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Birthdays

January 1 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (d. 2005)
January 1 - Clay Cole, American television host and producer
January 2 - Ian Brady, British serial killer
January 2 - Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author
January 5 - King Juan Carlos I of Spain,
January 5 - Jim Otto, American football player
January 5 - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan writer
January 6 - Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor
January 6 - Prof Adrienne Clarke, Australian botanist
January 6 - Mario Rodríguez Cobos "Silo", Argentine writer and spiritual leader
January 7 - Rory Storm, British singer (d. 1972)
January 7 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
January 7 - Lou Graham, American golfer
January 8 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host
January 8 - Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian bass-baritone
January 10 - Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist
January 10 - Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and Canadian Senator
January 10 - Willie McCovey, American baseball player
January 11 - Fischer Black, American economist (d. 1995)
January 11 - Arthur Scargill, Socialist Labour Party (UK) leader
January 12 - Lewis Fiander, Australian actor
January 13 - William B. Davis, Canadian actor
January 13 - Tord Grip, Swedish football manager
January 14 - Morihiro Hosokawa, 79th Prime Minister of Japan
January 14 - Jack Jones, American singer
January 14 - Allen Toussaint, American singer
January 15 - Chuni Goswami, Indian footballer and cricketer
January 16 - Jô Soares, Brazilian author
January 18 - Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
January 18 - Anthony Giddens, British sociologist
January 20 - William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
January 20 - Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2007)
January 21 - Wolfman Jack, American disk jockey and actor (d. 1995)
January 21 - John Savident, British actor
January 22 - Altair, Brazilian footballer
January 23 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
January 23 - Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
January 25 - Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998)
January 25 - Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese creator of anime.
January 25 - Etta James, American singer
January 25 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet (d. 1980)
January 28 - Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
January 30 - Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
January 31 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands,
January 31 - James G. Watt, American politician
February 1 - Sherman Hemsley, American comedian and actor
February 3 - Victor Buono, American actor (d. 1982)
February 3 - Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer
February 7 - S. Ramachandran Pillai, Indian communist leader
February 11 - Bevan Congdon, New Zealand cricketer
February 11 - Simone de Oliveira, Portuguese actress
February 11 - Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general
February 11 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007)
February 12 - Judy Blume, American author
February 12 - Johnny Rutherford, American race car driver
February 12 - Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris
February 13 - Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
February 16 - John Corigliano, American composer
February 16 - Barry Primus, American actor
February 18 - István Szabó, Hungarian film director
February 18 - Manny Mota, Dominican baseball player
February 20 - Richard Beymer, American actor
February 22 - Steve Barber, American baseball player (d. 2007)
February 22 - Ishmael Reed, American writer
February 22 - Pierre Vallières, French-Canadian politician (d. 1995)
February 23 - Diane Varsi, American actress (d. 1992)
February 24 - James Farentino, American actor
February 24 - Phil Knight, American sportswear manufacturer
February 24 - Kathleen Margaret Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow
February 25 - Diane Baker, American actress
February 25 - Herb Elliott, Australian runner
February 26 - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (d. 1957)
March 2 - Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile
March 2 - Lawrence Payton, American singer and songwriter (The Four Tops) (d. 1997)
March 4 - Angus MacLise, American percussionist (d. 1979)
March 4 - Don Perkins, American football player
March 4 - Paula Prentiss, American actress
March 4 - Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher
March 5 - Paul Evans, American singer and songwriter
March 5 - Fred Williamson, American football player and actor
March 7 - David Baltimore, American biologist
March 7 - Janet Guthrie, American race car driver
March 8 - Pete Dawkins, American football player
March 9 - Lill-Babs, Swedish singer
March 10 - Marina Vlady, French actress
March 12 - Johnny Rutherford, American automobile racer
March 13 - Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)
March 17 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (d. 1993)
March 17 - Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, Northern Irish clergyman
March 17 - Zola Taylor, American singer (The Platters) (d. 2007)
