1935

January

January – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia creates a military school at Holeta.

January 1 – The Italian colonies of Tripoli and Cyrenaica are joined together as Libya.

January 3 – The trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., begins in Flemington, New Jersey.

January 4 – Dry Tortugas National Park is established.

January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.

January 11 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

January 13 – A plebiscite in the Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany.

January 16 – The FBI kills the Barker Gang, including Ma Barker, in a shootout.

January 19 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first men's briefs, as "jockeys", in Chicago.

January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company.

January 28 – Iceland legalizes abortion on medical grounds.

February

February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly in the United States.

February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., in the United States

February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibiotic, is published in a series of articles by Gerhard Domagk and others in Germany's pre-eminent medical journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift.

February 22 – Airplanes are banned from flying over the White House in Washington, D.C.

February 23 – The classic Mickey Mouse cartoon The Band Concert is released by United Artists in the United States.

February 26

In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler orders reinstatement of the air force, the Luftwaffe, in violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.

Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrates the use of radar to detect aircraft at Daventry in England.

February 28 – Ladby ship: Viking ship grave discovered in Denmark.

March

March 1

1935 Greek coup d'état attempt: Nikolaos Plastiras, Anastasios Papoulas and other Venizelists lead a coup against the People's Party government in Greece. The attempt is suppressed by March 11 and the leaders condemned to death for treason.

İsmet İnönü forms the new government in Turkey. (8th government; During Atatürk's presidency, İnönü has served seven times as a prime minister.)

March 2 – King Prajadhipok (Rama VII) of Siam abdicates the throne. He is succeeded by his 9-year-old-nephew Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII).

March 8 – Faithful dog Hachikō dies on the spot where he had awaited his dead owner for nine years in Japan.

March 9 – Porky Pig makes his debut as the first major Looney Tunes character in I Haven't Got a Hat.

March 16 – Adolf Hitler announces German re-armament in violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.

March 19 – Harlem riot of 1935: A race riot breaks out in Harlem (New York City) after a rumor circulates that a teenage Puerto Rican shoplifter in the S. H. Kress & Co. department store has been brutally beaten.

March 21 – Persia is renamed Iran.

March 22 – The world's first television program by Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow is transmitted from the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany.

April

April 1 – The North American NA-16, prototype of the North American T-6 Texan or Harvard flying trainer, flies for the first time.

April 14 – Dust Bowl: The great dust storm in the United States hits eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma the hardest. It will be made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads".

April 15 – Roerich Pact, a Pan-American treaty on the protection of cultural artefacts, is signed in Washington D.C.

April 16 – Fibber McGee and Molly debuts on NBC Radio in the United States.

April 17 – Sun Myung Moon, a teenage Presbyterian convert in Korea under Japanese rule, claims to have a revelation from Jesus telling him to complete his mission from almost 2,000 years ago.

April 24 – William Christian Bullitt, Jr., the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, hosts the elaborately prepared Spring Ball of the Full Moon which is said to have surpassed all other embassy parties in Moscow's history.

April 27 – FA Cup (Association football): Sheffield Wednesday F.C. beat West Bromwich Albion 4–2 at Wembley Stadium in England.

April 29 – The first edition of the Vuelta a España is raced and goes on to become one of the 3 Grand Tours of road bicycle racing.

May

May 6 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the United States.

May 14 – Northamptonshire gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proves to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win is not until 29 May 1939.

May 15 – Joseph Stalin opens the Moscow Metro to the public.

May 19 – T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") dies as the result of a motorcycle accident in Dorset, England.

May 21 – In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler announces the reintroduction of conscription to the Wehrmacht in violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.

May 24 – The first nighttime Major League Baseball game is played between the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.

May 27 – Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (the "Sick Chicken Case"): The Supreme Court of the United States declares that the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major component of the New Deal, is unconstitutional.

May 29 – The French Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ocean liner SS Normandie sets out on her maiden voyage from Le Havre to New York, which she will reach in 4 days, 3 hours and 14 minutes, taking the Blue Riband; she gains the eastbound record on her return passage.

