Wikipedia / 1946
Wikipedia / 1946
1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade.
Events
January
January 6 – The first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
January 7 – The Allies of World War II recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four occupation zones.
The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London.
Project Diana bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age.
January 11 – Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister. He will remain effectively as a dictator of the country until his death in 1985.
January 16 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as head of the French provisional government.
January 17 – The United Nations Security Council holds its first session, at Church House, Westminster in London.
The Bell XS-1 is test flown for the first time (unpowered), with Bell's chief test pilot Jack Woolams at the controls.
General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo, to try Japanese war criminals.
Expulsion of Germans of Hungary begins from Wudersch.
January 20 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France.
Iran crisis of 1946: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad, at the Chahar Cheragh Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president; Haji Baba Sheikh is the prime minister.
The National Intelligence Authority, and its operational arm, the Central Intelligence Group, are established in the United States; these become part of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947.
January 28 – The Canadian schooner Bluenose founders on a Haitian reef.
The last session of the Permanent Court of International Justice occurs.
Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeled on the Soviet Union, establishes 6 constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
February
Trygve Lie of Norway is selected as the first United Nations Secretary-General.
The Kingdom of Hungary becomes a republic, heavily influenced by the Soviet Union.
February 14 – ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), an early general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania; it weighs 60,000 pounds (over 27 tons), and occupies a big room.
February 15 – The Gouzenko Affair: Canada announces the discovery of a ring of Canadian communist spies based at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, passing atomic bomb secrets to Russia.
February 20 – An explosion kills more than 400 coal miners in Bergkamen, West Germany.
February 24 – Juan Perón is elected president of Argentina.
March
British troops withdraw from Iran according to treaty; the Soviets do not.
Ho Chi Minh is elected President of North Vietnam.
March 4 – C. G. E. Mannerheim resigns as president of Finland.
March 5 – In a speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill talks about the Iron Curtain.
March 6 – First Indochina War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France, which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
March 7 – The 18th Academy Awards Ceremony is held. Best Picture goes to The Lost Weekend.
March 8 – The Bell 47 becomes the first helicopter certified for civilian use in the United States
March 9 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi becomes the 7th President of Finland.
The Soviet Union and Switzerland resume diplomatic relations.
French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
March 22 – The United Kingdom grants the British protectorate of the Emirate of Transjordan (later known as Jordan) its independence by the Treaty of London.
March 29 – The Gold Coast has an African majority in its parliament.
April
The 8.6 Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands, resulting in many deaths, mostly in Hilo. Between 165 and 173 are killed.
The Malayan Union is formed on dissolution of the British Military Administration and Singapore becomes a Crown colony.
The Battle of Määritsa takes place between Estonian partisans and Soviet forces in southeastern Estonia.
April 3 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines, for leading the Bataan Death March.
April 5 – A British Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.
April 10 – In Japan, women vote for the first time, during elections for the House of Representatives of the 90th Imperial Diet.
April 14 – Sh'erit ha-Pletah members of Nakam, the "Jewish Avengers", use arsenic to poison bread baked for SS prisoners of war held at Stalag XIII-D by the Americans.
April 17 – Syria's independence from France is officially recognized.
The inaugural session of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) takes place at The Hague.
The League of Nations, in its last meeting, transfers its mission to the United Nations and disbands itself.
The United States recognizes Josip Broz Tito's government in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
April 25 – Naperville train disaster: The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's Exposition Flyer crashes at speed into the rear of the Advance Flyer at Loomis Street in Naperville, Illinois; 45 are killed.
April 28 – Kinderdorf Pestalozzi (Pestalozzi Children's Village) is established at Trogen, Switzerland to accommodate and educate orphans of World War II, according to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi's principles.
April 29 – Trials against war criminals begin in Tokyo; the accused include Hideki Tojo, Shigenori Tōgō and Hiroshi Ōshima.
May
May 1 – At least 800 Indigenous Australian pastoral workers walk off the job in Northwest Western Australia, starting one of the longest industrial strikes in Australia.
May 7 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded, with about 20 employees.
May 9 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates, and is succeeded by his son Umberto II.
Jawaharlal Nehru is elected leader of the Congress Party in India.
The first V-2 rocket to be successfully launched in the United States is fired from White Sands Missile Range.
May 21 – Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin accidentally triggers a fission reaction at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States and, although saving his coworkers, gives himself a lethal dose of ionizing radiation, making him the second victim of a criticality accident in history (the incident is initially treated as classified information).
May 23–24 – A two-day violent tornado outbreak occurs across the Central United States, with at least 15 significant tornadoes killing four people and injuring 42 others.
May 25 – The Emirate of Transjordan becomes the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan when its parliament makes the ruling amir Abdullah their king on the day it ratifies the Treaty of London.
May 26 – 1946 Czechoslovak parliamentary election: The communist party wins 38% of the vote in the last election before communists take power.
May 31 – The 1946 Greek referendum supports the return of the monarchy.
June
Ion Antonescu, prime minister and "Conducator" (Leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed: he was found guilty of betraying the Romanian people for the benefit of Germany and sentenced to death by the Bucharest People's Tribunal.
D'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner for Indo-China, recognizes an autonomous "Republic of Cochin-China" in violation of the March 6 Ho–Sainteny agreement, opening the way for conflict between the Viet Minh and France.
June 2 – 1946 Italian institutional referendum: Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a republic. In the simultaneous 1946 Italian general election, the first since the end of World War II and also the first in which women are allowed to vote, the Christian Democracy party, led by Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi, wins most seats in the Constituent Assembly of Italy and forms a coalition government. Christian Democracy leads the Italian government continuously until 1981.
June 3 – Interpol is re-founded; the telegraphic address "Interpol" is adopted.
June 4 - Juan Perón was inaugurated as the twenty-ninth President of Argentina for a six-year elective term.
June 8 – In Indonesia, Sukarno incites his supporters to fight Dutch colonial occupation.
June 9 – In Thailand, King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) accedes to the throne after the death of his elder brother, King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII). He will reign until his death on October 13, 2016.
June 13 – Umberto II of Italy leaves the country and goes into exile in Portugal; Alcide De Gasperi becomes head of state.
June 14 – The Baruch Plan is proposed to the United Nations.
June 17 – Formal ratification of the Treaty of London grants independence to the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan.
The 7.5 Vancouver Island earthquake affects the island, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Two people are killed.
1946 French India municipal election: The National Democratic Front wins a landslide victory.
June 25 – The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) (World Bank) begins operations.
June 30 – The War Relocation Authority, which has administered the internment of Japanese Americans, is abolished.
July
July 1 – Nuclear testing: Operation Crossroads, a series of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in Micronesia, is initiated by the detonation of Able at an altitude of 520 feet (158m).
After more than 48 years of American dominance, the Philippines attains full independence as the 3rd Republic; Manuel A. Roxas is 5th President of the Philippines. It marks the end of nearly 400 years of colonial era when the Viceroyalty of New Spain took control since April 27, 1565.
The Kielce Pogrom takes place in Poland.
July 16 – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) within the Department of the Interior is formed by the merger of the Grazing Service and United States General Land Office.
July 21 – An Irgun bomb explodes in Jerusalem, during secretive talks between Jews and Britain to consolidate the state of Israel.
July 22 – King David Hotel bombing: The Irgun bombs the King David Hotel (headquarters of the British civil and military administration) in Jerusalem, killing 90.
Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.
At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
In the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white men shoot and kill two African-American couples, near Moore's Ford Bridge in Georgia.
August
August 1 – The Scandinavian Airlines System is founded as a consortium of the flag carriers of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
August 3 – Santa Claus Land opens to the public at Santa Claus, Indiana. It becomes the first themed park, preceding Disneyland by 9 years, and is later renamed Holiday World.
August 4 – The 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake (magnitude 8.0) hits the northern Dominican Republic, killing 100 and leaving 20,000 homeless.
August 7 – The Soviet Union escalates the Turkish Straits crisis through a diplomatic demand to Turkey.
Direct Action Day: Violence between Muslims and Hindus in Calcutta begins "The Week of the Long Knives", which leaves 3,000 dead.
The All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress is founded in Secunderabad, India.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party is founded in South Kurdistan.
August 18 – The Vergarola explosion of ordnance in Croatia kills 70.
August 30 – Bell's chief test pilot, Jack Woolams, dies in a plane crash while flying the P-39 "Cobra I" over Lake Ontario preparing for an air race the following day.
September
September 1 – 1946 Turin Grand Prix, the first official Formula One Grand Prix, is held in Italy.
September 2 – The Interim Government of India takes charge, with Jawaharlal Nehru as vice president, as part of the transition from the British Raj to full independence for India and Pakistan.
September 4 – Street violence between Muslims and Hindus erupts in Bombay.
September 5 – Gruber–De Gasperi Agreement signed between Austria and Italy to preserve the rights of the German-speaking population of South Tyrol within Italy.
September 7 – First devaluation in Turkey: the lira loses 40% of its value.
September 8 – Bulgaria is declared a People's Republic after a referendum; King Simeon II leaves.
September 10 – Operation Black Tulip, the expulsion of Germans from the Netherlands, begins in Amsterdam.
September 19 – The idea of the Council of Europe is introduced in a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
September 24 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong, by American Roy Farrell and Australian Sydney de Kantzow.
