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Building]] opens in New York City, becoming the world’s tallest skyscraper and a symbol of modern ambition.
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==Events==

===January===
{{Main|January 1931}}
* [[January 2]] – [[South Dakota]] native [[Ernest Lawrence]] invents the [[cyclotron]], used to accelerate particles to study [[nuclear physics]].
* [[January 4]] – German pilot [[Elly Beinhorn]] begins her flight to Africa.
* [[January 22]] – Sir [[Isaac Isaacs]] is sworn in as the first Australian-born [[Governor-General of Australia]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent |first=Acton Peninsula |title=National Museum of Australia - First Australian-born governor-general |url=https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/first-australian-born-governor-general |access-date=2025-08-05 |website=www.nma.gov.au |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] – [[Mohandas Gandhi]] is again released from imprisonment in India.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FauJL7LKXmkC&q=gandhi+prison1931&pg=PA127|title=Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire|last=Gandhi|first=Rajmohan|date=2008|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520255708|language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] – [[Pierre Laval]] forms a government in France.
* [[January 30]] – [[Charlie Chaplin]] comedy drama film ''[[City Lights]]'' receives its public premiere at the [[Los Angeles Theater]] with [[Albert Einstein]] as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a [[silent film]], but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time.<ref>{{cite web|title=City Lights|url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/city_lights.pdf|last=Vance|first=Jeffrey|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|access-date=2021-01-09}}</ref>

===February===
{{Main|February 1931}}
[[File:Delhi India Government.jpg|thumb|230px|right|[[February 10]]: New Delhi becomes India's capital]]
[[File:Ford Trimotor.jpg|thumb|200x200px|[[February 21]]: [[Ford Trimotor]] hijacked]]
* [[February 4]] – Soviet leader [[Joseph Stalin]] gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The [[First five-year plan (Soviet Union)|first five-year plan]] in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture.
* [[February 10]] – Official inauguration ceremonies for New Delhi as the capital of India begin.<ref>{{cite news|title=New Delhi: The Inaugural Ceremony|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London|date=1931-02-11|issue=45744|page=12}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] – [[Pehr Evind Svinhufvud]] is elected president of Finland.
* [[February 19]] – The [[Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia]] is dissolved and reformed as the [[Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]], an [[Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics|autonomous republic]] of [[Soviet Georgia]], resulting in public protests.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Blauvelt|first=Timothy|author-link=Timothy K. Blauvelt|date=May 2007|title=Abkhazia: Patronage and Power in the Stalin Era|journal=Nationalities Papers|volume=35|issue=2|pages=203–232|doi=10.1080/00905990701254318|s2cid=128803263}}</ref>
* [[February 21]] – [[Peru]]vian revolutionaries hijack a [[Ford Trimotor]] aeroplane, and demand that the pilot drop [[propaganda]] [[Flyer (pamphlet)|leaflet]]s over [[Lima]].

===March===
{{Main|March 1931}}
* [[March 5]] – The British [[viceroy]] of India and [[Mohandas Gandhi]] sign the [[Gandhi–Irwin Pact]].
* [[March 7]] – The Finnish [[Parliament House, Helsinki|Parliament House]] opens in [[Helsinki]], Finland.
* [[March 11]] – The ''[[Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR]]'' programme, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[March 23]] – Indian revolutionary leaders [[Bhagat Singh]], [[Shivaram Rajguru]] and [[Sukhdev Thapar]] are hanged for conspiracy to murder in the [[British Raj]].
* [[March 31]] – An [[1931 Nicaragua earthquake|earthquake]] destroys [[Managua]], [[Nicaragua]], killing 2,000 people.

===April===
{{Main|April 1931}}
* [[April 1]] – The [[Second Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet]] in China is launched by the [[Kuomintang]] government, to destroy the Communist forces in [[Jiangxi]] Province. 
* [[April 6]] – The Portuguese government declares martial law in [[Madeira]] and in the [[Azores]], because of the [[Madeira uprising]] in [[Funchal]].
* [[April 12]] – Municipal elections in Spain, which are treated as a virtual referendum on the monarchy, result in the triumph for the republican parties. 
* [[April 14]] – The [[Second Spanish Republic]] is proclaimed in [[Madrid]]. Meanwhile, as a result of the victory of the [[Republican Left of Catalonia]], [[Francesc Macià]] proclaims in [[Barcelona]] the [[Catalan Republic (1931)|Catalan Republic]], as a state of the Iberian Federation.
* [[April 15]] – Assassination of Giuseppe (Joe the Boss) Masseria, New York City Mafia boss.
* [[April 17]] – After the negotiations between the republican ministers of Spain and Catalonia, the Catalan Republic becomes the [[Generalitat of Catalonia]], a Catalan autonomous government inside the Spanish Republic.
* [[April 22]] – [[Austria]], the [[United Kingdom|UK]], [[Denmark]], [[Weimar Republic|Germany]], [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]], [[Sweden]] and the [[United States]] recognize the [[Second Spanish Republic|Spanish Republic]].
* [[April 25]] – The automobile manufacturer [[Porsche]] is founded by [[Ferdinand Porsche]] in [[Stuttgart]].

===May===
{{Main|May 1931}}
[[File:Manhattan at Dusk by slonecker.jpg|thumb|188x188px| [[May 1]]: [[Empire State Building]] is completed.]]
* [[May 1]] – Construction of the [[Empire State Building]] is completed in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of the New York City Landmark {{!}} Empire State Building |url=https://www.esbnyc.com/about/history |access-date=2025-09-16 |website=www.esbnyc.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 4]] – [[Kemal Atatürk]] is re-elected president of [[Turkey]].
* [[May 5]] – [[İsmet İnönü]] forms a new government in Turkey (7th government).
* [[May 11]] – The ''[[Creditanstalt]]'', Austria's largest bank, goes bankrupt, beginning the banking collapse in Central Europe that causes a worldwide financial meltdown.
* [[May 13]] – [[Paul Doumer]] is elected president of France.
* [[May 14]] – [[Ådalen shootings]]: Five people are killed in [[Ådalen]], Sweden, when soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
* [[May 15]]
** The Chinese Communists inflict a sharp defeat on the Kuomintang forces.
** [[Pope Pius XI]] issues the [[encyclical]] ''[[Quadragesimo anno]]'', on the "reconstruction of the social order".
* [[May 31]] – The Second Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet ends in the defeat of the Kuomintang.

===June===
{{Main|June 1931}}
* June–November – [[1931 China flood]]: the [[Yangtze]] and [[Huai River]]s flood in a populous region, leaving an estimated 422,000 dead (150,000 drowned) with many more dying of consequential starvation and disease in the aftermath.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Nature of Disaster in China The 1931 Yangzi River Flood|first=Chris|last=Courtney|year=2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/9781108278362|isbn=9781108278362|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nature-of-disaster-in-china/1483BBD53BA764B54EE882EF699B1299}}</ref>
* [[June 5]]
**German Chancellor [[Heinrich Brüning]] visits London, where he warns British Prime Minister [[Ramsay MacDonald]] that the collapse of the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the ''Creditanstalt'', has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse.
**Anti-Chinese rioting occurs in [[Pyongyang]]. Approximately 127 Chinese people are killed, 393 wounded, and a considerable number of properties are destroyed by Korean residents.<ref name="Wanpaoshan">{{cite book|last1=Em|first1=Henry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DxAd2Aw_jP0C|title=The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea, Part 2|date=2013|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0822353720|location=Durham|page=125|access-date=21 August 2017}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] – [[Saint-Philibert disaster]]: The overloaded pleasure craft ''Saint-Philibert'', carrying trippers home to Nantes from the Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the River [[Loire]] in France; over 450 drown.
* [[June 19]]
** In an attempt to stop the banking crisis in Central Europe from causing a worldwide financial meltdown, U.S. President [[Herbert Hoover]] issues the [[Hoover Moratorium]].
** The [[Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War (1929)|Geneva Convention (1929)]] relative to the treatment of [[prisoners of war]] enters into force.
* [[June 23]]–[[July 1]] – [[Wiley Post]] and [[Harold Gatty]] accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane, flying eastabout from [[Roosevelt Field (airport)|Roosevelt Field]], New York, in 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Wiley_Post/EX27.htm|publisher=centennialofflight.gov|title=Wiley Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008043851/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Wiley_Post/EX27.htm |archive-date=October 8, 2012}}</ref>

