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January
• January 1 – Thailand Prime Minister Plaek
Bahá’í calendar 97–98
Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official
Bengali calendar 1348 start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the
previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months).
Berber calendar 2891
• January 3 – A decree in Germany outlaws the use of
British Regnal year 5 Geo. 6 – 6 Geo. 6 Blackletter Gothic typefaces in favour of Antiqua.
• January 4 – The short subject Elmer’s Pet Rabbit is
Buddhist calendar 2485
released, marking the second appearance of Bugs
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Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title
card.
• January 5 – WWII: At the Battle of Bardia in Libya,
Australian and British troops defeat Italian forces,
the first battle of the war in which an Australian
Army formation takes part.
• January 6 – The keel of the USS Missouri is laid at the
New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn.
• January 10 – Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S.
Congress.
• January 13 – All persons born in Puerto Rico since
this day are declared U.S. citizens by birth, through
U.S. federal law 8 U.S.C. § 1402.
• January 14 – WWII: Commerce raiding hilfskreuzer
Pinguin captures the Norwegian whaling fleet near
Bouvet Island, effectively ending Southern Ocean
whaling for the duration of the war.[1]
• January 15 – John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E.
Berry describe the workings of the Atanasoff–Berry
Computer in print.
January 21: Tobruk
• January 19 – WWII: British troops attack Italian-held
Eritrea.
• January 20 – Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes by sending arms to the British: "Give us the tools,
swears in U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for his and we will finish the job."
third term. • February 12
• January 22 – WWII: Battle of Tobruk: Australian and • WWII: Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli.
British forces capture Tobruk from the Italians. • Reserve Constable Albert Alexander, a patient at
• January 22 – In Sweden, Victor Hasselblad had the the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, becomes the
Victor Hasselblad AB Camera Company registered. first person treated with penicillin intravenously,
• January 23 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh testifies by Howard Florey’s team. He reacts positively but
before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the there is insufficient supply of the drug to reverse
United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf his terminal infection. A successful treatment is
Hitler. achieved during May.[2]
• January 27 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Joseph • February 14 – WWII – Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura
C. Grew, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, reports to begins his duties as Japanese Ambassador to the
Washington a rumor overheard at a diplomatic United States.
reception concerning a planned surprise attack on • February 19–February 22 – WWII: Three Nights’ Blitz
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. over Swansea, South Wales: Over these 3 nights of
• January 30 – WWII – Australians capture Derna, Libya intensive bombing, which last a total of 13 hours and
from the Italians. 48 minutes, Swansea’s town centre is almost
completely obliterated by the 896 high explosive
February bombs employed by the Luftwaffe. A total of 397
casualties and 230 deaths are reported.
• February 3 – WWII: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre
• February 23 – Glenn T. Seaborg isolates and
Laval to office in occupied Vichy France.
discovers plutonium.
• February 4 – WWII: The United Service Organization
(USO) is created to entertain American troops.
March
• February 5 – Air Training Corps: The Air Training
Corps was formed. • March 1
• February 6 – WWII – Fall of Benghazi to the Western • WWII: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, thus
Desert Force. Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel is joining the Axis powers.
appointed commander of Afrika Korps. • W47NV begins operations in Nashville,
• February 8 – WWII – The U.S. House of Tennessee, becoming the first FM radio station.
Representatives passes the Lend-Lease Act (260–165). • Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the
• February 9 – Winston Churchill, in a worldwide U.S. Navy’s Support Force, Atlantic Fleet.
broadcast, tells the United States to show its support
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• March 4 – WWII: Operation Claymore - British (the first "shot in anger" fired by America against
Commandos carry out a successful raid on the Germany).[citation needed]
Lofoten Islands off the north coast of Norway. • April 12 – WWII: German troops enter Belgrade.
• March 8 – WWII: The U.S. Senate passes the Lend- • April 13 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a
Lease Act (60–31). neutrality pact.
• March 11 – WWII: President Franklin Delano • April 15 – WWII: Axis forces reach Halfaya Pass on
Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law. the Libyan-Egyptian frontier.
• March 15 – Richard C. Hottelet is arrested by the • April 17 – WWII: The Yugoslav Royal Army
Gestapo on "suspicion of espionage". He is eventually capitulates.
released in July as part of a prisoner exchange. • April 18 – WWII: Prime Minister of Greece
• March 16 – A group of U.S. warships arrive in Alexandros Koryzis commits suicide as German
Auckland, New Zealand on a goodwill visit. On March troops approach Athens.
20, they visit Sydney, Australia. • April 19 – Bertolt Brecht’s anti-war play Mother
• March 17 Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und
• In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is ihre Kinder) receives its first theatrical production at
officially opened by President Franklin D. the Schauspielhaus Zürich.
