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Birthdays

January 1 - Peter Duncan, Australian politician
January 1 - Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver
January 3 - Stephen Stills, American musician
January 4 - Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish entertainer
January 4 - Richard R. Schrock, American chemist
January 5 - Chuck McKinley, U.S. tennis player (d. 1986)
January 5 - Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-born film director
January 6 - Allen Appel, American novelist
January 7 - Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
January 7 - Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
January 7 - Dick Marty, Swiss politician
January 7 - Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya
January 8 - Jeannie Lewis, Australian actress and singer
January 8 - Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host
January 8 - Kathleen Noone, American actress
January 9 - John Doman, American actor
January 10 - Jennifer Moss, English Actress (d. 2006)
January 10 - John Fahey, Australian politician
January 10 - Rod Stewart, Scottish singer
January 10 - Edward Wiskoski, American professional wrestler
January 11 - Christine Kaufmann, German-Austrian actress
January 11 - Samdech Preah Sanghareach Bour Kry, Supreme Patriarch of the Cambodian Dhammayutt Order
January 12 - Maggie Bell, Scottish singer (Stone the Crows)
January 14 - Einar Hakonarson, Icelandic painter
January 14 - Maina Gielgud, British ballet dancer and administrator
January 15 - Vince Foster, American lawyer (d. 1993)
January 15 - William R. Higgins, USMC colonel (d. 1990)
January 15 - Princess Michael of Kent, British royal
January 17 - Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist
January 18 - José Luis Perales, Spanish singer
January 20 - Robert Olen Butler, American writer
January 20 - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket commentator and correspondent
January 20 - Eric Stewart, English musician and songwriter (10cc)
January 22 - Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach
January 23 - Mike Harris, Canadian politician
January 24 - D. Todd Christofferson, LDS apostle
January 24 - John Garamendi, American politician
January 25 - Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
January 26 - Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)
January 27 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader (d. 2005)
January 28 - Robert Wyatt, English musician
January 29 - Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
January 29 - Tom Selleck, American actor
January 30 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
January 31 - Joseph Kosuth, American conceptual artist
February 1 - Serge Joyal, French Canadian politician
February 3 - Johnny Cymbal, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)
February 3 - Bob Griese, American football player
February 6 - Bob Marley, Jamaican musician (d. 1981)
February 7 - Gerald Davies, Welsh rugby player
February 7 - Pete Postlethwaite, English actor
February 7 - Ian Jack, Scottish journalist
February 9 - Mia Farrow, American actress
February 9 - Gérard Lenorman, French singer
February 12 - Maud Adams, Swedish actress
February 12 - David Friedman, American economist
February 13 - King Floyd, American musician (d. 2006)
February 13 - David Tremlett, English Artist
February 14 - Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
February 15 - John Helliwell, British musician (Supertramp)
February 15 - Douglas Hofstadter, American academic and writer
February 16 - Jeremy Bulloch, English actor
February 16 - Frank Welker, American voice actor
February 17 - Zina Bethune, American actress
February 17 - Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
February 18 - Judy Rankin, American golfer
February 19 - Michael Nader, American actor
February 20 - Andrew Bergman, American screenwriter and film director
February 20 - Brion James, American actor (d. 1999)
February 20 - Annu Kapoor, Indian actor
February 21 - Paul Newton, British musician
February 21 - D'Anna Fortunato, American mezzo-soprano
February 22 - Leslie Charleson, American actress
February 22 - Oliver, American singer (d. 2000)
February 23 - Allan Boesak, South African activist
February 24 - Barry Bostwick, American actor
February 25 - Herbert Léonard, French singer
February 25 - Elkie Brooks, English singer
February 26 - Peter Brock, Australian motorsports champion (d. 2006)
February 26 - Bob Hite, American singer and harmonicist (Canned Heat) (d. 1981)
February 26 - Giannis Ioannidis, Greek basketball coach and politician
February 26 - Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress
February 26 - Mitch Ryder, American musician (The Detroit Wheels)
February 27 - Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004)
February 28 - Bubba Smith, American football player and actor
March 1 - Dirk Benedict, American actor
March 3 - George Miller, Australian film director
March 4 - Tara Browne, British socialite (d. 1966)
March 4 - Dieter Meier, Swiss singer
March 4 - Frank Novak, American actor
March 4 - Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
