Editing 1928

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==Events==
===January===
{{Main|January 1928}}
* [[January]] – British [[bacteriologist]] [[Frederick Griffith]] reports the results of [[Griffith's experiment]], indirectly demonstrating that [[DNA]] is the genetic material.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Griffith |first=Fred. |title=The Significance of Pneumococcal Types |journal=Journal of Hygiene |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=113–159 |jstor=4626734 |pmid=20474956 |pmc=2167760 |doi=10.1017/S0022172400031879 |date=January 1928}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Downie |first=A. W. |title=Pneumococcal transformation – a backward view: Fourth Griffith Memorial Lecture |journal=[[Microbiology (journal)|Journal of General Microbiology]] |url=http://mic.sgmjournals.org/content/73/1/1.full.pdf |volume=73 |issue=1 |pages=1–11 |year=1972 |doi=10.1099/00221287-73-1-1 |pmid=4143929 |access-date=2011-11-30 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[January 1]] – [[Eastern Bloc emigration and defection]]: [[Boris Bazhanov]], [[Joseph Stalin]]'s personal secretary, crosses the border to [[Iran]] to defect from the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite book |author=G. Patrick Armstrong |title=Chronology of Soviet History, 1917–1984 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=feQxlmx6H2cC |year=1985 |publisher=Department of National Defence, Canada, Operational Research and Analysis Establishment, Directorate of Strategic Analysis |page=1927}}</ref>
* [[January 17]] – The [[OGPU]] arrests [[Leon Trotsky]] in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled with his family.<ref>{{cite book |author=Esther Leslie |title=Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FXUN34lH-jgC&pg=PA15 |date=20 May 2000 |publisher=Pluto Press |isbn=978-0-7453-1568-3 |pages=15}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] – The [[volcanic island]] [[Anak Krakatau]] appears.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anak Krakatoa |url=http://www.todayinsci.com/12/12_29.htm |work=Today in Science History |publisher=Todayinsci |access-date=2012-01-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Amie Jane |last=Leavitt |title=Anatomy of a Volcanic Eruption |url=https://archive.org/details/anatomyofvolcani0000leav |url-access=registration |publisher=Capstone Press |year=2011}}</ref>

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1928}}
* [[February]] – The [[Ford River Rouge Complex]] at [[Dearborn, Michigan]], an automobile plant begun in [[1917]], is completed as the world's largest integrated factory.<ref>{{cite book|author=Nelson Lichtenstein|title=Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m2TIwqhOHRwC&pg=PA13|year=1997|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-06626-9|pages=13}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] – Scottish-born inventor [[John Logie Baird]] broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to [[Hartsdale, New York]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Transatlantic Television in 1928|url=http://www.bairdtelevision.com/1928.html|work=Baird Television|access-date=2015-09-29}} Extract from ''[[The New York Times]]'' 1928-02-09.</ref>
* [[February 11]] – [[February 19|19]] – The [[1928 Winter Olympics]] are held in [[St. Moritz]], Switzerland, the first as a separate event.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Olympic Games and Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IitLAAAAYAAJ|year=1996|publisher=International Olympic Committee|page=51}}</ref> [[Sonja Henie]] of Norway wins her first [[gold medal]], in women's [[figure skating]].
* [[February 20]] – The [[1928 Japanese general election|Japanese general election]] produces a hung parliament.<ref>Thomas T Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) ''The International Almanac of Electoral History'', Macmillan, p281</ref>
* [[February 25]] – [[Charles Jenkins Laboratories]] of Washington, D.C., becomes the first holder of a television license from the [[Federal Radio Commission]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Washingtonian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6vZNAQAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Washington Magazine, Incorporated|page=9}}</ref>

===March===
{{Main|March 1928}}
* [[March 15]]
** [[March 15 incident]]: The Japanese government cracks down on socialists and communists, arresting over 1,000 people.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chalmers Johnson|title=An Instance of Treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-aeAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA39|year=1990|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-1767-0|pages=39}}</ref>
** Chinese warlord [[Shi Yousan]] sets fire to the [[Shaolin Monastery]] in [[Henan]], destroying some of its ancient structures and artifacts.<ref>{{cite book |last=Shahar |first=Meir |author-link=Meir Shahar |title=The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts |publisher=[[University of Hawaiʻi Press]] |location=Honolulu |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-8248-3349-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KiNEB0H6S0EC&pg=PA27 |page=27}}</ref>
* [[March 21]] – [[Charles Lindbergh]] is presented with the [[Medal of Honor]] for his first [[transatlantic flight]].<ref>{{cite book|title=U.S. Air Services|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aLo7AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA33|year=1928|publisher=Air Service Publishing Company|pages=34}}</ref>
*[[March 22]] – The [[Muslim Brotherhood]] is founded in Egypt by [[Islamic studies|Islamic scholar]] and schoolteacher [[Hassan al-Banna]].<ref>{{cite web |title=الإخوان المسلمون: حضور في 52 دولة |url=https://mubasher.aljazeera.net/news/reports/2016/3/21/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%AD%D8%B6%D9%88%D8%B1-%D9%81%D9%8A-52-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9 |website=Al Jazeera Mubasher |access-date=18 October 2021 |language=ar |date=21 March 2016}}</ref>
* [[March 24]] – Excavation work begins after the old [[Canaan]]ite city of [[Ugarit]] is accidentally rediscovered.<ref name="Buck2019">{{cite book|author=Mary E. Buck|title=The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: Historical Implications of Linguistic and Archaeological Parallels|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KkSxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|date=16 September 2019|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-41511-9|pages=1}}</ref>

===April===
{{Main|April 1928}}
* [[April 10]] – ''[[Pineapple Primary]]'': The United States [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] primary elections in Chicago are preceded by violence, bombings and assassination attempts (two politicians are killed, Octavius C. Granady and Giuseppe Esposito).
* [[April 12]] – A bomb attack against Italian Fascist leader [[Benito Mussolini]] in Milan kills 17 bystanders.
* [[April 13]] – The [[West Plains, Missouri#West Plains Dance Hall explosion|West Plains, Missouri Dance Hall explosion]] occurs.<ref>Not much is known about the West Plains Dance Hall explosion. Much of this event has been lost in time, and since [[forensic science]] was still developing, the cause was never discovered.</ref>
* [[April 12]] – [[April 14|14]] – The first east–west [[transatlantic flight]] by aeroplane takes place from [[Dublin]], Ireland, to [[Greenly Island, Canada]], using the German [[Junkers W 33]] ''[[Bremen (aircraft)|Bremen]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Jackson|title=The Sky Their Frontier: The Story of the World's Pioneer Airlines and Routes, 1920–40|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=om9PAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Airlife Pub. Limited|isbn=978-0-906393-28-4|pages=7–11}}</ref>
* [[April 14]] – An [[1928 Chirpan–Plovdiv earthquakes|earthquake occurs in Chirpan]], [[Bulgaria]], followed four days later by another in [[Plovdiv]]. Between them, they destroy more than 21,000 buildings, and kill almost 130 people.<ref>{{cite book|title=Annali di geofisica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OihQAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Istituto nazionale di geofisica|page=546}}</ref>
* [[April 19]] – Publication of the original ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' is completed after 70 years with issue of the last section ("wise – wyze") in [[Oxford]].<ref>''OED'' (1933, 1978 vol. 1, pp. xxv, xxvl).</ref>
* [[April 22]] – An [[List of earthquakes in Greece|Ms 6.0 earthquake]] affects southern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 20 dead, and destroying 3,000 homes in [[Corinth]]; a non-destructive tsunami is also observed.<ref>{{citation|title=Search result: Country=Greece|url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-data?country=GREECE|author=NGDC|publisher=[[National Geophysical Data Center]], [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]]|doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K|year=1972|type=Data Set}}</ref>
* [[April 28]] – 28&nbsp;inches of snow fall in southern-central Pennsylvania, United States.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Gina|last1=Cherundolo|first2=Carly|last2=Porter|title=Is Winter Finally Over?|url=http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/26025/is-winter-finally-over.asp|work=AccuWeather.com|date=2010-03-11|access-date=2012-01-30}}</ref>

===May===
{{Main|May 1928}}
* [[May 3]] – [[Jinan incident]]: An armed conflict between the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] (allied with Northern Chinese warlords) and the [[Kuomintang]]'s southern army occurs in [[Jinan]], China.
* [[May 7]] – Passage of the [[Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928|Representation of the People Act]] in the United Kingdom lowers the voting age for women from 30 to 21, giving them equal suffrage with men from [[July 2]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] – The first regular schedule of television programming begins in [[Schenectady, New York]], by [[General Electric]]'s television station [[W2XB]] (the station is popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio station [[WGY (AM)|WGY]]).
* [[May 15]] – The [[Animation|animated short]] ''[[Plane Crazy]]'' is released by [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney Studios]] in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of [[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]] and [[Minnie Mouse]] (in a non-distributed film).
* [[May 23]] – A bomb attack against the Italian consulate in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina, kills 22 and injures 43.<ref>{{cite book|title=Annual Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GhNdAAAAIAAJ|year=1929|publisher=J. Dodsley|page=291}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] – The [[Airship Italia|airship ''Italia'']] crashes at the [[North Pole]]; one of the occupants is Italian general [[Umberto Nobile]]. A rescue expedition leaves for the Pole on [[May 30]]. [[Roald Amundsen]] will be among those who lose their lives in the search for survivors.
* [[May 30]] – Rookie driver [[Louis Meyer]] wins his first [[Indianapolis 500]] (he will win that race again, in [[1933]] and [[1936]]).
[[File:Flag of South Africa (1928–1994).svg|thumb|120px|Flag of South Africa from 1928 to 1994]]
* [[May 31]] – South Africa adopts a [[Flag of South Africa (1928–1994)|new national flag]], based upon the Van Riebeeck flag or Prinsevlag (originally the Dutch flag), to replace the [[Red Ensign]]. It later became infamously known as the "apartheid flag" for being the flag of South Africa under [[Apartheid]] from 1948 to 1994.

===June===
{{Main|June 1928}}
* [[June 4]] – [[Huanggutun incident]]: [[Zhang Zuolin]], a warlord, is killed by Japanese agents in China.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ruiqing Luo|author2=Zhengcao Lü|author3=Zhengcao Lu|author4=Bingnan Wang|title=Zhou Enlai and the Xi'an Incident: An Eyewitness Account : a Turning Point in Chinese History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ov0vAQAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Foreign Languages Press|isbn=978-0-8351-1053-2|page=25}}</ref>
* [[June 8]] – By seizing [[History of Beijing|Beijing]] and renaming it Běipíng, the [[National Revolutionary Army]] puts an end to the '[[Fengtian clique|Fengtian]] [[Warlord Era|warlords]]' [[Beiyang government]] there.
* [[June 9]] 
** Australian aviator [[Charles Kingsford Smith]] and his crew complete the first flight across the [[Pacific Ocean]], from the mainland United States to Australia, in the [[Fokker F.VII]] aircraft ''[[Southern Cross (aircraft)|Southern Cross]]''. Having left [[Oakland, California]] on [[May 31]], they reach [[Brisbane]] via [[Honolulu]] and [[Fiji]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John William Ransom Taylor|title=A Picture History of Flight|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=THE0AAAAIAAJ|year=1959|publisher=E. Hulton|page=111}}</ref>
** [[Ellis Park Stadium]], a well-known sport venue of [[South Africa]], officially opens in [[Johannesburg]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ellispark.co.za/History.aspx|title=Coca-Cola Park : History|date=2013-01-03|access-date=2017-12-22|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103162143/http://www.ellispark.co.za/History.aspx|archive-date=2013-01-03}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] – Students take over the medical wing of Rosario University in [[Argentina]].
* [[June 17]] – [[June 18|18]] – Aviator [[Amelia Earhart]] becomes the first woman to make a successful [[transatlantic flight]], as a passenger in a [[Fokker F.VII]]b/3m piloted by [[Wilmer Stultz]], from [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] to Wales. 
* [[June 20]] – [[Puniša Račić]] kills three opposition representatives in the [[Yugoslavia]]n Parliament, and injures three others, in a gun attack.
* [[June 24]] – A [[Sweden|Swedish]] aeroplane rescues some survivors of the Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile. The Soviet icebreaker ''Krasin'' saves the rest [[July 12]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://italia.tass.com/|title=Italia: the Airship Crash Chronicle|website=italia.tass.com|access-date=March 8, 2021}}</ref>
* [[June 28]]
** The keel of the first 1,000&nbsp;ft (300 m)-long [[ocean liner]], ''[[Oceanic (unfinished ship)|Oceanic]]'', for the British [[White Star Line]], is laid by [[Harland and Wolff]] in [[Belfast]]; construction is delayed, and cancelled on [[23 July]] [[1929]].
** The [[International Railway (New York–Ontario)]] switches to one-man crews for its [[Tram|trolley]]s in [[Canada]].
* [[June 29]] – At the [[1928 Democratic National Convention]] in [[Houston]], [[Governor of New York]] [[Al Smith]] becomes the first [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.

