Wikipedia / 1949
Wikipedia / 1949
Events
January
January 1 A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2026
January 2 Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
January 11 The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States.
January 16 Şemsettin Günaltay forms the new government of Turkey. It is the 18th government, last single party government of the Republican People's Party.
January 17 The first VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models are sold in America that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff the car has no future in the U.S. (The Type 1 goes on to become an automotive phenomenon.)
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA or COMECON) is established by the Soviet Union and other communist nations.
In the first Israeli elections, David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.
January 26 – Australian citizenship comes into being.
c. January 28 Stalin and antisemitism: The media in the Soviet Union resume a propaganda campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans", a euphemism for Soviet Jews, accusing them of being pro-Western and antisocialist.
January 31 Forces from the Chinese Communist Party enter Beijing.
February
February 13 António Óscar Carmona is re-elected president of Portugal, for lack of an opposing candidate.
February 17 Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first president of Israel.
February 26 The Revolutionary Communist Party of India stages attacks at Dum Dum.
March
March 1 Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
March 2 The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II (under Captain James Gallagher) lands in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight (it was refueled in flight 4 times).
March 20 The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Denver and Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long-distance train to feature Vistadome cars as regular equipment.
March 24 The 21st Academy Awards Ceremony is held. The movie Hamlet wins the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Operation Priboi: An extensive deportation campaign begins in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltic states to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
First issue of weekly magazine Paris Match published in France.
March 26 The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert (i.e. no scenery or costumes), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center. The second half is telecast a week later. This is the only complete opera that Toscanini ever conducts on television.
United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal resigns suddenly.
English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang (although describing the model as "unsatisfactory") during a BBC Third Programme radio broadcast.
An anti-NATO riot in Iceland takes place, prompted by the decision of the Icelandic parliament to join the newly formed NATO.
March 31 The former British colony of Newfoundland joins Canada, as its 10th province.
April
April 4 The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., creating the NATO defense alliance.
April 7 Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, starring Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza, opens on Broadway, and goes on to become Rodgers and Hammerstein's second longest-running musical. It becomes an instant classic of the musical theatre. The score's biggest hit is the song "Some Enchanted Evening".
April 14 The N'Ko alphabet is completed by Solomana Kante.
April 18 The Republic of Ireland formally becomes a republic, and leaves the British Commonwealth.
April 20 Royal Navy frigate HMS Amethyst goes up the Yangtze River, to evacuate British Commonwealth refugees escaping the advance of Mao's Communist forces. Under heavy fire, she grounds off Rose Island. After an abortive rescue attempt on April 26, she anchors upstream. Negotiations with the Communists to let the ship leave drag on for weeks, during which time the ship's cat Simon raises the crew's morale.
April 26 Transjordan changes its name to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
The 1949 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference issues the London Declaration, enabling India (and, thereafter, any other nation) to remain in the Commonwealth despite becoming a republic, creating the position of 'Head of the Commonwealth' (held by the ruling British monarch), and renaming the organization, from the 'British Commonwealth' to the 'Commonwealth of Nations'.
Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.
May
May 1 Nereid, a moon of Neptune, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper.
May 4 Superga air disaster: A Fiat G.212 airliner of Avio Linee Italiane, carrying the entire Torino F.C. football team, crashes into the back wall of the Basilica of Superga, killing all 31 on board.
May 5 The Council of Europe is founded, by the signing of the Treaty of London.
May 6 EDSAC, the first practicable stored-program computer, runs its first program at Cambridge University.
May 9 Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco, upon the death of his maternal grandfather Louis II.
Israel is admitted to the United Nations, as its 59th member.
Siam officially changes its French name to "Thaïlande" (English name to "Thailand"), having officially changed its Thai name to "Prated Thai" since 1939.
May 12 Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts the Berlin Blockade.
May 16 The Tokyo Stock Exchange resumes operations, after a four-year shutdown.
The Kuomintang regime declares martial law in Taiwan, which lasts until 1987.
May 22 After two months in Bethesda Naval Hospital, James Forrestal commits suicide under suspicious circumstances.
May 23 The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) is officially established (until 1990).
May 31 The first trial of Alger Hiss for perjury begins in New York City, with Whittaker Chambers as principal witness for the prosecution.
June
June 5 Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand's Parliament.
June 6 With the passage of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act by the Indian government, Mahabodhi Temple is restored to partial Buddhist control.
Second Red Scare in the United States: Celebrities including Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named as Communist Party members in a Federal Bureau of Investigation report.
George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published in London.
June 14 Albert II, a rhesus monkey aboard U.S. Hermes project V-2 rocket Blossom IVB, becomes the first primate to enter space. He is killed on impact at return.
June 19 Glenn Dunaway wins the inaugural NASCAR Cup Series race at Charlotte Speedway, a 3/4 mile oval in Charlotte, North Carolina, but is disqualified due to illegal springs. Jim Roper is declared the official winner.
June 24 The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, airs on NBC in the United States.
June 29 Apartheid: The South African Citizenship Act suspends the granting of citizenship to Commonwealth of Nations immigrants after 5 years, and imposes a ban on mixed marriagess.
July
July 1 The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is established.
July 11 Pamir is the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, under sail alone.
July 15 In an explosion at Prüm in Germany, the town is badly damaged and 12 people die. The explosion crater is one of the largest ever recorded.
July 20 Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their 19-month war.
July 24 (St John's Day) Eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma begins.
The de Havilland Comet, the world's first jet-powered airliner, makes its first flight, in England.
Rhodesia beats the New Zealand national rugby union team (the All Blacks) 10–8, in an exhibition match in Bulawayo, the only non-Test nation ever to achieve this feat.
