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1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1963rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 963rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 63rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1960s decade.

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JanuaryJanuary 1Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. • January 2Vietnam WarBattle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. • January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. • January 131963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. • January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. • January 19 – Soviet spy Gheorghe Pintilie is removed from his position as Deputy Interior Minister of the Romanian People's Republic, as a step in ensuring Romania's political independence; the Workers' Party Politburo discusses way of neutralizing "Soviet intelligence networks [...] which Gheorghe Pintilie had coordinated." • January 22 – France and West Germany sign the Élysée Treaty. • January 25 – A large annular solar eclipse covers 99.5% of the Sun and a narrow path (at most 19.6 km (12.2 mi)). It is visible in Chile, Argentina, South Africa and Madagascar, and is the 26th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 140. Gamma has a value of -0.48984. • January 26 – The Australia Day shootings rock Perth; 2 people are shot dead and 3 others injured by Eric Edgar Cooke. • January 29 – French President Charles de Gaulle vetoes the United Kingdom's entry into the European Common Market. FebruaryFebruary 5 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the basic tenets of European Union law. • February 8 – Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration. • February 10 – Five Japanese cities located on the northernmost part of Kyūshū are merged and become the city of Kitakyūshū, with a population of more than 1 million. • February 12Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing all 43 aboard. • February 14Harold Wilson becomes leader of the opposition Labour Party in the United Kingdom; in October 1964 he becomes prime minister. • February 21 – The 5.6 Marj earthquake affects northern Libya with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing 290–375 deaths and 375–500 injuries. • February 27Juan Bosch takes office as the 41st president of the Dominican Republic. MarchMarch 4 – In Paris, six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle pardons five, but the other conspirator, Jean Bastien-Thiry, is executed by firing squad several days later. • March 5 – Country music star Patsy Cline is killed in a plane crash along with country performers Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and manager Randy Hughes, during a flight from Kansas City, Missouri, back to Nashville. • March 17Mount Agung erupts on Bali, killing approximately 1,500. • March 22 – The Beatles first album Please Please Me was released in the UK and became a huge commercial success. • March 23 – "Dansevise" by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann (music by Otto Francker, text by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 (staged in London) for Denmark. • March 28Civil rights movement: Over one hundred high school students conduct a sit-in protest in Rome, Georgia. • March 30Indigenous Australians are legally allowed to drink alcohol in New South Wales. AprilApril 6The Kingsmen record their influential cover of "Louie Louie" in Portland, Oregon, released in June. • April 7Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a socialist republic, and Josip Broz Tito is named President for Life. • April 8 – The 35th Academy Awards ceremony is held. Lawrence of Arabia wins Best Picture. • April 10 – The U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sinks east of Cape Cod; all 129 aboard (112 crewmen plus yard personnel) die. • April 11Pope John XXIII issues his final encyclical, Pacem in terris, entitled On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity and Liberty, the first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will", rather than to Roman Catholics only. • April 12 – The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish Straits. Although severely damaged, both vessels make it to port. • April 14 – The Institute of Mental Health (Belgrade) is established. • April 16Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his "Letter from Birmingham Jail". • April 20 – In Quebec, Canada, members of the terrorist group Front de libération du Québec bomb a Canadian Army recruitment center, killing night watchman Wilfred V. O'Neill. • April 2123 – The first election of the Supreme Institution of the Baháʼí Faith (known as the Universal House of Justice, whose seat is at the Baháʼí World Centre on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel) is held. • April 22Lester Bowles Pearson becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Canada. • April 281963 general election is held in Italy. • April 29Buddy Rogers becomes the first WWWF Champion. MayMay 1The Coca-Cola Company introduces its first diet drink, Tab cola. • May 2Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3-stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than (the only sounding rocket developed in Germany). • May 4 – The Le Monde Theater fire in Dioirbel, Senegal, kills 64 people. • May 8Huế Phật Đản shootings: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam opens fire on Buddhists who defy a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, the birthday of Gautama Buddha, killing 9. Earlier, President Ngô Đình Diệm allowed the flying of the Vatican flag in honour of his brother, Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục, triggering the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam. • May 13 – A smallpox outbreak hits Stockholm, Sweden, lasting until July. • May 14 – Kuwait becomes the 111th member of the United Nations. • May 15Project Mercury: NASA launches Gordon Cooper on Mercury-Atlas 9, the last Mercury mission (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb tells Congress the program is complete). • May 22A.C. Milan beats Benfica 2–1 at Wembley Stadium, London and wins the 1962–63 European Cup (football). • May 23Fidel Castro visits the Soviet Union. • May 25 – The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. JuneJune 3Huế chemical attacks: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam rains liquid chemicals on the heads of Buddhist protestors, injuring 67 people. The United States threatens to cut off aid to the regime of Ngô Đình Diệm. • June 4 – President of the United States John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order 11110, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to continue issuing silver certificates. • June 5 – The first annual National Hockey League Entry Draft is held in Montreal, Canada. • June 11 – In Saigon, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức commits self-immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists by Ngô Đình Diệm’s government. • June 12 – Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers is assassinated by white supremacist Byron De La BeckwithJune 13 • The cancellation of Mercury-Atlas 10 effectively ends the United States' crewed spaceflight Project Mercury. • The New York