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1961
Yuri Gagarin	John F. Kennedy
Construction of the Berlin Wall
Annual dedications
International Year ( United Nations )	International Year of Health and Medical Research

1961 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2714
Armenian calendar	1409-1410
Ethiopian calendar	1953-1954
Badi calendar	117-118
Bengali calendar	1367-1368
Berber calendar	2911
Buddhist calendar	2505
Burmese calendar	1323
Byzantine calendar	7469-7470
Chinese calendar
- era	4657-4658 or 4597-4598
- 60 year cycle	Metal rat (庚子, 37) - metal buffalo (辛丑, 38)
French revolution calendar	CLXIX - CLXX 169-170
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2017-2018
- Shaka Samvat	1883-1884
Iranian calendar	1339-1340
Islamic calendar	1380-1381
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 36
- Kōki	2621
Jewish calendar	5721-5722
Coptic Calendar	1677-1678
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4294
- Juche era	50
Minguo calendar	50
Modern Olympics	XVII
Seleucid calendar	2272-2273
Thai solar calendar	2504

The building of the Berlin Wall , which finally cemented the division of Germany, is defining for the year 1961 . Meanwhile, the newly elected US President John F. Kennedy announces his New Frontier policies , including ending racial segregation in the United States. With the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion , however, he had to accept a foreign policy defeat right from the start. Yuri Gagarin overcomes a completely different frontier and becomes the first person in space on board Vostok 1 .

events

Politics and world events

• January 1st: Friedrich Traugott Wahlen becomes the new Federal President of Switzerland.
• January 1st The Hamburg Senate elects the previous Finance Senator Paul Nevermann ( SPD ) from among its members as the new First Mayor and thus the successor to Max Brauer , who had resigned the day before.
• January 7th: A group of African states leaning towards radical Pan-Africanism adopts an African charter at a conference in Casablanca . The drafting of the Casablanca Group becomes the occasion for an opposing position paper for the majority of the other states that have become independent.
• January 8: In a referendum , 75 percent of French voters vote in favor of Charles de Gaulle's policies , which result in an independent Algeria .
• January 17: In Katanga are Patrice Lumumba , the first prime minister of the Congo , and killed two of his followers. The act apparently happened with the approval of Belgium and the USA.
• January 20: John F. Kennedy is sworn in as the new President of the United States . He replaces Dwight D. Eisenhower .
• January 20: A meeting in Madrid between Jean-Jacques Susini , General Raoul Salan and Pierre Lagaillarde gives rise to the OAS , the French underground movement in the final phase of the Algerian war . She wants to thwart the looming independence of Algeria through terrorist acts .
• February 23: The German employers agree with the trade unions on the Federal Employees' Collective Bargaining Agreement (BAT) in the public sector .
• February 26th: With the death of his father Mohammed V , Hassan II becomes the new king in Morocco .
• February 27: Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba calls for the return of two French military bases in Tunisia at a meeting with French President Charles de Gaulle . Delayed negotiations as a result gave rise to the Bizerte crisis .
• March 1: Foundation of the Peace Corps
• March 3rd: King Hassan II ascends to the throne in Morocco .
• April 17th: Bay of Pigs invasion
• April 18: Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Afghanistan . In force since June 14, 1963
• April 21: On the night of April 22 coup in Algiers four conspiring generals of the French forces out of service - Raoul Salan , Maurice Challe , Edmond Jouhaud and André Zeller - against the Algerian policy of French President Charles de Gaulle . Foreign Legion soldiers bring Algiers under their control. The uprising ended unsuccessfully after a few days because the putschists found no support in motherland France.
• April 27: Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands . In force since April 21, 1962
• May 13th: The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland is established in North Korea .
• May 16: General Park Chung-hee takes power in South Korea with a military coup against the government of the Second Republic under Yun Bo-seon .
• May 30: In the Dominican Republic , its dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina is killed by conspirators when he is ambushed near Santo Domingo .
• May 31: The Republic of South Africa is proclaimed after exiting the British Commonwealth under pressure from other members .
• May 31: Following a referendum in February, the Muslim northern part of the British Cameroon Trust Territory joins neighboring Nigeria . The southern part grows over to Cameroon on October 1st .
• June 18: 28 people died in a bomb attack on the Strasbourg-Paris express train . The OAS is probably responsible .
• June 23: The Antarctic Treaty of December 1, 1959 comes into force.
• July 9: The Association Agreement between the EEC and Greece is signed.
• July 9: The new constitution is adopted by referendum in Turkey .
• July 19: The Bizerte crisis breaks out when Tunisians block the French military base . After four days of war in and around Bizerte , the dispute between Tunisia and France ends under UN mediation.
• July 31: The Association of South-East Asia (ASA), which is considered to be the forerunner of ASEAN, is launched in Bangkok .
• August 10: After Great Britain applied for membership the day before, Denmark also applies to join the European Economic Community (EEC) . Both states belong to the EFTA .
• August 13: Construction of the Berlin Wall begins
• August 26th: Burma becomes the first state in the world to make Buddhism the state religion through a constitutional amendment .
• September 8: French President Charles de Gaulle survives the attack in Pont-sur-Seine .
• September 17th: The CDU loses its absolute majority in the 1961 federal election .
• September 18: The plane with the acting UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld on board crashes under mysterious circumstances during a peacekeeping mission in the Congo . He is succeeded by U Thant .
• October 3: In the GDR , 3,175 people are forcibly evacuated from the restricted area during the Festigung or Kornblume campaign .
• October 10: A day before begun volcanic eruption on the remote Atlantic -Insel Tristan da Cunha forcing the evacuation of the entire population. The approximately 300 people will first be brought to the neighboring island of Nightingale Island and from there on to Great Britain . It was not until 1963 that the islanders were forced to return home.
• October 17: A demonstration by 30,000 Algerians in Paris against a curfew imposed on them because of the Algerian War leads to the Paris massacre, with an unknown number of dead, thousands of injured and 14,000 arrests, under the responsibility of then Police Prefect Maurice Papon .
• October 25: Soviet and American tanks hit Checkpoint Charlie after East German border guards prevented Western Allies from entering the Soviet sector. Only on October 28th did both sides withdraw again.
• October 31: The body of Josef Stalin is removed from the Lenin mausoleum in Moscow in the course of the Soviet de-Stalinization and buried at the Kremlin wall .
• November 6th: Tübingen memorandum , memorandum against nuclear armament and for the recognition of the Oder-Neisse border
• November 6th: Heinz Felfe , the head of counterintelligence in the Soviet Union at the Federal Intelligence Service , turns out to be a Soviet double agent and is arrested.
• November 9: Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Pakistan . In force since December 30, 1962
• November 10th: The Convention on the Protection of Lake Constance against Pollution comes into force
• November 14: Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt , the first Federal Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, is appointed.
• December 2: Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro declares himself a Marxist-Leninist in a radio address and proclaims the introduction of communism in Cuba .
• December 20: Dominican Republic. First free elections

business

• 5th February: The British weekly newspaper The Sunday Telegraph is founded.
• March 6th: the D-Mark is 4.76 percent more expensive ( appreciation ) compared to all world currencies and gold : 1 US dollar now costs 4.20 DM instead of 4.20 DM.
• March 15: Kassel is the first major German city to introduce parking with parking discs in the city center.
• June 1: ARD begins broadcasting a second German television program .
• June 1: Schering AG launches the birth control pill in Germany.
• July 25: The Rendsburg Canal Tunnel , a passage under the Kiel Canal , is opened to traffic.
• September 11: About the Bremer carmaker Borgward is bankruptcy opened after in July failed comparison procedure requested.
• September 11th: The first issue of the consumer magazine DM appears.
• October 30: the federal government of Adenauer III gives in to the pressure of the Turkish government and concludes a recruitment agreement for guest workers .

science and technology

• February 12: The Soviet Union sends the Venera 1 space probe on a journey to Venus . Radio contact with her is lost after a week.
• 14 February: A research team from the University of California, Berkeley announces that it successfully completed the synthesis of the chemical element 103 have been completed. The element is later named Lawrencium .
• March 25: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 10 with the dog Svyosdotschka on board as the last test before the manned space flight . The flight and return of the landing capsule are successful.
• April 12th: The first manned space flight in history starts: The spaceship Vostok with the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board.
• April 24th: The Vasa, which sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, is lifted in Stockholm .
• May 5: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to fly into space .
• May 15: Heinrich Matthaei discovers the genetic code. The birth of modern genetics and biotechnology
• June 17: Germany's first nuclear power plant in Kahl am Main ( Bavaria ) supplies nuclear power for the first time after three years of construction (→ Kahl experimental nuclear power plant ).
• August 6th: German Titow starts the second orbital space flight in the spaceship Vostok 2 .
• September 21: The Boeing-Vertol CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter takes to the skies for the first time.
• October 13th: Traffic psychologist Karl Peglau submits his proposal for the "East Ampelmännchen " in Berlin .
• October 30: The Tsar hydrogen bomb is detonated in Novaya Zemlya . To this day, the detonation is considered to be the largest human-made explosion.

Launch of Mercury Atlas 5

• November 29th: As part of the Mercury-Atlas 5 mission, a NASA orbital flight with an Atlas rocket is started with the chimpanzee Enos on board . After circling the earth twice, the Mercury capsule and the animal successfully watered .
• December 10th: Awarding of the Nobel Prizes in Stockholm. The German Rudolf Ludwig Mößbauer (1929–2011) received the Nobel Prize in Physics together with the American Robert Hofstadter (1915–1990). Mössbauer researches gamma rays. The Mössbauer effect he formulated enables the finest possible energy difference and frequency measurements , with which parts of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity can be proven. Hofstadter recognized the shell structure of atomic nuclei and showed in 1953 that protons and neutrons are not elementary, but are made up of even smaller particles.
• After thousands of known cases of deformity ( dysmelia ), the thalidomide brought onto the market in 1957 by the Stolberg-based company Grünenthal GmbH is withdrawn from the market.
• Foundation of the California Institute of the Arts

