1951

1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1951st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 951st year of the 2nd millennium, the 51st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1950s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1951 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1951
MCMLI
Ab urbe condita2704
Armenian calendar1400
ԹՎ ՌՆ
Assyrian calendar6701
Baháʼí calendar107–108
Balinese saka calendar1872–1873
Bengali calendar1358
Berber calendar2901
British Regnal year15 Geo. 6  16 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2495
Burmese calendar1313
Byzantine calendar7459–7460
Chinese calendar庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
4647 or 4587
     to 
辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4648 or 4588
Coptic calendar1667–1668
Discordian calendar3117
Ethiopian calendar1943–1944
Hebrew calendar5711–5712
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2007–2008
 - Shaka Samvat1872–1873
 - Kali Yuga5051–5052
Holocene calendar11951
Igbo calendar951–952
Iranian calendar1329–1330
Islamic calendar1370–1371
Japanese calendarShōwa 26
(昭和26年)
Javanese calendar1882–1883
Juche calendar40
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4284
Minguo calendarROC 40
民國40年
Nanakshahi calendar483
Thai solar calendar2494
Tibetan calendar阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
2077 or 1696 or 924
     to 
阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
2078 or 1697 or 925

Events

January

  • January 4Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
  • January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt.[1]
  • January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy.
  • January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province.[2]
  • January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel Journey Through the Night (Reis door de nacht), set during World War II.

February

  • February – The Convention People's Party wins national elections in Gold Coast (British colony).
  • February 12 – The 1951 Nepalese revolution leads to agreement for a democratic constitution.
  • February 1 – The United Nations General Assembly declares that China is an aggressor in the Korean War, in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 498.
  • February 6 – Woodbridge train wreck: A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, killing 85 people and injuring over 500, in one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
  • February 12 – Muhammad Reza Shah marries Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari.
  • February 15 – The 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute begins, lasting for 151 days.
  • February 19 – Jean Lee becomes the last woman hanged in Australia, when she and her 2 pimps are hanged for the murder and torture of a 73-year-old bookmaker.
  • February 25 – The first Pan American Games open in Buenos Aires.
  • February 27 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.

March

March 31: Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer.

April

May

  • May 1 – The opera house of Geneva, Switzerland is almost destroyed in a fire.
  • May 3
    • King George VI opens the Festival of Britain in London, including the Royal Festival Hall.[3]
    • The U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S Truman.
  • May 8 – Operation Greenhouse: The first thermonuclear weapon is tested in the "George" test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands by the United States.
  • May 14 – The first volunteer-run passenger trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales.
  • May 15 – A military coup occurs in Bolivia.
  • May 21 – The 9th Street Art Exhibition, otherwise known as the Ninth Street Show, a gathering of a number of notable artists, marks the stepping-out of the postwar New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
  • May 23 – The Tibetan government signs the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People's Republic of China.
  • May 24 – Operation Greenhouse: The first atomic bomb "boosted" by the inclusion of tritium is tested in the "Item" test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands by the United States.
  • May 2526 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean leave the United Kingdom to defect to the Soviet Union.[4]
  • May 28The Goon Show is first broadcast on BBC Home Service in the U.K.; the first series is entitled "Crazy People".