Commodity Exchange begins trading silver futures contracts. • June 15 – The AC Cobra makes its first appearance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It will go on to win its class the following year. • June 16Vostok 6 carries Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman into space. • June 17 – In Abington School District v. Schempp, the US Supreme Court ruled that compulsory prayer and Bible-reading violated the First Amendment. • June 19Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, returns to Earth, landing in the Soviet Union. • June 20 • Establishment of the Moscow–Washington hotline (officially, the Direct Communications Link or DCL; unofficially, the "red telephone"; and in fact a teleprinter link) is authorized by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva by representatives of the Soviet Union and the United States. • Swedish Air Force Colonel Stig Wennerström is arrested as a spy for the Soviet Union. • War film The Great Escape (starring Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough) is premiered in London. • June 21Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds Pope John XXIII as the 262nd pope. • June 26John F. Kennedy gives his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin, Germany. • David Ben-Gurion is replaced by Levi Eshkol as prime minister of Israel. JulyJuly 1ZIP codes are introduced by the United States Postal Service. • July 5 – Diplomatic relations between the Israeli and the Japanese governments are raised to embassy level. • July 7Double Seven Day scuffle: Secret police loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, attack American journalists including Peter Arnett and David Halberstam at a demonstration during the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam. • July 11 – South Africa: police raid Liliesleaf Farm to the north of Johannesburg, arresting a group of African National Congress leaders. • July 19 – American test pilot Joe Walker, flying the X-15, reaches an altitude of 65.8 miles (105.9 kilometers), making it a sub-orbital spaceflight by recognized international standards. • July 26 • An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,800 dead. • NASA launches Syncom 2, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite. • July 30 – The Soviet newspaper Izvestia reports that British diplomat and double agent Kim Philby has been given asylum in Moscow. AugustAugust 5 – The United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. • August 8 – The Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire, England. • August 14 – A huge and devastating forest fire hits the region around Paraná State, Brazil. According to government documents, two million hectares (4.94 million acres) are lost to burning and 110 persons perished. • August 15Trois Glorieuses: President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of Congo after a three-day uprising in the capital, Brazzaville. • August 15- King of Prussia Mall opens to the public in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area and is one of the top ten largest malls in the U.S.August 21Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, vandalise Buddhist pagodas across South Vietnam, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead. In the wake of the raids, the Kennedy administration by Cable 243 orders the United States Embassy, Saigon to explore alternative leadership in the country, opening the way towards a coup against Diệm. • August 22 – American test pilot Joe Walker again achieves a sub-orbital spaceflight according to international standards, this time by piloting the X-15 to an altitude of 67.0 miles (107.8 kilometers). • August 24 – First games played in the Bundesliga, the primary professional Association football league in West Germany, replacing the Oberliga. • August 28Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is, at that point, the single largest protest in American history. • August 28 – Philips introduces the Compact Cassette primarily for dictation and voice recording purposes. By 1965, hardware improvements eventually allow for it to reliably function as a music format. • August 30 – The Moscow–Washington hotline (a direct teleprinter link) is inaugurated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy. SeptemberSeptember 1Establishment of language areas and facilities in Belgium comes into effect. This will become the foundation for further state reform in Belgium. • September 6 – The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded. • September 10Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is indicted for murder (he is captured 43 years later, on April 11, 2006). • September 15American civil rights movement: The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, in Birmingham, Alabama, kills 4 and injures 22. • September 16Malaysia is formed through the merging of the Federation of Malaya and the British crown colony of Singapore, North Borneo (renamed Sabah) and Sarawak. • September 18 – Rioters burn down the British Embassy in Jakarta, to protest the formation of Malaysia. • September 19Iota Phi Theta fraternity is founded at Morgan State College in Baltimore, MarylandSeptember 23King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals is established by a Saudi Royal Decree as the College of Petroleum and Minerals. • September 24 – The United States Senate ratifies the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. • September 25 – In the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch is deposed by a coup d'état led by the military with civilian support. • September 29 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council in Rome opens. OctoberOctober 1 • U.S. President John F. Kennedy toasts Emperor Haile Selassie at a luncheon in Rockville, Maryland. • Construction company GK Međimurje, one of the largest Croatian construction and civil engineering companies (with more than 8,000 employees in 1980s), founded in Čakovec. • October 2Nigeria becomes a republic; The 1st Republican Constitution is established. • The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in the United States issues its final reports to President Kennedy. • October 31963 Honduran coup d'état: A violent coup in Honduras pre-empts the October 13 election, ends a period of reform under President Ramón Villeda Morales and begins two decades of military rule under General Oswaldo López Arellano. • October 4Hurricane Flora, one of the worst Atlantic storms in history, hits Hispaniola and Cuba, killing nearly 7,000 people. • October 7Buddhist crisis: Amid worsening relations, outspoken South Vietnamese First Lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu arrives in the US for a speaking tour, continuing a flurry of attacks on the Kennedy administration. • October 9 – In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it. • October 10Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, signed on August 5, takes effect. • October 19Alec Douglas-Home succeeds Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. • October 24 – Fire at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome in an R-9 Desna underground missile silo; seven people are killed. • October 30 – The car manufacturing firm Lamborghini is founded in Italy. • October 311963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion: 81 