1921

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1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1921st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 921st year of the 2nd millennium, the 21st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1921, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

March

March 4: Warren G. Harding is 29th President of the United States.

• March – The Group Settlement Scheme in Western Australia begins.
• March 1
  • The city of Kiryū, located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, is founded.
  • The Australia national cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, becomes the first to complete a whitewash in The Ashes, something that will not be repeated for 86 years.
• March 4 – Warren G. Harding is sworn in, as the 29th President of the United States.
• March 5 – Irish War of Independence: Clonbanin Ambush: The Irish Republican Army kills Brigadier General Cumming.
• March 6 – The Portuguese Communist Party is founded.
• March 8
  • Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato e Iradier is assassinated, while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
  • Allied forces occupy Düsseldorf, Ruhrort and Duisburg.
• March 12 – The İstiklâl Marşı (Independence March), the Turkish national anthem, is officially adopted.
• March 13 – Occupation of Mongolia: The Russian White Army captures Mongolia from China; Roman von Ungern-Sternberg declares himself ruler.
• March 14 – Armenian Soghomon Tehlirian assassinates Mehmed Talaat, former Interior Minister of Turkey, in Charlottenburg, Berlin.
• March 16 – Six Irish Republican Army men of the Forgotten Ten are hanged in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.
• March 17
  • The Red Army crushes the Kronstadt rebellion, and a number of sailors flee to Finland.
  • Dr. Marie Stopes opens the first birth control clinic in London, England.
  • The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
• March 18 – The second Peace of Riga ends the Polish–Soviet War. A permanent border is established between the Polish and Soviet states.
• March 20 – Upper Silesia votes for re-annexation to Germany.
• March 21
  • The New Economic Policy starts in Soviet Russia.
  • Irish War of Independence – Headford Ambush: The Irish Republican Army kills at least 9 British Army troops.
• March 24 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad (the first international women's sports event) begins in Monte Carlo.
• March 31 – Abkhazia becomes a republic Abkhazian SSR.

December

Main article: December 1921

December 29: William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the 10th Prime Minister of Canada

• December 1 – Rising prices cause riots in Vienna.
• December 6
  • The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State, an independent nation incorporating 26 of Ireland's 32 counties, is signed in London.
  • Agnes Macphail becomes the first woman to be elected to the Canadian Parliament.
• December 13 – In the Four-Power Treaty on Insular Possessions, Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, and France agree to recognize the status quo in the Pacific.
• December 23 – Visva-Bharati College is founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan, Bengal Presidency, British India.
• December 29 – William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.

Births

January

John Russell

Marija Gimbutas

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Donna Reed

Carol Channing

• January 1
  • César Baldaccini, French sculptor (d. 1998)
  • Cliff Bourland, American athlete (d. 2018)
  • Doris Tetzlaff, American female professional baseball player (d. 1998)
  • Helen Yate, English swimmer
• January 3
  • Jean-Louis Koszul, French mathematician (d. 2018)
  • John Russell, American actor (d. 1991)
  • Bill Gold, American graphic designer (d. 2018)
• January 4
  • Leo Sarkisian, American musicologist, broadcaster (d. 2018)
  • Pedro Richter Prada, 115th Prime Minister of Peru (d. 2017)
• January 5
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
  • Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• January 9
  • Fraser Barron, New Zealand bomber pilot during WWII (d. 1944)
  • Ágnes Keleti, Hungarian artistic gymnast
  • Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster, playwright (d. 2006)
• January 10 – Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
• January 11
  • Gory Guerrero, American wrestler, father of Eddie Guerrero (d. 1990)
  • Judith Leiber, Hungarian-American fashion designer, businesswoman (d. 2018)
• January 14 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
• January 16 – George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, British politician, journalist (d. 2008)
• January 17
  • Herb Ellis, American actor
  • Asghar Khan, Pakistani politician, military officer (d. 2018)
• January 18 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American Nobel physicist (d. 2015)
• January 19
  • Denys Roberts, British colonial official, judge (d. 2013)
  • Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
• January 21 – Howard Unruh, American spree killer (d. 2009)
• January 23
  • Hermann Baumann, Swiss Olympic freestyle wrestler
  • Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian archaeologist (d.1994)
• January 24 – Beatrice Mintz, American biologist
• January 26 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman, co-founder of Sony (d. 1999)
• January 27 – Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
• January 29 – Mustafa Ben Halim, Fromer Prime Minister of Libya
• January 31
  • Carol Channing, American actress
  • Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, 2nd President of Bangladesh (d. 1987)
  • Mario Lanza, American tenor, actor (d. 1959)

