1925

1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1925th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 925th year of the 2nd millennium, the 25th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1920s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1925 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1925
MCMXXV
Ab urbe condita2678
Armenian calendar1374
ԹՎ ՌՅՀԴ
Assyrian calendar6675
Baháʼí calendar81–82
Balinese saka calendar1846–1847
Bengali calendar1332
Berber calendar2875
British Regnal year15 Geo. 5  16 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2469
Burmese calendar1287
Byzantine calendar7433–7434
Chinese calendar甲子年 (Wood Rat)
4621 or 4561
     to 
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
4622 or 4562
Coptic calendar1641–1642
Discordian calendar3091
Ethiopian calendar1917–1918
Hebrew calendar5685–5686
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1981–1982
 - Shaka Samvat1846–1847
 - Kali Yuga5025–5026
Holocene calendar11925
Igbo calendar925–926
Iranian calendar1303–1304
Islamic calendar1343–1344
Japanese calendarTaishō 14
(大正14年)
Javanese calendar1855–1856
Juche calendar14
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4258
Minguo calendarROC 14
民國14年
Nanakshahi calendar457
Thai solar calendar2467–2468
Tibetan calendar阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
2051 or 1670 or 898
     to 
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
2052 or 1671 or 899

Events

January

  • January 1
    • The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
  • January 3 Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.[1] Historians now trace the beginning of Mussolini's dictatorship to this speech.[2]
  • January 5 Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Twelve days later, Ma Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas.
  • January 25 Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler.
  • January 27February 1 The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska, to combat an epidemic.

February

  • February 25 Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released.
  • February 28 The 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.

March

  • March 1 New York City Fire Department Rescue 2 is put in service in Brooklyn.
  • March 4
    • İsmet İnönü is appointed prime minister in Turkey (Turkey's 4th and İnönü's 3rd government).
    • Calvin Coolidge is sworn in for a full term as President of the United States, in the first inauguration to be broadcast on radio.[3]
  • March 6 Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union.
  • March 9May 1 Pink's War: The British Royal Air Force bombards mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan.
  • March 15 The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teachers' College in Conway, Arkansas (now the University of Central Arkansas).
  • March 16 – At 22:42 local time a 7.0 earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 5,000 people.
  • March 18 The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana.
  • March 31 The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius.

April

  • April–October The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes is held in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style.
  • April 1
    • Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leaves Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.
    • The Patent and Trademark Office is transferred to the Department of Commerce.
  • April 10 F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
  • April 15 Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer convicted of the murder of 24 boys and young men, is beheaded in Germany.
St Nedelya Church after assault

May

June

  • June 1 Percy and Florence Arrowsmith are married.
  • June 6 The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
  • June 13 Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines and a mechanical system in "the first public demonstration of radiovision".
  • June 14
  • June 29 The 6.8 Mw Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead.

July

  • July 7 New York City Police Department Emergency Service Unit is created as the Emergency Automobile Squad.
  • July 9 In Dublin, Ireland, Oonagh Keogh becomes the first female member of a stock exchange in the world.
  • July 10
    • Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
    • Meher Baba begins his 44-year silence.
  • July 18 Adolf Hitler publishes Volume 1 of his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
  • July 21
    • Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).[7]
    • Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
  • July 25 The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.

August

  • August 1 The New Cape Central Railway between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways.[8]
  • August 8 The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal racist organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington DC.[9]
  • August 14 The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
  • August 25 The French complete their evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany.[10]
  • August 31 Anthropologist Margaret Mead lands in American Samoa to begin nine-months of field work that will culminate in her 1928 book Coming of Age in Samoa. The bestselling book will become the first popular anthropological study and will change many attitudes towards tribal peoples.

