Year '1949' ('
MCMXLIX') was a
common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1949
January
★
January 2 -
Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected
Governor of Puerto Rico.
★
January 4 - ''
RMS Caronia'' of the
Cunard Line departs
Southampton for
New York on her maiden voyage.
★
★
January 4 -
February 22 - Series of winter storms in
Nebraska,
Wyoming,
South Dakota,
Utah,
Colorado and
Nevada - winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish.
★
January 5 - U.S. President
Harry S. Truman unveils his
Fair Deal program.
★
January 11 -
Los Angeles, California receives its first recorded
snowfall.
★
January 17 - The first
Volkswagen Beetle to arrive in the
United States, a
1948 model, is brought over to
New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models will be sold in America that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman
Heinrich Nordhoff that the car has no future in the U.S. (The
VW Beetle goes on to become the greatest automobile phenomenon in American history.)
★
January 19 - First recorded date of The
Poe Toaster to appear at the grave of
Edgar Allan Poe
★
January 20 - Elected
U.S. President Harry S. Truman begins his full term.
:
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January 25
★
★ Forces from the
Communist Party of China enter
Peking.
★
★ The first
Emmy Awards are presented at the
Hollywood Athletic Club.
★
★ In the first
Israeli election,
David Ben-Gurion becomes
Prime Minister.
★
January 26 -
Australian Citizenship comes into being.
February
★
February 1 -
Rationing of clothes ends in Britain.
★
Antonio Carmona is re-elected
president of Portugal for lack of an opposing candidate.
★
February 19 -
Ezra Pound is awarded the first
Bollingen Prize in poetry by the
Bollingen Foundation and
Yale University.
★
February 22 -
Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in
Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.
March
NATO formed, April 1949
★
March 1
★
★ World heavyweight boxing champion
Joe Louis retires
★
★ Indonesia seizes
Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
★
March 2 - The
B-50 Superfortress ''
Lucky Lady II'' under Captain 'James Gallagher' lands in
Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world
airplane flight. It was refueled in flight four times.
★
March 17 - Grand opening of the
Shamrock Hotel in
Houston, Texas, owned by oil tycoon
Glenn McCarthy.
★
March 20 - The
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,
Denver & Rio Grande Western and
Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the ''
California Zephyr'' passenger train between
Chicago and
Oakland, California as the first long distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.
★
March 25 - The extensive deportation campaign was conducted in
Estonia,
Latvia and
Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
★
March 26 - The first half of
Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''
Aida'', conducted by legendary conductor
Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert (i.e. no scenery or costumes), is telecast by
NBC, live from
Studio 8H at
Rockefeller Center. The second half will be telecast a week later. This will be the only complete
opera that Toscanini will ever conduct on
television.
★
March 28 -
United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal resigns suddenly.
★
March 31 - The former British colony of
Newfoundland and Labrador joins
Canada as its 10th province.
April
★
April 1
★
★
Éire leaves the
British Commonwealth and becomes the
Republic of Ireland.
★
★ The
Tokyo Stock Exchange is founded.
★
April 4 - The
North Atlantic Treaty is signed in
Washington, DC, creating the
NATO defense alliance.
★
April 7 -
Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''
South Pacific'', starring
Mary Martin and
Ezio Pinza, opens on
Broadway and goes on to become R&H's second longest-running
musical. It becomes an instant classic of the
musical theatre. The score's biggest hit is the song ''Some Enchanted Evening''.
★
April 14 - The day the
N'Ko alphabet is held to have been completed by
Solomana Kante.
★
April 18 -
Éire formally became the
Republic of Ireland.
★
April 20 -
Royal Navy frigate ''
HMS Amethyst (U16)'' goes up the
Yangtze River to evacuate
British Commonwealth refugees escaping the advance of the Mao's communist forces. Under heavy fire it runs aground off
Rose Island. After an aborted rescue attempt on
April 26 it anchors 10 miles upstream. Negotiations with the communist forces to let the ship leave drag on for weeks
★
April 23 - Chinese communist troops take
Nanking
★
April 28 -
India issues the
London Declaration, enabling it (and, thereafter, any other nation) to remain in the British Commonwealth despite becoming a republic, creating the position of '
Head of the Commonwealth', and renaming the organisation as the '
Commonwealth of Nations'.
★
April 29 - The ''News Review'' reveals that neither
Selhurst College nor its headmaster
H. Rochester Sneath exist.
May
★
May 1 -
Nereid, a moon of
Neptune, is discovered by
Gerard P. Kuiper.
★
May 5 - The
Council of Europe is founded by the signing of the
Treaty of London.