1946 Australian federal election: Ben Chifley's Labor government is re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the Liberal/Country Coalition led by former Prime Minister Robert Menzies. This is the first occasion where a Labor government successfully wins two elections in a row on a federal level, albeit with a swing against them; among the casualties are former Prime Minister Frank Forde. This is also the first election contested by the newly formed Liberal Party, which had replaced the United Australia Party as the main centre-right political party in Australia.
George II of Greece returns to Athens from exile in England.
October
October 1 – Mensa, an international organization for people with a high intelligence quotient (IQ), is founded by Roland Berrill, an Australian-born lawyer, and Lancelot Ware, an English biochemist and lawyer, in Oxford.
October 6 – Sweden's Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson dies in office of a heart attack.
October 10 – The Noakhali riots in Bengal begin: several hundred Hindus are massacred by Muslims.
October 11 – After a few days of vacancy, the Swedish premiership is taken over by Tage Erlander.
October 13 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
October 14 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
October 15 – Nuremberg trials: Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, poisons himself two hours before his scheduled execution.
The remaining ten Nazi war criminals sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials are executed by hanging, in a gymnasium in the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg.
The United Nations' first meeting in Long Island is held.
October 23 – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
October 24–November 11 – 1946 Bihar riots: Hindu mobs target Muslim families in the Indian state of Bihar, resulting in anywhere between 2,000 and 30,000 deaths.
November
November 4 – UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is established as a specialized agency of the United Nations.
November 10 – At least 1,400 people are killed when the 6.8–7.0 Ancash earthquake affects the Quiches District of Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme).
A truce is declared between Indonesian nationalist troops and the Dutch army in Indonesia.
In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank (later part of the Bank of America) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows.
November 15 – By the Linggadjati Agreement, the Netherlands recognizes the Republic of Indonesia.
Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
1946 Romanian general election: The Romanian Communist Party wins 79.86% of the vote, through widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud.
Vietnamese riot in Haiphong and clash with French troops. In the Haiphong incident, the French cruiser Suffren opens fire, killing 6,000 Vietnamese.
The Workers' Party of South Korea is founded.
November 27 – Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster."
November 29 – The Central All-Indonesian Workers Organization (SOBSI) is founded in Jakarta.
December
December 1 – Miguel Alemán Valdés takes office as President of Mexico.
December 2 – The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is signed in Washington, D.C., to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry" through establishment of the International Whaling Commission.
December 7 – The Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta, United States, kills 119.
December 10 – John Peters Humphrey, main author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, becomes Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights.
December 11 – UNICEF (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) is founded.
The United Nations severs relations with Francoist Spain and recommends that member countries sever diplomatic relations.
Léon Blum founds a government of socialist parties in France.
Iran crisis of 1946: Iranian troops recapture the Azerbaijan province.
The International Labour Organization becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
Proposed United States purchase of Greenland from Denmark: An offer is made through diplomatic channels.
Aspen Skiing Company opens Aspen Mountain (ski area) in Colorado with Ski Lift No. 1, at the world's longest chairlift at this time.
The first French India Representative Assembly election is held.
Iran crisis of 1946: Iranian troops recapture the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad.
December 16 – Siam joins the United Nations (changes its name to Thailand in 1949).
December 19 – Viet Minh forces begin a war against French occupying forces in Vietnam, succeeding in 1954 with France's surrender at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
December 20 – Film It's a Wonderful Life is released in the United States; it becomes an enduring classic.
December 21 – 1946 Nankai earthquake: At least 1,362 people are killed in an earthquake and associated tsunami in Japan.
December 22 – The Havana Conference begins between U.S. organized crime bosses in Havana, Cuba.
December 24 – The French Fourth Republic is founded.
December 25 – The first artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Europe is initiated, within the Soviet (Russian) nuclear reactor F-1.
December 31 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman delivers Proclamation 2714, which officially ends hostilities in World War II.
Date unknown
Cancelled 1946 FIFA World Cup.
Female suffrage is enacted in Romania, Yugoslavia, Argentina and the Canadian province of Quebec.
The first female police officers are hired in Korea and Japan.
The Chinese Civil War intensifies between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party.
Eva Perón tours Spain, Italy and France on behalf of Argentina, a circuit called the Rainbow Tour.
The 20mm M61 Vulcan Gatling gun contract is released.
The Casio company is founded by engineer Tadao Kashio in Japan.
The Magic 8 Ball is invented by Albert C. Carter and Abe Bookman.
Births
January
Alfonso Caruana, Italian mobster
Rivellino, Brazilian football player
John Paul Jones, English rock bassist (Led Zeppelin, Them Crooked Vultures)
Cissy King, American dancer, singer
Diana Ewing, American actress
Lisa Appignanesi, Polish-born British-Canadian writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression
January 5 – Diane Keaton, American actress, film director (Annie Hall) (d. 2025)
January 6 – Syd Barrett, English rock guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pink Floyd) (d. 2006)
January 8 – Robby Krieger, American rock musician (The Doors)
Mogens Lykketoft, Danish politician
Kalidas Karmakar, Bangladeshi artist
Ha Yu, Hong Kong actor
January 12 – George Duke, African-American musician (d. 2013)
Feró Nagy, Hungarian singer
Harold Shipman, British serial killer (d. 2004)
Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
Michael Coats, American astronaut
Katia Ricciarelli, Italian singer
January 17 – Frank Bey, American blues singer (d. 2020)
Paul Shmyr, Canadian National Hockey League player (d. 2004)
Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councillor
Julian Barnes, English novelist
Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 2026)
January 20 – David Lynch, American film director (d. 2025)
Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter, musician and music manager (d. 2010)
Serge Savard, Canadian hockey player, executive
January 24 – Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor (The Rookies)
January 25 – Géza Bereményi, Hungarian writer, screenwriter and film director
Gene Siskel, American film critic (Sneak Previews) (d. 1999)
Michel Delpech, French singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2016)
January 27 – Nedra Talley, African-American singer (The Ronettes)
January 29 – Bettye LaVette, African-American soul singer-songwriter
January 30 – John Bird, Baron Bird, British social entrepreneur and life peer
January 31 – Terry Kath, American rock musician (Chicago) (d. 1978)
February
Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (d. 2011)
Pascal Bonitzer, French screenwriter, film director, actor and film critic
Blake Clark, American actor, comedian
February 4 – Ron Anderson, American vocal coach and opera singer (d. 2021)
February 5 – Charlotte Rampling, British actress
Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
Jim Turner, American politician
Sammy Johns, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (d. 2011)
Héctor Babenco, Argentine-Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor (d. 2016)
February 9 – Seán Neeson, Northern Irish politician
February 10 – Dick Anderson, American professional football player
Joe Estevez, American actor
Colin Matthews, British composer
Richard Blumenthal, American lawyer and politician
Bernard Dowiyogo, 7-time President of Nauru (d. 2003)
Tina Aumont, American actress (d. 2006)
Gregory Hines, African-American dancer, actor (d. 2003)
February 16 – Marvin Sease, American blues and soul singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
February 18 – Michael Buerk, British journalist and newsreader
February 19 – Karen Silkwood, American activist (d. 1974)
Brenda Blethyn, British actress
Sandy Duncan, American singer, dancer, comedian and actress
J. Geils, American guitarist (The J. Geils Band) (d. 2017)
Alan Rickman, English actor, film director (d. 2016)
Anthony Daniels, English actor
Vito Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian mobster (d. 2013)
Monica Johnson, American screenwriter (d. 2010)
Tyne Daly, American actress (Cagney & Lacey)
February 23 – Allan Boesak, South African Dutch Reformed Church cleric, politician and anti-apartheid activist
February 24 – Jiří Bělohlávek, Czech orchestral conductor (d. 2017)
Andrew Ang, judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore
Franz Xaver Kroetz, German dramatist
Jean Todt, French motorsport manager
Elkie Brooks, English rock, blues and jazz singer
Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
Colin Bell, English footballer (d. 2021)
Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, British aristocrat (d. 2018)
Jaroslav Beneš, Czech photographer
Don Ciccone, American singer-songwriter (The Critters) (d. 2016)
Robin Cook, British politician (d. 2005)
Don Francisco, American Christian musician
Syreeta Wright, African-American singer-songwriter ("With You I'm Born Again") (d. 2004)
March
Jan Kodeš, Czech tennis player
Lana Wood, American actress, producer
Tony Ashton, English rock pianist, keyboardist, singer, composer, producer and artist (d. 2001)
March 2 – Morari Bapu, Hindu Kathakaar
March 3 – James C. Adamson, NASA astronaut
Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur
Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker
Harvey Goldsmith, British impresario
Murray Head, English singer, actor
Lova Moor, French singer, dancer
Rocky Bleier, American professional football player and veteran
Richard A. Sofio, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1987 to 1990 (d. 2009)
Larry Huber, American television producer, animator
David Gilmour, English rock musician (Pink Floyd)
John Heard, American actor (d. 2017)
Okko Kamu, Finnish conductor, violinist
Leandro Mendoza, Filipino politician (d. 2013)
Peter Wolf, American rock musician (The J. Geils Band)
Steve Ashley, English singer-songwriter, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, writer and graphic designer
Alexandra Bastedo, British actress (d. 2014)
March 10 – Mike Hollands, Australian animator
Frank Welker, American voice actor, singer
Liza Minnelli, American singer, actress
Yonatan Netanyahu, American-born Israeli Army officer (d. in Operation Entebbe) (d. 1976)
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, French environmentalist, activist, journalist and photographer
