1962

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The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.

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Events

=January=

{{Main|January 1962}}

=February=

{{Main|February 1962}}

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=March=

{{Main|March 1962}}

=April=

{{Main|April 1962}}

=May=

{{Main|May 1962}}

=June=

{{Main|June 1962}}

=July=

{{Main|July 1962}}

=August=

{{Main|August 1962}}

=September=

{{Main|September 1962}}

=October=

{{Main|October 1962}}

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  • October 16Cuban Missile Crisis begins when U.S. President Kennedy is told of photographs (taken from U-2 flights) showing Soviet nuclear weapon installations being constructed on Cuba in the Caribbean. A stand-off ensues for 12 days between the United States and the Soviet Union, threatening the world with nuclear war.
  • October 20 – The Sino-Indian War, a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations (India and the People's Republic of China), erupts into fighting.
  • October 22
  • Cuban Missile Crisis: In a televised address, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba and the U.S. naval blockade of the island.
  • John Vassall, a former clerical officer in British naval intelligence, is sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after admitting to passing secret material to the Soviet Union.{{ODNBweb|last=Martland|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Martland|title=Vassall [later Phillips], (William) John Christopher (1924–1996)|year=2004|edition=online|id=64068}}
  • October 24 – Cuban Missile Crisis: The first confrontation occurs between the U.S. Navy and a Soviet cargo vessel; the vessel changes course.
  • October 26Spiegel affair: German police occupy the offices of Der Spiegel in Hamburg.
  • October 27 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Vasily Arkhipov, executive officer of Soviet submarine B-59, refuses to launch nuclear torpedoes against the U.S. Navy. This event is widely regarded as crucial in averting a worldwide nuclear war.{{Cite web |title=The Story of the Soviet Submarine Officer Who Saved the World Is Now an Opera |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-story-of-the-soviet-submarine-officer-who-saved-the-world-is-now-an-opera/ |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=Vice.com |date=2022-09-23|language=en}}
  • October 28
  • Cuban Missile Crisis ends: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In a secret deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev, Kennedy agrees to the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey. The fact that this deal is not made public makes it look as though the Soviets have backed down.{{dubious|date=April 2012}}
  • A referendum in France favors the election of the president by universal suffrage.
  • October 31 – The United Nations General Assembly asks the United Kingdom to suspend enforcement of the new constitution in Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), but it comes into effect on November 1.

=November=

{{main|November 1962}}

=December=

{{Main|December 1962}}

=Undated=

  • Around 20,000 Harkis, indigenous Muslim Algerians who fought as auxiliary soldiers on the French side in the Algerian War, with their families flee Algeria for metropolitan France fearing unofficial reprisals in their home country.{{cite book|last=Horne|first=Alistair|title=A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962|year=1978|isbn=9781590172186|page=358|publisher=New York Review of Books }}
  • The laser diode is invented.
  • Slavery in Yemen is abolished.

=Ongoing=

Births

{{BDToC|births}}

=January=

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=February=

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=March=

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File:Matthew Broderick 2012.jpg]]

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File:Life Ball 2014 red carpet 080 Marcia Cross.jpg]]

