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1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1961st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 961st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1960s decade.

Events
JanuaryJanuary 1Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. • January 3 • United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). • Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. • January 5 • Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. • After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th government). • January 7 – Following a four-day conference in Casablanca, five African chiefs of state announce plans for a NATO-type African organization to ensure common defense. The Charter of Casablanca involves the Casablanca Group: Morocco, the United Arab Republic, Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. • January 8 – In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies on independence for Algeria. • January 9 – British authorities announce they have uncovered a large Soviet spy ring, the Portland spy ring, in London. • January 17 • President Dwight Eisenhower gives his final State of the Union Address to Congress. In a Farewell Address the same day, he warns of the increasing power of a "military–industrial complex." • Patrice Lumumba of the Republic of Congo is assassinated. • January 23Congress of Venezuela adopts a new constitution (in force until 1999). • January 241961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A B-52 Stratofortress, carrying two nuclear bombs, crashes near Goldsboro, North Carolina. • January 25 • In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential news conference. In it, he announces that the Soviet Union has freed the two surviving crewmen from the July 1 1960 RB-47 shootdown incident involving a USAF reconnaissance aircraft and a MiG-19 over the Barents Sea. • Acting to halt 'leftist excesses', a junta composed of two army officers and four civilians takes over El Salvador, ousting another junta that had ruled for three months. • January 27Soviet submarine S-80 sinks in the Barents Sea, killing all 68 crew. • January 28Supercar, the first family sci-fi TV series filmed in Supermarionation, debuts on ATV in the UK. • January 30 – President John F. Kennedy delivers his first State of the Union Address. • January 31Ham, a 37-pound (17-kg) male chimpanzee, is rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, in a test of the Project Mercury spacecraft, designed to carry United States astronauts into space. FebruaryFebruary 1 – The United States tests its first Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile. • February 4 – The Portuguese Colonial War begins in Angola. • February 59 – In Congo, President Joseph Kasa-Vubu names Joseph Iléo as the new Prime Minister. • February 12 – The USSR launches Venera 1 towards Venus. • February 13 – The Congo government announces that villagers have killed Patrice Lumumba. • February 14Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized in Berkeley, California. • February 15 • United States President John F. Kennedy warns the Soviet Union to avoid interfering with the United Nations' pacification of the Congo. • Sabena Flight 548 crashes near Brussels, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team and several coaches. • The total solar eclipse of February 15, 1961, visible in the southern part of Europe, occurs. • February 26Hassan II is pronounced King of Morocco. MarchMarchApril – Drilling for Project Mohole is undertaken off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico. • March 1 – United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps. • March 3Hassan II is crowned King of Morocco. • March 8Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth by light plane in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record. • The first U.S. Polaris submarines arrive at Holy Loch in Scotland. • March 131961 Kurenivka mudslide: A dam bursts in Kiev, USSR, killing 145. • United States delegate to the United Nations Security Council Adlai Stevenson votes against Portuguese policies in Africa. • United States President John F. Kennedy proposes a long-term "Alliance for Progress", between the United States and Latin America. • Cyprus joins the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming the first small country in the Commonwealth. • Black and white £5 notes cease to be legal tender in the UK. • Monash University in Melbourne, Australia takes in its first students. • A second B-52 crashes near Yuba City, California, after cabin pressure is lost and the fuel runs out. Two nuclear weapons are found unexploded. • March 15 • South Africa announces it will withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations, upon becoming a republic (31 May). The nation rejoins the organization in 1994. • The Union of Peoples of Angola, led by Holden Roberto, attacks strategic locations in the north of Angola. These events result in the beginning of the colonial war with Portugal. • March 18 • A ceasefire takes effect in the Algerian War of Independence. • "Nous les amoureux" sung by Jean-Claude Pascal (music by Jacques Datin, lyrics by Maurice Vidalin) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 (staged in Cannes) for Luxembourg. • March 29 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote in presidential elections. • March 30 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York. AprilApril 5 – The New Guinea Council of Western Papua is installed. • April 8British India Steam Navigation Company passenger ship '''' blows up and sinks off Dubai; 238 passengers and crew are killed. • April 10 – South African golfer Gary Player becomes the first non-American to win the Masters Tournament. • April 11 – The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. • April 12Vostok 1: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, orbiting the Earth once before parachuting to the ground. • Albert Kalonji takes the title Emperor Albert I Kalonji of South Kasai. • April 13 – In Portugal, a coup attempt against António de Oliveira Salazar fails. • April 17 • The U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba begins; it fails by April 19. • The 33rd Academy Awards ceremony is held in Santa Monica, California: The Apartment (1960) wins most awards, including Best Picture. • April 18 – Portugal sends its first military reinforcement to Angola. • April 20Fidel Castro announces that the Bay of Pigs Invasion has been defeated. • April 22Algiers putsch: Four French generals who oppose de Gaulle's policies in Algeria fail in a coup attempt. • April 23Judy Garland performs in a legendary comeback concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. • April 24Swedish warship Vasa, sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is recovered from Stockholm Harbor. • April 27Sierra Leone becomes independent from the United Kingdom. • President Kennedy urges newspapers to consider national interest in times of struggle against "a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy", in an address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association. MayMay 1National Airlines Flight 337, internal to Florida, is forced by an armed hijacker to fly to Cuba, the first of a spate of such aircraft hijackings. • May 4 – U.S. Freedom Riders begin interstate