Wikipedia / 1963
Wikipedia / 1963
Events
January
January 1 Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia.
January 2 Vietnam War Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory.
January 9 A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963.
January 13 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president.
January 17 A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee.
January 19 Soviet spy Gheorghe Pintilie is removed from his position as Deputy Interior Minister of the Romanian People's Republic, as a step in ensuring Romania's political independence; the Workers' Party Politburo discusses way of neutralizing "Soviet intelligence networks [...] which Gheorghe Pintilie had coordinated."
January 22 France and West Germany sign the Élysée Treaty.
January 25 A large annular solar eclipse covers 99.5% of the Sun and a narrow path (at most 19.6km (12.2mi)). It is visible in Chile, Argentina, South Africa and Madagascar, and is the 26th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 140. Gamma has a value of -0.48984.
January 26 The Australia Day shootings rock Perth; 2 people are shot dead and 3 others injured by Eric Edgar Cooke.
January 29 French President Charles de Gaulle vetoes the United Kingdom's entry into the European Common Market.
February
February 5 The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the basic tenets of European Union law.
February 8 Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration.
February 10 Five Japanese cities located on the northernmost part of Kyūshū are merged and become the city of Kitakyūshū, with a population of more than 1million.
February 12 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing all 43 aboard.
February 14 Harold Wilson becomes leader of the opposition Labour Party in the United Kingdom; in October 1964 he becomes prime minister.
February 21 The 5.6 Marj earthquake affects northern Libya with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing 290–375 deaths and 375–500 injuries.
February 27 Juan Bosch takes office as the 41st president of the Dominican Republic.
March
March 4 In Paris, six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle pardons five, but the other conspirator, Jean Bastien-Thiry, is executed by firing squad several days later.
March 5 Country music star Patsy Cline is killed in a plane crash along with country performers Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and manager Randy Hughes, during a flight from Kansas City, Missouri, back to Nashville.
March 17 Mount Agung erupts on Bali, killing approximately 1,500.
March 22 – The Beatles first album Please Please Me was released in the UK and became a huge commercial success.
March 23 "Dansevise" by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann (music by Otto Francker, text by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 (staged in London) for Denmark.
March 28 Civil rights movement: Over one hundred high school students conduct a sit-in protest in Rome, Georgia.
March 30 Indigenous Australians are legally allowed to drink alcohol in New South Wales.
April
April 6 The Kingsmen record their influential cover of "Louie Louie" in Portland, Oregon, released in June.
April 7 Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a socialist republic, and Josip Broz Tito is named President for Life.
April 8 The 35th Academy Awards ceremony is held. Lawrence of Arabia wins Best Picture.
April 10 The U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sinks east of Cape Cod; all 129 aboard (112 crewmen plus yard personnel) die.
April 11 Pope John XXIII issues his final encyclical, Pacem in terris, entitled On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity and Liberty, the first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will", rather than to Roman Catholics only.
April 12 The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish Straits. Although severely damaged, both vessels make it to port.
April 14 The Institute of Mental Health (Belgrade) is established.
April 16 Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his "Letter from Birmingham Jail".
April 20 In Quebec, Canada, members of the terrorist group Front de libération du Québec bomb a Canadian Army recruitment center, killing night watchman Wilfred V. O'Neill.
April 2123 The first election of the Supreme Institution of the Baháʼí Faith (known as the Universal House of Justice, whose seat is at the Baháʼí World Centre on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel) is held.
April 22 Lester Bowles Pearson becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Canada.
April 28 1963 general election is held in Italy.
April 29 Buddy Rogers becomes the first WWWF Champion.
May
May 1 The Coca-Cola Company introduces its first diet drink, Tab cola.
May 2 Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3-stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than (the only sounding rocket developed in Germany).
May 4 The Le Monde Theater fire in Dioirbel, Senegal, kills 64 people.
May 8 Huế Phật Đản shootings: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam opens fire on Buddhists who defy a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, the birthday of Gautama Buddha, killing 9. Earlier, President Ngô Đình Diệm allowed the flying of the Vatican flag in honour of his brother, Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục, triggering the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam.
May 13 A smallpox outbreak hits Stockholm, Sweden, lasting until July.
May 14 Kuwait becomes the 111th member of the United Nations.
May 15 Project Mercury: NASA launches Gordon Cooper on Mercury-Atlas 9, the last Mercury mission (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb tells Congress the program is complete).
May 22 A.C. Milan beats Benfica 2–1 at Wembley Stadium, London and wins the 1962–63 European Cup (football).
May 23 Fidel Castro visits the Soviet Union.
May 25 The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
June
June 3 Huế chemical attacks: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam rains liquid chemicals on the heads of Buddhist protestors, injuring 67 people. The United States threatens to cut off aid to the regime of Ngô Đình Diệm.
June 4 President of the United States John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order 11110, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to continue issuing silver certificates.
June 5 The first annual National Hockey League Entry Draft is held in Montreal, Canada.
June 11 In Saigon, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức commits self-immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists by Ngô Đình Diệm's government.
June 12 – Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers is assassinated by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith
The cancellation of Mercury-Atlas 10 effectively ends the United States' crewed spaceflight Project Mercury.
The New York Commodity Exchange begins trading silver futures contracts.
June 15 The AC Cobra makes its first appearance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It will go on to win its class the following year.
June 16 Vostok 6 carries Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman into space.
June 17 In Abington School District v. Schempp, the US Supreme Court ruled that compulsory prayer and Bible-reading violated the First Amendment.
June 19 Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, returns to Earth, landing in the Soviet Union.
