TimeToHistory.com shows all history of the time 19:29

January

1st

– Mustafa Necati, Turkish civil servant and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (b. 1894)^[294]

– Larry L. King, American journalist, author, and playwright (d. 2012)^[190]

3rd

1929 – Gordon Moore, American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation^[103]

1929 – Ernst Mahle, German-Brazilian composer and conductor^[102]

– Sergio Leone, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1989)^[101]

4th

– Günter Schabowski, German journalist and politician (d. 2015)^[76]

5th

– Wilbert Harrison, American R&B singer, pianist, guitarist and harmonica player (d. 1994)

1929 – Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer and manager (d. 2014)

6th

– King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).

1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.

7th

– Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 2012)

1929 – Terry Moore, American actress

8th

– Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (d. 2015)

9th

– Brian Friel, Irish author, playwright, and director (d. 2015)

1929 – Heiner Müller, German poet, playwright, and director (d. 1995)

1929 – Tom Riley, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011)

10th

– Tony Soper, English ornithologist and author

11th

– Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect and theorist

12th

1929 – Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician (d. 2015)

– Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-American philosopher and academic

13th

– Wyatt Earp, American police officer (b. 1848)

1929 – H. B. Higgins, Irish-Australian judge and politician, 3rd Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1851)

– Joe Pass, American guitarist and composer (d. 1994)

15th

– George Cope, American painter (b. 1855)

1929 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

– Earl Hooker, American guitarist (d. 1970)

16th

– Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan anthropologist and academic (d. 2014)

17th

– Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.

1929 – Tan Boon Teik, Malaysian-Singaporean lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Singapore (d. 2012)

– Jacques Plante, Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1986)

19th

– Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar (b. 1873)

20th

– The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.

1929 – Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)

1929 – Masaharu Kawakatsu, Japanese biologist

– Arte Johnson, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)

21st

– Radley Metzger, American filmmaker (d. 2017)

22nd

– R. C. Lehmann, English journalist, author, and politician (b. 1856)

– Petr Eben, Czech composer, organist and choirmaster (d. 2007)

23rd

1929 – John Polanyi, German-Canadian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1929 – Phillip Knightley, Australian journalist, author, and critic (d. 2016)

– Myron Cope, American journalist and sportscaster (d. 2008)

25th

1929 – Benny Golson, American saxophonist and composer

1929 – Robert Faurisson, English-French author and academic (d. 2018)

– Elizabeth Allen, American actress and singer (d. 2006)

26th

– Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, and educator

27th

– Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian-Swiss businessman

1929 – Gastón Suárez, Bolivian author and playwright (d. 1984)

28th

1929 – Edith M. Flanigen, American chemist

1929 – Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-American sculptor and illustrator

1929 – Nikolai Parshin, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2012)

– Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player (d. 2014)

29th

1929 – Joseph Kruskal, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010)

– Elio Petri, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1982)

30th

– La Goulue, French model and dancer (b. 1866)

1929 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian-Italian physician and humanitarian (d. 1996)

1929 – Hugh Tayfield, South African cricketer (d. 1994)

– Lois Hole, Canadian businesswoman and politician, 15th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (d. 2005)

31st

– The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.

1929 – Jean Simmons, English-American actress (d. 2010)

– Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)

February

2nd

– George Band, English engineer and mountaineer (d. 2011)

1929 – Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)

1929 – John Henry Holland, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2015)

3rd

– Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)

4th

– Paul Burlison, American rockabilly guitarist (d. 2003)

5th

1929 – Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician, 19th Chancellor of Austria (d. 2008)

1929 – Luc Ferrari, French pianist and composer (d. 2005)

– Hal Blaine, American session drummer

6th

– Maria Christina of Austria (b. 1858)

1929 – Valentin Yanin, Russian historian and author

1929 – Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan author and critic (d. 2011)

– Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist and veterinarian, invented the tranquilliser gun (d. 2008)

9th

1929 – Clement Meadmore, Australian-American sculptor (d. 2005)

– A. R. Antulay, Indian social worker and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2014)

10th

1929 – Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer

1929 – Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer

– Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (d. 2004)

11th

– Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.

12th

– Lillie Langtry, English singer and actress (b. 1853)

13th

– Omar Torrijos, Panamanian commander and politician, Military Leader of Panama (d. 1981)

14th

– Thomas Burke, American sprinter, coach, and lawyer (b. 1875)

– Vic Morrow, American actor and director (d. 1982)

– Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.

