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1944 (MCMXLIV ) was aleap year starting on Saturday of theGregorian calendar , the 1944th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 944th year of the2nd millennium , the 44th year of the20th century , and the 5th year of the1940s decade.
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Below, the events ofWorld War II have the "WWII" prefix.
US Army troops landing atAnzio duringOperation Shingle , late January 1944. January 2 – WWII:January 8 – WWII:Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province ofIlocos Sur in northernLuzon and attack Japanese forces.January 11 January 12 – WWII:Winston Churchill andCharles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference inMarrakech .January 14 – WWII: Soviet troops start the offensive atLeningrad andNovgorod .January 15 WWII: The27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division is re-created, marking the start ofOperation Tempest by the PolishHome Army , a resistance force. 1944 San Juan earthquake : An earthquake hitsSan Juan, Argentina , killing an estimated 10,000 people, in the worst natural disaster in Argentina's history.TheBattle of Monte Cassino begins in Italy. British forces cross theGarigliano River.U.S. Fifth Army troops, commanded by Lieutenant-GeneralMark W. Clark , arrive at the Garigliano, to begin their attack against theGustav Line south of Rome. TheFrench Expeditionary Corps , under command of GeneralAlphonse Juin , moves into the mountains north ofMonte Cassino .[ 1] TheSoviet Union ceases production of theMosin–Nagant 1891/30 sniper rifle . January 17 – WWII: TheBattle of Korsun–Cherkassy begins in the Soviet Ukraine.January 20 – WWII:January 22 – WWII:Operation Shingle : TheAllies begin the assault onAnzio , Italy. TheU.S. 45th Infantry Division stand their ground at Anzio against violent assaults for four months.January 25 – Atotal solar eclipse is visible in Pacific Ocean, South America, Atlantic Ocean and Africa, the 48th solar eclipse ofSolar Saros 130 .January 27 – WWII:January 29 – WWII:Koniuchy massacre – A unit ofSoviet partisans accompanied byJewish partisans kills at least 38 civilians in the village ofKoniuchy inNazi occupied Lithuania .January 30 – WWII:January 31 – WWII:Battle of Kwajalein : American forces land onKwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-heldMarshall Islands .The Abbey ofMonte Cassino in ruins after beingdestroyed by Allied bombing , February 1944. The March 1944 eruption ofMount Vesuvius . March – Austrian-borneconomist Friedrich Hayek publishes his bookThe Road to Serfdom inLondon .March 1 – WWII: American submarineUSS Trout torpedoes Japanese merchant cruiserSakito Maru ; 2,495 drown.[ 6] March 2 – The16th Academy Awards Ceremony is held, the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue,Grauman's Chinese Theatre inHollywood .Casablanca , directed byMichael Curtiz , wins theAward for Best Picture .March 3 – WWII: TheOrder of Nakhimov and theOrder of Ushakov are instituted in theUSSR .March 4 –Louis Buchalter , the leader of1930s crime syndicateMurder, Inc. , is executed atSing Sing , inOssining, New York , along withEmanuel Weiss andLouis Capone .March 6 – WWII: Soviet Army planesattack Narva ,Estonia , destroying over 95% of the town.[ 7] March 9 – WWII: Soviet Army planesattack Tallinn ,Estonia , killing 757 and leaving 25,000 homeless.March 10 In Britain, the prohibition on married women working as teachers is lifted.[ 8] Resistance leaderJoop Westerweel is arrested while returning to the Netherlands, having escorted a group of Jewish children to safety inSpain . March 12 – WWII: ThePolitical Committee of National Liberation is created in Greece.March 15 March 18 The last eruption ofMount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26, and causes thousands to flee their homes. WWII: The Nazis execute almost 400 prisoners, Soviet citizens and anti-fascist Romanians atRîbnița . March 19 March 20 – WWII:March 23 – WWII: Members of theItalian Resistance attackNazis marching in Via Rasella, killing 33.March 24 – WWII:March 27 – In Sweden,Ruben Rausing patentsErik Wallenberg 's method of packaging milk in paper, origin of the international companyTetra Pak .[ 12] April 1 – The Swiss city ofSchaffhausen isaccidentally bombed by the United States causing serious damage to the city and killing or wounding more than 100 people.[ 13] April 2 – WWII:Ascq massacre : Members of the12th SS Panzer DivisionHitlerjugend shoot 85 civilians suspected of blowing up their train on its approach to theGare d'Ascq in France.April 4 WWII:Allied bombardment ofBucharest , Romania begins. The United States Air Force and British Royal Air Force, with approximately 3,640 bombers of different types, accompanied by about 1,830 fighters bombRomania for the following 4½ months. As collateral damage, 5,524 inhabitants are killed, 3,373 injured, and 47,974 left homeless. An Alliedphotoreconnaissance aircraft of60 Squadron SAAF photographs part ofAuschwitz concentration camp . April 10 April 14 Bombay Explosion : Freighter SSFort Stikine , carrying a mixed cargo of ammunition, cotton bales and gold, explodes in harbour atBombay (India), sinking surrounding ships and killing around 800 people.WWII: As part of the Japanese-supported Axis forces led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, fighting for India's liberation from British rule, Col. Shaukat Ali Malik of the Bahadur Group of the Indian National Army enters Moirang in modern-day Manipur in northeastern India and raises the flag of the Azri Hukumat e-Azad Hind for the first time on Indian soil. This is considered to be one of the first times in British Indian history where an army of liberation raises the national flag on Indian mainland.