★
May 9 -
Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of
Monaco, upon the death of his maternal grandfather
Louis II.
★
May 11
★
★
Israel is admitted to the
U.N. as its 59th member.
★
★
Siam officially changes its name to
Thailand, a name in use since 1939.
★
May 12 -
Cold War: The
Soviet Union lifts its
Blockade of Berlin.
★
May 20
★
★ The
AFSA (predecessor of the
NSA) is established.
★
★
Kuomintang regime declare
Taiwan is under the
martial law.
★
May 22 - After two months in
Bethesda Naval Hospital,
James Forrestal commits
suicide, under circumstances that seem suspicious to many.
★
May 23 - The
Federal Republic of Germany is established.
★
EDSAC, the first stored-program computer, begins operation at
Cambridge University.
June
★
June 2 -
Transjordan becomes kingdom of
Jordan
★
June 6 - With the passage of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act by the
Indian government,
Mahabodhi Temple is restored to partial
Buddhist control.
★
June 8
★
★
Red Scare: Such celebrities as
Helen Keller,
Dorothy Parker,
Danny Kaye,
Fredric March,
John Garfield,
Paul Muni and
Edward G. Robinson are named in an
FBI report as
Communist Party members.
★
★
George Orwell's book ''
Nineteen Eighty-Four'' is published.
★
June 22 -
Academy Award winning actress,
Meryl Streep is born to a comercial artist and pharamceutical director in
Summit, New Jersey.[
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★
June 24 - First
Television Western,
Hopalong Cassidy, airs on
NBC.
★
June 29
★
★ Last US troops withdraw from
South Korea
★
★ Dock strike in the
UK
★
★ Beginning of
Apartheid - The ''
South African Citizenship Act'' suspends the granting of citizenship to
British Commonwealth immigrants after five years and imposes a ban on
mixed marriages
July
★
July 20 -
Israel and
Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
★
July 27 - Initial flight of the
de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
★
July 31 - Captain Kerans of the ''
HMS Amethyst'' decides to make a break after nightfall under heavy fire from the
Chinese People's Liberation Army both sides of the
Yangtze River and successfully rejoins the fleet at
Woosung the next day.
August
★
August 5 - 6.75
Richter scale earthquake in
Ecuador kills 6000 and destroys 50 towns.
★
August 8 -
Bhutan becomes independent
★
August 12 - The
Fourth Geneva Convention is agreed.
★
August 14
★
★ Gang of
Salvatore Giuliano explodes mines under police barracks outside
Palermo,
Sicily
★
★
Military coup in
Syria ousts the president
★
August 28 - Last surviving veterans of the
United States Civil War meet in
Indianapolis - all six
★
August 29
★
★ First meeting of the
Council of Europe
★
★
Soviet Union tests its first
atomic bomb, code named "Joe 1." Its design imitated the American plutonium bomb that was dropped on
Nagasaki in
1945.
September
★
September 5 - A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbours in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
★
September 6 -
Allied military authorities relinquish control of former
Nazi Germany assets back to
German control.
★
September 7 -
Federal Republic of Germany officially founded.
Konrad Adenauer is the first federal chancellor.
★
September 9
★
★
Albert Guay affair: dynamite bomb destroys
Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-3 in
Quebec.
★
★ Notorious
World War II veteran
Edwin Alonzo Boyd commits his first career
bank robbery in
Toronto
★
September 13 -
Soviet Union vetoes
United Nations membership of
Ceylon,
Finland,
Iceland,
Italy,
Jordan and
Portugal.
★
September 17 - Canadian steamship
SS Noronic burns in
Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
★
September 24 -
Laszlo Rajk, ex-foreign minister of
Hungary, is sentenced to death.
★
September 29
★
★ First Plenary Session of the
National People's Congress approves design for the
Flag of the People's Republic of China.
★
★ Mrs. Iva Toguri D'Aquino is found guilty of broadcasting for
Japan as "
Tokyo Rose" during
World War II.
★ September -
Mervyn's reveal their first logo, used until
1994.
October
★
October 1 - Birth of the
People's Republic of China.
★
October 7 - Democratic Republic of Germany
DDR established officially
★
October 13 - Severe
flooding in
Guatemala
★
October 16 -
Civil war ends in
Greece - communist troops surrender
★
October 17 - Chinese communist troops take
Canton, China
★
October 27 - Chinese communist troops fail to take
Kinmen in the
Battle of Kuningtou. Communist advance towards
Taiwan is halted.
★
October 27 - An airliner flying from
Paris to
New York crashes in the
Azores island of
São Miguel. Among the victims are violinist
Ginette Neveu and boxer
Marcel Cerdan.
