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1949 .
1949 (
MCMXLIX ) was a
common year starting on Saturday of the
Gregorian calendar , the 1949th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 949th year of the
2nd millennium , the 49th year of the
20th century , and the 10th and last year of the
1940s decade.
Calendar year
Events
January
January 17 :
Beetle in U.S.
February
March
March 1 –
Indonesia seizes
Yogyakarta from the
Dutch .
March 2 – The
B-50 Superfortress
Lucky Lady II (under Captain James Gallagher) lands in
Fort Worth, Texas , United States, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight (it was refueled in flight 4 times).
March 20 – The
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy ,
Denver and Rio Grande Western and
Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the
California Zephyr passenger train between
Chicago and
Oakland, California , as the first long-distance train to feature
Vistadome cars as regular equipment.
March 24 – The
21st Academy Awards Ceremony is held. The movie
Hamlet wins the
Academy Award for Best Picture .
March 25
March 26 – The first half of
Giuseppe Verdi 's opera
Aida , conducted by legendary conductor
Arturo Toscanini , and performed in concert (i.e. no scenery or costumes), is telecast by
NBC , live from
Studio 8H at
Rockefeller Center . The second half is telecast a week later. This is the only complete opera that Toscanini ever conducts on television.
March 28
March 30 – An
anti-NATO riot in Iceland takes place, prompted by the decision of the
Icelandic parliament to join the newly formed
NATO .
March 31 – The former
British colony of
Newfoundland joins
Canada , as its 10th
province .
April
April 4 – The
North Atlantic Treaty is signed in
Washington, D.C. , creating the
NATO defense alliance.
April 7 –
Rodgers and Hammerstein 's
South Pacific , starring
Mary Martin and
Ezio Pinza , opens on
Broadway , and goes on to become Rodgers and Hammerstein's second longest-running
musical . It becomes an instant classic of the
musical theatre . The score's biggest hit is the song "
Some Enchanted Evening ".
April 14 – The
N'Ko alphabet is completed by
Solomana Kante .
April 18 – The
Republic of Ireland formally becomes a
republic , and leaves the
British Commonwealth .
April 20 –
Royal Navy
frigate
HMS Amethyst goes up the
Yangtze River, to evacuate
British Commonwealth refugees escaping the advance of
Mao 's
Communist forces. Under heavy fire, she grounds off Rose Island. After an abortive rescue attempt on
April 26 , she anchors 10 miles (16 km) upstream. Negotiations with the Communists to let the ship leave drag on for weeks, during which time the ship's cat
Simon raises the crew's morale.
April 23 – Chinese Communist troops take
Nanjing .
April 26 – Transjordan changes its name to the Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan .
April 28
May
May 1 –
Nereid , a moon of
Neptune , is discovered by
Gerard Kuiper .
May 4 –
Superga air disaster : A Fiat G.212 airliner of Avio Linee Italiane, carrying the entire Torino F.C. football team, crashes into the back wall of the Basilica of Superga, killing all 31 on board.
May 5 – The
Council of Europe is founded, by the signing of the
Treaty of London .
May 6 –
EDSAC , the first practicable
stored-program computer , runs its first program at
Cambridge University .
[4]
May 9 –
Rainier III becomes Prince of
Monaco , upon the death of his maternal grandfather
Louis II .
May 11
Israel is admitted to the
United Nations , as its 59th member.
Siam officially changes its French name to "Thaïlande" (English name to "
Thailand "), having officially changed its Thai name to "Prated Thai" since 1939.
May 12 –
Cold War : The
Soviet Union lifts the
Berlin Blockade .
May 16 – The
Tokyo Stock Exchange resumes operations, after a four-year shutdown.
May 20
May 22 – After two months in
Bethesda Naval Hospital ,
James Forrestal commits suicide, under circumstances that seem suspicious to many.
May 23 – The
Federal Republic of Germany is established.
May 31 – The first trial of
Alger Hiss for perjury begins in New York City, with
Whittaker Chambers as principal witness for the prosecution, but will end in a jury deadlock (8 for, 4 against).
June
June 5 –
Thailand elects
Orapin Chaiyakan , the first
Thai female member of
Thailand's Parliament .
June 6 – With the passage of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act by the Indian government,
Mahabodhi Temple is restored to partial
Buddhist control.
