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MCMXLVIII
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2701
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1397
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6698
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104–105
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1869–1870
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1355
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2898
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12 Geo. 6 – 13 Geo. 6
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2492
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1310
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2074 or 1693 or 921
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Contents
1 Events
1.1 January
1.2 February
1.3 March
1.4 April
1.5 May
1.6 June
1.7 July
1.8 August
1.9 September
1.10 October
1.11 November
1.12 December
1.13 Date unknown
2 Births
2.1 January
2.2 February
2.3 March
2.4 April
2.5 May
2.6 June
2.7 July
2.8 August
2.9 September
2.10 October
2.11 November
2.12 December
2.13 Date unknown
3 Deaths
3.1 January
3.2 February
3.3 March
3.4 April
3.5 May
3.6 June
3.7 July
3.8 August
3.9 September
3.10 October
3.11 November
3.12 December
4 Nobel Prizes
5 References
Events
January
January 1
- The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated.
- The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways.
- The Constitution of the Italian Republic goes into effect.
- The latest Constitution of New Jersey goes into effect.
January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President, and U Nu its first Prime Minister.
January 5
Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
- The first Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, is published in the United States.
January 7 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes, while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop communal violence during the Partition of India.
January 17 – A truce is declared between nationalist Indonesian and Dutch troops in Java.
January 22 – British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin proposes the formation of a Western Union between Britain, France, and the Benelux countries, to stand up against the Soviet Union. The Treaty of Brussels is signed March 17 as a consequence, a predecessor to NATO.
January 26 – Teigin poison case: a man masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 of 16 bank employees of the Tokyo branch of Imperial Bank and takes the money; artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later sentenced to death for the crime, but is never executed.
January 29
- The Pakistan Socialist Party is founded in Karachi.
A DC-3 aircraft crash at Los Gatos Creek, near Coalinga, California, kills 4 US citizens and 28 deportees, commemorated in a protest song (Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)) by Woody Guthrie.
January 30
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is shot by Nathuram Godse in New Delhi.
- The 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
January 31 – The British crown colony of the Malayan Union, Penang and Malacca form the Federation of Malaya.[1]
February
February 1
- The Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts.
- The Federation of Malaya is proclaimed.
February 4 – Ceylon (later known as Sri Lanka) becomes an independent kingdom, within the British Commonwealth.
February 16 – Miranda, innermost of the large moons of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper.[2]
February 18 – Éamon de Valera, Irish head of government from 1918 to 1932, loses power to an opposition coalition. John A. Costello is appointed Taoiseach by President Seán T. O'Kelly, until 1960.
February 19 – The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
February 21 – The United States stock car racing organization NASCAR is founded by Bill France, Sr. with other drivers.[3]
February 22 – The first of the Ben Yehuda Street bombings in Jerusalem kills between 49 and 58 civilians, and injures between 140 and 200.
February 25 – 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état: Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia, cedes control of the country to the Communist Party, a day celebrated by that regime as "Victorious February" (Czech: Vítězný únor; Slovak: Víťazný Február) until November 1989.
February 28
Accra Riots: Riots take place in Accra, capital of the British colony of Gold Coast, when a peaceful protest march by ex-servicemen is broken up by police, leaving several members of the group dead, among them Sergeant Adjetey, one of the leaders.
- The 2nd Congress of the Communist Party of India convenes in Calcutta.
March
March 8 – McCollum v. Board of Education: The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution.
March 12 – The Costa Rican Civil War begins.
March 16 – The largest flood in the history of Brampton, Ontario, occurs.[4]
March 17
- The Treaty of Brussels is signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, providing for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence.
- The Hells Angels motorcycle gang is founded in California.
March 18 – The Round Table Conference convenes in The Hague, Netherlands, to prepare the decolonization process for Aruba and the other Dutch Colonies. Aruba presents the mandate of the Aruban People for Aruba to become an independent country, under the sovereignty of the House of Orange, based on Aruba's first state constitution presented officially since August 1947, and a (4th) member state of the future Dutch Commonwealth.
March 20
Singapore holds its first elections.
- Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in an all-Wagner program in the United States.
- The 20th Academy Awards Ceremony is held in Los Angeles. Gentleman's Agreement wins the Academy Award for Best Picture.
April
April 1 – Physicists Ralph Asher Alpher and George Gamow publish the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper, about the Big Bang.[5]
April 3
- United States President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
Jeju Uprising – Residents revolt on Jeju island, South Korea, eventually leading to the deaths of between 14,000 and 30,000.
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is played on television in its entirety for the first time, in a series of concerts featuring Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the United States. The chorus is conducted by Robert Shaw.
April 5 – 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: Haganah launches Operation Nachshon, provoking the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
April 7– The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
April 9
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further 10 years of violence (La Violencia) across Colombia.
- The Deir Yassin massacre takes place, in British Mandatory Palestine.
April 13 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre takes place, in British Mandatory Palestine.
April 16 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is founded, as the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC).
April 18 – Italian general election, 1948:: The first democratic general election with universal suffrage is held in Italy. The Christian Democracy party achieves a majority over the Popular Democratic Front Communist-Socialist coalition.
April 19
Burma joins the United Nations.
- The American Broadcasting Company (otherwise known as ABC) begins television services, on WFIL-TV in Philadelphia (now WPVI-TV).
April 22
- Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: Battle of Haifa – Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captures Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army.
WTVR begins television services. WTVR is the first TV station south of Washington D.C., giving it the nickname "The South's First Television station".
April 24 – The Costa Rican Civil War ends.
April 30 – The Organization of American States (OAS) is founded.
April 30 – The English-built Land Rover is unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show.
May
May – The RAND Corporation is established, as an independent nonprofit policy research and analysis institution, in the United States.
May 4 – Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet makes its world premiere in London.
May 11 – Luigi Einaudi becomes President of the Italian Republic.
May 14 – The Israeli Declaration of Independence is made. David Ben-Gurion becomes the first prime minister, a provisional position that will become formalized on February 14, 1949.
May 15
1948 Arab–Israeli War: The British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated; expeditionary forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq invade Israel, and clash with Israeli forces.
- The murder of a 3-year-old girl in Blackburn, England, leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city, in an attempt to find the murderer.[6]
Australian cricket team in England in 1948: The touring Australians set an all-time first-class record, by scoring 721 runs in a day against Essex.
May 16 – Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel.
May 18 – The first Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
May 22 – The Soviets launch Operation Vesna, the largest Lithuanian deportation to Siberia.
May 25 – The United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) is founded at Ellinwood Malate Church in Manila.
May 26 – The United States Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as the auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
May 28 – Daniel François Malan defeats Jan Smuts and becomes Prime Minister of South Africa, ushering in the era of apartheid (which is finally dismantled by F. W. de Klerk in 1994).
May 30 – A dike along the Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes; 15 people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
June
June 3 – The Palomar Observatory telescope is finished in California.
June 10 – Hasan Saka forms the new government of Turkey. (17th government; Hasan Saka had served twice as a prime minister)
June 11 – The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.
June 15 – Chinese newspaper Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) is first published in Pingshan, Hebei Province, China.[citation needed]
June 16
- Three armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.
June 17 – A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 and injuring 84 people on board.
June 18
Malayan Emergency: A state of emergency is declared in the Malayan Union, due to a communist insurgency.
LP record – Columbia Records introduces its long playing 33⅓ rpm phonograph format.
June 20 – The U.S. Congress recesses for the remainder of 1948, after an overtime session closes at 7:00 a.m. (to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948).
June 21
- The Deutsche Mark becomes the official currency of the future Federal Republic of Germany.
- The Manchester Baby becomes the first stored-program computer to successfully execute a program.
June 22
- The ship HMT Empire Windrush brings a large group of Afro-Caribbean immigrants to Tilbury near London, the start of a large wave of immigration to Britain.
David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK. It is banned for 3 years in the U.S., because of alleged antisemitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness.
June 24
Cold War: The Berlin Blockade begins.
- The first World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization is held in Geneva.
June 26
William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
- The Berlin Airlift begins.
June 28
- The Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia, and the Soviet/Yugoslav split.
- The 6.8 Mw Fukui earthquake strikes Fukui, Japan; 3,769 are killed, 22,203 injured.
July
July 5 – The National Health Service Acts are enacted in the United Kingdom.
July 6 – The world's first Air Car-ferry service is flown by a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways, from Lympne to Le Touquet.
July 13 – The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Churches reach an agreement, leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate. Five bishops are immediately consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria, and the successor to Abuna Qerellos IV is granted the power to consecrate new bishops, who are empowered to elect a new Patriarch for their church.
July 15
- The attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, results in numerous strikes all over the country.
- The first London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.
July 20 – Cold War:
- President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt)
Eugene Dennis, William Z. Foster, and ten other CPUSA leaders are arrested, and charged under the Alien Registration Act.
July 22 – The Dominion of Newfoundland votes to join Canada, after a referendum.
July 26 – U.S. President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces.
July 28 – Around 200 die in explosion at a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
July 29 – The 1948 Summer Olympics begin in London, the first since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
July 31
- At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
Elizabeth Bentley appears under subpoena before HUAC regarding Communist espionage; she implicates Whittaker Chambers.
August
August 1 – The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
August 3 – Whittaker Chambers appears under subpoena before HUAC, and alleges that several former U.S. Federal officials were communists, including Harry Dexter White and Alger Hiss.
August 5 – Alger Hiss appears before the HUAC, to deny the allegations of Whittaker Chambers.
August 10 – August 23 – The Herrenchiemsee Convent prepares the draft for the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.
August 12 – Babrra massacre: About 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan.
August 13 – Harry Dexter White and Donald Hiss refute allegations of Communism by Whittaker Chambers, before the HUAC.
August 14 – 1948 Ashes series: Australian batsman Don Bradman, playing his last Test cricket match, against England at The Oval, is bowled by Eric Hollies for a duck; however, "The Invincibles" win the match by an innings and 149 runs, and The Ashes 4-0.
August 15 – The southern half of Korea is established as the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
August 17 – The HUAC holds a private session between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers.
August 18 – The Danube Commission is created by the Belgrade Convention (enters into force 11 May 1949).
August 20 – Lee Pressman, Nathan Witt, and John Abt, represented by Harold I. Cammer, plead the Fifth Amendment, in response to allegations of Communism by Whittaker Chambers before the HUAC.
August 23 – The World Council of Churches is established in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
August 24 – The first meeting of the charter members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) is held.[7]
August 25 – The HUAC holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
August 27 – Whittaker Chambers states that Alger Hiss was a communist on Meet the Press radio.
September
September 4 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
September 5 – Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
September 6 – Juliana is formally inaugurated to succeed her mother, as queen regnant of the Netherlands.
September 9 – The northern half of Korea is formally declared the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), with Kim Il-sung as prime minister.
September 11 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder and first Governor-General of Pakistan, dies. Pakistan is in a state of shock as it mourns the departure of the father of the nation. The day is a public holiday nationwide.
September 13–18 – Indian annexation of Hyderabad ("Operation Polo"): The princely state of Hyderabad is invaded by the Indian Armed Forces in a "police action", in the aftermath of Pakistani leader Jinnah's death. The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his state, which is amalgamated into the newly-independent Dominion of India; thousands are killed as a result of this event.
September 13 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States Senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House Of Representatives and the United States Senate.
September 17 – Lehi members, also known as the Stern Gang, assassinate Swedish count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator in Palestine, in Jerusalem.
September 18 – An inaugural motor race is held at Goodwood Circuit, West Sussex, England.
September 20 – The city of Rabwah is established in Pakistan.
September 27 – Alger Hiss files a slander suit against Whittaker Chambers, for his August 27 radio statement in the United States.
September 29 – Laurence Olivier's film of Hamlet opens in the U.S.
October
October 5 – The International Union for the Protection of Nature (later known as the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN) is established in Fontainebleau, France.
October 6 – 1948 Ashgabat earthquake: A 7.3 Ms earthquake near Ashgabat, Soviet Turkmenistan kills 10,000–110,000.
October 10 – The R-1 missile on test becomes the first Soviet launch to enter space.
October 16 – The 57th Street Art Fair in Chicago, the oldest juried art fair in the American Midwest, is founded.
October 20 – Brandeis University is formally founded in Massachusetts.
October 26 – Donora Smog of 1948: A killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.
October 29 – 1948 Arab–Israeli War: Massacres of Palestinian Arab villagers by the Israel Defense Forces:
Al-Dawayima massacre: Between 30 and 145 are killed.
Safsaf massacre: At least 52 are killed.
November
November 1
- The Foley Square trial of Eugene Dennis and ten other CPUSA leaders begins, in New York City.
Athenagoras I is elected the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
November 2 – United States presidential election, 1948: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats Republican Thomas E. Dewey, "Dixiecrat" Strom Thurmond, and Progressive party candidate Henry A. Wallace.
November 12 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
November 15 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Canada's 12th prime minister.
November 16
Operation Magic Carpet to transport Jews from Yemen to Israel begins.
- The University of the Andes (Universidad de los Andes) is founded in Bogotá, Colombia.
November 17
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi divorces his second wife, the former Princess Fawzia of Egypt.
Whittaker Chambers produces secret government papers, handwritten and typewritten by Alger Hiss, during pretrial examination.
November 20 – Geoffrey B. Orbell rediscovers the Takahē, last seen 50 years previously, near Lake Te Anau, New Zealand.
November 24 – In Venezuela, president Rómulo Gallegos is ousted by a military junta.
November 27 – The Calgary Stampeders defeat the Ottawa Rough Riders 12–7 before 20,013 fans at Toronto's Varsity Stadium, to win their first Grey Cup, and complete the only perfect season to date in Canadian Football.
December
December 1 – José Figueres Ferrer abolishes the army in Costa Rica, making it the first country in history to do so.
December 2 – The United States House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenas and retrieves the "Pumpkin Papers" from the farm of Whittaker Chambers.
December 6 – Richard Nixon displays microfilm from the "Pumpkin Papers" to the press.
December 9 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Genocide Convention.
