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Birthdays

January 1 - Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Indian scientist
January 1 - Tony Knowles, 9th Governor of Alaska
January 1 - Don Novello, American actor
January 1 - Larry Clark, American director
January 2 - Barış Manço, Turkish singer and television producer (d. 1999)
January 4 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, American writer
January 5 - Justice Mary Gaudron, first female judge of the High Court of Australia
January 6 - Terry Venables, English football manager
January 7 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)
January 7 - Sir Richard Armstrong, British conductor
January 9 - Robert Drewe, Australian author
January 9 - Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
January 9 - Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer
January 9 - Scott Walker, American singer
January 10 - Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
January 11 - Jim Hightower, American radio host and author
January 13 - Carol Cleveland, English actress
January 13 - Richard Moll, American actor
January 14 - Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor
January 14 - Shannon Lucid, American astronaut
January 14 - José Luis Rodríguez, Venezuelan singer
January 15 - Mike Marshall, American baseball player
January 16 - Gavin Bryars, English composer and double bassist
January 16 - Brian Ferneyhough, British composer
January 17 - René Préval, President of Haiti
January 17 - Geoffrey Deuel, American actor
January 17 - Chris Montez, American singer
January 18 - Kay Granger, American politician
January 19 - Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
January 19 - Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress
January 19 - Larry Clark, American film director
January 19 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands,
January 20 - Farhad Mehrad, Iranian musician
January 22 - Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress
January 23 - Gary Burton, American jazz vibraphonist
January 23 - Gil Gerard, American actor
January 23 - Millie Jackson, American singer
January 24 - Subhash Ghai, Indian film director
January 24 - Sharon Tate, American actress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
January 25 - Tobe Hooper, American film director
January 26 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
January 26 - Jean Knight, American singer
January 26 - Austin "Jack" Warner,Trinidadian FIFA Vice-President and CONCACAF President,
January 28 - Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player
January 28 - Dick Taylor, English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things)
January 30 - Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
February 2 - Susan Hanson, English actress
February 3 - Blythe Danner, American actress
February 3 - Dennis Edwards, American singer (The Temptations)
February 3 - Shawn Phillips, American singer
February 4 - Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese president of the regional government of Madeira
February 4 - Ken Thompson, American computer scientist
February 5 - Nolan Bushnell, American video game pioneer
February 5 - Michael Mann, American film director
February 5 - Craig Morton, American football player
February 6 - Fabian, American singer
February 6 - Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
February 7 - Gareth Hunt, English actor (d. 2007)
February 8 - Creed Bratton, American actor and musician
February 8 - Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and VC of Karachi University
February 9 - Barbara Lewis, American singer and songwriter
February 9 - Jonny Nilsson, Swedish speedskater
February 9 - Joe Pesci, American actor
February 9 - Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist
February 10 - Bill Laskey, American football player
February 11 - Serge Lama, French singer
February 13 - Geoff Edwards, American game show host
February 14 - Maceo Parker, American musician (P-Funk)
February 14 - Aaron Russo, American movie producer (d. 2007)
February 16 - Brig Owens, American football player
February 18 - Graeme Garden, Scottish writer
February 19 - Lou Christie, American singer
February 19 - Homer Hickam, American author and retired NASA engineer
February 19 - Tim Hunt, British biochemist
February 20 - Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist
February 20 - Antonio Inoki, Japanese professional wrestler
February 20 - Mike Leigh, British film director
February 21 - David Geffen, American record producer
February 22 - Terry Eagleton, British theorist
February 22 - Horst Köhler, President of Germany
February 23 - Fred Biletnikoff, American football player and coach
