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Art and culture

• Atlantida (novel)
• Institut für Sexualwissenschaft founded
• Winesburg, Ohio (novel)
• The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud
• A Child Is Being Beaten by Sigmund Freud
• Weimar culture (1919 - 1933)
• Beat the white with the Red wedge by El Lissitzky
• Alma Mahler by Hermine Moos
• Bauhaus founded
• Start of alcohol prohibition in Finland
• The End Of The World Filmed By An Angel

Births

Births

• January 1 – J. D. Salinger, American novelist (The Catcher in the Rye)
• January 23 – Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
  • Bob Paisley, British football player and manager (d. 1996)
• January 24 – Leon Kirchner, American composer
• January 25 – Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer (NBC Nightly News)
  • Eula Beal, American contralto (d. 2008)
• January 26 – Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
• January 27 – Ross Bagdasarian, American musician and actor (Alvin and the Chipmunks) (d. 1972)
• January 31 – Jackie Robinson, African-American baseball player (d. 1972)
• February 5
  • Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
  • Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
• February 9 – Langdon Brown Gilkey, American Protestant ecumenical theologian (d. 2004)
• February 11
  • Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (Green Acres) (d. 1995)
  • Eddie Robinson, American football coach (d. 2007)
• February 12 – Forrest Tucker, American actor (F Troop) (d. 1986)
• February 13 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
• February 16 – Charlie Parlato, American musician (d. 2007)
• February 18 – Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
• February 20 – Joe Krol, Canadian football player (d. 2008)
• February 24 – Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian international civil servant (d. 2004)
• February 26
  • Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003)
  • Mason Adams, American character actor (d. 2005)

March-April

• March 2 – Jennifer Jones, American actress
• March 4 – Buck Baker, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
• March 7 – M. N. Nambiar, Indian film actor (d. 2008)
• March 15 – Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002)
• March 17 – Nat King Cole, African-American singer (Unforgettable) (d. 1965)
• March 24
  • – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher
  • – Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005)
• March 29 – Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)
• March 30 – McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
• April 1 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• April 8 – Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
• April 13 – Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (d. 2000)
• April 19 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer
• April 20 – Richard Hillary, British pilot and author (d. 1943)
• April 22 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)

May-June

• May 1
  • Dan O'Herlihy, Irish film actor (d. 2005)
  • Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Prime Minister of Morocco
• May 3
  • John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (d. 2004)
  • Pete Seeger, American folk singer and musician
• May 4 – Dory Funk, American professional wrestler (d. 1973)
• May 7 – Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Peron (d. 1952)
• May 8 – Lex Barker, American actor (d. 1973)
• May 16 – Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
• May 17 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (d. 2007)
• May 18 – Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (d. 1991)
• May 20 – George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991)
• May 23 – Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer
• June 4 – Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004)
• June 19 – Pauline Kael, American film critic (d. 2001)
• June 21 – Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)
• June 26 – Richard Neustadt, American political historian (d. 2003)
• June 30 – Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)

July-August

• July 6 – Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (d. 2007)
• July 7 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
• July 15 – Iris Murdoch, Irish novelist (d. 1999)
• July 20 – Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, conqueror of Mount Everest (d. 2008)
• July 31 – Maurice Boitel, French painter (d. 2007)
• August 11 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)
• August 13 – Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (d. 2007)
• August 15 – Benedict Kiely, Irish author and broadcaster (d. 2007)
• August 21 – Dalmiro Finol, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
• August 25 – George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
• August 28 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
• August 31 – Amrita Preetam, Indian poetess and author (d. 2005)

September-October

• September 11 – Ota Sik, Czech economist and politician (d. 2004)
• September 21 – Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani Islamic scholar (d. 1988)
• September 24 – Rick Vallin, Russian-American actor (d. 1977)
• September 26 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher
• September 27 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (d. 1986)
• October 3 – James M. Buchanan, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• October 5 – Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
• October 7 – Zelman Cowen, Governor-General of Australia
• October 11 – Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
• October 12 – Doris Miller, American sailor (d. 1943)
• October 16 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
• October 17 – Zhao Ziyang, prime minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 2005)
• October 18
  • Anita O'Day, American jazz singer (d. 2006)
  • Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
• October 22 – Doris Lessing, British writer
• October 23 – Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (d 1992)
• October 26
  • James E. Myers, American songwriter (d. 2001)
  • Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)

November-December

• November 3
  • Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
  • Spider Jorgensen, American baseball player and coach (d. 2003)
• November 5 – Myron Floren, American accordionist (The Lawrence Welk Show) (d. 2005)
• November 10 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian firearms inventor
• November 14 – Lisa Otto, German soprano
• November 15 – Roy Burden, Canadian World War II pilot (d. 2005)
• November 18 – Andrée Borrel, French World War II heroine (d. 1944)
• November 28 – Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (d. 2004)
• December 4 – I. K. Gujral, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (1997-98)
• December 6 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (d. 1983)
• December 8 – Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Polish composer (d. 1996)
• December 9 – William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• December 21 – Ove Sprogøe, Danish actor (d. 2004)
• December 31 – Tommy Byrne, baseball player (d. 2007)

Deaths

• Maurice Girodias (1919 - 1990)
• Pauline Kael (1919 - 2001)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919 - )
• Gualtiero Jacopetti (1919 - )
• Ernst Haeckel (1834 — 1919)