1927

This article is about the year 1927. For the Australian band, see 1927 (band). For other uses, see 1927 (disambiguation).

1927

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November

December

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years:	1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930

1927 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1927 MCMXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2680
Armenian calendar	1376 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԶ
Assyrian calendar	6677
Baháʼí calendar	83–84
Balinese saka calendar	1848–1849
Bengali calendar	1334
Berber calendar	2877
British Regnal year	17 Geo. 5 – 18 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2471
Burmese calendar	1289
Byzantine calendar	7435–7436
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4624 or 4417     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4625 or 4418
Coptic calendar	1643–1644
Discordian calendar	3093
Ethiopian calendar	1919–1920
Hebrew calendar	5687–5688
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1983–1984
- Shaka Samvat	1848–1849
- Kali Yuga	5027–5028
Holocene calendar	11927
Igbo calendar	927–928
Iranian calendar	1305–1306
Islamic calendar	1345–1346
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 2 (昭和２年)
Javanese calendar	1857–1858
Juche calendar	16
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4260
Minguo calendar	ROC 16 民國16年
Nanakshahi calendar	459
Thai solar calendar	2469–2470
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 2053 or 1672 or 900     — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 2054 or 1673 or 901

1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1927th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 927th year of the 2nd millennium, the 27th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1920s decade.

Events

January

Main article: January 1927

• January 1
  • The Cristero War erupts in Mexico, when Catholic rebels attack the government, which had placed heavy restrictions on the Catholic Church.
  • The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation, when it is granted a Royal Charter of incorporation. John Reith becomes the first Director-General.
• January 7
  • The first transatlantic telephone call is made via radio from New York City to London.
  • The Harlem Globetrotters play their first ever road game in Hinckley, Illinois.
• January 9
  • A military rebellion is crushed in Lisbon, Portugal.
  • A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
• January 10 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
• January 11 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
• January 15 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first sports commentary on BBC Radio.
• January 19 – Great Britain sends troops to China, to protect foreign nationals from spreading anti-foreign riots in central China.
• January 24 – U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua by orders of President Calvin Coolidge, intervening in the Nicaraguan Civil War, and remaining in the country until 1933.
• January 30 – Right-wing veterans and the Republikanischer Schutzbund clash in Schattendorf, Austria, with two fatalities resulting (see also July 15).

February

Main article: February 1927

• February – Werner Heisenberg formulates his famous uncertainty principle, while employed as a lecturer at Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics, at the University of Copenhagen.
• February 12 – The first British troops land in Shanghai.
• February 14 – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake, with a maximum MSK intensity of VII–VIII (Very strong – Damaging), kills 50 in Yugoslavia.
• February 19
  • A general strike in Shanghai protests the presence of British troops.
  • In the United States, the silent romantic comedy film It starring Clara Bow, is released, popularising the concept of the "It girl".
• February 23 – The U.S. Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.

March

Main article: March 1927

• March 4 – A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes, who have been hired by major companies to stake claims.
• March 6 – In Britain, 1,000 people a week die from an influenza epidemic.
• March 7 – 1927 Kita Tango earthquake: A 7.0 M_w  earthquake kills at least 2,925 in the Toyooka and Mineyama areas of western Honshu, in Japan.
• March 10 – Albania mobilizes in case of an attack by Yugoslavia.
• March 11
  • In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel.
  • The first armored car robbery is committed by the Flatheads Gang, near Pittsburgh.
• March 24 – Nanking Incident: After six foreigners have been killed in Nanking, and it appears that Kuomintang and Communist Party of China forces will overrun the foreign consulates, warships of the U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy fire shells and shot to disperse the crowds.
• March 29 – Henry Segrave breaks the land speed record, driving the Sunbeam 1000 hp at Daytona Beach, Florida.

April

Main article: April 1927

• April 1 – The U.S. Bureau of Prohibition is founded (under the Department of the Treasury).
• April 5 – In Britain, the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 forbids strikes of support.
• April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
• April 12
  • The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.
  • April 12 Incident (Shanghai Massacre): Kuomintang troops kill a number of communist-supporting workers in Shanghai. The 1st United Front between the Nationalists and Communist ends, and the Civil War lasting until 1949 begins.
• April 14 – The first Volvo automobile rolls off the production line in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• April 18 – The Kuomintang (Nationalist Chinese) set up a government in Nanking, China.
• April 21 – A banking crisis hits Japan.
• April 22–May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people, in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time.
• April 23 – Cardiff City wins the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1-0; as of 2017, this remains the only time a team from outside England has won the competition.
• April 27
  • The Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
  • João Ribeiro de Barros becomes the first non-European to make a transatlantic flight, flying from Genoa, Italy, to Fernando de Noronha, Brazil.

May

Main article: May 1927

• May – Philo Farnsworth of the United States transmits his first experimental electronic television motion pictures, as opposed to the electromechanical TV systems that others have used before.
• May 9 – The Australian Parliament convenes for the first time in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Previously, the Parliament had met in Melbourne, Victoria.
• May 11 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the "Academy" in "Academy Awards", is founded.
• May 12 – British police officers raid the office of the Soviet trade delegation in London.
• May 13 – King George V proclaims the change of his title, from King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
• May 17 – U.S. Army aviation pioneer Major Harold Geiger dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 airplane, at Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania.
• May 18 – Bath School disaster: A series of violent attacks results in 45 deaths, mostly of school children, in Bath Township, Michigan.
• May 20 – By the Treaty of Jeddah, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of Ibn Saud over the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, the future Saudi Arabia.
• May 20–21– Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic airplane flight, from New York City to Paris, France, in his single-engined aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.
• May 22 – The 7.6 M_w  Gulang earthquake affects Gansu in northwest China with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), leaving over 40,000 dead.
• May 23 – Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view a live demonstration of television at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City, just over a year after John Logie Baird of Scotland had first demonstrated an electromechanical television system to the members of the Royal Society in London.
• May 24 – The United Kingdom cuts its diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, due to revelations of espionage and underground agitation.

