Year 1935

1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1935th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 935th year of the 2nd millennium, the 35th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1930sdecade.

Events

January

• January – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia creates a military school at Holeta.
• January 1 – The Italian colonies of Tripoli and Cyrenaica are joined together as Libya.
• January 3 – The trial of Richard Hauptmann, accused of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr., begins in Flemington, New Jersey.
• January 4 – Dry Tortugas National Park is established in the Florida Keys.
• January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other’s colonial claims.
• January 11 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
• January 13 – A plebiscite in the Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany.
• January 16 – The FBI kills the Barker Gang, including Ma Barker, in a shootout.
• January 19 – Coopers Inc. sells the world’s first men’s briefs, as “jockeys”, in Chicago.
• January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company.
• January 28 – Iceland legalizes abortion on medical grounds.

February

• February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly in the United States.
• February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death, for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr., in the United States.
• February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibiotic, is published in a series of articles by Gerhard Domagk and others in Germany’s pre-eminent medical journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift.
• February 22 – Airplanes are banned from flying over the White House in Washington, D.C.
• February 23 – The classic Mickey Mouse cartoon The Band Concert is released by United Artists in the United States.
• February 26
  • In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler orders reinstatement of the air force, the Luftwaffe, in violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
  • Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrates the use of radar to detect aircraft, at Daventry in England.
• February 28 – Ladby ship: A Viking ship grave is discovered in Denmark.

March

• March 1
  • 1935 Greek coup d’état attempt: Nikolaos Plastiras, Anastasios Papoulas and other Venizelists lead a coup against the People’s Party government in Greece. The attempt is suppressed by March 11, and the leaders condemned to death for treason.
  • İsmet İnönü forms the new government in Turkey (the 8th government; during Atatürk’s presidency, İnönü has served seven times as a prime minister).
• March 2 – King Prajadhipok (Rama VII) of Siam abdicates the throne; he is succeeded by his 9-year-old-nephew Ananda Mahidol(Rama VIII).
• March 8 – Faithful dog Hachikō dies, on the spot where he had awaited his dead owner for nine years, in Japan.
• March 9 – Porky Pig makes his debut as the first major Looney Tunes character, in I Haven’t Got a Hat.
• March 16 – Adolf Hitler announces German re-armament in violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
• March 19 – Harlem riot of 1935: A race riot breaks out in Harlem (New York City), after a rumor circulates that a teenage Puerto Rican shoplifter in the S. H. Kress & Co. department store has been brutally beaten.
• March 21 – Reza Shah of Iran asks the international community to formally adopt the name “Iran” to refer to the country, in place of the name “Persia”.
• March 22 – The world’s first television program (by Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow) is transmitted from the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany.

April

• April 1 – The North American NA-16, prototype of the North American T-6 Texan or Harvard flying trainer, flies for the first time.
• April 14 – Dust Bowl: “Black Sunday”, the great dust storm in the United States hits eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma the hardest (it will be made famous by Woody Guthrie, in his “dust bowl ballads”).
• April 15 – The Roerich Pact, a Pan-American treaty on the protection of cultural artefacts, is signed in Washington, D.C.
• April 16 – Fibber McGee and Molly debuts on NBC Radio, in the United States.
• April 17 – Sun Myung Moon, a teenage Presbyterian convert in Korea under Japanese rule, claims to have a revelation from Jesus, telling him to complete his mission from almost 2,000 years ago.
• April 24 – William Christian Bullitt Jr., the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, hosts the elaborately prepared Spring Ball of the Full Moon, which is said to have surpassed all other embassy parties in Moscow’s history.
• April 27 – FA Cup (Association football): Sheffield Wednesday F.C. beat West Bromwich Albion 4–2 at Wembley Stadium in England.
• April 29 – The first edition of the Vuelta a España is raced, and goes on to become one of the 3 Grand Tours of road bicycle racing.

