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Calendar overview 1964
1964 | |
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Nikita Khrushchev is dismissed from all positions on October 14th. | Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
Lyndon B. Johnson , American President since Kennedy's assassination the year before, won the November presidential election with the largest majority (61.1 percent) in US history. | |
The baby boom in Germany reached its peak with 1,357,304 live births. |
1964 in other calendars | |
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From urbe condita | 2717 |
Armenian calendar | 1412-1413 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1956-1957 |
Badi calendar | 120-121 |
Bengali calendar | 1370-1371 |
Berber calendar | 2914 |
Buddhist calendar | 2508 |
Burmese calendar | 1326 |
Byzantine calendar | 7472-7473 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4660-4661 or 4600-4601 |
- 60 year cycle |
Water Hare ( 癸卯 , 40) - |
French revolutionary calendar |
- CLXXII CLXXIII 172-173 |
Hebrew calendar | 5724-5725 |
Hindu calendar | |
- Vikram Sambat | 2020-2021 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1886-1887 |
Iranian calendar | 1342-1343 |
Islamic calendar | 1383-1384 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Nengō (era): | Shōwa 39 |
- Kōki | 2624 |
Coptic calendar | 1680-1681 |
Korean calendar | |
- Dangun era | 4297 |
- Juche era | 53 |
Minguo calendar | 53 |
Modern Olympics | XVIII |
Seleucid calendar | 2275-2276 |
Thai solar calendar | 2507 |
Events
Politics and world events
- January 1st : Ludwig von Moos becomes the new Federal President of Switzerland .
- January 1st : Equatorial Guinea receives full internal autonomy from Spain .
- January 1st : Sinhala becomes the only official language in Ceylon .
- January 4th : Pope Paul VI breaks from the city of Rome . on a multi-day pilgrimage to Jordan and Israel . This is the first time since 1814 that an incumbent pontiff has left the borders of Italy .
- January 8 : In his first State of the Union Address , US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces comprehensive social reforms and a war on poverty before Congress .
- January 13 : In Cairo ( Egypt ) finds first Arab Summit Conference held: kings and heads of state of 13 Arab nations come together.
- February 16 : Willy Brandt succeeds Erich Ollenhauer as party chairman of the SPD . He held this office until 1987.
- March 23 : In Geneva is UNCTAD opened, the World Trade Conference of the United Nations . In it, among others, the developing countries organized in the “ Group of 77 ” demand a fairer participation in world trade.
- March 31 : Military coup in Brazil , the beginning of 21 years of military dictatorship . General Humberto Castelo Branco becomes President.
- April 26th : Tanganyika (Tan) and Zanzibar (San) found the United Republic of Tanzania .
- May 2 : Mississippi USA: Murder of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore
- May 26th : Germany . Federal President Heinrich Lübke , French President Charles de Gaulle and Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg inaugurate the Moselle major shipping route .
- June 1 : Foundation of the PLO by the First Palestinian National Council ; The UN diplomat Ahmed Shukeiry will be chairman .
- June 1 : With the changed traffic regulations in the Federal Republic of Germany, pedestrians on a zebra crossing have priority over motorized road users.
- June 6th : With a preliminary injunction, all rocket attempts in the Cuxhaven Wadden area are prohibited.
- June 12 : Nelson Mandela , leader of the African National Congress , is sentenced to life imprisonment along with seven co-defendants for subversion and sabotage.
- June 12 : Swedish Colonel Stig Wennerström is sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union .
- June 12 : The USSR ( Nikita Khrushchev ) and the GDR ( Walter Ulbricht ) sign the “Treaty on Friendship, Mutual Assistance and Cooperation”.
- July 1 : Federal President Heinrich Lübke is re-elected for a second term by the 4th Federal Assembly with a large majority.
- July 2 : signed in Washington, US President Lyndon B. Johnson , the Civil Rights Act to desegregation . This, after the end of slavery in 1863 , the most important document on equality for blacks, was proposed by John F. Kennedy and initiated by Johnson and was only ratified after months of wrangling in the Senate .
- July 6 : Malawi becomes independent.
- July 6 : At the Battle of Nam Dong , the Viet Cong attack an American field base of the US Army Special Forces in Vietnam.
- August 7th : The US Congress unanimously approves the Tonkin resolution ; This gives President Johnson the power to participate in the Vietnam War .
- August 20 : Prepared by the German Development Service , the first 14 development workers leave for Dar-es-Salam in Tanzania .
- September 3 : In California , the John Muir Wilderness and the later so-called Ansel Adams Wilderness are established as protected areas under the Wilderness Act . The high mountain landscape of the Sierra Nevada is intended to remain a wilderness without human intervention.
- September 3 : In Wyoming , the Bridger Wilderness is protected as a wilderness area .
- September 5th : Great Britain gives Malta independence
- September 7th : An order from the National Defense Council of the GDR is intended to enable unarmed military service as a construction soldier .
- September 9th : The GDR authorizes pensioners to visit relatives in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin .
- September 12 : In Utah , Canyonlands National Park is placed under the legal protection of a national park .
- September 18 : The Greek King Constantine II and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark marry in Athens.
- September 27 : The Warren Commission publishes its final report on the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy . The panel, chaired by Judge Earl Warren , came to the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin.
- October 1 : Afghanistan . The new democratic constitution comes into force.
- October 14 : Nikita Khrushchev is dismissed from his offices by the plenum of the Central Committee. Alexei Kosygin follows as head of government , and Leonid Brezhnev as party leader .
- October 15 : The Labor Party wins the general election . Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister.
- October 16 : The People's Republic of China detonates an atomic bomb for the first time on a test site in northwest China .
- October 24 : Zambia becomes independent .
- October 26th : Jordan becomes the second Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel .
- November 2 : After the Council of Ministers had withdrawn their trust in King Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz , his brother Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz ("King Faisal") became the new King of Saudi Arabia .
- November 2 : A pass regulation enables pensioners from the GDR to visit relatives in West Germany.
- November 3 : Eduardo Frei Montalva becomes the new President of Chile .
- November 3 : US President Lyndon B. Johnson is confirmed in office in the presidential election with 61.1 percent of the vote; Republican Barry Goldwater received 38.5 percent of the vote.
- November 20 : Eisaku Sato becomes the new Prime Minister of Japan .
- November 25th : The GDR announces that from December 1st it will require visitors from the non-socialist economic area to exchange freely convertible currencies for domestic marks from the German central bank . Pensioners and children are exempt from the compulsory exchange.
- November 28 : Founding of the NPD in Hanover
- December 1 : The GDR levies a minimum exchange rate for visitors from the West.
- December 12 : Kenya becomes a republic. Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first president . He is both head of government and commander in chief of the armed forces.
- December 28 : Giuseppe Saragat becomes the new President of Italy .
science and technology
- January 5 : The Short Belfast transport aircraft developed for the Royal Air Force takes off on its maiden flight .
- April 7th : IBM introduces the S / 360 system .
- April 22. bis 18th October : First phase of World Expo (World's Fair) in New York (continued in 1965 )
- June 23 Foundation of the Helmholtz Zentrum München as a Society for Radiation Research (GSF)
- September 4 : The British royal couple solemnly opens the Forth Road Bridge over the Firth of Forth to traffic, at the time of opening the longest suspension bridge in Europe.
- October 1 : The Shinkansen is the first high-speed train to go into operation in Japan between Osaka and Tokyo .
- November 21 : The Verrazzano Narrows Bridge , the longest suspension bridge in the world, opens in New York .
- December 22nd : The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft developed on behalf of the CIA takes off on its maiden flight .
- John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz develop the BASIC programming language .
- On the initiative of the Austrian Foreign Minister Bruno Kreisky , the Diplomatic Academy Vienna will be reopened in September under director Ernst Florian Winter .
economy
- March 9 : The first Ford Mustangs leave the car assembly lines in Dearborn , Michigan .
- March 19 : The first road traffic flows through the tunnel under the Grosser St. Bernhard Alpine Pass .
- April 17 : In the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg which is Vianden Pumped Storage Plant officially opened. It is the largest power plant of its kind in Europe.
- April 20 : In the United Kingdom , the second television program BBC Two starts broadcasting in the European 625-line standard for the screen . The older program is still based on the television standard of 405 lines.
- June 1st : Founding of Luxair Corp in Japan Tokyo in the presence of the Japanese imperial family and other high-ranking Japanese and foreign politicians
- June 27 : In France, the public broadcaster Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) is created based on the British BBC .
- July 27 : The Deutsche Bundesbank issues the first banknotes to the value of 1000 Deutsche Mark , the highest nominal value it has issued . A portrait of a man by Lucas Cranach the Elder and Limburg Cathedral are shown on the banknotes .
- September 22nd : With the broadcast of the study program , Bayerischer Rundfunk is the first ARD broadcaster to start offering its viewers a third television program.
- November 14th : The Ruhr-Park opens in Bochum - Harpen, one of the largest shopping centers in Germany.
- December 4th : The German Bundestag approves the establishment of the Stiftung Warentest , an independent institution that is supposed to examine the goods and services offered.
- Foundation of the Metro company with the first Metro Cash & Carry store by Otto Beisheim
- Foundation of the Rolf Benz company
- The world economy is growing at 7.3 percent, which was the highest rate of world economic growth to date.
Culture
- January 13 : The musical Funny Girl by Jule Styne (music), Isobel Lennart (libretto) and Bob Merrill (lyrics) premieres at the Schubert Theater in Boston . The first time in New York was on March 26, 1964, at the Winter Garden Theater. In some reference works this date is mentioned as the day of the premiere.
- March 30th : In the United States, the first episode of the television quiz show Jeopardy hits the screens .
- March 31 : The British music group The Beatles ranks 1-5 on the US charts with five singles - a situation that has never been seen before.
- April 6 : World premiere of the television version of the ballet The Lesson by Flemming Flindt (choreography) and Georges Delerue (music) at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
- April 13th : Sidney Poitier is the first black actor to receive an Oscar for best leading actor. This honors his performance in the film Lilies on the Field .
- April 24 : A symbol of Copenhagen , the Little Mermaid by the sculptor Edvard Eriksen , is badly damaged by vandals . The head that was sawed off by a group of Situationists around Jørgen Nash is never found again.
- April 26th : The Rolling Stones release their first LP of the same name on Decca .
- The Documenta III - World Exhibition of Art will take place from June 27th to October 5th in Kassel .
- July 24th : World premiere of the opera Don Rodrigo by Alberto Ginastera at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires
- August 29 : Walt Disney- produced Mary Poppins opens in cinemas in the United States , two days after its premiere in Los Angeles.
- September 17th : World premiere of the opera Der Zerrissene by Gottfried von Eine at the Hamburg State Opera
- September 17 : The newly built National Museum of Anthropology opens in Mexico City , with exhibitions devoted to the pre-Columbian past and the living Indian culture of Mexico .