15th

1929 – James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2014)

– Graham Hill, English race car driver and businessman (d. 1975)

16th

1929 – Peter Porter, Australian-English poet and educator (d. 2010)

– Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer and architect (d. 1980)

17th

1929 – Patricia Routledge, English actress and singer

1929 – Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 1993)

1929 – Chaim Potok, American rabbi and author (d. 2002)

– Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean-French director and screenwriter

18th

1929 – André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1968)

– Len Deighton, English historian and author

19th

– Jacques Deray, French director and screenwriter (d. 2003)

20th

Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)

21st

– Chespirito, Mexican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)

– In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.^[1]

22nd

1929 – Rebecca Schull, American stage, film, and television actress

– James Hong, American actor and director

23rd

1929 – Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach (d. 1980)

– Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (d. 2008)

24th

– André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1853)

– Kintaro Ohki, South Korean wrestler (d. 2006)

25th

– Tommy Newsom, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007)

26th

– President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

27th

1929 – Patricia Ward Hales, British tennis player (d. 1985)

1929 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)

– Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2008)

28th

– Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician and immunologist (b. 1874)

1929 – Rangaswamy Srinivasan, Indian-American physical chemist and inventor

1929 – John Montague, American-Irish poet and academic (d. 2016)

1929 – Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect, designed 8 Spruce Street and Walt Disney Concert Hall

– Hayden Fry, American football player and coach

March

1st

– Georgi Markov, Bulgarian journalist and author (d. 1978)

3rd

– Katharine Wright, American educator (b. 1874)

4th

1929 – Peter Swerling, American theoretician and engineer (d. 2000)

– Bernard Haitink, Dutch violinist and conductor

5th

– David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)

1929 – J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967)

– Erik Carlsson, Swedish race car driver (d. 2015)

6th

1929 – David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop (d. 2005)

– Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 2013)

7th

– Dan Jacobson, South African-English author and critic (d. 2014)

8th

– Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress and singer (d. 2012)

9th

– Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Guyana (d. 2002)

1929 – Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 19th President of Bangladesh (d. 2013)

10th

– Sam Steiger, American journalist and politician (d. 2012)

11th

1929 – Jackie McGlew, South African cricketer (d. 1998)

– Timothy Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1994)

12th

– Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)

1929 – William Turner Dannat, American painter (b. 1853)

13th

– Zbigniew Messner, Polish economist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (d. 2014)

14th

– Bob Goalby, American golfer

16th

1929 – Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress

1929 – Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (d. 2015)

– Betty Johnson, American singer

18th

– Samuel Pisar, Polish-American lawyer and author (d. 2015)

20th

– Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (b. 1851)

1929 – Germán Robles, Spanish-Mexican actor and director (d. 2015)

– William Andrew MacKay, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2013)

21st

– Maurice Catarcio, American wrestler (d. 2005)

22nd

1929 – P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer. (d. 1973)

– Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist

23rd

1929 – Michael Manser, English architect and engineer (d. 2016)

Roger Bannister, English runner, neurologist and academic (d. 2018)

24th

– Pat Renella, Italian-American actor (d. 2012)

25th

– Cecil Taylor, American pianist and composer (d. 2018)

26th

1929 – Edwin Turney, American businessman, co-founded Advanced Micro Devices (d. 2008)

– Edward Sorel, American illustrator and caricaturist

27th

– Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)

1929 – Reg Evans, Australian actor (d. 2009)

28th

Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and songwriter (b. 1859)

1929 – Lomer Gouin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Quebec (b. 1861)

Paul England, Australian race car driver and engineer (d. 2014)

29th

1929 – Utpal Dutt, Indian Bengali actor, director and playwright (d. 1993)

1929 – Lennart Meri, Estonian director and politician, 2nd President of Estonia (d. 2006)

1929 – Richard Lewontin, American biologist, geneticist, and academic

– Sheila Kitzinger, English activist, author, and academic (d. 2015)

30th

1929 – István Rózsavölgyi, Hungarian runner (d. 2012)

1929 – Ray Musto, American soldier and politician (d. 2014)

– Richard Dysart, American actor (d. 2015)

31st

– Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne Inc. (d. 2007)

1929 – Bert Fields, American lawyer and author

April

1st

1929 – Jane Powell, American actress, singer, and dancer

1929 – Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator and director (d. 2010)

1929 – Milan Kundera, Czech-born novelist, poet, and playwright

– Jonathan Haze, American actor, producer, screenwriter, and production manager

2nd

– Ed Dorn, American poet and educator (d. 1999)

3rd

1929 – Poul Schlüter, Danish lawyer and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Denmark

– Fazlur Khan, Bangladeshi engineer and architect, co-designed the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center (d. 1982)

4th

– Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (b. 1844)

– Humbert Allen Astredo, American actor (d. 2016)

5th

1929 – Joe Meek, English songwriter and producer (d. 1967)

1929 – Nigel Hawthorne, English actor and producer (d. 2001)

1929 – Ivar Giaever, Norwegian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

– Hugo Claus, Belgian author, poet, and painter (d. 2008)

– Francis Aidan Gasquet, English Benedictine monk (b. 1846)

1929 – Ludwig von Sybel, German archeologist (b. 1846)

1929 – Mahmoud Mollaghasemi, Iranian wrestler

6th

– Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.

1929 – André Previn, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2019)

1929 – Joi Lansing, American model, actress and nightclub singer (d. 1972)

– Willis Hall, English playwright and author (d. 2005)

7th

1929 – Joe Gallo, American gangster (d. 1972)

– Bob Denard, French soldier (d. 2007)

8th

– Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1978)

1929 – Renzo De Felice, Italian historian and author (d. 1996)

– Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.

