Editing 1924

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==Events==

=== January ===
[[File:1924WOlympicPoster.jpg|240px|thumbnail|right|[[1924 Winter Olympics]]]]
{{Main article|January 1924}}
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Gopinath Saha]] shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir [[Charles Tegart]], the police commissioner of [[Calcutta]], and is arrested soon after.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Maya Gupta |author2=Amit Kumar Gupta |title=Defying Death: Struggle Against Imperialism and Feudalism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShBuAAAAMAAJ |year=2001 |publisher=Tulika |isbn=978-81-85229-41-6 |page=53 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151329/https://books.google.com/books?id=ShBuAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[January 20]]&ndash;[[January 30|30]] &ndash; [[Kuomintang]] in China holds its [[1st National Congress of the Kuomintang|first National Congress]], initiating a policy of [[alliance]] with the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[Chinese Communist Party]].
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone|The Earl of Athlone]] is appointed [[Governor-General of the Union of South Africa]], and [[High Commissioner for Southern Africa]].<ref name="Union">[http://www.archontology.org/nations/south_africa/sa_gg/ Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508115458/http://www.archontology.org/nations/south_africa/sa_gg/ |date=May 8, 2023 }} (Accessed on 14 April 2017)</ref>
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Ramsay MacDonald]] becomes the first [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Marian B. McLeod |title=The Parliamentary Speaking of Ramsay MacDonald: A Study of His First Labour Government |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0FEjAAAAMAAJ |year=1978 |publisher=Literary Press |page=18 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151333/https://books.google.com/books?id=0FEjAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[January 25]] &ndash; The first [[Winter Olympics]], the [[1924 Winter Olympics]], open in [[Chamonix]], in the French [[Alps]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Norris McWhirter |title=Guinness Book of Records |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p1qPWMsBz7sC |year=1983 |publisher=Guinness Superlatives |isbn=978-0-85112-260-1 |page=311 |access-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511151430/https://books.google.com/books?id=p1qPWMsBz7sC |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[January 26]] &ndash; Petrograd in the Soviet Union is renamed [[Leningrad]]; it will revert to [[Saint Petersburg]] in [[1991]].<ref>{{cite book |author=David M. Glantz |title=The Battle for Leningrad: 1941-1944 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4uRmAAAAMAAJ |year=2002 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |isbn=978-0-7006-1208-6 |page=8}}</ref>

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

=== March ===
{{Main article|March 1924}}
* [[March 3]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman Caliphate]], a remnant of the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman monarchy]] [[Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate|abolished]] on November 1, 1922 and one of the historical claims of succession to the [[First Islamic state|Islamic State]] of [[Muhammad]], comes to an end with the deposition of the [[Abdülmecid II|Caliph]] of the [[Ottoman dynasty]]. This marks the end of an era, giving way to the drastic political transformations of [[Turkey]] introduced by [[Atatürk's reforms|reforms]] because of the President [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Öztürk, Fatih |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/12937 |title=The Ottoman Millet System |pages=71–86}} - Cited: p. 72</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[İsmet İnönü]] forms a new government in Turkey (2nd government).
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Horacio Vásquez]] wins the [[1924 Dominican Republic general election|Dominican Republic general election]], becoming president, coinciding with the end of [[United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916-1924)|United States military occupation]].<ref>[[Dieter Nohlen|Nohlen, D]] (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p247 {{ISBN|978-0-19-928357-6}}</ref>
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Jean Sibelius]] conducts the world premiere of his [[Symphony No. 7 (Sibelius)|Symphony No. 7]] in [[Stockholm]].
* [[March 25]] &ndash; The [[Second Hellenic Republic]] is proclaimed in Greece.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wFDWqVnkvhsTndtvSoClrL8BI7vRxXKg8ztIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIfmAIHno4xZaiebsKTXkZGFzZyd4dunA0LfOa-Yg4kaY. |title=Newspaper of the Government - Issue 64 |date=25 March 1924 |work=Government Newspaper of the Hellenic State |access-date=18 August 2012 |archive-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009021338/http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wFDWqVnkvhsTndtvSoClrL8BI7vRxXKg8ztIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIfmAIHno4xZaiebsKTXkZGFzZyd4dunA0LfOa-Yg4kaY. |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[March 29]] &ndash; In France, the Third Ministry of [[Raymond Poincaré]] begins.<ref>{{cite book |author=Robert J. Young |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-24890-2 |title=France and the Origins of the Second World War |date=18 September 1996 |publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education |isbn=978-1-349-24890-2 |pages=173 |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-24890-2 |access-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-date=August 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811014301/https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-349-24890-2 |url-status=live }}</ref>

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

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

=== June ===
{{Main article|June 1924}}
* [[June 2]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Calvin Coolidge]] signs the [[Indian Citizenship Act]] into law, granting [[citizenship]] to all [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] born within the territorial limits of the United States.<ref>{{cite book |author=Paul C Rosier |title=Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9X7MWwmOSIC&pg=PA301 |date=1 March 2010 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-05452-3 |pages=301 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152201/https://books.google.com/books?id=s9X7MWwmOSIC&pg=PA301#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Ernst Alexanderson]] sends the first [[Fax|facsimile]] across the [[Atlantic Ocean]],<ref>{{cite book |title=The National Inventors Hall of Fame: Dedicated to the Spirit of Invention |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9CMfanXhIAC&pg=PA52 |year=1984 |publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office |pages=52 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152633/https://books.google.com/books?id=s9CMfanXhIAC&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> which goes to his father in [[Sweden]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Krebs |first=Albin |date=May 15, 1975 |title=Dr. Ernst Alexanderson, Radio Pioneer, Dies at 97 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/15/archives/dr-ernst-alexanderson-radio-pioneer-dies-at-97.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730104920/https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/15/archives/dr-ernst-alexanderson-radio-pioneer-dies-at-97.html |archive-date=July 30, 2017 |access-date=March 3, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
* [[June 7]]&ndash;[[June 16|16]] &ndash; [[Rudolf Steiner]] delivers his Agriculture Course at [[Koberwitz]] beginning of the [[organic agriculture]] movement.<ref name=FirstOA>{{cite journal |last=Paull |first=John |title=Attending the First Organic Agriculture Course: Rudolf Steiner's Agriculture Course at Koberwitz, 1924 |journal=European Journal of Social Sciences |year=2011 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=64–70 |url=https://www.academia.edu/9149070 |access-date=August 24, 2019 |archive-date=March 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323023447/https://www.academia.edu/9149070 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[George Mallory]] and [[Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)|Andrew Irvine]] are last seen "going strong for the top" of [[Mount Everest]] by teammate [[Noel Odell]] at 12:50&nbsp;P.M.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-06 |title=Remains of Sandy Irvine believed found on Everest after 100 years |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/sandy-irvine-body-found-everest |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Adventure |language=en}}</ref> The two [[Mountaineering|mountaineers]] are never seen alive again.
* [[June 13]] &ndash; In Hungary, a devastating [[tornado]], "Wildkansas", strikes, in 3 hours leaving a 500–1500m wide and 70&nbsp;km long path of destruction from landfall at Bia to its end near [[Vác]], completely destroying the village of [[Páty]]. 9 people are killed, 50 injured and many left homeless by one of the strongest tornadoes ever not only in Hungary but in Europe, estimated as [[Fujita scale|F]]4.
*[[June 20]] The [[FIDE]] was founded.
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[J. B. M. Hertzog]] becomes the third [[Prime Minister of South Africa]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Colin Martin Tatz |title=Shadow and Substance in South Africa: A Study in Land and Franchise Policies Affecting Africans, 1910-1960 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTNzAAAAMAAJ |year=1962 |publisher=University of Natal Press |page=211 |access-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511152646/https://books.google.com/books?id=BTNzAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>


