1923

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1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1923rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 923rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 23rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1923, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was relegated that February to use only by churches after Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar.

Events

June

Main article: June 1923

June 9: Aleksandar Stamboliyski

• June 9 – A military coup in Bulgaria ousts prime minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski (he is killed June 14).
• June 12 – William Walton's Façade is performed for the first time, in London.
• June 13 – President Li Yuanhong of China abandons his residence, because a warlord has commanded forces to surround the mansion and cut off its water and electric supplies, in order to force him to abandon his post.
• June 16 – The storming of Ayan, Siberia concludes the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War.
• June 18 – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homeless.
• June 25 – FC Rapid București is formed, on the initiative of the Grivița railroad workers (first named CFR București).

August

Main article: August 1923

August 2: Calvin Coolidge is 30th President of the United States.

• August 2 – President Warren G. Harding dies of a heart attack, and is succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge, who becomes the 30th President of the United States.
• August 3 – President Calvin Coolidge is sworn in.
• August 13
  • The first major seagoing ship arrives at Gdynia, the newly constructed Polish seaport.
  • Gustav Stresemann is named Chancellor of Germany, and founds a coalition government for the Weimar Republic, where hyperinflation means that more than 4,600,000 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar.
• August 18 – The first British Track & Field championships for women are held in London.
• August 21 – Mexican Association football Club Necaxa is founded by engineer William H. Frasser.
• August 30 – Hurricane season begins, with a tropical storm northeast of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
• August 31 – The Italian navy occupies Corfu, in retaliation for the murder of an Italian officer. The League of Nations protests, and the occupation ends on September 30.

October

Main article: October 1923

Oct.29: Kemal Atatürk.

• October 1 – The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens to public traffic.
• October 2 – Küstrin Putsch: After two days of siege, Major Buchrucker and his men surrender.
• October 6 – The Occupation of Constantinople ends, when the great powers of World War I withdraw.
• October 13
  • Ankara replaces Istanbul (Constantinople), as the capital of Turkey.
  • The first recorded example, of a storm crossing from the Eastern Pacific into the Atlantic, occurs in Oaxaca.
• October 14 – The fourth tropical storm of the year forms just north of Panama.
• October 15 – The fifth tropical storm of the year forms north of the Leeward Islands.
• October 16
  • A sixth tropical storm develops in the Gulf of Mexico; a rare occurrence, it consists of four active tropical storms simultaneously.
  • Roy and Walt Disney found The Walt Disney Company.
• October 23 – Hamburg Uprising: In Germany, the Communists attempt a "putsch" in Hamburg, which results in street battles in that city for the next two days, when it ends unsuccessfully.
• October 27 – In Germany, General Hans von Seeckt orders the Reichswehr to dissolve the Social Democratic-Communist government of Saxony, which is refusing to accept the authority of the Reich government.
• October 28 – In Qajar Dynasty Persia, Reza Khan becomes Ahmad Shah Qajar's prime minister.
• October 29 – Turkey becomes a republic, following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire; Kemal Atatürk is elected as first president.
• October 30 – İsmet İnönü is appointed as the first prime minister of Turkey.

Births

January

Lee Teng-hui

Norman Mailer

• January 1
  • Domenico Tripodo, Italian criminal (d. 1976)
  • Valentina Cortese, Italian actress
  • Vulo Radev, Bulgarian film director (d. 2001)
  • Roméo Sabourin, Canadian World War II spy (d. 1944)
• January 2 – Abdel Aziz Mohamed Hegazy, 38th Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2014)
• January 3
  • Hank Stram, American football coach, broadcaster (d. 2005)
  • Renato Guatelli, Italian partisan (d. 1944)
• January 4
  • Ricardo C. Puno, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 2018)
  • Wilfred Waters, English Olympic cyclist
• January 5
  • Sam Phillips, American record producer (d. 2003)
  • Nat Neujean, Belgian sculptor (d. 2018)
• January 6
  • Norman Kirk, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1974)
  • Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
• January 7
  • Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
  • Jean Lucienbonnet, French racing driver (d. 1962)
• January 8
  • Larry Storch, American actor (F Troop)
  • Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
• January 11
  • Wright King, American actor
  • Paavo Lonkila, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2017)
  • Ernst Nolte, German historian (d. 2016)
• January 12 – Ira Hayes, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1955)
• January 15 – Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician, 4th President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the "father of Taiwan's democracy"
• January 16
  • Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
  • Walther Wever, German fighter ace (d. 1945)
  • Antonio Riboldi, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
• January 19 – Jean Stapleton, American actress (All In the Family) (d. 2013)
• January 20
  • Slim Whitman, American country western musician (d. 2013)
  • Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (d. 2015)
• January 22 – Diana Douglas, British-born American actress, mother of actor/producer Michael Douglas (d. 2015)
• January 23
  • Cot Deal, American major league baseball player, coach (d. 2013)
  • Stephanie Kwolek, Polish-born American inventor of "Kevlar fibers" (d. 2014)
  • Horace Ashenfelter, American athlete (d. 2018)
  • Silvano Campeggi, Italian film poster designer (d. 2018)
• January 25
  • Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten, Dutch economist (d. 2018)
  • Arvid Carlsson, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2018)
• January 26 – Anne Jeffreys, American actress, singer (d. 2017)
• January 29
  • Khir Johari, Malaysian politician (d. 2006)
  • Jack Burke Jr, American golfer
  • Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)
• January 31 – Norman Mailer, American writer, journalist (d. 2007)