Establishment of the Moscow–Washington hotline (officially, the Direct Communications Link or DCL; unofficially, the "red telephone"; and in fact a teleprinter link) is authorized by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva by representatives of the Soviet Union and the United States.
Swedish Air Force Colonel Stig Wennerström is arrested as a spy for the Soviet Union.
War film The Great Escape (starring Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough) is premiered in London.
June 21 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds Pope John XXIII as the 262nd pope.
John F. Kennedy gives his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin, Germany.
David Ben-Gurion is replaced by Levi Eshkol as prime minister of Israel.
July
July 1 ZIP codes are introduced by the United States Postal Service.
July 5 Diplomatic relations between the Israeli and the Japanese governments are raised to embassy level.
July 7 Double Seven Day scuffle: Secret police loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, attack American journalists including Peter Arnett and David Halberstam at a demonstration during the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam.
July 11 South Africa: police raid Liliesleaf Farm to the north of Johannesburg, arresting a group of African National Congress leaders.
July 19 American test pilot Joe Walker, flying the X-15, reaches an altitude of 65.8 miles (105.9 kilometers), making it a sub-orbital spaceflight by recognized international standards.
An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,800 dead.
NASA launches Syncom 2, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite.
July 30 The Soviet newspaper Izvestia reports that British diplomat and double agent Kim Philby has been given asylum in Moscow.
August
August 5 The United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
August 8 The Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire, England.
August 14 A huge and devastating forest fire hits the region around Paraná State, Brazil. According to government documents, two million hectares (4.94million acres) are lost to burning and 110 persons perished.
August 15 Trois Glorieuses: President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of Congo after a three-day uprising in the capital, Brazzaville.
August 15- King of Prussia Mall opens to the public in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area and is one of the top ten largest malls in the U.S.
August 21 Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, vandalise Buddhist pagodas across South Vietnam, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead. In the wake of the raids, the Kennedy administration by Cable 243 orders the United States Embassy, Saigon to explore alternative leadership in the country, opening the way towards a coup against Diệm.
August 22 American test pilot Joe Walker again achieves a sub-orbital spaceflight according to international standards, this time by piloting the X-15 to an altitude of 67.0 miles (107.8 kilometers).
August 24 First games played in the Bundesliga, the primary professional Association football league in West Germany, replacing the Oberliga.
August 28 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is, at that point, the single largest protest in American history.
August 28 Philips introduces the Compact Cassette primarily for dictation and voice recording purposes. By 1965, hardware improvements eventually allow for it to reliably function as a music format.
August 30 The Moscow–Washington hotline (a direct teleprinter link) is inaugurated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
September
September 1 Establishment of language areas and facilities in Belgium comes into effect. This will become the foundation for further state reform in Belgium.
September 6 The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
September 10 Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is indicted for murder (he is captured 43 years later, on April 11, 2006).
September 15 American civil rights movement: The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, in Birmingham, Alabama, kills 4 and injures 22.
September 16 Malaysia is formed through the merging of the Federation of Malaya and the British crown colony of Singapore, North Borneo (renamed Sabah) and Sarawak.
September 18 Rioters burn down the British Embassy in Jakarta, to protest the formation of Malaysia.
September 19 Iota Phi Theta fraternity is founded at Morgan State College in Baltimore, Maryland
September 23 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals is established by a Saudi Royal Decree as the College of Petroleum and Minerals.
September 24 The United States Senate ratifies the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
September 25 In the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch is deposed by a coup d'état led by the military with civilian support.
September 29 The second period of the Second Vatican Council in Rome opens.
October
U.S. President John F. Kennedy toasts Emperor Haile Selassie at a luncheon in Rockville, Maryland.
Construction company GK Međimurje, one of the largest Croatian construction and civil engineering companies (with more than 8,000 employees in 1980s), founded in Čakovec.
Nigeria becomes a republic; The 1st Republican Constitution is established.
The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in the United States issues its final reports to President Kennedy.
October 3 1963 Honduran coup d'état: A violent coup in Honduras pre-empts the October 13 election, ends a period of reform under President Ramón Villeda Morales and begins two decades of military rule under General Oswaldo López Arellano.
October 4 Hurricane Flora, one of the worst Atlantic storms in history, hits Hispaniola and Cuba, killing nearly 7,000 people.
October 7 Buddhist crisis: Amid worsening relations, outspoken South Vietnamese First Lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu arrives in the US for a speaking tour, continuing a flurry of attacks on the Kennedy administration.
October 9 In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
October 10 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, signed on August 5, takes effect.
October 14 A revolution starts in Radfan, South Yemen, against British colonial rule.
October 16 Ludwig Erhard replaces Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor of West Germany.
October 19 Alec Douglas-Home succeeds Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
October 24 Fire at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome in an R-9 Desna underground missile silo; seven people are killed.
October 30 The car manufacturing firm Lamborghini is founded in Italy.
October 31 1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion: 81 die in a gas explosion during a Holiday on Ice show at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis, United States.
November
November 1 Arecibo Observatory, a radio telescope, officially begins operation in Puerto Rico.
November 2 1963 South Vietnamese coup: Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese President.
November 6 1963 South Vietnamese coup: Coup leader General Dương Văn Minh takes over as leader of South Vietnam.
11 German miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days in what becomes known as the "Wunder von Lengede" ("miracle of Lengede").
The star-studded movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World premieres in Los Angeles.
November 8 Finnair aircraft OH-LCA crashes before landing at Mariehamn Airport on Åland.
November 9 Two disasters in Japan:
Miike coal mine explosion: A coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital.
