1922

This article is about the year 1922. For other uses, see 1922 (disambiguation).

1922

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February

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September

October

November

December

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years:	1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925

1922 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1922 MCMXXII
Ab urbe condita	2675
Armenian calendar	1371 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԱ
Assyrian calendar	6672
Baháʼí calendar	78–79
Balinese saka calendar	1843–1844
Bengali calendar	1329
Berber calendar	2872
British Regnal year	12 Geo. 5 – 13 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2466
Burmese calendar	1284
Byzantine calendar	7430–7431
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4618 or 4558     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4619 or 4559
Coptic calendar	1638–1639
Discordian calendar	3088
Ethiopian calendar	1914–1915
Hebrew calendar	5682–5683
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1978–1979
- Shaka Samvat	1843–1844
- Kali Yuga	5022–5023
Holocene calendar	11922
Igbo calendar	922–923
Iranian calendar	1300–1301
Islamic calendar	1340–1341
Japanese calendar	Taishō 11 (大正１１年)
Javanese calendar	1852–1853
Juche calendar	11
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4255
Minguo calendar	ROC 11 民國11年
Nanakshahi calendar	454
Thai solar calendar	2464–2465
Tibetan calendar	阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 2048 or 1667 or 895     — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 2049 or 1668 or 896

1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1922nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 922nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1922, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January

Main article: January 1922

January 11: Use of insulin for diabetes.

• January – The year begins with the British Empire at its largest extent, covering a quarter of the world and ruling over one in four people on Earth.
• January 7 – Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
• January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann, the day after Éamon de Valera resigns.
• January 11 – The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made, by Frederick Banting in Toronto.
• January 12 – The British government releases the remaining Irish prisoners captured in the War of Independence.
• January 13 – The flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain.
• January 15 – Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State.
• January 24 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie ice cream bar in the United States.
• January 26 – Italian forces occupy Misrata, Libya; the reconquest of Libya begins.
• January 28 – Knickerbocker Storm: Snowfall from the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C., causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98.

February

Main article: February 1922

February 1: William Desmond Taylor murdered.

February 2: Publication of Ulysses.

February 28: Egypt independent.

• February 2 – The novel Ulysses by James Joyce is published in Paris on his 40th birthday by Sylvia Beach.
• February 5 – DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest in the United States.
• February 6
  • Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV, to become the 259th pope.
  • The Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty is signed between the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France and Italy. Japan returns some of its control over the Shandong Peninsula to China.
• February 8
  • President of the United States Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
  • In the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Cheka becomes the Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie (GPU), a section of the NKVD.
• February 10–17 – Modern Art Week in São Paulo marks the start of Modernism in Brazil.
• February 14
  • Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt.
  • Baragoola, the last of the Binngarra class Manly ferries, is launched at Balmain, New South Wales.
• February 15 – The inaugural session of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) is held in The Hague.
• February 25 – The 1922 Burao Tax Revolt erupts in Burao, British Somaliland (modern-day Somaliland)
• February 26 – Leser v. Garnett: The Supreme Court of the United States rebuffs a challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote on the same terms as men.
• February 28 – The Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence by the United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt, and grants the country nominal independence, reserving control of military and diplomatic matters.

March

Main article: March 1922

• March 2
  • An ice mass breaks the Oder Dam in Breslau.
  • The British Civil Aviation Authority is established.
• March 5 – The silent horror film Nosferatu premieres in Germany.
• March 10 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition.
• March 13 – Edward, Prince of Wales, inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India, marking a capitulation of the Governor General and Secretary of State for India to growing pressure for Indianization of the officer cadre of the Indian Army.
• March 15 – With Egypt having gained self-government from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
• March 16 – The Rand Rebellion, which began as a strike by white South African mine workers on 28 December 1921 and became open rebellion against the state, is suppressed.
• March 18 – In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition (he serves only two).
• March 19 – Polish professional Association football club "KKS LECH Poznań" is founded.
• March 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
• March 22 – Radio station WLW in Cincinnati begins broadcasting.
• March 23 – Queensland, Australia, abolishes the Legislative Council (Upper House).
• March 25 – The Brazilian Communist Party is founded in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro.
• March 26 – The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
• March 31 – The Hinterkaifeck Murders occur in Germany, on a late evening.

April

Main article: April 1922

• April 1 – South African Railways takes control of all railway operations in South West Africa.
• April 3 – Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
• April 7
  • Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
  • 1922 Picardie mid-air collision: The first midair collision between airliners occurs, between a Daimler Airway de Havilland DH.18 and a Grands Express Aériens Farman Goliath over Poix-de-Picardie, Amiens, France.
• April 10 – Genoa Conference: The representatives of 34 countries convene to speak in Genoa, Italy about monetary economics, in the wake of World War I.
• April 12 – The United Kingdom's Prince of Wales arrives in Yokohama aboard HMS Renown and rides by train to Tokyo, starting a one-month visit to Japan.
• April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.
• April 16 – The Treaty of Rapallo marks a rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevik Russia.
• April 22 – The Lambda Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is chartered.
• April 24 – The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy network created to link the British Empire, is opened, from England to Egypt.

May

Main article: May 1922

May 30: Lincoln Memorial dedicated.

• May 3 – Viktor Kingissepp, leader of the underground Estonian Communist Party, is executed in Estonia.
• May 5 – In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
• May 8 – In Moscow, eight priests, two laymen and one woman are sentenced to death for opposition to the Soviet government's confiscation of church property.
• May 11 – Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii.
• May 18 – Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Erik Satie and Clive Bell dine together in Paris, at the Majestic hotel, their only joint meeting.
• May 19 – The All-Russian Young Pioneer Organisation is established.
• May 29 – British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley is jailed for seven years for fraud.
• May 30 – In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.

June

Main article: June 1922

June 9: Åland's Autonomy Day

• June 1
  • The Royal Ulster Constabulary is officially founded.
  • Bolshevik forces defeat Basmachi troops, under Enver Pasha.
• June 9 – Åland's Regional Assembly convenes for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland; the day will be celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland.
• June 11 – Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, premières in the U.S.
• June 14 – President of the United States Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.
• June 22 – Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British Army field marshal Sir Henry Wilson in London; the assassins are sentenced to death on July 18.
• June 24 – Weimar Republic foreign minister Walther Rathenau is assassinated; the murderers are captured on July 17.
• June 26 – Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.
• June 28
  • The Irish Civil War and Battle of Dublin begin when the Irish National Army, using artillery loaned by the British, begins to bombard the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army forces occupying the Four Courts in Dublin. Fighting in Dublin lasts until July 5.
  • The Syrian Federation is constituted.

July

Main article: July 1922

• July 11 – The Hollywood Bowl open-air music venue opens.
• July 17 – The final signings of Treaty 11, an agreement between George V, King of Canada, and various Canadian First Nations, are conducted at Fort Liard.
• July 20 – The German protectorate of Togoland is divided into the League of Nations mandates of French Togoland and British Togoland.
• July 27 – The Cherkess (Adyghe) Autonomous Oblast is established within the Russian SFSR.
• July – Hyperinflation in Germany means that 563 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar – more than double the 263 needed eight months before, dwarfing the mere 12 needed in April 1919, and even the 47 needed in December of that year.

August

Main article: August 1922

• August 2 – The 1922 Swatow typhoon hits Shantou, China, killing more than 5,000 people.
• August 22 – Irish Civil War: General Michael Collins is assassinated in West Cork.
• August 23
  • Morocco revolts against the Spanish.
  • A Turkish large-scale attack opens against Greek forces in Afyon; Turkish victory is achieved on August 27.
• August 28 – Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from Siberia.
• August
  • Hyperinflation in Germany sees the value of the Papiermark against the dollar rise to 1,000.
  • The last hunted California grizzly bear is shot.