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  • March 2
  • Jon Bon Jovi, American musician{{cite book|author=Rodale, Inc.|title=Best Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6cYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA78|date=August 2008|publisher=Rodale, Inc.|pages=78}}
  • Raimo Summanen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach{{cite book|title=The Sporting News Hockey Register, 1985-1986|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WXYFMJTwfLsC|date=December 1985|publisher=Sporting News Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-89204-197-8|page=308}}
  • Scott La Rock, American disc jockey (d. 1987)
  • March 3Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American athlete{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/jackie-joyner |title=Jackie Joyner|website=IOC|access-date=March 18, 2021}}
  • March 6
  • Rita Sargsyan, Armenian First Lady (d. 2020){{Cite web|title=Մահացել է Ռիտա Սարգսյանը|url=https://armeniatoday.news/armenia/200645/|access-date=2020-11-20|website=Armenia Today|date=November 20, 2020|language=hy-AM}}
  • Erika Hess, Swiss alpine skier{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/erika-hess |title=Erika Hess|website=IOC|access-date=March 18, 2021}}
  • March 7Taylor Dayne, American singer-songwriter and actress{{cite book|title=The Billboard Book of Top 40 R & B and Hip-hop Hits|author=Whitburn, J.|date=2006|publisher=Billboard|isbn=9780823082834|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0S0KAQAAMAAJ|access-date=January 31, 2015}}
  • March 10
  • Jasmine Guy, American actress, director, singer and dancer{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UpucCQAAQBAJ&q=jasmine+guy+1962&pg=PA144 |title=From Small Screen to Vinyl: A Guide to Television Stars Who Made Records|last= Leszczak |first=Bob |date=2001 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781442242746|access-date=September 24, 2017 }}
  • Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer-songwriter{{cite book|author=M. Kelley Hunter|title=Living Lilith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=izMkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT10|date=3 July 2005|publisher=The Wessex Astrologer|isbn=978-1-902405-89-6|pages=10}}
  • March 11Achmad Yurianto, Indonesian military doctor and bureaucrat (d. 2022){{Cite web|url=https://en.tempo.co/read/1593826/former-spokesperson-for-covid-19-task-force-achmad-yurianto-passes-away|title=Former Spokesperson for Covid-19 Task Force Achmad Yurianto Passes Away|first=Laila|last=Afifa|date=May 21, 2022|website=Tempo}}
  • March 12
  • Julia Campbell, American actress
  • Laurent Castillo, French politician
  • March 14Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgarian athlete (d. 2008){{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/tsvetanka-khristova |title=Tsvetanka Khristova |website=IOC|access-date=March 18, 2021}}
  • March 16Branco Mello, Brazilian singer, actor and writer
  • March 17Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut (d. 2003)
  • March 19Iván Calderón, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player (d. 2003)
  • March 20Stephen Sommers, American film director
  • March 21
  • Matthew Broderick, American actor and singer{{cite book|author=Paul T. Hellmann|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA781|date=14 February 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-94859-3|pages=781}}
  • Rosie O'Donnell, American comedian, actress, talk-show host and activist{{cite web|title=Rosie O'Donnell Biography|url=http://www.biography.com/people/rosie-odonnell-9542144|publisher=Biography.com (FYI / A&E Television Networks)|access-date=February 15, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150428125223/http://www.biography.com/people/rosie-odonnell-9542144#the-rosie-odonnell-show | archive-date= April 28, 2015|url-status=live}}
  • March 23
  • Bassel al-Assad, Syrian politician, engineer and equestrian (d. 1994){{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NYLXJnsmgKQC&dq=bassel+al+assad+march+1962&pg=PA29 | title=Syria Beyond the Peace Process | isbn=9780944029640 | last1=Pipes | first1=Daniel | year=1996 | publisher=Daniel Pipes }}
  • Sir Steve Redgrave, English rower {{cite book|author=Clifford Thompson|title=Current Biography Yearbook 2000: With Index 1991-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RlPnwRQU0YYC|year=2001|publisher=Hw Wilson Company|isbn=978-0-8242-1004-5|page=460}}
  • March 25
  • Fernando Martín Espina, Spanish basketball player (d. 1989)
  • Marcia Cross, American actress
  • Bobby D. Singleton, American politician who has served in the Alabama Legislature since 2002
  • March 26John Stockton, American basketball player
  • March 27Jann Arden, Canadian singer{{Cite web|url=https://www.rockitboy.com/blogs/past-present-future-of-canadas-jann-arden/|title=Past, Present and Future of Canada's Jann Arden|last=kleurvision|date=March 11, 2016|website=Rock.It Boy Entertainment|language=en-US|access-date=March 12, 2019}}
  • March 29Ted Failon, Filipino broadcast journalist and radio commentator
  • March 30
  • Mark Begich, American politician
  • MC Hammer, American rapper and actor
  • Michael Rooney, American choreographer
  • Gary Stevens, English international footballer and manager