July 31 Captain Kerans of HMS Amethyst decides to make a break after nightfall, under heavy fire from the Chinese People's Liberation Army on both sides of the Yangtze River, and successfully rejoins the fleet at Woosung the next day.
August
August 3 The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that will create the National Basketball Association.
August 5 In Ecuador, the 6.8 Ambato earthquake kills more than 5,000, and destroys a number of villages.
August 8 Bhutan signs a Treaty of Friendship with newly independent India, agreeing non-interference in internal affairs, but allowing India to "guide" its foreign policy (similar to the previous arrangements with the British administration in India).
August 10 the Avro Canada C102 Jetliner makes its first flight; it is the first jet airliner to fly in North America.
August 12 The Fourth Geneva Convention is agreed to.
The Salvatore Giuliano Gang explodes mines under a police barracks, outside Palermo, Sicily.
August 18 Kemi Bloody Thursday: two protesters die in the scuffle between the police and the strikers' protest procession in Kemi, Finland.
The Vatican announces that bones uncovered in its catacombs could be those of the apostle Peter; 19 years later, Pope Paul VI announces confirmation that the bones belong to this first pope.
Deportivo Saprissa enters Costa Rican soccer's first division.
The 1949 Queen Charlotte Islands earthquake is Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.
August 24 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is established.
The Council of Europe meets for the first time.
The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, RDS-1 ("Joe 1"). Its design imitates the American plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece to Albania, after its defeat at Mount Gramos, marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
Six of the last sixteen surviving veterans of the Union Army, in the American Civil War, meet in Indianapolis.
September
September 2 Film noir The Third Man, with screenplay by Graham Greene and set in Allied-occupied Vienna, is released in the United Kingdom; it wins the 1949 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
Howard Unruh, a World War II veteran, kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Parabellum P.08 pistol, to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to Germany.
September 7 The first Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany convenes in Bonn. They will elect Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor while the Federal Convention, a constitutional body consisting of the Bundestag members and a same number of representatives of the States, elect the liberal Theodor Heuss as President of Germany on 12 September.
Albert Guay affair: A dynamite bomb destroys Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-3, in Quebec.
Notorious World War II veteran Edwin Alonzo Boyd commits his first career bank robbery, in Toronto.
September 13 The Soviet Union vetoes United Nations membership for Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal.
Canadian steamship burns in Toronto Harbour, with the loss of over 118 lives.
Warner Bros. cartoon, "Fast and Furry-ous" is released. It also marks the debut of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. The director is Chuck Jones (credited as Charles M. Jones).
September 19 The United Kingdom government devalues the pound sterling from $4.03 to $2.80, leading to many other currencies being devalued.
September 23 U.S. president Harry S. Truman announces that the Soviet Union has tested the atomic bomb.
September 24 László Rajk, ex-foreign minister of Hungary, is sentenced to death.
September 25 U.S. Christian evangelist Billy Graham starts his Los Angeles Crusade, his first great evangelistic campaign. It runs for eight weeks during which Graham speaks to 350,000 people and the event is subsequently described as the greatest revival since the time of Billy Sunday. After this, Graham becomes a national figure in the United States.
The first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference approves a design for the flag of the People's Republic of China.
Iva Toguri D'Aquino is found guilty in the United States of broadcasting for Japan as "Tokyo Rose" at the end of World War II.
October
October 1 The People's Republic of China is officially proclaimed.
October 2 The Soviet Union recognizes the People's Republic of China.
October 3 Albanian Subversion: First Anglo-American attempt to infiltrate guerillas into Albania; the operation is fatally flawed, by being under the control of double agent Kim Philby.
October 6 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) established its first diplomatic and friendly relations with newly proclaimed Communist China (PRC) between the two nations.
October 7 The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is officially established (until 1990).
October 13 Severe flooding hits Guatemala.
October 14 The Foley Square trial of Eugene Dennis and ten other leaders of the Communist Party USA ends in New York City (the longest trial in U.S. history to this date); all defendants are found guilty and all but one sentenced to five years of prison.
October 16 Greek Civil War ends with a communist surrender.
October 17 Chinese communist troops take Guangzhou.
October 20 China People's Insurance Corporation, as predecessor of China Life was founded.
October 24 The cornerstone of the Headquarters of the United Nations on Manhattan is laid.
Battle of Kuningtou: Chinese communist troops fail to take Quemoy; their advance towards Taiwan is halted.
1949 Air France Lockheed Constellation crash: An Air France flight from Paris to New York crashes in the Azores on São Miguel Island, killing all aboard. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu, and French boxer Marcel Cerdan.
November
November 7 Oil is discovered beneath the Caspian Sea, off the coast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.
November 12 The Volkswagen Type 2 panel van is unveiled in Germany.
November 15 Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
November 17 The second trial of Alger Hiss for perjury begins in New York, again with Whittaker Chambers as principal witness.
November 24 The ski resort in Squaw Valley, Placer County, California officially opens.
November 26 The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India's constitution.
November 28 Winston Churchill makes a landmark speech in support of the idea of a European Union, at Kingsway Hall, London - but does not see UK as part of it, "The British Government have rightly stated that they cannot commit this country to entering any European Union without the agreement of the other members of the British Commonwealth".
November 30 1949 New Zealand general election: The New Zealand National Party, led by Sidney Holland defeats the incumbent New Zealand Labour Party, led by Peter Fraser.
December
Retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan finishes, and it declares Taipei its temporary capital city, a status it will retain more than 50 years later.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is established as a United Nations agency.
December 10 1949 Australian federal election: The Liberal/Country Coalition led by Robert Menzies defeats the Labor government, led by Prime Minister Ben Chifley. Menzies is sworn in on December 19, his second stint as prime minister; he will hold the office for over 16 years until his retirement in 1966 and Labor will not win office again until 1972, under Gough Whitlam.
