Editing 1921

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== Events ==

=== January ===
{{Main|January 1921}}
* [[January 2]]
** The [[Association football]] club [[Cruzeiro Esporte Clube]], from [[Belo Horizonte]], is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in [[First Brazilian Republic|Brazil]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Alex |last=Bellos|title=Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life - Updated Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dE9xAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA408|date=2014|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4088-5416-7|pages=408–}}</ref>
** The Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' breaks in two and sinks off Villa Garcia, Mexico, with the loss of 244 of the 300 people on board.<ref name=Times050121a>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Times]] |title=Santa Isabel disaster |date=5 January 1921 |page=9 |issue=42610}}</ref>
* [[January 16]] &ndash; The [[Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine]] holds its founding congress in [[Ľubochňa]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Yeshayahu A. Jelinek|author2=Yešaʻyāhû Yelîneq|author3=Yeshayahu Jelinek|title=The Lust for Power: Nationalism, Slovakia, and the Communists, 1918-1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O8dnAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=East European Monographs|isbn=978-0-88033-019-0|page=7}}</ref>
* [[January 17]] &ndash; The first recorded public performance of the illusion of "[[sawing a woman in half]]" is given by English stage magician [[P. T. Selbit]] at the [[Finsbury Park]] Empire variety theatre in London.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jim|last=Steinmeyer|authorlink=Jim Steinmeyer|title=Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible|publisher=Random House|year=2003|pages=277–295}}</ref> 
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[British K-class submarine]] [[HMS K5|HMS ''K5'']] sinks in the [[English Channel]]; all 57 on board are lost.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Stephen |last1=Courtney|first2=Brian |last2=Patterson|title=Home of the Fleet: A Century of Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in Photographs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7RM7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT56|date=2009|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-0-7509-5653-6|pages=56}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] &ndash; The full-length [[Silent film|silent]] [[comedy drama]] film ''[[The Kid (1921 film)|The Kid]]'', written, produced, directed by and starring [[Charlie Chaplin]] (in his Tramp character), with [[Jackie Coogan]], is released in the United States.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci|Italian battleship ''Leonardo da Vinci'']] is righted in [[Taranto]] Harbour.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1921}}
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Red Army invasion of Georgia]]: The [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]] is invaded by forces of [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Bolshevist Russia]].<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=John |editor-last=Paxton|title=The Statesman's Year-Book 1974-75: The Encyclopaedia for the Businessman-of-the-World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vI3JDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1428|date=2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-27103-6|pages=1428}}</ref>
* [[February 19]] &ndash; The [[French Third Republic]] and [[Second Polish Republic]] form a defensive alliance.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://untreaty.un.org/unts/60001_120000/20/24/00039182.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111180924/http://untreaty.un.org/unts/60001_120000/20/24/00039182.pdf |archive-date=11 January 2012 |publisher=Société des Nations.|title=Recueil des traités|volume=449 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[February 20]] &ndash; The [[Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia]] is founded.<ref>{{cite book|title=Czechoslovak Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=amsOAQAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Orbis|page=14}}</ref>
* [[February 21]]
** [[1921 Persian coup d'état]]: [[Rezā Shāh|Rezā Khan]] and [[Zia'eddin Tabatabaee]] stage a [[coup d'état]] in [[Qajar dynasty]] [[Iran]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Cosroe |last=Chaquèri |author-link=Khosrow Shakeri Zand |title=The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920-1921: Birth of the Trauma|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8NltAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|isbn=978-0-8229-3792-0|page=307}}</ref>
** [[Conference of London of 1921–1922]] convenes in an attempt to resolve problems arising from the [[dissolution of the Ottoman Empire]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[February 23]] &ndash; The moderately conservative public official [[Oscar von Sydow]] takes over the Swedish premiership from Baron Louis De Geer the Younger.<ref>{{cite book|title=The New International Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xyZNAQAAMAAJ|year=1922 |publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company|page=685}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Red Army invasion of Georgia]]: The [[Red Army]] enters the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia|Georgian]] capital [[Tbilisi]] and occupies the country, installing a new government and proclaiming the Georgian Soviet Republic.<ref>{{cite book|editor-first1=F. J. Ferdinand Joseph Maria |editor-last1=Feldbrugge|editor-first2=Gerard Pieter |editor-last2=Van den Berg|editor-first3=William Bradford |editor-last3=Simons|title=Encyclopedia of Soviet Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j7gBESqTciYC&pg=PA464|date=1985|publisher=Brill|isbn=90-247-3075-9|pages=464}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] &ndash; A Socialist congress at [[Vienna]] ends with the [[International Working Union of Socialist Parties]] founded.<ref>{{cite book|title=To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921 |editor-first=John |editor-last=Riddell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFLoBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|date=2015|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-28803-4|pages=59}}</ref>
* [[February 28]] &ndash; The [[Kronstadt rebellion]] is initiated by sailors of the [[Soviet Navy]]'s [[Baltic Fleet]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Soviet Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e7UaAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA13|year=1970|publisher=Embassy of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in the USA|pages=5}}</ref>

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1921}}
* March &ndash; The [[Group Settlement Scheme]] in [[Western Australia]] begins.<ref>{{cite book|first=Graeme Donald |last=Snooks |author-link=Graeme Snooks|title=Depression and Recovery in Western Australia, 1928/29-1938/39: A Study in Cyclical and Structural Change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5SbUAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=University of Western Australia Press|isbn=978-0-85564-076-7|page=54}}</ref>
* [[March 1]]
** The city of [[Kiryū, Gunma|Kiryū]], located in [[Gunma Prefecture]], Japan, is founded.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
** The [[Australia national cricket team]], led by [[Warwick Armstrong]], becomes the first to complete a [[Whitewash (sport)|whitewash]] of the touring England team in [[The Ashes]], something that will not be repeated for 86 years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Warwick Armstrong {{!}} cricket.com.au |url=https://www.cricket.com.au/players/CA:1388/warwick-armstrong#:~:text=The%201920/21%20side%20became,supreme%20talent%20on%20the%20field. |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=www.cricket.com.au |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[Irish War of Independence]]: [[Clonbanin ambush]]: A force of about 100 [[Irish Republican Army]] members attacks a British Army convoy of 40 soldiers, killing several, including [[Brigadier General]] [[Hanway Robert Cumming|Cumming]].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Padraic O'Farrell |first=Padraic |last=O'Farrell|title=Who's Who in the Irish War of Independence, 1916-1921|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2YtnAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Mercier Press|page=40}}</ref>
* [[March 6]] – The [[Allies of World War II|Allied Powers]] force [[Weimar Republic|Germany]] to pay war reparations.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 7, 1921 |title=PENALTIES TO BE PUT INTO EFFECT |url=https://archive.org/details/cgl_001450/mode/1up |work=Glendale Daily Press |pages=1}}</ref>
* [[March 8]]
** Spanish Premier [[Eduardo Dato e Iradier]] is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in [[Madrid]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1921-03-09 |title=SPANISH PREMIER IS ASSASSINATED, LEAVING CONGRESS; Eduardo Dato, Attacked by Several Persons, Is Slain by Revolver Shots. CAUGHT IN A MOTOR CAR Actual Assassin Used Motorcycle and Fled--ChauffeurIs Also Killed.FRIENDLY TO ALLIES IN WARDato Was Leader of Conservativesand Had Little Sympathyfor Americans. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/03/09/archives/spanish-premier-is-assassinated-leaving-congress-eduardo-dato.html |access-date=2025-05-23 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
** Allied forces occupy [[Düsseldorf]], Ruhrort and [[Duisburg]].
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Cilicia Peace Treaty]] is signed between the [[French Third Republic]] and the [[Turkish National Movement]] in an attempt to end the [[Franco-Turkish War]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.indiana.edu/~league/1921.htm|title=League of Nations - Chronology 1921 |website=League of Nations Photo Archive |access-date=December 31, 2020|archive-date=December 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213062958/http://www.indiana.edu/~league/1921.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] &ndash; The ''[[İstiklâl Marşı]]'' (Independence March), the Turkish national anthem, is officially adopted.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Occupation of Mongolia]]: The Russian [[White Army]] captures [[Mongolia]] from China; [[Roman von Ungern-Sternberg]] declares himself ruler.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Armenia]]n Soghomon Tehlirian assassinates Mehmed Talaat, former Interior Minister of the [[Ottoman Empire]], in [[Charlottenburg]], Berlin.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[March 16]]
** [[Treaty of Moscow (1921)|Treaty of Moscow]] establishes friendly relations between the [[Government of the Grand National Assembly]] of Turkey and the [[Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
** Six [[Irish Republican Army]] men of the [[Forgotten Ten]] are hanged in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.<ref>{{cite book|first=May |last=Moran|title=Executed for Ireland: The Patrick Moran Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sDzBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT289|date=2010|publisher=Mercier Press Ltd|isbn=978-1-78117-117-2|pages=289}}</ref>
* [[March 17]]
** The [[Red Army]] crushes the [[Kronstadt rebellion]], and a number of sailors flee to Finland.<ref>{{cite book|first=Paul F. |last=Robinson|title=The White Russian Army in Exile, 1920-1941|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jbhpAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-925021-9|page=60}}</ref>
** [[Marie Stopes]] opens the first [[birth control]] clinic in the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Empire]] in London, UK.<ref>{{cite book|first=Audrey |last=Leathard|title=The Fight for Family Planning: The Development of Family Planning Services in Britain, 1921-74|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SreRAAAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-333-25954-2|page=1}}</ref>
** The [[Second Polish Republic]] adopts the [[March Constitution of Poland|March Constitution]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[March 18]] &ndash; The second [[Peace of Riga]] ends the [[Polish–Soviet War]]. A permanent border is established between the Polish and Soviet states.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Upper Silesia plebiscite|Upper Silesia]] votes for re-annexation to Germany.<ref>{{cite news |title=Army Ready For Silesian Plebiscite Today |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 20, 1921 |p=1}}</ref>
* [[March 21]]
** The [[New Economic Policy]] starts in [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
** [[Irish War of Independence]]: [[Headford Ambush]] &ndash; The [[Irish Republican Army]] kills at least 9 British Army troops.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[March 24]] &ndash; The [[1921 Women's Olympiad]] (the first international [[women's sports]] event) begins in Monte Carlo.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}} 
* [[March 31]]
** Abkhazia becomes the [[Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
** The British government formally returns the coal mines from wartime control to their private owners, who demand wage cuts; in response, the [[Miners' Federation of Great Britain]] calls on its partner trade unions in the [[Triple Alliance (1914)|Triple Alliance]] to join it in [[strike action]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Build-up to the General Strike|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/archives_online/digital/gs/timeline/before/|publisher=[[Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick]]|location=Coventry|date=2019-08-13|access-date=2020-08-22}}</ref> leading in turn to the government declaring a [[state of emergency]] for the first time under the [[Emergency Powers Act 1920]]. On April 1, a [[Lockout (industry)|lockout]] of striking coal miners begins.<ref name=CentStruggle>{{cite book|title=Century of Struggle|page=39|url=http://num.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Century-of-Struggle-Mini.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://num.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Century-of-Struggle-Mini.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|access-date=2020-08-22}}</ref>

=== April ===
{{Main|April 1921}}
* [[April 11]] &ndash; The [[Emirate of Transjordan]] is created under British Mandate, with [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Abdullah I]] as emir.<ref>{{cite book|author1=ʻAbd al-Salām Majālī|author2=Jawad Ahmed Anani|author3=Munther J. Haddadin|title=Peacemaking: The Inside Story of the 1994 Jordanian-Israeli Treaty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ywdIszN8AEQC&pg=PA1|year=2006|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3765-0|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[April 15]] &ndash; "[[Black Friday (1921)|Black Friday]]" in Britain: transport union members of the '[[Triple Alliance (1914)|Triple Alliance]]' refuse to support national [[strike action]] by coal miners.<ref>{{cite book|first=Gerald |last=Gould|title=The Lesson of Black Friday (ie April 15 1921)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7VA8vwEACAAJ|year=1921|publisher=World Microfilms}}</ref>{{page needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Ferenc Molnár]]'s play ''[[Liliom]]'' is first produced in English on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Lee |last=Kovacs|title=The Haunted Screen: Ghosts in Literature and Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=79HGk2CPAPgC&pg=PA107|date=7 November 2005|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-2605-8|pages=107}}</ref> The play would later be adapted as the musical ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]''.