=April=

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  • April 2Clark Gregg, American actor, director and screenwriter{{cite book|author1=John Willis|author2=Tom Lynch|title=Theatre World 1998-1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i-BkAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Hal Leonard|isbn=978-1-55783-433-1|page=230}}
  • April 3Jaya Prada, Indian actress and politician{{Cite web | title = Detailed Profile - Smt. P. Jaya Prada Nahata - Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha) - Who's Who | work = archive.india.gov.in | access-date = 29 May 2016 | url = http://www.archive.india.gov.in/govt/loksabhampbiodata.php?mpcode=4165 | archive-date = 30 June 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160630142802/http://www.archive.india.gov.in/govt/loksabhampbiodata.php?mpcode=4165 | url-status = live }}
  • April 5Sara Danius, Swedish writer and academic (d. 2019){{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/books/sara-danius-dead.html|title=Sara Danius, 57, Dies; First Woman to Head Nobel Literature Committee |date=October 17, 2019 | website=New York Times|access-date=March 18, 2021}}
  • April 8Izzy Stradlin, American guitarist{{cite book|author=Britannica Educational Publishing|title=Disco, Punk, New Wave, Heavy Metal, and More: Music in the 1970s and 1980s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hd-bAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT42|date=1 December 2012|publisher=Britannica Educational Publishing|isbn=978-1-61530-912-2|pages=42}}
  • April 9Imran Sherwani, British field hockey player{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/imran-sherwani|title=Imran Sherwani|website=IOC|access-date=March 18, 2021}}
  • April 12
  • Carlos Sainz, Spanish rally driver{{cite web|url=http://www.carlos-sainz.com/en/biography.php|title=Biography|website=Carlos Sainz official website|access-date=March 18, 2021}}
  • Sheila Kennedy, American model, actress and contestant on Big Brother 9
  • April 13
  • Edivaldo Martins Fonseca, Brazilian footballer (d. 1993)
  • Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (d. 1988){{cite book|author=Nick Talevski|title=The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beMTAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Omnibus|isbn=978-0-7119-7548-4|page=392}}
  • April 15
  • Nawal El Moutawakel, Moroccan hurdler{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/nawal-el-moutawakel|title=Nawal El Moutawakel|website=IOC|access-date=March 18, 2021}}
  • Jhon Jairo Velásquez, Colombian hitman and drug dealer (d. 2020)
  • April 16Antony Blinken, American diplomat, 71st United States Secretary of State
  • April 18Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist
  • April 19Al Unser Jr., American race car driver
  • April 20
  • Scott McGehee, American film director and screenwriter
  • April 21Craig Robinson, American college basketball coach
  • April 22
  • Han Aiping, Chinese badminton player (d. 2019)
  • Jeff Minter, British video game designer and programmerBoule, Pete. "[http://www.eurogamer.fr/articles/jeff-minter-fondateur-de-llamasoft-interview Jeff Minter, fondateur de Llamasoft – Interview ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805010343/http://www.eurogamer.fr/articles/jeff-minter-fondateur-de-llamasoft-interview |date=5 August 2012 }}." Eurogamer. 10 July 2012.
  • April 23
  • Bram Bart, Dutch voice actor (d. 2012)
  • John Hannah, Scottish film and television actor
  • April 24Rick Beato, American musician and music producer
  • April 25Flex-Deon Blake, African-American gay pornographic actor (d. 2021)
  • April 26
  • Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
  • Michael Damian, American actor and singer
  • April 29Stephan Burger, German Roman Catholic archbishop

=May=

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=June=

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=July=

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File:Tom Cruise by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg]]

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File:Hunter Tylo - Monte-Carlo Television Festival.jpg]]

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File:Сергей Кириенко (08-04-2020) (cropped).jpg]]

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=August=

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File:Felipe Calderon 20090130 (cropped).jpg]]

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File:David Fincher 2010 New York Film Festival - 02 (cropped).jpg]]

File:Dee Bradley Baker by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg]]

=September=

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File:Hesham Mohamed Qandil World Economic Forum 2013 crop.jpg]]

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=October=

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File:Evander Holyfield LA 2011.jpg]]

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=November=

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File:Demi Moore by David Shankbone.jpg]]

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File:Nicolás Maduro in 2023 (cropped).jpg]]

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=December=

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=Unknown date=

  • Olga Ramos, Venezuelan activist, professor and researcher (d. 2022).{{Cite web |date=2022-09-17 |title=Falleció Olga Ramos, activista por la educación en Venezuela |url=https://efectococuyo.com/la-humanidad/fallecio-olga-ramos-activista-educacion-venezuela/ |access-date=2022-09-18 |website=Efecto Cocuyo}}

Deaths

=January=

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  • January 1Diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1883)
  • January 4Hans Lammers, German Nazi minister (b. 1879)
  • January 13Ernie Kovacs, American TV comedian (b. 1919){{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Cl4bAAAAIBAJ&pg=7413,3280246&dq=ernie+kovacs&hl=en|title=Show World Mourns Death of Kovacs|date=January 14, 1962|newspaper=Pittsburgh Press|access-date=August 26, 2013}}
  • January 16
  • Ivan Meštrović, Croatian-born American sculptor and architect (b. 1883){{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ivan-Mestrovic|title=Ivan Meštrović | American sculptor | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=January 12, 2024 }}
  • R. H. Tawney, English historian and social critic (b. 1880)
  • January 17Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (b. 1905){{cite book|author=Roy Temple House|title=Books Abroad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZwJAAAAIAAJ|year=1963|publisher=University of Oklahoma|page=163}}
  • January 19Snub Pollard, American actor (b. 1889)
  • January 20Robinson Jeffers, American poet (b. 1887){{cite book|author1=Robinson Jeffers|author2=Tim Hunt|title=The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n_UytKkgbbMC&pg=PA6-IA9|year=2001|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-4108-8|pages=6}}
  • January 21Arturo Bragaglia, Italian actor (b. 1893)
  • January 26Lucky Luciano, American gangster (b. 1897)
  • January 29Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875){{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/01/30/archives/fritz-kreisler-dies-here-at-86-violinist-composed-200-works-made.html |title=Fritz Kreisler Dies Here at 86 |newspaper=The New York Times|quote=Fritz Kreisler, the world-famous violinist and composer, died yesterday. He would have been 87 years old on Friday. ... |date=January 30, 1962 |access-date=July 3, 2013}}

