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[[File:1946 Events Collage V 1.0.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Clockwise from top-left: the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] are discovered; the [[All-India Muslim League]] takes [[direct action]] on [[Direct Action Day]]; [[First Indochina War]] between [[French Fourth Republic|France]] and the [[Viet Minh]]; [[ENIAC]], the first general-purpose [[computer]]; the [[Greek Civil War]] breaks out between the [[Kingdom of Greece]] and the [[Communist Party of Greece]]-led [[Provisional Democratic Government]]; post-war issues cause a [[Soviet famine of 1946–1947|famine]] in the [[Soviet Union]]; [[Iran crisis of 1946|Crisis]] breaks out in [[Pahlavi Iran|Iran]], one of the first crises of the [[Cold War]]; the [[Nuremberg trials]] are held by the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] against representatives of defeated [[Nazi Germany]].]]
'''1946''' ([[Roman numerals|MCMXLVI]]) was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]], the 1946th year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[Anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, the 946th  year of the [[2nd millennium]], the 46th year of the [[20th century]], and the 7th year of the [[1940s]] decade.
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==Events==

===January===
{{Main|January 1946}}
[[File:Flag of the United Nations.svg|thumb|110px|right| [[January 10]]: First meeting of the [[United Nations|UN]].]]
[[File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|thumb|100px|right| [[January 10]]: [[Project Diana]]]]
* [[January 6]] – The [[1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election|first general election]] ever in [[Vietnam]] is held.<ref>[[Dieter Nohlen]], Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II'', p331 {{ISBN|0-19-924959-8}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] – The [[Allies of World War II]] recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four [[Allied-occupied Austria|occupation zones]].
* [[January 10]]
** The first meeting of the [[United Nations]] is held, at [[Methodist Central Hall Westminster]] in [[London]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Christian Social Action|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8aMlAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church|page=36}}</ref>
** ''[[Project Diana]]'' bounces [[radar]] waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the [[Space Age]].
* [[January 11]] – [[Enver Hoxha]] declares the [[People's Republic of Albania]], with himself as [[prime minister of Albania|prime minister]].
* [[January 16]] – [[Charles de Gaulle]] resigns as head of the [[Provisional Government of the French Republic|French provisional government]].
* [[January 17]] – The [[United Nations Security Council]] holds its first session, at [[Church House, Westminster]] in London.
* [[January 19]]
** The [[Bell X-1|Bell XS-1]] is test flown for the first time (unpowered), with Bell's chief [[test pilot]] [[Jack Woolams]] at the controls.
** General [[Douglas MacArthur]] establishes the [[International Military Tribunal for the Far East]] in Tokyo, to try Japanese war criminals.
* [[January 20]] – [[Charles de Gaulle]] resigns as [[president of France]].
* [[January 22]]
** [[Iran crisis of 1946]]: [[Qazi Muhammad]] declares the independent people's [[Republic of Mahabad]], at the [[Chahar Cheragh Square]] in the [[Kurds|Kurdish]] city of [[Mahabad]]. He is the new president, [[Haji Baba Sheikh]] is the [[prime minister]].
** The National Intelligence Authority, and its operational arm, the Central Intelligence Group, are established in the United States; these become part of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] in [[1947]].<ref>{{cite book|editor=[[William M. Leary|Leary, William M.]]|title=The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents|publisher=University of Alabama Press|year=1984|pages=20–21}}</ref>
[[File:Stamp Canada 1929 50c Bluenose.jpg|thumb|130px|right| [[January 28]]: ''[[Bluenose]]'' founders.]]
* [[January 28]] – The Canadian schooner ''[[Bluenose]]'' founders on a Haitian reef.
* [[January 31]]
** The last session of the [[Permanent Court of International Justice]] occurs.
** [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]'s [[1946 Yugoslav Constitution|new constitution]], modeling the [[Soviet Union]], establishes 6 constituent republics ([[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Croatia]], [[Republic of Macedonia|Macedonia]], [[Montenegro]], [[Serbia]] and [[Slovenia]]).

===February===
{{Main|February 1946}}
* [[February 1]]
** [[Trygve Lie]] of Norway is selected as the first [[United Nations Secretary-General]].
** The [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)|Kingdom of Hungary]] becomes a [[Second Hungarian Republic|republic]], heavily influenced by the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[February 14]] – [[ENIAC]] (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), an early general-purpose electronic [[computer]], is unveiled at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]; it weighs 60,000 pounds (over 27 tons), and occupies a big room.
* [[February 15]] – The [[Gouzenko Affair]]: Canada announces the shocking discovery of a ring of Canadian communist spies based at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, passing [[atomic bomb]] secrets to Russia.
* [[February 20]] – An explosion kills more than 400 coal miners in [[Bergkamen]], West Germany.<ref>{{cite book|author=F. S. V. Donnison|title=Civil Affairs and Military Government: North-west Europe, 1944-1946.|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|year=1961|page=416}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] – [[Juan Perón]] is elected [[president of Argentina]].

===March===
{{Main|March 1946}}
* [[March 2]]
** British troops withdraw from [[Pahlavi Iran|Iran]] according to treaty; the Soviets do not.
** [[Ho Chi Minh]] is elected President of [[North Vietnam]].
* [[March 4]] – [[Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim|C. G. E. Mannerheim]] resigns as [[president of Finland]].
* [[March 5]] – In his speech at [[Westminster College (Missouri)|Westminster College]], in [[Fulton, Missouri]], [[Winston Churchill]] talks about the ''[[Iron Curtain]]''.
* [[March 6]] – [[First Indochina War]]: [[Ho Chi Minh]] signs an agreement with France, which recognizes [[Vietnam]] as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
* [[March 7]] – The [[18th Academy Awards]] Ceremony is held. [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] goes to ''[[The Lost Weekend (film)|The Lost Weekend]]''.
* [[March 8]] – The [[Bell 47]] becomes the first helicopter certified for civilian use in the [[United States]]
* [[March 9]] – [[Juho Kusti Paasikivi]] becomes the 7th [[President of Finland]].
* [[March 19]]
** The [[Soviet Union]] and Switzerland resume [[diplomatic relations]].
** [[French Guiana]], [[Guadeloupe]], [[Martinique]] and [[Réunion]] become [[overseas department|overseas ''départements'']] of France.
* [[March 22]] – The United Kingdom grants the [[British protectorate]] of the [[Emirate of Transjordan]] (later known as [[Jordan]]) its independence by the [[Treaty of London (1946)|Treaty of London]].<ref>"Year by Year 1946" – [[History Channel International]].</ref>
* [[March 29]] – The [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]] has an African majority in its parliament.

===April===
{{Main|April 1946}}
* [[April 1]]
** The 8.6 {{M|w}} [[1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake|Aleutian Islands earthquake]] shakes the [[Aleutian Islands]], with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VI (''Strong''). A destructive [[tsunami]] reaches the [[Hawaiian Islands]], resulting in many deaths, mostly in [[Hilo, Hawaii|Hilo]]. Between 165 and 173 are killed.
** The [[Malayan Union]] is formed on dissolution of the [[British Military Administration (Malaya)|British Military Administration]] and [[Singapore]] becomes a [[Crown colony]].
** The [[Battle of Määritsa]] takes place between [[Estonian partisans]] and [[Soviet Armed Forces|Soviet forces]] in southeastern [[Estonia]].
* [[April 3]] – Japanese Lt. General [[Masaharu Homma]] is executed outside [[Manila]] in the [[Philippines]], for leading the [[Bataan Death March]].
* [[April 5]] – A British [[Fleet Air Arm]] [[Vickers Wellington]] [[1946 Rabat Vickers Wellington crash|crashes]] into a residential area in [[Rabat, Malta|Rabat]], [[Crown Colony of Malta|Malta]] during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Attard |first1=Eddie |title=The air crash disaster in Rabat 70 years ago |url=https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/The-air-crash-disaster-in-Rabat-70-years-ago.607711 |work=[[Times of Malta]] |date=4 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202142854/https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/The-air-crash-disaster-in-Rabat-70-years-ago.607711 |archive-date=2 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Crash of a Vickers 440 Wellington X in Ir-Rabat: 20 killed |url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-440-wellington-x-ir-rabat-20-killed |website=Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209145837/https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-440-wellington-x-ir-rabat-20-killed |archive-date=9 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Accident details |url=http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1946/1946-19.htm |website=PlaneCrashInfo.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209150524/http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1946/1946-19.htm |archive-date=9 February 2020}}</ref>
* [[April 10]] – In Japan, women vote for the first time, during elections for the House of Representatives of the 90th [[Meiji Constitution|Imperial Diet]].
* [[April 14]] – ''[[Sh'erit ha-Pletah]]'' members of [[Nakam]], the "Jewish Avengers", use [[arsenic]] to poison bread baked for [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] prisoners of war held at [[Stalag XIII-D]] by the Americans.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/26/second.world.war|title=Revenge|last=Freedland|first=Jonathan|author-link=Jonathan Freedland|date=2008-07-26|work=The Guardian|location=London|access-date=2016-10-24}}</ref>
* [[April 17]] – [[Syria]]'s independence from France is officially recognized.
* [[April 18]]
** The inaugural session of the [[International Court of Justice]] (ICJ) takes place at [[The Hague]].
** The [[League of Nations]], in its last meeting, transfers its mission to the [[United Nations]] and disbands itself.
** The United States recognizes [[Josip Broz Tito]]'s government in the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]].
* [[April 28]] – ''[[Kinderdorf Pestalozzi]]'' (Pestalozzi Children's Village) is established at [[Trogen, Switzerland]] to accommodate and educate [[orphan]]s of World War II, according to [[Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi]]'s principles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001442/144223eb.pdf|first=Fritz|last=Wezel|title=Pestalozzi Children Village at Trogen|publisher=[[UNESCO]]|date=1948-10-01|access-date=2010-11-23}}</ref>
* [[April 29]] – Trials against [[war criminal]]s begin in Tokyo; the accused include [[Hideki Tojo]], [[Shigenori Tōgō]] and [[Hiroshi Ōshima]].

===May===
{{Main|May 1946}}
* [[May 1]] – At least 800 [[Indigenous Australian]] pastoral workers walk off the job in Northwest Western Australia, starting [[1946 Pilbara strike|one of the longest industrial strikes in Australia]].
* [[May 7]] – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed ''[[Sony]]'') is founded, with about 20 employees.
* [[May 9]] – King [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy]] abdicates, and is succeeded by his son [[Umberto II of Italy|Umberto II]].
* [[May 10]]
** [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] is elected leader of the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]] in India.
** The first [[V-2 rocket]] to be successfully launched in the United States is fired from [[White Sands Missile Range]].
* [[May 21]] – [[Manhattan Project]] physicist [[Louis Slotin]] accidentally triggers a [[fission reaction]] at the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] in the United States and, although saving his coworkers, gives himself a lethal dose of [[ionizing radiation]], making him the second victim of a [[criticality accident]] in history (the incident is initially treated as [[classified information]]).
* [[May 23]]–[[May 24|24]] – [[Tornado outbreak of May 23–24, 1946|A two-day violent tornado outbreak]] occurs across the Central United States, with at least 15 significant tornadoes killing four people and injuring 42 others.
* [[May 25]] – The Emirate of Jordan becomes the [[Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan]] when its parliament makes the ruling [[Abdullah I of Jordan|amir Abdullah]] their king on the day it ratifies the [[Treaty of London (1946)|Treaty of London]].
* [[May 26]] – [[1946 Czechoslovak parliamentary election]]: Communists win with (38%), in the last election before communists take power.
* [[May 31]] – The [[1946 Greek referendum]] supports the return of the [[monarchy of Greece|monarchy]].

===June===
{{Main|June 1946}}
[[File:Allied Victory Parade in London, 1946 H42790.jpg|thumb|upright|Four [[DUKW]] amphibious vehicles taking part in the Victory Parade in [[London]] on 8 June 1946]]
* [[June 1]]
** [[Ion Antonescu]], prime minister and "Conducator" (Leader) of [[Romania]] during World War II, is executed; he was found guilty of betraying the Romanian people for benefits of Germany and sentenced to death by the [[Bucharest People's Tribunal]].
** [[Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu|D'Argenlieu]], French [[High Commissioner]] for [[Indo-China]], recognizes an autonomous "Republic of Cochin-China" in violation of the [[March 6]] [[Ho–Sainteny agreement]], opening the way for conflict between the [[Viet Minh]] and France.<ref>{{cite book |first=Fredrik |last=Logevall |author-link=Fredrik Logevall |title=[[Embers of War]] |publisher=[[Random House]] |year=2013 |page=136 |isbn=978-0375756474}}</ref>
* [[June 2]] – [[1946 Italian institutional referendum]]: Italians vote to turn Italy from a [[monarchy]] into a [[republic]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Monarchy Voted Out; Italian King Leaving|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal|date=1946-06-05|page=1}}</ref> In the simultaneous [[1946 Italian general election]], the first since the end of World War II and also the first in which women are allowed to vote, the [[Christian Democracy (Italy)|Christian Democracy]] party, led by Prime Minister [[Alcide De Gasperi]], wins most seats in the [[Constituent Assembly of Italy]] and forms a coalition government.<ref>{{cite book|first=Guillermo A.|last=O'Donnell|display-authors=etal|title=Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Southern Europe|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore, Md|year=1986|page=63}}</ref> Christian Democracy leads the Italian government continuously until 1981.
* [[June 3]] – [[Interpol]] is re-founded; the [[telegraphic address]] "Interpol" is adopted.
* [[June 8]] – In [[Indonesia]], [[Sukarno]] incites his supporters to fight Dutch colonial occupation.
* [[June 9]] – In [[Thailand]], King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] (Rama IX) accedes to the throne after the death of his elder brother, King [[Ananda Mahidol]] (Rama VIII). He will reign until his death on [[October 13]], [[2016]].
* [[June 10]] – Italy is declared a [[republic]].
* [[June 13]] – [[Umberto II of Italy]] leaves the country and goes into exile in Portugal; [[Alcide De Gasperi]] becomes [[head of state]].
* [[June 14]] – The [[Baruch Plan]] is proposed to the United Nations.
* [[June 17]] – Formal ratification of the [[Treaty of London (1946)|Treaty of London]] grants independence to the [[Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan]].
* [[June 23]]
** The 7.5 {{M|w}} [[1946 Vancouver Island earthquake|Vancouver Island earthquake]] affects the island, with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''). Two people are killed.
** [[1946 French India municipal election]]: The [[National Democratic Front (French India)|National Democratic Front]] wins a landslide victory. 
* [[June 25]] – The [[International Bank for Reconstruction and Development]] (IBRD) (World Bank) begins operations.
* [[June 30]] – The [[War Relocation Authority]], which has administered the [[internment of Japanese Americans]], is abolished.

===July===
{{Main|July 1946}}
* [[July 1]] – [[Nuclear testing]]: [[Operation Crossroads]], a series of [[nuclear weapon]] tests conducted by the [[United States and nuclear weapons|United States]] at [[Bikini Atoll]] in [[Micronesia]], is initiated by the detonation of ''Able'' at an altitude of 520 feet (158&nbsp;m).<br/>[[File:Operation Crossroads Baker Edit.jpg|thumb|150px|right| [[July 25]]: Undersea Atomic Test Baker]]
* [[July 4]]
** After more than 48 years of American dominance, the [[Philippines]] attains full independence as the 3rd Republic; [[Manuel A. Roxas]] is 5th [[President of the Philippines]]. It marks the end of nearly 400 years of colonial era when the [[Viceroyalty of New Spain]] took control since April 27, 1565.
** The [[Kielce Pogrom]] takes place in [[Poland]].
* [[July 5]] – The [[bikini]] is first modeled in Paris.
* [[July 16]] – The [[Bureau of Land Management]] (BLM) within the [[Department of the Interior]] is formed by the merger of the [[Grazing Service]] and [[United States General Land Office]].
* [[July 21]] – An [[Irgun]] bomb explodes in [[Jerusalem]], due to secretive talks between Jews and Britain to consolidate the state of Israel.
* [[July 22]] – [[King David Hotel bombing]]: The [[Irgun]] bombs the [[King David Hotel]] (headquarters of the British civil and military administration) in [[Jerusalem]], killing 90.
* [[July 25]]
** [[Nuclear testing]]: In the first underwater test of the [[atomic bomb]], the surplus {{USS|Saratoga|CV-3|6}} is sunk near [[Bikini Atoll]] in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the ''Baker'' device during [[Operation Crossroads]].
** At Club 500 in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]], [[New Jersey]], [[Dean Martin]] and [[Jerry Lewis]] stage their first show as a [[comedy]] team.
** In the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white men [[Moore's Ford lynchings|shoot and kill]] two [[African-American]] couples, near Moore's Ford Bridge in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].