Roosevelt. • April 21 – WWII: Greece capitulates. Commonwealth
• British Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin calls for troops and some elements of the Greek Army
women to fill vital jobs. withdraw to Crete.
• March 22 – Washington’s Grand Coulee Dam begins • April 23 – The America First Committee holds its first
to generate electricity. mass rally in New York City, with Charles Lindbergh
• March 24 – WWII: Rommel launches his first as keynote speaker.
offensive in Cyrenaica. • April 25 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, at his regular press
• March 25 – WWII: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins conference, criticizes Charles Lindbergh by
the Axis powers in Vienna. comparing him to the Copperheads of the Civil War
• March 27 period. In response, Lindbergh resigns his
• WWII: An anti-Axis coup d’état in Yugoslavia commission in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve on
forces Prince Paul into exile; 17-year-old King April 28.
Peter II assumes power. • April 27 – WWII: German troops enter Athens.
• WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Empire of
Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in May
Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the Pacific • May 1
Fleet at Pearl Harbor. • The breakfast cereal Cheerios is introduced as
• WWII – Battle of Cape Matapan: Off the CheeriOats by General Mills.
Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean, British • Orson Welles’ film Citizen Kane premieres in New
naval forces defeat those of Italy, sinking 5 York City.
warships. Battle ends on March 29. • The first Defense Bonds and Defense Savings
• March 30 Stamps go on sale in the United States, to help
• All German, Italian, and Danish ships anchored in fund the greatly increased production of military
United States waters are taken into "protective equipment.
custody". • May 5 – WWII: Emperor Haile Selassie enters Addis
• German Lorenz code machine operator sent a Ababa, which had been liberated from Italian forces;
4,000 character message twice, allowing British this date has been since commemorated as
mathematician Bill Tutte to decipher the Liberation Day in Ethiopia.
machine’s coding mechanism.[3] • May 6 – At California’s March Field, entertainer Bob
Hope performs his first USO Show.
April • May 9 – WWII: The German submarine U-110 is
• April 4 – WWII: Axis forces capture Benghazi. captured by the British Royal Navy. On board is the
• April 6 – WWII: Germany invades Yugoslavia and latest Enigma cryptography machine, which Allied
Greece. cryptographers later use to break coded German
• April 9 – The U.S. acquires full military defense messages.
rights in Greenland. • May 10
• April 10 – WWII: The U.S. destroyer USS Niblack, • WWII: The British House of Commons is damaged
while picking up survivors from a sunken Dutch by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
freighter, drops depth charges on a German U-Boat
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• Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland, claiming to • Army Air Forces.
be on a peace mission. • Walt Disney’s live-action animated feature, The
• May 12 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world’s Reluctant Dragon, is released.
first working programmable, fully automatic • June 22
computer, in Berlin. • WWII: Italy and Romania declare war on the
• May 15 Soviet Union.
• The first British jet aircraft, the Gloster E.28/39, • WWII: Germany invades the Soviet Union under
is flown. Operation Barbarossa.
• Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak begins as • WWII: Winston Churchill promises all possible
the New York Yankee center fielder goes one for British assistance to the Soviet Union in a
four against Chicago White Sox Pitcher Eddie worldwide broadcast: "Any man or state who
Smith. fights against Nazidom will have our aid. Any
• May 19 – The Viet Minh is formed in Vietnam to man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe."
overthrow the French Army in the nation. • WWII: The First Sisak Partisan Brigade, the first
• May 20 – WWII: The Battle of Crete begins as anti-fascist armed unit in occupied Europe, is
Germany launches an airborne invasion of Crete. founded by partisans near Sisak, Croatia.
• May 24 – WWII: In the North Atlantic, the German • June 23 – WWII: Hungary and Slovakia declare war
battleship Bismarck sinks battlecruiser HMS Hood, on the Soviet Union.
killing all but 3 crewmen from a total of 1,418 aboard • June 24 – Founding of RIA Novosti.
the pride of the Royal Navy. • June 25 – WWII: Finland attacks the Soviet Union to
• May 26 – WWII: In the North Atlantic, Fairey seek the opportunity of revenge in the Continuation
Swordfish aircraft from the carrier HMS Ark Royal War.
cripple the steering of Bismarck in an aerial torpedo • June 28 – WWII: Albania declares war on the Soviet
attack. Union.
• May 27
• WWII: President Roosevelt proclaims an July
"unlimited national emergency." • July – The British Army’s Special Air Service is
• WWII:Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, formed.
killing 2,300. • July 2 – WWII: Empire of Japan calls up 1 million men
• May 30 – WWII: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas for military service.
tear down the Nazi swastika on the Acropolis in • July 3 – WWII: Joseph Stalin, in his first address since
Athens, and replace it with the Greek flag the German invasion, calls upon the Soviet people to
carry out a "scorched earth" policy of resistance to
June the bitter end.