February 24 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer
February 24 - Terry Semel, American business executive
February 24 - Pablo Milanés, Cuban musician
February 25 - George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (d. 2001)
February 25 - Wilson da Silva Piazza, Brazilian footballer
February 26 - Bill Duke, American actor and director
February 26 - Dante Ferretti, Italian art director and costume designer
February 27 - Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)
February 27 - Morten Lauridsen, American composer
February 28 - Barbara Acklin, American soul singer (d. 1998)
February 28 - Charles Bernstein, American composer
March 1 - Gil Amelio, American venture capitalist
March 1 - Akinori Nakayama, Japanese gymnast
March 1 - Richard H. Price, American physicist
March 1 - Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist
March 1 - José Ángel Iribar, Spanish footballer
March 2 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (d. 2005)
March 2 - Claude Larose, French Canadian ice hockey player
March 2 - Tony Meehan, English drummer (The Shadows) (d. 2005)
March 2 - Peter Straub, American author
March 4 - Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter
March 4 - Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer
March 5 - Billy Backus, American boxer
March 7 - Chris White, British musician (The Zombies)
March 8 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress
March 9 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d. 2008)
March 9 - Charles Gibson, American television journalist
March 9 - Trish Van Devere, American actress
March 9 - Colin Murdock, American voice actor
March 13 - André Téchiné, French film director and screenwriter
March 14 - Anita Morris, American actress (d. 1994)
March 15 - David Cronenberg, Canadian film director
March 16 - Ursula Goodenough, Evolutionary Scholar
March 16 - Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005)
March 18 - Kevin Dobson, American actor
March 18 - Toula Grivas, Greek actress
March 19 - Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist
March 19 - Mario Monti, Italian politician
March 19 - Vern Schuppan, Australian racing driver
March 20 - Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer
March 20 - Naima Neidre, Estonian graphic artist
March 20 - Paul Junger Witt, American TV producer
March 21 - István Gyulai, Hungarian General Secretary of the IAAF (d. 2006)
March 21 - Hartmut Haenchen, German conductor
March 21 - Vivian Stanshall, English musician
March 22 - George Benson, American musician
March 22 - Keith Relf, English musician (The Yardbirds) (d. 1976)
March 23 - Lee May, former Major League Baseball player
March 23 - Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (d. 2001)
March 25 - Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
March 26 - Bob Woodward, American journalist
March 27 - Phil Frank, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
March 28 - Conchata Ferrell, American actress
March 29 - Eric Idle, English actor
March 29 - Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
March 29 - Vangelis, Greek musician and composer
March 30 - Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (d. 1998)
March 31 - Christopher Walken, American actor
April 3 - Mario Lavista, Mexican composer
April 3 - Jonathan Lynn, British actor and comedy writer
April 3 - Richard Manuel, Canadian musician and songwriter (d. 1986)
April 3 - Doreen Tracey, English-born Mouseketeer
April 5 - Max Gail, American actor
April 8 - Tony Banks, British politician (d. 2006)
April 8 - Michael Bennett, American dancer/choreographer (d. 1987)
April 8 - Miller Farr, American football player
April 9 - Terry Knight, American music promoter (d. 2004)
April 10 - Andrzej Badeñski, Polish athlete
April 11 - Harley Race, American professional wrestler
April 13 - Billy Kidd, American skier
April 16 - Ruth Madoc, British actress
April 16 - Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat
April 19 - Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers)
April 20 - John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor
April 20 - Edie Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1971)
April 22 - Louise Glück, American poet and 12th US Poet Laureate
April 23 - Gail Goodrich, American basketball player
April 23 - Tony Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player
April 23 - Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter
April 23 - Hervé Villechaize, French actor (d. 1993)
April 24 - Richard Sterban, American singer
April 26 - Gary Wright, American singer
April 26 - Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect
April 27 - Helmut Marko, Austrian racing driver