March 18 - Charley Pride, American musician
March 18 - Shashi Kapoor, Indian Actor
March 18 - Timo Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver
March 20 - Sergei Petrovich Novikov, Russian Mathematician
March 23 - Maynard Jackson, first black mayor of Atlanta (d. 2003)
March 23 - Dave Pike, American jazz musician
March 24 - Holger Czukay, German musician (Can)
March 24 - David Irving, British historian
March 25 - Hoyt Axton, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
March 25 - Fritz d'Orey, Brazilian racing driver
March 26 - Anthony James Leggett, American physicist
March 31 - Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi
March 31 - Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
March 31 - Michiko Nomura, Japanese voice actor
March 31 - Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer
March 31 - David Steel, Scottish politician
April 1 - Ali MacGraw, American actress
April 1 - John Quade, American actor
April 2 - John Larsson, 17th General of The Salvation Army
April 2 - Whirlaway, American thoroughbred racehorse
April 2 - Booker Little, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1961)
April 3 - Jeff Barry, American songwriter and record producer
April 4 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, American university president and Commissioner of Baseball (d. 1989)
April 6 - Paul Daniels, English magician
April 6 - Roy Thinnes, American actor
April 7 - Jerry Brown, American politician
April 7 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 2005)
April 7 - Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter
April 8 - Kofi Annan, Ghanaian United Nations Secretary General
April 9 - Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician
April 10 - Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster
April 11 - Michael Deaver, Deputy White House Chief of Staff (d. 2007)
April 11 - Kurt Moll, German bass
April 15 - Hso Khan Pha, Burmese politician
April 16 - Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician
April 16 - Rich Rollins, American baseballer
April 17 - Ben Barnes, American politician
April 17 - Kerry Wendell Thornley, co-founder of Discordianism
April 21 - Ernie Maresca, American singer and record executive
April 22 - Adam Raphael, English journalist and author
April 25 - Ton Schulten, Dutch artist
April 26 - Duane Eddy, American musician
April 26 - Maurice Williams, American singer (The Zodiacs)
April 27 - Earl Anthony, American bowler (d. 2001)
April 27 - Alain Caron, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1986)
April 28 - Madge Sinclair, Jamaican actress (d. 1995)
April 29 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (d. 2004)
April 29 - Klaus Voormann, German musician
April 30 - Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak film director
April 30 - Gary Collins, American actor
April 30 - Larry Niven, American author
May 2 - Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, (d. 1996)
May 3 - Chris Cannizzaro, American baseball player
May 4 - Tyrone Davis, American soul singer (d. 2005)
May 4 - Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer
May 5 - Michael Murphy, American actor
May 6 - Jean Garon, Quebec economist and politician
May 6 - Larry Gogan, Irish radio personality
May 9 - Charles Simic Yugoslavian-born poet, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States
May 10 - Jean Becker, French director
May 10 - Marina Vlady, French actress
May 12 - Millie Perkins, American film actress
May 13 - Laurent Beaudoin, French Canadian businessman (Bombardier)
May 13 - Giuliano Amato, Italian politician
May 15 - Mireille Darc, French actress
May 15 - Lenny Welch, American singer
May 17 - Jason Bernard, American actor (d. 1996)
May 19 - Madge Hindle, English actress
May 19 - Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader (d. 1989)
May 20 - Marinella, Greek singer and actress
May 22 - Richard Benjamin, American actor
May 22 - Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
May 23 - Peter Preston, English journalist and author
May 24 - Tommy Chong, Canadian-born actor and comedian
May 24 - David Viscott, American psychiatrist (d. 1996)
May 25 - Raymond Carver, American writer (d. 1988)
May 26 - William Bolcom, American composer
May 26 - Pauline Parker, New-Zealandic murderess
May 26 - Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist
May 26 - Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano
May 28 - Jerry West, American basketball player
May 28 - Prince Buster, Jamaican musician
May 29 - Fay Vincent, baseball commissioner
May 31 - Johnny Paycheck, American singer (d. 2003)
May 31 - John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
May 31 - Peter Yarrow, American folk singer (Peter
June 2 - Kevin Brownlow, English film historian and author
June 4 - Art Mahaffey, American baseball player
June 5 - Karin Balzer, German hurdler
June 6 - Prince Luís of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne
June 7 - Goose Gonsoulin, American football player
June 9 - Charles Wuorinen, American composer
June 12 - Tom Oliver, Australian actor
June 15 - Billy Williams, baseball player
June 16 - James Bolam, English actor
June 16 - Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist
June 16 - Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer
June 18 - Kevin Murray, Australian rules footballer