• June 5 • July 4 – The Mass murder of Polish scientists and
• Four thousand Chongqing residents are writers is committed by German troops in the
asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the captured Polish city of Lwów.
Bombing of Chongqing. • July 5 – WWII: German troops reach the Dnieper
• A Serbian ammunition depot explodes at River.
Smederevo on the outskirts of Belgrade, Serbia, • July 5–July 31: War is fought between Peru and
killing 2,500, and injuring over 4,500. Ecuador.
• June 8 – WWII: British and Free French forces invade • July 7
Syria. • WWII: American forces take over the defense of
• June 13 – TASS, the official Soviet news agency, Iceland from the British.
denies reports of tension between Germany and the • WWII: German troops take over Estonia from the
Soviet Union. Soviets.
• June 14 • July 13 – WWII: Montenegro starts the second
• Soviet officials deport about 65,000 people from popular uprising in Europe against the Axis Powers,
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Siberia. the first being the so-called February strike against
• All German and Italian assets in the United States deportation of Jews in Amsterdam and surroundings
are frozen. on February 25, 1941.
• June 16 – All German and Italian consulates in the • July 14 – WWII: Vichy France signs armistice terms,
United States are ordered closed and their staffs to ending all fighting in Syria and Lebanon.
leave the country by July 10. • July 17 – Joe DiMaggio’s 56 game hitting streak ends.
• June 20 • July 19
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• WWII: A BBC broadcast by "Colonel Britton" calls • August 27 – WWII – Pierre Laval is shot in an
on the people of occupied Europe to resist the assassination attempt at Versailles, France.
Nazis under the slogan "V for Victory". • August 28 – WWII: The Soviets announce the
• The first episode The Midnight Snack in which destruction of the massive Dnieper River dam at
Tom and Jerry are officially named, more than a Zaporozhye, to prevent its capture by the Germans.
year after their first production Puss Gets the Boot. • August 31 – The Great Gildersleeve debuts on NBC
• July 25 – The Postal Code system is introduced in Radio.
Germany.
• July 26 September
• WWII: In response to the Japanese occupation of • September 6 – Holocaust: The requirement to wear
French Indo-China, U.S. President Franklin D. the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed, is
Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-
assets in the United States. occupied areas.
• WWII: General Douglas MacArthur is named • September 8 – WWII – The Siege of Leningrad begins:
commander of all U.S. forces in the Philippines; German forces begin a siege against the Soviet
the Philippines Army is ordered nationalized by Union’s second-largest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders
President Roosevelt. the Volga Germans deported to Siberia.
• July 31 – WWII – Holocaust: Under instructions from • September 11 – WWII: Charles Lindbergh, at an
Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders S.S. America First Committee rally in Des Moines, Iowa,
General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon accuses "the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt
as possible a general plan of the administrative administration" of leading the United States toward
material and financial measures necessary for war. Widespread condemnation of Lindbergh
carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish follows.
question." • September 12 – WWII: The first snowfall is reported
on the Russian front.
August • September 14 – The State of Vermont declares war
• August – Political Warfare Executive is formed in the on Germany.
United Kingdom. • September 15 – The Estonian Self-Administration,
• August 1 – The first Jeep is produced.[citation needed] headed by Hjalmar Mäe, is appointed by the German
• August 6 – Six-year-old Elaine Esposito goes to an military administration.
appendix operation in Florida and lapses into a • September 16 – Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran is forced to
coma. She dies in 1978, still in a coma. resign in favor of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of
• August 9 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Iran, under pressure from the United Kingdom and
Churchill meet at Argentia, Newfoundland and the Soviet Union.
Labrador. The Atlantic Charter is created as a result. • September 22 The town of Reshetylivka in the Soviet
• August 16 – The HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals Union is occupied by German forces.
School and Combined Signals School open at • September 27 – The first Liberty Ship, the SS Patrick
Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England. Henry, is launched at Baltimore, Maryland.
• August 18 – Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to • September 29 – WWII: The Moscow Conference
Nazi Germany’s systematic euthanasia of the begins; U.S. representative Averill Harriman and
mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. British representative Lord Beaverbrook meet with
However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program Soviet foreign minister Molotov to arrange urgent
are then transferred to concentration camps, where assistance for Russia.
they continue in their trade. • September 29–September 30 – Holocaust: Babi Yar
• August 22 – WWII – France: The German Occupation massacre – German troops, assisted by Ukrainian
Authority announces that anyone found either police and local collaborators, killed 33,771 Jews of
working for or aiding the Free French will be Kiev, Ukraine.
sentenced to death.
