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1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis brings the world to the brink of nuclear war .
In the Spiegel affair , Conrad Ahlers and ...	... Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss the main actors.

1962 in other calendars
Ab urbe condita	2715
Armenian calendar	1410-1411
Ethiopian calendar	1954-1955
Badi calendar	118-119
Bengali calendar	1368-1369
Berber calendar	2912
Buddhist calendar	2506
Burmese calendar	1324
Byzantine calendar	7470-7471
Chinese calendar
- era	4658-4659 or 4598-4599
– 60-year cycle	Metal Buffalo (辛丑, 38)– Water Tiger (壬寅, 39)
French Revolutionary Calendar	CLXX - CLXXI 170-171
Hindu calendar
– Vikram Sambat	2018-2019
– Shaka Samvat	1884-1885
Iranian calendar	1340-1341
Islamic calendar	1381-1382
Japanese calendar
– Nengō (era):	Showa 37
- Koki	2622
Jewish calendar	5722-5723
Coptic calendar	1678-1679
Korean calendar
– Dangun era	4295
– Juche era	51
Minguo calendar	51
Modern Olympics	XVIII
Seleucid calendar	2273-2274
Thai solar calendar	2505

In October 1962 , the Cold War reached a new high with the Cuban Missile Crisis . Despite a compromise between the superpowers USA and USSR, the world public is becoming aware of the danger of a global nuclear war . Among other things, the Spiegel affair and the death of Marilyn Monroe shaped the events of the year.

events

politics and world affairs

• January 1: Paul Chaudet becomes President of Switzerland again .
• January 1: Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand .
• January 1: Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes head of state in Samoa.
• January 10: Mauritania becomes a member of UNESCO .
• January 22: Under pressure from the United States , the Organization of American States (OAS) bans Cuba from participating in its further activities.
• January 30: Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Denmark
• 19-25 February: The general election in India (the third since the constitution of the republic in 1950) is again won by the Congress party led by Jawaharlal Nehru .
• March 2: General Ne Win attempts a coup in Myanmar
• March 3: British Antarctic Territory is created.
• March 6: Tanzania becomes a member of UNESCO.
• March 18: France and Algeria sign a treaty ending the Algerian War at Évian-les-Bains .
• March 24 Military elects General Park Chung-hee as President of South Korea .
• March 28: Sierra Leone becomes a member of UNESCO.
• April 2: Yemen becomes a member of UNESCO.
• April 4: The South Arabian Federation is formed from 15 protectorate states. In November 1967 it became the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen .
• April 16: Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France.
• April 24: The international Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations comes into force. It codifies diplomatic law, which has so far been rooted in customary law .
• May 7 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is elected President of India by indirect election .
• May 14: Heir to the throne of Spain Juan Carlos and Princess Sophia of Greece marry in Athens.
• May 22: The reconnaissance aircraft Navy 131390 , a US military aircraft, crashes over Bavaria. All occupants are killed. The cause is still unclear today, the military investigation report is secret.
• June 1: In the Soviet city of Novocherkassk there is a two-day uprising in Novocherkassk , which is violently suppressed the following day.
• June 21: The Schwabinger Krawalle , clashes between young people and the police in the Munich district of Schwabing, occur in the Munich district of Schwabing , which are seen as synonyms of a new rebellious youth culture and a harbinger of the student movement .
• June 23: In Laos , the communist Pathet Lao movement forms a coalition government with the royalists under Suvanna Phūmā .
• July 1: Rwanda and Burundi become independent from Belgium
• July 5: Algeria declares independence. On that day in Oran , armed Algerians massacred residents of the city of European descent and pro-French Muslims ( Harkis ), killing between 500 and 3,000 people.
• 5th of August. Nelson Mandela is arrested in Howick and convicted by the South African government of calling for a strike.
• August 6: Jamaica becomes independent.
• August 14th: The Federal Border Guard officer Hans Pluchke shoots the GDR border guard Rudi Arnstadt
• August 17: 18-year-old Peter Fechter succumbed to his injuries after being mortally wounded by a border guard.
• August 23: The Syrian government in Damascus issues Legislative Decree No. 93, allowing an extraordinary census in the province of Djazira. As a result, 120,000 Kurds are declared "foreigners". They are stripped of their Syrian citizenship rights. In order to counter the "Kurdish threat", the government develops plans for the establishment of an "Arab Belt". After that, the entire Kurdish population living in an area 280 km long and 15 km wide along the Turkish border is to be resettled and replaced by Arab population.
• August 23 Trinidad and Tobago gains independence from Britain .
• September 6: Trade and economic agreement between Taiwan and the Federal Republic of Germany
• September 11: Shipping protocol between Taiwan and the Federal Republic of Germany
• September 9: Charles de Gaulle ( French President 1959 to 1969) gives his “Speech to German Youth” in German in Ludwigsburg . It is considered a milestone in Franco-German relations and a decisive step on the way to the Franco-German Treaty of Friendship (January 1963).
• 18 September: Rwanda, Jamaica and Burundi become members of the United Nations .
• September 26: Yemen's army overthrows the monarchy and proclaims the Republic of Yemen.

Opening of the Second Vatican Council

• October 1: James Meredith becomes the first African-American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi under the protection of Federal Marshals .
• October 8 Algeria becomes a member of the United Nations.
• October 9: Uganda becomes independent.
• October 11: Beginning of the Second Vatican Council
• 14-28 October: Cuban Missile Crisis between the USA and the Soviet Union
• October 15: Algeria becomes a member of UNESCO.
• October 17: Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Ireland

Eastern and Western Disputed Territories in the Indo-Chinese Border War

• October 20: The Indo-Chinese border war begins.
• October 22nd: The Cuban Missile Crisis becomes public through the televised address of US President John F. Kennedy .
• October 22: Beginning of the Spiegel affair in the Federal Republic
• October 25: Uganda becomes a member of the United Nations.
• October 27: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Soviet nuclear submarine comes under fire from US destroyers. One of the officers, Vasily Alexandrovich Arkhipov (1926–1999), refuses to allow nuclear torpedoes to be fired without further orders from Moscow, presumably preventing a nuclear war .
• October 27: A Lockheed U-2 on a reconnaissance flight was shot down over Cuba by a Soviet S-75 anti - aircraft missile . US pilot Rudolf Anderson dies (the only dead person in the Cuban Missile Crisis).
• November 1: Mongolia becomes a member of UNESCO.
• November 2: Trinidad and Tobago becomes a member of UNESCO.
• November 7: Jamaica and Rwanda become members of UNESCO.
• November 9: Uganda becomes a member of UNESCO.
• November 14: Emperor Haile Selassie I breaks the federation with Eritrea and annexes it as the 14th province of Ethiopia .
• November 16: Burundi becomes a member of UNESCO.
• November 18: In the national elections in Austria , the ÖVP with Chancellor Gorbach becomes the party with the most votes.
• November 30: In connection with the Spiegel affair , Franz Josef Strauss announces his resignation from the post of German Defense Minister .
• December 17: Monaco gets a new constitution.
• December 18-22: At the Nassau Conference , the United States and Great Britain decide on a close strategic nuclear partnership. As a result, Britain gains access to America's Polaris missile program .
• December 18: The Federal Republic of Germany announces the tube embargo on the countries of the Eastern bloc , thereby implementing a decision of the NATO Council.
• 21 December: Rondane National Park is established in Norway as the first of its kind.

business

• January 4: The New York City Subway debuts the Times Square-Grand Central Shuttle , an automatically controlled driverless subway .

France

• 3 February: The then longest passenger ship , France , begins scheduled services across the Atlantic between Le Havre and New York City.
• July 2: Sam Walton opens the first Wal-Mart Discount City store in Rogers, Arkansas .
• August 8: The Germans Gebhard Weigele and Johann Sulzberger register the first patent for a car wash . In this system, two brushes drive around the car standing in a car wash.
• August 27: The German-language monthly satirical magazine pardon is published for the first time (and until 1982)
• November 17: Dulles International Airport in Washington is opened by US President John F. Kennedy .
• December 7: A minimum holiday of 15 days is set in the Federal Republic of Germany .
• 14 December: Permission is granted for the construction of the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant (Block A) . The first German nuclear reactor for power generation (from 1966 until a total loss in 1977). It has an output of 237 MW.
• December 14: The state trade organization Intershop is established in the GDR , whose customers are said to be foreigners to whom goods are sold for convertible currencies.
• The (then six) countries of the European Economic Community ( EEC ) introduce a common agricultural policy .
• Prof. Okun observes a correlation between output growth and unemployment in US statistics (1954-1962). He theorizes that this correlation generally exists in national economies. Thesis and correlation are known as Okun's law .
• Founding of the company Walter Bau by the Augsburg building contractor Ignaz Walter

science and technology

• January 1: Deutschlandfunk begins regular broadcasting.
• January 17: The opening of the Wiener Schnellbahn .
• January 30: Tanganyika laughter epidemic was an epidemic based on mass hysteria that occurred in Tanganyika (now part of Tanzania ).
• March 16: The Soviet Union launches the first satellites of the Kosmos series, Kosmos 1 , from the Kapustin Yar missile base .
• June 14: The European Space Research Organization ( ESRO ) is founded in Paris for exclusively peaceful purposes.
• August 8 In Augsburg , entrepreneurs Johann Sulzberger and Gebhard Weigele apply for a patent for the first automatic car wash .
• September 12: Udayana University is founded in the capital Denpasar on Bali .
• September 22: Austrian zoologist Hans Psenner founds the Alpenzoo in Innsbruck .

alouette 1

• September 29: The Canadian research satellite Alouette 1 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the USA . Canada's first satellite is set to collect data about the ionosphere .

1962: Walter Schirra

• October 3: As part of the US Mercury program , a manned space flight is carried out with astronaut Walter Schirra . After six orbits, the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission ends with the capsule being splashed down in the Pacific.
• December 14: The Mariner 2 spacecraft passes the planet Venus .
• Walter Bruch develops the PAL television system, which is patented a year later.
• Founding of the WARR - Scientific working group for rocket technology and space travel
• September: The Monbijou Bridge is opened in Bern .
• Start of production of light-emitting diodes .