June

July

August

September

October

  • October 3 – "Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)": One of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history occurs when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game-winning home run in the bottom of the 9th inning off of Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.
  • October 38Korean War: First Battle of Maryang-san – United Nations (primarily Australian) forces drive back the Chinese.
  • October 4
    • MGM's Technicolor musical film An American in Paris, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, and directed by Vincente Minnelli, premieres in New York. It will go on to win 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
    • Shoppers World, one of the first shopping malls in the United States, opens in Framingham, Massachusetts.
  • October 6Malayan Emergency: Communist insurgents kill British commander Sir Henry Gurney.
  • October 14 – The Organization of Central American States (Organización de Estados Centroamericanos, ODECA) is formed.
  • October 15
  • October 16
    • Judy Garland begins a series of concerts in New York's Palace Theatre.
    • Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan is assassinated.
    • East China Normal University is founded in Shanghai, China.
  • October 17CBS's Eye logo premieres on American television.
  • October 19 – The state of war between the United States and Germany is officially ended.
  • October 20 – The Johnny Bright incident occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
  • October 21 – A storm in southern Italy kills over 100.
  • October 24 – U.S. President Harry Truman declares an official end to war with Germany.
  • October 26Winston Churchill is re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (a month before his 77th birthday) in a general election which sees the defeat of Clement Attlee's Labour government, after 6 years in power.[6]
  • October 27Farouk of Egypt declares himself king of Sudan, with no support.
  • October 29 – The town of Carnation, Washington, USA changes its name back to Carnation, after being named Tolt since May 1928.
  • October 31 – The film Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, opens in England.

November

December

Unknown dates

  • A fourth and final forest fire starts in the Tillamook Burn, Oregon; but unlike earlier fires this one burns only 32,700 acres (132 km2), and within an area already affected by the earlier fires.
  • A research team publishes the Interlingua–English Dictionary.
  • IBM (United Kingdom) is formed.
  • In Munich, Germany, a collection of mementos and personal papers belonging to Adolf Hitler are turned over to Bayerische Landesbank, for authentication and eventual sale. Among the documents are his appointment as Chancellor signed by President Paul von Hindenburg, his Austrian passport, as well as an assortment of swastika insignia pins and medals. An initial offer of $200,000.00 is made for the collection.[10]
  • An 18-year-old sailor is fined for kissing in public in Stockholm, Sweden. The law court calls his actions "obnoxious behavior repulsive to the public morals".[10]
  • The United States becomes malaria-free (excluding territories and possessions)[11][12]

Births

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

January

Dave Benton
Charles S. Dutton

February

Edward Albert

March

Chris Rea
Aleksey Buldakov
  • March 1
    • Sergei Kourdakov, Soviet KGB agent, later Christian convert (d. 1973)
    • Mike Read, British television presenter, radio disc jockey
  • March 3 – Heizō Takenaka, Japanese economist
  • March 4
    • Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
    • Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager
    • Mike Quarry, American light-heavyweight boxer (d. 2006)
    • Chris Rea, British singer, musician
    • Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
    • Linda Yamamoto, Japanese pop star
  • March 6 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
  • March 8 – Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
  • March 9 – Zakir Hussian, Indian tabla virtuoso, composer, percussionist, music producer and actor
  • March 12 – Susan Musgrave, Canadian poet, children's writer
  • March 13 – Charo, Spanish-American singer, entertainer
  • March 14 – Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
  • March 17Kurt Russell, American actor
  • March 18
    • Ben Cohen, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
    • B. E. Taylor, American singer (d. 2016)
  • March 19 – Fred Berry, American actor (d. 2003)
  • March 20 – Jimmie Vaughan, American blues rock guitarist and singer
  • March 24Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer[18]
  • March 26
  • March 30 – Wolfgang Niedecken, German singer

