1924

Events

= January =

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January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.{{cite book |author1=Maya Gupta |author2=Amit Kumar Gupta |title=Defying Death: Struggle Against Imperialism and Feudalism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShBuAAAAMAAJ |year=2001 |publisher=Tulika |isbn=978-81-85229-41-6 |page=53 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151329/https://books.google.com/books?id=ShBuAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
January 20–30 – Kuomintang in China holds its first National Congress, initiating a policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party.
January 21 – The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.[http://www.archontology.org/nations/south_africa/sa_gg/ Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508115458/http://www.archontology.org/nations/south_africa/sa_gg/ |date=May 8, 2023 }} (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
January 22 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.{{cite book |author=Marian B. McLeod |title=The Parliamentary Speaking of Ramsay MacDonald: A Study of His First Labour Government |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0FEjAAAAMAAJ |year=1978 |publisher=Literary Press |page=18 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151333/https://books.google.com/books?id=0FEjAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
January 25 – The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics, open in Chamonix, in the French Alps.{{cite book |author=Norris McWhirter |title=Guinness Book of Records |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p1qPWMsBz7sC |year=1983 |publisher=Guinness Superlatives |isbn=978-0-85112-260-1 |page=311 |access-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151430/https://books.google.com/books?id=p1qPWMsBz7sC |url-status=live }}
January 26 – Petrograd in the Soviet Union is renamed Leningrad; it will revert to Saint Petersburg in 1991.{{cite book |author=David M. Glantz |title=The Battle for Leningrad: 1941-1944 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4uRmAAAAMAAJ |year=2002 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |isbn=978-0-7006-1208-6 |page=8}}

= February =

February 1 – The United Kingdom recognizes the Soviet Union.{{cite news |date=2 February 1924 |title=Recognition of Russia |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19240202.2.35?end_date=02-02-1924&items_per_page=10&query=Russia&snippet=true&start_date=01-02-1924&title=ESD |access-date=28 December 2021 |work=Evening Star |page=4 |agency=Press Association |archive-date=December 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201214143/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19240202.2.35?end_date=02-02-1924&items_per_page=10&query=Russia&snippet=true&start_date=01-02-1924&title=ESD |url-status=live }}
February 5 – GMT: A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time, from the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
February 14 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), based in the U.S. state of New York, is renamed International Business Machines (IBM).{{cite book|author=|title=Annual Report of the International Business Machines Corporation for the Year Ended ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ANseAQAAMAAJ|year=1923|publisher=International Business Machines Corporation|access-date=July 23, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151331/https://books.google.com/books?id=ANseAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
February 22
Treaty of Rome: The Kingdom of Italy annexes the Free State of Fiume, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes absorbs Sušak.{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office|title=British and Foreign State Papers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=htoMAQAAIAAJ|year=1932|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=762|access-date=July 23, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151338/https://books.google.com/books?id=htoMAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.{{cite book |author=Arthur F. Fleser |title=A Rhetorical Study of the Speaking of Calvin Coolidge |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4HyilaT0zGEC&pg=PA85 |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-88946-321-9 |pages=85 |publisher=Edwin Mellen Press |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151335/https://books.google.com/books?id=4HyilaT0zGEC&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}

= March =

March 3 – The Ottoman Caliphate, a remnant of the Ottoman monarchy abolished on November 1, 1922 and one of the historical claims of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad, comes to an end with the deposition of the Caliph of the Ottoman dynasty. This marks the end of an era, giving way to the drastic political transformations of Turkey introduced by reforms because of the President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.{{cite web |author=Öztürk, Fatih |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/12937 |title=The Ottoman Millet System |pages=71–86}} - Cited: p. 72
March 6 – İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (2nd government).
March 15 – Horacio Vásquez wins the Dominican Republic general election, becoming president, coinciding with the end of United States military occupation.Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p247 {{ISBN|978-0-19-928357-6}}
March 24 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world premiere of his Symphony No. 7 in Stockholm.
March 25 – The Second Hellenic Republic is proclaimed in Greece.{{cite web |url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wFDWqVnkvhsTndtvSoClrL8BI7vRxXKg8ztIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIfmAIHno4xZaiebsKTXkZGFzZyd4dunA0LfOa-Yg4kaY. |title=Newspaper of the Government - Issue 64 |date=25 March 1924 |work=Government Newspaper of the Hellenic State |access-date=18 August 2012 |archive-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009021338/http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wFDWqVnkvhsTndtvSoClrL8BI7vRxXKg8ztIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIfmAIHno4xZaiebsKTXkZGFzZyd4dunA0LfOa-Yg4kaY. |url-status=live }}
March 29 – In France, the Third Ministry of Raymond Poincaré begins.{{cite book |author=Robert J. Young |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-24890-2 |title=France and the Origins of the Second World War |date=18 September 1996 |publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education |isbn=978-1-349-24890-2 |pages=173 |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-24890-2 |access-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-date=August 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811014301/https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-349-24890-2 |url-status=live }}

= April =

April 1
Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in Landsberg Prison in Germany for his participation in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch (he serves less than 9 months).
The first revenue flight for Belgium's Sabena Airlines takes place.
April 6 – Italian general election, 1924: Fascists win the elections in Italy with a two-thirds majority.
April 13 – The Greek republic referendum favors formation of the Second Hellenic Republic.{{cite book |author=S. Steinberg |title=The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1950 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqTPDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1074 |date=29 December 2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-27079-4 |pages=1074 |access-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151335/https://books.google.com/books?id=pqTPDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1074#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
April 17 – Metro Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Productions are merged to become Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
April 23 – The British Empire Exhibition opens in London; it is the largest colonial exhibition, with 58 countries of the empire dramatically represented.{{cite book|author=Robert A. Bickers|title=Britain in China: Community Culture and Colonialism, 1900-1949|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bllnAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-4697-1|page=65|access-date=April 9, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151947/https://books.google.com/books?id=bllnAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}

= May =

May 4 – The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies are held in Paris, France.{{cite book |author=David Wallechinsky |title=The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics: Athens 2004 Edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TYvPyVbjRpgC |year=2004 |publisher=Sport Media Pub. |isbn=978-1-894963-32-9 |page=2 |access-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151956/https://books.google.com/books?id=TYvPyVbjRpgC |url-status=live }}
May 8 – Lithuania signs the Klaipėda Convention with the nations of the Conference of Ambassadors, taking the Klaipėda Region from East Prussia and making it into an autonomous region.{{cite book|author=Georg von Rauch|title=The Baltic States: The Years of Independence : Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, 1917-1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emBIdi4LPz8C&pg=PA104|year=1974|publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers|isbn=978-0-903983-00-6|pages=104|access-date=April 9, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152120/https://books.google.com/books?id=emBIdi4LPz8C&pg=PA104|url-status=live}}
May 10 – In the United States, J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.{{cite book |author1=Athan G. Theoharis |author2=Susan Rosenfeld |author3=Richard G. Powers |title=The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnQduXa4JdoC&pg=PA363 |year=1999 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-89774-991-6 |pages=363 |access-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152224/https://books.google.com/books?id=VnQduXa4JdoC&pg=PA363 |url-status=live }}
May 11 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging of companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz.
May 26 – Harry Grindell Matthews attempts to demonstrate his "death ray" to the War Office in the United Kingdom.{{cite book |title=Astronautics & Aeronautics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F7PGAAAAIAAJ |year=1974 |publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |page=77 |access-date=October 4, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152224/https://books.google.com/books?id=F7PGAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
May 26 – The Immigration Act of 1924, commonly known as the Johnson-Reed Act, becomes effective. The act modifies the National Origins Quotas introduced in the Immigration Act of 1921.
May 30 – Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti speaks out against Fascism. A few days later he is kidnapped and murdered in Rome.{{cite book |author1=Allan Todd |author2=Sally Waller |title=History for the IB Diploma Paper 2 Authoritarian States (20th Century) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y_pfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 |date=10 September 2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-55889-2 |pages=39 |access-date=October 4, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151953/https://books.google.com/books?id=y_pfCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}

= June =

June 2 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.{{cite book |author=Paul C Rosier |title=Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9X7MWwmOSIC&pg=PA301 |date=1 March 2010 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-05452-3 |pages=301 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152201/https://books.google.com/books?id=s9X7MWwmOSIC&pg=PA301#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
June 5 – Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean,{{cite book |title=The National Inventors Hall of Fame: Dedicated to the Spirit of Invention |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9CMfanXhIAC&pg=PA52 |year=1984 |publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office |pages=52 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152633/https://books.google.com/books?id=s9CMfanXhIAC&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }} which goes to his father in Sweden.{{Cite news |last=Krebs |first=Albin |date=May 15, 1975 |title=Dr. Ernst Alexanderson, Radio Pioneer, Dies at 97 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/15/archives/dr-ernst-alexanderson-radio-pioneer-dies-at-97.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730104920/https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/15/archives/dr-ernst-alexanderson-radio-pioneer-dies-at-97.html |archive-date=July 30, 2017 |access-date=March 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times}}
June 7–16 – Rudolf Steiner delivers his Agriculture Course at Koberwitz beginning of the organic agriculture movement.{{cite journal |last=Paull |first=John |title=Attending the First Organic Agriculture Course: Rudolf Steiner's Agriculture Course at Koberwitz, 1924 |journal=European Journal of Social Sciences |year=2011 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=64–70 |url=https://www.academia.edu/9149070 |access-date=August 24, 2019 |archive-date=March 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323023447/https://www.academia.edu/9149070 |url-status=live }}
June 8 – George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 P.M.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-06 |title=Remains of Sandy Irvine believed found on Everest after 100 years |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/sandy-irvine-body-found-everest |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Adventure |language=en}} The two mountaineers are never seen alive again.
June 13 – In Hungary, a devastating tornado, "Wildkansas", strikes, in 3 hours leaving a 500–1500m wide and 70 km long path of destruction from landfall at Bia to its end near Vác, completely destroying the village of Páty. 9 people are killed, 50 injured and many left homeless by one of the strongest tornadoes ever not only in Hungary but in Europe, estimated as F4.
June 20 The FIDE was founded.
June 30 – J. B. M. Hertzog becomes the third Prime Minister of South Africa.{{cite book |author=Colin Martin Tatz |title=Shadow and Substance in South Africa: A Study in Land and Franchise Policies Affecting Africans, 1910-1960 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTNzAAAAMAAJ |year=1962 |publisher=University of Natal Press |page=211 |access-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152646/https://books.google.com/books?id=BTNzAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}

= July =

July 10 – Paavo Nurmi of Finland wins the 1,500 and 5,000 m runs within two hours at the Paris Olympics.{{cite book| author=Lauri Pihkala & Martti Jukola | title=Olympialaiskisat ennen ja Pariisissa 1924. 2. osa | location=Porvoo | publisher=WSOY | year=1924 | language=fi}}
July 12 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24) comes to an end. The constitutional government headed by General Horacio Vázquez, elected in the elections held in March, is established.
July 19 – Napalpí massacre: Around 400 indigenous people of Toba ethnicity are massacred in Argentina.{{cite web |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/287295953.pdf |title=De las fosas al panteón: contrasentidos en las honras de los indios revividos |language=en |author=Carlos Salamanca |website=core.ac.uk |publisher=Revista Colombiana de Antropología |date=2008 |pages=7–39 |access-date=14 January 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115224352/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/287295953.pdf |url-status=live }}