Culture

• January 1: The Beatles make their first test recordings at Decca and are rejected on the grounds that guitar groups are no longer fashionable.
• 3rd - 17th January: The six-part television play Das Halstuch by Francis Durbridge managed to practically paralyze public life in the Federal Republic of Germany over the six days of broadcast. Theaters, cinemas, adult education centers, etc. found almost no audience. Even night shifts in factories had to be canceled because the nation sat in front of the television sets.
• January 15: The Berlin cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss reveals the name of the murderer in the Francis Durbridge crime series Das Halstuch in a newspaper advertisement , two days before the sixth and final episode of the street sweeper is broadcast on German television . The disclosure of the carefully guarded secret causes a scandal.
• February 17: Conny Froboess is the winner of the German Schlager Festival in Baden-Baden with the title Two Little Italians .
• February 21: The character of Pumuckl appears for the first time in a new radio play series on Bavarian Radio.
• 28 February: Reading of the Oberhausen Manifesto at the VIII West German Short Film Festival in Oberhausen
• May 19: Marilyn Monroe makes her last public appearance at a birthday gala for US President John F. Kennedy in Madison Square Garden in New York . To mark his birthday, the actress sings a song she wrote, entitled Happy Birthday, Mr. President .
• April 23: Premiere of the opera König Nicolo by Hans Chemin-Petit in Aachen
• May 28: The Theater an der Wien in Vienna reopens after restoration.
• June 19: The Howard Hawks film Hatari! will premiere in the United States.
• July 12: The Rolling Stones ( Brian Jones , Mick Jagger and Keith Richards ) have their first gig at the Marquee Club in London. This date is considered the founding date of the British band.
• September 11: The Beatles record their first single , Love Me Do.
• October 13: The premiere of the drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee takes place in New York City.
• October 13: In Germany, the first episode of the US television series Bonanza is broadcast by ARD .
• 22 October: World premiere of Gilbert Bécaud 's opera L'opéra d'Aran (The Opera of the Island of Aran) in Paris
• December 9: Premiere of the film Lawrence of Arabia in London.
• December 12: World premiere of the Karl May film The Treasure of the Silver Lake in the Universum, Stuttgart
• American journalist Rachel Carson publishes the book Silent Spring , whose worldwide distribution marks the beginning of the environmental movement .
• The Fluxus movement is brought to life by leading artists in Germany.
• John Schlesinger receives the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for A Kind of Loving .
• Foundation of the Royal Rangers in the USA
• Anthony Burgess' book A Clockwork Orange is published.
• Opening of the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace
• The art magazine Artforum is founded.
• Spin Art is invented.

religion

• January 3rd: Cuban head of state Fidel Castro is appointed by Pope John XXIII. excommunicated .
• October 11: Second Vatican Council opens.

Sports

Entries of athletics world records see under the respective discipline under athletics .

• March 2: Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in an NBA game.
• May 20th to December 29th: Hosting of the 13th Formula 1 World Championship
• July 28: The DFB Bundestag decides in Dortmund to create a Bundesliga for the 1963/1964 season.
• October 27: Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser becomes the first woman to complete the 100m freestyle in 59.9 seconds, breaking the one-minute barrier.
• December 29: Graham Hill becomes Formula 1 World Champion for the first time.
• Brazil wins World Cup in Chile . The host only gets third. Germany are eliminated in the quarter-finals after a 1-0 defeat by Yugoslavia .

disasters

• January 10: Massive masses of rock and ice break off from the northern summit of Nevado Huascarán in Peru . At least 2,000 people died in the scree avalanche that descended into the valley .
• 7 February: Luisenthal mine accident : 299 miners are killed in a coal dust explosion in Saarland
• 16th/17th February: Storm surge on the North Sea : The most severe storm surge in over 100 years breaks over the German North Sea coast. In Hamburg alone , 315 people are killed, and 240 are dead along the entire coast.
• June 3: Paris , France . French Boeing 707 airliner crash . Of 132 people on board, 130 die.
• September 1: In Iran , the 7.0 magnitude Buinzahra earthquake kills 12,230 people.

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

nature and environment

1962: Canaima National Park

• June 12: On the border with Brazil and Guyana , Venezuela founds the Canaima National Park , which is characterized by table mountains made of sandstone .
• Mid-November: The winter of 1962/63 , which was exceptionally long in Europe and lasted a hundred years, begins.

Born

January

• 0January 1 Carlos Gómez , American actor
• 0January 1: Vasile Năstase , Romanian rower
• 0January 2: Iván Palazzese , Venezuelan motorcycle racer (d. 1989)
• 0January 3: Thorsten Aßmann , German ecologist and professor of ecology
• 0January 3: Onkel Kånkel , actually Håkan Florå, Swedish punk musician († 2009)
• 0January 3 Ronnie Schöb , German professor of economics
• 0January 3: Lane Spina , American freestyle skier
• 0January 4 David DeFeis , American musician
• 0January 4 Natalia Bochina , Russian track and field athlete and Olympian
• 0January 4 Michael Koschorreck , German guitarist and singer
• 0January 4: Peter Steele , American musician (Type O Negative) († 2010)
• 0January 4: Ingolf Viereck , German politician
• 0January 5: Carmine Abbagnale , Italian rower
• 0January 5 Susan Elizabeth Amis , American film actress and fashion model
• 0January 6: Daniel Mahrer , Swiss alpine skier
• 0January 7 Hallie Todd , American actress
• 0January 8: Michel Ligonnet , French automobile racer
• January 10: Zoltán Pokorni , Hungarian politician
• January 11: Steve Hislop , British motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
• January 11 Alex Shapiro , American composer
• January 12: Uwe Adamczyk , German politician
• January 12: Radek Drulák , Czech footballer
• January 12 Gunde Svan , Swedish cross-country skier
• January 13 Trace Adkins , American country music singer
• January 13: Christian Homburg , German professor of marketing
• January 13 Gunda Röstel , German politician
• January 13: Alfred Schön , German footballer
• January 14 Jeff Cronenweth , American cinematographer
• January 14 Antonia Langsdorf , German astrologer
• January 14 Patricia Morrison , American bassist, singer-songwriter
• January 15: Margherita Buy , Italian actress
• January 15: Frédéric Lordon , French sociologist and economist
• January 15: Horst Lichter , German TV chef and presenter
• January 15 Christina Schindler , German film director, screenwriter and film producer
• January 15: Richard Seeber , Austrian politician (ÖVP)
• January 16 Petra Landers , German soccer player
• January 17: Jim Carrey , Canadian comedian and actor
• January 18 Alison Margaret Arngrim , American actress, stand-up comedian and activist
• January 21: Dietmar Bachmann , German politician
• January 21: Miroslav Konôpka , Slovak auto racer
• January 21: Gabriele Pin , Italian football player and coach
• January 21: Marie Trintignant , French actress (died 2003)
• January 22: Peter Lohmeyer , German actor
• January 22 Andrea Marcelli , Italian jazz percussionist and composer
• January 22 Christian Willisohn , German blues pianist and singer
• January 23 David Arnold , English film music composer
• January 23 Richard Roxburgh , Australian actor
• January 24: Edward Atterton , British film actor
• January 24: Uwe Bohm , German actor
• January 24: Zoë Haas , Swiss alpine skier
• January 24 Shunji Kasuya , Japanese automobile racer
• January 24: Andreas Ritter , German sports official
• January 25 Chris Chelios , American ice hockey player
• January 25: Georges Grün , Belgian footballer
• January 25: Bruno Martini , French soccer goalkeeper († 2020)
• January 26: Andreas Aguilar , German artistic gymnast
• January 26 Ali N. Askin , German composer, arranger, music producer, keyboardist and musician
• January 26 Lena Biolcati , Italian singer
• January 26 Anna LaCazio , American singer
• January 26: Óscar Ruggeri , Argentine footballer
• January 28: Noriko Ogawa , Japanese pianist
• January 29: Radovan Vlatković , Croatian-French horn player
• January 29: Olga Tokarczuk , Polish writer
• January 30: Abdullah II bin al-Hussein , King of Jordan
• January 30: Anton Schaaf , German politician and MP († 2020)
• January 30 Eugen Tripolsky , Ukrainian chess referee and coach
• January 31: Ronald Schweppe , Dutch writer and musician

February

• 0February 1: Manuel Amoros , French football player and coach
• 0February 1: Takashi Murakami , Japanese artist
• 0February 1: Uwe Arkuszewski , German presenter, singer and entertainer († 2004)
• 0February 1 David Warnock , British racing driver
• 0February 2: Philippe Claudel , French novelist, playwright and film director
• 0February 2 Ezra Getzler , Australian mathematician and mathematical physicist
• 0February 2 Mustapha Moussa , Algerian amateur boxer
• 0February 2 Anne-Flore Rey , French alpine skier
• 0February 4 Clint Black , American country music singer
• 0February 5 Jennifer Jason Leigh , American actress
• 0February 6 Therese Hämer , German actress
• 0February 6: François Lecointre , Chief of the French General Staff
• 0February 6 Axl Rose , American singer

ax rose

• 0February 7 Salvatore Antibo , Italian athlete
• 0February 7: David Bryan , American keyboardist
• 0February 7 Garth Brooks , American country music artist

Garth Brooks

• 0February 7: Nicolò Napoli , Italian football player and coach
• 0February 8: Bhushan Akut , Indian badminton player
• 0February 8 Israil Magomedgireyevich Arsamakov , Soviet weightlifter
• 0February 8: Barbara Ludwig , Saxon Minister of State for Science and Art
• 0February 8 Martin Wuttke , German actor and director
• 0February 9 – Csaba Kesjár , Hungarian racing driver (d. 1988)
• February 10: Clifford Lee Burton , American musician, bassist for heavy metal band Metallica (d. 1986)
• February 10 Pieter Jan Leeuwerink , Dutch volleyball player (died 2004)
• February 10 Jens Maier , German jurist and politician
• February 11: Uwe Zimmermann , German footballer

Sheryl Crow , 2005

• February 11 Sheryl Crow , American blues rock singer, guitarist and songwriter
• February 12 Uschi Fellner , Austrian journalist
• February 12: Stig-Arne Gunnestad , Norwegian curler
• February 13 Heikko Deutschmann , Austrian actor
• February 13 Michael Mair , Italian alpine skier
• February 14 Josef Hader , Austrian cabaret artist, actor and author
• February 15 Michael Roth , German handball player and coach
• February 15: Ulrich Roth , German handball player
• February 16: John Balance , British musician (died 2004)
• February 16 Uwe Jungandreas , German handball coach and handball player
• February 17 Serge Brammertz , Belgian jurist
• February 18: Sandra Ravioli , Swiss economist and author
• February 19: Hana Mandliková , Czech tennis player
• February 19 Franky Gee , American singer
• February 21 Mark Arm , American singer and guitarist
• February 21 Martin Armknecht , German actor
• February 21 Chuck Palahniuk , American author
• February 22 – Steve Irwin , Australian documentary filmmaker, animal rights organization owner and television show (died 2006)
• February 22: Olivier Latry , French organist, improviser and music teacher
• February 23 Ralph Pitchford , South African enduro athlete and rally navigator
• February 24 Matthias Augustin , German physician, scientist and university lecturer
• February 24: John Bemme , German footballer (DDR)
• February 24: Outi Mäenpää , Finnish actress
• February 24 Michelle Shocked , American folk singer-songwriter
• February 25: Birgit Fischer , German canoeist
• February 25: Michael Stenov , Austrian composer and church musician
• February 26 Ahn Cheol-soo , South Korean software developer, businessman and politician
• February 27: Hou Xuemei , Chinese discus thrower
• February 26: Axel Balkausky , German sports journalist and television editor
• February 26: Atiq Rahimi , French writer and film director of Afghan descent
• February 28 Angela Bailey , British track and field athlete (d. 2021)
• February 28: Evelyn Zupke , German opposition figure in East Germany

March

• 0March 1: Ni Amorim , Portuguese automobile racer
• 0March 1 Christine Mayn , Italian actress
• 0March 1: Ingo Naujoks , German actor