April

Peabo Bryson
Trixi Schuba
Olivia Hussey
Tony Danza
Vladimír Špidla
  • April 1 – Tim Bassett, American basketball player (d. 2018)
  • April 5
    • Joe Bowen, Canadian hockey broadcaster
    • Dean Kamen, American inventor, entrepreneur
    • Frank Moulaert, Flemish scholar
    • Guy Vanderhaeghe, Canadian author
  • April 6
  • April 7 – Janis Ian, American singer-songwriter
  • April 8
    • Geir Haarde, Prime Minister of Iceland (2006–2009)
    • Joan Sebastian, Mexican singer, songwriter (d. 2015)
  • April 11
    • Doris Angleton, American socialite, murder victim (d. 1997)
    • Rohini Hattangadi, Indian actress
  • April 12 – Tom Noonan, American actor
  • April 13
    • Peabo Bryson, African-American singer
    • Peter Davison, British actor
    • Max Weinberg, American drummer
    • John Furey, American actor
  • April 14
    • Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist
    • Greg Winter, English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • April 15 – Trixi Schuba, Austrian figure skater
  • April 16
    • Celso Daniel, Brazilian politician (d. 2002)
    • Mordechai Ben David, American singer
    • Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer
    • Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer
    • Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, French photographer
  • April 17
    • Horst Hrubesch, German footballer
    • Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born actress (Romeo and Juliet)
  • April 19 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
  • April 20
    • Louise Jameson, British actress
    • Luther Vandross, African-American R&B, soul singer, songwriter (d. 2005)
  • April 21
    • Tony Danza, American actor and comedian (Who's the Boss?)
    • Vladimír Špidla, 4th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
  • April 22 – Paul Carrack, English singer
  • April 23 – Allison Krause, American Kent State University shooting victim (d. 1970)
  • April 24 – Enda Kenny, 13th Taoiseach of Ireland
  • April 27
    • Ace Frehley, American rock guitarist (Kiss)
    • Freundel Stuart, 7th Prime Minister of Barbados
  • April 29
    • Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, Ghanaian economist, academic and politician (d. 2018)
    • Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)

May

Paolo Torrisi
Antonis Samaras
  • May 3 – Christopher Cross, American singer-songwriter
  • May 6
    • Antonio Saldías, Chilean historian
    • Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (d. 1990)
  • May 9
    • Christopher Dewdney, Canadian poet
    • Joy Harjo, Native American poet
  • May 13
    • Selina Scott, English journalist, television presenter
    • Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2000)
  • May 15
    • Yoshifumi Hibako, Japanese general
    • Jonathan Richman, American musician
    • Frank Wilczek, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate[20]
    • Paolo Torrisi, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2005)
  • May 16 – Unshō Ishizuka, Japanese voice actor (d. 2018)
  • May 18 – Ben Feringa, Dutch organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • May 19
  • May 20 – Christie Blatchford, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (d. 2020)[21]
  • May 21Al Franken, American comedian (Saturday Night Live) and U.S. Senator (D-MN)
  • May 23
  • May 25 – Jamaluddin Jarjis, Malaysian politician (d. 2015)
  • May 26
    • Ramón Calderón, Spanish lawyer and businessman
    • Lou van den Dries, Dutch mathematician
    • Sally Ride, American astronaut (d. 2012)
    • Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician
  • May 30
    • Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
    • Fernando Lugo, President of Paraguay
  • May 31 – Jimmy Nalls, American guitarist (Sea Level) (d. 2017)

June

Jeanine Pirro
Suze Orman
Tress MacNeille
Julia Duffy
  • June 2
    • Gilbert Baker, American artist and activist, creator of the LGBTQ+ Pride Flag (d. 2017)
    • Jeanine Pirro, Lebanese-American attorney, politician and conservative political commentator
    • Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
  • June 3Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States
  • June 5 – Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer and television personality
  • June 8Bonnie Tyler, Welsh pop singer
  • June 9 – James Newton Howard, American musician, composer
  • June 12
    • Brad Delp, American rock vocalist (Boston) (d. 2007)
    • Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
  • June 13
  • June 14 – Paul Boateng, British politician
  • June 15
    • Jane Amsterdam, American magazine editor
    • Álvaro Colom, 35th President of Guatemala
  • June 16
    • Charlie Dominici, American musician
    • Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
  • June 17 – Shahidan Kassim, Malaysian politician
  • June 18
    • Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess grandmaster (d. 2014)
    • Steve Miner, American film, television director, film producer
  • June 19Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian-born terrorist (d. 2022)
  • June 20
    • Tress MacNeille, American voice actress
    • Paul Muldoon, Irish-born poet
  • June 21
    • Nils Lofgren, American musician
    • Marcus Mojigoh, Malaysian politician
  • June 23 – Michèle Mouton, French rally driver
  • June 24
    • Leslie Cochran, American homeless activist (d. 2012)
    • Mohd Sidek Hassan, 12th Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia
    • David Rodigan, British radio DJ/actor
  • June 25 - Elvy Sukaesih, Indonesian dangdut singer
  • June 27
  • June 28
    • Mick Cronin, Australian rugby league player
    • Lloyd Maines, American musician, record producer
    • Daniel Ruiz, Spanish footballer
    • Lalla Ward, British actress
  • June 29
    • Zvi Eliezer Alonie, Israeli rabbi
    • Keno Don Rosa, American comic book author
    • Billy Hinsche, Philippine-born American musician (d. 2021)
    • Craig Sager, American sports commentator (d. 2016)
  • June 30 – Stanley Clarke, American bassist