May 30 – Eventual Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth appears in his last career game, playing for the Boston Braves in Philadelphia against the Phillies.

May 31

1935 Quetta earthquake: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan, killing 40,000.

20th Century Pictures, Inc., becomes 20th Century Fox.

June

June 9 – He–Umezu Agreement: China's Kuomintang government concedes Japanese military control of north-eastern China.

June 10 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.

June 12 – Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record, taking 15½ hours and containing 150,000 words.

June 12 – End of the Chaco War, a war between Paraguay and Bolivia.

June 13 – James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer at Madison Square Garden Bowl to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.

June 18 – Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain agrees to a German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.

June 24 – Carlos Gardel, the legendary Franco-Argentine "Father of Tango", dies in a plane crash in Medellín, Colombia.

July

July 4 – The RMS Mauretania sails from Southampton to Jarrow.

July 16 – The world's first parking meters are installed in Oklahoma City.

July 25– August 20 – The seventh and last congress of the Comintern is held.

August

August 5 – The Leo Burnett Advertising Agency opens in Chicago.

August 14 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law.

August 15 – Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when Post's plane crashes shortly after takeoff near Barrow, Alaska.

September

September 2 – 1935 Labor Day hurricane: The strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States landfalls in the Upper Florida Keys as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds, killing 423.

September 8 – Carl Weiss kills Huey Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana, in the Louisiana Capitol Building in Baton Rouge.

September 13 – Howard Hughes, flying the Hughes H-1 Racer, sets an airspeed record of 352 mph (566 km/h).

September 15 – The Nuremberg Laws go into effect in Germany, removing citizenship from Jews.

September 17 – Manuel L. Quezon is the 2nd President of the Philippines.

September 24 – Earl W. Bascom and his brother Weldon produce the first night rodeo held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi.

September 29 – The London and North Eastern Railway's first A4 Class streamlined steam locomotive A4 2509 Silver Link makes her inaugural journey from London King's Cross.

September 30

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam.

The London and North Eastern Railway commences the Silver Jubilee, Britain's first streamline train service.

October

October 2 – October 3 – The Second Italo-Ethiopian War begins as General Emilio De Bono of Italy invades Ethiopia.

October 10 – A tornado destroys the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg, Germany. As a result of this catastrophe, wooden radio towers are phased out.

October 14 – In the Canadian federal election, the Liberal Party of William Lyon Mackenzie King wins a majority government, defeating the Conservative Party of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett.

October 16 – Mr. Bernard Tussaud completes the wax figure of Lady Alice Scott and the Duke of Gloucester.

November

November 3 – A Greek monarchy referendum is held by self-proclaimed Regent Georgios Kondylis. Almost 98% of the votes favor restoration of the monarchy, although the referendum's integrity is dubious.

November 8 – A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with pushing the cause for industrial unionism in North America.

November 14 – In the United Kingdom general election, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin returns to office at the head of a National Government led by the Conservative Party with a large but reduced majority.

November 22 – The flying boat China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean; on November 29 the aircraft reaches its final destination, Manila, and delivers over 110,000 pieces of mail.

November 23 – Jacques and Thérèse Tréfouël, Daniel Bovet and Federico Nitti, in the laboratory of Ernest Fourneau at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, discover that sulfanilamide is the active component of Prontosil.

November 25 – After 11 years in exile, George II returns to Greek soil as King of the Hellenes at Corfu from London.

November 30 – The 1935 British-made film Scrooge, the first all-talking film version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, opens in the U.S. after its British release.

December

December 5 – Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in the United States.

December 9 – American newspaper editor Walter Liggett is killed in a gangland murder plot.

December 10 – Hanshin Tigers, as well known for professional baseball club of Japan, founded in Osaka.

December 12

Lebensborn program in support of Nazi eugenics is founded by Heinrich Himmler in Germany.

Opening of the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, a pioneering example of International Style architecture in the British Isles.

December 17 – Douglas DST, prototype of the Douglas DC-3 airliner, first flies, in the United States. More than 16,000 of the model will eventually be produced.

December 18

Samuel Hoare resigns as British foreign secretary and is replaced by Anthony Eden.

