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[edit] Events
[edit] January
January 1
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) inaugurated. UK railways are nationalized to form British Railways. The Italian republican constitution goes into effect. The latest New Jersey State Constitution goes into effect.
January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom. January 5 – Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl). January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop the communal violence during the Partition of India. January 17 – A truce is declared between nationalist Indonesian and Dutch troops in Java. January 22 – British foreign secretary Bevin proposes the formation of a Western Union between Britain, France and the Benelux countries to stand up against the Soviet Union. The Treaty of Brussels is signed March 17 as a consequence, a predecessor to NATO. January 26 – Teigin poison case: A man masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 of 16 bank employees of the Tokyo branch of Imperial Bank and takes the money; artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later sentenced to death for the crime, but is never executed. January 29 – Plane crash at Los Gatos Creek, California kills 4 US citizens and 28 deportees, commemorated in a song by Woody Guthrie. January 30
Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse. 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
[edit] February
February 1 – The Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts. February 4 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) becomes an independent kingdom within the British Commonwealth. February 16 – Miranda, the innermost moon of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper.[1] February 18 – Éamon de Valera, Irish head of government since 1932, loses power to an opposition coalition. John A. Costello is appointed Taoiseach by President O'Kelly. February 21 – The stock car racing series Nascar is founded by Bill France Sr. and William France, Sr. February 25 – The Communist Party seizes control of Czechoslovakia, a day celebrated by that regime as "Victorious February" (Czech:"VÃtÄ›zný únor"; Slovak:"VÃÅ¥azný Február") until November 1989.
[edit] March
March 8 – McCollum v. Board of Education: The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution. March 16 – The largest flood in the history of Brampton, Ontario, occurs.[2] March 17
Treaty of Brussels signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, providing for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence. The Hells Angels motorcycle gang is founded in California.
March 18 – The Round Table Conference in The Hague, Netherlands for the preparation of the decolonization process for Aruba and the other Dutch Colonies. Aruba presents the mandate of the Aruban People for Aruba to become an Independent Country, under the souvereignty of the House of Orange, based on Aruba's first state constitution presented officially since August 1947, and a (4th) Member State of the future Dutch Commonwealth. March 20
Singapore holds its first elections. Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in an all-Wagner program.
[edit] April
April
Scientists Ralph Alpher and George Gamow publish the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper about the big bang.
April 3
President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries. Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is played on television in its entirety for the first time, in a concert featuring Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The chorus is conducted by Robert Shaw. Jeju Uprising, Jeju residents revolted on Jeju island, South Korea.
April 5 – 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: Haganah launches Operation Nahshon; beginning of the 1948 Palestinian exodus. April 7
The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations. A fire in a Buddhist monastery Shanghai kills 20 monks.
April 9
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further 10 years of violence in all of Colombia (La Violencia). The Deir Yassin massacre takes place in British Mandate of Palestine.
April 13 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre takes place in British Mandate of Palestine. April 16 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is founded as the OEEC. April 18 – The first democratic general election with universal suffrage is held in Italy. April 19 – Burma joins the United Nations. April 24 – The Costa Rican Civil War ends. April 30 – Organization of American States (OAS) founded. April 30 – The Land Rover is unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show.[edit] May
May – The RAND Corporation is established as an independent nonprofit policy research and analysis institution. May 4 – Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet makes its world premiere in London. May 11 – Luigi Einaudi becomes President of the Italian Republic. May 14
The Declaration of Independence of Israel is made. The murder of a 3-year-old girl in Blackburn, England leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.[3]
May 15 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated; expeditionary forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq attack Israel and clash with Israeli forces. May 16 – Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel. May 18 – The first Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking. May 22 – The Soviets launched the largest Lithuanian deportation to Siberia. May 26 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as the auxiliary of the United States Air Force. May 28 – Daniel Francois Malan defeats Jan Smuts and becomes Prime Minister of South Africa, ushering in the era of apartheid, which is finally dismantled by F W de Klerk in 1994. May 30 – A dike along the Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes: 15 people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.[edit] June
June 3 – The Palomar Observatory telescope is finished in California. June 10 – Hasan Saka forms the new government of Turkey. (17th government; Hasan Saka had served twice as a prime minister) June 11 – The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico. June 16
Communist guerrillas kill 3 rubber planters in Malaya. Three armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.
