1927

{{Main|January 1927}}

• January 1 – The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation, when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/research/royal-charter|title=BBC Royal Charter archive|website=BBC|access-date=14 December 2020}}
• January 7
• The first transatlantic telephone call is made via radio from New York City, United States, to London, United Kingdom.{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/FIRST%20TRANSATLANTIC%20CALL.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/FIRST%20TRANSATLANTIC%20CALL.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=First Official Transatlantic Telephone Call (January 7, 1927)|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=14 December 2020}}
• The Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball team play their first ever road game in Hinckley, Illinois.{{cite web |title=Our Story |url=https://www.harlemglobetrotters.com/about |website=The Original Harlem Globetrotters |access-date=January 25, 2020}}
• January 9 – The Laurier Palace Theatre fire at a movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
• January 10 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.{{cite book|author=Constance Penley|title=Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DeQ-firVQncC&pg=PA165|year=1991|publisher=U of Minnesota Press|isbn=978-0-8166-1912-2|pages=165}}
• January 11 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
• January 24 – U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua by orders of President Calvin Coolidge, intervening in the Nicaraguan Civil War, and remaining in the country until 1933.

{{Main|February 1927}}

• February – Werner Heisenberg formulates his famous uncertainty principle, while employed as a lecturer at Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen.
• February 7 – An attempted military coup in Lisbon, Portugal, is successfully put down.{{cite book|title=Portugal Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNhjnZChOagC|year=1976|publisher=Ministry of Mass Communication, Directorate-General of Diffusion|page=x}}
• February 12 – British troops land in Shanghai as a result of UK government concerns about the safety of residents in the British settlement.{{cite book|author=Sir James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall|title=Wars and Rumours of Wars: A Memoir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jasfAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=L. Cooper|isbn=978-0-436-27322-3|page=72}}
• February 14 – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake, with a maximum MSK intensity of VII–VIII (Very strong – Damaging), kills 50 in Yugoslavia.{{citation|title=International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology|series=Part A, Volume 81A|chapter=A List of Deadly Earthquakes in the World: 1500–2000|first=T. R.|last=Utsu|year=2002|publisher=Academic Press|edition=First|isbn=978-0124406520|page=704}}
• February 19
• A general strike takes place in Shanghai in protest against the presence of British troops.{{cite book|title=The Chinese Economic Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_cMYAQAAIAAJ|year=1927|page=191}}
• In the United States, the silent romantic comedy film It starring Clara Bow, is released, popularising the concept of the "It girl".{{cite book|author=American Film Institute|title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C&pg=PA287|year=1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-20969-5|pages=388–9}}
• February 23 – The U.S. Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.

{{Main|March 1927}}

• March 4 – A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes, who have been hired by major companies to stake claims.
• March 7 – 1927 Kita Tango earthquake: A 7.0 {{M|w}} earthquake kills at least 2,925 in the Toyooka and Mineyama areas of western Honshu, in Japan.{{cite web|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/events/1927_03_07.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930233058/https://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/events/1927_03_07.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-09-30|title=Historic Earthquakes: Tango, Japan, 1927 March 07 09:27 UTC, Magnitude 7.6|publisher=USGS|access-date=April 30, 2021}}
• March 11 – In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.{{cite book|title=Performing Arts Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZEbs-K00ZgAC|year=1990|publisher=Library of Congress|pages=47–48}}
• March 14 – Pan American World Airways is founded by Juan T. Trippe.
• March 24 – Nanking Incident: After six foreigners have been killed in Nanking, and it appears that Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party forces will overrun the foreign consulates, warships of the U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy fire shells and shoot to disperse the crowds.{{cite news|title=U.S. and British Warships Shell Cantonese Army|newspaper=Miami Daily News|date=March 24, 1927|page=1}}
• March 29 – Henry Segrave breaks the land speed record, driving the Sunbeam 1000 hp at Daytona Beach, Florida.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-39431234/sunbeam-1000hp-breaks-200mph-land-speed-barrier|title=Sunbeam land speed engine restored|work=BBC News}}

{{Main|April 1927}}

• April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
• April 12
• The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.
• April 12 Incident (Shanghai Massacre): Kuomintang troops kill a number of communist-supporting workers in Shanghai. The 1st United Front between the Nationalists and Communist ends, and the Civil War lasting until 1949 begins.
• April 18 – The Kuomintang (Nationalist Chinese) set up a government in Nanking, China.
• April 21 – A banking crisis hits Japan.
• April 22–May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people, in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time.
• April 23 – Cardiff City wins the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1–0; it is the only time a team from outside England has won the competition.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7328650.stm |title=Cup friends reunited |publisher=BBC Sport |first=Peter |last=Shuttleworth |date=4 January 2009 |access-date=1 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901205505/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7328650.stm |archive-date=1 September 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}
• April 27
• The Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.{{cite book|author=Library of Congress|title=Latin American Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FbsnAQAAMAAJ|year=1947|publisher=Library of Congress|page=31}}
• João Ribeiro de Barros becomes the first non-European to make a transatlantic flight, flying from Genoa, Italy, to Fernando de Noronha, Brazil.

{{Main|May 1927}}

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• May – Philo Farnsworth of the United States transmits his first experimental electronic television motion pictures, as opposed to the electromechanical TV systems that others have used before.
• May 9 – The Australian Parliament convenes for the first time in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Previously, the Parliament had met in Melbourne, Victoria.{{cite book|author=Manning Clark|title=A History of Australia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ChdzAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Melbourne University Press|isbn=978-0-522-84353-8|page=257}}
• May 11 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which will create the Academy Awards, is founded in the United States.
• May 12 – British police officers raid the office of the Soviet trade delegation in London.
• May 17 – U.S. Army aviation pioneer Major Harold Geiger dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 airplane, at Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania.
• May 18 – Bath School disaster: A series of violent attacks by a school official results in 45 deaths, mostly of children, in Bath Township, Michigan, United States.{{cite book|last=Bernstein|first=Arnie|title=Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing|date=2009|publisher=The University of Michigan Press |page=129|location=Ann Arbor, Michigan |isbn=978-0-472-03346-1}}
• May 20 – By the Treaty of Jeddah, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of Ibn Saud over the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, the future Saudi Arabia.{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Public Record Office|title=List of Foreign Office Records: Various classes, 1914-1938|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EaolAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA223|year=1970|publisher=Kraus Reprint Corporation|pages=223|isbn=9780527039646}}
• May 20–21 – Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic airplane flight, from New York City to Paris, France, in his single-engined aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.{{cite book|author=Lindbergh, Charles A.|title=Spirit of St. Louis|location=New York|publisher=Scribners|year=1953|pages=267–8}}
• May 22 – The 7.6 {{M|w}} Gulang earthquake affects Gansu in northwest China with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), leaving over 40,000 dead.
• May 23 – Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view a live demonstration of television at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City, just over a year after John Logie Baird of Scotland had first demonstrated an electromechanical system to members of the Royal Society in London.
• May 24 – The United Kingdom cuts its diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union due to revelations of espionage and underground agitation.

{{Main|June 1927}}

• June – The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau begins to form in the Sunda Strait of Indonesia.
• June 4 – Yugoslavia severs diplomatic relations with Albania.
• June 4–6 – Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Albert Levine take off from Roosevelt Field, New York, and fly to Eisleben, Germany, in the Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia aircraft Miss Columbia, two weeks after Charles Lindbergh's historic solo flight.
• June 9 – The Soviet Union executes 20 people for alleged espionage in retaliation for the assassination two days earlier of Pyotr Voykov, the Soviet ambassador to Poland, at the railway station in Warsaw. Voykov had been shot by 19-year-old Boris Kowerda, an exiled Russian, in retaliation for having signed the death warrants in 1918 for Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial Family.{{cite book|author=Victor Madeira|title=Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNXCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA241|year=2014|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|isbn=978-1-84383-895-1|pages=241}}
• June 13
• Léon Daudet, the leader of the French monarchists, is arrested in France.
• A ticker tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down Fifth Avenue in New York City.
• June 28 – Spanish airline Iberia is established.
• June 29 – Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927: A total eclipse of the sun takes place over Wales, northern England, southern Scotland, Norway, northern Sweden, northmost Finland, and the northmost extremes of Russia.
• June 29–July 1 – Commander Richard E. Byrd, Bernt Balchen, George Noville and Bert Acosta take off from Roosevelt Field, New York, in the Fokker Trimotor airplane America, and cross the Atlantic to the coast of France, having to ditch there because of bad weather; all four men survive the emergency landing.

{{Main|July 1927}}

• July 1 – The Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration (FDIA) is established as a United States federal agency.
• July 10 – Timothy Coughlan, Bill Gannon and Archie Doyle, members of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army, shoot dead Kevin O'Higgins, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State and Minister for Justice, as O'Higgins is walking to Mass in Dublin.{{cite book|author=Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid|title=Seán MacBride: A Republican Life, 1904-1946|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ReoWDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA81|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-1-84631-658-6|pages=81}}
• July 11 – The 1927 Jericho earthquake strikes Palestine, killing around 300 people; it is the largest ever recorded in this part of the Middle East.{{cite book|author=Ben-Avraham Gat Niemi|title=The Dead Sea: The Lake and Its Setting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nlWRHnz7zSsC&pg=PA78|year=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-508703-1|pages=78}} The effects are especially severe in Nablus, but damage and fatalities are also reported in many areas of Palestine and Transjordan, such as Amman, Salt, Jordan, and Lydda.
• July 13 (Wednesday, Tamuz 13, 5687): 12:30 – Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn is freed from the imprisonment which began on June 15 (Wednesday, Sivan 15, 5687) at 02:15 in exile, in the Russian town of Kostroma.
• July 15 – July Revolt of 1927: After police in Vienna fire on an angry crowd, 85 protesters (mostly members of the Social Democratic Party of Austria) and 5 policemen are left dead; more than 600 people are injured.
• July 24 – The Menin Gate is dedicated as a war memorial at Ypres, Belgium.