The socialist party of Sri Lanka, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, is founded.

December 27 – Mao Zedong issues the Wayaobu Manifesto, On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism, calling for a National United Front against the Japanese invasion.

December 28 – Pravda publishes a letter from Pavel Postyshev, who revives the New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.

Date unknown

The house Fallingwater in southwestern Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is completed.

Lectorium Rosicrucianum is founded.

The Melody Inn opens as a piano bar in Indianapolis.

January

January 4 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (d. 2006)

January 7

Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)

Valeri Kubasov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2014)

January 8 – Elvis Presley, American rock & roll singer, guitarist and film actor (d. 1977)

January 9

Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)

Earl G. Graves, Sr. African-American publisher

January 10

Ronnie Hawkins, American musician

Sherrill Milnes, American baritone

January 12 – The Amazing Kreskin, American mentalist

January 14 – Lucile Wheeler, Canadian skier

January 16

A. J. Foyt, American race car driver

Udo Lattek, German football coach (d. 2015)

January 17 – Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware

January 18 – Jon Stallworthy, English poet (d. 2014)

January 19 – Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor

January 25 – António Ramalho Eanes, 16th President of Portugal

January 29 – Roger Payne, American biologist

January 30

Richard Brautigan, American writer (d. 1984)

Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress

January 31 – Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate

February

February 4 – Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)

February 5 – Alex Harvey, Scottish rock singer (d. 1982)

February 11 – Gene Vincent, American guitarist and vocalist (d. 1971)

February 14 – Rob McConnell, Canadian jazz musician (d. 2010)

February 16 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor and politician (d. 1998)

February 17 – Christina Pickles, English-born American character actress

February 18 – Ciarán Bourke, Irish singer (d. 1988)

February 22 – Hisako Kyōda, Japanese voice actress

February 23 – Tom Murphy, Irish playwright

February 27 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano

March

March 1 – Robert Conrad, American actor

March 3 – Zhelyu Zhelev, President of Bulgaria (d. 2015)

March 4 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)

March 5 – Paul Sand (born Paul Sanchez), American comedic actor

March 6 – Ron Delany, Irish runner

March 12 – Jacques Benveniste, French immunologist (d. 2004)

March 15

Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist

Judd Hirsch, American actor

March 17 – Patrick Etolu, Ugandan high jumper

March 18 – Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician

March 22 – M. Emmet Walsh, American actor

March 24 – Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer

March 25 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino boxer (d. 1985)

March 26 – Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority

March 27

Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer

John Henry Dowse, Australian rugby union player

Julian Glover, English actor

March 28

Jeanie Descombes, American professional baseball player

Józef Szmidt, Polish athlete

March 31

Herb Alpert, American trumpeter

Judith Rossner, American writer (d. 2005)

April

April 4 – Kenneth Mars, American actor (d. 2011)

April 5 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (d. 1996)

April 8 – Francis D. "Bill" Moran, American admiral, third director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps

April 9 – Aulis Sallinen, Finnish composer

April 10 – Ken Squier, motorsports broadcaster

April 14 – Katie Horstman, American female professional baseball player

April 18 – Paul A. Rothchild, American record producer (d. 1995)

April 19 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (d. 2002)

April 21

Charles Grodin, American actor and journalist

Thomas Kean, Governor of New Jersey and 9/11 Commission Chairman

Dolores Lee, American female professional baseball player

April 22 – Paul Chambers, American jazz musician (d. 1969)

April 23 – Bunky Green, American jazz musician

April 28 – Murray McBride, Canadian politician, Yale graduate

April 29 – April Ashley, English model

May

May 2 – Lance LeGault, American actor (d. 2012)

May 7 – Isobel Warren, Canadian author

May 11 – Doug McClure, American actor (d. 1995)

May 12

Felipe Alou, Dominican Major League Baseball player and manager

Gary Peacock, American jazz double-bassist

May 13 – Luciano Benetton, Italian entrepreneur, owner of Benetton Group

May 17

Dennis Potter, English writer (d. 1994)