• August 24 – WWII: A Luftwaffe bomb hits an Estonian October
steamer with 3,500 Soviet-mobilized Estonian men • October 1 – Holocaust: the Nazi German
on board, killing 598 of them. extermination camp Konzentrationslager Lublin
• August 25 – WWII: Operation Countenance begins (commonly known as "Majdanek") opens in occupied
with United Kingdom and Soviet forces invading Poland on the outskirts of the town Lublin. Between
Iran. October 1941 and July 1944 at least 200,000 people
were killed in the camp.
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• October 2 – WWII: Operation Typhoon begins as United States become involved in war with Japan,
Germany launches an all-out offensive against the British declaration will follow within the hour."
Moscow. • November 12 – WWII: As Battle of Moscow begins,
• October 7 – John Curtin becomes the 14th Prime temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 °C, and the
Minister of Australia. Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time
• October 8 – WWII: In their invasion of the Soviet against the freezing German forces near the city.
Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the • November 14 – WWII: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark
capture of Mariupol. Royal sinks after being torpedoed by U-81.
• October 11–October 12 – Fire destroys a Firestone • November 17 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor:
Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Fall River, Massachusetts, Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan,
consuming 15,850 tons of rubber and causing a cables to Washington a warning that Japan may
setback to the United States war effort.[4] strike suddenly and unexpectedly.
• Mid-October – First production P-38E Lightning • November 18 – WWII: Operation Crusader in North
fighter produced by Lockheed. Africa begins
• October 16 – WWII: The Soviet Union government • November 19 – WWII: Both commerce raiding
moves to Kuibyshev (modern Samara), but Joseph hilfskreuzer Kormoran and Australian cruiser HMAS
Stalin remains in Moscow. Sydney sink following a battle off the coast of
• October 17 – WWII: The destroyer USS Kearny is Western Australia. There are no survivors from the
torpedoed and damaged near Iceland, killing 11 645 Australian sailors aboard Sydney.[5]
sailors (the first American military casualties of the • November 21 – The radio program King Biscuit Time is
war). broadcast for the first time (it later becomes the
• October 18 – General Hideki Tojo becomes the 40th longest running daily radio broadcast in history and
Prime Minister of Japan. the most famous live blues radio program).
• October 21 – WWII: The Germans rampage in • November 22 – WWII: HMS Devonshire sinks
Yugoslavia, killing thousands of civilians. commerce raiding hilfskreuzer Atlantis, ending the
• October 23 – Walt Disney’s animated film Dumbo is longest warship cruise of the war. (622 days without
released. in-port replenishment or repair)[6]
• October 24 – Franz von Werra disappears during a • November 26 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: A
flight over the North Sea. fleet of 6 aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese
• October 30 – WWII: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay
approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence
Union. • November 27
• October 31 • A group of young men stop traffic on U.S.
• Last day of carving on Mount Rushmore. Highway 99 south of Yreka, California, handing
• WWII: The destroyer USS Reuben James is out fliers proclaiming the establishment of the
torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, State of Jefferson.
killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors. • WWII: Germans reach their closest approach to
Moscow. They are subsequently frozen by cold
November weather and attacks by the Soviets.
• November 6 – WWII: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time December
during his three-decade rule (the first time was • December 1
earlier that year on July 2). He states that even • WWII: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York
though 350,000 troops have been killed in German City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense,
attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil
soldiers (a gross exaggeration) and that Soviet Air Patrol under the authority of the United
victory is near. States Army Air Force.
• November 7 – WWII: The Soviet hospital Ship • WWII: A state of emergency is declared in Malaya
Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating and the Straits Settlements.
refugees, wounded military and the staff of several • December 2 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: The
Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 code message "Climb Mount Niitaka" is transmitted
people die in the sinking. to the Japanese task force, indicating that
• November 10 – In a speech at the Mansion House in negotiations have broken down and that the attack
London, Winston Churchill promises, "should the is to be carried out according to plan.
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• December 10 – WWII: The British battleship HMS
Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse are sunk
by Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea north of
Singapore.
• December 11 – WWII: Germany and Italy declare war
on the United States. The U.S. responds in kind.
• December 12
• WWII: Hungary and Romania declare war on the
United States.
• WWII: British India declares war on Empire of
Japan.
• WWII: The United States seizes the French ship
SS Normandie.
• WWII: The Kimura Detachment of the Japanese
Imperial forces is occupied in Legaspi, Albay in
USS Arizona ablaze after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Eastern Philippines.
