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1963
US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas on November 22nd .	Martin Luther King : I Have a Dream
White Revolution in Iran : Shah Reza Pahlavi speaks at the National Farmers Congress	Paul VI becomes the Pope elected

1963 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2716
Armenian calendar	1411-1412
Ethiopian calendar	1955-1956
Badi calendar	119-120
Bengali calendar	1369-1370
Berber calendar	2913
Buddhist calendar	2507
Burmese calendar	1325
Byzantine calendar	7471-7472
Chinese calendar
- era	4659-4660 or 4599-4600
- 60 year cycle	Water Tiger ( 壬寅 , 39) - Water Hare ( 癸卯 , 40)
French revolutionary calendar	CLXXI - CLXXII 171-172
Hebrew calendar	5723-5724
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2019-2020
- Shaka Samvat	1885-1886
Iranian calendar	1341-1342
Islamic calendar	1382-1383
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 38
- Kōki	2623
Coptic calendar	1679-1680
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4296
- Juche era	52
Minguo calendar	52
Modern Olympics	XVII
Seleucid calendar	2274-2275
Thai solar calendar	2506

Significant events in 1963 are in particular the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy in November and his famous visit to West Berlin a few months earlier ( Ich bin ein Berliner -Rede). In the United States, the civil rights movement under Martin Luther King gains importance with its demand for equal rights for African Americans . In October of that year Konrad Adenauer says goodbye after 14 years as German Chancellor and hands over his office to Ludwig Erhard . The Lengede mine disaster in October and November is one of the major events of 1963.

Events

Politics and world events

January

• January 1st : Willy Spühler becomes President of Switzerland .
• January 1st : In Italy , the nationalization of energy sources comes into force.
• January 8 : Announcement of the Federal Vacation Act
• January 9 : Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi presents a 6-point reform program at the National Congress of the Peasants of Iran in Tehran , which will go down in Iran's history as the White Revolution .
• January 13 : The first President of Togo, Sylvanus Épiphanio Olympio , is murdered by putschists.
• 14 January : French President Charles de Gaulle announced at a press conference that he had rejected the application for membership of the EEC submitted by the British government on August 9, 1961 . His veto surprised the EEC Commission and the five other member states.
• January 18 : Aden Colony joins the South Arab Federation .
• January 22nd : Franco-German reconciliation : Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer sign the Élysée Treaty .
• January 26th : Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's 6-point reform program of the White Revolution is adopted by an overwhelming majority in a referendum.
• January 29 : Kuwait . First elections to the National Assembly
• January 29th : The accession negotiations between the EEC and Great Britain are broken off because French President de Gaulle vetoed.

February

• February 8 : The Iraqi Ba'ath Party puts on a coup and overthrows General Abd al-Karim Qasim . She takes power in Baghdad . Provisional armistice on the Kurdish front.
• February 27 : Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi introduces the right to vote for women in Iran by decree as part of the White Revolution .
• February 27 : Dominican Republic . Juan Bosch becomes president.

March

• March 8 : Syria's government announces a 48-year nationwide state of emergency.
• March 9 : Afghanistan . Resignation of Prime Minister Mohammad Daud

April

• April 5 : ARD begins broadcasting the report from Bonn , a description of political issues from the German capital that is broadcast every Friday. In the first broadcast, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer explains in a television interview: I'm going in autumn .
• April 21 : The " House of Justice ", the international Baha'i institution, is elected for the first time in Haifa , Israel .
• April 28 : The Austrian Federal President Adolf Schärf ( SPÖ ) is re-elected.

May

• May 1 : Western New Guinea is annexed by Indonesia .
• May 2 : In a border agreement with the People's Republic of China, Pakistan recognizes the ownership structure in the Kashmir region created after the Indo-Chinese border war of 1962 . This also includes the cession of the Shaksgam Valley to China.
• May 14th : The Vogelfluglinie between Hamburg and Copenhagen is opened.

Kennedy and Adenauer at Checkpoint Charlie

Berlin welcomes John F. Kennedy

• May 14 : Kuwait becomes a member of the United Nations .
• May 25 : The Republic of Niger joins the OAU (Organization for African Unity).
• May 27th and 28th : Kafka Conference at Liblice Castle , ČSSR . International conference of the Czechoslovakian Writers ' Union, dealt with the then largely banned writer Franz Kafka and the phenomenon of alienation . A milestone in the democratization process gave important impulses for the Prague Spring .

June

• June 3 : Pope John XXIII. - real name Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli - dies.
• June 5 : Iran . After the arrest of Hodschatoleslam Ruhollah Khomeini , riots broke out in the Iranian cities of Tehran and Qom , which marked the beginning of the Islamic Revolution as the riots of the 15th Khordad in 1342 .
• June 25th : An economic conference of the Central Committee of the SED ends in East Berlin with a resolution of guidelines for a new economic system of planning and management , with which the planned economy is to be reformed.
• June 26 : US President John F. Kennedy gives the memorable speech in front of the Schöneberg Town Hall on the occasion of his visit to Berlin , which ends with the words “ I am a Berliner ” spoken in German .
• June 30th : Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini is born in the Vatican under the name Paul VI. elected as the new Pope.

July

• July 5th : At the end of a conference in Victoria Falls it is clear that the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland no longer has a future. It will be dissolved at the end of the year. Rhodesia , Zambia and Malawi emerge on their territory .
• July 11 : Many leading members of the African National Congress , including Nelson Mandela , are arrested during a raid on Liliesleaf Farm in the Johannesburg township of Rivonia ( South Africa ) .
• July 20 : The European Economic Community signs the Yaoundé Agreement with 18 African countries . Economic cooperation and the granting of development aid funds from the European Development Fund are agreed in this.

August

• August 1 : The former German municipality of Selfkant , which was ceded to the Netherlands in 1949, becomes German territory again in return for payment of 280 million D-Marks.
• August 5 : In Moscow will treaty banning of nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in space and under water ( Partial Test Ban Treaty , Partial Test Ban Treaty, PTBT) between the US, the USSR and Great Britain signed.
• August 5 : Otto Hahn welcomes the nuclear test ban agreement signed in Moscow and calls for the Federal Republic of Germany to join soon .
• Aug 8 : In Buckinghamshire , England, a gang of 15 raided a mail train from Glasgow to London , robbing £ 2.6 million ( mail robbery ).
• August 19 : The Federal Republic of Germany joins the Moscow Treaty to End Nuclear Weapon Tests .
• August 28 : The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom keeps Martin Luther King 's famous speech I Have a Dream .

September

• September 1 : Pierre-Paul Schweitzer , France , becomes Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
• September 1st : Singapore becomes independent from Great Britain .
• September 2 : Alabama Governor George Wallace mobilizes state police to prevent black children from entering integrated schools. The racial segregation to persist from Governor sight.
• 6 September : Opening of the Berlin Bridge in Duisburg by Willy Brandt
• September 15 : Four African American children between the ages of 11 and 15 die in an attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham , Alabama.
• September 21 : The SED Politburo publishes its youth communiqué . In the new youth policy, the relationship with young people should be free of "nudging, pointing fingers and administrating".
• September 23 : Costa Rica joins the MCCA (Central American Common Market)
• September 25 : Dominican Republic. Military coup against Juan Bosch
• September 29th : General election in Bremen

October

• October 1 : Nigeria becomes a republic.
• October 4th : The Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie gives a speech in front of the United Nations , in which he also addresses the outstanding peace in Africa . A text passage from it is later used by the Jamaican singer and songwriter Bob Marley for the song War .
• October 5 : Treaty banning nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, in space and underwater NTBT (Nuclear Test Ban Treaty) opened for signature.
• October 10 : NTBT (Nuclear Test Ban Treaty) enters into force.
• October 11th : In the case of Fritz Hanke , the first federal German judgment is pronounced in a trial against a shooter at the inner-German border .
• October 15 : Konrad Adenauer resigns as Federal Chancellor.
• October 16 : Ludwig Erhard becomes second Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Lyndon B. Johnson

• October 18 : Harold Macmillan (1894–1986, British Prime Minister since January 10, 1957) resigns ( damaged by the Profumo affair ). He is succeeded by Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995).
• October 28 : State visit by Federal President Heinrich Lübke to Indonesia (until November 3)

November

• November 1 : A military coup takes place in South Vietnam that kills President Ngô Đình Diệm and his brother Nhu Dinh the next day .
• November 6 : Federal President Heinrich Lübke begins a 10-day state visit to Japan as the first European head of state.
• November 7th : After the mining accident in Lengede , eleven miners are rescued after 14 days.
• November 22 : US President John F. Kennedy is killed in an assassination attempt in Dallas . Lyndon B. Johnson becomes 36th President of the United States.

Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald

• November 24 : In Dallas , nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald , the alleged murderer of US President John F. Kennedy , in front of the television camera , while he is being transferred to prison.

December

• December 1st : Nagaland becomes a separate state within the Indian Union .
• December 10th : Zanzibar becomes an independent sultanate
• December 12th : The crown colony of Kenya becomes independent from Great Britain . Jomo Kenyatta becomes the East African state's first Prime Minister.
• December 16 : Kenya becomes a member of the United Nations.
• December 17th : the first permit agreement is signed. For the first time since August 13, 1961, it enables West Berliners to visit their East Berlin relatives over Christmas and New Years 1963/64.
• December 17 : The General Assembly of the United Nations resolves with resolution 1991 (XVIII) to increase the number of non-permanent members of the UN Security Council from six to ten.
• December 20 : Beginning of the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt against 22 SS men from the National Socialist Auschwitz concentration camp and thus the legal processing of the crimes committed there.
• December 22 : After a massacre of Greek extremists to Turkish residents begins in Cyprus conflict of civil war on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus .

Day unknown

• Frozen sea : Lake Constance and Lake Zurich are completely frozen over (late January / early February).
• Beginning of the guerrilla war in Guinea-Bissau
• Three GDR freelancers break through the inner-German border near Bad Hersfeld in an armored car and flee to the west.

economy

• March 31 : After over a hundred years of operation, the coal- producing Zeche Centrum in Wattenscheid is shut down as a victim of reduced coal demand and for productivity reasons .
• April 5th : ARD broadcasts Weltspiegel for the first time with reports from foreign correspondents on German television. Gerd Ruge moderates the show in the first program .
• October 22nd : The member states in the Council for Mutual Economic Aid introduce the transfer ruble as the accounting currency in an agreement .
• Foundation of the central office for private transfer rights

science and technology

ZDF

DeBakey

• January 3rd : Walter Bruch applies for a patent for the color television process PAL (phase alternation line) and demonstrates it in Hanover .
• February 6 : First flight of a Boeing 727
• February 14 : The first satellite in the Syncom series is launched. Five hours after operating its apogee motor , radio contact with the NASA communications satellite was lost.
• March 1 : US surgeon Thomas Starzl performs the world's first human liver transplant in Denver.
• April 1 : The second German television station ZDF goes on air for the first time.
• April 30 : The Fehmarnsund Bridge , which connects the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn with the mainland, is ceremoniously opened after three years of construction by Federal President Heinrich Lübke and the Danish King Friedrich IX. opened.
• May 2 : Berthold Seliger launches a three-stage rocket in the Wadden area of Cuxhaven with a summit height of over 100 kilometers. It is the only sounding rocket developed in post-war Germany . However, it is never built in series.
• May 7 : The civilian communications satellite Telstar 2 is launched into orbit by a Delta B launcher . It replaces the decommissioned Telstar 1 spacecraft .
• May 15 : The launch of the Faith 7 spacecraft as part of the Mercury-Atlas 9 space mission with astronaut Gordon Cooper on board ends the NASA - Mercury program . Cooper was the first to “sleep” in weightlessness.
• June 14th : In the Soviet Union , the cosmonaut Valeri Fyodorowitsch Bykowski takes off into space with the Vostok 5 for a duration of 4 days 23 hours (81 orbits the earth). Two days later, Vostok 6 starts with the first female cosmonaut, Valentin Tereschkowa ; in a "rendezvous" the two capsules approach each other within 5 km.
• July 23 : With a helicopter SA 3210 Super Frelon reached Jean Boulet and Roland Coiffignon h world speed record of 350.5 km /.
• November 1st : The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is inaugurated. The second largest radio telescope is also used to search for extraterrestrial intelligence .
• November 3 With two streamlined 50 cm³ machines, Garelli sets eight long-distance world records for motorcycles in the 50, 70, 100 and 125 cm³ classes on the Monza race track. Including the 24-hour world record with an average speed of 108.834 km / h.
• November 14th : Surtsey rises as an island from the Atlantic .
• November 22nd : One hour after the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy, the Relay 1 satellite broadcasts the first transpacific television news between the United States and Japan.
• December 5 : The Berthold-Seliger-Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH demonstrates military-grade missiles to representatives of the military from non-NATO countries in the Wadden area of Cuxhaven . Although this demonstration does not violate Allied law and the rockets presented land on a parachute after their flight, this action leads to protests on the part of the Soviet Union.