- September 22 : World premiere of the musical Anatevka ( Fiddler on the Roof ) by Jerry Bock , Sheldon Harnick and Joseph Stein at the Imperial Theater in New York City
- October 2nd : premiere of the musical Dongfang hong (The East is Red)
- October 9 : The first episode of the quiz show Vergißmeinnicht with the emcee Peter Frankenfeld runs on ZDF . The rate show about postcodes is linked to a charity event in favor of the newly created problem child campaign .
- October 11th : Heinar Kipphardt's play In the J. Robert Oppenheimer case is premiered in the theater version at the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin (director: Erwin Piscator ) and at the Münchner Kammerspiele (director: Paul Verhoeven ).
- October 22nd : Jean-Paul Sartre rejects the Nobel Prize .
- November 4th : The first film about Fantomas premieres in France .
- November 30th : World premiere of the comic opera The End of a World by Hans Werner Henze in Frankfurt am Main
- December 4th : The game show Der goldene Schuß begins on ZDF for the first time with the moderating entertainer Lou van Burg .
- Sergio Leone turns for a handful of dollars .
- First award of the golden canvas
- Foundation of the Academy of Country Music
- First world exhibition of photography
society
- March 12 : The second Mariotti trial in Hamburg ended with the conviction of the accused. The verdict was to be overturned in December and the third Mariotti trial would take place in 1965.
- June 11 : An early retirees committed in Cologne at a school the flamethrower - Cologne school massacre , the two teachers and eight students does life. The perpetrator commits suicide .
- Creation of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
religion
- August 6th : Innsbruck receives a diocese .
- Inauguration of the first European house of worship of the Bahai in Hofheim am Taunus .
Sports
For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .
- January 29th to February 9th : IX. Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck , Austria
- February 25 : Cassius Clay , later Muhammad Ali , is in the historic boxing match against Sonny Liston for the first time world champion in the heavyweight division .
- May 2nd : First ascent of Shisha Pangma , the fourteenth highest mountain on earth, by a major Chinese expedition
- June 21 : Spain become European champions in their own country with a 2-1 final victory over the USSR .
- July 14th : The Tour de France is won for the fifth time by Frenchman Jacques Anquetil , also for the fourth time in a row. He is the first cyclist ever to win five Tour de France, this time only 55 seconds ahead of his compatriot Raymond Poulidor .
- October 10th to 24th : XVIII. Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo , Japan
- German football champion 1964 : 1. FC Cologne
- Champion of the GDR football league 1964 : BSG Chemie Leipzig
- Windsurfing is coming; However, it was not until 1967 that Jim Drake had the decisive idea of connecting board and sail with a cardan joint .
- John Surtees becomes Formula 1 world champion, making him the only world champion on two and four wheels to this day.
Disasters
- March 27 : A severe earthquake with 9.2 magnitude and several tsunami waves occurred in Alaska. The Good Friday quake in 1964 , also known as the "Great Alaska Quake", was the strongest earthquake in US history to date.
- May 24th : 328 people die and around 500 are injured in a mass panic in the national stadium in Lima . When the referee did not recognize a goal by the Peruvian soccer team in the Olympic qualifying match against Argentina shortly before the end of the game , tumult broke out. The firing of tear gas by the police at the football fans causes thousands of spectators to flee, but the exits are still closed.
- July 23 : The Egyptian freighter Star of Alexandria , loaded with ammunition, explodes in the port of the Algerian city of Bône . The serious accident claims over 100 dead and around 160 injured. The damage is estimated at $ 20 million.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Born
January
- January 2nd : Ingo Anderbrügge , German soccer player
- January 2nd : Wolfgang de Beer , German soccer goalkeeper
- January 2 : Christian Welp , German basketball player († 2015 )
- January 3 : Florian Halm , German actor and voice actor
- January 3 : Bruce LaBruce , Canadian writer, filmmaker, and photographer
- January 3rd : Leonard , Swiss pop singer and presenter
- January 3 : Toshiyuki Horie , Japanese writer and translator
- January 3 : Cheryl Miller , American basketball player
- January 3rd : Jean Reverchon , French carom player and world champion
- January 4th : Alexander Fadeev , Russian figure skater
- January 5th : Miloš Pavlović , Serbian chess player
- January 5th : Joachim Spatz , German politician
- January 6 : Davide Ballardini , Italian football player and coach
- January 6th : Albrecht Ganskopf , German actor
- January 6th : Henry Maske , German boxer
- January 6 : Rafael Vidal , Venezuelan swimmer († 2005 )
- January 7th : Nicolas Cage , American actor
- January 7th : Jürgen Pohl , German politician
- January 8th : Hannes Anton , Austrian politician, entrepreneur and manager
- January 8th : Pongruangrong Arisman , Thai activist
- January 8 : Ron Sexsmith , Canadian songwriter
- January 10th : Frauke Ludowig , German TV presenter
- January 12th : Laura Arraya , Peruvian tennis player
- January 12th : Jeff Bezos , founder and president of the US company Amazon
- January 12th : Karen Krauss , judge at the Federal Social Court
- January 12th : Kevin Russell , singer of the German rock band Böhse Onkelz
- January 13 : Gloria Siebert , German athlete and Olympian
- January 13 : Penelope Ann Miller , American actress
- January 14th : Mark Addy , British actor
- January 14th : Manuela Ruben , German ice and roller art skater
- January 14th : Uwe Wegmann , German soccer player
- January 16 : Richard Elliot , Scottish saxophone player
- January 17th : Sergio Allievi , German soccer player
- January 17th : Michelle Obama , lawyer and wife of Barack Obama
- January 17th : Andy Rourke , musician and bass player for the British band The Smiths
- January 17th : Raoul Schrott , Austrian writer
- January 18 : Jane Horrocks , English actress and comedian
- January 19 : Ricardo Arjona , Guatemalan singer and basketball player
- January 19 : Andreas Dorau , German musician
- January 19 : Jim Morris , American baseball player
- January 20th : Elisabeth Aumeier , German double bass player and music cabaret artist
- January 20 : Scott Maxwell , Canadian racing car driver
- January 21 : Andreas Bauer , German ski jumper
- January 21 : Marianne Tritz , German politician
- January 22nd : Catherine Quittet , French ski racer
- January 22nd : Carsten Kadach , German soccer referee
- January 23 : Bharrat Jagdeo , President of Guyana
- January 24th : Carole Merle , French ski racer
- January 24th : Werner Schwarz , Austrian Nordic combined athlete
- January 25 : Billy Andrade , American professional golfer
- January 26th : Danilo Antonipieri , Italian biathlete and cross-country skier
- January 26 : Paul S. Aspinwall , British theoretical physicist and mathematician
- January 26 : Wendy Melvoin , American guitarist and singer-songwriter
- January 26th : Torkil Nielsen , player in the Faroese national football team and chess player
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January 27 : Bridget Fonda , American actressBridget Fonda , 2001
- January 28 : Wolfram Adolph , German publicist and music journalist († 2019 )
- January 30th : Arthur Ernesto Darboven , 5th generation German family entrepreneur
- January 31 : Sharon Cain , American handball player
- January 31 : Jeff Hanneman , American guitarist († 2013 )
February
- February 3 : Michael Rummenigge , German soccer player
- February 3 : Laird Hamilton , American athlete
- February 4th : Volker Dehs , German literary scholar, translator and publicist
- February 5 : David Gilmore , American jazz musician
- February 5 : Bernhard van Treeck , German author
- February 5th : Duff McKagan , musician, bassist for the rock band Guns N 'Roses
- February 5th : Piotr Trzaskalski , Polish film director
- February 5 : Laura Linney , American actress
- February 6th : Michael Breitkopf , guitarist of the band Die Toten Hosen
- February 7th : Bert Wijbenga , Dutch politician, manager and policeman
- February 8 : Tatjana Clasing , German actress
- February 9 : Michael Arenz , German archer
- February 9 : Johannes Lichdi , German politician and lawyer
- February 9 : Siegbert Rampe , German harpsichordist, organist and pianist
- February 10 : Sam Graddy , American athlete and Olympic champion
- February 11 : Keiichirō Asao , Japanese politician
- February 11 : Sarah Palin , US politician
- February 12th : Geir Andersen , Norwegian Nordic combined
- February 12 : Stéphane Franke , German athlete († 2011 )
- February 12 : Mikael Källman , Finnish handball player
- February 13 : Leo Andergassen , South Tyrolean art historian
- February 13 : Erik , actually Frank Weißmüller, German comic artist
- February 14 : Patrícia Lourival Acioli , Brazilian judge († 2011 )
- February 14th : Sabrina Ascacibar , German-Argentine actress, singer, dancer and musician
- February 14th : Gianni Bugno , Italian cyclist
- February 14 : Rodolfo Torre Cantú , Mexican politician († 2010 )
- February 14th : Andreas Neitzel , German handball player
- February 14th : Sigrid Wolf , Austrian ski racer
- February 15 : Chris Farley , American actor († 1997 )
- February 16 : Bebeto , Brazilian soccer player
- February 16 : Ian Bousfield , English trombonist
- February 16 : Valentina Mikhailovna Yegorova , Russian athlete and Olympic champion
- February 16 : Érik Maris , French banker and racing car driver
- February 17 : Jim Jordan , American politician
- February 18 : Matt Dillon , American actor
- February 18 : Paul Hanley , British musician
- February 18 : Sven Martinek , German actor
- February 18 : Jan Vogler , German cellist
- February 19 : Jonathan Lethem , American writer
- February 20 : Young-su An , South Korean boxer
- February 20 : Iain Ballamy , British jazz saxophonist
- February 20 : Juan Manuel González Sandoval , Mexican bishop
- February 21 : Mark Kelly , American astronaut
- February 22nd : William Tanui , Kenyan athlete and Olympic champion
- February 22nd : Magnus Wislander , former Swedish handball player and coach
- February 22nd : Karin Kienzer , Austrian actress
- February 23 : Peter Kox , Dutch racing car driver
- February 23 : John Norum , Swedish guitarist
- February 23 : James Clark , British computer scientist
- February 23 : Miro Ritskiavitchius , German handball player
- February 24 : Todd Field , American actor, film director and screenwriter
- February 24 : Ute Geweniger , swimming athlete from the GDR, Olympic champion
- February 25th : Marion Isbert , German soccer player
- February 25th : Otto Lechner , Austrian accordion player
- February 26 : Mark Dacascos , American athlete and actor
- February 26th : Alfred Kaminski , German soccer coach
- February 27 : Christian Lange , German politician
- February 27th : Thomas Lange , two-time Olympic champion in rowing
- February 28 : Jamolidin Abduschaparov , Uzbek cyclist
- February 28 : Johannes Fink , German jazz bassist
- February 28th : Pierre Hantaï , French harpsichordist and conductor
- February 29 : Ellen Pieters , Dutch actress and singer
- February 29 : Henrik Sundström , Swedish tennis player
- February 29 : Marek Lesniak , Polish football player and coach
- February 29 : Ola Lindgren , Swedish handball coach
- February 29th : Martin France , English jazz drummer
March
- March 2 : Marco Schädler , Liechtenstein composer
- March 3 : Laura Harring , American actress
- March 3rd : Raymond Narac , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- March 4th : Emilia Eberle , Romanian gymnast
- March 5th : Bertrand Cantat , singer of the rock group Noir Désir
- March 5 : Brad Warner , American Zen master and author
- March 6th : Franz Abraham , German event manager and producer
- March 6 : Skip Ewing , American country singer and songwriter
- March 6th : Tatjana Festerling , German political activist
- March 7 : Bret Easton Ellis , American writer
- March 7th : Mikhail Popkov , Russian serial killer
- March 7 : Wanda Sykes , American actress
- March 8 : Peter Gill , English drummer
- March 8 : Mark Oaten , British politician
- March 9 : Juliette Binoche , French actress
- March 9 : Paul Caligiuri , American football player
- March 10 : Neneh Cherry , Swedish singer, rapper and producer
- March 10 : Edward Mountbatten-Windsor, Earl of Wessex , youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II.