December 10 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
December 11–12 – Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali massacre: Scots Guards shoot 24 Chinese villagers in Malaya.
December 15 – The United States Department of Justice indicts Alger Hiss, on two counts of perjury.
December 17 – The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.
December 19 – In the American National Football League, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Chicago Cardinals 7–0, to win the championship.
December 20
Indonesian National Revolution: The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the temporary capital of the newly formed Republic of Indonesia.
- American economist and former State Department official Laurence Duggan falls to his death, from the 16th story window of his Manhattan office.
December 23 – Seven Japanese military and political leaders, convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, are executed by Allied occupation authorities, at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
December 26
- The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea.
- Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary, and accused of treason and conspiracy.
December 28 – A Muslim Brotherhood member assassinates Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi.
December 30 – The musical Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances in New York City.
December 31 – Arab-Israeli War: Israeli troops drive Egyptians from the Negev.
Date unknown
- The Casimir effect is predicted by Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir.
- The Fresh Kills Landfill, the world's largest, opens on Staten Island, New York.
- The Oakridge Transit Centre opens in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- The Slovak city Gúta is renamed Kolárovo.
- The Tunnel of Vielha is opened in the Aran Valley, Spanish Pyrenees.
- The last recorded sighting is made of the Caspian tiger, in Kazakhstan.
- A pack of wolves kills about 40 children in Darovskoy District, in Russia.[8]
- Charles Warrell creates the first I-Spy books in the United Kingdom.
Rev. W. Awdry's third book, James the Red Engine, is published in the United Kingdom.
- The last edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum is published in the Vatican.
- Inspired by World War II fighter planes, Cadillac introduces the first automobile to sport tailfins.
- The inaugural 6 Hours of Watkins Glen sports car endurance race is held in the United States.
Births
Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December
January
January 2
Judith Miller, American journalist
Joyce Wadler, American writer, memoirist
Deborah Watling, English actress (d. 2017)
January 5
Wally Foreman, Australian media icon (d. 2006)
Ted Lange, African-American actor, director (The Love Boat)
January 7
Kenny Loggins, American rock singer (Footloose)
Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese voice actor
January 10
Donald Fagen, American rock keyboardist (Steely Dan)
Teresa Graves, African-American actress and comedian (Get Christie Love) (d. 2002)
Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
January 11
Hiroshi Wajima, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2018)
Larry Harvey, American co-founder of Burning Man (d. 2018)
January 12
Kenny Allen, English footballer
Anthony Andrews, English actor
January 14
T Bone Burnett, American record producer, musician
Muhriz of Negeri Sembilan, Yamtuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan
Carl Weathers, African-American actor, football player (Rocky IV, Action Jackson)
January 15 – Ronnie Van Zant, American rock musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
January 16
John Carpenter, American film director, producer, screenwriter and composer
Gregor Gysi, German politician
Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
Tsuneo Horiuchi, Japanese baseball pitcher, manager
January 17 – Davíð Oddsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
January 18 – M. C. Gainey, American actor
January 19
Frank McKenna, Premier of New Brunswick, Canadian Ambassador
Michael J. Jackson, English actor
January 23
Katharine Holabird, American writer
Mitoji Yabunaka, Japanese politician
January 27 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
January 28 – Charles Taylor, Liberian politician, 22nd President of Liberia
January 29 – Marc Singer, Canadian actor (V)
January 30 – Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
January 31
Paul Jabara, American actor, singer and songwriter (d. 1992)
Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
February
February 1 – Rick James, African-American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer (Give It to Me Baby) (d. 2004)
February 2
Ina Garten, American cooking author
Roger Williamson, British race car driver (d. 1973)
February 3
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorean Catholic bishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Henning Mankell, Swedish crime novelist (d. 2015)
February 4
Alice Cooper, American hard rock singer and musician (School's Out)
Ram Baran Yadav, President of Nepal
February 5
Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager
Christopher Guest, American actor, screenwriter, director and composer (National Lampoon, Saturday Night Live)
Barbara Hershey, American actress (Beaches)
Tom Wilkinson, English actor
February 7 – Jimmy Greenspoon, American keyboardist, composer (Three Dog Night) (d. 2015)
February 8 – Dan Seals, American musician (d. 2009)
February 9
Greg Stafford, American game designer, publisher (d. 2018)
David Hayman, Scottish film, television, and stage actor, director
February 10
Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ, Greenlandic Inuit politician, human rights activist (d. 2018)
John Magnier, Irish businessman, thoroughbred racehorse breeder
February 11 – Chris Rush, American stand-up comedian
February 12 – Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor, author
February 13 – Kitten Natividad, Mexican-American film actress
February 14
Jackie Martling, American comedian, radio personality
Wally Tax, Dutch musician (d. 2005)
Raymond Teller, American illusionist and magician, one half of the duo Penn & Teller
Yehuda Shoenfeld, Israeli physician, autoimmunity researcher
February 15
Larry DiTillio, American film and TV series writer (d. 2019)
February 17
György Cserhalmi, Hungarian actor
José José, Mexican singer, actor
February 18 – Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress
February 19
Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician, author (d. 2002)
Tony Iommi, English heavy metal guitarist
February 20 – Jennifer O'Neill, American model, actress
February 22
John Ashton, American actor
Leslie H. Sabo Jr., American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1970)
February 24
Jayalalithaa, Indian politician, film actress (d. 2016)
Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
February 25 – Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
February 28
Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Mike Figgis, American director, screenwriter and composer
Kjell Isaksson, Swedish pole vaulter
Bernadette Peters, American actress, singer
Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
Alfred Sant, Leader of Malta Labour Party (1992–), Prime Minister of Malta (1996–1998)
February 29
Khalid Salleh, Malaysian actor, poet (d. 2018)
Ken Foree, American actor
Henry Small, American-born Canadian singer
March
March 2
R. T. Crowley, American pioneer of electronic commerce
Rory Gallagher, Irish musician (d. 1995)
Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
March 4
Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author (A Cry in the Dark)
James Ellroy, American writer
Tom Grieve, American baseball player
Leron Lee, American baseball player
Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes) (d. 2015)
Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
Brian Cummings, American voice actor
March 5
Eddy Grant, Guyanese British singer, musician (Electric Avenue)
Elaine Paige, English singer, actress
March 6 – Anna Maria Horsford, African-American actress (Amen)
March 8 – Sinta Nuriyah, 4th First Lady of Indonesia, wife of Abdurrahman Wahid
March 9
László Lovász, Hungarian mathematician
Jeffrey Osborne, African-American singer (On the Wings of Love)
March 11 – Dominique Sanda, French actress
March 12 – James Taylor, American singer, songwriter (Fire and Rain)
March 14 – Billy Crystal, American actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
March 15 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
March 17 – William Gibson, American/Canadian writer
March 20
John de Lancie, American actor
Bobby Orr, Canadian hockey player
Helene Vannari, Estonian actress
March 22
Inri Cristo, Brazilian educator who claims to be Jesus Christ reincarnated
Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist (CNN)
Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer (Jesus Christ Superstar)
March 25 – Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
March 26
Nash the Slash (b. James Jeffrey Plewman), Canadian musician (d. 2014)
Steven Tyler, American rock singer, songwriter (Aerosmith)
March 28
Jayne Ann Krentz, American novelist
Dennis Unkovic, American author
Dianne Wiest, American actress
March 29
Mike Heideman, American basketball coach (d. 2018)
Bud Cort, American actor (Harold and Maude)
March 30 – Eddie Jordan, Irish founder of Jordan Grand Prix
March 31
Al Gore, American environmentalist, politician, 45th Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton, and 2000 Democratic nominee for president
Rhea Perlman, American actress (Cheers)
April
April 1 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican singer, actor
April 2
Bob Lienhard, American basketball player (d. 2018)
Roald Als, Danish cartoonist
April 3 – Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican economist, politician and 53rd President of Mexico
April 4
Squire Parsons, American gospel singer, songwriter
Dan Simmons, American fantasy, science fiction author
Berry Oakley, American musician (d. 1972)
April 5 – Neil Portnow, American President of The Recording Academy (NARAS)
April 7 – John Oates, American rock singer, guitarist (Hall & Oates)
April 9 – Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress and politician
April 10 – Fauzi Bowo, Indonesian politician, diplomat and former governor of Jakarta
April 12
Jeremy Beadle, English TV presenter (d. 2008)
Don Fernando, American pornographic film actor, director
Joschka Fischer, German politician
Marcello Lippi, Italian football player, manager
April 13
Nam Hae-il, 25th Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Korea Navy
Mikhail Shufutinsky, Soviet, Russian singer, actor and TV presenter
April 15 – Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
April 16
Ammar El Sherei, Egyptian music icon, celebrity (d. 2012)
Kazuyuki Sogabe, Japanese voice actor (d. 2006)
April 17
Jan Hammer, Czechoslovakian composer, pianist and keyboardist
Peter Jenni, Swiss experimental particle physicist
April 18
Avi Arad, Isreali-American film producer
April 21
Paul Davis, American singer, songwriter (Cool Night) (d. 2008)
Josef Flammer, Swiss ophthalmologist (after whom Flammer syndrome is named)
April 27
Amrit Kumar Bohara, Nepalese politician
Frank Abagnale, American con man, imposter
Si Robertson, American reality star
April 28
Terry Pratchett, English comic fantasy, science fiction author (d. 2015)
Marcia Strassman, American actress, singer (Welcome Back, Kotter) (d. 2014)
April 29 – Michael Karoli, German musician (d. 2001)
April 30 – Jocelyne Saab, Lebanese journalist, film director (d. 2019)
May
May 2
Vladimir Matorin, Russian opera singer
Larry Gatlin, American singer, songwriter
May 3
William H. Miller, American maritime historian
Chris Mulkey, American actor
May 4
Jan Kantůrek, Czech translator (d. 2018)
Tanya Falan, American singer
- King George Tupou V of Tongo (d. 2012)
May 5
Joe Esposito, American singer, songwriter
Richard Pacheco, American pornographic actor
Bill Ward, English rock drummer
May 8
- Dame Felicity Lott, English soprano
Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer
May 9
Steven W. Mosher, American social scientist, author
Calvin Murphy, American basketball player, analyst
May 11 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese musician
May 12
Steve Winwood, English rock singer (Higher Love)
Lindsay Crouse, American actress
May 14 – Bob Woolmer, Indian-born English cricket coach (d. 2007)
May 15
Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
Brian Eno, English musician, record producer
May 16 – Jesper Christensen, Danish actor
May 17 – Penny DeHaven, American country singer (d. 2014)
May 18 – Mikko Heiniö, Finnish composer
May 19 – Grace Jones, Jamaican singer, actress
May 20 – Tesshō Genda, Japanese voice actor
May 21
D'Jamin Bartlett, American musical theatre actress
Elizabeth Buchan, English writer
Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born English actor
Leo Sayer, English rock musician (When I Need You)
May 25 – Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions)
May 26
Dayle Haddon, Canadian model, actress
Stevie Nicks, American rock singer, songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
May 27 – Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
May 29 – Michael Berkeley, English composer
May 31
Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian writer of literary reportage, Nobel Prize laureate
John Bonham, English rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980)
June
June 1
Powers Boothe, American actor (Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones) (d. 2017)
Tom Sneva, American race car driver, Indianapolis 500 winner
June 2 – Jerry Mathers, American actor (Leave it to Beaver)
June 4
Bob Champion, English jump jockey
David Haskell, American actor (d. 2000)
June 6 – Richard Sinclair, English musician (Caravan)
June 8
Jürgen von der Lippe, German television presenter, actor and comedian
Jad Azkoul, Lebanese-American classical guitarist
June 9
Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
Gary Thorne, American play-by-play announcer
June 11 – Dave Cash, American baseball player
June 13 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player, scout (d. 2001)
June 14 – Laurence Yep, American author
June 15 – Paul Michiels, Belgian singer, songwriter
June 17 – Dave Concepción, Venezuelan baseball player
June 19
Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
Lea Laven, Finnish singer
Phylicia Rashad, African-American actress (The Cosby Show)
June 20
Alan Longmuir, Scottish musician (d. 2018)
Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
June 21
Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
Jovan Aćimović, Serbian football player
Raffaello Martinelli, Italian prelate
Philippe Sarde, French film composer
Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
Wolfgang Seel, German football player
Greg Hyder, American professional basketball player
June 22
Madeleine Meilleur, Canadian politician
Takashi Sasano, Japanese actor
Shōhaku Okumura, Japanese Soto Zen
Peter Prijdekker, Dutch swimmer
Sue Roberts, American professional golfer
Todd Rundgren, American rock singer, record producer (Hello It's Me)
Curtis Johnson, American football cornerback
Franciszek Smuda, Polish football coach
Panagiotis Xanthakos, Greek sports shoote
Colin Waldron, English football defender
June 23
Larry Coker, American football player, coach
Jim Heacock, American defensive coordinator
Luther Kent, American blues singer
Clarence Thomas, African-American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
June 24
Stephen Martin, Australian politician, senior academic and rugby league referee
Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player
Janet Museveni, First Lady of Uganda
Dave Orchard, South African cricketer
Eigil Sørensen, Danish cyclist
Jürgen Stars, German footballer
Jenny Wood, Zimbabwean swimmer
June 25
Kenn George, American businessman
Michael Lembeck, American actor, television and film director
Tom Rideout, Canadian politician
June 26
David Vaughan, Welsh professional golfer
John Pratt, English professional footballer
Pablo Anaya Rivera, Mexican politician
June 27
Vennira Aadai Nirmala, Tamil actress
Michael J. Barrett, Guamanian politician
Camile Baudoin, American rock guitarist
June 28
Deborah Moggach, English writer
Kathy Bates, American actress (Misery)
Jimmy Thomson, Scottish professional footballer
Brian Rowan, Scottish professional footballer
June 29
Helge Karlsen, Norwegian football player
Fred Grandy, American actor, politician (The Love Boat)
Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar, crossbench member of the House of Lords
Leo Burke, Canadian professional wrestler
Vic Brooks, English cricketer