September

Main article: September 1922

• September 3 – The Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, the world's third purpose-built motorsport race track, is officially opened at Monza in the Lombardy Region of Italy.
• September 9 – Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter İzmir, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).
• September 11
  • The Sun News-Pictorial, a predecessor of the Melbourne, Australia, Herald Sun, is founded.
  • The Mandate of Palestine is approved by the Council of the League of Nations.
• September 13 – The Gdynia Seaport Construction Act is passed by the Polish Parliament.
• September 13–15 – The Great Fire of Smyrna destroys most of İzmir. Responsibility is disputed.
• September 17 – Dutch cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champion sprinter.
• September 18 – The Kingdom of Hungary joins the League of Nations.
• September 24 (O. S. September 11) – 11 September 1922 Revolution in Greece.
• September 29 – Drums in the Night (Trommeln in der Nacht) becomes the first play by Bertolt Brecht to be staged, at the Munich Kammerspiele.

October

Main article: October 1922

Benito Mussolini and Fascist Blackshirts during the March on Rome.

• October 1 – G. I. Gurdjieff opens his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France.
• October 3 – Rebecca L. Felton becomes the first female U.S. senator, when Georgia's governor gives her a temporary appointment, pending an election to replace Senator Thomas Watson, who has died suddenly.
• October 15 – T. S. Eliot establishes The Criterion magazine, containing the first publication of his poem The Waste Land. This first appears in the United States later this month in The Dial (dated November 1), and is first published complete with notes in book form, by Boni and Liveright in New York in December.
• October 18 – The British Broadcasting Company is formed.
• October 25 – The Third Dáil enacts the Constitution of the Irish Free State.
• October 26 – Hogarth Press publishes Virginia Woolf's novel Jacob's Room.
• October 27 – Southern Rhodesians reject union with South Africa in a referendum.
• October 28
  • In Italy, the March on Rome brings the National Fascist Party and Benito Mussolini to power. Italy begins a period of dictatorship that lasts until the end of the Second World War, but at the same time becomes the predominant power in the Mediterranean.
  • The Red Army occupies Vladivostok.
  • Rose Bowl sports stadium officially opens in Pasadena, California.
• October 31 – Benito Mussolini, 39, becomes the youngest ever Prime Minister of Italy.
• October
  • 3,000 German marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar – triple the figure three months ago due to hyperinflation.

November

Main article: November 1922

• November 1
  • The Ottoman Empire is abolished after 600 years, and its last sultan, Mehmed VI, abdicates, leaves for exile in Italy on November 17.
  • A broadcast receiving licence with a fee of ten shillings is introduced in the United Kingdom.
• November 4 – In Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
• November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by seven educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha Chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis.
• November 14 – The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom, broadcasting from station 2LO in London.
• November 15
  • In the 1922 United Kingdom general election forced by the Conservatives' withdrawal from the coalition government, the Conservative Party wins an overall majority. Labour for the first time becomes the main opposition party, winning more seats than the divided Liberals. A dining club of newly elected Conservative Members of Parliament evolves the following year into the 1922 Committee.
  • 1922 Guayaquil general strike: During a 3-day strike action in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, police and military fire into a crowd, killing at least 300.
• November 19 – Abdülmecid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire, is elected Caliph.
• November 21 – Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.
• November 24 – Popular author and anti-Treaty Republican Erskine Childers is executed by firing squad in Dublin, after conviction by an Irish Free State military court for the unlawful possession of a gun, a weapon presented to him by Michael Collins in 1920 as a gift.

Howard Carter in King Tutankhamun's tomb

• November 26 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to see inside KV62, the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, in over 3,000 years.

December

Main article: December 1922

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is created. (Coat of arms until 1936).

• December 5 – The British Parliament enacts the Irish Free State Constitution Act, by which it legally sanctions the new Constitution of the Irish Free State.
• December 6 – The Irish Free State officially comes into existence. George V becomes the Free State's monarch. Tim Healy is appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State, and W. T. Cosgrave becomes President of the Executive Council.
• December 9 – Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
• December 11 – The trial of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters ends at the Old Bailey in London, for the murder of Thompson's husband; both are found guilty and sentenced to hang.
• December 16 – Gabriel Narutowicz, sworn on December 11 as first president of the Second Polish Republic, is assassinated by a right-wing sympathizer in Warsaw.
• December 20 – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on stage in Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Coco Chanel.
• December 27 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be commissioned.
• December 30 – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasian Republic (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
• December – The year ends with hyperinflation showing no sign of slowing down in Germany, with 7,000 marks now needed to buy a single American dollar.

Date unknown

• Wracked by rapid inflation and political assassinations, and motivated by hostility and arrogance as well, the Weimar Republic announces its inability to pay more, and proposes a moratorium on reparations for 3 years.
• Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin, the Kurdish Independence Committee, is founded.
• The Inter-Parliamentary Union is established.
• Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
• Vegemite is invented by Australian entrepreneur Fred Walker.
• The Molly Pitcher Club is formed to promote the repeal of Prohibition in the United States.
• Thompson Webb founds the Webb School of California for boys in Claremont.
• The Barbary lion becomes extinct in the wild, with the last killed in Morocco, in the area of the Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests.
• The Amur tiger becomes extinct in South Korea.
• Bronisław Malinowski's influential ethnological text, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, is published.

Births

January

Ahmed Sékou Touré

Luis Echeverría

Ray Anthony

Telly Savalas

Paul Scofield

• January 1
  • Fritz Hollings, American politician (d. 2019)
  • José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop
• January 2
  • Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgarian poet and politician (d. 2003)
  • María Fux, Argentine dancer and choreographer
• January 3 – John R. Schmidhauser, American politician (d. 2018)
• January 4 – Karl-Erik Nilsson, Swedish wrestler (d. 2017)
• January 5 – Helen Smith, American female baseball player (d. 2019)
• January 6 – Hugo Broch, German lieutenant and pilot
• January 8
  • Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986)
  • Rolf Stoltenberg, German field hockey player
• January 9
  • Anton Kinzel, Austrian chess player
  • Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011)
  • Ahmed Sékou Touré, Guinean politician, President of Guinea (1958–1984) (d. 1984)
• January 10 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist, translator (d. 1991)
• January 12 – Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (d. 1994)
• January 13
  • Bud Anderson, American fighter pilot
  • Albert Lamorisse, French film director (d. 1970)
• January 14
  • Manmohan Tudu, Indian politician
  • Guy Stern, German literary scholar
• January 15 – Lucio De Caro, Italian screenwriter and film director
• January 16 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
• January 17
  • Miodrag Jovanović, Serbian footballer (d. 2009)
  • Luis Echeverría, 50th President of Mexico
  • Nicholas Katzenbach, United States Attorney General (d. 2012)
  • Betty White, American actress, television personality and animal welfare activist (d. 2021)
• January 18 – Agathe Poschmann, German actress
• January 19
  • Lila Cockrell, former Mayor of San Antonio (d. 2019)
  • Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
• January 20
  • Ray Anthony, American trumpet player, composer, bandleader and actor
  • Bhisadej Rajani, Thai prince
  • Ed Westcott, American photographer (d. 2019)
• January 21
  • Lincoln Alexander, Canadian politician (d. 2012)
  • Sam Mele, American baseball player, manager (d. 2017)
  • Telly Savalas, American actor, singer (d. 1994)
  • Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008)
  • Predrag Vranicki, Yugoslav and Croatian philosopher (d. 2002)
  • Rhoda Wurtele, Canadian skier
  • Rhona Wurtele, Canadian skier (d. 2020)
• January 22
  • Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (d. 2004)
  • Annabelle Lee, American female professional baseball player (d. 2008)
  • Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1987)
  • Bill Waterhouse, Australian bookmaker, businessman and barrister (d. 2019)
• January 24 – Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
• January 26
  • Morton Mintz, American investigative journalist
  • Bob Thomas, American Hollywood biographer, reporter (d. 2014)
  • Ellen Vogel, Dutch film, television actress (d. 2015)
• January 28 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1993)
• January 29 – Gerda Steinhoff, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
• January 30
  • Rosemary Kuhlmann, American soprano and actress (d. 2019)
  • Dick Martin, American comedian (d. 2008)
• January 31
  • Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)
  • Qin Yi, Chinese actress

