1924

Events

January

• January 10 - The British submarine L-24 sinks in the English Channel; 43 lives are lost.
• January 12 - Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
• January 21
• * The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.
• * Following the death of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin immediately begins to purge his rivals to clear the way for his leadership.
• January 22 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• January 23 - Soviet Russia officially declares that Lenin died January 21.
• January 25 - The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, in the French Alps.
• January 26 - Petrograd is renamed Leningrad; it reverts to Saint Petersburg in 1991.
• January 27 - Lenin is buried in Lenin's Mausoleum, in Moscow's Red Square.

  February

• February 1 - The United Kingdom recognizes the Soviet Union.
• February 5 - GMT: A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time, from the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
• February 8 - Capital punishment: The first state execution using gas, in the United States, takes place in Nevada.
• February 12 - Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin, is first performed in New York City, at Aeolian Hall.
• February 14 - The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, based in the U.S. state of New York, is renamed International Business Machines.
• February 16 - 26 - Dock strikes break out in various U.S. harbors.
• February 22
• * Treaty of Rome: The Kingdom of Italy annexes the Free State of Fiume, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes absorbs Sušak.
• * Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.

  March

• March 3
• * The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of President Kemal Atatürk.
• * The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
• March 6 - İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey.
• March 8 - The Castle Gate Mine disaster kills 172 coal miners in Utah, United States.
• March 25 - The Second Hellenic Republic is proclaimed in Greece.
• March 28 - Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, as predecessor of Total, a major energy product and sales on worldwide, founded in Paris, France.
• March 29 - In France, the Third Ministry of Raymond Poincaré begins.

  April

• April 1
• *Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in jail, for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch.
• *Frank Capone is shot to death by police in Chicago.
• *The first revenue flight for Belgium's Sabena Airlines takes place.
• April 6 - Fascists win the elections in Italy with a ⅔ majority.
• April 13
• * A referendum in Greece favors the formation of the Second Hellenic Republic.
• * The A.E.K. is founded in Greece.
• April 16 - American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is founded in Los Angeles.
• April 23 - The British Empire Exhibition opens; it is the largest colonial exhibition, with 58 countries of the empire dramatically represented.
• April 26 - Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his "death ray" in London, but fails to convince the British War Office.
• April 27 - A group of Alawites kill several nuns in Syria; French troops march against them.
• April 28 - An explosion in a mine at the Wheeling Steel Corporation in Benwood, West Virginia kills 119 men.

  May

• May 3 - The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska.
• May 4 - The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies are held in Paris, France.
• May 8 - Lithuania signs the Klaipėda Convention with the nations of the Conference of Ambassadors, taking the Klaipėda Region from East Prussia and making it into an autonomous region.
• May 10 - In the United States, J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• May 11 - Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz.
• May 21 - University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks, in a thrill killing.
• May 24 - The Immigration Act of 1924 is signed into law in the United States, including the Asian Exclusion Act.

  June

• June 1 - Harry Grindell Matthews returns from Paris to London; he tries to use a Pathé film to demonstrate that his death ray works.
• June 2 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
• June 5 - Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean, which goes to his father in Sweden.
• June 7-16 - Rudolf Steiner delivers his Agriculture Course at Koberwitz beginning of the organic agriculture movement.
• June 8 - George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 P.M. The two mountaineers are never seen alive again.
• June 10 - Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
• June 12 - Rondout Heist: Six men of the Egan's Rats gang rob a mail train in Rondout, Illinois; the robbery is later found to have been an inside job.
• June 13 - In Hungary, a devastating tornado, "Wildkansas", strikes, in 3 hours leaving a 500-1500m wide and 70 km long path of destruction from landfall at Bia to its end near Vác, completely destroying the village of Páty. 9 people are killed, 50 injured and many left homeless by one of the strongest tornadoes ever not only in Hungary but in Europe, estimated as F4.
• June 16 - Whampoa Military Academy is founded in China.
• June 23 - American airman Russell Maughan flies from New York to San Francisco in 21 hours and 48 minutes on a dawn-to-dusk flight in a Curtiss pursuit.
• June 27 - The New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps is established as a unit of the New Zealand Permanent Forces.
• June 28 - A tornado touches down in Lorain, Ohio and kills 78 people.
• June 30 - J. B. M. Hertzog becomes the third Prime Minister of South Africa.

  July

• July 9 - John W. Davis of West Virginia is nominated by the Democrats to oppose Calvin Coolidge in the presidential election.
• July 12 - United States occupation of the Dominican Republic comes to an end. The constitutional government headed by General Horacio Vázquez, elected in the elections held in March, is established.
• July 19 - The Napalpí massacre occurs in Argentina.
• July 20 - The Soviet sports newspaper Sovetsky Sport is founded.

  August

• August 1 - Koshien Stadium, as well known for sports venues in Japan, open in Nishinomiya, suburb of Osaka.
• August 16 - The Dawes Plan is accepted.
• August 18 - France begins to withdraw its troops from Germany.
• August 28 - August Uprising: Georgia rises against rule by the Soviet Union in an abortive rebellion, in which several thousands die.

  September

• September 9
• * The Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
• * The 8-hour work day is introduced in Belgium.
• September 9-September 11 - The Kohat riots break out in India.
• September 28 - U.S. Army pilots John Harding and Erik Nelson complete the first aerial circumnavigation. It has taken them 175 days and 74 stops before their return to Seattle.