Culture

Margret Hofheinz-Döring : Geometric Event , 1961, oil

• January 10th: In East Berlin the imprimatur for the final volume of the German dictionary is given. 123 years after it was started by the Brothers Grimm , the work, comprising around 320,000 key words, is now complete.
• April 13: World premiere of the opera Intolleranza 1960 by Luigi Nono at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice
• April: The Milan Furniture Fair takes place for the first time
• May 14th: The Hessischer Rundfunk shows the first episode of the series It is allowed to laugh in the evening program of the ARD . Moderator Werner Schwier presents short films from the silent film era in a cheerful way .
• May 17: In the Ohel Theater in Tel Aviv is the comedy The marriage certificate of Ephraim Kishon premiered.
• May 20: World premiere of the opera Elegy for Young Lovers by Hans Werner Henze in Schwetzingen
• JULY 7: The Parisian publisher Gallimard brings Raymond Queneau's book hundred thousand billion poems out.
• Summer: Sculpture Symposium Kaisersteinbruch
• August 22: The first broadcast of music from Studio B with Chris Howland as the record presenter is broadcast on German TV ( ARD ) .
• SEPTEMBER 8: Stardust by Karl-Herbert Scheer appears as No. 1 in the series. Perry Rhodan
• September 25: World premiere of the opera Alkmene by Giselher Klebe at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Werner Rataiczyk : Felsiges Ufer , 1961, oil on hardboard

• October 14th: World premiere of the drama The clock strikes one by Carl Zuckmayer at the Burgtheater in Vienna
• October 15: World premiere of the opera Leonce and Lena by Kurt Schwaen at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
• November 15: Mr. Karl , a relentless portrayal of opportunistic petty bourgeoisie by Carl Merz and Helmut Qualtinger , is shown on television for the first time.
• December 17th: World premiere of the opera The Long Christmas Supper by Paul Hindemith at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim
• DECEMBER 21: Recording of the album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation by Ornette Coleman , the name for the free jazz provided.
• Max Frisch writes the play " Andorra ", which takes place in a fictional and not the real country of Andorra .
• Exquisite wine harvest in Bordeaux
• First implementation of the national competition Our village should become more beautiful - our village has a future .
• First award of the Golden Nymph

society

• DECEMBER 12: In France, Marie Besnard for lack of evidence by the prosecution of twelve times poison murder in the third criminal trial acquitted.

religion

• November 11: In the encyclical Aeterna Dei sapientia , Pope John XXIII praises . the doctor of the church Leo I as a wise shepherd. Rome is also the spiritual center for Christian unity. Every bishop of Rome visibly embodies unity.
• December 25th: With the apostolic constitution Humanae salutis , Pope John XXIII proclaims . the convocation of the Second Vatican Council .

environment

• September 11: The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is in Switzerland founded

Sports

• February 15: The entire 18-man national figure skating team of the USA and 16 other officials are killed in a plane crash while approaching Brussels .
• May 14th to October 8th: The 12th Formula 1 World Championship is held
• May 20th: By winning the rematch against Mikhail Tal , Mikhail Botvinnik gets back the world chess title .
• May 22nd: Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips wins the Dutch Grand Prix. The first victory for Graf Berghe von Trips is also the first Formula 1 victory for a German driver. It wasn't until 1975 that a German, Jochen Mass, would win a Formula 1 race again. He is also the first German driver to lead the Formula 1 drivers' championship. Michael Schumacher only succeeded in doing this again in 1994 .
• June 4th: First broadcast of the sports show
• September 10th: The German racing driver Graf Berghe von Trips had a fatal accident at the Italian Grand Prix . 15 spectators also die in the accident. Phil Hill becomes the first American to win the Formula 1 World Championship.

Civic Arena

• September 19: The Civic Arena in Pittsburgh opens, the first stadium with a retractable dome.

For entries of track and field world records see under the respective discipline under track and field world records .

Disasters

• March 13th: A flood disaster claims 145 lives in Babyn Yar .
• April 8: In the Persian Gulf , a severe explosion shakes the British passenger ship Dara , which is on its way to Basra . The ship burns down and sinks, 238 people die.
• July 12th: Casablanca , Morocco . Crash of a Czech Ilyushin Il-18
• July 19: A Douglas DC-6 of Aerolíneas Argentinas breaks apart in a climb near Buenos Aires ( Argentina ) due to strong turbulence at an altitude of 4800 m. All 67 inmates die; see also Aerolíneas Argentinas flight 644 .
• August 2: A coach crashes into Lake Lucerne , 16 American tourists die in the accident.
• September 1: A Lockheed L-049 Constellation of the TWA crash in Hinsdale , Illinois , USA , from. 78 of the 89 passengers died.
• September 16: The tail of Hurricane Debbie sweeps across the British Isles . The storm caused severe damage in Ireland and Great Britain, and eleven people died in Ireland. In Malin Head a wind speed of 181.5 km / h is measured.
• September 23: The ancient historians Hans Schaefer and Jacques Moreau and eight young scientists from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg are killed in a plane crash near Ankara . It is probably the greatest catastrophe for German ancient history apart from the time of the world wars and the Nazi dictatorship.
• October 5: In the Berliner Tor station in Hamburg, a S-Bahn passenger train collides with a construction train that the dispatcher overlooked. 28 people die, 55 are injured, some seriously.
• October 31: Hurricane Hattie destroys the capital of Belize
• December 17: In Niterói , Brazil, dissatisfied employees set a circus tent on fire during a performance . 323 people die in the circus fire and around 500 are injured.

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

Others

• March 13: The Baden-Württemberg Industrial Foremen Association is founded
• May 28: The British weekly newspaper The Observer publishes an appeal by lawyer Peter Benenson to campaign for the release of political prisoners through letters. Amnesty International is born.
• July 12: The wooden tower of the radio station Nürnberg-Kleinreuth is blown up

Born

January

• 0January 1st: Sergei Glazyev , Russian economist and politician
• 0January 1st: Albin Killat , German water diver
• 0January 1st: Sven Regener , German musician and writer
• 0January 2nd: Neil Dudgeon , British actor
• 0January 2: Todd Haynes , American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
• 0January 2nd: Ingo Lenßen , German lawyer and actor
• 0January 3: Susanne Riess-Passer , Austrian politician
• 0January 4th: Kristin Kloster Aasen , Norwegian lawyer and sports official
• 0January 4th: Eija Hyytiäinen , Finnish cross-country skier
• 0January 5th: Paul Ingendaay , German writer, journalist, literary critic and scholar
• 0January 5th: Henriette Müller , German saxophonist and composer
• 0January 6th: Tōru Tanabe , Japanese opera singer and actor
• 0January 6th: Erik Wøllo , Norwegian jazz and rock guitarist and composer
• 0January 7th: Roland Suso Richter , German film director
• 0January 7th: David Toub , American composer
• 0January 8th: Keith Charles Arkell , English chess player
• 0January 8: Stephan Baumecker , German actor
• 0January 8: Calvin Smith , American athlete and Olympic champion
• 0January 8th: Klaus Gattermann , German skier
• 0January 9: Uwe Anweiler , German soccer player
• January 11th: Karl Habsburg-Lothringen , Austrian politician
• January 12th: Andrea Carnevale , Italian soccer player
• January 12th: Stefano Ceccaroni , Swiss-Italian football coach
• January 13: Julia Louis-Dreyfus , American actress

Julia Louis-Dreyfus , 2012

• January 13th: Andreas Marschall , German artist and filmmaker
• January 13: Wayne Marshall , English pianist, organist and conductor
• January 14th: Christian Henking , Swiss composer, conductor and choir director
• January 14th: Tom Kummer , Swiss journalist
• January 16: Ingrid Kaiserfeld , Austrian opera singer
• January 16: Kenneth Sivertsen , Norwegian guitarist, songwriter and humorist († 2006)
• January 17th: Maia Chiburdanidze , Georgian chess player
• January 17th: Karin Lamberg-Skog , Swedish cross-country skier
• January 18: Mark Messier , Canadian ice hockey player
• January 18: Mikhail Shishkin , Russian writer and journalist
• January 19: Rose Hudson-Wilkin , Church of England Clergyman
• January 19: Paul McCrane , American actor, director and screenwriter
• January 19th: Ufo Walter , German bass player, arranger and sound designer
• January 20: Sven Rohde , German journalist
• January 21: Manfred Müller , German local politician
• January 21: Cornelia Pröll , Austrian ski racer
• January 22nd: Narine Antonyan , Armenian table tennis player
• January 22nd: Randy Larsen , American philosopher and radio producer
• January 22nd: Frank-Martin Neupärtl , German local politician († 2014)
• January 23: Fausto Gresini , Italian motorcycle racer († 2021)
• January 24th: Guido Buchwald , German professional soccer player and soccer coach

Guido Buchwald

• January 24th: Wulf R. Halbach , German media and communication scientist († 2009)
• January 24th: Christa Kinshofer , German ski racer
• January 24th: Nastassja Kinski , German actress

Nastassja Kinski , 2009

• January 24th: Evi Kratzer , Swiss cross-country skier
• January 24th: Karl-Heinz Smuda , German journalist, editor, ghostwriter and publisher
• January 24th: Alissa Walser , German writer, painter and translator
• January 25: Miguel Martins Abrahão , Brazilian writer, historian and playwright
• January 26: Wayne Gretzky , Canadian ice hockey player
• January 26: Benjamin Rausseo , Venezuelan comedian and entertainer
• January 28th: Arnaldur Indriðason , Icelandic crime novelist
• January 28th: Rémy Pochauvin , French racing car driver
• January 29th: Michael Autengruber , German phalerist, historian and theologian
• January 29th: Mark von Seydlitz , German film director and film producer
• January 30th: Ulrike Dietmann , German author
• January 30th: Gerardo Di Giusto , Argentine composer and pianist
• January 30: Richard Reichensperger , Austrian journalist and literary critic († 2004)
• January 31: Torsten Michaelis , German actor

February

• 0February 1st: Armin Veh , German soccer coach
• 0February 2: Rintschinnjamyn Amardschargal , Mongolian Prime Minister
• 0February 2: Lauren Lane , American actress
• 0February 2nd: Otmar Schmelzer , German cabaret artist and winemaker
• 0February 3: Jay Adams , American professional skateboarder († 2014)
• 0February 4th: Neal Asher , English science fiction writer
• 0February 4: Stewart O'Nan , American writer
• 0February 5th: Dietmar Bär , German actor

Dietmar Bär , 2011

• 0February 6: Florence Aubenas , French journalist
• 0February 6: Bernd Dittert , German track cyclist, national trainer in track cycling
• 0February 6: Malu Dreyer , German politician
• 0February 7th: Jacek Grudzień , Polish composer
• 0February 7th: Dieter Schlindwein , German soccer player
• 0February 8: Ralf Åkesson , Swedish chess grandmaster
• 0February 8: Ellen Arnhold , German TV presenter
• 0February 8: Christian Fitzek , German handball player and handball trainer
• 0February 8: Vince Neil , American musician
• 0February 9: Akira Sasō , Japanese mangaka
• February 10: Eva Pfaff , German tennis player
• February 10: Alexander Payne , American film director
• February 11: Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski , Polish politician
• February 11: Andreas Krautscheid , German politician and Member of the Bundestag a. D., lawyer
• February 11: George Balint , Romanian composer, conductor and pianist († 2019)
• February 12: Salvador Mejía , Mexican television producer
• February 13: Jürgen Adams , German ice hockey player
• February 16: Kelly Milligan , American cross-country skier
• February 17th: Olivier Charlier , French violinist
• February 17th: Angela Eagle , British politician
• February 17th: Ariane Ehrat , Swiss ski racer
• February 17th: Andrei Korotajew , Russian orientalist, anthropologist, historian and economist
• February 18th: Marion Aizpors , German swimmer
• February 18: Werner Biermeier , Swiss actor
• February 18: Armin Laschet , Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia and Federal Chairman of the CDU

