1940

The year 1940 is a year according to the Christian era .



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*1 Events  ==Events [  edit ] == Franklin Delano Roosevelt;November ==[Music  edit ] == ===Premieres [  edit ] === ==[References  edit ] == ==Visual arts <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Architecture  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Movie  Edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Born <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Deceased <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[Weather  Extremes in Belgium <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Source: KMI data Uccle 1901-2003 with additions
 * 2 Music
 * 2.1 Premières
 * 3 References
 * 4 Visual arts
 * 5 Architecture
 * 6 Film
 * 7 Born
 * 8 Deceased
 * 9 Weather Extremes in Belgium
 * Wwii
 * January
 * 8 - The first Noorderrondritten won by the Groninger Gerrit Diver .
 * 30 - The sixth Elfstedentocht is held.
 * In the Netherlands there is a snowy New Craze: skijoring . Someone is pulling on skis by a car. In a newspaper practicing Prince Bernhard of the new sport.
 * February
 * 5 - The Dutch government dismisses the Senior General Isaac Reijnders . This imposes on 6 February resigned and was succeeded by General Henri Winkelman .
 * 29 - * Gone with the Wind, one of the biggest blockbuster movies of all time, won eight Oscars .
 * March
 * 3 - Pete Seeger met Woody Guthrie organized an evening to support the poor farmhands in California, following the book "Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, which was released just now and is filmed. According to Alan Lomax , who is also present, which occurs at night the modern folk music .
 * 18 - Sultan Hamengkoeboewono IX of Yogyakarta ascends the throne.
 * 22 - The "Law on the adoption of a child" makes in Belgium adoption of minors possible.
 * Appearance in the Netherlands of the first issue of a magazine for homosexuals: Levensrecht .
 * April
 * 9 - Germany invades Denmark and Norway within (" Operation Weserübung "). The Danes do not resist ( Battle of Denmark ), the Norwegians or (details ).
 * 15 - The first McDonald's restaurant opened in San Bernardino (California) .
 * May
 * 10 - German troops invade the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in ( Fall Gelb ). This will also affect these countries involved in World War II . See also Battle of France
 * 11 - 02.00. Beginning German attack on the Grebbeberg .
 * 11 - In the dawn of May 11 is the Fort Eben-Emael Belgium occupied by German troops with nine gliders at Fort countries.
 * 12 - The Dutch my lighter Bulgia lost after the attack of a German plane. Here are thirteen people on board were killed.
 * 13 - Evacuation of the royal family and the government in London .
 * 14 - German bombers over Rotterdam enter the Bombing of Rotterdam from.
 * 15 - The Dutch armed forces (in the Netherlands) surrender, except those in Zeeland .
 * 15 - The CPN decision to turn to underground resistance movement to form. Bernard IJzerdraat spreads in Rotterdam a call to commit acts of resistance against the German occupation, this is the beginning of the resistance De Geuzen .
 * 15 - The leftist writer Menno ter Braak commits suicide by a combination of sleeping pills and an injection administered by his brother, because he has too much good of Germans expect.
 * 16 - The Germans enter the Central European Time and the daylight saving time in the Netherlands, instead of the hitherto conventional Amsterdam time . The clock is one hour and forty minutes off.
 * 23 - German troops reach Boulogne and the Channel.
 * 23-28 - De Lys Battle, the only real battle between the Belgian and German Army takes place.
 * 25 - at the Castle of Wijnendale takes place a discussion of King Leopold III with Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot and three other ministers. The prince refused the government to leave the country and inform the ministers that he stays with his troops.
 * 27 - Massacre Vinkt, where 111 villagers by the Germans executed or killed by artillery fire.
 * 28 - The Belgian army capitulates.
 * 29 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart in The Hague installed as state commissioner of Netherlands .
 * 30 - The barge Rhenus 127, which is about 1200 Belgian prisoner of war on their way to Germany, running on the Hollands Diep in Willemstad on a mine and sinks. About 200 men drowned.
 * 31 - In Limoges speaking Belgian Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot to parliament. He deprives King Leopold all powers.
 * June
 * 1 to 2 - Operation Dynamo. British withdraw. Evacuation from Dunkirk .
 * 10 - Italy declares war on the Allies.
 * 14 - Spain occupied the international zone Tangier .
