1948 (MCMXLVIII ) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium , the 48th year of the 20th century , and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.
Clockwise, from top left: Israeli Declaration of Independence ; British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin signing the Treaty of Brussels ; The 1948 Summer Olympics opens in London , United Kingdom ; The trial of persons accused of participation and complicity in the Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi ; a damaged building after the 1948 Fukui earthquake ; an Australian Avro Lincoln bomber dropping 500 lb (230 kg) bombs in the Malayan Emergency ; Pro-Communist demonstrations before the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état ; West Berliners watch a Douglas C-54 Skymaster land at Tempelhof Airport in the Berlin Blockade .
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January
January 1
January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the 'Union of Burma' , with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister.
January 5 – In the United States:
January 7 – Mantell UFO incident : Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified flying object .
January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi , to stop communal violence during the Partition of India .
January 17 – A truce is declared between nationalist Indonesian and Dutch troops in Java .
January 22 – British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin proposes the formation of a Western Union between Britain, France and the Benelux countries to stand up against the Soviet Union. The Treaty of Brussels is signed March 17 as a consequence, a predecessor to NATO .
January 26 – Teigin poison case: a man masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 of 16 bank employees of the Tokyo branch of Imperial Bank and takes the money; artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later sentenced to death for the crime, but is never executed.
January 29 – A DC-3 aircraft crash at Los Gatos Creek , near Coalinga, California , kills 4 US citizens and 28 deportees, commemorated in a protest song ("Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) ") by Woody Guthrie .
January 30
January 31 – The British crown colony of the Malayan Union , Penang and Malacca form the Federation of Malaya .[4]
March
March 8 – McCollum v. Board of Education : The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution .
March 12 – The Costa Rican Civil War begins.
March 17
The Treaty of Brussels is signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, providing for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence.
The Hells Angels motorcycle gang is founded in California .
March 18 – The Round Table Conference convenes in The Hague , Netherlands, to prepare the decolonization process for the Caribbean island of Aruba and the other Dutch Colonies. Aruba presents the mandate of the Aruban People for Aruba to become an independent country, under the sovereignty of the House of Orange, based on Aruba's first state constitution presented officially since August 1947, and a (4th) member state of the future Dutch Commonwealth.
March 20
April
April – Children's Bargain Town, a predecessor of toy and child-related retailer Toys "R" Us , is founded in Washington, D.C. , United States.[7]
April 1 – Physicists Ralph Asher Alpher and George Gamow publish the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper , about the Big Bang .[8]
April 3
April 5 – 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine : Haganah launches Operation Nachshon , provoking the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight .
April 7 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
April 9
April 13 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre takes place, in British Mandatory Palestine .
April 16 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is founded, as the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC).
April 18 – Italian general election, 1948 : The first democratic general election with universal suffrage is held in Italy. The Christian Democracy party achieves a majority over the Popular Democratic Front Communist-Socialist coalition.
April 19
April 22
Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: Battle of Haifa – Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captures Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army .
WTVR begins television services. WTVR is the first TV station south of Washington D.C., giving it the nickname "The South's First Television station".
April 23 – First National Games of Pakistan held in Karachi .
April 24 – The Costa Rican Civil War ends.
April 30
June
June 1 – Puma , a global sports goods brand, is founded in Bavaria , West Germany , by Rudolf Dassler ,[10] having split from his brother "Adi ".
June 3 – The Palomar Observatory telescope is finished in California.
June 10 – Hasan Saka forms the new government of Turkey. (17th government; Hasan Saka had served twice as a prime minister)
June 11 – The first monkey astronaut , Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.
June 15 – Chinese newspaper Renmin Ribao (People's Daily ) is first published in Beijing, China.[11]
June 17 – United Airlines Flight 624 , a Douglas DC-6 , crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania , killing 43 and injuring 84 people on board.
June 18
June 20 – The U.S. Congress recesses for the remainder of 1948, after an overtime session closes at 7:00 a.m. (to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948).
June 21
June 22
A C-54 Skymaster landing at Berlin Tempelhof Airport
July
July 5 – The National Health Service in the United Kingdom begins functioning, giving the right to universal healthcare, free at point of use.[12]
July 6 – The world's first Air Car-ferry service is flown by a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways, from Lympne to Le Touquet across the English Channel .
July 13 – The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Churches reach an agreement, leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate . Five bishops are immediately consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria and the successor to Abuna Qerellos IV is granted the power to consecrate new bishops, who are empowered to elect a new Patriarch for their church.