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

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

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

=== October ===
{{Main article|October 1924}}
* October &ndash; The skull of the [[Taung Child]] is discovered.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Donald E. Johanson |author2=Donald C. Johanson |author3=Blake Edgar |title=From Lucy to Language |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-VKEjAbpggcC&pg=PT146 |year=1996 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-684-81023-2 |pages=146 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153506/https://books.google.com/books?id=-VKEjAbpggcC&pg=PT146#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[October 2]] &ndash; The [[Geneva Protocol (1924)|Geneva Protocol]] is adopted by the [[League of Nations]] Assembly as a means to strengthen the League, but later fails to be ratified.
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Rai Radio 1|1-RO]] begins regular radio broadcasting services in Italy.
*[[October 9]] &ndash; Municipal Grant Park Stadium, in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] (now known as [[Soldier Field]]) is officially dedicated.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-60000-voice-citys-spir/69950747/ "60,000 Voice City's Spirit at Stadium Fete"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207145509/https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-60000-voice-citys-spir/69950747/ |date=February 7, 2024 }}, ''Chicago Tribune'', October 10, 1924, p. 5</ref>
* [[October 10]] &ndash; Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by [[Tasmania]]n [[National Party of Australia|Nationalist]] senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral (Compulsory Voting) Act 1924.
* [[October 12]]&ndash;[[October 15|15]] &ndash; [[Zeppelin]] ''[[USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)|LZ-126]]'' makes a [[transatlantic flight|transatlantic]] delivery flight from [[Friedrichshafen]], Germany, to [[Lakehurst, New Jersey]].
* [[October 15]] &ndash; The first [[Surrealist Manifesto]] is published, in which [[André Breton]] defines the movement as "pure psychic [[surrealist automatism|automatism]]".<ref>{{cite book|author=J. H. Matthews|title=The Surrealist Mind|publisher=Susquehanna University Press|year=1991|isbn=9780945636069|page=31}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Prime Minister of Sweden|Sweden's Prime Minister]] [[Ernst Trygger]] and his cabinet, is replaced by [[Hjalmar Branting]] and his third and last government.
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Ibn Saud|Abdul Aziz]], founder of [[Saudi Arabia]], declares himself protector of holy places in [[Mecca]].{{cn|date=January 2024}}
* [[October 25]]
**The British press publishes the [[Zinoviev letter]], released the previous day by the Foreign Office.<ref>{{cite book |author=Adrian Smith |title=The New Statesman: Portrait of a Political Weekly, 1913-1931 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JFnHxuuT4FAC&pg=PA308 |year=1996 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-7146-4169-0 |pages=308 |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511153727/https://books.google.com/books?id=JFnHxuuT4FAC&pg=PA308#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> This purports to be a directive from [[Grigory Zinoviev]], head of the [[Communist International]] in Moscow, to the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]].
**Authorities of the [[British Raj]] in India arrest [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] and jail him for the next 2{{frac|1|2}} years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianculture.gov.in/node/2832030|title=Subhash Bose's letters to Sarat Bose from Mandalay Prison|website=Indian Culture|access-date=October 11, 2023|archive-date=October 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015095127/https://indianculture.gov.in/node/2832030|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 27]] &ndash; The [[Uzbek SSR]] joins the Soviet Union.

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

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

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

==Births==
{{BDToC|births}}

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

=== February ===
[[File:Lee marvin 1971.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Lee Marvin]]]]
[[File:Gloria_Vanderbilt_1959.JPG|thumb|100px|right|[[Gloria Vanderbilt]]]]
[[File:Mugabe 1979 a.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Mugabe]]]]
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* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern]], German Head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/8062520/His-Highness-Prince-Friedrich-Wilhelm.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/8062520/His-Highness-Prince-Friedrich-Wilhelm.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary of His Highness Prince Friedrich Wilhelm|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=13 October 2010|access-date=April 9, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] 
** [[Charles Coste]], French Olympic cyclist<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/charles-coste |title=Charles Coste |website=Olympic.org |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511162034/https://olympics.com/en/athletes/charles-coste |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Khamtai Siphandone]], 4th President and 12th Prime Minister of Laos<ref>{{cite book |title=Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PgJXAAAAMAAJ |year=1998 |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |page=7 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511162107/https://books.google.com/books?id=PgJXAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> (d. [[2025]])
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Budge Patty]], American tennis player<ref>{{cite book |author=United States Lawn Tennis Association |title=United States Lawn Tennis Association Year Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8GbzAAAAMAAJ |year=1940 |publisher=The Association |page=107 |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511161957/https://books.google.com/books?id=8GbzAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> (d. [[2021]])
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Juan Ponce Enrile]], Filipino politician, [[President of the Senate of the Philippines]] from 2008 to 2013.
* [[February 17]] 
** [[Margaret Truman]], American novelist and only child of U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] and [[Bess Truman]] (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Ron Cockrell |author2=Keith Krueger |title=Cultural Landscape Report: Harry S Truman National Historic Site, Independence, Missouri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OOaZRpTIMrsC&pg=PA26 |year=1990 |publisher=National Park Service |pages=26 |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511161957/https://books.google.com/books?id=OOaZRpTIMrsC&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Gevork Vartanian]], Soviet intelligence officer (d. [[2012]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Lee Marvin]], American actor (d. [[1987]])
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Gloria Vanderbilt]], American heiress and entrepreneur (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite book |author= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA139 |title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months |date=30 September 2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-64143-264-1 |editor-last=McGuire |editor-first=Holly |pages=139 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511162217/https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA139#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[February 21]] 
** [[Robert Mugabe]], Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician, 1st [[President of Zimbabwe]] (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Roger East |author2=Richard J. Thomas |author3=Richard Thomas |title=Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mz-fXRsedPMC&pg=PA590 |year=2003 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-1-85743-126-1 |pages=590 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511170333/https://books.google.com/books?id=Mz-fXRsedPMC&pg=PA590#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Silvano Piovanelli]], Italian prelate and cardinal (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Inside the Vatican |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=COgtAAAAYAAJ |year=1996 |publisher=Urbi et Orbi Communications |page=46 |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511170156/https://books.google.com/books?id=COgtAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Allan McLeod Cormack]], South African physicist and [[1979#Nobel Prizes|1979 Nobel Prize laureate]] (d. [[1998]])
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Teresa Bracco]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] religious sister, martyr and blessed (d. [[1944]])<ref>{{cite book |title=30 Days in the Church and in the World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1-ctAAAAYAAJ |year=1998 |publisher=Italcoser Corporation |page=54 |access-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511170212/https://books.google.com/books?id=1-ctAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[February 26]]
** [[Freda Betti]], French opera singer (d. [[1979]])
** [[Noboru Takeshita]], Japanese politician, 46th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Japan Report |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9MQwAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA11-PA15 |year=1985 |publisher=Japan Information Center, Consulate General of Japan |pages=11 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511170236/https://books.google.com/books?id=9MQwAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA11-PA15#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[February 28]] 
** [[Bettye Ackerman]], American actress (d. [[2006]])
** [[Christopher C. Kraft Jr.]], American aerospace engineer (d. [[2019]])
* [[February 29]] &ndash; [[Carlos Humberto Romero]], Salvadorian politician, 37th [[President of El Salvador]] (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Latin America Bureau |title=Violence and Fraud in El Salvador: A Report on Current Political Events in El Salvador |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XIxqAAAAMAAJ |year=1977 |publisher=The Bureau |page=32 |isbn=9780906156001 |access-date=October 12, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511170242/https://books.google.com/books?id=XIxqAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