Tsurumi rail accident: A triple train disaster in Yokohama kills 161.
November 10 Malcolm X makes a historic speech in Detroit, Michigan ("Message to the Grass Roots").
November 14 A volcanic eruption under the sea near Iceland creates a new island, Surtsey.
November 22 Assassination of John F. Kennedy: In a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, U.S. President John F. Kennedy is fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, and Governor of Texas John Connally is seriously wounded at 12:30 CST. Upon Kennedy's death, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th president of the United States.
The Golden Age Nursing Home fire kills 63 elderly people near Fitchville, Ohio, United States.
The long-running sci-fi television series Doctor Who premieres on BBC TV in the United Kingdom.
November 25 State funeral of John F. Kennedy: President Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Schools around the nation cancel classes that day; millions watch the funeral on live international television. Lee Harvey Oswald's funeral takes place on the same day.
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all 118 on board, the worst air disaster for many years in Canada's history.
Foundation stone for Mirzapur Cadet College is laid in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh).
November 30 1963 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority to an unprecedented eighth term in office, defeating the Labor Party led by Arthur Calwell. (This would be the final lower house election won by Menzies, who would retire from office during the term as the longest-serving Prime Minister in Australian history; he would be replaced by Harold Holt.)
December
December 3 The Warren Commission begins its investigation into the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.
December 4 The second period of the Second Vatican Council closes.
December 5 The Seliger Forschungs-und-Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH demonstrates rockets for military use to military representatives of non-NATO-countries near Cuxhaven. Although these rockets land via parachute at the end of their flight and no allied laws are violated, the Soviet Union protests this action.
December 7 The first instant replay system to use videotape instead of film is used by Tony Verna, a CBS-TV director, during a live televised sporting event, the Army–Navy Game of college football played in Philadelphia, United States.
December 8 A lightning strike causes the crash of Pan Am Flight 214 near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing 81 people.
Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom, as a constitutional monarchy under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
Chuck Yeager narrowly escapes death while testing an NF-104A rocket-augmented aerospace trainer when his aircraft goes out of control at 108,700 feet (nearly 21 miles up) and crashes. He parachutes to safety at 8,500 feet after vainly battling to gain control of the powerless, rapidly falling craft. In this incident he becomes the first pilot to make an emergency ejection in the full pressure suit needed for high altitude flights.
December 12 Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister.
December 20 The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials begin.
December 21 Cyprus Emergency: Inter-communal fighting erupts between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
December 22 The cruise ship TSMS Lakonia burns north of Madeira, with the loss of 128 lives.
December 25 İsmet İnönü of the Republican People's Party (CHP) forms the new government of Turkey (28th government, coalition partners; independents, İnönü has served ten times as a prime minister, this is his last government).
December 31 Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolves.
Date unknown
David H. Frisch and J.H. Smith prove that the radioactive decay of mesons is slowed by their motion (see Einstein's special relativity and general relativity).
The TAT-3 transatlantic communications cable goes into operation.
Ivan Sutherland writes the revolutionary Sketchpad program and runs it on the Lincoln TX-2 computer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Slavery in Dubai is abolished.
The IEEE Computer Society is founded.
Harvey Ball invents the ubiquitous smiley face symbol.
The classic Porsche 911 is first produced.
Births
January
Dave Foley, Canadian actor and comedian
Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein)
January 5 Jiang Wen, Chinese actor, film director and screenwriter
January 6 Paul Kipkoech, Kenyan long-distance runner (d. 1995)
January 10 Kira Ivanova, Soviet Russian figure skater (d. 2001)
January 11 Petra Schneider, East German swimmer
January 14 Steven Soderbergh, American film director
January 15 Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, cyber security expert and writer
Simon Johnson, English-born economist
James May, English motoring journalist and television show host
January 17 Kai Hansen, German power metal guitarist and singer
January 21 Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian basketball player
January 23 Gail O'Grady, American actress
January 25 Fernando Haddad, Brazilian academic and politician
José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
Andrew Ridgeley, English pop musician
February
Eva Cassidy, American vocalist (d. 1996)
Laura L. Lovett, American professor (d. 2025)
February 3 Gretel Killeen, Australian journalist
February 4 Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier
David Capel, English cricketer (d. 2020)
Cláudia Ohana, Brazilian actress and singer
February 12 John Michael Higgins, American actor and voice actor
Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor and director
Alex Perry, Australian fashion designer
February 15 Shoucheng Zhang, Chinese-American physicist (d. 2018)
February 16 Claudio Amendola, Italian actor, television presenter and director
Michael Jordan, American basketball player
Jensen Huang, Taiwanese-American businessman, electrical engineer and philanthropist, co-founder of NVIDIA
Larry the Cable Guy, American actor and comedian
February 18 Rob Andrew, English rugby union player
February 19 Seal, English soul singer
Charles Barkley, American basketball player
Jon Christensen (politician), American politician and member of the US House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999
February 21 William Baldwin, American actor, producer and writer
February 22 Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer
February 25 Merab Katsitadze, retired Georgian professional football player
February 26 François Gagnon, Canadian sports journalist
February 27 Virginie Boutaud, Brazilian singer and actress (Metrô, Virginie & Fruto Proibido)
March
Thomas Anders, German singer
Aydan Şener, Turkish actress, model and beauty pageant
Tuff Hedeman, American PRCA World Champion Bull Rider
March 3 Martín Fiz, Spanish long-distance runner
March 4 Jason Newsted, American bassist
March 5 Joel Osteen, American businessman and television evangelist
March 8 Juan Gilberto Funes, Argentine footballer (d. 1992)
March 9 − Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter (d. 2021)
Rick Rubin, American music producer
Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Italian politician
Azem Hajdari, Albanian student leader (d. 1998)
Alex Kingston, English actress
David LaChapelle, American photographer
Farahnaz Pahlavi, Iranian princess
Jake Weber, British actor
Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner
March 14 Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer
March 15 Bret Michaels, American rock singer (Poison)
March 16 Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
March 18 Vanessa Williams, American beauty queen, actress and singer
Kathy Ireland, American actress and model
David Thewlis, British actor
March 21 Ronald Koeman, Dutch football player and manager
Marty Natalegawa, Indonesian diplomat
Ana Fidelia Quirot, Cuban middle-distance runner
Martín Vizcarra, Peruvian engineer and politician, 67th President of Peru
March 23 Jose Miguel Gonzalez Martin del Campo, Spanish football player
March 25 Auxillia Mnangagwa, Zimbabwean politician and First Lady of Zimbabwe
Dave Koz, American jazz musician
Quentin Tarantino, American actor, director, writer and producer
Xuxa, Brazilian television personality
March 28 Bernice King, American activist, lawyer and minister
March 30 Panagiotis Tsalouchidis, Greek footballer
March 31 Stephen Tataw, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2020)
April
April 3 Sarah Woodward, English actress
Siraj Raisani, Pakistani politician (d. 2018)
Dale Hawerchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2020)
Graham Norton, Irish comedian and talk show host
Frank Yallop, Canadian soccer player and coach
April 8 Dean Norris, American actor
Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer
Erdal Tosun, Turkish actor (d. 2016)
Jean-Luc Bourgeaux, French politician
Angela Hohmann, German politician
Doris Leuthard, Swiss politician and lawyer
April 11 Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Nigerian-born British biophysicist and virologist (d. 2021)
April 13 Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player
Diosdado Cabello, Venezuelan politician
Raul Villanueva, Filipino associate justice of the Supreme Court
April 16 Jimmy Osmond, American pop singer
Universo 2000, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 2018)
Mike Mangini, American drummer
Eric McCormack, Canadian actor
Conan O'Brien, American television entertainer and talk show host
April 21 Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor
April 22 Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Spanish ski racer (d. 2019)
April 23 Mohammad Ali Ramazani Dastak, Iranian politician (d. 2020)
April 24 Tõnu Trubetsky, Estonian punk rock musician
April 27 Russell T Davies, Welsh television producer and writer
April 28 Jim Aldred, Canadian ice hockey coach and player
April 29 Mike Babcock, Canadian ice hockey coach
April 30 Michael Waltrip, American race car driver and sportscaster
May
May 8 Anthony Field, Australian singer, musician and actor (The Wiggles)
May 9 Gary Daniels, British martial artist and actor
Rich Moore, American film and television animation director, screenwriter and voice actor
Lisa Nowak, American naval flight officer and NASA astronaut
May 11 Natasha Richardson, British-American actress (d. 2009)
May 16 Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician
May 21 Kevin Shields, Irish-American singer (My Bloody Valentine)
Michael Chabon, American fiction writer
Joe Dumars, American basketball player
Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
Eha Rünne, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower
Clive Cowdery, English insurance entrepreneur
Musetta Vander, South African actress
Phil Pavlov, American politician and member of the Michigan Legislature from 2005 to 2018
May 29 Débora Bloch, Brazilian actress
June
Alessandra Karpoff, Italian voice actress
Andrée Taurinya, French politician
June 4 Sean Fitzpatrick, New Zealand rugby union player
June 6 Jason Isaacs, British actor
June 9 Johnny Depp, American actor and film director
June 10 Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
Warwick Capper, Australian rules footballer
T. B. Joshua, Nigerian Christian leader (d. 2021)
June 13 Bettina Bunge, German tennis player
June 14 Rambo Amadeus, Montenegrin singer-songwriter
Helen Hunt, American actress
Lourdes Valera, Venezuelan actress
June 17 Greg Kinnear, American actor
June 19 Laura Ingraham, American television host
Tiger Huang, Taiwanese popular singer
Jan Pinkava, Czech director and writer
Randy Couture, American mixed martial arts fighter and actor
Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
John Tenta, Canadian wrestler (d. 2006)
Marianne Berglund, Swedish road racing cyclist
Shin Ji-ho, South Korean politician
Liu Cixin, Chinese science fiction writer
Márcio França, Brazilian lawyer and politician
Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
June 24 Sükhbaataryn Batbold, Mongolian politician
Yann Martel, Canadian novelist
George Michael, British singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman, activist and oligarch
Farukh Ruzimatov, Russian ballet dancer
June 28 Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director and screenwriter
Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
Rupert Graves, English actor
Judith Hoag, American actress
Vladimir Vermezović, Serbian football player and coach
Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
July
Naser Khader, Danish-Syrian politician
Igor Zhelezovski, Belarusian speed skater
Zhang Zhicheng, Chinese fencer
Roddy Bottum, American musician, keyboardist for the band Faith No More
July 2 Faiq Al Sheikh Ali, Iraqi lawyer and politician
July 3 Zainudin Nordin, Singaporean politician
Henri Leconte, French tennis player
R.S. Thanenthiran, Malaysian politician and businessman
Michael Sweet, American singer and guitarist, lead singer of the Christian band Stryper
Edie Falco, American actress
