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Birthdays

January 1 - Jimmy Hart, American wrestling manager
January 1 - Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician
January 2 - Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
January 3 - David Atherton, English conductor
January 3 - Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist
January 6 - Bonnie Franklin, American actress
January 6 - Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist
January 7 - Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator
January 7 - Tony Whitlam, Australian judge
January 8 - Terry Brooks, American writer
January 9 - Ian Hornak, American Painter
January 9 - Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin)
January 10 - Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer
January 10 - Bernard Derome, Canadian news presenter (Le Téléjournal)
January 10 - William Sanderson, American actor
January 10 - Frank Sinatra, Jr.
January 11 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (d. 1989)
January 11 - Shibu Soren, Indian politician
January 12 - Joe Frazier, American boxer
January 12 - Hans Henning Atrott, Prussian euthanasia advocate
January 12 - Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovakian chess player
January 12 - Viktoria Postnikova, Russian pianist
January 12 - Carlos Villagrán, Mexican actor
January 14 - Marjoe Gortner, American evangelist
January 14 - Graham Marsh, Australian golfer
January 14 - Nina Totenberg, American journalist
January 16 - Jim Stafford, American singer and songwriter
January 17 - Françoise Hardy, French singer
January 18 - Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
January 18 - Carl Morton, American baseball player (d. 1983)
January 19 - Shelley Fabares, American actress
January 19 - Laurie London, English singer
January 19 - Peter Lynch, American investor
January 19 - Dan Reeves, American football coach
January 20 - José Luis Garci, Spanish filmmaker
January 23 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
January 24 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
January 25 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian model
January 26 - Angela Davis, American feminist and activist
January 27 - Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
January 27 - Mairéad Corrigan, Irish activist
January 27 - Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd)
January 28 - Susan Howard, American actress
January 28 - John Tavener, English composer
January 29 - Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
January 29 - Patrick Lipton Robinson, Jamaican judge
January 31 - Charlie Musselwhite, American musician
February 1 - Mike Enzi, American politician
February 1 - Burkhard Ziese, German football manager
February 2 - Karen Foss, American broadcaster
February 2 - Geoffrey Hughes, British actor
February 3 - Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress
February 4 - Florence LaRue, American singer (The Fifth Dimension)
February 5 - Al Kooper, American musician
February 6 - Christine Boutin, French politician
February 6 - Willie Tee, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007))
February 6 - Michael Tucker, American actor
February 8 - Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor
February 8 - Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian documentary photographer
February 9 - Derryn Hinch, Australian media personality
February 9 - Alice Walker, American writer
February 10 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)
February 10 - Frank Keating, American politician
February 10 - Rufus Reid, American musician
February 10 - Vernor Vinge, American novelist
February 10 - Frances Moore Lappe, American writer and activist
February 12 - Moe Bandy, American singer
February 13 - Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (d. 1983)
February 13 - Stockard Channing, American actress
February 13 - Jerry Springer, American television host
February 13 - Bo Svenson, Swedish-born actor
February 13 - Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (d. 2006)
February 14 - Carl Bernstein, American journalist
February 14 - Alan Parker, British film director and writer
February 14 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish racing driver (d. 1978)
February 15 - Mick Avory, British drummer (The Kinks)
February 16 - Richard Ford, American novelist
February 16 - António Mascarenhas Monteiro, 2nd President of Cape Verde
February 17 - Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer
February 18 - Pat Bowlen, owner of the Denver Broncos
February 20 - Robert de Cotret, French Canadian politician (d. 1999)
February 20 - Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