 * 17 - In Lithuania is a pro-Russian government in power, which Moscow 'requests to be included in the USSR ". The request is granted.
 * 22 - France was forced to sign armistice with Germany.
 * 25 - The Dutch submarine O 13 is officially considered missing after the ship returned from a patrol in the North Sea.
 * 26 - The Soviet Union falls within Romania. Romania is forced both the Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia and the Sage Hart Bid relinquish.
 * 27 - The Communist People's Daily is the first Dutch newspaper banned by the Germans, after it had violated censorship rules themselves the previous day.
 * 29 - A number of Dutch protest silently against the "new order" on the birthday of Prince Bernhard to wear a white carnation.
 * British troops attack Italian forces in North Africa.
 * July
 * 3 - Attack of the Royal Navy at the ports of the Algerian Mers-el-Kebir in the French Navy ships located there to prevent these will fall into German hands. Some 1,300 French people are killed; in British ports Britons take 40 French naval vessels and 160 other French vessels.
 * 7 - Elections in Mexico : Manuel Avila Camacho of the incumbent Party of the Mexican Revolution (PRM) of the right-wing candidate Juan Andrew Almazan after widespread fraud, with the approval of President Lázaro Cárdenas and the US government, fearing Almazáns ties to American fascists.
 * 10 - Start of the Battle of Britain (Battle of Britain): German bombing of England, struggle between England and Germany for control of the skies.
 * 20 - The NSB 'there Meinoud Rost of Tonningen take as Commissioner for the marxistischen Parteien 'the building of Arbeiderspers possession. Director Ybele Geert van der Veen commits suicide.
 * 25 - French Goedhart starts with the Newsletter Pieter 't Hoen, "later continued as the illegal newspaper Het Parool .
 * 28 - Radio Orange begins its broadcasts.
 * August
 * 1 - Jan Broeksz resigns as chairman of the VARA because he does not wish to cooperate with the plans of the Commissioner for the marxistischen Parteien ' Meinoud Rost of Tonningen .
 * 3 - In London the first issue of Free Netherlands .
 * 5 - At night in the Dutch town of Zandvoort the synagogue on the Mezgerstraat blown up by unknown people. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]
 * 9 - Walther Funk denies in his capacity as Minister of Economic Affairs and President of the Reichsbank Jews access to their bank balances and institutional investors placed assets.
 * 13 - Start of "Operation Eagle" by the German Luftwaffe in UK airspace.
 * ? - The first underground publication appears, namely the pamphlet Peace through revolution. Communists .
 * 20 - Assassination with ice ax on the Soviet politician and revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City ; he dies a day later.
 * 26 - In Waalwijk is football RKC established (Roman Catholic Combination).
 * 31 - First edition of Freedom Netherlands .
 * September
 * 4 - In Berlin loves Adolf Hitler delivered a speech in which he explains that Nazi Germany all nightly bombings by England as enhance bombings will reciprocate.
 * 11 - NSB leader Mussert charged under German pressure Henk Feldmeijer with the creation and management of a Dutch SS .
 * Japanese troops occupied Indochina .
 * 13 - Italian troops led by Marshal Graziani attacked from Libya, Egypt within: the Middle East is involved in the Second World War .
 * 27 - Josukè, Ciano and Ribbentrop close the Tripartite Pact .
 * October
 * 7 - More than a hundred prominent Dutch are arrested and to Buchenwald transferred in retaliation for the internment of Germans in the Dutch East Indies .
 * 15 - In the castle of Montjuïc in Barcelona is Lluís Companys, president of the Generalitat de Catalunya shot by the troops of the Franco regime .
 * 23 - Meeting between Hitler and the Spanish General Franco in Hendaye ( France ).
 * 28 - The Greek Government rejects an Italian ultimatum of the hand; beginning of the Greco-Italian War .
 * ? - The first issue of the Hague communist opposition magazine The Spark appears.
 * 1 - the Japanese battleship Musashi on the shipyard of Nagasaki launched in silence. The Musashi was the largest battleship ever built. It was 263 meters long, 71,659 tonne heavy, and had the largest ever-blowers mounted on a ship (the nine guns had a diameter of 46 cm with a range of 41,000 meters, and weighed 2,200 tons each).
 * 4 - Spain annexes the international zone of Tangier, which has occupied it on June 14, 1940.
 * 5 - Roosevelt is elected for the third consecutive time for President of the United States .