July 14 – The attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti , general secretary of the Italian Communist Party , results in numerous strikes all over the country.
July 15 – The first London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.
July 16 – Three armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.
July 20 – Cold War :
July 22 – The Dominion of Newfoundland votes to join Canada, after a referendum .
July 26 – U.S. President Truman signs Executive Order 9981 , ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces .
July 28 – Around 200 die in an explosion at a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen , Germany.
July 29 – The 1948 Summer Olympics begin in London, the first since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
July 31
July–October – Claude E. Shannon publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication " in Bell System Technical Journal (US), regarded as a foundation of information theory [13] and all modern digital communications and adopting the term Bit .
August
August 3 – Whittaker Chambers appears under subpoena before the HUAC and alleges that several former U.S. Federal officials were communists, including Harry Dexter White and Alger Hiss .
August 5 – Alger Hiss appears before the HUAC , to deny the allegations of Whittaker Chambers .
August 10 – 23 – The Herrenchiemsee convention prepares the draft for the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany .
August 12 – Babrra massacre : About 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province , Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda District , North-West Frontier Province (modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ), Pakistan .
August 13 – Harry Dexter White and Donald Hiss refute allegations of Communism by Whittaker Chambers , before the HUAC .
August 14 – 1948 Ashes series : Australian batsman Don Bradman , playing his last Test cricket match, against England at The Oval , is bowled by Eric Hollies for a duck (leaving his career Test batting average at 99.94); however, "The Invincibles" win the match by an innings and 149 runs, and The Ashes 4–0.
August 14 – Beaver drop , an Idaho Department of Fish and Game program to relocate beavers from Northwestern Idaho to the Chamberlain Basin in Central Idaho. The program involved parachuting beavers into the Chamberlain Basin.[14]
August 15 – The southern half of Korea is established as the Republic of Korea (South Korea) .
August 17 – The HUAC holds a private session between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers .
August 18 – The Danube Commission is created by the Belgrade Convention (enters into force 11 May 1949 ).
August 19 – Toho strikes : A sitdown strike at Toho film studio in Tokyo ended after the studio was surrounded by 2,000 police and a platoon of U.S. Eighth Army soldiers.
August 20 – Lee Pressman , Nathan Witt and John Abt , represented by Harold I. Cammer , plead the Fifth Amendment , in response to allegations of Communism by Whittaker Chambers before the HUAC .
August 23 – The World Council of Churches is established in Amsterdam , the Netherlands.
August 24 – The first meeting of the charter members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) is held.[15]
August 25 – The HUAC holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss .
August 27 – Whittaker Chambers states that Alger Hiss was a communist on Meet the Press radio.
September
September 4 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
September 5 – Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
September 6 – Juliana is formally inaugurated to succeed her mother, as queen regnant of the Netherlands.
September 9 – The northern half of Korea is formally declared the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) , with Kim Il Sung as prime minister.
September 11 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah , founder and first Governor-General of Pakistan , dies. Pakistan is in a state of shock as it mourns the departure of the father of the nation. The day is a public holiday nationwide.
September 13 – 18 – Indian annexation of Hyderabad ("Operation Polo"): The princely state of Hyderabad is invaded by the Indian Armed Forces in a "police action ", in the aftermath of Pakistani leader Jinnah 's death. The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his state, which is amalgamated into the newly independent Dominion of India ; thousands are killed as a result of this event.
September 13 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States Senator, becoming the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House Of Representatives and the United States Senate.
September 17 – Lehi members, also known as the Stern Gang, assassinate Swedish count Folke Bernadotte , United Nations Mediator in Palestine, in Jerusalem.
September 18 – An inaugural motor race is held at Goodwood Circuit , West Sussex, England.
September 20 – The city of Rabwah is established in Pakistan.
September 27 – Alger Hiss files a slander suit against Whittaker Chambers , for his August 27 radio statement in the United States.
September 29 – Laurence Olivier 's film of Hamlet opens in the U.S.
October
October 5 – The International Union for the Protection of Nature (later known as the International Union for Conservation of Nature , IUCN) is established in Fontainebleau , France.
October 6 – 1948 Ashgabat earthquake : A 7.3 earthquake near Ashgabat , Soviet Turkmenistan kills 10,000–110,000.
October 10 – The R-1 missile on test becomes the first Soviet launch to enter space.
