January •
January 1 •
Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (d.
1958) •
Manuel Roxas, 5th
President of the Philippines (d.
1948) •
January 3 –
J. R. R. Tolkien, English professor and writer (d.
1973) •
January 12 –
Mikhail Kirponos, Soviet general (d.
1941) •
January 13 –
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Iranian writer (d.
1997) •
January 14 •
Martin Niemöller, German theologian and prisoner in the Nazi Holocaust (d.
1984) •
Hal Roach, American film, television producer (d.
1992) •
Franz Dahlem, German politician (d.
1981) •
January 15 •
Rex Ingram, Irish film director (d.
1950) •
Hobey Baker, American athlete (d.
1918) •
William Beaudine, American film director (d.
1970) •
January 18 –
Oliver Hardy, American comedian, actor (d.
1957) •
January 19 –
Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician, 5-times prime minister (d.
1964) •
January 22 •
Marcel Dassault, French aircraft industrialist (d.
1986) •
Bahruz Kangarli, Azerbaijani artist (d.
1922) •
January 25 –
Takeo Takagi, Japanese admiral (d.
1944) •
January 26 –
Bessie Coleman, American aviator (d.
1926) •
January 28 •
Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d.
1947) •
Fyodor Raskolnikov, Soviet revolutionary, writer, journalist, naval commander and diplomat (d.
1939) •
January 31 –
Eddie Cantor, American actor, singer (d.
1964)
February •
February 3 –
Juan Negrín, Spanish physician, politician and 67th
Prime Minister of Spain (d.
1956) •
February 5 –
William Bostock, Australian senior army commander (d.
1968) •
February 6 –
William P. Murphy, American physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1987) •
February 9 –
Peggy Wood, American actress (d.
1978) •
February 10 –
Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d.
1950) •
February 13 –
Robert H. Jackson,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, chief prosecutor at the
Nuremberg Trials (d.
1954) •
February 14 –
Radola Gajda, Czech commander and politician (d.
1948) •
February 15 –
James Forrestal, first
United States Secretary of Defense (d.
1949) •
February 18 –
Wendell Willkie, U.S. Republican presidential candidate (d.
1944) •
February 21 –
Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst (d.
1949) •
February 22 •
Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d.
1950) •
David Dubinsky, Belarusian-American labor leader and politician (d.
1982) •
February 23 –
Kathleen Harrison, English actress (d.
1995) •
February 27 –
William Demarest, American actor (d.
1983) •
February 29 •
Augusta Savage, American sculptor (d.
1962) •
Dietrich von Jagow, German naval officer, politician, SA-
Obergruppenführer and diplomat (d.
1945)
March •
March 1 •
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (d.
1927) •
Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (d.
1968) •
March 3 –
R. V. C. Bodley, British army officer, author and journalist (d.
1970) •
March 8 –
Mississippi John Hurt (some sources give his year of birth as
1893), American
country blues singer, guitarist (d.
1966) •
March 9 •
David Garnett, English novelist and writer (d.
1981) •
Mátyás Rákosi, 43rd prime minister of Hungary (d.
1971) •
Vita Sackville-West, English writer and gardener (d.
1962) •
March 10 •
Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (d.
1955) •
Gregory La Cava, American director, producer and writer (d.
1952) •
Eva Turner, English operatic soprano (d.
1990) •
March 14 –
John Fulton Folinsbee, American painter (d.
1972) •
March 15 –
Charles Nungesser, French aviator, World War I fighter ace (d.
1927) •
March 16 •
César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (d.
1938) •
Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Indian Islamic scholar and philosopher (d.
1977) •
Gregory Kelly, American actor (d.
1927) •
March 17 •
Sayed Darwish, Egyptian singer and composer (d.
1923) •
LeRoy P. Hunt, United States Marine Corps general (d.
1968) •
March 21 –
Robert S. Beightler, American major general (d.
1978) •
March 25 –
Andy Clyde, Scottish-born screen actor (d.
1967) •
March 27 –
Ferde Grofé, American pianist, composer (d.
1972) •
March 28 •
Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1968) •
Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d.
