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Birthdays

January 1 - Ty Hardin, American film actor
January 1 - Gaafar al-Nimeiry, President of Sudan 1971–85
January 2 - Julius LaRosa, American singer
January 3 - Marcel Dubé, Quebec playwright
January 3 - Robert Loggia, American actor
January 4 - Sorrell Booke, American actor (d. 1994)
January 4 - Don Shula, American football coach
January 6 - Vic Tayback, American actor (d. 1990)
January 10 - Roy Edward Disney, American film executive
January 11 - Ron Mulock, Australian politician
January 11 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor
January 12 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (d. 1974)
January 12 - Glenn Yarborough, American singer
January 13 - Liz Anderson, American singer
January 13 - Frances Sternhagen, American actress
January 15 - Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler (d. 1985)
January 16 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006)
January 16 - Norman Podhoretz, US writer
January 17 - Eddie LeBaron, American football player
January 19 - Tippi Hedren, American actress
January 20 - Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
January 23 - Derek Walcott, West Indian writer
January 23 - Teresa Żylis-Gara, Polish singer
January 25 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (d. 1944)
January 27 - Bobby Blue Bland, American singer
January 29 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
January 29 - John Junkin, English radio
January 30 - Sandy Amorós, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992)
January 30 - Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
January 30 - Gene Hackman, American actor
January 30 - Magnus Malan, South African politician
January 31 - Lynn Carlin, American actress
January 31 - Joakim Bonnier, Swedish racecar driver (d. 1972)
February 1 - Shahabuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
February 1 - Mario Beaulieu, Quebec politician (d. 1998)
February 1 - Hossain Mohammad Ershad, Bangladeshi politician
February 3 - Gillian Ayres, English painter
February 5 - John A. Gambling, American radio show host (d. 2004)
February 8 - James Deetz, American anthropologist (d. 2000)
February 8 - Alejandro Rey, Argentine actor (d. 1987)
February 9 - Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003)
February 10 - Robert Wagner, American actor
February 10 - E.L. Konigsburg, American author
February 11 - Roy De Forest, American Painter (d. 2007)
February 12 - Arlen Specter, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
February 13 - Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist
February 15 - Nico Minardos, American actor
February 17 - Roger Craig, American baseball player and manager
February 17 - Ruth Rendell, English writer
February 18 - Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist
February 19 - John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002)
February 20 - Willie Cunningham, Northern Irish footballer
February 22 - Marni Nixon, American singer
February 22 - James McGarrell, American painter
February 26 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (d. 2005)
February 27 - Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
February 27 - Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
February 27 - Joanne Woodward, American actress
February 28 - Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist
February 28 - Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
February 28 - Gavin MacLeod, American actor
March 1 - Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (d. 1980)
March 2 - Emma Penella, Spanish actress (d. 2007)
March 2 - John Cullum, American actor and singer
March 3 - Heiner Geißler, German politician
March 3 - Ion Iliescu, President of Romania
March 5 - Del Crandall, American baseball player
March 6 - Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor
March 7 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
March 8 - Bob Grim, American baseball player (d. 1996)
March 9 - Ornette Coleman, American musician
March 11 - Claude Jutra, Quebec film actor and director (d. 1986)
March 12 - Vernon Law, American baseball player
March 13 - Jan Howard, American singer
March 13 - Liz Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter
March 15 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist
March 16 - Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (d. 2001)
March 17 - James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991)
March 18 - Pat Halcox, British musician
March 19 - Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist
March 21 - James Coco, actor (d. 1987)
March 22 - Derek Bok, American lawyer and educator
March 22 - Pat Robertson, American televangelist
March 22 - Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist
March 24 - David Dacko, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
March 24 - Agustín González, Spanish actor (d. 2005)
March 24 - Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
March 26 - Gregory Corso, American poet (d. 2001)
March 26 - Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
March 28 - Robert Ashley, American composer
March 28 - Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
March 28 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist
March 30 - John Astin, American actor
March 30 - Rolf Harris, Australian artist and entertainer
April 1 - Grace Lee Whitney, American actress
April 3 - Lawton Chiles, U.S. (Florida) Senator and Governor (d. 1998)
April 3 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany
April 3 - Wally Moon, American baseball player
April 7 - Andrew Sachs, English actor
April 8 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma
April 9 - F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
April 9 - Nathaniel Branden, Canadian psychotherapist
April 10 - Claude Bolling, French jazz composer/pianist
April 10 - Dolores Huerta, American labor activist
April 10 - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actor/comedian (d. 2006)
April 10 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish comedian (d. 2001)
April 11 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
April 12 - Manuel Neri, American artist
April 12 - Micha³ ¯yczkowski, Polish technician (d. 2006)
April 14 - Bradford Dillman, American actor
April 15 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
April 16 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flute player (d. 2003)
April 17 - Chris Barber, British jazz band leader
April 18 - Clive Revill, New Zealand born actor
April 19 - Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
April 21 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
April 24 - Jerome Callet, American musician
April 24 - Richard Donner, American film director and producer
April 25 - Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer
April 26 - Roger Moens, Belgian athlete
April 28 - James Baker, American politician
April 28 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
April 29 - Jean Rochefort, French actor
May 1 - Richard Riordan, former mayor of Los Angeles
May 1 - Little Walter, American blues singer (d. 1995)
May 2 - Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist
May 4 - Roberta Peters, American soprano
May 4 - Katherine Jackson, mother of the Jackson musical family
May 7 - Totie Fields, American comedienne (d. 1978)
May 8 - Heather Harper, Irish singer
May 8 - Gary Snyder, American poet
May 9 - Joan Sims, British actress (d. 2001)
May 10 - Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster
May 10 - Scott Muni, American radio DJ (d. 2004)
May 11 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
May 11 - Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007)
May 12 - Jesús Franco, Spanish film director
May 13 - Mike Gravel, Former Democratic Senator of Alaska and 2008 Presidential Candidate
May 13 - José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish writer
May 13 - Vernon Shaw, former president of Dominica
May 15 - Jasper Johns, American painter
May 16 - Betty Carter, American jazz singer (d. 1998)
May 16 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (d. 2000)
May 18 - Warren Rudman, American politician
May 19 - Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d. 1965)
May 20 - Sam Etcheverry, American football player and coach
May 21 - Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician
May 22 - John Barth, American writer
May 22 - Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist (d. 1978)
May 22 - Kenny Ball, British musician
May 23 - Friedrich Achleitner, German poet
May 24 - Hans-Martin Linde, German conductor
May 27 - John Barth, American novelist
May 27 - William S. Sessions, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
May 30 - Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)
May 30 - Robert Ryman, American painter
May 31 - Clint Eastwood, American film director and actor
June 1 - John Lemmon, English logician (d. 1966)
June 1 - Edward Woodward, English actor
June 2 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
June 2 - Bob Lillis, baseball player
June 3 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999)
June 3 - Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
June 3 - Ben Wada, Japanese television producers
June 4 - Morgana King, American actress
June 4 - Viktor Tikhonov, Russian hockey player and coach
June 5 - Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
June 8 - Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli mathematician; Nobel laureate
June 8 - Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (d. 1993)
June 9 - Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
June 11 - Charles B. Rangel, American politician
June 12 - Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
June 12 - Jim Nabors, American actor
June 12 - Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver (d. 1993)
June 13 - Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel (d. 2004)
June 15 - Marcel Pronovost, Canadian professional ice hockey player
June 16 - Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian/American cinematographer
June 17 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
June 19 - Gena Rowlands, American actress
June 20 - Paul Pender, American boxer
June 20 - Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish artist
June 21 - Sir Gerald Kaufman, British politician
June 21 - Mike McCormack, American professional football player
June 22 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
June 24 - Claude Chabrol, French film director
June 24 - William B. Ziff, Jr.