9th

– Sharan Rani Backliwal, Indian sarod player and scholar (d. 2008)

1929 – Paule Marshall, American author and academic

1929 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist (d. 1993)

10th

– Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (d. 1959)

1929 – Liz Sheridan, American actress

1929 – Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor

12th

1929 – Mukhran Machavariani, Georgian poet and educator (d. 2010)

– Elspet Gray, Scottish actress (d. 2013)

13th

– Marilynn Smith, American golfer (d. 2019)

14th

1929 – Inez Andrews, African-American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)

– Gerry Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)

15th

1929 – Adrian Cadbury, English rower and businessman (d. 2015)

– Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2008)

16th

1929 – Ed Townsend, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2003)

1929 – Ralph Slatyer, Australian biologist and ecologist (d. 2012)

– Roy Hamilton, American singer (d. 1969)

17th

– James Last, German-American bassist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2015)

18th

– Peter Hordern, English soldier and politician

20th

– Prince Henry of Prussia (b. 1862)

1929 – Bobby Hollander, American film director, actor, and magazine publisher (d. 2002)

– Harry Agganis, American baseball and football player (d. 1955)

22nd

– Henry Lerolle, French painter and art collector (b. 1848)

1929 – Robert Wade-Gery, English diplomat, British High Commissioner to India (d. 2015)

– Michael Atiyah, English-Lebanese mathematician and academic (d. 2019)

23rd

– George Steiner, French-American philosopher, author, and critic

24th

– Dr. Rajkumar, Indian actor and singer (d. 2006)

25th

– Yvette Williams, New Zealand long jumper, shot putter, and discus thrower

26th

– Richard Mitchell, American author and educator (d. 2002)

27th

– Nina Ponomaryova, Russian discus thrower and coach (d. 2016)

28th

– Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer (b. 1879)

29th

– Walter Kempowski, German author and academic (d. 2007)

1929 – Mickey McDermott, American baseball player and coach (d. 2003)

1929 – Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (d. 2014)

1929 – Maurice Strong, Canadian businessman and diplomat (d. 2015)

1929 – Jeremy Thorpe, English lawyer and politician (d. 2014)

May

1st

– The 7.2 M_w  Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran–Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.

1929 – Sonny Ramadhin, Trinidadian cricketer

– Ralf Dahrendorf, German-English sociologist and politician (d. 2009)

2nd

– Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (b. 1879)

– Édouard Balladur, Turkish-French economist and politician, 162nd Prime Minister of France

1929 – James Dillion, American discus thrower (d. 2010)

1929 – Link Wray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)

1929 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan (d. 1972)

3rd

– Denise Lor, American singer and actress (d. 2015)

4th

Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (d. 2015)

1929 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-British actress and humanitarian (d. 1993)

5th

– Ilene Woods, American actress (d. 2010)

6th

1929 – John Taylor, English bishop and theologian (d. 2016)

1929 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)

– Rosemary Cramp, English archaeologist and academic

7th

– Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2011)

8th

– Ethel D. Allen, African-American physician and politician (d. 1981)^[11]

1929 – Girija Devi, Indian classical singer (d. 2017)

1929 – Claude Castonguay, Canadian banker and politician

1929 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress and singer (d. 2007)

10th

1929 – Antonine Maillet, Canadian author and playwright

1929 – George Coe, American actor and producer (d. 2015)

– Audun Boysen, Norwegian runner (d. 2000)

11th

– Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)^[129]

12th

1929 – Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)^[15]

– Sam Nujoma, Namibian politician, 1st President of Namibia

13th

– John Galvin, American general (d. 2015)

– Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)^[8]

14th

1929 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)

1929 – Henry McGee, English actor and singer (d. 2006)

– Barbara Branden, Canadian-American author (d. 2013)

15th

– A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.

16th

– In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.

1929 – Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist, and feminist (d. 2012)

1929 – Claude Morin, Canadian academic and politician

1929 – John Conyers, American lawyer and politician

– Betty Carter, American singer-songwriter (d. 1998)

17th

– Branko Zebec, Yugoslav football player and coach (d. 1988)

18th

– Jack Sanford, American baseball player and coach (d. 2000)

1929 – Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 2012)

19th

1929 – John Stroger, American politician (d. 2008)

1929 – Richard Larter, Australian painter (d. 2014)

– Helmut Braunlich, German-American violinist and composer (d. 2013)

20th

– Gilles Loiselle, Canadian politician and diplomat, 33rd Canadian Minister of Finance

21st

– Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)

1929 – Robert Welch, English silversmith and industrial designer (d. 2000)

– Larance Marable, American drummer (d. 2012)^[26]

22nd

– Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian poet (d. 2013)

23rd

– Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish-Austrian actress (d. 1982)

24th

– Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)

25th

– Beverly Sills, American soprano and actress (d. 2007)

26th

1929 – Catherine Sauvage, French singer and actress (d. 1998)

1929 – John Jackson, English lawyer and businessman

1929 – Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (d. 2008)

1929 – Ernie Carroll, Australian television personality and producer

– J. F. Ade Ajayi, Nigerian historian and academic (d. 2014)

28th

– Patrick McNair-Wilson, English politician

29th

1929 – Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)

1929 – Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

– Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher and academic

30th

– Georges Gilson, French archbishop

31st

– Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (d. 2014)

June

1st

1929 – James H. Billington, American academic and Thirteenth Librarian of Congress (d. 2018)

– Nargis, Indian actress (d. 1981)

– The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.

