1948

**1948 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1948; MCMXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2700
Armenian calendar	1397; ԹՎ ՌՅՂԷ
Bahá'í calendar	104 – 105
Bengali calendar	1355
Berber calendar	2898
Buddhist calendar	2492
Burmese calendar	1310
Byzantine calendar	7456 – 7457
Chinese calendar	丁亥年十一月廿一日; (4584/4644-11-21) — to — 戊子年十二月初二日; (4585/4645-12-2)
Coptic calendar	1664 – 1665
Ethiopian calendar	1940 – 1941
Hebrew calendar	5708 – 5709
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	2004 – 2005
- Shaka Samvat	1870 – 1871
- Kali Yuga	5049 – 5050
Holocene calendar	11948
Iranian calendar	1326 – 1327
Islamic calendar	1367 – 1368
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 23; (昭和23年)
Korean calendar	4281
Thai solar calendar	2491
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	Categories: Births – Deaths – Works – Introductions – Establishments – Disestablishments – Awards
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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s – 1940s – 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years:	1945 1946 1947 – 1948 – 1949 1950 1951

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1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

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Events of 1948 - Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April - May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug. - Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec. - Undated ^. Ongoing Births Deaths Nobel Prizes Ship events See also - Notes - External links

Events of 1948

January

January 1
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) inaugurated.
- UK railways are nationalized to form British Railways.
- The Italian republican constitution goes into effect.
- The latest New Jersey State Constitution goes into effect.
January 4 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
January 5 – Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop the communal violence during the Partition of India.
January 17 – A truce is declared between nationalist Indonesian and Dutch troops in Java.
January 22 – British foreign secretary Bevin proposes the formation of a Western Union between Britain, France and the Benelux countries to stand up against the Soviet Union. The Treaty of Brussels is signed March 17 as a consequence, a predecessor to NATO.
January 26 – Teigin poison case: A man masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 of 16 bank employees of the Tokyo branch of Imperial Bank and takes the money; artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later sentenced to death for the crime, but is never executed.
January 29 – Plane crash at Los Gatos Creek, California kills 4 US citizens and 28 deportees, commemorated in a song by Woody Guthrie.
January 30
- Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse.
- 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

February

February 1 – The Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts.
February 4 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) becomes an independent kingdom within the British Commonwealth.
February 16 – Miranda, the innermost moon of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper¹.
February 18 – Eamon de Valera, Irish head of government since 1932, loses power to an opposition coalition. John A. Costello is appointed Taoiseach of Éire (formerly called the Irish Free State) by President O'Kelly.
February 25 – The Communist Party seizes control of Czechoslovakia, a day celebrated by that regime as "Victorious February" (Czech:"Vítězný únor"; Slovak:"Víťazný Február") until November 1989.

March

March 8 – McCollum v. Board of Education: The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution.
March 16 – The largest flood in the history of Brampton, Ontario, occurs.²
March 17
- Treaty of Brussels signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, providing for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence.
- The Hells Angels motorcycle gang is founded in California.
March 20
- Singapore holds its first elections.
- Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in an all-Wagner program.

April

- Scientists Ralph Alpher and George Gamow publish the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper about the big bang.
- The law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is founded.
April 3
- President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
- Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is played on television in its entirety for the first time, in a concert featuring Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The chorus is conducted by Robert Shaw.
April 5 – 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: Haganah launches Operation Nahshon; beginning of the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
April 7
- The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
- A fire in a Buddhist monastery Shanghai kills 20 monks.
April 9
- Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further 10 years of violence in all of Colombia (La Violencia).
- The Deir Yassin massacre takes place in British Mandate of Palestine.
April 13 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre takes place in British Mandate of Palestine.
April 16 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is founded as the OEEC.
April 18 – The first democratic general election with universal suffrage is held in Italy.
April 19 – Burma joins the United Nations.
April 24 – The Costa Rican Civil War ends.
April 30 – Organization of American States (OAS) founded.
April 30 – The Land Rover is unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show.