Jon Bon Jovi , 2009

• 0March 2 Peter Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• 0March 2: Dirk Aschmoneit , German triathlete and Ironman winner
• 0March 2 Jon Bon Jovi , American musician
• 0March 2: Gabriele Tarquini , Italian racing driver

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

• 0March 3 Jackie Joyner-Kersee , American track and field athlete
• 0March 4: Xela Arias Castaño , Spanish author and translator († 2003)
• 0March 4: Ronny Pecik , Austrian investor
• 0March 5: Simon Abkarian , French actor
• 0March 5: Amina Annabi , French-Tunisian singer and actress
• 0March 6: Serra Durugönül , Turkish Classical Archaeologist
• 0March 6: Erika Hess , Swiss alpine skier
• 0March 6 Stephan Schöne , German handball player, coach and manager
• 0March 6: Uwe Wanke , German politician
• 0March 7: Améleté Abalo , Togolese football player and coach († 2010)
• 0March 7: Anna Burns , Northern Irish writer
• 0March 7 Taylor Dayne , American singer
• 0March 7 Klaus Trabitsch , Austrian guitarist and singer
• 0March 8 Kim Ung-yong , South Korean nuclear physicist
• 0March 8: Richard Stanton , British racing driver
• 0March 9: Jan Furtok , Polish football player and coach
• 0March 9: Richard Quest , UK news presenter
• March 10 Irene S. , Austrian singer, actress and cabaret artist
• March 11 Alexander Hold , German lawyer, politician (Freie Wahler), author and former television actor and judge
• March 11 Matt Mead , American lawyer and politician
• March 11 Jeffrey Nordling , American actor
• March 12 Andreas Köpke , German footballer
• March 12 Darryl Strawberry , American baseball player
• March 14 Ruth Arnet Gantner , Swiss legal scholar
• March 15: Markus Merk , German football referee
• March 15 Leopoldo Serantes , Filipino boxer († 2021)
• March 15 Terence Trent D'Arby , American singer
• March 16 Joseph Crowley , American politician
• March 16: Franck Fréon , French automobile racer
• March 16: Lasse Larsson , Swedish footballer (died 2015)
• March 16: Janette Rauch , Swiss-German actress
• March 17 Clare Grogan , Scottish actress and singer
• March 17: Christian Schuhböck , Austrian landscape ecologist
• March 17 Christiane Weber , German fencing athlete
• March 18: Tina Bara , German photographer and East German opposition member
• March 18: Hossein Kazemzadeh , Iranian teacher, journalist and mystic
• March 18 James McMurtry , American folk rock singer and singer-songwriter
• March 18 Keith Millard , American football player
• March 19: Adrian Bosshard , Swiss motorcycle racer and entrepreneur
• March 20: Christoph Lauenstein , German filmmaker
• March 20: Wolfgang Lauenstein , German filmmaker
• March 20: Stephen Sommers , American film producer, screenwriter and director
• March 21 Zackie Achmat , South African activist
• March 21 Matthew Broderick , American theater and film actor
• March 21: Narumi Kakinouchi , Japanese mangaka
• March 21 Gilles Lalay , French motorcycle racer (d. 1992)
• March 21 Andrea Maria Schenkel , German writer
• March 22: Dagmar Freist , historian
• March 22: Ibrahim Michael Ibrahim , Lebanese Bishop in Canada
• March 22 Juan Aguilera , Spanish tennis player
• March 23: Basil al-Assad , Syrian politician (died 1994)
• March 23: Stefan Kellner , German handball goalkeeper
• March 23 Günther Paal , Austrian cabaret artist
• March 23 Steven Redgrave , British rower
• March 25 Andreas Al-Laham , German business economist (died 2011)
• March 25 Marcia Cross ,American actress
• March 25: Hans-Peter Wiegert , German karateka multiple world champion and national coach
• March 26: Susanne Daubner , German news anchor
• March 26: Falko Götz , German soccer player and coach
• March 26 John Stockton , American basketball player
• March 27 Kevin J. Anderson , American science fiction writer
• March 27 Jann Arden , Canadian singer and musician
• March 27: Christian Habekost , German cabaret artist
• March 27: Christoph Langen , German bobsledder
• March 28: Jure Franko , Slovenian alpine skier
• March 30 Kathrin Amacker , Swiss manager and politician
• March 31 Skylet Andrew , English table tennis player
• March 31: Olli Rehn , Finnish politician and EU Enlargement Commissioner
• March 31: Konstantia Gourzi , Greek composer and conductor

April

• 0April 1: Stefanie Tücking , German television and radio presenter († 2018)
• 0April 2 Billy Dean , American country music artist
• 0April 3 Salma Agha , British singer and actress
• 0April 3: James E. Davis , American politician (died 2003)
• 0April 3 Mike Ness , American musician
• 0April 3 Jennifer Rubin , American actress
• 0April 3 Werner Rusche , German footballer
• 0April 4: Neven Ilic , Chilean sports official
• 0April 5 Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov , President of the Autonomous Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation
• 0April 6: Tomoyasu Asaoka , Japanese soccer player († 2021)
• 0April 6: Robert Wells , Swedish composer, pianist and entertainer
• 0April 7 Kristina Bach , German schlager singer, lyricist and producer
• 0April 7 Andrew Hampsten , American bicycle racer
• 0April 7: Stefan Schneider , German radio host and stadium announcer
• 0April 8 Alberto Angela , Italian paleontologist, science journalist and non-fiction author
• 0April 8: Horst Arnold , German politician
• 0April 8 Izzy Stradlin , American musician
• April 10: Sepp Daxenberger , German politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) († 2010)
• April 10: Wolfgang Edenharder , German singer
• April 10: Jukka Tammi , Finnish ice hockey player
• April 11: Franz Heinzer , Swiss alpine skier
• April 11 Claudia Ravensburg , German politician
• April 12: Éric Laboureix , French freestyle skier
• April 12: Carlos Sainz , Spanish rally driver
• April 13 Matthias Hönerbach , German footballer
• April 13: Hillel Slovak , American musician (d. 1988)
• April 15: Franz Dufter , German racing driver
• April 15 Nick Kamen , British fashion model and singer († 2021)
• April 15 Wally Schreiber , German-Canadian ice hockey player
• April 15: Nawal El Moutawakel , Moroccan track and field athlete
• April 16 Herbert Jösch , German musician and bandleader
• April 16: Matthias Röhr , German musician of the band Böhse Onkelz and writer
• April 16 Lukas Lichtner-Hoyer , Austrian entrepreneur and racing driver
• April 16 Ian MacKaye , American musician and label founder
• April 17: Heidi Attenberger , German rower
• April 17 Georg Böhm , German table tennis player
• April 17 Joanna Murray-Smith , Australian writer
• April 18: Arno Abler , Austrian politician (ÖVP)
• April 19 Silvia Schmitt , German handball player
• April 19: Pål Trulsen , Norwegian curler and Olympic gold medalist
• April 19 Dorian Yates , British bodybuilder
• April 20: Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson , Icelandic politician
• April 20: Lionel Robert , French racing driver
• April 20: Thomas Rohde , German oboist
• April 23 Roswitha Aschenwald , Austrian alpine skier
• April 23: Andersen Viana , Brazilian composer
• April 24: Clemens Binninger , German politician, MP
• April 24 Stuart Pearce , English footballer
• April 25: Joseph Befe Ateba , Cameroonian bishop (died 2014)
• April 25 Ralf Benschu , German musician
• April 25: Ole Edvard Antonsen , Norwegian trumpeter
• April 27 Robin S. , American pop singer
• April 28: Susanne Klatten , German billionaire and shareholder in BMW and Altana
• April 28: Peter Sadlo , German drummer (died 2016)
• April 29: Stephan Burger , Archbishop of Freiburg
• April 29 Dieter Hegen , German ice hockey player and coach
• April 30: Nikolai Vladimirovich Fomenko , Russian entrepreneur, actor, musician and racing driver
• April 30: Alexander Osang , German journalist and writer

May

• 0May 1: Remedios Amaya , Spanish flamenco singer
• 0May 1: Owen Paul , British singer
• 0May 1: Maia Morgenstern , Romanian actress
• 0May 1 Christof Stein-Schneider , German guitarist
• 0May 2 Jean-François Bernard , French cyclist
• 0May 2 Fabio Stassi , Italian writer
• 0May 2 Andreas Steppuhn , German politician
• 0May 2 Jimmy White , English snooker player
• 0May 2 Ty Herndon , American country singer
• 0May 5: Rodica Arba-Pușcatu , Romanian rower
• 0May 5 Scott Tucker , American entrepreneur and racing driver
• 0May 5: Stefan Wenzel , German politician
• 0May 6: Tarek Assam , German-Egyptian dancer and choreographer
• 0May 6 Andreas Köckeritz , German handball player and coach
• 0May 6: Mario Kummer , German cyclist
• 0May 6 Norbert Heisterkamp , German actor
• 0May 7: Piero Liatti , Italian rally driver
• 0May 7 Monika Martin , Austrian singer
• 0May 7: Georg Zeitblom , German musician and performance artist
• 0May 8 Tatyana Alexeyevna Rubtsova , Russian chess player

Dave Gahan with Depeche Mode, 2010

• 0May 9: Babette von Kienlin , German TV presenter
• 0May 9 Dave Gahan , British musician
• 0May 9 Paul Heaton , British musician
• May 10: John Ngugi , Kenyan track and field athlete
• May 11: Luca Drudi , Italian racing driver
• May 11 Steve Wacholz , American drummer
• May 12 Emilio Estevez , American film actor
• May 12 April Grace , American actress
• May 12 Brett Gurewitz , guitarist and songwriter for American band Bad Religion
• May 13: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá , Puerto Rican politician
• May 14: Ferran Adrià Acosta , Spanish chef and restaurateur
• May 14 Ian Robert Astbury , British rock singer
• May 14 Thomas Bubendorfer , Austrian extreme mountaineer and author
• May 14: Wolfgang Přiklopil , Austrian kidnapper († 2006)
• May 16: Georges Bacaouni , Lebanese Archbishop
• May 17 Dieter Ammann , Swiss musician and composer
• May 17: Hugo Bonatti , Austrian freestyle skier
• May 17: Thomas Rachel , German member of the Bundestag
• May 17: Heinz Strunk , German entertainer, author and politician
• May 17: Aglaja Veteranyi , Swiss actress and writer († 2002)
• May 18 Sandra , German pop singer
• May 18 John Chabot , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• May 19 Boz Boorer , English musician
• May 19 Uli Borowka , German footballer
• May 19 Klaus Dieter Pfeffer , German physician, immunologist and molecular biologist
• May 19: Helmut Riegger , German local politician
• May 20: Christiane Felscherinow , famous German drug addict ("Christiane F.")
• May 20 ChaPeau , German magician
• May 21: Jürgen Gallmann , Managing Director of Microsoft Germany
• May 21: Uwe Rahn , German footballer
• May 22 Karl Edelmann , German musician and composer
• May 22 Darcy Lima , Brazilian chess player, official, editor, and teacher
• May 22 Rainer Wöss , Austrian actor
• May 23: Frank Allgöwer , German engineer and scientist
• May 24 Charles Rettinghaus , German voice actor and film actor
• May 24: Massimo Mauro , Italian footballer and politician
• May 25 Egyd Gstättner , Austrian publicist and writer
• May 25: Ingeborg Hungnes , Norwegian singer
• May 25: Philippe Verellen , Belgian racing driver (d. 2002)
• May 26: Black , British singer († 2016)
• May 26 Bobcat Goldthwait , American comedian
• May 27 Eva Matthes , German educator, sociologist, historian and university lecturer
• May 28: Knacki Deuser , German presenter and comedian
• May 29: Semino Rossi , Argentine-Austrian crooner
• May 30: Timo Soini , Finnish politician
• May 30 Bernd Glemser , German musician
• May 31 Philippe Gache , French racing driver and racing team owner
• May 31: Sebastian Koch , German actor