= August =

August 16 – The Dawes Plan is signed in Paris, temporarily resolving German reparations dispute.{{cite book |author=Inter-allied Conference on Reparations and Inter-allied Debts |title=Proceedings of the London Reparation Conference July and August 1924 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-akDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA320 |year=1924 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |pages=320 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152647/https://books.google.com/books?id=-akDAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA320#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
August 28 – August Uprising: Georgia rises against rule by the Soviet Union in an abortive rebellion, in which several thousands die.{{cite book |title=Russian Studies in History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mPckAQAAMAAJ |year=1977 |publisher=M.E. Sharpe, Incorporated |page=14 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152950/https://books.google.com/books?id=mPckAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}

= September =

September 9
The Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.{{cite book |author=Moon-Kie Jung |title=The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Working Class |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MV4fAQAAMAAJ |year=1999 |publisher=University of Michigan |isbn=978-0-599-63406-0 |page=69 |access-date=November 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152718/https://books.google.com/books?id=MV4fAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
The 8-hour work day is introduced in Belgium.
September 9–11 – The Kohat riots break out in India.{{cite book |author=L. F. Rushbrook-Williams |title=India in 1924-25: A Statement Prepared for Presentation to Parliament in Accordance with the Requirements of the 26th Section of the Government of India Act (5 & 6 Geo. V, Chap 61). |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lBG2AAAAIAAJ |year=1925 |publisher=Government of India Central Publication Branch |page=22 |access-date=November 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152716/https://books.google.com/books?id=lBG2AAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
September 28 – U.S. Army pilots John Harding and Erik Nelson complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe. It has taken them 175 days and 74 stops before their return to Seattle.{{cite book|author1=Lumen Winter|author2=Glenn Degner|title=Minute Epics of Flight|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nNJ-yMIIwogC|year=1933|publisher=Grosset & Dunlap|page=121|access-date=July 23, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152845/https://books.google.com/books?id=nNJ-yMIIwogC|url-status=live}}

= October =

October – The skull of the Taung Child is discovered.{{cite book |author1=Donald E. Johanson |author2=Donald C. Johanson |author3=Blake Edgar |title=From Lucy to Language |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-VKEjAbpggcC&pg=PT146 |year=1996 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-684-81023-2 |pages=146 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153506/https://books.google.com/books?id=-VKEjAbpggcC&pg=PT146#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
October 2 – The Geneva Protocol is adopted by the League of Nations Assembly as a means to strengthen the League, but later fails to be ratified.
October 6 – 1-RO begins regular radio broadcasting services in Italy.
October 9 – Municipal Grant Park Stadium, in Chicago, Illinois (now known as Soldier Field) is officially dedicated.[https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-60000-voice-citys-spir/69950747/ "60,000 Voice City's Spirit at Stadium Fete"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207145509/https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-60000-voice-citys-spir/69950747/ |date=February 7, 2024 }}, Chicago Tribune, October 10, 1924, p. 5
October 10 – Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral (Compulsory Voting) Act 1924.
October 12–15 – Zeppelin LZ-126 makes a transatlantic delivery flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey.
October 15 – The first Surrealist Manifesto is published, in which André Breton defines the movement as "pure psychic automatism".{{cite book|author=J. H. Matthews|title=The Surrealist Mind|publisher=Susquehanna University Press|year=1991|isbn=9780945636069|page=31}}
October 18 – Sweden's Prime Minister Ernst Trygger and his cabinet, is replaced by Hjalmar Branting and his third and last government.
October 19 – Abdul Aziz, founder of Saudi Arabia, declares himself protector of holy places in Mecca.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
October 25
The British press publishes the Zinoviev letter, released the previous day by the Foreign Office.{{cite book |author=Adrian Smith |title=The New Statesman: Portrait of a Political Weekly, 1913-1931 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JFnHxuuT4FAC&pg=PA308 |year=1996 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-7146-4169-0 |pages=308 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153727/https://books.google.com/books?id=JFnHxuuT4FAC&pg=PA308#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }} This purports to be a directive from Grigory Zinoviev, head of the Communist International in Moscow, to the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Authorities of the British Raj in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next 2{{frac|1|2}} years.{{cite web|url=https://indianculture.gov.in/node/2832030|title=Subhash Bose's letters to Sarat Bose from Mandalay Prison|website=Indian Culture|access-date=October 11, 2023|archive-date=October 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015095127/https://indianculture.gov.in/node/2832030|url-status=live}}
October 27 – The Uzbek SSR joins the Soviet Union.

= November =

November – The last known sighting of a California grizzly bear is recorded, by Colonel John R. White at Sequoia National Park.{{cite journal|journal=Hunter-Trader-Trapper|title=California Grizzly Bear|publisher=F.J. and W.F. Heer|year=1925|volume=50|page=34}}
November 4
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
1924 United States presidential election: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Robert M. La Follette Sr.
Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom again
November 10 – The Trial of the 149 begins in Estonia, eventually resulting in the conviction of 129 communists, including several members of the Riigikogu.{{cite book |author=Edward Hallett Carr |title=Socialism in One Country, 1924-1926 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rvEVAQAAMAAJ |year=1964 |publisher=Macmillan |page=284 |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153509/https://books.google.com/books?id=rvEVAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
November 19 – Major-General Sir Lee Stack, British Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, is shot in Cairo by a gang of Egyptian nationalist students, dying the following day.{{cite book|title=The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Correspondence of Sir Austen Chamberlain with his sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916–1937|last=Chamberlain|first=Austen|editor=Self, Robert C.|year=1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0-521-55157-9|page=300}}
November 21 – Ali Fethi Okyar forms a new government in Turkey (3rd government).
November 26 – The Mongolian People's Republic is proclaimed.{{cite book |title=Uralic and Altaic Series |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jo1NAQAAMAAJ |year=1960 |publisher=Indiana University |page=5 |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153518/https://books.google.com/books?id=jo1NAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}

= December =

December 1 – A Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt fails in Estonia.{{cite book |title=Newsletter from Behind the Iron Curtain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jtAjAQAAMAAJ |year=1973 |publisher=Estonian Information Center |page=36 |access-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153500/https://books.google.com/books?id=jtAjAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
December 19 – German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for the murder and dismemberment of at least 24 young males in Hanover.
December 20 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison{{cite book |last1=Nicholls |first1=David |last2=Nicholls |first2=Gill |title=Adolf Hitler: A Biographical Companion |year=2000 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-87436-965-6 |page=153 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8L42KtTrw0C&pg=PA153 |language=en |access-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153604/https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8L42KtTrw0C&pg=PA153 |url-status=live }} after serving nine months for his crucial role in the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.
December 24
1924 Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34 crash: An airliner crashes soon after takeoff from London's Croydon Airport killing all eight people aboard. This leads to the first public inquiry into a civil aviation accident ever held in the United Kingdom.{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|location=London|title=Aeroplane Crash at Purley |date=27 December 1924 |page=10E|issue=43844}}
Albania becomes a republic.
Babbs Switch fire: A flash fire at a Christmas celebration in a one-room schoolhouse in Babbs, Oklahoma, United States, kills 36 people, mostly small children.
December 30 – American astronomer Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe.{{cite book |author=William R. Nes |title=Lipids in Evolution |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NLPfBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 |date=6 December 2012 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-1-4684-3683-9 |pages=8 |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153517/https://books.google.com/books?id=NLPfBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}

=Date unknown=

Spring – Francophone explorer, spiritualist and former operatic soprano Alexandra David-Néel, disguised as a male pilgrim, makes a 2-month stay in the forbidden city of Lhasa, Tibet.My Journey to Lhasa (1927).
Autumn – In the United States, the final raid of the Renegade period of the Apache Wars takes place, bringing the American Indian Wars to a close, after 315 years.
Slavery in Iraq is abolished.Gordon, M. (1989). Slavery in the Arab world. New York: New Amsterdam.{{Page needed|date=October 2023}}
The International Union of Official Organizations for Tourist Propaganda is established.{{cite book |author=N. Jayapalan |title=Introduction To Tourism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HFWjoeVCLk0C&pg=PA181 |year=2001 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist |isbn=978-81-7156-977-9 |pages=181}}
Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging at Stirling, Alberta, Canada.
The Temporary Slavery Commission is created by the League of Nations.Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. USA: AltaMira Press. 100-121