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

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

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

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

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

=== August ===
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* [[August 1]]
** King [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia]] (official birth date) (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Spencer C. Tucker |author2=Priscilla Roberts |title=The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History [4 volumes]: A Political, Social, and Military History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YAd8efHdVzIC&pg=PA23 |date=12 May 2008 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-842-2 |pages=23 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182139/https://books.google.com/books?id=YAd8efHdVzIC&pg=PA23 |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Georges Charpak]], Ukrainian-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite book |author=John Gribbin |title=Q is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zBsDkgI1uQsC&pg=PA77 |date=22 February 2000 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-684-86315-3 |pages=77 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182122/https://books.google.com/books?id=zBsDkgI1uQsC&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Frank Worrell]], West Indies cricketer (d. [[1967]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Gordon Ross |title=A History of West Indies Cricket |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DHkNAAAAYAAJ |year=1976 |publisher=A. Barker |page=142 |isbn=9780213165857 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182129/https://books.google.com/books?id=DHkNAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 2]]
** [[James Baldwin]], African-American author, novelist, playwright and activist (d. [[1987]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson |title=Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rprS-mm9uywC&pg=PA12 |year=1999 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-30501-6 |pages=12 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182132/https://books.google.com/books?id=rprS-mm9uywC&pg=PA12 |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Carroll O'Connor]], American actor (d. [[2001]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Paul T. Hellmann |title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA778 |date=14 February 2006 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1-135-94859-3 |pages=778 |access-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182133/https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA778#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Leon Uris]], American writer (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Frank Northen Magill |title=Cyclopedia of World Authors II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V2wYAAAAIAAJ |year=1989 |publisher=Salem Press |isbn=978-0-89356-516-9 |page=1503 |access-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182137/https://books.google.com/books?id=V2wYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 5]] – [[Ben Jones (Grenadian politician)|Ben Jones]], 7th Prime Minister of Grenada (d. [[2005]])<ref name="Scoon2003">{{cite book |author=Sir Paul Scoon |title=Survival for Service: My Experiences as Governor General of Grenada |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dgp7AAAAMAAJ |year=2003 |publisher=Macmillan Caribbean |isbn=978-0-333-97064-5 |page=277 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182817/https://books.google.com/books?id=Dgp7AAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 6]] 
** [[Sophie Freud]], Austrian-born American psychologist (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/04/metro/sophie-freud-simmons-professor-who-called-psychoanalysis-narcissistic-indulgence-dies-97/|title=Sophie Freud, Simmons professor who called psychoanalysis 'a narcissistic indulgence,' dies at 97 - The Boston Globe|website=BostonGlobe.com|access-date=June 6, 2022|archive-date=June 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608013527/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/04/metro/sophie-freud-simmons-professor-who-called-psychoanalysis-narcissistic-indulgence-dies-97/|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Erich Schriever]], Swiss Olympic rower (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/erich-schriever |title=Erich Schriever |website=Olympic.org |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date=9 December 2020 |archive-date=October 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002180026/https://www.olympic.org/erich-schriever |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Cecil Abbott]], Commissioner of the New South Wales Police in Australia (d. [[2014]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Gene Deitch]], American illustrator, animator and film director (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Lenburg |first=Jeff |title=Who's Who in Animated Cartoons |publisher=[[Applause Theatre and Cinema Books]] |location=New York City |year=2006 |edition=Illustrated |pages=[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinanimate0000lenb/page/62 62–64] |isbn=978-1-55783-671-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinanimate0000lenb/page/62}}</ref>
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Martha Hyer]], American actress (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Bergan |first=Ronald |author1-link=Ronald Bergan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/11/martha-hyer |title=Martha Hyer obituary |work=The Guardian |date=June 11, 2014 |access-date=March 18, 2015}}</ref>
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]], leader of Pakistan (d. [[1988]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Levinson |first1=David |last2=Christensen |first2=Karen |title=Encyclopedia of Modern Asia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6lIYAAAAIAAJ |year=2002 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |isbn=978-0-684-31247-7 |page=218 |access-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182812/https://books.google.com/books?id=6lIYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (born 1924)|Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia]] (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/18/prince-alexander-of-yugoslavia--obituary/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/18/prince-alexander-of-yugoslavia--obituary/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, globe-trotting playboy prince – obituary |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=July 18, 2016 |publisher=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=13 March 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Georges Prêtre]], French orchestral, opera conductor (d. [[2017]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Robert Bolt]], English writer (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-robert-bolt-1574410.html |title=Obituary: Robert Bolt |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |last=Calder |first=John |date=23 February 1995 |access-date=21 July 2016 |archive-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117203540/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-robert-bolt-1574410.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** [[Phyllis Schlafly]], American activist (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Glenna Matthews]] |title=American Women's History: A Student Companion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVbnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA274 |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-511317-4 |pages=274 |access-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182812/https://books.google.com/books?id=aVbnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA274#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 16]]
** [[Ralf Bendix]], German Schlager singer, music producer, composer and songwriter (d. [[2014]])
** [[Fess Parker]], American actor and businessman (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harrigan |first=Stephen |date=1986-11-01 |title=The Ballad of Fess Parker |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/the-ballad-of-fess-parker/ |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=Texas Monthly |language=en |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511144515/https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/the-ballad-of-fess-parker/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 17]] – [[Idris Iskandar al-Mutawakkil Alallahi Shah of Perak]], 33rd [[Sultan of Perak]] (d. [[1984]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Willard Boyle]], Canadian physicist (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=George |title=Willard Boyle (1924–2011) Physicist who helped invent the 'eye of the digital camera'. |doi=10.1038/474037a |journal=Nature |volume=474 |issue=7349 |pages=37 |year=2011 |pmid=21637246 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Dalia Wood]], Canadian politician (d. [[2013]])
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Orlando Ramón Agosti]], Argentine general (d. [[1997]])
* [[August 23]]
** [[Robert Solow]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite book |author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations |title=General Government Matters: Department of Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1962: Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQ0tAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA691 |year=1961 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=691 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182816/https://books.google.com/books?id=RQ0tAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA691#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Wang Danfeng]], Chinese actress (d. [[2018]])
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Ahmadou Ahidjo]], [[President of Cameroon]] (d. [[1989]])
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Zsuzsa Körmöczy]], Hungarian tennis player and coach (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archivum.mtva.hu/photobank/item/MTI-FOTO-UGZ1QjZWeXlpSmxnM0JEaDBoMHFhZz09 |title=Sport - Tenisz - Körmöczy Zsuzsa |website=MTVA Archívum}}</ref>
* [[August 29]] 
** [[María Dolores Pradera]], Spanish singer, actress (d. [[2018]])
** [[Dinah Washington]], African-American singer, pianist (d. [[1963]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Norm N. Nite |author2=Wolfman Jack |title=Rock on: The solid gold years |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4404AQAAIAAJ |year=1982 |publisher=Harper & Row |isbn=978-0-06-181642-0 |page=645 |access-date=December 6, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182821/https://books.google.com/books?id=4404AQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Buddy Hackett]], American actor and comedian (d. [[2003]])

