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Birthdays

January 1 - Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
January 1 - Nana Patekar, Indian film and stage actor
January 1 - Hans-Joachim Stuck, German race car driver
January 2 - Alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian painter
January 3 - Gary Nairn, Australian politician
January 4 - Barbara Cochran, American alpine skier
January 5 - Steve Arnold, English footballer
January 6 - Don Gullett, American baseball player
January 6 - Kim Wilson, American musician (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
January 7 - Helen Worth, British actress
January 8 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician
January 8 - John McTiernan, American film director
January 9 - M.L. Carr, basketball player and coach
January 9 - Crystal Gayle, American singer
January 10 - Paul DiMaggio, American educator
January 11 - Willie Maddren, English former footballer (d. 2000)
January 12 - Kirstie Alley, American actress
January 12 - Ann Althouse, American law professor
January 12 - Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality and political commentator
January 16 - Glenn Ordway, American radio talk show host
January 18 - Bob Latchford, English footballer
January 18 - Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982)
January 19 - Dewey Bunnell, American singer and songwriter (America)
January 20 - Ivan Fischer, Hungarian conductor
January 20 - Ian Hill, British musician (Judas Priest)
January 22 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (d. 1989)
January 24 - Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-born American comedian
January 25 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
January 27 - Brian Downey, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy)
January 28 - Brian Bilbray, American politician
January 28 - Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
January 29 - Andy Roberts, West Indian cricketer
January 30 - Phil Collins, English musician
January 30 - Charles S. Dutton, American actor
January 30 - Bobby Stokes, English former footballer (d. 1995)
January 31 - Dave Benton, Aruban-born singer
January 31 - Harry Wayne Casey, American singer and musician (KC and the Sunshine Band)
January 31 - Phil Manzanera, English guitarist (Roxy Music
February 1 - Sonny Landreth, American guitarist and songwriter
February 3 - Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager
February 4 - Patrick Bergin, Irish actor
February 4 - Phil Ehart, American musician (Kansas)
February 4 - Dariush Eghbali, Iranian singer and musician
February 4 - Stan Papi, American baseball player
February 6 - Marco Antônio, Brazilian footballer
February 6 - Margo, Irish singer
February 6 - Jacques Villeret, French film actor (d. 2005)
February 7 - Benny Ayala, baseball player
February 8 - Z'EV, American text/sound artist (born Stefan Weisser)
February 10 - Robert Iger, American entertainment executive
February 12 - Steven Parent, Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
February 13 - Greg Fulginiti, American mastering engineer
February 13 - David Naughton, American actor and singer
February 14 - Kevin Keegan, English footballer
February 14 - JoJo Starbuck, American ice skater
February 15 - Melissa Manchester, American singer
February 15 - Jane Seymour, British actress
February 16 - William Katt, American actor
February 18 - Isabel Preysler, Philippines-born Spanish socialite
February 19 - Stephen Nichols, American actor
February 19 - Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (Db), Pakistani Islamic Sufi Scholar
February 20 - Edward Albert, American actor (d. 2006)
February 20 - Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
February 20 - Randy California, American guitarist (Spirit) (d. 1997)
February 20 - Phil Neal, English footballer
February 21 - Vince Welnick, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 2006)
February 23 - Ed Jones, American football player
February 23 - Patricia Richardson, American actress
February 24 - Tony Holiday, German singer (d. 1990)
February 24 - Debra Jo Rupp, American actress
February 24 - Helen Shaver, Canadian actress
February 25 - Don Quarrie, Jamaican runner
February 25 - James Brown, American sportscaster
February 25 - César Cedeño, Dominican baseball player
February 27 - Steve Harley, British rock musician (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel)
February 28 - Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (d. 1998)
March 3 - Lindsay Cooper, English musician and composer (Henry Cow
