1953
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1953rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 953rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1950s decade.
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| Gregorian calendar | 1953 MCMLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2706 |
| Armenian calendar | 1402 ԹՎ ՌՆԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6703 |
| Baháʼí calendar | 109–110 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1874–1875 |
| Bengali calendar | 1360 |
| Berber calendar | 2903 |
| British Regnal year | 1 Eliz. 2 – 2 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2497 |
| Burmese calendar | 1315 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7461–7462 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4649 or 4589 — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4650 or 4590 |
| Coptic calendar | 1669–1670 |
| Discordian calendar | 3119 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1945–1946 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5713–5714 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2009–2010 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1874–1875 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5053–5054 |
| Holocene calendar | 11953 |
| Igbo calendar | 953–954 |
| Iranian calendar | 1331–1332 |
| Islamic calendar | 1372–1373 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 28 (昭和２８年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1884–1885 |
| Juche calendar | 42 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4286 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 42 民國42年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 485 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2496 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 2079 or 1698 or 926 — to — 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 2080 or 1699 or 927 |
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Events
January
- January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
- January 9 – In Montréal, Marguerite Pitre is the thirteenth, and last, woman hanged in Canada.
- January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.
- January 14
- Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia.
- The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon.
- January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying.
- January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy, to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tuned into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken.
- January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States.
- January 24
- Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son).
- Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be collectivized in East Germany.
- January 31–February 1 – The North Sea flood of 1953 kills 1,836 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially Zeeland), 307 in the United Kingdom,[1][2] and several hundred at sea, including 133 on the ferry MV Princess Victoria in the Irish Sea.
February
- February 1 – The surge of the North Sea flood continues from the previous day.
- February 3 – Batepá massacre: Hundreds of native creoles, known as forros, are massacred in São Tomé, by the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners.
- February 5 – Walt Disney's feature film Peter Pan premieres.
- February 11
- United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
- The Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel, after a bomb explosion at the Soviet Embassy, in reaction to the 'Doctors' plot'.
- February 12 – The Nordic Council is inaugurated.
- February 13 – Transsexual Christine Jorgensen returns to New York after successful sex reassignment surgery in Denmark.
- February 19 – Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
- February 25 – Jacques Tati's film, Les Vacances de M. Hulot, is released in France, introducing the gauche character of Monsieur Hulot.
- February 28
- James Watson and Francis Crick of the University of Cambridge announce their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.
- Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia sign the Balkan Pact.
March
- March 1
- Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke, after an all-night dinner with Soviet Union interior minister Lavrentiy Beria and future premiers Georgy Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin, and Nikita Khrushchev. The stroke paralyzes the right side of his body and renders him unconscious until his death on March 5.[3]
- Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg is made deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle.
- March 6 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin, as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- March 8 – The Thieves World, which has been transformed into the Russian mafia, are freed from prisons by the Malenkov regime, ending the Bitch Wars.
- March 9 – Draft Treaty establishing the European Political Community, never brought into effect.
- March 13 – The United Nations Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld from Sweden as United Nations Secretary General.
- March 14 – Nikita Khrushchev is selected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- March 17 – The first nuclear test of Operation Upshot–Knothole is conducted in Nevada, with 1,620 spectators at 3.4 km (2.1 mi).
- March 18 – The Yenice–Gönen earthquake affects western Turkey, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (violent), causing at least 1,070 deaths, and $3.57 million in damage.
- March 19 – The 25th Academy Awards Ceremony is held (the first one broadcast on television).
- March 25–26 – Lari Massacre in Kenya: Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 Kikuyu natives.
- March 26 – Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
- March 29 – A fire at the Littlefield Nursing Home in Largo, Florida, kills 33 persons, including singer-songwriter Arthur Fields.
April
- April 7 – Dag Hammarskjöld is elected Secretary-General of the United Nations.
- April 8 – Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced to 7 years in prison for the alleged organization of the Mau Mau Uprising in the British Kenya Colony.
- April 16
- President Eisenhower delivers his "Chance for Peace" speech, to the National Association of Newspaper Editors.[4]
- The Habar Corporation's building in Chicago, United States, catches fire, killing 35 employees.
- April 25 – Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid", their description of the double helix structure of DNA.[5]
May
May 29: Mount Everest conquered.
- May 2 – Hussein is crowned King of Jordan.[6]
- May 5 – Aldous Huxley first tries the psychedelic hallucinogen mescaline, inspiring his book The Doors of Perception.[7]
- May 9
- France agrees to the provisional independence of Cambodia, with King Norodom Sihanouk.
- Australian Senate election, 1953: The Liberal/Country Coalition Government, led by Prime Minister Robert Menzies, holds their Senate majority, despite gains made by the Labor Party, led by H. V. Evatt. This is the first occasion where a Senate election is held without an accompanying House Of Representatives election.