May 20: Solo flight New York to Paris

June

Main article: June 1927

• June – The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau begins to form in the Sunda Strait of Indonesia.
• June 4 – Yugoslavia severs diplomatic relations with Albania.
• June 4–6–; Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Albert Levine take off from Roosevelt Field, New York, and fly to Eisleben, Germany, in the Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia aircraft Miss Columbia, two weeks after Charles Lindbergh's historic solo flight.
• June 7 – Pyotr Voykov, the Soviet ambassador to Poland, is murdered.
• June 9 – The Soviet Union executes 20 for alleged espionage.
• June 13
  • Léon Daudet, the leader of the French monarchists, is arrested in France.
  • A ticker tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh, down Fifth Avenue in New York City.
• June 28 – Spanish airline Iberia is established.
• June 29 – Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927: A total eclipse of the sun takes place over Wales, northern England, southern Scotland, Norway, northern Sweden, northmost Finland, and the northmost extremes of Russia.
• June 29–July 1– Commander Richard E. Byrd, Bernt Balchen, George Noville, and Bert Acosta take off from Roosevelt Field, New York, in the Fokker Trimotor airplane America, and cross the Atlantic to the coast of France, having to ditch there because of bad weather; all four men survive the emergency landing.

July

Main article: July 1927

• July 1 – The Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration (FDIA) is established as a United States federal agency.
• July 10 – Kevin O'Higgins, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State and Minister for Justice, is assassinated by the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army in Dublin.
• July 11 – The 1927 Jericho earthquake strikes Palestine, killing around 300 people. The effects are especially severe in Nablus, but damage and fatalities are also reported in many areas of Palestine and Transjordan, such as Amman, Salt, Jordan, and Lydda.
• July 13 (Wednesday, Tamuz 13, 5687): 12:30 – Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn is freed from the imprisonment which began on June 15 (Wednesday, Sivan 15, 5687) at 02:15 in exile, in the Russian town of Kostroma.
• July 15 – July Revolt of 1927: After police in Vienna fire on an angry crowd, 85 protesters (mostly members of the Social Democratic Party of Austria) and 5 policemen are left dead; more than 600 people are injured.
• July 24 – The Menin Gate is dedicated as a war memorial at Ypres, Belgium.

August

Main article: August 1927

• August 1 – The Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army is formed, during the Nanchang Uprising.
• August 2
  • U.S. President Calvin Coolidge announces, "I do not choose to run for president in 1928."
  • American electrical engineer Harold Stephen Black invents the negative-feedback amplifier.
• August 7 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
• August 10 – The Mount Rushmore Park is rededicated. President Calvin Coolidge promises national funding for the proposed carving of the presidential figures.
• August 22 – 200 people demonstrate in Hyde Park, London, against the death sentencing of Italian immigrant anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti.
• August 23 – Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
• August 24 – August 25 – The Hurricane hits the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, causing massive damage and at least 56 deaths.
• August 26 – Paul R. Redfern leaves Brunswick, Georgia, flying his Stinson Detroiter "Port of Brunswick", to attempt a solo nonstop flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He later crashes in the Venezuelan jungle, but the crash site is never found.

September

Main article: September 1927

• September – The Autumn Harvest Uprising occurs in China.
• September 7
  • The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Brazil.
  • The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
• September 18 – The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed, and goes on the air with 47 radio stations.
• September 25 – A treaty signed by the League of Nations Slavery Commission abolishes all types of slavery.
• September 27 – The East St. Louis Tornado kills 79 and injures 550, the 2nd costliest and at least 24th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.

October

Main article: October 1927

• October – The Fifth Solvay Conference, held in the latter half of the month, establishes the acceptance of the Copenhagen interpretation.
• October 4 – Carving of the sculptures at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota begins.
• October 6 – The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, premieres at the Warner Theater in New York City. Although not the first sound film, and containing very little recorded speech, it is the first to become a box-office hit, popularizing "talkies" (although silent films continue to be made for some time).
• October 8 – The "Murderers' Row" team of the New York Yankees complete a four-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series baseball championship in the United States.
• October 9 – The Mexican government crushes a rebellion in Veracruz.
• October 18 – The first flight of Pan American Airways takes off from Key West, Florida, bound for Havana, Cuba.
• October 25 – The Italian ocean liner Principessa Mafalda capsizes off Porto Seguro, Brazil; at least 314 people are killed.
• October 27
  • Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen, Holland.
  • At 5:50 a.m. a ground fault gives way, causing the mine and part of the town of Worthington to collapse into a large chasm located in Ontario. Nobody is injured in the incident, as the area has been evacuated the night before after a mine foreman noticed abnormal rock shifts in the mine.

November

Main article: November 1927

• November 1 – İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (the 5th government).
• November 3–4 – Floods devastating Vermont cause the "worst natural disaster in the state's history".
• November 4 – Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen return to Washington, D.C., having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 of the states (of this time).
• November 12
  • Mahatma Gandhi makes his first and last visit to Ceylon.
  • Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
  • The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic, as the first vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River, linking New Jersey with New York City.
• November 14 – Pittsburgh gasometer explosion: Three Equitable Gas storage tanks in the North Side of Pittsburgh explode, killing 26 people and causing damage estimated between $4.0 million and $5.0 million.
• November 21 – The Colorado state police open fire on 500 rowdy but unarmed miners during a strike, killing 6.

December

Main article: December 1927

• December – The Communist Party Congress condemns all deviation from the general party line in the USSR.
• December 1 – Chiang Kai-shek marries Soong Mei-ling in Shanghai.
• December 2 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
• December 3 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
• December 14 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• December 15 – Marion Parker, 12, is kidnapped in Los Angeles. Her dismembered body is found on December 19, prompting the largest manhunt to date on the West Coast for her killer, William Edward Hickman, who is arrested on December 22 in Oregon.
• December 17 – United States Navy submarine S-4 is accidentally rammed and sunk by United States Coast Guard cutter John Paulding off Provincetown, Massachusetts, killing everyone aboard despite several unsuccessful attempts to raise the submarine.
• December 19 – Three members of the revolutionary movement for Indian independence – Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Thakur Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan – are executed by the British Raj. Rajendra Nath Lahiri has been executed two days before.
• December 20 – Letalski center Maribor is established in Maribor; it will be the oldest surviving operating major flying club in the Balkans.
• December 27 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play, Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on Broadway and then goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theater.
• December 30 – The first Asian commuter metro line, the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, opens in Japan.

Date unknown

• The Voluntary Committee of Lawyers is founded, to bring about the Repeal of Prohibition in the United States.
• World population reaches two billion.

