1955

1955: January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November ·
December

1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Millennium: 2nd millennium
Gregorian calendar, the 1955th year of the Common Era (CE) and
Centuries: 19th century ·
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 955th year of the
20th century ·
2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year
of the 1950s decade. 21st century
Decades: 1930s · 1940s ·
1950s · 1960s ·
1970s
Contents
Years: 1952 · 1953 · 1954 ·
Events 1955 · 1956 · 1957 ·
Births 1958
Deaths
1955 in various calendars
Nobel Prizes
Gregorian 1955
References
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January Assyrian 6705

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January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Baháʼí calendar 111–112
Panama.[1]
Balinese saka 1876–1877
January 5 – The Strömsund Bridge in Sweden is
completed, being the first significant cable-stayed bridge calendar
of the modern era.[2] Bengali 1362
January 17 – USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered calendar
submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Berber calendar 2905
Connecticut.[3]
British Regnal 3 Eliz. 2 –
January 18–20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The
Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes year 4 Eliz. 2
the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan).[4] Buddhist 2499
January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon calendar
announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic Burmese 1317
missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons.
calendar
January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17,
near Birmingham, England. Byzantine 7463–7464
calendar
Chinese 甲午年
calendar (Wood Horse)
 January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of 4651 or 4591
the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between — to —
the USSR and Germany, which began during World War
II in 1941.
⼄未年
(Wood Goat)
January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes
4652 or 4592
President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect
Formosa from the People's Republic of China. Coptic calendar 1671–1672
Discordian 3121
calendar
February
Ethiopian 1947–1948
February 9 – Apartheid in South Africa: 60,000 non- calendar
white residents of the Sophiatown suburb of
Hebrew 5715–5716
Johannesburg are forcibly evicted.[5]
calendar
February 10 – The United States Seventh Fleet helps
the Republic of China evacuate the Chinese Nationalist Hindu calendars
army and residents from the Tachen Islands to Taiwan. - Vikram 2011–2012
February 16 – Nearly 100 die in a fire at a home for the Samvat
elderly in Yokohama, Japan.
- Shaka 1876–1877
February 19 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
(SEATO) is established, at a meeting in Bangkok. Samvat
February 22 – In Chicago's Democratic primary, Mayor - Kali Yuga 5055–5056
Martin H. Kennelly loses to the head of the Cook County Holocene 11955
Democratic Party, Richard J. Daley, 364,839 to 264,077.
calendar
February 24 – The Baghdad Pact (CENTO), originally
known as Middle East Treaty Organization (METO), is Igbo calendar 955–956
signed between Iraq and Turkey.[6] Iranian calendar 1333–1334
Islamic calendar 1374–1375
March Japanese Shōwa 30
calendar ( 昭和３０年)
March 2 - Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old African-
American girl, refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Javanese 1886–1887
Montgomery, Alabama, to a white woman after the driver calendar
demands it. She is carried off the bus backwards, while Juche calendar 44
being kicked, handcuffed and harassed on the way to
the police station. She becomes a plaintiff in Browder v. Julian calendar Gregorian minus
Gayle (1956), which rules bus segregation to be 13 days
unconstitutional.
Korean 4288
March 5 calendar
WBBJ-TV signs on the air in Jackson, Tennessee, Minguo ROC 44
with WDXI as its initial call-letters, to expand calendar ⺠國44年
American commercial television in mostly rural
areas. Nanakshahi 487
Elvis Presley makes his television debut on calendar
"Louisiana Hayride", carried by KSLA-TV Thai solar 2498
Shreveport in the United States.[7] calendar
Tibetan 阳⽊⻢年
calendar (male Wood-Horse)
2081 or 1700 or
928
 March 7 – The Broadway musical version of Peter Pan, — to —
which had opened in 1954 starring Mary Martin, is 阴⽊⽺年
presented on television for the first time by NBC-TV, (female Wood-Goat)
with its original cast, as an installment of Producers'
2082 or 1701 or
Showcase. It is also the first time that a stage musical is
presented in its entirety on TV, almost exactly as it was 929
performed on stage. This program gains the largest
viewership of a TV special up to this time, and it becomes one of the
first great TV family musical classics.
March 17 – Richard Riot in Montreal: 6,000 people protest the
suspension of French Canadian ice hockey star Maurice Richard of the
Montreal Canadiens by the National Hockey League, following a
violent incident during a match.
March 19 – KXTV signs on the air in Sacramento, California, as the
100th commercial television station in the United States.
March 20 – The movie adaptation of Evan Hunter's novel Blackboard January 7: Marian
Jungle premieres in the United States, featuring the famous single
Anderson at the
"Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets. Teenagers jump Met
from their seats to dance to the song.

April
April 1 – EOKA starts a terrorist campaign against British rule in the
Crown colony of Cyprus.
April 5
Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
due to ill-health, at the age of 80.
Richard J. Daley defeats Robert Merrian to become Mayor of January 22: ICBM
Chicago, by a vote of 708,222 to 581,555.
April 6 – Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom.
April 10 – In the American National Basketball Association championship, the Syracuse
Nationals defeat the Fort Wayne Pistons 92–91 in Game 7, to win the title.
April 11
The Taiwanese Kuomintang put a time-bomb on the airplane Kashmir Princess, killing
16 but failing to assassinate the People's Republic of China leader, Zhou Enlai.
Taekwondo, a famous form of Korean martial arts, is officially recognized in South Korea.
April 12 – The Salk polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United
States, receives full approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
April 14 – The Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup in North American ice hockey for the
7th time in franchise history, but will not win again until 1997.

