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Birthdays

January 4 - Rudolf Schuster, President of Slovakia
January 5 - William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (d. 1971)
January 6 - Harry M. Miller, Australian entrepreneur
January 6 - Tassos Papadopoulos, president of the Republic of Cyprus
January 6 - Sylvia Sims, English actress
January 7 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
January 7 - Charlie Jenkins, American runner
January 8 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
January 8 - Gene Freese, American baseball player
January 8 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
January 8 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
January 9 - Bart Starr, American football player
January 10 - Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
January 11 - Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
January 11 - Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, Computer scientist
January 12 - Mick Sullivan, English rugby league footballer
January 13 - Rip Taylor, American actor
January 14 - Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (d. 1977)
January 14 - Richard Briers, English actor
January 16 - Marilyn Horne, American opera singer
January 18 - Raymond Briggs, English writer and illustrator
January 20 - Tom Baker, British actor
January 21 - Audrey Dalton, Irish actress
January 22 - Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
January 22 - Graham Kerr, British-born chef
January 23 - Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003)
January 24 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet (d. 1976)
January 26 - Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher
January 27 - George Follmer, American race car driver
January 28 - Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
January 28 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
January 31 - James Franciscus, American actor (d. 1991)
January 31 - Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
February 1 - Bob Shane, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio)
February 5 - Don Cherry, Canadian hockey commentator
February 5 - Hank Aaron, American baseball player
February 6 - Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (d. 2000)
February 7 - Earl King, American musician (d. 2003)
February 7 - Eddie Fenech Adami, President of Malta
February 7 - King Curtis, American saxophonist (d. 1971)
February 9 - John Ziegler, former NHL Commissioner
February 10 - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
February 11 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (d. 2000)
February 11 - Tina Louise, American actress
February 11 - Mary Quant, English fashion designer
February 11 - John Surtees, MBE
February 12 - Anne Krueger, American economist
February 12 - Bill Russell, American basketball player
February 12 - Annette Crosbie, Scottish actress
February 13 - George Segal, American actor
February 14 - Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor
February 14 - Florence Henderson, American actress
February 15 - Graham Kennedy, Australian actor (d. 2005)
February 15 - Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist
February 16 - Herbie & Harold Kalin, American singers (d. 2005-Harold / 2006-Herbie)
February 16 - Marlene Hagge, American professional golfer
February 17 - Alan Bates, English actor (d. 2003)
February 17 - Barry Humphries, Australian actor and comedian
February 18 - Audre Lord, Caribbean poet
February 19 - Carole Eastman, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
February 20 - Bobby Unser, American racing driver
February 21 - Rue McClanahan, American actress
February 22 - Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager
February 24 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2000)
February 24 - Renata Scotto, Italian soprano
February 24 - Linda Cristal, Argentina-born actress
February 25 - Bernard Bresslaw, English actor (d. 1993)
February 25 - Tony Lema, American golfer (d. 1966)
February 26 - Robert Novak, American political columnist
February 27 - Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
February 27 - N. Scott Momaday, American writer
February 27 - Ralph Nader, American consumer activist
February 27 - Van Williams, American actor
March 4 - Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer
March 4 - John Duffey, American bluegrass musician (d. 1996)
March 4 - Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
March 4 - Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (d. 2007)
March 4 - Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
March 4 - Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident
March 5 - Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist
March 5 - James B. Sikking, American actor
March 6 - John Noakes, British television presenter
March 7 - Willard Scott, American television broadcaster
March 7 - Giorgos Katsaros, Greek musician and composer
March 8 - Marv Breeding, American baseball player (d.2006)
March 9 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1968)
March 9 - Del Close, American actor
March 9 - Marlene Streit, Canadian golfer
March 9 - Joyce Van Patten, American actress
March 11 - Sam Donaldson, American reporter
March 13 - Barry Hughart, American author
March 14 - Eugene Cernan, American astronaut
March 14 - Paul Rader, the 15th General of The Salvation Army
March 15 - Richard Layard, Baron Layard
March 15 - Aldo Giorgini, Italian artist
March 15 - Kanshi Ram, Indian dalit leader
March 16 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
March 18 - Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
March 20 - Willie Brown, American politician
March 20 - David Malouf, Australian author
March 21 - Al Freeman, Jr.