{{Main|August 1927}}

• August 1 – The Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army is formed, during the Nanchang Uprising.
• August 2 – American electrical engineer Harold Stephen Black invents the negative-feedback amplifier.
• August 7 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York.
• August 10 – The Mount Rushmore Park is rededicated in the United States. President Calvin Coolidge promises national funding for the proposed carving of the presidential figures.{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Library|title=Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission: Hearing...on H.R. 10462...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L_iua9HUKckC&pg=PA34|year=1938|pages=34}}
• August 22 – 200 people demonstrate in Hyde Park, London, against the death sentences on Italian American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Other protests are held across the world at this time.
• August 24–25 – The 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane hits the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, causing massive damage and at least 56 deaths.
• August 26 – Paul Redfern leaves Brunswick, Georgia, flying his Stinson Detroiter "Port of Brunswick", to attempt a solo nonstop flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He later crashes in the Venezuelan jungle, but the crash site is never found.

{{Main|September 1927}}

• September – The Autumn Harvest Uprising occurs in China.
• September 7 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
• September 18 – The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed in the United States, and goes on the air with 47 radio stations.
• September 25 – A treaty signed by the League of Nations Slavery Commission abolishes all types of slavery.
• September 29 – The East St. Louis Tornado kills 79 people and injures 550, the 2nd costliest and at least 24th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.

{{Main|October 1927}}

• October – Niels Bohr presents his theoretical principle of complementarity at the Fifth Solvay Conference on Physics.{{cite book|author1=Jagdish Mehra|author2=Helmut Rechenberg|author-link1=Jagdish Mehra |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg |title=The Probability Interpretation and the Statistical Transformation Theory, the Physical Interpretation, and the Empirical and Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics 1926–1932|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CuOtQ4WjCP0C&pg=PA165|date=25 August 2000|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-98971-6|pages=165}}
• October 4 – Carving of the sculptures at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, begins.
• October 6 – The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, premieres at the Warner Theater in New York City. Although not the first sound film, and containing very little recorded speech, it is the first to become a box-office hit, popularizing "talkies" (although silent films continue to be made for some time).{{cite book|author-link=Bill Bryson|first=Bill|last=Bryson|title=One Summer: America, 1927|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780767919401|url-access=registration|date=October 1, 2013|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-385-53782-7}}
• October 9 – The Mexican government crushes a rebellion in Veracruz.
• October 18 – The first flight of Pan American Airways takes off from Key West, Florida, bound for Havana, Cuba.
• October 25 – The Italian ocean liner Principessa Mafalda capsizes off Porto Seguro, Brazil; at least 314 people are killed.{{cite book|author=Karl Baarslag|title=Famous Sea Rescues Formerly Titled: SOS to the Rescue|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mYSXhDAIzQC|year=1948|publisher=Grosset & Dunlap|page=175}}

{{Main|November 1927}}

• November 1 – İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (the 5th government).
• November 3–4 – Great Vermont Flood of 1927: Floods devastating Vermont cause the "worst natural disaster in the state's history".{{Cite web |url=http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/events/27flood.shtml |title=National Weather Service - Burlington, VT - the Flood of 1927 |access-date=March 25, 2009 |archive-date=November 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114175039/http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/events/27flood.shtml |url-status=dead }}
• November 4 – Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen return to Washington, D.C., having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 of the states of the U.S. (of this time).
• November 12
• Mahatma Gandhi makes his only visit to Ceylon.
• Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
• The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic, as the first vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River, linking New Jersey with New York City.
• November 14 – Pittsburgh gasometer explosion: Three Equitable Gas storage tanks in the North Side of Pittsburgh explode, killing 26 people and causing damage estimated between $4.0 million and $5.0 million.
• November 21 – The Columbine Mine massacre: Colorado state police open fire on 500 rowdy but unarmed miners during a strike, killing 6.

{{Main|December 1927}}

• December – The Communist Party Congress condemns all deviation from the general party line in the USSR.
• December 1 – Chiang Kai-shek marries Soong Mei-ling in Shanghai.
• December 2 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile in the United States.
• December 3 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
• December 11 – Gamma Sigma Fraternity becomes the first high school fraternity to become international with Alpha Zeta chapter in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
• December 14 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• December 15 – Marion Parker, 12, is kidnapped in Los Angeles. Her dismembered body is found on December 19, prompting the largest manhunt to date on the West Coast for her killer, William Edward Hickman, who is arrested on December 22 in Oregon.
• December 17
• United States Navy submarine {{USS|S-4|SS-109|2}} is accidentally rammed and sunk by United States Coast Guard cutter John Paulding off Provincetown, Massachusetts, killing everyone aboard despite several unsuccessful attempts to raise the submarine.
• Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford makes 437 runs to break his own world record for the highest first-class cricket score at Melbourne Cricket Ground.{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16427610|title=W. H. Ponsford scores 437: record for first class cricket|date=December 19, 1927|access-date=February 5, 2020|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|page=11}}
• December 19 – Three members of the revolutionary movement for Indian independence – Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Thakur Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan – are executed by the British Raj. Rajendra Nath Lahiri had been executed two days before.
• December 20 – Letalski center Maribor is established in Maribor; it will be the oldest surviving operating major flying club in the Balkans.
• December 27 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play, Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on Broadway and then goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theater.{{cite book|author=Steven Suskin|title=Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_usBBxC_TQC&pg=PA35|year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512599-3|pages=35}}
• December 29 – Eruption of the Perboewatan and Danan undersea volcanoes near Krakatoa, create the foundation for Anak Krakatau Island.{{cite book|first=Amie Jane|last=Leavitt|title=Anatomy of a Volcanic Eruption|url=https://archive.org/details/anatomyofvolcani0000leav|url-access=registration|publisher=Capstone Press|year=2011}}
• December 30 – The first Asian commuter metro line, the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, opens in Japan.{{cite book|author=Japan. Gaimushō. Jōhō Bunkakyoku|title=Information Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVcMAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Public Information Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs|page=40}}

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• January 1
• Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer and director (d. 2007){{cite news|last=Cruickshank |first=Judith |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/maurice-b-jart-influential-choreographer-who-attracted-huge-audiences-to-ballet-760253.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/maurice-b-jart-influential-choreographer-who-attracted-huge-audiences-to-ballet-760253.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Maurice Béjart: Influential choreographer who attracted huge audiences to ballet |work=The Independent |date=November 24, 2007 |access-date=January 20, 2016}}{{cbignore}}
• Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Nobel laureate{{cite book|author1=United States|author2=United States Congress Committee on Science|title=Keeping the Lights on: Removing Barriers to Technology to Prevent Blackouts : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy, Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, September 25, 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CvQqAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=44|isbn=9780160716805}}
• Kazi M Badruddoza, Bangladeshi agronomist, Independence Award laureate (d. 2023){{Cite web |last=রিপোর্ট |first=স্টার অনলাইন |date=2023-08-30 |title=কাজী পেয়ারার জনক কৃষিবিজ্ঞানী কাজী এম বদরুদ্দোজা মারা গেছেন |url=https://bangla.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news-510046 |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=The Daily Star Bangla |language=en}}
• January 4 – Barbara Rush, American actress (d. 2024){{cite book|author=Henryk Hoffmann|title="A" Western Filmmakers: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers, Directors, Cinematographers, Composers, Actors and Actresses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWNZAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-0696-8|page=200}}
• January 10
• Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990){{cite book|author=Rosa Solomon|title=Careful, He Might Not Hear You|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wYrxY7Wc6G8C&pg=PA156|year=1990|publisher=Little Red Apple Publishing|isbn=978-1-875329-00-7|pages=156}}
• Otto Stich, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2012){{cite book|author=John Clements|title=Clements' International Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1uojAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Political Research, Incorporated|page=17}}
• January 13 – Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019){{cite book|author=Verma P.S. & Agarwal V.K.|title=Genetics, 9th Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CzBlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30|year=2010|publisher=S. Chand Publishing|isbn=978-81-219-3114-4|pages=30|edition=Multicolour}}
• January 15
• Kirti Nidhi Bista, Nepali politician, three times prime minister (d. 2017){{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=81}}
• Yaakov Heruti, Israeli Zionist militant and political activist (d. 2022){{Cite news|date=2022-09-20|title=Ya'acov Heruti, member of the Stern Gang who was sent to Britain to assassinate Ernest Bevin – obituary|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/09/20/yaacov-heruti-member-stern-gang-who-sent-britain-assassinate/|access-date=2023-04-02|issn=0307-1235}}
• January 17 – Eartha Kitt, African-American singer, actress, activist and author (d. 2008){{cite book|author=Kristine Helen Burns|title=Women and music in America since 1900: an encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D2gYAAAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-1-57356-308-6|page=349}}
• January 20 – Qurratulain Hyder, Indian journalist and academic (d. 2007){{cite book|title=Journal of South Asian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nvkHAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University|page=183}}
• January 25 – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (d. 1994)
• January 26 – José Azcona del Hoyo, 26th President of Honduras (d. 2005){{cite book|author1=William D. Coplin|author2=Michael O'Leary|title=Political Risk Yearbook 1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R7dWAAAAYAAJ|date=February 1990|publisher=Cedar Tree House|isbn=978-1-85271-123-8|page=2}}
• January 28
• Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (d. 2010){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/08/per-oscarsson-obituary|title=Per Oscarsson obituary|date=February 8, 2011|last=Bergan|first=Ronald |author1-link=Ronald Bergan|work=The Guardian|access-date=March 20, 2020}}
• Ronnie Scott, English jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
• January 29 – Lewis Urry, Canadian inventor (d. 2004)
• January 30 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986){{cite book|author=Britannica Educational Publishing|title=Denmark, Finland, and Sweden|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=af-cAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA212|date=1 June 2013|publisher=Britannica Educational Publishing|isbn=978-1-61530-995-5|pages=212}}
• February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet (d. 2014){{cite book|author=Howard Nelson|title=On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell: The Wages of Dying|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7cXV26PmJUYC&pg=PA19|year=1987|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0-472-06376-6|pages=19}}
• February 2 – Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991){{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=Virgin Books|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|pages=518/9}}
• February 3 – Kenneth Anger, American actor, director and screenwriter{{cite book|author=Marc Stein|title=Lgbt, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America: Actors to gyms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yedGAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|isbn=978-0-684-31262-0|page=61}} (d. 2023)
• February 7 – Juliette Gréco, French singer, actress (d. 2020){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/24/juliette-greco-obituary|title=Juliette Greco obituary|date=24 September 2020|author=Patrick O'Connor|website=The Guardian|access-date=10 January 2021}}
• February 8 – George Taliaferro, American football player (d. 2018){{cite web|first=Mike|last=Schumann|url=https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/breaking-iu-legend-george-taliaferro-has-passed-away/|title=Breaking: IU Legend George Taliaferro Dies at 91|work=The Daily Hoosier|access-date=October 8, 2018|date=October 9, 2018}}
• February 10 – Leontyne Price, African-American soprano{{cite book|author1=Frank Northen Magill|author2=Alison Aves|title=Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uiQAaGgOChIC&pg=PA3081|date=November 1999|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-57958-048-3|pages=3081}}
• February 15 – Harvey Korman, American actor, comedian (d. 2008){{cite news| title=Harvey Korman| newspaper=The Daily Telegraph| location=London| date=June 3, 2008|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2071350/Harvey-Korman.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2071350/Harvey-Korman.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| access-date=2008-06-03}}{{cbignore}}
• February 16 – June Brown, English actress (d. 2022){{cite web |last1=Whitmore |first1=Greg |title=June Brown: a life in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2022/apr/04/june-brown-a-life-in-pictures |website=The Guardian |access-date=4 April 2022 |date=4 April 2022}}
• February 17 – John Selfridge, American mathematician (d. 2010)
• February 18 – John Warner, American politician (d. 2021)
• February 20
• Roy Cohn, American lawyer, anti-Communist (d. 1986)
• Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, film director, (Oscar winner for Lilies of the Field) (d. 2022){{cite web |last1=Stolworthy |first1=Jacob |title=Legendary actor Sidney Poitier, first Black man to win Best Actor Oscar, dies aged 94 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/sidney-poitier-death-age-cause-actor-b1988778.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/sidney-poitier-death-age-cause-actor-b1988778.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Independent |access-date=January 7, 2022 |language=en |date=January 7, 2022}}{{cbignore}}
• February 21 – Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (d. 2018){{cite web|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2018/03/12/le-couturier-hubert-de-givenchy-est-mort-a-l-age-de-91-ans_5269637_3382.html|title=Le couturier Hubert de Givenchy est mort à l'âge de 91 ans|language=French|url-access=subscription |work=Le Monde|date=12 March 2018}}
• February 22
• Emil Bobu, Romanian Communist activist, politician (d. 2014)
• Guy Mitchell, American singer and actor (d. 1999)
• February 24 – Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (d. 2017)
• February 25 – Ralph Stanley, American bluegrass banjo player and vocalist (d. 2016)
• February 27 – Peter Whittle, New Zealand mathematician (d. 2021){{cite web|url=http://ifs.massey.ac.nz/mathnews/centrefolds/22/Dec1981.shtml|title=NZMS Newsletter 22 Centrefold, December 1981|author=J.H. Darwin|access-date=3 January 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051215001749/http://ifs.massey.ac.nz/mathnews/centrefolds/22/Dec1981.shtml|archive-date=15 December 2005|url-status=dead}}