November
★
November 15 -
Nathuram Godse and
Narayan Apte executed for assassinating
Mahatma Gandhi.
★
November 24 - Opening day at the ski resort
Squaw Valley California.
★
November 26 - The
Indian Constituent Assembly adopts
India's constitution.
[1]
December
★
December 2 - Boogie-Woogie King Albert Ammons dies of
Alcohol Poisoning.
★
December 8 - Nationalist Chinese finish their evacuation to
Taiwan.
★
December 10- Robert Gordon (Bob) Menzies elected.
★
December 14 -
Traicho Kostov, ex-vice prime minister of
Bulgaria, is sentenced to death.
★
December 15 -
Typhoon strikes fishing fleet off
Korea - several thousand reported dead.
★
December 16 -
Sukarno elected president of Republic of
Indonesia.
★
December 17 -
Burma recognizes
People's Republic of China.
★
December 27 - Queen
Juliana of the Netherlands grants
Indonesia sovereignty.
★
December 30 -
India recognizes
People's Republic of China.
Undated
★ ''
Pamir'' is the last ''commercial''
sailing ship to sail round
Cape Horn.
★ The
Malta Labour Party is founded.
★ The
Vatican announces that bones uncovered in its subterranean
catacombs could be the apostle
Peter: 19 years later,
Pope Paul VI announces confirmation that the bones belonged to this first
saint.
[1]
★ The first 20mm
M61 Vulcan Gatling gun prototypes are completed.
★
Samuel Putnam publishes his new translation of ''
Don Quixote'', the first in what we would consider modern English. It is instantly acclaimed and, in 2007, is still in print.
Ongoing
★
Marshall Plan
Births
January-February
★
January 2 -
Christopher Durang, American playwright
★
January 3 -
Sylvia Likens, torture victim (d.
1965)
★
January 7 -
Steven Williams, American actor
★
January 8 -
Wolfgang Puck, Austrian chef
★
January 10
★
★
George Foreman, American boxer
★
★
James Lapine, American stage director and librettist
★
★
Linda Lovelace, American actress (d.
2002)
★
January 11 -
Kalev Ots, Estonian statesman
★
January 12
★
★
Haruki Murakami, Japanese author
★
★
Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born film director
★
January 13 -
Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d.
1997)
★
January 14
★
★
Lawrence Kasdan, American director and screenwriter
★
★
Mary Robison, American writer
★
January 15 -
Ronnie Van Zant, lead singer of
Lynyrd Skynyrd (d.
1977)
★
January 17 -
Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d.
1984)
★
January 18 -
Philippe Starck, French designer
★
January 19
★
★
Robert Palmer, English musician (d.
2003)
★
★
Dennis Taylor, Irish snooker player
★
January 20 -
Göran Persson, former
Prime Minister of Sweden
★
January 24 -
John Belushi, American actor (d.
1982)
★
January 30 -
Peter Agre, American biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
★
January 31 -
Ken Wilber, American philosopher
★
February 2 -
Brent Spiner, American actor
★
February 3 -
Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist
★
February 9 -
Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
★
February 10
★
★
Michael Weiss, jazz pianist and composer
★
★
Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
★
★
Harold Sylvester, American actor
★
February 15 -
Ken Anderson, American football player
★
February 16 -
Lyn Paul, English female singer
★
February 18 -
Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
★
February 19 -
Dan Bunten, American computer game designer (d.