December 13 The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
December 14 Traicho Kostov, who until March was acting president of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria, is sentenced to death for anti-Communist Party activity.
December 15 A typhoon strikes a fishing fleet off Korea, killing several thousand.
December 16 Sukarno is elected president of the Republic of Indonesia.
December 17 Burma recognises the People's Republic of China.
December 18 In the American National Football League, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Los Angeles Rams 14–0, to win the championship.
December 21 Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin's 70th Birthday is Held in Moscow.
December 27 The Treaty of The Hague ends the Indonesian National Revolution by recognizing transfer of the sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies from Queen Juliana of the Netherlands to the United States of Indonesia; the Susanto Cabinet takes office in the Republic of Indonesia.
KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut, becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
Smouha SC (sports club) is founded in Alexandria, Egypt, by Joseph Smouha, a Mizrahi Iraqi Jew.
December 30 India recognizes the People's Republic of China.
Date unknown
The Malta Labour Party is founded.
D. R. Kaprekar discovers the convergence property of the number 6174.
Slavery in Kuwait is abolished
Births
January
Nikolai Pankin, Russian breaststroke swimmer, swimming coach (d. 2018)
Christopher Durang, American playwright (d. 2024)
George Foreman, African-American boxer (d. 2025)
Linda Lovelace, American porn actress, later anti-porn activist (d. 2002)
Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football player, coach
Haruki Murakami, Japanese author
Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born film director
January 14 Lawrence Kasdan, American director, screenwriter
January 15 Panos Mihalopoulos, Greek actor
Gyude Bryant, Liberian politician (d. 2014)
Andy Kaufman, American comedian, actor (d. 1984)
Mick Taylor, English musician
January 18 Philippe Starck, French designer
Robert Palmer, British rock singer (d. 2003)
Dennis Taylor, Irish snooker player
January 22 Steve Perry, American rock singer (Journey)
January 23 Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, Indonesian politician and former minister of social affairs
January 24 John Belushi, American actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live) (d. 1982)
January 25 Paul Nurse, English geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
January 26 David Strathairn, American actor (Good Night, and Good Luck)
January 27 Djavan, Brazilian singer, songwriter
January 28 Mike Moore, 34th prime minister of New Zealand (d. 2020)
January 30 Peter Agre, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
January 31 Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer, sports journalist
February
February 1 Joan Burton, Irish politician
Duncan Bannatyne, Scottish entrepreneur
Brent Spiner, American actor
February 3 Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist
February 4 Rasim Delić, Bosnian military chief of staff and convicted war criminal (d. 2010)
February 6 Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
February 8 Florinda Meza, Mexican actress, television producer, and screenwriter (best known as Doña Florinda in El Chavo del Ocho)
February 9 Judith Light, American actress
February 10 Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
February 21 Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer (d. 2022)
February 22 Niki Lauda, Austrian triple Formula 1 world champion (d. 2019)
February 25 Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
February 26 Simon Crean, Australian politician (d. 2023)
February 27 Mary Gibby, British botanist and professor (d. 2024)
March
Gates McFadden, American actress, choreographer
J. P. R. Williams, Welsh rugby player (d. 2024)
Dinesh Gunawardena, Sri Lankan politician, 15th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
March 3 Elijah Harper, Canadian Aboriginal activist (d. 2013)
March 5 Franz Josef Jung, German politician
Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer
March 7 Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
March 8 – Cho Yang-ho, South Korean businessman (d. 2019)
Kalevi Aho, Finnish composer
Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer (d. 2025)
March 10 Nobu Matsuhisa, Japanese chef
March 11 Georg Schramm, German psychologist, Kabarett artist
Rob Cohen, American film director, producer and writer
Mike Gibbins, Welsh drummer (d. 2005)
Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast
March 13 Julia Migenes, American soprano
Erik Estrada, American actor and police officer (CHiPs)
Victor Garber, Canadian actor (Godspell, Alias)
Patrick Duffy, American actor
Pat Rice, Irish footballer, football manager
March 18 Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (d. 2010)
Hirofumi Hirano, Japanese politician, Chief Cabinet Secretary
Valery Leontiev, Soviet and Russian actor and singer
Eddie Money, American rock guitarist and singer (d. 2019)
Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian philosopher
March 22 Fanny Ardant, French actress
March 24 Ranil Wickremesinghe, 9th President of Sri Lanka, 10th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
March 25 Sue Klebold, American activist
Rudi Koertzen, South African cricket umpire (d. 2022)
Vicki Lawrence, American comedian, singer and game show hostess
Margareta of Romania, Romanian princess and diplomat
Giuseppe Sabadini, Italian footballer
Patrick Süskind, German writer
Ernest Lee Thomas, African-American actor (What's Happening!!)