June 7 –
25 – Dock workers strike in the United Kingdom.
June 8
June 14 –
Albert II , a
rhesus monkey , becomes the first
primate to enter space, on U.S.
Hermes project
V-2 rocket Blossom IVB , but is killed on impact at return.
June 19 –
Glenn Dunaway wins the
inaugural
NASCAR Cup Series race at
Charlotte Speedway , a 3/4 mile oval in
Charlotte, North Carolina , but is disqualified due to illegal springs.
Jim Roper is declared the official winner.
June 24 – The first
television western ,
Hopalong Cassidy , airs on
NBC in the United States.
June 29 –
Apartheid : The South African Citizenship Act suspends the granting of citizenship to
Commonwealth of Nations immigrants after 5 years, and imposes a ban on
mixed marriages .
July
August
September
Konrad Adenauer .
September 7 – The
Federal Republic of Germany is officially founded.
Konrad Adenauer is the first federal chancellor.
September 9
September 13 – The
Soviet Union vetoes
United Nations membership for
Ceylon , Finland,
Iceland , Italy,
Jordan and Portugal.
September 17
September 19 – The United Kingdom government devalues the
pound sterling from
$ 4.03 to $2.80, leading to many other currencies being devalued.
September 23 – U.S. President
Harry S. Truman announces that the
Soviet Union has tested the
atomic bomb .
September 24 –
László Rajk , ex-foreign minister of Hungary, is sentenced to death.
September 25 – U.S. Christian evangelist
Billy Graham starts his
Los Angeles Crusade , his first great evangelistic campaign. It runs for eight weeks during which Graham speaks to 350,000 people and the event is subsequently described as the greatest revival since the time of
Billy Sunday . After this, Graham becomes a national figure in the United States.
September 29
October
October 1 : People's Republic of China is founded.
Mao Zedong 's Proclamation of The People's Republic of China during a Speech on October 1, 1949.
October 7 : The
German Democratic Republic is Established.
November
December
Dec. 16 :
Sukarno , first President of
Indonesia
Celebration of Joseph Stalin's 70th Birthday (December 21, 1949)
December 7
December 10 –
1949 Australian federal election : The
Liberal /
Country
Coalition led by
Robert Menzies defeats the
Labor
government , led by
Prime Minister
Ben Chifley . Menzies is sworn in on
December 19 , his second stint as Prime Minister; he will hold the office for over 16 years until his retirement in
1966 and Labor will not win office again until
1972 , under
Gough Whitlam .
December 13 – The
Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
December 14 –
Traicho Kostov , who until March was acting President of the Council of Ministers of
Bulgaria , is sentenced to death for anti-
Communist Party activity.
December 15 – A
typhoon strikes a fishing fleet off Korea, killing several thousand.
December 16 –
Sukarno is elected president of the
Republic of Indonesia .
December 17 –
Burma recognises the
People's Republic of China .
December 18 – In the American
National Football League , the
Philadelphia Eagles defeat the
Los Angeles Rams 14–0, to win the championship.
December 21 –
Soviet Leader
Joseph Stalin 's 70th Birthday is Held in
Moscow .
December 27 – The
Treaty of The Hague ends the
Indonesian National Revolution by recognising transfer of the sovereignty of the
Dutch East Indies from Queen
Juliana of the Netherlands to the
United States of Indonesia ; the
Susanto Cabinet takes office in the
Republic of Indonesia .
[10]
December 29
KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut, becomes the first
Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
Smouha SC (sports club) is founded in
Alexandria , Egypt, by Joseph Smouha, a Mizrahi Iraqi Jew.
December 30 – India recognizes the People's Republic of China.
Date unknown
Births
January
George Foreman
Göran Persson
John Belushi
January 2
January 9 –
Mary Roos , German singer
January 10
January 12
January 14 –
Lawrence Kasdan , American director, screenwriter
January 15 –
Panos Mihalopoulos , Greek actor
January 17
January 18 –
Philippe Starck , French designer
[12]
January 19
January 20 –
Göran Persson , 31st
Prime Minister of Sweden
January 22 –
Steve Perry , American rock singer (
Journey )
January 23 –
Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana , Indonesian politician and former Minister of Social Affairs
January 24 –
John Belushi , American actor, comedian (
Saturday Night Live ) (d.
