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January
1st
– Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German lawyer and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)[293]
1921 – Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (d. 2013)[176]
1921 – Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and academic (d. 1986)[175]
– César Baldaccini, French sculptor and academic (d. 1998)[174]
2nd
– Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)[84]
3rd
– Chetan Anand, Indian director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1921 – Isabella Bashmakova, Russian historian of mathematics (d. 2005)[91]
5th
– Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (d. 1990)
1921 – Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Luxembourgish soldier and aristocrat (d. 2019)
1921 – John H. Reed, American politician and diplomat, 67th Governor of Maine (d. 2012)
6th
– Devil Anse Hatfield, American guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
– Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Russian-French biochemist and academic (d. 2013)
1921 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer and sportscaster (d. 1998)
7th
– Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, Colombian politician (d. 1997)
1921 – Chester Kallman, American poet and translator (d. 1975)
9th
– Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
1921 – John Sperling, American businessman, founded the University of Phoenix (d. 2014)
1921 – Lister Sinclair, Indian-Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
– Ágnes Keleti, Hungarian Olympic gymnast
10th
– Rodger Ward, American race car driver and sportscaster (d. 2004)
11th
1921 – Juanita M. Kreps, American economist and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 2010)
– Gory Guerrero, American wrestler and trainer (d. 1990)
12th
– Gervase Elwes, English tenor and actor (b. 1866)
– Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
13th
1921 – Dachine Rainer, American-English author and poet (d. 2000)
– Necati Cumalı, Greek-Turkish author and poet (d. 2001)
14th
1921 – Kenneth Bulmer, American author (d. 2005)
– Murray Bookchin, American author and philosopher (d. 2006)
15th
1921 – Frank Thornton, English actor (d. 2013)
– Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian lawyer and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2007)
16th
– The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
– Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
17th
1921 – Antonio Prohías, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)
– Asghar Khan, Pakistani general and politician (d. 2018)
18th
– Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
19th
– Patricia Highsmith, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1995)
20th
– The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.
1921 – The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
– Telmo Zarra, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
– Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (b. 1847)
21st
– Lincoln Alexander, Canadian lawyer and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 2012)
1921 – Andreas Ostler, German bobsledder (d. 1988)
22nd
– George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
23rd
– Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
25th
– Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist and academic (d. 2010)
26th
1921 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (d. 1999)
– Eddie Barclay, French record producer, founded Barclay Records (d. 2005)
27th
– Maurice Buckley, Australian sergeant (b. 1891)
– Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
28th
– Vytautas Norkus, Lithuanian–American basketball player (d. 2014)
– Mustafa Suphi, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1883)
29th
– Geraldine Pittman Woods, American science administrator and embryologist (d. 1999)
31st
1921 – Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (d. 1959)
1921 – E. Fay Jones, American architect, designed the Thorncrown Chapel (d. 2004)
1921 – Carol Channing, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2019)
– John Agar, American actor (d. 2002)
February
1st
1921 – Patricia Robins, British writer and WAAF officer (d. 2016).