May

• May 6 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the United States.
• May 14 – Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proves to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win is not until May 29, 1939.
• May 15 – Joseph Stalin opens the Moscow Metro to the public.
• May 19 – T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) dies as the result of a motorcycle accident, in Dorset, England.
• May 21 – In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler announces the reintroduction of conscription to the Wehrmacht, in violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
• May 24 – The first nighttime Major League Baseball game is played between the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies, at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• May 27 – Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (the “Sick Chicken Case”): The Supreme Court of the United States declares that the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major component of the New Deal, is unconstitutional.
• May 29
  • The French Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ocean liner SS Normandie sets out on her maiden voyage from Le Havre to New York, which she will reach in 4 days, 3 hours and 14 minutes, taking the Blue Riband; she gains the eastbound record on her return passage.
  • German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft first flies.
• May 30 – Eventual Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth appears in his last career game, playing for the Boston Braves in Philadelphia against the Phillies.
• May 31
  • 1935 Quetta earthquake: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan, killing 40,000.
  • Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Film Corporation become 20th Century Fox Film Corporation.

June

• June 9 – He–Umezu Agreement: China’s Kuomintang government concedes Japanese military control of north-eastern China.
• June 10 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
• June 12
  • Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record, taking ​15 ¹⁄₂ hours and containing 150,000 words.
  • The Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia ends.
• June 13 – James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer at Madison Square Garden Bowl, to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.
• June 18 – Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain agrees to a German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.
• June 24 – Carlos Gardel, the legendary Franco-Argentine “Father of Tango”, dies in a plane crash in Medellín, Colombia.

July

• July 4 – RMS Mauretania sails from Southampton to Jarrow.
• July 16 – The world’s first parking meters are installed in Oklahoma City.
• July 17 – Cudjoe Lewis, the last known surviving male victim of Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, dies.
• July 25–August 20 – The seventh and last congress of the Comintern is held.

August

• August 5 – The Leo Burnett Advertising Agency opens in Chicago.
• August 14 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law.
• August 15 – Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed, when Post’s plane crashes shortly after takeoff, near Barrow, Alaska.

September

• September 2 – 1935 Labor Day hurricane: The strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States landfalls in the Upper Florida Keys as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds, killing 423.
• September 3 – Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first person to drive an automobile at 300 miles per hour in Blue Bird, establishing a new absolute land speed record of 301.337 mph (484.955 km/h) on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
• September 8 – Carl Weiss kills Huey Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana, in the Louisiana Capitol Building in Baton Rouge.
• September 13 – Howard Hughes, flying the Hughes H-1 Racer, sets an airspeed record of 352 mph (566 km/h).
• September 15 – The Nuremberg Laws go into effect in Germany, removing citizenship from Jews.
• September 17 – Manuel L. Quezon is the 2nd President of the Philippines.
• September 24 – Earl W. Bascom and his brother Weldon produce the first night rodeo held outdoors under electric lights, at Columbia, Mississippi.
• September 29 – The London and North Eastern Railway’s first A4 Class streamlined steam locomotive A4 2509 Silver Link makes her inaugural journey, from London King’s Cross.
• September 30
  • U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam.
  • The London and North Eastern Railway commences the Silver Jubilee, Britain’s first streamline train service.

October

• October 2–3 – The Second Italo-Ethiopian War begins, as Italian General Emilio De Bono invades Ethiopia.
• October 10 – A tornado destroys the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg, Germany. As a result of this catastrophe, wooden radio towers are phased out.
• October 13 – RMS Olympic sails from southampton to Jarrow to be scrapped
• October 14 – 1935 Canadian federal election: The Liberal Party of William Lyon Mackenzie King wins a majority government, defeating the Conservative Party of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett.
• October 21 – Grant v Australian Knitting Mills, a landmark case in consumer law, is decided on appeal in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the U.K.
• October 22 – The Communist Party of China settles in Shaanxi after the Long March.

November

• November 3 – A Greek monarchy referendum is held by self-proclaimed Regent Georgios Kondylis. Almost 98% of the votes favor restoration of the monarchy, although the referendum’s integrity is dubious.
• November 8 – A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with promoting the cause of industrial unionism in North America.
• November 14 – 1935 United Kingdom general election: Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin returns to office at the head of a National Government led by the Conservative Party, with a large but reduced majority.
• November 22 – The flying boat China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California, to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean; on November 29 the aircraft reaches its final destination, Manila, and delivers over 110,000 pieces of mail.
• November 23 – Jacques and Thérèse Tréfouël, Daniel Bovet and Federico Nitti, in the laboratory of Ernest Fourneau at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, discover that sulfanilamide is the active component of Prontosil.
• November 25 – After 11 years in exile, George II returns to Greek soil as King of the Hellenes at Corfu, from London.
• November 30 – The 1935 British-made film Scrooge, the first all-talking film version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, opens in the U.S. after its British release.