  October

• October 2 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted by the League of Nations Assembly as a means to strengthen the League, but later fails to be ratified.
• October 6 - 1-RO begins regular radio broadcasting services in Italy.
• October 10
• *Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1924.
• *The Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago.
• October 12-15 - Zeppelin LZ-126 makes a transatlantic delivery flight from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, New Jersey.
• October 15 - The first Surrealist Manifesto is published, in which André Breton defines the movement as "pure psychic automatism".
• October 18 - Sweden's Prime Minister Ernst Trygger and his cabinet, is replaced by Hjalmar Branting and his third and last government.
• October 19 - Abdul Aziz declares himself protector of holy places in Mecca.
• October 22 - The Toastmasters Club is founded.
• October 24
• *The British Foreign Office publishes the Zinoviev letter.
• *Dixie Dean scores a hat-trick for Tranmere Rovers to become the youngest ever player to score three goals for The Superwhites.
• October 25
• *British authorities in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next 2½ years.
• *Osaka Metal Industry, as predecessors of Daikin, a famous for air conditioner brand in world, founded in Japan.
• October 27 - The Uzbek SSR joins the Soviet Union.

  November

• November 4
• * Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
• * U.S. presidential election, 1924: Republican Calvin Coolidge defeats Democrat John W. Davis and Progressive Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
• November 19 - In Los Angeles, famous silent film director Thomas Ince dies, reportedly of a heart attack, in his bed.
• November 21 - Ali Fethi Okyar forms new government in Turkey.
• November 26 - The Mongolian People's Republic is founded.
• November 27
• *129 communists, including several members of the Riigikogu, are convicted during the Trial of the 149 in Estonia.
• *In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

  December

• December 1
• * A Soviet-backed communist coup attempt fails in Estonia.
• * George Gershwin's Lady Be Good and Fascinating Rhythm premiere in New York, NY.
• December 19
• * German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
• * The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
• December 20 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison, after serving nine months for his crucial role in the Beer Hall Putsch, from 1923.
• December 24
• * An air crash at Croydon Air Field in London kills 8.
• * Albania becomes a republic.
• * A flash fire at a Christmas celebration in a one-room schoolhouse in Babbs, Oklahoma kills 36 people, mostly small children.
• December 30 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe.

  Date unknown

• The Taung Child is discovered.
• Spring - Francophone explorer, spiritualist and former operatic soprano Alexandra David-Néel, disguised as a male pilgrim, makes a 2-month stay in the forbidden city of Lhasa, Tibet.
• International Union of Official Organizations for Tourist Propaganda.
• The powerful opiate hydromorphone is developed in Germany.
• Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging at Stirling, Alberta Canada.
• Alice Vanderbilt Morris, a wealthy heiress, founds the International Auxiliary Language Association in New York
• HRH Edward, Prince of Wales makes a state visit to Japan aboard.
• U.S. bootleggers begin to use Thompson submachine guns.
• The Earth inductor compass is invented in New York City.
• In the United States, both the Renegade Period and the Apache Wars end, bringing the American Indian Wars to a close, after 302 years.
• The National Hockey League expands to the United States for the first time, adding the Boston Bruins.
• Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory, as predecessor of Adidas, founded in Bavaria, Germany.

  Births

January

• January 1
• * Francisco Macías Nguema, 1st President of Equatorial Guinea
• * Charlie Munger, American businessman and philanthropist
• * Pino Rucher, Italian guitarist
• * Lennart Magnusson, Swedish fencer
• January 4
• * Walter Ris, American freestyle swimmer
• * Charles Thone, American politician
• * Marianne Werner, German shot putter
• January 5
• * Gerry Plamondon, Canadian ice hockey player
• * Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi royal, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Crown Prince
• * Hamzah Abu Samah, Malaysian politician and athlete
• January 6
• * Ali Shariatmadari, Iranian academic and educationist
• * Kim Dae-jung, 15th President of South Korea, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
• * Earl Scruggs, American musician
• January 7
• * Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor
• * Anne Vernon, French actress
• January 8 – Ron Moody, English actor
• January 9 – Sergei Parajanov, Georgian-Armenian film director
• January 10
• * Pierre Plateau, French Roman Catholic prelate
• * Earl Bakken, American engineer and businessman, inventor of the modern Artificial pacemaker
• * Eduard Admetlla i Lázaro, Spanish scuba diver
• * Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer and composer
• January 11
• * Don Cherry, American pop singer
• * Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• * Sam B. Hall, American politician
• * Slim Harpo, American musician
• January 12
• * Chris Chase, American model, film actress, writer and journalist
• * Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver
• January 13
• * Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher
• * Roland Petit, French choreographer/dancer
• January 14
• * Carole Cook, American actress and singer
• * Guy Williams, American actor
• January 15 – Georg Ratzinger, German Roman Catholic priest
• January 16 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress
• January 19
• * Jean-François Revel, French author
• * Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and television director
• January 21 – Benny Hill, English comedian and singer
• January 22 – J. J. Johnson, African-American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger
• January 23 – Frank Lautenberg, American businessman and politician
• January 24 – John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, British peer and nobleman
• January 25
• * Husein Mehmedov, Bulgarian-Turkish Olympic wrestler
• * Speedy West, American musician
• January 26
• * Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician
• * Armand Gatti, French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and World War II resistance fighter
• * Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress
• January 27 – Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor
• January 29 – Luigi Nono, Italian composer
• January 30
• * Lloyd Alexander, American writer
• * Dorothy Malone, American actress
• January 31 – John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian

  February

• February 2 - Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-born U.S. musician/producer
• February 3 - Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, German Head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
• February 4 - Dorothy Harrell, American female professional baseball player
• February 6 - Jin Yong, Chinese novelist and essayist
• February 7 - Catherine Small Long, American politician
• February 8
• * Charles Coste, French Olympic cyclist
• * Khamtai Siphandon, 4th President and 12th Prime Minister of Laos
• February 9 - George Guest, Welsh choral conductor
• February 11 - Budge Patty, American tennis player
• February 14
• * Juan Ponce Enrile, Filipino politician, President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2008 to 2013.
• * Gabe Pressman, American journalist
• February 15 - Toni Arden, American singer
• February 16 - Frank Saul, American basketball player
• February 17
• * Raimon Carrasco, Spanish businessman and 34th President of FC Barcelona
• * Margaret Truman, American novelist and only child of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman
• * Gevork Vartanian, Soviet intelligence officer
• February 18 - Nicolo Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian mobster
• February 19 - Lee Marvin, American actor
• February 20
• * Donald M. Fraser, American politician
• * Gerson Goldhaber, American particle physicist and astrophysicist
• * Gloria Vanderbilt, American heiress and entrepreneur
• * Moshe Wertman, Israeli politician
• February 21
• * William Hathaway, American politician and lawyer
• * Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe
• * Silvano Piovanelli, Italian prelate
• February 23 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist and 1979 Nobel Prize laureate
• February 24 - Teresa Bracco, Italian Roman Catholic religious sister, martyr and blessed
• February 26
• * Freda Betti, French opera singer
• * Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan
• February 28
• * Bettye Ackerman, American actress
• * Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer
• February 29
• * Carlos Humberto Romero, Salvadorian politician, 37th President of El Salvador
• * Al Rosen, American baseball player

  March

• March 1 - Deke Slayton, American astronaut
• March 2
• * William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon, English politician
• * Michael Sela, Polish-born Israeli immunologist
• * Co Westerik, Dutch visual artist
• March 3
• * Lys Assia, Swiss singer, first winner of Eurovision Song Contest
• * Tomiichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan
• * Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian military officer
• * Lilian Velez, Filipino actress
• * John Woodnutt, British actor
• March 4 - Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to U.S. President John F. Kennedy
• March 6
• * Ed Mierkowicz, American baseball player
• * William H. Webster, American lawyer and jurist
• * Gert Boyle, German-born American businesswoman
• March 7 - Kōbō Abe, Japanese novelist
• March 8
• * Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• * Walter Chiari, Italian actor
• * Abderrahmane Youssoufi, 12th Prime Minister of Morocco
• March 9
• * Herbert Gold, American novelist
• * Hanna Mina, Syrian writer
• * Peter Scholl-Latour, German professor, journalist and author
• March 10
• * Jin Yong, Hong Kong writer
• * Ludwig W. Adamec, Austrian historian
• March 11 - Jozef Tomko, Slovakian cardinal
• March 13 - Pierre Arpaillange, French author, senior judge and Government Minister
• March 15 - Walter Gotell, German actor
• March 17 - Edith Savage-Jennings, American civil rights activist
• March 18
• * Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Mozambique cardinal
• * Johnny Papalia, Canadian mobster
• March 20 - Philip Abbott, American actor
• March 22
• * Al Neuharth, American businessman and journalist
• * Ivan Minatti, Slovenian poet, translator and editor
• * Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian test pilot
• * Lionel Wilson, American voice actor
• March 23 - Olga Kennard, English crystallographer
• March 24 - Norman Fell, American actor
• March 25
• * Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet
• * Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress
• * József Zakariás, Hungarian footballer and manager
• March 26 - K. B. Asante, Ghanaian diplomat, writer and politician
• March 27
• * Sarah Vaughan, African-American jazz singer
• * Herbert Zangs, German artist
• March 28
• * Freddie Bartholomew, English-American actor
• * Byrd Baylor, American novelist, essayist and author
• * Birte Christoffersen, Danish Olympic diver
• March 29 - Jimmy Work, American singer-songwriter
• March 30 - Alan Davidson, British author
• March 31 - Kathleen O'Malley, American actress

  April

• April 1 - Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey
• April 2 - Delwin Jones, American politician
• April 3
• * Marlon Brando, American actor
• * Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author
• * Jacky June, Belgian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader
• * Josephine Pullein-Thompson, British author
• April 4
• * Geoff Brown, Australian tennis player
• * Gil Hodges, American baseball player
• * Noreen Nash, American actress
• April 6 - Jimmy Roberts, American singer
• April 7 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
• April 8 - Bob Mann, American football player
• April 9 - Milburn G. Apt, American test pilot
• April 11
• * Enrique Morea, Argentine tennis player
• * Libuše Havelková, Czech actress
• April 12 - Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister
• April 13
• * Jack Chick, American fundamentalist Christian illustrator and publisher
• * Stanley Donen, American film director and choreographer
• April 14
• * Philip Stone, English actor
• * Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, English philosopher and writer
• April 15
• * Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist
• * Rikki Fulton, Scottish comedian and actor
• April 16
• * Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger
• * Rudy Pompilli, American musician
• April 17 - Kenneth Norman Jones, Australian public servant
• April 18
• * Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American blues musician
• * Henry Hyde, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois
• April 20
• * Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress
• * Miroslav Komárek, Czech historical linguist
• * Leslie Phillips, English actor
• * Guy Rocher, Canadian sociologist and academic
• April 23
• * Chuck Harmon, American baseball player and scout
• * Ruth Leuwerik, German film actress
• * Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer
• April 24
• * Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality and politician
• * Vicente Sota, Chilean politician
• * Eric Pleskow, Austrian film producer
• * Nahuel Moreno, Argentine Trotskyist leader
• April 25 - Peter Abeles, Australian transportation magnate
• April 28
• * Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia
• * Alakbar Taghiyev, Azerbaijani composer and author
• * Emily W. Sunstein, American campaigner, political activist and biographer
• April 29
• * Al Balding, Canadian golfer
• * Shintaro Abe, Japanese politician
• * Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballerina and actress