1921 – Peter Sallis, English actor (d. 2017)
– Teresa Mattei, Italian feminist partisan and politician (d. 2013)
4th
– Betty Friedan, American author and feminist (d. 2006)
1921 – Lotfi Zadeh, Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic (d. 2017)
5th
– Ken Adam, German-born English production designer and art director (d. 2016)
6th
1921 – Bob Scott, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2012)
– Carl Neumann Degler, American historian and author (d. 2014)
7th
– John J. Gardner, American politician (b. 1845)
– Athol Rowan, South African cricketer (d. 1998)
8th
– Barney Danson, Canadian colonel and politician, 21st Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 2011)
1921 – Nexhmije Hoxha, Albanian politician[27]
1921 – Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)
1921 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (b. 1842)
– George Formby Sr, English actor and singer (b. 1876)
11th
1921 – Edward Seidensticker, American scholar and translator (d. 2007)
1921 – Ottavio Missoni, Italian hurdler and fashion designer, founded Missoni (d. 2013)
– Lloyd Bentsen, American colonel and politician, 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 2006)
12th
– Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
13th
1921 – Aung Khin, Burmese painter (d. 1996)
– Jeanne Demessieux, French pianist and composer (d. 1968)
14th
1921 – Hazel McCallion, Canadian businesswoman and politician, 3rd Mayor of Mississauga
– Hugh Downs, American journalist, game show host, and producer
15th
– Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
16th
1921 – John Galbraith Graham, English priest and academic (d. 2013)
1921 – Jean Behra, French race car driver (d. 1959)
– Vera-Ellen, German-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1981)
17th
– Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (d. 2013)
18th
1921 – Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian pianist and composer (d. 2013)
– Mary Amdur, American toxicologist and public health researcher (d. 1998)
20th
Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (d. 1992)
21st
1921 – Richard T. Whitcomb, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2009)
– John Rawls, American philosopher and academic (d. 2002)
1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
– Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
22nd
– After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
1921 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
– Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African general and politician, 2nd President of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)
24th
– Abe Vigoda, American actor (d. 2016)
25th
– Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1921 – Andy Pafko, American baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
– Pierre Laporte, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec (d. 1970)
26th
– Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
– Carl Menger, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1840)
27th
– The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
– Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1871)
– Theodore Van Kirk, American soldier, pilot, and navigator (d. 2014)
28th
– Pierre Clostermann, French pilot, engineer, and author (d. 2006)
March
1st
– The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
1921 – Richard Wilbur, American poet, translator, and essayist (d. 2017)
1921 – Terence Cooke, American cardinal (d. 1983)
– Cameron Argetsinger, American race car driver and lawyer (d. 2008)
2nd
1921 – Ernst Haas, Austrian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1986)
– Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer and coach (d. 2006)
– Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1850)
3rd
– Diana Barrymore, American actress (d. 1960)
4th
– Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-American composer and educator (d. 2017)
1921 – Joan Greenwood, English actress (d. 1987)
1921 – Dinny Pails, English-Australian tennis player (d. 1986)
5th
– Elmer Valo, American baseball player and coach (d. 1998)
6th
– Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
– Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American holocaust survivor and author (d. 2014)
8th
1921 – Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
– Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
– Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
9th
1921 – Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (d. 1998)
– Carl Betz, American actor (d. 1978)
11th
1921 – Jeff Stollmeyer, Trinidadian cricketer (d. 1989)
– Frank Harary, American mathematician and academic (d. 2005)
1921 – Astor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer and bandoneon player (d. 1992)
12th
– İstiklâl Marşı is adopted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
1921 – Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
– Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (d. 2001)
13th
– Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American opera singer and educator (b. 1835)
– Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
– Mongolia is proclaimed an independent monarchy, ruled by Russian military officer Roman von Ungern-Sternberg as a dictator.
14th
– S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A (d. 2014)
1921 – Ada Louise Huxtable, American author and critic (d. 2013)
– Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1881)
15th
– Madelyn Pugh, American television writer and producer (d. 2011)
– Talaat Pasha, Ottoman politician, 281st Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1874)
– Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
17th
– The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
– Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician, 12th Israeli Minister of Communications (d. 2009)