February

Betty Friedan

Lana Turner

Abe Vigoda

Betty Hutton

• February 1
  • Peter Sallis, English actor (Last of the Summer Wine; Wallace and Gromit) (d. 2017)
  • Patricia Robins, British writer, WAAF officer (d. 2016).
• February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)
• February 5
  • John Pritchard, English conductor (d. 1989)
  • Sir Ken Adam, German-born British production designer (d. 2016)
• February 8
  • Nexhmije Hoxha, widow of Albanian communist leader Enver Hoxha
  • Betsy Jochum, American female baseball player
  • Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)
• February 11 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (d. 2006)
• February 12
  • Don Bollweg, American baseball player (d. 1996)
  • Betty Jaynes, American actress, singer
• February 14 – Hugh Downs, American game show host, journalist
• February 15
  • Jefferson J. DeBlanc, World War II United States Marine Corps fighter ace (d. 2007)
  • Martha Farkas Glaser, Hungarian-American civil rights activist, manager of jazz musician Erroll Garner (d. 2014)
• February 16
  • Hua Guofeng, former Chairman of the Communist Party of China, Premier of China (d. 2008)
  • Vera-Ellen, American actress, dancer (d. 1981)
• February 17 – Muriel Coben, Canadian professional baseball, curling player (d. 1979)
• February 18 – Brian Faulkner, 6th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1977)
• February 20 – "Nature Boy" Rogers, American professional wrestler (d. 1992)
• February 22
  • Jean-Bédel Bokassa, 2nd President of the Central African Republic (1966-1976), Emperor of Central Africa (1976-1979) (d. 1996)
  • Wayne C. Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
  • Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
  • Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
• February 24 – Abe Vigoda, American actor (d. 2016)
• February 25 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970)
• February 26
  • Betty Hutton, American actress (d. 2007)
  • Louis Roney, American opera singer (d. 2017)
• February 27
  • Michael Fox, American actor (d. 1996)
  • Eka Tjipta Widjaja, Chinese-Indonesian billionaire and businessman
• February 28
  • Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)
  • J. F. C. Harrison, British historian, author (d. 2018)

March

Gordon MacRae

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia

Dirk Bogarde

• March 1
  • Jack Clayton, British film director (d. 1995)
  • Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1983)
  • Richard Wilbur, American poet (d. 2017)
• March 2
  • Cornelius Edward Gallagher, American politician
  • Robert Simpson, English composer (d. 1997)
• March 3
  • Diana Barrymore, American actress (d. 1960)
  • Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004)
• March 4
  • Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist and educator (d. 2017)
  • Joan Greenwood, British actress (d. 1987)
• March 5
  • Berkley Bedell, American politician
  • Elmer Valo, Czechoslovakia-born Major League Baseball player (d. 1998)
• March 7 – Syed Nasir Ismail, Malaysian politician (d. 1982)
• March 8 – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (Gilligan's Island) (d. 1990)
• March 10 – Cec Linder, Polish-born Canadian actor (d. 1992)
• March 11
  • Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
  • Astor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger (d. 1992)
• March 12
  • Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (d. 2003)
  • Gordon MacRae, American singer, actor (d. 1986)
• March 13
  • Al Jaffee, American cartoonist (MAD Magazine)
  • Cyril Poole, English cricketer (d. 1996)
• March 16 – King Faud of Saudi Arabia (d. 2005)
• March 14 – Lis Hartel, Danish equestrian athlete (d. 2009)
• March 17 – Meir Amit, Israeli politician, general (d. 2009)
• March 19 – Tommy Cooper, Welsh prop comedian, magician (d. 1984)
• March 20 – Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1970)
• March 21
  • Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)
  • Xu Zuyao, Chinese expert in materials science (d. 2017)
  • Vasily Stalin, Soviet general (d. 1962)
  • Abdul Salam Arif, President of Iraq (d. 1966)
• March 22 – Jean Bruce, French writer (d. 1963)
• March 24
  • Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer (d. 2018)
  • Vasily Smyslov, Soviet chess player (d. 2010)
• March 25
  • Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
  • Alexandra of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
• March 27 – Hélène Berr, French writer (d. 1945)
• March 28 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
• March 29 – Hugh Neill, British businessman (d. 2017)
• March 30 – Clemens Kalischer, American photojournalist, art photographer (d. 2018)