Álvaro Arzú, 32nd President of Guatemala (d. 2018)
Wes Unseld, American basketball player (d. 2020)
Mieke Bal, Dutch cultural theorist, video artist and professor
Molana Azizullah Bohio, Pakistani religious scholar and politician (d. 2021)
March 15 – Bobby Bonds, American baseball player, manager (d. 2003)
March 16 – Sigmund Groven, Norwegian classical harmonica player
March 17 – Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1995)
March 18 – Larry Langford, American politician (d. 2019)
Steve Halliwell, English actor (d. 2023)
Paul Atkinson, British guitarist and record company executive (d. 2004)
March 21 – Timothy Dalton, Welsh actor
March 23 – Qamaruzzaman Azmi, Indian Islamic scholar, philosopher and speaker, president of the World Islamic Mission
Cliff Balsom, English footballer
Stewart W. Bainum Jr., American businessman and politician
March 26 – Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, Spanish judge (d. 2019)
Andy Bown, British singer, songwriter, musician (The Herd, solo, Status Quo)
Mike Jackson, American baseball pitcher
Miklós Lukáts, Hungarian politician (d. 2022)
Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician, journalist (d. 2017)
Billy Thorpe, English-born Australian singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
March 30 – Carolyn Simpson, judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1984)
April
April 1 – Ronnie Lane, English musician (Small Faces, Faces) (d. 1997)
Hamengkubuwono X, Sultan of the historic Yogyakarta Sultanate in Indonesia, Governor of Yogyakarta Special Region
Beno Axionov, Russian-Moldovan actor, director, drama teacher and screenwriter
Jane Asher, English actress
János Bródy, Hungarian singer, guitarist, composer and songwriter
Björn Granath, Swedish actor (d. 2017)
April 6 – Paul Beresford, British-New Zealander politician
Colette Besson, French track and field athlete (d. 2005)
Léon Krier, Luxembourgish architect
Zaid Abdul-Aziz, American professional basketball player
Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (d. 1999)
Tim Thomerson, American actor and comedian
April 10 – David Angell, American television producer (d. 2001)
Chris Burden, American artist (d. 2015)
Bob Harris, British radio presenter
Nicholas Ball, British actor (d. 2024)
April 12 – Ed O'Neill, American actor (Married... with Children)
April 13 – Al Green, African-American singer-songwriter and record producer
April 15 – Marsha Hunt, American actress, singer and novelist
April 16 – Margot Adler, American journalist
April 18 – Hayley Mills, English actress
April 19 – Tim Curry, British actor, voice artist and singer (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) (d. 2026)
Julien Poulin, Canadian actor (d. 2025)
John Waters, American film director
Paul Davies, English physicist
Allahverdi Baghirov, (d. 1992) Azerbaijani officer, leader of the Azerbaijani Popular Front Party of Agdam and head coach of Qarabağ FK
Rosy Afsari, Bangladeshi actress (d. 2007)
Blair Brown, American actress
Phil Robertson, American businessman and reality television personality (d. 2025)
Kamla Bhasin, Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist (d. 2021)
Ronnie Bird, French singer
John Fox, British statistician
Talia Shire, American actress (Rocky)
Strobe Talbott, American journalist
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician (d. 2022)
Jennie Stoller, British actress (d. 2018)
Richard S. Fuld Jr., American banker
Nour El-Sherif, Egyptian actor (d. 2015)
Beverly Bivens, American singer (We Five)
Franc Roddam, English film director, businessman, screenwriter, television producer and publisher
Cliven Bundy, American cattle rancher
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Bill Plympton, American animator, graphic designer, cartoonist and filmmaker
Lee Bollinger, American attorney and educator
May
May 1 – Joanna Lumley, English actress, author
Lesley Gore, American rock singer ("It's My Party") (d. 2015)
Ralf Gothóni, Finnish pianist, conductor and composer
May 3 – Mohammed Ibrahim, Sudanese-British businessman and philanthropist
John Watson, Northern Irish racecar driver
John Barnard, English engineer and racing car designer
Gary Bauer, American civil servant, activist and politician
Jim Kelly, African-American actor, martial artist and tennis player (d. 2013)
Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 1996)
Beth Carvalho, Brazilian samba singer, guitarist and composer (d. 2019)
Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian lifeguard and surfer (d. 1978)
Daouda Malam Wanké, 6th President of Niger (d. 2004)
Susan Brown, English actress
Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
Michael Rosen, British poet and children's author
Candice Bergen, American actress
Yoel Bin-Nun, Israeli religious Zionist rabbi, a founder of Yeshivat Har Etzion, Gush Emunim, Michlelet Herzog, Alon Shevut and Ofra
Donovan, Scottish rock musician
Birutė Galdikas, Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist and author
Graham Gouldman, English songwriter, musician (10cc, Wax)
Dave Mason, English rock musician (Traffic) (d. 2026)
Murade Isaac Murargy, Mozambican diplomat, politician
Robert Jarvik, American physicist, artificial heart inventor (d. 2025)
Ana Amado, Argentine journalist, filmmaker, academic and feminist (d. 2016)
May 12 – Richard Bruce Silverman, John Evans Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University
Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor, author (d. 2017)
Basil Al Bayati, Iraqi-born architect and designer
Claudia Goldin, American economic historian, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Paul Broun, American physician and politician
Elmar Brok, German politician
Robert Fripp, British progressive rock guitarist, composer and producer
Olav Anton Thommessen, Norwegian composer
May 17 – Udo Lindenberg, German musician
Reggie Jackson, American baseball player
Andreas Katsulas, American actor (d. 2006)
Ken Kwaku, Ghanaian corporate governance expert
André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (d. 1993)
Claude Lelièvre, Belgian Commissioner for Children Rights
Roger Sloman, English actor
Carlos Alberto de Barros Franco, Brazilian physician and professor
Craig Patrick, American-Canadian hockey player, coach and manager
Cher, American actress, rock singer
George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
Howard Kendall, English footballer (d. 2015)
Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor
Gary Barnett, American football player and coach
Tansu Çiller, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey
Irena Szewińska, Polish Olympic sprinter (d. 2018)
Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, East Timorese politician, acting President of East Timor (d. 1978)
Jackie Berroyer, French actor, comedian and writer
May 26 – Mick Ronson, English guitarist (d. 1993)
May 27 – Alma Adams, American politician
Bruce Alexander, English actor
K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam poet
May 29 – Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
Dragan Džajić, Serbian footballer
Candy Lightner, American founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Jan de Bie, Dutch painter and photographer (d. 2021)
May 31 – Adriana Bittel, Romanian writer
June
Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer (d. 2020)
Tomomichi Nishimura, Japanese voice actor
June 3 – Michael Clarke, American musician (d. 1993)
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Egyptian actor (d. 2016)
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Indian playback singer, television presenter, actor, music composer, dubbing artist and film producer (d. 2020)
June 5 – Stefania Sandrelli, Italian actress
Jenny Jones, Polish-Canadian comedian, talk show hostess
Zbigniew Seifert, Polish musician (d. 1979)
Robert Tilton, American televangelist, author
June 8 – Pearlette Louisy, Governor-General of St. Lucia
June 9 – Kenneth Adelman, American diplomat, political writer, policy analyst and Shakespeare scholar
June 10 – Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (d. 1998)
June 11 – Biancamaria Frabotta, Italian writer (d. 2022)
Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Paul Buckmaster, (d. 2017) British cellist, arranger, conductor and composer
June 14 – Donald Trump, 45th & 47th President of the United States
Noddy Holder, English rock singer (Slade)
Janet Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
Demis Roussos, Greek singer (d. 2015)
Rick Adelman, American professional basketball player and coach (d. 2026)
John Astor, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever, English businessman and politician
June 17 – Marcy Kaptur, U.S. Representative for the Ninth Congressional District of Ohio
Bruiser Brody, American professional wrestler (d. 1988)
Russell Ash, British author (d. 2010)
Fabio Capello, Italian football player, manager
Maria Bethânia, Brazilian singer and songwriter
Vincenzo Camporini, Italian Chief of the Defence General Staff
Kiril Ivkov, Bulgarian football defender
Kay Redfield Jamison, American psychiatrist
Fabio Enzo, Italian football player (d. 2021)
Józef Oleksy, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2015)
June 23 – Ted Shackelford, American actor
Nguyễn Đức Soát, Vietnamese general
Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (d. 1986)
Stan Bunn, American politician and lawyer
Henk van Kessel, Dutch road racer
Maria von Welser, German TV journalist, President of UNICEF Germany
Anthony John Valentine Obinna, Nigerian priest
Leo Rossi, American actor
June 27 – Russ Critchfield, American basketball player
David Duckham, English rugby union player
Gilda Radner, American comedian, actress (Saturday Night Live) (d. 1989)
Jaime Guzmán, Chilean lawyer and senator, founder of the Independent Democratic Union (d. 1991)
Robert Asprin, American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan (d. 2008)
Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
Gitte Hænning, Danish singer
Ram Gopal Yadav, Indian politician
Allan Hunter, Irish footballer, manager
William J. Boarman, American printer and civil servant (d. 2021)
July
Alceu Valença, Brazilian composer, writer, performer, actor and poet
Mick Aston, English archaeologist (d. 2013)
Richard Axel, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Bahrin Abbas, lawyer and politician in the Government of Brunei
Sam Hunt, New Zealand poet
Michael Milken, American financier
Ed O'Ross, American actor
Roy Cimatu, Filipino general
Gerard 't Hooft, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Ram Vilas Paswan, Indian politician
Balakumaran, Indian Tamil writer and author (d. 2018)
Fred Dryer, American football defensive end, actor (Hunter)
Tiemen Groen, Dutch cyclist
Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
Sylvester Stallone, American actor, screenwriter and film director (Rocky)
Tadeusz Nowicki, Polish tennis player
Syd Barrett, English singer, guitarist and songwriter and co-founder of Pink Floyd (d. 2006)
Claudio Merlo, Italian footballer and coach
Massimo Vanni, Italian actor
Daniela Beneck, Italian freestyle swimmer
Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (d. 2008)
Oliver Martin, American cyclist
Jean-Pierre Coopman, Belgian boxer
Jack Wrangler, American porn star (d. 2009)
Ed Markey, US Senator
Ernesto Mahieux, Italian actor
Sian Barbara Allen, American actress (d. 2025)
João Bosco, Brazilian singer, songwriter
Cheech Marin, Mexican-American actor, comedian (Cheech and Chong)
Vincent Pastore, American actor (d. 2026)
John Wood, Australian actor
Linda Ronstadt, American singer, songwriter ("You're No Good")
Toshio Furukawa, Japanese voice actor
Dave Goelz, American puppeteer
Monica Aspelund, Finnish singer
Ron Yary, American football player
Ahmad Albar, Indonesian rock musician and vocalist
Barbara Lee, Former US Rep.