April 15 – Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
April 16 – The Burma-Japan Peace Treaty, signed in Rangoon on
November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war
between the two countries.
April 17 – Imre Nagy, the communist Premier of Hungary, is ousted for April 15:
being too moderate. McDonald's
April 18–24 – The Asian-African Conference is held in Bandung,
Indonesia.
May
May 5 – West Germany becomes a sovereign country, recognized by important Western
countries such as France, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.
May 6 – The Western European Union Charter becomes effective.
May 7 – Newcastle United F.C. in England win their fourth (and, As of 2021, final) Football
League First Division title.
May 9
West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
A young Jim Henson introduces the earliest version of Kermit the Frog (made in March),
in the premiere of his puppet show Sam and Friends, on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C.
May 11 – Japanese National Railways' ferry Shiun Maru sinks after collision with sister ship
Uko Maru, in thick fog off Takamatsu, Shikoku, in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan; 166
passengers (many children) and 2 crew members are killed. This event is influential in plans
to construct the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge (built 1986–98).
May 12 – New York's Third Avenue Elevated runs its last train between Chatham Square in
Manhattan and East 149th Street in the Bronx, thus ending elevated train service in
Manhattan.
May 14
Eight Communist Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence
treaty in Warsaw, Poland, that is called the Warsaw Pact (it will be dissolved in 1991).
Warrington win the British Rugby League Championship title for the third time; they will
not win it again within the following 60 years.
May 15
The Austrian State Treaty, which restores Austria's national sovereignty, is concluded
between the 4 occupying powers following World War II (the United Kingdom, the United
States, the Soviet Union, and France) and Austria, setting it up as a neutral country.
Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy become the first people to summit Makalu, the fifth-highest
mountain in the world, on the 1955 French Makalu expedition. The entire team of
climbers reach the summit over the next two days.[8]
May 25 – Joe Brown and George Band are the first to attain the summit of Kangchenjunga in
the Himalayas, as part of the British Kangchenjunga expedition led by Charles Evans.

June
June 7 – The television quiz program The $64,000 Question premieres on CBS-TV in the
United States, with Hal March as the host.
June 11 – Le Mans disaster: Eighty-three people are killed and at least 100 are injured, after
two race cars collide in the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans.
June 13 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the Soviet Union, is discovered.
June 16 – Lady and the Tramp, the Walt Disney company's 15th animated film, premieres in
Chicago.
June 26 – The Freedom Charter of the anti-apartheid South African Congress Alliance is
adopted, at a Congress of the People in Kliptown.

July
 July 1 – Transformation from the Imperial Bank of India to the State Bank of India is given
legal recognition through an Act of the Parliament of India.
July 7 – The New Zealand Special Air Service is formed.
July 13 – Ruth Ellis is hanged for murder in London, becoming the last woman ever to be
executed in the United Kingdom.
July 17
The Disneyland theme park opens in Anaheim, California, an event broadcast on the
American Broadcasting Company television network.
The first atomic-generated electrical power is sold commercially, partially powering Arco,
Idaho, from the U.S. National Reactor Testing Station; on July 18, Schenectady, New
York, receives power from a prototype nuclear submarine reactor at Knolls Atomic Power
Laboratory.[9]
July 18 – Illinois Governor William Stratton signs the Loyalty Oath Act, that mandates all
public employees take a loyalty oath to the State of Illinois and the United States or lose
their jobs.
July 18–23 – Geneva Summit between the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom
and France.
July 22 – In Long Beach, California (United States), Hillevi Rombin of Sweden is crowned
Miss Universe.
July 27 – El Al Flight 402 from Vienna (Austria) to Tel Aviv, via Istanbul, is shot down over
Bulgaria. All 58 passengers and crewmen aboard the Lockheed Constellation are killed.
July 28 – The first Interlingua Congress is held in Tours, France, leading to the foundation of
the Union Mundial pro Interlingua.

August
August 1 – The prototype Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft first
flies, in Nevada.
August 18
The First Sudanese Civil War begins.
The first meeting of the Organization of Central American States
(Spanish: Organización de Estados Centroamericanos, ODECA) is
August 19:
held, in Antigua Guatemala.
Hurricane Diane
August 19 – Hurricane Diane hits the northeastern United States,
killing over 200 people and causing over $1 billion in damage.
August 20 – Hundreds of people are killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
August 22 – Eleven schoolchildren are killed when their school bus is hit by a freight train in
Spring City, Tennessee.
August 25 – The last Soviet Army forces leave Austria.
August 26 – Satyajit Ray's film Pather Panchali is released in India.
August 27 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London.
August 28 – Black 14-year-old Emmett Till is lynched and shot in the head for allegedly
grabbing and threatening a white woman in Money, Mississippi; his white murderers, Roy
Bryant and J. W. Milam, are acquitted by an all-white jury.

September
 September 2 – Under the guidance of Dr. Humphry Osmond,
Christopher Mayhew ingests 400 mg of mescaline hydrochloride
and allows himself to be filmed as part of a Panorama special for
BBC TV in the U.K. that is never broadcast.
September 3 – Little Richard records "Tutti Frutti" in New Orleans;
it is released in October.
September 6 – Istanbul pogrom: Istanbul's Greek minority is the
target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
September 10 – The long-running Western television series
Gunsmoke debuts, on the CBS network in the United States.
September 14 – Pope Pius XII elevates many of the Apostolic
vicariates in Africa to Metropolitan Archdioceses.
September 15 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is September 18: Britain
published in Paris, by Olympia Press. annexes Rockall
September 16
The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina
is launched at midnight.
A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
September 18 – The United Kingdom formally annexes the uninhabited Atlantic island of
Rockall.
September 19–21 – President of Argentina Juan Perón is ousted in a military coup.
September 19 – Hurricane Hilda kills about 200 people in Mexico.
September 21–30 – Hurricane Janet, one of the strongest North Atlantic tropical cyclones on
record, sweeps the Lesser Antilles and Mexico, causing more than 1,020 deaths.[10]
September 22 – Commercial television starts in the United Kingdom with the Independent
Television Authority's first ITV franchises beginning broadcasting in London, ending the
BBC monopoly.
September 24 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States, suffers a coronary
thrombosis while on vacation in Denver, Colorado. Vice President Nixon serves as Acting
President while Eisenhower recovers.
September 30 – Actor James Dean is killed when his automobile collides with another car at
a highway junction, near Cholame, California.

October
October 2 – Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts on the CBS TV network in the United States.
October 3 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on the ABC-TV network in the United States.
October 4 – The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is released from prison in Seoul, South Korea.
October 5 – Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
October 11 – 70-mm film for projection is introduced, with the theatrical release of Rodgers
and Hammerstein's musical film, Oklahoma!.
October 14 – The Organization of Central American States secretariat is inaugurated.
October 20 – Disc jockey Bill Randle of WERE (Cleveland) is the key presenter of a concert
at Brooklyn High School (Ohio), featuring Pat Boone and Bill Haley & His Comets, and
opening with Elvis Presley (Elvis's first filmed performance), for a documentary on Randle
titled The Pied Piper of Cleveland.
October 26
 After the last Allied troops have left Austria, and following the provisions of the Austrian
Independence Treaty, the country declares its permanent neutrality.
Ngô Đình Diệm proclaims Vietnam to be a republic, with himself as its President
(following the State of Vietnam referendum on October 23), and forms the Army of the
Republic of Vietnam.
October 27 – The film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean, is released in the
United States.
October 29 – Soviet battleship Novorossiysk explodes at moorings in Sevastopol Bay, killing
608 (the Soviet Union's worst naval disaster to date).