February

Belisario Betancur

Franco Zeffirelli

Forbes Burnham

• February 1
  • Stig Mårtensson, Swedish racing cyclist (d. 2010)
  • Gena Turgel, Polish author, Holocaust survivor and educator (d. 2018)
• February 2
  • James Dickey, American poet, author (Deliverance) (d. 1997)
  • Red Schoendienst, American baseball player (d. 2018)
  • Liz Smith, American gossip columnist (d. 2017)
  • Clem Windsor, Australian rugby union player, surgeon (d. 2007)
• February 3 – Edith Barney, American female professional baseball player (d. 2010)
• February 4
  • Conrad Bain, Canadian-born actor (d. 2013)
  • Belisario Betancur, Colombian politician, 26th President of Colombia
• February 5 – Fatmawati, 1st First Lady of Indonesia (d. 1980)
• February 6 – George Pouliot, Canadian fencer
• February 7 – George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, first grandchild of King George V (d. 2011)
• February 8 – Urpo Korhonen, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2009)
• February 9 – Brendan Behan, Irish author (d. 1964)
• February 10
  • Allie Sherman, American professional football coach (d. 2015)
  • Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (d. 2010)
• February 11 – Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples, English politician
• February 12 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film, opera director
• February 13
  • Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003)
  • Chuck Yeager, American test pilot, NASA official
• February 16 – Samuel Willenberg, Polish-born Israeli sculptor, painter and last surviving member of the Treblinka extermination camp revolt (d. 2016)
• February 17 – Jun Fukuda, Japanese film director (d. 2000)
• February 20
  • Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guyana and 2nd President of Guyana (d. 1985)
  • Robert Lucy, Swiss gymnast
  • Victor Atiyeh, American politician (d. 2014)
• February 21
  • Wilbur R. Ingalls, Jr., American architect (d. 1997)
  • William Winter, American politician
• February 22 – Norman Smith, English singer, record producer (d. 2008)
• February 23
  • Mary Francis Shura, American writer (d. 1991)
  • Ioannis Grivas, Greek judge, politician and 176th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2016)
  • John van Hengel, American "Father of Food Banking" (d. 2005)
• February 24 – David Soyer, American cellist (d. 2010)
• February 27 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophone player, actor (d. 1990)
• February 28
  • Jean Carson, American actress (d. 2005)
  • Charles Durning, American actor (d. 2012)

March

Walter Kohn

Wally Schirra

Mae Young

Marcel Marceau

• March 2
  • Orrin Keepnews, American record producer (d. 2015)
  • Robert H. Michel, American Republican Party politician (d. 2017)
• March 3 – Doc Watson, American folk guitarist, songwriter (d. 2012)
• March 4
  • Piero D'Inzeo, Italian Olympic show jumping rider (d. 2014)
  • Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer, broadcaster (d. 2012)
• March 6
  • Ed McMahon, American television personality (d. 2009)
  • Wes Montgomery, African-American jazz musician (d. 1968)
• March 7 – Mahlon Clark, American musician (d. 2007)
• March 8 – Louk Hulsman, Dutch criminologist (d. 2009)
• March 9
  • James L. Buckley, American politician, United States Senator (1971–77)
  • Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2016)
• March 10 – Val Logsdon Fitch, American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
• March 11
  • Paul Muller, Swiss actor
  • Agatha Barbara, Maltese politician (d. 2002)
• March 12
  • Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed-skater (d. 2013)
  • Wally Schirra, American astronaut (d. 2007)
  • Mae Young, American wrestler (d. 2014)
• March 14
  • Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
  • Joe M. Jackson, American Medal of Honour recipient
  • Celeste Rodrigues, Portuguese singer (d. 2018)
• March 15
  • Willy Semmelrogge, German actor (d. 1984)
  • Lou Richards, Australian footballer (d. 2017)
• March 21
  • Rezső Nyers, Hungarian politician (d. 2018)
  • Olive Nicol, Baroness Nicol, British politician, life peer (d. 2018)
  • Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Canadian geographer, author and academic
  • Merle Keagle, American female professional baseball player (d. 1960)
  • Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga (d. 2011)
• March 22 – Marcel Marceau, world-renowned French mime (d. 2007)
• March 24
  • Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)
  • Michael Legat, English writer (d. 2011)
• March 25
  • Stefano Vetrano, Italian politician (d. 2018)
  • Bonnie Guitar, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
  • Lewis Elton, German-English physicist and researcher
  • Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
• March 26
  • Baba Hari Dass, Indian yoga master, silent monk, and commentator (d. 2018)
  • Romolo Catasta, Italian Olympic rower
  • Bob Elliott, American comedian (d. 2016)
• March 27
  • Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet (d. 2012)
  • Ulla Sallert, Swedish actress, singer (d. 2018)
• March 28
  • Thad Jones, American jazz musician (d. 1986)
  • Ine Schäffer, Austrian athlete
  • René Vuaillat, French engineer, inventor
• March 29 – Geoff Duke, British motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
• March 30
  • Milton Acorn, Canadian writer (d. 1986)
  • Fernand Schammel, Luxembourgish footballer (d. 1961)
• March 31 – Shoshana Damari, Yemenite-Israeli singer (d. 2006)

April

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu

Aaron Spelling

• April 2
  • Alice Haylett, American professional baseball player (d. 2004)
  • G. Spencer-Brown, British mathematician (d. 2016)
  • Gloria Henry, American actress
  • Johnny Paton, Scottish football player, coach and manager (d. 2015)
• April 4
  • Maximiano Tuazon Cruz, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2013)
  • Gene Reynolds, American actor
  • Peter Vaughan, English actor (d. 2016)
• April 5 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (d. 2001)
• April 8
  • George Fisher, American political cartoonist (d. 2003)
  • Edward Mulhare, Irish-born American actor (d. 1997)
• April 10 – John Watkins, South African cricketer
• April 13 – Don Adams, American actor, comedian (Get Smart) (d. 2005)
• April 14
  • Lydia Clarke, American actress, photographer (d. 2018)
  • Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentine professional golfer, winner of the 1967 Open Championship (d. 2017)
• April 15 – Douglas Wass, British civil servant (d. 2017)
• April 17 – Étienne Bally, French sprinter (d. 2018)
• April 20
  • Mother Angelica, American nun, founder of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) (d. 2016)
  • Irene Lieblich, Polish-born painter (d. 2008)
• April 22
  • Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, English/Canadian geologist and glaciologist (d. 2012)
  • Bettie Page, American model (d. 2008)
  • Paula Fox, American writer (d. 2017)
  • Aaron Spelling, American television producer, writer (d. 2006)
• April 23 – Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas (d. 2010)
• April 24 – Bülent Ulusu, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2015)
• April 25
  • Francis Graham-Smith, English astronomer, academic
  • Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
  • Grant Munro, Canadian animator, filmmaker and actor (d. 2017)
• April 30
  • Al Lewis, American actor (The Munsters) (d. 2006)
  • Francis Tucker, South African rally driver (d. 2008)