===July===
{{Main|July 1931}}
* [[July 1]] – The rebuilt [[Milano Centrale railway station]] officially opens in Italy.
* [[July 9]] – Irish racing driver [[Kaye Don]] breaks the world [[water speed record]] at Lake Garda, Italy.<ref>''BBC History'', July 2011, p12.</ref>
* [[July 10]] – Norway issues a royal proclamation claiming the uninhabited part of eastern [[Greenland]] as [[Erik the Red's Land]].
* [[July 13]] – Royal soldiers shoot and kill 22 people demonstrating against the [[Maharaja]] [[Hari Singh]], of the Indian princely state of [[Kashmir and Jammu (princely state)|Kashmir and Jammu]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/jammu-and-kashmir/jandk-observes-martyrs-day-cm-omar-pays-tributes_719325.html|title=J&K observes Martyrs' day: CM Omar pays tributes|date=2011-07-13|work=Zee News|access-date=2011-12-18}}</ref>
* [[July 16]] – Emperor [[Haile Selassie]] signs the first [[1931 Constitution of Ethiopia|Constitution of Ethiopia]].
* [[July 20]] – A violent tornado strikes the city of [[Lublin]], [[Poland]].

===August===
{{Main|August 1931}}
* [[August 2]] – [[Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck]]: Two [[Berlin]] police officers are killed by Communists.
* [[August 9]] – A referendum in [[Free State of Prussia|Prussia]] for dissolving the ''Landtag'' ends with the "yes" side winning 37% of the vote, which is insufficient for calling the early elections. The elections are intended to remove the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party]] (SPD) government of [[Otto Braun]]. Supporting the "yes" side were the [[NSDAP]], the [[DNVP]] and the [[Communist Party of Germany|Communist Party]] (KPD), while supporting the "no" side were the SPD and ''[[Zentrumspartei|Zentrum]]''. 
* [[August 24]] – The [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] Government of [[Ramsay MacDonald]] resigns in Britain, replaced by a [[National Government (United Kingdom)|National Government]] of people drawn from all parties, also under MacDonald.

===September===
{{Main|September 1931}}
[[File:Jiǔ-yībā Lìshǐ Bówùguǎn九・一八歴史博物館106997.jpg|thumb|[[September 18]]: The [[Mukden Incident]]: Incident Museum in [[Shenyang]]|230x230px]]
* [[September 7]] – The [[Round Table Conferences (India)#Second Round Table Conference (September 1931 – December 1931)|Second Round Table Conference]] on the constitutional future of India opens in London; [[Mahatma Gandhi]] represents the [[Indian National Congress]].
* [[September 10]] – The worst [[1931 Belize hurricane|hurricane]] in [[Belize|British Honduras]] history kills an estimated 1,500.
* [[September 18]] – The Japanese military stages the [[Mukden Incident]], an explosion blamed on Chinese dissidents and used as a pretext for the [[Japanese invasion of Manchuria]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sara Rector Smith|title=The Manchurian Crisis, 1931-1932: A Tragedy in International Relations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-dAmAQAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-8371-3344-7|page=22}}</ref>
* [[September 19]] – The United Kingdom abandons the [[gold standard]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Kanti Singh|title=The Great Depression and Agrarian Economy: A Study of an Underdeveloped Region of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xTFffW2iygwC&pg=PA63|date=1 January 1987|publisher=Mittal Publications|pages=63}}</ref>
* [[September 20]] – Held at gunpoint, the Chinese commander of [[Jilin|Kirin]] province announces the annexation of that territory to Japan.

===October===
{{Main|October 1931}}
* [[October 5]] – American aviators [[Clyde Edward Pangborn]] and Hugh Herndon Jr., complete the first [[non-stop flight]] across the Pacific Ocean, flying their plane, ''[[Miss Veedol]]'', from [[Misawa, Aomori|Misawa, Japan]], to [[East Wenatchee, Washington]], in 41½ hours.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr//travel/aviation/pan.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123025521/http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/aviation/pan.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 23, 2007|work=Aviation: From Sand Dunes To Sonic Booms|publisher=[[National Park Service]]|access-date=2012-05-31}}</ref>
* [[October 11]] – A rally in Bad Harzburg, Germany leads to the [[Harzburg Front]] being founded, uniting the NSDAP, the DNVP, the ''Stahlhelm'' and various other right-wing factions. 
* [[October 24]] – The [[George Washington Bridge]] across the [[Hudson River]] in the United States is dedicated; it opens to traffic the following day. At {{convert|3500|ft|m}}, it nearly doubles the previous record for the [[List of longest suspension bridge spans|longest main span in the world]].
* [[October 27]] – The [[1931 United Kingdom general election|United Kingdom general election]] results in the victory of the [[National Government (United Kingdom)|National Government]], and the defeat of [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], in the country's greatest ever electoral landslide.

===November===
{{Main|November 1931}}
* [[November 7]] 
** The [[Chinese Soviet Republic]] is proclaimed by [[Mao Zedong]].
** Red China News Agency (a predecessor of the [[Xinhua News Agency]]) is officially founded, and news wire service start in [[Ruijin]], [[Jiangxi Province]], [[China]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jing |first1=Xu |last2=Dengfeng |first2=Wang |title=Dual Identity and Multiple Tasks: Contemporary Chinese Party Media's Involvement in Political Communication |journal=LCM Journal |date=2018 |volume=5 |issue=2}}</ref>
* [[November 8]]
** French police launch a large-scale raid against [[Corsica]]n bandits.
** The [[Panama Canal]] is closed for a couple of weeks, due to damage caused by earthquakes.
* [[November 26]] – Heavy hydrogen, later named [[deuterium]], is discovered by American chemist [[Harold Urey]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Briton Hadden|title=Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QAcfAQAAMAAJ|year=1935|publisher=Time Incorporated|page=54}}</ref>

===December===
{{Main|December 1931}}
* [[December 5]] – The original [[Cathedral of Christ the Saviour]] in [[Moscow]] ([[1883]]) is demolished, by order of [[Joseph Stalin]].
* [[December 8]] – [[Carl Friedrich Goerdeler]] is appointed Reich Price Commissioner, in Germany to enforce the deflationary policies of the Brüning government.
* [[December 9]] – The Spanish [[Constituent Cortes]] approves the [[Spanish Constitution of 1931]], effectively establishing the [[Second Spanish Republic]].
* [[December 10]] – [[Niceto Alcalá-Zamora]] is elected president of the Spanish Republic.
* [[December 11]] – The [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] enacts the [[Statute of Westminster 1931|Statute of Westminster]], which establishes a status of legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the [[Commonwealth of Australia]], [[Canada]], the [[Irish Free State]], [[Dominion of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]], the [[Dominion of New Zealand]] and the [[Union of South Africa]].
* [[December 13]] – [[Wakatsuki Reijirō]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of Japan]].
* [[December 19]] – The [[United Australia Party|UAP]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]], led by [[Joseph Lyons]], defeats the Australian [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] [[Scullin Ministry|Government]], led by [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[James Scullin]]. Coming in the aftermath of two [[Australian Labor Party split of 1931|splits]] in the Labor Party, the election comes about due to the defeat of the Scullin government on the floor of the [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] – to date, it is the last federal election where a one-term government was defeated. Lyons will be sworn in [[January 6]]th the following year, but not before disbanding the Coalition, after the UAP wins enough seats to form a government in its own right.