April 28 - Jacques Dutronc, French singer and actor
April 30 - Frederick Chiluba, former Zambian president (1991-2001)
April 30 - Bobby Vee, American singer
May 4 - Mikhail Chemiakin, Russian painter
May 5 - Michael Palin, British writer
May 5 - Raphael, Spanish singer
May 6 - Andreas Baader, leader of the German organization Red Army Faction (d. 1977)
May 7 - Terry Allen, American country music singer
May 7 - Harvey Andrews, English singer and songwriter
May 7 - Peter Carey, Australian author
May 8 - Paul Samwell-Smith, British bassist (The Yardbirds)
May 10 - David Clennon, American actor
May 10 - Richard Darman, American economist
May 11 - Nancy Greene, Canadian alpine skier
May 11 - Juliet Harmer, English actress
May 13 - Kurt Trampedach, Danish artist
May 13 - Mary Wells, American singer (d. 1992)
May 14 - Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist (Cream)
May 14 - Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
May 14 - Derek Leckenby, British musician (Herman's Hermits) (d. 1994)
May 14 - Elizabeth Ray, American sex scandal figure
May 17 - Johnny Warren, Australian Footballer (d. 2004)
May 17 - Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (d. 2005)
May 18 - James Reiher, American professional wrestler
May 20 - Al Bano, Italian singer
May 21 - Hilton Valentine, British guitarist (The Animals)
May 22 - Tommy John, American baseball player
May 22 - Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist
May 22 - Gesine Schwan, German politician and science professor
May 23 - General Norman Johnson, American singer (Chairmen of the Board)
May 24 - Gary Burghoff, American actor
May 25 - Jessi Colter, American singer
May 25 - John "Poli" Palmer, British rock musician (Family)
May 26 - Erica Terpstra, President of the Dutch Olympic Committee
May 27 - Cilla Black, English singer and presenter
May 27 - Bruce Weitz, American actor
May 28 - Terry Crisp, Canadian hockey coach
May 28 - Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004)
May 29 - Robert W. Edgar, Theologian
May 30 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
May 30 - Gale Sayers, American football player
May 31 - Sharon Gless, American actress
May 31 - Joe Namath, American football player
June 2 - Charles Haid, American actor
June 2 - Ilaiyaraaja, Indian composer
June 3 - Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
June 4 - Joyce Meyer, American religious leader
June 5 - Matthew Lesko, American author
June 6 - Ken Hatfield, former N.C.A.A. Football Head Coach
June 6 - Richard Smalley, American chemist
June 7 - Nikki Giovanni, American poet
June 7 - Ken Osmond, American actor
June 8 - Colin Baker, British actor
June 8 - William Calley, American war criminal
June 8 - Willie Davenport, American athlete (d. 2002)
June 9 - Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer
June 13 - Malcolm McDowell, English actor
June 14 - Harold Wheeler, American composer
June 14 - John Miles, British racing driver
June 15 - Xaviera Hollander, Dutch author
June 15 - Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark
June 15 - Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor
June 15 - Muff Winwood, British songwriter and bassist (Spencer Davis Group)
June 15 - Lee Shallat-Chemel, American television director
June 16 - Joan Van Ark, American actress
June 17 - Newt Gingrich, American politician
June 17 - Barry Manilow, American musician
June 17 - Burt Rutan, American aerospace engineer
June 18 - Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer
June 21 - Salomé, Spanish singer
June 22 - Brit Hume, American news anchor and commentator
June 22 - Eumir Deodato, Brazilian artist
June 22 - Judith Barker.English Actress,
June 23 - Vint Cerf, American Internet pioneer
June 23 - James Levine, American conductor
June 26 - John Beasley, American actor
June 26 - Georgie Fame, British singer
June 27 - Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player
June 27 - Kjersti Døvigen, Norwegian actress
June 28 - Donald Johanson, American paleoanthropologist
June 28 - Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist
June 29 - Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
June 30 - Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
July 1 - Jeff Wayne, musician
July 2 - Walter Godefroot, Belgian cyclist
July 3 - Kurtwood Smith, American actor
July 4 - Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German musician
July 4 - Geraldo Rivera, American reporter
July 4 - Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (d. 1970)
July 4 - Emerson Boozer, American football player
July 4 - Milan Máčala, Czech football coach
July 5 - Curt Blefary, American baseball player (d. 2001)
July 5 - Robbie Robertson, Canadian guitarist (The Band).