Zbigniew Hoffmann, Polish politician
July 6 Sorin Matei, Romanian high jumper
Vonda Shepard, American pop/rock singer-songwriter and actress
Fermín Alvarado Arroyo, Mexican politician
Janni Larsen, Danish female darts player
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Indian filmmaker and screenwriter
Michael Cuesta, American film and television director
Luis de Jesús Rodríguez, Dominican attorney, businessman and entrepreneur
Dmitry Pevtsov, Russian actor
Fatemeh Goudarzi, Iranian actress
Ian Lougher, British motorcycle racer
Al MacInnis, Canadian ice hockey player
Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban politician; Prime Minister of Cuba
Lisa Rinna, American actress
Bertus Servaas, Polish entrepreneur
Aleksandr Domogarov, Russian actor
Andrés Roemer, Mexican diplomat
Kenny Johnson, American actor, producer and model
Spud Webb, American basketball player
July 14 Wouter Bos, Dutch politician
July 15 Brigitte Nielsen, Danish actress
Phoebe Cates, American actress
Mikael Pernfors, Swedish tennis player
Srečko Katanec, Slovenian football manager and player
Suha Arafat, widow of Yasser Arafat
Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper (d. 2019)
July 19 Sándor Wladár, Hungarian swimmer
Alexander Zhulin, Russian ice dancing coach and competitor
Gbenga Aluko, Nigerian politician
Roy Cheung, Hong Kong actor
July 21 Giant Silva, Brazilian national basketball player, mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
Joanna Going, American actress
Emilio Butragueño, Spanish football player
July 23 Slobodan Živojinović, Serbian tennis player
July 24 Karl Malone, American professional basketball player
July 27 Donnie Yen, Hong Kong actor and martial artist
July 28 Beverley Craven, British singer-songwriter
Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
Alexandra Paul, American actress, activist and health coach, previously model
Lisa Kudrow, American actress
Antoni Martí, prime minister of Andorra (d. 2023)
Chris Mullin, American basketball player, coach and executive
Gisèle Meygret, French fencer (d. 1999)
Mandakini, Indian Bollywood actress
Fatboy Slim, English DJ, musician and record producer
Martin H. Wiggers, German economist, editor, author and businessman
August
Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor
John Carroll Lynch, American actor and film director
Tasmin Archer, English singer
James Hetfield, American heavy metal guitarist (Metallica)
Mark Strong, English actor
Doris Schröder-Köpf, German journalist
Jennifer Blakeman, American keyboardist (Private Life)
Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker (d. 2023)
August 7 Harold Perrineau, American actor
Emi Shinohara, Japanese voice actress and singer (d. 2024)
Rika Fukami, Japanese voice actress and singer
August 9 Whitney Houston, American singer (d. 2012)
Édouard Michelin, French businessman (d. 2006)
Valerie Plame, American writer and spy novelist
August 14 Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter
Valery Levaneuski, entrepreneur, politician and political prisoner
August 16 Christine Cavanaugh, American actress and voice actress (d. 2014)
August 18 Heino Ferch, German actor
Marcos Palmeira, Brazilian actor
John Stamos, American actor
Joey Tempest, Swedish singer (Europe)
Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player
Laura Flores, Mexican actress, hostess and singer
Park Chan-wook, South Korean film director and screenwriter
Glória Pires, Brazilian actress
Hideo Kojima, Japanese director, screenwriter, video game designer and video game producer
Kiko Pangilinan, Filipino lawyer and politician
August 27 Nguyễn Phương Nga, Vietnamese diplomat
Michael Chiklis, American actor
Phil Mills, Welsh racing driver
August 31 Todd Carty, British-Irish actor
September
Betsy Russell, American actress
Geert Wilders, Dutch politician and critic of Islam
September 8 Li Ning, Chinese gymnast
Markus Wasmeier, German alpine-skier
Chris Coons, US Senator
Randy Johnson, American baseball player
Gabriel Tiacoh, Ivorian sprinter (d. 1992)
September 11 Gabriela Goldsmith, Mexican actress
September 12 Michael McElhatton, Irish actor and writer
September 13 – Rex Heuermann, American serial killer
September 14 Robert Herjavec, Canadian businessman, investor and television personality
Andréa Beltrão, Brazilian actress
Richard Marx, American pop/rock singer
September 17 Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler
Christopher Heyerdahl, Canadian actor
John Powell, English-American composer, conductor, pianist and record producer
Dan Povenmire, American animator, producer and voice actor
Jarvis Cocker, English rock musician (Pulp)
David Seaman, English football goalkeeper
Cecil Fielder, American baseball player
Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor
Mamoru Samuragochi, Japanese impostor
September 23 Michiru Yamane, Japanese composer
September 25 Tate Donovan, American actor and director
Dave Andreychuk, Canadian hockey player
Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)
October
Mark McGwire, American baseball player
Iriana Joko Widodo, 7th First Lady of Indonesia, wife of Joko Widodo
October 2 Maria Ressa, Filipina American campaigning journalist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 4 Marcelo Buquet, Uruguayan-Mexican actor, previously model
October 5 Dame Laura Davies, English golfer
October 6 Elisabeth Shue, American actress
Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian cross-country skier
October 11 Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer
October 12 Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director (d. 2010)
October 13 Ha Seung Moo, Korean poet and theologian
October 14 Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer
Elsa Castillo, Venezuelan teacher and trade unionist
Sinitta, Anglo-American singer
Domingos Simões Pereira, 16th Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut and Governor General of Canada
October 21 Marisa Orth, Brazilian actress, singer and TV host
October 22 Brian Boitano, American figure skater
Gordon Korman, Canadian-American children's and young adult author
Wilson Yip, Hong Kong actor and director
October 25 John Levén, Swedish bassist (Europe)
Tom Cavanagh, Canadian actor and director
Natalie Merchant, American singer-songwriter
Sergey Smiryagin, Russian freestyle swimmer (d. 2020)
Feyyaz Uçar, Turkish footballer
Farin Urlaub, German singer, band
Marla Maples, American actress and television personality
October 28 Lauren Holly, American actress
Dunga, Brazilian footballer
Johnny Marr, English alternative rock musician
