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| Gregorian calendar | 1930 MCMXXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2683 |
| Armenian calendar | 1379 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6680 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 86–87 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1851–1852 |
| Bengali calendar | 1337 |
| Berber calendar | 2880 |
| British Regnal year | 20 Geo. 5 – 21 Geo. 5 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2474 |
| Burmese calendar | 1292 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7438–7439 |
| Chinese calendar | 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4626 or 4566 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4627 or 4567 |
| Coptic calendar | 1646–1647 |
| Discordian calendar | 3096 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1922–1923 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5690–5691 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1986–1987 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1851–1852 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5030–5031 |
| Holocene calendar | 11930 |
| Igbo calendar | 930–931 |
| Iranian calendar | 1308–1309 |
| Islamic calendar | 1348–1349 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 5 (昭和５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1860–1861 |
| Juche calendar | 19 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4263 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 19 民國19年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 462 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2472–2473 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 2056 or 1675 or 903 — to — 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 2057 or 1676 or 904 |
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1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1930th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 930th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1930s decade.
Events
January
- January 6
- The first diesel engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City) by Clessie Cummins, founder of the Cummins Motor Company.
- An early literary character licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.
- January 13 – The Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.
- January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at 356,397 km in recent history, and the next one will be on January 1, 2257 at 356,371 km.[1]
- January 26 – The Indian National Congress declares this date as Independence Day, or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence).
- January 28 – The first patent for a field-effect transistor is granted in the United States, to Julius Edgar Lilienfeld.[2]
- January 30 – Pavel Molchanov launches a radiosonde from Slutsk in the Soviet Union.
- January 31 – The 3M company markets Scotch Tape, invented by Richard Gurley Drew, in the United States.
February
- February 2 – The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
- February 10 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launch the Yên Bái mutiny, in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam.
- February 18
- While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a celestial body considered a planet until redefined as a dwarf planet in 2006.
- Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft, and also the first cow to be milked in an aeroplane.
March
- March 2 – Mahatma Gandhi informs the British viceroy of India that civil disobedience will begin the following week.
- March 5 – Danish painter Einar Wegener begins sex reassignment surgery in Germany, and takes the name Lili Elbe.
- March 6
- International Unemployment Day is observed.
- The first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- March 12 – Mahatma Gandhi sets off on a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers, to protest the British monopoly on salt; more will join them during the Salt March, that ends on April 5.
- March 28 – The government of Turkey requests the international community to adopt Istanbul and Ankara, as the official names for Constantinople and Angora.
- March 29 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed Chancellor of Germany.
- March 31 – The Motion Picture Production Code ("Hays Code") is instituted in the United States, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in films for the next 40 years.
April
- April 4 – The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
- April 5 – In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks the Salt laws of British India, by making salt by the sea at the end of the Salt March.
- April 6
- The International Left Opposition (ILO) is founded in Paris, France.
- Hostess Twinkies are invented.
- April 17 – Neoprene is invented by DuPont.
- April 18
- The Chittagong Rebellion begins in India, with the Chittagong armoury raid.
- BBC Radio from London reports on this day that "There is no news".
- April 19 – Warner Bros. in the United States release their first cartoon series, called Looney Tunes, which runs until 1969.
- April 21
- A fire in the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus kills 320 people.
- The Turkestan–Siberia Railway is completed.
- April 22 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty, to regulate submarine warfare and limit naval shipbuilding.
- April 28 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
May
- May 5 – Mahatma Gandhi is re-arrested.
- May 6 – The 7.1 Mw Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent); up to 3,000 people are killed.
- May 10 – The National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in Washington, D.C..
- May 15 – Nurse Ellen Church becomes the world's first flight attendant, working on a Boeing Air Transport trimotor.
- May 16 – Rafael Leónidas Trujillo is elected president of the Dominican Republic.
- May 17 – French Prime Minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rhineland (they depart by June 30).
- May 24 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
- May 30
- Sergei Eisenstein arrives in California, to work for Paramount Pictures; they part ways by October.
- Canadian adventurer William "Red" Hill, Sr. makes a five-hour journey, down the Niagara Gorge rapids.
June
- June 7 – Carl Gustaf Ekman becomes Prime Minister of Sweden, for the second and final time.
- June 9 – Chicago Tribune journalist Jake Lingle is shot in Chicago, Illinois. Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Lingle is later found to have had contacts with organized crime.
- June 14 – The Bureau of Narcotics is established under the United States Department of the Treasury, replacing the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit.
- June 17 – President of the United States Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- June 21 – One-year conscription for men comes into force in France.
July
- July 4 – The dedication of George Washington's sculpted head is held at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.
- July 5 – The Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops opens. This conference approves the use of birth control in limited circumstances, a move away from the Christian views on contraception expressed by the Sixth Conference a decade earlier.
- July 7
- The Lapua Movement marches in Helsinki, Finland.
- Building of the Boulder Dam (later known as the Hoover Dam) is started on the Colorado River, in the United States.
- July 11 – Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.
- July 13 – The first FIFA World Cup starts: Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against Mexico.
- July 19 – Georges Simenon's detective character Inspector Jules Maigret makes his first appearance in print under Simenon's own name, when the novel Pietr-le-Letton (known in English as The Strange Case of Peter the Lett) begins serialization in a French weekly magazine.[3] Simenon will eventually write 75 novels (as well as 28 short stories) featuring the pipe-smoking Paris detective.
- July 21 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.
- July 25 – Laurence Olivier marries actress Jill Esmond.
- July 26 – Charles Creighton and James Hargis of Missouri begin their return journey to Los Angeles using only a reverse gear; the 11,555 km trip lasts 42 days.