===July===
{{Main|July 1928}}
* [[July 2]] – [[Charles Jenkins Laboratories]]' [[W3XK]] station begins broadcasting on 6.42 [[megahertz|MHz]], using 48 lines.
* [[July 3]] – Scottish inventor [[John Logie Baird]] demonstrates the world's first [[colour television]] transmission in Glasgow.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Hutchinson Factfinder|publisher=Helicon|year=1999|isbn=1-85986-000-1 }}</ref>
* [[July 7]] – The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in [[Chillicothe, Missouri]], United States, using [[Otto Frederick Rohwedder]]'s technology.<ref>{{cite book|title=Milling & Baking News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B6wnAQAAMAAJ|date=March 2008|publisher=Sosland Pub|page=40}}</ref>
* [[July 17]] – [[José de León Toral]] assassinates [[Álvaro Obregón]], president-elect of Mexico.<ref name=Obregon />
* [[July 25]] – The United States recalls its troops from China.
* [[July 28]] – [[August 12]] – The [[1928 Summer Olympics]] are held in [[Amsterdam]],<ref>{{cite book|author=United States Olympic Committee|title=Report: Games of the Olympiad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQSCAAAAMAAJ|year=1961|publisher=United States Olympic Committee|page=22}}</ref> opening with the lighting of the [[Olympic flame]]. Women's [[sport of athletics|athletics]] and [[gymnastics]] debut at these games, and [[discus throw]]er [[Halina Konopacka]] of Poland becomes the first female Olympic gold medal winner for a track or field event. [[Coca-Cola]] enters Europe as sponsor of the games.<ref>{{cite book|author=Steinar Bryn|title=The Americanization of Norwegian Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w-8s8AZyZ3MC|year=1993|publisher=University of Minnesota|page=207}}</ref>

===August===
{{Main|August 1928}}
* [[August]] – [[Margaret Mead]]'s influential [[cultural anthropology]] text, ''[[Coming of Age in Samoa]]'', is published in the U.S.<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Shankman|title=The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPDkYtaZFngC&pg=PA113|date=3 December 2009|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-23453-9|pages=113}}</ref>
* [[August 2]] – Italy and [[Ethiopia]] sign the [[Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928|Italo-Ethiopian Treaty]].<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Department of State|title=Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vmRNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA603|year=1953|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=603}}</ref>
* [[August 16]] – Serial killer [[Carl Panzram]] is arrested in Washington, D.C., for burglary. Later it will be discovered that he has committed multiple murders, rapes and other major crimes.<ref>{{cite book | last = Nash | first = Jay | title = Bloodletters and badmen : a narrative encyclopedia of American criminals from the Pilgrims to the present | publisher = M. Evans and Co | location = New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780871317773 |page=502}}</ref>
* [[August 22]] – [[Al Smith]] accepts the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] nomination for the US presidential election, with ''WGY/W2XB'' simulcasting the event on radio and television.
* [[August 26]] – In Scotland, May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her [[ginger beer]], leading to the landmark [[negligence]] case ''[[Donoghue v Stevenson]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Chapman|first=Matthew|title=The Snail and the Ginger Beer: the story of Donoghue v Stevenson|location=London|publisher=Wildy, Simmons & Hill|year=2010|isbn=978-0-85490-049-7}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] – The [[Kellogg–Briand Pact]] is signed in Paris, the first treaty to outlaw aggressive war.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert H. Ferrell|title=Peace in Their Time: The Origins of the Kellogg-Briand Pact|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vncBzgEACAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Norton}}</ref>
* [[August 29]] – [[F.C. Motagua]] is founded as an [[Association football]] club in [[Honduras]].

===September===
{{Main|September 1928}}
* [[September 1]] – Ahmet Zogu, President of the [[Albanian Republic]], declares the country to be a constitutional monarchy, the [[Albanian Kingdom (1928–39)|Albanian Kingdom]], with himself as [[Zog I of Albania|King Zog I]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Genc Myftiu|title=Albania, a Patrimony of European Values: A Short Encyclopedia of Albanian History and Cultural Heritage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xHQtAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=SEDA|page=30}}</ref>
* [[September 3]] – [[Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrates to the press in [[San Francisco]] the world's first working [[History of television#Electronic television|all-electronic television]] system, employing electronic scanning in both the pickup and display devices.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/philo.html|title=Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906–1971)|work=The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco|access-date=2011-06-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622033654/http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/philo.html|archive-date=June 22, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Farnsworth|first=Elma G.|year=1989|title=Distant Vision: Romance & Discovery on an Invisible Frontier|location=Salt Lake City|publisher=PemberleyKent|page=[https://archive.org/details/distantvisionrom00farn/page/108 108]|isbn=0-9623276-0-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/distantvisionrom00farn/page/108}}</ref>
* [[September 11]] – The first broadcast of a play by television, melodrama ''[[The Queen's Messenger (1928)|The Queen's Messenger]]'', on General Electric's [[W2XAD]] from Schenectady, New York, utilising techniques created by [[Ernst Alexanderson]]. WMAK ([[Kenmore, New York|Kenmore]]) begins broadcasting in [[Buffalo, New York]].
* [[September 12]] – The [[1928 Okeechobee hurricane|Okeechobee hurricane]] hits [[Guadeloupe]], killing 1,200 people.
* [[September 16]] – The [[1928 Okeechobee hurricane|Okeechobee hurricane]] kills at least 2,500 people in [[Florida]].
* [[September 25]] – [[Paul Galvin (businessman)|Paul and Joseph Galvin]] incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (later known as [[Motorola]] and [[Freescale]]).
* [[September 28]] – Scottish-born microbiologist [[Alexander Fleming]], at [[St Mary's Hospital, London]], accidentally rediscovers the [[antibiotic]] which he will call [[Penicillin]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Dubey|first=R. C.|title=Text book of Microbiology|publisher=S. Chand & Company Ltd|location=New Delhi|year=1999|isbn=9788121926201|page=579}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.rsc.org/pdf/pressoffice/2003/penicillin.pdf|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|location=London|title=Culture shock will highlight penicillin discovery|date=2003-09-02|access-date=2011-11-30}}</ref>

===October===
{{Main|October 1928}}
* [[October]] – The women's organisation ''[[Gruaja Shiqiptare]]'' is founded in Albania, with [[Princess Senije]] as its chair.<ref name="SharpStibbe2011">{{cite book|author1=Ingrid Sharp|author2=Matthew Stibbe|title=Aftermaths of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists, 1918–1923|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FN55DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA191|date=14 February 2011|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-18276-9|pages=191}}</ref>
* [[October 1]] – [[Joseph Stalin]] launches the [[First five-year plan (Soviet Union)|first five-year plan]] (1928–1932); the average nonfarm wage falls by 50% in the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite book|author=James Riordan|title=Sport in Soviet Society: Development of Sport and Physical Education in Russia and the USSR|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MDE8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA120|date=30 June 1980|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-28023-5|pages=120}}</ref>
* [[October 2]] 
**[[Josemaría Escrivá]] founds [[Opus Dei]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Irish Catholic Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1xkzAQAAIAAJ|year=1960|publisher=J. Duffy and Company|page=44}}</ref>
**[[Arvid Lindman]] returns as [[Prime Minister of Sweden]], with his right-wing rival [[Ernst Trygger]] as [[Foreign Minister of Sweden]].
* [[October 7]] – [[Haile Selassie]] is crowned king (not yet emperor) of [[Ethiopian Empire|Abyssinia]].<ref>{{cite book|author=David Abner Talbot|title=Haile Selassie I: Silver Jubilee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mvpyAAAAMAAJ|year=1955|publisher=W.P. van Stockum|page=24}}</ref>
* [[October 8]] – [[Chiang Kai-shek]] is named as [[Generalissimo]] (Chairman of the National Military Council) of the [[Nationalist Government]] of the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]].
* [[October 12]] – An [[Negative pressure ventilator|iron lung]] respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, [[Boston]].
* [[October 22]] – The [[Phi Sigma Alpha]] fraternity is founded at the [[University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus]].
* [[October 25]] – The [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement]] (ICRM) is formally established, with the adoption of the "Statutes of the [[International Red Cross]]" <ref>{{cite book|author=Hans Haug|title=Humanity for All: The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r9cSAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=P. Haupt|isbn=978-3-258-04719-5|page=424}}</ref>
* [[October 28]] – The Second Youth Congress is held in [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]], [[Dutch East Indies]] by young [[Indonesia]]n nationalists, resulting in the [[Youth Pledge]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Ricklefs|date=1982|title=A History of Modern Indonesia|publisher=Macmillan Southeast Asian|edition=reprint|isbn=0-333-24380-3|page=177}}</ref> The Indonesian national anthem, "[[Indonesia Raya]]", is introduced at the congress.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Funston|editor1-first=John|title=Government & Politics in Southeast Asia|date=2001|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=9789812301345|page=75|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O4zGBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA75|language=en}}</ref>

===November===
{{Main|November 1928}}
* [[November 1]] – [[Turkey]] passes a law switching the country from the [[Arabic alphabet|Arabic]] to the [[Latin]]-based modern [[Turkish alphabet]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacob M. Landau|title=Atatürk and the Modernization of Turkey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_n93Kq5PwMC&pg=PA201|year=1984|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-07070-2|pages=201}}</ref>
* [[November 6]] – [[1928 United States presidential election]]: [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Herbert Hoover]] wins by a wide margin, over [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] New York Governor [[Al Smith]].
* [[November 9]] – [[November 16|16]] – [[Radclyffe Hall]]'s novel ''[[The Well of Loneliness]]'' (published on 27 July by [[Jonathan Cape]] in London, England)<ref>{{cite book|first=Lovat|last=Dickson|title=Radclyffe Hall at The Well of Loneliness: A Sapphic Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KrFaAAAAMAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Collins|isbn=978-0-00-211235-2|page=145}}</ref> is tried and convicted on the grounds of [[obscenity]] due to its theme of [[lesbian]] love, following a newspaper campaign.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Michael|title=Our Three Selves: A Life of Radclyffe Hall|publisher=GMP Publishers|year=1985|location=London|isbn=0-85449-042-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Foster|first=Jeanette H.|title=Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey|url=https://archive.org/details/sexvariantwomeni00fost|url-access=registration|publisher=Vantage Press|year=1956|location=New York}}</ref>
* [[November 10]] – The enthronement ceremony of [[Emperor of Japan]] [[Hirohito]] is held, two years after he actually took the imperial throne on [[December 26]], [[1926]], following the death of [[Emperor Taishō]].
* [[November 12]] – Liner {{SS|Vestris}} develops a severe starboard list, is abandoned and sinks approximately 200 miles off [[Hampton Roads, Virginia]]; estimated deaths range from 110 to 127.
* [[November 17]] 
** [[1928 Australian federal election]]: [[Stanley Bruce]]'s [[Nationalist Party of Australia|Nationalist]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] [[Second Bruce Ministry|Government]] is re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] led by [[James Scullin]].
** [[Boston Garden]] opens in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
* [[November 18]] – [[Mickey Mouse]] appears in ''[[Steamboat Willie]]'', the third Mickey Mouse cartoon released, but the first [[sound film]] and the first such film to be generally distributed.<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Yorker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2RUnAQAAIAAJ|year=1988|publisher=F-R Publishing Corporation|page=85}}</ref>
* [[November 22]] – The one-movement ballet ''[[Boléro]]'' (music by [[Maurice Ravel]],  choreography by [[Bronislava Nijinska]]) premières at the [[Palais Garnier|Paris Opéra]], to a commission by [[Ida Rubinstein]].
* [[November 28]] – [[Persija Jakarta]] [[Association football]] club is founded as Voetbalbond Indonesische Jacatra.

===December===
{{Main|December 1928}}
* [[December 3]] – In [[Rio de Janeiro]], a [[seaplane]] sent to greet [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]] crashes, killing all on board. The pilot had tried to avoid another plane which came too close.<ref>{{cite book|title=Flying Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=30Na8oTxFOYC&pg=PA14|date=June 1931|pages=14}}</ref>
* [[December 4]] – [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] is enthroned as the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.<ref name= Time1928>{{cite magazine|title= Religion:York to Canterbury|magazine=Time|publisher=Time Inc.|location= New York|date= 6 August 1928|url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,787459,00.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101121035432/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,787459,00.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= 21 November 2010}} {{subscription required}}</ref>
* [[December 6]] – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by [[United Fruit Company]] workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
* [[December 21]] – The [[United States Congress]] approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed [[Hoover Dam]].

