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May-June
May 5 - The Council of Europe is founded by the signing of the Treaty of London .
May 9 - Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco .
May 11 - Israel is admitted to the U.N. as its 59th member.
May 11 - Siam changes its name to Thailand .
May 12 - Cold War : The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin .
May 20 - The AFSA (predecessor of the NSA ) is established.
May 22 - After two months in Bethesda Naval Hospital , James Forrestal commits suicide , under circumstances that seem suspicious to many.
May 23 - The Federal Republic of Germany is established.
EDSAC , the first stored-program computer, begins operation at Cambridge University .
June 2 - Transjordan becomes kingdom of Jordan
June 6 - With the passage of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act by the Indian government, Mahabodhi Temple is restored to partial Buddhist control.
June 8 - Red Scare : Such celebrities as Helen Keller , Dorothy Parker , Danny Kaye , Fredric March , John Garfield , Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
June 29 - Last US troops withdraw from South Korea
June 29 - Dock strike in the UK
June 29 - Beginning of Apartheid - The South African Citizenship Act suspends the granting of citizenship to British Commonwealth immigrants after five years and imposes a ban on mixed marriages
July 31 - Captain Kerans of HMS Amethyst decides to make a break after the nightfall under heavy fire from both sides of the river and successfully rejoins the fleet at Woosung the next day
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Flag of the People's Republic of China, founded
October 1 ,
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Sukarno, first President of Indonesia, elected
December 16 ,
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Births
January
January 2 - Christopher Durang , American playwright
January 7 - Steven Williams , American actor
January 8 - Wolfgang Puck , Austrian chef
January 10 - George Foreman , American boxer
January 10 - James Lapine , American stage director and librettist
January 10 - Linda Lovelace , American actress (d. 2002 )
January 11 - Kalev Ots , Estonian statesman
January 12 - Wayne Wang , Hong Kong-born film director
January 13 - Brandon Tartikoff , American television executive (d. 1997 )
January 14 - Lawrence Kasdan , American director and screenwriter
January 17 - Andy Kaufman , American comedian (d. 1984 )
January 18 - Philippe Starck , French designer
January 19 - Robert Palmer , English musician (d. 2003 )
January 20 - Göran Persson , Prime Minister of Sweden
January 24 - John Belushi , American actor (d. 1982 )
January 30 - Peter Agre , American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
January 31 - Ken Wilber , American philosopher
February
March
March 2 - Gates McFadden , American actress
March 2 - Eddie Money , American singer
March 2 - JPR Williams , Welsh rugby player
March 3 - Jesse Jefferson , baseball player
March 6 - Shaukat Aziz , Prime Minister of Pakistan
March 6 - Martin Buchan , Scottish footballer
March 7 - Ghulam Nabi Azad , Indian politician
March 10 - Larry Wall , American computer programmer
March 12 - Bill Payne , American musician (Little Feat )
March 13 - Julia Migenes , American soprano
March 16 - Erik Estrada , Puerto Rican actor
March 16 - Victor Garber , Canadian actor
March 17 - Patrick Duffy , American actor
March 22 - Fanny Ardant , French actress
March 23 - Ric Ocasek , American musician (The Cars )
March 24 - Nick Lowe , American musician
March 26 - Patrick Süskind , German writer
March 30 - Marcia Ball , American musician
March 30 - Lene Lovich , American singer
April-June
April 1 - Gérard Mestrallet , French businessman
April 1 - Gil Scott-Heron , American musician and composer
April 3 - Richard Thompson , British musician and songwriter
April 6 - Horst Ludwig Störmer , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 7 - John Oates , American musician (Hall and Oates )
April 14 - John Shea , American actor
April 16 - Sandy Hawley , Canadian jockey
April 17 - Claudia de Santa-Fe , American painter and sculptor
April 18 - Geoff Bodine , American race car driver
May 4 - John Force , American race car driver
May 9 - Billy Joel , American musician
May 18 - Rick Wakeman , English musician and songwriter (Yes )
May 18 - Bill Wallace , Canadian musician (The Guess Who )
May 19 - Archie Manning , American football player
May 24 - Tomaž Pisanski , Slovenian mathematician
May 26 - Philip Michael Thomas , American actor
May 26 - Hank Williams Jr. , American singer
May 31 - Tom Berenger , American actor
June 8 - Emanuel Ax , Polish-born pianist
June 13 - Ann Druyan , writer
June 14 - Jimmy Lea , English musician (Slade )
June 14 - Harry Turtledove , American historian and novelist
