1926

This article is about the year 1926. January 29 Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown
opened at the Greenwich Theatre.
1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Fri- January 31 British and Belgian troops left Cologne.
day (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar, the
1926th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini
(AD) designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, 1.2 February
the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the
1920s decade. Main article: February 1926

1 Events February 1 Land on Broadway and Wall Street in

New York City was sold at a record $7 per sq inch.
1.1 January
February 8 Sen O'Casey's The Plough and the
Stars opened at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
Main article: January 1926
February 9 Flooding hit London suburbs.

January 1 February 12 The Irish minister for Justice, Kevin

Flooding of the Rhine River struck Cologne;
50,000 were forced to evacuate their homes.[1]
Irelands rst regular radio service, 2RN (later
Radio ireann), began broadcasting.
O'Higgins, appointed the Committee on Evil Liter-
ature.
February 20 The Berlin International Green Week
debuted in Berlin.

January 3 Theodoros Pangalos declared himself February 25 Francisco Franco became General of
dictator in Greece. Spain.

January 6 The airline Deutsche Luft Hansa was

founded in Berlin. 1.3 March
January 8 Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud was crowned King Main article: March 1926
of Hejaz.

January 12 Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll

premiered their radio program Sam 'n' Henry, in
which the two white performers portray two black
characters from Harlem looking to strike it rich in
the big city. It was a precursor to Gosden and Cor-
rells more popular later program, Amos 'n' Andy.
March 6 The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in
Stratford-upon-Avon is destroyed by re.
March 6 The rst commercial air route to South
Africa is established by Alan Cobham.

January 16 A BBC comic radio play broadcast by
Ronald Knox about a workers revolution caused a
panic in London.[2]
January 21 The Belgian Parliament accepted the
Locarno Treaties.
March 16 Robert Goddard launches the rst
liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
March 23 amon de Valera organises Fianna Fil
in Ireland.

January 26 Scottish inventor John Logie Baird 1.4 April

demonstrated a mechanical television system for
members of the Royal Institution and a reporter Main article: April 1926
from The Times at his London laboratory.

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2 1 EVENTS
March 16: Goddard with rocket in 1926.
April 4 Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos won
the presidential election with 93.3% of the vote.
Turnout was light as the result was considered a fore-
gone conclusion.[3]
April 7 An assassination attempt against Italian
Fascist leader Benito Mussolini fails.
April 12 By a vote of 4541, the United States
Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart
and seats Daniel F. Steck, after Brookhart had al-
ready served for over one year.
April 17 Zhang Zuolin's army captured Beijing.[4]
April 24 Treaty of Berlin: Germany and the So-
viet Union each pledged neutrality in the event of an
attack on the other by a third party for the next ve
years.
April 25 Rez Khan was crowned Shah of Iran
under the name Pahlevi.
April 30 African-American pilot Bessie Coleman
was killed after falling 500 feet (150 m) from an air-
plane.
1.5 May
Main article: May 1926
May 3 Coal miners were locked out in Britain.
May 4 The United Kingdom general strike began
at midnight in support of the coal strike.
May 9
Martial law was declared in Britain because of
the general strike.
The French navy bombarded Damascus be-
cause of the Druze riots.
Explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd
Bennett claimed to be the rst to y over
the North Pole in the Josephine Ford mono-
plane, taking o from Spitsbergen, Norway
and returning 15 hours and 44 minutes later.
Both men were immediately hailed as national
heroes, though some experts have since been
skeptical of the claim, believing that the plane
was unlikely to have covered the entire dis-
tance and back in that short an amount of
time.[5] An entry in Byrds diary discovered in
1996 suggested that the plane actually turned
back 150 miles short of the North Pole due to
an oil leak.[6]
May 10
Talks between the government and strikers be-
gan in the U.K.
Planes piloted by Major Harold Geiger and
Horace Meek Hickam, students at the Air
Corps Tactical School, collided in mid-air at
Langley Field, Virginia. Hickam parachutes
to safety.
May 12
Roald Amundsen and his crew ew over the
North Pole in the airship Norge.
UK General Strike 1926: In the United King-
dom, a general strike by trade unions ended
(the strike began on May 3).
May 12May 14 May Coup: Jzef Pisudski took
over in Poland.
May 18 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson dis-
appeared while visiting a Venice, California beach.
May 20 The United States Congress passed the Air
Commerce Act, licensing pilots and planes.
May 23 The rst Lebanese constitution was estab-
lished.
May 26 The Rif War ended when Rif rebels sur-
rendered in Morocco.
May 28 The 1926 coup d'tat commanded by
Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal installed the
Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship), followed
by Antnio de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo.
1.9 September
1.6 June
Main article: June 1926
June 4 Ignacy Mocicki became president of
Poland.
June 7 The Liberal politician Carl Gustaf Ekman
succeeds Rickard Sandler as Prime Minister of
Sweden.
June 19 DeFord Bailey was the rst African-
American to perform on Nashvilles Grand Ole
Opry.
June 29 Arthur Meighen briey returned to oce
as Prime Minister of Canada during the King-Byng
Aair.
1.7 July
Main article: July 1926
July 1 The Mammoth Cave National Park is au-
thorized by the United States Congress.
July 1 The Kuomintang began a military unica-
tion campaign in northern China.
July 3 A Caudron C.61 aircraft operated by
Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Arienne Main article: September 1926
crashed in Czechoslovakia.
July 9 General scar Carmona took power in a
military coup in Portugal.
July 10 A bolt of lightning struck Picatinny Arse-
nal in New Jersey. The resulting re caused several
million pounds of explosives to blow up in the next
two to three days.
July 15 BEST buses made their dbut in Bombay.
July 23 Fox Film bought the patents of the
Movietone sound system for recording sound onto
lm.
July 26 The National Bar Association incorporated
in the United States.
1.8 August
Main article: August 1926
August 1 In Mexico, the entry into force of an-
ticlerical measures stipulated in the constitution of
1917 caused the Cristero War.
3
August 6
Gertrude Ederle became the rst woman to
swim the English Channel from France to Eng-
land.
In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone
system premiered with the movie Don Juan
starring John Barrymore.
August 18
The British miners union began negotiations
with the government.
A weather map was televised for the rst time,
sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bu-
reau oce in Washington, D.C.
August 22 In Greece, Georgios Kondylis ousted
Theodoros Pangalos.
August 23 The sudden death of popular lm actor
and sex symbol Rudolph Valentino at the age of only
31 years old caused mass grief and hysteria around
the world.
August 25 Pavlos Kountouriotis announced that
dictatorship had ended in Greece and he was now
the president.
1.9 September
September 1 Lebanon under the French Mandate
got its rst constitution, thereby becoming a repub-
lic. Charles Debbas was elected president.
September 8 The German Weimar Republic
joined the League of Nations.
September 11
Aloha Tower was ocially dedicated at
Honolulu Harbor in the Territory of Hawai'i.
In Rome, Italy, Gino Lucetti threw a bomb at
Benito Mussolinis car, but Mussolini was un-
hurt.
September 14 The Locarno Treaties of 1925 were
ratied in Geneva and came into eect.
September 16 Philip Dunning and George Ab-
botts play Broadway premieres in New York City.
September 18 Great Miami Hurricane: A strong
hurricane devastated Miami, leaving over 100 dead
and causing several hundred million dollars in dam-
age (equal to nearly $100 billion today).
4 1 EVENTS
September 19 Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) Sta-
dium, as known well for sports venues of Italy, o-
cially opened in Milan.
September 20 The North Side Gang attempted to
assassinate Al Capone, spraying his headquarters in
Cicero, Illinois with over a thousand rounds of ma-
chine gun re in broad daylight as Capone was eating
there. Capone escaped harm.[7][8]
September 21 French war ace Ren Fonck and
three others attempted to y the Atlantic in pursuit Main article: November 1926
of the Orteig Prize. Before the newsreel cameras at
Roosevelt Field New York, the modied Sikorsky S-
35 crashes on take-o and bursts into ames. Fonck
survived but two of his men are killed.
September 23 Gene Tunney defeated Jack
Dempsey and became heavyweight boxing cham-
pion of the world.
September 25
The League of Nations Slavery Convention
abolished all types of slavery.
William Lyon Mackenzie King returned to of-
ce as Prime Minister of Canada after winning
the Canadian federal election.
Detroit Cougers, a professional ice hockey
club (National Hockey League) founded. (a
predecessor of Detroit Red Wings)
1.10 October
Main article: October 1926
October 2 Jzef Pisudski became prime minister
of Poland.
October 12 British miners agreed to end their
strike.
October 14 A. A. Milne's childrens book Winnie-
the-Pooh was published in London, featuring the
eponymous bear.
October 19 The 1926 Imperial Conference opened
in London.
October 20 A hurricane killed 650 in Cuba.
October 23
Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev were removed
from the Politburo of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
A decree in Italy banned women from holding
public oce.
The Fazal Mosque, the rst purpose-built in
London and the rst Ahmadiyya mosque in
Britain, is completed.
October 31 Magician Harry Houdini died of
gangrene and peritonitis that has developed after his
appendix ruptured.
1.11 November
November 5 The APOEL FC is founded.
November 10 In San Francisco, a necrophil-
iac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed Go-
rilla Man) killed and then rapes his 9th victim, a
boarding house landlady named Mrs. William Ed-
monds.
November 11 The United States Numbered High-
way System, including U.S. Route 66, was estab-
lished.
November 15
The NBC radio network opened with 24 sta-
tions (formed by Westinghouse, General Elec-
tric and RCA).
The Balfour Declaration was approved by
the 1926 Imperial Conference, making the
Commonwealth dominions equal and indepen-
dent.
November 24
The village of Rocquebillier in the French Riv-
iera was almost destroyed in a massive hail-
storm.
Sri Aurobindo retired, leaving The Mother to
run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry,
India.
November 25 The death penalty was re-
established in Italy.
November 26 All Italian Communist deputies
were arrested.
November 27 The restoration of Colonial
Williamsburg began in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1.12 December
Main article: December 1926
December 2 British prime minister Stanley Bald-
win ended the martial law that had been declared
due to general strike.
1.13 Date unknown 5