- July 28 – R. B. Bennett defeats William Lyon Mackenzie King in federal elections, and becomes the Prime Minister of Canada.
- July 29 – British airship R100 sets out for a successful 78-hour passage to Canada.
- July 30
- Uruguay beats Argentina 4–2, to win the first Association football FIFA World Cup final at Estadio Centenario, in Montevideo.
- New York station W2XBS is put in charge of NBC broadcast engineers.
- July 31 – The radio drama The Shadow airs for the first time in the United States.
August
- August – The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau begins to form permanently in the Sunda Strait.
- August 6 – Judge Joseph Force Crater disappears in New York City.
- August 7
- R. B. Bennett takes office as the eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.
- Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith are lynched in Marion, Indiana; James Cameron survives. This will be the last recorded lynching of African Americans in the Northern United States.
- August 9 – Cartoon character Betty Boop premieres in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
- August 12 – Turkish troops move into Persia, to fight Kurdish insurgents.
- August 16 – The first British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.[4]
- August 21 – Princess Margaret Rose is born at Glamis Castle in Scotland, younger daughter of Prince Albert, Duke of York (second son of King George V and Queen Mary, and later King George VI) and Elizabeth, Duchess of York, and sister to Princess Elizabeth.
- August 27 – A military junta takes over in Peru.
September
- September 3 – A huge hurricane in the Caribbean demolishes most of the city of Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic.
- September 6 – José Félix Uriburu carries out a military coup, overthrowing Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina.
- September 12 – England cricketer Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1,110-game first-class career, by taking 5 for 95 for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI, against the Australians.
- September 14 – German federal election, 1930: National Socialists win 107 seats in the German Parliament, the Reichstag (18.3% of all the votes), making them the second largest party.
- September 17 – The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.
- September 20 – The Eastern Catholic Rite Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed.
- September 27 – İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (6th government).
October
- October – The Indochinese Communist Party is formed.
- October 1 – British rule of Weihaiwei ends, as it is returned to China.
- October 3 – The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded, following a split in the DSAP in Łódź.
- October 5 – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India, on its maiden long-range flight, resulting in the loss of 48 lives.
- October 8 – The Philadelphia Athletics win their second straight World Series in baseball, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 7-1 in Game 6.
- October 20 – A British White Paper demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into Mandatory Palestine.[5]
- October 24 – Brazilian Revolution of 1930: Getúlio Vargas establishes a dictatorship.
- October 27 – Ratifications are exchanged in London on the first London Naval Treaty signed in April, modifying the Washington Naval Treaty of 1925. Its arms limitation provisions go into effect immediately, hence putting more limits on the expensive naval arms race between its five signatories (the United Kingdom, the United States, the Japanese Empire, France, and Italy.)
November
- November 2 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
- November 3 – Getúlio Vargas becomes president of Brazil.
- November 15 – Jean Harlow has her first major film role, in Howard Hughes' epic war film Hell's Angels. Her platinum hair and sensual persona cause an immediate sensation, turning her into one of the decade's most iconic and discussed film stars.
- November 25
- An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people, and destroys 650 buildings.
- Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary in England, achieves the first recorded cure (of an eye infection) using penicillin.[6]
December
- December – All adult Turkish women are given the right to vote in elections.
- December 2 – Great Depression: President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress to ask for a $150 million public works program, to help create jobs and to stimulate the American economy.
- December 7 – The television station W1XAV in Boston broadcasts video and audio from the radio orchestra program The Fox Trappers. This broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for the I. J. Fox Furriers Company, which sponsored the telecast.
- December 19 – Mount Merapi volcano in central Java, Indonesia, erupts, destroying numerous villages and killing 1,300 people.
- December 24 – In London, inventor Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures on clouds.
- December 29 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory, outlining a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
- December 31 – The Papal encyclical Casti connubii, issued by Pope Pius XI, stresses the sanctity of marriage, prohibits Roman Catholics from using any form of artificial birth control, and reaffirms the Catholic prohibition on abortion.
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- A "Jake paralysis" outbreak occurs in the United States, resulting from adulterated Jamaica ginger sold as an alcohol substitute, during Prohibition.
- Bernhard Schmidt invents the Schmidt camera.[7]
- The chocolate chip cookie is invented by Ruth Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.
- The experimental television station, W9XAP, in Chicago, broadcasts the election for the United States Senate, the first time that a senatorial race, with continual tallies of the votes, is televised.
- Greater Sudbury is incorporated as a city in northern Ontario.
