Wikipedia / 1961
Wikipedia / 1961
Events
January
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash.
Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th government).
January 7 Following a four-day conference in Casablanca, five African chiefs of state announce plans for a NATO-type African organization to ensure common defense. The Charter of Casablanca involves the Casablanca Group: Morocco, the United Arab Republic, Ghana, Guinea, and Mali.
January 8 In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies on independence for Algeria.
January 9 British authorities announce they have uncovered a large Soviet spy ring, the Portland spy ring, in London.
President Dwight Eisenhower gives his final State of the Union Address to Congress. In a Farewell Address the same day, he warns of the increasing power of a "military–industrial complex."
Patrice Lumumba of the Republic of Congo is assassinated.
January 20 John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States, becoming the second-youngest president to be sworn in.
January 23 Congress of Venezuela adopts a new constitution (in force until 1999).
January 24 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A B-52 Stratofortress, carrying two nuclear bombs, crashes near Goldsboro, North Carolina.
In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential news conference. In it, he announces that the Soviet Union has freed the two surviving crewmen from the July 1 1960 RB-47 shootdown incident involving a USAF reconnaissance aircraft and a MiG-19 over the Barents Sea.
Acting to halt 'leftist excesses', a junta composed of two army officers and four civilians takes over El Salvador, ousting another junta that had ruled for three months.
January 27 Soviet submarine S-80 sinks in the Barents Sea, killing all 68 crew.
January 28 Supercar, the first family sci-fi TV series filmed in Supermarionation, debuts on ATV in the UK.
January 30 President John F. Kennedy delivers his first State of the Union Address.
January 31 Ham, a 37-pound (17-kg) male chimpanzee, is rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, in a test of the Project Mercury spacecraft, designed to carry United States astronauts into space.
February
February 1 The United States tests its first Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile.
February 4 The Portuguese Colonial War begins in Angola.
February 59 In Congo, President Joseph Kasa-Vubu names Joseph Iléo as the new Prime Minister.
February 12 The USSR launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
February 13 The Congo government announces that villagers have killed Patrice Lumumba.
February 14 Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized in Berkeley, California.
United States President John F. Kennedy warns the Soviet Union to avoid interfering with the United Nations' pacification of the Congo.
Sabena Flight 548 crashes near Brussels, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team and several coaches.
The total solar eclipse of February 15, 1961, visible in the southern part of Europe, occurs.
February 26 Hassan II is pronounced King of Morocco.
March
MarchApril Drilling for Project Mohole is undertaken off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
March 1 United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
March 3 Hassan II is crowned King of Morocco.
Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth by light plane in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record.
The first U.S. Polaris submarines arrive at Holy Loch in Scotland.
1961 Kurenivka mudslide: A dam bursts in Kiev, USSR, killing 145.
United States delegate to the United Nations Security Council Adlai Stevenson votes against Portuguese policies in Africa.
United States President John F. Kennedy proposes a long-term "Alliance for Progress", between the United States and Latin America.
Cyprus joins the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming the first small country in the Commonwealth.
Black and white £5 notes cease to be legal tender in the UK.
Monash University in Melbourne, Australia takes in its first students.
A second B-52 crashes near Yuba City, California, after cabin pressure is lost and the fuel runs out. Two nuclear weapons are found unexploded.
South Africa announces it will withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations, upon becoming a republic (31 May). The nation rejoins the organization in 1994.
The Union of Peoples of Angola, led by Holden Roberto, attacks strategic locations in the north of Angola. These events result in the beginning of the colonial war with Portugal.
A ceasefire takes effect in the Algerian War of Independence.
"Nous les amoureux" sung by Jean-Claude Pascal (music by Jacques Datin, lyrics by Maurice Vidalin) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 (staged in Cannes) for Luxembourg.
March 29 The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote in presidential elections.
March 30 The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
April
April 5 The New Guinea Council of Western Papua is installed.
April 8 British India Steam Navigation Company passenger ship blows up and sinks off Dubai; 238 passengers and crew are killed.
April 10 South African golfer Gary Player becomes the first non-American to win the Masters Tournament.
April 11 The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
Vostok 1: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, orbiting the Earth once before parachuting to the ground.
Albert Kalonji takes the title Emperor Albert I Kalonji of South Kasai.
April 13 In Portugal, a coup attempt against António de Oliveira Salazar fails.
The U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba begins; it fails by April 19.
The 33rd Academy Awards ceremony is held in Santa Monica, California: The Apartment (1960) wins most awards, including Best Picture.
April 18 Portugal sends its first military reinforcement to Angola.
April 20 Fidel Castro announces that the Bay of Pigs Invasion has been defeated.
April 22 Algiers putsch: Four French generals who oppose de Gaulle's policies in Algeria fail in a coup attempt.
April 23 Judy Garland performs in a legendary comeback concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
April 24 Swedish warship Vasa, sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is recovered from Stockholm Harbor.
Sierra Leone becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
President Kennedy urges newspapers to consider national interest in times of struggle against "a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy", in an address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
May
May 1 National Airlines Flight 337, internal to Florida, is forced by an armed hijacker to fly to Cuba, the first of a spate of such aircraft hijackings.
May 4 U.S. Freedom Riders begin interstate bus rides, to test the new U.S. Supreme Court integration decision.
May 5 Mercury program: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.
May 6 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. becomes the first team in the 20th century to win the English league and cup double. , this is the last time Tottenham have won the English League.