Armin Laschet (2018)

• February 18: Hagen Liebing , musician and chief music editor at the city magazine Tip Berlin († 2016)
• February 18: Frank Schulz , German soccer player and cup winner
• February 19: Pirjo Aalto , Finnish biathlete
• February 19: Philippe Auguin , French conductor
• February 19: Justin Fashanu , British football player († 1998)
• February 19: Saul Zaks , Argentine conductor and music teacher
• February 20: Emanuela von Frankenberg , Swiss actress
• February 20: Imogen Stubbs , British actress
• February 21: Christopher Atkins , American actor
• February 21: Martha Hackett , American actress
• February 21: Andreas Modl , Federal Advisor for the American Karate System in the German Karate Association
• February 22nd: Cristina Anghelescu , Romanian violinist
• February 22nd: Lowell Liebermann , American composer
• February 23: Yohannes Haile-Selassie , Ethiopian paleoanthropologist
• February 23: Diego Murillo Bejarano , Colombian paramilitary and drug trafficker
• February 24: Giancarlo Corradini , Italian football player and coach
• February 24th: Juana-Maria von Jascheroff , German actress, voice actress and reincarnation therapist
• February 24: Erna Solberg , Norwegian Conservative politician
• February 25: Hermann Gröhe , German politician
• February 27: Andreas Fulterer , Italian singer († 2016)
• February 27: Hans-Jörg Klindt , German handball trainer , teacher and former handball player
• February 27: James Worthy , American basketball player
• February 28: Éric Bachelart , Belgian racing car driver and racing team owner
• February 28: Mark Latham , Australian politician and Chairman of the Australian Labor Party
• February 28: Klaus-Peter Willsch , German politician and Member of the Bundestag

March

• 0March 1st: Hiroyasu Aizawa , Japanese ski jumper
• 0March 1: Albert Mülleder , Austrian cathedral music director at Wiener Neustadt († 1999)
• 0March 2nd: Ingeborg Gräßle , German politician
• 0March 4th: Sabine Everts , German athlete
• 0March 4th: Erwin Resch , Austrian ski racer
• 0March 5th: Dirk Schäfer , German director and documentary filmmaker
• 0March 7th: Gabriele Andretta , German politician
• 0March 7th: Danny Tenaglia , DJ and record producer
• 0March 7th: Bice Vanzetta , Italian cross-country skier
• 0March 8: Roland Bless , German musician
• 0March 8: José Feghali , Brazilian pianist and music teacher († 2014)
• 0March 8: Gabriele Lechner , Austrian opera and concert singer
• 0March 8: Larry Murphy , Canadian ice hockey player
• March 10: Adam Abramowicz , Polish politician
• March 10: Mike Bullard , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• March 10: Miguel Leal , Portuguese show jumper († 2021)
• March 11: Elias Koteas , Canadian actor
• March 11th: Frank Lüdecke , German cabaret artist
• March 11: Barbara Schaefer , German journalist and author
• March 13: Frank Gersch , German handball player
• March 13: Vasily Ignatenko , Soviet liquidator in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster († 1986)
• March 13: Sebastiano Nela , Italian football player
• March 13: Masahiko Shimada , Japanese writer
• March 14: Joseph Ascione , American jazz drummer († 2016)
• March 14th: Lutz Grosser , German handball goalkeeper
• March 15th: Sabine Baeß , German figure skater
• March 15: Piotr Grella-Możejko , Polish composer
• March 15th: Max Julen , Swiss ski racer, Olympic champion
• March 15: Wavel Ramkalawan , President of the Seychelles
• March 16: Todd McFarlane , Canadian-American comic book artist
• March 18: Heidi Preuss , American ski racer
• March 18: Grant Hart , American drummer, guitarist and songwriter († 2017)
• March 19: Jim Matthews , American racing car driver
• March 19: Dana Reeve , American actress († 2006)
• March 19: Rune Bratseth , Norwegian football player
• March 20: Maja Maranow , German actress († 2016)
• March 20: Ingrid Arndt-Brauer , German politician
• March 21: Kassie DePaiva , American actress and singer.

Hubert Kah , 2014

• March 21: Hubert Kah , German musician

Lothar Matthäus

• March 21: Lothar Matthäus , German soccer player
• March 22nd: Ingolf Roßberg , Lord Mayor of Dresden
• March 23: Eivind Aarset , Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer
• March 23rd: Andino , German magician
• March 23: Petra Selg , German politician
• March 23: Steve Holmes , Romanian-German porn actor
• March 23: Tomás Saldaña , Spanish racing car driver
• March 24th: Nina Hoger , German actress
• March 24th: Jörg Baberowski , German historian
• March 25: Kazuhiko Aoki , Japanese politician
• March 25: Joachim Müller , German soccer player
• March 25th: Kazuhito Yamashita , Japanese concert guitarist
• March 27: Giesbert Damaschke , German Germanist and journalist
• March 27: Bettina Klix , German writer
• March 27: Takahiro Matsumoto , Japanese guitarist, songwriter and composer
• March 27th: Tony Rominger , Swiss cyclist
• March 28: Orla Brady , Irish actress
• March 28: Barbara Wussow , Austrian television actress
• March 29: Matt Letley , British drummer
• March 29th: Michael Winterbottom , British film director
• March 30th: Kosayodhin Apirak , Thai manager and politician
• March 30th: Jóhann Ásmundsson , Icelandic musician
• March 30th: Carsten Meyer-Heder , German politician (CDU)
• March 30th: Mike Thackwell , New Zealand racing car driver
• March 31: Jessica Kosmalla , German actress

April

• 0April 1st: Regine Mösenlechner , German ski racer
• 0April 1st: Marco Di Piazza , Italian artist
• 0April 2: Karina Thayenthal , German actress

Eddie Murphy , 1988

• 0April 3: Angelo d'Arrigo , Italian paraglider and hang-glider pilot († 2006)
• 0April 3: Elizabeth Gracen , American actress
• 0April 3: Eddie Murphy , American actor and comedian
• 0April 3: Bastienne Schmidt , German photographer
• 0April 4: Klaus Hentschel , German physicist and science historian
• 0April 4th: Markus Löw , German soccer player
• 0April 4th: Erika Strobl , Austrian guitarist
• 0April 5th: Andrea Arnold , British director and actress
• 0April 5th: Michael Biegler , German handball trainer
• 0April 7th: Luigi De Agostini , Italian football player
• 0April 7th: Satoshi Hoshino , Japanese entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 0April 7th: Marco Rima , Swiss actor and cabaret artist
• 0April 7th: Athanasius Schneider , Kazakh-German religious priest and auxiliary bishop
• 0April 8: Hermann-Josef Scharf , German politician
• 0April 8: Ulf Montanus , German actor, presenter and politician
• 0April 9: Jean Aussanaire , French jazz musician († 2017)
• 0April 9: Robert Zoller , Austrian ski racer
• April 10: Heinrich Steinfest , Austrian crime writer
• April 12: Lisa Gerrard , Australian musician and singer
• April 12th: Christophe Rousset , French harpsichordist and conductor
• April 12th: Axel Wöstmann , German lawyer and rower
• April 13th: Georg Bätzing , Bishop of Limburg, Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference
• April 13: Uwe Huebner , German radio and television presenter

Robert Carlyle (2014)

• April 14th: Regina Asendorf , German politician
• April 14th: Robert Carlyle , Scottish actor
• April 14th: Maximilian Heim , German-Austrian priest monk and abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz
• April 15th: José Anigo , French football player, coach and official
• April 15: Luca Barbarossa , Italian singer
• April 15: Aldo Bertuzzi , Italian racing car driver
• April 15: Michael Paul , German handball player
• April 15: Kerstin Walther , German athlete
• April 17th: Geet Sethi , Indian billiards player and world champion
• April 18: Franco Cesarini , Swiss composer and conductor
• April 19: Kirsten Emmelmann , German athlete
• April 19: David Klein , Swiss musician and composer
• April 19: Baldassarre Monti , Italian motorcycle racer († 2008)
• April 19: Bernd Stelter , German comedian, presenter, actor, carnivalist
• April 20: Paolo Barilla , Italian racing car driver
• April 22nd: Flemming Hansen , Danish handball player
• April 22: Jeff Hostetler , American football player
• April 23: Ralf Agolli , German soccer coach

Dirk Bach , 2009

• April 23: Dirk Bach , German actor, presenter and comedian († 2012)
• April 23: Chris Kneifel , American racing driver and motorsport official
• April 23: Frank Lippmann , German soccer player
• April 23: Pierluigi Martini , Italian racing car driver
• April 24th: Wolfgang Dienelt , German soccer player
• April 25: Carl Allen , American jazz musician
• April 25th: Agneta Andersson , Swedish canoeist, Olympic and world champion
• April 25: Markus Büchel , Liechtenstein sprinter
• April 25: Frank De Winne , Belgian astronaut
• April 25: Ralf Forster , German soccer player († 2020)
• April 25: Truls Mørk , Norwegian cellist
• April 25: Sonja Ohlenschläger , German art and cultural historian († 2020)
• April 25: Vladimir Sachnow , Soviet cross-country skier
• April 26: Leif Andersson , Swedish biathlete
• April 26: Joan Chen , Sino-American actress and director
• April 26: Mike Francis , Italian singer and composer († 2009)
• April 27: Karl Alpiger , Swiss ski racer
• April 27: Moana Pozzi , Italian actress († 1994)
• April 27th: Mónica Regonesi , Chilean middle and long distance runner
• April 28: Julia Jones , British conductor
• April 28th: Anna Oxa , Italian singer
• April 29th: Kévork Assadourian , Syrian clergyman
• April 29th: Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass , Norwegian cross-country skier
• April 30th: Arnór Guðjohnsen , Icelandic football player
• April 30: Isiah Thomas , American basketball player
• April 30th: Franky Van Der Elst , Belgian football player
• April 30th: Eric Van Lancker , Belgian cyclist

