Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 - 1921 - 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926
Events
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
- January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer (+ 1990)
- January 5 - Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg[?]
- January 6 - Louis Harris[?], pollster
- January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, author (+ 1995)
- January 20 - Bernt Engelmann[?], author († 1994)
- January 27 - Donna Reed[?], actress (+ 1986)
- January 31 - Carol Channing, actress
- January 31 - Mario Lanza[?], singer, actor (+ 1959)
- February 4 - Betty Friedan, feminist
- February 11 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress.
- February 11 - Lloyd Bentsen[?], American politician.
- February 14 - Hugh Downs[?], game show host, journalist
- February 24 - Abe Vigoda[?], actor
- February 25 - Pierre Laporte, statesman, murdered by FLQ terrorists
- March 8 - Cyd Charisse[?], actress, dancer
- March 12 - Giovanni Agnelli, manager of Fiat
- March 12 - Gordon MacRae[?], singer, actor (+ 1986)
- March 20 - Rudolf Noelte[?], film director (+ 2002)
- March 20 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe[?], singer (+ 1973)
- March 25 - Simone Signoret, actress (+ 1985)
- March 28 - Dirk Bogarde, actor (+ 1999)
- April 15 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut
- May 2 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker.
- May 6 - Erich Fried[?], author (+ 1988)
- May 9 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter with White Rose in Nazi Germany
- May 11 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher[?], politician
- May 12 - Joseph Beuys, artist (+ 1986)
- May 12 - Farley Mowat, writer, naturalist
- May 19 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (+ 1999)
- May 20 - Wolfgang Borchert[?], lyricist, narrator and dramatist (+ 1947)
- May 20 - Hal Newhouser, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1998)
- May 21 - Andrei Sakharov, physicist, human rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Prize (+ 1989)
- May 23 - James Blish, US science fiction author
- May 28 - Heinz G. Konsalik[?], author (+ 1999)
- June 10 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- October 13 - Yves Montand, French singer and actor
- October 25 - King Michael of Romania
- December 26 - Steve Allen, actor, composer, comedian, author
Deaths
Nobel Prizes