=== September ===
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* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Daniel arap Moi]], 2nd [[President of Kenya]] (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27498749 |work=BBC News |date=4 February 2020 |title=Obituary: Daniel arap Moi, former Kenyan president |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=November 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102102850/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27498749 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[September 4]] &ndash; [[Joan Aiken]], English writer (d. [[2004]])<ref name="AikenLowry1992">{{cite book |author1=Conrad Aiken |author2=Malcolm Lowry |title=The Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry, 1929-1954 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l9QfAQAAIAAJ |year=1992 |publisher=ECW Press |isbn=978-1-55022-168-8 |page=xi |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182826/https://books.google.com/books?id=l9QfAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[Daniel Inouye]], American politician (d. [[2012]])
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Mimi Parent]], Canadian painter (d. [[2005]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2005/06/17/mimi-parent-artiste-surrealiste_663300_3382.html |title=Mimi Parent, artiste surréaliste |date=17 June 2005 |author=Philippe Dagen |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |language=fr |access-date=15 October 2020 |archive-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020000643/https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2005/06/17/mimi-parent-artiste-surrealiste_663300_3382.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[September 9]]
** [[Jane Greer]], American actress (d. [[2001]])
** [[Sylvia Miles]], American actress (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/16/sylvia-miles-obituary |title=Sylvia Miles obituary |date=16 June 2019 |author=Ryan Gilbey |website=The Guardian |access-date=October 15, 2020}}</ref>
** [[Russell M. Nelson]], 17th President of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]<ref>{{cite book |author1=Davis Bitton |author2=Thomas G. Alexander |title=The A to Z of Mormonism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDhTx2E3350C&pg=PA158 |date=25 November 2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7060-4 |pages=158 |access-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511182817/https://books.google.com/books?id=zDhTx2E3350C&pg=PA158#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Rik Van Steenbergen]], Belgian cyclist (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Frédérique Galametz |author2=Philippe Bouvet |title=The Official Encyclopedia of the Yellow Jersey: 100 Years of the Yellow Jersey (Maillot Jaune) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xDadDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT438 |date=13 June 2019 |publisher=Octopus |isbn=978-0-600-63648-9 |pages=438 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184152/https://books.google.com/books?id=xDadDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT438 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Rudolf Vrba]], Slovak-Jewish Holocaust survivor, escapee from Auschwitz (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Vrba |first=Rudolf |year=2002 |orig-year=1963 |title=I Escaped from Auschwitz |location=Fort Lee, NJ |publisher=Barricade Books |isbn=9-78-1569-802328 |page=445}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Maurice Jarre]], French composer (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Royal S. Brown |title=Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YjZN-44Z8AcC&pg=PA305 |date=18 October 1994 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-91477-3 |pages=305 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184159/https://books.google.com/books?id=YjZN-44Z8AcC&pg=PA305#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[György Lázár]], 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[2014]])
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Lauren Bacall]], American actress (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Frank Northen Magill |title=Great Lives from History: American women series |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j2kYAAAAIAAJ |year=1995 |publisher=Salem Press |isbn=978-0-89356-892-4 |page=113 |access-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184135/https://books.google.com/books?id=j2kYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Eloísa Mafalda]], Brazilian actress (d. [[2018]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Suchitra Mitra]], Indian singer and composer (d. [[2011]])
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Akkineni Nageswara Rao]], Indian actor and producer (d. [[2014]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Hermann Buhl]], Austrian mountaineer (d. [[1957]])
* [[September 22]]
** [[Bernard Gauthier]], French racing cyclist (d. [[2018]])
** [[Emile Wijntuin]], Surinamese politician (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.srherald.com/suriname/2014/09/22/emile-wijntuin-viert-90ste-verjaardag/ |title=Emile Wijntuin viert 90ste verjaardag |publisher=Suriname Herald |date=22 September 2014 |language=nl |access-date=8 May 2020 |archive-date=November 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103191355/http://www.srherald.com/suriname/2014/09/22/emile-wijntuin-viert-90ste-verjaardag/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Rosamunde Pilcher]], English novelist (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/07/rosamunde-pilcher-obituary |title=Rosamunde Pilcher obituary |first=Felicity |last=Bryan |newspaper=The Guardian |date=7 February 2019 |access-date=7 February 2019 |via=www.theguardian.com |archive-date=February 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190208090552/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/07/rosamunde-pilcher-obituary |url-status=live }}</ref> 
* [[September 24]]
**[[Nina Bocharova]], Soviet gymnast (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://beyondthedash.com/obituary/nina-bocharova-1079982685|title=Bocharova, star of 1st Soviet Olympic gymnastics team, dies|date=September 3, 2020|website=Beyond the Dash|access-date=July 23, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184147/https://beyondthedash.com/obituary/nina-bocharova-1079982685|url-status=live}}</ref>
**[[Marcello Mastroianni]], Italian actor (d. [[1996]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Contemporary|author2=Contemporary Books|title=Chase's Annual Events: The Day-By-Day Directory to 1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQoBM1qCk5wC|year=1993|publisher=Contemporary books|isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6|access-date=July 23, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124833/https://books.google.com/books?id=zQoBM1qCk5wC|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Truman Capote]], American author (d. [[1984]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Jay Parini |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA228 |year=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-515653-9 |pages=228 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184119/https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA228#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== October ===
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* [[October 1]]
** [[Jimmy Carter]], 39th [[President of the United States]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[2024]])
** [[William Rehnquist]], 16th [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[October 5]] – [[José Donoso]], Chilean writer (d. [[1996]])
* [[October 10]]
** [[Umar Wirahadikusumah]], 4th [[Vice President of Indonesia]] (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=O. G. Roeder |author2=Mahiddin Mahmud |title=Who's who in Indonesia: Biographies of Prominent Indonesian Personalities in All Fields |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3cKFAAAAIAAJ |year=1980 |publisher=Gunung Agung |page=21 |isbn=9789971830274 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184157/https://books.google.com/books?id=3cKFAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Ed Wood]], American B-movie producer (d. [[1978]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Dennis Fischer |title=Horror Film Directors, 1931-1990 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVNZAAAAMAAJ |year=1991 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-89950-609-8 |page=839 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184145/https://books.google.com/books?id=TVNZAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Mal Whitfield]], American Olympic athlete (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/mal-whitfield |title=Mal Whitfield |website=Olympic.org |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-date=March 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311003220/https://www.olympic.org/mal-whitfield |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[October 14]] 
** [[Robert Webber]], American actor (d. [[1989]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Linda S. Hubbard |author2=Sara J. Steen |title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DBhI_8ccuB4C |date=September 1989 |publisher=Cengage Gale |isbn=978-0-8103-2070-3 |page=436 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184733/https://books.google.com.gt/books?id=DBhI_8ccuB4C&redir_esc=y |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Ramón Castro Ruz]], Cuban revolutionary (d. [[2016]])
* [[October 15]]
** [[Henry Sy]], Chinese-Filipino business magnate (d. [[2019]])
** [[Lee Iacocca]], American industrialist (d. [[2019]])
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Prince Makonnen]], member of the Ethiopian royal family (d. [[1957]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Lubomír Štrougal]], Czech politician (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Harris M. Lentz |title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA217 |date=4 February 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-26490-2 |pages=217 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184731/https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA217#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> 
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Chin Peng]], Secretary-General of the [[Malayan Communist Party]] (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vat |first=Dan van der |date=2013-09-22 |title=Chin Peng obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/22/chin-peng |access-date=2024-03-26 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202074202/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/22/chin-peng |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Aji Muhammad Salehuddin II]], Indonesian royal (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://kaltim.tribunnews.com/2018/08/06/sultan-aji-muhammad-salehuddin-ii-berpulang-praboe-anoem-soerya-sebagai-pengganti |title=sultan aji muhammad salehuddin ii berpulang praboe anoem soerya sebagai pengganti |website=Tribun Kaltim |date=6 August 2018 |access-date=29 September 2020 |archive-date=November 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103143903/https://kaltim.tribunnews.com/2018/08/06/sultan-aji-muhammad-salehuddin-ii-berpulang-praboe-anoem-soerya-sebagai-pengganti |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Bernard Middleton]], British restoration bookbinder (d. [[2019]])<ref name="Silverman2019">{{cite book |last=Silverman |first=Randy |author-link= |date=2019 |title=Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding |chapter=Bernard C. Middleton, MBE (1924–2019): A Biography and Bibliography |volume=VI |url=https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62z727d |location=Ann Arbor, Michigan |publisher=The Legacy Press |editor=Julia Miller |pages=418–459 |isbn=9781940965161 |access-date=20 January 2023 |archive-date=August 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802044642/https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s62z727d |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== November ===
[[File:Shirley Chisholm.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Shirley Chisholm]]]]
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Süleyman Demirel]], [[President of Turkey]] (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Roger East |title=Whitaker's Almanack World Heads of State, 1998 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5mCFigy0N6MC |year=1998 |publisher=Stationery Office |isbn=978-0-11-702204-1 |page=249 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184710/https://books.google.com/books?id=5mCFigy0N6MC |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles]], Hungarian gymnast (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/erzsebet-gulyas-koteles |title=Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles |website=Olympic.org |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date= |archive-date=October 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008120234/https://www.olympic.org/erzsebet-gulyas-koteles |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 8]] 
** [[Johnny Bower]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Brian Mlazgar |author2=Holden Stoffel |title=Saskatchewan Sports: Lives Past and Present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k7ptThh_6qgC&pg=PA18 |year=2007 |publisher=University of Regina Press |isbn=978-0-88977-167-3 |pages=18 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184732/https://books.google.com/books?id=k7ptThh_6qgC&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Dmitry Yazov]], [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://meduza.io/news/2020/02/25/umer-marshal-sovetskogo-soyuza-dmitriy-yazov |title=Умер маршал Советского Союза Дмитрий Язов |language=ru |date=2020-02-25 |access-date=2020-02-25 |website=[[Meduza]] |archive-date=February 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225073235/https://meduza.io/news/2020/02/25/umer-marshal-sovetskogo-soyuza-dmitriy-yazov |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Robert Frank]], Swiss photographer (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Hopkinson |first=Amanda |title=Robert Frank obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/10/robert-frank-obituary |access-date=January 14, 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=September 10, 2019}}</ref>
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[Sunder Lal Patwa]], Indian politician (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book |author=India. Parliament. Lok Sabha |title=Who's who |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=drk_Lst8gh8C |year=2000 |publisher=Parliament Secretariat |page=762}}</ref>
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Motoo Kimura]], Japanese population geneticist (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Crow |first1=J. F. |author-link=James F. Crow |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1997.0014 |title=Motoo Kimura. 13 November 1924–13 November 1994: Elected For.Mem.R.S. 1993 |journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] |volume=43 |pages=255–265 |year=1997|s2cid=44725944 }}</ref>
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Rosa Helena Álvarez Yepes]], First Lady of Colombia (d. [[1998]])
* [[November 16]] 
