1959
From top to bottom, left to right: The Cuban Revolution brings Fidel Castro to power after toppling Fulgencio Batista; construction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail begins, later crucial in the Vietnam War; The Day the Music Died plane crash kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson; Miss Baker becomes one of the first animals to survive spaceflight; the Kitchen Debate reflect Cold War tensions between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev; the 1959 Tibetan uprising forces the 14th Dalai Lama into exile; the Léopoldville riots ignite unrest in the Congo; the Malpasset Dam collapse kills hundreds in France; and Typhoon Vera devastates Japan.
| ألفية: | الألفية 2 |
|---|---|
| قرون: | القرن 19 – القرن 20 – القرن 21 |
| عقود: | عقد 1920 عقد 1930 عقد 1940 – عقد 1950 – عقد 1960 عقد 1970 عقد 1980 |
| سنين: | 1956 1957 1958 – 1959 – 1960 1961 1962 |
| 1959 حسب الموضوع: |
| الموضوع |
| حسب البلد |
|
| القادة |
| تصنيفات المواليد والوفيات |
| تصنيفات تأسيسات وانحلالات |
| تصنيفات أعمال وأطروحات |
| التقويم الگريگوري | 1959 MCMLIX |
| آب أوربه كونديتا | 2712 |
| التقويم الأرمني | 1408 ԹՎ ՌՆԸ |
| التقويم الآشوري | 6709 |
| التقويم البهائي | 115–116 |
| التقويم البنغالي | 1366 |
| التقويم الأمازيغي | 2909 |
| سنة العهد البريطاني | 7 إليز. 2 – 8 إليز. 2 |
| التقويم البوذي | 2503 |
| التقويم البورمي | 1321 |
| التقويم البيزنطي | 7467–7468 |
| التقويم الصيني | 戊戌年 (التراب الكلب) 4655 أو 4595 — إلى — 己亥年 (التراب الخنزير) 4656 أو 4596 |
| التقويم القبطي | 1675–1676 |
| التقويم الديسكوردي | 3125 |
| التقويم الإثيوپي | 1951–1952 |
| التقويم العبري | 5719–5720 |
| التقاويم الهندوسية | |
| - ڤيكرام سامڤات | 2015–2016 |
| - شاكا سامڤات | 1881–1882 |
| - كالي يوگا | 5060–5061 |
| تقويم الهولوسين | 11959 |
| تقويم الإگبو | 959–960 |
| التقويم الإيراني | 1337–1338 |
| التقويم الهجري | 1378–1379 |
| التقويم الياباني | Shōwa 34 (昭和34年) |
| تقويم جوچى | 48 |
| التقويم اليوليوسي | الگريگوري ناقص 13 يوم |
| التقويم الكوري | 4292 |
| تقويم مينگوو | جمهورية الصين 48 民國48年 |
| التقويم الشمسي التايلندي | 2502 |
سنة 1959 (MCMLIX)
كانت
سنة بسيطة تبدأ يوم الخميس
(الرابط يعرض التقويم كاملاً) التقويم الگريگوري، السنة 1959 بعد الميلاد (م)، السنة 959 في الألفية 2، السنة 59 في القرن 20، والسنة 10 والأخيرة في عقد 1950.
الأحداث
يناير
- 1 يناير
- زريعات النباتات المسماة بعد هذا التاريخ يجب أن تسمى بإسم من لغة حية، وليس باللاتينية.
- كوبا: فولجنسيو باتيستا يهرب من هاڤانا مع اقتراب قوات فيدل كاسترو.
- 2 يناير
- الاتحاد السوڤيتي ينجح في اطلاق مركبة الفضاء لونا 1 من قاعدة بايكونور الفضائية.
- 3 يناير
- جزيرة أدّو في أقصى جنوب أرخبيل المالديڤ تعلن استقلالها عن مملكة المالديف، بادئةً United Suvadive Republic.[1]
- ألاسكا تصبح الولاية رقم 49 في الولايات المتحدة.[2]
- اشتباكات عنيفة بين قوات جيش التحرير الوطني الجزائري والجيش الفرنسي بالقرب من مدينة البرواقية.
- 4 يناير
- In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana.
- Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo.
- 6 يناير – The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated.
- January 7 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
- January 8 – Charles de Gaulle is inaugurated as the first president of the French Fifth Republic.[3]
- 9 يناير – The Vega de Tera disaster in Spain, a flood caused by a dam collapse, nearly destroys the town of Ribadelago and kills 144 residents.[4]
- January 10 – The Soviet government recognizes the new Castro government of Cuba.
- January 11 – The Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques is founded in Monaco.
- January 12 – The Motown record label is founded as Tamla by Berry Gordy in Detroit.
- January 15 – The Soviet Union conducts its first census after World War II.
- January 21 – The European Court of Human Rights is established.
- January 22 – Knox Mine disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine in Port Griffith, near Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States; 12 miners are killed.
- January 25
- American Airlines begins the first U.S. domestic jet service with a Boeing 707 airliner flight between New York and Los Angeles.[5]
- Pope John XXIII announces that the Second Vatican Council will be convened in Rome.
- January 30 – Danish passenger/cargo ship إمإس Hans Hedtoft, returning to Copenhagen after its maiden voyage to Greenland, strikes an iceberg and sinks off the Greenland coast with the loss of all 95 on board.[6]
فبراير
- F1 فبراير – A referendum in Switzerland turns down female suffrage.
- 2 فبراير – nine ski hikers mysteriously perish in the northern Ural Mountains in the Dyatlov Pass incident.
- 3 فبراير