Births

January

Barbara Rush

Johnnie Ray

Olof Palme

• January 1
  • Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Doak Walker, American football player (d. 1998)
• January 2 – Robert Alt, Swiss bobsledder (d. 2017)
• January 4 – Barbara Rush, American actress
• January 5 – Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, American-born Hindu guru (d. 2001)
• January 8 – Tim Flood, Irish hurler (d. 2014)
• January 10
  • Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (d. 2003)
  • Arthur Kramer, American lawyer (d. 2008)
  • Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
  • Otto Stich, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2012)
• January 13
  • Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
  • Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• January 15 – Kirti Nidhi Bista, Nepali politician (d. 2017)
• January 17
  • Thomas Anthony Dooley III, American physician, humanitarian (d. 1961)
  • Eartha Kitt, African-American actress, singer (d. 2008)
• January 20
  • Dawn Lake, Australian entertainer (d. 2006)
  • Richard Ho Ung Hun, Malaysian civil servant (d. 2008)
• January 23
  • Robert L. Butler, former mayor of Marion, Illinois
  • Ernest Hawkins, American football coach (d. 2018)
• January 24
  • Marvin Kaplan, American actor (d. 2016)
  • Lasse Pöysti, Finnish writer, playwright
• January 25
  • Marian Brown, American celebrity icon (d. 2013)
  • Vivian Brown, American celebrity icon (d. 2014)
  • Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (d. 1994)
  • Gregg Palmer, American actor (d. 2015)
• January 26 – José Azcona del Hoyo, 26th President of Honduras (d. 2005)
• January 27 – Bob DeMoss, American football player (d. 2017)
• January 28
  • Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (d. 2010)
  • Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
• January 29
  • Edward Abbey, American environmentalist (d. 1989)
  • Lewis Urry, Canadian inventor (d. 2004)
• January 30
  • Roberto Gottardi, Italian architect (d. 2017)
  • Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
  • Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (d. 2005)

February

Sidney Poitier

Emmanuelle Riva

• February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet (d. 2014)
• February 2
  • Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991)
  • Doris Sams, American female professional baseball player (d. 2012)
• February 3
  • Val Doonican, Irish singer, entertainer (d. 2015)
  • Sarah Jiménez, Mexican artist (d. 2017)
  • Blas Ople, Filipino politician (d. 2003)
  • Joseph A. Palaia, American politician (d. 2016)
  • Vasant Sarwate, Indian cartoonist, writer (d. 2016)
• February 4
  • Enrique Cárdenas González, Mexican politician (d. 2018)
  • Horst Ehmke, German lawyer, law professor and politician (d. 2017)
• February 7 – Juliette Gréco, French singer, actress
• February 8 – George Taliaferro, American football player (d. 2018)
• February 10
  • Alma Adamkienė, former First Lady of Lithuania
  • Leontyne Price, African-American soprano
• February 11
  • Nalda Bird, American female professional baseball player (d. 2004)
  • Michel Sénéchal, French tenor (d. 2018)
  • Robert Squires, British Royal Navy officer (d. 2016)
• February 12 – Rita Meyer, American female professional baseball player (d. 1992)
• February 13 – Buck Hill, American jazz tenor, soprano saxophonist (d. 2017)
• February 15
  • Dinu C. Giurescu, Romanian historian, politician (d. 2018)
  • Harvey Korman, American actor, comedian (d. 2008)
• February 16 – June Brown, British actress
• February 17 – John Selfridge, American mathematician (d. 2010)
• February 18 – John Warner, American politician
• February 20
  • Roy Cohn, American lawyer, anti-Communist (d. 1986)
  • Sidney Poitier, Bermudan-American actor, film director
• February 21
  • Patricia Benoit, American actress (d. 2018)
  • Erma Bombeck, American writer, humorist (d. 1996)
  • Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (d. 2018)
• February 22 – Emil Bobu, Romanian Communist activist, politician (d. 2014)
• February 23
  • Régine Crespin, French operatic soprano (d. 2007)
  • Mirtha Legrand, Argentinian actress, television presenter
  • Silvia Legrand, Argentinian actress
• February 24
  • Mark Lane, American conspiracy theorist (d. 2016)
  • Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (d. 2017)
  • Ernst Sieber, Swiss pastor (d. 2018)
• February 25
  • Dick Jones, American actor, singer (d. 2014)
  • Ralph Stanley, American bluegrass banjo player, vocalist (d. 2016)
• February 26 – Tom Kennedy, American game show host

March

Harry Belafonte

Jack Cassidy

James Broderick

Gabriel García Márquez

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Cesar Chavez

• March 1
  • George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor at UCLA, science popularizer, and skeptic (d. 1983)
  • Harry Belafonte, African-American musician, actor
  • Robert Bork, American conservative law professor (d. 2012)
  • George Davies, English footballer
• March 2 – Roger Walkowiak, French road bicycle racer (d. 2017)
• March 3
  • Christian Menn, Swiss bridge architect (d. 2018)
  • Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2016)
• March 4
  • Philip Batt, 29th Governor of the U.S. state of Idaho
  • Thayer David, American actor (d. 1978)
  • Robert Orben, American comedy writer
  • Dick Savitt, American tennis player
• March 5
  • Jack Cassidy, American stage, screen and television actor (d. 1976)
  • Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, Scottish politician
  • Jan Snoeck, Dutch sculptor and ceramist (d. 2018)
• March 6
  • William J. Bell, American soap creator (d. 2005)
  • Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (d. 2004)
  • Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
• March 7 – James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
• March 8
  • Dick Hyman, American composer, pianist
  • Stanisław Kania, Polish communist politician
• March 9 – Julian Tudor Hart, British physician, writer (d. 2018)
• March 10
  • Jupp Derwall, German football player, manager (d. 2007)
  • Bill Fischer, American football offensive lineman (d. 2017)
• March 11
  • Joachim Fuchsberger, German-Australian actor, television host, lyricist and businessman (d. 2014)
  • Ron Todd, British trade union leader (d. 2005)
• March 12 – Raúl Alfonsín, former President of Argentina (d. 2009)
• March 13
  • Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005)
  • Jozef Zlatňanský, Czech Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2017)
• March 15
  • Annastasia Batikis, Greek-American female professional baseball player (d. 2016)
  • Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs, German journalist (d. 1995)
• March 16
  • Vladimir Komarov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1967)
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American author, politician, and statesman (d. 2003)
• March 17
  • Roberto Suazo Córdova, President of Honduras
  • John Kander, American composer
• March 18 – George Plimpton, American writer, actor (d. 2003)
• March 20
  • John Joubert, South African–born British composer
  • Earlene Risinger, American professional baseball player (d. 2008)
• March 21 – Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician (d. 2016)
• March 23 – Mato Damjanović, Croatian chess grandmaster (d. 2011)
• March 24 – Martin Walser, German author
• March 25
  • Tina Anselmi, Italian politician (d. 2016)
  • Bill Barilko, Canadian hockey player (d. 1951)
  • Monique van Vooren, Belgian-American actress
• March 26
  • Tom Christie, English doctor, rower
  • Robert Rosencrans, American public affairs television network pioneer (d. 2016)
  • Palle Sørensen, Danish convicted murderer (d. 2018)
• March 27
  • Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist, conductor (d. 2007)
  • Karl Stotz, Austrian football player (d. 2017)
• March 29 – John Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• March 30 – Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster, English politician, civil servant
• March 31
  • César Chávez, American labor activist, United Farm Workers founder (d. 1993)
  • William Daniels, American actor
  • Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Spanish cardinal