February

Witold Kieżun

Audrey Meadows

• February 1 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)
• February 2
  • Shmuel Agmon, Israeli mathematician
  • Robert Chef d'Hôtel, French athlete (d. 2019)
  • Juan Marichal, Spanish-Canarian historian, literary critic and essayist (d. 2010)
  • Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress (d. 2019)
  • Induratana Paribatra, Thai royal
  • James L. Usry, American politician, first African-American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2002)
• February 4
  • Bernard Kalb, American journalist
  • William Edward Phipps, American actor, producer (d. 2018)
• February 5 – Hanna Newcombe, Czech-born Canadian peace researcher (d. 2011)
• February 6
  • Witold Kieżun, Polish economist (d. 2021)
  • Patrick Macnee, British actor (d. 2015)
  • Jean-Baptiste Maquet, Belgian fencer
  • Denis Norden, British television, radio scriptwriter and personality (d. 2018)
  • Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer (d. 2015)
• February 7
  • Hattie Jacques, English actress (d. 1980)
  • Antonio Nardini, Italian historian and author (d. 2020)
• February 8
  • Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess player and author
  • Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)
• February 9
  • Kathryn Grayson, American actress (d. 2010)
  • Jim Laker, British cricketer (d. 1986)
• February 10 – Árpád Göncz, President of Hungary (d. 2015)
• February 12 – Hussein Onn, third Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990)
• February 13
  • David O. Moberg, American sociologist
  • Hal Moore, American Lieutenant general, non-fiction writer (d. 2017)
  • Fred E. Soucy, Canadian politician
  • Gordon Tullock, American economist (d. 2014)
• February 15
  • John Bayard Anderson, American Congressman, presidential candidate (d. 2017)
  • Poul Thomsen, Danish actor (d. 1988)
• February 16 – Frédéric Rossif, French film, television director (d. 1991)
• February 17
  • Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
  • Tommy Edwards, American singer, songwriter (d. 1969)
• February 18
  • Helen Gurley Brown, American editor, publisher (d. 2012)
  • J. Keith Fraser, Canadian physical geographer
  • Eric Gairy, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1997)
  • Connie Wisniewski, American professional baseball player (d. 1995)
• February 19 – Margherita Marchione, American Roman Catholic sister, writer, teacher and apologist (d. 2021)
• February 22
  • Gesner Abelard, Haitian painter and sculptor
  • Nessim Gaon, Swiss financier
  • Esperanza Magaz, Cuban-born Venezuelan actress (d. 2013)
  • Mohd Hamdan Abdullah, Malaysian politician (d. 1977)
• February 23 – James L. Holloway III, American naval officer (d. 2019)
• February 24
  • Ruth Godfrey, American film actress (d. 1985)
  • Richard Hamilton, British painter (d. 2011)
  • Steven Hill, American actor (d. 2016)
• February 25 – Molly Reilly, Canadian aviator (d. 1980)
• February 26
  • William Baumol, American economist (d. 2017)
  • Margaret Leighton, British actress (d. 1976)
  • Paatje Phefferkorn, Dutch martial artist (d. 2021)
  • Karl Aage Præst, Danish football player (d. 2011)

March

Yitzhak Rabin

Cyd Charisse

Carl Reiner

Prince Heinrich of Bavaria

• March 1
  • Naftali Blumenthal, Israeli politician
  • Michael Flanders, English actor, songwriter (d. 1975)
  • William Gaines, American magazine publisher (MAD) (d. 1992)
  • William R. Lucas, American space flight director
  • Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995)
• March 2
  • Hilarion Capucci, Syrian Catholic bishop (d. 2017)
  • Arnold Hano, American writer (d. 2021)
  • Rafael Lledó, Argentine basketball player
• March 3 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)
• March 4
  • Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer, film director (d. 2005)
  • Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (d. 1998)
  • Dina Pathak, Gujarati theatre, film actress (d. 2002)
• March 5 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (d. 1975)
• March 6 – Wanda Klaff, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
• March 7 – Andy Phillip, American basketball player and coach (d. 2001)
• March 8
  • Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor (d. 2014)
  • Cyd Charisse, American actress, dancer (d. 2008)
  • Yevgeny Matveyev, Soviet and Russian actor and film director (d. 2003)
  • Mizuki Shigeru, Japanese author (d. 2015)
• March 9
  • Bill Bainbridge, English footballer (d. 1966)
  • Herb Douglas, American athlete
  • Flemming Valdemar, Count of Rosenborg (d. 2002)
  • Floyd McKissick, American lawyer and civil rights activist (d. 1991)
• March 11 – Abdul Razak Hussein, second Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1976)
• March 12
  • Jack Kerouac, American author (d. 1969)
  • Lane Kirkland, American union leader (d. 1999)
• March 13 – Jim Wiggins, English actor (d. 1999)
• March 14
  • Arch Johnson, American actor (d. 1997)
  • China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress, director and producer (d. 2014)
• March 15 – Karl-Otto Apel, German philosopher (d. 2017)
• March 16 – Harding Lemay, American television scriptwriter, playwright (d. 2018)
• March 17 – Patrick Suppes, American philosopher (d. 2014)
• March 18
  • Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights leader (d. 2011)
  • Egon Bahr, German politician (d. 2015)
  • Karl Kordesch, Austrian-American inventor (d. 2011)
  • Thomas Rew, American Air Force major general
• March 19 – Hiroo Onoda, Japanese officer, WWII holdout (d. 2014)
• March 20
  • Arnold Burgen, English physicist, pharmacologist, academic and administrator
  • Carl Reiner, American film director, producer, actor, and comedian (d. 2020)
• March 21 – Russ Meyer, American film director, producer (d. 2004)
• March 22
  • Robert L. Backman, American lawyer and politician
  • Choomphol Chaiyanitr, Thai sports shooter
  • Ghazali Shafie, Malaysian politician (d. 2010)
  • Alex Xydias, American racing driver
• March 23
  • Marty Allen, American actor, comedian (d. 2018)
  • Robert Simons, English cricketer, cricket administrator (d. 2011)
• March 26 – William Milliken, American politician (d. 2019)
• March 27
  • Joan M. Clark, American diplomat
  • Marcel Conche, French philosopher and professor
  • Murray Olderman, American sports cartoonist and writer (d. 2020)
  • Josephine Kabick, American professional baseball player (AAGPBL) (d. 1978)
  • Stefan Wul, French writer (d. 2003)
• March 28
  • Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1990)
  • Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
  • B. Neminathan, Sri Lankan politician (d. unknown)
  • Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (d. 1958)
• March 29
  • March Fong Eu, American politician (d. 2017)
  • Bill Wynne, American author, photographer and dog trainer (d. 2021)
• March 31
  • Richard Kiley, American actor, singer (d. 1999)
  • Art Shay, American photographer, writer (d. 2018)