March 22 - Orrin Hatch, American politician
March 22 - Larry Martyn, English comedy actor (d. 1994)
March 23 - Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician
March 23 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)
March 23 - Mark Rydell, American film and television director
March 24 - William Smith, American actor
March 25 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (d. 1964)
March 25 - Gloria Steinem, American feminist and publisher
March 26 - Alan Arkin, American actor
March 29 - Paul Crouch, American televangelist
March 31 - Richard Chamberlain, American actor
March 31 - Shirley Jones, American singer and actress
March 31 - Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist
March 31 - John D. Loudermilk, American singer and songwriter
April 1 - Don Hastings, American actor
April 1 - Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (d. 2004)
April 1 - Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist
April 2 - Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician (d. 2007)
April 2 - Brian Glover, British actor and wrestler (d. 1997)
April 3 - Jane Goodall, English zoologist
April 5 - Roman Herzog, German politician
April 5 - Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2000)
April 6 - Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka
April 7 - Swami Shantananda, Hindu Saint
April 7 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007)
April 8 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (d. 2007)
April 9 - Bill Birch, New Zealand politician
April 10 - David Halberstam, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
April 10 - Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist
April 11 - Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet
April 12 - Heinz Schneiter, Swiss footballer
April 14 - Fredric Jameson, American philosopher
April 17 - Don Kirshner, American composer
April 18 - George Shirley, American tenor
April 19 - Dickie Goodman, American producer of novelty songs (d. 1989)
April 24 - Shirley MacLaine, American actor and author
April 25 - Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer
April 28 - Lois Duncan, American novelist
April 29 - Luis Aparicio, Venezuelan baseball player
April 29 - Otis Rush, American musician
April 30 - Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (d.1995)
May 1 - Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Mexican politician
May 1 - Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
May 1 - Shirley Horn, American jazz singer and pianist (d. 2005)
May 3 - Henry Cooper, English boxer
May 3 - Georges Moustaki, Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter
May 3 - Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons)
May 5 - Ace Cannon, American saxophonist
May 6 - Richard Shelby, American politician
May 9 - Alan Bennett, British author
May 10 - Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994)
May 10 - Jeanine Basinger, American film scholar
May 11 - Jim Jeffords, former American politician
May 13 - Leon Wagner, baseball player (d. 2004)
May 14 - Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
May 18 - Dwayne Hickman, American actor and television executive
May 19 - Jim Lehrer, American television journalist
May 19 - Ruskin Bond, Indian author
May 21 - Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist
May 22 - Peter Nero, American musician
May 22 - Arne Harris, American television sports director (d. 2001)
May 23 - Robert Moog, American inventor (d. 2005)
May 24 - Jane Byrne, American politician
May 24 - Barry Rose, English choir-trainer and organist
May 27 - Harlan Ellison, American author
May 28 - Dionne quintuplets (Emilie d. 1954, Marie d. 1970
May 30 - Aleksei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut
May 30 - Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach
June 1 - Pat Boone, American singer
June 3 - Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
June 4 - Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (d. 1971)
June 5 - Bill Moyers, American journalist
June 6 - King Albert II of Belgium,
June 6 - Roy Innis, American civil rights activist
June 8 - Millicent Martin, English singer and actress
June 9 - Jackie Wilson, American singer (d. 1984)
June 11 - Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
June 12 - John A. Alonzo, American cinematographer (d. 2001)
June 13 - Lady Annabel Goldsmith, English socialite
June 15 - Jerry Buss, American basketball team owner
June 16 - Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress
June 16 - Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2003)
June 16 - William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist
June 16 - Elvira Vinogradova, Russian TV persona
June 18 - Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (d. 2004)
June 20 - Wendy Craig, English actress
June 20 - Rossana Podestà, Italian actress
June 24 - Jean-Pierre Ferland, Québec singer
June 26 - Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
June 26 - Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist
June 28 - Carl Levin, United States Senator
June 29 - Corey Allen, American filmmaker and actor
June 30 - Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (d. 1997)
July 1 - Jamie Farr, American actor
July 1 - Jean Marsh, English actress
July 1 - Sydney Pollack, American film director (d. 2008)
July 1 - Claude Berri, French actor
July 2 - Tom Springfield, British singer and songwriter (The Springfields)
July 4 - Colin Welland, English actor
July 8 - Ed Lumley, Canadian corporate executive and former politician
