Wikipedia / 1965
Wikipedia / 1965
Events
January–February
January 14 The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for a full term as President of the United States.
Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations.
January 29 Hakametsä, the first ice rink of Finland, is inaugurated in Tampere.
January 30 The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II.
February 4 Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience.
February 12 The African and Malagasy Common Organization (; OCAM) is formed as successor to the Afro-Malagasy Union for Economic Cooperation (; UAMCE), formerly the African and Malagasy Union (; UAM).
February 15 The maple leaf is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the Canadian Red Ensign flag.
February 18 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon, after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü forms the new (interim) government of Turkey (29th government).
February 21 Malcolm X is gunned down while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
March–April
March 2 Vietnam War: Operation Rolling Thunder The United States Air Force 2nd Air Division, United States Navy and South Vietnamese air force begin a 3-year aerial bombardment campaign against North Vietnam.
Mass in the Catholic Church worldwide is said in local languages (rather than Latin) for the first time.
"Bloody Sunday": Some 200 Alabama State Troopers attack 525 civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama, as they attempt to march to the state capitol of Montgomery.
March 8 Vietnam War: Some 3,500 United States Marines arrive in Da Nang, South Vietnam, becoming the first American ground combat troops in Vietnam.
March 9 The "Turnaround Tuesday" march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., stops at the site of "Bloody Sunday", to hold a prayer service and return to Selma, in obedience to a court restraining order. On the same day, White supremacists attack three white ministers, leaving Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb in a coma.
March 10 An engagement is announced between Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Pieter van Vollenhoven, who will become the first commoner and the first Dutchman to marry into the Dutch royal family.
March 18 Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov leaves his Voskhod 2 spacecraft for 12 minutes, becoming the first person to walk in space.
"Poupée de cire, poupée de son", sung by France Gall (music and lyrics by Serge Gainsbourg), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1965 (staged in Naples) for Luxembourg.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins.
Events of March 23, 1965: Large student demonstration in Morocco, joined by discontented masses, meets with violent police and military repression.
Gemini 3: NASA launches the United States' first 2-person crew (Gus Grissom, John Young) into Earth orbit.
The first issue of The Vigilant is published from Khartoum.
March 25 Martin Luther King Jr. and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully end the 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery.
March 28 At least 400 are killed or missing after an earthquake triggered a series of dam failures in La Ligua, Chile.
March 30 The second ODECA charter, signed by Central American states on December 12, 1962, becomes effective.
April 3 The world's first space nuclear power reactor, SNAP-10A, is launched by the United States from Vandenberg AFB, California. The reactor operates for 43 days and remains in low Earth orbit.
April 5 At the 37th Academy Awards, My Fair Lady wins 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Rex Harrison wins an Oscar for Best Actor. Mary Poppins takes home 5 Oscars. Julie Andrews wins an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role. Sherman Brothers receives 2 Oscars including Best Song, "Chim Chim Cher-ee".
April 6 The Intelsat I ("Early Bird") communications satellite is launched. It becomes operational May 2 and is placed in commercial service in June.
April 9 The West German parliament extends the statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes.
April 12 – A historic and extremely destructive tornado outbreak struck the Midwest region of the United States, killing 266.
April 18 Consecration of Saint Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral in Toronto, Canada.
April 23 The Pennine Way officially opens.
The 1965 Yerevan demonstrations start in Yerevan, demanding recognition of the Armenian genocide.
The bodies of Portuguese opposition politician Humberto Delgado and his secretary Arajaryr Moreira de Campos are found in a forest near Villanueva del Fresno, Spain (they were killed February 12).
In the Dominican Republic, officers and civilians loyal to deposed President Juan Bosch mutiny against the right-wing junta running the country, setting up a provisional government. Forces loyal to the deposed military-imposed government stage a countercoup the next day, and civil war breaks out, although the new government retains its hold on power.
April 26 Rede Globo is founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Vietnam War: Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies announces that the country will substantially increase its number of troops in South Vietnam, supposedly at the request of the Saigon government (it is later revealed that Menzies had asked the leadership in Saigon to send the request at the behest of the Americans).
April 29 Australia announces that it is sending an infantry battalion to support the South Vietnam government.
May–June
Bob Askin replaces Jack Renshaw as Premier of New South Wales.
The Battle of Dong-Yin occurs as a conflict between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China.
May 9 Pianist Vladimir Horowitz returns to the stage after a 12-year absence, performing a legendary concert in Carnegie Hall in New York.
May 12 West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
May 25 Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of their championship rematch with the "Phantom Punch" at the Central Maine Civic Center in Lewiston.
May 27 Internazionale beats Benfica 1–0 at the San Siro, Milan and wins the 1964–65 European Cup in Association football.
May 28 A mining accident in Dhanbad, India, kills 268.
May 31 Scottish racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500, later this year winning the Formula One world driving championship.
June 2 Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.
June 3 Launch of Gemini 4, a 4 day mission during which Ed White performs the first space walk by an American astronaut.
June 7 Kakanj mine disaster: A mining accident in Kakanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, results in 128 deaths.
June 10 Vietnam War Battle of Dong Xoai: About 1,500 Viet Cong mount a mortar attack on Đồng Xoài, overrunning its military headquarters and the adjoining militia compound.