October 16 – The 57th Street Art Fair in Chicago, the oldest juried art fair in the American Midwest, is founded.
October 20 – Brandeis University is formally founded in Massachusetts .
October 26 – Donora Smog of 1948 : A killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania .
October 29 – 1948 Arab–Israeli War : Massacres of Palestinian Arab villagers by the Israel Defense Forces :
October 30 – Gozo luzzu disaster : A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala , Gozo , Malta , killing 23 of the 27 people on board.[16]
November
November 1
Truman hold ups an erroneous banner headline of the Chicago Daily Tribune . November 2 – 1948 United States presidential election : Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats Republican Thomas E. Dewey , "Dixiecrat" Strom Thurmond and Progressive party candidate Henry A. Wallace .
November 12 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo , for their roles in World War II.
November 15 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Canada's 12th prime minister .
November 16
November 17
November 20 – Geoffrey B. Orbell rediscovers the Takahē , last seen 50 years previously, near Lake Te Anau , New Zealand.
November 24 – In Venezuela, president Rómulo Gallegos is ousted by a military junta .
November 27 – The Calgary Stampeders defeat the Ottawa Rough Riders 12–7 before 20,013 fans at Toronto's Varsity Stadium , to win their first Grey Cup and complete the only perfect season to date in Canadian football .
December
Dutch forces in the Dutch East Indies , 1948
December 1 – José Figueres Ferrer abolishes the army in Costa Rica , making it the first country in history to do so.
December 2 – The United States House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenas and retrieves the "Pumpkin Papers " from the farm of Whittaker Chambers .
December 6 – Richard Nixon displays microfilm from the "Pumpkin Papers" to the press.
December 9 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Genocide Convention .
December 10 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights .
December 11 – 12 – Malayan Emergency : Batang Kali massacre : Scots Guards shoot 24 Chinese villagers in Malaya .
December 15 – The United States Department of Justice indicts Alger Hiss , on two counts of perjury .
December 17 – The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police .
December 19 – In the American National Football League , the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Chicago Cardinals 7–0, to win the championship.
December 20
Indonesian National Revolution : The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the temporary capital of the newly formed Republic of Indonesia.
American economist and former State Department official Laurence Duggan falls to his death, from the 16th story window of his Manhattan office.
December 23 – Seven Japanese military and political leaders, convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, are executed by Allied occupation authorities, at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
December 26
December 28 – A Muslim Brotherhood member assassinates Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi .
December 30 – The musical Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances in New York City.
December 31 – Arab-Israeli War : Israeli troops drive Egyptians from the Negev .
Date unknown
The Fresh Kills Landfill , the world's largest, opens on Staten Island, New York .
The Slovak city Gúta is renamed Kolárovo .
The Vielha Tunnel is opened, giving access to the Val d'Aran in the Spanish Pyrenees ; at this time it is the longest road tunnel in the world.[19]
The Oakridge Transit Centre opens in Vancouver , British Columbia .
The last recorded sighting is made of the Caspian tiger , in Kazakhstan .
A pack of wolves kills about 40 children in Darovskoy District , in Russia.[20]
The last edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum is published in the Vatican .
Charles Warrell creates the first I-Spy books in the United Kingdom.
Rev. W. Awdry 's third book, James the Red Engine , is published in the United Kingdom.
Inspired by World War II fighter planes, Cadillac introduces the first automobile to sport tailfins .
The inaugural 6 Hours of Watkins Glen sports car endurance race is held in the United States.