===Date unknown===
* The women's organisation ''[[Anjuman-i Himayat-i-Niswan]]'' is founded in Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite book|author=Fahima Rahimi|title=Women in Afghanistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A7Rl2gyAARIC|year=1986|publisher=Stiftung Bibliotheca Afghanica|page=42}}</ref>

==Births==
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===January===
[[File:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]]]]
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[[File:Reynaldo Bignone.PNG|thumb|110px|[[Reynaldo Bignone]]]]
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[[File:Eduard shevardnadze.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Eduard Shevardnadze]]]]
[[File:Roger Vadim - still.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Roger Vadim]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Abdul Sattar Edhi]], Pakistani philanthropist (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite news|last1=Boone|first1=Jon|title=Abdul Sattar Edhi obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/13/abdul-sattar-edhi-obituary|access-date=28 February 2017|work=The Guardian|date=13 July 2016}}</ref>
* [[January 2]] – [[Daisaku Ikeda]], Japanese religious leader, [[Soka Gakkai#List of presidents|3rd President]] of [[Soka Gakkai]] (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Kisala|title=Prophets of Peace: Pacifism and Cultural Identity in Japan's New Religions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xCvMjYVqkMIC&pg=PA85|date=1 October 1999|publisher=University of Hawaiʻi Press|isbn=978-0-8248-2267-5|pages=85}}</ref>
* [[January 3]] – [[Abdul Rahman Ya'kub]], Malaysian politician (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Abdul Rahman Ya'kub (Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Haji)|title=Blueprint for Peace: Selected Speeches on Security|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JwkdAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Syarikat Norwan|page=1}}</ref> 
* [[January 5]] 
** [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], [[President of Pakistan]] and [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] (d. [[1979]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Chakar Ali Junejo|title=Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: A Memoir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zi9uAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=National Commission on History and Culture|page=6}}</ref>
** [[Qian Qichen]], Chinese diplomat, politician (d. [[2017]])
* [[January 6]] – [[Vijay Tendulkar]], Indian playwright (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Hindustan Year-book and Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C1g8AAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=M. C. Sarkar|page=37}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] – [[William Peter Blatty]], American writer (''[[The Exorcist (novel)|The Exorcist]]'') (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/16/william-peter-blatty-obituary |title=William Peter Blatty obituary  |work=The Guardian |date=16 January 2017 |access-date=3 February 2017}}</ref> 
* [[January 9]] 
** [[Judith Krantz]], American novelist (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/27/judith-krantz-obituary|title=Judith Krantz obituary|last=Horwell|first=Veronica|date=June 27, 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=July 2, 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
** [[Domenico Modugno]], Italian singer, songwriter, actor and politician (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gino Moliterno|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvGGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA526|date=11 September 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-75876-0|pages=526}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] – [[Philip Levine (poet)|Philip Levine]], American poet (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Levine|title=On the Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MayfchDom0cC&pg=PA1|year=1991|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0-472-06392-8|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] – [[Bengt Gustavsson]], Swedish footballer and manager (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Olympedia – Bengt Gustavsson |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/27233 |website=www.olympedia.org |access-date=19 February 2021}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] – [[Hans Kornberg]], German-English biochemist (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/12/18/professor-sir-hans-kornberg-german-born-biochemist-master-christs/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/12/18/professor-sir-hans-kornberg-german-born-biochemist-master-christs/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title = Professor Sir Hans Kornberg, German-born biochemist and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge who did pioneering research into how bacteria work – obituary|newspaper = The Telegraph|date = 18 December 2019|last1 = Obituaries|first1 = Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[January 16]]
** [[William Kennedy (author)|William Kennedy]], American author<ref>{{cite book|author=Heinz-D. Fischer|title=Novel / Fiction Awards 1917–1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Nz_2dy3TFAC&pg=PA251|date=14 February 2012|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-097211-5|pages=251}}</ref>
** [[Pilar Lorengar]], Spanish soprano (d. [[1996]])
* [[January 17]]
** [[Jean Barraqué]], French composer (d. [[1973]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Musical Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IfMEAAAAMAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Orpheus|page=952}}</ref>
** [[Vidal Sassoon]], English hairdresser (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Clifford Thompson|title=Current Biography Yearbook: 1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVpu5WHJxvsC|date=December 1999|publisher=Hw Wilson Company|isbn=978-0-8242-0988-9|page=519}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] – [[Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins]], English politician and athlete<ref>{{cite book|title=Dod's Parliamentary Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b30NAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited|isbn=978-0-905702-66-7|page=691}}</ref> 
* [[January 21]] 
** [[Gene Sharp]], American political theorist of nonviolent action (d. [[2018]])
** [[Reynaldo Bignone]], 45th [[President of Argentina]] (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|title=ISLA|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WbAuAQAAIAAJ|date=May 1982|publisher=I.S.L.A.|page=167}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] – [[Kate Molale]], South African anti-apartheid activist (d. [[1980]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The African Communist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KXhNAQAAIAAJ|year=1981|publisher=South African Communist Party|page=18}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] – [[Jeanne Moreau]], French actress (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gwsaAAAAYAAJ|year=1967|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=283}}</ref>
* [[January 24]]
** [[Desmond Morris]], English anthropologist and writer<ref>{{cite web| author=Williams, D. |title=Desmond Morris Biography| url=http://www.desmond-morris.com/biography.php| publisher=Desmond-morris.com| access-date=9 October 2020}}</ref>
** [[Michel Serrault]], French actor (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite news |work=The Guardian |date=2 August 2007 |author=Bergan, Ronald |title=Michel Serrault: French comic actor who made his name in the 1970s film La Cage aux Folles |access-date=26 August 2019 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/aug/03/guardianobituaries.france |location=New York, NY }}</ref>
* [[January 25]] – [[Eduard Shevardnadze]], [[Georgia SSR|Georgian]] politician, 2nd [[President of Georgia]] (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Open Media Research Institute|title=The OMRI Annual Survey of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, 1995: Building Democracy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T1vFM-R34TYC&pg=PA252|year=1996|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-1-56324-924-2|pages=252}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] – [[Roger Vadim]], French film director (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Annual Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6|page=76}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] – [[Hans Modrow]], [[Premier of the German Democratic Republic|East German Premier]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard A. Leiby|title=The Unification of Germany, 1989-1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwpeGlFU_7QC&pg=PA126|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29969-8|pages=126}}</ref> (d. [[2023]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Harold Prince]], American stage producer, director (d. [[2019]])<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/jul/31/hal-prince-harold-prince-obituary "Obituary"] ''The Guardian'', July 31, 2019</ref>

===February===
[[File:Kim Yong-nam in Moscow (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Kim Yong-nam]]]]
<!--[[File:Pere Casaldàliga (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pedro Casaldáliga]]]]-->
[[File:Fats Domino (1962).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Fats Domino]]]]
[[File:Ariel Sharon, by Jim Wallace (Smithsonian Institution).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ariel Sharon]]]]
* [[February 1]] – [[Stuart Whitman]], American actor (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William D. Chase|title=Chase's Annual Events: Special Days, Weeks and Months in 1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gwvvAAAAMAAJ|date=September 1987|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=978-0-8092-4667-0|page=31}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] – [[Ciriaco De Mita]], Italian politician (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4wOGAgAAQBAJ&q=Ciriaco+De+Mita+1928&pg=PA232|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture|first=Gino|last=Moliterno|date=11 September 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134758777|access-date=29 August 2019|via=Google Books}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] – [[Kim Yong-nam]], North Korean politician<!-- "Kim" is surname --><ref>{{cite book |last1=East |first1=Roger |last2=Thomas |first2=Richard J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5VO4AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA278 |title=Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders |page=278 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |date=June 3, 2014 |access-date=March 13, 2020 |isbn=978-1-317-63940-4}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] – [[Hristu Cândroveanu]], Romanian editor, literary critic and writer (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ziuaconstanta.ro/fondul-documentar-dobrogea-de-ieri-si-de-azi/articol/citeste-dobrogea-hristu-candroveanu-un-creator-neobosit-dedicat-cauzei-etniei-sale-3942.html|title=Hristu Cândroveanu – un creator neobosit, dedicat cauzei etniei sale|first=Cristina|last=Titz|newspaper=Ziua de Constanța|date=5 February 2021|language=ro}}</ref>
* [[February 9]]
** [[George Brady (Holocaust survivor)|George Brady]], Czech-Canadian businessman and Holocaust survivor (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Zemřel Jiří Brady. Pamětník holokaustu, kterého Zeman odmítl vyznamenat |url=https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/jiri-brady-umrti.A190112_135358_domaci_jn |access-date=12 January 2019 |work=iDNES.cz |date=12 January 2019 |language=cs}}</ref>
** [[Rinus Michels]], Dutch association football player, coach (d. [[2005]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Gerald Regan]], Canadian politician (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen Kimber|title="Not Guilty": The Trial of Gerald Regan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SAtfmlhzZa4C|year=1999|publisher=Stoddart|isbn=978-0-7737-3192-9|page=19}}</ref>
* [[February 15]] – [[Luis Posada Carriles]], Cuban militant (d. [[2018]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Pedro Casaldáliga]], Spanish-Brazilian prelate and human rights activist (d. [[2020]])
* [[February 18]] – [[John Ostrom]], American paleontologist (d. [[2005]])<ref>{{cite news | last = Wilford | first = John Noble | title = John H. Ostrom, Influential Paleontologist, Is Dead at 77 | newspaper = The New York Times | location = New York | date = 21 July 2005| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/21/nyregion/john-h-ostrom-influential-paleontologist-is-dead-at-77.html }}</ref>
* [[February 20]] – [[Friedrich Wetter]], German Catholic cardinal
* [[February 22]] 
** Sir [[Bruce Forsyth]], English entertainer (d. [[2017]])<ref>
{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/aug/18/bruce-forsyth-king-of-uk-gameshows-dies-aged-89|title=Sir Bruce Forsyth: King of UK gameshows dies aged 89|date=18 August 2017|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=18 August 2017}}</ref>
** [[Pushpa Mittra Bhargava]], Indian scientist, writer, and administrator (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 23]] – [[Vasily Lazarev]], Russian cosmonaut (d. [[1990]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Naqsh Lyallpuri]], Indian ghazal (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Paul Elvstrøm]], Danish yachtsman (d. [[2016]])<ref name="Elvstrøm1970">{{cite book|author=Paul Elvstrøm|title=Elvström Speaks – to His Sailing Friends on His Life and Racing Career|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNm1AAAAIAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Nautical Publishing Company|page=22|isbn=9780245598517}}</ref>
* [[February 26]]
** [[Fats Domino]], African-American musician (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Annual Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6|page=111}}</ref>
** [[Anatoly Filipchenko]], Russian cosmonaut (d. [[2022]])
** [[Ariel Sharon]], 11th [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Samuel Willard Crompton|author2=Richard Worth|title=Ariel Sharon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZDnaWshrMwwC&pg=PA19|year=2007|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-0464-5|pages=19}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] – [[René Clemencic]], Austrian composer and conductor (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Karl Strute|author2=Theodor Doelken|title=Who's who in Austria: 1982-1983|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_ngAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Who's Who the international red series Verlag|isbn=978-3-921220-44-3|page=109}}</ref> 
*[[February 28]] – [[Stanley Baker]], Welsh actor and film producer (d. [[1976]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/stanley-baker/pages/biography.shtml|title=Stanley Baker biography|date=17 August 2009|website=BBC Wales|access-date=April 2, 2021}}</ref>

===March===
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[[File:Fred Rogers and Tatiana Vedeneyeva on Set of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (cropped 2).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Fred Rogers]]]]
[[File:Alexander Grothendieck.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Alexander Grothendieck]]]]
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[[File:Gordie Howe Chex card.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Gordie Howe]]]]
* [[March 1]] – [[Jacques Rivette]], French filmmaker (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Mary M. Wiles|title=Jacques Rivette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6CKfPXwO0gsC&pg=PA1|date=19 January 2012|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-07834-7|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[March 3]] 
** [[Bernice Sandler]], American women's rights activist (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=Who's who of American women : 1981–1982.|date=1981|publisher=Marquis Who's Who|isbn=9780837904122|edition=12th|location=Chicago|pages=652–653|oclc=7453358}}</ref> 
** [[Gudrun Pausewang]], German young fiction writer (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Horst Kliemann|title=Who's who in Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nu-wAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, German editor R. Oldenbourg Verlag|page=1705|isbn=9783921220283}}</ref>
* [[March 4]] – [[Alan Sillitoe]], English writer (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gillian Mary Hanson|title=Understanding Alan Sillitoe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WM5uNlLeqL4C&pg=PA1|year=1999|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-219-6|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[March 5]] – [[Yelizaveta Dementyeva]], Soviet Olympic canoeist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/yelizaveta-dementyeva|title=Yelizaveta Dementyevawebsite=Olympic.org|access-date=7 November 2020}}</ref> (d. [[2022]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Arthur Dion Hanna]], Bahamian politician<ref>{{cite book|title=Bahamas Handbook and Businessman's Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQs7AQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Etienne Dupuch, Jr. Publications|page=442}}</ref> (d. [[2021]])
* [[March 9]]
** [[Gerald Bull]], Canadian engineer (d. [[1990]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Phythian|title=Arming Iraq: How the U.S. and Britain Secretly Built Saddam's War Machine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSzZAAAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Northeastern University Press|isbn=978-1-55553-285-7|page=94}}</ref>
** [[Robert Adeyinka Adebayo]], Nigerian politician and military officer (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Oluranti Afowowe|title=Onward Soldier Marches on: A Biography of Major-General Robert Adeyinka Adebayo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l50uAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Evans Brothers (Nigeria Publishers) Limited|isbn=978-978-020-184-5|page=7}}</ref>
* [[March 10]]
** [[Sara Montiel]], Spanish singer, actress (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John C. Dove|title=Who's who in Spain 1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kEOAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Who's Who in Italy|isbn=978-88-85246-14-0|page=976}}</ref>
** [[James Earl Ray]], American assassin (d. [[1998]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Edward Albee]], American dramatist (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Barbara Lee Horn|title=Edward Albee: A Research and Production Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nu8Q92GKE88C&pg=PA10|year=2003|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31141-3|pages=10}}</ref>
* [[March 14]] – [[Frank Borman]], American astronaut (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration|title=NASA EP.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AcAfAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA5-PA10|year=1961|publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration.|pages=5}}</ref> 
* [[March 16]]
** [[Karlheinz Böhm]], Austrian actor (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Premi Balzan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okE8AQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Fondazione internazionale Balzan|page=125}}</ref>
** [[Christa Ludwig]], German mezzo-soprano (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/26/christa-ludwig-obituary|title=Christa Ludwig obituary|date=26 April 2021|author=Barry Millington|website=The Guardian|access-date=27 April 2021}}</ref>
* [[March 18]]
** [[Lennart Carleson]], Swedish mathematician<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's who in Scandinavia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wrzkAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Who's who|page=195|isbn = 9783921220269}}</ref> 
** [[Fidel V. Ramos]], 12th [[President of the Philippines]] (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Filipino Moving Onward 5' 2007 Ed.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SIq_FvJUr40C&pg=PP321|publisher=Rex Bookstore, Inc.|isbn=978-971-23-4154-0|pages=321}}</ref>
* [[March 19]]
** [[Sutanto Djuhar]], Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneur (d. [[2018]])
** [[Hans Küng]], Swiss Roman Catholic theologian (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite news | access-date = 8 April 2021 | work = [[America (magazine)|America]] | url = https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/04/06/hans-kung-death-obituary-vatican-ii-240394 | date= 6 April 2021 | title = Hans Küng, influential Vatican II theologian censured by John Paul II, dies at 93 | first = Roger | last = Haight }}</ref>
** [[Marceline Loridan-Ivens]], French writer, film director and Holocaust survivor (d. [[2018]])
** [[Patrick McGoohan]], American-born British-based actor of Irish descent (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sellers |first1=Robert |title=Patrick McGoohan: Actor who created and starred in the cult 1960s television series 'The Prisoner' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/patrick-mcgoohan-actor-who-created-and-starred-in-the-cult-1960s-television-series-the-prisoner-1380371.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/patrick-mcgoohan-actor-who-created-and-starred-in-the-cult-1960s-television-series-the-prisoner-1380371.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=July 20, 2019 |work=The Independent |date=January 16, 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[March 20]] – [[Fred Rogers]], American children's television host (d. [[2003]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Surya Bahadur Thapa]], 24th [[Prime Minister of Nepal]] (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz|title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA574|date=4 February 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-26490-2|pages=574}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] – [[Jim Lovell]], American astronaut<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard W. Orloff|title=Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gUQ7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA136|year=2000|publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration|isbn=978-0-16-050631-4|pages=136}}</ref>
* [[March 28]]
** [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], Polish-born American National Security Advisor (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=49tKAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA290|year=1985|publisher=Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration|pages=290}}</ref>
** [[Alexander Grothendieck]], German-born mathematician (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sooyoung Chang|title=Academic Genealogy of Mathematicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4siw31DPONUC&pg=PA115|year=2011|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4282-29-1|pages=115}}</ref>
* [[March 30]] – [[Robert Badinter]], French lawyer and politician (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://www.senat.fr/evenement/archives/D22/badinter.html
 |title=20ème anniversaire de l'abolition de la peine de mort en France: Robert Badinter, repères biographiques
 |website=www.senat.fr
 |language=fr
 |trans-title=20th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in France: biography of Robert Badinter
 |access-date=2 December 2020
 |url-status=live
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214510/https://www.senat.fr/evenement/archives/D22/badinter.html
 |archive-date=3 March 2016
}}</ref>
* [[March 31]]
** [[Lefty Frizzell]], American country music performer (d. [[1975]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kurt Wolff|title=Country Music: The Rough Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Jorozp1yp4C&pg=PA116|year=2000|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-85828-534-4|pages=116}}</ref>
** [[Gordie Howe]], Canadian hockey player (d. [[2016]])