May 8 British intelligence officer George Blake is sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for spying, having been found guilty of being a double agent in the pay of the Soviet Union, the longest non-life sentence ever handed down by a British court.
May 9 In a speech on "Television and the Public Interest" to the National Association of Broadcasters in the United States, FCC chairman Newton N. Minow describes commercial television programming as a "vast wasteland".
May 14 Civil rights movement: A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob of Ku Klux Klan members.
May 15 J. Heinrich Matthaei alone performs the Poly-U-Experiment, and is the first person to recognize and understand the genetic code. This is the birthdate of modern genetics.
May 16 Park Chung Hee takes over in a military coup, in South Korea.
May 19 Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (however, the probe lost contact with Earth a month earlier, and does not send back any data).
May 21 Civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order, after race riots break out.
May 24 Civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace", after disembarking from their bus.
May 25 Apollo program: U.S. President Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of Congress, that the United States "should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth".
May 27 Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaya, holds a press conference in Singapore, announcing his idea to form the Federation of Malaysia, comprising Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo (Sabah).
May 28 Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This is later considered the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
May 30 Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, ruler of the Dominican Republic since 1930, is killed in an ambush.
In France, rebel generals Maurice Challe and Andre Zelelr are sentenced to 15 years in prison.
South Africa becomes a republic, officially leaves the Commonwealth of Nations, and achieves complete independence from the United Kingdom.
Benfica beats FC Barcelona 3–2 at Wankdorf Stadium, Bern and wins the 1960–61 European Cup in association football.
June
June 1 Ethiopia experiences its most devastating earthquake of the 20th century, with a magnitude of 6.7. The town of Majete is destroyed, 45% of the houses in Karakore collapse, of the main road north of Karakore are damaged by landslides and fissures, and 5,000 inhabitants in the area are left homeless.
June 4 Vienna summit: John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev meet during two days in Vienna. They discuss nuclear tests, disarmament and Germany.
June 12 A patent for the body electrode invented by Richard M. Berman and Bernard Schwartz is applied for.
June 16 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West at Paris–Le Bourget Airport while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
A Paris-to-Strasbourg train derails near Vitry-le-François; 24 are killed, 109 injured.
The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded, with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
June 19 The British protectorate ends in Kuwait and it becomes an emirate.
June 22 Moise Tshombe is released for lack of evidence of his connection to the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
June 23 The Antarctic Treaty comes into effect.
June 25 Iraqi president Abd al-Karim Qasim announces his intention to annex newly independent Kuwait (such an annexation will occur in 1990).
June 27 Kuwait requests British help against the Iraqi threat; the United Kingdom sends in troops.
July
July 4 Soviet submarine K-19 suffers a reactor leak in the North Atlantic.
July 7 A coal mine in Czechoslovakia has one of its sections closed off in order to extinguish a fire and prevent an explosion, causing the suffocation of 108 miners still present.
A Czechoslovak Ilyushin Il-18 crashes while attempting to land at Casablanca, Morocco, killing all 72 on board.
Two dams that supply water to the city of Pune in India burst, causing the death of more than 1000 residents.
July 19 Trans World Airlines becomes the first airline to show regularly scheduled movies during its flights, presenting By Love Possessed to 1st-class passengers.
July 21 Mercury program: Gus Grissom, piloting the Mercury-Redstone 4 spacecraft Liberty Bell 7, becomes the second American to go into space (sub-orbital). After splashdown, the hatch prematurely opens, and the spacecraft sinks (it is recovered in 1999).
July 25 U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives a widely watched TV speech on the Berlin Crisis, warning "we will not be driven out of Berlin." Kennedy urges Americans to build fallout shelters, setting off a four-month debate on civil defense.
At Fenway Park in Boston, the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game tie occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain (the only tie until 2002).
Ireland submits the first application from a non-founding country to join the European Economic Community.
August
August The United States founds the Alliance for Progress.
August 1 The Six Flags Over Texas theme park officially opens to the public.
August 6 Vostok 2: Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second human to orbit the Earth, and the first to be in outer space for more than one day.
August 7 Vostok 2 lands in the Soviet Union.
August 10 The United Kingdom applies for membership in the European Economic Community.
August 11 An annular solar eclipse is visible from the Southern Ocean.
August 13 Berlin Crisis of 1961: Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin, and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe (until 1989, when Berlin and Germany both reunified in 1990, following the Fall of the Berlin Wall). On August 22 Ida Siekmann jumps from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to the West, becoming the first of at least 138 deaths at the Wall.
August 21 Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison in Kenya.
August 25 João Goulart replaces Jânio Quadros as President of Brazil (he is ousted in 1964).
August 29 A French military aircraft clips a cable of the aerial tramway connecting Pointe Helbronner and the Aiguille du Midi in the French Alps. Three cars of the tramway fall, killing five people, but the remaining 63 cable car passengers are rescued and the pilot lands his plane safely.
August 30 The Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness is signed at the United Nations in New York, coming into effect December 13, 1975.
September
The Eritrean War of Independence begins with the Battle of Adal in which Hamid Idris Awate and his companions shoot at Ethiopian police and military. The war will continue until 1991.
The first meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement is held in Belgrade. The Soviet Union resumes nuclear testing, escalating fears over the ongoing Berlin Crisis.
September 10 During the F1 Italian Grand Prix on the circuit of Monza, German Wolfgang von Trips, driving a Ferrari, crashes into a stand, killing 14 spectators and himself.
September 12 The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
The new military government of Turkey sentences 15 members of the previous government to death.
The religious Focolare Movement opens its first North American center in New York (state).