2nd

– Enrique Gorostieta, Mexican general (b. 1889)

1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)

– Norton Juster, American architect, author, and academic

3rd

1929 – Chuck Barris, American game show host and producer (d. 2017)

– Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate

4th

– Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (b. 1881)

– Karolos Papoulias, Greek lawyer and politician, 5th President of Greece

6th

– Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (d. 2005)

7th

– Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (d. 1983)

– John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada

– The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.

8th

– Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

– Bliss Carman, Canadian-American poet and playwright (b. 1861)

– Nada Inada, Japanese psychiatrist and author (d. 2013)

9th

1929 – Margaret Lawrence, American stage actress (b. 1889)

– Louis Bennison, American stage and silent film actor (b. 1884)

– Johnny Ace, American singer and pianist (d. 1954)

10th

1929 – E. O. Wilson, American biologist, author, and academic

1929 – Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn, British Labour Party politician (d. 2016)^[2]

1929 – Ian Sinclair, Australian farmer and politician, 42nd Australian Minister for Defence

James McDivitt, American general, pilot, and astronaut

11th

– Ayhan Şahenk, Turkish businessman (d. 2001)

12th

1929 – John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland (d. 2017)

1929 – Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani linguist and academic

1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (d. 1945)

– Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (d. 1995)

13th

– Ralph McQuarrie, American illustrator (d. 2012)

1929 – Robert W. Scott, American farmer and politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)

14th

– Cy Coleman, American pianist and composer (d. 2004)

– Alan Davidson, Australian cricketer

– Johnny Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2011)

16th

– Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)

1929 – Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar (b. 1871)

– Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait

17th

– The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.

1929 – Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player (d. 1984)

– Bud Collins, American journalist and sportscaster (d. 2016)

18th

1929 – Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2015)

– Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher

20th

1929 – Edith Windsor, American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activist (d. 2017)

1929 – Anne Weale, English journalist and author (d. 2007)

– Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)

– Emmanouil Benakis, Greek merchant and politician, 35th Mayor of Athens (b. 1843)

21st

– Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (b. 1864)

– An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.

– Alexandre Lagoya, Egyptian-Greek guitarist and composer (d. 1999)

22nd

– Bruce Kent, English activist and laicised Roman Catholic priest

23rd

– June Carter Cash, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (d. 2003)

1929 – Mario Ghella, Italian racing cyclist

24th

– Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer

25th

– Eric Carle, American author and illustrator

1929 – Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)

26th

– June Bronhill, Australian soprano and actress (d. 2005)

1929 – Fred Bruemmer, Latvian-Canadian photographer and author (d. 2013)

1929 – Milton Glaser, American illustrator and graphic designer

27th

1929 – Peter Maas, American journalist and author (d. 2001)

– Dick the Bruiser, American football player and wrestler (d. 1991)

28th

– Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (b. 1844)

– Alfred Miodowicz, Polish politician

29th

– Pat Crawford Brown, American actress

1929 – Pete George, American weightlifter

1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)

30th

– Yang Ti-liang, Chinese judge

July

1st

– Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)

2nd

– Imelda Marcos, Filipino politician; 10th First Lady of the Philippines

– Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1894)

3rd

1929 – Joanne Herring, American socialite, businesswoman, political activist, philanthropist, diplomat, and television talk show host

– Clément Perron, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)

4th

1929 – Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (d. 1998)

1929 – Al Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (d. 2011)

– Ron Casey, Australian journalist and sportscaster

5th

– Henry Johnson, American sergeant (b. 1897)

– Jimmy Carruthers, Australian boxer (d. 1990)

1929 – Katherine Helmond, American actress and director (d. 2019)

1929 – Tony Lock, English cricketer (d. 1995)

1929 – Jovan Rašković, Serbian psychiatrist, academic, and politician (d. 1992)

1929 – Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic artist (d. 2014)

1929 – Chikao Ohtsuka, Japanese voice actor (d. 2015)

6th

– Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, French politician historian

7th

1929 – Sergio Romano, Italian writer, journalist, and historian

– Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)

9th

1929 – Chi Haotian, Chinese general

1929 – Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolin player

– Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2007)

1929 – Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)

10th

– Ève Lavallière, French actress (b. 1866)

1929 – José Vicente Rangel, Venezuelan politician; 21st Vice President of Venezuela

1929 – Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (d. 2004)

1929 – George Clayton Johnson, American author and screenwriter (d. 2015)

– Winnie Ewing, Scottish lawyer and politician

11th

– Danny Flores, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (d. 2006)

1929 – David Kelly, Irish actor (d. 2012)