February 22 - Jonathan Demme, American director
February 22 - Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
February 22 - Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
February 23 - Bernard Cornwell, English historical novelist
February 23 - John Sandford, American novelist
February 23 - Johnny Winter, American musician
February 24 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (d. 1994)
February 27 - Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
February 27 - Roger Scruton, British philosopher
February 28 - Win Aung, Burmese politician
February 28 - Kelly Bishop, American actress
February 28 - Sepp Maier, German footballer
February 29 - Phyllis Frelich, American actress
February 29 - Dennis Farina, American actor
February 29 - Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Italian illustrator
February 29 - Ene Ergma, Estonian politician
March 1 - John Breaux, U.S. Senator from Louisiana
March 1 - Mike d'Abo, English singer (Manfred Mann)
March 1 - Roger Daltrey, English musician (The Who)
March 2 - Uschi Glas, German actress
March 4 - Ulrich Roski, German singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
March 4 - Harvey Postlethwaite, English automotive engineer (d. 1999)
March 4 - Bobby Womack, American singer
March 5 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)
March 5 - Roy Gutman, American journalist
March 6 - Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand singer
March 6 - Mary Wilson, American singer
March 7 - Stanley Schmidt, American editor
March 7 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)
March 7 - Zhiuli Shartava, Georgian politician and the Head of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia (d. 1993)
March 8 - Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader
March 8 - Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer
March 8 - Pepe Romero, Spanish guitarist
March 8 - Palito Ortega, Argentine singer and actor
March 14 - Vaclav Nedomansky, Czech hockey player
March 15 - Sly Stone, American musician
March 15 - Jacques Doillon, French film director
March 15 - Chi Cheng, Taiwanese athlete and politician
March 17 - Pattie Boyd, British photographer and model
March 17 - Cito Gaston, American baseball player and manager
March 17 - John Sebastian, American singer and songwriter
March 18 - Dick Smith, Australian Adventurer and Businessman
March 18 - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military leader and politician
March 19 - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
March 19 - Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin
March 21 - Marie-Christine Barrault, French actress
March 23 - Michael Nyman, British minimalist composer
March 23 - Tony McPhee, English singer and guitarist (The Groundhogs)
March 24 - R. Lee Ermey, American actor
March 24 - Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian Prime Minister
March 26 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)
March 27 - Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
March 28 - Rick Barry, American basketball player
March 28 - Ken Howard, American actor
March 29 - Terry Jacks, Canadian musician
March 29 - Denny McLain, American baseball player
March 31 - Pascal Danel, French singer and songwriter
March 31 - Mick Ralphs, English guitarist (Mott the Hoople
April 1 - Rusty Staub, American baseball player
April 3 - Tony Orlando, American musician
April 4 - Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician
April 4 - Craig T. Nelson, American actor
April 5 - Pedro Rossello, Puerto Rican politician
April 6 - Felicity Palmer, English soprano
April 7 - Julia Phillips, American film producer and writer (d. 2002)
April 7 - Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany
April 7 - Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager
April 8 - Hywel Bennett, Welsh actor
April 8 - Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter
April 11 - John Milius, American director and writer
April 12 - John Kay, German-born musician
April 13 - Jack Casady, American musician
April 13 - Susan Davis, American politician
April 13 - Brian Pendleton, musician (d. 2001)
April 15 - Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (d. 1996)
April 15 - Dave Edmunds, Welsh musician
April 16 - Richard Bradshaw British opera conductor,
April 19 - James Heckman, American economist
April 19 - Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist (P Funk)
April 19 - Keith Erickson, American basketball player
April 21 - Adrian Hurley, Australian basketball coach
April 22 - Steve Fossett, American adventurer (d. 2007)
April 26 - Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
April 27 - Michael Fish, British former weather forecaster
April 27 - Cuba Gooding, Sr.