December

• December 5 – Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in the United States.
• December 9 – American newspaper editor Walter Liggett is killed, in a gangland murder plot.
• December 10 – Hanshin Tigers, a well known professional baseball club of Japan, is founded in Osaka.
• December 12
  • The Lebensborn program in support of Nazi eugenics is founded by Heinrich Himmler in Germany.
  • The De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, a pioneering example of International Style architecture, opens in the British Isles.
• December 17 – The Douglas DST, prototype of the Douglas DC-3 airliner, first flies in the United States. More than 16,000 of the model will eventually be produced.
• December 18
  • Samuel Hoare resigns as British foreign secretary, and is replaced by Anthony Eden.
  • The socialist party of Sri Lanka, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, is founded.
• December 27 – Mao Zedong issues the Wayaobu Manifesto, On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism, calling for a National United Front against the Japanese invasion.
• December 28 – Pravda publishes a letter from Pavel Postyshev, who revives the New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.

Date unknown

• The house Fallingwater in southwestern Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is completed.
• Lectorium Rosicrucianum is founded.
• The Melody Inn opens as a piano bar in Indianapolis.
• American Institute of Public Opinion, as predecessor of Gallup Group, a management consulting and research management institution business on worldwide, founded in New Jersey, United States.

Births

January

• January 4 – Floyd Patterson, African-American boxer (d. 2006)
• January 6
  • Gerald R. Molen, American actor
  • Queen Margarita of Bulgaria, Spanish-born Bulgarian monarch
  • Nino Tempo, American singer
• January 7 – Valeri Kubasov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (d. 2014)
• January 8 – Elvis Presley, American rock & roll singer, guitarist and actor (d. 1977)
• January 9 – Manlio De Angelis, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2017)
• January 10 – Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
• January 14 – Lucile Wheeler, Canadian skier
• January 15 – Luigi Radice, Italian football player and manager (d. 2018)
• January 16
  • A. J. Foyt, American race car driver
  • Udo Lattek, German football coach (d. 2015)
• January 17 – Albert Cheesebrough, English footballer (d. 2020)
• January 19
  • Maria Alice Vergueiro, Brazilian actress (d. 2020)
  • Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor (d. 2020)
• January 20 – Dorothy Provine, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 2010)
• January 21 – Andrew Sinclair, British novelist and biographer (d. 2019)
• January 22 – Seymour Cassel, American actor (d. 2019)
• January 25 – António Ramalho Eanes, 16th President of Portugal
• January 29 – Roger Payne, American biologist and environmentalist
• January 30
  • Richard Brautigan, American writer (d. 1984)
  • Elsa Martinelli, Italian film actress (d. 2017)
• January 31 – Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate

February

• Muhibbullah Babunagari, Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic Scholar and Key person of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
• February 1 – Vladimir Aksyonov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
• February 2 – Juliusz Paetz, Polish bishop (d. 2019)
• February 3 – Johnny “Guitar” Watson, African-American singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1996)
• February 4 – Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)
• February 7 – Herb Kohl, American businessman, philanthropist and politician
• February 11 – Gene Vincent, American guitarist, vocalist (d. 1971)
• February 15 – Roger B. Chaffee, American astronaut (d. 1967)
• February 16
  • Sonny Bono, American singer, actor and politician (d. 1998)
  • Brian Bedford, British actor (d. 2016)
• February 18
  • Michel Aoun, Lebanese politician, 26th President of Lebanon
  • Gennady Gladkov, Soviet and Russian composer
• February 26 – Artur Rasizade, Azerbaijani politician, 6th Prime Minister of Azerbaijan
• February 27 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano (d. 2020)

