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==Events==
===January===
{{Main|January 1948}}
* [[January 1]]
** The [[General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]] (GATT) is inaugurated.<ref>{{cite book|author=K.R. Gupta|title=World Trade Organisation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mSaz5tSI8dIC&pg=PA21|year=2006|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-7156-888-8|pages=21}}</ref>
** The current [[Constitution]]s of [[Constitution of Italy|Italy]] and of [[Constitution of New Jersey|New Jersey]] (both later subject to amendment) go into effect.<ref>{{cite book|title=Florida Law Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0AkOAQAAMAAJ|year=1948|publisher=Florida State Bar Association|page=6}}</ref>
** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form [[British Rail]]ways.<ref>{{cite book|author=Russell Haywood|title=Railways, Urban Development and Town Planning in Britain: 1948–2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xgjPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT79|date=23 March 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-07164-8|pages=79}}</ref>
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[British rule in Burma|Burma]] gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the '[[Post-independence Burma (1948–1962)|Union of Burma']], with [[Sao Shwe Thaik]] as its first President and [[U Nu]] its first Prime Minister.
* [[January 5]] &ndash; In the United States:
** [[Warner Brothers]] shows the first color [[newsreel]] (''[[Tournament of Roses Parade]]'' and the ''[[Rose Bowl Game]]'').
** The first [[Kinsey Reports|Kinsey Report]], ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published.
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Mantell UFO incident]]: [[Kentucky Air National Guard]] pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an [[unidentified flying object]].
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Mahatma Gandhi]] begins his fast-unto-death in [[Delhi]], to stop communal violence during the [[Partition of India]].
* [[January 17]] &ndash; A truce is declared between nationalist Indonesian and Dutch troops in [[Java]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=9. Netherlands/Dutch East Indies (1927-1949) |url=https://uca.edu/politicalscience/home/research-projects/dadm-project/asiapacific-region/netherlandsdutch-east-indies-1927-1949/ |access-date=2025-09-02 |website=uca.edu |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] &ndash; British foreign secretary [[Ernest Bevin]] proposes the formation of a Western Union between Britain, France and the [[Benelux]] countries to stand up against the Soviet Union. The [[Treaty of Brussels]] is signed [[March 17]] as a consequence, a predecessor to [[NATO]].
* [[January 26]] &ndash; Teigin poison case: a man masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 of 16 bank employees of the Tokyo branch of Imperial Bank and takes the money; artist [[Sadamichi Hirasawa]] is later sentenced to death for the crime, but is never executed.
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash|A DC-3 aircraft crash at Los Gatos Creek]], near [[Coalinga, California]], kills 4 US citizens and 28 deportees, commemorated in a protest song ("[[Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)]]") by [[Woody Guthrie]].
* [[January 30]]
** [[Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi]]: Indian pacifist and leader [[Mahatma Gandhi]] is shot by [[Nathuram Godse]] in [[New Delhi]].
** The [[1948 Winter Olympics]] open in [[St Moritz]], Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=St Moritz 1948 |url=https://www.olympics.com.au/games/st-moritz-1948/ |access-date=2025-09-27 |website=Australian Olympic Committee |language=en-AU}}</ref>
* [[January 31]] &ndash; The British [[crown colony]] of the [[Malayan Union]], [[Penang]] and [[Malacca]] form the [[Federation of Malaya]].<ref>Cabinet Memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies (UK). February 21, 1956. {{sourcetext|source=Federation of Malaya Agreement}}</ref>

===February===
{{Main|February 1948}}
* [[February 1]] 
** The [[Soviet Union]] begins to jam [[Voice of America]] broadcasts.
** The [[Federation of Malaya]] is proclaimed.
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[British Ceylon|Ceylon]] (later known as [[Sri Lanka]]) becomes an independent country, within the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwealth]] continuing to adopt King [[George VI]] as the [[Dominion of Ceylon|King of Ceylon]].
* [[February 11]] &ndash; General [[Douglas Gracey]] becomes [[Commander-in-chief]] of [[Pakistan Army]].
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Miranda (moon)|Miranda]], innermost of the large [[moons of Uranus]], is discovered by [[Gerard Kuiper]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Moore|first=Patrick|author-link=Patrick Moore|year=1995|title=The Guinness Book of Astronomy|edition=5th|location=Enfield, UK|publisher=Guinness Publishing|isbn=085112643X|page=110}}</ref>
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Éamon de Valera]], Irish head of government from 1918 to 1932, loses power to an opposition coalition. [[John A. Costello]] is appointed [[Taoiseach]] by President [[Seán T. O'Kelly]], until [[1960]].
* [[February 19]] &ndash; The [[Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence]] convenes in [[Calcutta]].
* [[February 21]] &ndash; The United States [[stock car racing]] organization [[NASCAR]] is founded by [[Bill France Sr.]] with other drivers.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of NASCAR|url=http://hometracks.nascar.com/nascar_101/history_of_nascar|publisher=NASCAR|date=2010-08-17|access-date=2017-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530103445/http://hometracks.nascar.com/nascar_101/history_of_nascar|archive-date=May 30, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[February 22]] &ndash; The first of the [[Ben Yehuda Street bombings]] in Jerusalem kills between 49 and 58 civilians and injures between 140 and 200.
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état]]: [[Edvard Beneš]], [[President of Czechoslovakia]], cedes control of the country to the [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia|Communist Party]], a day celebrated by that regime as "[[Victorious February]]" ({{langx|cs|Vítězný únor|links=no}}; {{langx|sk|Víťazný Február}}) until [[November 1989]].
* [[February 28]]
**[[1948 Accra Riots|Accra Riots]]: Riots take place in [[Accra]], capital of the British colony of [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]], when a peaceful protest march by ex-servicemen is broken up by police, leaving several members of the group dead, among them Sergeant Adjetey, one of the leaders.
**The [[2nd Congress of the Communist Party of India]] convenes in [[Calcutta]].

===March===
{{Main|March 1948}}
* [[March 8]] &ndash; ''[[McCollum v. Board of Education]]'': The [[United States Supreme Court]] rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the [[United States Constitution|U.S. Constitution]].
* [[March 12]] &ndash; The [[Costa Rican Civil War]] begins.
* [[March 17]]
** The [[Treaty of Brussels]] is signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, providing for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence.
** The [[Hells Angels]] motorcycle gang is founded in [[California]].
* [[March 18]] &ndash; The Round Table Conference convenes in [[The Hague]], Netherlands, to prepare the decolonization process for the Caribbean island of [[Aruba]] and the other Dutch Colonies. Aruba presents the mandate of the Aruban People for Aruba to become an independent country, under the sovereignty of the House of Orange, based on Aruba's first state constitution presented officially since August 1947, and a (4th) member state of the future Dutch Commonwealth.
* [[March 20]]
** [[Colony of Singapore|Singapore]] holds its first elections.
** Renowned Italian conductor [[Arturo Toscanini]] makes his television debut, conducting the [[NBC Symphony Orchestra]] in an all-[[Richard Wagner|Wagner]] program in the United States.
** The [[20th Academy Awards]] Ceremony is held in Los Angeles. ''[[Gentleman's Agreement]]'' wins the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]].
*[[March 25]] &ndash; The [[American trusteeship proposal for Palestine|United States Proposal for Temporary United Nations Trusteeship for Palestine]] is announced by [[Harry S. Truman]].

===April===
{{Main|April 1948}}
* [[April]] &ndash; Children's Bargain Town, a predecessor of [[toy]] and child-related [[retail]]er [[Toys "R" Us]], is founded in [[Washington, D.C.]], United States.<ref name=nytimes_lazarus>{{cite news|first=Michael|last=Corkery|title=Charles P. Lazarus, Toys 'R' Us Founder, Dies at 94|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/obituaries/charles-p-lazarus-toys-r-us-founder-dies-at-94.html|work=The New York Times|date=March 22, 2018|access-date=September 25, 2023}}</ref>  
* [[April 1]] &ndash; Physicists [[Ralph Asher Alpher]] and [[George Gamow]] publish the [[Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper]], about the [[Big Bang]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Alpher|first1=R. A.|first2=H.|last2=Bethe|author-link2=Hans Bethe|first3=G.|last3=Gamow|date=1948-04-01|title=The Origin of Chemical Elements|journal=[[Physical Review]]|location=United States|volume=73|issue=7|pages=803–804|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.73.803|bibcode=1948PhRv...73..803A|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[April 3]]
** United States President [[Harry S. Truman]] signs the [[Marshall Plan]], which authorizes $5&nbsp;billion in aid for 16 countries.
** [[Jeju Uprising]]: Residents revolt on [[Jeju island]], South Korea, eventually leading to the deaths of between 14,000 and 30,000.
** [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's Symphony No. 9]] is played on television in its entirety for the first time, in a series of concerts featuring [[Arturo Toscanini]] conducting the [[NBC Symphony Orchestra]] in the United States. The chorus is conducted by [[Robert Shaw (conductor)|Robert Shaw]].
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine]]: Haganah launches [[Operation Nachshon]], provoking the [[1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight]].
* [[April 6]] &ndash; The [[Finno-Soviet Treaty of 1948|Finno-Soviet Treaty]] is signed in Moscow.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Finland Vindicated |first=John |last=Lukacs |journal=[[Foreign Affairs (journal)|Foreign Affairs]] |volume=71 |issue=4 |year=1992 |pages=50–63 |doi=10.2307/20045309 |jstor=20045309 |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/1992-09-01/finland-vindicated|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[April 7]]&ndash; The [[World Health Organization]] is established by the United Nations.
* [[April 9]]
** Liberal politician [[Jorge Eliécer Gaitán]]'s assassination provokes a violent riot in [[Bogotá]] (the ''[[Bogotazo]]'') and a further 10 years of violence (''[[La Violencia]]'') across Colombia.
** The [[Deir Yassin massacre]] takes place in British [[Mandatory Palestine]].
* [[April 13]] &ndash; The [[Hadassah medical convoy massacre]] takes place, in British [[Mandatory Palestine]].
* [[April 16]] &ndash; The [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] is founded, as the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC).
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Italian general election, 1948]]: The first democratic general election with [[universal suffrage]] is held in Italy. The [[Christian Democracy (Italy)|Christian Democracy]] party achieves a majority over the [[Popular Democratic Front (Italy)|Popular Democratic Front]] Communist-Socialist coalition.
* [[April 19]] 
** [[Burma]] joins the United Nations.
** The [[American Broadcasting Company]] (otherwise known as ABC) begins television services, on WFIL-TV in [[Philadelphia]] (later [[WPVI-TV]]).
* [[April 22]]
** Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: [[Battle of Haifa (1948)|Battle of Haifa]] &ndash; Jewish paramilitary group [[Haganah]] captures [[Haifa]] from the [[Arab Liberation Army]].
** [[WTVR-TV|WTVR]] begins television services. WTVR is the first TV station south of Washington D.C., giving it the nickname "The South's First Television station".
* [[April 23]] &ndash; First [[National Games of Pakistan]] held in [[Karachi]].
* [[April 24]] &ndash; The [[Costa Rican Civil War]] ends.
* [[April 30]] 
** The [[Organization of American States]] (OAS) is founded.
** The English-built [[Land Rover]] is unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show.

===May===
{{Main|May 1948}}
* [[May]] &ndash; The [[RAND Corporation]] is established, as an independent nonprofit policy research and analysis institution, in the United States.
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[Solar eclipse of May 9, 1948]]: An annular solar eclipse is visible in Japan and South Korea, and is the 32nd solar eclipse of [[Solar Saros 137]]. This eclipse is very short, lasting just 0.3 seconds. The path width is just about 200 meters wide (approximately 218 yards).
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Luigi Einaudi]] becomes [[President of the Italian Republic]].
[[File:Declaration of State of Israel 1948 2.jpg|thumb|[[Israeli Declaration of Independence]], 1948]]
* [[May 14]] &ndash; The [[Israeli Declaration of Independence]] is made. [[David Ben-Gurion]] becomes the first prime minister, a provisional position that will become formalized on February 14, 1949.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |last=Erakat |first=Noura |title=Chapter 1. COLONIAL ERASURES |date=2019-04-23 |work=Justice for Some |pages=23–60 |url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781503608832-004/html |access-date=2025-04-11 |publisher=Stanford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1515/9781503608832-004 |isbn=978-1-5036-0883-2|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[May 15]]
** [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]]: The [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] is officially terminated; expeditionary forces from [[Egypt]], [[Jordan|Transjordan]], [[Syria]] and [[Iraq]] invade [[Israel]] and clash with Israeli forces after declaring war.<ref name=":0" />
** The [[murder of June Anne Devaney]] a 3-year-old girl in [[Blackburn]], England. To solve the crime, officers take 46,253 sets of [[fingerprint]]s before identifying her murderer.
** [[Australian cricket team in England in 1948]]: The touring [[Australia national cricket team|Australia]]ns set an all-time [[First-class cricket|first-class]] record, by scoring 721 runs in a day against [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]].
* [[May 16]]
** [[Chaim Weizmann]] is elected as the first [[President of Israel]]
** [[New York City Fire Department]] Rescue 5 is founded for [[Staten Island]].
* [[May 18]] &ndash; The first [[Legislative Yuan]] of the [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Republic of China]] officially convenes in [[Nanjing]].
* [[May 22]] &ndash; The Soviets launch [[Operation Vesna]], the largest Lithuanian deportation to Siberia.
* [[May 25]] &ndash; The United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) is founded at Ellinwood Malate Church in Manila.
* [[May 26]] &ndash; The [[United States Congress]] passes Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the [[Civil Air Patrol]] as the auxiliary of the [[United States Air Force]].
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Daniel François Malan]] defeats [[Jan Smuts]] and becomes Prime Minister of [[South Africa]], which starts the era of [[apartheid]] (which is finally dismantled by [[F. W. de Klerk]] in [[1994]]).
* [[May 29]] &ndash; The [[Casimir effect]] is predicted by Dutch physicist [[Hendrik Casimir]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Casimir|first=H. B. G.|date=1948|title=On the attraction between two perfectly conducting plates|url=https://www.dwc.knaw.nl/DL/publications/PU00018547.pdf|journal=Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wet.|volume=51|pages=793}}</ref>
* [[May 30]] &ndash; A dike along the [[Columbia River]] breaks, obliterating [[Vanport, Oregon]], within minutes; 15 people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.