• December 13 – Sweden’s low temperature record of
• December 4 – The State of Jefferson is declared in -53°C is set in a village within the Vilhelmina
Yreka, California, with judge John Childs as a Municipality.
governor. • December 19 – WWII: Hitler becomes Supreme
• December 6 Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
• WWII – Soviet counterattacks begin against • December 23 – WWII: A second Japanese landing
German troops encircling Moscow. Wehrmacht is attempt on Wake Island is successful, and the
subsequently pushed back over 200 miles. American garrison surrenders after a full night and
• WWII – The United Kingdom declares war on morning of fighting.
Finland. • December 24
• December 7 • WWII: British forces capture Benghazi.
• (December 8, Japan standard time) – The • WWII: Dutch submarine HNLMS K XVI is first
Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the Allied ship to sink Japanese warship in WWII,
United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing destroyer Sagiri near Sarawak; K XVI was herself
the United States into World War II. The attack is torpedoed on Dec. 25th 1941 by Japanese sub I 66
announced on radio stations in the US at about • December 25 – WWII: The British and Canadians are
2:26 p.m. EST (19.26 GMT). defeated by the Japanese at Hong Kong.
• WWII – Canada declares war on Japan. • December 26 – WWII: Winston Churchill becomes the
• Tobruk’s garrison is relieved. first British Prime Minister to address a joint session
• December 8 of the U.S. Congress.
• WWII: The United States, United Kingdom, China • December 27 – WWII: British Commandos raid the
and The Netherlands officially declare war on the Norwegian port of Vaagso, causing Hitler to
Empire of Japan. reinforce the garrison and defenses, drawing vital
• President of the United States Franklin D. troops away from other areas.
Roosevelt’s "Infamy" Address to a Joint Session of
Congress at 12:30 p.m. EST (17.30 GMT) and Date unknown
transmitted live over all four major national
• The Valley of Geysers is discovered in Russia.
networks attracts the largest audience ever for
• The Indochina Communist party, led by Ho Chi Minh,
an American radio broadcast, over 81% of
combines with the Nationalist party to form the Viet
homes.[7]
Minh.
• WWII: Empire of Japan launches invasions in
• Classic Comics series launched in the United States
Hong Kong, Malaya, Manila, Singapore and the
with a version of The Three Musketeers.
Philippines.
• Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp
Chelmno opens in occupied Poland near a small Births
village called Chełmno nad Nerem. Between
December 1941-April 1943 and June 1944-January January
1945 at least 153,000 people were killed in the
• January 1 – Dardo Cabo, Argentine journalist and
camp.
activist (d. 1977)
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• January 3 – Van Dyke Parks, American composer, February
producer, and musician
• February 1 – Jerry Spinelli, American children’s
• January 4
author
• John Bennett Perry, American actor
• February 3 – Dory Funk, Jr., American professional
• Maureen Reagan, American actress (d. 2001)
wrestler
• January 5
• February 5
• Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese filmmaker
• David Selby, American actor
• Kevin Keelan, English footballer
• Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor
• January 7
• Stephen J. Cannell, American director and
• Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d.
producer (d. 2010)
2004)
• February 6 – Howard Phillips, American politician
• Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer
• February 7 – Peter Foxhall, Australian evangelist
coach
• February 8 – Nick Nolte, American actor
• John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize
• February 10 – Michael Apted, English film director
laureate
• February 12 – Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer
• January 8 – Graham Chapman, English comedian (d.
(d. 1984)
1989)
• February 13
• January 9 – Joan Baez, American singer and activist
• Sigmar Polke, German painter
• January 11
• David Jeremiah, American televangelist
• Dave Edwards, American musician (d. 2000)
• February 19 – David Gross, American physicist, Nobel
• Jimmy Velvit, American singer/songwriter
Prize laureate
• January 12 – Long John Baldry, British singer (d.
• February 20 – Buffy Sainte-Marie, American singer
2005)
• February 26 – Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer
• January 14
(d. 1972)
• Faye Dunaway, American actress
• February 27 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician
• Milan Kučan, Slovenian politician and statesman
• February 28 – Suzanne Mubarak, Egyptian first lady
• David Johnston, retired Australian newsreader
• January 15 – Captain Beefheart, American singer (d.
2010)
March
• January 18 – David Ruffin, American singer (The • March 1 – Joo Hyun, South Korean actor
Temptations) (d. 1991) • March 4
• January 19 – Pat Patterson, Canadian professional • Adrian Lyne, English film director
wrestler • John Aprea, American actor
• January 20 – Allan Young (d. 2009) • March 5 – Nona Gaprindashvili, Georgian chess
• January 21 player
• Plácido Domingo, Spanish-born tenor • March 6 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player
• Richie Havens, American musician (d. 2001)
• January 24 • March 13 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian
• Neil Diamond, American singer and songwriter prominent poet and writer of prose (d. 2008)
• Aaron Neville, American singer • March 14 – Wolfgang Petersen, German film director
• January 25 • March 15 – Mike Love, American musician (The
• Theo Berger, German criminal Beach Boys)
• January 26 • March 16
• Scott Glenn, American actor • Robert Guéï, military ruler of Côte d’Ivoire (d.