Danny Adcock, Australian actor
June 30
Alice Wong, Canadian politician
Dag Fornæss, Norwegian speed skater
Peter Rossborough, English rugby union international
Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Australian Indigenous community leader
Vladimir Yakunin, Russian official, head of state-run Russian Railways Company
Raymond Leo Burke, American cardinal, prelate
July
July 1
Ever Hugo Almeida, Paraguayan footballer
John Ford, English-born rock musician (Strawbs), writer of Part of the Union
Michael McGimpsey, Northern Ireland politician
July 2
Mario Villanueva, Mexican politician
Saul Rubinek, German-Canadian character actor, director, producer and playwright
July 3 – Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
July 4
René Arnoux, French racing driver
Louis Raphaël I Sako, Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church
Ed Armbrister, Bahamian Major League Baseball outfielder
Nazmul Hussain, Indian first-class cricketer
Jeremy Spencer, British musician
July 5
Tony DeMeo, American football coach, player
Dave Lemonds, American baseball player
Salomon Juan Marcos Issa, Mexican politician
Lojze Peterle, Slovenian politician
July 6
Nathalie Baye, French film, television and stage actress
Jeff Webb, American professional basketball player
Arnaldo Baptista, Brazilian rock musician, composer
Brad Park, Canadian NHL Defenseman
Sid Smith, American football offensive lineman
Eiko Segawa, Japanese female enka singer, actress
Jan van der Veen, Dutch professional association football player
July 7
Jerry Sherk, American football defensive tackle
Jean LeClerc, Québécois actor
Jean-Marie Colombani, French journalist
Tan Lee Meng, Singaporean jurist
Stuart Varney, British-American economic consultant
Luis Estrada, Mexican football league forward, Olympic athlete
July 8 – Raffi, Egyptian-born children's entertainer
July 10
Theo Bücker, German football manager, player
Rich Hand, American professional baseball player
Mick Coop, English professional football right back
July 12
Jay Thomas, American actor (d. 2017)
Richard Simmons, American television personality, fitness expert
July 13
Don Sweet, Canadian star football kicker
Alf Hansen, Norwegian rower
Robert A. Underwood, Guamanian politician, educator
July 14 – Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king
July 15
Richard Franklin, Australian film director (d. 2007)
Twinkle, English singer, songwriter (d. 2015)
July 16
Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer, actor and musician
Rita Barberá, Spanish politician, Mayor of Valencia (d. 2016)
Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
Jeff Van Wagenen, American professional golfer
Lars Lagerbäck, Swedish football manager, player
July 17
Alan Sieler, Australian cricketer
Doug Berry, American Canadian football coach
July 18 – Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 20
Muse Watson, American actor
Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunis
July 21
Beppe Grillo, Italian activist, blogger, comedian and actor
Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
Cat Stevens (b. Steven Georgiou, later known as Yusuf Islam), British singer, musician
Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist (Doonesbury)
Teruzane Utada, Japanese music executive producer, attendant
Mikhail Zadornov, Russian stand-up comedian, writer
Snooty, male Florida manatee (d. 2017)
July 22
Susan Eloise Hinton, American author
Otto Waalkes, German comedian, actor
July 23 – John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
July 25
Steve Goodman, American Grammy Award-winning folk music singer, songwriter (d. 1984)
Tony Cline, American football player (d. 2018)
July 27 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
July 28
Gerald Casale, American director, singer (Devo)
Sally Struthers, American actress, spokeswoman (All in the Family)
Georgia Engel, American actress (d. 2019)
July 30
Jean Reno, French actor
Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer, musician (d. 2010)
July 31 – Jonathan Dollimore, English academic sociologist, cultural theorist
August
August 1 – Jim Carroll, American author, poet and musician (d. 2009)
August 2
Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host, author
Bob Rae, Canadian politician
August 3 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
August 7 – James P. Allison, American immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
August 12 – Mizengo Pinda, 9th Prime Minister of Tanzania
August 13 – Kathleen Battle, African-American soprano
August 14 – Joseph Marcell, English actor
August 15
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Iranian cleric, politician (d. 2018)
George Ryton, Singapore-born English Formula One engineer
August 18 – Sean Scanlan, Scottish actor (d. 2017)
August 19
Robert Hughes, Australian actor
Tipper Gore, Second Lady of the United States
August 20
John Noble, Australian actor
Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
Barbara Allen Rainey (b. Barbara Ann Allen), American aviator, first female pilot in the U.S. armed forces (d. 1982)
August 23 – Lev Zeleny, Soviet, Russian physicist
August 24
Jean Michel Jarre, French electronic musician
Sauli Niinisto, Finnish politician, 12th President of Finland
Kim Sung-il, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Air Force
Vicente Sotto III, Filipino actor, host and politician
August 25 – Tony Ramos, Brazilian actor
August 27 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
August 30
Lewis Black, American comedian
Fred Hampton, African-American activist (d. 1969)
Victor Skumin, Russian scientist, professor
August 31
Cyril Jordan, American musician
Holger Osieck, German football manager
September
September 1 – James Rebhorn, American actor (d. 2014)
September 2
Christa McAuliffe, American teacher, astronaut (Challenger Disaster) (d. 1986)
Nate Archibald, American basketball player
Terry Bradshaw, American football player, sportscaster
September 3
Don Brewer, American drummer (Grand Funk Railroad)
Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian president (d. 2008)
September 4
Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer
Michael Berryman, American actor
September 5 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat, politician
September 7 – Susan Blakely, American actress
September 8 – Great Kabuki, Japanese professional wrestler
September 10
Judy Geeson, English actress
Bob Lanier, American basketball player
Margaret Trudeau (b. Margaret Sinclair), wife and mother of Prime Ministers of Canada
Charlie Waters, American football player
September 11 – John Martyn (b. Iain McGeachy), British folk-rock guitarist (d. 2009)
September 13
Nell Carter, African-American singer, actress (Gimme a Break!) (d. 2003)
Sitiveni Rabuka, 3rd Prime Minister of Fiji
September 16 – Ron Blair, American bassist (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
September 17 – John Ritter, American actor (Three's Company) (d. 2003)
September 19
Jeremy Irons, English actor
Nadezhda Tkachenko, Soviet pentathlete
September 20
Rey Langit, Filipino journalist, radio host
George R. R. Martin, American speculative fiction author
September 22
Denis Burke, Australian politician
Mark Phillips, British army captain, equestrian and first husband of Anne, Princess Royal
Jim Byrnes, American voice actor, blues musician and actor
September 23 – José Lavat, Mexican voice actor (d. 2018)
September 24 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live) (d. 1998)
September 25
Cäcilia Rentmeister, German art historian, gender researcher
Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Russian oligarch
September 26
Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman, murder victim (d. 1995)
Olivia Newton-John, English-born Australian singer, actress
September 27
Michele Dotrice, English actress
A Martinez, American actor, singer
September 29
Mark Farner, American rock guitarist, singer (Grand Funk Railroad)
Bryant Gumbel, African-American television broadcaster (The Today Show)
Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
Burton Richardson, American game show announcer
October
October 1
Mark Landon, American actor (d. 2009)
- Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman (k. 2001)
October 2
Avery Brooks, American actor, musician
Persis Khambatta, Indian actress, model (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) (d. 1998)
Chris LeDoux, American singer, rodeo star (d. 2005)
Donna Karan, American fashion designer
October 4
Meg Bennett, American soap opera writer
Iain Hewitson, New Zealand-Australian chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality
October 6 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
October 7 – Diane Ackerman, American poet, essayist
October 8
Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (Ramones) (d. 2004)
Baldwin Spencer, 3rd Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
October 9
Jackson Browne, American rock musician (Running on Empty)
Ciarán Carson, Northern Irish poet, novelist
Oliver Hart, English-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 11
Margie Alexander, American gospel, soul singer (d. 2013)
Cynthia Clawson, American gospel singer
October 12 – Rick Parfitt, English musician (Status Quo) (d. 2016)
October 13
John Ford Coley, American rock musician (I'd Really Love to See You Tonight)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (d. 1997)
Ted Poe, American politician
October 14
Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
David Ruprecht, American actor, writer (Supermarket Sweep)
October 15
Renato Corona, Filipino jurist, lawyer (d. 2016)
Chris de Burgh, born Christopher Davison, Argentine-born Anglo-Irish singer, songwriter
October 16
Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
Hema Malini, Indian actress, writer, director, producer, dancer and politician
October 17
Robert Jordan, American novelist (d. 2007)
Margot Kidder, Canadian actress (Superman) (d. 2018)
Akira Kushida, Japanese singer
George Wendt, American actor (Cheers)
October 18 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher
Ntozake Shange, African-American playwright, poet (d. 2018)
October 19 – Patrick Simmons, American musician (The Doobie Brothers)
October 21
Tom Everett, American actor
Allen Vigneron, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit
October 22
Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
Debbie Macomber, American author
October 23 – Sir Gerry Robinson, Irish-born British businessman
October 25
Dave Cowens, American basketball player, coach
Dan Gable, American wrestler, coach
October 26 – Toby Harrah, American baseball player
October 28 – Telma Hopkins, African-American actress, singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
October 29 – Kate Jackson, American actress (Charlie's Angels)
October 30 – Garry McDonald, Australian actor, satirist, and comedian
November
November 1 – Anna Stuart, American actress
November 3 – Lulu (b. Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie), Scottish singer, actress (To Sir, With Love)
November 4
Delia Casanova, Mexican actress
Amadou Toumani Touré, President of Mali
November 5
Charles Bradley, American singer (d. 2017)
Bob Barr, American politician
Dallas Holm, American Christian musician
Zacharias Jimenez, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2018)
Khalid Ibrahim Khan, Pakistani politician (d. 2018)
William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 6 – Glenn Frey, American guitarist, singer (The Eagles) (d. 2016)
November 7 – Jim Houghton, American actor, director
November 9
Viktor Matviyenko, Ukrainian footballer, coach (d. 2018)
Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football player, manager
November 10 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
November 12
Skip Campbell, American politician (d. 2018)
Hassan Rouhani, 7th President of Iran
Richard Roberts, American evangelist, son of Oral Roberts
November 13
Humayun Ahmed, Bengali-language writer
Lockwood Smith, New Zealand politician
November 14
Charles, Prince of Wales (b. Prince Charles of Edinburgh), heir apparent to the British throne and son of Elizabeth II (at this time Duchess of Edinburgh) and The Duke of Edinburgh
Robert Ginty, American actor, director (d. 2009)
Dee Wallace, American actress
November 15 – James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist, actor (d. 2007)
November 16
Chi Coltrane, American musician (Thunder and Lightning)
Ken James, Australian actor
Mutt Lange, Rhodesian-born record producer
Mate Parlov, Yugoslav Olympic boxer (d. 2008)
November 17 – Howard Dean, American politician
November 19 – Rance Allen, African-American gospel singer, preacher
November 20
Harlee McBride, American actress
John R. Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., National Security Advisor
Barbara Hendricks, American singer
Richard Masur, American actor, director and president of the Screen Actors Guild
November 21
Alphonse Mouzon, American jazz drummer (d. 2016)
Michel Suleiman, President of Lebanon
November 23
Dominique-France Picard (aka Princess Fadila of Egypt), wife of King Fuad II of Egypt and the Sudan
Ron Bouchard, American NASCAR driver (d. 2015)
Gabriele Seyfert, East German figure skater
November 24 – Joe Howard, American actor
November 25 – Antoine Sfeir, Franco-Lebanese journalist, professor (d. 2018)
November 26
Elizabeth Blackburn, Australian-American biologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Gayle McCormick, American singer (Smith) (d. 2016)
November 27 – James Avery, American actor (d. 2013)
November 28 – Agnieszka Holland, Polish director, screenwriter
December
December 2
T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
Patricia Hewitt, British Labour Party politician[9]
Toninho Horta, Brazilian singer, musician
Christine Westermann, German television, radio host, journalist and author
December 3
Rick Cua, American singer, evangelist
Ozzy Osbourne, English singer (Black Sabbath)
December 6
Keke Rosberg, Finnish Formula One champion
Marius Müller-Westernhagen, German actor, musician
JoBeth Williams, American actress, director
December 7
Gary Morris, American country singer, actor
Tony Thomas, American television producer
Mads Vinding, Danish bassist
December 10 – Abu Abbas, Palestine Liberation Front founder (d. 2004)
December 11 – Chester Thompson, American rock drummer
December 12 – Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, 20th President of Portugal
December 13
Lillian Board, South African-born English Olympic athlete (d. 1970)
Ted Nugent, American rock guitarist, singer, conservative political commentator (Cat Scratch Fever)
David O'List, English rock guitarist
December 14
Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982)
Kim Beazley, Australian politician
December 19 – Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
December 20 – Alan Parsons, English songwriter, musician and record producer
December 21
Samuel L. Jackson, African-American actor, film producer
Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician, cabaret artist
December 22
Noel Edmonds, English TV presenter, DJ
Flip Mark, American child actor
Lynne Thigpen, African-American actress (Godspell) (d. 2003)
December 23 – Jim Ferguson, American guitarist, composer, educator, author and music journalist
December 25
Queen Alia (d. 1977)
Barbara Mandrell, American country singer
December 27
Ronnie Caldwell, American soul music, rhythm and blues musician (d. 1967)
Gérard Depardieu, French actor
December 28 – Mary Weiss, American singer (The Shangri-Las)
December 29 – Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland First Minister
December 31
Stephen Cleobury, English composer, conductor
Joe Dallesandro, American model, actor
Sandy Jardine, Scottish professional footballer, playing for Rangers and Hearts and representing Scotland (d. 2014)
Donna Summer, African-American singer, actress (Love to Love You Baby) (d. 2012)
Date unknown
Archana Bhattacharyya, Indian physicist
Miguel Cabrera Cabrera, Spanish architect, politician
Vicatan, born Vicente Doria Catan Jr., Filipino comic book artist (d. 2004)
Gudo Hoegel, German actor, voice actor
Phalon Jones, American soul music, rhythm and blues musician (d. 1967)
- John Blair Moore, American comic book artist
Johnny Nicholas, American blues musician
Judy Nylon, American artist, musician
Edward Rutherfurd (b. Francis Edward Wintle), English novelist
Deaths
January
January 1 – Edna May, American actress (b. 1878)
January 2 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893)
January 4 – Anna Kallina, Austrian actress (b. 1874)
January 5 – Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison (b. 1858)
January 7
Charles C. Wilson, American actor (b. 1894)
Maria de Maeztu Whitney, Spanish educator, feminist (b. 1882)
January 8
Charles Magnusson, Swedish producer, screenwriter (b. 1878)