March 4 - Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
March 4 - Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager
March 4 - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, American novelist (d. 1982)
March 4 - Sam Perlozzo, American baseball manager
March 4 - Mike Quarry, American boxer (d. 2006)
March 4 - Chris Rea, English singer
March 4 - Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
March 5 - Giorgos Ninios, Greek actor
March 6 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
March 7 - Francis Rocco Prestia, American musician (Tower of Power)
March 9 - Zakir Hussain, World famous tabla player from India
March 9 - Michael Kinsley, American journalist and editor
March 9 - Helen Zille, South African politician
March 13 - Fred Berry, American actor and dancer (d. 2003)
March 14 - Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
March 16 - Joe DeLamielleure, American football player
March 17 - Donald Findlay, Scottish lawyer
March 17 - Scott Gorham, American musician (Thin Lizzy)
March 17 - Kurt Russell, American actor
March 17 - Craig Ramsay, Canadian ice hockey player
March 18 - Bill Frisell, American jazz musician
March 18 - Ben Cohen, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
March 20 - Curt Smith, American author and media host
March 20 - Jimmie Vaughan, American blues guitarist
March 21 - Russell Thompkins Jr, American singer (The Stylistics)
March 23 - Ron Jaworski, American football player and analyst
March 24 - Pat Bradley, American golfer
March 24 - Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
March 24 - Dougie Thomson, British bassist (Supertramp)
March 25 - Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2000)
March 26 - Carl Wieman, American physicist
March 28 - Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
March 28 - Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor and musician (d. 1995)
March 30 - Yves Séguin, Quebec politician
April 1 - John Philip Abizaid, U.S. Army General
April 2 - Ayako Okamoto, Japanese golfer
April 2 - Moriteru Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist
April 3 - Mel Schacher, American musician
April 4 - John Hannah, American football player
April 4 - Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia
April 5 - Dean Kamen, American inventor
April 6 - Bert Blyleven, Dutch-born baseball player
April 7 - Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter
April 10 - David Helvarg, American journalist and environmental activist
April 10 - Steven Seagal, American actor
April 11 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
April 11 - Paul Fox, English guitarist (The Ruts) (d. 2007)
April 11 - James Patrick Kelly, American author
April 13 - Peabo Bryson, American singer
April 13 - Peter Davison, English actor
April 13 - Joachim Streich, East German footballer
April 13 - Max Weinberg, American drummer
April 14 - Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist
April 15 - Heloise, American newspaper columnist
April 16 - Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer and photographer
April 16 - Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer
April 16 - Mordechai Ben David, Jewish singer
April 17 - Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born actress
April 17 - Börje Salming, Swedish ice hockey player
April 18 - Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer
April 18 - Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian politician
April 19 - Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978)
April 19 - Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
April 20 - Luther Vandross, American singer (d. 2005)
April 21 - Tony Danza, American actor and comedian
April 21 - Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician
April 21 - Robert Gotobed, English drummer (Wire)
April 21 - Steve Vickers, Canadian ice hockey player
April 22 - Paul Carrack, English musician
April 22 - Ana María Shua, Argentine poet
April 25 - Ian McCartney, British Member of Parliament
April 27 - Ace Frehley, American musician (Kiss)
April 29 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)
May 1 - Antony Worrall Thompson, English celebrity chef
May 3 - Christopher Cross, American musician
May 3 - Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer
May 3 - Tuula Palaste-Eerola, Finnish architect and politician
May 4 - Colin Bass, British bassist (Camel)
May 4 - Jackie Jackson, American singer and musician (The Jackson 5)
May 4 - Gérard Jugnot, French actor
May 4 - Mick Mars, American guitarist (Mötley Crüe)
May 4 - Tirso Cruz III, Filipino actor and singer.