Porsche 911S

• Porsche puts on the IAA in Frankfurt the 911 prior
• Michael Ellis DeBakey implants the first heart implant (artificial heart)
• Invention of the cassette recorder and the compact cassette by the Dutch company Philips

• First scientific description of Herrerasaurus , one of the oldest dinosaurs

Culture

• In January, the novel appears The Clown by Heinrich Böll .
• March 10th : World premiere of the opera Il Recervo or The Odds of Truth by Hans Werner Henze in Kassel
• March 28 : Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds opens in US cinemas .
• April 2nd : The ZDF shows cartoons with the Mainzelmännchen for the first time between the TV commercials .
• April 4 : The crime museum opens on the newly founded ZDF as its first crime series .
• May 29th : The Munch Museum opens in Oslo , which houses the works of the painter and graphic artist Edvard Munch .
• June 28 : Premiere of the opera Figaro gets a divorce from Giselher Klebe at the Hamburg State Opera
• July 8 : The British newspaper Daily Mail prints the first comic book with roots , an animal based on the Basset Hound dog breed .
• September 23 : The premiere of the film The Silence of Ingmar Bergman becomes a scandal because of sexual representations.
• November 23 : The BBC broadcasts the first episode of Doctor Who , today's most successful and longest running science fiction series worldwide.
• November 27th : World premiere of the opera Die Verlobung in San Domingo by Werner Egk at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich

• Foundation of the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts
• At Georg Baselitz's first solo exhibition , his pictures The Big Night in a Bucket and The Naked Man were confiscated by the public prosecutor's office for “immorality”.
• Marlen Haushofer's novel Die Wand is published by S. Mohn in Gütersloh
• The Sketch Dinner for One will be recorded in Hamburg. The differing Swiss version will be recorded in March on behalf of Swiss television in Zurich.

• Foundation of Europa Nostra

religion

• April 11th : Pope John XXIII. publishes the encyclical Pacem in terris . For the first time, a Pope is not only addressing Catholics , but all people of good will .
• June 30th : Pope Paul VI. is traditionally crowned with the tiara as the last Roman Catholic head of the church .

Sports

• January 26th : The three German mountaineers Rainer Kauschke, Peter Siegert and Gerd Uhner climb the north face of the Großer Zinne in the Sexten Dolomites via the so-called Superdirettissima in winter.
• May 20th : Mikhail Botvinnik finally loses his title to Tigran Petrosyan at the 1963 World Chess Championship .
• August 14th : The television magazine das current sportstudio broadcasts for the first time.
• August 24 : According to the decision of the German Football Association of July 28, 1962 in Dortmund, the Bundesliga starts playing for the 1963/64 season .
• October 13 : The first fun run in Germany takes place in the Bavarian-Swabian town of Bobingen . 1,654 participants are sporty in the Augsburg - Western Forests Nature Park .
• Jim Clark becomes Formula 1 world champion for the first time .
• In 1963 the SC activist Brieske / Senftenberg was commanded to Cottbus by the GDR government. The SC Cottbus was created . On January 30, 1966, the BSG Energie Cottbus , now Energie Cottbus, was founded .

For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .

Disasters

• February 1 : Ankara , Turkey . A Lebanese Vickers Viscount 754 of Lebanese Middle East Airlines collides with a Douglas C-47 of the Turkish Air Force. The planes crash into various parts of the city, including a very busy market square. All 17 people on board the two machines died, as did 87 Ankara's residents. 50 injured
• March 17 : At the outbreak of the layer volcano Agung on the Indonesian island of Bali to die than 1,100 people.
• April 10 : The US submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) of the Permit-class submarine sinks with all 129 crew members off the coast of New England .
• July 26 : Earthquake in Skopje , Yugoslavia, magnitude 6.0, kills about 1,100
• October 9 : Vajont disaster : 260 million cubic meters of Monte Toc plunge into the Vajont reservoir in the Bellunese Alps ( Italy ). Longarone is completely destroyed and around 2,000 people lose their lives. At the time it was built, the dam was the highest in Europe and is still a memorial today.
• October 24th : Tragic mine disaster in Lengede
• November 9 : A coal dust explosion in the Mitsui Miiki mine in Ōmuta kills 458 people, 555 are injured in the worst mining disaster after the war in Japan.
• November 27th : Montreal , Canada . Crash of a jet airliner DC-8F of the Trans-Canada . All 118 people die.
• December 22 : The Greek-registered passenger ship Lakonia burns out during a Christmas cruise to the Canary Islands north of Madeira . 128 passengers and crew are killed.

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

nature and environment

• January, February, beginning of March: The exceptionally long winter of 1962/63 prevails in Europe, which lasts for a century

Born

January

Till Lindemann, 2009

• 0January 1 : Milo Aukerman , American singer
• 0January 1st : Alberigo Evani , Italian football player and coach
• 0January 2nd : Gert Anhalt , German journalist and author
• 0January 2 : Tzimon Barto , American concert pianist, conductor and author
• 0January 2nd : Luis d'Antin , Spanish motorcycle racer and team owner
• 0January 2nd : Harry Nuttall, 4th Baronet , British motorsport official and racing car driver
• 0January 2nd : Jelena Alexandrovna Walowa , Russian figure skater and figure skating coach
• 0January 3 : Edward Pursino , American guitarist
• 0January 4th : Esther Ankri , Israeli singer-songwriter, composer and actress
• 0January 4th : Ihar Astapkovich , Belarusian hammer thrower
• 0January 4th : Christian Carion , French film director and screenwriter
• 0January 4th : Till Lindemann , German musician

Ralf Loose

• 0January 5th : Ralf Loose , German soccer coach
• 0January 5 : Vitalij Grossmann , German-Kazakh ice hockey player († 2005 )
• 0January 6 : Paul Kipkoech , Kenyan long-distance runner († 1995 )
• 0January 6th : Karen Movsesjan , Armenian-German chess grandmaster
• 0January 7th : Georg Arnfinn Andersen , Norwegian shot putter
• 0January 7th : Ioan Grigoraș , Romanian wrestler
• 0January 7th : Anshu Jain , British bank manager of Indian origin
• 0January 7th : Clint Mansell , English composer
• 0January 8 : Daniele Fortunato , Italian football player
• 0January 8th : Ernst Ströer , German musician, arranger, composer, music producer and project developer
• January 10 : Kira Walentinowna Iwanowa , Russian figure skater († 2001 )
• January 10th : Francesco Panetta , Italian athlete
• January 11th : Jason Connery , British actor and director
• January 11th : Roland Wohlfarth , German soccer player
• January 12th : Peter Androsch , Austrian musician and composer
• January 12 : François Girard , Canadian director and screenwriter
• January 13 : Andrew Roberts , British historian and publicist
• January 14th : Frank Dahmke , German handball player
• January 14th : Steven Soderbergh , American film director
• January 15 : Tomasz Gwinciński , Polish guitarist, percussionist and composer
• January 15 : Rick Nasheim , Canadian ice hockey player
• January 15 : Bruce Schneier , American mathematician and cryptologist
• January 15 : Katrin Weber , German singer, musical artist, actress and cabaret artist
• January 15 : Aleksander Wojtkiewicz , Polish-American chess master († 2006 )
• January 16 : Butz Ulrich Buse , German actor and screenwriter
• January 16 : Corb Denneny , Canadian ice hockey player
• January 16 : Dodë Gjergji , Albanian Roman Catholic Bishop and Apostolic Administrator of Prizren
• January 16 : James May , British television presenter
• January 16 : Han Polman , Dutch politician
• January 17th : Cyrus Chestnut , American jazz pianist

Kai Hansen

• January 17th : Kai Hansen , German hard rocker, co-founder of the band Helloween
• January 18 : Phillip Boa , German musician
• January 18 : Petra Einhoff , German actress
• January 18 : Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze , Nigerian philosopher († 2007)
• January 18 : Peter Stamm , Swiss author
• January 19 : Dietmar Arends , German pastor
• January 19 : Jay Cochran , American racing car driver
• January 20th : Guy Helminger , Luxembourgish writer
• January 21 : Detlef Schrempf , German basketball player
• January 21 : Bernd Hoffmann , German sports official
• January 21 : Hakeem Olajuwon , Nigerian-American basketball player
• January 22nd : Hermann-Josef Tenhagen , German business journalist and editor-in-chief
• January 22nd : Georgi Boos , Russian politician
• January 22nd : Fenja Rühl , German actress
• January 23 : Miwa Abiko , Japanese manga artist
• January 23 : Thomas Kausch , German journalist and television presenter
• January 23 : Gail O'Grady , American actress
• January 26 : Riddell Akua , Nauruan politician

José Mourinho

• January 26 : José Mourinho , Portuguese football coach
• January 27 : Luigi Ambrosio , Italian mathematician
• January 28th : Kia Asamiya , Japanese mangaka (comic artist)
• January 29 : Urban Mangold , German politician (ödp)
• January 30th : Daphne Lee Ashbrook , American actress
• January 30 : Thomas Brezina , Austrian author of books for children and young people, TV presenter
• January 31 : Brian Adams , American wrestler († 2007 )
• January 31 : Manuela Di Centa , Italian cross-country skier

February

Pirmin Zurbriggen

• 0February 1 : Fausto Romitelli , Italian composer († 2004 )
• 0February 2nd : Karin Dedler , German ski racer
• 0February 2 : Eva Cassidy , American singer († 1996 )
• 0February 2nd : Vigleik Storaas , Norwegian jazz pianist
• 0February 2nd : Kjell Dahlin , Swedish ice hockey player
• 0February 3 : Jørn Andersen , Norwegian football player
• 0February 4th : Pirmin Zurbriggen , Swiss ski racer
• 0February 6 : Michael Georg Link , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0February 6 : Dorothee Nolte , German journalist and writer
• 0February 6 : David Vanole , American football goalkeeper († 2007 )
• 0February 7th : Andrea Marcon , Italian organist, harpsichordist and conductor
• 0February 8th : Jóhann Hjartarson , Icelandic chess grandmaster
• 0February 8 : Joshua Kadison , American musician
• 0February 9 : Travis Tritt , American country singer and songwriter
• 0February 9 : Gabriel Tiacoh , Ivorian athlete († 1992 )

Brian Greene at the 2008 World Science Festival

• 0February 9 : Brian Greene , American physicist
• February 10 : Michael Applebaum , Canadian politician and entrepreneur
• February 10 : Candan Erçetin , Turkish singer
• February 10 : Alan McInally , Scottish soccer player
• February 10 : Christoph Teuner , German journalist and television presenter
• February 10 : Johann Wadephul , German politician
• February 11 : Ralf Falkenmayer , German soccer player
• February 11 : Dan Osman , American extreme athlete of Japanese origin († 1998 )
• February 12 : Claudio Amendola , Italian actor and film producer
• February 12 : John Michael Higgins , American actor and voice actor
• February 12 : Rüdiger Vollborn , German soccer player
• February 13th : Jaap haarsen , Dutch computer scientist
• February 13 : Götz Schubert , German actor
• February 14 : Enrico Colantoni , Canadian actor