September

  • September 3 The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a squall line near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14 crewmen.
  • September 27 Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar; A celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists. The phenomenon lasts for half an hour.[11]

October

November

December

Paris Rue de Montmartre in 1925

Date unknown

  • Spring Leica I 35 mm film still camera is introduced commercially in Germany.
  • The Australian state of Queensland introduces a 44-hour working week.
  • The Brisbane City Council, (Australia), is created from the amalgamation of 20 smaller cities, towns and shires.
  • New York City becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from London.[16]
  • Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Jud Süß (translated as Jew Süss or Power) is published in Germany.[17]
  • The Shueisha Publishing Company is founded in Tokyo.
  • Wheel gymnastics is invented in Germany.

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

Ignacio López Tarso

February

Shehu Shagari
  • February 2 Elaine Stritch, American actress (d. 2014)
  • February 3
    • Shelley Berman, American comedian and actor (d. 2017)
    • John Fiedler, American actor (d. 2005)
    • Leon Schlumpf, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 2012)
  • February 4
    • Arne Åhman, Swedish athlete (d. 2022)
    • Jutta Hipp, German born American jazz pianist and composer (d. 2003)
  • February 8 Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001)
  • February 10
    • Dhalia, Indonesian actress (d. 1991)[28]
    • Pierre Mondy, French film and theatre actor and director (d. 2012)
    • Daisy Myers, African American educator (d. 2011)[29]
  • February 11
    • Virginia E. Johnson, American sexologist (d. 2013)
    • Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (d. 2013)
    • Kim Stanley, American actress (d. 2001)
  • February 16 Romolo Bizzotto, Italian professional football player and coach (d. 2017)
  • February 17
  • February 18
    • Ghafar Baba, Malaysian politician (d. 2006)
    • George Kennedy, American actor (d. 2016)
    • Krishna Sobti, Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist (d. 2019)
  • February 20 Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006)
  • February 21
  • February 23 Eric Prabhakar, Indian sprinter (d. 2011)
  • February 25
    • Maddy English, American female baseball player (d. 2004)
    • Lisa Kirk, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
    • Eduardo Risso, Uruguayan rower
    • Shehu Shagari, President of Nigeria (1979–83) (d. 2018)
  • February 26 Everton Weekes, West Indian cricketer (d. 2020)
  • February 28 Louis Nirenberg, Canadian-American mathematician (d. 2020)

March

  • March 1
    • Keith Harvey Miller, American politician (d. 2019)
    • Alexandre do Nascimento, Angolan prelate
  • March 4
    • Inezita Barroso, Brazilian singer, guitarist, actress, TV presenter (d. 2015)
    • Alan R. Battersby, English organic chemist (d. 2018)
    • Paul Mauriat, French musician (Love is Blue) (d. 2006)
  • March 7 Josef Ertl, German politician (d. 2000)
  • March 8
    • John Harland Bryant, American physician (d. 2017)
    • Dennis Lotis, South African-English singer and actor
    • Marta Lynch, Argentinian writer (d. 1985)
  • March 12
    • Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
    • G. William Whitehurst, American journalist and politician
  • March 13 John Tate, American mathematician (d. 2019)
  • March 15 Art Murakowski, American football player (d. 1985)
  • March 16
    • Mary Hinkson, African-American dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)[30]
    • Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (d. 2004)
  • March 17 Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor (d. 2015)
  • March 18 Alessandro Alessandroni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2017)
  • March 19 Brent Scowcroft, American general and diplomat (d. 2020)
  • March 21 Peter Brook, English theatre director (d. 2022)
  • March 22 Gerard Hoffnung, German-born English humorist (d. 1959)
  • March 23
    • Robie Lester, American Grammy-nominated voice artist and singer (d. 2005)
    • David Watkin, British cinematographer (d. 2008)
  • March 25
  • March 26
    • Pierre Boulez, French composer (d. 2016)
    • Ted Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton, English politician (d. 2020)
  • March 27 Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, English farmer and politician (d. 2022)
  • March 28 Raja Perempuan Budriah, Malaysian royal consort (d. 2008)
  • March 29 David Tsimakuridze, Georgian freestyle wrestler (d. 2006)

