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1961 (MCMLXI ) was acommon year starting on Sunday of theGregorian calendar , the 1961st year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 61st year of the20th century , and the 2nd year of the1960s decade.
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January 1 –Monetary reform in the Soviet Union .January 3 January 5 January 7 – Following a four-day conference inCasablanca , five African chiefs of state announce plans for aNATO -type African organization to ensure common defense. The Charter of Casablanca involves theCasablanca Group :Morocco , theUnited Arab Republic ,Ghana ,Guinea , andMali .January 8 – In France, areferendum supportsCharles de Gaulle 's policies on independence forAlgeria .January 9 – British authorities announce they have uncovered a largeSoviet spy ring , thePortland spy ring , in London.January 17 January 23 –Congress of Venezuela adopts anew constitution (in force until 1999).January 24 –1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash : AB-52 Stratofortress , carrying twonuclear bombs , crashes nearGoldsboro, North Carolina .January 25 January 27 –Soviet submarineS-80 sinks in theBarents Sea , killing all 68 crew.January 28 –Supercar Supermarionation , debuts onATV in the UK.January 30 – PresidentJohn F. Kennedy delivers his firstState of the Union Address .January 31 –Ham , a 37-pound (17-kg) male chimpanzee, is rocketed into space aboardMercury-Redstone 2 , in a test of theProject Mercury spacecraft, designed to carry United Statesastronauts into space.April 12: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to fly in outer space May 1 –National Airlines Flight 337, internal to Florida, is forced by an armed hijacker to fly to Cuba, the first of a spate of suchaircraft hijackings .[ 10] May 4 – U.S.Freedom Riders begin interstate bus rides, to test the newU.S. Supreme Court integration decision .May 5 –Mercury program :Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, aboardMercury-Redstone 3 .May 6 –Tottenham Hotspur F.C. becomes the first team in the 20th century to win theEnglish league and cup double. As of 2025[update] May 8 – British intelligence officerGeorge Blake is sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for spying, having been found guilty of being adouble agent in the pay of theSoviet Union , the longest non-life sentence ever handed down by a British court.May 9 – In a speech on "Television and the Public Interest " to theNational Association of Broadcasters in the United States,FCC chairmanNewton N. Minow describes commercial television programming as a "vast wasteland".May 14 –Civil rights movement : AFreedom Riders bus is fire-bombed nearAnniston, Alabama , and the civil rights protestors are beaten by anangry mob ofKu Klux Klan members.May 15 –J. Heinrich Matthaei alone performs the Poly-U-Experiment, and is the first person to recognize and understand thegenetic code . This is the birthdate of moderngenetics .[ 11] May 16 –Park Chung Hee takes over in a military coup, in South Korea.May 19 –Venera 1 Venus (however, the probe lost contact with Earth a month earlier, and does not send back any data).May 21 –Civil rights movement :Alabama GovernorJohn Patterson declaresmartial law in an attempt to restore order, afterrace riots break out.May 22 –1961 New South Wales earthquake .May 24 –Civil rights movement :Freedom Riders are arrested inJackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace", after disembarking from their bus.May 25 –Apollo program :U.S. President Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of Congress, his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.May 27 –Tunku Abdul Rahman , Prime Minister ofMalaya , holds a press conference inSingapore , announcing his idea to form the Federation ofMalaysia , comprising