June 19 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)
June 19 - Ian Smith, Australian actor
June 20 - Mickie Most, British record producer (d. 2003)
June 21 - Ron Ely, American actor
June 24 - Lawrence Block, American writer
June 26 - Gerald North, American climatologist
June 27 - Tommy Cannon, British comedian
June 27 - Shirley Anne Field, British actress
June 27 - Kathryn Beaumont, British voice actress
June 28 - John Byner, American comedian
June 28 - Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
June 28 - Leon Panetta, American White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton
June 30 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
July 1 - Craig Anderson, baseball player
July 3 - Bolo Yeung, Hong Kong actor
July 4 - Bill Withers, American singer and songwriter
July 5 - Ronnie Self, American rock singer and songwriter (d. 1981)
July 9 - Brian Dennehy, American actor
July 10 - Paul Andreu, French architect
July 10 - Lee Morgan, American hard-bop trumpeter
July 12 - Ron Fairly, American baseball player
July 12 - Wieger Mensonides, Dutch swimmer
July 14 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (d. 1994)
July 15 - Ernie Barnes, American artist and football player
July 16 - Tony Jackson, English bass player (The Searchers) (d. 2003)
July 18 - Paul Verhoeven, Dutch film director
July 18 - Ian Stewart, Scottish pianist (d. 1985)
July 19 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
July 19 - Nicholas Bethell, British historian (d. 2007)
July 19 - Richard Jordan, American actor (d. 1993)
July 20 - Roger Hunt, English footballer
July 20 - Dame Diana Rigg, English actress
July 20 - Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
July 21 - Les Aspin, American politician (d. 1995)
July 21 - Anton Kuerti, Canadian pianist
July 21 - Janet Reno, 79th United States Attorney General
July 22 - Terence Stamp, English actor
July 23 - Juliet Anderson, American pornographic actress
July 23 - Ronny Cox, American actor
July 23 - Götz George, German actor
July 23 - Charles Harrelson, American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson (d. 2007)
July 23 - Bert Newton, Australian actor and television show host
July 24 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter
July 24 - John Sparling, New Zealand cricketer
July 26 - Darlene Love, American singer
July 27 - Isabelle Aubret, French singer
July 27 - Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator (d. 2008)
July 28 - Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
July 28 - Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician and Former Prime Minister of Thailand
July 28 - Luis Aragonés, Spanish football manager
July 29 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born journalist (d. 2005)
July 29 - Jean Rochon, Quebec politician
July 30 - Hervé de Charette, French politician
August 2 - Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
August 2 - Pierre de Bané, French Canadian politician
August 2 - Terry Peck, Falkland Islander-born British soldier (d. 2006)
August 3 - Terry Wogan, Irish television presenter
August 4 - Ellen Schrecker, American college professor
August 6 - Paul Bartel, American actor (d. 2000)
August 6 - Peter Bonerz, American actor
August 8 - Jacques Hétu, French Canadian composer
August 8 - Connie Stevens, American singer and actress
August 9 - Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician
August 9 - Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
August 9 - Otto Rehhagel, German football manager
August 11 - Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist
August 12 - Jean-Paul L'Allier, Canadian Mayor of Quebec
August 13 - Dave "Baby" Cortez, American pop keyboardist
August 15 - Maxine Waters, American politician
August 15 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer
August 17 - Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian Muslim cleric
August 17 - Theodoros Pangalos, Greek politician
August 18 - Joe Frank, American radio personality
August 19 - Diana Muldaur, American actress
August 20 - Alain Vivien, French politician
August 21 - Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor
August 22 - Paul Maguire, American football commentator
August 24 - Halldór Blöndal, Icelandic politician
August 24 - David Freiberg, American bassist (Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Starship)
August 24 - Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer
August 25 - David Canary, American actor
August 25 - Frederick Forsyth, English author
August 26 - Jet Black, English Drummer
August 28 - Paul Martin, Canadian politician
August 28 - Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist
August 29 - Elliott Gould, American actor
August 29 - Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury
August 31 - Martin Bell, British journalist
August 31 - Murray Gleeson, Chief Justice of Australia
September 2 - Mary Jo Catlett, American actress
September 2 - Clarence Felder, American actor
September 3 - Eileen Brennan, American actress
September 3 - Caryl Churchill, English playwright
September 3 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist
September 8 - Kenichi Horie, Japanese adventurer
September 11 - David Higgins, British Composer and Conductor
September 12 - Claude Ruel, French Canadian ice hockey coach
September 13 - Judith Martin, American etiquette writer