[ 15] April 15 – Italian fascist philosopherGiovanni Gentile is assassinated inFlorence byBruno Fanciullacci , a member of the partisanGruppi di Azione Patriottica .April 16 – WWII: Allied forces start bombingBelgrade , killing about 1,100 people. This bombing falls on the Orthodox Christian Easter.April 19 – WWII:April 20 April 22 – WWII:Battle of Hollandia : American forces disembark atTanahmerah Bay and atYos Sudarso Bay , nearHollandia . The landings are undertaken simultaneously with the amphibiousinvasion of Aitape ("Operation Persecution") to the east.[ 16] April 25 April 26 – WWII:April 28 – WWII: Allied convoy T4, forming part of amphibiousExercise Tiger (a full-scale rehearsal for theNormandy landings ) inStart Bay , off theDevon coast of England, is attacked byE-boats , resulting in the deaths of 749 American servicemen fromLSTs .[ 18] [ 19] [ 20] [ 21] The prime ministers of Britain and the four major dominions at the 1944Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference , May 1, 1944. May –Jean-Paul Sartre 'sexistentialist dramaNo Exit (Huis Clos ) premières in Nazi-occupied Paris.May 1 – WWII: Two hundred Communist prisonersare shot by the Germans at Kaisariani, Athens, Greece , in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by Partisans atMolaoi .May 5 – WWII:Mohandas Gandhi is released from jail in India, on health grounds.May 9 – WWII: In the Soviet city ofSevastopol , Soviet troops completely drive out German forces, who had been ordered byHitler to “fight to the last man.”[ 22] May 12 – WWII: Soviet troops finalize the liberation of theCrimea .May 14 –The Holocaust : Predominantly Muslim Albanian troops of the21stWaffen Mountain Division of the SSSkanderbeg (1st Albanian) round up 281 Jews inPriština , and hand them over to the Germans for transportation toBergen-Belsen concentration camp .May 15 – WWII: Allied military and political leaders, includingWinston Churchill ,Franklin Roosevelt ,Dwight Eisenhower ,George Patton ,Bernard Montgomery and more, meet for the finalD-Day joint briefing atSt. Paul's School in London.May 15–July 8 –The Holocaust :Hungarian Jews are deported toAuschwitz and otherNazi concentration camps . May 17 – WWII:Merrill's Marauders and Chinese troops (some 3,000 men) led by Brigadier GeneralFrank Merrill captureMyitkyina airfield, after a 100-kilometer march over theKumon Mountain range (using mules for carrying supplies).[ 23] May 18 – WWII:May 20 – WWII:Battle of Wakde : American forces of the163rd Regimental Combat Team (some 1,500 men) under Brigadier GeneralJens Doe take the Japanese-heldWakde island (Dutch New Guinea ).[ 24] May 24 – WWII:West Loch disaster : SixLSTs are accidentally destroyed and 163 men killed, inPearl Harbor .May 30 –Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi ofMonaco , heir to the throne, resigns in favor of her sonPrince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi , who later reigns as Prince Rainier III of Monaco.May 31 – WWII: American destroyer escortUSS England sinks the sixth Japanese submarine in two weeks. Thisanti-submarine warfare performance remains unmatched through the 20th century.Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy duringD-Day . LVTs heading for shore on June 15, 1944, during theBattle of Saipan .June 1 – TwoK-class blimps of theUnited States Navy complete the firsttransatlantic crossing bynon-rigid airships , from the U.S. toFrench Morocco , with two stops.[ 25] June 2 – WWII: TheProvisional Government of the French Republic is established.June 3 –Hans Asperger publishes his paper onAsperger syndrome .[ 26] [ 27] June 4 – WWII:June 5 – WWII:June 6 – WWII: D-Day: 155,000Allied troops shipped from England land on the beaches ofNormandy in northern France, beginningOperation Overlord and theInvasion of Normandy . The Allied soldiers quickly break through theAtlantic Wall and push inland, in the largest amphibiousmilitary operation in history. This operation helps liberate France from Germany, and also weakens the Nazi hold on Europe.June 7 – WWII:Bayeux is liberated by British troops.Operation Perch , a British attempt to captureCaen from the Germans, commences; it is abandoned on June 14.The steamerDanae (Greek :Δανάη ), carrying 600Cretans (including 350 Greek Jews) on the first leg of the journey toAuschwitz , is sunk, with no known survivors, offSantorini . Joel Brand is intercepted by British agents inAleppo .June 9 – WWII: Soviet leaderJoseph Stalin launches theVyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive against Finland, with the intent of defeating Finland before pushing for Berlin.June 10 – WWII:Oradour-sur-Glane massacre : 642 men, women and children are killed in France.June 13 – WWII: Germany launches the firstV-1 flying bomb attack on London.