November
November 1
Official start date of the Vietnam War between the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam and Republic of Vietnam; the north is allied
October 26: Austria
with the Viet Cong.[11]
free
A time bomb explodes in the cargo hold of United Airlines Flight
629, a Douglas DC-6B, over Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39
passengers and 5 crew members on board.
November 3 – The Rimutaka Tunnel opens on the New Zealand Railways, at 5.46 mi
(8.79 km), the longest in the Southern Hemisphere at this time.
November 15 – The Democratic Party of Japan and Japan Liberal Party merge to form the
Japan Liberal Democratic Party, beginning the "1955 System".
November 19 – C. Northcote Parkinson first propounds 'Parkinson's law', in The Economist.
November 20 – Bo Diddley makes his television debut on Ed Sullivan's Toast Of The Town
show for the CBS-TV network in the United States.
November 23 – The Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean are transferred from British to
Australian control.
November 26 – The British Governor of Cyprus declares a state of emergency on the island.
November 27 – The Westboro Baptist Church holds its first service in Topeka, Kansas.

December
December 1 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to obey
bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make
room for a white passenger, and is arrested, leading to the Montgomery
bus boycott.
December 4 – The International Federation of Blood Donor December 14:
Organizations is founded in Luxembourg. Tappan Zee Bridge
December 5 opens

The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial

Organizations merge, to become the AFL–CIO.
The Montgomery Improvement Association is formed in Montgomery, Alabama, by Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., and other Black ministers to coordinate the Montgomery bus
boycott by Black people.
December 9 – Adnan Menderes of DP forms the new government of Turkey (22nd
government).
 December 10 – 1955 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition
Government is re-elected with a substantially increased majority, defeating the Labor Party
led by H. V. Evatt. This election comes in the immediate aftermath of the devastating split in
the Labor Party, which leads to the formation of the Democratic Labor Party. The DLP will
preference against Labor, and keep the Coalition in office until 1972.
December 14
The Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River, in New York State, opens to traffic.
Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos,
Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sri Lanka join the United Nations
simultaneously, after several years of moratorium on admitting new members that began
during the Korean War.
December 20 – Cardiff is declared by the British Government as the capital of Wales.
December 22 – American cytogeneticist Joe Hin Tjio discovers the correct number of human
chromosomes, forty-six.
December 31
General Motors becomes the first American corporation to make a profit of over 1 billion
dollars in 1 year.
Austria becomes independent, under terms of the May 15 Austrian State Treaty.

World population
World population: 2,755,823,000
Africa: 246,746,000
Asia: 1,541,947,000
Europe: 575,184,000
South America: 190,797,000
North America: 186,884,000
Oceania: 14,265,000

Births
Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November ·
December

January
January 1
Mario Andreacchio, Australian film director
Mary Beard, English classicist
Precious, Canadian professional wrestling valet
Mulatu Teshome, Ethiopian politician and 8th President of Ethiopia
Bonnie Arnold, American film producer Rowan Atkinson
January 4 – Mark Hollis, English musician (d. 2019)[12]
January 5 – Mamata Banerjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West
Bengal
January 6 – Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
January 7 – Belinda Meuldijk, Dutch actress
January 8 – Mike Reno, Canadian musician
January 9
Michiko Kakutani, American literary critic
J. K. Simmons, American actor J. K. Simmons
January 10
Michael Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions, UFO, Michael
Schenker Group)
Jimmy Vivino, American guitarist
January 12 – Kerry-Lynne Findlay, Canadian politician
January 13
Paul Kelly, Australian musician
Jay McInerney, American writer Kevin Costner
January 15
Andreas Gursky, German photographer
Enrico Mentana, Italian journalist
January 16 – Mary Karr, American poet
January 17 – Steve Earle, American musician
January 18
Kevin Costner, American actor, producer and director Simon Rattle
Frankie Knuckles, American disk jockey and record producer (d.
2014)
Marilyn Mazur, Danish percussionist
January 19 – Sir Simon Rattle, English orchestral conductor[13]
January 20 – Wyatt Knight, American actor (d. 2011)
January 21 – Jeff Koons, American artist[14]
January 22 – Sonja Morgenstern, German figure skater
January 25 – Olivier Assayas, French film director
Olivier Assayas
January 26
Björn Andrésen, Swedish actor
Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American rock musician (Van Halen) (d.
2020)
Lucía Méndez, Mexican film actress
January 27
John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States
Ratnottama Sengupta, Indian journalist
Eddie Van Halen
January 28
Vinod Khosla, Indian-born American venture capitalist
Nicolas Sarkozy, 23rd President of France[15]
 January 29
Rachid Mouffouk, Algerian sculptor
Femi Pedro, Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria
January 30 – Mychal Thompson, Bahamian basketball player

February John Roberts

February 1 – Hans Werner Olm, German television and film comedian

February 2 – Leszek Engelking, Polish poet, writer and translator
February 3
Mike Horner, American pornographic film actor
Kirsty Wark, Scottish television presenter
February 4 – Joseph D. Kernan, American military officer, Under
Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
February 6
Nicolas Sarkozy
Michael Pollan, American journalist
Irinej Dobrijević, American-born Serbian Bishop of Australia and New
Zealand
February 7 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor (d. 2017)
February 8
Janusz Cisek, Polish historian (d. 2020)
Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler (d. 2018)
John Grisham, American novelist
Mo Yan
Ethan Phillips, American actor
Xu Bing, Chinese artist
February 9 – Charles Shaughnessy, English actor
February 10
Chris Adams, English wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)
Pablo Borges Delgado, Cuban artist
Jim Cramer, American television personality
Greg Norman, Australian golfer Jeff Daniels
February 12
David Owen Brooks, American convicted murderer (d. 2020)
Bill Laswell, American bass guitarist
February 13 – Hank Risan, American scientist
February 14
Guillermo Francella, Argentine actor
Mitsuhisa Taguchi, Japanese footballer (d. 2019)
February 15 Kelsey
Grammer
Janice Dickinson, American model, photographer, author and talent
agent
Christopher McDonald, American actor
 February 16 – Bradley Byrne, American business attorney and politician,
Alabama
February 17 – Mo Yan, Chinese writer
February 18 – Cheetah Chrome, American musician
February 19
Jeff Daniels, American actor Steve Jobs

