Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 - 1914 - 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
Events:
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births:
- January 4 - Jane Wyman, actress
- January 5 - George Reeves, actor (+ 1959)
- January 6 - Danny Thomas[?], singer, actor, comedian (+ 1991)
- January 14 - Harold Russell[?], actor (+ 2002)
- January 18 - Arno Schmidt, author (+ 1979)
- January 30 - David Wayne[?], actor (+ 1995)
- January 30 - John Ireland, actor (+ 1992)
- January 31 - Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer (+ 1994)
- February 4 - Alfred Andersch, narrator and author of radio drama (+ 1980)
- February 4 - Ida Lupino[?], actress, director, writer (+ 1995)
- February 5 - William S. Burroughs, US author
- February 6 - Thurl Ravenscroft[?], voice-over actor ("Tony the Tiger")
- February 9 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress, ecdesiast (+ 1970)
- February 9 - Ernest Tubb[?], country music singer
- February 11 - Matt Dennis[?], singer.
- February 11 - French Duynstee[?], Dutch constitutional lawyer.
- February 11 - Menelaos Pallantios[?], composer.
- February 11 - Winand Borgerhoff Mulder[?] court judge of Amsterdam.
- February 12 - Tex Beneke[?], musician, band leader (+ 2000)
- February 24 - Zachary Scott[?], actor
- March 1 - Ralph Ellison, writer (+ 1994)
- March 2 - Martin Ritt[?], director (+ 1990)
- March 13 - Edward O'Hare, US pilot
- March 17 - Sammy Baugh[?], American football star
- March 19 - Jay Berwanger, American football star, winner of the first Heisman Trophy[?] (+ 2002)
- March 26 - General William Westmoreland, United States commander during the Vietnam War
- March 28 - Edmund Muskie[?], United States politician (+ 1996)
- March 30 - Sonny Boy Williamson[?], musician
- March 31 - Octavio Paz, author, Nobel Prize for Literature (+ 1998)
- April 2 - Sir Alec Guinness, actor (+ 2000)
- April 4 - Marguerite Duras, writer (+ 1996)
- April 22 - Jan de Hartog[?], writer (+ 2002)
- April 25 - Ross Lockridge Jr.[?], writer (+ 1948)
- April 26 - Bernard Malamud, author (+ 1986)
- May 8 - Romain Gary, writer
- May 9 - Hank Snow, country musician (+ 1999)
- May 12 - Howard K. Smith, journalist (+ 2002)
- May 13 - Joe Louis, boxer (+ 1981)
- May 19 - Go Seigen, Go player
- May 19 - Max Perutz, molecular biologist (+ 2002)
- May 22 - Vance Packard, author (+ 1996)
- May 22 - Sun Ra, jazz musician (+ 1993)
- May 28 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II pilot (+ 1996)
- May 29 - Sherpa Tenzing Norgay
- May 29 - Eduard Pestel[?], scientist and engineer (+ 1988)
- September 5 - Sor Isolina Ferre famous Puerto Rican catholic woman
- September 12 - Desmond Llewelyn, British actor, (Q in the James Bond movies)
- October 6 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer on the Kon-Tiki expedition.(+ 2002)
- October 21 - Martin Gardner, writer on mathematics and games
- October 27 - Dylan Thomas, poet and author
- Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper; William Westmoreland, US general; Edmund Muskie[?], US senator; Sir Alec Guinness, British actor; Bernard Malamud, novelist; Alan Cranston[?], US senator; Allen Funt[?], host of Candid Camera; Jonas Salk, developed polio vaccine; Joe DiMaggio, baseball; Dorothy Lamour, actress; Richard Widmark[?], actor; Bert Parks[?], host of Miss America; William Vickrey, economist.
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