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1966
Ludwig Erhard (left) resigns as Federal Chancellor. Kurt Georg Kiesinger (right) will succeed him as Federal Chancellor of the grand coalition .	At the football world championship in 1966 England becomes world champion.
The Cultural Revolution begins in the People's Republic of China . In the course of this, numerous architectural and cultural monuments are damaged or destroyed.

1966 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2719
Armenian calendar	1414-1415
Ethiopian calendar	1958-1959
Badi calendar	122-123
Bengali calendar	1372-1373
Berber calendar	2916
Buddhist calendar	2510
Burmese calendar	1328
Byzantine calendar	7474-7475
Chinese calendar
- era	4662-4663 or 4602-4603
- 60 year cycle	Wood Snake (乙巳, 42) - Fire Horse (丙午, 43)
French revolution calendar	CLXXIV - CLXXV 174-175
Hebrew calendar	5726-5727
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2022-2023
- Shaka Samvat	1888-1889
Iranian calendar	1344-1345
Islamic calendar	1385-1386
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 41
- Kōki	2626
Coptic Calendar	1682-1683
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4299
- Juche era	55
Minguo calendar	55
Modern Olympics	XVIII
Seleucid calendar	2277-2278
Thai solar calendar	2509

events

Politics and world events

• Start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
• In the summer: Formation of the Red Guards to lead the fight of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

January

• January 1: Hans Schaffner becomes President of Switzerland .
• January 1st: Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over the government through a military coup in the Central African Republic .
• January 7th: In a statement, the German government supports the entry of the USA into the Vietnam War .
• January 10: Signing of the Tashkent Declaration , with which India ( Lal Bahadur Shastri ) and Pakistan ( Muhammed Ayub Khan ) want to settle their disputes. Shastri dies the next day in Tashkent.
• January 15: A military rebellion breaks out in Nigeria , in the course of which Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa is assassinated. Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi took power, dissolving the parties and repealing the constitution.
• January 18: In India, the Congress party elects Information Minister Indira Gandhi as its parliamentary group leader.
• January 19: In India , Indira Gandhi, nominated by the Congress Party , is elected first female prime minister. She takes over from Lal Bahadur Shastri , who died unexpectedly a few days earlier and in whose cabinet she was Minister of Information. After Sirimavo Bandaranaike , Indira Gandhi is the second head of state in Asia.
• January 20: Sir Robert Menzies resigns as Prime Minister of Australia after 16 years , succeeded by his party friend Harold Holt .
• January 29th: The Luxembourg Compromise ends the empty chair crisis in the EEC .

February

• February 1: A law on full legal equality for women comes into force in France .
• February 8: President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with representatives of South Vietnam in Honolulu and signs a declaration that "Communist aggression should be rejected and the conditions for a better future should be created for the people of South Vietnam".
• February 23: In Syria , members of the left wing of the Ba'ath party take power through a military coup and overthrow Bath founder Salah ad-Din al-Bitar : S. Dschedid (Jedid) becomes head of government, N. el Atassi becomes president.
• February 24: Coup in Ghana : President Kwame Nkrumah is ousted while on a trip abroad.
• In February: Riots in the East Belgian coal mining area due to the threat of coal mines being closed .

March

• March 4th: The musician John Lennon gives an interview to the London Evening Standard in which he claims, among other things, with regard to the Beatles : We're more popular than Jesus now . The statement leads to violent reactions in the USA. Radio stations boycott Beatles songs.
• March 6: In the National Council election in Austria , the ÖVP wins an absolute majority with four additional mandates and forms a sole government for the first time since the war.
• March 10: In Luxembourg , the Chamber of Deputies demands compensation from the Federal Republic of Germany for Luxembourgers forcibly recruited during the Second World War (see March 23).
• March 10, Amsterdam: Wedding ceremony of Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands with Claus von Amsberg
• March 11: General Hadji Mohamed Suharto takes power in Indonesia with a coup against President Sukarno .
• March 23: The federal party congress of the CDU elects Ludwig Erhard as the new party chairman.
• March 23rd: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bonn replied negatively to a resolution of the parliament in Luxembourg on renewed compensation , since Luxembourg's claims were already covered by the treaty of July 11, 1959.
• March 24th: Debate in the German Bundestag about the use of the Starfighter fighter aircraft , which up until then had cost the lives of 27 pilots (with 51 total losses).
• March 31: The general election in Great Britain ends with a clear victory for the Labor Party .

April

• April 8: Leonid Brezhnev is appointed General Secretary of the CPSU .
• April 9th: The UN authorizes Great Britain to blockade Rhodesia .
• April 18: Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Greece .
• April 22nd: Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Japan .

May

• May 3: Some cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are renamed , including the capital of the country from Leopoldville to Kinshasa , and the capital of the province of Katanga from Elisabethville to Lubumbashi .
• May 16: Outbreak of severe strikes in the English merchant navy , causing severe economic damage (end: July 1)
• May 18: In Duisburg, fishermen discover a white whale (Beluga) that swam up the Rhine and caused a sensation in the following weeks as " Moby Dick "
• May 26th: Guyana becomes independent but remains a constitutional monarchy in the Commonwealth; the new state's first prime minister is Forbes Burnham .
• May 29: The USA and Thailand sign a new friendship treaty, 20,000 US soldiers are in the country because of the Vietnam War.
• May 30th / 1st June: Talks between Indonesia and Malaysia in Bangkok (Thailand) lead to a détente between the two neighbors and to an abatement of the fighting in the border area.

June

• June 13: United States Supreme Court ruling in principle that suspects must be made aware of their rights when arrested ( Miranda Warning )
• June 26: The Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt introduces women's suffrage .
• June 27: The military takes power in Argentina with a bloodless coup .

July

• July 1st: the representatives of France in the military organs of NATO withdraw.
• JULY 2: France, a nuclear power since 1960, leads after laying its nuclear tests in Algeria on two atolls in the Pacific the first above-ground nuclear weapons testing in the Mururoa - Atoll by.
• July 6: A new constitution comes into force in Malawi under which the country becomes a republic within the Commonwealth ; Prime Minister Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes President .
• July 19: The Federal Constitutional Court declares the previously applicable party funding from the federal budget to be inadmissible; only reasonable election campaign costs may be reimbursed.

August

• August 1: In Nigeria, Chief of Staff Yakubu Gowon takes power after a military coup.
• August 12: Three police officers are killed in London's Braybrook Street , leading to one of the largest manholds in British police history.
• August 14: The German nuclear power plant Gundremmingen Block A (KRB for short) reaches its first criticality

Gundremmingen nuclear power plant

• August 19: In the People's Republic of China , after Lin Biao's request the day before , the Red Guards begin the campaign Smash the Four Elders . The Cultural Revolution is rolling.

September

• September 6: Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd , Prime Minister of South Africa who is considered the main architect of apartheid , is murdered with four stab wounds by a parliamentary worker during a parliamentary session.
• September 13: Balthazar Johannes Vorster becomes Prime Minister of South Africa.
• September 20: Guyana joins the United Nations .
• September 30th: The South African state of Botswana gains independence from Great Britain.

October

• October 4th: Lesotho becomes independent.
• OCTOBER 15: In western Texas is Guadalupe Mountains National Park created.
• October 17: Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
• October 27: The United Nations withdraws South Africa 's mandate over Namibia .
• October 27th: The Bonn government coalition between the CDU / CSU and FDP breaks because of various views on the improvement of the federal government's financial situation.

November

• November 1st: Haryana becomes a separate state in India .
• November 8: Mid- term Congress and gubernatorial elections are held in the US . The Republicans can post gains, but the Democrats clearly defend their majorities in both chambers of Congress.
• November 11: For the first time in the state of Mississippi, a white man is convicted of raping a black woman; the statutory death penalty is commuted to life imprisonment.
• November 12: An 18-year-old schoolboy shoots five women and a girl in Arizona , USA. When he was arrested, he gave the reason that he wanted to be known.
• November 15: South African professor and former ANC official Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews is appointed ambassador to the United States by the President of Botswana .
• November 20: The Swiss canton of Zurich votes against women's suffrage in a referendum .
• November 28th: ​​The Dominican Republic adopts a constitution.
• November 30th: Barbados gains independence from Great Britain.
• November 30th: Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard submits his resignation.

December

• December 1: The first grand coalition of CDU / CSU and SPD begins its work under Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger.
• December 19: UN human rights pacts on civil and political rights as well as on economic, social and cultural rights

science and technology

• January 17: The first copy of the Chinese Chengdu J-7 interceptor made its maiden flight .
• February 3: Luna program : With the landing of Luna 9 in the Sea of ​​Storms , the soft landing of a probe on the moon succeeds for the first time .
• February 3: The US weather satellite ESSA-1 is launched and provides the first data for meteorological earth observation from its orbit .
• March 1: The space probe Venus 3 of the USSR is the first terrestrial missile to reach Venus after a three-month flight .
• March 16: The two American astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott manage the first coupling maneuver in space .
• April 3: With Luna 10 , a satellite swings into orbit around the moon for the first time .
• April 7th: RG Ferry flies a new long-range world record of 3561 km with his Hughes OH-6 A helicopter .
• April 11th: The Kassel Herkulesbahn ceases operations.
• May 12: In Uetze , the Deutsche Bundespost ceases to operate the last manual switching center for calls within Germany.
• May 30: The first US spacecraft in the Surveyor series, Surveyor 1 , begins its flight to the moon, where it lands softly in Oceanus Procellarum three days later and provides images.
• June 12: The foundation stone for the Euphrates dam Keban in the Turkish province of Elazığ is laid - credits for this came from the EEC , the USA and the World Bank .
• August 6th: The Salazar Bridge over the Tagus is inaugurated in Lisbon . The San Francisco Bay Bridge served as a model for the suspension bridge .

First look at the earth

• August 23: The first image of the earth rising over the moon is transmitted from the lunar probe Lunar Orbiter 1 to the terrestrial ground station.
• 27 August: Francis Chichester starts in Plymouth to a one-handed - circumnavigation .
• November 26th: In France , the Rance tidal power plant is inaugurated, the world's first tidal power plant .
• November 28: Under the code name Kosmos 133 , the still unmanned Soyuz spaceship is launched on a test flight by the Soviet Union . Technical problems subsequently lead to a failure of the test.

Alfa Romeo Spider

• Alfa Romeo introduces the Alfa Romeo Spider .
• The Urengoy gas field , the largest gas field in the world, is discovered
• The dye laser is invented.
• Weizenbaum develops the first chatbot called ELIZA .

business

• January 1st: in Australia the pound sterling is replaced by the Australian dollar as currency and the English measuring system has been replaced by the metric system .