April

Doris Day

Julius Nyerere

Leo Tindemans

• April 1
  • William Manchester, American writer (d. 2004)
  • Saad el-Shazly, Egyptian military commander (d. 2011)
• April 3
  • Doris Day, American actress and singer (d. 2019)
  • Maurice Riel, Canadian senator (d. 2007)
• April 4
  • Dionísio Azevedo, Brazilian television, theatre, and film actor, director, and writer (d. 1994)
  • Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)
  • Irwin Belk, American businessman, politician (d. 2018)
  • Banamali Patnaik, Indian politician
• April 5
  • Tom Finney, English footballer (d. 2014)
  • Gale Storm, American singer, actress (d. 2009)
• April 6 – Nancy Mackay, Canadian athlete (d. 2016)
• April 7
  • Dircinha Batista, Brazilian actress and singer (d. 1999)
  • Margia Dean, American actress
  • Mongo Santamaría, Cuban jazz musician (d. 2003)
  • Lothar Sieber, German test pilot (d. 1945)
• April 8 – Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (d. 1994)
• April 9
  • Kazui Nihonmatsu, Japanese film director
  • Johnny Thomson, American racecar driver (d. 1960)
• April 13 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (d. 1999)
• April 14 – Ali Akbar Khan, Indian musician (d. 2009)
• April 15 – Michael Ansara, Syrian-born American actor (d. 2013)
• April 16
  • Kingsley Amis, English novelist (d. 1995)
  • Leo Tindemans, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
• April 18
  • Barbara Hale, American actress (d. 2017)
  • Paulo Nogueira Neto, Brazilian environmentalist (d. 2019)
• April 19
  • Luigi Barbarito, Italian prelate (d. 2017)
  • Erich Hartmann, German World War II fighter pilot, highest-scoring ace in world history (d. 1993)
  • Rose Marie McCoy, African-American songwriter (d. 2015)
• April 20 – Gunvor Björhäll, Swedish curler
• April 21
  • Valérie André, French general, neurosurgeon and aviator
  • Alistair MacLean, Scottish writer (d. 1987)
• April 22
  • Roy Harrisville, American theologian
  • Charles Mingus, African-American musician (d. 1979)
  • Ingeborg Schmitz, German swimmer
• April 23 – Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress and occultist (d. 1995)
• April 24
  • Susanna Agnelli, Italian politician (d. 2009)
  • Antun Bogetić, Croatian Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
• April 26
  • Keith McKenzie, Australian rules footballer, coach (d. 2018)
  • Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian journalist and politician, Governor General of Canada (d. 1993)
  • Margaret Scott, South African ballerina, choreographer (d. 2019)
• April 27
  • Mosese Bogisa, Fijian cricketer
  • Martin Gray, Polish writer (d. 2016)
  • Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)
• April 28
  • William Broomfield, American politician (d. 2019)
  • Joseph Wilson Morris, American lawyer and federal judge (d. 2021)
• April 29 – Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician (d. 2016)

May

Bea Arthur

Franjo Tuđman

Enrico Berlinguer

Christopher Lee

• May 1
  • Alastair Gillespie, Canadian scholar, politician (d. 2018)
  • Vitaly Popkov, Russian fighter ace (d. 2010)
• May 2
  • Fred Aftalion, French chemical engineer
  • Roscoe Lee Browne, African-American actor (d. 2007)
• May 3
  • Felix Kolmer, Czech physicist
  • Deborah Szekely, American activist, philanthropist and writer
• May 4 – Eugenie Clark, American marine biologist (d. 2015)
• May 6
  • Anna Elizabeth Botha, first wife of South African State President P. W. Botha (d. 1997)
  • Vladimir Etush, Russian actor (d. 2019)
  • Hazem Nuseibeh, Jordanian politician and diplomat
• May 7
  • Darren McGavin, American actor (d. 2006)
  • Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (d. 2007)
• May 8 – Yusof Rawa, Malaysian politician (d. 2000)
• May 9 – Rolands Kalniņš, Latvian film director
• May 10 – Nancy Walker, American actress, singer and director (d. 1992)
• May 11
  • Bhabani Charan Pattanayak, Indian politician and independence activist (d. 2020)
  • Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist (d. 2020)
• May 12
  • Paul Milstein, American real estate developer (d. 2010)
  • Gordon Mydland, American politician and lawyer
  • Wilburn K. Ross, American WWII veteran (d. 2017)
  • Murray Gershenz, American character actor, entrepreneur (d. 2013)
• May 13
  • Otl Aicher, German graphic artist (d. 1991)
  • Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978)
  • Billy Gabor, American basketball player (d. 2019)
  • Bea Arthur, American actress, comedian (d. 2009)
• May 14 – Franjo Tuđman, first President of Croatia (d. 1999)
  • Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)
• May 15
  • Erich Gehmann, German sports shooter
  • Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer, Buddhist nun (d. 2021)
  • Selma Engel-Wijnberg, Dutch Holocaust survivor (d. 2018)
• May 18
  • Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (d. 2005)
  • Bill Macy, American actor (Maude) (d. 2019)
  • Kai Winding, Danish-born musician (d. 1983)
• May 19
  • Joe Gilmore, Irish barman (Savoy Hotel's American Bar) (d. 2015)
  • Arthur Gorrie, Australian hobby shop proprietor (d. 1992)
• May 21 – James Lopez Watson, American judge (d. 2001)
• May 22 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
• May 23 – Gerald Holton, American physicist, science historian and educator
• May 25
  • Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
  • William V. McBride, American general
• May 26 – Judith Lauand, Brazilian painter and printmaker
• May 27
  • Otto Carius, German tank commander (d. 2015)
  • Sir Christopher Lee, English actor, singer (d. 2015)
• May 28
  • Lou Duva, American boxing trainer (d. 2017)
  • Tuomas Gerdt, Finnish soldier, last living Knight of the Mannerheim Cross (d. 2020)
  • Pompeyo Márquez, Venezuelan politician (d. 2017)
• May 29
  • Eleanor Coerr, American writer (d. 2010)
  • Lee Sung-yang, Taiwanese entomologist
  • Reginald Rodrigues, Indian field hockey player (d. 1995)
  • Edith Roger, Norwegian dancer, choreographer and stage director
  • Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
• May 30 – Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
• May 31
  • Jean Cussac, French baritone and music director
  • Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992)

June

Judy Garland

Tibor Baranski

• June 1
  • Joan Copeland, American actress (d. 2022)
  • Bibi Ferreira, Brazilian actress (d. 2019)
  • Povel Ramel, Swedish musician (d. 2007)
• June 2
  • Santo Pezzutti, Italian-born American artist
  • Charlie Sifford, American golfer (d. 2015)
• June 3 – Alain Resnais, French film director (d. 2014)
• June 4 – Joe Vancisin, American basketball coach and executive (d. 2021)
• June 5 – Sheila Sim, English actress (d. 2016)
• June 7
  • C. Dass, Indian politician (d. 2001)
  • Aleksander Krawczuk, Polish historian and academic
  • Selma van de Perre, Dutch-born English resistance fighter
  • P. Sabanayagam, Indian military officer
• June 9 – George Axelrod, American scriptwriter (d. 2003)
• June 10
  • Robert Alan Aurthur, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
  • Judy Garland, American singer, actress (d. 1969)
  • Chandra Gunasekera, Sri Lankan politician
• June 11 – Tibor Baranski, Hungarian-American educator (d. 2019)
• June 12 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (d. 2013)
• June 13 – Edward Shames, American army officer (d. 2021)
• June 14 – Kevin Roche, Irish-American architect (d. 2019)
• June 16 – Wayne Mixson, American politician (d. 2020)
• June 18
  • Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
  • Donald Keene, American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator (d. 2019)
• June 19
  • Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
  • Marilyn P. Johnson, American educator and diplomat
  • Fritz Schollmeyer, German football manager
• June 21 – Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkinabé historian, politician and writer (d. 2006)
• June 22
  • Mona Lisa, Filipino actress (d. 2019)
  • William L. Stearman, American author and government official (d. 2021)
  • Armando Tre Re, Italian football player (d. 2003)
• June 23 – Wu Yingyin, Chinese singer (d. 2009)
• June 24
  • Jack Carter, American comedian, actor and television presenter (d. 2015)
  • Abou Rejaile Bechara, Lebanese wrestler
  • Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer, lyricist (d. 1988)
• June 25 – Sita bint Fahd Al Damir, Saudi princess (d. 2012)
• June 26
  • Enzo Apicella, London-based artist, cartoonist, designer, and restaurateur (d. 2018)
  • Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013)
• June 27 – George Walker, African-American composer (d. 2018)
• June 28
  • Hans Frauenfelder, Swiss-born American physicist, biophysicist
  • John Nicholson Black, English educator (d. 2018)
• June 29 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
• June 30 – Mike Lude, American football and baseball player and coach