Malaya,Singapore ,Sarawak ,Brunei and North Borneo (Sabah ).May 28 –Peter Benenson 's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This is later considered the founding of thehuman rights organizationAmnesty International .May 30 –Rafael Leónidas Trujillo , ruler of theDominican Republic since1930 , is killed in an ambush.May 31 July 4 –Soviet submarine K-19 suffers a reactor leak in the North Atlantic.July 5 – The first Israeli rocket,Shavit 2 [ 13] July 8 – A mine explosion inCzechoslovakia leaves 108 dead.July 12 A CzechoslovakianIlyushin Il-18 crashes while attempting to land atCasablanca , Morocco, killing all 72 on board. Two dams that supply water to the city ofPune in India burst, causing the death of more than 1000 residents.July 19 July 21 –Mercury program :Gus Grissom , piloting theMercury-Redstone 4 spacecraftLiberty Bell 7 , becomes the second American to go into space (sub-orbital). After splashdown, the hatch prematurely opens, and the spacecraft sinks (it is recovered in1999 ).July 25 – U.S. PresidentJohn F. Kennedy gives a widely watched TV speech on theBerlin Crisis , warning "we will not be driven out of Berlin." Kennedy urges Americans to build fallout shelters, setting off a four-month debate on civil defense.July 31 September 1 September 7 –Tom and Jerry make a return with their first cartoon short since 1958,Switchin' Kitten Gene Deitch , makes 12 more Tom and Jerry shorts through 1962.September 10 – During theF1 Italian Grand Prix on thecircuit of Monza , GermanWolfgang von Trips , driving aFerrari , crashes into a stand, killing 14 spectators and himself.September 11 –Hurricane Carla made landfall onMatagorda Island as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, killing 34 in Texas and causing $300 million in the state.September 12 – TheAfrican and Malagasy Union is founded.September 14 September 17 September 18 –1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash :Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash en route toKatanga ,Congo .September 19 – An American couple, Barney and Betty Hill, claimed that they saw a UFO as they were returning from a trip to Canada through New Hampshire where they lived. They later claimed that they were abducted by aliens, among the first claimants of such an abduction.September 21 – In France, theOrganisation de l'armée secrète (OAS) slips an anti-de Gaulle message into TV programming.September 24 The oldDeutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood ofCharlottenburg is returned to its newly rebuilt house, as theDeutsche Oper Berlin . In the U.S., theWalt Disney anthology television series , renamedWalt Disney's Wonderful World of Color , moves from ABC to NBC after seven years on the air, and begins telecasting its programs in color for the first time. Years later, after Disney's death, the still-on-the-air program will be renamedThe Wonderful World of Disney . September 28 –1961 Syrian coup d'état : A military coup inDamascus ,Syria effectively ends theUnited Arab Republic , the union betweenEgypt andSyria .September 30 – TheOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is formed to replace theOrganisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC).October 1 Unification Day (Cameroon) : The formerly BritishSouthern Cameroons gains independence from the United Kingdom by vote of the UN General Assembly and joins with formerly French Cameroun to form the Federal Republic ofCameroon .