Guildo Horn , 2004

• February 15th : Guildo Horn , German singer
• February 15th : Andreas Molino , German Latin jazz percussionist
• February 16 : Iris Kammerer , German writer
• February 16 : Paddy Schmidt , German singer
• February 17th : Kerstin Monica Äijä Lenndin , Swedish ski racer

Michael Jordan

• February 17 : Michael Jordan , American basketball player
• February 17th : Dan Reed , American musician & singer
• February 18 : Michel Der Zakarian , French football player
• February 18 : Angelika Niebler , German MEP
• February 18 : Anders Frisk , Swedish FIFA referee
• February 19 : Solvita Āboltiņa , Latvian lawyer and politician
• February 19 : Tom Angelripper , German musician
• February 19 : Harald Blüchel , German music producer
• February 19 : Steffi Kühnert , German actress
• February 19 : Seal , British singer

Andrea Sawatzki, 2010

• February 20 : Charles Barkley , American basketball player
• February 20 : Aymo Brunetti , Swiss economist
• February 20 : Ian Brown , British musician
• February 20 : Oliver Mark , German photographer
• February 21 : Michael Antwerpes , German sports presenter
• February 21 : William Baldwin , American actor
• February 21 : Karl Lauterbach , German health economist and politician
• February 22nd : Andrew Adonis , British politician
• February 22nd : Josef Novotny , Austrian composer and musician (jazz and new music)
• February 23 : Andrea Sawatzki , German actress
• February 23 : Rob Collins , British musician († 1996 )
• February 24 : Heiner Merz , German computer scientist and politician
• February 24th : Dene O'Kane , New Zealand snooker player
• February 26th : Stefan Jürgens , German actor and cabaret artist
• February 26 : Chase Masterson , American actress
• February 27 : Martin Auer , German jazz trumpeter
• February 27 : Christine Béchard , Mauritian athlete
• February 27 : Barbara Dare , American porn actress
• February 27 : Pär Nuder , Swedish politician of Estonian origin
• February 27 : Pablo de Santis , Argentine writer
• February 28 : Claudio Chiappucci , Italian cyclist
• February 28 : Joël Pommerat , French actor, director and playwright

March

• 0March 1st : Thomas Anders , German pop singer
  

  Thomas Anders
• 0March 1 : Ron Francis , Canadian ice hockey player
• 0March 1st : Ubaldo Righetti , Italian football player
• 0March 3 : Chaltmaagiin Battulga , Mongolian politician, President of Mongolia since 2017
• 0March 3 : Benjamin Eberle , Liechtenstein cross-country skier
• 0March 4th : Michael Stal , German computer scientist
• 0March 5th : Thomas Hermanns , German moderator
  

  Thomas Hermanns , 2011
• 0March 5 : René Obermann , German manager
• 0March 6th : Nicole Belstler-Boettcher , German actress
• 0March 6 : Kathy Kelly , American singer ("The Kelly Family")
• 0March 7th : Christopher Blenkinsop , Anglo-German musician
• 0March 8 : Júlio César da Silva , Brazilian soccer player
• 0March 8 : Sasha Waltz , German choreographer and dancer
• 0March 9 : Artur Auernhammer , German politician
• 0March 9 : Jean-Marc Vallée , Canadian director
• March 10 : Jeffrey Allen Ament , American musician
• March 11th : Alex Kingston , British actress
• March 11 : Davis Guggenheim , American director and producer
• March 11th : Olaf Raschke , German local politician (independent), Lord Mayor of Meißen since 2004
• March 12 : John Andretti , American racing driver († 2020 )
  

  John Andretti
• March 12th : Joaquim Cruz , Brazilian athlete
• March 12th : Kazik Staszewski , Polish rock and punk musician
• March 13 : Fito Páez , Argentine songwriter, singer and composer
• March 14th : Mahiro Maeda , Japanese director, animator and character designer
• March 15 : Edwin Rosario , Puerto Rican boxer († 1997 )
• March 15th : Sergio Vargas , Dominican merengue singer
• March 16 : Eiji Aonuma , Japanese video game developer
• March 16 : Mardjan Arvand , Iranian medic and bacteriologist
• March 16 : Rüdiger Neitzel , German handball player
• March 16 : Jesús Puras , Spanish rally driver
• March 16 : Kevin Smith , New Zealand film actor and rock musician († 2002 )
• March 18 : Stefan Arend , German social manager, board member and publicist
• March 18 : Abu Omar , imam of a mosque in Milan
• March 19 : Wenzel Fuchs , Austrian concert clarinetist
• March 19 : Roger Lewentz , German politician (SPD), state minister
• March 20 : Stephan Ackermann , German bishop
• March 20 : Paul Annacone , American tennis player
• March 20 : David Thewlis , British actor
• March 20 : Jelena Nikolajewna Romanowa , Russian long-distance runner († 2007 )
• March 20th : Andreï Sokolov , French chess master of Russian origin
• March 21 : Anna Adam , German painter, stage designer, qualified pedagogue and exhibition designer
• March 21 : Shawn Lane , American rock and fusion guitarist († 2003 )
• March 21 : Ronald Koeman , Dutch football player
• March 22nd : Giuseppe Galderisi , Italian football player and coach
• March 23 : Míchel , Spanish football player
• March 23rd : Ana Fidelia Quirot , Cuban athlete and Olympian
• March 24th : Werner Karle junior , German actor († 2002 )
• March 24 : Dave Douglas , American jazz trumpeter and composer
• March 24th : Torsten Voss , German athlete
• March 26th : Stefan Appelius , German political scientist, university professor and journalist
• March 27 : Xuxa , Brazilian TV presenter, actress and singer
• March 27 : Jörg Michael , German drummer
• March 27 : Quentin Tarantino , American director, actor and screenwriter
  

  Quentin Tarantino
• March 28th : Joe Crawford , German singer and bass player for the group PUR
• March 28 : Nino Ananiashvili , Georgian prima ballerina
• March 29 : Dirk Niebel , German politician
• March 30th : Tsachiagiin Elbegdorsch , Mongolian Prime Minister and President

April

• 0April 1st : Princess Gabriele zu Leiningen , wife of Prince Aga Khan
• 0April 2nd : Thomas Blachman , Danish jazz drummer
• 0April 2nd : Barbara Stöckl , Austrian presenter
  

  Barbara Stoeckl
• 0April 2 : Martin Schermaier , Austrian lawyer and legal historian
• 0April 2 : Paul Wehage , American composer and saxophonist
• 0April 3 : Criss Oliva , musician and founding member of the band Savatage († 1993 )
• 0April 3 : Duanne Moeser , German and Canadian ice hockey player
• 0April 4 : Béla Anda , German journalist and government spokesman
• 0April 4th : Fabrizio Barbazza , Italian racing driver
• 0April 4th : Irene Pivetti , Italian politician and journalist
• 0April 6th : Ines Adler , German hit and pop musician
• 0April 6 : Rafael Correa , Ecuadorian President
• 0April 6 : Pauline Lafont , French film actress († 1988 )
• 0April 6 : Derrick May , co-founder of Detroit Techno
• 0April 6 : Andrew Weatherall , British musician, record producer and DJ († 2020 )
• 0April 7th : Fredrik Lundin , Danish jazz saxophonist and flutist
• 0April 7th : Andrea Merenzon , Argentinian bassoonist
• 0April 8 : Julian Lennon , English musician and composer
• 0April 9 : Marc Jacobs , American fashion designer
• April 10 : Doris Leuthard , Swiss politician
• April 10 : Florian Streibl , Bavarian state politician
• April 11th : Andreas Brucker , German actor
• April 11th : Chris Ferguson , American poker player
• April 12th : Kerstin Knüpfer , German handball player
• April 12 : Anton Siluanov , Russian economist and politician
• April 13th : Garry Kasparov , Russian chess player
  

  Garry Kasparov
• April 14th : Josep Cholo Maragues , Andorran football player
• April 16 : Jimmy Osmond , American musician
• April 17th : Ellen Breen , American freestyle skier
• April 17th : Andrew Lane , British author and journalist
• April 17th : Alfred Hochedlinger , Austrian composer, religion teacher and lecturer in music education
• April 17th : Uwe Streb , German speed skater
• April 18 : Steffen Kampeter , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• April 18 : Marion Mathoi , Austrian actress
• April 18 : Conan O'Brien , American television presenter and entertainer
  

  Conan O'Brien, 2007
• April 19 : Christian Strohmann , German trombonist, trumpeter, trombone choir leader and music teacher
• April 19 : Wolfgang Steiert , former German ski jumper and active ski jumping trainer
• April 20 : Seyran Ateş , Turkish-German lawyer, author and social politician
  

  Seyran Ateş
• April 20 : Maurício Gugelmin , Brazilian racing car driver
• April 20th : Manuel Herreros , Spanish motorcycle racer
• April 20 : Werner Koenig , German producer († 2000 )
• April 21 : Lisa Darr , American actress
• April 21 : Roy Dupuis , Canadian actor
• April 21 : Jens Petersen , German racing car driver
• April 22nd : Blanca Fernández Ochoa , Spanish ski racer († 2019 )
• April 23 : Paul Belmondo , French racing car driver and racing team owner
• April 23 : Pia Cramling , Swedish chess player
• April 23 : Robby Naish , American windsurfer
• April 23 : Herbert Scheibner , Austrian politician
• April 24th : Lajos Détári , Hungarian football player
• April 24 : Billy Gould , American musician and music producer
• April 24th : Tõnu Trubetsky , Estonian punk rock singer and anarchist
• April 24 : Dmitri Yanov-Yanovski , Uzbek composer
• April 25th : Hitoshi Ashinano , Japanese manga artist
• April 25th : Christopher Campbell , French racing car driver
• April 25 : Peter Meyer , Bavarian politician
• April 25th : Andreas Rettig , German football official
• April 26 : Denniz PoP , Swedish DJ, music composer and producer († 1998 )
• April 26th : Cornelia Ullrich , German athlete
• April 26th : Jet Li , Chinese actor
• April 27 : Stephan Freund , German historian
• April 27 : Evelyn Herlitzius , German opera singer, dramatic soprano
• April 27 : Christian Wirth , German politician
• April 29 : Jim Benning , Canadian ice hockey player and team manager
• April 29 : Barbara Frey , Swiss theater director
• April 29th : Edgar Schmitt , German soccer player

May

• 0May 1st : Philip Ma , Hong Kong-Chinese racing car driver
• 0May 1st : Christine Rossi , French freestyle skier
• 0May 2nd : Philip Collin , American racing car driver
• 0May 2 : Esther Freud , British writer
• 0May 4th : Martin Schwalb , German handball player and coach
• 0May 5 : Prince Ital Joe , reggae musician († 2001 )
• 0May 5th : Thomas Darchinger , actor
• 0May 7th : Christian Ahrendt , German politician and lawyer