===April===
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[[File:Shirleytemple.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Shirley Temple]]]]
* [[April 2]] – [[Serge Gainsbourg]], French singer (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Annual Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FMYAAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=St. Martin's|isbn=978-1-55862-175-6|page=137}}</ref>
* [[April 3]] – [[Don Gibson]], American country music singer-songwriter (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|pages=520/1}}</ref>
* [[April 4]] – [[Maya Angelou]], African-American poet, novelist (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Elaine Showalter|author2=Lea Baechler|author3=A. Walton Litz|title=Modern American Women Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=30UkL9DTj5UC&pg=PA1|date=27 September 1993|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-02-082025-3|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[April 6]] – [[James D. Watson]], American geneticist; recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank N. Magill|title=The 20th Century O-Z: Dictionary of World Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eE_ZjR1dKB4C&pg=PA3897|date=13 May 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-59362-8|pages=3897}}</ref>
* [[April 7]]
** [[James Garner]], American actor, producer (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Raymond Strait|title=James Garner: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hZldDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT141|date=13 June 2016|publisher=Crossroad Press|pages=141}}</ref>
** [[Alan J. Pakula]], American producer, director (d. [[1998]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Allan Hunter|title=Chambers Film and Television Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0sAUAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Chambers|isbn=978-0-550-17250-1|page=253}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] – [[Eric Porter]], English actor (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{cite book|title=International Film and TV Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dZxmAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Screen International, King Publications Limited|page=688}}</ref>
* [[April 9]]
** [[Paul Arizin]], American basketball player (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nba.com/history/legends/profiles/paul-arizin|title=Legends profile: Paul Arizin|website=NBA|access-date=25 October 2020}}</ref>
** [[Tom Lehrer]], American songwriter, satirist<ref>{{cite book|author=Ronald L. Smith|title=Comedy on Record: The Complete Critical Discography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GVUrAQAAIAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Garland Pub.|isbn=978-0-8240-8461-5|page=373}}</ref>
* [[April 11]] – [[Ethel Kennedy]], American human-rights campaigner, wife of [[Robert F. Kennedy]] (d. [[2024]])
* [[April 12]]  – [[Hardy Krüger]], German actor<ref>{{cite book|title=International Film and TV Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_aJmAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Screen International, King Publications Limited|page=472}}</ref> (d. [[2022]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Vida Alves]], Brazilian actress (d. [[2017]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Mikio Sato]], Japanese mathematician <ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Connor |first1=John |last2=Robertson |first2=Edmund |title=Mikio Sato |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sato/ |website=MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive |publisher=MacTutor |access-date=2 August 2022}}</ref> (d. [[2023]])
* [[April 19]] – Sultan [[Azlan Shah of Perak]], King of Malaysia (d. [[2014]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Shirley Temple]], American actress and diplomat (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{Cite web|title=Love, Shirley Temple, Collector's Book: 4 Shirley Temple's Official Hospital Birth Certificate|url=https://www.theriaults.com/shirley-temples-official-hospital-birth-certificate|access-date=2020-07-28|website=www.theriaults.com}}</ref>
* [[April 24]] – [[Tommy Docherty]], Scottish footballer and manager (d. [[2020]])
* [[April 25]] – [[Cy Twombly]], American artist (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite news|title= CY TWOMBLY, 1928–2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/arts/cy-twombly-american-artist-is-dead-at-83.html?pagewanted=all|work=The New York Times| date=July 6, 2011 |access-date=March 14, 2013| last1=Kennedy | first1=Randy }}</ref>
* [[April 28]] – [[Yves Klein]], French artist (d. [[1962]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Yves Klein|author2=Gilbert Perlein|author3=Bruno Corà|title=Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=baJPAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Delano Greenidge Editions|isbn=978-0-929445-08-3|page=7}}</ref>

===May===
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[[File:AVMO'Brian.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Michael John O'Brian]]]]
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[[File:KevorkianUCLARoyce.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jack Kevorkian]]]]
[[File:Agnès Varda (Berlinale 2019) (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Agnès Varda]]]]
* [[May 1]] 
** [[Michael John O'Brian]], Irish-Pakistani Air Vice Marshal (d. [[1998]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paf.gov.pk/pioneering_officers.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130408100134/http://www.paf.gov.pk/pioneering_officers.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-04-08|title=Pioneering Officers|publisher=Pakistan Air Force - Official Website}}</ref>
** [[Sonny James]], American country singer (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Friskics-Warren|first1=Bill|title=Sonny James, Country Singer Known for 'Young Love,' Dies at 87|journal=The New York Times|date=February 23, 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/arts/music/sonny-james-country-singer-known-for-young-love-dies-at-87.html?_r=0|access-date=February 26, 2016}}</ref> 
** [[Sisavath Keobounphanh]], 13th prime minister of Laos (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Martin Stuart-Fox|title=Historical Dictionary of Laos|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=seglAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA306|date=6 February 2008|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6411-5|pages=306}}</ref>
* [[May 4]]
** [[Maynard Ferguson]], Canadian jazz trumpeter (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=853}}</ref>
** [[Hosni Mubarak]], 4th [[President of Egypt]] (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-02/11/c_13726572.htm |title=Profile: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak |date=10 February 2010 |website=Xinhua News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110214024928/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-02/11/c_13726572.htm |archive-date=14 February 2011 }}</ref> 
** [[Betsy Rawls]], American golfer (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Roger Matuz|title=Inside Sports Golf|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AHZYAAAAYAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Visible Ink Press|isbn=978-1-57859-007-0|page=212}}</ref> 
** [[Wolfgang von Trips]], German racing driver (d. [[1961]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Cruel Sport|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p_xwQ4qLC1UC|year=1963|publisher=Prentice-Hall|page=1953}}</ref>
* [[May 9]]
** [[Pancho Gonzales]], American tennis player (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA267|date=30 September 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-264-1|pages=267}}</ref>
** [[Barbara Ann Scott]], Canadian figure skater (d. [[2012]])
* [[May 10]]
** [[Arnold Rüütel]], [[President of Estonia]] (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Arnold Rüütel|title=Estonia: Future Returned|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q6MiAQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Ilo|isbn=978-9985-57-468-3|page=200}}</ref>
** [[Lothar Schmid]], German chess player (d. [[2013]])
* [[May 11]] 
** [[Arthur Foulkes]], [[Governor-General of the Bahamas]]
** [[Andrew van der Bijl]], Dutch Christian missionary (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.opendoors.nl/anne-van-der-bijl/|title=Anne van der Bijl overleden &#124; Open Doors|website=www.opendoors.nl/}}</ref>
* [[May 12]] – [[Burt Bacharach]], American composer, songwriter and pianist (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Brock Helander|title=The Rockin' '60s: The People who Made the Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0A31AAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Schirmer Books|isbn=978-0-02-864873-6|page=5}}</ref>
* [[May 13]] 
** [[Enrique Bolaños]], 61st [[President of Nicaragua]] (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gale Group|title=Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzksAQAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-7337-6|page=454}}</ref>
** [[Édouard Molinaro]], French film director, screenwriter (d. [[2013]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Billy Martin]], American baseball player (d. [[1989]])<ref>{{cite news|last=Chass|first=Murray|author-link=Murray Chass|title=Billy Martin of the Yankees killed in crash|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 26, 1989|page=A1|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/26/obituaries/billy-martin-of-the-yankees-killed-in-crash-on-icy-road.html}}</ref>
* [[May 18]] – [[Pernell Roberts]], American actor (d. [[2010]])
* [[May 19]]
** [[Dolph Schayes]], American basketball player (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Contemporary Books|author2=McGraw-Hill Trade|title=Chase's Sports Calendar of Events 1997|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1vS43orTU0C|year=1996|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=978-0-8092-3133-1|page=105}}</ref>
** [[Dragutin Zelenović]], Serbian politician and professor (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Daily Report: East Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YhMUAQAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=The Service|page=54}}</ref>
* [[May 23]] – [[Rosemary Clooney]], American singer and actress (d. [[2002]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Guy A. Marco|title=Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lvj0AAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Garland Pub.|isbn=978-0-8240-4782-5|page=120}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] – [[Adrian Frutiger]], Swiss typeface designer, cutter (d. [[2015]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Jack Kevorkian]], American right-to-die advocate (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite book|author=M. Sara Rosenthal|title=Healthcare Ethics on Film|date=September 30, 2020|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LU8AEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA152|publisher=Springer Nature|isbn=978-3-030-48818-5|pages=152}}</ref>
* [[May 27]] – [[Thea Musgrave]], Scottish-born American composer and educator<ref>{{cite book|title=Stagebill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__e2AAAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=B & B Enterprises, Incorporated|page=4}}</ref> 
* [[May 28]] – [[Ivan Kizimov]], Soviet and Russian equestrian (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/ivan-kizimov|title=Ivan Kizimov|website=IOC|access-date= April 9, 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 30]] – [[Agnès Varda]], Belgian-born French director, producer and screenwriter (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/5564179/agnes-varda-obituary-jr/|title='She Was Always in the Present.' Artist JR on the Films and Friendship of Agnès Varda|magazine=Time|author=JR|author-link=JR (artist)|date=4 April 2019}}</ref>