Dermot Mulroney, American actor
Rob Schneider, American actor, comedian and film director
November
Rick Allen, British rock drummer (Def Leppard)
Mark Hughes, Welsh football player & manager
Katja Riemann, German actress
Brian Kemp, American politician, 83rd Governor of Georgia
Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
Borut Pahor, President of Slovenia
November 4 Lena Zavaroni, Scottish entertainer (d. 1999)
November 5 Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author
November 7 John Barnes, Jamaican-born English footballer
Hugh Bonneville, British actor
Mike Powell, American long jumper
November 11 Billy Gunn, American professional wrestler
November 15 Benny Elias, Australian rugby league player
November 18 Peter Schmeichel, Danish-born football goalkeeper
November 19 Terry Farrell, American actress
November 20 Ming-Na Wen, Macanese-American actress
November 21 Nicollette Sheridan, English actress
November 23 Erika Buenfil, Mexican actress, TV host and singer
November 25 Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer
December
December 2 Ann Patchett, American novelist
December 4 Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter
December 7 Mark Bowen, Welsh footballer
Greg Howe, American guitarist
Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese professional wrestler
Lee Jae-myung, president of South Korea
Empress Masako, Japanese consort of Emperor Naruhito
December 12 Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress
Uwe-Jens Mey, German speed skater
Jake White, South African rugby coach
Cynthia Gibb, American actress
Vytautas Juozapaitis, Lithuanian baritone, professor and television host
December 15 Helen Slater, American actress and singer- songwriter
Benjamin Bratt, American actor
Jeff Carson, American singer
Bärbel Schäfer, German television presenter and talk show host
Pauline Ester, French singer
Rikiya Koyama, Japanese voice actor
Charles Oakley, American basketball player
Brad Pitt, American actor and film producer, co-founder of Plan B Entertainment
Jennifer Beals, American actress
Til Schweiger, German actor
Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo, Spanish princess
Iqbal Theba, Pakistani actor
Donovan Ruddock, Jamaican Canadian professional boxer
Govinda Ahuja, Indian actor and politician
Jacques Simonet, Belgian politician (d. 2007)
Vladimir Flórez, Colombian cartoonist
Bryan Gunn, Scottish footballer
Luna H. Mitani, Japanese-American Surrealist painter
December 23 Donna Tartt, American novelist
Caroline Aherne, English actress, comedienne and screenwriter (d. 2016)
Sanjay Mehrotra, Indian entrepreneur
December 26 Lars Ulrich, Danish rock drummer (Metallica)
Graciano Rocchigiani, German professional boxer (d. 2018)
Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiard player
Sean Payton, American football coach
December 31 Azalina Othman Said, Malaysian politician
Deaths
January
Jack Carson, Canadian actor (b. 1910)
Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
January 3 Shinobu Ishihara, Japanese ophthalmologist (b. 1879)
Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (b. 1896)
Erik Strandmark, Swedish film actor (b. 1919)
January 6 Frank Tuttle, American film director (b. 1892)
January 7 Erik Lundqvist, Swedish athlete (b. 1908)
January 9 Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-born American aerospace engineer and aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
January 10 Franz Planer, Austrian film cinematographer (b. 1894)
Sonny Clark, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese politician, 1st President of Togo (assassinated) (b. 1902)
Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish writer (b. 1888)
Hugh Greer, American basketball coach (b. 1904)
Gustav Regler, German socialist novelist (b. 1898)
January 15 Cesare Fantoni, Italian actor and voice actor (b. 1905)
January 18 Hugh Gaitskell, British politician, leader of the Labour Party (b. 1906)
Fyodor Terentyev, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1925)
Avra Theodoropoulou, Greek suffragist (b. 1880)
January 21 Al St. John, American actor (b. 1892)
Mohammad Ali Bogra, Pakistani statesman, politician and diplomat, 3rd Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1909)
Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist (b. 1908)
Otto Harbach, American lyricist and librettist (b. 1873)
Kenneth Western, part of The Western Brothers (b. 1899)
January 25 Marion Sunshine, American actress (b. 1894)
Hans Kopfermann, German physicist (b. 1895)
January 27 John Farrow, Australian-born American film director (b. 1904)
Anthony Coldeway, American screenwriter (b. 1887)
Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
Lee Meadows, American baseball player (b. 1894)
Isaías de Noronha, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1873)
Jane Gail, American silent movie and stage actress (b. 1890)
Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
January 31 – Alasgar Alakbarov, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1910)
February
Louis D. Lighton, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1895)
Wyndham Standing, English actor (b. 1880)
February 2 William Gaxton, American vaudeville, film and theatre performer (b. 1893)
Abd el-Krim, Riffian political and military leader (b. 1882)
Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (b. 1933)
February 8 George Dolenz, American actor (b. 1908)
February 9 Abd al-Karim Qasim, Iraqi general, 24th Prime Minister of Iraq (executed) (b. 1914)
February 11 Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (b. 1932)
Edgardo Donato, Uruguayan tango composer and orchestra leader (b. 1897)
Louis J. Gasnier, French film director (b. 1875)
Bump Hadley, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1904)
Else Jarlbak, Danish film actress (b. 1911)
László Lajtha, Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor (b. 1892)
February 17 Mijo Mirković, Croatian economist and author (b. 1898)
Monte Blue, American actor (b. 1887)
Beppe Fenoglio, Italian fiction writer and partisan (b. 1887)
Fernando Tambroni, Italian politician and 36th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1901)
Tokugawa Iemasa, Japanese politician, 17th head of the Tokugawa shogunate (b. 1884)
February 19 Benny Moré, Cuban singer (b. 1919)
Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)
Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer (b. 1879)
Bill Hinchman, American baseball player (b. 1883)
February 22 Arthur Guy Empey, American soldier (in British service), author, screenwriter and actor (b. 1883)