1982 )
January 25 –
Paul Nurse , English geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
January 26 –
David Strathairn , American actor (
Good Night, and Good Luck )
January 27 –
Djavan , Brazilian singer, songwriter
January 28 –
Mike Moore , 34th
Prime Minister of New Zealand (d.
2020 )
January 30 –
Peter Agre , American biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
January 31 –
Johan Derksen , Dutch footballer, sports journalist
February
Brent Spiner
Niki Lauda
Simon Crean
Ric Flair
February 1 –
Joan Burton , Irish politician
February 2
February 3 –
Hennie Kuiper , Dutch cyclist
February 4 –
Rasim Delić , Bosnian military chief of staff and convicted war criminal (d.
2010 )
[14]
February 6 –
Jim Sheridan , Irish film director
[15]
February 8 –
Florinda Meza , Mexican actress, television producer, and screenwriter (best known as Doña Florinda in El Chavo del Ocho )
February 9 –
Judith Light , American actress
February 10 –
Maxime Le Forestier , French singer
February 21 –
Ronnie Hellström , Swedish footballer (d.
2022 )
February 22 –
Niki Lauda , Austrian triple
Formula 1 world champion (d.
2019 )
February 25 –
Ric Flair , American professional wrestler
February 26 –
Simon Crean , Australian politician (d.
2023 )
March
Shaukat Aziz
Alex Higgins
Slavoj Žižek
Margareta of Romania
Michael W. Young
March 2
March 3 –
Elijah Harper , Canadian Aboriginal activist (d.
2013 )
March 5 –
Franz Josef Jung , German politician
March 6
March 7 –
Ghulam Nabi Azad , Indian politician
March 8 –
Cho Yang-ho , South Korean businessman (d.
2019 )
March 9
March 10 –
Nobu Matsuhisa , Japanese chef
March 11 –
Georg Schramm , German psychologist, Kabarett artist
March 12
March 13 –
Julia Migenes , American soprano
March 16
March 17
March 18 –
Alex Higgins , Northern Irish snooker player (d.
2010 )
March 19
March 21
March 22 –
Fanny Ardant , French actress
March 24 –
Ranil Wickremesinghe ,
9th
President of Sri Lanka ,
10th
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
March 25 –
Sue Klebold , American activist
March 26
March 28
March 29 –
Michael Brecker , American jazz musician (d.
2007 )
March 30 –
Lene Lovich , American singer
April
Judith Resnik
Zygmunt Zimowski
Massimo D'Alema
Janet Ågren
Jessica Lange
György Gedó
António Guterres
April 1
April 2 –
Pamela Reed , American actress
April 3 –
Richard Thompson , English musician, songwriter
April 4 –
Parveen Babi , Bollywood actress (d.
2005 )
April 5 –
Judith Resnik , American astronaut (d.
1986 )
April 6
April 7
April 8
April 10 –
Daniel Mangeas , French bicycle commentator
April 11 –
Bernd Eichinger , German film producer, director (d.
2011 )
April 13 –
Christopher Hitchens , English writer (d.
2011 )
[18]
April 14 –
John Shea , American actor
April 15
April 18
April 19 –
Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov , Russian figure skater (d.
1990 )
April 20
April 21 –
Patti LuPone , American actress
April 23 –
György Gedó , Hungarian Olympic boxer
April 24 –
Véronique Sanson , French singer, songwriter
April 28 –
Bruno Kirby , American actor (d.
2006 )
April 30 –
António Guterres ,
Prime Minister of Portugal , 9th
Secretary-General of the United Nations
May
Billy Joel
Alan García
Jim Broadbent
Jeremy Corbyn
Tom Berenger
May 2 –
Alan Titchmarsh , English gardener
May 3 –
Leopoldo Luque , Argentine soccer player (d.
2021)
May 6 –
Larry Rivers , Basketball player for the
Harlem Globetrotters (d.
2023 )
May 9
May 10 –
Mahfuzur Rahman Khan , Bangladeshi cinematographer (d.
2019 )
May 13 –
Zoë Wanamaker , American-British actress
May 14 –
Sverre Årnes , Norwegian writer
May 18
May 19
May 20 –
Dave Thomas , Canadian actor, comedian (
Second City Television )
May 21 –
Andrew Neil , Scottish journalist and broadcaster
[21]
May 22
May 23 –
Alan García ,
President of Peru (d.
