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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}} {{About year|1926}} {{Events by month|1926}} {{Year nav|1926}} {{C20 year in topic}} {{Year article header|1926}} {{TOC limit|2}} In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days. As Friday, December 18, 1926 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was followed by Saturday, January 1, 1927 '' (Gregorian Calendar)''. 13 days were dropped to make the switch. Turkey thus became the last country to officially adopt the Gregorian Calendar, which ended the 344-year calendrical switch around the world that took place in October, 1582 by virtue of the Papal Bull made by Pope [[Gregory XIII]]. ==Events== ===January=== {{Main|January 1926}} * [[January 3]] – [[Theodoros Pangalos]] declares himself dictator in Greece.<ref>{{cite book |last = Shrader |first = Charles |title = The Withered Vine: Logistics and the Communist Insurgency in Greece, 1945-1949 |publisher = Praeger |location = Westport, Connecticut |year = 1999 |isbn = 9780275965440 |page = 68 }}</ref> * [[January 8]] **[[Ibn Saud]] is crowned ruler of the [[Kingdom of Hejaz]].<ref>{{cite book |author = Prescott Holden Thorp |title = The Commemorative Stamps of the World |publisher = Scott Stamp and Coin Company |year = 1934 |page = 303 }}</ref> ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne as [[Bảo Đại]], the last monarch of the [[Nguyễn dynasty]] of the Kingdom of Vietnam. * [[January 16]] – A [[British Broadcasting Company]] [[radio play]] by [[Ronald Knox]] about workers' revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_bbc_radio_panic |title = The BBC Radio Panic, 1926 |website = [[Museum of Hoaxes]] |access-date = January 3, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150103085814/http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_bbc_radio_panic |archive-date = January 3, 2015 |url-status = live }}</ref> * [[January 21]] – The Belgian Parliament accepts the [[Locarno Treaties]]. * [[January 26]] – Scottish inventor [[John Logie Baird]] demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the [[Royal Institution]] and a reporter from ''[[The Times]]''. * [[January 31]] – British and Belgian troops leave [[Cologne]]. ===February=== {{Main|February 1926}} * [[February 1]] – Land on [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] and [[Wall Street]] in New York City is sold at a record $7 per sq inch; it is only affordable for four more years. * [[February 12]] – The Irish minister for Justice, [[Kevin O'Higgins]], appoints the [[Committee on Evil Literature]]. * [[February 20]] – The [[Berlin International Green Week]] debuts in Germany. * [[February 25]] – [[Francisco Franco]] becomes General in Spain. ===March=== {{Main|March 1926}} [[File:Goddard and Rocket.jpg|thumb|130px|[[March 16]]: [[Robert H. Goddard|Goddard]] with rocket in 1926.]] * [[March 6]] ** The [[Shakespeare Memorial Theatre]] in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] (England) is destroyed by fire. ** The first commercial air route from the United Kingdom to [[South Africa]] is established by [[Alan Cobham]]. * [[March 14]] – The [[El Virilla train accident]] occurs in Costa Rica killing 248 people and injuring 93.<ref>{{cite book | last = Armistead | first = Samuel | title = Oral tradition and Hispanic literature : essays in honor of Samuel G. Armistead | publisher = Garland Pub | location = New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780815320623 | page=315}}</ref> * [[March 16]] – [[Robert H. Goddard]] launches the first [[liquid-fuel rocket]], at [[Auburn, Massachusetts]]. * [[March 23]] – [[Éamon de Valera]] organises the political party [[Fianna Fáil]] in Ireland. ===April=== {{Main|April 1926}} * [[April 4]] – Greek dictator [[Theodoros Pangalos (general)|Theodoros Pangalos]] wins the [[1926 Greek presidential election|presidential election]], with 93.3% of the vote; turnout is light, as the result is considered a foregone conclusion.<ref>{{cite news |date = April 5, 1926 |title = Pangalos Named Greek President in Poll Farce |newspaper = [[Chicago Tribune|Chicago Daily Tribune]] |page = 16 }}</ref> * [[April 6]] – Aarón Joaquín has a [[Vision (spirituality)|vision]] in the [[Nuevo León]] state of Mexico, origin of [[La Luz del Mundo]], a [[Nontrinitarianism|nontrinitarian]] [[Charismatic movement|charismatic]] [[Restorationism|restorationist]] Christian church.<ref>{{cite book|last=De la Torre|first=Renee|title=Los hijos de la luz: discurso, identidad y poder en La Luz del Mundo|year=2000|publisher=ITESO|isbn=968-5087-15-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzxw5UPpPNoC&q=hermosa+provincia+luz+del+mundo|access-date=2013-10-08|language=es|page=73}}</ref> * [[April 7]] – An assassination attempt against Italian Fascist leader [[Benito Mussolini]] fails.<ref>{{cite book | last = Radzinowicz | first = Leon | title = Adventures in criminology | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 1999 | isbn = 9781134639359 | page=21}}</ref> * [[April 17]] – [[Zhang Zuolin]]'s army captures [[Beijing]].<ref>{{cite news |last = Dailey |first = Charles |date = April 18, 1926 |title = Chang's Son, at Head of Troops, Invades Peking |newspaper = [[Chicago Tribune|Chicago Daily Tribune]] |page = 13 }}</ref> * [[April 24]] – [[Treaty of Berlin (1926)|Treaty of Berlin]]: Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party, for the next five years. * [[April 25]] – [[Reza Khan]] is crowned [[Shah of Iran]], under the name "Pahlevi". * [[April 30]] – A [[state of emergency]] is proclaimed in the United Kingdom under the [[Emergency Powers Act 1920]] on account of the "threat of cessation of work in Coal Mines".<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1926/may/03/emergency-powers-act-royal-proclamation#column_35 Hansard, House of Commons, 5th Series, vol. 195, col. 35 (3 May 1926).]</ref> ===May=== {{Main|May 1926}} * [[May 4]] – The [[1926 United Kingdom general strike|United Kingdom general strike]] begins at midnight, in support of a strike by coal miners. * [[May 9]] ** The French navy bombards [[Damascus]], because of [[Druze]] riots. ** Explorer [[Richard E. Byrd]] and co-pilot [[Floyd Bennett]] claim to be the first to fly over the [[North Pole]] in the ''Josephine Ford'' monoplane, taking off from [[Spitsbergen]], Norway and returning 15 hours and 44 minutes later. Both men are immediately hailed as national heroes, though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, believing that the plane was unlikely to have covered the entire distance and back in that short an amount of time.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.livescience.com/28727-byrd-didn-t-fly-over-north-pole.html |title = Did Admiral Byrd Fly Over The North Pole Or Not? |last = Thompson |first = Andrea |date = April 15, 2013 |website = [[LiveScience]] |publisher = [[Purch]] |access-date = January 3, 2015 }}</ref> An entry in Byrd's diary, discovered in [[1996]], suggests that the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole, due to an oil leak.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/byrd-flies-over-the-north-pole |title = May 9, 1926: Byrd flies over the North Pole? |website = This Day in History |date = February 9, 2010 |publisher = A&E Television Networks |access-date = January 3, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141129023602/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/byrd-flies-over-the-north-pole |archive-date = November 29, 2014 |url-status = live }}</ref> * [[May 10]] – Planes piloted by Major [[Harold Geiger]] and [[Horace Meek Hickam]], students at the United States [[Air Corps Tactical School]], collide in mid-air at Langley Field, Virginia. * [[May 12]] ** [[Roald Amundsen]] and his crew fly over the [[North Pole]], in the [[Norge (airship)|airship ''Norge'']]. ** The [[1926 United Kingdom general strike|United Kingdom general strike]] is called off by the [[trade union]]s, although miners remain on strike. * [[May 12]]–[[May 14|14]] – [[May Coup (Poland)|May Coup]]: [[Józef Piłsudski]] takes over in Poland. * [[May 18]] – Evangelist [[Aimee Semple McPherson]] disappears, while visiting a [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice, California]] beach. * [[May 20]] – The [[United States Congress]] passes the [[Air Commerce Act]], licensing pilots and planes. * [[May 23]] – The first [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] constitution is established. * [[May 26]] – The [[Rif War]] ends, when [[Rifian people|Rif]] rebels surrender in [[Morocco]]. * [[May 28]] – The [[28 May 1926 coup d'état|1926 coup d'état]], commanded by [[Manuel Gomes da Costa]] in Portugal, installs the [[Ditadura Nacional]] (National Dictatorship), followed by [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]'s [[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Estado Novo]]. ===June=== {{Main|June 1926}} * [[June 4]] – [[Ignacy Mościcki]] becomes [[president of Poland]]. * [[June 7]] – Liberal politician [[Carl Gustaf Ekman]] succeeds [[Rickard Sandler]] as [[Prime Minister of Sweden]]. * [[June 12]] – [[LRT Radijas|Lithuanian Radio]] launches its service from [[Kauno radiofonas]]. * [[June 29]] – [[Arthur Meighen]] briefly returns to office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]] during the [[King-Byng Affair]]. ===July=== {{Main|July 1926}} * [[July 1]] – The [[Kuomintang]] begins the [[Northern Expedition]], a military unification campaign in northern China. * [[July 3]] – A [[Caudron C.61]] aircraft, operated by [[Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne]], crashes in Czechoslovakia. * [[July 9]] – In Portugal, General [[Óscar Carmona]] takes power in a military coup. * [[July 10]] – A bolt of lightning strikes [[Picatinny Arsenal]] in New Jersey; the resulting fire causes several million pounds of explosives to blow up in the next 2–3 days. * [[July 15]] – [[Bombay Electric Supply and Transport]] Company in India introduces motor buses. * [[July 26]] – The United States [[National Bar Association]] is incorporated. ===August=== {{Main|August 1926}} * [[August 1]] – In Mexico, the entry into force of anticlerical measures stipulated in the Constitution of [[1917]] causes the [[Cristero War]] from August 3. * [[August 2]] – The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded.<ref>{{cite book | last = Pervan | first = Ralph | title = Essays on Western Australian politics | publisher = University of Western Australia Press for the Education Committee of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations | location = Nedlands Australia | year = 1979 | isbn = 9780855641498 |page=5}}</ref> * [[August 5]] – In New York, the [[Warner Brothers]]' [[Vitaphone]] system is seen by audiences for the first time, in the movie ''[[Don Juan (1926 film)|Don Juan]]'', starring [[John Barrymore]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Coe | first = Brian | title = The history of movie photography | publisher = Ash & Grant | location = London | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780904069389 | page=100}}</ref> * [[August 6]] – American [[Gertrude Ederle]] becomes the first woman to swim the [[English Channel]], from France to England.<ref>{{cite news |first= Richard|last= Severo |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/01/sports/gertrude-ederle-the-first-woman-to-swim-across-the-english-channel-dies-at-98.html |title=Gertrude Ederle, the First Woman to Swim Across the English Channel, Dies at 98 |work=[[New York Times]] |date=December 1, 2003 |access-date=August 11, 2009 }}</ref> * [[August 18]] – In the United States, a weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the [[Weather Bureau]] office in Washington, D.C. * [[August 22]] – In Greece, [[Georgios Kondylis]] ousts [[Theodoros Pangalos (general)|Theodoros Pangalos]]. * [[August 25]] – [[Pavlos Kountouriotis]] announces that [[dictatorship]] has ended in Greece, and he is now the president. ===September=== {{Main|September 1926}} * [[September 1]] – [[Lebanon]] under the [[French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon|French Mandate]] gets its first constitution, thereby becoming a republic, with [[Charles Debbas]] as its president.<ref>{{cite book | last = Volk | first = Lucia | title = Memorials and martyrs in modern Lebanon | publisher = Indiana University Press | location = Bloomington | year = 2010 | isbn = 9780253004925 | page=55}}</ref> * [[September 8]] – The German [[Weimar Republic]] joins the [[League of Nations]]. * [[September 11]] – In Rome, Italy, [[Gino Lucetti]] throws a bomb at Benito Mussolini's car, but Mussolini is unhurt.