===August===
{{Main|August 1946}}
* [[August 1]] – The [[Scandinavian Airlines]] System is founded as a consortium of the [[flag carrier]]s of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
* [[August 3]] – [[Santa Claus Land]] opens to the public at [[Santa Claus, Indiana]]. It becomes the first themed park, preceding [[Disneyland]] by 9 years, and is later renamed Holiday World.
* [[August 4]] – The [[1946 Dominican Republic earthquake]] (magnitude 8.0) hits the northern Dominican Republic, killing 100 and leaving 20,000 homeless.
* [[August 7]] – The [[Soviet Union]] escalates the [[Turkish Straits crisis]] through a diplomatic demand to Turkey.
* [[August 16]]
** [[Direct Action Day]]: Violence between Muslims and Hindus in [[Calcutta]] begins "The Week of the Long Knives", which leaves 3,000 dead.
** The [[All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress]] is founded in [[Secunderabad]], [[India]].
** The [[Kurdistan Democratic Party]] is founded in [[South Kurdistan]].
* [[August 18]] – The [[Vergarola explosion]] of ordnance in [[Croatia]] kills 70.
* [[August 30]] – [[Bell Aircraft|Bell]]'s chief [[test pilot]], [[Jack Woolams]], dies in a plane crash while flying the [[Bell P-39 Airacobra|P-39 "Cobra I"]] over Lake Ontario preparing for an [[Air racing|air race]] the following day.

===September===
{{Main|September 1946}}
* [[September 1]] – [[1946 Turin Grand Prix]], the first official [[Formula One|Formula One ''Grand Prix'']], is held in [[Italy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.silhouet.com/motorsport/archive/f1/nc/1946/1946.html|title=1946 Grands Prix|date=2017-07-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708014049/http://www.silhouet.com/motorsport/archive/f1/nc/1946/1946.html|access-date=2018-01-30|archive-date=July 8, 2017}}</ref>
* [[September 2]] – The [[Interim Government of India]] takes charge, with [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] as vice president, as part of the transition from the [[British Raj]] to full independence for [[India]] and [[Pakistan]].
* [[September 4]] – Street violence between Muslims and Hindus erupts in [[Bombay]].
* [[September 8]] – [[Bulgaria]] is declared a [[People's Republic]] after a [[referendum]]; King [[Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha|Simeon II]] leaves.
* [[September 19]] – The idea of the [[Council of Europe]] is introduced in a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
* [[September 24]] – [[Cathay Pacific]] Airways is founded in [[Hong Kong]], by American [[Roy Farrell]] and Australian [[Sydney de Kantzow]].
* [[September 28]] 
** [[1946 Australian federal election]]: [[Ben Chifley]]'s [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] [[Chifley government|government]] is re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] led by former [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[Robert Menzies]]. This is the first occasion where a Labor government successfully wins two elections in a row on a federal level, albeit with a swing against them; among the casualties are former Prime Minister [[Frank Forde]]. This is also the first election contested by the newly formed Liberal Party, which had replaced the [[United Australia Party]] as the main centre-right political party in Australia.
** [[George II of Greece]] returns to [[Athens]] from exile in England.

===October===
{{Main|October 1946}}
* [[October 1]] – [[Mensa International|Mensa]], an international organization for people with a high [[intelligence quotient]] (IQ), is founded by [[Roland Berrill]], an Australian-born lawyer, and [[Lancelot Ware]], an English biochemist and lawyer, in [[Oxford]].
* [[October 2]] – Communists establish power in [[Bulgaria]].
* [[October 6]] – Sweden's Prime Minister [[Per Albin Hansson]] dies in office of a heart attack.
* [[October 10]] – The [[Noakhali genocide]] of Hindus in [[Bengal]] begins, at the hands of Muslim mobs.
* [[October 11]] – After a few days of vacancy, the Swedish premiership is taken over by [[Tage Erlander]].
* [[October 13]] – France adopts the constitution of the [[French Fourth Republic|Fourth Republic]].
* [[October 14]] – The [[International Organization for Standardization]] (ISO) is founded.
* [[October 15]] – [[Nuremberg trials]]: [[Hermann Göring]], founder of the [[Gestapo]] and recently convicted [[Nazism|Nazi]] war criminal, poisons himself two hours before his scheduled execution.
* [[October 16]]
** The remaining ten Nazi war criminals sentenced to death at the [[Nuremberg trials]] are executed by hanging, in a gymnasium in the [[Palace of Justice, Nuremberg]].
** The [[United Nations]]' first meeting in [[Long Island]] is held.
* [[October 23]] – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
* [[October 24]]–[[November 11]] – [[1946 Bihar riots]]: Hindu mobs target Muslim families in the Indian state of [[Bihar]], resulting in anywhere between 2,000 and 30,000 deaths.

===November===
{{Main|November 1946}}
* [[November 4]] – [[UNESCO]] (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is established as a specialized agency of the [[United Nations]].
* [[November 10]] – At least 1,400 people are killed when the 6.8–7.0 {{nat|Mw}} [[1946 Ancash earthquake|Ancash earthquake]] affects the [[Quiches District]] of [[Peru]] with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme'').
* [[November 12]]
** A truce is declared between Indonesian nationalist troops and the Dutch army in [[Indonesia]].
** In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank (later part of the [[Bank of America]]) opens the first 10 [[drive-up teller window]]s.
* [[November 15]] – By the [[Linggadjati Agreement]], the Netherlands recognizes the Republic of [[Indonesia]].
* [[November 19]]
** [[Afghanistan]], [[Iceland]] and [[Sweden]] join the [[United Nations]].
** [[1946 Romanian general election]]: The [[Romanian Communist Party]] wins 79.86% of the vote, through widespread intimidation tactics and [[electoral fraud]].
* [[November 23]]
** Vietnamese riot in [[Haiphong]] and clash with French troops. In the [[Haiphong incident]], the French cruiser ''Suffren'' opens fire, killing 6,000 Vietnamese.
** The [[Workers' Party of South Korea]] is founded.
* [[November 27]] – Indian Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] appeals to the United States and the [[Soviet Union]] to end [[nuclear testing]] and start [[nuclear disarmament]], stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster."
* [[November 29]] – The [[Central All-Indonesian Workers Organization]] (SOBSI) is founded in [[Jakarta]].

===December===
{{Main|December 1946}}
* [[December 1]] – [[Miguel Alemán Valdés]] takes office as [[President of Mexico]].
* [[December 2]] – The [[International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling]] is signed in Washington, D.C., to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry" through establishment of the [[International Whaling Commission]].
* [[December 7]] – The [[Winecoff Hotel fire]] in [[Atlanta]], United States, kills 119.
* [[December 10]] – [[John Peters Humphrey]] becomes director of the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]
* [[December 11]] – [[UNICEF]] (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) is founded.
* [[December 12]]
** The [[United Nations]] severs relations with [[Francoist Spain]] and recommends that member countries sever diplomatic relations.
** [[Léon Blum]] founds a government of socialist parties in France.
** [[Iran crisis of 1946]]: Iranian troops recapture the [[Azerbaijan (Iran)|Azerbaijan]] province.
* [[December 14]]
** The [[International Labour Organization]] becomes a specialized agency of the [[United Nations]].
** [[Proposed United States purchase of Greenland#1946|Proposed United States purchase of Greenland]] from Denmark: An offer is made through diplomatic channels.
** [[Aspen Skiing Company]] opens [[Aspen Mountain (ski area)]] in Colorado with [[Ski Lift No. 1]], at {{convert|7980|ft|km|abbr=on}} the world's longest [[chairlift]] at this time.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lund|first=Morten|author2=Hayes, Mary|title=Skiing Comes to Aspen: Visionaries and Teachers|journal=Skiing Heritage Journal|year=1997|issue=2|page=18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oVgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18}}</ref>
* [[December 15]]
** The first [[1946 French India Representative Assembly election|French India Representative Assembly election]] is held.
** [[Iran crisis of 1946]]: Iranian troops recapture the Kurdish [[Republic of Mahabad]].
* [[December 16]] – [[Thailand|Siam]] joins the [[United Nations]] (changes its name to [[Thailand]] in [[1949]]).
* [[December 19]] – [[Viet Minh]] forces begin a [[First Indochina War|war against French occupying forces]] in [[Vietnam]], succeeding in 1954 with France's surrender at the [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu]].
* [[December 21]] – [[1946 Nankai earthquake]]; At least 1,362 people are killed in an earthquake and associated tsunami in Japan.
* [[December 22]] – The [[Havana Conference]] begins between U.S. [[organized crime]] bosses in [[Havana]], [[Cuba]].
* [[December 24]] – The [[French Fourth Republic]] is founded.
* [[December 25]] – The first artificial, self-sustaining [[nuclear chain reaction]] in Europe is initiated, within the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] (Russian) [[nuclear reactor]] [[F-1 (nuclear reactor)|F-1]].
* [[December 31]] – U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] delivers [[Proclamation 2714]], which officially ends hostilities in World War II.

===Date unknown===
* The cancelled 1946 [[FIFA World Cup]].
* [[Female suffrage]] is enacted in [[Romania]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], [[Argentina]], and the Canadian province of [[Quebec]].
* The first female police officers are hired in Korea and Japan.
* The [[Chinese Civil War]] intensifies between the [[Kuomintang]] and the [[Chinese Communist Party]].
* [[Eva Perón]] tours Spain, Italy and France on behalf of [[Argentina]], a circuit called the Rainbow Tour.
* The 20&nbsp;mm [[M61 Vulcan]] [[Gatling gun]] contract is released.
* The [[Casio]] company is founded by engineer Tadao Kashio in Japan.
* The [[Magic 8 Ball]] is invented by Albert C. Carter and Abe Bookman.

==Births==
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===January===
[[File:John-Paul-Jones2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones]]]]
[[File:Diane Keaton 2012-1 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Diane Keaton]]]]
[[File:Dolly Parton accepting Liseberg Applause Award 2010 portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dolly Parton]]]]
[[File:David Lynch (1990).jpg|thumb|100px|[[David Lynch]]]]
[[File:Gene Siskel at the 61st Academy Awards cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gene Siskel]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[Alfonso Caruana]], Italian mobster
** [[Rivellino]], Brazilian football player
* [[January 3]]
** [[John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones]], English rock bassist ([[Led Zeppelin]], [[Them Crooked Vultures]])
** [[Cissy King]], American dancer, singer
* [[January 4]] 
** [[Diana Ewing]], American actress
** [[Lisa Appignanesi]], Polish-born British-Canadian writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression
* [[January 5]] – [[Diane Keaton]], American actress, film director (''[[Annie Hall]]'')
* [[January 6]] – [[Syd Barrett]], English rock guitarist, singer and songwriter ([[Pink Floyd]]) (d. [[2006]])
* [[January 8]] – [[Robby Krieger]], American rock musician ([[The Doors]])
* [[January 9]] 
** [[Levon Ter-Petrosyan]], [[President of Armenia]]
** [[Mogens Lykketoft]], Danish politician
* [[January 10]]
** [[Kalidas Karmakar]], Bangladeshi artist
** [[Ha Yu (actor)|Ha Yu]], Hong Kong actor
* [[January 12]] – [[George Duke]], African-American musician (d. [[2013]])
* [[January 14]]
** [[Feró Nagy]], Hungarian singer
** [[Harold Shipman]], British serial killer (d. [[2004]])
* [[January 16]]
** [[Kabir Bedi]], Indian actor
** [[Michael Coats]], American astronaut
** [[Katia Ricciarelli]], Italian singer
* [[January 17]] – [[Frank Bey]], American blues singer (d. [[2020]])
* [[January 18]]
** [[Paul Shmyr]], Canadian National Hockey League player (d. [[2004]])
** [[Joseph Deiss]], Swiss Federal Councillor
* [[January 19]]
** [[Julian Barnes]], English novelist
** [[Dolly Parton]], American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist
* [[January 20]] – [[David Lynch]], American film director (d. [[2025]])
* [[January 22]]
** [[Malcolm McLaren]], English singer-songwriter, musician and music manager (d. [[2010]])
** [[Serge Savard]], Canadian hockey player, executive
* [[January 23]] – [[Arnoldo Alemán]], [[President of Nicaragua]]
* [[January 24]] – [[Michael Ontkean]], Canadian actor (''[[The Rookies]]'')
* [[January 25]] – [[Géza Bereményi]], Hungarian writer, screenwriter and film director
* [[January 26]]
** [[Gene Siskel]], American film critic (''[[Sneak Previews]]'') (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-02-21-9902210326-story.html |title=He Changed The Way We Look at Movies |work=Chicago Tribune |date=February 21, 1999 |access-date=October 11, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Michel Delpech]], French singer-songwriter and actor (d. [[2016]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Nedra Talley]], African-American singer ([[The Ronettes]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Bettye LaVette]], African-American soul singer-songwriter
* [[January 30]] – [[John Bird, Baron Bird]], British [[social entrepreneur]] and [[life peer]]
* [[January 31]] – [[Terry Kath]], American rock musician ([[Chicago (band)|Chicago]]) (d. [[1978]])

===February===
[[File:Ambassador Nura Abba Rimi & President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Isaias Afwerki]]]]
[[File:Blake Clark April 2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Blake Clark]]]]
[[File:Charlotte Rampling 2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Charlotte Rampling]]]]
[[File:Tyne Daly at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tyne Daly]]]]
[[File:Anthony Daniels 2011.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Anthony Daniels]]]]
[[File:Alan Rickman at BAM -17.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alan Rickman]]]]
* [[February 1]] 
** [[Elisabeth Sladen]], English actress (d. [[2011]])
** [[Pascal Bonitzer]], French screenwriter, film director, actor and film critic
* [[February 2]]
** [[Isaias Afwerki]], [[President of Eritrea]]
** [[Blake Clark]], American actor, comedian
* [[February 4]] – [[Ron Anderson (voice coach)|Ron Anderson]], American vocal coach and opera singer (d. [[2021]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Charlotte Rampling]], British actress
* [[February 6]] 
** [[Kate McGarrigle]], Canadian singer-songwriter (d. [[2010]]) 
** [[Jim Turner (politician)|Jim Turner]], American politician
* [[February 7]]
** [[Sammy Johns]], American country music singer-songwriter (d. [[2013]])
** [[Pete Postlethwaite]], English actor (d. [[2011]])
** [[Héctor Babenco]], Argentine-Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor (d. [[2016]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Seán Neeson]], Northern Irish politician
* [[February 10]] – [[Dick Anderson]], American professional football player
* [[February 13]] 
** [[Joe Estevez]], American actor
** [[Colin Matthews]], British composer
** [[Richard Blumenthal]], American lawyer and politician
* [[February 14]]
** [[Bernard Dowiyogo]], 7-time [[President of Nauru]] (d. [[2003]])
** [[Tina Aumont]], American actress (d. [[2006]])
** [[Gregory Hines]], African-American dancer, actor (d. [[2003]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Marvin Sease]], American blues and soul singer-songwriter (d. [[2011]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Michael Buerk]], British journalist and newsreader
* [[February 19]] – [[Karen Silkwood]], American activist (d. [[1974]])
* [[February 20]]
** [[Brenda Blethyn]], British actress
** [[Sandy Duncan]], American singer, dancer, comedian and actress
** [[J. Geils]], American guitarist ([[The J. Geils Band]]) (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 21]]
** [[Alan Rickman]], English actor, film director (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Alan Rickman obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-obituary |website=The Guardian |access-date=14 January 2021|date=14 January 2016}}</ref>
** [[Anthony Daniels]], English actor
** [[Vito Rizzuto]], Italian-Canadian mobster (d. [[2013]])
** [[Monica Johnson]], American screenwriter (d. [[2010]])
** [[Tyne Daly]], American actress ([[Cagney & Lacey]])
* [[February 23]] – [[Allan Boesak]], South African [[Dutch Reformed Church]] [[cleric]], politician and anti-apartheid activist
* [[February 24]] – [[Jiří Bělohlávek]], Czech orchestral conductor (d. [[2017]])
* [[February 25]]
** [[Andrew Ang]], judge of the [[Supreme Court of Singapore]]
** [[Franz Xaver Kroetz]], German dramatist<ref>{{cite book|author1=Franz Xaver Kroetz|author2=Richard W. Blevins|title=Franz Xaver Kroetz: The Emergence of a Political Playwright|publisher=P. Lang|year=1983|isbn=9780820400136|page=14}}</ref>
** [[Jean Todt]], French motorsport manager
** [[Elkie Brooks]], English rock, blues and jazz singer
* [[February 26]] 
** [[Ahmed Zewail]], Egyptian-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2016]])
** [[Colin Bell (footballer, born 1946)|Colin Bell]], English footballer (d. [[2021]])
* [[February 27]]
** [[Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn]], British aristocrat (d. [[2018]])
** [[Jaroslav Beneš]], Czech photographer
* [[February 28]]
** [[Don Ciccone]], American singer-songwriter ([[The Critters]]) (d. [[2016]])
** [[Robin Cook]], British politician (d. [[2005]])
** [[Don Francisco (Christian musician)|Don Francisco]], American Christian musician
** [[Syreeta Wright]], African-American singer-songwriter ("[[With You I'm Born Again]]") (d. [[2004]])