Ronnie Ray Smith, American Olympic athlete (d. 2013)
Michael W. Young, American geneticist, chronobiologist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Michael Brecker, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
John Spenkelink, American murderer (d. 1979)
March 30 Lene Lovich, American singer
April
Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman
Sammy Nelson, Northern Irish footballer
Gil Scott-Heron, American musician, composer and activist (d. 2011)
April 2 Pamela Reed, American actress
April 3 Richard Thompson, English musician, songwriter
April 4 Parveen Babi, Bollywood actress (d. 2005)
April 5 Judith Resnik, American astronaut (d. 1986)
Janet Ågren, Swedish actress and model
Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Mitch Daniels, American academic administrator, businessman, author, and politician
Zygmunt Zimowski, Polish bishop (d. 2016)
Alex Fergusson, Scottish politician (d. 2018)
Brenda Russell, American-Canadian singer, songwriter and keyboardist
Fanie de Jager, South African operatic tenor
April 10 Daniel Mangeas, French bicycle commentator
April 11 Bernd Eichinger, German film producer, director (d. 2011)
April 13 Christopher Hitchens, English writer (d. 2011)
Alla Pugacheva, Russian musical performer
Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm, Polish-born writer
Antônio Fagundes, Brazilian actor
Bengt Holmström, Finnish-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 19 Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1990)
Veronica Cartwright, English-born American actress
Jessica Lange, American actress
April 21 Patti LuPone, American actress
April 23 György Gedó, Hungarian Olympic boxer
April 24 Véronique Sanson, French singer, songwriter
April 28 Bruno Kirby, American actor (d. 2006)
April 30 António Guterres, Prime Minister of Portugal, 9th secretary-general of the United Nations
May
May 2 Alan Titchmarsh, English gardener
May 3 Leopoldo Luque, Argentine soccer player (d. 2021)
May 4 John Force an American NHRA drag racer
May 6 – Larry Rivers, Basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters (d. 2023)
Billy Joel, American singer, songwriter and pianist
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, military President of Niger (d. 1999)
May 10 Mahfuzur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi cinematographer (d. 2019)
May 13 Zoë Wanamaker, American-British actress
May 14 Sverre Årnes, Norwegian writer
Rick Wakeman, English rock musician, songwriter
Bill Wallace, Canadian rock musician (The Guess Who)
Dusty Hill, American bassist (ZZ Top) (d. 2021)
Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan
May 20 Dave Thomas, Canadian actor, comedian (Second City Television)
May 21 Andrew Neil, Scottish journalist and broadcaster
Cheryl Campbell, English actress
Ieuan Wyn Jones, Welsh politician
Jim Broadbent, English actor
Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician
May 25 Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer
Jeremy Corbyn, British politician
Pam Grier, African-American actress
Hank Williams Jr., American country singer
Jo Ann Harris, American actress
Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexican journalist
May 29 Francis Rossi, English rock guitarist, singer (Status Quo)
May 30 Bob Willis, English cricketer (d. 2019)
May 31 Tom Berenger, American actor (Platoon)
June
June 1 Déwé Gorodey, New Caledonian writer and politician (d. 2022)
June 2 Heather Couper, British astronomer (d. 2020)
June 7 Wendy Sherman, American diplomat and politician
June 8 Emanuel Ax, Polish-born American pianist
June 10 Bora Dugić, Serbian musician, flautist
June 11 Frank Beard, American drummer (ZZ Top) (d. 2026)
June 13 Ann Druyan, American popular science writer, wife of Carl Sagan
Antony Sher, South African-born British actor (d. 2021)
Harry Turtledove, American historian, novelist
Papa Wemba, Congolese soukous musician (d. 2016)
Alan White, English drummer and songwriter (Yes) (d. 2022)
June 15 Jim Varney, American actor and comedian (d. 2000)
June 16 Robbin Thompson, American singer, songwriter (d. 2015)
Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
Ebi, Iranian singer
Hassan Shehata, Egyptian footballer and coach
Lionel Richie, African-American urban musician
Shane Molloy, Australian rules footballer
Stuart Pearson, English football player
Jane Urquhart, Canadian author
Alan Osmond, American pop singer (d. 2026)
Meryl Streep, American actress
Lindsay Wagner, American actress
Elizabeth Warren, American academic and politician, U.S. Senator (D-Mass.) since 2013
June 23 Jon McLachlan, New Zealand rugby union player
Brigitte Bierlein, first female chancellor of Austria (d. 2024)
Lalith Kaluperuma, Sri Lankan test cricketer and ODI cricketer
Patrick Tambay, French racing driver (d. 2022)
Yoon Joo-sang, South Korean actor
Graco Ramírez, governor of Morelos, Mexico 2012–2018
Avtar Singh Kang, Punjabi singer and folk contributor
Arturo Vázquez Ayala, Mexican footballer
June 29 Lisette Sevens, Dutch field hockey defender
Silvio Aquino, Salvadoran football player
Uwe Kliemann, German football player and coach
Norm Mitchell, Australian rules footballer
Philippe Toussaint, Belgium's most successful golfer
July
Yoshihide Fukao, Japanese volleyball player
Néjia Ben Mabrouk, Tunisian screenwriter, director
John Farnham, Australian singer, recording artist and entertainer
July 2 Ben Verbong, Dutch film director, screenwriter
Mircea Chelaru, Romanian general and politician
Alfred Vierling, Dutch politician
July 5 Jill Murphy, British author and illustrator (d. 2021)
July 6 Noli de Castro, Filipino broadcast journalist, radio commentator and Vice President of the Philippines
July 7 Shelley Duvall, American actress (d. 2024)
Jaroslav Jurka, Czech fencer
Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and occasional actor
Raoul Cédras, former president of Haiti
Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi, Iranian intellectual, journalist, writer, traveler, translator, and university lecturer
Liona Boyd, English classical guitarist
Émerson Leão, Brazilian footballer
July 13 Helena Fibingerová, Czech athlete