===June===
{{Main|June 1948}}
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Puma (brand)|Puma]], a global [[sports goods]] brand, is founded in [[Bavaria]], [[West Germany]], by [[Rudolf Dassler]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Puma AG Rudolf Dassler Sport|publisher=Fundinguniverse.com|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Puma-AG-Rudolf-Dassler-Sport-Company-History.html|access-date=2020-11-25}}</ref> having split from his brother "[[Adolf Dassler|Adi]]".
* [[June 3]] &ndash; The [[Palomar Observatory]] telescope is finished in California.
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Hasan Saka]] forms the new government of Turkey. (17th government; Hasan Saka had served twice as a prime minister)
* [[June 11]] &ndash; The first [[monkeys in space|monkey astronaut]], Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.
* [[June 15]] &ndash; Chinese newspaper ''Renmin Ribao'' (''[[People's Daily]]'') is first published in Beijing, China.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Renmin-Ribao|title=Renmin Ribao {{!}} Chinese newspaper|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2019-11-21}}</ref>
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[United Airlines Flight 624]], a [[Douglas DC-6]], crashes near [[Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania]], killing 43 and injuring 84 people on board.
* [[June 18]]  
** [[Malayan Emergency]]: A [[state of emergency]] is declared in the [[Federation of Malaya]], due to a communist insurgency.
** Columbia Records introduces its {{frac|33|1|3}} rpm [[LP record|long playing phonograph]] format.
* [[June 20]] &ndash; The [[U.S. Congress]] recesses for the remainder of 1948, after an overtime session closes at 7:00&nbsp;a.m.  (to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948).
* [[June 21]]
** The [[Deutsche Mark]] becomes the official currency of the future [[West Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]].
** The [[Manchester Baby]] in England becomes the first [[stored-program computer]] to successfully execute a program.
* [[June 22]] 
**The ship {{HMT|Empire Windrush||6}} brings more than 800 Afro-Caribbean immigrants to [[Tilbury]] near London, the start of a large wave of immigration to Britain.
**[[David Lean]]'s ''[[Oliver Twist (1948 film)|Oliver Twist]]'', based on [[Charles Dickens]]'s famous novel, premieres in the UK. It is banned for 3 years in the U.S., because of alleged [[antisemitism]] in depicting master criminal [[Fagin]], played by [[Alec Guinness]].
[[Image:C-54 landing at Tempelhof 1948.jpg|thumb|A [[C-54 Skymaster]] landing at [[Berlin Tempelhof Airport]]]]
* [[June 24]]
** [[Cold War]]: The [[Berlin Blockade]] begins.
** The first [[World Health Assembly]] of the [[World Health Organization]] is held in Geneva.
* [[June 26]]
** [[William Shockley]] files the original patent for the [[grown-junction transistor]], the first [[bipolar junction transistor]].
** The [[Berlin Blockade|Berlin Airlift]] begins.
* [[June 28]]
** The [[Cominform]] Resolution marks the beginning of the [[Informbiro period]] in [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] and the [[Soviet–Yugoslav split|Soviet/Yugoslav split]]. 
** The 6.8 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1948 Fukui earthquake|Fukui earthquake]] strikes [[Fukui, Fukui|Fukui]], Japan; 3,769 are killed, 22,203 injured.
** [[Lotte Holdings|Lotte Group]], a global [[Conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] in [[Northeast Asia]] ([[South Korea]] and [[Japan]]), is founded.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

===July===
{{Main|July 1948}}
* [[July 5]] &ndash; The [[National Health Service]] in the United Kingdom begins functioning, giving the right to universal healthcare, free at point of use.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/lostdecade/timeline_html.shtml|title=The Lost Decade Timeline|publisher=BBC|access-date=2007-09-25|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821133044/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/lostdecade/timeline_html.shtml|archive-date=2006-08-21}}</ref>
* [[July 6]] &ndash; The world's first Air Car-ferry service is flown by a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways, from [[Lympne]] to [[Le Touquet]] across the [[English Channel]].
* [[July 13]] &ndash; The [[Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria]] and [[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church]]es reach an agreement, leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous [[Patriarch]]ate. Five [[bishop]]s are immediately consecrated by the [[Patriarch of Alexandria]] and the successor to Abuna Qerellos IV is granted the power to consecrate new bishops, who are empowered to elect a new Patriarch for their church.
* [[July 14]] &ndash; The attempted assassination of [[Palmiro Togliatti]], general secretary of the [[Italian Communist Party]], results in numerous strikes all over the country.
* [[July 15]] &ndash; The first London chapter of [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] is founded.
* [[July 16]] &ndash; Three armed men hijack the [[Cathay Pacific]] passenger plane ''[[Miss Macao]]'' and shoot the pilot; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: 
** President [[Harry S. Truman]] issues the second peacetime [[military draft]] in the United States, amid increasing tensions with the [[Soviet Union]] (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt)
** [[Eugene Dennis]], [[William Z. Foster]] and ten other [[Communist Party USA]] leaders are arrested and charged under the [[Alien Registration Act]].
* [[July 22]] &ndash; The [[Dominion of Newfoundland]] votes to join Canada, after a [[Newfoundland referendums, 1948|referendum]].
* [[July 26]] &ndash; U.S. President Truman signs [[Executive Order 9981]], ending [[racial segregation]] in the [[United States Armed Forces]].
* [[July 28]] &ndash; Around 200 die in an explosion at a chemical plant in [[Ludwigshafen]], Germany.
* [[July 29]] &ndash; The [[1948 Summer Olympics]] begin in London, the first since the [[1936 Summer Olympics]] in Berlin.
* [[July 31]]
** At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]]) is dedicated.
** American defector [[Elizabeth Bentley]], previously working on behalf of the Soviet Union, appears under subpoena before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC) of the [[United States House of Representatives]] regarding Communist espionage; she implicates [[Whittaker Chambers]].
* July–October &ndash; [[Claude E. Shannon]] publishes "[[A Mathematical Theory of Communication]]" in ''[[Bell System Technical Journal]]'' (US), regarded as a foundation of [[information theory]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=James|first=Ioan|year=2009|title=Claude Elwood Shannon 30 April 1916 – 24 February 2001|journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]]|volume=55|pages=257–265|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2009.0015|doi-access=free}}</ref> and all modern digital communications, which also leads to the adoption of the term ''[[bit]]''.

===August===
{{Main|August 1948}}
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Whittaker Chambers]] appears under subpoena before the [[HUAC]] and alleges that several former U.S. Federal officials were communists, including [[Harry Dexter White]] and [[Alger Hiss]].
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Alger Hiss]] appears before the [[HUAC]], to deny the allegations of [[Whittaker Chambers]].
* [[August 10]]&ndash;[[August 23|23]] &ndash; The [[Herrenchiemsee convention]] prepares the draft for the [[Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany]].
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Babrra massacre]]: About 600 unarmed members of the [[Khudai Khidmatgar]] movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–2010)|North-West Frontier Province]], [[Abdul Qayyum Khan]] Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the [[Hashtnagar]] region of [[Charsadda District, Pakistan|Charsadda District]], North-West Frontier Province (modern-day [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]]), [[Pakistan]].
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Harry Dexter White]] and [[Donald Hiss]] refute allegations of [[Communism]] by [[Whittaker Chambers]], before the [[HUAC]].
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[1948 Ashes series]]: Australian [[batsman]] [[Don Bradman]], playing his last [[Test cricket]] match, against England at [[The Oval]], is bowled by [[Eric Hollies]] for a [[Duck (cricket)|duck]] (leaving his career Test [[Batting average (cricket)|batting average]] at 99.94); however, [[Australian cricket team in England in 1948|"The Invincibles"]] win the match by an [[innings]] and 149 runs, and [[The Ashes]] 4–0.
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Beaver drop]], an [[Idaho Department of Fish and Game]] program to relocate [[beavers]] from Northwestern Idaho to the [[Chamberlain Basin]] in Central Idaho. The program involves parachuting beavers into the Chamberlain Basin.<ref name="Ngeo">{{cite news |last1=Sherriff |first1=Lucy |date=September 16, 2021 |title=Why beavers were parachuted into the Idaho wilderness 73 years ago |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-beavers-were-parachuted-into-the-idaho-wilderness |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916145417/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-beavers-were-parachuted-into-the-idaho-wilderness |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 16, 2021 |work=[[National Geographic]] |access-date=February 25, 2023 |quote=The traditional way of relocating 'nuisance' beavers in the 1940s wasn't working. To increase the survival rate, one conservation officer turned to—yes—parachutes.}}</ref>
* [[August 15]] &ndash; The southern half of Korea is established as the [[Republic of Korea|Republic of Korea (South Korea)]].
* [[August 17]] &ndash; The [[HUAC]] holds a private session between [[Alger Hiss]] and [[Whittaker Chambers]].
* [[August 18]] &ndash; The [[Danube Commission]] is created by the [[Belgrade]] Convention (enters into force [[11 May]] [[1949]]).
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Toho strikes]]: A [[sitdown strike]] at [[Toho]] film studio in [[Tokyo]] ends after the studio is surrounded by 2,000 police and a platoon of [[U.S. Eighth Army]] soldiers.
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Lee Pressman]], [[Nathan Witt]] and [[John Abt]], represented by [[Harold I. Cammer]], plead the [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fifth Amendment]], in response to allegations of Communism by [[Whittaker Chambers]] before the [[HUAC]].
* [[August 23]] &ndash; The [[World Council of Churches]] is established in [[Amsterdam]], the Netherlands.
* [[August 24]] &ndash; The first meeting of the charter members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) is held.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.accj.or.jp/history |title=ACCJ Online History Timeline |access-date=2008-09-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917092752/http://www.accj.or.jp/history/ |archive-date=September 17, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[August 25]] &ndash; The [[HUAC]] holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring "Confrontation Day" between [[Whittaker Chambers]] and [[Alger Hiss]].
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Whittaker Chambers]] states that [[Alger Hiss]] was a communist on ''[[Meet the Press]]'' radio.

===September===
{{Main|September 1948}}
* [[September 4]] &ndash; Queen [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands]] abdicates for health reasons.
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Robert Schuman]] becomes Prime Minister of France.
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Juliana of the Netherlands|Juliana]] is formally [[Inauguration of the Dutch monarch|inaugurated]] to succeed her mother as queen regnant of the Netherlands.
* [[September 9]] &ndash; The northern half of Korea is formally declared the [[North Korea|Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)]], with [[Kim Il Sung]] as prime minister.
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]], founder and first [[Governor-General of Pakistan]], dies. Pakistan is in a state of shock as it mourns the departure of the father of the nation. The day is a [[Quaid-i-Azam Day|public holiday]] nationwide.
* [[September 13]]&ndash;[[September 18|18]] &ndash; [[Indian annexation of Hyderabad]] ("Operation Polo"): The [[princely state]] of [[State of Hyderabad|Hyderabad]] is invaded by the [[Indian Armed Forces]] in a "[[police action]]", in the aftermath of Pakistani leader [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah|Jinnah]]'s death. The [[Nizam of Hyderabad]] surrenders his state, which is amalgamated into the newly independent [[Dominion of India]]; thousands are killed as a result of this event.
* [[September 13]] – [[Margaret Chase Smith]] of [[Maine]] is elected United States Senator, becoming the first woman to serve in both the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] and the [[United States Senate]].
* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Lehi (group)|Lehi]] members, also known as the Stern Gang, assassinate Swedish count [[Folke Bernadotte]], United Nations Mediator in Palestine, in Jerusalem.
* [[September 18]] &ndash; An inaugural motor race is held at [[Goodwood Circuit]], West Sussex, England.
* [[September 20]] &ndash; The city of [[Rabwah]] is established in Pakistan.
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[Alger Hiss]] files a slander suit against [[Whittaker Chambers]], for his August 27 radio statement in the United States.
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Laurence Olivier]]'s film of ''[[Hamlet (1948 film)|Hamlet]]'' opens in the U.S.

===October===
{{Main|October 1948}}
* [[October 5]] &ndash; The International Union for the Protection of Nature (later known as the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature]], IUCN) is established in [[Fontainebleau]], France.
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[1948 Ashgabat earthquake]]: A 7.3 {{M|s|link=y}} earthquake near [[Ashgabat]], [[Soviet Turkmenistan]] kills 10,000–110,000.
* [[October 10]] &ndash; The [[R-1 (missile)|R-1 missile]] on test becomes the first [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] launch to enter space.
* [[October 16]] &ndash; The [[57th Street Art Fair]] in Chicago, the oldest juried art fair in the American Midwest, is founded.
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Brandeis University]] is formally founded in [[Massachusetts]].
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Donora Smog of 1948]]: A killer smog settles into [[Donora, Pennsylvania]].
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]]: Massacres of Palestinian Arab villagers by the [[Israel Defense Forces]]:
** [[Al-Dawayima massacre]]: Between 30 and 145 are killed.
** [[Safsaf massacre]]: At least 52 are killed.
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[1948 Gozo luzzu disaster|Gozo ''luzzu'' disaster]]: A ''[[luzzu]]'' fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the [[Gozo Channel]] off [[Qala, Malta|Qala]], [[Gozo]], [[Crown Colony of Malta|Malta]], killing 23 of the 27 people on board.<ref>{{cite news |last=Attard |first=Eddie |title=The 1948 Ħondoq ir-Rummien tragedy |url=https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/the-1948-ondoq-ir-rummien-tragedy.443026 |access-date=25 January 2020 |work=[[Times of Malta]] |date=28 October 2012}}</ref>

===November===
{{Main|November 1948}}
* [[November 1]]
** The [[Foley Square trial]] of [[Eugene Dennis]] and ten other [[CPUSA]] leaders begins, in New York City.
** [[Athenagoras I of Constantinople|Athenagoras I]] is elected the 268th [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]].
** A boiler and ammunition explosion aboard merchant ship ''Xuan Huai'' evacuating troops of the [[Republic of China Army]] from [[Yingkou]], China for [[Taiwan]] causes thousands of deaths.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nahjAAAAIBAJ&pg=6787,1361609|title=Loss of 6000 Chinese troops in explosion of ship disclosed|newspaper=[[The Deseret News]]|date=6 December 1948|access-date=23 September 2018|archive-date=30 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030134929/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nahjAAAAIBAJ&pg=6787%2C1361609|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Dewey Defeats Truman.jpg|thumb|Truman holds up [[Dewey Defeats Truman|an erroneous banner]] headline of the ''[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]''.]]
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[1948 United States presidential election]]: Democratic incumbent [[Harry S. Truman]] defeats Republican [[Thomas E. Dewey]], "Dixiecrat" [[Strom Thurmond]] and Progressive party candidate [[Henry A. Wallace]].
* [[November 12]] &ndash; In Tokyo, an international [[war crime]]s tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General [[Hideki Tojo]], for their roles in World War II.
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Louis Stephen St. Laurent]] becomes Canada's 12th [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]].
* [[November 16]]
** ''[[Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen)|Operation Magic Carpet]]'' to transport Jews from Yemen to Israel begins.
** The [[University of the Andes, Colombia|University of the Andes]] (Universidad de los Andes) is founded in [[Bogotá]], Colombia.
* [[November 17]]
** [[Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi]] divorces his second wife, the former Princess [[Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt|Fawzia of Egypt]].
** [[Whittaker Chambers]] produces secret government papers, handwritten and typewritten by [[Alger Hiss]], during pretrial examination.
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Geoffrey B. Orbell]] rediscovers the [[Takahē]], last seen 50 years previously, near [[Lake Te Anau]], New Zealand.
* [[November 24]] &ndash; In Venezuela, president [[Rómulo Gallegos]] is ousted by a [[military junta]].
* [[November 27]] &ndash; The [[Calgary Stampeders]] defeat the [[Ottawa Rough Riders]] 12–7 before 20,013 fans at Toronto's [[Varsity Stadium]], to win their first [[Grey Cup]] and complete the only [[perfect season]] to date in [[Canadian football]].