===June===
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[[File:Fabiola of Belgium 1969.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Queen Fabiola of Belgium]]]]
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[[File:John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Peter Badge.jpg|thumb|110px|[[John Forbes Nash Jr.]]]]
[[File:Che Guevara - Guerrillero Heroico by Alberto Korda.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Che Guevara]]]]
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[[File: Martin Landau-Mission-1968.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Martin Landau]]]]
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[[File:Peyo (1990) by Erling Mandelmann.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Peyo]]]]
[[File:Mimi Mariani c. 1955 (portrait) - before restoration.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Mimi Mariani]]]]
* [[June 3]] 
** [[Donald Judd]], American artist (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bernard Blistène|author2=Centre Georges Pompidou|author3=Lisa Dennison|title=Rendezvous: Masterpieces from the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museums|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0FIkAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Guggenheim Museum Publications|isbn=978-0-8109-6916-2|page=646}}</ref>
** [[John Richard Reid]], New Zealand cricketer (d. [[2020]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Ruth Westheimer]] (Dr. Ruth), German-American sex therapist, film and television personality, and author (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Margaret Scariano|title=Dr. Ruth Westheimer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B3xKa2fNiNMC|year=1992|publisher=Enslow|isbn=978-0-89490-333-5|page=17}}</ref> 
* [[June 5]] – [[Tony Richardson]], English film and theatre director (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Welsh | first = James | title = The cinema of Tony Richardson : essays and interviews | publisher = State University of New York Press | location = Albany, N.Y | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780791442494 | page=3}}</ref>
* [[June 6]] – [[George Deukmejian]], American Republican politician (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.courthousenews.com/former-california-gov-george-deukmejian-89/|title=Former California Gov. George Deukmejian, 89|publisher=Court House News|date=May 10, 2018|access-date=May 10, 2018}}</ref>
* [[June 7]] 
** [[James Ivory]], American director, screenwriter and producer<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Shail|title=British Film Directors: A Critical Guide|publisher=Southern Illinois University Press|year=2007|ISBN=9780809328321|page=104}}</ref>
** [[Charles Strouse]], American composer and lyricist (d. [[2025]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Mimi Mariani]], Indonesian actress, model, and singer (d. [[1971]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=(Association) |first=Sinematek Indonesia |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/569833691 |title=Apa siapa orang film Indonesia, 1926–1978 |date=1979 |publisher=Yayasan Artis Film |oclc=569833691}}</ref>
* [[June 10]] – [[Maurice Sendak]], American children's author, illustrator (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Hal Marcovitz|title=Maurice Sendak|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yGLr6hqCMqsC&pg=PA115|year=2006|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-7910-8796-1|pages=115}}</ref>
* [[June 11]] – [[Queen Fabiola of Belgium]], Spanish Queen Consort of [[Baudouin of Belgium|King Baudouin of Belgium]] (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11276728/Queen-Fabiola-of-the-Belgians-obituary.html | title=Queen Fabiola of the Belgians – obituary| work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]| location=[[London]] |date=5 December 2014| access-date=26 June 2015}}</ref>
* [[June 12]]
** [[Vic Damone]], American singer (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul T. Hellmann|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA756|date=14 February 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-94859-3|pages=756}}</ref>
** [[Richard M. Sherman]], American songwriter (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-25 |title=Remembering Disney Legend Richard M. Sherman |url=https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/remembering-disney-legend-richard-m-sherman/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=The Walt Disney Company |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Mike |title=Richard Sherman, Oscar-Winning Songwriter on 'Mary Poppins,' Dies at 95 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/richard-sherman-dead-mary-poppins-854816-1235909239/ |access-date=25 May 2024 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |date=25 May 2024}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] 
** [[Giacomo Biffi]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz|title=Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=exMsAQAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-1094-1|page=26}}</ref>
** [[John Forbes Nash Jr.]], American mathematician, recipient of the [[Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize in Economics]] (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{ cite news |title=John Nash, mathematician - obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11627306/John-Nash-mathematician-obituary.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11627306/John-Nash-mathematician-obituary.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=May 24, 2015 |access-date=August 29, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
** [[Li Ka-shing]], Asia's & Hong Kong's richest person, major philanthropist<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Li Ka-shing|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.|location=Chicago, Illinois|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/711320/Li-Ka-shing|access-date=12 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513112157/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/711320/Li-Ka-shing|archive-date=13 May 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] 
** [[José Bonaparte]], Argentine palaeontologist (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Donald R. Prothero|title=The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries: Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sIl-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT80|date=16 July 2019|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-54646-1|pages=80}}</ref>
** [[Che Guevara]], Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary (''or May 14''; d. [[1967]])<ref name="KanellosKanellos1995">{{cite book|author1=Nicolás Kanellos|author2=Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Literature Nicolas Kanellos|author3=Cristelia Pérez|title=Chronology of Hispanic-American History: From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=No35dKgDdOgC|year=1995|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-8103-9200-7|page=396}}</ref>
* [[June 16]]
** [[Annie Cordy]], Belgian actress and singer (d. [[2020]]) 
** [[Dagmar Rom]], Austrian alpine skier<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/dagmar-rom| title=Dagmar Rom|website=IOC|access-date=March 14, 2021}}</ref> (d. [[2022]])
* [[June 17]] – [[Juan María Bordaberry]], Uruguayan dictator (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John E. Jessup|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945–1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hP7jJAkTd9MC&pg=PA82|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28112-9|pages=82}}</ref>
* [[June 19]]
** [[Tommy DeVito (musician)|Tommy DeVito]], American musician and singer ([[The Four Seasons (band)|The Four Seasons]]) (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Joel Whitburn|title=Joel Whitburn's Music Stars: Brief Bios of Every Recording Artist who Ever Charted|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V-NWAAAAYAAJ|year=2009|publisher=H. Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-0-89820-176-5|page=95}}</ref>
** [[Jacques Dupont (cyclist)|Jacques Dupont]], French Olympic cyclist (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/jacques-dupont|title=Jacques Dupont|website=Olympic.org|access-date=7 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[June 20]]
** [[Martin Landau]], American actor (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jul/17/martin-landau-obituary|title=Martin Landau obituary|last=Wiegand|first=Chris|date=July 17, 2017|work=The Guardian|access-date=July 21, 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
** [[Jean-Marie Le Pen]], French intelligence officer, far-right politician (d. [[2025]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen E. Atkins|title=Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8k4rEPvq_8C&pg=PA176|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32485-7|pages=176}}</ref> 
* [[June 22]] – [[Ralph Waite]], American actor, political activist (''[[The Waltons]]'') (d. [[2014]])
* [[June 25]] 
** [[Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/02/science/alexei-abrikosov-nobel-laureate-in-physics-dies.html|title=Alexei Abrikosov, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Dies at 88|work=The New York Times|author=Kenneth Chang|date=2 Apr 2017|access-date=22 May 2019}}</ref>
** [[Peyo]], Belgian comics artist (d. [[1992]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Contemporary Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6viAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-1971-4|page=102}}</ref>
* [[June 27]]
** [[Lin Ho-ming]], Taiwanese sports shooter<!-- "Lin" is surname -->
** [[Antoinette Spaak]], Belgian politician (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lesoir.be/321763/article/2020-08-29/antoinette-spaak-une-femme-libre-avant-tout|title=Antoinette Spaak: une femme libre, avant tout|website=Le Soir|language=fr|date=August 29, 2020|author=Béatrice Delvaux|access-date=March 14, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Joe Wirkkunen]], Finnish-Canadian ice hockey coach (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/5000409|title=Joe Wirkkunen|website=[[Sports Reference|Olympedia]]|access-date=August 21, 2024}}</ref>
* [[June 28]]
** [[Hans Blix]], Swedish diplomat and politician<ref>{{cite book|author=Spencer C. Tucker|title=The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts [5 volumes]: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U05OvsOPeKMC&pg=PA224|date=8 October 2010|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-948-1|pages=224}}</ref>
** [[Harold Evans]], English-born newspaper editor (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite news|last=Hodgson|first=Godfrey|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/24/sir-harold-evans-obituary|title=Sir Harold Evans obituary|work=The Guardian|date=24 September 2020|access-date=2 November 2020}}</ref>

===July===
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* [[July 4]] 
** [[Giampiero Boniperti]], Italian football player (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's who in Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfJVAAAAYAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Who's Who in Italy|page=232|isbn = 9788885246454}}</ref>
** [[Teofisto Guingona Jr.]], 13th Vice President of the Philippines<ref>{{cite book|title=ASEAN Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_kMOAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Kasuya Pub.|isbn=978-983-9624-06-9|page=1720}}</ref>
* [[July 5]]
** [[Juris Hartmanis]], Latvian-born American computer scientist, computational theorist<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan L. Selman|author-link=Alan Selman|title=Complexity Theory Retrospective: In Honor of Juris Hartmanis on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday, July 5, 1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wELTBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4612-4478-3|pages=8}}</ref> (d. [[2022]])
** [[Pierre Mauroy]], Prime Minister of France (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite book|author=A. T. Lane|title=Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3vjdU-v4isC&pg=PA629|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29900-1|pages=629}}</ref>
* [[July 8]] 
** [[Balakh Sher Mazari]], Pakistani politician, caretaker prime minister (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Asian Recorder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dYptAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press|page=23195}}</ref>
** [[Alekos Spanoudakis]], Greek basketball player (d. [[2019]])
* [[July 9]] – [[Federico Bahamontes]], Spanish road bicycle racer (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite book | last=Fotheringham | first=Alasdair | author-link=Alasdair Fotheringham | title=The Eagle of Toledo: The Life and Times of Federico Bahamontes, the Tour's Greatest Climber | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=msRdLwEACAAJ | year= 2012 | publisher=[[Aurum Press]] | location=London | isbn=978-1-78131-037-3 | page=1}}</ref>
* [[July 11]]
** [[Carmelita González]], Mexican actress (d. [[2010]])
** [[Greville Janner]], British lawyer and Labour Member of Parliament (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12060572/Lord-Janner-of-Braunstone-obituary.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12060572/Lord-Janner-of-Braunstone-obituary.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Lord Janner of Braunstone – obituary|website=The Telegraph|date=December 20, 2015 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[July 12]] 
** [[Elias James Corey]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite book|editor=Laylin K. James|title=Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, 1901–1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEy67gEvIuMC&pg=PA750|date=30 October 1993|publisher=Chemical Heritage Foundation|isbn=978-0-8412-2690-6|pages=750}}</ref>
** [[Hayden White]], American historian (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kelly Boyd|title=Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0121vD9STIMC&pg=PA1295|year=1999|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-884964-33-6|pages=1295}}</ref>
* [[July 14]] – [[Nancy Olson]], American actress
* [[July 15]] – [[Pal Benko]], French chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopaedia of Chess|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HJkYAAAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Hale|isbn=978-0-7091-4697-1|page=42}}</ref>
* [[July 16]]
** [[Anita Brookner]], English novelist, art historian (d. [[2016]])<ref name="SadlerSadler1990">{{cite book|author1=Lynn Veach Sadler|author2=Sadler|title=Anita Brookner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XUlaAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-6991-3|page=1}}</ref>
** [[Jim Rathmann (race car driver)|Jim Rathmann]], American race car driver (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Floyd Clymer|title=Indianapolis 500-mile Race History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oac7AAAAMAAJ|year=1962|page=52}}</ref>
* [[July 19]] – [[Choi Yun-chil]], South Korean long-distance runner (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/yoon-chil-choi|title=Yoon-chil Choi|website=Olympic.org|access-date=13 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[July 20]] 
** [[Belaid Abdessalam]], Algerian politician, Prime Minister 1992–93 (d. [[2020]])
** [[Pavel Kohout]], Czech-Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet<ref>{{cite book|author1=Pavlína Kubíková|author2=Petr Kotyk|title=Czech writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p5YLAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Ministerstvo kultury ČR|isbn=978-80-902096-9-5|page=1990}}</ref>
* [[July 23]] 
** [[Leon Fleisher]], American pianist and conductor (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IwlaAAAAYAAJ|year=1971|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=131}}</ref>
** [[Vera Rubin]], American astronomer (d. [[2016]])
* [[July 24]] –  [[Keshubhai Patel]], Indian politician (d. [[2020]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Dolphy]], Filipino actor, comedian (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Visitacion R. De la Torre|title=Cultural Icons of the Philippines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zqtuAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Tower Book House|page=155}}</ref>
* [[July 26]]
** [[Francesco Cossiga]], Italian politician, 8th [[President of Italy]] (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Ellul|title=History on Marble: A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Presidential Palaces in Valletta, San Anton and Verdala, Malta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlJmAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=PEG, Publishers enterprises group|isbn=978-99909-0-103-0|page=477}}</ref>
** [[Joe Jackson (manager)|Joe Jackson]], American manager (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Joe Jackson, Patriarch of the Jackson 5, Has Died at 89 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/06/joe-jackson-obituary |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=27 June 2018}}</ref>
** [[Stanley Kubrick]], American film director (''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'') (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Duncan|title=Stanley Kubrick: Visual Poet 1928–1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XBQi4cCEYNIC&pg=PA15|year=2003|publisher=Taschen|isbn=978-3-8228-1592-2|pages=15}}</ref>
* [[July 27]] – [[Joseph Kittinger]], American colonel, [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] pilot (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Alman|title=Conquest: A Book about Scientists, Their Inquiries and Achievements|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AM3YO69Lpe0C|year=1963|publisher=Doubleday|page=32}}</ref>
* [[July 29]] 
** [[T. H. P. Chentharasseri]], Indian historian (d. [[2018]])
** [[Li Ka-shing]], Hong Kong billionaire