[ 18] Baseball playerRoger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 61st home run in the last game of the season, against theBoston Red Sox , setting a new record for the longer baseball season. The record for the shorter season is still held by Babe Ruth. October 5 –Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)Paramount Pictures , to critical and commercial success.October 10 – A volcanic eruption onTristan da Cunha causes the whole population to be evacuated to Britain, where they will remain until 1963.October 12 – Thedeath penalty is abolished in New Zealand.October 17 –Paris massacre of 1961 : French police in Paris attack about 30,000 protesting a curfew applied solely toAlgerians . The official death toll is 3, but human rights groups claim 240 dead.October 18 –West Side Story October 19 – TheArab League takes over protectingKuwait ; the last British troops leave.October 25 – The first edition ofPrivate Eye October 26 –Cemal Gürsel becomes the fourth president of Turkey (his former title is head of state and government; he is elected as president by constitutional referendum).October 27 October 29 DZBB-TV Channel 7 , the Philippines' third TV station, is launched.Devrim , the first evercar designed and produced inTurkey , is released. The project has been completed in only 130 days almost from scratch, a period including decision on the project, research, design, development and production of four vehicles.October 30 October 31 November 1 TheHungry generation Movement is launched inCalcutta ,India . The U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission's federal order banning segregation at all interstate public facilities officially comes into effect. November 2 –Kean November 3 – TheUnited Nations General Assembly unanimously elects Burmese diplomatU Thant to the position of actingSecretary-General .November 6 – The US government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday ofJames Naismith .November 8 November 9 –Robert White records aworld air speed record of 4,093 mph (6,587 km/h), in anX-15 .November 10 –Catch-22 Joseph Heller is first published, in the US.November 11 November 14 – TheYves Saint Laurent luxury fashion brand is founded inRue La Boetie ,Paris (France), byYves Saint Laurent andPierre Bergé .[citation needed November 17 –Michael Rockefeller , son ofGovernor of New York and laterVice President Nelson Rockefeller , disappears in the jungles ofNew Guinea .November 18 – U.S. PresidentJohn F. Kennedy sends 18,000 "military advisors" toSouth Vietnam .November 19 –Rebellion of the Pilots : A military uprising overthrows the Trujillo regime in theDominican Republic .November 20 –İsmet İnönü of theCHP forms the new government ofTurkey (26th government, first coalition in Turkey, partnerAP ).November 21 – The "La Ronde " opens inHonolulu , the firstrevolving restaurant in the United States.November 24 – TheWorld Food Programme (WFP) is formed as a temporaryUnited Nations program.[ 19] November 30 – TheSoviet Union vetoesKuwait 's application forUnited Nations membership.December 1 –Netherlands New Guinea raises the newMorning Star flag , and changes its name toWest Papua .December 2 –Cold War : In a nationally broadcast speech,Cuban leaderFidel Castro announces he is aMarxist–Leninist , and that Cuba will adoptsocialism .December 5 – U.S. PresidentJohn F. Kennedy gives support to theVolta Dam project inGhana .December 9 December 10 –Albania–Soviet relations : TheSoviet Union severs diplomatic relations withAlbania .December 11 American involvement in theVietnam War officially begins, as the first American helicopters arrive in Saigon, along with 400 U.S. personnel. On December 22 the first U.S. soldier is killed in Vietnam. Adolf Eichmann ispronounced guilty of crimes against humanity for his part inThe Holocaust by a war crimes tribunal of threeIsraeli judges. On December 15 he is sentenced to death.December 14 –Walt Disney 's first live-action Technicolor musical,Babes in Toyland December 17 – Acircus tent fire inNiterói ,Brazil kills 323.[ 20] December 18 –1961 Indian annexation of Goa : India opens hostilities in its annexation ofPortuguese India , the colonies ofGoa ,Damao andDiu .December 19 December 21 – InCongo , Katangan prime ministerMoise Tshombe recognizes the Congolese constitution.December 23 –Luxembourg 'snational holiday , theGrand Duke's Official Birthday , is set onJune 23 by Grand Ducal decree.December 30 – Congolese troops captureAlbert Kalonji ofSouth Kasai (who soon escapes).December 31 – Ireland's first national television station,Telefís Éireann (laterRaidió Teilifís Éireann ), begins broadcasting.