bus rides, to test the new U.S. Supreme Court integration decision. • May 5Mercury program: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, aboard Mercury-Redstone 3. • May 6Tottenham Hotspur F.C. becomes the first team in the 20th century to win the English league and cup double. , this is the last time Tottenham have won the English League. • May 8 – British intelligence officer George Blake is sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for spying, having been found guilty of being a double agent in the pay of the Soviet Union, the longest non-life sentence ever handed down by a British court. • May 9 – In a speech on "Television and the Public Interest" to the National Association of Broadcasters in the United States, FCC chairman Newton N. Minow describes commercial television programming as a "vast wasteland". • May 14Civil rights movement: A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob of Ku Klux Klan members. • May 15J. Heinrich Matthaei alone performs the Poly-U-Experiment, and is the first person to recognize and understand the genetic code. This is the birthdate of modern genetics. • May 16Park Chung Hee takes over in a military coup, in South Korea. • May 19Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (however, the probe lost contact with Earth a month earlier, and does not send back any data). • May 21Civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order, after race riots break out. • May 221961 New South Wales earthquake. • May 24Civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace", after disembarking from their bus. • May 25Apollo program: U.S. President Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of Congress, that the United States "should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth". • May 27Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaya, holds a press conference in Singapore, announcing his idea to form the Federation of Malaysia, comprising Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo (Sabah). • May 28Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This is later considered the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International. • May 30Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, ruler of the Dominican Republic since 1930, is killed in an ambush. • May 31 • In France, rebel generals Maurice Challe and Andre Zelelr are sentenced to 15 years in prison. • South Africa becomes a republic, and officially leaves the Commonwealth of Nations. • Benfica beats FC Barcelona 3–2 at Wankdorf Stadium, Bern and wins the 1960–61 European Cup in association football. JuneJune 1Ethiopia experiences its most devastating earthquake of the 20th century, with a magnitude of 6.7. The town of Majete is destroyed, 45% of the houses in Karakore collapse, of the main road north of Karakore are damaged by landslides and fissures, and 5,000 inhabitants in the area are left homeless. • June 4Vienna summit: John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev meet during two days in Vienna. They discuss nuclear tests, disarmament and Germany. • June 12 – A patent for the body electrode invented by Richard M. Berman and Bernard Schwartz is applied for. • June 16 – Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West at Paris–Le Bourget Airport while on tour with the Kirov Ballet. • June 17 • A Paris-to-Strasbourg train derails near Vitry-le-François; 24 are killed, 109 injured. • The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded, with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress. • June 19 – The British protectorate ends in Kuwait and it becomes an emirate. • June 22Moise Tshombe is released for lack of evidence of his connection to the murder of Patrice Lumumba. • June 23 – The Antarctic Treaty comes into effect. • June 25Iraqi president Abd al-Karim Qasim announces his intention to annex newly independent Kuwait (such an annexation will occur in 1990). • June 27 – Kuwait requests British help against the Iraqi threat; the United Kingdom sends in troops. JulyJuly 4Soviet submarine K-19 suffers a reactor leak in the North Atlantic. • July 5 – The first Israeli rocket, Shavit 2, is launched. • July 7 – A coal mine in Czechoslovakia has one of its sections closed off in order to extinguish a fire and prevent an explosion, causing the suffocation of 108 miners still present. • July 12 • A Czechoslovak Ilyushin Il-18 crashes while attempting to land at Casablanca, Morocco, killing all 72 on board. • Two dams that supply water to the city of Pune in India burst, causing the death of more than 1000 residents. • July 19Trans World Airlines becomes the first airline to show regularly scheduled movies during its flights, presenting By Love Possessed to 1st-class passengers. • July 21Mercury program: Gus Grissom, piloting the Mercury-Redstone 4 spacecraft Liberty Bell 7, becomes the second American to go into space (sub-orbital). After splashdown, the hatch prematurely opens, and the spacecraft sinks (it is recovered in 1999). • July 25 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives a widely watched TV speech on the Berlin Crisis, warning "we will not be driven out of Berlin." Kennedy urges Americans to build fallout shelters, setting off a four-month debate on civil defense. • July 31 • At Fenway Park in Boston, the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game tie occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain (the only tie until 2002). • Ireland submits the first application from a non-founding country to join the European Economic Community. AugustAugust – The United States founds the Alliance for Progress. • August 1 – The Six Flags Over Texas theme park officially opens to the public. • August 6Vostok 2: Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second human to orbit the Earth, and the first to be in outer space for more than one day. • August 7Vostok 2 lands in the Soviet Union. • August 10 – The United Kingdom applies for membership in the European Economic Community. • August 11 – An annular solar eclipse is visible from the Southern Ocean. • August 13Berlin Crisis of 1961: Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin, and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe (until 1989, when Berlin and Germany both reunified in 1990, following the Fall of the Berlin Wall). On August 22 Ida Siekmann jumps from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to the West, becoming the first of at least 138 deaths at the Wall. • August 21Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison in Kenya. • August 25João Goulart replaces Jânio Quadros as President of Brazil (he is ousted in 1964). • August 29 – A French military aircraft clips a cable of the aerial tramway connecting Pointe Helbronner and the Aiguille du Midi in the French Alps. Three cars of the tramway fall, killing five people, but the remaining 63 cable car passengers are rescued and the pilot lands his plane safely. • August 30 – The Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness is signed at the United Nations in New York, coming into effect December 13, 1975. SeptemberSeptember 1 • The Eritrean War of Independence begins with the Battle of Adal in which Hamid Idris Awate and his companions shoot at Ethiopian police and military. The war will continue until 1991. • The first meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement is held in Belgrade. The Soviet Union resumes nuclear testing, escalating fears over the ongoing Berlin Crisis. • September 10 – During the F1 Italian Grand Prix on the circuit of Monza, German Wolfgang von Trips, driving a Ferrari, crashes into a stand, killing 14 spectators and himself. • September 12 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded. • September 14 • The new military government of Turkey sentences 15 members of the previous government to death. • The religious Focolare Movement opens its first North American center in New York (state). • September 17 • Military rulers in Turkey hang former prime minister Adnan Menderes, together with the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Fatin Rüştü Zorlu and former Minister of Finance Hasan Polatkan. • London police arrest over 1,300 protesters in Trafalgar Square during a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament rally. • The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. • September 181961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash: Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld is one of 16 to die in an air crash en route to Katanga, Congo. • September 19 – American couple Barney and Betty Hill claim that they saw a UFO as they returned from a trip to Canada through New Hampshire where they live. They later claim that they were abducted by aliens, among the first claimants of such an abduction. • September 21 – In France, the Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS) slips an anti-de Gaulle message into TV programming. • September 24 • The old Deutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is returned to its newly rebuilt house, as the Deutsche Oper Berlin. • In the U.S., the Walt Disney anthology television series, renamed ''Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color'', moves from ABC to NBC after seven years on the air, and begins telecasting its programs in color for the first time. Years later, after Disney's death, the still-on-the-air program will be renamed The Wonderful World of Disney. • September 281961 Syrian coup d'état: A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria. • September 30 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is formed to replace the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC). OctoberOctober 1Unification Day (Cameroon): The formerly British Southern Cameroons gains independence from the United Kingdom by vote of the UN General Assembly and joins with formerly French Cameroun to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. • October 10 – A volcanic eruption on Tristan da Cunha causes the whole population to be evacuated to Britain, where they will remain until 1963. • October 12 – The death penalty is abolished in New Zealand. • October 171961 Paris massacre: French police in Paris attack about 30,000 people protesting against a curfew applied solely to Algerians. The official death toll is 3, but human rights groups claim 240 dead. • October 19 – The Arab League takes over protecting Kuwait; the last British troops leave. • October 25 – The first edition of Private Eye, the British satirical magazine, is published. • October 26Cemal Gürsel becomes the fourth president of Turkey (his former title is head of state and government; he is elected as president by constitutional referendum). • October 27 • An armistice begins in Katanga, Congo. • Mongolia and Mauritania join the United Nations. • Berlin Crisis: Confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie – A standoff between Soviet and American tanks in Berlin, Germany, heightens Cold War tensions. • Fahrettin Özdilek becomes the acting prime minister of Turkey. • October 29DZBB-TV Channel 7, the Philippines' third TV station, is launched. • Devrim, the first ever car designed and produced in Turkey, is released. The project has been completed in only 130 days almost from scratch, a period including decision on the project, research, design, development and production of four vehicles. • October 30Nuclear weapons testing: The Soviet Union detonates a 58-megaton yield hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, over Novaya Zemlya (it remains the largest ever man-made explosion). • The Note Crisis: The Soviet Union issues a diplomatic note to Finland, proposing military co-operation. • October 31Hurricane Hattie devastates Belize City, Belize killing over 270. After the hurricane, the capital moves to the inland city of Belmopan. • Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow. NovemberNovember 1 • The Hungry generation Movement is launched in Calcutta, India. • The U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission's federal order banning segregation at all interstate public facilities officially comes into effect. • November 2Kean opens at Broadway Theater in New York City for 92 performances. • November 3 – The United Nations General Assembly unanimously elects Burmese diplomat U Thant to the position of acting Secretary-General. • November 8Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 crashes while attempting to land at Richmond, Virginia, United States, killing 77 people on board. • November 9Robert White records a world air speed record of , in an X-15. • November 11 • Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots. • Stalingrad is renamed Volgograd. • November 14 – The Yves Saint Laurent luxury fashion brand is founded in Rue La Boetie, Paris (France), by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé. • November 17Michael Rockefeller, son of Governor of New York and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea. • November 18 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 "military advisors" to South Vietnam. • November 19Rebellion of the Pilots: A military uprising overthrows the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic. • November 20İsmet İnönü of the CHP forms the new government of Turkey (26th government, first coalition in Turkey, partner AP). • November 24 – The World Food Programme (WFP) is formed as a temporary United Nations program. • November 30 – The Soviet Union vetoes Kuwait's application for United Nations membership. DecemberDecember 1Netherlands New Guinea raises the new Morning Star flag, and changes its name to West Papua. • December 2Cold War: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro announces he is a Marxist–Leninist, and that Cuba will adopt socialism. • December 5 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives support to the Volta Dam project in Ghana. • December 9Tanganyika gains independence from the United Kingdom as a Commonwealth realm, with Julius Nyerere as its first Prime Minister, with Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Tanganyika, and represented locally by the Governor-General of Tanganyika. • 1961 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a one-seat majority, narrowly defeating the Labor Party led by Arthur Calwell. One of the closest election results in Australian history, such a result will not be replicated again until 2016. Notably, former Prime Minister Earle Page loses his seat, although he dies a few days later, never knowing the result. • December 10Albania–Soviet relations: The Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Albania. • December 11 • American involvement in the Vietnam War officially begins, as