July

Pierre Cardin

Jake LaMotta

Anker Jørgensen

Leon M. Lederman

Jason Robards

• July 1
  • Mordechai Bibi, Israeli politician
  • Derek Riley, Canadian rower (d. 2018)
  • Warren Winkelstein, American epidemiologist (d. 2012)
• July 2
  • Pierre Cardin, Italian-born French fashion designer (d. 2020)
  • Judy Hall, Australian pianist and musician
  • Howard Wesley Johnson, American educator (d. 2009)
  • Paula Valenska, Czech actress (d. 1994)
• July 3
  • Theo Brokmann Jr., Dutch football player (d. 2003)
  • Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (Corneille), Dutch painter (d. 2010)
  • Viggo Rivad, Danish photographer (d. 2016)
  • Howie Schultz, American baseball, basketball player (d. 2009)
• July 4
  • Charles Csuri, American artist
  • Noble Frankland, English military historian (d. 2019)
  • R. James Harvey, American politician, jurist (d. 2019)
  • Albert Kresch, American painter
• July 5
  • Doris Margaret Anderson, Canadian nutritionist and senator
  • Hélio Bicudo, Brazilian jurist, politician (d. 2018)
• July 6
  • William Schallert, American character actor (d. 2016)
  • Toni Seven, American cover girl, actress (d. 1991)
• July 7
  • James D. Hughes, American Air Force lieutenant general
  • Francis Jeanson, French philosopher (d. 2009)
  • Vladimir Marchenko, Soviet-born Ukrainian mathematician
  • P. Gopinathan Nair, Indian social worker
  • Reidar Torp, Norwegian military officer (d. 2017)
• July 8
  • Bobby Hill, American motorcycle racer
  • Eugenio Martínez, Cuban-born American Watergate burglar (d. 2021)
• July 9 – Jim Pollard, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993)
• July 10
  • Jack Arthurs, American politician (d. 2020)
  • Fred Furniss, English footballer (d. 2017)
  • Petar Kovachev, Bulgarian cross country skier
  • Jake LaMotta, American boxer (d. 2017)
  • Herb McKenley, Jamaican Olympic sprinter (d. 2007)
• July 11
  • John J. Maurer, American politician, airline pilot (d. 2019)
  • Jerald terHorst, American journalist, White House press secretary (d. 2010)
• July 12 – Mark Hatfield, American politician, educator (d. 2011)
• July 13
  • Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar, Egyptian military commander (d. 2011)
  • Leslie Brooks, American actress, dancer (d. 2011)
  • Fred Fiedler, American psychologist (d. 2017)
  • Louis R. Harlan, American academic historian (d. 2010)
  • Fran Hopper, American comic book artist (d. 2017)
  • Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician (d. 2016)
  • Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
• July 14
  • Bernie Agrons, American politician (d. 2015)
  • Julio Cozzi, Argentine football goalkeeper (d. 2011)
  • Käbi Laretei, Estonian and Swedish concert pianist (d. 2014)
  • Bill Millin, English personal piper (d. 2010)
  • Gerald Myrden, American businessman (d. 2016)
  • Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (d. 2007)
  • Elfriede Rinkel, German SS officer (d. 2018)
• July 15
  • Henri Bangou, French politician
  • Ghulam Nabi Firaq, Kashmiri poet, writer and educationist (d. 2016)
  • B. Rajam Iyer, South Indian Carnatic singer (d. 2009)
  • Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
  • Dottie Frazier, American scuba diver
• July 16
  • Samuel Conti, American politician (d. 2018)
  • Anatoli Levitin, Soviet Russian painter, art educator (d. 2018)
• July 17
  • Jane Cronin Scanlon, American mathematician (d. 2018)
  • Tetsurō Tamba, Japanese actor (d. 2006)
• July 18
  • Harry Kermode, Canadian basketball player (d. 2009)
  • Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (d. 1996)
  • Ray Lambert, Welsh footballer (d. 2009)
  • Hedy Stenuf, Austrian figure skater (d. 2010)
• July 19
  • George McGovern, American politician, historian and author (d. 2012)
  • Rachel Robinson, American nurse, professor
  • Stig Sundqvist, Swedish footballer (d. 2011)
  • Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, King of Malaysia (d. 2008)
• July 20
  • Ruth Bidgood, Welsh poet and local historian
  • Wolfgang Klausewitz, German zoologist, ichthyologist, marine biologist and biohistorian (d. 2018)
  • Alan Stephenson Boyd, American attorney and 1st United States Secretary of Transportation (d. 2020)
• July 21
  • Demeter Bitenc, Slovenian film actor (d. 2018)
  • Kay Starr, American jazz and pop singer (d. 2016)
  • Mollie Sugden, English comedy actress (d. 2009)
• July 22 – Julia Farron, English ballerina (d. 2019)
• July 23
  • Paul Meyer, Swiss rower
  • Jenny Pike, Canadian WWII servicewoman and photographer (d. 2004)
• July 25
  • John B. Goodenough, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Ursula Münzer-Linder, German violinist
• July 26
  • Gilberto Agustoni, Swiss prelate (d. 2017)
  • Anna Berger, American actress (d. 2014)
  • Blake Edwards, American film director (d. 2010)
  • Wylie Gibbs, Australian surgeon and politician
  • Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
  • Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball pitcher (d. 2002)
• July 27
  • Joe D'Orazio, English professional wrestler and referee
  • Norman Lear, American television writer and producer
  • Adolfo Celi, Italian actor and director (d. 1986)
• July 29
  • Mac Wilson, Australian rules footballer (d. 1996)
  • Balwant Moreshwar Purandare, Indian writer (d. 2021)
• July 31
  • Hank Bauer, American baseball right fielder, manager (d. 2007)
  • Mario Boyé, Argentine footballer (d. 1992)
  • Bill Kaysing, American writer, conspiracy theorist (d. 2005)
  • Mildred T. Stahlman, American neonatologist and academic