Births
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January
- January 1
- Gaafar Nimeiry, 4th President of Sudan (d. 2009)
- Abdul Latif Dayfallah, Yemeni military officer, politician
- Barkat Gourad Hamadou, Prime Minister of Djibouti (d. 2018)
- Ty Hardin, American actor (d. 2017)
- January 2 – Julius La Rosa, American singer (d. 2016)
- January 3
- Robert Loggia, American actor (d. 2015)
- Ahmed Osman, Prime Minister of Morocco
- Ruth Dowman, New Zealand long jumper, sprinter (d. 2018)
- Barbara Stuart, American actress (d. 2011)
- January 4 – Sorrell Booke, American actor (d. 1994)
- January 5
- Jesús Rosas Marcano, Venezuelan poet (d. 2001)
- M.R. Srinivasan, Indian nuclear scientist
- Saxa, Jamaican-born British saxophonist (d. 2017)
- January 6
- Charles Kalani, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)
- Oscar Camilión, Argentine lawyer, diplomat (d. 2016)
- Vic Tayback, American actor (Alice) (d. 1990)
- January 9 – Pavel Kolchin, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2010)
- January 10
- Lyle Ritz, American jazz ukulele musician (d. 2017)
- Roy E. Disney, American film, television executive (d. 2009)
- January 11 – Rod Taylor, Australian actor (d. 2015)
- January 12
- Bruce Lansbury, British-American television producer, television writer and screenwriter (d. 2017)
- Jennifer Johnston, Irish novelist
- January 17
- Norashikin Mohd Seth, spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 2010)
- Ingrid von Rosen, Swedish writer (d. 1995)
- January 13 – Frances Sternhagen, American actress
- January 15
- Margaret Mary Vojtko, American linguist (d. 2013)
- Hédi Baccouche, Prime Minister of Tunisia
- January 19 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
- January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot, astronaut (Apollo 11), second person to set foot on the Moon
- January 21 – Mainza Chona, Zambian politician, diplomat (d. 2001)
- January 23
- Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
- William R. Pogue, American astronaut (d. 2014)
- January 24
- Edward Diego Reyes, American politician (d. 2018)
- Rita Lakin, American author
- January 26 – Napoleon Abueva, Filipino artist (d. 2018)
- January 27
- Usko Meriläinen, Finnish composer (d. 2004)
- Bobby Bland, American singer (d. 2013)
- January 30
- Samuel Byck, American airplane hijacker, murderer (d. 1974)
- Gene Hackman, American actor
- Magnus Malan, South African soldier, Minister of Defence in the 1980s (d. 2011)
February
- February 1
- Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th President of Bangladesh
- Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 10th President of Bangladesh
- February 2 – C. M. Newton, American basketball player, coach and administrator (d. 2018)
- February 3
- David Edward Foley, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
- Mani Krishnaswami, Carnatic music vocalist of Tamil Nadu, India (d. 2002)
- February 4 – Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (d. 2015)
- February 6 – Allan King, Canadian director (d. 2009)
- February 7 – Ikutaro Kakehashi, Japanese engineer, entrepreneur (d. 2017)
- February 8
- Erich Bohme, German journalist, television host (d. 2009)
- Jim Dooley, American football coach (d. 2008)
- Alejandro Rey, Argentine-American actor (d. 1987)
- February 9 – Rafiq Subaie, Syrian actor, writer and director (d. 2017)
- February 10 – Robert Wagner, American actor
- February 12 – Arlen Specter, American politician (d. 2012)
- February 13
- Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (d. 2015)
- Frank Buxton, American actor, television writer, author, and television director (d. 2018)
- February 15 – Sara Jane Moore, American prison activist, convicted of the attempted murder of President Gerald Ford
- February 16
- Peter Adamson, British actor (d. 2002)
- Noah Weinberg, American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah (d. 2009)
- February 17 – Ruth Rendell, British author (d. 2015)
- February 19 – John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002)
- February 20
- Ken Jones, British actor (d. 2014)
- Richard Lynn, English psychologist and author
- February 21
- Rasul Bux Palejo, Pakistani politician, scholar and writer (d. 2018)
- Dr. Dame Joan Metge, New Zealand social anthropologist, educator, lecturer and writer
- February 22
- James McGarrell, American painter
- Marni Nixon, American vocalist (d. 2016)
- February 23 – Fanie du Plessis, South African athlete (d. 2001)
- February 24
- Joan Diener, American musical theatre actress, singer (d. 2006)
- Barbara Lawrence, American actress, model (d. 2013)
- Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012)
- February 25
- Roger A. Madigan, American politician (d. 2018)
- Wendy Beckett, British nun, author
- February 26 – Robert Francis, American actor (d. 1955)
- February 27
- Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
- John Straffen, British serial killer (d. 2007)
- Barney Glaser, American sociologist
- Joanne Woodward, American actress
- February 28 – Leon Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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- March 2 – Tom Wolfe, American author, journalist (d. 2018)
- March 3
- Heiner Geißler, German politician (d. 2017)
- Washington Benavides, Uruguayan poet, musician (d. 2017)
- Ion Iliescu, 2-time President of Romania
- K. S. Rajah, Singaporean Senior Counsel, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court (d. 2010)
- March 5 – István Konkoly, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
- March 6
- Allison Hayes, American actress (d. 1977)
- Lorin Maazel, French-born American orchestral conductor (d. 2014)
- March 7
- Chitrananda Abeysekera, Sri Lankan veteran broadcaster (d. 1992)
- Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer, royal spouse (d. 2017)
- March 8 – Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d. 2008)
- March 9 – Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2015)
- March 10 – Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist, composer
- March 12 – Win Tin, Burmese journalist, politician (d. 2014)
- March 13 – Liz Anderson, American country music singer, songwriter (d. 2011)
- March 14 – Helga Feddersen, German actress (d. 1990)
- March 15
- Alba Arnova, Italian-Argentine ballerina, actress (d. 2018)
- Zhores Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 17 – James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991)
- March 18 – Adam Cardinal Maida, American Roman Catholic prelate; Archbishop of Detroit (1990–2009)
- March 19 – Gualtiero Marchesi, Italian chef, restaurateur (d. 2017)
- March 20 – Willie Thrower, American football player (d. 2002)
- March 21
