1948

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Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents:
Events of 1948 - Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April - May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug. - Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec. - Undated ^. Ongoing Births Deaths Nobel prizes Ship events See also - Notes - External links

Events of 1948

January

January 1 - Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways.
January 1 - Arab militants lay siege to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
January 1 - First day of the Italian republican constitution.
January 1 - First day of the New Jersey State Constitution.
January 4 - Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
January 5 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
January 17 - Truce between nationalist Indonesian and Dutch troops in Java.
January 22 - British foreign secretary Bevin proposes the formation of a Western Union between Britain, France and the Benelux countries to stand up against the Soviet Union. The Treaty of Brussels is signed March 17 as a consequence, a predecessor to NATO.
January 26 - Teigin poison case: a man masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 of 16 bank employees of the Tokyo branch of Imperial Bank and takes the money; artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later sentenced to death for the crime, but is never executed.
January 30 - Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse.
January 30 - 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

February

February 1 - Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts.
February 4 - Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth. King George VI becomes King of Ceylon.
February 18 - Eamon de Valera, head of government since 1932, loses power to an opposition coalition. John A. Costello is appointed Taoiseach of Éire (formerly called the Irish Free State) by President O'Kelly.
February 25 - The Communist Party seizes control of Czechoslovakia. This day was celebrated by the regime as the "Victorious February" (Czech:"Vítězný únor"; Slovak:"Víťazný Február") until November 1989.

March

March 8 - McCollum v. Board of Education: the United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the U.S. Constitution.
March 16 - Largest flood in the history of Brampton, Ontario. ^[1]
March 17 - Hells Angels founded in California.
March 20 - First elections in Singapore.
March 20 - Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in an all-Wagner program.

April

April 1 - Scientists Ralph Alpher and George Gamow publish the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper about the big bang.
April 3 - President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
April 3 - Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is played on television in its entirety for the first time, in a concert featuring Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The chorus is conducted by Robert Shaw.
April 7 - The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
April 7 - Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai - 20 monks dead.
April 9 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in all of Colombia (La Violencia).
April 9 - The Deir Yassin massacre takes place in Palestine.
April 24 - End of the Costa Rican Civil War
April 30 - Land Rover unveiled at Amsterdam Motor Show

May

May 4 - Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet receives its world premiere in London.
May 11 - Luigi Einaudi becomes President of the Italian Republic.
May 14 - Declaration of Independence of Israel.
May 14 - The murder of a three-year-old girl in Blackburn, England leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.
May 15 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated by Britain; Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia enter Palestine and attack the nascent State of Israel .
May 16 - Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel.
May 18 - The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
May 26 - The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as the auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
May 28 - Daniel Francois Malan defeats Jan Smuts and becomes Prime Minister of South Africa, ushering in the heinous era of Apartheid which was finally dismantled by F W de Klerk 1994
May 30 - A dike along the Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes: 15 people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.

June

June 3 - Palomar Observatory telescope finished in California.
June 16 - Communist guerillas kill three rubber planters in Malaya.
June 16 - Three armed men hijack Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot; the plane crashes - one of 27 survives.
June 11 - The first monkey astronaut, Albert I, launched into space from White Sands, New Mexico.
June 17 - A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Air Lines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
June 18 - State of Emergency declared in Malaysia for communist insurgency - Malayan Emergency begins.
June 18 - First democratic general election with universal suffrage in Italy.
June 20 - U.S.Congress: Commencement of Congressional Recess for the remainder of 1948 after an overtime session closed on this Saturday at 0700 D.C. time (to be shortly interrupted by Truman's recall from Congressional recess for July 20, 1948).
June 21 - The Deutsche Mark becomes official currency of the future Federal Republic of Germany.
June 22- The ship Empire Windrush brings the first group of several hundred black immigrants to Tilbury near London from the Caribbean countries. This would be the start of multiculturalism in Britain.
June 24 - Cold War: The Berlin Blockade begins.
June 24 - The first World Health Assembly of World Health Organisation is held in Geneva.
June 26 - William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
June 28 - Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia and Soviet/Yugoslav split.
June 28 - David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK. It will be banned for 3 years in the U.S. because of alleged anti-Semitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness.
June 28 - Earthquake hits Fukui, Japan killing 3,895.