April

Ferenc Puskás

Éva Székely

Pope Benedict XVI

Margot Honecker

Coretta Scott King

• April 1
  • Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer, manager (d. 2006)
  • Peter Cundall, Australian horticulturist, television presenter
  • Walter Bahr, American soccer player (d. 2018)
  • Maria Eugénia, Portuguese actress (d. 2016)
• April 2
  • Rita Gam, American actress (d. 2016)
  • Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (d. 1980)
• April 3
  • Richard Haynes, American lawyer (d. 2017)
  • Éva Székely, Hungarian swimmer
• April 4
  • Frederick I. Ordway III, American space scientist (d. 2014)
  • Othman Saat, Malaysian sultan (d. 2007)
• April 5
  • Chao-Li Chi, Shanxi-born actor (d. 2010)
  • Thanin Kraivichien, Thai lawyer, politician
• April 6
  • Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
  • Fethia Mzali, Tunisian teacher, politician (d. 2018)
  • Harry Beitzel, Australian football umpire, broadcaster (d. 2017)
• April 8 – Tilly Armstrong (alias Tania Langley and Kate Alexander), British writer (d. 2010)
• April 10 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
• April 11 – Abd al-Majid al-Rafei, Lebanese politician (d. 2017)
• April 14 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
• April 15 – Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
• April 16
  • Pope Benedict XVI
  • Alan Geldard, British cyclist (d. 2018)
  • Doris McLemore, American linguist (d. 2016)
  • Peter Mark Richman, American actor
• April 17
  • Junior Collins, American-French horn player (d. 1976)
  • Margot Honecker, East German politician (d. 2016)
• April 18
  • Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (d. 2008)
  • Charles Pasqua, French businessman, politician (d. 2015)
• April 20
  • Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
  • Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Omar Aggad, Palestinian-Saudi Arabian investor, philanthropist (d. 2018)
• April 21 – Daniel McKinnon, American ice hockey player (d. 2017)
• April 24 – Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish athlete (d. 1992)
• April 25
  • Dickie Dale, English motorcycle road racer (d. 1961)
  • Albert Uderzo, French author, illustrator
• April 26
  • Anita Darian, American singer, actress (d. 2015)
  • Harry Gallatin, American basketballer, coach (d. 2015)
  • Jackie Robinson, American Olympic basketball player
• April 27
  • Coretta Scott King, African-American civil rights leader, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (d. 2006)
  • Yao Xian, Chinese general (d. 2018)
• April 29
  • Lois Florreich, American female professional baseball player (d. 1991)
  • Dorothy Manley, English athlete
  • Bill Slater, English footballer
• April 30
  • Johann Zeitler, German footballer (d. 2018)

May

Albert Zafy

Manfred Eigen

• May 1
  • Greta Andersen, Danish Olympic swimmer
  • Duncan McMullin, New Zealand jurist (d. 2017)
  • Albert Zafy, 3rd President of Madagascar (d. 2017)
• May 2 – Michael Broadbent, English wine critic, writer
• May 3 – Jean-Paul Martin-du-Gard, French runner (d. 2017)
• May 4
  • Hal Hudson, American professional baseball player (d. 2016)
  • Terry Scott, English actor, comedian (d. 1994)
• May 5 – Pat Carroll, American actress
• May 6 – Ettore Manni, Italian actor (d. 1979)
• May 8 – Josefina Samper, Spanish syndicalist, feminist (d. 2018)
• May 9
  • Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • Wim Thoelke, German television entertainer (d. 1995)
• May 10 – Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
• May 11
  • Bernard Fox, British actor (d. 2016)
  • Mort Sahl, Canadian-born comedian, political commentator
  • Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. 2009)
• May 13
  • Archie Scott Brown, British racing driver (d. 1958)
  • Herbert Ross, American film director (d. 2001)
• May 14
  • Herbert W. Franke, Austrian scientist, author
  • Frank Miller, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
• May 17 – Marilyn Hall, Canadian-born American television producer (d. 2017)
• May 18 – Sir Richard Body, English politician (d. 2018)
• May 20 – Bud Grant, Canadian and American football coach
• May 21 – Chuck Stewart, American photographer (d. 2017)
• May 22
  • Michael Constantine, American actor
  • George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
• May 23 – Dieter Hildebrandt, German comedian (d. 2013)
• May 25
  • Robert Ludlum, American author (d. 2001)
  • Paul Oliver, British architecture, blues historian (d. 2017)
• May 26
  • Jacques Bergerac, French actor (d. 2014)
  • Endel Tulving, Estonian-Canadian experimental psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist
• May 27 – Joseph Banchong Aribarg, Thai Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2012)
• May 28
  • Salomón Cohen Levy, Israeli civil engineer and real estate businessman (d. 2018)
  • Ralph Carmichael, American composer, arranger
  • William A. Hilliard, American journalist (d. 2017)
• May 30
  • Byron Dobell, American writer, editor, and artist (d. 2017)
  • Clint Walker, American actor (d. 2018)
• May 31
  • Koreyoshi Kurahara, Malaysian-Japanese screenwriter, director (d. 2002)
  • Michael Sandberg, Baron Sandberg, British banker, life peer (d. 2017)