June

• 0June 2: Sibylle Berg , German-Swiss writer
• 0June 2: Joseph Hannesschläger , German actor (died 2020)
• 0June 2: Alisher Latif-Zade , Tajik composer
• 0June 2: Ian Shaw , British jazz singer, pianist, actor and record producer
• 0June 3 Oliver Augst , German composer, singer, producer and radio play author
• 0June 3: Dagmar Neubauer , German track and field athlete
• 0June 3 Jan Ohlsson , Swedish actor
• 0June 3: Alexander Stock , German journalist
• 0June 4: Krzysztof Hołowczyc , Polish rally driver and politician
• 0June 4 Christof Rasche , German politician
• 0June 5 Buck Angel , American pornographic actor
• 0June 5: Astrid of Belgium , daughter of King Albert II of Belgium
• 0June 5: Petr Vrabec , Czech football player and coach
• 0June 6 Carol Cady , American track and field athlete
• 0June 6 Alex Datcher , American actress
• 0June 7: Michael Georg Aggelidis , German politician
• 0June 7 Viola Amherd , Swiss politician
• 0June 8 Thomas Jefferson , American track and field athlete and Olympian
• 0June 8 Andreas Keim , German footballer
• 0June 8: Kerstin Rech , German author
• 0June 8 Nick Rhodes , British keyboard player
• 0June 9 Günther Schäfer , German football player and coach
• 09 June: Sergei Dovgalyuk , Russian horn player
• June 10 Tommy Amper , German composer, music arranger, music producer, singer, business manager, voice actor and entrepreneur
• June 10 Petra Hinz , German politician
• June 10: Vincent Perez , Swiss actor, director, screenwriter and film producer
• June 10 Brigitte Oertli , Swiss alpine skier
• June 10: Ralf Schumann , German marksman
• June 10: Masashi Tanaka , Japanese mangaka
• June 10 Pascal von Wroblewsky , German jazz singer and actress
• June 11 Andreas Mihatsch , German photographer and film producer
• June 12 Matilde Asensi Carratalá , Spanish writer
• June 12: Neil Cunningham , New Zealand racing driver (d. 2016)
• June 12: Sahnie , ex-bassist of German punk band Die Ärzte
• June 13 Davey Hamilton , American racing driver
• June 13 Ally Sheedy , American actress
• June 14: Stig Rossen , Danish singer and actor
• June 15: Thomas Wiedling , German writer and translator
• June 17: Lio , Franco-Belgian singer and actress
• June 17: Frank Baranowski , Lord Mayor of Gelsenkirchen
• June 19 Paula Abdul , American choreographer
• June 21 Chris Palmer , British motorcycle racer
• June 21: Pipilotti Rist , actually Elisabeth Charlotte Rist, Swiss video artist
• June 21 Viktor Tsoi , Russian rock singer (died 1990)

Campino, 2013

• June 22: Jean Arcelin , Franco-Swiss painter
• June 22 – Campino , German singer of the German punk band "Die Toten Hosen"
• June 22 Clyde Drexler , American basketball player
• June 22: Dudley Stokes , Jamaican bobsledder
• June 23: Jan Freiheit , German baroque cellist and viol player
• June 23: Ralf Günther , German television producer
• June 24 Christine Neubauer , German actress
• June 26 Hubert Strolz , Austrian alpine skier
• June 27 Tony Leung Chiu Wai , Chinese actor
• June 28: Luc Feit , Luxembourgish actor
• June 29: Pal Lekaj , Kosovar politician
• June 30 Martin Dörmann , German politician and MP
• 00June: John Wesley , American guitarist and singer

July

• 0July 1 Nicolaus Fest , German jurist, journalist and politician
• 0July 2 Monika Hohlmeier , German politician
• 0July 3 Brigitte Loesch , German politician and MdL
• 0July 3 Tom Cruise , American actor and producer

Tom Cruise, 2008

• 0July 3 Thomas Ellis Gibson , American actor
• 0July 3 Tanja Schumann , German actress and voice actress
• 0July 4 Claudia Zaczkiewicz , German track and field athlete and Olympian
• 0July 4 Pam Shriver , American tennis player
• 0July 5: Stefan Mickisch , German pianist and musicologist († 2021)
• 0July 5: Ali Amrozi bin Haji Nurhasyim , Indonesian terrorist (died 2008)
• 0July 6 Anthony Forde , Barbadian darts player
• 0July 6: Manfred Wilde , German historian
• 0July 6: Ingrid Thurnher , Austrian news anchor
• 0July 8 Joan Osborne , American singer-songwriter
• 0July 8: Johan Gielis , Belgian engineer, mathematician and entrepreneur
• July 10: Santiago Ostolaza , Uruguayan soccer player and coach
• July 11 Heike Hanold-Lynch , German actress and coach
• July 11 Jill Jones , American singer
• July 11: Manuela Mager , German figure skater
• July 11: Hans-Marcus Elwert , German correspondence chess grandmaster
• July 12 Christine Zierl (pseudonym Dolly Dollar ), German actress
• July 13 Margret Almer , Austrian yodeller and singer of folk music
• July 14: Kerstin Lorenz , German politician (died 2005)
• July 15: Jens Bullerjahn , German politician
• July 16 Thomas Arslan , German-Turkish film director and screenwriter
• July 16: Robert Feldhoff , German science fiction writer (died 2009)
• July 16 Mathias Herrmann , German actor
• July 16: Uwe Hohn , German athlete
• July 16 Natalia Lisovskaya , Russian track and field athlete and Olympic champion
• July 18 Lee Arenberg , American actor
• July 18 Jack Irons , American drummer
• July 19 Anthony Edwards , American actor
• July 20 Giovanna Amati , Italian automobile racer
• July 20: Elías Blanco Mamani , Bolivian journalist, literary scholar and biographer
• July 20: Christoph Palmer , German politician
• July 20: Alphonso Williams , American singer († 2019)
• July 21: Victor Olufemi Adebowale , UK life peer and chief executive
• July 21: Gabi Bauer , German TV presenter
• July 22 Jean-Claude Leclercq , French cyclist, coach and television commentator
• July 23 Frank Cebulla , German footballer
• July 23 Eriq La Salle , American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
• July 24: Johnny O'Connell , American racing driver
• July 24: Andreas Meurer , German musician (Die Toten Hosen)
• July 26: Uwe Raab , German cyclist
• July 27: Mariela Castro , Cuban politician
• July 27: Udo Wolf , German politician
• July 28 Torsten Gütschow , German footballer
• July 28: Arne Lorenz , German director
• July 29 Carl Cox , British disc jockey
• July 29 Frank Neubarth , German football player and coach
• July 30 Loren Avedon , American actor
• July 30 Barbara Sletto , American composer, choirmaster and music teacher
• July 31 Wesley Snipes , American actor

Wesley Snipes, 2009

August

• 0August 1: Spyros Andriopoulos , Greek long-distance runner
• 0August 1 Toni G. Atkins , US politician
• 0August 2 Eckard Michels , German modern historian
• 0August 2: Satu Silvo , Finnish actress
• 0August 3 Gudrun Maria Abt , German track and field athlete and Olympian
• 0August 3 Mini Bydlinski , Austrian cabaret artist and actor
• 0August 3: Doris Bures , Austrian politician (SPÖ)
• 0August 4 Salvatore Bonafede , Italian jazz pianist
• 0August 4: Wolf Lotter , Austrian journalist and author
• 0August 5 – Ingo Aulbach , German professional footballer
• 0August 5 Patrick Ewing , American basketball player
• 0August 6 Steven Lee , Australian alpine skier
• 0August 6 Michelle Yeoh , Malaysian actress
• 0August 7 Adriano Baffi , Italian cyclist
• 0August 7: Sabine Hark , German sociologist
• 0August 7: Thomas Frick , German director and screenwriter
• 0August 8 Oliver Stokowski , German actor
• 0August 9 Holger Anthes , German footballer
• 0August 9: Carmen Butta , German-Italian journalist and director
• 0August 9: Søren Hyldgaard , Danish composer of film music († 2018)

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

• 0August 9 Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer , German politician
• August 10: Ingo Autenrieth , German medic
• August 10 Thomas Brunner , German footballer and coach
• August 10 Marie-Janine Calic , German historian, political advisor and professor
• August 10 Suzanne Collins , American author

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• August 10 Markus Schöffl , German dance teacher and former competitive dancer
• August 12 Tereza Campello , Brazilian economist and politician
• August 12 Luca Olivieri , Italian guitarist and singer
• August 14 Benny Kim , American violinist
• August 15: Gregor Amann , German politician
• August 15 David Zayas , American actor
• August 15 Moreno Mannini , Italian footballer
• August 16 Steve Carell , American actor and comedian
• August 17 Gilby Clarke , American guitarist
• August 17: Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss , German actor, director and screenwriter
• August 17: Kajo Wasserhövel , office manager of Franz Müntefering, federal secretary of the SPD

Felipe Calderon

• August 18: Felipe Calderón , Mexican politician
• August 18: Stephen Endelman , English composer
• August 18: Ralf Haber , German track and field athlete
• August 18 Sandra Farmer-Patrick , American track and field athlete
• August 19: Bernd Lucke , German economist and politician
• August 19 Michelangelo Rampulla , Italian footballer
• August 19: Valérie Kaprisky , French actress
• August 20: Christoph Asmuth , German philosopher
• August 20 James Marsters , American actor and musician
• August 21: Tsutomu Miyazaki , Japanese serial killer († 2008)
• August 21 Jeff Stryker , American actor in porn films
• August 21: Jorge Uliarte , Argentine conductor
• August 23 Jürgen Tonkel , German actor
• August 25 Theresa Andrews , American swimmer
• August 25: Alexander Graf , German chess player of Uzbek origin
• August 25 Michael Zorc , German footballer
• August 25 Taslima Nasrin , Bangladeshi writer
• 26 August Sri Mulyani Indrawati , Indonesian economist
• August 26: Tariq Ramadan , Egyptian-born Swiss Islamic scholar
• August 26: Joachim Zelter , German writer
• August 26: Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson , Icelandic writer
• August 27 Adam Oates , Canadian ice hockey player
• August 27 Sarah Wiener , Austrian TV chef, entrepreneur and book author
• August 28 David Fincher , American director, film producer and actor
• August 29: Richard Angelo , American serial killer
• August 29 Jutta Kleinschmidt , German rally driver
• August 29: Jorge Martínez , Spanish motorcycle racer
• August 30: François Delecour , French rally driver
• August 31 Janice Ann Atkinson , British politician