Claudia Islas, Mexican actress
Alun Armstrong, English actor
July 18 – Kanat Saudabayev, Kazakhstani politician
July 19 – Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player
July 21 – Domingo Cavallo, Argentine economist, politician
Danny Glover, African-American actor, film director and political activist
Mireille Mathieu, French singer
Petre Roman, 53rd Prime Minister of Romania
Johnson Toribiong, 8th President of Palau
Sally Flynn, American singer
Edoardo Bennato, Italian singer-songwriter
July 24 – Farouk Abdul-Aziz, Egyptian TV presenter, interviewer, writer, producer and director
July 25 – Rita Marley, Cuban-Jamaican singer
Gwynne Gilford, American actress
Jacques Sylla, 12th Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2009)
July 28 – Jonathan Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Ximena Armas, Chilean painter
Stig Blomqvist, Swedish rally driver
Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
A. Rahman Hassan, Malaysian singer (d. 2019)
August
Mike Emrick, American sportscaster
Sandi Griffiths, American singer
Rick Boucher, American politician
Boz Burrell, English musician (d. 2006)
Jack Straw, English politician
Nikolai Burlyayev, Soviet and Russian actor and film director
August 4 – Ramazan Abdulatipov, Russian politician and professor
Reinhard Tritscher, Austrian alpine skier (d. 2018)
Ron Silliman, American poet
Shirley Ann Jackson, African-American President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board
Jean-Charles Ablitzer, French organist and pedagogue
August 6 – Allan Holdsworth, British musician (d. 2017)
August 8 – Ralph Gonsalves, 4th Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
August 12 – Terry Nutkins, English naturalist (d. 2012)
Janet Yellen, American Chair of the Federal Reserve
Dennis Hof, American brothel owner (d. 2018)
Bjørn Kruse, Norwegian painter and composer
Masoud Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdish politician, President of Iraqi Kurdistan
Lesley Ann Warren, American actress, singer
Louis-Pierre Bougie, Canadian painter and printmaker (d. 2021)
August 17 – Drake Levin, American rock guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders) (d. 2009)
August 18 – William Brisson, American politician
Charles Bolden, African-American astronaut
Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
Connie Chung, Asian-American reporter
Ralf Hütter, German techno musician (Kraftwerk)
N. R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
August 22 – Wayne Brown, New Zealand politician and the mayor of Auckland
Keith Moon, English rock drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
Raza Murad, Indian actor
Bob Boetticher, American funeral director
Rollie Fingers, American baseball player
Charles Ghigna, American poet, children's author
Valerie Simpson, African-American singer
Zhou Ji, education minister of the People's Republic of China
Swede Savage, American race car driver (d. 1973)
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, 2nd President of Burundi (d. 2016)
Bob Beamon, American athlete
Demetris Christofias, 6th President of Cyprus (d. 2019)
Leona Gom, Canadian novelist and poet
Peggy Lipton, American actress and model (d. 2019)
Gábor Bódy, Hungarian film director, screenwriter, theorist and actor (d. 1985)
Ann Coffey, Scottish politician
Jerome Corsi, American political commentator and conspiracy theorist
Tom Coughlin, American football player, coach and executive
September
Barry Gibb, Manx-born Australian-British singer (Bee Gees)
Luis Ávalos, Cuban-born American character actor (d. 2014)
Billy Preston, African-American soul musician ("Nothing from Nothing") (d. 2006)
John N. Abrams, American military officer (d. 2018)
Francisco Trois, Brazilian chess player
Gary Duncan, American rock guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (d. 2019)
Greg Elmore, American rock drummer (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
Dennis Dugan, American actor, director
Freddie Mercury, British-Indian singer-songwriter, pianist and frontman of rock band Queen (d. 1991)
Loudon Wainwright III, American folk singer-songwriter, humorist and actor
Lily Brett, Australian novelist, essayist and poet
September 6 – Ron Boone, American basketball player
Willie Crawford, American baseball player (d. 2004)
Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist (d. 2001)
Aziz Sancar, Turkish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Wong Kan Seng, Singaporean business executive, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
Doug Ingle, American rock vocalist (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2024)
Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
Donald Berwick, American government official
Poseci Bune, Fijian civil servant, diplomat, politician and Cabinet Minister (d. 2023)
Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician
Don Powell, English rock drummer (Slade)
September 11 – Anthony Browne, British writer and illustrator of children's books
September 12 – Neil Lyndon, British journalist, writer
September 13 – Henri Kuprashvili, Georgian swimmer
Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
Tetsu Nakamura, Japanese-Afghan physician (d. 2019)
Oliver Stone, American film director, producer (JFK)
James Bamford, American author, journalist and documentary producer
Rick Blangiardi, American television executive and politician from Hawaii
September 16 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter music producer and composer (d. 2019)
September 17 – Billy Bonds, English footballer and manager (d. 2025)
Peter Alsop, American musician
Akira Kamiya, Japanese voice actor
Jean-Luc Brunel, French model scout (d. 2022)
Connie Kreski, American model (d. 1995)
Gerald Brisco, American professional wrestler
Dorothy Hukill, American politician (d. 2018)
Judy Baca, American artist, activist and professor of Chicano studies, world arts and cultures
Mikhail Kovalchuk, Russian physicist, official
Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor
Richard St. Clair, American musician, composer
King Sunny Adé, Nigerian jùjú singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Richard Bauckham, English Anglican scholar in theology and New Testament studies
September 23 – Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
María Teresa Ruiz, Chilean astronomer
Bishan Singh Bedi, Indian cricketer (d. 2023)
Felicity Kendal, English actress
Jerry Penrod, American bass player
Andrea Dworkin, American feminist, writer (d. 2005)
Togo Igawa, Japanese actor
Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician
Christine Todd Whitman, American politician
September 27 – Nicos Anastasiades, Cypriot businessperson and former president of Cyprus
September 28 – Jeffrey Jones, American actor
Shafie Salleh, Malaysian politician (d. 2019)
Celso Pitta, Brazilian economist and politician (d. 2009)
Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
Jochen Mass, German racing driver (d. 2025)
Claude Vorilhon, French-born 'messenger' of Raëlism
Fran Brill, Muppeteer
Lee Yock Suan, Minister for Education of Singapore
October
General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, President of the Council for National Security, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army
Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (d. 1985)
P. P. Arnold, American-British singer
Bob Minton, American human rights activist
Susan Sarandon, American actress
Rhie Won-bok, South Korean artist
Chuck Hagel, American politician, 24 United States Secretary of Defense
October 5 – Pacita Abad, Ivatan and Filipino-American artist (d. 2004)
Lloyd Doggett, American politician
Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician (d. 2017)
Nader Al-Dahabi, Prime Minister of Jordan
Catharine MacKinnon, American feminist
Xue Jinghua, Chinese ballerina
Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian scholar, legislator
John T. Walton, American son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (d. 2005)
Anne Boyd, Australian musician
Mildred Grieveson, British writer
Charles Dance, English actor, screenwriter and film director
Chris Tarrant, British radio, TV personality
Daryl Hall, American rock musician (Hall & Oates)
Sawao Katō, Japanese gymnast
John D. Bates, United States district judge
October 12 – Drew Edmondson, American politician
Edwina Currie, English politician
Dorothy Moore, American singer
Demond Wilson, African-American actor, minister (Sanford and Son) (d. 2026)
H Steven Blum, United States army general
Craig Venter, American biotechnologist (d. 2026)
Dan McCafferty, Scottish rock singer (d. 2022)
Joey de Leon, Filipino actor, host
Justin Hayward, English rock singer-songwriter (The Moody Blues)
Eli Bebout, American athlete and politician
Katy Manning, British actress
Richard Carpenter, American pop musician, composer (The Carpenters)
John Getz, American actor
Suzanne Somers, American actress, singer (Three's Company) (d. 2023)
Elizabeth Witmer, Dutch-born politician
Vitaliano Aguirre II, Filipino lawyer and government official
Naveen Patnaik , Indian Politician, former Central Minister of Government of India and former Chief Minister of Government of Odisha
Vicki Hodge, English actress, model
Bob Seagren, American athlete, actor
James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
Howard Shore, Canadian film composer
Andrea Zsadon, Hungarian soprano
Frank Beamer, retired American college football coach
October 19 – Philip Pullman, English author
Marty Gervais, Canadian writer
Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
Lyn Allison, Australian politician
Lux Interior, American rock musician (The Cramps) (d. 2009)
