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Birthdays

January 1 - Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist
January 1 - Basil Dearden, British film director (d. 1971)
January 1 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986)
January 3 - John Sturges, American director (d. 1982)
January 5 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. 2001)
January 7 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
January 8 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (d. 2006)
January 11 - Nora Heysen, Australian artist (d. 2003)
January 11 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
January 13 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
January 14 - Anatoly Rybakov, Russian writer (d. 1998)
January 16 - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
January 16 - Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician (d.1982)
January 17 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist
January 22 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
January 26 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist
January 26 - Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (d. 2002)
January 29 - Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
January 30 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)
January 31 - Eddie Byrne, British actor (d. 1981)
February 3 - Jehan Alain, French organist and composer (d. 1940)
February 3 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006)
February 5 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
February 6 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
February 8 - Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (d. 1979)
February 9 - William Darby, American World War II Army officer (d. 1945)
February 12 - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (d. 1968)
February 13 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani Urdu poet
February 15 - Leonard Woodcock, American labor union official and diplomat (d. 2001)
February 17 - Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born American literary scholar (d. 1984)
February 19 - Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979)
February 22 - Bill Baker, American baseball player (d. 2006)
February 26 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (d. 1996)
March 3 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
March 3 - Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician and Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 1982)
March 8 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000)
March 12 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico (d. 1979)
March 13 - L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction author and founder of Scientology (d. 1986)
March 16 - Dr. Josef Mengele, German
March 16 - Pierre Harmel, Belgian politician
March 18 - Smiley Burnette, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
March 20 - Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
March 24 - Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
March 25 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
March 26 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist
March 26 - Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (d. 1983)
March 26 - T. Hee, American animator (d. 1988)
March 28 - J. L. Austin, British philosopher of language (d. 1960)
March 29 - Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)
March 31 - Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986)
April 4 - Max Dupain, Australian photographer (d. 1992)
April 6 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist
April 7 - Hervé Bazin, French writer (d. 1996)
April 8 - Melvin Calvin, American chemist
April 8 - Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. 1995)
April 10 - Martin Denny, American musician (d. 2005)
April 11 - Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish runner (d. 1980)
April 12 - Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization Engineer (d. 1976)
April 13 - Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946)
April 13 - Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 1994)
April 21 - Ivan Combe, American inventor (d. 2000)
April 26 - Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
April 28 - Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (d. 1999)
May 7 - Ishiro Honda, Japanese film director (d. 1993)
May 8 - Robert Johnson, American blues musician (d. 1938)
May 10 - Bel Kaufman, American author
May 11 - Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (d. 2004)
May 11 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)
May 13 - Robert Middleton, American film and television actor (d. 1977)
May 15 - Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991)
May 15 - Herta Oberheuser, Nazi doctor (d. 1978)
May 17 - Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish-born supermodel (d. 1992)
May 17 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (d. 1998)
May 18 - Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (d. 1985)
May 20 - Gardner Fox, American writer (d. 1986)
May 22 - Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born mathematical psychologist and pianist (d. 2007)
May 24 - Barbara West, English survivor of the Titanic sinking (d. 2007)
May 26 - Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969)
May 27 - Hubert H. Humphrey, American politician (d. 1978)
May 27 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician (d. 2007)
May 27 - Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
May 28 - Thora Hird, British actress (d. 2003)
May 28 - Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (d. 1986)
May 29 - Armida, Mexican-American stage
May 31 - Maurice Allais, French economist
June 3 - Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
June 3 - Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
June 7 - Brooks Stevens, automotive designer (d. 1995)
June 8 - Edmundo Rivero, Argentine singer (d. 1986)
June 9 - George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
June 10 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician and musicologist (d. 1984)
June 10 - Terence Rattigan, British playwright (d. 1977)
June 13 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist
June 13 - Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German-born physicist (d. 1977)
June 15 - W.V. Awdry, British children's writer (d. 1997)
June 20 - Gail Patrick, American actress (d. 1980)
June 24 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine Formula One driver and five-time World Driving Champion (d. 1995)
June 24 - Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer
June 25 - William Howard Stein, American chemist
June 26 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (d. 1956)
June 29 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, (d. 2004)
June 29 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
June 30 - Czes³aw Mi³osz, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
July 1 - Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal
July 4 - Mitch Miller, American entertainer
July 5 - Georges Pompidou, French politician (d. 1974)
July 7 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (d. 2007)
July 9 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968)
July 9 - John A. Wheeler, American physicist (d. 2008)
July 14 - Terry-Thomas, British actor (d. 1990)
July 15 - Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
July 16 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
July 16 - Sonny Tufts, American actor (d. 1970)
July 17 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979)
July 18 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
July 20 - Baqa Jilani, Indian cricketer (d. 1941)
July 21 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author (d. 1980)
July 27 - Rayner Heppenstall, British novelist (d. 1981)
July 29 - Foster Furcolo, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1995)
July 29 - Iakovos, Archbishop of America (d. 2005)
July 31 - George Liberace, American musician (d. 1983)
August 1 - Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
August 3 - Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
August 5 - Robert Taylor, American actor (d. 1969)
August 6 - Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989)
August 6 - Norman Gordon, South African cricketer
August 7 - Nicholas Ray, American director and scenarist (d. 1979)
August 8 - Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
August 9 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist
August 9 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (d. 2001)
August 10 - A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (d. 1993)
August 12 - Cantinflas, Mexican actor (d. 1993)
August 13 - William Bernbach, Famous Advertiser (d. 1982)
August 16 - E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (d. 1977)
August 17 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995)
August 23 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (d. 1998)
August 24 - Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (d.1995)
August 25 - Vo Nguyen Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp), Vietnamese general and statesman
August 27 - Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
August 28 - Joseph Luns, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
August 31 - Edward Brongersma, Dutch politician
September 2 - Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988)
September 3 - Bernard Mammes, American cyclist (d. 2000)
September 6 - Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004)
September 7 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist leader during the Cold War (d. 1998)
September 9 - John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)
September 9 - Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
September 11 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban pianist (d. 1971)
September 13 - Bill Monroe, American singer (d. 1996)
September 15 - Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
September 18 - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
September 19 - Sir William Golding, English writer
September 20 - Shriram Sharma Acharya, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1991)
September 23 - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)
September 24 - Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d. 1985)
September 25 - Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
September 27 - John Harvey, actor (d. 1982)
October 2 - Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995)
October 3 - Michael Hordern, English actor (d. 1995)
October 5 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (d. 1966)
October 7 - Vaughn Monroe, American singer (d. 1973)
October 7 - Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)
October 9 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
October 13 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001)
October 14 - Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician
October 24 - Sonny Terry, American blues musician (d. 1986)
October 24 - Paul Grégoire, French Canadian archbishop of Montreal (d. 1993)
October 26 - Sid Gilman, American football player (d. 2003)
October 26 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (d. 1972)
October 26 - Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (d. 1996)
October 27 - Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
October 30 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
November 1 - Henri Troyat, French author and historian (d. 2007)
November 2 - Odysseus Elytis, Greek writer
November 2 - Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)
November 5 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
November 9 - Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
November 12 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
November 13 - Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (d. 2006)
November 17 - Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)
November 18 - Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000)
November 24 - Joe Medwick, baseball player (d. 1975)
November 24 - Kirby Grant, American actor (d. 1985)
November 25 - Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d. 1984)
November 27 - David Merrick, American stage producer (d. 2000)
November 27 - Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist
November 28 - Václav Renč, Czech poet (d. 1973)
November 30 - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
December 1 - Walter Alston, American baseball manager (d. 1984)
December 1 - Calvin Griffith, Canadian-born baseball executive (d. 1999)
December 3 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979)
December 5 - Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist (d. 2000)
December 8 - Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
December 8 - Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (d. 1992)
December 9 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
December 9 - Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese educator (d. 2007)
December 10 - Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)
December 11 - Val Guest, English film director (d. 2006)
December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer
December 13 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1999)
December 13 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972)
December 14 - Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965)
December 14 - Hans von Ohain, German/American aerospace engineer (d. 1998)
December 15 - Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer (d. 1991)
December 15 - Stan Kenton, American musician (d. 1979)
December 18 - Jules Dassin, American film director (d. 2008)
December 20 - Hortense Calisher, American author
December 21 - Josh Gibson, American baseball player (d. 1947)
December 23 - Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist
December 23 - James Gregory, American actor (d. 2002)
December 25 - Louise Bourgeois, sculptor
December 26 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (d. 1962)
December 30 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (d. 1998)
December 31 - Dal Stivens, Australian novelist (d. 1997)