Houari Boumediene's Revolutionary Council ousts Ahmed Ben Bella, in a bloodless coup in Algeria.
Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, head of the South Vietnamese Air Force, was appointed prime minister at the head of the military junta, with General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becoming a figurehead president, ending two years of short-lived military juntas.
June 20 Police in Algiers break up demonstrations by people who have taken to the streets chanting slogans in support of deposed President Ahmed Ben Bella.
June 22 The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed in Tokyo.
June 25 A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-135 Stratolifter bound for Okinawa crashes just after takeoff at MCAS El Toro in Orange County, California, killing all 85 on board.
July–August
July The Commonwealth secretariat is created.
July 14 U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 flies by Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to return images from the Red Planet.
July 15 Greek Prime minister Georgios Papandreou and his government are dismissed by King Constantine II.
July 16 The Mont Blanc Tunnel, a highway tunnel between France and Italy, is inaugurated by presidents Charles de Gaulle and Giuseppe Saragat.
July 24 Vietnam War: Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are targeted by antiaircraft missiles, in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other 3 sustain damage.
July 26 The Maldives obtains full independence from Great Britain.
July 27 Edward Heath becomes Leader of the British Conservative Party.
July 28 Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000, and to more than double the number of men drafted per month - from 17,000 to 35,000.
July 30 War on Poverty: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
August 6 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that have been responsible for widespread disfranchisement of African Americans.
August 7 Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia, recommends the expulsion of Singapore from the Federation of Malaysia following a deterioration of PAP–UMNO relations, negotiating its separation with Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore.
Proclamation of Singapore: Singapore is expelled from the Federation of Malaysia, which recognises it as a sovereign nation. Lee Kuan Yew announces Singapore's independence and assumes the position of Prime Minister of the new island nation – a position he holds until 1990.
An explosion at an Arkansas missile plant kills 53.
Indonesian president Sukarno collapses in public.
August 11 – Racial rioting in the Los Angeles, California neighborhood of Watts breaks out after an African American motorist, Marquette Frye, is stopped on suspicion of drunken driving. Six days of unrest are quelled by over 14,000 members of the California National Guard. There are 34 deaths and over $40 million in property damage. It is the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights movement.
August 18 Vietnam War: Operation Starlite 5,500 United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quảng Ngãi Province, in the first major American ground battle of the war. The Marines were tipped off by a Viet Cong deserter who said that there was an attack planned against the U.S. base at Chu Lai.
August 19 At the conclusion of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, 66 ex-SS personnel receive life sentences, 15 others shorter ones.
August 21 NASA launches Gemini 5 (Gordon Cooper, Pete Conrad) on the first 1-week space flight, as well as the first test of fuel cells for electrical power on such a mission.
August 30 An avalanche buries a dam construction site at Saas-Fee, Switzerland, killing 90 workers.
August 31 U.S. President Johnson signs a law penalizing the burning of draft cards with up to 5 years in prison and a $1,000 fine.
September–October
Pakistani troops enter the Indian sector of Kashmir, while Indian troops counter at Lahore.
The People's Republic of China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula, south of the Chu Lai Marine base.
September 8 Indo-Pakistani war:
India opens two additional fronts against Pakistan.
The Pakistan Navy destroys the Indian port of Dwarka. Operation Dwarka (Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually).
U.N. Secretary General U Thant negotiates with Pakistan President Ayub Khan.
U Thant recommends China for United Nations membership.
September 14 The fourth and final period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
September 16 In Iraq, Prime Minister Arif Abd ar-Razzaq's attempted coup fails.
September 17 King Constantine II of Greece forms a new government with Prime Minister Stephanos Stephanopoulos, in an attempt to end a 2-year-old political crisis.
In Denmark, Palle Sørensen shoots 4 policemen in pursuit; he is apprehended the same day.
Comet Ikeya–Seki is first sighted by Japanese astronomers.
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in the Soviet Union to negotiate.
September 19 Pakistani Forces achieve a decisive victory at the Battle of Chawinda, ultimately halting the Indian advance and successfully stabilizing the Sialkot Front; it is the world's largest tank battle since the Battle of Kursk in the Second World War between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
September 20 Vietnam War: An USAF F-104 Starfighter piloted by Captain Philip Eldon Smith is shot down by a Chinese MiG-19 Farmer. The pilot is held until March 15, 1973.
September 21 Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
September 22 Radio Peking announces that Indian troops have dismantled their equipment on the Chinese side of the border.
Fighting resumes between Indian and Pakistani troops.
The British governor of Aden cancels the constitution and takes direct control of the protectorate, due to the bad security situation.
September 27 The largest tanker ship at this time, Tokyo Maru, is launched in Yokohama, Japan.
Fidel Castro announces that any Cuban who wants to can emigrate to the United States.
Taal Volcano in Luzon, Philippines, erupts, killing hundreds.
The Indonesian army, led by General Suharto, crushes an alleged communist coup attempt (see Transition to the New Order and 30 September Movement).
The classic family sci-fi show Thunderbirds debuts on ITV in the United Kingdom.
October 3 Fidel Castro announces that Che Guevara has resigned and left Cuba.
Durban rail accident: At least 150 are killed when a commuter train derails at the outskirts of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Prime minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia and Arthur Bottomley of the Commonwealth of Nations begin negotiations in London.