April

Rod Steiger
Solomon Perel
  • April 1 Piero Livi, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2015)
  • April 3
    • Tony Benn, British politician (d. 2014)
    • Jan Merlin, American actor, screenwriter and author (d. 2019)
  • April 4 Serge Dassault, French businessman and politician (d. 2018)
  • April 7 Chaturanan Mishra, Indian politician (d. 2011)
  • April 13 Michael Halliday, English-Australian linguist (d. 2018)
  • April 14
    • Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974)
    • Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2010)
    • Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
  • April 15
    • Milton J. Rosenberg, American psychology professor (d. 2018)
    • Zdeněk Růžička, Czech Olympic gymnast (d. 2021)
    • Beryl Te Wiata, New Zealand actor, author and scriptwriter (d. 2017)
  • April 17 René Moawad, 13th president of Lebanon (d. 1989)
  • April 18 Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014)
  • April 19
    • Hugh O'Brian, American soldier and actor (d. 2016)
    • John Kraaijkamp Sr., Dutch actor and comedian (d. 2011)
  • April 20
    • Elena Verdugo, American actress (d. 2017)
    • Bob Will, American rower (d. 2019)
  • April 21
    • Anthony Mason, Australian judge
    • Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, acting President of Afghanistan (d. 2019)
    • Solomon Perel, Israeli motivational speaker
  • April 22 George Cole, English actor (d. 2015)
  • April 24 Eugen Weber, Romanian-born historian (d. 2007)
  • April 25
    • Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher, English businessman
    • Janete Clair, Brazilian television, radio play and novel writer (d. 1983)
    • Louis O'Neill, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
  • April 26
    • Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author (d. 2019)
    • Michele Ferrero, Italian businessman (d. 2015)
    • Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician (d. 2015)
  • April 29
    • John Compton, Saint Lucian lawyer and politician, 1st prime minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2007)
    • Iwao Takamoto, Japanese-American animator (d. 2007)

May

  • May 1
  • May 2
    • Maria Barroso, Portuguese politician and actress (d. 2015)
    • Inga Gill, Swedish actress (d. 2000)
    • John Neville, English actor (d. 2011)
    • Mãe Stella de Oxóssi, Brazilian Ialorixá and writer (d. 2018)
  • May 3 Ngiratkel Etpison, 5th president of Palau (d. 1997)
  • May 4
    • Syed Ahmad Syed Mahmud Shahabuddin, Malaysian politician (d. 2008)
    • Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian footballer (d. 2015)
    • Maurice R. Greenberg, American business executive
  • May 8 Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 2nd President of Tanzania
  • May 9 Vladimir Tadej, Croatian production designer, screenwriter and film director (d. 2017)
  • May 10 Ilie Verdeț, 51st prime minister of Romania (d. 2001)
  • May 12 Yogi Berra, American baseball player (d. 2015)
  • May 14 Oona O'Neill, American actress (d. 1991)
  • May 15 Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist (d. 2015)
  • May 16
    • Nancy Roman, American astronomer (d. 2018)
    • Ola Vincent, Nigerian economist and banker (d. 2012)
  • May 18 Gérard Corboud, Swiss entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist (d. 2017)
  • May 19
  • May 20 Gregory Yong, Archbishop of Singapore (d. 2008)
  • May 22
    • Julio Garrett Ayllón, 33rd Vice President of Bolivia (d. 2018)
    • James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
    • Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991)
  • May 23 Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
  • May 24 Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and film director (d. 1994)[31]
  • May 25
    • Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)[32]
    • José María Gatica, Argentine boxer (d. 1963)
    • Rudolf Scheurer, Swiss football referee (d. 2015)
  • May 26
    • Alec McCowen, English actor (d. 2017)
    • Carmen Montejo, Cuban-born Mexican actress (d. 2013)
  • May 28
  • May 30 John Marks, English doctor and author (d. 2022)
  • May 31
    • Julian Beck, American actor, director, poet and painter (d. 1985)
    • Frei Otto, German architect (d. 2015)
    • Donn A. Starry, American army officer (d. 2011)