** [[Erika Mahringer]], Austrian alpine skier (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2944970/ |title=Ex-Skirennläuferin Riki Mahringer verstorben |date=2018-11-01 |website=tirol.orf.at |language=de-DE |access-date=2018-11-01 |archive-date=April 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403023250/https://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2944970/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Mel Patton]], American athlete (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/mel-patton |title=Mel Patton |website=Olympic.org |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-date=March 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301205521/https://www.olympic.org/mel-patton |url-status=live }}</ref> 
* [[November 19]] – [[William Russell (English actor)|William Russell]], English actor (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{Cite news |last=Coveney |first=Michael |date=2024-06-04 |title=William Russell obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jun/04/william-russell-obituary |access-date=2024-06-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Benoit Mandelbrot]], Polish-born mathematician (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Christopher G Brown Phdvii |title=Invent More |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcqi_b2yt-oC&pg=PA45 |date=25 June 1985 |publisher=cri-one aka chris brown |isbn=978-1-4610-3848-1 |pages=45 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184722/https://books.google.com/books?id=dcqi_b2yt-oC&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 21]] 
** [[Joseph Campanella]], American actor (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Sandomir |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Sandomir |date=May 17, 2018 |title=Joseph Campanella, 93, Ubiquitous Character Actor, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/obituaries/joseph-campanella-93-ubiquitous-character-actor-dies.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=May 17, 2018 |archive-date=May 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180518052225/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/obituaries/joseph-campanella-93-ubiquitous-character-actor-dies.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Christopher Tolkien]], English author, academic and [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s son (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Slawson |first=Nicola |date=16 January 2020 |title=JRR Tolkien's son Christopher dies aged 95 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/jrr-tolkiens-son-christopher-dies-aged-95 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=17 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117154518/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/jrr-tolkiens-son-christopher-dies-aged-95 |archive-date=17 January 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Geraldine Page]], American actress (d. [[1987]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Lawrence O. Christensen |author2=William E. Foley |author3=Gary Kremer |title=Dictionary of Missouri Biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gyxWHRLAWgC&pg=PA590 |date=October 1999 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |isbn=978-0-8262-6016-1 |pages=590 |access-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184659/https://books.google.com/books?id=6gyxWHRLAWgC&pg=PA590#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Anita Linda]], Filipino actress (d. [[2020]])
* [[November 25]]
** [[Paul Desmond]], American jazz alto saxophonist and composer (d. [[1977]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Eric J. Morones |author2=Paul Desmond |title=Paul Desmond - Saxophone Signature Licks: A Step-by-Step Breakdown of the Sax Styles and Techniques of a Jazz Great |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VSbKAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA46 |date=1 December 2008 |publisher=Hal Leonard |isbn=978-1-4768-8718-0 |pages=46 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511184720/https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=VSbKAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA46&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Takaaki Yoshimoto]], Japanese poet, critic and philosopher (d. [[2012]])
** [[A. Hamid Arief]], Indonesian actor (d. [[1992]])
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Bhekimpi Dlamini]], 4th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. [[1999]])
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Dennis Brutus]], South African poet and anti-apartheid activist (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Craig W. McLuckie |author2=Patrick J. Colbert |title=Critical Perspectives on Dennis Brutus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=564xFrnXjW0C&pg=PA1 |year=1995 |publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers |isbn=978-0-89410-769-6 |pages=1 |access-date=December 6, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185353/https://books.google.com/books?id=564xFrnXjW0C&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 30]] 
** [[Shirley Chisholm]], African-American politician (d. [[2005]])
** [[Otto Kaiser (scholar)|Otto Kaiser]], German biblical scholar (d. [[2017]])
** [[Allan Sherman]], American comedy writer, television producer and song parodist (d. [[1973]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Current Biography Yearbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZMYAAAAIAAJ |year=1975 |publisher=H. W. Wilson Company |isbn=978-0-8242-0551-5 |page=469 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185359/https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZMYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== December ===
[[File:M%C3%A1rio_Soares_Dec2008.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mário Soares]]]]
[[File:Michael Manley.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michael Manley]]]]
[[File:Krishna bhattarai.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Krishna Prasad Bhattarai]]]]
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<!--[[File:Cicely Tyson.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Cicely Tyson]]]]-->
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Alexander Haig]], American politician, U.S. Secretary of State (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Mitchell K. Hall |title=Historical Dictionary of the Nixon-Ford Era |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=af6xAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 |date=22 February 2008 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6410-8 |pages=97 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185404/https://books.google.com/books?id=af6xAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 3]] &ndash; [[Francisco Sionil José]], Filipino novelist, [[National Artist of the Philippines|Philippine National Artist for Literature]]<ref>{{cite book |author=Francisco Sionil José |title=Conversations with F. Sionil Jose |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvZaAAAAMAAJ |year=1991 |publisher=Vera-Reyes |isbn=978-971-536-103-3 |page=5 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185345/https://books.google.com/books?id=WvZaAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> (d. [[2022]])
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Jakub Tomasz Nowakowski|Jakub Nowakowski]],  Polish [[zoologist]], participant of the [[Warsaw Uprising]]<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.1944.pl/archiwum-historii-mowionej/jakub-tomasz-nowakowski,1380.html | title = ''Jakub Tomasz Nowakowski "Tomek" "Tomasz"'' | publisher = 1944.pl | language = pl | access-date = 9 September 2024}}</ref>
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Wally Cox]], American [[television]], [[motion picture]] actor (d. [[1973]])
* [[December 7]]
** [[Bent Fabric]], Danish pianist and composer (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Joseph Murrells |title=Million Selling Records from the 1900s to the 1980s: An Illustrated Directory |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5iIKAQAAMAAJ |year=1984 |publisher=B.T. Batsford |isbn=978-0-7134-3843-7 |page=163 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185346/https://books.google.com/books?id=5iIKAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Mário Soares]], 105th [[Prime Minister of Portugal]], 17th [[President of Portugal]] (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Douglas L. Wheeler |author2=Walter C. Opello, Jr. |title=Historical Dictionary of Portugal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-3kxBySncsC&pg=PA252 |date=10 May 2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7075-8 |pages=252 |access-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185350/https://books.google.com/books?id=e-3kxBySncsC&pg=PA252#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Michael Manley]], 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. [[1997]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Cheryl L. A. King |title=Michael Manley and Democratic Socialism: Political Leadership and Ideology in Jamaica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=31j7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA64 |date=9 May 2003 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-72520-124-8 |pages=64 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190032/https://books.google.com/books?id=31j7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Ed Koch]], Mayor of New York City (1978–1989) (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=John C. Super |author2=Tracy Irons-Georges |title=The Seventies in America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dGkKAQAAMAAJ |year=2006 |publisher=Salem Press |isbn=978-1-58765-230-1 |page=536}}</ref>
* [[December 13]] 
** [[Krishna Prasad Bhattarai]], 29th [[Prime Minister of Nepal]] (d. [[2011]])
** [[Maria Riva]], German-born American actress
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Raj Kapoor]], Indian actor, producer and director (d. [[1988]])<ref>{{cite book |title=The Annual Obituary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jmIYAAAAIAAJ |year=1988 |publisher=St. Martin's |isbn=978-1-55862-050-6 |page=279 |access-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185940/https://books.google.com/books?id=jmIYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Nissim Ezekiel]], [[Indian Jewish]] poet, actor, playwright, editor and art critic (d. [[2004]])<ref name="Mohan">{{cite book |author=Madhuri R. Shah, Ramesh Mohan |title=Symphony: A Book of Poems |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxmpcg2aMtkC&pg=PA91 |publisher=Allied Publishers |pages=91 |access-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190032/https://books.google.com/books?id=fxmpcg2aMtkC&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 19]]
** [[Michel Tournier]], French writer (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Susan Petit |title=Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sjQk4DvJ_OoC&pg=PA78 |date=1 January 1991 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing |isbn=90-272-7774-5 |pages=78 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190000/https://books.google.com/books?id=sjQk4DvJ_OoC&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Cicely Tyson]], American actress (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite book |author= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-xrDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA603 |title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2017: The Ultimate Go-To Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months |date=23 September 2016 |publisher=Bernan Press |isbn=978-1-59888-859-1 |editor-last=McGuire |editor-first=Holly |pages=603 |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190003/https://books.google.com/books?id=q-xrDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA603#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Charlie Callas]], American actor and comedian (d. [[2011]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Bob Kurland]], American basketball player (d. [[2013]])<ref name="Fame1974">{{cite book |author=Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |title=Official Souvenir Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSgSAQAAMAAJ |year=1974 |publisher=Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |page=1957 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185955/https://books.google.com/books?id=CSgSAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 24]]
** [[Abdirizak Haji Hussein]], Somali diplomat, politician and 4th [[Prime Minister of Somalia]] (d. [[2014]])
** [[Mohammed Rafi]], Indian [[playback singer]] (d. [[1980]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Nagendra Kr Singh |title=Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: Muh-R |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RhJuAAAAMAAJ |year=2001 |publisher=A.P.H. Publishing Corporation |isbn=978-81-7648-234-9 |page=481 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511185956/https://books.google.com/books?id=RhJuAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 25]]
** [[Moktar Ould Daddah]], 1st [[President of Mauritania]] (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Cas De Villiers |author2=Elize Moody |title=Francophone Africa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sLsMAQAAIAAJ |year=1974 |publisher=Africa Institute of South Africa |page=125 |isbn=9780798300414 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190840/https://books.google.com/books?id=sLsMAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Rod Serling]], American television screenwriter (''The Twilight Zone'') (d. [[1975]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Rod Serling: Dimensions of Imagination |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BZQHAQAAMAAJ |year=1984 |publisher=Museum of Broadcasting |page=4 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190833/https://books.google.com/books?id=BZQHAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]], 10th [[Prime Minister of India]] (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Priya Ranjan Trivedi |title=Atal Bihari Vajpayee: The Man India Needs : the Most Appropriate Leader for the Twentyfirst Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGtuAAAAMAAJ |year=2000 |publisher=World Institution Building Programme |page=181 |isbn=9788176960014 |access-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190901/https://books.google.com/books?id=uGtuAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Fatimah Hashim]], Malaysian politician (d. [[2010]])
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Girma Wolde-Giorgis]], 2nd [[President of Ethiopia]] (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ethiopiaobserver.com/2016/10/the-life-of-girma-wolde-giorgis/ |title=The Life of Girma Wolde Giorgis |author=Arefayné Fantahun |date=14 October 2016 |website=Ethiopia Observer |access-date=23 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123204932/http://www.ethiopiaobserver.com/2016/10/the-life-of-girma-wolde-giorgis/ |archive-date=23 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Yvonne Brill]], Canadian-American engineer (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/27851.aspx |title=Deceased Members - Ms. Yvonne C. Brill |publisher=[[National Academy of Engineering]] |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-date=October 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017052558/https://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/27851.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Deaths ==
{{BD ToC|deaths}}