April

Yitzhak Navon

Thomas Schelling

• April 1 – Beau Jack, American boxer (d. 2000)
• April 3
  • Robert Karvelas, American actor (d. 1991)
  • Darío Moreno, Turkish singer (d. 1968)
  • Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004)
• April 6 – Wilbur Thompson, American Olympic champion shot putter (d. 2013)
• April 8 – Franco Corelli, Italian opera singer (d. 2003)
• April 9
  • Roger Bocquet, Swiss footballer (d. 1994)
  • Frankie Thomas, American actor (d. 2006)
  • William G. Callow, American judge (d. 2018)
  • Yitzhak Navon, Israeli politician (d. 2015)
• April 10
  • Chuck Connors, American basketball and baseball player turned actor (d. 1992)
  • Sheb Wooley, American actor, singer (d. 2003)
• April 13
  • Dona Ivone Lara, Brazilian singer, composer (d. 2018)
  • Leo Mogus, American basketball player (d. 1971)
• April 14 – Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
• April 15 – Georgy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1995)
• April 16 – Peter Ustinov, English actor, director (d. 2004)
• April 17 – Sergio Sollima, Italian director (d. 2015)
• April 19 – Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal, theologian (d. 2015)
• April 20 – Peter Baker, British soldier, author, publisher and politician (d. 1966)
• April 22 – Vivian Dandridge, African-American actress (d. 1991)
• April 23
  • Judy Agnew, Second Lady of the United States (d. 2012)
  • Janet Blair, American actress (d. 2007)
  • Warren Spahn, American baseball player (d. 2003)
• April 25 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)
• April 26
  • Nelson Dalzell, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 1989)
  • Jimmy Giuffre, American jazz musician (d. 2008)
• April 27
  • Abdelmalek Benhabyles, Algerian politician
  • John Stott, British Anglican cleric, Christian author (d. 2011)
  • Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, German television host, entertainer (d. 1998)
• April 29
  • Bert Lundin, Swedish union leader (d. 2018)
  • Pavel Vranský, Czech brigadier general and RAF radio operator (d. 2018)
• April 30
  • Dottie Green, American professional baseball player (d. 1992)
  • Tove Maës, Danish actress (d. 2010)

May

Satyajit Ray

Sugar Ray Robinson

Andrei Sakharov

• May 2
  • B. B. Lal, Indian archaeologist
  • Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (d. 1992)
• May 3 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
• May 4 – Harry Daghlian, American physicist (d. 1945)
• May 5 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• May 6 – Erich Fried, Austrian author (d. 1988)
• May 9
  • Sophie Scholl, German student, anti-Nazi resistance fighter (executed) (d. 1943)
  • Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
• May 11 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016)
• May 12
  • Ruth de Souza, Brazilian actress
  • Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)
  • Cor van der Hoeven, Dutch footballer (d. 2017)
  • Farley Mowat, Canadian writer, naturalist (d. 2014)
• May 14 – Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)
• May 15 – Baron Vaea, Prime Minister of Tonga (d. 2009)
• May 16 – Harry Carey, Jr., American actor (d. 2012)
• May 17 – Dennis Brain, English musician (d. 1957)
• May 18 – Sir Michael A. Epstein, British medical researcher
• May 19 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
• May 20
  • Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (d. 1998)
  • Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)
• May 21
  • Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist, human rights activist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (which he declined) (d. 1989)
  • Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian philosopher, author of the socio-economic Progressive Utilization Theory (d. 1990)
• May 23
  • James Blish, American science fiction author (d. 1975)
  • Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician, radio personality (d. 2008)
  • Georgy Natanson, Russian director, screenwriter and playwright (d. 2017)
• May 25
  • Hal David, American songwriter, lyricist (d. 2012)
  • James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (d. 2000)
  • Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• May 26
  • Inge Borkh, German soprano (some sources say she was born 1917) (d. 2018)
  • Stan Mortensen, English footballer (d. 1991)
  • Anatoly Chernyaev, Russian historian, writer (d. 2017)
• May 27 – Harry G. Haskell Jr., American politician
• May 28
  • Tom Uren, Australian soldier, politician (d. 2015)
  • Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
• May 29
  • Norman Hetherington, Australian puppeteer, artist (d. 2010)
• May 30 – Jamie Uys, South African actor, film director (d. 1996)