Ryke Geerd Hamer, German cancer researcher

May 19 – David Hartman, American actor and television journalist

May 20 – José Mujica, 40th President of Uruguay

May 22 – Barry Rogers, American jazz and salsa trombonist (d. 1991)

May 24 – Joan Micklin Silver, American director

May 25 – Cookie Gilchrist, American football player (d. 2011)

May 27

Carole Lesley, English actor (d. 1974)

Lee Meriwether, American beauty queen and actress

May 29 – André Brink, South African writer (d. 2015)

May 30 – Ruta Lee, Canadian-born American-based actress

May 31 – Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand

June

June 1 – Reverend Ike, American televangelist (d. 2009)

June 2

Carol Shields, American-born writer (d. 2003)

Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek Turkologist

Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)

Wilhelm Wieben, German journalist, actor and author

June 10 – Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese manga artist (d. 2015)

June 13

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Bulgarian & Moroccan-born American installation artists (Jeanne-Claude d. 2009)

Samak Sundaravej, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (2008) (d. 2009)

June 17 – Peggy Seeger, American folk singer

June 19

Derren Nesbitt, English actor

Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, President of Ecuador

June 20 – Jim Barker, American politician (d. 2005)

June 21

Pratap Chauhan, Indian cricketer

Tom Pratt, American football coach

John Houser, American football offensive lineman

Monte Markham, American actor

John Abbey, American actor

Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)

June 22

Floyd Norman, American animator

Koro Wētere, New Zealand politician

Pete Jorgensen, American politician

June 23

Keith Burkinshaw, English former professional footballer and football manager

N. Bhaskara Rao, Indian politician

Luis Morgan Casey, Bolivian bishop

Maurice Ferré, Puerto Rican politician

Pete Hamill, American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator

June 24

Jean Milesi, French former professional racing cyclist

Hans Simonet, Swiss former sports shooter

Juan Bautista Agüero, Paraguayan football striker

Charlie Dees, American baseball player

Terry Riley, American composer and performing musician

Ron Kramer, American National Football League tight end (d. 2010)

Terry Riley, American composer

June 25

Don Demeter, American outfielder, third baseman, and first baseman in Major League Baseball

Margaret Sparrow, New Zealand doctor, reproductive rights advocate, and author

Larry Kramer, American playwright, author, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist

Taufiq Ismail, Indonesian poet and activist

Udey Chand, Indian wrestler and wrestling coach

June 26

Ludovic Zanoni, Romanian cyclist

Pete Peterson, American politician and diplomat

Sandro Riminucci, Italian basketball player

Carlo Facetti, Italian racing driver

Edwin Hodgeman, Australian actor

Bogdan Dochev, Bulgarian football referee

Gianguido Milanesi, Italian fencer

June 27

Colin Bazley, English bishop

Larry Krutko, American football player

Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (d. 2007)

June 28

Nicola Tempesta, Italian heavy weight judoka

Bob Hobert, Canadian football player

Bob Blaylock, American former professional baseball player

Adam Łomnicki, Polish evolutionary biologist and ecologist

Roy Faulkner, English former footballer

John Inman, English comic actor (d. 2007)

June 29

Jill Briscoe, British American author, editor, and speaker

Zvonko Bezjak, Croatian hammer thrower of Slovenian origin

Derek Partridge, British television presenter, spokesman and voice-over artist, formerly a film and TV actor

W. Rolfe Kerr, emeritus general authority

June 30

Valentino Gasparella, Italian track cyclist

Lucjan Józefowicz, Polish cyclist

Peter Achinstein, American philosopher of science

Les Savill, English cricketer

Shane Alexander, 2nd Earl Alexander of Tunis, British peer

Animesh Chakravorty, Bengali Indian academic and a professor of chemistry

July

July 1 – David Prowse, English actor

July 2

Dick Dolman, Dutch politician

Amar Singh Sokhi, Indian former cyclist

Guruvayur Dorai, Indian percussionist

July 3

Bill Reichart, American former ice hockey forward and Olympian

Osvaldo Bagnoli, Italian football coach and player who played as a midfielder

July 4

Muriel Baillie, Canadian politician

Erich Barnes, American football defensive back

Alan Preen, Australian rules football

July 5

Shirley Collins, English folk singer

Shevah Weiss, Israeli political scientist and former politician

Brendan McCann, American former professional basketball player

Christian Doermer, German actor

Fergus Millar, British historian

July 6 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and spiritual leader of Tibet