- May 10 – The town of Chemnitz, East Germany becomes Karl Marx Stadt.[8][9][10]
- May 11 – Waco tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado hits in the downtown section of Waco, Texas, killing 114.[11][12]
- May 15 – The Standards And Recommended Practices (SARPS) for Aeronautical Information Service (AIS) are adopted by the ICAO Council. These SARPS are in Annex 15 to the Chicago Convention, and 15 May is celebrated by the AIS community as "World AIS Day".[13]
- May 18 – At Rogers Dry Lake, Californian Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to exceed Mach 1, in a North American F-86 Sabre at 652.337 mph (566.865 kn; 1,049.835 km/h).[14]
- May 25 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its only nuclear artillery test: Upshot-Knothole Grable.[15]
- May 29 – 1953 British Mount Everest expedition: Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.[16]
June
June 2: Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon, crowned.
June 19: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed.
- June 1 – Uprising in Plzeň: Currency reform causes riots in Czechoslovakia.
- June 2 – Elizabeth II is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon, at Westminster Abbey.
- June 7 – Italian general election: the Christian Democracy party wins a plurality in both legislative houses.
- June 7-9 – Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A single storm-system spawns 46 tornadoes of various sizes, in 10 states from Colorado to Massachusetts, over 3 days, killing 246.
- June 8
- On the second day of the Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence, a tornado kills 115 in Flint, Michigan; it will be the last to claim more than 100 lives, until the 2011 Joplin tornado.
- Austria and the Soviet Union open diplomatic relations.
- June 9
- On the third day of the Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence, a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado the day before hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.
- CIA Technical Services Staff head Sidney Gottlieb approves of the use of LSD in an MKUltra subproject.
- June 13 – Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy.
- June 15 – Current Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping was born.
- June 17 – Workers' Uprising in East Germany: The Soviet Union orders a Division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
- June 18
- Egypt declares itself a republic.
- Tachikawa air disaster: A United States Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashes just after takeoff from Tachikawa Airfield near Tokyo, Japan, killing all 129 people on board in the worst air crash in history up to this time, and the first with a confirmed death toll exceeding 100.
- June 19
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York for conspiracy to commit espionage.
- The Baton Rouge bus boycott begins in the Southern United States.
- June 30
- The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint, Michigan.
- The first roll-on/roll-off ferry crossing of the English Channel, Dover–Boulogne, takes place.[17]
July
- July 3 – The first ascent of Nanga Parbat in the Pakistan Himalayas, the world's ninth highest mountain, is made by Austrian climber Hermann Buhl alone on the German–Austrian expedition.[18]
- July 9 – The U.S. Treasury formally renames the Bureau of Internal Revenue; the new name (which had previously been used informally) is the Internal Revenue Service.
- July 10 – The Soviet official newspaper Pravda announces that Lavrentiy Beria has been deposed as head of the NKVD.
- July 17 – The greatest recorded loss of United States midshipmen in a single event results from an aircraft crash near NAS Whiting Field.[19]
- July 23 – Howard Hawks's musical film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, is released by 20th Century Fox in the United States.
- July 26 – Fidel Castro and his brother lead a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, preliminary to the Cuban Revolution.
- July 27 – The Korean War ends, with the Korean Armistice Agreement: The United Nations Command (Korea) (United States), People's Republic of China and North Korea sign an armistice agreement at Panmunjom, and the north remains communist, while the south remains capitalist.
August
- August 5 – Operation Big Switch: Prisoners of war are repatriated to the United States after the Korean War.
- August 8 – Soviet prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces that the Soviet Union has a hydrogen bomb.
- August 12
- The 1953 Ionian earthquake of magnitude 7.2 totally devastates Cephalonia and most of the other Ionian Islands, in Greece's worst natural disaster in centuries.
- Soviet atomic bomb project: "Joe 4", the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon, is detonated at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakh SSR.
- August 13 – Four million workers go on strike in France to protest against austerity measures.
- August 15–19 – Cold War: 1953 Iranian coup d'état – Overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, by Iranian military in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, with the support of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (as "Operation Ajax") and the United Kingdom.
- August 17 – The first planning session of Narcotics Anonymous is held in Southern California (see October 5).
- August 18 – The second of the Kinsey Reports, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, is published in the United States.
- August 20
- The French government ousts King Mohammed V of Morocco, and exiles him to Corsica.
- The United States returns to West Germany 382 ships it had captured during World War II.
- August 25 – The French general strike ends.
September
- September 4 – The discovery of REM sleep is first published, by researchers Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman.
- September 5 – The United Nations rejects the Soviet Union's suggestion to accept the People's Republic of China as a member.
- September 7 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
- September 12 – U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
- September 17 – Ernie Banks was introduced as the first black player for the Chicago Cubs
- September 23 – The Pact of Madrid is signed by Francoist Spain and the United States of America, ending a period of virtual isolation for Spain.
- September 25 – The first German prisoners of war return from the Soviet Union to West Germany.
- September 26 – Rationing of sugar ends in the UK.
October
- October – The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random-access memory.[20]
- October 5
- Earl Warren is appointed Chief Justice of the United States, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- The first meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held (the first planning session was held August 17).