March

• March 1
  • Ajoy Roy, Bangladeshi professor (d. 2019)
  • Robert Conrad, American actor (The Wild Wild West) (d. 2020)
• March 3 – Zhelyu Zhelev, President of Bulgaria (d. 2015)
• March 4 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)
• March 15 – Judd Hirsch, American actor (Taxi)
• March 16 – Sergei Yursky, Soviet and Russian actor (d. 2019)
• March 21 – Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (d. 2004)
• March 22
  • Galina Gavrilovna Korchuganova, Russian-born Soviet test pilot and aerobatics champion (d. 2004)
  • M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
• March 24 – Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer
• March 27 – Julian Glover, English actor
• March 28 – Józef Szmidt, Polish athlete
• March 30 – Giuseppe Frigo, Italian judge (d. 2019)
• March 31
  • Ruth Escobar, Portuguese-Brazilian actress, businesswoman and politician (d. 2017)
  • Herb Alpert, American trumpeter

April

• April 4 – Kenneth Mars, American actor and voice actor (d. 2011)
• April 6 – Fred Bongusto, Italian light music singer, songwriter and composer (d. 2019)
• April 10 – P. J. Patterson, Jamaican politician, 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica
• April 13 – Lyle Waggoner, American actor (d. 2020)
• April 14 – Erich von Däniken, Swiss mythographer and author
• April 19 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, pianist and composer (d. 2002)
• April 21 – Charles Grodin, American actor, journalist
• April 22
  • Paul Chambers, American jazz musician (d. 1969)
  • Jerry Fodor, American philosopher and cognitive scientist (d. 2017)
• April 25
  • Li Ao, Chinese-Taiwanese writer, social commentator, historian and independent politician (d. 2018)
  • Jim Peebles, Canadian-born theoretical cosmologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• April 27 – Theo Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer (d. 2012)

May

• May 2
  • Faisal II of Iraq (d. 1958)
  • Luis Suárez, Spanish footballer
• May 3 – Ron Popeil, American inventor and marketing personality
• May 7 – H. C. Stackpole III, American military officer (d. 2020)
• May 8
  • Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager (d. 2020)
  • Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, Danish princess (d. 2018)
• May 12 – Gary Peacock, American jazz double-bassist (d. 2020)
• May 13 – Luciano Benetton, Italian entrepreneur, owner of Benetton Group
• May 14 – Ivan Dimitrov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 2019)
• May 15
  • Akihiro Miwa, Japanese singer, actor, director, composer, author and drag queen
  • Don Bragg, American athlete (d. 2019)
• May 16 – Milan Pančevski, Macedonian politician (d. 2019)
• May 20 – José Mujica, 40th President of Uruguay
• May 21 – Johnny Majors, American football player and coach (d. 2020)
• May 26 – Andre Stojka, American voice actor
• May 27 – Lee Meriwether, American beauty queen and actress
• May 29 – André Brink, South African writer (d. 2015)
• May 30 – Ruta Lee, Canadian-American actress and dancer
• May 31 – Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand

June

• June 1 – Norman Foster, English architect
• June 2
  • Lee Hoi-chang, South Korean politician, 26th Prime Minister of South Korea
  • Carol Shields, American-born writer (d. 2003)
• June 10 – Danding Cojuangco, Filipino businessman and politician (d. 2020)
• June 13
  • Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Bulgarian & Moroccan-born American installation artists (Jeanne-Claude d. 2009) (Christo d. 2020)
  • Javier Aguirre, Spanish film director, writer and producer (d. 2019)
  • Samak Sundaravej, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (2008) (d. 2009)
• June 17 – Peggy Seeger, American folk singer
• June 19 – Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, President of Ecuador
• June 21 – John Abbey, American actor
• June 22 – Floyd Norman, American animator, writer, and comic book artist
• June 23 – Günter Lörke, German cyclist
• June 24
  • Robert Downey Sr., American actor, filmmaker and father of actor Robert Downey Jr.
  • Pete Hamill, American journalist and author (d. 2020)
  • Terry Riley, American composer
• June 25
  • Don Demeter, American baseball outfielder
  • Larry Kramer, American playwright, author, and activist (d. 2020)
  • Corinne Chevallier, Algerian historian and novelist
• June 26
  • Pete Peterson, American politician and diplomat
  • Sandro Riminucci, Italian basketball player
• June 27 – Larry Krutko, American football player
• June 28
  • Bob Blaylock, American baseball player
  • Nicola Tempesta, Italian judoka
• June 29 – Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager (d. 2020)
• June 30
  • Stanley Norman Cohen, American geneticist
  • Valentino Gasparella, Italian track cyclist
  • Peter Achinstein, American philosopher