Siri Hustvedt, American novelist

February 20 – Mack Wilberg, American composer
February 21 – Kelsey Grammer, American actor and comedian
February 22 – David Axelrod, American political analyst
February 23 – Flip Saunders, American basketball coach (d. 2015)
February 24
Deborah Coyne, Canadian constitutional lawyer
Steve Jobs, American businessman and founder of Apple Inc. (d.
2011) Alain Prost
Alain Prost, French four-time Formula 1 world champion
February 25 – Leann Hunley, American television actress
February 27 – Grady Booch, American software engineer
February 28 – Gilbert Gottfried, American actor and comedian

March
March 1
Gilbert Gottfried
Sir Timothy Laurence, English vice admiral and second husband of
Anne, Princess Royal
Denis Mukwege, Congolese gynecologist, Nobel Peace Prize
laureate
March 2 – Shoko Asahara, Japanese cult leader (Aum Shinrikyo) (d.
2018)
March 3 – Kent Derricott, Canadian TV personality in Japan
March 4 – Dominique Pinon, French actor
March 5
Julien Dray, French politician Nina Hagen
Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian (Penn & Teller)
Deddy Mizwar, indonesian politician, actor, movie Director
March 6
Wendy Boglioli, American Olympic gold medallist swimmer (1976)
Jay Ilagan, Filipino actor (d. 1992)
Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician, 5th President of Burundi (d.
1994)
Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (d. 2015)
Gary Sinise
March 7
Michael Jan Friedman, American novelist and comic book writer
Tommy Kramer, American football player
March 8 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981)
March 9
Ornella Muti, Italian actress
Franco Uncini, Italian motorcycle racer
March 10
Yousra, Egyptian actress and singer
Marianne Rosenberg, German singer Jair Bolsonaro
March 11 – Nina Hagen, German pop singer
March 12 – Richard Martini, American film director
March 13
Bruno Conti, Italian football player
Gail Grandchamp, American female boxer
Glenne Headly, American actress of film, stage and television (d.
2017)
March 14 – Stephen R. Bissette, American comics artist
Bruce Willis
March 15
Robert Kabbas, Egyptian-born Australian Olympic silver medallist
weightlifter
Dee Snider, American rock singer (Twisted Sister)
March 16
Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director
Jiro Watanabe, Japanese former world super flyweight champion
boxer
March 17 Mariano Rajoy

Cynthia McKinney, American politician, activist

Gary Sinise, American actor, producer and director
March 18
Carlos Enrique Trinidad Gómez, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate
(d. 2018)
Guillermo Dávila, Venezuelan actor and singer
Dwayne Murphy, American baseball player
March 19 Reba McEntire

Pino Daniele, Italian music artist (d. 2015)

Bruce Willis, American actor
Simon Yam, Hong Kong actor
March 20
Eric Schiller, American chess player and author (d. 2018)
Mariya Takeuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter
March 21
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian congressman and politician, 38th President of Brazil
Philippe Troussier, French football coach
 Bärbel Wöckel, East German sprinter
March 22
Lena Olin, Swedish actress
Pete Sessions, American politician
Valdis Zatlers, 7th President of Latvia
March 23
Moses Malone, American basketball player (d. 2015)
Brendan
Susan Schwab, American politician, who served under President Gleeson
George W. Bush as United States Trade Representative
March 24
Celâl Şengör, Turkish geologist
Kim Johnston Ulrich, American actress
March 25 – Wendy Larry, American head coach of the Old Dominion
University Lady Monarchs women's basketball team
March 26 – Danny Arndt, Canadian ice hockey player
Marina Sirtis
March 27 – Mariano Rajoy, Prime Minister of Spain
March 28 – Reba McEntire, American country singer and actress
March 29
Earl Campbell, American football player
Margaret I. Cuomo, American radiologist
Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor
Angus Young
Christopher Lawford, American author, actor and activist (d. 2018)
Marina Sirtis, English actress
March 30
Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Filipina film director (d. 2012)
Randy VanWarmer, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
Humberto Vélez, Mexican voice actor
March 31
Philip Dimitrov, Bulgarian politician
Angus Young, lead guitarist of Australian rock group AC/DC

April
April 1 – Ockie Oosthuizen, South African rugby union player (d. 2019)
April 2
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal of Thailand
Chellie Pingree, Democratic politician, Maine's 1st congressional
district
April 3 – Mick Mars, American rock guitarist (Mötley Crüe)
Princess
April 5 – Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist Sirindhorn
April 6 – Michael Rooker, American actor
April 7
 Bruno Zaremba, French footballer (d. 2018)
Grace Hightower, American philanthropist, actress and singer
Gregg Jarrett, American lawyer turned journalist
Akira Nishino, Japanese soccer player and manager
Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993)
April 8
Kane Hodder, American actor Akira Toriyama
Barbara Kingsolver, American fiction writer
April 9 – Kate Heyhoe, American food writer
April 10 – Philip J. Hanlon, American mathematician and computer
science, 18th President of Dartmouth College
April 11 – Kevin Brady, American politician, Texas's 8th congressional
district
April 12 – Fred Ryan, chief executive officer of The Washington Post
April 13
Steve Camp, American Christian musician Michael Rooker
Hideki Saijo, Japanese singer and actor (d. 2018)
April 14 – Don Roos, American screenwriter
April 15
Tommy Castro, American blues guitarist
Dodi Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
Jeff Golub, American jazz guitarist (d. 2015)
April 16
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American DJ Henri, Grand
Duke of
April 17
Luxembourg
Rob Bolland, Dutch musician, songwriter and music producer
(Bolland & Bolland)
Pete Shelley, English singer-songwriter, musician (Buzzcocks) (d.
2018)
Dave VanDam, American voice actor and impressionist (d. 2018)
April 18 – Bobby Castillo, American baseball player (d. 2014)
April 20 – Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian-born British photographer (d.
1989)
April 21 Judy Davis
Ebiet G. Ade, Indonesian singer and songwriter
Toninho Cerezo, Brazilian footballer and coach
April 23
Judy Davis, Australian actress
Ludovikus Simanullang, Indonesian Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2018)
Fumi Hirano, Japanese voice actress and essayist
Tony Miles, English chess player (d. 2001)
April 24 – John de Mol, Dutch media tycoon
 April 25
Karon O. Bowdre, United States District Judge of the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
John Nunn, English chess player and mathematician
Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor
April 26 – Chen Daoming, Chinese actor
April 27
John Nunn
James Risen, American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter
and author
Eric Schmidt, American software engineer and businessman, CEO of
Google (2001-2011)
Jing Yidan, Chinese former television host
April 28 Eddie Jobson