===August===
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[[File:Cardinal Jaime Sin in 1988.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jaime Sin]]]] 
* [[August 2]] – [[Luigi Colani]], German industrial designer (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Luigi Colani|title=Luigi Colani|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tek9AQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=San'ei Shobo Publishing Company|page=30}}</ref>
* [[August 3]] – [[Cécile Aubry]], French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director (d. [[2010]])
* [[August 4]]
** [[Udham Singh (field hockey)|Udham Singh]], Indian [[field hockey]] player, winner of three gold and one silver medals (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/may/09/guardianobituaries3|title=Udham Singh|date=9 May 2000|author=Haresh Pandya|website=The Guardian|access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
** [[Flóra Kádár]], Hungarian actress (d. [[2002]])
** [[Gerard Damiano]], American adult film director (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://avn.com/video/articles/33053.html |title='Deep Throat' Director Gerard Damiano Dies at 80 |access-date=2008-10-27 |author=David Sullivan |date=October 27, 2007 |magazine=[[AVN (magazine)|AVN]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029002305/http://avn.com/video/articles/33053.html |archive-date=October 29, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[August 5]] – [[Chung Won-shik]], South Korean politician, educator, soldier, and author, prime minister 1991 (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gale Group|author2=60th 96–97|title=The International Who's Who: 1996–97|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s90MD22wtA4C|year=1996|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-85743-021-9|page=299}}</ref>
* [[August 6]]
** [[Mary Grant (politician)|Mary Grant]], Ghanaian politician (d. [[2016]])
** [[Andy Warhol]], American artist (d. [[1987]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Victor Bockris|title=The Life and Death of Andy Warhol|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AKFIAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Fourth Estate|isbn=978-1-85702-805-8|page=15}}</ref>
* [[August 7]]
** [[Helen Vita]], Swiss chanson singer, actress, and comedian (d. [[2001]]) 
** [[James Randi]], Canadian stage magician and scientific skeptic (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Moritz |editor-first=Charles |title=Current Biography Yearbook, 1987 |volume=48 |year=1987 |publisher=[[H. W. Wilson Company]] |location=New York |oclc=17332312 |ref=Moritz|page=455}}</ref>
* [[August 8]]
** [[Lubor Bárta]], Czech composer (d. [[1972]])
** [[Simón Díaz]], Venezuelan folk composer, singer (d. [[2014]])
* [[August 10]]
** [[Peter Barry (politician)|Peter Barry]], Irish Fine Gael politician, businessman (d. [[2016]])
** [[Eddie Fisher]], American singer and actor (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8022014/Eddie-Fisher-former-husband-of-Elizabeth-Taylor-dies.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8022014/Eddie-Fisher-former-husband-of-Elizabeth-Taylor-dies.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Eddie Fisher, former husband of Elizabeth Taylor, dies|date=September 24, 2010|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=June 22, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
** [[Jimmy Dean]], singer, television host and spokesman for the Jimmy Dean sausage brand (d. [[2010]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Beniamino Andreatta]], Italian economist, politician (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.repubblica.it/2007/03/sezioni/politica/morto-andreatta/morto-andreatta/morto-andreatta.html|title=È morto Beniamino Andreatta dopo oltre sette anni di coma|access-date=21 December 2007|publisher=[[la Repubblica]]|date=20 October 2020|language=it}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] – [[Lina Wertmüller]], Italian film director and screenwriter (d. [[2021]]) 
* [[August 15]] 
** [[Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal]], two-time prime minister of Somalia (d. [[2002]])<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Journal of the Anglo-Somali Society|title=Obituary – Mohamed Ibrahim Egal|publisher=Anglo-Somali Society|year=2001|page=10}}</ref>
** [[Nicolas Roeg]], English film director (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/24/nicolas-roeg-film-director-unique-style-best-known-dont-look/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/24/nicolas-roeg-film-director-unique-style-best-known-dont-look/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Nicolas Roeg, film director whose dazzling style was best seen in 'Don't Look Now', 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' and 'Performance' – obituary|date=24 November 2018|work=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
** [[Simone Silva]], Egyptian-born French film actress (d. [[1957]])
* [[August 16]]
** [[Ara Güler]], Armenian-Turkish photojournalist (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Turner Browne|author2=Ken Browne|author3=Elaine Partnow|title=Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists & Innovators|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9pUAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-02-517500-6|page=247}}</ref>
** [[Eydie Gormé]], American singer (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/11/eydie-gorme|title=Eydie Gorme obituary|last=Sweeting|first=Adam|date=2013-08-11|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-08-21|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
** [[Ann Blyth]], American actress<ref>{{cite book|author=Robyn Karney|title=The Movie Stars Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKGeUPmWIlkC|year=1984|publisher=Crescent Books|isbn=978-0-517-43736-0|page=102}}</ref>
* [[August 19]] – [[Queen Ratna of Nepal]]<ref>{{cite book|title=World Free Peoples: Biographical, Monographical|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8YAUAQAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Liviu Mireanu|page=12}}</ref>
* [[August 21]]
** [[Chris Brasher]], British track-and-field athlete, sports journalist and co-founder of the London Marathon (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/christopher-william-brasher|title=Christopher William Brasher|website=Olympic.org|access-date=13 November 2020}}</ref>
** [[Art Farmer]], American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite web|author=Ben Ratliff|date=October 6, 1999|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/06/arts/art-farmer-71-be-bop-master-of-the-trumpet-and-fluegelhorn.html|title=Art Farmer, 71, Be-Bop Master of the Trumpet and Fluegelhorn|website=The New York Times}}</ref>
** [[Gillian Sheen]], English Olympic fencer (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/gillian-sheen|title=Gillian Sheen|website=Olympic.org|access-date=5 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[August 22]] – [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], German composer (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Karl Heinrich Wörner|title=Stockhausen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uUazwZH_zMwC&pg=PA251|date=18 February 1977|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-03272-9|pages=251}}</ref>
* [[August 23]] – [[Marian Seldes]], American actress (d. [[2014]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Levko Lukyanenko]], Ukrainian politician (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations|title=ABN correspondence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIQnAQAAMAAJ|year=1988|page=47}}</ref>
* [[August 25]] – [[Herbert Kroemer]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Herbert Kroemer|title=Selected Works Of Professor Herbert Kroemer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jljICgAAQBAJ&pg=PA76|date=9 May 2008|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4474-68-9|pages=76}}</ref>
* [[August 26]]
** [[Saliu Adetunji]], Nigerian monarch of Ibadan (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-59851632|title=Olubadan of Ibadan: Oba Saliu Adetunji don pass away at age 93|date=January 2, 2022|website=BBC News Pidgin|access-date=August 12, 2022}}</ref>
** [[Shiva Pasupati]], Sri Lankan lawyer and 34th Attorney General (d. [[2025]])
* [[August 27]]
** [[Péter Boross]], Hungarian politician<ref>{{cite book|author1=Europa Publications|author2=Ed 63rd|title=The International Who's who 2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SC4aAAAAYAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-85743-050-9|page=184}}</ref>
** [[Mangosuthu Buthelezi]], South African leader of the [[Inkatha Freedom Party]] (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Cloete Breytenbach|title=The New South Africa: The Zulu Factor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rqQvAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Luga Publishers|page=41}}</ref>
* [[August 31]]
** [[James Coburn]], American actor (d. [[2002]])<ref name="Karney1984">{{cite book|author=Robyn Karney|title=The Movie Stars Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKGeUPmWIlkC|year=1984|publisher=Crescent Books|isbn=978-0-517-43736-0|page=257}}</ref>
** [[Wojciech Plewiński]], Polish photographer
** [[Jaime Sin]], Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (d. [[2005]])

===September===
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* [[September 1]] – [[George Maharis]], American actor (d. [[2023]])<ref name=birth>{{cite journal| url=http://business.highbeam.com/2872/article-1G1-110273756/stars-tv-route-66-working-opposite-coasts| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519082042/http://business.highbeam.com/2872/article-1G1-110273756/stars-tv-route-66-working-opposite-coasts| url-status=dead| archive-date=May 19, 2011|title=Stars of TV's 'Route 66' working on opposite coasts| journal=[[Albuquerque Journal]]| date=November 16, 2003| access-date=April 21, 2012| quote=George Maharis was born September 1, 1928, in Astoria, N.Y.}}</ref> 
* [[September 3]] – [[Gaston Thorn]], [[Luxembourg]] Prime Minister (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of World Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cf2eIlLtSjkC|year=1998|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-7876-2555-9|page=207}}</ref>
* [[September 4]] – [[Dick York]], American actor (d. [[1992]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Annual Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7F8YAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=St. Martin's|isbn=978-1-55862-319-4|page=119}}</ref>
* [[September 6]]
** [[Fumihiko Maki]], Japanese architect (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uYoYAAAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|isbn=978-0-8242-1016-8|page=332}}</ref> 
** [[Robert M. Pirsig]], American philosopher and author (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Vineta Colby|author2=H. W. Wilson|title=World Authors, 1985-1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s2kYAAAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=H.W. Wilson|isbn=978-0-8242-0875-2|page=690}}</ref>
** [[Yevgeny Svetlanov]], Russian conductor, composer and pianist (d. [[2002]])
** [[Sid Watkins]], English neurosurgeon (d. [[2012]])
* [[September 9]] – [[Sol LeWitt]], American artist (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Worcester Art Museum|author2=David Acton|author3=Davenport Museum of Art (Davenport, Iowa)|title=Master Drawings from the Worcester Art Museum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JW1QAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Hudson Hills Press|isbn=978-1-55595-147-4|page=212}}</ref>
* [[September 10]] – [[Jean Vanier]], Swiss-born Canadian Catholic philosopher, theologian and humanitarian (d. [[2019]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Earl Holliman]], American actor (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jack Ward|title=Television Guest Stars: An Illustrated Career Chronicle for 678 Performers of the Sixties and Seventies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GRQbAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-89950-807-8|page=243}}</ref> 
* [[September 13]] – [[Tzannis Tzannetakis]], Prime Minister of Greece (d. [[2010]])<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Lentz |first=Harris M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA337 |title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 |date=2014-02-04 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-26490-2 |pages=337 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 14]] – [[John Geoffrey Jones]], British judge (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-22389 |chapter=Jones, His Honour (John) Geoffrey |date=1 December 2007 |title=Who's Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U22389 |isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 |access-date=19 September 2022}}</ref>
* [[September 16]] – [[Hironoshin Furuhashi]], Japanese swimmer (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Olympedia – Hironoshin Furuhashi |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/48738 |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=www.olympedia.org}}</ref>
* [[September 17]] – [[Roddy McDowall]], British actor (d. [[1998]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Corinne J. Naden|title=The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre: 1943–1965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=adJ5J1kwj3wC&pg=PA154|date=1 February 2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7734-4|pages=154}}</ref>
* [[September 19]] – [[Adam West]], American actor (''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'') (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/arts/sad-day-for-gotham-adam-west-who-played-batman-dies-at-88.html |title=Sad Day for Gotham: Adam West, Who Played Batman, Dies at 88 |last=Gates |first=Anita |date=June 10, 2017 |work=The New York Times|access-date=November 9, 2020 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[September 20]] 
** [[Donald Hall]], American poet, [[United States Poet Laureate]] (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2163/donald-hall-the-art-of-poetry-no-43-donald-hall|title=Donald Hall, The Art of Poetry No. 43|last=Stitt|first=Interviewed by Peter A.|date=1991|work=The Paris Review|access-date=2018-06-24|issue=120|volume=Fall 1991|language=en|issn=0031-2037}}</ref>
** [[Kirsten Rolffes]], Danish actress (d. [[2000]])
* [[September 22]] – [[Justin Marie Bomboko]], Congolese civil servant (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Emizet Francois Kisangani|author2=Scott F. Bobb|title=Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FvAWPTaRvFYC&pg=PA57|date=1 October 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6325-5|pages=57}}</ref>
* [[September 27]] – [[Edwin Grech]], Maltese politician (d. [[2023]]).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-15 |title=Former minister Edwin Grech, father of letterbomb victim Karin, dies at 94 |url=https://timesofmalta.com/article/former-minister-edwin-grech-dies.1019365 |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=Times of Malta |language=en-gb}}</ref>
* [[September 28]] – [[Koko Taylor]], African-American singer (d. [[2009]])<ref>Keepnews, Peter (June 4, 2009) [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/arts/music/04taylor.html?_r=0 "Koko Taylor, Queen of Chicago Blues, Is Dead at 80"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref>
* [[September 29]] – [[Mihály Lantos]], Hungarian footballer and manager (d. [[1989]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/mihaly-lantos|title=Mihály Lantos|website=Olympic.org|access-date=9 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[September 30]] – [[Elie Wiesel]], [[Romania|Rumanian]]-born [[Holocaust]] survivor, writer, lecturer, [[Nobel Peace Prize]] recipient (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Chmiel|title=Elie Wiesel and the Politics of Moral Leadership|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TdhwE27xaG4C&pg=PA3|year=2001|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=978-1-56639-857-2|pages=3}}</ref>

===October===
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* [[October 1]]
** [[Laurence Harvey]], Lithuanian-born South African actor (d. [[1973]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HgdaAAAAYAAJ|year=1961|publisher=H.W. Wilson Company|page=195}}</ref>
** [[Sivaji Ganesan]], Indian stage, film actor (d. [[2001]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Rajendra Ojha|title=Screen World Publication Presents National Film Award Winners: 1953–1997|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wgEbAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Screen World Publication|page=105|isbn=9788190025829}}</ref>
** [[George Peppard]], American actor (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite news| first=Glenn| last=Collins| title=George Peppard Dies; Stage and Screen Actor, 65| date=May 10, 1994| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/10/obituaries/george-peppard-dies-stage-and-screen-actor-65.html| work=[[The New York Times]]| access-date=August 23, 2010| url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* [[October 2]] – [[Geert Hofstede]], Dutch social psychologist (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Witzel |first=Morgan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=74_Maj80BksC&pg=PA169 |title=Fifty Key Figures in Management |publisher=Routledge |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-415-36977-0 |pages=169}}</ref>
* [[October 3]]
** [[Shridath Ramphal]], Guyanese academic and politician (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thepresidency.gov.za/national-orders/recipient/shridath-%E2%80%98sonny%E2%80%99-surendranath-ramphal-1928|title=Shridath 'Sonny' Surendranath Ramphal (1928 -)|website=The Presidence – Government of South Africa|access-date=February 21, 2022}}</ref> 
** [[Kåre Willoch]], Norwegian politician, 23rd [[Prime Minister of Norway]] (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Wilsford|title=Political Leaders of Contemporary Western Europe: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8iJNlWcdIUC&pg=PA475|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28623-0|pages=475}}</ref>
** [[Erik Bruhn]], Danish danseur, choreographer, artistic director, actor, and author (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Allen Robertson|author2=Donald Hutera|title=The Dance Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZ0YAAAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=978-0-8161-9095-9|page=148}}</ref>
* [[October 4]] – [[Torben Ulrich]], Danish tennis player (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Grasso|title=Historical Dictionary of Tennis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W39oSS7c2xAC&pg=PA289|date=16 September 2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7237-0|pages=289}}</ref> 
* [[October 7]]
** [[Ali Kafi]], Algerian politician, acting President 1992-1994 (d. [[2013]])
** [[Sohrab Sepehri]], Persian poet and painter (d. [[1980]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Neil Harvey]], Australian cricketer<ref>{{cite book|author=Ashley Alexander Mallett|title=Eleven: The Greatest Eleven of the 20th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-HnJQ16XracC&pg=PA151|year=2001|publisher=Univ. of Queensland Press|isbn=978-0-7022-3258-9|pages=151}}</ref> 
* [[October 9]] – [[Einojuhani Rautavaara]], Finnish composer (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Classic CD.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EagJAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Unique Communications, Incorporated|page=9}}</ref>
* [[October 14]] – [[Arnfinn Bergmann]], Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/arnfinn-bergmann|title=Arnfinn Bergmann|website=Olympic.org|access-date=7 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[October 15]] – [[María Cristina Arango Vega]], [[First Lady of Colombia]] (d. [[2017]])<!-- "Arango" is first surname -->
* [[October 18]] – [[Ernest Simoni]], Albanian Catholic cardinal 
* [[October 19]] – [[Borisav Jović]], 13th [[President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia]] (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Review of International Affairs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=De5VAAAAYAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Federation of Yugoslav Journalists|page=15}}</ref>
* [[October 20]] – [[Li Peng]], former [[Premier of the People's Republic of China]] (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service|title=Daily Report: People's Republic of China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=muEsAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=National Technical Information Service|page=31}}</ref>
* [[October 21]] –  [[Whitey Ford]], American baseball player (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite news|last=Feinsand|first=Mark|title=Whitey Ford, 'Chairman of the Board,' dies|url=https://www.mlb.com/news/whitey-ford-dies|publisher=[[MLB Advanced Media]]|website=[[MLB.com]]|date=October 9, 2020|access-date=October 10, 2020}}</ref>
* [[October 23]] – [[Zhu Rongji]], former Premier of the People's Republic of China<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|title=Britannica Concise Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ea-bAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2108|date=1 May 2008|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=978-1-59339-492-9|pages=2108}}</ref>
* [[October 24]] – [[Mohammad Beheshti]], Chief Justice of Iran (d. [[1981]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Message of Islamic Unity, Issues 39–40|year=1981|page=10}}</ref>
* [[October 25]]
** [[Anthony Franciosa]], American actor (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Vallance |first=Tom |date=January 23, 2006 |title=Anthony Franciosa; Temperamental leading man |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/anthony-franciosa-6110928.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/anthony-franciosa-6110928.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=May 22, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
** [[Paulo Mendes da Rocha]], Brazilian architect (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/may/26/paulo-mendes-da-rocha-obituary|title=Paulo Mendes da Rocha obituary|author=Oliver Wainwright|date=May 26, 2021|website=The Guardian|access-date=October 1, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Marion Ross]], American actress
* [[October 27]] – [[Gilles Vigneault]], Canadian singer and poet<ref>{{cite book|author1=H. Graham Rawlinson|author2=J. L. Granatstein|title=The Canadian 100: The 100 Most Influential Canadians of the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_B_LxMnyClkC|year=1997|publisher=McArthur|isbn=978-1-55278-005-3|page=323}}</ref>
* [[October 29]] – [[Shulamit Aloni]], Israeli politician (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/shulamit-aloni-politician-who-championed-human-rights-and-was-fiercely-critical-israel-s-treatment-palestine-9094360.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/shulamit-aloni-politician-who-championed-human-rights-and-was-fiercely-critical-israel-s-treatment-palestine-9094360.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Shulamit Aloni: Politician who championed human rights and was fiercely critical of Israel's treatment of Palestine|website=The Independent|date=29 January 2014|author=Mira Bar-Hillel|access-date=10 October 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[October 30]] – [[Daniel Nathans]], American microbiologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite book|author=United States Congress|title=Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1980: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Zi2AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA430|year=1979|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=430}}</ref>