Utz Claassen

• 0May 7 : Utz Claassen , CEO of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
• May 10 : Lisa Nowak , American astronaut
• May 10 : Sławomir Skrzypek , Head of the Polish Central Bank († 2010 )
• May 11 : Michael Stefan Aßländer , German business ethicist
• May 11 : Michael Hartmann , German politician
• May 11 : Mohammad Yousef Kargar , Afghan soccer player
• May 11 : Ingbert Liebing , German politician
• May 11 : Natasha Richardson , British film actress († 2009 )
• May 12th : Stefano Modena , Italian racing car driver
• May 13 : Paola Antonelli , Italian architect and museum curator
• May 14 : José Asconeguy González , Uruguayan road cyclist
• May 14th : Pia Beckmann , German politician, Lord Mayor of Würzburg
• May 14th : Jochen "Scholle" Fraatz , German handball player
• May 15 : Brenda Bakke , American actress
• May 15 : Jamie Harris , British actor
• May 15 : Grant Heslov , American actor, director, screenwriter
• May 15 : Markus Pieper , German politician and MEP
• May 16 : Petras Auštrevičius , Lithuanian politician
• May 16 : Mercedes Echerer , Austrian actress and politician
• May 16 : Marina Massironi , Italian actress
• May 17th : Luca Cadalora , Italian motorcycle racer
• May 19 : Gottfried Angerer , Austrian bass guitarist, music teacher and systems analyst
• May 19 : Gesine Multhaupt , German politician
• May 20 : Paolo Nori , Italian writer
• May 20th : Brian Nash , British guitarist
• May 21 : Gilles Apap , French violinist
• May 21 : Kevin Shields , American singer, guitarist and record producer
• May 22 : Harald Güller , Bavarian politician (SPD)
• May 23 : Gabi Burgstaller , Austrian politician
• May 24th : Ivan Capelli , Italian Formula 1 racing driver
• May 24 : Joe Dumars , American basketball player
• May 24 : Michael Chabon , American writer
• May 25 : Torsten Albig , German politician
• May 25 : Manfred Baldus , German legal scholar

Mike Myers , 1994

• May 25 : Mike Myers , Canadian actor
• May 25 : Ludovic Orban , Romanian politician
• May 26th : Hinrich Romeike , German eventing rider
• May 27 : Gonzalo Rubalcaba , Cuban composer and jazz pianist
• May 27th : Maria Walliser , Swiss ski racer
• May 28 : Gavin Harrison , British drummer
• May 29 : Blaze Bayley , British musician
• May 29 : Ukyō Katayama , Japanese Formula 1 driver
• May 29th : Stephan Weidner , German bass player, lyricist and head of the band Böhse Onkelz
• May 30th : Helen Patricia Sharman , British astronaut
• May 31 : Viktor Orbán , Hungarian politician
• May 31 : Wesley Willis , American musician († 2003 )

June

• 0June 1 : Mike Joyce , Smiths drummer
• 0June 1st : Juan Manuel Llop , Argentinian football coach
• 0June 2nd : Maria Flachsbarth , German politician
• 0June 2nd : Robert Friedl , Austrian jazz saxophonist
• 0June 3 : Ali Akdemir , Turkish economist
• 0June 3 : Anica Dobra , German-Serbian actress
• 0June 3 : Pavel Chlebnikow , American journalist († 2004 )
• 0June 4th : Jim Boni , Italian ice hockey player and ice hockey coach
• 0June 4th : Launi Meili , American marksman
• 0June 5 : Mike Stack , American politician
• 0June 6 : Eric Cantor , American politician
• 0June 6 : Jason Isaacs , British actor
• 0June 6 : Wolfgang Drechsler , German political scientist
• 0June 7th : Roberto Alagna , French opera singer, tenor
• 0June 7th : Luca Fusi , Italian football player and coach
• 0June 8th : Anja Hajduk , German psychologist and politician
• 0June 9 : Gilad Atzmon , British jazz musician, political activist and author
• 0June 9 : Wolfgang Maria Bauer , German actor

Johnny Depp

• 0June 9 : Johnny Depp , American actor
• 0June 9 : Tatjana Šimić , Dutch actress and singer of Croatian origin
• 0June 9 : Tony Spinner , American guitarist and singer
• June 10 : Andreas Tünnermann , German physicist
• June 10 : Brad Henry , American politician
• June 11 : Johan Nijs , Belgian composer and conductor
• June 11 : Gregg Hoffman , American film producer († 2005 )
• June 11 : Sandra Schmirler , Canadian curler and Olympic champion († 2000 )
• June 12 : Philippe Bugalski , French rally driver († 2012 )
• June 12 : Cora van Nieuwenhuizen , Dutch politician
• June 13 : Mo Asumang , German television presenter
• June 13 : Bettina Bunge , German tennis player
• June 13th : Joseph Heiss , German ice hockey player
• June 13 : Charles Rickett , British entrepreneur and racing car driver
• June 13 : Markus Zohner , Swiss actor, director and theater teacher
• June 14 : Rambo Amadeus , Montenegrin singer and composer
• June 14 : Arne Körtzinger , German chemist, marine researcher and university professor
• June 15th : Marina Eduardowna Asjabina , Russian hurdler
• June 15 : Helen Hunt , American actress
• June 17th : Susi Hyldgaard , Danish jazz musician
• June 18 : Markus Brock , German television presenter
• June 18 : Jeff Mills , techno DJ and record producer
• June 18 : Dizzy Reed , American musician
• June 18 : Bruce Smith , American football player
• June 19 : Christof Kurzmann , Austrian jazz and improvisation musician
• June 19 : Roswitha Steiner , Austrian ski racer
• June 19th : Simon Wright , Australian drummer for hard rock band AC / DC
• June 20 : Matt Anger , American tennis player
• June 20 : Kirk Baptiste , American track and field athlete and Olympian
• June 20 : José Horacio Basualdo , Argentine national soccer player
• June 20 : Jeff Beal , American composer and jazz musician
• June 20 : Uwe Steimle , German actor and cabaret artist
• June 21 : Gosho Aoyama , Japanese mangaka
• June 22nd : John Tenta , Canadian wrestler († 2006 )
• June 23 : Iris Andraschek-Holzer , Austrian artist
• June 24th : Eric Weber , Swiss politician
• June 24th : Yuri Dmitrijewitsch Kasparjan , Russian guitarist

George Michael , 2006

• June 25 : Li Shufu , Chinese entrepreneur
• June 25 : George Michael , British singer and composer († 2016 )
• June 25 : Yann Martel , Canadian writer
• June 26th : Mikhail Borissowitsch Khodorkovsky , Russian entrepreneur
• June 26 : Carolin Fortenbacher , German actress and singer
• June 26th : Felipe Ortiz , Bolivian racing car driver
• June 27th : Inva Mula-Çako , Albanian soprano
• June 28 : Tierney Sutton , American jazz singer
• June 29th : Iris Hoffmann , German politician

Anne-Sophie mother

• June 29th : Anne-Sophie Mutter , German violinist
• June 29 : Reeto von Gunten , Swiss author and radio host
• June 29th : Markus Fritsch , German musician
• June 30th : Yngwie Malmsteen , Swedish guitarist
• June 30th : Sebastian Krüger , German caricaturist and painter
• June 30th : Olha Bryshina , Ukrainian sprinter and Olympic champion

July

• 0July 2nd : Axel Brauns , German writer
• 0July 2nd : Carlos Kaiser , Brazilian soccer player
• 0July 2 : Jens Riewa , German news anchor and presenter
  

  Jens Riewa, 2016
• 0July 3 : Martin Arz , German writer and artist
• 0July 3 : Peter Davor , German actor and radio play speaker
• 0July 4th : Carsten Andörfer , German actor, singer and theater director
• 0July 4th : Ute Lemper , German singer, dancer and actress
  

  Ute Lemper
• 0July 4th : Alex Younger , British Intelligence Officer and Head of MI6
• 0July 6 : Helmut Jawurek , member of the German Bundestag
• 0July 7th : Michael Sailer , German writer, musician and stage artist
• 0July 7th : Vonda Shepard , American singer and songwriter
• 0July 8 : Ulrike Grote , German actress, director and speaker
• 0July 8 : Michael Schulz , German musician and composer
• 0July 9 : Ulf Hohmann , German behavioral scientist
• 0July 9 : John Mark Ainsley , English tenor
• July 12 : Enak Ferlemann , German politician
• July 12th : Sabina Schneebeli , Swiss actress
• July 12th : Jens Wawrczeck , German actor and director
  

  Jens Wawrczeck
• July 13 : Peter Benedict , Austrian actor
• July 13 : Kenny Johnson , American actor
• July 13 : Spud Webb , American basketball player
• July 14th : Rolando Maran , Italian football player and coach
• July 14th : Heinz Weis , German athlete
• July 14th : Aja , American porn actress († 2006 )
• July 15 : Brigitte Nielsen , Danish actress and model
  

  Brigitte Nielsen , 2010
• July 15 : Monika Forstinger , Austrian politician
• July 15 : Joy Smithers , Australian actress
• July 16 : Nina Petri , German actress
• July 16 : Armin Schwarz , German rally driver
• July 16 : Phoebe Cates , American actress
• July 17th : Letsie III. , King of Lesotho
• July 17th : Matti Nykänen , Finnish ski jumper († 2019 )
  

  Matti Nykänen
• July 18th : Marc Girardelli , Luxembourgish ski racer
• July 18 : Allen Blake Sarven , American wrestler
• July 18 : Graham Bartram , British vexillologist
• July 18 : Martín Torrijos , Panamanian politician
  

  Martín Torrijos
• July 20 : Paula Ivan , Romanian athlete and Olympic champion
• July 21 : John Doyle , American comedian
• July 22nd : Emilio Butragueño , Spanish football player
• July 22nd : Ian "Iggy" Gray , Australian soccer player († 2010 )
• July 22nd : Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi , Japanese sumo wrestler
• July 23 : Richard Geppert , German conductor, church musician, Kapellmeister, organist and keyboardist
• July 23 : Michael Thürnau , North German TV and radio presenter, entertainer, conférencier and specialist book author
• July 24 : Karl Malone , American basketball player
• July 24th : Lars Nieberg , German show jumper
• July 25 : Timothy Peach , German-British actor
• July 27th : Heini Baumgartner , Swiss freestyle skier
• July 27 : Karl Mueller , American rock musician († 2005 )
• July 28th : Beate Baumann , office manager of the CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel
• July 28 : Tobias Gruben , German underground musician († 1996 )
• July 28 : Elmar Mäder , Commander of the Pontifical Swiss Guard
• July 28th : Marc Marshall , German singer and entertainer
• July 30th : Pol Cruchten , Luxembourg film director († 2019 )
• July 30th : Lisa Kudrow , American actress
• July 30 : Chris Mullin , American basketball player
• July 30 : Neal McCoy , American country singer
• July 31 : Abdullah Mucip Avcı , Turkish football player and coach
• July 31 : Norman Cook , British musician
• July 31 : Chad Brock , American country musician

August

• 0August 1st : Klaus Arntz , German theologian and university professor
• 0August 1 : Coolio , American rapper and actor
• 0August 2nd : Andreas Dörhöfer , German handball player
• 0August 3rd : Tasmin Archer , British singer and songwriter
• 0August 3 : Graham James Arnold , Australian soccer player
• 0August 3 : Giovanni Francini , Italian football player

James Hetfield

• 0August 3 : James Hetfield , American singer and guitarist (Metallica)
• 0August 4th : Audilio Aguilar Aguilar , Panamanian priest
• 0August 4th : Keith Ellison , American politician
• 0August 4th : Holger Schneider , German handball player and coach
• 0August 5th : Steve Lee , Swiss musician († 2010 )
• 0August 5th : Doris Schröder-Köpf , German journalist and book author
• 0August 5th : Ingmar De Vos , Belgian sports official
• 0August 6th : Charles Ingram , British major and impostor
• 0August 6 : Kevin Mitnick , American cracker or black hat hacker
• 0August 6th : Simone Solga , German cabaret artist, actress and singer
• 0August 7th : Bahne Rabe , German rower († 2001 )
• 0August 8 : Jordan K. Hubbard , American computer scientist
• 0August 8 : Masahiko Kageyama , Japanese racing car driver
• 0August 9 : Boris von Brauchitsch , German photographer, curator and writer