Pope Paul VI makes the first papal visit to the United States. He appears for a Mass in Yankee Stadium and makes a speech at the United Nations.
The University of California, Irvine opens its doors.
October 5 Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with Malaysia because of their disagreement in the UN.
October 6 Ian Brady, a 27-year-old stock clerk from Hyde in Cheshire, is arrested for allegedly hacking to death (with a hatchet) 17-year-old apprentice electrician Edward Evans at a house on the Hattersley housing estate. He and his girlfriend Myra Hindley are subsequently identified as the perpetrators of the "Moors murders" of four young people aged from 10 to 16.
October 7 Seven Japanese fishing boats are sunk off Guam by Super Typhoon Carmen; 209 are killed.
Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966: The Indonesian army instigates the arrest and execution of communists which last until next March.
The 7 Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent are adopted at the XX International Conference in Vienna, Austria.
The International Olympic Committee admits East Germany as a member.
October 10 The first group of Cuban refugees travels to the U.S.
Per Borten forms a government in Norway.
The U.N. General Council recommends that the United Kingdom try everything to stop a rebellion in Rhodesia.
October 13 Congo President Joseph Kasavubu fires Prime Minister Moise Tshombe and forms a provisional government, with Évariste Kimba in a leading position.
October 15 Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war protest in Manhattan. One draft card burner is arrested, the first under the new law.
October 17 The New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows, closes. Due to financial losses, some of the projected site park improvements fail to materialize.
October 18 The Indonesian government outlaws the Communist Party of Indonesia.
October 20 Ludwig Erhard is re-elected Chancellor of West Germany (he had first been elected in 1963).
Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing from the sun.
The Organization of African Unity meets in Accra, Ghana.
African countries demand that the United Kingdom use force to prevent Rhodesia from declaring unilateral independence.
Colonel Christophe Soglo stages a second coup in Dahomey.
October 25 The Soviet Union declares its support of African countries in case Rhodesia unilaterally declares independence.
Brazilian president Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco removes power from parliament, legal courts and opposition parties.
Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey (30th government).
October 28 Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, a "Declaration on the Relation of the (Roman Catholic) Church with Non-Christian Religions" by the Second Vatican Council which includes a statement that Jews are not collectively responsible for the death of Jesus (Jewish deicide).
October 29 An 80-kiloton nuclear device is detonated at Amchitka Island, Alaska, as part of the Vela Uniform program, code-named Project Long Shot.
Vietnam War: Near Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. A sketch of Marine positions is found on the dead body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
English model Jean Shrimpton wears an above-the-knee white shift dress in Orlon to the Victoria Derby at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, causing a global sensation in women's fashion.
November–December
November 1 A trolleybus plunges into the Nile at Cairo, Egypt, killing 74 passengers.
November 3 French President Charles de Gaulle announces (just short of his 75th birthday) that he will stand for re-election.
November 5 Martial law is announced in Rhodesia. The United Nations General Assembly accepts British intent to use force against Rhodesia if necessary by a vote of 82–9.
November 6 Freedom Flights begin: Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States (by 1971, 250,000 Cubans take advantage of this program).
November 8 Vietnam War Operation Hump: The United States Army 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong.
In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares de facto independence ('UDI').
United Airlines Flight 227 crashes short of the runway and catches fire at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43 out of 91 passengers and crew.
November 12 A UN Security Council resolution (voted 10–0) recommends that other countries not recognize independent Rhodesia.
The burns and sinks off Nassau, Bahamas, with the loss of 90 lives.
British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan says "fuck" during a discussion on BBC satirical programme BBC-3 for what many believed was the first time on British television. The corporation later issues a public apology.
November 14 Vietnam War Battle of Ia Drang: In the Ia Drang Valley of the Central Highlands in Vietnam, the first major engagement of the war between regular United States and North Vietnamese forces begins.
November 15 U.S. racer Craig Breedlove sets a new land speed record of .
November 16 Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe from Baikonur, Kazakhstan toward Venus (on March 1, 1966, it becomes the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet).
November 20 The United Nations Security Council recommends that all states stop trading with Rhodesia.
November 22 The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is established as a specialized agency of the United Nations.
November 23 Soviet general Mikhail Kazakov assumes command of the Warsaw Pact.
November 24 Congolese lieutenant general Mobutu ousts Joseph Kasavubu and declares himself president.
November 26 At the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant A rocket with its first satellite, Astérix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.
Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters picket the White House, then march on the Washington Monument.
Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned major sweep operations to neutralize Viet Cong forces during the next year are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam will have to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
November 28 Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
November 29 The Canadian satellite Alouette 2 is launched.
Charles de Gaulle is re-elected as French president with 10,828,421 votes.
The "Glasnost Meeting" in Moscow becomes the first spontaneous political demonstration, and the first demonstration for civil rights in the Soviet Union.
The Second Vatican Council closes.
Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith warns that Rhodesia will resist a trade embargo by neighboring countries with force.
The Race Relations Act becomes the first legislation to address racial discrimination in the UK.
December 9 – A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts television special, debuts on CBS in the United States. It becomes a Christmas tradition.
The Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) is formed.
Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 perform the first controlled rendezvous in Earth orbit.