- October 6 – UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is made a permanent specialized agency of the United Nations.
- October 9
- West German federal election, 1953: Konrad Adenauer is re-elected as German chancellor.
- Fearing communist influence in British Guiana, the British Government suspends the constitution, declares a state of emergency, and militarily occupies the colony.
- October 10
- Roland (Monty) Burton wins the 1953 London to Christchurch air race, in under 23 hours flying time.
- The Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.
- October 12 – The play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York.
- October 22 – Laos becomes independent from France.
- October 23 – Alto Broadcasting System in the Philippines makes the first television broadcast in southeast Asia, through DZAQ-TV. Alto Broadcasting System is the predecessor of what will later become ABS-CBN Corporation.
- October 30 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document of the United States National Security Council NSC 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
November
- November 5 – David Ben-Gurion resigns as prime minister of Israel.
- November 9
- Cambodia becomes independent from France.
- The Laotian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Laos and the Pathet Lao, all the while resuming the First Indochina War against the French Army in a Two-front war.
- Saudi King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud dies.
- November 20
- The Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, becomes the first manned aircraft to reach Mach 2.
- Authorities at the Natural History Museum, London announce that the skull of Piltdown Man (allegedly an early human discovered in 1912) is a hoax.[21][22]
- November 20–22 – First Indochina War: Operation Castor – In a massive airborne operation in Vietnam, French forces establish a base at Điện Biên Phủ.
- November 21 – Puerto Williams is founded in Chile, as the southernmost settlement of the world.
- November 25 – Match of the Century (1953 England v Hungary football match): The England national football team loses 6–3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home.
- November 29 – First Indochina War: Battle of Dien Bien Phu – French paratroopers consolidate their position at Điện Biên Phủ.
- November 30 – Kabaka crisis: Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda, is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, Governor of Uganda, this also may have been the birth date of Ronald Hucklebee (link to Ronald will be added in the near future)
December
- December 2 – The United Kingdom and Iran reform diplomatic relations.
- December 6 – With the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini performs what he claims is his favorite Beethoven symphony, Eroica, for the last time. The live performance is broadcast across the United States on radio, and later released on records and CD.
- December 7 – A visit to Iran by American Vice President Richard Nixon sparks several days of riots, as a reaction to the August 19 overthrow of the government of Mohammed Mossadegh by the U.S.-backed Shah. Three students are shot dead by police in Tehran. This event becomes an annual commemoration.
- December 8 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his Atoms for Peace address, to the United Nations General Assembly.
- December 17 – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approves color television (using the NTSC standard).
- December 23 – The Soviet Union announces officially that Lavrentiy Beria has been executed.
- December 24 – Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge collapses at Tangiwai, New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River; 151 are killed.
- December 25 – The Amami Islands are returned to Japan, after 8 years of United States military occupation.
- December 30 – Ramon Magsaysay becomes the 7th President of the Philippines.
Births
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January
Gary Johnson
- January 1 – Gary Johnson, American businessman, politician and 29th Governor of New Mexico
- January 4 – George Tenet, American Central Intelligence Agency director
- January 5
- Pamela Sue Martin, American actress
- Mike Rann, Australian politician
- January 6 – Malcolm Young, Australian musician (d. 2017)
- January 10
- Pat Benatar, American rock singer
- Bobby Rahal, American race car driver
- Lee Montgomery, American race car driver, speed shop owner
- January 13 – John Wake, English cricketer
- January 16 – Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi, founder of the terrorist group The Order (d. 1984)
- January 19 – Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player, politician
- January 20 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and sex offender (d. 2019)[25]
- January 21 – Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft (d. 2018)
- January 22
- Myung-whun Chung, South Korean conductor, pianist
- Jim Jarmusch, American director
- January 23 – Dušan Nikolić, Yugoslav footballer (d. 2018)
- January 24 – Moon Jae-in, 19th President of South Korea
- January 26
- Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark, Secretary General of NATO
- Lucinda Williams, American singer-songwriter
- January 28 – Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player, executive
- January 29
- Peter Baumann, German keyboard player, songwriter (Tangerine Dream)
- Paulin Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player
- Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
- Juan Paredes, Mexican boxer
- Louie Pérez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Fred Riebeling, Australian politician
- Grażyna Szmacińska, Polish chess player
- Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
- Yorie Terauchi, Japanese actress
- Hwang Woo-suk, South Korean veterinarian, academic
- January 31 – Sergei Ivanov, Russian first deputy prime minister and minister of defense
February
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Ian Khama
- February 2 – Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter
- February 4 – Kitarō, Japanese New Age musician
- February 7 – Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (d. 1998)
- February 8 – Mary Steenburgen, American actress
- February 9
- Ciarán Hinds, Irish actor
- Rick Wagoner, American automotive executive
- February 10 – June Jones, American quarterback, current NCAA Football head coach at Southern Methodist University
- February 11 – Jeb Bush, American politician, 43rd Governor of Florida
- February 12 – Nabil Shaban, Jordanian-British actor and writer
- February 14 – Sergey Mironov, Russian statesman, Speaker of the Federation Council
- February 19
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentine lawyer and politician, President of Argentina and Vice President of Argentina[26]
- Massimo Troisi, Italian actor, film director (d. 1994)
- February 20 – Riccardo Chailly, Italian orchestral conductor
- February 21 – William Petersen, American actor
- February 22 – Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer, writer and actor (d. 2008)
- February 25
- José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain
- Martin Kippenberger, German artist
- February 26 – Michael Bolton, American singer
- February 27
- Ian Khama, 4th President of Botswana
- Yolande Moreau, Belgian actress, writer and director
- February 28
- Paul Krugman, American economist
- Ricky Steamboat, American professional wrestler
- Osmo Vänskä, Finnish orchestral conductor
March
Lenín Moreno
- March 1 – Richard Bruton, Irish politician, economist
- March 2 – Russell Feingold, U.S. Senator
- March 3
- Arthur Antunes Coimbra, Brazilian footballer, manager
- Robyn Hitchcock, British singer-songwriter
- Agustí Villaronga, Spanish filmmaker
- March 4
- Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist
- Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
- Kay Lenz, American actress
- March 5 – Tokyo Sexwale, South African businessman, politician, anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner
- March 6
- Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
- Jacklyn Zeman, American actress
- March 10 – Debbie Brill, Canadian high jumper
- March 11
- László Bölöni, Romanian footballer
- Bernie LaBarge, Canadian guitarist/vocalist
- March 12
- Carl Hiaasen, American author
- Ron Jeremy, American pornographic and straight actor, filmmaker and stand-up comedian
- Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepalese politician
- March 14 – Johan Ullman, Swedish medical doctor, physicist and inventor
- March 15 – Kumba Iala, Guinea-Bissauan politician, 3rd President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2014)
- March 16
- Bryan Duncan, American Christian musician
- Isabelle Huppert, French actress
- Richard Stallman, American free software proponent
- March 17 – Filemon Lagman, Filipino revolutionary (d. 2001)
- March 18 – Takashi Yoshimatsu, Japanese composer
- March 19 – Lenín Moreno, Ecuadorian politician, 44th President of Ecuador
- March 20 – Sándor Csányi, Hungarian business executive, banker
- March 23 – Chaka Khan, African-American soul singer
- March 24 – Mathias Richling, German comedian
- March 26
- Lincoln Chafee, American politician
- Elaine Chao, American politician, wife of Senator Mitch McConnell
- March 28 – Melchior Ndadaye, 4th President of Burundi (d. 1993)
April
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Linda Martin
Rick Moranis
- April 2
- Jim Allister, Irish politician
- Rosemary Bryant Mariner, American naval aviator (d. 2019)
- April 3
- Sandra Boynton, American author, songwriter and illustrator
- Russ Francis, American football player
- April 4 – Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician
- April 6 – Andy Hertzfeld, American computer programmer
- April 9 – John Howard, English singer-songwriter
- April 10 – Heiner Lauterbach, German actor
- April 11
- Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
- Andrew Wiles, British-born mathematician
- April 13 – Stephen Byers, English Labour Party politician, Secretary of State for Transport[27]
- April 14 – Eric Tsang, Hong Kong actor
- April 16
- Peter Garrett, Australian musician, politician
- J. Neil Schulman, American writer, activist
- April 17 – Linda Martin, Irish singer, television presenter and Eurovision Song Contest 1992 winner
- April 18 – Rick Moranis, Canadian actor (Second City Television)
- April 19 – Ruby Wax, American-born British-based performer
- April 20 – Sebastian Faulks, British novelist
- April 22 – Juhani Komulainen, Finnish composer
- April 24 – Eric Bogosian, American actor, playwright, monologist and novelist
- April 25 – Ron Clements, American animation director, producer
- April 28
- Roberto Bolaño, Chilean author (d. 2003)
- Kim Gordon, American rock musician
- April 29
- Nikolai Budarin, Russian cosmonaut
- Bill Drummond, South African-born British artist and musician (The KLF, K Foundation etc.)