===November===
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[[File:Masol (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Vitaliy Masol]]]]
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* [[November 3]]
** [[Ion Dincă]], Romanian communist politician and general (d. [[2007]])
** [[Osamu Tezuka]], Japanese manga artist (d. [[1989]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Osamu Tezuka|title=Ludwig B Vol. 2|year=2020|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uDv1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA255|publisher=Digital Manga, Inc.|isbn=978-1-61313-821-2|pages=255}}</ref>
** [[Nick Holonyak]], American electrical engineer and inventor (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Forum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=seUVAQAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Ukrainian Fraternal Association|page=10}}</ref> 
* [[November 8]]
** [[Natalie Zemon Davis]], Canadian-born historian (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dixler |first=Elsa |date=2023-10-23 |title=Natalie Zemon Davis, Historian of the Marginalized, Dies at 94 |language=en-US |volume=173 |page=B10 |work=The New York Times |issue=59952 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/books/natalie-zemon-davis-dead.html |access-date=2023-11-04 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
** [[Ursula Haverbeck]], German historian (d. [[2024]])
* [[November 9]] – [[Anne Sexton]], American poet (d. [[1974]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Elaine Showalter|author2=Lea Baechler|author3=A. Walton Litz|title=Modern American Women Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=30UkL9DTj5UC&pg=PA312|date=27 September 1993|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-02-082025-3|pages=312}}</ref>
* [[November 10]] – [[Ennio Morricone]], Italian composer (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Screen International: The international film & television directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSgIAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=EMAP Media Information|page=71}}</ref>
* [[November 11]] – [[Carlos Fuentes]], Mexican writer (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Tracy Chevalier|title=Encyclopedia of the Essay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJtz0iWO4O4C&pg=PA315|year=1997|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-884964-30-5|pages=315}}</ref>
* [[November 14]] – [[Vitaliy Masol]], 3rd [[Prime Minister of Ukraine]] (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ulrich-Joachim|title=Ursprüngl. angezeigt u.d.T.: Who's who in the Soviet Union today. -|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j2EYAQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=K.G. Saur|isbn=978-3-598-10810-5|page=174}}</ref>
* [[November 17]]
** [[Arman]], French artist (d. [[2005]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Sarah Wilson|author2=Eric de Chassey|author3=Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)|title=Paris: capital of the arts, 1900-1968|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FczQ5haSfFUC|date=March 2002|publisher=Royal Academy of Arts|isbn=978-0-900946-98-1|page=431}}</ref>
** [[Rance Howard]], American actor (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John A. Willis|title=Theatre World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4eRNAAAAYAAJ|year=1957|publisher=Crown Publishers|page=217}}</ref>
** [[Betty Kaunda]], first lady of Zambia (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Betty Kaunda|author2=Stephen A. Mpashi|title=Betty Kaunda; Wife of the President of the Republic of Zambia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-8xBAAAAYAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Longmans of Zambia|isbn=978-0-582-60905-1|page=10}}</ref>
** [[Amata Kabua]], 1st president of the Marshall Islands (d. [[1996]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Clements|title=Clements' Encyclopedia of World Governments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-cjAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Political Research, Incorporated|page=244}}</ref>
* [[November 18]] – [[Salvador Laurel]], Filipino lawyer and politician (d. [[2004]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of World Biography: 20th Century Supplement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GFtmAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=J. Heraty|isbn=978-0-910081-02-3|page=367}}</ref>
* [[November 19]]
** [[Ina van Faassen]], Dutch actress, comedian (d. [[2011]])
** [[Dara Singh]], Indian wrestler, actor and politician (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary: Dara Singh - the champion loses his final fight |agency=IANS |work=Hindustan Times|date=12 July 2012 |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/OBITUARY-Dara-Singh-the-champion-loses-his-final-fight/Article1-887448.aspx |access-date=14 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713000223/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/OBITUARY-Dara-Singh-the-champion-loses-his-final-fight/Article1-887448.aspx |archive-date=13 July 2012}}</ref>
* [[November 20]] 
** [[Aleksey Batalov]], Russian actor (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Smorodinskaya|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXz2okCSfq8C&pg=PA70|date=28 October 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-78785-0|pages=70}}</ref>
** [[Pete Rademacher]], American boxer (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Grasso|title=Historical Dictionary of Boxing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=njefAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA332|date=14 November 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7867-9|pages=332}}</ref>
* [[November 22]] – [[Sandy Keith]], American jurist and politician from [[Minnesota]] (d. [[2020]])
* [[November 28]]
** [[Toaripi Lauti]], 1st prime minister of Tuvalu (d. [[2014]])<ref name="Hamilton1995">{{cite book|author=Neil A. Hamilton|title=Founders of Modern Nations: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zRPvAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|isbn=978-0-87436-750-8|page=207|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}</ref>
** [[Arthur Melvin Okun]], American economist (d. [[1980]])
** [[Piet Steenbergen]], Dutch footballer (d. [[2010]])
* [[November 30]]
** [[Takako Doi]], Japanese politician (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Business Tokyo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGqPAAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Keizaikai Company|page=56}}</ref>
** [[Steele Hall]], Australian politician (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's who in Asian and Australasian Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ge25AAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Bowker-Saur|isbn=978-0-86291-593-3|page=98}}</ref> 
** [[Peter Hans Kolvenbach]], Dutch Superior General of the [[Society of Jesus]] (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Daphne Daume|author2=J. E. Davis|title=Britannica Book of the Year: 1984|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2_J5c-qLbnoC|year=1984|publisher=ill. (some col.), maps, ports.|isbn=978-0-85229-417-8|page=87}}</ref>
** [[Karin Söder]], Swedish politician (d. [[2015]])

===December===
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* [[December 4]] – [[Hebe de Bonafini]], Argentine political activist (d. [[2022]])<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-63697367 Hebe de Bonafini: Co-founder of Argentina's Plaza de Mayo mothers group dies at 93]</ref>
* [[December 7]] – [[Noam Chomsky]], American linguist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky|title=Noam Chomsky|website=Britannica|access-date=6 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[December 15]]
** [[Ida Haendel]], Polish-British violinist (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite news | last=White | first=Robert | title=Ida Haendel obituary | work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London | date=1 July 2020 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/01/ida-haendel-obituary | access-date=1 July 2020}}</ref>
** [[Friedensreich Hundertwasser]], Austrian artist (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Austrian Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g09xC1sMmBgC&pg=RA1-PA8|year=2000|publisher=Information Department of the Austrian Consulate General|pages=8}}</ref>
* [[December 16]] 
** [[Philip K. Dick]], American science fiction author (d. [[1982]])<ref>{{Cite book| last = Kucukalic| first = Lejla| title = Philip K. Dick: canonical writer of the digital age| page = 27| publisher=Taylor and Francis| year = 2008| isbn  = 978-0-415-96242-1}}</ref>
** [[Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler]], German landowner, politician (CDU), manager and businessman (d. [[2011]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Guy Razanamasy]], 2-time prime minister of Madagascar (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.madagate.com/monde-malgache/portrait/1857-guy-willy-razanamasy-lentre-ceux-qui-tuent-et-ceux-qui-ont-laisse-tue-ce-nest-pas-la-meme-choser-.html|title=Guy Willy Razanamasy : "Entre ceux qui tuent et ceux qui ont laissé tué, ce n'est pas la même chose"|date=18 May 2011|website=Madagate|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223305/http://www.madagate.com/monde-malgache/portrait/1857-guy-willy-razanamasy-lentre-ceux-qui-tuent-et-ceux-qui-ont-laisse-tue-ce-nest-pas-la-meme-choser-.html|access-date=4 November 2020|archive-date=December 2, 2013}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] – [[Piero Angela]], Italian television host, science journalist and writer (d. [[2022]])<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/irenedominioni/2022/08/18/who-was-piero-angela-italys-most-respected-science-journalist/?sh=1cb5c507d6d4 Who Was Piero Angela, Italy's Most Respected Science Journalist], ''Forbes''</ref>
* [[December 25]] – [[Dick Miller]], American actor (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{Cite news|last=Slotnik|first=Daniel E.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/obituaries/dick-miller-dead.html|title=Dick Miller, 90, Dies; Character Actor and Roger Corman Mainstay|date=2019-02-01|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-11-14|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> 
* [[December 26]] – [[Martin Cooper (inventor)|Martin Cooper]], American inventor, "Father of the [[mobile phone]]"<ref name="Benson2010">{{cite book|author=Alvin K. Benson|title=Inventors and Inventions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pKRZAAAAYAAJ|year=2010|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-1-58765-523-4|page=221}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] – [[Bernard Cribbins]], English actor, comedian and singer (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bernard Cribbins|author2=James Hogg|title=Bernard Who?: 75 Years of Doing Just About Everything|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6NBbDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT7|date=11 October 2018|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=978-1-4721-3014-3|pages=7}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] – [[Bo Diddley]], African-American musician (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Edward Komara|author2=Peter Lee|title=The Blues Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XQU3AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA266|date=July 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-95832-9|pages=266}}</ref>

==Deaths==

===January===
[[File:Bernhard_III_(Saxe-Meiningen).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen]]]]
[[File:Hendrik Antoon Lorentz.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Hendrik Lorentz]]]]
[[File:Herbert Henry Asquith.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[H. H. Asquith]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Loie Fuller]], American dancer (b. [[1862]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Magill | first = Frank | title = Dictionary of world biography | publisher = Routledge | location = Oxfordshire, England New York | year = 1999 | isbn = 9781136593345 | page=1261}}</ref>
* [[January 3]] – [[Emily Stevens (actress)|Emily Stevens]], American actress (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/79807/Emily-Stevens |title=Emily Stevens |website=[[Playbill]] |access-date=March 4, 2015 }}</ref>
* [[January 6]] – [[Alvin Kraenzlein]], American athlete (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/alvin-kraenzlein|title=Alvin Kraenzlein|website=Olympic.org|access-date=13 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 11]] – [[Thomas Hardy]], British writer (b. [[1840]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Widdowson | first = Peter | title = Thomas Hardy : Selected Poetry and Non-Fictional Prose | publisher = Macmillan Education, Limited | location = London | year = 1996 | isbn = 9781349250820  | page=xx | language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 12]] – [[Ruth Snyder]], American murderer (executed) (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1928/01/13/page/2/article/ruths-brother-and-mother-object-to-prison-post-mortem|title=Story of the Crime|date=January 13, 1928|publisher=Chicago Tribune|page=2|accessdate=May 9, 2015}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] – [[Earle Nelson]], American serial killer and rapist (executed) (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://allthatsinteresting.com/earle-nelson 50 Years Before Ted Bundy, Earle Nelson Was The Most Prolific Serial Killer In American History]</ref>
* [[January 16]] – [[Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen]] (b. [[1851]])
* [[January 21]]
** [[Nikolai Astrup]], Norwegian painter (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Terje Leiren|author2=Jan Sjåvik|title=Historical Dictionary of Norway|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=98SrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36|date=8 October 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-5381-2312-6|pages=36}}</ref>
** [[John de Robeck|Sir John de Robeck]], British admiral (b. [[1862]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Vicente Blasco Ibáñez]], Spanish novelist and screenwriter (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cuquerella |first1=Toni |title=La complicada historia de la tumba de Blasco Ibáñez, el escritor y político que quería reposar en una València republicana |url=https://www.eldiario.es/comunitat-valenciana/vulneraciones-ideologicas-tumba-republicano-anticlerical-vicente-blasco-ibanez_1_7387228.html |access-date=12 April 2021 |work=ElDiario.es |date=11 April 2021 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[January 29]] – [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig]], British field marshal (b. [[1861]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gary Sheffield|title=Douglas Haig: From the Somme to Victory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=82MmDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT467|date=19 May 2016|publisher=Aurum|isbn=978-1-78131-617-7|pages=467}}</ref>
* [[January 30]] – [[Johannes Fibiger]], Danish scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1867]])