- March 10th : Toni Polster , Austrian soccer player
- March 11th : Steffen Bringmann , German athlete
- March 11 : Karin Gastinger , Austrian politician and Federal Minister
- March 11 : Andréas Härry , Swiss author
- March 11th : Christian Henn , German cyclist
- March 11 : Leena Lehtolainen , Finnish writer
- March 11th : Vinnie Paul , drummer of the thrash metal band Pantera († 2018 )
- March 12 : Dieter Eckstein , German football player
- March 13 : Steve Collins , Canadian ski jumper
- March 13 : Michael Vassiliadis , German trade unionist
- March 15 : Fernando De Napoli , Italian football player
- March 16 : HP Baxxter , German singer
- March 16 : Pascal Richard , Swiss cyclist, Olympic champion and world champion
- March 16 : Jörg Schmadtke , German soccer player
- March 16 : Gore Verbinski , American director and screenwriter
- March 17 : Stefano Borgonovo , Italian football player and coach († 2013 )
- March 17 : Lee Dixon , English football player
- March 17 : Rob Lowe , American actor
- March 18 : Michael Arndt , German author and publisher
- March 18 : Courtney Pine , British jazz saxophonist
- March 19 : Nicola Larini , Italian racing driver
- March 19 : Jake Weber , British actor
- March 19 : Kanno Yōko , Japanese composer
- March 20th : Natacha Atlas , Belgian musician
- March 21 : Kaori Ekuni , Japanese writer
- March 22nd : Michael Hesemann , German historian, author and documentary filmmaker
- March 22nd : Eugene O'Brien , British racing car driver
- March 22nd : Tristan Schulze , German musician and film composer
- March 23 : Hope Davis , American actress
- March 23 : Chris Henchy , American screenwriter, film producer, and executive producer
- March 23 : Heike Schäfer , German pop singer
- March 24th : Giovanni Arvaneh , German actor
- March 24th : Marek Kamiński , Polish world traveler
- March 24th : Claude Landenbergue , Swiss chess player
- March 24th : Liz McColgan , Scottish athlete and Olympian
- March 24th : Oreste Rossi , Italian politician
- March 25 : Kate DiCamillo , American author
- March 25th : Christine von Grünigen , Swiss ski racer
- March 25 : Buzz Osborne , American singer, guitarist and producer
- March 26th : Michael Frontzeck , German soccer player and coach
- March 26th : Lydia Hüskens , German politician
- March 26th : Jörg Junhold , German veterinarian and director of the Leipzig Zoo since 1997
- March 26th : Staffan Olsson , Swedish handball player and coach
- March 29 : Alberto Di Chiara , Italian football player
- March 29th : Frank Fröhlich , German acoustic guitarist and composer
- March 29 : Elle Macpherson , Australian actress and model
- March 29th : Andreas Obering , German comedian and actor
- March 30th : Oliver Bange , German military historian
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March 30th : Tracy Chapman , American singer and songwriterTracy Chapman , 2009
- March 30th : Thomas Heinze , German film actor
- March 30th : Rüdiger Hoffmann , German cabaret artist and musician
- March 31 : Constanze Angermann , German journalist and TV presenter
- March 31 : Jürgen Wegmann , German soccer player
April
- April 1 : Kersten Angela Artus , German journalist
- April 1st : John Bosch , Dutch racing driver
- April 1 : Chris Lee , American politician
- April 3 : Lincoln Asquith , British sprinter
- April 3 : Marco Ballotta , Italian football player
- April 3rd : Bjarne Riis , Danish cyclist
- April 4th : Ralf Allgöwer , German soccer player
- April 4th : Branco , Brazilian soccer player
- April 4th : Jeremy McWilliams , Northern Irish motorcycle racer
- April 5 : Marius Lăcătuș , Romanian football player
- April 6 : Juliet Cuthbert , Jamaican track and field athlete and Olympian
- April 6 : David Woodard , American businessman
- April 7 : Russell Crowe , New Zealand actor
- April 7 : Lesleh Donaldson , Canadian actress and voice actress
- April 7th : Frank Ramond , German-French composer, music producer and singer
- April 8 : Biz Markie , American musician
- April 8th : Dordi Nordby , Norwegian curler
- April 9 : Margaret Peterson Haddix , American author
- April 11 : Dirk Leun , German handball trainer

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- April 12th : Ross Cheever , American racing car driver
- April 12th : Claudia Jung , German singer and politician
- April 12th : Pandora Peaks , American stripper and photo model
- April 12 : Ray van Zeschau , German artist
- April 14th : Jeff Andretti , American racing car driver
- April 14th : Gina McKee , British actress
- April 14 : Vinnie Moore , American rock musician
- April 15 : Jörg-Uwe Lütt , German handball player
- April 16 : Michael Arnold , German politician
- April 16 : Jörg Bundschuh , German actor
- April 16 : Esbjörn Svensson , Swedish jazz pianist and bandleader († 2008 )
- April 17th : Laurent Achard , French film director, producer and screenwriter
- April 17th : Maynard James Keenan , lead singer for the band Tool
- April 19 : Frank-Peter Roetsch , German biathlete
- April 20 : Andy Serkis , British actor
- April 21 : Qairat Abbirakhmanov , Kazakh diplomat
- April 21 : Ludmila Engquist , Russian-Swedish athlete and Olympic champion
- April 22nd : Massimo Carrera , Italian football player and coach
- April 22nd : Frank Kortan , German painter
- April 22nd : James Langevin , American politician
- April 22nd : Konstantin Ritter , Liechtenstein cross-country skier
- April 23 : Torsten Fenslau , disc jockey and music producer († 1993 )
- April 23 : Aviv Kochavi , Israeli general
- April 24th : Helga Arendt , German athlete († 2013 )
- April 24 : Djimon Hounsou , Benin-American actor
- April 24 : Augusta Read Thomas , American composer and music teacher
- April 25 : Fadela Amara , French politician
- April 26 : Christiane Michel-Ostertun , German organist
- April 26th : Tim Sugden , British racing car driver
- April 26th : Heinz Wolf , German journalist and television presenter
- April 27th : Þórir Hergeirsson , Icelandic handball coach
- April 28 : Stephen Ames , Canadian golfer
- April 28th : Urs Sonderegger , Swiss racing driver
- April 29 : Jürgen Antoni , German politician
- April 29th : Markus Majowski , German actor and comedian
- April 30th : Ian Healy , Australian cricketer
- April 30th : Lorenzo Jules Staelens , Belgian national football player and coach
- April : Henry Adam , British playwright
May
- May 1st : Yvonne van Gennip , Dutch speed skater
- May 2nd : Silvia Neid , German soccer player and trainer
- May 3 : Raoul Heimrich , German director
- May 4th : Konrad Antoni , Austrian politician
- May 4th : Terje Isungset , Norwegian jazz percussionist
- May 4th : Rocco Siffredi , Italian actor, producer and director of porn films
- May 4th : Mónica Bardem , Spanish actress
- May 5th : Heike Henkel , German high jumper
- May 6th : Andrea Chiesa , Swiss racing driver
- May 6th : Roberto Franco , Italian freestyle skier
- May 6 : Franziska Pigulla , German actress and voice actress († 2019 )
- May 6 : Frédérique Vidal , French politician (independent) and incumbent minister
- May 7 : István Hiller , Hungarian politician and historian
- May 7th : Giuseppe Iachini , Italian football player and coach
- May 7th : Nicki Pawlow , German writer
- May 7th : Pjer Žalica , Bosnian film director
- May 8 : Melissa Gilbert , American actress
- May 8 : Ralf Gustke , German drummer
- May 10 : Mark Andre , Franco-German composer
- May 10 : Gitta Connemann , German politician
- May 10 : Emmanuelle Devos , French actress
- May 11 : Efstratios Apostolakis , Greek football player
- May 11 : Tina Hassel , German journalist and TV presenter
- May 11th : John Parrott , English snooker player
- May 12th : Raimond Burgman , Dutch carom player and world champion
- May 12 : Przemysław Gosiewski , Polish politician († 2010 )
- May 12 : Kolja Kleeberg , German TV chef and presenter
- May 12 : Ferdinand von Schirach , German defense attorney and writer
- May 13 : Akasaka Mari , Japanese writer
- May 13 : Ronnie Coleman , American bodybuilder
- May 14 : Peter Bamler , German actor
- May 14th : Andrea Händler , Austrian cabaret artist and actress
- May 14 : Daniela Lager , Swiss presenter and journalist
- May 14 : Jörg Schneider , German politician
- May 15 : Christian Armbrüster , German lawyer
- May 15 : Lars Løkke Rasmussen , Danish politician, Prime Minister
- May 17th : Michiel Braam , Dutch jazz musician
- May 17th : Antoine Fillon , French drummer
- May 17th : Mauro Martini , Italian racing car driver
- May 17th : Jörg Vogelsänger , German politician
- May 18 : Karsten Dörr , German actor
- May 19 : Beibit Atamqulow , Kazakh politician
- May 19 : Miloslav Mečíř , Slovak tennis player
- May 19 : Sean Whalen , American actor
- May 20 : Lebo M , South African composer
- May 20 : Andreas Storm , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- May 21 : Rui Maria de Araújo , East Timorese politician
- May 21 : Walter Homolka , German rabbi
- May 22 : Gregor Hoop , Liechtenstein ski racer († 1990 )
- May 23 : Ruth Metzler-Arnold , Swiss politician, Federal Councilor
- May 24th : Maxi Biewer , German TV presenter
- May 26 : Patrick Antaki , Lebanese skeleton athlete
- May 26th : İlkay Akkaya , Turkish singer
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May 26 : Lenny Kravitz , American singer and musicianLenny Kravitz , 2012
- May 26th : Valeri Borissowitsch Salow , Russian chess master
- May 26th : Alison Wyeth , British medium and long distance runner
- May 27 : Volker Abramczik , German soccer player
- May 27th : Andreja Schneider , German singer and actress
- May 28 : Christa Miller , American actress
- May 28 : Jeff Fenech , Australian boxer and boxing coach
- May 28 : Phil Vassar , American country musician
- May 29th : Albert Frey , German composer, music producer and worship leader
- May 29 : Emanuele Cisi , Italian jazz saxophonist
- May 30th : Andrea Montermini , Italian racing car driver
- May 30th : Tom Morello , American guitarist
- May 30th : Corinne Schmidhauser , Swiss ski racer and politician
- May 31 : Thomas Schwartz , German theologian, priest, honorary professor, author, publisher and television presenter
- May 31 : Kid Frost , American rapper
June
- June 1st : Davy Jones , American racing car driver
- June 2nd : Caroline Link , German director and screenwriter
- June 3rd : Kerry King , guitarist for the band Slayer
- June 3 : Günther Marxer , Liechtenstein ski racer
- June 3rd : Doro Pesch , German rock singer, the Queen of Metal
- June 5th : Martin Heuberger , German handball player and coach
- June 5 : Rick Riordan , American writer
- June 6 : Robert Kauffman , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- June 6th : Guru Josh , British DJ († 2015 )
- June 7th : Judie Aronson , American actress
- June 7th : Armin Assinger , Austrian ski racer and television presenter
- June 7th : Burkard Dregger , German politician
- June 8 : Rob Pilatus , Dutch singer († 1998 )
- June 8 : Harry Reynolds , American athlete and Olympic champion
- June 9th : Thomas Klauser , German ski jumper
- June 9 : Gloria Reuben , Canadian actress
- June 9 : Jarosław Siwiński , Polish composer and pianist