Eileen Gordon, British politician
Richard McGonagle, American actor
October 25 – Edith Leyrer, Austrian actress
October 26 – Pat Sajak, American game-show host (Wheel of Fortune)
Leslie L. Byrne, American politician
Steven R. Nagel, American astronaut (d. 2014)
Ivan Reitman, Slovakian-born film director, producer (d. 2022)
John Hewson, Australian politician
Sharon Thesen, Canadian poet
Peter Green, British musician (d. 2020)
Kathryn J. Whitmire, Texas politician; Mayor of Houston, Texas
Lynne Marta, American actress
Andrea Mitchell, American journalist
October 31 – Stephen Rea, Northern Irish actor
November
Lynne Russell, American newsreader
Sucharit Bhakdi, Thai-German microbiologist
Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor, composer (d. 2001)
Marieta Severo, Brazilian actress
Les Lannom, American actor, musician
Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
Herman Brood, Dutch artist (d. 2001)
Loleatta Holloway, American singer (d. 2011)
Gram Parsons, American musician (d. 1973)
Sally Field, American actress, singer (The Flying Nun)
George Young, Scottish, Australian singer, songwriter, musician (The Easybeats) (d. 2017)
Peter Ackerman, American businessman (d. 2022)
November 7 – Diane Francis, Canadian journalist
Stella Chiweshe, Zimbabwean musician
John Farrar, Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter (The Shadows; Marvin, Welch & Farrar)
Guus Hiddink, Dutch football player, manager
Stefan Weber, Austrian singer (d. 2018)
November 10 – Alaina Reed Hall, American actress (d. 2009)
Roger A. Brady, United States Air Force general
Corrine Brown, American politician
Ohara Reiko, Japanese actress
Stanisław Barańczak, Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer (d. 2014)
November 14 – Bharathan, Indian filmmaker, artist and art director (d. 1998)
Gwyneth Powell, British actress (d. 2022)
Sandy Skoglund, American photographer
David Brandt, American farmer (d. 2023)
Terence McKenna, American writer, philosopher, ethnobotanist and shaman (d. 2000)
Jo Jo White, American basketball player (d. 2018)
Petra Burka, Canadian figure skater
Martin Barre, English guitarist
Terry Branstad, American politician and diplomat
John Spencer, American politician and senate candidate against Hillary Clinton in 2006
Andrea Allan, Scottish actress
Alan Dean Foster, American novelist
Duane Allman, American rock guitarist, co-founder and leader of the Allman Brothers Band (d. 1971)
Samuel E. Wright, American actor and singer (d. 2021)
Emma Cohen, Spanish actress
Chaviva Hošek, Czech-born feminist
Jacky Lafon, Belgian actress
Marina Warner, English writer
Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Jamaican reggae musician (d. 2024)
Anne Wheeler, Canadian screen director
Gary Hilton, American serial killer
Diana Quick, English actress
Bobby Rush, African-American politician, activist and pastor
November 24 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
Marika Lindström, Swedish actress
Marc Brown, American author and illustrator of children's books
November 26 – Ottilia Borbáth, Romanian-born Hungarian actress
Richard Codey, American politician, 53rd Governor of New Jersey
Nina Maslova, Russian actress
November 28 – Regina Braga, Brazilian actress
Brian Cadd, Australian singer-songwriter
Suzy Chaffee, American singer, actress
Marina Abramović, Yugoslavian performance artist
Barbara Cubin, U.S. Congresswoman from Wyoming
Jeffrey Boam, American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2000)
December
December 1 – Jonathan Katz, American comedian, actor and voice actor
Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)
John Banks, New Zealand politician
Kourosh Yaghmaei, Iranian singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and guitarist
Marjana Lipovšek, Slovenian singer, actress
Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist
Allan Bérubé, American historian, activist, scholar, researcher and author (d. 2007)
Sherry Alberoni, American actress, voice artist
Karina, Spanish singer/actress
Angela Browning, British politician
José Carreras, Spanish tenor
Gloria Comesaña, Spanish philosopher (d. 2024)
Eva-Britt Svensson, Swedish politician
Rodney Alexander, American politician
Nancy Brinker, American health activist, diplomat
Jacques Bourboulon, French photographer
John Rubinstein, American actor
Sharmila Tagore, Indian actress
Chava Alberstein, Israeli musician, lyricist, composer and arranger
Rani Begum, Pakistani actress and model (d. 1993)
December 9 – Sonia Gandhi, Indian politician
Chrystos, American poet
Thomas Lux, American poet
John W. Birks, American atmospheric chemist and entrepreneur
Rhoma Irama, Indonesian dangdut musician, actor and politician
Susan Kyle, American writer
Ellen Meloy, American writer (d. 2004)
Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian racing car driver
Gloria Loring, American singer
Don Gummer, American sculptor
Nicholas Kollerstrom, British writer
Heather North, American actress (d. 2017)
Antony Beevor, English historian
Jane Birkin, English actress and singer (d. 2023)
Patty Duke, American actress (d. 2016)
Lynne Marie Stewart, American actress (d. 2025)
Michael Ovitz, American talent agent, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency
Leon Botstein, Swiss-born American conductor, educator and scholar
Carmine Appice, American rock drummer
Rodney Bingenheimer, American radio disc jockey
Benny Andersson, Swedish rock singer-songwriter (ABBA)
Alice Aycock, American sculptor
Trevor Pinnock, English harpsichordist, conductor
Rick Bartow, Native American artist, a member of the Mad River band (d. 2016)
Eugene Levy, Canadian actor, comedian and director (Second City Television)
Bel Mooney, English broadcast journalist
Jayne Eastwood, Canadian actress, voice actress
Suresh Oberoi, Indian actor
Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1977)
Nina Škottová, Czech politician, member of the European Parliament
Steven Spielberg, American filmmaker
Candace Pert, American neuroscientist
Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002)
Uri Geller, Israeli illusionist
Lesley Judd, English television presenter
Sonny Perdue, American politician, 81st Governor of Georgia, 31st U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
John Spencer, American actor (d. 2005)
Dick Wolf, American television producer
Brian Davison, Rhodesian cricketer, Tasmanian politician
Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
Cherie Berry, American politician
Robert D. Bullard, American academic, activist and professor
December 22 – Kuwasi Balagoon, American political activist, anarchist and member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army (d. 1986)
Edita Gruberová, Slovakian soprano (d. 2021)
Susan Lucci, American actress (All My Children)
John Sullivan, English television scriptwriter (d. 2011)
Jan Akkerman, Dutch rock guitarist (Focus)
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, French politician, member of the European Parliament
Brenda Howard, American bisexual activist (d. 2005)
Jeff Sessions, American politician, United States Attorney General
December 25 – Jimmy Buffett, American rock singer-songwriter (d. 2023)
December 26 – Jean-Noël Prade, French University President
December 27 – Janet Street-Porter, English broadcast journalist
Mike Beebe, American politician and attorney
Edgar Winter, American rock musician
Miriam Batucada, Brazilian singer, composer and TV presenter (d. 1994)
Marianne Faithfull, English singer and actress (d. 2025)
Ruth Shady, Peruvian archaeologist
Arturo Brion, Filipino judge
Patti Smith, American poet, singer
Berti Vogts, German football player and manager
Barry Alvarez, American former college football coach and athletic director
Diane von Fürstenberg, Belgian-American fashion designer
Lyudmila Pakhomova, Soviet ice dancer (d. 1986)
Margaret Travolta, American actress
Date unknown
Ali Abu Al-Ragheb, Prime Minister of Jordan
Jang Song-thaek, North Korean politician (d. 2013)
Miklós Lukáts, Hungarian politician (d. 2022)
Afsaneh Najmabadi, Iranian historian, gender theorist
Raul Bragança Neto, 8th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d. 2014)
Daoud Abdel Sayed, Egyptian director and screenwriter
Mari Carmen Aponte, American attorney and diplomat
Terence Anderson, Australian-born American sports shooter
Alun Armstrong, English character actor
Dennis Ashbaugh, American painter
Ewart Brown, Bermudian politician and ninth Premier of Bermuda
Ted Baehr, American media critic and chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission
Wilhelm Barthlott, German botanist and biomimetic materials scientist
Jean-Paul Béraudo, French lawyer, academic and author of legal works
Sonia Berjman, Argentinian urban and landscape historian and researcher on the history of Buenos Aires
Omar Blondin Diop, West-African anti-imperialist philosopher, artist and revolutionary (d. 1973)
Bob Bossin, Canadian folk singer (Stringband), writer and activist
Danièle Bourcier, French lawyer and essayist
Martin Bresnick, American composer
Robert Bringhurst, Canadian poet, typographer and author
Nathaniel Burkett, American serial killer (d. 2021)
Deaths
January
January 1 – Georgina Sweet, Australian zoologist and women's rights activist (b. 1875)
Fabijan Abrantovich, Soviet civic, religious leader (b. 1884)
Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
Eleanor Rathbone, British politician and long-term campaigner for family allowance and for women's rights (d. 1872)
January 3 – William Joyce, Irish-born American World War II Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as "Lord Haw-Haw" (executed) (b. 1906)