February 25 Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist (b. 1895)
Rajendra Prasad, Indian politician, 1st President of India (b. 1884)
Eppa Rixey, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891)
March
March 1 Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893)
March 4 William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883)
Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b. 1921)
Ludde Gentzel, Swedish film actor (b. 1885)
Cyril Smith, Scottish actor (b. 1892)
Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Egyptian intellectual and anti-colonial activist (b. 1872)
March 6 Robert E. Cornish, scientist (b. 1903)
March 7 Joachim Holst-Jensen, Norwegian film actor (b. 1880)
Ignat Bednarik, Romanian painter (b. 1882)
Victor Feguer, convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1935)
William Beveridge, British economist (b. 1879)
Thomas Lennon, screenwriter (b. 1896)
Lizzie Miles, American blues singer (b. 1895)
Sir Hubert Gough, British general (b. 1870)
Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)
March 20 Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt, Cuban Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1879)
March 21 Felice Minotti, Italian film actor (b. 1887)
Cilly Aussem, German tennis champion (b. 1909)
Abraham Ellstein, American composer (b. 1907)
Mihály Székely, Hungarian bass singer (b. 1901)
March 23 Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1887)
March 25 Felix Adler, American screenwriter (b. 1884)
March 27 Harry Piel, German actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1892)
Antoine Balpêtré, French film actor (b. 1898)
Frank J. Marion, American motion picture pioneer (b. 1869)
Harry Akst, American songwriter (b. 1894)
Sir Harold Franklyn, British army general (b. 1885)
April
April 1 Agnes Mowinckel, Norwegian actress and stage producer (b. 1875)
April 3 Alma Richards, American athlete (b. 1890)
Gaetano Catanoso, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1879)
Jason Robards Sr., American stage and screen actor (b. 1892)
Oskari Tokoi, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (b. 1873)
Mario Fabrizi, English comedian and actor (b. 1924)
Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole, Samoan politician (b. 1905)
April 6 Otto Struve, Russian–born American astronomer (b. 1897)
April 7 Amedeo Maiuri, Italian archaeologist (b. 1886)
April 8 Irena Káňová, Slovak politician (b. 1893)
Benno Moiseiwitsch, Jewish-Ukrainian pianist (b. 1890)
April 11 Nando Bruno, Italian film actor (b. 1895)
Nicolette Bruining, Dutch theologian and humanitarian (b. 1886)
Felix Manalo, 1st Executive Minister, Iglesia ni Cristo (b. 1886)
Herbie Nichols, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1919)
Abdel Messih El-Makari, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk, priest and saint (b. 1892)
Arthur Jonath, German Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian, writer and scholar (b. 1893)
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Israel historian and politician, 2nd President of Israel (b. 1884)
Ferruccio Cerio, Italian film writer and director (b. 1904)
Paul Fejos, Hungarian film director (b. 1897)
Harry Harper, American baseball player (b. 1895)
Don C. Harvey, American television and film actor (b. 1911)
Frederick Peters, American film actor (b. 1884)
William Lewis Moore, American postal worker (b. 1927)
Rino Corso Fougier, Italian air force general (b. 1894)
Leonid Lukov, Soviet film director and screenwriter (b. 1909)
April 26 Roland Pertwee, English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor (b. 1885)
April 27 Kenneth Macgowan, American film producer (b. 1888)
Giovanni Grasso, Italian film actor (b. 1888)
William C. Mellor, American cinematographer (b. 1903)
Bryant Washburn, American film actor (b. 1889)
May
May 1 Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, Father of Philippine National Language and Grammar (b. 1879)
May 2 Van Wyck Brooks, American literary critic and writer (b. 1886)
May 5 Mohamed Khemisti, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria (assassinated) (b. 1930)
Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American engineer and physicist (b. 1881)
Monty Woolley, American actor (b. 1888)
May 11 Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
Robert Kerr, Canadian Olympic athlete (b. 1882)
A. W. Tozer, American Protestant pastor (b. 1897)
May 16 Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet military officer & spy (b. 1919)
May 18 Ernie Davis, American football player, first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy (b. 1939)
May 24 Elmore James, American blues guitarist (b. 1918)
May 25 Mehdi Frashëri, Albanian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1872)
May 28 Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian writer, journalist, politician and priest (b. 1882)
May 29 Netta Muskett, British novelist (b. 1887)
May 31 Edith Hamilton, German-American classical scholar (b. 1867)
June
Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
June 5 Adrian Carton de Wiart, English general (b. 1880)
June 6 William Baziotes, American painter (b. 1912)
June 7 ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894)
June 9 – Jacques Villon, French painter (b. 1875)
June 10 Anita King, American actress and race-car driver (b. 1884)
Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese Buddhist monk (suicide) (b. 1897)
Syed Abdul Rahim, First Indian national football manager (b. 1909)
Alfred V. Kidder, American archaeologist (b. 1885)
Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
Andrew Cunningham, British admiral (b. 1883)
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, British Field Marshal (b. 1883)
John Cowper Powys, British novelist (b. 1872)
June 18 Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
June 24 Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala, Mexican Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (b. 1878)
June 27 John Maurice Clark, American economist (b. 1884)
June 28 Frank Baker, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1886)
July
July 1 Sultan Abdullah bin Khalifa of Zanzibar (b. 1910)
July 4 Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, British army general and Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
July 6 George, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899)
July 7 Frank P. Lahm, American aviator (b. 1877)
July 10 Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, Egyptian filmmaker (b. 1919)
July 11 - Jeanne Guiot, French engineer and metallurgist.