Births

= January =

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January 1
Jacques Le Goff, French historian and author (d. 2014){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/influential-french-historian-jacques-le-goff-dies|title=Influential medieval historian Jacques Le Goff dies aged 90|date=April 1, 2014|website=The Guardian|access-date=January 19, 2024|archive-date=May 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515051958/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/influential-french-historian-jacques-le-goff-dies|url-status=live}}
Francisco Macías Nguema, 1st President of Equatorial Guinea (d. 1979){{cite book |title=Political Handbook and Atlas of the World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ia8bAQAAMAAJ |year=1973 |publisher=Council on Foreign Relations |page=33}}
Charlie Munger, American businessman and philanthropist{{cite book |author=James Clark Fifield |title=The American Bar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Q48AQAAIAAJ |year=1962 |publisher=J.C. Fifield Company |page=111}} (d. 2023)
January 3 – André Franquin, Belgian comics artist (d. 1997)
January 4
Walter Ris, American freestyle swimmer (d. 1989){{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-12-28-8903210311-story.html |title=Walter Ris, swimmer who won Olympic Gold |date=December 28, 1989 |author=Kenan Heise |publisher=Chicago Tribune |access-date=23 September 2020 |archive-date=January 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121061736/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-12-28-8903210311-story.html |url-status=live }}
Marianne Werner, German shot putter (d. 2023){{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/marianne-werner |title=Marianne Werner |website=Olympic.org |publisher=International Olympic Committee |access-date=26 December 2020 |archive-date=July 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720121959/https://www.olympic.org/marianne-werner |url-status=live }}
January 5 – Hamzah Abu Samah, Malaysian politician and athlete (d. 2012){{cite book |title=Who's who in Malaysia and Guide to Singapore |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNgUAQAAIAAJ |year=1977 |publisher=J. V. Morais |page=5}}
January 6
Kim Dae-jung, 15th President of South Korea, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2009){{cite book |author=Kim Dae-jung |title=Conscience in Action: The Autobiography of Kim Dae-jung |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hSVhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3 |date=20 June 2018 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-981-10-7623-7 |pages=3}}
Earl Scruggs, American musician (d. 2012){{cite book |author=Kurt Wolff |title=Country Music: The Rough Guide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Jorozp1yp4C&pg=PA218 |year=2000 |publisher=Rough Guides |isbn=978-1-85828-534-4 |pages=218}}
January 8 – Ron Moody, English actor (d. 2015){{cite book |author=Joshua Kondek |title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nOfjraScrBEC |date=September 1985 |publisher=Cengage Gale |isbn=978-0-8103-0241-9 |page=206}}
January 9 – Sergei Parajanov, Georgian-Armenian film director (d. 1990)
January 10
Earl Bakken, American engineer and businessman, inventor of the modern Artificial pacemaker (d. 2018){{cite web |url=https://www.startribune.com/medtronic-founder-earl-bakken-has-died-at-his-home-in-hawaii/498167261/ |title=Medtronic founder Earl Bakken has died in his Hawaii home |date=October 22, 2018 |author=Joe Carlson |publisher=Star Tribune |access-date=23 September 2020 |archive-date=March 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327044703/https://www.startribune.com/medtronic-founder-earl-bakken-has-died-at-his-home-in-hawaii/498167261/ |url-status=live }}
Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer and composer (d. 2007){{cite web |url=http://nancyrawlinson.com/3arch.htm |publisher=MADISON magazine |title=Max Roach and James Woods |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929122706/http://nancyrawlinson.com/3arch.htm |url-status=dead}}
January 11
Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine{{cite book |author=United States Congress. House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare |title=Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1980: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt2JYK-65X0C&pg=PA33 |year=1979 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=33–34}} (d. 2024)
Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970){{cite book |author=Nick Talevski |title=The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beMTAQAAIAAJ |year=1999 |publisher=Omnibus |isbn=978-0-7119-7548-4 |page=173}}
January 12 – Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (d. 1998){{cite book|author=Robert John Newman|title=Motor Racing Heroes: The Stories of 100 Greats|publisher=Veloce Publishing|year=2014|isbn=9781845847487|page=149}}
January 13
Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994){{cite book |author1=Sahotra Sarkar |author2=Jessica Pfeifer |title=The Philosophy of Science: A-M |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UchIDBrAQEMC&pg=PA304 |year=2006 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-415-97709-8 |pages=304}}
Roland Petit, French choreographer/dancer (d. 2011){{cite book |author1=Allen Robertson |author2=Donald Hutera |title=The Dance Handbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZ0YAAAAIAAJ |year=1990 |publisher=G.K. Hall |isbn=978-0-8161-9095-9 |page=118}}
January 16 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002){{cite book |author=Gary D. Keller |title=A Biographical Handbook of Hispanics and United States Film |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LwUAQAAIAAJ |year=1997 |publisher=Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe |isbn=978-0-927534-65-9 |page=90}}
January 18 – Ivan Martynushkin, Soviet liberator of Auschwitz concentration camp
January 19 – Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
January 21 – Benny Hill, English comedian and singer (d. 1992)
January 22 – J. J. Johnson, African-American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (d. 2001)
January 23 – Frank Lautenberg, American businessman and politician (d. 2013)
January 25 – Husein Mehmedov, Bulgarian-Turkish Olympic wrestler (d. 2014)
January 26
Armand Gatti, French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and World War II resistance fighter (d. 2017)
Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2014){{Cite book |last=Cook |first=Richard |year=2005 |title=Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia |publisher=Penguin Books |location=London |isbn=0-141-00646-3 |pages=27}}
January 27 – Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963)
January 29
Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990){{cite book |author=Larry Sitsky |title=Music of the Twentieth-century Avant-garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sgDJKVXraE0C&pg=PA329 |year=2002 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-29689-5 |pages=329 |access-date=October 4, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511162019/https://books.google.com/books?id=sgDJKVXraE0C&pg=PA329 |url-status=live }}
Dorothy Malone, American actress (d. 2018)
January 30 – Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007){{cite journal |title=Lloyd Alexander |journal=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2007 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000001205/LitRC?u=byuprovo&sid=LitRC&xid=de216cb5 |publisher=Gale Literature Resource Center |ref={{sfnref|Gale Literature|2007}} |access-date=October 4, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511161951/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&u=byuprovo&id=GALE{{!}}H1000001205&v=2.1&it=r&sid=LitRC&asid=de216cb5 |url-status=live }}
January 31 – John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian (d. 2019){{cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-john-lukacs-iconoclastic-historian-who-wrote-a-best-selling-tribute-to-churchill-1418023|title=Obituary: John Lukacs, iconoclastic historian who wrote a best-selling tribute to Churchill|date=May 9, 2019|website=The Scotsman|access-date=October 11, 2023|archive-date=October 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015095124/https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-john-lukacs-iconoclastic-historian-who-wrote-a-best-selling-tribute-to-churchill-1418023|url-status=live}}

= February =

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February 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, German Head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (d. 2010){{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/8062520/His-Highness-Prince-Friedrich-Wilhelm.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/8062520/His-Highness-Prince-Friedrich-Wilhelm.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary of His Highness Prince Friedrich Wilhelm|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=13 October 2010|access-date=April 9, 2021}}{{cbignore}}
February 8
Charles Coste, French Olympic cyclist{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/charles-coste |title=Charles Coste |website=Olympic.org |publisher=International Olympic Committee |access-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511162034/https://olympics.com/en/athletes/charles-coste |url-status=live }}
Khamtai Siphandone, 4th President and 12th Prime Minister of Laos{{cite book |title=Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PgJXAAAAMAAJ |year=1998 |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |page=7 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511162107/https://books.google.com/books?id=PgJXAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }} (d. 2025)
February 11 – Budge Patty, American tennis player{{cite book |author=United States Lawn Tennis Association |title=United States Lawn Tennis Association Year Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8GbzAAAAMAAJ |year=1940 |publisher=The Association |page=107 |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511161957/https://books.google.com/books?id=8GbzAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }} (d. 2021)
February 14 – Juan Ponce Enrile, Filipino politician, President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2008 to 2013.
February 17
Margaret Truman, American novelist and only child of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman (d. 2008){{cite book |author1=Ron Cockrell |author2=Keith Krueger |title=Cultural Landscape Report: Harry S Truman National Historic Site, Independence, Missouri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OOaZRpTIMrsC&pg=PA26 |year=1990 |publisher=National Park Service |pages=26 |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511161957/https://books.google.com/books?id=OOaZRpTIMrsC&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
Gevork Vartanian, Soviet intelligence officer (d. 2012)
February 19 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
February 20 – Gloria Vanderbilt, American heiress and entrepreneur (d. 2019){{cite book |author= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA139 |title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months |date=30 September 2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-64143-264-1 |editor-last=McGuire |editor-first=Holly |pages=139 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511162217/https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA139#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
February 21
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2019){{cite book |author1=Roger East |author2=Richard J. Thomas |author3=Richard Thomas |title=Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mz-fXRsedPMC&pg=PA590 |year=2003 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-1-85743-126-1 |pages=590 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511170333/https://books.google.com/books?id=Mz-fXRsedPMC&pg=PA590#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
Silvano Piovanelli, Italian prelate and cardinal (d. 2016){{cite book |title=Inside the Vatican |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=COgtAAAAYAAJ |year=1996 |publisher=Urbi et Orbi Communications |page=46 |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511170156/https://books.google.com/books?id=COgtAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}
February 23 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist and 1979 Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
February 24 – Teresa Bracco, Italian Roman Catholic religious sister, martyr and blessed (d. 1944){{cite book |title=30 Days in the Church and in the World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1-ctAAAAYAAJ |year=1998 |publisher=Italcoser Corporation |page=54 |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511170212/https://books.google.com/books?id=1-ctAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}
February 26
Freda Betti, French opera singer (d. 1979)
Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000){{cite book |title=Japan Report |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9MQwAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA11-PA15 |year=1985 |publisher=Japan Information Center, Consulate General of Japan |pages=11 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511170236/https://books.google.com/books?id=9MQwAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA11-PA15#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
February 28
Bettye Ackerman, American actress (d. 2006)
Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer (d. 2019)
February 29 – Carlos Humberto Romero, Salvadorian politician, 37th President of El Salvador (d. 2017){{cite book |author=Latin America Bureau |title=Violence and Fraud in El Salvador: A Report on Current Political Events in El Salvador |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XIxqAAAAMAAJ |year=1977 |publisher=The Bureau |page=32 |isbn=9780906156001 |access-date=October 12, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511170242/https://books.google.com/books?id=XIxqAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}

= March =

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March 1 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993){{cite book |author=Norris McWhirter |title=Guinness book of world records 1978 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5a2AguFdd4C |year=1978 |publisher=Bantam Books |isbn=978-0-553-11255-9 |page=169 |access-date=December 26, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511170356/https://books.google.com/books?id=T5a2AguFdd4C |url-status=live }}
March 3
Lys Assia, Swiss singer, first winner of Eurovision Song Contest (1956) (d. 2018)
Tomiichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan{{cite book |title=Profile of Prime Minister, Tomiichi Murayama |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=myOyGnlF8P4C |year=1994 |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs |access-date=October 12, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511170232/https://books.google.com/books?id=myOyGnlF8P4C |url-status=live }}
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian military officer and head of state (d. 1966){{cite book |author1=Sam Iroanusi |author2=Benedict Eke |title=Nigeria's Heads of State and Government |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugJzAAAAMAAJ |year=1997 |publisher=S. Iroanusi |isbn=978-978-2493-97-2 |page=29 |access-date=October 12, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511172534/https://books.google.com/books?id=ugJzAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (d. 1948)
March 6 – William H. Webster, American jurist, director of the FBI and CIA
March 7 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese novelist (d. 1993)
March 8
Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010){{cite news|date=2 October 2010|title=Georges Charpak Facts|work=The Nobel Prize|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1992/charpak/facts/|access-date=1 August 2020|archive-date=April 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403133429/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1992/charpak/facts/|url-status=live}}
Abderrahmane Youssoufi, 12th Prime Minister of Morocco (d. 2020){{cite book |title=The ... Political Risk Yearbook: Middle East & North Africa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fB2OAAAAMAAJ |year=2001 |publisher=Frost & Sullivan |isbn=978-1-931077-04-0 |page=30 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511172538/https://books.google.com/books?id=fB2OAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
March 9 – Hanna Mina, Syrian writer (d. 2018)
March 10 – Jin Yong, Hong Kong writer (d. 2018){{cite book |title=East Asian History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3HYwAQAAIAAJ |year=1993 |publisher=Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University |page=6 |access-date=October 12, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511172525/https://books.google.com/books?id=3HYwAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
March 15 – Khyber Khan, Pakistan Air Force pioneer officer and former Deputy Chief of Air Staff of the PAF (d. 2007)
March 17 – Edith Savage-Jennings, American civil rights activist (d. 2017){{cite web|url=http://www.trentonian.com/general-news/20171112/civil-rights-icon-edith-savage-jennings-dies|title=Civil rights icon Edith Savage-Jennings dies|publisher=Trentonian|accessdate=November 13, 2017|date=November 13, 2017|archive-date=November 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113080600/http://www.trentonian.com/general-news/20171112/civil-rights-icon-edith-savage-jennings-dies|url-status=live}}
March 25
Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (d. 2011)Grimes, William (July 12, 2011){{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/arts/roberts-blossom-quirky-character-actor-dies-at-87.html?_r=1| title=Roberts Blossom, Quirky Character Actor, Dies at 87| work=The New York Times| access-date=13 September 2011| first=William| last=Grimes| date=12 July 2011| archive-date=November 14, 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114083532/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/arts/roberts-blossom-quirky-character-actor-dies-at-87.html?_r=1| url-status=live}}
Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (d. 2019)Sandomir, Richard, [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/obituaries/machiko-kyo-dead.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_190519 Machiko Kyo, Star of ‘Rashomon’ and Other Films, Dies at 95] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114083531/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/obituaries/machiko-kyo-dead.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_190519 |date=November 14, 2023 }}, The New York Times, May 17, 2019
József Zakariás, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1971)
March 27 – Sarah Vaughan, African-American jazz singer (d. 1990)
March 28
Freddie Bartholomew, English-American actor (d. 1992)
Birte Christoffersen, Danish Olympic diver