April 28 - Elizabeth LeCompte, American theater director
April 28 - Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician
April 28 - Alice Waters, American chef
April 29 - Princess Benedikte of Denmark,
April 29 - Richard Kline, American actor and director
April 30 - Jill Clayburgh, American actress
May 1 - Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician
May 4 - Roger Rees, British-born actor
May 5 - Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer
May 5 - Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor
May 5 - John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor
May 6 - Anton Furst, American production designer (d. 1991)
May 6 - Masanori Murakami, First Japanese baseball player in major leagues
May 7 - Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (d. 2006)
May 7 - Richard O'Sullivan, British actor
May 8 - Gary Glitter, English singer
May 9 - Richie Furay, American musician (Poco and Buffalo Springfield)
May 10 - Jim Abrahams, American film director
May 10 - Maureen Lipman, English actress
May 10 - Marie-France Pisier, French actress
May 13 - Armistead Maupin, American author
May 14 - George Lucas, American film director
May 15 - Ulrich Beck, German sociologist
May 15 - Bill Alter, Missouri State Senator
May 16 - Billy Cobham, American virtuoso drummer
May 16 - Danny Trejo, American actor
May 18 - W. G. Sebald, German-born writer (d. 2001)
May 19 - Peter Mayhew, British-American actor
May 20 - Joe Cocker, British singer
May 20 - Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer
May 20 - Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
May 21 - Mary Robinson, President of Ireland
May 21 - Marcie Blane, American singer
May 23 - John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
May 24 - Patti LaBelle, American singer
May 25 - Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
May 25 - Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
May 25 - John Bunnell, former Sheriff of Multnomah County
May 25 - Robert MacPherson, American mathematician
May 26 - Sam Posey, American race car driver
May 27 - Christopher Dodd, American politician
May 27 - Alain Souchon, French singer and songwriter
May 28 - Rudy Giuliani, American politician
May 28 - Gladys Knight, American singer and actress
May 28 - Patricia Quinn, Northern Irish actress
May 28 - Billy Vera, American actor and musician
May 28 - Faith Brown, British actress
May 30 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
June 1 - Robert Powell, English actor
June 2 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and musician
June 3 - Edith McGuire, American runner
June 3 - Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
June 4 - Michelle Phillips, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) and actress
June 5 - Tommie Smith, American athlete
June 5 - Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
June 6 - David Penhaligon, British politician
June 6 - Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist
June 8 - Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
June 8 - Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec City
June 8 - Boz Scaggs, American singer and songwriter
June 13 - Ban Ki-moon, the current U.N. Secretary General
June 14 - Laurie Colwin, American author (d. 1992)
June 14 - Joe Grifasi, American actor
June 15 - Robert Keppel, American criminologist
June 18 - Sandy Posey, American singer
June 19 - Chico Buarque, Brazilian musician
June 20 - Cheryl Holdridge, American actress
June 20 - David Roper, English actor
June 21 - Ray Davies, English musician (The Kinks)
June 21 - Corinna Tsopei, Greek beauty pageant winner
June 22 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
June 22 - Peter Asher, British singer
June 24 - Jeff Beck, English musician (The Yardbirds)
June 24 - Arthur Brown, English musician
June 24 - John "Charlie" Whitney, English guitarist (Family
June 24 - Chris Wood, English musician (d. 1983)
June 25 - Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
June 27 - Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist
June 29 - Gary Busey, American actor
June 29 - Sean O'Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
June 30 - Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
June 30 - Terry Funk, American professional wrestler
June 30 - Glenn Shorrock, Australian singer-songwriter; co-founding member of Little River Band
June 30 - Ron Swoboda, American baseball player
July 3 - Michel Polnareff, French singer and songwriter
July 4 - Ray Meagher, Australian actor
July 8 - Jai Johanny Johanson, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band)
July 8 - Jeffrey Tambor, American actor
July 11 - Myra Gale Brown, former wife of Jerry Lee Lewis
July 13 - Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor
July 14 - Billy McCool, American baseball player
July 15 - Millie Jackson, American singer
July 15 - Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor
July 17 - Carlos Alberto, Brazilian football player
July 17 - Catherine Schell, Hungarian born British actress
July 17 - Mark Burgess, Former New Zealand Cricketer
July 20 - Olivier de Kersauson, French sailor
July 21 - Tony Scott, British film director
July 21 - Paul Wellstone, American politician (d. 2002)
July 22 - Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes)
July 22 - Rick Davies, British musician (Supertramp)
July 22 - Dennis Firestone, Australian racing driver
July 22 - Sparky Lyle, American baseball player
July 26 - Kiel Martin, American actor (d. 1990)
July 27 - Tony Capstick, English comedian (d. 2003)
July 27 - Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist
July 27 - Bobbie Gentry, American singer and songwriter
July 31 - Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
July 31 - Jonathan Dimbleby, British journalist and television presenter
July 31 - Robert C. Merton, American mathematician
August 2 - Jim Capaldi, British musician and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
August 2 - Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian jazz musician
August 4 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
August 4 - Doudou Ndoye‎, Senegalese lawyer and politician
August 7 - Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
August 7 - David Rasche, American actor
August 8 - Brooke Bundy, American actress
August 8 - John Renbourn, English musician
August 9 - Sam Elliott, American actor
August 11 - Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
August 11 - Fred Smith, American entrepreneur
August 12 - Peter Hofmann, German tenor
August 13 - Divina Galica, British athlete and racing driver
August 13 - Kevin Tighe, American actor
August 15 - Linda Ellerbee, American journalist
August 15 - Tom Murphy, American politician
August 15 - Dimitris Sioufas, Greek lawyer and politician
August 15 - Sylvie Vartan, Bulgarian pop singer
August 17 - Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation
August 19 - Buzz Kilman, Chicago radio personality
August 19 - Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
August 19 - Charles Wang, Chinese-born philanthropist
August 20 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
August 20 - Graig Nettles, American baseball player
August 21 - Jackie DeShannon, American singer
August 21 - Peter Weir, Australian film director
August 21 - Perry Christie, former prime minister of the Bahamas
August 23 - Antonia Novello, former United States Surgeon General
August 24 - Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
August 24 - Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
August 24 - Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler
August 25 - Anthony Heald, American actor
August 25 - Conrad Black, newspaper magnate
August 25 - Jacques Demers, Canadian hockey coach
August 26 - Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
August 26 - Stephen Greif, English actor
August 26 - Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground)
August 28 - Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
August 28 - Melvin Dummar, American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate
August 30 - Molly Ivins, American political humorist (d. 2007)
August 30 - Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
August 31 - Roger Dean, English artist
August 31 - Clive Lloyd, West Indian cricketer
August 31 - Jos LeDuc, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
September 1 - Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
September 4 - Ron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
September 5 - Dario Bellezza, Italian poet
September 6 - Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
September 7 - Bertel Haarder, Danish politician
September 8 - Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer
September 10 - Sir Thomas Allen, English baritone
September 11 - Everaldo, Brazilian footballer
September 11 - Freddy Thielemans, mayor of Brussels
September 12 - Leonard Peltier, American activist
September 12 - Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
September 13 - Jacqueline Bisset, British actress
September 13 - Peter Cetera, American musician (Chicago)
September 14 - Joey Heatherton, American actress and singer
September 15 - Sotirios Hatzigakis, Greek politician
September 16 - Winston Grennan, Jamaican American drummer
September 17 - Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber
September 18 - Michael Franks, American musician
September 18 - Charles L. Veach, American astronaut (d. 1995)
September 18 - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
September 19 - Anders Björck, Swedish politician
September 19 - Jean Succar Kuri, Lebanese-born Mexican businessman
September 21 - Fannie Flagg, American actress and novelist
September 21 - Hamilton Jordan, U.S. President Jimmy Carter's original chief of staff
September 21 - Steve Beshear, Democratic Governor of Kentucky.