Whitney Houston

• 0August 9 : Whitney Houston , American singer († 2012 )
• 0August 9 : Maria Manuela Machado , Portuguese long-distance runner
• 0August 9 : Alain Menu , Swiss racing driver
• 0August 9 : Petra Pau , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• August 10 : Phoolan Devi , Indian bandit queen and politician († 2001 )
• August 10 : Moses Isegawa , Ugandan writer
• August 11th : Gerd Dais , German soccer player
• August 12 : Futahaguro Kōji , Japanese sumo wrestler and 60th yokozuna († 2019 )
• August 13 : Édouard Michelin , French entrepreneur († 2006 )
• August 14 : Emmanuelle Béart , French actress
• August 15 : Valery Levonevsky , Belarusian political and social activist
• August 15 : Alejandro González Iñárritu , Mexican film director
• August 16 : Andreas Dresen , German film director
• August 16 : Larry Nassar , American doctor and serial sex offender
• August 17th : Christian Ehler , German MEP
• August 17th : Jon Gruden , American football coach
• August 18 : Heino Ferch , German actor
• August 19 : Bonnie Bianco , American singer, songwriter and actress
• August 19 : Sophie Briard-Auconie , French politician
• August 19 : Hector Pieterson , South African apartheid victim († 1976 )
• August 19 : John Stamos , American actor
• August 19 : Alexander von Witzleben , German manager
• August 20 : Petra Ahrweiler , German sociologist
• August 20 : Dora Cojocaru , Romanian composer
• August 20 : Riccardo Ferri , Italian football player
• August 21 : Michael Krieter , German handball player

Mohammed VI

• August 21 : Mohammed VI. , King of Morocco
• August 22nd : Tori Amos , American singer and musician
• August 23 : Park Chan-wook , South Korean film director
• August 24th : Hideo Kojima , Japanese game developer
• August 25 : Roberto Mussi , Italian football player
• August 25 : Avi Ran , Israeli soccer player († 1987 )
• August 25 : Carmen von Samson-Himmelstjerna , German literary scholar and translator
• August 26th : Ludger Beerbaum , German show jumper
• August 26 : Birgit Keppler , German freestyle skier
• August 27 : Monika Pieper , German politician
• August 28 : Matthias Fornoff , German journalist and television presenter
• August 29 : Stella Maria Adorf , Swiss actress
• August 29 : Mathias Jeschke , German publisher, author and editor
• August 29 : Klaus Schüle , German politician
• August 29 : Karl Markovics , Austrian actor
• August 30th : Paul Oakenfold , British producer, DJ
• August 30 : Sabine Oberhauser , Austrian politician of the SPÖ († 2017 )
• August 30 : Michael Chiklis , American actor of Greek descent

September

• 0September 1 : Rich Chernomaz , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 0September 1 : Stephan Karkowsky , German radio presenter
• 0September 1st : Darío Volonté , Argentine opera tenor
• 0September 2 : Bruno Adams , Australian singer, songwriter and musician († 2009 )
• 0September 3 : Sam Adams , American politician
• 0September 3 : Malcolm Gladwell , Canadian journalist and author
• 0September 4 : Barbara Drossel , physicist
• 0September 4th : Luigino Pagotto , Italian racing driver
• 0September 4 : John Vanbiesbrouck , American ice hockey player
• 0September 6 : Mark Chesnutt , American country singer
• 0September 8 : Frank Richter , German media artist
• 0September 8 : Herbert Waas , German football player
• 0September 9 : Caroline Adderson , Canadian writer
• 0September 9 : Roberto Donadoni , Italian football player and coach

Markus Wasmeier

• 0September 9th : Markus Wasmeier , German ski racer
• 0September 9 : Matthias Ackeret , Swiss journalist and publicist
• September 10 : Bassel Fleihan , Lebanese MP and Minister for Economic Affairs and Trade († 2005 )
• September 11 : Roderich Kiesewetter , German general staff officer and politician
• September 11th : Donato Sabia , Italian athlete († 2020 )
• September 12 : Michael Anderheiden , German constitutional law teacher
• September 12th : Markus Paßlick , German percussionist and author
• September 13 : Hisham Abbas , Egyptian singer
• September 13th : Phillip Dutton , Australian eventing rider
• September 13 : Luis Juez , Argentine politician
• September 15 : Maike Bollow , German actress
• September 15 : Johannes Kahrs , German politician
• September 15 : Fernando Miceli , Argentine singer and composer
• September 17 : Gian-Carlo Coppola , American film actor and film producer († 1986 )
• September 18 : Heiko Peschke , German footballer
• September 19 : Jarvis Cocker , British pop star
• September 19 : Stefan Schmitt , German SPD politician († 2010 )
• September 19 : David Seaman , English football player
• September 19 : Dave Canterbury , American adventurer and survival expert
• September 20 : Alex Jordan , American porn actress († 1995 )
• September 20th : Alain Laroche , Canadian freestyle skier
• September 20 : Joseph O'Connor , Irish writer
• September 21 : Oliver Mink , German voice actor and actor
• September 22nd : Phillip McCallen , British motorcycle racer

• September 23 : Alex Proyas , Australian director of music videos, commercials and feature films
• September 24th : Maike Arlt , German volleyball player
• September 25 : Caren Marks , German politician
• September 25 : Tate Donovan , American actor
• September 26 : Lysette Anthony , British actress
• September 27 : Fu Biao , Chinese film and television actor († 2005 )
• September 27th : Stefan Lanka , German biologist
• September 28 : Axel Becker , German singer († 2015 )
• September 28 : Matthias Wambach , German politician
• September 28 : Greg Weisman , American series writer
• September 28 : Wolfgang Wagner , German actor and voice actor
• September 29 : David John Andreychuk , Canadian ice hockey player
• September 29 : Arvydas Anušauskas , Lithuanian historian and politician
• September 29th : Les Claypool , American musician
• September 29th : Jaroslav Mostecký , Czech author of sci-fi and fantasy literature
• September 29 : Sam Malin , Canadian entrepreneur

October

• 0October 1st : Jean-Denis Delétraz , Swiss racing driver
• 0October 2nd : Patrick Anthony Agana , English soccer player
• 0October 2 : Andreas Kraß , German philologist
• 0October 3 : Carl Achleitner , Austrian film and theater actor
• 0October 3rd : Nastja Maria Arcel , Danish actress, documentary film director and book author
• 0October 3rd : Karen Böhne , German actress
• 0October 3 : Niels Lan Doky , Danish jazz pianist
• 0October 5 : Frank Becker , German historian
• 0October 6 : Sven Andersson , Swedish football player
• 0October 6 : Elisabeth Shue , American actress
• 0October 6 : Vasile Tarlev , Moldovan politician and head of government of Moldova
• 0October 9 : Martin Adomeit , German table tennis trainer
• 0October 9 : Claus Killing-Günkel , German Esperantologist
• 0October 9 : José Roberto Torero , Brazilian journalist and author
• 0October 9 : Brigitte Gadient , Swiss ski racer
• October 10 : Leif-Eric Andersson , German volleyball player
• October 10 : Anita Mui , Chinese musician and actress († 2003 )
• October 10 : Vegard Ulvang , Norwegian cross-country skier
• October 10 : Daniel Pearl , American journalist († 2002 )
• October 10 : David Wilms , German presenter
• October 11 : Matthias Stich , German marksman
• October 12 : Raimond Aumann , German soccer player
• October 12 : Martin Klapper , Czech musician and multimedia artist
• October 12 : Satoshi Kon , Japanese screenwriter and film director († 2010 )
• October 13 : Anne Bennent , Swiss actress
• October 14 : Jürgen Rißmann , German theater and film actor
• October 16 : Pamela Bach , American actress
• October 16 : Peter Hermann , Liechtenstein cyclist
• October 16 : Thomas König , German handball player and trainer
• October 17th : Dirk Edelhoff , German jazz and rock guitarist
• October 17th : Christian Jost , German composer and conductor
• October 18th : Sigvart Dagsland , Norwegian pop-rock singer, pianist and composer
• October 19 : Christian Hochstätter , German soccer player
• October 19 : Stefan Ulrich , German journalist and writer

Prince Laurent of Belgium

• October 19 : Laurent of Belgium , Prince of Belgium
• October 20 : Jann Sjursen , Danish Christian Democrat politician
• October 20 : Julie Payette , Canadian astronaut
• October 22 : Brian Boitano , California figure skater
• October 23 : Ulrich Ritter , German make-up artist
• October 25 : John Levén , Swedish musician
• October 26 : Ted Demme , American director († 2002 )
• October 26th : Theresia Kiesl , Austrian athlete
• October 26 : Natalie Merchant , American singer and songwriter
• October 27th : Lou , German musician
• October 27 : Aleksander Szczygło , Polish Defense Minister († 2010 )

Farin Vacation , 2003

• October 27 : Farin Urlaub , German rock singer and guitarist of the punk rock band "Die Ärzte"
• October 28 : Eros Ramazzotti , Italian pop singer
• October 30 : Michael Maertens , German actor
• October 30 : Paul Schubert , Swiss classical philologist and papyrologist
• October 30th : Andrea Stolletz , German handball goalkeeper
• October 31 : Mikkey Dee , Swedish drummer
• October 31 : Roland Düringer , Austrian actor and cabaret artist
• October 31 : Johnny Marr , British musician
• October 31 : Dermot Mulroney , American actor
• October 31 : Jürgen Werner , German screenwriter

November

• 0November 1st : Nita Ambani , Indian philanthropist and sports official
• 0November 1st : Mayk Bullerjahn , German soccer player

Katja Riemann , 2010

• 0November 1st : Katja Riemann , German actress
• 0November 2nd : Udo Wagner , German foil fencer
• 0November 2nd : Borut Pahor , Slovenian politician
• 0November 3rd : Martin Bramböck , Austrian horn player
• 0November 3 : Luděk Čajka , Czech ice hockey player († 1990 )
• 0November 4th : Hennadij Avdjejenko , Soviet high jumper and Olympic champion
• 0November 4th : Horacio Marcelo Elizondo , Argentine football referee
• 0November 5th : Jean-Pierre Papin , French football player
• 0November 5 : Tatum O'Neal , American actress
• 0November 6th : Fitnat Ahrens , German-Turkish author
• 0November 6th : Wiebke Ahrndt , German ethnologist and university professor
• 0November 6th : Katrin Altpeter , German politician and Member of the State Parliament
• 0November 6 : Rozz Williams , American singer, songwriter and artist († 1998 )
• 0November 7th : John Barnes , English soccer player
• 0November 7th : Angelika Werthmann , Austrian politician († 2019 )
• 0November 8 : Nikola Hahn , German crime novelist
• 0November 9th : Biagio Antonacci , Italian singer and songwriter
• November 10th : Sylvain Chomet , French film director and screenwriter of animated films

Mike Powell

• November 10 : Mike Powell , American athlete
• November 10 : Cordula Stratmann , German actress, comedian, presenter and author
• November 11th : Holger Winselmann , German handball player
• November 13th : Seppo Kantonen , Finnish jazz pianist
• November 13th : Kerstin Müller , German politician
• November 14th : Skënder Gega , Albanian football player
• November 14th : Michał Krasenkow , Polish chess player
• November 14th : Matthias Kupfer , German actor
• November 14th : Anno Saul , German director
• November 16 : Steve Argüelles , British jazz drummer
• November 16 : Dietmar Beiersdorfer , German football functionary and player
• November 16 : Heike Bittner , German screenwriter, director and film producer
• November 16 : René Steinke , German actor
• November 16 : Troy Stetina , American guitar teacher
• November 17th : Elisabeth Kirchler , Austrian ski racer
• November 17 : Dylan Walsh , American actor
• November 18 : Len Bias , American basketball player († 1986 )
• November 18 : Peter Schmeichel , Danish football player
• November 18 : Carola Wolle , German business graduate and politician
• November 19 : Eduard Abazi , Albanian football player
• November 19 : Terry Farrell , American actress and model
• November 20 : Ming-Na Wen , American actress of Chinese descent
• November 21 : Christian Amsler , Swiss politician
• November 21 : Dave Molyneux , British motorcycle racer and designer
• November 22 : Benoît Sauvageau , Canadian politician († 2006 )
• November 23 : Virgilio Masciadri , Swiss poet († 2014 )
• November 24th : Peker Açıkalın , Turkish theater and film actor
• November 24th : Scott Colley , American jazz musician
• November 24th : Jürgen Milski , German entertainer
• November 25th : Dirk Römer , German soccer player
• November 26 : Richard Robert Arnold , American astronaut
• November 26th : Richard Hermann Ratka , German handball player and handball trainer
• November 26th : Katharina Schubert , German actress
• November 26 : Karim El-Gawhary , Egyptian journalist
• November 28 : Felix Maria Roehl , cultural manager
• November 30th : Marc Rostan , French racing car driver