Culture

• January 15: Heinz Schenk and Lia Wöhr act as hosts for the first time in the entertainment show Zum Blauen Bock , which Otto Höpfner previously presented to TV viewers.
• January 20: World premiere of the play Der Meteor by Friedrich Dürrenmatt in Zurich.
• January 25: First award of the Golden Camera (for the television year 1965)
• February 14: Opening of the University of Düsseldorf

Nelson Column in Dublin (around 1916)

• March 8: In the Irish capital Dublin, the Nelson's Column is blown up by IRA extremists. The Spire is then built at this point .
• May 16: Bob Dylan's album Blonde on Blonde is out in the US
• June 2nd: World premiere of the playful opera Seventeen Days and Four Minutes by Werner Egk at the Stuttgart State Theater .
• June 8th: In Frankfurt am Main, Peter Handke's theater play Verbalsverleigung premieres.
• June 21: Opening of the University of Konstanz
• July 19: Cultural agreement between Germany and Tunisia . In force since March 13, 1967.
• August 4th: Cultural agreement between Germany and Bolivia . In force since September 21, 1970.
• August 6: World premiere of the opera Die Bassariden by Hans Werner Henze at the Salzburg Festival .
• August 18: Beginning of the “ Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ” in the People's Republic of China .
• August 29th: The Beatles last performed together in San Francisco .
• September 8: World premiere of the opera Hero and Leander by Günter Bialas in the Nationaltheater Mannheim .
• September 8th: TV premiere of the series Star Trek in the USA.
• September 16: World premiere of the opera Antony and Cleopatra by Samuel Barber at the Metropolitan Opera in New York .
• September 17th: The first episode of the Raumpatrouille series ( spaceship Orion ) is shown on German television .
• November 15: World premiere of the opera Puntila by Paul Dessau at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin .
• November 20: World premiere of the musical Cabaret by John Kander , Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff at the Broadhurst Theater in New York City
• December 23: Sergio Leone's film Two Glorious Scoundrels (original title: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo ) comes to cinemas in Italy .
• Opening of the German Carnival Museum
• Founding of the German music magazine Sounds
• Opening of the Erlangen Municipal Gallery
• First award of the Lessing-Ring
• Foundation of the Avangardeband Red Crayola

society

• July 14: Richard Speck leaves a nurses' home in Chicago where he murdered eight student nurses. A surviving woman who was in hiding then alerted the police about the serial killer and his act.
• August 1st: Charles Whitman goes on a rampage. First he stabs his mother and wife to death, later kills 15 people and injures 66 others in and from the tower of the University of Texas in Austin, before being shot by police.

religion

• February 15: President Kurt Scharf becomes the new Evangelical Bishop of Berlin (and thus successor to Otto Dibelius ).
• 22.-24. March: Michael Ramsay , Archbishop of Canterbury , presents Pope Paul VI. a visit from; the first encounter between the Primate of England and a Pope since the Church of England was separated in 1536.
• April 9th: Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum . This is the directory of those books that Catholics are not allowed to read. The list is officially abolished on June 14th.
• April 30th: The Church of Satan is founded
• June 14: The Roman Curia abolishes the 500-page “ Index of Forbidden Books ” , which had been in existence since 1559 (the last official new edition was in 1948).

Sports

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

• January 15: The football club BFC Dynamo is founded in East Berlin . The support from Minister Erich Mielke earned the association the reputation of a Stasi club .
• January 20: Football: 1. FC Union Berlin was founded after being spun off from TSC Berlin
• January 20: Football: 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig is founded as the successor to SC Leipzig .
• JANUARY 26: Football: From the football departments of the SC Turbine Erfurt and BSG Motor Optima Erfurt is FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt founded.
• January 31: Football: Foundation of BSG Energie Cottbus, later FC Energie Cottbus , previously SC Cottbus.
• February 5: Bundesliga professional Sigfried Held inaugurates the goal wall of the ZDF sports studio .
• February 22: In Oberhof the first place Children's and Youth of the GDR in the winter sports instead.
• March 20: From London's Westminster Central Hall , the Coupe Jules Rimet , the trophy of the World Cup Soccer Championships stolen. He was found in a front yard by the dog Pickles a week later .
• March 25: For the first time, the north face of the Eiger is climbed on a direct route.
• March 29: Boxing: Muhammad Ali defends his heavyweight world title against George Chuvalo .
• April 26: The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) awards the 1972 Summer Olympics to Munich .
• May 5th: A German soccer team wins a European Cup for the first time: Borussia Dortmund wins the European Cup Winners' Cup with a 2-1 win over Liverpool FC in Glasgow .
• May 21: Muhammad Ali defends his boxing world title against Henry Cooper in London .
• May 22nd to October 23rd: The 17th Formula 1 World Championship is held
• May 26: The Turkish football club Denizlispor is founded.
• May 28th: TSV 1860 Munich becomes German soccer champion.
• May 29: The Aztec Stadium in Mexico City opens. With around 105,000 seats, it is one of the largest football arenas on earth.
• June 9th: Gianni Motta wins the Giro d'Italia .
• June 11th: Tommie Smith sets a new world record over 200 meters (20.0 seconds).
• July 1: The Spaniard Manuel Santana is Wimbledon champion
• July 2nd: Billie Jean King ( USA ) wins the women's final at Wimbledon.
• July 14th: Lucien Aimar wins the Tour de France .
• July 30th: Soccer World Cup : England become soccer world champions for the first time with a 4-2 win after extra time in a dramatic final ( Wembley goal ) against Germany .
• August 6: Muhammad Ali defends his boxing world title against Brian London through knockout.
• August 28th: Rudi Altig becomes world champion road cyclist.
• September 4th: The Australian Jack Brabham is already established as Formula 1 world champion three races before the end of the season . It is the first and so far only time that a driver wins the Formula 1 World Championship in a racing car he has designed .
• September 10: Muhammad Ali , USA , defends his boxing world title against Karl Mildenberger , Germany in Frankfurt am Main .
• October 1: The basketball league starts playing.
• October 2: The Spanish football club Atlético Madrid opens its stadium on the Manzanares River , later renamed the Estadio Vicente Calderón .
• November 14: Muhammad Ali defends his boxing world title against Cleveland Williams through knockout.

Disasters

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

• January 17: Southern Spain escapes a nuclear disaster when a US Air Force B-52 bomber collides with a tanker over Palomares . Four plutonium bombs fall from the sky and are recovered in an extensive search, the crash area is contaminated by released radiation.
• January 24th: In the Alps, all 177 occupants of an Air India Boeing 707 are killed when the plane crashes into a rocky massif of Mont Blanc .
• February 4: Tokyo , Japan . Crash of a Boeing 727 of Nippon Airways just off the coast. All 133 inmates die.
• March 5: Tokyo , Japan . A Boeing 707 of BOAC crashes into Mount Fuji . All 124 inmates die
• April 26: An earthquake wreaked havoc in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent . 300,000 homeless. The government of the Soviet Union has kept silent about the death toll .
• August 19: Earthquake near Varto , Turkey , kills around 2,520.
• November 3: Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal kill more than 1,000 people.
• December 8: 241 people died when the Greek ferry “ Iraklion ” sank on the journey from Crete to Piraeus .
• December 24th: Binh Thai , South Vietnam . A cargo plane of the Flying Tiger Line type Canadair CL-44 crashes in a village. 129 people die.

Born

January

• 0January 1st: Heike Hänsel , German politician
• 0January 2nd: Artur Wladimirowitsch Akojew , Russian weightlifter
• 0January 3rd: Holger Kretschmer , German handball player and coach
• 0January 4th: Fabio Abate , Swiss politician
• 0January 4th: Deana Carter , American country singer
• 0January 4th: Christian Kern , Austrian politician and former manager

Christian Kern , 2016

• 0January 6: Johannes Jansen , German writer
• 0January 6th: Attilio Lombardo , Italian football player and coach
• 0January 6th: Christian K. Schaeffer , German actor
• 0January 7th: Ergin Ataman , Turkish basketball player and coach
• 0January 7th: Iris Plotzitzka , German shot putter
• 0January 7th: Corrie Sanders , South African boxer († 2012)
• 0January 8th: Lilly Forgách , German actress
• January 10: Christian Mecke , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court
• January 12th: Ingrid Jensen , Canadian jazz trumpeter
• January 13: Diego Arsuaga , Uruguayan director
• January 13: Zdenko Jedvaj , Yugoslav-Croatian football player
• January 14th: Günter Abel , German soccer player and soccer coach
• January 14th: Marco Hietala , Finnish bass player and singer
• January 16: Jorge Luis Aguilera Ruiz , Cuban sprinter
• January 16: Jeff Olson , American ski racer
• January 16: Carlos Sousa , Portuguese marathon rally driver
• January 17th: Charlotte Crome , German actress and painter
• January 18: Charles Ariiotima , Tahitian football referee
• January 18: Alexander Chalifman , Russian chess player
• January 19th: Pieter-Jan Belder , Dutch harpsichordist, pianist and flutist
• January 19: Stefan Edberg , Swedish tennis player

Stefan Edberg , 2012

• January 19: Aaron Slight , New Zealand motorcycle racer
• January 20th: Tracii Guns , American guitarist
• January 20: Rainn Wilson , American actor
• January 22nd: Lars Patrick Berg , German politician
• January 24th: Shaun Donovan , American politician
• January 24th: Julie Dreyfus , French actress
• January 24th: Karin Viard , French actress
• January 25: Mahmut Caliskan , Turkish soccer player
• January 27: Ursula Waßer , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court

Andrea Berg , 2012

• January 28th: Hermann Anatoljewitsch Andreev , Russian soccer coach and soccer player
• January 28: Julian Argüelles , British tenor saxophonist and composer
• January 28th: Andrea Berg , German pop singer
• January 28th: Maik Lippert , German writer
• January 29th: Serap Çileli , German writer of Turkish descent
• January 29th: Maxim Dlugy , American chess player
• January 29: Romário , Brazilian soccer player
• January 30th: Abraham Afewerki , Eritrean singer, songwriter and producer († 2006)
• January 31: Anne Berge , Norwegian ski racer
• January 31: Jorge González , Argentine wrestler and basketball player († 2010)
• January 31: Rolf Järmann , Swiss cyclist
• January 31: JJ Lehto , Finnish racing car driver
• January 31: Brian Mikkelsen , Danish politician
• January 31: Thomas Treß , German football official
• January 31: Christopher Truswell , Australian actor and speaker

February

• 0February 1: Michelle Anne Akers , American soccer player
• 0February 1: Paul Dalla Lana , Canadian racing car driver
• 0February 1st: Laurent Garnier , French techno producer and DJ
• 0February 2nd: Markus Böker , German actor
• 0February 2: Kazuya Tsurumaki , Japanese film director
• 0February 4th: Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Yekimov , Russian road cyclist
• 0February 5th: Soner Arıca , Turkish pop musician
• 0February 5th: Thomas Fuhrmann , German journalist
• 0February 5: Jonathan Morgan , American porn film director
• 0February 5: Rok Petrovič , Slovenian ski racer († 1993)
• 0February 5th: Marc Prill , German cameraman
• 0February 5: Vivian Wu , American actress of Chinese origin
• 0February 6th: Rick Astley , British singer
• 0February 7th: Monika Weber , German foil fencer
• 0February 7th: Roland Bervillé , French racing car driver
• 0February 7th: Claudia Nolte , German politician
• 0February 7th: Arne Orderløkken , Norwegian Nordic combined skier

Kristin Otto

• 0February 7th: Kristin Otto , German athlete, Olympic champion and journalist
• 0February 8: Alexander Antonitsch , Austrian tennis player
• 0February 8: Mathias Gutmann , German biologist and philosopher
• 0February 8: Bruno Labbadia , soccer player and coach
• 0February 8: Sylvia Limmer , German politician
• 0February 8: Christo Stoitschkow , Bulgarian football player
• 0February 9: Harald Eia , Norwegian sociologist and journalist
• 0February 9: Satoshi Urushihara , Mangaka
• 0February 9: Heiner Garg , German politician