=== May ===
{{Main|May 1921}}
* [[May 1]]&ndash;[[May 7|7]] &ndash; [[Jaffa riots]]: Riots at [[Jaffa]], [[Mandatory Palestine]] result in 47 Jewish and 48 Arab deaths.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[May 2]]&ndash;[[July 5]] &ndash; [[Silesian Uprisings#Third Silesian Uprising (1921)|Third Silesian Uprising]]: Poles in [[Upper Silesia]] rise against the Germans.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[May 3]] &ndash; The province of [[Northern Ireland]] is created within the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book |author-link=Alvin Jackson (historian) |first=Alvin |last=Jackson |title=Home Rule – An Irish History |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |pp=368-370}}</ref>
* [[May 5]]
** London Schedule of Payments sets out the [[World War I reparations]] payable by the German [[Weimar Republic]] and other countries considered successors to the [[Central Powers]] &ndash; 132&nbsp;billion gold marks ($33&nbsp;billion), in annual installments of 2.5&nbsp;billion.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
** [[Chanel No. 5]] perfume launched by [[Coco Chanel]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Sandrine|last=Papleux|title=Coco Chanel: Une couturière à contre-courant|publisher=50 Minutes|year=2016|isbn=9782806274458|page=26}}</ref>
** Only 13 paying spectators attend the football match between [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]] and [[Stockport County F.C.]] in England, the lowest attendance in [[The Football League]]'s history.<ref>It is estimated that between 1,000 and 2,000 people actually attended the match; [[Manchester United F.C.]] had played a home game at the venue immediately beforehand, and some of the spectators for that match had stayed on to watch the Stockport match for free. However, only thirteen people paid at the gate to watch the Stockport match by itself. {{cite web|url=http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/Articles/GroundsDoupleUp.htm|title=Two grounds have doubled up on staging League matches on the same day|work=footballsite.co.uk|access-date=2012-05-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731080311/http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/Articles/GroundsDoupleUp.htm|archive-date=July 31, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] &ndash; The German-Soviet Provisional Agreement is signed: Germany recognises the Soviet government in the [[RSFSR]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}} 
* [[May 14]]&ndash;[[May 15|15]] &ndash; The major [[May 1921 geomagnetic storm]] occurs.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[May 14]]&ndash;[[May 17|17]] &ndash; Violent anti-European riots occur in [[Cairo]] and [[Alexandria]], [[Egypt]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[May 16]] &ndash; The [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]] is founded.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[May 19]] &ndash; The [[Emergency Quota Act]] is passed by the [[United States Congress]], establishing national quotas on immigration. Because this drastically limits immigration from [[Eastern Europe]], [[Jews]] emigrating from there begin to prefer [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]] as a destination rather than the U.S.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[May 22]] &ndash; In the first [[golf]] international between the two countries, the United States beats the United Kingdom 9 rounds to 3.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[May 23]]&ndash;[[July 16]] &ndash; The [[Leipzig War Crimes Trials]] are held in Germany.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[1921 Irish elections]]: In the [[1921 Northern Ireland general election|first Northern Ireland general election]] for the new [[Parliament of Northern Ireland]], [[Ulster Unionists]] win 40 out of 52 seats. The [[dominant-party system]] here will last for fifty years.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Irish War of Independence]]: The [[Irish Republican Army]] occupies and burns [[The Custom House]] in [[Dublin]], the centre of local government in Ireland. Five IRA men are killed, and over 80 are captured by the [[British Army]] which surrounds the building.<ref>{{cite book|title=Michael Collins's Intelligence War|first=Michael T.|last=Foy|year=2006|isbn=0-7509-4267-3|pages=214–218|publisher=Sutton }}</ref>
* [[May 26]] &ndash; A [[general strike]] begins in Norway.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[May 31]]&ndash;[[June 1]] &ndash; [[Tulsa Race Massacre]] (Greenwood Massacre): Mobs of white residents attack black residents and businesses in [[Greenwood District, Tulsa]], Oklahoma. The official death toll is 36, but later investigations suggest an actual figure between 100 and 300. 1,250 homes are destroyed and roughly 6,000 African Americans imprisoned in one of the worst incidents of [[mass racial violence in the United States]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

=== June ===
{{Main|June 1921}}
* [[June 3]] &ndash; The [[death penalty]] is abolished in Sweden.<ref>{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Capital Punishment|title=Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and the Minutes of Evidence: Taken Before the Select Committee on Capital Punishment in 1929-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VKJCAAAAIAAJ|year=1931|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=604}}</ref>
* [[June 10]] &ndash; Paris declaration: Representatives of the three states of [[Transcaucasia]] and the [[North Caucasus]] (the [[Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic|Armenian]], [[Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic|Azerbaijani]] and [[Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic|Georgian]] [[Republics of the Soviet Union|Socialist Soviet Republics]]) proclaim their independence, establishing a customs union and military alliance, not internationally recognized.<ref>{{cite book|first=Georges|last=Mamoulia|title=Les combats indépendantistes des Caucasiens, entre URSS et puissances occidentales: le cas de la Géorgie, 1921-1945|publisher=Harmattan|year=2009|isbn=9782296094765|page=46}}</ref>
* [[June 15]]
** [[Compagnie Générale Transatlantique]]'s liner {{SS|Paris|1916}} makes her maiden voyage from [[Le Havre]] to [[New York City|New York]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Patrick|last=Beauchet|title=Ma vie à bord des cargos et cargos mixtes de la Compagnie Générale Transatlantique|publisher=Société des Ecrivains|year=2015|isbn=9782342038651|page=209}}</ref>
** 29-year-old African American [[Bessie Coleman]] obtains her pilot's licence in France and becomes the first black woman to have a pilot's licence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/nv/about/?cid=nrcs144p2_037528|title=Women in History: Bessie Coleman|last=Onkst|first=David H.|year=2016|website=Natural Resources Conservation Service Nevada|access-date=November 20, 2020|archive-date=February 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216203428/http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/nv/about/?cid=nrcs144p2_037528|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] &ndash; The [[International Hydrographic Organization|International Hydrographic Bureau]] (IHB) is established as an agency of the [[League of Nations]]; it continues in this form until [[April 19]], [[1946]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[June 22]]&ndash;[[July 12]] &ndash; The [[3rd World Congress of the Comintern|Third Congress]] of the [[Communist International]] takes place.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[June 27]] &ndash; The first signings of [[Treaty 11]], an agreement between [[George V]], King of Canada, and various Canadian [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]], are conducted at [[Fort Providence]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[June 28]]
** The Constitutional Assembly of the [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]] passes the [[Vidovdan Constitution]], despite a boycott of the vote by the communists, and Croat and Slovene parties.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
** The coal [[Strike action|strike]] in the United Kingdom ends with the [[Miners' Federation of Great Britain]] obliged to accept pay cuts.<ref name=CentStruggle/>

=== July ===
{{Main|July 1921}}
* [[July 1]] 
** The [[Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP) is founded.<ref>{{cite book|title=Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pv5WAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|page=D-2}}</ref>
** The first [[Bacillus Calmette-Guérin|BCG]] vaccination against [[tuberculosis]] is given, in Paris, France; the recipient is a newborn child.<ref>{{cite book|author=Unesco|title=The Unesco Courier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wEFPAQAAIAAJ|year=1964|publisher=UNESCO|page=11}}</ref>
* [[July 2]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Warren Harding]] signs a joint congressional resolution, declaring an end to America's state of war with Germany, Austria and Hungary.<ref>{{cite news|title=Harding Ends War; Signs Peace Decree at Senator's Home. Thirty Persons Witness Momentous Act in Frelinghuysen Living Room at Raritan.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/07/03/archives/harding-ends-war-signs-peace-decree-at-senators-home-thirty-persons.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=3 July 1921}}</ref>
* [[July 4]] &ndash; A new conservative government is formed in Italy by [[Ivanoe Bonomi]]. <ref>{{cite book|author1=Victor Lincoln Albjerg|author2=Esther Marguerite Hall Albjerg|author3=Marguerite Hall Albjerg|title=Europe from 1914 to the Present|url=https://archive.org/details/europefrom1914to00albj|url-access=registration|year=1951|publisher=McGraw-Hill|page=[https://archive.org/details/europefrom1914to00albj/page/218 218]}}</ref>
* [[July 11]]
** The [[Irish War of Independence]] ends under the terms of the truce (signed on 9 July) which becomes effective at noon between the [[British Army]] and the [[Irish Republican Army]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Professor Sean Mcconville|title=Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922: Theatres of War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ycr0NN7F8hIC&pg=PA653|date=19 August 2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-60098-4|pages=653}}</ref>
** The [[Red Army]] captures [[Mongolia]] from the [[White Army]] and establishes the [[Mongolian People's Republic]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[July 14]] &ndash; A Massachusetts jury finds [[Sacco and Vanzetti|Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti]] guilty of first degree murder following a widely publicized trial whose verdict will spark protests around the world.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1921/07/15/archives/find-italians-guilty-in-paymaster-murder-judge-in-dedham-trial.html "Find Italians Guilty in Paymaster Murder]; Judge in Dedham Trial Charges Jury to Deal With Them as if They Were Americans", ''The New York Times'', July 15, 1921, p. 6</ref>
* [[July 17]] &ndash; The [[Republic of Mirdita]] is proclaimed near the [[Albania]]n-[[Serbia]]n border, with [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] support.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[July 21]] 
** [[Rif War]]: [[Battle of Annual]] &ndash; Spanish troops are dealt a crushing defeat at the hands of [[Abd el-Krim]] in Morocco.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
** [[Edward Harper (engineer)|Edward Harper]], the "father of broadcasting" in [[Ceylon]], arrives in [[Colombo]] to take up his post as Chief Engineer of the Ceylon Telegraph Department.<ref>{{cite book|first=Nandana |last=Karuṇānāyaka|title=Radio Broadcasting in Sri Lanka: Significant Dates & Events, 1921-1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5MtkAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Centre for Media Policy Studies|isbn=978-955-95226-0-7|page=1928}}</ref>
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[1st National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party]] opens in Shanghai.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}} 
* [[July 26]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Warren G. Harding]] receives Princess Fatima of [[Emirate of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]] who is escorted by imposter [[Stanley Clifford Weyman]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chapple |first1=Amos |title=The U.S. President, An Afghan 'Princess,' And The Impostor |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-white-house-impersonator-princess-impostor/31252615.html |website=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |publisher=Radio Free Europe |access-date=21 May 2025}}</ref>
* [[July 27]] &ndash; Researchers at the [[University of Toronto]], led by biochemist [[Frederick Banting]], announce the discovery of the hormone [[insulin]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Contemporary Books|author2=Agnes Chase|title=Chase's: 2000 calendar of events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xHtV8BWnH9IC|date=October 1999|publisher=Contemporary Publishing Group, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-8092-2776-1|page=389}}</ref>
* [[July 29]] &ndash; [[Adolf Hitler]] becomes ''[[Führer]]'' of the [[Nazi Party]] in Germany.<ref>{{cite book
 | last = Evans
 | first = Richard J.
 | author-link = Richard J. Evans
 | title = The Coming of the Third Reich
 | year = 2003
 | publisher = [[Penguin Books]]
 | location = New York
 | isbn = 978-0-14-303469-8
 | title-link = The Coming of the Third Reich
 | page=180
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[[File:Harvard Square aerial 1921.jpg|thumb|right|An aerial view of Harvard Square in 1921]]

=== August ===
{{Main|August 1921}}
* [[August 5]] &ndash; The first radio baseball game is broadcast: [[Harold Arlin]] announces the Pirates-Phillies game from [[Forbes Field]] over Westinghouse KDKA in [[Pittsburgh]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[August 11]]
** [[Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness]] strikes while he is vacationing; on August 25 he is diagnosed with [[polio]] and aged 39 becomes permanently disabled.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tobin|first=James|title=The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency|date=2013|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-0743265164|pages=[https://archive.org/details/manhebecamehowfd0000tobi/page/50 50-51]|url=https://archive.org/details/manhebecamehowfd0000tobi/page/50}}</ref>
** The temperature reaches 39 degrees Celsius in [[Breslau]]; the heat wave continues elsewhere in Europe as well.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[August 23]] &ndash; King [[Faisal I of Iraq]] is crowned in [[Baghdad]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[R38-class airship]] ZR-2 explodes on her fourth test flight near [[Kingston upon Hull]], England, killing 44 of the 49 Anglo-American crew on board.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Driggs|first=Laurence La Tourette|date=September 7, 1921|title=The Fall of the Airship|journal=[[The Outlook (New York)|The Outlook]]|volume=129|pages=14–15|location=New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sVroBrOJL64C&pg=PA14|access-date=2009-07-30}}</ref>
* [[August 25]] &ndash;  The [[Battle of Blair Mountain]], the largest labor uprising in [[United States history]] and the country's largest peacetime armed uprising, begins in [[Logan County, West Virginia]] as part of the [[Coal Wars]], continuing until September 2.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kinder |first=Chuck |title=Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9HtRV_OSK1oC |year=2005 |publisher=Da Capo Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7867-1653-1 |page=149}}</ref>
* [[August 26]]
** Rising prices cause major riots in [[Munich]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
** Following the assassination of former Finance Minister [[Matthias Erzberger]] by right-wing terrorists, the German government declares martial law.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

=== September ===
{{Main|September 1921}}
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Poplar Rates Rebellion]]: Nine members of the [[borough council]] of [[Poplar, London]], are arrested.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Margaret Gorman]], 16, wins the Golden Mermaid trophy at a beauty pageant in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]]; officials later dub her the first [[Miss America]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[White Castle (restaurant)|White Castle]] [[hamburger]] restaurant opens in [[Wichita, Kansas]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.kansas.com/2011/05/12/1845732/buy-sliders-here-for-a-day.html|title=White Castle marks 90th anniversary with one-day return to Wichita|newspaper=[[Wichita Eagle]]|access-date=2012-05-13|date=2011-05-12|first=Beccy|last=Tanner|archive-date=June 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627195442/http://www.kansas.com/2011/05/12/1845732/buy-sliders-here-for-a-day.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> foundation of the world's first [[fast food]] chain.
* [[September 21]] &ndash; The [[Oppau explosion]] occurs at [[BASF]]'s [[nitrate]] factory in Oppau, Germany; 500–600 are killed.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Sauerländer Heimatbund]] is founded in [[Meschede]], Germany.<ref>{{cite book|first=Peter |last=Bürger|title="Voll bereit für die Neue Zeit": Deutschnationale, militaristische und NS-freundliche Dichtungen Christine Kochs 1920-1944|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zt-LDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA52|date=2019|publisher=BoD – Books on Demand|isbn=978-3-7494-0910-5|pages=52|language=de}}</ref>

=== October ===
{{Main|October 1921}}
* [[3 October]] 
** [[Simko]], the leader of the [[Shekak (tribe)|Shikak tribe]], killed the Iranian commander [[Colonel]] [[Mohammad Taqi Pessian]] by having his head cut off in the [[Battle of Jafarabad (1921)]], which was the first incident of his [[Simko Shikak revolt (1918–1922)|rebellion]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[October 5]]
** The [[World Series]] baseball game in North America is first broadcast on the radio, by [[Newark, New Jersey]], station WJZ, [[Pittsburgh]] station KDKA, and a group of other commercial and amateur stations throughout the eastern United States.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
** [[Constitution of Liechtenstein]] granted by [[Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein]], making the country a [[constitutional monarchy]].<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Dieter Nohlen|last1=Nohlen|first1=D.|last2=Stöver|first2=P.|year=2010|title=Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook|pages=1156–8|publisher=Nomos |isbn=978-3-8329-5609-7}}</ref>
* [[October 7]]
**During his [[Simko Shikak revolt (1918-1922)|first rebellion]], [[Simko Shikak]] launched an attack on the Savujbulak district of [[Mahabad]] in 1921. With a force of approximately 3,900, he attacked the Gendarmes, killing 400 of them and looting the local population.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[October 8]] &ndash; The first [[Sweetest Day]] is staged in [[Cleveland, Ohio]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[October 10]] &ndash; Teaching at the [[University of Szeged]] begins, in the [[Kingdom of Hungary]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[October 11]] &ndash; The [[Anglo-Irish Treaty#Negotiations|Irish Treaty Conference]] opens in London.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|first=Hywel|last=Williams|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/490|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/490 490–491]}}</ref>
* [[October 13]]
** The [[Treaty of Kars]] is signed between the [[Government of the Grand National Assembly]] of Turkey and the [[Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic|Armenian]], [[Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic|Azerbaijani]] and [[Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic|Georgian]] [[Republics of the Soviet Union|Socialist Soviet Republics]] in [[Transcaucasia]], establishing common boundaries.<ref>{{cite book|first=H. B.|last=Paksoy|title=Essays on Central Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vNRcQnlkQLgC&pg=PA286|publisher=Carrie/EUI|year=1999|pages=286}}</ref>
** Swedish Social Democratic party leader [[Hjalmar Branting]] becomes yet again Prime Minister, after strong general election gains for his party.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[October 19]] &ndash; '[[Bloody Night]]' (''Noite Sangrenta''): A massacre in [[Lisbon]] claims the lives of Portuguese Prime-Minister [[António Granjo]] and other politicians.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Ankara (1921)|Treaty of Ankara]] signed between the [[French Third Republic]] and the [[Government of the Grand National Assembly]] of Turkey, ending the [[Franco-Turkish War]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[George Melford]]'s wildly successful silent film ''[[The Sheik (film)|The Sheik]]'', which will propel its leading actor [[Rudolph Valentino]] to international stardom, premieres in Los Angeles.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[October 24]] &ndash; In the continuing [[Rif War]], the Spanish Army defeats rifkabyl rebels in [[Morocco]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[October 29]] &ndash; In the United States:
** Construction of the [[Link River Dam]], a part of the [[Klamath Project]] in [[Oregon]], is completed.<ref>{{cite book|first=Eric A. |last=Stene|title=The Klamath Project|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cE7gqsKqLb0C&pg=PA20|year=1994|publisher=Bureau of Reclamation History Program|pages=20}}</ref>
** [[Centre College]]'s [[American football]] team, led by quarterback [[Bo McMillin]], defeats [[Harvard Crimson football|Harvard University]] 6–0, to break Harvard's five-year winning streak. For decades afterward, this is called "football's upset of the century."{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