1.13 Date unknown

Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddi became the rst woman
appointed to a legislature in India, the Madras Leg-
islative Council.

Stephen H. Langdon began excavations in Jemdet

Nasr nding proto-cuneiform clay tablets (3100
2900 BCE)

Phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust) was rst synthe-

sized.

Widows pensions were introduced in New South

Wales, Australia.

The short-lived Western Australian Secession

League was founded.

Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designed

and marked rodeos rst high-cut rodeo chaps at
Stirling, Alberta Canada.

The International African Institute is founded in

London.

Raymond Pearl published his landmark book, Alco-

hol and Longevity.
December 25: Emperor Hirohito
American microbiologist Selman Waksman pub-
lished Enzymes.
December 3 Agatha Christie disappeared from her
home in Surrey; on December 14 she was found at The Pike School of Andover, Massachusetts was
a Harrogate hotel. founded.

Industrial output surpassed the level of 1913 in the

December 7 The Council for the Preservation of USSR.
Rural England (CPRE) founded; now the Campaign
Al Capone was at the apex of his power.
to Protect Rural England.

December 17 1926 Lithuanian coup d'tat: A 2 Births

democratically elected government was overthrown
in Lithuania; Antanas Smetona assumed power.
2.1 January
December 18 Turkey converted to the Gregorian
calendar, making the next day January 1 1927.