June

Alexis Smith

Suharto

Prince Philip

Jane Russell

• June 1 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (d. 1985)
• June 3
  • Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete (d. 2016)
  • John Shelton Wilder, American politician, former Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (d. 2010)
• June 6 – Mikheil Tumanishvili, Georgian theater director, teacher (d. 1996)
• June 7
  • Myrtle Edwards, Australian cricketer, softball player (d. 2010)
  • Bernard Lown, American medical innovator, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
  • Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2012)
• June 8
  • Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress (d. 1993)
  • Suharto, President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
• June 9 – Margaret Danhauser, American female professional baseball player (d. 1987)
• June 10
  • Oskar Gröning, German SS officer, war criminal (d. 2018)
  • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Elizabeth II
  • Sergio Arellano Stark, Chilean military officer (d. 2016)
• June 12
  • Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
  • Johan Witteveen, Dutch politician, economist and 5th Managing Director of the IMF
  • Luis García Berlanga, Spanish film director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• June 13 – Nancy Warren, American female professional baseball player (d. 2001)
• June 15 – Erroll Garner, African-American jazz musician (d. 1977)
• June 17 – Aydın Boysan, Turkish architect (d. 2018)
• June 19
  • Doris Sands Johnson, Bahamian teacher, suffragette, and politician (d. 1983)
  • Louis Jourdan, French actor (d. 2015)
• June 21
  • Fernando Hoyos, Colombian sports shooter
  • Thomas Morrow Reavley, American judge
  • Gebhard Büchel, Liechtenstein decathlete
  • Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)
• June 22
  • José Agdamag, Filipino sports shooter (d. 2011)
  • Ralph K. Hofer, American fighter pilot (d. 1942)
• June 23
  • Marius Mora, French cross-country skier
  • Paul Findley, American politician
  • Colin Pinch, Australian cricketer (d. 2006)
• June 24 – Gerhard Sommer, German soldier
• June 25
  • Yves Forest, Canadian politician, lawyer
  • Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
• June 26
  • Robert Everett, American computer scientist (d. 2018)
  • Violette Szabo, French World War II heroine (d. 1945)
• June 27
  • Muriel Pavlow, English actress
  • Princess Vimolchatra of Thailand (d. 2009)
• June 28 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
• June 29
  • Jean Kent, English actress (d. 2013)
  • Bob Kennedy, American football player (d. 2010)
  • Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (d. 2009)
• June 30
  • Washington SyCip, Filipino accountant (d. 2017)
  • Oswaldo López Arellano, 42nd and 44th President of Honduras (d. 2010)
  • Jules Amez-Droz, Swiss fencer (d. 2012)