===December===
{{Main|December 1948}}
[[File:Een groep Recce M3 Stuart tanks passeert geparkeerde vrachtwagen. Bestanddeelnr 5740.jpg|thumb|210px|Dutch forces in the [[Dutch East Indies]], 1948]]
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[José Figueres Ferrer]] abolishes the army in [[Costa Rica]], making it the first country in history to do so.
* [[December 2]] &ndash; The United States [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] subpoenas and retrieves the "[[Pumpkin Papers]]" from the farm of [[Whittaker Chambers]].
* [[December 4]] &ndash; Chinese liner {{SS|Kiangya}} sinks after an explosion occurs at the stern, which is thought to have been caused by a Japanese mine from [[World War 2]], killing up to 3920 people.
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Richard Nixon]] displays microfilm from the "Pumpkin Papers" to the press.
* [[December 9]] &ndash; The [[United Nations General Assembly]] adopts the [[Genocide Convention]].
* [[December 10]] &ndash; The United Nations General Assembly adopts the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]].
* [[December 11]]&ndash;[[December 12|12]] &ndash; [[Malayan Emergency]]: [[Batang Kali massacre]]: [[Scots Guards]] shoot 24 [[Chinese people|Chinese]] villagers in [[Federation of Malaya|Malaya]].
* [[December 15]] &ndash; The [[United States Department of Justice]] indicts [[Alger Hiss]], on two counts of [[perjury]].
* [[December 17]] &ndash; The [[Finnish Security Intelligence Service|Finnish Security Police]] is established to remove [[Communist Party of Finland|communist leadership]] from its predecessor, the [[State Police (Finland)|State Police]].
* [[December 19]] &ndash; In the American [[National Football League]], the [[Philadelphia Eagles]] defeat the [[Chicago Cardinals]] 7–0, to win the championship.
* [[December 20]]
** [[Indonesian National Revolution]]: The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the temporary capital of the newly formed Republic of Indonesia.
** American economist and former State Department official and spy for the Soviet Union [[Laurence Duggan]] falls to his death, from the 16th story window of his Manhattan office.
* [[December 23]] &ndash; Seven Japanese military and political leaders, convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, are executed by Allied occupation authorities, at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
* [[December 26]]
** The last Soviet troops withdraw from [[North Korea]].
** Cardinal [[József Mindszenty]] is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
* [[December 28]] &ndash; A [[Muslim Brotherhood]] member assassinates Egyptian Prime Minister [[Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha|Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi]].
* [[December 30]] &ndash; The musical ''[[Kiss Me, Kate]]'' opens for the first of 1,077 performances in New York City.
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[1948 Arab–Israeli War|Arab-Israeli War]]: Israeli troops drive Egyptians from the [[Negev]].

===Date unknown===
* The [[Fresh Kills Landfill]], the world's largest, opens on [[Staten Island, New York]].
* The Slovak city Gúta is renamed [[Kolárovo]].
* The [[Vielha Tunnel]] is opened, giving access to the [[Val d'Aran]] in the Spanish [[Pyrenees]]; at this time it is the longest road tunnel in the world.<ref>{{cite book|title=Guinness World Records|year=2015|publisher=The Jim Pattison Group|isbn=978-1-908843-62-3|page=184|edition=British}}</ref>
* The Oakridge Transit Centre opens in [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]].
* The last recorded sighting is made of the [[Caspian tiger]], in [[Kazakhstan]].
* A pack of wolves kills about 40 children in [[Darovskoy District]], in Russia.<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Guinness Book of World Records]]|year=2008|page=137}}</ref>
* The last edition of the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'' is published in the [[Holy See|Vatican]].
* Charles Warrell creates the first [[I-Spy (Michelin)|I-Spy]] books in the United Kingdom.
* [[Wilbert Awdry|Rev. W. Awdry]]'s third book, ''[[James the Red Engine]]'', is published in the United Kingdom.
* Inspired by World War II fighter planes, [[Cadillac]] introduces the first automobile to sport [[car tailfin|tailfin]]s.
* The inaugural [[6 Hours of Watkins Glen]] sports car endurance race is held in the United States.

==Births==
{{BDToC|births}}

===January===
[[File:Ichiro Mizuki 20070706 Japan Expo 01.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ichirou Mizuki]]]]
[[File:JohnCarpenter2010.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Carpenter]]]]
[[File:Carl Weathers Calgary 2015.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carl Weathers]]]]
[[File:David Oddsson.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Davíð Oddsson]]]]
[[File:Mikhail Baryshnikov.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mikhail Baryshnikov]]]]
[[File:President Charles Taylor.png|thumb|100px|[[Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)|Charles Taylor]]]]
[[File:Akira Yoshino 20170920 (cropped 2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Akira Yoshino]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Allan Alcorn]], American engineer
* [[January 2]]
** [[Judith Miller]], American journalist
** [[Joyce Wadler]], American writer, memoirist
** [[Deborah Watling]], English actress (d. [[2017]])
* [[January 3]] – [[Wanda Seux]], Paraguayan vedette, dancer and actress (d. [[2020]])
* [[January 5]]
** [[Wally Foreman]], Australian media icon (d. [[2006]])
** [[Ted Lange]], African-American actor, director (''[[The Love Boat]]'')
* [[January 6]] 
** [[Guy Gardner (astronaut)|Guy Gardener]], American astronaut
** [[Bob Wise]], Governor of West Virginia
* [[January 7]]
** [[Kenny Loggins]], American rock singer (''[[Footloose (song)|Footloose]]'')
** [[Ichirou Mizuki]], Japanese voice actor (d. [[2022]])
* [[January 10]]
** [[Remu Aaltonen]], Finnish musician<ref>{{cite book| editor-last= Rantala|editor-first=Risto |title= Kuka kukin on: Henkilötietoja nykypolven suomalaisista 1998 | page = 18 | location = Helsinki | publisher = Otava | year = 1998 | isbn = 951-1-14344-1|language=fi}}</ref>
** [[Donald Fagen]], American rock keyboardist (''[[Steely Dan]]'')
** [[Teresa Graves]], African-American actress and comedian (''[[Get Christie Love]]'') (d. [[2002]])
** [[Mischa Maisky]], Latvian cellist
* [[January 11]]
** [[Hiroshi Wajima]], Japanese sumo wrestler (d. [[2018]])
** [[Terry Goodkind]], American writer (d. [[2020]])
** [[Danne Larsson]], Swedish musician
* [[January 12]]
** [[Kenny Allen (footballer)|Kenny Allen]], English footballer
** [[Anthony Andrews]], English actor
* [[January 13]]
** [[V. Krishnasamy]], Malaysian footballer (d. [[2020]]) 
** [[Françoise David]], Canadian spokesperson
* [[January 14]]
** [[T Bone Burnett]], American record producer, musician
** [[Muhriz of Negeri Sembilan]], Yamtuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan
** [[Carl Weathers]], African-American actor, football player (''[[Rocky IV]]'', ''[[Action Jackson (1988 film)|Action Jackson]]'') (d. [[2024]])
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Ronnie Van Zant]], American rock musician (''[[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]'') (d. [[1977]])
* [[January 16]]
** [[John Carpenter]], American film director, producer, screenwriter and composer
** [[Gregor Gysi]], German politician
** [[Cliff Thorburn]], Canadian snooker player
** [[Tsuneo Horiuchi]], Japanese baseball pitcher, manager 
* [[January 17]]
** [[Billy T. James]], New Zealand comedian, musician and actor (d. [[1991]])
** [[Davíð Oddsson]], [[Prime Minister of Iceland]]
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[M. C. Gainey]], American actor
* [[January 19]] 
** [[Lawrence Cartwright]], Bahamian politician 
** [[Robert Llewellyn Lyons]], Canadian politician
* [[January 20]] 
** [[Nancy Kress]], American science fiction writer 
** [[Jerry L. Ross]], American air engineer
* [[January 23]]
** [[Katharine Holabird]], American writer
** [[Mitoji Yabunaka]], Japanese politician
* [[January 24]]
** [[Miklós Németh]], Hungarian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary from 1988 until 1990
* [[January 27]]
**[[Mikhail Baryshnikov]], Russian dancer
* [[January 28]]
** [[Ilkka Kanerva]], Finnish politician (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 April 2022 |title=Kansanedustaja Ilkka Kanerva on kuollut |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12406911 |access-date=14 April 2022 |website=Yle Uutiset |language=fi}}</ref>
** [[Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)|Charles Taylor]], Liberian politician, 22nd [[President of Liberia]]
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Marc Singer]], Canadian actor (''[[V (1983 miniseries)|V]]'')
* [[January 30]]
** [[Akira Yoshino]], Japanese chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
** [[Paul Magee]], Provisional Irish Republican Army member
* [[January 31]]
** [[Paul Jabara]], American actor, singer and songwriter (d. [[1992]])
** [[Muneo Suzuki]], Japanese politician

===February===
[[File:Henning Mankell 3 2011 Shankbone.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Henning Mankell]]]]
[[File:Dom Filipe Ximenes Belo 2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo]]]]
[[File:Alice Cooper 2017-08-05 Wacken (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alice Cooper]]]]
[[File:Guest4.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Christopher Guest]]]]
[[File:Barbara Hershey by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Barbara Hershey]]]]
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<!--[[File:Eckhart_Tolle_front.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Eckhart Tolle]]]]-->
[[File:Peters in 08.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bernadette Peters]]]]
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* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Rick James]], African-American urban singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer (d. [[2004]])
* [[February 2]]
** [[Ina Garten]], American cooking author
** [[Roger Williamson]], British race car driver (d. [[1973]])
* [[February 3]]
** [[Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo]], East Timorean Catholic bishop, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]
** [[Henning Mankell]], Swedish crime novelist (d. [[2015]])
* [[February 4]]
** [[Alice Cooper]], American hard rock singer and musician (''[[School's Out (song)|School's Out]]'')
** [[Ram Baran Yadav]], [[President of Nepal]]
* [[February 5]]
** [[Jim Dornan]], Northern Irish obstetrician and gynecologist (d. [[2021]])
** [[Sven-Göran Eriksson]], Swedish football manager (d. [[2024]])
** [[Christopher Guest]], American actor, screenwriter, director and composer (''[[National Lampoon (magazine)|National Lampoon]]'', ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'')
** [[Barbara Hershey]], American actress (''[[Beaches (1988 film)|Beaches]]'')
** [[Tom Wilkinson]], English actor (d. [[2023]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Jimmy Greenspoon]], American keyboardist, composer (''[[Three Dog Night]]'') (d. [[2015]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Dan Seals]], American musician (d. [[2009]])
* [[February 9]]
** [[David Hayman]], Scottish film, television and stage actor, director
** [[Greg Stafford (game designer)|Greg Stafford]], American game designer, publisher (d. [[2018]])
* [[February 10]] 
** [[Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ]], Greenlandic Inuk politician, human rights activist (d. [[2018]])
** [[John Magnier]], Irish businessman, thoroughbred racehorse breeder
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Chris Rush]], American stand-up comedian
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Raymond Kurzweil]], American inventor, author
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Kitten Natividad]], Mexican-American film actress (d. 2022)
* [[February 14]]
** [[Jackie Martling]], American comedian, radio personality
** [[Wally Tax]], Dutch musician (d. [[2005]])
** [[Teller (magician)|Raymond Teller]], American illusionist and magician, one half of the duo [[Penn & Teller]]
** [[Yehuda Shoenfeld]], Israeli physician, autoimmunity researcher
* [[February 15]] – [[Larry DiTillio]], American film and TV series writer (d. [[2019]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Eckhart Tolle]], German-Canadian spiritual author
* [[February 17]]
** [[György Cserhalmi]], Hungarian actor
** [[José José]], Mexican singer, actor (d. [[2019]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Sinéad Cusack]], Irish actress
* [[February 19]]
** [[Pim Fortuyn]], Dutch politician, author (d. [[2002]])
** [[Tony Iommi]], English heavy metal guitarist
** [[Elizabeth Sackler]], American activist
** [[Raúl Grijalva]], American politician, member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] (d. [[2025]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Jennifer O'Neill]], American model, actress
* [[February 21]] – [[Christian Vander (musician)]], French drummer, founder of progressive rock/Zeuhl group Magma
* [[February 22]]
** [[John Ashton (actor)|John Ashton]], American actor (d. [[2024]])
** [[Leslie H. Sabo Jr.]], American [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (d. [[1970]])
* [[February 24]]
** [[Jayalalithaa]], Indian politician, film actress (d. [[2016]])
** [[Walter Smith]], Scottish football manager (d. [[2021]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Danny Denzongpa]], Indian actor
* [[February 28]]
** [[Steven Chu]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
** [[Mike Figgis]], American director, screenwriter and composer
** [[Kjell Isaksson]], Swedish pole vaulter
** [[Bernadette Peters]], American actress, singer
** [[Mercedes Ruehl]], American actress
** [[Alfred Sant]], Leader of Malta Labour Party (1992–), Prime Minister of Malta (1996–1998)
* [[February 29]]
** [[Khalid Salleh]], Malaysian actor, poet (d. [[2018]])
** [[Ken Foree]], American actor
** [[Henry Small (singer)|Henry Small]], American-born Canadian singer

