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1962 (MCMLXII ) was acommon year starting on Monday of theGregorian calendar , the 1962nd year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 62nd year of the20th century , and the 3rd year of the1960s decade.
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The year saw theCuban Missile Crisis , which is often considered the closest the world came to anuclear confrontation during theCold War .
February 3 – AUnited States embargo against Cuba is announced.February 4 – First successful winter ascent of theMatterhorn 's north face, by Hilti von Allmen and Paul Etter, is completed.[ 2] February 4 –5 – During anew moon andsolar eclipse , an extremely raregrand conjunction of theclassical planets occurs (it includes all five of thenaked-eye planets plus the Sun and Moon), all of them within 16° of one another on theecliptic . The totalsolar eclipse of February 5, 1962 is visible in Asia, Australia and the Pacific Ocean, and is the 49th solar eclipse ofSolar Saros 130 .February 5 –President of France Charles de Gaulle calls forAlgeria to be granted independence.February 7 February 10 – Captured American spy pilotFrancis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spyRudolf Abel , in Berlin.February 11 – The inaugural24 Hours of Daytona sports car endurance race is run as a 3-hour event, atDaytona Beach, Florida .February 12 – Six members of the Committee of 100 of theCampaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the U.K. are found guilty of a breach of theOfficial Secrets Act .February 14 –First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of theWhite House .February 15 –Urho Kekkonen is re-elected president of Finland.February 17 – Heavy storms and high tides result in theNorth Sea flood of 1962 on Germany'sNorth Sea coast, mainly aroundHamburg ; more than 300 people die and thousands lose their homes.February 18 –1962 NHRA Winternationals :Carol Cox becomes the first woman allowed to race at aNational Hot Rod Association national event in the United States; she wins in the Super Stock class.February 20 –Project Mercury : AboardFriendship 7 John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes.February 21 –Margot Fonteyn andRudolf Nureyev first dance together in aRoyal Ballet performance ofGiselle February 23 –Friendship 7 President Kennedy and astronautJohn Glenn July 1 July 2 July 5 –Algeria becomes independent from France.July 6 –Gay Byrne presents the first edition ofThe Late Late Show RTÉ in the Republic of Ireland. Byrne goes on to present the show for 37 years, the longest period through which any individual hosts a televisedtalk show anywhere in the world, and the show itself becomes the world's second longest-running talk show.July 9 – American artistAndy Warhol premieres hisCampbell's Soup Cans July 10 –AT&T 'sTelstar communications satellite , is launched into orbit and activated the next day.July 12 – TheRolling Stones make their debut at London'sMarquee Club , opening forLong John Baldry .July 13 – In what the press dubs the "Night of the Long Knives ", United KingdomPrime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses one-third of hisCabinet .July 14 –Norma Nolan ofArgentina is crownedMiss Universe 1962 .July 17 –Nuclear testing : The "Small Boy" test shotLittle Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation, at theNevada Test Site .July 19 – The first annual Swiss & WielderHoop and Stick Tournament is held.July 20 – France andTunisia reestablishdiplomatic relations .July 22 –Mariner program : The U.S.Mariner 1 July 23 –Telstar Atlantic television signal.July 25 July 30 –Trans-Canada Highway officially opens throughout the 4,645-mile (7,475 km) betweenSt. John's, Newfoundland , andVictoria, British Columbia ,[ 9] Rogers Pass section, making it at this time the world's longest uninterrupted highway.