  May

• May 1
• * Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist and academic
• * Gamal Abdel-Rahim, Egyptian composer
• * Grégoire Kayibanda, 2nd President of Rwanda
• May 2
• * Ladislava Bakanic, American Olympic gymnast
• * Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor, folk singer and musician
• May 3
• * Isadore Singer, American mathematician
• * Ken Tyrrell, British auto racing driver
• May 6 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite
• May 10 – Zahrad, Western Armenian poet
• May 11 – Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• May 12
• * Tony Hancock, English comedian
• * Claribel Alegría, Nicaraguan poet
• May 13 – Giovanni Sartori, Italian political scientist
• May 16 – Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the Gambia
• May 17
• * Marie-Thérèse Cheroutre, French historian and professor of philosophy
• * Francis Tombs, Baron Tombs, English industrialist and politician
• May 18 – Priscilla Pointer, American actress
• May 22 – Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer, songwriter and actor
• May 24 – Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter
• May 27
• * Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania
• * Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan politician, 42nd President of Venezuela
• May 31 – Patricia Roberts Harris, American administrator

  June

• June 3
• * Ken Armstrong, English association football player
• * Teresa Celli, American actress
• * Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress
• * Karunanidhi, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, referred to as Kalaignar
• * Jimmy Rogers, American musician
• * Torsten Wiesel, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• June 4
• * Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician
• * Dennis Weaver, American actor
• June 6 – Göran Malmqvist, Swedish linguist and literary historian
• June 7 – Edward Field, American poet and author
• June 9 – Tony Britton, English actor
• June 10 – Friedrich L. Bauer, German computer scientist
• June 12 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
• June 13 – Bronisław Baczko, Polish philosopher, historian of ideas
• June 14 – James W. Black, British doctor
• June 15
• * Hédi Fried, Swedish author and psychologist
• * Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel
• June 16 – Sonia Darrin, American actress
• June 18 – George Mikan, American basketball player
• June 19 – Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano
• June 20
• * Chet Atkins, American guitarist, record producer
• * Rainer Barzel, German politician
• June 21
• * Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor
• * Wally Fawkes, English-born Canadian jazz clarinetist
• * Chong Hon Nyan, Malaysian politician
• * Ricardo Infante, Argentine footballer and manager
• * Marga López, Argentine-born Mexican actress
• * Alojz Rebula, Slovene writer, playwright, essayist and translator
• June 22
• * David W. Torrance, Scottish writer
• * Géza Vermes, British academic and Bible scholar
• * John C. Whitcomb, American theologian
• June 23
• * Frank Bolle, American comic strip artist, comic book artist and illustrator
• * Bayezid Osman, 44th Head of the Turkish House of Osman
• * Ranasinghe Premadasa, 3rd President, 8th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
• June 24
• * Leonard Everett Fisher, American artist known best for children's books
• * Kurt Furgler, 3-time President of the Swiss Confederation
• * Eric Neal, Australian businessman and public officer
• * David Rubinger, Israeli photographer
• June 25
• * Luis Suárez Fernández, Spanish historian
• * Dimitar Isakov, Bulgarian football player
• * Sidney Lumet, American film director
• June 26
• * Richard Bull, American actor
• * Grace Onyango, Kenyan politician
• June 27
• * Paul Conrad, American cartoonist
• * Charles Norman Shay, American Penobscot tribal elder, writer and decorated veteran of both World War II and the Korean War
• June 28 - Roy Austen-Smith, Royal Air Force officer who served as Commander of British Forces Cyprus
• June 30 – Amos Horev, Israeli military official and expert