 * 7 - The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed. Only one dog was killed.
 * 8 - The Dutch submarine O 22 is officially considered missing when they did not return from a patrol off the Norwegian coast.
 * 11 - The British Mediterranean Sea Fleet brings three of the six Italian battleships sunk. The Italian fleet is actually disabled.
 * 23 - The first issue of the rural Communist paper The truth appears.
 * 25 - The SD arrests Schiedammer Bernard IJzerdraat, leader of the resistance De Geuzen . With him a name list is found at home of the whole group.
 * 26 - In a speech to a packed auditorium holds the Leiden professor Cleveringaplaats a flaming speech protest against the dismissal of Jewish professors.
 * December
 * 7 - Germany begins the Blitz on London . During the sustained bombing shelter 177 000 people many weeks in the underground stations of the underground. 30 000 people are being slain, 100 000 houses and a third of London destroyed, especially in the East End.
 * 8 - Leo Delwaide is mayor of Antwerp .
 * 23 - Winston Churchill focuses in a radio speech directly to the Italian people and keeps them for that Mussolini them into a war with the United Kingdom is threatening to collapse, while traditional close friendship ties between the two countries.
 * Lou Bandy : Who has sugar in the pea soup?
 * Lou Bandy : As a Sailor can not grieve.
 * Willy Derby : On the Grebbeberg
 * Willy Derby : Italian donkey serenade.
 * Bob Scholte : Goodbye my Sweetheart.
 * <span class="notranslate" style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">Eric Coates Orchestra:  By the Sleepy Lagoon
 * January 30 : Les illuminations of Benjamin Britten
 * March 29 : Violin Concerto opus 15 by Benjamin Britten
 * April 14 : Divertimenti for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon of Frank Bridge
 * May 6 : Rhapsody for piano quartet of William Alwyn
 * December 6 : the Violin Concerto by Arnold Schoenberg
 * Simon Vestdijk novels Rumeiland and The Black Rider published
 * TS Eliot's The Idea of a Christian Society published
 * Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls published
 * <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">(1940) Ivan Bilibin
 * <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">ventilation buildings Maastunnel, Ad van der Steur
 * Pinocchio, the second cartoon from the studios of Walt Disney .
 * Moulin Rouge, with Josephine Baker .
 * Rebecca director Alfred Hitchcock .
 * January
 * 4 - Brian Josephson, British physicist and Nobel Prize winner
 * 4 - Pim de la Parra, Surinamese-Dutch film director
 * 4 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese writer and Nobel Prize winner
 * 6 - Tom Brokaw, American journalist, television presenter and writer
 * 6 - Van McCoy, American disco producer ("The Hustle") (deceased in 1979 )
 * 7 - Teun Koolhaas, Dutch architect and urban planner (deceased in 2007 )
 * 9 - Chris Konings, Dutch athlete
 * 9 - Ruud ter Weijden, Dutch sports presenter and -journalist
 * 14 - Elaine Cancilla Orbach, American musical actress (deceased in 2009 )
 * 17 - Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan athlete
 * 17 - Leighton Rees, Welsh darter (deceased in 2003 )
 * 18 - Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican race car driver (deceased 1971 )
 * 22 - John Hurt, British actor
 * 23 - Adriaan Ditvoorst, Dutch film director (deceased in 1987 )
 * 23 - Werner Krämer, German footballer (deceased in 2010 )
 * 23 - Brian Labone, English footballer (deceased in 2006 )
 * 23 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (deceased in 2001 )
 * 24 - Joachim Gauck, eleventh Federal President of Germany
 * 25 - Joseph Slagveer, Surinamese journalist (deceased in 1982 )
 * 26 - Allan Li Fo Sjoe, Surinamese politician and administrator
 * 27 - Hugh Porter, British cyclist and reporter
 * February
 * 1 - Ajmer Singh, Indian athlete (deceased in 2010 )
 * 2 - David Jason, British actor ("Frost")