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

===January===
[[File:Robert Duvall 2 by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Duvall]]]]
[[File:Caterina Valente 1966.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Caterina Valente]]]]
[[File:James Earl Jones (8516667383).jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Earl Jones]]]]
[[File:Sam_Cooke_billboard.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sam Cooke]]]]
<!--[[File:Accadde al commissariato 16 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lucia Bosè]]]]-->
* [[January 1]] 
** [[Mona Hammond]], Jamaican-born British actress (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jul/05/mona-hammond-obituary|title=Mona Hammond obituary|date=July 5, 2022|website=the Guardian}}</ref>
** [[Mohammad Ali Samatar]], 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. [[2016]])
* [[January 2]] – [[Toshiki Kaifu]], Prime Minister of Japan (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Japan Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsUwAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP71|year=1989|publisher=Japan Information Center, Consulate General of Japan|pages=71}}</ref>
* [[January 4]]
** [[Guido Messina]], Italian road and track cyclist (d. [[2020]])
** [[William Deane]], 22nd Governor-General of Australia<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=12}}</ref>
** [[Cleopa Msuya]], 3rd Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. [[2025]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Raph Uwechue|title=Africa Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9EAOAQAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Africa Journal Limited|isbn=978-0-903274-17-3|page=1177}}</ref>
* [[January 5]]
** [[Alvin Ailey]], American choreographer (d. [[1989]])<ref>{{cite book | title = Chase's Calendar of Events 2019 : the ultimate go -to guide for special days, weeks and months | publisher = Bernan Press | year = 2018 | isbn = 9781641432641 | page=73}}</ref>
** [[Alfred Brendel]], Austrian pianist (d. [[2025]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJIYAAAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=80}}</ref>
** [[Robert Duvall]], American actor and director (d. [[2026]])<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Jerome|first=Jim|title=Dance Fever|date=April 14, 2003|magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]|volume=59|issue=14|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139782,00.html|access-date=June 16, 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053945/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139782,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Dave Peterson (ice hockey)|Dave Peterson]], American ice hockey coach (d. [[1997]])<ref>{{cite news|title=A no-frills coach for Team USA|last=Verdi|first=Bob|author-link=Bob Verdi|date=January 5, 1988|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|location=Chicago, Illinois|page=D1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119549206/peterson-1988/}}; {{cite news|title=Verdi (Continued from Page 1)|last=Verdi|first=Bob|author-link=Bob Verdi|date=January 5, 1988|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|location=Chicago, Illinois|page=D5|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119549337/peterson-1988/}}</ref>
* [[January 6]] – [[E. L. Doctorow]], American author (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Joel Shatzky|author2=Michael Taub|author3=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson|title=Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3HN2tYhR0cC&pg=PA54|year=1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29462-4|pages=54}}</ref>
* [[January 8]] – [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]], German concert promoter (d. [[1991]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat]], Malaysian politician, Muslim cleric (d. [[2015]]) 
* [[January 12]] – [[Roland Alphonso]], Jamaican musician (d. [[1998]])
* [[January 14]] – [[Caterina Valente]], French singer and actress (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Jancik | first = Wayne | title = The Billboard book of one-hit wonders | publisher = Billboard Books | location = New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780823076222 | page=6}}</ref>
* [[January 16]]
** [[Shuhrat Abbosov]], Uzbek actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Johannes Rau]], [[President of Germany]] (d. [[2006]])
* [[January 17]] – [[James Earl Jones]], African-American actor (d. [[2024]]) 
* [[January 20]] – [[David Lee (physicist)|David Lee]], American physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1996/lee/facts|title=David Lee|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=14 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] – [[Sam Cooke]], African-American singer (d. [[1964]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bobby Womack|author2=Robert Ashton|title=Midnight Mover: My Autobiography: the True Story of the Greatest Soul Singer in the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voA3AQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=John Blake|isbn=978-1-84454-148-5|page=269}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] – [[Lars Hörmander]], Swedish mathematician (d. [[2012]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Dean Jones (actor)|Dean Jones]], American actor (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/movies/dean-jones-star-of-disneys-the-love-bug-dies-at-84.html?_r=0|title=Dean Jones, Affable Star in 'Love Bug' and a Disney Fixture, Dies at 84|first=Mike|last=Flaherty|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 2, 2015|page=B19}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] – [[Mordecai Richler]], Canadian author (d. [[2001]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Reinhold Kramer|title=Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pEZAhyjZPQkC&pg=PA19|date=20 March 2008|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-7477-9|pages=19}}</ref>
* [[January 28]] – [[Lucia Bosè]], Italian actress (d. [[2020]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Ferenc Mádl]], [[President of Hungary]] (d. [[2011]])

===February===
[[File:Борис Николаевич Ельцин-1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Boris Yeltsin]]]]
[[File:Dries_van_Agt,_2011_(cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dries van Agt]]]]
[[File:Isabel peron banda presidencial y bastón.png|thumb|120x120px|[[Isabel Perón]]]]<!--[[File:Rip Torn at the 46th Emmy Awards headcrop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rip Torn]]]]-->
[[File:James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause.jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Dean]]]]
* [[February 1]] 
** [[Boris Yeltsin]], 1st [[President of Russia]] (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Morrison|title=Boris Yeltsin: From Bolshevik to Democrat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxSk3QS7lT4C|year=1991|publisher=Dutton|isbn=978-0-452-26906-4|page=32}}</ref>
** [[Oswald Oberhuber]], Austrian painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (d. [[2020]])
* [[February 2]]
** [[Dries van Agt]], Dutch politician, 46th [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (d. [[2024]])
** [[Walter Burkert]], German writer (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/walter-burkert-classical-scholar-whose-fascinating-books-greek-mythology-and-religion-were-packed-fresh-insight-10287963.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/walter-burkert-classical-scholar-whose-fascinating-books-greek-mythology-and-religion-were-packed-fresh-insight-10287963.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Walter Burkert: Classical scholar whose fascinating books on Greek mythology and religion were packed with fresh insight|date=31 May 2015|author=Robert Parker|website=The Independent|access-date=April 3, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] – [[Isabel Perón]], 41st [[President of Argentina]]
* [[February 6]]
** [[Rip Torn]], American actor and comedian (d. [[2019]])
** [[Mamie Van Doren]], American actress and writer<ref name=Census1940>{{cite census | title=1940 United States Census | year=1940 | location=Sioux City, Iowa | page=480 | line=13 | enumdist=97-61B | accessdate=February 13, 2014}}</ref>
** [[Ricardo Vidal]], Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, cardinal (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 8]] 
** [[James Dean]], American actor (d. [[1955]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History: A Publication of the Indiana Historical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDASAQAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=The Society|page=7}}</ref>
** [[Shadia]], Egyptian actress, singer (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 9]]
** [[Thomas Bernhard]], Austrian author (d. [[1989]])
** [[Josef Masopust]], Czech football player and coach (d. [[2015]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Agustín García-Gasco Vicente]], Spanish cardinal (d. [[2011]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Gerrit Jan Heijn]], Dutch businessman (d. [[1987]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Claire Bloom]], English actress
* [[February 18]] – [[Toni Morrison]], African-American writer, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary: Toni Morrison |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27635463 |website=BBC News |access-date=August 6, 2019 |date=August 6, 2019}}</ref>
* [[February 19]] – [[Camillo Ruini]], Italian cardinal 
* [[February 20]] – [[John Milnor]], American mathematician 
* [[February 23]] – [[Linda Cristal]], Argentine actress (d. [[2020]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Josephine Tewson]], British actress (d. [[2022]])