December

• 0December 2nd : Max Gertsch , Swiss actor
• 0December 3 : Terri Schiavo , American coma patient († 2005 )
• 0December 4th : Jozef Sabovčík , Slovak figure skater

Serhiy Bubka

• 0December 4th : Serhiy Bubka , Ukrainian pole vaulter
• 0December 4th : Rochelle Swanson , American actress
• 0December 5th : Eddie Edwards , British ski jumper
• 0December 6th : Debbie Armstrong , American ski racer
• 0December 6th : Ulrich Thomsen , Danish actor
• 0December 8th : Rüdiger Borchardt , German handball player and coach
• 0December 8 : Wayne Frost , American breakdancer and actor († 2008 )
• 0December 8th : Holger Wulschner , German show jumper

Surab Schwania

• 0December 9 : Zurab Schwania , Georgian Prime Minister († 2005 )
• 0December 9th : Masako , wife of the Japanese emperor Naruhito
• December 11th : Eric Armstrong , Canadian animator
• December 11th : Claudia Kohde-Kilsch , German tennis player
• December 13th : Jouni Kannisto , Finnish jazz saxophonist and flutist
• December 14th : Diana Gansky , German athlete
• December 15 : Lilija Nurutdinova , Russian middle-distance runner
• December 15 : Helen Slater , American actress
• December 16 : Tuncay Akça , Turkish film and television actor
• December 16 : Benjamin Bratt , American actor
• December 16 : Jeff Carson , American country singer
• December 16 : Bärbel Schäfer , German television presenter and producer
• December 16 : Johanna Schubert , German actress
• December 17 : Jón Kalman Stefánsson , Icelandic author
• December 18 : Nino de Angelo , German pop singer
• December 18 : James Kenneth Ard , American politician

Brad Pitt , 2008

• December 18 : Brad Pitt , American actor
• December 19 : Jennifer Beals , American actress
• December 19 : Cristina Marcos , Spanish actress
• December 19 : Bettina Redlich , Austrian actress and voice actress

Til Schweiger, 2011

• December 19 : Til Schweiger , German actor and producer
• December 20th : Mats Gren , Swedish soccer coach and soccer player
• December 20th : Elena of Spain , Spanish princess, Duchess of Lugo
• December 21st : Stefan Bethäuser , German soccer player
• December 21 : Patricia Lips , German politician
• December 21 : Jacques Simonet , Belgian politician († 2007 )
• December 22nd : Mathias Ahrens , German field hockey coach
• December 22nd : Giuseppe Bergomi , Italian football player
• December 22nd : Christoph Keller , Swiss writer
• December 23 : Juan Carlos Ares , Argentine auxiliary bishop
• December 23 : Jim Harbaugh , American football player and coach
• December 23 : Ante Zelck , German entrepreneur and hostel pioneer
• December 24th : Well Marie Aidt , Danish writer
• December 24th : Olaf Berger , German pop singer
• December 24th : Paul Bloom , American Professor of Psychology
• December 24th : Myriam Décroze , French artist (painter)
• December 26th : Linda Keough , British sprinter
• December 26th : Lars Ulrich , Danish drummer for the heavy metal band Metallica
• December 27th : Gaspar Noé , French film director
• December 29th : Graciano Rocchigiani , German professional boxer († 2018 )
• December 30th : Markus Stoffels , German lawyer
• December 31 : Maya Beiser , American cellist
• December 31 : Michael Iwannek , German voice actor, singer and radio play speaker
• December 31 : Ahmed Al Maktum , marksman from the United Arab Emirates
• December 31 : Scott Ian Rosenfeld , American rock musician

Day unknown

• Jeff Abbott , American writer
• Will Adams , English author
• Masen Abou-Dakn , Syrian-German songwriter, songwriter, author and lecturer
• Franz Ackermann , German painter
• John Acquaviva , Canadian techno / house DJ and music producer
• Arthur Adams , American comic book artist
• Sabine Adler , German journalist and author
• Mimoza Ahmeti , Albanian poet
• Spartaco Albertarelli , Italian game designer
• Omar bin Mohammed bin Salim bin Hafiz al-Habib , Yemeni theologian
• Jeroen Akkermans , Dutch journalist, foreign correspondent and documentary filmmaker
• Ghada Amer , Egyptian artist
• Daniel Ammann , Swiss journalist and book author
• Erika Anderson , American actress
• Gail Anderson-Dargatz , Canadian writer
• Myriane Alice Angelowski , German author
• Ravi Arimilli , Indian-American computer architect and inventor
• Iman Attia , German social worker
• Antonella Attili , Italian actress
• Petra Auer , German actress
• Pascal Auscher , French mathematician
• Ehsan Bayat , Afghan entrepreneur
• Benjamin Boone , American composer, music educator, jazz saxophonist and band leader
• Gunnlaugur Briem , Icelandic musician
• Ingeborg Brings , German actress
• Wilhelm Bruns , German horn player
• Madelyn Byrne , American composer and music teacher
• Biboul Darouiche , Cameroonian percussionist and composer
• Helmut Deutsch , German organist
• Mamadou Diouf , Senegalese-Polish singer, author and journalist
• Ekkehard Dörschlag , Austrian physiotherapist, ski mountaineer, cyclist and mountain biker
• Martin Eckrich , German painter and performance artist
• Georg Fritzsch , German musician and conductor
• Manuel Gera , German church musician and organist
• Teresa Harder , German actress
• Alexander Häusler , German social scientist
• Mark Hijleh , American composer, conductor and music teacher
• Simon Ho , Swiss pianist and composer
• Hu Chunhua , Chinese politician
• Hui Cheung-wai , Chinese composer
• Petra Kabus , German Germanist, author and publisher's editor († 2013 )
• Kayhan Kalhor , Iranian kamancheh player and composer
• Andrzej Karpiński , Polish drummer, keyboardist, composer, theater painter, illustrator and airbrush artist
• Iain Levison , American writer of German descent
• Jean-Louis Matinier , French accordion player
• Matthias Mauthe , German recorder player and composer
• Anne-Marie McDermott , American pianist
• Pascal Moragues , French clarinetist and music teacher
• Ian Munro , Australian pianist, composer and music educator
• Theo Nabicht , German woodwind player
• Stefan Rauh , German musician, composer and music publisher
• Andrew Rindfleisch , American composer, conductor and music educator
• Matthias Rogg , German officer and historian
• Frank Ronan , Irish writer
• Miguel Rothschild , Argentine artist
• Marion Maria Ruisinger , German physician, medical historian and museum director
• Martin Sander , German organist
• Jens Schäfer , German actor
• Naseer Shamma , Iraqi oud player
• Martin Pöt Stoldt , German non-fiction author
• Maciej Walczak , Polish instrumentalist, composer and developer of software for multimedia projects
• Wu Man , Chinese pipa player

Died

January

• 0January 1 : Robert S. Kerr , American politician (* 1896 )
• 0January 2 : Dick Powell , American actor (born 1904 )
• 0January 5 : Hermann Heimerich , German politician (* 1885 )
• 0January 5 : Adolf Weber , German economist (* 1876 )
• 0January 6th : Lina Abarbanell , German soprano and actress (* 1879 )
• 0January 6th : Weaver Warren Adams , American chess player and author (* 1901 )
• 0January 6th : Lourens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking , Dutch botanist and microbiologist (* 1895 )
• January 10 : Franz Planer , Austrian cameraman (* 1894 )
• January 10 : Tadeusz Szeligowski , Polish composer and music teacher (* 1896 )
• January 13 : Johann Wartner , German politician (* 1883 )
• January 13 : Wilhelm Amsinck Burchard-Motz , German lawyer and politician (* 1878 )
• January 13 : Sylvanus Olympio , Togolese politician (* 1902 )
• January 14th : Friedrich Born , Swiss diplomat (* 1903 )
• January 14th : Josef Nadler , German Germanist and literary historian (* 1884 )
• January 14th : Gustav Regulator , German writer (* 1898 )
• January 16 : Gilardo Gilardi , Argentine composer and music teacher (* 1889 )
• January 17th : Wolfgang Döring , German politician (* 1919 )
• January 17th : Alexandra Ramm-Pfemfert , German-Russian translator, publicist and gallery owner (* 1883 )
• January 18 : Edward Charles Titchmarsh , English mathematician (* 1899 )
• January 19 : Théodore Aubert , Swiss politician (* 1878 )
• January 21 : Franz Jung , German writer, economist and politician (* 1888 )
• January 22nd : József Nagy , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1892 )
• January 23 : Józef Gosławski , Polish sculptor and medalist (* 1908 )
• January 23 : Teresa del Riego , English pianist, violinist and composer (* 1876 )
• January 24th : Otto Harbach , American librettist and songwriter (* 1873 )
• January 24th : Axel de Vries , German politician (* 1892 )
• January 25 : Robert Leibbrand , German politician (* 1901 )
• January 25 : Marion Sunshine , American actress, songwriter and composer (* 1894 )
• January 26 : Maurice Hankey , Secretary of the National Defense Council (* 1877 )
• January 28 : John Farrow , Australian screenwriter and director (* 1904 )
• January 28th : Gustave Garrigou , French cyclist (* 1884 )
• January 28 : Jean Félix Piccard , American chemist and balloonist (* 1884 )
• January 29 : Robert Frost , American poet and Pulitzer Prize winner (* 1874 )
• January 29 : Albert K. Hömberg , German historian and author (* 1905 )
• January 30th : Francis Poulenc , French pianist and composer (* 1899 )
• January 30th : Arno Vetterling , German Kapellmeister and composer (* 1903 )

February

• 0February 1 : John Francis D'Alton , Archbishop of Armagh and Cardinal (* 1882 )
• 0February 5 : Herbert Samuel , British politician and diplomat (* 1870 )
• 0February 6 : Abd al-Karim , leader of the Rif-Kabyle uprising in Morocco (* 1882 )
• 0February 6 : Piero Manzoni , Italian artist (* 1933 )
• 0February 7th : Conrad Ramstedt , German medic (* 1867 )
• 0February 7th : Peter Mitchell-Thomson, 2nd Baron Selsdon , British racing car driver (* 1913 )
• 0February 8 : Jakob Altmaier , German politician (* 1889 )
• 0February 8 : Ernst Glaeser , German writer (* 1902 )
• 0February 9 : Abd al-Karim Qasim , Iraqi military, politician and Prime Minister (* 1914 )
• February 11 : Sylvia Plath , American writer (* 1932 )
• February 13 : Oskar Helmer , Austrian politician (* 1887 )
• February 13 : Oswald Thomas , Austrian astronomer (* 1882 )
• February 14 : Max Jüngling , German politician (* 1903 )
• February 14 : Gerhart von Westerman , German composer, artistic director and music writer (* 1894 )
• February 15 : Edgardo Donato , Argentine tango musician (* 1897 )
• February 16 : Friedrich Dessauer , German physicist, entrepreneur and publicist (* 1881 )
• February 16 : László Lajtha , Hungarian composer (* 1892 )
• February 18 : Sareh I , Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church (* 1915 )
• February 19 : Benny Moré , Cuban singer (* 1919 )
• February 19 : Gustav Peter Bucky , radiologist, physicist, scientist and inventor (* 1880 )
• February 20 : Jakow Andrejewitsch Eschpai , Russian composer and teacher (* 1890 )
• February 20 : Ferenc Fricsay , Hungarian conductor (* 1914 )
• February 21 : Philip Dalton Hepworth , British architect (* 1890 )
• February 21 : Émile Lamarre , Canadian singer (* 1886 )
• February 22 : Egon Adler , Czech-American painter and graphic artist (* 1892 )
• February 22nd : Fritz Becker , German soccer player (* 1888 )
• February 23 : Robert Leroy Cochran , American politician (* 1886 )
• February 23 : Paul Rodemann , member of the Weimar National Assembly (* 1887 )
• February 24 : Herbert Asbury , American journalist and writer (* 1889 )
• February 28 : Rajendra Prasad , Indian politician and 1st President (* 1884 )