Gabrielle Carteris Julia Louis-Dreyfus Wayne Gretzky January 1 –Mark Wingett , British actorJanuary 2 January 7 –Supriya Pathak , Indian actressJanuary 8 –Calvin Smith , American athleteJanuary 9 –Candi Milo , American actressJanuary 10 –Janet Jones , American actressJanuary 11 January 13 –Julia Louis-Dreyfus , American actress, producer and comedianJanuary 14 January 15 −Leni Wylliams , African-American dancer/choreographer/master-teacher (d.1996 )January 17 –Maia Chiburdanidze , Georgian chess playerJanuary 18 January 20 –Janey Godley , Scottish actress, comedian, writer and political activist (d.2024 )January 22 January 24 –Guido Buchwald , German footballerJanuary 25 –Vivian Balakrishnan , Singaporean politicianJanuary 26 –Wayne Gretzky , Canadian hockey playerJanuary 27 –Saifuddin Abdullah , Malaysian politicianJanuary 28 –Arnaldur Indriðason , Icelandic writerJanuary 29 –Petra Thümer , German swimmerMalu Dreyer David Graeber Henry Rollins Mark Latham February 1 –Volker Fried , German field hockey playerFebruary 4 February 5 –Flordelis , Brazilian pastor, singer and politicianFebruary 6 February 9 –Jussi Lampi , Finnish musician and actorFebruary 11 –Mary Docter , American speed skaterFebruary 12 –David Graeber , American anthropologist, anarchist activist and author (d.2020 )[ 24] February 13 –Henry Rollins , American musician and activist[ 25] February 14 –Maria do Carmo Silveira , Prime Minister of São Tomé and PríncipeFebruary 15 –Benoît Chamoux , French alpinist (d.1995 )February 16 –Niko Nirvi , Finnish journalist[ 26] February 17 February 18 –Hironobu Kageyama , Japanese singerFebruary 19 –Justin Fashanu , English footballer (d.1998 )February 20 February 21 February 22 –Akira Takasaki , Japanese guitaristFebruary 27 –James Worthy , American basketball player and analystFebruary 28 Laurel Clark Kassie DePaiva Yanis Varoufakis Amy Sedaris March 3 March 4 March 5 –Charles Poliquin , Canadian strength coachMarch 9 March 10 March 11 –Elias Koteas , Canadian film and television actorMarch 13 –Vasily Ignatenko , Soviet firefighter at the Chernobyl disaster (d.1986 )March 14 –Hiro Matsushita , Japanesebusinessman , previouslyracing driver March 15 –Moungi Bawendi , French-born Tunisian American chemist, recipient ofNobel Prize in Chemistry .March 16 March 17 March 18 –Tom Emmer , United States House of Representatives Majority Whip, Representative fromMinnesota's 6th Congressional District March 21 March 22 –Simon Furman , British comic book writer[ 28] March 23 March 24 March 25 March 26 –William Hague , leader of theConservative Party (UK) ,Foreign Secretary March 27 –Tak Matsumoto , Japanese guitarist (B'z )March 28 –Byron Scott , American basketball player and coachMarch 29 March 30 –Doug Wickenheiser , Canadian ice hockey player (d.1999 )March 31 –Gary Winick , American filmmaker (d.2011 )Eddie Murphy Vincent Gallo Robert Carlyle George Lopez April 1 April 2 –Christopher Meloni , American actorApril 3 April 5 –Lisa Zane , American actressApril 6 –Gene Eugene , Canadian actor and singer (d.2000 )April 7 April 9 April 10 –Rudy Dhaenens , Belgian road bicycle racer (d.1998 )April 11 –Vincent Gallo , American actorApril 12 –Lisa Gerrard , Australian musicianApril 14 April 15 –Heng Swee Keat , Singaporean politician,Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore April 17 April 18 April 20 –Konstantin Lavronenko , Russian actorApril 21 –John Jairo Arias