Carl Bildt, 28th prime minister of Sweden, minister for foreign affairs
Trevor Horn, English pop singer, producer
Harvey C. Krautschun, American politician (d. 2026)
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 3rd prime minister of the United Arab Emirates
William C. Faure, South African film director (d. 1994)
Andrei Fursenko, Russian politician, scientist and businessman
Kgalema Motlanthe, South African politician, President of South Africa
Daniel Vaillant, French Socialist politician
July 20 Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor and environmentalist
Alan Menken, American composer
Lasse Virén, Finnish long-distance runner
Michael Richards, American actor, comedian
Joan Enric Vives Sicília, Spanish archbishop
July 25 Francis Smerecki, French football player, manager (d. 2018)
Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand and businessman
Roger Taylor, English rock musician (Queen)
July 29 Jamil Mahuad, President of Ecuador
August
August 1 Mugur Isărescu, 58th prime minister of Romania
August 7 Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze
August 8 Keith Carradine, American actor
August 11 Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
Mark Knopfler, British rock guitarist
August 13 Philippe Petit, French high-wire artist
August 14 Morten Olsen, Danish football player, manager
August 15 Beverly Burns, American pilot, first woman to captain a Boeing 747
August 17 Sue Draheim, American fiddler (d. 2013)
August 18 – Don Koivisto, American politician from Michigan
August 20 Phil Lynott, Irish rock musician (d. 1986)
Loretta Devine, African-American actress
Keetie van Oosten-Hage, Dutch cyclist
Vicky Leandros, Greek singer
Shelley Long, American actress (Cheers)
Rick Springfield, Australian rock singer, actor
August 24 Anna Lee Fisher, American astronaut, chemist and physician
Martin Amis, English novelist (d. 2023)
Gene Simmons, Israeli-American rock musician (Kiss)
August 26 Leon Redbone, Canadian-American singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor, and guitarist (d. 2019)
August 28 Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player, coach
August 30 Peter Maffay, German singer
Richard Gere, American actor
H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
September
Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart, Cuban nuclear physicist, government official (d. 2018)
Tan Soo Khoon, former speaker of the Parliament of Singapore
John Curry, British figure skater (d. 1994)
Alain Mosconi, French swimmer, Olympic medalist and previous world record holder
Daniel Pipes, American historian, writer, and commentator
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, 6th president of Indonesia
September 14 Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
Ed Begley Jr., American actor, environmentalist (St. Elsewhere)
Doreen Chen, Jamaican politician
September 17 Didith Reyes, Filipina singer (d. 2008)
Peter Shilton, English goalkeeper
Twiggy, English model
Richard Rogler, German Kabarett artist, professor of Kabarett at the University of the Arts in Berlin
September 23 Bruce Springsteen, American singer, songwriter (Born in the USA)
Inshan Ali, West Indian cricketer (d. 1995)
Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer, and actor
September 26 Jane Smiley, American novelist
September 27 Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer (d. 2020)
October
October 2 Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
October 3 Svika Pick, Israeli musician
Armand Assante, American actor (Gotti)
Lindsey Buckingham, American musician
Luis Sepúlveda, Chilean writer and journalist (d. 2020)
Chris Dobson, British chemist (d. 2019)
Sigourney Weaver, American actress
October 10 Jessica Harper, American actress, producer
October 12 Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan-born international terrorist
October 15 Tanya Roberts, American actress (d. 2021)
Owen Arthur, 5th prime minister of Barbados (d. 2020)
October 20 Valeriy Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
October 21 Benjamin Netanyahu, 2-time prime minister of Israel
October 22 Arsène Wenger, French football (soccer) manager
October 26 Antonio Carpio, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
October 28 Caitlyn Jenner, American transgender track and field athlete, reality star
October 30 Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician, strategist (d. 2006)
November
Jeannie Berlin, American film actress
David Foster, Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter and arranger
Larry Holmes, African-American boxer
Anna Wintour, British-American fashion journalist, editor-in-chief of the magazine Vogue
November 5 Armin Shimerman, American actor
Guillaume Faye, French journalist and writer (d. 2019)
Judy Tenuta, American comedian (d. 2022)
November 8 Bonnie Raitt, American singer, guitarist
November 11 Ismail Petra of Kelantan, sultan of Kelantan (d. 2019)
November 14 Paola Balducci, Italian politician, lawyer
John Boehner, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Vietnamese politician
Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor (d. 2005)
Enrica Bonaccorti, Italian actress and television presenter (d. 2026)
November 19 Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster
November 21 Ignazio Visco, Italian economist, Governor of the Bank of Italy
November 22 Shaun Garnett, English footballer, coach
November 23 Marcia Griffiths, Jamaican singer
November 24 Pierre Buyoya, former president of Burundi (d. 2020)
Kerry O'Keeffe, Australian cricketer, commentator
GT Devegowda, Indian politician
November 26 Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
Alexander Godunov, Russian-born dancer, actor (d. 1995)
Paul Shaffer, Canadian-American musician
Siringan Gubat, Malaysian politician (d. 2018)
Jerry Lawler, American professional wrestler and commentator
Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (d. 1983)
Garry Shandling, American comedian (d. 2016)
December
Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (k. 1993)
Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman, politician and 36th and 38th president of Chile (d. 2024)
John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997)