July

July 5 - National Health Service Acts enacted in United Kingdom.
July 6 - The world's first Air Car-ferry service was flown by a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways from Lympne to Le Touquet.
July 13 - The Coptic and Ethiopian Churches reach an agreement leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate. Five bishops are immediately consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria, and the successor to Abuna Qerellos IV is granted the power to consecrate new bishops, who are empowered to elect a new Patriarch for their church.
July 15 - Attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, incites number of strikes all over the country.
July 15 - *First London chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous
July 20 - Cold War: President Harry S. Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union (the first peacetime draft occurred in 1940 under President Roosevelt).
July 24 - Great oil fire in the harbor of Naantali, *Finland
July 26 - U.S. President signs Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces.
July 28 - Around 200 die in explosion at a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
July 29 - 1948 Summer Olympics begin in London, the first Summer Olympics since World War II.
July 31 - At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.

August

August 1 - The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
August 10 - August 23 - Herrenchiemsee Convent prepares the draft for the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.
August 15 - Establishment of the Republic of Korea.
August 23 - World Council of Churches established.
August 24 - First meeting of the charter members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) held.^[2]
August 25 - House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.

September

September 4 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
September 5 - Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
September 6 - Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
September 9 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is formally declared, with Kim Il-sung as prime minister.
September 11 - Death of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder and first Governor General of Pakistan (b. 1876). Pakistan is in a state of shock as it mourns the departure of the father of the nation. The day is a public holiday nation-wide.
September 12 - Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death to assist damage control. Operation Polo led to the deaths of an estimated tens of thousands of Hyderabadi Muslims.
September 17 - Stern Gang assassinates count Folke Bernadotte.
September 29 - Laurence Olivier's Hamlet opens in the United States.

October

October 5 - The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000
October 11 - Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves to win the World Series, four games to two.
October 16 - The 57th Street Art Fair, the oldest juried art fair in the American midwest, is founded.
October 26 - Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.

November

November 2 - United States presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey and Strom Thurmond for the US presidency.
November 12 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
November 15 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Canada's twelfth prime minister.
November 16 - Operation Magic Carpet to transport Jews from Yemen to Israel begins.
November 17 - Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi divorces his second wife, the former Princess Fawzia of Egypt.
November 20 - Geoffrey B. Orbell rediscovers the Takahē, last seen 50 years ago, near Lake Te Anau, New Zealand.
November 24 - In Venezuela, president Rómulo Betancourt is ousted by a military coup. A military junta takes over the government.
November 27 - The Calgary Stampeders defeat the Ottawa Rough Riders 12-7 before 20,013 fans at Toronto's Varsity Stadium to capture their first Grey Cup and complete the only perfect season to date in Canadian Football.

December

December 1 - José Figueres Ferrer abolishes the army in Costa Rica, being the first country in history to do so.
December 10 - United Nations General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
December 26 - Last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea.
December 28 - Member of Muslim Brotherhood assassinates Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi.
December 30 - The play Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances.
December 31 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Israeli troops drive Egyptians from Negev.

Undated

Brandeis University is founded.
Casimir effect discovered by Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir.
Fresh Kills, world's largest landfill, opens in Staten Island, New York.
Playwright Arthur Miller writes "Death of a Salesman."
The law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is founded.
Miranda, the innermost moon of Uranus, is discovered by Gerard Kuiper.
Oakridge Transit Centre opened in Vancouver, British Columbia.
RAND Corporation is established as a nonprofit policy research and analysis institution.
The Slovak city Gúta was renamed to Kolárovo.
Tunnel of Vielha is opened in the Aran Valley, Spanish Pyrenees.
The Caspian Tiger became extinct in Kazakhstan by this date.
The Rhode Island Highlanders Pipe Band was founded.

Ongoing

First Indochina War

Births

**1948 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1948 MCMXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2701
Armenian calendar	1397 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԷ
Bahá'í calendar	104 – 105
Berber calendar	2898
Buddhist calendar	2492
Burmese calendar	1310
Byzantine calendar	7456 – 7457
Chinese calendar	丁亥年十一月廿一日 (4584/4644-11-21) — to — 戊子年十二月初二日 (4585/4645-12-2)
Coptic calendar	1664 – 1665
Ethiopian calendar	1940 – 1941
Hebrew calendar	5708 – 5709
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2003 – 2004
- Shaka Samvat	1870 – 1871
- Kali Yuga	5049 – 5050
Holocene calendar	11948
Iranian calendar	1326 – 1327
Islamic calendar	1367 – 1368
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 23 (昭和23年)
Korean calendar	4281
Thai solar calendar	2491
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January–February