Saeb Erekat, Palestinian diplomat (d. 2020)

Eddie Jobson, English musician
April 29
Richard Epcar, American voice actor
Kate Mulgrew, American actress
Yūko Tanaka, Japanese actress
April 30 – Zlatko Topčić, Bosnian writer and screenwriter
Kate Mulgrew

May
May 2
Willie Miller, Scottish footballer
Donatella Versace, Italian designer
Dave Winer, American software pioneer
May 4
Avram Grant, Israeli football manager Tom Bergeron
Robert Ellis Orrall, American singer
May 6 – Tom Bergeron, American television host
May 7 – Peter Reckell, American actor
May 8
Betsy Baker, American actress
Meles Zenawi, 10th Prime Minister of Ethiopia and 3rd President of
Ethiopia (d. 2012)
May 9
Bill Paxton
Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)
Anne Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
May 10
Chris Berman, American sports broadcaster
Mark David Chapman, American murderer of musician John Lennon
May 14
Big Van Vader, American professional wrestler and football player (d.
2018)
Dave Hoover, American comic book artist and animator (d. 2011)
Robert Tapert, American television producer
May 15 James Gosling

Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian politician (assassinated 2013)

Lee Horsley, American film, television and theater actor
Hege Skjeie, Norwegian political scientist and feminist (d. 2018)
May 16
Olga Korbut, Soviet gymnast
Olli Kortekangas, Finnish composer
Jack Morris, American baseball player
Richard Phillips, American merchant mariner and captain of the MV Rosanne Cash
Maersk Alabama
Debra Winger, American actress
May 17 – Bill Paxton, American actor (d. 2017)
May 18 – Chow Yun-fat, Hong Kong actor
May 19
Mark Staff Brandl, American and Swiss artist and art historian
James Gosling, Canadian software engineer
Th. Emil Homerin, American theologian Richard Schiff
May 20
Diego Abatantuono, Italian actor
Steve George, American keyboardist and singer
Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer
May 22
Chalmers "Spanky" Alford, American jazz guitarist (d. 2008)
Iva Davies, Australian singer and musician; lead singer of Icehouse
Dale Winton, English radio DJ and television presenter (d. 2018) Tommy
Emmanuel
May 24 – Rosanne Cash, American entertainer
May 25 – Connie Sellecca, American actress
May 26 – Doris Dörrie, German actress and screenplay writer
May 27 – Richard Schiff, American actor and comedian
May 29
John Hinckley Jr., attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan
Mike Porcaro, American bass guitarist (Toto) (d. 2015)
May 30
Brian Kobilka, American physiologist Susie Essman
Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
Colm Tóibín, Irish novelist
May 31
 Tommy Emmanuel, Australian guitarist
Susie Essman, American actress
Lynne Truss, English writer

June
June 1 – Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (58th Yokozuna
grand champion) (d. 2016)
June 2 – Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian
June 3 – Daniel Filmus, Argentine politician, member of the Chamber of
Deputies of Argentina
June 4 – Mary Testa, American film actress
June 5 – Fernando Borrego Linares, Cuban singer and songwriter (aka Sam Simon
Polo Montañez)
June 6
Sandra Bernhard, American comedian, actress, author and singer
Chris Nyman, American baseball player
Sam Simon, American filmmaker (d. 2015)
June 7
Jo Gilbert, English film producer and casting director (d. 2018)
Bob Beatty, American football coach Griffin Dunne
Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
June 8
Duke Aiona, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii
Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist and World Wide Web
inventor
Griffin Dunne, American actor and director
June 10
Floyd Bannister, American baseball player Laurie Metcalf

Andrew Stevens, American actor, producer and director

June 11 – Yuriy Sedykh, Ukrainian hammer thrower (d. 2021)
June 12 – William Langewiesche, American author
June 13 – John E. Jones III, American justice
June 14
Tito Rojas, Puerto Rican salsa singer and songwriter (d. 2020) Michel Platini

Kim Lankford, American actress, businesswoman and horse wrangler

Paul O'Grady (also known as "Lily Savage"), English talk show host and comedian
June 15
István Levente Garai, Hungarian physician and politician (d. 2018)
Polly Draper, American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director
David A. Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1984)
June 16 – Laurie Metcalf, American actress
June 18 – Sandy Allen, American, world's tallest woman (d. 2008)
 June 20 – Tor Nørretranders, Danish author
June 21
Aloysius Amwano, Nauruan politician
Tim Bray, Canadian computer programmer
Jean-Pierre Mader, French singer-songwriter
Leigh McCloskey, American actor
Michel Platini, French retired football player and President of UEFA
June 22 – Choi Kyoung-hwan, South Korean politician; Prime Minister of Isabelle Adjani
South Korea
June 23
Jean Tigana, Malian-French international footballer
Glenn Danzig, American rock singer (The Misfits, Samhain, Danzig)
June 24 – Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Japanese economist and professor
June 25 – Víctor Manuel Vucetich, Mexican footballer and manager
June 26
Tim Berners-Lee
Gedde Watanabe, American actor and comedian
Yoko Gushiken, Japanese former WBA light flyweight champion boxer
June 27 – Isabelle Adjani, French actress
June 30 – Egils Levits, President of Latvia

July
July 1
Sanma Akashiya, Japanese comedian and actor
Nikolai Demidenko, Russian born British classical pianist
Christian Estrosi, French sportsman and politician
Li Keqiang, Premier of the People's Republic of China
Lisa Scottoline, American novelist
Li Keqiang
Keith Whitley, American country music singer (d. 1989)
July 2
Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor
Stephen Walt, American political scientist
Sylvie Le Noach, French swimmer
Randy Burchell, Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender Keith Whitley