===March===
<!--[[File:Shakin' Stevens.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Shakin' Stevens]]]]-->
[[File:Eddy Grant at Supreme Court Gardens cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Eddy Grant]]]]
[[File:James Taylor - Columbia.jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Taylor]]]]
[[File:Billy Crystal by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Billy Crystal]]]]
[[File:Sérgio Vieira de Mello.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sérgio Vieira de Mello]]]]
[[File:AndrewLloydWebber3.png|thumb|100px|[[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]]]
[[File:Steven Tyler by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Steven Tyler]]]]
[[File:RheaPerlmanAug2011.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rhea Perlman]]]]
[[File:Al Gore, Vice President of the United States, official portrait 1994 (a).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Al Gore]]]]
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Gopanarayan Das]], Indian politician (d. [[2022]])
* [[March 2]]
** [[R. T. Crowley]], American pioneer of electronic commerce
** [[Rory Gallagher]], Irish musician (d. [[1995]])
** [[Jeff Kennett]], Australian politician
* [[March 3]]
** [[Steve Wilhite]], American computer scientist, developer of the [[GIF]] image format at [[CompuServe]] in 1987 (d. [[2022]])
* [[March 4]]
** [[Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton]], Australian author (''[[A Cry in the Dark]]'')
** [[James Ellroy]], American writer
** [[Tom Grieve]], American baseball player
** [[Leron Lee]], American baseball player
** [[Chris Squire]], English bassist ([[Yes (band)|Yes]]) (d. [[2015]])
** [[Shakin' Stevens]], Welsh singer
** [[Brian Cummings]], American voice actor
* [[March 5]]
** [[Eddy Grant]], Guyanese British singer, musician ("[[Electric Avenue]]")
** [[Elaine Paige]], English singer, actress
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Anna Maria Horsford]], African-American actress (''[[Amen (TV series)|Amen]]'')
* [[March 8]] 
** [[Sinta Nuriyah]], 4th [[First Lady of Indonesia]], wife of [[Abdurrahman Wahid]]  
** [[Jonathan Sacks]], British Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, author and politician (d. [[2020]])
* [[March 9]]
** [[László Lovász]], Hungarian mathematician
** [[Jeffrey Osborne]], American singer ("[[On the Wings of Love (song)|On the Wings of Love]]")
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Doug Clark (serial killer)|Doug Clark]], American [[serial killer]] (d. [[2023]])
* [[March 11]]
** [[Dominique Sanda]], French actress
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[James Taylor]], American singer, songwriter ("[[Fire and Rain (song)|Fire and Rain]]")
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Maurice A. de Gosson]], Austrian mathematician
* [[March 14]] – [[Billy Crystal]], American actor, comedian
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Sérgio Vieira de Mello]], Brazilian diplomat (d. [[2003]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Margaret Weis]], American science fiction writer
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[William Gibson]], American/Canadian writer
* [[March 18]] 
** [[Jessica B. Harris]], American historian and journalist
** [[Bobby Whitlock]], American singer, songwriter and musician (d. [[2025]])
* [[March 20]]
** [[John de Lancie]], American actor
** [[Bobby Orr]], Canadian hockey player
** [[Helene Vannari]], Estonian actress (d. [[2022]])
* [[March 22]]
** [[Inri Cristo]], Brazilian educator who claims to be Jesus Christ reincarnated
** [[Wolf Blitzer]], American television journalist ([[CNN]])
** [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]], English composer (''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'')
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Bonnie Bedelia]], American actress
* [[March 26]]
** [[Nash the Slash]] (b. James Jeffrey Plewman), Canadian musician (d. [[2014]])
** [[Steven Tyler]], American rock singer, songwriter ([[Aerosmith]])
** [[Gayyur Yunus]], Azerbaijani painter<ref name="azgallery">{{Cite web |last=Yunus |first=Gayyur |date=Spring 1995 |others=Translation assistance by Jamila Pashayeva |title=Gaiyur Yunus |url=https://azgallery.org/artgallery/artists/yunus.gaiyur-86/article_yunuz/31.gaiyuryunus.html |access-date=2025-07-01 |website=azgallery.org}}</ref>
* [[March 28]]
**[[Jayne Ann Krentz]], American novelist
**[[Dianne Wiest]], American actress
* [[March 29]] 
** [[Mike Heideman]], American basketball coach (d. [[2018]])
** [[Bud Cort]], American actor (''[[Harold and Maude]]'')
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Eddie Jordan]], Irish founder of [[Jordan Grand Prix]] (d. [[2025]])
* [[March 31]]
** [[Rhea Perlman]], American actress (''[[Cheers]]'')
** [[Al Gore]], American politician and environmentalist, 45th [[Vice President of the United States]]

===April===
[[File:Carlos Salinas.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carlos Salinas de Gortari]]]]
[[File:Frank W. Abagnale in 2008.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Frank Abagnale]]]]
[[File:10.12.12TerryPratchettByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Terry Pratchett]]]]
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Jimmy Cliff]], Jamaican singer, actor
* [[April 2]]
** [[Bob Lienhard]], American basketball player (d. [[2018]]) 
** [[Roald Als]], Danish cartoonist
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Carlos Salinas de Gortari]], Mexican economist, politician and 53rd [[President of Mexico]] (1988–1994)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/6092/Carlos%20Salinas%20de%20Gortari|title=Carlos Salinas de Gortari|publisher=Busca Biografias|access-date=May 30, 2019|language=es}}</ref>
* [[April 4]] 
** [[Squire Parsons]], American gospel singer, songwriter
** [[Dan Simmons]], American fantasy, science fiction author
** [[Berry Oakley]], American musician (d. [[1972]])
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Neil Portnow]], American President of [[The Recording Academy]] (NARAS)
* [[April 7]] 
** [[Arnie Robinson]], American Olympic Long jump champion (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417174749/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/arnie-robinson-1.html |title=Arnie Robinson |archive-date=2020-04-17 |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/arnie-robinson-1.html |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/sports-columnists/story/2020-12-01/arnie-robinson-olympics-long-jump-gold-montreal-died-san-diego-aztecs-mesa-college|title=Column: Arnie Robinson dies at 72; Olympic long jump gold medalist, San Diego mainstay|date=December 1, 2020|website=San Diego Union-Tribune}}</ref>
** [[John Oates]], American rock singer, guitarist (''[[Hall & Oates]]'')
** [[Pietro Anastasi]], Italian football player (d. [[2020]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Jaya Bachchan]], Indian actress and politician
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[Fauzi Bowo]], Indonesian politician and diplomat, governor of [[Jakarta]]
* [[April 12]]
** [[Jeremy Beadle]], English TV presenter (d. [[2008]])
** [[Don Fernando]], American pornographic film actor, director
**[[Joschka Fischer]], German politician
** [[Marcello Lippi]], Italian football player, manager
* [[April 13]]
** [[Nam Hae-il]], 25th Chief of Naval Operations of the [[Republic of Korea Navy]]
** [[Mikhail Shufutinsky]], Soviet, Russian singer, actor and TV presenter
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Michael Kamen]], American composer (d. [[2003]])
* [[April 16]]
** [[Ammar El Sherei]], Egyptian music icon, celebrity (d. [[2012]])
** [[Kazuyuki Sogabe]], Japanese voice actor (d. [[2006]])
* [[April 17]] 
** [[Jan Hammer]], Czechoslovakian composer, pianist and keyboardist
** [[Peter Jenni]], Swiss experimental particle physicist
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Avi Arad]], Israeli-American film producer
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Paul Milgrom]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[April 21]]
** [[Paul Davis (singer)|Paul Davis]], American singer, songwriter (''[[Cool Night]]'') (d. [[2008]])
** [[Josef Flammer]], Swiss ophthalmologist (after whom [[Flammer syndrome]] is named)
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[István Szívós (water polo, born 1948)|István Szívós]], Hungarian water polo player (d. [[2019]])
* [[April 27]] 
** [[Amrit Kumar Bohara]], Nepalese politician  
** [[Frank Abagnale]], American con man, imposter
** [[Si Robertson]], American reality star, preacher, hunter, outdoorsman and U.S. Army veteran
* [[April 28]]
** [[Terry Pratchett]], English comic fantasy, science fiction author (d. [[2015]])
** [[Marcia Strassman]], American actress, singer (''[[Welcome Back, Kotter]]'') (d. [[2014]])
* [[April 29]]
** [[Michael Karoli]], German musician (d. [[2001]])
** [[John Batchelor]], American author and radio host
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Jocelyne Saab]], Lebanese journalist, film director (d. [[2019]])

===May===
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[[File:Steve-Winwood2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Steve Winwood]]]]
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[[File:Sayer.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Leo Sayer]]]]
[[File:Klaus Meine.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Klaus Meine]]]]
[[File:Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams Premiere March 2013 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Stevie Nicks]]]]
[[File:Swetlana Alexijewitsch 2013.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Svetlana Alexievich]]]]
[[File:John Bonham 1975.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Bonham]]]]
* [[May 2]]
** [[Vladimir Matorin]], Russian opera singer
** [[Larry Gatlin]], American singer, songwriter
* [[May 3]]
** [[William H. Miller (writer)|William H. Miller]], American maritime historian 
** [[Chris Mulkey]], American actor
* [[May 4]] 
** [[Jan Kantůrek]], Czech translator (d. [[2018]])
** [[Tanya Falan Welk|Tanya Falan]], American singer
** King [[George Tupou V]] of Tonga (d. [[2012]])
* [[May 5]]
** [[Joe Esposito (singer)|Joe Esposito]], American singer, songwriter
** [[Richard Pacheco]], American pornographic actor
** [[Bill Ward (musician)|Bill Ward]], English rock drummer
* [[May 7]] – [[Susan Atkins]], convicted murderer and ex-follower of [[Charles Manson]] (d. [[2009]])
* [[May 8]]
** Dame [[Felicity Lott]], English soprano
** [[Stephen Stohn]], Canadian television producer
* [[May 9]]
** [[Steven W. Mosher]], American social scientist, author
** [[Calvin Murphy]], American basketball player, analyst
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[Meg Foster]], American actress 
* [[May 11]]
** [[Pam Ferris]], Welsh actress 
** [[Shigeru Izumiya]], Japanese musician
* [[May 12]] 
** [[Steve Winwood]], English rock singer ("[[Higher Love]]")
** [[Lindsay Crouse]], American actress
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Bob Woolmer]], Indian-born English cricket coach (d. [[2007]])
* [[May 15]]
** [[Yutaka Enatsu]], Japanese professional baseball pitcher
** [[Brian Eno]], English musician, record producer
* [[May 16]] &ndash; [[Jesper Christensen]], Danish actor
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Penny DeHaven]], American country singer (d. [[2014]])
* [[May 18]]
** [[Olivia Harrison]], American author and film producer
** [[Mikko Heiniö]], Finnish composer
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Grace Jones]], Jamaican singer, actress
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Tesshō Genda]], Japanese voice actor
* [[May 21]]
** [[D'Jamin Bartlett]], American musical theatre actress
** [[Elizabeth Buchan]], English writer
** [[Jonathan Hyde]], Australian-born English actor
** [[Carol Potter (actress)|Carol Potter]], American actress
** [[Leo Sayer]], English rock musician ("[[When I Need You]]")
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Gary McCord]], American professional golfer
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Klaus Meine]], German singer ([[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]])
* [[May 26]]
** [[Dayle Haddon]], Canadian model, actress (d. [[2024]])
** [[Stevie Nicks]], American rock singer, songwriter ([[Fleetwood Mac]])
* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Wubbo de Boer]], Dutch civil servant
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Michael Berkeley]], English composer
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Paul L. Schechter]], American astronomer and cosmologist 
* [[May 31]]
** [[Svetlana Alexievich]], Belarusian writer of literary reportage, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate
** [[Lynda Bellingham]], English actress, broadcaster and author (d. [[2014]])
** [[John Bonham]], English rock drummer ([[Led Zeppelin]]) (d. [[1980]])