July 7 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer
July 7 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
July 9 - John Casper, astronaut
July 10 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
July 11 - Oscar D'León, Venezuelan musician
July 11 - Peter Jensen, Archbishop of Sydney
July 11 - Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (d. 1983)
July 12 - Christine McVie, British singer
July 12 - Walter Murch, American film editor
July 12 - Paul Silas, American basketball player and head coach
July 14 - Christopher Priest, English novelist
July 15 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Irish astrophysicist
July 16 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990)
July 20 - Chris Amon, New Zealand racing driver
July 20 - Wendy Richard, English actress
July 21 - Edward Herrmann, American actor
July 22 - Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator from Texas
July 22 - Bobby Sherman, American singer and actor
July 23 - Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)
July 23 - Tony Joe White, American singer and songwriter
July 25 - Jim McCarty, English musician (The Yardbirds)
July 26 - Peter Hyams, American film director
July 26 - Mick Jagger, English singer (The Rolling Stones)
July 28 - Mike Bloomfield, American musician (d. 1981)
July 28 - Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
July 28 - Richard Wright, English musician (Pink Floyd) (d. 2008)
July 29 - David Taylor, English snooker player
July 30 - Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician
July 31 - William Bennett, 3rd United States Secretary of Education
July 31 - Susan Flannery, American actress
July 31 - Lobo, American singer and songwriter
July 31 - Sab Shimono, Japanese-American actor
August 2 - Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player
August 2 - Max Wright, American actor
August 4 - Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
August 5 - Nelson Briles, American baseball player (d. 2005)
August 5 - Sammi Smith, American country singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
August 6 - Jon Postel, American computer scientist (d. 1998)
August 7 - Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (d. 1994)
August 7 - Alain Corneau, French film director
August 9 - Ken Norton, American boxer
August 10 - Ronnie Spector, American singer (Ronettes)
August 10 - Louise Forestier, French Canadian singer
August 10 - Jimmy Griffin, American guitarist (Bread) (d. 2005)
August 10 - Michael Mantler, American trumpeter and composer
August 10 - Shafqat Rana, Former Pakistani cricketer
August 11 - Abigail Folger, American heiress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
August 11 - Stefania Toczyska, Polish mezzo-soprano
August 11 - Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani politician
August 12 - Deborah Walley, American actress (d. 2001)
August 14 - Jimmy Johnson, American football coach
August 15 - María Rojo, Mexican actress and politician
August 17 - Robert De Niro, American actor
August 17 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American musician (d. 2002)
August 18 - Martin Mull, American comedian
August 18 - Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer and politician
August 18 - Carl Wayne, English singer (d. 2004)
August 19 - Billy J. Kramer, British singer
August 20 - Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
August 21 - Hugh Wilson, American director
August 22 - Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
August 23 - Nelson DeMille, American novelist
August 24 - John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (d. 1989)
August 24 - Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent
August 27 - Tuesday Weld, American actress
August 28 - David Soul, American actor
August 28 - Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
August 28 - Surayud Chulanont, Thai 24th Prime Minister (former)
August 29 - Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (d. 1996)
August 30 - Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
August 30 - Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
August 31 - Leonid Ivashov, Russian general
September 1 - Don Stroud, American actor
September 2 - Rosalind Ashford, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
September 2 - Glen Sather, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
September 2 - Joe Simon, American singer
September 3 - Valerie Perrine, American actress
September 3 - Frank Lister, English footballer
September 5 - Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (d. 2007)
September 6 - Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist
September 6 - Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd)
September 7 - Lena Valaitis, Lithuanian-German Schlager singer
September 7 - Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada
September 8 - Adelaide C. Eckardt, American politician
September 9 - Art LaFleur, American actor
September 10 - Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham), American professional wrestler
September 10 - Daniel Truhitte, American actor
September 10 - Neale Donald Walsch, American author
September 11 - Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
September 11 - Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
September 12 - Maria Muldaur, American singer
September 12 - Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-born writer
September 16 - James Alan McPherson, American writer
September 19 - Joe Morgan, baseball player
September 22 - Toni Basil, American singer
September 23 - Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