September 23 - Eric Bogle, British/Australian singer and songwriter
September 24 - Diana Körner, German actress
September 25 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
September 25 - Doris Matsui, American politician
September 26 - Anne Robinson, English television host
September 29 - Mike Post, American composer
September 30 - Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer
October 3 - Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
October 3 - Roy Horn, German-American magician
October 3 - Bob Riley, American politician
October 4 - Tony La Russa, American baseball manager
October 4 - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
October 6 - José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1977)
October 7 - Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)
October 7 - Donald Tsang, current Chief executive of Hong Kong
October 8 - Susan Raye, American singer
October 9 - John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002)
October 9 - Nona Hendryx, American singer (LaBelle)
October 11 - Mike Fiore, American baseball player
October 11 - Rodney Marsh, English Footballer
October 12 - Angela Rippon, British television personality
October 13 - Robert Lamm, American musician (Chicago)
October 14 - Udo Kier, German actor
October 15 - Sali Berisha, President of Albania
October 15 - David Trimble, Irish politician
October 15 - Haim Saban, Egyptian-born American media proprietor
October 19 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician
October 19 - George McCrae, American soul singer
October 20 - David Mancuso, American disc jockey
October 23 - Mike Harding, English singer and comedian
October 24 - Viktor Prokopenko, Ukranian footballer and coach (d. 2007)
October 25 - Jon Anderson, English singer (Yes)
October 25 - James Carville, American political stategist and commentator
October 28 - Dennis Franz, American actor
October 28 - Anton Schlecker, German billionaire
October 28 - Coluche, French comedian and actor (d. 1986)
October 29 - Denny Laine, English musician (Moody Blues
October 29 - Otto Wiesheu, German minister
October 29 - Claude Brochu, Major League Baseball executive (Montreal Expos)
October 31 - Kinky Friedman, American musician and novelist
October 31 - Sally Kirkland, American actress
November 1 - Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia
November 1 - Bobby Heenan, American professional wrestling manager and commentator
November 2 - Patrice Chéreau, French director
November 2 - Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer (Emerson
November 4 - Scherrie Payne, American singer (The Supremes)
November 4 - Linda Gary, American voice actress (d. 1995)
November 7 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2006)
November 7 - Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
November 7 - Ken Patera, American professional wrestler
November 8 - Bonnie Bramlett, American singer (Delaney
November 9 - Phil May, English singer (The Pretty Things)
November 10 - Silvestre Reyes, American politician
November 10 - Sir Tim Rice, English lyricist
November 11 - Kemal Sunal,Turkish actor,
November 12 - Booker T. Jones, American musician and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's)
November 12 - Al Michaels, American television sportscaster
November 13 - Timmy Thomas, American musician
November 16 - Oliver Braddick, British psychologist
November 17 - Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame Coach
November 17 - Danny DeVito, American actor
November 17 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
November 17 - Lorne Michaels, Canadian producer
November 17 - Tom Seaver, baseball player
November 17 - Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (d. 1991)
November 18 - Wolfgang Joop, German artist and fashion designer
November 19 - Agnes Baltsa, Greek mezzo-soprano
November 19 - Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
November 20 - Louie Dampier, American basketball player
November 21 - Richard Durbin, American politician
November 21 - Earl Monroe, American basketball player
November 21 - Harold Ramis, American actor/director
November 23 - Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-born film producer and writer
November 23 - James Toback, American writer and director
November 24 - Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar
November 25 - Ben Stein, American actor
November 26 - Jean Terrell, American singer (The Supremes)
November 28 - R.B. Greaves, Guyanan singer
November 28 - Timothy Krajcir, American serial killer
December 1 - Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor
December 1 - Eric Bloom, American musician (Blue Öyster Cult)
December 1 - John Densmore, American drummer (The Doors)
December 1 - Tahar Ben Jelloun, French writer of Moroccan origin
December 1 - Daniel Pennac, French writer born in Morocco
December 1 - Michael W. Hagee, 33rd Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
December 2 - Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
December 2 - Botho Strauß, German author
December 2 - Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter
December 2 - Inger Davidson, Swedish politician
December 4 - Chris Hillman, American singer (The Byrds)
December 4 - Anna McGarrigle, Canadian folk music singer and songwriter
December 4 - François Migault, French racing driver
December 4 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1983)
December 5 - Jeroen Krabbé, Dutch actor
December 7 - Jamiel Chagra, American drug trafficker
December 7 - Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
December 9 - Neil Innes, English singer (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
December 9 - Ki Longfellow, American novelist
December 9 - Bob O'Connor, American politician
December 10 - Steve Renko, American baseball player
December 11 - Teri Garr, American film actress
December 11 - Jon Garrison, American tenor
December 11 - Lynda Day George, American actress
December 11 - Brenda Lee, American singer
December 12 - Kenneth Cranham, Scottish actor
December 12 - Jean Doré, Canadian politician
December 13 - Hwang Jang Lee, Korean martial artist and film actor
December 15 - Jim Leyland, American baseball manager
December 15 - Chico Mendes, Brazilian campaigner (d. 1988)
December 17 - Jack L. Chalker, American novelist (d. 2005)
December 17 - Bernard Hill, English actor
December 19 - William Christie, American-born director of Les Arts Florissants
December 19 - Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist
December 19 - Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist
December 19 - Alvin Lee, English singer/guitarist (Ten Years After)
December 19 - Tim Reid, American actor
December 19 - Zal Yanovsky, Canadian guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (d. 2002)
December 20 - Bobby Colomby, American musician (Blood
December 20 - Jean Fergusson, English actress
December 21 - Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (d. 2007)
December 21 - Bill Atkinson, English footballer
December 21 - Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor
December 22 - Steve Carlton, American baseball player
December 23 - Wesley Clark, American military officer
December 24 - Daniel Johnson, Jr.
December 24 - Mike Curb, American musician
December 24 - Oswald Gracias, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bombay
December 24 - Barry Chuckle, British comedian
December 25 - Jairzinho, Brazilian footballer
December 25 - Kenny Everett, British entertainer (d. 1995)
December 25 - Henry Vestine, American musician (d. 1997)
December 26 - Jane Lapotaire, British actress
December 27 - Barry Elliot British actor,
December 27 - Mick Jones, British musician (Foreigner)
December 28 - Johnny Isakson, American politician
December 28 - Kary Mullis, American chemist
December 30 - William J. Fallon, U.S. Navy Admiral
December 31 - Taylor Hackford, American producer and director

Deaths

January 1 - Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect who designed New Delhi (b. 1869)
January 1 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
January 3 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
January 4 - Kai Munk, Danish playwright
January 6 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
January 7 - Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (b. 1874)
January 7 - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
January 8 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
January 11 - Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law (b. 1903)
January 12 - Lance C. Wade, American pilot (b. 1915)
January 20 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
January 23 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
January 23 - Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
January 31 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
February 1 - Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (b. 1872)
February 4 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
February 4 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)
February 7 - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (b. 1874)
February 10 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer
February 21 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873)
February 22 - Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
February 23 - Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic
February 29 - Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, President of Finland (b. 1861)
March 4 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (b.1897) (executed)
March 4 - Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed)
March 4 - Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed)
March 4 - Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
March 5 - Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)
March 11 - Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-born American historian (b. 1882)
March 12 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (b. 1861)
March 19 - William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
March 24 - Orde Wingate, British soldier (b. 1903)
March 28 - Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist (b. 1869)
March 31 - Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
April 9 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (b. 1920)
April 13 - Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (b. 1857)
April 17 - J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1867)
April 24 - William Stephens, U.S. political figure (b. 1859)
April 25 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1859)
April 26 - Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893)
April 28 - Frank Knox, U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate (b. 1874)
April 29 - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
May 12 - Max Brand, American author (b. 1892)
May 12 - Arthur Quiller-Couch, English writer (b. 1863)
May 16 - George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
June 10 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
June 16 - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
June 25 - Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
June 27 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
July 1 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (b. 1930)
July 12 - Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
July 15 - Marie-Victorin, French Canadian Christian Brother and botanist (b. 1885)
July 17 - William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)
July 18 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet and author (b. 1870)
July 20 - Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
July 21 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German
July 21 - Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (b. 1880)
July 31 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)
August 5 - Maurice Turnbull, Former England cricketer (b. 1906)
August 8 - Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
August 8 - Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)
August 8 - Michael Wittmann, German Tank ace and Knight's Cross holder
August 12 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
August 19 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (b. 1882)
August 26 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (b. 1909)
August 27 - Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
September 2 - Bella Rosenfeld, subject of many of Marc Chagall paintings (b. 1895)
September 16 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
September 18 - Robert G. Cole American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (b. 1915)
September 19 - Guy Gibson, British aviator
September 23 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (b. 1875)
September 27 - Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (b. 1890)
October 4 - Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
October 7 - Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (b. 1918)
October 8 - Wendell Willkie, American politician (b. 1892)
October 14 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshall (b. 1891)