Christoph Maria Herbst, 2011

• 0February 9: Christoph Maria Herbst , German actor, comedian
• 0February 9: Ellen van Langen , Dutch athlete
• February 10: Renata Przemyk , Polish singer-songwriter
• February 11: David Bunners , German actor
• February 11: Patrik Kühnen , German tennis player
• February 11: Dieudonné M'bala M'bala , French comedian
• February 11: Kai Scheve , German actor
• February 11: Johan Söderqvist , Swedish film composer
• February 11: Vache Sharafyan , Armenian composer
• February 12: Jörg Ahmann , German volleyball player
• February 13: Jeff Waters , Canadian guitarist
• February 14th: Valerios Leonidis , Greek weightlifter
• February 15: Andreas Platthaus , German journalist and author
• February 16: Peter Neustädter , German soccer player
• February 16: Monique Spartalis , Danish singer
• February 16: Niklas Zennström , developer of KaZaA and Skype
• February 17th: Thomas Forsberg , Swedish musician († 2004)
• February 17th: Atle Skårdal , Norwegian ski racer
• February 18: Guy Ferland , American film and television director
• February 18: Dmitri Borissowitsch Konyshev , Russian cyclist
• February 18: Tamara Vidali , Italian racing car driver
• February 19: Janet Echelman , American artist
• February 19: Paul Haarhuis , Dutch tennis player
• February 19: Adelheid Gapp , Austrian ski racer
• February 19: Vincenzo "Enzo" Scifo , Belgian football player

Cindy Crawford, 2009

• February 20: Cindy Crawford , American model and actress
• February 20th: DJ Taucher , German trance DJ and music producer
• February 20: Dennis Mitchell , American athlete and Olympic champion
• February 20: Rudolf Nierlich , Austrian ski racer († 1991)
• February 20: Constantin Seibt , Swiss journalist
• February 20: Tim Wilde , German actor
• February 21: Katrin Askan , German writer
• February 21: Axel Bulthaupt , German moderator
• February 21: Michaela Marzola , Italian ski racer
• February 22nd: Stefan Erdmann , German author
• February 22nd: Luca Marchegiani , Italian soccer player
• February 22nd: Michael Saunders , German journalist and moderator
• February 22: Thomas Schäfer , German politician († 2020)
• February 24th: Thomas Donaubauer , German Nordic combined athlete
• February 24: Billy Zane , American actor
• February 25: Andreas Helmer , German soccer player
• February 25: Téa Leoni , American actress
• February 25: Alexis Denisof , American actor
• February 25: Paul Ottosson , Swedish sound engineer
• February 26: Urs Kälin , Swiss ski racer
• February 26: Marc Fortier , Canadian ice hockey coach and player
• February 26th: Melanie Pukaß , German actress and voice actress
• February 26: Stefan Ströbitzer , Austrian journalist
• February 27: Barbara Goldstein , German author († 2014)
• February 27: Pete Smith , American baseball player
• February 28: Ed Shearmur , British composer

March

• 0March 1st: Susan Auch , Canadian speed skater
• 0March 1st: Roman Grill , German soccer player
• 0March 1st: Silke Reichmann de Salas, German musician
• 0March 1st: Delphine de Vigan , French writer
• 0March 2nd: Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril , Swedish writer and literary critic
• 0March 2nd: Frank Steffel , German politician
• 0March 3rd: Detlef Altenbeck , German director
• 0March 4th: Daniela Amavia , Greek actress
• 0March 4th: Wash Westmoreland , American film director
• 0March 6: Maurice Ashley , American chess player
• 0March 6th: Henning Sieverts , German jazz musician
• 0March 7th: Ludwig Kögl , German soccer player
• 0March 8: Khalid Khan , German handball player and coach
• 0March 8th: Steffi von Wolff , German author
• 0March 9th: Jelena Pavlovna Asjornaja , Russian painter
• 0March 9: Giorgio Furlan , Italian cyclist
• March 10: Edie Brickell , American singer and songwriter
• March 10: Dave Krusen , American rock musician
• March 10: Petter Thoresen , Norwegian orienteer
• March 11th: Joe Hachem , Lebanese-Australian poker player
• March 12th: Igor Flach , German blues harp player († 2008)
• March 12th: Oliver Grüner , German rower
• March 13: Dorothy Hindman , American composer
• March 13: Markus Karp , German politician
• March 14: Gary Anthony Williams , American actor, screenwriter, producer and director
• March 16: Ann-Kristin Achleitner , German scientist
• March 16: Dirk von Petersdorff , German literary scholar and writer
• March 18: Fiorenza Cedolins , Italian opera singer

Anne Will , 2008

• March 18: Anne Will , German journalist and television presenter
• March 18: Jerry Cantrell , American rock musician
• March 19: Olaf Marschall , German soccer player
• March 21: Benito Armando Archundia Téllez , Mexican football referee
• March 21: Hauke ​​Fuhlbrügge , German athlete
• March 21: DJ Premier , American hip-hop DJ and producer
• March 22nd: Katharina Gutensohn , Austrian-German ski racer
• March 22nd: Klaus Peter Möller , Hessian politician
• March 23: Thorsten Wingenfelder , German guitarist and songwriter
• March 25: Humberto González , Mexican light flyweight boxer
• March 25: Jeff Healey , Canadian rock guitarist, trumpeter and singer († 2008)
• March 25th: Tatjana Patitz , German photo model
• March 25: Remig Stumpf , German racing cyclist († 2019)
• March 25th: Gerlinde Countess von Westphalen , German gallery owner, publicist and curator
• March 26th: Nick Wirth , British designer and aerodynamicist
• March 28th: Høgni Hoydal , Faroese politician
• March 29: Krassimir Balakov , Bulgarian football player
• March 29th: Sigrid Kirchmann , Austrian athlete
• March 29: Eric Walz , German writer
• March 30th: Vincenzo Amato , Italian sculptor and actor
• March 30th: Jeremy Deller , British artist
• March 30th: Melanie Palenik , American freestyle skier
• March 30th: Sieglinde Winkler , Austrian ski racer
• March 31: Roger Black , British athlete and Olympian
• March 31: Edith Thys , American ski racer

April

• 0April 1st: Alberto Braida , Italian jazz pianist
• 0April 2nd: Teddy Sheringham , English football player
• 0April 2nd: Mara Kayser , German singer of popular music
• 0April 3: Michael Mittermeier , German comedian

Michael Mittermeier , 2009

• 0April 4: Finn Christian Jagge , Norwegian ski racer († 2020)
• 0April 4: Stefan Mappus , German politician
• 0April 4th: Ann-Kathrin Kramer , German actress

Ann-Kathrin Kramer , 2008

• 0April 5: Hans Martin Bury , German politician, Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery
• 0April 5: Mike McCready , American musician
• 0April 6: Hossein Amini , Iranian screenwriter and film producer
• 0April 6: Vince Flynn , American writer († 2013)
• 0April 6: Jörg Rohde , German politician and member of the Bundestag
• 0April 7th: Michela Figini , Swiss ski racer
• 0April 8th: Hakon Hirzenberger , Austrian author, director and actor
• 0April 8: Robin Wright , American film actress
• 0April 9th: Thomas Doll , German soccer player and soccer coach

Thomas Doll

• 0April 9: Patrick Elias , Swiss actor
• 0April 9: Cynthia Nixon , American actress
• 0April 9: Joachim Steyer , German politician
• April 10: Heinz Barwich , nuclear physicist of the GDR
• April 10th: Tamaki Daidō , Japanese writer
• April 11th: Andreas Fischer , Bavarian politician
• April 11th: Lisa Stansfield , British singer and actress
• April 11th: Peter Stöger , Austrian soccer player
• April 12: Imma Tor Faus , Andorran diplomat
• April 12th: Nils-Olav Johansen , Norwegian jazz guitarist and singer
• April 13th: Mando , Greek pop singer
• April 14th: Jan Boklöv , Swedish ski jumper
• April 15: Victor Calero , German-Spanish actor
• April 15th: Samantha Fox , British singer and model

Samantha Fox , 2009

• April 16: Ovo Maltine , German political tune, cabaret tune and AIDS activist († 2005)
• April 16: Bruno Rangel , Brazilian dart player
• April 16: Stefan Schmidt , German organist and university professor
• April 16: Jarle Vespestad , Norwegian jazz drummer
• April 16: Hiltrud Werner , German executive
• April 16: Kai Wiesinger , German actor
• April 18: Lidia Borda , Argentine tango singer
• April 18: Trine Hattestad , Norwegian athlete
• April 19: Julia Neigel , German musician and singer
• April 19: Norwich Rüße , German politician
• April 19: Oliver Welke , German comedian and television presenter
• April 20: David Chalmers , Australian philosopher
• April 20: Michaela Christ , German singer
• April 21: Jorgo Chatzimarkakis , German MEP
• April 22nd: Edi Köhldorfer , Austrian guitarist, composer, arranger and author
• April 22: Jeffrey Dean Morgan , American actor
• April 23: Franco Foda , German soccer player
• April 24: David Usher , Canadian rock singer and songwriter
• April 25: Francis Fulton-Smith , German actor
• April 25: Rubén Sosa Ardáiz , Uruguayan football player
• April 26th: Thomas Carell , German chemist
• April 26: Ralf Geilenkirchen , German soccer player
• April 27th: Yoshihiro Togashi , Japanese mangaka
• April 28: Hartmut Rohde , German violist and professor
• April 28th: Jean-Luc Crétier , French ski racer
• April 28: John Daly , American golfer
• April 29: Michael Alig , American party organizer († 2020)
• April 30th: Roman Hagara , Austrian sailor
• April 30th: Stine Lise Hattestad , Norwegian freestyle skier
• April 30th: Jens Streifling , German musician

May

• 0May 1st: Olaf Thon , German soccer player
• 0May 2: Iulia Cibișescu-Duran , Romanian composer
• 0May 2: Belinda Stronach , Canadian businesswoman and politician
• 0May 3rd: Torsten Dechert , German live and studio drummer

Katrin Göring-Eckardt , 2013

• 0May 3: Katrin Göring-Eckardt , German politician
• 0May 3rd: Jamiri , German comic artist
• 0May 3: Agnès Desarthe , French writer
• 0May 4th: Dirk Becker , German politician
• 0May 4th: Doris Eisenburger , children's book illustrator
• 0May 5th: Axel Fischer , German politician
• 0May 5th: Lyubov Ivanovna Egorova , Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion
• 0May 7th: Andrea Tafi , Italian cyclist
• 0May 7th: Jörg Neun , German soccer player
• 0May 8: Rainer Leng , German medieval historian
• 0May 8: Cláudio Taffarel , Brazilian soccer player
• 0May 9: Manuela Delilaj , Albanian sports shooter
• May 10: Mikael Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
• May 10: Jonathan Edwards , British athlete
• May 10: Johannes Kalpers , German tenor
• May 11th: Christoph Schneider , German drummer in the band Rammstein
• May 12: Bebel Gilberto , Brazilian singer and songwriter
• May 12: Sonja Ablinger , Austrian politician
• May 12: Stephen Baldwin , American actor
• May 12th: Annette Bulfon , Bavarian politician
• May 12: Deborah Kara Unger , Canadian actress
• May 13: Peter Zakowski , German racing car driver
• May 14th: Fab Morvan , French singer
• May 14th: Michael "Mike" Inez , American musician
• May 14: Raphael Saadiq , American musician, singer and composer
• May 15: Gianluca Buonanno , Italian politician († 2016)
• May 15: Greg Wise , British actor