June 25 - George Murdock, American actor
June 25 - Mary Beth Peil, American singer
June 27 - Ross Perot, American businessman and politician
June 28 - Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
June 29 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
June 29 - Robert Evans, American film producer
July 1 - Bobby Day, American singer (d. 1990)
July 1 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
July 2 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
July 3 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
July 3 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (d. 1997)
July 3 - Pete Fountain, American clarinetist
July 4 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor
July 4 - George Steinbrenner, American businessman
July 4 - Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet Olympic rower
July 7 - Henry (Hank) Mobley, American Jazz composer and saxophonist (d. 1986)
July 9 - Buddy Bregman, American musical arranger and conductor
July 9 - Roy McLean, South African cricketer (d. 2007)
July 11 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic
July 12 - Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor
July 14 - Polly Bergen, American actress
July 15 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
July 15 - Stephen Smale, American mathematician
July 15 - Richard Garneau, French Canadian sports journalist
July 16 - Michael Bilirakis, American politician
July 16 - Guy Béart, Egyptian-born French singer and songwriter
July 18 - Burt Kwouk, English actor
July 20 - Chuck Daly, American basketball coach
July 20 - Sally Ann Howes, English-born singer and actress
July 21 - Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (d. 2002)
July 25 - Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
July 25 - Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990)
July 25 - Annie Ross, British jazz singer
July 25 - Murray Chapple, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
July 27 - Shirley Williams, British politician
July 28 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
July 28 - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (d. 1998)
July 28 - Ramsey Withers, Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada
July 29 - Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer
July 31 - Oleg Popov, Russian clown
August 1 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
August 1 - Lionel Bart, English song-writer (d. 1999)
August 1 - Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (d. 1991)
August 2 - Vali Myers, Australian painter (d. 2003)
August 4 - Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iranian shia cleric
August 5 - Neil Armstrong, American astronaut
August 5 - Michal Kováč, President of Slovakia
August 6 - Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer
August 9 - Jacques Parizeau, Quebec economist and politician
August 12 - George Soros Hungarian-American financier and political activist,
August 12 - Jacques Tits, Belgian mathematician
August 13 - Don Ho, American musician (d. 2007)
August 13 - Bernard Manning, English comedian (d. 2007)
August 13 - Wilmer David Mizell, American baseball player (d. 1999)
August 14 - Earl Weaver, American baseball manager
August 15 - Ageeda Paavel, Estonian freedom fighter
August 16 - Robert Culp, American actor
August 16 - Frank Gifford, American football player and announcer
August 16 - Tony Trabert, American former tennis player
August 17 - Glenn Corbett, American actor (d. 1993)
August 17 - Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
August 18 - Liviu Librescu, Israeli professor
August 19 - Frank McCourt, Irish-American author
August 20 - Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor
August 21 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
August 21 - Frank Perry, American film director (d. 1995)
August 22 - Gilmar, Brazilian football player
August 23 - Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France
August 25 - Sean Connery, Scottish actor
August 25 - Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
August 25 - Bruce Allpress, New Zealand actor
August 26 - Joe Solomon, West Indian cricketer
August 28 - Windsor Davies, British actor
August 28 - Ben Gazzara, American actor
August 29 - Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006)
August 30 - Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
August 30 - Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach
August 30 - Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1981)
September 3 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d. 2002)
September 7 - Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist
September 7 - Baudouin I, King of the Belgians (d. 1993)
September 8 - Nguyen Cao Ky, South Vietnamese politician
September 8 - Mario Adorf, Swiss-born German actor
September 8 - Robert W. Firestone, American clinical psychologist
September 9 - Frank Lucas, Drug Lord
September 11 - Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (d. 1997)
September 11 - Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
September 13 - Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron
September 14 - Allan Bloom, American academic (d. 1992)
September 16 - Anne Francis, American actress
September 17 - Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
September 17 - Jim Rohn, American business philosopher
September 17 - Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
September 17 - Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
September 19 - Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker (d. 2002)
September 23 - Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
September 23 - Sehba Akhtar, Pakistani poet (d.1996)
September 23 - Colin Blakely, British actor (d. 1987)
September 24 - Józef Krupiñski, Polish poet (d. 1998)
September 24 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
September 24 - John W. Young, American astronaut
September 25 - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)
September 26 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966)
September 26 - Joe Brown (climber), English climber
September 29 - Colin Dexter, British author of Inspector Morse novels
October 1 - Frank Gardner, Australian racing driver
October 1 - Sir Richard Harris, Irish actor (d. 2002)
October 1 - Naimatullah Khan, Pakistani politician
October 1 - Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
October 2 - Dave Barrett, Premier of British Columbia
October 5 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d. 1999)
October 5 - Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut
October 5 - Reinhard Selten, German economist
October 6 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
October 6 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer
October 8 - Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996)
October 10 - Eugenio Castellotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1957)
October 10 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist
October 10 - Harold Pinter, English playwright
October 10 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)
October 11 - Sam Johnson, American politician
October 11 - LaVell Edwards, American football coach
October 14 - Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (d. 1997)
October 15 - Fereydun M. Esfandiary, Iranian philosopher (d. 2000)
October 16 - Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
October 17 - Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
October 17 - Jimmy Breslin, American newspaper columnist and author
October 21 - Ivan Stepanovich Silayev, Last prime minister of the Soviet Union
October 24 - J.P. Richardson, The Big Bopper
October 24 - Johan Galtung, Norwegian peace researcher
October 24 - Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
October 28 - Bernie Ecclestone, English motorsports impresario (F1)
October 29 - Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (d. 2006)
October 29 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
October 29 - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
October 29 - Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer
October 30 - Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
October 30 - Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
October 31 - Michael Collins, American astronaut
November 1 - A. R. Gurney, American playwright
November 3 - D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
November 3 - Peggy McCay, American actress
November 3 - Brian Robinson, British cyclist
November 3 - Lois Smith, American actress
November 3 - Frits Staal, Dutch-American scholar (b. 1930)
November 4 - Doris Roberts, American actress
November 4 - Dick Groat, American baseball player
November 11 - Hank Garland, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2004)
November 11 - Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
November 11 - Vernon Handley, English conductor
November 12 - Ann Flood, American actress
November 14 - Charles De Sorgher, Belgian bobsledder