Chau Giang, Vietnamese-born American professional poker player

Proceso Alcala, Filipino politician
July 3
Bruce Altman, American actor
John Cramer, American game show announcer
Matt Keough, American baseball player
July 4
Lindsey Graham
Eero Heinäluoma, Finnish politician[16]
 Víctor Reymundo Nájera, Mexican politician
July 5
Sebastian Barry, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
Shannon Bell, Canadian performance philosopher
Mia Couto, Mozambican writer
Muhammad Aslam Khan Raisani, Pakistani politician
Henry Lee Summer, American singer
July 7
Jimmy Smits
Paul Bahoken, Cameroonian footballer
Rolf Saxon, American actor
Ludo Vika, Dominican actress
July 8
Vladislava Milosavljević, Serbian actress
Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress
July 9
Lindsey Graham, American politician, lawyer, U.S. Army soldier, U.S.
Adrienne King
Senator (R-Sc.) and unsuccessful 2016 presidential candidate
Fred Norris, American radio personality
Jimmy Smits, American actor
July 10
Andrea Bruce, Jamaican athlete
Vinnie Curto, American professional boxer
Ray Goff, American football player and coach
Dan Newhouse, American politician
July 11 Dannel Malloy

Balaji Sadasivan, Singaporean politician and neurosurgeon

Søren Sætter-Lassen, Danish actor
July 12
Timothy Garton Ash, English modern historian
Nina Gunke, Swedish actress
Tadashi Miyazawa, Japanese voice actor
July 13 – Yoshitaka Tamba, Japanese actor Béla Tarr
July 14 – Ramon Jimenez Jr., Filipino attorney
July 15
Željko Burić, Croatian politician and doctor
Didier Etumba, Congolese Army general
Pooran Prakash, Indian politician
July 16
Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (d. 1987)
Patrick Bernasconi, French business executive
 Ritva Elomaa, Finnish professional female bodybuilding champion,
pop singer and politician
Janet Huckabee, American politician
Saw Swee Leong, Malaysian badminton player
July 17
Janina Buzūnaitė-Žukaitienė, Lithuanian painter, poet, creator of
accessories and metal sculptures
Fei Yu-ching, Taiwanese singer-songwriter Willem Dafoe
Sylvie Léonard, French-Canadian actress
Alvin Slaughter, American gospel singer-songwriter and worship
leader
July 18
Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and sculptor
György Matolcsy, Hungarian politician and economist
Sergey Zimov, Russian geophysicist and creator of Pleistocene Park
July 19 – Karen Cheryl, French singer, actress, radio and television
presenter
Iman
July 20 – Edgar Zambrano, Venezuelan lawyer and politician[17]
July 21
Adrienne King, American actress
Dannel Malloy, American politician
Howie Epstein, American musician and producer (d. 2003)
Béla Tarr, Hungarian film director
July 22
Gbenga Bareehu Ashafa, Nigerian politician Asif Ali Zardari
Willem Dafoe, American actor
July 25 – Iman, Somalian model
July 26
Michele Pillar, American Christian musician
Asif Ali Zardari, 11th President of Pakistan
July 27 – Allan Border, Australian cricketer
July 31 – Jakie Quartz, French singer

August
August 1 – Paul Shrubb, English professional footballer, coach and scout (d. 2020)
August 2
John Battaglia, American convicted murderer (d. 2018)
Caleb Carr, American writer
August 3
Corey Burton, American voice actor
Roger Gifford, Lord Mayor of London 2013
August 4
 Gerrie Coetzee, South African boxer, 1983-1984 WBA heavyweight
champion.
Billy Bob Thornton, American actor, director and screenwriter
August 6
Gordon J. Brand, English golfer
Ron Davis, American baseball player
Earl Smith, Jamaican Reggae guitarist
Billy Bob
August 7 Thornton
Wayne Knight, American actor and comedian
Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer
August 8 – Diddú (Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir), Icelandic soprano and
songwriter
August 9 – Doug Williams, American football quarterback
August 10 – Mel Tiangco, Filipina television anchor, journalist and
humanitarian
August 12
Heintje Simons, Dutch singer and actor
Richard Hilton
Gish Jen, American fiction writer
August 13 – Daryl, American magician (d. 2017)
August 17 – Richard Hilton, American businessman
August 19
Peter Gallagher, American actor
Terry Harper, American baseball player
Apisai Ielemia, 10th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
August 20 – Agnes Chan, Hong Kong-born TV personality in Japan
August 22 Apisai Ielemia

Chiranjeevi, Indian actor

Gordon Liu, Chinese actor
August 24 – Mike Huckabee, American politician, Governor and 2008
Presidential candidate
August 25 – John McGeoch, Scottish musician (d. 2004)
August 27
Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
Mike Huckabee
Diana Scarwid, American actress
Sergey Khlebnikov, Soviet speed skater (d. 1999)
August 30
Mayumi Muroyama, Japanese manga artist
Andy Pask, English bass player and composer (Landscape)
Helge Schneider, comedian, jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist,
author, film and theatre director
August 31 – Edwin Moses, American athlete Sergey
Khlebnikov
September
September 1
Billy Blanks, American martial artist; inventor of the Tae Bo exercise
program
Bruce Foxton, English musician
September 2
Robert Duncan, American astrophysicist
Billy Blanks
Claus Kleber, German television journalist
Natalya Petrusyova, Soviet speed skater
Michelle Yim, Hong Kong actress
September 4
David Broza, Israeli singer-songwriter and activist
Teodor Frunzeti, Romanian general
Hiroshi Izawa, Japanese actor
September 6 – Raymond Benson, American author
September 7 – Efim Zelmanov, Russian mathematician
John Kricfalusi
September 9
Edward Hibbert, English-American actor and literary agent
John Kricfalusi, Canadian cartoonist
Ivan Smirnov, Russian composer and guitar player (d. 2018)
September 12 – Peter Scolari, American actor and comedian
September 13 – Dan Ghica-Radu, Romanian general
September 15
Željka Antunović, Croatian politician
Brendan O'Carroll, Irish actor and comedian
Bruce Reitherman, American filmmaker and voice actor Edward Hibbert

Renzo Rosso, Italian clothing designer

September 16 – Robin Yount, American baseball player
September 17
Marina Lima, Brazilian singer and songwriter
Charles Martinet, American voice-actor
September 18 – Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (d. 2006)
September 19 – Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer Charles Martinet
and musician (d. 2006)
September 21
Richard Hieb, American astronaut
Israel Katz, Israeli politician[18]
September 24 – Shinbo Nomura, Japanese manga artist
September 25
Zucchero Fornaciari, Italian singer-songwriter
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German football player
 September 27, Joice Erna, Indonesian Actress
September 28 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician
September 29
Joe Donnelly, American politician
Gwen Ifill, American journalist (d. 2016)
September 30
Janet Arceo, Mexican actress, TV presenter, announcer, director and Zucchero
businesswoman (Doña Eduviges in El Chavo del Ocho) Fornaciari

Andy Bechtolsheim, German electrical engineer and Co-founder of

Sun Microsystems.