- James Coco, American actor (Only When I Laugh), (Man of La Mancha) (d. 1987)
- Lynden Pindling, 1st Prime Minister of the Bahamas (d. 2000)
- March 22
- Stephen Sondheim, American composer, lyricist
- Pat Robertson, American televangelist, motivational speaker, author and television host
- March 24
- David Dacko, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
- Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
- March 25 – John Keel, American journalist, ufologist (d. 2009)
- March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- March 27 – James Tayoun, member of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives (d. 2017)
- March 28
- Robert Ashley, American composer (d. 2014)
- Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Joe Fortunato, American football player (d. 2017)
- March 29
- John Marshall, Australian swimmer (d. 1957)
- Lima Duarte, Brazilian actor
- Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor, director (d. 2018)
- Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Mauritius, and 4th President of Mauritius
- March 30
- Petter Fauchald, Norwegian footballer (d. 2013)
- John Astin, American actor
- Nick Browne-Wilkinson, Baron Browne-Wilkinson, British judge (d. 2018)
- Estella Blain, French actress (d. 1982)
- Rolf Harris, Australian-born entertainer
- March 31 – Alfréd Jindra, Czechoslovak sprint canoer (d. 2006)
April
- April 1
- Betsy Jones-Moreland, American actress (d. 2006)
- Grace Lee Whitney, American actress (Star Trek) (d. 2015)
- April 2
- Don Hall, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
- Roddy Maude-Roxby, English actor
- April 3
- Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator, Governor of Florida (d. 1998)
- Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (d. 2017)
- April 4 – Netty Herawaty, Indonesian actress (d. 1989)
- April 7
- Vilma Espín, Cuban revolutionary, feminist, and chemical engineer (d. 2007)
- Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (d. 2016)
- April 8 – Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (d. 2010)
- April 9 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
- April 10
- Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d. 2001)
- Frank Lary, American baseball player (d. 2017)
- April 11 – Anton LaVey, American Satanist (d. 1997)
- April 12 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish Professor of Engineering (d. 2006)
- April 14
- Bradford Dillman, American actor, author (d. 2018)
- Arnold Burns, American lawyer (d. 2013)
- April 15
- Zhu Xu, Chinese actor (d. 2018)
- Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
- April 16
- Carol Bly, American teacher, author of short stories, essays and nonfiction (d. 2007)
- Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (d. 2003)
- April 19 – Dick Sargent, American actor, gay activist (d. 1994)
- April 21 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
- April 23
- Shun Akiyama, Japanese literary critic (d. 2013)
- Alan Oppenheimer, American actor
- April 24
- Richard Donner, American film director, producer
- José Sarney, 31st President of Brazil
- April 25 – Paul Mazursky, American director, writer (d. 2014)
- April 28
- James Baker, former United States Secretary of State
- Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
- Richard C. Sarafian, American film, television director, writer and actor (d. 2013)
- April 29
- Jean Rochefort, French actor (d. 2017)
- Henri Coppens, Belgian football player (d. 2015)
- Irv Weinstein, American broadcaster, television news anchor (d. 2017)
- Mahmud of Terengganu, 16th Sultan of Terengganu (d. 1998)
May
- May 1
- Probosutedjo, Indonesian businessman (d. 2018)
- Little Walter, African-American blues singer, musician, and songwriter (d. 1968)
- Ollie Matson, American sprinter (d. 2011)
- May 2 – Vesna Bugarski, Bosnia-Herzegovina's first female architect (d. 1992)
- May 3
- Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, writer (d. 2014)
- Bob Havens, American musician
- May 4
- Lois de Banzie, UK-born American actress
- Katherine Jackson, African-American Jackson Family matriarch
- Roberta Peters, American soprano (d. 2017)
- May 5 – Michael J. Adams, American aviator, aeronautical engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967)
- May 6 – David Carpenter, American serial killer
- May 7 – Babe Parilli, American football player (d. 2017)
- May 8 – Heather Harper, Northern Irish soprano
- May 9 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
- May 10
- Adam Darius, American dancer, choreographer (d. 2017)
- Pat Summerall, American football player, broadcaster (d. 2013)
- May 11
- Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
- Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007)
- May 13 – Vernon Shaw, 5th President of Dominica (d. 2013)
- May 15 – Jasper Johns, American painter
- May 17 – María Luisa Mendoza, Mexican journalist, novelist and politician (d. 2018)
- May 19 – Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright (d. 1965)
- May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)
- May 22
- John Barth, American writer
- Harvey Milk, American politician, San Francisco gay rights activist (d. 1978)
- Tiny Topsy, African-American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1964)
- Agustín Tosco, Argentine union leader (d. 1975)
- May 25 – Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
- May 27 – Bruce Halle, American businessman (d. 2018)
- May 28 – Frank Drake, American radio astronomer, pioneer in SETI
- May 29 – Gerry Lenfest, American lawyer, media executive and philanthropist (d. 2018)
- May 30 – Kingunge Ngombale–Mwiru, Tanzanian politician (d. 2018)
- May 31
- Ruslan Stratonovich, Russian physicist, engineer (d. 1997)
- Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer
June
- June 1 – Edward Woodward, British actor (d. 2009)
- June 2
- Pete Conrad, American astronaut, moonwalker and commander of Apollo 12 (d. 1999)
- Stewart and Cyril Marcus, American gynecologists (d. 1975)
- June 3 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (d. 1999)
- June 4 – Morgana King, American jazz singer, actress (d. 2018)
- June 5 – Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator (d. 1987)
- June 6 – Frank Tyson, English cricketer (d. 2015)
- June 7 – Dolores Duran, Brazilian singer, songwriter (d. 1959)
- June 8 – Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- June 9 – Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
- June 10
- Gianluigi Porelli, Italian basketball executive (d. 2009)
- Grace Mirabella, American editor of Vogue
- June 11 – Charles B. Rangel, African-American politician
- June 12
- Dutch Rennert, American baseball umpire (d. 2018)
- Jim Nabors, American actor, musician and comedian (d. 2017)
- Son Sen, Cambodian politician, criminal (d. 1997)