May

• 0May 1st: Jan van Aken , German activist and politician
• 0May 1: Clint Malarchuk , Canadian ice hockey player
• 0May 2: Stephen Daldry , theater and film director
• 0May 3: Leyla Zana , Kurdish politician and human rights activist
• 0May 4th: Luis Herrera , Colombian cyclist
• 0May 5: Russ Adam , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 0May 5th: Martin Brudermüller , German chemist and manager
• 0May 5th: Beat Schlatter , Swiss cabaret artist, actor and screenwriter
• 0May 5th: Tobias Seyb , German musician
• 0May 5th: Andreas Wittmann , German oboist

George Clooney , 2009

• 0May 6: George Clooney , American actor, screenwriter, producer and director
• 0May 7th: Hans-Peter Bartels , German politician
• 0May 7th: Phil Campbell , British guitarist and musician
• 0May 7: Robert Spano , American conductor, pianist and composer
• 0May 7th: Mihaela Stănculescu-Vosganian , Romanian composer
• 0May 9: John Corbett , American actor
• May 10: Béatrice Abgrall , French table tennis player
• May 10: Henry Arnold , German actor, musician and director
• May 10: Danny Carey , American drummer
• May 10: Roberto Cotroneo , Italian writer and publicist
• May 10: Johanna ter Steege , Dutch actress
• May 11: Christiane Arp , German journalist
• May 12: Andreas Cichowicz , German journalist and television presenter
• May 12: Thomas Dooley , American soccer player
• May 12th: Billy Duffy , British guitarist
• May 12: Christian Hellmann , German journalist
• May 13: Ásta Breiðfjörð Gunnlaugsdóttir , Icelandic football player
• May 13: Dennis Rodman , American basketball player, NBA player
• May 13: Yutaka Sado , Japanese conductor

Ulrike Folkerts , 2013

• May 14: Ulrike Folkerts , German actress

Urban Priol , 2007

• May 14: Urban Priol , German cabaret artist, writer and radio and television presenter
• May 14: Tim Roth , English actor
• May 14: Jean Leloup , French-Canadian musician
• May 15: Katrin Cartlidge , British actress († 2002)
• May 15: Melle Mel , American hip hop musician
• May 16: Gerhard Papke , German politician
• May 16: Rusiate Rogoyawa , Fijian cross-country skier
• May 16: Solveig Dommartin , French actress († 2007)
• May 17th: Enya , Irish musician and singer
• May 17th: João Paulo Esteves da Silva , Portuguese jazz pianist and composer
• May 18th: Ully Arndt , German comic artist and illustrator
• May 18: Kerstin Jüttemann , German lawyer
• May 19: Andrzej Andrzejewski , Polish Brigadier General († 2008)
• May 19: Firdaus Kabirow , Russian marathon rally driver
• May 20: Nick Heyward , English musician
• May 20th: Vaughn Jefferis , New Zealand eventing rider
• May 20: Nasser Zahedi , German doctor and artist of Persian origin
• May 21: Ewald Stadler , Austrian politician
• May 21: Vida Vencienė , Soviet-Lithuanian cross-country skier
• May 22nd: Edgar Mann , German composer and pianist
• May 23: Daniele Massaro , Italian soccer player
• May 24th: Shō Aikawa , Japanese actor
• May 24th: Aivars Aksenoks , Latvian politician
• May 24th: Friedrich Küppersbusch , German journalist and television producer
• May 24th: Maria Rosa Quario , Italian ski racer
• May 24: Jarmo Savolainen , Finnish jazz pianist and composer († 2009)
• May 24: Yūichi Shinpo , Japanese writer
• May 24th: Johannes Zweytick , Austrian winemaker and politician
• May 25: Zafer Şenocak , German-Turkish writer
• May 26th: Matthias Ahrens , German cross-country skier, biathlete and biathlon trainer
• May 26: Juris Tone , Latvian bobsledder and athlete
• May 27: Peri Gilpin , American actress
• May 27th: Pierre-Henri Raphanel , French racing car driver
• May 28: Ömer Asan , Turkish folklorist, photographer and author
• May 29: Thomas Bucheli , Swiss meteorologist and television presenter
• May 29: Kerstin Hensel , German writer

Melissa Etheridge , 2008

• May 29: Melissa Etheridge , American singer and rock musician
• May 30th: Sabine Vitua , German actress
• May 31: Lea Thompson , American actress

June

• 0June 1st: Gabi Zange , German speed skater
• 0June 1: Klaus Peter Berger , German legal scholar
• 0June 1: Paul Coffey , Canadian ice hockey player
• 0June 1st: Sophie Rois , Austrian actress and singer
• 0June 1st: Werner Günthör , Swiss athlete
• 0June 2: Manfred Ahne , German ice hockey player
• 0June 3: Norbert Gstrein , Austrian writer
• 0June 3: Lawrence Lessig , American law professor, Creative Commons inventor
• 0June 3rd: Beat Züger , Swiss chess player
• 0June 4th: Rainer Castor , German science fiction author († 2015)
• 0June 4th: Ferenc Gyurcsány , Hungarian businessman, politician and Prime Minister
• 0June 5th: Anke Behmer , German athlete
• 0June 5th: Ramesh Krishnan , Indian tennis player
• 0June 5: Mary Kay Bergman , American voice actress († 1999)
• 0June 6: Gary Thomas , American jazz musician
• 0June 6th: Wolfgang Trautwein , German marksman
• 0June 6th: Tom Araya , bassist and singer for the band Slayer
• 0June 8: Kurt Artner , Austrian marksman († 2005)
• 0June 8th: Janina Hartwig , German actress
• 0June 8: Earl Strickland , American pool player
• 0June 9: Lisa del Bo , Belgian singer
• 0June 9th: Ragnhild Bratberg , Norwegian orienteer and cross-country skier

Michael J. Fox , 2011

• 0June 9: Michael J. Fox , Canadian director and film actor
• 0June 9th: Pascal Gibon , French racing car driver and entrepreneur
• 0June 9: Michael Meister , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• June 10: Kim Deal , American musician
• June 10: Dietrich Hahne , German composer and media artist
• June 10: Ingo Reidl , German composer and producer

Hannelore Kraft

• June 12: Gary Athans , Canadian alpine ski racer
• June 12th: Gerhard Jilka , German actor, theater director and voice actor
• June 12: Hannelore Kraft , German politician
• June 12th: Johan van der Linden , Dutch saxophonist, arranger and composer

Boy George , 2007

Karin Enke

• June 13: Doris Appel , Austrian journalist and television presenter
• June 14: Boy George , British singer
• June 14th: Dirk Schlegel , German soccer player
• June 15: Rene Arredondo , Mexican boxer
• June 15th: Halvor Asphol , Norwegian ski jumper
• June 15: Laurent Cantet , French director, screenwriter, cameraman
• June 15: Angá Díaz , Cuban percussionist († 2006)
• June 15: Kai Eckhardt , German jazz and fusion musician
• June 16: Robert Schneider , Austrian writer
• June 17th: Denis Lavant , French actor
• June 17th: Luca Marmorini , Italian engine technician
• June 17th: Muslimgauze , English musician († 1999)
• June 17th: Heike Trinker , German actress
• June 18: Jörg Löhr , German handball player and business advisor
• June 18: Alison Moyet , British singer
• June 18: Randy Spears , American porn actor
• June 19: Bidhya Devi Bhandari , President of Nepal
• June 20th: Belkis Concepción , Dominican singer
• June 20: Karin Enke , German speed skater
• June 21: Manu Chao , French singer and guitarist of Basque-Galician descent
• June 21: Sissel Tolaas , Norwegian artist and professor
• June 21: Felix Vörtler , German actor
• June 21: Joko Widodo , Indonesian entrepreneur and politician, President
• June 22nd: Jürgen Angelow , German historian and writer
• June 22: Lance J. Dixon , American theoretical particle physicist
• June 22nd: Patrice Lafargue , French racing driver and entrepreneur

Jimmy Somerville , 2006

• June 22nd: Jimmy Somerville , British musician
• June 23: Rui Abreu , Portuguese swimmer († 1982)
• June 23: Mark Armstrong , British show jumper
• June 23: David Leavitt , American writer
• June 23: Andrea Borella , Italian fencer and Olympic champion
• June 24th: Susanne Beyer , German athlete
• June 24th: Marvin O. Smith Junior , American jazz drummer
• June 25: Timur Bekmambetov , Russian film producer
• June 25: Ricky Gervais , British comedian, radio host and actor
• June 26th, Peter von Haller , German cameraman
• June 26: Greg LeMond , American cyclist
• June 27th: André Ahrlé , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
• June 28: Irina Wanka , German-Austrian actress and voice actress
• June 29th: Meredith Gardner , Canadian freestyle skier
• June 29: Greg Hetson , American guitarist
• June 29: Sharon Lawrence , American actress
• June 29: Jörg Meuthen , German economist and politician
• June 30th: Undine Bremer , German athlete
• June 30: Christian Wewerka , German actor and speaker

July

• 0July 1: Vito Bratta , American musician
• 0July 1st: Rolf Kasparek , German musician
• 0July 1: Fredy Schmidtke , German track cyclist and Olympic champion († 2017)

Diana Spencer

• 0July 1: Diana of Wales , wife of the English heir to the throne Charles († 1997)

Carl Lewis

• 0July 1: Carl Lewis , American athlete, Olympic champion
• 0July 2nd: Jürgen Aring , German geographer and city planner
• 0July 4th: Wolf Bachofner , German actor
• 0July 4th: Richard Garriott , computer game developer