Military rulers in Turkey hang former prime minister Adnan Menderes, together with the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Fatin Rüştü Zorlu and former Minister of Finance Hasan Polatkan.
London police arrest over 1,300 protesters in Trafalgar Square during a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament rally.
The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
September 18 1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash: Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld is one of 16 to die in an air crash en route to Katanga, Congo.
September 19 American couple Barney and Betty Hill claim that they saw a UFO as they returned from a trip to Canada through New Hampshire where they live. They later claim that they were abducted by aliens, among the first claimants of such an abduction.
September 21 In France, the Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS) slips an anti-de Gaulle message into TV programming.
The old Deutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is returned to its newly rebuilt house, as the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
In the U.S., the Walt Disney anthology television series, renamed Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, moves from ABC to NBC after seven years on the air, and begins telecasting its programs in color for the first time. Years later, after Disney's death, the still-on-the-air program will be renamed The Wonderful World of Disney.
September 28 1961 Syrian coup d'état: A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
September 30 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is formed to replace the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC).
October
October 1 Unification Day (Cameroon): The formerly British Southern Cameroons gains independence from the United Kingdom by vote of the UN General Assembly and joins with formerly French Cameroun to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
October 10 A volcanic eruption on Tristan da Cunha causes the whole population to be evacuated to Britain, where they will remain until 1963.
October 12 The death penalty is abolished in New Zealand.
October 17 1961 Paris massacre: French police in Paris attack about 30,000 people protesting against a curfew applied solely to Algerians. The official death toll is 3, but human rights groups claim 240 dead.
October 19 The Arab League takes over protecting Kuwait; the last British troops leave.
October 25 The first edition of Private Eye, the British satirical magazine, is published.
October 26 Cemal Gürsel becomes the fourth president of Turkey (his former title is head of state and government; he is elected as president by constitutional referendum).
Mongolia and Mauritania join the United Nations.
Berlin Crisis: Confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie A standoff between Soviet and American tanks in Berlin, Germany, heightens Cold War tensions.
Fahrettin Özdilek becomes the acting prime minister of Turkey.
DZBB-TV Channel 7, the Philippines' third TV station, is launched.
Devrim, the first ever car designed and produced in Turkey, is released. The project has been completed in only 130 days almost from scratch, a period including decision on the project, research, design, development and production of four vehicles.
Nuclear weapons testing: The Soviet Union detonates a 58-megaton yield hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, over Novaya Zemlya (it remains the largest ever man-made explosion).
The Note Crisis: The Soviet Union issues a diplomatic note to Finland, proposing military co-operation.
Hurricane Hattie devastates Belize City, Belize killing over 270. After the hurricane, the capital moves to the inland city of Belmopan.
Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow.
November
The Hungry generation Movement is launched in Calcutta, India.
The U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission's federal order banning segregation at all interstate public facilities officially comes into effect.
November 2 Kean opens at Broadway Theater in New York City for 92 performances.
November 3 The United Nations General Assembly unanimously elects Burmese diplomat U Thant to the position of acting Secretary-General.
November 8 Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 crashes while attempting to land at Richmond, Virginia, United States, killing 77 people on board.
November 9 Robert White records a world air speed record of , in an X-15.
Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots.
Stalingrad is renamed Volgograd.
November 14 The Yves Saint Laurent luxury fashion brand is founded in Rue La Boetie, Paris (France), by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé.
November 17 Michael Rockefeller, son of Governor of New York and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea.
November 18 U.S. President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 "military advisors" to South Vietnam.
November 19 Rebellion of the Pilots: A military uprising overthrows the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic.
November 20 İsmet İnönü of the CHP forms the new government of Turkey (26th government, first coalition in Turkey, partner AP).
November 24 The World Food Programme (WFP) is formed as a temporary United Nations program.
November 30 The Soviet Union vetoes Kuwait's application for United Nations membership.
December
December 1 Netherlands New Guinea raises the new Morning Star flag, and changes its name to West Papua.
December 2 Cold War: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro announces he is a Marxist–Leninist, and that Cuba will adopt socialism.
December 5 U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives support to the Volta Dam project in Ghana.
Tanganyika gains independence from the United Kingdom as a Commonwealth realm, with Julius Nyerere as its first Prime Minister, with Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Tanganyika, and represented locally by the Governor-General of Tanganyika.
1961 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a one-seat majority, narrowly defeating the Labor Party led by Arthur Calwell. One of the closest election results in Australian history, such a result will not be replicated again until 2016. Notably, former Prime Minister Earle Page loses his seat, although he dies a few days later, never knowing the result.
December 10 Albania–Soviet relations: The Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Albania.
American involvement in the Vietnam War officially begins, as the first American helicopters arrive in Saigon, along with 400 U.S. personnel. On December 22 the first U.S. soldier is killed in Vietnam.
Adolf Eichmann is pronounced guilty of crimes against humanity for his part in The Holocaust by a war crimes tribunal of three Israeli judges. On December 15 he is sentenced to death.
December 14 Walt Disney's first live-action Technicolor musical, Babes in Toyland, a remake of the famous Victor Herbert operetta, is released, but flops at the box office.
December 17 A circus tent fire in Niterói, Brazil kills 323.
December 18 1961 Indian annexation of Goa: India opens hostilities in its annexation of Portuguese India, the colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu.
The Portuguese surrender Goa to India, after 400 years of Portuguese rule.
Indonesian president Sukarno announces that he will take West Irian by force, if necessary.
December 21 In Congo, Katangan prime minister Moise Tshombe recognizes the Congolese constitution.