May

Sergey Akhromeyev

Anne Baxter

Heydar Aliyev

Horst Tappert

Henry Kissinger

• May 1
  • Frank Brian, American basketball player (d. 2017)
  • Fernando Cabrita, Portuguese football forward, manager (d. 2014)
  • Joseph Heller, American novelist (Catch-22) (d. 1999)
  • Billy Steel, Scottish footballer (d. 1982)
• May 2 – Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland (d. 2008)
• May 3
  • Francesco Paolo Bonifacio, Italian politician and jurist (d. 1989)
  • Ralph Hall, American politician
  • Alexander Harvey II, American judge (d. 2017)
• May 4
  • Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer, musician, conductor, poet and author (d. 1986)
  • Eric Sykes, English actor (d. 2012)
• May 5
  • Konrad Repgen, German historian (d. 2017)
  • Edit Perényi-Weckinger, Hungarian gymnast
  • Richard Wollheim, English philosopher (d. 2003)
  • Sergey Akhromeyev, Soviet marshall, former Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (d. 1991)
• May 6
  • Josep Seguer, Spanish football defender, manager (d. 2014)
  • Elizabeth Sellars, Scottish actress
• May 7
  • Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985)
  • Jim Lowe, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
  • J. Mack Robinson, American businessman (d. 2014)
• May 8 – Yusof Rawa, Malaysian politician (d. 2000)
• May 10 – Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan (1993–2003) (d. 2003)
• May 11 – Louise Arnold, American baseball player (d. 2010)
• May 13 – Ruth Adler Schnee, German-American textile, interior designer
• May 14
  • Willis Blair, Canadian politician (d. 2014)
  • Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi Foreign Minister
  • Mrinal Sen, Indian filmmaker
• May 15
  • Doris Dowling, American actress (d. 2004)
  • John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)
  • Gholamreza Pahlavi, Persian prince (d. 2017)
• May 16 – Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• May 17
  • Anthony Eyton, English painter, educator
  • Peter Mennin, American composer, teacher and administrator (d. 1983)
  • David Wasawo, Kenyan zoologist, conservationist, and university administrator (d. 2014)
• May 18 – Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2004)
• May 20 – Israel Gutman, Israeli historian (d. 2013)
• May 21
  • Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
  • Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (d. 2002)
  • Ara Parseghian, American football coach (d. 2017)
  • Evelyn Ward, American actress (d. 2012)
• May 22 – Aline Griffith, Dowager Countess of Romanones, Spanish-American cipher clerk, aristocrat, socialite and writer (d. 2017)
• May 23 – Kalidas Shrestha, Nepalese artist (d. 2016)
• May 24
  • Knut Ahnlund, Swedish literary historian, writer (d. 2012)
  • Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker, actor and screenwriter (d. 2017)
• May 25 – Bernard Koura, French painter (d. 2018)
• May 26
  • James Arness, American actor (Gunsmoke) (d. 2011)
  • Roy Dotrice, English actor (d. 2017)
  • Horst Tappert, German television actor (d. 2008)
• May 27
  • Henry Kissinger, German-born United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
  • Sumner Redstone, American businessman
  • Alfonso Wong, Hong Kong cartoonist (d. 2017)
• May 28
  • György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)
  • N. T. Rama Rao, Indian (Telugu) film actor, politician (d. 1996)
  • T. M. Thiagarajan, Carnatic musicologist from Tamil Nadu in Southern India (d. 2007)
• May 29 – Eugene Wright, American jazz bassist
• May 30 – Jimmy Lydon, American actor, producer
• May 31
  • Robert O. Becker, American orthopedic surgeon (d. 2008)
  • Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (d. 2015)
  • Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005)