=February=

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=March=

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=April=

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=May=

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  • May 3Helen Dortch Longstreet, American social advocate, librarian and newspaper publisher (b. 1863){{Cite web|url=https://www.georgiawomen.org/helen-dortch-longstreet|title=Helen Dortch Longstreet | Georgia Women of Achievement|website=georgiawomen}}
  • May 5Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
  • May 10Shunroku Hata, Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army (b. 1879)
  • May 12Pedro Pablo Ramírez, Argentine military general, 26th President of Argentina, leader of the World War II (b. 1884)
  • May 13
  • H. Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (b. 1893)
  • Franz Kline, American painter (b. 1910)
  • May 19Gabriele Münter, German painter (b. 1877){{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gabriele-Munter|title=Gabriele Münter | German artist | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=February 15, 2024 }}
  • May 23Rubén Jaramillo, peasant leader, assassinated by the Mexican Army (b. 1900){{cite web|url=https://relatosehistorias.mx/nuestras-historias/quien-fue-ruben-jaramillo|title=¿Quién fue Rubén Jaramillo?|publisher=Relatos e Historias de Mexico|last=Salmerón|first=Luis|date=July 3, 2018|access-date=June 1, 2019|language=es|trans-title=Who was Ruben Jaramillo?}}
  • May 26Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, English poet (b. 1878){{cite book|title=Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcHiAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-7876-2674-7|page=157}}
  • May 27Egon Petri, German pianist (b. 1881){{cite book|author=Judith Michelle Crispin|title=The Esoteric Musical Tradition of Ferruccio Busoni and Its Reinvigoration in the Music of Larry Sitsky: The Operas Doktor Faust and The Golem|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sGoIAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Edwin Mellen Press|isbn=978-0-7734-5407-1|page=75}}
  • May 31Henry F. Ashurst, American politician (b. 1874){{Cite web|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4674|title=Our Campaigns - Candidate - Henry F. Ashurst|website=www.ourcampaigns.com}}

=June=

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  • June 1Adolf Eichmann, German SS officer and a major organiser of the Holocaust (executed) (b. 1906){{cite book | last = Hull | first = William L. | author-link = William Lovell Hull | title = The Struggle for a Soul | year = 1963 | publisher = Doubleday | location = New York | oclc = 561109771 |page=160}}
  • June 2Vita Sackville-West, English writer and landscape gardener (b. 1892){{cite book|author=Nigel Nicolson|title=Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919–1962|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cqNaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT371|date=28 June 2018|publisher=Orion|isbn=978-1-4746-1086-5|pages=371}}
  • June 4William Beebe, American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist and entomologist (b. 1877)
  • June 6
  • Abba Ahimeir, Soviet-born Israeli journalist (b. 1897)
  • Yves Klein, French painter (b. 1928)
  • Guinn Williams, American actor (b. 1899)
  • Joe Profaci, Italian-American mobster (b. 1897)
  • June 7Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist (b. 1879)
  • June 8Eugène Freyssinet, French civil engineer (b. 1879)
  • June 9Polly Adler, Russian-born American author and madam (b. 1900){{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich_0/page/7 |title=Notable American women : the modern period : a biographical dictionary |date=1980 |publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674627338 |editor-last=Sicherman |editor-first=Barbara |location=Cambridge, Mass. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich_0/page/7 7] |oclc=6487187 |editor-last2=Green |editor-first2=Carol Hurd}}
  • June 12John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
  • June 13Sir Eugene Goossens, English composer (b. 1893){{cite book|author=Amanda Holden|title=The New Penguin Opera Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h8UdHhxWH-sC|year=2001|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-0-14-051475-9|page=334}}
  • June 15
  • Eugeniusz Baziak, Polish Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1890)
  • Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1877)
  • June 16Aleksei Antonov, General of the Soviet Army (b. 1896)
  • June 19
  • Frank Borzage, American film director (b. 1894)
  • Will Wright, American character actor (b. 1891)
  • June 24Lucile Watson, Canadian actress (b. 1879)
  • June 25Sir Raymond Leane, Australian army general (b. 1878)
  • June 27Paul Viiding, Estonian poet, author and literary critic (b. 1904)
  • June 28Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (b. 1903)
  • June 29Charles Lyon Chandler, American historian (b. 1883){{cite journal|last=Avenius|first=Sheldon H. Jr.|date=April 1967|title=Charles Lyon Chandler: A Forgotten Man of Inter-American Cultural Relations|journal=Journal of Inter-American Studies|volume=9|issue=2|pages=169–183|doi=10.2307/165091|jstor=}}

=July=

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=August=

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=September=

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=October=

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=November=

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=December=

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=Date unknown=

Nobel Prizes

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