December 23 Luxembourg's national holiday, the Grand Duke's Official Birthday, is set on June 23 by Grand Ducal decree.
December 30 Congolese troops capture Albert Kalonji of South Kasai (who soon escapes).
December 31 Ireland's first national television station, Telefís Éireann (later Raidió Teilifís Éireann), begins broadcasting.
Births
January
Gabrielle Carteris, American actress, and trade union leader
Todd Haynes, American film director
January 5 – Iris DeMent, American singer-songwriter and musician
January 7 – Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
January 8 – Calvin Smith, American athlete
January 9 – Candi Milo, American actress
Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish rally driver (d. 1989)
Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Austrian politician, noble
January 13 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress, producer and comedian
Mike Tramp, Danish rock singer (White Lion)
January 17 – Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian chess player
Peter Beardsley, English footballer
Mark Messier, Canadian hockey player
Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter, musician and artist (d. 2019)
Shigeru Nakahara, Japanese voice actor
January 24 – Guido Buchwald, German footballer
January 26 – Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player
January 28 – Arnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic writer
January 29 – Petra Thümer, German swimmer
February
February 1 Volker Fried, German field hockey player
February 4 Denis Cyr, Canadian-American ice hockey player and politician
February 9 Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor
February 11 Mary Docter, American speed skater
February 12 David Graeber, American anthropologist, anarchist activist and author (d. 2020)
February 13 Henry Rollins, American musician and activist
February 14 Maria do Carmo Silveira, Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe
February 15 – Benoît Chamoux, French alpinist (d. 1995)
February 16 Niko Nirvi, Finnish journalist
Meir Kessler, Israeli rabbi
Andrey Korotayev, Russian anthropologist, economic historian and sociologist
February 18 Hironobu Kageyama, Japanese singer
February 19 Justin Fashanu, English footballer (d. 1998)
Dwayne McDuffie, American writer of comics and television (d. 2011)
Phil Powers, American alpinist
Christopher Atkins, American actor
Abhijit Banerjee, Indian-born economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Geoff Moore, American Christian musician
February 22 Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
February 27 James Worthy, American basketball player and analyst
Mark Latham, Australian politician
Richard Waugh, Canadian voice actor
March
Milorad Mandić, Serbian actor (d. 2016)
Mary Page Keller, American actress
John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer
Ray Mancini, American boxer
Roger Wessels, South African golfer
March 5 Charles Poliquin, Canadian strength coach
Mike Leach, American college football coach (d. 2022)
Rick Steiner, American professional wrestler
Mike Bullard, American hockey player
Laurel Clark, American astronaut (d. 2003)
Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast
March 11 Elias Koteas, Canadian film and television actor
March 15 Moungi Bawendi, French-born Tunisian American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Brett Kenny, Australian rugby league player
Michiru Ōshima, Japanese composer
Umayya Abu-Hanna, Palestine-born Finnish writer and politician
Alexander Bard, Swedish musician (Army of Lovers)
Sam Bowie, American basketball player
Dana Reeve, American actress, singer and activist (d. 2006)
Casey Siemaszko, American actor
Kassie DePaiva, American actress
Lothar Matthäus, German footballer
Norrie McCathie, Scottish footballer (d. 1996)
Ali Hewson, Irish activist and businesswoman
Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster
Mitsuru Ogata, Japanese voice actor
Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist, Finance Minister
March 25 Reggie Fils-Aimé, American businessman
March 26 William Hague, leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Foreign Secretary
March 28 Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach
Amy Sedaris, American actress, comedian and writer
Gerardo Teissonniere, Puerto Rican pianist
March 30 Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999)
March 31 Gary Winick, American filmmaker (d. 2011)
April
Susan Boyle, Scottish singer
Kujira, Japanese voice actress
April 2 Christopher Meloni, American actor
April 3 Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
April 6 Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (d. 2000)
Thurl Bailey, American basketball player
April 9 Mick Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 2019)
April 10 Rudy Dhaenens, Belgian road bicycle racer (d. 1998)
April 11 Vincent Gallo, American actor
April 12 Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician
Robert Carlyle, Scottish film and television actor
Neil Dougherty, American basketball coach (d. 2011)
Humberto Martins, Brazilian actor
Boomer Esiason, American football player and color commentator
Daphna Kastner, Canadian actress
Élisabeth Borne, French politician, Prime Minister of France
Jane Leeves, English actress
April 20 Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
April 21 John Jairo Arias Tascón 'Pinina', Colombian criminal (d. 1990)
April 22 Alo Mattiisen, Estonian musician and composer (d. 1996)
George Lopez, American actor and comedian
Mike Francis, Italian singer and composer (d. 2009)
Anthony Cumia, American radio personality
April 27 Moana Pozzi, Italian pornographic actress, television personality and politician (d. 1994)
April 28 Futoshi Matsunaga, Japanese serial killer
April 29 Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese voice actor
April 30 Isiah Thomas, African-American basketball player, coach and team owner
May
Jay Aston, British singer (Bucks Fizz)
Mary Elizabeth McDonough, American actress, producer, director and author
May 5 Hiroshi Hase, Japanese professional wrestler
George Clooney, American actor
Frans Timmermans, Dutch politician and European Commissioner
May 9 John Corbett, American actor and country music singer
May 10 Danny Carey, American drummer (Tool)
May 13 Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
Urban Priol, German Kabarett artist and comedian
Tim Roth, English actor and director
Solveig Dommartin, French actress (d. 2007)
Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor, voice actor and comedian
Charles Wright, American professional wrestler