[ 30] June 15 – WWII:Battle of Saipan : United States forces land onSaipan .June 15 –16 – WWII:Bombing of Yawata – TheUnited States Army Air Forces conduct the first air raid on the Japanese home islands.June 16 – At age 14,African-American teenage boyGeorge Stinney Jr. becomes the youngest person ever executed byelectric chair in the United States.June 17 –Iceland declares full independence from Denmark.June 19 – WWII: A severe storm badly damages theMulberry harbours on theNormandy coast.June 20 – WWII: AV-2 rocket becomes the first man-made object to cross theKármán line and reach the edge of space.[ 31] June 22 – WWII:June 23 –The Holocaust :Maurice Rossel of theInternational Committee of the Red Cross visitsTheresienstadt concentration camp , uncritically accepting the propaganda view of it presented by theSchutzstaffel .June 25 – WWII:June 26 – WWII: American troops enterCherbourg .June 29 – WWII: American submarineUSS Sturgeon torpedoes Japanese troop transportToyama Maru ; 5,400 drown.[ 4] June 30 – WWII: American submarineUSS Tang torpedoes Japanese troop transportSS Nikkin Maru ; 3,219 drown.[ 32] Aftermath of the failed20 July plot to kill Hitler. Soviet soldiers fight in the streets ofJelgava , summer 1944. American medics helping injured soldier in France, 1944. July–October – WWII: Germans are driven out of Lithuania leading to reimposition of theLithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic . July 1 – TheUnited Nations Monetary and Financial Conference begins atBretton Woods, New Hampshire , United States.July 3 – WWII:Soviet troops liberateMinsk . Battle of Imphal : Japanese forces call off their advance, ending the battle with a British victory.July 4 – WWII:Operation Windsor : Canadian forces of the3rd Canadian Infantry Division attackCarpiquet airfield defended by German troops of the12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend ofPanzergruppe West .July 6 – WWII: AtCamp Hood , Texas, future baseball star and 1st Lt.Jackie Robinson is arrested and latercourt-martialed , for refusing to move to the back of a segregated U.S. Army bus (he is eventually acquitted).July 9 – WWII: British and Canadian forces captureCaen .July 10 –11 – WWII:Operation Jupiter during the Battle of Normandy of World War II: British strategic victory over German Panzer Corps.July 10 – WWII: Soviet troops begin operations to liberate theBaltic countries from Nazi occupation.July 12 –21 – WWII:Dortan massacre – 35–36 French civilians are killed byOstlegionen (Cossacks) serving with theWehrmacht .July 13 – WWII:Vilnius is freed by Soviet forces.July 16 – WWII:July 17 – WWII:July 18 – WWII:July 20 July 21 – WWII:July 22 July 23 –The Holocaust :Majdanek concentration camp is liberated by the SovietRed Army and much incriminating evidence of the atrocities committed there is found.[ 35] [ 36] [ 37] [ 38] July 25 – WWII:Operation Spring : One of the bloodiest days for Canadian forces during the war results in 1,550 casualties, including 450 killed, during theNormandy Campaign .Operation Cobra : American forces launch an air and ground offensive against the German defenders in western Normandy, forcing them to retreat.Battle of Tannenberg Line (or "Battle of the Blue Hills") in northeasternEstonia begins: TheRed Army will gain a Pyrrhic victory by August 10.July 26 – WWII: AMesserschmitt Me 262 becomes the firstjet fighter aircraft to have an operational victory.[ 39] July 27 – WWII: Soviet forces liberatedLvov ,Stanislav andBiałystok , and the following day enteredBrest .July 30 – WWII:Operation Bluecoat : British forces launch a ground offensive to secure the road junction ofVire and the high ground ofMont Pinçon .July 31 – WWII: American submarineUSS Parche torpedoes Japanese troop transportYoshino Maru ; 2,495 drown.[ 6] Crowds of French people line the Champs Élysées following the
Liberation of Paris , August 26, 1944.
August 1 August 2 – WWII:August 3 – TheEducation Act in the United Kingdom, promoted byRab Butler , creates aTripartite system of education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.[ 40] August 4 – WWII:August 5 – WWII:TheWarsaw Uprising :TheWola massacre begins. Between now and August 12, 40,000 to 50,000 Polish civilians will be indiscriminately massacred by occupying SS troops. The Holocaust : Polish insurgents liberate a Germanlabor camp inWarsaw , freeing 348 Jewish prisoners. Cowra breakout : Over 500 Japanese prisoners of war attempt a mass breakout from theCowra camp in Australia. In the ensuing manhunt, 231 Japanese escapees and four Australian soldiers are killed.August 7 –IBM dedicates the first program-controlledcalculator , the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as theHarvard Mark I ).August 9 – TheUnited States Forest Service and theWartime Advertising Council release the first posters featuringSmokey Bear .August 12 – WWII:August 15 – WWII:Operation Dragoon lands Allies in southern France. TheU.S. 45th Infantry Division participates in its fourth assault landing atSainte-Maxime , spearheading the drive for theBelfort Gap .August 18 – WWII: American submarineUSS Rasher sinksTeia Maru ,Eishin Maru ,Teiyu Maru , andaircraft carrier Taiyō from Japanese convoy HI71, in one of the most effective American "wolfpack " attacks of the war.