June

Jerry Stiller

László Kubala

Franco Maria Malfatti

F. Sherwood Rowland

• June 3
  • Boots Randolph, American saxophone player (d. 2007)
  • Eliseo Mouriño, Argentine footballer (d. 1961)
• June 4 – Geoffrey Palmer, British actor As Time Goes By (UK TV series)
• June 6
  • Alan Seymour, Australian playwright, author (d. 2015)
  • Ralph Wetton, English professional footballer (d. 2017)
  • Elijah Mudenda, Zambian politician (d. 2008)
• June 8 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian, actor
• June 9 – George Nigh, American politician
• June 10
  • László Kubala, Hungarian football player, manager (d. 2002)
  • Bede Morris, Australian immunologist (d. 1988)
• June 11 – John W. O'Malley, American Catholic historian, author, and Jesuit priest
• June 12 – Al Fairweather, Scottish jazz musician (d. 1993)
• June 13
  • Slim Dusty, Australian country singer (d. 2003)
  • Yoshiro Hayashi, Japanese politician (d. 2017)
  • Franco Maria Malfatti, Italian politician (d. 1991)
• June 15 – Ottó Foky, Hungarian animator (d. 2012)
• June 16 – Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian playwright, author (d. 2014)
• June 17
  • Martin Böttcher, German composer, conductor
  • Austin Murphy, American politician
  • Wally Wood, American cartoonist (d. 1981)
• June 18
  • Bud Brown, American politician
  • Paul Eddington, British actor (d. 1995)
• June 19 – Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, Argentine general (d. 2018)
• June 20 – Bernard Cahier, French photojournalist (d. 2008)
• June 21
  • Don Jessop, Australian politician (d. 2018)
  • Carl Stokes, American politician (d. 1996)
• June 22
  • June Flewett, English actress and theatre director
  • Karl Schügerl, Hungarian chemical engineer
• June 23
  • Luigi Manocchio, Italian-American mobster
  • Leonid Bogdanov, Soviet Olympic fencer
  • Bob Fosse, American choreographer, director (d. 1987)
  • John Habgood, British retired Anglican bishop, academic, and life peer
• June 24
  • James B. Edwards, American politician, administrator (d. 2014)
  • Hal Nerdal, Australian skier
  • Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
  • Frederick Vreeland, American diplomat, writer
• June 25
  • Patricia Martin Bates, Canadian artist
  • Gerald Freedman, American theatre director, librettist, lyricist, and college dean
  • Chuck Smith, American pastor (d. 2013)
  • Kjell Tånnander, Swedish decathlete
  • Arnold Wolfendale, British astronomer
• June 26 – Ben Turok, South African anti-apartheid activist, professor and politician
• June 27
  • John Barber, American professional basketball player
  • Gracia Barrios, Chilean painter
  • Bobby Myers, American NASCAR driver (d. 1957)
  • Cino Tortorella, Italian television presenter (d. 2017)
• June 28
  • Correlli Barnett, English military historian
  • Dick Lane, American professional baseball player
  • Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
  • Boris Shilkov, Soviet speed skater (d. 2015)
• June 29
  • Marie Thérèse Killens, Canadian politician
  • Viola Myers, Canadian sprinter
  • Roy Radner, American economist
  • Pierre Savard, Canadian politician
  • Bert Hubbard, American synchronized swimmer, choreographer and coach
  • Kenneth Snelson, American contemporary sculptor, photographer (d. 2016)
• June 30
  • Shirley Fry Irvin, American tennis player
  • Mario Lanfranchi, Italian film, theatre and television director, screenwriter, producer, collector and actor
  • Frank McCabe, American basketball player

July

Gina Lollobrigida

Janet Leigh

Kurt Masur

• July 1
  • Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (d. 2007)
  • Mirghani Alnasri, Sudanese politician
  • Richard Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough, British Peer
  • Winfield Dunn, American politician
  • Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist
  • Joseph Martin Sartoris, American Catholic prelate
• July 2
  • James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, British advocate
  • Fern Villeneuve, Canadian Army officer
• July 3
  • Salome Þorkelsdóttir, Icelandic politician
  • Peter Muller, Canadian architect
  • Tim O'Connor, American actor (d. 2018)
  • Ken Rowlands, Welsh boxer
• July 4
  • Derek Bond, English bishop (d. 2018)
  • Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
  • Neil Simon, American playwright, screenwriter and author (d. 2018)
• July 5
  • Kah Kyung Cho, Korean-American philosopher
  • Robert E. Jones, American politician and judge
  • Thomas Fleming, American military historian, historical novelist (d. 2017)
• July 6
  • Dolores Claman, Canadian composer, pianist
  • Alan Freeman, Australian-born broadcaster, disc jockey (d. 2006)
  • Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
  • Pat Paulsen, American comedian, political satirist (d. 1997)
• July 7
  • Henri Dirickx, Belgian international footballer played (d. 2018)
  • Doc Severinsen, American musician (Johnny Carson Show)
  • Lewis Arthur Tambs, American diplomat
  • George C. Lodge, American professor and politician
• July 8
  • Cal Christensen, American basketball player (d. 2011)
  • Maurice Hayes, Irish educator, politician (d. 2017)
  • Lisa Lu, Chinese-born American actress, singer
  • Khensur Lungri Namgyel, Tibetan religious leader
• July 9
  • Ed Ames, American popular singer, actor
  • Richard N. Gardner, American diplomat
  • Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player
• July 10
  • Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician (d. 2018)
  • David Dinkins, African-American Mayor of New York City (1989-93)
  • Jack Kelley, American ice hockey coach
  • Park Seong-tae, South Korean sports shooter
• July 11
  • Chris Leonard, English footballer
  • Theodore H. Maiman, American inventor, physicist who developed the laser (d. 2007)
  • Gregorio Salvador Caja, Spanish linguist
  • Julio Sobrera, Uruguayan cyclist
• July 12
  • Abune Antonios, 3rd Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
  • Tom Benson, American footballer (d. 2018)
  • Jack Harshman, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 2013)
  • Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani hammer thrower
• July 13
  • Ian Reed, Australian discus thrower
  • Simone Veil, French lawyer, politician (d. 2017)
• July 14
  • John Chancellor, American television journalist (d. 1996)
  • Paul V. Priolo, American politician (D. 2018)
• July 15
  • Håkon Brusveen, Norwegian cross-country skier
  • Ann Jellicoe, British playwright, stage director, and actress (d. 2017)
  • Nan Martin, American actress (d. 2010)
  • Gloria Pall, American model, showgirl, actress, author, and businesswoman (d. 2012)
  • Caerwyn Roderick, British Labour Party politician (d. 2011)
  • Ted Slevin, English professional rugby league footballer (d. 1998)
  • Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014)
  • Leo C. Zeferetti, American politician (d. 2018)
• July 16
  • Serge Baudo, French conductor
  • Alois Eisenträger, German footballer (d. 2017)
  • Derek Hawksworth, English footballer
  • Shirley Hughes, English author, illustrator
  • Geoffrey Martin, Australian rules footballer
  • John Warr, English cricketer (d. 2016)
  • Jules Witcover, American journalist, author, and columnist
• July 17
  • Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, Australian-English dentist, politician
  • Ed Leede, American former professional basketball player (d. 2018)
  • Roy Stuart, American actor (d. 2005)
• July 18
  • Don Bagley, American jazz bassist (d. 2012)
  • Antonio García-Trevijano, Spanish republican, political activist, and author (d. 2018)
  • Robert E. Haebel, American major general (d. 2017)
  • Jack Harshman, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 2013)
  • Keith MacDonald, Canadian politician
  • Kurt Masur, German conductor (d. 2015)
• July 19
  • Tom Blake, American football player
  • Alma Carlisle, African-American architect, architectural historian
  • Billy Gardner, American professional baseball player, coach and manager
  • Hervé Pinoteau, French historian, royalist apologist
• July 20
  • Heather Chasen, English actress
  • Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian historian
  • Robert Wahl, American football player
• July 21
  • Hal Hatfield, Canadian football player
  • William Liller, American astronomer
  • Dick Smith, American Major League Baseball infielder
• July 22
  • Katharine Topkins, American novelist
  • Bill Detrick, American college basketball and golf coach (d. 2014)
  • Dagoberto Moll, Uruguayan footballer and manager
  • Hsing Yun, Chinese Buddhist monk
• July 24 – Robert Boutigny, French Olympic canoeist
• July 26 – Danny La Rue, Irish-born British drag entertainer (d. 2009)
• July 27
  • Will Jordan, American character actor (d. 2018)
  • John Seigenthaler, American journalist, writer, and political figure (d. 2014)
• July 28 – John Ashbery, American poet (d. 2017)
• July 30
  • Richard Johnson, British actor, writer and producer (d. 2015)
  • Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)