- April 30 – Merrill Osmond, American pop singer
May
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Alex Van Halen
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Norodom Sihamoni
- May 2
- Valery Gergiev, Russian-Ossetian conductor[28]
- Jamaal Wilkes, American basketball player[29]
- May 3
- May 5
- Ibrahim Zakzaky, Nigerian Shia-Islam cleric[32]
- Dieter Zetsche, German auto executive[33]
- May 6
- Aleksandr Akimov, Soviet engineer who was the shift supervisor during the events of the Chernobyl disaster (d. 1986)[34]
- Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom[35]
- Graeme Souness, Scottish footballer, manager[36]
- Lynn Whitfield, African-American actress
- May 7 – Ian McKay, British soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)[37]
- May 8
- May 11 – David Gest, American entertainer, producer and television personality (d. 2016)[40]
- May 14
- May 15
- George Brett, American Major League Baseball player[42]
- Mike Oldfield, English composer (Tubular Bells)[43]
- May 16
- Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor[44]
- Richard Page, American musician[45]
- May 17 – Luca Prodan, Italian–Scottish musician and singer (d. 1987)[46]
- May 19 – Victoria Wood, English comic performer (d. 2016)[47]
- May 20 – Robert Doyle, Australian politician[48]
- May 21 – Jim Devine, British politician[49]
- May 23 – Agathe Uwilingiyimana, 4th Prime Minister of Rwanda (d. 1994)[50]
- May 24 – Alfred Molina, English actor[51]
- May 26
- May 29
- Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (d. 2008)[54]
- Danny Elfman, American composer[55]
- May 30 – Colm Meaney, Irish actor[56]
- May 31 – Kathie Sullivan, American singer[57]
June
Johnny Clegg
Xi Jinping
- June 1
- David Berkowitz, American serial killer
- Diana Canova, American actress, adjunct professor
- June 2
- Keith Allen, British actor
- Cornel West, African-American philosopher, political activist, social critic, author
- June 3 – Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, Dutch-born wrestler, opera singer and actor (d. 1987)
- June 4
- Paul De Meo, American screenwriter, producer (d. 2018)
- Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur
- June 5 – Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer
- June 7
- Johnny Clegg, South African Zulu musician and anthropologist (d. 2019)
- Dougie Donnelly, Scottish television broadcaster
- June 8 – Ivo Sanader, 8th Prime Minister of Croatia
- June 10 – John Edwards, American politician
- June 11
- Peter Bergman, American actor
- Barbara Minty, American model
- June 12 – Michael Donovan, Canadian voice actor
- June 13
- Tim Allen, American actor, comedian (Home Improvement)
- Atso Almila, Finnish conductor, composer
- June 14 – Hana Laszlo, Israeli actress and comedian
- June 15
- Antonia Rados, Austrian television journalist
- Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Paramount leader of China
- June 20 – Ulrich Mühe, German actor (d. 2007)
- June 21 – Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007)
- June 22
- Wim Eijk, Dutch archbishop
- Cyndi Lauper, American singer (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun)
- June 24 – Ivo Lill, Estonian artist
- June 29
- Don Dokken, American rock singer, musician
- Colin Hay, Scottish-born Australian singer-songwriter (Men at Work)
July
Sangay Ngedup
Lawrence Gonzi
Leon Spinks
Mila Mulroney
- July 1
- Pat Donovan, American football offensive lineman
- Lawrence Gonzi, 11th Prime Minister of Malta
- Jadranka Kosor, Croatian politician
- Nasir Ali Mamun, Bengali portrait photographer
- Sangay Ngedup, Prime Minister of Bhutan
- July 2 – Nacer Sandjak, Algerian footballer and manager
- July 3
- Lotta Sollander, Swedish alpine skier
- Les Strong, English association footballer
- July 11
- Angélica Aragón, Mexican actress
- Leon Spinks, African-American boxer (d. 2021)
- July 12 – Alessi Brothers, American pop rock singer-songwriter duo
- July 15
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide, President of Haiti
- Raisul Islam Asad, Bangladeshi actor
- July 17 – Nuria Bages, Mexican actress
- July 19 – Shōichi Nakagawa, Japanese politician (d. 2009)
- July 21
- Jeff Fatt, Australian musician, former member of The Wiggles
- Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress
- July 23 – Najib Abdul Razak, 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia
- July 24
- Tadashi Kawamata, Japanese contemporary artist
- Claire McCaskill, U.S. Senator
- July 25 – Tim Gunn, American fashion expert
- July 27 – Yahoo Serious, Australian filmmaker
- July 29
- July 31
- Tōru Furuya, Japanese voice actor
- James Read, American actor
August
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Carlos Mesa
Wolfgang Hohlbein
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Peter Horton
- August 1
- Robert Cray, American musician
- Steven Krasner, American sportswriter
- August 2 – Butch Patrick, American child actor and musician
- August 4 – Antonio Tajani, Italian politician, President of the European Parliament
- August 5
- August 8 – Nigel Mansell, English 1992 Formula 1 world champion
- August 9 – Jean Tirole, French Nobel Prize-winning economist
- August 11 – Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler
- August 12
- Carlos Mesa, President of Bolivia
- Teddi Siddall, American actress (d. 2018)
- August 14
- Cliff Johnson, American game designer
- James Horner, American film composer (d. 2015)
- August 15
- Wolfgang Hohlbein, German writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction
- Carol Thatcher, English television personality
- Sir Mark Thatcher, English businessman
- August 16 – Kathie Lee Gifford, American singer and actress
- August 17 – Herta Müller, German Nobel Prize-winning writer
- August 18 – Louie Gohmert, American politician
- August 19 – Benoît Régent, French actor (d. 1994)
- August 20