December 17 The Queensland Elections Act Amendment Bill 1965 passes. Indigenous voting provisions in this Act would be enacted on 1 February 1966, giving Aboriginal people the vote in Queensland, Australia.
December 20 The World Food Programme is made a permanent agency of the United Nations.
The Soviet Union announces that it has shipped rockets to North Vietnam.
In West Germany, Konrad Adenauer resigns as chairman of the Christian Democratic Party.
The United Nations adopts the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
A new 1-hour German-American production of the ballet The Nutcracker, with an international cast that includes Edward Villella in the title role, makes its U.S. television debut. It is repeated annually by CBS over the next 3 years but after that is virtually forgotten until issued on DVD in 2009 by Warner Archive.
December 22 A military coup is launched in Dahomey.
December 25 The Yemeni Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Ta'izz.
President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia announces that Zambia and the United Kingdom have agreed on a deadline before which the Rhodesian white government should be ousted.
December 31 Bokassa takes power in the Central African Republic.
Date unknown
Hainzl Industriesysteme GmbH company is founded in Austria.
Tokyo officially becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from New York City.
World population
Births
January
Julia Ormond, British actress
Yvan Attal, Israeli-born French actor and director
Vinnie Jones, British footballer-turned-actor
Patrik Sjöberg, Swedish high jumper
Haddaway, German singer
Farah Khan, Indian choreographer, film director
Joely Richardson, British actress
January 10 Butch Hartman, American animator and voice actor
Nikolai Borschevsky, Russian ice hockey player
Maybrit Illner, German television journalist and presenter
Rob Zombie, American musician
Shamil Basayev, Chechen terrorist (d. 2006)
Marc Delissen, Dutch field hockey player
Bob Essensa, Canadian ice hockey player
Adam Jones, American musician, guitarist of metal band Tool
James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor
January 20 Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh
January 21 Jam Master Jay, American DJ, rapper and producer (d. 2002)
DJ Jazzy Jeff, American disc jockey
Diane Lane, American actress
January 23 – Catherine Guillouard, French businesswoman
Armen Darbinyan , Armenian politician
January 24 – Porfirio Fisac, Spanish basketball coach
January 25 – Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
January 26 – Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet artistic gymnast
Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
Ignacio Noé, Argentine artist
Dominik Hašek, Czech hockey player
Jo Min-su, South Korean actress
February
Dave Callaghan, South African cricketer
Brandon Lee, Chinese-American actor (d. 1993)
Sherilyn Fenn, American actress
February 3 Maura Tierney, American actress
February 5 Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer, manager and club owner
February 7 Chris Rock, African-American actor, comedian, and film director
February 8 Dicky Cheung, Hong Kong actor
February 9 Omar Yaghi, Palestinian-Jordanian-American chemist
February 11 Roberto Moya, Cuban athlete (d. 2020)
February 12 Brett Kavanaugh, American attorney and Supreme Court Justice
February 15 Héctor Beltrán Leyva, Mexican drug lord (d. 2018)
February 16 Adama Barrow, Gambian politician, 3rd President of Gambia
February 17 Michael Bay, American film director
February 18 Dr. Dre, African-American rapper and music producer
Kristin Davis, American actress
Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer
Vincent Chalvon-Demersay, French producer
Helena Suková, Czech tennis player
February 25 Sylvie Guillem, French ballerina
February 27 Claudia Zobel, Filipina actress (d. 1984)
February 28 Park Gok-ji, South Korean film editor
March
Mike Dean, Record producer
Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
Tedros Adhanom, Director of the World Health Organization
Greg Alexander, Australian rugby league player
Paul W. S. Anderson, British filmmaker, producer and screenwriter
March 5 Harry Bevers, Dutch politician
Caio Júnior, Brazilian football forward and manager (d. 2016)
Catherine Fulop, Venezuelan actress, model, beauty pageant contestant, and television presenter
Jesse Jackson Jr., African-American politician
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, British designer and television presenter
March 14 Aamir Khan, Indian film director, producer, film and scriptwriter and actor
Utut Adianto, Indonesian chess grandmaster and politician
Mark Carney, Canadian economist and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Canada
March 22 Rick Harrison, American businessman and reality television personality
March 23 Marti Pellow, Scottish singer (Wet Wet Wet)
Rob MacCachren, American racecar driver
The Undertaker, American professional wrestler
Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper and president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee
Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
March 26 Prakash Raj, Indian actor, producer and director
March 29 Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete
March 30 Piers Morgan, British journalist and television personality
April
Brian Marshall, Canadian retired track and field athlete
Bekir Bozdağ, Turkish theologian, lawyer, and politician
April 3 Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist (d. 2000)
April 4 Robert Downey Jr., American actor, producer, and singer
Black Francis, American musician
Rica Reinisch, German swimmer
April 9 Paulina Porizkova, Swedish-American model and actress
Anna-Leena Härkönen, Finnish author
Jure Robič, Slovenian cyclist (d. 2010)
April 11 Eelco van Asperen, Dutch computer scientist
April 12 Kim Bodnia, Danish actor and director
April 15 Linda Perry, American musician
April 16 Martin Lawrence, American actor, comedian, and producer
April 18 Camille Coduri, English actress
April 19 Suge Knight, American record producer and convicted felon
April 20 Jovy Marcelo, Filipino racing driver (d. 1992)