===March===
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* [[March 1]] – [[Lamberto Dini]], Italian politician, economist and 51st [[Prime Minister of Italy]]
* [[March 2]] – [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], the 8th and final [[List of leaders of the Soviet Union|leader]] of the [[Soviet Union]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[2022]])
* [[March 4]]
** [[William H. Keeler]], American Roman Catholic prelate (d. [[2017]])
** [[Alice Rivlin]], American economist (d. [[2019]])
* [[March 5]] – [[Barry Tuckwell]], Australian horn player (d. [[2020]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Chun Doo-hwan]], 5th [[President of South Korea]] (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=165757|title=Former Pres. Chun Doo-hwan Dies at 90|website=world.kbs.co.kr}}</ref>
*[[March 8]]
**[[Neil Postman]], American media theorist and cultural critic (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite news|author=Wolfgang Saxon|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/09/obituaries/09POST.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Neil Postman, 72, Mass Media Critic, Dies|date=October 9, 2003|accessdate=January 8, 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
**[[John McPhee]], American author
* [[March 9]] – [[León Febres Cordero]], President of Ecuador (d. [[2008]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Kovambo Nujoma]], First Lady of Namibia 
* [[March 11]] 
** [[Janosch]], German children's author and illustrator<ref>{{cite book | title = Contemporary authors. New Revision series | publisher = Gale Research | location = Detroit, Mich | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780810319929 | page=123}}</ref>
** [[Rupert Murdoch]], Australian-born publisher
* [[March 14]] – [[Lisbet Palme]], Swedish child psychologist (d. [[2018]])
* [[March 15]] – [[D. J. Fontana]], American drummer (d. [[2018]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Elliott Belgrave]], 7th [[Governor-General of Barbados]]
* [[March 18]] – [[Vlastimil Bubník]], Czech ice hockey and football player (d. [[2015]])
* [[March 22]] 
** [[Burton Richter]], American physicist and recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (d. [[2018]])
** [[William Shatner]], Canadian actor and science fiction novelist (''[[Star Trek]]'')<ref>{{cite book|author1=Allan T. Duffin|author2=Paul Matheis|title=The 12 O'Clock High Logbook: The Unofficial History of the Novel, Motion Picture, and TV Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQGNBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA271|year=2005|publisher=BearManor Media|isbn=978-1-59393-033-2|pages=271}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] – [[Leonard Nimoy]], American actor, film director (''[[Star Trek]]''), and singer (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book | title = CHASE'S CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2019 : the ultimate go -to guide for special days, weeks and months | publisher = BERNAN Press | location = Place of publication not identified | year = 2018 | isbn = 9781641432641 | page=191}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] – [[David Janssen]], American actor (''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]'') (d. [[1980]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Anatoly Lein]], Russian-born American chess Grandmaster (d. [[2018]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Aleksei Gubarev]], Russian cosmonaut (d. [[2015]])

===April===
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* [[April 1]]
** [[Ita Ever]], Estonian actress (d. [[2023]])
** [[Rolf Hochhuth]], German dramatist (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/may/25/rolf-hochhuth-obituary|title=Rolf Hochhuth Obituary |date=May 25, 2020|author=Michael Coveney|website=The Guardian|access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Jean-Jacques Honorat]], 3rd [[Prime Minister of Haiti]] (d. [[2023]])
* [[April 2]] – [[Joseph Joffo]], French author (d. [[2018]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Catherine Tizard]], 16th [[Governor-General of New Zealand]] (d. [[2021]])
* [[April 5]] – [[Héctor Olivera (film director)|Héctor Olivera]], Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter
* [[April 6]]
** [[Suchitra Sen]], [[Bengali people|Bengali]] actress (d. [[2014]])
** [[Radomil Eliška]], Czech conductor (d. [[2019]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Daniel Ellsberg]], American whistleblower (d. [[2023]])
* [[April 8]] – [[John Gavin]], American actor and diplomat (d. [[2018]])
* [[April 11]]
** [[Luís Cabral|Luis Cabral]], 1st [[President of Guinea-Bissau]] (d. [[2009]])
** [[Mustafa Dağıstanlı]], Turkish free-style wrestler (d. [[2022]])
** [[Nelly Kaplan]], Argentine-born French movie director and screenwriter (d. [[2020]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Dan Gurney]], American race car driver (d. [[2018]])
* [[April 15]] 
** [[Helen Maksagak]], Canadian, first [[Inuit|Inuk]] and woman to be Commissioner of both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (d. [[2009]])
** [[Tomas Tranströmer]], Swedish poet, translator and recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Andrew|title=Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer dies aged 83|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/swedish-poet-thomas-transtromer-dies-age-83|access-date=28 March 2015|work=The Guardian|date=26 March 2015}}</ref>
* [[April 17]] – [[Bill Ramsey (singer)|Bill Ramsey]], American jazz and pop singer, journalist and actor (died 2021)<ref>{{cite web | title=Bill Ramsey mit dem Verdienstkreuz am Bande ausgezeichnet | website=hamburg.de | date=21 February 2020 | url=https://www.hamburg.de/pressearchiv-fhh/13620522/bill-ramsey-erhaelt-verdienstkreuz-am-bande/ | language=de | access-date=6 July 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 18]] – [[Klas Lestander]], Swedish biathlete and Olympic champion (d. [[2023]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Kobie Coetsee]], South African politician (d. [[2000]])
* [[April 26]] – [[John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria)|John Cain]], Australian politician (d. [[2019]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Igor Oistrakh]], Soviet and Russian violinist (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite news |date=1 September 2021 |title=Igor Oistrakh, celebrated Soviet violinist who with his father David walked a political tightrope during the Cold War – obituary |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/01/igor-oistrakh-celebrated-soviet-violinist-father-david-walked/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/01/igor-oistrakh-celebrated-soviet-violinist-father-david-walked/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=2 September 2021 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[April 29]]
** [[Frank Auerbach]], German-born painter (d. [[2024]])
** [[Lonnie Donegan]], Scottish musician (d. [[2002]])

===May===
[[File:Magda 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Magda (actress)|Magda]]]]
[[File:Willie Mays cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Willie Mays]]]]
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* [[May 1]] – [[Chaudhry Ghulam Rasool]], Pakistani educationist (d. [[1991]])
* [[May 3]] 
** [[Aldo Rossi]], Italian architect and designer (d. [[1997]])
** [[Hirokazu Kanazawa]], Japanese karate practitioner and teacher (d. [[2019]])
* [[May 6]]
** [[Magda (actress)|Magda]], Egyptian actress (d. [[2020]])
** [[Willie Mays]], African-American baseball player (d. [[2024]])
* [[May 7]] 
** [[Teresa Brewer]], American pop, jazz singer (d. [[2007]])
** [[Marta Terry González]], Cuban librarian (d. [[2018]])
** [[Gene Wolfe]], American science fiction and fantasy writer (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/29/gene-wolfe-obituary|title=Gene Wolfe Obituary |date=April 29, 2019|author=John Clute|website=The Guardian|access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] – [[M. Chidananda Murthy]], Indian historian (d. [[2020]])
* [[May 13]]
** [[András Hajnal]], Hungarian mathematician (d. [[2016]])
** [[Jim Jones]], American People's Temple cult leader (d. [[1978]])
** [[Jiří Petr]], Czech university president (d. [[2014]])
* [[May 15]] – [[James Fitz-Allen Mitchell]], 2nd [[Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]] (d. [[2021]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Magda Guzmán]], Mexican actress (d. [[2015]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Victoria Quirino-Gonzalez]], First Lady of the Philippines (d. [[2006]])
* [[May 20]] – [[George Vassiliou]], 3rd [[President of Cyprus]] (d. [[2026]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Bombolo]], Italian character actor and comedian (d. [[1987]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Georgy Grechko]], Russian cosmonaut (d. [[2017]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Faten Hamama]], Egyptian actress (d. [[2015]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Carroll Baker]], American actress
* [[May 31]]
** [[John Robert Schrieffer|John Schrieffer]], American physicist and [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2019]])
** [[Shirley Verrett]], American mezzo-soprano (d. [[2010]])