June 21 - John Agard , British poet and playwright
June 21 - Jane Urquhart , Canadian author
July-September
July 3 - Jan Smithers , American actress
July 15 - Carl Bildt , Prime Minister of Sweden
July 17 - Charlie Steiner , American sportscaster
July 22 - Alan Menken , American composer
July 26 - Roger Taylor , English musician (Queen )
August 6 - Alan Campbell , Irish minister
August 7 - Walid Jumblatt , leader of the Lebanese Druze
August 12 - Mark Knopfler , Swiss guitarist
August 15 - Richard Deacon , Welsh sculptor
August 23 - Shelley Long , American actress
August 25 - Martin Amis , English novelist
August 31 - Richard Gere , American actor
August 31 - H. David Politzer , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 1 - P.A. Sangma , Indian politician
September 3 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d. 2004 )
September 7 - Lee McGeorge Durrell , American author, television presenter, and zookeeper
September 7 - Gloria Gaynor , American singer
September 14 - Eikichi Yazawa , Japanese singer
September 15 - Joe Barton , American politician
September 18 - Mo Mowlam , British politician (d. 2005 )
September 23 - Bruce Springsteen , American singer and songwriter
September 27 - Mike Schmidt , baseball player
October-December
October 1 - Isaac Bonewits , American author and occultist
October 2 - Lorraine Bracco , American actress
October 8 - Sigourney Weaver , American actress
October 14 - Katy Manning , British actress
October 20 - Valeri Borzov , Ukrainian athlete
October 21 - Benjamin Netanyahu , Prime Minister of Israel
October 22 - Stiv Bators , American musician (The Dead Boys ) (d. 1990 )
November 5 - Armin Shimerman , American actor
November 6 - Arturo Sandoval , Cuban musician
November 7 - Aiswarya , Queen of Nepal (d. 2001 )
November 7 - Judi Bari , American environmental activist (d. 1997 )
November 24 - Nicholas Richard Ainger , British politician
November 26 - Juanin Clay , American actress (d. 1995 )
November 29 - Alexander Godunov , Russian-born dancer and actor (d. 1995 )
December 3 - John Akii-Bua Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997 )
December 4 - Jeff Bridges , American actor
December 4 - Pamela Stephenson , New Zealand-born comedienne, actress, and singer
December 7 - Tom Waits , American singer, composer, and actor
December 12 - Bill Nighy , English actor
December 14 - Bill Buckner , baseball player
December 15 - Don Johnson , American actor
December 17 - Paul Rodgers , British singer (Free )
December 22 - Maurice Gibb , Australian musician (The Bee Gees ) (d. 2003 )
December 22 - Robin Gibb , Australian musician (The Bee Gees )
December 24 - Randy Neugebauer , American politician
December 25 - Sissy Spacek , American actress
December 25 - Joe Louis Walker , American musician
December 26 - José Ramos Horta , Foreign Minister of East Timor, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
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Deaths
January 6 - Victor Fleming , American director (b. 1883 )
January 11 - Nelson Doubleday , American publisher (b. 1889 )
January 14 - Joaquín Turina , Spanish composer (b. 1882 )
January 28 - Jean-Pierre Wimille , French race car driver (b. 1908 )
February 12 - Imam Hassan al Banna , Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906 )
March 30 - Friedrich Bergius , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884 )
April 19 - Ulrich Salchow , Swedish figure skater (b. 1877 )
May 6 - Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862 )
May 9 - Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870 )
May 22 - James Forrestal , U.S. Secretary of Navy and Defense (suicide) (b. 1892 )
May 22 - Klaus Mann , German writer (suicide) (b. 1906 )
June 10 - Sigrid Undset , Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882 )
June 14 - Russell Doubleday , American author and publisher (b. 1872 )
July 9 - Fritz Bennicke Hart , English-born composer (b. 1874 )
July 12 - Douglas Hyde , first President of Ireland (b. 1860 )
July 18 Vítězslav Novák , Czech composer (b. 1870 )
August 18 - Paul Mares , American musician (b. 1900 )
August 30 - Arthur Fielder , English cricketer (b. 1877 )
September 8 - Richard Strauss , German composer (b. 1864 )
September 19 - Will Cuppy , American humorist (b. 1884 )
September 19 - Nikolaos Skalkottas , Greek composer (b. 1901 )
October 27 - Marcel Cerdan , French boxer (plane crash) (b. 1916 )
October 27 - Ginette Neveu , French violinist (plane crash) (b. 1919 )
December 6 - Leadbelly , American musician (b. 1885 )
December 11 - Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya , Indian philosopher (b. 1875 )
December 16 - Sidney Olcott , Canadian film director (b. 1873 )
December 28 - Jack Lovelock , New Zealand athlete (b. 1910 )
December 28 - Hervey Allen , American author (b. 1889 )
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