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Henning Mankell
Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo
Alice Cooper
Christopher Guest
Barbara Hershey
Bernadette Peters
February 1 – Rick James , African-American urban singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer (d. 2004 )
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February 5
February 7 – Jimmy Greenspoon , American keyboardist, composer (Three Dog Night ) (d. 2015 )
February 8 – Dan Seals , American musician (d. 2009 )
February 9
February 10
February 11 – Chris Rush , American stand-up comedian
February 12 – Raymond Kurzweil , American inventor, author
February 13 – Kitten Natividad , Mexican-American film actress
February 14
February 15 – Larry DiTillio , American film and TV series writer (d. 2019 )
February 16 – Eckhart Tolle , German-Canadian spiritual author
February 17
February 18 – Sinéad Cusack , Irish actress
February 19
February 20 – Jennifer O'Neill , American model, actress
February 21 – Christian Vander (musician) , French drummer, founder of progressive rock/Zeuhl group Magma
February 22
February 24
February 25 – Danny Denzongpa , Indian actor
February 28
Steven Chu , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Mike Figgis , American director, screenwriter and composer
Kjell Isaksson , Swedish pole vaulter
Bernadette Peters , American actress, singer
Mercedes Ruehl , American actress
Alfred Sant , Leader of Malta Labour Party (1992–), Prime Minister of Malta (1996–1998)
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March
Eddy Grant
James Taylor
Billy Crystal
Sérgio Vieira de Mello
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Steven Tyler
Rhea Perlman
Al Gore
March 1 – Gopanarayan Das , Indian politician (d. 2022 )
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March 5
March 6 – Anna Maria Horsford , African-American actress (Amen )
March 8
March 9
March 10 – Doug Clark , American serial killer (d. 2023 )
March 11
March 12 – James Taylor , American singer, songwriter ("Fire and Rain ")
March 13 – Maurice A. de Gosson , Austrian mathematician
March 14 – Billy Crystal , American actor, comedian
March 15 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello , Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003 )
March 16 – Margaret Weis , American science fiction writer
March 17 – William Gibson , American/Canadian writer
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March 22
March 25 – Bonnie Bedelia , American actress
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March 29
March 30 – Eddie Jordan , Irish founder of Jordan Grand Prix
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April
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Frank Abagnale
Terry Pratchett
April 1 – Jimmy Cliff , Jamaican singer, actor
April 2
April 3 – Carlos Salinas de Gortari , Mexican economist, politician and 53rd President of Mexico (1988–1994)[23]
April 4
April 5 – Neil Portnow , American President of The Recording Academy (NARAS)
April 7
April 9 – Jaya Bachchan , Indian actress and politician
April 10 – Fauzi Bowo , Indonesian politician and diplomat, governor of Jakarta
April 12
April 13
April 15 – Michael Kamen , American composer (d. 2003 )
April 16
April 17
Jan Hammer , Czechoslovakian composer, pianist and keyboardist
Peter Jenni , Swiss experimental particle physicist
April 18 – Avi Arad , Israeli-American film producer
April 20 – Paul Milgrom , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 21
April 24 – István Szívós , Hungarian water polo player (d. 2019 )
April 27
April 28
April 29 – Michael Karoli , German musician (d. 2001 )
April 30 – Jocelyne Saab , Lebanese journalist, film director (d. 2019 )
May
George Tupou V
Steve Winwood
Brian Eno
Grace Jones
Leo Sayer
Klaus Meine
Stevie Nicks
Svetlana Alexievich
John Bonham
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May 7 – Susan Atkins , convicted murderer and ex-follower of Charles Manson (d. 2009 )
May 8
May 9
May 10 – Meg Foster , American actress
May 11
May 12
May 14 – Bob Woolmer , Indian-born English cricket coach (d. 2007 )
May 15
May 16 – Jesper Christensen , Danish actor
May 17 – Penny DeHaven , American country singer (d. 2014 )
May 18
May 19 – Grace Jones , Jamaican singer, actress
May 20 – Tesshō Genda , Japanese voice actor
May 21
May 23 – Gary McCord , American professional golfer
May 25 – Klaus Meine , German singer (Scorpions )
May 26
May 27 – Wubbo de Boer , Dutch civil servant
May 29 – Michael Berkeley , English composer
May 30 – Paul L. Schechter , American astronomer and cosmologist
May 31
June
Phylicia Rashad
Andrzej Sapkowski
Kathy Bates
Ian Paice
June 1
June 2 – Jerry Mathers , American actor (Leave It to Beaver )
June 3 – Carlos Franzetti , Argentine composer and arranger
June 4
June 6 – Richard Sinclair , English musician (Caravan )