- A chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper and pilot Roger Peterson goes down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all 4 occupants on board. The tragedy is later termed "The Day the Music Died", popularized in Don McLean's 1972 song "American Pie".
- American Airlines Flight 320, a Lockheed L-188 Electra heading from Chicago to New York City, crashes into the East River, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.
- 6 فبراير – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
- 9 فبراير – Yugoslavia and Spain set trade relations (not diplomatic ones).
- 13 فبراير – TAT-2, AT&T's second transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation.
- 16 فبراير
- فيدل كاسترو يصبح رئيس وزراء كوبا.
- A blizzard causes a massive power outage in Newfoundland.
- 17 فبراير – The United States launches the Vanguard II weather satellite.
- 18 فبراير
- Jesús Sosa Blanco, a colonel in the Cuban army of Fulgencio Batista, is executed in كوبا after being convicted of committing 108 murders for Batista.
- Women in Nepal vote for the first time.
- 19 فبراير – The United Kingdom decides to grant Cyprus its independence.
- 20 فبراير – The Canadian Government cancels the CF-105 Arrow project.
مارس
- قيام تنظيم الضباط الوطنيين بثورة الشواف في العراق في مدينتي الموصل وكركوك ضد حكم الزعيم عبد الكريم قاسم، بقيادة العقيد عبد الوهاب الشواف.
- تأسيس مدينة علي الشرقي التابعة لمحافظة ميسان، العراق
- 1 مارس - المطران مكاريوس يعود إلى قبرص من المنفى.
- March 9 – The Barbie doll debuts.
- March 10 – A Tibetan uprising against 10 years of Chinese rule erupts in Lhasa.
- March 17 – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet.
- March 18 – American President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill allowing for Hawaiian statehood.
- March 19 – Two other islands join Addu in the United Suvadive Republic (abolished September 1963), in the Maldives Islands.
- March 31
- Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida opens.
- The Dalai Lama is granted asylum in India.
أبريل
مقالة مفصلة: أبريل 1959
مايو
مقالة مفصلة: مايو 1950
- May – In the United Kingdom:
- Import tariffs are lifted.
- The first Ten Tors event is held on Dartmoor.
- May 2 – 1959 FA Cup Final: Nottingham Forest defeat Luton Town 2–1 at Wembley Stadium.
- May 18 – The National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire is launched in Conakry, Guinea.
- May 21 – Gypsy: A Musical Fable, starring Ethel Merman in her last new musical, opens on Broadway and runs for 702 performances.
- May 23 – In Laos the Laotian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Laos and communist rebels, the Pathet Lao.
- May 24 – British Empire Day is renamed Commonwealth Day.
- May 28 – Jupiter AM-18 rocket launches two primates, Miss Baker and Miss Able, into space from Cape Canaveral in the United States along with living microorganisms and plant seeds. Successful recovery makes them the first living beings to return safely to Earth after space flight.
يونيو
مقالة مفصلة: يونيو 1959
- 3 يونيو
- Singapore becomes a self-governing crown colony of Britain with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister.
- Real Madrid beat Stade Reims 2–0 at Neckarstadion, Stuttgart and win the 1958–59 European Cup (Association football).
- June 5 – A new government of the State of Singapore is sworn in by Sir William Goode. Two former ministers are re-elected to the Legislative Assembly.
- June 8 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
- June 9 – The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
- June 14 – A 3-front invasion of the Dominican Republic by exile forces backed by Fidel Castro and Venezuela attempts to overthrow Rafael Trujillo.
- June 18 – The film The Nun's Story, based on the best-selling novel, is released. Audrey Hepburn stars as the title character; she later says that this is her favorite film role. The film is a box-office hit, and is nominated for several Oscars.
- June 23
- Seán Lemass becomes the third Taoiseach of Ireland.
- Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after nine years in a British prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
- June 26 – Elizabeth II (as monarch of Canada) and United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower open the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
- June 30 – 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash: Twenty-one students are killed and more than a hundred injured when a U.S. Air Force North American F-100 Super Sabre jet crashes into Miamori Elementary School on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The pilot ejected before the plane struck the school.[7]
يوليو