Richard Garriott , 2006

• 0July 5: Mikaël Antoine Mouradian , Armenian Bishop in New York
• 0July 5: Andreas Müller , German youth judge
• 0July 6: Robin Antin , American choreographer, video director, and actress
• 0July 6: Benita Fitzgerald-Brown , American athlete and Olympic champion
• 0July 6: Robert Heaton , British drummer († 2004)
• 0July 6: Lionginas Virbalas , Archbishop of Lithuania
• 0July 8: Toby Keith , American country singer
• 0July 8: Andrew Fletcher , British musician
• July 10: Ulla Kock am Brink , German TV presenter
• July 12th: Espen Andersen , Norwegian Nordic combined
• July 12th: Torsten Müller , German agricultural scientist
• July 13: Anders Järryd , Swedish tennis player
• July 14th: Jackie Earle Haley , American actor
• July 15: Christoph Matschie , German politician
• July 15: Jean-Christophe Grangé , French writer
• July 15: Forest Whitaker , American actor, producer and director
• July 16: Paulus Hochgatterer , Austrian writer and psychoanalyst
• July 17th: Guru , American rapper († 2010)
• July 17: Zbigniew Zamachowski , Polish actor
• July 18: Katja Alves , Swiss writer
• July 18th: Conny Kissling , Swiss freestyle skier
• July 18: Elizabeth McGovern , American actress
• July 18: Pasi Rautiainen , Finnish football player
• July 19: Ralf Göbel , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• July 19: Ursula Heller , German television journalist
• July 19: Niall Mackenzie , British motorcycle racer
• July 19: Stefan Pfeistlinger , Austrian theater maker
• July 19: Alexander Blume , German blues and boogie pianist
• July 20th: Ria Visser , Dutch speed skater
• July 20: Jürgen Wolf , German organist and conductor
• July 21: Jim Martin , American musician
• July 22nd: Ibo Bekirovic , German singer († 2000)
• July 22nd: Ueli Schmezer , Swiss journalist, moderator and musician
• July 22nd: Keith Sweat , American R&B singer
• July 23: Alex Capus , Swiss writer
• July 23: Martin Gore , British musician
• July 23: Woody Harrelson , American actor
• July 25: Franz Engstler , German automobile racing driver
• July 25: Katherine Kelly Lang , American actress
• July 26th: Thierry Antinori , French manager
• July 26th: Keiko Matsui , Japanese keyboardist and composer
• July 26th: Michael Trischan , German actor
• July 27: Jochen Malmsheimer , German cabaret artist
• July 27: Juri Schlünz , German soccer player
• July 28th: Yannick Dalmas , French racing car driver
• July 28: Cornelia Yzer , German politician
• July 29th: Frank Appel , German manager
• July 30th: Achdé , French comic artist
• July 30: Laurence Fishburne , American actor
• July 31: Isabel Varell , German singer, actress and television presenter
• July 31: Volker G. Schmitz , German television presenter
• July 31: Bettina Hradecsni , Austrian-Lebanese MP for the Greens
• July 31: Karin Jäger , German cross-country skier

August

• 0August 1st: Allen Berg , Canadian racing car driver
• 0August 1st: Danny Blind , Dutch soccer player
• 0August 1st: Roland Wille , Liechtenstein marathon runner
• 0August 2nd: David Binney , American jazz musician
• 0August 2nd: Cui Jian , Korean-Chinese rock musician
• 0August 2nd: Gustav Weder , Swiss bobsleigh driver
• 0August 3: Uschi Zietsch , German fantasy and science fiction author
• 0August 3: Jochen Feldmann , German physicist
• 0August 4th: Andreas Anter , German soccer player

Barack Obama

• 0August 4th: Barack Obama , American politician, 44th President of the USA
• 0August 4th: Bart van Wees , Dutch physicist
• 0August 5th: Janet McTeer , British actress
• 0August 5: Mark O'Connor , American violinist, composer, and music educator
• 0August 6: Reno Achenbach , German soccer player († 2010)
• 0August 6: Steffen Dick , German lawyer
• 0August 6th: Terje Næss , Norwegian long-distance runner
• 0August 7th: Gesine Lötzsch , German politician
• 0August 7th: Octavian Morariu , Romanian rugby union player and sports official
• 0August 7th: Carlos Vives , Colombian singer and actor
• 0August 8th: The Edge , guitarist for Irish band U2
• August 10: Nicolas Berggruen , German-American financial investor
• August 11: Rachel Laurin , Canadian composer and organist
• August 12: Andreas Suchanek , German business ethicist
• August 12: Kristin Krohn Devold , Norwegian Conservative politician
• August 12: Andrea Maria Dusl , Austrian film director
• August 12: Roy Hay , British musician
• August 12: Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskych , Ukrainian athlete
• August 12th: Gottardo Gottardi , Swiss chess grandmaster in correspondence chess
• August 13: Chad Brown , American poker player († 2014)
• August 13: Dawnn Lewis , American actress and voice actress
• August 15: Chris Brown , American baseball player († 2006)
• August 15: Matt Johnson , British musician
• August 15: Dietmar Mögenburg , German athlete
• August 16: Robert Ameerali , Vice President of Suriname
• August 16: Elpidia Carrillo , Mexican actress
• August 17th: Stephan Hauck , German handball player
• August 17th: Uwe Schmitt , German athlete († 1995)
• August 18: Birol Ünel , German actor († 2020)
• August 19: Jonathan Coe , English writer
• August 19: Darryl Wills , American racing car driver
• August 20: Greg Egan , Australian science fiction writer
• August 20: Peter Krause , German cameraman
• August 20: Joachim Rukwied , German farmer and agricultural functionary
• August 20: Maren Winter , German writer
• August 21: Gerardo Barbero , Argentine chess grandmaster († 2001)
• August 21: Stephen Hillenburg , American inventor of the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants († 2018)
• August 21: David Morales , American house musician and DJ
• August 22nd: Alexander Dwornikow , Russian Colonel General
• August 22nd: Thomas Hoeren , German professor for information and media law
• August 22nd: Debbi Peterson , American musician
• August 23: Dean DeLeo , American rock guitarist
• August 23: Alexandre Desplat , French composer
• August 24th: Jared Harris , British actor
• August 25: Jürgen Braun , German communications consultant and politician
• August 25: Billy Ray Cyrus , American country singer
• August 25: Joanne Whalley , British actress
• August 26: Jürgen Wild , German officer and manager
• August 27: Yolanda Adams , American gospel singer
• August 27: Thomas Buchholz , German composer

Tom Ford

• August 27: Tom Ford , American fashion designer
• August 28: Kim Appleby , British singer
• August 28: Stefan Arndt , German film producer
• August 28: Saskia Esken , German politician
• August 28: Ad Freundorfer , German artist
• August 29: Ahmed Aboutaleb , Dutch politician
• August 29: Philipp Moog , German actor and voice actor
• August 31: Neill Archer , English tenor
• August 31: Bruce Guthro , Canadian folk singer
• August 31: Dimitrios Tsionanis , Greek football player

September

• 0September 1st: Gitta Schüßler , German politician
• 0September 2nd: Hasmik Papian , Armenian soprano
• 0September 2nd: Carlos Valderrama , Colombian soccer player
• 0September 3: Michael Schulz , German soccer player
• 0September 6th: Willy Astor , Bavarian cabaret artist, musician and composer
• 0September 6th: Pål Waaktaar , Norwegian pop musician
• 0September 7th: Jochen Horst , German actor
• 0September 7th: Peter Lehmann , German business IT specialist
• 0September 7th: Jean-Yves Thibaudet , French pianist
• 0September 8th: Andreas Feldtkeller , German theologian
• 0September 9: Jan-Eric Antonsson , Swedish badminton player
• 0September 9: Pietro Lagnese , Italian bishop
• 0September 9: Aljoscha Schwarz , German writer, psychologist and philosopher
• September 10: Jörg Freimuth , German athlete
• September 11th: Philip Ardagh , British author of children's books
• September 11th: Ingrid Puller , Austrian politician
• September 11th: Torsten Sense , German actor and voice actor
• September 11th: Klaus Stöber , German politician
• September 12: Mylène Farmer , Franco-Canadian pop singer
• September 13: Željko Buvač , Bosnian football coach
• September 13: Tom Holt , British fantasy writer
• September 13: Walter Hörmann , Austrian soccer coach
• September 13: Dave Mustaine , American singer and guitarist
• September 14th: Martina Gedeck , German actress
• September 15: Hendrikje Fitz , German actress († 2016)
• September 15: Dan Marino , American football player
• September 18: James Gandolfini , American actor († 2013)
• September 19: Katsu Aki , Japanese mangaka
• September 19: Peter Autschbach , German guitarist, composer and music teacher
• September 19: Artur Ekert , Polish-British physicist
• September 19: Reinhard Grindel , German politician and sports official
• September 19: Susanne Holst , German TV presenter
• September 20: Erwin Koeman , Dutch soccer player
• September 21: Thomas Klemm , German musician, composer and music producer
• September 21: Christoph Specht , German doctor, medical journalist and filmmaker
• September 22nd: Scott Baio , American actor
• September 22: Catherine Oxenberg , American actress
• September 23: Gabriela Bähr , German lawyer
• September 23: Daúde , Brazilian singer, actress and model
• September 23: Manfred Schubert-Zsilavecz , Austrian scientist
• September 24th: Michael Tavera , American composer
• September 25: Heather Locklear , American actress
• September 27th: Thomas Bauer , German Arabist and Islamic scholar
• September 27: Andy Lau , actor and all-rounder from Hong Kong
• September 27th: Jean-Marc Rozon , Canadian freestyle skier
• September 28: Jordanka Donkowa , Bulgarian athlete and Olympic champion

Julia Gillard

• September 29: Julia Gillard , British-Australian politician
• September 29: Dagmar H. Mueller , German author of children's and youth literature
• September 30: Eric Stoltz , American actor and director
• September 30th: Eric van de Poele , Belgian racing car driver

October

• 0October 1: Gary Ablett Sr. , Australian Australian football player
• 0October 1st: Thomas von Heesen , German soccer player and coach
• 0October 1st: Kay Johannsen , German organist, harpsichordist, conductor and choir director
• 0October 1st: Walter Mazzarri , Italian football player and coach
• 0October 3: Walter Hainer , German soccer player
• 0October 3: Ludger Stühlmeyer , German cantor, composer and musicologist
• 0October 3rd: Anders Larsson , Swedish cross-country skier
• 0October 4th: Henry Amike , Nigerian athlete
• 0October 4th: Jon Secada , American singer and songwriter
• 0October 4th: Kazuki Takahashi , Japanese mangaka
• 0October 5th: Bernd Arnholdt , German soccer player
• 0October 6th: Immacolata Amodeo , Italian literary scholar
• 0October 6: Oliver Bukowski , German playwright
• 0October 6th: Katrin Dörre-Heinig , German long-distance runner and Olympic bronze medalist
• 0October 6: Moshe Lion , Israeli entrepreneur, leader and politician