Kurt Schwitters, German artist (b. 1887)
Edward Stanley Kellogg, 16th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1870)
January 12 – Herbert Allen Farmer, American criminal (b. 1891)
January 19 – Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
January 21
Eliza Moore, last person born into slavery in the United States (b. 1843)
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)
January 24
Bill Cody, American actor (b. 1891)
Giuseppe Giaccardo, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1896)
Maria Mandl, Austrian criminal (b. 1912)
January 26 – Georg Bruchmüller, influential German artillery officer (b. 1863)
January 28 – Anna Maria Gove, American physician (b. 1867)
January 29 – King Tomislav II of Croatia (b. 1900)
January 30
Nigel De Brulier, British actor (b. 1877)
Sir Arthur Coningham, British air force air marshal (disappeared) (b. 1895)
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader of Indian independence movement, (assassinated) (b. 1869)
Herb Pennock, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1894)
Orville Wright, American co-inventor of the airplane (b. 1871)
January 31 – John T. Daniels, American Coast Guardsman, took the Wright brothers' first flight photograph (b. 1873)
February
February 1 – Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (b. 1878)
February 2 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
February 3 – Laura Wheeler Waring, African-American painter, known for Harlem Renaissance portraits (b. 1887)
February 4 – Otto Praeger, American postal official who implemented U.S. Airmail (b. 1871)
February 8 – Samuel P. Bush, American businessman, industrialist (b. 1863)
February 9
Burns Mantle, American theatre critic (b. 1873)
Karl Valentin, German actor (b. 1882)
February 11
Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director (b. 1898)
Isaac Isaacs, 9th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1855)
February 12 – Theodor Caspari, Norwegian poet, novelist, writer, literary critic and teacher (b. 1853)
February 14 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1876)
February 15 – Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Indian poet (b. 1904)
February 17 – Enrique Finochietto, Argentine academic, physician and inventor (b. 1881)
February 18 – Renato Balestrero, Italian racecar driver (b. 1898)
February 23 – John Robert Gregg, Irish-born inventor of shorthand (b. 1866)
February 25
Alfredo Baldomir, Uruguayan politician, soldier, architect, 27th President of Uruguay and World War II leader (b. 1884)
Alexander du Toit, South African geologist (b. 1878)
Felix Krueger, German psychologist (b. 1874)
Juan Esteban Montero, Chilean political figure, 20th President of Chile (b. 1879)
February 27
Charles Gifford, New Zealand astronomer, explorer and teacher (b. 1861)
Patriarch Nicodim of Romania (b. 1864)
February 28 – Camila Quiroga, Argentine actress (b. 1891)
March
March 1 – Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné, French general (b. 1913)
March 4 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright, actor and director (b. 1896)
March 6 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (suicide) (b. 1914)
March 8 – Piero Folli, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1881)
March 10
Zelda Fitzgerald, American wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900)
Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister (b. 1886)
March 14
Giuseppina Catanea, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1894)
Senge Motomaro, Japanese poet (b. 1888)
March 17 – Paul Dupuy, French historian, biographer (b. 1856)
March 23
George Milne, 1st Baron Milne, British field marshal (b. 1866)
Kōzō Satō, Japanese admiral (b. 1871)
March 24
Nikolai Berdyaev, Soviet religious leader, political philosopher (b. 1874)
Giovanni Cuomo, Italian politician, lawyer and teacher (b. 1874)
Paolo Thaon di Revel, former admiral of the Royal Italian Navy (b. 1859)
Sabbas of Kalymnos, Greek Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1862)
March 30
Robert Norman Bland, British colonial administrator (b. 1859)
Giovanni Ceirano, Italian industrialist, automotive pioneer (b. 1865)
March 31 – Egon Erwin Kisch, Austrian journalist, author (b. 1885)
April
April 2
Biagio Biagetti, Italian painter (b. 1877)
Baba Sawan Singh, Indian saint known as "The Great Master" (b. 1858)
April 5 – Angelo Joseph Rossi, American political figure, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1878)
April 7 – Isabel Andreu de Aguilar, Puerto Rican writer, educator, philanthropist and activist (b. 1887)
April 8 – Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Palestinian Arab nationalist (b. 1907)
April 9
George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1872)
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (assassinated) (b. 1903)
April 15 – Manuel Roxas, Filipino statesman, 5th President of the Philippines (b. 1892)
April 17 – Kantarō Suzuki, Japanese admiral, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1868)
April 19 – Mikhail Rostovtsev, Soviet actor (b. 1872)
April 20 – Mitsumasa Yonai, Japanese admiral and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1880)
April 21 – Carlos López Buchardo, Argentine composer (b. 1881)
April 22 – Prosper Montagné, French chef and author (b. 1865)
April 23 – Prince Albrecht of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1863)
April 24 – Manuel Ponce, Mexican composer (b. 1882)
April 25 – Gerardo Matos Rodriguez, Uruguayan composer, journalist and pianist (b. 1897)
April 30 – Alfredo Miguel Aguayo Sánchez, Puerto Rican educator, writer (b. 1866)
May
May 2 – Ángel Maria Herrera, Panamanian educator (b. 1859)
May 3 – Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish nobleman, assassin of Minister Ritavuori (b. 1876)
May 9
Viola Allen, American actress (b. 1867)
Frank Leigh, British actor (b. 1876)
May 13
Milan Begović, Yugoslavian writer (b. 1876)
Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)
May 15
André Dauchez, French painter (b. 1870)
- Father Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-born American Roman Catholic priest, founder of Boys Town and monsignor (b. 1886)
Toyoaki Horiuchi, Japanese general, Class B war criminal suspect (executed) (b. 1900)
May 16 – Muhammad Habibullah, Indian politician (b. 1869)
May 18 – Francisco Alonso, Spanish composer (b. 1887)
May 19 – Maximilian Lenz, Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1860)
May 21 – Jacques Feyder, French filmmaker (b. 1885)
May 22 – Claude McKay, Jamaican-born American writer and poet (b. 1889)
May 26 – Émile Gaston Chassinat, French egyptologist (b. 1868)
May 28 – Unity Mitford, British socialite; friend of Adolf Hitler (b. 1914)
May 29 – Dame May Whitty, British actress (b. 1865)
May 30 – József Klekl, Slovene politician in Hungary (b. 1874)
June
June 1 – José Vianna da Motta, Portuguese pianist, teacher and composer (b. 1868)
June 2 – Viktor Brack, German doctor (executed by hanging for war crimes) (b. 1904)
Karl Brandt, German S.S. officer (b. 1904)
Rudolf Brandt, German S.S. officer (b. 1909)
Karl Gebhardt, German S.S. officer (b. 1897)
Waldemar Hoven, German S.S. officer (b. 1903)
Joachim Mrugowsky, German S.S. officer (b. 1905)
Wolfram Sievers, German S.S. officer (b. 1905)
June 6 – Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1864)
June 8 – Giacomo Albanese, Italian mathematician (b. 1890)
June 13 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese writer (b. 1909)
June 16 – Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra, Brazilian journalist, actress and director (b. 1898)
June 25
Bento de Jesus Caraça, Portuguese mathematician, economist and statistician (b. 1901)
William C. Lee, American general (b. 1895)
June 26
Nasib al-Bitar, Palestine jurist (b. 1890)
Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (murder) (b. 1924)
June 30 – Prince Sabahaddin (b. 1879)
July
July 1 – Assunta Marchetti, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed
July 4
Albert Bates, American criminal (b. 1893)
Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
July 5
Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
Charles Fillmore, American Protestant mystic (b. 1854)
Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
July 9
James Baskett, African-American actor (Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South) (b. 1904)
Alcibiades Diamandi, Greek political figure (b. 1893)
July 11
King Baggot, American actor (b. 1879)
Franz Weidenreich, German anatomist, physical anthropologist (b. 1873)
July 14
Harry Brearley, British inventor of stainless steel (b. 1871)
Marguerite Moreno, French actress (b. 1871)
July 15 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
July 17 – Ildebrando Zacchini, Maltese painter, inventor and traveller (b. 1868)
July 18
May Moss, Australian women's rights activist (b. 1869)
Baldassarre Negroni, Italian director, screenwriter (b. 1877)
July 21 – Arshile Gorky, Soviet-born painter (b. 1904)
July 22 – Sud Mennucci, Brazilian journalist, educator (b. 1882)
July 23 – D. W. Griffith, American film director (The Birth Of A Nation) (b. 1875)
July 24 – Pencho Zlatev, Bulgarian general, 25th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1881)
July 26 – Antonin Sertillanges, French Catholic philosopher, spiritual writer (b. 1863)
July 27 – Joe Tinker, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1880)
July 28 – Susan Glaspell, American playwright (b. 1882)
July 31 – Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, mistress of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (b. 1891)
August
August 3 – Tommy Ryan, American boxing champion (b. 1870)
August 7 – Charles Bryant, American actor (b. 1879)
August 10
Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian (b. 1873)
Andrew Brown, Scottish soccer coach (b. 1870)
August 13 – Edwin Maxwell, Irish actor (b. 1886)
August 16 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (New York Yankees), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1895)
August 17 – Mariette Rheiner Garner, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1869)
August 18 – Mikhail Tarkhanov, Soviet actor (b. 1877)
August 26 – George Anderson, American actor (b. 1886)
August 27
Cissie Cahalan, Irish trade union, feminist and suffragette (b. 1876)
Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States, 1916 Republican presidential candidate (b. 1862)
September
September 1 – Muhammad VII al-Munsif, ruler of Tunisia (1942–43) (b. 1881)
September 2 – Sylvanus G. Morley, American scholar, World War I spy (b. 1883)
September 3 – Edvard Beneš, Czechoslovakian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia and 2-time President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
September 5 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
September 7 – André Suarès, French poet, critic (b. 1868)
September 10 – Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
September 11 – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder, first Governor General of Pakistan (b. 1876)
September 12
Rupert D'Oyly Carte, British hotelier, theatre owner and impresario (b. 1876)
Carlo Servolini, Italian artist (b. 1876)
September 13 – Paul Wegener, German actor, film director, and screenwriter; one of the pioneers of German Expressionism (b. 1874)
September 17
Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist, folklorist (b. 1887)
Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1895)
Emil Ludwig, German-born Swiss historian, biographer (b. 1881)
Raffaele Rossi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, eminence and servant of God (b. 1876)
September 20 – Husain Salaahuddin, Famous Mahl writer (b. 1881)
September 22 – Prince Adalbert of Prussia (b. 1884)
September 24 – Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
September 26 – Gregg Toland, American cinematographer (b. 1904)
September 27 – Frank Cellier, British actor (b. 1884)
September 30
Vasily Kachalov, Soviet actor (b. 1875)
Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1861)
October
October 1 – Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, 1st Prime Minister of Siam (b. 1884)
October 2 – Mary Ryan, American actress (b. 1885)
October 4 – Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah, Pakistani politician (b. 1879)
October 5 – Umberto Coromaldi, Italian painter (b. 1870)
October 10 – Saif Ali Janjua, Pakistani commander (b. 1922)
October 12
Susan Sutherland Isaacs, British educational psychologist, psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
Albert Power, Australian Roman Catholic and Jesuit priest and reverend (b. 1870)
October 13 – Samuel S. Hinds, American actor (b. 1875)
October 14 – Dale Fuller, American actress (b. 1885)
October 15 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
October 16 – Maria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira, Portuguese feminist, writer (b. 1881)
October 18 – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
October 19 – Mehmet Suphi Kula, Turkish general (b. 1881)
October 21 – Elissa Landi, Italian actress (b. 1904)
October 22
Guillaume de Jerphanion, French Jesuit, epigrapher, geographer, photographer, linguist and archaeologist (b. 1877)
Alexander Piorkowski, German SS officer (b. 1904)
October 24
Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer (b. 1870)
Peter Murdoch, Australian politician (b. 1865)
October 31 – Mary Nolan, American actress (b. 1905)
November
November 4
Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, British-born American businessman (b. 1874)
Filippo Perlo, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and missionary (b. 1873)
November 7 – David Leland, American actor (b. 1932)
November 8 – Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1874)
November 9 – Edgar Kennedy, American actor (b. 1890)
November 10
Julius Curtius, German politician, diplomat (b. 1877)
Jack Nelson, American actor, director (b. 1882)
November 11 – Fred Niblo, American film director (b. 1874)
November 12 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
November 17 – Oerip Soemohardjo, Indonesian general (b. 1893)
November 21 – Béla Miklós, Hungarian military officer, politician and 38th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1890)
November 23 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1900)
November 28 – D. D. Sheehan, Irish politician (b. 1873)
November 29
Maria Koppenhöfer, German actress (b. 1901)
Roberto Omegna, Italian cinematographer, director (b. 1876)
November 30 – Franco Vittadini, Italian composer (b. 1884)
December
December 3
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, South African politician (b. 1894)
Luis Orrego Luco, Chilean politician, lawyer, novelist and diplomat (b. 1866)
Chano Pozo, Cuban percussionist (b. 1915)
December 8 – Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (b. 1866)
December 15 – João Tamagnini Barbosa, Portuguese military officer, politician and 69th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1883)
December 20 – C. Aubrey Smith, British actor (b. 1863)
December 23 – Japanese war leaders (hanged):
Kenji Doihara, general (b. 1883)
Kōki Hirota, diplomat and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
Seishirō Itagaki, military officer (b. 1885)
Heitarō Kimura, general (b. 1888)
Iwane Matsui, general (b. 1878)
Akira Mutō, general (b. 1892)
Hideki Tojo, general, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1884)
December 26 – John Westley, American actor (b. 1878)
December 28
Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari, Indian civil servant, politician (b. 1894)
Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, Egyptian political figure, 27th Prime Minister of Egypt (assassinated) (b. 1888)
December 31 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land, water racer (b. 1885)
Nobel Prizes
Physics – Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Chemistry – Arne Tiselius
Medicine – Paul Hermann Müller
Literature – T. S. Eliot
Peace – not awarded
References
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4644 or 4584
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4645 or 4585
Shōwa 23
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was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January
1.2 February
1.3 March
1.4 April
1.5 May
1.6 June
1.7 July
1.8 August
1.9 September
1.10 October
1.11 November
1.12 December
1.13 Date unknown
2 Births
2.1 January
2.2 February
2.3 March
2.4 April
2.5 May
2.6 June
2.7 July
2.8 August
2.9 September
2.10 October
2.11 November
2.12 December
2.13 Date unknown
3 Deaths
3.1 January
3.2 February
3.3 March
3.4 April
3.5 May
3.6 June
3.7 July
3.8 August
3.9 September
3.10 October
3.11 November
3.12 December
4 Nobel Prizes
5 References
Events
January
January 1
- The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated.