- June 13 – Armando Hart, Cuban politician (d. 2017)
- June 14 – Bora Kostić, Serbian footballer (d. 2011)
- June 15 – Odile Versois, French actress (d. 1980)
- June 16 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016)
- June 17 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
- June 19
- Victoriano Ríos Pérez, Spanish physician, politician (d. 2018)
- Gena Rowlands, American actress
- June 20
- Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017)
- Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Honduran military officer (d. 1987)
- June 21
- John E. McCarthy, American Roman Catholic bishop
- Gerald Kaufman, British Labour politician (d. 2017)
- June 22
- Yury Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
- Sa'dun Hammadi, 33rd Prime Minister of Iraq (d. 2007)
- Patricia Nielsen, British former swimmer
- Fred Benners, American football player
- June 23
- Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny, First Lady of Ivory Coast (1960-1993)
- John Elliot, British historian
- Ben Speer, American singer, musician, music publisher and record company executive (d. 2017)
- June 24
- Donald Gordon, South African businessman, philanthropist
- Rashid Bakr, 10th Prime Minister of Sudan (d. 1988)
- Peter Mazzaferro, American football coach
- Herb Klein, American businessman, attorney and politician
- Dave Creighton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
- June 25
- James Sedin, American ice hockey player
- Memo Luna, Mexican professional baseball player
- Vic Keeble, English former footballer
- George Thomas, Welsh professional footballer
- László Antal, Hungarian linguist (d. 1993)
- June 26
- Wolfgang Schwanitz, German Leader of the Office for National Security, Head of the Stasi
- Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, Pakistani economist, civil servant (d. 2016)
- Jackie Fargo, American wrestler, trainer (d. 2013)
- June 27
- Ross Perot, American computer billionaire, politician
- Ryszard Ronczewski, Polish actor
- June 28
- William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist, parasitologist, and Nobel Prize laureate
- Ernesto Domingo, National Scientist of the Philippines
- Maureen Howard, American writer, editor and lecturer
- Itamar Franco, President of Brazil (d. 2011)
- Horacio Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor (d. 1999)
- June 29
- Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress, former Canadian Senator
- Robert Evans, American producer
- Hans Däscher, Swiss ski jumper
- Frank Johnston, Anglican priest, military chaplain
- Edward Johnson III, American investor, businessman
- Ariadna Welter, Mexican actress (d. 1998)
- June 30
- Elena Espejo, Moroccan actress
- W. C. Gorden, American football player, coach
- Isaac Levi, American philosopher
- Ben Atchley, American former politician
- Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician
- Thomas Sowell, American economist, author
- Charles Wooler, Zimbabwean cricketer
- Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad, Syrian bishop (d. 2018)
July
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- July 1
- Jerome A. Cohen, American professor of law at New York University School of Law
- Ron Hughes, English professional footballer who played as a full-back
- Frank Joranko, American former football, baseball player, coach
- Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Bolivian politician, businessman
- July 2
- Sylve Bengtsson, Swedish association football forward (d. 2005)
- Pete Burnside, American professional baseball player
- Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist, composer
- Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
- Jane Moffet, American utility player
- Magdalen Redman, American professional baseball player
- Joe Scudero, American football safety
- Vojislav Stanovčić, Serbian political scientist, theorist
- Randy Starr, American dentist, singer and songwriter
- July 3
- Ronnell Bright, American jazz pianist
- Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
- Ku Feng, Hong Kong actor
- José Luis Lamadrid, Mexican football forward
- Ferdinando Riva, Swiss football forward (d. 2014)
- N. Venkatachala, Indian judge
- July 4
- Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor
- George Steinbrenner, American businessman, baseball team owner (d. 2010)
- Yury Tyukalov, Russian rower (d. 2018)
- Jack Van Mark, American politician
- July 5
- Charles Beaulieu, Canadian academic, civil servant and businessman
- Tommy Cook, American actor
- Putzi Frandl, Austrian alpine ski racer
- Billy Howton, American football player
- Donald Wilhelms, United States Geological Survey geologist
- July 6
- Michael Baume, Australian former Liberal Party politician
- George Armstrong, Canadian professional ice hockey centre
- Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (d. 2016)
- M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer and actor (d. 2016)
- July 7
- Sherwin Carlquist, American botanist, photographer
- Tadao Kobayashi, Japanese football player, manager
- Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American Roman Catholic Cardinal
- Hamish MacInnes, Scottish mountaineer, mountain search and rescuer, author and advisor
- Biljana Plavšić, 2nd President of Republika Srpska
- July 8
- Chris Adams, American author, retired United States Air Force officer
- John Little, Scottish football defender (d. 2017)
- Jim Mooney, American professional basketball player
- July 9
- Buddy Bregman, American musical arranger (d. 2017)
- Slavko Dacevski, Macedonian football player, manager
- Juan Carlos Frecia, Argentine fencer
- Hugh Morrow, Irish footballer, manager
- Yu So-chow, Chinese actress (d. 2017)
- July 10
- Pete Carril, American basketball coach
- Tom Jones, Australian rules footballer
- Josephine Veasey, British mezzo-soprano
- July 11
- Jack Alabaster, New Zealand 21 Tests player
- Shafiqur Rahman Barq, Indian politician
- Dick Beyer, American professional wrestler
- Harold Bloom, American literary critic
- Ezra Vogel, American professor
- July 12
- Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, spouse of Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
- Orlando Nannini, Argentine fencer
- María Teresa Sosa, Guatemalan politician, activist (d. 2018)
- Irene Sutcliffe, English actress
- July 13
- Dick Bunt, American basketball player
- Richard D. Lewis, British polyglot, cross-cultural communication consultant and author
- July 14
- Polly Bergen, American actress (d. 2014)
- Benoît Sinzogan, Beninese military officer, politician
- July 15
- Einosuke Akiya, Japanese Buddhist leader
- Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d. 2004)
- Alberto Michelotti, Italian football player, referee