July

Thomas Boni Yayi
Chris Cooper
Elio Di Rupo
Lynda Carter
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
  • July 1
    • Sabah Abdul-Jalil, Iraqi footballer and coach (d. 2021)
    • Abdul Karim Jassim, Iraqi footballer and coach
    • Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed, Djiboutian politician
    • Thomas Boni Yayi, 7th President of Benin
  • July 2
    • Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian actress (d. 1997)
    • Wiesław Gawlikowski, Polish sport shooter
    • Guido Magherini, Italian footballer and coach
    • Stevie Woods, American singer (d. 2014)
  • July 3
    • Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
    • Lodewijk Jacobs, Dutch sprint canoer
    • Bob Rigby, U.S. soccer goalkeeper
  • July 4
    • Beverly Boys, Canadian diver
    • S. S. Ahluwalia, Indian politician
  • July 5
    • Goose Gossage, American baseball player
    • Yehoshua Gal, Israeli footballer
    • Gilbert Van Binst, Belgian footballer
  • July 6Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
  • July 7 – Menachem Ben-Sasson, Israeli politician
  • July 8Anjelica Huston, American actress
  • July 9
    • Jeje Odongo, Ugandan military officer and politician
    • Chris Cooper, American actor
  • July 10 – Phyllis Smith, American actress
  • July 11 – Yechiel Eckstein, Israeli-American rabbi (d. 2019)
  • July 12 – Cheryl Ladd, American actress and singer
  • July 14 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
  • July 15
    • Folorunso Alakija, Nigerian businesswoman
    • Rick Kehoe, Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach
    • Jesse Ventura wrestler, navy seal, actor, and former mayor and governor
  • July 16
    • Jean-Luc Mongrain, Canadian news anchor and journalist
    • Che Rosli, Malaysian politician
    • Franco Serantini, Italian anarchist (d. 1972)
  • July 18
    • Eva Wittke, German swimmer
    • Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
  • July 21Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (d. 2014)[22]
  • July 22 – William Nyallau Badak, Malaysian politician
  • July 23 – Edie McClurg, American actress
  • July 24
    • Fiona Reid, English-born Canadian actress
    • Lynda Carter, American actress and singer
    • Chris Smith, British politician
  • July 25 – Yury Kovalchuk, Russian oligarch
  • July 26 – Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, German politician
  • July 28
  • July 31