July

• July 1
  • James Cotton, African-American harmonica player, singer and songwriter (d. 2017)
  • David Prowse, English actor (d. 2020)
• July 2 – Sergei Khrushchev, Soviet, Russian and American scientist (d. 2020)
• July 3
  • Harrison Schmitt, American geologist, NASA astronaut, professor and former senator
  • John Swan, Bermudian political figure; 4th Premier of Bermuda
• July 5
  • Shevah Weiss, Israeli political scientist and politician
  • Christian Doermer, German actor and director
• July 6 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and spiritual leader of Tibet
• July 7 – H Franklin Bunn, American physician, hematologist and biochemist
• July 8
  • Steve Lawrence, American singer and actor
  • Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (d. 2010)
• July 9
  • Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist, politician (d. 2005)
  • Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (d. 2009)
• July 11 – Günther von Lojewski, German journalist, television presenter and author
• July 12
  • Hans Tilkowski, German footballer (d. 2020)
  • Satoshi Ōmura, Japanese biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Barry Mason, English songwriter
• July 13
  • Jack Kemp, American football player, U.S. vice presidential candidate (d. 2009)
  • Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist
• July 14 – Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate
• July 15
  • Andra Martin, American actress
  • Ken Kercheval, American actor (d. 2019)
• July 16 – Lynn Wyatt, American socialite and philanthropist
• July 17
  • Diahann Carroll, African-American actress and singer (d. 2019)
  • Mohamed Mehrez, Egyptian sports shooter
  • Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
• July 19 – Vasily Livanov, Soviet and Russian actor, animator and writer
• July 21 – Jeanne Arth, American Wimbledon and US Championships doubles tennis title holder
• July 25
  • Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian international arms dealer (d. 2017)
  • Barbara Harris, American actress (d. 2018)
• July 30 – Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco, Moroccan prince (d. 1983)

August

• August 1 – Mohinder Pratap Chand, Urdu poet, language advocate
• August 3
  • Omero Antonutti, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2019)
  • Georgy Shonin, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (d. 1997)
• August 10
  • Giya Kancheli, Soviet and Georgian composer (d. 2019)
  • Laurynas Stankevičius, 7th Prime Minister of Lithuania (d. 2017)
• August 12
  • Ján Popluhár, Slovak footballer (d. 2011)
  • John Cazale, American actor (d. 1978)
• August 15 – Agustín Alezzo, Argentine theatre director and acting teacher (d. 2020)
• August 17 – Oleg Tabakov, Soviet and Russian actor (d. 2018)
• August 18 – Rafer Johnson, African-American athlete
• August 20 – Ron Paul, American author, physician, and politician
• August 21
  • Bernhard Eckstein, German cyclist (d. 2017)
  • Ahmad al-Ghashmi, Yemeni general, 4th President of the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) (d. 1978)
  • Yuri Entin, Soviet and Russian poet, lyricist and playwright
• August 22 – E. Annie Proulx, American novelist
• August 24 – Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2017)
• August 26 – Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Congresswoman, Vice Presidential candidate (d. 2011)
• August 29 – William Friedkin, American film director
• August 30
  • Felipe Fernández García, Spanish Catholic bishop (d. 2012)
  • John Phillips, American singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 2001)
• August 31 – Eldridge Cleaver, African-American political activist and writer (d. 1998)

September

• September 1
  • Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
  • Guy Rodgers, American basketball player (d. 2001)
  • Chow Yei-ching, Hong Kong executive (d. 2018)
• September 5 – Ward Just, American writer (d. 2019)
• September 7 – Abdou Diouf, 2nd President of Senegal
• September 8 – William Vance, Belgian comics artist (d. 2018)
• September 9 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor and singer (Fiddler on the Roof)
• September 10 – Mary Oliver, American poet, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner (d. 2019)
• September 11
  • Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
  • Gherman Titov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (d. 2000)
• September 12 – Harvey J. Alter, American virologist, Nobel Prize recipient
• September 14
  • Ángel Medardo Luzuriaga, Ecuadorian musical artist (d. 2018)
  • Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
• September 15 – Dinkha, Iraqi patriarch (d. 2015)
• September 16
  • Carl Andre, American artist
  • Esther Vilar, Argentine-German writer known for The Manipulated Man
• September 17 – Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
• September 19 – Benjamin Thurman Hacker, American admiral (d. 2003)
• September 20 – László Aradszky, Hungarian singer (d. 2017)
• September 21
  • Henry Gibson, American actor, singer and songwriter (d. 2009)
  • Sigrid Valdis, American actress (d. 2007)
  • Jimmy Armfield, English footballer (d. 2018)
• September 22 – Virgilijus Noreika, Lithuanian tenor (d. 2018)
• September 29
  • Mylène Demongeot, French actress
  • Jerry Lee Lewis, American rock & roll musician
• September 30 – Johnny Mathis, African-American singer