1998)
★
February 21 -
Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer
★
February 22 -
Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver
★
February 25 -
Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
March-April
★
March 2
★
★
Gates McFadden, American actress
★
★
Eddie Money, American singer (or March 21)
★
★
JPR Williams, Welsh rugby player
★
March 3 -
Jesse Jefferson, baseball player
★
March 6
★
★
Shaukat Aziz,
Prime Minister of Pakistan
★
★
Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer
★
March 7 -
Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
★
March 10 -
Larry Wall, American computer programmer
★
March 12
★
★
Bill Payne, American musician (
Little Feat)
★
★
Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast
★
March 13 -
Julia Migenes, American soprano
★
March 16
★
★
Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
★
★
Victor Garber, Canadian actor
★
March 17
★
★
Patrick Duffy, American actor
★
★
Pat Rice, Irish footballer and football manager
★
March 18 -
Alex Higgins, Irish snooker player
★
March 21 -
Eddie Money, American singer
★
March 22 -
Fanny Ardant, French actress
★
March 23 -
Ric Ocasek, American musician (
The Cars)
★
March 24 -
Nick Lowe, American musician
★
March 26 -
Patrick Süskind, German writer
★
March 30
★
★
Marcia Ball, American musician
★
★
Lene Lovich, American singer
★
★
Naomi Sims, American model and businesswoman
★
★
Elijah Harper, Canadian Aboriginal activist
★
April 1
★
★
Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman
★
★
Sammy Nelson, Irish footballer
★
★
Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and composer
★
April 3 -
Richard Thompson, British musician and songwriter
★
April 6 -
Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
April 14 -
John Shea, American actor
★
April 15 -
Alla Pugacheva, Russian musical performer
★
April 16 -
Sandy Hawley, Canadian jockey
★
April 18 -
Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
★
April 21 -
Patti Lupone. American actress
★
April 24 -
Veronique Sanson, French singer and songwriter
May-June
★
May 4 -
John Force, American race car driver
★
May 7 -
Tanya Falan, American singer
★
May 9 -
Billy Joel, American musician
★
May 13 -
Zoë Wanamaker, English-American actress
★
May 18
★
★
Rick Wakeman, English musician and songwriter (
Yes)
★
★
Bill Wallace, Canadian musician (
The Guess Who)
★
May 19
★
★
Enrique Aguirre Cabañas,
Gynecology that discovers uterine neck cancer
★
★
Archie Manning, American football player
★
May 20 -
Dave Thomas, Canadian actor and comedian
★
May 24 -
Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician
★
May 25 -
Prahladananda Swami,
ISKCON religious leader
★
May 26
★
★
Philip Michael Thomas, American actor
★
★
Hank Williams Jr., American singer
★
May 29 -
Francis Rossi English guitist/singer (
Status Quo)
★
May 31 -
Tom Berenger, American actor
★
June 2 -
Heather Couper, British astronomer
★
June 8 -
Emanuel Ax, Polish-born pianist
★
June 11 -
Benjamin Vasserman, Estonian artist
★
June 13 -
Ann Druyan, American writer
★
June 14
★
★
Jimmy Lea, English musician (
Slade)
★
★
Harry Turtledove, American historian and novelist
★
June 15 -
Jim Varney, American actor (d.
2000)
★
June 17 -
Andrei Fursenko, Russian politician, scientist and businessman
★
June 18
★
★
Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
★
★
Lech Kaczyński,
President of Poland
★
★
Jarosław Kaczyński,
Polish Prime Minister
★
★
Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d.
1999)
★
June 21
★
★
John Agard, British writer
★
★
Jane Urquhart, Canadian author
★
June 27 -
Vera Wang, American fashion designer
July-August
★
July 3
★
★
Jan Smithers, American actress
★
★
Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American R&B singer (
Heatwave) (d.
2006)
★
July 7 -
Shelley Duvall, American actress
★
July 11 -
Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
★
July 15
★
★
Carl Bildt,
Prime Minister of Sweden
★
★
Trevor Horn, British singer and producer
★
July 17 -
Charlie Steiner, American sportscaster
★
July 22 -
Alan Menken, American composer
★
July 26 -
Roger Taylor, English musician (
Queen)
★
August 6 -
Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman
★
August 7 -
Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze
★
August 12 -
Mark Knopfler, British guitarist (
Dire Straits)
★
August 15 -
Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor
★
August 20 -
Philip Lynott, Irish musician (
Thin Lizzy)
★
August 22 -
Alfred Musema, Rwandan businessperson and
geocidaire
★
August 23
★
★
Shelley Long, American actress
★
★
Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor
★
August 25
★
★
Martin Amis, English novelist
★
★
Gene Simmons, American musician (
Kiss)
★
August 26 -
Malcolm McFee, British actor (
Please Sir)
★
August 31
★
★
Richard Gere, American actor
★
★
H. David Politzer, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
September-October
★
September 1 -
P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
★
September 3 -
Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d.
2004)
★
September 7
★
★
Lee McGeorge Durrell, American author, television presenter, and zookeeper
★
★
Gloria Gaynor, American singer
★
September 9 -
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Current President of Indonesia.
★
September 14 -
Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
★
September 15 -
Joe Barton, American politician
★
September 17 -
Cassandra Peterson, American actress
★
September 18
★
★
Mo Mowlam, British politician (d.
