gable , American actor (born 1901 )
- November 19 : Yoshii Isamu , Japanese writer (* 1886 )
- November 19 : Josef Callenberg , German builder (* 1854 )
- November 20 : Seth Abderhalden , Swiss mountaineer and extreme climber (* 1926 )
- November 24th : Olga Alexandrovna Romanowa , Grand Duchess of Russia (* 1882 )
- November 25 : The Mirabal sisters , Dominican regime opponents Trujillos (Patria * 1924 ; Minerva * 1926 ; Maria Teresia * 1935 )
- November 28th : Bernhard Fischer-Schweder , police chief of Tilsit, mass murderer (* 1904 )
- November 28 : Tsunenohana Kan'ichi , Japanese sumo wrestler and 31st yokozuna (* 1896 )
- November 28 : Richard Wright , American writer (* 1908 )
December
- December 1 : Ernst Rowohlt , German publisher (* 1887 )
- December 2 : Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot , German architect and designer (* 1883 )
- December 5 : Haschim Chalid al-Atassi , Syrian statesman (* 1875 )
- December 6th : Gunnar Graarud , Norwegian opera singer (* 1886 )
- December 7th : Paulius Augius , Lithuanian painter and woodcut artist (* 1909 )
- December 7th : Richard Ermisch , German architect and senior building officer in Berlin (* 1885 )
- December 7th : Clara Haskil , Romanian pianist (* 1895 )
- December 7th : Walter Noddack , German chemist (* 1893 )
- December 14 : Robert Grumbach , Jewish lawyer and politician (* 1875 )
- December 14th : Hermine Körner , German actress, director, theater manager (* 1878 )
- December 14 : Friedrich Maier , German politician (* 1894 )
- December 15 : Véra Clouzot , French-Brazilian actress (* 1913 )
- November 17 : Herbert Douglas Austin , American Romanist and Italianist (* 1876 )
- December 20 : Wilhelm Kosch , Austrian literary historian and lexicographer (* 1879 )
- December 21 : Eric Temple Bell , Scottish-American mathematician (* 1883 )
- December 25th : Aurelio Mistruzzi , Italian sculptor and medalist (* 1880 )
- December 25th : Clyde Tingley , American politician (* 1882 )
- December 31 : Joseph Wendel , Archbishop of Munich and Freising (* 1901 )
Day unknown
- Haşmet Akal , Turkish painter (* 1918 )
- Arturo Ambrosio , Italian producer and director (* 1869 )
- Eugène Aroneanu , Romanian lawyer, resistance fighter and author
- Geoffroy Atkinson , American Romanist (* 1892 )
- Marie-Berthe Aurenche , French painter (* 1906 )
- Ed Bell , also Sluefoot Joe or Barefoot Bill, American blues musician (* 1905 )
- Pieter Herfst , Dutch pianist and conductor (* 1887 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Donald A. Glaser
- Chemistry : Willard Frank Libby
- Medicine : Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Peter Brian Medawar
- Literature : Saint-John Perse
- Nobel Peace Prize : Albert John Luthuli
music
- Jacqueline Boyer wins the 5th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest on March 29 in London with the song Tom Pillibi for France
- List of number one hits in Germany (1960)
- The English rock band The Beatles is founded
Web links
Commons : 1960 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