June 7 – Jim C. Walton , American business person, (Walmart )
June 8
June 9
June 10 – Subrata Roy , Indian businessman (d. 2023 )
June 11 – Dave Cash , American baseball player
June 12 – Sadegh Zibakalam , Iranian academic reformist
June 13 – Garnet Bailey , Canadian hockey player, scout (d. 2001 )
June 14 – Laurence Yep , American author
June 15 – Paul Michiels , Belgian singer, songwriter
June 16 – Terry Schofield , American basketball player
June 17 – Dave Concepción , Venezuelan baseball player
June 18 – Sherry Turkle , American science/social studies professor
June 19
June 20
June 21
June 22
Takashi Sasano , Japanese actor
Shōhaku Okumura , Japanese Soto Zen
Peter Prijdekker , Dutch swimmer
Sue Roberts , American professional golfer
Todd Rundgren , American rock singer, record producer (Hello It's Me )
Curtis Johnson , American football cornerback
Franciszek Smuda , Polish football coach
Panagiotis Xanthakos , Greek sports shoote
Colin Waldron , English football defender
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July
Jeremy Spencer
Nathalie Baye
Richard Simmons
Daphne Maxwell Reid
Rubén Blades
Cat Stevens
Peggy Fleming
Jean Reno
July 1
July 2
July 3 – Tarmo Koivisto , Finnish comics artist
July 4
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July 7
July 8 – Raffi , Egyptian-born children's entertainer
July 10
Theo Bücker , German football manager, player
Mick Coop , English professional football right back
Rich Hand , American professional baseball player
July 12
July 13
July 14 – Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu , Zulu king (d. 2021 )
July 15
July 16
July 17
July 18 – Hartmut Michel , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 20
July 21
Beppe Grillo , Italian activist, blogger, comedian and actor
Ed Hinton , American sportswriter
Cat Stevens (b. Steven Georgiou, later known as Yusuf Islam), British singer, musician
Garry Trudeau , American cartoonist (Doonesbury )
Teruzane Utada , Japanese music executive producer, attendant
Mikhail Zadornov , Russian stand-up comedian, writer
Snooty , male Florida manatee (d. 2017 )
Anders Berglund , Swedish arranger/composer, conductor and producer
July 22
July 23 – John Cushnahan , Northern Irish politician
July 25
July 27 – Peggy Fleming , American figure skater
July 28
July 29
Meir Shalev Israeli writer and newspaper columnist for the daily Yedioth Ahronoth. Shalev's books have been translated into 26 languages (d.2023 )
July 30
July 31 – Jonathan Dollimore , English academic sociologist, cultural theorist
August
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Deana Martin
John Noble
Robert Plant
Sgt. Slaughter
Lewis Black
August 2
August 3 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin , Prime Minister of France
August 4 – Giorgio Parisi , Italian theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
August 7 – James P. Allison , American immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
August 8 – Wincey Willis , British broadcaster
August 12 – Mizengo Pinda , 9th Prime Minister of Tanzania
August 13 – Kathleen Battle , African-American soprano
August 14 – Joseph Marcell , English actor
August 15
August 18
August 20
August 21
August 22 – David Marks , American guitarist (The Beach Boys )
August 23 – Lev Zeleny , Soviet, Russian physicist
August 24
August 25 – Tony Ramos , Brazilian actor
August 27 – Sgt. Slaughter , American professional wrestler
August 30
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September
Jeremy Irons
George R. R. Martin
September 1 – James Rebhorn , American actor (d. 2014 )
September 2
September 3
September 4 – Michael Berryman , American actor
September 5 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner , Austrian diplomat, politician
September 6 – Sam Hui , Hong Kong singer
September 7
September 8 – The Great Kabuki , Japanese professional wrestler
September 10
September 11 – John Martyn (b. Iain McGeachy), British folk-rock guitarist (d. 2009 )
September 12 – Mah Bow Tan , Singaporean politician
September 13
September 16 – Ron Blair , American rock bassist (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers )
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September 22
September 23 – José Lavat , Mexican voice actor (d. 2018 )
September 24 – Phil Hartman , Canadian actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live ) (d. 1998 )
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October
Avery Brooks
Hema Malini
Margot Kidder
Akira Kushida
Kate Jackson
October 1
October 2
October 4
Meg Bennett , American soap opera writer
Iain Hewitson , New Zealand-Australian chef, restaurateur, author and television personality
October 5 – Russell Mael , American singer (Sparks )[28]
October 6
October 7 – Diane Ackerman , American poet, essayist
October 8
October 9
October 11
October 12
October 13
October 14
October 15
October 16
Leo Mazzone , American baseball coach