June

June Lockhart
  • June 2
    • Julius Blank, semiconductor pioneer (d. 2011)
    • Buddy Elias, Swiss actor and president of the Anne Frank Fonds (d. 2015)
  • June 3 Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
  • June 4 Antonio Puchades, Spanish footballer (d. 2013)
  • June 5 Bill Hayes, American actor
  • June 6 Hideji Ōtaki, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
  • June 7 Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (d. 2017)
  • June 8 Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)
  • June 10
    • Fortunato Abat, Filipino army general and politician (d. 2018)
    • Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic and syndicated columnist (d. 2017)
  • June 11 William Styron, American writer (d. 2006)
  • June 12 Raphaël Géminiani, French road cycling racer
  • June 13 Dušan Trbojević, Serbian pianist, composer, musical writer and university professor (d. 2011)
  • June 14
    • Hideyuki Fujisawa, Japanese professional Go player (d. 2009)
    • Pierre Salinger, White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)
  • June 15
    • Richard Baker, English broadcast journalist and author (d. 2018)
    • Vasily Golubev, Soviet, Russian painter (d. 1985)
    • Attilâ İlhan, Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer (d. 2005)
  • June 16 Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist (d. 2017)
  • June 17
    • Luce d'Eramo, Italian writer and literary critic (d. 2001)
    • Mervyn Finlay, Australian member of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Queen's Counsel (d. 2014)
  • June 20
  • June 21
    • Larisa Avdeyeva, Russian mezzo-soprano (d. 2013)
    • Jean-Gabriel Castel, French-Canadian law professor
    • Giovanni Spadolini, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1994)
    • Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
  • June 23 Oliver Smithies, British-American geneticist (d. 2017)[34]
  • June 25
    • John Briley, American writer (d. 2019)
    • June Lockhart, American actress
    • Robert Venturi, American architect (d. 2018)[35]
    • P. Viswambharan, Indian politician, socialist, trade unionist and journalist (d. 2016)
  • June 26 Jean Frydman, French resistant and businessman (d. 2021)
  • June 29
  • June 30
    • Ebrahim Amini, Iranian politician (d. 2020)
    • Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss poet and translator (d. 2021)
    • Ros Mey, Cambodian-born American Buddhist monk and survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime (d. 2010)
    • Fred Schaus, American basketball player, head coach and athletic director (d. 2010)