• Henry Jaglom, English film director 2002)
• January 27 – Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer (d. • Chuck Woolery, American game show host
1981) • March 17 – Paul Kantner, American rock guitarist
• January 30 (Jefferson Airplane)
• Dick Cheney, former Vice President of the United • March 18 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (d. 2006)
States • March 20 – Kenji Kimihara, Japanese long-distance
• Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer runner
• January 31 • March 23 – Jim Trelease, American educator and
• Dick Gephardt, American politician author
• Jessica Walter, American actress • March 26 – Richard Dawkins, British scientist
• March 28 – Jim Turner, American football player
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• March 29 – Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American • May 31 – Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist,
astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
• March 30 – Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan Medicine
April June
• April 2 – Dr. Demento (Barret Eugene Hansen), • June 2
American radio disc jockey and novelty music • Charlie Watts, English Drummer, (The Rolling
collector Stones)
• April 3 • Stacy Keach, American actor
• Eric Braeden, German-born American actor • June 4 – Erkin Koray, Turkish musician
• Philippe Wynne, American musician (d. 1984) • June 5
• April 8 – Peggy Lennon, American singer (The • Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
Lennon Sisters) • Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter
• April 9 – Kay Adams, American country singer (d. 2004)
• April 11 – Shirley Stelfox, English actress • June 6 – Neal Adams, American comic book artist
• April 12 – Bobby Moore, English football player and • June 8
World Cup winning captain (d. 1993) • Robert Bradford, Irish footballer and politician
• April 13 – Michael Stuart Brown, American (d. 1981)
geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology • Fuzzy Haskins, American musician (P-Funk)
or Medicine • June 9 – Jon Lord, organist of Deep Purple, the "Lord
• April 14 of the Hammond organ"
• Julie Christie, British actress • June 10
• Pete Rose, American baseball player • Mickey Jones, American actor and musician
• April 20 – Ryan O’Neal, American actor • Valeri Zolotukhin, Soviet/Russian actor
• April 23 • James A. Paul, American writer and non-profit
• Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland executive
• Ed Stewart, English disc jockey • June 12 – Marv Albert, American sports announcer
• April 24 – John Williams, Australian guitarist • June 14 – Roy Harper, English guitarist
• April 27 – Lee Roy Jordan, American football player • June 15 – Harry Nilsson, American musician (d. 1994)
• April 28 • June 19
• Ann-Margret, Swedish-born American actress, • Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court
singer and dancer jurist
• K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel • Vaclav Klaus. President of the Czech Republic
Prize laureate • June 21 – Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor and
• Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet comedian
• June 22
May • Ed Bradley, American journalist (60 Minutes) (d.
• May 5 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (d. 2006)
2004) • Michael Lerner, American actor
• May 6 – Ivica Osim, Bosnian football player and • Terttu Savola, Finnish politician
manager • June 24
• May 11 – Eric Burdon, English singer (The Animals) • Bill Reardon, American politician and educator
• May 13 • Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (d.
• Senta Berger, Austrian actress 1966)
• Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959) • June 27 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director
• May 19 (d. 1996)
• Bobby Burgess, American dancer and singer • June 28 – Joseph Goguen, American computer
• Nora Ephron, American film, producer, director, scientist (d. 2006)
and screenwriter
• May 20 – Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister of July
Singapore • July 1
• May 21 – Bobby Cox, American baseball manager • Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, recipient of
• May 22 – Menzies Campbell, British politician the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• May 24 – Bob Dylan, American poet and musician • Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel Prize
• May 26 – John Kaufman, English sculptor laureate
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• July 6 – Harold Leighton Weller, American conductor • September 3 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian short-story
• July 7 – Bill Oddie, English comedian and writer and novelist (d. 1990)
ornithologist • September 4 – Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
• July 10 – Jackie Lane, English actress • September 9
• July 11 – Tommy Vance, English disc jockey (d. 2005) • Otis Redding, American musician (d. 1967)
• July 12 • Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (d.
• Benny Parsons, American race car driver (d. 2011)
2007) • September 10
• John Lahr, "New Yorker" senior drama critic • Christopher Hogwood, English conductor and
• July 14 harpsichordist
• Maulana Karenga, American author and activist • Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese computer game producer
• Andreas Khol, Austrian politician (d. 1997)
• July 16 – Hans Wiegel, Dutch politician • September 13
• July 19 • Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
• Vikki Carr, American singer • Ahmet Necdet Sezer, former President of Turkey
• Neelie Kroes, Dutch politician • September 14 – Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan
• July 27 – Bill Baxley, Alabama politician musician
• July 28 – Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor • September 15
• July 29 • George Saimes, American football player
• Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007) • Mirosław Hermaszewski, first Polish cosmonaut
• David Warner, English actor in space
• July 30 – Paul Anka, Canadian-American singer and • September 17 – Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman from
songwriter California (d. 2005)
• July 31 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician • September 19 – Cass Elliott, American singer (d.
