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Birthdays

January 1 - Rocky Graziano, American boxer (d. 1990)
January 1 - Ernest Hollings, American politician
January 3 - Bill Travers, English actor and director (d. 1994)
January 3 - Ronald Smith, British pianist (d. 2004)
January 4 - Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (d. 1997)
January 5 - Admiral Sir Anthony Synnot, Chief of the Australian Defence Force (d. 2001)
January 7 - Vincent Gardenia, Italian-born actor (d. 1992)
January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000)
January 7 - Eric Jupp, British-born Australian composer
January 7 - Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager
January 8 - Abbey Simon, U.S. pianist
January 9 - Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel laureate
January 9 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
January 11 - Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer (d. 1986)
January 12 - Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist and art historian (d. 1994)
January 13 - Albert Lamorisse, French film director and producer (d. 1970)
January 15 - Sir Eric Willis, Australian politician (d. 1999)
January 16 - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
January 17 - Luis Echeverría Álvarez, President of Mexico
January 17 - Nicholas Katzenbach, American politician
January 17 - Betty White, American actress
January 18 - Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)
January 19 - Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
January 20 - Ray Anthony, American trumpeter
January 20 - Graham Stark, British actor
January 21 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
January 21 - Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008)
January 22 - Howard Moss, American poet
January 24 - Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
January 26 - Michael Bentine, British comedian (d. 1996)
January 28 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist
January 29 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concetration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
January 30 - Dick Martin, American comedian
January 31 - Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)
February 1 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)
February 4 - Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Classical Singer
February 5 - Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (d. 1994)
February 6 - Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer
February 6 - Patrick Macnee, British actor
February 6 - Denis Norden, British television personality
February 7 - Hattie Jacques, English actress (d. 1980)
February 8 - Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)
February 9 - Kathryn Grayson, American actress
February 9 - Jim Laker, English cricketer (d. 1986)
February 13 - Francis Pym, British Foreign Secretary 1982-83
February 13 - Gordon Tullock, American economist
February 14 - Murray the K, American impresario and disk jockey (d. 1982)
February 15 - John Bayard Anderson, American politician
February 16 - Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, German night fighter pilot (d. 1950)
February 17 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
February 17 - Tommy Edwards, American singer (d. 1969)
February 17 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown, American editor
February 18 - Allan Melvin, American actor (d. 2008)
February 18 - Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (d. 1971)
February 22 - Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
February 24 - Richard Hamilton, English painter
February 24 - Steven Hill, American actor
February 26 - Margaret Leighton, British actress (d. 1976)
February 27 - Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977)
March 1 - William Gaines, American publisher (d. 1992)
March 1 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel
March 2 - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, American jazz tenor saxophonist (d. 1986)
March 3 - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)
March 4 - Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
March 4 - Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (d. 1998)
March 4 - Dina Pathak, Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. 2002)
March 5 - James Noble, American actor
March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and film director (d. 1975)
March 7 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
March 8 - Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)
March 8 - Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and Mangaka
March 8 - Carl Furillo, American baseball player (d. 1989)
March 8 - Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor
March 11 - Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist (d. 1997)
March 11 - José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor
March 12 - Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
March 12 - Lane Kirkland, American labor leader (d. 1999)
March 14 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer (d. 1996)
March 16 - Harding Lemay, American television scriptwriter and playwright
March 17 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
March 18 - Egon Bahr, German politician
March 18 - Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights movement leader
March 20 - Larry Elgart, American saxophonist and bandleader
March 20 - Ray Goulding, American comedian (d. 1990)
March 20 - Carl Reiner, American film director
March 21 - Russ Meyer, American film director and producer (d. 2004)
March 23 - Marty Allen, American comedian and actor
March 23 - Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor
March 24 - Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005)
March 25 - Eileen Ford, American model agency executive
March 26 - Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist
March 27 - Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
March 28 - Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999)
March 28 - Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (d. 1990)
March 28 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
March 30 - Turhan Bey, Turkish actor
March 31 - Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d. 1999)
April 1 - William Manchester, American historian (d. 2004)
April 4 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)
April 5 - Tom Finney, English footballer
April 5 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (d. 2001)
April 5 - Gale Storm, American singer
April 7 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
April 9 - Carl Amery, German writer (d. 2005)
April 13 - John Braine, British novelist (d. 1986)
April 13 - Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (d. 1999)
April 15 - Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor
April 15 - Harold Washington, American politician (d. 1987)
April 16 - Kingsley Amis, English author (d. 1995)
April 18 - Barbara Hale, American actress
April 19 - Erich Hartmann, German fighter pilot (d. 1993)
April 22 - Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979)
April 22 - Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (d. 1973)
April 24 - J.D. Cannon, American actor (d. 2005)
