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Birthdays

January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, American musician
January 4 - Maureen Reagan, American political activist (d. 2001)
January 4 - George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (d. 2005)
January 4 - John Bennett Perry, American actor
January 5 - Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker
January 5 - Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer
January 7 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
January 7 - Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach
January 7 - John E. Walker, English chemist
January 8 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)
January 8 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator
January 9 - Joan Baez, American singer and activist
January 9 - Gilles Vaillancourt, Quebec politician
January 11 - Gérson, Brazilian footballer
January 12 - Long John Baldry, British blues singer (d. 2005)
January 13 - Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician
January 14 - Faye Dunaway, American actress
January 14 - Milan Kučan, Slovenian statesman
January 15 - Captain Beefheart, American musician and visual artist
January 15 - Charo, Spanish entertainer
January 17 - Dame Gillian Weir, New Zealand organist
January 18 - Denise Bombardier, Quebec journalist
January 18 - Bobby Goldsboro, American country/pop singer
January 18 - David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991)
January 19 - Tony Anholt, British actor (d. 2002)
January 19 - Colin Gunton, British theologian (d. 2003)
January 19 - Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler
January 20 - Pierre Lalonde, Quebec singer and television host
January 21 - Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor
January 21 - Stathis Giallelis, Greek actor
January 21 - Richie Havens, American musician
January 21 - Mike Medavoy, American film producer
January 21 - Ivan Putski, Polish-born American professional wrestler
January 24 - Neil Diamond, American singer
January 24 - Aaron Neville, American singer
January 25 - Buddy Baker, American race car driver
January 25 - Gregory Sierra, American actor
January 26 - Scott Glenn, American actor
January 26 - Henry Jaglom, English director
January 28 - Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
January 29 - Robin Morgan, American feminist and activist
January 30 - Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
January 30 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
January 30 - Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
January 31 - Richard A. Gephardt, American politician
January 31 - Jessica Walter, American actress
February 1 - Karl Dall, German television host
February 1 - Jerry Spinelli, children's author
February 3 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)
February 3 - Dory Funk, Jr.
February 4 - John Steel, British musician (The Animals)
February 5 - Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist
February 5 - Stephen J. Cannell, American television producer and writer
February 5 - David Selby, American actor
February 5 - Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor
February 6 - Gigi Perreau, American actress
February 7 - Peter Foxhall, Australian evangelist
February 8 - Nick Nolte, American actor
February 8 - Tom Rush, American singer and songwriter
February 9 - Sheila Kuehl, American actress
February 10 - Michael Apted, British director
February 11 - Sergio Mendes, Brazilian musician
February 12 - Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer
February 13 - Andrea Conte, First Lady of Tennessee
February 13 - Sigmar Polke, German painter
February 14 - Donna Shalala, American educator
February 14 - Paul Tsongas, United States Senator from Massachusetts (d. 1997)
February 15 - Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress
February 15 - Brian Holland, American songwriter and producer
February 17 - Julia McKenzie, English actress and theatre director
February 18 - Irma Thomas, American singer
February 19 - David Gross, American physicist
February 20 - Lim Kit Siang, Democratic Socialist opposition party in Malaysia
February 20 - Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer
February 21 - James Wong, Hong Kong composer (d. 2004)
February 22 - Hipólito Mejía, Dominican politician
February 23 - Ron Hunt, baseball player
February 24 - Joanie Sommers, American singer and actress
February 26 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
February 27 - Paddy Ashdown, British politician
March 2 - David Satcher, 16th United States Surgeon General
March 4 - John Aprea, American actor
March 4 - Adrian Lyne, English film director
March 4 - Bobby Shew, American jazz musician
March 8 - Andrei Mironov, Soviet actor (d. 1987)
March 9 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (d. 1976)
March 13 - Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose.(d. 2008)
March 14 - Wolfgang Petersen, German director
March 15 - Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)
March 16 - Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
March 16 - Chuck Woolery, American game show host
March 17 - Paul Kantner, American musician (Jefferson Airplane)
March 17 - Wang Jin-pyng, Taiwanese politician
March 18 - Wilson Pickett, American singer (d. 2006)
March 18 - John W. Derr, American politician
March 20 - Pat Corrales, American baseball player
March 20 - Kenji Kimihara, Japanese long-distance runner
March 22 - Jeremy Clyde, British actor and musician (Chad and Jeremy)
March 22 - Billy Collins, American poet
March 22 - Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
March 23 - Jim Trelease, American educator and children's literature author
March 25 - Gudmund Hernes, Norwegian politician
March 26 - Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist
March 26 - Yvon Marcoux, Quebec politician
March 27 - Ivan Gašparovič, President of Slovakia
March 28 - Alf Clausen, America orchestra conductor
March 28 - Jim Turner, American football player
March 29 - Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
March 29 - Eden Kane, British singer
March 30 - Graeme Edge, British musician (Moody Blues)
March 30 - Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
March 30 - Bob Smith, former American politician
April 2 - Dr. Demento, American radio personality
April 3 - Jan Berry, American musician (d. 2004)
April 3 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (d. 1984)
April 3 - Eric Braeden, German-born actor
April 3 - Philippé Wynne, American musician (d. 1984)
April 5 - Michael Moriarty, American actor
April 5 - Dave Swarbrick, British folk musician
April 6 - Phil Austin, American comedian
April 6 - Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, American drag racer
April 6 - Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian musician
April 7 - Gorden Kaye, British actor
April 8 - Darlene Gillespie, Canadian-born American actress
April 8 - Peggy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
April 8 - Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer
April 9 - Kaye Adams, American country singer
April 9 - Chu Song-woong, Korean stage actor (d. 1985)
April 10 - Paul Theroux, American author
April 11 - Ellen Goodman, American political columnist
April 11 - Shirley Stelfox, English actress
April 12 - Bobby Moore, English footballer (d. 1993)
April 13 - Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist
April 14 - Julie Christie, British actress
April 14 - Pete Rose, American baseball player
April 15 - Howard Berman, American politician
April 19 - Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer
April 19 - Bobby Russell, American songwriter (d. 1992)
April 19 - Alan Price, English musician (The Animals
April 20 - Ryan O'Neal, American actor
April 23 - Jacqueline Boyer, French singer
April 23 - Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland 1995-2003
April 23 - Michael Lynne, American film executive
April 24 - John Williams, Australian guitarist
April 25 - Bertrand Tavernier, French director
April 25 - Princess Muna al-Hussein, of Jordan
April 26 - Claudine Clark, American R&B singer-composer
April 26 - John Mitchell, American composer
April 27 - Jennings Michael Burch, American author
April 27 - Lee Roy Jordan, American football player
April 27 - Pat Choate, American economist
April 28 - Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress
April 28 - K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist
April 28 - Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
April 28 - Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet
April 30 - Johnny Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny)
May 2 - Clay Carroll, American baseball player
May 3 - Edward "Monk" Malloy, American university president
May 4 - George Will, American writer
May 5 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (d. 2004)
May 7 - Catherine P. Saxton, British-born American public relations executive
May 8 - Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopian singer
May 8 - John Fred, American singer (d. 2005)
May 8 - Bill Lockyer, American politician
May 11 - Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals)
May 11 - Graham Miles, English snooker player
May 13 - Senta Berger, Austrian actress
May 13 - Joe Brown, British singer
May 13 - Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959)
May 13 - Jody Conradt, American college basketball coach
May 15 - K.T. Oslin, American musician
May 17 - David Cope, American composer and author
May 17 - Ben Nelson. American politician,
May 17 - Grace Zabriskie, American actress
May 18 - Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (d. 2007)
May 18 - Miriam Margolyes, British actress
May 19 - Nora Ephron, American screenwriter
May 20 - Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean Senior Minister
May 20 - John Strasberg, American actor
May 20 - Manuel Isaias Lopez, Mexican child psychiatrist
May 21 - Martin Carthy, English musician
May 21 - Ronald Isley, American singer (The Isley Brothers)
May 21 - Bobby Cox, Manager of the Atlanta Braves (MLB)
May 22 - Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
May 22 - Sir Menzies Campbell, British politician
May 22 - Martha Langbein, German athlete
May 24 - Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter
May 24 - George Lakoff, American linguist and political activist
May 26 - Reg Bundy, British performer (d. 2003)
May 26 - Cliff Drysdale, South African tennis player
May 26 - John Kaufman, sculptor
May 28 - Beth Howland, American actress
May 31 - Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist
June 2 - Stacy Keach, American actor
June 2 - Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
June 2 - William Guest, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
June 5 - Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
June 5 - Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer and songwriter
June 5 - Spalding Gray, American actor and writer (d. 2004)
June 5 - Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots
June 6 - Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist
June 8 - Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician (d. 1981)
June 8 - Fuzzy Haskins, American musician (P Funk)
June 9 - Jon Lord, organist in Deep Purple
June 10 - Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
June 10 - Mickey Jones, American musician and actor
June 10 - Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles)
June 10 - David Walker, Australian racing driver
June 12 - Marv Albert, American sportscaster
June 12 - Chick Corea, American musician
June 12 - Roy Harper, English musician