November 14 - Edward White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
November 14 - Michael Robbins, British actor (d. 1992)
November 14 - Monique Mercure, French Canadian actress
November 14 - Shirley Crabtree, professional wrestler (d. 1997)
November 15 - J. G. Ballard, British author
November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author
November 16 - Salvatore Riina, Sicilian mafioso
November 17 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete (d. 2006)
November 23 - Jack McKeon, American baseball manager
November 24 - Bob Friend, baseball player
November 26 - Berthold Leibinger, German Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
November 27 - Joe DeNardo, Pittsburgh Meteorologist
November 29 - Shirley Porter, English politician
November 30 - G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate operative and talk radio host
December 1 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
December 2 - Gary Becker, American economist
December 2 - David Piper, British race car driver
December 3 - Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
December 4 - Ronnie Corbett, Scottish actor
December 4 - Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist
December 6 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia
December 7 - Hal Smith, American baseball player
December 8 - Julian Critchley, British politician (d. 2000)
December 8 - Maximilian Schell, Austrian-born Swiss actor and film director
December 9 - Buck Henry, American actor
December 11 - Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress
December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
December 12 - Bill Beutel, American journalist (d. 2006)
December 13 - Robert Prosky, American actor
December 15 - Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer
December 17 - Bob Guccione, American magazine publisher
December 17 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete and congressman (d. 2006)
December 17 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
December 18 - Moose Skowron, American baseball player
December 25 - Emmanuel Agassi, Iranian boxer and father of Andre Agassi
December 25 - Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (d.1986)
December 26 - Donald Moffat, English-born actor
December 26 - Jean Ferrat, French singer and songwriter
December 27 - Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American writer
December 31 - Odetta, American singer

Deaths

February 23 - Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907)
March 2 - D. H. Lawrence, English writer (b. 1885)
March 8 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
March 8 - Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)
March 12 - Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (b. 1851)
March 12 - William George Barker, Canadian fighter ace (b. 1894)
March 16 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (b. 1870)
March 19 - Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
April 1 - Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner (b. 1837)
April 2 - Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia, (b. 1876)
April 3 - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (b. 1847)
April 14 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)
April 16 - José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist
April 17 - Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863)
April 19 - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
April 21 - Robert Bridges, English poet (b. 1844)
April 22 - Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet (b. 1866)
May 13 - Fridtjof Nansen, Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1861)
May 25 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
June 5 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
June 10 - Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
June 13 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
June 16 - Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
June 16 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (b. 1860)
July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (b. 1859)
July 8 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
July 15 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1845)
July 23 - Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (b. 1878)
July 28 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist
July 30 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
August 20 - Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
August 25 - Frankie Campbell, American Boxer (b. 1904)
August 26 - Lon Chaney, Sr.
August 29 - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
September 5 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
September 15 - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
September 24 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
September 29 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
October 5 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson
October 10 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
October 15 - Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (b. 1866)
October 26 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
November 4 - Buddy Bolden, American musician (b. 1877)
November 5 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist
December 9 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, American baseball player and founder of the Negro National League (b. 1879)
December 13 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist

Events

January 6 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
January 26 - The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.
January 30 - The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
January 31 - 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
February 3 - The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
February 18 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
February 18 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
March 4 - Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
March 8 - Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India.
March 12 - Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
March 13 - The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
March 28 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
March 29 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
March 31 - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years.
April 2 - Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
April 4 - The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
April 5 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
April 6 - Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Thus he starts the Salt Satyagraha.
April 22 - The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
April 28 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
May 1 - The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
May 4 - British police arrest Mahatma Gandhi and place him in Yeravda Central Prison.
May 24 - Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
May 27 - The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
May 28 - The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
June 9 - Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
June 16 - Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
June 17 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
June 18 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
July 7 - Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
July 30 - In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.
July 31 - The radio mystery program The Shadow is aired for the first time.
August 16 - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
August 29 - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
September 6 - Democratically elected Argentine president Hip¨®lito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
September 8 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
September 12 - Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
September 20 - Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
September 27 - Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
October 5 - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
October 23 - The first miniature golf tournament was completed in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
October 24 - A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as "provisional president."
November 2 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
November 3 - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
November 11 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
November 18 - Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
December 2 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
December 7 - W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
December 29 - Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.

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