October

• October 1
  • Julie Andrews, English singer and actress
  • Teruyoshi Nakano, Japanese special effects director
• October 3
  • Charles Duke, American astronaut
  • Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Soviet Russian-Armenian actor (d. 2020)
  • Sinikka Kurkinen, Finnish painter
• October 4
  • Jimmy Orr, American professional football player (d. 2020)
  • Law Hieng Ding, Malaysian politician (d. 2018)
• October 5 – Khayyam Mirzazade, Azerbaijani composer, professor (d. 2018)
• October 6
  • Bruno Sammartino, Italian professional wrestler (d. 2018)
  • Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, Egyptian politician (d. 2018)
• October 12 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007)
• October 14 – La Monte Young, American composer
• October 15
  • Barry McGuire, American musician (Eve of Destruction)
  • Bobby Morrow, American athlete (d. 2020)
  • Willie O’Ree, Canadian ice hockey player, first Black NHL player
• October 17 – Michael Eavis, English dairy farmer, founder of the Glastonbury Festival
• October 18 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
• October 19 – Jerry Bishop, American announcer (d. 2020)
• October 20 – Jerry Orbach, American actor (Law & Order) (d. 2004)
• October 21 – Derek Bell, Irish musician (d. 2002)
• October 24 – Rosamaria Murtinho, Brazilian actress
• October 25 – Rusty Schweickart, American astronaut
• October 27
  • Ali Asghar Khodadoust, Iranian eye surgeon (d. 2018)
  • Mauricio de Sousa, Brazilian cartoonist
• October 29 – Isao Takahata, Japanese film director (d. 2018)
• October 30
  • Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer (d. 2011)
  • Michael Winner, British film director (d. 2013)
• October 31
  • David Harvey, British economic geographer
  • Ronald Graham, American mathematician (d. 2020)

November

• November 1
  • Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
  • Charles Koch, American businessman
  • Gary Player, South-African professional golfer
• November 3 – Abune Paulos, Ethiopian patriarch (d. 2012)
• November 4 – Laila Sari, Indonesian comedian and singer (d. 2017)
• November 6 – Archduchess Maria of Austria, German-Austrian royal (d. 2018)
• November 8
  • Alain Delon, French actor
  • Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal (d. 2008)
• November 9
  • Bob Gibson, American baseball player (d. 2020)
  • Jerry Hopkins, American journalist, author (d. 2018)
• November 11 – Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (d. 2019)
• November 13 – P. Susheela, Indian musician
• November 14 – King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
• November 15
  • Bill Graham, Canadian football player (d. 2020)
  • Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
  • Try Sutrisno, sixth vice president of Indonesia
• November 16 – France-Albert René, Seychellois politician (d. 2019)
• November 17 – Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (d. 2009)
• November 18 – Alain Barrière, French singer (d. 2019)
• November 20 – Leo Falcam, Micronesian politician (d. 2018)
• November 23 – Vladislav Volkov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (d. 1971)
• November 24 – Salim Khan, Indian Bollywood screenwriter
• November 28 – Masahito, Prince Hitachi
• November 29 – Diane Ladd, American actress
• November 30
  • Kim Chong-hoh, South Korean politician (d. 2018)
  • Usha Mangeshkar, Indian musician