June 13 - Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
June 13 - Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player
June 15 - Harry Nilsson, American singer and composer (d. 1994)
June 16 - Aldrich Ames, CIA officer and spy for the Soviet Union
June 16 - Lamont Dozier, American record company executive
June 16 - Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist
June 18 - Delia Smith, English cook and television presenter
June 19 - Václav Klaus, Czech politician and President
June 19 - Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
June 20 - Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut
June 20 - Stephen Frears, English film director
June 21 - Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor
June 21 - Lyman Ward, Canadian actor
June 22 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
June 22 - Michael Lerner, American actor
June 23 - Robert Hunter, American lyricist and poet (The Grateful Dead)
June 23 - Roger McDonald, Australian author
June 23 - Richard M. Richie Roberts, former Marine and New Jersey Police Detective
June 24 - Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French philosopher
June 25 - Denys Arcand, Canadian film director
June 26 - Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist
June 27 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (d. 1996)
June 27 - Bill Baxley, American politician
June 27 - James P. Hogan, British science fiction author
June 27 - Avi Lerner, Israeli-born American film producer
June 28 - Al Downing, American baseball player
June 28 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
June 29 - John Boccabella, American baseball player
June 29 - Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
June 30 - Peter Pollock, South African cricket player
July 1 - Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist
July 1 - Myron Scholes, American economist
July 1 - Twyla Tharp, American choreographer
July 1 - Rod Gilbert, Canadian hockey player
July 2 - Stéphane Venne, French Canadian songwriter
July 4 - Brian Willson, American peace activist
July 7 - Michael Howard, British politician
July 7 - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
July 8 - Dario Gradi, Italian-born football manager
July 10 - David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
July 10 - Ian Whitcomb, English songwriter
July 11 - Clive Puzey, Zimbabwean racing driver
July 12 - Benny Parsons, American NASCAR driver (d. 2007)
July 12 - Joseph Whipp, American actor
July 13 - Robert Forster, American actor
July 13 - Jacques Perrin, French actor and filmmaker
July 14 - Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
July 14 - Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
July 15 - Denis Héroux, French Canadian film director and producer
July 16 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican musician (d. 2006)
July 16 - Mišo Kovač, Croatian musician
July 17 - Daryle Lamonica, American football player
July 17 - Achim Warmbold, German rally driver
July 17 - Bob Taylor, Former English Cricketer
July 18 - Frank Farian, German music producer
July 18 - Lonnie Mack, American guitarist and singer
July 18 - Martha Reeves, American singer
July 19 - Vikki Carr, American singer
July 19 - Neelie Kroes, Dutch EU Commissioner for Competition
July 20 - Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988)
July 22 - George Clinton, American musician
July 22 - Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
July 23 - Richie Evans, 9 time NASCAR Modified Champion (died at Martinsville in 1985)
July 25 - Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
July 25 - Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
July 26 - Bobby Hebb, American musician
July 26 - Brenton Wood, American singer-songwriter
July 28 - Susan Roces, Filipino actress
July 28 - Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
July 29 - Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007)
July 29 - David Warner, English actor
July 30 - Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
July 31 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician
August 1 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
August 2 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
August 3 - Beverly Lee, American singer (Shirelles)
August 3 - Martha Stewart, American media personality
August 4 - Martin Jarvis, English actor
August 4 - Ted Strickland, American politician and current Governor of Ohio
August 5 - Bob Clark, American film director (d. 2007)
August 6 - Lyle Berman, American poker player
August 6 - Ray Culp, American baseball player
August 12 - Réjean Ducharme, Quebec novelist and playwright
August 13 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
August 14 - David Crosby, American musician
August 14 - Connie Smith, American singer
August 17 - Jean Pierre Lefebvre, French Canadian film director
August 17 - Boog Powell, American baseball player
August 20 - Dave Brock, British musician and founder of Hawkwind
August 20 - Rich Brooks, American football coach
August 20 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (d. 2006)
August 20 - Robin Oakley, British journalist
August 20 - Jo Ramirez, Mexican motor racing team manager and author
August 22 - Bill Parcells, American football coach
August 22 - Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
August 26 - Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director
August 26 - Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
August 26 - Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (The Searchers) (d. 2005)
August 27 - Harrison Page, American actor
August 28 - Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat
August 28 - Paul Plishka, American bass
August 29 - Robin Leach, English television host
August 30 - Ben Jones, American actor and politician
August 31 - William DeWitt, Jr.