June

Lloyd Shapley

Ninian Stephen

Andrés Rodríguez

• June 2
  • Ted Leehane, Australian rules footballer (d. 2014)
  • Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician, economist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
• June 3 – Peter Thorne, British Royal Air Force pilot (d. 2014)
• June 4
  • Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (d. 2007)
  • Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Japanese princess
• June 5 – Peggy Stewart, American actress
• June 6
  • V. C. Andrews, American novelist (d. 1996)
  • Jeff Dwire, American small businessman (d. 1974)
• June 7
  • Jean Baratte, French international footballer, striker and manager (d. 1986)
  • Giorgio Belladonna, Italian bridge player, one of the greatest of all time (d. 1995)
• June 8 – Tang Hsiang Chien, Hong Kong industrialist (d. 2018)
• June 9
  • Gerald Götting, German politician (d. 2015)
  • I. H. Latif, Indian military officer (d. 2018)
• June 10
  • Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (d. 1991)
  • Madeleine Lebeau, French actress (d. 2016)
• June 11 – Bernard F. Grabowski, American politician
• June 12
  • Herta Elviste, Estonian actress (d. 2015)
  • Juan Arza, Spanish football forward, manager (d. 2011)
• June 13 – Lloyd Conover, American scientist (d. 2017)
• June 14
  • Jack Hayward, English businessman (d. 2014)
  • Judith Kerr, English writer, illustrator
  • Donald Smith, English cricketer
• June 15
  • Herbert Chitepo, Zimbabwe African National Union leader (d. 1975)
  • Johnny Most, American basketball radio announcer (d. 1993)
  • Ninian Stephen, 20th Governor-General of Australia (d. 2017)
• June 17
  • Arnold S. Relman, American internist (d. 2014)
  • Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop (d. 1976)
  • W. M. Gorman, Irish economist, academic (d. 2003)
  • William G. Adams, 9th mayor of St. John's, member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly (d. 2005)
  • Anthony Bevilacqua, American Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2012)
  • Jan Veselý, Czech cyclist (d. 2003)
• June 18 – Szymon Szurmiej, Polish-Jewish actor, director, and general manager (d. 2014)
• June 19 – Andrés Rodríguez, 47th President of Paraguay (d. 1997)
• June 20 – Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, Danish actor (d. 1998)
• June 21 – Johann Eyfells, Icelandic Master of Fine Arts
• June 22
  • John Oldham, American college player, athletic director and basketball coach
  • Barbara Perry, American actress, singer and dancer
  • Felo Ramírez, Cuban-American Spanish-language radio voice of the Miami Marlins (d. 2017)
• June 23
  • Silkirtis Nichols, Native American Indian actor
  • André Antunes, Portuguese sports shooter
  • Doris Johnson, American politician
  • Makhmut Gareev, Russian general
  • Jerry Rullo, American professional basketball player (d. 2016)
  • Mario Milita, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2017)
  • Ranasinghe Premadasa, Sri Lanka statesman, 3rd President of Sri Lanka (d. 1993)
  • John E. Sarno, American medical writer (d. 2017)
• June 24
  • Yves Bonnefoy, French poet, art historian (d. 2016)
  • Cesare Romiti, Italian economist
  • T-Model Ford, African-American blues musician (d. 2013)
• June 25
  • Stan Clements, English footballer
  • Vatroslav Mimica, Croatian film director, screenwriter
  • Jamshid Amouzegar, 43rd Prime Minister of Iran (d. 2016)
  • Doug Everingham, Australian politician, minister (d. 2017)
  • Sam Francis, American painter (d. 1994)
• June 26
  • Ed Bearss, American World War II veteran
  • Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince (d. 2013)
• June 27
  • Beth Chatto, British plantswoman, garden designer and author (d. 2018)
  • Mitchell Flint, American lawyer, veteran aviator (d. 2017)
  • Gus Zernial, American baseball player, sports commentator (d. 2011)
• June 28
  • Giff Roux, American basketball player (d. 2011)
  • Gaye Stewart, Canadian ice hockey forward (d. 2010)
  • Daniil Khrabrovitsky, Soviet film director (d. 1980)
• June 29
  • Alfred Goodwin, senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer, educator
  • Olav Thon, Norwegian real estate magnate
• June 30
  • Andy Jack, English footballer
  • Ivo Orlandi, Venezuelan sports shooter
  • Gad Beck, Israeli-German educator, author, activist and Holocaust survivor (d. 2012)

July

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Harrison Dillard

• July 1
  • Scotty Bowers, American Marine, author
  • Herman Chernoff, American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist
• July 2
  • Constantin Dăscălescu, 52nd Prime Minister of Romania (d. 2003)
  • Wisława Szymborska, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• July 3
  • Hugo Machado, Uruguayan cyclist
  • Felipe Zetter, Mexican football defender (d. 2013)
• July 4
  • Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2013)
  • George Mostow, American mathematician, renowned for his contributions to Lie theory (d. 2017)
• July 5
  • Mitsuye Yamada, Japanese-American activist, feminist, essayist, poet, story writer, editor, and former English professor
  • Hermann Gummel, German semiconductor industry pioneer
• July 6 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish Communist politician, 8th Prime Minister of Poland and President of Poland (d. 2014)
• July 7
  • Chandrashekhar, Indian film actor
  • Whitney North Seymour, Jr., American administrator
  • Leonardo Ferrel, Bolivian football player (d. unknown)
  • Kitty White, American jazz singer (d. 2009)
• July 8
  • Harrison Dillard, American athlete
  • Jeanine Collard, French singer
  • Ivor Germain, Barbadian professional light/welterweight boxer
  • Eric Hill, English cricketer (d. 2010)
• July 9 – Jill Knight, British politician
• July 10
  • Mátyás Tímár, Hungarian politician, economist
  • Rudolf Kehrer, Soviet, Russian classical pianist (d. 2013)
  • John Bradley, U.S. Navy flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1994)
• July 11
  • Roy Neighbors, American politician (d. 2017)
  • Richard Pipes, Polish-American academic who specialized in Russian history (d. 2018)
  • Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, Brazilian football player (d. 2010)
  • Gilbert Morand, French non-commissioned officer, skier (d. 2008)
• July 12
  • Eve Branson, British philanthropist, child welfare advocate, and mother of Richard Branson
  • James E. Gunn, American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist
  • Francisco Castro, Puerto Rican long jumper, triple jumper
  • Freddie Fields, American theatrical agent, film producer (d. 2007)
• July 13
  • Erich Lessing, Austrian photographer
  • Shmuel Laviv-Lubin, Israeli sports shooter
  • Alexandre Astruc, French film critic, director (d. 2016)
  • Norma Zimmer, American singer (d. 2011)
• July 14
  • María Martín, Spanish actress
  • Dale Robertson, American actor (d. 2013)
• July 15 – Francisco de Andrade, Portuguese competitive sailor, Olympic medalist
• July 16
  • Mari Evans, African-American poet (d. 2017)
  • Len Okrie, American catcher (d. 2018)
  • Chris Argyris, American business theorist (d. 2013)
  • Giuseppe Madini, Italian professional football player
• July 18
  • Michael Medwin, English actor
  • Maria Pacôme, French actress, playwright
  • Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (d. 1997)
• July 19 – José Moës, Belgian footballer (d. 2016)
• July 20
  • James Bree, British actor (d. 2008)
  • Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist, journalist (d. 2005)
  • Elisabeth Becker, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
• July 21
  • Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Walter Brenner, American professor
• July 22
  • Anthony Enahoro, Nigerian politician (d. 2010)
  • Bob Dole, American Republican politician, Presidential candidate
  • The Fabulous Moolah, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
  • Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
• July 23
  • Witto Aloma, Cuban Major League Baseball player (d. 1997)
  • Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist (d. 2018)
• July 24 – Albert Vanhoye, French cardinal
• July 25 – Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
• July 28 – H. S. S. Lawrence, Indian educator (d. 2009)
• July 29
  • Jim Marshall, British founder of Marshall Amplification (d. 2012)
  • Edgar Cortright, American scientist, engineer (d. 2014)
• July 31
  • Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist noted for inventing Kevlar (d. 2014)
  • Jean-Jacques Moreau, French mathematician, mechanician (d. 2014)
  • William Joseph Nealon Jr., American judge (d. 2018)