2019 )
[22]
May 24
May 25 –
Jamaica Kincaid , Antiguan-born novelist
May 26
May 27
May 29 –
Francis Rossi , English rock guitarist, singer (
Status Quo )
May 30 –
Bob Willis , English cricketer (d.
2019 )
May 31 –
Tom Berenger , American actor (
Platoon )
June
Heather Couper
Jarosław Kaczyński
Ebi
Lionel Richie
Meryl Streep
June 1 –
Déwé Gorodey , New Caledonian writer and politician (d.
2022 )
[23]
June 2 –
Heather Couper , British astronomer (d.
2020 )
[24]
June 7 –
Wendy Sherman , American diplomat and politician
[25]
June 8 –
Emanuel Ax , Polish-born American pianist
June 10 –
Bora Dugić , Serbian musician, flautist
June 11 –
Frank Beard , American drummer (
ZZ Top )
June 13 –
Ann Druyan , American popular science writer, wife of
Carl Sagan
June 14
June 16 –
Robbin Thompson , American singer, songwriter (d.
2015 )
June 18
June 19
June 20
June 21
June 22
June 23 –
Jon McLachlan , New Zealand rugby union player
June 25
June 26
June 27 –
Vera Wang , American fashion designer
June 29 –
Lisette Sevens , Dutch field hockey defender
June 30
July
Noli de Castro
Shelley Duvall
Carl Bildt
Kgalema Motlanthe
Alan Menken
Thaksin Shinawatra
Jamil Mahuad
July 1
July 2 –
Ben Verbong , Dutch film director, screenwriter
July 3
July 5 –
Jill Murphy , British author and illustrator (d.
2021 )
July 6 –
Noli de Castro , Filipino broadcast journalist, radio commentator and
Vice President of the Philippines
July 7 –
Shelley Duvall , American actress
July 8
July 9
July 11
July 13 –
Helena Fibingerová , Czech athlete
July 15
July 17
July 19
July 20 –
Naseeruddin Shah , Indian actor and environmentalist
July 22
July 24
July 25 –
Francis Smerecki , French football player, manager (d.
2018 )
July 26
July 29 –
Jamil Mahuad , President of Ecuador
August
Mark Knopfler
Fernando Collor de Mello
Beverly Burns
Phil Lynott
Vicky Leandros
Richard Gere
August 1 –
Mugur Isărescu , 58th prime minister of Romania
August 7 –
Walid Jumblatt , leader of the Lebanese Druze
August 8 –
Keith Carradine , American actor
August 11 –
Ian Charleson , Scottish actor (d.
1990 )
August 12
August 13 –
Philippe Petit , French high-wire artist
August 14 –
Morten Olsen , Danish football player, manager
August 15 –
Beverly Burns , American pilot, first woman to captain a Boeing 747
August 17 –
Sue Draheim , American fiddler (d.
2013 )
[28]
August 20 –
Phil Lynott , Irish rock musician (d.
1986 )
August 21
August 23
August 24 –
Anna Lee Fisher , American astronaut, chemist and physician
August 25
August 26 –
Leon Redbone , Canadian-American singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor, and guitarist (d.
2019 )
August 28 –
Svetislav Pešić , Serbian basketball player, coach
August 30 –
Peter Maffay , German singer
August 31
September
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Bruce Springsteen
October
Luis Sepúlveda
Sigourney Weaver
Owen Arthur
Benjamin Netanyahu
Arsène Wenger
October 1 –
Su Chi , Taiwanese politician
October 2 –
Annie Leibovitz , American photographer
October 3 –
Svika Pick , Israeli musician
October 4
October 8
October 10 –
Jessica Harper , American actress, producer
October 12 –
Carlos the Jackal , Venezuelan-born international terrorist
October 17
October 20 –
Valeriy Borzov , Ukrainian athlete
October 21 –
Benjamin Netanyahu , 2-time prime minister of Israel
October 22 –
Arsène Wenger , French football (soccer) manager
October 26 –
Antonio Carpio , Filipino
Supreme Court jurist
October 28 –
Caitlyn Jenner , American transgender track and field athlete, reality star
October 30 –
Pramod Mahajan , Indian politician, strategist (d.