July

Nancy Reagan

Sixto Durán Ballén

John Glenn

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Richard Egan

• July 1
  • Arthur Johnson, Canadian sprint canoeist
  • Teddy Long, Australian rules footballer (d. 2008)
  • Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (d. 1980)
• July 2 – William Proctor Wilson, American businessman, philanthropist (d. 2010)
• July 3
  • Flor María Chalbaud, former First Lady of Venezuela
  • Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, American-born Hasidic rebbe (d. 2009)
• July 4
  • Madelon Mason, American model and pin-up girl (d. 2011)
  • Galen L. Stone, American diplomat (d. 2018)
  • Gérard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
  • Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist, conductor (d. 2003)
• July 5
  • Nanos Valaoritis, Greek writer
  • Vito Ortelli, Italian racing cyclist (d. 2017)
  • Al Kozar, American second baseman (d. 2007)
• July 6
  • Billy and Bobby Mauch, American actors (d. 2006) and (d. 2007)
  • Ed Erban, American professional basketball player (d. 2008)
  • Nancy Reagan, American actress, First Lady of the United States (d. 2016)
  • Josefina García de Noia, Argentine activist (d. 2015)
  • Allan MacEachen, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
• July 7
  • Johnny Van Cuyk, American relief pitcher (d. 2010)
  • Dragomir Felba, Serbian actor (d. 2006)
  • Joe Wade, English footballer, manager (d. 2005)
• July 8
  • Frank Prihoda, Australian alpine skier
  • Edgar Morin, French philosopher, sociologist
  • Don Ray, American basketball player (d. 1998)
  • John Money, New Zealand psychologist, sexologist and author (d. 2005)
• July 9 – David C. Jones, U.S General (d. 2013)
• July 10
  • John K. Singlaub, U.S Army Major General
  • Harvey Ball, American designer (d. 2001)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver, daughter of American politician Joseph P. Kennedy (d. 2009)
• July 11
  • Claude Bonin-Pissarro, French painter, graphic designer
  • Petter Hugsted, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (d. 2000)
  • Ilse Werner, German actress (d. 2005)
• July 12 – Brother Blue, African-American educator, storyteller, actor, musician and street performer (d. 2009)
• July 13 – Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (d. 2005)
• July 14
  • Leon Garfield, English writer (d. 1996)
  • Armand Gaudreault, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
  • Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
  • Sixto Durán Ballén, President of Ecuador (d. 2016)
• July 15
  • Jean Heywood, British actress
  • Patricia Wright, American actress
  • Barrie Dexter, Australian senior diplomat (d. 2018)
  • Carl Richardson, American football coach
  • Jordan Cekov, Macedonian journalist
  • Madge Meredith, American actress (d. 2017)
  • Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
• July 16
  • Nilo Floody, Chilean modern pentathlete (d. 2013)
  • Bernard W. Rogers, United States Army general (d. 2008)
  • Boscoe Holder, Trinidadian artist (d. 2007)
• July 17
  • Richard Jeranian, Armenian painter, draftsman and lithographer
  • Acquanetta, American actress (d. 2004)
  • Pío Corcuera, Argentine football striker (d. 2011)
  • Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
  • František Zvarík, Slovakian actor (d. 2008)
• July 18
  • Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist
  • John Glenn, American astronaut, U.S. Senator (d. 2016)
  • Heinz Bennent, German actor (d. 2011)
  • Gerry Mays, Scottish football player, manager (d. 2006)
  • Richard Leacock, British-born documentary filmmaker, pioneer of Cinéma Vérité (d. 2011)
• July 19
  • Elizabeth Spencer, American writer
  • Bertil Antonsson, Swedish heavyweight wrestler (d. 2006)
  • Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011)
  • Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, British barrister, United Nations representative from the United Kingdom (d. 2009)
• July 21
  • Carminha Brandão, Brazilian actress (d. 2011)
  • Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, Zulu sangoma, author
• July 22
  • Jim Rivera, American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder (d. 2017)
  • Tandy Little, American politician (d. 2015)
  • Al LaMacchia, American professional baseball player, scout (d. 2010)
  • William Roth, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)
• July 24 – Billy Taylor, American jazz musician (d. 2010)
• July 25 – Marv Rackley, American baseball player (d. 2018)
• July 28 – Melba Hernández, Cuban politician, diplomat (d. 2014)
• July 29
  • Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987)
  • Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, German-British pharmacologist (d. 2018)
• July 30 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (d. 2005)
• July 31 – Mel Hirsch, American basketball player (d. 1968)

August

Esther Williams

Alex Haley

Gene Roddenberry

• August 1 – George Büchi, American chemist (d. 1998)
• August 3
  • Richard Adler, American Broadway composer (d. 2012)
  • Edward Tipper, American World War II veteran (d. 2017)
• August 4
  • Charles H. Coolidge, American Medal of Honour recipient
  • Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
• August 8 – Esther Williams, American swimmer, actress (d. 2013)
• August 9
  • Ernest Angley, American televangelist, author and station owner
  • J. James Exon, Governor of Nebraska, U.S. Senator (d. 2005)
  • Patricia Marmont, American actress, daughter of Percy Marmont
  • Catherine Pym, Australian fencer (d. 2018)
• August 10
  • Yuki Shimoda, American actor (d. 1981)
  • Jack Archer, English athlete (d. 1997)
  • Ion Negoițescu, Romanian literary historian, critic, poet, novelist and memoirist (d. 1993)
• August 11
  • Alex Haley, American author (d. 1992)
  • Tom Kilburn, British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems (d. 1971)
• August 13 – Barney Liddell, American musician (d. 2003)
• August 14 – Julia Hartwig, Polish author (d. 2017)
• August 15
  • K. Kailasanatha Kurukkal, Sri Lankan researcher, writer and professor (d. 2000)
  • Vittorio Caprioli, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1989)
• August 18 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian (d. 2015)
• August 19 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (Star Trek) (d. 1991)
• August 21
  • Babbis Friis-Baastad, Norwegian children's writer (d. 1970)
  • John Osteen, American televangelist (d. 1999)
  • Victor Szebehely, Hungarian-American astronomer (d. 1997)
• August 22 – Lee Loy Seng, Malaysian businessman (d. 1993)
• August 23
  • Franco Ossola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
  • Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
• August 25
  • Monty Hall, Canadian-born American game show host (d. 2017)
  • Brian Moore, Northern Irish-born Canadian writer (d. 1999)
• August 26
  • Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician, Israel Prize recipient (d. 1994)
  • Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist, executive editor of The Washington Post (d. 2014)
• August 27
  • Leo Penn, American actor and director (d. 1998)
  • Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)
• August 28
  • John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979)
  • Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
  • Lidia Gueiler Tejada, President of Bolivia (d. 2011)
• August 31 – Raymond Williams, Welsh academic, novelist and critic (d. 1988)