the first American helicopters arrive in Saigon, along with 400 U.S. personnel. On December 22 the first U.S. soldier is killed in Vietnam. • Adolf Eichmann is pronounced guilty of crimes against humanity for his part in The Holocaust by a war crimes tribunal of three Israeli judges. On December 15 he is sentenced to death. • December 14Walt Disney's first live-action Technicolor musical, Babes in Toyland, a remake of the famous Victor Herbert operetta, is released, but flops at the box office. • December 17 – A circus tent fire in Niterói, Brazil kills 323. • December 181961 Indian annexation of Goa: India opens hostilities in its annexation of Portuguese India, the colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu. • December 19 • The Portuguese surrender Goa to India, after 400 years of Portuguese rule. • Indonesian president Sukarno announces that he will take West Irian by force, if necessary. • December 21 – In Congo, Katangan prime minister Moise Tshombe recognizes the Congolese constitution. • December 23Luxembourg's national holiday, the Grand Duke's Official Birthday, is set on June 23 by Grand Ducal decree. • December 30 – Congolese troops capture Albert Kalonji of South Kasai (who soon escapes). • December 31 – Ireland's first national television station, Telefís Éireann (later Raidió Teilifís Éireann), begins broadcasting. ==Births==
Births
January January 2Gabrielle Carteris, American actress, and trade union leader • Todd Haynes, American film director • January 5Iris DeMent, American singer-songwriter and musician • January 7Supriya Pathak, Indian actress • January 8Calvin Smith, American athlete • January 9Candi Milo, American actress • January 11Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish rally driver (d. 1989) • Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Austrian politician, noble • January 13Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress, producer and comedian • January 14Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (d. 1996) • Mike Tramp, Danish rock singer (White Lion) • January 17Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian chess player • January 18Peter Beardsley, English footballer • Mark Messier, Canadian hockey player • January 22Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter, musician and artist (d. 2019) • Shigeru Nakahara, Japanese voice actor • January 24Guido Buchwald, German footballer • January 26Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player • January 28Arnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic writer • January 29Petra Thümer, German swimmer February February 1Volker Fried, German field hockey player • February 4Denis Cyr, Canadian-American ice hockey player and politician • February 9Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor • February 11Mary Docter, American speed skater • February 12David Graeber, American anthropologist, anarchist activist and author (d. 2020) • February 13Henry Rollins, American musician and activist • February 14Maria do Carmo Silveira, Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe • February 15Benoît Chamoux, French alpinist (d. 1995) • February 16Niko Nirvi, Finnish journalist • February 17Meir Kessler, Israeli rabbi • Andrey Korotayev, Russian anthropologist, economic historian and sociologist • February 18Hironobu Kageyama, Japanese singer • February 19Justin Fashanu, English footballer (d. 1998) • February 20Dwayne McDuffie, American writer of comics and television (d. 2011) • Phil Powers, American alpinist • February 21Christopher Atkins, American actor • Abhijit Banerjee, Indian-born economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesGeoff Moore, American Christian musician • February 22Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist • February 27James Worthy, American basketball player and analyst • February 28Mark Latham, Australian politician • Richard Waugh, Canadian voice actor March March 3Milorad Mandić, Serbian actor (d. 2016) • Mary Page Keller, American actress • John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer • March 4Ray Mancini, American boxer • Roger Wessels, South African golfer • March 5Charles Poliquin, Canadian strength coach • March 9Mike Leach, American college football coach (d. 2022) • Rick Steiner, American professional wrestler • March 10Mike Bullard, American hockey player • Laurel Clark, American astronaut (d. 2003) • Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast • March 11Elias Koteas, Canadian film and television actor • March 15Moungi Bawendi, French-born Tunisian American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in ChemistryMarch 16Brett Kenny, Australian rugby league player • Michiru Ōshima, Japanese composer • March 17Umayya Abu-Hanna, Palestine-born Finnish writer and politician • Alexander Bard, Swedish musician (Army of Lovers) • Sam Bowie, American basketball player • Dana Reeve, American actress, singer and activist (d. 2006) • Casey Siemaszko, American actor • March 21Kassie DePaiva, American actress • Lothar Matthäus, German footballer • March 23Norrie McCathie, Scottish footballer (d. 1996) • Ali Hewson, Irish activist and businesswoman • Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster • March 24Mitsuru Ogata, Japanese voice actor • Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist, Finance Minister • March 25Reggie Fils-Aimé, American businessman • March 26William Hague, leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Foreign SecretaryMarch 28Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach • March 29Amy Sedaris, American actress, comedian and writer • Gerardo Teissonniere, Puerto Rican pianist • March 30Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999) • March 31Gary Winick, American filmmaker (d. 2011) April April 1Susan Boyle, Scottish singer • Kujira, Japanese voice actress • April 2Christopher Meloni, American actor • April 3Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian • April 5Lisa Zane, American actress • April 6Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (d. 2000) • April 7DONDI, American graffiti artist (d. 1998) • Thurl Bailey, American basketball player • April 9Mick Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 2019) • April 10Rudy Dhaenens, Belgian road bicycle racer (d. 1998) • April 11Vincent Gallo, American actor • April 12Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician • April 14Robert Carlyle, Scottish film and television actor • Neil Dougherty, American basketball coach (d. 2011) • Humberto Martins, Brazilian actor • April 17Boomer Esiason, American football player and color commentator • Daphna Kastner, Canadian actress • April 18Élisabeth Borne, French politician, Prime Minister of FranceJane Leeves, English actress • April 20Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor • April 21John Jairo Arias Tascón 'Pinina', Colombian criminal (d. 1990) • April 22Alo Mattiisen, Estonian musician and composer (d. 1996) • April 23Dirk Bach, German actor and comedian (d. 2012) • George Lopez, American actor and comedian • April 26Mike Francis, Italian singer and composer (d. 2009) • Anthony Cumia, American radio personality • April 27Moana Pozzi, Italian pornographic actress, television personality and politician (d. 1994) • April 28Futoshi Matsunaga, Japanese serial killer • April 29Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese voice actor • April 30Isiah Thomas, African-American basketball player, coach and team owner May May 4Jay Aston, British singer (Bucks Fizz) • Mary Elizabeth McDonough, American actress, producer, director and author • May 5Hiroshi Hase, Japanese professional wrestler • May 6George Clooney, American actor • Frans Timmermans, Dutch politician and European Commissioner • May 9John Corbett, American actor and country music singer • May 10Danny Carey, American drummer (Tool) • May 13Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor • May 14Urban Priol, German Kabarett artist and comedian • Tim Roth, English actor and director • May 16Solveig Dommartin, French actress (d. 2007) • Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor, voice actor and comedian • Charles Wright, American professional wrestler • May 17Enya, Irish musician • Amadou Ba, former Prime Minister of SenegalMay 20Clive Allen, British footballer • May 21Brent Briscoe, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2017) • May 22Mike Breen, American sports announcer • Ann Cusack, American actress • May 23Mitar Subotić, Serbian musician and composer (d. 1999) • Karen Duffy, American actress • May 24Ilaria Alpi, Italian journalist (d. 1994) • May 27Peri Gilpin, American actress • May 28Roland Gift, British singer and musician (Fine Young Cannibals) • May 29Melissa Etheridge, American musician • May 30Ralph Carter, American actor • Harry Enfield, English comedian, actor, writer and director • May 31Ray Cote, Canadian ice hockey player • Lea Thompson, American actress JuneJune 1Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player • Dilipkumar Viraji Thakor, Indian politician • Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian oligarch, mercenary chief and restaurateur (d. 2023) • June 3Lawrence Lessig, American academic and political activist • Ed Wynne, English musician (Ozric Tentacles) • June 4El DeBarge, American urban singer; was member of American urban group DeBargeSam Harris, American actor and pop musician • June 5Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999) • Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d. 2006) • Rosie Kane, Member of Scottish Parliament • June 6Tom Araya, Chilean-born rock musician (Slayer) • June 8Katy Garbi, Greek singer • June 9Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer and author • Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer and playwright • June 10Kim and Kelley Deal, American musicians • Maxi Priest, born Max Elliott, British reggae singer • June 14Boy George, born George O'Dowd, British singer-songwriter and music producer • June 15Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer • June 17Muslimgauze, British ethnic electronica and experimental musician (d. 1999) • Kōichi Yamadera, Japanese voice actor • June 18Sakahoko Nobushige, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2019) • Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player • Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter • June 19Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 2nd President of NepalJune 20Karin Kania, German speed skater • Joko Widodo, 7th President of IndonesiaJune 21Iztok Mlakar, Slovenian singer-songwriter and actor • June 23Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist • David Leavitt, American novelist • June 24Raja Yong Sofia, Malaysian aristocrat • Lisa Bevill, American Christian musician • Iain Glen, Scottish actor • Curt Smith, British singer and keyboardist • June 25Jamil Khir Baharom, Malaysian politician and former military officer • Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, writer, director, and singer in Seona DancingJune 26Greg LeMond, American cyclist • June 27Tim Whitnall, English playwright, screenwriter and actor • Meera Syal, British-Indian comedian and actress • June 28Jeff Malone, American basketball player • Eliezer Melamed, Israeli rabbi • June 29Greg Hetson, American rock guitarist • Sharon Lawrence, American actress, singer and dancer JulyJuly 1Diana, Princess of Wales, born The Hon. Diana Spencer, English princess consort as first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales (d. 1997) • Vito Bratta, American rock guitarist • Ivan Kaye, English actor • Carl Lewis, American athlete • Fredy Schmidtke, German track cyclist (d. 2017) • Michelle Wright, Canadian country music artist • July 2Samy Naceri, French actorn • July 3Mosi Alli, Tanzanian sprinter • July 5Patrizia Scianca, Italian voice actress • July 6Richard Mofe-Damijo, Nigerian actor • July 8Toby Keith, American country music singer (d. 2024) • July 10Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor • Lee Heung-sil, South Korean footballer • July 11João Donizeti Silvestre, Brazilian businessman, historian, biologist and politician • Ophir Pines-Paz, Israeli politician • July 13Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer • July 15Forest Whitaker, African-American actor and film director • David Cicilline, American politician • July 17António Costa, Portuguese politician, 119th Prime Minister (2015–present) • Guru, American rapper (Gang Starr) (d. 2010) • Zbigniew Zamachowski, Polish actor • July 18Elizabeth McGovern, American actress and musician • July 19Noriyuki Abe, Japanese anime director • Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast • Lisa Lampanelli, American stand-up comedian, actress and insult comic • July 21Mokgweetsi Masisi, 5th President of BotswanaJuly 22Porfirije, born Prvoslav Perić, Serbian Patriarch • Irina Rozanova, Russian actress • Keith Sweat, American singer • July 23Martin Gore, British musician and songwriter • Woody Harrelson, American actor and comedian • David Kaufman, American actor and voice actor • July 24Joseph Kony, Ugandan insurgent, leader of the Lord's Resistance ArmyJuly 25Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress • Hugo Teufel III, American lawyer and government official, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland SecurityJuly 26Raquel Dodge, General Prosecutor of Brazil • Gary Cherone, American rock singer-songwriter • David Heyman, English film producer, founder of Heyday FilmsKeiko Matsui, Japanese pianist and composer • Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer • July 27Erez Tal, Israeli television host • July 28Aleksandr Kurlovich, Soviet-Belarusian Olympic weightlifter (d. 2018) • July 30Laurence Fishburne, African-American actor and film director AugustAugust 1Danny Blind, Dutch footballer • August 2Pete de Freitas, English musician and producer (d. 1989) • August 3Molly Hagan, American actress • August 4Pumpuang Duangjan, Thai megastar singer and actress (d. 1992) • Robin Carnahan, Secretary of State of MissouriBarack Obama, 44th President of the United StatesLauren Tom, American actress and voice artist • August 5Mercedes Aráoz, 1st Vice President of PeruJanet McTeer, English actress • August 7Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast • Maggie Wheeler, American actress • August 8The Edge, Irish rock guitarist (U2) • August 9Brad Gilbert, American tennis player • John Key, 38th Prime Minister of New ZealandAugust 11Suniel Shetty, Indian actor, producer and entrepreneur • Jukka Tapanimäki, Finnish game programmer (d. 2000) • August 13Mahesh Anand, Indian actor (d. 2019) • Koji Kondo, Japanese video game composer (Nintendo) • August 14Susan Olsen, American actress • August 