2006 )
November
Pierre Buyoya
Bonnie Raitt
November 1
November 3
November 5 –
Armin Shimerman , American actor
November 7
November 8 –
Bonnie Raitt , American singer, guitarist
November 11 –
Ismail Petra of Kelantan , sultan of Kelantan (d.
2019 )
November 14 –
Paola Balducci , Italian politician, lawyer
November 17 –
John Boehner , Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
November 18 –
Ahmed Zaki , Egyptian actor (d.
2005 )
November 21 –
Ignazio Visco , Italian
economist , Governor of the
Bank of Italy
November 22 –
Shaun Garnett , English footballer, coach
November 23 –
Marcia Griffiths , Jamaican singer
November 24 –
Pierre Buyoya , former
President of Burundi (d.
2020 )
November 25
November 26 –
Shlomo Artzi , Israeli singer
November 28
November 29
December
Pablo Escobar
Sebastián Piñera
Jeff Bridges
Sissy Spacek
December 1
December 3
December 4
December 5 –
Bruce E. Melnick , American astronaut
December 7
December 8 –
Mary Gordon , American writer
December 11 –
Boris Shcherbakov , Russian-Soviet film actor
December 12 –
Bill Nighy , English actor
December 13
December 14 –
Bill Buckner , American baseball player (d.
2019 )
December 15
December 16 –
Billy Gibbons , American guitarist (
ZZ Top )
December 17
December 18
December 19
December 21 –
Thomas Sankara , 2-Time President of Burkina Faso (d.
1987 )
December 22
December 25
December 26 –
José Ramos-Horta ,
President of East Timor , recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
December 27 –
Klaus Fischer , German footballer
December 29 –
Syed Kirmani , Indian cricketer
December 31 –
Ellen Datlow , American science fiction writer
Date unknown
Deaths
January
Gennaro Righelli
Yoshijirō Umezu
January 6
January 7
January 8 –
Yoshijirō Umezu , Japanese general (b.
1882 )
January 9
January 10 –
Erich von Drygalski , German geographer (b.
1865 )
January 11 –
Nelson Doubleday , American publisher (b.
1889 )
January 13 –
Eduardo Barron , Spanish engineer, pilot (b.
1888 )
January 14
January 15 –
Charles Ponzi , Italian-born American con man (b.
1882 )
[34]
January 19 –
William Wright , American actor (b.
1911 )
January 21 –
Joseph Cawthorn , American actor (b.
1868 )
January 22
January 23 –
Erich Klossowski , German-born Polish historian, painter (b.
1875 )
January 28 –
Jean-Pierre Wimille , French race car driver (b.
1908 )
January 31 –
Henri De Vries , Dutch actor (b.
1864 )
February
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
February 1 –
Herbert Stothart , American composer (b.
1885 )
February 2
February 3 –
Carlos Obligado , Argentine poet, critic and writer (b.
1889 )
February 6
February 10
February 11 –
Giovanni Zenatello , Italian opera singer (b.
1876 )
February 12 –
Hassan al-Banna , Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b.
1906 ) (assassinated)
February 14 –
Fernand Desprès , French shoemaker, anarchist, journalist and activist (b.
1879 )
February 15
February 16 –
Umberto Brunelleschi , Italian artist (b.
1879 )
February 18 –
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora , Spanish lawyer, politician and 6th
President of Spain (b.
1877 )
February 19 –
Fidelio Ponce de León , Cuban painter (b.
1895 )
February 21 –
Tan Malaka , Indonesian teacher, philosopher, founder of Struggle Union and Murba Party, guerilla and fighter (b.
1897 )
February 22 –
Félix d'Herelle , French-Canadian microbiologist (b.
1873 )
[35]
February 25 –
Juan Sinforiano Bogarín , Paraguayan clergyman,
Roman Catholic archbishop (b.
1863 )
March
Sarojini Naidu
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia
March 2 –
Sarojini Naidu , Indian independence activist, poet (b.
1879 )
March 3 –
Carrie Ashton Johnson , American editor, author (b.
1863 )
March 4 –
James Rowland Angell , American psychologist and educator (b.
1869 )
March 7 –
Bradbury Robinson , American who threw the first forward pass in
American football history (b.
1884 )
March 9 –
Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b.
1885 )
March 10 –
Alphonse Hustache , French entomologist (b.