- June 10 : Ludger Abeln , German TV presenter
- June 10 : Jürgen Augustinowitz , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- June 10 : James Joseph Chamberlin , American drummer
- June 11th : Gunnar Sauer , German soccer player
- June 11th : Jean Alesi , French Formula 1 racing driver
- June 11 : Kuddel , German guitarist (Die Toten Hosen)
- June 11 : Kim Gallagher , American athlete and Olympian († 2002 )
- June 12 : Petra Bläss , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- June 12 : Uwe Kamps , German soccer player
- June 12th : Sahnie , ex-bass player of the German punk band Die Ärzte
- June 12 : Jürgen P. Lang , German political scientist
- June 12 : Markus Kupferblum , Austrian opera director and clown
- June 12th : Lars Reichow , German cabaret artist and entertainer
- June 13 : Šarūnas Marčiulionis , Lithuanian basketball player
- June 14 : Michael Garmer , German politician
- June 15 : Michael Laudrup , Danish football player
- June 15 : Peter Schorowsky , German musician
- June 15 : Courteney Cox , American actress
- June 15 : Paul Urbanek , Austrian jazz pianist and composer
- June 16 : Martin Feifel , German actor
- June 16 : Michael Lusch , German soccer player
- June 17th : Michael Groß , German swimmer
- June 17th : Dirk Raudies , German motorcycle racer
- June 17th : Ricardo Moniz , Dutch football coach
- June 17th : Mike Shiva , Swiss clairvoyant, entrepreneur and television presenter
- June 18 : Hans Florine , American speed climber
- June 18 : Yang Yi , Japanese writer of Chinese origin
- June 19 : Carsten Hütter , German entrepreneur and politician
- June 19 : Kevin Schwantz , American motorcycle racer
- June 20th : Pierfrancesco Chili , Italian motorcycle racer
- June 20 : Silke Möller , German athlete
- June 20 : Stefan Marquard , German chef
- June 20 : Dirk Schoedon , German actor
- June 21 : Philippe Aerts , Belgian jazz bassist
- June 21 : David Morrissey , British actor, producer and director
- June 22 : Miroslav Kadlec , Czech football player
- June 22 : Dan Brown , American author
- June 23 : Joss Whedon , American director
- June 24th : Günther Mader , Austrian ski racer
- June 24th : Adel Massaad , German-Egyptian table tennis player
- June 24th : Georg Zug , German soccer player
- June 24th : Andreas Weigel , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- June 25th : Ernst Vettori , Austrian ski jumper
- June 25th : Johnny Herbert , British Formula 1 racing driver
- June 26th : Harald Ahamer , Austrian musician and composer
- June 26th : Tommi Mäkinen , Finnish rally driver
- June 26th : Marek Pivovar , Czech writer, director and dramaturge
- June 26th : Christopher Roth , German director and artist
- June 27th : PT Usha , Indian athlete
- June 27 : Kai Diekmann , German journalist
- June 28 : Sabrina Ferilli , Italian film and stage actress
- June 28 : Daniel Oscar Giacomino , Argentine politician
- June 29th : Paul Zenon , conjurer and comedian from Great Britain
- June 29 : Wendy Kilbourne , American actress
- June 30th : Princess Alexandra of Denmark , ex-wife of Prince Joachim
- June 30th : Giancarlo Falappa , Italian motorcycle racer
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July
- July 1st : Giovanna Arbunic Castro , Chilean chess player
- July 1 : Heiko Buhr , German writer
- July 1st : Ludwig Seuss , German pianist, organist and accordionist
- July 1st : Franz Wohlfahrt , Austrian soccer player
- July 2nd : Dirk Martens , German actor
- July 3 : Antje Hermenau , German politician
- July 3 : Yeardley Smith , American actress and voice actress
- July 4th : Misko Antisin , Swiss-Canadian ice hockey player
- July 4th : Rachel Ashley , American porn actress
- July 4th : Edi Rama , Albanian politician and artist
- July 4th : Elie Saab , Lebanese fashion designer
- July 5th : Filip De Wilde , Belgian football player
- July 5th : Piotr Nowak , Polish football player
- July 6th : Markus Böttcher , German actor
- July 7th : Kōsuke Fujishima , Japanese mangaka
- July 8th : Linda de Mol , Dutch show host
- July 9 : Courtney Love , American guitarist, singer-songwriter and actress
- July 9 : Stephan Schad , German actor
- July 9 : Gianluca Vialli , Italian football player
- July 10 : Martina Krogmann , German politician
- July 11 : Helmut Krausser , German writer, poet and playwright
- July 13 : Thomas Ammann , Swiss politician
- July 13 : Andreas Boltz , German church musician and composer
- July 13th : Jörg Remy , German guitarist
- July 14th : Thomy Aigner , Austrian radio and television journalist and presenter
- July 15 : Rodrigo Amado , Portuguese jazz and improvisation musician, record producer, photographer and author
- July 15 : Galyn Görg , American dancer and actress († 2020 )
- July 16 : Ashot Anastassjan , Armenian chess grandmaster († 2016 )
- July 16 : Nino Burjanadze , President of the Georgian Parliament and State
- July 16 : Miguel Induráin , Spanish cyclist
- July 17th : Norbert Dobeleit , German athlete
- July 17th : Heather Langenkamp , American actress
- July 17 : Benjamin Ziemann , German historian
- July 18 : Iris Gleicke , German politician
- July 18th : Joachim Llambi , German tournament dancer and judge
- July 19 : Masahiko Kondo , Japanese singer, actor and racing car driver
- July 19 : Christine Licci , German bank manager
- July 19 : Mauro Ribeiro , Brazilian cyclist
- July 20 : Michal Lobkowicz , Czech politician
- July 20 : Chris Cornell , American singer († 2017 )
- July 20 : Bernd Schneider , German automobile racing driver
- July 20 : Markus Theinert , German tuba player and conductor
- July 21 : Saskia Valencia , German actress
- July 21 : Jens Weißflog , German ski jumper, Olympic champion
- July 22nd : Will Calhoun , American rock and fusion drummer
- July 22nd : Anneke von der Lippe , Norwegian actress
- July 23 : Uwe Barth , German politician
- July 23 : Manuel Rocheman , French jazz pianist
- July 24th : Yoshimoto Banana , Japanese writer
- July 25 : Sharif Sheikh Ahmed , Somali politician
- July 25 : Anne Applebaum , Polish-American historian
- July 26th : Faustin Ambassa Ndjodo , Cameroonian Bishop of Batouri

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- July 26 : Sandra Bullock , American actress
- July 26th : Tatjana Mittermayer , German freestyle skier, Olympian
- July 26th : Anne Provoost , Belgian writer
- July 26th : Lars Söderdahl , Swedish actor
- July 27 : Fernando Carro , Spanish manager
- July 28 : Karin Buder , Austrian ski racer
- July 28 : Lori Loughlin , American actress
- July 28th : Liane Offermanns , German politician
- July 30 : Vivica A. Fox , American actress
- July 30th : Rainer Furch , German actor
- July 30th : Jürgen Klinsmann , German soccer player and national coach
- July 30th : Rune Kristiansen , Norwegian freestyle skier
- July 31 : CC Catch , German pop singer
- July 31 : Wendell Alexis , American basketball player
- July 31 : Joja Wendt , jazz pianist and composer
August
- August 1st : Detlef Dezelak , German soccer player
- August 1st : Maria Usifo , Nigerian athlete
- August 2 : Henry Aruna , Auxiliary Bishop of Kenema
- August 2nd : Frank Biela , German automobile racing driver
- August 2nd : Ernesto Maguengue , Catholic bishop
- August 2 : Mary-Louise Parker , American actress
- August 3 : Lucky Dube , South African musician († 2007 )
- August 3 : Abhisit Vejjajiva , Thai politician
- August 3 : Radek Knapp , Austrian writer
- August 3 : Norbert Mauser , Austrian mathematician and university professor
- August 5th : Pia Douwes , Dutch musical actress
- August 5th : Remigijus Merkelys , Lithuanian composer
- August 6 : Anouschka Renzi , German actress
- August 6th : Vom Ritchie , drummer of the band Die Toten Hosen
- August 8 : Giuseppe Conte , Italian lawyer and politician
- August 8 : Uwe Schünemann , German politician
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August 8 : Jan Josef Liefers , German actor and musicianJan Josef Liefers , 2010
- August 9 : Brett Hull , Canadian-American ice hockey player
- August 9 : Maurizio Vandelli , Italian cyclist
- August 11th : Uwe Ampler , German cyclist
- August 12 : Birgit Malsack-Winkemann , German lawyer and politician
- August 13 : Ian Haugland , Swedish drummer
- August 15 : André Golke , German soccer player
- August 15 : Sam Schmidt , American racing car driver, racing team owner and businessman
- August 16 : Jimmy Arias , American tennis player
- August 16 : Kimmo Pohjonen , Finnish musician
- August 17th : Felix Falkner , Swiss composer
- August 17th : Christian Immler , German non-fiction author
- August 17th : Jorginho , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- August 17 : Maria McKee , American singer and songwriter
- August 18th : Richard Hay , British racing car driver
- August 18th : Shawn Hendricks , American racing car driver
- August 19 : Axel Roos , German soccer player
- August 20 : Detlef Müller , German politician
- August 20 : Giuseppe Giannini , Italian football player and coach
- August 22nd : Mats Wilander , Swedish tennis player
- August 23 : Johan Bruyneel , Belgian cyclist and sports director
- August 23 : Bruno Gerber , Swiss bobsleigh driver
- August 24th : Éric Bernard , French racing driver
- August 24 : Carlos Hermosillo , Mexican soccer player
- August 25 : Joseph Arshad , Bishop of Faisalabad
- August 27 : Jelena Alexejewna Batalowa , Russian freestyle skier
- August 28 : Annette Focks , German musician and composer
- August 28 : Antje Tillmann , German politician
- August 29 : Doris Ahnen , German politician
- August 29th : Jordi Arrese , Spanish tennis player
- August 29 : Vladislav Broda , German table tennis player
- August 29th : Délia Fischer , Brazilian musician, singer, composer and arranger
- August 30 : Alexander Radwan , German MEP
- August 30 : Kai Ebel , German editor and reporter
September
- September 2nd : Anja Schuete , German actress
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- September 3 : Adam Curry , American-Dutch radio host
- September 4th : Hubertus Becker , German soccer player
- September 4th : Nadja Engel , German actress
- September 4th : René Pape , German opera singer, bass
- September 4th : Robson da Silva , Brazilian sprinter and Olympic third
- September 4th : María Cecilia Villanueva , Argentine composer and pianist
- September 5th : Frank Farina , Italian-Australian soccer coach and soccer player
- September 5 : Kevin Saunderson , American techno musician and DJ
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- September 5th : Amanda Ooms , Swedish film actress
- September 5 : Josef Penninger , Scientific Director at IMBA
- September 6 : Michael Schneider , Swiss composer and musicologist
- September 7 : Eazy-E , American musician († 1995 )
- September 7th : Andy Hug , Swiss martial artist († 2000 )
- September 9 : Lance Acord , American cameraman
- September 9 : Mike Ashley , UK manager
- September 9 : Cæcilie Norby , Danish singer
- September 11th : Mimi Kodheli , Albanian politician
- September 11 : Victor Wooten , American bassist
- September 12th : Dieter Hecking , German soccer player, soccer coach