July 7

Rolf Ekéus, Swedish diplomat

John Kingston, Australian politician

Finn Aabye, Danish film producer

Billy Russell, English footballer

July 8

Steve Lawrence, American singer and actor

Constance Berry Newman, United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

Vitaly Sevastyanov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2010)

July 9

Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and glamour model

Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (d. 2009)

Robert Pelletreau, American ambassador to Bahrein, Tunisia and Egypt

Mighty Sparrow, Grenadian singer

Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician (d. 2005)

July 10 – Margaret McEntee, American Catholic nun and educator

July 11

Darrell Dess, American football offensive lineman

Oliver Napier, Northern Irish politician (d. 2011)

July 12

Satoshi Ōmura, Japanese biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Hans Tilkowski, German footballer

July 13

Jack Kemp, American football player and U.S. Vice Presidential candidate (d. 2009)

Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist

July 14 – Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

July 15 – William G. Stewart, English television producer and presenter

July 16

Gloria Tanner, American politician and public figure

Tina Scala, actress, model, singer, poet, and author of Italian and Irish descent

Tôn Thất Hải, Vietnamese fencer

Nicolae Rotaru, Romanian sport shooter

Edward J. Nell, American economist

Lynn Wyatt, American socialite and philanthropist

July 17

Peter Schickele, American composer and comedian

Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor

July 18 – Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader

July 20

Charles Rizk, Lebanese Maronite politician

Valér Švec, Slovak football player and coach

July 27

Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer

Sarah Jane Sands, American professional baseball player

July 28 – Simon Dee, English television presenter (d. 2009)

July 29 – Peter Schreier, German tenor

July 31

Mort Crim, American television newscaster

Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (d. 2015)

August

August 1 – Mohinder Pratap Chand, Urdu poet and language advocate

August 3 – Georgi Shonin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1997)

August 7 – Yoná Magalhães, Brazilian actress (d. 2015)

August 12

Ján Popluhár, Slovak footballer (d. 2011)

John Cazale, American actor (d. 1978)

August 13 – Rod Hull, English entertainer (d. 1999)

August 15

Jim Dale, English actor, singer and songwriter

Lionel Taylor, American football player

August 18

Rafer Johnson, American athlete

Hifikepunye Pohamba, 2nd President of Namibia

August 19 – Bobby Richardson, American baseball player

August 20 – Ron Paul, United States Congressman

August 22 – E. Annie Proulx, American novelist

August 24 – Tsutomu Hata, 80th Prime Minister of Japan

August 26 – Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Congresswoman and Vice Presidential candidate (d. 2011)

August 29 – László Garai, Hungarian scientist, psychologist

August 30

Daniel L. Norris, Canadian Commissioner of the Northwest Territories (d. 2008)

John Phillips, American singer (d. 2001)

August 31

Eldridge Cleaver, African-American activist (d. 1998)

Frank Robinson, African-American baseball player

September

September 1 – Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor

September 2 – D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer

September 5 – Dieter Hallervorden, German comedian, comic actor, singer and cabaret artist

September 7 – Abdou Diouf, 2nd President of Senegal

September 7 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor and singer

September 11

Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer

Gherman Titov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2000)

September 14 – Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)

September 15 – Dinkha, Iraqi patriarch (d. 2015)

September 16

Carl Andre, American artist

Jules Bass, American film director and producer, co-founder of Rankin/Bass Productions

Bob Kiley, American public transit planner

September 17

Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)

Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, Romanian Nazi hunter

September 18 – John Spencer, English snooker player (d. 2006)

September 19 – Hansjörg Wyss, Swiss businessman and philanthropist

September 21 – Benjamin Abalos, Filipino politician, COMELEC Chairman

September 23 – Prem Chopra, Indian actor

September 25 – Adrien Douady, French mathematician (d. 2006)

September 28 – Ronald Lacey, English actor (d. 1991)

