1967
Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
- May 1
- May 2
- The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. It was their last Stanley Cup and last finals appearance to date. It would turn out to be the last game in the original six era. Six more teams would be added in the fall.
- Harold Wilson announces that the United Kingdom has decided to apply for EEC membership.
- May 4 – Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched by the United States.
- May 6
- May 8 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
- May 10 – The Greek military government accuses Andreas Papandreou of treason.
- May 11 – The United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for European Economic Community membership.
- May 17
- May 18
- May 19
- May 22 – The Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
- May 23 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat, and Israel's entire Red Sea coastline.
- May 25
- May 27
- Naxalite Guerrilla War: Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist/Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside. The guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants, fighting both the government security forces and private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy landowners. Most fighting takes place in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.
- The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians. It signifies Australia's first step in recognising Indigenous rights.
- May 28 – The Folk-Rock band Fairport Convention plays their first gig in London.
- May 30 – Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence.
June
- June – Moshe Dayan becomes Israel's Minister of Defense.
- June 1 – The Beatles legendary release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, nicknamed "The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love"; it would be number one on the albums charts throughout the summer of 1967.
- June 2
- June 4 – Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
- June 5
- June 6 – East African Community (EAC) established.
- June 7 – Two Moby Grape members are arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors.
- June 8 – Six-Day War – USS Liberty incident: Israeli fighter jets and Israeli warships fire at the USS Liberty off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171.
- June 10
- June 11 – A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida after the shooting death of Martin Chambers by police while allegedly robbing a camera store. The unrest lasts several days.
- June 12
- June 13 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.[5]
- June 14
- June 14–June 15 – Glenn Gould records Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in New York City (his only recording of a Prokofiev composition).
- June 16 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins and is held for 3 days.
- June 17 – The People's Republic of China announces a successful hydrogen bomb test.
- June 23 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day Glassboro Summit Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of war protesters clashed with L.A. police.[7]
- June 25 – 400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love".
- June 26
- June 27 – The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of the Barclays Bank in Enfield, England.
- June 28 – Israel declares the annexation of East Jerusalem.
- June 30 – Moise Tshombe, former President of Katanga and former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped to Algeria.
July
- July 1
- July 3 – A military rebellion led by Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme begins in Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- July 4 – The British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality.
- July 5 – Troops of Belgian mercenary commander Jean Schramme revolt against Mobutu Sese Seko, and try to take control of Stanleyville, Congo.
- July 6
- July 10 – Heavy massive rains and a landslide at Kobe and Kure, Hiroshima, Japan, kill at least 371.
- July 12
- The Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship.
- After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road, race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, and these riots last for six days.
- July 14 – Near Newark, New Jersey, the Plainfield, NJ, riots also occur.
- July 16 – A prison riot in Jay, Florida leaves 37 dead.
- July 18 – The United Kingdom announces the closing of its military bases in Malaysia and Singapore. Australia and the U.S. disapprove.
- July 19 – A race riot breaks out in the North Side of Minneapolis on Plymouth Street during the Minneapolis Aquatennial Parade and business are vandalized and fires break out in the area, although the disturbance is quelled within hours. However, the next day a shooting sets off another incident in the same area that leads to 18 fires, 36 arrests, 3 shootings, 2 dozen people injured, and damages totaling 4.2 million. There will be two more such incidents in the following two weeks.
- July 20 – Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize.
- July 21 – The town of Winneconne, Wisconsin, announces secession from the United States because it is not included in the official maps and declares war. Secession is repealed the next day.
- July 23 – 12th Street Riot/Detroit Race Riots: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
- July 24 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delights many Quebecers but angers the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
- July 29
- July 30 – The 1967 Milwaukee race riots begin, lasting through August 2 and leading to a ten-day shutdown of the city from August 1.
August
September
- September 1 – Ilse Koch, also known as the "Witch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.
- September 3
- September 4 – Vietnam War – Operation Swift: The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
- September 9 – Fashion Island, one of California's first outdoor shopping malls, opens in Newport Beach.
- September 10 – In Gibraltar, only 44 out of 12,182 voters support union with Spain.
- September 17
- September 18 – Love Is a Many Splendored Thing debuts on U.S. daytime television and is the first soap opera to deal with an interracial relationship. CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit.
- September 27 – The RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton, at the end of her last transatlantic voyage.
- September 30 – BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 are all launched.
October
November
- November 2 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
- November 3 – Vietnam War – Battle of Dak To: Around Dak To (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border), heavy casualties are suffered on both sides (the Americans narrowly win the battle on November 22).
- November 4–November 5 – Mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda.
- November 6 – The Rhodesian parliament passes pro-Apartheid laws.
- November 7
- November 8 – The BBC's first local radio station (BBC Radio Leicester) is launched.