– Billy Mosforth, English footballer and engraver (b. 1857)

12th

– Robert Henri, American painter and educator (b. 1865)

13th

1929 – Svein Ellingsen, Norwegian visual artist and hymnist

– Sofia Muratova, Russian gymnast (d. 2006)

15th

– Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)

1929 – Ian Stewart, Scottish race car driver

1929 – Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-French guitarist (d. 2001)

– Charles Anthony, American tenor and actor (d. 2012)

16th

– Charles Ray Hatcher, American serial killer (d. 1984)

1929 – Sheri S. Tepper, American author and poet (d. 2016)

1929 – Gaby Tanguy, French swimmer

17th

– Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician and academic

18th

1929 – Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American R&B singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (d. 2000)

– Dick Button, American figure skater and actor

19th

1929 – Orville Turnquest, Bahamian politician

– Gaston Glock, Austrian engineer and businessman, co-founded Glock Ges.m.b.H.

20th

1929 – David Tonkin, Australian politician, 38th Premier of South Australia (d. 2000)

1929 – Rajendra Kumar, Pakistani-Indian actor and producer (d. 1999)

1929 – Mike Ilitch, American businessman, co-founded Little Caesars (d. 2017)

– Hazel Hawke, Australian social worker and pianist, 23rd Spouse of the Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2013)

21st

– Bob Orton, American wrestler (d. 2006)

22nd

1929 – Baselios Thomas I, Indian bishop

1929 – Neil Welliver, American painter (d. 2005)

1929 – Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher and academic (d. 2013)

– John Barber, English race car driver

23rd

1929 – Lateef Jakande, Nigerian journalist and politician, 5th Governor of Lagos State

– Danny Barcelona, American drummer (d. 2007)

24th

– The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).

25th

1929 – Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1995)

1929 – Somnath Chatterjee, Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 2018)

– Judd Buchanan, Canadian businessman and politician, 36th Canadian Minister of Public Works

26th

1929 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (d. 2012)

– Marc Lalonde, Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Canadian Minister of Justice

27th

– Jean Baudrillard, French sociologist and philosopher (d. 2007)

1929 – Harvey Fuqua, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2010)

1929 – Jack Higgins, English author and academic

1929 – Marc Wilkinson, French-Australian composer and conductor

– The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.

28th

– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist and socialite, 37th First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)

1929 – Shirley Ann Grau, American novelist and short story writer

30th

– Sid Krofft, Canadian-American puppeteer and producer

31st

– Lynne Reid Banks, English author

1929 – Gilles Carle, Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 2009)

1929 – Don Murray, American actor

1929 – José Santamaría, Uruguayan footballer and manager

August

1st

– Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)

1929 – Leila Abashidze, Georgian actress (d. 2018)

1929 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer (d. 2006)

– Hafizullah Amin, Afghan educator and politician, Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1979)

2nd

1929 – David Waddington, Baron Waddington, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Bermuda (d. 2017)

1929 – Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (d. 2013)

1929 – John Gale, English director and producer

– Roy Crimmins, English trombonist and composer (d. 2014)

3rd

1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)

Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)

4th

1929 – Vellore G. Ramabhadran, Mridangam artiste from Tamil Nadu, India (d. 2012)

– Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1987)

5th

– Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847)

– Don Matheson, American soldier, police officer, and actor (d. 2014)

6th

1929 – Roch La Salle, Canadian politician, 42nd Canadian Minister of Public Works (d. 2007)

– Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist

7th

– Don Larsen, American baseball player

8th

– The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.

1929 – Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian general and politician, 68th President of Bolivia (d. 2018)

– Larisa Bogoraz, Russian linguist and activist (d. 2004)

9th

Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (d. 1979)

10th

– Pierre Fatou, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1878)

1929 – Aletta Jacobs, Dutch physician (b. 1854)

11th

– Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

12th

– Buck Owens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)

13th

– Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor (d. 2016)

14th

– Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral (d. 2013)

1929 – Gene Scott, American pastor and broadcaster (d. 2005)

1929 – Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)

16th

1929 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)

– Bill Evans, American pianist and composer (d. 1980)

1929 – Fritz Von Erich, American wrestler and trainer (d. 1997)

– The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.

17th

– Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (d. 1977)

18th

– Hugues Aufray, French singer-songwriter

19th

– Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)

1929 – Ion N. Petrovici, Romanian-German neurologist and academic

– Sergei Diaghilev, Russian critic and producer, founded Ballets Russes (b. 1872)

20th

– Kevin Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2013)

21st

– Herman Badillo, Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)

1929 – X. J. Kennedy, American poet, translator, anthologist, editor

1929 – Ahmed Kathrada, South African politician and political prisoner (d. 2017)

22nd

1929 – Ulrich Wegener, German police officer and general

– Valery Alekseyev, Russian anthropologist and author (d. 1991)

23rd

– Vladimir Beekman, Estonian poet and translator (d. 2009)

1929 – Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (d. 1997)

1929 – Vera Miles, American actress

1929 – Peter Thomson, Australian golfer (d. 2018)

– Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.