September 23 - Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach
September 23 - Tanuja, Indian actress
September 25 - Robert Gates, American Secretary of Defense
September 25 - John Locke, American musician (d. 2006)
September 26 - Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer and broadcaster
September 26 - Tim Schenken, Australian racing driver
September 27 - Randy Bachman, Canadian musician
September 27 - Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta
September 28 - Joel Higgins, American actor
September 28 - Nick St. Nicholas, Canadian musician (Steppenwolf)
September 28 - J. T. Walsh, American actor (d. 1998)
September 28 - Warren Lieberfarb, American media executive
September 29 - Mohammad Khatami, President of Iran
September 29 - Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist
September 29 - Lech Wa³êsa, President of Poland
September 30 - Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist
September 30 - Marilyn McCoo, American singer (The Fifth Dimension)
September 30 - Ian Ogilvy, British Actor
October 1 - Jean-Jacques Annaud, French film director
October 1 - Angèle Arsenault, Canadian singer and songwriter
October 1 - Jerry Martini, American saxophonist (Sly & the Family Stone)
October 2 - Franklin Rosemont, American artist
October 3 - Jeff Bingaman, Democratic U.S. Senator of New Mexico
October 4 - H. Rap Brown, American civil rights activist
October 5 - Steve Miller, American musician (Steve Miller Band)
October 6 - Michael Durrell, American actor
October 6 - Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
October 7 - Joy Behar, American television personality
October 7 - José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
October 7 - Oliver North, American former military officer
October 8 - Chevy Chase, American comedian and actor
October 8 - R. L. Stine, American author
October 9 - Mike Peters, American cartoonist
October 9 - Douglas Kirby, Research scientist
October 10 - Frederick Barthelme, American author
October 11 - John Nettles, English actor
October 13 - Mike Barnicle, American newspaper columnist
October 16 - Fred Turner, Canadian bass player (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
October 18 - Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish politician
October 19 - Robin Holloway, British composer
October 19 - Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer
October 20 - Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano
October 21 - Tariq Ali, Pakistani author and historian
October 22 - Jan de Bont, Dutch film director
October 22 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
October 22 - Allen Coage, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
October 24 - Bill Dundee, American professional wrestler
October 27 - Carmen Argenziano, American actor
October 28 - Conny Froboess, German singer
October 28 - Charo López, Spanish actress
October 29 - Don Simpson, American film producer (d. 1996)
October 30 - Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
October 31 - Paul Frampton, English physicist
October 31 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (d. 1970)
November 1 - Salvatore Adamo, popular singer
November 1 - John McEnery, English actor
November 3 - Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician
November 4 - Marlène Jobert, French actress
November 4 - Clark Graebner, American tennis player
November 4 - Bob Wollek, French race car driver (d. 2001)
November 5 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (d. 2007)
November 5 - Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor
November 7 - Michael Byrne, English actor
November 7 - Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
November 7 - Boris Gromov, Russian general
November 7 - Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
November 7 - Michael Spence, American economist
November 8 - Martin Peters, English footballer
November 10 - Saxby Chambliss, American politician
November 11 - Doug Frost, Australian swimming coach
November 12 - Brian Hyland, American singer
November 12 - Wallace Shawn, American actor and playwright
November 12 - Bjorn Waldegard, Swedish rally driver
November 13 - André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (d. 1977)
November 13 - Roberto Boninsegna, Italian footballer
November 13 - Jay Sigel, American golfer
November 14 - Peter Norton, American software engineer
November 17 - Lauren Hutton, American actress
November 19 - Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-born Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)
November 19 - Fred Lipsius, American musician (Blood
November 20 - Veronica Hamel, American actress
November 21 - Phil Bredesen, American politician
November 21 - Larry Mahan, American rodeo cowboy
November 21 - Viktor Sidjak, Russian fencer
November 21 - Jacques Laffite, French former racing driver
November 22 - Peter Adair, American filmmaker
November 22 - Billie Jean King, American tennis
November 22 - Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
November 23 - Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
November 23 - Sue Nicholls, British actress
November 24 - Dave Bing, American basketball player
November 24 - Robin Williamson, Scottish musician
November 26 - Bruce Paltrow, American producer and director (d. 2002)
November 26 - Marilynne Robinson, American writer
November 27 - Nicole Brossard, French Canadian poet
November 28 - Randy Newman, American composer
November 29 - Sue Miller, American author
November 30 - Terrence Malick, American director and screenwriter.