die in a gas explosion during a Holiday on Ice show at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis, United States. NovemberNovember 1Arecibo Observatory, a radio telescope, officially begins operation in Puerto Rico. • November 21963 South Vietnamese coup: Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese President. • November 61963 South Vietnamese coup: Coup leader General Dương Văn Minh takes over as leader of South Vietnam. • November 7 • 11 German miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days in what becomes known as the "Wunder von Lengede" ("miracle of Lengede"). • The star-studded movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World premieres in Los Angeles. • November 8Finnair aircraft OH-LCA crashes before landing at Mariehamn Airport on Åland. • November 9 – Two disasters in Japan: • Miike coal mine explosion: A coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital. • Tsurumi rail accident: A triple train disaster in Yokohama kills 161. • November 10Malcolm X makes a historic speech in Detroit, Michigan ("Message to the Grass Roots"). • November 14 – A volcanic eruption under the sea near Iceland creates a new island, Surtsey. • November 22Assassination of John F. Kennedy: In a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, U.S. President John F. Kennedy is fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, and Governor of Texas John Connally is seriously wounded at 12:30 CST. Upon Kennedy's death, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th president of the United States. A few hours later, President Johnson is sworn in aboard Air Force One, as Kennedy's body is flown back to Washington, D.C. Stores and businesses shut down for the next four days, in tribute. • November 23 • The Golden Age Nursing Home fire kills 63 elderly people near Fitchville, Ohio, United States. • The long-running sci-fi television series Doctor Who premieres on BBC TV in the United Kingdom. • November 24Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas, an event seen on live national television. • Vietnam War: New U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically. • November 25State funeral of John F. Kennedy: President Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Schools around the nation cancel classes that day; millions watch the funeral on live international television. Lee Harvey Oswald's funeral takes place on the same day. • November 29 • U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. • Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all 118 on board, the worst air disaster for many years in Canada's history. • Foundation stone for Mirzapur Cadet College is laid in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). • November 301963 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority to an unprecedented eighth term in office, defeating the Labor Party led by Arthur Calwell. (This would be the final lower house election won by Menzies, who would retire from office during the term as the longest-serving Prime Minister in Australian history; he would be replaced by Harold Holt.) DecemberDecember 3 – The Warren Commission begins its investigation into the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. • December 4 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council closes. • December 5 – The Seliger Forschungs-und-Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH demonstrates rockets for military use to military representatives of non-NATO-countries near Cuxhaven. Although these rockets land via parachute at the end of their flight and no allied laws are violated, the Soviet Union protests this action. • December 7 – The first instant replay system to use videotape instead of film is used by Tony Verna, a CBS-TV director, during a live televised sporting event, the Army–Navy Game of college football played in Philadelphia, United States. • December 8 – A lightning strike causes the crash of Pan Am Flight 214 near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing 81 people. • December 10Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom, as a constitutional monarchy under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah. • Chuck Yeager narrowly escapes death while testing an NF-104A rocket-augmented aerospace trainer when his aircraft goes out of control at 108,700 feet (nearly 21 miles up) and crashes. He parachutes to safety at 8,500 feet after vainly battling to gain control of the powerless, rapidly falling craft. In this incident he becomes the first pilot to make an emergency ejection in the full pressure suit needed for high altitude flights. • December 12Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister. • December 20 – The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials begin. • December 21Cyprus Emergency: Inter-communal fighting erupts between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. • December 22 – The cruise ship TSMS Lakonia burns north of Madeira, with the loss of 128 lives. • December 25İsmet İnönü of the Republican People's Party (CHP) forms the new government of Turkey (28th government, coalition partners; independents, İnönü has served ten times as a prime minister, this is his last government). • December 31Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolves. Date unknownDavid H. Frisch and J.H. Smith prove that the radioactive decay of mesons is slowed by their motion (see Einstein's special relativity and general relativity). • The TAT-3 transatlantic communications cable goes into operation. • Ivan Sutherland writes the revolutionary Sketchpad program and runs it on the Lincoln TX-2 computer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. • Slavery in Dubai is abolished. • The IEEE Computer Society is founded. • Harvey Ball invents the ubiquitous smiley face symbol. • The classic Porsche 911 is first produced. ==Births==
Births
JanuaryJanuary 4Dave Foley, Canadian actor and comedian • Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein) • January 5Jiang Wen, Chinese actor, film director and screenwriter • January 6Paul Kipkoech, Kenyan long-distance runner (d. 1995) • January 10Kira Ivanova, Soviet Russian figure skater (d. 2001) • January 11Petra Schneider, East German swimmer • January 14Steven Soderbergh, American film director • January 15Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, cyber security expert and writer • January 16Simon Johnson, English-born economist • James May, English motoring journalist and television show host • January 17Kai Hansen, German power metal guitarist and singer • January 21Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian basketball player • January 23Gail O'Grady, American actress • January 25Fernando Haddad, Brazilian academic and politician • January 26José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager • Andrew Ridgeley, English pop musician February February 2Eva Cassidy, American vocalist (d. 1996) • February 3Gretel Killeen, Australian journalist • February 4Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier • February 6David Capel, English cricketer (d. 2020) • Cláudia Ohana, Brazilian actress and singer • February 12John Michael Higgins, American actor and voice actor • February 14Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor and director • Alex Perry, Australian fashion designer • February 