August

Mohamed Morsi
Juan Manuel Santos
Dana Rosemary Scallon
  • August 2 – Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and musician (10cc, Wax) (d. 2011)
  • August 3 – Marcel Dionne, Canadian hockey player
  • August 6
    • Catherine Hicks, American actress
    • Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
  • August 8
    • Louis van Gaal, Dutch footballer and manager
    • Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian politician, 5th President of Egypt (d. 2019)
    • Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
    • Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
  • August 10 – Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
  • August 11 – Katsumi Chō, Japanese voice actor
  • August 13 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (d. 2007)
  • August 15 – Jim Allen, West Indian cricketer
  • August 16Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, 13th President of Nigeria (d. 2010)
  • August 17 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (d. 1992)
  • August 19John Deacon, English rock bassist
  • August 20 – Greg Bear, American author
  • August 21
    • Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
    • Chesley V. Morton, American politician and securities arbitrator
    • Harry Smith, American journalist and editor
  • August 22 – Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
  • August 23
    • Jimi Jamison, American musician (Survivor) (d. 2014)[23]
    • Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
    • Queen Noor of Jordan, born Lisa Najeeb Halaby, American-born queen consort
  • August 24Orson Scott Card, American writer[24]
  • August 25Rob Halford, English rock singer
  • August 26Edward Witten, American mathematician, Fields medalist
  • August 28 – Wayne Osmond, American pop singer
  • August 30
  • August 31 – Peter Withe, English footballer

September

October

Karen Allen
Pam Dawber

November

Zeenat Aman
  • November 2 – Thomas Mallon, American author and critic
  • November 3 – Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist (New York Daily News)
  • November 4Traian Băsescu, President of Romania
  • November 7 – Dennis Allen, Australian criminal and drug dealer, eldest son of Kath Pettingill (d.1987)
  • November 8 – Alfredo Astiz, Argentine commander
  • November 9
    • Martin Khor, Malaysian journalist and economist (d. 2020)
    • Lou Ferrigno, American actor and bodybuilder
  • November 10 – Danilo Medina, Dominican politician 53rd President of the Dominican Republic
  • November 11 – Bill Moseley, American Actor
  • November 12 – Marcelo Rezende, Brazilian journalist and television presenter (d. 2017)
  • November 14 – Jacob ter Veldhuis, Dutch composer
  • November 15
    • Alamgir Hashmi, English poet
    • Beverly D'Angelo, American actress and singer
  • November 16
    • Miguel Sandoval, American actor
    • Sulaiman Taha, Malaysian politician (d. 2010)
    • Paula Vogel, American playwright
  • November 17
    • Butch Davis, American NFL and NCAA football head coach
    • Dean Paul Martin, American pop singer and screen actor (d. 1987)
    • Stephen Root, American actor and voice actor
  • November 18 – Justin Raimondo, American political activist (d. 2019)
  • November 19
    • Zeenat Aman, Indian actress and model
    • Charlie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, British politician
  • November 20 – Rodger Bumpass, American voice actor known for his role as Squidward Tentacles on SpongeBob SquarePants
  • November 21 – Thomas Roth, German television news anchor and presenter
  • November 24 – Chet Edwards, American politician
  • November 26 – Cicciolina, Hungarian-Italian actress and politician
  • November 27 – Teri DeSario, American singer-songwriter
  • November 29
  • November 30 – Christian Bernard, French-born mystic

December

Ernesto Zedillo
  • December 1
    • Sherry Aldridge, American singer
    • Obba Babatundé, American actor
    • Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (d. 1987)
    • Treat Williams, American actor, writer and aviator
  • December 2 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher (d. 2020)
  • December 3
    • Natalis Chan, Hong Kong actor and producer
    • Riki Choshu, Korean-Japanese professional wrestler
  • December 4
    • Chang Fei, Taiwanese television personality
    • Patricia Wettig, American actress
  • December 6 – Tomson Highway, Canadian writer
  • December 8
    • Bill Bryson, American-born British non-fiction author
    • Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer and songwriter
  • December 11 – Peter T. Daniels, American writing systems scholar
  • December 12
    • Wau Holland, German hacker (d. 2001)
    • Fyodor Konyukhov, Ukrainian explorer and priest
  • December 14
    • Mike Krüger, German comedian and singer
    • Jan Timman, Dutch chess player
  • December 17 – Ken Hitchcock, Canadian hockey coach
  • December 18 – Alvin E. Roth, American academic
  • December 20 – Peter May, Scottish novelist and television dramatist
  • December 27
  • December 29 – Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (d. 2007)

Full date unknown

  • Peter Hargitay, public relations executive and a partner of the European Consultancy Network[34]