مقالة مفصلة: يوليو 1959
أغسطس

مقالة مفصلة: أغسطس 1959
- 4 أغسطس – Martial law is declared in Laos.
- 7 أغسطس
- Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- The Roseburg Blast in Oregon, caused when a truck carrying explosives catches fire, kills 14 and causes $12 million worth of damage.
- August 8 – A flood in Taiwan kills 2,000.
- August 14 – Explorer 6 sends the first picture of Earth from orbit.
- August 15 – Cyprus gains independence.
- August 17 – In the United States:
- The 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake in southwest Montana kills 28.
- Miles Davis' influential jazz album Kind of Blue is released.
- August 19 – The Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) is established.
- 21 أغسطس - هاواي تصبح الولاية الأمريكية رقم 50.
- August 26 – The original Mini car, designed by Sir Alec Issigonis, is launched in England.
- August 30 – 1959 South Vietnamese legislative election: South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan is elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate.[10]
- August 31 – The Workers' Stadium sports venue in Beijing (China) is officially opened.[11]
سبتمبر

- 14 سبتمبر – Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 becomes the first human-made object to crash on the Moon.
- September 15–28 – USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his wife tour the United States, at the invitation of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- September 16 – The Xerox 914, the first plain paper copier, is introduced to the public.
- September 17 – The hypersonic North American X-15 research aircraft, piloted by Scott Crossfield, makes its first powered flight at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
- September 23 – The إمإس Princess of Tasmania, Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across the Bass Strait.
- September 26
- Typhoon Vera hits central Honshū, Japan, as a 160 أميال في الساعة (260 km/h) Category 5 storm, killing an estimated 5,098, injuring another 38,921, and leaving 1,533,000 homeless. Most of the victims and damage are centered in the Nagoya area.
- First large unit action of the Vietnam War takes place, when two companies of the ARVN's 23rd Division are ambushed by a well-organized Viet Cong force of several hundred, identified as the "2nd Liberation Battalion".
- 30 سبتمبر – زعيم الاتحاد السوفيتي Nikita Khrushchev meets Mao Zedong in Beijing.
أكتوبر