 * 3 - Marijke Merckens, Dutch singer and actress
 * 5 - Barry Hoban, British cyclist
 * 9 - William Vermandere, Flemish singer, sculptor ("Blanche and his Peird")
 * 10 - Kenny Rankin, American jazz singer and composer (deceased in 2009 )
 * 13 - Bram Peper, Dutch politician ( Labour Party ), Mayor of Rotterdam and interior minister
 * 15 - Trygve Madsen, Norwegian composer
 * 18 - Fabrizio De André, Italian singer and songwriter (deceased in 1999 )
 * 19 - Saparmurat Niazov, Turkmen president-dictator (deceased in 2006 )
 * 19 - Smokey Robinson, American singer
 * 20 - Elles Berger, Dutch radio and television presenter
 * 21 - Peter Gethin, British racing driver (deceased in 2011 )
 * 21 - John Robert Lewis, American human rights activist and politician
 * 23 - Peter Fonda, American actor and director ("Easy Rider")
 * 24 - Denis Law, Scottish footballer
 * 25 - Zhuang Zedong, Chinese table tennis player (deceased in 2013 )
 * 27 - Jan Buijs (tuff), Dutch music manager (deceased ( 1985 )
 * 28 - Mario Andretti, American race car driver
 * 28 - Joe South, American singer (deceased in 2012 )
 * 29 - Sonja Barend, Dutch television presenter
 * 29 - Bartholomew I, Patriarch of Constantinople
 * 29 - Manu Verreth, Flemish actor
 * 29 - René Verreth, Flemish actor
 * March
 * 1 - David Broome, British rider
 * 2 - Lothar de Maizière, (East) German politician
 * 3 - Jan Jiskoot, Dutch swimmer
 * 4 - Ida Bons, Dutch actress
 * 5 - Josef Piontek, German football player and coach
 * 5 - Graham McRae, New Zealand racing driver
 * 6 - Philippe Amaury, French publisher and media mogul (deceased in 2006 )
 * 6 - Gerard Cox, Dutch singer and actor (" It's nice weather over the summer ")
 * 7 - Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
 * 8 - Theo Laseroms, Dutch footballer (deceased in 1991 )
 * 10 - Chuck Norris, American actor
 * 11 - Jacques Pennewaert, Belgian athlete
 * 12 - Al Jarreau, American singer
 * 14 - Dzsingisz Gabor, Dutch politician and administrator
 * 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director ("Novecento")
 * 16 - Jan Pronk, Dutch politician ( Labour Party ) and Minister
 * 16 - Keith Rowe, British guitarist
 * 19 - John van de Rest, Dutch film director, screenwriter and producer
 * 21 - Solomon Burke, American soul singer (deceased in 2010 )
 * 23 - Alan Blaikley, English songwriter and producer
 * 24 - Krijn Torringa, Dutch presenter (deceased in 2006 )
 * 25 - Mina, Italian singer
 * 26 - James Caan, American actor (Sonny in "The Godfather")
 * 26 - Servaes Huys, Dutch politician
 * 26 - Nancy Pelosi, American politician
 * 31 - Freddy Derby, Surinamese politician and union leader (deceased in 2001 )
 * 31 - Harvey to Village, Surinamese diplomat and politician
 * April
 * 1 - Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmental and political activist (deceased in 2011 )
 * 2 - Mike Hailwood, British motor racing driver (deceased in 1981 )
 * 3 - Tol Hansse, Dutch singer, composer, performer and artist (deceased in 2002 )
 * 4 - Robby Müller, Dutch cameraman
 * 8 - Mirko Jozić, Croatian footballer and football coach
 * 11 - Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and Olympic champion (deceased in 1998 )
 * 12 - Herbie Hancock, American jazz pianist
 * 16 - Paul Cox, Dutch-Australian director
 * 16 - Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark
 * 18 - Nouchka of Brakel, Dutch director
 * 20 - Erna Brodber, Jamaicaaans writer and sociologist
 * 20 - Jan Cremer, Dutch writer ("I, Jan Cremer ')
 * 20 - Tim Drummond, American bassist
 * 20 - James Gammon, American actor (deceased in 2010 )
 * 23 - Michael Copps, American professor and director
 * 24 - Jos Bergman, Dutch painter and actor
 * 25 - Al Pacino, American actor
 * 25 - Guillermo Thorndike, Peruvian writer and journalist (deceased in 2009 )
 * 26 - Giorgio Moroder, Italian singer and composer
 * 30 - Jeroen Brouwers, Dutch writer
 * 30 - Ermindo Onega, Argentine footballer (deceased in 1979 )
 * May
