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1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1925th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 925th year of the 2nd millennium, the 25th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1920s decade.

Events
JanuaryJanuary 1 – The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. • January 3Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies which will be regarded by historians as the beginning of his dictatorship. • January 5Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Fifteen days later, Miriam A. Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas. • January 25Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler. • January 27February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. Territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic. FebruaryFebruary 25Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released. • February 28 – The 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America. MarchMarch 1New York City Fire Department Rescue 2 is put in service in Brooklyn. • March 4İsmet İnönü is appointed prime minister in Turkey (Turkey's 4th and İnönü's 3rd government). • March 6Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union. • March 9May 1Pink's War: The British Royal Air Force bombards mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan. • March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teachers' College in Conway, Arkansas (the modern-day University of Central Arkansas). • March 16 – At 22:42 local time a 7.0 earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 5,000 people. • March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana. • March 21 – Ravel's opera ''L'enfant et les sortilèges'', to a libretto by Colette, is premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. • March 31 – The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius. April • April–October – The '''' is held in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style. • April 1 – In the United States: • Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states. • The Patent and Trademark Office is transferred to the Department of Commerce. • April 10F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is published in New York. • April 15Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer convicted of the murder of 24 boys and young men, is guillotined in Germany. • April 16 – A communist assault on St Nedelya Church claims roughly 150 lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. • April 19Colo-colo, a well-known football club of Chile, is founded in Macul, suburb of Santiago. • April 20 – Iranian forces of Reza Shah occupy Ahvaz and arrest Sheikh Khazʽal Ibn Jabir. • April 28 – Presenting the Stanley Baldwin government's budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announces Britain's return to the gold standard. MayMay 1 • In the Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia, the al-Baqi' mausoleums are destroyed by King Ibn Saud. • Barcelona S.C. founded in Ecuador. • The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union organisation, is founded in Guangzhou, Republic of China. • May 5 – The General Election Law is passed in Japan, extending suffrage to all males aged 25 and over. • May 8 – African-American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the sinking steamboat M.E. Norman on the Mississippi River. • May 16 – The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera ''Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria'' (1639/40) takes place in Paris. • May 21 – The opera Doktor Faust, unfinished when composer Ferruccio Busoni died, is premiered in Dresden. • May 29 – English explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife before he disappears in the Amazon. JuneJune 6 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded as an automobile manufacturer by Walter Chrysler in the United States. • June 13 – American engineer Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines and a mechanical system in "the first public demonstration of radiovision". • June 14 • The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece is founded. • The Turkish football club Göztepe is founded. • June 29 – The 6.8 Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead. JulyJuly 1021Scopes trial: in a staged test case (the "Monkey Trial") in Dayton, Tennessee, United States, John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher (technically arrested on May 5 and indicted on May 25) is accused of assigning a reading from a state-mandated textbook on Darwinian evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law, the "Butler Act". He is found guilty and fined $100, though the verdict is later overturned on a technicality. The trial makes explicit the fundamentalist–modernist controversy within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, with William Jennings Bryan (who dies on July 26) being challenged by the liberal Clarence Darrow. • July 10Meher Baba begins his 44-year silence. • July 18Adolf Hitler publishes Volume 1 of his personal manifesto Mein Kampf in Germany. • July 21 – English racing motorist Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed on land when at Pendine Sands in Wales he drives a Sunbeam 350HP automobile at a two-way average speed of . • July 25 • The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. • The Temporary Slavery Commission of the League of Nations filed their report on their global investigation of slavery and slave trade, preparing the ground for the introduction of the 1926 Slavery Convention. • July 29Werner Heisenberg, Max Born and Pascual Jordan published Umdeutung paper in Zeitschrift für Physik in Germany August August 1 – The New Cape Central Railway between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways. • August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal racist organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington, D.C. • August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse in California is completed and goes on