===June===
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* [[June 2]] – [[Viktor Tsaryov]], Russian footballer (d. [[2017]])
* [[June 3]]
** [[Raúl Castro]], [[First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Rafael Fermoselle|title=Cuban Leadership After Castro: Biographies of Cuba's Top Commanders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9UsYAAAAYAAJ|year=1992|publisher=North-South Center, University of Miami, Research Institute for Cuban Studies|isbn=978-0-935501-35-3|page=79}}</ref>
** [[Lindy Remigino]], American Olympic athlete (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/obituaries/lindy-remigino-olympic-champion-runner-is-dead-at-87.html|title=Lindy Remigino, Olympic Champion Runner, Is Dead at 87|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 12, 2018|access-date=July 14, 2020}}</ref>
* [[June 4]] – [[D. M. Jayaratne]], Sri Lankan politician (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.lk/en/members-of-parliament/directory-of-members/viewMember/92 |publisher=Parliament of Sri Lanka |title=MP profile}}</ref>
* [[June 6]] – [[Richard Hickock|Richard "Dick" Hickock]], American convicted murderer (d. [[1965]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hrenchir |first=Tim |title=Tuesday marks 50th anniversary of hanging of 'In Cold Blood' killers Hickock, Smith |url=https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2015/04/11/tuesday-marks-50th-anniversary-hanging-cold-blood-killers-hickock-smith/16632561007/ |access-date=2025-12-03 |website=The Topeka Capital-Journal |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[June 8]] – [[Dana Wynter]], German-born American actress (d. [[2011]])
* [[June 10]] – [[João Gilberto]], Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of [[bossa nova]] (d. [[2019]])
* [[June 14]]
** [[Marla Gibbs]], African-American actress, comedian and singer
** [[Junior Walker]], American saxophonist, singer (d. [[1995]])
* [[June 16]] – [[Ivo Petrić]], Slovenian composer (d. [[2018]])
* [[June 17]]  – [[John Baldessari]], American conceptual artist (d. [[2020]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Fernando Henrique Cardoso]], 34th [[President of Brazil]]
* [[June 20]]
** [[Olympia Dukakis]], American actress (d. [[2021]])
** [[Arne Nordheim]], Norwegian composer (d. [[2010]])
* [[June 22]] – [[Ian Browne (cyclist)|Ian Browne]], Australian track cyclist (d. [[2023]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Ola Ullsten]], Swedish politician and diplomat (d. [[2018]])
* [[June 24]]
** [[Billy Casper]], American golfer (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Billy Casper: Golfer who won prolifically but who became unfairly |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/billy-casper-golfer-who-won-prolifically-who-became-unfairly-overshadowed-big-three-his-generation-a173166.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/billy-casper-golfer-who-won-prolifically-who-became-unfairly-overshadowed-big-three-his-generation-a173166.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Independent |access-date=26 July 2021 |language=en |date=11 February 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
** [[Gaston Flosse]], French Polynesian politician
* [[June 25]] – [[V. P. Singh]], [[Prime Minister of India]] (d. [[2008]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Colin Wilson]], British novelist and philosopher (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite news | title=Colin Wilson: Author (Obituary) | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/colin-wilson-author-8991678.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/colin-wilson-author-8991678.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | newspaper=The Independent | author-link=Marcus Williamson | last=Williamson | first=Marcus | date=8 December 2013 | access-date=17 January 2014 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[June 27]]
** [[Graziella Galvani]], Italian stage, television and film actress (d. [[2022]])
** [[Martinus J. G. Veltman]], Dutch physicist and recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (d. [[2021]])
* [[June 28]]
** [[Hans Alfredson]], Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/d30wz/hans-alfredson-ar-dod |newspaper=[[Aftonbladet]] |title=Hans Alfredson är död |first=Torbjörn |last=Ek |date=10 September 2017 |access-date=10 September 2017 |language=sv}}</ref>
** [[Jenny Glusker]], British biochemist and crystallographer
* [[June 29]] – [[Alina Obidniak]], Polish actress and theatre director (d. [[2021]])
* [[June 30]] – [[Gerda Herrmann]], German composer and poet (d. [[2021]])

===July===
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* [[July 1]]
** [[Leslie Caron]], French actress
** [[Stanislav Grof]], Czech psychiatrist
** [[Seyni Kountché]], former [[President of Niger]] (d. [[1987]])
* [[July 4]] – [[Stephen Boyd]], Irish actor (''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'') (d. [[1977]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.antrimguardian.co.uk/news/2020/04/14/gallery/local-actor-s-fantastic-voyage-9150/|title=Local actor's 'Fantastic Voyage'|website=Antrim Guardian|date=18 April 2020|access-date=20 December 2020}}</ref> 
* [[July 5]] – [[Ismail Mahomed]], South African, Namibian [[Chief Justice]] (d. [[2000]])
* [[July 6]]
** [[Antonella Lualdi]], Italian actress and singer (d. [[2023]])
** [[Della Reese]], African-American actress, singer and evangelist (d. [[2017]])
* [[July 10]]
** [[Morris Chang]], Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) in [[1987]]
** [[Jerry Herman]], American composer, lyricist (d. [[2019]])
** [[Alice Munro]], Canadian writer, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Hallvard Dahlie|title=Alice Munro and Her Works|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bbsfAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=ECW Press|page=1|isbn=9780920802694}}</ref> 
* [[July 14]] – [[Robert Stephens]], English actor (d. [[1995]])
* [[July 15]] 
** [[Clive Cussler]], American thriller writer and underwater explorer (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cain |first1=Sian |title=Clive Cussler, bestselling adventure novelist, dies aged 88 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/26/clive-cussler-novelist-dies-88 |access-date=April 11, 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=February 26, 2020}}</ref>
** [[Gene Louw]], South African politician (d. [[2015]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Guido de Marco]], Maltese politician, 6th [[President of Malta]] (d. [[2010]])
* [[July 23]]
** [[Te Atairangikaahu|Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu]], Māori queen (d. [[2006]])
** [[Arata Isozaki]], Japanese [[architect]]er (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-12-24 |title=Arata Isozaki {{!}} Biography, Architecture, Projects, Pritzker, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arata-Isozaki |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>
**[[David M. Walsh]], American cinematographer <ref>{{cite web | title=David M. Walsh - Biography | website=[[IMDb]] | url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909607/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm }}</ref>
* [[July 25]] – [[Paul Danblon]], Belgian composer, opera director, administrator and journalist (d. [[2018]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Darryl Hickman]], American actor, screenwriter, television executive, and acting coach (d. [[2024]])

===August===
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[[File:Don King by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Don King (boxing promoter)|Don King]]]]
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* [[August 1]]
** [[Dino da Costa]], Italian footballer (d. [[2020]])
** [[Hal Connolly]], American athlete (d. [[2010]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Ruth Maria Kubitschek]], German actress (d. [[2024]])
* [[August 3]] – [[Vladimir Trusenyov]], Russian discus thrower (d. [[2001]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani]], Iranian cleric, writer and politician (d. [[2014]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Roger Penrose]], English mathematical physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite book | last = Abbott | first = Derek | title = Quantum aspects of life | publisher = Imperial College Press | location = London | year = 2008 | isbn = 9781848162532 | page=x}}</ref>
* [[August 9]] – [[Mário Zagallo]], Brazilian football player, manager (d. [[2024]])
* [[August 12]] – [[William Goldman]], American author (d. [[2018]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]], Saudi prince and politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Richard F. Heck]], American chemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (d. [[2015]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Harold Bernard St. John]], 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. [[2004]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Hans van Mierlo]], Dutch politician, [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] and [[Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands|Deputy Prime Minister]] (d. [[2010]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Willie Shoemaker]], American jockey (d. [[2003]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Don King (boxing promoter)|Don King]], American boxing promoter
* [[August 23]]
** [[Barbara Eden]], American actress
** [[Hamilton O. Smith]], American microbiologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2025]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1978/smith/facts/|title=Hamilton O. Smith|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=November 29, 2022}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] 
** [[Sri Chinmoy]], Bengali spiritual teacher, poet, artist and athlete who immigrated to the U.S. in [[1964]] (d. [[2007]])
** [[Clarence James]], Bermudian surgeon, politician (d. [[2016]])
* [[August 28]] – [[Shunichiro Okano]], Japanese football player and manager (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{NFT|50097<!-- /Shunichiro_Okano -->}}</ref>
* [[August 30]]
** [[Jacques Braunstein]], Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and disc jockey (d. [[2009]])
** [[Jack Swigert]], American astronaut (d. [[1982]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Jean Béliveau]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2014]])