December 2 - Wayne Allard, American politician
December 5 - Eva Joly, Norwegian-born French magistrate
December 7 - Göran Lennmarker, Swedish politician
December 7 - Bernard C. Parks, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
December 8 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
December 8 - Bodo Tümmler, German olympic middle-distance runner.
December 8 - Mary Woronov, American actress
December 9 - Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player
December 11 - John Kerry, American politician
December 12 - Dickey Betts, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band)
December 12 - Grover Washington, Jr.
December 13 - Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player
December 13 - Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (d. 2002)
December 14 - R. Emmett Tyrrell, American magazine publisher
December 15 - Kathleen Blanco, American politician
December 15 - Lucien den Arend, Dutch artist
December 16 - Steven Bochco, American television producer and writer
December 16 - Tony Hicks, English guitarist (The Hollies)
December 17 - Mary Brunner, American former "Manson Family" member
December 17 - Ron Geesin, Scottish musician and composer
December 18 - Keith Richards, English guitarist (The Rolling Stones)
December 18 - Alan Rudolph, American film director and screenwriter
December 19 - Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (d. 2006)
December 21 - André Arthur. Quebec radio host,
December 22 - Paul Wolfowitz, American politician
December 23 - Mikhail Gromov, Russian-born mathematician
December 23 - Harry Shearer, American actor
December 23 - Ron Allen, American baseball player
December 23 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (d. 1987)
December 23 - Silvia Sommerlath, Queen of Sweden
December 24 - Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
December 25 - Hanna Schygulla, German actress
December 25 - Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Brazilian racing driver
December 27 - Cokie Roberts, American journalist
December 27 - Joan Manuel Serrat, Spanish musician
December 27 - Peter Sinfield, British lyricist and producer
December 28 - Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (d. 2005)
December 28 - David Peterson, Canadian politician
December 31 - John Denver, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997)
December 31 - Sir Ben Kingsley, English actor
December 31 - Pete Quaife, English bassist (The Kinks)

Deaths

January 1 - Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, U.S. military officer who gave "a message to Garcia" (b. 1857)
January 3 - Sir Walter James, Premier of Western Australia (b. 1863)
January 5 - George Washington Carver, American educator (b. 1864)
January 7 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. 1856)
January 8 - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
January 12 - Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1902)
January 13 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)
January 23 - Alexander Woollcott, American actor
January 24 - John Burns, English politician (b. 1858)
January 26 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)
January 26 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (b. 1887)
February 4 - Frank Calder, the first NHL President (b. 1877)
February 14 - Dora Gerson, German actress
February 14 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (b. 1862)
February 17 - Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer (b. 1888)
February 17 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)
February 22 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1918)
February 22 - Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (b. 1919)
February 22 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)
February 26 - Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (b. 1892)
February 27 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet
March 1 - Alexandre Yersin, Swiss physician (b. 1863)
March 3 - George Thompson, English cricketer (b. 1877)
March 12 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
March 13 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
March 19 - Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)
March 28 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)
March 30 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
March 30 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
April 3 - Conrad Veidt, German actor (b. 1893)
April 5 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (b. 1869)
April 7 - Jovan Dučić, Serbian poet
April 7 - Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859)
April 15 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1882)
April 18 - Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral. (b. 1884)
April 25 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (b. 1858)
April 30 - Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist (b. 1860)
April 30 - Beatrice Webb, British economist (b. 1858)
May 1 - Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871)
May 8 - Mordechaj Anielewicz, Polish Resistance Fighter (b. 1919)
May 14 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
May 16 - Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865)
May 19 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
May 25 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (b. 1888)
May 26 - Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)
June 1 - Leslie Howard, English actor (b. 1893)
June 1 - Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
June 13 - Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
June 26 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician
July 8 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
July 21 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)
July 31 - Hedley Verity, English Test cricketer (b. 1905)
August 14 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871)
August 18 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
August 21 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer
August 24 - Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (b. 1909)
August 28 - King Boris III of Bulgaria, (b. 1894)
August 30 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890)
September 1 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
September 7 - J. P. Morgan, Jr.