Matthias Brandt , 2009

• 0October 7th: Matthias Brandt , German theater and television actor
• 0October 9: Julian Bailey , British racing car driver
• 0October 9: Arlene Boxhall , Zimbabwean hockey player
• 0October 9th: Martial Fesselier , French sports enthusiast
• October 10: Oliver P. Aro , Filipino theologian
• October 10: Éric Berthon , French freestyle skier
• October 10: Danuta Stenka , Polish actress
• October 10: Eckart Würzner , German politician, Lord Mayor of Heidelberg
• October 11th: Hany Abu-Assad , Dutch-Palestinian film director
• October 11th: Ali Asad , British cameraman
• October 11th: Alfred Dorfer , Austrian actor and cabaret artist
• October 11: Gilda , Argentine pop singer († 1996)
• October 12: Malik Mansurov , Azerbaijani tarplayer and music teacher
• October 12th: Chris Mike , German music producer, composer and guitarist
• October 12th: Mary Wagner , German athlete
• October 14: Perry Anderson , Canadian ice hockey player
• October 14th: Brian Laws , former English soccer player
• October 15th: Mikael Appelgren , Swedish table tennis player
• October 16: Wilma Delissen-van Tongerlo , Dutch politician
• October 16: Gene Jackson , American jazz musician
• October 17th: Rainer Heller , Mayor of Detmold
• October 17th: Thomas Mohr , German singer (tenor)
• October 18: Othmane Belfaa , Algerian high jumper
• October 18: Wynton Marsalis , American jazz trumpeter
• October 20th: Audun Kleive , Norwegian jazz musician
• October 20: Kate Mosse , British writer
• October 20th: Philippe Olczyk , Belgian journalist and racing car driver
• October 20th: Ian Rush , Welsh football player
• October 22nd: D'Gary , Malagasy guitarist
• October 22nd: Dietmar Woidke , German politician
• October 23: Gabriela Amgarten , Swiss TV presenter and editor
• October 23: David Kitay , American film composer
• October 23: Andoni Zubizarreta , Spanish soccer player
• October 24: Rick Margitza , American jazz musician
• October 24: Gary L. Thomas , American Baptist pastor and author
• October 25th: Franck Amsallem , French jazz pianist and composer
• October 25: Chad Smith , drummer for the California funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers
• October 26: Uhuru Kenyatta , Kenyan politician
• October 27: Ludwig Sebastian Meyer-Stork , German manager
• October 29: Cornelia Oschkenat , German athlete
• October 29: Steven Randall Jackson , American singer and musician
• October 29: Kai-Uwe Ricke , German manager, CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG
• October 30: Karl Christoph Klauer , German social and cognitive psychologist
• October 31: Larry Mullen, Jr. , Irish musician

Peter Jackson , 2009

• October 31: Peter Jackson , New Zealand director, producer and writer
• October 31: Alonzo Babers , American athlete and Olympic champion

November

• 0November 1st: Frank Kirchner , German jazz saxophonist
• 0November 2nd: Kd Lang , Canadian country and pop singer
• 0November 3rd: David Armstrong-Jones , English furniture designer and entrepreneur
• 0November 5th: Helmut de Raaf , German ice hockey goalie and coach
• 0November 6: Craig Goldy , American guitarist
• 0November 7th: Edi Angelillo , Italian actress and singer
• 0November 7th: Friedrich Haider , Austrian conductor and pianist
• 0November 7th: Mark Hateley , English soccer player
• 0November 8: Rustem Adagamow , Russian blogger
• 0November 8: Leif Garrett , American actor and pop singer
• 0November 9: Sandra Kreisler , American-German-Austrian actress, chansonnette, author
• 0November 9th: Lutz Schülbe , German soccer player
• 0November 9th: Eva Bur am Orde , German painter
• November 11th: Pilo , German musician, composer and playwright (real name: Martin Rector)
• November 12th: Nadia Comăneci , Romanian gymnast
• November 14: Jurga Ivanauskaitė , Lithuanian writer († 2007)
• November 15th: Volker Ahmels , German pianist
• November 15: Christian Stückl , German general manager and director
• November 16: Karen Duve , German writer
• November 17th: Helmut Bradl , German motorcycle racer
• November 17th: Chanda Kochhar , Indian banker
• November 17th: Wolfram Wuttke , German soccer player († 2015)
• November 18: John Andersen , Danish football player

Meg Ryan , 2009

• November 19: Meg Ryan , American actress
• November 19: Bogdan Wenta , German handball player and handball trainer
• November 20: Scott Angelle , American politician
• November 20: Erik Oña , Argentine composer, conductor and music teacher († 2019)
• November 21: Martin Andermatt , Swiss football coach
• November 21: Takami Akai , Japanese illustrator, character designer and game creator
• November 21: Maria Kawamura , Japanese voice actress
• November 22nd: Alemão , Brazilian soccer player
• November 22: Randal L. Schwartz , US systems administrator
• November 23: Keith Ablow , American psychiatrist and writer
• November 23: Nicolas Bacri , French composer
• November 23: Floyd Roland , Canadian politician
• November 23: Masamune Shirow , Japanese manga artist
• November 24: Alejandro Ádem , Mexican-American mathematician

Hartmut Engler, 2005

• November 24th: Hartmut Engler , German singer and pop musician
• November 24th: Arundhati Roy , Indian writer and globalization critic
• November 24th: Kuba Sienkiewicz , Polish rock musician, singer-songwriter, composer, author and neurologist
• November 24: Robin Stille , American actress († 1996)
• November 24th: Anja Tuckermann , German writer
• November 25th: Matthias Freihof , German actor and speaker
• November 26th: Peter Angkyier , Ghanaian bishop
• November 26th: Dirk Michaelis , German singer and composer
• November 26th: Philippe Roussel , Swiss actor
• November 27th: Samantha Bond , British actress
• November 27th: Norbert Dickel , German soccer player
• November 28: Krzysztof Bąkowski , Polish violinist
• November 28th: Alfonso Cuarón , Mexican director
• November 28: Māris Kučinskis , Latvian politician
• November 29th: Brit Pettersen , Norwegian cross-country skier
• November 29: Tom Sizemore , American actor

December

• 0December 1st: Lito Vitale , Argentinian rock musician and composer

Gaby Köster , 2013

• 0December 2nd: Gaby Köster , German actress and cabaret artist
• 0December 3rd: Richard Olivier , English director, screenwriter and actor
• 0December 3: Adal Ramones , Mexican television presenter and producer, director and comedian
• 0December 5th: Ralf Dujmovits , German extreme mountaineer, mountain guide and expedition leader
• 0December 6th: Robin Aspland , British jazz pianist and keyboardist
• 0December 6th: Manuel Reuter , German automobile racing driver
• 0December 6: Chris Valentine , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 0December 9: David Anthony Higgins , American actor and screenwriter
• December 10: Mark McKoy , Canadian athlete and Olympic champion
• December 11th: Dave King , Irish musician
• December 11th: Macky Sall , Prime Minister of Senegal
• December 11th: Jorge da Silva , Uruguayan soccer coach and former soccer player
• December 11th: Ingo Appelt , Austrian winter sports enthusiast
• December 11th: Darryl Jones , American bass player
• December 12: Julie Giroux , American composer and arranger
• December 12th: Uwe Schulz , German politician
• December 12: Jan Stressenreuter , German writer († 2018)
• December 13: Norbert Mahler , German actor and director († 2013)
• December 13: Gary Zimmerman , American football player
• December 14th: Hermann Schulz , German figure skater
• December 14th: Frank Kessler , German actor
• December 15: Sylvie Andrieux , French politician
• December 15: Jörn Thießen , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• December 15: Karin Resetarits , Austrian politician and member of the EU Parliament
• December 16: Ron Athey , American performance artist and musician
• December 18: Brian Orser , Canadian figure skater
• December 18: Thomas Strittmatter , German author († 1995)
• December 19: Claude-Yves Gosselin , French racing car driver and entrepreneur
• December 19: Reggie White , American football player († 2004)
• December 19: Eric A. Cornell , American physicist
• December 19: Soane Patita Paini Cardinal Mafi , Bishop of Tonga
• December 20: Freddie Spencer , American motorcycle racer
• December 21: Markus Anton Huber , Austrian artist
• December 22nd: Helmut Krumminga , German rock guitarist
• December 22nd: Angelo Verploegen , Dutch jazz trumpeter
• December 24: İlham Əliyev , Azerbaijani politician
• December 24th: François Moutin , French jazz bassist
• December 24th: Louis Moutin , French jazz drummer
• December 25: Íngrid Betancourt , Colombian politician
• December 25th: Eva Herzog , Swiss politician
• December 25th: Grete Ingeborg Nykkelmo , Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier
• December 26th: Jörg Schüttauf , German actor
• December 26: Tahnee Welch , American actress and model

Guido Westerwelle (2013)

• December 27: Guido Westerwelle , German politician, former federal chairman of the FDP († 2016)
• December 27th: Ute Noack , German cross-country skier
• December 28: Katina Schubert , German politician
• December 29th: Lê Quan Ninh , French percussionist
• December 29: Ulrich Zieger , German writer († 2015)
• December 30th: Douglas Coupland , Canadian writer and artist
• December 30th: Sean Hannity , American radio and television presenter and author
• December 30th: Ben Johnson , Canadian sprinter
• December 30th: Tom Spieß , German film producer
• December 31: Rainer Ernst , German soccer player

Day unknown

• Mercedes Abad , Spanish writer
• Hazem Salah Abu Ismail , Egyptian Salafist scholar and Islamist politician
• Thomas Aders , German journalist and correspondent
• Livia Leu Agosti , Swiss diplomat
• Pablo Aguirre , Argentine composer and pianist
• Ezel Akay , Turkish actor, film director and film producer
• Hamid Akhavan , Persian manager
• Chris Anderson , American journalist
• Martina André , German author
• Peter-Maria Anselstetter , German actor and director
• Christian Antz , German art historian and cultural manager
• Tom Arden , Australian fantasy writer († 2015)
• Marco Ariano , Italian jazz drummer and multimedia artist
• Riad al-Asaad , Syrian engineer and colonel
• Marion Ascherl , German designer
• Wowka Ashkenazi , Russian pianist
• Gwyn Ashton , Australian rock musician and singer
• Mireille Astore , Lebanese-Australian artist and writer
• Kutluğ Ataman , Turkish filmmaker and artist
• Rainer Atzlinger , Austrian product and industrial designer
• Imke Büchel , German actress
• Lutz Budraß , German historian
• Ursula Maria Burkhart , German actress, radio presenter and speaker
• Stefano Canuti , Italian bassoonist and music teacher
• Chan Ming-chi , Chinese composer and music educator
• Claudius Crönert , German journalist and author
• Joe DiPietro , American playwright
• Annette Dorgerloh , German art historian
• Thomas Drach , German criminal
• Carlos Alfredo Fatule , Dominican singer, actor and entertainer
• Richard Flanagan , Australian writer
• Helge Haas , German television presenter
• Gunther Hirschfelder , German cultural anthropologist and folklorist
• Tilman Hoppstock , German concert guitarist
• Matthias Kringe , German author
• Herbert Mayr , Austrian double bass player and music teacher
• Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea , Equatorial Guinean Prime Minister
• Gerardo Núñez , Spanish flamenco guitarist
• Dimitris Psonis , Greek musician
• Tamara Rohloff , German actress
• Jon Sass , American tuba player
• Frank Leo Schröder , German actor
• Michael Schumacher , American choreographer, ballet dancer and teacher
• Frank Sieckel , German actor, cabaret artist and director
• Michael Sikora , German historian
• Jürgen Sonnentheil , German church musician
• Joerg Stadler , German actor
• Tomohiro Yahiro , Japanese rock and jazz percussionist
• Alain Zaloum , Egyptian film director