July

Merv Griffin
Ana María Matute
  • July 1
    • Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)
    • Art McNally, American football referee
  • July 2
    • Marvin Rainwater, American country and rockabilly singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
    • Medgar Evers, African-American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
    • Patrice Lumumba, Congolese independence leader (d. 1961)
  • July 3
    • Roger Chesneau, French steeplechaser (d. 2012)
    • Keiji Hase, Japanese swimmer
  • July 4
    • Dorothy Head Knode, American tennis player (d. 2015)
    • Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and politician (d. 2018)
  • July 5
    • Jean Raspail, French author, traveler and explorer (d. 2020)
    • Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher (d. 2017)
    • Unto Wiitala, Finnish ice hockey player (d. 2019)
  • July 6
    • Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress and author (d. 2002)
    • Merv Griffin, American game show host and producer, talk show host, singer (d. 2007)
    • Bill Haley, American musician (d. 1981)[36]
    • Gazi Yaşargil, Turkish scientist and neurosurgeon
  • July 8 – Nicholas Brathwaite, Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 2016)[37]
  • July 9
    • Mary de Rachewiltz, Italian-American poet and translator
    • Borislav Stanković, Serbian basketball player and coach (d. 2020)
  • July 10 Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian politician; Former prime minister of Malaysia
  • July 11
    • Mattiwilda Dobbs, African-American coloratura soprano (d. 2015)
    • Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (d. 2017)[38]
    • Fernando Matthei, Chilean Air Force General (d. 2017)
  • July 12 Don Campbell, Canadian ice hockey (d. 2012)
  • July 13
    • Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and writer (d. 2020)
    • Suzanne Zimmerman, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist (d. 2021)
  • July 14
    • Francisco Álvarez Martínez, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2022)
    • Elmo Bovio, Argentine professional football player (d. 2017)
    • Carlos Velázquez, Argentine modern pentathlete
  • July 15
    • D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (d. 2019)
    • Badal Sarkar, Indian dramatist and theatre director (d. 2011)
  • July 16 Rosita Quintana, Argentine actress (d. 2021)
  • July 17
    • Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, German cellist and Holocaust survivor
    • Mohammad Hasan Sharq, Afghan politician
    • Ted Vogel, American marathon runner (d. 2019)
  • July 18
    • Allan Elsom, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2010)
    • Raymond Jones, Australian architect (d. 2022)
    • Shirley Strickland, Australian Olympic athlete (d. 2004)
    • Friedrich Zimmermann, German politician (d. 2012)
  • July 19
    • Otto Arosemena, 32nd president of Ecuador (d. 1984)
    • Henri Beaujean, French politician (d. 2021)
    • John Dossetor, Canadian physician and bioethicist (d. 2020)
    • Jean-Pierre Faye, French philosopher, poet and writer
    • Jack Petchey, English businessman and philanthropist
    • Michael Pfeiffer, German footballer (d. 2018)
    • Sue Thompson, American singer (d. 2021)
  • July 20
    • Jacques Delors, French politician
    • Frantz Fanon, French-Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1961)
    • Stan Hovdebo, New Democratic Party member of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 2018)
    • Eric Watson, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2017)
  • July 21
    • Hans Meyer, South African actor (d. 2020)
    • Johnny Peirson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2021)
  • July 22 Joseph Sargent, American film director (d. 2014)
  • July 23
    • Tajuddin Ahmad, 1st prime minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
    • Gloria DeHaven, American actress (d. 2016)
    • Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (d. 2017)
    • Govind Talwalkar, Indian journalist (d. 2017)
  • July 24 Stephen Porter, American stage director (d. 2013)
  • July 25
    • Jutta Zilliacus, Finnish journalist and politician
    • Ana González de Recabarren, Chilean human rights activist (d. 2018)
  • July 26
    • Robert Hirsch, French actor (d. 2017)
    • Ana María Matute, Spanish writer (d. 2014)
  • July 28
  • July 29
    • Shivram Dattatreya Phadnis, Indian cartoonist
    • Carmen Stănescu, Romanian actress (d. 2018)
    • Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer (d. 2021)
  • July 31 Carmel Quinn, Irish-American singer (d. 2021)