- September 13 : Rafał Ziemkiewicz , Polish writer
- September 14th : Paoletta Magoni , Italian ski racer
- September 14 : Stephan Mösch , German music and theater scholar
- September 15 : Paul Doyle Caiafa , American rock musician
- September 15 : Robert Fico , Slovak politician
- September 16 : Britta Altenkamp , German politician
- September 17th : Ursula Karven , German actress
- September 17th : Franck Piccard , French ski racer and motor sportsman
- September 18 : Franziska Augstein , German journalist
- September 18 : Tadeusz Bafia , Polish Nordic combined skier
- September 19 : Enrico Bertaggia , Italian racing driver
- September 19 : Simon Singh , British science journalist and author
- September 20 : Maggie Cheung , Chinese film actress
- September 20 : Mats Ericson , Swedish ski racer
- September 21 : Carlos Alberto Aguilera Nova , Uruguayan football player
- September 22nd : Wolfgang Aichholzer , Austrian cameraman
- September 22nd : Paul Bonhomme , British aerobatic pilot
- September 22nd : Ken Vandermark , American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
- September 23 : Regine Hentschel , German actress
- September 24th : Ralf Husmann , German screenwriter, producer and author
- September 24th : Jeff Krosnoff , American racing driver († 1996 )
- September 25 : Michael von Au , German actor
- September 25 : Barbara Dennerlein , German jazz musician
- September 25 : Rebecca Gablé , German writer
- September 25 : Ida Jessen , Danish writer
- September 25 : Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Spanish writer († 2020 )
- September 28th : Gregor Fisken , British entrepreneur and racing car driver
- September 29 : Enrique Aguerre , Uruguayan video director and artist
- September 29th : Petros Tabouris , Greek composer, musician and musicologist
- September 29 : Vladimir Chipashvili , Georgian Minister of Health
- September 30th : Trey Anastasio , American guitarist
- September 30th : Michael Beleites , co-founder of the environmental movement in the GDR
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- September 30th : Damian Davey , English singer and actor († 2017 )
- September 30th : Jürgen Querengässer , German handball player
- September 30th : Susana Zabaleta , Mexican singer and actress
October
- October 1st : Jérôme Policand , French racing driver
- October 2nd : Maharbeg Kadarzew , Russian wrestler
- October 3 : Thomas Lawinky , German actor
- October 3rd : Clive Owen , British actor
- October 3 : Carin C. Tietze , German actress
- October 3 : Ute Vogt , German politician
- October 5 : Damian Conway , Australian computer science professor
- October 5th : Annette Paulmann , German actress
- October 6th : Thorsten Storm , German handball manager and player
- October 6th : Alexander Wussow , Austrian television actor
- October 7th : Thomas Pradel , German book designer
- October 8 : Jakob Arjouni , German writer († 2013 )
- October 8 : Ian Hart , British actor
- October 8 : CeCe Winans , American gospel singer
- October 9th : Martín Jaite , Argentine tennis player
- October 9 : Guillermo del Toro , American director
- October 10 : Matthias Arter , Swiss oboist, composer and lecturer
- October 10 : Suat Atalık , Turkish chess master
- October 10 : Maxi Gnauck , German gymnast
- October 10 : Michael Hirte , German harmonica player
- October 12 : Martin Balluch , Austrian animal ethicist and animal rights activist
- October 12 : Urs Remond , Swiss actor and director
- October 13 : Anthony Ademu Adaji , Nigerian Bishop
- October 13 : Franz-Josef Deiters , German-Australian literary scholar
- October 13 : Attila Egerházi , Hungarian ballet dancer and choreographer
- October 13th : Nie Haisheng , Chinese Taikonaut
- October 13 : Christopher Judge , American actor
- October 15 : Roberto Vittori , Italian astronaut
- October 15 : Olaf Rieck , German mountaineer
- October 18 : Charles Stross , British science fiction writer
- October 19 : Henrymárcio Bittencourt , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- October 19 : Agnès Jaoui , French actress, writer and director
- October 20 : Kamala Harris , American lawyer and politician
- October 20 : Wolfgang Wiehle , German politician
- October 21 : Levent Yüksel , artist of Turkish pop music
- October 21 : Klaus Holetschek , German politician
- October 22 : Lionel Abelanski , French actor
- October 22nd : Burkhard Beins , German percussionist
- October 22nd : Craig Levein , Scottish football player and coach
- October 22 : Zurab Nogaideli , Georgian politician, Prime Minister
- October 22nd : Dražen Petrović , Croatian basketball player († 1993 )
- October 23 : Robert Trujillo , American musician
- October 23 : Franziska Matthus , German actress
- October 23 : Victor Sifton , Canadian racing car driver
- October 24th : Frode Grodås , Norwegian football coach
- October 24th : Frank Mentrup , German politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Karlsruhe
- October 25th : Nicole Seibert , German pop singer, winner of the ESC 1982
- October 26 : Sven Väth , DJ, label owner and musician
- October 26 : Irving São Paulo , Brazilian actor († 2006 )
- October 27 : Andreas Gielchen , German soccer player
- October 28 : Scott Russell , American motorcycle racer
- October 29th : Germar Rudolf , German convicted Holocaust denier
- October 30th : Steven Andskär , Swedish racing car driver
- October 30th : Jean-Marc Bosman , Belgian professional football player
- October 30th : Ma Xiangjun , Chinese archer
- October 30th : Abdel latif Moubarak , Egyptian poet
- October 31 : Claudia Androsch , Austrian actress
- October 31 : Marco van Basten , Dutch football player
- October 31 : Eduard Djabeevich Kokoity , President of South Ossetia
November
- November 1 : Timothy J. Jansen , American composer, organist, pianist and music teacher
- November 1 : Sophie B. Hawkins , American singer
- November 2 : Desmond Armstrong , American soccer player
- November 2 : Lauren Vélez , American actress
- November 3rd : Werner Aisslinger , German designer
- November 3rd : Timo Ben Schöfer , German actor
- November 5 : Hamad Amar , Israeli politician
- November 5th : Stefan Richard Angehrn , Swiss boxer
- November 5th : Sabine Bobert , German Protestant theologian, university professor and author
- November 5th : Eeva Fleig , Swiss camerawoman
- November 5th : Famke Janssen , Dutch actress and model
- November 5th : Michael White , Jamaican bobsledder
- November 6 : Arne Duncan , US politician and secretary of education
- November 6 : Greg Graffin , American singer and songwriter
- November 7th : Peter Flinth , Danish director
- November 8th : Simone Borowiak , German writer
- November 8th : Lars Harms , German politician
- November 8th : Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen , Norwegian cross-country skier
- November 9th : Sonja Kirchberger , Austrian actress
- November 9 : Robert Duncan McNeill , American actor
- November 10 : Ralph Kunz , Swiss Protestant Reformed pastor and professor of practical theology
- November 10 : Valery Babanov , Russian climber
- November 12th : Thomas Berthold , German soccer player
- November 12th : Jakob Hlasek , Swiss tennis player
- November 12 : David Ellefson , American musician
- November 12th : Barbara Stühlmeyer , German author and scientist
- November 13 : Ronald Jean-Martin Agénor , Haitian-American tennis player
- November 15 : Johannes Wohlwend , Liechtenstein judoka
- November 16 : Paul Christensen , Danish singer and guitarist
- November 16 : Dwight Gooden , American baseball player
- November 16 : Diana Krall , Canadian jazz pianist and singer
- November 16 : Renato Tosio , Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper
- November 17 : Susan E. Rice , American politician
- November 17 : Ralph Garman , American actor
- November 18 : Daniel Aceves Villagran , Mexican wrestler
- November 18 : Jan-Friedrich Conrad , German composer, publicist and alternative practitioner for psychotherapy
- November 18 : Peter Segler , German writer, editor and publisher
- November 19 : Beatrice Gafner , Swiss ski racer
- November 20 : Linda William ' , French pop singer († 2010 )
- November 21 : Yvette Clarke , US politician
- November 21 : Andreas P. Pittler , Austrian writer
- November 22nd : Henning Ahrens , German writer
- November 22nd : Robert "Robbie" Slater , Australian soccer player
- November 24th : Ulrike Auga , German religious philosopher, gender expert and Protestant theologian
- November 24th : Heiko Triebener , German tuba player
- November 25 : Mark Davis , American baseball player
- November 25 : Mark Lanegan , American singer and songwriter
- November 25 : Robert Kurtzman , American special effects artist
- November 26th : Vreni Schneider , Swiss ski racer
- November 27 : Wessell Anderson , American jazz musician
- November 27th : Jörg Blauert , German chess player
- November 27 : Roberto Mancini , Italian football player and coach
- November 28 : Sherko Fatah , German writer
- November 28th : Armin Bittner , German ski racer
- November 29 : Don Cheadle , American actor
- November 30th : Carlo Gerosa , Italian ski racer
- November 30th : Thomas Hettche , German writer
- Susa Bobke , German motor vehicle mechanic, breakdown assistant and non-fiction author November:
December

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- December 1st : Tim Renner , German music producer, journalist and author
- December 1st : Salvatore Schillaci , Italian football player
- December 2nd : Vanessa O'Brien , British-American climber
- December 3 : Gisela Piltz , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- December 4th : Thomas Danielsson , Swedish racing car driver
- December 4th : Sertab Erener , Turkish singer, winner of the ESC 2003
- December 4th : Uwe Kröger , German musical performer
- December 4th : Marisa Tomei , American actress
- December 4th : Feridun Zaimoglu , German writer and visual artist
- December 5th : Arve Furset , Norwegian jazz pianist and keyboarder, composer and music producer
- December 5th : Aiman Nur , Egyptian politician
- December 5 : Marcin Pałys , Polish chemist
- December 6th : Martin Bell , British ski racer
- December 6th : Meli'sa Morgan , American singer
- December 7th : Ilse Aigner , German politician
- December 7th : Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Artjomow , Russian gymnast
- December 8th : Armin Eck , German soccer player
- December 8 : Teri Hatcher , American actress
- December 8th : Richard David Precht , German philosopher
- December 9th : Damase Zinga Atangana , Cameroonian bishop
- December 9th : Hape Kerkeling , German actor and cabaret artist
- December 9 : Johannes B. Kerner , German television presenter
- December 9th : Jörg Kretzschmar , German soccer player
- December 9 : Paul Landers , German musician; Guitarist of the band Rammstein
- December 9 : Michael Müller , German politician
- December 10th : Thomas Stühlmeyer , German pastoral theologian
- December 11th : Olivia Augustinski , German actress
- December 11th : Franco Ballerini , Italian cyclist († 2010 )