August

Rory Calhoun

Sōsuke Uno

• August 1 – Paul Fitzgerald, Australian painter (d. 2017)
• August 2
  • Maria Helena Andrés, Brazilian artist
  • Betsy Bloomingdale, American socialite and philanthropist (d. 2016)
  • Enrico Bomba, Italian film producer, director and screenwriter (d. unknown)
  • Paul Laxalt, American politician (d. 2018)
  • Tupua Leupena, Tuvaluan politician (d. 1996)
• August 3
  • Robert Sumner, American evangelist, author (d. 2016)
  • Su Bai, Chinese archaeologist (d. 2018)
• August 4
  • Janez Stanovnik, Slovenian economist, politician (d. 2020)
  • Charles Winick, American anthropologist, sociologist and author (d. 2015)
• August 5
  • Harry Carmean, American painter
  • Sandy Kenyon, American actor (d. 2010)
• August 6 – James Wong, Malaysian politician (d. 2011)
• August 8
  • Rory Calhoun, American television, film actor (d. 1999)
  • Robert Finn, American mathematician
  • Alberto Granado, Cuban writer, scientist (d. 2011)
• August 9 – Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985)
• August 11 – Sara Luzita, Spanish actress and dancer
• August 12
  • Wu Nansheng, Chinese politician (d. 2018)
  • Miloš Jakeš, Czech politician (d. 2020)
• August 13
  • Arch Jelley, New Zealand athletics coach
  • T. K. Murthy, Indian mridangam player
• August 14 – Leslie Marr, English racing driver (d. 2021)
• August 15
  • Peter Berkos, American sound editor
  • Lukas Foss, German-born composer (d. 2009)
  • Mehnga Singh, Indian high jumper
• August 17
  • Frederick B. Dent, American businessman and politician (d. 2019)
  • Khaled Mohieddin, Egyptian military officer, politician (d. 2018)
• August 21 – Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter, founder of the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum (d. 1998)
• August 22
  • Micheline Presle, French actress
  • William de Rham, Swiss equestrian
• August 23
  • Tônia Carrero, Brazilian actress (d. 2018)
  • Inge Deutschkron, German-Israeli journalist and author
  • Roland Dumas, French lawyer and politician
  • George Kell, American baseball player (d. 2009)
• August 24
  • René Lévesque, 23rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
  • Howard Zinn, American social activist, historian (d. 2010)
• August 25 – Ivry Gitlis, Israeli violinist (d. 2020)
• August 27 – Sōsuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1998)
• August 29 – Arthur Anderson, American actor of radio, film, television, and stage (d. 2016)
• August 31
  • Charlie Banks, Scottish-born Australian rugby player
  • André Baudry, French magazine editor (d. 2018)

September

Yvonne De Carlo

Manolis Glezos

Sid Caesar

Janis Paige

Agostinho Neto

• September 1
  • Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born American actress, dancer (d. 2007)
  • Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director (d. 2000)
• September 2 – Arthur Ashkin, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)
• September 3
  • Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (d. 1976)
  • Salli Terri, Canadian mezzo-soprano (d. 1996)
• September 4 – Fred Moore, Australian miner and activist (d. 2022)
• September 5 – Humberto Posada, Colombian fencer
• September 7
  • Paulo Autran, Brazilian actor (d. 2007)
  • David Croft, British writer, producer and actor (d. 2011)
  • Necdet Calp, Turkish civil servant, politician (d. 1998)
  • Werner Müller, Swiss canoer
• September 8
  • Sid Caesar, American actor, comedian (d. 2014)
  • Annabel Maule, English actress
• September 9
  • Bernard Bailyn, American historian and author (d. 2020)
  • Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
  • Hoyt Curtin, American composer and music producer (d. 2000)
  • Manolis Glezos, Greek Resistance fighter (d. 2020)
  • Warwick Kerr, Brazilian geneticist (d. 2018)
• September 10 – Edward B. Jelks, American archaeologist (d. 2021)
• September 11
  • Charles Evers, American politician and civil rights activist (d. 2020)
  • Baksi Nayak, Indian politician
• September 12
  • Jackson Mac Low, American poet (d. 2004)
  • Peter Sichel, German-born American wine merchant
• September 13 – Tony Sumpter, American football player (d. 2017)
• September 15
  • Jackie Cooper, American actor, director (d. 2011)
  • Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian (d. 2001)
  • Phyllis Koehn, American female professional baseball player (d. 2007)
  • Adriano Moreira, Portuguese lawyer, professor and politician
  • Mary Soames, Baroness Soames of England (d. 2014)
• September 16
  • Guy Hamilton, French-English director, screenwriter (d. 2016)
  • Janis Paige, American actress
• September 17
  • Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (d. 1979)
  • Vance Bourjaily, American writer, novelist, playwright, journalist, and essayist (d. 2010)
  • Thomas Finlay, Irish judge, politician and barrister (d. 2017)
• September 18 – John S. Foster Jr., American physicist
• September 19
  • Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakian athlete (d. 2000)
  • Dana Zátopková, Czech Olympic javelin thrower (d. 2020)
• September 21 – Lee Hee-ho, First Lady of South Korea (d. 2019)
• September 22 – Rosa Nell Speer, American southern gospel singer (d. 2017)
• September 23 – Louise Latham, American actress (d. 2018)
• September 24
  • Meche Barba, American-Mexican film actress and dancer (d. 2000)
  • Bert I. Gordon, American film director
  • Floyd Levin, American-born musicologist (d. 2007)
  • Asit Sen, Bengali Indian film director (d. 2001)
• September 25
  • Edward Arnett, American chemist
  • Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
  • Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal (d. 2019)
• September 26 – Harold Zvi Schiffrin, American professor
• September 28
  • William Leuchtenburg, American professor and historian
  • Jules Sedney, Prime Minister of Suriname (d. 2020)
• September 29
  • Noémi Ban, Hungarian-American lecturer, public speaker and Holocaust survivor (d. 2019)
  • Karl-Heinz Köpcke, German television presenter, news speaker (d. 1991)
  • Lizabeth Scott, American actress (d. 2015)

October

• October 1
  • Burke Marshall, American lawyer, politician (d. 2003)
  • Chen-Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• October 3 – Raffaele La Capria, Italian novelist and screenwriter
• October 4 – Gianna Beretta Molla, Italian Roman Catholic pediatrician, saint (d. 1962)
• October 5 – José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver (d. 2013)
• October 6 – George R. Price, American population geneticist (d. 1975)
• October 7 – Martha Stewart, American actress (d. 2021)
• October 9 – Fyvush Finkel, American comedian (d. 2016)
• October 10
  • Edna Child, English diver
  • Trond Eliassen, Norwegian architect
• October 11 – Wolfgang Zuckermann, German-American harpsichord maker and sustainability activist (d. 2018)
• October 12 – Pauline Clayden, English ballerina
• October 13 – Nathaniel Clifton, American basketball and baseball player (d. 1990)
• October 14 – Yumeji Tsukioka, Japanese actress (d. 2017)
• October 15 – Luigi Giussani, Italian Catholic priest (d. 2005)
• October 17 – Angel Wagenstein, Bulgarian film director and author
• October 19
  • Jack Anderson, American journalist (d. 2005)
  • Ebrahim Golestan, Iranian filmmaker
  • Ibrahim Ismail, Malaysian soldier (d. 2010)
• October 20
  • John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992)
  • Gaositwe Chiepe, Botswana politician and diplomat
  • Mary Fuller, American sculptor and art historian
• October 21
  • Liliane Bettencourt, French businesswoman, philanthropist (d. 2017)
  • Peter Demetz, American literature scholar
• October 22
  • John Chafee, American politician (d. 1999)
  • Lázaro Medina, Cuban baseball player
• October 23
  • Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington, English politician (d. 2018)
  • Coleen Gray, American actress (d. 2015)
• October 24 – Vittorio Casaretti, Italian footballer
• October 26
  • Ágnes Bartha, Hungarian photographer and Holocaust survivor
  • Juli Lynne Charlot, American singer, actress and fashion designer
  • Madelyn Dunham, American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (d. 2008)
  • Hans Peterson, Swedish writer
  • Richard E. Rumble, American rear admiral
• October 27
  • Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor, singer (d. 1998)
  • Ruby Dee, American actress, poet, activist, journalist and second wife of Ossie Davis (d. 2014)
  • Carlos Andrés Pérez, 55th President of Venezuela (d. 2010)
  • Michel Galabru, French actor (d. 2016)
  • Ralph Kiner, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2014)
  • Del Rice, American professional baseball player, coach and manager (d. 1983)
• October 28
  • Gershon Kingsley, German-American composer (d. 2019)
  • Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007)
• October 30 – Iancu Țucărman, Romanian Holocaust survivor (d. 2021)
• October 31
  • Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress, children's book author (d. 2005)
  • András Hegedüs, 45th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1999)
  • Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia (d. 2012)