May 6 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (d. 1990)
May 7 - Robert Hegyes, American actor
May 8 - Philip Bailey, American singer (Earth
May 8 - Chris Frantz, American musician (Talking Heads)
May 13 - Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis
May 13 - Jim Douglas, American politician
May 13 - Paul Thompson, British rock drummer (Roxy Music)
May 15 - Frank Wilczek, American physicist
May 16 - Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer
May 16 - Jonathan Richman, American proto-punk icon
May 17 - Simon Hughes, British politician
May 18 - Jim Sundberg, American baseball player
May 19 - Joey Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
May 19 - Dick Slater, American professional wrestler
May 20 - Mike Crapo, American politician
May 21 - Al Franken, American comedian
May 23 - Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
May 23 - Antonis Samaras, Greek politician
May 25 - Bob Gale, American screenwriter
May 26 - Sally Ride, American astronaut
May 26 - Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician
May 27 - Ana Belén, Spanish singer and actress
May 29 - Peter Chernin, President of News Corporation
May 30 - Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
May 30 - Zdravko Čolić, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer
May 30 - Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan politician
June 2 - Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
June 4 - Charles Dickinson, American author
June 4 - Wendy Pini, American comic book writer and artist
June 5 - Suze Orman, American financial advisor
June 6 - Noritake Takahara, Japanese racing driver
June 7 - Terry O'Reilly Canadian ice hockey player,
June 8 - Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer and guitarist
June 8 - Tony Rice, American acoustic guitarist
June 9 - Dave Parker, American baseball player
June 9 - James Newton Howard, American film composer
June 10 - Dan Fouts, American football player
June 11 - Yasumasa Morimura, Japanese appropriation artist
June 11 - Mark D. Siljander, former Republican U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan
June 12 - Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
June 12 - Bun E. Carlos, American musician (Cheap Trick)
June 12 - Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (d. 2007)
June 13 - Richard Thomas, American actor
June 13 - Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
June 14 - Paul Boateng, British politician
June 15 - Steve Walsh, American singer (Kansas)
June 16 - Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
June 17 - Joe Piscopo, American actor
June 19 - Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist
June 19 - Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
June 20 - Tress MacNeille, American voice actress
June 20 - Paul Muldoon, Northern Irish poet
June 20 - Bill Simon, American businessman and politician
June 21 - Nils Lofgren, American musician
June 21 - Jim Douglas, American politician
June 23 - Michèle Mouton, French race car driver
June 24 - David Rodigan, radio DJ/actor
June 26 - Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer
June 27 - Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
June 27 - Julia Duffy, American actress
June 29 - Don Rosa, American ilustrator
June 30 - Stanley Clarke, American musician
July 1 - Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
July 1 - Anne Feeney, American protest singer
July 1 - Terrence Mann, American actor and dancer
July 2 - Michele Santoro, Italian TV journalist
July 3 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
July 3 - Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician
July 4 - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American politician
July 5 - Rich Gossage, American baseball player
July 5 - Keiko Fuji, Japanese enka singer
July 6 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
July 8 - Anjelica Huston, American actress
July 9 - Chris Cooper, American actor
July 10 - Phyllis Smith, American actress
July 10 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
July 11 - Robert R. McCammon, American horror novelist
July 12 - Brian Grazer, American film producer
July 12 - Cheryl Ladd, American actress
July 12 - Sylvia Sass, Hungarian soprano
July 12 - Jamey Sheridan, American actor
July 13 - Rob Bishop, American politician
July 13 - Didi Conn, American actress
July 14 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
July 15 - Jesse Ventura, professional wrestler and former Governor of Minnesota
July 16 - Jean-Luc Mongrain, French-Canadian journalist
July 17 - Lucie Arnaz, American actress
July 18 - Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
July 18 - Margo Martindale, American actress
July 19 - Abel Ferrara, American filmmake
July 19 - Jayson Stark, American sportswriter
July 20 - Jeff Rawle, English actor
July 21 - Robin Williams, American comedian/actor
July 22 - J. V. Cain, American football player (d. 1979)
July 23 - Edie McClurg, American actress
July 24 - Lynda Carter, American actress
July 24 - Chris Smith, British politician
July 25 - Verdine White, American musician (Earth
July 26 - Rick Martin, Canadian ice hockey player
July 28 - Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington
July 28 - Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
July 29 - Dan Driessen, American baseball player
July 29 - Dean Pitchford, American songwriter
July 31 - Evonne Goolagong, Australian tennis player
July 31 - Barry Van Dyke, American actor
August 1 - Tommy Bolin, American musician (Deep Purple) (d. 1976)
August 1 - Pete Mackanin, American baseball player
August 2 - Andrew Gold, American musician and songwriter
August 2 - Joe Lynn Turner, American singer (Deep Purple
August 2 - Freddie Wadling, Swedish actor and musician (The Leather Nun
August 2 - Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
August 3 - Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
August 3 - Jay North, American actor
August 5 - John Jarratt, Australian actor
August 6 - Catherine Hicks, American actress
August 6 - Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
August 8 - Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
August 8 - Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
August 8 - Phil Carlson, Australian cricketer
August 11 - Vincent Bilodeau, Quebec actor and comedian
August 12 - Willie Horton, American murderer and rapist
August 13 - Dan Fogelberg, American singer/songwriter (d. 2007)
August 14 - Peter Blegvad, American musician (Slapp Happy)
August 15 - Ann Biderman, American film and television writer
August 15 - Bobby Caldwell, American singer and musician
August 15 - John Childs, England cricketer
August 15 - Daba Diawara, Malian politician
August 15 - Ranjan Gunatilleke, Sri Lankan cricketer
August 16 - Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (d. 1992)
August 17 - Robert Joy, Canadian actor
August 17 - Alan Minter, British boxer
August 19 - John Deacon, English musician (Queen)
August 19 - Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine film composer
August 20 - Greg Bear, American author
August 21 - Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
August 21 - Char Margolis, American medium
August 21 - Harry Smith, American television journalist
August 21 - Margo Kane, Canadian playwright.