=== January ===
[[File:LeninEnSuizaMarzo1916--barbaroussovietr00mcbr.png|thumb|110px|[[Vladimir Lenin]]]]
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Sabine Baring-Gould]], British composer and novelist (b. [[1834]])<ref>{{cite book |author=John Betjeman |title=Coming Home |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6SRXAAAAYAAJ |year=1998 |publisher=Vintage |isbn=978-0-09-926843-7 |page=168 |access-date=December 6, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190918/https://books.google.com/books?id=6SRXAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[January 13]]
** [[Albert Abrams]], American doctor (b. [[1863]])
** [[Georg Hermann Quincke]], German physicist (b. [[1834]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Luther Emmett Holt]], American pediatrician (b. [[1855]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Licerio Gerónimo]], Filipino military leader (b. [[1855]])
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Vladimir Lenin]], Russian revolutionary, first [[Premier of the Soviet Union]] (b. [[1870]])
* [[January 24]] 
** [[Auguste-Louis-Alberic, prince d'Arenberg]] (b. [[1837]])
** [[Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Teófilo Braga]], Portuguese writer (b. [[1843]])
* [[January 30]] &ndash; [[Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier]] (b. [[1884]])

=== February ===
[[File:President Woodrow Wilson portrait December 2 1912.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Woodrow Wilson]]]]
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Woodrow Wilson]], 28th [[President of the United States]], [[Nobel Peace Prize]] recipient (b. [[1856]])<ref>{{cite book |author=United States. Naval History Division |title=Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0OtHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA455 |year=1981 |pages=455 |access-date=December 9, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190848/https://books.google.com/books?id=0OtHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA455#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Jacques Loeb]], German–born American physiologist and biologist (b. [[1859]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10081-loeb-jacques |title=Loeb, Jacques |website=Jewish Encyclopedia |access-date=February 21, 2021 |archive-date=October 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017141744/https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10081-loeb-jacques |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[February 16]]
** [[Henry Bacon]], American architect (b. [[1866]])
** [[John William Kendrick]], American railroad executive (b. [[1853]])
** [[Wilhelm Schmidt (engineer)|Wilhelm Schmidt]], German pioneer of superheated steam for use in locomotives (b. [[1858]])
* [[February 17]]
** [[Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère]], French admiral (b. [[1852]])
** [[Oskar Merikanto]], Finnish composer (b. [[1868]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.naxos.com/person/Oskar_Merikanto/25688.htm|title=Recordings by Oskar Merikanto &#124; Now available to stream and purchase at Naxos|website=www.naxos.com}}</ref>
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Manuel Tinio]], Filipino general and politician (b. [[1877]])
* [[February 29]] &ndash; [[Emily Ruete]], princess of Zanzibar (b. [[1844]])