Janet Jackson, 2006

• May 16: Janet Jackson , American singer
• May 16: Thurman Thomas , American football player
• May 17th: Per Magnus Andersson , Swedish handball coach and player
• May 17th: Christoph Grissemann , Austrian cabaret artist and radio presenter
• May 17: Hill Harper , American actor
• May 17th: Henrik Larsen , Danish football player
• May 19: Polly Walker , British film actress
• May 20: Manindra Agrawal , Indian mathematician and computer scientist
• May 20: Ahmet Ak , Turkish wrestler
• May 20th: Peter Artner , Austrian soccer player
• May 20: Andreas C. Studer , Swiss TV chef and author
• May 21: Tazzjana Ljadouskaja , Belarusian athlete
• May 22: Johnny Gill , American R&B singer
• May 22nd: Sergio Lafuente , Uruguayan weightlifter and rally driver
• May 22nd: Thomas Zereske , German canoeist († 2004)
• May 23: Árni Páll Árnason , Icelandic politician
• May 23: Uli Schuppler , German handball player
• May 24th: Manfred Bender , German soccer player
• May 24th: Éric Cantona , French footballer and actor
• May 25th: Laurentien of Orange-Nassau , wife of Prince Constantijn of Orange-Nassau
• May 26: Helena Bonham Carter , British actress
• May 26: Andreas Becker , German politician
• May 26: Zola Budd , South African athlete
• May 27th: Detlef Irrgang , German soccer player
• May 28th: Sina , Swiss dialect rock singer
• May 29: Stephan Brandner , German lawyer and politician

Thomas Häßler .

• May 30th: Thomas Häßler , German soccer player
• May 30: Stephen Malkmus , American musician
• May 31: Thomas Kastenmaier , German soccer player
• May 31: Frank Goosen , cabaret artist and novelist

June

• 0June 1st: Abel Balbo , Argentinian soccer player
• 0June 2nd: Martina Eickhoff , graduate engineer and politician
• 0June 2: Candace Gingrich , American human rights activist
• 0June 2nd: Pedro Manuel Guerra Mansito , Spanish singer-songwriter
• 0June 3rd: Wumpscut , German disc jockey and industrial musician
• 0June 3: László Andor , Hungarian economist and politician
• 0June 4th: Cristóbal Aranda Cristtel, Andorran football player
• 0June 4th: Annett Hesselbarth , German athlete
• 0June 4th: Cecilia Bartoli , Italian mezzo-soprano
• 0June 4th: Petros Ovsepyan , Armenian classical music composer
• 0June 5: Douglas O'Keeffe , Canadian actor

Sebastian Krumbiegel

• 0June 5th: Sebastian Krumbiegel , German singer and musician
• 0June 6th: André Parker , German musician
• 0June 6th: Anthony Yeboah , Ghanaian soccer player
• 0June 6th: Thomas Doss , Austrian composer and conductor
• 0June 6: Faure Gnassingbé , President of the Republic of Togo
• 0June 7th: Eric Kretz , American musician
• 0June 7th: Alexandra Zazzi , Swedish cook and journalist
• 0June 8th: Isabella Huebner , German actress
• 0June 8: Julianna Margulies , American actress
• 0June 9: Kattis Ahlström , Swedish presenter and journalist
• 0June 9: Maria Ketikidou , German actress
• 0June 9th: Chichi Peralta , Dominican merengue musician, percussionist and composer
• June 10: David Platt , English soccer player
• June 11: Dragomir Josifov , Bulgarian composer, conductor and pianist
• June 11: Gary Kwok , Canadian racing car driver
• June 13: Annette Widmann-Mauz , German politician
• June 13: Grigory Jakowlewitsch Perelman , Russian mathematician
• June 15: Andreas Müller , German comedian
• June 16: Kay Germann , German handball player and coach
• June 16: Jan Železný , Czech athlete
• June 17th: Christy Canyon , American porn actress
• June 17: Jason Patric , American actor
• June 18: Dietmar Friedhoff , German politician
• June 19: Karina Kim , German pop singer
• June 19: Katrin Stotz , German ski racer
• June 21: Pierre Thorsson , Swedish handball player and coach
• June 22nd: Michael Park , British co-driver in rallying († 2005)
• June 23: Oliver-Sven Buder , German athlete
• June 24th: Sevan Boyaciyan , Armenian-German concert guitarist
• June 24th: Steve Driehaus , American politician
• June 24th: Bernd Lichtenberg , German screenwriter
• June 24th: Bernhard Winkler , German soccer player and coach
• June 25: Bernd Metzke , German handball player
• June 26: Kenneth Achampong , English soccer player
• June 26th: Annette M. Böckler , Jewish biblical scholar
• June 26th: Jirko Malchárek , Slovak automobile racing driver and politician
• June 27: JJ Abrams , American film and television producer
• June 27th: Harald Aschemann , German engineer
• June 27: Aigars Kalvītis , Prime Minister of Latvia
• June 28: Mary Stuart Masterson , American actress
• June 28: John Cusack , American actor
• June 28th: Arnaud Trévisiol , French racing car driver
• June 29th: Saut Situmorang , Indonesian writer
• June 30th: Andrei Chakimowitsch Abduwalijew , Russian hammer thrower
• June 30th: Marie Theres Kroetz-Relin , German actress, author and journalist
• June 30: Peter Outerbridge , Canadian actor

Mike Tyson

• June 30th: Mike Tyson , American heavyweight boxer

July

• 0July 1st: Ola Per Andersson , Swedish football player, coach and official
• 0July 1st: Simon Graham Arkell , Australian pole vaulter
• 0July 1st: Stefan Bachmann , Swiss theater director
• 0July 1st: Stéphan Caron , French swimmer
• 0July 1: Matt Dillon , American open source software developer
• 0July 1st: Zita Funkenhauser , German foil fencer
• 0July 3: Daniel Plaza , Spanish athlete and Olympic champion
• 0July 3: Oswald Sallaberger , Austrian conductor and violinist
• 0July 5th: Kai U. Jürgens , German publicist and artist
• 0July 5th: Gianfranco Zola , Italian football player
• 0July 7th: Lars Büchel , German film director
• 0July 7th: Maria Quintana , American freestyle skier
• 0July 8: Simon Licht , German actor
• 0July 9: Pamela Adlon , American actress and voice actress
• 0July 9: Pauline Davis-Thompson , Bahamian athlete and Olympian
• 0July 9: Arnold Frick , Liechtenstein judoka
• 0July 9th: Eric Melvin , musician in the band NOFX
• 0July 9: Amélie Nothomb , Belgian writer
• July 10: Felix Josep Álvarez Blásquez , Andorran football player
• July 10: Enrico Annoni , Italian football player and coach
• July 10: Andrea Weibel , Swiss writer
• July 11: Nadeem Aslam , Pakistani-British writer
• July 11: Debbe Dunning , American actress
• July 11: Kentarō Miura , Japanese mangaka († 2021)
• July 12th: Jeff Bucknum , American racing car driver
• July 12: Şahin Diniyev , Azerbaijani football player and coach
• July 12th: Angela Freimuth , German politician
• July 12th: Ana Torrent , Spanish actress
• July 13: Federico Bricolo , Italian politician
• July 13: Sven Burgemeister , German film producer
• July 13: Sebastian Gramss , German double bass player, cellist and composer
• July 14th: Julija Antipowa , Soviet luge athlete
• July 14th: Tanya Donelly , American singer and guitarist
• July 14: Matthew Fox , American actor
• July 14th: Hermann Schönbächler , Swiss forest warden and sports lumberjack
• July 14: Ralf Waldmann , German motorcycle racer († 2018)
• July 15: Mario Avagliano , Italian journalist and historian
• July 15th: Jason Bonham , British drummer
• July 15: Rolf Dobelli , Swiss writer and entrepreneur
• July 15: Irène Jacob , French film actress
• July 15: Dimitris P. Kraniotis , Greek doctor and poet
• July 15: Dan Lipinski , American politician
• July 16: Nikolaos Anastasiadis , Greek cross-country skier and biathlete
• July 16: Karl Kahn , German politician
• July 16: Ross Spano , American politician
• July 17: Sten Tolgfors , Swedish politician
• July 18: Kathrin Neimke , German athlete
• July 18: Dan O'Brien , American decathlete
• July 18: Sabine Richter , German athlete
• July 19: Maik Handschke , German handball player and coach
• July 20: Thomas Borchert , German musician and musical actor
• July 20: Cosima von Borsody , German actress
• July 20: Helen Grandon , Welsh hockey goalkeeper († 2020)

Enrique Peña Nieto

• July 20: Enrique Peña Nieto , Mexican politician
• July 21: Tsering Woeser , Chinese writer, poet, dissident essayist and blogger of Tibetan nationality
• July 22nd: Dieter Seidenkranz , German strength athlete († 2006)
• July 23: Cheb Bilal , Algerian Raï singer
• July 23: Michael Esken , German local politician
• July 23: Uwe Fuchs , German soccer player
• July 26th: Pascal Breuer , Austrian actor, dubbing and audio book speaker
• July 26: Angelo Di Livio , Italian football player
• July 27th: Cengiz Atila , Turkish soccer player
• July 28th: Xaver Zembrod , German soccer player and coach
• July 29th: Sally Gunnell , British athlete and Olympic champion
• July 29th: Ingrid Haralamow , Swiss canoeist
• July 29: Martina McBride , American country singer
• July 30: Lisa Madigan , US politician
• July 30th: Veronika Wallinger , Austrian ski racer
• July 31: Dean Cain , American actor
• July 31: Marcus Grüsser , German actor

August

• 0August 2: Kevin Dorff , American actor and comedian
• 0August 3: Svenja Pages , German actress
• 0August 5th: Markus Pytlik , German composer and teacher
• 0August 6: Regina Carter , American violinist
• 0August 7th: Dieter Depping , German rally driver
• 0August 7th: Kristin Hersh , American singer, guitarist and songwriter
• 0August 7th: Stefan Heße , Archbishop of Hamburg
• 0August 7: Jimmy Wales , American businessman, Wikimedia chairman
• 0August 8: Kitō Mohiro , Japanese manga artist
• 0August 9: Felix Ahlers , German entrepreneur
• August 10: Udo Bölts , German racing cyclist
• August 10: Hossam Hassan , Egyptian soccer player
• August 10: Ibrahim Hassan Hussein, Egyptian soccer player
• August 10th: Hansi Kürsch , German singer of the metal band Blind Guardian
• August 10: Oliver Schündler , German film and television producer
• August 11: Bengt Andersson , Swedish football player
• August 11: Donny McCaslin , American jazz saxophonist
• August 11: Juan María Solare , Argentine pianist and composer
• August 12: Uwe Abel , German soccer player
• August 12: Daniel Simmes , German soccer player
• August 13: Uta Glaubitz , German author
• August 14: Halle Berry , American actress