[ 10] July 31 "Sherry" by the Four Seasons was released, their first number one hit! August 5 Death of Marilyn Monroe : ActressMarilyn Monroe is found dead aged 36 from an overdose of sleeping pills and chloral hydrate at her home inBrentwood, Los Angeles ; it is officially ruled a "probable suicide" (the exact cause has been disputed).Anti-apartheid activistNelson Mandela is arrested by the South African government nearHowick , and charged with incitement to rebellion. On November 7, he is sentenced to imprisonment. August 6 – The Caribbean island ofJamaica becomes independent of the U.K.August 11 –King Kong vs. Godzilla Godzilla King Kong August 13 – First successful ascent of theMatterhorn 's west face, by Renato Daguin and Giovanni Ottin.[ 11] August 15 – TheNew York Agreement is signed, transferring the DutchWest New Guinea colony to Indonesia.August 16 –Algeria joins theArab League .August 17 –East German border guards kill 18-year-oldPeter Fechter as he attempts to cross theBerlin Wall into West Berlin, leading to mass protests on the Western side.August 18 –Norway launches its 1stsounding rocket ,Ferdinand 1 , fromAndøya Space Center and becomes a space nation.[ 12] August 22 – An assassination attempt is made against French PresidentCharles de Gaulle by machine-gunning his car in the Paris suburbs. The mastermind,Jean Bastien-Thiry , will later be executed.[ 13] August 24 A group of armedCuban exile terrorists fire at a hotel inHavana from a speedboat. Indonesia officially launches television with the establishment ofTVRI television network orTelevisi Republik Indonesia (Indonesian National Channel), broadcasting the opening of the1962 Asian Games . August 27 –NASA launches theMariner 2 August 31 – The Caribbean island nation ofTrinidad and Tobago becomes fully independent of the U.K.September 1 Areferendum in Singapore supports the Malayan Federation. Typhoon Wanda strikes Hong Kong, killing at least 130 and injuring more than 600.September 2 – TheSoviet Union agrees to send arms to Cuba.September 8 – Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.September 12 – PresidentJohn F. Kennedy , in his "We choose to go to the Moon " speech atRice University , reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.September 19 –Atlantic College opens its doors for the first time inWales , marking the birth of the pioneering United World College educational movement.[ 14] September 22 –Bob Dylan premieres his song "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall ", atCarnegie Hall in New York City.September 23 –Flying Tiger Line Flight 923 , aLockheed L-1049H Super Constellation registered as N6923C,ditched into theAtlantic Ocean killing 28 occupants out the 76 onboard. The remaining 48 were rescued six hours later.[ 15] [ 16] September 25 –Sonny Liston knocks outFloyd Patterson two minutes into the first round of his fight for the boxing world title inChicago .September 26 – TheNorth Yemen Civil War erupts.September 27 – Aflash flood inBarcelona , Spain, kills more than 440 people.September 29 – The CanadianAlouette 1 Vandenberg Air Force Base inCalifornia .October 14 – Pictures of Soviet missile silos in Cuba, taken by U.S. spy planesOctober 16 –Cuban Missile Crisis begins whenU.S. President Kennedy is told of photographs (taken fromU-2 flights) showing Sovietnuclear weapon installations being constructed on Cuba in theCaribbean . A stand-off ensues for 12 days between the United States and theSoviet Union , threatening the world withnuclear war .October 20 – TheSino-Indian War , a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations (India and the People's Republic of China), erupts into fighting.October 22 Cuban Missile Crisis: In a televised address, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba and the U.S. naval blockade of the island. John Vassall , a former clerical officer in British naval intelligence, is sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after admitting to passing secret material to the Soviet Union.