===March===
[[File:David Gilmour Argentina 2015 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[David Gilmour]]]]
[[File:Frank Welker Headshot 2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Frank Welker]]]]
[[File:Liza Minnelli Publicity 1973.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Liza Minnelli]]]]
[[File:Timothy Dalton 1987.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Timothy Dalton]]]]
[[File:Alejandro Toledo 2015 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alejandro Toledo]]]]
* [[March 1]]
** [[Jan Kodeš]], Czech tennis player
** [[Lana Wood]], American actress, producer
** [[Tony Ashton]], English rock pianist, keyboardist, singer, composer, producer and artist (d. [[2001]])
* [[March 2]] – [[Morari Bapu]], Hindu Kathakaar
* [[March 3]] – [[James C. Adamson]], NASA astronaut 
* [[March 4]]
** [[Michael Ashcroft]], English entrepreneur
** [[Haile Gerima]], Ethiopian filmmaker
** [[Harvey Goldsmith]], British impresario
* [[March 5]]
** [[Murray Head]], English singer, actor
** [[Lova Moor]], French singer, dancer
** [[Rocky Bleier]], American professional football player and veteran
** [[Richard A. Sofio]], American politician, member of the [[Michigan House of Representatives]] from 1987 to 1990 (d. [[2009]])
* [[March 6]]
** [[Larry Huber]], American television producer, animator
** [[David Gilmour]], English rock musician ([[Pink Floyd]])
* [[March 7]]
** [[John Heard (actor)|John Heard]], American actor (d. [[2017]])
** [[Okko Kamu]], Finnish conductor, violinist
** [[Leandro Mendoza]], Filipino politician (d. [[2013]])
** [[Peter Wolf]], American rock musician ([[The J. Geils Band]])
* [[March 9]]
** [[Steve Ashley]], English singer-songwriter, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, writer and graphic designer
** [[Alexandra Bastedo]], British actress (d. [[2014]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Mike Hollands]], Australian animator
* [[March 12]]
** [[Frank Welker]], American voice actor, singer
** [[Liza Minnelli]], American singer, actress
* [[March 13]] 
** [[Yonatan Netanyahu]], American-born Israeli Army officer (d. in [[Operation Entebbe]]) (d. [[1976]])
** [[Yann Arthus-Bertrand]], French environmentalist, activist, journalist and photographer
* [[March 14]]
** [[Álvaro Arzú]], 32nd President of Guatemala (d. [[2018]])
** [[Wes Unseld]], American basketball player (d. [[2020]])
** [[Mieke Bal]], Dutch cultural theorist, video artist and professor
** [[Molana Azizullah Bohio]], Pakistani religious scholar and politician (d. [[2021]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Bobby Bonds]], American baseball player, manager (d. [[2003]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Sigmund Groven]], Norwegian classical harmonica player
* [[March 17]] – [[Georges J. F. Köhler]], German biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Alkan|first=Sefik S.|date=July 2019|title=Legends of allergy/immunology: Georges Köhler and the discovery of MONOCLONAL antibodies|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30920663|journal=Allergy|volume=74|issue=7|pages=1412–1414|doi=10.1111/all.13798|issn=1398-9995|pmid=30920663|s2cid=219281951 }}</ref>
* [[March 18]] – [[Larry Langford]], American politician (d. [[2019]])
* [[March 19]] 
** [[Steve Halliwell]], English actor (d. [[2023]])
** [[Paul Atkinson (guitarist)|Paul Atkinson]], British guitarist and record company executive (d. [[2004]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Timothy Dalton]], Welsh actor
* [[March 23]] – [[Qamaruzzaman Azmi]], Indian Islamic scholar, philosopher and speaker, president of the [[World Islamic Mission]]
* [[March 25]] 
** [[Cliff Balsom]], English footballer
** [[Stewart W. Bainum Jr.]], American businessman and politician
* [[March 26]] – [[Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias]], Spanish judge (d. [[2019]]) 
* [[March 27]]
** [[Andy Bown]], British singer, songwriter, musician (The Herd, solo, Status Quo)
** [[Mike Jackson (left-handed pitcher)|Mike Jackson]], American baseball pitcher
** [[Miklós Lukáts]], Hungarian politician (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.origo.hu/itthon/20221030-sulyos-betegseg-utan-meghalt-lukats-miklos.html|title=Meghalt Lukáts Miklós|website=origo.hu/|date=October 30, 2022 }}</ref>
* [[March 28]] – [[Alejandro Toledo]], 63rd [[President of Peru]]
* [[March 29]] 
** [[Segun Bucknor]], Nigerian musician, journalist (d. [[2017]])
** [[Billy Thorpe]], English-born Australian singer-songwriter (d. [[2007]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Carolyn Simpson]], judge of the [[Supreme Court of New South Wales]]
* [[March 31]] 
** [[Gonzalo Márquez]], Venezuelan [[Major League Baseball]] player (d. [[1984]])
** [[F'Murr]], French comics artist (d. [[2018]])

===April===
[[File:Hanna Suchocka, Prime Minister of Poland 1992-1993.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hanna Suchocka]]]]
[[File:Ed O'Neill at 2015 PaleyFest.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ed O'Neill]]]]
[[File:Tim Curry cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tim Curry]]]]
[[File:Crafoord Prize D81 9141 (42282165922) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carl XVI Gustaf]]]]
[[File:9.16.13BillPlymptonByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bill Plympton]]]]
* [[April 1]] – [[Ronnie Lane]], English musician ([[Small Faces]], [[Faces (band)|Faces]]) (d. [[1997]])
* [[April 2]] 
** [[Hamengkubuwono X]], [[Sultan]] of the historic [[Yogyakarta Sultanate]] in [[Indonesia]], Governor of [[Yogyakarta Special Region]] 
** [[Beno Axionov]], Russian-Moldovan actor, director, drama teacher and screenwriter 
* [[April 3]] – [[Hanna Suchocka]], [[Prime Minister of Poland]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Hanna Suchocka |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/hanna-suchocka |website=Encyclopædia Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |access-date=28 July 2021|date=25 February 2020}}</ref>
* [[April 4]] – [[Dave Hill (guitarist)|Dave Hill]], English guitarist ([[Slade]])
* [[April 5]]
** [[Jane Asher]], English actress
** [[János Bródy]], Hungarian singer, guitarist, composer and songwriter
** [[Björn Granath]], Swedish actor (d. [[2017]])
* [[April 6]] – [[Paul Beresford]], British-New Zealander politician
* [[April 7]]
** [[Colette Besson]], French track and field athlete (d. [[2005]])
** [[Léon Krier]], Luxembourgish architect
** [[Zaid Abdul-Aziz]], American professional basketball player
* [[April 8]]
** [[Catfish Hunter]], American baseball player (d. [[1999]])
** [[Tim Thomerson]], American actor and comedian
* [[April 10]] – [[David Angell]], American television producer (d. [[2001]]) 
* [[April 11]] 
* [[Chris Burden]], American artist (d. [[2015]])
* [[Bob Harris (radio presenter)|Bob Harris]], British radio presenter 
* [[Nicholas Ball (actor)|Nicholas Ball]], British actor (d. 2024)
* [[April 12]] – [[Ed O'Neill]], American actor (''[[Married... with Children]]'')
* [[April 13]] – [[Al Green]], African-American singer-songwriter and record producer
* [[April 15]] – [[Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1946)|Marsha Hunt]], American actress, singer and novelist
* [[April 16]] – [[Margot Adler]], American journalist
* [[April 18]] – [[Hayley Mills]], English actress
* [[April 19]] – [[Tim Curry]], British actor, voice artist and singer (''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'')
* [[April 20]] 
** [[Julien Poulin]], Canadian actor (d. [[2025]])
** [[Ricardo Maduro]], [[President of Honduras]]
* [[April 22]] 
** [[John Waters]], American film director 
** [[Paul Davies]], English physicist
** [[Allahverdi Baghirov]], (d. [[1992]]) Azerbaijani [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]], leader of the [[Azerbaijani Popular Front Party]] of Agdam and head coach of [[Qarabağ FK]]
* [[April 23]] 
** [[Rosy Afsari]], Bangladeshi actress (d. [[2007]])
** [[Blair Brown]], American actress
* [[April 24]]
** [[Phil Robertson]], American businessman and reality television personality
** [[Kamla Bhasin]], Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist (d. [[2021]])
** [[Ronnie Bird]], French singer
* [[April 25]]
** [[John Fox (statistician)|John Fox]], British statistician
** [[Talia Shire]], American actress (''[[Rocky]]'')
** [[Strobe Talbott]], American journalist
** [[Vladimir Zhirinovsky]], Russian politician (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-06 |title=Vladimir Zhirinovsky obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/06/vladimir-zhirinovsky-obituary |access-date=2022-07-22 |website=The Guardian}}</ref>
* [[April 26]]
** [[Jennie Stoller]], British actress (d. [[2018]]) 
** [[Richard S. Fuld Jr.]], American banker
* [[April 28]] 
** [[Nour El-Sherif]], Egyptian actor (d. [[2015]]) 
** [[Beverly Bivens]], American singer ([[We Five]])
* [[April 29]] 
** [[Franc Roddam]], English film director, businessman, screenwriter, television producer and publisher
** [[Cliven Bundy]], American cattle rancher
* [[April 30]] 
** King [[Carl XVI Gustaf]] of Sweden<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paxton |first1=J. |title=The Statesman's Year-Book 1987-88 |date=16 December 2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-27116-6 |page=1138 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Li8DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1138}}</ref>
** [[Bill Plympton]], American animator, graphic designer, cartoonist and filmmaker
** [[Lee Bollinger]], American attorney and educator

===May===
[[File:Land Rover ‘Defender 2,000,000’ Sells for Record £400,000 at Bonhams Charity Auction (23776501966) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|Dame [[Joanna Lumley]]]]
[[File:MICHAEL ROSEN 2022 (5) (cropped).jpg|thumb|133x133px|[[Michael Rosen]]]]
[[File:CandiceBergen-byPhilipRomano.jpg|thumb|150x150px|[[Candice Bergen]]]]
[[File:Donovan 1969.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Donovan]]]]
[[File:Pressekonferenz Aktion Birlikte - Zusammenstehen-8395.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Udo Lindenberg]]]]
[[File:Reggie Jackson - New York Yankees - 1981.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Reggie Jackson]]]]
[[File:André the Giant in the late '80s.jpg|thumb|100px|[[André the Giant]]]]
[[File:Cher in 2019 cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Cher]]]]
[[File:George_Best_(1976).jpg|thumb|100px|[[George Best]]]]
[[File:Turkish prime minister Tansu Çiller in Brussels.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tansu Çiller]]]]
[[File:Irena Szewinska 2007 AB.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Irena Szewińska]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Joanna Lumley]], English actress, author
* [[May 2]]
** [[Lesley Gore]], American rock singer ("[[It's My Party (Lesley Gore song)|It's My Party]]") (d. [[2015]])
** [[Ralf Gothóni]], Finnish pianist, conductor and composer
* [[May 3]] – [[Mohammed Ibrahim (businessman)|Mohammed Ibrahim]], Sudanese-British businessman and philanthropist
* [[May 4]]
** [[John Watson (racing driver)|John Watson]], Northern Irish racecar driver
** [[John Barnard]], English engineer and racing car designer
** [[Gary Bauer]], American civil servant, activist and politician 
* [[May 5]]
** [[Jim Kelly (martial artist)|Jim Kelly]], African-American actor, martial artist and tennis player (d. [[2013]])
** [[Kebby Musokotwane]], Prime Minister of Zambia (d. [[1996]])
** [[Beth Carvalho]], Brazilian samba singer, guitarist and composer (d. [[2019]])
** [[Eddie Aikau]], Hawaiian lifeguard and surfer (d. [[1978]])
* [[May 6]]
** [[Daouda Malam Wanké]], 6th President of Niger (d. [[2004]])
** [[Susan Brown (English actress)|Susan Brown]], English actress
* [[May 7]]
** [[Bill Kreutzmann]], American drummer ([[Grateful Dead]])
** [[Michael Rosen]], British poet and children's author
* [[May 9]] 
** [[Candice Bergen]], American actress
** [[Yoel Bin-Nun]], Israeli [[Religious Zionism|religious Zionist]] rabbi, a founder of [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]], [[Gush Emunim]], [[Michlelet Herzog]], [[Alon Shvut|Alon Shevut]] and [[Ofra]]
* [[May 10]]
** [[Donovan]], Scottish rock musician
** [[Birutė Galdikas]], Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist and author
** [[Graham Gouldman]], English songwriter, musician ([[10cc]], [[Wax (pop band)|Wax]])
** [[Dave Mason]], English rock musician ([[Traffic (band)|Traffic]])
** [[Murade Isaac Murargy]], Mozambican diplomat, politician
* [[May 11]] 
** [[Robert Jarvik]], American physicist, artificial heart inventor
** [[Ana Amado]], Argentine journalist, filmmaker, academic and feminist (d. [[2016]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Richard Bruce Silverman]], John Evans Professor of Chemistry at [[Northwestern University]]
* [[May 13]] 
** [[Tim Pigott-Smith]], English actor, author (d. [[2017]])
** [[Basil Al Bayati]], Iraqi-born architect and designer
* [[May 14]] 
** [[Claudia Goldin]], American economic historian, recipient of the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]]<ref>{{cite news|title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2023/summary/|date=2023-10-09}}</ref>
** [[Paul Broun]], American physician and politician
** [[Elmar Brok]], German politician 
* [[May 15]] – [[Aly Bain]], Scottish fiddler 
* [[May 16]]
** [[Robert Fripp]], British progressive rock guitarist, composer and producer
** [[Olav Anton Thommessen]], Norwegian composer
* [[May 17]] – [[Udo Lindenberg]], German musician<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Heavy Rock]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1999|edition=First|isbn=0-7535-0257-7|pages=265/6}}</ref>
* [[May 18]] 
** [[Reggie Jackson]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacksre01.shtml|title=Reggie Jackson Stats|website=Baseball Reference|access-date=April 16, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Andreas Katsulas]], American actor (d. [[2006]])
** [[Ken Kwaku]], Ghanaian corporate governance expert
* [[May 19]]
** [[André the Giant]], French professional wrestler and actor (d. [[1993]])
** [[Claude Lelièvre]], Belgian Commissioner for Children Rights
** [[Roger Sloman]], English actor
** [[Carlos Alberto de Barros Franco]], Brazilian physician and professor
* [[May 20]]
** [[Craig Patrick]], American-Canadian hockey player, coach and manager
** [[Cher]], American actress, rock singer
* [[May 22]] 
** [[George Best]], Northern Irish footballer (d. [[2005]])
** [[Howard Kendall]], English footballer (d. [[2015]])
* [[May 23]] 
** [[Frederik de Groot]], Dutch actor
** [[Gary Barnett]], American football player and coach
* [[May 24]]
** [[Tansu Çiller]], Turkish politician, [[Prime Minister of Turkey]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jalalzai |first1=Farida |title=Shattered, Cracked, Or Firmly Intact?: Women and the Executive Glass Ceiling Worldwide |date=28 March 2013 |publisher=OUP USA |isbn=978-0-19-994353-1 |page=214 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5yOS_qcK2oC&pg=PA214}}</ref>
** [[Irena Szewińska]], Polish Olympic sprinter (d. [[2018]])
** [[Nicolau dos Reis Lobato]], East Timorese politician, acting [[President of East Timor]] (d. [[1978]])
** [[Jackie Berroyer]], French actor, comedian and writer
* [[May 26]] – [[Mick Ronson]], English guitarist (d. [[1993]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Alma Adams]], American politician
* [[May 28]]
** [[Bruce Alexander (actor)|Bruce Alexander]], English actor
** [[K. Satchidanandan]], Malayalam poet
* [[May 29]] – [[Fernando Buesa]], Basque politician (d. [[2000]])
* [[May 30]] 
** [[Dragan Džajić]], Serbian footballer
** [[Candy Lightner]], American founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving
* [[May 31]] – [[Adriana Bittel]], Romanian writer