Halle Berry , 2013

• August 14th: Øystein Baadsvik , Norwegian tuba soloist
• August 14th: Sibylle Hamann , Austrian journalist
• August 15th: Evgeny Agrest , Swedish chess player
• August 15: Jeong Yu-jeong , South Korean writer
• August 15: Kazuto Sakata , Japanese motorcycle racer
• August 16: Ed Olczyk , Polish-American ice hockey player and coach
• August 16: DJ Kayslay , American DJ
• August 17th: Franziska Rochat-Moser , Swiss athlete († 2002)
• August 17th: Rodney Mullen , American skateboarder
• August 19: Lee Ann Womack , American country singer
• August 20th: Patrik Andreasson , Swedish badminton player
• August 20: Dimebag Darrell , American guitarist († 2004)
• August 20: Enrico Letta , Italian politician
• August 21: Ariane Jacobi , German jazz singer and television presenter
• August 21: Maximilian Krückl , German actor, screenwriter and cabaret artist († 2019)
• August 22nd: Alexander Gorkow , German journalist and writer
• August 22nd: GZA , American rap musician and member of the Wu-Tang clan
• August 22nd: Heike Friedrich , German synchronized swimmer
• August 23: Alexander König , German figure skater and figure skating coach
• August 24th: Torsten Fröhling , German soccer coach and soccer player
• August 25: Christine Aaftink , Dutch speed skater
• August 25th: Agostino Abbagnale , Italian rower
• August 25: Sandra Maischberger , German journalist, presenter and producer

Sandra Maischberger , 2015

• August 25: Derek Sherinian , American keyboardist
• August 26th: Kari Tiainen , Finnish motorcyclist and seven-time enduro world champion
• August 27: Jill Lepore , American historian and essayist
• August 27: Juhan Parts , Estonian politician
• August 28: René Higuita , Colombian soccer player
• August 28: Michele Padovano , Italian football player
• August 28: Carsten Weidling , German presenter and writer
• August 30: Michael Michele , American actress
• August 31: Wolfgang Krebs , German cabaret artist

September

• 0September 1st: Philip Tägert , German comic artist
• 0September 1st: Katja Bienert , German actress
• 0September 2: Nicola Armaroli , Italian chemist
• 0September 2nd: Dino Cazares , Mexican guitarist
• 0September 2nd: Olivier Panis , French racing driver

Salma Hayek , 2012

• 0September 2nd: Salma Hayek , Mexican actress
• 0September 4th: Gary Neiwand , Australian track cyclist, multiple world champion and Olympic medalist
• 0September 4th: Torsten Sträter , German horror and comedy writer, slam poet, comedian and cabaret artist
• 0September 5th: Orlando Valle , Cuban flautist, composer, arranger and band leader
• 0September 6th: Andreas Hahn , German soccer player
• 0September 7th: David Moufang , German musician and composer
• 0September 7th: Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann , German speed skater
• 0September 7: Vladimir Wassiljewitsch Andrejew , Russian athlete
• 0September 8: Raymond Atteveld , Dutch football coach and player
• 0September 8th: Carola Häggkvist , Swedish singer
• 0September 9: David Bennent , Swiss actor

Georg Hackl , 2005

• 0September 9th: Georg Hackl , German luge athlete and three-time Olympic champion
• 0September 9: Michel Muller , French actor

Adam Sandler , 2011

• 0September 9: Adam Sandler , American actor, producer, composer
• 0September 9: Sigrid M. Schnückel , German actress
• 0September 9: Tommy Guerrero , American songwriter and guitarist
• September 10: Emmanuel Le Divellec , French organist
• September 10th: Stoyan Yankoulov : Bulgarian jazz, world and rock percussionist
• September 11th: Princess Akishino , wife of Prince Akishino of Japan
• September 11th: Dainis Ozols , Latvian cyclist
• September 12th: Anousheh Ansari , US-Iranian multimillionaire and space tourist
• September 12: Ben Folds , American singer and pianist
• September 12th: Luigi Giorgio , Italian racing car driver

Maria Furtwängler , 2012

• September 13: Maria Furtwängler , German actress and doctorate
• September 14th: Domenico Blass , Swiss screenwriter
• September 15: Dejan Savićević , Yugoslav football player
• September 16: Kevin Young , American athlete
• September 17th: Minna Kaisa Aaltonen , Finnish actress
• September 17: Doug E. Fresh , American rapper and beatboxer
• September 17: Paula Jones , US civil servant
• September 19: Heiko Maas , German politician, Minister of Justice
• September 19: Eric Rudolph , American terrorist
• September 19: Claudia Schmutzler , German actress
• September 19: Wassilissa Wassiljewna Sementschuk , Soviet freestyle skier
• September 20: Thomas Seeliger , German soccer player
• September 21: Kerrin Lee-Gartner , Canadian ski racer
• September 21: Rinat Akhmetov , Ukrainian entrepreneur
• September 22nd: Erdogan Atalay , German-Turkish actor
• September 22nd: Hanno Friedrich , German actor
• September 22nd: Andrea Kathrin Loewig , German actress
• September 22nd: Mike Richter , American ice hockey player
• September 25: Niccolò Ammaniti , Italian writer
• September 26: Dirk Anders , German soccer player
• September 26: Frankie Andreu , American cyclist and sports director
• September 26: Natja Brunckhorst , German actress and screenwriter
• September 26th: Thomas Schächl , Austrian actor
• September 27: Jovanotti , Italian singer, rapper
• September 27th: Joe Macari , British entrepreneur and racing car driver
• September 29: Jürgen Hartz , German handball player
• September 29: Ken Jebsen German journalist and political activist
• September 29: Claus Strunz , German journalist
• September 30th: Patrick Meinhardt , German politician

October

• 0October 1: Brian Asawa , American countertenor († 2016)
• 0October 1st: Stefano Dionisi , Italian actor
• 0October 1: George Weah , Liberian soccer player and politician
• 0October 2nd: Frank Augustin , German racing cyclist
• 0October 2nd: Mousse T. , DJ, music producer
• 0October 3: Beate Maes , German actress
• 0October 4th: Herbert Aspöck , Austrian politician
• 0October 5th: Inessa Krawez , Ukrainian athlete and Olympic champion
• 0October 6: Thomas Eugene Stinson , American bassist and guitarist
• 0October 7th: Tania Aebi , American sailor and author
• 0October 7th: Marco Beltrami , American composer
• 0October 7th: Vincenzo Sospiri , Italian racing car driver
• 0October 8: Philipp Adlung , German musicologist, lawyer and music manager
• 0October 8th: Olaf Janßen , German soccer player and soccer coach
• 0October 8th: Tabea Zimmermann , German violist
• 0October 9: Francesco Bearzatti , Italian jazz saxophonist and clarinetist

David Cameron , 2010

• 0October 9: David Cameron , British politician
• 0October 9: Thomas Eichin , German soccer player
• 0October 9: Tina Ruland , German actress
• October 10: Tony Adams , English soccer player
• October 10: Elana Meyer , South African athlete and Olympian
• October 11: Luke Perry , American actor († 2019)
• October 11: Christoph Peters , German writer
• October 11th: Bill Sweedler , American racing car driver and entrepreneur
• October 12: Amanda Forsyth , Canadian cellist
• October 12th: Rhona Martin , Scottish curler and Olympic champion
• October 12: Roberto Néstor Sensini , Argentine football player and coach
• October 13: Robert Seeliger , Canadian television actor
• October 15: Eric Benét , American rhythm and blues singer
• October 15: Zoran Đorđić , Serbian handball player
• October 15: Jorge Campos , Mexican soccer player
• October 16: Andreas Hill , German soccer player
• October 16: Stefan Reuter , German soccer player
• October 17th: Jürgen Rollmann , German soccer player, qualified journalist
• October 18: Bill Stewart , American jazz drummer
• October 18: Slavi Trifonov , Bulgarian musician and politician
• October 19: Jens Fiedler , German handball player and coach
• October 19: Patricia Neske , German figure skater
• October 20: John von Düffel , German writer

Stefan Raab , 2010

• October 20: Stefan Raab , German showmaster, comedian, entertainer and producer
• October 21: Lars-Börje Eriksson , Swedish ski racer
• October 22: Yuri Yakovlevich Arbachakov , Russian boxer
• October 23: Marianne Cathomen , Swiss singer
• October 23: Skúli Sverrisson , Icelandic jazz bassist
• October 23: Baklai Temengil , Palau politician and sports official
• October 23: Alessandro Zanardi , Italian racing car driver and handbiker

Roman Abramovich, 2007

• October 24: Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich , Russian oil entrepreneur and governor of the Chukotka region
• October 25: Jens Burgard , German lawyer
• October 26th: Lambert Ringlage , German composer and musician
• October 27: Gudrun Arnitz , Austrian ski racer
• October 27: Nicole Petignat , Swiss football referee
• October 27: Katrin Pollitt , German actress
• October 28: Steve Atwater , American football player
• October 28: Maren Schumacher , German actress
• October 29th: Michael Jursa , Austrian ancient orientalist
• October 30: Abu Musab az-Zarqawi , Jordanian terrorist († 2006)
• October 30: Lyudmila Rogacheva , Russian athlete and Olympian
• October 31: Ernst Aigner , Austrian football player
• October 31: Jörg Asmussen , German economist and politician
• October 31: Harald Spörl , German soccer player
• October 31: Mike O'Malley , American actor, television producer, and writer

November

• 0November 1st: Barbara Becker , German jewelry and fashion designer
• 0November 1st: Henry Blatter , German handball player

Ingo Steuer, 2014

• 0November 1st: Ingo Steuer , German figure skater and figure skating coach
• 0November 2nd: Nicki , German pop singer
• 0November 2nd: Bernd Dreher , German soccer player
• 0November 2: David Schwimmer , American actor

Caroline Beil, 2014

• 0November 3rd: Caroline Beil , German actress and television presenter
• 0November 3rd: Daniel Schwerd , German politician
• 0November 5: Alexander Graf Lambsdorff , German politician
• 0November 6th: Laurent Lafforgue , French mathematician
• 0November 6: Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel , Equatorial Guinean writer and poet
• 0November 7th: Isolde Holderied , German rally driver
• 0November 7th: Regula Imboden , Swiss actress
• 0November 7th: Ingo Kunzi , German trance DJ and producer
• 0November 7th: Ursula Lohn , German soccer player
• 0November 7th: Frans Verhoeven , Dutch enduro racer
• 0November 8: Nové Deypalan , Filipino conductor and composer
• 0November 8: Gordon Ramsay , British chef, entertainer and producer
• 0November 9th: Ingo Ludwig Frenzel , German film composer
• November 10: Aka Mortschiladze , Georgian writer
• November 12th: Nils Minkmar , Franco-German historian and journalist
• November 12th: Anette Norberg , Swedish curler
• November 14th: Petra Rossner , German racing cyclist
• November 15: Nury Guarnaschelli , Argentinian horn player
• November 16: Joey Cape , American singer and guitarist
• November 16: Dave Kushner , American guitarist
• November 16: Dean McDermott , Canadian actor
• November 16: Christian Lorenz , German musician and keyboard player
• November 17th: Sophie Marceau , French actress
• November 17: Richard Fortus , American guitarist
• November 17: Jeff Buckley , American singer and guitarist († 1997)
• November 18: Thomas Huber , German mountaineer
• November 18: Charlotte Laurier , Canadian actress