September

• 01 September: Damba Badmajewitsch Ayuschejew , Russian cleric
• 01 September Ruud Gullit , Dutch football player and coach
• 0September 1: Jutta Steinruck , German politician (SPD)
• 02 September: Knut Leo Abrahamsen , Norwegian nordic combined
• 0September 4 Bob Arnz , German music producer, composer and music executive
• 0September 5 Katrin Amunts , German physician and professor
• 05 September Jutta Dümpe-Krüger , German politician and MP
• 0September 5: Peter Wingfield , Welsh actor
• 0September 6 Holger Fach , German soccer player and coach
• 0September 6 Hardy Kayser , German musician, guitarist and songwriter
• 0September 6 Kevin Willis , American basketball player
• 0September 7 Neerja Bhanot , Indian flight attendant and model (d. 1986)
• 0September 8 Thomas Kretschmann , German actor
• 0September 8 Sergio Casal , Spanish tennis player
• 10 September Tanja Langer , German novelist and lyricist
• September 12 Mary Kay Adams , American film and stage actress
• September 12 Juan Atkins , American techno musician and producer
• September 12: Dino Merlin , Bosnian singer and producer
• September 12 Michel Qissi , American actor, director, screenwriter and stuntman
• September 15 Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker , German politician
• September 15 Rebecca Miller , American director, actress, sculptor and painter
• September 16: Erik Hajas , Swedish handball player
• September 16 Kimberly McArthur , American actress and Playmate
• September 16: Armin Medosch , Austrian journalist and media artist († 2017)
• 18 September Najma Akhtar , British jazz singer
• September 18 John Fashanu , English footballer, TV presenter
• September 18 Timotheus Höttges , German manager, CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG
• September 18: Chris Simboli , Canadian freestyle skier
• September 19 Rafael Alfaro Kotte , German accordionist and composer († 2005)
• September 20 Jim Al-Khalili , British professor
• September 20: William JC Amend III. , American comic artist
• September 21: Karl Peter Åslin , Swedish ice hockey goalie (died 2012)
• September 21: Christoph Galandi , German rower
• September 21: Uli Hiemer , German ice hockey player
• September 21 Bettina Röhl , German journalist
• September 21 Rob Morrow , American actor
• September 22: Alejandro Abad , Spanish musician, music producer and composer
• September 22 Oliver Conrad , American designer and entrepreneur
• September 22 Farhad Darya , Afghan singer, composer and lyricist
• September 23 John Harbaugh , American football coach
• 24 September: Raj Tischbierek , German chess grandmaster
• September 25 István Turu , Hungarian boxer (died 2021)
• September 25: Pieter Wispelwey , Dutch cellist
• September 26 Melissa Sue Anderson , American-Canadian actress
• September 26 Gregory Crewdson , American photographer
• 27 September: Khaled al-Khamissi , Egyptian writer and journalist
• 27 September: Jens Koeppen , German politician and MP
• September 28 Stellan Brynell , Swedish chess player
• September 28 Grant Fuhr , Canadian ice hockey player
• September 28: Luis Enrique , Nicaraguan singer and composer
• September 28: Fred Merkel , American motorcycle racer
• September 30: Raúl Abzueta , Venezuelan musician, bandleader, composer, author and music promoter († 2012)
• September 30: Borislav Cvetković , Yugoslav footballer
• September 30 Jan-Gregor Kremp , German actor
• September 30 Frank Rijkaard , Dutch footballer
• September 30: Oscar Pometti , Argentine tango singer and guitarist

October

• 0October 1 Attaphol Buspakom , Thai soccer coach and soccer player († 2015)
• 0October 1 Nicolaas "Nico" Claesen , Belgian football player and coach
• 0October 1 Fred Lonberg-Holm , American cellist
• 0October 1: Johannes Matthias Michel , German composer, church musician and organist
• 0October 1 Esai Morales , American actor
• 0October 2 Gerd Weinmann , German footballer
• 0October 3 Tommy Lee , American drummer and rock singer
• 0October 3 Christoph Markschies , German theologian
• 0October 4 Marc Minkowski , French bassoonist and conductor
• 0October 5 Richard Dübell , German author and graphic artist
• 0October 5 Michael Andretti , American racing driver
• 0October 7 Tommy Steiner , German pop singer and actor
• 08 October: Klaus Hubert Auer , Austrian politician (ÖVP)
• 0October 8: Walter Rauscher , Austrian historian
• 0October 8 Jörg Vaihinger , German track and field athlete
• 0October 9: Jorge Luis Burruchaga , Argentine football player and coach
• 0October 9 Durs Grünbein , German poet, essayist and translator
• October 10 Markus Krall , German economist and author
• October 11: Andrzej Błasik , Polish general (died 2010)
• October 11 Joan Cusack , American actress
• October 11: Michael Coldewey , German film producer
• October 12 Carlos Bernard , American actor
• October 12: Luca Carboni , Italian cantautore
• October 12: Branko Crvenkovski , President of Macedonia
• October 12 Bashkim Fino , Prime Minister of Albania (died 2021)
• October 13 Michael Timothy Good , American astronaut
• October 13 Jerry Rice , American football player
• October 13 Ron Boots , Dutch composer and musician
• October 14: Michael Althen , German film critic (died 2011)
• October 14: Jaan Ehlvest , Estonian chess player
• October 16: Marieta Ilcu , Romanian long jumper
• October 16 Tamara McKinney , American alpine skier
• October 16 Michael Balzary , American bassist
• October 17 Paul Neubauer , American violist
• 18 October Min Ko Naing , Burmese freedom fighter
• October 19 Lou Briel , Puerto Rican singer, composer, actor, television host and producer
• October 19 Tracy Chevalier , American writer
• October 19: Bendik Hofseth , Norwegian jazz musician

Evander Holyfield, 2011

• October 19 Evander Holyfield , American boxer
• October 19 Marek Kordowiecki , Polish handball player and coach
• October 21 Pat Tiberi , American politician
• October 22: Manuel Rodrigues , French racing driver
• October 22: Kjetil Saunes , Norwegian jazz musician
• October 22: Sabine Urig , German actress
• October 23: Beatie Edney , British actress
• October 24 Mark Miller , American enduro athlete and cross-country rally racer
• October 24 Abel Antón Rodrigo , Spanish long-distance runner
• October 24 Giovanni Sollima , Italian cellist and composer
• October 26: Davo Karničar , Slovenian extreme skier (died 2019)
• October 26: Cary Elwes , British actor
• October 27: Thomas Balou Martin , German actor, voice actor and TV presenter
• October 28: Tino Günther , German politician
• October 29 Pablo Argárate , Argentine church historian
• October 29: René Pollesch , German playwright and director
• October 30 Caroline Casadesus , French singer

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• October 30: Stefan Kuntz , German footballer and coach
• October 30: Guntis Osis , Soviet bobsledder and track and field athlete

November

• 0November 1: Ulf Timmermann , German track and field athlete
• 0November 1: Magne Furuholmen , musician for pop band a-ha and visual artist
• 0November 1 Anthony Kiedis , American musician

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• 0November 2 Stefan Hussong , German accordionist
• 0November 2 Ron McGovney , American musician
• 0November 2 – Medina Dixon , American basketball player († 2021)
• 0November 2: Leonidas Pelekanakis , Greek regatta sailor (died 2021)
• 0November 3 Dirk Kurbjuweit , German journalist and writer
• 0November 3 Gabe Newell , American game developer
• 0November 4: Ixi , German singer
• 0November 6: Peter Kurz , German politician and jurist
• 0November 6 Georg Uecker , German actor and author
• 0November 7: Bettina Hoy , German eventing rider
• 0November 9 Sergio Batista , Argentine football player and coach
• 0November 9 Teryl Rothery , Canadian actress
• 0November 9: Wolfgang Wendland , German musician and filmmaker, politician and satirist
• November 10: José Andrés Anchondo García , Mexican archer
• November 11 Tino Eisbrenner , German singer-songwriter, theater actor, composer, music producer and presenter
• November 11: Vlado Kasalo , Croatian footballer
• November 11: Lloyd Langlois , Canadian freestyle skier
• November 11: Lázaro Martínez , Cuban sprinter

Demi Moore , 2010

• November 11 Demi Moore , American actress
• November 11: James Morrison , Australian multi-instrumentalist
• November 12 Lisa Adler , German actress and acting coach
• November 13 Andreas Patton , German actor and director
• November 13 Michael Timm , German amateur boxer and boxing trainer
• November 13: Fumio Yamamoto , Japanese writer (died 2021)
• November 14 Laura San Giacomo , American film actress
• November 16: Gary Mounfield , British musician
• November 16: Ásbjörn Ottarsson , Icelandic politician

Jodie Foster , 1989

• November 19 Jodie Foster , American actress, film director and producer
• November 21: Sabine Busch , German track and field athlete
• November 23: Nicolás Maduro , Venezuelan President
• November 24 John Kovalic , American comics artist
• November 24: Hans-Georg Maassen , German jurist and political official
• November 24 John Squire , British rock musician
• November 26: László Marosi , Hungarian-German handball player
• November 27 Armanas Abramavičius , Lithuanian criminal lawyer
• November 27 Conrad Anker , American rock climber, mountaineer, and author
• November 27: Trevor Erhardt , Canadian ice hockey player
• November 27 Emma Walton , British actress and writer
• November 28: Andreas Behm , German weightlifter († 2021)
• November 28 Matt Cameron , American musician
• November 28 Astrid Günther-Schmidt , German economist and politician
• November 28: Waldemar Herdt , German politician
• November 28 Jon Stewart , American comedian, actor, writer and producer
• November 30: Reza Ahadi , Persian football coach and football player († 2016)
• November 30 Susanne Arend , German jurist
• November 30: Jürgen Herrmann , German politician (died 2012)
• November 30: Søren Steen Jespersen , Danish documentary filmmaker

December

Detlef Buck , 2010

• 0December 1 Detlev Buck , German actor, screenwriter, film producer and director
• 0December 2 Evelyn Kenzler , German politician
• 0December 2 Filip Peeters , Belgian actor
• 0December 2: Thomas Quast , German judge and musician
• 03 December: Andreas Reinke , German rower
• 0December 3 Georgi Sviridenko , Belarusian handball player and coach
• 0December 4: Aykut Kayacık , German actor and director
• 0December 4: Tom Liehr , German writer
• 0December 5: Marion Kracht , German actress
• 0December 5: Edi Orioli , Italian motorcycle racer
• 0December 6 Klaus-Jürgen Rattay , German squatter (died 1981)
• 0December 6 Janine Turner , American actress
• 0December 7: Ulrike Müller , German politician (Free Voters)
• 0December 8 Steve Elkington , Australian golfer
• 0December 8: Berry van Aerle , Dutch footballer
• 0December 9 Felicity Huffman , American actress
• December 10 Rachat Muchtaruly Aliyev , Kazakh politician and diplomat (died 2015)
• December 10: Masakazu Katsura , Japanese mangaka
• December 11: Denise Biellmann , Swiss figure skater
• December 11 Ben Browder , American actor
• December 11 Frank Voss , German actor
• December 12 Tracy Austin , American tennis player