George Woolf, Canadian jockey (b. 1910)
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German pastor, theologian and public health advocate (b. 1877)
Kitty Cheatham, American singer (b. 1864)
Einar af Wirsén, Swedish Army officer, diplomat and writer (b. 1875)
Slim Summerville, American film actor and director (b. 1892)
Dion Fortune, British writer (b. 1890)
Slim Summerville, American actor (b. 1892)
Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian military officer, politician and leader of the fascist Arrow Cross Party (executed) (b. 1897)
Harold Cole, petty criminal, British soldier, operative of Pat O'Leary escape line, and agent of Nazi Germany (b. 1906)
Thomas Barbour, American herpetologist (b. 1884)
Guy Carleton, career officer in the United States Army (b. 1857)
Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
Sir Nevil Macready, British army general, police commissioner (b. 1862)
László Bárdossy, Hungarian diplomat, politician and 33rd Prime Minister of Hungary (executed) (b. 1890)
Matti Turkia, Finnish politician (b. 1871)
Harry Von Tilzer, American songwriter (b. 1872)
January 13 – Wilhelm Souchon, German admiral (b. 1864)
Theodore M. Stuart, American football player and coach (b. 1883)
Maurice Koechlin, Franco-Swiss structural engineer from the Koechlin family. (b. 1856)
January 15 – Karl Nabersberg, German youth leader (b. 1908)
January 18 – Wilhelm von Brincken, German diplomat and spy during World War I (b. 1881)
January 21 – Harry Bateman, British-American mathematician (b. 1882)
Matteo Bartoli, Italian linguist (b. 1873)
Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter (b. 1862)
January 24 – Morris Alexander, South African politician (b. 1877)
January 25 – Orishatukeh Faduma, American missionary (b. 1855)
January 26 – Katharine Bushnell, doctor, Christian writer, Bible scholar, social activist and a pioneer of feminist theology (b. 1855)
Hideo Hatoyama, Japanese jurist (b. 1884)
Harry Hopkins, American politician (b. 1890)
Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch–born American astronomer (b. 1884)
Pietro Boetto, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence (b. 1871)
Luis Orgaz Yoldi, Spanish general (b. 1881)
Franz Ritter von Epp, German general and politician (b. 1868)
February
February 2 – Rondo Hatton, American actor (b. 1894)
Friedrich Jeckeln, German SS officer and mass murderer (executed) (b. 1895)
Wang Lianshou, wet nurse to Puyi (b. 1887)
February 4 – Herbert Baker, English architect (b. 1862)
February 5 – George Arliss, British actor (b. 1868)
Upendranath Brahmachari, Indian scientist (b. 1873)
Oswald Kabasta, Austrian conductor (suicide) (b. 1896)
Justus D. Barnes, American actor (b. 1862)
Felix Hoffmann, German chemist (b. 1868)
Miles Mander, British actor (b. 1888)
February 11 – Ludovic-Oscar Frossard, French socialist, communist politician (b. 1889)
George Dumas, French doctor, psychologist (b. 1866)
Ted Thorn, Royal Air Force pilot, squadron commander and flying ace in WWII (b. 1913)
Maliq Bushati, Albanian collaborator, 18th Prime Minister of Albania (executed) (b. 1880)
Cornelius Johnson, American field athlete (b. 1913)
Dorothy Gibson, American actress (b. 1889)
Benjamin I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1871)
Rafael Erich, Finnish politician, professor, diplomat and 6th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1879)
Ahmed Hassanein, Egyptian courtier, diplomat, politician and explorer (b. 1889)
José Streel, Belgian journalist and Nazi collaborator (executed) (b. 1911)
Theodore Stark Wilkinson, American admiral (b. 1888)
February 23 – Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (executed) (b. 1885)
Alfred Henke, German politician (b. 1868)
Marian Spore Bush, American dentist, painter, and wife of Irving T. Bush (b. 1878)
February 25 – René Le Grèves, French cyclist (b. 1910)
February 26 – Jackie, Nubian-born MGM lion (b. 1915)
February 27 – James Cecil Parke, Irish rugby player, tennis player and golfer (b. 1910)
Béla Imrédy, Hungarian economist, politician and 32nd Prime Minister of Hungary (executed) (b. 1891)
Giuseppe Salvago Raggi, Italian diplomat (b. 1866)
March
John Whittle, Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1882)
Logan Pearsall Smith, American-born British essayist and critic (b. 1865)
March 3 – Viktor Axmann, Yugoslav architect (b. 1883)
Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
Charles Waldron, American stage and film actor( b. 1874)
Martyrs of Albania, Catholics (executed)
Mark Çuni, seminarian (b. 1919)
Daniel Dajani, Jesuit priest (b. 1906)
Giovanni Fausti, Italian Jesuit priest (b. 1899)
Gjelosh Lulashi (b. 1925)
Qerim Sadiku (b. 1919)
Kolë Shllaku, friar (b. 1906)
March 6 – Antonio Caso Andrade, Mexican philosopher (b. 1878)
March 8 – Frederick W. Lanchester, English polymath and engineer (b. 1868)
March 9 – Adolfo Ferrata, Italian pathologist, hematologist (b. 1880)
Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian military officer, Fascist politician and 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (executed) (b. 1897)
Leonida Tonelli, Italian mathematician (b. 1885)
March 13 – Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (b. 1878)
March 14 – Hubert D. Stephens, American lawyer and politician (b. 1875)
José Júlio da Costa, Portuguese activist (b. 1893)
Alladiya Khan, Indian singer (b. 1855)
March 17 – Joseph de Pesquidoux, French writer (b. 1869)
March 19 – Augusto Nicolás Martínez, Ecuadorian agronomist, economist, geologist, researcher, educator and mountaineer (b. 1860)
Frederick M. Smith, American religious leader and author (b. 1874)
Henry Handel Richardson, Australian author (b. 1870)
March 21 – Howard L. Vickery, U.S. naval officer (b. 1892)
Clemens August Graf von Galen, German Catholic Cardinal, Bishop of Münster (b. 1878)
David L. Brainard, career officer in the United States Army and arctic explorer (b. 1856)
Francisco Largo Caballero, Spanish politician, trade unionist and 66th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1869)
Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (b. 1875)
Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
Carl Schuhmann, German athlete (b. 1869)
Barbu Știrbey, 30th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1872)
March 26 – Ezequiel Fernández, acting President of Panama (b. 1886)
László Baky, Hungarian Nazi leader (executed) (b. 1898)
George Washington, Belgian inventor and businessman (b. 1871)
March 31 – John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, British field marshal (b. 1886)
April
Noah Beery, American actor (b. 1882)
Edward Sheldon, American playwright (b. 1886)
April 2 – Kate Bruce, American silent screen actress (b. 1858)
Alf Common, English footballer (b. 1880)
Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (executed) (b. 1887)
April 4 – Hans Bothmann, last commandant of the Chełmno extermination camp (suicide) (b. 1911)
Ion Boițeanu, Romanian general (b. 1885)
Vincent Youmans, American composer (b. 1898)
Chief Thunderbird, Native American actor (b. 1866)
James Young Deer, Native American film producer (b. 1876)
April 7 – Padmanath Gohain Baruah, Indian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1871)
Bo Gu, 3rd General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (accident) (b. 1907)
Andor Jaross, ethnic Hungarian politician (executed) (b. 1896)
Dem. Theodorescu, Romanian journalist, humorist and critic (b. 1888)
April 12 – Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski, Polish politician, freemason and military officer (b. 1892)
William Henry Bell, English-born South African composer, conductor and lecturer (b. 1873)
Ernest Browne, Irish tennis player (b. 1855)
April 14 – Otto Dowling, United States Navy captain, 25th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1881)
C. W. A. Scott, English aviator (b. 1903)
Guido Calza, Italian archaeologist (b. 1888)
Juan Bautista Sacasa, 20th President of Nicaragua (b. 1874)
Agnes Weinrich, American visual artist (b. 1873)
V. S. Srinivasa Sastri, Indian politician, administrator, educator, orator and Indian independence activist (b. 1869)
April 19 – Harold Stiles, English surgeon (b. 1863)
Egerton Reuben Stedman, Canadian politician (b. 1872)
April 21 – John Maynard Keynes, British economist (b. 1883)
Lionel Atwill, British actor (b. 1885)
Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1872)
April 23 – T. Tileston Wells, American attorney and the Romanian Consul General (b. 1865)
James Larkin White, American cowboy, guano miner, park ranger and discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns (b. 1882)
Antero Svensson, Finnish major general, member of the Jäger Movement and recipient of the Mannerheim Cross (b. 1892)
George E. White, American Congregationalist missionary and witness to the Armenian genocide (b. 1861)
Franz Anton Basch, Shwovish Nazi politician in Hungary (executed) (b. 1901)
Robert Bartlett, American explorer and navigator (b. 1875)
Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870)
April 30 – Sava Athanasiu, Romanian geologist and paleontologist (b. 1861)
May
Bill Johnston, American tennis champion (b. 1894)
Israfil Mammadov, Soviet WWII heroine (b. 1919)
May 3 – Charles Daniel-Vincent, French teacher and politician (b. 1874)
Léon Guillet, French metallurgist (b. 1873)
Connie Gilchrist, Countess of Orkney, British child artist's model, actress, dancer and singer (b. 1865)
May 10 – Emile de Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian diplomat (b. 1871)
May 11 – Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist and philologist (b. 1884)