April 26 - Jeanne Sauvé, French Canadian politician (d. 1993)
April 27 - Martin Gray, Polish-born American writer
April 27 - Jack Klugman, American actor
April 28 - William Guarnere, WWII Veteran
April 28 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (d. 1987)
April 29 - Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcyclist (d. 2001)
April 29 - Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz guitarist and harmonica player
May 2 - A.M. Rosenthal, Canadian-born newspaper editor (d. 2006)
May 2 - Serge Reggiani, Italian-born French singer and actor (d. 2004)
May 3 - Len Shackleton, English former footballer (d. 2000)
May 6 - Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (d. 1999)
May 6 - Otmar Suitner, Austrian conductor
May 7 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (d. 2006)
May 7 - Darren McGavin, American actor (d. 2006)
May 7 - Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer
May 10 - Nancy Walker, American actress (d. 1992)
May 11 - Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (d. 1992)
May 11 - Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
May 12 - Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (d. 1998)
May 13 - Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978)
May 13 - Beatrice Arthur, American actress
May 14 - Franjo Tuđman, Croatian politician (d. 1999)
May 15 - Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
May 18 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (d. 2005)
May 18 - Bill Macy, American actor
May 18 - Kai Winding, Danish-born musician (d. 1983)
May 22 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
May 25 - Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
May 25 - Kitty Kallen, American big band singer
May 27 - Christopher Lee, English actor
May 28 - Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
May 29 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect
May 30 - Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
May 31 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992)
June 1 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
June 1 - Joan Caulfield, American actress (d. 1991)
June 1 - Joan Copeland, American actress
June 2 - Charlie Sifford, American golfer
June 2 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
June 3 - Alain Resnais, French director
June 7 - Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player
June 9 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
June 9 - Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist
June 9 - George Axelrod, American screenwriter
June 10 - Judy Garland, American musical actress (d. 1969)
June 11 - John Bromfield, American actor (d. 2005)
June 11 - Michael Cacoyannis, Greek Cypriot film maker
June 14 - Kevin Roche, Irish architect
June 15 - John Veale, English composer (d. 2006)
June 18 - Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
June 19 - Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist
June 22 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (d. 2002)
June 22 - Geza Vermes, Hungarian author and scholar of religious history and the Dead Sea Scrolls
June 22 - Mona Lisa, Filipino actress
June 23 - Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
June 24 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
June 26 - Eleanor Parker, American actress
June 28 - Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
June 29 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
July 7 - Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer
July 11 - Gene Evans, American actor (d. 1998)
July 12 - Mark Hatfield, U.S. Senator from Oregon
July 13 - Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
July 13 - Anker Jørgensen, Danish Prime Minister
July 14 - Robin Olds, American World War II and Vietnam War ace fighter pilot (d. 2007)
July 14 - Elfriede Rinkel, Nazi concentration camp guard
July 15 - Leon M. Lederman, American physicist
July 18 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher (d. 1996)
July 19 - Harold Camping, American evangelist
July 19 - George McGovern, American politician
July 20 - Alan Stephenson Boyd, American politician
July 21 - Kay Starr, American singer
July 21 - Mollie Sugden, British comedic actress
July 24 - Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer
July 26 - Blake Edwards, American film director
July 26 - Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
July 27 - Norman Lear, American television writer and producer
July 27 - Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (d. 1986)
July 28 - Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born undersea explorer
July 30 - Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block
July 31 - Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
August 1 - Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990)
August 3 - Robert Sumner, American evangelist and author
August 5 - L. Tom Perry, LDS apostle
August 6 - Sir Freddie Laker, English entrepreneur (d. 2006)
August 8 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
August 8 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-born fashion designer (d. 1985)
August 8 - Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian
August 9 - Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985)
August 15 - Lukas Foss, German-born composer
August 16 - Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (d. 2001)
August 17 - Roy Tattersall, England cricketer
August 18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer (d. 2008)
August 22 - Micheline Presle, French actress
August 23 - George Kell, baseball player
August 23 - Jean Darling, American child actress
August 23 - Pierre Gauvreau, Quebec painter
August 24 - René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
August 24 - Howard Zinn, American historian and activist
August 26 - Irving R. Levine, American journalist
August 29 - Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic
August 30 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician (d. 1986)
August 30 - Regina Resnik, American mezzo-soprano
September 1 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
September 1 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
September 4 - Per Olof Sundman, Swedish writer and politician (d. 1992)
September 7 - Lucien Jarraud, Canadian radio host (d. 2007)
September 8 - Sid Caesar, American comedian
September 8 - Lyndon LaRouche, American politician
September 9 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist
September 9 - Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
September 9 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
September 10 - Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer
September 12 - Ellen Demming, American actress (d. 2002)
September 13 - Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (d. 1999)
September 14 - Michel Auclair, French actor (d. 1988)
September 15 - Jackie Cooper, American actor and director
September 15 - Bob Anderson (fencer), English sword-master
September 16 - Janis Paige, American actress
September 16 - Marcel Mouloudji, French actor and singer (d. 1994)
September 17 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
September 18 - Grayson Hall, American actress (d. 1985)