15Suhasini Maniratnam, Indian actress • August 16Elpidia Carrillo, Mexican-American actress • Urara Takano, Japanese voice actress • Aziz Akhannouch, 17th Prime Minister of MoroccoAugust 17Uwe Schmitt, German sprinter and hurdler (d. 1995) • August 18Huw Edwards, BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist and presenter • Timothy Geithner, 75th US Treasury SecretaryAugust 20Plamen Nikolov, Bulgarian footballer • Linda Manz, American actress (d. 2020) • Manuel Merino, Peruvian politician, 68th President of PeruAugust 21Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist, cartoonist and animator (d. 2018) • August 22Roland Orzabal, British musician and songwriter • August 23Bhupesh Baghel, Indian politician and current Chief Minister of ChhattisgarhAlexandre Desplat, French film composer • August 24Jared Harris, English actor • August 25Billy Ray Cyrus, American actor and singer • Benjamin Bwalya, Zambian footballer and coach (d. 1999) • August 27Tom Ford, American fashion designer and film director • August 28Jennifer Coolidge, American actress and comedian • Deepak Tijori, Indian actor and director SeptemberSeptember 1Bam Bam Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007) • Boney James, American saxophonist, songwriter and record producer • September 2Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer • Anthony Wong Chau-sang, Hong Kong actor • September 3Andy Griffiths, Australian author • Iwan Fals, Indonesian singer-songwriter • Yermi Kaplan, Israeli musician • September 5Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist and composer • September 6Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian rock musician and songwriter (A-ha) • September 7Kevin Kennedy, British actor • September 11E.G. Daily, American actress, voice actress and singer • Virginia Madsen, American actress • September 12Mylène Farmer, Canadian singer and songwriter • September 13Dave Mustaine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist • September 14Martina Gedeck, German actress • September 15Dan Marino, American football player • Lidia Yusupova, Chechen human-rights lawyer • September 17Jim Cornette, American author and podcaster • September 18James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (d. 2013) • September 22Bonnie Hunt, American actress, comedian, writer, director and television producer • Catherine Oxenberg, American actress • September 23William C. McCool, U.S. Navy Commander and astronaut (d. 2003) • September 24Fiona Corke, Australian actress • Michael Tavera, American composer • September 25Heather Locklear, American actress • Steve Scott, British journalist and presenter • September 26Wes Hopkins, American football player (d. 2018) • September 27Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer • Melissa Newman, American artist and singer • September 28Yordanka Donkova, Bulgarian athlete • Wayne Westner, South African golfer (d. 2017) • September 29Julia Gillard, 27th Prime Minister of AustraliaSeptember 30Crystal Bernard, American actress and singer • Gary Coyne, Australian rugby league player • Eric Stoltz, American actor and director • Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress October October 1Gary Ablett, Australian rules footballer • Rico Constantino, American professional wrestler • Michael Righeira, Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor • October 3Ludger Stühlmeyer, German cantor, composer and musicologist • October 4Philippe Russo, French singer • Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter • Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese manga writer (d. 2022) • October 5Matthew Kauffman, American journalist, George Polk Award winner • October 6Mark Shasha, American artist, author and illustrator • October 10Jodi Benson, American actress and singer • October 11Amr Diab, Egyptian singer • Steve Young, American football player • October 12Diego García, Spanish long-distance athlete (d. 2001) • October 13Rachel De Thame, English gardener and television presenter • Doc Rivers, American basketball player and coach • October 15Meera Sanyal, Indian banker (d. 2019) • October 16Chris Doleman, American football player (d. 2020) • Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (d. 1998) • Paul Vaessen, English footballer (d. 2001) • Randy Vasquez, American actor • Kim Wayans, American actress, comedian, producer, writer and director • October 18Wynton Marsalis, African-American trumpeter and composer • Gladstone Small, Barbadian-English cricketer • October 19Cliff Lyons, Australian rugby league player • October 20Ian Rush, Welsh footballer • Les Stroud, Canadian survival expert, filmmaker and musician • Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress • October 24Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist • October 25Ward Burton, American NASCAR driver • Chad Smith, American musician • October 26Dylan McDermott, American actor • Uhuru Kenyatta, 4th President of the Republic of KenyaOctober 30Dmitry Muratov, Russian campaigning journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace PrizeOctober 31Alonzo Babers, American runner • Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director • Larry Mullen, Jr., Irish rock drummer (U2) NovemberNovember 1Anne Donovan, American basketball player and coach (d. 2018) • Petr Pavel, current President of the Czech RepublicNovember 2k.d. lang, Canadian singer and songwriter • November 3David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of SnowdonNovember 4Daron Hagen, American composer • Ralph Macchio, American actor • Jeff Probst, American television personality • Jerry Sadowitz, American-born British stand-up comic and card magician • Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer and football manager • November 5Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (d. 2012) • November 9Jill Dando, British journalist and television presenter (d. 1999) • Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist • November 12Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast • November 14Ben Coleman, American basketball player (d. 2019) • Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (d. 2007) • D. B. Sweeney, American actor • November 16Andrea Prodan, Scottish-Italian film actor, composer and musician • Corinne Hermès, French singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1983 winner • November 18Steven Moffat, Scottish screenwriter • Anthony Warlow, Australian singer • November 19Meg Ryan, American actress and film director • November 22Mariel Hemingway, American actress • Stephen Hough, British-Australian pianist and polymath • November 24Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist • November 25Matthias Freihof, German television actor and director • November 28Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer • November 29Kim Delaney, American actress DecemberDecember 3Marcelo Fromer, Brazilian guitarist • December 5Alan Davies, English-Welsh international footballer (d. 1992) • Laura Flanders, British born American journalist • December 8Ann Coulter, American author, conservative commentator and attorney • December 9Beril Dedeoğlu, Turkish politician and academic (d. 2019) • David Anthony Higgins, American actor • December 10Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, Nepalese Buddhist (d. 1993) • Nia Peeples, American actress • December 12Daniel