- November 9 – Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
- November 11 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 3 United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "New Left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
- November 14 – The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150-year anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as the "Day of the Colombian Woman".
- November 15
- General Grivas and his 10,000 strong Greek Army division are forced to leave Cyprus, after 24 Turkish Cypriot civilians are killed by the Greek Cypriot National Guard in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios Theodhoros; relations sour between Nicosia and Athens. Turkey flies sorties into Greek territory, and masses troops in Thrace on her border with Greece.
- Test pilot Michael Adams is killed when his X-15 rocket plane tumbles out of control during atmospheric re-entry and disintegrates.
- November 17
- Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." (2 months later the Tet Offensive makes him regret his words.)
- French author Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia.
- November 18 – The UK pound is devalued from 1 GBP = 2.80 USD to 1 GBP = 2.40 USD.
- November 21 – Vietnam War: United States General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
- November 22 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
- November 26 – Major floods hit Lisbon, Portugal, killing 462.
- November 27 – The Beatles release Magical Mystery Tour in the US as a full album. The songs added to the original six songs on the double EP include All You Need Is Love, Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields Forever, Baby, You're a Rich Man and Hello, Goodbye. Release as a double EP will not take place in the UK until December.
- November 29 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation to become president of the World Bank. This action is due to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam.
- November 30
December
Date unknown
- Warner Bros. Pictures becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Seven Arts Productions, thus becoming Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
- The Jari project begins in the Amazon.
- Albania is officially declared an atheist state by its leader, Enver Hoxha.
- The University of Winnipeg is founded in Canada.
- Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) is first discovered in the Barringer Crater, Arizona.
- A lost city is discovered on the island of Thera, buried under volcanic debris. It has been suggested that Plato may have heard legends about this, and used them as the germ of his story of Atlantis.
- PAL is first introduced in Germany.
- The Summer of Love is held in San Francisco.
- Lech Wałęsa goes to work in Gdańsk shipyards.
- Benjamin Netanyahu joins the Israeli Army.
- The Greek military junta exiles Melina Mercouri.
- Parker Morris Standards become mandatory for all housing built in New Towns in the UK.
- Gabriel García Márquez's influential novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is published (in Spanish).
- The first edition of the book, A Short History of Pakistan, is published by Karachi University, Pakistan.
- Fernand Braudel begins publication of Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme, XVe-XVIIIe siècle.
Births
January
- January 1 – Sunny Chan, Hong Kong TVB actor
- January 2 – Tia Carrere, American actress
- January 4 – Marina Orsini, Canadian actress
- January 5 – Joe Flanigan, American actor
- January 7 – Mark Lamarr, British comedian/TV and radio presenter
- January 8 – R. Kelly, American R&B singer/songwriter/producer
- January 9
- January 12 – Vendela Kirsebom, Swedish supermodel
- January 14
- January 15 – Lisa Lisa, American singer
- January 17 – Song Kang-ho, Korean actor
- January 18 – Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
- January 21 – Artashes Minasian, Armenian chess grand master
- January 22 – Eleanor McEvoy, Irish singer-songwriter
- January 23 – Naim Süleymanoğlu, Turkish weightlifter
- January 24 – John Myung, American musician
- January 25 – Voltaire, Cuban singer
- January 28 – Jan Lamb, Hong Kong singer and actor
- January 29 – Khalid Skah, Moroccan long-distance runner
- January 31 – Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress
February
- February 1 – Meg Cabot, American teen author
- February 2
- February 6 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
- February 7 – Cheung Man, Hong Kong actress
- February 9
- February 10
- February 11 – Hank Gathers, American college basketball player
- February 12 – Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Indian composer and musician
- February 14 – Mark Rutte, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 2010
- February 15 – Trond Egil Soltvedt, Norwegian footballer
- February 18
- February 19 – Sven Erik Kristiansen Norwegian Black metal and hardcore punk singer (Maniac)
- February 20
- February 23 – Tamsin Greig, English actress
- February 26 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese footballer
March
- March 1 – George Eads, American actor
- March 4 – Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer
- March 11
- March 13 – Andres Escobar, Colombian football player (d. 1994)
- March 15 - Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist
- March 16 – Lauren Graham, American actress
- March 17 – Billy Corgan, American musician and songwriter
- March 18 – Andre Rison, American pro football player
- March 19 – Mary Scheer, American actress
- March 21
- March 22 – Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
- March 25 – Debi Thomas, American figure skater
- March 26 – Mark Carroll, Australian rugby league footballer
- March 27
- March 29 – Brian Jordan, American baseball player
- March 30 – Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (d. 2008)
April
- April 5 – Anu Garg, Indian-American writer and speaker
- April 6 – Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler
- April 9 – Alex Kahn, American artist
- April 14 – Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler
- April 15 - Dara Torres, American swimmer
- April 17 – Marquis Grissom, American baseball player
- April 18 – Maria Bello, American actress
- April 20
- April 22
- April 23 – Melina Kanakaredes, American actress
- April 26
- April 27 – Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, Dutch heir apparent
- April 29
May
- May 1 – Kenny Hotz, Canadian entertainer
- May 5 – Takehito Koyasu, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
- May 10 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster
- May 14 – Tony Siragusa, American football player
- May 15 – John Smoltz, American baseball player
- May 19
- May 21 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007)
- May 22
- May 24 – Bruno Putzulu, French actor
- May 25 – Poppy Z. Brite, American author
- May 27 – Paul Gascoigne, English footballer (Newcastle United, England & Middlesbrough)
- May 29 – Noel Gallagher, British musician (Oasis)
- May 31
June
July
- July 1 – Pamela Anderson, Canadian actress and model
- July 4
- July 5 – Silvia Ziche, Italian comics artist
- July 8 – Jordan Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor
- July 9
- July 11 – John Henson, American TV show host
- July 12
- July 13 – Akira Hokuto, Japanese women's professional wrestler
- July 14 – Robin Ventura, American baseball player
- July 15
- July 16 – Will Ferrell, American comedian and actor
- July 18 – Vin Diesel, American actor
- July 19 – Rageh Omaar, broadcaster
- July 23 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
- July 25 – Matt LeBlanc, American actor
- July 28 – Taka Hirose, Japanese musician (Feeder)
- July 30 – A. W. Yrjänä, Finnish rock musician and poet
- July 31
August
- August 4 – Michael Marsh, American athlete
- August 5 – Thomas Lang, Austrian drummer
- August 7 – Charlotte Lewis, English actress
- August 8 – Rena Mero, American wrestler, model and actress
- August 9 – Deion Sanders, American pro football and baseball player
- August 10 – Riddick Bowe, American boxer
- August 11
- August 12
- August 13 – Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer
- August 15 – Brahim Boutayeb, Moroccan long-distance runner
- August 16
- August 21
- August 22
- August 29 – Jiří Růžek, Czech photographer
- August 30 – Frederique van der Wal, Dutch supermodel
September
- September 3 – Luis Gonzalez, American baseball player
- September 5
- September 6 – Macy Gray, American R&B singer
- September 9 – Akshay Kumar,Bollywood Actor
- September 11 – Harry Connick, Jr., American singer and actor
- September 13 – Michael Johnson, American athlete
- September 18 – Tara FitzGerald, British actress
- September 19 – Alexander Karelin, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler
- September 20 – Kristen Johnston, American actress
- September 21
- September 22 – Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
- September 23 – Masashi Nakayama, Japanese footballer
- September 25 – Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
- September 28 – Mira Sorvino, American actress
- September 30 – Andrea Roth, Canadian actress
October
- October 2 – Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
- October 4 – Liev Schreiber, American actor
- October 5 – Guy Pearce, English-born actor
- October 7 – Toni Braxton, American R&B singer
- October 9 – Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
- October 11
- Tazz, American professional wrestler and commentator
- Artie Lange, American actor, comedian and radio personality
- David Starr, American racecar driver
- October 13
- October 16 – Davina McCall, British TV presenter and UK Big Brother host
- October 17
- October 22
- October 24 – Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
- October 26 – Keith Urban, New Zealand-born Australian country music singer
- October 27 – Scott Weiland, American musician
- October 28
- October 29
- October 30
- Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
- Ty Detmer, American NFL quarterback and 1990 Heisman Trophy winner
November
- November 1
- November 2 – Akira Ishida, Japanese voice actor
- November 3 – Steven Wilson, British musician
- November 5 – Judy Reyes, American actress
- November 6 – Rebecca Schaeffer, American actrees (d. 1989)
- November 7 – Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer and songwriter
- November 8 – Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
- November 11 – Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
- November 13
- November 14 – Letitia Dean, British actress
- November 15 – François Ozon, French writer and director
- November 16 – Lisa Bonet, American actress
- November 20 – Teoman, Turkish rock singer and song-writer
- November 22
- November 23 – Salli Richardson, American actress
- November 25 – Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer
- November 28 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress (d. 2007)
- November 29 – John "Bradshaw" Layfield, American professional wrestler
December
- December 1 – Reggie Sanders, American Major League Baseball outfielder
- December 6
- December 8 – Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
- December 9 – Joshua Bell, American violinist
- December 11 – Mo'Nique, American actress and comedian
- December 12 – John Randle, American football player
- December 13 – Jamie Foxx, American actor
- December 14 – Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer
- December 16
- December 17 – Gigi D'Agostino, Italian musician and DJ
- December 18 – Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch sports journalist
- December 19 – Criss Angel, American musician, magician, illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer
- December 20 – Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia
- December 22 – Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer
Deaths
January–March
- January 17
- January 19 – Kazimierz Funk, Polish biochemist (b. 1884)
- January 21 – Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
- January 27
- January 31 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
- February 4 – Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)
- February 6
- February 7 David Unaipon, Australian author and inventor (b. 1872)