===June===
[[File:Brian Cox (2016) - 01.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Brian Cox (actor)|Brian Cox]]]]
[[File:Official Presidential Portrait of President Donald J. Trump (2025).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Donald Trump]]]]
[[File:Noddy Holder (modified).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Noddy Holder]]]]
[[File:Ted Shakelford (253554794).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Ted Shackelford]]]]
[[File:Ellison Shoji Onizuka (NASA).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Ellison Onizuka]]]]
[[File:Ricky Jay by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ricky Jay]]]]
[[File:Gilda Radner - 1980.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gilda Radner]]]]
* [[June 1]] – [[Brian Cox (actor)|Brian Cox]], Scottish actor
* [[June 2]] 
** [[Peter Sutcliffe]], English serial killer (d. [[2020]])
** [[Tomomichi Nishimura]], Japanese voice actor
* [[June 3]] – [[Michael Clarke (musician)|Michael Clarke]], American musician (d. [[1993]])
* [[June 4]] 
** [[Mahmoud Abdel Aziz]], Egyptian actor (d. [[2016]])
** [[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]], Indian [[playback singer]], television presenter, actor, music composer, [[Voice acting|dubbing artist]] and film producer (d. [[2020]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Stefania Sandrelli]], Italian actress
* [[June 7]]
** [[Jenny Jones (presenter)|Jenny Jones]], Palestinian-Canadian comedian, talk show hostess
** [[Zbigniew Seifert]], Polish musician (d. [[1979]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Zbigniew Seifert {{!}} Życie i twórczość {{!}} Artysta |url=https://culture.pl/pl/tworca/zbigniew-seifert |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Culture.pl |language=pl}}</ref>
** [[Robert Tilton]], American televangelist, author
* [[June 8]] – [[Pearlette Louisy]], Governor-General of St. Lucia
* [[June 9]] – [[Kenneth Adelman]], American diplomat, political writer, policy analyst and Shakespeare scholar
* [[June 10]] – [[Fernando Balzaretti]], Mexican actor (d. [[1998]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Biancamaria Frabotta]], Italian writer (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sololibri.net/addio-biancamaria-frabotta-poetessa-ha-insegnato-letteratura.html|title=Addio a Biancamaria Frabotta, la poetessa che ha insegnato la letteratura|first=Alice|last=Figini|website=SoloLibri.net}}</ref>
* [[June 13]]
** [[Paul L. Modrich]], American biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
** [[Paul Buckmaster]], (d. [[2017]]) British cellist, arranger, conductor and composer
* [[June 14]] – [[Donald Trump]], American businessman, television personality, 45th and 47th [[President of the United States]]
* [[June 15]]
** [[Noddy Holder]], English rock singer ([[Slade]])
** [[Janet Lennon]], American singer ([[The Lennon Sisters]])
** [[Demis Roussos]], Greek singer (d. [[2015]])
* [[June 16]] 
** [[Rick Adelman]], American professional basketball player and coach
** [[John Astor, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever]], English businessman and politician
* [[June 17]] – [[Marcy Kaptur]], U.S. Representative for the Ninth Congressional District of Ohio
* [[June 18]]
** [[Bruiser Brody]], American professional wrestler (d. [[1988]])
** [[Russell Ash]], British author (d. [[2010]])
** [[Fabio Capello]], Italian football player, manager
** [[Maria Bethânia]], Brazilian singer and songwriter
* [[June 21]]
** [[Vincenzo Camporini]], Italian Chief of the Defence General Staff
** [[Kiril Ivkov]], Bulgarian football defender
* [[June 22]] 
** [[Kay Redfield Jamison]], American psychiatrist
** [[Fabio Enzo]], Italian football player (d. [[2021]])
** [[Józef Oleksy]], 7th [[Prime Minister of Poland]] (d. [[2015]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Ted Shackelford]], American actor
* [[June 24]]
** [[Nguyễn Đức Soát]], Vietnamese general
** [[Ellison Onizuka]], American astronaut (d. [[1986]])
** [[Robert Reich]], 22nd [[United States Secretary of Labor]]
* [[June 25]] 
** [[Stan Bunn]], American politician and lawyer
** [[Henk van Kessel]], Dutch road racer
* [[June 26]] 
** [[Maria von Welser]], German TV journalist, President of UNICEF Germany
** [[Anthony John Valentine Obinna]], Nigerian priest
** [[Leo Rossi]], American actor
** [[Ricky Jay]], American actor, author and magician (d. [[2018]])
* [[June 27]] – [[Russ Critchfield]], American basketball player
* [[June 28]] 
** [[David Duckham]], English rugby union player
** [[Gilda Radner]], American comedian, actress (''[[Saturday Night Live]]'') (d. [[1989]])
** [[Jaime Guzmán]], Chilean lawyer and senator, founder of the [[Independent Democratic Union]] (d. [[1991]])
** [[Robert Asprin]], American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan (d. [[2008]])
* [[June 29]] 
** [[Egon von Fürstenberg]], Swiss fashion designer (d. [[2004]])
** [[Gitte Hænning]], Danish singer 
** [[Ram Gopal Yadav]], Indian politician
** [[Ernesto Pérez Balladares]], [[President of Panama]]
* [[June 30]] 
** [[Allan Hunter (footballer)|Allan Hunter]], Irish footballer, manager
** [[William J. Boarman]], American printer and civil servant (d. [[2021]])

===July===
[[File:Mireya Moscoso in 2012.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mireya Moscoso]]]]
[[File:Leszek Miller Sejm 2014 01.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Leszek Miller]]]]
[[File:George-W-Bush.jpeg|thumb|100px|[[George W. Bush]]]]
[[File:Peter_Singer_2017_(cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Peter Singer]]]]
[[File:Sylvester Stallone Cannes 2019.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sylvester Stallone]]]]
[[File:Cheech_Marin_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Cheech Marin]]]]
[[File:Sergio Mattarella met with Hassanal Bolkiah ahead of 2021 G20 Summit (2) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hassanal Bolkiah]]]]
[[File:Linda Ronstadt 1976.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Linda Ronstadt]]]]
[[File:Danny Glover June 2019.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Danny Glover]]]]
* [[July 1]] 
** [[Alceu Valença]], Brazilian composer, writer, performer, actor and poet
** [[Mireya Moscoso]], [[President of Panama]]
** [[Mick Aston]], English archaeologist (d. [[2013]])
* [[July 2]]
** [[Richard Axel]], American scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
** [[Bahrin Abbas]], lawyer and politician in the [[Government of Brunei]]
* [[July 3]] 
** [[Leszek Miller]], [[Prime Minister of Poland]]
** [[Ted Bell]], American author (d. [[2023]])
* [[July 4]]
** [[Sam Hunt (poet)|Sam Hunt]], New Zealand poet
** [[Michael Milken]], American financier
** [[Ed O'Ross]], American actor
** [[Roy Cimatu]], Filipino general
* [[July 5]] 
** [[Gerard 't Hooft]], Dutch physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
** [[Ram Vilas Paswan]], Indian politician
** [[Balakumaran]], Indian Tamil writer and author (d. [[2018]])
* [[July 6]]
** [[George W. Bush]], 43rd [[President of the United States]]
** [[Fred Dryer]], American football defensive end, actor (''[[Hunter (1984 U.S. TV series)|Hunter]]'')
** [[Tiemen Groen]], Dutch cyclist
** [[Peter Singer]], Australian philosopher
** [[Sylvester Stallone]], American actor, screenwriter and film director (''[[Rocky]]'')
* [[July 7]] 
** [[Tadeusz Nowicki (tennis)|Tadeusz Nowicki]], Polish tennis player
** [[Syd Barrett]], English singer, guitarist and songwriter and co-founder of [[Pink Floyd]] (d. [[2006]])
* [[July 8]] 
** [[Massimo Vanni]], Italian actor
** [[Daniela Beneck]], Italian freestyle swimmer
* [[July 9]]
**[[Mitch Mitchell]], English drummer ([[The Jimi Hendrix Experience]]) (d. [[2008]])
** [[Bon Scott]], Australian rock singer ([[AC/DC]]) (d. [[1980]])
* [[July 10]]
** [[Oliver Martin (cyclist)|Oliver Martin]], American cyclist
** [[Sue Lyon]], American actress (d. [[2019]])
* [[July 11]] 
** [[Jean-Pierre Coopman]], Belgian boxer
** [[Jack Wrangler]], American porn star (d. [[2009]])
** [[Ed Markey]], US Senator
* [[July 12]] 
** [[Ernesto Mahieux]], Italian actor
** [[Sian Barbara Allen]], American actress (d. [[2025]])
* [[July 13]]
** [[João Bosco]], Brazilian singer, songwriter
** [[Cheech Marin]], Mexican-American actor, comedian ([[Cheech and Chong]])
* [[July 14]] 
** [[Vincent Pastore]], American actor
** [[John Wood (actor, born 1946)|John Wood]], Australian actor
* [[July 15]]
**[[Hassanal Bolkiah]], [[Sultan of Brunei]]
** [[Linda Ronstadt]], American singer, songwriter ("[[You're No Good]]")
* [[July 16]]
** [[Toshio Furukawa]], Japanese voice actor
** [[Dave Goelz]], American puppeteer
** [[Monica Aspelund]], Finnish singer
** [[Ron Yary]], American football player
** [[Ahmad Albar]], Indonesian rock musician and vocalist 
** [[Barbara Lee]], Former US Rep. 
* [[July 17]] 
** [[Claudia Islas]], Mexican actress
** [[Alun Armstrong]], English actor
* [[July 18]] – [[Kanat Saudabayev]], Kazakhstani politician
* [[July 19]] – [[Ilie Năstase]], Romanian tennis player
* [[July 20]] – [[Htin Kyaw]], 9th President of Myanmar
* [[July 21]] – [[Domingo Cavallo]], Argentine economist, politician
* [[July 22]]
** [[Danny Glover]], African-American actor, film director and political activist
** [[Mireille Mathieu]], French singer
** [[Petre Roman]], 53rd Prime Minister of Romania
** [[Johnson Toribiong]], 8th President of Palau
* [[July 23]] 
** [[Sally Flynn]], American singer
** [[Edoardo Bennato]], Italian singer-songwriter
* [[July 24]] – [[Farouk Abdul-Aziz]], Egyptian TV presenter, interviewer, writer, producer and director
* [[July 25]] – [[Rita Marley]], Cuban-Jamaican singer
* [[July 27]]
** [[Gwynne Gilford]], American actress
** [[Jacques Sylla]], 12th [[Prime Minister of Madagascar]] (d. [[2009]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Jonathan Edwards (musician)|Jonathan Edwards]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* [[July 29]] 
** [[Ximena Armas]], Chilean painter
** [[Stig Blomqvist]], Swedish [[Rallying|rally]] driver
* [[July 30]] 
** [[Neil Bonnett]], American race car driver (d. [[1994]])
** [[A. Rahman Hassan]], Malaysian singer (d. [[2019]])

===August===
[[File:Ralph Gonsalves 2023.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ralph Gonsalves]]]]
[[File:Oscar Berger 2005 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Óscar Berger]]]]
[[File:Lesleywarren2009.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lesley Ann Warren]]]]
[[File:Bill Clinton.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bill Clinton]]]]
[[File:Keith Moon 4 - The Who - 1975-2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Keith Moon]]]]
[[File:Queen Anne Marie of Greece 3.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Queen Anne-Marie of Greece]]]]
[[File:Peggy Lipton Mod Squad.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Peggy Lipton]]]]
* [[August 1]]
** [[Mike Emrick]], American sportscaster
** [[Sandi Griffiths]], American singer
** [[Rick Boucher]], American politician 
** [[Boz Burrell]], English musician (d. [[2006]])
* [[August 3]] 
** [[Jack Straw]], English politician
** [[Nikolai Burlyayev]], Soviet and Russian actor and film director
* [[August 4]] – [[Ramazan Abdulatipov]], Russian politician and professor
* [[August 5]]
** [[Reinhard Tritscher]], Austrian alpine skier (d. [[2018]])
** [[Ron Silliman]], American poet
** [[Loni Anderson]], American actress (''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'')
** [[Shirley Ann Jackson]], African-American President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board
** [[Jean-Charles Ablitzer]], French organist and pedagogue
* [[August 6]] – [[Allan Holdsworth]], British musician (d. [[2017]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Ralph Gonsalves]], 4th [[Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]
* [[August 9]] – [[Jim Kiick]], American football player
* [[August 11]] – [[Óscar Berger]], 34th [[President of Guatemala]]
* [[August 12]] – [[Terry Nutkins]], English naturalist (d. [[2012]])
* [[August 13]] 
**[[Janet Yellen]], American [[Chair of the Federal Reserve]]
* [[August 14]] 
** [[Dennis Hof]], American brothel owner (d. [[2018]])
** [[Bjørn Kruse]], Norwegian painter and composer
* [[August 16]] 
**[[Masoud Barzani]], Iraqi-Kurdish politician, President of Iraqi Kurdistan
**[[Lesley Ann Warren]], American actress, singer
**[[Louis-Pierre Bougie]], Canadian painter and printmaker (d. [[2021]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Drake Levin]], American rock guitarist ([[Paul Revere & the Raiders]]) (d. [[2009]])
* [[August 18]] – [[William Brisson]], American politician 
* [[August 19]]
** [[Charles Bolden]], African-American astronaut
** [[Bill Clinton]], 42nd [[President of the United States]]
** [[Beat Raaflaub]], Swiss conductor
* [[August 20]]
** [[Connie Chung]], Asian-American reporter
** [[Ralf Hütter]], German techno musician ([[Kraftwerk]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Pascal Bussy|title=Kraftwerk: Man, Machine and Music|publisher=SAF|year=2004|isbn=9780946719709|page=18}}</ref>
** [[N. R. Narayana Murthy]], Indian businessman
* [[August 22]] – [[Wayne Brown (New Zealand politician)|Wayne Brown]], New Zealand politician and the [[mayor of Auckland]]
* [[August 23]]
** [[Keith Moon]], English rock drummer ([[The Who]]) (d. [[1978]])
** [[Raza Murad]], Indian actor
** [[Bob Boetticher]], American funeral director
* [[August 24]] – [[BP Fallon]], Irish musician and broadcaster 
* [[August 25]]
** [[Rollie Fingers]], American baseball player
** [[Charles Ghigna]], American poet, children's author
* [[August 26]]
** [[Valerie Simpson]], African-American singer
** [[Mark Snow]], American composer
** [[Zhou Ji (born 1946)|Zhou Ji]], education minister of the People's Republic of China
** [[Swede Savage]], American race car driver (d. [[1973]])
* [[August 29]]
** [[Jean-Baptiste Bagaza]], 2nd President of Burundi (d. [[2016]])
** [[Bob Beamon]], American athlete
** [[Demetris Christofias]], 6th [[President of Cyprus]] (d. [[2019]])
** [[Leona Gom]], Canadian novelist and poet
* [[August 30]]
** [[Queen Anne-Marie of Greece]]
** [[Peggy Lipton]], American actress and model (d. [[2019]])
** [[Gábor Bódy]], Hungarian film director, screenwriter, theoretic, and actor (d. [[1985]])
* [[August 31]]
** [[Ann Coffey]], Scottish politician 
** [[Jerome Corsi]], American political commentator and conspiracy theorist
** [[Tom Coughlin]], American football player, coach, and executive

===September===
[[File:Barry Gibb in 2017-Glasto17-197 (34744934874).jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[Barry Gibb]]]]
[[File:Roh Moo-hyun presidential portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Roh Moo-hyun]]]]
[[File:Freddie Mercury performing in New Haven, CT, November 1977.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Freddie Mercury]]]]
[[File:Jim Hines 1968.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jim Hines]]]]
[[File:Tommy Lee Jones 2017.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tommy Lee Jones]]]]
[[File:Oliver Stone by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Oliver Stone]]]]
[[File:Siimann Mart.IMG 2960.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Mart Siimann]]]]
[[File:María Teresa Ruiz, Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas (2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[María Teresa Ruiz]]]]
* [[September 1]]
** [[Barry Gibb]], Manx-born Australian-British singer ([[Bee Gees]])
** [[Roh Moo-hyun]], [[President of South Korea]] (d. [[2009]])
* [[September 2]]
** [[Luis Ávalos]], Cuban-born American character actor (d. [[2014]])
** [[Billy Preston]], African-American soul musician ("[[Nothing from Nothing (Billy Preston song)|Nothing from Nothing]]") (d. [[2006]])
** [[Dan White]], American politician, murderer (d. [[1985]])
* [[September 3]]
** [[John N. Abrams]], American military officer (d. [[2018]]) 
** [[Francisco Trois]], Brazilian chess player
* [[September 4]]
** [[Gary Duncan]], American rock guitarist ([[Quicksilver Messenger Service]]) (d. [[2019]])
** [[Greg Elmore]], American rock drummer ([[Quicksilver Messenger Service]])
* [[September 5]]
** [[Dennis Dugan]], American actor, director
** [[Freddie Mercury]], British-Indian singer-songwriter, pianist and frontman of rock band [[Queen (band)|Queen]] (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Freddie Mercury {{!}} Biography, Parents, Songs, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Freddie-Mercury |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=9 January 2022}}</ref>
** [[Loudon Wainwright III]], American folk singer-songwriter, humorist and actor
** [[Lily Brett]], Australian novelist, essayist and poet
* [[September 6]] – [[Ron Boone]], American basketball player
* [[September 7]]
** [[Willie Crawford]], American baseball player (d. [[2004]])
** [[Francisco Varela]], Chilean biologist (d. [[2001]])
* [[September 8]]
** [[Aziz Sancar]], Turkish biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
** [[Wong Kan Seng]], Singaporean business executive, [[Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore]]
* [[September 9]]
** [[Doug Ingle]], American rock vocalist ([[Iron Butterfly]])
** [[Bruce Palmer]], Canadian musician ([[Buffalo Springfield]]) (d. [[2004]])
** [[Donald Berwick]], American government official 
** [[Poseci Bune]], Fijian civil servant, diplomat, politician and [[Cabinet of Fiji|Cabinet Minister]] (d. [[2023]]) 
* [[September 10]]
** [[Michèle Alliot-Marie]], French politician
** [[Jim Hines]], American sprinter (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Slotnik |first1=Daniel E. |title=Jim Hines, First to Sprint 100 Meters in Under 10 Seconds, Dies at 76 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/sports/olympics/jim-hines-dead.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=6 June 2023 |date=5 June 2023}}</ref>
** [[Don Powell]], English rock drummer ([[Slade]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Anthony Browne (author)|Anthony Browne]], British writer and illustrator of children's books
* [[September 12]] – [[Neil Lyndon]], British journalist, writer<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/from-trump-to-ranieri-is-this-the-era-of-the-older-man/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/from-trump-to-ranieri-is-this-the-era-of-the-older-man/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=From Trump to Ranieri: is this the era of the older man?|first=Neil|last=Lyndon|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=May 10, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] – [[Henri Kuprashvili]], Georgian swimmer
* [[September 15]]
** [[Tommy Lee Jones]], American actor
** [[Tetsu Nakamura]], Japanese-Afghan physician (d. [[2019]])
** [[Oliver Stone]], American film director, producer (''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]'')
** [[Emmerson Mnangagwa]], President of Zimbabwe 
** [[James Bamford]], American author, journalist and documentary producer
** [[Rick Blangiardi]], American television executive and politician from Hawaii
* [[September 16]] – [[Camilo Sesto]], Spanish singer-songwriter music producer and composer (d. [[2019]])
* [[September 17]] – [[Billy Bonds]], English footballer and manager
* [[September 18]]
** [[Peter Alsop]], American musician
** [[Akira Kamiya]], Japanese voice actor
** [[Jean-Luc Brunel]], French model scout (d. [[2022]])
* [[September 19]] 
** [[Connie Kreski]], American model (d. [[1995]])
** [[Gerald Brisco]], American professional wrestler
* [[September 20]]
** [[Dorothy Hukill]], American politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Judy Baca]], American artist, activist and professor of [[Chicano studies]], world arts, and cultures
* [[September 21]]
** [[Mikhail Kovalchuk]], Russian physicist, official
** [[Moritz Leuenberger]], Swiss Federal Councilor
** [[Richard St. Clair]], American musician, composer
** [[Mart Siimann]], [[Prime Minister of Estonia]]
* [[September 22]]
** [[King Sunny Adé]], Nigerian [[Jùjú music|jùjú]] singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
** [[Richard Bauckham]], English [[Anglican scholar]] in [[theology]] and [[New Testament]] studies
* [[September 23]] – [[Franz Fischler]], Austrian politician
* [[September 24]]
** [[Lars Emil Johansen]], [[Prime Minister of Greenland]]
** [[María Teresa Ruiz]], Chilean astronomer
* [[September 25]]
** [[Bishan Singh Bedi]], Indian cricketer (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi passes away aged 77|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cricket/bishan-singh-bedi-death-passes-away-india-spinner-legendary-cricketer/article67451956.ece|access-date=2023-10-23|work=Sportstar|date=2023-10-23}}</ref>
** [[Felicity Kendal]], English actress<ref>{{cite book |last1=Newcomb |first1=Horace |title=Encyclopedia of Television |date=3 February 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-19472-7 |page=1246 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUXIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1246}}</ref>
** [[Jerry Penrod]], American bass player
* [[September 26]]
** [[Andrea Dworkin]], American feminist, writer (d. [[2005]])
** [[Togo Igawa]], Japanese actor
** [[Radha Krishna Mainali]], Nepalese politician
** [[Christine Todd Whitman]], American politician
* [[September 27]] – [[Nicos Anastasiades]], Cypriot businessperson and former president of Cyprus
* [[September 28]] – [[Jeffrey Jones]], American actor
* [[September 29]] 
** [[Shafie Salleh]], Malaysian politician (d. [[2019]])
** [[Celso Pitta]], Brazilian economist and politician (d. [[2009]])
* [[September 30]]
** [[Héctor Lavoe]], Puerto Rican singer (d. [[1993]])
** [[Jochen Mass]], German racing driver (d. [[2025]])
** [[Claude Vorilhon]], French-born 'messenger' of [[Raëlism]]
** [[Fran Brill]], Muppeteer
** [[Lee Yock Suan]], Minister for Education of Singapore