<ref>{{cite book | last = Grand | first = Alexander | title = Italian fascism : its origins & development | publisher = University of Nebraska Press | location = Lincoln London | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780803266223 | page=55}}</ref> * [[September 14]] – The [[Locarno Treaties]] of [[1925]] are ratified in [[Geneva]], and come into effect. * [[September 18]] – [[1926 Miami hurricane|Great Miami Hurricane]]: A strong hurricane devastates [[Miami]], leaving over 100 dead and causing several hundred million dollars in damage (equal to nearly $100 billion in the modern day). * [[September 19]] – [[San Siro|Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) Stadium]], well known among sports venues in [[Italy]], officially opens in [[Milan]].<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://origin-www.acmilan.com/en/club/sites/san-siro |title = San Siro |date = 2016 |website = AC Milan |access-date = February 24, 2019 |archive-date = February 25, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190225102948/http://origin-www.acmilan.com/en/club/sites/san-siro |url-status = dead }}</ref> * [[September 20]] – The [[North Side Gang]] attempts to assassinate [[Al Capone]], at the apex of his power at this time, spraying his headquarters in [[Cicero, Illinois]] with over a thousand rounds of machine gun fire in broad daylight, as Capone is eating there. Capone escapes harm.<ref>{{cite book |last = Mercer |first = Derrik |date = 1989 |title = Chronicle of the 20th Century |location = London, UK |publisher = Chronicle Communications Ltd. |page = 346 |isbn = 978-0-582-03919-3 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last = Russo |first = Gus |date = 2001 |title = The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America |location = New York |publisher = Bloomsbury |page = 35 |isbn = 978-1-59691-897-9 }}</ref> * [[September 21]] – French war ace [[René Fonck]] and three others attempt to fly the Atlantic, in pursuit of the [[Orteig Prize]]. Before the newsreel cameras at Roosevelt Field New York, the modified [[Sikorsky S-35]] crashes on take-off and bursts into flames. Fonck survives, but two of his men are killed. * [[September 23]] – [[Gene Tunney]] defeats [[Jack Dempsey]] to become heavyweight boxing champion of the world. * [[September 25]] ** The [[League of Nations]] [[1926 Slavery Convention|Slavery Convention]] abolishes all types of [[slavery]]. ** [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] returns to office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]], after winning the [[1926 Canadian federal election|Canadian federal election]]. ** [[Henry Ford]] announced the 8-hour, 5-day work week. ===October=== {{Main|October 1926}} * [[October 2]] – [[Józef Piłsudski]] becomes prime minister of Poland. * [[October 12]] – British miners agree to end their strike. * [[October 14]] – [[A. A. Milne]]'s children's book ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh (book)|Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' is published in London, featuring the eponymous bear. * [[October 16]] – An ammunition explosion on troopship ''Kuang Yuang'' near [[Jiujiang]], China, kills 1,200.<ref>{{cite news |date = 17 October 1926 |title = 1,200 Killed as Shells Explode on Burning Ship |work = [[Chicago Daily Tribune]] |page = 20 }}</ref> * [[October 19]] – The [[1926 Imperial Conference]] opens in London. * [[October 20]] – A [[1926 Havana–Bermuda hurricane|hurricane]] kills 650 in [[Cuba]]. * [[October 23]] ** [[Leon Trotsky]] and [[Lev Kamenev]] are removed from the [[Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]. ** A decree in Italy bans women from holding public office. ** The [[Fazal Mosque]], the first purpose-built in London and the first [[Ahmadiyya]] [[mosque]] in Britain, is completed. * [[October 31]] – Magician [[Harry Houdini]] dies of [[gangrene]] and [[peritonitis]] that has developed after his [[vermiform appendix|appendix]] ruptured. ===November=== {{Main|November 1926}} * [[November 10]] – In [[San Francisco]], a necrophiliac [[serial killer]] named [[Earle Nelson]] (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a [[boarding house]] landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds. * [[November 11]] – The [[United States Numbered Highways|United States Numbered Highway System]], including [[U.S. Route 66]], is established. * [[November 15]] ** The ''[[NBC]]'' Radio Network opens in the United States with 24 stations (formed by [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|Westinghouse]], [[General Electric]] and [[RCA]]). ** The [[Balfour Declaration of 1926|Balfour Declaration]] is approved by the [[1926 Imperial Conference]], making the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] dominions equal and independent. * [[November 24]] ** The village of Rocquebillier, in the [[French Riviera]], is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm. ** [[Sri Aurobindo]] retires, leaving "[[Mirra Alfassa|The Mother]]" to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in [[Puducherry (city)|Puducherry]], India. * [[November 25]] – The [[death penalty]] is re-established in Italy. * [[November 26]] – All [[Italian Communist Party|Italian Communist]] [[Italian Chamber of Deputies|deputies]] are arrested. * [[November 27]] – The restoration of [[Colonial Williamsburg]] begins in [[Williamsburg, Virginia]], United States. ===December=== {{Main|December 1926}} [[File:Emperor Showa.jpg|thumbnail|180px|right|[[December 25]]: Emperor [[Hirohito]]]] * [[December 2]] – British prime minister [[Stanley Baldwin]] ends the [[state of emergency]] that had been declared due to the miners' strike. * [[December 3]] – English detective story writer [[Agatha Christie]] disappears from her home in Surrey; on [[December 14]] she is found under her husband's mistress's surname at a [[Harrogate]] hotel. * [[December 7]] – The Council for the Preservation of Rural England, later the [[Campaign to Protect Rural England]] (CPRE), is founded by [[Patrick Abercrombie]] to limit [[urban sprawl]] and ribbon development. * [[December 13]] – [[Miina Sillanpää]] becomes [[Finland]]'s first female government minister. * [[December 17]] – [[1926 Lithuanian coup d'état]]: A democratically elected government is overthrown in [[Lithuania]]; [[Antanas Smetona]] assumes power. * [[December 18]] – [[Turkey]] converts to the [[Gregorian calendar]], making the next day [[January 1]], [[1927]]. * [[December 23]] – Nicaraguan President [[Adolfo Díaz]] requests U.S. military assistance in the ongoing [[Nicaraguan civil war (1926–27)|civil war]]. American peacekeeping troops immediately set up neutral zones in [[Puerto Cabezas]] and at the mouth of the [[Rio Grande]] to protect American and foreign lives and property.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/western-hemisphere-region/nicaragua-1909-present |title = Nicaragua (1909-present) |website = [[University of Central Arkansas]] |access-date = January 3, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="tribune Dec. 24, 1926">{{cite news |date = December 24, 1926 |title = U.S. Troops Take 2 Nicaraguan Ports |newspaper = [[Chicago Tribune|Chicago Daily Tribune]] |page = 1 }}</ref> * [[December 26]] ** In the [[history of Japan]], the [[Shōwa period]] begins from this day, due to the death of [[Emperor Taishō]] on the day before. His son [[Hirohito]] will reign as [[Emperor of Japan]] until [[1989]].<ref>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shōwa". {{Google books|p2QnPijAEmEC|''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 888|page=888}}.</ref> ** World première of Finnish composer [[Jean Sibelius]]'s [[tone poem]] ''[[Tapiola (Sibelius)|Tapiola]]'' by [[Walter Damrosch]] and the [[New York Philharmonic]], the last substantial composition to be made public by the composer for the remaining 30 years of his life.<ref>{{cite web|title=List of Sibelius' Works of the 1920s|url=http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/kron_1920-1929.htm|accessdate=2009-04-18|archive-date=August 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815004023/http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/kron_1920-1929.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> ===Date unknown=== * [[Muthulakshmi Reddi]] becomes the first woman to be appointed to a legislature in India, the [[Madras Legislative Council]]. * [[Stephen Herbert Langdon|Stephen H. Langdon]] begins excavations in [[Jemdet Nasr]], finding proto-cuneiform clay tablets (3100–2900 [[BCE]]). * [[Phencyclidine]] ''(PCP, angel dust)'' is first synthesized. * [[Earl W. Bascom]], rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and marks rodeo's first high-cut rodeo chaps at [[Stirling, Alberta]], Canada. * The [[International African Institute]] is founded in London. * [[Output (economics)|Industrial output]] surpasses the level of [[1913]] in the [[USSR]] after a period of economic downturn.{{Clarify|date=December 2012}} <ref>{{Cite book |last=Dyker |first=David |title=Restructuring the Soviet economy |publisher=Routledge |year=1992 |isbn=0415056799 |location=London ; New York |pages=2–3 |language=EN}}</ref> ==Births== {{BDToC|births}} ===January=== [[File:George Martin - backstage at LOVE.jpg|100px|thumb|Sir [[George Martin]]]] <!--[[File:Kim Jong-pil 1999.png|100px|thumb|[[Kim Jong-pil]]]]--> [[File:Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin]]]] [[File:Patricia Neal - 1952.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Patricia Neal]]]] [[File:Salahzulfikar1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Salah Zulfikar]]]] <!--[[File:Stevereeves1990 CROP.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Steve Reeves]]]]--> <!--[[File:Bal Thackeray at 70th Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Awards (1) (cropped).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Bal Thackeray]]]]--> [[File:Abdus Salam 1987 (cropped).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Abdus Salam]]]] * [[January 1]] ** [[Blanca Rodríguez]], First Lady of Venezuela during the 1970s-1990s (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.diariolasamericas.com/america-latina/fallece-caracas-blanca-perez-exprimera-dama-venezuela-n4204560980s|title=Fallece en Caracas Blanca de Pérez, exprimera dama de Venezuela|date=August 6, 2020|website=Diario Las Americas|access-date=November 30, 2021}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ** [[Claudio Villa]], Italian singer (d. [[1987]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2002|page=885|isbn=9781134758777}}</ref> * [[January 3]] ** [[Mohamed Yaacob]], Malaysian lawyer, judge and Menteri Besar of Kelantan (d. [[2009]]) ** Sir [[George Martin]], English record producer (d. [[2016]]) * [[January 5]] – [[J. B. Jeyaretnam|Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam]], Singaporean lawyer and politician (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam |url=https://www.nlb.gov.sg/main/article-detail?cmsuuid=26021a48-d4ee-4d15-9d5d-51b1ea033bc5 |website=www.nlb.gov.sg |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> * [[January 6]] – [[Mickey Hargitay]], Hungarian actor, bodybuilder (d. [[2006]]) * [[January 7]] – [[Kim Jong-pil]], South Korean politician (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Lentz | first = Harris | title = Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 | publisher = Taylor and Francis | location = Hoboken | year = 2014 | isbn = 9781134264902 | page=489}}</ref> * [[January 8]] – [[Evelyn Lear]], American soprano (d. [[2012]]) * [[January 10]] – [[Júlio Pomar]], Portuguese painter (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite news |title = Morreu Júlio Pomar |url = https://www.jn.pt/artes/interior/morreu-julio-pomar-9367119.html |access-date = 22 May 2018 |work = JN |date = 22 May 2018 |language = pt-PT }}</ref> * [[January 11]] ** [[Lev Dyomin]], Soviet cosmonaut (d. [[1998]]) ** [[Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin]], 42nd [[Prime Minister of Egypt]] (d. [[1984]]) * [[January 12]] ** [[Ray Price (musician)|Ray Price]], American country music singer and songwriter (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10523521/Ray-Price-obituary.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10523521/Ray-Price-obituary.