line. • August 25 – The French complete their evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany. • August 31 – Anthropologist Margaret Mead lands in American Samoa to begin nine months of field work that will culminate in her 1928 book Coming of Age in Samoa. The bestselling book will become the first popular anthropological study and will change many attitudes towards tribal peoples. SeptemberSeptember 3 – The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a squall line near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14 crewmen. • September 27Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar: a celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists. The phenomenon lasts for half an hour. OctoberOctober – The major money forgery and fraud of Alves dos Reis is exposed in Portugal. • October 1 – The US Congress grants permission for Gutzon Borglum to begin constructing Mount Rushmore National Memorial on federal land in South Dakota. • October 2 – In London, UK, John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image. • October 4S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, is sunk during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with her the whole crew of 53. • October 516 – The Locarno Treaties are negotiated. • October 1929 – A brief conflict occurs between Bulgaria and Greece after a Greek soldier accidentally crosses into the Bulgarian side and was shot by border guards. NovemberNovember 9 – Formal foundation date of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in Germany. • November 141925 Australian federal election: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Matthew Charlton. • The first Surrealist art exhibition opens in Paris. • November 17 – The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition, a world's fair, opens in Dunedin, New Zealand. • November 24 – The silent film El Húsar de la Muerte is released in Santiago, Chile. • November 26Prajadhipok (Rama VII) is crowned as King of Siam. • November 28 – The weekly country music-variety radio programme Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "WSM Barn Dance". DecemberDecember 1 – The Locarno Treaties are signed in London, intended to secure the post-war continental European territorial settlement. • December 11Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, is promulgated. • December 12 – The first motel in the world, the Milestone Mo-Tel (later the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo), opens in San Luis Obispo, California. • December 14Wozzeck, Alban Berg's first opera, is premiered at the Berlin State Opera conducted by Erich Kleiber. • December 15Reza Shah takes the oath to become the first shah of Persia of the Pahlavi dynasty. • December 25IG Farben is formed by the merger of six chemical companies in Germany. in 1925 Date unknown • New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London. • Islamic Bektashi Order lodges in Turkey are closed down by order of the country's President, Atatürk, and the leadership moves to Albania. • Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Jud Süß (translated as Jew Süss or Power) is published in Germany. • Ernest Blythe, Minister for Finance in the Irish Free State, arranges an annual government subsidy of £850 for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, making it the first state-supported theatre in the English-speaking world. ==Births==
Births
JanuaryJanuary 1Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador (d. 2005) • January 4Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (d. 2003) • January 6John DeLorean, American car maker (d. 2005) • January 7Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter (d. 1995) • Harry Stradling Jr., American cinematographer (d. 2017) • January 8Bernardo Ruiz, Spanish road cycling racer (d. 2025) • January 9Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989) • January 10Peter Colotka, Slovak academic, lawyer and politician, Prime Minister 1969–1988 (d. 2019) • January 12Katherine MacGregor, American actress (d. 2018) • January 13Rosemary Murphy, American actress (d. 2014) • Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000) • January 14Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970) • January 15August Englas, Estonian wrestler (d. 2017) • Ruth Slenczynska, American pianist (d. 2026) • Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor (d. 2023) • January 16Shafik Wazzan, 27th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1999) • January 17Robert Cormier, American young adult author (d. 2000) • Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d. 1996) • January 20Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet and politician (d. 2020) • January 24Maria Tallchief, American ballerina (d. 2013) • January 25Barbara Carroll, American jazz pianist (d. 2017) • January 26Joan Leslie, American actress (d. 2015) • Paul Newman, American actor, film director, entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2008) • January 27Sufi Abu Taleb, President of Egypt (d. 2008) • January 29Robert W. McCollum, American epidemiologist (d. 2010) • January 30Douglas Engelbart, American inventor (d. 2013) • January 31Bernardino Rivera Álvarez, Bolivian bishop (d. 2010) • Micheline Lannoy, Belgian figure skater (d. 2023) FebruaryFebruary 2Elaine Stritch, American actress (d. 2014) • February 3Shelley Berman, American comedian and actor (d. 2017) • John Fiedler, American actor (d. 2005) • Leon Schlumpf, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 2012) • February 4Arne Åhman, Swedish athlete (d. 2022) • Jutta Hipp, German born American jazz pianist and composer (d. 2003) • February 8Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001) • February 10Dhalia, Indonesian actress (d. 1991) • Pierre Mondy, French film and theatre actor and director (d. 2012) • Daisy Myers, African-American educator (d. 2011) • February 11Virginia E. Johnson, American sexologist (d. 2013) • Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (d. 2013) • Kim Stanley, American actress (d. 2001) • February 16Romolo Bizzotto, Italian professional