- Stephen Smale, American mathematician
- Betty Wagoner, American professional baseball player (d. 2006)
- Lee Wallace, American actor
- July 16
- Michael Bilirakis, American politician
- Bert Rechichar, American football defensive back, kicker
- Horst Rittner, German correspondence chess Grandmaster
- July 17
- Sue England, American actress
- Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater
- Ray Galton, English scriptwriter (d. 2018)
- William Heseltine, Australian Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
- July 18 – Judy Gamin, Australian politician
- July 19
- David Rubadiri, Malawian diplomat, academic, poet, playwright and novelist
- Darko Suvin, Croatian born academic, critic
- Vincent Lumsden, Jamaican cricketer
- July 20
- Alex Sánchez Cruz, Costa Rican football player
- Sally Ann Howes, English actress, singer
- Ronnie MacGilvray, American professional basketball player
- Oleg Anofriyev, Soviet, Russian stage, screen actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter, film director and poet (d. 2018[8])
- Bryan Conquest, Australian politician
- July 21
- Helen Merrill, American jazz vocalist
- Gene Littler, American professional golfer
- July 22
- Dinny Flanagan, Canadian ice hockey player
- Eric del Castillo, Mexican actor
- Jeremy Lloyd, British actor, screenwriter (d. 2014)
- Sebastiano Mannironi, Italian weightlifter (d. 2015)
- July 24 – Jacqueline Brookes, American actress (d. 2013)
- July 25
- Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
- Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto (d. 2010)
- Mitzi Shore, American comedy club owner (d. 2018)
- July 27 – Andy White, Scottish drummer (d. 2015)
- July 28
- Firoza Begum, Bengali singer (d. 2014)
- Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
- July 29
- Jek Yeun Thong, Singaporean politician (d. 2018)
- Paul Taylor, American choreographer (d. 2018)
August
- August 1
- Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
- Lawrence Eagleburger, United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
- Károly Grósz, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1996)
- Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American dancer, choreographer and actor (d. 2014)
- August 2 – Carolyn Warner, American politician (d. 2018)
- August 4
- Enrico Castellani, Italian painter (d. 2017)
- Ali al-Sistani, Shia Ayatollah
- August 5 – Neil Armstrong, astronaut, first human to set foot on the Moon, commander of Apollo 11, aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor (d. 2012)
- August 6 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer (d. 2010)
- August 7 – Felicia Kentridge, South African lawyer (d. 2015)
- August 8 – Joan Mondale, Second Lady of the United States (d. 2014)
- August 9 – Jacques Parizeau, French-Canadian politician (d. 2015)
- August 10
- Luigi De Filippo, Italian actor (d. 2018)
- Jorma Panula, Finnish conductor, composer
- Fakir Musafar, American performance artist, body modification pioneer (d. 2018)
- August 12
- Vali Myers, Australian visionary artist, dancer, bohemian and muse (d. 2003)
- George Soros, Hungarian-born investor
- Peter Weck, Austrian film director, actor
- August 13
- Don Ho, Hawaiian singer, musician (d. 2007)
- Bob Wiesler, American pitcher (d. 2014)
- Jack Daugherty, American musician (d. 1991)
- Wilmer Mizell, American left-handed pitcher (d. 1999)
- August 14
- Earl Weaver, American professional baseball player, manager (d. 2013)
- Liz Fraser, English actress (d. 2018)
- August 15
- Tom Mboya, Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author and independence activist (d. 1969)
- Selma James, American-born feminist writer
- August 16
- Flor Silvestre, Mexican singer, actress, and equestrienne
- Robert Culp, American actor (d. 2010)
- Frank Gifford, American football player (d. 2015)
- Leslie Manigat, 34th President of Haiti (d. 2014)
- Wolfgang Völz, German actor (d. 2018)
- August 17 – Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
- August 18
- Rafael Pineda Ponce, Honduran educator, politician (d. 2014)
- Denis McLean, New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant (d. 2011)
- August 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (d. 2009)
- August 21
- Frank Perry, American stage director and filmmaker (d. 1995)
- Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
- August 22 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
- August 23
- Mickey McMahan, American big band musician (d. 2008)
- Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France (d. 2016)
- August 24
- Sultanah Bahiyah, Sultanah of Kedah (d. 2003)
- Sidique Ali Merican, Malaysian sprinter, sports administrator (d. 2009)
- August 25
- Peter Trower, Canadian poet, novelist (d. 2017)
- Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor (James Bond)
- August 27 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (d. 1968)
- August 28
- Walmor Chagas, Brazilian actor (d. 2013)
- Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
- August 30 – Warren Buffett, American billionaire entrepreneur
- August 31 – Tengku Ampuan Besar Bariah, Malaysian royal consort (d. 2011)
September
- September 1 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (d. 2015)
- September 2 – Rita Riggs, American costume designer (d. 2017)
- September 3 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d. 2002)
- September 4 – Norman Dorsen, American civil rights activist (d. 2017)
- September 7
- King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
- Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist
- September 8 – Mario Adorf, German actor
- September 9 – Frank Lucas, African-American drug lord
- September 11
- Cathryn Damon, American actress (d. 1987)
- Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (d. 1997)
- September 12 – Akira Suzuki, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 13
- Mary Baumgartner, American female professional baseball player (d. 2018)
- Bola Ige, Nigerian politician (d. 2001)
- September 16 – Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
- September 17
- Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (d. 2016)
- David Huddleston, American actor (The Big Lebowski) (d. 2016)
- September 20 – Kenneth Mopeli, Chief Minister of QwaQwa bantustan (d. 2014)
- September 21 – Dawn Addams, British actress (d. 1985)
- September 22 – T. S. Sinnathuray, judge of the High Court of Singapore (d. 2016)
- September 23
- Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (d. 1987)
- Ray Charles, African-American singer, musician and actor (d. 2004)
- September 24
- Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
- Benjamin Romualdez, Filipino politician (d. 2012)
- John Young, American astronaut (d. 2018)