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Ray Price – Obituary|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=December 17, 2013|access-date=February 1, 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ** [[Morton Feldman]], American composer (d. [[1987]]) * [[January 13]] – [[Michael Bond]], English fiction writer, creator of ''[[Paddington Bear]]'' (d. [[2017]]) * [[January 14]] – [[Tom Tryon]], American actor and novelist (d. [[1991]]) * [[January 15]] – [[Maria Schell]], Austrian actress (d. [[2005]]) * [[January 17]] ** [[Antonio Domingo Bussi]], Argentine Army general, former Governor of Tucuman (d. [[2011]]) ** [[Moira Shearer]], Scottish actress, dancer (d. [[2006]]) * [[January 18]] **[[Hannie van Leeuwen]], Dutch politician (d. [[2018]]) **[[Salah Zulfikar]], Egyptian actor and film producer (d. [[1993]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Adel Imam's position .. The story of the death of Salah Zulfikar before filming the scene |url=https://www.newsy-today.com/adel-imams-position-the-story-of-the-death-of-salah-zulfikar-before-filming-the-scene/ |website=Newsy Today |date=20 January 2021 |access-date=15 October 2021}}</ref> * [[January 19]] – [[Fritz Weaver]], American actor (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/movies/fritz-weaver-tony-winning-character-actor-dies-at-90.html| title=Fritz Weaver, Tony-Winning Character Actor, Dies at 90| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date=November 27, 2016| access-date=November 28, 2016}}</ref> ** [[Jose Alfredo Jimenez]], Mexican singer-songwriter (d. [[1973]]) * [[January 20]] – [[Patricia Neal]], American actress (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Patricia Neal {{!}} Biography, Movies, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Patricia-Neal |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=7 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref> * [[January 21]] ** [[Steve Reeves]], American actor (d. [[2000]]) ** [[Roger Taillibert]], French architect (d. [[2019]]) * [[January 23]] – [[Bal Thackeray]], Indian politician (d. [[2012]]) * [[January 26]] – [[Franco Evangelisti (composer)|Franco Evangelisti]], Italian composer (d. [[1980]]) * [[January 27]] – [[Ingrid Thulin]], Swedish actress (d. [[2004]]) * [[January 28]] – [[Amin al-Hafez (Lebanon)|Amin al-Hafez]], 22nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. [[2009]]) * [[January 29]] ** [[Bob Falkenburg]], American tennis player and entrepreneur (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Abdus Salam]], Pakistani physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1996]]) * [[January 30]] – [[Vasily Arkhipov]], Soviet naval officer (d. [[1998]]) ===February=== <!--[[File:Nancy Gates in Suddenly.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Nancy Gates]]]]--> [[file:Valéry Giscard d’Estaing 1978(2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]]]] [[File:Garret FitzGerald 1975 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Garret FitzGerald]]]] [[File:Leslie Nielsen.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Leslie Nielsen]]]] <!--[[File:Bob Richards.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bob Richards]]]]--> * [[February 1]] ** [[Nancy Gates]], American actress (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Vivian Maier]], American street photographer (d. [[2009]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/obituaries/vivian-maier-il/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724133616/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-04-23/news/0904221452_1_photographer-extraordinaire-special-person-critic |url-status=live |archive-date=2013-07-24 |title=Death Notice: Vivian Maier |work=Chicago Tribune|date=April 23, 2009 }}</ref> * [[February 2]] ** [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]], [[President of France]] (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/12/03/valery-giscard-destaing-centre-right-french-president-supported/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/12/03/valery-giscard-destaing-centre-right-french-president-supported/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, centre-Right French President who supported a united Europe – obituary|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=3 December 2020|date=2 December 2020|last1=Obituaries|first1=Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ** [[Miguel Obando y Bravo]], Nicaraguan Roman Catholic prelate (archbishop of Managua, cardinal) (d. [[2018]]) * [[February 3]] – [[Hans-Jochen Vogel]], German politician (d. [[2020]]) * [[February 4]] – [[Gyula Grosics]], Hungarian footballer (d. [[2014]]) * [[February 7]] ** [[Konstantin Feoktistov]], Soviet cosmonaut (d. [[2009]]) ** [[Estanislao Esteban Karlic]], Argentine cardinal ** [[Keiko Tsushima]], Japanese actress (d. [[2012]]) * [[February 8]] ** [[Neal Cassady]], American writer (d. [[1968]]) ** [[Birgitte Reimer]], Danish actress (d. [[2021]]) * [[February 9]] – [[Garret FitzGerald]], Irish lawyer, politician, and 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. [[2011]]) * [[February 10]] ** [[Carmen Romano]], [[First Lady of Mexico]] (d. [[2000]]) ** [[Danny Blanchflower]], Northern Irish footballer, football manager (d. [[1993]]) * [[February 11]] ** [[Paul Bocuse]], French chef (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Leslie Nielsen]], Canadian-American actor (d. [[2010]]) * [[February 12]] – [[Charles Van Doren]], American professor, subject of film [[Quiz Show (film)|''Quiz Show'']] (d. [[2019]]) * [[February 14]] – [[Alfred Körner]], Austrian footballer (d. [[2020]]) * [[February 15]] – [[Muhammad al-Badr]], King of Yemen (d. [[1996]]) * [[February 16]] – [[John Schlesinger]], British film director (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Joebaar Ajoeb]], Indonesian writer and organizator (d. [[1996]]) * [[February 17]] – [[John Meyendorff]], French-born American Orthodox scholar, protopresbyter and educator (d. [[1992]]) * [[February 18]] – [[Jeanne Wilson]], American swimmer (d. [[2018]]) * [[February 19]] – [[György Kurtág]], Hungarian composer and academic * [[February 20]] ** [[Richard Matheson]], American author (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/25/richard-matheson-i-am-legend |title = Richard Matheson obituary |work = Guardian.co.uk |access-date = June 26, 2013 |location = London |first = Christopher |last = Hawtree |date = June 25, 2013 }}</ref> ** [[Bob Richards]], American track and field athlete<ref>{{cite book |last = Holst |first = Don |title = American Men of Olympic Track and Field: Interviews with Athletes and Coaches |publisher = McFarland |location = Jefferson, North Carolina |year = 2005 |isbn = 9780786419302 |page = 100 }}</ref> (d. [[2023]]) ** [[Gillian Lynne]], English ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director (d. [[2018]]) ** [[María de la Purísima Salvat Romero]], Spanish nun, saint (d. [[1998]]) * [[February 22]] – [[Kenneth Williams]], English actor (d. [[1988]]) * [[February 24]] – [[Knut Kleve]], Norwegian philologist (d. [[2017]]) * [[February 26]] – [[Henry Molaison]], American memory disorder patient (d. [[2008]]) * [[February 27]] – [[David H. Hubel]], Canadian neuroscientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1 = Wurtz |first1 = Robert H. |title = David Hunter Hubel. 27 February 1926 — 22 September 2013 |journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] |volume = 62 |pages = 233–246 |year = 2016 |doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2016.0022 |publisher = [[Royal Society]] |location = London |author-link1 = Robert Wurtz |doi-access = free }}</ref> * [[February 28]] – [[Svetlana Alliluyeva]], Russian author (d. [[2011]]) ===March=== [[File:Andrzej Wajda OFF Plus Camera 2012 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Andrzej Wajda]]]] [[File:Ralph Abernathy.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ralph Abernathy]]]] [[File:Jerry Lewis - 1960s.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jerry Lewis]]]] [[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F030757-0015, Siegfried Lenz.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Siegfried Lenz]]]] <!--[[File:Heikki Hasu 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Heikki Hasu]]]]--> <!--`[[File:DarioFo1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dario Fo]]]]--> * [[March 2]] – [[Murray Rothbard]], American economist (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{cite news |first = David |last = Stout |author-link = David Stout |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/11/obituaries/murray-n-rothbard-economist-and-free-market-exponent-68.html |title = Obituary: Murray N. Rothbard, Economist And Free-Market Exponent, 68 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190905034710/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/11/obituaries/murray-n-rothbard-economist-and-free-market-exponent-68.html |archive-date = September 5, 2019 |work = The New York Times |date = January 11, 1995 }}</ref> * [[March 3]] ** [[Craig Dixon]], American athlete (d. [[2021]])<ref name="LAT">{{cite web |url = https://legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/craig-dixon-obituary?pid=198914668 |title = CRAIG DIXON Obituary (1926-2021) |work = Los Angeles Times }}{{Dead link|date=May 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ** [[James Merrill]], American poet (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{cite web |url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE2DB143AF934A35751C0A963958260 |title = James Merrill Is Dead at 68; Elegant Poet of Love and Loss |first = Mel |last = Gussow |website = The New York Times |date = February 7, 1995 |access-date = October 31, 2007 }}</ref> * [[March 4]] – [[Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma]], French royal, businessman (d. [[2018]]) * [[March 6]] ** [[Alan Greenspan]], American economist, Federal Reserve Chairman ** [[Yoshimi Osawa]], Japanese judoka (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Andrzej Wajda]], Polish film director (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/movies/andrzej-wajda-towering-auteur-of-polish-cinema-dies-at-90.html|title=Andrzej Wajda, Towering Auteur of Polish Cinema, Dies at 90|date=10 October 2016|access-date=10 October 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|last1=Kaufman |first1=Michael T. }}</ref> * [[March 8]] – Sultan [[Salahuddin of Selangor]] (d. [[2001]]) * [[March 10]] – [[Aleksandr Zatsepin]], Soviet and Russian composer * [[March 11]] ** [[Ralph Abernathy]], African-American civil rights leader (d. [[1990]]) ** [[Thomas Starzl]], American physician (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fung|first=J. J.|date=2017|title=Obituary of Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD|journal=American Journal of Transplantation|language=en|volume=17|issue=5|pages=1153–1155|doi=10.1111/ajt.14267|pmid=28296155|issn=1600-6143|doi-access=free}}</ref> * [[March 13]] – [[Carlos Roberto Reina]], [[President of Honduras]] (d. [[2003]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Carlos Heitor Cony]], Brazilian journalist, writer (d. [[2018]]) * [[March 16]] ** [[Edwar al-Kharrat]], Egyptian novelist, writer and critic (d. [[2015]]) ** [[Jerry Lewis]], American comedian, humanitarian and philanthropist (known for [[The Nutty Professor (1963 film)|''The Nutty Professor'']]) (d. [[2017]]) * [[March 17]] – [[Siegfried Lenz]], German writer (d. [[2014]]) * [[March 18]] ** [[Peter Graves]], American actor (d. [[2010]]) ** [[Tan Chin Nam]], Malaysian businessman and racehorse owner (d. [[2018]]) * [[March 21]] – [[Heikki Hasu]], Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. [[2025]]) * [[March 23]] – [[Berta Loran]], Brazilian-Polish actress * [[March 24]] ** [[Dario Fo]], Italian author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2016]]) ** [[Desmond Connell]], Irish cardinal (d. [[2017]]) * [[March 25]] ** [[László Papp]], Hungarian boxer (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Gene Shalit]], American Film Critic * [[March 26]] – [[Aldo Tarlao]], Italian Olympic rower (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ilpiccolo.gelocal.it/sport/2018/03/14/news/addio-a-tarlao-argento-olimpico-a-londra-1.16590883|title=Addio a Tarlao, argento olimpico a Londra|language=it|date=14 March 2018|website=Il Piccolo|access-date=28 November 2021}}</ref> * [[March 28]] – [[Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba]], Spanish aristocrat (d. [[2014]]) * [[March 30]] ** [[Ingvar Kamprad]], Swedish businessman, founder of IKEA (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite news |first = Robert D. |last = McFadden |title = Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of Ikea and Creator of a Global Empire, Dies at 91 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/obituaries/ingvar-kamprad-dies.html?emc=edit_na_20180128&nl=breaking-news&nlid=72995439&ref=headline&mtrref=undefined&gwh=C413D9FDB1DC3AC82EA97D99A1D7EF61&gwt=pay |work = The New York Times |date = 28 January 2018 }}</ref> ** [[Peter Marshall (entertainer)|Peter Marshall]], American singer, television host (''[[Hollywood Squares]]'') (d. [[2024]]) ** [[Sydney Chaplin (American actor)|Sydney Chaplin]], American actor (d. [[2009]]) * [[March 31]] – [[John Fowles]], English writer (d. [[2005]]) ===April=== <!