Heather Menzies, Canadian-American actress (d. 2017)
Jeff Bridges, American actor
Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born comedian, actress, and singer
December 5 Bruce E. Melnick, American astronaut
James Rivière, Italian jeweler, designer
Tom Waits, American singer, composer and actor
Cathy Wayne, Australian pop entertainer (d. 1969)
Mary Gordon, American writer
Michelle Schatzman, French analyst and mathematician (d. 2010)
December 11 Boris Shcherbakov, Russian-Soviet film actor
December 12 Bill Nighy, British actor
Robert Lindsay, English actor
Tom Verlaine, American rock singer, guitarist (d. 2023)
December 14 Bill Buckner, American baseball player (d. 2019)
Don Johnson, American actor (Miami Vice)
Abdul Karim Kabariti, Prime Minister of Jordan
Billy Gibbons, American guitarist (ZZ Top)
Dušan Mitošević, Serbian football player, manager (d. 2018)
Paul Rodgers, British rock singer
David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (d. 1980)
Blaze Foley, American country singer-songwriter (d. 1989)
Carlos Gomes Júnior, Bissau-Guinean politician
Sebastian, Danish musician
December 21 Thomas Sankara, 2-Time President of Burkina Faso (d. 1987)
Michael Bacon, American singer-songwriter
Maurice Gibb, Manx-born British rock musician (Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
Robin Gibb, Manx-born British rock musician (Bee Gees) (d. 2012)
Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Brazilian singer
Sissy Spacek, American actress
Manny Mori, president of Micronesia
Nawaz Sharif, Pakistani prime minister
December 26 José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
December 27 Klaus Fischer, German footballer
December 29 Syed Kirmani, Indian cricketer
December 31 Ellen Datlow, American science fiction writer
Date unknown
Michael Houghton, British-born virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Bakri Hassan Saleh, 12th prime minister of Sudan
Deaths
January
Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1889)
Gennaro Righelli, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1886)
José Ramos Preto, Portuguese jurist, politician and 75th prime minister of Portugal (b. 1870)
Suehiko Shiono, Japanese lawyer, politician and cabinet minister (b. 1880)
January 8 Yoshijirō Umezu, Japanese general (b. 1882)
Martin Grabmann, German Catholic priest, mediaevalist and historian (b. 1875)
Tommy Handley, British radio comedian (b. 1892)
Tom Longboat, Canadian Olympic runner (b. 1887)
January 10 – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer (b. 1865)
January 11 Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1889)
January 13 Eduardo Barron, Spanish engineer, pilot (b. 1888)
Juan Bielovucic, Peruvian aviator (b. 1889)
Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist (b. 1892)
Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
January 15 Charles Ponzi, Italian-born American con man (b. 1882)
January 19 William Wright, American actor (b. 1911)
January 21 Joseph Cawthorn, American actor (b. 1868)
Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett, British industrialist, politician (b. 1898)
Henry Slocum, American tennis player (b. 1862)
January 23 Erich Klossowski, German-born Polish historian, painter (b. 1875)
January 28 Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
January 31 Henri De Vries, Dutch actor (b. 1864)
February
February 1 Herbert Stothart, American composer (b. 1885)
Pedro Paulo Bruno, Brazilian painter, singer, poet and landscaper (b. 1888)
Theodoros Natsinas, Greek teacher (b. 1872)
February 3 Carlos Obligado, Argentine poet, critic and writer (b. 1889)
Hiroaki Abe, Japanese admiral (b. 1889)
Ulrich Greifelt, German SS general of police (b. 1896)
Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, British politician (b. 1878)
Francesco Ticciati, Italian composer, pianist, teacher and lecturer (b. 1893)
February 11 Giovanni Zenatello, Italian opera singer (b. 1876)
February 12 Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906) (assassinated)
February 14 Fernand Desprès, French shoemaker, anarchist, journalist and activist (b. 1879)
Charles L. Bartholomew, American cartoonist (b. 1869)
Patricia Ryan, British-born American actress (b. 1921)
February 16 Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian artist (b. 1879)
February 18 Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, Spanish lawyer, politician and 6th president of Spain (b. 1877)
February 19 Fidelio Ponce de León, Cuban painter (b. 1895)
February 21 Tan Malaka, Indonesian teacher, philosopher, founder of Struggle Union and Murba Party, guerilla and fighter (b. 1897)
February 22 Félix d'Herelle, French-Canadian microbiologist (b. 1873)
February 25 Juan Sinforiano Bogarín, Paraguayan clergyman, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1863)
March
March 2 Sarojini Naidu, Indian independence activist, poet (b. 1879)
March 3 Carrie Ashton Johnson, American editor, author (b. 1863)
March 4 James Rowland Angell, American psychologist and educator (b. 1869)
March 7 Bradbury Robinson, American who threw the first forward pass in American football history (b. 1884)
March 10 Alphonse Hustache, French entomologist (b. 1872)
Anastasios Charalambis, Greek general, interim prime minister of Greece (b. 1862)
Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
Joan Lamote de Grignon, Spanish pianist, composer (b. 1872)
March 12 August Bier, German surgeon (b. 1861)
March 15 Gheorghe Brăescu, Romanian writer (b. 1871)
March 16 Leyland Hodgson, British-born American actor (b. 1892)
March 17 Felix Bressart, German-born American actor (b. 1892)
March 19 Sir James Somerville, British admiral (b. 1882)
Jack Kapp, president of the U.S. branch of Decca Records (b. 1901)
Elisheva Bikhovski, Soviet-born Israeli poet, writer and translator (b. 1888)
Alecu Constantinescu, Romanian trade unionist, journalist and militant (b. 1872)
Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian composer (b. 1889)
Inabata Katsutaro, Japanese industrialist, pioneer (b. 1862)
Helen Homans, American tennis player (b. 1877)
Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
April