- The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways.
- The Constitution of the Italian Republic goes into effect.
- The latest Constitution of New Jersey goes into effect.
January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President, and U Nu its first Prime Minister.
January 5
Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).- The first Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, is published in the United States.
January 7 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes, while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop communal violence during the Partition of India.
January 17 – A truce is declared between nationalist Indonesian and Dutch troops in Java.
January 22 – British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin proposes the formation of a Western Union between Britain, France, and the Benelux countries, to stand up against the Soviet Union. The Treaty of Brussels is signed March 17 as a consequence, a predecessor to NATO.
January 26 – Teigin poison case: a man masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 of 16 bank employees of the Tokyo branch of Imperial Bank and takes the money; artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later sentenced to death for the crime, but is never executed.
January 29
- The Pakistan Socialist Party is founded in Karachi.
A DC-3 aircraft crash at Los Gatos Creek, near Coalinga, California, kills 4 US citizens and 28 deportees, commemorated in a protest song (Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)) by Woody Guthrie.
January 30
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is shot by Nathuram Godse in New Delhi.- The 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
January 31 – The British crown colony of the Malayan Union, Penang and Malacca form the Federation of Malaya.[1]
February
February 1
- The Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts.
- The Federation of Malaya is proclaimed.
February 4 – Ceylon (later known as Sri Lanka) becomes an independent kingdom, within the British Commonwealth.
February 16 – Miranda, innermost of the large moons of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper.[2]
February 18 – Éamon de Valera, Irish head of government from 1918 to 1932, loses power to an opposition coalition. John A. Costello is appointed Taoiseach by President Seán T. O'Kelly, until 1960.
February 19 – The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
February 21 – The United States stock car racing organization NASCAR is founded by Bill France, Sr. with other drivers.[3]
February 22 – The first of the Ben Yehuda Street bombings in Jerusalem kills between 49 and 58 civilians, and injures between 140 and 200.
February 25 – 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état: Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia, cedes control of the country to the Communist Party, a day celebrated by that regime as "Victorious February" (Czech: Vítězný únor; Slovak: Víťazný Február) until November 1989.
February 28
Accra Riots: Riots take place in Accra, capital of the British colony of Gold Coast, when a peaceful protest march by ex-servicemen is broken up by police, leaving several members of the group dead, among them Sergeant Adjetey, one of the leaders.- The 2nd Congress of the Communist Party of India convenes in Calcutta.
March
March 8 – McCollum v. Board of Education: The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution.
March 12 – The Costa Rican Civil War begins.
March 16 – The largest flood in the history of Brampton, Ontario, occurs.[4]
March 17
- The Treaty of Brussels is signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, providing for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence.
- The Hells Angels motorcycle gang is founded in California.
March 18 – The Round Table Conference convenes in The Hague, Netherlands, to prepare the decolonization process for Aruba and the other Dutch Colonies. Aruba presents the mandate of the Aruban People for Aruba to become an independent country, under the sovereignty of the House of Orange, based on Aruba's first state constitution presented officially since August 1947, and a (4th) member state of the future Dutch Commonwealth.
March 20
Singapore holds its first elections.- Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in an all-Wagner program in the United States.
- The 20th Academy Awards Ceremony is held in Los Angeles. Gentleman's Agreement wins the Academy Award for Best Picture.
April
April 1 – Physicists Ralph Asher Alpher and George Gamow publish the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper, about the Big Bang.[5]
April 3
- United States President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
Jeju Uprising – Residents revolt on Jeju island, South Korea, eventually leading to the deaths of between 14,000 and 30,000.
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is played on television in its entirety for the first time, in a series of concerts featuring Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the United States. The chorus is conducted by Robert Shaw.
April 5 – 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: Haganah launches Operation Nachshon, provoking the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
April 7– The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
April 9
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further 10 years of violence (La Violencia) across Colombia.- The Deir Yassin massacre takes place, in British Mandatory Palestine.
April 13 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre takes place, in British Mandatory Palestine.
April 16 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is founded, as the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC).
April 18 – Italian general election, 1948:: The first democratic general election with universal suffrage is held in Italy. The Christian Democracy party achieves a majority over the Popular Democratic Front Communist-Socialist coalition.
April 19
Burma joins the United Nations.- The American Broadcasting Company (otherwise known as ABC) begins television services, on WFIL-TV in Philadelphia (now WPVI-TV).
April 22
- Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: Battle of Haifa – Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captures Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army.
WTVR begins television services. WTVR is the first TV station south of Washington D.C., giving it the nickname "The South's First Television station".
April 24 – The Costa Rican Civil War ends.
April 30 – The Organization of American States (OAS) is founded.
April 30 – The English-built Land Rover is unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show.
May
May – The RAND Corporation is established, as an independent nonprofit policy research and analysis institution, in the United States.
May 4 – Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet makes its world premiere in London.
May 11 – Luigi Einaudi becomes President of the Italian Republic.
May 14 – The Israeli Declaration of Independence is made. David Ben-Gurion becomes the first prime minister, a provisional position that will become formalized on February 14, 1949.
May 15
1948 Arab–Israeli War: The British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated; expeditionary forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq invade Israel, and clash with Israeli forces.- The murder of a 3-year-old girl in Blackburn, England, leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city, in an attempt to find the murderer.[6]
Australian cricket team in England in 1948: The touring Australians set an all-time first-class record, by scoring 721 runs in a day against Essex.
May 16 – Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel.
May 18 – The first Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
May 22 – The Soviets launch Operation Vesna, the largest Lithuanian deportation to Siberia.
May 25 – The United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) is founded at Ellinwood Malate Church in Manila.
May 26 – The United States Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as the auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
May 28 – Daniel François Malan defeats Jan Smuts and becomes Prime Minister of South Africa, ushering in the era of apartheid (which is finally dismantled by F. W. de Klerk in 1994).
May 30 – A dike along the Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes; 15 people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
June
June 3 – The Palomar Observatory telescope is finished in California.
June 10 – Hasan Saka forms the new government of Turkey. (17th government; Hasan Saka had served twice as a prime minister)
June 11 – The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.
June 15 – Chinese newspaper Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) is first published in Pingshan, Hebei Province, China.[citation needed]
June 16
- Three armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.
June 17 – A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 and injuring 84 people on board.
June 18
Malayan Emergency: A state of emergency is declared in the Malayan Union, due to a communist insurgency.
LP record – Columbia Records introduces its long playing 33⅓ rpm phonograph format.
June 20 – The U.S. Congress recesses for the remainder of 1948, after an overtime session closes at 7:00 a.m. (to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948).
June 21
- The Deutsche Mark becomes the official currency of the future Federal Republic of Germany.
- The Manchester Baby becomes the first stored-program computer to successfully execute a program.
June 22
- The ship HMT Empire Windrush brings a large group of Afro-Caribbean immigrants to Tilbury near London, the start of a large wave of immigration to Britain.
David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK. It is banned for 3 years in the U.S., because of alleged antisemitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness.
June 24
Cold War: The Berlin Blockade begins.- The first World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization is held in Geneva.
June 26
William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.- The Berlin Airlift begins.
June 28
- The Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia, and the Soviet/Yugoslav split.
- The 6.8 Mw Fukui earthquake strikes Fukui, Japan; 3,769 are killed, 22,203 injured.
July
July 5 – The National Health Service Acts are enacted in the United Kingdom.
July 6 – The world's first Air Car-ferry service is flown by a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways, from Lympne to Le Touquet.
July 13 – The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Churches reach an agreement, leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate. Five bishops are immediately consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria, and the successor to Abuna Qerellos IV is granted the power to consecrate new bishops, who are empowered to elect a new Patriarch for their church.
July 15
- The attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, results in numerous strikes all over the country.
- The first London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.
July 20 – Cold War:
- President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt)
Eugene Dennis, William Z. Foster, and ten other CPUSA leaders are arrested, and charged under the Alien Registration Act.
July 22 – The Dominion of Newfoundland votes to join Canada, after a referendum.
July 26 – U.S. President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces.
July 28 – Around 200 die in explosion at a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
July 29 – The 1948 Summer Olympics begin in London, the first since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
July 31
- At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
Elizabeth Bentley appears under subpoena before HUAC regarding Communist espionage; she implicates Whittaker Chambers.
August
August 1 – The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
August 3 – Whittaker Chambers appears under subpoena before HUAC, and alleges that several former U.S. Federal officials were communists, including Harry Dexter White and Alger Hiss.
August 5 – Alger Hiss appears before the HUAC, to deny the allegations of Whittaker Chambers.
August 10 – August 23 – The Herrenchiemsee Convent prepares the draft for the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.
August 12 – Babrra massacre: About 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan.
August 13 – Harry Dexter White and Donald Hiss refute allegations of Communism by Whittaker Chambers, before the HUAC.
August 14 – 1948 Ashes series: Australian batsman Don Bradman, playing his last Test cricket match, against England at The Oval, is bowled by Eric Hollies for a duck; however, "The Invincibles" win the match by an innings and 149 runs, and The Ashes 4-0.
August 15 – The southern half of Korea is established as the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
August 17 – The HUAC holds a private session between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers.
August 18 – The Danube Commission is created by the Belgrade Convention (enters into force 11 May 1949).
August 20 – Lee Pressman, Nathan Witt, and John Abt, represented by Harold I. Cammer, plead the Fifth Amendment, in response to allegations of Communism by Whittaker Chambers before the HUAC.
August 23 – The World Council of Churches is established in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
August 24 – The first meeting of the charter members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) is held.[7]
August 25 – The HUAC holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
August 27 – Whittaker Chambers states that Alger Hiss was a communist on Meet the Press radio.
September
September 4 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
September 5 – Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
September 6 – Juliana is formally inaugurated to succeed her mother, as queen regnant of the Netherlands.
September 9 – The northern half of Korea is formally declared the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), with Kim Il-sung as prime minister.
September 11 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder and first Governor-General of Pakistan, dies. Pakistan is in a state of shock as it mourns the departure of the father of the nation. The day is a public holiday nationwide.
September 13–18 – Indian annexation of Hyderabad ("Operation Polo"): The princely state of Hyderabad is invaded by the Indian Armed Forces in a "police action", in the aftermath of Pakistani leader Jinnah's death. The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his state, which is amalgamated into the newly-independent Dominion of India; thousands are killed as a result of this event.
September 13 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States Senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House Of Representatives and the United States Senate.
September 17 – Lehi members, also known as the Stern Gang, assassinate Swedish count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator in Palestine, in Jerusalem.
September 18 – An inaugural motor race is held at Goodwood Circuit, West Sussex, England.
September 20 – The city of Rabwah is established in Pakistan.
September 27 – Alger Hiss files a slander suit against Whittaker Chambers, for his August 27 radio statement in the United States.
September 29 – Laurence Olivier's film of Hamlet opens in the U.S.
October
October 5 – The International Union for the Protection of Nature (later known as the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN) is established in Fontainebleau, France.
October 6 – 1948 Ashgabat earthquake: A 7.3 Ms earthquake near Ashgabat, Soviet Turkmenistan kills 10,000–110,000.
October 10 – The R-1 missile on test becomes the first Soviet launch to enter space.
October 16 – The 57th Street Art Fair in Chicago, the oldest juried art fair in the American Midwest, is founded.
October 20 – Brandeis University is formally founded in Massachusetts.
October 26 – Donora Smog of 1948: A killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.
October 29 – 1948 Arab–Israeli War: Massacres of Palestinian Arab villagers by the Israel Defense Forces:
Al-Dawayima massacre: Between 30 and 145 are killed.
Safsaf massacre: At least 52 are killed.
November
November 1
- The Foley Square trial of Eugene Dennis and ten other CPUSA leaders begins, in New York City.
Athenagoras I is elected the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
November 2 – United States presidential election, 1948: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats Republican Thomas E. Dewey, "Dixiecrat" Strom Thurmond, and Progressive party candidate Henry A. Wallace.
November 12 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
November 15 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Canada's 12th prime minister.
November 16
Operation Magic Carpet to transport Jews from Yemen to Israel begins.- The University of the Andes (Universidad de los Andes) is founded in Bogotá, Colombia.
November 17
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi divorces his second wife, the former Princess Fawzia of Egypt.
Whittaker Chambers produces secret government papers, handwritten and typewritten by Alger Hiss, during pretrial examination.
November 20 – Geoffrey B. Orbell rediscovers the Takahē, last seen 50 years previously, near Lake Te Anau, New Zealand.
November 24 – In Venezuela, president Rómulo Gallegos is ousted by a military junta.
November 27 – The Calgary Stampeders defeat the Ottawa Rough Riders 12–7 before 20,013 fans at Toronto's Varsity Stadium, to win their first Grey Cup, and complete the only perfect season to date in Canadian Football.