• March 1
• George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor at UCLA, science popularizer, and skeptic (d. 1983){{cite news |title=Dr. George O. Abell, 57, Dies; Observer of Galaxy Clusters |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/08/obituaries/dr-george-o-abell-57-dies-observer-of-galaxy-clusters.html |date=October 8, 1983 |newspaper=New York Times |agency=UPI|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170119052415/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/08/obituaries/dr-george-o-abell-57-dies-observer-of-galaxy-clusters.html|archive-date=19 January 2017|url-status=live}}
• Harry Belafonte, Jamaican-American musician, actor, and civil rights activist{{cite book |title=Harry Belafonte |author=Genia Fogelson |publisher=Holloway House Publishing |year=1996 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oadlz5gMG9UC&pg=PA13 |isbn=0-87067-772-1}} (d. 2023){{cite web| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/music/harry-belafonte-dead.html| title=Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist| date=2023-04-25| author=Peter Keepnews| work=The New York Times}}
• March 2 – Roger Walkowiak, French road bicycle racer (d. 2017)
• March 4 – Dick Savitt, American tennis player{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&pg=PA30 |title=Day by day in Jewish sports history |publisher=KTAV Publishing House, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60280-013-7 |author=Bob Wechsler |year=2008}} (d. 2023)
• March 5 – Jack Cassidy, American stage, screen and television actor (d. 1976)
• March 6
• Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (d. 2004)
• Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014){{citation| last = Martin | first = Gerald | author-link = Gerald Martin | title = Gabriel García Márquez: A Life | place = London | publisher = Bloomsbury | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-7475-9476-5|page=27}}
• March 8 – Stanisław Kania, Polish communist politician (d. 2020){{cite book|author=John E. Jessup|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hP7jJAkTd9MC&pg=PA374|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28112-9|pages=374}}
• March 10 – Jupp Derwall, German football player and manager (d. 2007){{cite book|author=Horst Kliemann|title=Who's who in Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XR4OAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, German editor R. Oldenbourg Verlag|page=289|isbn=9783921220283}}
• March 12
• Raúl Alfonsín, former President of Argentina (d. 2009){{cite book|author=Bernard S. Cayne|title=The Americana annual. 1984 (1985)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-gF9VzKxzuEC|year=1985|publisher=Grolier|isbn=978-0-7172-0216-4|page=131}}
• Sudharmono, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (d. 2006){{cite book|title=Inside Indonesia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zpJuAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Inside Indonesia, Indonesia Resources and Information Programme|page=2}}
• March 16
• Vladimir Komarov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1967)
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American author, politician, and statesman (d. 2003){{cite book|author=United States. Congress|title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6In60umGo_kC&pg=PA1631|year=2005|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-16-073176-1|pages=1631}}
• March 17 – Roberto Suazo Córdova, President of Honduras (d. 2018){{cite book|title=ISLA|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqkuAQAAIAAJ|date=November 1981|publisher=I.S.L.A.|page=67}}
• March 18 – John Kander, American composer{{cite book|author=College Music Society|title=Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium : a Collection of Essays Presented in Honor of the College Music Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EzWkTNxqmF0C&pg=PA192|year=2000|publisher=Pendragon Press|isbn=978-1-57647-070-1|pages=192}}
• March 21 – Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician (d. 2016){{cite book|author=Bernard A. Cook|title=Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ox_gXq2jpdYC&pg=PA435|year=2001|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8153-4057-7|pages=435}}
• March 25 – Tina Anselmi, Italian politician (d. 2016){{cite book|title=Who's who of Women in World Politics|url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoofwomenin0000unse_h0k7|url-access=registration|year=1991|publisher=Bowker-Saur|isbn=978-0-86291-627-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoofwomenin0000unse_h0k7/page/10 10]}}
• March 27
• Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007){{cite book|author=Elizabeth Wilson|title=Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QhuIHg3mkGQC&pg=PT280|date=5 May 2011|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=978-0-571-26114-7|pages=280}}
• Karl Stotz, Austrian football player (d. 2017)
• March 29 – John Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004){{cite book|author=Brigham Narins|title=Notable Scientists from 1900 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cSUvAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-5454-2|page=2293}}
• March 31
• César Chávez, American labor activist, United Farm Workers founder (d. 1993){{cite book |last=Bruns |first=Roger |title=Cesar Chavez: A Biography |year=2005 |publisher=Greenwood |location=Westport, CT |isbn=9780313334528 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780313334528|page=2}}
• William Daniels, American actor{{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA198|date=September 24, 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|pages=198}}
• April 1 – Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (d. 2006){{cite book|author=Bob Wilson|title=Rucks, Pucks and Sliders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=64OT5pbZC00C|year=2007|publisher=Icon|isbn=978-1-84046-825-0|page=22}}
• April 3 – Éva Székely, Hungarian swimmer (d. 2020){{Cite web|url=https://www.bumm.sk/sport/2020/02/29/elhunyt-szekely-eva-olimpiai-bajnok-uszo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229164512/https://www.bumm.sk/sport/2020/02/29/elhunyt-szekely-eva-olimpiai-bajnok-uszo|title=Elhunyt Székely Éva olimpiai bajnok úszó|archive-date=February 29, 2020|website=Bumm.sk|url-status=live}}
• April 5 – Thanin Kraivichien, Thai lawyer and politician, Prime Minister 1976–77{{cite book|author1=Marco Bünte|author2=Björn Dressel|title=Politics and Constitutions in Southeast Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LqquDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA144|date=July 15, 2016|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-53766-3|pages=144}} (d. 2025)
• April 6
• Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996){{cite book|author=Jerome Klinkowitz|title=Listen, Gerry Mulligan: An Aural Narrative in Jazz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qrq0AAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Schirmer Books|isbn=978-0-02-871265-9|page=13}}
• Fethia Mzali, Tunisian teacher and politician (d. 2018){{cite journal|title=Fathia Mzali, Minister of the Family and the Promotion of Women|journal=Tunisian Women Speak|volume=33|date=August 1985|page=5}}
• April 9 – Tiny Hill, New Zealand rugby union player and selector (d. 2019)
• April 10 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010){{cite book|author1=Bernard S. Schlessinger|author2=June H. Schlessinger|title=The Who's who of Nobel Prize Winners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7IsYAAAAIAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Oryx Press|isbn=978-0-89774-193-4|page=110}}
• April 11 – Abd al-Majid al-Rafei, Lebanese politician (d. 2017)
• April 12 – Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (d. 2019){{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alvin-sargent-dead-oscar-winning-screenwriter-julia-ordinary-people-was-92-1166270|title = Alvin Sargent, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter of 'Julia' and 'Ordinary People,' Dies at 92|work = The Hollywood Reporter|last = Koseluk|first = Chris|date = May 10, 2019|access-date = February 24, 2021}}
• April 14 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007){{cite journal | doi = 10.1038/446390a | title = Obituary: Alan Graham MacDiarmid (1927–2007) Pioneer of conducting polymers, and proud Antipodean | year = 2007 | last1 = Holmes | first1 = Andrew |author-link1 = Andrew Bruce Holmes | journal = Nature | volume = 446 | issue = 7134 | pages = 390 | pmid = 17377574| s2cid = 4400048 | doi-access = free }}
• April 15 – Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999){{cite news |last1=Ravo |first1=Nick |title=Robert L. Mills, 72, Theorist In Realm of Subatomic Physics |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/30/nyregion/robert-l-mills-72-theorist-in-realm-of-subatomic-physics.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/30/nyregion/robert-l-mills-72-theorist-in-realm-of-subatomic-physics.html |accessdate=20 September 2020 |agency=New York Times |date=October 30, 1999}}
• April 16 – Pope Benedict XVI{{cite book|author=IBP USA|title=Vatican City Foreign Policy and Government Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJqyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA99|date=February 7, 2007|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-1-4330-5837-0|pages=99}} (d. 2022)
• April 17 – Margot Honecker, East German politician (d. 2016){{cite book|title=The International Who's Who, 1997-98|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4XNtwLEbl7wC|year=1997|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-85743-022-6|page=684}}
• April 18
• Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (d. 2008){{cite book|author=Roger Chapman|title=Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vRY27FkGJAUC&pg=PA269|year=2010|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-0-7656-2250-1|pages=269}}
• Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 1st Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013)
• Charles Pasqua, French businessman, politician (d. 2015){{cite book|title=Dod's European Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AXBmAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Dod|isbn=978-0-905702-37-7|page=246}}
• April 20
• Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
• Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023){{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=The Nobel Prize Winners: 1968-1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mhY6AQAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-560-2|page=1336}}
• April 24
• Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish athlete (d. 1992){{cite book|author=Roberto Quercetani|title=A World History of Track and Field Athletics, 1864-1964|url=https://archive.org/details/worldhistoryoftr0000quer|url-access=registration|year=1964|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/worldhistoryoftr0000quer/page/115 115]}}
• Trudi Birger, German Holocaust survivor and writer (d. 2002).{{Cite web|title=Trudi Birger - Founder of DVI (1927-2002)|url=https://dental-dvi.org.il/trudi-birger-founder-of-dvi-1927-2002/|access-date=2021-03-27|website=Dental Volunteers for Israel|language=en-US}}
• April 25 – Albert Uderzo, French author and illustrator (d. 2020){{cite news |author=Szalai, Georg |title=Albert Uderzo, French Illustrator and Writer of 'Asterix,' Dies at 92 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/albert-uderzo-dead-french-asterix-illustrator-writer-was-92-1286127 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=March 24, 2020 |access-date=March 24, 2020 }}
• April 27
• Coretta Scott King, African-American civil rights leader, wife of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (d. 2006){{cite book|author=Paul Finkelman|title=Encyclopedia of African American History: 5-Volume Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gbQHxb_P0QC&pg=RA2-PA97|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-516779-5|pages=97}}
• Yao Xian, Chinese general (d. 2018)
• April 29 – Dorothy Manley, English athlete (d. 2021){{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/dorothy-manley-obituary-zq8xpf9lr|title = Dorothy Manley obituary|website=The Times|access-date=December 20, 2021}}