March

• 0March 3 : Dorothy Hansine Andersen , American pediatrician and pathologist (* 1901 )
• 0March 4th : Bobby Jaspar , Belgian jazz musician (* 1926 )
• 0March 4 : William Carlos Williams , American writer and doctor (* 1883 )
• 0March 5 : Patsy Cline , American country singer (born 1932 )
• 0March 7th : Jack Anglin , American country singer (born 1916 )
• 0March 7th : Franz Heske , German-Austrian forest scientist, founder of the "world forestry", general forest master of Ethiopia and philosopher (* 1892 )
• 0March 7th : Edmond Malherbe , French composer (* 1870 )
• 0March 8 : Johannes Albers , German politician (* 1890 )
• 0March 8 : Per Askim , Norwegian naval officer (* 1881 )
• 0March 9 : Werner Beumelburg , German journalist and writer (* 1899 )
• 0March 9 : Roland Coty , French entrepreneur and racing car driver (* 1901 )
• March 10 : Irving A. Aaronson , American jazz pianist and band leader (* 1895 )
• March 11 : Jean Bastien-Thiry , French colonel and assassin (* 1927 )
• March 15 : William Adams , English football player (* 1902 )
• March 16 : Elisabeth Marie of Austria , daughter of Crown Prince Rudolf (* 1883 )
• March 16 : William Henry Beveridge , English economist (* 1879 )
• March 16 : Julius Christiaan van Oven , Dutch legal scholar and politician (* 1881 )
• March 17th : Karl Fischer , Austrian Trotskyist politician and resistance fighter (* 1918 )
• March 20 : Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt , Archbishop of Havana and Cardinal (* 1879 )
• March 21 : Frederick Newton Arvin Jr. , American literary scholar (* 1900 )
• March 21 : Josef Gauchel , German football player (* 1916 )
• March 21 : Heinrich-Wilhelm Ruhnke , German politician (* 1891 )
• March 22nd : Cilly Aussem , German tennis player (* 1909 )
• March 23 : Albert Thoralf Skolem , Norwegian mathematician, logician and philosopher (* 1887 )
• March 26 : Arno Heinrich Gottfried Arnold , German doctor, internist and sports medicine specialist (* 1897 )
• March 27th : Harry Piel , German director and actor (* 1892 )
• March 29 : Texas Ruby , American country musician (* 1908 )
• March 30th : George von Kaufmann , British mathematician and anthroposophist (* 1894 )
• March 30th : Guido Mancini , Italian entrepreneur and racing car driver (* 1924 )
• March 30th : Giuseppe Pometta , Swiss teacher and historian (* 1872 )

April

• 0April 1 : Reinier Beeuwkes , Dutch national soccer player (* 1884 )
• 0April 2 : Charles Robert Gray, 5th Earl Gray , son of 4th Earl Gray (* 1879 )
• 0April 6th : Karl Scharnagl , Lord Mayor of Munich (* 1881 )
• 0April 6 : Otto von Struve , Russian-American astronomer (* 1897 )
• 0April 9 : Xul Solar , Argentine painter (* 1887 )
• April 11 : Franz Karl Ginzkey , Austrian officer, poet and writer (* 1871 )
• April 11th : Arthur Jonath , German athlete (* 1909 )
• April 12 : Kazimierz Jósef Stanislaw Ajdukiewicz , Polish philosopher and logician (* 1890 )
• April 12 : Herbie Nichols , American jazz pianist and composer (* 1919 )
• April 15 : Edward V. Robertson , American politician of Welsh descent (* 1881 )
• April 17 : Alfred Edward Bennett , Australian radio manager and theosophist (* 1889 )
• April 17 : Fritz Windgassen , German tenor (* 1883 )
• April 18 : Adriaan Koonings , Dutch football player (* 1895 )
• April 19 : Germaine Malépart , Canadian pianist and music teacher (* 1898 )
• April 21 : Dennis H. Robertson , English economist (* 1890 )
• April 22nd : Wendelin Morgenthaler , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1888 )
• April 24 : Karla König , German journalist, writer and cultural functionary (* 1889 )
• April 27 : Lilo Linke , German writer and reporter (* 1906 )
• April 27 : Kenneth Macgowan , American film producer and Oscar winner (* 1888 )

May

• 0May 1 : Veza Canetti , Austrian writer (* 1897 )
• 0May 1 : Richard Kurt Donin , Austrian art historian (* 1881 )
• 0May 2 : Fritz Horn , German aviation pioneer (* 1896 )
• 0May 2 : Tomáš Vačkář , Czech composer (* 1945 )
• 0May 2 : Ernst Wandersleb , German balloonist, photographer, physicist (* 1879 )
• 0May 5 : Per Jacobsson , Swedish manager; from 1956 to 1963 Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (* 1894 )
• 0May 6 : Hanns FJ Kropff , professor of advertising (* 1882 )
• 0May 6 : Kubota Mantarō , Japanese writer (* 1889 )
• 0May 6 : Leutfrid Signer , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and educator (* 1897 )
• 0May 7th : Theodore von Kármán , Hungarian pioneer of modern aerodynamics (* 1881 )
• 0May 7 : René Fülöp Miller , American writer and sociologist (* 1891 )
• 0May 9 : Charles Vyner Brooke , third and last of the white Rajas of Sarawak (* 1874 )
• 0May 9 : Arthur Winkler-Hermaden , Austrian geologist (* 1890 )
• May 10 : Hermann Wopfner , Austrian historian and folklorist (* 1876 )
• May 11 : Herbert Spencer Gasser , American neurophysiologist (* 1888 )
• May 12 : Oumbertos Argyros , Greek painter (* 1877 / 1882 / 1884 )
• May 12 : Franz Arnold , Austrian canon lawyer (* 1893 )
• May 12 : Bobby Kerr , Canadian athlete, Olympic champion and sports official (* 1882 )
• May 12 : Ernst Marischka , Austrian director (* 1893 )
• May 12 : Stanisław Wiechowicz , Polish composer (* 1893 )
• May 13 : Georg Pahl , German press photographer (* 1900 )
• May 13 : Herta Gotthelf , German politician (* 1902 )
• May 14 : George McGill , American politician (* 1879 )
• May 15 : Waldemar Koch , German liberal politician (* 1880 )
• May 15 : Rahel Straus , German-Israeli doctor (* 1880 )
• May 16 : Oleg Penkowski , Soviet double agent ( executed ) (* 1919 )
• May 19 : Alois Hudal , bishop and escape helper of various Nazi criminals (* 1885 )
• May 19 : Johann Segitz , German politician, Member of the Bundestag (* 1898 )
• May 24th : Elmore James , blues musician (* 1918 )
• May 25 : Eugen Margarétha , Austrian politician (* 1885 )
• May 28 : Wissarion Schebalin , Russian composer (* 1902 )
• May 31 : Edith Hamilton , German-American writer (* 1867 )

June

• June 1 : Luis Alcaraz , Mexican composer, pianist and singer (* 1910 )
• 0June 1 : Ambrogio Robecchi , Italian racing cyclist (* 1870 )
• 0June 1 : Richard Sedlmaier , German art historian and university professor (* 1890 )
• 0June 2 : Gustav Abel , Austrian film architect and stage designer (* 1902 )

John XXIII († 3rd of June)

Adrian Carton de Wiart († June 5)

• 0June 3 : John XXIII. , Pope from 1958 to 1963 (* 1881 )
• 0June 5 : Adrian Carton de Wiart , British Lieutenant General (* 1880 )
• 0June 9 : Jacques Villon , French painter (* 1875 )
• June 11 : Friedrich Wagner , archaeologist (* 1887 )
• June 12 : Eduard Fiedler , German politician (* 1890 )
• June 12 : Medgar Evers , African-American civil rights activist (* 1925 )
• June 15 : Katharina Aline Ahlmann , German entrepreneur (* 1890 )
• June 15 : Christian Heins , Brazilian racing car driver (* 1935 )
• June 16 : John Whiting , British playwright (born 1917 )
• June 16 : Otto Ostrowski , German politician (* 1883 )
• June 17 : Richard Baer , German National Socialist, commandant of the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp (* 1911 )
• June 18 : Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings , Mexican actor (* 1912 )
• June 18 : August Geislhöringer , German politician (* 1886 )
• June 18 : Robert Kautsky , Austrian theater painter, stage and costume designer (* 1895 )
• June 19 : Heinrich Deist senior , politician and Prime Minister of the Free State of Anhalt (* 1874 )
• June 19 : Eleuterio Riccardi , Italian painter and sculptor (* 1884 )
• June 20 : Pio Ortelli , Swiss educator and writer (* 1910 )
• June 23 : Gustav Gundlach , Catholic social ethicist, social philosopher and social scientist (* 1892 )
• June 24th : Alan Titherley , English badminton player (* 1903 )
• June 25 : Georg Pelster , German politician (* 1897 )
• June 25 : Erna von Dobschütz , German painter (* 1876 )
• June 27 : John Maurice Clark , American economist (* 1884 )
• June 30th : Alexander Rustow , German philosopher, social scientist and economist (* 1885 )
• June 30th : Hans Tschiggfrey , Austrian politician (* 1904 )

July

• 0July 1 : Camille Chautemps , French politician (* 1885 )
• 0July 1 : Franz Spunda , Austrian teacher and writer (* 1890 )
• 0July 2 : Lisa Tetzner , German author (* 1894 )
• 0July 2 : Bodo Uhse , German writer (* 1904 )
• 0July 2 : Seth Barnes Nicholson , American astronomer (* 1891 )
• 0July 4th : Adolf Meschendörfer , Romanian-German writer (* 1877 )
• 0July 4th : Fritz Reuter , German musicologist, music educator, composer and conductor (* 1896 )
• July 10 : William C. Hayes , American Egyptologist (* 1903 )
• July 11 : Hermann August Korff , German literary historian (* 1882 )
• July 12th : Slatan Dudow , Bulgarian DEFA director (* 1903 )
• July 14th : Sivananda , yoga master (* 1887 )
• July 16 : Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Assejew , Russian poet and literary critic (* 1889 )
• July 16 : Georg Greve , German impressionist painter (* 1876 )
• July 19 : João Gomez de Araújo , Brazilian composer (* 1871 )
• July 19 : Yamanoguchi Baku , Japanese poet (* 1903 )
• July 20 : Otto Friedländer , Austrian writer and pacifist (* 1889 )
• July 22nd : Valerio Valeri , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1883 )
• July 25 : Masazo Toki , Japanese professor of business administration (* 1893 )
• July 26 : Arno Hennig , German politician (* 1897 )
• July 26 : Eduard Reventlow , Danish diplomat (* 1883 )
• July 27 : Dorian Le Gallienne , Australian composer (* 1915 )
• July 28 : Carl FW Borgward , German automobile manufacturer (* 1890 )
• July 28 : Gerard Gratton , Canadian weightlifter (born 1927 )