مقالة مفصلة: أكتوبر 1959
نوفمبر
- November 1 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.
- November 18 – MGM's widescreen, multimillion dollar, Technicolor version of Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, is released and becomes the studio's greatest hit up to that time. It is critically acclaimed and eventually wins 11 Academy Awards – a record held until 1998, when 1997's Titanic becomes the first film to equal the record. To the present day, the 1959 Ben-Hur remains the last MGM film to win a Best Picture Oscar, though Doctor Zhivago, another MGM film, was nominated in 1965.
- November 20 – The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.
ديسمبر
- December 1 – Cold War – Antarctic Treaty: 12 countries, including the United States and the الاتحاد السوڤيتي, sign a landmark treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent (the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War).
- December 2 – Malpasset Dam in southern France collapses and water flows over the town of Frejus, killing 412.
- December 8 – The Mona, a lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland, capsizes during a rescue attempt, with the loss of 8 lives.
- December 14 – Makarios III is selected the first president of Cyprus.
تاريخ غير معروف
- Pantyhose is introduced by Glen Raven Mills.
- The Workers World Party is founded by Sam Marcy.
- The first known human with HIV dies in the Congo.[13]
- The current (as of 2006) design of the Japanese 10 yen coin is put into circulation.
- The Caspian Tiger becomes extinct in Iran.
- The Henney Kilowatt goes on sale in the United States, becoming the first mass-produced electric car in almost three decades.
- Erving Goffman publishes his seminal study in sociology, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.
- The iconic 1959 Cadillac is introduced, ending the tailfin wars begun in 1948.
المواليد
يناير

- 1 يناير -
- حمد بن جاسم بن جبر آل ثاني، رئيس مجلس الوزراء القطري ووزير الخارجية.
- عبد الأحد مومند، أول رائد فضاء أفغاني.
- غزالي عثماني، رئيس سابق لجمهورية جزر القمر.
- 8 يناير - فرانك دارابونت، مخرج ومنتج أفلام أمريكي.
- 9 يناير -
- ريغوبيرتا مينتشو، سيدة من جواتيمالا حاصلة على جائزة نوبل للسلام لدفاعها عن حقوق الإنسان.
- مونيكا ستاب، لاعبة كرة قدم ألمانية سابقة ومدربة.
- 10 يناير - بكر الشدي، ممثل سعودي.
- 12 يناير - أحمد عز، رجل أعمال وسياسي مصري.
- 13 يناير - سليم شيبوب، رجل أعمال تونسي.
- 16 يناير -
- 19 يناير - مجدي الإبياري، منتج ومؤلف مصري.
- 20 يناير - أوريل تيكليانو، لاعب كرة قدم روماني سابق.
- 22 يناير - أورس ماير، حكم كرة قدم دولي سابق سويسري الجنسية.
- 23 يناير - عبد الله نهاري، داعية وخطيب مغربي.
- 24 يناير - ميشيل برودهوم، مدرب كرة قدم بلجيكي.
- 26 يناير - إروين ڤاندنبرگ، لاعب كرة قدم بلجيكي سابق.
- 27 يناير - كيث أولبرمان، إعلامي أمريكي.
فبراير
- 9 فبراير - علي بونگو أونديمبا، رئيس الغابون.
- 16 فبراير - جون ماكنرو، لاعب تنس أمريكي سابق.
- 18 فبراير - هالجريمر هيلجاسون، رسام وصحافي وروائي أيسلندي.
- 22 فبراير - سعد الحسيني، عضو مكتب إرشاد جماعة الإخوان المسلمين في مصر.
مارس