April 21 Julio Robaina, Republican politician, Mayor of Hialeah, Florida
April 23 Leni Robredo, 14th Vice President of the Philippines
April 24 Michel Leclerc, French director and screenwriter
April 25 Édouard Ferrand, French politician (d. 2018)
April 26 Kevin James, American comedian and actor
April 27 Edwin Poots, Irish politician
April 29 David Shafer, American politician, Georgia
April 30 Adrian Pasdar, Iranian-American actor and voice artist
May
May 2 Myriam Hernández, Chilean singer
Gary Mitchell, Irish playwright
Rob Brydon, Welsh actor, comedian, impressionist and presenter
Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish football player
May 9 Steve Yzerman, Canadian hockey player
May 10 Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel
May 11 Monsour del Rosario, Filipino Olympic athlete and actor
May 12 Renée Simonsen, Danish model and writer
May 13 José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (d. 2006)
May 14 Eoin Colfer, Irish novelist
Rodica Dunca, Romanian artistic gymnast
Krist Novoselic, American musician and activist (Nirvana)
May 17 Trent Reznor, American rock musician (Nine Inch Nails)
May 19 Philippe Dhondt, French singer
Melissa McBride, American actress (The Walking Dead)
Dashan, Canadian comedian based in China
Carlos Franco, Paraguayan golfer
John C. Reilly, American actor and comedian
Shinichirō Watanabe, Japanese anime director
May 29 Emilio Sánchez, Spanish tennis player
May 30 Guadalupe Grande, Spanish poet (d. 2021)
May 31 Brooke Shields, American actress and model
June
Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier
Nigel Short, English chess player
June 2 Steve and Mark Waugh, Australian cricketers
Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player
Cam Neely, Canadian ice hockey player
Megumi Ogata, Japanese voice actress and singer
Mick Foley, American professional wrestler
Damien Hirst, British artist
Christine Roque, French singer
Frank Grillo, American actor
Rob Pilatus, German model, dancer and singer (d. 1998)
Veronica Ferres, German actress
Elizabeth Hurley, English model and actress
June 11 Manuel Uribe, morbidly obese Mexican (d. 2014)
June 12 Carlos Luis Morales, Ecuadorian journalist (d. 2020)
June 13 Infanta Cristina of Spain, Spanish princess
June 15 Bernard Hopkins, American boxer
June 16 Andrea M. Ghez, American astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Dana Eskelson, American actress
Dan Jansen, American speedskater
Dara O'Kearney, Irish ultra runner and professional poker player
Kim Dickens, American actress
Hani Mohsin, Malaysian celebrity, actor and host (d. 2006)
Yang Liwei, Chinese major general, military pilot and China National Space Administration astronaut
Gabriella Selmeczi, Hungarian jurist and politician
Tim Lajcik, Czech American mixed martial artist, stuntman, actor and writer
June 22 Anubhav Sinha, Indian film director
June 23 Paul Arthurs, English Musician (Oasis)
June 24 Son Hyun-joo, South Korean actor
June 25 Jean Castex, French politician
June 26 Jana Hybášková, Czech politician and diplomat
Frédéric Lemoine, French businessman
S. Manikavasagam, Malaysian politician
June 28 Belayneh Dinsamo, Ethiopian long-distance runner
Véronique Laury, French businesswoman
Dado Villa-Lobos, Brazilian musician
Matthew Weiner, American television writer, director and producer
Philippe Duquesne, French actor
Cho Jae-hyun, South Korean actor
Mitch Richmond, American basketball player
July
Teddy McCarthy, hurler and Gaelic footballer
Carl Fogarty, English motorcycle racer
Mohammed Abdul Hussein, Iraqi former footballer
Ramdas Ambatkar, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLC (d. 2025)
July 2 Fredrik Sejersted, Norwegian jurist
Komsan Pohkong, Thai lawyer
Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2005)
Connie Nielsen, Danish actress
Tommy Flanagan, Scottish actor
July 4 Tracy Letts, American actor, playwright and screenwriter
Kathryn Erbe, American actress
Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli jazz pianist
Paula Devicq, Canadian actress
Jeremy Kyle, English radio and television presenter
Danny Boffin, Belgian footballer
Alec Mapa, American comedian
July 11 Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kickboxer
July 12 Mama Kandeh, Gambian politician
July 13 Akina Nakamori, Japanese singer and actress
July 14 Lou Savarese, American boxer
July 15 Dafna Rechter, Israeli actress and singer
Santiago Segura, Spanish actor, screenwriter, producer and director
Rosa Gumataotao Rios, 43rd Treasurer of the United States
Alex Winter, British actor
July 18 Eva Ionesco, French actress, film director and screenwriter
Dame Evelyn Glennie, Scottish virtuoso percussionist
Hailemariam Desalegn, 15th Prime Minister of Ethiopia
July 21 Guðni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer
July 22 Shawn Michaels, American professional wrestler
Grace Mugabe, First Lady of Zimbabwe
Slash (Saul Hudson), English-born American rock guitarist
Vladimir Cruz, Cuban actor
Jeremy Piven, American actor
Jimmy Dore, American comedian and political commentator
José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer
Trifon Ivanov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 2016)
July 28 Daniela Mercury, Brazilian singer, songwriter, dancer, producer, actress and television host
July 29 Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-American novelist
July 31 J. K. Rowling, English author
August
August 1 Sam Mendes, English film director
Sandra Ng, Hong Kong actress
Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach
Terri Lyne Carrington, American jazz drummer
Dennis Lehane, American crime writer
Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish Prime Minister
August 5 Monica Ward, Italian actress and voice actress
August 6 David Robinson, American basketball player
Claudia Christian, American actress, writer, singer, musician, and director
Mike E. Smith, American jockey
John Starks, American basketball player
August 11 Viola Davis, African-American actress
August 15 Vincent Kok, Hong Kong director and actor
August 16 Michael O'Gorman, American coxswain (d. 2018)
Kevin Dillon, American actor
Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress
Kyra Sedgwick, American actress
James Tomkins, Australian rower
August 22 David Reimer, Canadian man, born male but reassigned female and raised as a girl after a botched circumcision (d. 2004)
August 24 Reggie Miller, American basketball player and commentator
August 25 Mia Zapata, American singer (d. 1993)
August 26 Azela Robinson, Mexican actress
Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese video game designer and Pokémon creator
Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress
Shania Twain, Canadian country singer and songwriter
August 31 Daniel Bernhardt, Swiss actor and martial artist
September
September 1 Craig McLachlan, Australian actor and singer
September 2 Lennox Lewis, British boxer
Costas Mandylor, Greek-Australian actor
Charlie Sheen, American actor and producer
September 5 Derby Makinka, Zambian footballer (d. 1993)
September 6 Gleisi Hoffmann, Brazilian lawyer and politician
September 7 Jörg Pilawa, German television presenter
Tutilo Burger, German Benedictine monk and abbot
Darlene Zschech, Australian singer and worship leader
September 10 Marco Pastors, Dutch politician
Moby, American musician
Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian cartoonist, designer, and television host
September 14 – Dmitry Medvedev, former President of Russia
September 15 Fernanda Torres, Brazilian actress
September 16 Katy Kurtzman, American actress, director and producer
Kyle Chandler, American actor
Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
Goldie, English record producer and DJ
Iliya Lazarov, Bulgarian politician
Tim Scott, African-American politician and businessman
September 20 Robert Rusler, American actor
Cheryl Hines, American actress
Johanna Vuoksenmaa, Finnish film director
David Wenham, Australian actor
Pramila Jayapal, American politician
September 23 Mark Woodforde, Australian tennis player
September 25 Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
Radisav Ćurčić, Serbian-Israeli basketball player
Alexei Mordashov, Russian businessman
Petro Poroshenko, former President of Ukraine
September 27 Steve Kerr, American basketball player
October
October 1 Andreas Keller, German field hockey player
Gerardo Reyero, Mexican voice actor
Ferhan and Ferzan Önder, Turkish-Austrian pianists
Adriana Calcanhotto, Brazilian singer and composer
Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
October 6 Steve Scalise, House Majority Whip and U.S. Representative of Louisiana's 1st district
Matt Biondi, American swimmer
C. J. Ramone, American musician
October 9 Dionicio Cerón, Mexican long-distance runner
October 10 Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
Julianne McNamara, American artistic gymnast
Lennie James, English actor, screenwriter, and playwright
October 13 Kalpana, Indian film actress (d. 2016)
Steve Coogan, British comedian and actor
Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower and politician
October 16 Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean artist
Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
Rhys Muldoon, Australian actor, writer, and director
October 18 Zakir Naik, Indian doctor and Islamic activist
The Renegade, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
Ty Pennington, American television presenter
Tracy Griffith, American actress, sushi chef, and painter
Amos Mansdorf, Israeli tennis player
Stefano Pioli, Italian football player and manager
October 22 Sumito Estévez, Venezuelan chef
Aaron Kwok, Hong Kong singer and actor
Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress
Kenneth Rutherford, New Zealand cricketer
October 29 Christy Clark, Canadian politician
October 30 Zaza Urushadze, Georgian film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2019)
October 31 Rob Rackstraw, British actor
November
Patrik Ringborg, Swedish conductor
Paweł Adamowicz, Polish politician and lawyer (d. 2019)
Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor, film/television producer and television presenter
November 4 Wayne Static, American singer and musician (Static-X) (d. 2014)
November 7 Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
November 8 Patricia Poleo, Venezuelan journalist
November 9 Sir Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
November 10 Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish racing driver
November 11 Max Mutchnick, American television producer
November 13 Rick Roberts, Canadian actor
November 17 Pam Bondi, American attorney and politician, 87th U.S. Attorney General
Paulo Barreto, Brazilian cryptographer
Laurent Blanc, French football player and manager
November 20 Yoshiki, Japanese rock composer, pianist, and drummer
Björk, Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician
Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (d. 1993)
Alexander Siddig, Sudanese-British actor
November 22 Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
November 23 Radion Gataullin, Uzbek-Russian pole-vaulter
November 24 Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress
November 25 Ana Paula Padrão, Brazilian journalist, chief editor, entrepreneur, writer and television presenter
November 26 Scott Adsit, American actor
Lauren Child, American author
Raffaella Reggi, Italian tennis player
Ben Stiller, American actor, comedian and filmmaker
Tashi Tenzing, Indian mountaineer
December
Steve Harris, American actor
Katarina Witt, German figure skater
Andrew Stanton, American animator, storyboard artist, film director, and screenwriter
December 5 Johnny Rzeznik, American rock singer and guitarist
Teruyuki Kagawa, Japanese actor
Jeffrey Wright, African-American actor
December 8 David Harewood, English actor
December 9 Brad Savage, American actor
December 10 Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress
December 15 Luis Fabián Artime, Argentine footballer
December 16 J. B. Smoove, African-American actor and comedian
December 18 John Moshoeu, South African footballer (d. 2015)
December 19 Jessica Steen, Canadian actress
Andy Dick, American actor and comedian
Anke Engelke, German comedian, actress and voice-over actress
December 23 Andreas Kappes, German cyclist (d. 2018)