football player and coach (d. 2017) • February 17Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003) • Hal Holbrook, American actor (d. 2021) • February 18Abdelsalam al-Majali, 60th and 63rd Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 2023) • Ghafar Baba, Malaysian politician (d. 2006) • George Kennedy, American actor (d. 2016) • Krishna Sobti, Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist (d. 2019) • February 20Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006) • February 21Sam Peckinpah, American film director (d. 1984) • Štefan Vrablec, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017) • February 22Edward Gorey, American writer, illustrator and playwright (d. 2000) • February 23Eric Prabhakar, Indian sprinter (d. 2011) • Maddy English, American female baseball player (d. 2004) • February 25Lisa Kirk, American actress and singer (d. 1990) • Eduardo Risso, Uruguayan rower (d. 1986) • Shehu Shagari, President of Nigeria (1979–83) (d. 2018) • February 26Everton Weekes, West Indian cricketer (d. 2020) • February 28Louis Nirenberg, Canadian-American mathematician (d. 2020) • Harry H. Corbett, English actor (d. 1982) MarchMarch 1Keith Harvey Miller, American politician (d. 2019) • Alexandre do Nascimento, Angolan prelate (d. 2024) • March 4Inezita Barroso, Brazilian singer, guitarist, actress, TV presenter (d. 2015) • Alan R. Battersby, English organic chemist (d. 2018) • Paul Mauriat, French musician ("L'amour est bleu") (d. 2006) • Christa Meves, German psychotherapist and writer • March 7Josef Ertl, German politician (d. 2000) • March 8John Harland Bryant, American physician (d. 2017) • Dennis Lotis, South African-English singer and actor (d. 2023) • March 11Duncan Ndegwa, Head of Civil Service and Secretary to the Cabinet in Kenya • March 12Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate • G. William Whitehurst, American journalist and politician • March 13Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer (d. 2024) • John Tate, American mathematician (d. 2019) • March 14Francis A. Marzen, Roman Catholic priest (d. 2004) • March 15Art Murakowski, American football player (d. 1985) • March 16Mary Hinkson, African-American dancer and choreographer (d. 2014) • Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (d. 2004) • March 17Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor (d. 2015) • March 18Alessandro Alessandroni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2017) • March 19Brent Scowcroft, American general and diplomat (d. 2020) • March 21Peter Brook, English theatre director (d. 2022) • March 22Gerard Hoffnung, German-born English humorist (d. 1959) • March 23Robie Lester, American Grammy-nominated voice artist and singer (d. 2005) • David Watkin, British cinematographer (d. 2008) • March 25Flannery O'Connor, American writer (d. 1964) • Kishori Sinha, Indian politician (d. 2016) • March 26Pierre Boulez, French composer (d. 2016) • March 27Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, English farmer and politician (d. 2022) • March 28Raja Perempuan Budriah, Malaysian royal consort (d. 2008) • March 29David Tsimakuridze, Georgian freestyle wrestler (d. 2006) AprilApril 1Piero Livi, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2015) • April 2Roger Milner, British actor (d. 2014) • April 3Tony Benn, British politician (d. 2014) • April 4Serge Dassault, French businessman and politician (d. 2018) • April 7Chaturanan Mishra, Indian politician (d. 2011) • April 13Michael Halliday, English-Australian linguist (d. 2018) • April 14Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974) • Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2010) • Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002) • April 15Milton J. Rosenberg, American psychology professor (d. 2018) • Zdeněk Růžička, Czech Olympic gymnast (d. 2021) • April 17René Moawad, 13th president of Lebanon (d. 1989) • April 18Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014) • April 19Hugh O'Brian, American soldier and actor (d. 2016) • John Kraaijkamp Sr., Dutch actor and comedian (d. 2011) • April 20Elena Verdugo, American actress (d. 2017) • Bob Will, American rower (d. 2019) • April 21Anthony Mason, Australian judge (d. 2026) • Solomon Perel, Israeli motivational speaker (d. 2023) • April 22George Cole, English actor (d. 2015) • April 24Eugen Weber, Romanian-born historian (d. 2007) • April 25Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher, English businessman • Louis O'Neill, Canadian politician (d. 2018) • April 26Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author (d. 2019) • Michele Ferrero, Italian businessman (d. 2015) • Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician (d. 2015) • April 27Brigitte Auber, French actress • April 29John Compton, Saint Lucian lawyer and politician, 1st prime minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2007) • Iwao Takamoto, Japanese-American animator (d. 2007) MayMay 1Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (d. 2013) • Anna May Hutchison, American professional baseball player (d. 1998) • May 2Maria Barroso, Portuguese politician and actress (d. 2015) • Inga Gill, Swedish actress (d. 2000) • John Neville, English actor (d. 2011) • May 3Ngiratkel Etpison, 5th president of Palau (d. 1997) • May 4Syed Ahmad Shahabuddin, Malaysian politician (d. 2008) • Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian footballer (d. 2015) • Maurice R. Greenberg, American business executive • May 8Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 2nd President of Tanzania (d. 2024) • May 9Vladimir Tadej, Croatian production designer, screenwriter and film director (d. 2017) • May 10Ilie Verdeț, 51st prime minister of Romania (d. 2001) • May 12Yogi Berra, American baseball player (d. 2015) • May 14Oona O'Neill, American actress (d. 1991) • May 15Andrei Eshpai, Soviet and Russian composer (d. 2015) • May 16Nancy Roman, American astronomer (d. 2018) • Ola Vincent, Nigerian economist and banker (d. 2012) • May 18Gérard Corboud, Swiss entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist (d. 2017) • May 19Malcolm X, African-American