- 5 مارس - طلال العيار، نائب سابق في مجلس الأمة الكويتي.
- 16 مارس
- ينز ستولتنبرگ، رئيس وزراء النرويج رقم 27
- 28 مارس -
- أنور محمد قرقاش، وزير الدولة للشؤون الخارجية ووزير الدولة لشؤون المجلس الوطني في الإمارات العربية المتحدة.
- لورا شينشيلا، أول سيدة تتولى منصب الرئاسة في كوستاريكا.
- 30 مارس - صلاح معاطي، كاتب وأديب مصري.
أبريل
- 2 أبريل -
- بادو الزاكي، حارس مرمى سابق سابق مغربي.
- جون لاوريدسن، لاعب كرة قدم دنمركي سابق.
- 6 أبريل - بيترو فييرجوود، لاعب كرة قدم إيطالي سابق.
- 15 أبريل - توماس ف. ويلسن، ممثل أمريكي.
- 17 أبريل - شون بين، ممثل انجليزي.
- 23 أبريل - إيفون ردلي، صحفية وكاتبة بريطانية.
- 27 أبريل - أندرو فاير، باحث أمريكي حائز على جائزة نوبل في الطب.
مايو
- 1 مايو - أحمد داود أوغلو، رئيس وزراء تركيا.
- 5 مايو -
- الشابة الزهوانية، مغنية وعازفة جزائرية.
- برايان وليامز، محرر نشرة الأخبار في هيئة الإذاعة الوطنية، أمريكي
- 10 مايو - أحمد سلامة ممثل مصري.
- 25 مايو - أحمد درويش، وزير التنمية الإدارية المصري.
يونيو
- 7 يونيو – مايك پنس، سياسي أمريكي ونائب أسبق لرئيس الولايات المتحدة
- 10 يونيو
- إليوت سپيتسر، سياسي أمريكي وحاكم ولاية نيويورك السابق.
- June 13
- Klaus Iohannis, President of Romania[14]
- Jim Irsay, American businessman and former owner of the Indianapolis Colts (d. 2025)
- 19 يونيو - Christian Wulff, Federal President of Germany[15]
يوليو


- 4 يوليو - محمد سعود، فنان تشكيلي وناقد فني مغربي.
- 7 يوليو
- 13 يوليو - إبن موگلن، رئيس المركز القانوني لحرية البرمجيات.
- 22 يوليو - سعيد صيام، وزير الداخلية الفلسطيني.
- 26 يوليو - كڤن سپيسي، ممثل أمريكي حاصل على جائزتي أوسكار.
- 29 يوليو
- رود يانسن، فنان هولندي
أغسطس

- 3 أغسطس – كويتشي تاناكا، كيميائي ياباني.
- 8 أغسطس - موزا المسند، زوجة حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني الأمير السابع لقطر ووالدة تميم بن حمد بن خليفة آل ثاني الأمير الثامن لقطر.
- 10 أغسطس - روزانا أركيت، ممثلة ومخرجة أمريكية.
- 14 أغسطس -
- ماجيك جونسون، لاعب كرة سلة أمريكي سابق.
- 30 أغسطس - محمد بن نايف بن عبد العزيز آل سعود، وزير الداخلية السعودي.
سبتمبر
- 9 سبتمبر -
- 19 سبتمبر - إلهام القرضاوي، حاصلة علي جائزة "أحمد باديب للتفوق العلمي للمرأة العربية" في مجال الفيزياء النووية.
اكتوبر


- 1 أكتوبر
- يوسو ندور، مغني سنغالي
- 5 أكتوبر - عواطف سراج الدين، ناشطة مصرية في منظمات ومؤسسات خيرية.
- 15 أكتوبر
- سارة، دوقة يورك، أميرة بريطانية والزوجة السابقة للأمير أندرو، دوق يورك
- إمريل لاگاس، طاهي أمريكي وصاحب مطاعم
نوفمبر
- 2 نوفمبر – سعيد عويطة، عداء مغربي
- 29 نوفمبر - رام إمانيوِل، سياسي أمريكي
ديسمبر