===June===
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* [[June 1]]
** [[Powers Boothe]], American actor (''[[Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones]]'') (d. [[2017]])
** [[Tom Sneva]], American race car driver, [[Indianapolis 500]] winner
* [[June 2]] &ndash; [[Jerry Mathers]], American actor (''[[Leave It to Beaver]]'')
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Carlos Franzetti]], Argentine composer and arranger
* [[June 4]]
** [[Bob Champion]], English jump jockey
** [[David Haskell]], American actor (d. [[2000]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Richard Sinclair]], English musician (''[[Caravan (band)|Caravan]]'')
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Jim C. Walton]], American business person, (''[[Walmart]]'')
* [[June 8]]
** [[Jürgen von der Lippe]], German television presenter, actor and comedian
** [[Jad Azkoul]], Lebanese-American classical guitarist
* [[June 9]] 
** [[Gudrun Schyman]], Swedish politician
** [[Gary Thorne]], American play-by-play announcer
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Subrata Roy]], Indian businessman (d. [[2023]])
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Dave Cash (baseball)|Dave Cash]], American baseball player
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Sadegh Zibakalam]], Iranian academic reformist
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Garnet Bailey]], Canadian hockey player, scout (d. [[2001]])
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[Laurence Yep]], American author
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Paul Michiels]], Belgian singer, songwriter
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Terry Schofield]], American basketball player
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Dave Concepción]], Venezuelan baseball player
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Sherry Turkle]], American science/social studies professor 
** [[Eliezer Halfin]], Israeli wrestler (d. [[1972]]) 
* [[June 19]]
** [[Nick Drake]], English musician (d. [[1974]])
** [[Lea Laven]], Finnish singer
** [[Phylicia Rashad]], African-American actress (''[[The Cosby Show]]'')
* [[June 20]]
** [[Véronique de Montchalin]], French politician
** [[Diana Mara Henry]], American freelance photojournalist
** [[Alan Longmuir]], Scottish musician (d. [[2018]]) 
** [[Ludwig Scotty]], [[President of Nauru]]
** [[Tina Sinatra]], American singer, actress, film producer and memoirist
* [[June 21]]
** [[Don Airey]], British musician
** [[Lionel Rose]], Australian boxer (d. [[2011]])
** [[Jovan Aćimović]], Serbian football player
** [[Raffaello Martinelli]], Italian prelate
** [[Philippe Sarde]], French film composer
** [[Andrzej Sapkowski]], Polish writer
** [[Wolfgang Seel]], German football player
** [[Greg Hyder]], American professional basketball player
* [[June 22]] 
** [[Takashi Sasano]], Japanese actor
** [[Shōhaku Okumura]], Japanese Soto Zen
** [[Peter Prijdekker]], Dutch swimmer
** [[Sue Roberts (golfer)|Sue Roberts]], American professional golfer
** [[Todd Rundgren]], American rock singer, record producer (''[[Hello It's Me]]'')
** [[Curtis Johnson (cornerback)|Curtis Johnson]], American football cornerback 
** [[Franciszek Smuda]], Polish football coach
** [[Panagiotis Xanthakos]], Greek sports shoote
** [[Colin Waldron]], English football defender
* [[June 23]]
** [[Larry Coker]], American football player, coach
** [[Jim Heacock]], American defensive coordinator
** [[Luther Kent]], American blues singer
* [[June 24]]
** [[Stephen Martin (Australian politician)|Stephen Martin]], Australian politician, senior academic and rugby league referee
** [[Patrick Moraz]], Swiss keyboard player
** [[Janet Museveni]], First Lady of Uganda
** [[Dave Orchard]], South African cricketer
** [[Eigil Sørensen]], Danish cyclist
** [[Jürgen Stars]], German footballer
** [[Jenny Wood]], Zimbabwean swimmer
* [[June 25]]
** [[Kenn George]], American businessman
** [[Michael Lembeck]], American actor, television and film director
** [[Tom Rideout]], Canadian politician
* [[June 26]]
** [[David Vaughan (golfer)|David Vaughan]], Welsh professional golfer
** [[John Pratt (footballer)|John Pratt]], English professional footballer
** [[Pablo Anaya Rivera]], Mexican politician
* [[June 27]] 
** [[Vennira Aadai Nirmala]], Tamil actress
** [[Michael J. Barrett]], Guamanian politician
** [[Camile Baudoin]], American rock guitarist
* [[June 28]] 
** [[Deborah Moggach]], English writer
** [[Kathy Bates]], American actress (''[[Misery (film)|Misery]]'')
** [[Jimmy Thomson (footballer, born 1948)|Jimmy Thomson]], Scottish professional footballer 
** [[Brian Rowan]], Scottish professional footballer
* [[June 29]]
** [[Danny Adcock]], Australian actor
** [[Vic Brooks]], English cricketer
** [[Leo Burke]], Canadian professional wrestler
** [[Fred Grandy]], American actor, politician (''[[The Love Boat]]'')
** [[Helge Karlsen]], Norwegian football player
** [[Ian Paice]], English musician (''[[Deep Purple]]'')
** [[Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar]], crossbench member of the House of Lords
* [[June 30]] 
** [[Alice Wong]], Canadian politician
** [[Dag Fornæss]], Norwegian speed skater
** [[Peter Rossborough]], English rugby union international
** [[Galarrwuy Yunupingu]], Australian Indigenous community leader (d. [[2023]])
** [[Vladimir Yakunin]], Russian official, head of state-run [[Russian Railways]] Company
** [[Raymond Leo Burke]], American cardinal, prelate

===July===
[[File:Jeremy Spencer - 2009-06-14.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jeremy Spencer]]]] 
[[File:Nathalie Baye Cannes 2019.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Nathalie Baye]]]]
[[File:RichardSimmonsSept2011.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Richard Simmons]]]] 
[[File:Daphne Maxwell Reid at USDA Women’s History Month Celebration 2012.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Daphne Maxwell Reid]]]]
[[File:Ruben Blades by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rubén Blades]]]] 
[[File:Yusuf Islam BBC2 Folk Awards.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Cat Stevens]]]]
[[File:Former U.S. Olympian Peggy Fleming holds a Gold at the Pavilion.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Peggy Fleming]]]]
[[File:Jean Reno Cannes 2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jean Reno]]]]
* [[July 1]] 
** [[Ever Hugo Almeida]], Paraguayan footballer
** [[Hap Farber]], [[American football linebacker]].
** [[John Ford (musician)|John Ford]], English-born rock musician (''[[Strawbs]]''), writer of ''[[Part of the Union]]''
** [[Michael McGimpsey]], Northern Ireland politician
* [[July 2]] 
** [[Mario Villanueva]], Mexican politician
** [[Saul Rubinek]], German-Canadian character actor, director, producer and playwright
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Tarmo Koivisto]], Finnish comics artist
* [[July 4]] 
** [[René Arnoux]], French racing driver
** [[Louis Raphaël I Sako]], Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church
** [[Ed Armbrister]], Bahamian Major League Baseball outfielder
** [[Nazmul Hussain]], Indian first-class cricketer
** [[Jeremy Spencer]], British musician
* [[July 5]]
** [[Tony DeMeo]], American football coach, player
** [[Dave Lemonds]], American baseball player
** [[Salomon Juan Marcos Issa]], Mexican politician
** [[Lojze Peterle]], Slovenian politician
** [[William Hootkins]], American actor (d. [[2005]])
* [[July 6]]
** [[Nathalie Baye]], French actress
** [[Jeff Webb (basketball)|Jeff Webb]], American professional basketball player
** [[Arnaldo Baptista]], Brazilian rock musician, composer
** [[Brad Park]], Canadian NHL Defenseman 
** [[Sid Smith (offensive lineman)|Sid Smith]], American football offensive lineman
** [[Eiko Segawa]], Japanese female enka singer, actress
** [[Jan van der Veen]], Dutch professional association football player
* [[July 7]]
** [[Jerry Sherk]], American football defensive tackle
** [[Jean LeClerc (actor)|Jean LeClerc]], Québécois actor
** [[Jean-Marie Colombani]], French journalist
** [[Tan Lee Meng]], Singaporean jurist
** [[Stuart Varney]], British-American economic consultant
** [[Luis Estrada (footballer)|Luis Estrada]], Mexican football league forward, Olympic athlete
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Raffi (musician)|Raffi]], Egyptian-born children's entertainer
* [[July 10]]
** [[Theo Bücker]], German football manager, player
** [[Mick Coop]], English professional football right back
** [[Rich Hand]], American professional baseball player
* [[July 12]] 
** [[Richard Simmons]], American television personality, fitness expert (d. [[2024]])
** [[Jay Thomas]], American actor (d. [[2017]])
* [[July 13]]
** [[Alf Hansen]], Norwegian rower
** [[Daphne Maxwell Reid]], African-American actress
** [[Don Sweet]], Canadian star football kicker
** [[Robert A. Underwood]], Guamanian politician, educator
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu]], Zulu king (d. [[2021]])
* [[July 15]]
** [[Enriqueta Basilio]], Mexican track and field athlete (d. [[2019]])
** [[Richard Franklin (director)|Richard Franklin]], Australian film director (d. [[2007]])
** [[Twinkle (singer)|Twinkle]], English singer, songwriter (d. [[2015]])
* [[July 16]]
** [[Rubén Blades]], Panamanian singer, actor and musician
** [[Rita Barberá]], Spanish politician, Mayor of Valencia (d. [[2016]])
** [[Lars Lagerbäck]], Swedish football manager, player
** [[Jeff Van Wagenen]], American professional golfer
** [[Pinchas Zukerman]], Israeli violinist
* [[July 17]] 
** [[Doug Berry (Canadian football)|Doug Berry]], American Canadian football coach
** [[Alan Sieler]], Australian cricketer
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Hartmut Michel]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[July 20]]
** [[Muse Watson]], American actor
** [[Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham]], Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunis
* [[July 21]]
** [[Beppe Grillo]], Italian activist, blogger, comedian and actor
** [[Ed Hinton (sportswriter)|Ed Hinton]], American sportswriter
** [[Cat Stevens]] (b. Steven Georgiou, later known as Yusuf Islam), British singer, musician 
** [[Garry Trudeau]], American cartoonist (''[[Doonesbury]]'')
** [[Teruzane Utada]], Japanese music executive producer, attendant
** [[Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov|Mikhail Zadornov]], Russian stand-up comedian, writer
** [[Snooty]], male Florida manatee (d. [[2017]])
** [[Anders Berglund]], Swedish arranger/composer, conductor and producer
* [[July 22]] 
** [[Susan Eloise Hinton]], American author
** [[Otto Waalkes]], German comedian, actor
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[John Cushnahan]], Northern Irish politician
* [[July 25]] 
** [[Steve Goodman]], American [[Grammy Award]]-winning [[folk music]] singer, songwriter (d. [[1984]])
** [[Tony Cline]], American football player (d. [[2018]])
* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[Peggy Fleming]], American figure skater
* [[July 28]]
** [[Gerald Casale]], American director, singer (''[[Devo]]'')\
** [[Georgia Engel]], American actress (d. [[2019]])
*[[July 29]]
**[[Meir Shalev]] Israeli writer and newspaper columnist for the daily Yedioth Ahronoth. Shalev's books have been translated into 26 languages (d.[[2023]])
* [[July 30]]
** [[Jean Reno]], French actor
** [[Julia Tsenova]], Bulgarian composer, musician (d. [[2010]])
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Dollimore]], English academic sociologist, cultural theorist

===August===
[[File:Jean-Pierre Raffarin par Claude Truong-Ngoc 2013.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jean-Pierre Raffarin]]]]
[[File:Deana Martin Headshot.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Deana Martin]]]]
[[File:John Noble by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Noble]]]]
[[File:Robert Plant at the Palace Theatre, Manchester.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Plant]]]]
[[File:10.11.13SgtSlaughterByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sgt. Slaughter]]]]
[[File:Lewis Black Aviano 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lewis Black]]]]
* [[August 2]]
** [[Dennis Prager]], American radio talk show host, author
** [[Bob Rae]], Canadian politician
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Jean-Pierre Raffarin]], Prime Minister of France
* [[August 4]] &ndash; [[Giorgio Parisi]], Italian theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate 
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[James P. Allison]], American immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* [[August 8]] – [[Wincey Willis]], British broadcaster (d. [[2024]])
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Mizengo Pinda]], 9th Prime Minister of Tanzania
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Kathleen Battle]], African-American soprano
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Joseph Marcell]], English actor
* [[August 15]] 
** [[Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi]], Iranian cleric, politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[George Ryton]], Singapore-born English Formula One engineer
* [[August 18]]
** [[Sean Scanlan]], Scottish actor (d. [[2017]])
** [[Robert Hughes (actor)|Robert Hughes]], Australian actor
** [[Deana Martin]], American singer and actress
* [[August 20]]
** [[John Noble]], Australian actor
** [[Robert Plant]], English singer (''[[Led Zeppelin]]'')
** [[Barbara Allen Rainey]] (b. Barbara Ann Allen), American aviator, first female pilot in the U.S. armed forces (d. [[1982]])
* [[August 21]]
** [[Sharon M. Draper]], American children's book author (''[[Out of My Mind (novel)|Out of My Mind]]'')
** [[Peter Starkie]], Australian rock guitarist ([[Skyhooks (band)|Skyhooks]], [[Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons]])
* [[August 22]]
** [[David Marks]], American guitarist ([[The Beach Boys]])
** [[Carolyn L. Mazloomi]], American quilter and art historian
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Lev Zeleny]], Soviet, Russian physicist
* [[August 24]]
** [[Jean-Michel Jarre]], French electronic musician
** [[Sauli Niinistö]], Finnish politician, 12th [[President of Finland]]
** [[Kim Sung-il (general)|Kim Sung-il]], Chief of Staff of the [[Republic of Korea Air Force]] <!-- "Kim" is surname -->
** [[Tito Sotto|Vicente Sotto III]], Filipino actor, host and politician
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Tony Ramos]], Brazilian actor
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Sgt. Slaughter]], American professional wrestler
* [[August 30]] 
** [[Lewis Black]], American comedian
** [[Fred Hampton]], American activist (d. [[1969]])
** [[Victor Skumin]], Russian scientist, professor
* [[August 31]]
** [[Cyril Jordan]], American musician
** [[Holger Osieck]], German football manager