  July

• July 1
• * Ralph Parr, American double-flying ace
• * Wang Huo, Chinese novelist, screenwriter
• * Georges Rivière, French actor
• * Richard Longaker, American political scientist
• * Jan Azam, Pakistani sports shooter
• * Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer, manager
• July 2
• * Charley Winner, American football player
• * Francis Wyndham, English author, literary editor and journalist
• July 3
• * Amalia Aguilar, Cuban-born Mexican film actress, dancer
• * Arjun Naidu, Indian first-class cricketer
• * Gwen Moffat, British climber, writer
• * Michael Barrington, British actor
• * S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore
• July 4
• * Eva Marie Saint, American actress
• * Delia Fiallo, Cuban author and screenwriter
• * Roy Gibson, British Director General of ESRO
• * Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician; Head of State of Nepal
• July 5
• * Edward Cassidy, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal, priest
• * Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian, museum curator
• * Osman Lins, Brazilian novelist
• * János Starker, Hungarian cellist
• July 6
• * Draga Ahačič, Slovene actress, film director, translator and journalist
• * Ernest Graves Jr., United States Army officer
• * Mahim Bora, Indian writer, educationist
• * Robert Michael White, American military aircraft test pilot, fighter pilot, electrical engineer and major general in the United States Air Force
• July 7
• * Sam Cathcart, American football halfback, defensive back
• * Graham Dunscombe, Australian rules footballer
• * Amir Murtono, Indonesian general during Suharto's New Order regime
• * Karim Olowu, Nigerian sprinter, long jumper
• * Lennart Samuelsson, Swedish association football player
• July 8 - Charles C. Droz, American politician
• July 9 - Domenico Pace, Italian fencer
• July 10
• * Ip Chun, Chinese martial artist specialising in Wing Chun
• * Gloria Stroock, American actress
• * Gianfranco Bellini, Italian actor and voice actor
• July 11
• * F. James Rutherford, American science professor
• * Ilie Tudor, Romanian fencer
• * Ragnar Rommetveit, Norwegian psychologist
• * Oscar Wyatt, American businessman, self-made millionaire
• * René Jeandel, French cross-country and Nordic combined skier
• * Brett Somers, Canadian actress
• * Al Federoff, American professional baseball infielder, manager
• * Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer
• July 12
• * Faidon Matthaiou, Greek basketball coach, player
• * Shirley Neil Pettis, U.S. Representative from California, wife of her predecessor, Jerry Pettis
• July 13
• * Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor
• * Eric Barnard, Australian politician
• * Johnny Gilbert, American game show announcer
• * Maria Koterbska, Polish singer
• * Alejandro Roces, Filipino author, essayist and dramatist
• * Piero Trapanelli, Italian football player, coach
• July 14
• * Val Avery, American character actor
• * David Evans, senior commander of the Royal Air Force
• * Warren Giese, American football player, coach and politician
• July 15
• * Peter Armitage, English statistician specialising in medical statistics
• * Marianne Bernadotte, Swedish actress
• * David Cox, British statistician
• * Makhmud Esambayev, Russian actor
• * Hugh Stretton, Australian historian
• July 16
• * Claude Abravanel, Swiss pianist, classical music composer
• * Mariam Jack-Denton, Gambian lawyer, politician
• * James L. Greenfield, American administrator
• * Bess Myerson, American politician, model and television actress
• * Mohamed Selim Zaki, Egyptian equestrian
• July 17 - Li Li-Hua, Chinese Hong-Kong actress
• July 18
• * Tullio Altamura, Italian film actor
• * Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer
• July 19
• * Pat Hingle, American actor
• * Frank Ivancie, American businessman and politician
• * Bob Johnston, Australian economist
• * Arthur Rankin Jr., American film director, producer and co-founder of Rankin/Bass Productions
• * Sergio Sorrentino, Italian sailor
• July 20
• * Lola Albright, American singer, actress
• * Vivean Gray, Australian television, film actress
• * Tatyana Lioznova, Soviet film director
• * Robert D. Maurer, American industrial physicist
• * Elias Sarkis, 11th President of Lebanon
• July 21
• * Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistan Army four-star general
• * Don Knotts, American comedic actor
• * Morando Morandini, Italian film critic, author, journalist and actor
• July 22 - Margaret Whiting, American singer
• July 23 - Avern Cohn, American judge
• July 24
• * Edward Digby, 12th Baron Digby, British peer, Army officer
• * Paul Meier, American statistician
• * Aris Poulianos, Greek anthropologist and archaeologist
• July 28 - Anne Braden, American civil rights activist
• July 29
• * Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor
• * Lillian Faralla, American female professional baseball player
• * Robert Horton, American actor, singer
• July 30
• * William H. Gass, American novelist
• * C. T. Vivian, American civil rights activist, minister and author

  August

• August 1
• * King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
• * Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• * Frank Havens, American canoeist
• * Michael Stewart, American playwright, stage librettist
• * Frank Worrell, West Indies cricketer
• August 2
• * James Baldwin, African-American author, novelist, playwright and activist
• * Carroll O'Connor, American actor
• August 3
• * Max Oldmeadow, Australian politician
• * Leon Uris, American writer
• August 4 - Antonio Maccanico, Italian constitutional specialist, social liberal politician
• August 5
• * Ben Jones, 7th Prime Minister of Grenada
• * Josefina Villalobos, First Lady of Ecuador
• August 6
• * Ella Jenkins, American folk singer of children's music
• * Terence Macartney-Filgate, English-born Canadian film director
• * Erich Schriever, Swiss Olympic rower
• August 7
• * Cecil Abbott, Commissioner of the New South Wales Police in Australia
• * Kenneth Kendall, British newsreader, presenter
• August 8 - Gene Deitch, American illustrator, animator and film director
• August 9 - Marta Becket, American dancer
• August 10
• * Martha Hyer, American actress
• * Nancy Buckingham, British romance novelist
• August 12
• * Derek Shackleton, English cricketer
• * Idris Shah II of Perak, 33rd Sultan of Perak
• * Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan
• August 13
• * Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, Brazilian cardinal
• * Josette Arène, French swimmer
• * Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia
• * Pierre Lardinois, Belgian politician
• August 14
• * Eduardo Fajardo, Spanish actor
• * Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor
• * Georges Prêtre, French orchestral, opera conductor
• August 15
• * Werner Abrolat, German actor
• * Robert Bolt, English writer
• * Phyllis Schlafly, American activist
• * Jo Benkow, Norwegian politician, writer
• August 16
• * Ralf Bendix, German Schlager singer, music producer, composer and songwriter
• * Fess Parker, American television actor, businessman
• * Tankmar Horn, Finnish diplomat, business executive
• * Inez Voyce, American female baseball player
• * Benny Bartlett, American child actor, musician
• August 17
• * Jean-Paul Alata, French political prisoner in Camp Boiro, Guinea
• * Evan S. Connell, Jr., American fiction writer and poet
• * Charles Simmons, American author
• August 18 - Frank Logue, 25th mayor of New Haven, Connecticut
• August 19 - Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist
• August 20 - Frank Joseph Guarini, American politician
• August 21 - Dalia Wood, Canadian politician
• August 22 - Orlando Ramón Agosti, Argentine general
• August 23
• * Elaine Sturtevant, American artist
• * Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• * Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress
• August 24
• * Ahmadou Ahidjo, President of Cameroon
• * Alyn Ainsworth, British musician, singer and conductor
• * Jimmy Gardner, British actor
• * Louis Teicher, American pianist
• August 25 - Sergio Bergonzelli, Italian director, screenwriter, producer and actor
• August 26
• * John Peake, English field hockey player
• * Barbara Staff, American political activist
• August 28
• * Berislav Klobučar, Croatian opera conductor
• * Peggy Ryan, American dancer
• August 29
• * María Dolores Pradera, Spanish singer, actress
• * Clyde Scott, American athlete
• * Dinah Washington, African-American singer, pianist
• August 31
• * Buddy Hackett, American actor, comedian
• * Thomas J. Hudner Jr., American naval aviator