August

Marvin Minsky

Rosalynn Carter

• August 2 – Fredrik Bull-Hansen, Norwegian military officer (d. 2018)
• August 4
  • Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
  • Eddie Kamae, American ukuleleist (d. 2017)
  • Del Shankel, American microbiologist, academic administrator (d. 2018)
• August 5 – Rolf Wütherich, German automotive engineer, racer (d. 1981)
• August 6
  • William D. Ford, American politician (d. 2004)
  • Arturo Armando Molina, President of El Salvador
  • Richard Murphy, Irish poet (d. 2018)
• August 7
  • Rocky Bridges, American middle infielder, third baseman (d. 2015)
  • Edwin W. Edwards, American politician
• August 8
  • Giuseppe Moioli, Italian rower
  • Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
• August 9
  • Robert Malpas, English engineer and businessman
  • Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist, Turing Award winner (Artificial intelligence) (d. 2016)
  • Robert Shaw, British actor (d. 1978)
• August 10 – Eivind Eckbo, Norwegian politician, lawyer and farmer (d. 2017)
• August 11
  • Stuart Rosenberg, American director (d. 2007)
  • Giancarlo Astrua, Italian road bicycle racer (d. 2010)
• August 12 – Porter Wagoner, American country singer (d. 2007)
• August 13 – David Padilla, 64th President of Bolivia (d. 2016)
• August 14
  • Sid Patterson, Australian track cyclist (d. 1999)
  • Roger Carel (Bancharel), French actor
• August 15 – Carmela Marie Cristiano, American Roman Catholic nun (d. 2011)
• August 17
  • F. Ray Keyser Jr., American lawyer, politician (d. 2015)
  • Stefan Geosits, Burgenland Croatian writer, translator
  • Ye Zhengda, Chinese politician and engineer (d. 2017)
• August 18 – Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States
• August 19
  • Jim Broyhill, American politician
  • L. Q. Jones, American actor
• August 21 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader (d. 2018)
• August 23
  • Dick Bruna, Dutch artist, graphic designer (d. 2017)
  • Philippe Mestre, French high-ranking civil servant, media executive and politician (d. 2017)
• August 24
  • David Ireland, Australian novelist
  • Harry Markowitz, American economist
• August 25 – Althea Gibson, African-American tennis player (d. 2003)
• August 26
  • Jill Amos, New Zealand politician and community leader (d. 2017)
  • Ma Jir Bo, Chinese Realism oil painter (d. 1985)
  • B. V. Doshi, Indian architect
  • Sam Massell, American businessman, former Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
• August 27
  • Alessandro D'Ottavio, Italian boxer
  • Fouad al-Tikerly, prominent Iraqi novelist and writer (d. 2008)
• August 29 – A. Ross Eckler Jr., American logologist, statistician and author (d. 2016)
• August 30
  • Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
  • Bill Daily, American actor (d. 2018)
  • Buford A. Johnson, African-American World War II pilot (d. 2017)
  • William G. Curlin, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
• August 31 – Katyna Ranieri, Italian actress, singer (d. 2018)

September

Paul Volcker

Peter Falk

• September 1 – Bob DiPietro, American baseball player (d. 2012)
• September 2
  • Trude Beiser, Austrian alpine skier
  • Gene Rhodes, American basketball player and coach (d. 2018)
• September 3 – Br. John Hamman S.M. (d. 2000), close-up magician, inventor, Marianist brother (d. 2000)
• September 4 – Antônio Carlos Magalhães, Brazilian politician (d. 2007)
• September 5 – Paul Volcker, American economist, academic
• September 7
  • Eric Hill, English author, illustrator (d. 2014)
  • Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Canadian lawyer, jurist
• September 8 – Marguerite Frank, American-French mathematician
• September 10
  • Johnny Keating, Scottish musician, songwriter (d. 2015)
  • Sachiko, Princess Hisa, Japanese princess (d. 1928)
• September 11
  • Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (d. 2002)
  • Christine King Farris, African-American civil rights activist
  • G. David Schine, American businessman (d. 1996)
• September 12 – Mathé Altéry, French soprano and actress
• September 13 – Laura Cardoso, Brazilian actress
• September 15
  • Norm Crosby, American comedian
  • John M. Jacobus Jr., American art historian (d. 2017)
• September 16
  • Peter Falk, American actor (Columbo) (d. 2011)
  • Jack Kelly, American actor (d. 1992)
  • Sadako Ogata, Japanese diplomat, former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• September 17 – George Blanda, American football quarterback, placekicker (d. 2010)
• September 18 – Muriel Turner, Baroness Turner of Camden, British politician (d. 2018)
• September 19
  • Rosemary Harris, American actress
  • William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
  • Nick Massi, American bassist for 'The Four Seasons' (d. 2000)
• September 21
  • Owen Aspinall, 45th Governor of American Samoa (d. 1997)
  • Joan Hotchkis, American actress, writer and performance artist
  • Bill Speakman, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2018)
• September 22
  • Gordon Astall, English footballer
  • Kika de la Garza, American politician (d. 2017)
  • Tommy Lasorda, American baseball manager
• September 23
  • Thomas Vose Daily, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
  • Abdel Khaliq Mahjub, Sudanese politician (d. 1971)
• September 25
  • Sir Colin Davis, English conductor (d. 2013)
  • Val Jellay, Australian actress (d. 2017)
• September 27 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman, sports team owner (d. 2006)
• September 28
  • James W. Symington, American politician
  • Alícia Raquel de Videla, former first Lady of Argentina
• September 29
  • Josefina Echánove, Mexican actress, model and journalist
  • Pete McCloskey, American politician
  • Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Brazilian athlete (d. 2001)
  • Cid Moreira, Brazilian journalist, TV presenter
• September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet

October

Turgut Özal

Roger Moore

Günter Grass

George C. Scott

Jorge Batlle

• October 1
  • Tom Bosley, American actor (d. 2010)
  • Sandy Gall, Malaysian-Scottish journalist and author
  • Ya'akov Ben-Yezri, Moroccan-Israeli politician (d. 2018)
• October 4 – Wolf Kahn, German-American painter
• October 6 – Antony Grey, English gay rights activist (d. 2010)
• October 8 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipient (d. 2002)
• October 9 – John Margetson, English scholar and diplomat
• October 10 – Dana Elcar, American actor, director (d. 2005)
• October 11 – Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 2005)
• October 13
  • Lee Konitz, American jazz composer, alto saxophonist
  • Turgut Özal, 8th President, 26th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 1993)
• October 14
  • Juan Hidalgo Codorniu, Spanish composer, poet, action and visual artist (d. 2018)
  • Roger Moore, English actor (d. 2017)
• October 15 – Peter Pollen, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
• October 16 – Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
• October 18 – George C. Scott, American actor (Patton) (d. 1999)
• October 19 – Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter
• October 22 – Oscar Furlong, Argentine basketball player, and tennis player and coach (d. 2018)
• October 23 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (d. 2009)
• October 24
  • Cal Hogue, American baseball player (d. 2005)
  • John Winston, British actor
• October 25
  • Jorge Batlle, President of Uruguay (d. 2016)
  • Barbara Cook, American singer, actress (d. 2017)
  • William Acker, American judge (d. 2018)
• October 27
  • Silvia Laidla, Estonian actress (d. 2012)
  • Júlio Duarte Langa, Mozambique cardinal
• October 28 – Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (d. 1995)
• October 29 – William Cousins, American judge (d. 2018)

November

Odvar Nordli

• November 2
  • Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer, artist (d. 2018)
  • John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, English businessman, politician
• November 3
  • Marius Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon (d. 2014)
  • Peggy McCay, American actress (d. 2018)
  • Odvar Nordli, Norwegian politician and 10th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 2018)
  • Jan Stoeckart, Dutch composer, conductor, trombonist and former radio producer (d. 2017)
• November 4 – Bobby Breen, Canadian-born American actor, singer (d. 2016)
• November 5
  • Kenneth Waller, English actor (d. 2000)
  • Ellie Mannette, Trinidadian steel pan musician (d. 2018)
  • Howard Terpning, American painter and illustrator
• November 7 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman, president of Nintendo (d. 2013)
• November 8
  • Ken Dodd, English comedian (d. 2018)
  • Patti Page, American singer (d. 2013)
• November 10
  • Richard Connolly, Australian hymnodist
  • Gerry Glaude, Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman (d. 2017)
  • Sabah, Lebanese singer, actress (d. 2014)
• November 14 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (d. 1996)
• November 15
  • Gregor Mackenzie, British politician (d. 1992)
  • Bill Rowling, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1995)
• November 16 – Gerry Lowe, English rugby player (d. 2018)
• November 17
  • Fenella Fielding, English actress (d. 2018)
  • Nicholas Taylor, Canadian geologist, businessman, politician and Senator
• November 18 – Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
• November 21
  • Georgia Frontiere, American co-owner of the Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams (d. 2008)
  • Gordon Christian, American ice hockey player (d. 2017)
• November 23
  • Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (d. 2005)
  • Angelo Sodano, Italian Catholic cardinal, Dean of the College of Cardinals
• November 24
  • Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
  • Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
• November 27
  • Arnold Clark, Scottish businessman (d. 2017)
  • Eppie Gibson, English rugby league player, coach (d. 2018)
  • José de Jesús Madera Uribe, American Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2017)
• November 29 – Vin Scully, American baseball broadcaster
• November 30
  • Tod Sloan, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 2017)
  • Robert Guillaume, American actor, singer (d. 2017)

December

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Stein Eriksen

Kim Young-sam

• December 2 – Prabhakar Thokal, Indian cartoonist (d. 1999)
• December 3
  • Richard Pankhurst, British academic (d. 2017)
  • Andy Williams, American singer (d. 2012)
• December 4 – Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer
• December 5
  • Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Rama IX of Thailand (d. 2016)
  • W. D. Amaradeva, Sri Lanka maestro (d. 2016)
  • Joseph Keke, Beninese politician (d. 2017)
  • Óscar Míguez, Uruguayan football player (d. 2006)
  • Erich Probst, Austrian football player (d. 1988)
• December 6 – Marcel Pelletier, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
• December 7 – Helen Watts, Welsh contralto (d. 2009)
• December 8 – Vladimir Shatalov, Russian cosmonaut
• December 9 – Pierre Henry, French composer (d. 2017)
• December 10 – Bob Farrell, American motivational speaker, author, and founder of Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour and Restaurant (d. 2015)
• December 11 – Stein Eriksen, Norwegian Olympic skier (d. 2015)
• December 12 – Robert Noyce, American co-founder of Intel (d. 1990)
• December 13 – James Wright, American poet (d. 1980)
• December 18
  • Ramsey Clark, American politician, lawyer
  • Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada (d. 2009)
  • Jesus Varela, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
• December 20
  • Charlie Callas, American comedian, singer (d. 2011)
  • Kim Young-sam, South Korean politician, 7th President of the Republic of Korea (d. 2015)
• December 23 – Alexander Vedernikov, Russian singer, teacher (d. 2018)
• December 24 – Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist
• December 25
  • Nellie Fox, American baseball player (d. 1975)
  • Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player
• December 26
  • Akihiko Hirata, Japanese actor (d. 1984)
  • Alan King, American actor, comedian (d. 2004)
  • Lin Hu, Chinese general (d. 2018)
  • Denis Quilley, British actor (d. 2003)
• December 27
  • Luciano Frosini, Italian racing cyclist (d. 2017)
  • Genevieve Audrey Wagner, American professional baseball player, physician (d. 1984)
• December 28 – Edward Babiuch, Polish Communist politician
• December 29
  • Giorgio Capitani, Italian film director, screenwriter (d. 2017)
  • Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
  • Bùi Tín, Vietnamese military officer, dissident (d. 2018)
• December 30
  • Hamed Karoui, Prime Minister of Tunisia
  • Jan Kubíček, Czech constructivist painter, sculptor (d. 2013)
• December 31 – NOF4, Italian painter, graffiti artist (d. 1994)