[ 18] October 24 – Cuban Missile Crisis: The first confrontation occurs between the U.S. Navy and a Soviet cargo vessel; the vessel changes course.October 26 –Spiegel affairDer Spiegel Hamburg .October 27 – Cuban Missile Crisis:Vasily Arkhipov , executive officer ofSoviet submarineB-59 , refuses to launch nuclear torpedoes against the U.S. Navy. This event is widely regarded as crucial in averting a worldwide nuclear war.[ 19] October 28 Cuban Missile Crisis ends: Soviet Union leaderNikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In a secret deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev, Kennedy agrees to the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey. The fact that this deal is not made public makes it look as though the Soviets have backed down.[dubious discuss A referendum in France favors the election of the president by universal suffrage. October 31 – TheUnited Nations General Assembly asks the United Kingdom to suspend enforcement of the new constitution in Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), but it comes into effect onNovember 1 .November November 1 The Soviet Union begins dismantling its missiles in Cuba. The comic book antiheroDiabolik first appears in Italy. November 2 –Greville Wynne , a British trader acting as a courier forMI6 , is arrested by theKGB inBudapest and imprisoned in Moscow after confessing to espionage.[ 20] November 3 – Earliest recorded use of the term "personal computer ", in the report of a speech by computing pioneerJohn Mauchly inThe New York Times [ 21] November 5 West German defense ministerFranz Josef Strauß is relieved of his duties over theSpiegel affair Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Egypt following a period of unrest, partly caused by the defection of several Saudi princes to Egypt. A coal mining disaster inNy-Ålesund kills 21 people; the Norwegian government is forced to resign in the aftermath of this accident, inAugust 1963 . November 6 –Apartheid : TheUnited Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa'sracist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.November 17 –Dulles International Airport , in Washington, D.C., is dedicated by PresidentJohn F. Kennedy .November 20 –Cuban Missile Crisis : In response to theSoviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, President John F. Kennedy ends the blockade of the island.November 21 – TheSino-Indian War ends with a Chinese ceasefire.November 23 –United Air Lines Flight 297 crashes inColumbia, Maryland due to abird strike , killing all 17 on board.November 24 – The first episode ofThat Was the Week That Was David Frost , is broadcast onBBC Television in the United Kingdom.November 26 November 27 – French President Charles De Gaulle ordersGeorges Pompidou to form a government.November 29 – An agreement is signed between Britain and France, to develop theConcorde November 30 – TheUnited Nations General Assembly electsU Thant ofBurma , as the newSecretary-General of the United Nations .December 2 –Vietnam War : After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. PresidentJohn F. Kennedy , U.S. Senate Majority LeaderMike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a pessimistic public comment on the war's progress.December 7 –Rainier III, Prince of Monaco revises theprincipality 'sconstitution , devolving some of his formerly autocratic power to several advisory and legislative councils.December 8 December 9 – Tanganyika (modern-dayTanzania ) becomes a republic within theCommonwealth of Nations , withJulius Nyerere as president.December 10 –David Lean 's epic filmLawrence