October
October 1 – P. B. Abdul Razak, Indian politician (d. 2018)
October 2 – Philip Oakey, English synth-pop singer-songwriter (The
Human League)
October 3 – Tommy Wiseau, American film director and actor, known for
the 2003 "dark comedy" The Room
October 4 – Dane Sorensen, New Zealand rugby league player
October 5
Tommy Wiseau
Bart D. Ehrman, American religious studies scholar and writer,
specialist in textual criticism
Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
Caroline Loeb, French singer and actress
October 7 – Yo-Yo Ma, French-born Chinese American cellist
October 8
Bill Elliott, American racing driver Yo-Yo Ma
Darrell Hammond, Comedian (Saturday Night Live)
October 12 – Pat DiNizio, American singer-songwriter (The Smithereens)
(d. 2017)
October 13 – Sergei Shepelev, Russian ice hockey player
October 15
James B. Aguayo-Martel, Mexican-born physician, surgeon, scientist
and inventor
Kulbir Bhaura, Indian-born British field hockey player
Bill Gates
Emily Yoffe, American journalist and advice columnist
October 17 – Tyrone Mitchell, American murderer (d. 1984)
October 18
Hiromi Go, Japanese singer
Timmy Mallett, English television presenter
October 19
Lonnie Shelton, American basketball player (d. 2018) Indra Nooyi
LaSalle Ishii, Japanese television personality
 Roland Dyens, French classical guitarist and composer (d. 2016)
Dan Gutman, American writer
October 20
Tony Hanson, American basketball player (d. 2018)
Thomas Newman, American composer
October 21
Yasukazu Hamada, Japanese politician
Rich Mullins, American Christian musician (d. 1997)
October 24
Karen Austin, American actress
Katherine Knight, Australian mariticide
October 25
Glynis Barber, South African-born British actress
Gale Anne Hurd, American film and television producer
October 28
Bill Gates, American businessman and co-founder of Microsoft
Indra Nooyi, Indian business executive
October 29
Kevin DuBrow, American rock singer (d. 2007)
Roger O'Donnell, English rock keyboardist
Etsuko Shihomi, Japanese actress

November
November 1 – Joe Arroyo, Colombian salsa and tropical music singer (d.
2011)
November 3
Howard Michaels, American businessman (d. 2018)
Teresa De Sio, Italian singer-songwriter
Phil Simms, American football player
Yukihiko Tsutsumi, Japanese film director Kris Jenner
November 4
Rita Bhaduri, Indian actress (d. 2018)
Moulana Ghousavi Shah, Sufi teacher and author, Secretary General
of The Conference of World Religions
Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
November 5
Pedro Brieger, Argentine journalist and sociologist.
Kris Jenner, American television personality Maria Shriver
Karan Thapar, Indian journalist, political analyst and commentator
November 6 – Maria Shriver, American television journalist, host; First
Lady of California
November 7
Al Attles, American basketball player and coach
Norbert Eder, German footballer (d. 2019)
Paul Romer, American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic
Sciences laureate
Detlef Ultsch, German judo athlete
November 9 – Karen Dotrice, Guernsey-born child actress
November 10 – Roland Emmerich, German film director Roland
Emmerich
November 11 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
November 13 – Whoopi Goldberg, African-American actress and
comedian
November 14
Koichi Nakano, Japanese bicycle racer
Jack Sikma, American basketball player
November 16 – Guillermo Lasso, President-elect of Ecuador[19]
November 17
Bill Macatee, American sports broadcaster Whoopi
Goldberg
Yolanda King, African-American actress and activist (d. 2007)
November 19 – Dianne de Leeuw, Dutch figure skater
November 20 – Ray Ozzie, American computer programmer
November 21
Kyle Gann, American composer and music critic
Cedric Maxwell, American basketball player
November 23
Steven Brust, American fantasy author
Guillermo Lasso
Peter Douglas, American television and film producer
Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and composer
Mary Landrieu, American politician, U.S. Senator from Louisiana
November 24
Sir Ian Botham, English cricketer
Najib Mikati, Lebanese politician, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon
November 25 – Bruno Tonioli, film, music video and theater
choreographer
November 26 –
Bill Nye
Tracy Hickman, American author
Jelko Kacin, Slovenian politician, Member of the European Parliament
November 27 – Bill Nye, American science presenter and public television host
November 28 – Alessandro Altobelli, Italian football player
November 29 – Howie Mandel, Canadian actor and game show host
November 30
Michael Beschloss, American historian
Kevin Conroy, American voice actor
 Billy Idol, born William Broad, British rock musician

December
December 3
Melody Anderson, Canadian actress and social worker
Steven Culp, American actor
Warren Jeffs, American criminal Kevin Conroy
Andrea Romano, American retired casting director, voice director, and
voice actress
December 4 – Maurizio Bianchi, Italian musician
December 12 – Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek politician and
businesswoman
December 13 – Manohar Parrikar, Indian politician (d. 2019)
December 14 – Hervé Guibert, French writer and photographer (d. 1991)
December 16 – Xander Berkeley, American actor
December 17 – Brad Davis, American basketball player Xander Berkeley
December 21 – Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
December 23
Keith Comstock, American baseball player
Carol Ann Duffy, Scottish poet
Stefan Arngrim, Canadian actor
December 24
Mizuho Fukushima, Japanese politician
Clarence Gilyard, American actor and college professor
Jane
December 27 – Barbara Olson, American television commentator (d. Kaczmarek
2001)
December 28 – Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic and human rights
activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 2017)
December 31 – Jim Tracy, American baseball player and manager

Deaths
Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November ·
December

January
January 1 – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian scientist (b. 1894)
January 2 – José Antonio Remón Cantera, 19th President of Panama (assassinated) (b.
1908)
January 6 – Yevgeny Tarle, Soviet historian (b. 1874)
January 11 – Rodolfo Graziani, Italian general (b. 1882)
 January 15
Johannes Baader, German artist (b. 1875)
Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
January 21 – Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
January 22 – Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American athlete (b. 1892)
January 24 – Ira Hayes, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (b. 1923)
January 29 – Hans Hedtoft, 14th Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1903) Hans Hedtoft
January 31 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize (b. 1865)