Deaths

January

Reverend Franziskus Hennemann
Amy Carmichael

February

Zaifeng, Prince Chun

March

Blessed Zoltán Meszlényi
Kijuro Shidehara
Janusz Jędrzejewicz

April

Oscar Carmona
Ivanoe Bonomi

May

Homero Manzi
Henri Carton de Wiart
Mary Emelia Moore
  • May 1 – Klymentiy Sheptytsky, Soviet Orthodox priest, martyr and blessed (b. 1869)
  • May 2
    • Alphonse de Châteaubriant, French writer (b. 1877)
    • Mansour bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi politician (b. 1921)
  • May 3 – Homero Manzi, Argentine Tango lyricist and author (b. 1907)
  • May 5
    • Eddie Dunn, American actor (b. 1896)
    • John Flynn, Australian medical services pioneer (b. 1880)[38]
    • Andronicus Rudenko, Greek Orthodox priest and blessed (b. 1874)
  • May 6 – Henri Carton de Wiart, 23rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1869)
  • May 7 – Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
  • May 8 – Pat Hartigan, American actor and director (b. 1881)
  • May 10 – Nikola Mushanov, 23rd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1872)
  • May 16 – François Hussenot, French engineer (b. 1912)
  • May 17
    • William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, British field marshal (b. 1865)
    • Mary Emelia Moore, New Zealand Presbyterian missionary in China (b. 1869)
    • Empress Teimei of Japan, Empress consort of Emperor Taishō (b. 1884)
  • May 18 – Gaspar Agüero Barreras, Cuban composer, pianist and composer (b. 1873)
  • May 20 – Marguerite Merington, English-American author (b. 1857)
  • May 23 – Antonio Gandusio, Italian actor (b. 1875)
  • May 25
    • Franz Klebusch, German actor (b. 1887)
    • Paula von Preradović, Austrian poet and writer (b. 1887)
  • May 27 – Sir Thomas Blamey, Australian field marshal (b. 1884)
  • May 29
    • Fanny Brice, American entertainer (b. 1891)
    • Antonio Mosca, Italian painter (b. 1870)
  • May 30
    • Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
    • Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, British admiral (b. 1870)

June

Serge Koussevitzky
Blessed Maria Pia Mastena
  • June 1
    • José Alejandrino, Filipino general (b. 1870)
    • Rafael Altamira y Crevea, Spanish historian and jurist (b. 1866)
    • Ludvig Oskar, Estonian painter (b. 1874)
  • June 4 – Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-born conductor (b. 1874)
  • June 7
    • Paul Blobel, German SS officer (executed) (b. 1894)
    • Werner Braune, German SS officer (executed) (b. 1909)
    • Erich Naumann, German SS officer (executed) (b. 1905)
    • Otto Ohlendorf, German SS officer (executed) (b. 1907)
    • Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (executed) (b. 1892)
  • June 9 – Mayo Methot, American actress (b. 1904)
  • June 11 – Takuma Nishimura, Japanese general (executed) (b. 1899)
  • June 13Ben Chifley, Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
  • June 16 – Pyotr Pavlenko, Soviet writer and screenwriter (b. 1899)
  • June 21 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer, discovered two moons of Jupiter (Himalia and Elara) (b. 1867)
  • June 25 – Ferdinand Budicki, Croatian pioneer (b. 1871)
  • June 27 – David Warfield, American stage actor (b. 1866)
  • June 28 – Maria Pia Mastena, Italian Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed (b. 1881)
  • June 29 – Juan Rivero Torres, Bolivian engineer and statesman (b. 1897)