September 1 - Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer
September 2 - David Bale, South African-born activist (d. 2003)
September 2 - Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer
September 3 - Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990)
September 4 - Marilena Chaui, Brazilian philosopher
September 4 - Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
September 4 - Joanna Van Gyseghem, English actress
September 4 - Ramesh Sethi, East African cricketer
September 8 - Bernie Sanders, American politician
September 9 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
September 9 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
September 10 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
September 10 - Christopher Hogwood, English conductor
September 10 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
September 13 - Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
September 13 - Ahmet Necdet Sezer, 10th President of Turkey
September 13 - David Clayton-Thomas, Canadian singer (Blood
September 14 - Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
September 15 - Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer
September 15 - Signe Toly Anderson, American singer
September 15 - Mirosław Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut
September 15 - Yuri Norstein, Russian animator
September 15 - Viktor Zubkov, Russian government official
September 16 - Richard Perle, American political advisor
September 17 - Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005)
September 19 - Umberto Bossi, Italian politician
September 19 - Mama Cass Elliot, American musician (d. 1974)
September 20 - Dale Chihuly, American glass artist
September 21 - R. James Woolsey, Jr.
September 21 - Jack Brisco, American professional wrestler
September 22 - Jeremiah Wright, American pastor
September 23 - Simon Nolet, Canadian ice hockey player
September 23 - George Jackson, American civil-rights activist
September 24 - Linda McCartney, American singer (d. 1998)
September 24 - John Mackey, football player
September 26 - Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor
September 27 - Serge Ménard, Québécois politician
September 27 - Peter Bonetti, English footballer
September 27 - Gay Kayler Ashcroft, Australian country music singer
September 28 - Edmund Stoiber, German politician
September 29 - Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995)
October 2 - Zareh Baronian, Armenian theologian
October 3 - Chubby Checker, American musician
October 4 - Roy Blount, Jr.
October 4 - Anne Rice, American writer
October 4 - Robert Wilson, American theatre director
October 4 - Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian racing driver
October 5 - Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
October 8 - Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
October 9 - Trent Lott, American politician
October 9 - Brian Lamb, Founder of C-SPAN
October 9 - Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
October 10 - Peter Coyote, American actor
October 11 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
October 11 - Charles Shyer, American film director
October 12 - Michael Mansfield, English barrister
October 13 - Paul Simon, American singer and musician (Simon and Garfunkel)
October 14 - Art Shamsky, American baseball player
October 16 - Tim McCarver, baseball player and commentator
October 17 - Earl Thomas Conley, American singer
October 17 - Jim Seals American singer, (Seals and Crofts)
October 19 - Simon Ward, British actor
October 21 - Steve Cropper, American musician
October 23 - Igor Smirnov, Moldovan politician
October 23 - Mel Winkler, American actor
October 24 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer
October 25 - Helen Reddy, Australian singer
October 25 - Anne Tyler, American novelist
October 26 - Charlie Landsborough, Singer/Songwriter
October 27 - Dick Trickle, American auto racer
October 28 - John Hallam, Irish actor (d. 2006)
October 28 - Hank Marvin, English guitarist
October 28 - Curtis Lee, American singer
October 30 - Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist
October 30 - Otis Williams, American singer
October 31 - Derek Bell, British racing driver
October 31 - Dan Alderson, American scientist
November 1 - Alfio Basile, Argentine football coach
November 2 - Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows)
November 3 - Brian Poole, English musician (The Tremeloes)
November 5 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
November 9 - Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
November 10 - John Geoghegan, Silver Star recipient (d. 1965)
November 10 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
November 11 - Jesse Colin Young, American singer and songwriter (The Youngbloods)
November 13 - Eberhard Diepgen, German politician
November 13 - Dack Rambo, American actor (d. 1994)
November 13 - Mel Stottlemyre, American baseball player and coach
November 16 - Gerry Marshall, British race car driver (d. 2005)
November 18 - David Hemmings, British actor (d. 2003)
November 19 - Dan Haggerty, American actor
November 19 - Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Governor of Wisconsin
November 20 - Haseena Moin, Pakistani television writer and playwright
November 21 - İdil Biret, Turkish pianist
November 21 - Juliet Mills, British actress
November 22 - Tom Conti, British actor
November 22 - Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
November 22 - Jesse Colin Young, American musician
November 22 - Terry Stafford, American singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
November 23 - Franco Nero, Italian actor
November 24 - Pete Best, British musician
November 24 - Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician
November 25 - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistan Muslim Sufi
November 25 - Percy Sledge, American musician
November 26 - Susanne Marsee, American mezzo-soprano
November 27 - Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (d. 1998)
November 27 - Aimé Jacquet, French football manager
November 28 - Laura Antonelli, Italian actress
November 29 - Bill Freehan, American baseball player
December 6 - Richard Speck, American mass murderer (d. 1991)
December 8 - Ed Brinkman, American baseball player
December 8 - Bob Brown, American football player
December 8 - Randall Cunningham, American politician
December 8 - Sir Geoff Hurst, English footballer
December 9 - Beau Bridges, American actor