of Arabia Peter O'Toole ,Omar Sharif ,Alec Guinness ,Jack Hawkins andAnthony Quinn , premieres in London; 6 days later, it opens in the U.S.December 11 In West Germany, a coalition government of Christian Democrats, Christian Socialists and Free Democrats is formed. The last execution by hanging is carried out in Canada. December 14 U.S. spacecraftMariner 2 Venus , becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet. Leonardo da Vinci 's early 16th-century painting theMona Lisa Louvre , its owner, chooses to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead.December 15 – Storm over theNorth Sea : Belgianpirate radio station Radio Uylenspiegel is knocked off the airwaves, never to operate again.December 19 – Britain acknowledges the right of Nyasaland (modern-dayMalawi ) to secede from theCentral African Federation .December 24 –Cuba releases the last 1,113 participants in theBay of Pigs Invasion to the U.S., in exchange for food worth $53 million.December 30 Around 20,000Harkis , indigenous Muslim Algerians who fought as auxiliary soldiers on the French side in theAlgerian War , with their families flee Algeria for metropolitan France fearing unofficial reprisals in their home country.[ 22] Thelaser diode is invented. Slavery in Yemen is abolished.
Suzy Amis Cameron Jim Carrey Abdullah II of Jordan Jennifer Jason Leigh Axl Rose Garth Brooks Eddie Izzard Sheryl Crow Lou Diamond Phillips Steve Irwin Adam Baldwin February 1 –Takashi Murakami , Japanese pop artist[ 29] February 2 –Kátia Abreu , Brazilian politicianFebruary 5 February 6 –Axl Rose , American musician, singer-songwriter ofGuns N' Roses February 7 February 8 February 9 Lolo Ferrari , French actress (d.2000 )Zoë Lund , American musician, model, actress, author, producer, political activist and screenwriter (d.1999 )Dennis Padilla , Filipino comedian, TV host, radio broadcaster and actorDany Roland , Argentine-born Brazilian drummer, sound designer, actor, film director and record producerFebruary 10 February 11 February 12 February 13 February 14 –Ken Oosterbroek , South African photojournalist (d.1994 )February 15 –Srettha Thavisin , Thai businessman and polit6ician, 30thPrime Minister of Thailand February 17 February 19 –Nabila Khashoggi , American businesswoman, actress and philanthropistFebruary 20 –Eduardo de Almeida Navarro , Brazilian philologist and lexicographerFebruary 21 February 22 Steve Irwin , Australian zookeeper, television personality, wildlife expert, environmentalist and conservationist (d.2006 )Ethan Wayne , American actorFebruary 25 –Birgit Fischer , German kayakerFebruary 26 –Domingos Montagner , Brazilian actor, playwright and entrepreneur (d.2016 )February 27 February 28 –Angela Bailey , Canadian track and field athlete (d.2021 )Jon Bon Jovi Matthew Broderick Rosie O'Donnell Marcia Cross MC Hammer March 2 March 3 –Jackie Joyner-Kersee , American athlete[ 34] March 6 March 7 –Taylor Dayne , American singer-songwriter and actress[ 37] March 10 March 11 –Achmad Yurianto , Indonesian military doctor and bureaucrat (d. 2022)[ 40] March 12 March 14 –Tsvetanka Khristova , Bulgarian athlete (d.2008 )[ 41] March 16 –Branco Mello , Brazilian singer, actor and writerMarch 17 –Kalpana Chawla , American astronaut (d.2003 )March 19 –Iván Calderón , Puerto RicanMajor League Baseball player (d.2003 )March 20 –Stephen Sommers , American film directorMarch 21 March 23 March 25 March 26 –John Stockton , American basketball playerMarch 27 –Jann Arden , Canadian singer[ 46] March 29 –Ted Failon , Filipino broadcast journalist and radio commentatorMarch 30 Clark Gregg Hillel Slovak Jeff Dunham April 2 –Clark Gregg , American actor, director and screenwriter[ 47] April 3 –Jaya Prada , Indian actress and politician[ 48] April 5 –Sara Danius , Swedish writer and academic (d.2019 )[ 49] April 8 –Izzy Stradlin , American guitarist[ 50] April 9 –Imran Sherwani , British field hockey player[ 51] April 12 April 13 April 15 April 16 –Antony Blinken , American diplomat, 71stUnited States Secretary of State April 18 –Jeff Dunham , American ventriloquistApril 19 –Al Unser Jr. , American race car driverApril 20 April 21 –Craig Robinson , Americancollege basketball coachApril 22 April 23 April 24 –Rick Beato , American musician and music producerApril 25 –Flex-Deon Blake , African-American gay pornographic actor (d.2021 )April 26 April 29 –Stephan Burger , German Roman Catholic archbishopSean McNamara Emilio Estevez Craig Ferguson Genie Francis Bobcat Goldthwait May 1 –Maia Morgenstern , Romanian actressMay 2 May 3 –Anders Graneheim , Swedish bodybuilderMay 5 May 7 –Ari Telch , Mexican actorMay 8 –Natalia Molchanova , Russian free-diverMay 9 May 12 –Emilio Estevez , American actorMay 13 –Eduardo Palomo , Mexican actor (d.2003 )May 14 May 15 –Rod Lurie , American-Israeli directorMay 16 –Michele Marziani , Italian novelist and journalist[ 57] May 17 May 18 May 19 –Frances Ondiviela , Spanish/Mexican actressMay 20 May 21 –Cam Brainard , American voice actor and narratorMay 22 –Brian Pillman , American professional wrestler (d.1997 )May 24 –Gene Anthony Ray , American actor (d.2003 )May 25 –Anders Johansson , Swedish drummerMay 26 May 27 May 28 May 30 –Timo Soini , Finnish politicianMay 31 Jeff Garlin Lance Reddick Arnold Vosloo Paula Abdul Viktor Tsoi Campino Michael Ball Bussunda Ollanta Humala Jordan Peterson Claudia Sheinbaum June 1 –Sherri Howard , American athleteJune 3 –David Cole , American record producer and songwriter (d.1995 )June 4 June 5 –Jeff Garlin , American actorJune 6 –Alex Datcher , American actressJune 7 June 8 –Suzy Gorman , American photographerJune 10 June 11 June 12 –Jordan Peterson , Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychologyJune 13 June 14 –Emilija Erčić , Yugoslav (Serbian) handball playerJune 15 –Andrea Rost , Hungarian lyric sopranoJune 16 –Arnold Vosloo , South African actorJune 17 –Bap Kennedy , Northern Irish singer-songwriter (d.2016 )June 18 June 19 –Paula Abdul , American dancer, choreographer and singerJune 21 June 22 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 29 June 30 Andre Braugher Tom Cruise Thomas Gibson Hunter Tylo Tom Kenny Aya Kitō Carlos Alazraqui Federico Franco Sergey Kiriyenko Wesley Snipes July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 –Pam Shriver , American tennis player[ 61] July 5 –Amrozi , Indonesian terrorist (d.2008 )July 6 July 7 July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 –Rita Rätsepp , Estonian actress and psychologistJuly 18 –Shaun Micallef , Australian actor, comedian and writerJuly 19 July 20 Carlos Alazraqui , American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, singer, impressionist, producer and screenwriterAbdulai Hamid Charm , Sierra Leonean judgePrimož Ulaga , Yugoslavian/Slovenian ski jumperEmmanuel Niyonkuru , Burundian politician (d.2017 )Chee Soon Juan , Singaporean politicianJuly 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 26 July 28 –Ray Shero , American hockey managerJuly 29 July 30 July 31 Rob Minkoff Steve Carell Felipe Calderón James Marsters David Koechner David Fincher Dee Bradley Baker August 1 August 4 August 5 –Patrick Ewing , Jamaican-born basketball playerAugust 6 –Michelle Yeoh , Malaysian-born Hong Kong actressAugust 7 –Bruno Pelletier , Canadian singerAugust 8 –Yūji Machi , Japanese voice actorAugust 10 –Suzanne Collins , American television writer and author ((The Hunger Games ))August 11 –Rob Minkoff , American filmmakerAugust 12 –Ariel López Padilla , Mexican actorAugust 13 August 15 –Tom Colicchio , American chefAugust 16 August 17 –Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss , German actor and directorAugust 18 August 19 August 