March 4 - Gary Williams, American basketball coach
March 7 - John Heard, American actor
March 7 - Arthur Lee, American musician (Love) (d. 2006)
March 8 - Bruce Broughton, American composer
March 8 - Jim Chapman, American politician
March 8 - Anselm Kiefer, German painter
March 8 - Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees)
March 9 - Robert Calvert, English singer (Hawkwind) (d. 1988)
March 9 - Dennis Rader, American serial killer
March 9 - Robin Trower, British rock musician
March 10 - Birgitta Sellén, Swedish politician
March 11 - Dock Ellis, American baseball player
March 11 - Harvey Mandel, American musician
March 12 - Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, American gangster
March 13 - Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician
March 14 - Jasper Carrott, British comedian
March 14 - Michael Martin Murphey, American country music singer
March 14 - Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist Chicago
March 15 - A. K. Faezul Huq, Bengali lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
March 15 - Mark J. Green, American public official
March 17 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (d. 1982)
March 17 - Michael Hayden, General USAF
March 17 - Katri Helena, Finnish singer
March 18 - Joy Fielding, Canadian novelist and actress
March 18 - Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer
March 18 - Michael Reagan, American radio host and adopted son of Ronald Reagan
March 19 - Stefanos Kiriakidis, Greek actor
March 20 - Henry Bartholomay, American fighter pilot
March 20 - Rick Berman, American TV and film producer
March 20 - Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author
March 20 - Pat Riley, American basketball player and coach
March 21 - Rose Stone, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
March 23 - Franco Battiato, Italian singer
March 23 - David Grisman, American bluegrass musician
March 24 - Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
March 24 - Curtis Hanson, American film director
March 26 - Mikhail Voronin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2004)
March 28 - Count Björn Hamilton, Swedish politician
March 29 - Walt Frazier, American basketball player
March 30 - Eric Clapton, British guitarist
March 30 - Johnnie Walker, British DJ
March 31 - Valerie Curtin, American actress
March 31 - Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian
April 1 - John Barbata, American drummer
April 2 - Linda Hunt, American actress
April 2 - Reggie Smith, American baseball player
April 2 - Don Sutton, American baseball player
April 2 - Anne Waldman, American poet
April 3 - Bernard Parent, Quebec ice hockey player
April 3 - Catherine Spaak, French actress
April 4 - Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French political activist
April 4 - Caroline McWilliams, American actress
April 5 - Tommy Smith, English footballer
April 6 - Neal Boortz, American talk radio personality
April 7 - Martin Lewis, British newsreader
April 7 - Megas, Icelandic singer
April 7 - Joël Robuchon, French chef
April 7 - Werner Schroeter, German film director
April 8 - Derrick Walker, British racing team owner
April 9 - Peter Gammons, American baseball journalist
April 9 - Steve Gadd, American session drummer
April 12 - Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the WHO (d. 2006)
April 13 - Tony Dow, American actor
April 13 - Lowell George, American singer/guitarist (d. 1979)
April 13 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (d. 1970)
April 13 - Judy Nunn, Australian actress
April 13 - Charles Robinson, American actor
April 14 - Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist
April 14 - Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa
April 16 - Tom Allen, American politician
April 18 - Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (d. 2004)
April 20 - Michael Brandon, American actor
April 20 - Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach
April 21 - Diana Darvey, British actress
April 24 - Doug Clifford, American drummer
April 24 - Robert Knight, American singer
April 24 - Doug Riley, Canadian musician (d. 2007)
April 24 - Dick Rivers, French singer and actor
April 25 - Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
April 25 - Stu Cook, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
April 26 - Sylvain Simard, Quebec politician
April 27 - August Wilson, American playwright (d. 2005)
April 29 - Tammi Terrell, American singer (d. 1970)
April 30 - Annie Dillard, American writer
April 30 - Michael Smith, American astronaut (d. 1986)
May 1 - Rita Coolidge, American singer
May 2 - Sarah Weddington, American attorney
May 2 - Gene Deckerhoff, American sports announcer
May 2 - Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998)
May 3 - Davey Lopes, American baseball player and coach
May 4 - Narasimhan Ram, Indian journalist
May 5 - Kurt Loder, Entertainment reporter
May 6 - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American musician
May 6 - Bob Seger, American singer/songwriter
May 7 - Christy Moore, Irish folk artist
May 7 - Robin Strasser, American TV soap opera actress
May 8 - Keith Jarrett, American musician
May 12 - Alan Ball, Jr.