Unknown

• Viola Myers, Canadian athlete

Deaths

January

• January 9 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-German author (b. 1855)
• January 19 – Empress Carlota of Mexico (b. 1840)
• January 21 – Sir Charles Warren, British police officer, archeologist (b. 1840)

February

• February 4 – Janko Vukotić, Montenegrin general (b. 1866)
• February 13 – Brooks Adams, American historian (b. 1848)
• February 16 – Carl Theodore Vogelgesang, American admiral (b. 1869)
• February 19
  • Georg Brandes, Danish critic, scholar (b. 1842)
  • Fernand de Langle de Cary, French general (b. 1849)
  • Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b. 1847)
• February 26
  • Austin M. Knight, American admiral (b. 1854)
  • Hermann Obrist, German sculptor (b. 1862)

March

• March 4
  • Ira Remsen, American chemist, discoverer of saccharin (b. 1846)
  • Max Théon, Polish Jewish occultist (b. 1848)
• March 11 – Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general (b. 1869)
• March 14 – Jānis Čakste, Latvian politician, first president of Latvian Republic (b. 1859)
• March 17 – Charles Emmett Mack, American actor (b. 1900)
• March 22 – Templin Potts, American naval officer; 11th Naval Governor of Guam (b. 1855)
• March 23 – Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
• March 25 – Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Palestinian Catholic nun, canonized (b. 1843)
• March 27 – Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)

April

• April 15 – Gaston Leroux, French journalist, author (b. 1868)
• April 20 – Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter (b. 1866)
• April 25 – Earle Williams, American actor (b. 1880)
• April 26 – Noel Guy Davis, American naval officer, aviator (b. 1891)
• April 26 – Stanton Hall Wooster, American naval officer, aviator (b. 1895)
• April 28 – Li Dazhao, Chinese intellectual, co-founder of the Communist Party of China (b. 1888; executed)

May

• May 2 – Ernest Starling, English physiologist (b. 1866)
• May 3 – Ernest Ball, American singer, songwriter (b. 1878)
• May 8
  • Charles Nungesser, French aviator, World War I fighter ace (date of disappearance) (b. 1892)
  • Francois Coli, French aerial navigator, WW1 veteran (date of disappearance) (b. 1882)
• May 11 – Juan Gris, Spanish sculptor, painter (b. 1887)
• May 25 – Henri Hubert, French archaeologist, sociologist (b. 1872)

June

Lizzie Borden

• June 1
  • Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer; acquitted of killing her father and stepmother (b. 1860)
  • J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861)
  • Hannibal di Francia, Italian priest, saint (b. 1851)
• June 4 – Robert McKim, American actor (b. 1886)
• June 9 – Victoria Woodhull, American feminist, spiritualist and first woman to ever run for U.S. President (b. 1838)
• June 11 – William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)
• June 14 – Jerome K. Jerome, English writer (b. 1859)

July

Albrecht Kossel

King Ferdinand of Romania

• July 5
  • Marcelino Crisologo, Filipino politician, playwright, writer and poet (b. 1844)
  • Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
• July 8 – Max Hoffmann, German general (b. 1869)
• July 9 – John Drew, Jr., American stage actor (b. 1853)
• July 20 – King Ferdinand of Romania (b. 1865)
• July 24 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese poet, writer (b. 1892)
• July 26 – June Mathis, American screenwriter (b. 1889)

August

• August 7 – Leonard Wood, American general (b. 1860)
• August 13 – James Oliver Curwood, American novelist, conservationist (b. 1878)
• August 17 – Johannes Theodor Baargeld, German painter, poet (b. 1892)
• August 23
  • Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (b. 1891)
  • Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (b. 1888)
• August 24 – Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, Venezuelan writer (b. 1871)

September

• September 1 – Amelia Bingham, American stage actress (b. 1869)
• September 5
  • Marcus Loew, American theatre chain founder (b. 1870)
  • Wayne Wheeler, American temperance movement leader (b. 1868)
• September 6 – Lloyd W. Bertaud, American aviator (b. 1895)
• September 14
  • Hugo Ball, German poet, founder of Dadaism (b. 1886)
  • Isadora Duncan, British-based American dancer (b. 1877)
• September 19 – Michael Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)

Willem Einthoven

• September 27 – Leopold Wharton, American film director (b. 1870)
• September 29 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
• September 30 – Charles Kilpatrick, American one-legged trick cyclist (b. 1869)

October

• October 2 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• October 5 – Sam Warner, Hollywood studio executive (b. 1887)
• October 10 – Gustave Whitehead, German-born aviation pioneer (b. 1874)
• October 16 – David Macpherson, Canadian-born American civil engineer (b. 1854)
• October 22
  • Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
  • Ross Youngs, American baseball player (b. 1897)

November

• November 1 – Florence Mills, American cabaret singer (b. 1896)
• November 4
  • Hawthorne C. Gray, record-setting American balloonist (b. 1889)
  • Valli Valli, German-born British actress (b. 1882)
• November 5 – Marceline Orbes, Spanish clown (b. 1873)
• November 11 – Wilhelm Johannsen, Danish botanist, physiologist and geneticist (b. 1857)
• November 18 – Emma Carus, American opera contralto, (b. 1879)
• November 23 – Alfred III, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, former Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1851)
• November 24 – Ion I. C. Brătianu, 5-time Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1864)

December

• December 17
  • Hubert Harrison, African-American writer, critic, and activist (b. 1883)
  • Rajendra Nath Lahiri, Indian Revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association (b. 1901)
• December 18 – Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association (b. 1897)
• December 19
  • Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association (b. 1900)
  • Thakur Roshan Singh, Indian revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association (b. 1892)

Unknown date

• Caroline Brown Buell, American activist (b. 1843)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
• Chemistry – Heinrich Otto Wieland
• Physiology or Medicine – Julius Wagner-Jauregg
• Literature – Henri Bergson
• Peace – Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde

See also

• One Summer: America, 1927, a book by Bill Bryson

Further reading

• Charles J. Shindo. 1927 and the Rise of Modern America (University Press of Kansas; 244 pages; 2010).