24th

– Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.

1929 – Betty Dodson, American author and educator

– Yasser Arafat, Egyptian-Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority (d. 2004)

26th

– Reuben Kamanga, Zambian soldier and politician, 1st Vice President of Zambia (d. 1996)

27th

– Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)

– Ira Levin, American novelist, playwright, and songwriter (d. 2007)

1929 – George Scott, Canadian-American wrestler and promoter (d. 2014)

28th

1929 – Roxie Roker, American actress (d. 1995)

– István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)

29th

– Thom Gunn, English-American poet and academic (d. 2004)

30th

1929 – Ian McNaught-Davis, English mountaineer and television host (d. 2014)

– Guy de Lussigny, French painter and sculptor (d. 2001)

September

1st

1929 – Maurice Vachon, Canadian wrestler (d. 2013)

– Mava Lee Thomas, American baseball player (d. 2013)

2nd

– Hal Ashby, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1988)

1929 – Beulah Bewley, English physician and academic (d. 2018)

1929 – Rex Hartwig, Australian tennis player

1929 – Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor and director (d. 2012)

3rd

– John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician (b. 1840)

– Whitey Bulger, American organized crime boss (d. 2018)

1929 – Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (d. 2007)

1929 – Steve Rickard, New Zealand-Australian wrestler, trainer, and promoter (d. 2015)

1929 – Armand Vaillancourt, Canadian sculptor and painter

4th

– Thomas Eagleton, American lawyer and politician, 38th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (d. 2007)

1929 – Robert V. Keeley, Lebanese-American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Greece (d. 2015)

5th

1929 – Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2004)

– Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor

6th

– Yash Johar, Indian film producer, founded Dharma Productions (d. 2005)

1929 – Ljubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and mathematician (d. 1991)

7th

– Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost.

– Frederic Weatherly, English lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1848)

8th

Christoph von Dohnányi, German conductor

9th

– Claude Nougaro, French singer-songwriter (d. 2004)

10th

1929 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer and businessman (d. 2016)

1929 – John Golding, English historian, scholar, and curator (d. 2012)

– Michel Bélanger, Canadian businessman and banker (d. 1997)

11th

1929 – Patrick Mayhew, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (d. 2016)

1929 – Primož Kozak, Slovenian playwright (d. 1981)

– Luis García, Venezuelan baseball player and manager (d. 2014)

12th

– Harvey Schmidt, American composer and illustrator (d. 2018)

13th

– Jatindra Nath Das, Indian activist (b. 1904)

14th

– Larry Collins, American-French journalist, historian, and author (d. 2005)

15th

1929 – Dick Latessa, American actor (d. 2016)

1929 – Stan Kelly-Bootle, English singer-songwriter, computer scientist, and author (d. 2014)

1929 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)

– Eva Burrows, Australian 13th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2015)

1929 – John Julius Norwich, English historian and author (d. 2018)

1929 – Wilbur Snyder, American football player and wrestler (d. 1991)

1929 – Mümtaz Soysal, Turkish academic and politician, 30th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs

16th

1929 – Stan Stephens, American politician, 20th Governor of Montana

– Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, last sultan of Zanzibar

17th

– Sil Austin, American saxophonist (d. 2001)

1929 – David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley, Northern Irish air marshal and politician

1929 – Stirling Moss, English race car driver and sportscaster

18th

– Teddi King, American singer (d. 1977)

1929 – Nancy Littlefield, American director and producer (d. 2007)

19th

– Marge Roukema, American educator and politician (d. 2014)

20th

– Anne Meara, American actress and playwright (d. 2015)

1929 – Vittorio Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 2018)

1929 – Joe Temperley, Scottish saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 2016)

21st

– Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1979)

1929 – Edgar Valter, Estonian author and illustrator (d. 2006)

1929 – Bernard Williams, English-Italian philosopher and academic (d. 2003)

22nd

1929 – Carlo Ubbiali, Italian motorcycle racer

– Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (d. 1986)

23rd

– Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

24th

– Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai prince (b. 1892)

– John Carter, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and flute player (d. 1991)

– Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.

25th

– Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)

1929 – Barbara Walters, American journalist, producer, and author

1929 – Delia Scala, Italian ballerina and actress (d. 2004)

– Ronnie Barker, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)

27th

1929 – Barbara Murray, English actress (d. 2014)

1929 – Bruno Junk, Estonian race walker (d. 1995)

– Calvin Jones, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 2004)

28th

– Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer and composer

30th

1929 – Dorothee Sölle, German theologian and author (d. 2003)

1929 – Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Filipino politician, diplomat and writer (d. 2017)

1929 – Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist and academic

– Carol Fenner, American author and illustrator (d. 2002)

October

1st

– Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (b. 1861)

1929 – Bonnie Owens, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)

1929 – Grady Chapman, American singer (d. 2011)

– Ken Arthurson, Australian rugby player and coach

2nd

1929 – Moses Gunn, American actor (d. 1993)

– Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (d. 1996)

3rd

– Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)

1929 – Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)

– The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia.