May 12 - Ian McLagan, British keyboardist (Small Faces)
May 12 - Patrick Ricard, French businessman
May 13 - Sam Anderson, American actor
May 13 - Magic Dick, American musician (The J. Geils Band)
May 14 - Francesca Annis, British actress
May 14 - George Nicholls, British rugby league footballer
May 14 - Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa
May 15 - Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer
May 15 - Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza
May 16 - Nicky Chinn, English songwriter (Sweet
May 16 - Alan Flusser, American clothing designer
May 17 - Tony Roche, Australian tennis player
May 19 - Pete Townshend, English musician (The Who)
May 20 - Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian politician
May 21 - Ernst Messerschmid, German astronaut
May 23 - Padmarajan, Indian film director (d. 1991)
May 24 - Priscilla Presley, American actress
May 26 - Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer (The Guess Who)
May 27 - Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
May 28 - John Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
May 28 - Gary Stewart, American singer (d. 2003)
May 28 - Hunter "Patch" Adams, American doctor
May 28 - John N. Bambacus, American politician
May 29 - Gary Brooker, musician (Procol Harum)
May 30 - Norman Eshley, English actor
May 31 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director (d. 1982)
May 31 - Bernard Goldberg‎, American journalist
June 1 - Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
June 1 - Linda Scott, American singer
June 2 - Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser
June 4 - Anthony Braxton, American composer and instrumentalist
June 4 - Gordon Waller, Scottish musician (Peter and Gordon)
June 5 - John Carlos, American athlete
June 5 - Patrick Head, English F1 technical director and team co-owner (WilliamsF1)
June 6 - David E. Bonior, American politician
June 6 - David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000)
June 7 - Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria
June 9 - Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
June 9 - Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater
June 11 - Adrienne Barbeau, American actress
June 12 - Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer
June 13 - Whitley Strieber, American author
June 14 - Rod Argent, English musician (The Zombies)
June 15 - Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Philippine senator
June 15 - Nicola Pagett, British actress
June 15 - Lawrence Wilkerson, American retired military officer
June 16 - Claire Alexander, Canadian ice hockey player
June 16 - Lucienne Robillard, Canadian politician
June 17 - Frank Ashmore, American actor
June 17 - Tommy Franks, American General
June 17 - Ken Livingstone, English politician
June 17 - Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist
June 19 - Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician
June 19 - Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician
June 20 - Anne Murray, Canadian singer
June 21 - Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher
June 23 - John Garang, Sudanese leader and politician (d. 2005)
June 23 - Kjell Albin Abrahamson, Swedish journalist and writer.
June 24 - Colin Blunstone, English musician (The Zombies)
June 24 - George Pataki, American politician
June 24 - Wayne Cashman, Canadian ice hockey player
June 25 - Carly Simon, American singer
June 26 - Malachi York, Nuwaubian leader
June 28 - David Knights, English musician (Procol Harum)
June 29 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
July 1 - Deborah Harry, American musician (Blondie)
July 1 - Mike Burstyn, Israeli-American actor
July 3 - Michael Cole, American TV actor
July 5 - Humberto Benítez Treviño, Mexican Politician and Attorney General of México.
July 6 - Burt Ward, American actor
July 6 - Rodney Matthews, English fantasy artist and illustrator
July 7 - Michael Ancram, British politician
July 8 - Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politician
July 9 - Dean R. Koontz, American author
July 9 - Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (d. 1993)
July 10 - John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
July 10 - Jean-Marie Poiré, French film director
July 10 - Virginia Wade, British tennis player
July 10 - Ron Glass, American actor
July 10 - Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist
July 11 - Patrick Joseph McGrath, Catholic bishop
July 12 - Leopoldo Mastelloni, Italian actor
July 15 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
July 17 - Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
July 20 - Kim Carnes, American singer and songwriter
July 20 - Larry Craig, American politician
July 20 - John Lodge, English musician (The Moody Blues)
July 20 - Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (d. 2005)
July 20 - Bo Rein, American football coach (d. 1980)
July 21 - John Lowe, English darts player
July 21 - Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (d. 2008)
July 21 - Barry Richards, Former South African cricketer
July 21 - Geoff Dymock, Former Australian cricketer
July 24 - Azim Premji, Indian businessman
July 26 - Helen Mirren, English actress
July 28 - Jim Davis, American cartoonist (Garfield)
July 30 - Patrick Modiano, French novelist
July 30 - David Sanborn, American saxophonist
July 31 - Gary Lewis, American vocalist (Gary Lewis & the Playboys)
July 31 - William Weld, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
August 1 - Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist
August 1 - Sandi Griffiths, American singer
August 2 - Joanna Cassidy, American actress
August 2 - Alex Jesaulenko, Australian rules footballer
August 3 - Eamon Dunphy, former Irish footballer
August 6 - Ron Jones, British TV director (d. 1995)
August 6 - Andy Messersmith, American baseball player
August 7 - Alan Page, American football player
August 9 - Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist
August 10 - Harriet Miers, White House counsel
August 13 - Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician
August 13 - Robin Jackman, England cricketer
August 14 - Steve Martin, American comedian
August 14 - Wim Wenders, German-born film director
August 15 - Gene Upshaw, American football player and union leader (d. 2008)