Enya, Irish musician
Amadou Ba, former Prime Minister of Senegal
May 20 Clive Allen, British footballer
May 21 Brent Briscoe, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2017)
Mike Breen, American sports announcer
Ann Cusack, American actress
Mitar Subotić, Serbian musician and composer (d. 1999)
Karen Duffy, American actress
May 24 Ilaria Alpi, Italian journalist (d. 1994)
May 27 Peri Gilpin, American actress
May 28 Roland Gift, British singer and musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
May 29 Melissa Etheridge, American musician
Ralph Carter, American actor
Harry Enfield, English comedian, actor, writer and director
Ray Cote, Canadian ice hockey player
Lea Thompson, American actress
June
Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player
Dilipkumar Viraji Thakor, Indian politician
Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian oligarch, mercenary chief and restaurateur (d. 2023)
Lawrence Lessig, American academic and political activist
Ed Wynne, English musician (Ozric Tentacles)
El DeBarge, American urban singer; was member of American urban group DeBarge
Sam Harris, American actor and pop musician
Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d. 2006)
Rosie Kane, Member of Scottish Parliament
June 8 Katy Garbi, Greek singer
Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer and author
Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer and playwright
Kim and Kelley Deal, American musicians
Maxi Priest, born Max Elliott, British reggae singer
June 14 Boy George, born George O'Dowd, British singer-songwriter and music producer
June 15 Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer
Muslimgauze, British ethnic electronica and experimental musician (d. 1999)
Kōichi Yamadera, Japanese voice actor
Sakahoko Nobushige, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2019)
Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player
Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter
Karin Kania, German speed skater
June 21 Iztok Mlakar, Slovenian singer-songwriter and actor
Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist
David Leavitt, American novelist
Raja Yong Sofia, Malaysian aristocrat
Lisa Bevill, American Christian musician
Iain Glen, Scottish actor
Curt Smith, British singer and keyboardist
Jamil Khir Baharom, Malaysian politician and former military officer
Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, writer, director, and singer in Seona Dancing
June 26 Greg LeMond, American cyclist
Tim Whitnall, English playwright, screenwriter and actor
Meera Syal, British-Indian comedian and actress
Jeff Malone, American basketball player
Eliezer Melamed, Israeli rabbi
Greg Hetson, American rock guitarist
Sharon Lawrence, American actress, singer and dancer
July
Diana, Princess of Wales, born The Hon. Diana Spencer, English princess consort as first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales (d. 1997)
Vito Bratta, American rock guitarist
Ivan Kaye, English actor
Carl Lewis, American athlete
Fredy Schmidtke, German track cyclist (d. 2017)
Michelle Wright, Canadian country music artist
July 2 Samy Naceri, French actorn
July 5 Patrizia Scianca, Italian voice actress
July 6 Richard Mofe-Damijo, Nigerian actor
July 8 Toby Keith, American country music singer (d. 2024)
Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
Lee Heung-sil, South Korean footballer
João Donizeti Silvestre, Brazilian businessman, historian, biologist and politician
Ophir Pines-Paz, Israeli politician
July 13 Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer
Forest Whitaker, African-American actor and film director
David Cicilline, American politician
António Costa, Portuguese politician, 119th Prime Minister (2015–present)
Guru, American rapper (Gang Starr) (d. 2010)
Zbigniew Zamachowski, Polish actor
July 18 Elizabeth McGovern, American actress and musician
Noriyuki Abe, Japanese anime director
Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
Lisa Lampanelli, American stand-up comedian, actress and insult comic
Porfirije, born Prvoslav Perić, Serbian Patriarch
Irina Rozanova, Russian actress
Keith Sweat, American singer
Martin Gore, British musician and songwriter
Woody Harrelson, American actor and comedian
David Kaufman, American actor and voice actor
July 24 Joseph Kony, Ugandan insurgent, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army
Illeana Douglas, American actress
Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress
Hugo Teufel III, American lawyer and government official, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security
Raquel Dodge, General Prosecutor of Brazil
Gary Cherone, American rock singer-songwriter
David Heyman, English film producer, founder of Heyday Films
Keiko Matsui, Japanese pianist and composer
Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer
July 28 Aleksandr Kurlovich, Soviet-Belarusian Olympic weightlifter (d. 2018)
July 30 Laurence Fishburne, African-American actor and film director
August
August 1 Danny Blind, Dutch footballer
August 2 Pete de Freitas, English musician and producer (d. 1989)
August 3 Molly Hagan, American actress
Pumpuang Duangjan, Thai megastar singer and actress (d. 1992)
Lauren Tom, American actress and voice artist
Janet McTeer, English actress
Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast
Maggie Wheeler, American actress
Brad Gilbert, American tennis player
Suniel Shetty, Indian actor, producer and entrepreneur
Jukka Tapanimäki, Finnish game programmer (d. 2000)
Mahesh Anand, Indian actor (d. 2019)
Koji Kondo, Japanese video game composer (Nintendo)
August 14 Susan Olsen, American actress
August 15 Suhasini Maniratnam, Indian actress
Elpidia Carrillo, Mexican-American actress
Urara Takano, Japanese voice actress
August 17 Uwe Schmitt, German sprinter and hurdler (d. 1995)
Huw Edwards, BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist and presenter
Plamen Nikolov, Bulgarian footballer
Linda Manz, American actress (d. 2020)
Manuel Merino, Peruvian politician, 68th President of Peru
August 21 Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist, cartoonist and animator (d. 2018)
August 22 Roland Orzabal, British musician and songwriter
Bhupesh Baghel, Indian politician and current Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
Alexandre Desplat, French film composer
August 24 Jared Harris, English actor
Billy Ray Cyrus, American actor and singer
Benjamin Bwalya, Zambian footballer and coach (d. 1999)
August 27 Tom Ford, American fashion designer and film director
Jennifer Coolidge, American actress and comedian