===September===
[[File:Ian Holm.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ian Holm]]]]
[[File:Barbara Bain.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Barbara Bain]]]]
[[File:Larry Hagman 2011 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Larry Hagman]]]]
* [[September 2]] – [[Zoltán Latinovits]], Hungarian actor (d. [[1976]])
* [[September 3]] – [[Paulo Maluf]], Brazilian politician
* [[September 4]] 
** [[Javier Solís]], Mexican singer and actor (d. [[1966]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ancestors.familysearch.org/es/KL76-Q83/gabriel-%22-javier-solis%22-siria-levario-1931-1966|title=Gabriel "Javier Solis" Siria Levario|accessdate=9 August 2022|work=familysearch|language=es}}</ref>
** [[Mitzi Gaynor]], American actress, singer and dancer (d. [[2024]])
* [[September 5]] – [[Moshé Mizrahi]], Israeli film director (d. [[2018]])
* [[September 10]] – [[Idelisa Bonnelly]], Dominican marine biologist (d. [[2022]])
* [[September 12]]
** [[Ian Holm]], British actor (d. [[2020]])
** [[George Jones]], American country music singer, songwriter (d. [[2013]])
** [[Silvia Pinal]], Mexican actress and politician (d. [[2024]])<ref name="official">{{cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RKL-79J?i=2366&cc=1923424&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQGH3-6LWM|title=Acta de registro oficial|accessdate=9 August 2022|work=familysearch|language=es}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] – [[Barbara Bain]], American actress 
* [[September 16]] – [[E. C. George Sudarshan]], Indian theoretical physicist (d. [[2018]])
* [[September 17]]
** [[Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco]] (d. [[2011]])
** [[Anne Bancroft]], American actress (d. [[2005]])
* [[September 19]] – [[Brook Benton]], American singer-songwriter (d. [[1988]])
* [[September 21]]
** [[Larry Hagman]], American actor and director (d. [[2012]])
** [[Syukuro Manabe]], Japanese meteorologist, climatologist and Nobel Prize laureate<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2021/manabe/facts/|title=Syukuro Manabe|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=14 April 2022}}</ref> 
** [[Paulias Matane]], 8th [[Governor-General of Papua New Guinea]] (d. [[2021]]) 
* [[September 22]] – [[Fay Weldon]], British author (d. [[2023]])
* [[September 24]]
** [[Tom Adams (politician)|Tom Adams]], 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. [[1985]])
** [[Elizabeth Blackadder]], Scottish painter (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Dame Elizabeth Blackadder obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/aug/25/dame-elizabeth-blackadder-obituary |website=The Guardian |access-date=25 August 2021 |language=en |date=25 August 2021}}</ref>
* [[September 27]] – [[Freddy Quinn]], Austrian singer, actor
* [[September 29]]
** [[James Cronin]], American nuclear physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (d. [[2016]])
** [[Anita Ekberg]], Swedish actress (d. [[2015]])
* [[September 30]] – [[Angie Dickinson]], American actress

===October===
[[File:Desmond Tutu, 1986 Jan (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Desmond Tutu]]]]
[[File:A. P. J. Abdul Kalam in 2008.jpg|thumb|100px|[[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]]]]
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* [[October 3]] 
** [[Denise Scott Brown]], American architect 
** [[Glenn Hall]], Canadian ice hocker player (d. [[2026]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Richard Rorty]], American philosopher (d. [[2007]])
* [[October 6]] – [[Riccardo Giacconi]], Italian-born astrophysicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=G. Ramamurthy|title=Biographical Dictionary of Great Astronomers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0igmn9fzaUYC&pg=PA81|year=2005|publisher=Sura Books|isbn=978-81-7478-697-5|pages=81}}</ref>
* [[October 7]] 
** [[Desmond Tutu]], South African Anglican archbishop, activist and recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[2021]])
** [[Jack Berry (journalist)|Jack Berry]], American sports journalist
* [[October 13]] – [[Raymond Kopa]], French footballer (d. [[2017]])
* [[October 15]] – [[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]], President of India (d. [[2015]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Charles Colson]], American politician, [[Watergate]] conspirator, later evangelist (d. [[2012]])
* [[October 17]] – [[José Alencar]], Brazilian politician (d. [[2011]])
* [[October 19]]
** [[Rubens de Falco]], Brazilian actor (d. [[2008]])
** [[John le Carré]], English novelist (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/14/john-le-carre-obituary|title=John le Carré obituary|last1=Homberger|first1=Eric|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=14 December 2020|access-date=14 December 2020|archive-date=14 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214022605/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/14/john-le-carre-obituary|url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Manolo Escobar]], Spanish singer and actor (d. [[2013]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Mickey Mantle]], American baseball player (d. [[1995]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Shammi Kapoor]], Indian film actor, director (d. [[2011]])
* [[October 23]] – [[Diana Dors]], English actress (d. [[1984]])
* [[October 25]] 
** [[Klaus Hasselmann]], German oceanographer, climate modeller and Nobel Prize laureate 
** [[Jimmy McIlroy]], Northern Irish football player and manager (d. [[2018]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Nawal El Saadawi]], Egyptian feminist (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Nawal El Saadawi obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/22/nawal-el-saadawi-obituary |website=The Guardian |access-date=23 March 2021 |language=en |date=22 March 2021}}</ref>
* [[October 28]] – [[Analía Gadé]], Argentine actress (d. [[2019]])
* [[October 31]]
** [[Sergio Obeso Rivera]], Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{citation|newspaper=El Diario de Morelos|location=Cuernavaca |date=August 11, 2019|access-date=August 11, 2019|title=Falleció el Arzobispo Emérito, Sergio Obeso Rivera|language=es|trans-title=Archbishop Emeritus, Sergio Obeso Rivera passes away|url=https://www.diariodemorelos.com/noticias/falleci-el-arzobispo-em-rito-sergio-obeso-rivera}}</ref>
** [[Dan Rather]], American television news reporter (''[[CBS Evening News]]'')

===November===
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[[File:Mwai Kibaki, October 2003.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mwai Kibaki]]]]
[[File:Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, premio Nobel de la Paz en 1980, Visitó al Presidente de la Asamblea Nacional, Fernando Cordero. (5076794488).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Adolfo Pérez Esquivel]]]]
* [[November 1]] – [[Shunsuke Kikuchi]], Japanese composer (d. [[2021]])
* [[November 2]] – [[Phil Woods]], American saxophonist (d. [[2015]])
* [[November 3]] 
** [[Michael Fu Tieshan]], Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association bishop (d. [[2007]])
** [[Monica Vitti]], Italian actress (d. [[2022]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Ike Turner]], American singer, songwriter (d. [[2007]])
* [[November 6]]
** [[Peter Collins (racing driver)|Peter Collins]], British racing driver (d. [[1958]])
** [[Mike Nichols]], German-American television actor, writer and director (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Mike Nichols – obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11243432/Mike-Nichols-obituary.html|access-date=November 21, 2014|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=November 20, 2014}}</ref>
* [[November 12]] – [[Majida Boulila]], Tunisian militant (d. [[1952]]) 
* [[November 15]]
** [[Mwai Kibaki]], 3rd [[President of Kenya]] (d. [[2022]])
** [[Pascal Lissouba]], [[President of the Republic of Congo]] (d. [[2020]])
* [[November 21]] – [[Malcolm Williamson]], Australian composer (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book|author=James Murdoch|title=Australia's Contemporary Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sTqzAAAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-333-13913-4|page=205}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] – [[Adolfo Pérez Esquivel]], Argentine activist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]
* [[November 28]] – [[Tomi Ungerer]], French artist, illustrator and writer (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/28/tomi-ungerer-obituary|title=Tomi Ungerer obituary|date=28 February 2019|author=Joanna Carey|website=The Guardian|access-date=13 July 2024}}</ref>
* [[November 29]] – [[Shintaro Katsu]], Japanese actor (d. [[1997]])