=== November ===
{{Main|November 1921}}
* [[November 4]] &ndash; After a speech by [[Adolf Hitler]] in the [[Hofbräuhaus]] in [[Munich]] (Germany), members of the ''[[Sturmabteilung]]'' ("brownshirts") physically assault his opposition.<ref>{{cite book|first=Alan |last=Bullock|title=Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jZIiAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Fontana Press|isbn=978-0-00-686374-8|page=84}}</ref>
* [[November 9]] &ndash; The [[National Fascist Party]] ({{lang|it|Partito Nazionale Fascista}} or PNF) is founded in [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
* [[November 11]] &ndash; During an [[Armistice Day]] ceremony at [[Arlington National Cemetery]], the [[Tomb of the Unknowns]] is dedicated by [[Warren G. Harding]], President of the United States.<ref>{{cite book|first=Julia |last=Hargrove|title=Tomb of the Unknowns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6d9fGqr98zsC&pg=PA5|date=2003|publisher=Lorenz Educational Press|isbn=978-1-57310-405-0|page=5}}</ref>
* [[November 14]] &ndash; The [[Spanish Communist Party]] is founded.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Víctor Alba |first=Víctor |last=Alba |title=The Communist Party in Spain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H0ydA3137WQC&pg=PA63|date=1983|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-1999-2|page=63}}</ref>
* [[November 23]] &ndash; In the United States, the [[Sheppard–Towner Act]] is signed by President Harding, providing federal funding for maternity and child care.<ref>{{cite book|first=Anna Elizabeth |last=Rude|title=The Sheppard-Towner Act in Relation to Public Health|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SmvCZRhxXwEC&pg=PA1915|year=1923|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=1915}}</ref>
* November &ndash; [[Hyperinflation]] is rampant in Germany, where 263 [[German Papiermark|marks]] are now needed to buy a single American dollar, more than 20 times greater than the 12 marks needed in April 1919.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/weimar.htm |title=Weimar Germany 1919-1933 |first=Stephen |last=Tonge|website=Historyhome.co.uk|date=2011-01-05|access-date=2013-03-19}}</ref>

=== December ===
{{Main|December 1921}}
{{unreferenced section|date=May 2025}}
* [[December 1]] &ndash; Rising prices cause riots in [[Vienna]].
* [[December 6]]
** The [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]] establishing the [[Irish Free State]], an independent nation incorporating 26 of Ireland's 32 counties, is signed in London.
** [[Agnes Macphail]] becomes the first woman to be elected to the Canadian Parliament.
* [[December 13]] &ndash; In the [[Four-Power Treaty]] on Insular Possessions, the [[Empire of Japan]], United States, United Kingdom, and [[French Third Republic]] agree to recognize the status quo in the Pacific.
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Visva-Bharati College]] is founded by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] in [[Santiniketan]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]].
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] becomes Canada's tenth [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]]; he will serve for three non-consecutive terms until 1948.

=== Date unknown ===
* Spring &ndash; [[Russian famine of 1921–22]] begins; roughly 5,000,000 die.<ref>{{cite book|title=War, Revolution, and Peace in Russia: The Passages of Frank Golder, 1914–1927 |first1=Bertrand M. |last1=Patenaude |first2=Terrence |last2=Emmons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKEi2NypdYMC&pg=PA89|publisher=Hoover Press|isbn=978-0-8179-9193-7|pages=89}}</ref>
* [[Luxury goods]] brand [[Gucci]] is founded in [[Florence]], [[Italy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gucci.com/us/worldofgucci/articles/history-1920|title=Gucci – 1920s|website=gucci.com/us|access-date=2012-03-19|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413223114/http://www.gucci.com/us/worldofgucci/articles/history-1920|archive-date=2012-04-13}}</ref>

== Births ==
{{BDToC|births}}

===January===
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[[File:Mustafa Ben Halim (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mustafa Ben Halim]]]]
[[File:Carol Channing colour Allan Warren.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Carol Channing]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[César Baldaccini]], French sculptor (d. [[1998]])<ref>{{cite book|first1=Alex |last1=Kayser|first2=Andy |last2=Warhol|title=Artists' portraits|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IC04AQAAIAAJ|date=August 1981|publisher=H.N. Abrams|isbn=9780810922228}}</ref>{{page needed|date=May 2025}}
** [[Cliff Bourland]], American athlete (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/international/ct-cliff-bourland-oldest-living-gold-medalist-dies-20180202-story.html|title=Cliff Bourland, America's oldest living gold medalist, dies at 97|date=February 2, 2018 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001215612/https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/olympics/ct-cliff-bourland-oldest-living-gold-medalist-dies-20180202-story.html |archive-date=1 October 2022 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Hossein Wahid Khorasani]], Iranian ayatollah 
** [[Ismail al-Faruqi|Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi]], Palestinian-American Islamic scholar (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095811314 |title=Faruqi, Ismail Raji al- (1986) |work=The Oxford Dictionary of Islam |publisher=Oxford Reference |accessdate=2024-07-04}}</ref>
* [[January 3]] 
** [[Bill Gold]], American graphic designer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Bob Dawson (footballer)|Bob Dawson]], Australian rules footballer (d. [[2023]])
** [[Jean-Louis Koszul]], French mathematician (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.academie-sciences.fr/en/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Academie-des-sciences-/-K/jean-louis-koszul.html|title=Jean-Louis Koszul|language=fr|website=Academie des sciences|access-date=20 November 2020|archive-date=April 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420203814/https://www.academie-sciences.fr/en/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Academie-des-sciences-/-K/jean-louis-koszul.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[John Russell (actor)|John Russell]], American actor (d. [[1991]])
** [[Cecil Souders]], American football player (d. [[2021]])
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Pedro Richter Prada]], 115th [[Prime Minister of Peru]] (d. [[2017]])
* [[January 5]]
** [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]], Swiss writer (d. [[1990]])<ref>{{cite book|author=E. J. Neather|title=Mastering German 2: German Language and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vEVdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA177|date=18 August 1989|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-20133-4|pages=177}}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
** [[Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg]] (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web |first1=Brittani |last1=Barger |title=BREAKING: Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg dies at the age of 98 |url=http://royalcentral.co.uk/europe/luxembourg/breaking-grand-duke-jean-of-luxembourg-dies-at-the-age-of-98-119830 |website=Royal Central |access-date=April 23, 2019 |date=April 23, 2019}}</ref>
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Ágnes Keleti]], Hungarian artistic gymnast (d. [[2025]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Robert |last=Slater|title=Great Jewish Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=34NtAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Jonathan David Publishers|isbn=978-0-8246-0370-0|page=129}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[T. M. Kaliannan]], Indian politician (d. [[2021]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Juanita M. Kreps]], American government official and businesswoman (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Department of Commerce|title=From Lighthouses to Laserbeams: A History of the U.S. Department of Commerce, 1913-1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U_I6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA75|year=1988|publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of the Secretary|pages=75}}</ref>
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Muriel Phillips]], American nurse and author (d. [[2022]])
* [[January 14]]
** [[Murray Bookchin]], American libertarian socialist (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Small |first1=Mike |title=Murray Bookchin |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/aug/08/guardianobituaries.usa |access-date=June 30, 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=August 8, 2006 |format=Obituary}}</ref>
** [[Roger Carré]], French footballer (d. [[1996]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=Fédération Française de Football – Roger Carré |url=https://www.fff.fr/equipe-nationale/joueur/7856-carre-roger/fiche.html |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=www.fff.fr}}</ref>
* [[January 16]] 
** [[Henry Sayler (Florida politician)|Henry Sayler]], American politician (d. [[2021]])
** [[George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth]], British politician and journalist (d. [[2008]])
** [[Shmuel Toledano]], Israeli politician (d. [[2022]])
* [[January 17]] 
** [[Asghar Khan]], Pakistani politician, first native [[Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Air Force]], the world's youngest Air Vice Marshal at 36 and Air Marshal at 37 years old (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=73CciTImPh4C&q=%22asghar%20khan%22|title=Flight|volume=73|year=1958|publisher=IPC Transport Press Limited}}</ref>
** [[Epaminondas Stassinopoulos]], Greek astrophysicist (d. [[2022]])
** [[Dan Tolkowsky]], Israeli Air Force commander 
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Yoichiro Nambu]], Japanese-American Nobel physicist (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book|editor-first1=Lars |editor-last1=Brink|editor2=Lay Nam Chang |editor3=Moo-young Han |editor4=Kok Khoo Phua |display-editors=1 |chapter=Yoichiro Nambu |first1=Peter G. O. |last1=Freund |first2=Jeffrey |last2=Harvey |author3=Emil Matinec |author4=Pierre Ramond |display-authors=2|title=Memorial Volume For Y. Nambu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7VW2DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA37|date=2016|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-310-834-9|pages=37}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] 
** [[Rachel Dror]], German teacher and Holocaust survivor (d. [[2024]])
** [[Patricia Highsmith]], American author (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{cite book|editor-first1=Robin W. |editor-last1=Winks|editor-first2=Maureen |editor-last2=Corrigan|title=Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e3SnIItDKh8C|year=1998|publisher=Scribner's Sons|isbn=978-0-684-80519-1|page=503}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[John Bai Ningxian]], Chinese Roman Catholic bishop (d. unknown)
* [[January 21]] 
** [[Jaswant Singh Marwah]], Indian soldier, journalist and author
** [[Howard Unruh]], American spree killer (d. [[2009]])<ref name="Nash1989">{{cite book|first=Jay Robert |last=Nash|title=Encyclopedia of World Crime: S-Z; Supplements|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VzQRAQAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=CrimeBooks|isbn=978-0-923582-04-3|page=3016}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Eleanor Owen]], American playwright, actress, professor and mental health advocate (d. [[2022]])
* [[January 23]]
** [[Hermann Baumann (wrestler)|Hermann Baumann]], Swiss Olympic freestyle wrestler (d. [[1999]])
** [[Marija Gimbutas]], Lithuanian archaeologist (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ware|first1=Susan|last2=Braukman|first2=Stacy Lorraine|title=Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century|year=2004|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|location=[[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]|isbn=978-0-674-01488-6|page=234}}</ref>
** [[Justus Rosenberg]], Polish academic (d. [[2021]])
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Beatrice Mintz]], American biologist (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite book |volume=11 |title=Encyclopedia of World Biography |publisher=Gale Research |year=1998 |p=49 |ISBN=0-7876-2221-4}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Josef Holeček (canoeist)|Josef Holeček]], Czechoslovakian canoeist (d. 2005)
* [[January 26]] 
** [[Elisabeth Kirkby]], English-born Australian actress, politician and radio broadcaster
** [[Akio Morita]], Japanese businessman, co-founder of Sony (d. [[1999]])
** [[Veikko Uusimäki]], Finnish actor and theater councilor (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000002624545.html|title=Veikko Uusimäki - Muistot|work=[[Helsingin Sanomat]]|url-access=subscription|date=25 May 2008|access-date=9 July 2023|language=fi}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] 
** [[Raymond E. Peet]], American admiral (d. [[2021]])
** [[Donna Reed]], American actress (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Brenda Scott |last=Royce|title=Donna Reed: A Bio-bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVZ-1V0vLRUC&pg=PA1|year=1990|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-26806-9|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Mustafa Ben Halim]], Former [[Prime Minister of Libya]] (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.libya-al-mostakbal.org/95/1063/كل-يوم-شخصية-ليبية-مشرقة-17-مصطفى-بن-حليم.html|title= Biography of Mustafa Ben Halim|website=Al Mostakbal|language=ar|access-date=7 December 2020}}</ref> 
* [[January 31]]
** [[Carol Channing]], American actress (d. [[2019]])
** [[Abu Sayeed Chowdhury]], 2nd President of Bangladesh (d. [[1987]])
** [[Mario Lanza]], American operatic tenor and actor (d. [[1959]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Roland L. |last=Bessette|title=Mario Lanza: Tenor in Exile|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlUIAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Amadeus Press|isbn=978-1-57467-044-8|page=15}}</ref>