July 9 - Michael Graves, American architect
July 10 - Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer
July 11 - Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
July 12 - Van Cliburn, American pianist
July 13 - Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer
July 13 - Aleksei Yeliseyev, Soviet cosmonaut
July 13 - Gordon Lee, English footballer and manager
July 15 - Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
July 15 - Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (d. 1977)
July 16 - Don Payne, American politician
July 18 - Darlene Conley, American actress (d. 2007)
July 18 - Roger Reynolds, American composer and teacher
July 19 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
July 20 - Uwe Johnson, German writer
July 20 - Doug Padgett, Former England cricketer
July 20 - Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (d. 1996)
July 21 - Chandu Borde, Former Indian cricketer
July 22 - Louise Fletcher, American actress
July 24 - Sante Kimes, American convicted con artist and murderess
July 25 - Don Ellis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1978)
July 25 - Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
July 28 - Jacques d'Amboise, American choreographer
July 30 - Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball
August 1 - John Beck, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
August 2 - Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut
August 3 - Haystacks Calhoun, American professional wrestler (d. 1989)
August 3 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan political leader (d. 2002)
August 5 - Wendell Berry, American poet
August 6 - Piers Anthony, English writer
August 6 - Billy Boston, Welsh rugby league footballer
August 15 - Bobby Byrd, American soul/funk singer (d. 2007)
August 15 - Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer (d. 1998)
August 15 - Reginald Scarlett, West Indian cricketer
August 16 - Diana Wynne Jones, British author
August 16 - Ketty Lester, American singer
August 16 - Pierre Richard, French actor
August 18 - Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney
August 18 - Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player and humanitarian (d. 1972)
August 18 - Ronnie Carroll, British singer
August 19 - Renée Richards, American physician
August 20 - Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen
August 21 - Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer
August 22 - Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. general
August 22 - Sir Donald McIntyre, English bass-baritone
August 23 - Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
August 23 - Sonny Jurgensen, American football player
August 24 - Kenny Baker, English actor
August 25 - Lise Bacon, French Canadian politician
August 25 - Eddie Ilarde, Filipino disk jockey
August 26 - Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player and commentator
August 29 - John Guy, New Zealand cricketer
August 30 - Baloo Gupte, Indian cricketer (d. 2005)
August 31 - Nikos Xanthopoulos, Greek actor
September 3 - Freddie King, American musician (d. 1976)
September 4 - Clive Granger, Welsh-born economist
September 5 - Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
September 7 - Little Milton, American musician (d. 2005)
September 7 - Omar Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon
September 7 - Mary Bauermeister, German artist
September 8 - Rodrigue Biron, Canadian politician
September 8 - Peter Maxwell Davies, British composer
September 10 - Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
September 10 - Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
September 11 - Oliver Jones, Canadian jazz pianist
September 11 - Norma Croker, Australian sprinter
September 12 - Glenn Davis, American athlete
September 12 - Jaegwon Kim, Korean-born American philosopher
September 14 - Sarah Kofman, French philosopher
September 14 - Kate Millett, American feminist writer
September 15 - Fred Nile, Australian politician
September 16 - George Chakiris, American actor
September 16 - Ronnie Drew, Ex-Singer of The Dubliners and Solo Artist (d.2008)
September 17 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
September 19 - Brian Epstein, English musical group manager (The Beatles) (d. 1967)
September 20 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
September 21 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter
September 22 - Lute Olson, American basketball coach
September 23 - Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
September 24 - Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
September 24 - John Brunner, British author (d. 1995)
September 24 - Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (d. 1994)
September 25 - Jean Sorel, French actor
September 27 - Wilford Brimley, American actor
September 27 - Claude Jarman Jr., American actor
September 27 - Dick Schaap, American sports reporter (d. 2001)
September 28 - Brigitte Bardot, French actress
September 28 - Janet Munro, British actress (d. 1972)
September 29 - Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Psychology professor
September 29 - Lance Gibbs, Guyanese West Indies cricketer
September 29 - Skandor Akbar, American professional wrestler and manager
September 30 - Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer
September 30 - Anna Kashfi, Welsh actress
October 2 - Earl Wilson, American baseball player (d. 2005)
October 4 - Sam Huff, American football player
October 5 - Angelo Buono, Jr.