- 9 ديسمبر - هشام طلعت مصطفى، رجل أعمال مصري.
- 12 ديسمبر - علا رامي، ممثلة وراقصة باليه مصرية.
- 24 ديسمبر - أنيل كابور، ممثل هندي.
- 25 ديسمبر - عبد الله بن خليفة آل ثاني، رئيس وزراء قطري سابق.
- 31 ديسمبر - فال كيلمر، ممثل أمريكي.
الوفيات
يناير
- January 9 – Giuseppe Bottai, Italian Fascist journalist and politician (b. 1895)
- January 10 – Colin Gregory, Australian tennis player (b. 1903)
- January 14
- Eivind Berggrav, Norwegian Lutheran bishop and reverend (b. 1884)
- G. D. H. Cole, English political theorist, economist and historian (b. 1889)[16]
- January 21
- Cecil B. DeMille, American film director (b. 1881)
- Frances Gertrude McGill, Canadian forensic pathologist (b. 1882)
- Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, American actor (b. 1927)
- January 22
- Elisabeth Moore, American tennis champion (b. 1876)
- Mike Hawthorn, English racing driver (b. 1929)
فبراير


- February 3 – Killed in the crash of a private plane:
- The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), American rock singer (b. 1930)
- Buddy Holly, American rock singer (b. 1936)
- Ritchie Valens, American rock singer (b. 1941)
- February 4 – Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
- February 7 – D. F. Malan, South African politician, 4th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1874)[17]
- February 11 – Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1921)
- February 12 – George Antheil, American composer (b. 1900)
- February 14 – Baby Dodds, American jazz musician (b. 1898)
- February 15 – Sir Owen Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
- February 18 – Gago Coutinho, Portuguese aviation pioneer (b. 1869)
- February 22 – Helen Parrish, American actress (b. 1923)
- February 23 – Pierre Frieden, Luxembourgish politician and writer, 18th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1892)
- February 25 – Klawdziy Duzh-Dushewski, Soviet architect, diplomat and journalist (b. 1891)
- February 26
- Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, eldest grandchild of King Edward VII (b. 1891)
- Kōtoku Satō, Japanese general (b. 1893)
- February 28
- Maxwell Anderson, American screenwriter (b. 1888)
- Beatrix Farrand, American gardener and architect (b. 1872)
مارس


- March 1 – Mack Gordon, American composer and lyricist (b. 1904)
- March 2 – Eric Blore, English actor (b. 1887)
- March 3 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
- March 4 – Maxie Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
- March 6
- Guido Brignone, Italian actor (b. 1886)
- Fred Stone, American actor (b. 1873)
- March 7 – Ichirō Hatoyama, Japanese politician, 36th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1883)
- March 15
- Shalva Dadiani, Soviet novelist (b. 1874)
- Lester Young, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1909)
- March 17 – Galaktion Tabidze, Georgian poet (b. 1891)[18]
- March 19 – Umberto Barbaro, Italian critic (b. 1902)
- March 23 – Dominick Trcka, Czechoslovak Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1886)
- March 24 – Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, Sudanese political figure and religious leader, Imam of the Ansar and 1st Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1885)
- March 26 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)
- March 28 – Lyubov Golanchikova, Soviet pilot (b. 1889)
- March 29 – Barthélemy Boganda, 1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
أبريل

- April 2 – Nicholas Charnetsky, Soviet Orthodox priest, bishop, martyr and blessed (b. 1884)
- April 8 – Jonathan Zenneck, German physicist and electrical engineer (b. 1871)[19]
- April 9 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
- April 18 – Irving Cummings, American actor (b. 1888)
- April 26 – Ki Hajar Dewantara, founder of Taman Siswa school, first Minister of Education of Indonesia (b. 1889)
- April 28 – María Guggiari Echeverría, Paraguayan Roman Catholic religious professed and venerable (b. 1925)
- April 29 – Sir Kenneth Anderson, British general (b. 1891)
مايو