===February===
[[File:Betty Friedan 1960.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Betty Friedan]]]]
[[File:Lana Turner still.JPG|100px|thumb|[[Lana Turner]]]]
[[File:Bokassa portrait (cropped).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]]]]
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* [[February 1]] 
** [[Dino De Martin]], Italian bobsledder (d. [[1960]])
** [[Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla]], Mexican Roman Catholic bishop (d. [[2022]])
** [[Peter Sallis]], English actor (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Betty Friedan]], American feminist (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/national/05friedan.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5090&en=30472e5004a66ea3&ex=1296795600 |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=February 5, 2006 |title=Betty Friedan, who ignited cause in 'Feminine Mystique,' dies at 85 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=February 2, 2010}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] 
** [[Zbigniew Czajkowski]], Polish fencer (d. [[2019]])
** [[Lise Thiry]], Belgian scientist and politician (d. [[2024]])
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Mikheil Tumanishvili]], Georgian theatre director, teacher (d. [[1996]])
* [[February 7]] 
** [[Dean S. Laird]], American naval aviator and flying ace (d. [[2022]])
** [[Trude Malcorps]], Dutch swimmer 
* [[February 8]] 
** [[Hans Albert]], German philosopher (d. [[2023]])
** [[Nexhmije Hoxha]], widow of Albanian communist leader [[Enver Hoxha]] (d. [[2020]])
** [[Betsy Jochum]], American baseball player 
** [[Balram Singh Rai]], Guyanese politician (d. [[2022]])
** [[Lana Turner]], American actress (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Lou |last=Valentino|title=The Films of Lana Turner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQQvAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Citadel Press|isbn=978-0-8065-0553-4|page=13}}</ref>
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Lloyd Bentsen]], American politician (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=United States|author2=United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance|title=Anticipated Nomination of Hon, Lloyd Bentsen: Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IsGk4a90dyQC&pg=PA39|year=1993|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-16-040767-3|pages=39}}</ref>
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Renée Doria]], French operatic soprano (d. [[2021]])
* [[February 14]] 
** [[Frank A. DeMarco]], Italian-born Canadian educator and administrator (d. [[2023]])
** [[Hazel McCallion]], Canadian politician and businesswoman (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite web |title=City of Mississauga Celebrates Hazel McCallion Ahead of 100th Birthday |url=https://www.mississauga.ca/city-of-mississauga-news/news/city-of-mississauga-celebrates-hazel-mccallion-ahead-of-100th-birthday/ |website=City of Mississauga |access-date=9 February 2021 |language=en-CA |date=8 February 2021}}</ref> 
* [[February 16]]
** [[John Galbraith Graham]], crossword compiler (pseudonyms 'Arucaria' and 'Cinephile') and priest (d. [[2013]])
** [[Hua Guofeng]], [[Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party]], [[Premier of the People's Republic of China|Premier of China]] (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|title=Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kd2bAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA80|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=978-1-61535-329-3|pages=80}}</ref>
** [[Walter Thiele]], German inventor 
** [[Vera-Ellen]], American actress and dancer (d. [[1981]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Emmis Communications|title=Cincinnati Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M-sCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA7|date=February 1992|publisher=Emmis Communications|pages=7}}</ref>
* [[February 17]] 
** [[Muriel Coben]], Canadian professional baseball, curling player (d. [[1979]])
** [[Herbert Köfer]], German actor (d. [[2021]])
* [[February 18]] 
** [[Ken Casanega]], American football player (d. [[2021]])
** [[Brian Faulkner]], 6th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. [[1977]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Bleakley|title=Faulkner: Conflict and Consent in Irish Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xk0jAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Mowbrays|isbn=978-0-264-66227-5|page=13}}</ref>
* [[February 20]] 
** [["Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers]], American professional wrestler (d. [[1992]])
** [[Alex Thomson (rugby union)|Alex Thomson]], Scottish rugby player (d. [[2010]])
* [[February 21]]
** [[Leroy J. Manor]], American Air Force general (d. [[2021]])
** [[John Rawls]], American liberal moral and political philosopher (d. [[2002]])
* [[February 22]] 
** [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]], 2nd President of the Central African Republic (1966–1976), Emperor of Central Africa (1976–1979) (d. [[1996]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Brian Titley|title=Dark Age: The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kEPbRmivj7IC&pg=PA7|year=2002|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-2418-7|pages=7}}</ref>
** [[Wayne C. Booth]], American literary critic (d. [[2005]])
** [[Marshall Teague (racing driver)|Marshall Teague]], American race car driver (d. [[1959]])
** [[Giulietta Masina]], Italian actress (d. [[1994]])
* [[February 24]] 
** [[Ingvar Lidholm]], Swedish composer (d. [[2017]])
** [[Dick Van Orden]], American admiral (d. [[2018]])
** [[Abe Vigoda]], American actor (d. [[2016]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Pierre Laporte]], Canadian statesman (d. [[1970]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Betty Hutton]], American actress and singer (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Steve Knopper|title=MusicHound Swing!: The Essential Album Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6TZCAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Visible Ink Press|isbn=978-1-57859-091-9|page=1953}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Eka Tjipta Widjaja]], Chinese-Indonesian billionaire and businessman (d. [[2019]])
* [[February 28]] 
** [[Pierre Clostermann]], French World War II pilot (d. [[2006]])
** [[Theodor Otto Diener]], Swiss-born American plant pathologist (d. [[2023]])

===March===
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* [[March 1]]
** [[Jack Clayton]], British film director (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Georg Gaston|title=Jack Clayton: A Guide to References and Resources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3W03AAAAIAAJ|year=1981|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=978-0-8161-8524-5|page=1}}</ref>
** [[Terence Cooke|Terence Cardinal Cooke]], American Roman Catholic prelate (d. [[1983]])
** [[Richard Wilbur]], American poet (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gale, Cengage Learning|title=A Study Guide for Richard Wilbur's "Merlin Enthralled"|year=2016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xr8PDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT4|publisher=Gale, Cengage Learning|isbn=978-1-4103-5258-3|pages=4}}</ref> 
* [[March 2]]
** [[Wilhelm Büsing]], German equestrian (d. [[2023]])
** [[Robert Simpson (composer)|Robert Simpson]], English composer (d. [[1997]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Diana Barrymore]], American actress (d. [[1960]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John A. Willis|title=Theatre World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vA1lAAAAMAAJ|year=1957|publisher=Crown Publishing Company|page=210}}</ref>
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Halim El-Dabh]], Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist and educator (d. [[2017]])
* [[March 5]] &ndash; [[Elmer Valo]], Czechoslovakia-born [[Major League Baseball]] player (d. [[1998]])
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Syed Nasir Ismail]], Malaysian politician (d. [[1982]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Alan Hale Jr.]], American actor (''[[Gilligan's Island]]'') (d. [[1990]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Evelyn M. Witkin]], American geneticist (d. [[2023]])
* [[March 10]] 
** [[George Elder (baseball)|George Elder]], American baseball player (d. [[2022]])
** [[Cec Linder]], Polish-born Canadian actor (d. [[1992]]) 
** [[Charlotte Zucker]], American actress (d. [[2007]])
* [[March 11]]
** [[Frank Harary]], American mathematician (d. [[2005]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's who in the West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=95lmAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Marquis-Who's Who.|isbn=978-0-8379-0933-2|page=261}}</ref>
** [[Astor Piazzolla]], Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger (d. [[1992]])
* [[March 12]]
** [[Gianni Agnelli]], Italian auto executive (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jan/24/guardianobituaries.italy|title=Giovanni Agnelli|date=24 January 2003|author=Jon Glover|website=The Guardian|access-date=8 December 2020}}</ref>
** [[Gordon MacRae]], American singer, actor (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Folkart |first=Burt A. |date=January 24, 1986 |title=Gordon MacRae, Star of 'Oklahoma,' Dies at 64 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-24-mn-24015-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, CA |access-date=November 25, 2018 }}</ref>
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Al Jaffee]], American cartoonist (d. [[2023]])
* [[March 14]] 
** [[George Berci]], Hungarian-American surgeon (d. [[2024]])
** [[Lis Hartel]], Danish equestrian (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wylie |first=Leslie |date=2014-11-17 |title=Olympic Girl Power: The Incredible Story of Lis Hartel |url=https://www.horsenation.com/2014/11/17/olympic-girl-power-the-incredible-story-of-lis-hartel/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=HORSE NATION |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Meir Amit]], Israeli politician, general (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite book|author=J. Ben Hirsh|title=Jewish General Officers: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ihG7AAAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Victorian Branch, Military Historical Society of Australia|page=16}}</ref>
* [[March 18]] – [[Betty Hall]], American politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[March 20]] 
** [[Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow]], Senegalese educator (d. [[2024]]) 
** [[Alfréd Rényi]], Hungarian mathematician (d. [[1970]])
* [[March 21]]
** [[Arthur Grumiaux]], Belgian violinist (d. [[1986]])
** [[Xu Zuyao]], Chinese expert in materials science (d. [[2017]])
** [[Vasily Stalin]], Soviet general (d. [[1962]])<ref>{{Cite book|last=Service|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Service (historian)|year=2010|title=Stalin: A Biography|publisher=Pan Books|location=London|isbn=978-0-330-51837-6|page=232}}</ref>
** [[Abdul Salam Arif]], President of Iraq (d. [[1966]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Jean Bruce]], French writer (d. [[1963]])
* [[March 24]]
** [[Wilson Harris]], Guyanese writer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Vasily Smyslov]], Soviet chess player (d. [[2010]])
** [[Franciszek Blachnicki]], Polish priest (d. [[1987]])<ref>{{cite web |title=100. rocznica urodzin ks. Franciszka Blachnickiego |url=https://www.gov.pl/web/edukacja-i-nauka/100-rocznica-urodzin-ks-franciszka-blachnickiego |website=www.gov.pl/web/edukacja-i-nauka/ |publisher=Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki |access-date=22 June 2021 |language=pl |quote=Ks. Franciszek Blachnicki urodził się 24 marca 1921 r. w Rybniku.}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] 
** [[Simone Signoret]], French actress (d. [[1985]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-QZaAAAAYAAJ|year=1960|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=381}}</ref>
** [[Alexandra of Yugoslavia]] (d. [[1993]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tomlinson |first1=Richard |title=Obituary: Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-queen-alexandra-of-yugoslavia-1470477.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-queen-alexandra-of-yugoslavia-1470477.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=9 February 2021 |work=The Independent |date=22 October 2011 |language=en}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Hélène Berr]], French writer (d. [[1945]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Dirk Bogarde]], English actor and writer (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jay L. Halio|title=British Novelists Since 1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V7dZAAAAYAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-8103-0927-2|page=103}}</ref>
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Francesc Gras Salas]], Catalan ophthalmologist (died [[2022]])
* [[March 31]] 
** [[Kurt Bertsch]], Swiss footballer 
** [[Eduardo Cerqueira]], Portuguese footballer
** [[Pierre Ranzoni]], French footballer (d. [[1999]])
** [[Roy Houghton]], English footballer

===April===
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[[File:Thomas Schelling.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Thomas Schelling]]]]
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* [[April 1]]
** [[Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith]], American musician and songwriter (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Colin Larkin|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Country Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wi_aAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Virgin|isbn=978-0-7535-0236-5|page=393}}</ref>
** [[Abd-Al-Minaam Khaleel]], Egyptian army general (d. [[2022]])
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Darío Moreno]], Turkish singer (d. [[1968]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Evelyn Mack Truitt|title=Who was who on Screen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=irZmAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Bowker|isbn=978-0-8352-0914-4|page=332}}</ref>
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Wilbur Thompson]], American Olympic champion shot putter (d. [[2013]])
* [[April 7]]
** [[Robina Asti]], WWII veteran, flight instructor, trans' rights activist, women's rights activist (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Risen |first1=Clay |title=Robina Asti, Who Made History on the Ground and in the Air, Dies at 99 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/us/robina-asti-dead.html |access-date=March 24, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=March 21, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Bill Butler (cinematographer)|Bill Butler]], American cinematographer (d. [[2023]])
* [[April 8]] 
** [[Giuseppe Albani (footballer)|Giuseppe Albani]], Italian footballer (d. [[1989]])
** [[Franco Corelli]], Italian opera singer (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/30/arts/franco-corelli-italian-tenor-power-charisma-pillar-met-dies-82.html?scp=4&sq=Franco%20Corelli&st=cse| title=Franco Corelli, Italian Tenor of Power and Charisma, and Pillar of the Met, Dies at 82| work=The New York Times| author=Anthony Tommasini| date=October 30, 2003| access-date=May 16, 2009}}</ref>
** [[Phyllis Latour]], English-French [[Legion of Honour]] recipient (d. [[2023]])
* [[April 9]] 
** [[Jean-Marie Balestre]], French sports executive (d. [[2008]])
** [[Roger Bocquet]], Swiss footballer (d. [[1994]])
** [[Mary Jackson (engineer)|Mary Jackson]], African-American mathematician and engineer (d. [[2005]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Blair Imani|title=Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XblFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT27|date=16 October 2018|publisher=Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale|isbn=978-0-399-58224-0|pages=27}}</ref>
** [[Yitzhak Navon]], Israeli politician (d. [[2015]])
* [[April 10]]
** [[Chuck Connors]], American basketball and baseball player turned actor (d. [[1992]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Henryk Hoffmann|title="A" Western Filmmakers: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers, Directors, Cinematographers, Composers, Actors and Actresses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWNZAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-0696-8|page=283}}</ref>
** [[Elizabeth Innes]], Scottish paediatric haematologist (d. [[2015]])
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Maura McNiel]], American feminist (d. [[2020]])
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Enric Marco]], Spanish imposter, fake Holocaust survivor (d. [[2022]])
* [[April 13]] 
** [[Dona Ivone Lara]], Brazilian singer, composer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Leo Mogus]], American basketball player (d. [[1971]])
** [[Louis Witten]], American theoretical physicist 
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Thomas Schelling]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2016]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Georgy Beregovoy]], Soviet cosmonaut (d. [[1995]])
* [[April 16]] 
** [[Peter Ustinov]], English actor, director and writer (d. [[2004]])<ref>{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2021: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CPcCEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA55|date=27 October 2020|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-424-9|pages=55}}</ref>
** [[Guy Warren (artist)|Guy Warren]], Australian painter (d. [[2024]])
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Sergio Sollima]], Italian director (d. [[2015]])
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Xu Yuanchong]], Chinese translator (d. [[2021]])
* [[April 19]]
** [[Robert Maxwell (songwriter)|Robert Maxwell]], American songwriter and harpist (d. [[2012]])
** [[Roberto Tucci]], Italian cardinal, theologian (d. [[2015]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Kenneth O. Chilstrom]], American Air Force officer (d. [[2022]])
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Vivian Dandridge]], African-American actress (d. [[1991]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Janet Blair]], American actress (d. [[2007]])
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Karel Appel]], Dutch painter (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Houts |first=Cathérine van |title=Karel Appel : de biografie |year=2003 |publisher= Olympus|location=Amsterdam |isbn=978-90-254-1913-4 |pages=13 |language=nl}}</ref> 
* [[April 26]]
** [[Nelson Dalzell]], New Zealand rugby union player (d. [[1989]]) 
** [[Jimmy Giuffre]], American jazz musician (d. [[2008]])
* [[April 27]]
** [[Abdelmalek Benhabyles]], Algerian politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff]], German television host, entertainer (d. [[1998]])
* [[April 29]] 
** [[Cornelis de Jager]], Dutch astronomer (d. [[2021]])
** [[Pavel Vranský]], Czech brigadier general and RAF radio operator (d. [[2018]])
* [[April 30]]
** [[Dottie Green]], American professional baseball player (d. [[1992]])
** [[Tove Maës]], Danish actress (d. [[2010]])