August 15 - Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician
August 16 - Suzanne Farrell, ballet dancer
August 18 - Barbara Harris, American singer (Toys)
August 19 - Ian Gillan, English singer (Deep Purple)
August 21 - Jerry DaVanon, baseball player
August 21 - Patty McCormack, American actress
August 21 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (d. 2006)
August 22 - Ron Dante, American songwriter and record producer (The Archies)
August 22 - Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
August 23 - Rayfield Wright, American football player
August 24 - Ken Hensley, English musician (Uriah Heep)
August 24 - Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter
August 26 - Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security
August 27 - G. W. Bailey, American actor
August 28 - Robert Greenwald, American film director/producer
August 28 - Bob Segarini, Musician and radio personality
August 29 - Wyomia Tyus, American athlete
August 31 - Van Morrison, Northern Irish musician
August 31 - Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist
September 1 - Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
September 4 - Danny Gatton, American musician (d. 1994)
September 5 - Al Stewart, Scottish singer and songwriter
September 6 - Larry Lucchino, American baseball executive
September 7 - Jacques Lemaire, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
September 8 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
September 8 - Rogie Vachon, Canadian ice hockey player
September 9 - Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer
September 10 - Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer
September 11 - Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
September 11 - Leo Kottke, American acoustic guitarist
September 11 - Felton Perry, American actor
September 13 - Noël Godin, Belgian humorist
September 13 - Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician
September 14 - Martin Tyler, British sports broadcaster
September 15 - Hans-Gert Pöttering, well-known German politician in the European union
September 15 - Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
September 15 - Jessye Norman, American opera singer
September 15 - Ron Shelton, American film director
September 17 - David Emerson, Canadian politician
September 17 - Phil Jackson, American basketball player and NBA head coach
September 17 - Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
September 19 - Randolph Mantooth, American actor
September 21 - Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
September 21 - Richard Childress, NASCAR team owner
September 21 - Shaw Clifton, the 18th General of The Salvation Army
September 23 - Paul Petersen, American actor
September 23 - Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
September 24 - Lou Dobbs, American journalist
September 25 - Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player
September 26 - Louise Beaudoin, French Canadian politician
September 26 - Gal Costa, Brazilian singer
September 26 - Bryan Ferry, English singer (Roxy Music)
September 27 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (d. 2003)
September 27 - Kay Ryan, American poet
September 29 - Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer
September 30 - Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel
September 30 - Bob Lassiter, American radio personality
October 1 - Rod Carew, Panamanian-born baseball player
October 1 - Donny Hathaway, American soul musician and composer (d. 1979)
October 1 - Ellen McIlwaine, American singer/songwriter
October 1 - Spider Sabich, American skier (d. 1976)
October 2 - Don McLean, American songwriter
October 3 - Kay Baxter, American bodybuilder (d. 1988)
October 4 - Clifton Davis, American actor
October 5 - Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (d. 1997)
October 5 - Geoff Leigh, English musician (Henry Cow)
October 7 - Kevin Godley, British musician (10cc)
October 9 - Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
October 12 - Aurore Clément, French actress
October 12 - Dusty Rhodes, American professional wrestler
October 13 - Christophe, French singer
October 13 - Dési Bouterse, Surinam politician
October 14 - Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake)
October 15 - Jere Burns, American actor
October 15 - Jim Palmer, American baseball player
October 18 - Chris Shays, Member of the United States Congress from Connecticut
October 18 - Huell Howser, American TV host
October 18 - Yıldo, Turkish famous showman and football player
October 19 - Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
October 19 - Patricia Ireland, American attorney and feminist
October 19 - John Lithgow, American actor
October 19 - Jeannie C. Riley American country and gospel singer,
October 21 - Everett McGill, American actor
October 22 - Leslie West, American musician
October 22 - Sheila Sherwood, British long jumper
October 22 - Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor and television host
October 23 - Kim Larsen, Danish singer
October 24 - Anthony Christian, English artist
October 24 - Gérald Larose, Quebec labour union executive
October 25 - Peter Ledger, Austrailian artist (d. 1994)
October 26 - Pat Conroy, American writer
October 26 - Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author
October 27 - Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
October 27 - John Kane, actor/writer
October 28 - Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (d. 2006)
October 28 - Wayne Fontana, British singer (The Mindbenders)
October 30 - Henry Winkler, American actor
October 31 - Brian Doyle-Murray, American comedian and actor
October 31 - Russ Ballard, English rock singer/songwriter
November 3 - Ken Holtzman, American baseball player and manager
November 3 - Gerd Müller, German footballer
November 3 - J. D. Souther, American country-rock singer/songwriter & actor
November 5 - Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
November 5 - Aleka Papariga, Greek politician
November 10 - Donna Fargo, American singer
November 11 - Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua
November 11 - Vince Martell, American guitarist (Vanilla Fudge)
November 12 - Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author
November 12 - Neil Young, Canadian singer and musician