September

Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo

Virgilio Barco Vargas

Kamal Hassan Aly

Robert Muldoon

Deborah Kerr

• September 2
  • Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo, 34th President of El Salvador (d. 1973)
  • Josephine Lenard, American professional baseball player (d. 2007)
• September 3
  • Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist, conductor (d. 1971)
  • Harry Landers, American actor (d. 2018)
• September 5 – Queen Consort Farida of Egypt (d. 1988)
• September 6 – John Bickersteth, British Anglican prelate (d. 2018)
• September 7
  • Antonio Gelabert, Spanish road bicycle racer (d. 1956)
  • Linus Nirmal Gomes, Indian Roman Catholic bishop
• September 8
  • Mosie Lister, American singer (d. 2015)
  • Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001)
• September 11 – Francis Quinn, American Roman Catholic bishop
• September 12
  • Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction writer (d. 2006)
  • Frank McGee, American television personality (d. 1974)
• September 13
  • Gunnar Eriksson, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 1982)
  • Cyrille Adoula, Congolese trade unionist and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Zaire (d. 1978)
  • Odore Joseph Gendron, American Roman Catholic, bishop
  • Sergey Nepobedimy, Soviet rocket weaponry designer (d. 2014)
• September 14
  • A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and businessman
  • Dario Vittori, Argentine actor (d. 2001)
• September 15
  • Joseph Iléo, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1994)
  • Norma MacMillan, Canadian voice actress (d. 2001)
  • Nils Rydström, Swedish fencer (d. 2018)
• September 16 – Mohamed Talbi, Tunisian historian (d. 2017)
• September 17
  • Virgilio Barco Vargas, 27th President of Colombia (d. 1997)
  • Roger H. Zion, American politician
• September 18 – Kamal Hassan Aly, Egyptian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 1993)
• September 19 – Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, philosopher (d. 1997)
• September 24
  • Jim McKay, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
  • Charlene Pryer, American professional baseball player (d. 1999)
• September 25 – Robert Muldoon, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
• September 27
  • Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian film director (d. 2014)
  • John Malcolm Patterson, American politician
  • Bernard Waber, American children's author (d. 2013)
• September 30
  • Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
  • Jorge Loring Miró, Spanish Jesuit priest, public speaker and author (d. 2013)
  • Pedro Knight, Cuban musician, manager (d. 2007)

October

James Whitmore

Francisco Morales-Bermúdez

Michael I

• October 1 – James Whitmore, American actor (d. 2009)
• October 2
  • Edmund Crispin, British writer, composer (d. 1978)
  • Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
• October 3
  • Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer (d. 1996)
  • John H. Cushman, American military officer (d. 2017)
• October 4 – Francisco Morales-Bermúdez, President of Peru
• October 5 – Bill Willis, American football player (d. 2007)
• October 6 – Joseph Lowery, African-American minister, activist
• October 7 – Tommy Farrell, American supporting actor, comedian (d. 2004)
• October 8 – Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist (d. 2010)
• October 10 – James Clavell, British novelist (d. 1994)
• October 11 – Shaw McCutcheon, American cartoonist (d. 2016)
• October 12 – Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scottish rugby player and journalist
• October 13
  • Enrico Cocozza, Scottish filmmaker (d. 2009)
  • Yves Montand, French singer, actor (d. 1991)
• October 14
  • Zizinho, Brazilian football player (d. 2002)
  • José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean historian (d. 2009)
• October 16 – Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and author (d. 2003)
• October 17 – Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001)
• October 18
  • Jerry Cooke, American photographer (d. 2005)
  • Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator from North Carolina (d. 2008)
• October 19
  • George Nader, American actor (d. 2002)
  • Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1995)
• October 21
  • Pedro Marcos Ribeiro da Costa, Angolan bishop (d. 2010)
  • Malcolm Arnold, British music composer (d. 2006)
  • Mohammad Mohammadullah, 3rd President of Bangladesh (d. 1999)
  • Zorawar Chand Bakhshi, Indian Army General (d. 2018)
  • Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer (d. 2015)
• October 22 – Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
• October 23 – André Turcat, French aviator, first pilot of Concorde (d. 2016)
• October 24 – Sena Jurinac, Bosnian operatic soprano (d. 2011)
• October 25 – King Michael I of Romania (d. 2017)
• October 26 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American writer, daughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (d. 1986)
• October 27 – Warren Allen Smith, American gay rights activist, writer and humanities humanist (d. 2017)