- May 5
- Georges Grente, French Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence (b. 1872)
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
- May 8
- Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician (b. 1904)
- Ibrahim of Johor, Malaysian sultan (b. 1873)
- May 11 – Marcella Albani, Italian actress (b. 1899)
- May 14 – Sidney Bechet, American-born jazz saxophonist (b. 1897)
- May 17 – George Albert Smith, English film pioneer (b. 1864)
- May 18
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Antarctic explorer (b. 1886)
- Enrique Guaita, Argentinian footballer (b. 1910)
- May 20 – Alfred Schütz, Austrian sociologist (b. 1899)
- May 21 - Marie Denizard, French feminist, first woman to stand as a candidate in a French presidential election (b. 3 April 1872)

Marie Denizard - May 24 – John Foster Dulles, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
- May 29 – Ed Walsh, American baseball player (b. 1881)
يونيو


- June 1 – Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883)
- June 4 – Charles Vidor, American director (b. 1900)
- June 8 – Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor (b. 1869)
- June 9 – Adolf Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
- June 13 – Seán Lester, Irish diplomat (b. 1888)[20]
- June 14 – Jerónimo Méndez, Chilean politician, acting President of the Republic (b. 1887)
- June 15 – Kazimierz Bein, Polish ophthalmologist (b. 1872)
- June 16 – George Reeves, American television actor (b. 1914)
- June 18
- Ethel Barrymore, American stage and screen actress (b. 1879)
- Vincenzo Cardarelli, Italian poet (b. 1887)
- June 20
- Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, 34th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1887)
- Sir Ian Clunies Ross, Australian scientist (b. 1899)[21]
- June 22 – Bruce Harlan, American Olympic diver (b. 1926)
- June 23
- Cesare Maria De Vecchi, Italian soldier (b. 1884)
- Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer and musician (b. 1920)
- June 27
- Elias, Duke of Parma (b. 1880)
- Giovanni Pastrone, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1883)
- June 30 – José Vasconcelos, Mexican politician, writer and philosopher (b. 1882)
يوليو


- July 2 – Sergei Chetverikov, Russian biologist (b. 1880)
- July 3 – Johan Bojer, Norwegian novelist and dramatist (b. 1872)
- July 6 – George Grosz, German artist (b. 1893)
- July 7
- Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa, Spanish painter (b. 1871)
- Ernest Newman, English music critic (b. 1868)[22]
- July 14 – Grock, Swiss clown (b. 1880)
- July 15
- Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born American composer (b. 1880)
- Agostino Gemelli, Italian Franciscan friar and reverend (b. 1878)
- July 17 – Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)[23]
- July 20 – William D. Leahy, American admiral (b. 1875)
- July 25
- Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland, and later of Israel (b. 1888)
- King Mutara III of Rwanda (b. 1911)
- July 27 – Aleksandar Tsankov, 21st Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1879)
- July 30 – María Natividad Venegas de la Torre, Mexican Roman Catholic nun and saint (b. 1868)
أغسطس

- August 4 – Ioan Bălan, Romanian Orthodox prelate (b. 1880)
- August 6 – Preston Sturges, American film director and writer (b. 1898)
- August 8
- Albert Namatjira, Australian Aboriginal artist (b. 1902)
- Luigi Sturzo, Italian Roman Catholic priest and politician (b. 1871)
- August 9 – Emil František Burian, Czechoslovak poet (b. 1904)
- August 16
- William Halsey Jr., American US Navy Fleet admiral (b. 1882)[24]
- Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
- August 19 – Blind Willie McTell, American Piedmont blues singer and guitarist (b. 1901)
- August 21 – Sir Jacob Epstein, American-born British sculptor (b. 1880)
- August 28
- Raphael Lemkin, Polish lawyer (b. 1900)
- Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
سبتمبر