[ 44] August 19 – WWII:August 20 – WWII:August 21 TheDumbarton Oaks Conference (Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization) opens in Washington, D.C.: U.S., British, Chinese, French and Soviet representatives meet to plan the foundation of theUnited Nations .[ 30] WWII:Operation Tractable concludes, when Canadian troops relieve the Polish and link with the Americans, capturing remaining German forces in theFalaise Pocket , and securing the strategically important French town ofFalaise , in the final offensive of theBattle of Normandy . August 22 – WWII:August 23 – WWII:August 24 – WWII:August 25 – WWII:August 29 – WWII: TheSlovak National Uprising against the Axis powers begins.August 31 –Waves of paratroopers land in the Netherlands duringOperation Market Garden in September 1944. Henry Larsen becomes the first person successfully to navigate theNorthwest Passage in both directions, July–October 1944.American troops advance towards San Jose on Leyte Island, October 20, 1944. Light aircraft carrier USS Princeton afire, east ofLuzon , October 24, 1944.Volkssturm founded in October 1944.Battle of Leyte begins –General MacArthur returns to the Philippines, October 20, 1944.Battle of Leyte Gulf betweenUnited States andJapan , October 23, 1944.October 2 – WWII:Nazi troops end theWarsaw Uprising .Home Army commanderTadeusz Bór-Komorowski signed the act of capitulation. This is followed by theDestruction of Warsaw .October 4 – WWII:Milan Nedić 'scollaborationist puppet government of theAxis powers , theGovernment of National Salvation inNazi-occupied Serbia , is disbanded.October 5 – WWII:Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first GermanMe 262 over the Netherlands.[clarification needed ] October 6 October 8 –The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio show debuts in the United States.October 9 – WWII: FourthMoscow Conference : British Prime MinisterWinston Churchill andSoviet PremierJoseph Stalin begin a 9-day conference in Moscow, to discuss the future of Europe.October 10 October 11 – TheTuvan People's Republic is annexed into theSoviet Union .October 12 October 13 – WWII:October 14 – WWII: GermanField Marshal Erwin Rommel commitsforced suicide rather than face public disgrace and execution for allegedly conspiring againstAdolf Hitler .October 15 –16 – WWII: In Hungary, with the support of German troops, a coup d'état took place, the fascist government ofFerenc Szálasi came to power, ordering the troops to continue the fight against the Soviet army.October 16 – WWII: American bombing ofSalzburg destroys the dome ofthe city's cathedral and most of aMozart family home.October 18 – WWII: TheVolkssturm Nazimilitia is founded, onAdolf Hitler 's orders.October 19 – TheGuatemalan Revolution begins with the overthrow ofFederico Ponce Vaides by a popular leftist movement.October 20 – WWII:October 21 – WWII:Aachen , the first German city to fall, is captured by American troops.October 23 –26 – WWII: NavalBattle of Leyte Gulf in thePhilippines – In thelargest naval battle in history by most criteria and the last naval battle in history betweenbattleships ,[ 53] combined United States and Australian naval forces decisively defeat theImperial Japanese Navy . This is the first battle in which Japanese aircraft carry out organizedkamikaze attacks.[ 54] October 24 October 25 October 27 – WWII: German forces captureBanská Bystrica , the center of anti-Nazi opposition in Slovakia, bringing theSlovak National Uprising to an end.October 30 October 31 – Serial killer DrMarcel Petiot is apprehended at aParis Métro station after 7 months on the run.November 1 –December 7 – Delegates of 52 nations meet at the International Civil Aviation Conference in Chicago, to plan for postwar international cooperation, framing the constitution of theInternational Civil Aviation Organization .November 3 – WWII: Two supreme commanders of theSlovak National Uprising , GeneralsJán Golian andRudolf Viest , are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.November 7 November 10 – WWII:Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood disintegrates from the accidental detonation of 3,800 tons of cargo, in theSeeadler Harbor fleet anchorage atManus Island . 22 small boats are destroyed, 36 nearby ships damaged, 432 men are killed and 371 more are injured.[ 56] November 11 November 12 – WWII:Operation Catechism –German battleship Tirpitz is sunk by British Royal Air ForceLancaster bombers nearTromsø in Norway.