Max Raabe , 2008

• December 12 Max Raabe , German singer and co-founder and director of the Palast Orchestra in Berlin
• December 13 Caspar Brötzmann , German guitarist
• December 13: Andreas Müller , German footballer
• December 13: Kenichi Sonoda , Japanese mangaka and character designer
• December 13 Orlando Poleo , Venezuelan percussionist
• December 14 Ginger Lynn , American actress, pornographic actress
• December 14 Bela B , drummer, songwriter and vocalist for German punk band Die Ärzte
• December 15: Ingo Schulze , German writer
• December 16 Charly Mottet , French cyclist
• December 16: Maruschka Detmers , Dutch actress
• December 17 Galina Malchugina , Russian track and field athlete and Olympic medalist
• December 18: Jens Rosteck , German writer, musicologist and pianist
• December 19: Thomas Imbach , Swiss filmmaker
• 19 December: Klaus-Dieter von der Weiden , German jurist
• December 19: Markus Weise , German field hockey coach
• December 21: Andreas Bartl , German media executive
• December 22 Ralph Fiennes , English actor
• December 22 Jacques Schwarz-Bart , French jazz saxophonist
• December 22 Frank Vockroth , German actor
• December 23: Stefan Hell , Romanian-German physicist, Nobel laureate
• December 23: Christian Schneider , German musician, arranger, composer and music producer
• December 24: David Cobb , American attorney and politician
• December 24: Karel Glastra van Loon , Dutch writer and journalist (died 2005)
• December 25 Francis Dunnery , British musician
• December 25 Fennesz , Austrian musician
• December 25 Martin Haas , German journalist and TV presenter (died 2018)
• December 25: Arnold Jonke , Austrian rower
• December 25: Nenad Šulava , Croatian chess grandmaster († 2019)
• December 28: Dagmar Hartge , German lawyer, data protection officer of Brandenburg
• December 28: Michel Petrucciani , French jazz pianist (died 1999)
• December 28 Rachel Z , American jazz pianist
• December 29: Cristiano De André , Italian cantautore
• December 29: Carles Puigdemont , politician from Catalonia
• December 29: Wynton Rufer , New Zealand footballer
• December 30: Paavo Järvi , Estonian conductor
• December 30: Elşən Mansurov , Azerbaijani Kamanche player
• December 30: Alessandra Mussolini , Italian politician
• December 31: Traudl Hächer , German alpine skier
• December 31 Jennifer Higdon , American composer

Katy Karrenbauer , 2011

• December 31 Katy Karrenbauer , German actress, singer and book author
• December 31 Machi Tawara , Japanese poet and translator

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• Salah Abdel-Shafi , Palestinian economist and diplomat
• Hitoshi Abe , Japanese architect
• Ryotaro Abe , Japanese composer and music educator
• Baki Adam , Turkish religious scholar and writer
• Leah Aini , Israeli writer and poet
• Sophie Allet-Coche , French director
• Iwo Amelung , German sinologist and university lecturer
• Kent Anderson , American football coach
• Max Andersson , Swedish comic artist
• Giancarlo Andretta , Italian conductor and composer
• Andrej Angrick , German historian
• Isabelle Antena , French singer
• Wolfram Apprich , German theater director
• Diana del Valle Arismendi , Venezuelan composer
• Adil Arslan , Turkish musician
• Iris Artajo , German voice actress, dubbing director and theater director
• Marie-Claude Asselin , Canadian freestyle skier
• Nina Åström , Finnish gospel singer and songwriter
• Muhammad Hassan Aso , Iraqi Kurdish Islamist
• Ted Atherton , Canadian actor, screenwriter and author
• Silvia Augsburger , Argentine politician
• George Athor Deng Dut , South Sudanese politician (died 2011)
• Jobst von Berg , German artist
• Stefan Johannes Bleicher , German organist
• Jens Bommert , German painter
• Ulli Brenner , German DJ and music producer
• Stephan Bröchler , German political scientist
• Tony Buck , Australian drummer and percussionist
• Helen Buday , Australian actress and singer
• Alison Croggon , Australian writer and theater critic
• Jonathan Elliott , American composer
• Marie-Theres Federhofer , literary scholar
• Anne Gellinek , German journalist and TV presenter
• John Goetz , American-German journalist and author
• Biber Gullatz , German film composer and music producer
• Christoph Jungmann , German actor and cabaret artist
• Mari Kimura , Japanese-American violinist, composer, and music teacher
• Manfred Kloiber , German freelance journalist and author for radio
• Bernd Kohlhepp , German cabaret artist and actor
• Aldo Lagrutta , Venezuelan guitarist
• Jens Langbein , German composer
• Martina-Marie Liertz , German writer
• Klaus Lips , German physicist
• Rozena Maart , South African lecturer in English literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis and feminist writer
• David Alan Miller , American conductor
• Cristina Narea , Chilean cantautora
• Tomasz Adam Nowak , Polish-German organist and music professor
• Jamie O'Neill , Irish writer and journalist
• Santiago Santero , Argentine composer, conductor and music educator
• Salah Saouli , Lebanese painter and sculptor
• Anton Schachenhofer , Austrian double bass player
• Sven Seeburg , German actor
• Christoph Sonntag , German cabaret artist
• Michael Strangelove , Canadian media and communications scholar
• Erika Stucky , Swiss singer, accordionist and music cabaret artist
• Eddie St. James , American guitarist, singer and composer
• Mary Jo Tiampo , American freestyle skier
• Michael Turner , Canadian musician and writer
• Luca Vanneschi , Italian composer
• Volkart Wildermuth , German biochemist, moderator, radio and science journalist
• Ursula Winkelsett , German politician
• Daniel Douglas Wissmann , German writer
• Georg Alfred Wittner , German actor and musician
• Zakia Zaki , Afghan radio reporter († 2007)
• Manuel Zurria , Italian flutist

Died

January

• 0January 1: Agostino Mancinelli , Archbishop of Benevento (b. 1882)
• 0January 1: Diego Martínez Barrio , Spanish politician and Prime Minister (b. 1883)
• 0January 2: Faris al-Churi , Syrian politician (b. 1877)
• 0January 4: Hans Heinrich Lammers , jurist, civil servant, SS Oberfuhrer and convicted war criminal (b. 1879)
• 0January 5: Ernst Arnold , composer and Viennese song lyricist and singer (b. 1890)
• 0January 5: Max Pohlenz , German classical scholar (b. 1872)
• 0January 6: John D. Hoblitzell , American politician (b. 1912)
• 0January 8: Maximilian von Hohenberg , Austrian aristocrat, survived Dachau concentration camp (b. 1902)
• 0January 9: Joe Starnes , American politician (b. 1895)
• January 10: Hermann Freytag , German politician (born 1900)
• January 10: Ivo Schricker , German soccer player and soccer official (b. 1877)
• January 11 György Orth , Hungarian football player and coach (b. 1901)
• January 12: James Garfield Gardiner , Canadian politician (born 1883)
• January 12: Willy Odenthal , German politician (born 1896)
• January 14: Johann Steinböck , Austrian politician and Governor of Lower Austria (b. 1894)
• January 16: Frank Hurley , Australian photographer and cameraman (b. 1885)
• January 16: Ivan Meštrović , Yugoslav sculptor and professor of sculpture (b. 1883)
• January 16: Jeremiah Wood , American politician (b. 1876)
• January 17: Gerrit Achterberg , Dutch poet (b. 1905)
• January 17: Clemens Adams , German politician (born 1891)
• January 19: Snub Pollard , Australian actor (b. 1889)
• January 20: Robinson Jeffers , American poet, playwright and natural philosopher (b. 1887)
• January 24: Avelino Muñoz , Panamanian pianist, organist, conductor, arranger and composer (born 1912)
• January 26: George Jeffreys , British evangelist and Pentecostal preacher (b. 1889)
• January 26: Fran Lhotka , Croatian composer (b. 1883)
• January 26: Lucky Luciano , American mobster (b. 1897)
• January 28: Genoveva Schauer , German politician (b. 1898)

Fritz Kreisler

• January 29: Fritz Kreisler , Austrian violinist and composer (born 1875)
• January 31: Vlasta Burian , Czech actor and comedian (born 1891)

February

• 0February 1: Miroslav Cikán , Czech film director (born 1896)
• 0February 1: Wilhelm Ohnesorge , German politician in the Nazi era and post minister (b. 1872)
• 0February 2: Gottfried von Freiberg , Austrian horn player (b. 1908)
• 0February 5: Jacques Ibert , French composer (b. 1890)
• 0February 6: Maria Fischer , Austrian Seidenwinderin and Trotskyist resistance fighter against Austro-Fascism and National Socialism (b. 1897)
• 0February 6: Teodósio Clemente de Gouveia , Archbishop of Maputo and Cardinal (b. 1889)
• 0February 7: Clara Nordström , Swedish writer (b. 1886)
• 0February 8: August Lämmle , German dialect poet (b. 1876)
• February 10: Norman Birkett , Deputy Judge at the Nuremberg Trial (b. 1883)
• February 10: Eduard von Steiger , Swiss politician (born 1881)
• February 12: Emil Abegg , Swiss Indologist (b. 1885)
• February 14: Ludwig Friedrich Barthel , German storyteller and essayist (b. 1898)
• February 14: Herman G. Kump , American politician (b. 1877)
• February 15: Menen Asfaw , Empress of Ethiopia (b. 1889)
• February 15: Aloysius Muench , American Curia cardinal and first nuncio in Germany (b. 1889)
• February 15: Vladimir Sokoloff , Russian film actor, emigrated to the United States (b. 1889)
• February 17: Peter Mieden , German farmer, agricultural functionary and politician (b. 1882)
• February 17: Arne Oldberg , American composer (b. 1874)
• February 17: Bruno Walter , American conductor, pianist and composer (b. 1876)
• February 18: Friedrich Ernst Peters , German writer (b. 1890)
• February 19: Émile Armand , French anarchist and author (b. 1872)
• February 19: Werner Bula , Swiss technician, folk writer and playwright in dialect (b. 1892)
• February 19: Édouard Dethier , Belgian-American violinist and music teacher (b. 1885)
• February 19: George Nicolas Papanicolaou , Greek-American physician and pathologist (b. 1883)
• February 20: Otto Auerswald , German resistance fighter (b. 1900)
• February 20: Halliwell Hobbes , British actor (b. 1877)
• February 24: Irving Ives , American politician (b. 1896)
• February 25: Heinrich Höcker , German politician (born 1886)
• February 25: Fredy Sieg , German actor and folksy recital artist (b. 1878)
• February 26: Carl Ehrenberg , German composer (b. 1878)