June 17 – A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Air Lines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board. June 18 – Malayan Emergency: A state of emergency is declared in the Malayan Union due to a communist insurgency. June 20 – The U.S. Congress recesses for the remainder of 1948, after an overtime session closes at 7:00 a.m. D.C. time (to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948). June 21 – The Deutsche Mark becomes official currency of the future Federal Republic of Germany. June 22 – The ship Empire Windrush brings a large group of Afro-Caribbean immigrants to Tilbury near London, the start of a large wave of immigration to Britain. June 24
Cold War: The Berlin Blockade begins. The first World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization is held in Geneva.
June 26 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor. June 28
The Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia and the Soviet/Yugoslav split. David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK. It is banned for 3 years in the U.S. because of alleged anti-Semitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness. 1948 Fukui earthquake strikes Fukui, Japan. 3,769 dead, 22,203 injured.
[edit] July
July 5 – The National Health Service Acts are enacted in United Kingdom. July 6 – The world's first Air Car-ferry service is flown by a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways from Lympne to Le Touquet. July 13 – The Coptic and Ethiopian Churches reach an agreement leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate. Five bishops are immediately consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria, and the successor to Abuna Qerellos IV is granted the power to consecrate new bishops, who are empowered to elect a new Patriarch for their church. July 15
The attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, incites numerous strikes all over the country. The first London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.
July 20 – Cold War: President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt). July 22 – The Dominion of Newfoundland votes to join Canada after a referendum. July 24 – A great oil fire breaks out in the harbor of Naantali, Finland. July 26 – U.S. President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces. July 28 – Around 200 die in explosion at a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany. July 29 – The 1948 Summer Olympics begin in London, the first since the 1936 Summer Olympics July 31 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.[edit] August
August 1 – The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded. August 10 – August 23 – The Herrenchiemsee Convent prepares the draft for the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany. August 14 – 1948 Ashes series: The Australian batsman Don Bradman, playing his last Test cricket match, against England at The Oval, is bowled by Eric Hollies for a duck; however, "The Invincibles" win the match by an innings and 149 runs, and The Ashes 4-0. August 15 – The Republic of Korea is established. August 18 – Danube Commission created by Belgrade Convention (enters into force 11 May 1949). August 23 – The World Council of Churches is established. August 24 – The first meeting of the charter members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) is held.[4] August 25 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
[edit] September
September 4 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons. September 5 – Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France. September 6 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands. September 9 – The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is formally declared, with Kim Il-sung as prime minister. September 11 – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder and first Governor General of Pakistan, dies. Pakistan is in a state of shock as it mourns the departure of the father of the nation. The day is a public holiday nation-wide. September 12 – The State of Hyderabad is invaded by the Indian Army on the day after Pakistani leader Jinnah's death, to assist damage control. Operation Polo leads to the independence of Hyderabad state and its amalgamation into the Indian union. September 17 – Lehi members assassinate Swedish count Folke Bernadotte. September 20 – Establishment of the city Rabwah. September 29 – Laurence Olivier's Hamlet opens in the United States.
[edit] October
October 6 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000. October 10 – R-1 missile on test becomes the first Soviet launch to enter space. October 11 – The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves to win the World Series, 4 games to 2. October 16 – The 57th Street Art Fair, the oldest juried art fair in the American Midwest, is founded. October 26 – Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania. October 28 – The massacre of Dawaymeh begins.
[edit] November
November 2 – United States presidential election, 1948: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats Republican Thomas E. Dewey and 'Dixiecrat' Strom Thurmond. November 12 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences 7 Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II. November 15 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Canada's 12th prime minister. November 16
Operation Magic Carpet to transport Jews from Yemen to Israel begins. The University of the Andes (Universidad de los Andes) is founded in Bogotá, Colombia.