August

Shimon Peres

Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

Rhonda Fleming

• August 1 – Val Bettin, American actor
• August 2 – Shimon Peres, 8th Prime Minister of Israel, 9th President of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2016)
• August 3
  • Jean Hagen, American actress (d. 1977)
  • Anne Klein, American fashion designer (d. 1974)
  • Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria (d. 2012)
• August 4
  • Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy, American judge (d. 2014)
  • Santiago Riveros, Argentine general
• August 5
  • Sir Michael Kerry, QC, British civil servant, Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor (d. 2012)
  • Devan Nair, third President of Singapore (d. 2005)
• August 6
  • Paul Hellyer, Canadian engineer, politician
  • Moira Lister, Anglo-South African film, stage and television actress (d. 2007)
  • Jack Parnell, English producer, bandleader and musician (d. 2010)
• August 8
  • Eve Miller, American actress (d. 1973)
  • Latifa al-Zayyat, Egyptian activist, writer (d. 1996)
• August 10
  • David H. Rodgers, American politician (d. 2017)
  • Rhonda Fleming, American actress
  • Iosif Fabian, Romanian football striker, coach (d. 2008)
  • Fred Ridgway, English cricketer (d. 2015)
• August 14 – Kuldip Nayar, Indian journalist, human rights activist and politician (d. 2018)
• August 15 – Rose Marie, American actress (d. 2017)
• August 16 – Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian cartoonist, playwright (d. 2012)
• August 17 – Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan artist
• August 19
  • Dill Jones, Welsh jazz stride pianist (d. 1984)
  • Esmeralda Agoglia, Argentinian ballerina (d. 2014)
• August 20 – Jim Reeves, American country singer (d. 1964)
• August 21 – Larry Grayson, English comedian, game show host (d. 1995)
• August 22 – Carolina Slim, American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist (d. 1953)
• August 23
  • Henry F. Warner, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1944)
  • Siti Hartinah, First Lady of Indonesia (d. 1996)
• August 24 – Arthur Jensen, American educational psychologist (d. 2012)
• August 25 – Luis Abanto Morales, Peruvian singer, composer (d. 2017)
• August 26 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor, pianist (d. 2013)
• August 27 – Hun Neang, father of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (d. 2013)
• August 28 – Andrea Veggio, Italian Roman Catholic bishop
• August 29
  • Sir Richard Attenborough, English actor, film director (d. 2014)
  • Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, chairman of the BBC (d. 2006)
• August 30
  • Joseph Lawson Howze, American Roman Catholic bishop
  • Giacomo Rondinella, Italian singer, actor (d. 2015)
  • Vic Seixas, American tennis player

September

Ramón Valdés

Lee Kuan Yew

Hank Williams

Queen Anne of Romania

• September 1
  • Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
  • Kenneth Thomson, Canadian businessman, art collector (d. 2006)
• September 2 – Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor, Don Ramón in El Chavo del Ocho (d. 2018)
• September 3
  • Glen Bell, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell (d. 2010)
  • Mort Walker, American cartoonist, creator of Beetle Bailey (d. 2018)
• September 4
  • Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani banker, writer and humorist (d. 2018)
  • Ram Kishore Shukla, Indian politician (d. 2003)
  • Mirko Ellis, Swiss-Italian actor (d. 2014)
• September 6
  • Eloy Tato Losada, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop
  • King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
• September 7
  • Madeleine Dring, British composer, actress (d. 1977)
  • Peter Lawford, English actor (d. 1984)
• September 8 – Joy Laville, English-Mexican sculptor, potter and painter (d. 2018)
• September 9
  • Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)
  • Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
• September 10 – Uri Avnery, Israeli writer (d. 2018)
• September 11 – Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer (d. 1984)
• September 12 – Joe Shulman, American jazz bassist (d. 1957)
• September 13 – Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Soviet partisan (d. 1941)
• September 16 – Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2015)
• September 17 – Hank Williams, American country musician (d. 1953)
• September 18
  • Al Quie, American politician
  • Queen Anne of Romania, born Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, French-born queen consort (d. 2016)
• September 20 – Geraldine Clinton Little, Northern Ireland-born poet (d. 1997)
• September 21
  • Luba Skořepová, Czech actress (d. 2016)
  • Linwood Holton, American politician
• September 22 – Dannie Abse, Welsh poet (d. 2014)
• September 23 – Basil Feldman, Baron Feldman, English politician
• September 24
  • Li Yuan-tsu, Taiwanese politician (d. 2017)
  • Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
• September 26
  • Dev Anand, Indian actor, film producer, writer and director (d. 2011)
  • Aleksandr Alov, Soviet film director, screenwriter (d. 1983)
  • James Hennessy, English businessman and diplomat
• September 27 – James Condon, Australian actor (d. 2014)
• September 28 – Giuseppe Casale, Italian Roman Catholic bishop
• September 30 – Donald Swann, Welsh composer (d. 1994)

