Year '1928' ('
MCMXXVIII') was a
leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1928
January
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January 1 -
Estonia changes its currency from
mark to
kroon.
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January 6-
7 -
River Thames floods in London - 14 drowned.
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January 7 -
Moat at the
Tower of London, previously drained in
1843 (and planted with grass), is completely refilled by a tidal wave.
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January 12 - U.S. murderer
Ruth Snyder executed at
Ossining.
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January 17 -
OGPU arrests
Lev Trotsky in
Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled to
Turkestan.
February
★ February -
Kurume University (
Japan) established
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February 11 -
II Olympic Winter Games open in
St. Moritz,
Switzerland
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February 12 - Heavy
hail kills 11 in
England
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February 20 - Swung parliament produced in
Japan after the
general election.
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February 25 -
Charles Jenkins Laboratories of
Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a
television license from the
Federal Radio Commission.
March
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March 12
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Malta becomes a British
dominion
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★ In
California, the
St. Francis Dam north of
Los Angeles fails killing 400
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March 21 -
Charles Lindbergh is presented the
Medal of Honor for his first trans-
Atlantic flight.
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March 26 -
China Academy of Art founded in Hangzhou in
Republic of China, first named
National Academy of Art
April
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April 10 -
Pineapple Primary -
Republican Party primary elections in
Chicago preceded by assassinations and bombings
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April 12 - Bomb attack against the Dictator of Italy in Milan - 17 bystanders dead
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April 22 -
Earthquake destroys
Corinth - 200.000 buildings destroyed
May
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May 10 - The first regular schedule of television programming begins in
Schenectady,
New York by the
General Electric's television station
W2XB (the station was popularly known as WGY Television; after its sister radio station,
WGY).
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May 15
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Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, commenced operations
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★ Release of the
animated short Plane Crazy, featuring the first appearances of
Mickey and
Minnie Mouse.
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May 23 - Bomb attack against Italian consulate in
Buenos Aires - 22 dead, 41 injured
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May 24 -
Airship ''Italia'' crashes on the
North Pole; one of the occupants is Italian general
Umberto Nobile
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May 30 - A rescue expedition leaves for the North Pole
June
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June 4 -
Zhang Zuolin,
President of the Republic of China and warlord, is killed by Japanese agents during the
Huanggutun Incident.
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June 8 - By seizing
Beijing and renaming it Běipíng, the
NRA puts an end to the
Fengtian warlords'
Běiyáng government there.
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June 11 - Medical doctor's strike begins in
Vienna
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June 14 - Students take over the medical wing of
Rosario University in
Argentina
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June 17 - Aviator
Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to successfully pilot an
aircraft across the
Atlantic Ocean (she succeeded the next day).
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June 20 - Shooting incident in
Yugoslavian parliament -
Punica Rasic shoots 3 opposition representatives and injures three others
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June 24 - Swedish aeroplane rescues part of Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile. Soviet icebreaker ''Krasin'' saves the rest
July 12
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June 28 - The
Great Gorge and International Railway switches to one-man crews for its
trolleys in
Canada.
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June 29 -
New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first
Catholic nominated by a major political party for
U.S. President, at the
Democratic National Convention in
Houston, Texas.
July
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July 2
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Jenkins Laboratories'
W3XK station begins broadcasting on 6.42
MHz using 48 lines.
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★ The
Representation of the People Act 1928 becomes law, extending the right to vote to all women in the
United Kingdom.
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July 6 - The world's largest
hailstone falls in
Potter, Nebraska.
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July 12 -
Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza dies in a solo plane crash in the
New Jersey Pine Barrens while returning from a goodwill flight to
New York City.
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July 17 -
José de León Toral assassinates
Álvaro Obregón, president of
Mexico.
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July 25 -
U.S.A. recalls its troops from
China
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July 27 -
Tich Freeman becomes only
bowler ever to take 200
first-class wickets before end of July.