• May 1
• Greta Andersen, Danish Olympic swimmer (d. 2023){{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/greta-andersen|title=Greta Andersen|website=IOC|access-date=14 December 2020}}
• Rusli Noor, 8th Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• Albert Zafy, 3rd President of Madagascar (d. 2017){{cite book | last = Ravaloson | first = Jaona | title = Transition démocratique à Madagascar | publisher = L'Harmattan | location = Paris | year = 1994 | isbn = 9782738426154 | page=54 | language=fr}}
• May 4 – Marella Agnelli, Italian art collector and socialite (d. 2019)
• May 9
• Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2019)
• Juan Jose Pizzuti, Argentine football striker and football manager (d. 2020)
• May 10 – Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author{{cite book | last = Bhatnagar | first = M. K. | title = The fiction of Nayantara Sahgal | publisher = Creative Books | location = New Delhi | year = 1996 | isbn = 9788186318300 | page=43}}
• May 11 – Mort Sahl, Canadian-born comedian and political commentator (d. 2021){{cite book|author1=Linda S. Hubbard|author2=Sara Steen|author3=Owen O'Donnell|title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uxkAAAAMAAJ|date=September 15, 1989|publisher=Gale|isbn=978-0-8103-2070-3|page=350}}
• May 13 – Herbert Ross, American film director (d. 2001){{cite book|author=James Cameron-Wilson|title=Film Review 2002-2003: The Definitive Film Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MxAIAQAAMAAJ|date=November 1, 2002|publisher=Reynolds & Hearn|isbn=9781903111468}}
• May 14
• Herbert W. Franke, Austrian scientist, author (d. 2022)
• Frank Miller, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario 1985 (d. 2018)
• May 20 – David Hedison, American actor (d. 2019){{cite book|author=Chris Strodder|title=The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool: A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ecqPBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA109|date=March 1, 2007|publisher=Santa Monica Press|isbn=978-1-59580-986-5|pages=109}}
• May 22 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017){{cite book|author=Dean Miller|title=Chemists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJVmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA103|date=1 January 2014|publisher=Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC|isbn=978-1-62712-555-0|pages=103}}
• May 25 – Robert Ludlum, American author (d. 2001){{cite book|author=Gina Macdonald|title=Robert Ludlum: A Critical Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iU9-UCNiiFkC&pg=PA1|year=1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29971-1|pages=1}}
• May 26
• Jacques Bergerac, French actor (d. 2014){{cite book|author=John Willis|title=Screen World, 1966|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VCQ9AErr-uMC&pg=PA221|date=June 1966|publisher=Biblo & Tannen Publishers|isbn=978-0-8196-0307-4|pages=221}}
• Endel Tulving, Estonian-Canadian psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist (d. 2023){{cite book|author=Endel Tulving|title=Varieties of Memory and Consciousness: Essays in Honour of Endel Tulving|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bdOrEfZ0HiIC&pg=PR17|year=1989|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-89859-935-0|pages=17}}
• May 30 – Clint Walker, American actor (d. 2018){{cite book|author=Henryk Hoffmann|title="A" Western Filmmakers: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers, Directors, Cinematographers, Composers, Actors and Actresses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWNZAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-0696-8|page=378}}
• June 3 – Boots Randolph, American saxophone player (d. 2007){{cite book|author1=Joseph H. Flint|author2=Judy A. Nelson|title=The Insider's Country Music Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pin7Ya25sGkC|year=1993|publisher=Gibbs-Smith|isbn=978-0-87905-563-9|page=479}}
• June 6 – Elijah Mudenda, Zambian politician, prime minister 1975–1977 (d. 2008){{cite book|author=Raph Uwechue|title=Africa Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9EAOAQAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Africa Journal Limited|isbn=978-0-903274-17-3|page=1181}}
• June 8
• Pavel Kharin, Soviet Olympic canoeist (d. 2023){{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/pavel-kharin|title=Pavel Kharin|website=IOC|access-date=14 December 2020}}
• Jerry Stiller, American comedian, actor (d. 2020){{Cite magazine|title=Jerry Stiller, 'Seinfeld' Actor and Father of Ben Stiller, Dies at 92|url=https://time.com/5835043/jerry-stiller-seinfeld-dead/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512061327/https://time.com/5835043/jerry-stiller-seinfeld-dead/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 12, 2020|magazine=Time|language=en|access-date=May 11, 2020}}
• June 10 – László Kubala, Hungarian football player and manager (d. 2002){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/may/21/guardianobituaries.brianglanville|title=Ladislao Kubala|date=21 May 2002|author=Brian Glanville|website=The Guardian|access-date=1 February 2021}}
• June 13
• Slim Dusty, Australian country singer (d. 2003){{cite book|author=Andy Gregory|title=The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZIjT8PgJMEC&pg=PA279|year=2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-161-2|pages=279}}
• Yoshiro Hayashi, Japanese politician (d. 2017)
• Franco Maria Malfatti, Italian politician (d. 1991){{cite book|author=Commission of the European Communities|title=Bulletin of the European Communities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KFkuAAAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Office for Official Publications of the European Communities|page=11}}
• June 16 – Ya'akov Hodorov, Israeli footballer (d. 2006){{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4945306|title=Soccer / Yaacov Hodorov, age 79, Israel's greatest 'keeper|website=Haaretz}}
• June 20 – Bernard Cahier, French photojournalist (d. 2008)
• June 23 – Bob Fosse, American choreographer, director (d. 1987){{cite book|author=Paul T. Hellmann|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5aFyDLBIjJ8C&pg=PA1723|date=February 14, 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-94858-5|pages=1723}}
• June 24 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014){{cite book|author=John Gribbin|title=Q is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zBsDkgI1uQsC&pg=PA277|date=22 February 2000|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-684-86315-3|pages=277}}
• June 27 – Cino Tortorella, Italian television presenter (d. 2017){{cite web|url=http://www.liberoquotidiano.it/blog/997114/Mago-Zurl%C3%AC-%C3%A8-morto-da-30-anni--e-io-sono-resuscitato-due-volte.html|title=Mago Zurlì è morto da 30 anni e io sono resuscitato due volte|website=LiberoQuotidiano.it|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171032/http://www.liberoquotidiano.it/blog/997114/Mago-Zurl%C3%AC-%C3%A8-morto-da-30-anni--e-io-sono-resuscitato-due-volte.html|language=it|access-date=April 6, 2020|archive-date=March 3, 2016}}
• June 28
• Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012){{cite book|author=George Thomas Kurian|title=The Nobel Scientists: A Biographical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbTaAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Prometheus Books|isbn=978-1-57392-927-1|page=111}}
• Boris Shilkov, Soviet speed skater (d. 2015){{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/boris-shilkov|title=Boris Shilkov|website=IOC|access-date=January 30, 2021}}
• Ann Aldrich, American district judge from 1980 to 2010 (d. 2010){{Cite web |last=Grant Segall |first=The Plain Dealer |date=2010-05-04 |title=Ann Aldrich set firsts as lawyer, professor and federal district judge |url=https://www.cleveland.com/obituaries/2010/05/ann_aldrich_set_firsts_as_lawy.html |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=cleveland |language=en}}
• June 30
• Sleim Ammar, Tunisian neuropsychiatrist and poet (d. 1999){{cite web |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/J-rG4l8qnMMq |title= Ammar Abdessalem Ben Hedi |publisher=deces.matchid.io |accessdate=27 February 2024}}
• Shirley Fry Irvin, American tennis player (d. 2021){{cite book|author1=Virginia Wade|author2=Jean Rafferty|title=Ladies of the Court: A Century of Women at Wimbledon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzkqRyHvZKkC|year=1984|publisher=Pavilion|isbn=978-0-907516-45-3|page=187}}