= April =

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April 3 – Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004){{cite book |author=Alan Frank |title=Marlon Brando |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tmmd-qgnE0UC |year=1982 |publisher=Exeter Books |isbn=978-0-89673-139-4 |page=6 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511172620/https://books.google.com/books?id=Tmmd-qgnE0UC |url-status=live }}
April 7 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (d. 2009)
April 11
Enrique Morea, Argentine tennis player (d. 2017)
Libuše Havelková, Czech actress (d. 2017)
April 12 – Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007){{cite book |title=Trade Union News |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iG_24CnIIfsC |year=1967 |publisher=Publications Services of the European Communities |page=2 |access-date=September 26, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511172521/https://books.google.com/books?id=iG_24CnIIfsC |url-status=live }}
April 13 – Stanley Donen, American film director and choreographer (d. 2019){{cite book |author=Joel Waldo Finler |title=The Movie Directors Story |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QTM5cFyRiscC |year=1985 |publisher=Crescent Books |isbn=978-0-517-48079-3 |page=95 |access-date=October 12, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511172615/https://books.google.com/books?id=QTM5cFyRiscC |url-status=live }}
April 14 – Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, English philosopher and writer (d. 2019)
April 15 – Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist (d. 2016){{cite book |author=Gerald Norris |title=A Musical Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ |year=1981 |publisher=David & Charles |isbn=978-0-7153-7845-8 |page=174}}
April 16 – Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (d. 1994){{cite book |author= |title=Billboard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xh8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26 |date=18 April 1960 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |pages=26 |access-date=September 26, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511174111/https://books.google.com/books?id=xh8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
April 18 – Abdul Samad Ismail, Malaysian journalist and one of the founders of the PAP (d. 2008)
April 20
Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (d. 2008){{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103464.html |title=Nina Foch; 'Executive Suite' Role Earned Actress Oscar Nomination |first=Adam |last=Bernstein |date=December 12, 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717145726/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103464.html |url-status=live }}
Leslie Phillips, English actor (d. 2022){{cite book |title=British Film and Television Yearbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0rcQAAAAIAAJ |year=1960 |publisher=British and American Film Press |page=267 |access-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511174113/https://books.google.com/books?id=0rcQAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
April 23 – Ruth Leuwerik, German film actress (d. 2016)
April 24 – Clement Freud, British writer, broadcaster, chef and politician (d. 2009){{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5162533/-Clement-Freud-dies-at-84.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404152842/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5162533/-Clement-Freud-dies-at-84.html |archive-date=2019-04-04 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Clement Freud dies at 84 |last=Swaine |first=Jon |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 April 2009 |location=London |date=16 April 2009}}
April 28 – Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia{{cite book |author=Philip Brownrigg |title=Kenneth Kaunda |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vZIxAAAAIAAJ |year=1989 |publisher=Kenneth Kaunda Foundation |isbn=978-9982-01-099-3 |page=1 |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511174051/https://books.google.com/books?id=vZIxAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live}} (d. 2021)
April 29
Shintaro Abe, Japanese politician (d. 1991){{cite book|author=Deborah Andrews|title=Annual Obituary, 1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FMYAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-175-6|page=255|access-date=July 23, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511174203/https://books.google.com/books?id=6FMYAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballerina and actress (d. 2020){{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/arts/dance/zizi-jeanmaire-french-star-of-ballet-cabaret-and-film-dies-at-96.html |title=Zizi Jeanmaire, French Star of Ballet, Cabaret and Film, Dies at 96 |first=Roslyn |last=Sulcas |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 21, 2020 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=July 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200721155717/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/arts/dance/zizi-jeanmaire-french-star-of-ballet-cabaret-and-film-dies-at-96.html |url-status=live }}
30 April – Sheldon Harnick, American lyricist and songwriter (d. 2023)

= May =

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May 1
Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist and academic{{cite book |author1=James H. Kessler |author2=Katherine A. Morin |author3=J. S. Kidd |author4=Renee A. Kidd |title=Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ydHVdMUqdEC&pg=PA127 |year=1996 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-89774-955-8 |pages=127 |access-date=December 26, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511175059/https://books.google.com/books?id=-ydHVdMUqdEC&pg=PA127 |url-status=live }} (d. 2023)
Grégoire Kayibanda, 2nd President of Rwanda (d. 1976){{cite book|title=The World this Year|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TCOFAAAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Simon and Schuster|page=98}}
May 2 – Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor, folk singer and musician (d. 2015){{cite book |author1=Cleveland Amory |author2=Earl Blackwell |title=Celebrity Register |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CvTAAAAMAAJ |year=1963 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |page=56 |access-date=December 26, 2020 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135701/https://books.google.com/books?id=3CvTAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
May 3
Isadore Singer, American mathematician (d. 2021){{cite book |title=Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHlDVMtW4cAC&pg=PA365 |year=1987 |publisher=Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration |pages=365}}
Ken Tyrrell, British racing driver and constructor (d. 2001){{cite book |author1=Henry Sturmey |author2=H. Walter Staner |title=The Autocar: A Journal Published in the Interests of the Mechanically Propelled Road Carriage |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHYjAQAAMAAJ |date=May 1969 |publisher=Iliffe, sons & Sturmey Limited |page=8 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511174310/https://books.google.com/books?id=sHYjAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
May 6 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (d. 2006)
May 10 – Zahrad, Armenian poet (d. 2007)
May 11 – Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2021){{cite book |author=Stig Lundqvist |title=Physics 1971-1980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOpwcstircEC&pg=PA171 |year=1992 |publisher=World Scientific |isbn=978-981-02-0727-4 |pages=171 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185521/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOpwcstircEC&pg=PA171#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
May 12
Tony Hancock, English comedian (d. 1968)
Claribel Alegría, Nicaraguan poet (d. 2018)
May 13 – Giovanni Sartori, Italian political scientist (d. 2017){{cite book |title=Contemporary Authors: First revision |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kHREAAAAMAAJ |year=1969 |publisher=Gale Research Company |page=1009}}
May 16 – Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the Gambia (d. 2019){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/30/sir-dawda-jawara-obituary|title=Sir Dawda Jawara obituary|date=August 19, 2019|website=The Guardian|author=Kaye Whiteman|access-date=November 22, 2021|archive-date=August 31, 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190831090812/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/30/sir-dawda-jawara-obituary|url-status=live}}
May 22 – Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2018){{cite book |author=Dave DiMartino |title=Music in the 20th Century (3 Vol Set) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sB4GDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA35 |date=15 April 2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-46430-3 |pages=35 |access-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511175533/https://books.google.com/books?id=sB4GDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
May 27 – Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan politician, 42nd President of Venezuela (d. 2014){{cite book |title=Political Risk Yearbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QqaaAAAAIAAJ |year=1994 |publisher=Political Risk Services |isbn=978-1-85271-300-3 |page=7 |access-date=October 26, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511175538/https://books.google.com/books?id=QqaaAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
May 31 – Patricia Roberts Harris, American administrator (d. 1985){{cite book |author1=Robert L Harris Jr. |author2=Rosalyn Terborg-Penn |title=The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2AaAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA281 |date=27 June 2006 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-51087-5 |pages=281 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511175539/https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2AaAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA281#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}

= June =

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June 3
Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (d. 1991)
Karunanidhi, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, referred to as Kalaignar (d. 2018)
Jimmy Rogers, American musician (d. 1997){{cite book |author=Nick Talevski |title=The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beMTAQAAIAAJ |year=1999 |publisher=Omnibus |isbn=978-0-7119-7548-4 |page=365 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511180112/https://books.google.com/books?id=beMTAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
Torsten Wiesel, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 4
Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician (d. 1999){{cite book |author=John Clements |title=Clements' Encyclopedia of World Governments |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-cjAQAAIAAJ |year=1996 |publisher=Political Research, Incorporated |page=400 |access-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511180113/https://books.google.com/books?id=q-cjAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)
June 6 – Göran Malmqvist, Swedish linguist and literary historian (d. 2019){{cite book |author=Rom Harre |title=Key Thinkers in Psychology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GraDokCHiAgC&pg=PA156 |year=2006 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-1-4129-0345-5 |pages=156 |access-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511180741/https://books.google.com/books?id=GraDokCHiAgC&pg=PA156#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
June 12 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (d. 2018){{cite book |last=Meacham |first=Jon |author-link=Jon Meacham |title=Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMgOCAAAQBAJ |year=2015 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-4000-6765-7 |pages=8–9 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=October 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001180326/https://books.google.com/books?id=iMgOCAAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}
June 14 – James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate (d. 2010)[http://news.stv.tv/scotland/tayside/165087-nobel-prize-winning-scientist-dies/ "Nobel Prize winning scientist dies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229141443/http://news.stv.tv/scotland/tayside/165087-nobel-prize-winning-scientist-dies/ |date=29 February 2012 }} stv.tv 22 March 2010 Link accessed 22 March 2010
June 15
Hédi Fried, Swedish author and psychologist (d. 2022){{cite book |author=Marc Buggeln |title=Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hc2SBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA175 |year=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-870797-4 |pages=175 |access-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511180756/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hc2SBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA175#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005){{cite book |author=Arthur Saul Super |title=Zionist Year Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3hAAQAAIAAJ |year=1974 |publisher=Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland |page=41 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511180736/https://books.google.com/books?id=m3hAAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
June 18 – George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005){{cite news |last=usatoday.com |title=NBA pioneer and Hall of Famer Mikan dies |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/2005-06-02-mikan-obit_x.htm |date=February 23, 2007 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |work=USA Today |archive-date=January 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124142043/http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/2005-06-02-mikan-obit_x.htm |url-status=live }}
June 19 – Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano (d. 2010){{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/may/26/anneliese-rothenberger-obituary |title=Anneliese Rothenberger obituary |date=26 May 2010 |author=Barry Millington |website=The Guardian |access-date=17 January 2021}}
June 20
Chet Atkins, American guitarist and record producer (d. 2001){{cite book |author1=Pete Prown |author2=Harvey P. Newquist |title=Legends of Rock Guitar: The Essential Reference of Rock's Greatest Guitarists |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=60Jde3l7WNwC&pg=PA10 |year=1997 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=978-0-7935-4042-6 |pages=10 |access-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511180907/https://books.google.co.za/books?id=60Jde3l7WNwC&pg=PA10&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
Rainer Barzel, German politician (d. 2006){{cite book |author1=Maxine Block |author2=Anna Herthe Rothe |author3=Marjorie Dent Candee |title=Current Biography Yearbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=118RAQAAMAAJ |year=2006 |publisher=H.W. Wilson |page=622 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511180801/https://books.google.com/books?id=118RAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
June 23
Bayezid Osman, 44th Head of the Turkish House of Osman (d. 2017)
Ranasinghe Premadasa, 3rd President, 8th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1993)
June 24 – Kurt Furgler, 3-time President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2008){{cite book |author=Harris M. Lentz |title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA727 |date=4 February 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-26490-2 |pages=727 |access-date=October 4, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511180740/https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA727#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
June 25 – Sidney Lumet, American film director (d. 2011){{cite book |author=Sidney Lumet |title=Sidney Lumet: Interviews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ysUIzzpngZQC&pg=PR15 |year=2006 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-57806-724-4 |pages=15 |access-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511180744/https://books.google.com/books?id=ysUIzzpngZQC&pg=PR15#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
June 28 – Kalevi Keihänen, Finnish entrepreneur (d. 1995)Nuorteva, Kristiina: [http://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000002624165.html Kalevi Keihänen's obituary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022155837/https://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000002624165.html |date=October 22, 2023 }}, Helsingin Sanomat 9 February 1995. Accessed on 13 February 2019.