Died

January

• 0January 2nd: Daniel Chanis Pinzón , 24th President of Panama (* 1892)
• 0January 3: Maximilian Müller-Jabusch , German journalist (* 1889)
• 0January 4th: Erwin Schrödinger , Austrian physicist (* 1887)
• 0January 6th: Max Anderlohr , German electrical engineer (* 1884)
• 0January 6th: Regina Ullmann , Swiss poet (* 1884)
• 0January 7th: Wladimir von Pawlowski , Austrian lawyer and Gauleiter of Carinthia (* 1891)
• 0January 9: Emily Greene Balch , American economist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (* 1867)
• January 10: Dashiell Hammett , American writer (* 1894)
• January 12: Joseph AA Burnquist , American politician (* 1879)
• January 14: Gérald Gagnier , Canadian composer, trumpeter and conductor (* 1926)
• January 16: Gustav Klingelhöfer , German politician (* 1888)
• January 16: János Viski , Hungarian composer (* 1906)
• January 17th: Blind Simmie Dooley , American blues singer and guitarist (* 1881)
• January 17th: Patrice Lumumba , first Prime Minister of the independent Congo (* 1925)
• January 19: J. Hervey Germain , Canadian actor and humorist (* 1888)
• January 20: Walther Ahlhorn , German lawyer (* 1879)
• January 21: Blaise Cendrars , French-speaking author (* 1887)
• January 21: Heinrich Wienken , Bishop of the Diocese of Meißen from 1951 to 1957 (* 1883)
• January 21: John J. Becker , American composer (* 1886)
• January 21: Heinrich Studer , Swiss publisher (* 1889)
• January 22nd: Franz Kuhn , German lawyer, sinologist and literary translator (* 1884)
• January 26: Walter Folger Brown , American politician (* 1869)
• January 29: Johann Raithel , German general (* 1897)

February

• 0February 1: Gerrit Bouwmeester , Dutch football player (* 1892)
• 0February 1: Max Simon , SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS (* 1899)
• 0February 2: Karl Appelbaum , German politician (* 1879)
• 0February 2: Victor Danielsen , Faroese missionary of the Plymouth Brothers and Bible translator (* 1894)
• 0February 2: Joseph Orbeli , Armenian orientalist (* 1887)
• 0February 2: Anna May Wong , American silent film actress (* 1905)
• 0February 3: Minna Specht , German reform pedagogue, socialist (* 1879)
• 0February 5: Ludwig Meybert , German actor, theater director and radio play speaker (* 1893)
• 0February 6: Archibald Thompson Davison , American musicologist, music teacher and choir conductor (* 1883)
• 0February 7th: Noah Lewis , American musician (* 1895)
• 0February 8: Kurt Pastenaci , academic writer and historian (* 1894)
• 0February 9: Grigori Löwenfisch , Soviet chess player (* 1889)
• February 10: Jakub Deml , Czech priest, poet and writer (* 1878)
• February 12: Walter Stoeckel , German doctor and obstetrician (* 1871)
• February 12: Richmond K. Turner , American admiral (* 1885)
• February 13: Arthur Ripley , American screenwriter, film director and producer (* 1897)
• February 18: Arnoldus Johannes Petrus van den Broek , Dutch anatomist (* 1877)
• February 20: Percy Grainger , Australian composer and professor (* 1882)
• February 22nd: Nick LaRocca , American cornetist, band leader and jazz pioneer (* 1889)
• February 24: Fritz Imhoff , Austrian actor and singer (* 1891)
• February 26: Karl Albiker , German sculptor (* 1878)
• February 26: William Cohn , German-British art historian and sinologist (* 1880)
• February 27: Platt Adams , American athlete and Olympic champion (* 1885)

March

• 0March 3: Zales Ecton , American politician (* 1898)
• 0March 3: Joseph R. Grundy , American politician (* 1863)
• 0March 3: Paul Wittgenstein , Austrian pianist (* 1887)
• 0March 5: Kjeld Abell , Danish writer (* 1901)
• 0March 5: Werner Schendell , pseudonym: Roman Quitt (* 1891), German writer
• 0March 5: Ferdinand Werner , German politician (DNVP, NSDAP) (* 1876)
• 0March 6: Marcello Mimmi , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1882)
• 0March 8: Thomas Beecham , British conductor, founder of several symphony orchestras (* 1879)
• March 12th: Hedwig Wangel , German actress (* 1875)
• March 13: Ruth Fischer , German politician and publicist (* 1895)
• March 14th: Ben Adams , American athlete (* 1890)
• March 15: Akiba Rubinstein , Polish chess player (* 1880)
• March 16: Seymour Felix , American show dancer and choreographer (* 1892)
• March 19: Edric Cundell , English composer, horn player, pianist, conductor and music teacher (* 1893)
• March 20: Emil Lueken , German lawyer and Lord Mayor (* 1879)
• March 21: Morgan Foster Larson , American politician (* 1882)
• March 23: Otto Aurich , Austrian-Dutch actor and theater director (* 1900)
• March 23: Valentin Bondarenko , Soviet fighter pilot and aspiring astronaut (* 1937)
• March 23: James Edward Murray , American politician (* 1876)
• March 23: Heinrich Rau , German politician (* 1899)
• March 24: Walter Wilhelm Goetze , German operetta composer (* 1883)
• March 24th: Antonio Gómezanda , Mexican composer and pianist (* 1894)
• March 25th: Anthony Ashley-Cooper , British nobleman (* 1869)
• March 25: Lorenzo Calogero , Italian poet (* 1910)
• March 25: Arthur Drewry , British football official, FIFA President (* 1891)
• March 29: Eva Clare , Canadian pianist and music teacher (* 1884)
• March 30th: Philibert Jacques Melotte , British astronomer (* 1880)
• March 30th: Anna Muthesius , German interior and fashion designer (* 1870)

April

• 0April 1: David Rivett , Australian chemist and science manager (* 1885)
• 0April 3: Rudolf Schwarz , German architect and author (* 1897)
• 0April 6: Jules Bordet , Belgian biologist and immunologist (* 1870)
• 0April 7th: Vanessa Bell , British painter and interior designer (* 1879)
• 0April 7th: William Arundel Orchard , Australian organist, conductor, composer and music teacher of English origin (* 1867)
• 0April 9: Ahmet Zogu , King of the Albanians (* 1895)
• April 10: Kurt Annecke , German pharmacist (* 1902)
• April 10: Ernst Bickel , German classical philologist (* 1876)
• April 11th: Herbert Kensington-Moir , British racing car driver (* 1899)
• April 12: Imre Sarkadi , Hungarian writer (* 1921)
• April 13: Edmond Pichon , French racing car driver (* 1882)
• April 16: Bruno Doehring , German theologian (* 1879)
• April 20: Pierre Audiat , French journalist, Romance studies and literary scholar (* 1891)
• April 24: Rosario Bourdon , Canadian cellist, conductor, composer and arranger (* 1885)
• April 25: Hans Friedrich Blunck , German lawyer and writer (* 1888)
• April 26: Gustav Ucicky , German film director (* 1899)
• April 27: Josef Scheuber , Swiss clergyman and educator (* 1881)
• April 30th: Jessie Redmon Fauset , American writer (* 1882)

May

Jakob Kaiser , 1950

• 0May 1: Paul Geheeb , German educator (* 1870)
• 0May 2: Egon Lustgarten , Austrian conductor and composer (* 1887)
• 0May 3: Maurice Merleau-Ponty , French philosopher (* 1908)
• 0May 3: Eugen Nesper , German engineer and radio pioneer (* 1879)
• 0May 4th: Robert Pracht , German school musician and composer (* 1878)
• 0May 4: Herbert Westren Turnbull , English mathematician (* 1885)
• 0May 5: Klaus Conrad , German neurologist and psychiatrist (* 1905)
• 0May 5: Alexander MacMillan , Canadian Presbyterian pastor and hymnologist (* 1864)
• 0May 7: Jakob Kaiser , German politician (* 1888)
• May 11: Josef Auinger , Austrian detective (* 1897)
• May 12: Tony Bettenhausen , American racing driver (* 1916)

Gary Cooper

• May 13: Gary Cooper , American actor (born 1901)
• May 19: William Asbury , British politician (* 1889)
• May 19: Richard Kuöhl , German sculptor (* 1880)
• May 20: Josef Priller , German fighter pilot (* 1915)
• May 23: Joseph Yerly , Swiss writer in the Franco-Provencal language (* 1896)

Werner Richard Heymann

• May 30: Werner Richard Heymann , German composer and conductor (* 1896)
• May 30th: Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina , politician and head of state of the Dominican Republic (* 1891)
• 00.May: Alexandre Girard-Bille , Swiss skier (* 1899)

June

• 0June 2: George Simon Kaufman , American author (* 1889)
• 0June 2: Louis de Wohl , German writer and astrologer (* 1903)
• 0June 4th: William Astbury , English physicist and molecular biologist (* 1898)
• 0June 5: Eduard Cruse , German officer (* 1873)
• 0June 6: Carl Gustav Jung , Swiss psychoanalyst (* 1875)
• 0June 6th: Anuschawan Ter-Gewondjan , Armenian composer (* 1887)
• June 10: Michael Buchberger , 74th Bishop of the Diocese of Regensburg (* 1874)
• June 15: Giulio Cabianca , Italian racing driver (* 1923)
• June 15: Eduardo Torroja Miret , Spanish civil engineer and architect (* 1899)
• June 16: Marcel Junod , Swiss doctor (* 1904)
• June 17th: Jeff Chandler , American film actor (born 1918)
• June 23: Suekichi Aono , Japanese literary scholar and critic (* 1890)
• June 27: Muchtar Äuesow , Kazakh writer (* 1897)
• June 27th: Hélène Dutrieu , Belgian pilot (* 1877)
• June 27: Camille Couture , Canadian violinist, music teacher and violin maker (* 1876)
• June 30: Kurt Meister , German actor, director, author and radio play speaker (* 1901)
• June 30th: Hubert Rickelmann , German homeland researcher and author (* 1883)