===May===
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[[File:Sugar Ray Robinson 1947.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Sugar Ray Robinson]]]]
[[File:RIAN archive 25981 Academician Sakharov.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Andrei Sakharov]]]]
* [[May 2]] 
** [[B. B. Lal (archaeologist)|B. B. Lal]], Indian archaeologist (d. [[2022]])
** [[Satyajit Ray]], Indian filmmaker (d. [[1992]])
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Sugar Ray Robinson]], American boxer (d. [[1989]])<ref>Robinson, Sugar Ray, and [[Dave Anderson (sportswriter)|Anderson, Dave]]. ''Sugar Ray'', London: Da Capo Press, 1994 {{ISBN|0-306-80574-X}} page 7</ref>
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Harry Daghlian]], American physicist (d. [[1945]])
* [[May 5]] 
** [[Jim Conacher]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2020]])
** [[Arthur Leonard Schawlow]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1999]])
** [[Eric Tweedale]], English-born Australian rugby union player (d. [[2023]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Erich Fried]], Austrian author (d. [[1988]])
* [[May 8]] &ndash; [[Robert Hugh Ferrell]], American historian (d. [[2018]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Sophie Scholl]], German student, anti-Nazi resistance fighter (executed) (d. [[1943]])
* [[May 11]] 
** [[Hildegard Hamm-Brücher]], German politician (d. [[2016]])
** [[Alec Mathieson]], Australian rules footballer (d. [[2022]])
* [[May 12]]
** [[Joseph Beuys]], German artist (d. [[1986]])
** [[Farley Mowat]], Canadian writer, naturalist (d. [[2014]])
** [[Lily Renée]], Austrian-born American cartoonist (d. [[2022]])
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Baron Vaea]], Prime Minister of Tonga (d. [[2009]])
* [[May 16]] 
** [[Earl Ashby]], Cuban baseball player 
** [[Harry Carey Jr.]], American actor (d. [[2012]])
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Dennis Brain]], English musician (d. [[1957]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Stephen Gamble|author2=William C. Lynch|title=Dennis Brain: A Life in Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5y2llfXEZJUC&pg=PA1|year=2011|publisher=University of North Texas Press|isbn=978-1-57441-307-6|pages=1}}</ref> 
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Michael A. Epstein]], English pathologist and academic (d. [[2024]])
* [[May 19]]
** [[Karel van het Reve]], Dutch writer (d. [[1999]])
** [[Yuri Kochiyama]], Japanese-American civil rights activist (d. [[2014]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang Borchert]], German writer (d. [[1947]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gordon J. A. Burgess|author2=Gordon J. A.. Burgess|title=The Life and Works of Wolfgang Borchert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7IdnvHgwaLwC&pg=PA9|year=2003|publisher=Camden House|isbn=978-1-57113-270-3|pages=9}}</ref>
* [[May 21]]
** [[Andrei Sakharov]], Soviet physicist, human rights activist, and recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1989]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1975/sakharov/facts/|title=Andrei Sakharov - Facts|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=24 November 2020}}</ref>
** [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar]], Indian philosopher, author of the socio-economic [[Progressive Utilization Theory]] (d. [[1990]])
* [[May 23]]
** [[Beate Albrecht]], German violinist and music educator (d. [[2017]])
** [[James Blish]], American science fiction author (d. [[1975]])<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bloom|first=Harold|title=Science Fiction Writers of the Golden Age|date=Jun 1995|publisher=Chelsea House|isbn=9780791021996|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sciencefictwrotg00haro/page/63 63]|chapter=James Blish|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sciencefictwrotg00haro/page/63}}</ref>
** [[Laurin L. Henry]], American researcher (d. [[2025]])
** [[Ray Lawler]], Australian actor and director (d. [[2024]]) 
** [[Humphrey Lyttelton]], British jazz musician, radio personality (d. [[2008]])
** [[Georgy Natanson]], Russian director, screenwriter and playwright (d. [[2017]])
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Yevgeniya Rudneva]], Soviet World War II heroine (d. [[1944]])
* [[May 25]]
** [[Hal David]], American songwriter and lyricist (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite news|last=Hoerburger|first=Rob|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/arts/music/hal-david-oscar-and-grammy-winning-songwriter-is-dead-at-91.html|title=Hal David, Songwriter, Is Dead at 91|access-date=1 September 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 September 2012}}</ref>
** [[Kitty Kallen]], American singer (d. [[2016]])
** [[Sadhu Ram Sharma]], Indian politician 
** [[Jack Steinberger]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2020]])
* [[May 26]] 
** [[Inge Borkh]], German soprano (some sources say she was born 1917) (d. [[2018]])
** [[Stan Mortensen]], English footballer (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Deborah Andrews|title=Annual Obituary, 1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FMYAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-175-6|page=299}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Heinz G. Konsalik]], German author (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Sandford|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TuMsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA351|date=3 April 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-81603-1|pages=351}}</ref>
* [[May 29]] 
** [[Norman Hetherington]], Australian puppeteer and artist (d. [[2010]])** [[Elizabeth Kelly]], English actress 
** [[Elizabeth Kelly]], English actress 
* [[May 30]] 
** [[Branko Mamula]], Yugoslav politician (d. [[2021]])
** [[Jamie Uys]], South African actor, film director (d. [[1996]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Great South Africans: The Great Debate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MMVtAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-302461-3|page=235}}</ref>

===June===
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* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Nelson Riddle]], American bandleader (d. [[1985]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Murrells|title=The Book of Golden Discs|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr|url-access=registration|year=1978|publisher=Barrie and Jenkins|isbn=978-0-214-20480-7}}</ref>
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Forbes Carlile]], Australian athlete (d. [[2016]])
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Bobby Wanzer]], American basketball player and coach (d. [[2016]])
* [[June 5]] 
** [[James Francis Edwards]], Canadian fighter pilot (d. [[2022]])
** [[P. K. Warrier]], Indian Ayurveda practitioner (d. [[2021]])
* [[June 7]]
** [[Myrtle Edwards]], Australian cricketer, softball player (d. [[2010]])
** [[Bernard Lown]], American medical innovator, [[Nobel Peace Prize]] recipient (d. [[2021]])
** [[Jakob Skarstein]], Norwegian journalist and radio personality (d. [[2021]])
** [[Brian Talboys]], New Zealand politician, 7th [[Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (d. [[2012]])
* [[June 8]]
** [[Alexis Smith]], Canadian-born American actress (d. [[1993]])
** [[Suharto]], [[President of Indonesia]] (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=R. E. Elson|author2=Robert Edward Elson|title=Suharto: A Political Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ElTYvtijU6AC&pg=PA1|date=13 November 2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-77326-3|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[June 9]] 
** [[Margaret Danhauser]], American professional baseball player (d. [[1987]])
** [[Gul Hassan Khan]], Pakistani survivor of the [[1935 Quetta earthquake]], [[three-star rank]] General and last [[C-in-C of the Pakistan Army]] (d. 1999)
* [[June 10]]
** [[Oskar Gröning]], German SS officer, war criminal (d. [[2018]]) 
** [[Jim Cullivan]], American football coach (d. [[2024]])
** [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], Greek-born member of the British royal family as consort of [[Queen Elizabeth II]] (d. [[2021]])<ref>[[Gyles Brandreth|Brandreth, Gyles]] (2004). ''Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage''. London: Century. {{ISBN|0-7126-6103-4}} p. 56.</ref>
** [[Sergio Arellano Stark]], Chilean military officer (d. [[2016]])
** [[Yakov Springer]], Polish weightlifting judge (d. [[1972]])
* [[June 12]] 
** [[Luis García Berlanga]], Spanish film director and screenwriter (d. [[2010]])
** [[Johan Witteveen]], Dutch politician, economist and [[International Monetary Fund|5th Managing Director of the IMF]] (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/johannes-witteveen-death-holland-economist-politics-finance-imf-dead-a8905001.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/johannes-witteveen-death-holland-economist-politics-finance-imf-dead-a8905001.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Johannes Witteveen: Economist who bailed out Britain and made the IMF relevant|date=13 May 2019|author=Harrison Smith|website=The Independent|access-date=22 November 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] 
** [[Edmund W. Gordon]], American [[psychologist]] 
** [[Nancy Warren (baseball)|Nancy Warren]], American professional baseball player (d. [[2001]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Walter Barylli]], Austrian violinist (d. [[2022]])
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Aydın Boysan]], Turkish architect (d. [[2018]])
* [[June 19]]
** [[Richard M. Goody]], English-born American atmospheric physicist and professor (d. [[2023]])
** [[Doris Sands Johnson]], Bahamian teacher, suffragette and politician (d. [[1983]])
** [[Louis Jourdan]], French actor (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20089688,00.html|title=Louis Jourdan Takes on the Chevalier Role in Gigi and Proves He Remembers It Well|journal=[[People (magazine)|People]]|date=14 January 1985|volume=23|number=2|first1=David|last1=Hutchings|access-date=18 April 2014|archive-date=April 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419013731/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20089688,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[June 21]]
** [[Gebhard Büchel]], Liechtenstein decathlete
** [[Hernando Hoyos]], Colombian sports shooter (d. [[2000]])
** [[Patricia Kenworthy Nuckols]], American field hockey player and aviator (d. [[2022]])
** [[Thomas Morrow Reavley]], American judge (d. [[2020]])
** [[Jane Russell]], American actress (d. [[2011]])
* [[June 22]] 
** [[Ralph K. Hofer]], American fighter pilot (d. [[1942]])
** [[Růžena Krásná]], Czech politician and human rights advocate (d. [[2012]])
** [[Barbara Perry (actress)|Barbara Perry]], American actress and singer (d. [[2019]])
* [[June 23]] 
** [[Paul Findley]], American politician (d. [[2019]])
** [[Marius Mora]], French cross-country skier (d. [[2006]])
** [[Colin Pinch]], Australian cricketer (d. [[2006]])
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Gerhard Sommer]], German soldier (d. [[2019]])
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[Dennis Wilson (poet)|Dennis Wilson]], British war poet (d. [[2022]])
* [[June 26]] 
** [[Robert Everett (computer scientist)|Robert Everett]], American computer scientist (d. [[2018]])
** [[Violette Szabo]], French World War II heroine (d. [[1945]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=Amazons to Fighter Pilots - A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women (Volume One)|editor-first=Reina|editor-last=Pennington|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.|year=2003|isbn=0-313-32707-6|location=Westport, Connecticut|pages=167}}</ref>
* [[June 27]] 
** [[Muriel Pavlow]], English actress (d. [[2019]])
** Princess [[Vimolchatra]] of Thailand (d. [[2009]])
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]], [[Prime Minister of India]] (d. [[2004]])
* [[June 29]]
** [[Bob Kennedy (American football, born 1921)|Bob Kennedy]], American football player (d. [[2010]])
** [[Jean Kent]], English actress (d. [[2013]])
** [[Reinhard Mohn]], German businessman (d. [[2009]])
* [[June 30]]
** [[Oswaldo López Arellano]], 42nd and 44th President of Honduras (d. [[2010]])
** [[Jules Amez-Droz]], Swiss fencer (d. [[2012]])
** [[Pierre Labric]], French organist and composer