December 9 - Dan Hicks, American musician
December 10 - Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress
December 10 - Tommy Kirk, American actor
December 10 - Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996)
December 10 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor
December 10 - Chad Stuart, English singer (Chad and Jeremy)
December 11 - Max Baucus, American politician
December 11 - J.P. Parise, Canadian ice hockey player
December 13 - John Davidson, American actor and game show host
December 14 - Karan Armstrong, American soprano
December 14 - Ellen Willis, American journalist (d. 2006)
December 16 - Lesley Stahl, American journalist
December 18 - Wadada Leo Smith, American trumpeter and composer
December 19 - Maurice White, American singer and songwriter (Earth
December 23 - Ron Bushy, American musician
December 23 - Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
December 23 - Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (d. 1975)
December 24 - John Levene, British actor
December 26 - Daniel Schmid, Swiss film director (d. 2006)
December 27 - Michael Pinder, British musician (Moody Blues)
December 27 - Nolan Richardson, American basketball coach
December 29 - Ray Thomas, British musician (The Moody Blues)
December 30 - Mel Renfro, American football player
December 31 - Sir Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager
December 31 - Sarah Miles, English actress

Deaths

January 2 - Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist (b. 1898)
January 4 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher
January 5 - Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)
January 6 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
January 8 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of scouting (b. 1857)
January 10 - Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
January 10 - Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856)
January 10 - Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904)
January 11 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
January 13 - James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
January 29 - Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (b. 1871)
February 5 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet
February 20 - La Bolduc, French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894)
February 21 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician
February 27 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
February 28 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain, (b. 1886)
March 4 - Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist
March 6 - Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867)
March 8 - Sherwood Anderson, American author (b. 1876)
March 13 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
March 15 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
March 17 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (b. 1895)
March 18 - Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
March 28 - Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)
March 28 - Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
April 5 - Sir Nigel Gresley, Steam locomotive engineer (b. 1876)
April 13 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
April 14 - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (b. 1871)
April 17 - Al Bowlly, British dance band vocalist (b. 1899)
April 27 - Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
May 5 - Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859)
May 7 - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (b. 1854)
May 18 - Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
May 24 - Lancelot Holland, British admiral
May 27 - Gunther Lutjens, German admiral
May 27 - Ernst Lindemann, German captain
May 30 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII
June 1 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (b. 1873)
June 2 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
June 4 - Wilhelm II of Germany, German emperor (b. 1859)
June 6 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
June 11 - Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
June 15 - Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
June 15 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
June 29 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
July 4 - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
July 8 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi
July 10 - Jelly Roll Morton, American musician (b. 1890)
July 20 - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
July 21 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
July 26 - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875)
July 27 - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author
August 12 - Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
August 14 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist
August 14 - Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (b. 1894)
August 30 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
August 31 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
September 9 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist
September 11 - Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary (b. 1873)
October 5 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1856)
October 9 - Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
October 18 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
October 22 - Guy Môquet, French hero of the resistance(executed)(b. 1924)
October 26 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904)
October 29 - Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
November 5 - Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b. 1905)
November 6 - Maurice Leblanc, French novelist (b. 1864)
November 12 - Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, American mobster (b. 1907)
November 18 - Walther Nernst, German chemist
November 18 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
November 18 - Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
November 21 - Henrietta Vinton Davis American elocutionist, dramatist
November 22 - Werner Mölders, German ace fighter pilot (b. 1915)
November 26 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)
November 26 - Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (b. 1876)
December 3 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)
December 9 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)