November 13 - John B. Craig, American diplomat
November 13 - Masahiro Hasemi, Japanese racing driver
November 14 - Paul Hirsch, American film editor
November 14 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian First Lady (d. 2005)
November 15 - Roger Donaldson, Australian producer/director
November 15 - Bob Gunton, American actor
November 15 - Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad, Norwegian (By Birth) singer (ABBA)
November 17 - Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
November 17 - Roland Joffé, Anglo-French film director
November 19 - Bobby Tolan, American baseball player
November 20 - Rick Monday, American baseball player
November 20 - Nanette Workman, American-born Canadian singer and actress
November 21 - Goldie Hawn, American actress
November 22 - Tom Freston, American television executive
November 23 - Keith Hampshire, English singer-songwriter
November 23 - Steve Landesberg, American actor
November 23 - Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
November 23 - Jerry Harris, American sculptor
November 24 - Lee Michaels, American musician and singer
November 25 - George Webster, American football player (d. 2007)
November 25 - Patrick Nagel, American artist (d. 1984)
November 26 - Daniel Davis, American actor
November 26 - John McVie, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
November 26 - Björn von Sydow, Swedish politician
November 27 - Alain de Cadenet, SPEED Channel personality
November 30 - Roger Glover, British bassist (Deep Purple)
November 30 - Radu Lupu, Romanian concert pianist
December 1 - Bette Midler, American actress and singer
December 2 - Penelope Spheeris, American film director
December 3 - Paul Nicholas English actor producer,
December 4 - Roberta Bondar, Canadian astronaut
December 5 - Serge Chapleau, French Canadian caricaturist
December 6 - Larry Bowa, American baseball player and Major League manager
December 6 - Dan Harrington, American poker player
December 6 - Shekhar Kapur, Indian filmmaker
December 7 - Marion Rung, Finnish singer
December 8 - John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist
December 9 - Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
December 9 - Michael Nouri, American actor
December 12 - Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (d. 1997)
December 13 - Kathy Garver, American actress
December 13 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (d. 1977)
December 15 - Thaao Penghlis, Australian actor
December 16 - Patti Deutsch, American actress and Match Game panelist
December 16 - Bobby George, English professional darts player
December 16 - Yukio Hattori, Japanese Iron Chef commentator
December 17 - Ernie Hudson, American actor
December 17 - Chris Matthews, American journalist
December 17 - Jacqueline Wilson, English author
December 18 - Jean Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player
December 19 - Elaine Joyce, American actress
December 20 - Peter Criss, American drummer and singer (Kiss)
December 22 - Diane Sawyer, American journalist
December 23 - Ron Bushy, American drummer (Iron Butterfly)
December 24 - Lemmy, British singer
December 24 - Nicholas Meyer, American author
December 24 - Steve Smith, Canadian Comedian
December 25 - Noel Redding, English musician (d. 2003)
December 25 - Rick Berman, Star Trek producer
December 25 - Gary Sandy, American actor
December 25 - Mike Pringle, Scottish politician
December 26 - John Walsh, American talk show host
December 30 - Davy Jones, English singer (The Monkees)
December 30 - Lloyd Kaufman, American film director and producer
December 30 - Concetta Tomei, American actress
December 30 - Vernon Wells, Australian actor
December 31 - Diane von Fürstenberg, Belgian-born fashion designer
December 31 - Barbara Carrera, Nicaraguan actress and model
December 31 - Connie Willis, American writer

Deaths

January 2 - Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, British naval commander (b. 1883)
January 3 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
January 3 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
January 6 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
January 6 - Edith Frank, mother of Anne Frank (b. 1900)
January 8 - Karl Krafft, Swiss astrologer who was manipulated by the Nazi regime (b. 1900)
January 9 - Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
January 15 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (b. 1865)
January 22 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
January 31 - Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920)
February 2 - Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (b. 1884)
February 3 - Roland Freisler, Nazi leader (b. 1893)
February 10 - Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
February 11 - Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (b. 1891)
February 12 - Antonio Villa-Real, Filipino jurist (b. 1880)
February 18 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (b. 1906)
February 21 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (b. 1902)
February 22 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
February 25 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893)
March 2 - Emily Carr, Canadian artist (b. 1871)
March 4 - Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
March 4 - Mark Sandrich, American film director
March 5 - Lena Baker, American murderer (b. 1901)
March 16 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
March 18 - William Grover-Williams, British racing driver
March 19 - Friedrich Fromm, German Nazi official (b. 1888)
March 21 - Artur Nebe, German SS officer {b. 1894)
March 22 - John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1857)
March 26 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863)
March 31 - Hans Fischer, German chemist
March 31 - Anne Frank, German-born diarist (b. 1929)
April 5 - Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (b. 1897)
April 5 - Huldreich Georg Früh, (b. 1903)
April 9 - Wilhelm Canaris, German Admiral (b. 1887)
April 9 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (b. 1906)
April 9 - Georg Elser, failed assassin of Hitler (b. 1903)
April 10 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born writer (b. 1887)
April 10 - H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (b. 1882)