August 22 - Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
August 23 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
August 23 - Queen Noor of Jordan,
August 23 - Jimi Jamison, American singer (Survivor)
August 24 - Orson Scott Card, American writer
August 24 - Oscar Hijuelos, American author
August 25 - Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
August 25 - Bill Handel, American radio personality
August 27 - Buddy Bell, American baseball player-manager
August 27 - Mack Brown, American University of Texas Head Football Coach
August 28 - Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
August 28 - Wayne Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
August 30 - Timothy Bottoms, American actor
August 30 - Dana, Irish singer and politician
September 1 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (d. 1996)
September 1 - David Bairstow, England cricketer (d. 1998)
September 2 - Jim DeMint, American politician
September 2 - Mark Harmon, American actor
September 2 - Michael Gray, American actor
September 2 - Jon Feltheimer, American film executive
September 4 - Martin Chambers, English drummer (The Pretenders)
September 4 - Marita Ulvskog, Swedish politician
September 5 - Paul Breitner, German footballer
September 5 - Patti McGuire, American model and television producer
September 5 - Michael Keaton, American actor
September 7 - Morris Albert, Brazilian singer
September 7 - Chrissie Hynde, American guitarist and singer (The Pretenders)
September 7 - Mark Isham, American composer
September 8 - Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer
September 9 - Alexander Downer, Australian politician
September 9 - Robert Desiderio, American actor
September 9 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
September 11 - Richard D. Gill, British-Dutch mathematician
September 11 - Hugo Porta, Argentine rugby player
September 11 - Miroslav Dvořák, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (d. 2008)
September 12 - Bertie Ahern, Irish politician
September 12 - Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby union player (d. 2007)
September 12 - Joe Pantoliano, American actor
September 12 - Gerald Stano, American serial killer (d. 1998)
September 13 - Jean Smart, American actress
September 15 - Pete Carroll, American football coach
September 15 - Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
September 17 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress
September 18 - Benjamin Carson, American neurosurgeon
September 18 - Darryl Stingley, American football player (d. 2007)
September 18 - Marc Surer, Swiss motor racing driver
September 19 - Daniel Lanois, Canadian record producer
September 20 - Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player
September 20 - Javier Marías, Spanish author
September 21 - Bruce Arena, American soccer coach
September 21 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005)
September 22 - David Coverdale, English singer
September 24 - Douglas Kmiec, American legal scholar
September 25 - Mark Hamill, American actor
September 26 - Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician
September 27 - Jim Shooter, American comic book writer
September 27 - Paul Craig, British law professor
September 27 - Michel Rivard, Québécois singer and composer (Beau Dommage)
September 28 - Wei Chen, Canadian journalist
September 29 - Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
September 29 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
September 29 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
September 29 - Mike Enriquez, Philippine broadcaster
September 30 - Barry Marshall, Australian physician
October 2 - Sting, English musician and actor
October 2 - Romina Power, Italian singer
October 3 - Bernard Cooper, American writer
October 3 - Keb' Mo', American singer
October 3 - Dave Winfield, American baseball player
October 4 - Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
October 5 - Karen Allen, American actress
October 5 - Bob Geldof, Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats) and activist
October 6 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)
October 6 - Kevin Cronin, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
October 7 - John Mellencamp, American singer
October 7 - David J. Halberstam, American radio executive
October 8 - Jack O'Connell, American politician
October 10 - Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman
October 11 - Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer/songwriter
October 12 - Ed Royce, American politician
October 18 - Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and executive
October 18 - Terry McMillan, American author
October 18 - Pam Dawber, American actress
October 19 - Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematical physicist