May 13 – Alexei Nikolaevich Bach, Soviet biochemist, revolutionary leader (b. 1857)
Bruno Tesch, German chemist, Nazi war criminal (executed) (b. 1890)
Karl Weinbacher, German manager, war criminal (executed) (b. 1898)
Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Nazi SS officer and war criminal (executed) (b. 1903)
May 17 – William Jefferson Blythe Jr., American salesman and biological father of Bill Clinton (b. 1918)
Francesco Camero Medici, Italian diplomat (b. 1886)
Ángel Ossorio y Gallardo, Spanish lawyer, statesman (b. 1873)
Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
John K. Tener, Irish-born American politician and Major League Baseball player and executive (b. 1863)
Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)
Enrico Gasparri, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop (b. 1871)
May 22 – Karl Hermann Frank, German Nazi official, war criminal (executed) (b. 1898)
May 25 – Ernest Rhys, Welsh-English writer (b. 1859)
Francis Lacey, English cricketer, cricket administrator and barrister (b. 1859)
Claire Croiza, French soprano (b. 1882)
Henri Hauser, French historian, geographer and economist (b. 1866)
Claus Schilling, German medical researcher and war criminal (executed) (b. 1871)
Otto Moll, Nazi mass murderer and war criminal (executed) (b. 1915)
Wilhelm Ruppert, SS-TV Obersturmbannführer in charge of executions at Dachau concentration camp (executed) (b. 1905)
Carter Glass, American newspaper publisher and politician (b. 1858)
`Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Italian painter (b. 1897)
Martin Gottfried Weiss, commandant of the Dachau concentration camp and Nazi war criminal (executed) (b. 1905)
Marcela Agoncillo, Filipino who sewed the first Filipino flag (b. 1860)
Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist, chemist (b. 1910)
May 31 – Picoğlu Osman, Turkish kemenche player (b. 1901)
June
Ion Antonescu, Romanian soldier, politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Romania and Romanian dictator (executed) (b. 1882)
Leo Slezak, German tenor (b. 1873)
Mihai Antonescu, Romanian politician and war criminal (executed) (b. 1904)
June 3 – Mikhail Kalinin, 1st Head of State/President of the Soviet Union (b. 1875)
June 4 – Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, Hungarian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1864)
June 5 – Maud Watson, British tennis player, first female Wimbledon champion (b. 1864)
Isidro Ancheta, Filipino painter (b. 1882)
Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
June 8 – John L. Bates, American politician (b. 1859)
June 9 – Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII), King of Thailand (assassinated) (b. 1925)
Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
Carruthers Beattie, first principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town (b. 1866)
Juanita Breckenridge Bates, American minister (b. 1860)
Frank Swettenham, British colonial administrator and first Resident general of the Federated Malay States (b. 1850)
Hisaichi Terauchi, Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army (b. 1879)
John H. Bankhead II, American politician (b. 1872)
Major Bowes, American radio personality (b. 1874)
Charles Butterworth, American actor (b. 1896)
Jorge Ubico, Guatemalan army general, 21st President of Guatemala (b. 1878)
John Logie Baird, British television pioneer (b. 1888)
João Batista Becker, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop (b. 1870)
Jovita Idar, Mexican-American journalist and political activist (b. 1885)
June 16 – Ludwig Winder, Austrian-Czech German-language writer, journalist and literary critic (b. 1889)
June 18 – Eugen Hirschfield, Australian practitioner (b. 1866)
Theodor Wulf, German physicist, Jesuit priest (b. 1868)
Beatrice Chanler, American actress (b. 1880)
June 23 – William S. Hart, American stage actor, silent film Western star, film director and writer (b. 1864)
June 24 – Marian Bernaciak, Polish World War II heroine (b. 1917)
June 26 – Alma Bridwell White, founder and a bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church (b. 1862)
Juan Antonio Ríos, Chilean political figure, 24th President of Chile and World War II leader (b. 1888)
Wanda Gág, American artist, author, translator and illustrator (b. 1893)
June 28 – Antoinette Perry, American actress, director (b. 1888)
June 29 – Miroslav Filipović, Bosnian-Croatian Franciscan friar, Ustashe military chaplain and war criminal (executed) (b. 1915)
June 30 – Jelica Belović-Bernardzikowska, Yugoslav journalist, writer and journalist (b. 1870)
July
July 1 – Augustyn Józef Czartoryski, Polish nobleman (b. 1907)
Mary Alden, American stage and screen actress (b. 1883)
Albert Sechehaye, Swiss linguist (b. 1870)
July 3 – Edoardo Bianchi, Italian entrepreneur, inventor (b. 1865)
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, German Nazi overseer at Stutthof concentration camp (executed) (b. 1922)
Elisabeth Becker, German Nazi overseer at Stutthof concentration camp (executed) (b. 1923)
Wanda Klaff, German Nazi overseer at Stutthof concentration camp (executed) (b. 1922)
Ewa Paradies, German Nazi overseer at Stutthof concentration camp (executed) (b. 1920)
Gerda Steinhoff, German Nazi overseer at Stutthof concentration camp (executed) (b. 1922)
Othenio Abel, Austrian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist (b. 1875)
July 7 – Federico Laredo Brú, 8th President of Cuba (b. 1875)
Orrick Glenday Johns, American writer (b. 1887)
Laura, Lady Troubridge, British novelist and etiquette writer (b. 1867)
July 10 – Sidney Hillman, American labor leader (b. 1887)
Ray Stannard Baker, American journalist, author (b. 1870)
Teresa Janina Kierocińska, Polish Discalced Carmelite nun and venerable (b. 1885)
July 13 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
July 15 – Benjamin W. Alpiner, American businessman and politician (b. 1867)
July 16 – Raffaele Conflenti, Italian engineer, aircraft designer (b. 1889)
Consolata Betrone, Italian Franciscan mystic and servant of God (b. 1903)
Florence Fuller, South African-born Australian artist (b. 1867)
Kosta Mušicki, Yugoslav general (executed) (b. 1897)
Sir Campbell Tait, admiral and Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1886)
Draža Mihailović, Yugoslav Serb general in WWIII and leader of Chetniks (executed) (b. 1893)
Ehrhard Schmidt, German admiral (b. 1863)
Alfons Tracki, Albanian priest (executed) (b. 1896)
Wilfred Buckland, American art director (b. 1866)
July 19 – George Mackenzie Brown, Canadian-born British publisher (b. 1869)
July 20 – Shiro Kawase, Japanese admiral (b. 1889)
Shefqet Vërlaci, Albanian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1877)
Gualberto Villarroel, 39th President of Bolivia (lynched) (b. 1908)
Arthur Greiser, German general and war criminal (executed) (b. 1897)
July 22 – Edward Sperling, Russian-American-Jewish writer, Zionist (assassinated) (b. 1889)
July 23 – James Maxton, British pacifist, politician and leader of the Independent Labour Party (b.1885)
July 26 – Alexander Vvedensky, Soviet Orthodox religious leader and blessed (b. 1889)
Harry Davis, Canadian gangster (b. 1898)
Tao Xingzhi, Chinese educator and reformer (b. 1891)
Franz Anton Basch, German politician and war criminal (executed) (b. 1901)
Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)
Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic and Eastern Catholic religious sister and saint (b. 1910)
Emily Thorn Vanderbilt, American philanthropist and a member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1852)
Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, Ceylonese politician, Governor-General of Ceylon (b. 1862)
Katherine Mary Clutterbuck, Australian Anglican nun who looked after orphaned children (b. 1860)
August
Andrey Vlasov, Soviet general, commander of the Russian Liberation Army (executed) (b. 1901)
Sergei Bunyachenko, Soviet Red Army defector (executed) (b. 1902)
Fyodor Truhin, Soviet major general and defector during WWII (executed) (b. 1896)
August 2 – Karl, Prince of Leiningen, German prince (b. 1898)
Otto Franke, German sinologist (b. 1863)
Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer, politician and 17th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
Blanche Bingley, English tennis champion (b. 1863)
Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (New York Yankees), MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1903)
Maria Barrientos, Spanish opera singer (b. 1884)
August 9 – Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
August 10 – Léon Gaumont, French film pioneer (b. 1864)
August 11 – Giuseppe Pietri, Italian composer (b. 1886)
Inayatullah Khan, King of Afghanistan (b. 1888)
Alfred Stock, German chemist (b. 1876)
Egon Brecher, Austria-Hungary-born actor and director (b. 1880)
H. G. Wells, British science fiction writer, historian (The Time Machine) (b. 1866)
Émile Berlia, French politician (b. 1878)
August 14 – Robert Heinrich Wagner, Nazi Party official and politician (executed) (b. 1895)
August 16 – Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, Japanese admiral (b. 1875)
August 17 – Channing Pollock, American playwright (b. 1880)
Che Yaoxian, Chinese communist (executed) (b. 1894)
Luo Shiwen, Chinese communist (executed) (b. 1904)
August 19 – Jules-Albert de Dion, French automobile pioneer (b. 1856)
"Rags" Ragland, American comedian, actor (b. 1905)
Vojtech Tuka, Slovak politician and WWII war criminal (executed) (b. 1880)
Fielding H. Yost, American college football player, coach and athletics administrator (b. 1871)
August 22 – Döme Sztójay, 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (executed) (b. 1883)