2005)
★
★
Peter Shilton, English goalkeeper
★
September 19 -
Twiggy Lawson, English model
★
September 23 -
Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
★
September 24 -
Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
★
September 26 -
Jane Smiley, American novelist
★
September 27 -
Mike Schmidt, baseball player
★
October 1 -
Isaac Bonewits, American author and occultist
★
October 4 -
Armand Assante, American actor
★
October 7 -
Ronnie Mund, American television personality
★
October 8 -
Sigourney Weaver, American actress
★
October 12 -
Carlos the jackal, Venezuelan-born mercenary
★
October 14
★
★
Katy Manning, British actress
★
★
Katha Pollitt, American writer
★
October 20 -
Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
★
October 21 -
Benjamin Netanyahu,
Prime Minister of Israel
★
October 22
★
★
Stiv Bators, American musician (
The Dead Boys) (d.
1990)
★
★
Arsene Wenger, French football (soccer) manager
November-December
★
November 2 -
Simon Augustini, Albanian politician
★
November 3 -
Larry Holmes, American World Heavywieght Boxing Champion
★
November 5
★
★
Armin Shimerman, American actor
★
★
Jimmie Spheeris, American
singer-songwriter (d.
1984)
★
November 6 -
Nigel Havers, British Actor
★
November 7
★
★
Aiswarya, Queen of Nepal (d.
2001)
★
★
Judi Bari, American environmental activist (d.
1997)
★
November 24 -
Nicholas Richard Ainger, British politician
★
November 25 -
Kerry James O'Keeffe, Australian cricketer and commentator
★
November 26 -
Juanin Clay, American actress (d.
1995)
★
November 28 -
Alexander Godunov, Russian-born dancer and actor (d.
1995)
★
November 29
★
★
Jerry Lawler, American professional wrestler and commentator
★
★
Garry Shandling, American comedian
★
December 3 -
John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (d.
1997)
★
December 4
★
★
Jeff Bridges, American actor
★
★
Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born comedienne, actress, and singer
★
December 7 -
Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
★
December 8 -
Mary Gordon, American writer
★
December 11 -
Teri Garr, American actress
★
December 12 -
Rajinikanth, Indian actor
★
December 13
★
★
Robert Lindsay, British actor
★
★
Tom Verlaine, American singer/guitarist of
Television
★
December 14 -
Bill Buckner, baseball player
★
December 16 -
Billy Gibbons, American guitarist (
ZZ Top)
★
December 17 -
Paul Rodgers, British singer (
Free)
★
December 19 -
Sebastian, Danish musician
★
December 22
★
★
Maurice Gibb, British musician (
The Bee Gees) (d.
2003)
★
★
Robin Gibb, British musician (
The Bee Gees)
★
December 24 -
Randy Neugebauer, American politician
★
December 25
★
★
Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Brazilian singer
★
★
Sissy Spacek, American actress
★
★
Joe Louis Walker, American musician
★
December 26 -
José Ramos Horta, Foreign Minister of East Timor, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
★ ''unknown date'' -
Brian Calvin Hartnell,
Zodiac killer survivor
Deaths
★ ''See also ''
January-June
★
January 6 -
Victor Fleming, American director (b.
1883)
★
January 11 -
Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b.
1889)
★
January 14 -
Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b.
1882)
★
January 28 -
Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b.
1908)
★
February 12 -
Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b.
1906)
★
February 21 -
Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (b.
1894)
★
March 28 -
Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer (b.
1889)
★
March 30
★
★
Friedrich Bergius, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1884)
★
★
Prince Harald of Denmark (b.
1876)
★
April 18 -
Will Hay, British comedian and actor (b.
1888)
★
April 19 -
Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b.
1877)
★
May 6 -
Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1862)
★
May 9 -
Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b.
1870)
★
May 22
★
★
James Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (suicide) (b.
1892)
★
★
Klaus Mann, German writer (suicide) (b.
1906)
★
June 10 -
Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1882)
★
June 14 -
Russell Doubleday, American author and publisher (b.
1872)
★
June 25 -
Buck Freeman, baseball player (b.
1871)
July-December
★
July 9 -
Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born composer (b.
1874)
★
July 12 -
Douglas Hyde, first
President of Ireland (b.
1860)
★
July 18 -
Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b.
1870)
★
August 16 -
Margaret Mitchell, American writer (b.
1900)
★
August 18 -
Paul Mares, American musician (b.
1900)
★
August 30 -
Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b.
1877)
★
September 8 -
Richard Strauss, German composer (b.
1864)
★
September 13 -
August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1874)
★
September 14 -
Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, German Resistance figure (b.
1901)
★
September 19
★
★
Will Cuppy, American humorist (b.
1884)
★
★
George Shiels, Irish writer (b.
1886)
★
★
Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (b.
1901)
★
October 27
★
★
Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (plane crash) (b.
1916)
★
★
Ginette Neveu, French violinist (plane crash) (b.
1919)
★ November -
Maria Josepha Sophia de Iturbide, head of Imperial House of Mexico (b.
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