1993) •
March 30 •
Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician (d.
1945) •
Erhard Milch, German field marshal,
Luftwaffe officer (d.
1972) •
Sanzō Nosaka, Japanese Communist Party chairman and leader of
JPEL (d.
1993) •
March 31 –
Stanisław Maczek, Polish general (d.
1994)
April •
April 6 •
Donald Wills Douglas Sr., American industrialist (d.
1981) •
Lowell Thomas, American journalist (d.
1981) •
April 7 –
Julius Hirsch, German footballer (d.
1945) •
April 8 –
Mary Pickford, Canadian actress, studio founder (d.
1979) •
April 10 –
Victor de Sabata, Italian conductor and composer (d.
1967) •
April 11 –
Marguerite Gautier-van Berchem, Swiss archaeologist and art historian (d.
1984) •
April 12 •
Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinettist (d.
1940) •
Henry Darger, American
outsider artist and writer (d.
1973) •
April 13 •
Sir Arthur Harris, British World War II Royal Air Force commander (d.
1984) •
Sir Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor of radar (d.
1973) •
April 14 –
V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist (d.
1957) •
April 16 •
Dora Richter, German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female
gender-affirming surgery (d.
1966) •
George Chaney, American boxer (d.
1958) •
April 18 •
Bolesław Bierut, Polish activist and politician (d.
1956) •
Jack Critchley, Australian politician (d.
1964) •
April 19 –
Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d.
1983) •
April 20 –
Caresse Crosby, American inventor of the modern bra and socialite (d.
1970) •
April 24 –
Louise Lincoln Kerr, American musician, composer, and philanthropist (d.
1977) •
April 26 –
Richard L. Conolly, American admiral (d.
1962) •
April 27 –
Raizō Tanaka, Japanese admiral (d.
1969) •
April 28 –
Joseph Dunninger, American mentalist (d.
1975)
May •
May 2 –
Manfred von Richthofen (the "Red Baron"), German World War I fighter pilot (d.
1918) •
May 3 •
George Paget Thomson, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1975) •
Jacob Viner, Canadian economist (d.
1970) •
May 5 –
Dorothy Garrod, English archaeologist (d.
1968) •
May 7 •
Archibald MacLeish, American poet (d.
1982) •
Josip Broz Tito,
President of Yugoslavia (d.
1980) •
May 8 –
Andrés Córdova,
President of Ecuador (d. 1983) •
May 9 •
Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary (d.
1989) •
Ștefan Foriș, Hungarian-Romanian journalist and politician (d.
1946) •
May 11 –
Margaret Rutherford, English actress (d.
1972) •
May 12 •
Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (d.
1970) •
Jimmy Wilde, Welsh professional boxer (d.
1969) •
May 15 –
Shigeyoshi Miwa, Japanese admiral (d.
1959) •
May 16 –
Manton S. Eddy, American general (d.
1962) •
May 18 –
Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (d.
1957) •
May 20 –
Harry J. Anslinger, first commissioner of the
Federal Bureau of Narcotics (d.
1975) •
May 23 –
Pichichi, Spanish footballer (d.
1922) •
May 26 –
Maxwell Bodenheim, American poet and novelist (k.
1954) •
May 28 –
Sepp Dietrich, German Nazi politician, general and war criminal (d.
1966) •
May 29 –
Leslie Cubitt Bevis, British sculptor and teacher (d.
1984) •
May 30 –
Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d.
1972) •
May 31 –
Gregor Strasser, German Nazi politician (d.
1934)
June •
June 1 –
Amānullāh Khān, ruler of Afghanistan (d.
1960) •
June 8 –
Nikolai Polikarpov, Soviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer (d.
1944) •
June 12 –
Djuna Barnes, American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer (d.
1982) •
June 13 •
Basil Rathbone, British actor (d.
1967) •
Manuel Nieto, Filipino footballer, businessman, politician, and military official (d.
1980) •
June 16 –
Daisy Burrell, British actress (d.
1982) •
June 21 •
Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (d.
1971) •
Hilding Rosenberg, Swedish composer (d.