1872 )
March 11
March 12 –
August Bier , German surgeon (b.
1861 )
[36]
March 15 –
Gheorghe Brăescu , Romanian writer (b.
1871 )
March 16 –
Leyland Hodgson , British-born American actor (b.
1892 )
March 17 –
Felix Bressart , German-born American actor (b.
1892 )
March 19 –
Sir James Somerville , British admiral (b.
1882 )
March 25
March 27
March 28
March 29
March 30
April
April 1 –
Evelyn Owen , Australian gun designer (b.
1915 )
April 2
April 5 –
Hugh Allan , Canadian politician (b.
1865 )
April 6 –
Sir Seymour Hicks , British actor (b.
1871 )
April 7 –
Mikhail Denisenko , Soviet general (b.
1899 )
April 8 –
Santiago Alba y Bonifaz , Spanish lawyer, politician (b.
1872 )
April 13 –
Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano , Mexican poet, literary critic, editor and teacher (b.
1899 )
April 15 –
Wallace Beery , American actor (b.
1885 )
April 16 –
Joseph Augustine Cushman , American geologist, paleontologist and foraminiferologist (b.
1881 )
April 18 –
Will Hay , British comic actor (b.
1888 )
April 19
April 22 –
Charles Middleton , American actor (b.
1874 )
April 27 –
Patrick Lyons , Irish
Roman Catholic prelate, reverend (b.
1875 )
April 28
April 29
May
Prince
Louis II of Monaco
Damaskinos of Athens
May 1
May 4 –
Valerio Bacigalupo , Italian goalkeeper (b.
1924 )
May 5 –
Hideo Nagata , Japanese poet, playwright (b.
1885 )
May 6
May 9 –
Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b.
1870 )
May 19 –
Paul Schultze-Naumburg , German architect, painter, publicist and politician (b.
1869 )
May 20 –
Damaskinos of Athens , Archbishop of Athens, 57th
Prime Minister of Greece (b.
1891 )
May 21 –
Klaus Mann , German writer (b.
1906 )
May 22
May 23 –
Jan Frans De Boever , Belgian painter (b.
1872 )
May 27 –
Robert Ripley , American creator of
Ripley's Believe It or Not! (b.
1890 )
May 30 –
Igor Belkovich , Soviet astronomer (b.
1904 )
Date unknown –
Abd Allah Siraj , Prime Minister of Jordan (b. c.
1876 )
June
Themistoklis Sofoulis
Sigrid Undset
June 8
June 9 –
Maria Cebotari , Romanian soprano, actress (b.
1910 )
June 10
June 11 –
Giovanni Gioviale , Italian composer (b.
1885 )
June 12 –
Maria Candida of the Eucharist , Italian
Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b.
1884 )
June 14 –
Russell Doubleday , American author, publisher (b.
1872 )
June 22 –
Robert Boudrioz , French screenwriter, director (b.
1887 )
June 24 –
Themistoklis Sofoulis , Greek politician, 3-time
Prime Minister of Greece (b.
1860 )
July
Georgi Dimitrov
Douglas Hyde
Ellery Harding Clark
Nils Östensson
July 2 –
Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgarian Communist leader, politician and 32nd
Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b.
1882 )
July 9 –
Fritz Hart , British composer (b.
1874 )
July 11 –
Corneliu Dragalina , Romanian general (b.
1887 )
July 12 –
Douglas Hyde , Irish academic, linguist and scholar, 1st
President of Ireland (b.
1860 )
July 15
July 18
July 19 –
Frank Murphy , American politician and
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b.
1890 )
[41]
July 21 –
Cesare Formichi , Italian baritone (b.
1883 )
July 23 –
Masaharu Anesaki , Japanese scholar (b.
1873 )
July 24
July 25 –
Ubaldo Soddu , Italian general (b.
1883 )
[42]
July 26 –
Linda Arvidson , American actress (b.
1884 )
July 27 –
Ellery Harding Clark , American Olympic athlete (b.
1874 )
July 29 –
József Koszta , Hungarian painter (b.
1861 )
July 30
July 31 –
Alfred Bashford , English cricketer (b.
1881 )
August
Margaret Mitchell
Uemura Shōen
August 3 –
Ignotus , Hungarian editor, writer (b.
1869 )
August 4 –
Liberato Pinto , 78th prime minister of Portugal (b.