  September

• September 1 - Diana Decker, American-English actress and singer
• September 2
• * Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya
• * Sidney Phillips, American physician, WW2 Marine documentary consultant
• * Knud Leif Thomsen, Danish film director, screenwriter
• September 3 - Mary Grace Canfield, American actress
• September 4
• * Joan Aiken, English writer
• * Anita Snellman, Finnish painter
• September 5
• * Paul Dietzel, American college football coach
• * Roy Andrew Miller, American linguist
• September 6
• * John Melcher, American politician
• * Dale E. Wolf, American businessman, politician
• September 7 - Daniel Inouye, American politician
• September 8
• * Hazel Brooks, American actress
• * Mimi Parent, Canadian painter
• September 9
• * Jane Greer, American actress
• * Sylvia Miles, American actress
• * Russell M. Nelson, 17th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• * Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist
• September 11
• * Daniel Akaka, American soldier, engineer and politician
• * Tom Landry, American football player, coach
• * Rudolf Vrba, Slovak-Jewish Holocaust survivor, escapee from Auschwitz
• September 12 - Howard C. Nielson, American politician
• September 13
• * Scott Brady, American actor
• * Maurice Jarre, French composer
• September 14
• * Jerry Coleman, American Major League Baseball player, owner
• * Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat, author
• September 15
• * György Lázár, 50th Prime Minister of Hungary
• * Bobby Short, American entertainer
• September 16 - Lauren Bacall, American actress
• September 18
• * Alma W. Byrd, American politician
• * Eloísa Mafalda, Brazilian actress
• * Antonin Rolland, French road cycling racer
• September 19
• * Don Harron, Canadian entertainer
• * Rosario Mazzola, Italian Roman Catholic prelate
• * Suchitra Mitra, Indian singer, composer
• September 20
• * Gogi Grant, American singer
• * Helen Grayco, American singer, actress
• * Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and producer
• * Albert Marre, American director and producer
• September 21
• * Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer
• * Christian Palant, French pentathlete
• September 22
• * Bernard Gauthier, French racing cyclist
• * Charles Keeping, English illustrator
• * J. William Middendorf, American soldier and politician
• * Emile Wijntuin, Surinamese politician
• * Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
• * Gerald Schoenfeld, American chairman
• September 23 - Heinrich Schultz, Estonian cultural functionary
• September 24
• *Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
• *Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor
• September 27
• * Wendell Bell, American futurist
• * Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist and academic
• September 28 - Merwin Coad, American politician
• September 29 - Lloyd L. Burke, United States Army soldier
• September 30
• * Truman Capote, American author
• * Georgiana Young, American actress

  October

• October 1
• * Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• * William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States
• * Roger Williams, American pianist
• October 2 - Ruby Stephens, American female baseball player
• October 3 - Harvey Kurtzman, American editor, cartoonist and creator of Mad
• October 4 - Samuel Lamb, Chinese Christian pastor
• October 5 - Bill Dana, American comedian, actor, screenwriter
• October 6 - Margaret Fulton, Australian food writer
• October 7 - Joyce Reynolds, American actress
• October 8
• * John Nelder, British statistician
• * Othman Wok, Singaporean politician
• October 9
• * Alfonso Oiterong, 2nd President of Palau
• * Arnie Risen, American basketball player
• October 10
• * Buddy MacMaster, American artist
• * David Shepherd, American producer, director and actor
• * Umar Wirahadikusumah, 4th Vice President of Indonesia
• * Ed Wood, American B-movie producer
• October 11 - Mal Whitfield, American Olympic athlete
• October 12
• * Erich Gruenberg, Austrian-British violinist
• * Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician
• October 13
• * Terry Gibbs, American vibraphone player and bandleader
• * Moturu Udayam, Indian women's activist
• October 14
• * Robert Webber, American actor
• * Ramón Castro Ruz, Cuban revolutionary
• October 15
• * Henry Sy, Chinese-Filipino business magnate
• * Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator
• * Warren Miller, American ski and snowboarding filmmaker
• * Lee Iacocca, American industrialist
• * Mark Lenard, American actor
• October 16 - Prince Makonnen, member of the Ethiopian royal family
• October 17 - Fredd Wayne, American actor
• October 18 - Arthur J. Jackson, American military officer
• October 19 - Lubomír Štrougal, Czech politician
• October 21 - Joyce Randolph, American actress
• October 24
• * Christine Glanville, English puppeteer
• * Earl Palmer, American R&B Drummer
• * Aji Muhammad Salehuddin II, Indonesian royal
• October 25
• * Billy Barty, American actor
• * Weston E. Vivian, American politician
• October 27 - Bonnie Lou, American singer