August

Kirke Mechem
Honor Blackman
  • August 1
    • Cor Edskes, Dutch organ builder and restorer (d. 2015)
    • Pam Gems, English playwright (d. 2011)
  • August 2
    • Princess Marie Gabriele of Luxembourg, Princess of Luxembourg
    • Jorge Rafael Videla, 42nd president of Argentina (d. 2013)
    • Alan Whicker, British television presenter (d. 2013)
  • August 3 Dom Um Romão, Brazilian jazz drummer (d. 2005)
  • August 4 Betty Trezza, Italian-American female professional baseball player (d. 2007)
  • August 6
    • Eddie Baily, England international footballer (d. 2010)
    • Barbara Bates, American actress and singer (d. 1969)
    • Lilyan Chauvin, French-American actress (d. 2008)
    • Olavi Rokka, American gardener and horticulturist (d. 2011)
  • August 7 M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist
  • August 8
    • Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003)
    • Frank Lauterbur, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
    • Aziz Sattar, Malaysian actor, comedian, singer and director (d. 2014)
  • August 9
    • David A. Huffman, American computer scientist (d. 1999)
    • Valentín Pimstein, Chilean-Mexican producer of telenovelas (d. 2017)
    • Olavi Rokka, Finnish modern pentathlete (d. 2011)
    • Ginny Tyler, American voice actress (d. 2012)
  • August 10 Stanislav Brebera, Czech chemist (d. 2012)
  • August 11 Arlene Dahl, American actress (d. 2021)
  • August 12
    • Thor Vilhjálmsson, Icelandic writer (d. 2011)
    • Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (d. 1986)
    • Leopold Barschandt, Austrian footballer (d. 2000)
    • George Wetherill, geophysicist (d. 2006)
    • Dale Bumpers, American politician (d. 2016)
  • August 13
    • José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentine executive and policy maker (d. 2013)
    • Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect based in Christchurch (d. 2012)
  • August 15
    • Mike Connors, American actor (d. 2017)
    • Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (d. 2007)
    • Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-born French pianist (d. 2015)
  • August 16 Kirke Mechem, American composer
  • August 18 Pegeen Vail Guggenheim, Swiss-American painter (d. 1967)
  • August 19 Madhav Dalvi, Indian cricketer (d. 2012)
  • August 20 Henning Larsen, Danish architect (d. 2013)
  • August 21 Toma Caragiu, Romanian theatre, television and film actor (d. 1977)
  • August 22
    • Honor Blackman, English actress (d. 2020)[39]
    • Terry Donahue, Canadian female professional baseball player (d. 2019)
  • August 25
    • Thea Astley, Australian writer (d. 2004)
    • Hilmar Hoffmann, German film and culture academic (d. 2018)
    • Hasan Tiro, Indonesian politician (d. 2010)
  • August 26
    • Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005)
    • Etelka Keserű, Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2018)
  • August 27
    • Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and Vatican diplomat (d. 2017)
    • Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (d. 2011)
    • Jaswant Singh Neki, Indian academic and poet (d. 2015)
  • August 28
    • Antônio Agostinho Marochi, Brazilian bishop (d. 2018)
    • Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 2003)
    • José Parra Martínez, Spanish footballer (d. 2016)
    • Philip Purser, English television critic and novelist (d. 2022)
  • August 29
    • Dick Cusack, American actor, filmmaker and humorist (d. 2003)
    • Demetrio B. Lakas, President of Panama (d. 1999)
  • August 31 – Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)

September

Marty Robbins

October

Simone Segouin
  • October 1
    • Abraham Louis Schneiders, Dutch writer and diplomat (d. 2020)
    • Yang Hyong-sop, North Korean politician (d. 2022)
  • October 2 José A. Martínez Suárez, Argentine film director and screenwriter (d. 2019)
  • October 3
    • Simone Segouin (also known as Nicole Minet), French Resistance fighter and partisan[40]
    • Gore Vidal, American author (d. 2012)
  • October 4 Fyodor Terentyev, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 1963)
  • October 5
    • Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997)
    • Antoine Gizenga, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2019)
    • Herbert Kretzmer, South African-English journalist and songwriter (d. 2020)
    • Murray Riley, Australian rower (d. 2020)
  • October 6 Hiroshi H. Miyamura, American Medal of Honour recipient
  • October 7 Mildred Earp, American female professional baseball player (d. 2017)
  • October 8 Álvaro Magaña, 38th president of El Salvador (d. 2001)
  • October 9 Isyaku Rabiu, Nigerian businessman (d. 2018)
  • October 11 Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013)
  • October 13
  • October 14 Phillip V. Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist (d. 2012)
  • October 15 Bob Rowland Smith, Australian politician (d. 2012)
  • October 16
    • Daniel J. Evans, American politician
    • Dame Angela Lansbury, Irish-British-born American actress (d. 2022)
  • October 18 Ramiz Alia, 13th president of Albania (d. 2011)
  • October 19
    • Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine Naval military officer (d. 2010)
    • Raymond Impanis, Belgian cyclist (d. 2010)
  • October 20
    • Art Buchwald, American humorist and columnist (d. 2007)
    • Hiromu Nonaka, Japanese politician (d. 2018)
    • Gene Wood, American game show announcer (d. 2004)
  • October 21
    • Surjit Singh Barnala, Indian politician (d. 2017)
    • Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer (d. 2003)
    • Virginia Zeani, Romanian soprano
  • October 22
    • Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
    • Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Hawaiian genealogist, author and hula expert (d. 2014)
    • Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and graphic artist (d. 2008)
  • October 23
    • Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host (d. 2005)
    • José Freire Falcão, Brazilian cardinal (d. 2021)
  • October 24
    • Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)
    • Al Feldstein, American artist and comic book creator (d. 2014)
    • Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician (d. 2013)
  • October 25
    • Aliya Moldagulova, Soviet soldier and sniper (d. 1944)
    • John J. Snyder, American Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2019)
  • October 27
    • Warren Christopher, American diplomat (d. 2011)
    • Paul Fox, English television executive
    • Jiro Ono, Japanese chef
  • October 29
    • Dominick Dunne, American writer, investigative journalist and producer (d. 2009)
    • Robert Hardy, English actor (d. 2017)
    • Klaus Roth, German-born British mathematician (d. 2015)
  • October 31
    • Ngaire Lane, New Zealand swimmer (d. 2021)
    • John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