1880 )
August 5 –
Ernest Fourneau , French chemist, pharmacologist (b.
1872 )
August 9
August 10 –
Homer Burton Adkins , American chemist (b.
1892 )
August 12 –
George Cross , Australian actor, director (b. c.
1873 )
August 14
August 16
August 18 –
Paul Mares , American musician (b.
1900 )
August 20 –
Ludwig Halberstädter , German-born Israeli radiologist (b.
1876 )
August 22 –
Amado Aguirre Santiago , Mexican general, politician (b.
1863 )
August 23
August 27
August 29 –
Franciszek Latinik , Polish general (b.
1864 )
August 30
September
Richard Strauss
Pandeli Evangjeli
Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens
September 7 –
José Clemente Orozco , Mexican painter (b.
1883 )
September 8 –
Richard Strauss , German composer (
Also Sprach Zarathustra ) (b.
1864 )
September 10 –
Wiley Rutledge , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b.
1894 )
September 12
September 13
September 14
September 15 –
Heinie Beckendorf , American baseball catcher (b.
1884 )
September 18 –
Frank Morgan , American actor (b.
1890 )
September 19
September 20 –
Richard Dix , American actor (b.
1893 )
September 22 –
Sam Wood , American director (b.
1883 )
September 24 –
Pierre de Bréville , French composer (b.
1861 )
September 25 –
Peter Nielsen , Danish actor (b.
1876 )
September 27 –
David Adler , American architect (b.
1882 )
September 28
October
Blessed
Nykyta Budka
Saint
Laura Montoya
Blessed
Lorenzo Massa
October 1
October 2 –
Luis Armiñán Pérez , Spanish politician (b.
1871 )
October 4 –
Federico Beltrán Masses , Spanish painter (b.
1885 )
October 6
October 7 –
Matiu Ratana , New Zealand politician (b.
1912 )
October 8 –
Gheorghe Mironescu , Romanian politician, 33rd
Prime Minister of Romania (b.
1874 )
October 9 –
Emanuele Foà , Italian engineer, physicist (b.
1892 )
October 14
October 15
October 17 –
Aurel Aldea , Romanian general and politician (b.
1887 )
October 21 –
Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena , Colombian
Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (b.
1874 )
October 22 –
Craig Reynolds , American actor (b.
1907 )
October 23
October 27
October 28
October 29
October 31
November
Elena Arizmendi Mejía
Abdolhossein Hazhir
Wakatsuki Reijirō
November –
María Josepha Sophia de Iturbide , head of the Imperial House of Mexico (b.
1872 )
November 3
November 4
November 5 –
Abdolhossein Hazhir , 54th
Prime Minister of Iran (b.
1899 )
November 8 –
August Hagenbach , Swiss physicist (b.
1871 )
November 11
November 12 –
Walter Buch , German SS general (b.
1883 )
November 15 –
Nathuram Godse , assassin of
Mohandas Gandhi (b.
1910 ), and his accomplice,
Narayan Apte (b.
1911 )
November 19 –
James Ensor , Belgian painter (b.
1860 )
November 20 –
Wakatsuki Reijirō , 25th and 28th
Prime Minister of Japan (b.
1866 )
November 23 –
Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (b.
1859 )
November 25
November 27
November 30 – Dame
Irene Vanbrugh , British actress (b.
1872 )
December
Maria Ouspenskaya
Lead Belly
Antoni Ponikowski
Jack Lovelock
December 3
December 5 –
Arthur Bedford , British navy officer (b.
1881 )
December 6
December 7 –
Rex Beach , American novelist, playwright and Olympic water polo player (b.
1877 )
December 8 –
George Barnes , Australian businessman, politician (b.
1856 )
December 11
December 16
December 22 –
Manuel Camus , Filipino lawyer, politician (b.
1875 )
December 23
December 24 –
Gertrude Bacon , British polymath and aeronautical pioneer (b.
1874 )
December 25 –
Leon Schlesinger , American producer, filmmaker (b.
1884 )
December 26 –
Julius Brandt , Austrian actor (b.
1873 )
December 27 –
Antoni Ponikowski , Polish academician, politician and 7th
Prime Minister of Poland (b.
1878 )
December 28
December 30 –
Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe (b.
1871 )
December 31
Date unknown
Nobel Prizes
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