Hema Malini , Indian actress, writer, director, producer, dancer and politician
October 17
October 18
October 19 – Patrick Simmons , American musician (The Doobie Brothers )
October 21
October 22
October 23 – Sir Gerry Robinson , Irish-born British businessman (d. 2021 )
October 25
October 26 – Toby Harrah , American baseball player
October 28 – Telma Hopkins , African-American actress, singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn )
October 29
October 30 – Garry McDonald , Australian actor, satirist and comedian
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Glenn Frey
Amadou Toumani Touré
Hassan Rouhani
Charles III
John Bolton
Michel Suleiman
November 1 – Anna Stuart , American actress
November 3 – Lulu (b. Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie), Scottish singer, actress (To Sir, with Love )
November 4
November 5
November 6 – Glenn Frey , American guitarist, singer (Eagles ) (d. 2016 )
November 7 – Jim Houghton , American actor, director
November 9
November 10 – Vincent Schiavelli , American character actor and food writer (d. 2005 )
November 12
November 13
November 14
November 15 – James Kemsley , Australian cartoonist, actor (d. 2007 )
November 16
November 18 – Dom Irrera , American actor and stand-up comedian
November 19 – Rance Allen , African-American gospel singer, preacher
November 20
November 21
November 22 – Saroj Khan , Indian dance choreographer (d. 2020 )
November 23
November 24 – Joe Howard , American actor
November 25 – Antoine Sfeir , Franco-Lebanese journalist, professor (d. 2018 )
November 26
November 28 – Agnieszka Holland , Polish film, television director and screenwriter
December
Ozzy Osbourne
JoBeth Williams
Yoshihide Suga
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Samuel L. Jackson
Gérard Depardieu
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December 10 – Abu Abbas , Palestine Liberation Front founder (d. 2004 )
December 11
December 12 – Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa , 20th President of Portugal
December 13
December 14
December 15
December 18 – Edmund Kemper , American serial killer
December 19 – Ken Brown , Canadian ice hockey player
December 20
December 21
December 22
December 23 – Jim Ferguson , American guitarist, composer, educator, author and music journalist
December 25
December 27
December 28 – Mary Weiss , American pop singer (The Shangri-Las ) (d. 2024 )
December 29 – Peter Robinson , Northern Ireland First Minister
December 31
April
Manuel Roxas
Kantarō Suzuki
Mitsumasa Yonai
April 2
April 5 – Angelo Joseph Rossi , American political figure, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1878 )
April 7 – Isabel Andreu de Aguilar , Puerto Rican writer, educator, philanthropist and activist (b. 1887 )[38]
April 8 – Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni , Palestinian Arab nationalist (b. 1907 )
April 9 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán , Colombian politician (assassinated) (b. 1903 )
April 14 – W. H. Ellis , American attorney and politician (b. 1867 )
April 15
April 17 – Kantarō Suzuki , Japanese admiral, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1868 )
April 19 – Mikhail Rostovtsev , Soviet actor (b. 1872 )
April 20 – Mitsumasa Yonai , Japanese admiral and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1880 )
April 21 – Carlos López Buchardo , Argentine composer (b. 1881 )
April 22 – Prosper Montagné , French chef and author (b. 1865 )
April 24 – Manuel Ponce , Mexican composer (b. 1882 )
April 25 – Gerardo Matos Rodriguez , Uruguayan composer, journalist and pianist (b. 1897 )
April 30 – Alfredo Miguel Aguayo Sánchez , Puerto Rican educator, writer (b. 1866 )
May
Kathleen Cavendish
Dame May Whitty
May 9 – Viola Allen , American actress (b. 1867 )
May 13
May 15
May 16 – Muhammad Habibullah , Indian politician (b. 1869 )
May 18 – Francisco Alonso , Spanish composer (b. 1887 )
May 19 – Maximilian Lenz , Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1860 )
May 21 – Jacques Feyder , French filmmaker (b. 1885 )
May 22 – Claude McKay , Jamaican-born American writer and poet (b. 1889 )
May 25 – Witold Pilecki , Polish resistance leader (executed) (b. 1901 )
May 26 – Émile Gaston Chassinat , French egyptologist (b. 1868 )
May 28 – Unity Mitford , British socialite; friend of Adolf Hitler (b. 1914 )
May 29 – Dame May Whitty , British actress (b. 1865 )
May 30 – József Klekl , Slovene politician in Hungary (b. 1874 )
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Albert Bates
Charles Fillmore
Carole Landis
July 1 – Assunta Marchetti , Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed
July 4
July 5
July 9 – Alcibiades Diamandi , Greek political figure (b. 1893 )
July 11
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July 15 – John J. Pershing , American general (b. 1860 )