- December 12 : Karsten Hilse , German politician
- December 12th : Wolfram Spyra , German sound artist and musician
- December 13 : Dieter Eilts , German football player and coach
- December 13 : Hideto Matsumoto , Japanese musician († 1998 )
- December 14 : Yuriy Lutsenko , Ukrainian politician, Minister of the Interior
- December 14 : Rebecca Gibney , New Zealand actress
- December 15 : Denis Scheck , German literary critic and journalist
- December 16 : Sabine Akkermann , German politician
- December 16 : Roberto Conti , Italian cyclist
- December 16 : Heike Drechsler , German athlete
- December 16 : Thorsten Nindel , German actor
- December 17th : Ivan Korade , Croatian general († 2008 )
- December 17th : Peter Trawny , German philosopher
- December 18 : Steve Austin , American wrestler
- December 18 : Pierre Nkurunziza , Burundian politician († 2020 )
- December 18 : Frank Rennicke , German songwriter
- December 19 : Dietmar Arnold , German author
- December 19 : Ben Becker , German actor
- December 19 : Thomas Brussig , German writer and screenwriter
- December 19 : Béatrice Dalle , French actress
- December 19 : Randall McDaniel , former American football player
- December 19 : Arvydas Sabonis , Lithuanian basketball player
- December 20th : Gabriela Ortiz , Mexican composer
- December 21 : Fabiana Udenio , Argentine actress
- December 23 : Amy Dunker , American composer, music teacher and trumpeter
- December 23 : Jens Heppner , German cyclist
- December 23 : Eddie Vedder , American rock musician
- December 24th : Jean-Paul Civeyrac , French film director
- December 24th : Bernd Michael Lade , German television and film actor, director
- December 25th : Devon Harris , Jamaican bobsledder
- December 26 : Absalon , Israeli installation artist, video artist and sculptor († 1993 )
- December 26 : Ulf S. Graupner , German comic artist
- December 26 : Anthony Peaks , American hip-hop musician († 2010 )
- December 26th : Giuseppe Puliè , Italian cross-country skier
- December 28 : Werner Benecke , German historian
- December 28th : Martin Fiala , Austrian composer
- December 30th : Hans-Georg Dreßen , German soccer player
- December 30th : Hans Kitzbichler , German actor
- December 31st : Fljura Khasanova , Kazakh chess player
Day unknown
- Ben Aaronovitch , British novelist and screenwriter
- Dekha Ibrahim Abdi , Kenyan peace activist († 2011 )
- Leila Aboulela , Sudanese author
- Andrew Abraham , British soul singer
- Rotimi Adebari , Irish-Nigerian politician
- Hartmut Aden , German legal and political scientist
- Afeosemime Unuose Adogame , Nigerian religious scholar
- Sophie Agnel , French pianist
- Nader Ahriman , Iranian painter
- Monica Akihary , Dutch singer
- Marco Ambrosini , Italian musician, composer and arranger
- Rafael Schlaterowitsch Ampar , Abkhazian politician
- Brad Anderson , American film director and screenwriter
- Susanne Andreae , German doctor and specialist book author
- Michael Angele , German-Swiss journalist and literary scholar
- Bernd Angerhöfer , German musician
- Louis Anschel , German author
- Matthias Arfmann , German musician and music producer
- Meaza Ashenafi , Ethiopian women's rights activist
- Vüqar Aslanov , Azerbaijani writer and journalist
- Shaker Assem , Egyptian-Austrian mechanical engineer
- Sefi Atta , Nigerian writer
- Stéphane Audeguy , French writer, literary scholar and teacher
- Christian Aumer , German actor
- Brigitte Baetz , German journalist and presenter
- Rainer Bartesch , German horn player, alphorn player and composer
- Marco Bertolaso , senior news editor and journalist
- Rainer Bielfeldt , German singer and composer
- Jörg-Andreas Bötticher , Swiss harpsichordist and organist
- Natascha Borowsky , German photographer
- Manon Briand , Canadian director and screenwriter
- Carlos Buschini , Argentine jazz and tango musician
- Romy Camerun , German jazz singer and pianist
- Eric Canuel , Canadian director
- Jeff Danna , Canadian composer
- Gisela Eichardt , German sculptor
- Volker Ellenberger , German church musician and organist
- Julián Espina , Argentine Christian fundamentalist and priest
- Heike B. Görtemaker , German historian
- Heike Götz , German TV presenter and journalist
- Bernhard Haas , German organist and music theorist
- Uwe Heimowski , German theologian and author
- Johannes Hitzblech , German actor and director
- Marcus Jeroch , German cabaret artist, clown and juggler
- Ursula Keller , German author and translator
- Otto Maria Krämer , German church musician
- Peter Kuhn , German conductor
- Jens Kuphal , German music producer, musician, composer and actor
- Jim Lambie , Scottish artist, DJ and musician
- Guillermo Lema , Argentine writer
- Alexander Lutz , Austrian actor
- Kristian Nyquist , American harpsichordist and pianist
- Rahraw Omarzad , Afghan writer, artist, lecturer and expert on modern Persian art
- Javier del Pino , Spanish journalist
- Muntasir al-Qaffasch , Egyptian writer and novelist
- Franz Raml , German organist, harpsichordist, lecturer in early music and historical performance practice and conductor
- Ulf Röller , German television journalist
- Alihan Samedov , Azerbaijani musician
- Gregor Schnitzler , German director
- Astrid Schween , American cellist and music teacher
- Marcus Signer , Swiss actor
- Albert Villaró , Andorran writer
- Jan Vogler , German cellist
- Gerhard Wittmann , German actor
- David Wolfson , American composer
- Paul van Zelm , Dutch horn player and professor
Died
January
- January 1 : Ernst Zündorf , German motorcycle racer (* 1897 )
- January 3 : Rowland Pack , Canadian cellist, organist and choirmaster (* 1927 )
- January 4th : Siegfried Thomas Bok , Dutch neurologist (* 1892 )
- January 6 : Edgar WA Maass , German chemist and writer (* 1896 )
- January 7th : Cyril Davies , British musician (* 1932 )
- January 7th : Colin McPhee , Canadian composer (* 1900 )
- January 7th : Reg Parnell , English Formula 1 racing driver (* 1911 )
- January 7th : Ingeborg Steffensen , Danish opera singer (mezzo-soprano) (* 1888 )
- January 8 : Karekin Deveciyan , Turkish functionary (* 1867 or 1868 )

Julius Raab , 1961
- January 8 : Julius Raab , Austrian politician (* 1891 )
- January 8 : Paul Sixt , German Kapellmeister (* 1908 )
- January 9 : Halide Edip Adivar , Turkish writer and feminist (* 1884 )
- January 10 : Johannes Hagge , German politician (* 1893 )
- January 11 : John Arnold , American cameraman (* 1889 )
- January 11 : André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1882 )
- January 11th : Heinz Renner , German politician (* 1892 )
- January 12 : Michael Amlacher , Austrian politician (* 1882 )
- January 12th : Stewart Hoffman Appleby , American politician (* 1890 )
- January 12 : Byron Ingemar Johnson , Canadian politician (* 1890 )
- January 14 : Hans Reingruber , Minister for Transport of the GDR (* 1888 )
- January 15 : Jack Teagarden , early jazz trombonist (* 1905 )
- January 16 : Slavko Čuković , Yugoslav economist (* unknown)
- January 16 : Noro Morales , Puerto Rican mambo and rumba musician (* 1911 )
- January 17th : TH White , British writer (born 1906 )
- January 18 : Thomas Wimmer , German politician (* 1887 )
- January 19 : Firmin Lambot , Belgian cyclist (* 1886 )
- January 19 : Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann , German astronomer (* 1870 )
- January 20 : George Docking , American politician (* 1904 )
- January 20 : Jan Rychlík , Czech composer (* 1916 )
- January 21 : Joseph Baumgartner , German economist and politician (* 1904 )
- January 21 : Carlo Chiarlo , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1881 )
- January 22nd : Marc Blitzstein , American composer (* 1905 )
- January 22nd : Erna Gersinski , German resistance fighter against National Socialism (* 1896 )
- January 23 : Lissy Arna , German actress (* 1904 )
- January 24th : Bertha Dörflein-Kahlke , German painter (* 1875 )
- January 26 : Bastiampillai Anthonipillai , Sri Lankan religious (* 1886 )
- January 27 : Alexander Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg , German historian (* 1905 )
- January 28 : Karl Abetz , German forest scientist and university lecturer (* 1896 )
- January 29 : Alan Ladd , American film actor (* 1913 )
- January 31 : Walther Adam , German industrialist and art collector (* 1881 )
February
- February 2 : Carl Buchheister , German painter (* 1890 )
- February 3 : Giuseppe Amato , Italian film producer and director (* 1899 )
- February 3 : Frank R. Strayer American film director and producer (* 1891 )
- February 5 : Max Sailer , German racing car driver and engineer (* 1882 )
- February 6 : Emilio Aguinaldo , Philippine general, politician and President (* 1869 )
- February 7th : Flaminio Bertoni , Italian designer, sculptor and architect (* 1903 )
- February 7th : Hermann Kees , German Egyptologist (* 1886 )
- February 8 : Ernst Kretschmer , German psychiatrist (* 1888 )
- February 9 : Ary Barroso , Brazilian composer and singer (* 1903 )
- February 9 : Marek Weber , German violinist and orchestra leader (* 1888 )
- February 10 : Franz Honner , Austrian politician (* 1893 )
- February 10 : Eugen Sänger , Austrian engineer (* 1905 )
- February 10 : John Vivian , American politician (* 1887 )
- February 12 : Willy Schmidt-Gentner , German film composer (* 1894 )
- February 13 : Hans Zöberlein , German National Socialist writer (* 1895 )
- February 13 : Werner Heyde , Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology (* 1902 )
- February 14 : Conrad Gauthier , Canadian singer and actor (* 1885 )
- February 18 : Joseph-Armand Bombardier , Canadian entrepreneur and inventor (* 1907 )
- February 19 : Wilhelm Fraenger , German art historian (* 1890 )
- February 19 : Ozaki Shirō , Japanese writer (* 1898 )
- February 24 : William Garbutt , English football player and coach (* 1883 )
- February 25 : Alexander Archipenko , American sculptor (* 1887 )
- February 25 : Maurice Farman , French track cyclist, automobile racing driver, aviation pioneer and entrepreneur (* 1877 )
- February 25 : Kenneth Lee Spencer , American-German opera singer (bass) and actor (* 1911 )
- February 26 : Homer Martin Adkins , American politician (* 1890 )
- February 27 : Carlos Brandt , Venezuelan writer, philosopher and historian (* 1875 )
March
- March 4 : John Adaskin , Canadian cellist, conductor and radio producer (* 1908 )
- March 5 : Milton Manaki , Ottoman film pioneer (* 1882 )
- March 5 : Carl Maria Splett , Bishop of Danzig, administrator of the Polish diocese of Kulm (* 1898 )
- March 6 : Paul , King of Greece (from 1947 to 1964) (* 1901 )
- March 7th : Heinrich Deist , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1902 )
- March 8 : Ludwig Finckh , German writer (* 1876 )
- March 9 : Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck , Prussian major general and writer (* 1870 )
- March 10 : Hermann Troppenz , German politician (* 1889 )
- March 12 : Abbas Mahmud el-Akkad , Egyptian writer, historian, poet, philosopher and journalist (* 1889 )
- March 13 : Rudolf Stemberger , Professor of Business Administration (* 1901?)