September 18 - Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer
September 19 - Damon Knight, American writer (d. 2002)
September 19 - Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (d. 2000)
September 20 - William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)
September 22 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist
September 24 - Cornell MacNeil, American baritone
September 25 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
September 26 - Nicholas Romanov, French-born pretender to the Russian throne
September 27 - Carl Ballantine, American actor
September 27 - Arthur Penn, American director
September 29 - Lizabeth Scott, American actress
September 30 - Alan Stretton, Australian general
October 3 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)
October 4 - Malcolm Baldrige, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987)
October 4 - Shin Kyuk-Ho, Japanese businessman
October 5 - José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver
October 5 - Bil Keane, American cartoonist
October 5 - Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
October 6 - Joe Frazier, American baseball player
October 7 - Grady Hatton, American baseball player
October 8 - Nils Liedholm, Swedish football midfielder and coach (d. 2007)
October 9 - Léon Dion, Quebec political scientist (d. 1997)
October 15 - Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese writer
October 16 - Max Bygraves, English singer/songwriter
October 16 - Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (d. 2001)
October 17 - Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive
October 17 - Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian composer (d. 2001)
October 19 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (d. 2005)
October 20 - John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992)
October 21 - Liliane de Bettencourt, heir to L'Oreal
October 22 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (d. 2001)
October 23 - Coleen Gray, American actress
October 27 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
October 27 - Michel Galabru, French actor
October 27 - Ralph Kiner, American baseball player
October 28 - Gershon Kingsley, German composer
October 28 - Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007)
October 28 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (d. 2003)
October 29 - Neal Hefti, American jazz musician (d. 2008)
October 30 - Jane White, American actress and singer
October 31 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (d. 2005)
October 31 - Anatoli Papanov, Soviet actor (d. 1987)
October 31 - Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist (d. 2004)
October 31 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia,
November 4 - Benno Besson, Swiss actor (d. 2006)
November 5 - Violet Barclay, American illustrator
November 7 - Al Hirt, American trumpeter (d. 1999)
November 8 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001)
November 8 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
November 9 - Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
November 9 - Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (d. 1974)
November 11 - Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007)
November 12 - Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)
November 13 - Jack Narz, American game show host (d. 2008)
November 13 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d. 1984)
November 14 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian UN Secretary-General
November 16 - Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist
November 16 - José Saramago, Portuguese writer
November 17 - Stanley Cohen, American biochemist
November 18 - Luis Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan president (d. 1967)
November 18 - Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (d. 2004)
November 19 - Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher (d. 1999)
November 19 - Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer
November 21 - Maria Casares, Spanish-born actress (d. 1996)
November 21 - Abe Lemons, American basketball coach
November 23 - Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia
November 25 - Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (d. 2005)
November 26 - Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
November 29 - Minnie Miñoso, Cuban baseball player
December 1 - Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player (d. 1979)
December 1 - Paul Picerni, American actor
December 3 - Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer (d. 2006)
December 4 - Charles Keating, American lawyer
December 4 - Gérard Philipe, French actor (d. 1959)
December 6 - John Henry Cound Brunt, English soldier
December 8 - Lucian Freud, English painter
December 8 - Jean Ritchie, American folk singer
December 9 - Redd Foxx, American comedian (d. 1991)
December 10 - Lucía Hiriart, First Lady of Chile (1974-1990)
December 11 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (d. 2005)
December 11 - Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
December 11 - Grace Paley, American writer (d. 2007)
December 14 - Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist
December 14 - Don Hewitt, American creator of 60 Minutes
December 16 - Cy Leslie, American music and video executive (d. 2008)
December 17 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
December 19 - Eamonn Andrews, Irish-born television presenter (d. 1987)
December 20 - George Roy Hill, American film director (d. 2002)
December 20 - Beverly Pepper, American sculptor and painter
December 21 - Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist (d. 2005)
December 22 - Jack Brooks, American politician
December 22 - Ruth Roman, American actress (d. 1999)
December 23 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (d. 2001)
December 24 - Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
December 26 - Richard Mayes, English actor (d. 2006)
December 28 - Stan Lee, American comic book writer
December 29 - William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998)

Deaths

January 5 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)
January 6 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
January 10 - Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
January 22 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist
January 22 - Pope Benedict XV, (b. 1854)
January 22 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)
January 23 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
February 2 - William Desmond Taylor, Irish film director (b. 1872)
February 3 - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
February 5 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
February 5 - Christiaan De Wet, South African general (b. 1854)
February 14 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (assassinated) (b. 1880)
February 23 - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)
February 25 - Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (b. 1869)
March 1 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
March 4 - Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874)