July 17 – Ildebrando Zacchini , Maltese painter, inventor and traveller (b. 1868 )
July 18 – Baldassarre Negroni , Italian director, screenwriter (b. 1877 )
July 21 – Arshile Gorky , Soviet-born painter (b. 1904 )
July 22 – Sud Mennucci , Brazilian journalist, educator (b. 1882 )
July 23 – D. W. Griffith , American film director (The Birth of a Nation ) (b. 1875 )
July 24 – Pencho Zlatev , Bulgarian general, 25th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1881 )
July 26 – Antonin Sertillanges , French Catholic philosopher, spiritual writer (b. 1863 )
July 27 – Joe Tinker , American baseball player (Chicago Cubs ), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1880 )
July 28 – Susan Glaspell , American playwright (b. 1876 )
July 31 – Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd , mistress of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (b. 1891 )
August
Babe Ruth
Charles Evans Hughes
August 3 – Tommy Ryan , American boxing champion (b. 1870 )
August 4 – Mileva Marić , Serbian physicist and mathematician, wife of Albert Einstein (b. 1875 )[41]
August 7 – Charles Bryant , American actor (b. 1879)
August 10 – Andrew Brown , Scottish soccer coach (b. 1870 )
August 11 – Kan'ichi Asakawa , Japanese historian (b. 1873 )
August 13 – Edwin Maxwell , Irish actor (b. 1886 )
August 16 – Babe Ruth , American baseball player (New York Yankees ), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1895 )
August 26 – George Anderson , American actor (b. 1886 )
August 27
September
Edvard Beneš
Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
September 1
September 2 – Sylvanus Morley , American scholar, World War I spy (b. 1883 )
September 3 – Edvard Beneš , Czechoslovakian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia and 2-time President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884 )
September 5 – Richard C. Tolman , American mathematical physicist (b. 1881 )
September 7 – André Suarès , French poet, critic (b. 1868 )
September 10 – Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1861 )
September 11 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah , founder, first Governor General of Pakistan (b. 1876 )
September 12
September 13 – Paul Wegener , German actor, film director and screenwriter, a pioneer of German Expressionism (b. 1874 )
September 17
September 20 – Husain Salaahuddin , Maldivian writer (b. 1881 )
September 22 – Prince Adalbert of Prussia (b. 1884 )
September 24 – Warren William , American actor (b. 1894 )
September 26 – Gregg Toland , American cinematographer (b. 1904 )
September 27 – Frank Cellier , British actor (b. 1884 )
September 30
October
Franz Lehár
October 1
October 2 – Simon de Graaff , Dutch civil servant, politician (b. 1866 )[43]
October 12 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs , English educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885 )[44]
October 13 – Samuel S. Hinds , American actor (b. 1875 )
October 14 – Dale Fuller , American actress (b. 1885 )
October 15 – Edythe Chapman , American actress (b. 1863 )
October 18 – Walther von Brauchitsch , German field marshal (b. 1881 )
October 21 – Elissa Landi , Italian actress (b. 1904 )
October 24 – Franz Lehár , Hungarian composer (b. 1870 )
October 31 – Mary Nolan , American actress (b. 1902 )
November
Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria
Béla Miklós
November 4
November 7 – David Leland , American actor (b. 1932 )
November 8 – Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1874 )
November 9 – Edgar Kennedy , American actor (b. 1890 )
November 10
November 11 – Fred Niblo , American film director (b. 1874 )
November 12 – Umberto Giordano , Italian composer (b. 1867 )
November 17 – Oerip Soemohardjo , Indonesian general (b. 1893 )
November 20 — Robert Mallard , African-American lynching victim (b. 1918)
November 21 – Béla Miklós , Hungarian military officer, politician and 38th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1890 )
November 23 – Hack Wilson , American baseball player (Chicago Cubs ), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1900 )
November 28 – D. D. Sheehan , Irish politician (b. 1873 )
November 29
November 30 – Franco Vittadini , Italian composer (b. 1884 )
December
João Tamagnini Barbosa
Kōki Hirota
Hideki Tojo
December 3
December 8 – Matthew Charlton , Australian politician (b. 1866 )
December 15 – João Tamagnini Barbosa , Portuguese military officer, politician and 69th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1883 )
December 20 – C. Aubrey Smith , British actor (b. 1863 )
December 21 – Władysław Witwicki , Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist (b. 1878 )
December 23 – Japanese war leaders (hanged ):
December 26 – John Westley , American actor (b. 1878 )
December 28
December 30
December 31 – Sir Malcolm Campbell , English land, water racer (b. 1885 )
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