15Shoucheng Zhang, Chinese-American physicist (d. 2018) • February 16Claudio Amendola, Italian actor, television presenter and director • February 17Michael Jordan, American basketball player • Jensen Huang, Taiwanese-American businessman, electrical engineer and philanthropist, co-founder of NVIDIALarry the Cable Guy, American actor and comedian • February 18Rob Andrew, English rugby union player • February 19Seal, English soul singer • February 20Charles Barkley, American basketball player • Jon Christensen (politician), American politician and member of the US House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999 • February 21William Baldwin, American actor, producer and writer • February 22Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer • February 25Merab Katsitadze, retired Georgian professional football player • February 26François Gagnon, Canadian sports journalist • February 27Virginie Boutaud, Brazilian singer and actress (Metrô, Virginie & Fruto Proibido) MarchMarch 1Thomas Anders, German singer • Aydan Şener, Turkish actress, model and beauty pageant • March 2Anthony Albanese, 31st Prime Minister of AustraliaTuff Hedeman, American PRCA World Champion Bull Rider • March 3Martín Fiz, Spanish long-distance runner • March 4Jason Newsted, American bassist • March 5Joel Osteen, American businessman and television evangelist • March 8Juan Gilberto Funes, Argentine footballer (d. 1992) • March 9Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter (d. 2021) • March 10Rick Rubin, American music producer • Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Italian politician • March 11Azem Hajdari, Albanian student leader (d. 1998) • Alex Kingston, English actress • David LaChapelle, American photographer • March 12Farahnaz Pahlavi, Iranian princess • Jake Weber, British actor • Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner • March 13Fito Páez, Argentine rock musician • March 14Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer • March 15Bret Michaels, American rock singer (Poison) • March 16Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002) • March 17Alex Fong, Hong Kong actor • March 18Vanessa Williams, American beauty queen, actress and singer • March 20Kathy Ireland, American actress and model • David Thewlis, British actor • March 21Ronald Koeman, Dutch football player and manager • March 22Marty Natalegawa, Indonesian diplomat • Ana Fidelia Quirot, Cuban middle-distance runner • Martín Vizcarra, Peruvian engineer and politician, 67th President of PeruMarch 23Jose Miguel Gonzalez Martin del Campo, Spanish football player • March 25Auxillia Mnangagwa, Zimbabwean politician and First Lady of ZimbabweMarch 27Dave Koz, American jazz musician • Quentin Tarantino, American actor, director, writer and producer • Xuxa, Brazilian television personality • March 28Bernice King, American activist, lawyer and minister • March 30Panagiotis Tsalouchidis, Greek footballer • March 31Stephen Tataw, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2020) AprilApril 3Sarah Woodward, English actress • April 4Siraj Raisani, Pakistani politician (d. 2018) • Dale Hawerchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2020) • Graham Norton, Irish comedian and talk show host • Frank Yallop, Canadian soccer player and coach • April 6Rafael Correa, President of EcuadorApril 8Dean Norris, American actor • April 9Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer • Erdal Tosun, Turkish actor (d. 2016) • April 10Jean-Luc Bourgeaux, French politician • Angela Hohmann, German politician • Doris Leuthard, Swiss politician and lawyer • April 11Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Nigerian-born British biophysicist and virologist (d. 2021) • April 13Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player • April 15Beata Szydło, Prime Minister of PolandDiosdado Cabello, Venezuelan politician • Raul Villanueva, Filipino associate justice of the Supreme Court • April 16Jimmy Osmond, American pop singer • April 18Universo 2000, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 2018) • Mike Mangini, American drummer • Eric McCormack, Canadian actor • Conan O'Brien, American television entertainer and talk show host • April 21Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor • April 22Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Spanish ski racer (d. 2019) • April 23Mohammad Ali Ramazani Dastak, Iranian politician (d. 2020) • April 24Tõnu Trubetsky, Estonian punk rock musician • April 26Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor • April 27Russell T Davies, Welsh television producer and writer • April 28Jim Aldred, Canadian ice hockey coach and player • April 29Mike Babcock, Canadian ice hockey coach • April 30Michael Waltrip, American race car driver and sportscaster MayMay 8Anthony Field, Australian singer, musician and actor (The Wiggles) • May 9Gary Daniels, British martial artist and actor • May 10Rich Moore, American film and television animation director, screenwriter and voice actor • Lisa Nowak, American naval flight officer and NASA astronaut • May 11Natasha Richardson, British-American actress (d. 2009) • May 16Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician • May 21Kevin Shields, Irish-American singer (My Bloody Valentine) • May 24Michael Chabon, American fiction writer • Joe Dumars, American basketball player • May 25Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian • Eha Rünne, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower • May 26Clive Cowdery, English insurance entrepreneur • Musetta Vander, South African actress • Phil Pavlov, American politician and member of the Michigan Legislature from 2005 to 2018 • May 29Débora Bloch, Brazilian actress • May 31Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary JuneJune 2Bernard Cazeneuve, Prime Minister of FranceJune 3Alessandra Karpoff, Italian voice actress • Andrée Taurinya, French politician • June 4Sean Fitzpatrick, New Zealand rugby union player • June 5Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer • June 6Jason Isaacs, British actor • June 9Johnny Depp, American actor and film director • June 10Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress • June 12Warwick Capper, Australian rules footballer • T. B. Joshua, Nigerian Christian leader (d. 2021) • June 13Bettina Bunge, German tennis player • June 14Rambo Amadeus, Montenegrin singer-songwriter • June 15Helen Hunt, American actress • Lourdes Valera, Venezuelan actress • June 17Greg Kinnear, American actor • June 18Rumen Radev, President of BulgariaJune 19Laura Ingraham, American television host • June 21Tiger Huang, Taiwanese popular singer • Jan Pinkava, Czech director and writer • June 22Randy Couture, American mixed martial arts fighter and actor • Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler • John Tenta, Canadian wrestler (d. 2006) • June 23Marianne Berglund, Swedish road racing cyclist • Shin Ji-ho, South Korean politician • Liu Cixin, Chinese science fiction writer • Márcio França, Brazilian lawyer and politician • Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer • June 24Sükhbaataryn Batbold, Mongolian politician • June 25Yann Martel, Canadian novelist • George Michael, British singer-songwriter (d. 2016) • June 26Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman, activist and oligarch • Farukh Ruzimatov, Russian ballet dancer • June 28Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director and screenwriter • June 29Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist • Rupert Graves, English actor • Judith Hoag, American actress • June 30Vladimir Vermezović, Serbian football player and coach • Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist JulyJuly 1Naser Khader, Danish-Syrian politician • Igor Zhelezovski, Belarusian speed skater • Zhang Zhicheng, Chinese fencer • Roddy Bottum, American musician, keyboardist for the band Faith No MoreJuly 2Faiq Al Sheikh Ali, Iraqi lawyer and politician • July 3Zainudin Nordin, Singaporean politician • July 4Henri Leconte, French tennis player • R.S. Thanenthiran, Malaysian politician and businessman • July 5Edie Falco, American actress • Zbigniew Hoffmann, Polish politician • July 6Sorin Matei, Romanian high jumper • July 7Vonda Shepard, American pop/rock singer-songwriter and actress • Fermín Alvarado Arroyo, Mexican politician • Janni Larsen, Danish female darts player • Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Indian filmmaker and screenwriter • July 8Michael Cuesta, American film and television director • Luis de Jesús Rodríguez, Dominican attorney, businessman and entrepreneur • Dmitry Pevtsov, Russian actor • July 10Fatemeh Goudarzi, Iranian actress • Ian Lougher, British motorcycle racer • July 11Al MacInnis, Canadian ice hockey player • Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban politician; Prime Minister of CubaLisa Rinna, American actress • July 12Bertus Servaas, Polish entrepreneur • Aleksandr Domogarov, Russian actor • Andrés Roemer, Mexican diplomat • July 13Kenny Johnson, American actor, producer and model • Spud Webb, American basketball player • July 14Wouter Bos, Dutch politician • July 15Brigitte Nielsen, Danish actress • July 16Phoebe Cates, American actress • Mikael Pernfors, Swedish tennis player • Srečko Katanec, Slovenian football manager and player • July 17Suha Arafat, widow of Yasser Arafat • King Letsie III of LesothoMatti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper (d. 2019) • July 18Martín Torrijos, President of PanamaJuly 19Sándor Wladár, Hungarian swimmer • July 20Alexander Zhulin, Russian ice dancing coach and competitor • Gbenga Aluko, Nigerian politician • Roy Cheung, Hong Kong actor • July 21Giant Silva, Brazilian national basketball player, mixed martial artist and professional wrestler • July 22Joanna Going, American actress • Emilio Butragueño, Spanish football player • July 23Slobodan Živojinović, Serbian tennis player • July 24Karl Malone, American professional basketball player • July 27Donnie Yen, Hong Kong actor and martial artist • July 28Beverley Craven, British singer-songwriter • July 29Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator • Alexandra Paul, American actress, activist and health coach, previously model • July 30Lisa Kudrow, American actress • Antoni Martí, prime minister of Andorra (d. 2023) • Chris Mullin, American basketball player, coach and executive • Gisèle Meygret, French fencer (d. 1999) • Mandakini, Indian Bollywood actress • July 31Fatboy Slim, English DJ, musician and record producer • Martin H. Wiggers, German economist, editor, author and businessman AugustAugust 1Coolio, American rapper (d. 2022) • Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor • John Carroll Lynch, American actor and film director • August 3Tasmin Archer, English singer • James Hetfield, American heavy metal guitarist (Metallica) • August 5Mark Strong, English actor • Doris Schröder-Köpf, German journalist • August 6Jennifer Blakeman, American keyboardist (Private Life) • Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker (d. 2023) • August 7Harold Perrineau, American actor • August 8Emi Shinohara, Japanese voice actress and singer (d. 2024) • Rika Fukami, Japanese voice actress and singer • August 9Whitney Houston, American singer (d. 2012) • August 13Sridevi, Indian actress (d. 2018) • Édouard Michelin, French businessman (d. 2006) • Valerie Plame, American writer and spy novelist • August 14Emmanuelle Béart, French actress • August 15Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter • Valery Levaneuski, entrepreneur, politician and political prisoner • August 16Christine Cavanaugh, American actress and voice actress (d. 2014) • August 18Heino Ferch, German actor • August 19Marcos Palmeira, Brazilian actor • John Stamos, American actor • Joey Tempest, Swedish singer (Europe) • August 21 • King Mohammed VI of MoroccoAugust 22Tori Amos, American singer • August 23Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player • Laura Flores, Mexican actress, hostess and singer • Park Chan-wook, South Korean film director and screenwriter • Glória Pires, Brazilian actress • August 24Hideo Kojima, Japanese director, screenwriter, video game designer and video game producer • Kiko Pangilinan, Filipino lawyer and politician • August 25Miro Cerar, 10th Prime Minister of SloveniaAugust 26Liu Huan, Chinese singer • August 27Nguyễn Phương Nga, Vietnamese diplomat • August 30Michael Chiklis, American actor • Phil Mills, Welsh racing driver • August 31Todd Carty, British-Irish actor SeptemberSeptember 6Betsy Russell, American actress • Geert Wilders, Dutch politician and critic of IslamSeptember 8Li Ning, Chinese gymnast • September 9Markus Wasmeier, German alpine-skier • Chris Coons, US Senator • September 10Randy Johnson, American baseball player • Gabriel Tiacoh, Ivorian sprinter (d. 1992) • September 11Gabriela Goldsmith, Mexican actress • September 12Michael McElhatton, Irish actor and writer • September 14Robert Herjavec, Canadian businessman, investor and television personality • September 16Andréa Beltrão, Brazilian actress • Richard Marx, American pop/rock singer • September 17Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler • September 18Christopher Heyerdahl, Canadian actor • John Powell, English-American composer, conductor, pianist and record producer • Dan Povenmire, American animator, producer and voice actor • September 19Jarvis Cocker, English rock musician (Pulp) • David Seaman, English football goalkeeper • September 21Cecil Fielder, American baseball player • Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor • Mamoru Samuragochi, Japanese impostor • September 23Michiru Yamane, Japanese composer • September 25Tate Donovan, American actor and director • September 29Dave Andreychuk, Canadian hockey player • Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus) OctoberOctober 1Mark McGwire, American baseball player • Iriana Joko Widodo, 7th First Lady of Indonesia, wife of Joko WidodoOctober 2Maria Ressa, Filipina American campaigning journalist, Nobel Prize laureate • October 4Marcelo Buquet, Uruguayan-Mexican actor, previously model • October 5 –Dame Laura Davies, English golfer • October 6Elisabeth Shue, American actress • October 10Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003) • Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002) • Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer • Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian cross-country skier • October 11Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer • October 12Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director (d. 2010) • October 13Ha Seung Moo, Korean poet and theologian • October 14Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer • October 19Elsa Castillo, Venezuelan teacher and trade unionist • Prince Laurent of BelgiumSinitta, Anglo-American singer • October 20Domingos Simões Pereira, 16th Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau • Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut and Governor General of CanadaOctober 21Marisa Orth, Brazilian actress, singer and TV host • October 22Brian Boitano, American figure skater • October 23Gordon Korman, Canadian-American children's and young adult author • Wilson Yip, Hong Kong actor and director • October 25John Levén, Swedish bassist (Europe) • October 26Tom Cavanagh, Canadian actor and director • Natalie Merchant, American singer-songwriter • October 27Sergey Smiryagin, Russian freestyle swimmer (d. 2020) • Feyyaz Uçar, Turkish footballer • Farin Urlaub, German singer, band • Marla Maples, American actress and television personality • October 28Lauren Holly, American actress • October 31Dunga, Brazilian footballer • Johnny Marr, English alternative rock musician • Dermot Mulroney, American actor • Rob Schneider, American actor, comedian and film director NovemberNovember 1Rick Allen, British rock drummer (Def Leppard) • Mark Hughes, Welsh football player & manager • Katja Riemann, German actress • November 2Brian Kemp, American politician, 83rd Governor of GeorgiaCraig Saavedra, American filmmaker • Borut Pahor, President of SloveniaNovember 4Lena Zavaroni, Scottish entertainer (d. 1999) • November 5Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author • November 7John Barnes, Jamaican-born English footballer • November 10Hugh Bonneville, British actor • Mike Powell, American long jumper • November 11Billy Gunn, American professional wrestler • November 15Benny Elias, Australian rugby league player • November 18Peter Schmeichel, Danish-born football goalkeeper • November 19Terry Farrell, American actress • November 20Ming-Na Wen, Macanese-American actress • November 21Nicollette Sheridan, English actress • November 23Erika Buenfil, Mexican actress, TV host and singer • November 25Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer DecemberDecember 2Ann Patchett, American novelist • December 4Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter • December 7Mark Bowen, Welsh footballer • December 8Greg Howe, American guitarist • Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese professional wrestler • Lee Jae-myung, president of South Korea • December 9Empress Masako, Japanese consort of Emperor NaruhitoBárbara Palacios, Miss Universe 1986December 12Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress • December 13Uwe-Jens Mey, German speed skater • Jake White, South African rugby coach • December 14Cynthia Gibb, American actress • Vytautas Juozapaitis, Lithuanian baritone, professor and television host • December 15Helen Slater, American actress and singer- songwriter • December 16Benjamin Bratt, American actor • Jeff Carson, American singer • Bärbel Schäfer, German television presenter and talk show host • December 18Pauline Ester, French singer • Rikiya Koyama, Japanese voice actor • Charles Oakley, American basketball player • Brad Pitt, American actor and film producer, co-founder of Plan B EntertainmentDecember 19Jennifer Beals, American actress • Til Schweiger, German actor • December 20Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo, Spanish princess • Iqbal Theba, Pakistani actor • December 21Donovan Ruddock, Jamaican Canadian professional boxer • Govinda Ahuja, Indian actor and politician • Jacques Simonet, Belgian politician (d. 2007) • December 22Vladimir Flórez, Colombian cartoonist • Bryan Gunn, Scottish footballer • Luna H. Mitani, Japanese-American Surrealist painter • December 23Donna Tartt, American novelist • December 24Caroline Aherne, English actress, comedienne and screenwriter (d. 2016) • Sanjay Mehrotra, Indian entrepreneur • December 26Lars Ulrich, Danish rock drummer (Metallica) • December 29Graciano Rocchigiani, German professional boxer (d. 2018) • Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiard player • Ulf Kristersson, 35th Prime Minister of SwedenSean Payton, American football coach • December 31Azalina Othman Said, Malaysian politician ==Deaths==
Deaths
JanuaryJanuary 2Jack Carson, Canadian actor (b. 1910) • Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904) • January 3Shinobu Ishihara, Japanese ophthalmologist (b. 1879) • January 5Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (b. 1896) • Erik Strandmark, Swedish film actor (b. 1919) • January 6Frank Tuttle, American film director (b. 1892) • January 7Erik Lundqvist, Swedish athlete (b. 1908) • January 9Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-born American aerospace engineer and aviation pioneer (b. 1888) • January 10Franz Planer, Austrian film cinematographer (b. 1894) • January 13Sonny Clark, American jazz pianist (b. 1931) • Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese politician, 1st President of Togo (assassinated) (b. 1902) • Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish writer (b. 1888) • January 14Hugh Greer, American basketball coach (b. 1904) • Gustav Regler, German socialist novelist (b. 1898) • January 15Cesare Fantoni, Italian actor and voice actor (b. 1905) • January 18Hugh Gaitskell, British politician, leader of the Labour Party (b. 1906) • January 20Fyodor Terentyev, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1925) • Avra Theodoropoulou, Greek suffragist (b. 1880) • January 21Al St. John, American actor (b. 1892) • January 23Mohammad Ali Bogra, Pakistani statesman, politician and diplomat, 3rd Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1909) • Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist (b. 1908) • January 24Otto Harbach, American lyricist and librettist (b. 1873) • Kenneth Western, part of The Western Brothers (b. 1899) • January 25Marion Sunshine, American actress (b. 1894) • January 26Hans Kopfermann, German physicist (b. 1895) • Ole Olsen, American actor (b. 1892) • January 27John Farrow, Australian-born American film director (b. 1904) • January 29Anthony Coldeway, American screenwriter (b. 1887) • Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874) • Lee Meadows, American baseball player (b. 1894) • Isaías de Noronha, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1873) • January 30Jane Gail, American silent movie and stage actress (b. 1890) • Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899) • January 31Alasgar Alakbarov, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1910) FebruaryFebruary 1Louis D. Lighton, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1895) • Wyndham Standing, English actor (b. 1880) • February 2William Gaxton, American vaudeville, film and theatre performer (b. 1893) • February 6Abd el-Krim, Riffian political and military leader (b. 1882) • Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (b. 1933) • February 8George Dolenz, American actor (b. 1908) • February 9Abd al-Karim Qasim, Iraqi general, 24th Prime Minister of Iraq (executed) (b. 1914) • February 11Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (b. 1932) • February 15Edgardo Donato, Uruguayan tango composer and orchestra leader (b. 1897) • Louis J. Gasnier, French film director (b. 1875) • Bump Hadley, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1904) • February 16Else Jarlbak, Danish film actress (b. 1911) • László Lajtha, Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor (b. 1892) • February 17Mijo Mirković, Croatian economist and author (b. 1898) • February 18Monte Blue, American actor (b. 1887) • Beppe Fenoglio, Italian fiction writer and partisan (b. 1887) • Fernando Tambroni, Italian politician and 36th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1901) • Tokugawa Iemasa, Japanese politician, 17th head of the Tokugawa shogunate (b. 1884) • Zareh I, Armenian Catholicos of Cilicia (b. 1915) • February 19Benny Moré, Cuban singer (b. 1919) • February 20Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914) • Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer (b. 1879) • Bill Hinchman, American baseball player (b. 1883) • February 22Arthur Guy Empey, American soldier (in British service), author, screenwriter and actor (b. 1883) • February 25Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist (b. 1895) • February 28Rajendra Prasad, Indian politician, 1st President of India (b. 1884) • Eppa Rixey, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891) MarchMarch 1Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893) • March 4William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883) • March 5Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932) • Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913) • Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b. 1921) • Ludde Gentzel, Swedish film actor (b. 1885) • Cyril Smith, Scottish actor (b. 1892) • Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Egyptian intellectual and anti-colonial activist (b. 1872) • March 6Robert E. Cornish, scientist (b. 1903) • March 7Joachim Holst-Jensen, Norwegian film actor (b. 1880) • March 11Ignat Bednarik, Romanian painter (b. 1882) • Joe Judge, American baseball player (b. 1894) • March 15Victor Feguer, convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1935) • March 16Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (b. 1883) • William Beveridge, British economist (b. 1879) • March 17Thomas Lennon, screenwriter (b. 1896) • Lizzie Miles, American blues singer (b. 1895) • March 18Sir Hubert Gough, British general (b. 1870) • Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895) • March 20Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt, Cuban Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1879) • March 21Felice Minotti, Italian film actor (b. 1887) • March 22Cilly Aussem, German tennis champion (b. 1909) • Abraham Ellstein, American composer (b. 1907) • Mihály Székely, Hungarian bass singer (b. 1901) • March 23Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1887) • March 25Felix Adler, American screenwriter (b. 1884) • March 27Harry Piel, German actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1892) • March 28Antoine Balpêtré, French film actor (b. 1898) • Frank J. Marion, American motion picture pioneer (b. 1869) • March 31Harry Akst, American songwriter (b. 1894) • Sir Harold Franklyn, British army general (b. 1885) AprilApril 1Agnes Mowinckel, Norwegian actress and stage producer (b. 1875) • April 3Alma Richards, American athlete (b. 1890) • April 4Gaetano Catanoso, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1879) • Jason Robards Sr., American stage and screen actor (b. 1892) • Oskari Tokoi, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (b. 1873) • April 5Mario Fabrizi, English comedian and actor (b. 1924) • Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole, Samoan politician (b. 1905) • April 6Otto Struve, Russian–born American astronomer (b. 1897) • April 7Amedeo Maiuri, Italian archaeologist (b. 1886) • April 8Irena Káňová, Slovak politician (b. 1893) • April 9Benno Moiseiwitsch, Jewish-Ukrainian pianist (b. 1890) • Xul Solar, Argentine painter, sculptor and writer (b. 1887) • April 11Nando Bruno, Italian film actor (b. 1895) • April 12Nicolette Bruining, Dutch theologian and humanitarian (b. 1886) • Felix Manalo, 1st Executive Minister, Iglesia ni Cristo (b. 1886) • Herbie Nichols, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1919) • April 14Abdel Messih El-Makari, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk, priest and saint (b. 1892) • Arthur Jonath, German Olympic athlete (b. 1909) • Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian, writer and scholar (b. 1893) • April 23Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Israel historian and politician, 2nd President of Israel (b. 1884) • Ferruccio Cerio, Italian film writer and director (b. 1904) • Paul Fejos, Hungarian film director (b. 1897) • Harry Harper, American baseball player (b. 1895) • Don C. Harvey, American television and film actor (b. 1911) • Frederick Peters, American film actor (b. 1884) • William Lewis Moore, American postal worker (b. 1927) • April 24Rino Corso Fougier, Italian air force general (b. 1894) • Leonid Lukov, Soviet film director and screenwriter (b. 1909) • April 26Roland Pertwee, English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor (b. 1885) • April 27Kenneth Macgowan, American film producer (b. 1888) • April 30Giovanni Grasso, Italian film actor (b. 1888) • William C. Mellor, American cinematographer (b. 1903) • Bryant Washburn, American film actor (b. 1889) MayMay 1Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, Father of Philippine National Language and Grammar (b. 1879) • May 2Van Wyck Brooks, American literary critic and writer (b. 1886) • May 5Mohamed Khemisti, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria (assassinated) (b. 1930) • May 6Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American engineer and physicist (b. 1881) • Monty Woolley, American actor (b. 1888) • May 11Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) • May 12Robert Kerr, Canadian Olympic athlete (b. 1882) • A. W. Tozer, American Protestant pastor (b. 1897) • May 16Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet military officer & spy (b. 1919) • May 18Ernie Davis, American football player, first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy (b. 1939) • May 24Elmore James, American blues guitarist (b. 1918) • May 25Mehdi Frashëri, Albanian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1872) • May 28Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian writer, journalist, politician and priest (b. 1882) • May 29Netta Muskett, British novelist (b. 1887) • May 31Edith Hamilton, German-American classical scholar (b. 1867) JuneJune 3Pope John XXIII (b. 1881) • Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902) • June 5Adrian Carton de Wiart, English general (b. 1880) • June 6William Baziotes, American painter (b. 1912) • June 7ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894) • June 9Jacques Villon, French painter (b. 1875) • June 10Anita King, American actress and race-car driver (b. 1884) • June 11Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese Buddhist monk (suicide) (b. 1897) • Syed Abdul Rahim, First Indian national football manager (b. 1909) • Alfred V. Kidder, American archaeologist (b. 1885) • June 12Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925) • Andrew Cunningham, British admiral (b. 1883) • June 17Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, British Field Marshal (b. 1883) • John Cowper Powys, British novelist (b. 1872) • June 18Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912) • June 24Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala, Mexican Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (b. 1878) • June 27John Maurice Clark, American economist (b. 1884) • June 28Frank Baker, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1886) JulyJuly 1 – Sultan Abdullah bin Khalifa of Zanzibar (b. 1910) • July 4Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, British army general and Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889) • July 6George, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899) • July 7Frank P. Lahm, American aviator (b. 1877) • July 10Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, Egyptian filmmaker (b. 1919) • July 22Albertus Soegijapranata, Indonesian Jesuit priest (b. 1896) • July 27Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877) AugustAugust 1Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908) • August 4Tom Keene, American actor (b. 1896) • August 9Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, infant son of president John F. Kennedy (b. 1963) • August 10Estes Kefauver, American politician (b. 1903) • August 11Clem Bevans, American actor (b. 1880) • Tanxu, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 1875) • August 14Clifford Odets, American dramatist (b. 1906) • August 15, Eddie Lee Mays (executed) (b. 1929) • August 17Richard Barthelmess, American actor (b. 1895) • August 22William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1877) • August 23Mary Gordon, Scottish actress (b. 1882) • Larry Keating, American actor (b. 1899) • August 24James Kirkwood, Sr., American film director (b. 1875) • August 27W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist (b. 1868) • Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Indian founder of the Khaksar Movement (b. 1888) • August 30Guy Burgess, British spy, one of the Cambridge Five (b. 1911) • August 31Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882) SeptemberSeptember 2Tikiri Bandara Panabokke II, Ceylonese legislator, lawyer and diplomat (b. 1883) • September 3Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (b. 1907) • September 4Robert Schuman, French statesman, a founding father of the European Union (b. 1886) • September 9Edwin Linkomies, 25th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1894) • September 11Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (b. 1889) • Richard Oswald, Austrian director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1880) • September 15Oliver Wallace, English film composer (b. 1887) • September 17Sailor Malan, South African Battle of Britain fighter pilot (b. 1910) • Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1882) • September 19Sir David Low, New Zealand cartoonist (b. 1891) • September 22Bernadette Cattanéo, French trade unionist and communist activist (b. 1899) • September 25Alexander Sakharoff, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1886) • Kurt Zeitzler, German Army officer (b. 1895) OctoberOctober 4Lloyd Fredendall, American general (b. 1883) • October 7Gustaf Gründgens, German actor (b. 1899) • October 8Grace Darmond, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1893) • October 9Friedrich, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt (b. 1938) • October 10Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (b. 1915) • October 11Jean Cocteau, French fiction writer and film director (b. 1889) • October 15Alan Goodrich Kirk, American admiral (b. 1888) • October 21Jean Decoux, French admiral, Governor-General of French Indochina (1940–1945) (b. 1884) • October 24Karl Bühler, German psychologist and linguist (b. 1879) • Beverly Wills, American actress (b. 1933) • October 25Björn Þórðarson, 9th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1879) • Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian civil engineer and "father of soil mechanics" (b. 1883) • October 29Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890) • October 30Hugh O'Flaherty, Irish Catholic priest (b. 1898) • Domhnall Ua Buachalla, Irish politician (b. 1866) • October 31Henry Daniell, English actor (b. 1894) NovemberNovember 1Hồ Tấn Quyền, South Vietnamese Navy officer (assassinated) (b. 1927) • Lê Quang Tung, South Vietnamese Army officer (assassinated) (b. 1923) • Elsa Maxwell, American gossip columnist and hostess (b. 1883) • November 2Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (assassinated) (b. 1901) • Ngô Đình Nhu, South Vietnamese politician, State Counsellor of South Vietnam (assassinated) (b. 1910) • November 4Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexican politician, substitute President of Mexico 1930–1932 (b. 1877) • November 5Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (b. 1902) • November 12José María Gatica, Argentine boxer (b. 1925) • John R. Hodge, United States Army general (b. 1893) • Georg Karo, German archaeologist (b. 1872) • November 15Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888) • November 19Carmen Amaya, Spanish dancer (b. 1918) • November 21Robert Stroud, American prisoner, known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" (b. 1890) • November 22Wilhelm Beiglböck, German Nazi physician at Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905) • Aldous Huxley, English-born novelist (Brave New World) (b. 1894) • John F. Kennedy, American politician, 35th President of the United States (assassinated) (b. 1917) • C. S. Lewis, Irish-born British critic, novelist (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Christian apologist (b. 1898) • J. D. Tippit, American police officer (b. 1924) • November 23John Baumgarten, American businessman and politician (b. 1902) • November 24Clelia Lollini, Italian physician (b. 1890) • Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of President John F. Kennedy (murdered) (b. 1939) • November 26Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian opera singer (b. 1882) • November 28Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941) • November 29Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer (b. 1896) • November 30Phil Baker, American comedian and radio personality (b. 1896) • Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall, British Air Marshal and State servant, 6th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1886) DecemberDecember 2Sabu Dastagir, Indian-American actor (b. 1924) • Thomas Hicks, American runner (b. 1875) • December 5Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905) • December 10K. M. Panikkar, Indian scholar, diplomat and journalist (b. 1895) • December 12Theodor Heuss, German politician, 5th President of Germany (b. 1884) • Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1903) • December 14Hubert Pierlot, Belgian lawyer and jurist, 32nd Prime Minister of Belgium, leader of the Belgian government in exile (b. 1883) • Dinah Washington, American jazz/blues singer (b. 1924) • December 15Rikidōzan, Korean-born Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1924) • December 21Sir Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (b. 1882) • December 25Tristan Tzara, French poet (b. 1896) • December 26Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (b. 1915) • December 28Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895) • A. J. Liebling, American journalist (b. 1904) ==Nobel Prizes==
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