===October===
[[File:Susan Sarandon, Festival de Sitges 2017 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Susan Sarandon]]]]
[[File:VinodKhanna.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Vinod Khanna]]]]
[[File:Naoto Kan 20071221.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Naoto Kan]]]]
[[File:Charles Dance 2012 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Charles Dance]]]]
[[File:Chris Tarrant Phooto.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Chris Tarrant]]]]
[[File:DHall by Matthew Becker.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Daryl Hall]]]]
[[File:Richard Carpenter - NARA - 194770.tif|thumb|100px|[[Richard Carpenter (musician)|Richard Carpenter]]]]
[[File:Suzanne Somers USO cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Suzanne Somers]]]]
[[File:Fleetwood Mac peter green.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Peter Green (musician)|Peter Green]]]]
* [[October 2]]
** General [[Sonthi Boonyaratglin]], President of the [[Council for National Security]], Commander-in-Chief of the [[Royal Thai Army]]
** [[Marie-Georges Pascal]], French actress (d. [[1985]])
* [[October 3]] – [[P. P. Arnold]], American, British singer
* [[October 4]] 
** [[Susan Sarandon]], American actress<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul T. Hellmann|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA780|date=14 February 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn= 1-135-94859-3|pages=780}}</ref>
** [[Rhie Won-bok]], South Korean artist
** [[Chuck Hagel]], American politician, 24 [[United States Secretary of Defense]]
* [[October 5]] – [[Pacita Abad]], [[Ivatan people|Ivatan]] and Filipino-American artist (d. [[2004]])
* [[October 6]]
** [[Lloyd Doggett]], American politician
** [[Vinod Khanna]], Indian actor, producer and politician (d. [[2017]])
* [[October 7]]
** [[Nader Al-Dahabi]], Prime Minister of Jordan
** [[Catharine MacKinnon]], American feminist
** [[Xue Jinghua]], Chinese ballerina
* [[October 8]]
** [[Hanan Ashrawi]], Palestinian scholar, legislator
** [[John T. Walton]], American son of Wal-Mart founder [[Sam Walton]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[October 10]]
** [[Anne Boyd]], Australian musician
** [[Mildred Grieveson]], British writer
** [[Naoto Kan]], 61st [[Prime Minister of Japan]]
** [[Charles Dance]], English actor, screenwriter and film director
** [[Chris Tarrant]], British radio, TV personality
* [[October 11]]
** [[Daryl Hall]], American rock musician ([[Hall & Oates]])
** [[Sawao Katō]], Japanese gymnast
** [[John D. Bates]], United States district judge 
* [[October 12]] – [[Drew Edmondson]], American politician
* [[October 13]]
** [[Edwina Currie]], English politician<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rubinstein |first1=William D. |last2=Jolles |first2=Michael |last3=Rubinstein |first3=Hilary L. |title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History |date=22 February 2011 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-4039-3910-4 |page=189 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&pg=PA189}}</ref>
** [[Dorothy Moore]], American singer
** [[Demond Wilson]], African-American actor, minister (''[[Sanford and Son]]'')
** [[H Steven Blum]], United States army general
* [[October 14]]
** [[Craig Venter]], American [[biotechnologist]] 
**[[Dan McCafferty]], Scottish rock singer (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite book | last=Stone | first=E.R. | title=Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll: Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll | publisher=Touchstone | year=2001 | isbn=978-0-7432-0120-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uU9AAQA6kAMC}}</ref>
** [[François Bozizé]], [[President of the Central African Republic]]
** [[Joey de Leon]], Filipino actor, host
** [[Justin Hayward]], English rock singer-songwriter ([[The Moody Blues]])
** [[Eli Bebout]], American athlete and politician 
* [[October 15]]
** [[Richard Carpenter (musician)|Richard Carpenter]], American pop musician, composer ([[The Carpenters]])
** [[John Getz]], American actor
* [[October 16]]
** [[Suzanne Somers]], American actress, singer (''[[Three's Company]]'') (d. [[2023]])
** [[Elizabeth Witmer]], Dutch-born politician
** [[Vitaliano Aguirre II]], Filipino lawyer and government official 
* [[October 17]]
** [[Vicki Hodge]], English actress, model
** [[Bob Seagren]], American athlete, actor
* [[October 18]]
** [[James Robert Baker]], American novelist, screenwriter
** [[Howard Shore]], Canadian film composer
** [[Andrea Zsadon]], Hungarian soprano
** [[Frank Beamer]], retired American college football coach
* [[October 19]] – [[Philip Pullman]], English author
* [[October 20]]
** [[Marty Gervais]], Canadian writer
** [[Elfriede Jelinek]], Austrian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite web |title=Elfriede Jelinek |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/elfriede-jelinke |website=Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |access-date=26 July 2021 |language=en |date=25 March 2020}}</ref>
* [[October 21]] 
**[[Lyn Allison]], Australian politician
**[[Lux Interior]], American rock musician ([[The Cramps]]) (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-lux-interior5-2009feb05-story.html|title=Lux Interior dies at 60; founder, front man of punk band the Cramps|date=September 16, 2014|website=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=December 18, 2022}}</ref>
* [[October 22]] 
** [[Eileen Gordon]], British politician
** [[Richard McGonagle]], American actor
* [[October 25]] – [[Edith Leyrer]], Austrian actress
* [[October 26]] – [[Pat Sajak]], American game-show host (''[[Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'')
* [[October 27]]
** [[Leslie L. Byrne]], American politician
** [[Steven R. Nagel]], American astronaut (d. [[2014]])
** [[Ivan Reitman]], Slovakian-born film director, producer (d. [[2022]])
* [[October 28]]
** [[John Hewson]], Australian politician
** [[Sharon Thesen]], Canadian poet
* [[October 29]] 
** [[Peter Green (musician)|Peter Green]], British musician (d. [[2020]])
** [[Kathryn J. Whitmire]], Texas politician; Mayor of Houston, Texas
* [[October 30]]
** [[Lynne Marta]], American actress
** [[Andrea Mitchell]], American journalist
* [[October 31]] – [[Stephen Rea]], Northern Irish actor

===November===
[[File:Laura Bush portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Laura Bush]]]]
[[File:Sally Field (11205) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sally Field]]]]
[[File:Petra Burka 1965.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Petra Burka]]]]
[[File:Duane Allman.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Duane Allman]]]]
[[File:Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh at the presidential palace in Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti, September 24, 2023 - (cropped).jpg|thumb|133x133px|[[Ismaïl Omar Guelleh]]]]
[[File:Marina Abramović. The Cleaner (45524492341).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Marina Abramović]]]]
* [[November 1]]
** [[Ric Grech]], British rock bassist (d. [[1990]])
** [[Lynne Russell]], American newsreader
** [[Sucharit Bhakdi]], Thai-German microbiologist
* [[November 2]] 
** [[Giuseppe Sinopoli]], Italian conductor, composer (d. [[2001]])
** [[Marieta Severo]], Brazilian actress
* [[November 4]] 
** [[Laura Bush]], [[First Lady of the United States]]
** [[Les Lannom]], American actor, musician
** [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], American photographer (d. [[1989]])
* [[November 5]]
** [[Herman Brood]], Dutch artist (d. [[2001]])
** [[Loleatta Holloway]], American singer (d. [[2011]])
** [[Gram Parsons]], American musician (d. [[1973]])
* [[November 6]] 
** [[Sally Field]], American actress, singer (''[[The Flying Nun]]'')
** [[George Young (rock musician)|George Young]], Scottish, Australian singer, songwriter, musician (''[[The Easybeats]]'') (d. [[2017]])
** [[Peter Ackerman]], American businessman (d. [[2022]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Diane Francis]], Canadian journalist
* [[November 8]]
** [[Stella Chiweshe]], Zimbabwean musician
** [[John Farrar]], Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter ([[The Shadows]]; [[Marvin, Welch & Farrar]])
** [[Guus Hiddink]], Dutch football player, manager
** [[Stefan Weber (musician)|Stefan Weber]], Austrian singer (d. [[2018]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Alaina Reed Hall]], American actress (d. [[2009]])
* [[November 11]]
** [[Roger A. Brady]], United States Air Force general
** [[Corrine Brown]], American politician 
* [[November 12]] 
** [[James F. Amos]], 35th [[Commandant of the United States Marine Corps|commandant of the Marine Corps]]
* [[November 13]] 
** [[Ohara Reiko]], Japanese actress
** [[Stanisław Barańczak]], Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer (d. [[2014]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Bharathan]], Indian filmmaker, artist and art director (d. [[1998]])
* [[November 15]]
** [[Gwyneth Powell]], British actress (d. [[2022]])
** [[Sandy Skoglund]], American photographer
* [[November 16]]
** [[David Brandt (farmer)|David Brandt]], American farmer (d. [[2023]])
** [[Mahasti]], Iranian singer (d. [[2007]])
** [[Terence McKenna]], American writer, philosopher, [[ethnobotanist]] and [[shaman]] (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite news |last= Sharkey |first= Alix |date= April 15, 2000 |title= Terence McKenna |type= Obituary |newspaper= The Independent |page= 7}}</ref>
** [[Jo Jo White]], American basketball player (d. [[2018]])
* [[November 17]] 
** [[Petra Burka]], Canadian figure skater
** [[Martin Barre]], English guitarist
** [[Terry Branstad]], American politician and diplomat
** [[John Spencer (mayor)|John Spencer]], American politician and senate candidate against [[Hillary Clinton]] in [[2006 United States Senate election in New York|2006]]
* [[November 18]]
** [[Andrea Allan]], Scottish actress
** [[Alan Dean Foster]], American novelist
* [[November 20]]
**[[Duane Allman]], American rock guitarist, co-founder and leader of the [[Allman Brothers Band]] (d. [[1971]])
** [[Samuel E. Wright]], American actor and singer (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2021/05/samuel-e-wright-voice-of-sebastian-the-crab-dead-at-74.html|title=Samuel E. Wright, Voice of The Little Mermaid's Sebastian, Dead at 74|first=Charu|last=Sinha|date=May 25, 2021|website=Vulture|accessdate=December 18, 2022}}</ref>
* [[November 21]]
** [[Emma Cohen]], Spanish actress
** [[Chaviva Hošek]], Czech-born feminist
** [[Jacky Lafon]], Belgian actress
** [[Marina Warner]], English writer
* [[November 22]]
** [[Aston "Family Man" Barrett]], Jamaican reggae musician (d. [[2024]])
** [[Anne Wheeler]], Canadian screen director
* [[November 23]]
** [[Diana Quick]], English actress
** [[Bobby Rush]], African-American politician, activist and pastor
* [[November 24]] – [[Ted Bundy]], American serial killer (d. [[1989]])
* [[November 25]]
** [[Atiku Abubakar]], 11th [[Vice President of Nigeria]]
** [[Marika Lindström]], Swedish actress
** [[Marc Brown (author)|Marc Brown]], American author and illustrator of children's books
* [[November 26]] – [[Ottilia Borbáth]], Romanian-born Hungarian actress
* [[November 27]]
** [[Richard Codey]], American politician, 53rd [[Governor of New Jersey]]
** [[Ismaïl Omar Guelleh]], 2nd [[President of Djibouti]]
** [[Nina Maslova]], Russian actress
* [[November 28]] – [[Regina Braga]], Brazilian actress
* [[November 29]]
** [[Brian Cadd]], Australian singer-songwriter
** [[Suzy Chaffee]], American singer, actress
* [[November 30]]
** [[Marina Abramović]], Yugoslavian performance artist
** [[Barbara Cubin]], U.S. Congresswoman from Wyoming
** [[Jeffrey Boam]], American screenwriter and film producer (d. [[2000]])