May

May – The RAND Corporation is established as an independent nonprofit policy research and analysis institution.
May 4 – Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet makes its world premiere in London.
May 11 – Luigi Einaudi becomes President of the Italian Republic.
May 14
- The Declaration of Independence of Israel is made.
- The murder of a 3-year-old girl in Blackburn, England leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.³
May 15 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated; expeditionary forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq attack Israel and clash with Israeli forces.
May 16 – Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel.
May 18 – The first Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
May 26 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as the auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
May 28 – Daniel Francois Malan defeats Jan Smuts and becomes Prime Minister of South Africa, ushering in the era of apartheid, which is finally dismantled by F W de Klerk in 1994.
May 30 – A dike along the Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes: 15 people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.

June

June 3 – The Palomar Observatory telescope is finished in California.
June 10 – Hasan Saka forms the new government of Turkey. (17th government; Hasan Saka had served twice as a prime minister)
June 11 – The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, is launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.
June 16
- Communist guerrillas kill 3 rubber planters in Malaya.
- Three armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.
June 17 – A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Air Lines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
June 18
- Malayan Emergency: A state of emergency is declared in Malaysia due to a communist insurgency.
June 20 – The U.S. Congress recesses for the remainder of 1948, after an overtime session closes at 7:00 a.m. D.C. time (to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948).
June 21 – The Deutsche Mark becomes official currency of the future Federal Republic of Germany.
June 22 – The ship Empire Windrush a large group of Afro-Caribbean immigrants to Tilbury near London, the start of a large wave of immigration to Britain.
June 24
- Cold War: The Berlin Blockade begins.
- The first World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization is held in Geneva.
June 26 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
June 28
- The Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia and the Soviet/Yugoslav split.
- David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK. It is banned for 3 years in the U.S. because of alleged anti-Semitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness.
- 1948 Fukui earthquake strikes Fukui, Japan. 3,769 dead, 22,203 injured.

July

July 5 – The National Health Service Acts are enacted in United Kingdom.
July 6 – The world's first Air Car-ferry service is flown by a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways from Lympne to Le Touquet.
July 13 – The Coptic and Ethiopian Churches reach an agreement leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate. Five bishops are immediately consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria, and the successor to Abuna Qerellos IV is granted the power to consecrate new bishops, who are empowered to elect a new Patriarch for their church.
July 15
- The attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, incites numerous strikes all over the country.
- The first London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.
July 20 – Cold War: President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt).
July 22 – The Dominion of Newfoundland votes 52% to 48% to join the foreign nation of Canada in a questionable referendum.
July 24 – A great oil fire breaks out in the harbor of Naantali, Finland.
July 26 – U.S. President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces.
July 28 – Around 200 die in explosion at a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
July 29 – The 1948 Summer Olympics begin in London, the first since the 1936
July 31 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.

August

August 1 – The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
August 10 – August 23 – The Herrenchiemsee Convent prepares the draft for the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.
August 14 – 1948 Ashes series: The Australian batsman Don Bradman, playing his last Test cricket match, against England at The Oval, is bowled by Eric Hollies for a duck; however, "The Invincibles" win the match by an innings and 149 runs, and The Ashes 4-0.
August 15 – The Republic of Korea is established.
August 18 – Danube Commission created by Belgrade Convention (enters into force 11 May 1949).
August 23 – The World Council of Churches is established.
August 24 – The first meeting of the charter members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) is held.⁴
August 25 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.