[ 30] Estimated casualties range from 950 to 1,204.November 14 – WWII: American submarineUSS Queenfish torpedoesJapanese aircraft carrierAkitsu Maru in the East China Sea; 2,246 drown.[ 57] November 16 November 17 – WWII: Partisan troops of theNational Liberation Movement entered Tirana, the capital of Albania.November 18 November 22 November 24 – WWII: German forcesevacuate from the West Estonian Archipelago .November 27 RAF Fauld explosion : Between 3,450 and 3,930tons (3,500 and 4,000tonnes ) ofordnance explodes at an underground storage depot inStaffordshire , England, leaving about 75 dead and acrater 1,200 metres (1,300 yd) across and 120 metres (390 ft) deep. The blast is one of thelargest non-nuclear explosions in history, and the largest on UK soil.[ 60] Operation Tigerfish :Royal Air Force bombing ofFreiburg im Breisgau kills 2,800.November 29 – WWII: American submarineUSS Archerfish sinksJapanese aircraft carrierShinano , the largest carrier built to this date, and will remain through the twentieth century the largest ship sunk by a submarine.[ 61] Victims of theMalmedy massacre December 1 –Edward Stettinius, Jr. becomes the lastUnited States Secretary of State of theRoosevelt administration, filling the seat left byCordell Hull .December 3 – WWII:December 7 December 10 – Italian conductorArturo Toscanini leads a concert performance of the first half ofBeethoven 'sFidelio (minus its spoken dialogue) onNBC Radio, starringRose Bampton . He chooses this opera for its political message: a statement against tyranny and dictatorship. Presenting it in German, Toscanini intends it as a tribute to the German people who are being oppressed by Hitler. The second half is broadcast a week later. The performance is later released on LP and CD, the first of 7 operas that Toscanini conducts on radio.December 12 –13 – WWII: British units attempt to take the Italian hilltop town of Tossignano, but are repulsed.December 13 – WWII:Battle of Mindoro – United States, Australian and Philippine Commonwealth troops land onMindoro Island in thePhilippines .December 14 December 15 – A USAAF utility aircraft carrying bandleader MajorGlenn Miller disappears in heavy fog over theEnglish Channel , while flying to Paris.December 16 – WWII:December 17 – WWII:December 18 – GeneralDouglas MacArthur becomes the secondU.S. Five-Star General .December 19 – The daily newspaperLe Monde begins publication in Paris.December 20 December 22 December 24 WWII: TroopshipSS Léopoldville is sunk in theEnglish Channel byGerman submarine U-486 . Approximately 763 soldiers of theU.S. 66th Infantry Division , bound for the Battle of the Bulge, drown.[ 63] WWII: German tanks reach the furthest point of the Bulge atCelles . WWII: Fifty GermanV-1 flying bombs , air-launched fromHeinkel He 111 bombers flying over theNorth Sea , targetManchester in England, killing 42 and injuring more than 100 in theOldham area.[ 64] [ 65] WWII:Bande massacre : 34 men between the ages of 17 and 32 are executed by theSicherheitsdienst near Bande,Belgium , in retaliation for the killing of 3 German soldiers. The first complete U.S. production of Tchaikovsky's balletThe Nutcracker is presented inSan Francisco , choreographed byWillam Christensen . It will become an annual tradition there, and for the next ten years, the San Francisco Ballet will be the only company in the United States performing the complete work. December 24–26 –Agana race riot inGuam between white and blackUnited States Marines . December 26 December 30 December 31 – WWII:Battle of Leyte – Tens of thousands of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers are killed in action, in a significant Filipino/Allied military victory.
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Nelson Makoto Kobayashi Gerhard Schröder Thein Sein Princess Benedikte of Denmark April 1 April 3 –Tony Orlando , American pop singer-songwriter, producer and actorApril 4 April 5 April 6 April 7 April 8 April 11 –John Milius , American film director, producer and screenwriterApril 12 –Lisa Jardine , historian andpolymath (d.2015 )April 13 April 14 –Nguyễn Phú Trọng , Vietnamese politician,General Secretary of the Communist Party andPresident (d.2024 )April 15 April 18 April 19 April 20 April 21 –Paul Geremia , American singer-songwriter and guitaristApril 22 –Steve Fossett , American millionaire aviator, sailor and adventurer (d.2007 )April 23 –Timothy Garden, Baron Garden ,RAF pilot and politician (d.2007 )April 24 –Tony Visconti , American record producer, musician and singerApril 25 April 26 April 27 –Cuba Gooding Sr. , American actor and singer (d.2017 )April 28 –Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe , Belgian politicianApril 29 April 30 John Rhys-Davies George Lucas Danny Trejo Mary Robinson Patti LaBelle Rudy Giuliani Gladys Knight Sondra Locke May 1 May 2 –Gloria Lizárraga de Capriles , Venezuelan politician (d.2021 )[ 72] May 3 –Rusty Wier , American singer-songwriter (d.2009 )May 4 May 5 May 6 –Mike Coulman , English dual-code rugby international (d.2023 )May 7 –Richard O'Sullivan , English comedy actorMay 8 May 9 May 10 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15 –Ulrich