December 27 Salman Khan, Indian actor, television presenter
Valentina Legkostupova, Soviet and Russian pop singer, teacher and producer (d. 2020)
Robert Rep, Dutch politician
Nicholas Sparks, American author
Gong Li, Chinese actress
Date unknown
Yklymberdi Paromov, Turkmen politician
Jill Stuart, American fashion designer
Deaths
January
January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American-British poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
Antonín Bečvář, Czechoslovak astronomer (b. 1901)
Frederick Fleet, British sailor and lookout aboard the RMS Titanic (b. 1887)
January 12 – Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright and writer (b. 1930)
January 14 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
January 15 – Pierre Ngendandumwe, 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Burundi (assassinated) (b. 1930)
January 20 – Alan Freed, American disc jockey (b. 1921)
January 24 – Sir Winston Churchill, British politician and statesman, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, World War II leader, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1874)
January 27 – Hassan Ali Mansur, Iranian politician, 69th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1923)
Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
Maxime Weygand, French general (b. 1867)
January 31 – Konstantin Muraviev, 31st Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1893)
February
February 5 – Irving Bacon, American actor (b. 1893)
February 7 – Nance O'Neil, American stage and film actress (b. 1874)
February 9 – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Indian educationist, philosopher, philanthropist, social reformer and spiritualist (b. 1874)
Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general and opposition politician (b. 1906)
William Heard Kilpatrick, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1871)
February 14 – Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, French composer (b. 1880)
February 15 – Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
Forrest Taylor, American actor (b. 1883)
Tom Wilson, American actor (b. 1880)
February 21 – Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
February 22 – Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1882)
February 23 – Stan Laurel, British actor (b. 1890)
February 24 – Takeo Itō, Japanese general (b. 1889)
February 28 – Adolf Schärf, Austrian politician, 6th President of Austria (b. 1890)
March
March 2 – Masakazu Kawabe, Japanese general (b. 1886)
March 5 – Salvador Castaneda Castro, 31st President of El Salvador (b. 1888)
Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
Herbert Morrison, British politician (b. 1888)
March 7 – Louise Mountbatten, queen consort of Sweden as second wife of King Gustaf VI Adolf (b. 1889)
Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
Vittorio Jano, Italian automobile designer (b. 1891)
Fan Noli, Albanian bishop, poet and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
March 14 – Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis champion (b. 1879)
Nancy Cunard, English writer, heiress and political activist (b. 1896)
Amos Alonzo Stagg, American baseball, basketball and football player and coach (b. 1862)
March 18 – Farouk of Egypt, deposed king (b. 1920)
March 19 – Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Romanian communist leader, 47th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1901)
March 22 – Fidel Dávila, Spanish general and minister (b. 1878)
March 23 – Mae Murray, American silent film actress (b. 1885)
March 25 – Viola Liuzzo, American Unitarian Universalist and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, member of the British royal family (b. 1897)
Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (b. 1885)
March 30 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
April
April 3 – Ray Enright, American film director (b. 1896)
April 9 – Sherman Minton, American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1890)
Linda Darnell, American actress (b. 1923)
La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, dancer and courtesan (b. 1868)
Leonard Mudie, English actor (b. 1883)
Perry Smith (b. 1928) and Richard Hickock (b. 1931), American convicted murderers
April 16 – Sydney Chaplin, English actor (b. 1885)
April 18 – Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)
Sir Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate of Puerto Rican independence (b. 1891)
April 23 – George Adamski, Polish-American UFO writer (b. 1891)
April 24 – Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)
April 27 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
April 30 – Helen Chandler, American actress (b. 1906)
May
May 1 – Spike Jones, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)
May 6 – Oren E. Long, American politician, 10th Governor of Hawai'i (b. 1889)
Charles Sheeler, American photographer (b. 1883)
Alf Bjørnskau Bastiansen, Norwegian priest and politician (b. 1883)
May 9 – Leopold Figl, 14th Chancellor of Austria and acting President of Austria (b. 1902)
May 10 – Hubertus van Mook, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1894)
May 14 – Frances Perkins, first woman appointed as a United States presidential cabinet member (Labor) (b. 1880)
May 15 – Yisrael Bar-Yehuda, Zionist activist and Israel politician (b. 1895)
May 19 – Maria Dąbrowska, Polish writer (b. 1889)
May 21 – Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, British aviation pioneer and aircraft company founder (b. 1882)
Rosina Anselmi, Italian actress (b. 1880)
David Smith, American sculptor (b. 1906)
May 24 – Sonny Boy Williamson, American blues musician (b. 1899)
May 27 – John Rinehart Blue, American military officer, educator, businessperson, and politician (b. 1905)
June
June 1 – Curly Lambeau, American football player and coach (b. 1898)
Eleanor Farjeon, British author of children's literature (b. 1881)
June 7 – Judy Holliday, American actress, comedian, and singer (b. 1921)
June 11 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese navy officer, 94th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