July

August

Robert Walker

September

Ernestina Lecuona y Casado
Maria Montez
Augusto de Vasconcelos
  • September 1
    • Louis Lavelle, French philosopher (b. 1883)
    • Wols, German painter and photographer (b. 1913)
  • September 2 – Antoine Bibesco, Romanian aristocrat, lawyer, diplomat and writer (b. 1878)
  • September 3
    • Ernestina Lecuona y Casado, Cuban pianist, musician, educator and composer (b. 1882)
    • Enrico Valtorta, Italian Roman Catholic bishop of Hong Kong and reverend (b. 1883)
    • Serge Voronoff, Russian-born French surgeon (b. 1866)
  • September 5 – Mário Eloy, Portuguese painter (b. 1900)
  • September 7
    • Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b. 1912)
    • John French Sloan, American artist (b. 1871)
  • September 9
    • Anton Golopenția, Romanian sociologist (b. 1909)
    • Gibson Gowland, British actor (b. 1877)
  • September 10 – Giuseppe Mulè, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1885)
  • September 15 – Jacinto Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1895)
  • September 17
    • František Nušl, Czechoslovak astronomer and mathematician (b. 1867)
    • Jimmy Yancey, American pianist and composer (b. 1898)
  • September 18
    • Márton Rátkai, Hungarian actor (b. 1881)
    • Tomonaga Sanjūrō, Japanese philosopher (b. 1871)
  • September 26 – Ioan Dimăncescu, Romania army officer (b. 1898)
  • September 27 – Augusto de Vasconcelos, Portuguese surgeon, politician and diplomat, 57th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1867)
  • September 29 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)

October

  • October 4 – Henrietta Lacks, American originator of the HeLa cell line (b. 1920)
  • October 6
    • Will Keith Kellogg, American industrialist, founder of the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
    • Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist (b. 1884)
  • October 12 – Leon Errol, Australian-born actor and comedian (b. 1881)
  • October 14 – Herman Charles Bosman, South African writer and journalist (b. 1905)
  • October 16
  • October 17 – József Farkas, Hungarian nobleman, jurist and politician (b. 1857)
  • October 23 – Fernando Poe Sr., Filipino actor (b. 1916)
  • October 23 - Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh Ji, Third Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (b. 1884)
  • October 24
    • Al Baker, American magician (b. 1874)
    • Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland (b. 1861)
    • Clarence Stewart Williams, American admiral (b. 1863)
  • October 25 – Amélie of Orléans, Queen consort of Portugal (b. 1865)
  • October 26
    • William S. Finucane, American businessman and politician (b. 1888)
    • Óscar Pérez Solís, Spanish artillery officer, engineer, jurist and politician (b. 1882)
  • October 28 – Mady Christians, Austrian actress (b. 1892)
  • October 30 – Gustav Smedal, Norwegian jurist (b. 1888)

November

  • November 3
    • Aleksei Badayev, Soviet functionary (b. 1883)
    • Richard Wallace, American film director (b. 1894)
  • November 4 – Khelifa Belkacem, Algerian chaabi singer (b. 1907)
  • November 5
    • Agrippina Vaganova, Soviet ballerina (b. 1879)
    • Reggie Walker, South African Olympic athlete (b. 1889)
  • November 9
    • Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi, Italian Roman Catholic layman and blessed (b. 1880)
    • Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
  • November 13 – Nikolai Medtner, Soviet pianist and composer (b. 1880)
  • November 14 – Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta (b. 1866)
  • November 15 – Robert Elliott, American actor (b. 1879)
  • November 20
    • Thomas Quinlan, British opera singer (b. 1881)
    • Lou Skuce, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1886)
  • November 23 – Enrichetta Alfieri, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1891)
    • Ju Zheng, Chinese politician (b. 1876)
  • November 25
    • István Friedrich, 24th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1883)
    • Harry B. Liversedge, American general (b. 1894)
  • November 27 – Timrava, Slovak novelist (b. 1867)
  • November 29 – Pramathesh Barua, Indian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1903)

December

Shoeless Joe Jackson
Blessed Anton Durcovici

Date unknown

  • Ștefan Burileanu, Romanian general, engineer, inventor, and academic (b. 1874)

Nobel Prizes

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