January–February •
January 11 –
Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (d.
2008) •
January 12 –
Eric Birley, British historian and archaeologist (d.
1995) •
January 13 –
Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (d.
2017) •
January 14 –
William Bendix, American film, radio and television actor (d.
1964) •
January 15 –
Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d.
1975) •
January 16 –
Diana Wynyard, English actress (d.
1964) •
January 21 –
Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d.
2007) •
January 22 –
Robert E. Howard, American
pulp fiction writer (suicide
1936) •
January 28 –
Pat O'Callaghan, Irish athlete (d.
1991) •
February 4 •
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German religious, resistance leader (executed
1945) •
Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d.
1997) •
February 5 –
John Carradine, American actor (d.
1988) •
February 7 •
Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d.
1984) •
Puyi, Last Emperor of China (d.
1967) •
February 8 –
Chester Carlson, American physicist, inventor (d.
1968) •
February 10 –
Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d.
1973) •
February 14 –
Nazim al-Qudsi, 26th
Prime Minister of Syria and 14th
President of Syria (d.
1998) •
February 17 •
Galo Plaza, 29th President of Ecuador (d.
1987) •
Käte Selbmann, German politician (d.
1962) •
February 18 –
Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d.
1980) •
February 26 –
Madeleine Carroll, British actress (d.
1987) •
February 28 –
Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (k.
1947)
March–April •
March 1 •
Phạm Văn Đồng, Prime Minister of Vietnam (d.
2000) •
Abdus Sattar, 8th President of Bangladesh (d.
1985) •
March 6 –
Lou Costello, American actor (d.
1959) •
March 13 –
Dave Kaye, British pianist (d.
1996) •
March 16 –
Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (d.
2009) •
March 19 –
Adolf Eichmann, German war criminal (executed
1962) •
March 20 –
Ozzie Nelson, American actor, director and producer (d.
1975) •
March 21 –
Jim Thompson, American businessman (disappeared
1967) •
March 25 –
A. J. P. Taylor, English historian (d.
1990) •
March 26 –
Rafael Méndez, Mexican trumpet player (d.
1981) •
March 31 –
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1979) •
April 1 –
Alexander Yakovlev, Russian politician, architect of
perestroika (d.
1989) •
April 4 –
Bea Benaderet, American actress (d.
1968) •
April 5 –
Yin Shun, Chinese Buddhist master (d.
2005) •
April 6 –
Virginia Hall, American spy with the
Special Operations Executive during WWII (d.
1982) •
April 9 –
Antal Doráti, Hungarian-born American conductor (d.
1988) •
April 13 –
Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1989) •
April 22 –
Eddie Albert, American actor and activist (d.
2005) •
April 24 –
William Joyce, Irish-American World War II Nazi propaganda broadcaster ("Lord Haw-Haw") (executed
1946) •
April 25 •
Joel Brand, Hungarian rescue worker (d.
1964) •
William J. Brennan Jr.,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
1997) •
A. W. Haydon, American inventor (d.
1982) •
April 28 •
Tony Accardo, American gangster (d.
1992) •
Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (d.
1978) •
April 29 –
Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1989)
May–June •
May 3 –
Mary Astor, American actress and writer (d.
1987) •
May 6 –
André Weil, French mathematician (d.
1998) •
May 8 –
Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d.
1977) •
May 11 •
Jacqueline Cochran, American aviator (d.
1980) •
Richard Arvin Overton, oldest living man in the United States and oldest surviving American veteran (
World War II) (d.
2018) •
May 15 –
Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general, politician (d.
1965) •
May 16 –
Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d.
2001) •
May 19 •
Bruce Bennett, American athlete, actor (d.
2007) •
Jimmy MacDonald, Scottish-American sound effects artist, voice actor (d.
1991) •
May 20 –
Giuseppe Siri, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d.
1989) •
May 27 –
Ajahn Buddhadasa, Thai Buddhist monk (d.
1993) •
May 29 –
T. H. White, British writer (d.
1964) •
June 3 –
Josephine Baker, American-born French entertainer (d.
1975) •
June 6 –
Max August Zorn, German-born American mathematician (d.
1993) •
June 15 –
Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist (d.
1994) •
June 17 –
James H. Flatley, American admiral, aviator (d.
1958) •
June 19 – Sir
Ernst Chain, German-born British biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1979) •
June 22 •
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author, aviator (d.
2001) •
Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American screenwriter, film director and producer (d.
2002) •
June 24 –
Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d.
1986) •
June 26 •
Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer, teacher, sculptor and artist (d.