Deepak Tijori, Indian actor and director
September
Bam Bam Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
Boney James, American saxophonist, songwriter and record producer
Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
Anthony Wong Chau-sang, Hong Kong actor
Andy Griffiths, Australian author
Iwan Fals, Indonesian singer-songwriter
Yermi Kaplan, Israeli musician
September 5 Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist and composer
September 6 Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian rock musician and songwriter (A-ha)
September 7 Kevin Kennedy, British actor
E.G. Daily, American actress, voice actress and singer
Virginia Madsen, American actress
September 12 Mylène Farmer, Canadian singer and songwriter
September 13 Dave Mustaine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
September 14 Martina Gedeck, German actress
Dan Marino, American football player
Lidia Yusupova, Chechen human-rights lawyer
September 17 Jim Cornette, American author and podcaster
September 18 James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (d. 2013)
Bonnie Hunt, American actress, comedian, writer, director and television producer
Catherine Oxenberg, American actress
September 23 William C. McCool, U.S. Navy Commander and astronaut (d. 2003)
Fiona Corke, Australian actress
Michael Tavera, American composer
Heather Locklear, American actress
Steve Scott, British journalist and presenter
September 26 Wes Hopkins, American football player (d. 2018)
Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer
Melissa Newman, American artist and singer
Yordanka Donkova, Bulgarian athlete
Wayne Westner, South African golfer (d. 2017)
September 29 Julia Gillard, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
Crystal Bernard, American actress and singer
Gary Coyne, Australian rugby league player
Eric Stoltz, American actor and director
Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress
October
Gary Ablett, Australian rules footballer
Rico Constantino, American professional wrestler
Michael Righeira, Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor
October 3 Ludger Stühlmeyer, German cantor, composer and musicologist
Philippe Russo, French singer
Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese manga writer (d. 2022)
October 5 Matthew Kauffman, American journalist, George Polk Award winner
October 6 Mark Shasha, American artist, author and illustrator
October 10 Jodi Benson, American actress and singer
Amr Diab, Egyptian singer
Steve Young, American football player
October 12 Diego García, Spanish long-distance athlete (d. 2001)
Rachel De Thame, English gardener and television presenter
Doc Rivers, American basketball player and coach
October 15 Meera Sanyal, Indian banker (d. 2019)
Chris Doleman, American football player (d. 2020)
Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (d. 1998)
Paul Vaessen, English footballer (d. 2001)
Randy Vasquez, American actor
Kim Wayans, American actress, comedian, producer, writer and director
Wynton Marsalis, African-American trumpeter and composer
Gladstone Small, Barbadian-English cricketer
October 19 Cliff Lyons, Australian rugby league player
Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
Les Stroud, Canadian survival expert, filmmaker and musician
Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
October 24 Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist
Ward Burton, American NASCAR driver
Chad Smith, American musician
Dylan McDermott, American actor
Uhuru Kenyatta, 4th President of the Republic of Kenya
October 29 – Randy Jackson, American singer
October 30 Dmitry Muratov, Russian campaigning journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Alonzo Babers, American runner
Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director
Larry Mullen, Jr., Irish rock drummer (U2)
November
Anne Donovan, American basketball player and coach (d. 2018)
k.d. lang, Canadian singer and songwriter
Daron Hagen, American composer
Ralph Macchio, American actor
Jeff Probst, American television personality
Jerry Sadowitz, American-born British stand-up comic and card magician
Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
November 5 Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (d. 2012)
Jill Dando, British journalist and television presenter (d. 1999)
Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist
November 12 Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast
Ben Coleman, American basketball player (d. 2019)
Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (d. 2007)
D. B. Sweeney, American actor
Andrea Prodan, Scottish-Italian film actor, composer and musician
Corinne Hermès, French singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1983 winner
Steven Moffat, Scottish screenwriter
Anthony Warlow, Australian singer
November 19 Meg Ryan, American actress and film director
Mariel Hemingway, American actress
Stephen Hough, British-Australian pianist and polymath
November 24 Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist
November 25 Matthias Freihof, German television actor and director
November 28 Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer
November 29 Kim Delaney, American actress
December
December 3 Marcelo Fromer, Brazilian guitarist
December 4 Rocky Dennis, American teenager with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia (d. 1978)
Alan Davies, English-Welsh international footballer (d. 1992)
Laura Flanders, British born American journalist
December 8 Ann Coulter, American author, conservative commentator and attorney
Beril Dedeoğlu, Turkish politician and academic (d. 2019)
David Anthony Higgins, American actor
Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, Nepalese Buddhist (d. 1993)
Nia Peeples, American actress
Daniel O'Donnell, Irish singer
Sarah Sutton, British actress
Juan Carlos Varela, Panamanian businessman and 37th President of Panama
Karen Witter, American actress and model
December 15 Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist and politician
Bill Hicks, American comedian (d. 1994)
Shane Black, American film director
Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004)
December 20 Mohammad Fouad, Arab singer and actor
December 21 Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor
December 22 Kassim Majaliwa, 10th Prime Minister of Tanzania
December 23 Ezzat el Kamhawi, Egyptian novelist
Ilham Aliyev, 7th Prime Minister of Azerbaijan and 4th President of Azerbaijan
Wade Williams, American actor
Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian senator
Ghislaine Maxwell, British socialite