October 7 - Amiri Baraka, American writer
October 7 - Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (d. 1976)
October 9 - Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author
October 12 - Richard Meier, American architect
October 12 - Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician
October 13 - Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer and politician
October 15 - N. Ramani, Indian flutist
October 16 - Peter Ashdown, British racing driver
October 17 - Johnny Haynes, English footballer (d. 2005)
October 18 - Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (d. 2007)
October 18 - Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970)
October 18 - Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist
October 20 - Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
October 20 - Michiko, empress of Japan
October 26 - Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German composer and musician (Cluster
October 27 - Giorgos Konstadinou, Greek actor and director
October 30 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
November 1 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (d. 2004)
November 1 - Gillian Knight, English mezzo-soprano
November 1 - William Mathias, British composer (d. 1992)
November 2 - Bill Gothard, American speaker
November 2 - Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
November 3 - Ruma Guha Thakurta, Singer
November 5 - Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
November 9 - Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician
November 9 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (d. 1996)
November 10 - Lucien Bianchi, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
November 11 - Jim Perry, Canadian-American television personality.
November 12 - Charles Manson, American cult leader
November 13 - Peter Arnett, New Zealand-born American journalist
November 13 - Jimmy Fontana, Italian actor
November 13 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (d. 2005)
November 13 - Garry Marshall, American producer
November 14 - Catherine McGuinness, Irish Supreme Court Justice
November 14 - Kurt Hamrin, Swedish soccer player
November 17 - Fenella Fielding, English actress
November 17 - James Inhofe, American politician
November 18 - Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and ambassador
November 23 - Robert Towne, American screenwriter and director
November 23 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
November 24 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (d. 1998)
November 27 - Ammo Baba, Iraqi-Assyrian footballer
December 1 - Billy Paul, American singer
December 2 - Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)
December 3 - Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut
December 4 - Victor French, American actor (d. 1989)
December 4 - Wink Martindale, American game show host
December 5 - Joan Didion, American writer
December 5 - Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor
December 6 - Nick Bockwinkel, American professional wrestler
December 9 - Dame Judi Dench, English actress
December 9 - Junior Wells, American musician (d. 1998)
December 10 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist
December 12 - Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico
December 13 - Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer
December 16 - Elgin Gay Baylor, NBA Hall of Famer
December 17 - Ray Wilson, English footballer
December 18 - Boris Volynov, Soviet cosmonaut
December 19 - Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer
December 19 - Al Kaline, American baseball player
December 19 - Casper R. Taylor, Jr.