- March 18 : Sigfrid Edström , Swedish entrepreneur and sports official (* 1870 )
- March 18 : Norbert Wiener , American mathematician (* 1894 )
- March 20 : Brendan Behan , Irish writer, journalist and IRA activist (* 1923 )
- March 23 : Claire Anderson , American actor (born 1891 )
- March 23 : Martin Werner , Reformed theologian (* 1887 )
- March 24 : Josef Miller (politician, 1883) , German politician (* 1883 )
- March 25 : Willy Arend , German racing cyclist (* 1876 )
- March 25 : Eduard Hermann , German actor and radio play director (* 1903 )
- March 27 : Wilhelm Arnoul , German politician (* 1893 )
- March 29 : Willem Andriessen , Dutch composer and professor (* 1887 )
- March 30 : Nella Larsen , Afro-American writer (* 1891 )
- March 31 : Andor Arató , Romanian-German church musician and composer (* 1887 )
April

Gerhard Domagk , 1939
- April 1 : Salvatore Aurigemma , Italian archaeologist (* 1885 )
- April 1 : Božidar Kunc , Croatian composer (* 1903 )
- April 2 : Franz Auweck , German politician (* 1884 )
- April 3 : Eduard von der Heydt , banker, art collector and patron (* 1882 )
- April 3 : Aniela Szlemińska , Polish singer and vocal teacher (* 1892 )
- April 4 : Georg Ackermann , German politician (* 1897 )
- April 5 : Douglas MacArthur , American general (* 1880 )
- April 5 : Aloïse Corbaz , Swiss artist (* 1886 )
- April 5 : Isaac Mamott , Canadian cellist and music teacher (* 1907 )
- April 5 : Miyoshi Tatsuji , Japanese poet, translator and essayist (* 1900 )
- April 10 : Peter van Aubel , German economist and association official (* 1894 )
- April 10 : John G. Townsend , American politician (* 1871 )
- April 11 : Hans Franck , German writer and dramaturge (* 1879 )
- April 12 : Barbara Henneberger , German ski racer (* 1940 )
- April 12 : Evert Willem Beth , Dutch logician (* 1908 )
- April 13 : Veit Harlan , actor and director (* 1899 )
- April 14 : Helge Arthur Auleb , German officer (* 1887 )
- April 14th : Hans Kayser , German composer and music theorist (* 1891 )
- April 14 : Rachel Carson , American zoologist and biologist (* 1907 )
- April 18 : Karl Müller , German politician (* 1884 )
- April 23 : Karl Polanyi , Hungarian economist and economic theorist (* 1886 )
- April 23 : Hugo Rosendahl , German politician (* 1884 )
- April 24 : Gerhard Domagk , German pathologist and bacteriologist (* 1895 )
- April 25 : Luigi Pigarelli , Italian lawyer and composer (* 1875 )
- April 26 : EJ Pratt , Canadian writer, university professor and critic (* 1882 )
- April 27 : Georg Britting , German writer (* 1891 )
- April 27 : Hermann Römpp , German chemist and specialist author (* 1901 )
May

Jawaharlal Nehru and Gandhi, 1929
- May 1 : Walter Karl Friedrich Assmann , German officer (* 1896 )
- May 2 : Nancy Astor , British politician (* 1879 )
- May 4th : André Lefèbvre , French automobile designer and racing driver (* 1894 )
- May 6 : Heinrich Ehmsen , German painter and graphic artist (* 1886 )
- May 6 : Satō Haruo , Japanese poet, narrator and essayist (* 1892 )
- May 8 : Albert Hochleitner , Austrian politician (* 1893 )
- May 9 : Klaus Kammer , German actor (* 1929 )
- May 10 : Mikhail Fyodorowitsch Larionow , Russian painter (* 1881 )
- May 10 : Elfriede Jaeger , German politician (* 1899 )
- May 14 : Heinz Werner , German psychologist (* 1890 )
- May 15 : Vladko Maček , Croatian politician (* 1879 )
- May 17 : Otto Kuusinen , Finnish and Soviet politician (* 1881 )
- May 17th : John Moore-Brabazon , British aviation pioneer and conservative politician and racing car driver (* 1884 )
- May 17 : Steve Owen , American football player and coach (* 1898 )
- May 21 : James Franck , German-American physicist (* 1882 )
- May 25 : Wassili Andrejewitsch Solotarjow , Russian composer (* 1872 )
- May 25 : Heinz Steguweit , German writer (* 1897 )
- May 27 : Jawaharlal Nehru , first Indian Prime Minister (* 1889 )
- May 28 : Mehboob Khan , Indian film director (* 1906 )
- May 29 : Luise Rehling , German politician (* 1896 )
- May 30th : Leó Szilárd , Hungarian physicist and molecular biologist (* 1898 )
- May 31 : Nikolai Andrejewitsch Orlow , Russian-British pianist and music teacher (* 1892 )
- May 31 : Franz Schauwecker , German writer and publicist (* 1890 )
June
- June 1st : Bronisław Rutkowski , Polish organist, musicologist and music teacher (* 1898 )
- June 3 : Frans Eemil Sillanpää , Finnish writer (* 1888 )
- June 5 : Ernst Waldow , German actor (* 1893 )
- June 7th : William P. Hobby , American politician (* 1878 )
- June 7th : Meade Lux Lewis , American jazz musician (* 1905 )
- June 9 : William Maxwell Aitken , Canadian-British publisher and politician (* 1879 )
- June 11 : Ace Harris , American R&B and jazz musician (* 1910 )
- June 11 : Richard Meister , Austrian classical philologist and educator (* 1881 )
- June 11th : Plaek Phibunsongkhram , Thai Prime Minister and Field Marshal (* 1897 )
- June 16 : 1903 : Günther L. Arko , German cameraman (* 1903 )
- June 18 : Kurt Latte , classical philologist (* 1891 )
- June 18 : Giorgio Morandi , Italian painter and graphic artist (* 1890 )
- June 18 : Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben , German Lieutenant General (* 1894 )

Hans Moser , 1902
- June 19 : Hans Moser , Austrian actor (* 1880 )
- June 19 : Heinrich Quiring , German geologist and paleontologist (* 1885 )
- June 21 : James Earl Chaney , American civil rights activist (born 1943 )
- June 23 : Earle Bradford Mayfield , American politician (* 1881 )
- June 25 : Gerrit Rietveld , Dutch architect (* 1888 )
- June 26 : Toni Sender , German politician (* 1888 )
- June 28 : Norberto Bagnalasta , Italian racing driver (* 1930 )
- June 29 : Eric Dolphy , American jazz musician (* 1928 )
July
- July 1 : Pierre Monteux , French-American conductor (* 1875 )
- July 4th : Samuil Marschak , Russian writer (* 1887 )
- July 7th : Lillian Copeland , American athlete and Olympic champion (* 1904 )
- July 11 : Maurice Thorez , French politician (* 1900 )
- July 13 : Pablo Burchard Eggeling , Chilean painter (* 1875 )
- July 13 : Kurt Diebner , German nuclear physicist (* 1905 )
- July 13 : Hermann von Beckerath , German cellist (* 1909 )
- July 15 : Rudolf Amon , Austrian zoologist and hunting scientist (* 1891 )
- July 15 : Josef Lermer , German politician (* 1894 )
- July 15 : Paul Maas , German-Jewish classical philologist (* 1880 )
- July 18 : Anne Dittmer , German painter and book illustrator (* 1906 )
- July 19 : Karl Recktenwald , German motorcycle racer (* 1931 )
- July 19 : Friedrich Sieburg , German literary critic, journalist and writer (* 1893 )
- July 21 : Ludwig Gruber , Austrian composer, singer, writer and conductor (* 1874 )
- July 22nd : Paul Eipper , German writer (* 1891 )
- July 23 : Jan de Vries , Dutch Germanist and religious scholar (* 1890 )
- July 24th : Erwin Freundlich , astrophysicist (* 1885 )
- July 25th : Piero Frescobaldi , Italian racing car driver (* 1935 )
- July 25 : Hans Felix Husadel , German composer and professor (* 1897 )
- July 26th : Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe , British officer, politician and racing car driver (* 1884 )
- July 27 : Łucjan Kamieński , Polish composer and musicologist (* 1885 )
- July 29 : Wanda Wasilewska , Polish and Soviet politician (* 1905 )
- July 31 : Dorothy Mabel Reed Mendenhall , American doctor (* 1874 )
- July 31 : Jim Reeves , country singer (born 1923 )
August
- August 1 : Clarence John Abel , American ice hockey player (* 1900 )
- August 2 : Paul Burkhard , Swiss sculptor and draftsman (* 1888 )
- August 2nd : José María Castro , Argentine composer (* 1892 )
- August 2 : Olga Desmond , dancer and actress (* 1890 )
- August 3 : Mary Flannery O'Connor , American writer (* 1925 )
- August 6 : Cedric Hardwicke , British actor, film director and film producer (* 1893 )
- August 6 : Bernhard Winter , German painter (* 1871 )
- August 8 : Rudolf Kohl , German politician (* 1895 )
- August 8 : Marie Baum , social politician of the Weimar Republic (* 1874 )
- August 12 : Dmitri Maksutow , Russian optician and the inventor of the Maksutov telescope (* 1896 )
- August 12 : Ian Fleming , British writer (* 1908 )
- August 12 : Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen , Danish engineer and industrialist (* 1878 )
- August 14 : Johnny Burnette , American rockabilly musician (* 1934 )
- August 15 : Samuel William Becker , American dermatologist (* 1894 )
- August 17 : Fred Barry , Canadian actor and singer (* 1887 )
- August 19 : Ewald Kluge , German motorcycle racer (* 1909 )
- August 21 : Edwin Grienauer , Austrian sculptor (* 1893 )
- August 24th : Hermann von Wenckstern , German forestry and economist (* 1882 )
- August 25 : Beppo Afritsch , Austrian garden technician and politician (* 1901 )