September 8 - Julius Fucik, Czech journalist (executed) (b. 1903)
September 23 - Elinor Glyn, English author (b. 1864)
September 30 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
October 4 - Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish intelligence agent (b. 1906)
October 5 - Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
October 7 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
October 7 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
October 9 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist
October 17 - Stefan Starzyñski, Polish politician (b. 1893)
October 19 - Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
October 24 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (b. 1912)
October 26 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862)
November 7 - Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
November 22 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895)
November 24 - Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919)
November 26 - Edward O'Hare, American ace pilot (b. 1914)
November 27 - Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan (b. 1916)
November 30 - Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist (executed) (b. 1914)
December 1 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862)
December 2 - Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author and journalist (b. 1902)
December 15 - Fats Waller, American musician (b. 1904)
December 22 - Beatrix Potter, English writer (b. 1866)
December 28 - Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885)

Events

January 11 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
January 14 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
January 14 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office He travelled from Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II.
January 15 - World War II: The Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal.
January 15 - World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
January 15 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
January 18 - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
January 23 - World War II: British forces capture Tripoli in Libya from the Nazis.
January 23 - Jewish-led Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
January 23 - World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
January 23 - Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
January 23 - The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
January 24 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
January 29 - The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
January 30 - World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. TheUSS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
January 30 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: The Nazi Gestapo commences mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp are ordered to undress and are shot with a machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7,000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv.
February 2 - World War II: The last German forces surrender to the Soviets after the Battle of Stalingrad.
February 4 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad ends.
February 8 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal ends after the Japanese Imperial Army evacuated their remaining forces with a United States victory.
February 9 - World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
February 11 - World War II: General Dwight Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
February 14 - World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
February 14 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass
February 16 - World War II: The USSR reconquers Kharkov.
February 18 - The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
February 18 - Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech.
February 19 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
February 20 - American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
February 20 - The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico.
February 22 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
February 23 - A fire breaks out at St. Joseph's Orphanage Co Cavan , Ireland , killing 36 people (35 of whom were children)
February 27 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
February 27 - The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
March 1 - World War II: Battle of Bismarck Sea begins.
March 2 - World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea
March 2 - 173 people die in the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster, London, the worst civilian disaster of World War 2.
March 3 - World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
March 5 - First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
March 8 - World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
March 13 - World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
March 13 - The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
March 14 - World War II
March 15 - World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov
March 16 - The Royal Navy Isles Class Trawler HMS Campobello Sinks in the Atlantic.
March 19 - Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
March 21 - Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
March 22 - World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
March 27 - World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands
April 7 - Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka. There they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
April 8 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases to common carriers and public utilities.
April 13 - World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, alienating the Western Allies, the Polish government in exile in London, from the Soviet Union.
April 13 - James Boarman, Fred Hunter, Harold Brest and Floyd G. Hamilton take part in an Alcatraz escape attempt.
April 13 - The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
April 15 - An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians.