March

• 0March 2: Wall Doxey , American politician (b. 1892)
• 0March 2: Walt Kiesling , American football player and coach (b. 1903)
• 0March 2: Alexander Lion , doctor, Boy Scout (b. 1870)
• 0March 4: Zdeněk Chalabala , Czech conductor (b. 1899)
• 0March 5: Libero Liberati , Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1926)
• 0March 5: Hans Mötteli , Professor of Business Administration (b. 1897)
• 0March 5: Wendelin Überzwerch , German writer (b. 1893)
• 0March 7: Eugène Van den Bossche , Belgian racing driver (b. 1892)
• 0March 8: Forrest Smith , American politician (b. 1886)
• 0March 9: Robert Debes , professor of business administration (b. 1878)
• 0March 9: Zdeněk Nejedlý , Czech historian, literary critic and musicologist (born 1878)
• March 11: Vyacheslav Ragosin , Soviet chess player (b. 1908)
• March 11: Will Vesper , German writer and literary critic (b. 1882)
• March 14: Jorge González von Marées , Chilean politician (b. 1900)
• March 15: Arthur Holly Compton , American physicist (b. 1892)
• March 15: Mouloud Feraoun , Algerian writer (b. 1913)
• March 16: Stefan Jäger , painter of Danube Swabian life (b. 1877)
• March 17: Wilhelm Blaschke , Austrian mathematician and author (born 1885)
• March 18: Walter W. Bacon , American politician (b. 1879)
• March 20: Armando Annuale , Italian actor (b. 1884)
• March 20: Andrew Ellicott Douglass , American astronomer (born 1867)
• March 20: Charles Wright Mills , American sociologist (b. 1916)
• March 23: Eugenio Canfari , Italian football official and entrepreneur (b. 1878)
• March 23: Gottfried Fankhauser , writer and President of the Evangelical Society (b. 1870)
• March 24: Auguste Piccard , Swiss scientist, physicist and inventor (b. 1884)
• March 26: Johann von Ravenstein , German Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht (b. 1889)
• March 28: Hugo Wast , Argentine writer (b. 1883)
• March 28: David Wijnveldt , Dutch footballer (born 1891)
• March 31: Jakob Ahrer , Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1888)

April

• 0April 1: Camil Ressu , Romanian painter (b. 1880)
• 0April 2: Arnold Freiherr von Vietinghoff-Riesch , German forest scientist, ornithologist and conservationist (b. 1895)
• 0April 3: Ernst Grünfeld , chess grandmaster from Austria (b. 1893)
• 0April 3: Manolis Kalomiris , Greek composer (b. 1883)
• 0April 6: Carlo Giorgio Garofalo , Italian composer and organist (born 1886)
• 0April 6: Wilhelm Schmidt , German politician, former MP (b. 1888)
• 0April 9: Johann Friedrich Crome , German classical archaeologist (born 1906)
• 0April 8: Émile Lacharnay , French automobile racer (b. 1888)
• April 10: Stuart Sutcliffe , Scottish painter and musician, early member of The Beatles (b. 1940)
• April 11: Michael Curtiz , Hungarian-American film director (b. 1886)
• April 12: Hermann Clausen , Danish-German politician (born 1885)
• April 12: Ron Flockhart , British motor racing driver and pilot (b. 1923)
• April 12: Nils Erik Hellsten , Swedish fencer (b. 1886)
• April 12: Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer , Austrian novelist, playwright and lyric poet (b. 1878)
• April 13: Hermann Muhs , German politician, State Secretary and Acting Minister for Church Affairs (b. 1894)
• April 13: Culbert Olson , American politician (b. 1876)
• April 16: Hans Dirscherl , German politician (born 1889)
• April 18 Ernst Pein , German forest tree nursery entrepreneur (b. 1883)
• April 21: Raissa Adler , Austrian women's rights activist (b. 1872)
• April 23: Amy Archer-Gilligan , American murderess (b. 1869)
• April 28: Hermann Finckh , German politician (born 1910)
• April 28: Gianna Beretta Molla , Italian pediatrician, saint (born 1922)
• April 30: Sir Jameson Boyd Adams , British polar explorer (b. 1880)

May

• 0May 5: Gaetano Corsani , professor of business administration (b. 1893)
• 0May 7: Josef Flegl , Czech composer, cellist and music teacher (b. 1881)
• 0May 9: Raoul Duquette , Canadian cellist and music educator (b. 1879)
• May 10: Erich Angenendt , German photographer (born 1894)

HansLuther

• May 11: Hans Luther , German politician (b. 1879)
• May 11: Richard Reitzner , German politician (born 1893)
• May 12: Pedro Pablo Ramírez Machuca , President of Argentina (b. 1884)
• May 12: Walter Scherau , German folk actor (born 1903)
• May 13: Frank Jenks , American actor and musician (b. 1902)
• May 13: Franz Kline , American painter (born 1910)
• May 14: Silpa Bhirasri , sculptor (b. 1892)
• May 16 Paul Ortwin Rave , German art historian (born 1893)
• May 17: Arseny Grigoryevich Golovko , Soviet admiral (b. 1906)
• May 19: Gabriele Münter , Expressionist painter (b. 1877)
• May 19: Manfred Weiß , private of the border troops of the GDR (b. 1943)
• May 20: Josef Uridil , Austrian footballer (b. 1895)
• May 20 Wilhelm Andreae , German social economist (born 1888)
• May 23: Peter Göring , Wall gunner, shot dead by two West Berlin police officers (b. 1940)
• May 26: Erich von Holst , German biologist and behaviorist (b. 1908)
• May 30: Ludwig Arnold , German politician (b. 1905)
• May 30: Hermann Baden , President of the Association of Jewish Communities in the GDR (b. 1883)
• May 31: Henry Fountain Ashurst , American politician (b. 1874)

June

• 0June 1: Adolf Eichmann , German SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer (b. 1906)
• 0June 1 Theodor Thürmer , German forester and hunting writer (b. 1890)
• 0June 2: Vita Sackville-West , English novelist (b. 1892)
• 0June 2: William E. Zeuch , American organist (b. 1867)
• 0June 4: Charles William Beebe , American deep-sea explorer (b. 1877)
• 0June 6: Yves Klein , French painter, sculptor and performance artist (b. 1928)
• 0June 6: Tom Phillis , Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1931)
• 0June 8: Gottlieb Duttweiler , Swiss entrepreneur and politician (b. 1888)
• 0June 8: Georg Baron Manteuffel-Szoege , German politician (born 1889)
• 0June 8: Charles P. Nelson , American politician (b. 1907)
• 0June 9 Polly Adler , US brothel operator (b. 1900)
• 0June 9: Franz Findeisen , professor at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (b. 1892)
• June 10: Rudolf Hermann , German theologian and philosopher of religion (b. 1887)
• June 11: John Anglin , American criminal (b. 1930)
• June 11: Else Kolshorn , German trade unionist (b. 1873)
• June 11: Gabriel H. Mahon , American politician (b. 1889)
• June 12: John Ireland , English composer (b. 1879)
• June 14: Johannes Philippus Suijling , Dutch legal scholar (born 1869)
• June 14: Mikhailo Verikivsky , Ukrainian composer (b. 1896)
• June 15: Alfred Cortot , Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1877)
• June 16: Alexei Innokentjewitsch Antonov , Soviet general (b. 1896)
• June 17: Walter Flanigan , American football official (b. 1890)
• June 18: Volkmar Andreae , Swiss conductor and composer (b. 1879)
• June 18: Reinhold Huhn , soldier of the border troops of the GDR (b. 1942)
• June 19: Frank Borzage , American film director (b. 1893)
• June 26: Hermann Aichinger , Austrian architect (b. 1885)
• June 27: Willy Walb , German engineer, automobile racer and race manager (b. 1890)
• June 28: Guido Pedroli , Swiss educator and politician (born 1928)
• 29 June: Wilhelm Börger , SS brigade leader and ministerial director in the Reich Ministry of Labor (b. 1896)
• June 30: Caspar Neher , German-Austrian set designer (b. 1897)

July

William Faulkner , 1954

• 0July 1 – Hermann Schwab , German journalist and Pressedienst founder (b. 1879)
• 0July 2: Peter Ryan , Canadian racing driver (b. 1940)
• 0July 4: Adalbert Friedrich , German footballer (b. 1884)
• 0July 4: Karl Aloys Schenzinger , German author of novels and Nazi Party propaganda (b. 1886)
• 0July 4: Thomas Jefferson Jackson See , American astronomer (b. 1866)
• 0July 6: William Faulkner , American writer (b. 1897)
• 0July 7 Karl Mras , Austrian classics scholar (b. 1877)
• 0July 7: Giovanni Panico , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1895)
• 0July 8: Gustav Gundelach , German politician (b. 1888)
• 0July 9: Georges Bataille , French writer, sociologist and philosopher (b. 1897)
• 0July 9: Quentin Maclean , English-Canadian organist, composer and music educator (b. 1896)
• July 10: Tommy Milton , American racing driver (b. 1893)
• July 12: James T. Blair , American politician (b. 1902)
• July 14: Luigi Brentani , Swiss jurist, teacher and local historian (b. 1892)
• July 15: Edwin Arthur Kraft , American organist and composer (b. 1883)
• July 16: Theodor Litt , educator, philosopher (b. 1880)
• July 18: Eugene Houdry , French engineer (b. 1892)
• July 23: Henry Dworshak , American politician (b. 1894)
• July 25: Christie MacDonald , American singer (b. 1875)

Helene Weber , 1919

• July 25: Helene Weber , German politician, one of the four "Mothers of the Basic Law" (b. 1881)
• July 26: Kurt Aßmann , German naval officer (b. 1883)
• July 26: Raquel Meller , Spanish singer and film actress (born 1888)
• July 27: Richard Herrmann , German footballer (b. 1923)
• July 27: James Howard Kindelberger , American manager in the aircraft industry (b. 1895)
• July 27: Georges Kling , French racing driver (b. 1900)
• July 27: František Korte , Czech composer (b. 1895)
• July 28: Franz Konwitschny , German conductor and Kapellmeister (born 1901)
• July 29: Ronald Aylmer Fisher , British geneticist, evolutionary theorist and statistician (b. 1890)
• July 30: Luigi Carnera , Italian astronomer and discoverer of many asteroids (b. 1875)
• July 30: Walter Frevert , German forester and hunting writer (b. 1897)

August

Marilyn Monroe , 1954

Herman Hesse (1877–1962)

• 0August 1: Ferdinand Abt , German sculptor (b. 1877)
• 01 August: Henry Gordon Bennett , Australian Lieutenant General (b. 1887)
• 0August 4: Heinrich Schmiedeknecht , German architect (b. 1880)
• 0August 5: Marilyn Monroe , American actress (b. 1926)
• 0August 6: George Duller , British jockey and automobile racer (b. 1891)
• 0August 8: Yanagita Kunio , Japanese writer and ethnologist (b. 1875)
• 0August 9: Hermann Hesse , German-speaking poet, writer and also painter (b. 1877)
• August 14: Rudi Arnstadt , Captain of the Border Troops of the GDR (b. 1926)
• August 15: Victor Emanuel Anderson , American politician (b. 1902)
• August 15: Dan Bain , Canadian ice hockey player (born 1874)
• August 15: Lei Feng , Chinese People's Liberation Army soldier (b. 1940)
• August 17: Peter Fechter , Wall victim (b. 1944)
• August 18: August Abel , German politician and journalist (b. 1887)
• August 18: Max Fabiani , architect, pupil of Otto Wagner (b. 1865)
• August 18: Axel Monjé , German actor and voice actor (born 1910)
• August 18: Harry E. Narey , American politician (b. 1885)
• August 19: Robert Bürkner , German actor, theater manager, director and author (b. 1887)
• August 21: Hermann Höfle , SS-Sturmbannfuhrer and head of the Main Department Action Reinhard (b. 1911)
• August 22: Guillaume Gagnier , Canadian horn player and double bass player (b. 1890)
• August 22: Rudolf Alexander Schröder , German writer, translator and poet (b. 1878)
• August 23: Walter Anderson , German folklorist (b. 1885)
• August 23: Heinrich Kemper , German politician (born 1888)
• August 24: Clark Templeman , American racing driver (b. 1919)
• August 26: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson , polar explorer and ethnologist (b. 1879)
• August 27: Carlos Lavín , Chilean composer and musicologist (b. 1883)
• August 30: Aaslaug Aasland , Norwegian jurist and politician (b. 1890)