December

• December 1 – Woody Allen, American actor and film director
• December 4 – Paul H. O’Neill, American politician (d. 2020)
• December 5 – Basabi Nandi, Indian actress (d. 2018)
• December 8 – Dharmendra, Indian film actor, producer and politician
• December 10 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak filmmaker (d. 2001)
• December 11
  • Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician, 13th President of India (d. 2020)
  • Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German car designer (d. 2012)
• December 14
  • Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
  • Lewis Arquette, American film actor, writer and producer (d. 2001)
• December 15 – Adnan Badran, Prime Minister of Jordan
• December 19 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
• December 21 – John G. Avildsen, American film director (d. 2017)
• December 25 – Sadiq al-Mahdi, Prime Minister of Sudan (1966–67, 1986–89) (d. 2020)
• December 26 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, President of Togo (d. 2005)
• December 30
  • Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (d. 2009)
  • Sandy Koufax, American baseball player
• December 31 – King Salman of Saudi Arabia (official birth date)

Deaths

January

• January – Józef Białynia Chołodecki, Polish historian (b. 1852)
• January 5 – Pietro Bonilli, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1841)
• January 10 – Edwin Flack, Australian Olympic athlete (b. 1873)
• January 15 – Marion Howard Brazier, American journalist (b. 1850)
• January 16
  • Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1873)
  • Fred Barker, American criminal, youngest son of Ma Barker (b. 1901)
• January 19 – Lloyd Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
• January 21 – Adolf von Brauchitsch, German general (b. 1876)
• January 24
  • Constantin Dumitrescu, Romanian general (b. 1868)
  • Thomas Stevens, English cyclist (b. 1854)
• January 28 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)

February

• February 3 – Hugo Junkers, German industrialist and aircraft designer (b. 1859)
• February 7
  • Frederick Warde, English actor (b. 1851)
  • Herbert Ponting, English photographer and explorer (b. 1870)
• February 8 – Max Liebermann, German painter (b. 1847)
• February 13 – Ali of Hejaz, former King of Hejaz and Grand Sharif of Mecca (b. 1879)
• February 15
  • Bohuslav Brauner, Czech chemist (b. 1855)
  • Harry Todd, American actor (b. 1863)
• February 25 – Gerhard Louis De Geer, 17th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1854)
• February 26 – Liborius Ritter von Frank, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1848)
• February 28 – Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847)

March

• March 5 – Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest, civil engineer (b. 1877)
• March 6
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1841)
  • Baron Max Hussarek von Heinlein, former Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1865)
• March 7
  • Mary Gage Day, American physician (b. 1857)
  • Leonid Feodorov, Soviet Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1879)
• March 15 – Johan Ramstedt, 9th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1852)
• March 16 – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• March 22 – Alexander Moissi, Albanian actor (b. 1879)
• March 23 – Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
• March 24 – Maria Karłowska, Polish Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1865)
• March 29 – Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, English physiologist, pioneer in endocrinology (b. 1850)

April

• April 2 – Bennie Moten, American jazz pianist (b. 1894)
• April 5 – Basil Champneys, English architect (b. 1842)
• April 6 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (b. 1869)
• April 8 – Adolph Ochs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1858)
• April 14 – Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
• April 15 – Anna Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1859)
• April 16 – Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)
• April 20 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, British fashion designer (b. 1863)
• April 24 – Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (b. 1857)

May

• May 1 – Antero Rubín, Spanish general, politician (b. 1851)
• May 4 – Junior Durkin, American actor (b. 1915)
• May 12 – Józef Piłsudski, Polish politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1867)
• May 13 – Clarence Geldart, Canadian-American actor (b. 1867)
• May 14 – Magnus Hirschfeld, German sex researcher, gay rights advocate (b. 1868)
• May 15 – Kazimir Malevich, Polish-Russian painter, art theoretician (b. 1879)
• May 17
  • Paul Dukas, French composer (b. 1865)
  • Antonia Mesina, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman, martyr and blessed (b. 1919)
• May 19
  • T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), English soldier (b. 1888)
  • Charles Martin Loeffler, American composer (b. 1861)
• May 21
  • Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
  • Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist, geneticist (b. 1848)
• May 29 – Josef Suk, Czech composer, violinist (b. 1874)

June

• June 1 – Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Austro-Hungarian official, last Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army (b. 1857)
• June 5 – Alexander von Linsingen, German general (b. 1850)
• June 6
  • Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, British general, 12th Governor General of Canada (b. 1862)
  • George Grossmith Jr., British actor (b. 1874)
• June 24 – Carlos Gardel, Argentine tango songwriter (b. 1890)
• June 29 – Hayashi Fubo, Japanese novelist (b. 1900)