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July 28 - Official opening ceremony of the
1928 Summer Olympics in
Amsterdam.
August
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August 16 - Murderer
Carl Panzram is arrested in
Washington, DC after killing about 20 people.
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August 22 -
Alfred E. Smith accepts the
Democratic presidential nomination, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television.
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August 25 -
Ahmet Zogu proclaims himself ''King Zog I'' of
Albania; he is crowned
September 1
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August 26 - May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her gingerbeer, launching
Donoghue v. Stevenson.
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August 27 - The
Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in
Paris - it was the first treaty which outlawed aggressive war.
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August 29 -
Club Deportivo Motagua of Honduras is founded.
September
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September 1 -
Richard Byrd leaves New York for Arctic.
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September 3 -
Alexander Fleming discovers
Penicillin.
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September 11 -
Kenmore's
WMAK station starts broadcasting in
Buffalo, New York.
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September 15 -
Tich Freeman sets all-time record for number of wickets taken in an English
cricket season.
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September 16 - The
1928 Okeechobee Hurricane kills at least 2,500 people in
Florida.
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September 25 -
Motorola is founded.
October
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October 2 -
Saint Josemaria Escriva, founds
Opus Dei
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October 7 -
Haile Selassie crowned king (not yet emperor) of
Abyssinia
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October 12 - An
iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital,
Boston.
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October 19 -
William Edward Hickman is executed at
San Quentin prison for the 1927 murder of
Marian Parker.
November
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November 4 - At Park Central Hotel in
Manhattan,
Arnold Rothstein,
New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a
poker game.
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November 6
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Swedes start a tradition of eating
Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the old warrior king.
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U.S. presidential election, 1928:
Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over
Democrat Alfred E. Smith.
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November 10 -
Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of
Japan.
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November 17 - The
Boston Garden opens in
Boston.
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November 18 -
Mickey Mouse appears in
Steamboat Willie, the first sound cartoon.
December
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December 3 - In
Rio de Janeiro, a
seaplane sent to greet
Alberto Santos-Dumont crashed near
Cap Arcona, killing all on board.
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December 5 - Police disperses Sicilian gangs' meeting in
Cleveland
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December 21 - U.S. Congress approves the construction of The Boulder Dam, later renamed The
Hoover Dam
Undated
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Coca Cola enters Europe through the Amsterdam Olympics.
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Eliot Ness begins to lead the
prohibition unit in
Chicago.
★ The old
Canaanite city of
Ugarit is rediscovered.
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Turkey switches from the
Arabic to the
Latin-based modern
Turkish alphabet.
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Frederick Griffith conducts
Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving existence of
DNA.
★ First (and last)
Best Title Writing Academy Award given.
★ The
Episcopal Church in the United States of America ratifies a new revision of the
Book of Common Prayer.
★ W2XBS,
RCA's first television station, is established in
New York City.
★ Australian farmer, Jack Trott, finds
Rhizanthella gardneri in his garden.
★ The first patent for the
transistor principle was registered in
Germany to
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld.
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World population reaches 2 billion.
Births
January-February
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January 2
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Robert Goralski - American journalist at
Voice of America,
NBC News (d.
1988)
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Daisaku Ikeda - Japanese President of the Nichiren Buddhist religious organization, the
Soka Gakkai International
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January 5
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Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto,
President of Pakistan and
Prime Minister of Pakistan (d.
1979)
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Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate
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January 6 -
George H. Ross, American senior vice president of Trump Organization
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January 7 -
William Peter Blatty, American writer
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January 10 -
Philip Levine, American poet
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January 11 -
David L. Wolper, American television producer
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January 16 -
William Kennedy, American author
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January 17
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Jean Barraqué, French composer (d.
1973)
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Vidal Sassoon, English hairdresser
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January 23 -
Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player (d.
2005)
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January 23 -
Jeanne Moreau, French actress
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January 24 -
Desmond Morris, English anthropologist and writer
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January 26 -
Roger Vadim, French film director (d.