= July =

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July 1 – Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer, manager (d. 2013){{cite web |url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/deportes/20090713/53743727820/las-85-vidas-del-gato-con-alas-azulgrana.html |title=Las 85 vidas del 'Gato con Alas' azulgrana |language=es |author=Felip Vivanco |date=14 July 2009 |website=La Vanguardia |access-date=27 September 2020 |archive-date=November 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103151408/https://www.lavanguardia.com/deportes/20090713/53743727820/las-85-vidas-del-gato-con-alas-azulgrana.html |url-status=live }}
July 3 – S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (d. 2016){{cite book |author=S. R. Nathan |title=An Unexpected Journey: Path to the Presidency |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=60Lqcx1ytckC&pg=PA19 |year=2011 |publisher=Editions Didier Millet |isbn=978-981-4260-73-2 |pages=19 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511181454/https://books.google.com/books?id=60Lqcx1ytckC&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
July 4
Eva Marie Saint, American actress{{cite book |title=Chase's ... Calendar of Events |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G_0KAQAAMAAJ |year=2003 |publisher=Contemporary Books |isbn=978-0-07-139098-9 |page=362 |access-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511181448/https://books.google.com/books?id=G_0KAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician; Head of State of Nepal (d. 2010){{cite book |author=Parmanand |title=G.P. Koirala's Struggle for Democracy in Nepal: A Biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWQMAQAAMAAJ |year=2008 |publisher=Bright Scholars Publications |isbn=978-0-9809285-0-1 |page=1 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511181444/https://books.google.com/books?id=rWQMAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
July 5
Edward Cassidy, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal{{cite book |author=Peter Hebblethwaite |title=The Next Pope: An Enquiry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ch0vAAAAYAAJ |year=1995 |publisher=Fount |page=129 |isbn=9780006278313 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511181450/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ch0vAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }} (d. 2021)
János Starker, Hungarian cellist (d. 2013){{cite book |author1=Janos Starker |title=The World of Music According to Starker |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5t3rojuiygEC&pg=PA10 |year=2004 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=0-253-34452-2 |pages=10 |access-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511181443/https://books.google.com/books?id=5t3rojuiygEC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
July 9 – Angelines Fernández, Spanish-born Mexican actress and comedian (d. 1994){{cite news|url=https://caras.uol.com.br/arquivo/fas-prestam-homenagem-interpretes-de-seu-madruga-e-bruxa-do-71-em-cemiterio-no-mexico-chaves-ramon.phtml|title=Fãs prestam homenagem a intérpretes de Seu Madruga e Bruxa do 71 em cemitério no México|newspaper=Caras Brasil|date=May 12, 2012|language=Portuguese|access-date=September 2, 2021|archive-date=September 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924144224/https://caras.uol.com.br/arquivo/fas-prestam-homenagem-interpretes-de-seu-madruga-e-bruxa-do-71-em-cemiterio-no-mexico-chaves-ramon.phtml|url-status=live}}
July 10
Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley Venezuelan lawyer and diplomat (d. 1995)Andrés Aguilar-Mawdsley. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui: La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Den Haag und London 1999, ISBN 9-04-110468-2, S. 259
Ip Chun, Chinese martial artist{{cite news |last1=Boehler |first1=Patrick |title=Chinese kung fu masters battle over inheritance of Yip Man's Wing Chun legacy |url=http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1581106/chinese-kung-fu-masters-battle-over-inheritance-wing-chun-legacy |access-date=10 September 2016 |work=South China Morning Post |publisher=South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. |date=27 August 2014 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612233128/http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1581106/chinese-kung-fu-masters-battle-over-inheritance-wing-chun-legacy |url-status=live }}
July 13 – Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor (d. 2014){{cite book |author=Marion Elizabeth Cullen |title=Memorable Days in Music |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2cs4AQAAIAAJ |year=1970 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=118 |isbn=9780810802933 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511181446/https://books.google.com/books?id=2cs4AQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
July 14 – Dorothy Stanley, American educator (d. 1990){{Cite book |last=Ortiz |first=Bev |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9eaSAgAAQBAJ |title=Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary |editor-last=Bataille |editor-first=Gretchen M |chapter=STANLEY, DOROTHY AMORA |date=December 16, 2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-95587-8 |editor-last2=Lisa |editor-first2=Laurie}}
July 15
David Cox, British statistician{{cite book |title=Who's who of British Scientists |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hq0EAAAAIAAJ |year=1980 |publisher=Longman |isbn=978-0-86229-001-6 |page=106 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511181447/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hq0EAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }} (d. 2022)
Makhmud Esambayev, Russian actor (d. 2000)
July 17 – Li Li-Hua, Chinese Hong-Kong actress (d. 2017)
July 18 – Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (d. 2011)
July 19 – Pat Hingle, American actor (d. 2009){{cite book |author=Paul T. Hellmann |title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA200 |date=14 February 2006 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1-135-94859-3 |pages=200 |access-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182138/https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA200#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
July 20
Lola Albright, American singer and actress (d. 2017)
FS Hussain, Pakistani aerobatic pilot (d. 1969)
Tatyana Lioznova, Soviet film director (d. 2011)
Elias Sarkis, 11th President of Lebanon (d. 1985){{cite book|title=The Annual Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=70sYAAAAIAAJ|year=1988|publisher=St. Martin's|isbn=978-0-912289-82-3|page=322|access-date=July 23, 2021|archive-date=April 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041646/https://books.google.com/books?id=70sYAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
July 22 – Georges Moreel, French footballer (d. 2003)

= August =

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August 1
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (official birth date) (d. 2015){{cite book |author1=Spencer C. Tucker |author2=Priscilla Roberts |title=The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History [4 volumes]: A Political, Social, and Military History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YAd8efHdVzIC&pg=PA23 |date=12 May 2008 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-842-2 |pages=23 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182139/https://books.google.com/books?id=YAd8efHdVzIC&pg=PA23 |url-status=live }}
Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010){{cite book |author=John Gribbin |title=Q is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zBsDkgI1uQsC&pg=PA77 |date=22 February 2000 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-684-86315-3 |pages=77 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182122/https://books.google.com/books?id=zBsDkgI1uQsC&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
Frank Worrell, West Indies cricketer (d. 1967){{cite book |author=Gordon Ross |title=A History of West Indies Cricket |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DHkNAAAAYAAJ |year=1976 |publisher=A. Barker |page=142 |isbn=9780213165857 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182129/https://books.google.com/books?id=DHkNAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}
August 2
James Baldwin, African-American author, novelist, playwright and activist (d. 1987){{cite book |author=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson |title=Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rprS-mm9uywC&pg=PA12 |year=1999 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-30501-6 |pages=12 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182132/https://books.google.com/books?id=rprS-mm9uywC&pg=PA12 |url-status=live }}
Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001){{cite book |author=Paul T. Hellmann |title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA778 |date=14 February 2006 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1-135-94859-3 |pages=778 |access-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182133/https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA778#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
August 3 – Leon Uris, American writer (d. 2003){{cite book |author=Frank Northen Magill |title=Cyclopedia of World Authors II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V2wYAAAAIAAJ |year=1989 |publisher=Salem Press |isbn=978-0-89356-516-9 |page=1503 |access-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182137/https://books.google.com/books?id=V2wYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
August 5 – Ben Jones, 7th Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 2005){{cite book |author=Sir Paul Scoon |title=Survival for Service: My Experiences as Governor General of Grenada |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dgp7AAAAMAAJ |year=2003 |publisher=Macmillan Caribbean |isbn=978-0-333-97064-5 |page=277 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182817/https://books.google.com/books?id=Dgp7AAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
August 6
Sophie Freud, Austrian-born American psychologist (d. 2022){{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/04/metro/sophie-freud-simmons-professor-who-called-psychoanalysis-narcissistic-indulgence-dies-97/|title=Sophie Freud, Simmons professor who called psychoanalysis 'a narcissistic indulgence,' dies at 97 - The Boston Globe|website=BostonGlobe.com|access-date=June 6, 2022|archive-date=June 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608013527/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/04/metro/sophie-freud-simmons-professor-who-called-psychoanalysis-narcissistic-indulgence-dies-97/|url-status=live}}
Erich Schriever, Swiss Olympic rower (d. 2020){{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/erich-schriever |title=Erich Schriever |website=Olympic.org |publisher=International Olympic Committee |access-date=9 December 2020 |archive-date=October 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002180026/https://www.olympic.org/erich-schriever |url-status=live }}
August 7 – Cecil Abbott, Commissioner of the New South Wales Police in Australia (d. 2014)
August 8 – Gene Deitch, American illustrator, animator and film director (d. 2020){{cite book |last=Lenburg |first=Jeff |title=Who's Who in Animated Cartoons |publisher=Applause Theatre and Cinema Books |location=New York City |year=2006 |edition=Illustrated |pages=[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinanimate0000lenb/page/62 62–64] |isbn=978-1-55783-671-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinanimate0000lenb/page/62}}
August 10 – Martha Hyer, American actress (d. 2014){{cite news |last=Bergan |first=Ronald |author1-link=Ronald Bergan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/11/martha-hyer |title=Martha Hyer obituary |work=The Guardian |date=June 11, 2014 |access-date=March 18, 2015}}
August 12 – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988){{cite book |last1=Levinson |first1=David |last2=Christensen |first2=Karen |title=Encyclopedia of Modern Asia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6lIYAAAAIAAJ |year=2002 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |isbn=978-0-684-31247-7 |page=218 |access-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182812/https://books.google.com/books?id=6lIYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
August 13 – Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (d. 2016){{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/18/prince-alexander-of-yugoslavia--obituary/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/18/prince-alexander-of-yugoslavia--obituary/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, globe-trotting playboy prince – obituary |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=July 18, 2016 |publisher=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=13 March 2017}}{{cbignore}}
August 14 – Georges Prêtre, French orchestral, opera conductor (d. 2017)
August 15
Robert Bolt, English writer (d. 1995){{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-robert-bolt-1574410.html |title=Obituary: Robert Bolt |newspaper=The Independent |last=Calder |first=John |date=23 February 1995 |access-date=21 July 2016 |archive-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117203540/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-robert-bolt-1574410.html |url-status=dead }}
Phyllis Schlafly, American activist (d. 2016){{cite book |author=Glenna Matthews |title=American Women's History: A Student Companion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVbnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA274 |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-511317-4 |pages=274 |access-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182812/https://books.google.com/books?id=aVbnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA274#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
August 16
Ralf Bendix, German Schlager singer, music producer, composer and songwriter (d. 2014)
Fess Parker, American actor and businessman (d. 2010){{Cite web |last=Harrigan |first=Stephen |date=1986-11-01 |title=The Ballad of Fess Parker |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/the-ballad-of-fess-parker/ |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=Texas Monthly |language=en |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511144515/https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/the-ballad-of-fess-parker/ |url-status=live }}
August 17 – Idris Iskandar al-Mutawakkil Alallahi Shah of Perak, 33rd Sultan of Perak (d. 1984)
August 19 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist (d. 2011){{Cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=George |title=Willard Boyle (1924–2011) Physicist who helped invent the 'eye of the digital camera'. |doi=10.1038/474037a |journal=Nature |volume=474 |issue=7349 |pages=37 |year=2011 |pmid=21637246 |doi-access=free}}
August 21 – Dalia Wood, Canadian politician (d. 2013)
August 22 – Orlando Ramón Agosti, Argentine general (d. 1997)
August 23
Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023){{cite book |author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations |title=General Government Matters: Department of Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1962: Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQ0tAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA691 |year=1961 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=691 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182816/https://books.google.com/books?id=RQ0tAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA691#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress (d. 2018)
August 24 – Ahmadou Ahidjo, President of Cameroon (d. 1989)
August 25 – Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Hungarian tennis player and coach (d. 2006){{Cite web |url=https://archivum.mtva.hu/photobank/item/MTI-FOTO-UGZ1QjZWeXlpSmxnM0JEaDBoMHFhZz09 |title=Sport - Tenisz - Körmöczy Zsuzsa |website=MTVA Archívum}}
August 29
María Dolores Pradera, Spanish singer, actress (d. 2018)
Dinah Washington, African-American singer, pianist (d. 1963){{cite book |author1=Norm N. Nite |author2=Wolfman Jack |title=Rock on: The solid gold years |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4404AQAAIAAJ |year=1982 |publisher=Harper & Row |isbn=978-0-06-181642-0 |page=645 |access-date=December 6, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182821/https://books.google.com/books?id=4404AQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
August 31 – Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (d. 2003)