- August 28 : Ricardo Gilbert , Chilean painter (* 1891 )
September

Otto Grotewohl († September 21)
- September 2 : Herbert Küchler , German chess problem composer (* 1908 )
- September 2 : Alvin C. York , American soldier (* 1887 )
- September 3 : Christian Kuhlemann , German politician (* 1891 )
- September 3 : Joseph Marx , Austrian composer (* 1882 )
- September 3 : Hans Wellhausen , German politician (* 1894 )
- September 4 : Werner Bergengruen , German writer (* 1892 )
- September 4 : Clément-Émile Roques , Archbishop of Rennes and Cardinal (* 1880 )
- September 7 : Luis Amplatz , Italian separatist (* 1926 )
- September 7th : Herman Jurgens , Dutch football player (* 1884 )
- September 9 : Maurice Le Boucher , French composer, organist and music teacher (* 1882 )
- September 10 : Ferdinand Andergassen , Austrian composer and church musician (* 1892 )
- September 13 : Charles E. Daniel , American politician (* 1895 )
- September 16 : Leo Weismantel , German writer (* 1888 )
- September 17th : Nicolás Casimiro , Dominican singer (* 1911 )
- September 18 : Sean O'Casey , Irish writer and playwright (* 1880 )
- September 19 : Levon Madoyan , Armenian duduk player (* 1909 )
- September 20 : Lazare Lévy , French pianist, music teacher and composer (* 1882 )
- September 21 : Bo Carter , American blues guitarist (* 1893 )
- September 21 : Otto Grotewohl , German politician (* 1894 )
- September 21 : Julius von Jan Pastor in Oberlenningen, resistance fighter during the Nazi era (* 1897 )
- September 24th : Gerhard Ernst Erich Ahnfeldt , German draftsman and painter (* 1916 )
- September 23 : Fred M. Wilcox , American film director (* 1907 )
- September 28 : George Dyson , English composer (* 1883 )
- September 28 : Harpo Marx , American comedian (Marx-Brothers) (* 1888 )
- September 28 : Franz Ruland , Saarland politician (* 1901 )
- September 30th : Cyril de Vère , French racing car driver (* 1881 )
- September 30 : Víctor Saume , Venezuelan radio and television presenter (* 1907 )
October

Cole Porter († October 15)
- October 1 : Stephan Angeloff , Bulgarian scientist (* 1878 )
- October 1 : Léon Saint-Réquier , French composer, organist and music teacher (* 1872 )
- October 1 : Ernst Toch , German-Austrian composer (* 1887 )
- October 3 : Erich Friedrich Schmidt , American archaeologist of German descent (* 1897 )
- October 4 : Claus Bergen , German marine painter (* 1885 )
- October 5 : Katharina Heise , German painter and sculptor (* 1891 )
- October 5 : Egon Schultz , NCO of the border troops of the GDR (* 1943 )
- October 6 : Richard Scheibe , German sculptor (* 1879 )
- October 6 : Pietro Serantoni , Italian football player and coach (* 1906 )
- October 7 : Bernhard Goetzke , German actor (* 1884 )
- October 10 : Heinrich Neuhaus , Ukrainian pianist (* 1888 )
- October 10 : Konrad Bayer , Austrian writer (* 1932 )
- October 10 : Guru Dutt , Indian film director, actor and producer (* 1925 )
- October 11 : Peter Lindner , German automobile racing driver (* 1930 )
- October 11 : Franco Patria , Italian racing car driver (* 1943 )
- October 11th : Jean Pairard , French racing driver and entrepreneur
- October 13 : Madeleine Delbrêl , French writer (* 1904 )
- October 14 : Horst Platen , German composer, conductor and theater manager, as well as broadcasting director of NORAG's subsidiary station Hanover (* 1884 )
- October 15 : Cole Porter , American composer and songwriter (* 1891 )
- October 17 : Marius Hiller , German-Argentinian soccer player (* 1892 )
- October 19 : Edmund Geilenberg , representative of the German armaments industry in the Third Reich (* 1902 )

Herbert Hoover , 1928
- October 20 : Herbert Hoover , American politician, 31st President of the USA (* 1874 )
- October 21 : Andrej Afanassowitsch Babajew , Azerbaijani composer (* 1923 )
- October 23 : Axel Ivers , German actor, theater director, radio play speaker, playwright and translator (* 1902 )
- October 26 : Edmund Löns , German forester and cynologist (* 1880 )
- October 26 : Agnes Miegel , German writer, journalist and ballad poet (* 1879 )
- October 27 : Willi Bredel , German writer, President of the German Academy of Arts (* 1901 )
- October 27 : Vicente T. Mendoza , Mexican musicologist and folklore researcher (* 1894 )
- October 28 : Harold Hitz Burton , American judge and politician (* 1888 )
November

Heinrich von Brentano († November 14)
- November 1 : Johann Astl , Austrian politician (* 1891 )
- November 1st : Pierre Meyer , French forester (* 1900 )
- November 2 : Ladislaus Winterstein , German politician (* 1905 )
- November 5 : Alexander Uriah Boskovitch , Israeli music teacher and composer (* 1907 )
- November 6th : Hugo Koblet , Swiss cyclist (* 1925 )
- November 8 : Kurt Hirschfeld , German dramaturge and director (* 1902 )
- November 8 : Viljo Revell , Finnish architect (* 1910 )
- November 9 : Cecília Meireles , Brazilian poet and journalist (* 1901 )
- November 11th : Eduard Steuermann , Austrian-American composer and pianist (* 1892 )
- November 13 : Oskar Becker , German philosopher, logician and mathematician (* 1889 )
- November 14 : Heinrich von Brentano , German politician (* 1904 )
- November 15 : Samuel Isenegger , Swiss chess problem composer (* 1899 )
- November 15 : Luis Emilio Mena , Dominican composer and musician (* 1895 )
- November 16 : Albert Hay Malotte , American musician, composer (* 1895 )
- November 17 : Karl Arning , German officer (* 1892 )
- November 18 : Henri Théodore Pigozzi , Franco-Italian merchant and industrialist (* 1898 )
- November 19 : Leonhard Bauer , pioneer of Arabic dialectology (* 1865 )
- November 23 : Erwin von Beckerath , German economist and resistance fighter (* 1889 )
- November 23 : Jan Fabricius , Dutch playwright and journalist (* 1871 )
- November 24th : Johannes Even , German politician (* 1903 )
- November 24th : Georges-Émile Tanguay , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher (* 1893 )
- November 26th : Bodil Ipsen , Danish actress and director (* 1889 )
- November 30th : Hermann Ehren , German politician (* 1894 )
December
- December 1 : JBS Haldane , British-Indian geneticist (* 1892 )
- December 2 : Roger Bissière , French painter (* 1886 )
- December 3 : Ernst Ginsberg , German actor, director and theater director (* 1904 )
- December 7th : Nikolai Anitschkow , Russian pathologist (* 1885 )
- December 7th : Sepp Kerschbaumer , head of the Liberation Committee South Tyrol (* 1913 )
- December 8 : Gladys Willan , Canadian music teacher and pianist (* 1883 )
- December 8 : Gustav Wyneken , German reform pedagogue (* 1875 )
- December 9 : Viktor Agartz , German economist (* 1897 )
- December 9 : Edith Sitwell , British poet and writer (* 1887 )
- December 11th : Sam Cooke , American singer (* 1931 )
- December 11th : Alma Mahler-Werfel , Austrian personality in the art, music and literary scene (* 1879 )
- December 12th : Silviu Dimitrovici , Romanian graduate engineer in civil engineering (* 1925 )
- December 14 : William Bendix , American actor (born 1906 )
- December 14 : Francisco Canaro , Uruguayan-Argentine musician, arranger, band leader and composer (* 1888 )
- December 14 : Rolland-Georges Gingras , Canadian organist, music critic and composer (* 1899 )
- December 15 : Carl Joachim Hambro , Norwegian conservative politician and journalist (* 1885 )
- December 17th : Victor Franz Hess , Austrian physicist (* 1883 )
- December 21 : Algernon Kingscote , British tennis player (* 1888 )
- December 21 : Carl van Vechten , American photographer and writer (* 1880 )
- December 23 : Nathan Asch , Polish-American writer (* 1902 )
- December 23 : Jean Bourgknecht , Swiss politician (* 1902 )
- December 27 : Pierre-Aurèle Asselin , Canadian singer (* 1881 )
- December 28 : Kees Bekker , Dutch football player (* 1883 )
- December 29 : Vladimir Andreevich Faworski , Russian artist (* 1886 )
- December 29 : Bernard von Brentano , German writer and journalist (* 1901 )
- December 29 : Miki Rofū , Japanese poet, children's book author and essayist (* 1889 )
- December 30th : Hans-Gerhard Creutzfeldt , German neurologist (* 1885 )
Day unknown
- Daniel Anguiano , Spanish politician and trade unionist (* 1882 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Charles H. Townes , Nikolai Gennadijewitsch Bassow and Alexander Michailowitsch Prokhorov
- Chemistry : Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
- Medicine : Konrad Bloch and Feodor Lynen
- Literature : Jean-Paul Sartre (rejected)
- Nobel Peace Prize : Martin Luther King
music
- Gigliola Cinquetti wins the 9th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest for Italy on March 21st in Copenhagen with the song Non ho l'etá
- List of number one hits in Germany (1964)
Web links
Commons : 1964 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files