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• July 1
• Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (d. 2007){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YY4I36ZbJ7gC&pg=PA59|title=The Long March: Profile of Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar|publisher=Mittal|first=Attar |last=Chand |year=1991 |isbn=978-8-17099-272-1|page=59}}
• Mirghani Alnasri, Sudanese politician
• Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist (d. 2019){{cite web|url=https://ria.ru/20191108/1560709077.html|title=Умер основатель теоретической археологии Лев Клейн|date=November 8, 2019|language=ru|website=RIA|access-date=February 25, 2020}}
• July 3 – Salome Þorkelsdóttir, Icelandic politician{{cite web|title=Salome Þorkelsdóttir|url=http://www.althingi.is/altext/cv/is/?nfaerslunr=493|website=Alþingi Iceland|publisher=Parliament of Iceland|access-date=October 4, 2015|location=Reykjavík, Iceland|date=June 18, 2015|language=is}}
• July 4
• Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress (d. 2023){{cite book|author=Deirdre Pirro|title=Italian Sketches: The Faces of Modern Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kK7y_GFLujkC&pg=PA39|year=2009|publisher=TheFlorentinePress|isbn=978-88-902434-4-8|pages=39}}
• Neil Simon, American playwright, screenwriter and author (d. 2018){{cite book|author=Paul T. Hellmann|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA779|date=14 February 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-94859-3|pages=779}}
• July 6 – Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004){{cite book|author=Michelangelo Capua|title=Janet Leigh: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NRlfe8948H4C&pg=PA5|date=8 March 2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-7022-8|pages=5}}
• July 7 – Carl "Doc" Severinsen, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader{{cite web|title=Doc Severinsen: Bio|date=January 10, 2011 |access-date=13 March 2023|url=https://www.docseverinsen.com/about/}}
• July 9 – Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019){{cite book|author1=Stan Fischler|author2=Shirley Fischler|title=Who's who in Hockey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wpbLnSHBNHgC&pg=PP235|year=2003|publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing|isbn=978-0-7407-1904-2|pages=235}}
• July 10
• Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician (d. 2018){{cite journal|title=In Memoriam|journal=Int J Fract|number=213|pages=83–85|year=2018|volume=213|doi=10.1007/s10704-018-0318-3|s2cid=37464222}}
• David Dinkins, African-American Mayor of New York City (1989–93) (d. 2020){{cite book|author1=Robert L Harris Jr.|author2=Rosalyn Terborg-Penn|title=The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939|url=https://archive.org/details/columbiaguidetoa00robe|url-access=registration|date=June 27, 2006|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-51087-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/columbiaguidetoa00robe/page/269 269]}}
• July 11
• Theodore H. Maiman, American inventor, physicist who developed the laser (d. 2007)
• Gregorio Salvador Caja, Spanish linguist (d. 2020){{cite book|author=John C. Dove|title=Who's who in Spain 1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kEOAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Verlag AG|isbn=978-88-85246-14-0|page=1276}}
• July 13 – Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician (d. 2017){{cite news|url=https://nytimes.com/2017/06/30/world/europe/simone-veil-dead.html|last=Chan |first=Sewell |title=Simone Veil, Ex-Minister Who Wrote France's Abortion Law, Dies at 89|date=June 30, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times }}
• July 15
• Håkon Brusveen, Norwegian cross-country skier (d. 2021)
• Nan Martin, American actress (d. 2010){{cite news|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-and-Film-Actress-Nan-Martin-Dies-at-82-20100305|title=Broadway and Film Actress Nan Martin Dies at 82|last=Simonson|first=Robert|date=March 9, 2010|author-link1=Robert Simonson|work=Playbill.com|access-date=March 10, 2010}}
• Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014){{cite book|author=Elliott Robert Barkan|title=Making it in America: A Sourcebook on Eminent Ethnic Americans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WwwY_eJnodgC&pg=PA429|year=2001|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-098-7|pages=429}}
• July 18 – Kurt Masur, German conductor (d. 2015){{cite book|author1=Roderick L. Sharpe|author2=Jeanne Koekkoek Stierman|title=Maestros in America: Conductors in the 21st Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OTEROkR8d-AC&pg=PA164|date=30 May 2008|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-1-4616-6948-7|pages=164}}
• July 20
• July 21
• Albert Zwaveling, Dutch Surgeon (d. 2023)
• Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian historian and human rights activist (d. 2018)
• Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer (d. 2019){{cite news| last = Brachmann| first = Jan

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| publisher = FAZ| date = 9 March 2019| language = de| access-date = 9 March 2019}}

• July 28 – John Ashbery, American poet and critic (d. 2017){{cite book|editor1-last=Curry|editor1-first=Jennifer|editor2-last=Ramm|editor2-first=David|editor3-last=Rich|editor3-first=Mari|title=World Authors, 2000-2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lqsjAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA14|year=2007|publisher=H.W. Wilson|isbn=978-0-8242-1077-9|pages=14}}
• August 2 – Andreas Dückstein, Austrian chess player (d. 2024){{cite book|author=Gino Di Felice|title=Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0dBHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA83|date=16 January 2018|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-3361-9|pages=83}}
• August 6
• Arturo Armando Molina, President of El Salvador (d. 2021){{cite book|author=David William Foster|title=Latin American Government Leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-4cWAAAAYAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University|isbn=978-0-87918-021-8|page=69}}
• Theodor Wagner, Austrian footballer and manager (d. 2020){{Cite news|url=https://www.krone.at/2082823|title=ÖFB-Legende "Turl" Wagner 92-jährig verstorben!|language=de|work=Kronen Zeitung|date=January 21, 2020|access-date=January 22, 2020}}
• August 7 – Dušan Čkrebić, Serbian politician, President 1984–86 (d. 2022)
• August 8 – Giuseppe Moioli, Italian rower (d. 2025){{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/giuseppe-moioli| title=Giuseppe Moioli|website=IOC|access-date= February 1, 2021}}
• August 9
• Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist, Turing Award winner (Artificial intelligence) (d. 2016){{cite book|author=National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain)|title=Mechanisation of Thought Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0lAAAAMAAJ|year=1959|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=4}}
• Robert Shaw, British actor (d. 1978){{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1IM3AAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=22}}
• August 13 – David Padilla, 53rd President of Bolivia (d. 2016){{Cite web|last1=TheBiography.us|last2=TheBiography.us|title=Biography of David Padilla Arancibia (1927-VVVV)|url=http://thebiography.us/en/padilla-arancibia-david|access-date=2020-12-03|website=thebiography.us|language=en|archive-date=February 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227095807/https://thebiography.us/en/padilla-arancibia-david|url-status=dead}}
• August 18 – Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States (d. 2023){{cite book|author1=Margaret Brown Klapthor|author2=Allida Mae Black|title=The First Ladies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n5YVoopwVgUC&pg=PA87|date=October 2002|publisher=Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-912308-83-8|pages=87}}
• August 19 – Hsing Yun, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 2023){{cite book| author=W. Glenn Jonas Jr. |title=Religious Traditions of North Carolina: Histories, Tenets and Leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7VqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT304|date=9 October 2018|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-7646-3|pages=304}}
• August 21 – Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 2018)
• August 23
• Dick Bruna, Dutch artist, graphic designer (d. 2017){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/17/dick-bruna-obituary|title=Dick Bruna obituary|date=February 17, 2017|author=Julia Eccleshare|website=The Guardian|access-date=February 25, 2020}}
• Philippe Mestre, French high-ranking civil servant, media executive and politician (d. 2017)
• August 24 – Harry Markowitz, American economist (d. 2023){{cite book|author1=Bernard S. Schlessinger|author2=June H. Schlessinger|title=The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFRqAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Oryx Press|isbn=978-0-89774-599-4|page=51}}
• August 25 – Althea Gibson, African-American tennis player (d. 2003){{cite book|author=Paul Finkelman|title=Encyclopedia of African American History: 5-Volume Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gbQHxb_P0QC&pg=RA1-PA300|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-516779-5|pages=300}}
• August 26
• Jill Amos, New Zealand politician and community leader (d. 2017)
• B. V. Doshi, Indian architect (d. 2023)