 * 3 - Clemens Westerhof, Dutch football coach
 * 4 - Robin Cook, American writer of medical thrillers
 * 4 - Henk Dahlberg, Surinamese geologist, director and politician (deceased in 2000 )
 * 5 - Lasse Åberg, Swedish actor, artist, film director and musician
 * 6 - André Léonard, Belgian bishop
 * 6 - Vito Taccone, Italian cyclist (deceased in 2007 )
 * 8 - Peter Benchley, American writer (deceased in 2006 )
 * 8 - Ricky Nelson, American singer (deceased in 1985 )
 * 9 - Gerti Bierenbroodspot, Dutch visual artist
 * 9 - James L. Brooks, American film director
 * 10 - Jan Bank, Dutch historian
 * 10 - Herbert Müller, Swiss racing driver (deceased in 1981 )
 * 11 - Frans Molenaar, Dutch couturier (deceased in 2015 )
 * 14 - Alberto Reynoso, Filipino basketball player (deceased in 2011 )
 * 17 - Adel Imam, Egyptian actor
 * 17 - Alan Kay, American computer scientist
 * 19 - Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist won Tour de France 1968
 * 20 - Frode Thingnaes, Norwegian composer (deceased in 2012 )
 * 21 - Solomon Burke, American soul singer
 * 21 - Tony Sheridan, British pop-rock guitarist (deceased in 2013 )
 * 24 - Christoph Wolff, German music theorist
 * 26 - Levon Helm, drummer and American country-rock singer (deceased in 2012 )
 * 28 - Henk Bakker sr., Dutch merchant and politician (deceased in 2008 )
 * 28 - Hans Dulfer, Dutch saxophonist
 * 31 - Anatoly Bondarchuk, Soviet-Russian / Ukrainian athlete
 * June
 * 1 - Kip Thorne, American physicist
 * 2 - Constantine II of Greece, King of Greece (1964-1974)
 * 3 - Martin Fitzmaurice, English master caller in darts
 * 4 - Cliff Bennett, English singer
 * 4 - John Massis, Belgian powerhouse and tooth acrobat (deceased in 1988 )
 * 4 - Klaus Urbanczyk, East German football player and football coach
 * 7 - Tom Jones, British singer
 * 8 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer ("These Boots Are Made For Walkin '")
 * 10 - Jim Alder, Scottish athlete
 * 10 - Peter Ryan, American race car driver (deceased in 1962 )
 * 13 - Dallas Long, American athlete
 * 15 - Ken Fletcher, Australian tennis player (deceased in 2006 )
 * 15 - Moshe Temming, Dutch footballer (deceased in 2008 )
 * 16 - Hans Dorrestijn, Dutch comedian and writer
 * 20 - Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, Catalan playwright and director
 * 20 - John Mahoney, English-American actor
 * 23 - Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (deceased in 1994 )
 * 28 - Muhammad Yunus, Bengali economist and banker, winner Nobel Peace Prize 2006
 * 29 - Louise Groenman, Dutch politician
 * July
 * 3 - Lamar Alexander, American politician
 * 3 - Jerzy Buzek, Polish university lecturer and politician
 * 3 - Peer Raben, German composer (deceased in 2007 )
 * 4 - Tonny Eyk, Dutch pianist and composer
 * 6 - Joe Mauldin, American bassist (deceased in 2015 )
 * 7 - Dave Rowberry, keyboard player of The Animals (deceased in 2003 )
 * 7 - Ringo Starr, British drummer of The Beatles
 * 13 - Patrick Stewart, British actor
 * 13 - Jaak Van Assche, Flemish actor
 * 15 - John Jansen van Galen, Dutch journalist
 * 17 - Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter
 * 19 - Brian Raubenheimer, South African racing driver
 * 22 - Katy der Mije, Romanian-Dutch chess star (deceased in 2013 )
 * 27 - Sjoukje Hooymaayer, Dutch actress
 * 29 - Winnie Monsod, Filipino television presenter, cabinet member, director and professor of economics
 * August
 * 2 - Will Tura, Flemish singer
 * 3 - Martin Sheen, American actor
 * 4 - Abdurrahman Wahid, fourth president of Indonesia
 * 4 - Timi Yuro, American singer (deceased in 2004 )
 * 7 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Belgium from 1992 to 1999 (deceased in 2014 )
 * 11 - Jose Zubiri jr., Philippine politician
 * 15 - Gudrun Ensslin, German terrorist (deceased in 1977 )
 * 17 - André Klukhuhn, Dutch scientist and philosopher
 * 18 - Jan Weeteling, Dutch swimmer
 * 19 - Roger Cook, British singer and songwriter