20 –James Marsters , American actor and musicianAugust 21 August 23 –Dean Karnazes , American ultramarathon runnerAugust 24 August 25 –Theresa Andrews , American swimmer[ 63] August 26 August 28 –David Fincher , American director and producerAugust 29 August 30 –Alexander Litvinenko , Russian ex-KGB colonel and ex-FSB lieutenant-colonel (d.2006 )August 31 Keir Starmer Hesham Qandil Rob Morrow Nia Vardalos Melissa Sue Anderson September 1 –Ruud Gullit , Dutch footballerSeptember 2 –Keir Starmer , British politician,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom September 4 –Shinya Yamanaka , Japanese physician and researcherSeptember 8 September 11 September 12 –Dino Merlin , Bosnian singer-songwriter, musician and producerSeptember 13 –Hisao Egawa , Japanese voice actorSeptember 15 –François Bloemhof , South African authorSeptember 17 September 19 September 20 –Vittorio De Angelis , Italian voice actor (d.2015 )September 21 –Rob Morrow , American actorSeptember 22 –Martin Crowe , New Zealand cricketer (d.2016 )September 24 September 25 September 26 September 28 –Grant Fuhr , Canadian hockey playerSeptember 30 –Frank Rijkaard , Dutch football player and managerJeff Bennett Joan Cusack Branko Crvenkovski Flea Mike Judge Evander Holyfield Bob Odenkirk Cary Elwes October 1 October 2 October 3 –Tommy Lee , American rock musician and drummerOctober 5 –Michael Andretti , American race car driverOctober 11 –Joan Cusack , American actress and comedianOctober 12 October 13 October 14 October 16 October 17 –Mike Judge , American actor, voice actor, animator, writer, producer, director and musicianOctober 18 October 19 October 20 –Anatoly Khrapaty , Soviet Olympic weightlifter (d.2008 )October 21 –Miki Itō , Japanese voice actressOctober 22 –Bob Odenkirk , American actor and comedian[ 70] October 24 –Jay Novacek , American football playerOctober 25 October 26 October 27 October 28 –Daphne Zuniga , American actressOctober 29 –Debra Sandlund , American actressOctober 30 Anthony Kiedis Demi Moore Harland Williams Jodie Foster Nicolás Maduro Jon Stewart Andrew McCarthy November 1 November 2 –Marcellin Nadeau , French politicianNovember 3 November 6 November 7 –Bettina Hoy , German equestrienneNovember 9 –Dolores Delgado , Spanish politician and prosecutorNovember 11 November 12 November 13 –Steve Altes , American humoristNovember 14 November 15 November 16 –Maria Helena Doering Colombian actressNovember 17 –Jamie Moyer , American baseball playerNovember 18 –Kirk Hammett , American guitarist (Metallica )November 19 –Jodie Foster , American actress and director[ 71] November 21 –Steven Curtis Chapman , AmericanChristian musicianNovember 22 –Sumi Jo , Korean operatic sopranoNovember 23 November 24 –John Kovalic , American cartoonistNovember 27 November 28 November 29 –Andrew McCarthy , American actorNovember 30 Felicity Huffman Ben Browder Ralph Fiennes December 1 December 3 –Tammy Jackson , American basketball playerDecember 5 –José Cura , Argentine tenor[ 73] December 6 –Janine Turner , American actressDecember 9 December 10 December 11 December 12 December 14 –Yvonne Ryding , Swedish pageant winner (Miss Universe 1984 )December 16 –Maruschka Detmers , Dutch actressDecember 17 December 18 –James Sie , American actor and voice actorDecember 21 –Steven Mnuchin , 77thUnited States Secretary of the Treasury December 22 December 23 –Keiji Mutoh , Japanese professional wrestlerDecember 24 –Kate Spade , American fashion designer (d.2018 )December 25 December 27 December 28 December 29 –Carles Puigdemont , Spanish politicianDecember 30 –Alessandra Mussolini , Italian politicianDecember 31 –Pedro Cardoso , Brazilian actor, screenwriter, playwright and television directorErnie Kovacs January 1 –Diego Martínez Barrio , Spanish politician, 2-timePrime Minister of Spain (b.1883 )January 4 –Hans Lammers , German Nazi minister (b.1879 )January 13 –Ernie Kovacs , American TV comedian (b.1919 )[ 76] January 16 January 17 –Gerrit Achterberg , Dutch poet (b.1905 )[ 78] January 19 –Snub Pollard , American actor (b.1889 )January 20 –Robinson Jeffers , American poet (b.1887 )[ 79] January 21 –Arturo Bragaglia , Italian actor (b.1893 )January 26 –Lucky Luciano , American gangster (b.1897 )January 29 –Fritz Kreisler , Austrian violinist (b.1875 )[ 80] Roy Atwell Hu Shih February 1 –Carey Wilson , American screenwriter (b.1889 )February 2 –Shlomo Hestrin , Canadian-born Israeli biochemist (b.1914 )February 4 –Daniel Halévy , French historian (b.1872 )February 5 February 6 February 10 –Eduard von Steiger , Swiss politician, 51stPresident of the Swiss Confederation (b.1881 )February 11 –Indalecio Prieto , Spanish Socialist politician (b.1891 )February 13 –Hugh Dalton , British Labour politician (b.1887 )February 17 February 19 February 20 –Halliwell Hobbes , English-born film actor (b.1877 )February 24 –Hu Shih , Chinese philosopher (b.1891 )February 25 –Antonina De Angelis , ItalianRoman Catholic professed sister and blessed (b.1880 )February 27 –Willie Best , American actor (b.1916 )February 28 –Chic Johnson , American actor (b.1891 )Arthur Compton Auguste Piccard Benny Paret Louise Fazenda April 1 –Jussi Kekkonen , Finnish major (b.1910 )April 3 –Benny Paret , Cuban welterweight boxer, died as result ofinjuries in the ring ; b.1937 )April 4 –James Hanratty , English murderer, one of the last people to be hanged in the U.K. (b.1936 )[ 83] April 5 –Käte Selbmann , German politician (b.1906 )[ 84] April 8 –Juan Belmonte , Spanish bullfighter (b.1892 )April 10 April 14 –M. Visvesvaraya , Indian engineer and politician (b.1861 )April 15 April 17 –Louise Fazenda , American actress (b.1895 )April 20 –Grover Whalen , American politician (b.1886 )April 21 – SirFrederick Handley Page , English aircraft manufacturer (b.1885 )April 22 –Vera Reynolds , American actress (b.1899 )April 27 –Josefa Toledo de Aguerri , Nicaraguan pioneer educator (b.1866 )April 28 –Gianna Beretta Molla , ItalianRoman Catholic pediatrician and saint (b.1922 )April 29 –Hajime Tanabe , Japanese philosopher (b.1885 )Pedro Pablo Ramírez May 3 –Helen Dortch Longstreet , American social advocate, librarian and newspaper publisher (b.1863 )[ 85] May 5 –Ernest Tyldesley , English cricketer (b.1889 )May 10 –Shunroku Hata , Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army (b.1879 )May 12 –Pedro Pablo Ramírez , Argentine military general, 26thPresident of Argentina , leader of theWorld War II (b.1884 )May 13 May 19 –Gabriele Münter , German painter (b.1877 )[ 86] May 23 –Rubén Jaramillo , peasant leader, assassinated by theMexican Army (b. 1900)[ 87] May 26 –Wilfrid Wilson Gibson , English poet (b.1878 )[ 88] May 27 –Egon Petri , German pianist (b.1881 )[ 89] May 31 –Henry F. Ashurst , American politician (b.1874 )[ 90] Eugeniusz Baziak June 1 –Adolf Eichmann , German SS officer and a major organiser of the Holocaust (executed) (b.1906 )[ 91] June 2 –Vita Sackville-West , English writer and landscape gardener (b.1892 )[ 92] June 4 –William Beebe , American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist and entomologist (b.1877 )June 6 June 7 –Korneli Kekelidze , Georgian philologist (b.1879 )June 8 –Eugène Freyssinet , French civil engineer (b.1879 )June 9 –Polly Adler , Russian-born American author and madam (b.1900 )[ 93] June 12 –John Ireland , English composer (b.1879 )June 13 –Sir Eugene Goossens , English composer (b.1893 )[ 94] June 15 June 16 –Aleksei Antonov , General of the Soviet Army (b.1896 )June 19 June 24 –Lucile Watson , Canadian actress (b.1879 )June 25 –Sir Raymond Leane , Australian army general (b.1878 )June 27 –Paul Viiding , Estonian poet, author and literary critic (b.1904 )June 28 –Mickey Cochrane , American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics ) and a member of theMLB Hall of Fame (b.1903 )June 29 –Charles Lyon Chandler , American historian (b. 1883)[ 95] William Faulkner Denjirō Ōkōchi July 1 –Bidhan Chandra Roy , Indian physician and politician,Chief Minister of West Bengal (b.1882 )July 2 July 4 –Rex Bell , American actor and politician (b.1903 )July 6 July 8 –Georges Bataille , French writer and philosopher (b.1897 )July 10 –Yehuda Leib Maimon , Bassarabian-born Israeli rabbi and government minister (b.1875 )July 11 –Owen D. Young , American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat (b.1874 )July 12 –Roger Wolfe Kahn , American band leader (b.1907 )July 13 –Jerry Wald , American screenwriter and producer (b.1911 )July 18 –Denjirō Ōkōchi , Japanese actor (b.1898 )July 21 –G. M. Trevelyan , English historian (b.1876 )July 23 –Victor Moore , American actor (b.1876 )July 26 July 27 –Richard Aldington , English poet (b.1892 )July 29 July 30 –Myron McCormick , American actor (b.1908 )Marilyn Monroe Hermann Hesse August 4 –Marilyn Monroe , American actress (b.1926 )August 5 –Ramón Pérez de Ayala , Spanish writer and diplomat (b.1880 )August 6 August 9 –Hermann Hesse , German-born writer,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1877 )[ 97] August 15 –Lei Feng , Chinese soldier (b.1940 )August 18 –Cleo Ridgely , American actress (b.1893 )August 19 –Jean Lucienbonnet , French racing driver (b.1923 )August 21 –Ahmad Ibrahim , Malaysian-born Singaporean politician (b.1927 )August 22 –Charles Rigoulot , French Olympic weightlifter (b.1903 )August 23 August 24 –Mykolas Biržiška , Lithuanian politician (b.1882 )August 26 –Dušan Simović , Yugoslav general, 18thPrime Minister of Yugoslavia (b.1882 )August 27 –Leopoldo Panero , Spanish poet (b.1909 )August 28 –John Collum , American actor (b.1926 )August 29 –Georgina de Albuquerque , Brazilian painter (b.1885 )August 31 –Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski , Prime Minister of Poland (b.1885 )Ahmad bin Yahya Ouyang Yuqian September 1 –Hans-Jürgen von Arnim , German general (b.1889 )[ 98] September 3 –E. E. Cummings , American poet (b.1894 )September 4 September 5 –Roy MacNairy , English cricketer (b.1904 )September 6 –Hanns Eisler , Austrian composer (b.1898 )September 7 September 11 –Kenkichi Ueda , Japanese general (b.1875 )September 12 –Wiktor Thommée , Polish general (b.1881 )September 19 September 20 –Conrad Helfrich , Dutch admiral (b.1886 )September 21 –Ouyang Yuqian , Chinese playwright, director and Peking opera performer (b.1889 )September 23 September 26 –Francisco de Paula Brochado da Rocha ,Prime Minister of Brazil (b.1910 )Henri Oreiller Gaston Bachelard October 1 –Ludwig Bemelmans , Austro-Hungarian born American writer (b.1898 )October 2 October 6 –Tod Browning , American film director (b.1880 )October 7 –Henri Oreiller , French Olympic alpine skier (b.1925 )October 8 –Solomon Linda , South African singer-songwriter (b.1909 )October 9 –Milan Vidmar , Slovenian chess player (b.1885 )October 10 –Stancho Belkovski , Bulgarian architect and lecturer (b.1891 )October 11 –Erich von Tschermak , Austrian agronomist (b.1871 )October 12 –Alberto Teisaire , Argentine Navy officer andVice President of the Republic (assassinated) (b.1891 )October 14 –Irma Gramatica , Italian actress (b.1870 )October 16 October 17 –Natalia Goncharova , Russian artist (b.1881 )October 20 –Jesús Herrera , Spanish international footballer (b.1938 )October 26 –Louise Beavers , American actress (b.1900 )October 27 October 31 –Louis Massignon , French Catholic scholar of Islam (b.1883 )Eleanor Roosevelt Niels Bohr November 7 –Eleanor Roosevelt , American politician, diplomat and activist,First Lady of the United States (b.1884 )November 8 –Willis H. 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