18th
– The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
19th
– Tommy Cooper, British magician and prop comedian (d. 1984)
– Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
20th
– The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
1921 – Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1970)
1921 – Dušan Pirjevec, Slovenian historian and philosopher (d. 1977)
– Usmar Ismail, Indonesian filmmaker (d. 1971)
21st
– The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
– Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist and pianist (d. 1986)
1921 – Antony Hopkins, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2014)
22nd
– Nino Manfredi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
23rd
1921 – Peter Lawler, Australian public servant (d. 2017)
Donald Campbell, English race car driver (d. 1967)
24th
– Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010)
– The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
25th
1921 – Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
– Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995)
27th
– Harry Barron, English general and politician, 16th Governor of Western Australia (b. 1847)
– Phil Chess, Czech-American record producer, co-founded Chess Records (d. 2016)
1921 – Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer and coach (d. 2000)
1921 – Harold Nicholas, American actor and dancer (d. 2000)
28th
Harold Agnew, American physicist and academic (d. 2013)
1921 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor and author (d. 1999)
1921 – Herschel Grynszpan, German assassin of Ernst vom Rath (d. 1960)
1921 – Walter Neugebauer, Croatian-German author and illustrator (d. 1992)
29th
– Sam Loxton, Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (d. 2011)
30th
– André Fontaine, French historian and journalist (d. 2013)
31st
– Lowell Fulson, African-American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
1921 – Peggy Rea, American actress and casting director (d. 2011)
– The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
April
1st
1921 – Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American guitarist, fiddler, and composer (d. 2014)
– William Bergsma, American composer and educator (d. 1994)
2nd
– The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
3rd
1921 – Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004)
– Robert Karvelas, American actor (d. 1991)
4th
– Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (d. 2015)
5th
– Christopher Hewett, English actor and theatre director (d. 2001)
– Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (b. 1862)
1921 – Sophie Elkan, Swedish-Jewish writer and translator (b. 1853)
6th
– Wilbur Thompson, American shot putter (d. 2013)
7th
– Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (d. 1992)
8th
1921 – Herman van Raalte, Dutch footballer (d. 2013)
1921 – Jan Novák, Czech composer (d. 1984)
– Franco Corelli, Italian tenor and actor (d. 2003)
9th
1921 – Mary Jackson, African American mathematician and aerospace engineer (d. 2005)
1921 – Frankie Thomas, American actor (d. 2006)
1921 – Yitzhak Navon, Israeli politician (d. 2015)
– Jean-Marie Balestre, French businessman (d. 2008)
10th
1921 – Sheb Wooley, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2003)
1921 – Jake Warren, Canadian soldier and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States (d. 2008)
– Chuck Connors, American baseball player and actor (d. 1992)
11th
1921 – Jack Rayner, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2008)
– Jim Hearn, American baseball player (d. 1998)
– Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
12th
– Robert Cliche, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1978)
14th
– Thomas Schelling, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
15th
– Georgy Beregovoy, Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1995)
1921 – Angelo DiGeorge, American physician and endocrinologist (d. 2009)
16th
1921 – Peter Ustinov, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1921 – Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (d. 2014)
– Arlin M. Adams, American lawyer and judge (d. 2015)
17th
– Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (b. 1860)
18th
– Jean Richard, French actor and singer (d. 2001)
19th
1921 – Roberto Tucci, Italian Jesuit leader, cardinal, and theologian (d. 2015)
1921 – Leon Henkin, American logician (d. 2006)[5]
– Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (d. 2006)[4]
23rd
1921 – Warren Spahn, American baseball player and coach (d. 2003)
1921 – Janet Blair, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
– Cleto Bellucci, Italian archbishop (d. 2013)
25th
– Karel Appel, Dutch painter and sculptor (d. 2006)
26th
– Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 2008)
27th
– Robert Dhéry, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
28th
– Rowland Evans, American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2001)
1921 – Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic (d. 2012)
29th
– Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
30th
– Roger L. Easton, American scientist, co-invented the GPS (d. 2014)
May
1st
– Vladimir Colin, Romanian journalist and author (d. 1991)
2nd
– Satyajit Ray, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
– B. B. Lal, Indian archaeologist
3rd
– Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
– West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
1921 – The Government of Ireland Act 1920 is passed, dividing Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
– Théodore Pilette, Belgian race car driver (b. 1883)
4th
1921 – Edo Murtić, Croatian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 2005)
1921 – John van Kesteren, Dutch-American tenor and actor (d. 2008)