David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2010)
December 26 John Lynch, Northern Irish actor
December 27 Guido Westerwelle, German politician (d. 2016)
December 29 Jim Reid, Scottish musician
Douglas Coupland, Canadian author
Sean Hannity, American radio/television host and conservative commentator
Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete
December 31 Aziz Akhannouch, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister of Morocco
Deaths
January
Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
January 8 František Flos, Czech novelist (b. 1864)
January 9 Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1867)
January 10 Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
Nino Marchesini, Italian actor (b. 1895)
Blanche Ring, American singer and actress (b. 1871)
January 17 Patrice Lumumba, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
January 18 Thomas Anthony Dooley III, physician (b. 1927)
Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887)
John J. Becker, American composer and pianist (b. 1886)
January 24 Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)
January 29 Jesse Wallace, American naval officer, 29th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1899)
January 30 Dorothy Thompson, American journalist (b. 1893)
February
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, Australian Governor-General (b. 1893)
Anna May Wong, American actress (b. 1905)
Hazel Heald, American writer (b. 1896)
Sir Philip Game, British army officer, colonial governor and police officer (b. 1876)
February 6 Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, British politician (b. 1876)
February 7 William Duncan, American actor (b. 1879)
February 9 Carlos Luz, Brazilian politician, 19th President of Brazil (b. 1894)
February 12 Richmond K. Turner, American admiral (b. 1885)
February 13 Arthur Ripley, American film director (b. 1897)
February 15 Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
February 16 Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891)
Horatio Berney-Filkin, British army general (b. 1892)
Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)
February 20 Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882)
George de Cuevas, Chilean-American ballet impresario and choreographer (b. 1885)
Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
February 25 Sebastiano Visconti Prasca, Italian general (b. 1883)
Uberto De Morpurgo, Italian tennis player (b. 1896)
King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
February 28 Aaron S. Merrill, American admiral (b. 1890)
March
Azizul Haq, Bengali Islamic scholar (b. 1903)
Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
March 6 George Formby, British singer, comedian and actor (b. 1904)
Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879)
Gala Galaction, Romanian writer (b. 1879)
Victor d'Arcy, British Olympic athlete (b. 1887)
Belinda Lee, English actress (b. 1935)
March 17 Susanna M. Salter, first woman mayor in the United States (b. 1860)
March 22 Nikolai Massalitinov, Soviet-born Bulgarian actor (b. 1880)
March 23 Valentin Bondarenko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
March 25 Arthur Drewry, English administrator, 5th President of FIFA (b. 1891)
March 26 Carlos Duarte Costa, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop and saint, founder of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (b. 1888)
April
April 2 Wallingford Riegger, American music composer (b. 1885)
April 3 Eliseo Mouriño, Argentine footballer (b. 1927)
April 6 Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870)
Vanessa Bell, English artist and interior designer (b. 1879)
Jesús Guridi, Spanish Basque composer (b. 1886)
April 9 Zog I of Albania, Albanian political leader, 11th Prime Minister of Albania, 7th President of Albania and King of Albania (b. 1895)
April 11 Padma Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 16th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1882)
Mbarek Bekkay, 1st Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1907)
Aziz Ezzat Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1869)
April 19 Manuel Quiroga, Spanish violinist (b. 1892)
April 21 James Melton, American tenor (b. 1904)
Robert Garrett, American Olympic athlete (b. 1875)
George Melford, American actor (b. 1877)
Roy Del Ruth, American film director (b. 1893)
Minoru Sasaki, Japanese general (b. 1893)
Dickie Dale, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1927)
Jessie Redmon Fauset, American editor, writer and educator (b. 1882)
May
Lajos Dinnyés, 41st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1901)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher (b. 1908)
May 6 Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet and philosopher (b. 1895)
May 13 Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
May 14 Albert Sévigny, Canadian politician (b. 1881)
May 16 George A. Malcolm, American jurist and educator (b. 1881)
May 19 Nathalie Demassieux, French chemist and academic (b. 1884)
May 23 Joan Davis, American actress (b. 1912)
May 29 Uuno Klami, Finnish composer (b. 1900)
May 30 Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician and soldier, 2-time President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
June
June Constantin Constantinescu-Claps, Romanian general (b. 1884)
June 2 George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
June 4 William Astbury, English physicist and molecular biologist (b. 1898)
Kateryna Bilokur, Ukrainian folk artist (b. 1900)
Camille Guérin, French bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872)
June 14 Eddie Polo, Austrian-American actor (b. 1875)
June 16 Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
June 17 Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
June 18 Eddie Gaedel, American with dwarfism (b. 1925)
June 19 Sir Richard Turner, Canadian general, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1871)
June 22 Queen Maria of Yugoslavia (b. 1900)
June 23 Nicolai Malko, Soviet conductor (b. 1883)
June 24 George Washington Vanderbilt III, American philanthropist (b. 1914)
June 25 John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and pilot (b. 1886)
June 26 Kenneth Fearing, American poet and novelist (b. 1902)
Paul Guilfoyle, American actor (b. 1902)
Mukhtar Auezov, Kazakh writer (b. 1897)
June 30 Lee de Forest, American inventor (b. 1873)
July
Nasuhi al-Bukhari, Syrian soldier and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1881)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
July 2 Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1899)