September 29

David Daker, English actor

Jerry Lee Lewis, American rock & roll musician

September 30

Z. Z. Hill, American blues singer (d. 1984)

Johnny Mathis, African-American singer

October

October 1

Dame Julie Andrews, English singer and actress

Teruyoshi Nakano, Japanese special effects director

October 3 – Sinikka Kurkinen, Finnish painter

October 5 – Peter Brown, American actor (d. 2016)

October 6

Bruno Sammartino, Italian professional wrestler

Charito Solis, Filipino actress (d. 1998)

October 9 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal family

October 12 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007)

October 14 – La Monte Young, American composer

October 15

Barry McGuire, American musician

Bobby Morrow, American athlete

Willie O'Ree, Canadian hockey player

October 18 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)

October 20 – Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)

October 21 – Derek Bell, Irish musician (d. 2002)

October 23 – JacSue Kehoe, American Neuroscientist

October 26 – Gloria Conyers Hewitt, African-American mathematician

October 27 – Frank Adonis, American actor

October 29 – Isao Takahata, Japanese animated film director

October 30

Robert Caro, American biographer

Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer (d. 2011)

October 31 – Ronald Graham, American mathematician

November

November 1 – Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)

November 5 – Nicholas Maw, English composer (d. 2009)

November 8 – Alain Delon, French actor

November 9 – Bob Gibson, African-American baseball player

November 10 – Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist

November 12 – William Tallon, English Steward and Page of the Backstairs; servant of 50 years to the British Royal family (d. 2007)

November 13 – George Carey, English Archbishop of Canterbury

November 14 – King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)

November 17 – Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (d. 2009)

November 23

Jean Havlish, American professional baseball and bowling player

Vladislav Volkov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1971)

November 24 – Salim Khan, Indian Bollywood screenwriter

November 27 – Pat Fordice, First Lady of Mississippi from 1992 to 2000 (d. 2007)

November 29

Diane Ladd, American actress

Thomas J. O'Brien, American Roman Catholic prelate (bishop); convicted of felony

December

December 1 – Woody Allen, American actor and film director

December 5

Calvin Trillin, American writer

Victor Gankin, Russian-American scientist

December 8 – Dharmendra, Indian film actor, producer and politician

December 10 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak filmmaker (d. 2001)

December 11

Ron Carey, American actor (d. 2007)

Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician, 13th President of India

December 13 – Ken Hall ("Sugar Land Express"), American football player

December 14

Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)

Anthony Wilden, English author and social theorist, noted translator of Jaques Lacan

December 17 – Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball player and manager (d. 1999)

December 19 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)

December 23

Paul Hornung, American football player

Johnny Kidd, English rock and roll singer and songwriter (d. 1966)

December 25

Stephen Barnett, American legal scholar (d. 2009)

Sadiq al-Mahdi, Prime Minister of Sudan (1966–67, 1986–89)

Anne Roiphe, American author and feminist

December 26

Gnassingbé Eyadéma, President of Togo (d. 2005)

Al Jackson, American baseball pitcher

December 30

Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (d. 2009)

Sandy Koufax, American baseball player

Jack Riley, American actor and comedian (d. 2016)

December 31 – King Salman of Saudi Arabia

Date unknown

Félicien Kabuga, Rwandan businessman, accused of bankrolling and participating in the Rwandan Genocide

Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish writer (d. 1980)

January

January – Józef Białynia Chołodecki, Polish historian (b. 1852)

January 10 – Edwin Flack, Australian athlete (b. 1873)

January 16

Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1873)

Fred Barker, American criminal, youngest son of Ma Barker (b. 1901)

January 19 – Lloyd Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)

January 21 – Adolf von Brauchitsch, German general (b. 1876)

January 24 – Shivabalayogi, Yogi (d. 1994)

January 28 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)

February

February 8 – Max Liebermann, German painter (b. 1847)

March

March 5 – Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest-civil engineer (b. 1877)

March 6

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1841)

Baron Max Hussarek von Heinlein, former Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1865)

March 16 – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

March 22 – Aleksandër Moisiu, Albanian actor (b. 1879)