February
February 3 - Vasily Blokhin, Soviet executioner (b. 1895)
February 6 – Constantin Argetoianu, 41st Prime Minister of Romania (b.
1871)
February 11 – Ona Munson, American actress (b. 1903)
February 12
Thomas J. Moore, Irish-American film actor (b. 1883)
Constantin
S. Z. Sakall, Hungarian actor (b. 1883)
Argetoianu
February 20 – Oswald Avery, American physician and medical researcher
(b. 1877)
February 23 – Paul Claudel, French poet, dramatist, and diplomat (b. 1868)
February 27 – Trixie Friganza, American actress (b. 1870)[20]

March
March 3 – Katharine Drexel, American Roman Catholic foundress and
saint (b. 1858)
March 8 – William C. deMille, American screenwriter and director (b.
1878)
March 9
Miroslava Stern, Czechoslovakian-Mexican actress (b. 1926)
Matthew Henson, American explorer (b. 1866)
Sir Alexander
March 11 – Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Fleming
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1881)[21]
March 12 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist (b. 1920)
March 16 – Nicolas de Staël, Russian painter (b. 1914)
March 19 – Mihály Károlyi, 1st President of Hungary and 20th Prime Minister of Hungary (b.
1875)
March 23 – Arthur Bernardes, 12th President of Brazil (b. 1875)
March 24 – John W. Davis, American politician, diplomat, and lawyer (b. 1873)

April
April 7 – Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)
 April 10 – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit priest, philosopher,
paleontologist and geologist (b. 1881)
April 13 – Peyton C. March, United States Army general (b. 1864)
April 18 – Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1879)
April 24 – Alfred Polgar, Austrian-born journalist (b. 1873)
April 25 – Constance Collier, stage and screen actress; acting coach (b.
1878) Albert Einstein

May
May 2 – Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, 10th Governor-
General of Australia (b. 1872)
May 4
Louis Charles Breguet, French aircraft designer and builder and early
aviation pioneer (b. 1880)
George Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881)
May 10 Mary McLeod
Bethune
Tommy Burns, American boxer (b. 1881)
John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)[22]
May 11 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)[23]
May 14 – Charles Pelot Summerall, American general (b. 1867)[24]
May 16 – James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)
May 18 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (b. 1875)
May 19 – Concha Espina, Spanish writer (b. 1869)
May 26 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race-car driver (accident) (b. 1918)
May 29 – Rudolf Klein-Rogge, German actor (b. 1885)
May 30 – Bill Vukovich, American race-car driver (accident) (b. 1918)

June
June 3 – Barbara Graham, American criminal (executed) (b. 1923)
June 10 – Margaret Abbott, American golfer (b. 1878)
June 11 – Walter Hampden, American actor (b. 1879)
June 12 – Redcliffe N. Salaman, British botanist (b. 1874)[25]
June 13 - Walter Braemer, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1883)
June 17 – Carlyle Blackwell, American actor (b. 1884)
Walter Hampden
June 26 – Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (b. 1895)
June 29 – Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)

July
July 9 – Adolfo de la Huerta, 38th President of Mexico (b. 1881)[26]
July 13
 Ruth Ellis, British-born murderer, last woman to be executed in the
United Kingdom (b. 1926)
Stanley Price, American film and television actor (b. 1892)
July 20 – Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and
philanthropist (b. 1869)
July 23 – Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1871)
Adolfo de la
July 25 – Isaak Dunayevsky, Soviet film composer and conductor (b.
Huerta
1900)
July 31 – Robert Francis, American actor (b. 1930)

August
August 1 – William Hamilton, American Olympic athlete (b. 1883)
August 2
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Bavarian military leader and last
Bavarian crown prince (b. 1869)
Wallace Stevens, American poet (b. 1879)
August 5 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-born Brazilian singer and
actress (b. 1909) Carmen Miranda
August 11 – Frank Seiberling, American inventor, co-founder of Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Company (b. 1859)
August 12
Thomas Mann, German novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
August 17 – Fernand Léger, French painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
August 28 – Emmett Till, American murder victim (b. 1941)

September
September 20 – Robert Riskin, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
September 23 – Martha Norelius, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1908)
September 30
Michael Chekhov, Russian actor, theatre director, and writer (b. 1891)
James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
James Dean

October
October 4 – Alexander Papagos, Greek Field Marshal (b. 1883)
October 7 – Rodolphe Seeldrayers, German journalist and administrator, 4th President of
FIFA (b. 1876)
October 9
Theodor Innitzer, Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1875)
Alice Joyce, American actress (b. 1890)
October 13
 Manuel Ávila Camacho, 45th President of Mexico (b. 1897)[27]
Alexandrina Maria da Costa, Portuguese Roman Catholic mystic,
victim soul and blessed (b. 1904)
October 17 – Dimitrios Maximos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1873)
October 18 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883)
October 19 – John Hodiak, American actor (b. 1914)
October 25 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese atomic bomb sickness victim (b.
José Ortega y
1943)
Gasset
October 27 – Juan de Dios Martínez, 23rd President of Ecuador (b. 1875)

November
November 1 – Dale Carnegie, American writer and lecturer (b. 1888)
November 4
David Julius, American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine laureate
Cy Young, American baseball player (Cleveland Spiders) and
member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1867)
Shemp Howard
November 5 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
November 7 – Tom Powers, American actor (b. 1890)
November 12 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer and architect (b. 1878)
November 14 – Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright (b. 1896)
November 15 – Lloyd Bacon, American actor and director (b. 1889)
November 17
James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
Helmuth Weidling, German general (b. 1891)
November 22 – Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges) (b.
1895)
November 27 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)

December
December 5 – Jirō Minami, Japanese general and Governor-General of
Korea (1936-1942) (b. 1874)
December 6 – Honus Wagner, American baseball player (Pittsburgh
Pirates) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1874)
December 8 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, theoretical
physicist and philosopher (b. 1885) Honus Wagner
December 13 – António Egas Moniz, Portuguese neurologist, recipient of
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)
December 15 – Otto Braun, German politician, former Minister President of the Free State of
Prussia (b. 1872)
December 18 – Anna Murray Vail, American botanist (b. 1863)
December 21 – Garegin Nzhdeh, Armenian statesman (b. 1886)
December 24 – Nana Bryant, American actress (b. 1888)
Nobel Prizes
Physics – Willis Eugene Lamb and Polykarp Kusch
Chemistry – Vincent du Vigneaud
Physiology or Medicine – Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
Literature – Halldór Kiljan Laxness
Peace – not awarded

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