April 12 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
April 13 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
April 15 - Hermann Florstedt, Nazi leader (b. 1895)
April 18 - John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (b. 1849)
April 18 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
April 18 - Prince William of Wied, sovereign Prince of Albania (b.1876)
April 20 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (b. 1874)
April 21 - Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
April 22 - Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (b. 1867)
April 22 - Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (b. 1900)
April 24 - Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899)
April 26 - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871)
April 26 - Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (b. 1909)
April 28 - Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (b. 1882)
April 28 - Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (shot) (b. 1912)
April 28 - Roberto Farinacci, Italian fascist (b. 1892)
April 29 - Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
April 30 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's new wife (b. 1912)
April 30 - Adolf Hitler, Austrian dictator of Nazi Germany (suicide) (b. 1889)
May 1 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (suicide with his wife Magda Goebbels) (b. 1897)
May 2 - Martin Bormann, Nazi official (b. 1900)
May 2 - Ludwig Stumpfegger, German SS doctor (b. 1910)
May 2 - Joe Corbett, baseball player (b. 1875)
May 4 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880)
May 5 - Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926)
May 8 - Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police leader of Nazi-occupied Norway (b. 1900)
May 8 - Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (b. 1883)
May 8 - Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of Nazi-occupied Norway (b. 1898)
May 10 - Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
May 13 - Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)
May 14 - Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
May 15 - Charles Williams, UK writer (b. 1886)
May 19 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (b. 1889)
May 23 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (b. 1900)
May 24 - Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (b. 1892)
May 31 - Odilo Globocnik, Austrian nazi (b. 1904)
June 8 - Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
June 16 - Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
June 20 - Bruno Frank, German author (b. 1878)
July 5 - John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
July 12 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895)
July 12 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)
July 17 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)
July 20 - Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
August 2 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
August 6 - Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)
August 6 - Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
August 6 - Prince Wu of Korea, (b. 1912)
August 9 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
August 9 - Robert Hampton Gray, last Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
August 10 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
August 15 - Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (b. 1887)
August 19 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b.1875)
August 25 - John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)
August 26 - Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890)
September 5 - Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
September 12 - Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (committed suicide
September 15 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
September 15 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883)
September 16 - John McCormack, Irish tenor (b. 1884)
September 20 - William Buehler Seabrook, Writer
September 20 - Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian president (b. 1869)
September 20 - Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1909)
September 24 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (b. 1882)
September 26 - Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)
October 6 - Leonardo Conti, Nazi physician (b. 1900)
October 8 - Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869)
October 13 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857)
October 15 - Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of Vichy France (executed) (b. 1883)
October 19 - Plutarco Elías Calles, President of Mexico (b. 1877)
October 24 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier
October 25 - Robert Ley, Nazi German leader (b. 1890)
October 26 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878)
October 26 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863)
November 2 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
November 8 - August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
November 11 - Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
November 20 - Francis William Aston, British chemist
November 21 - Robert Benchley, American writer and actor (b. 1889)
November 21 - Al Bummy Davis, American Boxer
November 28 - Dwight F. Davis, U.S. Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (b. 1879)
December 4 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist
December 10 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (b. 1913)
December 11 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
December 13 - Irma Grese, Nazi war criminal (b. 1923)
December 13 - Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen Belsen concentration camp (b. 1906)
December 13 - Elisabeth Volkenrath, supervisor at concentration camps (b. 1919)
December 16 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1866)
December 16 - Fumimaro Konoye, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891)
December 21 - George S. Patton, U.S. general (b. 1885)
December 28 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (b. 1871)

Events

January 1 - World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne.