December 23 Nicaraguan President Adolfo Daz

requested U.S. military assistance in the ongoing
civil war. American peacekeeping troops immedi-
ately set up neutral zones in Puerto Cabezas and at
the mouth of the Rio Grande to protect American
and foreign lives and property.[9][10]

December 26 In the history of Japan, the Shwa

period began from this day due to the death of
Emperor Taish on the day before. His son Hirohito
reigned as Emperor of Japan until 1989. Showa 1 in
the Japanese calendar was just six days long, prior Patricia Neal
to January 1 Showa 2 (1927).
6 2 BIRTHS

January 1 Claudio Villa, Italian singer (d. 1987) David Tudor, American pianist and composer
(d. 1996)
January 2 Harold Bradley, American session gui-
tarist on country music records January 21 Steve Reeves, American actor (d.
2000)
January 3
January 23 Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (d.
Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian illustrator
2012)
George Martin, English producer of The Bea-
tles (d. 2016) January 26 Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer
(d. 1980)
January 5 William De Witt Snodgrass, American
poet (d. 2009) January 27

January 6 Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)

Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and body-
builder (d. 2006)
January 8
Chester Feldman, American television game
show producer (d. 1997)
Evelyn Lear, American soprano (d. 2012)
Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
January 29
Amelita Ramos, former First Lady of the
Philippines
Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1996)

Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer January 31 Chuck Willis, American singer and
Soupy Sales, American comedian (d. 2009) songwriter (d. 1958). Some sources give his year
of birth as 1928.
January 11
Lev Dyomin, cosmonaut (d. 1998) 2.2 February
Giusto Pio, Italian musician and songwriter (d.
2017)
Grant Tinker, American television executive
(d. 2016)
January 12
Ray Price, American singer (d. 2013)
Shumon Miura, Japanese novelist (d. 2017)
January 13 Michael Bond, writer
January 14 Tom Tryon, American actor and nov-
elist (d. 1991)
January 15 Maria Schell, Austrian actress (d.
2005)
January 17
Antonio Domingo Bussi, Argentine Army
General and former Governor of Tucuman (d.
2011)
Moira Shearer, Scottish actress and dancer (d.
2006)
January 19 Fritz Weaver, American actor (d.
2016)
January 20
Patricia Neal, American actress (The Day The Valry Giscard d'Estaing
Earth Stood Still) (d. 2010)
2.2 February 7

Verne Gagne

February 3 Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician

Leslie Nielsen
February 4 Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer
(d. 2014)

February 7

Keiko Tsushima, Japanese actress (d. 2012)

Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (d.
2009)
Bill Hoest, American cartoonist (d. 1988)

February 8 Neal Cassady, American writer (d.

1968)

February 10

Danny Blanchower, Northern Irish footballer

and football manager (d. 1993)
Mimi Sheraton, Chef and Author

February 11

Paul Bocuse, French chef

Bob Richards
February 2
Valry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France
Lia Laats, Estonian actress (d. 2004)
Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan Roman
Catholic prelate, archbishop of Managua and
cardinal
Alexander Gibson, British conductor and
founder of the Scottish Opera (d. 1995)
Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (d.
2010)
February 12
Joe Garagiola Sr., American baseball player
(d. 2016)
Charles Van Doren, American professor and
subject of lm, Quiz Show (lm)
February 14 Al Brodax, American lm and tele-
vision producer (d. 2016)
8 2 BIRTHS

February 16

Margot Frank, sister of Anne Frank (d. 1945)

John Schlesinger, British lm director (d.
2003)

February 17 John Meyendor, Orthodox scholar,

protopresbiter, and educator (d. 1992)

February 19 Pierre Gunin, French journalist and

gay rights activist (d. 2017)

February 20

Whitney Blake, American actress (d. 2002)

Richard Matheson, American author (d.
2013)
Bob Richards, American track and eld athlete
Maria de la Purisima Salvat Romero, Spanish
nun and saint (d. 1998)

February 22 Kenneth Williams, English actor (d.

1988)

February 24
Andrzej Wajda
Knut Kleve, Norwegian philologist (d. 2017)
Dave Sands, Australian boxer (d. 1952)

February 26 Verne Gagne, American professional

wrestler (d. 2015)

February 27 David H. Hubel, Canadian neurosci-

entist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine (d. 2013)

February 28 Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian author

(d. 2011)

2.3 March
March 1

Pete Rozelle, American commissioner of the

National Football League (d. 1996)
Robert Clary, French-American actor, author
and lecturer

March 2 Murray Rothbard, American economist

(d. 1995)

March 3 James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)

March 4 Jerry Lewis

DeVan Dallas, American politician (d. 2016)

Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co- Fran Warren, American popular singer (d.
founder of Amway 2013)
James J. Eagan, former Mayor of Florissant,
Missouri (d. 2000) March 6
2.3 March 9

Andrzej Wajda, Polish lm director (d. 2016)

March 8

Sultan Salahuddin of Selangor (d. 2001)

Dick Teed, American Major League Baseball
player (d. 2014)

March 10 Seto Wan'ya , Japanese writer and nov-

elist (d. 1993)

March 11

Derek Beneld, English playwright and actor

(d. 2009)
Thomas Starzl, American physician (d. 2017)

March 13 Carlos Roberto Reina, President of

Honduras (d. 2003)

March 15 Norm Van Brocklin, American football

player (d. 1983)

March 16

Edwar al-Kharrat, Egyptian novelist, writer

and critic (d. 2015)
Siegfried Lenz Charles Goodell, American politician (d.
1987)
Jerry Lewis, American comedian and human-
itarian (Muscular Dystrophy Telethon)

March 17

Jaynne Bittner, American female baseball

player
Siegfried Lenz, German writer (d. 2014)

March 18 Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010)

March 21

Beatriz Aguirre, Mexican lm and television

actress
Heikki Hasu, Finnish Olympic cross-country
skiier

March 23 Berta Loran, Brazilian-Polish actress

March 24

Dario Fo, Italian author, Nobel Prize laureate

(d. 2016)
Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (d. 2017)
Ventsislav Yankov, Bulgarian pianist

March 25
Heikki Hasu
Lszl Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
Alan Greenspan, American economist and Gene Shalit, American lm critic and televi-
former Chairman of the Federal Reserve sion personality
10 2 BIRTHS

March 28 Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th

Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2014)

March 30

Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman

Peter Marshall, American singer and television
host (Hollywood Squares)
Sydney Chaplin, American actor (d. 2009)

March 31 John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005)