O'Donnell, Irish singer • Sarah Sutton, British actress • December 13Juan Carlos Varela, Panamanian businessman and 37th President of PanamaKaren Witter, American actress and model • December 15Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist and politician • December 16Bill Hicks, American comedian (d. 1994) • Shane Black, American film director • December 19Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate • Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004) • December 20Mohammad Fouad, Arab singer and actor • December 21Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor • December 22Kassim Majaliwa, 10th Prime Minister of Tanzania • December 23Ezzat el Kamhawi, Egyptian novelist • December 24Ilham Aliyev, 7th Prime Minister of Azerbaijan and 4th President of AzerbaijanWade Williams, American actor • December 25Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian senator • Ghislaine Maxwell, British socialite • David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2010) • December 26John Lynch, Northern Irish actor • December 27Guido Westerwelle, German politician (d. 2016) • December 29Jim Reid, Scottish musician • December 30Douglas Coupland, Canadian author • Bill English, 39th Prime Minister of New ZealandSean Hannity, American radio/television host and conservative commentator • Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete • December 31Aziz Akhannouch, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister of Morocco ==Deaths==
Deaths
JanuaryJanuary 4Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888) • Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) • January 8František Flos, Czech novelist (b. 1864) • January 9Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1867) • January 10Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894) • January 13Nino Marchesini, Italian actor (b. 1895) • Blanche Ring, American singer and actress (b. 1871) • January 17Patrice Lumumba, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925) • January 18Thomas Anthony Dooley III, physician (b. 1927) • January 21Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887) • John J. Becker, American composer and pianist (b. 1886) • January 24Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884) • January 29Jesse Wallace, American naval officer, 29th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1899) • January 30Dorothy Thompson, American journalist (b. 1893) FebruaryFebruary 3William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, Australian Governor-General (b. 1893) • February 4Hazel Heald, American writer (b. 1896) • Sir Philip Game, British army officer, colonial governor and police officer (b. 1876) • February 6Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, British politician (b. 1876) • February 7William Duncan, American actor (b. 1879) • February 9Carlos Luz, Brazilian politician, 19th President of Brazil (b. 1894) • February 12Richmond K. Turner, American admiral (b. 1885) • February 13Arthur Ripley, American film director (b. 1897) • February 15Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944) • February 16Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891) • February 17Horatio Berney-Filkin, British army general (b. 1892) • Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894) • February 20Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882) • February 22George de Cuevas, Chilean-American ballet impresario and choreographer (b. 1885) • Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889) • February 25Sebastiano Visconti Prasca, Italian general (b. 1883) • February 26Uberto De Morpurgo, Italian tennis player (b. 1896) • King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909) • February 28Aaron S. Merrill, American admiral (b. 1890) MarchMarch 3Azizul Haq, Bengali Islamic scholar (b. 1903) • Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887) • March 6George Formby, British singer, comedian and actor (b. 1904) • March 8 • Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879) • Gala Galaction, Romanian writer (b. 1879) • March 12Victor d'Arcy, British Olympic athlete (b. 1887) • Belinda Lee, English actress (b. 1935) • March 17Susanna M. Salter, first woman mayor in the United States (b. 1860) • March 22Nikolai Massalitinov, Soviet-born Bulgarian actor (b. 1880) • March 23Valentin Bondarenko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937) • March 25Arthur Drewry, English administrator, 5th President of FIFA (b. 1891) • March 26Carlos Duarte Costa, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop and saint, founder of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (b. 1888) AprilApril 2Wallingford Riegger, American music composer (b. 1885) • April 3Eliseo Mouriño, Argentine footballer (b. 1927) • April 6Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870) • April 7Vanessa Bell, English artist and interior designer (b. 1879) • Jesús Guridi, Spanish Basque composer (b. 1886) • April 9Zog I of Albania, Albanian political leader, 11th Prime Minister of Albania, 7th President of Albania and King of Albania (b. 1895) • April 11Padma Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 16th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1882) • April 12Mbarek Bekkay, 1st Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1907) • Aziz Ezzat Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1869) • April 19Manuel Quiroga, Spanish violinist (b. 1892) • April 21James Melton, American tenor (b. 1904) • April 24Lee Moran, American actor (b. 1888) • April 25Robert Garrett, American Olympic athlete (b. 1875) • George Melford, American actor (b. 1877) • April 27Roy Del Ruth, American film director (b. 1893) • Minoru Sasaki, Japanese general (b. 1893) • April 30Dickie Dale, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1927) • Jessie Redmon Fauset, American editor, writer and educator (b. 1882) MayMay 3Lajos Dinnyés, 41st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1901) • Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher (b. 1908) • May 6Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet and philosopher (b. 1895) • May 13Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901) • May 14Albert Sévigny, Canadian politician (b. 1881) • May 16George A. Malcolm, American jurist and educator (b. 1881) • May 23Joan Davis, American actress (b. 1912) • May 29Uuno Klami, Finnish composer (b. 1900) • May 30Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician and soldier, 2-time President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891) June • June – Constantin Constantinescu-Claps, Romanian general (b. 1884) • June 2George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889) • June 4William Astbury, English physicist and molecular biologist (b. 1898) • June 6Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875) • June 9Kateryna Bilokur, Ukrainian folk artist (b. 1900) • Camille Guérin, French bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872) • June 14Eddie Polo, Austrian-American actor (b. 1875) • June 16Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904) • June 17Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918) • June 18Eddie Gaedel, American with dwarfism (b. 1925) • June 19Sir Richard Turner, Canadian general, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1871) • June 22 – Queen Maria of Yugoslavia (b. 