===July===
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* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Seretse Khama]], 1st President of Botswana (d. [[1980]])<ref>{{cite book|author=S. M. Gabatshwane|title=Seretse Khama and Botswana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hHghAAAAMAAJ|year=1966|publisher=J.G. Mmusi|page=8}}</ref> 
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Joseph Zhu Baoyu]], Chinese Roman Catholic bishop (d. [[2020]])
* [[July 3]]
** [[Flor María Chalbaud]], former First Lady of Venezuela (d. [[2013]])
** [[Levi Yitzchak Horowitz]], American-born [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] [[rebbe]] (d. [[2009]])
* [[July 4]]
** [[Gérard Debreu]], French economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2004]])
**[[Dudar Hahanov]], Soviet composer, violinist and conductor (d. [[1995]])
** [[Nasser Sharifi]], Iranian sports shooter
** [[Tibor Varga (violinist)|Tibor Varga]], Hungarian violinist, conductor (d. [[2003]])
* [[July 5]] 
** [[Clare Abbott (artist)|Clare Abbott]], South African artist and illustrator (d. [[2008]])
** [[Zeynep Korkmaz]], Turkish scholar and dialectologist
** [[Nanos Valaoritis]], Greek writer (d. [[2019]])
** [[Patricia Wright (actress)|Patricia Wright]], American actress
* [[July 6]] 
** [[Nancy Reagan]], American actress, [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite news| url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nancy-reagan-lady-dies-94/story?id=3349362|title=Nancy Reagan, Former First Lady, Dies at 94| last=Percha|first=Julie|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|access-date=March 6, 2016|date=March 6, 2016}}</ref>
** [[Allan MacEachen]], Canadian politician (d. [[2017]])
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Dragomir Felba]], Serbian actor (d. [[2006]])
* [[July 8]]
** [[John Money]], New Zealand psychologist, sexologist and author (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Eli Coleman|title=John Money: A Tribute|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Be28xb4JPbwC&pg=PR9|year=1991|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-56024-190-4|pages=9}}</ref>
** [[Edgar Morin]], French philosopher and sociologist
** [[Frank Prihoda]], Australian alpine skier (d. [[2022]])
* [[July 10]] 
** [[Ed Iskenderian]], American hot rodder and entrepreneur 
** [[Eunice Kennedy Shriver]], daughter of American politician Joseph P. Kennedy (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/us/12shriver.html|title=Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Influential Founder of Special Olympics, Dies at 88|first=Carla|last=Baranauckas|date=August 11, 2009|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>
** [[John K. Singlaub]], U.S. Army Major General (d. [[2022]])
* [[July 11]]
** [[Claude Bonin-Pissarro]], French painter and graphic designer (d. [[2021]])
** [[Petter Hugsted]], Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/petter-hugsted|title=Petter Hugsted|website=Olympic.org|access-date=30 November 2020}}</ref>
** [[Ilse Werner]], German actress (d. [[2005]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz|title=Obituaries in the performing arts, 2005: film, television, radio, theatre, dance, music, cartoons and pop culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pp8HAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-2489-4|page=389}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=Lentz cites no sources for this birth date.|date=May 2025}}
* [[July 13]] 
** [[Lucette Finas]], French author and essayist 
** [[Ernest Gold (composer)|Ernest Gold]], Austrian-American composer (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-ernest-gold-1083951.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-ernest-gold-1083951.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| title=Obituary: Ernest Gold | work=[[The Independent]] | date=1999-03-30| access-date=2013-12-17}}{{cbignore}}</ref> 
** [[Reinhard Sommer]], German trade union leader 
* [[July 14]]
** [[Leon Garfield]], English writer (d. [[1996]])<ref>R. Natov, ''Leon Garfield'' (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994) Page 5</ref>
** [[Armand Gaudreault]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2013]])
** [[Geoffrey Wilkinson]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1996]])<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Green|first1=Malcolm L. H.|author-link1=Malcolm Green (chemist)|last2=Cummins|first2=Christopher C.|last3=Kronauge|first3=James F.|title=Alan Davison. 24 March 1936 – 14 November 2015|journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]]|volume=63|pages=197–213|year=2017|issn=0080-4606|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2017.0004|doi-access=free}}</ref>
** [[Sixto Durán Ballén]], President of Ecuador (d. [[2016]]) 
* [[July 15]] 
** [[Robert Bruce Merrifield]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2006]])
** [[Carl Richardson]], American football coach (d. [[2023]])
** [[N. Sankaraiah]], Indian communist politician (d. [[2023]])
* [[July 17]]
** [[Acquanetta]], American actress (d. [[2004]])
** [[Pío Corcuera]], Argentine football striker (d. [[2011]])
** [[Hannah Szenes]], Hungarian World War II heroine (d. [[1944]])
* [[July 18]]
** [[Aaron T. Beck]], American psychiatrist<ref>{{cite book|author1=Smith, Vicki|author2=Collard, Patrizia|author3=Nicolson, Paula|title=Key Concepts In Counselling And Psychotherapy: A Critical A-Z Guide To Theory: A critical A-Z guide to theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gCzEuAlW2vcC&pg=PA21|date=1 May 2012|publisher=McGraw-Hill Education (UK)|isbn=978-0-335-24221-4|pages=21}}</ref> (d. [[2021]])
** [[John Glenn]], American astronaut, U.S. Senator (d. [[2016]])
** [[Heinz Bennent]], German actor (d. [[2011]])
** [[Gerry Mays]], Scottish football player, manager (d. [[2006]])
** [[Richard Leacock]], British-born documentary filmmaker, pioneer of Cinéma Vérité (d. [[2011]])
* [[July 19]] 
** [[Bertil Antonsson]], Swedish heavyweight wrestler (d. [[2006]])
** [[Rosalyn Sussman Yalow]], American physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2011]])
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Murad Ahmad]], Malaysian politician 
* [[July 26]] 
** [[Valmiki Choudhary]], Indian politician (d. [[1996]])
** [[Wang Xiji]], Chinese aerospace engineer
* [[July 28]] 
** [[Melba Hernández]], Cuban politician, diplomat (d. [[2014]])
** [[Ella Tengbom-Velander]], Swedish politician (d. [[2022]])
* [[July 29]] 
** [[Richard Egan (actor)|Richard Egan]], American actor (d. [[1987]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Henryk Hoffmann|title="A" Western Filmmakers: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers, Directors, Cinematographers, Composers, Actors and Actresses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWNZAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-0696-8|page=300}}</ref>
** [[Gustav Victor Rudolf Born]], German-British pharmacologist (d. [[2018]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Grant Johannesen]], American concert pianist (d. [[2005]])
* [[July 31]]
** [[Whitney Young]], American civil rights leader (d. [[1971]])
** [[Mel Hirsch]], American basketball player (d. [[1968]])
** [[Julieta Pinto]], Costa Rican educator and writer (d. [[2022]])

===August===
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[[File:Alex haley US coast guard.png|thumb|100px|[[Alex Haley]]]]
[[File:Gene Roddenberry crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gene Roddenberry]]]]
* [[August 1]] 
** [[George Büchi]], American chemist (d. [[1998]])
** [[Jack Kramer]], American  tennis player and commentator (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite news|author1=T. Rees Shapiro|title=Jack Kramer, 88, Dies; Wimbledon Champion Helped Found Tennis Pro Organization|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/13/AR2009091302859.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=September 14, 2009}}</ref> 
* [[August 2]] – [[Mable Lee]], American tap dancer, singer, and entertainer (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Constance Valis Hill|title=Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_HERDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA144|date=12 November 2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-022538-4|pages=144}}</ref>
* [[August 3]] – [[Richard Adler]], American Broadway composer (d. [[2012]])
* [[August 4]] 
** [[Charles H. Coolidge]], American [[Medal of Honor|Medal of Honour]] recipient (d. [[2021]])
** [[Maurice Richard]], Canadian hockey player (d. [[2000]])
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Anita Foss]], American baseball player (d. [[2015]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Esther Williams]], American swimmer, actress (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Esther Williams|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=June 6, 2013|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10104714/Esther-Williams.html|access-date=May 10, 2014}}</ref>
* [[August 9]]
** [[Ernest Angley]], American evangelist, author and station owner (d. [[2021]])
** [[Patricia Marmont]], American-English actress (d. [[2020]])
* [[August 10]] 
** [[Ion Negoițescu]], Romanian literary historian, critic, poet, novelist and memoirist (d. [[1993]])
** [[Jack B. Weinstein]], American federal judge (d. [[2021]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Alex Haley]], American author (d. [[1992]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/Haley.htm |title=Alex Haley, (1921–1992) |first=Linda T. |last=Wynn |publisher=Tennessee State University Library |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040803170852/http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/Haley.htm | archive-date=August 3, 2004 | url-status=dead| access-date = 2013-10-07}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] – [[Mary Lee (singer)|Mary Lee]], Scottish singer (d. [[2022]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Tom Rice (soldier)|Tom M. Rice]], American soldier and paratrooper that fought in [[WWII]] (d. [[2022]])
** [[K. Kailasanatha Kurukkal]], Sri Lankan researcher, writer and professor (d. [[2000]])
* [[August 17]]
** [[Betty Cody]], Canadian-born country music singer (d. [[2014]])
** [[Geoffrey Elton]], born Gottfried Ehrenberg, German-born British political and constitutional historian (d. [[1994]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Gene Roddenberry]], American television producer (''Star Trek'') (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alexander |first=David |year=1995 |title=Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry |publisher=Roc |location=New York |isbn=0-451-45440-5 |ref=alexander1995 |url=https://archive.org/details/startrekcreator00davi|pages=15–17 }}</ref>
* [[August 21]] 
** [[John Osteen]], American televangelist (d. [[1999]])
** [[Victor Szebehely]], Hungarian-American astronomer (d. [[1997]])
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Lee Loy Seng]], Malaysian businessman (d. [[1993]])
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Kenneth Arrow]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John R. Shook|title=Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijpj1tB3Qr0C&pg=PA93|date=1 January 2005|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-84371-037-0|pages=93}}</ref>
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Gerald Tanner]], Australian rules footballer (d. [[2022]])
* [[August 26]]
** [[Shimshon Amitsur]], Israeli mathematician, [[Israel Prize]] recipient (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Shimshon A. Amitsur|title=Selected Papers of S. A. Amitsur with Commentary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2uvFqAEhLIC&pg=PR19|year=2001|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.|isbn=978-0-8218-2925-7|pages=19}}</ref>
** [[Benjamin Bradlee]], American journalist, executive editor of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author=August C. Bolino|title=Men of Massachusetts: Bay State Contributors to American Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R0-FQWk1jE4C&pg=PA275|date=August 2012|isbn=978-1-4759-3375-8|pages=275|publisher=iUniverse }}</ref>
* [[August 27]]
** [[Leo Penn]], American actor and director (d. [[1998]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Daniel Blum's Theatre World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PVArAQAAIAAJ|year=1959|publisher=Crown Publishers|page=232}}</ref>
** [[Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg]], head of the [[House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]] (d. [[1996]])
** [[Abang Muhammad Salahuddin]], 3rd and 6th [[Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak]] (d. [[2022]])
** [[Babbis Friis-Baastad]], Norwegian children's writer (d. [[1970]])
* [[August 28]]
** [[Nancy Kulp]], American actress (d. [[1991]])
** [[Lidia Gueiler Tejada]], 56th [[President of Bolivia]] (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|title=Britannica Book of the Year 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeqbAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|date=1 March 2012|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=978-1-61535-618-8|pages=128}}</ref>
* [[August 29]]
** [[Iris Apfel]], American interior designer (d. [[2024]])
** [[Arlo Hullinger]], American politician (d. [[2021]])
** [[Wendell Scott]], American race car driver (d. [[1990]])
** [[Paddy Roy Bates]], British pirate radio broadcaster, founder of the [[Principality of Sealand]] (d. [[2012]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[David Finn]], American public relations executive and photographer (d. [[2021]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Raymond Williams]], Welsh academic, novelist and critic (d. [[1988]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Fred Inglis|title=Raymond Williams|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_4pC-Fwd-PEC&pg=PA17|date=23 June 2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-134-66238-6|pages=17}}</ref>

===September===
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[[File:President Virgilio Barco.png|thumb|100px|[[Virgilio Barco Vargas]]]]
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* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo]], 34th President of El Salvador (d. [[1973]])
* [[September 3]] 
** [[Bill Dean]], English actor (d. [[2000]])
** [[Oonah Shannahan]], New Zealand netball player (d. [[2022]])
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Paul A. Libby]], American professor (d. [[2021]])
* [[September 5]] 
** Queen Consort [[Farida of Egypt]] (d. [[1988]])
** [[Eddy Goldfarb]], American toy inventor 
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Andrée Geulen-Herscovici]], member of the [[Comité de Défense des Juifs]] (d. [[2022]])
* [[September 7]] 
** [[Riccardo Cerutti]], Italian rower (d. [[1999]])
** [[Antonio Gelabert]], Spanish road bicycle racer (d. [[1956]])
** [[Ferrante & Teicher|Arthur Ferrante]], American pianist ([[Ferrante & Teicher]]) (d. [[2009]])
** [[Linus Nirmal Gomes]], Indian [[Roman Catholic]] bishop (d. [[2021]])
** [[Kenneth M. Watson]], American theoretical physicist and physical oceanographer (d. [[2023]])
* [[September 8]]
** [[Harry Secombe]], Welsh entertainer (d. [[2001]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1315822/Sir-Harry-Secombe.html|title=Sir Harry Secombe|publisher=The Telegraph|date=12 April 2001|access-date=29 May 2019}}</ref>
** [[Dinko Šakić]], Croatian concentration camp commander (d. [[2008]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Hideo Haga]], Japanese photographer (d. [[2022]])
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[George Joseph (insurer)|George Joseph]], American insurer
* [[September 12]] 
** [[Stanisław Lem]], Polish science fiction writer (d. [[2006]])
** [[Bachir Yellès]], Algerian painter (d. [[2022]]) 
* [[September 13]] 
** [[Gunnar Eriksson]], Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. [[1982]])
** [[Cyrille Adoula]], Congolese trade unionist and politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of Zaire]] (d. [[1978]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong|author2=Henry Louis Gates|title=Dictionary of African Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39JMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA95|date=2 February 2012|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=978-0-19-538207-5|pages=95}}</ref>
** [[Sergey Nepobedimy]], Soviet rocket weaponry designer (d. [[2014]])
* [[September 14]] 
** [[A. Jean de Grandpré]], Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. [[2022]])
** [[Zizinho]], Brazilian football player (d. [[2002]])<ref>{{Citation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4354263,00.html |title=Obituary: Zizinho |newspaper=The Guardian |date=12 February 2002 |first=Alex |last=Bellos }}</ref>
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Joseph Iléo]], Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Africa Year Book and Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QzEuAAAAIAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Africa Journal Limited|isbn=978-0-903274-05-0|page=1189}}</ref>
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Earle Parsons]], American football player (d. [[2014]])
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Virgilio Barco Vargas]], 27th President of Colombia (d. [[1997]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Moritz|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=12CgNqCwDwkC|year=1991|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=49|isbn=9780824201289}}</ref>
* [[September 18]] 
** [[Nermin Abadan Unat]], Turkish lawyer and professor 
** [[Kamal Hassan Aly]], Egyptian politician, 43rd [[Prime Minister of Egypt]] (d. [[1993]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Obituary: Lt-Gen Kamal Hassan Ali|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ltgen-kamal-hassan-ali-1500859.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ltgen-kamal-hassan-ali-1500859.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=25 December 2013|newspaper=The Independent|date=30 March 1993|author=Adel Darwish}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
** [[Johannes W. Rohen]], German anatomist (d. [[2022]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Paulo Freire]], Brazilian educator and philosopher (d. [[1997]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Matthias Finger|author2=Jose Manuel Asun|title=Adult Education at the Crossroads: Learning Our Way Out|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8h8xwmXXPMC&pg=PA79|year=2001|publisher=Zed Books|isbn=978-1-85649-751-0|pages=79}}</ref>
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Leon Comber]], English author and military officer (d. [[2023]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Gaylen C. Hansen]], American artist 
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Betty Reid Soskin]], American park ranger
* [[September 24]]
** [[André Lacroix (pentathlete)|André Lacroix]], French pentathlete (d. [[2016]])
** [[Jim McKay]], American sportscaster (d. [[2008]])
** [[Charlene Pryer]], American professional baseball player (d. [[1999]])
* [[September 25]] 
** [[Robert Muldoon]], 31st [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (d. [[1992]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Barry Gustafson|title=His Way: a Biography of Robert Muldoon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8tRaAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT734|date=1 October 2013|publisher=Auckland University Press|isbn=978-1-86940-517-5|pages=734}}</ref>
** [[Alf Patrick]], English footballer (d. [[2021]])
** [[Robert C. Prim]], American mathematician and computer scientist (d. [[2021]])
* [[September 27]] 
** [[Miklós Jancsó]], Hungarian film director (d. [[2014]])
** [[John Malcolm Patterson]], American politician (d. [[2021]])
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Lim Tze Peng]], Singaporean artist 
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Grigory Svirsky]], Russian-Canadian writer (d. [[2016]])
* [[September 30]]
** [[Sagramor de Scuvero Brandão]] (d. [[1995]]) Brazilian actress and radio personality
** [[Deborah Kerr]], Scottish actress (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1566509/Deborah-Kerr.html |title=Obituaries: Deborah Kerr |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=19 October 2007 |access-date=20 June 2020 |location=London}}</ref>
** [[Jorge Loring Miró]], Spanish Jesuit priest, public speaker and author (d. [[2013]])