- Peter Horton, American actor and director
- Mike Jackson, member of the Texas Senate
- August 21 – Géza Szőcs, Hungarian poet and politician
- August 24 – Ron Holloway, American tenor saxophonist
- August 26
- Edward Lowassa, 8th Prime Minister of Tanzania
- Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
- August 27 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian rock musician (Rush)
- August 29 – James Quesada, Nicaraguan-born anthropologist
- August 30 – Robert Parish, American basketball player
- August 31 – György Károly, Hungarian author (d. 2018)
September
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Tommy Shaw
- September 2 – John Zorn, American musician
- September 4
- Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, African-American actor
- Fatih Terim, Turkish footballer and manager
- September 6 – Anne Lockhart, American actress
- September 7 – Mammootty, Indian actor
- September 8 – Stu Ungar, American poker player (d. 1998)
- September 10 – Amy Irving, American actress
- September 11
- Tommy Shaw, American guitarist and singer
- Lesley Visser, American sportscaster and journalist
- September 12
- Nan Goldin, American photographer
- Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer, artist and photographer (d. 2004)
- September 13 – Ann Dusenberry, American film actress
- September 19 – Probal Dasgupta, Indian linguist and Esperantist
- September 21 – Andrew Heermans, American musician, recording engineer, music producer
- September 22 – Ségolène Royal, French politician
- September 23 – Alexey Maslov, commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces
- September 27 – Greg Ham, Australian rock musician (Men at Work) (d. 2012)
- September 29 – Denis Potvin, Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player
- September 30 – Deborah Allen, American singer
October
Tico Torres
Greg Evigan
Tito Jackson
- October 1
- Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete (d. 2011)
- Klaus Wowereit, German politician
- October 2 – Brandon Wilson, American author and explorer
- October 4 – Kerry Sherman, American actress
- October 7 – Tico Torres, American Drummer (Bon Jovi)
- October 9 – Tony Shalhoub, American actor
- October 10 – Midge Ure, Scottish musician, singer-songwriter and producer
- October 12
- Les Dennis, British comedian and television presenter
- Serge Lepeltier, French politician
- October 14
- Greg Evigan, American actor
- Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, actress, writer
- October 15
- Tito Jackson, African-American singer and guitarist (The Jackson 5)
- Larry Miller, American actor and comedian
- October 16 – Martha Smith, American model and actress
- October 21
- Keith Green, American-born Christian piano player (d. 1982)
- Peter Mandelson, British politician and member of the Labour Party
- Hugh Wolff, American orchestral conductor
- October 22 – Loyiso Nongxa, South African mathematician
- October 24
- Christoph Daum, German footballer and manager
- Steven Hatfill, American physician, virologist and bio-weapons expert
- David Wright, British composer and producer, co-founder of AD Music
- October 26 – Keith Strickland, American musician (The B-52's)
- October 27
- Paul Alcock, English football referee (d. 2018)
- Peter Firth, British actor
- Robert Picardo, American actor
- October 29 – Lorelei King, American-born actress
- October 31 – Michael J. Anderson, American actor
November
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Kevin Nealon
Steve Bannon
Boris Grebenshchikov
Curtis Armstrong
- November 1
- Darrell Issa, American businessman and Congressman
- Susan Tse, Hong Kong actress and opera singer
- Bruce Poliquin, American politician
- November 2 – Tom Lyle, American comics artist (d. 2019)
- November 3
- Koji Horaguchi, Japanese rugby union player (d. 1999)
- Dennis Miller, American comedian and radio host
- Kate Capshaw, American actress
- November 4
- Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
- Peter Lord, British film producer and director
- Van Stephenson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
- November 5 – Florentino V. Floro, Filipino dwarf judge
- November 7 – Ottfried Fischer, German actor and Kabarett artist
- November 8 – John Musker, American animation director
- November 11
- Andy Partridge, British musician and frontman of the band XTC
- November 13
- Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico (2018—present)[59]
- Waswo X. Waswo, American photographer
- Diana Weston, Canadian-born English screen actress
- Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer (d. 1991)
- November 14 – Dominique de Villepin, Prime Minister of France
- November 15 – Alexander O'Neal, American singer
- November 16 – Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, writer, actor and television presenter
- November 18
- Alan Moore, English writer and magician
- Kevin Nealon, American actor and comedian
- Kath Soucie, American actress and voice actress
- November 19
- Robert Beltran, American actor
- Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
- November 23 – Francis Cabrel, French singer
- November 24
- Glenn Withrow, American actress
- Tod Machover, American composer
- November 25 – Graham Eadie, Australian rugby league player
- November 27
- Steve Bannon, American political figure
- Boris Grebenshchikov, Soviet and Russian rock musician
- Curtis Armstrong, American actor
- November 28 – Pamela Hayden, American voice actress
- November 29
- Alex Grey, American artist
- Vlado Kreslin, Slovenian singer
- Christine Pascal, French actress, director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
- Rosemary West, British serial killer
- November 30 – June Pointer, American singer (The Pointer Sisters) (d. 2006)
December
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Thomas Bach
- December 2 – Joel Fuhrman, American certified family physician