November

José Napoleón Duarte

December

Martin Rodbell
Julie Harris
Pierre Bérégovoy

Deaths

January

February

March

Lucille Ricksen

April

Fritz Haarmann

May

William Massey
Lucien Guitry
  • May 2
    • Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b. 1848)
    • Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian poet (b. 1898)
  • May 3 Clément Ader, French Army Captain and aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
  • May 4 Giovanni Battista Grassi, Italian physician and zoologist (b. 1854)
  • May 5 Catharine van Tussenbroek, Dutch physician (b. 1852)
  • May 7
    • William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, British industrialist, philanthropist and politician (b. 1851)
    • Sir Doveton Sturdee, British admiral (b. 1859)[50]
  • May 10
    • Alexandru Marghiloman, 25th prime minister of Romania (b. 1854)
    • William Massey, 19th prime minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
  • May 12
    • Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)[51]
    • Charles Mangin, French general (b. 1866)
  • May 13 Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, British politician and colonial administrator (b. 1854)[52]
  • May 14 H. Rider Haggard, British writer (b. 1856)[53]
  • May 15 Nelson A. Miles, American general (b. 1839)
  • May 20
    • Ramón Auñón y Villalón, Spanish admiral and politician (b. 1844)
    • Elias M. Ammons, Governor of Colorado (b. 1860)
    • Joseph Howard, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1862)
  • May 21 Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agricultural scientist and guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)
  • May 22 John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British World War I field marshal (b. 1852)
  • May 25 Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877)
  • May 28 João Pinheiro Chagas, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1863)
  • May 29 Percy Fawcett, British explorer, anthropologist and archaeologist (disappeared) (b. 1867)
  • May 31 John Palm, Curaçao-born composer (b. 1885)

June

July

Pancho Villa
Severo Fernandez

August

Rene Viviani

September

October

St Anna Schäffer
Vajiravudh
Władysław Reymont
  • October 5 Anna Schäffer, German Roman Catholic mystic, stigmatist and saint (b. 1882)
  • October 7 Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1880)
  • October 10 James Buchanan Duke, American tobacco and electric power industrialist (b. 1856)
  • October 14 Eugen Sandow, German-born bodybuilder, physical culturist (b. 1867)
  • October 15 Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary and educator (b. 1848)
  • October 20 Jonah of Hankou, Russian Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1888)
  • October 31
    • George Anderson, Danish criminal (b. 1880)
    • Mikhail Frunze, Russian Bolshevik leader (b. 1885)
    • José Ingenieros, Argentine physician, sociologist and philosopher (b. 1877)
    • Max Linder, French silent film actor (b. 1883)

November

December

Antonio Maura
Jules Méline

Nobel Prizes

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