October 20 - Patrick Hall, British politician
October 20 - Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician
October 20 - Claudio Ranieri, Italian football player and manager
October 23 - Charly García, Argentine singer
October 23 - Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo
October 25 - Richard Lloyd, American guitarist (Television)
October 26 - Bootsy Collins, American musician (P Funk)
October 26 - Julian Schnabel, American filmmaker
October 27 - K.K. Downing, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
October 27 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
October 27 - Nancy Jacobs, American politician
October 27 - Éric Morena, French singer
October 30 - Harry Hamlin, American actor
October 31 - Nick Saban, American college football coach
October 31 - Dave Trembley, Major League Baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles)
November 1 - Ronald Bell, American singer and saxophonist (Kool & the Gang)
November 1 - Fabrice Luchini, French actor
November 2 - Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic
November 2 - Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
November 3 - Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist
November 3 - Dwight Evans, American baseball player
November 4 - Traian Băsescu, President of Romania
November 4 - Cosey Fanni Tutti, English performance artist (Throbbing Gristle
November 6 - Peter Althin, Swedish politician and attorney
November 6 - John Falsey, American television writer and producer
November 8 - Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general
November 9 - Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder
November 9 - Bill Mantlo, American comic book writer
November 11 - Kim Peek, American megasavant
November 11 - Marc Summers, American game show host
November 14 - Frankie Banali, American rock drummer
November 14 - Stephen Bishop, American musician
November 14 - Zhang Yimou, Chinese film director
November 15 - Beverly D'Angelo, American actress
November 16 - Miguel Sandoval, American actor
November 17 - Stephen Root, American actor
November 17 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987)
November 17 - Butch Davis, American football coach
November 18 - Justin Raimondo, American author
November 19 - Zeenat Aman, Indian actress
November 19 - Lord Falconer of Thoroton, British lawyer and politician
November 20 - David Walters, American politician
November 22 - Kent Nagano, American conductor
November 23 - David Rappaport, English actor (d. 1990)
November 24 - Chet Edwards, American politician
November 25 - Bucky Dent, American baseball player
November 25 - Bill Morrissey, American musician
November 25 - Arturo Pérez Reverte, Spanish novelist and war reporter
November 26 - Cicciolina, Italian porno actress and politician
November 27 - Jayne Kennedy, American sportscaster and actress
November 29 - Barry Goudreau, American musician (Boston)
November 29 - Roger Troutman, American musician (d. 1999)
November 30 - Christian Bernard, mystic
November 30 - June Chadwick, British actress
December 1 - Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (d. 1987)
December 1 - Treat Williams, American actor
December 2 - Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
December 3 - Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (d. 1994)
December 3 - Riki Chōshū, Japanese professional wrestler
December 3 - Rick Mears, American race car driver
December 3 - John and Greg Rice, American twin actors
December 3 - Nicky Stevens, British singer (Brotherhood of Man)
December 4 - Gary Rossington, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
December 4 - Patricia Wettig, American actress
December 5 - Morgan Brittany, American actress
December 5 - Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Belgian artist
December 6 - Gerry Francis, English footballer and manager
December 8 - Bill Bryson, American author
December 8 - Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer-songwriter
December 10 - Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
December 14 - Jan Timman, Dutch chess grandmaster
December 16 - Robben Ford, American guitarist
December 17 - Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey coach
December 17 - Tatyana Kazankina, Soviet athlete
December 20 - Gilbert Montagné, French musician
December 20 - Peter May, Scottish novelist and scriptwriter
December 21 - Nick Gilder, English musician (Sweeney Todd)
December 22 - Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster
December 23 - Anthony Phillips, British musician (Genesis)
December 24 - John D'Acquisto, baseball player
December 26 - Richard Skinner, British radio presenter
December 27 - Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico
December 28 - Ian Buruma, Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East.