2.4 April

Elizabeth II

Hugh Hefner

April 1 Harper Lee

Charles Bressler, American tenor (d. 1996)
Anne McCarey, American author (d. 2011) R. W. Schambach, American televangelist,
speaker and author (d. 2012)
April 2
April 6
Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver (d.
2014) Alexander Buttereld, US politician
Robert Holmes, British scriptwriter (d. 1986) Jeanne Martin Ciss, Guinean teacher and na-
tionalist politician (d. 2017)
April 3
Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor and actor (d.
Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967) 1990)
2.4 April
Cloris Leachman
Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician (d. 2014)
April 7
Prem Nazir, Indian actor (d. 1989)
Miyoko As, Japanese voice actress
April 9 Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor
(Playboy)
April 10 7ndash; Gustav Metzger, German-born
stateless auto-destructive artist (d. 2017)
April 11 Gervase de Peyer, English clarinetist and
conductor (d. 2017)
April 12
Khozh-Akhmed Bersanov, Chechen ethnog-
rapher
Jane Withers, American actress
April 13
Neil Betts, Australian rugby union player (d.
2017)
11
Egon Wol, Chilean playwright and author (d.
2016)
April 14
Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, producer,
director, teacher (d. 1996)
George Robledo, Chilean soccer player (d.
1989)
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish politician (d.
2008)
April 17 Gerry McNeil, Canadian hockey player
(d. 2004)
April 19 Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and
rst female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d.
1997)
April 21
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Arthur Rowley, English footballer (d. 2002)
April 22
Charlotte Rae, American actress and singer
James Stirling, Scottish architect (d. 1992)
April 24 Thorbjrn Flldin, Prime Minister of
Sweden (d. 2016)
April 25
Patricia Castell, Argentine actress (d. 2013)
Gertrude Frhlich-Sandner, Austrian politi-
cian (d. 2008)
April 26
David Coleman, British TV sports broadcaster
(d. 2013)
Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator
(d. 2003)
April 27
Alvin Baldus, American Democratic politician
(d. 2017)
Tim LaHaye, American evangelist, speaker
and author (d. 2016)
Vladimr ern, Czechoslovakian modern
pentathlete (d. 2016)
Alvin Baldus, American Democratic politician
(d. 2017)
April 28 Harper Lee, American novelist (d. 2016)
April 29 Paul Baran, American internet pioneer
(d. 2011)
April 30
Edmund Cooper, British author and poet (d.
1982)
Cloris Leachman, American actress
12 2 BIRTHS

2.5 May

Miles Davis

Sir David Attenborough, British broadcaster,

naturalist and producer
Don Rickles, American comedian and actor
David Attenborough
May 10 Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, American lm
personality and publisher of The Hollywood Re-
porter (d. 2004)

May 13 Joy Coghill, Canadian actress, director,

and writer (d. 2017)

May 14 Eric Morecambe, English comedian and

author (d. 1984)

May 15

Anthony Shaer, English novelist and play-

wright (d. 2001) and his twin brother Peter
Shaer, English playwright (d. 2016)

May 17 Franz Sondheimer, German-born British

chemist (d. 1981)

May 17 Dietmar Schnherr, Austrian lm actor

(d. 2014)

May 18

Dirch Passer, Danish actor (d. 1980)

Douglas Henry, American politician (d. 2017)
Don Rickles
May 20 John Lucarotti, TV writer (d. 1994)
May 5 May 21 Robert Creeley, American Poet (d. 2005)
Ann B. Davis, American actress (The Brady May 23
Bunch) (d. 2014)
Bing Russell, American actor (d. 2003) Aileen Hernandez, African-American union
organizer, civil rights activist, and womens
May 8 rights activist (d. 2017)
2.6 June 13

Desmond Carrington, British actor and broad-

caster (d. 2017)

May 25 Bill Sharman, American basketball player

and coach (d. 2013)

May 26 Miles Davis, American musician (d.

1991)

May 27 Kees Rijvers, Dutch football player and

manager

May 28 Colin Hutton, English rugby union and

professional rugby league (d. 2017)

May 29

Halaevalu Mataaho Ahomee, Queen Consort

of Tonga (d. 2017)
Abdoulaye Wade, 3rd President of Senegal

May 30

Johnny Gimble, American country musician

and ddler (d. 2015)
Tsuneo Watanabe, Japanese businessman

2.6 June
Allen Ginsberg

Mel Brooks

Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)

June 3
June 1
Roscoe Bartlett, Republican member of the
Andy Grith, American actor (d. 2012) United States House of Representatives
14
Allen Ginsberg, American poet (Howl) (d.
1997)
June 5
Emile Capgras, Martinican politician (d.
2014)
Peter Peterson- US Secretary of Commerce
19721973 US Secretary of Commerce
June 6
Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
Antnio Ribeiro de Oliveira, Brazilian Roman
Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
June 9 Happy Rockefeller, American socialite (d.
2015)
June 10 Lionel Jeries, British lm director and
actor (d. 2010)
June 11 Frank Plicka, Czech-born photographer
(d. 2010)
June 12 Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and
author (d. 2001)
June 13
Paul Lynde, American comedian (d. 1982)
June Krauser, American swimmer (d. 2014)
June 14 Don Newcombe, American baseball
player
June 15 Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist
(d. 2006)
June 16
William F. Roemer, Jr., United States FBI
agent (d. 1996)
Taketoshi Naito, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
June 18 Allan Sandage, American astronomer (d.
2010)
June 19 Arno Mayer, American historian and
writer
June 21
Yvette Lvy, French Survivor and a Holocaust
witness
Johanna Quandt, German business woman (d.
2015)
Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer
(d. 2003)
Fred Cone, former professional American
football fullback
June 22
2 BIRTHS
George Englund, American lm editor, direc-
tor, producer and actor
Elyakim Haetzni, Israeli lawyer
Ray Szmanda, American radio and television
announcer
Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish lmmaker (d.
2015)
June 23
Magda Herzberger, Romanian author, poet
and composer, survivor of the Holocaust
Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Japanese freestyle
swimmer (d. 2011)
June 24
Barbara Scoeld, American tennis player
Aldo Brovarone, chief stylist for Pininfarina
Hans Gnter Winkler, German show jumping
rider
Walter Hirrlinger, German politician
Juan Ortiz Jimenez, Puerto Rican actor
Blackie Gejeian, American race car driver,
race car builder, and hot rod enthusiast (d.
2016)
June 25
Virginia Patton, American actress
Stig Sollander, Swedish alpine skier
Gordon Robertson, Canadian ice hockey
player
Margaret Anstee, British diplomat (d. 2016)
Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d.
1973)
June 26
Mahendra Bhatnagar, Hindi and Indian En-
glish poet from India
Xolilizwe Mzikayise Sigcawu, King of the
Gcaleka Xhosas from 1965 to 2005
Fritz Zwazl, Austrian former swimmer
June 27
Galina Vecherkovskaya, Russian rower
Bruce Tozer, Australian former cricketer
Giambattista Bonis, Italian professional foot-
ball player
Geza de Kaplany, Hungarian-born physician
Francis Rapp, French medievalist and histo-
rian
2.7 July 15