July

• July 1 – Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1857)
• July 3 – André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
• July 12 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer, subject of the Dreyfus affair (b. 1859)
• July 15 – Pieter Cort van der Linden, Dutch politician (b. 1846)
• July 17
  • James Moore, English winner of the first ever cycle race (b. 1849)
  • George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
  • Daniel Salamanca Urey , 33rd President of Bolivia (b. 1869)
• July 22 – Laura M. Johns, American suffragist, journalist (b. 1849)
• July 28 – Meletius IV of Constantinople, Greek Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 1871)
• July 31 – Gustav Lindenthal, Czech civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1850)

August

• August 5 – David Townsend, American art director (b. 1891)
• August 12
  • Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)
  • Gareth Jones, Welsh journalist (b. 1905)
• August 14 – Léonce Perret, French film actor (b. 1880)
• August 15
  • Paul Signac, French painter (b. 1863)
  • Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
  • Will Rogers, American humorist, actor (b. 1879)
• August 17 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American feminist and writer (b. 1860)
• August 20 – Edith Roberts, American actress (b. 1899)
• August 21 – John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
• August 22
  • Frantz Jourdain, Belgian architect (b. 1847)
  • Pavlos Kountouriotis, Greek admiral, 1st President of Greece (b. 1855)
• August 25 – Mack Swain, American actor (b. 1876)
• August 27 – Childe Hassam, American painter (b. 1859)
• August 29 – Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)
• August 30 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist, journalist (b. 1873)

September

• September 8
  • Takejirō Tokonami, Japanese politician, Home Minister, Railway Minister and Minister of Communication (b. 1867)
  • Carl Weiss, American physician and murderer of Huey Long (b. 1906)
• September 10 – Huey Long, American politician (assassinated 2 days before) (b. 1893)
• September 11 – Charles Norris, Americal medical examiner (b. 1867)
• September 19
  • Jules Cambon, French diplomat (b. 1845)
  • Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)
• September 23 – DeWolf Hopper, American actor, comedian (b. 1858)
• September 26 – Iván Persa, Hungarian Slovene writer and catholic priest (b. 1861)
• September 28 – William Kennedy Dickson, Scottish inventor, cinema pioneer and film director (b. 1860)

October

• October 1 – Grigore C. Crăiniceanu, Romanian general and politician (b. 1852)
• October 18 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
• October 19 – Maria Cederschiöld, Swedish journalist and women’s rights activist (b. 1856)
• October 20 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
• October 22
  • Edward Carson, Baron Carson, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1854)
  • Tommy Tucker, American baseball pioneer (b. 1863)
• October 23
  • Charles Demuth, American artist (b. 1883)
  • Dutch Schultz, American gangster (b. 1902)

November

• November 2 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
• November 4 – Ella Loraine Dorsey, American author, journalist and translator (b. 1853)
• November 6 – Henry Fairfield Osborn, American geologist, paleontologist and eugenist (b. 1857)
• November 7 – Charles Debbas, 1st President and 5th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1885)
• November 8 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian aviator (b. 1897)
• November 20 – John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, British admiral (b. 1859)
• November 25 – Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, deposed Emperor (b. 1895)
• November 28
  • Mary R. Platt Hatch, American author (b. 1848)
  • Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)
• November 29 – Mary G. Charlton Edholm, American journalist and temperance reformer (b. 1854)
• November 30 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (b. 1888)

December

• December 2
  • James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (b. 1865)
  • M. Carey Thomas, American educator (b. 1857)
• December 3 – Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, daughter of King Edward VII and younger sister of King George V (b. 1868)
• December 4
  • Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (b. 1864)
  • Charles Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
• December 10 – Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet, English tank, vehicle designer (b. 1892)
• December 13 – Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• December 14 – Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (b. 1902)
• December 16 – Thelma Todd, American actress (b. 1906)
• December 17
  • Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuelan military dictator, 3-time President of Venezuela (b. 1857)
  • Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet and teacher (b. 1856)
• December 20 – Martin O’Meara, Australian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1882)
• December 21 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, satirist (b. 1890)
• December 24 – Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885)
• December 26 – Photios II, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1874)
• December 30 – Hunter Liggett, American general (b. 1857)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – James Chadwick
• Chemistry – Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie (“in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements”)
• Physiology or Medicine – Hans Spemann
• Literature – not awarded
• Peace – Carl von Ossietzky