July 4 Franklyn Farnum, American actor (b. 1878)
July 6 Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
July 9 Whittaker Chambers, American spy and witness in Hiss case
July 17 Ty Cobb, American baseball player and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1886)
Esther Dale, American actress (b. 1885)
Valentine Davies, American screenwriter (b. 1905)
Princess Teru of Japan (b. 1925)
July 28 Harry Gribbon, American actor of silent films (b. 1885)
July 30 Sediqeh Dowlatabadi, Persian feminist, women's rights activist and journalist (b. 1882)
August
August 1 Domingo Pérez Cáceres, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1892)
August 3 Zoltán Tildy, 39th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1889)
August 4 Maurice Tourneur, French film director (b. 1873)
August 5 Sir Sidney Holland, New Zealand politician, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1893)
August 8 Mei Lanfang, Beijing opera star (b. 1894)
August 9 Walter Bedell Smith, American general and diplomat (b. 1895)
Henri Breuil, French priest, archaeologist, anthropologist and ethnologist (b. 1877)
Clark Ashton Smith, American writer and sculptor (b. 1893)
August 20 Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
Gotthard Sachsenberg, German World War I naval aviator and fighter ace (b. 1891)
Beals Wright, American tennis player (b. 1879)
Howard P. Robertson, American physicist (b. 1903)
Gail Russell, American actress (b. 1924)
August 28 Vera Michelena, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1885)
Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician and mining engineer (b. 1894)
September
September 1 Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1910)
September 3 Richard Mason, British explorer (b. 1934)
September 4 Charles D.B. King, President of Liberia from 1920 to 1930 (b. 1875)
September 5 Lewis Akeley, American academic (b. 1861)
September 7 Pieter Gerbrandy, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1940 to 1945 (b. 1885)
Percy Chapman, English cricketer (b. 1900)
Hasan Fehmi, Turkish politician (b. 1879)
Miguel Gómez Bao, Spanish-born Argentine actor (b. 1894)
Adnan Menderes, Turkish statesman, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (executed) (b. 1899)
Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat, politician and author, 2nd Secretary General of the United Nations, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905)
September 21 Georgia Ann Robinson, community worker and first African American woman to be appointed a Los Angeles police officer (b. 1879)
September 22 Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)
September 23 Elmer Diktonius, Finnish poet and composer (b. 1896)
September 24 Sumner Welles, American diplomat (b. 1892)
September 25 Frank Fay, American vaudeville comedian and film and stage actor (b. 1891)
Robert L. Eichelberger, American general (b. 1886)
Juanita Hansen, American actress (b. 1895)
September 27 H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), American poet and novelist (b. 1886)
October
Donald Cook, American actor (b. 1901)
William Reid Dick, Scottish sculptor (b. 1878)
October 2 Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (b. 1881)
October 6 – J. Reuben Clark, American politician and Mormon leader (b. 1871)
October 11 Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
Louis Rwagasore, 2nd Prime Minister of Burundi (assassinated) (b. 1932)
Maya Deren, Russian-born American filmmaker (b. 1917)
Zoltán Korda, Hungarian screenwriter and director (b. 1895)
Dun Karm Psaila, Maltese writer (b. 1871)
Paul Ramadier, French politician, 63rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1888)
Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876)
October 18 – Tsuru Aoki, Japanese actress (b. 1892)
Şemsettin Günaltay, Turkish historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1883)
Sergio Osmeña, Filipino politician, 4th President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
October 21 Karl Korsch, German Marxist theoretician (b. 1886)
Joseph M. Schenck, Russian-born film studio executive (b. 1876)
Aloys Van de Vyvere, 25th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1871)
October 26 Milan Stojadinović, 12th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1888)
October 30 Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of Italy (b. 1874)
October 31 Augustus John, Welsh painter (b. 1878)
November
November 1 Mordecai Ham, American evangelist (b. 1877)
James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)
Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, 12th Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894)
November 3 Thomas Flynn, British Roman Catholic prelate and reverend (b. 1880)
November 9 Ferdinand Bie, Norwegian Olympic athlete (b. 1888)
Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch plant pathologist (b. 1883)
November 16 Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1882)
November 19 – Michael Rockefeller, son of Nelson Rockefeller (disappeared on date) (born 1938)
November 22 Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, Cuban politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Cuba, leader of World War II (b. 1899)
November 24 Ruth Chatterton, American actress, novelist and aviator (b. 1892)
November 25 Adelina de Lara, British composer (b. 1872)
November 30 Anna Gould, American heiress and socialite, daughter of financier Jay Gould (b. 1875)
December
December 2 Dulcie Mary Pillers, English medical illustrator (b. 1891)
December 3 Pat O'Hara Wood, Australian tennis player (b. 1891)
December 6 Frantz Fanon, Martiniquais philosopher (b. 1925)
December 7 Herbert Pitman, British sailor, third officer of the (b. 1877)
December 10 Elwyn Welch, New Zealand farmer, ornithologist, conservationist and Open Brethren missionary (b. 1925)
December 13 Anna Mary Robertson Moses aka Grandma Moses, American naïve painter (b. 1860)
December 15 Gioacchino Failla, Italian-born American physicist (b. 1891)
Sir Earle Page, Australian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
December 22 Dick Elliott, American actor (b. 1886)
December 23 Kurt Meyer, German Generalmajor der Waffen-SS and war criminal (b. 1910)
December 25 Otto Loewi, German-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
December 27 Bernard McConville, American screenwriter (b. 1887)
December 28 Edith Wilson, First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 (b. 1872)
December 29 Anton Flettner, German aviation engineer and inventor (b. 1885)
Nobel Prizes
Peace Dag Hammarskjöld (posthumously)
See also
References