Beck , German sociologist (d.2015 )May 16 –Danny Trejo , Hispanic-American actorMay 17 –Jesse Winchester , American-Canadian country singer-songwriter (d.2014 )May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 –Mary Robinson ,President of Ireland [ 75] May 22 –Roberto A. Abad , Filipino lawyerMay 23 May 24 May 25 –Frank Oz , English puppeteer and film directorMay 26 –Jan Schakowsky , U.S. Representative,Illinois's 9th congressional district May 27 May 28 May 29 –Helmut Berger , Austrian actor (d.2023 )May 30 –Meredith MacRae , American actress (d.2000 )May 31 –Ayad Allawi , 38thPrime Minister of Iraq Michelle Phillips Tommie Smith Ban Ki-moon Salvador Sánchez Cerén SirRay Davies Gary Busey June 1 June 2 June 3 June 4 –Michelle Phillips , American singer and actressJune 5 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 10 June 11 –Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport , English politician,Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries June 13 –Ban Ki-moon , South Korean politician and 8thSecretary-General of the United Nations June 15 –Malaysia Vasudevan , Tamil playback singer and actor (d.2011 )June 16 –Henri Richelet , French painter (d.2020 )June 17 –Bill Rafferty , American comedian and impressionist (d.2012 )June 18 June 19 –Chico Buarque , Brazilian singer-songwriterJune 21 Carmen Cardinali , Chilean professor, governor of Rapa NuiFranco Cordova , Italian international football playerCorinna Tsopei , Greek actress, model and beauty queen, winner ofMiss Universe 1964 SirRay Davies , English rock singer-songwriter, co-founder ofThe Kinks Kenny O'Dell , American country singer-songwriter (d.2018 )Tony Scott , English film director (d.2012 )Luigi Sgarbozza , Italian road racing cyclistChris Wood , English rock musician (Traffic ) (d.1983 )June 22 June 23 June 24 June 25 –Ricardo Salgado , Portuguese economist and bankerJune 27 June 28 –Luis Nicolao , Argentine butterfly swimmerJune 29 June 30 Mercedes Bresso Jeffrey Tambor David Hemery Geraldine Chaplin Robert C. Merton July 1 July 2 July 3 –Michel Polnareff , French singerJuly 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 Feri Cansel , Turkish-Cypriot actress (d.1983 )Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro Mark Burgess , New Zealand cricketerJürgen Grabowski , German footballer (d.2022 )Tony Jacklin , English golferGeorge Logan , British female impersonator of the comedy actHinge and Bracket Feleti Sevele , Prime Minister of TongaMichael Walker, Baron Walker of Aldringham , British Army officerGlenys Kinnock , British politician (d.2023 )Ian Wilmut , Britishembryologist (d.2023 )July 8 July 10 –Carlos Ruckauf , Argentine politicianJuly 11 July 12 July 13 –Ernő Rubik , Hungarian inventorJuly 15 –Klaas de Vries , Dutch composerJuly 16 July 17 July 18 July 20 July 21 July 26 July 27 July 28 –Jozo Križanović , Bosnian politician (d.2009 )July 30 –Frances de la Tour , English actressJuly 31 Robert Mueller Sam Elliott Ian McDiarmid Rajiv Gandhi Peter Cetera Yoweri Museveni Michael Douglas September 1 –Leonard Slatkin , American conductorSeptember 2 –Gilles Marchal , French singer-songwriterSeptember 3 –Ty Warner , American businessman, inventor of Beanie BabiesSeptember 4 September 6 September 7 September 8 September 9 –George Mraz , Czech-born American jazzbassist andalto saxophonist (d.2021 )September 11 –Serge Haroche , French physicistSeptember 12 September 13 September 14 –Colleen Barrett , American business executive (d. 2024)September 15 September 16 –B.J. Ward , American voice actressSeptember 17 –Reinhold Messner , Italian mountaineerSeptember 18 September 19 –İsmet Özel , Turkish poetSeptember 20 September 21 September 22 –Frazer Hines , British actorSeptember 24 –Eavan Boland , Irish poet, author, and professor (d.2020 )September 25 –Michael Douglas , American actor and producerSeptember 26 September 27 September 28 –Miloš Zeman , 3rdPresident of the Czech Republic September 30 –Jimmy Johnstone , Scottish footballer (d.2006 )Arnhim Eustace Sir Donald Tsang Dale Dye Peter Tosh Elizabeth Loftus Kati Kovács October 1 –Ruth Adler , feminist, human rights campaigner andchild welfare advocate (d.1994 )October 2 October 3 –Pierre Deligne , Belgian mathematicianOctober 4 October 5 –Arnhim Eustace , Vincentian politician and 3rdPrime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines October 6 October 7 October 8 –Dale Dye , American actor, technical advisor, radio personality and writerOctober 9 October 11 –William T. Greenough , American neuroscientist (d.2013 )October 13 October 14 –Udo Kier , German actorOctober 15 October 16 –Elizabeth Loftus , American cognitive psychologist and memory specialistOctober 19 –George McCrae , American soul and disco singerOctober 20 –Clive Hornby , English actor (d.2008 )October 21 October 25 October 27 –Nikolai Karachentsov , Russian actor (d.2018 )October 28 October 30 –Ahmed Chalabi , Iraqi businessman and politician (d.2015 )October 31 Askar Akayev Danny DeVito Lorne Michaels Ben Stein November 1 November 2 November 3 –Tom Shales , American writer and television