Tascón 'Pinina' , Colombian criminal (d.1990 )April 22 –Alo Mattiisen , Estonian musician and composer (d.1996 )April 23 April 26 April 27 –Moana Pozzi , Italian pornographic actress, television personality and politician (d.1994 )April 28 –Futoshi Matsunaga , Japanese serial killerApril 29 –Fumihiko Tachiki , Japanese voice actorApril 30 –Isiah Thomas , African-American basketball player, coach and team ownerJoe Murray George Clooney John Corbett Tim Roth Kevin McDonald May 4 May 5 –Hiroshi Hase , Japanese professional wrestlerMay 6 May 8 –Andrea Pollack , East German swimmer (d.2019 )May 9 –John Corbett , American actor and country music singerMay 10 May 13 –Dennis Rodman , American basketball player and actorMay 14 May 16 May 17 –Enya , Irish musicianMay 18 –Jim Bowden , American baseball executiveMay 20 –Clive Allen , British footballerMay 21 –Brent Briscoe , American actor and screenwriter (d.2017 )May 22 May 23 May 24 –Ilaria Alpi , Italian journalist (d.1994 )May 27 –Peri Gilpin , American actressMay 28 –Roland Gift , British singer and musician (Fine Young Cannibals )May 29 –Melissa Etheridge , American musicianMay 30 May 31 Yevgeny Prigozhin Sam Harris Michael J. Fox Boy George Bidya Devi Bhandari Joko Widodo Ricky Gervais Iztok Mlakar June 1 June 2 –Dez Cadena , American musicianJune 3 June 4 June 5 June 6 –Tom Araya , Chilean-born rock musician (Slayer )June 8 –Katy Garbi , Greek singerJune 9 June 10 June 12 –Yuri Rozanov , Russian sports TV commentator (d.2021 )June 14 –Boy George , born George O'Dowd, British singer-songwriter and music producerJune 15 –Dave McAuley , Northern Irish boxerJune 17 June 18 June 19 –Bidhya Devi Bhandari , 2ndPresident of Nepal June 20 –Karin Kania , German speed skaterJune 21 –Iztok Mlakar , Slovenian singer-songwriter and actorJune 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 –Greg LeMond , American cyclistJune 27 June 28 June 29 Diana, Princess of Wales Forest Whitaker António Costa Zbigniew Zamachowski Elizabeth McGovern Milind Gunaji Woody Harrelson Gary Cherone Katherine Kelly Lang Laurence Fishburne July 1 Diana, Princess of Wales , born The Hon. Diana Spencer, English princess consort as first wife ofCharles, Prince of Wales (d.1997 )[ 31] Vito Bratta , American rock guitaristIvan Kaye , English actorJefferson King , British bodybuilder and wrestlerCarl Lewis , American athleteFredy Schmidtke , German track cyclist (d.2017 )Michelle Wright , Canadian country music artistJuly 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 –Patrizia Scianca , Italian voice actressJuly 6 July 7 July 8 July 10 July 11 July 12 –Mark McGann , English actor, director, writer and musicianJuly 13 –Stelios Manolas , Greek footballerJuly 14 –Jackie Earle Haley , American actorJuly 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 30 –Laurence Fishburne , African-American actor and film directorBarack Obama Lauren Tom Mercedes Aráoz Brad Gilbert John Key Koji Kondo Manuel Merino Billy Ray Cyrus August 1 –Danny Blind , Dutch footballerAugust 2 –Pete de Freitas , English musician and producer (d.1989 )August 3 August 4 August 5 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 –Beatrice Alda , American actress and filmmakerAugust 11 August 12 –Lawrence , English musicianAugust 13 August 14 –Susan Olsen , American actressAugust 15 –Suhasini Maniratnam , Indian actressAugust 16 August 17 –Uwe Schmitt , German sprinter and hurdler (d.1995 )August 18 August 19 –Tony Longo , American actor (d.2015 )August 20 August 21 –Stephen Hillenburg , American marine biologist, cartoonist and animator (d.2018 )August 22 –Roland Orzabal , British musician and songwriterAugust 23 August 24 –Jared Harris , English actorAugust 25 August 27 –Tom Ford , American fashion designer and film directorAugust 28 August 30 –Brian Mitchell , South African boxerAugust 31 –Saleem , Malaysian singer (d.2018 )Eugenio Derbez Carlos Valderrama E.G. Daily Virginia Madsen Dave Mustaine Colin McFarlane James Gandolfini Chi McBride Julia Gillard September 1 September 2 September 3 September 5 –Marc-André Hamelin , Canadian pianist and composer[ 34] September 6 September 7 –Kevin Kennedy , British actorSeptember 11 September 12 –Mylène Farmer , Canadian singer and songwriterSeptember 13 –Dave Mustaine , American singer-songwriter and guitaristSeptember 14 –Martina Gedeck , German actressSeptember 15 September 16 – Jen Tolley, American-Canadian actress and singerSeptember 17 –Jim Cornette , American author and podcasterSeptember 18 –James Gandolfini , American actor and producer (d.2013 )[ 35] September 20 –Lisa Bloom , American lawyerSeptember 22 September 23 September 24 September 25 September 26 –Wes Hopkins , American football player (d.2018 )September 27 September 28 September 29 –Julia Gillard , 27thPrime Minister of Australia [ 36] September 30 Jodi Benson Rachel De Thame Kim Wayans Dylan McDermott Randy Jackson Peter Jackson October 1 October 3 –Ludger Stühlmeyer , German cantor, composer and musicologistOctober 4 October 5 –Matthew Kauffman , American journalist,George Polk Award winnerOctober 6 –Mark Shasha , American artist, author and illustratorOctober 10 –Jodi Benson , American actress and singerOctober 11 October 12 –Diego García , Spanish long-distance athlete (d.2001 )October 13 October 14 –Jim Burns , British science-fiction illustratorOctober 15 –Meera Sanyal , Indian banker (d.2019 )October 16 Chris Doleman , American football player (d.2020 )Scott O'Hara , American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (d.1998 )Paul Vaessen , English footballer (d.2001 )Randy Vasquez , American actorKim Wayans , American actress, comedian, producer, writer and directorOctober 18 October 19 –Cliff Lyons , Australian rugby league playerOctober 20 October 24 –Dave Meltzer , American wrestling journalistOctober 25 October 26 October 29 –Randy Jackson , African-American pop singer (The Jackson 5 )October 30 –Dmitry Muratov , Russian campaigning journalist, recipient of theNobel Peace Prize [ 40] October 31 Ralph Macchio Nadia Comăneci Meg Ryan Mariel Hemingway Matthew Waterhouse Ilham Aliyev December 1 –Salahuddin Ayub , Malaysian politicianDecember 3 –Marcelo Fromer , Brazilian guitaristDecember 4 December 5 December 6 −Colin Salmon , British actorDecember 8 –Ann Coulter , American author, conservative commentator and attorneyDecember 9 December 10 December 12 December 13 December 15 –Karin Resetarits , Austrian journalist and politicianDecember 16 December 19 December 20 –Mohammad Fouad , Arab singer and actorDecember 21 –Francis Ng , Hong Kong actorDecember 22 –Kassim Majaliwa , 10th Prime Minister of TanzaniaDecember 23 December 24 December 25 December 26 –John Lynch , Northern Irish actorDecember 27 –Guido Westerwelle , German politician (d.2016 )December 29 –Jim Reid , Scottish musicianDecember 30 December 31 –Aziz Akhannouch , Moroccan politician, Prime Minister of Morocco[ 46] Erwin Schrödinger Patrice Lumumba Carlos Luz Mohammed V of Morocco Oswald Rayner Victor d'Arcy Carlos Duarte Costa Eliseo Mouriño Zog I of Albania Padma Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana Mbarek Bekkay Robert Garrett Gary Cooper Rafael Trujillo Carl Jung Jeff Chandler Nasuhi al-Bukhari Ernest Hemingway Ty Cobb SirSidney Holland Adnan Menderes Percy Chapman Dag Hammarskjöld Marion Davies Chico Marx Sergio Osmeña Anselmo Alliegro y Milá SirEarle Page Kurt Meyer January 4 January 8 –František Flos , Czech novelist (b.1864 )January 9 –Emily Greene Balch , American writer and pacifist, recipient of theNobel Peace Prize (b.1867 )January 10 –Dashiell Hammett , American writer (b.1894 )[ 50] January 13 January 17 –Patrice Lumumba , 