DJ Marusha, 2009

• November 18th: Marusha , German DJ, presenter, producer and actress
• November 18: LaVonna Martin , American athlete and Olympian
• November 18: Markos Ghebremedhin , Ethiopian Bishop
• November 19: Gail Devers , American athlete
• November 20: Pierpaolo Bisoli Italian football player and coach
• November 20th: Silke "Silla" Gnad , German handball player
• November 20: Oliver Hasenfratz , German actor († 2001)
• November 20th: Ulf Krokfors , Finnish jazz bassist
• November 21: Troy Kenneth Aikman , American football player
• November 21: José Charbonneau , Canadian ice hockey player
• November 22nd: Akiko Itoyama , Japanese writer
• November 23: Jeppe Kaas , Danish composer and actor
• November 23: Vincent Cassel , French actor
• November 27th: Frauke Kuhlmann , German soccer player
• November 27th: Valentina Sandu-Dediu , Romanian musicologist
• November 27: Mark Spoon , German music producer and DJ († 2006)
• November 29th: John Layfield , American wrestler
• November 29th: Olaf Zehe , German handball player

December

• 0December 1st: Andrew Adamson , New Zealand director
• 0December 2: Einar Heimisson , Icelandic writer († 1998)
• 0December 3: Flemming Povlsen , Danish football player
• 0December 4: Frederick R. Armisen , American actor, comedian, and musician
• 0December 4th: Shepherd Heinrich , German farmer and pop singer
• 0December 5th: Meelis Atonen , Estonian politician
• 0December 5th: Patricia Kaas , French singer and actress
• 0December 5th: Marcus Rudolph , German radio presenter and actor
• 0December 6th: Kerstin Griese , German politician
• 0December 6th: Celina Muza , Polish singer and actress
• 0December 6: Dirk Dobbrow , German writer and playwright
• 0December 7th: Gem Archer , British musician
• 0December 7th: Kirsten Erl , German TV judge († 2017)
• 0December 7th: Shin'ichi Itō , Japanese motorcycle racer
• 0December 8: Lars Arrhenius , Swedish artist († 2020)
• 0December 8th: Sinéad O'Connor , Irish musician and singer
• 0December 8th: Hope Powell , English football player and coach
• December 10: Jennifer Nitsch , German actress († 2004)
• December 12th: Yoshihiro Asai , Japanese wrestler
• December 12th: Maurizio Gaudino , German soccer player
• December 12: Ho Yen Chye , Singaporean judoka († 2021)
• December 12th: Philippe Laroche , Canadian freestyle skier
• December 13: Bret Curtis , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
• December 13th: David Safier , German screenwriter
• December 14th: Fabrizio Giovanardi , Italian racing car driver
• December 14th: Lucrecia Martel , Argentine film director and screenwriter

Helle Thorning-Schmidt , 2010

• December 14th: Helle Thorning-Schmidt , leader of the Danish Social Democratic Party
• December 14th: Susanne Rohrer , German radio presenter
• December 14th: Dennenesch Zoudé , German actress
• December 15: Katja von Garnier , German director
• December 16: Ingo Abel , German actor and speaker
• December 16: Giancarlo Giorgetti , Italian politician
• December 16: Dennis Wise , English soccer player and coach
• December 17th: Yūko Arimori , Japanese long-distance runner
• December 17th: Marie Arena , Belgian politician
• December 17th: Juliet Aubrey , British actress
• December 17th: Valery Viktorovich Lyukin , Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion
• December 18: Tracy Byrd , American country singer
• December 18: Thomas Gohlke , German actor

Alberto Tomba , 2009

• December 19: Alberto Tomba , Italian ski racer

Kiefer Sutherland , 2008

• December 21: Kiefer Sutherland , Canadian actor
• December 22nd: David Adjaye , British architect
• December 23: Badi Assad , Brazilian singer, guitarist and composer
• December 24th: Jörg Behrend , German gymnast
• December 24th: Karsten Neumann , PDS politician from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
• December 25th: Toshihiro Arai , Japanese rally driver
• December 25th: Mianne Bagger , Danish professional golfer
• December 25th: Sandra Schumacher , German cyclist
• December 25th: Britta Unsleber , German soccer player
• December 26th: Jay Farrar , American songwriter
• December 27: Chris Abani , Nigerian writer
• December 27th: Bill Goldberg , American wrestler
• December 27: Eva LaRue , American actress
• December 28th: Rainer Vollath , German writer
• December 29th: Stefano Eranio , Italian football player and coach
• December 29th: Alexandra Kamp , German actress
• December 29th: Heimo Pfeifenberger , Austrian soccer player
• December 29th: Danilo Pérez , Panamanian jazz pianist
• December 30th: Bennett Miller , American director
• December 30th: Anne Moll , German actress
• December 31: Susan Rigvava-Dumas , Dutch musical artist and mezzo-soprano
• December 31: Lisa Joyner , US presenter and reporter

Day unknown

• Sonia Abián , Argentine artist
• Randa Abu Bakr , Egyptian humanities scholar
• Christian Adam , German author
• Dariusz Adamczyk , Polish-German historian
• Peter Aderhold , German composer and conductor
• Alice Agneskirchner , German screenwriter and director
• Mehmet Aktaş , Turkish documentary filmmaker, author and journalist
• Khadija al-Salami , Yemeni filmmaker
• Scott W. Ambler , Canadian software engineer, text author, editor, and columnist
• Sabine Andresen , German educator
• Dave Angel , British techno musician, DJ and label owner
• Mark Anthony , American fantasy writer
• Alfredo Arciero , Italian filmmaker
• Bruno Arich-Gerz , German media and literary scholar
• Roland Armstrong , British music producer
• Mirjam von Arx , Swiss film and television director and film producer
• David J. Asher , British astronomer
• Jasser Auda , British legal scholar
• Ludwig von Auer , German professor
• Eduard Augustin , German author
• Christina Aus der Au , Swiss theologian and philosopher
• David Baalcke , German actor
• Gunnar Beck , German politician
• Hartmuth Becker , German economist, political scientist and author
• Kai Buchholz , German university professor and author
• Dorota Czerner , Polish writer
• Sabine Falkenberg , German puppeteer, voice actress and actress
• Jörg Faßmann , German violinist and university teacher for music
• Matthew "McCall" Freeman , American musician
• Anna Funder , Australian writer, documentary filmmaker and lawyer
• Hauke ​​Goos , German journalist
• Ulrich Herkenhoff , German composer and pan flutist
• Carl Ludwig Hübsch , German jazz and improvisation musician
• Hardy Kettlitz , German journalist, publisher and non-fiction author
• Jakob Keusen German musician and drummer († 1989)
• Bettina Klein , German radio editor and presenter
• Adelheid Kleineidam , German actress
• Ulrike Knospe , German actress
• Matthias Komm , German actor, director and author
• Jens Kommnick , German musician, composer and arranger
• Andreas Kröper , German musicologist, director, conductor and flautist
• Karl-Bernhardin Kropf , Austrian organist and church musician
• Matthias Kußmann , German literary scholar, author and editor
• Benjamin Loeb , American conductor and pianist
• Stephan Meier , German drummer, conductor and composer
• Adam del Monte , Spanish classical and flamenco guitarist, composer and music educator
• Gideon Obarzanek , Australian ballet dancer and choreographer
• Adam Marian Pete , German-Polish painter, draftsman, poet and performer
• Peter Pfrommer , German building physicist
• Rainer Pöttgen , German chemist
• Jörg Andreas Polzer , German filmmaker
• Ulrich Reuter , German film music composer
• Hannes Riffel , German translator and publisher
• Martin Rink , German military historian and officer
• Linda Ruesink , American composer and music teacher
• Adel Salameh , Palestinian oud player († 2019)
• Natalie Scharf , German screenwriter
• Christian Schmidt , German stage and costume designer
• Anne Schumann , German violinist and teacher of baroque music
• Arben Spahiu , Albanian violinist
• Fanny Stavjanik , Austrian actress
• Christoph Strupp , historian
• Stephan Szász , German actor
• Yurdal Tokcan , Turkish oud player, music educator and composer
• Cora Volz , German sculptor
• Marion Weissenberger-Eibl , German engineer
• Claus Wolfschlag , German contemporary historian and journalist
• Alina Wollert , German artist
• Erdal Yıldız , German actor
• Silke Zertz , German screenwriter
• Thomas Zipp , German artist

Died

January

Vincent Auriol , 1927

• 0January 1: Vincent Auriol , politician and President of the French Republic (* 1884)
• 0January 3: Richard Theophil Imanuel Aeckerle , German painter, draftsman, sculptor and lithographer (* 1892)
• 0January 3: Ady Berber , Austrian actor (* 1913)
• 0January 3: Geoffrey Waddington , Canadian violinist and conductor (* 1904)
• 0January 4: Inga Grigoryevna Voronina , Soviet speed skater (* 1936)
• 0January 5: Richard Dillon , American politician (* 1877)
• 0January 6: Albrecht Brandi , German frigate captain (* 1914)
• 0January 7th: Agnes Asche , German socialist and resistance fighter (* 1891)
• 0January 9: Hans Adler , German business economist (* 1899)
• 0January 9: Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster , German philosopher and pacifist (* 1869)
• 0January 9: Haro Stepanjan , Armenian composer (* 1897)
• January 10: Hermann Kasack , German writer and poet (* 1896)
• January 11: Alberto Giacometti , Swiss sculptor (* 1901)
• January 11th: Hannes Kolehmainen , Finnish long-distance runner (* 1889)
• January 11: Lal Bahadur Shastri , Prime Minister of Independent India (* 1904)
• January 13: Peter Harlan , German lutenist and instrument maker (* 1898)
• January 14th: Curt Backeberg , German cactus collector and researcher and author (* 1894)
• January 14th: Bill Carr , American sprinter and Olympic champion (* 1909)

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, 1938

• January 14: Sergei Koroljow , Soviet missile designer (* 1907)
• January 15: Samuel Ladoke Akintola , Nigerian politician (* 1910)
• January 15: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa , 1957–1966 Prime Minister of Nigeria (* 1912)
• January 15: Heinrich Keimig , German handball player (* 1913)
• January 18: Kathleen Norris , American writer (* 1880)
• January 20: Herbert Boeckl , Austrian painter (* 1894)
• January 22nd: August Frölich , German politician (* 1877)
• January 22: Kawada Jun , Japanese poet and business manager (* 1882)
• January 22nd: Herbert Marshall , British film actor (* 1890)
• January 22nd: Pierre Mercure , Canadian composer and television producer (born 1927)
• January 23: Johanna van Ammers-Küller , Dutch writer (* 1884)
• January 23: Max Solleder , German politician (* 1894)
• January 24th: Homi Jehangir Bhabha , Indian physicist (* 1909)
• January 26th: Thea Arnold , German politician (* 1882)
• January 26th: Curt Baller , German lawyer, local politician and Prussian administrative officer (* 1880)
• January 27: Ludwig Gies , German painter and sculptor (* 1887)
• January 29: Josef Winckler , German writer (* 1881)

February

Buster Keaton († February 1)