--[[File:Anne_McCaffrey_2005.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Anne McCaffrey]]]]--> [[File:Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gus Grissom]]]] <!--[[File:RogerCormanHWOFOct2012.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Roger Corman]]]]--> [[File:DrIanPaisley.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ian Paisley]]]] [[File:Hugh Hefner Glamourcon 2010.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hugh Hefner]]]] [[File:Queen Elizabeth II 1959 (cropped 3).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Elizabeth II]]]] <!--[[File:Charlotte_Rae_2012.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Charlotte Rae]]]]--> [[File:HarperLee 2007Nov05.jpg|100px|thumbnail|right|[[Harper Lee]]]] [[File:Cloris Leachman 1970 (cropped).JPG|thumb|100px|[[Cloris Leachman]]]] * [[April 1]] ** [[Charles Bressler]], American tenor (d. [[1996]]) ** [[Anne McCaffrey]], American-born Irish author (d. [[2011]]) * [[April 2]] ** [[Jack Brabham]], Australian racing driver (d. [[2014]]) ** [[Omar Graffigna]], Argentine Air Force officer (d. [[2019]]) * [[April 3]] – [[Gus Grissom]], American astronaut (d. [[1967]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Virgil I. Grissom {{!}} American astronaut |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Virgil-I-Grissom |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=19 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref> * [[April 5]] ** [[Roger Corman]], American filmmaker, producer, actor and businessman (d. [[2024]]) ** [[Ri Kun-mo]], North Korean politician (d. [[2001]]) * [[April 6]] ** [[Jeanne Martin Cissé]], Guinean teacher, nationalist politician (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Sergio Franchi]], Italian tenor, actor (d. [[1990]]) ** [[Ian Paisley]], Northern Irish politician (d. [[2014]]) * [[April 8]] – [[Jürgen Moltmann]], German theologian and academic (d. [[2024]]) * [[April 9]] – [[Hugh Hefner]], American magazine editor (''[[Playboy]]'') (d. [[2017]]) * [[April 10]] – [[Gustav Metzger]], German-born stateless auto-destructive artist (d. [[2017]]) * [[April 12]] – [[Jane Withers]], American actress (d. [[2021]]) * [[April 13]] ** [[John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough]], British peer (d. [[2014]]) ** [[Egon Wolff]], Chilean playwright, author (d. [[2016]]) * [[April 14]] ** [[Frank Daniel]], Czech-born writer, producer, director, and teacher (d. [[1996]]) ** [[Gloria Jean]], American actress and singer (d. [[2018]]) ** [[George Robledo]], Chilean soccer player (d. [[1989]]) ** [[Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo]], Spanish politician (d. [[2008]]) * [[April 15]] – [[Jurriaan Schrofer]], Dutch sculptor, designer, and educator (d. [[1990]])<ref>"[https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/Schrofer%2C%20Jurriaan Jurriaan Schrofer]" (in Dutch), ''[[Netherlands Institute for Art History]]''. Retrieved 3 April 2022.</ref> * [[April 19]] – [[Rawya Ateya]], Egyptian politician, first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. [[1997]]) * [[April 21]] ** Queen [[Elizabeth II]] of the United Kingdom (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite news |title = Why does the Queen have two birthdays? - CBBC Newsround |url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/36489213 |website = BBC |access-date = 13 April 2020 }}</ref> ** [[Arthur Rowley]], English footballer (d. [[2002]]) ** [[Alexander Lyudskanov]], Bulgarian translator, semiotician and mathematician (d. [[1976]]) * [[April 22]] ** [[Ted Hibberd]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Charlotte Rae]], American actress, singer (d. [[2018]]) ** [[James Stirling (architect)|James Stirling]], Scottish architect (d. [[1992]]) * [[April 24]] – [[Thorbjörn Fälldin]], twice Prime Minister of Sweden (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Current World Leaders: biography and news|publisher=Almanac of Current World Leaders|year=1977|page=19}}</ref> * [[April 27]] ** [[Tim LaHaye]], American evangelist, speaker and author (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite news|work=The New York Times|title=Tim LaHaye Dies at 90; Fundamentalist Leader's Grisly Novels Sold Millions|author=McFadden, Robert D.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/books/tim-lahaye-a-christian-fundamentalist-leader-dies-at-90.html|date=July 25, 2016|access-date=February 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161209130420/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/books/tim-lahaye-a-christian-fundamentalist-leader-dies-at-90.html|archive-date=December 9, 2016|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> ** [[Vladimír Černý]], Czechoslovakian modern pentathlete (d. [[2016]]) * [[April 28]] – [[Harper Lee]], American novelist (''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'') (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/19/harper-lee|title=Harper Lee obituary|date=February 19, 2016|author=Eric Homberger|website=The Guardian|access-date=July 11, 2024}}</ref> * [[April 29]] – [[Paul Baran]], American internet pioneer (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite news |title = Paul Baran, Internet Pioneer, Dies at 84 |author= Katie Hafner |date = March 27, 2011 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/technology/28baran.html |work = [[The New York Times]] }}</ref> * [[April 30]] ** [[Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo]], Santomean poet (d. [[2010]]) ** [[Cloris Leachman]], American actress (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{Cite news|last=Berkvist|first=Robert|date=January 27, 2021|title=Cloris Leachman, Oscar Winner and TV Comedy Star, Is Dead at 94|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/arts/television/cloris-leachman-dead.html|access-date=January 28, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> ** [[Christian Mohn]], Norwegian ski jumper and sports official (d. [[2019]]) ===May=== <!--[[File:Ema_Derosi-Bjelajac.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ema Derossi-Bjelajac]]]]--> <!--[[File:Ann B. Davis 1973.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ann B. Davis]]]]--> [[File:David Attenborough (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[David Attenborough]]]] [[File:Don Rickles 1973.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Don Rickles]]]] <!--[[File:Hugo Banzer Suarez, General, Presidente da Bolívia..tif|thumb|100px|[[Hugo Banzer]]]]--> [[File:Miles Davis by Palumbo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Miles Davis]]]] <!--[[File:Abdoulaye Wade (1).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Abdoulaye Wade]]]]--> * [[May 1]] – [[Peter Lax]], Hungarian-American mathematician, academic (d. [[2025]]) * [[May 3]] ** [[Matt Baldwin]], Canadian curler (d. [[2023]]) ** [[Ema Derossi-Bjelajac]], Croatian politician (d. [[2020]]) * [[May 5]] – [[Ann B. Davis]], American actress (d. [[2014]]) * [[May 7]] – [[Rebiha Khebtani]], French Algerian politician (d. [[2006]]) * [[May 8]] ** Sir [[David Attenborough]], British broadcaster, naturalist, and producer ** [[David Hurst]], German actor (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Don Rickles]], American stand-up comedian, actor (d. [[2017]]) * [[May 10]] – [[Hugo Banzer]], 51st President of Bolivia (d. [[2002]]) * [[May 14]] – [[Eric Morecambe]], English comedian, author (d. [[1984]]) * [[May 15]] ** [[Anthony Shaffer (writer)|Anthony Shaffer]], English novelist, playwright (d. [[2001]]) ** Sir [[Peter Shaffer]], English playwright (d. [[2016]]) * [[May 17]] ** [[Prince Dimitri Romanov]], Russian prince, banker, philanthropist and author (d. [[2016]]) ** [[Franz Sondheimer]], German-born British chemist (d. [[1981]]) ** [[Dietmar Schönherr]], Austrian film actor (d. [[2014]]) * [[May 18]] – [[Niranjan Bhagat]], Indian poet (d. [[2018]]) * [[May 21]] – [[Robert Creeley]], American poet (d. [[2005]]) * [[May 23]] – [[Aileen Hernandez]], African-American union organizer, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist (d. [[2017]]) * [[May 24]] – [[Stanley Baxter]], Scottish actor and screenwriter * [[May 25]] ** [[Claude Akins]], American actor (d. [[1994]]) ** [[Bill Sharman]], American basketball player, coach (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{citation |last=Lavietes |first=Stuart |title=Bill Sharman, N.B.A. Hall of Fame Player and Coach, Dies at 87 | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 25, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/sports/basketball/bill-sharman-nba-hall-of-famer-dies-at-87.html?_r=0}}</ref> * [[May 26]] – [[Miles Davis]], African-American Jazz musician (d. [[1991]]) * [[May 27]] – [[Rashidi Kawawa]], 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. [[2009]]) * [[May 29]] – [[Abdoulaye Wade]], 3rd [[President of Senegal]] ===June=== [[File:Griffith, Andy (Whitehouse).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Andy Griffith]]]] [[File:Marilyn Monroe 1952.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Marilyn Monroe]]]] [[File:Allen Ginsberg 1979 - cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Allen Ginsberg]]]] [[File:Retrato oficial de Presidente Efraín Ríos Montt (cropped 2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Efraín Ríos Montt]]]] <!--[[File:JohannaQuandt.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Johanna Quandt]]]]--> [[File:MelBrooksApr10.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mel Brooks]]]] <!--[[File:USIS – Peter Alexander.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Peter Alexander (Austrian performer)|Peter Alexander]]]]--> * [[June 1]] ** [[Andy Griffith]], American actor, comedian, singer (d. [[2012]]) ** [[Marilyn Monroe]], American actress (d. [[1962]]) * [[June 3]] ** [[Flora MacDonald (politician)|Flora MacDonald]], Canadian politician and humanitarian (d. [[2015]]) ** [[Allen Ginsberg]], American poet (''Howl'') (d. [[1997]])<ref>{{cite news |first=Wilborn |last=Hampton |title=Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet Of Beat Generation, Dies at 70 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/06/nyregion/allen-ginsberg-master-poet-of-beat-generation-dies-at-70.html |work=The New York Times |date=April 6, 1997 |access-date=April 14, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080311032659/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE6D7143CF935A35757C0A961958260| archive-date=March 11, 2008 | url-status=live}}</ref> ** [[Molly Lazechko]], American politician (d. [[2010]]).<ref name="admin">{{Cite web |last=admin |date=2010-09-02 |title=Dorothy Lazechko Obituary - Death Notice and Service Information |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/idahostatesman/obituary-preview.aspx?n=dorothy-lazechko&pid=145044020 |access-date=2021-04-30 |website=Legacy.com |language=en}}</ref> * [[June 4]] – [[Robert Earl Hughes]], American who was the heaviest human being recorded in the history of the world during his lifetime (d. [[1958]]) * [[June 5]] ** [[Emile Capgras]], Martinican politician (d. [[2014]]) ** [[Kerstin Gellerman]], Swedish politician (d. [[1987]]) ** [[Paul Soros]], Hungarian-born American mechanical engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist (d. [[2013]]) * [[June 6]] – [[Antônio Ribeiro de Oliveira]], Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate (d. [[2017]]) * [[June 7]] – [[Jean-Noël Tremblay]], Canadian politician (d. [[2020]]) * [[June 10]] ** [[June Haver]], American actress and singer (d. [[2005]]) ** [[Lionel Jeffries]], British film director and actor (d. [[2010]]) * [[June 11]] ** [[Carlisle Floyd]], American composer and educator (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Peattie | first = Antony | title = The new Kobbé's opera book | publisher = G.P. Putnam's Sons | location = New York | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780091814106 | page=234}}</ref> ** [[Frank Plicka]], Czech-born photographer (d. [[2010]]) * [[June 12]] ** [[Amadeo Carrizo]], Argentine goalkeeper (d. [[2020]]) ** [[Gaspare di Mercurio]], Italian doctor and author (d. [[2001]]) * [[June 13]] ** [[Satoru Abe]], Japanese-American sculptor and painter (d. [[2025]]) ** [[June Krauser]], American swimmer (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 10, 2014 |url=http://nyti.ms/1mAZpO3 |title=Known as the 'Mother of Masters Swimming' June Krauser Dies at 88; Set 154 Records in the Pool |first1=William |last1=Yardley |accessdate=August 15, 2014}}</ref> * [[June 16]] – [[Efraín Ríos Montt]], Guatemalan career military officer and politician (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/01/ex-guatemalan-dictator-efrain-rios-montt-dies-aged-91|title=Ex-Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt dies aged 91|agency=Associated Press|date=April 1, 2018|website=The Guardian|access-date=April 1, 2018}}</ref> * [[June 18]] ** [[Avshalom Haviv]], (d. [[1947]]) ** [[Allan Sandage]], American astronomer (d. [[2010]]) * [[June 19]] – [[Erna Schneider Hoover]], American mathematician and inventor<ref>{{cite book | last = Narins | first = Brigham | title = World of computer science | publisher = Gale Group/Thomson Learning | location = Detroit | year = 2002 | isbn = 9780787649609 | page=289}}</ref> * [[June 21]] ** [[Washington Malianga]], Zimbabwean politician (d. [[2014]]) ** [[Johanna Quandt]], German businesswoman (d. [[2015]]) * [[June 22]] ** [[George Englund]], American film editor, director, producer, and actor (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Elyakim Haetzni]], Israeli lawyer (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Tadeusz Konwicki]], Polish filmmaker (d. [[2015]]) ** [[Rachid Solh]], 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. [[2014]]) * [[June 23]] ** [[Yoshihiro Hamaguchi]], Japanese freestyle swimmer (d. [[2011]]) ** [[Magda Herzberger]], Romanian author, poet and composer, survivor of the Holocaust (d. [[2021]]) ** [[Annette Mbaye d'Erneville]], Senegalese writer ** [[Arnaldo Pomodoro]], Italian sculptor * [[June 24]] ** [[Muslim Arogundade]], Nigerian sprinter (d. [[1991]]) ** [[Barbara Scofield]], American tennis player (d. [[2023]]) * [[June 25]] ** [[Ján Eugen Kočiš]], Czech bishop (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Ingeborg Bachmann]], Austrian writer (d. [[1973]]) ** [[Gordon Robertson (ice hockey)|Gordon Robertson]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Stig Sollander]], Swedish alpine skier (d. [[2019]]) * [[June 26]] ** [[Mahendra Bhatnagar]], Indian poet (d. [[2020]]) ** [[Fernando Mönckeberg Barros]], Chilean surgeon ** [[Luis Molné]], Andorran alpine skier ** [[André Monnier]], French ski jumper (d. [[2023]]) ** [[Fritz Zwazl]], Austrian swimmer * [[June 27]] ** [[Giambattista Bonis]], Italian professional football player ** [[Geza de Kaplany]], Hungarian-born physician ** [[Don Raleigh]], American ice hockey player (d. [[2012]]) ** [[Bruce Tozer]], Australian cricketer (d. [[2021]]) ** [[Galina Vecherkovskaya]], Russian rower * [[June 28]] ** [[Elisabeta Abrudeanu]], Romanian artistic gymnast ** [[George Booth (cartoonist)|George Booth]], American cartoonist (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Mel Brooks]], American actor, comedian, and screenwriter * [[June 30]] ** [[Peter Alexander (Austrian performer)|Peter Alexander]], Austrian actor and singer (d. [[2011]]) ** [[Paul Berg]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Yount | first = Lisa | title = Modern genetics : engineering life | publisher = Chelsea House | location = New York, NY | year = 2006 | isbn = 9781604130645 | page=27}}</ref> ** [[Božena Moserová]], Czech alpine skier (d. [[2017]]) ===July=== [[File:Carl H Hahn by Stuart Mentiply.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carl Hahn]]]] <!--[[File:Alfredo Di Stéfano 1962.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alfredo Di Stéfano]]]]--> [[File:Nuon Chea on 31 October 2013.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Nuon Chea]]]] <!--[[File:DavidMArmstrong.jpg|thumb|100px|[[David Malet Armstrong]]]]--> <!--[[File:HarryDeanStanton-1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Harry Dean Stanton]]]]--> [[File:Retrato Oficial Galtieri.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Leopoldo Galtieri]]]] [[File:Stef Wertheimer.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Stef Wertheimer]]]] [[File:Maunu Kurkvaara.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Maunu Kurkvaara]]]] [[File:Norman Jewison CFC in LA 37.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Norman Jewison]]]] <!--[[File:James Best Frontier Return of Jubal Dolan.JPG|thumb|100px|[[James Best]]]]--> * [[July 1]] ** [[Fernando J. Corbató]], American computer scientist (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hafner |first1=Katie |title=Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Dies at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/science/fernando-corbato-dead.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=13 July 2019 |date=July 12, 2019}}</ref> ** [[Robert Fogel]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2013]]) ** [[Carl Hahn]], German automotive executive, chairman of [[Volkswagen]] (d. [[2023]]) ** [[Hans Werner Henze]], German composer (d. [[2012]]) * [[July 2]] ** [[Liu Dajun]], Chinese agricultural scientist, educator and an academician (d. [[2016]]) <!-- "Liu" surname --> ** [[Alfons Oehy]], Swiss swimmer (d. [[1977]]) ** [[Carlo Rolandi]], Italian sailor (d. [[2020]]) * [[July 3]] – [[María Lorenza Barreneche]], First Lady of Argentina (d. [[2016]]) * [[July 4]] ** [[Alfredo Di Stéfano]], Argentine-born footballer (d. [[2014]]) ** [[Amos Elon]], Israeli writer (d. [[2009]]) ** [[Lopön Tenzin Namdak]], Tibetan religious leader * [[July 5]] ** [[Salvador Jorge Blanco]], [[President of the Dominican Republic]] (d. [[2010]]) ** [[Diana Lynn]], American actress (d. [[1971]]) ** [[Anthony Purssell]], English brewing executive and rower ** [[Éliane Vogel-Polsky]], Belgian lawyer and feminist (d. [[2015]]) * [[July 6]] ** [[Serge Roullet]], French film director and screenwriter (d. [[2023]]) ** [[Dorothy E. Smith]], British-born Canadian sociologist (d. [[2022]]) * [[July 7]] ** [[Armand Lemieux]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2015]]) ** [[Thorkild Simonsen]], Danish politician (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Nuon Chea]], Cambodian politician, 31st Prime Minister of Cambodia (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Mel Clark]], American Major League Baseball outfielder (d. [[2014]]) * [[July 8]] ** [[David Malet Armstrong]], Australian philosopher (d. [[2014]]) ** [[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]], Swiss-American psychiatrist (d. [[2004]]) * [[July 9]] ** [[Jens Juul Eriksen]], Danish cyclist (d. [[2004]]) ** [[Mathilde Krim]], founding chairman of amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Ben Roy Mottelson]], American-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2022]]) * [[July 10]] ** [[Carleton Carpenter]], American actor and dancer (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Donald Geary]], American ice hockey player (d. [[2015]]) ** [[Fred Gwynne]], American actor and author (d. [[1993]]) ** [[Harry MacPherson]], American pitcher (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Aldo Tortorella]], Italian journalist, politician and partisan (d. [[2025]]) * [[July 11]] ** [[Frederick Buechner]], American author and theologian (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Joe Houston]], American saxophonist (d. [[2015]]) * [[July 12]] – [[Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali]], spouse of Malaysian Prime Minister [[Mahathir Mohamad]] * [[July 13]] – [[Cheng Chi-sen]], Taiwanese sports shooter * [[July 14]] – [[Harry Dean Stanton]], American film and television actor (d. [[2017]]) * [[July 15]] ** [[Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet]], English diplomat (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Leopoldo Galtieri]], Argentine dictator (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Raymond Gosling]], English physicist (d. [[2015]]) * [[July 16]] ** [[Emile Degelin]], Belgian film director and novelist (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Michael Otedola]], Nigerian politician (d. [[2014]]) ** [[Irwin Rose]], American biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (d. [[2015]]) ** [[Stef Wertheimer]], German-born Israeli industrialist, investor, philanthropist and former politician (d. [[2025]]) * [[July 17]] – [[Édouard Carpentier]], Canadian professional wrestler (d. [[2010]]) * [[July 18]] ** [[Maunu Kurkvaara]], Finnish film director and screenwriter (d. [[2023]]) ** [[Bernard Pons]], French politician and medical doctor (d. [[2022]]) * [[July 19]] ** [[Terry Cavanagh (politician)|Terry Cavanagh]], Canadian politician (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Helen Gallagher]], American actress, dancer, and singer (d. [[2024]]) * [[July 20]] ** [[Charles David Ganao]], Congolese politician (d. [[2012]]) ** [[Odd Kallerud]], Norwegian politician (d. [[2016]]) * [[July 21]] ** [[Otto Beyeler]], Swiss cross country skier (d. [[2004]]) ** [[Norman Jewison]], Canadian film director (d. [[2024]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Bryan Forbes]], English film director (d. [[2013]]) * [[July 24]] – [[Hans Günter Winkler]], German show jumping rider (d. [[2018]]) * [[July 25]] ** [[Yvonne Ciannella]], American coloratura soprano in opera and concert (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Beatriz Segall]], Brazilian actress (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Ray Solomonoff]], American inventor (d. [[2009]]) * [[July 26]] – [[James Best]], American actor and acting coach (d. [[2015]]) * [[July 28]] – [[Walt Brown (politician)|Walt Brown]], American presidential candidate * [[July 29]] – [[Franco Sensi]], Italian businessman (d. [[2008]]) * [[July 30]] ** [[Nina Kulagina]], Russian psychic (d. [[1990]]) ** [[George Shanard]], American politician and businessman (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Willette |first1=Anne |title=George Shanard/ A strong voice for keeping the rails running |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/argus-leader-george-shanard-a-strong-vo/160125597/ |access-date=2 December 2024 |work=Argus Leader |date=April 28, 1985 |page=6 |department=Agriculture/Agri-business |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> * [[July 31]] ** [[Bernard Nathanson]], American medical doctor and activist (d. [[2011]]) ** [[Hilary Putnam]], American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (d. [[2016]]) ===August=== [[File:Tony Bennett.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tony Bennett]]]] <!--[[File:Marsh, John O 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Otho Marsh Jr.]]]]--> <!--[[File:Stan Freberg 1956.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Stan Freberg]]]]--> <!--[[File:Claus von Bülow on After Dark on 13 September 1997.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Claus von Bülow]]]]--> [[File:FidelCastro.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Fidel Castro]]]] <!--[[File:Buddy Greco 5 Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Buddy Greco]]]]--> [[File:Konstantinos Stefanopoulos 2000.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Konstantinos Stephanopoulos]]]] [[File:Jiang Zemin 2002.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jiang Zemin]]]] * [[August 2]] ** [[Sy Mah]], Canadian marathoner (d. [[1988]]) ** [[George Habash]], Palestinian Christian politician (d. [[2008]]) ** [[Igor Spassky]], Russian scientist, engineer and businessman (d. [[2024]]) ** [[Hang Thun Hak]], Cambodian radical politician, academic and playwright (d. [[1975]]) * [[August 3]] ** [[Rona Anderson]], Scottish stage, film, and television actress (d. [[2013]]) ** [[Loris Campana]], Italian road and track cyclist (d. [[2015]]) ** [[Tony Bennett]], American singer (d. [[2023]]) ** [[Shun-ichi Iwasaki]], Japanese engineer * [[August 5]] – [[Clifford Husbands]], 6th Governor-General of Barbados (d. [[2017]]) * [[August 6]] ** [[Janet Asimov]], American writer and psychiatrist (d. [[2019]]) ** [[János Rózsás]], Hungarian writer (d. [[2012]]) ** [[Frank Finlay]], English stage, film and television actor (d. [[2016]]) ** [[Elisabeth Beresford]], British author (d. [[2010]]) ** [[Norman Wexler]], American screenwriter (d. [[1999]]) * [[August 7]] – [[Stan Freberg]], American author, recording artist and comedian (d. [[2015]]) * [[August 8]] ** [[Silvio Amadio]], Italian film director and screenwriter (d. [[1995]]) ** [[Jimmy Brown (musician)|Jimmy Brown]], American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer (d. [[2006]]) ** [[Angelo Bonfietti]], Brazilian basketball player (d. [[2004]]) * [[August 9]] – [[Frank M. Robinson]], American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d. [[2014]]) * [[August 10]] ** [[Marie-Claire Alain]], French organist (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Commire |first1 = Anne |title = Women of World History |place = Detroit |publisher = Gale |year = 1999 |volume = 1 |isbn = 978-0-7876-4080-4 |page = 164 }}</ref> ** [[Carol Karp|Carol Ruth Vander Velde]], American mathematician (d. [[1972]])<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Grinstein |first1 = Louise S. |last2 = Campbell |first2 = Paul J. |title = Women