===December===
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* [[December 1]]
** [[Rajko Kuzmanović]], 7th [[President of Republika Srpska]]
** [[George Maxwell Richards]], [[President of Trinidad and Tobago]] (d. [[2018]])
** [[Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar]], Bangladeshi barrister and politician
* [[December 2]] – [[Wynton Kelly]], Jamaican-American jazz pianist, composer (d. [[1971]])
* [[December 3]] – [[Elizabeth Ramsey]], Filipina singer and actress (d. [[2015]])
* [[December 5]] – [[Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni]], Indian Navy admiral (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Aurora Cornu]], Romanian writer and actress (d. [[2021]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Carmela Rey]], Mexican singer, actress (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Ladislav Smoljak]], Czech film, theater director, actor and screenwriter (d. [[2010]])
* [[December 11]] – [[Rita Moreno]], Puerto-Rican actress (''[[West Side Story]]'')
* [[December 13]] – [[Ida Vos]], Dutch Jewish author of books for children and adults (d. 2006)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kooman |first=Elizabeth |date=2023-01-25 |title=Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland |url=https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Gudema/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240308085609/https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Gudema/ |archive-date=2024-03-08 |access-date=2025-12-29 |website=resources.huygens.knaw.nl |language=Dutch}}</ref>
* [[December 15]] – [[Klaus Rifbjerg]], Danish writer (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Gray | first = Charlotte | title = Klaus Rifbjerg | publisher = Greenwood Press | location = New York | year = 1986 | isbn = 9780313250989 | page=3}}</ref>
* [[December 20]] – [[Abdullah H. Abdur-Razzaq]], African-American activist and Muslim (d. [[2014]])
* [[December 21]] 
** [[Redha Malek]], 8th Prime Minister of Algeria (d. [[2017]])
** [[Georgi Naydenov (footballer, born 1931)|Georgi Naydenov]], Bulgarian footballer and manager (d. [[1970]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Carlos Graça]], 6th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d. [[2013]])
* [[December 24]]
** [[Walter Abish]], Austrian-born American writer (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/books/walter-abish-dead.html|title=Walter Abish, Daring Writer Who Pondered Germany, Dies at 90|first=Alan|last=Cowell|work=The New York Times |date=May 31, 2022|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
** [[Mauricio Kagel]], Argentine composer (d. [[2008]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Roger Piantoni]], French footballer (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 27]]
** [[John Charles]], Welsh international footballer (d. [[2004]])
** [[Scotty Moore]], American guitarist (d. [[2016]])
** [[Lê Khả Phiêu]], Vietnamese politician (d. [[2020]])
* [[December 30]] 
** [[Charles Bassett]], American electrical engineer, astronaut (d. [[1966]])
** [[Skeeter Davis]], American singer (d. [[2004]])

==Deaths==

===January ===
[[File:1901-princess-royal-louise.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Louise, Princess Royal]]]]
[[File:Anna Pavlova as the Dying Swan.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Anna Pavlova]]]]
[[File:Otto Wallach 1880s.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Otto Wallach]]]]
[[File:Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.jpg|thumb|110px|[[F. W. Murnau]]]]
[[File:Giuseppe „Joe“ Masseria.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Joe Masseria]]]]
* [[January 3]] – [[Joseph Joffre]], French [[World War I]] general (b. [[1852]])
* [[January 4]]
** [[Art Acord]], American actor (b. [[1890]])
** [[Roger Connor]], American baseball player, [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1857]])
** [[Louise, Princess Royal]], British royal, eldest daughter of [[Edward VII]] of the United Kingdom (b. [[1867]])
* [[January 10]] – [[James Milton Carroll]], American Baptist pastor, historian, and author (b. [[1852]])
* [[January 14]] – [[Hardy Richardson]], American baseball player (b. [[1855]])
* [[January 17]] – [[Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Alma Rubens]], American actress (b. [[1897]])
* [[January 23]] 
** [[Anna Pavlova]], Soviet ballerina (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Serge Lifar|title=The Three Graces: Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Olga Spessivtzeva: The Legends and the Truth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=41w7AAAAMAAJ|year=1959|publisher=Cassell|page=111}}</ref>
** [[Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg]], former Minister-President of Austria (b. [[1862]])
* [[January 24]] – [[James Percy FitzPatrick|Sir Percy FitzPatrick]], South African author, politician and mining financier (b. 1862)
* [[January 28]] – [[Bernardo Soto Alfaro]], 14th [[President of Costa Rica]] (b. [[1854]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Henri Mathias Berthelot]], French general (b. [[1861]])

===February ===
* [[February 1]] – [[Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendome]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Mammad Hasan Hajinski]], last Prime Minister of the [[Azerbaijan Democratic Republic]] (b.[[1875]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Charles Algernon Parsons|Sir Charles Parsons]], British inventor (b. [[1854]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Martin von Feuerstein]], German painter (b. [[1865]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Wilhelm von Gloeden]], German photographer (b. [[1856]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Louis Wolheim]], American actor (b. [[1880]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Tovmas Nazarbekian]], Armenian general (b. [[1855]])
* [[February 23]]
** [[Eduard von Capelle]], German admiral (b. [[1855]])
** Dame [[Nellie Melba]], Australian soprano (b. [[1861]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Lady Gregory|title=Lady Gregory's Journals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iT0fAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-520067-6|page=704}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] – [[Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg]] (b. [[1852]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Otto Wallach]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1847]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Chandra Shekhar Azad]], Indian revolutionary (b. [[1906]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Thomas S. Rodgers]], American admiral (b. [[1858]])

===March ===
* [[March 5]] – [[Arthur Tooth]], Anglican clergyman (b. [[1839]])
* [[March 7]] 
** [[Akseli Gallen-Kallela]], Finnish painter (b. [[1865]])
** [[Theo van Doesburg]], Dutch painter (b. [[1883]])
* [[March 11]] – [[F. W. Murnau]], German director (b. [[1888]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Charles Eliot (diplomat)|Sir Charles Eliot]], British diplomat (b. [[1862]])
* [[March 20]]
** [[Alfred Giles (explorer)|Alfred Giles]], Australian explorer (b. [[1846]])
** [[Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876)|Hermann Müller]], German journalist, politician and 12th Chancellor of Germany (b. [[1876]])
** [[Joseph B. Murdock]], United States Navy admiral, New Hampshire politician (b. [[1851]])
* [[March 22]] – [[James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy]], Irish lawyer, politician (b. [[1851]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Bhagat Singh]], Indian revolutionary (b. [[1907]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Robert Edeson]], American actor (b. [[1868]])
* [[March 25]] – [[Ida B. Wells]], [[African-American]] [[lynching|anti-lynching]] crusader (b. [[1862]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Arnold Bennett]], British novelist (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Arnold Bennett|title=Letters of Arnold Bennett|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sWlaAAAAMAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-212207-0|page=618}}</ref>

===April ===
* [[April 4]] – [[André Michelin]], French industrialist and originator of [[Michelin Guide]]s (born [[1854]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=((Chase's Editors))|author2=Contemporary Books|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1NnUNBh6jIAC|date=September 2002|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=978-0-07-139098-9|page=55}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] – [[Erik Axel Karlfeldt]], Swedish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1864]])
* [[April 9]] – [[Nicholas Longworth]], American politician, Speaker of the House (b. [[1869]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Khalil Gibran]], Lebanese poet, painter (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kahlil Gibran|title=Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Kahlil Gibran (Illustrated)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WAMmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT12|date=1 June 2017|publisher=Delphi Classics|isbn=978-1-78656-214-2|pages=12}}</ref>
* [[April 15]]
** [[Joe Masseria]], Italian-born American gangster (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Critchley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uX29UdJJ3qYC|title=The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891-1931|publisher=[[Routledge]]|location=New York City|date=2008|isbn=978-0-415-99030-1|pages=156, 155–57}}</ref>
** [[Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa]] (b. [[1854]])
** [[Jacob Hägg]], Swedish admiral and painter (b. [[1839]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Rachel Bluwstein]], Israeli poet (b. [[1890]])<ref>[https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rahel-bluwstein Rahel Bluwstein October 29, 1890–April 16, 1931]</ref>
* [[April 20]] – Sir [[Cosmo Duff-Gordon]], Scottish landowner, ''[[RMS Titanic|Titanic]]'' survivor (b. [[1862]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Geller | first = Judith | title = Titanic: women and children first | publisher = Patrick Stephens | location = Sparkford | year = 1998 | isbn = 9781852605940 | page=22}}</ref>
* [[April 26]] – [[George Herbert Mead]], American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist (b. [[1863]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Herbert Mead {{!}} Symbolic Interactionism, Social Behaviorism, Pragmatism {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Herbert-Mead |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 27]] – [[Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein]] (b. [[1869]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The New International Year Book|publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company|year=1932|page=533}}</ref>
* [[April 30]] – [[Sammy Woods]], English cricketer (b. [[1867]])