Don Raleigh, American ice hockey player (d. Jacques Gautheron, French sports director
2012) Liu Dajun, Chinese agricultural scientist, ed-
June 28 ucator and an academician (d. 2016)

Mel Brooks, American entertainer (The Pro- July 3

ducers) Mara Lorenza Barreneche, former First Lady
Satoru Abe, American sculptor and painter of Argentina (d. 2016)
George Booth, New Yorker cartoonist Rae Allen, American actress and director of
stage, lm and television, and singer.
June 29
Laurence Street, Australian jurist and former
Julius W. Becton, Jr., U.S Army lieutenant Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New
general South Wales
Bobby Morgan, American professional base- Sybille Haynes, British expert on Etruscology
ball player
July 4
Roger Stuart Bacon, American politician
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Alfredo Di Stfano, Argentine-born footballer
Kuwait (d. 2006) (d. 2014)
Amos Elon, Israeli writer (d. 2009)
June 30
Mary Stuart, American soap actress (d. 2002)
Reg Newton, English professional football
Ed Koenberger, American stand-out basket-
goalkeeper
ball and lacrosse player (d. 2014)
Paul Berg, American chemist, Nobel Prize
laureate July 5
David Berglas, magician and mentalist Viola Harris, American actress
Peter Alexander, Austrian actor, singer and Roy Hawes, American rst baseman in Major
entertainer (d. 2011) League Baseball
Ivo Pitanguy, Brazilian plastic surgeon (d.
2.7 July 2016)
Mario Picone. American pitcher (d. 2013)
July 1
July 6
Atilio Stampone, Argentine pianist, composer
and arranger Dorothy E. Smith, Canadian sociologist
Juan Jaime Cesio, Argentine brigadier general Serge Roullet, French lm director and
screenwriter
Fernando J. Corbat, American computer sci-
entist Marian Carr, American actress
Carl Hahn, German automotive executive, July 7
chairman of Volkswagen
Mainhardt Graf von Nayhau, German jour- Yvonne Ciannella, American coloratura so-
nalist prano in opera and concert

Robert Fogel, American economist, Nobel Armand Lemieux, Canadian professional

Prize laureate (d. 2013) hockey player

Hans Werner Henze, German composer (d. Kamil Sedlek, Czech tibetologist and com-
2012) parative Sino-Tibetan linguist

Lupe Gigliotti, Brazilian television, stage and Thorkild Simonsen, Danish politician
lm actress (d. 2010) Kyichi Mizuki, Japanese actor

July 2 Nuon Chea, Cambodian former communist

politician who was the chief ideologist of the
Clara LaMore, American former competition Khmer Rouge
swimmer Mel Clark, American Major League Baseball
Carlo Rolandi, Italian sailor outelder (d. 2014)
16
Len Tolhurst, Australian sports shooter (d.
2011)
Bobby McIlvenny, Northern Irish footballer
(d. 2016)
July 8
John Dingell, American politician
Martin Riesen, Swiss professional ice hockey
goaltender
Elisabeth Kbler-Ross, Swiss-born psychia-
trist (d. 2004)
David Malet Armstrong, Australian philoso-
pher (d. 2014)
July 9
Mathilde Krim, founding chairman of am-
fAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Re-
search
Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
Murphy Anderson, American comic book
artist (d. 2015)
Peter Mullins, Australian decathlete (d. 2012)
July 10
Carleton Carpenter, American actor
Aldo Tortorella, Italian journalist, former
politician and partisan
Donald Geary, American ice hockey player (d.
2015)
Harry Macpherson, American pitcher (d.
2017)
Fred Gwynne, American actor and author (d.
1993)
July 11
Teddy Reno, Italian singer, actor and record
producer
Frederick Buechner, American author and
theologian
Joe Houston, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
July 12
Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, wife of the Prime
Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mo-
hamad
Martin Bott, English geologist and now Emer-
itus Professor
Miroslav Baumruk, Czech footballer
Cec Thompson, British professional rugby
league footballer (d. 2011)
2 BIRTHS
July 13
T. Loren Christianson, American politician
Thomas Clark, American politician
Bengt-Arne Wallin, Swedish jazz musician
(trumpet), composer, music arranger and
trained aircraft technicians (d. 2015)
July 14
Harry Dean Stanton, American lm and tele-
vision actor
Jean Cottard, French fencer
Jan Krenz, Polish composer and conductor
July 15
Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplo-
mat
Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d.
2003)
Raymond Gosling, English physicist (d. 2015)
July 16
Stef Wertheimer, German-born Israeli indus-
trialist, investor, philanthropist and former
politician
Paul M. Ellwood, Jr., prominent gure in
American health care
Emile Degelin, Belgian lm director and nov-
elist
Patrick Desmond Callaghan, Pakistani Air
Force ocer
Stanley Clements, American actor (d. 1981)
Irwin Rose, American biologist, recipient of
the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2015)
Michael Otedola, Nigerian politician (d.
2014)
July 17
Arrigo Levi, Italian journalist, essayist and TV
anchorman
Charles Zwick, American civil servant
William Pierson, American television, motion
picture and stage actor (d. 2004)
Willis Carto, American far right (d. 2015)
douard Carpentier, Canadian professional
wrestler (d. 2010)
July 18
Nita Bieber, American actress
Franois Fassone, French footballer
Dan Sandberg, president and Chief Executive
ocer TVC Lab/Video.
2.8 August 17