of Mathematics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook |place = New York |publisher = Greenwood Press |year = 1987 |isbn = 978-0-3132-4849-8 |page = [https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/86 86] |url = https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/86 }}</ref> ** [[Arthur Maxwell House]], Canadian neurologist (d. [[2013]]) * [[August 11]] ** [[Ron Bontemps]], American basketball player (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Aaron Klug]], Lithuanian-English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/22/aaron-klug-om-physicist-won-nobel-prize-work-electron-microscopy/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/22/aaron-klug-om-physicist-won-nobel-prize-work-electron-microscopy/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Sir Aaron Klug, OM, scientist who won a Nobel Prize for his work on electron microscopy and chromosomes – obituary|first=The Telegraph|last=Obituaries|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=22 November 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ** [[Claus von Bülow]], Danish-British socialite (d. [[2019]]) ** [[John Gokongwei]], Filipino billionaire businessman and philanthropist (d. [[2019]]) * [[August 12]] ** [[John Derek]], American actor and film director (d. [[1998]]) ** [[Osamu Ishiguro]], Japanese tennis player (d. [[2016]]) ** [[Hiroshi Koizumi]], Japanese actor (d. [[2015]]) ** [[René Vignal]], French footballer (d. [[2016]]) * [[August 13]] ** [[Fidel Castro]], Cuban revolutionary and politician (d. [[2016]]) ** [[Valentina Levko]], Russian opera and chamber singer (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Norris Bowden]], Canadian figure skater (d. [[1991]]) * [[August 14]] ** [[Martin Broszat]], German historian (d. [[1989]]) ** [[René Goscinny]], French comic book writer (d. [[1977]]) ** [[Buddy Greco]], American jazz and pop singer and pianist (d. [[2017]]) * [[August 15]] ** [[Sukanta Bhattacharya]], Bengali poet and playwright (d. [[1947]]) ** [[Ivy Bottini]], American activist and artist (d. [[2021]]) ** [[Julius Katchen]], American concert pianist (d. [[1969]]) ** [[Sami Michael]], Iraqi-Israeli author (d. [[2024]]) ** [[Konstantinos Stephanopoulos]], former [[President of Greece]] (d. [[2016]]) * [[August 16]] ** [[Jack Britto]], Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (d. [[2013]]) ** [[Eivind Hjelmtveit]], Norwegian cultural administrator (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Yu Min (physicist)|Yu Min]], Chinese [[Nuclear physics|nuclear physicist]] (d. [[2019]]) * [[August 17]] ** [[Jean Poiret]], French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. [[1992]]) ** [[Jiang Zemin]], former [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]] ([[paramount leader]]) and [[President of the People's Republic of China|President of China]] (d. [[2022]]) * [[August 18]] – [[Orlando Bosch]], Cuban terrorist (d. [[2011]]) * [[August 19]] – [[Luis Bordón]], Paraguayan musician and composer (d. [[2006]]) * [[August 20]] – [[Hocine Aït Ahmed]], Algerian politician (d. [[2015]]) * [[August 21]] – [[Marian Jaworski]], Polish cardinal (d. [[2020]]) * [[August 22]] – [[Werner Spitz]], German-American forensic pathologist (d. [[2024]]) * [[August 23]] – [[Clifford Geertz]], American anthropologist (d. [[2006]]) * [[August 29]] ** [[Helene Ahrweiler]], Greek historian and academic ** [[Ramakrishna Hegde]], Indian politician (d. [[2004]]) ** [[Betty Lynn]], American actress (d. [[2021]]) ===September=== <!--[[File:Elias Hraoui President.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Elias Hrawi]]]]--> [[File:Prince Claus of the Netherlands 1986.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Prince Claus of the Netherlands|Prince Claus]]]] [[File:Masatoshi Koshiba 2002 (headshot).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Masatoshi Koshiba]]]] <!--[[File:James Lipton by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Lipton]]]]--> <!--[[File:Duke Snider 1953.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Duke Snider]]]]--> [[File:Donald Glaser.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Donald A. Glaser]]]] [[File:John Coltrane 1963.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Coltrane]]]] [[File:Julie London 1958.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Julie London]]]] * [[September 1]] ** [[Stanley Cavell]], American philosopher (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Abdur Rahman Biswas]], 11th President of Bangladesh (d. [[2017]]) * [[September 2]] – [[Ibrahim Nasir]], [[Maldives|Maldivian]] president (d. [[2008]]) * [[September 3]] ** [[Uttam Kumar]], [[Bengali people|Bengali]] actor (d. [[1980]]) ** [[Alison Lurie]], American author and academic (d. [[2020]]) * [[September 4]] ** [[Elias Hrawi]], 14th President of Lebanon (d. [[2006]]) ** [[Ivan Illich]], Austrian philosopher and Catholic priest who founded the [[Centro Intercultural de Documentación]] in [[Cuernavaca]], Mexico (d. [[2002]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url = https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ivan-Illich |title = Ivan Illich |encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Britannica |access-date = June 1, 2019 }}</ref> * [[September 5]] – [[Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]], Saudi prince (d. [[2017]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Prince Claus of the Netherlands|Claus van Amsberg]], German born [[List of Dutch consorts|Prince Consort of the Netherlands]] (d. [[2002]]) * [[September 7]] – [[Ivone Ramos]], Cape Verdean writer (d. [[2018]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Sergio Pininfarina]], Italian automobile designer (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.senato.it/leg/16/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00022414.htm|title=Sergio Pininfarina|website=Senato della Repubblica|language=it|access-date=November 28, 2021}}</ref> * [[September 9]] – [[Yusuf al-Qaradawi]], Egyptian Islamic theologian (d. [[2022]]) * [[September 11]] – [[Gerrit Viljoen]], South African government minister (d. [[2009]]) * [[September 13]] – [[Emile Francis]], Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. [[2022]]) * [[September 14]] ** [[Dick Dale (singer)|Dick Dale]], American singer and musician (d. [[2014]]) ** [[Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco]], Spanish noble (d. [[2017]]) ** [[John F. Kurtzke]], American neurologist (d. [[2015]]) * [[September 15]] – [[Jean-Pierre Serre]], French mathematician * [[September 17]] ** [[Bill Black]], American [[rock and roll]] musician and bandleader (d. [[1965]]) ** [[Andrea Kékesy]], Hungarian figure skater (d. [[2024]]) * [[September 19]] ** [[Victoria Barbă]], Moldovan animated film director (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/EnciclopediaIdentitatiiRomanesti.Personalitati/page/n59/mode/2up?view=theater|title=Enciclopedia Identității Românești|first=Ecaterina|last=Țarălungă|publisher=Litera|page=60|year=2011|language=ro|isbn=978-606-600-246-2}}</ref> ** [[Masatoshi Koshiba]], Japanese physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2020]]) ** [[James Lipton]], American television personality and writer (d. [[2020]]) * [[September 21]] ** [[Donald A. Glaser]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2013]]) ** [[Noor Jehan]], Pakistani singer and actress (d. [[2000]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Bill Smith (jazz musician)|Bill Smith]], American clarinet player and composer (d. [[2020]]) * [[September 23]] ** [[Aage Birch]], Danish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist (d. [[2017]]) ** [[John Coltrane]], American jazz saxophonist (d. [[1967]]) ** [[Heng Freylinger]], Luxembourgish wrestler (d. [[2017]]) * [[September 25]] ** [[Carlos Chasseing]], Argentine politician (d. [[2018]]) ** [[John Ericson]], German-American actor (d. [[2020]]) * [[September 26]] ** [[Tulsi Giri]], former Prime Minister of Nepal (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Julie London]], American actress and singer (d. [[2000]]) * [[September 28]] – [[Ozzie Van Brabant]], Canadian baseball player (d. [[2018]]) * [[September 30]] – [[Frank O'Neill (swimmer)|Frank O'Neill]], Australian swimmer (d. [[2024]]) ===October=== [[File:Thich Nhat Hanh 12 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Thích Nhất Hạnh]]]] <!--[[File:Jean Peters - 1951.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jean Peters]]]]--> [[File:Julie Adams Andy Griffith Show 1962 (cropped).JPG|thumb|100px|[[Julie Adams]]]] [[File:Chuck Berry 1957.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Chuck Berry]]]] [[File:Jimmy Heath 1998.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jimmy Heath]]]] [[File:Necmettin Erbakan.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Necmettin Erbakan]]]] * [[October 1]] – [[Max Morath]], American musician (d. [[2023]]) * [[October 2]] ** [[Jan Morris]], born James Morris, British travel writer (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Lea |first=Richard |title=Jan Morris, historian, travel writer and trans pioneer, dies aged 94 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/20/jan-morris-historian-travel-writer-and-trans-pioneer-dies-aged-94 |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=20 November 2020 |access-date=20 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120160325/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/20/jan-morris-historian-travel-writer-and-trans-pioneer-dies-aged-94 |archive-date=20 November 2020}}</ref> ** [[John Ross (chemist)|John Ross]], Austrian-born American chemist (d. [[2017]]) * [[October 4]] – [[Phar Lap]], New Zealand-foaled racehorse (d. [[1932]]) * [[October 7]] ** [[Uri Lubrani]], Israeli diplomat and military official (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski]], Polish mathematician (d. [[2015]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Carmencita Lara]], Peruvian singer (d. [[2018]]) * [[October 9]] – [[Ruth Ellis]], British murderess (d. [[1955]]) * [[October 11]] ** [[Yvon Dupuis]], Canadian politician (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Thích Nhất Hạnh]], Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk and peace activist<ref>{{cite book |last = Ford |first = James Ishmael |author-link = James Ishmael Ford |title = Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen |page = [https://archive.org/details/zenmasterwhoguid00jame/page/90 90] |year = 2006 |publisher = Wisdom Publications |isbn = 0-86171-509-8 |url = https://archive.org/details/zenmasterwhoguid00jame/page/90 }}</ref><ref name="Taylor2007">{{cite book |last = Taylor |first = Philip |title = Modernity and Re-enchantment: Religion in Post-revolutionary Vietnam |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mtU4H21wdFoC&pg=PA299 |access-date = October 9, 2018 |year = 2007 |publisher = Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |isbn = 9789812304407 |page = 299 }}</ref> (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Zohurul Hoque]], Indian Islamic scholar (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Shin Sang-ok]], South Korean film producer and director (d. [[2006]]) * [[October 12]] – [[César Pelli]], Argentine-American architect (d. [[2019]]) * [[October 13]] ** [[Jesse L. Brown]], first African-American aviator in the United States Navy (d. [[1950]]) ** [[Kazuo Nakamura]], Japanese-Canadian painter, part of the [[Painters Eleven]] (d. [[2002]]) * [[October 15]] ** [[Michel Foucault]], French philosopher (d. [[1984]]) ** [[Jean Peters]], American actress (d. [[2000]]) ** [[Karl Richter (conductor)|Karl Richter]], German conductor (d. [[1981]]) * [[October 16]] – [[Charles Dolan]], American billionaire (d. [[2024]]) * [[October 17]] ** [[Julie Adams]], American actress (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Beverly Garland]], American actress and businesswoman (d. [[2008]]) * [[October 18]] ** [[Chuck Berry]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Klaus Kinski]], German actor (d. [[1991]]) * [[October 19]] – [[Marjorie Tallchief]], American ballerina (d. [[2021]]) * [[October 20]] – [[Vsevolod Murakhovsky]], Ukrainian-Russian politician (d. [[2017]]) * [[October 21]] – [[Waldir Pires]], Brazilian politician (d. [[2018]]) * [[October 22]] – [[Chan Sui-kau]], Hong Kong industrialist and philanthropist (d. [[2018]]) * [[October 25]] ** [[María Concepción César]], Argentine actress, singer and vedette (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Jimmy Heath]], American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. [[2020]]) ** [[Galina Vishnevskaya]], Russian soprano (d. [[2012]]) * [[October 27]] – [[Henri Fertet]], [[French Resistance]] fighter (d. [[1943]])<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ordredelaliberation.fr/fr/compagnons/henri-fertet |title = Henri Fertet |website = [[Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération]] |language = fr |access-date = 2019-12-01 }}</ref> * [[October 28]] – [[Bowie Kuhn]], American Commissioner of Baseball (d. [[2007]]) * [[October 29]] ** [[Necmettin Erbakan]], 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. [[2011]]) ** [[Jon Vickers]], Canadian operatic tenor (d. [[2015]]) * [[October 30]] – [[Richard Hu]] – Singaporean politician, [[Ministry of Finance (Singapore)|Minister for Finance]] (d. [[2023]]) ===November=== <!