April 16 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
April 18 - World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
April 19 - World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
April 19 - Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
April 25 - The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
April 30 - World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
May 11 - World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
May 13 - World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
May 14 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
May 15 - Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
May 16 - Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
May 17 - The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
May 17 - World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
May 19 - World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the cross-English Channel landing (D-Day would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather).
May 24 - Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
May 31 - Zoot Suit Riots begin
June 1 - British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
June 3 - A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
June 4 - A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
June 12 - Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Berezhany, western Ukraine. 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
June 19 - Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas.
June 23 - World War II: The British destroyers Eclipse and Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
July 1 - Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo." (Present-day Tokyo is not a city.)
July 5 - The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history, included world largest tank battle at Prokhorovka village, July 12.
July 5 - World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
July 9 - World War II: Operation Husky
July 10 - World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.
July 11 - Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
July 11 - World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily
July 12 - World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka
July 14 - In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of a African American.
July 20 - World War II: American and Canadian troops conquer Enna on Sicily.
July 22 - Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
July 24 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian airplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
July 25 - World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
July 28 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
August 2 - Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
August 2 - World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future US President, saves all but two of his crew.
August 5 - World War II: at around 11 A.M during the Battle of Troina, Mount Etna erupts sending ash and lava miles into the sky.
August 12 - Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.
August 17 - World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission.
August 17 - World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrive in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
August 17 - World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
August 23 - World War II: Kharkov liberated.
August 27 - Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
August 28 - World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
August 29 - German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy;Germany dissolves the Danish government.
August 31 - The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for a black person, is commissioned.
September 3 - World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time in the war.
September 5 - World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
September 7 - A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
September 7 - World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River (Taman Peninsula) bridgehead in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
September 8 - World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF.
September 8 - World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
September 9 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
September 10 - World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
September 11 - World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
September 11 - World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
September 12 - World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
September 13 - Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China.
September 13 - The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
September 17 - World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis.
September 18 - World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
September 18 - World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
September 29 - World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.
October 1 - World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
October 4 - World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
October 10 - Double Tenth Incident in Japanese controlled Singapore
October 13 - World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
October 14 - Prisoners at the Sobibor death camp in Poland revolt, resulting in the death of 11 SS. About half of the camp's 600 prisoners escape; about 50 survive the war.
October 14 - U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortresses during an assault on Schweinfurt.
October 19 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
October 22 - World War II: Kassel: RAF conducts an air raid on the city of 236,000 people, killing 10,000, rendering 150,000 homeless. Second firestorm raid in Germany
October 26 - World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
October 31 - World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.
November 1 - World War II: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
November 1 - World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
November 3 - World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
November 6 - World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
November 15 - Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (see Porajmos)
November 16 - World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
November 18 - World War II: Battle of Berlin (air), 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
November 18 - Holocaust: Aktion Emtefest: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lviv, western Ukraine, murdering at least 6.000 surviving Jews.German SS leader Fritz Katzman declares Lviv (Lemberg) to be Judenfrei (free from the Jews).
November 20 - World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins
November 22 - World War II: War in the Pacific
November 22 - Lebanon gains independence from France.
November 23 - World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
November 23 - World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
November 24 - World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks with nearly 650 men killed.
November 25 - Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina was re-established at the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia.
November 28 - World War II: Tehran Conference
November 29 - The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.
November 30 - World War II: Tehran Conference — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin agree to the planned June 1944 invasion of Europe code-named Operation Overlord.
December 2 - A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks an American ship with a mustard gas stockpile. Numerous fatalities (though the exact death toll is unresolved as the bombing raid itself caused hundreds of deaths too).
December 4 - World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
December 4 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
December 5 - World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow .
December 13 - World War II: 710 Bombers of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Kiel, Germany.
December 24 - World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander.
December 26 - World War II: The German warship Scharnhorst sinks off the coast of North Cape in Norway after being attacked by the Royal Navy late the previous evening.
December 30 - Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.

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