===February===
* [[February 1]] – [[Hughie Jennings]], American baseball player, [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1869]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Hendrik Lorentz]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1853]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Grundmann | first = Siegfried | title = The Einstein dossiers : science and politics—Einstein's Berlin period with an appendix on Einstein's FBI file | publisher = Springer | location = Berlin New York | year = 2005 | isbn = 9783540311041 | page=238 }}</ref>
* [[February 8]] – [[Theodor Curtius]], German chemist (b. [[1857]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Daintith | first = John | title = Biographical encyclopedia of scientists | publisher = Institute of Physics Pub | location = Bristol Philadelphia | year = 1994 | isbn = 9780750302876 | page=195}}</ref>
* [[February 12]] – [[Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen|Manfred von Clary-Aldringen]], Austro-Hungarian nobleman, statesman and former prime minister of Austria (b. [[1852]])
* [[February 15]] – [[H. H. Asquith]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1852]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Eddie Foy Sr.]], American vaudevillian (b. [[1856]])<ref>Cullen, Frank; Hackman, Florence; and McNeilly, Donald. ''Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America''.  Routledge Press, September 2006, {{ISBN|0-415-93853-8}}. pp. 406–410</ref>
* [[February 21]] – [[Hans von Koester]], German admiral (b. [[1844]])<ref>{{NDB|12|405||Koester, Hans von|[[Walther Hubatsch]]}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] – [[Toribio Romo González]], Mexican [[Roman Catholic]] priest, martyr and saint (b. [[1900]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Juan Vázquez de Mella]], Spanish scholar, politician (b. [[1861]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky]], German diplomat, noble (b. [[1860]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Armando Diaz]], Italian general, Marshal of Italy (b. [[1861]])

===March===
* [[March 7]] – [[Robert Abbe]], American surgeon (b. [[1851]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Mateo Elías Nieves Castillo]], Mexican [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (b. [[1882]])
* [[March 19]] 
** [[Nora Bayes]], American singer, actress (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alice M. Robinson|author2=Vera Mowry Roberts|author3=Milly S. Barranger|title=Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJMYAAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-27217-2|page=65}}</ref>
** [[Emil Wiechert]], German physicist and geophysicist (b. [[1861]])<ref>Bormann, P. (Ed.). (2012). Dedication to the 150th birthday of Emil WIECHERT (1861-1928). In P. Bormann (Ed.), New Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice 2 (NMSOP 2) (pp. 1–2). Potsdam: Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ.</ref>
* [[March 21]] – [[Edward Walter Maunder]], British astronomer (b. [[1851]])<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary Notices: Fellows:- Maunder, Edward Walter|journal=[[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]]|date=February 1929|volume=89|page=313|url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/seri/MNRAS/0089//0000317.000.html?high=512695a29c29710|bibcode = 1929MNRAS..89..313.|doi=10.1093/mnras/89.4.313|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] – [[Nina Bang]], Danish politician (b. [[1866]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://danmarkshistorien.dk/vis/materiale/nina-bang-1866-1928|title=Nina Bang, 1866-1928|website=danmarkshistorien.dk}}</ref>

===April===
[[File:Amundsen in fur skins.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Roald Amundsen]]]]
* [[April 2]] – [[Theodore William Richards]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1868]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1914/richards/facts/|title=Theodore W. Richards – Facts|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=August 22, 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 5]] – [[Roy Kilner]], English cricketer (b. [[1890]])<ref>[https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/roy-kilner-15884 Roy Kilner England]</ref>
* [[April 13]] – [[Gonzalo Córdova]], 21st president of Ecuador (b. [[1863]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Pavel Axelrod]],  Russian Menshevik (b. [[1850]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Dorus Rijkers]], Dutch sailor, savior of over 500 men, women and children (b. [[1847]])
* [[April 25]]
**[[Floyd Bennett]], American aviator (b. [[1890]])
**[[Pyotr Wrangel]], Russian general, anti-Bolshevik leader (b. [[1878]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Alessandro Guidoni]], Italian air force general (b. [[1880]])

===May===
* [[May 1]] – [[Ebenezer Howard|Sir Ebenezer Howard]], British urban planner (b. [[1850]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Clara Williams]], American actress (b. [[1888]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Ivan Merz]], Yugoslav [[Roman Catholic]] blessed (b. [[1896]])
* [[May 18]]
** [[Moritz von Auffenberg]], Austro-Hungarian general and politician (b. [[1852]])
**[[Bill Haywood]], American labor leader (b. [[1869]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Max Scheler]], German philosopher (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Francis Dunlop|title=Thinkers of Our Time: Scheler|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mTUqAQAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Claridge Press|isbn=978-1-870626-71-2|page=15}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] – [[Hideyo Noguchi]], Japanese bacteriologist (b. [[1876]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Francisco López Merino]], Argentine poet (b. [[1904]])

===June===

* [[June 2]] – [[Otto Nordenskjöld]], Finnish and Swedish geologist, geographer and polar explorer (road traffic accident) (b. [[1869]])
* [[June 3]]
** [[Alexander Hamilton (priest)|Alexander Hamilton]], American priest and blessed (b. [[1847]])
**[[Li Yuanhong]], Fourth President of the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Zhang Zuolin]], Chinese warlord (assassinated) (b. [[1875]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Liege Hulett|Sir Liege Hulett]], South African politician, [[sugar]] magnate (b. [[1838]])
* [[June 12]] – [[Salvador Díaz Mirón]], Mexican poet (b. [[1853]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire]], British politician and colonial governor (b. [[1843]])
* [[June 14]] – [[Emmeline Pankhurst]], British women's suffrage campaigner (b. [[1858]])
* [[June 17]] – [[Euphemia Wilson Pitblado]], American activist, social reformer and writer (b. [[1849]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Roald Amundsen]], Norwegian polar explorer (aviation accident) (b. [[1872]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Graf | first = Miller | title = Arctic journeys : a history of exploration for the Northwest Passage | publisher = P. Lang | location = New York | year = 1992 | isbn = 9780820417455 | page=322 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 22]]
** [[A. B. Frost]], American illustrator (b. [[1851]])
** [[George Siegmann]], American silent film actor (pernicious anemia) (b. [[1882]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Leo Ditrichstein]], Austrian-born actor, playwright (b. [[1865]])

===July===
[[File:Wilhelm Wien 1911.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Wilhelm Wien]]]]
* [[July 1]]
** [[Avery Hopwood]], American playwright (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Sharrar | first = Jack | title = Avery Hopwood: his life and plays | publisher = University of Michigan Press | location = Ann Arbor | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780472109630 | page=3}}</ref>
**[[Frankie Yale]], American gangster (b. [[1893]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frankie-Yale Frankie Yale
American gangster]</ref>
* [[July 12]] – [[Emilio Carranza]], Mexican aviator (b. [[1905]]; plane crash)<ref>{{cite book|author=Meredith Arms Bzdak|title=Public Sculpture in New Jersey: Monuments to Collective Identity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3DqAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-2699-7|page=131}}</ref>
* [[July 17]] 
** [[Álvaro Obregón]], Mexican military officer, 39th [[President of Mexico]] (assassinated) (b. [[1880]])<ref name=Obregon>{{cite web|url=https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/o/obregon_alvaro.htm|publisher=Biografias y Vidas|title=Álvaro Obregón|language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019}}</ref>
** [[Giovanni Giolitti]], Italian politician, 13th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. [[1842]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Luigi Villari|title=Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cf3QAAAAMAAJ|year=1929|publisher=C. Scribner's sons|page=183}}</ref>
* [[July 21]]
**[[Mihail Savov]], Bulgarian general (b. [[1857]])
**Dame [[Ellen Terry]], British actress (b. [[1847]])<ref>Holroyd, Michael. ''A Strange Eventful History'', Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008. {{ISBN|0-7011-7987-2}} pages 508-9</ref>
* [[July 30]] – [[John Christopher Cutler]], 2nd Governor of Utah (suicide) (b. [[1846]])

===August===
* [[August 8]]
** [[Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden]] (b. [[1857]])
** [[Stjepan Radić]], Croatian politician (assassinated) (b. [[1871]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Leoš Janáček]], Czech composer (b. [[1854]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Horsbrugh | first = Ian | title = Leoš Janáček, the field that prospered | publisher = David & Charles Scribner's | location = Newton Abbot New York | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780684174433 | page=239 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 16]] – [[Carlo Del Prete]], Italian aviator (b. [[1897]])
* [[August 19]] 
** [[Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane]], British politician, lawyer (b. [[1856]])
** [[Stephanos Skouloudis]], 34th prime minister of Greece (b. [[1838]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Alfred Meyer-Waldeck]], German admiral (b. [[1864]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Émile Fayolle]], French general (b. [[1852]])
* [[August 30]]
** [[Hugh Evan-Thomas|Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas]], British admiral (b. [[1862]])
** [[Wilhelm Wien]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1864]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1911/wien/facts/|title=Wilhelm Wien – Facts|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=August 22, 2021}}</ref>

===September===
* [[September 13]] – [[Italo Svevo]], Italian writer, businessman (b. [[1861]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Gatt-Rutter|author2=Lecturer in the School of Humanities John GATT-Rutter|title=Italo Svevo: A Double Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5EFdAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-815848-6|page=336}}</ref>
* [[September]] (unknown date) – [[Ioan Culcer]], Romanian general and politician (b. [[1853]])

===October===
[[File:Andrewfisher2.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Andrew Fisher]]]]
[[File:Arnold Rothstein Chicago 1919.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Arnold Rothstein]]]]
[[File:HeinrichXXVII.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line]]]]
* [[October 1]] – [[Cecilia Eusepi]], Italian religious leader and blessed (b. [[1910]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Larry Semon]], American film actor (b. [[1889]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)|Dagmar of Denmark, later Maria Fyodorovna]], wife of [[Alexander III of Russia|Tsar Alexander III]] and Empress Consort of Russia (b. [[1847]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Andrew Fisher]], 5th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1862]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Robert Lansing]], U.S. Secretary of State (b. [[1864]])

===November===
* [[November 6]] – [[Arnold Rothstein]], Jewish-American businessman, gangster (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Leo|last=Katcher|title=The Big Bankroll: The Life and Times of Arnold Rothstein|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|location=New York City|date=1959|isbn=978-0306805653|page=8}}</ref>
* [[November 10]] – [[Alexander Trepov]], former prime minister of the Russian Empire (b. [[1862]])
* [[November 13]] 
** [[Enrico Cecchetti]], Italian ballet dancer (b. [[1850]])
** [[Oskar Victorovich Stark]], Russian admiral, explorer (b. [[1846]])
* [[November 17]] – [[Lala Lajpat Rai]] (''The Lion of Punjab''), [[Indian independence movement]] leader (b. [[1865]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Mauritz Stiller]], Finnish screenwriter, director (b. [[1883]])
* [[November 21]] – [[Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line]], German prince (b. [[1858]])
* [[November 24]] – [[Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude]], Belgian general (b. [[1858]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Reinhard Scheer]], German admiral (b. [[1863]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Frank Hedges Butler]], British wine merchant, founding member of the [[Aero Club of Great Britain]] (b. [[1855]])

===December===
* [[December 1]]
** [[Arthur Gore (tennis)|Arthur Gore]], British tennis player (b. [[1868]])
** [[José Eustasio Rivera]], Colombian writer (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Dr. Jose E. Rivera, Author, Dies Here. Colombian Was Writing English Edition of His Novel 'La Voragine'. Prominent Diplomat |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F0CE4DB1331E33ABC4A53DFB4678383639EDE |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=December 2, 1928 |accessdate=2015-11-25 }}</ref>
* [[December 2]] – [[Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson]], 2nd Governor-General of Australia (b. [[1852]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Charles Rennie Mackintosh]], British architect (b. [[1868]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Brodie | first = Antonia | title = Directory of British architects, 1834–1914 | publisher = Continuum | location = London New York | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780826455147 | page=109}}</ref>
* [[December 11]] – [[Lewis Howard Latimer]], American inventor (b. [[1848]])
* [[December 12]] – Patriarch [[Gregory IV of Antioch]] (b. [[1859]])
* [[December 14]]
**[[Theodore Roberts]], American actor (b. [[1861]])
**[[Pierre Ruffey]], French general (b. [[1851]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Elinor Wylie]], American poet and novelist (b. [[1885]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Eglantyne Jebb]], British human rights activist, co-founder of ''Save the Children'' (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Bueren | first = Geraldine | title = The international law on the rights of the child | publisher = Martinus Nijhoff Kluwer Law International | location = The Hague | year = 1998 | isbn = 9789041110916 | page=9}}</ref>
* [[December 19]] – [[Italo Svevo]], Italian writer (b. [[1861]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sorrel Kerbel|title=The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqQsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1072|date=23 November 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-45607-8|pages=1072}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] – [[Luigi Cadorna]], Italian general (b. [[1850]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Fred Thomson]], American actor (b. [[1890]])

==Nobel Prizes==
[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Owen Willans Richardson]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[Charles Jules Henri Nicolle]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Sigrid Undset]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – not awarded

==References==
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