Bernard Pons, French politician and medical
doctor
Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish lm director and
screenwriter
Robert Sloman, English writer (d. 2005)
Joshua Fishman, American linguist (d. 2015)
Richard Pasco, British stage, screen and TV
actor (d. 2014)
July 19
Helen Gallagher, American actress, dancer,
singer, and makeup artist
Robert E. Lavender, American Justice
Lathan Lenon, Montford Point Marine, Con-
gressional Gold Medal
Terry Cavanagh, Canadian politician
Edmund Reggie, American Democratic politi-
cian (d. 2013)
July 20
Russ Gorman, Australian politician (d. 2017)
Odd Kallerud, Norwegian politician
July 21
Rahimuddin Khan, four-star general of the
Pakistan Army
Norman Jewison, American lm director
Arthur Edgehill, American hard bop jazz
James Best, American actor (The Dukes of
Hazzard) (d. 2015)
Lennox Sebe, President of Ciskei bantustan (d.
1994)
Moacir Santos, Brazilian composer, multi-
instrumentalist and music educator (d. 2006)
July 27 Doris Sattereld, American professional
baseball player (d. 1993)
July 28 Walt Brown, American presidential can-
didate
July 29 Franco Sensi, Italian oil tycoon (d. 2008)
July 30
Sir Patrick Russell QC, PC, judge of the High
Court of England and Wales (d. 2002)
Nina Kulagina, Russian woman who claimed
to have psychic powers, particularly in psy-
chokinesis (d. 1990)
July 31
Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, math-
ematician and computer scientist (d. 2016)
Bernard Nathanson, American medical doctor
(d. 2011)
2.8 August

July 22

Jerry Clack, Professor of Classical Languages

at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh
J. I. Packer, British-born Canadian Christian
theologian in the low church Anglican and Re-
formed traditions
Bryan Forbes, English lm director (d. 2013)

July 24

Guy Severin, American professor (d. 2008)

Lew Schwartz, American comic book artist, Tony Bennett
advertising creator and lmmaker (d. 2011)
Hans Gnter Winkler, German equestrian and
August 1 Hannah Hauxwell, English TV personal-
show jumper
ity
July 25
August 2
Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress
Sy Mah, Canadian marathoner (d. 1988)
Whitey Lockman, American player, coach,
manager (d. 2009) George Habash, Palestinian Christian politi-
cian (d. 2008)
Ray Solomono, American inventor (d. 2009)
W. Carter Merbreier, American television host
July 26 (Captain Noah) (d. 2016)
18
Fidel Castro
Jiang Zemin
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
Hang Thun Hak, Cambodian radical politi-
cian, academic and playwright (d. 1975)
August 3
Rona Anderson, Scottish stage, lm, and tele-
vision actress (d. 2013)
Loris Campana, Italian road and track cyclist
(d. 2015)
2 BIRTHS
Tony Bennett, American singer (I Left My
Heart in San Francisco)
Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biog-
rapher (d. 2004)
August 6
Jnos Rzss, Hungarian writer (d. 2012)
Frank Finlay, English stage, lm and television
actor (d. 2016)
Elisabeth Beresford, British author (The
Wombles) (d. 2010)
Norman Wexler, Academy Award nominated
Screenwriter (d. 1999)
Dick Hendley, American football (d. 2014)
Loris Campana, Italian road and track cyclist
(d. 2015)
Luis Bordn, English author (d. 1986)
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, son of Prince
Philip, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 2013)
August 7 Stan Freberg, American author, record-
ing artist and comedian (d. 2015)
August 8
Silvio Amadio, Italian lm director and
screenwriter (d. 1995)
Jimmy Brown, American trumpeter, saxo-
phonist and singer (d. 2006)
Angelo Bonetti, Brazilian basketball player
(d. 2004)
2.8 August
August 9
Willie Finlay, Scottish professional football
player and coach (d. 2014)
Frank M. Robinson, American science ction
and techno-thriller writer (d. 2014)
August 10
Michel Breitman, French writer and translator
(d. 2009)
Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist
(d. 2013)
Marie-Claire Alain, French organist (d. 2013)
August 11
Jos Mara Ortiz de Mendbil, Spanish referee
(d. 2015)
Charles Cooper, American actor (d. 2013)
Claus von Blow, Danish-born British so-
cialite
Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist, Nobel
Prize laureate
August 12
Douglas Croft, American child actor (d. 1963)
Ren Vignal, French footballer (d. 2016)
John Derek, American actor and director (d.
1998)
Hiroshi Koizumi, Japanese actor (d. 2015)
Wallace Markeld, American writer (d. 2002)
Osamu Ishiguro, Japanese tennis player (d.
2016)
Hortense Clews, member of the Belgian Re-
sistance during World War II (d. 2006)
August 13
Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politi-
cian (d. 2016)
Roy Heath, Guyanese writer (d. 2008)
Norris Bowden, Canadian gure skater (d.
1991)
Dennis Eagan, British eld hockey player (d.
2012)
August 14
Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer
and pianist (d. 2017)
Ren Goscinny, French comic book writer (d.
1977)
Martin Broszat, German historian (d. 1989)
August 15
19
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, former
President of Greece (d. 2016)
Lionel Van Brabant, Belgian cyclist (d. 2004)
August 16
Eivind Hjelmtveit, Norwegian cultural admin-
istrator (d. 2017)
Roger Agache, French archaeologist (d. 2011)
Christopher Polge, English biologist, most
noted for his work in cryopreservation (d.
2006)
Jack Britto, Pakistani Olympic eld hockey
player (d. 2013)
Manorama, Bollywood character actress (d.
2008)
August 17
Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 1992)
Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the
Communist Party of China and President of
the Peoples Republic of China
August 18
Franca Marzi, Italian lm actress (d. 1989)
Orlando Bosch, Cuban exile (d. 2011)
August 19
Luis Bordn, Paraguayan musician and com-
poser (d. 2006)
Martin Halliday, British physician (d. 2008)
George Daniels, British horologist (d. 2011)
Angus Scrimm, American actor (d. 2016)
Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist
August 20
Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian
football player and coach (d. 2014)
Hocine At Ahmed, Algerian politician (d.
2015)
August 22 Lois Hall, American actress (d. 2006)
August 23
Cliord Geertz, American anthropologist (d.
2006)
Vasco Cabral, Guinea-Bissauan writer and
politician (d. 2005)
August 26 Robert Vickrey, American artist and
author (d. 2011)
August 27
20 2 BIRTHS

Pat Coombs, British actress (d. 2002) September 3

Albert H. Owens Jr., American oncologist (d.
2017)
August 29
Ramakrishna Hegde, Indian politician (d.
2004)
Rafael Ithier, Puerto Rican musician
Betty Lynn, American actress
August 30
Robert Pierre Sarrabre, Roman Catholic
bishop (d. 2017)
Bali Mauladad, Kenian big game hunter (d.
1970)
August 31 Mayer Hersh, Polish Jew who survived
the Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 2016)
Uttam Kumar, Bengali actor (d. 1980)
Irene Papas, Greek actress and singer
September 6
Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Con-
sort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
Maurice Cowling, British historian (d. 2005)
Maurice Prather, American photographer (d.
2001)
September 7
Ronnie Gilbert, American folk singer and
songwriter (d. 2015)
Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997)
September 8 Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automo-
bile designer (d. 2012)

2.9 September September 9 Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian Islamic

theologian

September 14

Dick Dale, American singer and musician (d.