--[[File:Betsy Palmer 1960.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Betsy Palmer]]]]--> [[File:ADAKMUS Valda.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Valdas Adamkus]]]] <!--[[File:Dame Joan Sutherland, by Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joan Sutherland]]]]--> [[File:Jeffrey Hunter Sgt Rutledge.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jeffrey Hunter]]]] [[File:Beji Caid el Sebsi at the 37th G8 Summit in Deauville 006.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Beji Caid Essebsi]]]] * [[November 1]] – [[Betsy Palmer]], American actress (d. [[2015]]) * [[November 2]] ** [[Myer Skoog]], American basketball player (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Charlie Walker (musician)|Charlie Walker]], American country music singer-songwriter (d. [[2008]]) * [[November 3]] – [[Valdas Adamkus]], Lithuanian politician, 3rd [[President of Lithuania]] * [[November 4]] – [[Laurence Rosenthal]], American composer * [[November 5]] ** [[John Berger]], English art critic, novelist and painter (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Kim Jong-gil]], South Korean poet (d. [[2017]]) * [[November 7]] – Dame [[Joan Sutherland]], Australian soprano (d. [[2010]]) * [[November 8]] ** [[Sonja Bata]], Swiss businesswoman and philanthropist (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Darleane C. Hoffman]], American nuclear chemist ** [[Jack Mendelsohn]], American writer-artist (d. [[2017]]) * [[November 9]] – [[Stu Griffing]], American Olympic rower (d. [[2021]]) * [[November 11]] ** [[Maria Teresa de Filippis]], Italian automobile racing driver (d. [[2016]]) ** [[Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo]], Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (d. [[1993]]) ** [[José Manuel Caballero]], Spanish poet and novelist (d. [[2021]]) * [[November 15]] – [[Helmut Fischer]], German actor (d. [[1997]]) * [[November 16]] – [[Ton de Leeuw]], Dutch composer (d. [[1996]]) * [[November 17]] – [[Christopher Weeramantry]], Sri Lankan lawyer (d. [[2017]]) * [[November 19]] – [[Jeane Kirkpatrick]], American ambassador (d. [[2006]]) * [[November 20]] ** [[Choi Eun-hee]], South Korean actress (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Judith Magre]], French actress * [[November 23]] ** [[Sathya Sai Baba]], Indian spiritual leader (d. [[2011]]) ** [[Vann Molyvann]], Cambodian architect (d. [[2017]]) * [[November 24]] – [[Tsung-Dao Lee]], Chinese physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2024]]) * [[November 25]] ** [[Jeffrey Hunter]], American actor (d. [[1969]]) ** [[Poul Anderson]], American science fiction author (d. [[2001]]) *[[November 26]] – [[Rabi Ray]], Indian politician (d. [[2017]]) * [[November 28]] – [[Umberto Veronesi]], Italian oncologist and politician (d. [[2016]]) * [[November 29]] – [[Beji Caid Essebsi]], Tunisian politician, 5th [[President of Tunisia|President]] and 18th [[Head of Government of Tunisia|Prime Minister of Tunisia]] (d. [[2019]]) * [[November 30]] ** [[Richard Crenna]], American actor (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Teresa Gisbert Carbonell]], Bolivian architect and art historian (d. [[2018]])<!-- "Gisbert" is first surname --> ** [[Andrew Schally]], Polish-born American endocrinologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2024]]) ===December=== [[File:Raif Dizdarević (političar).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Raif Dizdarević]]]] <!--[[File:Joe Paterno - Penn State - Outback Bowl pep rally 123110 cropped.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Joe Paterno]]]]--> <!--[[File:Alcides Ghiggia 2006.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Alcides Ghiggia]]]]--> * [[December 1]] ** [[Allyn Ann McLerie]], Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Kitty Hart-Moxon]], Polish-English nurse and Holocaust survivor ** [[Antonio Lamela]], Spanish architect (d. [[2017]]) * [[December 5]] – [[Adetowun Ogunsheye]], Nigerian academic and educator * [[December 9]] ** [[Raif Dizdarević]], Bosnian politician ** [[Erhard Eppler]], German politician (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Henry Way Kendall]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1999]]) ** [[Lorenzo Wright]], American athlete (d. [[1972]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wr/lorenzo-wright-1.html|title=Lorenzo Wright Bio, Stats, and Results {{pipe}} Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|date=April 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418105919/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wr/lorenzo-wright-1.html|archive-date=April 18, 2020}}</ref> * [[December 10]] ** [[Leon Kossoff]], English painter and illustrator (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Guitar Slim]], American [[New Orleans blues]] guitarist (d. [[1959]]) ** [[Giorgos Ioannou]], Greek artist (d. [[2017]]) * [[December 13]] – [[George Rhoden]], Jamaican athlete (d. [[2024]]) * [[December 14]] – [[María Elena Marqués]], Mexican actress (d. [[2008]]) * [[December 15]] ** [[Nikos Koundouros]], Greek film director (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Emmanuel Wamala]], Ugandan cardinal * [[December 16]] – [[A. N. R. Robinson]], 3rd President and 3rd Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. [[2014]]) * [[December 17]] – [[Patrice Wymore]], American actress (d. [[2014]]) * [[December 19]] – [[Herb Stempel|Herbert Stempel]], American game show contestant (d. [[2020]]) * [[December 20]] ** [[Geoffrey Howe]], British politician (d. [[2015]]) ** [[Otto Graf Lambsdorff]], German politician (d. [[2009]]) ** [[David Levine]], U.S. [[caricaturist]] (d. [[2009]]) * [[December 21]] ** [[Champ Butler]], American singer (d. [[1992]])<ref name=":0">{{Cite AV media notes|title=Down Yonder With|last=Dales|first=Ossie|date=June 2012|type=booklet|publisher=Jasmine Records|id=JASCD 724|location=London, England|others=Champ Butler}}</ref> ** [[Joe Paterno]], American football player and coach (d. [[2012]]) * [[December 22]] – [[Alcides Ghiggia]], Uruguayan footballer (d. [[2015]]) * [[December 23]] ** [[Jorge Medina (cardinal)|Jorge Medina]], Chilean cardinal (d. [[2021]]) ** [[Metakse]], Armenian poet, writer, translator and public activist (d. [[2014]]) * [[December 24]] ** [[Ronald Draper]], South African cricketer (d. [[2025]]) ** [[Maria Janion]], Polish scholar, critic and politician (d. [[2020]]) * [[December 26]] – [[Gina Pellón]], Cuban painter (d. [[2014]]) * [[December 29]] – [[Amelita Ramos]], [[First Lady of the Philippines]] * [[December 31]] – [[Billy Snedden]], Australian politician (d. [[1987]]) ==Deaths== ===January–March=== [[File:Camillo Golgi.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Camillo Golgi]]]] [[File:Takaaki Kato suit.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kato Takaaki]]]] [[File:Teodosij gologanov.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Theodosius of Skopje]]]] [[File:Jan Feliks Cieplak.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jan Cieplak]]]] [[File:Kamerlingh Onnes signed.jpg|100px|right|thumb|[[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]]]] <!--[[File:Metropolitan of Moscow Makariy Nevskiy.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Macarius (Nevsky)|Macarius II]]]]--> <!--[[File:Philippe, Duke of Orléans.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869-1926)|Prince Philippe of Orléans]]]]--> * [[January 4]] – [[Margherita of Savoy]], Queen consort of Italy (b. [[1851]]) * [[January 6]] – [[John Bowers (bishop)|John Bowers]], British [[Anglican]] bishop (b. [[1854]]) * [[January 12]] – [[Austin Chapman|Sir Austin Chapman]], Australian politician (b. [[1864]]) * [[January 15]] ** [[Giambattista De Curtis]], Italian painter (b. [[1860]]) ** [[Louis Majorelle]], French furniture designer (b. [[1859]]) ** [[Enrico Toselli]], Italian pianist and composer (b. [[1883]]) * [[January 21]] ** [[Marie C. Brehm]], American suffragette (b. [[1859]]) ** [[Camillo Golgi]], Italian physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1843]]) * [[January 23]] – [[Désiré-Joseph Mercier]], Belgian Catholic cardinal and philosopher (b. [[1851]]) * [[January 26]] ** [[Bucura Dumbravă]], Hungarian-born Romanian novelist, promoter, hiker and Theosophist (b. [[1868]]) ** [[Joseph Sarsfield Glass]], American [[Roman Catholic]] prelate (b. [[1874]]) * [[January 28]] ** [[Katō Takaaki]], Japanese politician, 24th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1860]]) ** [[Ernest Troubridge|Sir Ernest Troubridge]], British admiral (b. [[1862]]) * [[January 30]] – [[Barbara La Marr]], American film actress (b. [[1896]]) * [[February 1]] – [[Theodosius of Skopje]], Bulgaria [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] religious leader and saint (b. [[1846]]) * [[February 5]] – [[Gustav Eberlein]], German sculptor, painter and writer (b. [[1847]]) * [[February 6]] – [[Carrie Clark Ward]], American stage and film character actress (b. [[1862]]) * [[February 8]] – [[William Bateson]], British geneticist (b. [[1861]]) * [[February 10]] – [[Aqif Pasha Elbasani]], Albanian political figure (b. [[1860]]) * [[February 12]] – [[Art Smith (pilot)|Art Smith]], American pilot (b. [[1890]]) * [[February 13]] – [[Francis Ysidro Edgeworth]], Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist (b. [[1845]]) * [[February 14]] – [[John Jacob Bausch]], German-born American optician, co-founder of [[Bausch & Lomb]] (b. [[1830]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Jan Cieplak]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] priest, bishop and servant of God (b. [[1857]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1853]]) * [[February 24]] – [[Eddie Plank]], American baseball player and [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1875]]) * [[March 3]] – [[Eugenia Mantelli]], Italian opera singer (b. [[1860]]) * [[March 4]] – Patriarch [[Macarius (Nevsky)|Macarius II]] (b. [[1835]]) * [[March 11]] – [[Maibelle Heikes Justice]], American novelist and screenwriter (b. [[1871]]) * [[March 12]] – [[E. W. Scripps]], American newspaper publisher (b. [[1854]]) * [[March 16]] – [[Sergeant Stubby]], [[World War I]] American hero war dog (b. [[1916]]) * [[March 17]] – [[Aleksei Brusilov]], Russian general (b. [[1853]]) * [[March 19]] – [[Friedrich Brodersen]], German opera singer (b. [[1873]]) * [[March 20]] ** [[Krishna Govinda Gupta]], Indian statesman, member of Indian Civil Service (b. [[1851]]) ** [[Louise of Sweden]], Queen consort of Denmark (b. [[1851]]) * [[March 24]] – [[Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg]] (b. [[1860]]) * [[March 26]] – [[Constantin Fehrenbach]], German politician and 13th [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1852]]) * [[March 28]] – [[Prince Philippe, Duke of Orleans (1869-1926)|Prince Philippe, Duke of Orleans]] (b. [[1869]]) * [[March 29]] – [[Charles Williamson Crook]], British teacher, trade unionist and politician (b. [[1862]]) ===April–June=== [[File:Emperor Sunjong.jpg|thumb|100px|Emperor [[Sunjong of Korea|Sunjong]]]] [[File:Sultan Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire.jpg|thumb|100px|Sultan [[Mehmed VI]]]] [[File:Antoni Gaudi 1878.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Antoni Gaudí]]]] [[File:Mary Cassatt photograph 1913.