  November

• November 1 - Süleyman Demirel, President of Turkey
• November 3
• * Violetta Elvin, Russian ballerina
• * Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast
• November 4 - Guillermo Rodríguez, 31st President of Ecuador
• November 5 - Alice Colonieu, French artist
• November 6
• * Harlon Block, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima
• * Ted Hartley, American fighter pilot, actor and film producer
• * Jeanette Schmid, famous German whistler
• November 7 - Anđelko Habazin, Yugoslav philosopher
• November 8
• * Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player
• * Dmitry Yazov, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• November 9 - Robert Frank, Swiss photographer
• November 10
• * Tsai Wan-lin, Taiwanese businessman
• * Klaus Baess, Danish Olympic sailor
• * Russell Johnson, American actor
• * Ted Luscombe, Bishop of Brechin
• November 11
• * Sunder Lal Patwa, Indian politician
• * Evelyn Wawryshyn, Canadian professional baseball player
• * Leonard D. Wexler, American judge
• November 13
• * Motoo Kimura, Japanese population geneticist
• * Edward F. Welch, Jr., American admiral
• * Jesús Kumate Rodríguez, Mexican physician, politician
• November 15 - Rosa Helena Álvarez Yepes, First Lady of Colombia
• November 16
• * Erika Mahringer, Austrian alpine skier
• * Mel Patton, American athlete
• November 19
• * William Russell, British actor
• * J. D. Sumner, American gospel singer
• November 20
• * Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born mathematician
• * Mark Miller, American actor
• November 21
• * Joseph Campanella, American actor
• * Víctor Hipólito Martínez, Argentine lawyer, politician
• * Christopher Tolkien, English author and academic
• November 22
• * Geraldine Page, American actress
• * Robert M. Young, American film director and producer
• November 23 - Anita Linda, Filipino actress
• November 24
• * James M. Burns, American attorney and judge
• * Lorne Munroe, Canadian-American cellist and educator
• * Joanne Winter, American female professional baseball pitcher, LPGA player
• November 25
• * Paul Desmond, American jazz alto saxophonist and composer
• * Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic and philosopher
• * A. Hamid Arief, Indonesian actor
• November 26 - Bhekimpi Dlamini, 4th Prime Minister of Swaziland
• November 28
• * Calvin J. Spann, African-American Tuskegee Airman, fighter pilot
• * Dennis Brutus, South African poet and anti-apartheid activist
• November 29 - Irv Noren, American baseball and basketball player
• November 30
• * Shirley Chisholm, African-American politician
• * Otto Kaiser, German biblical scholar
• * Allan Sherman, American comedy writer, television producer and song parodist

  December

• December 1 - Masao Horiba, Japanese businessman
• December 2 - Alexander Haig, American politician, U.S. Secretary of State
• December 3 - Francisco Sionil José, Filipino novelist, Philippine National Artist for Literature
• December 4 - John C. Portman Jr., American architect
• December 5
• * Vladimir Dolgikh, Russian politician
• * John Keston, English actor, singer and masters athlete
• December 6 - Wally Cox, American television, motion picture actor
• December 7
• * John Love, Zimbabwean racing driver
• * Bent Fabric, Danish pianist, composer
• * Mário Soares, 105th Prime Minister of Portugal, 17th President of Portugal
• December 9 - Frank Sturgis, one of the five Watergate burglars whose capture led to the end of the Presidency of Richard Nixon
• December 10 - Michael Manley, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica
• December 11 - Heinz Schenk, German television moderator, actor
• December 12
• * Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City
• * Harley D. Nygren, American rear admiral, director of the NOAA Corps
• December 13
• * Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 29th Prime Minister of Nepal
• * Robert Coogan, American actor
• * Maria Riva, American actress
• December 14
• * Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, producer and director
• * Siiri Rantanen, Finnish cross-country skier
• December 15 - Esther Béjarano, German member of Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
• December 16 - Nissim Ezekiel, Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art critic
• December 17
• * Béla Zsitnik, Hungarian Olympic rower
• * Margaret Wigiser, American female professional baseball player
• December 18 - Alberto Ablondi, Italian bishop
• December 19
• * Michel Tournier, French writer
• * Cicely Tyson, American actress
• December 23 - Bob Kurland, American basketball player
• December 24
• * Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somali diplomat, politician and 4th Prime Minister of Somalia
• * Roy Miller, West Indian cricketer
• * Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer
• December 25
• * Moktar Ould Daddah, 1st President of Mauritania
• * Rod Serling, American television screenwriter
• * Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 10th Prime Minister of India
• * Abba Siddick, Chadian politician
• * Fatimah Hashim, Malaysian politician
• December 26 - Frank Broyles, American college football coach, athletic director
• December 27 - Frank North, American football coach
• December 28 - Girma Wolde-Giorgis, 2nd President of Ethiopia
• December 29 - Kim Song-ae, Korean politician
• December 30 - Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American engineer
• December 31
• * Frank J. Kelley, 50th Michigan Attorney General
• * Taylor Mead, American actor
• * J. Donald Monan, American academic administrator
• * Lawrence W. Pierce, American judge
• * Robert Ravenstahl, American politician