2014)
John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist (d.
2015)

September 15 Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathe-

matician

September 16

John Knowles, American author (d. 2001)

Robert H. Schuller, American televangelist,
motivational speaker and author (d. 2015)

September 17 Bill Black, American rock and roll

musician and bandleader (d. 1965)

September 19

Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel

Prize laureate
James Lipton, American television personality
and writer
Duke Snider, American baseball player (d.
2011)
James Lipton
September 21

September 2 Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel

Prize laureate (d. 2013)
Armando Cossutta, Italian communist politi-
cian (d. 2015) Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d.
2000)
Ibrahim Nasir Rannabanderyi Kilegefan,
Maldivian president (d. 2008) September 23
2.10 October
John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (d.
1967)
Heng Freylinger, Luxembourgian wrestler (d.
2017)
Aage Birch, Danish competitive sailor and
Olympic medalist (d. 2017)
September 24 Aubrey Burl, British archaeologist
September 25 Charles J. Colgan, American politi-
cian and businessman (d. 2017)
September 26 Julie London, American actress and
singer (d. 2000)
September 28 Jerry Clower, American country co-
median (d. 1998)
September 30
Robin Roberts, American baseball player (d.
2010)
Dave Hunt, American apologist, speaker, ra-
dio commentator and author (d. 2013)
2.10 October
Chuck Berry
October 1 Max Morath, American musician
October 2
Jan Morris, travel writer
21
John Ross, Austrian-born American chemist
(d. 2017)
October 4 Senaida Wirth, American female pro-
fessional baseball player (d. 1967)
October 7 Czesaw Ryll-Nardzewski, Polish math-
ematician (d. 2015)
October 9 Ruth Ellis, British murderer (d. 1955)
October 11
Zohurul Hoque, Indian Islamic scholar (d.
2017)
Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
October 13
Jesse L. Brown, rst African-American aviator
in the United States Navy (d. 1950)
Kazuo Nakamura, Japanese-Canadian painter,
part of the Painters Eleven (d. 2002)
October 15
Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d.
1984)
Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000)
Karl Richter, German conductor (d. 1981)
Jerey Hayden, American television director
and producer (d. 2016)
October 17
Julie Adams, American actress
Beverly Garland, American actress and busi-
nesswoman (d. 2008)
October 18
Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist
Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
Pauline Pirok, American female professional
baseball player
October 20 Vsevolod Murakhovsky, Ukrainian-
Russian politician (d. 2017)
October 21 Bob Rosburg, American golfer (d.
2009)
October 22 Gloria Carter Spann, sister of former
President Jimmy Carter (d. 1990)
October 25 Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
(d. 2012)
October 28 Bowie Kuhn, American Commis-
sioner of Baseball (d. 2007)
22 2 BIRTHS

October 29 November 3 Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politi-

Necmettin Erbakan, 25th Prime Minister of
Turkey (d. 2011)
Jon Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor (d.
2015)
October 30
Lois Wyse, American advertising executive,
author and columnist (d. 2007)
Earle Hyman, American actor (The Cosby
Show)
October 31 Jimmy Savile, English DJ and televi-
sion presenter (d. 2011)
cian, 3rd President of Lithuania
November 5 John Berger, English art critic, nov-
elist and painter (d. 2017)
November 6 Frank Carson, Northern Irish come-
dian (d. 2012)
November 7 Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian
soprano (d. 2010)
November 8 Jack Mendelsohn, American writer-
artist (d. 2017)
November 11 Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian au-
tomobile racing driver (d. 2016)
November 15 Helmut Fischer, German actor (d.
1997)

2.11 November November 16

Amy Applegren, American professional base-
ball player (d. 2011)
Ton de Leeuw, Dutch composer (d. 1996)
November 17 Christopher Weeramantry, Sri
Lankan lawyer (d. 2017)
November 19 Jeane Kirkpatrick, American am-
bassador (d. 2006)
November 20 John Gardner, English spy novelist
(d. 2007)
November 23
Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d.
2011)
R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)
November 24 Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
November 25 Poul Anderson, American science
ction author (d. 2001)
November 26
Peter van Pels, German-Dutch love interest of
Anne Frank (d. 1945)
Rabi Ray, Indian politician (d. 2017)
November 28
David Alexander, British Royal Marines gen-
eral (d. 2017)
Umberto Veronesi, Italian oncologist and
politician (d. 2016)
November 30
Valdas Adamkus
Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
Andrew Schally, Polish-born American en-
November 1 Betsy Palmer, American actress (d. docrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
2015) Physiology or Medicine
 23

2.12 December 3 Deaths

December 1
3.1 JanuaryMarch
Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American ac-
tress and dancer
Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
December 9 Henry Way Kendall, American physi-
cist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
December 10
Guitar Slim, American New Orleans blues
guitarist (d. 1959)
Giorgos Ioannou, Greek artist (d. 2017)
December 13 George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
December 15 Nikos Koundouros, Greek lm di-
rector (d. 2017)
December 16 James McCracken, American tenor
(d. 1988)
December 17
Allan V. Cox, American geologist (d. 1987)
Bill Keightley, American equipment man-
ager for the University of Kentucky mens
basketball team from 1962 to 2008 (d. 2008)
December 19 Herbert Stempel, subject of lm
Quiz Show (lm) Camillo Golgi