January 2 - Mary Archer, British scientist
January 2 - Deborah Watling, British actress
January 5 - Wally Foreman, Australian media icon (d. 2006)
January 7 - Kenny Loggins, American singer
January 10 - Donald Fagen, American keyboardist
January 10 - Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
January 12 - Kenny Allen, English footballer
January 14 - T-Bone Burnett, American record producer and musician
January 14 - Carl Weathers, American football player and actor
January 15 - Ronnie Van Zant, American musician (d. 1977)
January 16 - John Carpenter, American film director and composer
January 16 - Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
January 17 - Davíð Oddsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
January 19 - Frank McKenna, Premier of New Brunswick and Canadian Ambassador
January 27 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-born dancer
January 28 - Charles Taylor, Liberian president
January 29 - Marc Singer, Canadian actor
January 30 - Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
January 31 - Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
February 1 - Elisabeth Sladen, British actress
February 1 - Rick James, American musician (d. 2004)
February 2 - Ina Garten, Cooking author
February 3 - Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorean Catholic bishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
February 4 - Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier), American hard rock singer and musician
February 4 - Roedy Green, Canadian programmer and LGBT activist
February 5 - Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager
February 5 - Christopher Guest, American actor, writer, director, and composer
February 6 - Jack Conway, musician, composer, arranger, guitarist
February 7 - Tony Iommi, English guitarist (Black Sabbath)
February 10 - John Magnier, Irish businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse breeder
February 12 - Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and author
February 14 - Teller, American magician
February 14 - Jackie Martling, American comedian and radio personality
February 17 - José José, Mexican singer and actor
February 19 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician and author (d. 2002)
February 24 - J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician
February 24 - Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
February 25 - Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
February 28 - Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
February 28 - Mike Figgis, American director, writer, and composer
February 28 - Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer
February 28 - Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
February 28 - Alfred Sant, Leader of Malta Labour Party (1992-) and Prime Minister of Malta (1996-1998)

March–April

March 2 - R. T. Crowley, pioneer of electronic commerce
March 2 - Rory Gallagher, Irish musician
March 2 - Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
March 4 - Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
March 4 - James Ellroy, American writer
March 4 - Tom Grieve, American baseball player
March 4 - Leron Lee, American baseball player
March 4 - Chris Squire, British bassist
March 4 - Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
March 5 - Richard Hickox, English classical conductor and musician
March 5 - Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
March 9 - Jeffrey Osborne, American singer
March 11 - Dominique Sanda, French actress
March 12 - James Taylor, American musician
March 14 - Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
March 15 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
March 17 - William Gibson, American writer
March 19 - John Oldfield , Advertising & Management consultant UK
March 20 - John de Lancie, American actor
March 20 - Bobby Orr, Canadian hockey player
March 22 - Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
March 22 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer
March 26 - Steven Tyler, American singer (Aerosmith)
March 28 - Dianne Wiest, American actress
March 31 - Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States
March 31 - Rhea Perlman, American actress
April 1 - Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
April 4 - Squire Parsons, Southern Gospel singer/songwriter
April 4 - Derek Thompson, Northern Irish actor
April 12 - Jeremy Beadle, TV presenter (d. 2008)
April 13 - Nam Hae-il, 25th Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Korea Navy
April 15 - Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
April 27 - Kate Pierson, American singer (The B-52's)
April 27 - Amrit Kumar Bohara, Nepalese politician
April 29 - Michael Karoli, German musician (d. 2001)

May–June

May 1 - Constance, Lady Crabtree, British comedy act
May 2 - Vladimir Matorin, Russian opera singer
May 4 - Tanya Falan, American singer from The Lawrence Welk Show
May 6 - Richard Bryant, African American pastor
May 8 - Felicity Lott, English soprano
May 8 - Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer (Degrassi)
May 9 - Calvin Murphy, American basketball player and analyst
May 11 - Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese musician
May 12 - Steve Winwood, English singer
May 12 - Bob Carolgees, British comedy entertainer
May 14 - Bob Woolmer, British cricket coach (d. 2007)
May 15 - Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
May 15 - Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
May 19 - Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress
May 21 - Leo Sayer, English musician
May 25 - P.Nand.R Nand Huyghe, Flemish sculptor
May 26 - Stevie Nicks, American singer and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
May 27 - Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
May 29 - Michael Berkeley, British composer
May 31 - John Bonham, British drummer (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980)
June 2 - Jerry Mathers, American actor
June 4 - Bob Champion, English jump jockey
June 13 - Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player and scout (d. 2001)
June 15 - Paul Michiels, Belgian singer-songwriter
June 17 - Dave Concepción, Venezuelan baseball player
June 19 - Lea Laven, Finnish singer
June 19 - Phylicia Rashad, American actress
June 19 - Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
June 20 - Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
June 21 - Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
June 21 - Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
June 21 - Don Airey, English musician (Deep Purple)
June 22 - Todd Rundgren, American singer and record producer
June 28 - Kathy Bates, American actress
June 29 - Ian Paice, English drummer (Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
June 30 - Vladimir Yakunin, Russian official, head of state-run Russian Railways company