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• September 2 – Trude Beiser, Austrian alpine skier
• September 5 – Paul Volcker, American economist, academic (d. 2019){{cite book|author=United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs|title=Renomination of Paul A. Volcker: Hearing Before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=swcVxqtmVMUC&pg=PA63|year=1983|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=63}}
• September 8 – Marguerite Frank, American-French mathematician (d. 2024)
• September 10 – Sachiko, Princess Hisa, Japanese princess (d. 1928)
• September 12 – Freddie Jones, English actor (d. 2019){{cite news |last1=Coveney |first1=Michael |title=Freddie Jones obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/10/freddie-jones-obituary |access-date=11 July 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=10 July 2019}}
• September 13 – Laura Cardoso, Brazilian actress
• September 15 – Margaret Keane, American artist (d. 2022){{cite news |last=McFadden |first=Robert D. |date=June 28, 2022 |title=Margaret Keane, Painter of Sad-Eyed Waifs, Dies at 94 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/arts/margaret-keane-dead.html |url-access=limited |access-date=June 28, 2022}}
• September 16
• Peter Falk, American actor (d. 2011)
• Sadako Ogata, Japanese diplomat, former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2019)
• September 19
• Harold Brown, American nuclear physicist, 14th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2019)
• Rosemary Harris, English actress
• September 23 – Abdel Khaliq Mahjub, Sudanese politician (d. 1971)
• September 25 – Sir Colin Davis, English conductor (d. 2013){{cite news|last=Nice|first=David|title=Sir Colin Davis obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/apr/14/sir-colin-davis-obituary|access-date=16 April 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=14 April 2013}}
• September 29
• Josefina Echánove, Mexican actress, model and journalist (d. 2020)
• Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Brazilian athlete (d. 2001){{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/adhemar-da-silva|title=Adhemar da Silva|website=IOC|access-date=March 16, 2021}}
• September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet (d. 2019){{cite book|author=H. L. Hix|title=Understanding W.S. Merwin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JIveUt8StQC&pg=PA1|year=1997|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-154-0|pages=1}}
• October 1
• Tom Bosley, American actor (d. 2010)
• Márta Kurtág, Hungarian classical pianist (d. 2019)
• October 4 – Margaret Varner Bloss, American athlete{{cite book|author1=Ray Sanchez|author2=Helen Sanchez|title=El Paso's Greatest Sports Heroes I Have Known|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ijwAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Sunturians Press|isbn=978-0-9623471-0-8|page=36}}
• October 6 – Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist (d. 2019){{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/paul-badura-skoda-obituary-c83dq5699|title=Paul Badura-Skoda obituary|website=The Times|date=16 October 2019}} {{subscription required}}
• October 7 – Al Martino, American singer, actor (d. 2009){{cite book|title=Chase's Annual Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6|page=403}}
• October 8 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipient (d. 2002){{Cite journal | last1 = Neuberger | first1 = M. S. | author-link1 = Michael Neuberger| last2 = Askonas | first2 = B. A. | author-link2 = Brigitte Askonas| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2005.0017 | title = Cesar Milstein CH. 8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002: Elected F.R.S. 1974 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 51 | pages = 267–289 | year = 2005 | s2cid = 82605089 | doi-access = }}
• October 11
• Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 2005)
• William Perry, American mathematician, engineer and businessman{{cite web|url=http://www.nae.edu/Activities/Projects/Awards/BuecheAward/BuecheWinners/page19969264/55406.aspx|title=William J. Perry, U.S. Secretary of Defense|publisher=National Academy of Engineering}}
• October 13
• Lee Konitz, American jazz composer, alto saxophonist (d. 2020)
• Turgut Özal, 8th President, 26th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 1993)
• October 14 – Sir Roger Moore, English actor (d. 2017){{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/roger-moore-dead-james-bond-actor-the-saint-dies-aged-89-maverick-persuaders-a7751561.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/roger-moore-dead-james-bond-actor-the-saint-dies-aged-89-maverick-persuaders-a7751561.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Sir Roger Moore: Remembering the quintessential English actor forever linked with James Bond and The Saint |last=Sellers |first=Robert |date=23 May 2017 |work=The Independent |access-date=24 May 2017 }}{{cbignore}}
• October 16 – Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015){{cite book|author=Tracy Chevalier|title=Encyclopedia of the Essay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJtz0iWO4O4C&pg=PA362|year=1997|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-884964-30-5|pages=362}}
• October 18 – George C. Scott, American actor (Patton) (d. 1999)
• October 21 – Renato Ballardini, Italian politician and resistance member (d. 2025)
• October 22 – Oscar Furlong, Argentine basketball player, and tennis player and coach (d. 2018)
• October 23 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (d. 2009)
• October 25
• Jorge Batlle, President of Uruguay (d. 2016)
• Barbara Cook, American singer and actress (d. 2017)
• October 27
• Dominick Argento, American composer and educator (d. 2019)
• Silvia Laidla, Estonian actress (d. 2012)
• October 28
• Dame Cleo Laine, English singer and actress{{cite book|author=Keith A. P. Sandiford|title=A Black Studies Primer: Heroes and Heroines of the African Diaspora|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MSQZAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Hansib|isbn=978-1-906190-06-4|page=265}}
• Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (d. 1995)
• October 29 – Frank Sedgman, Australian tennis player

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• November 2 – Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and artist (d. 2018){{cite book | last = Benton | first = Mike | title = Masters of imagination: the comic book artists hall of fame | publisher = Taylor Pub. Co | location = Dallas, Tex | year = 1994 | isbn = 9780878338597 |page=142}}
• November 3
• Marius Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon (d. 2014)
• Odvar Nordli, Norwegian politician and 10th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 2018){{cite book|author=A. T. Lane|title=Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3vjdU-v4isC&pg=PA701|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29900-1|pages=701}}
• November 7 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman, president of Nintendo (d. 2013)
• November 8
• L. K. Advani, Indian lawyer and politician{{cite book|author=Shri L. K. Advani|title=New Approaches to Security and Development|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vCtpBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27|year=2003|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=978-981-230-219-9|pages=27–}}
• Sir Ken Dodd, English comedian (d. 2018)
• Patti Page, American pop singer (d. 2013)
• November 14
• George Bizos, Greek-born human rights lawyer (d. 2020){{cite book|title=65 Years of Friendship|first=George|last=Bizos|publisher=Penguin Random House South Africa|date=2017|isbn=9781415208861|access-date=30 September 2019|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IghbDwAAQBAJ&q=george+bizos+15+november+1927&pg=PT299|archive-date=10 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200910071508/https://books.google.com/books?id=IghbDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT299&lpg=PT299&dq=george+bizos+15+november+1927#v|url-status=live}}
• McLean Stevenson, American actor (M*A*S*H, Hello, Larry) (d. 1996){{cite web | url=https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/agents/people/1669 | title=Stevenson, McLean | Archival and Manuscript Collections }}
• November 15 – Bill Rowling, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1995)
• November 18 – Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003){{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hank-ballard-36316.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hank-ballard-36316.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Independent|title=Hank Ballard|date=4 March 2003}}{{cbignore}}
• November 20 – Estelle Parsons, American actress
• November 23 – Angelo Sodano, Italian Catholic cardinal, Dean of the College of Cardinals (d. 2022)
• November 24 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
• November 28 – Abdul Halim of Kedah, Malaysian sultan, 5th & 14th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (d. 2017)
• November 30
• Michael Fitchett, Australian cricketer (d. 2021)
• Robert Guillaume, African-American actor and singer (d. 2017)
• December 3 – Andy Williams, American singer (d. 2012){{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/26/andy-williams |title=Andy Williams obituary |work=The Guardian |date=September 26, 2012 |access-date=July 27, 2016 |first=Dave |last=Laing}}
• December 5
• Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Rama IX of Thailand (d. 2016){{cite web|title=Biography of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej|url=http://kanchanapisek.or.th/biography/hmk.en.html|website=The Golden Jubilee Network|publisher=Kanchanapisek Network|access-date=October 17, 2015}}
• Óscar Míguez, Uruguayan football player (d. 2006)
• Erich Probst, Austrian football player (d. 1988)
• December 6 – Marcel Pelletier, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
• December 8 – Vladimir Shatalov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2021){{cite news |title=Vladimir Shatalov, hero of Soviet cosmonauts, who beat the Americans to the first manned docking in space – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/06/15/vladimir-shatalov-hero-soviet-cosmonauts-beat-americans-first/ |website=The Telegraph |date=June 15, 2021 |access-date=June 15, 2021|author=Telegraph Obituaries}}
• December 9 – Pierre Henry, French composer (d. 2017){{cite news |date=27 July 2017 |title=Pierre Henry |newspaper=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/pierre-henry-356dxt6x2}}
• December 11 – Stein Eriksen, Norwegian Olympic skier (d. 2015){{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/stein-eriksen|title=Stein Eriksen|website=IOC|access-date=14 December 2020}}
• December 12 – Robert Noyce, American co-founder of Intel (d. 1990)Berlin, Leslie The man behind the microchip: Robert Noyce and the invention of Silicon Valley Publisher Oxford University Press US, 2005 {{ISBN|0-19-516343-5}} page 10
• December 16 – Akihiko Hirata, Japanese actor (d. 1984){{cite book | last = Ryfle | first = Steve | title = Japan's favorite mon-star: the unauthorized biography of "The Big G | publisher = ECW Press | location = Toronto, Ont | year = 1998 | isbn = 9781550223484 | page=96}}
• December 18 – Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada (d. 2009){{Citation|last=Taber|first=Jane|title=Roméo LeBlanc dies at 81|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=June 24, 2009|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/romeo-leblanc-dies-at-81/article1195318|access-date=June 26, 2009|archive-date=June 25, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625012502/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/romeo-leblanc-dies-at-81/article1195318/|url-status=dead}}
• December 20 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean politician, 7th President of the Republic of Korea (d. 2015)
• December 24 – Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist (d. 2020){{cite news|author=Alison Flood|title='Queen of Suspense' Mary Higgins Clark dies aged 92|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/03/mary-higgins-clark-dies-aged-92|date=3 February 2020|work=The Guardian|access-date=14 December 2020}}
• December 25 – Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player (d. 2024){{cite book | last = Sorrell | first = Neil | title = Indian music in performance : a practical introduction | publisher = New York University Press | location = New York | year = 1980 | isbn = 9780719007569 | page=11}}
• December 28 – Edward Babiuch, Polish Communist politician (d. 2021){{cite book|title=The New York Times Biographical Service|publisher=New York Times & Arno Press|year=1980|page=1083}}
• December 29 – Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985){{cite book | last = Page | first = James | title = Black olympian medalists | publisher = Libraries Unlimited | location = Englewood, Colo | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780872876187 | page=109}}
• December 30
• Robert Hossein, French film director and actor (d. 2020){{cite news|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/entertainment/french-theatre-legend-robert-hossein-dies-aged-93-933697.html |title=French theatre legend Robert Hossein dies aged 93|work=Deccan Herald |date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020}}
• Hamed Karoui, 16th Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2020){{cite book|title=The ... Political Risk Yearbook: Middle East & North Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JxqOAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Frost & Sullivan|page=36|isbn = 9781852718329}}