- February 8 – Victor Gollancz, British publisher (b. 1893)
- February 14 – Sig Ruman, German actor (b. 1884)
- February 15 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (b. 1887)
- February 16
- February 18 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
- February 21 – Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
- February 24
- February 28 – Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
- March 2 – Gordon Harker, English actor (b. 1885)
- March 4 – Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, deposed prime minister of Iran (b. 1882)
- March 5 – Mischa Auer, Russian-born actor (b. 1905)
- March 6
- March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, American personality (b. 1877)
- March 11
- March 21 – Marcellus Boss, American politician, member of the Kansas Senate and the 5th Civilian Governor of Guam. (b. 1901)
- March 27 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
- March 30 – Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
- March 31 – Don Alvarado, American actor (b. 1904)
April–June
- April 4 – Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
- April 5 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1890)
- April 17 – Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
- April 19 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
- April 22 – Tom Conway, British actor (b. 1904)
- April 24 – Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (parachute failure) (b. 1927)
- April 25
- April 27 – William Douglas Cook, founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti, (New Zealand) (b. 1884)
- April 29 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1906)
- May 6 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
- May 7 – Judith Evelyn, American actress (b. 1913)
- May 8
- May 10 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver (b. 1935)
- May 12 – John Masefield, English poet and novelist (b. 1878)
- May 15 – Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
- May 18 – Andy Clyde, Scottish actor (b. 1892)
- May 22 – Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
- May 29 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian film director (b. 1885)
- May 30 – Claude Rains, British actor (b. 1889)
- May 31 – Billy Strayhorn, American composer and pianist (b. 1915)
- June 5 – Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1878)
- June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
- June 10 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
- June 13 – Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis champion (b. 1895)
- June 14 – Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
- June 16 – Reginald Denny, English actor (b. 1891)
- June 17 – Vernon Huber, American admiral and 36th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1899)
- June 26 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b.1942)
- June 29
July–September
- July 1 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian (b. 1888)
- July 8
- July 9 – Douglas MacLean, American actor (b. 1890)
- July 14 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
- July 17
- July 18 – Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco, ex-president of Brazil (b. 1897) (plane crash)
- July 21
- July 22 – Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
- July 31 – Margaret Kennedy, English writer (b. 1896)
- August 1 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- August 2 – Walter Terence Stace, British philosopher (b. 1886)
- August 9
- August 13 – Jane Darwell, American actress (b. 1879)
- August 15
- August 19
- August 24
- August 25
- August 27 – Brian Epstein, English band manager (The Beatles) (b. 1934)
- August 31 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)
- September 1
- September 3
- September 11 – Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
- September 13 – Varian Fry, American journalist (b. 1907)
- September 16 – Ethel May Halls, American theatrical and film actress (b. 1882)
- September 18 – John Cockcroft, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- September 23 - Stanislaus Zbyszko, professional wrestler (b. 1879}
- September 27 – Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (b. 1887)
- September 29
October–December
- October 3
- October 7 – Norman Angell, British politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1872)
- October 8 – Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
- October 9
- October 12 – Nat Pendleton, American actor and Olympic wrestler (b. 1895)
- October 17 – Xuantong Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1906)
- October 20 – Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
- October 23 – Helen Palmer Geisel, Dr. Seuss' first wife (b. 1899)
- October 25 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer (b. 1886)
- October 29 – Julien Duvivier, French film director (b. 1896)
- November 5 – Joseph Kesselring, American playwright (b. 1902)
- November 7 – John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (b. 1868)
- November 9 – Charles Bickford, American actor (b. 1891)
- November 13 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
- November 15 – Alice Lake, American actress (b. 1895)
- November 19 – Charles J. Watters, U.S. Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
- November 21
- November 25 – Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor, painter and lithographer (b. 1890)
- November 28 – Leon M'ba, Gabonese politician (b. 1902)
- December 3 – Harry Wismer, American baseball owner (b. 1913)
- December 4
- December 7 – House Peters, Sr., British-born actor (b. 1880)
- December 10 (in an air crash):
- December 17
- December 21 – Stuart Erwin, American actor (b. 1903)
- December 24 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (b. 1900)
- December 26 – Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (b. 1873)
- December 28 – Katharine McCormick, American feminist (b. 1875)
- December 29 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (b. 1890)
- December 30 – Vincent Massey, former Canadian Governor General (b. 1887)
Nobel Prizes
References