August 23 – Prince Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, Italian World War I flying ace and senator (b. 1884)
August 24 – James Clark McReynolds, American jurist (b. 1862)
August 26 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress (b. 1887)
Georgios Kafantaris, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1873)
Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, British field marshal (b. 1865)
Florence Turner, American actress (b. 1885)
August 29 – John Steuart Curry, American painter (b. 1897)
August 31 – Harley Granville-Barker, English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic and theorist (b. 1877)
September
September 2 – George Robson, American racing driver (b. 1909)
September 3 – Paul Lincke, German composer (b. 1866)
September 4 – Nobu Shirase, Japanese army officer and Antarctic explorer (b. 1861)
September 10 – Olivér Halassy, Hungarian water polo player and freestyle swimmer (killed by Soviet soldier) (b. 1909)
September 11 – Francesco Bonifacio, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (killed in action) (b. 1912)
William Watt, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (b. 1871)
Amon Göth, Austrian Nazi military officer and war criminal (executed) (b. 1908)
Paul Wurtsmith, United States Army Air Forces general during World War II (b. 1906)
Henri Gouraud, French general (b. 1867)
James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1877)
Mamie Smith, American singer (b. 1891)
Louis Bonnier, French architect (b. 1856)
September 18 Hassan Suhrawardy, Bengali surgeon, military officer in the British Indian Army, politician and public official (b. 1884)
September 24 Gustav Globočnik Edler von Vojka, Austro-Hungarian nobleman and field marshal (b. 1859)
September 25 – Heinrich George, German actor (b. 1893)
September 28 – Shivaji VII, Maharaja of Kolhapur (b. 1941)
September 29 – Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
September 30 – Takashi Sakai, Japanese general (executed) (b. 1887)
October
Hiroshi Kawabuchi, Japanese politician (b. 1883)
Lucy Wheelock, American early childhood education pioneer (b. 1857)
October 2 – Ignacy Mościcki, Polish chemist, politician and 4th President of Poland (b. 1867)
October 4 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver, automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
István Bethlen, Hungarian aristocrat, statesman and 28th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1874)
Alberto Marvelli, Italian member of the Roman Catholic action and blessed (b. 1918)
Per Albin Hansson, Swedish politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1885)
Joseph Francis Sartori, American banker (b. 1858)
October 8 – Agustín Parrado y García, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1872)
October 10 – Prince Vittorio Emanuele, Count of Turin, grandchild of King Victor Emmanuel II and member of the House of Savoy (b. 1870)
October 12 – Joseph Stilwell, American World War II general (b. 1883)
October 15 – Hermann Göring, German Nazi Reichsmarschall (suicide) (b. 1893)
Granville Bantock, British composer (b. 1868)
Hans Frank, German Nazi Governor General of Poland (b. 1900)
Wilhelm Frick, German Nazi Minister of the Interior (b. 1877)
Alfred Jodl, German general, World War II Chief of the German armed forces (b. 1890)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German Nazi police general (b. 1903)
Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (b. 1882)
Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister (b. 1893)
Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)
Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi general plenipotentiary (b. 1894)
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)
Julius Streicher, German Nazi propaganda publisher (b. 1885)
Russell R. Waesche, US Coast Guard admiral (b. 1886)
Frédéric Boissonnas, Swiss photographer (b. 1858)
October 18 – William H. Strayer, American attorney and politician (b. 1866)
Igor Demidov, Soviet politician (b. 1873)
Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig, Nazi Army Oberst (Colonel) transferred to Waffen-SS in WWII (suicide) (b. 1899)
Francesco Carandini, Italian poet (b. 1858)
Ernest Thompson Seton, Canadian-American author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians (b. 1860)
October 24 – Kurt Daluege, German Nazi officer, SS general and police official, war criminal (executed) (b. 1897)
October 25 – Rudolf Walden, Finnish industrialist and a military leader (b. 1878)
Ioannis Rallis, prime minister of Greece during the Axis occupation of Greece (b. 1878)
Jules Brulatour, American film prodicer (b. 1870)
October 27 – Nathan Francis Mossell, African-American physician (b. 1856)
November
November 2 – John Barrett, British clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop and reverend (b. 1878)
Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general (b. 1865)
Semyon Bychkov, Soviet military pilot during World War II (b. 1918)
Ferenc Szombathelyi, Hungarian military officer (executed) (b. 1887)
November 5 – Joseph Stella, Italian-American painter (b. 1877)
November 6 – Maria Innocentia Hummel, German Franciscan religious sister and blessed (b. 1909)
November 7 – Henry Lehrman, American actor (b. 1886)
November 10 – Baldassare Forestiere, Italian immigrant to America (b. 1879)
November 11 – Nikolay Burdenko, Soviet surgeon, founder of Soviet neurosurgery (b. 1876)
November 12 – Camillo Caccia Dominioni, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, eminence (b. 1877)
November 14 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
Donald Meek, British actor (b. 1878)
Jimmy Walker, former mayor of New York City (b. 1881)
Vincentas Borisevičius, Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop of the Telšiai Diocese (b. 1887)
November 23 – Léon Spilliaert, Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist (b. 1881)
László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer (b. 1895)
Samuel Walder, Australian businessman and politician (b. 1879)
November 25 – George Gandy, American entrepreneur (b. 1851)
November 26 – Sultana Racho Petrova, Bulgarian memoirist (b. 1869)
November 28 – Maria Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska, Polish Roman Catholic religious leader, saint (b. 1890)
November 30 – Gustav Noske, German politician (b. 1868)
December
December 5 – Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1872)
Charles Stewart, Canadian politician, Premier of Alberta (b. 1868)
Elma Yerburgh, member of the Thwaites family who was owner of Thwaites Brewery (b. 1864)
Charles Stanton, British politician (b. 1873)
Maximilian Steinberg, Russian composer ( b. 1883)
Laurette Taylor, American actress (b. 1884)
Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871)
December 9 – Maurice Dior, French industrialist, father of Christian Dior (b. 1872)
Walter Johnson, American baseball player (Washington Senators), MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1887)
Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1880)
Ben Carter, American actor (b. 1910)
Renée Falconetti, French actress (b. 1892)
Tom Dowse, Irish major league baseball player in the 1890s (b. 1866)
Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești, Romanian short story writer and politician (b. 1868)
December 16 – Salman al-Murshid, Syrian religious leader, political figure (b. 1907)
December 17 – Constance Garnett, English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature (b. 1861)
December 18 – Moses Russell, Welsh international footballer (b. 1888)
December 20 – Einosuke Harada, Japanese ophthalmologist (b. 1892)
December 21 – Eugene Talmadge, American politician (b. 1884)
December 22 – Pierre Bénard, French journalist (b. 1898)
John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (b. 1873)
Virginia Walker, American model and film actress (b. 1908)
W. C. Fields, American actor, comedian (b. 1880)
Henri Le Fauconnier, French painter (b. 1881)
December 26 – Franjo Bučar, Yugoslav writer (b. 1866)
Pedro Mata Dominguez, Spanish novelist, playwright and poet (b. 1875)
Carrie Jacobs-Bond, American singer, songwriter (b. 1862)
Francis Salabert, French publisher (b. 1884)
John Babington Macaulay Baxter, Canadian politician, 19th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1858)
Georg Thomas, German general during World War II (b. 1890)
December 30 – Charles Wakefield Cadman, American composer (b. 1881)
Date unknown
Armanda Degli Abbati, Italian opera singer (b. 1879)
Robert M. Washburn, American politician and writer (b. 1868)
Jack White, Irish republican and libertarian socialist (b. 1879)
Thiounn, Cambodian state official of the Khmer nobility during the French protectorate of Cambodia (b. 1864)
Charles Trussell, British musician (b. 1860)
Frona Eunice Wait, American writer and journalist (b. 1859)
Charles W. Stage, American attorney, politician, professional baseball umpire and track athlete (b. 1868)
Jessica Borthwick, British adventurer, sculptor and filmmaker (b. 1888)
Charles Edgar Corea, Sri Lankan politician and freedom fighter (b. 1866)
Nobel Prizes
References
Further reading
Goulden, Joseph C. The Best Years: 1945–1950 (1976), popular social history of USA
Hennessy, Peter. Never Again: Britain, 1945–1951 (1994), a scholarly survey.
Kynaston, David. Austerity Britain, 1945–1951 (2008) excerpt and text search, a detailed social history.
Sebestyen, Victor. 1946: The Making of the Modern World (2015) excerpt
Weisbrode, Kenneth. The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America (2016) excerpt
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