October

Charlton Heston

Linda Darnell

Roy Lichtenstein

• October 1 – Babe McCarthy, American professional and collegiate basketball coach (d. 1975)
• October 2
  • Eugenio Cruz Vargas, Chilean poet, painter (d. 2014)
  • Absalón Castellanos Domínguez, Mexican politician (d. 2017)
  • Shih Chun-jen, Taiwanese neurosurgeon (d. 2017)
  • Hershel W. Williams, American Medal of Honour recipient
• October 3
  • Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
  • Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Polish-born orchestral conductor (d. 2017)
• October 4
  • Charlton Heston, American actor (The Ten Commandments) (d. 2008)
  • Charles Lazarus, American businessman, founder of Toys "R" Us (d. 2018)
• October 5
  • Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic football player, politician (d. 1994)
  • Glynis Johns, South African-born Welsh actress
  • Ricardo Lavié, Argentine actor (d. 2010)
• October 6
  • Robert Kuok, Malaysian-Chinese business magnate, investor
  • Emmett Hulcy Tidd, American military officer (d. 2018)
  • Yasar Kemal, Turkish writer (d. 2015)
• October 7 – Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard, war criminal (executed 1945)
• October 9 – Haim Gouri, Israeli poet (d. 2018)
• October 10
  • James "Jabby" Jabara, American aviator, first American jet fighter ace (d. 1966)
  • Nicholas Parsons, English television and radio presenter
  • Murray Walker, British motor racing commentator
  • Asri Muda, Malaysian politician (d. 1992)
• October 13
  • Les Pearce, Welsh rugby league player, coach (d. 2018)
  • Faas Wilkes, Dutch football (soccer) player (d. 2006)
• October 15 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (d. 1985)
• October 16 – Linda Darnell, American actress (d. 1965)
• October 17
  • Henryk Gulbinowicz, Polish cardinal
  • Charles McClendon, American Hall of Fame college football coach (d. 2001)
• October 19 – Beatrix Hamburg, American psychiatrist (d. 2018)
• October 20 – Otfried Preußler, German children's books author (d. 2013)
• October 23 – Frank Sutton, American actor (d. 1974)
• October 24
  • Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster (d. 2000)
  • Denise Levertov, British-born American poet (d. 1997)
• October 25
  • J. Esmonde Barry, Canadian healthcare activist, political commentator (d. 2007)
  • Achille Silvestrini, Italian cardinal
• October 27 – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (d. 1997)
• October 29
  • Carl Djerassi, American chemist (d. 2015)
  • Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete (d. 2015)
  • Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles Crabbe, Ghanaian judge (d. 2018)

November

Alan Shepard

Nadine Gordimer

Mauno Koivisto

• November 1
  • Victoria de los Ángeles, Catalan soprano (d. 2005)
  • Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author (d. 2001)
  • James Ramsden, English politician
• November 2 – Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball player, coach (d. 2011)
• November 3 – Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1990)
• November 4 – John Herbers, American journalist, author, editor, World War II veteran, and Pulitzer Prize finalist (d. 2017)
• November 5
  • Rudolf Augstein, German journalist, founder and part-owner of German magazine Der Spiegel (d. 2002)
  • Kay Lionikas, Greek-American female professional baseball player (d. 1978)
• November 8
  • Yisrael Friedman, Romanian-born Israeli rabbi (d. 2017)
  • Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2005)
• November 9 – Elizabeth Hawley, American journalist (d. 2018)
• November 11
  • P. K. van der Byl, Rhodesian politician (d. 1999)
  • William P. Murphy Jr., American medical doctor and inventor
• November 12 – Vicco von Bülow, German actor (d. 2011)
• November 13 – Linda Christian, Mexican film actress (d. 2011)
• November 14
  • Cleyde Yáconis, Brazilian actress (d. 2013)
  • Misael Pastrana Borrero, 23rd President of Colombia (d. 1997)
• November 15
  • Michael Lapage, English rower (d. 2018)
  • Fred Richmond, American politician
• November 17 – Aristides Maria Pereira, President of Cape Verde (d. 2011)
• November 18 – Alan Shepard, first American astronaut, fifth person to walk on the moon (d. 1998)
• November 20 – Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
• November 22
  • Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director (d. 2016)
  • Tu An, Chinese poet, translator (d. 2017)
• November 23
  • Billy Haughton, American harness driver, trainer (d. 1986)
  • Julien J. LeBourgeois, American vice admiral (d. 2012)
  • Gloria Whelan, American poet, short story writer, and novelist
  • Keiju Kobayashi, Japanese actor (d. 2010)
• November 24 – Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, former Acting President of Venezuela (d. 2017)
• November 25 – Mauno Koivisto, 2-Time Prime Minister of Finland and 9th President of Finland (d. 2017)
• November 26 – Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
• November 28 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)

December

Dick Shawn

Stansfield Turner

Ted Knight

Bob Barker

• December 1
  • Dick Shawn, American actor (d. 1987)
  • William F. House, American otologist, inventor of the Cochlear implant (d. 2012)
  • Stansfield Turner, American admiral, Director of Central Intelligence (d. 2018)
• December 2 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
• December 3
  • Dede Allen, American film editor (Bonnie and Clyde) (d. 2010)
  • Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav football player (d. 2010)
  • Moyra Fraser, British actress (d. 2009)
  • Abe Pollin, American sports owner (d. 2009)
• December 5
  • Eleanor Dapkus, American female professional baseball player (d. 2011)
  • Philip Slier, Dutch Jewish typesetter (d. 1943)
• December 7 – Ted Knight, American actor (d. 1986)
• December 8 – Dewey Martin, American actor
• December 10 – Harold Gould, American character actor (d. 2010)
• December 11
  • Betsy Blair, American film actress (d. 2009)
  • Farhang Mehr, Iranian-born American Zoroastrian scholar, writer (d. 2018)
• December 12 – Bob Barker, American game show host (The Price Is Right)
• December 13
  • Alfonso Osorio, Spanish politician (d. 2018)
  • Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Larry Doby, African-American baseball player (d. 2003)
  • Antoni Tàpies, Catalan painter (d. 2012)
• December 14
  • Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (d. 2006)
  • Sully Boyar, American actor (d. 2001)
• December 15
  • Aishah Ghani, Malaysian politician (d. 2013)
  • Freeman Dyson, English-born physicist
• December 16 – Jo-Carroll Dennison, American actress, former Miss America
• December 17 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (d. 2006)
• December 18
  • Edwin Bramall, retired British Army officer
  • Émile Knecht, Swiss Olympic rower
• December 19 – Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
• December 20 – Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Sri Lankan novelist (d. 2018)
• December 23
  • TL Osborn, American televangelist, singer and author (d. 2013)
  • José Serra Gil, Spanish racing cyclist (d. 2002)
  • James Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral, vice presidential candidate (d. 2005)
• December 24 – George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
• December 25
  • Luis Álamos, Chilean football manager (d. 1983)
  • Sonya Olschanezky, World War II heroine (d. 1944)
  • Satyananda Saraswati, Indian founder of Satyananda Yoga and Bihar Yoga (d. 2009)
  • René Girard, French-American historian (d. 2015)
  • Billy Watson, American child actor
• December 26
  • Richard A. Teague, American industrial designer (d. 1991)
  • Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator and sculptor (d. 2013)
• December 27 – Lucas Mangope, President of Bophuthatswana Bantustan (d. 2018)
• December 28 – Louis Lansana Beavogui, Guinean politician (d. 1984)
• December 29
  • Dina Merrill, American actress, heiress, socialite, and philanthropist (d. 2017)
  • Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician (d. 1986)