October 21 - Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
October 23 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist
October 23 - Hana Brady, Holocaust victim (b. 1931)
October 24 - Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)
October 26 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
October 26 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
November 2 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
November 5 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist
November 7 - Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
November 7 - Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
November 8 - Walter Nowotny, Austrian/German fighter pilot (b. 1920)
November 9 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
November 12 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
November 14 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b. 1873)
November 22 - Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)
November 25 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (b. 1866)
November 27 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
December 2 - Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (b. 1874)
December 2 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer (b. 1876)
December 4 - Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player (b. 1879)
December 10 - John Henry Cound Brunt, Victoria Cross holder (b. 1922)
December 13 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French artist (b. 1866)
December 13 - Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (b. 1908)
December 15 - Glenn Miller, American musician (later declared dead on this date
December 16 - Don Meyer Basketball coach Northern State, Lipscomb
December 19 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt, (b. 1874)
December 19 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
December 22 - Harry Langdon, American silent film actor (b. 1884)
December 25 - George Steer, British Journalist (b. 1909)
December 30 - Romain Rolland, French writer

Events

January 3 - World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
January 4 - World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
January 4 - World War II: The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
January 5 - The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
January 18 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
January 18 - Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
January 20 - World War II: The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin.
January 22 - World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle which was an assault on Anzio, Italy.
January 27 - World War II: The two-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
January 29 - USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.
January 29 - World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
January 29 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
January 29 - In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid bombing
January 30 - World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
January 31 - World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
January 31 - World War II: During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) was destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
February 3 - World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
February 7 - World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle
February 14 - World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
February 15 - World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, begins.
February 17 - World War II: Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
February 17 - World War II: Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk (Chuuk), Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
February 20 - World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
February 20 - World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
February 22 - American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
February 23 - Forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Central Asia.
February 29 - World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.
March 3 - The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov were instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
March 4 - First U.S. daylight bombing of Berlin and Anti-Germany strikes in northern Italy.
March 15 - World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino
March 18 - The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
March 19 - World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
March 24 - Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
March 24 - World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
April 1 - Accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. The bombers were lost.
April 5 - World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
April 10 - Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
April 13 - The diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
April 14 - Bombay Explosion (1944): A massive explosion in the Bombay harbor kills 300 causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
April 21 - Women in France receive the right to vote.
April 22 - World War II: Operation Persecution initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
April 25 - The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
May 11 - World War II: The Allies start a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
May 18 - World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino
May 18 - Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
June 4 - World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505
June 4 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
June 5 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
June 6 - World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
June 6 - Alaska Airlines commences operations.
June 7 - World War II: Battle of Normandy
June 9 - World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
June 10 - World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
June 10 - World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
June 10 - In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
June 13 - World War II: Germany launches a counter attack on Carentan.
June 13 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
June 15 - World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invades Saipan.