September 13 - John Smith, Labour Party Leader 1992
September 14 - Nicol Williamson, Scottish-born actor
September 15 - Gaylord Perry, baseball player
September 17 - Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player
September 21 - Doug Moe, American basketball player and coach
September 22 - Gene Mingo, American football player
September 23 - Tom Lester, American actor
September 23 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (d. 1982)
September 25 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland
September 28 - Ben E. King, American r&b singer
September 29 - Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
October 2 - Eddie Cochran, American singer (d. 1960)
October 2 - Rex Reed, American movie critic and actor
October 2 - Waheed Murad, Pakistani film actor and director (d. 1983)
October 3 - Tereza Kesovija, Croatian singer
October 4 - Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist
October 5 - Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist
October 6 - Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder
October 8 - Walter Gretzky, father of Wayne Gretzky
October 8 - Fred Stolle, Australian tennis player
October 9 - Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
October 10 - Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer
October 12 - Bob Miller, American NHL broadcaster
October 13 - Hugo Young, English journalist (d. 2003)
October 14 - John W. Dean III, Watergate figure
October 14 - Empress Farah Diba of Iran,
October 14 - Ron Lancaster, American-born Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008)
October 15 - Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician (d. 1997)
October 15 - Marv Johnson, American singer (d. 1993)
October 16 - Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model
October 16 - Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999)
October 17 - Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (d. 2007)
October 18 - Dawn Wells, American actress
October 20 - Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (d. 2006)
October 21 - Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2001)
October 22 - Derek Jacobi, English actor
October 22 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor
October 28 - David Dimbleby, English television commentator
October 28 - Anne Perry, English-born novelist
October 29 - Ralph Bakshi, Israeli cartoonist
October 29 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia
November 2 - Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans)
November 2 - Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
November 2 - Queen Sofia of Spain,
November 3 - Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician
November 3 - Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter
November 5 - Joe Dassin, French-speaking American singer (d. 1980)
November 5 - César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
November 5 - Jim Steranko, American graphic artist
November 6 - Mack Jones, American baseball player (d. 2004)
November 6 - Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)
November 6 - P.J. Proby, American-born singer and actor
November 6 - Diana E. H. Russell, South African feminist writer and activist
November 6 - Dumitru Rusu, Romanian painter
November 7 - Jim Kaat, American baseball player
November 7 - Dee Clark, American singer (d. 1990)
November 8 - Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007)
November 9 - Ti-Grace Atkinson, American feminist author
November 11 - Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater
November 11 - Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
November 12 - Denis DeJordy, Canadian ice hockey player
November 13 - Gérald Godin, French Canadian poet and politician (d. 1994)
November 13 - Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)
November 16 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
November 17 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer
November 19 - Ted Turner, American businessman
November 22 - Henry C. Lee, Chinese-born American criminologist
November 23 - Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor
November 24 - Charles Starkweather, American Spree Killer (d. 1959)
November 24 - Oscar Robertson, American basketball player
November 24 - Willy Claes, Belgian politician
November 25 - Rosanna Schiaffino, Italian actress
November 26 - Porter J. Goss, American Central Intelligence Agency director
November 26 - Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
November 26 - Rich Little, Canadian comedian and actor
November 30 - Jean Eustache, French filmmaker
December 1 - Sandy Nelson, American drummer
December 3 - Jean-Claude Malépart, Canadian politician (d. 1989)
December 4 - Yvonne Minton, Australian soprano
December 5 - J. J. Cale, American songwriter
December 6 - Patrick Bauchau, Belgian actor
December 9 - David Houston, American country singer (d. 1993)
December 9 - Deacon Jones, American football player
December 10 - Yuri Temirkanov, Russian orchestral conductor
December 10 - Porter Goss, American politician
December 11 - Enrico Macias, Algerian-born French singer
December 11 - McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist
December 12 - Connie Francis, American singer
December 13 - Alvin Curran, American composer
December 13 - Heino, German folk singer.