December 22 - David Pearson, American racecar driver
December 24 - Stjepan Mesić, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
December 27 - Larissa Latynina, Russian gymnast
December 28 - Dame Maggie Smith, British actress
December 28 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987)
December 29 - Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
December 30 - John Norris Bahcall, American physicist (d. 2005)
December 30 - Joseph Bologna, American actor
December 30 - Joseph P. Hoar, former US Central Command commander
December 30 - Del Shannon, American singer (d. 1990)
December 30 - Russ Tamblyn, American actor
December 31 - Akram Awan, Islamic scholar

Deaths

January 6 - Herbert Chapman, Legendary Manager of Arsenal and Huddersfield Town (b. 1878)
January 8 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
January 8 - Serge Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (b. 1886)
January 10 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire (b. 1909)
January 12 - Pawel Kochanski, Polish violinist
January 13 - Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)
January 29 - Fritz Haber, German chemist
January 30 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
February 17 - King Albert I of Belgium, (b. 1875)
February 17 - Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (b. 1862)
February 21 - Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot (assassinated) (b. 1895)
February 22 - Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (b. 1856)
February 23 - Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)
February 25 - John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (b. 1873)
March 20 - Queen Emma of the Netherlands, (b. 1858)
March 21 - Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
March 22 - Theophilos Hatzimihail, Greek painter (b. 1870)
March 27 - Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
March 29 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor (b. 1867)
May 11 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)
May 14 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
May 23 - Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (b. 1909)
May 23 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (b. 1910)
May 25 - Gustav Holst, English composer (b. 1874)
May 30 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
June 6 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
June 10 - Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
June 11 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)
June 15 - Alfred Bruneau, French composer (b. 1857)
June 21 - Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
July 2 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (b. 1887)
July 4 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics (b. 1867)
July 8 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
July 12 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and industrialist (b. 1877)
July 22 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (b. 1903)
July 25 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
July 25 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1892)
July 25 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
July 27 - Hubert Lyautey, Frency army general and marshal (b. 1854)
July 28 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)
July 28 - Louis Tancred, Former South African cricketer (b. 1876)
July 29 - Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
August 2 - Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and President of Germany (b. 1847)
August 8 - Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (b. 1863)
August 12 - Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (b. 1856)
September 2 - Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
September 2 - Russ Columbo, American singer
September 2 - James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player
October 9 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, (assassinated)
October 9 - Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)
October 15 - Raymond Poincaré, French statesman (b. 1860)
October 17 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist
October 22 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)
November 8 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
November 20 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (b. 1872)
November 23 - Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
November 26 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b.1866)
November 27 - Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)
November 30 - Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)
December 1 - Sergei Kirov, Russian revolutionary (b. 1886)
December 3 - Charles James O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. 1849)
December 6 - Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1863)
December 12 - Thorleif Haug, Norwegian Nordic skier (b. 1894)
December 13 - Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (b. 1854)

Events

January 1 - Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
January 1 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".
January 13 - The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
January 26 - The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
January 26 - German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
January 28 - The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
February 6 - Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
February 9 - The Balkan Entente is formed.
February 12 - The Austrian Civil War begins.
February 12 - The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
February 12 - In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista is inaugurated. The council decides to merge the movement with the Falange Española.
February 13 - The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
February 16 - Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund.
February 16 - Commission of Government is sworn in as form of direct rule for the Dominion of Newfoundland.
February 23 - Léopold III becomes King of Belgium.
March 8 - A photograph by astronomer Edwin Hubble shows there are as many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in the Milky Way.
March 24 - U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act.
March 26 - Driving test introduced in the United Kingdom.
April 12 - The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, US.
April 12 - The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
April 19 - Shirley Temple debuts in Stand Up and Cheer.
May 11 - Dust Bowl: A strong two-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl in North America.
May 15 - Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
May 21 - Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
May 23 - American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
May 23 - The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
May 28 - Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
May 28 - The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
June 6 - New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Judge Joseph Crater is declared dead in absentia.
June 9 - Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
June 13 - Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
June 14 - James J. Braddock scores one of the most upsetting victories in of his boxing career by beating John "Corn" Griffin
June 15 - The U.S.'s Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
June 19 - The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
June 26 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
June 30 - The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
July 2 - The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
July 4 - Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
July 5 - "Bloody Thursday"
July 15 - Continental Airlines commences operations.
July 20 - Labor unrest in the U.S., as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, wounding fifty; Seattle police led by the mayor police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen, and the governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
July 22 - Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
July 25 - The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
July 26 - Assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.
August 2 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
August 3 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
August 11 - First civilian prisoners arrive at Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
August 19 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
August 19 - The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
September 1 - SMJK Sam Tet was founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
September 8 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
September 18 - The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
September 19 - Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr..
September 21 - A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
September 22 - An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
September 26 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
October 9 - Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
October 15 - The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircle Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
October 16 - Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
October 22 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
November 6 - Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
November 23 - An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
November 27 - Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
November 29 - The Chicago Bears defeat the Detroit Lions 19-16 in the first nationally broadcast game.
November 30 - The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
December 1 - In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolayev.
December 5 - Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
December 29 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

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