December 10 - Colin Kelly, American pilot (b. 1915)
December 11 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
December 11 - Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)
December 12 - Cesar Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero (b. 1915)
December 20 - Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
December 24 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858)
December 30 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890)

Events

January 2 - World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.
January 2 - World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.
January 6 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
January 9 - First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
January 9 - World War II: The Greek Triton (S.112) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
January 10 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.
January 10 - World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
January 17 - Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-Shek open fire at communist forces, resuming the Chinese Civil War after World War II.
January 19 - World War II: British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea.
January 21 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
January 22 - World War II: The United Kingdom captures Tobruk from Nazi forces.
January 23 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
January 25 - Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
January 28 - French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
January 31 - Layforce set sail.
February 3 - World War II: Nazi Germany forcibly restores Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France.
February 4 - World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
February 11 - First Gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
February 19 - World War II: The Afrika Korps, the corps-level headquarters controlling the German Panzer divisions in North Africa, is formed.
February 23 - Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
February 25 - February strike: First general & physical protest against Nazi anti-Jewish behaviour & -laws (Amsterdam)
March 1 - World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
March 1 - W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S..
March 2 - World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
March 4 - The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.
March 4 - Adolf Hitler applies pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact.
March 11 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
March 17 - In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
March 19 - World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated.
March 22 - Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
March 25 - The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
March 27 - World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
March 28 - World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan
March 29 - World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesus coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
April 1 - The Blockade Runner Badge for German navy is instituted.
April 6 - World War II: Operation Castigo begins. Germany invades the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece.
April 10 - World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Paveliæ's Ustase fascist insurgents in power.
April 13 - Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
April 14 - World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion. In addition, Rommel attacks Tobruk.
April 15 - In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one thousand people.
April 16 - World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
April 16 - Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
April 17 - World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
April 23 - World War II: Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the attacking Wehrmacht.
April 27 - World War II: German troops enter Athens.
May 1 - World War II: German forces launch Operation Mercury the largest airborne invasion to date in their bid to capture Crete.
May 1 - World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
May 5 - Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; this date has been since commemorated as Liberation Day.
May 6 - At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
May 9 - World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
May 10 - World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
May 10 - World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland in order to try and negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Germany.
May 12 - Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
May 13 - World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
May 15 - Baseball player Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees starts his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak.
May 20 - World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete.
May 21 - World War II: 950 miles off the coast of Brazil, the freighter SS Robin Moor becomes the first American ship sunk by a German U-boat.
May 24 - World War II: In the North Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the HMS Hood killing all but three crewmen on what was the pride of the Royal Navy.
May 27 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
May 27 - World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
May 30 - World War II: Germany captures Crete.
May 30 - World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag.
May 31 - A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, Ireland claims 38 lives.
June 1 - World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
June 1 - The Farhud, a pogrom in Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
June 5 - Four thousands Chongqing residents were asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
June 8 - World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
June 14 - Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, the June deportation, begin.
June 22 - Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
June 22 - First anti-fascist armed unit in occupied Europe founded by Croatian partisans near Sisak, Croatia.
June 22 - The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins.