4th

1929 – Leroy Van Dyke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1929 – John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)

– Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (d. 1968)

5th

– Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute (b. 1876)

1929 – Bill Wirtz, American businessman (d. 2007)

– Richard F. Gordon Jr., American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2017)

6th

– George Mattos, American pole vaulter (d. 2012)

7th

1929 – Robert Westall, English journalist and author (d. 1993)

1929 – Mariano Gagnon, American Catholic priest and author (d. 2017)

– Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and producer, co-founded the IMAX Corporation

– Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

8th

– Betty Boothroyd, English academic and politician, British Speaker of the House of Commons

10th

1929 – Bernard Mayes, English-American journalist and academic (d. 2014)

1929 – Herb Levinson, American actor (d. 2012)

– Ayten Alpman, Turkish singer (d. 2012)

11th

Curtis Amy, American saxophonist and clarinetist (d. 2002)

12th

1929 – Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist and academic (d. 2007)

1929 – Robert Coles, American psychologist, author, and academic

– Nappy Brown, American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 2008)

13th

1929 – Walasse Ting, Chinese-American painter and poet (d. 2010)

– Richard Howard, American poet, critic, and translator

14th

– Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (b. 1844)

– Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer and wrestler (d. 2007)

15th

– Will Insley, American painter and architect (d. 2011)

16th

– Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress

17th

– Mário Wilson, Mozambican footballer and manager (d. 2016)

18th

– The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.

– Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan publisher and politician, President of Nicaragua

1929 – Frank Stanmore, Australian rugby league player (d. 2005)

1929 – Kees Fens, Dutch author and critic (d. 2008)

1929 – Hillard Elkins, American producer and manager (d. 2010)

19th

– Lewis Wolpert, South African-English biologist, author, and academic

21st

1929 – Ursula K. Le Guin, American author and critic (d. 2018)

1929 – Fritz Hollaus, Austrian footballer (d. 1994)

– Pierre Bellemare, French radio and television host (d. 2018)

22nd

1929 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d. 1990)

1929 – Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)

– Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett, English director and producer (d. 2015)

23rd

– Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (d. 2006)

24th

– "Black Thursday" on the New York Stock Exchange.

1929 – Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor (d. 2013)

1929 – Gustav Ranis, American economist and academic (d. 2013)

1929 – Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian author and playwright (d. 2004)

1929 – Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre, English wife of William Douglas-Home (d. 2012)

1929 – George Crumb, American composer and educator

1929 – Jim Brosnan, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2014)

– Hubert Aquin, Canadian activist, author, and director (d. 1977)

25th

1929 – Peter Rühmkorf, German writer (d. 2008)

1929 – Claude Rouer, French cyclist

1929 – Zdravko Milev, Bulgarian chess player (d. 1984)

– Michel Knuysen, Belgian rower (d. 2013)

26th

– Neal Matthews Jr., American country/gospel singer (The Jordanaires) (d. 2000)

27th

– Myra Carter, American actress (d. 2016)

1929 – Bill George, American football player (d. 1982)

1929 – Maurice Robert Johnston, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire

– Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (b. 1857)

28th

– Bernhard von Bülow, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)

– Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1988)

1929 – Virginia Held, American philosopher, author, and academic

1929 – John Hollander, American poet, critic, and educator (d. 2013)

1929 – Joan Plowright, English actress

29th

– The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.

– Yevgeny Primakov, Ukrainian-Russian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Russia (d. 2015)

30th

– Olga Zubarry, Argentinian actress (d. 2012)

31st

1929 – Norman Pritchard, Indian-English hurdler and actor (b. 1877)

– António José de Almeida, Portuguese physician and politician, 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)

1929 – Bud Spencer, Italian swimmer, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2016)

– William Orchard, Australian water polo player and psychiatrist (d. 2014)

November

1st

– Nicholas Mavroules, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)

2nd

1929 – Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)

1929 – Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Pakistani judge and politician, 9th President of Pakistan

1929 – Robert Gover, American journalist and author (d. 2015)

– Amar Bose, American engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (d. 2013)

3rd

– Alfonso Orueta, Chilean footballer, manager, and politician (d. 2012)

– Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and educator (b. 1883)

4th

1929 – Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (d. 2013)

– Anastasios of Albania, Greek-Albanian archbishop

6th

– June Squibb, American actress

– Prince Maximilian of Baden (b. 1867)

7th

– In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.