 * 19 - Johnny Nash, American singer
 * 19 - Jill St. John, American actress
 * 23 - Vicki Brown, British singer (deceased in 1991 )
 * 23 - Esko Malm, Finnish footballer and football coach
 * 24 - Richard Biegenwald, American assassin (deceased in 2008 )
 * 26 - Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (deceased in 2008 )
 * 28 - Siepie de Jong, Dutch mayor of the Dutch town of Leek
 * 29 - Wim Ruska, Dutch judoka (deceased in 2015 )
 * September
 * 1 - Václav Mareš, Czech actor (deceased in 2009 )
 * 3 - Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer and journalist
 * 3 - Willem van Manen, Dutch composer
 * 5 - Raquel Welch, American actress
 * 8 - Gilberto Aristizábal, Colombian soccer referee
 * 8 - Elly de Waard, Dutch poet and critic
 * 9 - Hans van Doorne Veld, Dutch footballer and football coach (deceased in 2008 )
 * 11 - Brian De Palma, film director
 * 12 - Linda Gray, American actress
 * 14 - Leo Ferrier, Dutch-Surinamese writer (deceased in 2006 )
 * 18 - Frankie Avalon, American actor and rock and roll singer
 * 19 - Bill Medley, singer of The Righteous Brothers
 * 20 - Beyond Atie, Dutch swimmer
 * 23 - Hans Couzy, Dutch Lt. Gen.
 * 23 - Bruni Heinke, Dutch actress
 * 26 - Wim Mager, Dutch entrepreneur, founder Apenheul (deceased in 2008 )
 * 27 - Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
 * 27 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (deceased in 2005 )
 * 30 - Dewey Martin, Canadian drummer (deceased in 2009 )
 * October
 * 1 - Julio César Benítez, Uruguayan footballer (deceased in 1968 )
 * 5 - Alvaro Bardon, Chilean neoliberal economist (deceased in 2009 )
 * 6 - Jan Keizer, Dutch football referee
 * 7 - Joke Bijleveld, Dutch athlete
 * 7 - Larry Jon Wilson, American country singer (deceased in 2010 )
 * 8 - Paco Moncayo, Ecuadorian politician and General
 * 9 - John Lennon, British musician includes The Beatles (deceased in 1980 )
 * 14 - Cliff Richard, British singer
 * 16 - Corrie Konings, Dutch athlete
 * 17 - Harrie Heijnen, Dutch footballer (deceased in 2015 )
 * 20 - Kathy Kirby, British singer (deceased in 2011 )
 * 20 - Li Zhaoxing - Chinese Foreign Minister
 * 21 - Etienne Bagchus, sculptor and painter (deceased in 2012 )
 * 21 - Anne Will Blankers, Dutch actress
 * 21 - Manfred Mann, British singer
 * 23 - Fred Marsden, drummer of the British band Gerry & the Pacemakers (deceased in 2006 )
 * 23 - Pele, Brazilian footballer
 * 23 - Fouad Twal, Jordanian Catholic clergyman
 * 24 - Giacomo Bulgarelli, Italian footballer (deceased in 2009 )
 * 26 - Belaïd Lacarne, Algerian football referee
 * 28 - Manfred Reichert, German footballer (deceased in 2010 )
 * 29 - Jack Shepherd, English actor
 * 31 - Marga van Arnhem, Dutch radio and television presenter (deceased in 1997 )
 * November
 * 1 - Sjoerd Westra, Dutch percussionist and music educator (deceased in 2012 )
 * 7 - Klaas Nuninga, Dutch football player and sports director
 * 11 - Louis Pilot, Luxembourg footballer and football coach
 * 12 - Ria Lubbers, wife of Ruud Lubbers
 * 13 - Joan Haan Appel, Dutch figure skater and sports journalist
 * 13 - Tim Visterin, Flemish comedian, singer and music publisher
 * 16 - Dick Poons, Dutch poet-singer and producer (deceased in 2009 )
 * 19 - Bé Lütken, Dutch police officer
 * 20 - Chiem of Houweninge, Dutch actor and writer of television series
 * 21 - Henk Jurriaans, Dutch artist and psychologist (deceased in 2005 )
 * 22 - Frank Duval, German singer and composer
 * 22 - Terry Gilliam, American director and member of the Monty Python team
 * 22 - Davey Graham, English guitarist (deceased in 2008 )
 * 22 - Vic Peuskens, Belgian politician
 * 24 - Romeo Jalosjos, Filipino politician
 * 25 - Jan Jongbloed, Dutch soccer goalie
 * 25 - Percy Sledge, American soul singer (" When a man loves a woman ")
 * 27 - Bruce Lee, oriental martial arts actor (deceased in 1973 )
 * 29 - Denny Doherty, American singer of the group The Mamas & The Papas (deceased in 2007 )