December 20
Georey Howe, British politician (d. 2015)
Otto Graf Lambsdor, German politician (d.
2009)
David Levine, U.S. caricaturist (d. 2009)
December 21
Joe Paterno, American football coach and phi-
lanthropist (d. 2012)
Elisabeth Elliot, American Christian author
and speaker (d. 2015)
December 22 Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan foot-
baller (d. 2015)
December 23
Robert Bly, American poet
Metakse, Armenian poet, writer, translator
and public activist (d. 2014)
December 26 Gina Pelln, Cuban painter (d.
2014)
December 31 Billy Snedden, Australian politician Kato Takaaki
(d. 1987)
24
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
January 4 Margherita of Savoy, queen consort of
Italy (b. 1851)
January 15 Louis Majorelle, French furniture de-
signer (b. 1859)
January 21 Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recip-
ient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(b. 1843)
January 28
Kat Takaaki, Japanese politician, 24th Prime
Minister of Japan (b. 1860)
Ernest Troubridge, British admiral (b. 1862)
January 30 Barbara La Marr, American lm ac-
tress (b. 1896)
February 1 Saint Theodosius of Skopje, Bulgaria
religious leader (b. 1846)
February 6 Carrie Clark Ward, stage and lm char-
acter actress (b. 1862)
February 8 William Bateson, British geneticist (b.
1861)
February 12 Art Smith, American pilot (b. 1890)
February 21 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch
physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
February 24
3 DEATHS
John Jacob Bausch, German-American op-
tician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (b.
1830)
Eddie Plank, American baseball player and
MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1875)
March 4 Patriarch Macarius II (b. 1835)
March 11 Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki
(b. 1865)
March 12 E. W. Scripps, American newspaper
publisher (b. 1854)
March 16 Sergeant Stubby, World War I American
hero war dog (b. 1916)
March 17 Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (b.
1853)
March 24 Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg (b. 1860)
March 26 Constantin Fehrenbach, German politi-
cian and 13th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
March 28 Prince Philippe, Duke of Orleans (b.
1869)
3.2 AprilJune
April 1 Jacob Pavlovich Adler, Russian actor (b.
1855)
April 9 Henry Miller, English-born American
stage actor and producer (b. 1859)
April 10 shima Yoshimasa, Japanese general (b.
1850)
April 20 Billy Quirk, American actor (b. 1873)
April 24 Sunjong, last Emperor of Korea (b.
1874)
April 25 Ellen Key, Swedish feminist writer (b.
1849)
April 28 Kawamura Kageaki, Japanese eld mar-
shal (b. 1850)
April 30 Bessie Coleman, African-American pilot
(b. 1892)
May 3 Victor, Prince Napoleon (b. 1849)
May 9 J. M. Dent, British publisher (b. 1849)
May 10 Alton B. Parker, American judge (b.
1852)
May 16 Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b.
1861)
May 26 Symon Petliura, Ukrainian independence
ghter (b. 1879)
3.3 JulySeptember 25

Sultan Mehmed VI
Emperor Sunjong

June 8 Emily Hobhouse, British welfare cam-

paigner (b. 1860)

June 9 Sanford B. Dole, President of Hawaii and

1st Territorial Governor of Hawaii (b. 1844)

June 10 Antoni Gaud, Catalan architect (b. 1852)

June 14 Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1844)

3.3 JulySeptember
July 2 mile Cou, French psychologist (b. 1857)

July 12

Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist, writer,

spy, and administrator; known as the Un-
crowned Queen of Iraq (b. 1868)
John W. Weeks, American politician in the
Republican Party (b. 1860)

July 13 Mariano de Jesus Euse Hoyos, Colombian

Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1845)
Antoni Gaudi
July 22

Willard Louis, American actor (b. 1882)

26 3 DEATHS

Friedrich von Wieser, Austrian economist (b.

1851)

July 26 Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman

and businessman, son of 16th President Abraham
Lincoln (b. 1843)

August 1 Israel Zangwill, British novelist and play-

wright (b. 1864)

August 14 John H. Mott, American politician (b.

1843)

August 21 Ugyen Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b.

1861)

August 22 Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard

University (b. 1834)

August 23 Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b.

1895)

August 27 John Rodgers, American naval ocer

and naval aviation pioneer (b. 1881)

August 30 Eddie Lyons, American actor (b. 1886)

September 15 Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German

writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)

September 21 Lon Charles Thvenin, French

telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
King Ugyen Wangchuck
September 25 Herbert Booth, third son of William
and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)

3.4 OctoberDecember
October 7 Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (b.
1856)

October 9 Josias von Heeringen, German general

(b. 1850)

October 11 Hymie Weiss, American gangster (b.

1898)

October 16 Princess Frederica of Hanover (b.

1848)

October 19 Victor Babe, Romanian bacteriologist

(b. 1854)

October 20 Eugene V. Debs, American labor and

political leader (b. 1855)

October 31

Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born escapologist

Rudolph Valentino (b. 1874)
Charles Vance Millar, Canadian businessman
(b. 1853)
3.4 OctoberDecember 27

Annie Oakley

Harry Houdini

November 3 Annie Oakley, American sharp-

shooter and entertainer (b. 1860)

November 7 Tom Forman, American actor and

director (b. 1893)

December 2 Grard Cooreman, Prime Minister of

Belgium (b. 1852)

December 4 Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b.

1861)

December 5 Claude Monet, French painter (b.

1840)

December 10 Nikola Pai, Serbian and Yugoslav

statesman, 4-Time Prime Minister of Serbia and 3-
Time Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1855)

December 16 William Larned, American tennis

champion (b. 1872)
Claude Monet
December 17 Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish in-
ventor and founder of Ericsson (b. 1846)

December 22 Mina Arndt, New Zealander painter December 24 Johan Castberg, Norwegian Radical
(b. 1885) politician (b. 1862)
28
Emperor Taisho
December 25 Emperor Taish, 123rd Emperor of
Japan, one of the leaders of World War I (b. 1879)
December 28 Robert Felkin, British writer (b.
1853)
December 29 Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet
(b. 1875)
4 Nobel Prizes
Physics Jean Baptiste Perrin
Chemistry Theodor Svedberg
Physiology or Medicine Johannes Andreas Grib
Fibiger
Literature Grazia Deledda
Peace Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
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Daily Tribune. January 2, 1926. p. 5.
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uary 3, 2015.
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Fly Over The North Pole Or Not?". LiveScience. Purch.
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