1985) •
June 22 –
Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d.
1945) •
June 23 –
Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist (d.
1993) •
June 25 •
Katherine Kennicott Davis, American composer (d.
1980) •
Shirō Ishii, Japanese microbiologist, lieutenant general of
Unit 731 (d.
1959) •
Mongush Buyan-Badyrgy,
Tuvan politician and statesman (d.
1932) •
June 26 –
Pearl S. Buck, American writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1973) •
June 28 •
Clifford Campbell, Jamaican educator, politician (d.
1991) •
E. H. Carr, English historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist (d.
1982) •
June 30 –
Oswald Pohl, German S.S. officer (d.
1951)
July •
July 1 –
James M. Cain, American author and journalist (d.
1977) •
July 2 •
Daniel Mercier, French footballer and soldier (d.
1914) •
Sweet Evening Breeze, African American drag queen (d.
1983) •
July 4 –
A. G. Gaston, American businessman (d.
1996) •
July 6 •
Willy Coppens, Belgian World War I flying ace (d.
1986) •
John Simpson Kirkpatrick, Australian soldier (d.
1915) •
July 8 •
Richard Aldington, English poet (d.
1962) •
Dean O'Banion, American gangster (d.
1924) •
Lester C. Hunt, American politician (d.
1954) •
July 9 –
Cromwell Dixon, American pioneer aviator (d.
1911) •
July 11 •
Trafford Leigh-Mallory, British aviator and Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal (d.
1944) •
Thomas Mitchell, American actor (d.
1962) •
July 12 –
Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d.
1942) •
July 15 •
Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and cultural critic (suicide
1940) •
Milena Rudnytska, Ukrainian educator, women's activist, politician and writer (d.
1979) •
Henry Johnson, African-American Army soldier (d.
1929) •
July 16 –
Michel Coiffard, French World War I fighter ace (d.
1918) •
July 21 –
Lenore Ulric, American actress (d.
1970) •
July 22 –
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi politician (d.
1946) •
July 23 –
Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian emperor (d.
1975) •
July 24 –
Alice Ball, African American chemist (d.
1916) •
July 29 –
William Powell, American actor (d.
1984) •
July 31 –
Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist and founder of the
Worldwide Church of God (d.
1986)
August •
August 2 –
Jack L. Warner, Canadian film producer (d.
1978) •
August 6 –
Hoot Gibson, American actor, film director (d.
1962) •
August 7 •
Mohammad Taqi Pessian, Iranian Commander (d.
1921) •
August 11 •
Władysław Anders, Polish general, politician (d.
1970) •
Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (d.
1978) •
August 12 –
Alfred Lunt, American actor, stage director (d.
1977) •
August 14 –
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (d.
1988) •
August 15 •
Louis de Broglie, French physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1987) •
Walther Nehring, German general (d.
1983) •
August 17 –
Tamon Yamaguchi, Japanese admiral (d.
1942) •
August 20 –
George Aiken, American politician and horticulturist (d.
1984) •
August 21 –
Charles Vanel, French actor and director (d.
1989) •
August 22 –
Percy Fender, English cricketer (d.
1985) •
August 25 –
Gabriel Guérin, French World War I fighter ace (d.
1918) •
August 26 –
Elizebeth Smith Friedman, American cryptographer (d.
1980) •
August 27 –
Helen Gibson, American actress and performer (d.
1977) •
August 29 –
Kwan Sung-sing, Chinese construction engineer, architect, and entrepreneur (d.
1960)
September •
September 1 –
Harold Lamb, American writer, novelist, and historian (d.
1962) •
September 4 –
Darius Milhaud, French composer (d.
1974) •
September 5 –
Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d.
1973) •
September 6 –
Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1965) •
September 9 –
Tsuru Aoki, Japanese American actress (d.
1961) •
September 10 –
Arthur Compton, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1962) •
September 11 –
Pinto Colvig, American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor and circus performer (original voice of Goofy) (d.
1967) •
September 12 –
Alfred A. Knopf Sr., American publisher (d.
1984) •
September 13 –
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Duchess of Brunswick (d.