===May ===
[[File:Patriarch Damian of Jerusalem.jpg|thumb|110px|Patriarch [[Damian I of Jerusalem]]]]
[[File:Hamaguchi Osachi 1.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Hamaguchi Osachi]]]]
* [[May 2]] – [[George Fisher Baker]], American financier, philanthropist (b. [[1840]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Albert A. Michelson]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1852]])
* [[May 14]] – [[David Belasco]], American Broadway impresario, theater owner and playwright (b. [[1853]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Ralph Barton]], American artist (b. [[1891]])<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1989/02/20/a-case-of-melancholia A Case of Melancholia]</ref>
* [[May 26]] – [[Anna Sandström]], Swedish social reformer (b. [[1854]])

===June ===
* [[June 2]] – [[Joseph W. Farnham]], American screenwriter (b. [[1884]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca]], Arab nationalist
* [[June 8]] – [[Virginia Frances Sterrett]], American artist, illustrator (b. [[1900]])
* [[June 13]]
** [[Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent]], British businessman (b. [[1850]])
** [[Kitasato Shibasaburō]], Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. [[1853]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Pio del Pilar]], Filipino activist (b. [[1860]])
* [[June 22]] – [[Armand Fallières]], 9th President of France (b. [[1841]])

===July ===
* [[July 2]] – [[Peter Kürten]], German serial killer (executed) (b. [[1883]])
* [[July 4]] 
** [[Buddie Petit]], American jazz musician
** Prince [[Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta]], Italian general, [[Marshal of Italy]] (b. [[1869]])
* [[July 9]] – [[T. Adelaide Goodno]], American social reformer (b. [[1858]])
* [[July 11]] – [[William Jasper Spillman]], American economist (b. [[1863]])
* [[July 12]] – [[Nathan Söderblom]], Swedish archbishop, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1866]])

===August===
* [[August 6]] – [[Bix Beiderbecke]], American jazz trumpeter (b. [[1903]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Linda Loredo]], Mexican-American actress and dancer (b. [[1907]])
* [[August 14]] – Patriarch [[Damian I of Jerusalem]] (b. [[1848]])
* [[August 15]] – [[Nigar Shikhlinskaya]], Azerbaijani [[World War I]] nurse (b. [[1878]])
* [[August 22]] – [[Joseph Tabrar]], British songwriter (b. [[1857]])
* [[August 26]]
** [[Frank Harris]], Irish author and editor (b. [[1856]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Stokes|title=Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dU-QtGTNJNcC&pg=PA87|date=14 March 1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-47537-2|pages=87}}</ref>
** [[Hamaguchi Osachi]], Japanese politician, 27th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1870]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Francis Marion Smith]], American businessman (b. [[1846]])

===September===
[[File:Carl Pietzner - Erzherzog Leopold Salvator von %C3%96sterreich-Toskana, 1905 (LC-DIG-ggbain-06226).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria]]]]
[[File:Omar_Mukhtar_13.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Omar al-Mukhtar]]]]
* [[September 4]] – [[Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria]] (b. [[1863]])
* [[September 5]] – [[John Thomson (footballer, born 1909)|John Thomson]], Scottish footballer (b. [[1909]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Federico Tinoco Granados]], 21st [[President of Costa Rica]] (b. [[1868]])
* [[September 9]] – [[Lujo Brentano]], German economist (b. [[1844]])
* [[September 10]] – [[Salvatore Maranzano]], Italian mobster (b. [[1886]])
* [[September 12]]
** [[Francis J. Higginson]], United States Navy admiral (b. [[1843]])
** [[Joseph Le Brix]], French aviator, naval officer (b. [[1899]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia]] (b. [[1866]])
* [[September 14]] – [[Tom Roberts]], English-born Australian artist (b. [[1856]])
* [[September 16]] – [[Omar al-Mukhtar]], [[Libya]]n resistance leader (b. [[1858]])
* [[September 17]] 
** [[Marcello Amero D'Aste]], Italian admiral, politician (b. [[1853]])
** [[Marvin Hart]], American world heavyweight boxing champion (b. [[1876]])
* [[September 18]] – [[Geli Raubal]], Austrian niece of  Adolf Hitler (suicide; b. [[1908]])
* [[September 19]] – [[David Starr Jordan]], American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist (b. [[1851]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HT19310919.2.20 |title=Dr. David Starr Jordan Dies; Family With Educator As Passes Away: Fifth Attack Ends an Illness of Two Years |newspaper=[[Healdsburg Tribune]] |page=1 |number=269 |date=September 19, 1931 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |via=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]]|access-date=June 1, 2018 |archive-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701055032/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HT19310919.2.20 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[September 29]] – [[William Orpen|Sir William Orpen]], Irish artist (b. [[1878]])

===October===
[[File:Thomas Edison.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Thomas Edison]]]]
* [[October 2]] – [[Thomas Lipton|Sir Thomas Lipton]], Scottish retailer and yachtsman (b. [[1848]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Carl Nielsen]], Danish composer (b. [[1865]])
* [[October 7]] – [[Daniel Chester French]], American sculptor (b. [[1850]])
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[John Monash]], Australian general (b. [[1865]])<ref>{{Citation |last=Perry |first=Roland |title=Monash: The Outsider Who Won A War |location=North Sydney, New South Wales |publisher=Random House |year=2007 |orig-year=2004 |isbn=978-1-74166-847-6 }}, pp. 514–516–.</ref>
* [[October 13]] – [[Ernst Didring]], Swedish writer (b. [[1868]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Thomas Edison]], American inventor (b. [[1847]])<ref>{{cite book|author=National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)|title=Biographical Memoirs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mEErAAAAYAAJ|year=1937|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|page=258}}</ref>
* [[October 21]] – [[Arthur Schnitzler]], Austrian dramatist and author (b. [[1862]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Reinhard Urbach|title=Arthur Schnitzler.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BF9cAAAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Frederick Ungar A Book|isbn=978-0-8044-2936-8|page=11}}</ref>
* [[October 24]] – Sir [[Murray Bisset]], South African cricketer, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. [[1876]])

===November===
* [[November 4]] – [[Buddy Bolden]], American musician (b. [[1877]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Jack Chesbro]], American baseball player, [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1874]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Charlotte Scott]], English mathematician (b. 1858)<ref>{{cite book | first=Patricia | last=Clark Kenschaft | chapter=Charlotte Angas Scott | editor1-last=Grinstein | editor1-first=Louise S. | editor2-last=Campbell | editor2-first=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=193}}</ref>
* [[November 11]] – [[Shibusawa Eiichi]], Japanese industrialist (b. [[1840]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Ivan Fichev]], Bulgarian general, minister of defense, military historian, and academician (b. [[1860]])
* [[November 17]] – [[Hara Prasad Shastri]], Indian academic and Sanskrit scholar (b. [[1853]])
* [[November 21]] – [[Bruno von Mudra]], German general (b. [[1851]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Robert Ames (actor)|Robert Ames]], American actor (b. [[1889]])

===December===
* [[December 2]] – [[Vincent d'Indy]], French composer (b. [[1851]])
* [[December 5]] – [[Vachel Lindsay]], American poet (b. [[1879]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Masters |first=Edgar Lee |year=1935 |title=Vachel Lindsay : A Poet in America |page=361|publisher=Biblo & Tannen Publishers |isbn=978-0819602398}}</ref>
* [[December 9]] – [[Antonio Salandra]], Italian statesman, 21st [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. [[1853]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Legs Diamond|Jack Diamond]], American gangster (b. [[1897]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Tyrone Power Sr.]], English-born American actor (b. [[1869]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Carlo Fornasini]], micropalaeontologist (b. [[1854]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Melvil Dewey]], American librarian, inventor of the [[Dewey Decimal Classification]] (b. [[1851]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition - Volume II|author=Miriam Drake|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2003|page=848}}</ref>
* [[December 27]] – [[José Figueroa Alcorta]], Argentine politician, 16th [[President of Argentina]] (b. [[1860]])

==Nobel Prizes==
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – not awarded
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Carl Bosch]], [[Friedrich Bergius]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[Otto Heinrich Warburg]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Erik Axel Karlfeldt]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Jane Addams]], [[Nicholas Murray Butler]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030416075008/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/1931/1931fr.html The 1930s Timeline: 1931] – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia
* [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31171 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century by Henry Hartshorne]

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