September

• 01 September: Hans-Jürgen Theodor von Arnim , German army officer (b. 1889)
• 0September 3: Dorothy Brookshaw , Canadian track and field athlete (b. 1912)
• 0September 3: E. E. Cummings , American poet and writer (b. 1894)
• 03 September: Franz Schrönghamer-Heimdal , local poet (b. 1881)
• 0September 4: William Clothier , American tennis player (b. 1881)
• 0September 4: Vladimir Beklemishev , Russian zoologist and ecologist (b. 1890)
• 0September 5: Max Otten , physician, pioneer of occupational medicine (b. 1877)
• 0September 6: Hanns Eisler , German-Austrian composer (b. 1898)
• 0September 7: Karen Blixen , Danish writer (b. 1885)
• 0September 7: Yoshikawa Eiji , Japanese writer (b. 1892)
• 0September 7: Georg Ulrich Handke , Minister for Internal German Trade and Foreign Trade (b. 1894)
• 0September 7: Morris Louis , American painter (b. 1912)
• 0September 7: Robert Pollack , Austrian violinist and music teacher (b. 1880)
• 0September 7: Graham Walker , British motorcycle racer and journalist (b. 1896)
• 0September 8: Fritz Terhalle , German economist (b. 1889)
• 0September 8: Josef Ferdinand Kleindinst , German politician (b. 1881)
• 0September 9: Paavo Johannes Aaltonen , Finnish athlete (b. 1919)
• 0September 9: Robert Furrer , Swiss customs officer (b. 1882)
• September 11 Vladimir Andreyevich Artemyev , Soviet rocket scientist (b. 1885)
• September 14: Fred Schule , American hurdler and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1879)
• September 18 Therese Neumann , Bavarian peasant maid (b. 1898)
• 18 September: Ahmad ibn Yahya , king of the Zaidis in North Yemen (b. 1891)
• September 19: Ludwig Manfred Lommel , German humorist (b. 1891)
• September 20: Curley Weaver , American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1906)
• September 21: Marie Bonaparte , French psychoanalyst (b. 1882)
• September 23: Patrick Hamilton , English novelist (b. 1904)
• September 24: Maximilian Josef Auer , Austrian musicologist (b. 1880)
• September 25: Herbert Koch , archaeologist (b. 1880)
• September 25: Thomas Ohm , German Benedictine (b. 1892)
• September 28: Robert Pferdmenges , German banker and CDU politician (b. 1880)

October

• 0October 1: Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven , Austrian art historian and State Librarian General (b. 1883)
• 0October 1: Karl Grune , Austrian film director (b. 1885)
• 0October 2: Borys Bukreev , Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1859)
• 0October 3: Johannes Leopold Martin Arpe , German actor, director and theater manager (b. 1897)
• 0October 3: Iida Dakotsu , Japanese poet (born 1885)
• 0October 5: Joseph Noyon , French composer and church musician (b. 1888)
• 0October 6: Hans von Borstel , German communist politician (b. 1888)
• 0October 6: Tod Browning , American film director (b. 1882)
• 0October 7: Scrapper Blackwell , American blues guitarist (born 1903)
• 0October 7: Henri Oreiller , French alpine skier (b. 1925)
• 0October 8: Hans Ambs , German politician (b. 1898)
• 0October 9: Milan Vidmar , Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
• October 10: Trygve Gulbranssen , Norwegian writer (b. 1894)
• October 11: Max Hartmann , biologist and philosopher (b. 1876)
• October 11: Erich Tschermak , Austrian botanist (b. 1871)
• October 12: Hugo Paul , German politician (b. 1905)
• October 15: John Ronan , Canadian composer, choir director and music educator (b. 1894)
• October 17 Natalya Goncharova , Russian-French painter (b. 1881)
• October 18: Barend Coenraad Petrus Jansen , Dutch chemist (b. 1884)
• October 20: Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Aevermann , German educator and politician (born 1887)
• 20 October: Bernard Kälin , Swiss Benedictine and 55th Abbot of Muri-Gries Abbey near Bozen (b. 1887)
• October 21: Vanni Marcoux , French singer (b. 1877)
• October 22: Paul Armagnac , French racing driver (b. 1923)
• October 23: Henry D. Hatfield , American politician (b. 1875)
• October 23: Jack Scales , British racing driver (b. 1886)
• October 25: Louis Grenville Abell , American rower (b. 1884)
• October 27: Otto Froitzheim , German tennis player (born 1884)
• October 27 Hermann Muckermann , German biologist and Jesuit (b. 1877)
• 30 October: Heinrich Weitz , President of the German Red Cross (b. 1890)
• October 31: Thomas Holenstein , Swiss politician (b. 1896)

November

• 0November 1: Ricardo Rodríguez , Mexican racing driver (b. 1942)
• 0November 2: Alfred Amonn , Austrian political economist (b. 1883)
• 0November 7: Eleanor Roosevelt , American human rights activist and diplomat (b. 1884)
• 0November 9: Henri Lacroix , Canadian harmonica player (born 1895)
• November 10: Julius Lenhart , Austrian gymnast (b. 1875)
• November 12: Bror Abelli , Swedish director, actor, singer, writer and cinema owner (born 1880)
• November 12: Joseph Georg Oberkofler , Austrian jurist, storyteller and poet (b. 1889)
• November 13: Fernand Vallon , French automobile racer (b. 1896)
• November 14: Douglas Clarke , English conductor, music teacher, organist, pianist and composer (b. 1893)
• November 15: Irene Lentz , US costume designer ( Irene ) (b. 1900)
• November 17: Frank Ahearn , owner of the Ottawa Senators (b. 1886)

Niels Bohr , 1922

• November 18: Niels Bohr , Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
• November 18: Dennis Chavez , American politician (b. 1888)
• November 18: Georg C. Klaren , Austrian director and screenwriter (born 1900)
• November 19: Grigol Robakidze , Georgian writer (b. 1882)
• November 22: René Coty , French politician and President of the French Fourth Republic (b. 1882)
• November 23: Jean-Pierre Lamboray , Luxembourg draftsman and printmaker (b. 1882)

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, around 1942

• November 26: Alexander Pavlovich Antonov , Soviet actor (b. 1898)
• November 27: Edwin Arnet , Swiss writer and journalist (b. 1901)
• 28 November: Wilhelmina , Queen of the Netherlands (b. 1880)
• November 29: Erik Scavenius , Danish politician and statesman (b. 1877)
• November 30: Johannes Ackermanns , German local politician (b. 1887)
• November 30: Lowell Lee Andrews , American murderer (b. 1940)
• November 30: Ossip Bernstein , French chess player of Russian-Ukrainian origin (b. 1882)
• November 30: Karl Kappler , German racing driver (b. 1891)
• November 30: Herbert Schlink , Australian medical doctor, hospital manager and winter sportsman (b. 1883)

December

• 0December 1: Joseph C. O'Mahoney , American politician (b. 1884)
• 01 December: Jonah of Ustinov , father of Peter Ustinov, MI5 spy (b. 1892)
• 0December 4: Walther Kühn , German politician (b. 1892)
• 0December 4: Fritz Scherwitz , manager of workshops for Jewish forced laborers in Riga (b. 1903)
• 0December 5: Alsing Andersen , Danish politician (b. 1893)
• 0December 5: Edward Lewis Wallant , American writer (b. 1926)
• 0December 7: Kirsten Flagstad , Norwegian singer (soprano) (b. 1895)
• 0December 9: Hermann Delago , Austrian alpinist (b. 1875)
• 0December 9: Otto Lummitzsch , founder of the Technical Relief Organization (b. 1886)
• December 10: Cheíto González , Puerto Rican singer, guitarist and composer (b. 1935)
• December 12: Felix Aderca , Romanian poet, author and essayist (b. 1891)
• December 13: Daisy Fellowes , 20th-century socialite (b. 1890)
• December 13: Vinzenz Schumy , Austrian politician (b. 1878)
• 13 December: Rudolf Wissell , Reich Minister in the Weimar Republic (b. 1869)
• December 14: Nazzareno De Angelis , Italian opera singer (b. 1881)
• December 14: Hugo Auvera , German entrepreneur (b. 1880)
• December 15: Charles Laughton , British film actor (born 1899)
• December 16: Charles Noble Arden-Clarke , British colonial administrator (b. 1898)
• December 17 Carl Diem , German sports official and scientist (b. 1882)
• December 20: Emil Artin , Austrian mathematician (b. 1898)
• December 21: Gary Hocking , Rhodesian motorcycle racer (b. 1937)
• December 23: Harmodio Arias Madrid , 16th State President of Panama (b. 1886)
• December 23: José Giral Pereira , Spanish politician and Prime Minister (b. 1879)
• December 23: Thomas J. Mabry , American politician (b. 1884)
• December 24: Wilhelm Ackermann , German mathematician (b. 1896)
• December 24: J. Stanley Webster , American politician (b. 1877)
• December 25: Warren Robinson Austin , American diplomat and politician (b. 1877)
• December 28: Marcel Aubert , French historian and art historian (b. 1884)
• December 29: Hans Rosbaud , Austrian conductor (b. 1895)
• December 30: Arthur O. Lovejoy , historian and founder of the history of ideas (b. 1873)
• December 31: Rudolf Nilius , Austrian conductor and composer (b. 1883)

date unknown

• Astrid Ahnfelt , Swedish writer (born 1876)
• Fraser Gange , American singer and music educator (b. 1887)
• Edmond Gaujac , French composer and music educator (born 1895)
• Ecka Possekel-Oelsner , German painter (born 1893)

Nobel prizes

• Physics : Lev Landau
• Chemistry : Max Ferdinand Perutz and John Cowdery Kendrew
• Medicine : Francis Harry Compton Crick , James Dewey Watson and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
• Literature : John Steinbeck
• Nobel Peace Prize : Linus Pauling

music

• Isabelle Aubret wins the 7th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest on March 18 in Luxembourg with the song Un premier amour for France
• List of number one hits in Germany (1962)

web links

Commons : 1962  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Annual review from tagesschau.de
• Annual chronicle from the house of the history of the FRG
• The cabinet minutes of the Federal Government (1962) in the Federal Archives
• Year 1962 by Frank Rübertus

itemizations

1. ↑ Link to the video (SWR)