December 14 - Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian
December 15 - Billy Shaw, American football player
December 16 - Frank Deford, American sportswriter
December 16 - Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress
December 17 - Carlo Little, English drummer (d. 2005)
December 17 - Peter Snell, New Zealand runner
December 18 - Chas Chandler, English musician (The Animals) (d. 1996)
December 18 - Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter and composer (d. 2005)
December 18 - Roger E. Mosley, American actor
December 20 - John Harbison, American composer
December 21 - Frank Moorhouse, Australian author
December 22 - Matty Alou, Dominican baseball player
December 22 - Lucien Bouchard, Quebec politician
December 23 - Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
December 24 - Bobby Henrich, American baseball player
December 24 - Valentim Loureiro, Portuguese politician
December 25 - Noel Picard, Quebec ice hockey player
December 25 - Duane Armstrong, American painter
December 26 - Bahram Beizai, Iranian playwright and film director
December 26 - Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (d. 1989)
December 28 - Dick Sudhalter, American jazz musician (d. 2008)
December 29 - Harvey Smith, English showjumper
December 29 - Jon Voight, American actor
December 31 - Rosalind Cash, American actress (d. 1995)

Deaths

January 8 - Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)
January 12 - Gösta Ekman (senior), Swedish actor (b. 1890)
January 28 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (b. 1909)
February 5 - Hans Litten, German jurist (b. 1903)
February 6 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
February 7 - Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer (b. 1868)
February 18 - David King Udall, American politician (b. 1851)
February 21 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (b. 1868)
March 1 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer
March 2 - Ben Harney, American composer and pianist (b. 1871)
March 4 - George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
March 4 - Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
March 7 - Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician
March 13 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
March 13 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)
April 10 - Joe "King" Oliver, American musician (b. 1885)
April 12 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (b. 1873)
April 13 - Archibald Belaney, Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)
April 15 - César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (b. 1892)
April 16 - Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
April 21 - Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
April 24 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
April 26 - Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (b. 1859)
May 4 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist
May 9 - Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (b. 1866)
May 13 - Charles Edouard Guillaume, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
May 17 - Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (b. 1877)
June 22 - C.J. Dennis, Australian writer and poet (b. 1876)
July 4 - Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician (b. 1881)
July 4 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
July 9 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (b. 1870)
July 21 - Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
July 29 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
August 4 - Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
August 7 - Constantin Stanislavski, Russian/Soviet theatre practitioner (b. 1863)
August 14 - Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (b. 1876)
August 16 - Robert Johnson, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1911)
August 16 - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (b. 1864)
August 25 - Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
August 30 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
September 6 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
September 17 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
September 19 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)
September 21 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer, (b. 1874)
September 24 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
October 2 - Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
October 5 - Saint Faustina, Polish saint (b. 1905)
October 13 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (b. 1894)
October 17 - Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (b. 1854)
October 24 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
October 25 - Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (b. 1892)
November 9 - Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
November 10 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881)
November 11 - Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease (b. 1869)
November 17 - Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician (b. 1864)
November 19 - Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
November 20 - Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895)
December 8 - Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (b. 1896)
December 11 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist
December 19 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman (b. 1873)
December 20 - Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (b. 1850)
December 24 - Bruno Taut, German architect (b. 1880)
December 25 - Karel Čapek, Czech author (b. 1890)
December 27 - Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (b. 1889)
December 27 - Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (b. 1891)
December 28 - Florence Lawrence, American actress (b. 1886)

Events

January 3 - The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
January 13 - The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution.
January 14 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
January 16 - The famous jazz concert by the Benny Goodman Orchestra and special guests takes place at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the first jazz performance in that venue.
January 28 - The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195.
February 11 - BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., which coined the term "robot".
February 24 - A nylon-bristle toothbrush becomes the first commercial product (DuPont) to
March 3 - Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
March 12 - Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day.
March 13 - World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
March 18 - Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
March 27 - The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
April 25 - U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
April 30 - The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit.
April 30 - The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
May 25 - Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
May 26 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
June 7 - The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
June 11 - Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
June 11 - Second Sino-Japanese War: The Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
June 14 - Action Comics issue one was released, introducing Superman.
June 23 - The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
June 24 - A 450 metric ton meteorite strikes the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
June 25 - Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated the first President of Ireland.
July 3 - World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 mph.(203 km/h)
July 3 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
July 10 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
July 17 - Douglas Corrigan takes off to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
July 20 - The Justice Department files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of anti-trust law. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
July 31 - Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanta (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia)
July 31 - Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius in Persepolis.
August 8 - The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
August 18 - The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
August 20 - Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam
September 5 - Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
September 12 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
September 21 - The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
September 23 - Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
September 27 - Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
September 30 - At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
September 30 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
October 1 - Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
October 2 - Tiberias massacre: Arabs murder 20 Jews.
October 10 - The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
October 15 - The District of Columbia formally adopts a design for its flag.
October 25 - The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".
October 30 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
October 31 - Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
November 1 - Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
November 9 - German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of political assassin Herschel Grynszpan, an act which is attributed to the beginning of Kristallnacht.
November 9 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins.
November 10 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, dies.
November 12 - Hermann Göring announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
November 16 - LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
November 18 - Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
December 13 - The Holocaust: 100 deportees from Sachsenhausen build the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg.
December 16 - Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother
December 23 - Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.

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