Patsy Garrett, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
5th
– Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
– Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
6th
– Erich Fried, Austrian-German author, poet, and translator (d. 1988)
7th
1921 – Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author (d. 1985)
– Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs, English historian and academic (d. 2016)
8th
– The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
9th
1921 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet and academic (d. 2004)
1921 – Sophie Scholl, German activist (d. 1943)
– Daniel Berrigan, American priest, poet, and activist (d. 2016)
11th
1921 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016)[52]
– Robin Barbour, Scottish minister and author (d. 2014)[51]
12th
1921 – Farley Mowat, Canadian environmentalist and author (d. 2014)
– Joseph Beuys, German sculptor and illustrator (d. 1986)
13th
– Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
14th
– Richard Deacon, American actor and singer (d. 1984)
16th
– Harry Carey, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
17th
– Karl Mantzius, Danish actor and director (b. 1860)
1921 – Bob Merrill, American composer and screenwriter (d. 1998)
– Dennis Brain, English composer (d. 1957)
18th
– Michael A. Epstein, English pathologist and academic
19th
– The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
1921 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch historian and author (d. 1999)
1921 – Yuri Kochiyama, American activist (d. 2014)
1921 – Daniel Gélin, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1921 – Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot (d. 1991)
– Leslie Broderick, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 2013)
20th
1921 – Hal Newhouser, American baseball player and scout (d. 1998)
– Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (d. 1947)
1921 – Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1995)
21st
1921 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
– Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist and academic, designed OXO (d. 2010)
22nd
– George S. Hammond, American scientist (d. 2005)
23rd
– August Nilsson, Swedish shot putter and tug of war competitor (b. 1872)
25th
1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 – Kitty Kallen, American singer (d. 2016)
– Hal David, American songwriter and composer (d. 2012)
26th
– Inge Borkh, German soprano (d. 2018)
27th
– Bob Godfrey, Australian-English animator, director, and voice actor (d. 2013)
28th
1921 – Tom Uren, Australian soldier, boxer, and politician (d. 2015)
– Heinz G. Konsalik, German journalist and author (d. 1999)
– D. V. Paluskar, Indian Hindustani classical musician (d. 1955)
29th
– Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and educator (b. 1849)
– Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer (d. 2010)
31st
1921 – Alida Valli, Austrian-Italian actress and singer (d. 2006)
1921 – Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer (d. 2008)
1921 – Andrew Grima, Anglo-Italian jewellery designer (d. 2007)
– Edna Doré, English actress (d. 2014)
– The Tulsa race riot kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
June
1st
– Nelson Riddle, American composer and bandleader (d. 1985)
2nd
1921 – András Szennay, Hungarian priest (d. 2012)
1921 – Sigmund Sternberg, Hungarian-English businessman and philanthropist (d. 2016)
1921 – Ernie Royal, American trumpet player (d. 1983)
– Betty Freeman, American photographer and philanthropist (d. 2009)
3rd
– Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower and physician (b. 1879)
1921 – Jean Dréjac, French singer and composer (d. 2003)
– Forbes Carlile, Australian pentathlete and coach (d. 2016)
4th
– Milan Komar, Slovenian-Argentinian philosopher and academic (d. 2006)
1921 – Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
5th
Will Crooks, English trade unionist and politician (b. 1852)
1921 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
6th
– Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
7th
– Myrtle Edwards, Australian cricketer and softball player (d. 2010)
1921 – Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2012)
8th
1921 – Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
1921 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (d. 1993)
1921 – LeRoy Neiman, American soldier and painter (d. 2012)
1921 – Olga Nardone, American actress (d. 2010)
– Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (d. 1986)
9th
– Arthur Hertzberg, American rabbi and scholar (d. 2006)
1921 – Jean Lacouture, French journalist, historian, and author (d. 2015)
10th
1921 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
12th
1921 – Christopher Derrick, English author, critic, and academic (d. 2007)
– Luis García Berlanga, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1921 – James Archibald Houston, Canadian author and illustrator (d. 2005)
13th
– Lennart Strand, Swedish runner (d. 2004)
14th
– Martha Greenhouse, American actress (d. 2013)
15th
– Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
– Erroll Garner, American pianist and composer (d. 1977)
19th
– Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet and author (b. 1888)
– Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (d. 2015)
20th
– Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
1921 – Pancho Segura, Ecuadorian tennis player (d. 2017)
– Byron Farwell, American historian and author (d. 1999)
21st
1921 – William Edwin Self, American actor, producer, and production manager (d. 2010)
1921 – Jane Russell, American actress and singer (d. 2011)
– Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
22nd
– Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)
1921 – Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