Deaths

January–June

King Constantine I of Greece

Alexandre Ribot

Columba Marmion

Prince Fushimi Sadanaru

Wilhelm Röntgen

Józef Bilczewski

Sarah Bernhardt

Konstantin Budkevich

Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa

Madre Teresa Nuzzo

Charles de Freycinet

Filippo Smaldone

Aleksandar Stamboliyski

Alexis-Xyste Bernard

• January 1 – Willie Keeler, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1872)
• January 2
  • Thomas Bavister, British-born Australian (b. 1850)
  • Girolamo Caruso, Italian agronomist, teacher (b. 1842)
• January 3 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech writer (b. 1883)
• January 8 – Shimamura Hayao, Japanese admiral (b. 1858)
• January 9
  • Katherine Mansfield, British novelist (b. 1888)
  • Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, British couple hanged for murder (Thompson b. 1893, Bywaters b. 1902)
• January 11 – King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
• January 12 – Herbert Silberer, Austrian psychoanalyst (b. 1882)
• January 13 – Alexandre Ribot, French statesman, Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)
• January 16 – Abdul Kerim Pasha, Ottoman general (b. 1872)
• January 18 – Wallace Reid, American actor (b. 1891)
• January 19 – Amalia Eriksson, Swedish businesswoman (b. 1824)
• January 23 – Max Nordau, Hungarian author, philosopher and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
• January 27 – Carolina Santocanale, Italian Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1852)
• January 30 – Columba Marmion, Irish Benedictine and Roman Catholic monk and blessed (b. 1858)
• January 31 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish artist, political activist and assassin (executed) (b. 1869)
• February 1
  • Ernst Troeltsch, German theologian (b. 1865)
  • Luigi Variara, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1875)
• February 3 – Count Kuroki Tamemoto, Japanese general (b. 1844)
• February 4
  • Prince Fushimi Sadanaru of Japan (b. 1858)
  • Giuseppe Antonio Ermenegildo Prisco, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1833)
• February 5 – Count Erich Kielmansegg, former Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1847)
• February 6
  • Edward Emerson Barnard, American astronomer (b. 1857)
  • Gerdt von Bassewitz, Prussian general, playwright and actor (b. 1878)
• February 10 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• February 14 – Bartolomeo Bacilieri, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1842)
• February 19 – Gerónimo Giménez, Spanish conductor, composer (b. 1854)
• February 21 – Prince Miguel, Duke of Viseu (b. 1878)
• February 22
  • Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)
  • Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1853)
• February 24 – Edward W. Morley, American physicist, chemist (b. 1838)
• February 26 – Walter B. Barrows, American naturalist (b. 1855)
• March 1 – Rui Barbosa, Brazilian polymath, diplomat, writer, jurist and politician (b. 1849)
• March 3 – Melancthon J. Briggs, American lawyer, politician (b. 1846)
• March 6 – Joseph McDermott, American actor (b. 1878)
• March 8
  • Pascual Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1861)
  • Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• March 11 – Júlia da Silva Bruhns, Brazilian merchant (b. 1851)
• March 15 – Goat Anderson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
• March 16 – George Bean, English cricketer (b. 1864)
• March 20 – Józef Bilczewski, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, saint (b. 1860)
• March 25 – Inokuchi Ariya, Japanese technologist, professor (b. 1856)
• March 26 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844)
• March 27 – Sir James Dewar, British chemist (b. 1842)
• March 28 – Michel-Joseph Maunoury, French general (b. 1847)
• March 31 – Konstantin Budkevich, Soviet Roman Catholic priest and servant of God (executed) (b. 1867)
• April 1 – Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa of Japan (b. 1887)
• April 4 – John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834)
• April 5 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, British financier of Egyptian excavations (b. 1866)
• April 16 – Isidore Jacques Eggermont, Belgian diplomat (b. 1844)
• April 17 – Madre Teresa Nuzzo, Maltese Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1851)
• April 22 – Frank Baldwin, American general (b. 1842)
• April 23
  • Mary Cynthia Dickerson, American herpetologist (b. 1866)
  • Princess Louise of Prussia (b. 1838)
• April 24 – William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1876)
• May 2 – Alfred Harding, American Episcopal bishop (b. 1852)
• May 5 – Rosario de Acuña, Spanish author (b. 1850)
• May 9 – Constantin Cristescu, Romanian general (b. 1866)
• May 10 – Charles de Freycinet, French statesman, Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
• May 17
  • Manuel Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar, Spanish nobleman, politician, and Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1856)
  • Thomas Scott Baldwin, American balloonis, general (b. 1854)
  • Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg (b. 1852)
• May 21
  • Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist (b. 1861)
  • Charles Kent, British actor (b. 1852)
• May 23 – Nicola Barbato, Italian doctor, socialist and politician (b. 1856)
• May 29 – Albert Deullin, French flying ace of World War I (b. 1890)
• June 4
  • Alexander Milne Calder, Scottish-born American sculptor (b. 1846)
  • Filippo Smaldone, Italian Roman Catholic priest, saint (b. 1848)
• June 5 – Carl von Horn, German general (b. 1847)
• June 9
  • Takeo Arishima, Japanese novelist, writer and essayist (b. 1878)
  • Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, third daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1846)
• June 10 – Pierre Loti, French writer, naval officer (b. 1850)
• June 12 – Kate Bishop, English actress (b. 1848)
• June 14
  • Isabelle Bogelot, French philanthropist (b. 1838)
  • Aleksandar Stamboliyski, 20th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (assassinated) (b. 1879)
• June 17 – Alexis-Xyste Bernard, Canadian Catholic bishop (b. 1847)
• June 18 – Hristo Smirnenski, Bulgarian poet (b. 1898)
• June 20 – Princess Marie of Battenberg (b. 1852)
• June 23 – Keiichi Aichi, Japanese physicist (b. 1880)
• June 24 – Edith Södergran, Finnish author (b. 1892)