= September =

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September 2 – Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya (d. 2020){{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27498749 |work=BBC News |date=4 February 2020 |title=Obituary: Daniel arap Moi, former Kenyan president |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=November 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102102850/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27498749 |url-status=live }}
September 4 – Joan Aiken, English writer (d. 2004){{cite book |author1=Conrad Aiken |author2=Malcolm Lowry |title=The Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry, 1929-1954 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l9QfAQAAIAAJ |year=1992 |publisher=ECW Press |isbn=978-1-55022-168-8 |page=xi |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182826/https://books.google.com/books?id=l9QfAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
September 7 – Daniel Inouye, American politician (d. 2012)
September 8 – Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005){{cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2005/06/17/mimi-parent-artiste-surrealiste_663300_3382.html |title=Mimi Parent, artiste surréaliste |date=17 June 2005 |author=Philippe Dagen |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |language=fr |access-date=15 October 2020 |archive-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020000643/https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2005/06/17/mimi-parent-artiste-surrealiste_663300_3382.html |url-status=live }}
September 9
Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
Sylvia Miles, American actress (d. 2019){{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/16/sylvia-miles-obituary |title=Sylvia Miles obituary |date=16 June 2019 |author=Ryan Gilbey |website=The Guardian |access-date=October 15, 2020}}
Russell M. Nelson, 17th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints{{cite book |author1=Davis Bitton |author2=Thomas G. Alexander |title=The A to Z of Mormonism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDhTx2E3350C&pg=PA158 |date=25 November 2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7060-4 |pages=158 |access-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182817/https://books.google.com/books?id=zDhTx2E3350C&pg=PA158#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003){{cite book |author1=Frédérique Galametz |author2=Philippe Bouvet |title=The Official Encyclopedia of the Yellow Jersey: 100 Years of the Yellow Jersey (Maillot Jaune) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xDadDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT438 |date=13 June 2019 |publisher=Octopus |isbn=978-0-600-63648-9 |pages=438 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184152/https://books.google.com/books?id=xDadDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT438 |url-status=live }}
September 11 – Rudolf Vrba, Slovak-Jewish Holocaust survivor, escapee from Auschwitz (d. 2006){{cite book |last=Vrba |first=Rudolf |year=2002 |orig-year=1963 |title=I Escaped from Auschwitz |location=Fort Lee, NJ |publisher=Barricade Books |isbn=9-78-1569-802328 |page=445}}
September 13 – Maurice Jarre, French composer (d. 2009){{cite book |author=Royal S. Brown |title=Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YjZN-44Z8AcC&pg=PA305 |date=18 October 1994 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-91477-3 |pages=305 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184159/https://books.google.com/books?id=YjZN-44Z8AcC&pg=PA305#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
September 15 – György Lázár, 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2014)
September 16 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (d. 2014){{cite book |author=Frank Northen Magill |title=Great Lives from History: American women series |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j2kYAAAAIAAJ |year=1995 |publisher=Salem Press |isbn=978-0-89356-892-4 |page=113 |access-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184135/https://books.google.com/books?id=j2kYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
September 18 – Eloísa Mafalda, Brazilian actress (d. 2018)
September 19 – Suchitra Mitra, Indian singer and composer (d. 2011)
September 20 – Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and producer (d. 2014)
September 21 – Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1957)
September 22
Bernard Gauthier, French racing cyclist (d. 2018)
Emile Wijntuin, Surinamese politician (d. 2020){{cite web |url=http://www.srherald.com/suriname/2014/09/22/emile-wijntuin-viert-90ste-verjaardag/ |title=Emile Wijntuin viert 90ste verjaardag |publisher=Suriname Herald |date=22 September 2014 |language=nl |access-date=8 May 2020 |archive-date=November 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103191355/http://www.srherald.com/suriname/2014/09/22/emile-wijntuin-viert-90ste-verjaardag/ |url-status=live }}
Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist (d. 2019){{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/07/rosamunde-pilcher-obituary |title=Rosamunde Pilcher obituary |first=Felicity |last=Bryan |newspaper=The Guardian |date=7 February 2019 |access-date=7 February 2019 |via=www.theguardian.com |archive-date=February 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190208090552/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/07/rosamunde-pilcher-obituary |url-status=live }}
September 24
Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast (d. 2020){{cite web|url=https://beyondthedash.com/obituary/nina-bocharova-1079982685|title=Bocharova, star of 1st Soviet Olympic gymnastics team, dies|date=September 3, 2020|website=Beyond the Dash|access-date=July 23, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184147/https://beyondthedash.com/obituary/nina-bocharova-1079982685|url-status=live}}
Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996){{cite book|author1=Contemporary|author2=Contemporary Books|title=Chase's Annual Events: The Day-By-Day Directory to 1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQoBM1qCk5wC|year=1993|publisher=Contemporary books|isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6|access-date=July 23, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124833/https://books.google.com/books?id=zQoBM1qCk5wC|url-status=live}}
September 30 – Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984){{cite book |author=Jay Parini |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA228 |year=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-515653-9 |pages=228 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184119/https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA228#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}

= October =

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October 1
Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2024)
William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
October 5 – José Donoso, Chilean writer (d. 1996)
October 10
Umar Wirahadikusumah, 4th Vice President of Indonesia (d. 2003){{cite book |author1=O. G. Roeder |author2=Mahiddin Mahmud |title=Who's who in Indonesia: Biographies of Prominent Indonesian Personalities in All Fields |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3cKFAAAAIAAJ |year=1980 |publisher=Gunung Agung |page=21 |isbn=9789971830274 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184157/https://books.google.com/books?id=3cKFAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
Ed Wood, American B-movie producer (d. 1978){{cite book |author=Dennis Fischer |title=Horror Film Directors, 1931-1990 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVNZAAAAMAAJ |year=1991 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-89950-609-8 |page=839 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184145/https://books.google.com/books?id=TVNZAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
October 11 – Mal Whitfield, American Olympic athlete (d. 2015){{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/mal-whitfield |title=Mal Whitfield |website=Olympic.org |publisher=International Olympic Committee |access-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-date=March 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311003220/https://www.olympic.org/mal-whitfield |url-status=live }}
October 14
Robert Webber, American actor (d. 1989){{cite book |author1=Linda S. Hubbard |author2=Sara J. Steen |title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DBhI_8ccuB4C |date=September 1989 |publisher=Cengage Gale |isbn=978-0-8103-2070-3 |page=436 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184733/https://books.google.com.gt/books?id=DBhI_8ccuB4C&redir_esc=y |url-status=live }}
Ramón Castro Ruz, Cuban revolutionary (d. 2016)
October 15
Henry Sy, Chinese-Filipino business magnate (d. 2019)
Lee Iacocca, American industrialist (d. 2019)
October 16 – Prince Makonnen, member of the Ethiopian royal family (d. 1957)
October 19 – Lubomír Štrougal, Czech politician (d. 2023){{cite book |author=Harris M. Lentz |title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA217 |date=4 February 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-26490-2 |pages=217 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184731/https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA217#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
October 21 – Chin Peng, Secretary-General of the Malayan Communist Party (d. 2013){{Cite news |last=Vat |first=Dan van der |date=2013-09-22 |title=Chin Peng obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/22/chin-peng |access-date=2024-03-26 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202074202/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/22/chin-peng |url-status=live }}
October 24 – Aji Muhammad Salehuddin II, Indonesian royal (d. 2018){{cite web |url=https://kaltim.tribunnews.com/2018/08/06/sultan-aji-muhammad-salehuddin-ii-berpulang-praboe-anoem-soerya-sebagai-pengganti |title=sultan aji muhammad salehuddin ii berpulang praboe anoem soerya sebagai pengganti |website=Tribun Kaltim |date=6 August 2018 |access-date=29 September 2020 |archive-date=November 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103143903/https://kaltim.tribunnews.com/2018/08/06/sultan-aji-muhammad-salehuddin-ii-berpulang-praboe-anoem-soerya-sebagai-pengganti |url-status=live }}
October 29 – Bernard Middleton, British restoration bookbinder (d. 2019){{cite book |last=Silverman |first=Randy |author-link= |date=2019 |title=Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding |chapter=Bernard C. Middleton, MBE (1924–2019): A Biography and Bibliography |volume=VI |url=https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62z727d |location=Ann Arbor, Michigan |publisher=The Legacy Press |editor=Julia Miller |pages=418–459 |isbn=9781940965161 |access-date=20 January 2023 |archive-date=August 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802044642/https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62z727d |url-status=live }}

