Events
January
February
March-April
- March 1 - The International Monetary Fund begins to operate.
- March 1 - Wernher von Braun marries his first cousin, 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp.
- March 1 - Japanese city Tsushima, Aichi is founded
- March 6 - USS Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.
- March 12 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- March 15 - Hindus and muslims clash in Punjab
- March 21 - Homer Collyer of Collyer brothers is found dead in their house in Harlem, New York City. His brother is found April 8
- March 25 - A coalmine explosion in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- March 29 - Rebellion against French rule erupts in Madagascar
- April 9 - The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
- April 15 - Jackie Robinson, an African-American, takes the field at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers major-league baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.
- April 16 - The Texas City Disaster occurs when a French ship loaded with ammonium nitrate blows up in the harbor of Texas City, Texas. Approximately 600 were killed or missing due to the blast, with 2,000 injured.
- April 27 - Babe Ruth Day is celebrated at Yankee Stadium
May-June
July
August-October
November
December
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Year in topic
Births
January
February
- February 1 - Jessica Savitch, journalist (d. 1983)
- February 2 - Farrah Fawcett, actress
- February 2 - Melanie, singer
- February 3 - Paul Auster, novelist
- February 4 - Dan Quayle, Vice President of the United States
- February 5 - Darrell Waltrip, automobile racer, broadcaster
- February 10 - Louise Arbour, jurist
- February 13 - Mike Krzyzewski, Duke University basketball coach, Basketball Hall of Famer
- February 18 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands
- February 18 - Dennis DeYoung, musician ("Styx")
- February 20 - Peter Osgood, English football player
- February 20 - Peter Strauss, actor
- February 24 - Edward James Olmos, actor
- February 25 - Lee Evans, American athlete
March
- March 4 - Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
- March 6 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer
- March 6 - Dick Fosbury, athlete
- March 6 - Kiki Dee, singer
- March 7 - Walter Röhrl, car racer
- March 8 - Carole Bayer Sager, composer
- March 10 - Kim Campbell, first female Prime Minister of Canada (1993)
- March 12 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist
- March 13 - Beat Richner, pediatrician in Cambodia, cellist
- March 14 - Billy Crystal, actor, comedian
- March 14 - Pam Ayres, poet
- March 15 - Ry Cooder, guitarist
- March 19 - Glenn Close, actress
- March 24 - Louise Lanctôt, FLQ terrorist and writer
- March 25 - Elton John - Pop star
April-June
- April 2 - Camille Paglia, feminist writer
- April 2 - Emmylou Harris, singer
- April 6 - John Ratzenberger, actor (Cheers)
- April 12 - David Letterman - US entertainer
- April 12 - Tom Clancy, author
- April 16 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Basketball Hall of Famer
- April 18 - Kathy Acker, author
- April 18 - James Woods, actor (Ghosts of Mississippi, Salvador, Any Given Sunday)
- April 26 - Donna DeVarona, Olympic gold medalist in swimming, sports journalist, sports activist
- May 6 - Martha Nussbaum, philosopher
- May 13 - Stephen R. Donaldson, American fantasy novelist
- June 4 - Viktor Klima, former Austrian Chancellor
- June 19 - Salman Rushdie, author
- June 20- Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester
- June 22 - David Lander, actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
- June 22 - Pete Maravich, Basketball Hall of Famer (d. 1988)
July-November
- July 2 - Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld
- July 7 - Richard Beckinsale, British actor
- July 10 - Arlo Guthrie, folk singer
- July 20 - Carlos Santana, rock star
- July 30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor, former bodybuilder, 38th Governor of California
- August 24 - Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian Road Cyclist, 4 time winner of Paris-Roubaix
- September 1 - Al Green, American politician
- September 3 - Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway
- September 17 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
- September 19 - Steve Bartlett - former U.S. Congressman and Mayor of Dallas, Texas
- September 21 - Stephen King, author
- September 30 - Marc Bolan, musician ("T Rex") (d. 1977)
- October 5 - Brian Johnson, singer
- October 17 - Gene Green, American politician
- October 19 - Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and illustrator
- October 24 - Kevin Kline, actor
- October 26 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, politician and First Lady of the US
- October 26 - Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
- November 14 - P. J. O'Rourke, journalist and satirist
- November 19 - Bob Boone, baseball player and manager
- November 19 - Lamar S. Smith, American politician
- November 24 - Dwight Schultz, actor (The A-Team, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
December
Deaths
- January 25 - Al Capone, gangster
- March 11 - Victor Lustig, great con artist
- March 18 - William C. Durant, automobile pioneer, founder of General Motors
- March 19 - Prudence Heward, Canadian painter
- March 30 - Arthur Machen, author
- April 1 - King George II of Greece
- April 7 - Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer and industrialist
- May 17 - George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- July 19 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist, assassinated
- July 30 - Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia
- November 25 - Léon-Paul Fargue, poet
- December 1 - Aleister Crowley, British occultist
- December 7 - Tristan Bernard ,French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer
- December 17 - J. N. Bronsted, physical chemist.
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