1921 – Radovan Ivšić, Croatian writer (d. 2009)
1921 – Barbara Perry, American actress (d. 2019)
– Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.[2]
23rd
– Paul Findley, American politician
24th
– Gerhard Sommer, German soldier
25th
– Celia Franca, English-Canadian ballerina and choreographer, founded the National Ballet of Canada (d. 2007)
26th
1921 – Robert Everett, American computer scientist (d. 2018)
– Violette Szabo, French secret agent (d. 1945)
27th
– Muriel Pavlow, English actress (d. 2019)
28th
– Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
– P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
29th
1921 – Harry Schell, French-American race car driver (d. 1960)
1921 – Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (d. 2009)
1921 – Jean Kent, English actress (d. 2013)
– Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (d. 2000)
30th
– U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
– Washington SyCip, American-Filipino accountant (d. 2017)
July
1st
1921 – Arthur Johnson, Canadian canoeist (d. 2003)
1921 – Michalina Wisłocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist (d. 2005)
– Seretse Khama, Batswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (d. 1980)
2nd
– World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
3rd
1921 – François Reichenbach, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
– Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
– James Mitchel, Irish-American weight thrower (b. 1864)
4th
– Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1921 – Nasser Sharifi, Iranian sports shooter
1921 – Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut (d. 2014)
1921 – Philip Rose, American actor, playwright, and producer (d. 2011)
1921 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 2003)
5th
– Viktor Kulikov, Russian marshal (d. 2013)
1921 – Nanos Valaoritis, Greek author, poet, and playwright
6th
1921 – Billy Mauch, American actor (d. 2006)
– Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2017)
1921 – Nancy Reagan, American actress and activist, 42nd First Lady of the United States (d. 2016)[9]
1921 – Bobby Mauch, American actor (d. 2007)
7th
1921 – Adolf von Thadden, German lieutenant and politician (d. 1996)
– Ezzard Charles, American boxer and bassist (d. 1975)
9th
– David C. Jones, American general (d. 2013)
10th
– Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the Smiley (d. 2001)
1921 – Jeff Donnell, American actress (d. 1988)
1921 – John K. Singlaub, U.S Army Major General
1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009)
– Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
11th
– A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
1921 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
1921 – Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
13th
– Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer and conductor (d. 1999)
– Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
14th
1921 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1921 – Armand Gaudreault, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
1921 – Leon Garfield, English author (d. 1996)
– Sixto Durán Ballén, American-Ecuadorian architect and politician, 48th President of Ecuador (d. 2016)
15th
– Jack Beeson, American pianist and composer (d. 2010)
1921 – Henri Colpi, Swiss-French director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1921 – Jean Heywood, British actress
17th
– George Barnes, American guitarist, producer, and songwriter (d. 1977)
1921 – František Zvarík, Slovak actor (d. 2008)
1921 – Toni Stone, American baseball player (d. 1996)
1921 – Mary Osborne, American guitarist (d. 1992)
1921 – Louis Lachenal, French mountaineer (d. 1955)
18th
1921 – Heinz Bennent, German actor (d. 2011)
1921 – Richard Leacock, English-French director and producer (d. 2011)
1921 – John Glenn, American colonel, astronaut, and politician (d. 2016)
1921 – Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist and academic
– Peter Austin, English brewer, founded Ringwood Brewery (d. 2014)
19th
1921 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1921 – Elizabeth Spencer, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright
1921 – André Moynet, French soldier, race car driver, and politician (d. 1993)
– Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (d. 2013)
20th
– Henri Alleg, English-French journalist and author (d. 2013)
21st
– James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and author (d. 2000)
1921 – Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, Zulu sangoma
1921 – John Horsley, English actor (d. 2014)
22nd
– William V. Roth Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
23rd
– The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
– Calvert DeForest, American actor (d. 2007)
24th
1921 – Billy Taylor, American pianist and composer (d. 2010)
– Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian tenor and actor (d. 2008)
25th
1921 – Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (d. 1965)
– Adolph Herseth, American soldier and trumpet player (d. 2013)
26th
– Howard Vernon, Australian actor (b. 1848)
– Tom Saffell, American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)
1921 – Jean Shepherd, American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
27th
– Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport (d. 2013)
1921 – Émile Genest, Canadian-American actor (d. 2003)
– Myrddin Fardd, Welsh writer and antiquarian scholar (b. 1836)
– Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
29th
1921 – Chris Marker, French photographer and journalist (d. 2012)
– Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987)
– Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
30th
– Grant Johannesen, American pianist and educator (d. 2005)
31st
1921 – Whitney Young, American activist (d. 1971)
