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Birthdays

January 2 - Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese politician
January 4 - Adi Lady Lala Mara, First Lady of Fiji (d. 2004)
January 4 - Sir William Deane, Governor-General of Australia 1996-2001
January 5 - Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989)
January 5 - Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist
January 5 - Joan Coxsedge, Australian politician
January 5 - Robert Duvall, American actor
January 6 - E. L. Doctorow, American author
January 6 - Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
January 8 - Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)
January 9 - Algis Budrys, American author
January 10 - Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)
January 11 - Betty Churcher, director of the National Gallery of Australia
January 13 - Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
January 13 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)
January 14 - Frank Costigan, Australian lawyer
January 14 - Caterina Valente, French-born singer
January 16 - Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006)
January 17 - James Earl Jones, American actor
January 17 - L. Douglas Wilder, 66th Governor of Virginia
January 17 - Don Zimmer, American baseball coach
January 18 - Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
January 19 - Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist
January 20 - David Lee, American physicist
January 20 - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (d. 1992)
January 22 - Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
January 25 - Dean Jones, American actor
January 26 - Mary Murphy, American film actress
January 27 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001)
January 30 - John Crosbie, Canadian politician
January 30 - Allan W. Eckert, American historian
January 30 - Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author
January 31 - Ernie Banks, American baseball player
January 31 - Christopher Chataway, English athlete
February 1 - Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of the Russian Federation (d. 2007)
February 1 - Iajuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
February 2 - Dries van Agt, Dutch politician
February 2 - Les Dawson, British comedian (d. 1993)
February 2 - Judith Viorst, American author
February 4 - Isabel Martínez de Perón, third wife of Argentine president Juan Perón
February 6 - Rip Torn, American actor
February 6 - Mamie Van Doren, American actress
February 8 - James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
February 9 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist (d. 1989)
February 9 - Josef Masopust, Czech footballer
February 10 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
February 10 - Doug Young, American voice actor
February 11 - Larry Merchant, American sportswriter
February 12 - Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch author
February 14 - Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (d. 2006)
February 14 - Brian Kelly, American actor (d. 2005)
February 14 - Phyllis McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
February 15 - Claire Bloom, British actress
February 15 - Geoff Edwards, American television game show host
February 16 - George E. Sangmeister, American politician (d. 2007)
February 16 - Ken Takakura, Japanese actor
February 18 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
February 18 - Toni Morrison, American writer
February 18 - Bob St. Clair, American football player
February 23 - Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (d. 2004)
February 24 - Dominic Chianese, American actor
February 26 - Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)
February 28 - Dean Smith, American basketball coach
March 2 - Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
March 2 - Tom Wolfe, American author
March 4 - Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
March 4 - Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (d. 1991)
March 4 - William Henry Keeler, American Roman Catholic Archbishop
March 4 - Alice Rivlin, American economist
March 5 - Fred Othon Aristidès, French comics artist
March 5 - Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn virtuoso
March 6 - Hal Needham, American stuntman
March 8 - John McPhee, American writer and professor
March 8 - Neil Postman, American cultural critic (d. 2003)
March 9 - Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
March 10 - Georges Dor, Quebec author
March 11 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born entrepreneur
March 12 - Herbert Kelleher, Southwest Airlines co-founder
March 12 - Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, American actor (d. 1980)
March 14 - Phil Phillips, American singer and songwriter
March 16 - Betty Johnson, American singer
March 17 - David Peakall, British scientist (d. 2001)
March 18 - John Fraser, Scottish-born stage
March 18 - John Mollo, British costume designer
March 20 - Hal Linden, American actor
March 22 - Burton Richter, American physicist
March 22 - William Shatner, Canadian actor
March 23 - Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (d. 2005)
March 23 - Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player
March 25 - Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer
March 26 - Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director
March 27 - David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
March 29 - Aleksei Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut
March 29 - Norman Tebbit, British politician
March 31 - Miller Barber, American golfer
April 1 - Rolf Hochhuth, German writer
April 1 - Ita Ever, Estonian actress
April 4 - Bobby Ray Inman, American admiral and intelligence director
April 6 - Ivan Dixon, American actor and director (d. 2008)
April 7 - Donald Barthelme, American author
April 8 - John Gavin, American actor and politician
April 9 - Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (d. 1991)
April 11 - Johnny Sheffield, American actor
April 11 - Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer
April 12 - Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter (d. 1995)
April 13 - Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
April 13 - Dan Gurney, American race car driver and team owner
April 13 - Jon Stone, co-creator of Sesame Street (d. 1997)
April 14 - Paul Masnick, Canadian ice hockey player
April 19 - Garfield Morgan, English actor
April 19 - Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (d. 2004)
April 25 - Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
April 27 - Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
April 29 - Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter
April 29 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (d. 2002)
May 4 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor
May 4 - Thomas Stuttaford, British doctor and writer
May 5 - Greg, Belgian comic-book writer (Achille Talon) (d
May 6 - Willie Mays, American baseball player
May 7 - Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (d. 2007)
May 9 - Vance Brand, American astronaut
May 10 - Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter
May 13 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (d. 1978)
May 14 - Alvin Lucier, American composer
May 15 - Ken Venturi, American golfer
May 16 - Jack Dodson, American actor (d. 1994)
May 16 - Denise Filiatrault, French Canadian actress and director
May 16 - Natwar Singh, Indian politician
May 16 - Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
May 16 - Hana Brady, Killed during Holocaust
May 17 - Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (d. 1997)
May 18 - Don Martin, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
May 18 - Robert Morse, American actor
May 19 - Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor
May 19 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver (d. 1967)
May 20 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (d. 1982)
May 20 - Paul Evans, American furniture designer and sculptor (d.1987)
May 23 - Barbara Barrie, American actress
May 24 - Michael Lonsdale, French actor
May 25 - Georgi Grechko, Russian cosmonaut
May 25 - Aili Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter
May 25 - Irwin Winkler, American film producer and director
May 28 - Carroll Baker, American actress
May 31 - John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist
May 31 - Shirley Verrett, American soprano
June 2 - Larry Jackson, baseball player (d. 1990)
June 2 - William Donaldson, American businessman and politician
June 3 - Françoise Arnoul, French actress
June 3 - Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman
June 3 - John Norman, American author
June 3 - Lindy Remigino, American athlete
June 5 - Jacques Demy, French film director (d. 1990)
June 5 - Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher
June 7 - Malcolm Morley, English-born painter
June 8 - Dana Wynter, German-born American actress
June 9 - Jackie Mason, American comedian
June 9 - Joe Santos, American actor
June 9 - Bill Virdon, American baseball player and manager
June 10 - João Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
June 11 - Audrey Schuh, American soprano
June 13 - Irvin D. Yalom, psychotherapist,Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University
June 14 - Junior Walker, Saxophonist and singer (Jr. Walker & the All Stars) (d. 1995)
June 14 - Marla Gibbs, American actress
June 17 - John Baldessari, American artist
June 18 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002
June 20 - Olympia Dukakis, Greek-American actress
June 20 - Martin Landau, American actor
June 21 - Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
June 24 - Billy Casper, American golfer
June 27 - Charles Bronfman, Canadian industrialist
June 27 - Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist
June 28 - Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver
June 28 - Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
June 29 - Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
June 30 - Bert Eriksson, Flemish neo-Nazi (d. 2005)
June 30 - Andrew Hill, American jazz pianist (d. 2007)
July 1 - Leslie Caron, French actress
July 4 - Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (d. 1977)
July 4 - Sébastien Japrisot, French author
July 5 - Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (d. 2000)
July 6 - Jean Campeau, French Canadian businessman and politician
July 6 - Della Reese, American singer
July 7 - David Eddings, American author
July 10 - Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
July 10 - Alice Munro, Canadian writer
July 11 - Thurston Harris, American singer (d. 1990)
July 11 - Tab Hunter, American actor
July 11 - Tullio Regge, Italian physicist
July 13 - Frank Ramsey, American basketball player
July 15 - Clive Cussler, American author
July 20 - Tony Marsh, English racing driver
July 23 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori Queen (d. 2006)
July 23 - Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter
July 23 - Claude Fournier, French Canadian film director and screenwriter
July 24 - Ermanno Olmi, Italian director
July 24 - Éric Tabarly, French sailor (d. 1998)
July 26 - Takashi Ono, Japanese gymnast
July 26 - Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager and former player (d. 2006)
July 27 - Jerry Van Dyke, American actor
July 27 - Khieu Samphan, Cambodian politician
July 28 - Johnny Martin, Former Australain cricketer (d. 1992)
July 31 - Kenny Burrell, American guitarist
July 31 - Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach
August 1 - Trevor Goddard, Former South African cricketer
August 2 - Pierre DuMaine, Catholic bishop
August 2 - Viliam Schrojf, Slovak footballer (d. 2007)
August 2 - Eddie Fuller, Former South African cricketer (d. 2008)
August 4 - Naren Tamhane, Indian cricketer (d. 2002)
August 7 - Charles E. Rice, American legal scholar and author
August 8 - Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist
August 9 - Mário Zagallo, Brazilian football coach and player
August 9 - Chuck Essegian, American baseball player
August 12 - William Goldman, American screenwriter
August 16 - Eydie Gormé, American singer
August 18 - Bramwell Tillsley, Canadian Salvation Army general
August 18 - Dick White, English footballer
August 19 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
August 20 - Don King, American boxing promoter
August 23 - Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist
August 25 - Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (d. 2007)
August 25 - Regis Philbin, American television host
August 27 - Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru (d. 2007)
August 27 - Joe Cunningham, American baseball player
August 28 - John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
August 28 - Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario
August 29 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
August 29 - Lise Payette, Quebec politician
August 30 - Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
August 31 - Jean Béliveau, Canadian ice hockey player
August 31 - Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)
September 1 - Boxcar Willie, American country musician (d. 1999)
September 2 - Clifford Jordan, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1993)
September 3 - Albert DeSalvo, The Boston Strangler (d. 1973)
September 3 - Dick Motta, American basketball coach
September 4 - Mitzi Gaynor, American actress
September 8 - John Garrett, British politician (d. 2007)
September 10 - Philip Baker Hall, American actor
September 11 - Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian
September 12 - Sir Ian Holm, English actor
September 12 - George Jones, American singer
September 13 - Barbara Bain, American actress
September 17 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
September 19 - Brook Benton, American singer (d. 1988)
September 19 - Jean-Claude Carrière, French screenwriter and actor
September 20 - Cherd Songsri, Thai filmmaker (d. 2006)
September 21 - Larry Hagman, American actor
September 22 - Fay Weldon, British feminist
September 22 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie
September 22 - Manzoor Ahmad, Pakistani philosopher
September 23 - Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d. 2004)
September 24 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (d. 1999)
September 24 - Mike Parkes, British Formula One driver (d. 1977)
September 25 - Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (d. 2005)
September 27 - Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer
September 29 - Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
September 29 - James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist
September 30 - Angie Dickinson, American actress
October 1 - Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer
October 3 - Glenn Hall, National Hockey League goaltender
October 4 - Richard Rorty, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
October 6 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
October 6 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist
October 7 - Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)
October 7 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate
October 9 - Tony Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair
October 13 - Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (d. 2001)
October 13 - Raymond Kopa, French footballer
October 14 - Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986)
October 15 - Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Eleventh President of India
October 16 - Charles Colson, American Watergate conspirator
October 16 - Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian
October 17 - Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer
October 18 - Chris Albertson, American jazz historian
October 19 - John le Carré, English novelist
October 20 - Richard Caliguiri, American politician (d. 1988)
October 20 - Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
October 21 - Vivian Pickles, English actress.
October 23 - Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician
October 23 - Diana Dors, British actress (d. 1984)
October 23 - William P. Clark, United States Secretary of the Interior under Ronald Reagan
October 24 - Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer
October 25 - Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and football manager
October 25 - Annie Girardot, French actress
October 27 - Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
October 29 - Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor
October 30 - Vince Callahan, American politician
October 31 - Dan Rather, American television journalist
November 3 - Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
November 3 - Monica Vitti, Italian actress
November 3 - Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (d. 2007)
November 5 - Ike Turner, American musician (d. 2007)
November 6 - Peter Collins, English race car driver (d. 1958)
November 6 - Mike Nichols, American film director
November 8 - Darla Hood, American actress (d. 1979)
November 8 - Morley Safer, Canadian journalist
November 9 - Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
November 12 - Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer (The Four Seasons)
November 13 - Andrée Lachapelle, French Canadian actress
November 15 - Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya
November 15 - Pascal Lissouba, Congo politician
November 16 - Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (d. 2006)
November 16 - Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician
November 21 - Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian scientist (d. 1985)
November 21 - Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (d. 2003)
November 23 - Dervla Murphy, Irish traveller and author
November 23 - Gloria Lynne, American singer
November 26 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist
November 26 - Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Cardinal Archbishop of Utrecht
November 28 - Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)
November 28 - Tomi Ungerer, French graphic artist
November 28 - Dervla Murphy, Irish cyclist and author
November 29 - Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
November 29 - André Noyelle, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
November 30 - Jack Ging, American actor
November 30 - Bill Walsh, American football coach (d. 2007)
December 1 - Jimmy Lyons, American musician (d. 1986)
December 1 - Jim Nesbitt, singer (d. 2007)
December 2 - Edwin Meese, American lawyer
December 2 - Nigel Calder, British science writer
December 2 - Hatsumi Masaaki, Founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization
December 2 - Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971)
December 3 - Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author
December 3 - Jaye P. Morgan, American singer
December 4 - Alex Delvecchio, Canadian ice hockey player
December 4 - Wally George, American TV commentator (d. 2003)
December 6 - Zeki Müren, Turkish actor
December 8 - Bob Arum, American boxing promoter
December 9 - William Reynolds, American actor
December 9 - Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor
December 11 - Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican actress
December 11 - Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player
December 11 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru (d. 1990)
December 12 - Lionel Blair, English actor and choreographer
December 14 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar
December 17 - Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor
December 18 - Allen Klein, American rock and roll business manager
December 18 - Alison Plowden, English historian (d. 2007)
December 20 - Mala Powers, American film actress (d. 2007)
December 23 - Ronnie Schell, American actor
December 24 - Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer
December 24 - Ray Bryant, American jazz pianist and composer
December 27 - Scotty Moore, American guitarist
December 28 - Guy Debord, French writer (d. 1994)
December 29 - Prince Gu of Korea, Korean royalty (d. 2005)
December 30 - Skeeter Davis, American singer (d. 2004)
December 31 - Bob Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1996)

Deaths

January 1 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
January 3 - Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