1980) •
September 20 –
Patricia Collinge, Irish-American actress (d.
1974) •
September 24 •
Julia Faye, American actress (d.
1966) •
Adélard Godbout, Canadian
agronomist and politician (d.
1956)
October •
October 2 –
Ilie Crețulescu, Romanian general (d.
1971) •
October 4 •
Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian statesman, chancellor (d.
1934) •
Luis Trenker, South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect and alpinist (d.
1990) •
October 7 –
Louis C. Fraina, founder of the
Communist Party USA (d.
1953) •
October 8 –
Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d.
1941) •
October 9 –
Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1975) •
October 14 –
Andrei Yeremenko, Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d.
1970) •
October 16 –
Kiyonao Ichiki, Imperial Japanese Army officer (d.
1942) •
October 17 •
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, Indian jurist, economist (d.
1953) •
Theodor Eicke, German Nazi and
Waffen-SS general (d.
1943) •
Herbert Howells, English composer, organist, and teacher (d.
1983) •
October 20 –
Oliver Goonetilleke, Sri Lankan statesman (d.
1978) •
October 23 –
Gummo Marx, American actor, comedian (d.
1977) •
October 25 –
Nell Shipman, Canadian actress, writer, and director (d.
1970) •
October 27 •
Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian writer (d.
1953) •
Charles Ledoux, French wrestler (d.
1967) •
October 29 –
Stanisław Ostrowski,
President of Poland (d.
1982) •
October 30 –
Charles Atlas, Italian-American
strongman,
sideshow performer (d.
1972) •
October 31 –
Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess champion (d.
1946)
November •
November 2 –
Alice Brady, American actress (d.
1939) •
November 3 –
Maria Antonescu, Romanian socialite and philanthropist (d.
1964) •
November 5 –
J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist (d.
1964) •
November 9 –
Erich Auerbach, German philologist (d.
1957) •
November 12 –
Guo Moruo, Chinese author, poet (d.
1978) •
November 16 •
Richard Hale, American singer, actor (d.
1981) •
Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (d.
1953) •
November 20 •
James Collip, Canadian
biochemist (d.
1965) •
November 22 –
Emma Tillman, American supercentenarian, briefly the world's oldest living person and last surviving person born in 1892 (d.
2007) •
November 25 –
Arthur Blackburn, Australian soldier, lawyer, and politician (d.
1960)
December •
December 3 –
Clarence Kretlow, American politician (d.
1954) •
December 4 •
Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (d.
1975) •
Liu Bocheng, Chinese military officer and
Marshal(d.
1986) •
December 5 –
Cyril Ring, American film actor (d.
1967) •
December 6 –
Osbert Sitwell, English writer (d.
1969) •
December 7 –
Max Ehrlich, German actor, screenwriter and humor writer (d.
1944 in
Auschwitz concentration camp) •
December 8 –
Bert Hinkler, Australian aviator (d.
1933) •
December 11 –
Arnold Majewski, Finnish military hero of Polish descent (d.
1942) •
December 12 •
Edward Almond, American general (d.
1979) •
Herman Potočnik, Slovenian rocket engineer (d.
1929) •
Minnie Evans, African-American artist (d.
1987) •
December 15 –
J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (d.
1976) •
December 17 –
Sam Barry, American collegiate coach (d.
1950) •
December 21 •
Rebecca West, English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer (d.
1983) •
Walter Hagen, American professional golfer (d.
1969) •
December 24 •
Ruth Chatterton, American actress, novelist and aviator (d.
1961) •
Banarsidas Chaturvedi, Indian writer (d.
1985) •
December 26 –
Don Barclay, American actor (d.
1975) •
December 29 –
Emory Parnell, American actor (d.
1979) •
December 31 –
Stanley Price, American film, television actor (d.
1955)
Date unknown •
Ahmad Daouk, two-time prime minister of Lebanon (d.
1979) •
Abdallah Khalil, third Prime Minister of Sudan (d.
1970) •
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, Former Prime Minister of Iraq (d.
1965) == Deaths ==