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mary Cassatt]]]] [[File:Jón Magnússon1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jón Magnússon (politician)|Jón Magnússon]]]] * [[April 1]] – [[Jacob Pavlovich Adler]], Russian actor (b. [[1855]]) * [[April 4]] – [[Thomas Burberry]], English businessman and inventor (b. [[1835]]) * [[April 7]] – [[Giovanni Amendola]], Italian journalist and politician (b. [[1882]]) * [[April 9]] – [[Henry Miller (actor)|Henry Miller]], British-born American stage actor and producer (b. [[1859]]) * [[April 10]] – [[Ōshima Yoshimasa]], Japanese general (b. [[1850]]) * [[April 11]] – [[Luther Burbank]], American biologist, botanist and agricultural scientist (b. [[1849]]) * [[April 14]] – [[Otto Stark]], American painter (b. [[1859]]) * [[April 17]] – [[Antonio Adolfo Pérez y Aguilar]], Salvadorian [[Roman Catholic]] archbishop (b. [[1839]]) * [[April 19]] – [[Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov]], Soviet statistician (b. [[1874]]) * [[April 20]] – [[Billy Quirk]], American actor (b. [[1873]]) * [[April 22]] – [[Federico Gana]], Chilean writer and diplomat (b. [[1867]]) * [[April 24]] – [[Sunjong of Korea|Sunjong]], last [[Emperor of Korea]] (b. [[1874]]) * [[April 25]] – [[Ellen Key]], Swedish feminist writer (b. [[1849]]) * [[April 26]] – [[Jeffreys Lewis]], English-born stage actress (b. [[1852]]) * [[April 28]] – [[Kawamura Kageaki]], Japanese field marshal (b. [[1850]]) * [[April 30]] – [[Bessie Coleman]], American pilot (b. [[1892]]) * [[May 3]] – [[Victor, Prince Napoleon]] (b. [[1862]]) * [[May 7]] – [[Lillian Lawrence]], American actress (b. [[1868]]) * [[May 9]] – [[J. M. Dent]], British publisher (b. [[1849]]) * [[May 10]] ** [[Alton B. Parker]], American judge and political candidate (b. [[1852]]) ** [[Giacinto Menotti Serrati]], Italian politician (b. [[1874]]) * [[May 16]] – [[Mehmed VI]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (b. [[1861]]) * [[May 18]] – [[Count Nikolaus Szécsen von Temerin]] (b. [[1857]]) * [[May 22]] – [[Tomás Arejola]], Filipino lawyer, legislator, diplomat and writer (b. [[1865]]) * [[May 26]] ** [[Frank Nelson Cole]], American mathematician (b. [[1861]]) ** [[Symon Petliura]], Ukrainian independence fighter (b. [[1879]]) * [[May 27]] – [[Michele Comella]], Italian painter (b. [[1856]]) * [[June 4]] – [[Fred Spofforth]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1853]]) * [[June 8]] ** [[Emily Hobhouse]], British welfare campaigner (b. [[1860]]) ** [[Mariam Thresia Chiramel]], Indian Catholic professed religious and stigmatist (b. [[1876]]) * [[June 9]] – [[Sanford B. Dole]], [[President of Hawaii]] and 1st [[Territorial Governor of Hawaii]] (b. [[1844]]) * [[June 10]] – [[Antoni Gaudí]], Spanish architect (b. [[1852]])<ref>{{cite book |first = Juan |last = Bassegoda |title = El gran Gaudí |isbn = 978-84-86329-44-0 |language = es |publisher = Sabadell |location = Barcelona |year = 1989 |page = 263 }}</ref> * [[June 13]] – [[Nikolay Chkheidze]], Soviet politician (b. [[1864]]) * [[June 14]] ** [[Mary Cassatt]], American painter and printmaker (b. [[1844]]) ** [[Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl]], Anglo-Irish politician (b. [[1841]]) * [[June 18]] – [[Olga Constantinovna of Russia]], Queen consort of Greece (b. [[1851]]) * [[June 23]] – [[Jón Magnússon (politician)|Jón Magnússon]], Icelandic politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Iceland]] (b. [[1857]]) ===July–September=== [[File:Rose Hawthorne Lathrop.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Mother Mary Alphonsa]]]] <!--[[File:Dartiguenave.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave]]]]--> <!--[[File:Bronislaw Grabczewski.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Bronislav Grombchevsky]]]]--> [[File:Ugyen Wangchuk, 1905.jpg|thumb|right|100px|King [[Ugyen Wangchuck]]]] [[File:Rudolph Valentino.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Rudolph Valentino]]]] [[File:José María Orellana Pinto.jpg|thumb|100px|[[José María Orellana]]]] * [[July 1]] – [[Carlo Luigi Spegazzini]], Italian-born Argentine botanist and mycologist (b. [[1858]]) * [[July 2]] ** [[Émile Coué]], French psychologist (b. [[1857]]) ** [[Kristján Jónsson (politician)|Kristján Jónsson]], [[Minister for Iceland]] (b. [[1852]]) * [[July 9]] – [[Mother Mary Alphonsa]], American [[Roman Catholic]] religious sister, social worker, foundress and venerable (b. [[1851]]) * [[July 12]] ** [[Gertrude Bell]], British archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator; known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq" (b. [[1868]]) ** [[John W. Weeks]], American politician in the Republican Party (b. [[1860]]) * [[July 14]] – [[Roshanara]], Anglo-Indian dancer (b. [[1894]]) * [[July 17]] – [[Bernard Coyne (bishop)|Bernard Coyne]], Irish [[Roman Catholic]] clergyman (b. [[1854]]) * [[July 18]] – [[Tiburcio Arnáiz Muñoz]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] priest and venerable (b. [[1865]]) * [[July 22]] ** [[Willard Louis]], American actor (b. [[1882]]) ** [[Friedrich von Wieser]], Austrian economist (b. [[1851]]) * [[July 23]] ** [[Charles Avery (actor)|Charles Avery]], American actor, director and screenwriter (b. [[1873]]) ** [[Fumiko Kaneko]], Japanese anarchist and nihilist (b. [[1903]]) * [[July 26]] ** [[Ella Adayevskaya]], Soviet composer (b. [[1846]]) ** [[Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave]], Haitian political figure, 25th [[President of Haiti]] (b. [[1863]]) ** [[Robert Todd Lincoln]], American statesman and businessman, son of 16th President [[Abraham Lincoln]] (b. [[1843]]) * [[July 30]] – [[Albert B. Cummins]], American lawyer and politician (b. [[1850]]) * [[July 31]] – [[Bronislav Grombchevsky]], Soviet army and explorer (b. [[1855]]) * [[August 1]] – [[Israel Zangwill]], British novelist and playwright (b. [[1864]]) * [[August 6]] – [[Constantin Climescu]], Romanian mathematician and politician (b. [[1844]]) * [[August 14]] – [[John H. Moffitt]], American politician (b. [[1843]]) * [[August 21]] – [[Ugyen Wangchuck]], King of Bhutan (b. 1861) * [[August 22]] ** [[Charles W. Eliot]], [[President of Harvard University]] (b. [[1834]]) ** [[Joe Moore (actor)|Joe Moore]], American actor (b. [[1894]]) * [[August 23]] – [[Rudolph Valentino]], Italian actor (b. [[1895]]) * [[August 27]] – [[John Rodgers (naval officer, World War I)|John Rodgers]], American naval officer and naval aviation pioneer (b. [[1881]]) * [[August 30]] – [[Eddie Lyons]], American actor (b. [[1886]]) * [[September 15]] ** [[Alexander Boyter]], American stonemason (b. [[1848]]) ** [[Rudolf Christoph Eucken]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1846]]) * [[September 17]] – [[Rashid Tali’a]], 1st Prime Minister of Transjordan (b. [[1877]]) * [[September 21]] – [[Léon Charles Thévenin]], French telegraph engineer (b. [[1857]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Herbert Booth]], English Salvationist, third son of [[William Booth|William]] and [[Catherine Booth]] (b. [[1862]]) * [[September 26]] – [[José María Orellana]], Guatemalan political and military leader, 14th [[President of Guatemala]] (b. [[1872]]) ===October–December=== <!--[[File:Hymie_Weiss.jpg|100px|thumbnail|right|[[Hymie Weiss]]]]--> [[File:HarryHoudini1899.jpg|100px|thumbnail|right|[[Harry Houdini]]]] [[File:Annie Oakley by Baker's Art Gallery c1880s-crop.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Annie Oakley]]]] <!--[[File:Swartz, Carl i VJ 47 1916.jpg|100px|thumbnail|right|[[Carl Swartz]]]]--> [[File:Claude Monet 1899 Nadar crop.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Claude Monet]]]] [[File:NikolaPasic--serbiaherpeopleh00petruoft.png|thumb|right|100px|[[Nikola Pašić]]]] [[File:Emperor Taish%C5%8D.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Emperor Taishō]]]] * [[October 7]] – [[Emil Kraepelin]], German psychiatrist (b. [[1856]]) * [[October 9]] ** [[Vaso Abashidze]], Georgian actor (b. [[1854]]) ** [[Josias von Heeringen]], German general (b. [[1850]]) * [[October 11]] ** [[Hymie Weiss]], American gangster (b. [[1898]]) * [[October 12]] ** [[Edwin Abbott Abbott]], English author and theologian (b. [[1838]]) ** [[Paul Puhallo von Brlog]], Croatian Austro-Hungarian general (b. [[1856]]) * [[October 16]] – [[Princess Frederica of Hanover]] (b. [[1848]]) * [[October 18]] – [[José Maria Mora]] Cuban born portrait photographer (b. [[1847]]) * [[October 19]] ** [[Victor Babeș]], Romanian bacteriologist (b. [[1854]]) ** [[Ludvig Karsten]], German painter (b. [[1876]]) * [[October 20]] – [[Eugene V. Debs]], American labor and political leader (b. [[1855]]) * [[October 24]] – [[Salomon Ehrmann]], Czech-born Austrian dermatologist and histologist (b. [[1854]]) * [[October 31]] ** [[Harry Houdini]], Hungarian-born American escapologist (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{cite news |last = Goldenberg |first = Suzanne |url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/24/usa.suzannegoldenberg1 |title = Final Escape for the Master of Illusion? Houdini's Family Press for Exhumation |work = [[The Guardian]] |date = March 24, 2007 |access-date = November 9, 2015 }}</ref> ** [[Charles Vance Millar]], Canadian businessman (b. [[1853]]) * [[November 3]] – [[Annie Oakley]], American sharpshooter and entertainer (b. [[1860]])<ref>{{ cite book | last = Kasper | first = Shirl | title = Annie Oakley | publisher = [[University of Oklahoma Press]] | date = 1992 | isbn = 0-8061-2418-0 | pages = 243–244 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=g1CqL48DUo0C&pg=PA3 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last = Haugen |first = B. |title = Annie Oakley: American Sharpshooter |publisher = Capstone |year = 2006 |page = 88 }}</ref> * [[November 6]] – [[Carl Swartz]], Swedish politician, 14th [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] (b. [[1858]]) * [[November 7]] – [[Tom Forman (actor)|Tom Forman]], American actor and director (b. [[1893]]) * [[November 10]] – [[Lyubov Dostoyevskaya]], Russian writer (b. [[1869]]) * [[November 19]] – [[Thomas Cusack (politician)|Thomas Cusack]], American entrepreneur, pioneer and politician (b. [[1858]]) * [[November 21]] – [[Joseph McKenna]], American politician and [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court]] (b. [[1843]]) * [[December 2]] – [[Gérard Cooreman]], Belgian politician, 21st [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1852]]) * [[December 3]] – [[Siegfried Jacobsohn]], German writer and critic (b. [[1881]]) * [[December 4]] – [[Ivana Kobilca]], Slovenian painter (b. [[1861]]) * [[December 5]] – [[Claude Monet]], French painter (b. [[1840]])<ref>{{cite book |last = McAuliffe |first = Mary |title = Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends |url = https://archive.org/details/dawnbelleepoquep00mcau |url-access = limited |location = Canberra |publisher = Rowman & Littlefield |date = 2011 |pages = [https://archive.org/details/dawnbelleepoquep00mcau/page/n350 338] |type = Paperback |isbn = 978-1-4422-0928-2 }}</ref> * [[December 10]] – [[Nikola Pašić]], Serbian and Yugoslav statesman, 33rd [[Prime Minister of Serbia]] and 4th [[Prime Minister of Yugoslavia]] (b. [[1855]]) * [[December 16]] – [[William Larned]], American tennis champion (b. [[1872]]) * [[December 17]] – [[Lars Magnus Ericsson]], Swedish inventor and founder of [[Ericsson]] (b. [[1846]]) * [[December 20]] – [[Narcisa Freixas]], Spanish painter and sculptor (b. [[1859]]) * [[December 22]] – [[Mina Arndt]], New Zealand painter (b. [[1885]]) * [[December 24]] – [[Johan Castberg]], Norwegian Radical politician (b. 1862) * [[December 25]] ** [[Oleksander Barvinsky]], Ukrainian politician (b. [[1847]]) ** [[Emperor Taishō]], [[Emperor of Japan]], one of the leaders of [[World War I]] (b. [[1879]]) * [[December 27]] – [[Amalia Riégo]], Swedish opera singer (b. [[1850]]) * [[December 28]] – [[Robert William Felkin]], British-born medical missionary, explorer, anthropologist and occultist (b. [[1853]]) * [[December 29]] – [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], Austrian poet (b. [[1875]])<ref>{{cite book |last = Hasty |first = Olga |title = Tsvetaeva's Orphic journeys in the worlds of the word |publisher = Northwestern University Press |location = Evanston, Illinois |year = 1996 |isbn = 9780810113152 |page = 163 }}</ref> * [[December 30]] – [[Felice Napoleone Canevaro]], Italian admiral (b. [[1838]]) ==Nobel Prizes== [[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]] * [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Jean Baptiste Perrin]] * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Theodor Svedberg]] * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger]]<ref>{{cite web |title = These Nobel Prize Winners Weren't Always Noble |url = https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/10/151005-nobel-laureates-forget-racist-sexist-science/ |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200808155045/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/10/151005-nobel-laureates-forget-racist-sexist-science/ |url-status = dead |archive-date = August 8, 2020 |website = National Geographic News |access-date = 19 January 2021 |language = en |date = 6 October 2015 }}</ref> * [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Grazia Deledda]] * [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Aristide Briand]], [[Gustav Stresemann]] {{Clear}} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Events by month links}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1926}} [[Category:1926| ]]
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