- December 6
- December 8
- Kim Basinger, American actress and fashion model
- Norman G. Finkelstein, American political scientist
- Sam Kinison, American comedian (d. 1992)
- December 9 – John Malkovich, American actor and film director
- December 13
- Ben Bernanke, American economist, Federal Reserve System chairman
- Bob Gainey, Canadian hockey player
- December 14 – Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician, 4th Greek Minister for National Defence
- December 17
- Ikue Mori, Japanese drummer, composer and graphic designer
- Bill Pullman, American actor
- December 18
- Kevin Beattie, English footballer (d. 2018)
- Khas-Magomed Hadjimuradov, Chechen bard
- December 21 – András Schiff, Hungarian concert pianist and conductor
- December 23
- December 24 – Timothy Carhart, American actor
- December 26
- Leonel Fernández, President of the Dominican Republic
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Estonian politician, 4th President of Estonia
- December 27 – Gina Lopez, Filipino environmentalist and philanthropist (d. 2019)
- December 28
- Richard Clayderman, French pianist
- Tatsumi Fujinami, Japanese professional wrestler
- December 29
- Thomas Bach, 9th President of the International Olympic Committee
- Stanley Williams, American reformed murderer (d. 2005)
- December 31 – James Remar, American actor
Deaths
January
Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu
- January 1
- Maksim Purkayev, Soviet general (b. 1894)
- Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1923)
- January 2 – Guccio Gucci, founder of Gucci (b. 1881)
- January 4
- January 5 – Mitchell Hepburn, Canadian politician, 11th Premier of Ontario (b. 1896)
- January 7
- January 8 – Charles Edward Merriam, American political scientist (b. 1874)
- January 9 – Madame le Corbeau (Marguerite Pitre), Canadian murderer (b. 1909) (hanged)
- January 13 – Sir Edward Marsh, English polymath and civil servant (b. 1872)
- January 16 – Israel Goldstine, New Zealand lawyer and politician (b. 1898)
- January 21 – Mary Mannering, early 20th century English stage actress (b. 1876)
- January 28 – James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
- January 29 – Sir Reginald Wingate, British army general and colonial administrator (b. 1861)
- January 30 – Lionel Belmore, English actor (b. 1867)
February–March
Iuliu Maniu
Francesco Saverio Nitti
Klement Gottwald
- February 1 – William Sydney Marchant, British colonial official (b. 1894)
- February 2 – Alan Curtis, American actor (b. 1909)
- February 3 – Richard Rushall, British businessman (b. 1865)
- February 5 – Iuliu Maniu, 32nd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1873)
- February 9 – Cecil Hepworth, English director (b. 1874)
- February 12 – Hal Colebatch, Australian politician (b. 1872)
- February 16 – James L. Kraft, Canadian-American entrepreneur, inventor (b. 1874)[63]
- February 19 – Nobutake Kondō, Japanese admiral (b. 1886)
- February 20 – Francesco Saverio Nitti, Italian economist and political figure, 24th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1868)
- February 21 – Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen, Bavarian general (b. 1862)
- February 24 – Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)
- February 25 – Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)
- February 27 – Paul Hurst, American actor (b. 1888)
- March 2 – Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner (b. 1882)
- March 3 – James J. Jeffries, American boxing champion (b. 1875)
- March 5
- Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer and producer (b. 1897)
- Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet and Russian composer (b. 1891)
- Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (b. 1878)
- March 7 – Edward Sedgwick, American director (b. 1892)
- March 13 – Johan Laidoner, Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army (b. 1884)
- March 14 – Klement Gottwald, 5th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1896)
- March 15 – Carl Stockdale, American actor (b. 1874)
- March 20 – Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian writer (b. 1892)
- March 21 – Toni Wolff, Swiss psychoanalyst (b. 1888)
- March 22 – Gustav Herglotz, German mathematician (b. 1881)[64]
- March 23
- March 24
- Mary of Teck, consort of George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
- Paul Couturier, French priest (b. 1881)
- March 28 – Jim Thorpe, Native-American athlete and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1887)
- March 31 – Ivan Lebedeff, Russian actor (b. 1895)
April
King Carol II of Romania
Stanisław Wojciechowski
- April 2
- April 4
- King Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)
- Rachilde, French author (b. 1860)
- April 9
- April 11
- Boris Kidrič, 1st Prime Minister of Slovenia (b. 1912)
- Kid Nichols, American baseball player (Boston Braves) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1869)
- April 12 - Lionel Logue, Australian speech and language therapist (b. 1880)
- April 20 – Erich Weinert, German writer, member of the Communist Party of Germany (b. 1890)
- April 27 – Maud Gonne, English-born Irish republican revolutionary, memoirist; spouse of John MacBride (b. 1866)
- April 29 – Alice Prin, French artists' model (b. 1901)
May–June
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Damaso Berenguer
Norman Ross
- May 1 – Everett Shinn, American painter (b. 1876)[65]
- May 8 – Anna Rüling, German journalist, "the first known lesbian activist" (b. 1880)[66]
- May 16
- Nicolae Rădescu, Romanian military officer and statesman, 45th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1874)[67]
- Django Reinhardt, Belgian jazz musician (b. 1910)[68]
- May 19 – Dámaso Berenguer, Spanish soldier and Prime Minister (b. 1873)[69]
- May 21 – Ernst Zermelo, German logician and mathematician (b. 1871)[70]