Deaths

January 3 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
January 9 - Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
January 9 - Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
January 17 - Sir Francis Galton, English polymath
January 24 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
February 15 - Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (b. 1859)
February 18 - Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
March 1 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist
March 13 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844)
April 13 - George Washington Glick, American politician (b. 1827)
April 13 - John McLane, American politician (b. 1852)
April 14 - Addie Joss, American baseball player (b. 1880)
April 14 - Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
April 25 - Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
May 18 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
May 21 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b. 1857)
May 29 - William S. Gilbert, English dramatist (b. 1836)
June 7 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
June 11 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (b. 1815)
August 1 - Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (b. 1843)
August 5 - Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (b. 1864)
August 8 - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
September 11 - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
September 16 - Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (b. 1840)
September 18 - Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician (b. 1862)
September 27 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)
October 7 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b. 1835)
October 14 - John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)
October 18 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857)
October 29 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (b. 1847)
November 9 - Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
November 16 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842)
December 10 - Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)

Events

January 1 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
January 12 - The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
January 18 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
January 21 - The first Monte Carlo Rally.
January 26 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
January 26 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
January 30 - The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
January 30 - The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
February 18 - The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
March 4 - Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in U.S..
March 8 - International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
March 25 - In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
April 6 - Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
April 27 - Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
May 11 - The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
May 15 - The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
May 15 - The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece.
May 23 - the New York Public Library is dedicated.
May 30 - At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
May 31 - R.M.S. Titanic launched.
June 15 - Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
June 16 - A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
July 24 - Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
August 8 - The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
August 8 - Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913.
August 14 - United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
August 21 - The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
August 22 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
August 29 - Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
September 7 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
September 18 - Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
September 25 - Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
September 29 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
October 9 - An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
October 10 - Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
October 10 - The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
October 23 - First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
October 24 - Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
November 1 - The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
November 3 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
November 5 - After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
November 11 - Many cities in the U.S. Midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
November 17 - The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the first African-American fraternity at a historically black college or university, is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
December 12 - Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
December 14 - Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
December 29 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China.
December 29 - Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty.

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