November 17 – Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi divorces his second wife, the former Princess Fawzia of Egypt. November 20 – Geoffrey B. Orbell rediscovers the Takahē, last seen 50 years previously, near Lake Te Anau, New Zealand. November 24 – In Venezuela, president Rómulo Gallegos is ousted by a military junta. November 27 – The Calgary Stampeders defeat the Ottawa Rough Riders 12–7 before 20,013 fans at Toronto's Varsity Stadium to capture their first Grey Cup and complete the only perfect season to date in Canadian Football.[edit] December
December 1 – José Figueres Ferrer abolishes the army in Costa Rica, making it the first country in history to do so December 10 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights December 15 – The United States Department of Justice indicts Alger Hiss on two counts of perjury December 19 – The Cleveland Browns become the first professional football team to go undefeated in a season December 26 – The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea December 28 – A Muslim Brotherhood member assassinates Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi December 30 – The musical Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances December 31 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Israeli troops drive the Egyptians from Negev
[edit] Date unknown
Brandeis University is founded. The Casimir effect is discovered by Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir. The Fresh Kills Landfill, the world's largest, opens on Staten Island, New York. The Oakridge Transit Centre opens in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Slovak city Gúta is renamed Kolárovo. The Tunnel of Vielha is opened in the Aran Valley, Spanish Pyrenees. Last recorded sighting of the Caspian Tiger in Kazakhstan. A pack of wolves kills about 40 children in the Darovskoye district of Russia.[5] Charles Warrell creates the first I-Spy books Rev.W.Awdry's third book James the Red Engine is published. Last edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum is published in the Vatican. Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, is published.
[edit] Births
[edit] January–February
January 2
Mary Archer, British scientist Deborah Watling, British actress
January 5
Wally Foreman, Australian media icon (d. 2006) Ted Lange, American actor and director
January 7 – Kenny Loggins, American rock singer January 10
Teresa Graves, American actress and comedienne (d. 2002) William Sanderson, American actor and comedian Donald Fagen, American rock keyboardist Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
January 12
Kenny Allen, English footballer Anthony Andrews, English actor
January 14
T-Bone Burnett, American record producer and musician Carl Weathers, American actor and football player
January 15 – Ronnie Van Zant, American rock musician (d. 1977) January 16
John Carpenter, American film director, producer, screenwriter and composer Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
January 17 – DavÃð Oddsson, Prime Minister of Iceland January 19 – Frank McKenna, Premier of New Brunswick and Canadian Ambassador January 23
Mitoji Yabunaka, Japanese politician Katharine Holabird, American children's writer
January 27 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-born dancer January 28 – Charles Taylor, Liberian president January 29 – Marc Singer, Canadian actor January 30 – Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member January 31 – Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician February 1 – Rick James, Motown performer (d. 2004) February 2 – Ina Garten, American cooking author February 3
Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorean Catholic bishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize Henning Mankell, Swedish writer
February 4
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier), American hard rock singer and musician Roedy Green, Canadian programmer and LGBT activist Ram Baran Yadav, President of Nepal
February 5
Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager Christopher Guest, American actor, screenwriter, director and composer Barbara Hershey, American actress Tom Wilkinson, English actor
February 6 – Jack Conway, American musician, composer, arranger, and guitarist February 10 – John Magnier, Irish businessman and thoroughbred racehorse breeder February 11 – Chris Rush, American stand-up comedian February 12 – Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and author February 14
Raymond Joseph Teller, American magician Jackie Martling, American comedian and radio personality
February 17 – José José, Mexican singer and actor February 19
Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician and author (d. 2002) Tony Iommi, British heavy metal guitarist
February 20 – Jennifer O'Neill, Brazilian actress February 22 – John Ashton, American actor February 24
J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
February 25 – Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor February 28 – Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate February 28
Mike Figgis, American director, screenwriter and composer Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer Mercedes Ruehl, American actress Alfred Sant, Leader of Malta Labour Party (1992–) and Prime Minister of Malta (1996–1998)