civil rights activist (d. 1965) • Pol Pot, Cambodian Stalinist dictator and leader of the Khmer Rouge (d. 1998) • May 20Gregory Yong, Archbishop of Singapore (d. 2008) • May 22Julio Garrett Ayllón, 33rd Vice President of Bolivia (d. 2018) • James King, American tenor (d. 2005) • Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991) • May 23Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008) • May 24Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and film director (d. 1994) • May 25Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003) • José María Gatica, Argentine boxer (d. 1963) • Rudolf Scheurer, Swiss football referee (d. 2015) • May 26Alec McCowen, English actor (d. 2017) • Carmen Montejo, Cuban-born Mexican actress (d. 2013) • May 28Bülent Ecevit, 3-time prime minister of Turkey (d. 2006) • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German lyric baritone and conductor (d. 2012) • Lucien Nedzi, American politician and member of the US House of Representatives from 1961 to 1981 (d. 2025) • Pavel Štěpán, Czech pianist (d. 1998) • May 30John Marks, English doctor and author (d. 2022) • May 31Julian Beck, American actor, director, poet and painter (d. 1985) • Frei Otto, German architect (d. 2015) • Donn A. Starry, American army officer (d. 2011) JuneJune 2Julius Blank, semiconductor pioneer (d. 2011) • Buddy Elias, Swiss actor and president of the Anne Frank Fonds (d. 2015) • June 3Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010) • June 4Antonio Puchades, Spanish footballer (d. 2013) • June 5Bill Hayes, American actor (d. 2024) • Maharani Wisma Susana Siregar, Indonesian-Dutch freedom fighter and wife of President SukarnoJune 6Hideji Ōtaki, Japanese actor (d. 2012) • June 7Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (d. 2017) • June 8Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States (d. 2018) • June 10Fortunato Abat, Filipino army general and politician (d. 2018) • Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic and syndicated columnist (d. 2017) • June 11William Styron, American writer (d. 2006) • June 12Raphaël Géminiani, French road cycling racer (d. 2024) • June 13Dušan Trbojević, Serbian pianist, composer, musical writer and university professor (d. 2011) • June 14Hideyuki Fujisawa, Japanese professional Go player (d. 2009) • Pierre Salinger, White House Press Secretary (d. 2004) • June 15Richard Baker, English broadcast journalist and author (d. 2018) • Vasily Golubev, Soviet, Russian painter (d. 1985) • Attilâ İlhan, Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer (d. 2005) • June 16Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist (d. 2017) • June 17Mervyn Finlay, Australian member of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Queen's Counsel (d. 2014) • June 20András Kovács, Hungarian filmmaker (d. 2017) • Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and actor (d. 1971) • June 21Larisa Avdeyeva, Russian mezzo-soprano (d. 2013) • Giovanni Spadolini, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1994) • Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006) • June 23Oliver Smithies, British-American geneticist (d. 2017) • June 25June Lockhart, American actress (d. 2025) • Robert Venturi, American architect (d. 2018) • P. Viswambharan, Indian politician, socialist, trade unionist and journalist (d. 2016) • June 26Jean Frydman, French resistant and businessman (d. 2021) • June 29Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician and 11th President of Italy (d. 2023) • Cara Williams, American actress (d. 2021) • June 30Ebrahim Amini, Iranian politician (d. 2020) • Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss poet and translator (d. 2021) • Ros Mey, Cambodian-born American Buddhist monk and survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime (d. 2010) • Fred Schaus, American basketball player, head coach and athletic director (d. 2010) JulyJuly 1Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011) • Art McNally, American football referee (d. 2023) • July 2Marvin Rainwater, American country and rockabilly singer and songwriter (d. 2013) • Medgar Evers, African-American civil rights activist (d. 1963) • Patrice Lumumba, Congolese independence leader (d. 1961) • July 3Roger Chesneau, French steeplechaser (d. 2012) • July 4Dorothy Head Knode, American tennis player (d. 2015) • July 5Jean Raspail, French author, traveler and explorer (d. 2020) • Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher (d. 2017) • Unto Wiitala, Finnish ice hockey player (d. 2019) • July 6Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress and author (d. 2002) • Merv Griffin, American game show host and producer, talk show host, singer (d. 2007) • Bill Haley, American musician (d. 1981) • Gazi Yaşargil, Turkish scientist and neurosurgeon (d. 2025) • July 8Nicholas Brathwaite, Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 2016) • July 9Mary de Rachewiltz, Italian-American poet and translator • Borislav Stanković, Serbian basketball player and coach (d. 2020) • July 10Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian politician; Former prime minister of Malaysia • July 11Mattiwilda Dobbs, African-American coloratura soprano (d. 2015) • Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (d. 2017) • David Graham, British actor and voice artist (d. 2024) • Fernando Matthei, Chilean Air Force General (d. 2017) • July 12Don Campbell, Canadian ice hockey (d. 2012) • July 13Suzanne Zimmerman, American competition swimmer and Olympic medallist (d. 2021) • July 14Francisco Álvarez Martínez, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2022) • Elmo Bovio, Argentine professional football player (d. 2017) • Carlos Velázquez, Argentine modern pentathlete • July 15D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (d. 2019) • Badal Sarkar, Indian dramatist and theatre director (d. 2011) • July 16Rosita Quintana, Argentine actress (d. 2021) • July 17Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, German cellist and Holocaust survivor • Mohammad Hasan Sharq, Afghan politician • Ted Vogel, American marathon runner (d. 2019) • July 18Allan Elsom, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2010) • Raymond Jones, Australian architect (d. 2022) • Shirley Strickland, Australian Olympic athlete (d. 2004) • Friedrich Zimmermann, German politician (d. 2012) • July 19Otto Arosemena, 32nd president of Ecuador (d. 1984) • Henri Beaujean, French politician (d. 2021) • John Dossetor, Canadian physician and bioethicist (d. 2020) • Jack Petchey, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 2024) • Michael Pfeiffer, German footballer (d. 2018) • Sue Thompson, American singer (d. 2021) • July 20Jacques Delors, French politician (d. 2023) • Frantz Fanon, French-Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1961) • Eric Watson, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2017) • July 21Hans Meyer, South African actor (d. 2020) • Johnny Peirson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2021) • July 22Joseph Sargent, American film director (d. 2014) • July 23Tajuddin Ahmad, 1st prime minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975) • G. Holmes Braddock, American politician (d. 2025) • Gloria DeHaven, American actress (d. 2016) • Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (d. 2017) • July 24Stephen Porter, American stage director (d. 2013) • Miiko Taka, American actress (d. 2023) • July 25Jutta Zilliacus, Finnish journalist and politician • Ana González de Recabarren, Chilean human rights activist (d. 2018) • July 26Robert Hirsch, French actor (d. 2017) • Ana María Matute, Spanish writer (d. 2014) • July 28Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011) • Ali Bozer, Turkish politician (d. 2020) • July 29S. D. Phadnis, Indian cartoonist • Carmen Stănescu, Romanian actress (d. 2018) • Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer (d. 2021) • July 31Carmel Quinn, Irish-American singer (d. 2021) AugustAugust 2Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg, Princess of Luxembourg (d. 2023) • Jorge Rafael Videla, 42nd president of Argentina (d. 2013) • August 3Marv Levy, American football coach and executive • Dom Um Romão, Brazilian jazz drummer (d. 2005) • August 6Eddie Baily, England international footballer (d. 2010) • Barbara Bates, American actress and singer (d. 1969) • Lilyan Chauvin, French-American actress (d. 2008) • August 7M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist (d. 2023) • August 8Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003) • Aziz Sattar, Malaysian actor, comedian, singer and director (d. 2014) • Ginny Tyler, American voice actress (d. 2012) • August 9David A. Huffman, American computer scientist (d. 1999) • Valentín Pimstein, Chilean-Mexican producer of telenovelas (d. 2017) • Olavi Rokka, Finnish modern pentathlete (d. 2011) • August 10Stanislav Brebera, Czech chemist (d. 2012) • August 11Arlene Dahl, American actress (d. 2021) • August 12Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (d. 1986) • Leopold Barschandt, Austrian footballer (d. 2000) • George Wetherill, geophysicist (d. 2006) • Dale Bumpers, American politician (d. 2016) • August 13José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentine executive and policy maker (d. 2013) • Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect based in Christchurch (d. 2012) • August 15Mike Connors, American actor (d. 2017) • Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (d. 2007) • Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-born French pianist (d. 2015) • August 16Kirke Mechem, American composer • August 18Pegeen Vail Guggenheim, Swiss-American painter (d. 1967) • August 19Madhav Dalvi, Indian cricketer (d. 2012) • August 20Stan Hovdebo, New Democratic Party member of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 2018) • Henning Larsen, Danish architect (d. 2013) • August 21Toma Caragiu, Romanian theatre, television and film actor (d. 1977) • August 22Honor Blackman, English actress (d. 2020) • August 26Etelka Keserű, Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2018) • August 27Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and Vatican diplomat (d. 2017) • Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (d. 2011) • Jaswant Singh Neki, Indian academic and poet (d. 2015) • August 28Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 2003) • José Parra Martínez, Spanish footballer (d. 2016) • August 29Demetrio B. Lakas, President of Panama (d. 1999) • August 31Ted Blakey, American historian, activist, and businessman (d. 2004) • Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003) SeptemberSeptember 1Michael J. Cleary, Irish Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2020) • Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982) • Ihor Yukhnovskyi, Ukrainian physicist and politician (d. 2024) • September 3Shoista Mullojonova, Tajik-born Shashmakom singer (d. 2010) • September 6Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer and director (d. 2019) • September 7Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (d. 1985) • September 8Jacqueline Ceballos, American feminist • Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor (d. 1980) • September 10Boris Tchaikovsky, Soviet and Russian composer (d. 1996) • September 11Armando Monteiro Filho, Brazilian businessman, engineer and politician (d. 2018) • September 13Mel Tormé, American musician (d. 1999) • September 14Winston Cenac, 3rd prime minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2004) • September 15Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009) • September 16Eugene Garfield, American linguist and businessman (d. 2017) • Charles Haughey, sixth Taoiseach (head of government of the Republic of Ireland) (d. 2006) • B. B. King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015) • Morgan Woodward, American actor (d. 2019) • Martha Firestone Ford, American Businesswoman and former principal owner of the Detroit LionsSeptember 19Pete Murray, British Radio and television presenter • September 20Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Siam (d. 1946) • September 23Angelo Acerbi, Italian Catholic archbishop and cardinal • September 24Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004) • September 25Paul B. MacCready Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007) • Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (d. 2016) • Hasan Tiro, Indonesian politician (d. 2010) • September 26Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and racing driver (d. 1982) • Bobby Shantz, American Baseball Player • September 27Robert G. Edwards, British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (d. 2013) • September 28Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991) • September 30Joseph Hitti, Lebanese Catholic bishop (d. 2022) • Arkady Ostashev, Russian scientist and rocket engineer (d. 1998) OctoberOctober 1Yang Hyong-sop, North Korean politician (d. 2022) • October 2José A. Martínez Suárez, Argentine film director and screenwriter (d. 2019) • October 3Simone Segouin (also known as Nicole Minet), French Resistance fighter and partisan (d. 2023) • Gore Vidal, American author (d. 2012) • October 4Fyodor Terentyev, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 1963) • October 5Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997) • Antoine Gizenga, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2019) • Herbert Kretzmer, South African-English journalist and songwriter (d. 2020) • Murray Riley, Australian rower (d. 2020) • October 7Mildred Earp, American female professional baseball player (d. 2017) • October 8Álvaro Magaña, 38th president of El Salvador (d. 2001) • October 9Isyaku Rabiu, Nigerian businessman (d. 2018) • October 11Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013) • October 13Lenny Bruce, American comic (d. 1966) • Carlos Robles Piquer, Spanish diplomat and politician (d. 2018) • Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 (d. 2013) • October 14Phillip V. Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist (d. 2012) • October 15Bob Rowland Smith, Australian politician (d. 2012) • October 16Daniel J. Evans, American politician (d. 2024) • Dame Angela Lansbury, Irish-British-born American actress (d. 2022) • October 18Ramiz Alia, 13th president of Albania (d. 2011) • October 19Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine Naval military officer (d. 2010) • Raymond Impanis, Belgian cyclist (d. 2010) • October 20Art Buchwald, American humorist and columnist (d. 2007) • Hiromu Nonaka, Japanese politician (d. 2018) • October 21Surjit Singh Barnala, Indian politician (d. 2017) • Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer (d. 2003) • Virginia Zeani, Romanian soprano (d. 2023) • October 22Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Hawaiian genealogist, author and hula expert (d. 2014) • Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and graphic artist (d. 2008) • October 23Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host (d. 2005) • José Freire Falcão, Brazilian cardinal (d. 2021) • Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (d. 1994) • October 24Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003) • Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician (d. 2013) • October 25Aliya Moldagulova, Soviet soldier and sniper (d. 1944) • October 27Warren Christopher, American diplomat (d. 2011) • Paul Fox, English television executive (d. 2024) • Jiro Ono, Japanese chef • October 29Robert Hardy, English actor (d. 2017) • Klaus Roth, German-born British mathematician (d. 2015) • October 31Ngaire Lane, New Zealand swimmer (d. 2021) • John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) NovemberNovember 2Leif Hermansen, Danish rower (d. 2005) • November 4Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer (d. 2018) • Doris Roberts, American actress (d. 2016) • November 6Michel Bouquet, French actor (d. 2022) • November 8Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (d. 2019) • November 9Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (d. 2016) • November 10Richard Burton, Welsh actor, better known for his role in Cleopatra (d. 1984) • November 11 • Dame June Whitfield, English actress (d. 2018) • Jonathan Winters, American actor and comedian (d. 2013) • November 12Heinz Schubert, German actor (d. 1999) • November 17Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985) • November 19Zygmunt Bauman, Polish military officer, sociologist and philosopher (d. 2017) • November 20Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, Attorney General of the United States and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate (d. 1968) • Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina (d. 2015) • November 22Miki Muster, Slovenian artist (d. 2018) • Gunther Schuller, American musician (d. 2015) • November 23José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran politician, 39th President of El Salvador (d. 1990) • Johnny Mandel, American composer and conductor (d. 2020) • William Tebeau, African-American engineer (d. 2013) • November 24William F. Buckley Jr., American journalist, author and commentator (d. 2008) • Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011) • November 26Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, Uruguayan general and dictator (d. 2016) • Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003) • November 27Claude Lanzmann, French filmmaker (d. 2018) • Ernie Wise, English comedian (d. 1999) • November 30Lise Bourdin, French actress (d. 2025) • Maryon Pittman Allen, American politician and journalist (d. 2018) • Hayashiya Sanpei I, Japanese comedian (d. 1980) DecemberDecember 1Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998) • December 2Julie Harris, American actress (d. 2013) • December 3Erik Mørk, Danish actor (d. 1993) • December 4Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009) • Sauro Tomà, Italian footballer (d. 2018) • December 5Henri Oreiller, French Olympic alpine skier (d. 1962) • Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (d. 1980) • December 6Shigeko Higashikuni, Japanese princess (d. 1961) • December 7Hermano da Silva Ramos, French-Brazilian racing driver • December 8Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician and actor (d. 1990) • Arnaldo Forlani, 