November

Christiaan Barnard

Dorothy Dandridge

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

José Saramago

Charles M. Schulz

• November 1
  • Ezio Barbieri, Italian criminal (d. 2018)
  • Muriel Spurgeon Carder, Canadian baptist
• November 2
  • Michael Loewe, English sinologist, historian and writer
  • Stan Perron, Australian businessman (d. 2018)
• November 3 – Townsend Cromwell, American oceanographer (d. 1958)
• November 4 – Eddie Basinski, American baseball player (d. 2022)
• November 5
  • Sydney Kentridge, South African lawyer
  • María Isabel Rodríguez, Salvadorian physician, academic and government official
  • Yitzchok Scheiner, American-born rabbi (d. 2021)
• November 6
  • Ronald Blythe, English author
  • Vivian Kellogg, American professional baseball player (d. 2013)
• November 8 – Chris Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon, heart transplant pioneer (d. 2001)
• November 9
  • Dorothy Dandridge, African-American actress (d. 1965)
  • Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
  • Maurice Racca, French sports shooter
• November 10 – Harry Dornbrand, American aerospace engineer
• November 11
  • George Blake, né Behar, Dutch-born British double agent (d. 2020)
  • Abdullahi Issa, Somalian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 1988)
  • Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007)
• November 12
  • Ichiro Abe, Japanese judoka
  • Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)
• November 13 – Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d. 1984)
• November 14
  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2016)
  • Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)
• November 15 – David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist (d. 2019)
• November 16
  • Royal Dano, American actor (d. 1994)
  • Patricia Barry, American actress (d. 2016)
  • Hoàng Minh Chính, Vietnamese politician, dissident (d. 2008)
  • Sidney Mintz, American anthropologist (d. 2015)
  • José Saramago, Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
• November 17 – Stanley Cohen, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2020)
• November 18 – Luis Somoza Debayle, 26th President of Nicaragua (d. 1967)
• November 19
  • Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist, epigrapher (d. 1999)
  • Branislav Šoškić, Montenegrin politician
• November 21
  • Dieter Gruen, German-born American scientist
  • James M. Houston, English-born Canadian theologian and academic
• November 22
  • Roberto Aballay, Argentine footballer
  • Pietro Reggio, Italian sailor
  • Francesco Rosi, Italian film director (d. 2015)
• November 23
  • Donald Tennant, American advertising agency executive (d. 2001)
  • Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese politician, statesman (d. 2008)
• November 24
  • Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American inventor and scientist (d. 2012)
  • Song Sin-do, Korean former comfort woman (d. 2017)
• November 25
  • Shelagh Fraser, British actress (d. 2000)
  • René Schérer, French philosopher and professor
  • Henri Simon, French marxist militant
• November 26 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
• November 27
  • Nicholas Magallanes, Mexican-American principal dancer, charter member of the New York City Ballet (d. 1977)
  • Jacqueline White, American actress
• November 29 – Michael Howard, English historian, author and academic (d. 2019)

December

Dilip Kumar

Ava Gardner

Stan Lee

• December 1
  • William James Lanyon Smith, New Zealand naval officer (d. 2018)
  • Charles Gérard, French actor (d. 2019)
  • S. H. Sarma, Indian admiral (d. 2022)
• December 2
  • Charles Diggs, American politician (d. 1998)
  • Leo Gordon, American actor (d. 2000)
  • Joan Langdon, Canadian swimmer
• December 3 – Edward Jackson, Indian cricketer
• December 4
  • Densey Clyne, Australian naturalist, photographer and writer (d. 2019)
  • Gérard Philipe, French actor (d. 1959)
• December 5
  • William Davidson, American sports owner (d. 2009)
  • Don Robertson, American songwriter and pianist (d. 2015)
• December 6 – Benjamin A. Gilman, American politician (d. 2016)
• December 8
  • Lucian Freud, German born painter (d. 2011)
  • Jean Porter, American actress (d. 2018)
  • Gerhard Löwenthal, German journalist (d. 2002)
  • Sol Yaged, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2019)
• December 9
  • Redd Foxx, African-American comedian, actor (d. 1991)
  • Gulabrao Jedhe, Indian politician
• December 10 – Edith Ballantyne, Czech-born Canadian peace activist
• December 11
  • Frank Blaichman, Polish author (d. 2018)
  • Dilip Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2021)
  • Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress, television personality (d. 2008)
  • Noah Hutchings, American president of Southwest Radio Ministries (d. 2015)
• December 12
  • Vasily Borisov, Soviet Olympic rifle shooter
  • Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter, writer (d. 1979)
  • Edythe Perlick, American female baseball player (d. 2003)
• December 14
  • Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
  • Antonio Larreta, Uruguayan theatre actor, critic and writer (d. 2015)
  • Gisela Litz, German contralto
• December 15 – Rusi Cooper, Indian cricketer
• December 16 – B. G. Hendrix, American politician (d. 2020)
• December 17 – Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
• December 18
  • Ivor Broadis, English footballer (d. 2019)
  • Carlos Altamirano, Chilean lawyer and socialist politician (d. 2019)
  • Jack Brooks, American politician (d. 2012)
• December 19 – Niels Holst-Sørensen, Danish athlete and Air force officer
• December 20
  • Charita Bauer, American actress, soap opera star (d. 1985)
  • Beverly Pepper, American sculptor and painter (d. 2020)
  • Tony Vaccaro, American photographer
• December 21
  • Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor, politician (d. 1989)
  • Paul Winchell, American actor (d. 2005)
• December 22
  • Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, Princess of Luxembourg (d. 2011)
  • Jean Malaurie, French anthropologist, explorer and writer
• December 23
  • Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (d. 2001)
  • Marcel Otto-Bruc, French sports shooter
• December 24
  • Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
  • Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-American filmmaker and poet (d. 2019)
• December 25
  • Rudolf Harmstorf, German sailor
  • Heera Bhai, Indian politician
  • Neal Watlington, American Major League Baseball player (d. 2019)
  • Steve Wochy, Canadian ice hockey player
• December 26
  • Chuck Cecil, American radio broadcaster (d. 2019)
  • Harry Choates, American fiddler (d. 1951)
• December 27
  • Miller Anderson, American diver (d. 1965)
  • Derek Piggott, English aviator and flight instructor (d. 2019)
• December 28
  • Eli Bornstein, American-born Canadian artist and teacher
  • Ivan Desny, Swiss actor (d. 2002)
  • Stan Lee, American comics creator (d. 2018)
  • Ramapada Chowdhury, Indian novelist and writer (d. 2018)
• December 29 – William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998)
• December 30
  • Boes Boestami, Indonesian actor (d. 1970)
  • Magín Díaz, Colombian musician, composer (d. 2017)
  • Jane Langton, American author, illustrator (d. 2018)
• Unknown – Lu Yongfu, Chinese translator

Unknown

• Hiroshi Abe, Japanese soldier and war criminal

Deaths

January

Ernest Shackleton

Okuma Shigenobu

Frank Tudor

Pope Benedict XV

• January 1 – István Kühár, Prekmurje Slovene writer, politician (b. 1887)
• January 5 – Sir Ernest Shackleton, British explorer (b. 1874)
• January 10
  • Ōkuma Shigenobu, 2-time Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1838)
  • Frank Tudor, Australian politician (b. 1866)
• January 15 – John Kirk, British explorer (b. 1832)
• January 21 – John Kendrick Bangs, American author and satirist (b. 1862)
• January 22
  • Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
  • Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1837)
  • James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Irish-born politician, diplomat and historian (b. 1838)
  • William Christie, British astronomer (b. 1845)
• January 23 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
• January 27
  • Nellie Bly, American undercover journalist (b. 1864)
  • Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (b. 1840)
• January 31 – Heinrich Reinhardt, Austrian composer (b. 1865)