 * 29 - Óscar Espinosa Chepe, Cuban diplomat, economist, journalist and dissident (deceased in 2013 )
 * December
 * 1 - Richard Pryor, American actor and comedian (deceased in 2005 )
 * 3 - Tony Mordente, American television director
 * 3 - Ib Nielsen, Danish football referee
 * 4 - Trudi Guda, Surinamese poet and cultural anthropologist
 * 6 - Jacques Visschers, Dutch footballer
 * 7 - Kumar Shahani, Indian film director
 * 9 - Leonella Sgorbati, Italian religious (nun, killed, deceased 2006 )
 * 12 - Dionne Warwick, American singer
 * 14 - Mient Jan Faber, Dutch peace activist and secretary of the IKV
 * 16 - Saimin Redjosentono, Surinamese politician
 * 16 - Dimitri Tower, Dutch singer (deceased in 2015 )
 * 19 - Zvonko Bego, Yugoslavian footballer
 * 19 - Joep Coppens, Dutch artist
 * 19 - Phil Ochs, American protest singer (deceased in 1976 )
 * 21 - Frank Zappa, American rock musician and composer (deceased in 1993 )
 * 25 - French Moor, Dutch politician (deceased in 2008 )
 * 26 - Harmen Siezen, Dutch news of the NOS News
 * 26 - Phil Spector, American music producer
 * 29 - Nestor Combin, French-Argentine footballer
 * 29 - Peter Koelewijn, Dutch producer and singer ("Come down from that roof")
 * 29 - Jos Verstraeten, Flemish priest
 * date unknown
 * Willie Hightower, American soul singer
 * Fatima Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist
 * Rahmato Dessalegn, Ethiopian sociologist
 * Somporn Saekhow, Thai monkey trainer (deceased in 2002 )
 * January
 * 4 - Juan Posadas (55), Filipino director and mayor of Manila
 * 8 - Jef Toune (52), Belgian artist
 * 27 - Isaak Babel (45), Russian author
 * January - Fusajiro Yamauchi (79), Japanese founder of Nintendo
 * March
 * 10 - Mikhail Bulgakov (48), Russian writer
 * 10 - Louis de Vries (68), Dutch actor
 * 11 - Edgardo Mortara (88), Italian-Jewish person
 * 12 - Louis Orione (67), Italian priest and founder sacred order
 * 14 - Flori Van Acker (81), Flemish painter
 * 16 - Selma Lagerlof (81), Swedish writer
 * 26 - Spiridon Louis (67), Greek marathon runner and Olympic champion (1896)
 * 27 - Madeleine Astor (46), U.S. Titanic-survivor
 * April
 * 16 - Adam Kogut (44), Polish footballer
 * 16 - Marian Spoida (39), Polish footballer
 * 26 - Carl Bosch (65), German chemist
 * May
 * 14 - Emma Goldman (70), American feminist
 * 14 - E. du Perron (40), Dutch poet and writer
 * 15 - Menno ter Braak (38), Dutch writer
 * 15 - Joseph Limburg (73), Dutch lawyer and politician
 * 16 - Jacques Goudstikker (42), Dutch art dealer
 * 20 - Verner von Heidenstam (80), Swedish poet and writer
 * 23 - Andrei Rimsky-Korsakov (61), Russian musicologist
 * 26 - Wilhelm of Prussia (33), German prince
 * 28 - Frederick Charles of Hesse (72), Finnish king
 * June
 * 2 - Michiel Van Caeneghem (47), Belgian professor
 * 10 - Marcus Garvey (52), Jamaican-American civil rights activist
 * 17 - Arthur Harden (74), English biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
 * 21 - Janusz Kusociński (33), Polish athlete
 * 21 - Hendrik Marsman (40), Dutch poet
 * 21 - Edouard Vuillard (71), French painter
 * 29 - Paul Klee (60), German-Swiss painter
 * July
 * 1 - Ben Turpin (70), American slapstick comedian
 * 15 - Robert Wadlow (22), American, tallest man ever
 * August
 * 5 - Frederick Cook (75), American Arctic explorer
 * 16 - Henri Desgrange (75), French organizer of the Tour de France
 * 18 - Walter Chrysler (65), German-American carmaker
 * 21 - Hermann Obrecht (58), Swiss politician
 * 21 - Leon Trotsky (60), Russian revolutionary and politician
 * 24 - Paul Nipkow (80), German inventor and television pioneer
 * 29 - Arthur De Greef (78) Belgian composer and pianist
 * 30 - Joseph John Thomson (83), British physicist and Nobel Prize winner
 * September
 * 1 - Gregorio Aglipay (80), Filipino church leader
 * 5 - Charles de Broqueville (79), Belgian Prime Minister
 * 15 - Dick Ket (37), Dutch painter
 * 18 - Rudolf Olden, German journalist, lawyer and human rights activist.