1900) • June 23Nicolai Malko, Soviet conductor (b. 1883) • June 24George Washington Vanderbilt III, American philanthropist (b. 1914) • June 25John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and pilot (b. 1886) • June 26Kenneth Fearing, American poet and novelist (b. 1902) • June 27Paul Guilfoyle, American actor (b. 1902) • Mukhtar Auezov, Kazakh writer (b. 1897) • June 30Lee de Forest, American inventor (b. 1873) JulyJuly 1Nasuhi al-Bukhari, Syrian soldier and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1881) • Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894) • July 2Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1899) • July 4Franklyn Farnum, American actor (b. 1878) • July 6Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878) • July 9Whittaker Chambers, American spy and witness in Hiss case AugustAugust 1Domingo Pérez Cáceres, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1892) • August 3Zoltán Tildy, 39th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1889) • August 4Maurice Tourneur, French film director (b. 1873) • August 5Sir Sidney Holland, New Zealand politician, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1893) • August 8Mei Lanfang, Beijing opera star (b. 1894) • August 9Walter Bedell Smith, American general and diplomat (b. 1895) • August 14Henri Breuil, French priest, archaeologist, anthropologist and ethnologist (b. 1877) • Clark Ashton Smith, American writer and sculptor (b. 1893) • August 15Otto Ruge, Norwegian general (b. 1882) • August 20Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882) • August 23Gotthard Sachsenberg, German World War I naval aviator and fighter ace (b. 1891) • Beals Wright, American tennis player (b. 1879) • August 26Howard P. Robertson, American physicist (b. 1903) • Gail Russell, American actress (b. 1924) • August 28Vera Michelena, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1885) • August 30Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877) • Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician and mining engineer (b. 1894) SeptemberSeptember 1Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1910) • September 3Richard Mason, British explorer (b. 1934) • September 4Charles D.B. King, President of Liberia from 1920 to 1930 (b. 1875) • September 5Lewis Akeley, American academic (b. 1861) • September 7Pieter Gerbrandy, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1940 to 1945 (b. 1885) • September 16Percy Chapman, English cricketer (b. 1900) • Hasan Fehmi, Turkish politician (b. 1879) • September 17Miguel Gómez Bao, Spanish-born Argentine actor (b. 1894) • Adnan Menderes, Turkish statesman, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (executed) (b. 1899) • September 18Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat, politician and author, 2nd Secretary General of the United Nations, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905) • September 21Georgia Ann Robinson, community worker and first African American woman to be appointed a Los Angeles police officer (b. 1879) • September 22Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897) • September 23Elmer Diktonius, Finnish poet and composer (b. 1896) • September 24Sumner Welles, American diplomat (b. 1892) • September 25Frank Fay, American vaudeville comedian and film and stage actor (b. 1891) • September 26Robert L. Eichelberger, American general (b. 1886) • Juanita Hansen, American actress (b. 1895) • September 27H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), American poet and novelist (b. 1886) OctoberOctober 1Donald Cook, American actor (b. 1901) • William Reid Dick, Scottish sculptor (b. 1878) • October 2Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (b. 1881) • October 4Max Weber, Polish-American artist (b. 1881) • October 6J. Reuben Clark, American politician and Mormon leader (b. 1871) • October 11Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887) • October 13Louis Rwagasore, 2nd Prime Minister of Burundi (assassinated) (b. 1932) • Maya Deren, Russian-born American filmmaker (b. 1917) • Zoltán Korda, Hungarian screenwriter and director (b. 1895) • Dun Karm Psaila, Maltese writer (b. 1871) • October 14Paul Ramadier, French politician, 63rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1888) • Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876) • October 18Tsuru Aoki, Japanese actress (b. 1892) • October 19Şemsettin Günaltay, Turkish historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1883) • Sergio Osmeña, Filipino politician, 4th President of the Philippines (b. 1878) • October 21Karl Korsch, German Marxist theoretician (b. 1886) • October 22Joseph M. Schenck, Russian-born film studio executive (b. 1876) • Aloys Van de Vyvere, 25th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1871) • October 26Milan Stojadinović, 12th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1888) • October 30Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of Italy (b. 1874) • October 31Augustus John, Welsh painter (b. 1878) NovemberNovember 1Mordecai Ham, American evangelist (b. 1877) • November 2James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894) • Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, 12th Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894) • November 3Thomas Flynn, British Roman Catholic prelate and reverend (b. 1880) • November 9Ferdinand Bie, Norwegian Olympic athlete (b. 1888) • November 15Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883) • Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch plant pathologist (b. 1883) • November 16Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1882) • November 19Michael Rockefeller, son of Nelson Rockefeller (disappeared on date) (born 1938) • November 22Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, Cuban politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Cuba, leader of World War II (b. 1899) • November 24Ruth Chatterton, American actress, novelist and aviator (b. 1892) • November 25Adelina de Lara, British composer (b. 1872) • November 30Anna Gould, American heiress and socialite, daughter of financier Jay Gould (b. 1875) DecemberDecember 2Dulcie Mary Pillers, English medical illustrator (b. 1891) • December 3Pat O'Hara Wood, Australian tennis player (b. 1891) • December 6Frantz Fanon, Martiniquais philosopher (b. 1925) • December 7Herbert Pitman, British sailor, third officer of the (b. 1877) • December 10Elwyn Welch, New Zealand farmer, ornithologist, conservationist and Open Brethren missionary (b. 1925) • December 13 – Anna Mary Robertson Moses aka Grandma Moses, American naïve painter (b. 1860) • December 15Gioacchino Failla, Italian-born American physicist (b. 1891) • December 20Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904) • Sir Earle Page, Australian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880) • December 22Dick Elliott, American actor (b. 1886) • December 23Kurt Meyer, German Generalmajor der Waffen-SS and war criminal (b. 1910) • December 25Otto Loewi, German-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873) • December 27Bernard McConville, American screenwriter (b. 1887) • December 28Edith Wilson, First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 (b. 1872) • December 29Anton Flettner, German aviation engineer and inventor (b. 1885) ==Nobel Prizes==
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