1921 – Donald Malarkey, American sergeant and author (d. 2017)[2]
– Peter Benenson, English lawyer and activist, founded Amnesty International (d. 2005)
August
1st
– T.J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
1921 – Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990)
– Jack Kramer, American tennis player, sailor, and sportscaster (d. 2009)
2nd
– Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1873)
– Alan Whicker, Egyptian-English journalist (d. 2013)
3rd
Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
1921 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (d. 1972)
Richard Adler, American composer and producer (d. 2012)
4th
1921 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2000)
– Herb Ellis, American guitarist (d. 2010)
5th
– Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)
– Terry Becker, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
6th
– Dixon M. Woodbury, American epilepsy researcher (d. 1991)
7th
1921 – Karel Husa, Czech-American composer and conductor (d. 2016)
– Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (d. 2014)
8th
– Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1861)
1921 – Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (d. 2013)
1921 – Webb Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991)
– William Asher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
9th
1921 – J. James Exon, American soldier and politician, 33rd Governor of Nebraska (d. 2005)
Ernest Angley, American evangelist and author
11th
– Alex Haley, American historian and author (d. 1992)
– Mary Sumner, English philanthropist, founded the Mothers' Union (b. 1828)
12th
– Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
13th
– Louis Frémaux, French conductor (d. 2017)
1921 – Jimmy McCracklin, American blues/R&B singer-songwriter and pianist (d 2012)
14th
– Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
15th
– August Kowalczyk, Polish actor and director (d. 2012)
16th
– Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
17th
– Geoffrey Elton, German-English historian and academic (d. 1994)
18th
– Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (d. 1943)
1921 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Polish historian and academic (d. 2015)
19th
– Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1991)
20th
1921 – Jack Wilson, Australian cricketer (d. 1985)
– Keith Froome, Australian rugby league player (d. 1978)[3]
21st
– Reuven Feuerstein, Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic (d. 2014)
22nd
– Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1921 – Tony Pawson, English cricketer, footballer, and journalist (d. 2012)
23rd
1921 – Sam Cook, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1996)
– Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
– British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
24th
– Eric Simms, English ornithologist and conservationist (d. 2009)
1921 – Sam Tingle, English-Zimbabwean race car driver (d. 2008)
25th
– Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)
1921 – Bryce Mackasey, Canadian businessman and politician, 20th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 1999)
– Monty Hall, Canadian-American television personality and game show host (d. 2017)
1921 – Brian Moore, Northern Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 1999)
26th
1921 – Sándor Wekerle, Hungarian jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848)
– Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician (b. 1875)
– Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (d. 1994)
1921 – Benjamin C. Bradlee, American journalist and author (d. 2014)
27th
– Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1996)
1921 – Leo Penn, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
28th
1921 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (d. 2007)
– John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 1979)
1921 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, the first female President of Bolivia (d. 2011)
1921 – Nancy Kulp, American actress and soldier (d. 1991)
31st
1921 – Raymond Williams, Welsh author and academic (d. 1988)
– Otis G. Pike, American judge and politician (d. 2014)
September
1st
– Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (d. 1995)
2nd
– Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
3rd
1921 – Marguerite Higgins, American journalist and author (d. 1966)
1921 – Thurston Dart, English pianist, conductor, and musicologist (d. 1971)
– John Aston Sr., English footballer (d. 2003)
5th
– Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
1921 – Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (d. 2007)
– Murray Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2013)
6th
– Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (d. 2004)
1921 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (d. 2012)
7th
– In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
1921 – The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
– Alfred William Rich, English author and painter (b. 1856)
– Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (d. 2014)
8th
– Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
Harry Secombe, Welsh-English actor (d. 2001)
10th
1921 – John W. Morris, American general (d. 2013)
– Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2000)
11th
– Subramania Bharati, Indian journalist, poet, and activist (b. 1882)
– Leaford Bearskin, American tribal leader and colonel (d. 2012)
1921 – Edwin Richfield, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1990)
– Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
12th
1921 – Turgut Cansever, Turkish Architect, city planner, thinker (d. 2009)
1921 – Stanisław Lem, Ukrainian-Polish philosopher and author (d. 2006)
– Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974)
14th