July–December

James Ryan

Charles Dupuy

Warren G. Harding

Kato Tomosaburo

Pedro José Escalón

Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca

Stephanos Dragoumis

Saint Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares

Andrés Avelino Cáceres

Diego Manuel Chamorro

Stojan Protić

Bonar Law

Gustave Eiffel

• July 2 – James Ryan, Irish-born American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1848)
• July 10 – Albert Chevalier, British music hall comedian (b. 1861)
• July 12 – Ernst Otto Beckmann, German pharmacist, chemist (b. 1853)
• July 15 – Janey Sevilla Callander, British producer (b. 1846)
• July 19 – Auguste Bouché-Leclercq, French historian (b. 1842)
• July 20 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (assassinated) (b. 1878)
• July 23
  • Charles Dupuy, French statesman, Prime Minister of France (b. 1851)
  • Theodor Rosetti, 16th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1837)
• July 30 – Charles Hawtrey, British actor (b. 1858)
• August 1 – Pierre Brizon, French teacher, deputy and pacifist (b. 1878)
• August 2 – Warren G. Harding, American politician, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
• August 9 – Victor II, Duke of Ratibor (b. 1847)
• August 10 – Joaquín Sorolla, Spanish painter (b. 1863)
• August 23
  • Ernest Francis Bashford, British oncologist (b. 1873)
  • Henry C. Mustin, American naval aviation pioneer (b. 1874)
• August 24 – Katō Tomosaburō, Imperial Japanese Navy officer, 12th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1861)
• August 27 – Edward Hill, American painter (b. 1843)
• August 29 – Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark (b. 1878)
• September 6 – Pedro José Escalón, Salvadorian military officer, 21st President of El Salvador (b. 1847)
• September 9 – Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca, Brazilian soldier and politician, 8th President of Brazil (b. 1855)
• September 14 – Nemesio Canales, Puerto Rican essayist, novelist, playwright, journalist, activist and politician (b. 1878)
• September 17 – Stefanos Dragoumis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1842)
• September 19 – Sophus Andersen, Danish composer (b. 1859)
• September 23
  • Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares, Indian Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1836)
  • Carl L. Boeckmann, Norwegian-born American artist (b. 1867)
  • John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, British politician, editor (b. 1838)
• September 25 – Elbazduko Britayev, Russian playwright, author (b. 1881)
• September 26 – Luigi Tezza, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1841)
• October 9 – Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
• October 10
  • Herman Gottfried Breijer, Dutch-born South African naturalist, museologist (b. 1864)
  • Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Peruvian general, 3-time President of Peru (b. 1836)
• October 12 – Diego Manuel Chamorro, 14th President of Nicaragua (b. 1861)
• October 23
  • Hannah Johnston Bailey, American temperance advocate, suffragist (b. 1839)
  • Félix Fourdrain, French organist, composer (b. 1880)
• October 28
  • Theodor Reuss, German occultist (b. 1855)
  • Stojan Protić, Yugoslav statesman and writer, 1st Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1857)
• October 30 – Bonar Law, British politician, 52nd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
• November 9 (among those killed in Munich Beer Hall Putsch):
  • Oskar Körner, German businessman (b. 1875)
  • Karl Laforce, German student (b. 1904)
  • Ludwig Maximilian Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, German diplomat, revolutionary (b. 1884)
• November 10 – Ricciotto Canudo, Italian theoretcian (b. 1877)
• November 14 – Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (b. 1845)
• November 15 – Mohammad Yaqub Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1849)
• November 21 – Lars Emil Bruun, Danish grocer, numismatist (b. 1852)
• November 30 – Martha Mansfield, American actress (b. 1899)
• December 2 – Tomás Bretón, Spanish composer (b. 1850)
• December 4 – Maurice Barres, French novelist, journalist and politician (b. 1862)
• December 8 – John William Brodie-Innes, British member of Golden Dawn (b. 1848)
• December 9 – Meggie Albanesi, British actress (b. 1899)
• December 12 – Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903)
• December 13 – Théophile Steinlen, Swiss painter (b. 1859)
• December 14 – Giuseppe Gallignani, Italian composer, conductor and teacher (b. 1851)
• December 22 – Georg Luger, German firearms designer (b. 1849)
• December 25 – William Ludwig, Irish opera singer (b. 1847)
• December 26 – Rafael Valentín Errázuriz, Chilean politician, diplomat (b. 1861)
• December 27
  • Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, architect (Eiffel Tower) (b. 1832)
  • Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Spanish architect (b. 1850)
• December 28 – Frank Hayes, American actor (b. 1871)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Robert Andrews Millikan
• Chemistry – Fritz Pregl
• Physiology or Medicine – Frederick Grant Banting, John James Rickard Macleod
• Literature – William Butler Yeats

References

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