2008) •
M. P. Sivagnanam, Indian politician (d.
1995) •
June 27 –
Catherine Cookson, English author (d.
1998) •
June 28 –
Maria Goeppert Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1972)
July–August •
July 1 •
Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician, academic (d.
1992) •
Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (d.
2004) •
Ivan Neill, British Army officer and
Irish Unionist politician (d.
2001) •
July 2 •
Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2005) •
Károly Kárpáti, Hungarian Jewish wrestler (d.
1996) •
July 3 •
Alberto Lleras Camargo, Colombian politician, 20th
President of Colombia (d.
1990) •
George Sanders, Russian-born British actor (d.
1972) •
July 4 –
Vincent Schaefer, American chemist, meteorologist (d.
1993) •
July 7 •
Helene Johnson, African-American poet (d.
1995) •
Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d.
1982) •
July 8 –
Philip Johnson, American architect (d.
2005) •
July 11 –
Herbert Wehner, German politician (d.
1990) •
July 17 –
Dunc Gray, Australian track cyclist (d.
1996) •
July 18 –
S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-born American academic, politician (d.
1992) •
July 21 –
Caroline Smith, American diver (d.
1994) •
July 23 –
Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1998) •
August 5 •
Joan Hickson, British actress (d.
1998) •
John Huston, American film director, screenwriter, and actor (d.
1987) •
Wassily Leontief, Russian economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1999) •
August 5 –
Marie-José of Belgium, last Queen of Italy (d.
2001) •
August 14 –
Horst P. Horst, German photographer (d.
1999) •
August 17 –
Marcelo Caetano,
Prime Minister of Portugal (d.
1980) •
August 19 –
Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (d.
1971) •
August 26 –
Albert Sabin, Polish-born American medical researcher (d.
1993) •
August 27 –
Ed Gein, American serial killer (d.
1984) •
August 28 –
John Betjeman, English poet (d.
1984) •
August 30 –
Joan Blondell, American actress (d.
1979)
September–October •
September 1 •
Joaquín Balaguer, 41st, 45th, & 49th
President of the Dominican Republic, writer (d.
2002) •
Eleanor Alice Burford, English writer (d.
1993) •
September 4 –
Max Delbrück, German-born American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1981) •
September 6 –
Luis Federico Leloir, French-born Argentine chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1987) •
September 8 –
Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d.
1990) •
September 17 –
J. R. Jayewardene, President of Sri Lanka (d.
1996) •
September 26 •
José Figueres Ferrer, 32nd, 34th, & 38th
President of Costa Rica (d.
1990) •
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d.
1975) •
September 27 –
William Empson, English poet, critic (d.
1984) •
October 6 –
Janet Gaynor, American Academy Award-winning actress (d.
1984) •
October 9 –
Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1st
President of Senegal (d.
2001) •
October 10 –
R. K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d.
2001) •
October 14 •
Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d.
1949) •
Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (d.
1975) •
October 23 –
Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d.
2003) •
October 24 –
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian-born British painter (d.
1996) •
October 26 –
Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (d.
1967) •
October 29 –
Fredric Brown, American writer (d.
1972)
November–December •
November 2 •
Ferit Melen, 14th
Prime Minister of Turkey (d.
1988) •
Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre, cinema director, writer (d.
1976) •
November 5 •
Philip Roberts, British general (d.
1997) •
Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d.
2004) •
November 9 –
Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (d.
1996) •
November 10 –
Josef Kramer, German Nazi concentration camp commandant (d.
1945) •
November 13 •
Wanrong, last empress of China (d.
1946) •
Hermione Baddeley, English character actress (d.
1986) •
November 14 –
Louise Brooks, American actress (d.
1985) •
November 15 –
Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force general, vice-presidential candidate (d.
1990) •
November 16 –
Henri Charrière, French author (d.
1973) •
November 17 –
Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d.
1991) •
November 18 •
Alec Issigonis, Greek-born British automobile designer (d.
1988) •
Klaus Mann, German writer (d.
1949) •
George Wald, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1997) •
November 22 –
Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist (d.
1983) •
December 5 –
Ahn Eak-tai, Korean composer and conductor (d.
1965) •
December 9 –
Grace Hopper, American computer scientist, naval officer (d.
1992) •
December 13 •
Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d.
1968) •
Laurens van der Post, South African author, journalist (d.
1996) •
December 19 –
Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d.
1982) •
December 24 –
James Hadley Chase, English writer (d.
1985) •
December 25 –
Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1988) •
December 27 –
Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor (d.
1972) •
December 30 –
Carol Reed, English film director (d.
1976) == Deaths ==