1921 – Dario Vittori, Italian-Argentinian actor and producer (d. 2001)
1921 – Paul Poberezny, American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (d. 2013)
1921 – A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and academic
– Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 2005)
15th
– Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886)
1921 – Gene Roland, American pianist and composer (d. 1982)
– Richard Gordon, English surgeon and author (d. 2017)
16th
1921 – Korla Pandit, American pianist and composer (d. 1998)
1921 – Jon Hendricks, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
– Ursula Franklin, German-Canadian metallurgist (d. 2016)
19th
– Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher, theorist, and academic (d. 1997)
1921 – Billy Ward, American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
20th
– Chico Hamilton, American drummer, composer, and bandleader (d. 2013)
21st
– A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
– John McHale, American baseball player and manager (d. 2008)
22nd
– Will Elder, Jewish-American illustrator (d. 2008)
24th
1921 – Sheila MacRae, English-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2014)
– Jim McKay, American sportscaster and journalist (d. 2008)
25th
– Rob Muldoon, New Zealand sergeant, accountant, and politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
27th
– Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer and educator (b. 1854)
– Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1921 – Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter and producer, co-founded Amicus Productions (d. 1991)
1921 – Bernard Waber, American author and illustrator (d. 2013)
29th
1921 – Albie Roles, English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
– John Ritchie, New Zealand composer and educator (d. 2014)
30th
1921 – Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American cellist and educator
– Deborah Kerr, Scottish-English actress (d. 2007)
October
1st
– James Whitmore, American actor (d. 2009)
2nd
1921 – Robert Runcie, English archbishop (d. 2000)
1921 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot and engineer (d. 2006)
– Edmund Crispin, English writer and composer (d. 1978)
3rd
– Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer and soldier (d. 1996)
5th
– John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1869)
– The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
– Bill Willis, American football player and coach (d. 2007)
6th
– Evgenii Landis, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1997)
1921 – Joseph Lowery, American minister and activist
7th
– Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer and coach (d. 2004)
8th
– Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino lawyer and jurist (d. 2010)
– KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
9th
1921 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (d. 2014)
– Michel Boisrond, French director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
12th
– Art Clokey, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor, created Gumby (d. 2010)
1921 – Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scottish rugby player and journalist
1921 – Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-English tennis player and ice hockey player (d. 2001)
13th
– Yves Montand, Italian-French actor and singer (d. 1991)
– Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
14th
– José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (d. 2009)
15th
– Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian-Israeli table tennis player (d. 2006)
16th
1921 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010)
1921 – Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and writer (d. 2003)
– Matt Batts, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
17th
– George Mackay Brown, Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1996)
1921 – Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
1921 – Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast (d. 2001)
1921 – Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
18th
– Ludwig III, king of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1921 – Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (d. 1972)
1921 – Jesse Helms, American soldier, journalist, and politician (d. 2008)
– Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (d. 2005)
– The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
19th
– George Nader, American actor (d. 2002)
– The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.
20th
– Manny Ayulo, American race car driver (d. 1955)
1921 – Hans Warren, Dutch poet and author (d. 2001)
21st
– President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
1921 – Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 2015)
1921 – Jim Shumate, American fiddler and composer (d. 2013)
1921 – Robert Clothier, Canadian actor (d. 1999)
1921 – Bruce Beeby, Australian-English actor (d. 2013)
– Malcolm Arnold, English composer (d. 2006)
22nd
1921 – Harald Nugiseks, Estonian sergeant (d. 2014)
1921 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)
– Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)
23rd
– John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)
24th
1921 – R. K. Laxman, Indian illustrator (d. 2015)
– Ted Ditchburn, English footballer and manager (d. 2005)
25th
– Bat Masterson, American lawman, buffalo hunter, and sport writer (b. 1853)
– Michael I of Romania (d. 2017)
26th
– Joe Fulks, American basketball player (d. 1976)
– The Chicago Theatre opens.
27th
– Warren Allen Smith, American journalist, author, and activist (d. 2017)
28th
– Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (d. 1973)
29th
– The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1921 – United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.