1974)
August • September 20 – Dale Chihuly, American glass
• August 3 – Martha Stewart, American television and sculptor
magazine personality • September 24
• August 2 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter • Guy Hovis, American singer
• August 6 – Lyle Berman, American poker player • Linda McCartney, American activist, musician
• August 8 – George Tiller, American physician (d. and photographer (d. 1998)
2009) • September 26 – Martine Beswick, British actress and
• August 12 – Deborah Walley, American actress (The model
Mothers-in-Law) (d. 2001) • September 27 – Gay Kayler Ashcroft, Australian
• August 14 country music singer
• Connie Smith, American singer • September 28 – Sam Zell, American billionaire
• David Crosby, American Musician (The Byrds) investor and publisher
• August 16
• David Dickinson, British antiques expert and October
television presenter • October 2 – Zareh Baronian, Archimandrite doctor,
• Théoneste Bagosora, former Rwandan army theologian of the Armenian Church, Bucarest
officer and alleged planner of the Rwandan • October 4
Genocide • Elizabeth Eckford, American activist
• August 17 – Ibrahim Babangida, former President of • Anne Rice, American writer
Nigeria • Roy Blount, Jr., American writer and comedian
• August 20 – Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia • October 5 – Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
(d. 2006) • October 8 – Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and
• August 22 – Bill Parcells, American football coach civil rights activist
• August 28 – Joseph Shabalala, South African musician • October 9 – Trent Lott, former United States Senate
(Ladysmith Black Mambazo) Minority Leader and United States Senate Majority
Leader
September • October 10 – Peter Coyote, American actor
• September 2 • October 13 – Paul Simon, American singer and
• David Bale, South African–born activist (d. 2003) composer
• John Thompson, American basketball coach
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• October 16 – Tim McCarver, American baseball • December 18 – Prince William of Gloucester
commentator • December 19 – Lee Myung Bak, 17th president of
• October 20 – Anneke Wills, British actress South Korea
• October 23 – Mel Winkler, American actor • December 21 – Lo Hoi Pang, Hong Kong actor
• October 25 • December 23
• Helen Reddy, Australian singer and actress • Ron Bushy, American rock musician (Iron
• Anne Tyler, American novelist Butterfly)
• October 27 – Gerd Brantenberg, Norwegian feminist • Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
author and gay rights activist • December 24 – John Levene, English actor
• October 28 • December 30 – Mel Renfro, American football player
• John Hallam, Irish actor • December 31 – Alex Ferguson, English football
• Hank Marvin, British guitarist, singer and manager (Manchester United)
songwriter (The Shadows)
• October 30 – Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics
Deaths
• October 31 – Sally Kirkland, American actress
January–February
November • January 4 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher,
• November 1 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859)
• Nigel Dempster, British journalist, author, • January 5 – Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)
broadcaster and diarist (d. 2007) • January 8 – Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English
• Robert Foxworth, American actor soldier and founder of the Boy Scouts (b. 1857)
• November 2 – Bruce Welch, British guitarist, singer • January 10
and songwriter (The Shadows) • Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
• November 5 – Art Garfunkel, American singer • Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (b. 1856)
• November 6 – Doug Sahm, American musician (d. • Joe Penner, American comedian and actor (b.
1999) 1904)
• November 17 – Tova Traesnaes, American • January 13 – James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
cosmetician and fifth wife of Ernest Borgnine • February 6 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet &
• November 18 – David Hemmings, English actor (d. journalist (b. 1864)
2003) • February 9 – Aaron S. Watkins, American
• November 21 – Juliet Mills, English actress temperance movement leader (b. 1863)
• November 23 – Derek Mahon, Irish poet • February 11 – Rudolf Hilferding, German economist
• November 24 – Pete Best, First Beatles Drummer and Minister of Finance (b. 1877)
• November 25 • February 21 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician,
• Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Sufi, author, poet and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
growing following consider him to be the Mehdi, Medicine (b. 1891)
Messiah & Kalki Avatar • February 24 – Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière,
• Ralph Haben, American politician, former German submariner (b. 1886)
Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives • February 27 – William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b.