November

Charles Bronson

Princess Fawzia

Brian Keith

Jackie Stallone

• November 3 – Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
• November 5 – Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)
• November 6 – James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
• November 8
  • Walter Mirisch, American film producer
  • Gene Saks, American actor, film director (d. 2015)
• November 10 – Owen Bush, American actor (d. 2001)
• November 11
  • Molly Dodd, American actress (d. 1981)
  • Ron Greenwood, English football manager (d. 2006)
• November 12 – Gerson Leiber, American painter, lithographer and sculptor (d. 2018)
• November 13 – Joonas Kokkonen, Finnish composer (d. 1996)
• November 14 – Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997)
• November 17 – Albert Bertelsen, Danish artist
• November 19 – Michel Bonnevie, French Olympic basketball player (d. 2018)
• November 20 – Dan Frazer, American actor (d. 2011)
• November 21 – Billie Mae Richards, Canadian actress, singer (d. 2010)
• November 22 – Rodney Dangerfield, American actor, comedian (d. 2004)
• November 23 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer, actor (d. 1960)
• November 24
  • John Lindsay, American lawyer, politician and Mayor of New York City (d. 2000)
  • John P. Yates, American politician (d. 2017)
• November 26 – Françoise Gilot, French painter, critic and author
• November 27 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1992)
• November 29 – Jackie Stallone, American astrologer, mother of Sylvester Stallone
• November 30 – Herman Ferdinandus Maria Münninghoff, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)

December

Roy Campanella

Steve Allen

• December 2 – Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)
• December 3
  • Phyllis Curtin, American soprano (d. 2016)
  • Madiha Yousri, Egyptian actress (d. 2018)
• December 4 – Deanna Durbin, Canadian singer (d. 2013)
• December 5
  • Alvy Moore, American actor (d. 1997)
  • Peter Hansen, American actor (d. 2017)
• December 6 – Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003)
• December 8 – Abdul Qadir al-Badri, Prime Minister of Libya (d. 2003)
• December 10 – John P. Fullam, American judge (d. 2018)
• December 11
  • Liz Smith, British actress (d. 2016)
  • Yang Side, Chinese general (d. 2018)
• December 14
  • Roy Campanella, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers), member of the MLB Hall of Fame (d. 1993)
  • Mike McCormack, American politician
• December 15 – Alan Freed, American disc jockey, known for introducing rock and roll to mainstream radio (d. 1965)
• December 17 – Anne Golon, French writer (d. 2017)
• December 18
  • Yuri Nikulin, Soviet/Russian actor, clown (d. 1997)
  • Renato Baldini, Italian actor (d. 1995)
• December 19 – Blaže Koneski, Macedonian poet, linguist (d. 1993)
• December 20 – Ali Kandil, Egyptian football referee
• December 21 – Luigi Creatore, American songwriter, record producer (d. 2015)
• December 22 – Maurice Girardot, French Olympic basketball player
• December 23 – Marge Callaghan, Canadian female professional baseball player
• December 26
  • Steve Allen, American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d. 2000)
  • John Severin, American comics artist (d. 2012)
• December 30 – Rashid Karami, 8-time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1987)
• December 31 – Maurice Yaméogo, President of Upper Volta (d. 1993)