- September 6
- Edmund Gwenn, English actor (b. 1877)
- Kay Kendall, English actress (b. 1927)
- September 7 – Maurice Duplessis, Premier of Quebec (b. 1890)
- September 9 – Ramón Fonst, Cuban fencer (b. 1883)
- September 11 – Paul Douglas, American actor (b. 1907)
- September 14 – Wayne Morris, American actor (b. 1914)
- September 18 – Adolf Ziegler, German painter (b. 1892)
- September 20 – Nikandr Chibisov, Russian commander (b. 1892)
- September 22
- Josef Matthias Hauer, Austrian composer and music theorist (b. 1883)
- Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, British field marshal (b. 1880)
- September 24 – Wolfgang Paalen, German-Austrian-Mexican painter, sculptor and art philosopher (b. 1905)
- September 25 – Helen Broderick, American actress (b. 1891)
- September 26 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, 4th Prime Minister of Ceylon (b. 1899)
- September 28
- Rudolf Caracciola, German racing driver (b. 1901)
- Vinnie Richards, American tennis player (b. 1903)
- September 30 – Taylor Holmes, American actor (b. 1878)
أكتوبر


- October 1 – Enrico De Nicola, Italian jurist, politician and journalist, 1st President of Italy (b. 1877)
- October 3 – Sakiko Kanase, Japanese hostess, model, and teacher (b. 1935)
- October 6 – Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
- October 7 – Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
- October 9 – Shirō Ishii, Japanese microbiologist and lieutenant general of Unit 731 (b. 1892)
- October 14 – Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
- October 15 – Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (b. 1909)
- October 16 – George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
- October 18 – Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1903)
- October 19 –
- Ebrahim Hakimi, 29th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1869)
- Josef Hoop, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (b. 1895)
- October 20 – Werner Krauss, German actor (b. 1884)
- October 22 – Joseph Cahill, Australian politician (b. 1891)
- October 28 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
- October 29 – King Sisavang Vong of Laos (b. 1885)[25]
November


- November 1 – Zhang Jinghui, Chinese general and politician, Prime Minister of Manchukuo (b. 1871)
- November 2 – Federico Tedeschini, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence (b. 1873)
- November 4
- George of Drama, Greek Orthodox priest, elder and saint (b. 1901)[26]
- Friedrich Waismann, Austrian mathematician, physicist and philosopher (b. 1896)
- November 6
- José P. Laurel, Filipino politician and judge, 3rd President of the Philippines (b. 1891)
- Ivan Leonidov, Russian architect (b. 1902)
- November 7 – Victor McLaglen, English actor and boxer (b. 1886)
- November 10 – Lupino Lane, British actor (b. 1892)
- November 15 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- November 17 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
- November 20 – Alfonso López Pumarejo, 2-time President of Colombia (b. 1886)
- November 21 – Max Baer, American boxer and actor (b. 1909)
- November 22 – Molla Mallory, American tennis champion (b. 1884)
- November 24
- Stepan Erzia, Russian sculptor (b. 1876)
- Ion Gigurtu, 42nd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1886)
- November 25 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
ديسمبر

- December 3 – Juozapas Skvireckas, Soviet Orthodox archbishop and reverend (b. 1873)
- December 4 – Hubert Marischka, Austrian film director (b. 1882)
- December 7
- Charlie Hall, English actor (b. 1899)
- Prince Kuni Asaakira (b. 1901)
- December 11 – Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
- December 14 – Stanley Spencer, British painter (b. 1891)
- December 19 – Andrés Martínez Trueba, 31st President of Uruguay (b. 1884)
- December 22 – Gilda Gray, Polish-born dancer and actress (b. 1901)
- December 23 – Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, British politician (b. 1881)
- December 28 – Ante Pavelic, Croatian fascist leader and WWII war criminal (b. 1889)
Unknown
- Al-Abbas ibn Ibrahim as-Samlali, Moroccan historian (b. 1877)
- Elena Săcălici, Romanian artistic gymnast (b. 1935)
جوائز نوبل

- Physics – Emilio Gino Segrè, Owen Chamberlain
- Chemistry – Jaroslav Heyrovský
- Physiology or Medicine – Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg
- Literature – Salvatore Quasimodo
- Peace – Philip John Noel-Baker
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