December
December 1 – José Figueres Ferrer abolishes the army in Costa Rica, making it the first country in history to do so.
December 2 – The United States House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenas and retrieves the "Pumpkin Papers" from the farm of Whittaker Chambers.
December 6 – Richard Nixon displays microfilm from the "Pumpkin Papers" to the press.
December 9 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Genocide Convention.
December 10 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
December 11–12 – Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali massacre: Scots Guards shoot 24 Chinese villagers in Malaya.
December 15 – The United States Department of Justice indicts Alger Hiss, on two counts of perjury.
December 17 – The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.
December 19 – In the American National Football League, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Chicago Cardinals 7–0, to win the championship.
December 20
Indonesian National Revolution: The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the temporary capital of the newly formed Republic of Indonesia.- American economist and former State Department official Laurence Duggan falls to his death, from the 16th story window of his Manhattan office.
December 23 – Seven Japanese military and political leaders, convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, are executed by Allied occupation authorities, at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
December 26
- The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea.
- Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary, and accused of treason and conspiracy.
December 28 – A Muslim Brotherhood member assassinates Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi.
December 30 – The musical Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances in New York City.
December 31 – Arab-Israeli War: Israeli troops drive Egyptians from the Negev.
Date unknown
Rev. W. Awdry's third book, James the Red Engine, is published in the United Kingdom.
Births
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January
January 2
Judith Miller, American journalist
Joyce Wadler, American writer, memoirist
Deborah Watling, English actress (d. 2017)
January 5
Wally Foreman, Australian media icon (d. 2006)
Ted Lange, African-American actor, director (The Love Boat)
January 7
Kenny Loggins, American rock singer (Footloose)
Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese voice actor
January 10
Donald Fagen, American rock keyboardist (Steely Dan)
Teresa Graves, African-American actress and comedian (Get Christie Love) (d. 2002)
Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
January 11
Hiroshi Wajima, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2018)
Larry Harvey, American co-founder of Burning Man (d. 2018)
January 12
Kenny Allen, English footballer
Anthony Andrews, English actor
January 14
T Bone Burnett, American record producer, musician
Muhriz of Negeri Sembilan, Yamtuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan
Carl Weathers, African-American actor, football player (Rocky IV, Action Jackson)
January 15 – Ronnie Van Zant, American rock musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
January 16
John Carpenter, American film director, producer, screenwriter and composer
Gregor Gysi, German politician
Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
Tsuneo Horiuchi, Japanese baseball pitcher, manager
January 17 – Davíð Oddsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
January 18 – M. C. Gainey, American actor
January 19
Frank McKenna, Premier of New Brunswick, Canadian Ambassador
Michael J. Jackson, English actor
January 23
Katharine Holabird, American writer
Mitoji Yabunaka, Japanese politician
January 27 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
January 28 – Charles Taylor, Liberian politician, 22nd President of Liberia
January 29 – Marc Singer, Canadian actor (V)
January 30 – Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
January 31
Paul Jabara, American actor, singer and songwriter (d. 1992)
Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
February
February 1 – Rick James, African-American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer (Give It to Me Baby) (d. 2004)
February 2
Ina Garten, American cooking author
Roger Williamson, British race car driver (d. 1973)
February 3
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorean Catholic bishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Henning Mankell, Swedish crime novelist (d. 2015)
February 4
Alice Cooper, American hard rock singer and musician (School's Out)
Ram Baran Yadav, President of Nepal
February 5
Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager
Christopher Guest, American actor, screenwriter, director and composer (National Lampoon, Saturday Night Live)
Barbara Hershey, American actress (Beaches)
Tom Wilkinson, English actor
February 7 – Jimmy Greenspoon, American keyboardist, composer (Three Dog Night) (d. 2015)
February 8 – Dan Seals, American musician (d. 2009)
February 9
Greg Stafford, American game designer, publisher (d. 2018)
David Hayman, Scottish film, television, and stage actor, director
February 10
Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ, Greenlandic Inuit politician, human rights activist (d. 2018)
John Magnier, Irish businessman, thoroughbred racehorse breeder
February 11 – Chris Rush, American stand-up comedian
February 12 – Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor, author
February 13 – Kitten Natividad, Mexican-American film actress
February 14
Jackie Martling, American comedian, radio personality
Wally Tax, Dutch musician (d. 2005)
Raymond Teller, American illusionist and magician, one half of the duo Penn & Teller
Yehuda Shoenfeld, Israeli physician, autoimmunity researcher
February 15
Larry DiTillio, American film and TV series writer (d. 2019)
February 17
György Cserhalmi, Hungarian actor
José José, Mexican singer, actor
February 18 – Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress
February 19
Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician, author (d. 2002)
Tony Iommi, English heavy metal guitarist
February 20 – Jennifer O'Neill, American model, actress
February 22
John Ashton, American actor
Leslie H. Sabo Jr., American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1970)
February 24
Jayalalithaa, Indian politician, film actress (d. 2016)
Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
February 25 – Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
February 28
Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Mike Figgis, American director, screenwriter and composer
Kjell Isaksson, Swedish pole vaulter
Bernadette Peters, American actress, singer
Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
Alfred Sant, Leader of Malta Labour Party (1992–), Prime Minister of Malta (1996–1998)
February 29
Khalid Salleh, Malaysian actor, poet (d. 2018)
Ken Foree, American actor
Henry Small, American-born Canadian singer
March
March 2
R. T. Crowley, American pioneer of electronic commerce
Rory Gallagher, Irish musician (d. 1995)
Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
March 4
Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author (A Cry in the Dark)
James Ellroy, American writer
Tom Grieve, American baseball player
Leron Lee, American baseball player
Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes) (d. 2015)
Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
Brian Cummings, American voice actor
March 5
Eddy Grant, Guyanese British singer, musician (Electric Avenue)
Elaine Paige, English singer, actress
March 6 – Anna Maria Horsford, African-American actress (Amen)
March 8 – Sinta Nuriyah, 4th First Lady of Indonesia, wife of Abdurrahman Wahid
March 9
László Lovász, Hungarian mathematician
Jeffrey Osborne, African-American singer (On the Wings of Love)
March 11 – Dominique Sanda, French actress
March 12 – James Taylor, American singer, songwriter (Fire and Rain)
March 14 – Billy Crystal, American actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
March 15 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
March 17 – William Gibson, American/Canadian writer
March 20
John de Lancie, American actor
Bobby Orr, Canadian hockey player
Helene Vannari, Estonian actress
March 22
Inri Cristo, Brazilian educator who claims to be Jesus Christ reincarnated
Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist (CNN)
Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer (Jesus Christ Superstar)
March 25 – Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
March 26
Nash the Slash (b. James Jeffrey Plewman), Canadian musician (d. 2014)
Steven Tyler, American rock singer, songwriter (Aerosmith)
March 28
Jayne Ann Krentz, American novelist
Dennis Unkovic, American author
Dianne Wiest, American actress
March 29
Mike Heideman, American basketball coach (d. 2018)
Bud Cort, American actor (Harold and Maude)
March 30 – Eddie Jordan, Irish founder of Jordan Grand Prix
March 31
Al Gore, American environmentalist, politician, 45th Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton, and 2000 Democratic nominee for president
Rhea Perlman, American actress (Cheers)
April
April 1 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican singer, actor
April 2
Bob Lienhard, American basketball player (d. 2018)
Roald Als, Danish cartoonist
April 3 – Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican economist, politician and 53rd President of Mexico
April 4
Squire Parsons, American gospel singer, songwriter
Dan Simmons, American fantasy, science fiction author
Berry Oakley, American musician (d. 1972)
April 5 – Neil Portnow, American President of The Recording Academy (NARAS)
April 7 – John Oates, American rock singer, guitarist (Hall & Oates)
April 9 – Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress and politician
April 10 – Fauzi Bowo, Indonesian politician, diplomat and former governor of Jakarta
April 12
Jeremy Beadle, English TV presenter (d. 2008)
Don Fernando, American pornographic film actor, director
Joschka Fischer, German politician
Marcello Lippi, Italian football player, manager
April 13
Nam Hae-il, 25th Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Korea Navy
Mikhail Shufutinsky, Soviet, Russian singer, actor and TV presenter
April 15 – Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
April 16
Ammar El Sherei, Egyptian music icon, celebrity (d. 2012)
Kazuyuki Sogabe, Japanese voice actor (d. 2006)
April 17
Jan Hammer, Czechoslovakian composer, pianist and keyboardist
Peter Jenni, Swiss experimental particle physicist
April 18
Avi Arad, Isreali-American film producer
April 21
Paul Davis, American singer, songwriter (Cool Night) (d. 2008)
Josef Flammer, Swiss ophthalmologist (after whom Flammer syndrome is named)
April 27
Amrit Kumar Bohara, Nepalese politician
Frank Abagnale, American con man, imposter
Si Robertson, American reality star
April 28
Terry Pratchett, English comic fantasy, science fiction author (d. 2015)
Marcia Strassman, American actress, singer (Welcome Back, Kotter) (d. 2014)
April 29 – Michael Karoli, German musician (d. 2001)
April 30 – Jocelyne Saab, Lebanese journalist, film director (d. 2019)
May
May 2
Vladimir Matorin, Russian opera singer
Larry Gatlin, American singer, songwriter
May 3
William H. Miller, American maritime historian
Chris Mulkey, American actor
May 4
Jan Kantůrek, Czech translator (d. 2018)
Tanya Falan, American singer- King George Tupou V of Tongo (d. 2012)
May 5
Joe Esposito, American singer, songwriter
Richard Pacheco, American pornographic actor
Bill Ward, English rock drummer
May 8
- Dame Felicity Lott, English soprano
Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer
May 9
Steven W. Mosher, American social scientist, author
Calvin Murphy, American basketball player, analyst
May 11 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese musician
May 12
Steve Winwood, English rock singer (Higher Love)
Lindsay Crouse, American actress
May 14 – Bob Woolmer, Indian-born English cricket coach (d. 2007)
May 15
Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
Brian Eno, English musician, record producer
May 16 – Jesper Christensen, Danish actor
May 17 – Penny DeHaven, American country singer (d. 2014)
May 18 – Mikko Heiniö, Finnish composer
May 19 – Grace Jones, Jamaican singer, actress
May 20 – Tesshō Genda, Japanese voice actor
May 21
D'Jamin Bartlett, American musical theatre actress
Elizabeth Buchan, English writer
Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born English actor
Leo Sayer, English rock musician (When I Need You)
May 25 – Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions)
May 26
Dayle Haddon, Canadian model, actress
Stevie Nicks, American rock singer, songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
May 27 – Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
May 29 – Michael Berkeley, English composer
May 31
Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian writer of literary reportage, Nobel Prize laureate
John Bonham, English rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980)
June
June 1
Powers Boothe, American actor (Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones) (d. 2017)
Tom Sneva, American race car driver, Indianapolis 500 winner
June 2 – Jerry Mathers, American actor (Leave it to Beaver)
June 4
Bob Champion, English jump jockey
David Haskell, American actor (d. 2000)
June 6 – Richard Sinclair, English musician (Caravan)
June 8
Jürgen von der Lippe, German television presenter, actor and comedian
Jad Azkoul, Lebanese-American classical guitarist
June 9
Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
Gary Thorne, American play-by-play announcer
June 11 – Dave Cash, American baseball player
June 13 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player, scout (d. 2001)
June 14 – Laurence Yep, American author
June 15 – Paul Michiels, Belgian singer, songwriter
June 17 – Dave Concepción, Venezuelan baseball player
June 19
Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
Lea Laven, Finnish singer
Phylicia Rashad, African-American actress (The Cosby Show)
June 20
Alan Longmuir, Scottish musician (d. 2018)
Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
June 21
Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
Jovan Aćimović, Serbian football player
Raffaello Martinelli, Italian prelate
Philippe Sarde, French film composer
Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
Wolfgang Seel, German football player
Greg Hyder, American professional basketball player
June 22
Madeleine Meilleur, Canadian politician
Takashi Sasano, Japanese actor
Shōhaku Okumura, Japanese Soto Zen
Peter Prijdekker, Dutch swimmer
Sue Roberts, American professional golfer
Todd Rundgren, American rock singer, record producer (Hello It's Me)
Curtis Johnson, American football cornerback
Franciszek Smuda, Polish football coach
Panagiotis Xanthakos, Greek sports shoote
Colin Waldron, English football defender
June 23
Larry Coker, American football player, coach
Jim Heacock, American defensive coordinator
Luther Kent, American blues singer
Clarence Thomas, African-American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
June 24
Stephen Martin, Australian politician, senior academic and rugby league referee
Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player
Janet Museveni, First Lady of Uganda
Dave Orchard, South African cricketer
Eigil Sørensen, Danish cyclist
Jürgen Stars, German footballer
Jenny Wood, Zimbabwean swimmer
June 25
Kenn George, American businessman
Michael Lembeck, American actor, television and film director
Tom Rideout, Canadian politician
June 26
David Vaughan, Welsh professional golfer
John Pratt, English professional footballer
Pablo Anaya Rivera, Mexican politician
June 27
Vennira Aadai Nirmala, Tamil actress
Michael J. Barrett, Guamanian politician
Camile Baudoin, American rock guitarist
June 28
Deborah Moggach, English writer
Kathy Bates, American actress (Misery)
Jimmy Thomson, Scottish professional footballer
Brian Rowan, Scottish professional footballer
June 29
Helge Karlsen, Norwegian football player
Fred Grandy, American actor, politician (The Love Boat)
Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar, crossbench member of the House of Lords
Leo Burke, Canadian professional wrestler
Vic Brooks, English cricketer