===September===
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[[File:Portrait photoshoot at Worldcon 75, Helsinki, before the Hugo Awards – George R. R. Martin.jpg|thumb|100px|[[George R. R. Martin]]]]
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* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[James Rebhorn]], American actor (d. [[2014]])
* [[September 2]]
** [[Nate Archibald]], American basketball player
** [[Terry Bradshaw]], American football player, sportscaster
** [[Christa McAuliffe]], American teacher and astronaut (d. in [[Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster]] [[1986]])
* [[September 3]]
** [[Don Brewer]], American drummer (''[[Grand Funk Railroad]]'')
** [[Levy Mwanawasa]], Zambian president (d. [[2008]])
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Michael Berryman]], American actor
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Benita Ferrero-Waldner]], Austrian diplomat, politician
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Sam Hui]], Hong Kong singer
* [[September 7]] 
** [[Susan Blakely]], American actress
** [[Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan]], ruler of Abu Dhabi (d. [[2022]])
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[The Great Kabuki]], Japanese professional wrestler
* [[September 10]]
** [[Judy Geeson]], English actress
** [[Bob Lanier]], American basketball player (d. [[2022]])
** [[Margaret Trudeau]] (b. Margaret Sinclair), wife and mother of Prime Ministers of Canada
** [[Charlie Waters]], American football player
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[John Martyn]] (b. Iain McGeachy), British folk-rock guitarist (d. [[2009]])
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Mah Bow Tan]], Singaporean politician
* [[September 13]]
** [[Nell Carter]], African-American singer, actress (''[[Gimme a Break!]]'') (d. [[2003]])
** [[Sitiveni Rabuka]], 3rd Prime Minister of Fiji 
** [[Kathleen Lloyd]], American actress
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Ron Blair]], American rock bassist (''[[Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers]]'')
* [[September 17]]
** [[Aidan Nichols]], English Dominican priest and academic
** [[John Ritter]], American actor (''[[Three's Company]]'') (d. [[2003]])
* [[September 19]]
** [[Jeremy Irons]], English actor
** [[Nadiya Tkachenko]], Soviet pentathlete
* [[September 20]]
** [[Rey Langit]], Filipino journalist, radio host
** [[George R. R. Martin]], American [[speculative fiction]] author
* [[September 22]]
** [[Denis Burke (Australian politician)|Denis Burke]], Australian politician
** [[Jim Byrnes (actor)|Jim Byrnes]], American voice actor, blues musician and actor
** [[Mark Phillips]], British army captain, equestrian and first husband of [[Anne, Princess Royal]]
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[José Lavat]], Mexican voice actor (d. [[2018]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Phil Hartman]], Canadian actor, comedian (''[[Saturday Night Live]]'') (d. [[1998]])
* [[September 25]]
** [[Cäcilia Rentmeister]], German art historian, gender researcher
** [[Vasile Șirli]], Romanian musical composer and producer<ref>{{cite news|url=https://adevarul.ro/stil-de-viata/cultura/compozitorul-vasili-sirli-eu-am-facut-muzica-si-1876468.html|title=Compozitorul Vasili Șirli: "Eu am făcut muzică și am lucrat ca să-mi câștig pâinea. Și marii compozitori au lucrat ca să-și plătească chiria"|first=Simona|last=Chițan|newspaper=[[Adevărul]]|date=8 July 2017|language=ro}}</ref>
** [[Vladimir Yevtushenkov]], Russian [[Business oligarch|oligarch]]
* [[September 26]]
** [[Maurizio Gucci]], Italian businessman, murder victim (d. [[1995]])
** [[Olivia Newton-John]], English-born Australian singer, actress (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary: Olivia Newton-John |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40105353 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=8 August 2022 |date=8 August 2022}}</ref>
** [[Vladimír Remek]], Czech politician and cosmonaut
* [[September 27]] 
** [[Michele Dotrice]], English actress
** [[A Martinez]], American actor, singer
* [[September 29]]
** [[Mark Farner]], American rock guitarist, singer (''[[Grand Funk Railroad]]'')
** [[Bryant Gumbel]], African-American television broadcaster (''[[The Today Show]]'')
** [[Theo Jörgensmann]], German jazz clarinetist (d. [[2025]])

===October===
[[File:QTXP 20121019 Destination Star Trek London MG 2144.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Avery Brooks]]]]
<!--[[File:Johnny_Ramone_in_Japan_(cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Johnny Ramone]]]]-->[[File:Hema Malini's 75th birthday celebration.jpg|thumb|133x133px|[[Hema Malini]]]]<!--[[File:Robert_Jordan.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Jordan]]]]-->
[[File:Margot Kidder Gaily, Gaily.png|thumb|100px|[[Margot Kidder]]]]
[[File:Kushida anime friends 2010.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Akira Kushida]]]]
[[File:Kate Jackson 1976.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Kate Jackson]]]]
* [[October 1]] 
** [[Mark Landon]], American actor (d. [[2009]])
** Sir [[Peter Blake (sailor)|Peter Blake]], New Zealand yachtsman (d. [[2001]])
* [[October 2]]
** [[Avery Brooks]], American actor, musician
** [[Persis Khambatta]], Indian actress, model (''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]'') (d. [[1998]])
** [[Chris LeDoux]], American singer, rodeo star (d. [[2005]])
** [[Donna Karan]], American fashion designer
* [[October 4]] 
** [[Meg Bennett]], American soap opera writer
** [[Iain Hewitson]], New Zealand-Australian chef, restaurateur, author and television personality 
*[[October 5]] &ndash; [[Russell Mael]], American singer ([[Sparks (band)|Sparks]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7n515ucve20C&pg=PT17|title=Talent Is An Asset: The Story of Sparks|first=Daryl|last=Easlea|date=April 7, 2010|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9780857122377 }}</ref>
*[[October 6]]
** [[Wendell Ladner]], American basketball player (d. [[1975]])
** [[Gerry Adams]], Northern Irish politician
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Diane Ackerman]], American poet, essayist
* [[October 8]]
** [[Johnny Ramone]], American guitarist ([[Ramones]]) (d. [[2004]])
** [[Baldwin Spencer (politician)|Baldwin Spencer]], 3rd [[Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda]]
* [[October 9]]
** [[Jackson Browne]], American rock musician ("[[Running on Empty (song)|Running on Empty]]")
** [[Ciarán Carson]], Northern Irish poet, novelist
** [[Oliver Hart (economist)|Oliver Hart]], English-born economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[October 11]]
** [[Margie Alexander]], American gospel, soul singer (d. [[2013]])
** [[Cynthia Clawson]], American gospel singer
* [[October 12]] 
** [[Rick Parfitt]], English musician ([[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]]) (d. [[2016]])
** [[Stephen Shepich]], American politician and former member of the [[Michigan House of Representatives]] in 1993 and 1994 (d. [[2013]])
* [[October 13]]
** [[John Ford Coley]], American rock musician ("[[I'd Really Love to See You Tonight]]")
** [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]], Pakistani musician (d. [[1997]])
* [[October 14]]
** [[Engin Arık]], [[Turkey|Turkish]] [[Nuclear physics|nuclear physicist]] (d. [[2007]])
** [[David Ruprecht]], American actor, writer (''[[Supermarket Sweep]]'')
* [[October 15]]
** [[Renato Corona]], Filipino jurist, lawyer (d. [[2016]])
** [[Chris de Burgh]], born Christopher Davison, Argentine-born Anglo-Irish singer, songwriter
* [[October 16]]
** [[Leo Mazzone]], American baseball coach
** [[Hema Malini]], Indian actress, writer, director, producer, dancer and politician
* [[October 17]]
** [[Robert Jordan]], American novelist (d. [[2007]])
** [[Margot Kidder]], Canadian actress (''[[Superman (1978 film)|Superman]]'') (d. [[2018]])
** [[Akira Kushida]], Japanese singer 
** [[Ng Jui Ping]], Singaporean entrepreneur, previously army general (d. [[2020]])
** [[George Wendt]], American actor (''[[Cheers]]'') (d. [[2025]])
* [[October 18]] 
** [[Hans Köchler]], Austrian philosopher
** [[Ntozake Shange]], African-American playwright and poet (d. [[2018]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Patrick Simmons]], American musician ([[The Doobie Brothers]])
* [[October 21]]
** [[Tom Everett]], American actor
** [[Allen Vigneron]], [[Archdiocese of Detroit|Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit]]
* [[October 22]] 
** [[Lynette Fromme]], American attempted assassin of [[Gerald Ford]]
** [[Debbie Macomber]], American author
* [[October 23]] &ndash; Sir [[Gerry Robinson]], Irish-born British businessman (d. [[2021]])
* [[October 25]]
** [[Dave Cowens]], American basketball player, coach
** [[Dan Gable]], American wrestler, coach
** [[Dan Issel]], American basketball player and coach
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Toby Harrah]], American baseball player
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Telma Hopkins]], African-American actress, singer ([[Tony Orlando and Dawn]])
* [[October 29]]
** [[Giuseppe Chirichiello]], Italian economist and university professor<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ricerca.economiaefinanza.luiss.it/centri-di-ricerca/CESARE|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713202712/http://ricerca.economiaefinanza.luiss.it/centri-di-ricerca/CESARE|url-status=dead|title=Centro di Economia Sperimentale a Roma est (Cesare): Introduzione|archive-date=July 13, 2012}}</ref>
** [[Frans de Waal]], Dutch primatologist. (d. [[2024]])
** [[Kate Jackson]], American actress (''[[Charlie's Angels]]'')
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Garry McDonald]], Australian actor, satirist and comedian

===November===
[[File:Lulu crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lulu (singer)|Lulu]]]]
[[File:Glenn_Frey.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Glenn Frey]]]]
[[File:Amadou Toure cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Amadou Toumani Touré]]]]
<!--[[File:Vincent Schiavelli tumbstone in Polizzi Generosa Sicily small.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Vincent Schiavelli]]]]-->
[[File:Hassan Rouani 2017 portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hassan Rouhani]]]]
[[File:King Charles III (July 2023).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Charles III]]]]
[[File:John R. Bolton official photo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Bolton]]]]
[[File:Michel Suleiman 2012.jpeg|thumb|100px|[[Michel Suleiman]]]]
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Anna Stuart]], American actress
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Lulu (singer)|Lulu]] (b. Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie), Scottish singer, actress (''[[To Sir, with Love]]'')
* [[November 4]]
** [[Delia Casanova]], Mexican actress
** [[Amadou Toumani Touré]], 3rd [[President of Mali]] (d. [[2020]])
* [[November 5]]
** [[Charles Bradley (singer)|Charles Bradley]], African-American singer (d. [[2017]])
** [[Bob Barr]], American politician
** [[Dallas Holm]], American Christian musician 
** [[Zacharias Jimenez]], Filipino Roman Catholic bishop (d. [[2018]])
** [[Khalid Ibrahim Khan]], Pakistani politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[William Daniel Phillips]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Glenn Frey]], American guitarist, singer (''[[Eagles (band)|Eagles]]'') (d. [[2016]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Jim Houghton]], American actor and director (d. [[2024]])
* [[November 9]]
** [[Viktor Matviyenko]], Ukrainian footballer, coach (d. [[2018]])
** [[Luiz Felipe Scolari]], Brazilian football player, manager
** [[Kelly Harmon]], American actress and model
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Mário Viegas]], Portuguese actor and poetry reciter (d. [[1996]])
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Vincent Schiavelli]], American character actor and food writer (d. [[2005]])
* [[November 12]]
** [[Skip Campbell]], American politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Hassan Rouhani]], 7th [[President of Iran]]
** [[Richard Roberts (evangelist)|Richard Roberts]], American evangelist, son of [[Oral Roberts]]
* [[November 13]]
** [[Humayun Ahmed]], [[Bengali language|Bengali-language]] writer
** [[Lockwood Smith]], New Zealand politician
* [[November 14]]
** King [[Charles III]] of the United Kingdom
** [[Robert Ginty]], American actor, producer, screenwriter and director (d. [[2009]])
** [[Dee Wallace]], American actress
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[James Kemsley]], Australian cartoonist, actor (d. [[2007]])
* [[November 16]]
** [[Chi Coltrane]], American musician (''[[Thunder and Lightning (Chi Coltrane song)|Thunder and Lightning]]'')
** [[Ken James (Australian actor)|Ken James]], Australian actor 
** [[Mutt Lange]], Rhodesian-born record producer
** [[Mate Parlov]], Yugoslav Olympic boxer (d. [[2008]])
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Dom Irrera]], American actor and stand-up comedian 
* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[Rance Allen]], African-American gospel singer and preacher (d. [[2020]])
* [[November 20]]
** [[Harlee McBride]], American actress
** [[John R. Bolton]], U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., National Security Advisor
** [[Barbara Hendricks]], American singer 
** [[Richard Masur]], American actor, director and president of the Screen Actors Guild
* [[November 21]]
** [[Alphonse Mouzon]], American jazz drummer (d. [[2016]])
** [[Michel Suleiman]], President of Lebanon
* [[November 22]] – [[Saroj Khan]], Indian dance choreographer (d. [[2020]])
* [[November 23]]
** [[Dominique-France Picard]] (aka Princess Fadila of Egypt), wife of King [[Fuad II]] of Egypt and the Sudan
** [[Ron Bouchard]], American NASCAR driver (d. [[2015]])
** [[Gabriele Seyfert]], East German figure skater
**[[Bonfoh Abass]], Togolese politician and [[List of presidents of Togo|President of Togo]] (d. [[2021]])
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Joe Howard (actor)|Joe Howard]], American actor
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Antoine Sfeir]], Franco-Lebanese journalist, professor (d. [[2018]])
* [[November 26]]
** [[Elizabeth Blackburn]], Australian-American biologist, winner of [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]  
** [[Gayle McCormick]], American singer (''[[Smith (band)|Smith]]'') (d. [[2016]])
** [[Marianne Muellerleile]], American actress
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Agnieszka Holland]], Polish film, television director and screenwriter