===December===
[[File:Jose Carreras - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011 - cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[José Carreras]]]]
[[File:Rhoma Irama gives lecture.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rhoma Irama]]]]
[[File:Patty Duke 1975.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Patty Duke]]]]
[[File:Benny Andersson 2012-09-24 001 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Benny Andersson]]]]
[[File:Eugene Levy 2011.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Eugene Levy]]]]
[[File:MKr25402 Steven Spielberg (Berlinale 2023).jpg|thumb|149x149px|[[Steven Spielberg]]]]
[[File:The Beach Boys (1965) (Carl).png|thumb|100px|[[Carl Wilson]]]]
[[File:Jeff Sessions, official portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jeff Sessions]]]]
[[File:Musician Jimmy Buffet performs for members of Joint Task Force Haiti behind the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 3, 2010 100303-N-HX866-001.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jimmy Buffett]]]]
[[File:MikeBeebe2009 (3x4a).JPG|thumb|100px|[[Mike Beebe]]]]
[[File:Patti Smith-63233.jpg|thumb|133x133px|[[Patti Smith]]]]
[[File:Diane_von_Furstenberg_2012_Shankbone.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Diane von Fürstenberg]]]]
* [[December 1]] – [[Jonathan Katz]], American comedian, actor and voice actor
* [[December 2]] 
** [[Gianni Versace]], Italian fashion designer (d. [[1997]])
** [[John Banks (New Zealand politician)|John Banks]], New Zealand politician
* [[December 3]]
** [[Marjana Lipovšek]], Slovenian singer, actress
** [[Joop Zoetemelk]], Dutch cyclist
** [[Allan Bérubé]], American historian, activist, scholar, researcher and author (d. [[2007]])
* [[December 4]]
** [[Sherry Alberoni]], American actress, voice artist
** [[Yō Inoue]], Japanese voice actress (d. [[2003]])
** [[Karina (Spanish singer)|Karina]], Spanish singer/actress
** [[Angela Browning]], British politician
* [[December 5]]
** [[José Carreras]], Spanish tenor
** [[Gloria Comesaña]], Spanish philosopher (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morillo |first=Danisbel Gómez |date=2024-03-19 |title=Falleció en Maracaibo la filósofa feminista Gloria Comesaña |url=http://efectococuyo.com/la-humanidad/fallecio-en-maracaibo-la-filosofa-feminista-gloria-comesana/ |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=Efecto Cocuyo |language=es}}</ref>
** [[Eva-Britt Svensson]], Swedish politician
** [[Rodney Alexander]], American politician 
* [[December 6]]
** [[Roger Hoy]], English footballer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Nancy Brinker]], American health activist, diplomat
* [[December 8]]
** [[Jacques Bourboulon]], French photographer
** [[John Rubinstein]], American actor
** [[Sharmila Tagore]], Indian actress
** [[Chava Alberstein]], Israeli musician, lyricist, composer and arranger
** [[Rani Begum]], Pakistani actress and model (d. [[1993]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Sonia Gandhi]], Indian politician
* [[December 10]]
** [[Chrystos]], American poet
** [[Thomas Lux]], American poet
** [[John W. Birks]], American [[atmospheric chemist]] and entrepreneur 
* [[December 11]]
** [[Rhoma Irama]], Indonesian dangdut musician, actor and politician
** [[Susan Kyle]], American writer
** [[Ellen Meloy]], American writer (d. [[2004]])
* [[December 12]]
** [[Emerson Fittipaldi]], Brazilian racing car driver
** [[Gloria Loring]], American singer
** [[Don Gummer]], American [[sculpture|sculptor]]
* [[December 13]]
** [[Nicholas Kollerstrom]], British writer
** [[Heather North]], American actress (d. [[2017]])
* [[December 14]]
** [[Antony Beevor]], English historian
** [[Jane Birkin]], English actress and singer (d. [[2023]])
** [[Jobriath]], American musician and actor (d. [[1983]])
** [[Patty Duke]], American actress (d. [[2016]])
** [[Lynne Marie Stewart]], American actress (d. [[2025]]) 
** [[Michael Ovitz]], American talent agent, co-founder of [[Creative Artists Agency]]
** [[Leon Botstein]], Swiss-born American conductor, educator and scholar
* [[December 15]] 
** [[Carmine Appice]], American rock drummer
** [[Rodney Bingenheimer]], American radio disc jockey
* [[December 16]]
**[[Benny Andersson]], Swedish rock singer-songwriter ([[ABBA]])
** [[Alice Aycock]], American sculptor
** [[Trevor Pinnock]], English harpsichordist, conductor
** [[Rick Bartow]], Native American artist, a member of the [[Mad River (California)|Mad River]] band (d. [[2016]])
* [[December 17]]
** [[Eugene Levy]], Canadian actor, comedian and director (''[[Second City Television]]'')
** [[Bel Mooney]], English broadcast journalist
** [[Jayne Eastwood]], Canadian actress, voice actress
** [[Suresh Oberoi]], Indian actor
* [[December 18]]
** [[Steve Biko]], South African anti-apartheid activist (d. [[1977]])
** [[Nina Škottová]], Czech politician, member of the European Parliament
** [[Steven Spielberg]], American filmmaker
* [[December 19]]
** [[Candace Pert]], American neuroscientist
** [[Robert Urich]], American actor (d. [[2002]])
* [[December 20]]
** [[Uri Geller]], Israeli illusionist
** [[Lesley Judd]], English television presenter
** [[Sonny Perdue]], American politician, 81st [[Governor of Georgia]], 31st [[U.S. Secretary of Agriculture]]
** [[John Spencer (actor)|John Spencer]], American actor (d. [[2005]])
** [[Dick Wolf]], American television producer
* [[December 21]]
**[[Brian Davison (cricketer)|Brian Davison]], Rhodesian cricketer, Tasmanian politician
** [[Carl Wilson]], American musician ([[The Beach Boys]]) (d. [[1998]])
** [[Cherie Berry]], American politician
** [[Robert D. Bullard]], American academic, activist and professor
* [[December 22]] – [[Kuwasi Balagoon]], American political activist, anarchist and member of the [[Black Panther Party]] and [[Black Liberation Army]] (d. [[1986]])
* [[December 23]]
** [[Edita Gruberová]], Slovakian soprano (d. [[2021]])
** [[Susan Lucci]], American actress (''[[All My Children]]'')
** [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]], English television scriptwriter (d. [[2011]])
* [[December 24]]
**[[Jan Akkerman]], Dutch rock guitarist ([[Focus (band)|Focus]])
** [[Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin]], French politician, member of the European Parliament
** [[Brenda Howard]], American bisexual activist (d. [[2005]])
** [[Jeff Sessions]], American politician, [[United States Attorney General]]
* [[December 25]] – [[Jimmy Buffett]], American rock singer-songwriter (d. [[2023]])
* [[December 26]] – Jean-Noël Prade, French University President
* [[December 27]] – [[Janet Street-Porter]], English broadcast journalist
* [[December 28]]
** [[Mike Beebe]], American politician and attorney
** [[Edgar Winter]], American rock musician
** [[Miriam Batucada]], Brazilian singer, composer and TV presenter (d. [[1994]])
* [[December 29]]
** [[Marianne Faithfull]], English singer and actress (d. [[2025]])
** [[Ruth Shady]], Peruvian archaeologist
** [[Arturo Brion]], Filipino judge 
* [[December 30]]
** [[Patti Smith]], American poet, singer
** [[Berti Vogts]], German football player and manager
** [[Barry Alvarez]], American former college football coach and athletic director 
* [[December 31]]
** [[Diane von Fürstenberg]], Belgian-American fashion designer
** [[Lyudmila Pakhomova]], Soviet ice dancer (d. [[1986]])
** [[Margaret Travolta]], American actress

===Date unknown===
* [[Ali Abu Al-Ragheb]], Prime Minister of Jordan
* [[Jang Song-thaek]], [[North Korea]]n politician (d. [[2013]])
* [[Miklós Lukáts]], Hungarian politician (d. [[2022]])
* [[Afsaneh Najmabadi]], Iranian historian, gender theorist
* [[Raul Bragança Neto]], 8th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d. [[2014]])
* [[Daoud Abdel Sayed]], Egyptian director and screenwriter
* [[Mari Carmen Aponte]], American attorney and diplomat
* [[Terence Anderson (sport shooter)|Terence Anderson]], Australian-born American sports shooter
* [[Alun Armstrong]], English character actor
* [[Dennis Ashbaugh]], American painter
* [[Ewart Brown]], Bermudian politician and ninth [[List of Premiers of Bermuda|Premier]] of Bermuda
* [[Ted Baehr]], American media critic and chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission
* [[Wilhelm Barthlott]], German botanist and biomimetic materials scientist
* [[Jean-Paul Béraudo]], French lawyer, academic and author of legal works
* [[Sonia Berjman]], Argentinian urban and landscape historian and researcher on the history of Buenos Aires 
* [[Omar Blondin Diop]], West-African anti-imperialist philosopher, artist and revolutionary (d. [[1973]])
* [[Bob Bossin]], Canadian folk singer ([[Stringband]]), writer and activist
* [[Danièle Bourcier]], French lawyer and essayist
* [[Martin Bresnick]], American composer 
* [[Robert Bringhurst]], Canadian poet, typographer and author
* [[Nathaniel Burkett]], American serial killer (d. [[2021]])

==Deaths==

===January===
[[File:GEORGSaxeMeiningen.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1984-018-35A, Laszlo von Bardossy.jpg|thumb|110px|[[László Bárdossy]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Georgina Sweet]], Australian zoologist and women's rights activist (b. [[1875]])
* [[January 2]] 
** [[Fabijan Abrantovich]], Soviet civic, religious leader (b. [[1884]])
** [[Joe Darling]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1870]])
** [[Eleanor Rathbone]], British politician and long-term campaigner for [[family allowance]] and for women's rights (d. [[1872]])
* [[January 3]] – [[William Joyce]], Irish-born American World War II Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as "[[Lord Haw-Haw]]" (executed) (b. [[1906]])
* [[January 4]] 
** [[George Woolf]], Canadian jockey (b. [[1910]])
** [[Friedrich von Bodelschwingh]], German pastor, theologian and public health advocate (b. [[1877]])
* [[January 5]]
** [[Kitty Cheatham]], American singer (b. [[1864]])
** [[Einar af Wirsén]], Swedish Army officer, diplomat and writer (b. [[1875]])
** [[Slim Summerville]], American film actor and director (b. [[1892]])
* [[January 6]]
**[[Dion Fortune]], British writer (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Dion Fortune and the Inner Light |last=Knight |first=Gareth |year=2000 |publisher=Thoth Publications |location=Loughborough |isbn=978-1-870450-45-4 |page=293}}</ref>
** [[Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen]] (b. [[1892]])
** [[Slim Summerville]], American actor (b. [[1892]])
** [[Ferenc Szálasi]], Hungarian military officer, politician and leader of the fascist [[Arrow Cross Party]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[January 8]] 
** [[Harold Cole]], petty criminal, British soldier, operative of [[Pat O'Leary Line|Pat O'Leary escape line]], and agent of Nazi Germany (b. [[1906]])
** [[Thomas Barbour]], American herpetologist (b. [[1884]])
** [[Guy Carleton (United States Army officer)|Guy Carleton]], career officer in the United States Army (b. [[1857]])
* [[January 9]]
** [[Countee Cullen]], American poet (b. [[1903]])
** [[Nevil Macready|Sir Nevil Macready]], British army general, police commissioner (b. [[1862]])
* [[January 10]]
** [[László Bárdossy]], Hungarian diplomat, politician and 33rd [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (executed) (b. [[1890]])
** [[Matti Turkia]], Finnish politician (b. [[1871]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Kansanedustajat: Matti Turkia |url=https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911650.aspx |publisher=[[Parliament of Finland]] |access-date=27 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725145056/https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911650.aspx |archive-date=25 July 2020 |location=Helsinki, Finland |language=fi}}</ref>
** [[Harry Von Tilzer]], American songwriter (b. [[1872]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Wilhelm Souchon]], German admiral (b. [[1864]])
* [[January 14]] 
** [[Theodore M. Stuart]], American football player and coach (b. [[1883]])
** [[Maurice Koechlin]], Franco-Swiss structural engineer from the [[Koechlin family]]. (b. [[1856]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Karl Nabersberg]], German youth leader (b. [[1908]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Wilhelm von Brincken]], German diplomat and spy during World War I (b. [[1881]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Harry Bateman]], British-American mathematician (b. [[1882]])
* [[January 23]]
** [[Matteo Bartoli]], Italian linguist (b. [[1873]])
** [[Helene Schjerfbeck]], Finnish painter (b. [[1862]])
* [[January 24]] – [[Morris Alexander]], South African politician (b. [[1877]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Abrahams |first=Israel |author-link=Israel Abrahams |editor-last=De Kock |editor-first=W. J. |encyclopedia=Dictionary of South African Biography |title=Alexander, Morris|edition=1st |date=1968 |volume=1 |oclc=85921202 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofsout0000unse_p0x9/page/10/mode/2up |page=10}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] – [[Orishatukeh Faduma]], American missionary (b. [[1855]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Katharine Bushnell]], doctor, Christian writer, Bible scholar, social activist, and a pioneer of [[feminist theology]] (b. [[1855]])
* [[January 29]] 
** [[Hideo Hatoyama]], Japanese jurist (b. [[1884]])
** [[Harry Hopkins]], American politician (b. [[1890]])
** [[Adriaan van Maanen]], Dutch–born American astronomer (b. [[1884]])
* [[January 31]] 
** [[Pietro Boetto]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal and eminence (b. [[1871]])
** [[Luis Orgaz Yoldi]], Spanish general (b. [[1881]])
** [[Franz Ritter von Epp]], German general and politician (b. [[1868]])

===February===
[[File:Felix Hoffman.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Felix Hoffmann]]]]
[[File:Rafael-Erich.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Rafael Erich]]]]
[[File:Imredybela.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Béla Imrédy]]]]
* [[February 2]] – [[Rondo Hatton]], American actor (b. [[1894]])
* [[February 3]] 
** [[Friedrich Jeckeln]], German SS Officer and mass murderer (b. [[1895]])
** [[Wang Lianshou]], [[wet nurse]] to [[Puyi]] (b. [[1887]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Herbert Baker]], English architect (b. [[1862]])
* [[February 5]] – [[George Arliss]], British actor (b. [[1868]])
* [[February 6]] 
** [[Upendranath Brahmachari]], Indian scientist (b. [[1873]])
** [[Oswald Kabasta]], Austrian conductor (suicide) (b. [[1896]])
** [[Justus D. Barnes]], American actor (b. [[1862]])
* [[February 8]]
** [[Felix Hoffmann]], German chemist (b. [[1868]])
** [[Miles Mander]], British actor (b. [[1888]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Ludovic-Oscar Frossard]], French socialist, communist politician (b. [[1889]])
* [[February 12]] 
** [[Georges Dumas|George Dumas]], French doctor, psychologist (b. [[1866]])
** [[Ted Thorn (RAF officer)|Ted Thorn]], [[Royal Air Force]] pilot, squadron commander and [[flying ace]] in WWII (b. [[1913]])
* [[February 15]] 
** [[Maliq Bushati]], Albanian collaborator, 18th [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (b. [[1880]])
** [[Cornelius Johnson (athlete)|Cornelius Johnson]], American field athlete (b. [[1913]])
* [[February 17]] 
** [[Dorothy Gibson]], American actress (b. [[1889]])
** [[Benjamin I of Constantinople|Benjamin I]], [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]] (b. [[1871]])
* [[February 19]] 
** [[Rafael Erich]], Finnish politician, professor, diplomat and 6th [[Prime Minister of Finland]] (b. [[1879]])
** [[Ahmed Hassanein]], Egyptian courtier, diplomat, politician, and explorer (b. [[1889]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Theodore Stark Wilkinson]], American admiral (b. [[1888]])
* [[February 23]] – [[Tomoyuki Yamashita]], Japanese general (executed) (b. [[1885]])
* [[February 24]] 
** [[Alfred Henke]], German politician (b. [[1868]])
** [[Marian Spore Bush]], American dentist, painter, and wife of [[Irving T. Bush]] (b. [[1878]])
* [[February 25]] – [[René Le Grèves]], French cyclist (b. [[1910]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Leo the Lion (MGM)#Jackie (1928–1956)|Jackie]], Nubian-born [[MGM]] lion (b. [[1915]])
* [[February 27]] – [[James Cecil Parke]], Irish rugby player, tennis player and golfer (b. [[1910]])
* [[February 28]]
** [[Béla Imrédy]], Hungarian economist, politician and 32nd [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (executed) (b. [[1891]])
** [[Giuseppe Salvago Raggi]], Italian diplomat (b. [[1866]])

===March===
[[File:Ferenc Sz%C3%A1lasi.jpg|thumbnail|110px|[[Ferenc Szálasi]]]]
[[File:Francisco Largo Caballero 1927 (cropped).jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|[[Francisco Largo Caballero]]]]
[[File:Barbu Stirbey.jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|[[Barbu Știrbey]]]]
* [[March 2]] 
** [[John Whittle]], Australian recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]] (b. [[1882]])
** [[Logan Pearsall Smith]], American-born British essayist and critic (b. [[1865]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Viktor Axmann]], Yugoslav architect (b. [[1883]])
* [[March 4]]
** [[Bror von Blixen-Finecke]], Swedish big-game hunter (b. [[1886]])
** [[Charles Waldron]], merican stage and film actor( b. [[1874]])
** [[Martyrs of Albania]], Catholics (executed)
*** Mark Çuni, seminarian (b. [[1919]])
*** Daniel Dajani, Jesuit priest (b. [[1906]])
*** Giovanni Fausti, Italian Jesuit priest (b. [[1899]])
*** Gjelosh Lulashi (b. [[1925]])
*** [[Qerim Sadiku]] (b. [[1919]])
*** Kolë Shllaku, friar (b. [[1906]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Antonio Caso Andrade]], Mexican philosopher (b. [[1878]])
* [[March 8]] – [[Frederick W. Lanchester]], English polymath and engineer (b. [[1868]])
* [[March 9]] – [[Adolfo Ferrata]], Italian pathologist, hematologist (b. [[1880]])
* [[March 12]]
** [[Ferenc Szálasi]], Hungarian military officer, Fascist politician and 37th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (executed) (b. [[1897]])
** [[Leonida Tonelli]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1885]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Werner von Blomberg]], German field marshal (b. [[1878]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Hubert D. Stephens]], American lawyer and politician (b. [[1875]])
* [[March 16]] 
** [[José Júlio da Costa]], Portuguese activist (b. [[1893]])
** [[Alladiya Khan]], Indian singer (b. [[1855]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Joseph de Pesquidoux]], French writer (b. [[1869]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Augusto Nicolás Martínez]], Ecuadorian agronomist, economist, geologist, researcher, educator and mountaineer (b. [[1860]])
* [[March 20]] 
** [[Frederick M. Smith]], American religious leader and author (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.centerplace.org/history/misc/soc/soc68.htm|title=The Story of the Church – Frederick M. Smith|website=centerplace.org}}</ref>
** [[Henry Handel Richardson]], Australian author (b. [[1870]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Howard L. Vickery]], U.S. naval officer (b. [[1892]])
* [[March 22]] 
** [[Clemens August Graf von Galen]], German Catholic Cardinal, Bishop of Münster (b. [[1878]])
** [[David L. Brainard]], career officer in the United States Army and arctic explorer (b. [[1856]])
* [[March 23]]
** [[Francisco Largo Caballero]], Spanish politician, trade unionist and 66th [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (b. [[1869]])
** [[Gilbert N. Lewis]], American chemist (b. [[1875]])
* [[March 24]]
** [[Alexander Alekhine]], Russian chess player (b. [[1892]])
** [[Carl Schuhmann]], German athlete (b. [[1869]])
** [[Barbu Știrbey]], 30th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Ezequiel Fernández (Panamanian politician)|Ezequiel Fernández]], acting [[President of Panama]] (b. [[1886]])
* [[March 29]]
** [[László Baky]], Hungarian Nazi leader (executed) (b. [[1898]])
** [[George Washington (inventor)|George Washington]], Belgian inventor and businessman (b. [[1871]])
* [[March 31]] – [[John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort]], British field marshal (b. [[1886]])