Danny Adcock, Australian actor
June 30
Alice Wong, Canadian politician
Dag Fornæss, Norwegian speed skater
Peter Rossborough, English rugby union international
Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Australian Indigenous community leader
Vladimir Yakunin, Russian official, head of state-run Russian Railways Company
Raymond Leo Burke, American cardinal, prelate
July
July 1
Ever Hugo Almeida, Paraguayan footballer
John Ford, English-born rock musician (Strawbs), writer of Part of the Union
Michael McGimpsey, Northern Ireland politician
July 2
Mario Villanueva, Mexican politician
Saul Rubinek, German-Canadian character actor, director, producer and playwright
July 3 – Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
July 4
René Arnoux, French racing driver
Louis Raphaël I Sako, Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church
Ed Armbrister, Bahamian Major League Baseball outfielder
Nazmul Hussain, Indian first-class cricketer
Jeremy Spencer, British musician
July 5
Tony DeMeo, American football coach, player
Dave Lemonds, American baseball player
Salomon Juan Marcos Issa, Mexican politician
Lojze Peterle, Slovenian politician
July 6
Nathalie Baye, French film, television and stage actress
Jeff Webb, American professional basketball player
Arnaldo Baptista, Brazilian rock musician, composer
Brad Park, Canadian NHL Defenseman
Sid Smith, American football offensive lineman
Eiko Segawa, Japanese female enka singer, actress
Jan van der Veen, Dutch professional association football player
July 7
Jerry Sherk, American football defensive tackle
Jean LeClerc, Québécois actor
Jean-Marie Colombani, French journalist
Tan Lee Meng, Singaporean jurist
Stuart Varney, British-American economic consultant
Luis Estrada, Mexican football league forward, Olympic athlete
July 8 – Raffi, Egyptian-born children's entertainer
July 10
Theo Bücker, German football manager, player
Rich Hand, American professional baseball player
Mick Coop, English professional football right back
July 12
Jay Thomas, American actor (d. 2017)
Richard Simmons, American television personality, fitness expert
July 13
Don Sweet, Canadian star football kicker
Alf Hansen, Norwegian rower
Robert A. Underwood, Guamanian politician, educator
July 14 – Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king
July 15
Richard Franklin, Australian film director (d. 2007)
Twinkle, English singer, songwriter (d. 2015)
July 16
Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer, actor and musician
Rita Barberá, Spanish politician, Mayor of Valencia (d. 2016)
Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
Jeff Van Wagenen, American professional golfer
Lars Lagerbäck, Swedish football manager, player
July 17
Alan Sieler, Australian cricketer
Doug Berry, American Canadian football coach
July 18 – Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 20
Muse Watson, American actor
Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunis
July 21
Beppe Grillo, Italian activist, blogger, comedian and actor
Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
Cat Stevens (b. Steven Georgiou, later known as Yusuf Islam), British singer, musician
Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist (Doonesbury)
Teruzane Utada, Japanese music executive producer, attendant
Mikhail Zadornov, Russian stand-up comedian, writer
Snooty, male Florida manatee (d. 2017)
July 22
Susan Eloise Hinton, American author
Otto Waalkes, German comedian, actor
July 23 – John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
July 25
Steve Goodman, American Grammy Award-winning folk music singer, songwriter (d. 1984)
Tony Cline, American football player (d. 2018)
July 27 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
July 28
Gerald Casale, American director, singer (Devo)
Sally Struthers, American actress, spokeswoman (All in the Family)
Georgia Engel, American actress (d. 2019)
July 30
Jean Reno, French actor
Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer, musician (d. 2010)
July 31 – Jonathan Dollimore, English academic sociologist, cultural theorist
August
August 1 – Jim Carroll, American author, poet and musician (d. 2009)
August 2
Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host, author
Bob Rae, Canadian politician
August 3 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
August 7 – James P. Allison, American immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
August 12 – Mizengo Pinda, 9th Prime Minister of Tanzania
August 13 – Kathleen Battle, African-American soprano
August 14 – Joseph Marcell, English actor
August 15
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Iranian cleric, politician (d. 2018)
George Ryton, Singapore-born English Formula One engineer
August 18 – Sean Scanlan, Scottish actor (d. 2017)
August 19
Robert Hughes, Australian actor
Tipper Gore, Second Lady of the United States
August 20
John Noble, Australian actor
Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
Barbara Allen Rainey (b. Barbara Ann Allen), American aviator, first female pilot in the U.S. armed forces (d. 1982)
August 23 – Lev Zeleny, Soviet, Russian physicist
August 24
Jean Michel Jarre, French electronic musician
Sauli Niinisto, Finnish politician, 12th President of Finland
Kim Sung-il, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Air Force
Vicente Sotto III, Filipino actor, host and politician
August 25 – Tony Ramos, Brazilian actor
August 27 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
August 30
Lewis Black, American comedian
Fred Hampton, African-American activist (d. 1969)
Victor Skumin, Russian scientist, professor
August 31
Cyril Jordan, American musician
Holger Osieck, German football manager
September
September 1 – James Rebhorn, American actor (d. 2014)
September 2
Christa McAuliffe, American teacher, astronaut (Challenger Disaster) (d. 1986)
Nate Archibald, American basketball player
Terry Bradshaw, American football player, sportscaster
September 3
Don Brewer, American drummer (Grand Funk Railroad)
Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian president (d. 2008)
September 4
Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer
Michael Berryman, American actor
September 5 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat, politician
September 7 – Susan Blakely, American actress
September 8 – Great Kabuki, Japanese professional wrestler
September 10
Judy Geeson, English actress
Bob Lanier, American basketball player
Margaret Trudeau (b. Margaret Sinclair), wife and mother of Prime Ministers of Canada
Charlie Waters, American football player
September 11 – John Martyn (b. Iain McGeachy), British folk-rock guitarist (d. 2009)
September 13
Nell Carter, African-American singer, actress (Gimme a Break!) (d. 2003)
Sitiveni Rabuka, 3rd Prime Minister of Fiji
September 16 – Ron Blair, American bassist (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
September 17 – John Ritter, American actor (Three's Company) (d. 2003)
September 19
Jeremy Irons, English actor
Nadezhda Tkachenko, Soviet pentathlete
September 20
Rey Langit, Filipino journalist, radio host
George R. R. Martin, American speculative fiction author
September 22
Denis Burke, Australian politician
Mark Phillips, British army captain, equestrian and first husband of Anne, Princess Royal
Jim Byrnes, American voice actor, blues musician and actor
September 23 – José Lavat, Mexican voice actor (d. 2018)
September 24 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live) (d. 1998)
September 25
Cäcilia Rentmeister, German art historian, gender researcher
Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Russian oligarch
September 26
Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman, murder victim (d. 1995)
Olivia Newton-John, English-born Australian singer, actress
September 27
Michele Dotrice, English actress
A Martinez, American actor, singer
September 29
Mark Farner, American rock guitarist, singer (Grand Funk Railroad)
Bryant Gumbel, African-American television broadcaster (The Today Show)
Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
Burton Richardson, American game show announcer
October
October 1
Mark Landon, American actor (d. 2009)- Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman (k. 2001)
October 2
Avery Brooks, American actor, musician
Persis Khambatta, Indian actress, model (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) (d. 1998)
Chris LeDoux, American singer, rodeo star (d. 2005)
Donna Karan, American fashion designer
October 4
Meg Bennett, American soap opera writer
Iain Hewitson, New Zealand-Australian chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality
October 6 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
October 7 – Diane Ackerman, American poet, essayist
October 8
Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (Ramones) (d. 2004)
Baldwin Spencer, 3rd Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
October 9
Jackson Browne, American rock musician (Running on Empty)
Ciarán Carson, Northern Irish poet, novelist
Oliver Hart, English-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 11
Margie Alexander, American gospel, soul singer (d. 2013)
Cynthia Clawson, American gospel singer
October 12 – Rick Parfitt, English musician (Status Quo) (d. 2016)
October 13
John Ford Coley, American rock musician (I'd Really Love to See You Tonight)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (d. 1997)
Ted Poe, American politician
October 14
Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
David Ruprecht, American actor, writer (Supermarket Sweep)
October 15
Renato Corona, Filipino jurist, lawyer (d. 2016)
Chris de Burgh, born Christopher Davison, Argentine-born Anglo-Irish singer, songwriter
October 16
Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
Hema Malini, Indian actress, writer, director, producer, dancer and politician
October 17
Robert Jordan, American novelist (d. 2007)
Margot Kidder, Canadian actress (Superman) (d. 2018)
Akira Kushida, Japanese singer
George Wendt, American actor (Cheers)
October 18 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher
Ntozake Shange, African-American playwright, poet (d. 2018)
October 19 – Patrick Simmons, American musician (The Doobie Brothers)
October 21
Tom Everett, American actor
Allen Vigneron, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit
October 22
Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
Debbie Macomber, American author
October 23 – Sir Gerry Robinson, Irish-born British businessman
October 25
Dave Cowens, American basketball player, coach
Dan Gable, American wrestler, coach
October 26 – Toby Harrah, American baseball player
October 28 – Telma Hopkins, African-American actress, singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
October 29 – Kate Jackson, American actress (Charlie's Angels)
October 30 – Garry McDonald, Australian actor, satirist, and comedian
November
November 1 – Anna Stuart, American actress
November 3 – Lulu (b. Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie), Scottish singer, actress (To Sir, With Love)
November 4
Delia Casanova, Mexican actress
Amadou Toumani Touré, President of Mali
November 5
Charles Bradley, American singer (d. 2017)
Bob Barr, American politician
Dallas Holm, American Christian musician
Zacharias Jimenez, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2018)
Khalid Ibrahim Khan, Pakistani politician (d. 2018)
William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 6 – Glenn Frey, American guitarist, singer (The Eagles) (d. 2016)
November 7 – Jim Houghton, American actor, director
November 9
Viktor Matviyenko, Ukrainian footballer, coach (d. 2018)
Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football player, manager
November 10 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
November 12
Skip Campbell, American politician (d. 2018)
Hassan Rouhani, 7th President of Iran
Richard Roberts, American evangelist, son of Oral Roberts
November 13
Humayun Ahmed, Bengali-language writer
Lockwood Smith, New Zealand politician
November 14
Charles, Prince of Wales (b. Prince Charles of Edinburgh), heir apparent to the British throne and son of Elizabeth II (at this time Duchess of Edinburgh) and The Duke of Edinburgh
Robert Ginty, American actor, director (d. 2009)
Dee Wallace, American actress
November 15 – James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist, actor (d. 2007)
November 16
Chi Coltrane, American musician (Thunder and Lightning)
Ken James, Australian actor
Mutt Lange, Rhodesian-born record producer
Mate Parlov, Yugoslav Olympic boxer (d. 2008)
November 17 – Howard Dean, American politician
November 19 – Rance Allen, African-American gospel singer, preacher
November 20
Harlee McBride, American actress
John R. Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., National Security Advisor
Barbara Hendricks, American singer
Richard Masur, American actor, director and president of the Screen Actors Guild
November 21
Alphonse Mouzon, American jazz drummer (d. 2016)
Michel Suleiman, President of Lebanon
November 23
Dominique-France Picard (aka Princess Fadila of Egypt), wife of King Fuad II of Egypt and the Sudan
Ron Bouchard, American NASCAR driver (d. 2015)
Gabriele Seyfert, East German figure skater
November 24 – Joe Howard, American actor
November 25 – Antoine Sfeir, Franco-Lebanese journalist, professor (d. 2018)
November 26
Elizabeth Blackburn, Australian-American biologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Gayle McCormick, American singer (Smith) (d. 2016)
November 27 – James Avery, American actor (d. 2013)
November 28 – Agnieszka Holland, Polish director, screenwriter
December
December 2
T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
Patricia Hewitt, British Labour Party politician[9]
Toninho Horta, Brazilian singer, musician
Christine Westermann, German television, radio host, journalist and author
December 3
Rick Cua, American singer, evangelist
Ozzy Osbourne, English singer (Black Sabbath)
December 6
Keke Rosberg, Finnish Formula One champion
Marius Müller-Westernhagen, German actor, musician
JoBeth Williams, American actress, director
December 7
Gary Morris, American country singer, actor
Tony Thomas, American television producer
Mads Vinding, Danish bassist
December 10 – Abu Abbas, Palestine Liberation Front founder (d. 2004)
December 11 – Chester Thompson, American rock drummer
December 12 – Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, 20th President of Portugal
December 13
Lillian Board, South African-born English Olympic athlete (d. 1970)
Ted Nugent, American rock guitarist, singer, conservative political commentator (Cat Scratch Fever)
David O'List, English rock guitarist
December 14
Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982)
Kim Beazley, Australian politician
December 19 – Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
December 20 – Alan Parsons, English songwriter, musician and record producer
December 21
Samuel L. Jackson, African-American actor, film producer
Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician, cabaret artist
December 22
Noel Edmonds, English TV presenter, DJ
Flip Mark, American child actor
Lynne Thigpen, African-American actress (Godspell) (d. 2003)
December 23 – Jim Ferguson, American guitarist, composer, educator, author and music journalist
December 25
Queen Alia (d. 1977)
Barbara Mandrell, American country singer
December 27
Ronnie Caldwell, American soul music, rhythm and blues musician (d. 1967)
Gérard Depardieu, French actor
December 28 – Mary Weiss, American singer (The Shangri-Las)
December 29 – Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland First Minister
December 31
Stephen Cleobury, English composer, conductor
Joe Dallesandro, American model, actor
Sandy Jardine, Scottish professional footballer, playing for Rangers and Hearts and representing Scotland (d. 2014)
Donna Summer, African-American singer, actress (Love to Love You Baby) (d. 2012)
Date unknown
Archana Bhattacharyya, Indian physicist
Miguel Cabrera Cabrera, Spanish architect, politician
Vicatan, born Vicente Doria Catan Jr., Filipino comic book artist (d. 2004)
Gudo Hoegel, German actor, voice actor
Phalon Jones, American soul music, rhythm and blues musician (d. 1967)
Johnny Nicholas, American blues musician
Judy Nylon, American artist, musician
Edward Rutherfurd (b. Francis Edward Wintle), English novelist
Deaths
January
January 1 – Edna May, American actress (b. 1878)