critic (d.2024 )November 4 November 5 –Leland Wilkinson , American statistician and computer scientist (d.2021 )November 7 November 10 November 11 –Kemal Sunal , Turkish comedianNovember 12 November 14 –Karen Armstrong , British writerNovember 17 Jim Boeheim , American basketball player and coachMalcolm Bruce , English-Scottish journalist, academic, and politicianGene Clark , American singer-songwriter (d.1991 )Danny DeVito , American actor, film producer and directorGary Goldman , American animator, film producer and directorRem Koolhaas , Dutch architectLorne Michaels , Canadian television and film producerTom Seaver , American baseball pitcher (d.2020 )Sammy Younge Jr. , American civil rights activist (d.1966 )November 18 November 20 November 21 November 23 –Peter Lindbergh , German fashion photographer and film director (d.2019 )November 24 November 25 November 27 –Mickey Leland , American politician (d.1989 )November 28 –Rita Mae Brown , American fiction writer and political activistNovember 30 –George Graham , Scottish football player and managerJohn Densmore Dennis Wilson Andris Bērziņš Giacomo dalla Torre Brenda Lee Bernard Hill Tim Reid Jairzinho December 1 –John Densmore , drummer, member ofThe Doors .December 2 December 3 –Ralph McTell , English folk singer-songwriterDecember 4 December 5 –Jeroen Krabbé , Dutch actor and film directorDecember 6 December 7 December 8 –Sharmila Tagore , Indian actress and modelDecember 9 December 10 December 11 December 12 December 14 –Denis Thwaites , English footballer (murdered in the2015 Sousse attacks )December 15 –Chico Mendes , Brazilianrubber tapper ,trade union leader andenvironmentalist (d.1988 )December 16 –Sein Win , Burmese politicianDecember 17 –Bernard Hill , British actor (d.2024 )December 19 December 20 December 21 December 22 Steve Carlton , American baseball playerMo Foster , English multi-instrumentalist, record producer, composer, solo artist, author, and public speaker (d.2023 )December 23 December 24 December 25 December 26 December 27 –Mick Jones , English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer (Foreigner )December 28 December 30 –Joseph Hilbe , American statistician and author (d.2017 )December 31
Kaj Munk Andrey Toshev Yuhi V Musinga Edvard Munch BlessedTeresa Grillo Michel January 1 January 3 –Franz Reichleitner , Austrian SS officer and Nazi concentration camp commandant (b.1906 )January 4 January 6 –Ida Tarbell , American journalist andmuckraker (b.1857 )January 7 –Lou Henry Hoover ,First Lady of the United States (b.1874 )January 9 –Antanas Smetona , President of Lithuania (b.1874 )January 10 January 11 January 12 January 13 – KingYuhi V of Rwanda (b.1883 )January 14 –Mehmet Emin Yurdakul , Turkish writer (b.1869 )January 18 –Léon Brunschvicg , French philosopher (b.1869 )January 20 –James McKeen Cattell , American psychologist (b.1860 )January 21 –Yoshimi Nishida , Japanese general (b.1892 )January 23 –Edvard Munch , Norwegian painter (b.1863 )January 25 –Teresa Grillo Michel , ItalianRoman Catholic nun and blessed (b.1855 )January 29 –William Allen White , American journalist (b.1868 )January 31 –Jean Giraudoux , French writer (b.1882 )Piet Mondrian Margaret Woodrow Wilson Pehr Evind Svinhufvud February 1 –Piet Mondrian , Dutch painter (b.1872 )February 3 –Yvette Guilbert , French singer and actress (b.1867 )February 7 –Robert E. Park , American sociologist (b.1864 )February 9 –Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux , British poet, essayist and novelist (b.1857 )February 11 –Carl Meinhof , German linguist (b.1857 )February 12 February 13 –Edgar Selwyn , American screenwriter (b.1875 )February 16 February 17 –Valentin Kotyk ,partisan scout, the youngest-everHero of Soviet Union (killed in action) (b.1930 )February 18 –David Griffin , Royal Canadian Air Force flying officer, Olympic athlete, and journalist (b.1905 )[ 80] February 21 –Ferenc Szisz , Hungarian-born race car driver (b.1873 )February 23 –Leo Baekeland , Belgian-born American chemist (b.1863 )February 24 –Fanny Clar , French journalist and writer (b.1875 )February 29 –Pehr Evind Svinhufvud , Finnish politician, 1stPrime Minister and 3rdPresident of Finland (b.1861 )Paul-Émile Janson Otto von Below March 3 –Paul-Émile Janson , Belgian politician, 30thPrime Minister of Belgium (b.1872 )March 4 –Louis Buchalter , Jewish-born American mobster, head of Murder, Inc. (executed) (b.1897 )March 5 March 8 –Xu Zonghan , Chinese medical doctor, politician and revolutionary (b.1877 )March 9 –Demetrios Capetanakis , Greek poet, essayist and critic (b.1912 )March 11 March 15 March 17 –Mario Bravo , Argentinian politician and writer (b.1882 )March 19 March 22 –Pierre Brossolette , journalist and French Resistance fighter (b.1903 )March 23 –Myron Selznick , American film producer (b.1898 )March 24 March 25 –Omelyan Kovch , SovietRoman Catholic and GreekOrthodox priest , martyr and blessed (b.1884 )March 28 –Stephen Leacock , British-born Canadian humorist, author and economist (b.1869 )[ 81] March 31 Bernardino Machado Leon Kozłowski Edel Quinn Patriarch Sergius of Moscow