• 0February 1: Buster Keaton , American actor and director (* 1895)
• 0February 4: August-Martin Euler , German politician (* 1908)
• 0February 4: Robert Graf , German theater and film actor (* 1923)
• 0February 9: Bruno Valfrid Ahlberg , Finnish boxer (* 1911)
• 0February 9: Charles Cellérier , Swiss Protestant clergyman (* 1890)
• February 10: John Frederick Charles Fuller , British major general and military historian (* 1878)
• February 10: Osie Johnson , American jazz drummer (* 1923)
• February 11: Hermann Heukamp , German politician (* 1886)
• February 11: Friedrich Krause-Osten , German painter (* 1884)
• February 12: Wilhelm Röpke , Professor of Economics, one of the intellectual fathers of the social market economy (* 1899)
• February 12: Elio Vittorini , Italian author (* 1908)
• February 14: Walter Thomas Layton , British newspaper publisher and economist (* 1884)
• February 15: Camilo Torres , Colombian priest and liberation theologian (* 1929)
• February 17th: Hans Hofmann , German painter (* 1880)
• February 18: Robert Rossen , American screenwriter, film director and producer (* 1908)
• February 20: Arnold Hörburger , Dutch football player (* 1886)
• February 20: Chester W. Nimitz , American fleet admiral (* 1885)
• February 20: Paul Zielinski , German football player (* 1911)
• February 25: Dora Dreesen-Horn , German painter (* 1878)
• February 25: Franz Schnabel , German historian (* 1887)
• February 26: Gino Severini , painter (* 1883)
• February 28: Elliot See , American astronaut of the Gemini Project (* 1927)

March

• 0March 1: Friedrich Georg Houtermans , German physicist (* 1903)
• 0March 2: Théodore Le Du , French racing car driver (* 1893)
• 0March 3: Alfonso Castaldo , Archbishop of Naples and Cardinal (* 1890)
• 0March 3: William Frawley , American actor (* 1887)
• 0March 4: Jānis Mediņš , Latvian composer (* 1890)
• 0March 5: Anna Akhmatova , Russian poet and writer (* 1889)
• 0March 6: Frederick Chubb , Canadian organist, choir director, music teacher and composer (* 1885)
• 0March 7: William Waldorf Astor , British peer, businessman and politician (born 1907)
• 0March 7th: Georg Faber , German mathematician (* 1877)
• 0March 9: Pablo Birger , Argentine racing car driver (* 1924)
• March 10: Frank O'Connor , Irish writer (* 1903)
• March 10: Frits Zernike , Dutch physicist (* 1888)
• March 12: Sydney Camm , English aeronautical engineer (* 1893)
• March 12: Lee Meriwether , American writer, lawyer and diplomat (* 1862)
• March 14: Jörg Hartmann , youngest victim of the Berlin Wall (* 1955)
• March 15: Abe Saperstein , American entrepreneur and basketball manager (* 1902)
• March 15: Grete Weiskopf , children's book author (* 1905)
• March 17: Walter Lang , Swiss composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1896)
• March 18: Arthur Hannett , American politician (* 1884)
• March 18: Fritz Uphoff , German painter (* 1890)
• March 19: Erik Aaes , Danish production designer (* 1899)
• March 19: Otto Apel , German architect (* 1906)
• March 23: Marie Elisabeth Lüders , German politician (* 1878)
• March 23: Otto Reche , German anthropologist (* 1879)
• March 23: Max Strub , German violin virtuoso and violin teacher (* 1900)
• March 24: Esko Aaltonen , Finnish sociologist and folklorist (* 1893)
• March 27: Karl König , founder of the international Camphill movement (* 1902)
• March 29: William McKinley Gillum , American blues and hokum musician (* 1904)
• March 30th: Erwin Piscator , German director and theater director (* 1893)

April

• 0April 1: Karl Borromäus Adam , German theologian and dogmatist (* 1876)
• 0April 1: Flann O'Brien , Irish writer (* 1911)
• 0April 2: Cecil Scott Forester , English writer and journalist (* 1899)
• 0April 3: Pininfarina , Italian automobile designer (* 1893)
• 0April 4: Jimmy Daywalt , American racing driver (* 1924)
• 0April 4: Alfred Naujocks , German National Socialist (* 1911)
• 0April 5: Svend Fleuron , Danish writer (* 1874)
• 0April 5: Karl Pistorius , opera singer (* 1898)
• 0April 5: Peter Rohland , German songwriter and singer (* 1933)
• 0April 6: Emil Brunner , Swiss Reformed theologian (* 1889)
• 0April 7: Fred George Aandahl , American politician (* 1897)
• 0April 7: Walt Hansgen , American racing driver (* 1919)
• 0April 8: Duarte Monteverde Abecasis , Portuguese engineer (* 1892)
• 0April 9: Fritz Czermak , German politician (* 1894)
• April 10: Evelyn Waugh , British writer (* 1903)
• April 11th: Joshua Barnes Howell , American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (* 1888)
• April 12: Sydney Allard , British racing driver and founder of the Allard Motor Company (* 1910)
• April 12: Wilhelm Schnarrenberger , German painter (* 1892)
• April 13: Abd as-Salam Muhammad Arif , President of Iraq (* 1921)
• April 13: Georges Duhamel , French writer (* 1884)
• April 13: Felix Graf von Luckner , German navigator and writer (* 1881)
• April 14: George Andrew Lundberg , sociologist (* 1895)
• April 16: Victor Antoni , French politician (* 1882)
• April 18: Mita von Ahlefeldt , German actress (* 1891)
• April 19: Karl Gösta Åsbrink , Swedish athlete (* 1881)
• April 19: Erhard König , German communist and official of the People's Police (* 1900)
• April 19: Ernst Sigg , Swiss church musician and high school teacher (* 1892)
• April 19: Javier Solís , Mexican singer (* 1931)
• April 21: Josef Dietrich , SS Colonel Group Leader and Colonel General of the Waffen SS (* 1892)
• April 21: Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi , Argentine agricultural engineer and botanist (* 1895)
• April 22nd: Enrico Glori , Italian actor (* 1901)
• April 22nd: Dieter Krumpholz , German motorcycle racer (* 1941)
• April 23: Otto Baer , local politician and Lord Mayor of Magdeburg (* 1881)
• April 24th: Melecio Arranz , Filipino politician (* 1888)
• April 24th: Hans Christian Branner , Danish writer (* 1903)
• April 24: Louis A. Johnson , American politician (* 1891)
• April 25: Mir Sultan Khan , British-Indian chess player (* 1905)
• April 29: William Henry Eccles , British physicist (* 1875)
• April 30: Patrick V. McNamara , American politician (* 1894)

May

• 0May 1: Gustav Schumm , German football player and functionary (* 1889)
• 0May 3: Ernst Schönbauer , Austrian legal historian and politician (* 1885)
• 0May 5: Gabriel del Orbe , Dominican violinist (* 1888)
• 0May 5: Chit Phumisak , Thai intellectual and author (* 1930)
• 0May 6: Rupert Angermair , German moral theologian and specialist book author (* 1899)
• 0May 6: Heinrich Müller , German politician (* 1901)
• 0May 7th: Stanisław Jerzy Lec , Polish aphorist (* 1909)
• 0May 9: Daniel O. Hastings , American politician (* 1874)
• 0May 9: Alfred Mendelsohn , Romanian composer (* 1910)
• May 10: Erich Engel , German film and theater director (* 1891)
• May 11: Henry Caulfield , American politician (* 1873)
• May 12: Felix Steiner , German military, SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS (* 1896)
• May 13: Henrik Adam Due , Norwegian violinist and music teacher (* 1891)
• May 14: Ludwig Meidner , German Expressionist painter, poet and graphic artist (* 1884)
• May 16: Hellmut Holthaus , German editor and writer (* 1909)
• May 16: Alfred Onnen , German politician (* 1904)
• May 18: Paul Althaus , German Protestant theologian (* 1888)
• May 19: Theodore F. Green , American politician (* 1867)
• May 24th: Emil Fahrenkamp , German architect, professor (* 1885)
• May 25: Ricardo Castillo , Guatemalan composer (* 1894)
• May 26: Hermann Schäfer , German politician (* 1892)
• May 30: Wäinö Aaltonen , Finnish sculptor (* 1894)

June

Hans Arp

• 0June 1: Inge Müller , German writer (GDR) (* 1925)
• 0June 2: François Ayoub , Syrian Archbishop (* 1899)
• 0June 4th: Paul Barnickel , German lawyer (* 1885)
• 0June 6: Hans Erich Kalischer , German business economist (* 1903)
• 0June 6: Friedrich von der Leyen , German Germanist (* 1873)
• 0June 6: Heinz Liepman , German writer and anti-fascist (* 1905)
• 0June 7th: Hans Arp , German-French painter, sculptor and poet (* 1886)
• 0June 7: Walter Frey , German politician, Lord Mayor of Remscheid (* 1909)
• June 11: Jimmy Davies , American racing car driver (* 1929)
• June 12: Aimé Steck , French composer (* 1892)
• June 15: Vicente Rojo Lluch , Spanish general (* 1894)
• June 17: Johnny Alexander St. Cyr , American banjo player and guitarist (* 1890)
• June 18: Konrad Heiden , German journalist and writer (* 1901)
• June 19: Walter Amstalden , Swiss politician and lawyer (* 1883)
• June 20: Wilhelm Busch , German Protestant pastor and writer (* 1897)
• June 20: Georges Lemaître , Belgian priest and physicist, is considered to be the founder of the Big Bang theory (* 1894)
• June 23: Nicolas Caerels , Belgian racing driver (* 1889)
• June 27th: Arthur Waley , British sinologist (* 1889)
• June 28: Hermann Arendt , German politician (* 1898)
• June 29: Gustav Kampendonk , German screenwriter (* 1909)
• 00.June: Helmut Rüdiger , German author, publicist, anarcho-syndicalist (* 1903)

July

• 0July 2: Jan Brzechwa , Polish poet, author and translator (* 1898)
• 0July 3: Heinrich Achenbach , German politician (* 1881)
• 0July 3: André Gailhard , French composer (* 1885)
• 0July 5: Fritz Lau , Low German writer (* 1872)
• 0July 6: Frank Patterson , American composer (* 1871)
• 0July 9: Walter Gerwig , German musician (* 1899)
• 0July 9: Rudolf von Gutmann , Austrian-Canadian entrepreneur, banker and art collector (* 1880)
• July 12: Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki , Japanese author (* 1870)
• July 14th: Friedrich Middelhauve , German politician and publisher (* 1896)
• July 16: Gussy Holl , German actress and Diseuse (* 1888)
• July 16: Bernhard Schweitzer , German archaeologist (* 1892)
• July 19: Walter Campbell Allison Aitkenhead , Scottish football player (* 1887)
• July 19: Joaquín Anselmo María Albareda y Ramoneda , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1892)
• July 19: Mary Jobe Akeley , American naturalist and cartographer (* 1878)
• July 21: Francesco Cantelli , Italian mathematician (* 1875)
• July 21: Philipp Frank , philosopher, physicist and mathematician (* 1884)
• July 22nd: Frank Delahanty , American baseball player (* 1882)
• July 23: Georg Adlmüller , German architect and construction officer (* 1888)
• July 23: Montgomery Clift , American film and stage actor (* 1920)
• July 24: Arthur B. Langlie , American politician (* 1900)
• July 24th: Carl McKinley , American composer (* 1895)
• July 25: Francis Edward Faragoh , American screenwriter (* 1895)
• July 25: Franz Xaver Meitinger , German politician (* 1905)
• July 28: Josef von Báky , Hungarian director (* 1902)
• July 28: Karl Saur , State Secretary in the Nazi Armaments Ministry (* 1902)
• July 29: Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi , military dictator and President of Nigeria (* 1924)
• July 29: Edward Gordon Craig , actor, director, set designer, graphic artist (* 1872)
• July 30th: Hazel Hempel Abel , American politician (* 1888)
• July 31: Alexander von Falkenhausen , head of the military administration in occupied Belgium (* 1878)
• July 31: Bud Powell , American jazz pianist (* 1924)
• July 31: Kai Senstius , Danish composer (* 1889)