January 2 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893)
January 4 – Anna Kallina, Austrian actress (b. 1874)
January 5 – Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison (b. 1858)
January 7
Charles C. Wilson, American actor (b. 1894)
Maria de Maeztu Whitney, Spanish educator, feminist (b. 1882)
January 8
Charles Magnusson, Swedish producer, screenwriter (b. 1878)
Kurt Schwitters, German artist (b. 1887)
Edward Stanley Kellogg, 16th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1870)
January 12 – Herbert Allen Farmer, American criminal (b. 1891)
January 19 – Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
January 21
Eliza Moore, last person born into slavery in the United States (b. 1843)
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)
January 24
Bill Cody, American actor (b. 1891)
Giuseppe Giaccardo, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1896)
Maria Mandl, Austrian criminal (b. 1912)
January 26 – Georg Bruchmüller, influential German artillery officer (b. 1863)
January 28 – Anna Maria Gove, American physician (b. 1867)
January 29 – King Tomislav II of Croatia (b. 1900)
January 30
Nigel De Brulier, British actor (b. 1877)
Sir Arthur Coningham, British air force air marshal (disappeared) (b. 1895)
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader of Indian independence movement, (assassinated) (b. 1869)
Herb Pennock, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1894)
Orville Wright, American co-inventor of the airplane (b. 1871)
January 31 – John T. Daniels, American Coast Guardsman, took the Wright brothers' first flight photograph (b. 1873)
February
February 1 – Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (b. 1878)
February 2 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
February 3 – Laura Wheeler Waring, African-American painter, known for Harlem Renaissance portraits (b. 1887)
February 4 – Otto Praeger, American postal official who implemented U.S. Airmail (b. 1871)
February 8 – Samuel P. Bush, American businessman, industrialist (b. 1863)
February 9
Burns Mantle, American theatre critic (b. 1873)
Karl Valentin, German actor (b. 1882)
February 11
Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director (b. 1898)
Isaac Isaacs, 9th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1855)
February 12 – Theodor Caspari, Norwegian poet, novelist, writer, literary critic and teacher (b. 1853)
February 14 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1876)
February 15 – Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Indian poet (b. 1904)
February 17 – Enrique Finochietto, Argentine academic, physician and inventor (b. 1881)
February 18 – Renato Balestrero, Italian racecar driver (b. 1898)
February 23 – John Robert Gregg, Irish-born inventor of shorthand (b. 1866)
February 25
Alfredo Baldomir, Uruguayan politician, soldier, architect, 27th President of Uruguay and World War II leader (b. 1884)
Alexander du Toit, South African geologist (b. 1878)
Felix Krueger, German psychologist (b. 1874)
Juan Esteban Montero, Chilean political figure, 20th President of Chile (b. 1879)
February 27
Charles Gifford, New Zealand astronomer, explorer and teacher (b. 1861)
Patriarch Nicodim of Romania (b. 1864)
February 28 – Camila Quiroga, Argentine actress (b. 1891)
March
March 1 – Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné, French general (b. 1913)
March 4 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright, actor and director (b. 1896)
March 6 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (suicide) (b. 1914)
March 8 – Piero Folli, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1881)
March 10
Zelda Fitzgerald, American wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900)
Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister (b. 1886)
March 14
Giuseppina Catanea, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1894)
Senge Motomaro, Japanese poet (b. 1888)
March 17 – Paul Dupuy, French historian, biographer (b. 1856)
March 23
George Milne, 1st Baron Milne, British field marshal (b. 1866)
Kōzō Satō, Japanese admiral (b. 1871)
March 24
Nikolai Berdyaev, Soviet religious leader, political philosopher (b. 1874)
Giovanni Cuomo, Italian politician, lawyer and teacher (b. 1874)
Paolo Thaon di Revel, former admiral of the Royal Italian Navy (b. 1859)
Sabbas of Kalymnos, Greek Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1862)
March 30
Robert Norman Bland, British colonial administrator (b. 1859)
Giovanni Ceirano, Italian industrialist, automotive pioneer (b. 1865)
March 31 – Egon Erwin Kisch, Austrian journalist, author (b. 1885)
April
April 2
Biagio Biagetti, Italian painter (b. 1877)
Baba Sawan Singh, Indian saint known as "The Great Master" (b. 1858)
April 5 – Angelo Joseph Rossi, American political figure, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1878)
April 7 – Isabel Andreu de Aguilar, Puerto Rican writer, educator, philanthropist and activist (b. 1887)
April 8 – Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Palestinian Arab nationalist (b. 1907)
April 9
George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1872)
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (assassinated) (b. 1903)
April 15 – Manuel Roxas, Filipino statesman, 5th President of the Philippines (b. 1892)
April 17 – Kantarō Suzuki, Japanese admiral, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1868)
April 19 – Mikhail Rostovtsev, Soviet actor (b. 1872)
April 20 – Mitsumasa Yonai, Japanese admiral and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1880)
April 21 – Carlos López Buchardo, Argentine composer (b. 1881)
April 22 – Prosper Montagné, French chef and author (b. 1865)
April 23 – Prince Albrecht of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1863)
April 24 – Manuel Ponce, Mexican composer (b. 1882)
April 25 – Gerardo Matos Rodriguez, Uruguayan composer, journalist and pianist (b. 1897)
April 30 – Alfredo Miguel Aguayo Sánchez, Puerto Rican educator, writer (b. 1866)
May
May 2 – Ángel Maria Herrera, Panamanian educator (b. 1859)
May 3 – Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish nobleman, assassin of Minister Ritavuori (b. 1876)
May 9
Viola Allen, American actress (b. 1867)
Frank Leigh, British actor (b. 1876)
May 13
Milan Begović, Yugoslavian writer (b. 1876)
Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)
May 15
André Dauchez, French painter (b. 1870)- Father Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-born American Roman Catholic priest, founder of Boys Town and monsignor (b. 1886)
Toyoaki Horiuchi, Japanese general, Class B war criminal suspect (executed) (b. 1900)
May 16 – Muhammad Habibullah, Indian politician (b. 1869)
May 18 – Francisco Alonso, Spanish composer (b. 1887)
May 19 – Maximilian Lenz, Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1860)
May 21 – Jacques Feyder, French filmmaker (b. 1885)
May 22 – Claude McKay, Jamaican-born American writer and poet (b. 1889)
May 26 – Émile Gaston Chassinat, French egyptologist (b. 1868)
May 28 – Unity Mitford, British socialite; friend of Adolf Hitler (b. 1914)
May 29 – Dame May Whitty, British actress (b. 1865)
May 30 – József Klekl, Slovene politician in Hungary (b. 1874)
June
June 1 – José Vianna da Motta, Portuguese pianist, teacher and composer (b. 1868)
June 2 – Viktor Brack, German doctor (executed by hanging for war crimes) (b. 1904)
Karl Brandt, German S.S. officer (b. 1904)
Rudolf Brandt, German S.S. officer (b. 1909)
Karl Gebhardt, German S.S. officer (b. 1897)
Waldemar Hoven, German S.S. officer (b. 1903)
Joachim Mrugowsky, German S.S. officer (b. 1905)
Wolfram Sievers, German S.S. officer (b. 1905)
June 6 – Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1864)
June 8 – Giacomo Albanese, Italian mathematician (b. 1890)
June 13 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese writer (b. 1909)
June 16 – Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra, Brazilian journalist, actress and director (b. 1898)
June 25
Bento de Jesus Caraça, Portuguese mathematician, economist and statistician (b. 1901)
William C. Lee, American general (b. 1895)
June 26
Nasib al-Bitar, Palestine jurist (b. 1890)
Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (murder) (b. 1924)
June 30 – Prince Sabahaddin (b. 1879)
July
July 1 – Assunta Marchetti, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed
July 4
Albert Bates, American criminal (b. 1893)
Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
July 5
Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
Charles Fillmore, American Protestant mystic (b. 1854)
Carole Landis, American actress (b. 1919)
July 9
James Baskett, African-American actor (Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South) (b. 1904)
Alcibiades Diamandi, Greek political figure (b. 1893)
July 11
King Baggot, American actor (b. 1879)
Franz Weidenreich, German anatomist, physical anthropologist (b. 1873)
July 14
Harry Brearley, British inventor of stainless steel (b. 1871)
Marguerite Moreno, French actress (b. 1871)
July 15 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
July 17 – Ildebrando Zacchini, Maltese painter, inventor and traveller (b. 1868)
July 18
May Moss, Australian women's rights activist (b. 1869)
Baldassarre Negroni, Italian director, screenwriter (b. 1877)
July 21 – Arshile Gorky, Soviet-born painter (b. 1904)
July 22 – Sud Mennucci, Brazilian journalist, educator (b. 1882)
July 23 – D. W. Griffith, American film director (The Birth Of A Nation) (b. 1875)
July 24 – Pencho Zlatev, Bulgarian general, 25th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1881)
July 26 – Antonin Sertillanges, French Catholic philosopher, spiritual writer (b. 1863)
July 27 – Joe Tinker, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1880)
July 28 – Susan Glaspell, American playwright (b. 1882)
July 31 – Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, mistress of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (b. 1891)
August
August 3 – Tommy Ryan, American boxing champion (b. 1870)
August 7 – Charles Bryant, American actor (b. 1879)
August 10
Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian (b. 1873)
Andrew Brown, Scottish soccer coach (b. 1870)
August 13 – Edwin Maxwell, Irish actor (b. 1886)
August 16 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (New York Yankees), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1895)
August 17 – Mariette Rheiner Garner, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1869)
August 18 – Mikhail Tarkhanov, Soviet actor (b. 1877)
August 26 – George Anderson, American actor (b. 1886)
August 27
Cissie Cahalan, Irish trade union, feminist and suffragette (b. 1876)
Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States, 1916 Republican presidential candidate (b. 1862)
September
September 1 – Muhammad VII al-Munsif, ruler of Tunisia (1942–43) (b. 1881)
September 2 – Sylvanus G. Morley, American scholar, World War I spy (b. 1883)
September 3 – Edvard Beneš, Czechoslovakian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia and 2-time President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
September 5 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
September 7 – André Suarès, French poet, critic (b. 1868)
September 10 – Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
September 11 – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder, first Governor General of Pakistan (b. 1876)
September 12
Rupert D'Oyly Carte, British hotelier, theatre owner and impresario (b. 1876)
Carlo Servolini, Italian artist (b. 1876)
September 13 – Paul Wegener, German actor, film director, and screenwriter; one of the pioneers of German Expressionism (b. 1874)
September 17
Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist, folklorist (b. 1887)
Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1895)
Emil Ludwig, German-born Swiss historian, biographer (b. 1881)
Raffaele Rossi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, eminence and servant of God (b. 1876)
September 20 – Husain Salaahuddin, Famous Mahl writer (b. 1881)
September 22 – Prince Adalbert of Prussia (b. 1884)
September 24 – Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
September 26 – Gregg Toland, American cinematographer (b. 1904)
September 27 – Frank Cellier, British actor (b. 1884)
September 30
Vasily Kachalov, Soviet actor (b. 1875)
Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1861)
October
October 1 – Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, 1st Prime Minister of Siam (b. 1884)
October 2 – Mary Ryan, American actress (b. 1885)
October 4 – Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah, Pakistani politician (b. 1879)
October 5 – Umberto Coromaldi, Italian painter (b. 1870)
October 10 – Saif Ali Janjua, Pakistani commander (b. 1922)
October 12
Susan Sutherland Isaacs, British educational psychologist, psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
Albert Power, Australian Roman Catholic and Jesuit priest and reverend (b. 1870)
October 13 – Samuel S. Hinds, American actor (b. 1875)
October 14 – Dale Fuller, American actress (b. 1885)
October 15 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
October 16 – Maria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira, Portuguese feminist, writer (b. 1881)
October 18 – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
October 19 – Mehmet Suphi Kula, Turkish general (b. 1881)
October 21 – Elissa Landi, Italian actress (b. 1904)
October 22
Guillaume de Jerphanion, French Jesuit, epigrapher, geographer, photographer, linguist and archaeologist (b. 1877)
Alexander Piorkowski, German SS officer (b. 1904)
October 24
Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer (b. 1870)
Peter Murdoch, Australian politician (b. 1865)
October 31 – Mary Nolan, American actress (b. 1905)
November
November 4
Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, British-born American businessman (b. 1874)
Filippo Perlo, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and missionary (b. 1873)
November 7 – David Leland, American actor (b. 1932)
November 8 – Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1874)
November 9 – Edgar Kennedy, American actor (b. 1890)
November 10
Julius Curtius, German politician, diplomat (b. 1877)
Jack Nelson, American actor, director (b. 1882)
November 11 – Fred Niblo, American film director (b. 1874)
November 12 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
November 17 – Oerip Soemohardjo, Indonesian general (b. 1893)
November 21 – Béla Miklós, Hungarian military officer, politician and 38th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1890)
November 23 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1900)
November 28 – D. D. Sheehan, Irish politician (b. 1873)
November 29
Maria Koppenhöfer, German actress (b. 1901)
Roberto Omegna, Italian cinematographer, director (b. 1876)
November 30 – Franco Vittadini, Italian composer (b. 1884)
December
December 3
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, South African politician (b. 1894)
Luis Orrego Luco, Chilean politician, lawyer, novelist and diplomat (b. 1866)
Chano Pozo, Cuban percussionist (b. 1915)
December 8 – Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (b. 1866)
December 15 – João Tamagnini Barbosa, Portuguese military officer, politician and 69th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1883)
December 20 – C. Aubrey Smith, British actor (b. 1863)
December 23 – Japanese war leaders (hanged):
Kenji Doihara, general (b. 1883)
Kōki Hirota, diplomat and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
Seishirō Itagaki, military officer (b. 1885)
Heitarō Kimura, general (b. 1888)
Iwane Matsui, general (b. 1878)
Akira Mutō, general (b. 1892)
Hideki Tojo, general, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1884)
December 26 – John Westley, American actor (b. 1878)
December 28
Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari, Indian civil servant, politician (b. 1894)
Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, Egyptian political figure, 27th Prime Minister of Egypt (assassinated) (b. 1888)
December 31 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land, water racer (b. 1885)
Nobel Prizes
Physics – Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Chemistry – Arne Tiselius
Medicine – Paul Hermann Müller
Literature – T. S. Eliot
Peace – not awarded
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