June 15 - In the Saskatchewan general election, 1944, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government of North America.
June 17 - Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic
June 19 - World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
June 20 - World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”.
June 22 - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre.
June 25 - The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
June 30 - World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
July 3 - World War II: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
July 6 - The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
July 9 - World War II: Battle of Normandy
July 9 - World War II: Battle of Saipan
July 11 - Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.
July 17 - Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
July 17 - World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs were dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France.
July 18 - World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
July 20 - World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 Plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
July 20 - World War II: American troops land on Guam near Port Apra.
July 20 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wins the Democratic nomination for the fourth and final time at the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
July 20 - Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City.
July 21 - World War II: Battle of Guam
July 22 - The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
July 25 - World War II: Operation Spring
July 26 - World War II: Soviet army enters Lviv, major city of western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jewish survivors left, out of 160,000 Jews in Lviv prior to Nazi occupation.
July 26 - The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain.
August 1 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
August 1 - Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
August 4 - The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
August 5 - World War II: possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, NSW, Australia.
August 5 - Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
August 7 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
August 9 - The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
August 10 - World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
August 12 - Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
August 12 - Alençon is liberated by General Leclerc, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
August 15 - World War II: Operation Dragoon
August 16 - First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
August 19 - World War II: Liberation of Paris
August 20 - World War II: the Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet offensive.
August 21 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
August 22 - World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
August 23 - World War II: Marseille liberated.
August 23 - World War II King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
August 23 - Freckleton Air Disaster
August 24 - World War II: Allied troops start the attack on Paris.
August 25 - World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
August 26 - World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
August 28 - World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
August 29 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
September 3 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later.
September 4 - World War II: the British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
September 5 - Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
September 6 - World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.
September 8 - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
September 8 - World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
September 9 - World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
September 11 - World War II: The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany.
September 11 - World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
September 12 - World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
September 14 - World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city that is liberated by allied forces.
September 15 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
September 17 - World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
September 18 - World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed.
September 19 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
September 22 - World War II: the Red Army enters Tallinn.
September 25 - World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
September 26 - World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
September 26 - World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
September 27 - The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
September 28 - Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
October 2 - World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
October 5 - Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
October 5 - Suffrage is extended to women in France.
October 7 - World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down the crematoria.
October 8 - World War II: The Battle of Crucifix Hill occurs on Crucifix Hill just outside Aachen. Capt. Bobbie Brown receives a Medal of Honor for his heroics in this battle.
October 10 - Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.
October 11 - Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R
October 13 - World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is seized by the Red Army.
October 14 - Allied troops land in Corfu.
October 15 - The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary.
October 18 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.
October 18 - Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
October 19 - United States forces land in the Philippines.
October 20 - The Soviet army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
October 20 - Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
October 20 - General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
October 21 - The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
October 22 - World War II: Battle of Aachen: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
October 23 - World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins
October 24 - World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, and the battleship Musashi are sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
October 25 - Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
October 25 - The USS Tang (SS-306) under Richard O'Kane (the top submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own torpedo.
October 25 - The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers' occupation.
October 25 - Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets.
October 26 - World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends.
October 29 - Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
October 30 - Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
November 1 - World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
November 3 - World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
November 4 - World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
November 6 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
November 7 - A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill. 16 people were killed and 50 were injured.
November 10 - The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
November 12 - World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
November 16 - Dueren, Germany is completely destroyed by Allied bombers.
November 19 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
November 24 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo
November 25 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.
November 26 - World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
November 27 - World War II: An explosion at a RAF ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
November 28 - Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.
November 29 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
December 3 - The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and royalists.
December 5 - World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna.
December 16 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge
December 17 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge
December 18 - World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
December 22 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge--German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"
December 22 - World War II: Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam.
December 26 - World War II: U.S. troops repulse German forces at Bastogne.
December 30 - King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving his throne vacant.
December 31 - World War II: Hungary declares war on Germany.

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