- May 27 – Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (Cleveland Spiders) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1868)[71]
- May 29 – Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)[72]
- May 30 – Dooley Wilson, American actor (b. 1886)[73]
- May 31 – Vladimir Tatlin, Soviet and Russian painter and architect (b. 1885)[74]
- June 1 – Alex James, Scottish football (soccer) player (b. 1901)
- June 5
- William Farnum, American actor (b. 1876)
- Bill Tilden, American tennis champion (b. 1893)
- Roland Young, English actor (b. 1887)
- June 9 – Godfrey Tearle, American actor (b. 1884)
- June 15 – Henry Scattergood, American cricketer (b. 1877)
- June 18 – René Fonck, French aviator, top Allied World War I Flying Ace (b. 1894)
- June 19
- Harold Cazneaux, Australian photographer (b. 1878)
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communist spies (b. 1918 and 1915, respectively) (executed on same day)
- Norman Ross, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1896)
- June 22 – Bill Lange, American sports coach (b. 1897)
- June 23 – Albert Gleizes, French artist and theoretician (b. 1881)
- June 30 – Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator of children's books (b. 1874)
July
Dumarsais Estimé
- July 1 – Totius, Afrikaans poet (b. 1877)
- July 9 – Annie Kenney, British working-class suffragette (b. 1879)
- July 11 – Oliver Campbell, American tennis player (b. 1871)
- July 12 – Herbert Rawlinson, English actor (b. 1885)
- July 15 – John Christie, English serial killer (b. 1899) (hanged)
- July 16 – Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (b. 1870)
- July 17 – Maude Adams, American actress (b. 1872)
- July 20 – Dumarsais Estimé, 30th President of Haiti (b. 1900)
- July 26 – Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and Prime Minister (b. 1883)
- July 29 – Richard Pearse, New Zealand airplane pioneer (b. 1877)
- July 31 – Robert A. Taft, American politician, United States Senate Majority Leader (b. 1889)
August
Jānis Mendriks
September
Mary Brewster Hazelton
- September 2 – Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883)
- September 5
- September 7 – Nobuyuki Abe, Japanese Prime Minister and military leader (b. 1875)
- September 8 – Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1890)
- September 12
- September 13 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (b. 1868)
- September 15 – Erich Mendelsohn, German architect (b. 1887)
- September 17 – Wenxiu, consort of China's last emperor Puyi (b. 1909)
- September 24 – Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (born 1878)
- September 26 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
- September 27 – Hans Fritzsche, German Nazi senior official, one of only three acquitted at the Nuremberg trials (b. 1900)
- September 28 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
- September 30
October
Hjalmar Hammarskjold
- October 3 – Sir Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1887)
- October 6 – Porter Hall, American actor (b. 1888)
- October 8
- October 11 – Pauline Robinson Bush, younger sister of US President George W. Bush (b. 1949)
- October 12 – Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Swedish politician, 13th Prime Minister of Sweden, one of the leaders of World War I (b. 1862)
- October 13 – Millard Mitchell, American actor (b. 1903)
- October 14 – Arthur Wimperis, English illustrator and playwright (b. 1874)
- October 20 – Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, British air chief marshal (b. 1878)
- October 25 – Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867)
- October 27 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
November
King Ibu Saud
Louise DeKoven Bowen
- November 5 – Harry A. Marmer, Ukrainian-born American mathematician and oceanographer (b. 1885)
- November 8
- Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
- John van Melle, Dutch-born author (b. 1883)
- November 9
- Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1859)
- King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1875)
- Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
- November 18 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (b. 1901)
- November 21
- November 22 – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Indian/Pakistani historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (b. 1884)
- November 27 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
- November 28 – Rudolf Bauer, German-born painter (b. 1889)
- November 29
- November 30 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
December
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Jorge Negrete
- December – Seth Weeks, African American jazz mandolinist, composer, arranger and bandleader (b. 1868)[77]
- December 2 – Radu Băldescu, Romanian general (b. 1888)
- December 5
- December 10 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (b. 1872)
- December 14 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American writer (b. 1896)
- December 19 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
- December 21 – Nicholas H. Heck, American geophysicist, oceanographer and surveyor (b. 1882)
- December 23 – Lavrentiy Beria, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union (b. 1899)
- December 25
- William Haselden, English cartoonist (b. 1872)
- Lee Shubert, Polish-born theater owner and operator (b. 1871)
- December 27
- December 31 – Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (b. 1889)
Date unknown
- Ioan Popovici, Romanian general (b. 1865)
Nobel Prizes
- Physics – Frits Zernike
- Chemistry – Hermann Staudinger
- Medicine – Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann
- Literature – Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
- Peace – George Marshall
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