=== March ===
[[File:Wollert_Konow_(SB),_Stortinget.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Wollert Konow (Prime Minister of Norway)|Willert Konow]]]]
[[File:Nilo_Pe%C3%A7anha_02.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Nilo Pecanha]]]]
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Fanny Eaton]], Jamaican artist's model (b. [[1835]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Panagiotis Danglis]], Greek military leader, politician (b. [[1853]])
* [[March 11]] 
** [[Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg]] (b. [[1868]])
** [[Ivan Evstratiev Geshov]], 18th [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (b. [[1849]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Wollert Konow (Prime Minister of Norway)|Wollert Konow]], Norwegian politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of Norway]] (b. [[1845]])
* [[March 22]] 
** [[Louis Delluc]], French film director (b. [[1890]])
** Sir [[William Macewen]], British surgeon (b. [[1848]])
** [[Robert Nivelle]], French World War I general (b. [[1856]])
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Prince Kachō Hirotada]] of Japan (b. [[1902]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; Sir [[Charles Villiers Stanford]], Irish composer, resident in United Kingdom (b. [[1852]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Rodmell|first=Paul|year=2002|title=Charles Villiers Stanford|location=Aldershot|publisher=Scolar Press|isbn=1-85928-198-2|pages=330–333}}</ref>
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Nilo Peçanha]], Brazilian politician and 7th [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1867]])

=== April ===
[[File:MarieCorelli.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Marie Corelli]]]]
[[File:Portrait of Eleonora Duse.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Eleonora Duse]]]]
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Arnold Pick]], Czechoslovakian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. [[1851]])
* [[April 10]] 
** [[Rafael Yglesias Castro]], Costa Rican politician, 16th [[President of Costa Rica]] (b. [[1861]])
** [[Hugo Stinnes]], German industrialist, politician (b. [[1870]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Louis Sullivan]], American architect (b. [[1856]])
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[Paul Boyton]], Irish-American extreme water sports pioneer (b. [[1848]])
* [[April 21]] 
** [[Marie Corelli]], English novelist (b. [[1855]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Eileen Bigland|title=Marie Corelli, the Woman and the Legend: A Biography|publisher=Jarrolds|year=1953|page=11}}</ref>
** [[Eleonora Duse]], Italian actress (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Duse, Eleonora (1858-1924), actress |url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1801621 |website=American National Biography |year=2000 |access-date=22 January 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1801621 |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 |last1=Fisher |first1=James |archive-date=September 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901113343/https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1801621 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[G. Stanley Hall]], American psychologist, educator (b. [[1846]])<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/hall-g-stanley.pdf |title=National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir of Granville Stanley Hall |first=Edward L. |last=Thorndike |author-link=Edward Thorndike |year=1925 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=February 26, 2022 |archive-date=August 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801060023/http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/hall-g-stanley.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== May ===
[[File:George_Kennan_1885.jpg|thumb|110px|[[George Kennan (explorer)|George Kennan]]]]
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[E. Nesbit]], British author (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=E. Nesbit {{!}} English author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-Nesbit |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=31 March 2019 |language=en |archive-date=October 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017141953/https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-Nesbit |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema]], Dutch poet (b. [[1877]])
* [[May 10]] &ndash; [[George Kennan (explorer)|George Kennan]], American explorer (b. [[1845]])
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant]], French diplomat, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1852]])
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Victor Herbert]], Irish composer (b. [[1859]])