[edit] March–April
March 2
R. T. Crowley, American pioneer of electronic commerce Rory Gallagher, Irish musician Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
March 4
Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author James Ellroy, American writer Tom Grieve, American baseball player Leron Lee, American baseball player Chris Squire, British bassist Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
March 5 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress March 6 – Anna Maria Horsford, American actress March 9 – Jeffrey Osborne, American singer March 11 – Dominique Sanda, French actress March 12 – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter March 14 – Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian March 15 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003) March 17 – William Gibson, American/Canadian writer March 20
John de Lancie, American actor Bobby Orr, Canadian hockey player
March 22
Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer
March 25 – Bonnie Bedelia, American actress March 26 – Steven Tyler, American rock singer March 28
Dianne Wiest, American actress Jayne Ann Krentz, née Castle (Amanda Quick), American novelist Dennis Unkovic, American author
March 29 – Bud Cort, American actor March 30 – Eddie Jordan, Irish founder of Jordan Grand Prix March 31
Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States Rhea Perlman, American actress
April 1 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican singer and actor April 4 – Squire Parsons, American gospel singer/songwriter April 12
Jeremy Beadle, English TV presenter (d. 2008) Don Fernando, director and actor of pornographic films Marcello Lippi, Italian football player and manager
April 13 – Nam Hae-il, 25th Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Korea Navy April 15 – Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003) April 17 – Jan Hammer, Czechoslovakian composer, pianist and keyboardist April 27 – Amrit Kumar Bohara, Nepalese politician April 28 – Terry Pratchett, English writer April 29 – Michael Karoli, German musician (d. 2001)[edit] May–June
May 2 – Vladimir Matorin, Russian opera singer May 4 – Tanya Falan, American singer May 5
Richard Pacheco, American pornographic actor Joe Esposito, American singer/songwriter Bill Ward, British rock drummer
May 8
Felicity Lott, English soprano Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer
May 9 – Calvin Murphy, American basketball player and analyst May 11 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese musician May 12 – Steve Winwood, English rock singer May 14 – Bob Woolmer, British cricket coach (d. 2007) May 15
Brian Eno, English musician and record producer Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
May 16 – Jesper Christensen, Danish actor May 19 – Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress May 20 – TesshŠGenda, Japanese seiyu May 21
Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born English actor Leo Sayer, English rock musician Elizabeth Buchan, née Oakleigh-Walker, English writer
May 25 – Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions) May 26 – Stevie Nicks, American rock singer and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac) May 27 – Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant May 29 – Michael Berkeley, British composer May 31 – John Bonham, British rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980) June 1
Tom Sneva, American former race car driver and Indianapolis 500 winner Powers Boothe, American actor
June 2 – Jerry Mathers, American actor June 4 – Bob Champion, English jump jockey June 6
Richard Sinclair, English musician (Caravan) Tony Levin, American bassist (King Crimson)
June 9 – Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician June 11 – Dave Cash, American baseball player June 13 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player and scout (d. 2001) June 14 – Laurence Yep, American author June 15 – Paul Michiels, Belgian singer-songwriter June 17 – Dave Concepción, Venezuelan baseball player June 19
Lea Laven, Finnish singer Phylicia Rashad, African-American actress Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
June 20 – Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru June 21
Lionel Rose, Australian boxer Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
June 22 – Todd Rundgren, American rock singer and record producer June 23
Luther Kent, American blues singer Clarence Thomas, American Supreme Court Justice
June 24 – Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player June 27 – Camile Baudoin, American rock guitarist June 28 – Kathy Bates, American actress June 29 – Fred Grandy, American actor and politician June 30 – Vladimir Yakunin, Russian official, head of state-run Russian Railways company[edit] July–August
July 1 – John Ford (musician), Best known for penning Part of the Union whilst in Strawbs July 3 – Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist July 8 – Raffi, Egyptian-born children's entertainer July 12 – Richard Simmons, American television personality and fitness expert July 15 – Richard Franklin, Australian film director (d. 2007) July 16 – Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist July 18 – Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate July 20 – Muse Watson, American actor July 21