January 1 - World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Unternehmen Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
January 3 - World War II: Admiral Chester W Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan.
January 5 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
January 7 - World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
January 9 - The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
January 12 - World War II: The Soviets begin a large offensive against the Nazis in Eastern Europe.
January 16 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
January 17 - Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
January 17 - The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
January 17 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappears in Hungary while in Soviet custody.
January 18 - Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army.
January 19 - World War II: Soviet forces liberate the ghetto of Łódź. Out of 230,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived Nazi occupation.
January 20 - Hungary ends its involvement in the Second World War, agreeing to an armistice with the Allies.
January 23 - World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
January 25 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge ends.
January 27 - World War II: The Red Army arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
January 28 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
January 30 - The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people.
January 30 - World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
January 30 - World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address, a radio address on the 12th anniversary of his coming to power. (A subsequent address on February 24 was not read by Hitler.)
January 31 - US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed, the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion.
February 3 - World War II: The Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan.
February 3 - World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17's of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin.
February 4 - World War II: The Yalta Conference begins.
February 5 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
February 9 - The Battle of the Atlantic the HMS Venturer sinking U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway.
February 13 - World War II: Red Army forces take Budapest, Hungary from Wehrmacht forces.
February 13 - World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment (see Bombing of Dresden in World War II).
February 14 - World War II: On the second day of the bombing of Dresden , the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
February 14 - World War II: Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden.
February 14 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
February 14 - World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
February 16 - World War II: American forces land on Corregidor island in the Philippines.
February 19 - World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima
February 21 - World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga.
February 23 - World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize.
February 23 - World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by American forces.
February 23 - World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań, the city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
February 23 - World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers.
February 23 - World War II: The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is bombed by Allied forces. It would later be re-opened in 1975.
February 24 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
February 25 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
February 27 - Lebanon declares Independence.
March 3 - World War II: The American and Filipino troops take in Manila the Philippines.
March 4 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Army as a driver.
March 4 - Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
March 5 - World War II: The "Battle of the Ruhr" begins.
March 6 - A communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
March 7 - World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, establish a bridgehead on Germany soil and in desperate fighting begin to establish a lodgement. This event shakes up the whole Western Front and greatly hastens the end of WW-II.
March 8 - Allied forces move large numbers of troops across the Rhine River to significantly reinforce and expand their tenuous hold on the captured Ludendorff Bridge (Bridge at Remagen), allowing them to push armor across the river and better secure the nascent lodgement.
March 9 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo
March 10 - The Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
March 11 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
March 14 - World War II
March 16 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
March 16 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
March 17 - The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture.
March 18 - World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
March 19 - World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
March 19 - World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
March 21 - World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
March 22 - The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
March 26 - World War II: In Iwo Jima, US forces declare Iwo Jima "secure."
March 27 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
March 29 - World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
March 30 - World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna, Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdańsk.
March 30 - World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.
April 1 - World War II: Operation Iceberg
April 2 - Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established.
April 4 - World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
April 4 - World War II: Soviet Army takes control of Hungary.
April 5 - Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement with the USSR to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory."
April 7 - World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
April 7 - World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
April 9 - World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.
April 9 - World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
April 9 - The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
April 11 - World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
April 12 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
April 13 - German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.
April 14 - Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
April 15 - The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
April 16 - The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin.
April 16 - The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) Prisoner of War camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz Castle).
April 16 - More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.
April 18 - Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
April 18 - Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Bolivia are established.
April 19 - The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
April 20 - World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
April 20 - World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
April 21 - World War II: The Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
April 22 - World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. 520 are killed and 80 escape.
April 22 - World War II: Fuehrerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
April 25 - Elbe Day: United States and Russian troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
April 25 - The Nazi occupation army leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
April 25 - Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
April 26 - World War II: Battle of Bautzen
April 27 - World War II: Last German troops are expelled from Finnish Lapland (the last day of World War II going on in Finland).
April 27 - World War II: The Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication.
April 28 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
April 29 - World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
April 29 - World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
April 29 - World War II
April 29 - The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
April 30 - World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the red flag over the Reichstag building.
May 1 - World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany".