- September 25 – Shel Silverstein, African-American author, poet and humorist (d. 1999)
- September 26
- Philip Bosco, American actor
- Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor singer (d. 1966)
- September 29 – Colin Dexter, English detective fiction writer (d. 2017)
October
- October 1
- Richard Harris, Irish actor, singer (d. 2002)
- Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
- Rev. Dr. George F. Regas, American Episcopal priest, activist and rector of All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena, California (1967–95)
- Erica Yohn, American actress
- October 2 – Dave Barrett, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
- October 5
- Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
- Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
- October 6
- Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
- Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer, commentator (d. 2015)
- October 8 – Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996)
- October 10
- Yves Chauvin, Belgian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
- Doris Payne, American jewel thief
- Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
- October 11 – Sam Johnson, American politician
- October 14
- Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (d. 2006)
- Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1997)
- October 15 – Ingemar Mundebo, Swedish politician (d. 2018)
- October 17
- Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
- October 18
- Trevor Bell, British artist (d. 2017)
- Frank Carlucci, American politician (d. 2018)
- October 19 – Jody Lawrance, American actress (d. 1986)
- October 20 – Leila Seth, Indian judge (d. 2017)
- October 24
- Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
- The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), American singer (d. 1959)
- October 26 – Suhaila Noah, spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 2014)
- October 28 – Bernie Ecclestone, English auto racing tycoon
- October 29
- Bertha Brouwer, Dutch athlete (d. 2006)
- Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
- Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer, dancer
- Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (d. 2002)
- October 30
- Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1956)
- Timothy Findley, Canadian author (d. 2002)
- October 31 – Michael Collins, American astronaut, second person to fly around the Moon solo, Command Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first human lunar landing
November
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- November 1 – Mabandla Dlamini, 3rd Prime Minister of Swaziland
- November 3 – D. James Kennedy, American evangelist (d. 2007)
- November 4 – Dick MacPherson, American football coach (d. 2017)
- November 5 – Hans Mommsen, German historian (d. 2015)
- November 6
- Derrick Bell, American law professor (d. 2011)
- Wilma Briggs, American female baseball player
- November 11
- Stuart Briscoe, British-American pastor, motivational speaker and author
- Mildred Dresselhaus, American scientist, educator (d. 2017)
- November 12 – Bob Crewe, American singer, songwriter, manager, and producer (d. 2014)
- November 14
- Shirley Crabtree ("Big Daddy"), British professional wrestler (d. 1997)
- Ed White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
- November 15 – J. G. Ballard, English writer (d. 2009)
- November 16
- Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (d. 2013)
- Salvatore Riina, Italian multiple murderer (d. 2017)
- November 17 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (d. 2006)
- November 20 – Bernard Horsfall, British actor (d. 2013)
- November 24
- Inge Feltrinelli, German-Italian publisher, photographer (d. 2018)
- Bob Friend, American baseball player
- November 25 – Clarke Scholes, American freestyle swimmer (d. 2010)
- November 27 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (d. 2009)
- November 29 – David Goldblatt, South African photographer (d. 2018)
- November 30 – G. Gordon Liddy, American organizer of the Watergate burglaries
December
- December 1 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
- December 2
- Gary Becker, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
- Vlatko Pavletić, Croatian politician, university professor, literary critic and essayist (d. 2007)
- December 3 – Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
- December 4
- Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist (d. 2013)
- Ronnie Corbett, Scottish comedian (d. 2016)
- December 5 – Warren Spannaus, American politician (d. 2017)
- December 6 – Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2000)
- December 7 – Christopher Nicole, Guyanese-born British writer
- December 8
- Stan Richards, English actor (d. 2005)
- Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (d. 2014)
- December 9 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (d. 2010)
- December 11
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
- Jim Williams, American antique dealer, preservationist (d. 1990)
- December 12 – Silvio Santos, Brazilian TV show host, entrepreneur
- December 15
- Günter Siebert, German football player, executive (d. 2017)
- Edna O'Brien, Irish writer
- December 17
- Gerard Kerkum, Dutch footballer (d. 2018)
- Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
- Makoto Moroi, Japanese composer (d. 2013)
- December 21
- Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official (d. 2018)
- Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2004)
- December 25 – Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist (d. 1986)
- December 27 – Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American writer (d. 2011)
- December 28
- Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian artist (d. 2010)
- Gladys Ambrose, English actress (d. 1998)
- Franzl Lang, German yodeler (d. 2015)
- December 30 – Tu Youyou, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- December 31
- Odetta, American singer (d. 2008)
- Jaime Escalante, American high school math teacher (d. 2010)
Date unknown
- Rashid Bakr, 10th Prime Minister of Sudan (d. 1988)
- Kevin Budden, Australian herpetologist (d. 1950)
Deaths
January
- January 3 – Guglielmo Plüschow, German photographer (b. 1852)
- January 9 – Edward Bok, American author (b. 1863)
- January 13 – John Nathan Cobb, American author, naturalist, conservationist, fisheries researcher, and educator (b. 1868)
- January 19 – Frank P. Ramsey, British philosopher, mathematician and economist (b. 1903)
- January 27 – Dewa Shigetō, Japanese admiral (b. 1856)
February
- February 3
- Michele Bianchi, Italian fascist leader (b. 1883)
- Poseidon, Australian racehorse (b. 1903)