Ed Hinton, American sportswriter Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English musician Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist Mikhail Zadornov, Russian stand-up comedian and writer
July 22 – Susan Eloise Hinton, American author July 23 – John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician July 25 – Steve Goodman, Grammy Award-winning folk music singer and songwriter (d. 1984) July 27 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater July 28 – Sally Struthers, American actress July 30
Jean Reno, French actor Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer and musician (d. 2010)
July 31 – Jonathan Dollimore, British author and professor August 1 – Jim Carroll, American author, poet and musician August 2
Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author Bob Rae, Canadian politician
August 3 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France August 13 – Kathleen Battle, American soprano August 15 – George Ryton, British Formula One engineer August 18 – Joseph Marcell, English actor August 19 – Robert Hughes (Australian actor) August 20
Robert Plant, English rock singer (Led Zeppelin) John Noble, Australian actor
August 24
Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Air Force Jean Michel Jarre, French electronic musician Sauli Niinistö, Finnish politician, president-elect of Finland
August 27 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler August 30 – Lewis Black, American comedian August 31
Cyril Jordan, American musician Holger Osieck, German football manager
[edit] September–October
September 2
Terry Bradshaw, American football player and sportscaster Nate Archibald, American basketball player
September 3
Don Brewer, American drummer (Grand Funk Railroad) Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian president (d. 2008)
September 4 – Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer September 5 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician September 7 – Susan Blakely, American actress September 8 – Great Kabuki, Japanese professional wrestler September 10
Judy Geeson, British actress Bob Lanier, American basketball player Margaret Trudeau, ex-wife of the former Prime Minister of Canada
September 11 – John Martyn, British folk-rock guitarist (d. 2009) September 13 – Nell Carter, American singer and actress (d. 2003) September 16 – Ron Blair, American bassist (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers) September 17 – John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003) September 19
Nadezhda Tkachenko, former Soviet pentathlete Jeremy Irons, English actor
September 20 – George R.R. Martin, American speculative fiction author September 22
Denis Burke, Australian politician Captain Mark Phillips, first husband of Anne, Princess Royal
September 24 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1998) September 25
Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Russian oligarch Cäcilia Rentmeister, German art historian and gender researcher
September 26 – Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer and actress September 27 – Michele Dotrice, English actress September 29
Burton Richardson, American game show announcer Mark Farner, American rock guitarist and singer (Grand Funk Railroad) Bryant Gumbel, African-American television broadcaster Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
October 1 – Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman (d. 2001) October 2
Avery Brooks, American actor and musician Persis Khambatta, Indian actress and model (d. 1998) Chris LeDoux, American singer and rodeo star (d. 2005)
October 4 – Meg Bennett, American soap opera writer October 6 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician October 7 – Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist October 8 – Johnny Ramone, American rock guitarist (Ramones) (d. 2004) October 9 – Jackson Browne, American rock musician October 11 – Cynthia Clawson, American gospel singer October 13
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (d. 1997) Ted Poe, American politician John Ford Coley, American rock musician
October 14
Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007) David Ruprecht, American actor and writer (Supermarket Sweep)
October 15 – Chris de Burgh, Irish singer (Lady in Red) October 16 – Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach October 17
George Wendt, American actor Robert Jordan, American novelist (d. 2007) Margot Kidder, Canadian actress
October 18 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher October 19 – Patrick Simmons, American musician (The Doobie Brothers) October 21
Allen Vigneron, American Catholic Archbishop of Archdiocese of Detroit Tom Everett, American actor
October 22 – Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford October 23 – Sir Gerry Robinson, Irish businessman October 25
Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
October 26 – Toby Harrah, American former baseball player October 28 – Telma Hopkins, American actress and singer October 29 – Kate Jackson, American actress[edit] November–December