April 1 - Emperor Karl I of Austria, (b. 1887)
April 2 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)
April 21 - Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
May 4 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
May 7 - Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
May 18 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician
June 4 - William Halse Rivers Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864)
June 6 - Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1860)
June 18 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
June 24 - Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b. 1867)
June 26 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
June 28 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
July 4 - Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
July 6 - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (b. 1863)
July 7 - Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
July 13 - Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)
July 20 - Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
July 22 - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
August 2 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor
August 12 - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (b. 1871)
August 22 - Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (b. 1890)
September 5 - Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
October 24 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
November 7 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
November 16 - Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
November 17 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847)
November 18 - Marcel Proust, French novelist (b. 1871)
November 21 - Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874).
November 24 - Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
December 13 - Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (b. 1861)
December 16 - Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of Poland (b. 1865)

Events

January 1 - The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly of Epidaurus.
January 7 - Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
January 10 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
January 11 - First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
January 28 - Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses.
February 2 - Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
February 6 - Achille Ratti becomes Pope Pius XI.
February 6 - The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, DC, limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
February 8 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
February 9 - Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
February 27 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
February 28 - The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt.
March 10 - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, although he is released after two years in February 1924 after an operation for appendicitis.
March 15 - After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
March 18 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
March 18 - The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held in New York City.
March 20 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
April 3 - Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
April 7 - Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
April 16 - The Treaty of Rapallo, in which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations between Berlin and Moscow, is signed.
April 21 - The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Aggies who had died in the previous year.
May 10 - The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.
May 19 - The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
May 30 - In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
June 1 - Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
June 9 - First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University.
June 12 - In Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded
June 16 - General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Féin.
June 22 - Herrin massacre, 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
June 28 - The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
June 29 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."
July 9 - Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
July 11 - The Hollywood Bowl opens.
July 20 - The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
August 22 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
August 26 - The Turkish Army launches the last attack on Greeks in the Turkish War of Independence.
August 29 - Turkish forces set fire to Smyrna in Asia Minor.
August 30 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence").
September 7 - In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
September 9 - Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
September 11 - The British Mandate of Palestine begins.
September 11 - The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
September 11 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
September 13 - The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 57.7°C (135.9°F).
September 18 - Hungary is admitted to League of Nations.
September 23 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act is passed by the Polish parliament.
September 27 - King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.
October 6 - The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
October 18 - The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
October 27 - A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
October 28 - March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
October 29 - The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
October 30 - Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
November 1 - The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
November 4 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
November 12 - The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
November 14 - The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
November 17 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy.
November 21 - Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
November 22 - Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opens the tomb of Tutankhamun.
November 24 - Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
November 26 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
November 26 - Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).
November 29 - Howard Carter opens the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun to the public.
December 6 - One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
December 9 - Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland.
December 16 - President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
December 27 - Japanese aircraft carrier Hôshô becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
December 30 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.

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