 * 25 - Marguerite Clark (57), American actress
 * 27 - Walter Benjamin (48), German philosopher and sociologist
 * 27 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg (83), Austrian physician and Nobel Prize winner
 * October
 * 11 - Vito Volterra (80), Italian mathematician and physicist
 * November
 * 4 - Karl Josef Gollrad (74), German painter
 * 9 - Neville Chamberlain (71), British prime minister from 1937 to 1940
 * 10 - Michael Staksrud (32), Norwegian skater
 * 11 - Karel Frederik Wenckebach (76), Dutch professor of medicine
 * 17 - Eric Gill (58), British sculptor and typeface designer
 * 19 - Bob Glendenning (52), English footballer and football coach
 * December
 * 4 - Teodoro Kalaw (56), Filipino writer, director and politician
 * 5 - Jan Kubelík (60), Czech violinist and composer
 * 18 - Ge Bohlander (45), Dutch water polo
 * 19 - Kyösti Kallio (67), fourth President of Finland
 * 21 - F. Scott Fitzgerald (44), American writer
 * 22 - Klaas Pander (73), Dutch skater
 * 23 - Otto Silber (47), Estonian footballer
 * 25 - Agnes Ayres (42), American actress
 * 26 - Ludo van Bronkhorst Sandberg (66), Dutch state board
 * 27 - Louis Hayet (76), French painter
 * January 8 : Single frost-free day in January in Uccle.
 * January 20 : Lowest minimum temperature ever in Belgium: -30.1 ° C in Rochefort. Elsewhere in the country the minimum drops to -22.2 ° C in Vilvoorde and -25.5 ° C in Haacht.
 * January 23 : Lowest minimum temperature of the century in Uccle -18.7 ° C.
 * January 24 : Overnight minimum aground in Uccle -24.5 ° C.
 * January 28 : 19 cm of snow in Uccle, 31 cm and 60 cm in Grobbendonk in Drossart (Baelen) and Robertville (Waimes).
 * January : January frost has thirty days in Uccle. This is a record, ex aequo with 1945 and 1963.
 * January : January with lowest average minimum temperature: -8.4 ° C (normal -0.3 ° C).
 * February 14 : Minimum temperature -21.0 ° C in Leopoldsburg and the Baraque Michel (Jalhay).
 * September 21 : 56 mm rainfall in Chiny.
 * September 21 : Tornado in Awagne (Dinant) with damage.
 * September 30 : Minimum temperature to -2.0 ° C on the Baraque Michel (Jalhay).
 * November 3 : 62 mm rainfall in Uccle to 114 mm in Chiny.
 * November 13 : The strongest gust ever in Uccle: 155 km / h. A lot of damage in the region of Antwerp and Brussels (including Sonian).
 * November 14 : Total precipitation between October 30 and November 14 in Bruges: 165 mm.
 * November : November with highest average wind speed: 5.4 m / s (normally 3.7 m / s).
 * December 24 : Minimum temperatures up to 11.0 ° C in Gerdingen (Bree) and -17.7 ° C in Wardin (Bastogne).