=== June ===
[[File:Kafka1906.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Franz Kafka]]]]
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Franz Kafka]], Austrian author (''The Trial'') (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Brod |first=Max |author-link=Max Brod |title=Franz Kafka: A Biography |url=https://archive.org/details/franzkafkabiogra00brod |url-access=registration |year=1960 |publisher=Schocken Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8052-0047-8 |page=211}}</ref>
* [[June 9]]
** [[Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)|Andrew Irvine]], British mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. [[1902]])
** [[George Mallory]], British mountain climber (lost on Mount Everest) (b. [[1886]])
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Giacomo Matteotti]], Italian socialist politician (assassinated) (b. [[1885]])
* [[June 11]]
**[[Théodore Dubois]], French composer, teacher (b. [[1837]])
**[[Jacob Israël de Haan]], Dutch-Jewish literary writer, journalist (b. [[1881]])
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Johannes von Eben]], German general (b. [[1855]])

=== July ===
[[File:FerruccioBusoni1913.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ferruccio Busoni]]]]
* [[July 14]]
** [[Isabella Ford]], British socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (b. [[1855]])
** [[Isabella Stewart Gardner]], American art collector, philanthropist (b. [[1840]])
* [[July 23]] &ndash; [[Frank Frost Abbott]], American classical scholar (b. [[1860]])
* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[Ferruccio Busoni]], Italian pianist, composer (b. [[1866]])

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

=== September ===
[[File:Sultan_Muhammad_Jamalul_Alam_II(Brunei).jpg|thumb|110px|Sultan [[Muhammad Jamalul Alam II]]]]
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Samuel Baldwin Marks Young]], American general, first [[Chief of Staff of the United States Army]] (b. [[1840]])
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria]] (b. [[1868]])
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Jamalul Alam II]], [[Sultan of Brunei]] (b. [[1889]])
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Frank Chance]], American baseball player, [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1877]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[F. H. Bradley]], English philosopher (b. [[1846]])
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza]], Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. [[1854]])<ref>{{lang in|de}} [https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz44078.html Entry] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902084143/https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz44078.html |date=September 2, 2018 }} in ''[[Neue Deutsche Biographie]]''</ref>
* [[September 24]] 
** [[Manuel Estrada Cabrera]], 13th [[President of Guatemala]] (b. [[1857]])
** [[Imperial Noble Consort Wenjing|Consort Jin]], Qing Dynasty imperial consort (b. [[1873]])
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Lotta Crabtree]], American stage actress (b. [[1847]])

=== October ===
[[File:F H Burnett.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Frances Hodgson Burnett]]]]
* [[October 12]] 
** [[Anatole France]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1844]])<ref>{{cite book |author=André Gide |title=The Journals, 1889-1949: 1889-1924 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xsgNAQAAIAAJ |year=1956 |publisher=Vintage Books |page=3 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511190845/https://books.google.com/books?id=xsgNAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Kate Lester]], American stage and silent screen actress (b. [[1857]])
* [[October 18]] 
** [[Giovanni Ancillotto]], Italian World War I flying ace (b. [[1896]])
** [[Franz Schrader]], French mountaineer, geographer, cartographer, and landscape painter (b. [[1844]])
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Luigi Pelloux]], 14th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. [[1839]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Frances Hodgson Burnett]], Anglo-American writer (b. [[1849]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Joanne Shattock |title=The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KoEYAAAAIAAJ |year=1993 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-214176-7 |page=76 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511191810/https://books.google.com/books?id=KoEYAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== November ===
[[File:Dean O'Banion 1921.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Dean O'Banion]]]]
[[File:GiacomoPuccini.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Giacomo Puccini]]]]
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Mario di Carpegna]], Italian general, politician (b. [[1856]])
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Fauré]], French composer (b. [[1845]])<ref>{{cite book|last= Duchen |first= Jessica |author-link= Jessica Duchen |year= 2000 |title= Gabriel Fauré |location= London |publisher= Phaidon |isbn= 0-7148-3932-9|page=212}}</ref>
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Henry Cabot Lodge]], American politician (b. [[1850]])
* [[November 10]] 
** Sir [[Archibald Geikie]], British geologist (b. [[1835]])<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=33364|title=Geikie, Sir Archibald (1835-1924), geologist and historian|last= Oldroyd|first= David}}</ref>
** [[Dean O'Banion]], American gangster (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dion-OBannion |title=Dion O'Bannion American gangster |access-date=October 3, 2023 |archive-date=October 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017141824/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dion-OBannion |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[E. D. Morel]], French-born British journalist and politician (b. [[1873]])
* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[Thomas H. Ince]], American film producer (b. [[1880]])
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Ebenezer Cobb Morley]], English sportsman and the [[List of persons considered father or mother of a field|father]] of [[the Football Association]] and modern [[Association football|football]] (b. [[1831]])
* [[November 21]] &ndash; [[Florence Harding]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1860]])
* [[November 29]] &ndash; [[Giacomo Puccini]], Italian composer (b. [[1858]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2012/11/29/the-death-of-giacomo-puccini-brussels-29-november-1924/ |title=The Death of Giacomo Puccini |publisher=The British Newspaper Archive |date=29 November 2012 |access-date=16 January 2015 |archive-date=February 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202093628/http://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2012/11/29/the-death-of-giacomo-puccini-brussels-29-november-1924/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== December ===
[[File:Cipriano Castro 1908.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Cipriano Castro]]]]
* [[December 2]]
** [[Kazimieras Būga]], Lithuanian linguist (b. [[1879]])
** [[Hugo von Seeliger]], German astronomer (b. [[1849]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Jagdish Mehra |author-link1=Jagdish Mehra |author2=Helmut Rechenberg |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg |title=The Discovery of Quantum Mechanics, 1925 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eg3jPXgkR1cC&pg=PA25 |date=28 December 2000 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-0-387-95176-8 |pages=25 |access-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511191812/https://books.google.com/books?id=Eg3jPXgkR1cC&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Cipriano Castro]], Venezuelan military officer, politician and 38th [[President of Venezuela]] (b. [[1858]])
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[S. Subramania Iyer]], Indian lawyer and freedom fighter (b. [[1842]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Gene Stratton-Porter]], American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. [[1863]])<ref>{{cite book | author=Barbara Olenyik Morrow | title =Nature's Storyteller: The Life of Gene Stratton-Porter | publisher =Indiana Historical Society | year =2010 | location =Indianapolis| isbn =978-0-87195-284-4|pages=28, 137–9}}</ref>
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Xaver Scharwenka]], Polish-German composer (b. [[1850]])
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Samuel Gompers]], American labor leader (b. [[1850]])
* [[December 15]] &ndash; [[Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]] (b. [[1853]])
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Luis Emilio Recabarren]], Chilean politician, founder of the [[Communist Party of Chile]]. (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Translations on Latin America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IMFnAAAAMAAJ |year=1969 |publisher=Joint Publications Research Service |page=39 |access-date=December 9, 2020 |archive-date=May 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511191741/https://books.google.com/books?id=IMFnAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Ricardo Bellver]], Spanish sculptor (b. [[1845]])
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Anna Hierta-Retzius]], Swedish women's rights activist (b. [[1841]])
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Agda Meyerson]], Swedish nurse, healthcare profession activist (b. [[1866]])
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Carl Spitteler]], Swiss writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1845]])
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Samuel William Knaggs|Sir Samuel Knaggs]], British civil servant (b. [[1856]])

== Nobel Prizes ==
[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] &ndash; [[Manne Siegbahn]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] &ndash; not awarded
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] &ndash; [[Willem Einthoven]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] &ndash; [[Władysław Reymont|Władysław Stanisław Reymont]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] &ndash; not awarded

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

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