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• January 4 – Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet (b. 1870){{cite web|url=http://ansiklopedi.turkcebilgi.com/Süleyman_Nazif |publisher=Türkçe Bilgi-Ansiklopedi |title=Süleyman Nazif Hakkında Bilgi |access-date=2008-11-09 |language=tr}}
• January 9 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-born German author (b. 1855){{cite web |url=http://www.hschamberlain.net/timeline/timeline.html |title=Houston Stewart Chamberlain: Timeline 1855–1939 |publisher=HSChamberlain.net |access-date=19 April 2015 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427110826/http://www.hschamberlain.net/timeline/timeline.html |archive-date=27 April 2015 |df=dmy-all }}
• January 14 – Niels Thorkild Rovsing, Danish surgeon (b. 1862)
• January 15 – Harald Giersing, Danish painter (b. 1881)
• January 16
• Jovan Cvijić, Serbian geographer (b. 1865)
• Carl Theodore Vogelgesang, American admiral (b. 1869){{cite web|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/modern-biographical-files-ndl/modern-bios-v/vogelgesang-carl-theodore.html| title = Carl Theodore Vogelgesang 11 January 1869 - 16 February 1927}}
• January 17 – Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts USA (b. 1860){{cite web |url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/juliette-gordon-low-1860-1927/ | title=Juliette Gordon Low }}
• January 18 – Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter, British colonial administrator (b. 1848)
• January 19
• Empress Carlota of Mexico (b. 1840){{cite book|author1=Harry Thayer Mahoney|author2=M. H. Mahoney|author3=Marjorie Locke Mahoney|title=Mexico and the Confederacy, 1860-1867|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XEMaAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Austin & Winfield|isbn=978-1-57292-066-8|page=171}}
• Carl Gräbe, German chemist (b. 1841)
• January 26 – Lyman J. Gage, American financier and politician (b. 1836)
• January 27 – Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop and blessed (b. 1871)
• January 30
• Constantin Cantacuzino-Pașcanu, Romanian politician (b. 1856)
• Friedrich Koch, German composer (b. 1862){{cite book|title=Pierre Key's Music Year Book: The Standard Music Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wp7k3JOgXkoC|year=1925|publisher=Pierre Key, Incorporated|page=471}}
• Ferdinando Russo, Italian journalist (b. 1866)
• February 4 – Janko Vukotić, Montenegrin general (b. 1866)
• February 6 – Mateo Correa Magallanes, Mexican Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (b. 1866)
• February 9 – Charles Doolittle Walcott, American paleontologist (b. 1850)
• February 10 – Laura Netzel, Swedish composer and conductor (b. 1839)
• February 16
• Jonas Basanavičius, Lithuanian-Soviet activist (b. 1851){{cite book| first=Alfred Erich |last=Senn |title=Jonas Basanavičius, the Patriarch of the Lithuanian National Renaissance |year=1980 |publisher=Oriental Research Partners |location=Newtonville, Mass. |isbn=0-89250-251-7 |pages=73–74}}
• Friedrich Reinitzer, Austrian botanist (b. 1857)
• February 18
• Turhan Pasha Përmeti, Albanian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Albania, leader of the World War I (b. 1846)
• Abd-al Karim, Afghan emir (b. 1897){{Cite book|last=Stewart|first=Rhea Talley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=weltAAAAMAAJ|title=Fire in Afghanistan, 1914-1929: Faith, Hope, and the British Empire|date=1973|publisher=Doubleday|isbn=978-0-385-08742-1|pages=284–285|language=en}}
• February 19
• Georg Brandes, Danish critic and scholar (b. 1842){{cite book|author=Margaretta Jolly|title=Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pedJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126|date=4 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-78744-7|pages=126}}
• Fernand de Langle de Cary, French general (b. 1849)
• Robert Fuchs (composer), Austrian composer (b. 1847){{cite web|url=https://mahlerfoundation.org/mahler/contemporaries/robert-fuchs/|title=Robert Fuchs (1847-1927)|website=Mahler Foundation|date=January 6, 2015 |access-date=20 December 2023}}
• February 23 – Noda Utarō, Japanese entrepreneur and politician (b. 1853)
• February 25 – Kōgyo Tsukioka, Japanese artist (b. 1869)
• February 26
• Austin M. Knight, American admiral (b. 1854)
• Hermann Obrist, German sculptor (b. 1862)

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• March 1 – Nakamura Yoshikoto, Japanese politician, Mayor of Tokyo (b. 1867)
• March 3 – Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878){{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Masterplots: Cyclopedia of world authors; seven hundred fifty three novelists, poets, playwrights from the world's fine literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zu7XAAAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Salem Press|page=51}}
• March 4 – Ira Remsen, American chemist, discoverer of saccharin (b. 1846)
• March 6 – Marie Spartali Stillman, British painter (b. 1844)
• March 8 – Manuel Gondra, Paraguayan author and journalist, 21st President of Paraguay (b. 1871)
• March 9 – Lucrecia Arana, Spanish opera singer (b. 1871)
• March 11 – Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general (b. 1869)
• March 14 – Jānis Čakste, Latvian politician, 1st President of Latvia (b. 1859)
• March 16 – Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte, French painter (b. 1853)
• March 17 – Charles Emmett Mack, American actor (b. 1900)
• March 22 – Templin Potts, American naval officer; 11th Naval Governor of Guam (b. 1855)
• March 23
• Dietrich Barfurth, German anatomist and embryologist (b. 1849)
• Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
• March 24 – Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1865)
• March 25 – Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Palestinian Roman Catholic nun and saint (b. 1843)
• March 27
• Alexandru Bădărău, Romanian journalist (b. 1859)
• William Healey Dall, American malacologist and explorer (b. 1845)
• Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
• March 28 – Joseph-Médard Émard, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and bishop (b. 1853)
• March 29
• Patriarch Ambrosius of Georgia (b. 1861)
• Luigi Luzzatti, Italian economist, financier, jurist and philosopher, 20th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1841)
• April 1 – Anacleto González Flores, Mexican Roman Catholic layman and blessed (b. 1888)
• April 3 – Marco Fidel Suárez, Colombian political figure, 9th President of Colombia (b. 1855)
• April 4
• Vincent Drucci, Italian-born American mobster (b. 1898)
• Albert Van Coile, Belgian footballer (b. 1900)
• April 7 – Domingo Iturrate Zubero, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1901)
• April 10 – Arthur Reid Lempriere, British army officer (b. 1835)
• April 12 – Giuseppe Moscati, Italian doctor, researcher, professor and Roman Catholic saint (b. 1880)
• April 15 – Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868){{cite book | last = Leroux | first = Gaston | title = The real opera ghost and other tales | publisher = A. Sutton | location = Stroud | year = 1994 | isbn = 9780750907828 |page=xiv}}
• April 20 – Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter (b. 1866)
• April 25 – Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, French painter (b. 1859)
• April 28
• M. P. Bajana, Indian cricketer (b. 1886)
• Li Dazhao, Chinese intellectual, co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party (executed) (b. 1888)
• April 29 – Juan Ángel Arias Boquín, 16th President of Honduras (b. 1859)
• April 30 – Friedrich von Scholtz, German general (b. 1851)

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• May 2 – Ernest Starling, English physiologist (b. 1866)
• May 5 – Ana Echazarreta, First Lady of Chile (b. 1864)
• May 8
• Charles Nungesser, French aviator, World War I fighter ace (date of disappearance) (b. 1892)
• Francois Coli, French aerial navigator, WW1 veteran (date of disappearance) (b. 1882)
• Teresa Demjanovich, American Catholic religious sister and blessed (b. 1901)
• May 11 – Juan Gris, Spanish sculptor, painter (b. 1887)
• May 12 – Giuseppe Bagnera, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
• May 13 – Heinrich Peer, Austrian film actor (b. 1867)
• May 17 – Harold Geiger, American aviator (b. 1884)
• May 20 – John J. O'Connor, American Roman Catholic bishop and reverend (b. 1855)
• May 23 – Henry E. Huntington, American railroad magnate (b. 1850)
• May 25
• Agustín Caloca Cortés, Mexican Roman Catholic layman and martyr (killed in action) (b. 1898)
• Henri Hubert, French archaeologist, sociologist (b. 1872)
• Cristóbal Magallanes Jara, Mexican Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (killed in battle) (b. 1869)
• May 28 – Boris Kustodiev, Soviet painter and designer (b. 1878)
• June 1
• Lizzie Borden, American woman accused and acquitted of parricide (b. 1860)
• J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
• Annibale Maria di Francia, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1851){{Cite web|url=http://www.fdz.com.au/order/genHist.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130114234411/http://www.fdz.com.au/order/genHist.html|url-status=dead|title="A Brief Chronology of the Life of Saint Annibale Maria Di Francia", Daughters of Divine Zeal|archive-date=January 14, 2013}}
• June 3 – Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1846)
• June 4
• Julia Hurley, American actress (b. 1848)
• Robert McKim, American actor (b. 1886)
• June 6 – Robert C. Hilliard, American stage actor (b. 1857)
• June 7
• František Dvořák, Czechoslovak painter (b. 1862)
• José Pedro Montero, 27th President of Paraguay (b. 1878)
• Pyotr Voykov, Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1888)
• June 9
• Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian politician (b. 1857)
• Victoria Woodhull, American feminist, spiritualist and first woman to ever run for U.S. President (b. 1838)
• June 13
• Abd Al-Rahman Al-Gillani, Iraqi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1841)
• Giuseppe Primoli, Italian collector and photographer (b. 1851)
• June 14 – Jerome K. Jerome, English writer (b. 1859){{cite book | last = Connolly | first = Joseph | title = Jerome K. Jerome : a critical biography | publisher = Orbis Pub | location = London | year = 1982 | isbn = 9780856133497 |page=194}}
• June 15 – Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Chinese Buddhist leader (b. 1852)
• June 20 – Clara Louise Burnham, American novelist (b. 1854)
• June 24 – Johann Büttikofer, Swiss zoologist (b. 1850)
• June 26
• Armand Guillaumin, French painter and lithographer (b. 1841)
• José María Robles Hurtado, Mexican Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (b. 1888)
• June 27 – Sir James Macdonald, Scottish engineer and explorer (b. 1862)
• June 28 – Rafaél Manuel Almansa Riaño, Colombian Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1840)
• June 29 – Ida Gerhardi, German painter (b. 1862)

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• July 1 – Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, Colombian general and political figure, 11th President of Colombia (b. 1858)
• July 2 – Joseph Gaudentius Anderson, American Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1869)
• July 5 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853){{cite journal|last1=Jones|first1=Mary Ellen|date=September 1953|title=Albrecht Kossel, A Biographical Sketch

|journal=Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine|volume=26|pages=80–97|pmc=2599350|pmid=13103145|issue=1}}