= November =

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November 1 – Süleyman Demirel, President of Turkey (d. 2015){{cite book |author=Roger East |title=Whitaker's Almanack World Heads of State, 1998 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5mCFigy0N6MC |year=1998 |publisher=Stationery Office |isbn=978-0-11-702204-1 |page=249 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184710/https://books.google.com/books?id=5mCFigy0N6MC |url-status=live }}
November 3 – Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (d. 2019){{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/erzsebet-gulyas-koteles |title=Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles |website=Olympic.org |publisher=International Olympic Committee |access-date= |archive-date=October 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008120234/https://www.olympic.org/erzsebet-gulyas-koteles |url-status=live }}
November 8
Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017){{cite book |author1=Brian Mlazgar |author2=Holden Stoffel |title=Saskatchewan Sports: Lives Past and Present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k7ptThh_6qgC&pg=PA18 |year=2007 |publisher=University of Regina Press |isbn=978-0-88977-167-3 |pages=18 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184732/https://books.google.com/books?id=k7ptThh_6qgC&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
Dmitry Yazov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 2020){{cite web |url=https://meduza.io/news/2020/02/25/umer-marshal-sovetskogo-soyuza-dmitriy-yazov |title=Умер маршал Советского Союза Дмитрий Язов |language=ru |date=2020-02-25 |access-date=2020-02-25 |website=Meduza |archive-date=February 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225073235/https://meduza.io/news/2020/02/25/umer-marshal-sovetskogo-soyuza-dmitriy-yazov |url-status=live }}
November 9 – Robert Frank, Swiss photographer (d. 2019){{cite news |last=Hopkinson |first=Amanda |title=Robert Frank obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/10/robert-frank-obituary |access-date=January 14, 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=September 10, 2019}}
November 11 – Sunder Lal Patwa, Indian politician (d. 2016){{cite book |author=India. Parliament. Lok Sabha |title=Who's who |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=drk_Lst8gh8C |year=2000 |publisher=Parliament Secretariat |page=762}}
November 13 – Motoo Kimura, Japanese population geneticist (d. 1994){{Cite journal |last1=Crow |first1=J. F. |author-link=James F. Crow |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1997.0014 |title=Motoo Kimura. 13 November 1924–13 November 1994: Elected For.Mem.R.S. 1993 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=43 |pages=255–265 |year=1997|s2cid=44725944 }}
November 15 – Rosa Helena Álvarez Yepes, First Lady of Colombia (d. 1998)
November 16
Erika Mahringer, Austrian alpine skier (d. 2018){{Cite web |url=https://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2944970/ |title=Ex-Skirennläuferin Riki Mahringer verstorben |date=2018-11-01 |website=tirol.orf.at |language=de-DE |access-date=2018-11-01 |archive-date=April 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403023250/https://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2944970/ |url-status=live }}
Mel Patton, American athlete (d. 2014){{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/mel-patton |title=Mel Patton |website=Olympic.org |publisher=International Olympic Committee |access-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-date=March 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301205521/https://www.olympic.org/mel-patton |url-status=live }}
November 19 – William Russell, English actor (d. 2024){{Cite news |last=Coveney |first=Michael |date=2024-06-04 |title=William Russell obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jun/04/william-russell-obituary |access-date=2024-06-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
November 20 – Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born mathematician (d. 2010){{cite book |author=Christopher G Brown Phdvii |title=Invent More |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcqi_b2yt-oC&pg=PA45 |date=25 June 1985 |publisher=cri-one aka chris brown |isbn=978-1-4610-3848-1 |pages=45 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184722/https://books.google.com/books?id=dcqi_b2yt-oC&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
November 21
Joseph Campanella, American actor (d. 2018){{cite news |last=Sandomir |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Sandomir |date=May 17, 2018 |title=Joseph Campanella, 93, Ubiquitous Character Actor, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/obituaries/joseph-campanella-93-ubiquitous-character-actor-dies.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=May 17, 2018 |archive-date=May 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180518052225/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/obituaries/joseph-campanella-93-ubiquitous-character-actor-dies.html |url-status=live }}
Christopher Tolkien, English author, academic and J. R. R. Tolkien's son (d. 2020){{cite news |last=Slawson |first=Nicola |date=16 January 2020 |title=JRR Tolkien's son Christopher dies aged 95 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/jrr-tolkiens-son-christopher-dies-aged-95 |work=The Guardian |access-date=17 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117154518/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/jrr-tolkiens-son-christopher-dies-aged-95 |archive-date=17 January 2020 |url-status=live }}
November 22 – Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987){{cite book |author1=Lawrence O. Christensen |author2=William E. Foley |author3=Gary Kremer |title=Dictionary of Missouri Biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gyxWHRLAWgC&pg=PA590 |date=October 1999 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |isbn=978-0-8262-6016-1 |pages=590 |access-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184659/https://books.google.com/books?id=6gyxWHRLAWgC&pg=PA590#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
November 23 – Anita Linda, Filipino actress (d. 2020)
November 25
Paul Desmond, American jazz alto saxophonist and composer (d. 1977){{cite book |author1=Eric J. Morones |author2=Paul Desmond |title=Paul Desmond - Saxophone Signature Licks: A Step-by-Step Breakdown of the Sax Styles and Techniques of a Jazz Great |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VSbKAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA46 |date=1 December 2008 |publisher=Hal Leonard |isbn=978-1-4768-8718-0 |pages=46 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184720/https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=VSbKAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA46&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic and philosopher (d. 2012)
A. Hamid Arief, Indonesian actor (d. 1992)
November 26 – Bhekimpi Dlamini, 4th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 1999)
November 28 – Dennis Brutus, South African poet and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2009){{cite book |author1=Craig W. McLuckie |author2=Patrick J. Colbert |title=Critical Perspectives on Dennis Brutus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=564xFrnXjW0C&pg=PA1 |year=1995 |publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers |isbn=978-0-89410-769-6 |pages=1 |access-date=December 6, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185353/https://books.google.com/books?id=564xFrnXjW0C&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
November 30
Shirley Chisholm, African-American politician (d. 2005)
Otto Kaiser, German biblical scholar (d. 2017)
Allan Sherman, American comedy writer, television producer and song parodist (d. 1973){{cite book |title=Current Biography Yearbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZMYAAAAIAAJ |year=1975 |publisher=H. W. Wilson Company |isbn=978-0-8242-0551-5 |page=469 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185359/https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZMYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}

= December =

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December 2 – Alexander Haig, American politician, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 2010){{cite book |author=Mitchell K. Hall |title=Historical Dictionary of the Nixon-Ford Era |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=af6xAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 |date=22 February 2008 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6410-8 |pages=97 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185404/https://books.google.com/books?id=af6xAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
December 3 – Francisco Sionil José, Filipino novelist, Philippine National Artist for Literature{{cite book |author=Francisco Sionil José |title=Conversations with F. Sionil Jose |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvZaAAAAMAAJ |year=1991 |publisher=Vera-Reyes |isbn=978-971-536-103-3 |page=5 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185345/https://books.google.com/books?id=WvZaAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }} (d. 2022)
December 4 – Jakub Nowakowski, Polish zoologist, participant of the Warsaw Uprising{{Cite web | url = https://www.1944.pl/archiwum-historii-mowionej/jakub-tomasz-nowakowski,1380.html | title = Jakub Tomasz Nowakowski "Tomek" "Tomasz" | publisher = 1944.pl | language = pl | access-date = 9 September 2024}}
December 6 – Wally Cox, American television, motion picture actor (d. 1973)
December 7
Bent Fabric, Danish pianist and composer (d. 2020){{cite book |author=Joseph Murrells |title=Million Selling Records from the 1900s to the 1980s: An Illustrated Directory |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5iIKAQAAMAAJ |year=1984 |publisher=B.T. Batsford |isbn=978-0-7134-3843-7 |page=163 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185346/https://books.google.com/books?id=5iIKAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
Mário Soares, 105th Prime Minister of Portugal, 17th President of Portugal (d. 2017){{cite book |author1=Douglas L. Wheeler |author2=Walter C. Opello, Jr. |title=Historical Dictionary of Portugal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-3kxBySncsC&pg=PA252 |date=10 May 2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7075-8 |pages=252 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185350/https://books.google.com/books?id=e-3kxBySncsC&pg=PA252#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
December 10 – Michael Manley, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997){{cite book |author=Cheryl L. A. King |title=Michael Manley and Democratic Socialism: Political Leadership and Ideology in Jamaica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=31j7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA64 |date=9 May 2003 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-72520-124-8 |pages=64 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190032/https://books.google.com/books?id=31j7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
December 12 – Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City (1978–1989) (d. 2013){{cite book |author1=John C. Super |author2=Tracy Irons-Georges |title=The Seventies in America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dGkKAQAAMAAJ |year=2006 |publisher=Salem Press |isbn=978-1-58765-230-1 |page=536}}
December 13
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 29th Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2011)
Maria Riva, German-born American actress
December 14 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, producer and director (d. 1988){{cite book |title=The Annual Obituary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jmIYAAAAIAAJ |year=1988 |publisher=St. Martin's |isbn=978-1-55862-050-6 |page=279 |access-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185940/https://books.google.com/books?id=jmIYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
December 16 – Nissim Ezekiel, Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art critic (d. 2004){{cite book |author=Madhuri R. Shah, Ramesh Mohan |title=Symphony: A Book of Poems |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxmpcg2aMtkC&pg=PA91 |publisher=Allied Publishers |pages=91 |access-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190032/https://books.google.com/books?id=fxmpcg2aMtkC&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
December 19
Michel Tournier, French writer (d. 2016){{cite book |author=Susan Petit |title=Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sjQk4DvJ_OoC&pg=PA78 |date=1 January 1991 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing |isbn=90-272-7774-5 |pages=78 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190000/https://books.google.com/books?id=sjQk4DvJ_OoC&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
Cicely Tyson, American actress (d. 2021){{cite book |author= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-xrDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA603 |title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2017: The Ultimate Go-To Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months |date=23 September 2016 |publisher=Bernan Press |isbn=978-1-59888-859-1 |editor-last=McGuire |editor-first=Holly |pages=603 |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190003/https://books.google.com/books?id=q-xrDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA603#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
December 20 – Charlie Callas, American actor and comedian (d. 2011)
December 23 – Bob Kurland, American basketball player (d. 2013){{cite book |author=Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |title=Official Souvenir Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSgSAQAAMAAJ |year=1974 |publisher=Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |page=1957 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185955/https://books.google.com/books?id=CSgSAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
December 24
Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somali diplomat, politician and 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2014)
Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer (d. 1980){{cite book |author=Nagendra Kr Singh |title=Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: Muh-R |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RhJuAAAAMAAJ |year=2001 |publisher=A.P.H. Publishing Corporation |isbn=978-81-7648-234-9 |page=481 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185956/https://books.google.com/books?id=RhJuAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
December 25
Moktar Ould Daddah, 1st President of Mauritania (d. 2003){{cite book |author1=Cas De Villiers |author2=Elize Moody |title=Francophone Africa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sLsMAQAAIAAJ |year=1974 |publisher=Africa Institute of South Africa |page=125 |isbn=9780798300414 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190840/https://books.google.com/books?id=sLsMAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
Rod Serling, American television screenwriter (The Twilight Zone) (d. 1975){{cite book |title=Rod Serling: Dimensions of Imagination |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BZQHAQAAMAAJ |year=1984 |publisher=Museum of Broadcasting |page=4 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190833/https://books.google.com/books?id=BZQHAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 10th Prime Minister of India (d. 2018){{cite book |author=Priya Ranjan Trivedi |title=Atal Bihari Vajpayee: The Man India Needs : the Most Appropriate Leader for the Twentyfirst Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGtuAAAAMAAJ |year=2000 |publisher=World Institution Building Programme |page=181 |isbn=9788176960014 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190901/https://books.google.com/books?id=uGtuAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
Fatimah Hashim, Malaysian politician (d. 2010)
December 28 – Girma Wolde-Giorgis, 2nd President of Ethiopia (d. 2018){{cite web |url=http://www.ethiopiaobserver.com/2016/10/the-life-of-girma-wolde-giorgis/ |title=The Life of Girma Wolde Giorgis |author=Arefayné Fantahun |date=14 October 2016 |website=Ethiopia Observer |access-date=23 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123204932/http://www.ethiopiaobserver.com/2016/10/the-life-of-girma-wolde-giorgis/ |archive-date=23 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}
December 30 – Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American engineer (d. 2013){{cite web |url=http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/27851.aspx |title=Deceased Members - Ms. Yvonne C. Brill |publisher=National Academy of Engineering |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-date=October 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017052558/https://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/27851.aspx |url-status=live }}