September

September 4 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
September 5 – Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
September 6 – Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
September 9 – The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is formally declared, with Kim Il-sung as prime minister.
September 11 – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder and first Governor General of Pakistan, dies. Pakistan is in a state of shock as it mourns the departure of the father of the nation. The day is a public holiday nation-wide.
September 12 – The State of Hyderabad is invaded by the Indian Army on the day after Pakistani leader Jinnah's death, to assist damage control. Operation Polo leads to the independence of Hyderabad state and its amalgamation into the Indian union.
September 17 – Lehi members assassinate Swedish count Folke Bernadotte.
September 18 – Yoni Abramski, age 12, killed by sniper in Jerusalem.
September 29 – Laurence Olivier's Hamlet opens in the United States.

October

October 5 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
October 10 – R-1 missile on test becomes the first Soviet launch to enter space.
October 11 – The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves to win the World Series, 4 games to 2.
October 16 – The 57th Street Art Fair, the oldest juried art fair in the American Midwest, is founded.
October 26 – Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.
October 28 – The massacre of Dawaymeh begins.

November

November 2 – United States presidential election, 1948: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats Republican Thomas E. Dewey and 'Dixiecrat' Strom Thurmond.
November 12 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences 7 Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
November 15 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Canada's 12th prime minister.
November 16 – Operation Magic Carpet to transport Jews from Yemen to Israel begins.
November 17 – Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi divorces his second wife, the former Princess Fawzia of Egypt.
November 20 – Geoffrey B. Orbell rediscovers the Takahē, last seen 50 years previously, near Lake Te Anau, New Zealand.
November 24 – In Venezuela, president Rómulo Betancourt is ousted by a military junta.
November 27 – The Calgary Stampeders defeat the Ottawa Rough Riders 12–7 before 20,013 fans at Toronto's Varsity Stadium to capture their first Grey Cup and complete the only perfect season to date in Canadian Football.

December

December 1 – José Figueres Ferrer abolishes the army in Costa Rica, making it the first country in history to do so
December 10 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
December 15 – The United States Department of Justice indicts Alger Hiss on two counts of perjury
December 19 – The Cleveland Browns become the first professional football team to go undefeated in a season
December 26 – The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea
December 28 – A Muslim Brotherhood member assassinates Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi
December 30 – The musical Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances
December 31 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Israeli troops drive the Egyptians from Negev

Undated

Brandeis University is founded.
The Casimir effect is discovered by Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir.
The Fresh Kills Landfill, the world's largest, opens on Staten Island, New York.
The Oakridge Transit Centre opens in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Slovak city Gúta is renamed Kolárovo.
The Tunnel of Vielha is opened in the Aran Valley, Spanish Pyrenees.
Last recorded sighting of the Caspian Tiger in Kazakhstan.
A pack of wolves kills about 40 children in the Darovskoye district of Russia.⁵
Charles Warrell creates the first I-Spy books
Rev.W.Awdry's third book James the Red Engine is published.
Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, is published.