Thomas Curtis May 5 –Bertha Benz , German automotive pioneer, wife and business partner of automobile inventor Karl Benz (b.1849 )May 7 –William Ledyard Rodgers , American admiral and military and naval historian (b.1860 )May 11 –Leon Kozłowski , Polish archaeologist and politician, 25thPrime Minister of Poland (b.1892 )May 12 May 15 – PatriarchSergius I (b.1867 )May 16 May 17 –Milena Jesenská , Czechoslovakian journalist, writer, editor and translator (b.1896 )May 20 May 21 May 23 –Thomas Curtis , American Olympic athlete (b.1873 )May 24 May 25 –Clark Daniel Stearns , 9thGovernor of American Samoa (b.1870 )May 30 Dénes Berinkey Carl Mayer Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Tarsykiya Matskiv Reza Shah July 1 –Carl Mayer , Austrian-born screenwriter (cancer) (b.1894 )July 6 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 12 July 14 –Asmahan , Syrian-born Egyptian singer (automobile accident) (b.1912 )July 15 –Joseph Sadi-Lecointe , French aviator (died from effects of torture) (b.1891 )July 16 –Moncena Dunn , American inventor (b.1867 )July 17 July 18 July 20 Ludwig Beck , German general, former Chief of the German General Staff and resistance member (assisted suicide) (b.1880 )Mildred Harris , American actress (complications following surgery) (b.1901 )[ 85] Günther Korten , German colonel-general, chief of staff of the Luftwaffe (died of injuries received in assassination attempt on Hitler) (b.1898 )Claus von Stauffenberg , German resistance leader (executed) (b.1907 )July 21 July 23 –Eduard Wagner , German general and resistance member (suicide) (b.1894 )July 25 July 26 July 27 –Perry McGillivray , American Olympic swimmer (b.1893 )July 28 –Werner Schrader , German resistance member (suicide) (b.1895 )July 30 July 31 –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , French pilot and children's writer (missing on active service) (b.1900 )Jędrzej Moraczewski Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. BlessedTeresa Bracco August 1 –Manuel L. Quezon , Filipino statesman, soldier and politician, 2ndPresident of the Philippines (b.1878 )August 2 –Kakuji Kakuta , Japanese admiral (b.1890 )August 4 –Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński , Polish poet (b.1921 )August 5 –Jędrzej Moraczewski , Polish politician, 2ndPrime Minister of Poland (b.1870 )August 7 August 8 August 9 –Felix Nussbaum , German painter (b.1904 )August 10 August 11 August 12 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 19 August 21 August 23 August 24 –Carlo Emanuele Buscaglia , Italian aviator (b.1915 )August 25 –Teresio Vittorio Martinoli , Italian pilot (b.1917 )August 26 August 27 August 28 August 30 Robert Benoist Joseph Müller Gustav Bauer Hendrikus Colijn David Dougal Williams September 1 –Krystyna Dąbrowska , Polish sculptor and painter (b.1906 )September 2 –Maria Vetulani de Nisau , Polish soldier (b.1898 )September 3 –Friedrich Alpers , German Nazi politician and general (b.1901 )September 4 September 5 –Gustave Biéler , Swiss WWII hero (b.1904 )September 6 –Jan Franciszek Czartoryski , PolishDominican friar, martyr and blessed (b.1897 )September 7 –Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes , Cuban composer (b.1897 )September 8 September 11 September 12 –Robert Fiske , American actor (b.1889 )September 13 September 14 September 16 –Gustav Bauer , 11thChancellor of Germany (b.1870 )September 18 September 19 –Guy Gibson , British bomber pilot (b.1918 )September 20 –Friedrich Boedicker , German admiral (b.1866 )September 22 –Fritz Lindemann , German army officer (died of wounds) (b.1894 )September 23 –Matylda Palfyova , Czechoslovakian artistic gymnast (b.1912 )September 25 September 27 September 28 –Josef Bürckel , German Nazi gauleiter (b.1895 )September 29 Stefanina Moro Ramón Castillo Erwin Rommel José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma Andrey Sheptytsky BlessedCarl Lampert Joseph Caillaux Florence Foster Jenkins Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark Wassily Kandinsky Lupe Vélez BlessedSára Salkaházi December 1 –Franciszek Pius Radziwiłł , Polish nobleman and activist (b.1878 )December 2 December 3 –Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (b.1882 )December 4 –Roger Bresnahan , American baseball player and member of theMLB Hall of Fame (b.1879 )December 9 –Laird Cregar , American actor (b.1913 )December 11 –Montgomery Cunningham Meigs , American WWII hero (b.1919 )December 12 –Bernard Chrzanowski , Polish activist (b.1861 )December 13 –Wassily Kandinsky , Russian-born Polish artist (b.1866 )December 14 –Lupe Vélez , Mexican actress, dancer and singer (b.1908 )December 15 –Glenn Miller , American band leader (accident) (b.1904 )December 19 – KingAbbas II of Egypt (b.1874 )December 20 December 22 –Harry Langdon , American comedian (b.1884 )December 26 –George Bellamy , British actor (b.1866 )December 27 December 30 –Romain Rolland , French writer,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1866 )December 31 ^ Ford, Ken (2004).Cassino 1944: Breaking the Gustav Line . 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