November 1 – Anna Stuart, American actress November 3 – Lulu, Scottish singer and actress November 4 – Amadou Toumani Toure, former President of Mali November 5
Bob Barr, American politician Dallas Holm, American Christian musician William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 6 – Glenn Frey, American guitarist and singer (The Eagles) November 7 – Jim Houghton, American actor and director November 9 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football player and manager November 10 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005) November 13 – Humayun Ahmed Bengali language Writer. November 13 – Lockwood Smith, New Zealand politician November 14
Charles, Prince of Wales, British Prince and son of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Robert Ginty, American actor and director (d. 2009) Dee Wallace, American actress
November 15 – James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (d. 2007) November 16 – Mutt Lange, Rhodesian-born record producer November 17 – Howard Dean, American politician November 20
Richard Masur, American actor, director and former president of Screen Actor Guild John R. Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Barbara Hendricks, American-born soprano
November 21 – Michel Suleiman, current President of Lebanon November 23 – Dominique-France Picard, queen of Egypt November 24 – Joe Howard, American actor November 27 – James Avery, American actor November 28 – Agnieszka Holland, Polish director and screenwriter December 2
T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer Toninho Horta, Brazilian singer and musician
December 3
Ozzy Osbourne, English heavy metal singer Rick Cua, American singer and evangelist
December 6
Keke Rosberg, Finnish Formula One champion JoBeth Williams, American actress and director
December 7
Gary Morris, American country singer and actor Mads Vinding, Danish bassist Tony Thomas, American television producer
December 10 – Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004) December 11 – Chester Thompson, American rock drummer December 13
Lillian Board, British Olympic athlete (d. 1970) David O'List, British rock guitarist Ted Nugent, American rock guitarist and singer
December 14
Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982) Kim Beazley, Australian politician
December 19 – Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player December 21
Samuel L. Jackson, African-American actor and film producer Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician and cabaret artist
December 22
Lynne Thigpen, American actress (d. 2003) Noel Edmonds, British TV presenter and DJ Flip Mark, American child actor
December 23 – Jim Ferguson, American guitarist, composer, educator, author, and music journalist December 25 – Barbara Mandrell, American country singer December 27 – Gérard Depardieu, French actor December 28 – Dick Siegel, American songwriter December 29 – Peter Robinson, Northern Irish politician December 31
Joe Dallesandro, American model and actor Donna Summer, African-American singer and actress
[edit] Date unknown
Ciarán Carson, Northern Irish poet and novelist Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman and murder victim (d. 1995) Johnny Nicholas, American blues musician Edward Rutherfurd, British novelist
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–March
January 1 – Edna May, American actress (b. 1878) January 5 – Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison (b. 1858) January 8 – Edward Stanley Kellogg, 16th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1870) January 21 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876) January 24 – Bill Cody, American actor (b. 1891) January 29 – Tomislav II of Croatia, (Aimone 4th Duke of Aosta), king (b. 1900) January 30
Nigel De Brulier, English actor (b. 1877) Mahatma Gandhi, Leader of Indian independence movement, (assassinated) (b. 1869) Orville Wright, American co-inventor of the airplane (b. 1871)
February 1 – Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (b. 1878) February 2 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894) February 11 – Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director (b. 1898) February 23 – John Robert Gregg, Irish-born inventor of shorthand (b. 1866) February 25 – Alexander du Toit, South African geologist (b. 1878) March 4 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright, actor and director (b. 1896) March 6 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (suicide) (b. 1914) March 10
Zelda Fitzgerald, American wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900) Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1886)
March 24 – Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian religious and political philosopher (b. 1874) March 31 – Egon Erwin Kisch, Austrian journalist and author (b. 1885) May 9 – Viola Allen, stage actress, (b. 1867)[edit] April–June
April 9
George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1872) Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