Ongoing

Births

January–February

January 2
- Mary Archer, British scientist
- Deborah Watling, British actress (Doctor Who)
January 5
- Wally Foreman, Australian media icon (d. 2006)
- Ted Lange, American actor and director (The Love Boat)
January 7 – Kenny Loggins, American rock singer (Footloose)
January 10
- Donald Fagen, American rock keyboardist (Steely Dan)
- Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
January 12 – Kenny Allen, English footballer
January 14
- T-Bone Burnett, American record producer and musician
- Carl Weathers, African-American football player and actor (Rocky III)
January 15 – Ronnie Van Zant, American rock musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
January 16
- John Carpenter, American film director and composer
- Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
January 17 – Davíð Oddsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
January 19 – Frank McKenna, Premier of New Brunswick and Canadian Ambassador
January 23
- Mitoji Yabunaka, Japanese politcian
- Katharine Holabird, American children's writer (Angelina Ballerina)
January 27 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-born dancer
January 28 – Charles Taylor, Liberian president
January 29 – Marc Singer, Canadian actor (V)
January 30 – Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
January 31 – Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
February 1
- Elisabeth Sladen, Dr Who actress
- Rick James, Motown performer (d. 2004)
February 2 – Ina Garten, American cooking author
February 3
- Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorean Catholic bishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Henning Mankell, Swedish writer
February 4
- Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier), American hard rock singer and musician
- Roedy Green, Canadian programmer and LGBT activist
February 5
- Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager
- Christopher Guest, American actor, writer, director, and composer
February 6 – Jack Conway, American musician, composer, arranger, and guitarist
February 7 – Tony Iommi, English rock guitarist (Black Sabbath)
February 10 – John Magnier, Irish businessman and thoroughbred racehorse breeder
February 11 – Chris Rush, American stand-up comedian
February 12 – Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and author
February 14
- Raymond Joseph Teller, American magician
- Jackie Martling, American comedian and radio personality
February 17 – José José, Mexican singer and actor
February 19 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician and author (d. 2002)
February 20 – Jennifer O'Neill, Brazilian actress (Summer of 42)
February 22 – John Ashton, American actor
February 24
- J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician
- Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
February 25 – Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
February 28 – Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
February 28
- Mike Figgis, American director, writer, and composer
- Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer
- Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
- Alfred Sant, Leader of Malta Labour Party (1992–) and Prime Minister of Malta (1996–1998)

March–April

March 2
- R. T. Crowley, American pioneer of electronic commerce
- Rory Gallagher, Irish musician
- Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
March 4
- Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
- James Ellroy, American writer
- Tom Grieve, American baseball player
- Leron Lee, American baseball player
- Chris Squire, British bassist
- Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
March 5 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
March 6 – Anna Maria Horsford, American actress
March 9 – Jeffrey Osborne, African-American singer (On The Wings Of Love)
March 11 – Dominique Sanda, French actress
March 12 – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter
March 14 – Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
March 15 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
March 17 – William Gibson, American/Canadian writer
March 20
- John de Lancie, American actor
- Bobby Orr, Canadian hockey player
March 22
- Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist (CNN)
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer
March 25 – Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
March 26 – Steven Tyler, American rock singer (Aerosmith)
March 28
- Dianne Wiest, American actress
- Jayne Ann Krentz, née Castle (Amanda Quick), American novelist
March 29 – Bud Cort, American actor (Harold and Maude)
March 30 – Eddie Jordan, Irish founder of Jordan Grand Prix
March 31
- Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States
- Rhea Perlman, American actress (Cheers)
April 1 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican singer and actor
April 4 – Squire Parsons, American gospel singer/songwriter
April 12
- Jeremy Beadle, English TV presenter (d. 2008)
- Don Fernando, director and actor of pornographic films
- Marcello Lippi, Italian football player and manager
April 13 – Nam Hae-il, 25th Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Korea Navy
April 15 – Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
April 27 – Amrit Kumar Bohara, Nepalese politician
April 29 – Michael Karoli, German musician (d. 2001)

May–June

May 2 – Vladimir Matorin, Russian opera singer
May 4 – Tanya Falan, American singer (The Lawrence Welk Show)
May 5 – Richard Pacheco, American pornographic actor
May 6 – Richard Bryant, African-American pastor
May 8
- Felicity Lott, English soprano
- Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer (Degrassi franchise)
May 9 – Calvin Murphy, American basketball player and analyst
May 11 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese musician
May 12 – Steve Winwood, English rock singer (Higher Love)
May 14 – Bob Woolmer, British cricket coach (d. 2007)
May 15
- Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
- Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
May 16 – Jesper Christensen, Danish actor
May 19 – Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
May 20 – Tessho Genda, Japanese seiyu
May 21 – Leo Sayer, English rock musician (You Make Me Feel Like Dancing)
May 25 – Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions)
May 26 – Stevie Nicks, American rock singer and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
May 27 – Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
May 29 – Michael Berkeley, British composer
May 31 – John Bonham, British rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980)
June 2 – Jerry Mathers, American actor (Leave It To Beaver)
June 4 – Bob Champion, English jump jockey
June 13 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player and scout (d. 2001)
June 15 – Paul Michiels, Belgian singer-songwriter
June 17 – Dave Concepción, Venezuelan baseball player
June 19
- Lea Laven, Finnish singer
- Phylicia Rashad, African-American actress (The Cosby Show)
- Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
June 20
- Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
- Burton Richardson, American game show announcer
June 21
- Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
- Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
June 22 – Todd Rundgren, American rock singer and record producer (Hello It's Me)
June 28 – Kathy Bates, American actress (Misery)
June 29 – Fred Grandy, American actor and politician (The Love Boat)
June 30 – Vladimir Yakunin, Russian official, head of state-run Russian Railways company