May 2 - World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building. German forces surrender in Italy. German forces surrender to the New Zealand Army in Trieste.
May 3 - World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
May 4 - World War II: The liberation of the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg by the British Army.
May 4 - World War II: The surrender of the North Germany Army to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
May 5 - World War II: German troops in the Netherlands and Denmark capitulate to Canadian and British forces, liberating these countries from Nazi occupation.
May 5 - World War II: Prague uprising against the Nazis.
May 5 - World War II: The Mauthausen concentration camp is liberated.
May 5 - World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
May 6 - World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11, 1941).
May 6 - World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
May 7 - World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
May 8 - Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
May 8 - Combat in Europe ends in World War II: V-E Day. German forces agree to an unconditional surrender.
May 8 - End of the Prague uprising, today still celebrated as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
May 9 - World War II: The final German surrender to Marshal Georgy Zhukov at Berlin-Karlshorst is signed by Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
May 9 - World War II: General Alexander Löhr, commander of German Army Group E in Topolšica signs the unconditional surrender of German occupying forces in former Yugoslavia ending World War II in Slovenia.
May 9 - World War II: Partisans liberate Ljubljana.
May 9 - World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army.
May 9 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling is arrested in Norway.
May 9 - World War II: The Red Army enters Prague (capitulation of Nazi occupation troops).
May 9 - World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day.
May 9 - World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British.
May 15 - World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
May 21 - Screen legend Humphrey Bogart marries actress Lauren Bacall.
May 23 - World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, committs suicide while in Allied custody.
May 23 - World War II: The Flensburg government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
June 5 - Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
June 7 - King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
June 7 - Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes was premiered in London
June 10 - Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
June 15 - The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
June 18 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason.
June 21 - World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends.
June 23 - World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when organised resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
June 24 - The Moscow Victory Parade takes place.
June 26 - The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
June 29 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
July 5 - World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared.
July 16 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
July 17 - World War II: Potsdam Conference
July 20 - The US Congress approves the Bretton Woods Agreement.
July 23 - The post war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
July 26 - The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
July 26 - The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
July 26 - The US Navy cruiser Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
July 28 - A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
July 29 - The BBC Light Programme radio station was launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
July 30 - World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen.
July 31 - Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
July 31 - John K. Giles attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison.
August 2 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
August 6 - World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people were killed instantly, and some tens of thousands died in subsequent years due to burns and radiation poisoning.
August 7 - President Harry Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
August 8 - World War II: the Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.
August 8 - The United Nations Charter is signed by the United States, which becomes the third nation to join.
August 9 - World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Fat Man", is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 70,000 people are killed instantly.
August 14 - Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan standard time).
August 15 - World War II: Victory over Japan Day
August 15 - World War II: Korean Liberation Day.
August 16 - An assassination attempt was made on Japan's prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki.
August 16 - Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops.
August 17 - Indonesian Declaration of Independence.
August 19 - Vietnam War: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
August 25 - Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
August 30 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
August 30 - Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
August 31 - The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
September 2 - Combat in World War II ends in the Pacific Theater: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
September 2 - Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
September 5 - Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
September 5 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
September 7 - Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
September 8 - Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
September 9 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
September 10 - Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.
September 11 - World War II: Liberation of the Japanese-run POW and civilian internee camp at Batu Lintang, Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo by Australian 9th Division forces. Over 2,000 prisoners, including women and children, were due to be executed on September 15.
September 15 - A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
September 18 - General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
September 19 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
September 30 - Bourne End rail crash, Hertfordshire, England killed 43
October 5 - Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
October 6 - Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
October 9 - Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
October 10 - The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.
October 12 - World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
October 15 - World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
October 16 - The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in Quebec City, Canada.
October 17 - A massive number of people, headed by CGT and Evita, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron's release. This is known to the Peronists as the Día de la lealtad (day of loyalty). It's considered the birthday of Peronism.
October 18 - The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
October 18 - A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, staged a coup d'etát against then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who was overthrown by the end of the day.
October 21 - Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
October 21 - Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón married actress Evita.
October 24 - Founding of the United Nations
October 25 - The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
October 29 - Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
October 30 - Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
November 1 - The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro. Australia joins the United Nations.
November 5 - Colombia joins the United Nations.
November 10 - Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, is celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
November 16 - Cold War: The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
November 16 - UNESCO is founded.
November 20 - Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
November 29 - The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
December 4 - By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN was established on October 24, 1945).
December 5 - Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
December 15 - Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as state religion of Japan.
December 26 - CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
December 27 - The World Bank was created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
December 28 - The Congress of the United States officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance.

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