Deaths

January–June

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

King Nicholas I of Montenegro

Eduardo Dato

Emile Combes

• January 1 – Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, 5th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
• January 18 – Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor (b. 1847)
• January 27 – Justiniano Borgoño, 37th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1836)
• January 29 – H. G. Haugan, Norwegian-born American railroad, banking executive (b. 1840)
• February 2
  • Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Italian Catholic cardinal and blessed (b. 1850)
  • Antonio Jacobsen, American maritime artist (b. 1850)
• February 7 – John J. Gardner, American politician (b. 1845)
• February 8
  • George Formby Snr, English entertainer (b. 1876)
  • Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842)
• February 22 – Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1863)
• February 26 – Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
• February 27 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
• March 1
  • King Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)
  • King Nikola I Petrovic-Njegos (b. 1841)
• March 3 – Auguste Mercier, French general, politician (b. 1833)
• March 8 – Eduardo Dato, Spanish politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1856) (assassinated)
• March 15 – Talaat Pasha, Ottoman Turkish ruler, initiator of the Armenian Genocide (b. 1874) (assassinated)
• March 29 – John Burroughs, American naturalist, essayist (b. 1837)
• April 1 – Edmund Poë, British admiral (b. 1849)
• April 11 – Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, last German Empress, wife of Wilhelm II, German Emperor (b. 1858)
• April 17 – Manwel Dimech, Maltese philosopher, social reformer (b. 1860)
• April 21 – Tom O'Brien, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1860)
• April 27 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
• May 5 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer, pacifist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
• May 9 – William Henry Chamberlin, American philosopher (b. 1870)
• May 12 – Emilia Pardo Bazán, Spanish writer (b. 1851)
• May 19
  • Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1845)
  • Michael Llewelyn Davies, one of the 'Lost Boys' for the Peter Pan book (b. 1900)
• May 25 – Émile Combes, French statesman, 69th Prime Minister of France (b. 1835)
• June 5 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
• June 11 – Patriarch Leonid of Georgia (b. 1860)
• June 18 – Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Uruguayan writer (b. 1851)
• June 26 – Alfred Percy Sinnett, British writer (b. 1840)
• June 28 – Gyorche Petrov, Macedonian, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1865) (assassinated)
• June 29
  • Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill (b. 1854)
  • Otto Seeck, German classical historian (b. 1850)

July–December

Enrico Caruso

Engelbert Humperdinck

John Boyd Dunlop

Hara Takashi

Camille Saint-Saens

• July 1 – Maurice Bailloud, French general (b. 1847)
• July 3 – Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
• July 13 – Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger-French physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• July 26 – Howard Vernon, Australian actor (b. 1848)
• August 2 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
• August 7 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (b. 1880)
• August 8 – Juhani Aho, Finnish author, journalist (b. 1861)
• August 16 – Peter I of Serbia, King of Yugoslavia (b. 1844)
• August 19 – Georges Darien, French writer (b. 1862)
• August 26 – Sándor Wekerle, 3-time Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848)
• August 31 – Karl von Bülow, German field marshal (b. 1846)
• September 2 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
• September 7 – Alfred William Rich, English watercolour painter (b. 1856)
• September 9
  • William Campbell, British missionary in Taiwan (b. 1841)
  • Virginia Rappe, American model, actress (b. 1895)
• September 10 – John Tengo Jabavu, editor of South Africa's first newspaper in Xhosa (b. 1859)
• September 11
  • Prince Louis of Battenberg, British naval officer, German prince (b. 1854)
  • Subramania Bharati, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
• September 17 – Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (b. 1847)
• September 27 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)
• October 2 – King William II of Wurttemberg (b. 1848)
• October 12 – Philander C. Knox, American politician (b. 1853)
• October 15 – Haydar Khan Amo-oghli, Iranian revolutionary (b. 1860)
• October 17 – Yaa Asantewaa, Asante warrior queen (b. c. 1840)
• October 18 – Ludwig III of Bavaria, last king of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• October 21 – William Wallace Wotherspoon, American general (b. 1850)
• October 23 – John Boyd Dunlop, British-born Irish inventor, veterinary surgeon (b. 1840)
• October 25 – Bat Masterson, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
• October 31 – William Egan, American gangster (b. 1884)
• November 4 – Hara Takashi, Japanese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1856) (assassinated)
• November 8 – Charles, 6th Prince of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, German nobleman (b. 1834)
• November 12 – Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter (b. 1858)
• November 14 – Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, daughter of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1846)
• November 20 – Christina Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1843)
• November 26
  • Charles Whittlesey, United States Army officer, commander of the "Lost Battalion" in World War I (suicide) (b. 1884)
  • Émile Cartailhac, French prehistorian (b. 1845)
• November 27 – Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1854)
• November 28 – `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian religious leader (b. 1844)
• November 30 – Madeleine Brès, French medical (b. 1842)
• December 10 – George Ashlin, Irish architect (b. 1837)
• December 12 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (b. 1868)
• December 16 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)
• December 20
  • Dmitri Parsky, Russian general (b. 1866)
  • Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist (b. 1852)
• December 31 – Boies Penrose, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (b. 1860)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Albert Einstein
• Chemistry – Frederick Soddy
• Medicine – (not awarded)
• Literature – Anatole France
• Peace – Karl Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lous Lange

References

Sources

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