June 13 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher (b. 1878)
June 15 – Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
June 19 – James Collip, Canadian biochemist (b. 1892)
June 20 – Bernard Baruch, American financier and presidential adviser (b. 1870)
June 22 – David O. Selznick, American film producer (b. 1902)
June 23 – Mary Boland, American actress (b. 1882)
Anne-Marcelle Kahn, née Schrameck, first French woman engineer to graduate from l'École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne (b. 1896)
Red Nichols, American jazz cornettist (b. 1905)
June 30 – Bessie Barriscale, American actress (b. 1884)
July
July 1 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
July 5 – Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat, race-car driver and polo player (b. 1909)
July 7 – Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
July 8 – T. S. Stribling, American novelist (b. 1881)
July 11 – Ray Collins, American actor (b. 1889)
July 13 – Laureano Gómez, 43rd President of Colombia (b. 1889)
Adlai Stevenson II, American politician (b. 1900)
Max Woosnam, English sportsman (b. 1892)
Clyde Beatty, American animal trainer (b. 1903)
Ingrid Jonker, South African Afrikaans poet (b. 1933)
Syngman Rhee, Korean statesman, 1st President of South Korea (b. 1875)
July 24 – Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)
July 28 – Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (b. 1894)
Pier Ruggero Piccio, Italian World War I fighter ace, air force general (b. 1880)
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese writer (b. 1886)
August
August 1 – John Miller, American Olympic rower - Men's eights (b. 1903)
Nancy Carroll, American actress (b. 1903)
Everett Sloane, American actor (b. 1909)
August 8 – Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
August 9 – Creighton Hale, American actor (b. 1882)
August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, Japanese politician, 38th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
August 25 – Johnny Hayes, American Olympic athlete (b. 1886)
August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, Iraqi politician, 9th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1892)
Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
August 29 – Paul Waner, American baseball player (b. 1903)
September
Tommy Hampson, British Olympic athlete (b. 1907)
Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)
September 6 – Yunus Hussain, Pakistani fighter pilot (b. 1935)
Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922)
Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
September 12 – Lucian Truscott, American general (b. 1895)
Ahn Eak-tai, Korean composer and conductor (b. 1906)
Fred Quimby, American animated film producer (b. 1886)
September 17 – Alejandro Casona, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1903)
September 22 – Othmar Ammann, Swiss-born American engineer (b. 1879)
September 27 – Clara Bow, American silent film actress (b. 1905)
October
October 1 – Anton Boisen, American founder of the clinical pastoral education movement (b. 1876)
October 3 – Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
October 8 – Thomas B. Costain, Canadian author and journalist (b. 1885)
Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)
October 12 – Samir Al-Rifai, 6-time Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1901)
October 13 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
October 14 – Randall Jarrell, American poet (b. 1914)
October 15 – Abraham Fraenkel, Israeli mathematician and recipient of the Israel Prize (b. 1891)
October 17 – Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
Oscar Beregi, Hungarian actor (b. 1876)
Henry Travers, English actor (b. 1874)
Bill Black, American musician and bandleader (b. 1926)
Marie McDonald, American actress (b. 1923)
October 22 – Paul Tillich, German American Christian existentialist philosopher and theologian (b. 1886)
October 23 Luis de la Puente Uceda, Peruvian guerrilla leader (b. 1926)
October 24 – Hans Meerwein, German chemist (b. 1879)
October 26 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (b. 1949)
October 29 – Miller Anderson, American Olympic diver (b. 1922)
October 30 – Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., American historian (b. 1888)
October 31 – Rita Johnson, American actress (b. 1913)
November
Félix Paiva, 28th President of Paraguay (b. 1877)
H.V. Evatt, Australian politician, judge (b. 1894)
Edgard Varèse, French-born American composer (b. 1883)
Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1893)
Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist and television personality (b. 1913)
Emma Gramatica, Italian actress (b. 1874)
Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, second caliph (b. 1889)
November 12 – Taher Saifuddin, Indian Bohra spiritual leader (b. 1888)
Harry Blackstone Sr., American magician and illusionist (b. 1885)
W. T. Cosgrave, Irish politician, president of the Provisional Government and the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (b. 1880)
Khalid al-Azm, 5-time Prime Minister of Syria and acting President of Syria (b. 1903)
Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1888)
November 24 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
November 25 – Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890)
December
December 5 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
December 9 – Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (b. 1881)
December 10 – Henry Cowell, American composer (b. 1897)
December 11 – George Constantinescu, Romanian scientist (b. 1881)
December 15 – Joseph Bamina, 8th Prime Minister of Burundi (executed) (b. 1927)
W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (b. 1874)
Tito Schipa, Italian tenor (b. 1889)
Queen Sālote Tupou III of Tonga, (b. 1900)
December 24 – William M. Branham, American minister (b. 1909)
December 27 – Edgar Ende, German painter (b. 1901)
December 29 – Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor (b. 1886)
Nobel Prizes
Physics Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman
Physiology or Medicine François Jacob, André Michel Lwoff, Jacques Monod
References