===December===
[[File:OzzyChangingHands02-20-2010.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ozzy Osbourne]]]]
[[File:Jobethwilliams.jpg|thumb|100px|[[JoBeth Williams]]]]
[[File:Yoshihide Suga cropped 3 Joint Press Announcement of the Okinawa Consolidation Plan.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Yoshihide Suga]]]]
[[File:Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa em fevereiro de 2018.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa]]]]
[[File:Samuel L. Jackson 2019 by Glenn Francis.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Samuel L. Jackson]]]]
[[File:Gérard Depardieu Cannes 2015 3.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gérard Depardieu]]]]
<!--[[File:Nobel Peace Price Concert 2009 Donna Summer1 cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Donna Summer]]]]-->
* [[December 2]]
** [[T. Coraghessan Boyle]], American fiction writer
** [[Rajat Gupta]], Indian-American businessman
** [[Patricia Hewitt]], British Labour Party politician<ref>{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/ms-patricia-hewitt/index.html|title=Ms Patricia Hewitt (Hansard)|website=api.parliament.uk}}</ref>
** [[Toninho Horta]], Brazilian singer, musician
** [[Christine Westermann]], German television, radio host, journalist and author
* [[December 3]]
** [[Rick Cua]], American singer, evangelist
** [[Ozzy Osbourne]], British heavy metal singer ([[Black Sabbath]]) (d. [[2025]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Saburō Shinoda]], Japanese actor (''[[Ultraman Taro]]'')
* [[December 6]]
** [[Keke Rosberg]], Finnish Formula One champion
** [[Marius Müller-Westernhagen]], German actor, musician
** [[JoBeth Williams]], American actress, director
** [[Yoshihide Suga]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] 
* [[December 7]]
** [[Gary Morris]], American country singer, actor
** [[Tony Thomas (producer)|Tony Thomas]], American television and film producer
** [[Mads Vinding]], Danish bassist
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Abu Abbas]], Palestine Liberation Front founder (d. [[2004]])
* [[December 11]]
** [[Shinji Tanimura]], Japanese musician (d. [[2023]])
** [[Chester Thompson]], American rock drummer
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa]], 20th [[President of Portugal]]
* [[December 13]]
** [[Lillian Board]], South African-born English Olympic athlete (d. [[1970]])
** [[Ted Nugent]], American rock guitarist, singer, conservative political commentator (''[[Cat Scratch Fever]]'')
** [[David O'List]], English rock guitarist
* [[December 14]]
** [[Lester Bangs]], American music journalist (d. [[1982]])
** [[Kim Beazley]], Australian politician
** [[Dee Wallace]], American actress
* [[December 15]]
**[[Melanie Chartoff]], American actress and singer (''[[Rugrats]]'')
**[[Charlie Scott (basketball)|Charlie Scott]], American basketball player
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Edmund Kemper]], American serial killer
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Ken Brown (ice hockey)|Ken Brown]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[December 20]]
** [[Orchidea De Santis]], Italian actress
** [[Abdulrazak Gurnah]], Zanzibar-born novelist, Nobel Prize laureate
** [[Alan Parsons]], English songwriter, musician and record producer
* [[December 21]]
** [[Samuel L. Jackson]], American actor, film producer
** [[Willi Resetarits]], Austrian musician, cabaret artist
* [[December 22]]
** [[Noel Edmonds]], English TV presenter, DJ
** [[Steve Garvey]], American baseball player
** [[Flip Mark]], American child actor
** [[Lynne Thigpen]], American actress (''[[Godspell]]'') (d. [[2003]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Jim Ferguson]], American guitarist, composer, educator, author and music journalist
* [[December 25]]
** [[Alia Al-Hussein]], queen consort of Jordan (d. [[1977]])
** [[Barbara Mandrell]], American country singer, musician and actress
* [[December 27]]
**[[Ronnie Caldwell]], American [[soul music]], [[rhythm and blues]] musician (d. [[1967]])
**[[Gérard Depardieu]], French actor
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Mary Weiss]], American pop singer ([[The Shangri-Las]]) (d. [[2024]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Peter Robinson (Northern Ireland politician)|Peter Robinson]], Northern Ireland First Minister
* [[December 31]]
** [[Stephen Cleobury]], English choral conductor (d. [[2019]])
** [[Joe Dallesandro]], American model, actor
** [[Sandy Jardine]], Scottish professional footballer, playing for Rangers and Hearts and representing Scotland (d. [[2014]])
** [[Donna Summer]], African-American singer, actress (''[[Love to Love You Baby (song)|Love to Love You Baby]]'') (d. [[2012]])

==Deaths==

===January===
[[File:Prince Aimone of Savoy - restored.jpg|thumb|100px|King [[Tomislav II of Croatia]]]]
[[File:Mahatma-Gandhi, studio, 1931.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Mahatma Gandhi]]]]
[[File:Orville Wright 1905-crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Orville Wright]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Edna May]], American actress (b. [[1878]])
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Vicente Huidobro]], Chilean poet (b. [[1893]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Smith | first = Verity | title = Encyclopedia of Latin American literature | publisher = Fitzroy Dearborn | location = London | year = 1996 | isbn = 9781135314248 | page=429}}</ref>
* [[January 4]]  
** [[Anna Kallina]], Austrian actress (b. [[1874]])
** [[Norman Dawe]], Canadian sports executive (b. [[1898]])
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Mary Dimmick Harrison]], wife of President [[Benjamin Harrison]] (b. [[1858]])
* [[January 7]] 
** [[Charles C. Wilson (actor)|Charles C. Wilson]], American actor (b. [[1894]])
** [[Maria de Maeztu Whitney]], Spanish educator, feminist (b. [[1882]])
* [[January 8]] 
** [[Edward Stanley Kellogg]], 16th [[Governor of American Samoa]] (b. [[1870]])
** [[Charles Magnusson]], Swedish producer, screenwriter (b. [[1878]])
** [[Kurt Schwitters]], German artist (b. [[1887]])
** [[Richard Tauber]], Austrian tenor (b. [[1891]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong/featuredmusicianscategory4/richardtauber/index.aspx|title=Richard Tauber|website=www.rcm.ac.uk}}</ref>
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Herbert Allen Farmer]], American criminal (b. [[1891]])
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Josephus Daniels]], American diplomat and newspaper editor (b. [[1862]])
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Tony Garnier (architect)|Tony Garnier]], French architect (b. [[1869]])
* [[January 21]] 
** [[Eliza Moore]], last person born into slavery in the United States (b. [[1843]])
**[[Naomasa Sakonju]], Japanese admiral and war criminal (executed) (b. [[1890]])
** [[Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari]], Italian composer (b. [[1876]])
* [[January 24]] 
** [[Bill Cody (actor)|Bill Cody]], American actor (b. [[1891]])
** [[Maria Mandl]], Austrian concentration camp guard and war criminal (executed) (b. [[1912]])
* [[January 26]] 
** [[Georg Bruchmüller]], German artillery officer (b. [[1863]])
** [[John Lomax]], American musicologist and folklorist (b. [[1867]])
* [[January 28]]
** [[Therese Brandl]], German concentration camp guard and war criminal (executed) (b. [[1902]])
** [[Anna Maria Gove]], American physician (b. [[1867]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; King [[Tomislav II of Croatia]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[January 30]]
** [[Arthur Coningham (RAF officer)|Sir Arthur Coningham]], British air force air marshal (disappeared) (b. [[1895]])
** [[Mahatma Gandhi]], Leader of Indian independence movement, (assassinated) (b. [[1869]])
** [[Orville Wright]], American co-inventor of the airplane (b. [[1871]])

===February===
<!--[[File:Karl Valentin by Eugen Rosenfeld (1870 - 1940).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Karl Valentin]]]]-->
[[File:Sergei Eisenstein 03.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sergei Eisenstein]]]]
<!--[[File:Никодим (Мунтяну).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Patriarch Nicodim of Romania]]]]-->
* [[February 2]]
** [[Thomas W. Lamont]], American banker (b. [[1870]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-William-Lamont|title=Thomas William Lamont &#124; American banker &#124; Britannica|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|date=January 29, 2024 }}</ref>  
** [[Bevil Rudd]], South African athlete (b. [[1894]])
* [[February 4]] 
** [[Otto Praeger]], American postal official, implemented U.S. Airmail (b. [[1871]])
** [[Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby|Edward Stanley]], British politician (b. [[1865]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Johannes Blaskowitz]], German general (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johannes-Blaskowitz|title=Johannes Blaskowitz &#124; German military officer &#124; Britannica|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|date=July 6, 2023 }}</ref>
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Samuel P. Bush]], American businessman, industrialist (b. [[1863]])
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Karl Valentin]], German actor (b. [[1882]])
* [[February 11]] 
** [[Sergei Eisenstein]], Soviet film director (b. [[1898]])
** [[Isaac Isaacs|Sir Isaac Isaacs]], 9th [[Governor-General of Australia]] (b. [[1855]])
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Pietro d'Acquarone]], Italian soldier, entrepreneur and politician (b. [[1890]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Subhadra Kumari Chauhan]], Indian poet (b. [[1904]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[John Robert Gregg]], Irish-born inventor of shorthand (b. [[1867]])
* [[February 25]] 
** [[Alfredo Baldomir]], Uruguayan politician, soldier, architect, 27th [[President of Uruguay]] and [[World War II]] leader (b. [[1884]])
** [[Alexander du Toit]], South African geologist (b. [[1878]])
** [[Juan Esteban Montero]], Chilean political figure, 20th [[President of Chile]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[February 26]] – [[John B. Creeden]], American Catholic priest and Jesuit (b. 1871)
* [[February 27]] – [[Patriarch Nicodim of Romania]] (b. [[1864]]).<ref>{{cite book|first=Adrian|last=Cioroianu|title=Focul ascuns în piatră|trans-title=The Fire Hidden in the Stone|location=Bucharest|publisher=Editura Polirom|year=2002|page=310|isbn=978-973-68-1076-3|language=RO}}</ref>

===March===
[[File:Antonin Artaud 1926.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Antonin Artaud]]]]
* [[March 4]] 
** [[Antonin Artaud]], French playwright, actor and director (b. [[1896]])<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Thévenin|first1=Paule|last2=Knapp|first2=Bettina|date=1965|title=A Letter on Artaud|journal=The Tulane Drama Review|volume=9|issue=3|pages=99–117|doi=10.2307/1125050|issn=0886-800X|jstor=1125050|doi-access=free}}</ref> 
** [[Elsa Brändström]], Swedish nurse (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/brandstrom-elsa-1888-1948|title=Brandstrom, Elsa (1888–1948) &#124; Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
* [[March 9]] – [[Edgar de Wahl]], Estonian educator and inventor of [[Interlingue]] (b. [[1867]])
* [[March 10]]
** [[Zelda Fitzgerald]], American wife of [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] (b. [[1900]])
** [[Jan Masaryk]], Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister (b. [[1886]])
* [[March 16]] – [[León S. Morra]], Argentine physician and university professor (b. [[1882]])
* [[March 23]] 
** [[George Milne, 1st Baron Milne]], British field marshal (b. [[1866]])
** [[Eddy Chandler]], American actor (b. [[1894]])
* [[March 24]] 
** [[Nikolai Berdyaev]], Soviet religious leader, political philosopher (b. [[1874]])
** [[Paolo Thaon di Revel]], Italian admiral (b. [[1859]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Joseph M. Reeves]], American admiral (b. [[1872]])<ref>{{cite web |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=20 May 1952 |title=Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves, USN |url=https://usssanfrancisco.org/the-stories/admiral-joseph-mason-reeves-usn/ |website= usssanfrancisco.org|location= |publisher=[[United States Navy]], Naval Biography Division of Naval Records & History, Op-29 |access-date=1 May 2025}}</ref>
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Harry Price]], English psychic researcher (b. [[1881]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Egon Erwin Kisch]], Austrian journalist, author (b. [[1885]])

===April===
[[File:Manuel Roxas 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Manuel Roxas]]]]
[[File:Kantaro Suzuki suit.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kantarō Suzuki]]]]
[[File:Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai portrait c1937.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mitsumasa Yonai]]]]
* [[April 2]]
** [[Biagio Biagetti]], Italian painter (b. [[1877]])
** [[Sawan Singh]], Indian saint known as "The Great Master" (b. [[1858]])
* [[April 5]] 
** [[Angelo Joseph Rossi]], American political figure, [[Mayor of San Francisco]] (b. [[1878]])
** [[Abby Aldrich Rockefeller]], American socialite and philanthropist (b. 1874)
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Isabel Andreu de Aguilar]], Puerto Rican writer, educator, philanthropist and activist (b. [[1887]])<ref>{{cite book|author=F. Ribes Tovar|year=1973|title=A Chronological History of Puerto Rico|publisher=Plus Ultra Educational Publishers|page=345}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni]], Palestinian Arab nationalist (b. [[1907]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Jorge Eliécer Gaitán]], Colombian politician (assassinated) (b. [[1903]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[W. H. Ellis]], American attorney and politician (b. [[1867]])
* [[April 15]]
** [[Radola Gajda]], Czech military commander and politician (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6tt5fhj Gajda, R. (Rudolf)]</ref>
** [[Manuel Roxas]], Filipino statesman, 5th [[President of the Philippines]] (b. [[1892]])
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Kantarō Suzuki]], Japanese admiral, 42nd [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1868]])
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Rostovtsev (actor)|Mikhail Rostovtsev]], Soviet actor (b. [[1872]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Mitsumasa Yonai]], Japanese admiral and politician, 37th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1880]])
* [[April 21]]  
** [[Carlos López Buchardo]], Argentine composer (b. [[1881]])
** [[Aldo Leopold]], American conservationist (b. [[1887]])
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Prosper Montagné]], French chef and author (b. [[1865]])
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Manuel Ponce]], Mexican composer (b. [[1882]])
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Gerardo Matos Rodriguez]], Uruguayan composer, journalist and pianist (b. [[1897]])
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Alfredo Miguel Aguayo Sánchez]], Puerto Rican educator, writer (b. [[1866]])

===May===
[[File:Lady Hartington.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington|Kathleen Cavendish]]]]
[[File:Dame May Whitty.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dame May Whitty]]]]
* [[May 9]] – [[Viola Allen]], American actress (b. [[1867]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Ed Ricketts]], American marine biologist (b. [[1897]])
* [[May 13]]
** [[Milan Begović]], Yugoslavian writer (b. [[1876]])
** [[Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington]] (b. [[1920]])
* [[May 15]] 
** [[André Dauchez]], French painter (b. [[1870]])
** Father [[Edward J. Flanagan]], Irish-born American [[Roman Catholic]] priest, founder of Boys Town and monsignor (b. [[1886]])
** [[Toyoaki Horiuchi]], Japanese general, Class B war criminal suspect (executed) (b. [[1900]])
* [[May 16]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Habibullah]], Indian politician (b. [[1869]])
* [[May 18]] 
** [[Francisco Alonso]], Spanish composer (b. [[1887]])
** [[Mary Hayes Davis]], American writer and newspaper publisher (b. c.[[1884]])
* [[May 19]] &ndash; [[Maximilian Lenz]], Austrian painter and sculptor (b. [[1860]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[George Beurling]], Canadian fighter pilot and flying ace (b. [[1921]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Jacques Feyder]], French filmmaker (b. [[1885]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Claude McKay]], Jamaican-born American writer and poet (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Witold Pilecki]], Polish resistance leader (executed) (b. [[1901]])
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Émile Gaston Chassinat]], French egyptologist (b. [[1868]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Unity Mitford]], British socialite; friend of [[Adolf Hitler]] (b. [[1914]])
* [[May 29]] &ndash; Dame [[May Whitty]], British actress (b. [[1865]])
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[József Klekl (politician)|József Klekl]], [[Slovenes|Slovene]] politician in Hungary (b. [[1874]])