1stPrime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b.1925 )January 18 –Thomas Anthony Dooley III , physician (b.1927 )January 21 January 24 –Alfred Carlton Gilbert , American swimmer and inventor (b.1884 )January 29 –Jesse Wallace , American naval officer, 29thGovernor of American Samoa (b.1899 )January 30 –Dorothy Thompson , American journalist (b.1893 )[ 52] February 2 –Anna May Wong , Chinese-American actress (b.1905 )February 3 –Viscount Dunrossil , Australian Governor-General (b.1893 )February 4 February 6 –Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland , British politician (b.1876 )February 7 –William Duncan , American actor (b.1879 )February 9 –Carlos Luz , Brazilian politician, 19thPresident of Brazil (b.1894 )February 12 –Richmond K. Turner , American admiral (b.1885 )February 13 –Arthur Ripley , American film director (b.1897 )February 15 –Laurence Owen , American figure skater (b.1944 )February 16 –Dazzy Vance , American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers ) and a member of theMLB Hall of Fame (b.1891 )February 17 February 20 –Percy Grainger , Australian composer (b.1882 )February 22 February 25 –Sebastiano Visconti Prasca , Italian general (b.1883 )[ 53] February 26 February 28 –Aaron S. Merrill , American admiral (b.1890 )April 2 –Wallingford Riegger , American music composer (b.1885 )April 3 –Eliseo Mouriño , Argentine footballer (b.1927 )April 6 –Jules Bordet , Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.1870 )April 7 April 9 –Zog I of Albania , Albanian political leader, 11thPrime Minister of Albania , 7thPresident of Albania andKing of Albania (b.1895 )[ 57] April 11 –Padma Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana , 16thPrime Minister of Nepal (b.1882 )April 12 April 19 –Manuel Quiroga , Spanish violinist (b.1892 )April 21 –James Melton , American tenor (b.1904 )April 24 –Lee Moran , American actor (b.1888 )April 25 April 27 April 30 June –Constantin Constantinescu-Claps , Romanian general (b.1884 ) June 2 –George S. Kaufman , American playwright (b.1889 )[ 60] June 4 –William Astbury , English physicist and molecular biologist (b.1898 )[ 61] June 6 –Carl Jung , Swiss psychiatrist (b.1875 )June 9 June 14 –Eddie Polo , Austrian-American actor (b.1875 )June 16 –Marcel Junod , Swiss physician (b.1904 )June 17 –Jeff Chandler , American actor (b.1918 )June 18 –Eddie Gaedel , American with dwarfism (b.1925 )June 19 –Sir Richard Turner , Canadian general,Victoria Cross recipient (b.1871 )[ 63] June 22 – QueenMaria of Yugoslavia (b.1900 )[ 64] June 23 –Nicolai Malko , Soviet conductor (b.1883 )June 24 –George Washington Vanderbilt III , American philanthropist (b.1914 )June 25 –John Alexander Douglas McCurdy , Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and pilot (b.1886 )June 27 June 30 –Lee de Forest , American inventor (b.1873 )July 1 July 2 –Ernest Hemingway , American writer,Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b.1899 )[ 66] July 4 –Franklyn Farnum , American actor (b.1878 )July 6 –Konstantinos Logothetopoulos ,Prime Minister of Greece (b.1878 )July 9 –Whittaker Chambers , American spy and witness inHiss case[ 67] July 15 –Nina Bari , Russian mathematician (b.1901 )[ 68] July 17 –Ty Cobb , American baseball player and a member of theBaseball Hall of Fame (b.1886 )July 23 July 28 –Harry Gribbon , American actor of silent films (b.1885 )July 30 –Sediqeh Dowlatabadi , Persian feminist, women's rights activist and journalist (b.1882 )[ 69] August 1 –Domingo Pérez Cáceres , SpanishRoman Catholic priest and saint (b.1892 )August 3 –Zoltán Tildy , 39thPrime Minister of Hungary (b.1889 )August 4 –Maurice Tourneur , French film director (b.1873 )August 5 –Sir Sidney Holland , New Zealand politician, 25thPrime Minister of New Zealand (b.1893 )August 8 –Mei Lanfang , Beijing opera star (b.1894 )August 9 –Walter Bedell Smith , American general and diplomat (b.1895 )August 11 –William Jackson , American gangster (b.1920 )August 14 August 20 –Percy Williams Bridgman , American physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1882 )August 23 August 26 August 30 September 1 –Eero Saarinen , Finnish architect (b.1910 )[ 71] September 3 –Richard Mason , British explorer (b.1934 )September 4 –Charles D.B. King ,President of Liberia from 1920 to 1930 (b.1875 )[ 72] September 5 –Lewis Akeley , American academic (b.1861 )[ 73] September 7 –Pieter Gerbrandy ,Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1940 to 1945 (b.1885 )[ 74] September 16 September 17 September 18 September 21 –Georgia Ann Robinson , community worker and firstAfrican American woman to be appointed aLos Angeles police officer (b.1879 )September 22 –Marion Davies , American actress (b.1897 )[ 76] September 23 –Elmer Diktonius , Finnish poet and composer (b.1896 )[ 77] September 24 –Sumner Welles , American diplomat (b.1892 )September 25 –Frank Fay , American vaudeville comedian and film and stage actor (b.1891 )September 26 September 27 –H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), American poet and novelist (b.1886 )[ 78] October 1 –Donald Cook , American actor (b.1901 )October 2 –Essington Lewis , Australian industrialist (b.1881 )October 4 –Max Weber , Polish-American artist (b.1881 )October 6 –J. Reuben Clark , American politician and Mormon leader (b.1871 )[ 79] October 11 –Chico Marx , American comedian (b.1887 )October 13 October 14 October 18 –Tsuru Aoki , Japanese actress (b.1892 )[ 80] October 19 October 21 –Karl Korsch , German Marxist theoretician (b.1886 )[ 81] October 22 October 26 –Milan Stojadinović , 12thPrime Minister of Yugoslavia (b.1888 )October 30 –Luigi Einaudi , Italian economist and politician, 2ndPresident of Italy (b.1874 )October 31 –Augustus John , Welsh painter (b.1878 )[ 82] November 1 –Mordecai Ham , American evangelist (b.1877 )November 2 November 3 –Thomas Flynn , BritishRoman Catholic prelate and reverend (b.1880 )November 9 –Ferdinand Bie , Norwegian Olympic athlete (b.1888 )November 15 November 16 –Sam Rayburn ,Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b.1882 )November 19 –Michael Rockefeller , son ofNelson Rockefeller (disappeared on date) (born1938 )November 22 –Anselmo Alliegro y Milá , Cuban politician, 3rdPrime Minister of Cuba , leader ofWorld War II (b.1899 )November 24 –Ruth Chatterton , American actress, novelist and aviator (b.1892 )November 25 –Adelina de Lara , British composer (b.1872 )November 30 –Anna Gould , American heiress and socialite, daughter of financierJay Gould (b.1875 )December 2 –Dulcie Mary Pillers , English medical illustrator (b.1891 )December 3 –Pat O'Hara Wood , Australian tennis player (b.1891 )December 6 –Frantz Fanon ,Martiniquais philosopher (b.1925 )December 7 –Herbert Pitman , British sailor, third officer of theRMS Titanic (b.1877 )December 10 –Elwyn Welch , New Zealand farmer, ornithologist, conservationist and Open Brethren missionary (b.1925 )December 13 – Anna Mary Robertson Moses akaGrandma Moses , American naïve painter (b.1860 )December 15 –Gioacchino Failla , Italian-born American physicist (b.1891 )December 20 December 22 –Dick Elliott , American actor (b.1886 )[ 84] December 23 December 25 –Otto Loewi , German-born pharmacologist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.1873 )December 27 –Bernard McConville , American screenwriter (b.1887 )December 28 –Edith Wilson ,First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 (b.1872 )December 29 –Anton Flettner , German aviation engineer and inventor (b.1885 )^ "The 6555th, Chapter III, Section 8, The Minuteman Ballistic Missile Test Program" .spp.fas.org .^ "Selected Milestones of the Kennedy Presidency – John F. 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