August

Jan Kiepura († August 15)

• 0August 1: Charles Whitman , architecture student and sniper (* 1941)
• 0August 3: Lenny Bruce , American stand-up comedian and satirist (* 1925)
• 0August 3: Tristan Klingsor , French writer, painter, composer and music critic (* 1874)
• 0August 6: Paul Linebarger , American psychologist and writer (* 1913)
• August 9: Herbert Berliner , Canadian music producer and inventor (* 1882)
• August 15: Jan Kiepura , Polish tenor (* 1902)
• August 15: Gerhart Pohl , German writer and editor (* 1902)
• August 17: Ken Miles , British racing driver (* 1918)
• August 22nd: Erwin Komenda , automobile designer (* 1904)
• August 22nd: Apolinary Szeluto , Polish composer (* 1884)
• August 24: Tadeusz Komorowski , Commander in Chief of the Polish Home Army (* 1895)
• August 25: Wolfgang Langhoff , German actor, director and communist (* 1901)
• August 26th: Hermann Geiger , Swiss rescue pilot and pioneer of glacier flights (* 1914)
• August 28: Niklaus Senn , Swiss bank manager and politician (* 1894)
• August 29: Auguste Viktoria von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , German princess and wife of the last king of Portugal (* 1890)
• August 29: Martin Steinke , German Buddhist and writer (* 1882)
• August 30: Otto Adams , German politician and trade unionist (* 1887)
• August 31: Kasimir Edschmid , German writer (* 1890)
• August 31: Willi Hammelrath , founder of the Burg Vondern Workers' College (* 1893)

September

• 0September 2: Sibylle Ascheberg von Bamberg , German painter (* 1888)
• 0September 3: Elisabeth Ahnert , German artist (* 1885)
• 0September 3: Dick Barwegan , American football player (born 1925)
• 0September 6th: Theodor Kärner , German porcelain and animal sculptor (* 1884)
• 0September 6: Margaret Sanger , American suffragette (* 1879)
• 0September 6: Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd , South African politician and sociologist (* 1901)
• 0September 8: Hans Arnhold , German-American banker (* 1888)
• 0September 8: John Taylor , British racing car driver (* 1933)
• September 10: Emil Julius Gumbel , German mathematician and political publicist (* 1891)
• September 11th: Hans von Ahlfen , German military (* 1897)
• September 12: Heinrich Stuhlfauth , German football player (* 1896)
• September 13: Mina Amann , German trade unionist and politician (* 1893)
• September 14: Cemal Gürsel , Turkish General and President (* 1895)
• September 15: Fernand Lamy , French conductor, composer and music teacher (* 1881)
• September 17th: Fritz Wunderlich , German singer (* 1930)
• September 18: Karl Adler , German gynecologist (* 1894)
• September 18: Will Shade , American youth band musician (* 1898)
• September 19: Alexander Douala-Bell , King of the Douala people (* 1897)
• September 19: José de Jesús Angulo del Valle y Navarro , Mexican bishop (* 1888)
• September 19: Albert Divo , French racing car driver (* 1895)
• September 19: Jenő Vécsey , Hungarian composer (* 1909)
• September 20: Josef Arndgen , German politician (* 1894)
• September 23: Carlo Colombi , Swiss engineer and university professor (* 1883)
• September 25: Heinrich Niebes , German politician (* 1890)
• September 25: Jo Hanns Rösler , German writer (* 1899)
• September 26th: Hans Adametz , Austrian ceramist, sculptor and art teacher (* 1896)
• September 26: Alexander Alexandrowitsch Anufrijew , Soviet athlete (* 1926)
• September 26: Gus Edson , American cartoonist and comic artist (* 1901)
• September 28: André Breton , French poet and writer (* 1896)

October

• 0October 3: Dave Lambert , American jazz singer (* 1917)
• 0October 5: Korbinian Aigner , Catholic priest and pomologist (* 1885)
• 0October 8: Célestin Freinet , French educator (* 1896)
• 0October 9: Abraham Binder , American composer (* 1895)
• 0October 9: Leslie Irvin , American skydiving pioneer (* 1895)
• October 11: Wunibald Kamm , German engineer and aerodynamicist (* 1893)
• October 12: Arthur Lourié , Russian composer (* 1891)
• October 13: Clifton Webb , American actor (* 1889)
• October 14: Eduard Hartmann , Austrian politician (* 1904)
• October 15: Lee L. Blair , American jazz guitarist and banjo player (* 1903)
• October 17th: Cléo de Mérode , French ballet dancer (* 1875)
• October 17: Wieland Wagner , German opera director and stage designer (* 1917)
• October 18: Elizabeth Arden , Canadian-American entrepreneur (* 1878 or 1884)
• October 20: Ahmed Ateş , Turkish orientalist (* 1911)
• October 20: Harry F. Byrd senior , American politician (* 1887)
• October 20: Otto Pankok , German painter, draftsman and sculptor (* 1893)
• October 26: Alma Cogan , English pop singer (* 1932)
• October 27: Howard Alexander Smith , American politician (* 1880)
• October 31: Franz Wallack , Austrian planner and technician (* 1887)

November

• November 1: Roland Foster , Australian singer and music teacher (* 1879)
• November 1: Eva Garza , Mexican singer (* 1917)
• 0November 1: Alexis Roland-Manuel , French composer and music critic (* 1891)
• 0November 2: Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debye , Dutch physicist and chemist (* 1884)
• 0November 2: Mississippi John Hurt , blues singer and guitarist (* 1892)
• 0November 3: Ernst Hoferichter , Bavarian writer (* 1895)
• 0November 4: Kurt Freiherr von Schröder , major German banker and SS brigade leader (* 1889)
• 0November 5: Dietrich von Choltitz , German general and 1944 city commander of Paris (* 1894)
• 0November 8: Bernhard Zondek , German gynecologist (* 1891)
• 0November 9th: Hans Jürgen von der Wense , concept artist (* 1894)
• November 12th: Don Branson , American racing car driver (* 1920)
• November 12: Ewald Budde , German politician (* 1873)
• November 13: Eduard Henneberger , Swiss pianist and composer (* 1895)
• November 16: Wassil Boschinow , Bulgarian composer (* 1888)
• November 18: Béla Tardos , Hungarian composer (* 1910)
• November 21: David Leo Lawrence , American politician (* 1889)
• November 22nd: Roger Delano , French racing car driver (* 1898)
• November 23: Alvin Langdon Coburn , American photographer (* 1882)
• November 23: Seán Ó Ceallaigh , Irish politician and second President of Ireland (* 1882)
• November 24th: Kanken Toyama , developer of the Karate conception Shudokan (* 1888)
• November 25th: Karl Felix Wolff , South Tyrolean folklorist (* 1879)
• November 25th: Arnold Trowell , New Zealand cellist, composer and music teacher (* 1887)
• November 26: Siegfried Kracauer , German film sociologist (* 1889)
• November 27: Wenzel Jaksch , German politician (* 1896)
• November 28: Vittorio Giannini , American composer (* 1903)
• November 29: Rudolf Helm , German classical philologist (* 1872)

December

Walt Disney († December 15)

• 0December 2: Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer , Dutch mathematician (* 1881)
• 0December 5: Sylvère Maes , Belgian cyclist (* 1909)
• 0December 6: Ernst Arnold , German politician (* 1903)
• 0December 6th: Laurence Fletcher Arnold , American politician (* 1891)
• 0December 6th: Hermann Heiss , German composer for twelve-tone music and electronic music (* 1897)
• 0December 9: Walter Hösterey , Hamburg publisher and writer (* 1888)
• 0December 9: Yuri Shaporin , Russian composer (* 1887)
• December 11: Ludwig Sievert , German stage designer (* 1887)
• December 13: Fritz Grantze , German politician (* 1893)
• December 13: Bruno Karl August Jung , German politician (* 1886)
• December 13: Stanisław Mikołajczyk , Polish exile premiere (* 1901)
• December 13: Hans Verbeek , member of the German Bundestag (* 1917)
• December 14: Isaak Pomerantschuk , Russian physicist (* 1913)
• December 15: Walt Disney , American animated film producer (* 1901)
• December 16: Herbert Zimmermann , German radio reporter (* 1917)
• December 17th: Georg Mayerhofer , German politician (* 1894)
• December 19: Ehm Welk , German writer (* 1884)
• December 20: Mert Plunkett , Canadian impresario and composer (* 1888)
• December 21: Walter Fisch , German politician (* 1910)
• December 22nd: Lucy Burns , American suffragette (* 1879)
• December 23: Heimito von Doderer , Austrian writer (* 1896)
• December 24th: Gaspar Cassadó , Spanish cellist (* 1897)
• December 26th: Adolf Flecken , German politician (* 1889)
• December 26th: Noël Gallon , French composer and composition teacher (* 1891)
• December 26th: Kim Peacock , British actor, radio play speaker and screenwriter (* 1901)
• December 26th: Guillermo Stábile , Argentinian footballer (* 1906)
• December 26th: Hans Stille , German geologist (* 1876)
• December 27th: Herbert Otto Gille , German general of the Waffen-SS (* 1897)
• December 28: Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso , American lawyer and politician (* 1905)
• December 28: Henry Schricker , American politician (* 1883)
• December 30th: Pietro Ciriaci , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1885)
• December 30th: Christian Herter , American politician (* 1895)
• December 31: Michel Hirvy , Canadian pianist and music teacher (* 1900)
• December 31: Hermann Nuding , German politician (* 1902)
• December 31: Helene Roth , Swiss painter (* 1887)

Day unknown

• Ali Abd ar-Raziq , Egyptian scholar of Islam and Sharia judge (* 1888)
• Egmont H. Arens , American industrial designer and editor (* 1888)
• Emry Arthur , American old-time musician (* approx. 1900)
• Alfred Jurzykowski , Polish manager and art patron (* 1899)
• Jorge Letelier , Chilean painter (* 1887)
• Elisabeth Marten , German illustrator (* 1894)
• Arthur Pigeon , Canadian accordionist (* 1884)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : Alfred Kastler
• Chemistry : Robert S. Mulliken
• Medicine : Peyton Rous and Charles Brenton Huggins
• Literature : Samuel Agnon and Nelly Sachs

A Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded.

music

• Udo Jürgens wins the 11th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest on March 5th in Luxembourg with the song Merci Chérie for Austria .
• List of number one hits in Germany (1966)
• List of number one hits in Austria (1966)
• List of number one hits in the UK charts (1966)
• List of number one hits in the US (1966)

Web links

Commons : 1966  - 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 (1966) in the Federal Archives
• Year 1966 by Frank Rübertus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chronicle House of History