Deaths

= January =

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January 2 – Sabine Baring-Gould, British composer and novelist (b. 1834){{cite book |author=John Betjeman |title=Coming Home |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6SRXAAAAYAAJ |year=1998 |publisher=Vintage |isbn=978-0-09-926843-7 |page=168 |access-date=December 6, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190918/https://books.google.com/books?id=6SRXAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}
January 13
Albert Abrams, American doctor (b. 1863)
Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (b. 1834)
January 14 – Luther Emmett Holt, American pediatrician (b. 1855)
January 16 – Licerio Gerónimo, Filipino military leader (b. 1855)
January 21 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary, first Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1870)
January 24
Auguste-Louis-Alberic, prince d'Arenberg (b. 1837)
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
January 28 – Teófilo Braga, Portuguese writer (b. 1843)
January 30 – Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier (b. 1884)

= February =

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February 3 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1856){{cite book |author=United States. Naval History Division |title=Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0OtHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA455 |year=1981 |pages=455 |access-date=December 9, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190848/https://books.google.com/books?id=0OtHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA455#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
February 11 – Jacques Loeb, German–born American physiologist and biologist (b. 1859){{cite web |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10081-loeb-jacques |title=Loeb, Jacques |website=Jewish Encyclopedia |access-date=February 21, 2021 |archive-date=October 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017141744/https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10081-loeb-jacques |url-status=live }}
February 16
Henry Bacon, American architect (b. 1866)
John William Kendrick, American railroad executive (b. 1853)
Wilhelm Schmidt, German pioneer of superheated steam for use in locomotives (b. 1858)
February 17
Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère, French admiral (b. 1852)
Oskar Merikanto, Finnish composer (b. 1868){{Cite web|url=https://www.naxos.com/person/Oskar_Merikanto/25688.htm|title=Recordings by Oskar Merikanto | Now available to stream and purchase at Naxos|website=www.naxos.com}}
February 22 – Manuel Tinio, Filipino general and politician (b. 1877)
February 29 – Emily Ruete, princess of Zanzibar (b. 1844)

= March =

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March 4 – Fanny Eaton, Jamaican artist's model (b. 1835)
March 9 – Panagiotis Danglis, Greek military leader, politician (b. 1853)
March 11
Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg (b. 1868)
Ivan Evstratiev Geshov, 18th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1849)
March 15 – Wollert Konow, Norwegian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1845)
March 22
Louis Delluc, French film director (b. 1890)
Sir William Macewen, British surgeon (b. 1848)
Robert Nivelle, French World War I general (b. 1856)
March 24 – Prince Kachō Hirotada of Japan (b. 1902)
March 29 – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, resident in United Kingdom (b. 1852){{cite book|last=Rodmell|first=Paul|year=2002|title=Charles Villiers Stanford|location=Aldershot|publisher=Scolar Press|isbn=1-85928-198-2|pages=330–333}}
March 31 – Nilo Peçanha, Brazilian politician and 7th President of Brazil (b. 1867)

= April =

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April 4 – Arnold Pick, Czechoslovakian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1851)
April 10
Rafael Yglesias Castro, Costa Rican politician, 16th President of Costa Rica (b. 1861)
Hugo Stinnes, German industrialist, politician (b. 1870)
April 14 – Louis Sullivan, American architect (b. 1856)
April 19 – Paul Boyton, Irish-American extreme water sports pioneer (b. 1848)
April 21
Marie Corelli, English novelist (b. 1855){{cite book|author=Eileen Bigland|title=Marie Corelli, the Woman and the Legend: A Biography|publisher=Jarrolds|year=1953|page=11}}
Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858){{cite web |title=Duse, Eleonora (1858-1924), actress |url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1801621 |website=American National Biography |year=2000 |access-date=22 January 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1801621 |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 |last1=Fisher |first1=James |archive-date=September 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901113343/https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1801621 |url-status=live }}
April 24 – G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist, educator (b. 1846){{cite book |url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/hall-g-stanley.pdf |title=National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir of Granville Stanley Hall |first=Edward L. |last=Thorndike |author-link=Edward Thorndike |year=1925 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=February 26, 2022 |archive-date=August 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801060023/http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/hall-g-stanley.pdf |url-status=live }}

= May =

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May 4 – E. Nesbit, British author (b. 1858){{Cite web |title=E. Nesbit {{!}} English author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-Nesbit |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=31 March 2019 |language=en |archive-date=October 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017141953/https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-Nesbit |url-status=live }}
May 6 – Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet (b. 1877)
May 10 – George Kennan, American explorer (b. 1845)
May 15 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1852)
May 26 – Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859)

= June =

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June 3 – Franz Kafka, Austrian author (The Trial) (b. 1883){{cite book |last=Brod |first=Max |author-link=Max Brod |title=Franz Kafka: A Biography |url=https://archive.org/details/franzkafkabiogra00brod |url-access=registration |year=1960 |publisher=Schocken Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8052-0047-8 |page=211}}
June 9
Andrew Irvine, British mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. 1902)
George Mallory, British mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. 1886)
June 10 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist politician (assassinated) (b. 1885)
June 11
Théodore Dubois, French composer, teacher (b. 1837)
Jacob Israël de Haan, Dutch-Jewish literary writer, journalist (b. 1881)
June 30 – Johannes von Eben, German general (b. 1855)

= July =

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July 14
Isabella Ford, British socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (b. 1855)
Isabella Stewart Gardner, American art collector, philanthropist (b. 1840)
July 23 – Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1860)
July 27 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist, composer (b. 1866)

= August =

August 2 – George Shiras Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1832)
August 3 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-born author (b. 1857){{cite book |author=Martin Ray |title=Joseph Conrad: Interviews and Recollections |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2G_hJ0JPicIC&pg=PA230 |date=13 September 2010 |publisher=University of Iowa Press |isbn=978-1-60938-017-5 |pages=230 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190913/https://books.google.com/books?id=2G_hJ0JPicIC&pg=PA230#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
August 5 – Teodor Teodorov, 19th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1859)
August 7 – Bruce Grit, African-American historian, ex-slave (b. 1856)
August 8 – Ernestine von Kirchsberg, Austrian painter (b. 1857)
August 15 – Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, British Private Secretary to King Edward VII (b. 1837)
August 17
Paul Natorp, German philosopher (b. 1854)
Pavel Urysohn, Russian mathematician (b. 1898)
August 18 – Antoine de Mitry, French general (b. 1857)
August 25 – Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
August 31 – Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1881)

= September =

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September 1 – Samuel Baldwin Marks Young, American general, first Chief of Staff of the United States Army (b. 1840)
September 6 – Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (b. 1868)
September 11 – Muhammad Jamalul Alam II, Sultan of Brunei (b. 1889)
September 15 – Frank Chance, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1877)
September 18 – F. H. Bradley, English philosopher (b. 1846)
September 22 – Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1854){{lang in|de}} [https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz44078.html Entry] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902084143/https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz44078.html |date=September 2, 2018 }} in Neue Deutsche Biographie
September 24
Manuel Estrada Cabrera, 13th President of Guatemala (b. 1857)
Consort Jin, Qing Dynasty imperial consort (b. 1873)
September 25 – Lotta Crabtree, American stage actress (b. 1847)

= October =

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October 12
Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844){{cite book |author=André Gide |title=The Journals, 1889-1949: 1889-1924 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xsgNAQAAIAAJ |year=1956 |publisher=Vintage Books |page=3 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190845/https://books.google.com/books?id=xsgNAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}
Kate Lester, American stage and silent screen actress (b. 1857)
October 18
Giovanni Ancillotto, Italian World War I flying ace (b. 1896)
Franz Schrader, French mountaineer, geographer, cartographer, and landscape painter (b. 1844)
October 26 – Luigi Pelloux, 14th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1839)
October 29 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, Anglo-American writer (b. 1849){{cite book |author1=Joanne Shattock |title=The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KoEYAAAAIAAJ |year=1993 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-214176-7 |page=76 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511191810/https://books.google.com/books?id=KoEYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}

= November =

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November 3 – Mario di Carpegna, Italian general, politician (b. 1856)
November 4 – Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845){{cite book|last= Duchen |first= Jessica |author-link= Jessica Duchen |year= 2000 |title= Gabriel Fauré |location= London |publisher= Phaidon |isbn= 0-7148-3932-9|page=212}}
November 9 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1850)
November 10
Sir Archibald Geikie, British geologist (b. 1835){{Cite ODNB|id=33364|title=Geikie, Sir Archibald (1835-1924), geologist and historian|last= Oldroyd|first= David}}
Dean O'Banion, American gangster (b. 1892){{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dion-OBannion |title=Dion O'Bannion American gangster |access-date=October 3, 2023 |archive-date=October 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017141824/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dion-OBannion |url-status=live }}
November 12 – E. D. Morel, French-born British journalist and politician (b. 1873)
November 19 – Thomas H. Ince, American film producer (b. 1880)
November 20 – Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman and the father of the Football Association and modern football (b. 1831)
November 21 – Florence Harding, First Lady of the United States (b. 1860)
November 29 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (b. 1858){{cite web |url=http://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2012/11/29/the-death-of-giacomo-puccini-brussels-29-november-1924/ |title=The Death of Giacomo Puccini |publisher=The British Newspaper Archive |date=29 November 2012 |access-date=16 January 2015 |archive-date=February 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202093628/http://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2012/11/29/the-death-of-giacomo-puccini-brussels-29-november-1924/ |url-status=live }}

= December =

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December 2
Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian linguist (b. 1879)
Hugo von Seeliger, German astronomer (b. 1849){{cite book |author1=Jagdish Mehra |author-link1=Jagdish Mehra |author2=Helmut Rechenberg |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg |title=The Discovery of Quantum Mechanics, 1925 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eg3jPXgkR1cC&pg=PA25 |date=28 December 2000 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-0-387-95176-8 |pages=25 |access-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511191812/https://books.google.com/books?id=Eg3jPXgkR1cC&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
December 4 – Cipriano Castro, Venezuelan military officer, politician and 38th President of Venezuela (b. 1858)
December 5 – S. Subramania Iyer, Indian lawyer and freedom fighter (b. 1842)
December 6 – Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863){{cite book | author=Barbara Olenyik Morrow | title =Nature's Storyteller: The Life of Gene Stratton-Porter | publisher =Indiana Historical Society | year =2010 | location =Indianapolis| isbn =978-0-87195-284-4|pages=28, 137–9}}
December 8 – Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b. 1850)
December 13 – Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (b. 1850)
December 15 – Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1853)
December 19 – Luis Emilio Recabarren, Chilean politician, founder of the Communist Party of Chile. (b. 1876){{cite book |title=Translations on Latin America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IMFnAAAAMAAJ |year=1969 |publisher=Joint Publications Research Service |page=39 |access-date=December 9, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511191741/https://books.google.com/books?id=IMFnAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}
December 20 – Ricardo Bellver, Spanish sculptor (b. 1845)
December 21 – Anna Hierta-Retzius, Swedish women's rights activist (b. 1841)
December 27 – Agda Meyerson, Swedish nurse, healthcare profession activist (b. 1866)
December 29 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
December 31 – Sir Samuel Knaggs, British civil servant (b. 1856)

Nobel Prizes

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Physics – Manne Siegbahn
Chemistry – not awarded
Physiology or Medicine – Willem Einthoven
Literature – Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Peace – not awarded

References

External links

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