June 22 - Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
June 23 - The Lithuanian Activist Front initiates independence from the Soviet Union; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
June 27 - German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
June 30 - World War II: Operation Barbarossa
July 4 - Nazi Germans massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Polish city of Lwów.
July 5 - World War II: German troops reach the Dniepr River.
July 7 - World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by Germany.
July 7 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
July 10 - Jedwabne Pogrom is a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
July 13 - World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
July 20 - Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.
July 26 - World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
July 27 - Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China.
July 31 - Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
August 1 - The first Jeep is produced.
August 14 - World War II
August 16 - HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
August 18 - Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests.
August 22 - World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
August 30 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins.
September 8 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad.
September 11 - Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
September 11 - World War II: The U.S. Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats.
September 11 - Charles Lindberg's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany.
September 16 - World War II: concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia was to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the USSR invade Iran in late August and force him to resign in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
September 17 - World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued
September 22 - World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those were the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
September 23 - World War II: The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
September 27 - The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
September 27 - Foundation of EAM (National Liberation Front) in Greece.
September 28 - Major League Baseball: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox finishes the season with a batting average of .406. He is the latest major league player to have a batting average of .400 or better.
September 29 - World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29
October 2 - World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
October 8 - World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
October 9 - A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
October 11 - Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
October 17 - For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
October 20 - World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre.
October 22 - French hero of the resistance Guy Môquet is executed by the Germans, along with 29 other hostages as a retaliation for a killed German officer.
October 23 - World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
October 23 - Odessa Massacre: 19,000 Jews are shot or burned alive at Dalnik in Odessa, by Romanian and German troops. The next day, another 10,000 Jews are killed. Romanian Lieutenant-Colonel Nicolae Deleanu administered the executions.
October 29 - Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
October 30 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
October 30 - 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
October 31 - After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore.
October 31 - World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.
October 31 - A fire in a clothing factory in Huddersfield, England kills 49
November 1 - American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
November 6 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
November 7 - World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia was sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimea’s hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
November 8 - The Albanian Communist Party is founded.
November 12 - World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
November 12 - The Soviet cruiser "Chervona Ukraina" is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.
November 13 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U 81, sinking the next day.
November 14 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U-81 sustained on November 13.
November 15 - Holocaust: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.
November 19 - World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
November 24 - World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
November 25 - Finland joined the Anti-Comintern Pact.
November 26 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
December 1 - World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
December 5 - World War II: In the Battle of Moscow Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
December 5 - World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
December 6 - World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
December 7 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor
December 7 - Holocaust (Shoah): Extermination of Jewish people at the death camp of Chelmno begins.
December 8 - World War II: The Japanese invade the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. They also invade the portions of Shanghai administered by European powers and bomb American bases in the Philippines. Because of the time difference, these events
December 8 - World War II: Pacific War
December 8 - World War II: Pacific War
December 8 - World War II: Pacific War
December 8 - World War II: First Japanese attack on Wake Island.
December 8 - Holocaust: Gas vans are first used as a means of execution, at the Chelmno extermination camp near Łódź in Poland.
December 9 - World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.
December 9 - World War II: The 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
December 10 - World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
December 10 - World War II: Battle of the Philippines
December 11 - World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The United States, in turn, declares war on Germany and Italy.
December 12 - World War II: Fifty four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesus Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; Cesar Basa is killed.
December 12 - World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island.
December 12 - World War II: Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. India declares war on Japan.
December 12 - Adolf Hitler announces extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery
December 13 - World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
December 14 - German military commander of Kharkiv, Ukraine issues an order, under which the Jewish population was to move to the city periphery within 2 days, into the barracks of the works of a machine factory. In the next days 15,000 Jews are shot at Drobitsky Yar.
December 14 - World War II: Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand.
December 15 - The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries.
December 16 - World War II: Japanese occupy Miri, Sarawak
December 17 - World War II: Beginning of the Siege of Sebastopol.
December 17 - World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
December 18 - Japan invades Hong Kong after British governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young refuses to surrender to Japanese forces.
December 19 - World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
December 20 - World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.
December 23 - World War II: Japanese Imperial Army occupies Wake Island.
December 24 - World War II: Hong Kong falls to the Japanese Imperial Army.
December 24 - World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
December 25 - Admiral Chester W Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
December 25 - World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong.

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