March 23 – Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)

April

April 2 – Bennie Moten, American jazz pianist (b. 1894)

April 5 – Basil Champneys, English architect (b. 1842)

April 6 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (b. 1869)

April 8 – Adolph Ochs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1858)

April 14 – Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)

April 16 – Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)

April 20 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, British fashion designer (b. 1863)

April 24 – Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (b. 1857)

May

May 1 – Antero Rubín, Spanish general and politician (b. 1851)

May 4 – Junior Durkin, American actor (b. 1915)

May 12 – Józef Piłsudski, Polish politician (b. 1867)

May 14 – Magnus Hirschfeld, German sex researcher and gay rights advocate (b. 1868)

May 15 – Kazimir Malevich, Polish-Russian painter and art theoretician (b. 1878)

May 17 – Paul Dukas, French composer (b. 1865)

May 19

T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), English soldier (b. 1888)

Charles Martin Loeffler, American composer (b. 1861)

May 21

Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)

Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticists (b. 1848)

May 29 – Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874)

June

June 1 – Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Austro-Hungarian official, last Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army (b. 1857)

June 6

Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, British general, 12th Governor General of Canada (b. 1862)

George Grossmith, Jr., British actor (b. 1874)

June 24 – Carlos Gardel, Argentine tango songwriter (b. either 1887 or 1890)

June 29 – Hayashi Fubo, Japanese novelist (b. 1900)

July

July 3 – André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)

July 12 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859)

July 17

James Moore, English winner of the first ever cycle race (b. 1849)

George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)

Daniel Salamanca Urey, 39th President of Bolivia (b. 1869)

July 28 – Meletius IV of Constantinople, Greek Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 1871)

August

August 5 – David Townsend, American art director (b. 1891)

August 12 – Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)

August 14 – Léonce Perret, French film actor (b. 1880)

August 15

Paul Signac, French painter (b. 1863)

Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)

Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (b. 1879)

August 20 – Edith Roberts, American actress (b. 1899)

August 21 – John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)

August 22

Frantz Jourdain, Belgian architect (b. 1847)

Pavlos Kountouriotis, Greek admiral and two-time president of Greece (b. 1855)

August 25 – Mack Swain, American actor (b. 1876)

August 27 – Childe Hassam, American painter (b. 1859)

August 29 – Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)

August 30 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)

September

September 8 – Takejirō Tokonami, Japanese politician, Home Minister, Railway Minister, and Minister of Communication (b. 1867)

September 10 – Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)

September 11 – Charles Norris, Americal medical examiner (b. 1867)

September 19 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)

September 23 – DeWolf Hopper, American actor & comedian (b. 1858)

September 26 – Iván Persa, Hungarian Slovene writer and catholic priest (b. 1861)

September 28 – William Kennedy Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)

October

October 7 – Francis Wilson, American stage actor and comedian (b. 1854)

October 18 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)

October 20 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)

October 22 – Tommy Tucker, American baseball pioneer (b. 1863)

October 23

Charles Demuth, American artist (b. 1883)

Dutch Schultz, American gangster (b. 1902)

November

November 2 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)

November 6 – Henry Fairfield Osborn, American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenist (b. 1857)

November 20 – John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, British admiral (b. 1859)

November 25 – Iyasu V, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1895/1896)

November 28 – Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)

December

December 2 – James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (b. 1865)

December 3 – Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, daughter of King Edward VII and the younger sister of King George V (b. 1868)

December 4

Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (b. 1864)

Charles Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)

December 10 – Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet, English tank and vehicle designer (b. 1892)

December 13 – Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)

December 14 – Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (b. 1902)

December 16 – Thelma Todd, American actress (b. 1906)

December 17 – Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuelan military dictator (b. 1857)

December 20 – Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (b. 1882)

December 21 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (b. 1890)

December 24 – Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885)

December 26 – Photios II, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1874)

December 30 – Hunter Liggett, American general (b. 1857)

December 31 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish novelist and philosopher (b. 1864)

Nobel Prizes

Physics – James Chadwick

Chemistry – Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie ("in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements")

Physiology or Medicine – Hans Spemann

Literature – not awarded

Peace – Carl von Ossietzky