July

• 0July 1: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , French writer and doctor (* 1894)
• 0July 1: Walter Kaesbach , German art historian (* 1879)

Ernest Hemingway , 1918

• 0July 2: Ernest Hemingway , American writer (* 1899)
• 0July 2: Engelbert Kliemstein , Austrian artist (* 1934)
• 0July 3: Petar Graf Orssich , Austrian automobile racing driver and nobleman (* 1907)
• 0July 4th: Max Breunig , German soccer player (* 1888)
• 0July 6: Cuno Amiet , Swiss painter (* 1868)
• 0July 6: Scott LaFaro , American musician (* 1936)
• 0July 8: Julián Bautista , Argentine composer (* 1901)
• 0July 8: Paul Gros , French racing car driver (* 1890)
• 0July 8: Karl Gutenberger , German politician (* 1905)
• 0July 9: Hans Schubert , Prussian state archivist and historian (* 1884)
• July 12: Irving Cohn , American songwriter (* 1898)
• July 15: John Edward Brownlee , Canadian politician (* 1884)
• July 17: Waldemar Abegg , German administrative lawyer and politician (* 1873)
• July 18: Wilhelm Appun , German politician (* 1871)
• July 18: Walter Gotsmann , German painter and conservationist (* 1891)
• July 19: Joaquín Samuel de Anchorena , Argentine lawyer and politician (* 1876)
• July 27th: Anni Krahnstöver , German politician (* 1904)
• July 30th: Domenico Tardini , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1888)
• July 31: Waldemar Mitscherlich , German political scientist (* 1877)

August

• 0August 3: Giovan Battista Angioletti , Italian journalist and writer (* 1896)
• 0August 3: Zoltán Tildy , Hungarian Prime Minister (* 1889)
• 0August 3: Nicola Canali , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1874)
• 0August 5: Hanns Seidel , German politician (* 1901)
• 0August 6: Jozef-Ernest Van Roey , Archbishop of Mechelen and Cardinal (* 1874)
• 0August 7th: Frank Buchman , American theologian and spiritual leader of the Oxford Group (* 1878)
• August 11: Ion Barbu , Romanian writer and mathematician (* 1895)
• August 11: Géza von Bolváry , Hungarian actor and screenwriter (* 1897)
• August 11: Hans Nawiasky , constitutional and administrative lawyer (* 1880)
• August 14: Guido Alberto Fano , Italian composer, conductor and pianist (* 1875)
• August 14: Heddle Nash , English singer (* 1894)
• August 14th: Clark Ashton Smith , American poet, sculptor, painter and author (* 1893)
• August 15: Percy Austin , English soccer player (born 1903)
• August 16: Hugo Hirsch , German operetta and hit composer (* 1884)
• August 17th: Carlos Salzedo , harpist and composer (* 1885)
• August 18: Leonhard Frank , German writer (* 1882)
• August 20: Percy Williams Bridgman , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner (* 1882)
• August 20: Otto Zehentbauer , German sculptor (* 1880)
• August 22: Jonathan Petersen , Greenlandic composer, songwriter, poet, writer, linguist, organist and university professor (* 1881)
• August 23: Jean Sébilleau , French racing car driver (* 1902)
• August 23: Beals Wright , American tennis player (* 1879)
• August 24: Günter Litfin , first dead on the Berlin Wall (* 1937)
• August 24th: Georg Krücke , Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden (* 1880)
• August 25: Morris William Travers , English chemist (* 1872)
• August 26: Vittore Frigerio , Swiss journalist and writer (* 1885)
• August 26: Howard P. Robertson , physicist (* 1903)
• August 28: Carsten M. Carlsen , Norwegian organist, composer and conductor (* 1892)
• August 30th: Charles Coburn , American actor (* 1877)

September

• 0September 1: Ernst-Christoph Brühler , German politician (* 1891)
• 0September 1: Eero Saarinen , Finnish-American architect (* 1910)
• 0September 3: Clarence E. Case , American politician (* 1877)
• 0September 4th: Emil von Dungern , German medic (* 1867)
• 0September 4th: Isidore Fattal , Syrian Archbishop (* 1886)
• 0September 4: Josef Haubrich , German art collector and patron (* 1889)
• September 10: Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips , German automobile racing driver (* 1928)
• September 12: Carl Hermann , Professor of Crystallography (* 1898)
• September 12: Arthur Welti , Swiss radio pioneer (* 1901)
• September 12: Phil M. Donnelly , American politician (* 1891)
• September 13: Fritz Mühlenweg , German writer (* 1898)
• September 17th: Adnan Menderes , Turkish politician (* 1899)
• September 18: Dag Hammarskjöld , Swedish politician, Secretary General of the UN (1953–1961) (* 1905)
• September 21: Uno Kōji , Japanese writer (* 1891)
• September 22nd: Albin Skoda , Austrian film and theater actor (* 1909)
• September 22nd: Marion Davies , American actress (* 1897)
• September 23: John Eldredge , American actor (born 1904)
• September 26: Charles Erwin Wilson , American politician (* 1890)
• September 27: Hilda Doolittle ( HD ), American writer (* 1886)
• September 30: Karl Ratz , German politician and publishing director (* 1897)

October

• 0October 5: Alexander Willwoll , Swiss Jesuit and psychologist (* 1887)
• October 11th: Chico Marx , comedian and (family) member of the Marx Brothers (* 1887)
• October 12: Max Winkler , Reich Trustee and Reich Commissioner for German Cinematic Art (* 1875)
• October 13: Maya Deren , American director (* 1917)
• October 18: Rodolphe Rubattel , Swiss politician (FDP) (* 1896)
• October 18: Wilhelm Boden , German lawyer and politician (* 1890)
• October 18: Hans Heinz Theyer , Austrian cameraman (* 1910)
• October 19: Werner Jaeger , German classical philologist (* 1888)
• October 19: Sergio Osmeña , Filipino politician and President (* 1878)
• October 20: Sylvia Rexach , Puerto Rican singer, composer and songwriter (* 1922)
• October 20: Julius Franz Schütz , Austrian poet and cultural historian (* 1889)
• October 23: Paul Hertz , German politician (* 1888)
• October 29: Zdeněk Folprecht , Bohemian composer (* 1900)
• October 29: Nagayo Yoshirō , Japanese writer (* 1888)
• October 30: Luigi Einaudi , Italian scientist and politician (* 1874)

November

• 0November 2: James Thurber , American writer and cartoonist (* 1894)
• 0November 3: Kurt Pohle , German politician (* 1899)
• 0November 6th: Itō Michio , Japanese ballet dancer and choreographer (* 1893)
• 0November 7th: Michael Keller , 1947 to 1961 Bishop of the Diocese of Münster (* 1896)
• 0November 9: Antoon Coolen , Dutch writer and journalist (* 1897)
• November 12: Gustaf Andersson , Swedish politician (* 1884)
• November 13th: Max Hansen , Danish cabaret artist, film actor and singer (* 1897)
• November 21: Ike Mahoney , American football player (born 1901)
• November 23: York Bowen , English pianist and composer (* 1884)
• November 24th: Axel Wenner-Gren , Swedish industrialist (* 1881)
• November 25: Sam C. Ford , American politician (* 1882)
• November 26: Alexander Goldenweiser , Russian composer and pianist (* 1875)
• November 26th: Styles Bridges , American politician (* 1898)
• November 28: James Milligan , Canadian singer (born 1928)
• November 30th: Stanisław Kazuro , Polish composer (* 1881)
• November 30th: Louis Perriraz , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1869)
• 00.November: Harry Smith , American long-distance runner (* 1888)

December

• 0December 1: Bienvenido Troncoso , Dominican singer, guitarist and composer (* 1909)
• 0December 2: George Simpson , American athlete and Olympian (* 1908)
• 0December 3: Helene Voigt-Diederichs , German writer (* 1875)
• 0December 6th: Frantz Fanon , writer and pioneer of decolonization (* 1925)
• 0December 8: Wilhelm Capelle , German classical philologist (* 1871)
• 0December 9th: Otto Linnemann , German glass painter and wall and decoration painter (* 1876)
• December 13: August Högn , German composer and historian (* 1878)
• December 13: Grandma Moses , American painter (* 1860)
• December 13: Richard Zöller , German lawyer (* 1905)
• December 14: Richard Schirrmann , founder of the German Youth Hostel Association (* 1874)
• December 16: Boris Schechter , Russian composer (* 1900)
• December 18: Samuel W. Arnold , American politician (* 1879)
• December 18: Felix Rütten , German Roman Catholic priest, historian and teacher (* 1881)
• December 18: Albert Schädelin , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1879)
• December 20: Luis Abraham Delgadillo , Nicaraguan composer (* 1887)
• December 20: Moss Hart , American writer (* 1904)
• December 20: Rafael J. Tello , Mexican composer (* 1872)
• December 21: Kurt Landauer , German football official (* 1884)
• December 21: Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf , first Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (* 1893)
• December 22nd: William Hawley Atwell , American lawyer (* 1869)
• December 23: Kurt Meyer , General of the Waffen-SS (* 1910)
• December 25th: Owen Brewster , American politician (* 1888)
• December 25th: Anton Flettner , engineer and scientist (* 1885)

Otto Loewi

• December 25: Otto Loewi , Austrian-American pharmacologist (* 1873)
• December 26: Hans Goudefroy , lawyer, CEO of Allianz AG (* 1900)

Day unknown

• Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker , Turkish officer (* 1892)
• John James Atherton , English football player (born 1917)
• Cuba Austin , American jazz drummer (* 1906)
• Jacques-André Boiffard , French doctor and photographer (* 1902)
• Masoud Keyhan , Major in the Persian Gendarmerie (* 1886)
• Ernest Thompson , American old-time musician (* 1892)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : Robert Hofstadter and Rudolf Mößbauer
• Chemistry : Melvin Calvin
• Medicine : Georg von Békésy
• Literature : Ivo Andrić
• Nobel Peace Prize : Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

music

• Jean-Claude Pascal wins the 6th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg on March 18th in Cannes with the song Nous les amoureux
• List of number one hits in Germany (1961)

Web links

Commons : 1961  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Annual review from tagesschau.de
• Annual chronicle of the House of History of the FRG
• The Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government (1961) in the Federal Archives
• Year 1961 by Frank Rübertus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der Spiegel 12/1961 of March 15, 1961: Erhards Mark , see also Deutsche Mark # exchange rate and monetary value
2. ^ First, Carl FW Borgward GmbH and Goliath-Werke GmbH filed for bankruptcy; In November 1961, the last company in the Borgward Group, Lloyd Motoren Werke GmbH, went bankrupt ( Der Spiegel 50/1961: Bankruptcy with Borgward )