2000)
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January 30 -
Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
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February 5 -
Andrew Greeley, American Catholic priest and novelist
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February 9
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Frank Frazetta, American illustrator
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Roger Mudd, American journalist
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February 22 -
Bruce Forsyth, English entertainer
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February 23 -
Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d.
1990)
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February 23 -
Ralph Earnhardt, American Race car driver (d.
1973)
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February 26
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Fats Domino, American musician
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Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
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February 27 -
Ariel Sharon,
Prime Minister of Israel
March-April
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March 4
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Samuel Adler, American composer
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Alan Sillitoe, English writer
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March 6 -
Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate
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March 8 -
Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d.
1990)
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March 10 -
James Earl Ray, American assassin (d.
1998)
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March 12 -
Edward Albee, American dramatist
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March 16 -
Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
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March 19
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Hans Küng, Swiss theologian
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Patrick McGoohan, Irish actor
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March 20 -
Fred Rogers, American children's television host (d.
2003)
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March 24 -
Byron Janis, American pianist
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March 25 -
Jim Lovell, astronaut
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March 28 -
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born U.S. National Security Advisor
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March 31
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Gordie Howe, Canadian hockey player
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Lefty Frizzell, American country music performer
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April 1
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Jane Powell, American dancer, actress, and singer
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George Grizzard, American actor
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April 2 -
Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d.
1991)
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April 4 -
Maya Angelou, American poet and novelist
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April 6 -
James D. Watson, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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April 7
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James Garner, American actor
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★
Alan J. Pakula, American producer and director (d.
1998)
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★
James White, Irish writer (d.
1999)
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April 8 -
Eric Porter, English actor (d.
1995)
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April 9 -
Tom Lehrer, American songwriter
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April 12 -
Jean-François Paillard, French conductor
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April 19
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★
Alexis Korner, British musician (d.
1984)
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Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, King of Malaysia
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April 23 -
Shirley Temple, American actress and politician
May-June
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May 1 -
Desmond Titterington, Irish race car driver (d.
2002)
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May 3 -
Dave Dudley, American singer (d.
2003)
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May 4
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Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter (d.
2006)
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Hosni Mubarak,
President of Egypt
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May 8 -
Theodore Sorenson, American lawyer and speechwriter
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May 9
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Colin Chapman, English automotive engineer (d.
1982)
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Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d.
1995)
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Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater
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May 12 -
Burt Bacharach, American composer
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May 13 -
Jim Shoulders, American rodeo cowboy
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May 16 -
Billy Martin, baseball player and manager (d.
1989)
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May 18 -
Pernell Roberts, American actor
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May 23 -
Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d.
2002)
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May 26 -
Jack Kevorkian, American physician
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June 1
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★
Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut (d.
1971)
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★
Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (d.
2003)
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June 9 -
Jackie Mason, - American comedian
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June 12 -
Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter
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June 13 -
John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Economics
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June 14 -
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, Argentine-born revolutionary (d.
1967)
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June 19 -
Nancy Marchand, American actress (d.
2000)
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Martin Landau, -American actor
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June 25 -
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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June 26 -
Jacob Druckman, American composer (d.
1996)
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June 28 -
Harold Evans, British newspaper editor
July-August
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July 5 -
Warren Oates, American actor (d.
1982)
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July 10 -
Moshe Greenberg, America Bible scholar
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July 11 -
Bobo Olson, American boxer (d.
2002)
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July 12 -
Elias James Corey, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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July 13 -
Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (d.
1999)
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July 16 -
Robert Sheckley, American writer
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July 25 -
Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d.
2005)
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July 26
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★
Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d.
1999)
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★
Bernice Rubens, British novelist (d.
2004)
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August 6 -
Andy Warhol, American artist (d.
1987)
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August 7 -
James Randi, Canadian magician
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August 10 -
Eddie Fisher, American singer
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August 12 -
Bob Buhl, baseball player (d.