===April===
[[File:Архимандрит Евлогий (Георгиевский) в Холме.jpg|thumb|110px|Patriarch [[Eulogius (Georgiyevsky)|Eulogius]]]]
[[File:Juan Bautista Sacasa cph.3a44780.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Juan Bautista Sacasa]]]]
[[File:Robert bartlett.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Robert Bartlett (explorer)|Robert Bartlett]]]]
* [[April 1]]
** [[Noah Beery]], American actor (b. [[1882]])
** [[Edward Sheldon]], American playwright (b. [[1886]])
* [[April 2]] – [[Kate Bruce]], American silent screen actress (b. [[1858]])
* [[April 3]]
** [[Alf Common]], English footballer (b. [[1880]])
** [[Masaharu Homma]], Japanese general (executed) (b. [[1887]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Hans Bothmann]], last commandant of the [[Chełmno extermination camp]] (b. [[1911]])
* [[April 5]]
** [[Ion Boițeanu]], Romanian general (b. [[1885]])
**[[Vincent Youmans]], American composer (b. [[1898]])
* [[April 6]]
** [[Chief Thunderbird]], Native American actor (b. [[1866]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/07/archives/chief-thunderbird-cheyenne-high-priest-film-actor-educator-80-dies.html|accessdate=30 July 2021|newspaper=The New York Times|title=CHIEF THUNDERBIRD; Cheyenne High Priest, Film Actor, Educator, 80, Dies|date=7 April 1946}}</ref>
** [[James Young Deer]], Native American film producer (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aleiss |first=Angela |date=2013-05-01 |title=Who Was the Real James Young Deer? The Mysterious Identity of the Pathè Producer Finally Comes to Light |url=https://brightlightsfilm.com/who-was-the-real-james-young-deer-the-mysterious-identity-of-the-pathe-producer-finally-comes-to-light/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Bright Lights Film Journal |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[April 7]] – [[Padmanath Gohain Baruah]], Indian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. [[1871]])
* [[April 8]]
** [[Bo Gu]], 3rd [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]] (accident) (b. [[1907]])
** Patriarch [[Eulogius (Georgiyevsky)|Eulogius]] (b. [[1868]])
** [[Ye Ting]], Chinese military leader (b. [[1896]])
* [[April 11]] 
** [[Andor Jaross]], ethnic Hungarian politician (executed) (b. [[1896]])
** [[Dem. Theodorescu]], Romanian journalist, humorist, and critic (b. [[1888]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski]], Polish politician, freemason and military officer (b. [[1892]])
* [[April 13]] 
** [[William Henry Bell]], English-born South African composer, conductor and lecturer (b. [[1873]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/e/l/l/bell_wh.htm|title=William Henry Bell|website=hymntime.com}}</ref>
** [[Ernest Browne]], Irish tennis player (b. [[1855]])
* [[April 14]] – [[Otto Dowling]], [[United States Navy]] [[Captain (USN)|Captain]], 25th [[Governor of American Samoa]] (b. [[1881]])
* [[April 15]] 
** [[Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães]] (b. [[1858]])
** [[C. W. A. Scott]], English aviator (b. [[1903]])
* [[April 17]] 
** [[Guido Calza]], Italian archaeologist (b. [[1888]])
** [[Juan Bautista Sacasa]], 20th [[President of Nicaragua]] (b. [[1874]])
** [[Agnes Weinrich]], American visual artist (b. [[1873]])
** [[V. S. Srinivasa Sastri]], Indian politician, administrator, educator, orator and Indian independence activist (b. [[1869]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Harold Stiles]], English surgeon (b. [[1863]])
* [[April 20]]
** [[Mae Busch]], American actress (b. [[1891]])
** [[Egerton Reuben Stedman]], Canadian politician (b. [[1872 in Canada|1872]])
* [[April 21]] – [[John Maynard Keynes]], British economist (b. [[1883]])
* [[April 22]]
** [[Lionel Atwill]], British actor (b. [[1885]])
** [[Harlan F. Stone]], [[United States Supreme Court/Chief Justice|Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[April 23]] – [[T. Tileston Wells]], American attorney and the Romanian [[Consul General]] (b. [[1865]])
* [[April 26]] 
** [[James Larkin White]], American cowboy, guano miner, park ranger, and discoverer of the ''[[Carlsbad Caverns National Park|Carlsbad Caverns]]'' (b. [[1882]])
** [[Antero Svensson]], Finnish major general, member of the [[Jäger Movement]] and recipient of the [[Mannerheim Cross]] (b. [[1892]])
* [[April 27]] 
** [[George E. White (missionary)|George E. White]], American [[Congregationalist]] missionary and witness to the [[Armenian genocide]] (b. [[1861]])
** [[Franz Anton Basch]], [[Shwovish]] Nazi politician (b. [[1901]])
* [[April 28]]
** [[Robert Bartlett (explorer)|Robert Bartlett]], American explorer, and navigator (b. [[1875]])
** [[Louis Bachelier]], French mathematician (b. [[1870]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Sava Athanasiu]], Romanian geologist, paleontologist (b. [[1861]])

===May===
[[File:Алексей Николаевич Бах.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Alexei Nikolaevich Bach]]]]
[[File:PrinceFRIEDRICHPyrmont.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]]]
[[File:Marcela de Agoncillo.png|thumb|110px|[[Marcela de Agoncillo]]]]
* [[May 1]]
** [[Bill Johnston (tennis)|Bill Johnston]], American tennis champion (b. [[1894]])
** [[Israfil Mammadov]], Soviet WWII heroine (b. [[1919]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Charles Daniel-Vincent]], French teacher and politician (b. [[1874]])
* [[May 9]] 
** [[Léon Guillet]], French metallurgist (b. [[1873]])
** [[Connie Gilchrist, Countess of Orkney]], British child artist's model, actress, dancer and singer (b. [[1865]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Emile de Cartier de Marchienne]], Belgian diplomat (b. [[1871]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Pedro Henríquez Ureña]], Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist and philologist (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Alexei Nikolaevich Bach]], Soviet biochemist, revolutionary leader (b. [[1857]])
* [[May 16]]
** [[Bruno Tesch]], German chemist, Nazi war criminal (executed) (b. [[1890]])
** [[Karl Weinbacher]], German manager, war criminal (executed) (b. [[1898]])
** [[Karl Eberhard Schöngarth]], Nazi SS officer and war criminal (b. [[1903]])
* [[May 17]] – [[William Jefferson Blythe Jr.]], American salesman and biological father of [[Bill Clinton]] (b. [[1918]])
* [[May 19]] 
** [[Francesco Camero Medici]], Italian diplomat (b. [[1886]])
** [[Ángel Ossorio y Gallardo]], Spanish lawyer, statesman (b. [[1873]])
** [[Booth Tarkington]], American novelist (b. [[1869]])
** [[John K. Tener]], Irish-born American politician and Major League Baseball player and executive (b. [[1863]])
* [[May 20]]
** [[Jacob Ellehammer]], Danish inventor (b. [[1871]])
** [[Enrico Gasparri]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal, archbishop (b. [[1871]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Karl Hermann Frank]], German Nazi official, war criminal (executed) (b. [[1898]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Ernest Rhys]], Welsh-English writer (b. [[1859]])
* [[May 26]] 
** [[Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]] (b. [[1865]])
** [[Joseffy]], Austrian magician (b. [[1873]])
** [[Francis Lacey]], English cricketer, cricket administrator and barrister (b. [[1859]])
* [[May 27]] 
** [[Claire Croiza]], French soprano (b. [[1882]])
** [[Henri Hauser]], French historian, geographer and economist (b. [[1866]])
* [[May 28]] 
** [[Claus Schilling]], German medical researcher and war criminal (executed) (b. [[1871]])
** [[Otto Moll]], Nazi mass murderer and war criminal (b. [[1915]])
** [[Wilhelm Ruppert]], [[SS-Totenkopfverbande|SS-TV]] ''[[Obersturmbannführer]]'' in charge of executions at [[Dachau concentration camp]] (b. [[1905]])
** [[Carter Glass]], American newspaper publisher and politician (b. [[1858]])
* [[May 29]] 
** `[[Cagnaccio di San Pietro]], Italian painter (b. [[1897]])
** [[Martin Gottfried Weiss]], commandant of the [[Dachau concentration camp]] and Nazi war criminal (b. [[1905]])
* [[May 30]]
**[[Marcela Agoncillo]], Filipino who sewed the first Filipino flag (b. [[1860]])
**[[Louis Slotin]], Canadian physicist, chemist (b. [[1910]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Picoğlu Osman]], Turkish kemenche player (b. [[1901]])

===June===
[[File:Romanian Prime Minister Ion Antonescu.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ion Antonescu]]]]
[[File:Simonyi-Semadam in 1920.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Sándor Simonyi-Semadam]]]]
[[File:King Ananda Mahidol portrait photograph.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Ananda Mahidol]] (Rama VIII) of [[Thailand]]]]
[[File:Gerhart Hauptmann nobel.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Gerhart Hauptmann]]]]
[[File:Jorgeubico1930.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jorge Ubico]]]]
[[File:Retrato del Presidente Juan Antonio R%C3%ADos.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Juan Antonio Ríos]]]]
* [[June 1]]
** [[Ion Antonescu]], Romanian soldier, politician, 43rd [[Prime Minister of Romania]] and Romanian dictator (executed) (b. [[1882]])
** [[Leo Slezak]], German tenor (b. [[1873]])
** [[Mihai Antonescu]], Romanian politician and war criminal (b. [[1904]])
* [[June 3]] – [[Mikhail Kalinin]], 1st [[List of heads of state of the Soviet Union|Head of State/President of the Soviet Union]] (b. [[1875]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Sándor Simonyi-Semadam]], Hungarian politician, 26th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Maud Watson]], British tennis player, first female Wimbledon champion (b. [[1864]])
* [[June 6]]
** [[Isidro Ancheta]], Filipino painter (b. [[1882]])
** [[Gerhart Hauptmann]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1862]])
* [[June 8]] – [[John L. Bates]], American politician (b. [[1859]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Ananda Mahidol]] (Rama VIII), [[Monarchy of Thailand|King of]] [[Thailand]] (assassinated) (b. [[1925]])
* [[June 10]]
** [[Jack Johnson (boxer)|Jack Johnson]], American boxer (b. [[1878]])
** [[Carruthers Beattie]], first principal and Vice Chancellor of the [[University of Cape Town]] (b. [[1866]])
* [[June 11]] 
** [[Juanita Breckenridge Bates]], American minister (b. [[1860]])
** [[Frank Swettenham]], British colonial administrator and first [[Resident general]] of the [[Federated Malay States]] (b. [[1850]])
* [[June 12]] 
** [[Hisaichi Terauchi]], Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army (b. [[1879]])
** [[John H. Bankhead II]], American politician (b. [[1872]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Charles Butterworth (actor)|Charles Butterworth]], American actor (b. [[1896]])
* [[June 14]]
** [[Jorge Ubico]], Guatemalan army general, 21st [[President of Guatemala]] (b. [[1878]])
** [[John Logie Baird]], British television pioneer (b. [[1888]])
** [[Edward Bowes]], American radio personality (b. [[1874]])
* [[June 15]] 
** [[João Batista Becker]], German-born Brazilian [[Roman Catholic]] prelate, archbishop (b. [[1870]])
** [[Jovita Idar]], Mexican-American journalist and political activist (b. [[1885]])<ref>[https://wams.nyhistory.org/modernizing-america/xenophobia-and-racism/jovita-idar-juarez/ Life Story: Jovita Idar Juárez (1885–1946)]</ref>
* [[June 16]] – [[Ludwig Winder]], Austrian-Czech German-language writer, journalist and literary critic (b. [[1889]])
* [[June 18]] – Eugen Hirschfield, Australian practitioner (b. [[1866]])
* [[June 19]] 
** [[Theodor Wulf]], German physicist, [[Jesuit]] priest (b. [[1868]])
** [[Beatrice Chanler]], American actress (b. [[1880]])
* [[June 20]] – [[Empress Wanrong]] of China (b. [[1906]])
* [[June 23]] – [[William S. Hart]], American stage actor, silent film [[Western (genre)|Western]] star, film director and writer (b. [[1864]])
* [[June 24]] – [[Marian Bernaciak]], Polish World War II heroine (b. [[1917]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Alma Bridwell White]], founder and a bishop of the [[Pillar of Fire International|Pillar of Fire Church]] (b. [[1862]])
* [[June 27]] 
** [[Juan Antonio Ríos]], Chilean political figure, 24th [[President of Chile]] and [[World War II]] leader (b. [[1888]])
** [[Wanda Gág]], American artist, author, translator and illustrator (b. [[1893]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Antoinette Perry]], American actress, director (b. [[1888]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Miroslav Filipović]], Bosnian-Croatian Franciscan friar and [[Ustashe]] [[military chaplain]] war criminal (b. [[1915]])
* [[June 30]] – [[Jelica Belović-Bernardzikowska]], Yugoslav journalist, writer and journalist (b. [[1870]])

===July===
[[File:Federico Laredo Bru.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Federico Laredo Bru]]]]
[[File:Shefqet Verlaci.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Shefqet Verlaci]]]]

[[File:Александр Введенский (обновленец).jpg|110px|thumb|Blessed [[Alexander Vvedensky (religious leader)|Alexander Vvedensky]]]]
* [[July 1]] – [[Augustyn Józef Czartoryski]], Polish nobleman (b. [[1907]])
* [[July 2]] 
** [[Mary Alden]], American stage, and screen actress (b. [[1883]])
** [[Albert Sechehaye]], Swiss linguist (b. [[1870]])
* [[July 3]] – [[Edoardo Bianchi]], Italian entrepreneur, inventor (b. [[1865]])
* [[July 4]]
** [[Jenny-Wanda Barkmann]], German Nazi overseer at [[Stutthof concentration camp]] (executed) (b. [[1922]])
** [[Elisabeth Becker]], German Nazi overseer at Stutthof concentration camp (executed) (b. [[1923]])
** [[Wanda Klaff]], German Nazi overseer at Stutthof concentration camp (executed) (b. [[1922]])
** [[Ewa Paradies]], German Nazi overseer at Stutthof concentration camp (executed) (b. [[1920]])
** [[Gerda Steinhoff]], German Nazi overseer at Stutthof concentration camp (executed) (b. [[1922]])
** [[Othenio Abel]], Austrian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist (b. [[1875]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Federico Laredo Brú]], 8th [[President of Cuba]] (b. [[1875]])
* [[July 8]] 
** [[Orrick Glenday Johns]], American writer (b. [[1887]])
** [[Laura, Lady Troubridge]], British novelist and etiquette writer (b. [[1867]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Sidney Hillman]], American labor leader (b. [[1887]])
* [[July 12]]
** [[Ray Stannard Baker]], American journalist, author (b. [[1870]])
** [[Teresa Janina Kierocińska]], Polish [[Discalced Carmelite]] nun and venerable (b. [[1885]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Alfred Stieglitz]], American photographer (b. [[1864]])
* [[July 15]] – [[Benjamin W. Alpiner]], American businessman and politician (b. [[1867]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Raffaele Conflenti]], Italian engineer, aircraft designer (b. [[1889]])
* [[July 17]]
** [[Consolata Betrone]], Italian [[Franciscan]] mystic and servant of God (b. [[1903]])
** [[Florence Fuller]], South African-born Australian artist (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-11-12 |title=Florence Fuller :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online |url=http://www.daao.org.au/bio/florence-fuller/personal_details/ |access-date=2025-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112130705/http://www.daao.org.au/bio/florence-fuller/personal_details/ |archive-date=November 12, 2013 }}</ref>
** [[Kosta Mušicki]], Yugoslav general (b. [[1897]])
** [[Campbell Tait|Sir Campbell Tait]], admiral and Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. [[1886]])
** [[Draža Mihailović]], Yugoslav Serb general in WWIII and leader of [[Chetniks]] (b. [[1893]])
* [[July 18]]
** [[Ehrhard Schmidt]], German admiral (b. [[1863]])
** [[Alfons Tracki]], Albanian priest (executed) (b. [[1896]])
** [[Wilfred Buckland]], American art director (b. [[1866]])
* [[July 19]] – [[George Mackenzie Brown]], Canadian-born British publisher (b. [[1869]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Shiro Kawase]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1889]])
* [[July 21]] 
**[[Shefqet Vërlaci]], Albanian politician, 12th [[Prime Minister of Albania]] (b. [[1877]])
** [[Gualberto Villarroel]], 39th [[President of Bolivia]] ([[Lynching|lynched]]) (b. [[1908]])
**[[Arthur Greiser]], German general (b. [[1897]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Edward Sperling]], Russian-American-Jewish writer, Zionist (assassinated) (b. [[1889]])
* [[July 23]] – [[James Maxton]], British pacifist, politician, and leader of the [[Independent Labour Party]] (b.[[1885]])
* [[July 26]] – [[Alexander Vvedensky (religious leader)|Alexander Vvedensky]], Soviet [[Russian Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] religious leader and blessed (b. [[1889]])
* [[July 25]] 
** [[Harry Davis (gangster)|Harry Davis]], Canadian gangster (b. [[1898]])
** [[Tao Xingzhi]], Chinese educator and reformer (b. [[1891]])
* [[July 27]]
** [[Franz Anton Basch]], German politician (b. [[1901]])
** [[Gertrude Stein]], American writer (b. [[1874]])
* [[July 28]] 
** Saint [[Saint Alphonsa|Anna Muttathupadathu]], Indian [[Syro-Malabar Catholic]] and [[Eastern Catholic]] religious sister and saint (b. [[1910]])
** [[Emily Thorn Vanderbilt]], American philanthropist and a member of the [[Vanderbilt family]] (b. [[1852]])
* [[July 31]] 
** [[Solomon Dias Bandaranaike]], Ceylonese politician, [[Governor-General of Ceylon]] (b. [[1862]])
** [[Katherine Mary Clutterbuck]], Australian [[Anglican]] nun who looked after orphaned children (b. [[1860]])