April 1 Evelyn Owen, Australian gun designer (b. 1915)
George Graves, British comic actor (b. 1876)
Chandra Mohan, Indian actor (b. 1906)
Francesco Pasinetti, Italian director, screenwriter (b. 1911)
April 5 Hugh Allan, Canadian politician (b. 1865)
April 6 Sir Seymour Hicks, British actor (b. 1871)
April 7 Mikhail Denisenko, Soviet general (b. 1899)
April 8 Santiago Alba y Bonifaz, Spanish lawyer, politician (b. 1872)
April 13 Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, Mexican poet, literary critic, editor and teacher (b. 1899)
April 15 Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885)
April 16 Joseph Augustine Cushman, American geologist, paleontologist and foraminiferologist (b. 1881)
Guillermo Buitrago, Colombian composer (b. 1920)
Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
April 22 Charles Middleton, American actor (b. 1874)
April 27 Patrick Lyons, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, reverend (b. 1875)
Ponciano Bernardo, Filipino engineer, politician (b. 1905)
Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888)
Sir Robert Robertson, British chemist (b. 1869)
Hla Thaung, Burmese battalion leader
Sir Fabian Ware, British founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (b. 1869)
Johann Jakob Hess, Swiss Egyptologist, Assyriologist (b. 1866)
Kaarle Knuutila, Finnish farmer, politician (b. 1868)
May
Josep Maria Jujol, Andorran architect (b. 1879)
Gheorghe Petrașcu, Romanian painter (b. 1872)
May 4 Valerio Bacigalupo, Italian goalkeeper (b. 1924)
May 5 Hideo Nagata, Japanese poet, playwright (b. 1885)
Stanisław Grabski, Polish economist, politician (b. 1871)
Kunihiko Hashimoto, Japanese composer (b. 1904)
Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1862)
May 19 Paul Schultze-Naumburg, German architect, painter, publicist and politician (b. 1869)
May 20 Damaskinos of Athens, Archbishop of Athens, 57th prime minister of Greece (b. 1891)
May 21 Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906)
James Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (b. 1892)
Hans Pfitzner, German composer (b. 1869)
May 23 Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (b. 1872)
May 27 Robert Ripley, American creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not! (b. 1890)
May 30 Igor Belkovich, Soviet astronomer (b. 1904)
Date unknown Abd Allah Siraj, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. c. 1876)
June
Naguib el-Rihani, Egyptian actor (b. 1889)
Virgilia Lütz, German Benedictine nun (b. 1869)
June 9 Maria Cebotari, Romanian soprano, actress (b. 1910)
Filippo Silvestri, Italian entomologist (b. 1873)
Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
Carl Vaugoin, Austrian politician, 8th chancellor of Austria (b. 1873)
June 11 Giovanni Gioviale, Italian composer (b. 1885)
June 12 Maria Candida of the Eucharist, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1884)
June 14 Russell Doubleday, American author, publisher (b. 1872)
June 22 Robert Boudrioz, French screenwriter, director (b. 1887)
June 24 Themistoklis Sofoulis, Greek politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1860)
July
July 2 Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader, politician and 32nd prime minister of Bulgaria (b. 1882)
July 9 Fritz Hart, British composer (b. 1874)
July 11 Corneliu Dragalina, Romanian general (b. 1887)
July 12 Douglas Hyde, Irish academic, linguist and scholar, 1st president of Ireland (b. 1860)
Anastasios Dalipis, Greek army officer, politician (b. 1896)
Eva Hubback, British feminist (b. 1886)
Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army officer (b. 1905)
Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
July 19 Frank Murphy, American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1890)
July 21 Cesare Formichi, Italian baritone (b. 1883)
July 23 Masaharu Anesaki, Japanese scholar (b. 1873)
Nils Östensson, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1918)
Ada Baker, Australian soprano, singing teacher and vaudeville star (b. 1866)
July 25 Ubaldo Soddu, Italian general (b. 1883)
July 26 Linda Arvidson, American actress (b. 1884)
July 27 Ellery Harding Clark, American Olympic athlete (b. 1874)
July 29 József Koszta, Hungarian painter (b. 1861)
Stoyan Danev, 13th prime minister of Bulgaria (b. 1858)
Albin Andersson, Swedish farmer, manager and politician (b. 1873)
Vicenta Chávez Orozco, Mexican Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1867)
July 31 Alfred Bashford, English cricketer (b. 1881)
August
August 4 Liberato Pinto, 78th prime minister of Portugal (b. 1880)
August 5 Ernest Fourneau, French chemist, pharmacologist (b. 1872)
Gustavus M. Blech, German-born American physician, surgeon (b. 1870)
Harry Davenport, American actor (b. 1866)
G. E. M. Skues, British inventor of nymph fly fishing (b. 1858)
Edward Thorndike, American psychologist (b. 1874)
August 10 Homer Burton Adkins, American chemist (b. 1892)
August 12 George Cross, Australian actor, director (b. c.1873)
Muhsin al-Barazi, Syrian academic, lawyer, politician and 24th prime minister of Syria (b. 1904)
Husni al-Za'im, Syrian military man, politician, 23rd prime minister of Syria and 9th president of Syria (b. 1897)
Ramon Briones Luco, Chilean lawyer, politician (b. 1872)
Margaret Mitchell, American writer (Gone With the Wind) (b. 1900)
August 20 Ludwig Halberstädter, German-born Israeli radiologist (b. 1876)
August 22 Amado Aguirre Santiago, Mexican general, politician (b. 1863)
Domingo Díaz Arosemena, Panamian politician, 12th president of Panama (b. 1875)
Herbert Greenfield, Canadian politician, 4th premier of Alberta (b. 1869)
Abdulkerim Abbas, Chinese politician (b. 1921)
Uemura Shōen, Japanese artist (b. 1875)
August 29 Franciszek Latinik, Polish general (b. 1864)
Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
Hans Kindler, American cellist, conductor (b. 1892)
Sevasti Qiriazi, Albanian educator, women's rights activist (b. 1871)
September
Song Qiyun, communist activist, executed (b. 1904)
Song Zhenzhong, child internee, executed (b. 1941)
Xu Linxia, communist activist, executed (b. 1904/1905)
Yang Hucheng, general, executed (b. 1893)
September 7 José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