  Deaths

January

• January 2 - Sabine Baring-Gould, British composer and novelist
• January 4 - John Peters, American 19th century baseball player
• January 13
• * Albert Abrams, American doctor
• * Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist
• January 14 - Luther Emmett Holt, American pediatrician
• January 16 - Licerio Gerónimo, Filipino military leader
• January 21 - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary, first Premier of the Soviet Union
• January 24
• * Auguste-Louis-Alberic, prince d'Arenberg
• * Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
• January 28 - Teófilo Braga, Portuguese writer
• January 30 - Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier

  February

• February 3 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
• February 16
• * John William Kendrick, American railroad executive
• * Wilhelm Schmidt, German pioneer of superheated steam for use in locomotives
• February 17
• * Henry Bacon, American architect
• * Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère, French admiral
• February 22 - Manuel Tinio, Filipino general and politcian
• February 29 - Emily Ruete, princess of Zanzibar

  March

• March 4 - Fanny Eaton, Jamaican artist's model
• March 9
• * Panagiotis Danglis, Greek military leader, politician
• * Daniel Ridgway Knight, American artist
• March 11
• * Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg
• * Ivan Evstratiev Geshov, 18th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• March 15 - Wollert Konow, Norwegian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Norway
• March 22
• * Robert Nivelle, French World War I general
• * Louis Delluc, French film director
• * Sir William Macewen, British surgeon
• March 24 - Prince Kachō Hirotada of Japan
• March 29 - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, resident in United Kingdom
• March 31 - Nilo Peçanha, Brazilian politician and 7th President of Brazil

  April

• April 1 - Frank Capone, American gangster, brother of Al Capone
• April 10
• * Rafael Yglesias Castro, Costa Rican politician, 16th President of Costa Rica
• * Hugo Stinnes, German industrialist, politician
• April 14 - Louis Sullivan, American architect
• April 19 - Paul Boyton, Irish-American extreme water sports pioneer
• April 21 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress
• April 24 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist, educator

  May

• May 4 - E. Nesbit, British author
• May 5 - Kate Claxton, American actress
• May 6 - Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet
• May 10 - George Kennan, American explorer
• May 15 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• May 26 - Victor Herbert, Irish dramatist
• May 31 - Charles Stockton, American admiral

  June

• June 3 - Franz Kafka, Austrian author
• June 9
• * Andrew Irvine, British mountain climber
• * George Mallory, British mountain climber
• June 10 - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist politician
• June 11
• *Théodore Dubois, French composer, teacher
• *Jacob Israël de Haan, Dutch-Jewish literary writer, journalist
• June 30 - Johannes von Eben, German general

  July

• July 14
• * Isabella Ford, British socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer
• * Isabella Stewart Gardner, American art collector, philanthropist
• July 23 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar
• July 27 - Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist, composer

  August

• August 2 - George Shiras Jr., American Supreme Court Justice
• August 3 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born author
• August 5 - Teodor Teodorov, 19th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• August 7 - Bruce Grit, African-American historian, ex-slave
• August 8 - Ernestine von Kirchsberg, Austrian painter
• August 15 - Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, British Private Secretary to King Edward VII.
• August 17
• * Paul Natorp, German philosopher
• * Pavel Urysohn, Russian mathematician
• August 18 - Antoine de Mitry, French general
• August 23 - Heinrich Berté, Austrian operetta composer
• August 25 - Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general
• August 31 - Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary

  September

• September 1 - Samuel Baldwin Marks Young, American general, first Chief of Staff of the United States Army
• September 6 - Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria
• September 11 - Muhammad Jamalul Alam II, Sultan of Brunei
• September 15 - Frank Chance, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer
• September 18 - F. H. Bradley, English philosopher
• September 22 - Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza, Austro-Hungarian field marshal
• September 24 - Manuel Estrada Cabrera, 13th President of Guatemala
• *Consort Jin, Qing Dynasty imperial consort
• September 25 - Lotta Crabtree, American stage actress

  October

• October 12 - Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• October 18
• * Giovanni Ancillotto, Italian World War I flying ace
• *Franz Schrader, French mountaineer, geographer, cartographer, and landscape painter
• * Sir Percy Scott, British admiral
• October 26 - Luigi Pelloux, 14th Prime Minister of Italy
• October 29
• * Frances Hodgson Burnett, Anglo-American writer
• * John Marden, Australian headmaster, pioneer of women's education

  November

• November 3 - Mario di Carpegna, Italian general, politician
• November 4 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer
• November 9 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician
• November 10
• * Sir Archibald Geikie, British geologist
• * Dean O'Banion, American gangster
• November 19 - Thomas Ince, American film producer
• November 20 - Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman and the father of the Football Association and modern football
• November 21 - Florence Kling Harding, First Lady of the United States
• November 24
• * Peter Milne, British missionary to the New Hebrides
• * Fernando Tamagnini de Abreu e Silva, Portuguese general
• November 29 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer

  December

• December 2
• * Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian linguist
• * Hugo von Seeliger, German astronomer
• December 4 - Cipriano Castro, Venezuelan military officer, politician and 38th President of Venezuela
• December 5 - S. Subramania Iyer, Indian lawyer and freedom fighter
• December 6 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist
• December 8 - Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German composer
• December 13 - Samuel Gompers, American labor leader
• December 15 - Prince Wilhelm of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
• December 20 - Ricardo Bellver, Spanish sculptor
• December 21 - Anna Hierta-Retzius, Swediah women's rights activist
• December 27 - Agda Meyerson, Swedish nurse, healthcare profession activist
• December 29 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• December 31 - Sir Samuel Knaggs, British civil servant

  Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Manne Siegbahn
• Chemistry -
• Physiology or Medicine - Willem Einthoven
• Literature - Władysław Stanisław Reymont
• Peace -