July–August

July 1 – John Ford (musician), Best known for penning Part of the Union whilst in Strawbs
July 3 – Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
July 8 – Raffi, Egyptian-born children's entertainer
July 12 – Richard Simmons, American television personality and fitness expert
July 15 – Richard Franklin, Australian film director (d. 2007)
July 16 – Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
July 18 – Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 20 – Muse Watson, American actor
July 21
- Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
- Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English musician
- Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist (Doonesbury)
- Mikhail Zadornov, Russian stand-up comedian and writer
July 22 – Susan Eloise Hinton, American author
July 23 – John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
July 25 – Steve Goodman, Grammy Award-winning folk music singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
July 27 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
July 28 – Sally Struthers, American actress (All In The Family)
July 30
- Jean Reno, French actor
- Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer and musician (d. 2010)
July 31 – Jonathan Dollimore, British author and professor
August 1 – Jim Carroll, American author, poet, and musician
August 2
- Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author
- Bob Rae, Canadian politician
August 3 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
August 13 – Kathleen Battle, American soprano
August 15 – George Ryton, British Formula One engineer
August 18 – Joseph Marcell, English actor
August 19 – Robert Hughes (Australian actor)
August 20 – Robert Plant, English rock singer (Led Zeppelin)
August 24
- Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Air Force
- Jean Michel Jarre, French electronic musician
August 27 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
August 30 – Lewis Black, American comedian
August 31 – Cyril Jordan, American musician

September–October

September 2
- Terry Bradshaw, American football player and sportscaster
- Nate Archibald, American basketball player
September 3 – Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian president ( d. 2008 )
September 4 – Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer
September 5 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
September 8 – Great Kabuki, Japanese professional wrestler
September 10
- Judy Geeson, British actress
- Bob Lanier, American basketball player
- Margaret Trudeau, ex-wife of the former Prime Minister of Canada
September 13 – Nell Carter, American singer and actress (d. 2003)
September 17 – John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
September 19 – Nadezhda Tkachenko, former Soviet pentathlete
- Jeremy Irons, English actor
September 20 – George R.R. Martin, American speculative fiction author
September 22 – Denis Burke, Australian politician
September 24 – Phil Hartman, Canadian comedian (Saturday Night Live) (d. 1998)
September 25 – Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Russian oligarch
September 26 – Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer and actress
September 27 – Michele Dotrice, English actress
September 29
- Mark Farner, American rock guitarist and singer (Grand Funk Railroad)
- Bryant Gumbel, African-American television broadcaster
- Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
October 1 – Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman (d. 2001)
October 2
- Avery Brooks, American actor and musician
- Chris LeDoux, American singer and rodeo star (d. 2005)
October 4 – Meg Bennett, American soap opera writer
October 6 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
October 7 – Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
October 8 – Johnny Ramone, American rock guitarist (The Ramones) (d. 2004)
October 9 – Jackson Browne, American rock musician (Runnin' On Empty)
October 11 – Cynthia Clawson, American gospel singer
October 13
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (d. 1997)
- Ted Poe, American politician
- John Ford Coley, American rock musician
October 14 – Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
October 15 – Chris de Burgh, Irish singer (Lady in Red)
October 16 – Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
October 17
- George Wendt, American television actor (Cheers)
- Robert Jordan, American novelist (d. 2007)
October 18 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher

November–December

November 1 – Anna Stuart, American actress
November 3 – Lulu, Scottish singer and actress
November 5
- Bob Barr, American politician
- Dallas Holm, American Christian musician
- William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 6 – Glenn Frey, American guitarist and singer (The Eagles)
November 7 – James Houghton, American actor and director
November 10 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
November 13 – Lockwood Smith, New Zealand politician
November 14
- Charles, Prince of Wales
- Robert Ginty, American actor and director (d. 2009)
November 15 – James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (d. 2007)
November 16 – Mutt Lange, Rhodesian-born record producer
November 17 – Howard Dean, American politician
November 20
- Richard Masur, American actor, director and former president of Screen Actor Guild
- John R. Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
- Barbara Hendricks, American-born soprano
November 21 – Michel Suleiman, current President of Lebanon
November 22 – Radomir Antic, Serbian football player and manager
November 24 – Joe Howard, American actor
November 27 – James Avery, American actor
December 2 – T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
December 3
- Rick Cua, American singer and evangelist
- Ozzy Osbourne, English rock singer
December 6
- Keke Rosberg, Finnish Formula One champion
- JoBeth Williams, American actress
December 7
- Gary Morris, singer and actor
- Mads Vinding, Danish bassist
- Tony Thomas, American television producer
December 10 – Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
December 11 – Chester Thompson, American rock drummer
December 13
- Lillian Board, British Olympic athlete (d. 1970)
- David O'List, British rock guitarist
- Ted Nugent, American rock guitarist and singer
December 14
- Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982)
- Kim Beazley, Australian politician
December 19 – Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
December 21
- Samuel L. Jackson, African-American actor
- Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician and cabaret artist
December 22
- Lynne Thigpen, African-American actress (Godspell) (d. 2003)
- Noel Edmonds, British TV presenter and DJ
December 27 – Gérard Depardieu, French actor
December 28 – Dick Siegel, American songwriter
December 29 – Peter Robinson, Northern Irish politician
December 31
- Joe Dallesandro, American model and actor
- Donna Summer, American singer and actress
date unknown
- Ciarán Carson, Northern Irish poet and novelist
- Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman and murder victim (d. 1995)
- Johnny Nicholas, American blues musician
- Edward Rutherfurd, British novelist

Deaths

January–March

January 1 – Edna May, American actress (b. 1878)
January 5 – Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison (b. 1858)
January 8 – Edward Stanley Kellogg, 16th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1870)
January 21 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)
January 24 – Bill Cody, American actor (b. 1891)
January 29 – Tomislav II of Croatia, (Aimone 4th Duke of Aosta), king (b. 1900)
January 30
- Nigel De Brulier, English actor (b. 1877)
- Mahatma Gandhi, Leader of Indian independence movement, (assassinated) (b. 1869)
- Orville Wright, American co-inventor of the airplane (b. 1871)
February 1 – Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (b. 1878)
February 2 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
February 11 – Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director (b. 1898)
February 23 – John Robert Gregg, Irish-born inventor of shorthand (b. 1866)
March 4 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright, actor and director (b. 1896)
March 6 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (suicide) (b. 1914)
March 10
- Zelda Fitzgerald, American wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900)
- Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1886)
March 24 – Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian religious and political philosopher (b. 1874)
March 31 – Egon Erwin Kisch, Austrian journalist and author (b. 1885)
May 9 – Viola Allen, stage actress, (b. 1869)