===August===
[[File:Reichskanzler Wilhelm Marx.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Wilhelm Marx]]]]
[[File:King Inayatullah Khan of Afghanistan.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Inayatullah Khan]]]]
[[File:H.G. Wells by Beresford.jpg|thumb|110px|[[H. G. Wells]]]]
* [[August 1]]
** [[Andrey Vlasov]], Soviet general, commander of the [[Russian Liberation Army]] (executed) (b. [[1901]])
** [[Sergei Bunyachenko]], Soviet Red Army defector (b. [[1902]])
** [[Fyodor Truhin]], [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] major general and defector during WWII (b. [[1896]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Karl, Prince of Leiningen]], German prince (b. [[1898]])
* [[August 5]]
** [[Otto Franke (sinologist)|Otto Franke]], German sinologist (b. [[1863]])
** [[Wilhelm Marx]], German lawyer, politician and 17th [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1863]])
* [[August 6]] 
** [[Blanche Bingley]], English tennis champion (b. [[1863]])
** [[Tony Lazzeri]], American baseball player ([[New York Yankees]]), [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1903]])
* [[August 8]]
** [[Maria Barrientos]], Spanish opera singer (b. [[1884]])
** [[Vulcana]], Welsh strongwoman (b. [[1874]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Bert Vogler]], South African cricketer (b. [[1876]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Léon Gaumont]], French film pioneer (b. [[1864]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Giuseppe Pietri]], Italian composer (b. [[1886]])
* [[August 12]]
** [[Inayatullah Khan]], King of Afghanistan (b. [[1888]])
** [[Alfred Stock]], German chemist (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/stock-alfred|title=Stock, Alfred &#124; Encyclopedia.com|website=encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
** [[Egon Brecher]], [[Austria-Hungary]]-born actor and director (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 13]] 
** [[H. G. Wells]], British science fiction writer, historian (''[[The Time Machine]]'') (b. [[1866]])
** [[Émile Berlia]], French politician (b. [[1878]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Robert Heinrich Wagner]], Nazi Party official and politician (b. [[1895]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu]] (b. [[1875]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Channing Pollock (writer)|Channing Pollock]], American playwright (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 18]]
** [[Che Yaoxian]], Chinese communist (b. [[1894]])<ref name="Annals">{{Cite web
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  |script-title=zh:罗世文
 |trans-title=Luo Shiwen
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 |work=Sichuan Annals
 |date=7 December 2017
|publisher=Sichuan Provincial Government
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}}</ref>
** [[Luo Shiwen]], Chinese communist (b. [[1904]])<ref name="Annals"/>
* [[August 19]] – [[Jules-Albert de Dion]], French automobile pioneer (b. [[1856]])
* [[August 20]]
** [["Rags" Ragland]], American comedian, actor (b. [[1905]])
** [[Vojtech Tuka]], Slovak politician and WWII war criminal (b. [[1880]])
** [[Fielding H. Yost]], American college football player, coach and athletics administrator (b. [[1871]])
* [[August 22]] – [[Döme Sztójay]], 35th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (b. [[1883]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Fulco Ruffo di Calabria|Prince Fulco Ruffo di Calabria]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[August 24]] – [[James Clark McReynolds]], American jurist (b. [[1862]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Jeanie MacPherson]], American actress (b. [[1887]])
* [[August 28]]
** [[Georgios Kafantaris]], Prime Minister of Greece (b. [[1873]])
** [[Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan]], British field marshal (b. [[1865]])
** [[Florence Turner]], American actress (b. [[1885]])
* [[August 29]] – [[John Steuart Curry]], American painter (b. [[1897]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Harley Granville-Barker]], English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic, and theorist (b. [[1877]])

===September===
[[File:Don Francesco Bonifacio.jpg|thumbnail|100px|right|Blessed [[Francesco Bonifacio]]]]
* [[September 2]] – [[George Robson (racing driver)|George Robson]], American racing driver (b. [[1909]])
* [[September 3]] – [[Paul Lincke]], German composer (b. [[1866]])
*[[September 4]] – [[Nobu Shirase]], Japanese army officer and Antarctic explorer (b. [[1861]])
* [[September 10]] – [[Olivér Halassy]], Hungarian water polo player and freestyle swimmer (killed by Soviet soldier) (b. [[1909]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Francesco Bonifacio]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (killed in action) (b. [[1912]])
* [[September 13]] 
** [[William Watt (Australian politician)|William Watt]], Australian politician, [[Premier of Victoria]] (b. [[1871]])
** [[Amon Göth]], Austrian Nazi military officer and war criminal (b. [[1908]])
** [[Paul Wurtsmith]], [[United States Army Air Forces]] general during World War II (b. [[1906]])
* [[September 16]]
** [[Henri Gouraud (general)|Henri Gouraud]], French general (b. [[1867]])
** [[James Hopwood Jeans]], English physicist, astronomer and mathematician (b. [[1877]])
** [[Mamie Smith]], American singer (b. [[1891]])
** [[Louis Bonnier]], French architect (b. [[1856]])
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Hassan Suhrawardy]], Bengali surgeon, military officer in the British Indian Army, politician, and public official (b. [[1884]])
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Gustav Globočnik Edler von Vojka]], Austro-Hungarian nobleman and field marshal (b. [[1859]])
* [[September 25]] – [[Heinrich George]], German actor (b. [[1893]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Shivaji VII]], [[Maharaja]] of [[Kolhapur]] (b. 1941)
* [[September 29]] – [[Raimu]], French actor (b. 1883)
* [[September 30]] – [[Takashi Sakai]], Japanese general (executed) (b. [[1887]])

===October===
[[File:Ignacy Moscicki.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ignacy Mościcki]]]]
[[File:RetratoIstvanBethlen.jpg|thumb|110px|[[István Bethlen]]]]
[[File:AlbertoMarvellii.jpg|thumb|110px|Blessed [[Alberto Marvelli]]]]
[[File:Per Albin Hansson - Sveriges styresm%C3%A4n.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Per Albin Hansson]]]]
* [[October 1]]
** [[Hiroshi Kawabuchi]], Japanese politician (b. [[1883]])
** [[Lucy Wheelock]], American early childhood education pioneer (b. [[1857]])
* [[October 2]] – [[Ignacy Mościcki]], Polish chemist, politician and 4th [[President of Poland]] (b. [[1867]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Barney Oldfield]], American race car driver, automobile pioneer (b. [[1878]])
* [[October 5]]
** [[István Bethlen]], Hungarian aristocrat, statesman and 28th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] (b. [[1874]])
** [[Alberto Marvelli]], Italian member of the [[Roman Catholic]] action and blessed (b. [[1918]])
* [[October 6]]
** [[Per Albin Hansson]], Swedish politician, 23rd [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] (b. [[1885]])
** [[Joseph Francis Sartori]], American banker (b. [[1858]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Agustín Parrado y García]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1872]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Prince Vittorio Emanuele, Count of Turin]], grandchild of King [[Victor Emmanuel II]] and member of the [[House of Savoy]] (b. [[1870]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Joseph Stilwell]], American World War II general (b. [[1883]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Hermann Göring]], German Nazi Reichsmarschall (suicide) (b. [[1893]])
* [[October 16]]
** [[Granville Bantock]], British composer (b. [[1868]])
** [[Nuremberg executions]]
*** [[Hans Frank]], German Nazi Governor General of Poland (b. [[1900]])
*** [[Wilhelm Frick]], German Nazi Minister of the Interior (b. [[1877]])
*** [[Alfred Jodl]], German general, World War II Chief of the German armed forces (b. [[1890]])
*** [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]], German Nazi police general (b. [[1903]])
*** [[Wilhelm Keitel]], German field marshal (b. [[1882]])
*** [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]], German Nazi foreign minister (b. [[1893]])
*** [[Alfred Rosenberg]], German Nazi ideologist (b. [[1893]])
*** [[Fritz Sauckel]], German Nazi general plenipotentiary (b. [[1894]])
*** [[Arthur Seyss-Inquart]], Austrian Nazi leader (b. [[1892]])
*** [[Julius Streicher]], German Nazi propaganda publisher (b. [[1885]])
* [[October 17]] 
** [[Russell R. Waesche]], US Coast Guard admiral (b. [[1886]])
** [[Frédéric Boissonnas]], Swiss photographer (b. [[1858]])
* [[October 18]] – [[William H. Strayer (politician)|William H. Strayer]], American attorney and politician (b. [[1866]])
* [[October 20]]
** [[Igor Demidov]], Soviet politician (b. [[1873]])
** [[Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig]], Nazi Army [[Oberst]] (Colonel) transferred to [[Waffen-SS]] in WWII (b. [[1899]])
* [[October 23]]
** [[Francesco Carandini]], Italian poet (b. [[1858]])
** [[Ernest Thompson Seton]], Canadian-American author, wildlife artist, founder of the [[Woodcraft Indians]] (b. [[1860]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Kurt Daluege]], German Nazi officer, SS general and police official, war criminal (executed) (b. [[1897]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Rudolf Walden]], Finnish industrialist and a military leader (b. [[1878]])
* [[October 26]] 
** [[Ioannis Rallis]], prime minister of Greece during the [[Axis occupation of Greece]] (b. [[1878]])
** [[Jules Brulatour]], American film prodicer (b. [[1870]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Nathan Francis Mossell]], African-American physician (b. [[1856]])

===November===
<!--[[File:Izabela Wi%C5%82ucka.jpg|thumb|110px|right|Saint [[Maria Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska]]]]-->
* [[November 2]] – [[John Barrett (bishop)|John Barrett]], British clergyman, [[Roman Catholic]] bishop and reverend (b. [[1878]])
* [[November 4]]
** [[Rüdiger von der Goltz]], German general (b. [[1865]])
** [[Semyon Bychkov (pilot)|Semyon Bychkov]], Soviet military pilot during World War II (b. [[1918]])
** [[Ferenc Szombathelyi]], Hungarian military officer (b. [[1887]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Joseph Stella]], Italian-American painter (b. [[1877]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Maria Innocentia Hummel]], German [[Franciscan]] religious sister and blessed (b. [[1909]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Henry Lehrman]], American actor (b. [[1886]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Baldassare Forestiere]], Italian immigrant to America (b. [[1879]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Nikolay Burdenko]], Soviet surgeon, founder of Soviet neurosurgery (b. [[1876]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Camillo Caccia Dominioni]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal, eminence (b. [[1877]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Manuel de Falla]], Spanish composer (b. [[1876]])
* [[November 18]] 
** [[Donald Meek]], British actor (b. [[1878]])
** [[Jimmy Walker]], former mayor of New York City (b. [[1881]])
** [[Vincentas Borisevičius]], Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop of the [[Telšiai Diocese]] (b. [[1887]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Léon Spilliaert]], Belgian [[Symbolism (arts)|symbolist]] painter and graphic artist (b. [[1881]])
* [[November 24]] 
** [[László Moholy-Nagy]], Hungarian painter, photographer (b. [[1895]])
** [[Samuel Walder]], Australian businessman and politician (b. [[1879]])
* [[November 25]] – [[George Gandy]], American entrepreneur (b. [[1851]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Sultana Racho Petrova]], Bulgarian memoirist (b. [[1869]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Maria Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska]], Polish [[Roman Catholic]] religious leader, saint (b. [[1890]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Gustav Noske]], German politician (b. [[1868]])

===December===
[[File:Walter_Johnson_1924.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Walter Johnson]]]]
[[File:W. C. Fields 1938.jpg|thumb|110px|[[W. C. Fields]]]]
* [[December 5]] – [[Louis Dewis]], Belgian [[Post-Impressionist]] [[Painting|painter]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[December 6]] 
** [[Charles Stewart (premier)|Charles Stewart]], Canadian politician, [[Premier of Alberta]] (b. [[1868]])
** [[Elma Yerburgh]], member of the Thwaites family who was owner of [[Thwaites Brewery]] (b. [[1864]])
** [[Charles Stanton]], British politician (b. [[1873]])
** [[Maximilian Steinberg]], ussian composer( b. [[1883]])
* [[December 7]]
** [[Laurette Taylor]], American actress (b. [[1884]])
** [[Sada Yacco]], Japanese stage actress (b. [[1871]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Maurice Dior]], French industrialist, and father of [[Christian Dior]] (b. [[1872]])
* [[December 10]]
** [[Walter Johnson]], American baseball player ([[Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]]), [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1887]])
** [[Damon Runyon]], American writer (b. [[1880]])
* [[December 12]] 
** [[Ben Carter (actor)|Ben Carter]], American actor (b. [[1910]])
** [[Renée Falconetti]], French actress (b. [[1892]])
* [[December 14]]
** [[Tom Dowse]], Irish major league baseball player in the 1890s (b. [[1866]])
** [[Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești]], Romanian short story writer and politician (b. [[1868]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Salman al-Murshid]], Syrian religious leader, political figure (b. [[1907]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Constance Garnett]], English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature (b. [[1861]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Moses Russell]], Welsh international footballer (b. [[1888]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Einosuke Harada]], Japanese ophthalmologist (b. [[1892]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Eugene Talmadge]], American politician (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Pierre Bénard]], French journalist (b. [[1898]])
* [[December 23]] 
** [[John A. Sampson]], American gynecologist (b. [[1873]])
** [[Virginia Walker]], American model and film actress (b. [[1908]])
* [[December 25]]
** [[W. C. Fields]], American actor, comedian (b. [[1880]])
** [[Henri Le Fauconnier]], French painter (b. [[1881]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Franjo Bučar]], Yugoslav writer (b. [[1866]])
* [[December 27]] 
** [[Pedro Mata y Domínguez|Pedro Mata Dominguez]], Spanish novelist, playwright and poet (b. [[1875]])
** [[Dick Condon]], [[Australian rules football]]er (b. [[1876]])
* [[December 28]] 
** [[Carrie Jacobs-Bond]], American singer, songwriter (b. [[1862]])
** [[Francis Salabert]], French publisher (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 29]] 
** [[John Babington Macaulay Baxter]], Canadian politician, 19th [[Premier of New Brunswick]] (b. [[1858]])
** [[Georg Thomas]], German general during World War II (b. [[1890]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Charles Wakefield Cadman]], American composer (b. [[1881]])

=== Date unknown ===

* [[Armanda Degli Abbati]], Italian opera singer (b. [[1879]])
* [[Robert M. Washburn]], American politician and writer (b. [[1868]])
* [[Jack White (Irish socialist)|Jack White]], [[Irish republicanism|Irish republican]] and [[Libertarian socialism|libertarian socialist]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[Thiounn]], Cambodian state official of the [[Khmer nobility]] during the [[French protectorate of Cambodia]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[Charles Trussell]], British musician (b. [[1860]])
* [[Frona Eunice Wait]], American writer and journalist (b. [[1859]])
* [[Charles W. Stage]], American attorney, politician, professional baseball umpire and track athlete (b. [[1868]])
* [[Jessica Borthwick]], British adventurer, sculptor and filmmaker (b. [[1888]])
* [[Charles Edgar Corea]], Sri Lankan politician and freedom fighter (b. [[1866]])

==Nobel Prizes==
[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Percy Williams Bridgman]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[James B. Sumner]], [[John Howard Northrop]], [[Wendell Meredith Stanley]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[Hermann Joseph Muller]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Hermann Hesse]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Emily Greene Balch]], [[John Mott]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Goulden, Joseph C. ''The Best Years: 1945–1950'' (1976), popular social history of USA
* Hennessy, Peter. ''Never Again: Britain, 1945–1951'' (1994), a scholarly survey.
* Kynaston, David. ''Austerity Britain, 1945–1951'' (2008) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802716938/ excerpt and text search], a detailed social history.
* Sebestyen, Victor. ''1946: The Making of the Modern World'' (2015) [https://www.amazon.com/1946-Making-Modern-Victor-Sebestyen/dp/1101870427/ excerpt]
* Weisbrode, Kenneth. ''The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America'' (2016) [https://www.amazon.com/Year-Indecision-1946-Through-Crucible/dp/0670016845/ excerpt]

==External links==
* [https://archive.org/details/1946-05-23_Rail_Strike_Paralyzes_Entire_US Newsreel May 23, 1946: Rail strike paralyzes the United States]
* [https://archive.org/details/1946-05-29_Coal_Strike_Ended Newsreel May 29, 1946: End of U.S. coal strike]

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