43rd prime minister of Italy (d. 2023) • December 11Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2019) • December 12Anne V. Coates, British film editor (d. 2018) • Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer (d. 2017) • December 13Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer and dancer • December 15Trần Thiện Khiêm, Vietnamese politician (d. 2021) • Hiroshi Motoyama, Japanese scientist (d. 2015) • December 19Rabah Bitat, Algerian politician, interim President of Algeria (d. 2000) • Tankred Dorst, German playwright (d. 2017) • Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (d. 2012) • December 20Béla Goldoványi, Hungarian athlete (d. 1972) • December 22Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, military doctor and war heroine (d. 2019) • December 23Pierre Bérégovoy, French politician, 111th Prime Minister of France (d. 1993) • December 24Prosper Grech, Maltese cardinal (d. 2019) • December 27Moshe Arens, Israeli diplomat and politician (d. 2019) • Michel Piccoli, French actor, singer, director and producer (d. 2020) • December 28Willy Kemp, Luxembourgish road cycling racer (d. 2021) • Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (d. 2002) • Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005) • December 29Keshav Dutt, Indian field hockey player (d. 2021) • Luis Alberto Monge, 39th President of Costa Rica (d. 2016) ==Deaths==
Deaths
JanuaryJanuary 5Yevgenia Bosch, Ukrainian politician (b. 1879) • January 6Rafaela Porras Ayllón, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (b. 1850) • January 8George Bellows, American artist (b. 1882) • January 14Camille Decoppet, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1862) • January 16Aleksey Kuropatkin, Russian general and Imperial Russian Minister of War (b. 1848) • January 18Charles Lanrezac, French general (b. 1852) • J. M. E. McTaggart, English philosopher (b. 1866) • January 22Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer, writer and mountain climber (b. 1859) • January 26Sir James Mackenzie, Scottish cardiologist (b. 1853) FebruaryFebruary 2Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater (b. 1873) • February 3Oliver Heaviside, British mathematician (b. 1850) • February 4Robert Koldewey, German architect and archaeologist (b. 1855) • February 11Aristide Bruant, French singer and nightclub owner (b. 1851) • February 13Floyd Collins, American cave explorer (b. 1887) • February 17Ignacio Andrade, Venezuela military and politician, 23rd President of Venezuela (b. 1839) • February 18James Lane Allen, American writer (b. 1849) • February 21Fernando De Lucia, Italian tenor (b. 1860) • February 23Samuel Berger, American Olympic boxer (b. 1884) • James H. Wilson, American Union Army major general (b. 1837) • February 24Hjalmar Branting, 19th Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860) • John Palm, Curaçao-born composer (b. 1885) • February 25Louis Feuillade, French silent film director (b. 1873) • February 28Friedrich Ebert, 1st President of Germany (1919–1945) (b. 1871) MarchMarch 1Homer Plessy, American political activist (b. 1862 or 1863) • March 2William A. Clark, American entrepreneur and politician (b. 1839) • Luigj Gurakuqi, Albanian writer and politician (b. 1879) • March 4Moritz Moszkowski, Polish composer (b. 1854) • James Ward, British philosopher and psychologist (b. 1843) • John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1860) • March 7Georgy Lvov, Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1861) • March 8Manuel Míguez González, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1831) • Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (b. 1866) • March 10Myer Prinstein, Polish-American track athlete (b. 1878) • March 12Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician, politician and revolutionary (b. 1866) • March 13Lucille Ricksen, American silent film actress (b. 1910) • March 14Walter Camp, American football coach (b. 1859) • March 19Nariman Narimanov, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1870) • March 20George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (b. 1859) • March 28Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, British general (b. 1864) • March 30Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (b. 1861) AprilApril 7Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (b. 1865) • April 13Elwood Haynes, American inventor (b. 1857) • August Endell, German architect (b. 1871) • April 15John Singer Sargent, American artist (b. 1856) • Fritz Haarmann, German serial killer (executed) (b. 1879) • April 16Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, German prince (b. 1852) • April 17Wong Fei-hung, Chinese healer and revolutionary (b. 1847) • April 19John Walter Smith, American politician (b. 1845) • April 20Herbert Lawford, British tennis player (b. 1851) • April 22André Caplet, French composer and conductor (b. 1878) • Unknown date – Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni, Moroccan sharif and tribal leader (b. 1871) MayMay 2Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b. 1848) • Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian poet (b. 1898) • May 3Clément Ader, French Army captain and aviation pioneer (b. 1841) • May 4Giovanni Battista Grassi, Italian physician and zoologist (b. 1854) • May 5Catharine van Tussenbroek, Dutch physician (b. 1852) • May 7William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, British industrialist, philanthropist and politician (b. 1851) • Sir Doveton Sturdee, British admiral (b. 1859) • May 10Alexandru Marghiloman, 25th prime minister of Romania (b. 1854) • William Massey, 19th prime minister of New Zealand (b. 1856) • May 12Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874) • Charles Mangin, French general (b. 1866) • May 13Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, British politician and colonial administrator (b. 1854) • May 14H. Rider Haggard, British writer (b. 1856) • May 15Nelson A. Miles, American general (b. 1839) • May 20Ramón Auñón y Villalón, Spanish admiral and politician (b. 1844) • Elias M. Ammons, Governor of Colorado (b. 1860) • Joseph Howard, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1862) • May 21Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agricultural scientist and guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871) • May 22John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British World War I field marshal (b. 1852) • May 25Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877) • May 28João Pinheiro Chagas, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1863) • May 29Percy Fawcett, British explorer, anthropologist and archaeologist (disappeared) (b. 1867) JuneJune 1Lucien Guitry, French actor (b. 1860) • Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States (b. 1854) • June 2James Ellsworth, American mine owner and banker (b. 1849) • June 3Camille Flammarion, French astronomer (b. 1842) • June 9Antony MacDonnell, 1st Baron MacDonnell, Irish civil servant (b. 1844) • June 12Mary Cole Walling, American patriot, lecturer (b. 1838) • June 17Adolf Pilar von Pilchau, Baltic German politician, regent of the United Baltic Duchy and baron (b. 1851) • June 18Robert M. La Follette, American politician (b. 1855) • June 20Josef Breuer, Austrian neurologist (b. 1842) • June 22Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849) • June 28Georgina Febres-Cordero, Venezuelan nun (b. 1861) • June 29Christian Michelsen, Norwegian politician and 1st Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1857) JulyJuly 1Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866) • July 2Nikolai Golitsyn, last Prime Minister of the Russian Empire (executed) (b. 1850) • July 4Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Roman Catholic social activist and blessed (b. 1901) • July 8Clarence Hudson White, American photographer (b. 1871) • July 14Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (b. 1901) • July 17Lovis Corinth, German painter (b. 1858) • July 19Francisco José Fernandes Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician (b. 1867) • July 26Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888) • William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860) • Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1848) AugustAugust 4Charles W. Clark, American baritone (b. 1865) • August 5Jennie Lee, American actress (b. 1848) • August 6Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (b. 1853) • August 12Severo Fernández, 24th President of Bolivia (b. 1849) • August 15Konrad Mägi, Estonian landscape painter (b. 1878) • August 17Ioan Slavici, Romanian writer (b. 1848) • August 20Liao Zhongkai, Chinese politician, Kuomintang leader and financier (b. 1877) • August 25Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852) SeptemberSeptember 6 or September 8Louisa Briggs, Aboriginal Australian rights activist (b. 1818 or 1836) • September 7René Viviani, 81st Prime Minister of France (b. 1863) • September 16Alexander Friedmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1888) • September 17Carl Eytel, German-American artist working in Palm Springs, California (b. 1862) • September 18Yui Mitsue, Japanese general (b. 1860) • September 29Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851) OctoberOctober 5Anna Schäffer, German Roman Catholic mystic, stigmatist and saint (b. 1882) • October 7Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1880) • October 10James Buchanan Duke, American tobacco and electric power industrialist (b. 1856) • October 14Eugen Sandow, German-born bodybuilder, physical culturist (b. 1867) • October 15Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary and educator (b. 1848) • October 20Jonah of Hankou, Russian Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1888) • October 31George Anderson, Danish criminal (b. 1880) • Mikhail Frunze, Russian Bolshevik leader (b. 1885) • José Ingenieros, Argentine physician, sociologist and philosopher (b. 1877) • Thomas Henry Tracy, Canadian architect and alderman (b. 1848) NovemberNovember 1Lester Cuneo, American actor (b. 1888) • Max Linder, French actor (b. 1883) • November 5Sidney Reilly, Russian spy (executed) (b. c.1873) • November 6Khải Định, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1885) • November 12Robert Wrenn, American tennis player (b. 1873) • November 20Queen Alexandra, consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1844) • Clara Morris, American stage actress (b. 1846) • November 24Margaret Sinclair, British nun and venerable (b. 1900) • November 26King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) of Siam (b. 1880) DecemberDecember 5Wilhelmina Drucker, Dutch politician and writer (b. 1847) • Władysław Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) • December 8Marguerite Marsh, American actress (b. 1888) • December 9Pablo Iglesias Posse, co-founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (b. 1850) • December 13Antonio Maura, Spanish conservative politician, 5-time Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1853) • December 15Battling Siki, Senegalese boxer (b. 1897) • December 18Sir Hamo Thornycroft, British sculptor (b. 1850) • December 19José Ignacio Quintón, Puerto Rican composer and pianist (b. 1881) • December 20 – Prior João Ferreira Sardo, the founder of the Gafanha da Nazaré died of a long-term lung disease. • December 21Lottie Lyell, Australian female pioneer film director and producer (b. 1890) • Jules Méline, French statesman, 50th Prime Minister of France (b. 1838) • December 22Alice, Princess Dowager of Monaco, consort of Albert I of Monaco (b. 1858) • Mary Thurman, American actress (b. 1895) • December 25Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877) • Ester Rachel Kamińska, Polish actress, "mother of Yiddish theatre" (b. 1870) • December 27Marie-Louise Jaÿ, French businesswoman (b. 1838) • December 28Sergei Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet (b. 1895) • Raymond P. Rodgers, American admiral (b. 1849) • December 29Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter (b. 1865) • December 31J. Gordon Edwards, Canadian film director (b. 1867) ==Nobel Prizes==
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