1929 – Lila Kaye, English actress (d. 2012)

1929 – Eric Kandel, Austrian-American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Nobel Prize laureate

– Jesús de Polanco, Spanish publisher and businessman (d. 2007)

8th

1929 – António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher and academic

– Bobby Bowden, American football player and coach

9th

1929 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)

– Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (d. 2005)

10th

– Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter

1929 – W. E. B. Griffin, American soldier and author

1929 – Ninón Sevilla, Cuban-Mexican actress and dancer (d. 2015)

11th

– LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)

1929 – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German author and poet

1929 – Martin Jacomb, English lawyer, businessman, and academic

12th

– Grace Kelly, American actress, later Princess Grace of Monaco (d. 1982)

1929 – Michael Ende, German author and fiction writer (d. 1995)

13th

1929 – Asashio Tarō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (d. 1988)

1929 – Fred Phelps, American lawyer, pastor, and activist, founded the Westboro Baptist Church (d. 2014)

– Robert Bonnaud, French historian and academic (d. 2013)

– Princess Viktoria of Prussia (b. 1866)

14th

– Shirley Crabtree, English wrestler (d. 1997)

1929 – Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2017)

15th

1929 – Joe Hinton, American singer (d. 1968)

– Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer

16th

– Peter Boizot, English businessman

17th

– Herman Hollerith, American statistician and businessman (b. 1860)

1929 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (d. 1999)

– Gorō Naya, Japanese actor and director (d. 2013)

18th

– Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.

– Gianna D'Angelo, American soprano and educator (d. 2013)

19th

– Norman Cantor, Canadian-American historian and scholar (d. 2004)

20th

– Jerry Hardin, American actor

1929 – Raymond Lefèvre, French composer (d. 2008)

1929 – Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian footballer

1929 – Ron Willey, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2004)

21st

1929 – Laurier LaPierre, Canadian historian, journalist, and politician (d. 2012)

– Marilyn French, American author and academic (d. 2009)

22nd

– Staughton Lynd, American lawyer, historian, author, and activist

1929 – Keith Rayner, Australian Archbishop

23rd

– Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and author

1929 – Gloria Lynne, American singer (d. 2013)

24th

– Franciszek Kokot, Polish nephrologist and endocrinologist

1929 – George Moscone, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1978)

– Georges Clemenceau, French physician, publisher, and politician, 72nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1841)

25th

– Judy Crichton, American director and producer (d. 2007)

26th

– John Cockburn, Scottish-Australian politician, 18th Premier of South Australia (d. 1929)

1929 – Betta St. John, American actress, singer and dancer

– Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian singer-songwriter and accordion player (d. 2015)

28th

– Berry Gordy, Jr., American songwriter and producer, founded Motown Records

29th

– U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.

1929 – Woo Yong-gak, North Korean soldier

– Derek Jameson, English journalist and radio host (d. 2012)

30th

– Dick Clark, American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions (d. 2012)

1929 – Joan Ganz Cooney, American screenwriter and producer, co-created Sesame Street

December

1st

– David Doyle, American actor (d. 1997)

2nd

1929 – Leon Litwack, American historian and author

– Dan Jenkins, American journalist and author

3rd

– John S. Dunne, American priest and theologian (d. 2013)

4th

– Şakir Eczacıbaşı, Turkish pharmacist, photographer, and businessman (d. 2010)

5th

– Madis Kõiv, Estonian physicist, philosopher, and author (d. 2014)

6th

1929 – Alain Tanner, Swiss director, producer, and screenwriter

1929 – Frank Springer, American author and illustrator (d. 2009)

1929 – Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German-Austrian cellist and conductor (d. 2016)

– Philippe Bouvard, French journalist and radio host

9th

– John Cassavetes, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989)

1929 – Bob Hawke, Australian union leader and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2019)

11th

1929 – Subhash Gupte, Indian cricketer (d. 2002)

– Axel Anderson, German actor and production manager (d. 2012)

12th

1929 – John Osborne, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1994)

– Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese pianist and composer

13th

– Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor and producer

14th

– Ron Jarden, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1977)

16th

– Nicholas Courtney, Egyptian-English actor (d. 2011)

17th

– Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)

– William Safire, American journalist and author (d. 2009)

18th

1929 – Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (d. 2013)

– Gino Cimoli, American baseball player (d. 2011)

19th

– The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).

1929 – Howard Sackler, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1982)

1929 – Gregory Carroll, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)

1929 – David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish potter

– Bob Brookmeyer, American trombonist, pianist, and composer (d. 2011)

20th

– Émile Loubet, French lawyer and politician, 8th President of France (b. 1838)

21st

– I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)

22nd

– Wazir Mohammad, Indian-Pakistani cricketer

23rd

– Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player, flugelhorn player, and singer (d. 1988)

1929 – Dick Weber, American professional bowler (d. 2005)

24th

– Lennart Skoglund, Swedish footballer (d. 1975)

1929 – Philip Ziegler, English historian and author

– Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

25th

1929 – China Machado, Chinese-born Portuguese-American fashion model, editor and television producer (d. 2016)

– Christine M. Jones, American educator and politician (d. 2013)

26th

– Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)

– Kathleen Crowley, American actress (d. 2017)

1929 – Régine Zylberberg, Belgian-French singer and actress

27th

– Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

28th

– Brian Redhead, English journalist and author (d. 1994)

1929 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 1970)

29th

– Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (b. 1846)

– Matt Murphy, American guitarist (d. 2018)

30th

– Rosalinde Hurley, English physician, microbiologist, and academic (d. 2004)

31st

– Mies Bouwman, Dutch television host (d. 2018)

1929 – Peter May, English cricketer (d. 1994)

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