April 15 – Manuel Roxas, 5th President of the Philippines (b. 1892) April 17 – KantarŠSuzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1868) April 20 – Mitsumasa Yonai, 37th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1880) April 24 – Manuel Ponce, Mexican composer (b. 1882) May 3 – Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish nobleman, assassin of Minister Ritavuori (b. 1876) May 13 – Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, American daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy and sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1920) May 15 – Father Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-born priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886) May 21 – Jacques Feyder, French filmmaker (b. 1885) May 28 – Unity Mitford, British friend of Adolf Hitler (b. 1914) May 29 – May Whitty, British actress (b. 1865) May 30 – József Klekl, Slovene politician in Hungary (b. 1874) June 6 – Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1864) June 13 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese writer (b. 1909) June 25 – William C. Lee, American general (b. 1895) June 26 – Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (murder) (b. 1924)[edit] July–September
July 2 – Baba Sawan Singh, Indian saint known as "The Great Master," (b. 1858) July 5
Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888) Carole Landis, American actress player (b. 1919)
July 9 – James Baskett, American actor (Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South) (d. 1948) (b. 1904) July 11 – King Baggot, American actor (b. 1879) July 15 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860) July 18 – May Moss, Australian women's rights activist (b. 1869) July 21 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter (b. 1904) July 23 – David Wark Griffith, American film director (The Birth Of A Nation) (b. 1875) July 27 – Susan Glaspell, American playwright (b. 1882) July 31 – Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd, Franklin Roosevelt's lover (b. 1891) August 3 – Tommy Ryan, American boxing champion (b. 1870) August 10
Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian (b. 1873) Andrew Brown, Scottish soccer coach (b. 1870)
August 12 – Harry Brearley, English inventor of stainless steel (b. 1871) August 16 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (b. 1895) August 17 – Ettie Garner, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1869) August 27 – Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1862) September 1 – Muhammad VII al-Munsif, ruler of Tunisia 1942–43 (b. 1881) September 2 – Sylvanus G. Morley, American scholar and World War I spy (b. 1883) September 3 – Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884) September 5 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881) September 10 – Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Tsar of Bulgaria (b. 1861) September 11 – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder and first Governor General of Pakistan (b. 1876) September 12 – Rupert D'Oyly Carte, English hotelier, theatre owner and impresario (b. 1876) September 17 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1895) September 20 – Husain Salaahuddin, Famous Mahl writer (b. 1881) September 24 – Warren William, American actor (b. 1894) September 26 – Gregg Toland, American cinematographer (b. 1904) September 30 – Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1861)[edit] October–December
October 1 – Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, Prime Minister of Siam (b. 1884) October 12 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs, British educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885) October 13 – Samuel S. Hinds, American actor (b. 1875) October 15 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863) October 21 – Elissa Landi, Italian actress (b. 1904) October 24 – Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer (b. 1870) October 31 – Mary Nolan, American actress (b. 1905) November 9 – Edgar Kennedy, American actor (b. 1890) November 11 – Fred Niblo, American film director (b. 1874) November 28 – D.D. Sheehan, Irish politician (b. 1873) December 2 – Chano Pozo, Cuban percussionist (b. 1915) December 20 – C. Aubrey Smith, British actor (b. 1863) December 23 – Japanese war leaders (hanged):
Kenji Doihara, spy (b. 1883) Koki Hirota, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878) HeitarÅ Kimura, general (b. 1888) Iwane Matsui, general (b. 1878) Akira MutÅ, general (b. 1892) SeishirÅ Itagaki, military officer (b. 1885) Hideki Tojo, general, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1884)
December 31 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land and water racer (b. 1885)[edit] Nobel Prizes
Physics – Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett Chemistry – Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius Medicine – Paul Hermann Müller Literature – T. S. Eliot Peace – not awarded
[edit] References
^ Moore, P. (1995) The Guinness book of astronomy (5th ed.) Enfield, UK: Guinness Publishing. p. 110. ^ "Brampton's largest flood left its watery mark". The Brampton Guardian. 2008-03-10. http://thebramptonguardian.com/brampton/news/article/44736. Retrieved 2008-03-10. [dead link] ^ http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-brutal-murder-begins-an-unusual-investigation ^ http://www.accj.or.jp/history ^ Guinness book of world records. 2008. p. 137.