August

• 0August 1 : Theodore Roethke , American poet (* 1908 )
• 0August 3 : Philip Graham , American publisher (born 1915 )
• 0August 3 : Karl Valentin Müller , German sociologist (* 1896 )
• 0August 5th : Annie Rosar , Austrian actress (* 1888 )
• 0August 5th : Friedrich Funk , German politician (* 1900 )
• 0August 8 : Johann Baptist Aufhauser , German theologian (* 1881 )
• August 10 : Katharine Burdekin , British writer (* 1896 )
• August 10 : Ernst Wetter , Swiss politician (* 1877 )
• August 11 : Alois Arnegger , Austrian landscape painter (* 1879 )
• August 11 : Kathleen Parlow , Canadian violinist and music teacher (* 1890 )
• August 11th : Elie Redon , French racing car driver (* 1884 )
• August 11th : Otto Wahle , Austrian swimmer (* 1879 )
• August 15 : Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov , Russian writer (* 1895 )
• August 15 : John Powell , American pianist and composer (* 1882 )
• August 15 : Leonard Heaton , Canadian pianist and music teacher (* 1889 )
• August 15 : Fritz Strich , German-Swiss literary scholar (* 1882 )
• August 20 : Mabel Garrison , American singer (* 1886 )
• August 20 : Heinrich Gerns , German politician (* 1892 )
• August 28 : Julius Edgar Lilienfeld , Austro-Hungarian physicist (* 1882 )

Georges Braque, 1908

• August 31 : Georges Braque , French painter (* 1882 )
• August 31 : Stephen Rothman ( István Rothman ), Hungarian-American dermatologist (* 1894 )

September

• 0September 3 : Yuri Arbatsky , composer and folklorist (* 1911 )
• 0September 3 : Louis MacNeice , Northern Irish poet (* 1907 )
• 0September 4th : Robert Schuman , French politician (* 1886 )
• 0September 6 : Vladimir Aïtoff , French medic and rugby union player (* 1879 )
• 0September 8 : Julio Perceval , Argentine composer, organist and music teacher (* 1903 )
• September 10 : Honorio Siccardi , Argentine composer (* 1897 )
• September 11th : Richard Oswald , Austrian film director and screenwriter (* 1880 )
• September 14th : Gerhard Arndt , German farmer and politician (* 1890 )
• September 15 : Carl Hatch , American politician (* 1889 )
• September 15 : Oliver Wallace , British-American composer and conductor (* 1887 )
• September 15 : Charles Winslow , South African tennis player (* 1888 )
• September 17th : Eduard Spranger , German educator, psychologist and philosopher (* 1882 )
• September 22 : Sam G. Bratton , American politician (* 1888 )
• September 22nd : Georg Braun , Austrian soccer player and coach (* 1907 )
• September 22nd : Franz Heinen , German politician (* 1887 )
• September 23 : Willie Eckstein , Canadian pianist and composer (* 1888 )
• September 23 : Margarethe Faas-Hardegger , Swiss women's rights activist and trade unionist (* 1882 )
• September 24 : Walter Menzel , German politician (* 1901 )
• September 25th : Georg Lindemann , German Army Officer and later Colonel General (* 1884 )
• September 25 : Kurt Zeitzler , Chief of Staff of the Army during the Second World War (* 1895 )
• September 28 : Frederick Hale , American politician (* 1874 )
• September 28 : Laughing Charley Lincoln , American blues guitarist and singer (* 1900 )

October

Gustaf Gründgens († October 7th)

Édith Piaf († October 11)

John F. Kennedy († November 22)

• 0October 3 : Bobby McDermott , American basketball player (born 1914 )
• 0October 3 : Pedro Rebolledo , Panamanian composer (* 1895 )
• 0October 5 : Gustav Siewerth , German philosopher and educator (* 1903 )
• 0October 6 : Heinrich Martin Arens , American politician (* 1873 )
• 0October 7th : Gustaf Gründgens , German actor, director and general manager (* 1899 )
• 0October 8 : Karl Albert Aberle , German publisher and politician (* 1901 )
• 0October 8 : Maria Grengg , Austrian narrator and painter (* 1888 )
• October 10 : Édith Piaf , French chanson singer (* 1915 )
• October 12 : Karl Baur , German pilot, flight instructor and engineer (* 1911 )
• October 14 : Lotte Friese-Korn , German politician (* 1899 )
• October 15 : Edmond Fleg , French writer of Swiss origin (* 1874 )
• October 17 : Jacques Salomon Hadamard , French mathematician (* 1865 )
• October 18 : Fritz Sternberg , German economist, Marxist theorist and politician (* 1895 )
• October 18 : Constance Worth , Australian actress (born 1912 )
• October 21 : Heinrich Höfler , German politician (* 1897 )
• October 22 : Walter Davis , American blues musician (* 1912 )
• October 22 : Elvin Morton Jellinek , American physician (* 1890 )
• October 23 : Nerses W. Akinian , Armenian church historian, philologist and Armenist (* 1883 )
• October 23 : Max Ladner , Swiss Buddhist (* 1889 )
• October 24th : Karl Bühler , German thought and language psychologist, language theorist (* 1879 )
• October 25 : Abu-Bakr Khairat , Egyptian composer (* 1910 )
• October 25 : Karl von Terzaghi , founder of soil mechanics (* 1883 )
• October 26 : Arthur Laurendeau , Canadian singer, choir director and music teacher (* 1880 )
• October 27 : Karl Polak , legal scholar and politician of the GDR (* 1905 )
• October 28 : Tom Connally , American politician (* 1877 )
• October 29 : Adolphe Menjou , American actor (* 1890 )
• October 30 : Madame d'Ora , Austrian photographer (* 1881 )
• 00.October: Enrico Rosati , Italian singing teacher (* 1874 )

November

• 0November 1 : Eugène Chartier , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher (* around 1897)
• 0November 2 : Ngô Đình Diệm , first President of the Republic of Vietnam (* 1901 )
• 0November 3rd : Boris Kostić , Serbian chess master (* 1887 )
• 0November 4 : Rafail Abramowitsch , Russian Bundist and Menshevik (* 1880 )
• 0November 4 : Marek Fisz , Polish mathematician (* 1910 )
• 0November 4 : Pascual Ortiz Rubio , politician and President of Mexico (* 1877 )
• 0November 4 : Alexander von Schelting , German sociologist (* 1894 )
• 0November 8 : Johann Junglas , German politician (* 1898 )
• 0November 8 : Šimon Jurovský , Czech composer (* 1912 )
• 0November 8 : Paul Schmidt-Roller , German painter, art teacher and textile designer (* 1891 )
• 0November 9th : Antonio Farage , Syrian titular archbishop and patriarchal procurator (* 1885 )
• November 10 : Otto Flake , German writer (* 1880 )
• November 15 : Fritz Reiner , American conductor (* 1888 )
• November 15 : Theobald Schrems , founder of the "Regensburger Domspatzen Music High School" (* 1893 )
• November 17th : Peco Bauwens , German football player (* 1886 )
• November 18 : Kurt Arnold Findeisen , German writer (* 1883 )
• November 19 : Carmen Amaya , Spanish flamenco dancer, singer and actress (* 1913 )
• November 20 : Peter Pringsheim , German physicist (* 1881 )
• November 20 : Johann von Vásáry , Hungarian theater actor, theater director, theater director, writer, film director and screenwriter (* 1899 )
• November 22 : Wilhelm Beiglböck , internist, Nazi war criminal (* 1905 )
• November 22nd : Aldous Huxley , British writer (* 1894 )
• November 22nd : John F. Kennedy , American politician, 35th President of the USA (* 1917 )

Memorial to C. S. Lewis

• November 22 : Clive Staples Lewis , British writer and literary scholar (* 1898 )
• November 24th : Meyer Grabovsky , Israeli politician (* 1905 )
• November 24th : Lee Harvey Oswald , alleged murderer of John F. Kennedy (* 1939 )
• November 25 : John La Farge , American priest and Jesuit (* 1880 )
• November 25 : Alexander Marinesko , submarine commander of the S-13 in World War II (* 1913 )
• November 25 : George Howard Williams , American politician (* 1871 )
• November 26th : Amelita Galli-Curci , Italian coloratura soprano (* 1882 )
• November 28 : Lee Wallard , American racing driver (* 1911 )
• November 29 : Ernesto Lecuona , Cuban composer and musician (* 1895 )
• November: Sepp Müller , German motorcycle racer (* 1906 )

December

• 0December 2 : Sabu , Indian actor (* 1924 )
• 0December 2 : Sasaki Nobutsuna , Japanese writer (* 1872 )
• 0December 5 : Karl Amadeus Hartmann , German composer (* 1905 )
• 0December 5 : Ernst Gäumann , Swiss botanist, mycologist, phytopathologist and university professor (* 1893 )
• 0December 5 : Herbert H. Lehman , American politician (* 1878 )
• 0December 5 : Tom London , American actor (* 1889 )
• 0December 6 : Ion Valentin Anestin , Romanian caricaturist, painter, sculptor, journalist and playwright (* 1900 )
• 0December 7th : Isidore Soucy , Canadian fiddle player and composer (* 1899 )
• 0December 8 : Sarit Dhanarajata , Prime Minister of Thailand (* 1908 )
• 0December 9 : Perry Miller , American historian and literary scholar (* 1905 )
• December 10 : Ōta Yōko , Japanese writer (* 1906 )
• December 12th : Ozu Yasujirō , Japanese film director and screenwriter (* 1903 )
• December 12th : Theodor Heuss , German politician and 1st Federal President (* 1884 )
• December 13th : Filippo Anfuso , Italian diplomat, State Secretary and politician (* 1901 )
• December 13 : Josef Keil , Austrian historian, epigraphist and archaeologist (* 1878 )
• December 13 : Arthur Ney , Swiss composer and conductor (* 1887 )
• December 14th : Hans Abraham , German weightlifter (* 1886 )
• December 14th : Marie Marvingt , the second woman to take her flight test in France (* 1875 )

Erich Ollenhauer , Bonn 1954

• December 14 : Erich Ollenhauer , leader of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag (* 1901 )
• December 14 : Mahmūd Schaltūt , Egyptian Islamic legal scholar (* 1893 )
• December 15 : Oscar Traynor , Irish politician (* 1886 )
• December 15 : Johannes Heckel , German canon lawyer (* 1889 )
• December 19 : Alan Gardiner , British Egyptologist (* 1879 )
• December 20 : Paul Constantinescu , Romanian composer (* 1909 )
• December 24th : Tristan Tzara , French writer (* 1896 )
• December 25th : Heiner Fleischmann , German motorcycle racing driver (* 1914 )
• December 25 : Kazys Viktoras Banaitis , Lithuanian composer (* 1896 )
• December 27 : Wilhelm Riphahn , German architect (* 1889 )
• December 27 : Wildcat Wilson , American football player (born 1901 )
• December 28 : Paul Hindemith , German composer and musician (* 1895 )

Day unknown

• Rafael Adame , Mexican composer and guitarist (* 1906 )
• Robert Atherley , English football player (* 1878 )
• Victor Brault , Canadian singer, choir conductor and music teacher (* 1899 )
• Isaías Cabezón , Chilean painter (* 1891 )
• Rem Fowler , British motorcycle racer (* 1883 )
• Edward Royce , American composer and music teacher (* 1886 )

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : Eugene Wigner , Maria Goeppert-Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen
• Chemistry : Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta
• Medicine : John Carew Eccles , Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, and Andrew Huxley
• Literature : Giorgos Seferis
• Nobel Peace Prize : International Committee of the Red Cross and League of Red Cross Societies

music

• Grethe and Jörgen Ingmann won the 8th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest on March 23rd in London with the song Dansevise for Denmark

• List of number one hits in Germany (1963)

literature

• Jürgen Nabbefeld / Hans Nitsche (eds.): 1963. A special year for church and world . Bad Honnef / Mainz 2013, ISBN 978-3-927566-52-1 .

Web links

Commons : 1963  - 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 (1963) in the Federal Archives
• Year 1963 by Frank Rübertus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Video of the press conference
2. ↑ spiegel.de 29/1969: Interview with Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns on Europe
3. ↑ see photo
4. ↑ www.chronik-der-mauer.de . 730,000 people accept long waiting times when submitting applications and use the agreement to make around 1.2 million visits to East Berlin.