===June===
[[File:Nasib-bitar-1.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Nasib al-Bitar]]]]
[[File:PrensSabahattin.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Prince Sabahaddin]]]]
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[José Vianna da Motta]], Portuguese pianist, teacher and composer (b. [[1868]])
* [[June 2]]
** [[Viktor Brack]], German doctor (executed) (b. [[1904]]) 
** [[Karl Brandt]], German S.S. officer (executed) (b. [[1904]])
** [[Rudolf Brandt]], German S.S. officer (executed) (b. [[1909]])
** [[Karl Gebhardt]], German S.S. officer (executed) (b. [[1897]])
** [[Waldemar Hoven]], German S.S. officer (executed) (b. [[1903]])
** [[Joachim Mrugowsky]], German S.S. officer (executed) (b. [[1905]])
** [[Wolfram Sievers]], German S.S. officer (executed) (b. [[1905]])
* [[June 6]] &ndash; [[Auguste and Louis Lumière|Louis Lumière]], French film pioneer (b. [[1864]])
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Giacomo Albanese]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1890]])
* [[June 13]] 
** [[Osamu Dazai]], Japanese writer (b. [[1909]])
** [[Jim McCairns]], English pilot with the Royal Air Force (b. [[1919]])
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[Gertrude Atherton]], American author (b. [[1857]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra]], Brazilian journalist, actress and director (b. [[1898]])
* [[June 19]] &ndash; [[Adolphus Andrews]], American Navy admiral (b. 1879)
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[Bento de Jesus Caraça]], Portuguese mathematician, economist and statistician (b. [[1901]])
* [[June 26]]
** [[Nasib al-Bitar]], Palestine jurist (b. [[1890]])
** [[Lilian Velez]], Filipino actress (murdered) (b. [[1924]])
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Prince Sabahaddin]] (b. [[1879]])

===July===
[[File:Albert Bates mugshot 1934.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Albert Bates (criminal)|Albert Bates]]]]
[[File:Charles Fillmore (Unity Church).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Charles Fillmore (Unity Church)|Charles Fillmore]]]]
[[File:Carole Landis in Topper Returns.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carole Landis]]]]
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Assunta Marchetti]], Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed
* [[July 4]] 
** [[Albert Bates (criminal)|Albert Bates]], American criminal (b. [[1893]])
** [[Monteiro Lobato]], Brazilian writer (b. [[1882]])
* [[July 5]]
** [[Georges Bernanos]], French writer (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Sollars | first = Michael | title = The Facts on File companion to the world novel : 1900 to the present | publisher = Facts on File | location = New York | year = 2008 | isbn = 9781438108360 | page=73}}</ref>
** [[Charles Fillmore (Unity Church)|Charles Fillmore]], American [[Protestant]] mystic (b. [[1854]])
** [[Carole Landis]], American actress (b. [[1919]])
** [[María de la Ossa de Amador]], First Lady of Panama (b.[[1855]])
* [[July 9]]
** [[James Baskett]], American actor (b. [[1904]])
** [[Alcibiades Diamandi]], Greek political figure (b. [[1893]])
* [[July 11]]
** [[King Baggot]], American actor (b. [[1879]])
** [[Franz Weidenreich]], German anatomist, physical anthropologist (b. [[1873]])
* [[July 14]] 
** [[Harry Brearley]], British inventor of stainless steel (b. [[1871]])
** [[Marguerite Moreno]], French actress (b. [[1871]])
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[John J. Pershing]], American general (b. [[1860]])
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Ildebrando Zacchini]], Maltese painter, inventor and traveller (b. [[1868]])
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Baldassarre Negroni]], Italian director, screenwriter (b. [[1877]])
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[Arshile Gorky]], Soviet-born American painter (b. [[1904]])
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Sud Mennucci]], Brazilian journalist, educator (b. [[1882]])
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[D. W. Griffith]], American film director (''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'') (b. [[1875]])
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Pencho Zlatev]], Bulgarian general, 25th [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (b. [[1881]])
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Antonin Sertillanges]], French Catholic philosopher, spiritual writer (b. [[1863]])
* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[Joe Tinker]], American baseball player, [[MLB Hall of Fame]] member (b. [[1880]])
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Susan Glaspell]], American playwright (b. [[1876]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Sophonisba Breckinridge]], American lawyer, reformer, social scientist and activist (b. [[1866]])
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd]], mistress of President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] (b. [[1891]])

===August===
[[File:Babe Ruth2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Babe Ruth]]]]
[[File:Charles Evans Hughes cph.3b15401 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Charles Evans Hughes]]]]
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Tommy Ryan]], American boxing champion (b. [[1870]])
* [[August 4]] &ndash; [[Mileva Marić]], Serbian physicist and mathematician, wife of [[Albert Einstein]] (b. [[1875]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scientificwomen.net/women/maric-einstein-mileva-62|title=Mileva MARIC-EINSTEIN|website=scientificwomen.net}}</ref>
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Charles Bryant (actor)|Charles Bryant]], American actor (b. [[1879]])
* [[August 10]] 
** [[Andrew Brown (soccer)|Andrew Brown]], Scottish soccer coach (b. [[1870]])
** [[Montague Summers]], English writer (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Kan'ichi Asakawa]], Japanese historian (b. [[1873]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Edwin Maxwell (actor)|Edwin Maxwell]], Irish actor (b. [[1886]])
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Babe Ruth]], American baseball player ([[New York Yankees]]), [[MLB Hall of Fame]] member (b. [[1895]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[George Anderson (actor)|George Anderson]], American actor (b. [[1886]])
* [[August 27]] 
** [[Cissie Cahalan]], Irish trade union, feminist and suffragette (b. [[1876]])
** [[Charles Evans Hughes]], 11th [[Chief Justice of the United States]], 1916 Republican presidential candidate (b. [[1862]])
*[[August 30]] &ndash; [[Kristine Bonnevie]], Norwegian biologist and politician (b. [[1872]])
*[[August 31]] &ndash; [[Andrei Zhdanov]], Soviet politician (b. [[1896]])

===September===
[[File:Edvard Bene%C5%A1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Edvard Beneš]]]]
[[File:Zar Ferdinand Bulgarien.jpg|thumb|100px|Tsar [[Ferdinand I of Bulgaria]]]]
<!--[[File:Cardinal Rossi.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Raffaele Rossi]]]]-->
<!--[[File:Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884%E2%80%931948).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948)|Prince Adalbert of Prussia]]]]-->
* [[September 1]] 
** [[Feng Yuxiang]], Chinese [[warlord]] and general (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Feng-Yuxiang|title=Feng Yuxiang &#124; Chinese warlord &#124; Britannica|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|date=March 2024 }}</ref>
** [[Moncef Bey]], ruler of Tunisia (1942–43) (b. [[1881]])
** [[Charles A. Beard]], American historian (b. 1874)
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Sylvanus Morley]], American scholar, World War I spy (b. [[1883]])
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Edvard Beneš]], Czechoslovakian politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia]] and 2-time [[President of Czechoslovakia]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Richard C. Tolman]], American mathematical physicist (b. [[1881]])
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[André Suarès]], French poet, critic (b. [[1868]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; Tsar [[Ferdinand I of Bulgaria]] (b. [[1861]])
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]], founder, first Governor General of [[Pakistan]] (b. [[1876]])
* [[September 12]]
** [[Rupert D'Oyly Carte]], British hotelier, theatre owner and impresario (b. [[1876]])
** [[Carlo Servolini]], Italian artist (b. [[1876]])
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Paul Wegener]], German actor, film director and screenwriter, a pioneer of [[German Expressionism]] (b. [[1874]])
* [[September 17]] 
** [[Ruth Benedict]], American anthropologist, folklorist (b. [[1887]])
** [[Folke Bernadotte]], Swedish diplomat (assassinated) (b. [[1895]])
** [[Emil Ludwig]], German-born Swiss historian, biographer (b. [[1881]])
** [[Raffaele Rossi]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal, eminence and servant of God (b. [[1876]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Husain Salaahuddin]], Maldivian writer (b. [[1881]])
* [[September 22]] 
** [[Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948)|Prince Adalbert of Prussia]] (b. [[1884]])
** [[Florence Merriam Bailey]], American [[ornithologist]], birdwatcher, and writer (b. [[1863]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Warren William]], American actor (b. [[1894]])
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Gregg Toland]], American cinematographer (b. [[1904]])
* [[September 27]] &ndash; [[Frank Cellier (actor)|Frank Cellier]], British actor (b. [[1884]])
* [[September 30]] 
** [[Vasily Kachalov]], Soviet actor (b. [[1875]])
** [[Edith Roosevelt]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1861]])

===October===
[[File:Bain News Service - Franz Lehár.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Franz Lehár]]]]
* [[October 1]] 
** [[Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz]], Portuguese priest (b. [[1859]])
** [[Phraya Manopakorn Nititada]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Siam]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Simon de Graaff]], Dutch civil servant, politician (b. [[1866]])<ref>{{cite web
 |publisher=[[Parlementair Documentatie Centrum]]
 |url=https://www.parlement.com/id/vg09llj9fau3/
 |access-date = 9 May 2024
|archive-url= http://web.archive.org/web/20191031190744/https://www.parlement.com/id/vg09llj9fau3/
 |archive-date=31 October 2019
|title=S. (Simon) de Graaff
 |language=Dutch
}}</ref>
* [[October 9]] – [[Edmund Anscombe]], New Zealand architect (b. [[1874]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Susan Sutherland Isaacs]], English educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/psychology/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/isaacs-sutherland-susan-1885-1948|title=Isaacs-Sutherland, Susan (1885-1948) &#124; Encyclopedia.com|website=encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
* [[October 13]] – [[Samuel S. Hinds]], American actor (b. [[1875]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Dale Fuller (actress)|Dale Fuller]], American actress (b. [[1885]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Edythe Chapman]], American actress (b. [[1863]])
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein]], German general (b. [[1870]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Friedrich Freiherr Kreß von Kressenstein |url=http://prussianmachine.com/aka/kress.htm |access-date=2022-05-30 |website=prussianmachine.com}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] – [[Walther von Brauchitsch]], German field marshal (b. [[1881]])
* [[October 21]] 
** [[Elissa Landi]], Italian actress (b. [[1904]])
** [[Irving T. Bush]], American industrialist (b. [[1869]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Franz Lehár]], Hungarian composer (b. [[1870]])
* [[October 31]] – [[Mary Nolan]], American actress (b. [[1902]])

===November===
[[File:Peterferdinand%C3%B6sterrtosk.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria]]]]
[[File:B%C3%A9la Mikl%C3%B3s de D%C3%A1lnok 1942.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Béla Miklós]]]]
* [[November 4]] 
** [[Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield]], British-born American businessman (b. [[1874]])
** [[Filippo Perlo]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] prelate and missionary (b. [[1873]])
* [[November 7]] &ndash; [[David Leland (actor)|David Leland]], American actor (b. [[1932]])
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria]] (b. [[1874]])
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Edgar Kennedy]], American actor (b. [[1890]])
* [[November 10]] 
** [[Julius Curtius]], German politician, diplomat (b. [[1877]])
** [[Jack Nelson (actor)|Jack Nelson]], American actor, director (b. [[1882]])
** [[Mikhail Andreyev]], Russian ethnographer and linguist (b. [[1873]])
* [[November 11]] 
** [[Fred Niblo]], American film director (b. [[1874]])
** [[Noel Pemberton Billing]], British aviator, inventor, publisher and [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] (d. [[1881]])
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Umberto Giordano]], Italian composer (b. [[1867]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Oerip Soemohardjo]], Indonesian general (b. [[1893]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Robert Mallard]], African-American lynching victim (b. [[1918]])
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Béla Miklós]], Hungarian military officer, politician and 38th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (b. [[1890]])
* [[November 23]]  
** [[Hack Wilson]], American baseball player ([[Chicago Cubs]]), [[MLB Hall of Fame]] member (b. [[1900]])
** [[Uzeyir Hajibeyov]], Azerbaijani composer, musicologist and teacher (b. [[1885]])
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Jack Delaney]], Canadian boxer (b. [[1900]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[D. D. Sheehan]], Irish politician (b. [[1873]])
* [[November 29]] 
** [[Maria Koppenhöfer]], German actress (b. [[1901]])
** [[Roberto Omegna]], Italian cinematographer, director (b. [[1876]])
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Franco Vittadini]], Italian composer (b. [[1884]])

===December===
[[File:Joao tamagnini barbosa 1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[João Tamagnini Barbosa]]]]
[[File:Kohki Hirota suit cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kōki Hirota]]]]
[[File:Hideki Tojo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hideki Tojo]]]]
* [[December 3]] 
** [[Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894–1948)|Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr]], South African politician (b. [[1894]])
** [[Luis Orrego Luco]], Chilean politician, lawyer, novelist and diplomat (b. [[1866]])
** [[Chano Pozo]], Cuban percussionist (b. [[1915]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Matthew Charlton]], Australian politician (b. [[1866]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Na Hyesŏk]], Korean feminist, painter, and writer (b. [[1896]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Templeton Crocker]], American patron and collector (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[João Tamagnini Barbosa]], Portuguese military officer, politician and 69th [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] (b. [[1883]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Amir Sjarifuddin]], Indonesian politician, journalist, and second [[Prime Minister of Indonesia|prime minister of Indonesia]] (b. [[1907]])
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[C. Aubrey Smith]], British actor (b. [[1863]])
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Władysław Witwicki]], Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist (b. [[1878]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; Japanese war leaders ([[International Military Tribunal for the Far East|hanged]]):
** [[Kenji Doihara]], general (b. [[1883]])
** [[Kōki Hirota]], diplomat and politician, 32nd [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1878]])
** [[Seishirō Itagaki]], military officer (b. [[1885]])
** [[Heitarō Kimura]], general (b. [[1888]])
** [[Iwane Matsui]], general (b. [[1878]])
** [[Akira Mutō]], general (b. [[1892]])
** [[Hideki Tojo]], general, 40th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 26]] 
** [[John Westley (actor)|John Westley]], American actor (b. [[1878]])
** [[Milagros Benet de Mewton]], Puerto Rican teacher and suffragist (b. [[1868]])
* [[December 28]]
** [[Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari]], Indian civil servant, politician (b. [[1894]])
** [[Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha]], Egyptian political figure, 27th [[Prime Minister of Egypt]] (assassinated) (b. [[1888]])
* [[December 30]] 
** [[George Ault]], American painter (b. [[1891]])
** [[Denton Welch]], English author and painter (b. [[1915]])
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Malcolm Campbell|Sir Malcolm Campbell]], English land, water racer (b. [[1885]])

=== Date Unknown ===

* [[Frederick J. Bacon]], American musician (b. [[1871]])

==Nobel Prizes==
[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] &ndash; [[Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] &ndash; [[Arne Tiselius]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] &ndash; [[Paul Hermann Müller]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] &ndash; [[T. S. Eliot]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] &ndash; not awarded

==References==
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