- February 14 – Sir Thomas MacKenzie, New Zealand politician, explorer, 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand and High Commissioner (b. 1854)
- February 15 – Giulio Douhet, Italian general, air power theorist (b. 1869)
- February 21 – Ahmad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia (b. 1898)
- February 23
- Mabel Normand, American actress (b. 1895)
- Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue, composer (b. 1907)
- February 28 – Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence, British classical scholar, South African judge and a benefactor of the University of Cambridge (b. 1854)
March
- March 2 – D. H. Lawrence, British writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover) (b. 1885)
- March 6 – Alfred von Tirpitz, German politician, admiral (b. 1848)
- March 8 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States, 10th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1857)
- March 12 – William George Barker, Canadian pilot (b. 1894)
- March 16 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish military officer, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870)
- March 19
- Arthur Balfour, British politician and statesman, 48th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
- Joseph Dupont, French missionary, bishop (b. 1850)
- March 24 – Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875)
April
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Patriarch George V of Armenia
- April 2 – Empress Zewditu I of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
- April 4 – Victoria of Baden, Queen consort of Sweden (b. 1862)
- April 6 – Dimitrije, Serbian Patriarch (b. 1846)
- April 7 – Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo, American politician (b. 1859)
- April 9 – Heinrich Ritter von Wittek, Austrian politician, statesman (b. 1844)
- April 10 – Alfred Williams, British poet (b. 1877)
- April 14
- Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1893)
- John B. Sheridan, Irish-American sports journalist (b. 1870)
- April 21 – Robert Bridges, British poet (b. 1844)
- April 22 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet, novelist (b. 1866)
May
- May 8 – Patriarch George V of Armenia (b. 1847)
- May 13 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1861)
- May 17 – Herbert Croly, American political author (b. 1869)
- May 25
June
- June 5 – Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
- June 10 – Adolf von Harnack, German Lutheran theologian, church historian (b. 1851)
- June 13 – Henry Segrave, British racer, speed record holder (b. 1896)
July
- July 7 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British-born fiction writer (Sherlock Holmes) (b. 1859)
- July 8 – Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
- July 15
- Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist (b. 1845)
- Rudolph Schildkraut, Ottoman-born Austrian actor (b. 1862)
- July 16 – Juan Luis Sanfuentes, 16th President of Chile (b. 1858)
- July 19
- Robert Stout, 2-time Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1844)
- Oku Yasukata, Japanese field marshal, leading figure in the early Imperial Japanese Army (b. 1847)
- July 23 – Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (b. 1878)
- July 24 – Santeri Alkio, Finnish politician (b. 1862)
- July 26 – Pavlos Karolidis, Greek historian (b. 1849)
- July 28 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1862)
- July 30 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman, founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
August
- August 12 – Horace Smith-Dorrien, English general (b. 1858)
- August 15 – Florian Cajori, Swiss-born historian of mathematics (b. 1859)
- August 21 – Aston Webb, British architect (b. 1849)
- August 24 – Tom Norman, British freak showman (b. 1860)
- August 26 – Lon Chaney, American actor (b. 1883)
- August 29 – William Archibald Spooner, British scholar, Anglican priest (b. 1844)
September
- September 1 – Peeter Põld, Estonian pedagogical scientist, politician (b. 1878)
- September 10 – Aubrey Faulkner, South African cricketer (b. 1881)
- September 15 – Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
- September 20 – Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian explorer (b. 1873)
- September 21 – John T. Dorrance, American chemist (b. 1873)
- September 24 – William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
- September 28
- Daniel Guggenheim, American mining magnate, philanthropist (b. 1856)
- Prince Leopold of Bavaria (b. 1846)
October
Patriarch Constantine VI
- October 2 – Gordon Stewart Northcott, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1906)
- October 15 – Herbert Dow, Canadian-born chemical industrialist (b. 1866)
- October 20 – Valeriano Weyler, 1st Duke of Rubí, Spanish general (b. 1838)
- October 26 – Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman, horse breeder (b. 1872)
- October 28 – Mary Harrison McKee, de facto First Lady of the United States (b. 1858)
November
- November – Alfred Wegener, German geophysicist, meteorologist (b. 1880)
- November 3 – Nikolai Alexandrov, Soviet actor, director (b. 1870)
- November 4 – Akiyama Yoshifuru, Japanese general (b. 1859)
- November 5
- Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, pathologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)
- Luigi Facta, Italian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1861)
- November 8 – Alexander Bedward, Jamaican preacher (b. 1848)
- November 9 – Tasker H. Bliss, American general (b. 1853)
- November 20 – William B. Hanna, American sportswriter (b. 1866)
- November 28 – Constantine VI, Turkish-born bishop, briefly Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1859)
- November 30 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor leader (b. 1837)
December
- December 8 – Florbela Espanca, Portuguese poet (b. 1894)
- December 9
- Andrew "Rube" Foster, American Negro league baseball player (b. 1879)
- Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian painter (b. 1860)
- December 12 – Nikolai Pokrovsky, Russian politician, last foreign minister of the Russian Empire (b. 1865)
- December 13 – Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- December 14 – F. Richard Jones, American director (b. 1893)
- December 17 – Peter Warlock, British composer (b. 1894)
- December 22 – Vintilă Brătianu, 31st Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1867)
- December 25 – Eugen Goldstein, German physicist (b. 1850)
Nobel Prizes
References
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Sources
- The 1930s Timeline: 1930 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia
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