April–June

April 9
- George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1872)
- Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
April 15 – Manuel Roxas, 5th President of the Philippines (b. 1892)
April 17 – Kantarō Suzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1868)
April 20 – Mitsumasa Yonai, 37th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1880)
April 24 – Manuel Ponce, Mexican composer (b. 1882)
May 13 – Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, American daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy and sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1920)
May 15 – Father Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-born priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
May 21 – Jacques Feyder, French filmmaker (b. 1885)
May 28 – Unity Mitford, British friend of Adolf Hitler (b. 1914)
May 29 – May Whitty, British actress (b. 1865)
May 30 – József Klekl, Slovene politician in Hungary (b. 1874)
June 6 – Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1864)
June 13 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese writer (b. 1909)
June 25 – William C. Lee, American general (b. 1895)
June 26 – Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (murder) (b. 1924)

July–September

July 2 – Baba Sawan Singh, Indian saint known as "The Great Master," (b. 1858)
July 5
- Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
- Carole Landis, American actress player (b. 1919)
July 9 – James Baskett, American actor (b. 1904)
July 11 – King Baggot, American actor (b. 1879)
July 15 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
July 18 – May Moss, Australian women's rights activist (b. 1869)
July 21 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter (b. 1904)
July 23 – David Wark Griffith, American film director (The Birth Of A Nation) (b. 1875)
July 27 – Susan Glaspell, American playwright (b. 1882)
July 31 – Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd, Franklin Roosevelt's lover (b. 1891)
August 3 – Tommy Ryan, American boxing champion (b. 1870)
August 10
- Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian (b. 1873)
- Andrew Brown, Scottish soccer coach (b. 1870)
August 12 – Harry Brearley, English inventor of stainless steel (b. 1871)
August 16 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (b. 1895)
August 17 – Ettie Garner, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1869)
August 27 – Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1862)
September 1 – Muhammad VII al-Munsif, ruler of Tunisia 1942–43 (b. 1881)
September 2 – Sylvanus G. Morley, American scholar and World War I spy (b. 1883)
September 3 – Edvard Benes, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
September 5 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
September 10 – Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Tsar of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
September 11 – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder and first Governor General of Pakistan (b. 1876)
September 12 – Rupert D'Oyly Carte, English hotelier, theatre owner and impresario (b. 1876)
September 17 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1895)
September 20 – Husain Salaahuddin, Famous Mahl writer (b. 1881)
September 24 – Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
September 26 – Gregg Toland, American cinematographer (b. 1904)
September 30 – Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1861)

October–December

October 1 – Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, Prime Minister of Siam (b. 1884)
October 12- Susan Sutherland Isaacs, British educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
October 13 – Samuel S. Hinds, American actor (b. 1875)
October 15 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
October 21 – Elissa Landi, Italian actress (b. 1904)
October 24 – Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer (b. 1870)
October 31 – Mary Nolan, American actress (b. 1905)
November 9 – Edgar Kennedy, American actor (b. 1890)
November 11 – Fred Niblo, American film director (b. 1874)
November 28 – D.D. Sheehan, Irish politician (b. 1873)
December 2 – Chano Pozo, Cuban percussionist (b. 1915)
December 20 – C. Aubrey Smith, British actor (b. 1863)
December 23 – Japanese war leaders (hanged):
- Kenji Doihara, spy (b. 1883)
- Koki Hirota, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
- Heitarō Kimura, general (b. 1888)
- Iwane Matsui, general (b. 1878)
- Akira Mutō, general (b. 1892)
- Seishirō Itagaki, military officer (b. 1885)
- Hideki Tojo, general, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1884)
December 31 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land and water racer (b. 1885)

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Chemistry – Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
Medicine – Paul Hermann Müller
Literature – T. S. Eliot
Peace – not awarded

Notes

^ Moore, P. (1995) The Guinness book of astronomy (5th ed.) Enfield, UK: Guinness Publishing. p. 110.
^ "Brampton's largest flood left its watery mark". The Brampton Guardian. 2008-03-10. http://thebramptonguardian.com/brampton/news/article/44736. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
^ http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-brutal-murder-begins-an-unusual-investigation
^ http://www.accj.or.jp/history
^ Guinness book of world records. 2008. p. 137.

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