• November 26 – G. Alan Marlatt, American 1895)
psychologist • February 28 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
• November 27 – Eddie Rabbitt, American country
musician (d. 1998) March–July
• November 29 – Bill Freehan, American baseball • March 5 – Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia,
player Russian royal (b. 1891)
• March 6 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor
December (Mount Rushmore) (b. 1867)
• December 9 – Beau Bridges, American actor • March 8 – Sherwood Anderson, American author (b.
• December 10 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and 1876)
actor (d. 1985) • March 15 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b.
• December 11 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. 1864)
Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (d. 1991) • March 28
• December 13 – John Davidson, American singer and • Virginia Woolf, English writer (b. 1882)
actor
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• Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police • August 30 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer
commissioner (b. 1887) and physicist (b. 1874)
• April 5 – Sir Nigel Gresley, English steam locomotive • August 31 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (suicide)
engineer (Flying Scotsman and Mallard) (b. 1876) (b. 1892)
• April 13 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer • September 1 – Karl Parts, Estonia military
(b. 1863) commander (b. 1886)
• April 16 – Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, Bt, GCB, • September 12 – Hans Spemann, German
GBE, FBA, British civil servant, industrialist, embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
economist, statistician and banker (b.1880) Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
• April 24 – Karin Boye, Swedish poetess (suicide) (b. • September 18 – Fred Karno, British music hall
1900) comedian (b. 1866)
• April 30 – Edwin S. Porter, American film director (b. • October 5 – Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court
1870) Justice (b. 1856)
• May 1 – Jenny Dolly, American singer (b. 1892) • October 8
• May 11 – Peggy Shannon, American actress (b. 1910) • Gus Kahn, German songwriter (b. 1886)
• May 12 – Ruth Stonehouse, American actress (b. • Valentine O’Hara, Irish author and authority on
1892) Russia and the Baltic States (b. 1875)
• May 16 – Minnie Vautrin, American missionary and • October 9 – Helen Morgan, American singer and
heroine of the Nanjing Massacre (b. 1887) actress (b. 1900)
• May 30 – Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. • October 26
1893) • Arkady Gaidar, Russian writer (b. 1904)
• June 1 – Hugh Walpole, British writer (b. 1884) • Victor Schertzinger, American composer and
• June 2 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. director (b. 1888)
1903) • October 29 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball
• June 4 – Wilhelm II, last Emperor of Germany (b. player (b. 1897)
1859) • November 16 – Miina Härma, Estonian composer (b.
• June 6 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile 1864)
builder and race car driver (b. 1878) • November 18
• June 21 – Elliott Dexter, American actor (b. 1870) • Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet (b. 1879)
• June 29 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, • Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize
composer, and third Prime Minister of Poland (b. laureate (b. 1864)
1860) • Chris Watson, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (b.
• July 3 – Friedrich Akel, Estonian diplomat and 1867)
politician (b. 1871) • November 21 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, American
• July 4 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker
1881) (b. 1860)
• July 10 – Jelly Roll Morton, African-American jazz • November 26 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish
musician and composer (b. 1890) sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)
• July 11 – Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (b. • November 30 – Esmond Romilly, British socialist (b.
1851) 1918)
• July 15 – Walter Ruttmann, German director (b. 1887) • December 3 – Christian Sinding, Norwegian
• July 20 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer composer (b. 1856)
(b. 1867) • December 7 – Isaac Campbell Kidd, American admiral
• July 25 – Allan Forrest, American actor (b. 1885) (died in the attack on Pearl Harbor) (b. 1884)
• July 26 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. • December 12 – César Basa, Filipino pilot (b. 1915)
1875) • December 25 – Blanche Bates, stage actress (b. 1873)
• July 29 – James Stephenson, British actor (b. 1889) • December 30 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and
architect (b. 1890)
August–December
• August 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• August 13 – James Stuart Blackton, American film
producer (b. 1875)
• August 14 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1854)
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Nobel Prizes [2] Robertson, Patrick (1974). The Shell Book of Firsts.
London: Ebury Press. pp. 124–5.
[3] BBC
[4] "No Sabotage Found in Firestone Blaze by FBI Men
Making Probe." Fall River, Herald News, October
14, 1941, p.1
[5] Muggenthaler, August Karl (1977). German Raiders of
WWII. Prentice-Hall. pp. 186–191.
• Physics – not awarded ISBN 0-13-354027-8.
• Chemistry – not awarded [6] Muggenthaler, August Karl (1977). German Raiders of
• Medicine – not awarded WWII. Prentice-Hall. p. 114. ISBN 0-13-354027-8.
• Literature – not awarded [7] Brown, Robert J. (1998). Manipulating the Ether: the
• Peace – not awarded Power of Broadcast Radio in Thirties America. Jefferson,
NC: McFarland & Co. pp. 117–120.
References •
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WWII. Prentice-Hall. pp. 140–143.
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