===October===
[[File:James Whitmore.jpg|100px|thumb|[[James Whitmore]]]]
<!--[[File:Francisco Morales Bermúdez (cropped).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Francisco Morales-Bermúdez]]]]-->
<!--[[File:Joseph Lowery 2000.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Joseph Lowery]]]]-->
[[File:Mihai.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Michael I of Romania|Michael I]]]]
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[James Whitmore]], American actor (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Joshua Kondek|title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nOfjraScrBEC|date=September 1985|publisher=Cengage Gale|isbn=978-0-8103-0241-9|page=337}}</ref>
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Robert Runcie]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Adrian Hastings|title=Robert Runcie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9HccAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Mowbray|isbn=978-0-264-67209-0|page=8}}</ref>
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Ray Lindwall]], Australian cricketer (d. [[1996]]) 
* [[October 4]] &ndash;[[Francisco Morales-Bermúdez]], President of Peru (d. [[2022]])<ref>
{{ cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R4fh_Gmas8YC |chapter=Profile of Francisco Morales Bermúdez
|title=Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture | volume=4 | page=116 |editor1=Barbara A. Tenenbaum |author=Georgette Magassy Dorn |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons (Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall) | year=1996 |isbn=9780684192536
}}</ref>
* [[October 6]] 
** [[Joseph Lowery]], American minister and civil rights activist (d. [[2020]])
** [[Joop Sanders]], Dutch-born American painter and educator (d. [[2023]])
* [[October 7]] 
** [[Beth Bentley]], American poet (d. [[2021]])
** [[Richard L. Duchossois]], American businessman (d. [[2022]])
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Abraham Sarmiento]], Filipino [[Supreme Court of the Philippines|Supreme Court]] jurist (d. [[2010]])
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Dot Wilkinson]], American softball player (d. [[2023]])
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[James Clavell]], British novelist (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite web |title=James Du Maresq or Charles Edmund Clavell, California, Southern District Court (Central) Naturalization Index, 1915–1976 |url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KXQM-CFM |publisher=FamilySearch |access-date=26 January 2014}} Date of birth often given as 10 October 1924.</ref> 
* [[October 11]]
** [[Manuel Costa (cyclist)|Manuel Costa]], Spanish road racing cyclist
** [[Shaw McCutcheon]], American cartoonist (d. [[2016]])
* [[October 13]] &ndash;  [[Yves Montand]], French singer and actor (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Donnelley|title=Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmYcAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Omnibus|isbn=978-0-7119-7984-0|page=421}}</ref>
* [[October 14]]
** [[José Arraño Acevedo]], Chilean historian (d. [[2009]])
** [[Jeffrey G. Smith]], American general (d. [[2021]])
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Sita Ram Goel]], Indian historian, publisher and author (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sita Ram Goel|title=India's Only Communalist: In Commemoration of Sita Ram Goel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wEYqAAAAYAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Voice of India|isbn=978-81-85990-78-1|page=1}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] 
** [[Edel Hætta Eriksen]], Norwegian schoolteacher and politician (d. [[2023]])
** [[Maria Gorokhovskaya]], Soviet gymnast (d. [[2001]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Gunnar Nordahl]], Swedish footballer (d. [[1995]])
* [[October 21]]
** [[Malcolm Arnold]], British music composer (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Stewart R. Craggs|title=Malcolm Arnold: A Bio-bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HNCLqUq4F94C&pg=PA3|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29254-5|pages=3}}</ref>
** [[Mohammad Mohammadullah]], 3rd President of Bangladesh (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Hundred Years of Bangabhaban, 1905-2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rBFuAAAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Press Wing Bangabhaban|isbn=978-984-32-1583-3|page=343}}</ref>
** [[Zorawar Chand Bakhshi]], Indian Army General (d. [[2018]])
** [[Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld]], Dutch astronomer (d. [[2015]])
** [[Wu Zhong (general)|Wu Zhong]], Chinese general (d. [[1990]])
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Georges Brassens]], French singer-songwriter (d. [[1981]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Annual Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekoYAAAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=St. Martin's|isbn=978-0-312-03877-9|page=595}}</ref>
* [[October 23]] 
** [[Denise Duval]], French operatic soprano (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/07/denise-duval-obituary|title=Denise Duval obituary|date=7 February 2016|author=Patrick O'Connor|website=The Guardian|access-date=22 November 2020}}</ref>
** [[Archie Lamb]], English ambassador and writer (d. [[2021]])
** [[André Turcat]], French aviator, first pilot of [[Concorde]] (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kev Darling|title=Concorde|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=to4gAQAAIAAJ|date=5 August 2004|publisher=Crowood Press UK|isbn=978-1-86126-654-5|page=33}}</ref>
** [[İlhan Usmanbaş]], Turkish composer (d. [[2025]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Sena Jurinac]], Bosnian operatic soprano (d. [[2011]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; King [[Michael I of Romania]] (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.familiaregala.ro/familia-regala/prezentare/ms-regele-mihai|title=MS Regele Mihai I|access-date=22 November 2020|archive-date=September 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908112257/http://www.familiaregala.ro/familia-regala/prezentare/ms-regele-mihai|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Ted Bassett (executive)|Ted Bassett]], American executive (d. [[2025]])
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Eugene Chelyshev]], Russian indologist and academician (d. [[2020]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Santiago Fierro Fierro]], Mexican politician and medical doctor (d. [[2009]])
* Unknown &ndash; [[Cao Keqiang]], Chinese diplomat

===November===
[[File:Charles Bronson - 1966.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Charles Bronson]]]]
[[File:Princess Fawzia bint Fuad of Egypt.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Fawzia Fuad of Egypt|Princess Fawzia]]]]
[[File:Brian Keith - still.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Brian Keith]]]]
[[File:Roy_Campanella_1956.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Roy Campanella]]]]
[[File:Rodney_Danagerfield_1972-1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rodney Dangerfield]]]]
[[File:Stanleyho2006.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Stanley Ho]]]]
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Pavel Țugui]], Romanian communist activist and literary historian (d. [[2021]])
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Wanda Półtawska]], Polish physician and author (d. [[2023]])
* [[November 3]] 
**[[Charles Bronson]], American actor (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's calendar of events 2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WoV51PohNjwC|year=2009|publisher=McGraw Hill Professional|isbn=978-0-07-159956-6|page=536}}</ref>
** [[Shin Kyuk-ho]], South Korean businessman and founder of [[Lotte Corporation]] (d. [[2020]]) 
* [[November 5]] 
** Princess [[Fawzia Fuad of Egypt]] (d. [[2013]])
** [[John F. Gonge]], American lieutenant general
** [[Margot Friedländer]], Holocaust survivor (d. [[2025]])
* [[November 6]] 
** [[James Jones (author)|James Jones]], American writer (d. [[1977]])
** [[Tomiyama Taeko]], Japanese visual artist (d. [[2021]])
** [[Enrico Cocozza]], Scottish filmmaker (d. [[2009]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[János Horváth (politician)|János Horváth]], Hungarian politician (d. [[2019]])
* [[November 8]] 
** [[Walter Mirisch]], American film producer (d. [[2023]])
** [[Gene Saks]], American actor, film director (d. [[2015]])
** [[Peter Spoden]], German night fighter ace (d. [[2021]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Joonas Kokkonen]], Finnish composer (d. [[1996]])
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Brian Keith]], American actor (d. [[1997]])
* [[November 15]]
** [[Jimmy Fitzmorris]], American politician (d. [[2021]])
** [[Alexander Jefferson]], American Air Force officer (d. [[2022]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Ofelia Guilmáin]], Mexican actress (d. [[2005]])
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[George Nagobads]], American physician (d. [[2023]])
* [[November 19]]
** [[Michel Bonnevie]], French Olympic basketball player (d. [[2018]])
** [[Roy Campanella]], American baseball player ([[Brooklyn Dodgers]]), member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (d. [[1993]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Allen Dines]], American politician (d. [[2020]])
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Billie Mae Richards]], Canadian actress, singer (d. [[2010]])
* [[November 22]] – [[Rodney Dangerfield]], American actor and comedian (d. [[2004]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/arts/06dangerfield.html|title=Rodney Dangerfield, Comic Seeking Respect, Dies at 82|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 6, 2004}}</ref>
* [[November 23]] 
** [[Fred Buscaglione]], Italian singer and actor (d. [[1960]])
** [[Lois North]], American politician 
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[John Lindsay]], American lawyer and politician, [[Mayor of New York City]] (d. [[2000]])
* [[November 25]] 
** [[Stanley Ho]], Hong Kong-Macanese businessman and philanthropist (d. [[2020]])
** [[Johnny Johnson (RAF officer)|Johnny Johnson]], English [[RAF]] officer (d. [[2022]])
* [[November 26]] 
** [[Tom Felleghy]], Hungarian-born Italian actor (d. [[2005]])
** [[Françoise Gilot]], French painter, critic and author (d. [[2023]]) 
* [[November 27]] 
** [[Alexander Dubček]], Slovak politician, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. [[1992]])<ref>{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of Political Biography|year=1998|publisher=OUP|location=Oxford|page=152|url=https://www.questia.com/read/34683530/a-dictionary-of-political-biography|author=Dennis Kavanagh|access-date=1 September 2013|chapter=Dubcek, Alexander|archive-date=October 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027014837/https://www.gale.com/databases/questia|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[James Kinnier Wilson]], English assyriologist (d. [[2022]])

===December===
[[File:Deanna_Durbin_in_Yank_Magazine.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Deanna Durbin]]]]
[[File:Madiha Yousry.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Madiha Yousri]]]]
[[File:Steve Allen - press photo.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Steve Allen]]]]
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Carlo Furno]], Italian cardinal (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite news | access-date = 10 December 2015 | date = 10 December 2015 | work= La Stampa | language = it| url = http://www.lastampa.it/2015/12/10/cronaca/morto-il-cardinale-carlo-furno-gi-nunzio-apostolico-in-italia-YfS3ILh55bs5gKw1IWHxQL/pagina.html | title = Morto il cardinale Carlo Furno, già Nunzio apostolico in Italia}}</ref>
* [[December 3]] 
** [[Phyllis Curtin]], American soprano (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew L. Pincus|title=Musicians with a Mission: Keeping the Classical Tradition Alive|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=szmBNRH93BcC&pg=PA52|year=2002|publisher=UPNE|isbn=978-1-55553-516-2|pages=52}}</ref>
** [[Sonja Morawetz Sinclair]], Canadian journalist, author and cryptographer (d. [[2024]])
** [[Madiha Yousri]], Egyptian actress (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 4]] 
** [[Deanna Durbin]], Canadian singer (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2013|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MoHGCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA99|date=23 May 2014|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-1652-0|pages=99}}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=May 2025}}
** [[Sanford K. Moats]], American Air Force general (d. [[2023]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Arnljot Strømme Svendsen]], Norwegian economist and politician (d. [[2022]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Otto Graham]], American football player (d. [[2003]])
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Eric Blackwood]], Canadian-English aviator (d. [[2007]])
* [[December 10]] 
** [[Toh Chin Chye]], Singaporean politician (d. [[2012]])
** [[Howard Fredeen]], Canadian animal breeding researcher (d. [[2021]])
** [[Herbert Wahler]], German Nazi war criminal (d. [[2023]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Ira Neimark]], American businessman and author (d. [[2019]]) 
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Elda Cividino]], Italian gymnast (d. [[2014]])
* [[December 14]]
** [[Simon Towneley]], English author (d. [[2022]])
** [[Charley Trippi]], American football player (d. [[2022]])
* [[December 15]]
** [[Alan Freed]], American [[disc jockey]], known for introducing [[rock and roll]] to mainstream radio (d. [[1965]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark Christopher Carnes|title=American National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jiHFQUjyX78C|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512787-4|page=429}}</ref>
** [[Nikolai Lebedev (actor)|Nikolai Lebedev]], Soviet-Russian actor (d. [[2022]])
* [[December 17]] &ndash; [[Anne Golon]], French writer (d. [[2017]])
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Yuri Nikulin]], Soviet/Russian actor, clown (d. [[1997]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Blaže Koneski]], Macedonian poet, linguist (d. [[1993]]) 
* [[December 20]] 
** [[Ali Kandil]], Egyptian football referee 
** [[Gayraud Wilmore]], American historian, theologian and educator (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=James Allen Page|author2=Jae Min Roh|title=Selected Black American, African, and Caribbean Authors: A Bio-bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ac05AAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Libraries Unlimited|isbn=978-0-87287-430-5|page=302}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Luigi Creatore]], American songwriter, record producer (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite web |last=Roberts |first=Sam |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/16/arts/music/luigi-creatore-songwriter-and-producer-dies-at-93.html |title=Luigi Creatore, Songwriter and Producer, Dies at 93 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=15 December 2015 |access-date=16 December 2015}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Maurice Girardot]], French Olympic basketball player (d. [[2016]])
* [[December 24]] 
** [[Bill Dudley|"Bullet" Bill Dudley]], National Football League MVP 1946, Pro Football Hall of Fame 1966 (d. [[2010]])
** [[Allan Edwards (Australian cricketer)|Allan Edwards]], Australian cricketer (d. [[2019]])
** [[Francisco Pires]], Portuguese footballer 
* [[December 26]] 
** [[Steve Allen]], American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://archive.org/details/currentbiogr198200mori|url-access=registration|year=1982|publisher=H. W. Wilson Co.|page=[https://archive.org/details/currentbiogr198200mori/page/n12 1]}}</ref>
**[[John Severin]], American humorous, war and western cartoonist (''[[Mad Magazine|Mad Comics]]'', ''[[Cracked (magazine)|Cracked]]'') (d. 2012) 
* [[December 28]] 
** [[E. S. Campbell]], American marine and author (d. [[2020]])
** [[Philippe de Gaulle]], French admiral and senator (d. [[2024]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Ronald Ernest Aitchison]], Scottish footballer (d. [[1996]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Rashid Karami]], 8-time prime minister of Lebanon (d. [[1987]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz|title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RwfKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1739|date=4 February 2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-134-26497-1|pages=1739}}</ref>
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Maurice Yaméogo]], [[President of Upper Volta]] (d. [[1993]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz|title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA121|date=4 February 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-26490-2|pages=121}}</ref>