December 29 - Yvonne Elliman, American disco singer
December 29 - Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (d. 2007)
December 30 - Doug Allder, English footballer
December 30 - Jocky Wilson, Scottish Darts player
December 31 - George Thorogood, American musician
December 31 - Tom Hamilton, American bassist (Aerosmith)

Deaths

January 2 - Sir William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
January 5 - Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
January 7 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
January 10 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer
January 10 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)
January 22 - Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (b. 1872)
January 28 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (b.1867)
January 29 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
January 30 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)
February 9 - Eddy Duchin, American musician (b. 1910)
February 12 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (b. 1897)
February 13 - Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
February 19 - André Gide, French writer
March 6 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor
March 6 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
March 10 - Kijūrō Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1872)
March 15 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)
March 21 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
March 22 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
March 25 - Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887)
March 26 - James F. Hinkle, American politician
April 4 - Al Christie, Canadian film director and producer (b. 1881)
April 4 - George Albert Smith, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church) (b. 1870)
April 9 - Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (b. 1862)
April 18 - António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
April 20 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
April 22 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (b. 1870)
April 23 - Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States
April 26 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889)
May 6 - Élie Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1869)
May 7 - Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
May 25 - Paula von Preradović, Croatian-born writer (b. 1887)
May 26 - Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (b. 1880)
May 29 - Fanny Brice, American singer/comedian (b. 1891)
May 30 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
June 4 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
June 6 - Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
June 7 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (b. 1892)
June 8 - Eugène Fiset, French Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
June 13 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
June 19 - Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
June 21 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
July 9 - Harry Heilmann, American Baseball player (b. 1894)
July 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
July 20 - King Abdullah I of Jordan, (b. 1882)
July 20 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882)
July 23 - Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)
July 23 - Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (b. 1884)
August 14 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (b. 1863)
August 15 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882)
August 16 - Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (b. 1887)
August 21 - Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905)
August 22 - J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1884)
September 6 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (b. 1867)
September 7 - Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b. 1912)
September 14 - Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890)
September 17 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
September 26 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)
September 29 - Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)
October 4 - Willie Moretti, American gangster (b. 1894)
October 6 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist
October 6 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
November 5 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (b. 1889)
November 9 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
November 20 - Thomas Quinlan, (impresario)
December 5 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1889)
December 5 - Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (b. 1871)
December 6 - Harold Ross, American magazine editor (b. 1892)
December 10 - Algernon Blackwood, English writer (b. 1869)
December 12 - Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer (b. 1907)

Events

January 4 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
January 9 - The United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.
January 15 - Ilse Koch, The "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
January 27 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on the Frenchman Flats.
February 6 - The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
February 25 - The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
February 27 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
March 6 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
March 7 - Korean War: Operation Ripper
March 14 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
March 20 - Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshû is founded.
March 29 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
March 30 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
March 31 - The first commercial United States made computer, the UNIVAC I, is delivered to the United States Census Bureau.
April 5 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
April 11 - Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
April 11 - The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
April 19 - General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
April 29 - A Tibetan delegation to the Chinese government is presented with a draft treaty regarding the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
May 3 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.
May 3 - The Festival of Britain opens.
May 3 - The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
May 3 - The Kentucky Derby is televised for the first time.
May 15 - The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
May 16 - The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
May 21 - The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition
May 23 - Tibetans are forced to sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People's Republic of China.
June 14 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
July 5 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
July 10 - Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
July 16 - King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
July 17 - Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts is chartered.
July 20 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
July 31 - Japan Airlines is established.
September 1 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
September 3 - The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
September 4 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
September 8 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
September 10 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
September 22 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
October 3 - The "Shot Heard 'Round the World", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.
October 15 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesized the first oral contraceptive.
October 16 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
October 20 - The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma
October 26 - Boxer Joe Louis comes out of retirement to fight Rocky Marciano. However, Marciano would win the fight in eight rounds.
November 1 - Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation was not voluntary.
November 10 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
December 4 - Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government.
December 13 - Margaret Thatcher (Roberts) marries Denis Thatcher at City Methodist in London.
December 20 - The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity for the first time. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
December 24 - Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.

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