July–August

July 3 - Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
July 6 - Wadih Saadeh, Lebanese-Australian poet and journalist
July 8 - Raffi, Egyptian-born children's entertainer
July 12 - Richard Simmons, American television personality and fitness expert
July 15 - Richard Franklin, Australian film director (d. 2007)
July 16 - Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
July 18 - Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 20 - Muse Watson, American actor
July 21 - Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
July 21 - Cat Stevens, English musician
July 21 - Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
July 21 - Mikhail Zadornov, Russian stand-up comedian and writer
July 22 - Neil Hardwick, British-born Finnish director and writer
July 22 - Susan Eloise Hinton, American author
July 23 - John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
July 25 - Steve Goodman, a Grammy Award-winning folk music singer and songwriter from Chicago, United States. (d. 1984)
July 27 - Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
July 28 - Sally Struthers, American actress
July 30 - Jean Reno, French actor
July 31 - Jonathan Dollimore, famous author and professor
August 2 - Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author
August 2 - Bob Rae, Canadian politician
August 3 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
August 13 - Kathleen Battle, American soprano
August 15 - Uschi Digard, American erotic actress and figure model
August 15 - George Ryton, British engineer
August 18 - Joseph Marcell, actor
August 20 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
August 24 - Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Air Force
August 27 - Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
August 30 - Lewis Black, American comedian

September–October

September 1 - James Rebhorn, American actor
September 2 - Terry Bradshaw, American football player and sportscaster
September 2 - Nate Archibald, American basketball player
September 4 - Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer
September 5 - Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
September 8 - Great Kabuki, Japanese professional wrestler
September 10 - Judy Geeson, British actress
September 10 - Bob Lanier, American basketball player
September 10 - Margaret Trudeau, ex-wife of former Prime Minister of Canada
September 13 - Nell Carter, American singer and actress (d. 2003)
September 17 - John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
September 19 - Nadezhda Tkachenko, former Soviet pentathlete
September 20 - George R.R. Martin, American speculative fiction author
September 22 - Denis Burke, Australian politician
September 24 - Heinz Chur, German composer
September 24 - Phil Hartman, Canadian comedian (d. 1998)
September 25 - Vladimir Yevtushenkov, a Russian oligarch
September 26 - Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer and actress
September 27 - Michele Dotrice, English actress
September 29 - Bryant Gumbel, American television broadcaster
September 29 - Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
October 1 - Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman (d. 2001)
October 2 - Avery Brooks, American television actor
October 2 - Chris LeDoux, American singer and rodeo star (d. 2005)
October 6 - Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
October 7 - Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
October 8 - Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (d. 2004)
October 9 - Jackson Browne, American musician
October 13 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (d. 1997)
October 13 - Ted Poe, American politician
October 13 - John Ford Coley, American musician
October 14 - Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
October 16 - Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
October 17 - George Wendt, American television actor
October 17 - Robert Jordan, American novelist (d. 2007)
October 18 - Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher

November–December

November 3 - Lulu (singer), Scottish singer
November 5 - William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 10 - Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
November 13 - Lockwood Smith, New Zealand politician
November 14 - Charles, Prince of Wales
November 15 - James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (d. 2007)
November 16 - Mutt Lange, Rhodesian-born record producer
November 17 - Howard Dean, American politician
November 20 - John R. Bolton, Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN
November 20 - Barbara Hendricks, American-born soprano
December 2 - T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
December 3 - Rick Cua, American singer and evangelist
December 3 - Ozzy Osbourne, English singer
December 6 - Keke Rosberg, Finnish Formula One Champion
December 6 - JoBeth Williams, American actress
December 7 - Gary Morris, singer and actor
December 7 - Mads Vinding, Danish bassist
December 10 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
December 13 - David O'List, British rock guitarist
December 14 - Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982)
December 14 - Kim Beazley, Australian politician
December 18 - Bill Nelson, (born William Nelson), British guitarist, songwriter, painter and experimental musician
December 19 - Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
December 21 - Samuel L. Jackson, American actor
December 21 - Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician and cabaret artist
December 22 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (d. 2003)
December 22 - Noel Edmonds, British TV presenter
December 27 - Gérard Depardieu, French actor
December 28 - Dick Siegel, American songwriter
December 31 - Joe Dallesandro, American model and actor
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- Ciarán Carson, Northern Irish poet and novelist
- Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman and murder victim (d. 1995)

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Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

September
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30

October
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

January
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

February
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29

March
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

April
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30

May
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31

June
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30

July
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

August
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

September
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30

October
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31