July 22 Albertus Soegijapranata, Indonesian Jesuit priest (b. 1896)
July 27 Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
August
August 1 Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
August 9 – Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, infant son of president John F. Kennedy (b. 1963)
August 10 Estes Kefauver, American politician (b. 1903)
Clem Bevans, American actor (b. 1880)
August 14 Clifford Odets, American dramatist (b. 1906)
August 15, Eddie Lee Mays (executed) (b. 1929)
August 17 Richard Barthelmess, American actor (b. 1895)
August 22 William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1877)
Mary Gordon, Scottish actress (b. 1882)
Larry Keating, American actor (b. 1899)
August 24 James Kirkwood, Sr., American film director (b. 1875)
W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist (b. 1868)
Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Indian founder of the Khaksar Movement (b. 1888)
August 30 Guy Burgess, British spy, one of the Cambridge Five (b. 1911)
August 31 Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
September
September 2 Tikiri Bandara Panabokke II, Ceylonese legislator, lawyer and diplomat (b. 1883)
September 3 Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (b. 1907)
September 4 Robert Schuman, French statesman, a founding father of the European Union (b. 1886)
September 9 Edwin Linkomies, 25th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1894)
Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (b. 1889)
Richard Oswald, Austrian director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1880)
September 15 Oliver Wallace, English film composer (b. 1887)
Sailor Malan, South African Battle of Britain fighter pilot (b. 1910)
Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1882)
September 19 Sir David Low, New Zealand cartoonist (b. 1891)
September 22 Bernadette Cattanéo, French trade unionist and communist activist (b. 1899)
Alexander Sakharoff, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1886)
Kurt Zeitzler, German Army officer (b. 1895)
October
October 4 – Lloyd Fredendall, American general (b. 1883)
October 7 Gustaf Gründgens, German actor (b. 1899)
October 8 Grace Darmond, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1893)
October 10 – Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (b. 1915)
October 11 Jean Cocteau, French fiction writer and film director (b. 1889)
October 15 Alan Goodrich Kirk, American admiral (b. 1888)
October 21 Jean Decoux, French admiral, Governor-General of French Indochina (1940–1945) (b. 1884)
Karl Bühler, German psychologist and linguist (b. 1879)
Beverly Wills, American actress (b. 1933)
Björn Þórðarson, 9th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1879)
Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian civil engineer and "father of soil mechanics" (b. 1883)
October 29 Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890)
Hugh O'Flaherty, Irish Catholic priest (b. 1898)
Domhnall Ua Buachalla, Irish politician (b. 1866)
October 31 Henry Daniell, English actor (b. 1894)
November
Hồ Tấn Quyền, South Vietnamese Navy officer (assassinated) (b. 1927)
Lê Quang Tung, South Vietnamese Army officer (assassinated) (b. 1923)
Elsa Maxwell, American gossip columnist and hostess (b. 1883)
Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (assassinated) (b. 1901)
Ngô Đình Nhu, South Vietnamese politician, State Counsellor of South Vietnam (assassinated) (b. 1910)
November 4 Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexican politician, substitute President of Mexico 1930–1932 (b. 1877)
November 5 Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (b. 1902)
José María Gatica, Argentine boxer (b. 1925)
John R. Hodge, United States Army general (b. 1893)
Georg Karo, German archaeologist (b. 1872)
November 15 Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888)
November 19 Carmen Amaya, Spanish dancer (b. 1918)
November 21 Robert Stroud, American prisoner, known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" (b. 1890)
Wilhelm Beiglböck, German Nazi physician at Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905)
Aldous Huxley, English-born novelist (Brave New World) (b. 1894)
John F. Kennedy, American politician, 35th President of the United States (assassinated) (b. 1917)
C. S. Lewis, Irish-born British critic, novelist (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Christian apologist (b. 1898)
J. D. Tippit, American police officer (b. 1924)
November 23 John Baumgarten, American businessman and politician (b. 1902)
Clelia Lollini, Italian physician (b. 1890)
Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of President John F. Kennedy (murdered) (b. 1939)
November 26 Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian opera singer (b. 1882)
November 28 Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941)
November 29 Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer (b. 1896)
Phil Baker, American comedian and radio personality (b. 1896)
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall, British Air Marshal and State servant, 6th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1886)
December
Sabu Dastagir, Indian-American actor (b. 1924)
Thomas Hicks, American runner (b. 1875)
December 5 Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905)
December 10 K. M. Panikkar, Indian scholar, diplomat and journalist (b. 1895)
Theodor Heuss, German politician, 5th President of Germany (b. 1884)
Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1903)
Hubert Pierlot, Belgian lawyer and jurist, 32nd Prime Minister of Belgium, leader of the Belgian government in exile (b. 1883)
Dinah Washington, American jazz/blues singer (b. 1924)
December 15 Rikidōzan, Korean-born Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1924)
December 21 Sir Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (b. 1882)
December 25 Tristan Tzara, French poet (b. 1896)
December 26 Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (b. 1915)
Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)
A. J. Liebling, American journalist (b. 1904)
December 31 Jules Salomon, French automobile designer (b. 1873)
Nobel Prizes
Physics Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen
Physiology or Medicine Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley
Peace International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
References