== Deaths ==

=== January&ndash;February ===
[[File:Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg(cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg]]]]
[[File:Andrea Carlo Ferrari - Photo.jpg|thumb|110px|Blessed [[Andrea Carlo Ferrari]]]]
[[File:King Nikola of Montenegro.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Nicholas I of Montenegro]]]]
[[File:EDato.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Eduardo Dato]]]]
[[File:%C3%89mile_Combes_(1835%E2%80%931921).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Emile Combes]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg]], 5th [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1856]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Gervase Elwes]], English tenor (b. [[1866]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Adolf von Hildebrand]], German sculptor (b. [[1847]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz]], German anatomist (b. [[1836]])
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[William Thompson Sedgwick]], American teacher, epidemiologist and bacteriologist (b. [[1855]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Justiniano Borgoño]], 37th Prime Minister of Peru (b. [[1836]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[H. G. Haugan]], Norwegian-born American railroad, banking executive (b. [[1840]])
* [[February 2]]
** [[Andrea Carlo Ferrari]], Italian Catholic cardinal and blessed (b. [[1850]])
** [[Antonio Jacobsen]], American maritime artist (b. [[1850]])
* [[February 8]]
** [[George Formby Sr]], English entertainer (tuberculosis; b. [[1876]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Rainer E. Lotz|title=German Ragtime & Prehistory of Jazz: The sound documents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tgUFAQAAIAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Storyville Publications|isbn=978-0-902391-08-6|page=105}}</ref>
** [[Peter Kropotkin]], Russian anarchist (b. [[1842]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Pierre Kropotkine|author2=Peter Kropotkin|author3=Kropotkin Peter|title=Kropotkin: 'The Conquest of Bread' and Other Writings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=InTfBhY75CQC&pg=PR23|date=10 August 1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-45990-7|pages=23}}</ref>
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein]] (b. [[1863]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Carl Menger]], Austrian economist (b. [[1840]])
* [[February 27]] &ndash; [[Schofield Haigh]], English cricketer (b. [[1871]])

=== March&ndash;April ===
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Nicholas I of Montenegro]], exiled king (b. [[1841]])<ref>"Montenegrin King Is Dead in France— Nicholas Had Been in Exile Since 1918, When Subjects Rejected Him", ''The New York Times'', March 2, 1921. p.8.</ref> 
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Champ Clark]], American politician (b. [[1850]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Auguste Mercier]], French general, politician (b. [[1833]])
* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Eduardo Dato]], Spanish politician, 3-time [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (b. [[1856]]) (assassinated)<ref>{{cite book|author=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|title=Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pRuD137EhC8C|year=1922|publisher=The Endowment|page=62}}</ref>
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Talaat Pasha]], Ottoman Turkish ruler, initiator of the Armenian Genocide (b. [[1874]]) (assassinated)
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Abraham Grünbaum (activist)]], German Jewish activist. (b. [[1885]]) 
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Edward Theodore Compton]], English-German painter and mountain climber (b. [[1849]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[John Burroughs]], American naturalist, essayist (b. [[1837]])
* [[April 1]] &ndash; Sir [[Edmund Poë]], British admiral (b. [[1849]])
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Charles Blackader]], British general (b. [[1869]])
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[James H. Jones (North Carolina politician)|James H. Jones]], American coachman and confidential courier for [[Jefferson Davis]] and later a North Carolina local public official<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1994651/james-h-jones-dead/|title=James H Jones dead|newspaper=Asheville Citizen-Times |date=April 9, 1921|pages=9|via=newspapers.com}}</ref>
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein]], last German Empress, wife of [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor]] (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Anne Commire|author2=Deborah Klezmer|title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjFaAAAAYAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Yorkin Publications|isbn=978-0-7876-4080-4|page=625}}</ref>
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Manwel Dimech]], Maltese philosopher, social reformer (b. [[1860]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Tony Jackson (pianist)|Tony Jackson]], American jazz musician (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ragpiano.com/comps/tjackson.shtml|title=Antonio (Toney) Junius Jackson|website=RagPiano.com}}</ref>
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Warington Baden-Powell]], British admiralty lawyer (b. [[1847]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Arthur Mold]], English cricketer (b. [[1863]])<ref>{{Cite web | last = Pardon | first = Sydney | url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/232808.html | title = Arthur Mold (Obituary) | work = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | year = 1922 | publisher = John Wisden & Co | location = London | access-date = 20 September 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121113220644/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/232808.html | archive-date = 13 November 2012 | url-status = live | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

=== May&ndash;June ===
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Alfred Hermann Fried]], Austrian writer, pacifist and recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[William Henry Chamberlin (philosopher)|William Henry Chamberlin]], American philosopher (b. [[1870]])
* [[May 12]]
** [[Melville Macnaghten|Sir Melville Macnaghten]], British police officer (b. [[1853]])
** [[Emilia Pardo Bazán]], Spanish writer (b. [[1851]])<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Pardo Bazán, Emilia|volume=20|page=801|first=James|last=Fitzmaurice-Kelly|authorlink=James Fitzmaurice-Kelly}}</ref>
** [[Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten]], Austro-Hungarian general and politician (b. [[1861]])
* [[May 19]]
** [[Edward Douglass White]], 9th [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1845]])
** [[Michael Llewelyn Davies]], one of the "Lost Boys" for the [[Peter Pan]] book (b. [[1900]])
* [[May 25]] 
** [[Émile Combes]], French statesman, 69th [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1835]])
** [[Arthur Wilson (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Arthur Wilson]], British admiral of the fleet (b. [[1842]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash;[[Euthymios (Agritellis)]], Greek Orthodox bishop and saint. (b. [[1876]])
*[[May 31]]&ndash;[[June 1]] &ndash; [[A.C. Jackson (surgeon)|A.C. Jackson]],  African-American surgeon<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=L. Brown|first=DeNeen|date=11 October 2018|title=We lived like we were Wall Street|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/10/11/we-lived-like-we-were-wall-street/|access-date=9 August 2019}}</ref>
* [[June 5]]
**[[Laura Bromwell]], American stunt pilot (b. [[1897]])
**[[Georges Feydeau]], French playwright (b. [[1862]])
* [[June 11]] &ndash; Patriarch [[Leonid of Georgia]] (b. [[1860]])
* [[June 18]] 
**[[Eduardo Acevedo Díaz]], Uruguayan writer (b. [[1851]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Carlos A. Solé|author2=Maria Isabel Abreu|title=Latin American Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5bRZAAAAYAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Scribner|isbn=978-0-684-18597-2|page=299}}</ref>
**[[Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri]], Indian Islamic scholar and author (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{cite Banglapedia|article=Jaunpuri, Abdul Awal|author=Afaz Uddin, Muhammad}}</ref>
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Gyorche Petrov]], Macedonian, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. [[1865]]) (assassinated)
* [[June 29]]
**[[Lady Randolph Churchill]], mother of [[Winston Churchill]] (b. [[1854]])<ref>Jenkins, Roy., ''Churchill'', Pan Books, London, 2002 edition, {{ISBN|0330488058}}, pp.353–354</ref>
**[[Otto Seeck]], German classical historian (b. [[1850]])

=== July&ndash;August ===
[[File:Enrico Caruso XV.png|thumb|100px|[[Enrico Caruso]]]]
[[File:Peter I of Serbia (Rotary Photo 7119 A).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Peter I of Serbia]]]]
[[File:Humperdinck Postcard-1910.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]]]]
[[File:John Boyd Dunlop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Boyd Dunlop]]]]
[[File:Takashi_Hara_posing.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hara Takashi]]]]
[[File:Picture_of_Abdul-Baha.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Abdul-Baha]]]]
[[File:Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns_in_1900_by_Pierre_Petit.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Camille Saint-Saens]]]]
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Maurice Bailloud]], French general (b. [[1847]])
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] (b. [[1844]])
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Lippmann]], Luxembourger-French physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1845]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Manuel Fernández Silvestre]], Spanish general (killed in action or suicide) (b. [[1871]])
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Howard Vernon (Australian actor)|Howard Vernon]], Australian actor (b. [[1848]])
* [[August 2]] &ndash; [[Enrico Caruso]], Italian tenor (b. [[1873]])
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Alexander Blok]], Russian poet (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 8]] 
** [[Juhani Aho]], Finnish author and journalist (b. [[1861]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/kb/artikkeli/2806/|title=Aho, Juhani (1861–1921)|work=kansallisbiografia.fi|accessdate=1 December 2015}}</ref>
** [[Maria Anna Rosa Caiani]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] nun and blessed (b. [[1863]])
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Peter I of Serbia]], King of Yugoslavia (b. [[1844]])
* [[August 26]] 
** [[Matthias Erzberger]], German politician (assassinated; b. [[1875]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William Brustein|title=The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n6I_FFX0YFsC&pg=PA191|year=1996|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-07432-1|pages=191}}</ref>
** [[Sándor Wekerle]], 3-time prime minister of Hungary (b. [[1848]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Karl von Bülow]], German field marshal (b. [[1846]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Americana|publisher=Grolier Incorporated|year=1998|page=768}}</ref>

=== September&ndash;October ===
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[Maria Angela Picco]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] religious professed and blessed (b. [[1867]])
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Virginia Rappe]], American model, actress (b. [[1891]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[John Tengo Jabavu]], editor of South Africa's first newspaper in Xhosa (b. 1859)
* [[September 11]] 
** [[Prince Louis of Battenberg]], British naval officer, German prince (b. [[1854]])
** [[Subramania Bharati]], Tamil poet (b. [[1882]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Ivan Vazov]], Bulgarian poet (b. [[1850]])
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]], German composer (b. [[1854]])
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Julius von Hann]], Austrian meteorologist (b. [[1839]])
* [[October 2]] &ndash; King [[William II of Württemberg]] (b. [[1848]])
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Philander C. Knox]], American politician (b. [[1853]])<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations|title=Background Information on the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eXU1j2rOSEsC&pg=PA61|year=1968|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=61}}</ref>
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Haydar Khan Amo-oghli]], Iranian revolutionary (b. [[1860]])
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Yaa Asantewaa]], Asante warrior queen (b. c. [[1840]])
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Ludwig III of Bavaria]], last king of Bavaria (b. [[1845]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Hamilton|title=Leaders and Personalities of the Third Reich: Their Biographies, Portraits, and Autographs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3OegAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=R.J. Bender Pub.|isbn=978-0-912138-27-5|page=78}}</ref>
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[William Wallace Wotherspoon]], American general (b. [[1850]])
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[John Boyd Dunlop]], British-born Irish inventor, veterinary surgeon (b. [[1840]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Bat Masterson]], American gunfighter (b. [[1853]])
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[William Speirs Bruce]], British marine biologist and antarctic explorer (b. [[1867]])

=== November&ndash;December ===
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Hara Takashi]], Japanese politician, 10th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1856]]) (assassinated)
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Peter Conover Hains]], major general in the [[United States Army]], and veteran of the [[American Civil War]], [[Spanish–American War]], and [[First World War]] (b. [[1840]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Fernand Khnopff]], Belgian painter (b. [[1858]]) 
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Ignác Goldziher]], Hungarian orientalist (b. [[1850]])
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil]], daughter of Emperor [[Pedro II of Brazil]] (b. [[1846]])
*[[November 22]] 
**[[Christina Nilsson]], Swedish operatic soprano (b. [[1843]])
**[[Edward J. Adams]], American serial/spree killer and bank robber (b.1887)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.legendsofamerica.com/20th-eddieadams/ | title=Eddie Adams – Killer of the Prohibition Era – Legends of America }}</ref>
* [[November 26]] 
** [[Émile Cartailhac]], French prehistorian (b. [[1845]])
** [[Charles W. Whittlesey]], United States Army officer, commander of the "[[Lost Battalion (World War I)|Lost Battalion]]" in World War I (suicide) (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tombguard.org/news/article/the-tragedy-of-heroism-charles-w-whittlesey|title=Society of the Honor Guard &#124; The Tragedy of Heroism: Charles W. Whittlesey|website=tombguard.org}}</ref>
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Douglas Colin Cameron|Sir Douglas Cameron]], Canadian politician, [[Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba]] (b. [[1854]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[`Abdu'l-Bahá]], head of the [[Baháʼí Faith]] (b. [[1844]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bahai-encyclopedia-project.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81:abdul-baha-abbas-1844-1921&catid=36:administrationinstitutions|title='Abdu'l-Bahá 'Abbás}}</ref>
* [[November 29]] &ndash; [[George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen]], Canadian businessman (b. [[1829]])
* [[November 30]] 
** [[Madeleine Brès]], French physician (b. [[1842]])
** [[Hermann Schwarz]], German mathematician (b. [[1843]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Carathéodory |first1=C |title=Hermann Amandus Schwarz |journal=Deutsches biographisches Jahrbuch |date=1921 |volume=III |issue=6 |pages=236–238 |doi=10.1002/zamm.19210010615 |bibcode=1921ZaMM....1..494M |url=https://archive.org/details/DeutschesBiographischesJahrbuchBd031921/page/n233/ |access-date=7 July 2021}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[George Ashlin]], Irish architect (b. [[1837]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt]], American astronomer (b. [[1868]])
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Camille Saint-Saëns]], French composer (b. [[1835]])
* [[December 20]]
**[[Hans Hartwig von Beseler]], German general (b. [[1850]])
**[[Dmitri Parsky]], Russian general (b. [[1866]])
**[[Julius Richard Petri]], German microbiologist (b. [[1852]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Misu Sōtarō]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1855]])

== Nobel Prizes ==
[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] &ndash; [[Albert Einstein]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] &ndash; [[Frederick Soddy]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] &ndash; (not awarded)
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] &ndash; [[Anatole France]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] &ndash; [[Karl Hjalmar Branting]], [[Christian Lous Lange]]

== References ==
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==Sources==
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* ''New International Year Book: 1921'' (1922) [https://books.google.com/books?id=F11MAAAAMAAJ&q=intitle:international+intitle:year+intitle:book online edition]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101201191819/http://www.pwnhc.ca/timeline/1900/Airplane_1921.html 1921 Aviation Comes North- NWT Historical Timeline- A Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre Online Exhibit]

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