• July 6
• Prince Friedrich Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1891)
• Frederick Van Voorhies Holman, American lawyer (b. 1852)
• July 8 – Max Hoffmann, German general (b. 1869)
• July 9 – John Drew Jr., American stage actor (b. 1853)
• July 11 – Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1845)
• July 12 – Thomas F. Porter, American politician, 32nd Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts (b. 1847)
• July 13 – Otto Blehr, Norwegian editor and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1847)
• July 15 – Constance Markievicz, Irish politician (b. 1868){{cite book|author1=William Henry Kautt|author2=William Kautt|title=The Anglo-Irish War, 1916-1921: A People's War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3e9GS8cYrWkC&pg=PA169|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-96311-8|pages=169}}
• July 20 – King Ferdinand I of Romania (b. 1865)
• July 23 – Reginald Dyer, British army officer, perpetrator of Jallianwala Bagh massacre (b. 1864){{cite book|title=Sainik Samachar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=teFWx5EaqjQC|year=1993|publisher=Director of Public Relations, Ministry of Defence|page=15}}
• July 24 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese poet and writer (b. 1892)
• July 25 – Joseph Adélard Descarries, French-born Canadian lawyer (b. 1853)
• July 26
• Federico De Roberto, Italian novelist (b. 1861)
• June Mathis, American screenwriter (b. 1889)
• July 27 – Charles Fuller Baker, American botanist (b. 1872)
• July 29 – Louise Abbéma, French painter, sculptor and designer of the Belle Époque (b. 1853){{cite book|title=Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1RhIAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Aurora|page=62}}
• July 30 – James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, Ghanaian-born educationalist (b. 1875)
• July 31 – Sir Harry Johnston, British explorer and colonial administrator (b. 1858)
• August 3 – Edward B. Titchener, English psychologist (b. 1867)
• August 4 – Ġużè Muscat Azzopardi, Maltese lawyer, poet and novelist (b. 1853)
• August 7
• Pope Cyril V of Alexandria (b. 1831)
• Leonard Wood, American general (b. 1860)
• August 9 – King Sisowath of Cambodia (b. 1840)
• August 13 – James Oliver Curwood, American writer and conservationist (b. 1878)[https://archive.today/20130202064902/http://www.shiawasseehistory.com/curwood.html James Oliver Curwood July 12, 1878 August 13, 1927]
• August 17
• Johannes Theodor Baargeld, German painter and poet (b. 1892)
• Sir Ernest Hatch, British politician (b. 1859)
• August 22 – Louis Agassiz Fuertes, American ornithologist (b. 1874)
• August 23
• Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (b. 1891)
• Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (b. 1888)
• August 24 – Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, Venezuelan writer (b. 1871)
• August 25 – Elizabeth Maria Molteno, South African activist (b. 1852)
• August 28 – Émile Haug, French geologist and paleontologist (b. 1861)

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• September 1
• Amelia Bingham, American stage actress (b. 1869)
• Emil Müller, Austrian mathematician (b. 1861)
• September 2 – Aleksei Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky, Soviet historian and politician (b. 1852)
• September 3 – Khatanbaatar Magsarjav, Mongolian general (b. 1877)
• September 5
• Marcus Loew, American theatre chain founder (b. 1870)
• Wayne Wheeler, American temperance movement leader (b. 1869){{cite book|title=CIE|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekcMAQAAIAAJ|year=1928|publisher=Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union|page=35}}
• September 10 – Winfield Scott Edgerly, American army officer (b. 1846)
• September 11 – Paola Renata Carboni, Italian Roman Catholic nun and venerable (b. 1908)
• September 14
• Hugo Ball, German poet, founder of Dadaism (b. 1886)
• Isadora Duncan, British-born American dancer (b. 1877)
• Countess Sophie of Merenberg (b. 1868)
• September 17 – Eugene Lamb Richards, American football player (b. 1863){{cite book|author=Commerce Clearing House|title=Tax Court Memorandum Decisions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yngYAAAAIAAJ|year=1946|publisher=Commerce Clearing House|page=870}}
• September 19 – Michael Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
• September 22 – Édouard Kirmisson, French surgeon (b. 1848)
• September 23 – Iustin Frățiman, Romanian historian and activist (b. 1870)
• September 27 – Mary Canfield Ballard, American poet (b. 1852)
• September 29
• Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860){{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/willem-einthoven-google-doodle-who-nobel-prize-death-inventor-heart-medicine-a8922736.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/willem-einthoven-google-doodle-who-nobel-prize-death-inventor-heart-medicine-a8922736.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Who was William Einthoven and why did he win a Nobel Prize?|date=2019-05-20|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2019-05-21}}{{cbignore}}
• August von Heeringen, Prussian admiral (b. 1855)
• September 30 – Samuel Garman, American naturalist and zoologist (b. 1843){{cite book|title=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jWsSuIeL3oC|year=1927|publisher=Linnean Society of London|page=116}}
• October 2
• Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• John Dalzell, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (b. 1845)
• Foqion Postoli, Albanian novelist and playwright (b. 1889)
• October 5 – Sam Warner, American Hollywood studio executive (b. 1887)
• October 7 – Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, Irish businessman and philanthropist (b. 1847)
• October 8
• Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentine novelist and poet (b. 1886)
• Johann Sahulka, Austrian scientist (b. 1857)
• Mary Webb, English novelist (b. 1881){{cite book | last = Orel | first = Harold | title = Popular fiction in England, 1914-1918 | publisher = University Press of Kentucky | location = Lexington | year = 1992 | isbn = 9780813117898 |page=109}}
• October 9 – João Marques de Oliveira, Portuguese painter (b. 1853)
• October 10 – Gustave Whitehead, German-born aviation pioneer (b. 1874)
• October 11 – Miguel R. Dávila, Honduranian general, 18th President of Honduras (b. 1856)
• October 13
• Caroline Brown Buell, American activist (b. 1843){{cite book|author=Albert Shaw|title=The American Review of Reviews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kMoCAAAAMAAJ|year=1928|publisher=Review of Reviews|page=583}}
• Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (b. 1878)
• October 17
• Harry Jonathan Park, American politician (b. 1868)
• Thomas Hyland Smeaton, Australian politician and trade unionist (b. 1857)
• October 19 – Beatrice Green, Welsh labour activist (b. 1894){{cite DWB|id=s14-GREE-BEA-1894|title=Green, Beatrice (1894 - 1927), Political Activist|year=2022|first=Bryan|last=Boots|author-link=|access-date=August 7, 2023}}
• October 22
• Borisav Stanković, Serbian realist writer (b. 1876)
• Ross Youngs, American baseball player (b. 1897)
• October 27 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian underworld figure (b. 1888)[https://ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore-history/rebels-outlaws/city-criminals/squizzy-taylor Squizzy Taylor]
• October 29 – Hermann Muthesius, German architect, author and diplomat (b. 1861)
• October 30
• Maximilian Harden, German editor and journalist (b. 1861)
• Arthur Nash, American businessman (b. 1870)

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• November 1 – Florence Mills, American cabaret singer (b. 1896)
• November 4
• Hawthorne C. Gray, American balloonist (b. 1889){{cite book|title=The Eagle Aloft: Two Centuries of the Balloon in America|last=Crouch|first=Tom D.|author-link=Tom D. Crouch|year=1983|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=0-87474-346-X|pages=595–603}}
• Valli Valli, German-born British actress (b. 1882)
• November 5 – Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke, American-born French doctor (b. 1859)
• November 6 – Édouard Laguesse, French pathologist and histologist (b. 1861)
• November 7
• Arvid Gerhard Damm, Swedish engineer and inventor (b. 1869)
• Augusto Novelli, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1867)
• November 11
• Albèrt Arnavièlha, French journalist and poet (b. 1844)
• Wilhelm Johannsen, Danish botanist, physiologist and geneticist (b. 1857)
• November 12 – Feliciano Viera, 22nd President of Uruguay (b. 1872)
• November 13 – Friedrich Oskar Giesel, German chemist (b. 1852)
• November 15 – Murakami Kakuichi, Japanese admiral (b. 1862)
• November 18 – Emma Carus, American opera contralto (b. 1879)
• November 20 – Agnelo de Souza, Portuguese Roman Catholic priest, missionary and venerable (b. 1869)
• November 23
• Alfred III, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, former Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1851)
• Miguel Pro, Mexican Jesuit and Roman Catholic priest, martyr and blessed (executed) (b. 1891)
• Stanisław Przybyszewski, Polish poet and novelist (b. 1868)
• November 24 – Ion I. C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1864)
• November 29 – Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Guatemalan journalist and writer (b. 1864)
• December 1 – P. Rajagopalachari, Indian administrator (b. 1862)
• December 3 – Orrin Dubbs Bleakley, member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (b. 1854)
• December 4 – Joseph Amasa Munk, American physician (b. 1847)
• December 5 – Fyodor Sologub, Soviet poet and novelist (b. 1863)
• December 7
• Louis Cheikho, Lebanese Jesuit priest and venerable (b. 1859)
• Gustave Fougères, French archaeologist (b. 1846)
• Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño, Ecuadoran poet (b. 1889)
• December 9 – Franz Rohr von Denta, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1854)
• December 14 or 15 – Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, German artist and poet (b. 1874){{cite book|author=Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven|title=Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39nxCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA332|date=28 October 2011|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-30288-3|pages=332}}
• December 17
• Hubert Harrison, American writer, critic, and activist (b. 1883)
• Rajendra Lahiri, Indian revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association (b. 1901)
• December 19
• Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association (b. 1897)
• Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association (b. 1900){{cite book|author=India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha|title=Parliamentary Debates: Official Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B463uLPyPDsC|year=2000|publisher=Council of States Secretariat|page=1}}
• Thakur Roshan Singh, Indian revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association (b. 1892)
• December 23 – Nathan Barnert, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Paterson, New Jersey (b. 1838)
• December 25 – Teodora Fracasso, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1901)
• December 29 – Hakim Ajmal Khan, Indian physician (b. 1868)
• December 30 – Gian Maria Rastellini, Italian painter (b. 1869)

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• Physics – Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
• Chemistry – Heinrich Otto Wieland
• Physiology or Medicine – Julius Wagner-Jauregg
• Literature – Henri Bergson
• Peace – Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde

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• One Summer: America, 1927, a book by Bill Bryson

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• {{cite book|last=Shindo|first=Charles J.|author-link=Charles J. Shindo|title=1927 and the Rise of Modern America|year=2010|location=Lawrence, KS|publisher=University Press of Kansas|isbn=978-0-700-61715-9}}

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