January 4 - Art Acord, American actor (b. 1890)
January 9 - Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
January 11 - James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor
January 17 - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (b. 1864)
January 21 - Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer (b. 1863)
January 22 - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
January 23 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
February 11 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (b. 1854)
February 12 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (b. 1855)
February 18 - Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (b. 1879)
February 23 - Nellie Melba, Australian opera soprano (b. 1861)
February 26 - Otto Wallach, German chemist
March 5 - Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities (b. 1839)
March 11 - F.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888)
March 20 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
March 23 - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru
March 27 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867)
March 31 - Knute Rockne, American football coach (b. 1888)
April 4 - André Michelin, French industrialist (b. 1853)
April 8 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer
April 10 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
May 5 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899)
May 9 - Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist
May 12 - Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (b. 1858)
May 14 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
May 14 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)
May 31 - Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French Canadian cardinal
June 13 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
June 22 - Armand Fallières, French president (b. 1841)
June 29 - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
July 4 - Buddie Petit, American jazz musician (b. 1895)
July 4 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta
July 12 - Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop
July 15 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
July 27 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
August 6 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
August 27 - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
August 27 - Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
August 29 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder
September 5 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
September 10 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
September 11 - Salvatore Maranzano, American crime boss (b. 1868)
September 18 - Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806)
October 3 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)
October 8 - Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865)
October 13 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
October 17 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
October 18 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
October 21 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writer (b. 1862)
October 26 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
November 11 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
November 19 - Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
November 27 - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
December 2 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851)
December 5 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
December 13 - Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
December 23 - Wilson Bentley, American scientist (b. 1865)
December 26 - Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal classification (b. 1851)

Events

January 6 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
January 7 - Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
January 22 - Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
February 3 - The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
February 10 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
February 20 - California gets the go-ahead by the U.S. Congress to build the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.
March 3 - The United States officially adopts "The Star-Spangled Banner" as its national anthem.
March 4 - The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) meet to sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing that salt is freely used by the poorest layers of the population.
March 11 - Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
March 19 - Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
March 19 - The Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra plays its first concert in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
March 23 - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
March 25 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
March 31 - An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
April 14 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
May 1 - The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
May 14 - Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
May 31 - 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
June 12 - Charlie Parker equals cricket record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets in a season. Tich Freeman reaches 100 wickets a day later.
June 23 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
July 1 - United Airlines began service (as Boeing Air Transport).
July 16 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
July 24 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
August 8 - Workers go on strike at the Hoover dam.
August 24 - France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
August 24 - Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
August 28 - France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
September 11 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
September 15 - In Scotland, the two-day Invergordon Mutiny against Royal Navy pay cuts begins.
September 18 - The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
September 30 - Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
October 1 - The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
October 1 - The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.
October 17 - Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
October 24 - The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
November 7 - The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
December 9 - The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
December 11 - The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.

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