1921 – The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
1921 – Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2003)
1921 – Baku Mahadeva, Sri Lankan civil servant and academic (d. 2013)
– Baselios Thoma Didymos I, Indian metropolitan (d. 2014)
November
1st
1921 – Harald Quandt, German businessman (d. 1967)
– John W. Peterson, American pilot and songwriter (d. 2006)
2nd
– Shepard Menken, American actor (d. 1999)
1921 – Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1994)
3rd
– Charles Bronson, American soldier and actor (d. 2003)
4th
1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
– The Saalschutz Abteilung (hall defense detachment) of the Nazi Party is renamed the Sturmabteilung (storm detachment) after a large riot in Munich.
– Hara Takashi, Japanese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1856)
– Mary Sherman Morgan, American scientist and engineer (d. 2004)
5th
1921 – Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)
– Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1994)
6th
– James Jones, American novelist (d. 1977)
1921 – Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2006)
7th
1921 – Susanne Hirzel, member of the White Rose (d. 2012)
1921 – Jack Fleck, American soldier and golfer (d. 2014)
– Lisa Ben, American singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2015)
8th
– Douglas Townsend, American composer, musicologist, and academic (d. 2012)
– Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet and playwright (b. 1849)
9th
1921 – Viktor Chukarin, Ukrainian gymnast and coach (d. 1984)
– Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano and actress (d. 2011)
11th
– Léon Moreaux, French target shooter (b. 1852)
– The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
– Terrel Bell, American sergeant, academic, and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Education (d. 1996)
13th
– Joonas Kokkonen, Finnish pianist and composer (d. 1996)
14th
– Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (b. 1846)
– Foundation of the Communist Party of Spain.
1921 – Brian Keith, American actor and director (d. 1997)
– Ea Jansen, Estonian historian and academic (d. 2005)
17th
– Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter and illustrator
19th
1921 – Peter Ruckman, American pastor and educator (d. 2016)
– Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (d. 1993)
20th
– Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge (d. 1992)
21st
– Donald Sheldon, American pilot (d. 1975)
22nd
1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, rapper, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
– Brian Cleeve, Irish sailor, author, and playwright (d. 2003)
23rd
– Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
24th
– John Lindsay, American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City (d. 2000)
26th
– Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer and businessman, founded Amul (d. 2012)
27th
– Dora Dougherty Strother, American pilot and academic (d. 2013)
1921 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak soldier and politician (d. 1992)
– Douglas Cameron, Canadian contractor and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b. 1854)
28th
– `Abdu'l-Bahá, Head of the Bahá’í Faith (b. 1844)
December
1st
– Vernon McGarity, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013)
2nd
– Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)
3rd
– Phyllis Curtin, American soprano and academic (d. 2016)
1921 – John Doar, American lawyer and activist (d. 2014)
4th
– Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress and singer (d. 2013)
5th
– Alvy Moore, American actor and producer (d. 1997)
6th
– Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1865)
1921 – Piero Piccioni, Italian lawyer, pianist, and composer (d. 2004)
– Otto Graham, American football player and coach (d. 2003)
– The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
7th
– Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian guru and scholar (d. 2016)
11th
1921 – Liz Smith, English actress (d. 2016)
– Ilmar Laaban, Estonian poet and publicist (d. 2000)
12th
– Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer and academic (b. 1868)
13th
– Turgut Demirağ, Turkish film producer, director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
15th
Alan Freed, American radio host (d. 1965)
16th
– Camille Saint-Saëns, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1835)
– Eulalio González, Mexican singer-songwriter, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
17th
– Lore Berger, German-Swiss author and translator (d. 1943)
20th
– Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general and politician (b. 1850)
22nd
1921 – Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)
– Dimitri Fampas, Greek guitarist and composer (d. 1996)
– Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.
23rd
– Guy Beaulne, Canadian actor and director (d. 2001)
24th
– Bill Dudley, American football player (d. 2010)
25th
– Vladimir Korolenko, Russian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1853)
1921 – Steve Otto, Polish-Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
– Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (d. 2000)
26th
– Steve Allen, American actor, singer, talk show host, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1921 – John Severin, American illustrator (d. 2012)
28th
– Johnny Otis, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2012)
29th
– Dobrica Ćosić, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (d. 2014)
30th
– Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1987)
31st
– Boies Penrose, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860)
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