September 8 Richard Strauss, German composer (Also Sprach Zarathustra) (b. 1864)
September 10 Wiley Rutledge, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1894)
Harry Burleigh, American composer (b. 1866)
Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Finnish physician (b. 1870)
José Ignacio Cárdenas, Venezuelan diplomat, physician (b. 1874)
August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)
Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, German Resistance figure (b. 1901)
Pandeli Evangjeli, Albanian politician, 7th prime minister of Albania (b. 1859)
September 15 Heinie Beckendorf, American baseball catcher (b. 1884)
September 18 Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890)
Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
George Shiels, Irish writer (b. 1886)
Nikos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b. 1901)
September 20 Richard Dix, American actor (b. 1893)
September 22 Sam Wood, American director (b. 1883)
September 24 Pierre de Bréville, French composer (b. 1861)
September 25 Peter Nielsen, Danish actor (b. 1876)
September 27 David Adler, American architect (b. 1882)
Émile Eddé, 4th prime minister, 3rd president of Lebanon (b. 1886)
October
Nykyta Budka, Soviet Roman Catholic bishop, martyr and blessed (b. 1877)
Buddy Clark, American pop singer (b. 1912)
October 2 Luis Armiñán Pérez, Spanish politician (b. 1871)
October 4 Federico Beltrán Masses, Spanish painter (b. 1885)
Metropolitan Timotheos of Australia, Greek Orthodox priest, bishop (b. 1880)
Robert Wilson Lynd, Irish journalist and writer (b. 1879)
October 7 Matiu Ratana, New Zealand politician (b. 1912)
October 8 Gheorghe Mironescu, Romanian politician, 33rd prime minister of Romania (b. 1874)
October 9 Emanuele Foà, Italian engineer, physicist (b. 1892)
Fritz Leiber, American actor (b. 1882)
Roman Lysko, Soviet Roman Catholic and Orthodox priest, martyr and blessed (b. 1914)
Elmer Clifton, American actor, director (b. 1890)
László Rajk, Hungarian Communist politician, former foreign minister (executed) (b. 1909)
Jacques Copeau, French actor, producer, director and dramatist (b. 1879)
October 17 Aurel Aldea, Romanian general and politician (b. 1887)
October 21 Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena, Colombian Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (b. 1874)
October 22 Craig Reynolds, American actor (b. 1907)
Almanzo Wilder, American writer, husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder (b. 1857)
John Robert Clynes, British trade unionist, Labour politician (b. 1869)
František Halas, Czechoslovak essayist, poet and translator (b. 1901)
Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
Marcel Cerdan, French professional boxer (killed in plane crash) (b. 1916)
Patriarch Guregh Israelian of Jerusalem (b. 1894)
George Gurdjieff, Soviet spiritual teacher (b. 1866)
Chikuhei Nakajima, Japanese naval officer, engineer, and politician, founder of the Nakajima Aircraft Company (b. 1884)
Jindřich Bišický, Czechoslovak author (b. 1889)
Lorenzo Massa, Argentine Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1882)
Edward Stettinius, Jr., U.S. secretary of state (b. 1900)
November
November María Josepha Sophia de Iturbide, head of the Imperial House of Mexico (b. 1872)
November 2 Susan Carlson, American politician
William Desmond, Irish actor (b. 1878)
Solomon R. Guggenheim, American philanthropist (b. 1861)
Elena Arizmendi Mejía, Mexican feminist and founder of the Neutral White Cross (b. 1884)
Walther von Bonstetten, Swiss Boy Scout Association founder (b. 1867)
November 5 Abdolhossein Hazhir, 54th prime minister of Iran (b. 1899)
November 8 August Hagenbach, Swiss physicist (b. 1871)
Mun Bhuridatta, Thai Buddhist monk (b. 1870)
Ignatius Stelletskii, Soviet archaeologist, historian and researcher (b. 1878)
November 12 – Walter Buch, German SS general (b. 1883)
November 15 Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1910), and his accomplice, Narayan Apte (b. 1911)
November 19 James Ensor, Belgian painter (b. 1860)
November 20 Wakatsuki Reijirō, 25th and 28th prime minister of Japan (b. 1866)
Mizuno Rentarō, Japanese statesman, politician and cabinet minister (b. 1868)
Bill Robinson, African-American dancer (b. 1878)
Charles F. Haanel, American New Thought author and businessman (b. 1866)
Vincenzo Irolli, Italian painter (b. 1860)
Martin Benno Schmidt, German pathologist (b. 1863)
November 30 Dame Irene Vanbrugh, British actress (b. 1872)
December
Philip Barry, American playwright (b. 1896)
Maria Ouspenskaya, Soviet actress, acting teacher (b. 1876)
December 5 Arthur Bedford, British navy officer (b. 1881)
Lead Belly, African-American blues musician (b. 1888)
José María Zeledón Brenes, Costa Rican politician, poet, writer and journalist (b. 1877)
December 7 Rex Beach, American novelist, playwright and Olympic water polo player (b. 1877)
December 8 George Barnes, Australian businessman, politician (b. 1856)
Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (b. 1875)
Marian Grzybowski, Polish dermatologist (b. 1895)
Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (b. 1873)
December 22 Manuel Camus, Filipino lawyer, politician (b. 1875)
Arthur Eichengrün, German chemist (b. 1867)
Felix Kaufmann, Austrian-born American philosopher (b. 1895)
December 24 Gertrude Bacon, British polymath and aeronautical pioneer (b. 1874)
December 25 Leon Schlesinger, American producer, filmmaker (b. 1884)
December 26 Julius Brandt, Austrian actor (b. 1873)
December 27 Antoni Ponikowski, Polish academician, politician and 7th prime minister of Poland (b. 1878)
Hervey Allen, American author (b. 1889)
Jack Lovelock, New Zealand Olympic athlete (b. 1910)
Josef Maria Auchentaller, Austrian architect, painter, draftsman and printmaker (b. 1865)
Raimond Valgre, Estonian composer, musician (b. 1913)
Date unknown
Constantin Atanasescu, Romanian general (b. 1885)
Abd Allah Siraj, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1876)
Ernest Spybuck, Native American artist (b. 1883)
Zhang Haipeng, Chinese and Manchukuoan general (executed) (b. 1867)
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