February

Yamagata Aritomo

• February 1
  • Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese field marshal, 3rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1838)
  • William Desmond Taylor, Irish-born film director (b. 1872)
• February 3
  • Christiaan de Wet, Boer general, rebel leader, and politician (b. 1854)
  • John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
• February 4 – Henry Jones, British philosopher (b. 1852)
• February 8 – Kabayama Sukenori, Japanese samurai, general and statesman (b. 1837)
• February 14 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish Minister of Interior (b. 1880)
• February 16 – Newton Knight, American farmer, soldier and Southern Unionist in Mississippi and Civil War guerrilla (b. 1829)
• February 23 – John Joseph Jolly Kyle, Argentine chemist (b. 1838).
• February 25 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (executed) (b. 1869)

March

• March 1 – Pichichi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
• March 4 – Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874)
• March 10 – Harry Kellar, American magician (b. 1849)
• March 19 – Max von Hausen, German general (b. 1846)
• March 21 – C. V. Raman Pillai, Indian novelist and playwright (b. 1858)
• March 31 – Andreas Gruber (b. 1859), Cäzila Gruber (b. 1850), Viktoria Gabriel (b. 1887), Cäzila Gabriel (b. 1915), Josef Gruber (b. 1920) and Maria Baumgartner (b. 1878). The Hinterkaifeck murders

April

Charles I of Austria

• April 1 – Emperor Charles I of Austria (b. 1887)
• April 2 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1884)
• April 8 – Erich von Falkenhayn, German general (b. 1861)
• April 9
  • Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist (b. 1866)
  • Patrick Manson, Scottish physician (b. 1844)
• April 14 – Cap Anson, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1852)
• April 28 – Paul Deschanel, President of France (b. 1855)

May

Ernest Solvay

Michael Mayr

• May 3 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Communist politician (b. 1888)
• May 7 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
• May 12 – John Martin Poyer, United States Navy Commander, 12th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1861)
• May 15 – Leslie Ward, English portrait artist, caricaturist (b. 1851)
• May 16 – Rudolf Montecuccoli, Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. 1843)
• May 18 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
• May 19 – Son Byong-hi, Korean activist (b. 1861)
• May 21 – Michael Mayr, Austrian politician, 2nd Chancellor of Austria (b. 1864)
• May 26 – Ernest Solvay, Belgian chemist, philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1838)

June

Prince Albert I of Monaco

• June 4 – W. H. R. Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864)
• June 6
  • Lillian Russell, American singer, actress (b. 1861)
  • Richard A. Ballinger, American politician (b. 1858)
• June 18
  • Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
  • Belgrave Ninnis, British explorer (b. 1837)
• June 20 – Vittorio Monti, Italian composer (b. 1868)
• June 21 – Take Ionescu, 29th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1858)
• June 22 – Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet, British field marshal and politician (b. 1864)
• June 23 - Wu Tingfang, Chinese Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1842)
• June 24 – Walter Rathenau, German statesman, Weimar Republic foreign minister (assassinated) (b. 1867)
• June 26 – Prince Albert I of Monaco (b. 1848)
• June 27 – Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito of Japan (b. 1867)
• June 28 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet, playwright (b. 1885)

July

• July 4 – Lothar von Richthofen, German World War I flying ace (flying accident) (b. 1894)
• July 6 – Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, Polish-born missionary sister (b. 1863)
• July 8 – Muhammad V an-Nasir, Bey of Tunis (b. 1855)
• July 17 – Heinrich Rubens, German physicist (b. 1865)
• July 20 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
• July 22 – Jōkichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
• July 25 – Paul Maistre, French general (b. 1858)
• July 28
  • Jules Guesde, French Socialist journalist and politician (b. 1845)
  • Édouard Harlé, French engineer and prehistorian (b. 1850)
• July 31 – Mary Noailles Murfree, American novelist (b. 1850)

August

Alexander Graham Bell

Saint Benjamin of Petrograd

• August 2
  • Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1847)
  • Harry Boland, Irish republican (b. 1887)
• August 3 – Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist, politician (b. 1851)
• August 4
  • Nikolai Nebogatov, Russian admiral (b. 1849)
  • Enver Pasha, Ottoman military leader, Turkish revolutionary (b. 1881)
• August 5 – Tommy McCarthy, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1863)
• August 12 – Arthur Griffith, Irish republican, President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1872)
• August 13 – Saint Benjamin of Petrograd (b. 1873)
• August 14
  • Barbara Galpin, American journalist (b. 1855)
  • Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, British newspaper magnate (b. 1865)
• August 19 – Felip Pedrell, Spanish composer (b. 1841)
• August 22
  • Sir Thomas Brock, British sculptor (b. 1847)
  • Michael Collins, Irish republican, revolutionary, and Chairman of the Provisional Government (assassinated) (b. 1890)
• August 23 – Gheorghe Bengescu, Romanian diplomat and man of letters (b. 1844)
• August 25 – Ioannis Svoronos, Greek numismatist (b. 1863)
• August 29 – Georges Sorel, French philosopher, theorist of revolutionary syndicalism (b. 1847)

September

Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna

• September 1 – Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany, British royal (b. 1861)
• September 4 – James Young, Scottish footballer (motorcycle accident) (b. 1882)
• September 5 – Sarah Winchester, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (b. 1837)
• September 7 – William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (b. 1852)
• September 10
  • Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna (b. 1867)
  • Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, British poet (b. 1840)
• September 25 – Carlo Caneva, Italian general (b. 1845)
• September 26
  • Sir Charles Wade, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1863)
  • Thomas E. Watson, American politician, senator (b. 1856)

October

Oscar Hertwig

• October 7 – Marie Lloyd, British singer (b. 1870)
• October 11 – Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1867)
• October 13 – Elizabeth Williams Champney, American author (b. 1850)
• October 22 – Lyman Abbott, American theologian (b. 1835)
• October 25 – Oscar Hertwig, German zoologist (b. 1849)
• October 30 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author (b. 1863)

November

Marcel Proust

• November 1 – Lima Barreto, Brazilian writer (b. 1881)
• November 7 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1860)
• November 14 – Godfrey Chevalier, American naval aviation pioneer (b. 1889)
• November 15 – Dimitrios Gounaris, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1867)
• November 18 – Marcel Proust, French author (b. 1871)
• November 23 – Eduard Seler, Prussian scholar, Mesoamericanist (b. 1849)
• November 24
  • Erskine Childers, Irish novelist, nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
  • Sidney Sonnino, 19th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1847)
• November 27 – Demetrio Castillo Duany, Cuban revolutionary, soldier, and politician (b. 1856)
• November 30 – René Cresté, French actor, director (b. 1881)

December

Gabriel Narutowicz

• December 12 – John Wanamaker, American businessman (b. 1838)
• December 13 – Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861)
• December 14 – Henry Pierrepoint, British executioner (b. 1878)
• December 16 – Gabriel Narutowicz, Polish professor and politician, 1st President of Poland (assassinated) (b. 1865)
• December 17 – David Lindsay, Australian explorer (b. 1856)

Date unknown

• Sufi Azizur Rahman, Bengali Muslim theologian and teacher (b. 1862)
• Sergei Sheydeman, Russian general (b. 1857)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Niels Henrik David Bohr
• Chemistry – Francis William Aston
• Physiology or Medicine – Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Fritz Meyerhof
• Literature – Jacinto Benavente
• Peace – Fridtjof Nansen