2001)
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August 15 -
Nicolas Roeg, English film director
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August 18 -
Marge Schott, baseball team owner (d.
2004)
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August 25 -
Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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August 26 -
Zdeněk Veselovský, legendary Czech zoologist (d.
2006)
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August 31
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★
Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipinio Catholic cardinal (d.
2005)
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★
James Coburn, American actor (d.
2002)
September-October
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September 3 -
Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician and Prime Minister (d.
2007)
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September 6 -
Robert M. Pirsig, American philosopher and author
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September 11 -
William Kienzle, American author (d.
2001)
★
September 15 -
Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist
★
September 19 -
Adam West, American actor (famous for playing ''
Batman'')
★
September 20 -
Donald Hall, American poet and
US Poet Laureate
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September 22 -
James Lawson, American civil rights activist and minister
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September 30 -
Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, writer, and lecturer, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
★
October 1 -
George Peppard, American actor (d.
1994)
★
October 7 -
Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d.
1980)
★
October 8 -
Bill Maynard, British actor
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October 9 -
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
★
October 15 -
Paul Giambarba, American graphic designer
★
October 30 -
Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1999)
November-December
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November 3
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Osamu Tezuka, Japanese artist (d.
1989)
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★
George Yardley, American basketball player (d.
2004)
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November 9 -
Anne Sexton, American poet (d.
1974)
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November 10 -
Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
★
November 11 -
Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
★
November 17 -
Rance Howard, American actor
★
November 18 -
Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer
★
November 29 -
Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (d.
2003)
★
November 30 -
Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach
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December 7 -
Noam Chomsky, American linguist
★
December 15 -
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d.
2000)
★
December 16 -
Philip K. Dick, American author (d.
1982)
★
December 25 -
Dick Miller, American actor
★
December 30 -
Bo Diddley, American musician
★
December 31 -
Siné, French cartoonist
Unknown date
★
Norman Carlberg, American sculptor
Deaths
January - June
★
January 1 -
Loie Fuller, American dancer (b.
1862)
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January 6 -
Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b.
1876)
★
January 11 -
Thomas Hardy, English writer (b.
1840)
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January 21 -
Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b.
1880)
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January 29 -
Douglas Haig, British soldier (b.
1861)
★
January 30 -
Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1867)
★
February 1 -
Hughie Jennings, baseball player (b.
1869)
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February 4 -
Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1853)
★
February 15 -
Herbert Henry Asquith,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1852)
★
February 16 -
Eddie Foy, American vaudevillian (b.
1856)
★
March 7 -
Robert Abbe - American surgeon (b.
1851)
★
April 2 -
Theodore William Richards, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1868)
★
April 5 -
Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b.
1890)
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April 19 -
Dorus Rijkers, famous Dutch sailor and savior of over 500 men, women and children (b.
1847)
★
May 22 -
Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (b.
1904)
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June 4
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★
Emmeline Pankhurst, women's suffrage campaigner (b.
1858)
★
★
Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord (b.
1873)
★
June 16 -
Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (b.
1867)
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June 22 -
A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b.
1851)
July - December
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August 12 -
Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b.
1854)
★
August 30 -
Wilhelm Wien, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1864)
★
October 13 -
Dagmar of Denmark, later 'Maria Fyodorovna', wife of
Tsar Alexander III and Empress Consort of Russia (b.
1847)
★
October 22 -
Andrew Fisher, fifth
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1862)
★
October 31 -
John William Wood Sr., North Carolinan politician, founder of
Benson, North Carolina (b.
1855)
★
December 1 -
José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b.
1888)
★
December 10 -
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect (b.
1868)
★
December 17 -
Eglantyne Jebb - English co-founder of Save the Children, and champion of children's human rights (b.
1876)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Owen Willans Richardson
★
Chemistry -
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
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Physiology or Medicine -
Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
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Literature -
Sigrid Undset
★
Peace - not awarded
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